Republican News Item JOHN B. ENGLISH. Editor. i LAPORTE ..77777777. PA. PITH OF THE WEEK'S NEWS Latest Telegraphic and Cabled Intelligence Epitomized. OLD WORLD AND THE NEW Fast Passenger, Bearing G. A. Ft. Vet erans from Encampment, Making Up Lost Time, Strikes Spreading Rails and Falls Into Outlet. Washington Senator Bailey, of Texas, it was re ported, will take up the practice of law in New York City after his term expires, on March 3, 1913. William W. Russell presented his credentials as American Minister to the president of the republic of Santo Domingo. The controller of currency has is sued a call for the report of the na tional banks to show their condition at the close of business on Friday, Sept. 1. Close political friends of President Taft's let it be known that they were in favor of ousting Frank Hitchcock r.s chairman of the next Republican National Committee and appointing Collector Loeb in his stead. Personal George von L. Meyer, secreary Oi the navy, visited England's dock yards, detention camps, gun and ship factories. The father of Mrs. Upton Sinclair characterizes Sinclair as "an unripe persimmon" and "an overweening ego tist." United States Senator A. H. Cum mins. of lowa, will answer President Taft's argument at a Progressive Re publican dinner in Minneapolis, Octo ber 26. Sporting Boxing Commissioner Sullivan re signed, but Governor Dix said he would urge him to remain in office. The motor boat Dixie IV., won the Harmsworth international trophy at Huntington, L. I. W. T. Burgess swam across the English Channel in 22 hours and 35 minutes. It is estimated that in the zigzag course he was compelled to take, he covered sixty miles. Earle Ovington, of Boston, in a monoplane, and Lieut. T. D. Miller, XT. S. A., in a biplane, were first in their respective classes in the 160-mile tri-state race of the Harvard aviation meet. Sopwith and White, British aviators, declined to compete because the course was too dangerous. General It was stated at Chicago that the sentiment of the international officers was against a strike of the Illinois Central Railroad. On account of a demand for SSOO and threatened burning of his farm buiiidings at Valp* riso, Ind., Hans Anderson's place s being protected by a sheriff's posse Probably forty candidates are now listed in the race for mayor of Pitts burgh to succeed William A. Magee, who is ousted by the nortorious Penn sylvania Ripper. J. E. Bowman, of Newburgh, N. Y., a flour salesman, committed suicide by hanging in the Grand Union Hotel, New York. In his handbag was found several feet of gas tubing. Colonel Astor's offer of SI,OOO to per form the marriage ceremony was re jected by a Baptipt clergyman and a Methodist pastor also refused over tures. Frenzied by grief, Miguel Lopreti, of New Rochelle, N. Y., killed himself over his wife's dead body. She hal eaten toadstools in mistake for mush rooms. Several others in Westches ter County towns are suffering from the poisonous fungi. Seveuty-two Chinese students ar rived in San Francisco, anc will soon be assigned to various American uni versities. Amorig them are three Chinese girls, first feminine students to come to this country under the Boxer indemnity. Giuseppe Costabile, whom detec tives arrested on the street in New York Cliy while he was carrying a bomb, was said by Inspector Hughes to be chief of the Black Hand gang which has committed many outrages recently. Hurrying back from church with his bride, J. Stanley Page, of Burlington, N. J., jumped into a canoe and won a race after his clubmates, worried by his absence, had given up hope of gaining the trophy. A $15,000,000 shipping company has been organized to operate regular ser vice from coast to coast via the Pan ama Canal. Horse Creek, Wyoming, reported a etorm which left hail four feet deep over a wide area of country. Crops were destroyed for a radius of twenty miles and stock killed by the score. A gang i?r Italians cut of the nose of Aaron Stebor, employed as a watch man at a Plainfield, N. J., factory. Damage to the torpedo boats and other naval property at Charleston, S. C., hy typhoon, will not exceed $4,000. Textile mills in New England, em ploying 60,000 workmen, were re opened. Joseph W. Bailey says under no cir cumstarces will he again run for the United States Senate. The itinerary of the President's 13,000-mile trip through twenty-four states, was announced in Beverly, Mass. The Merchants and Miners steam ship Lexington, ashore on the Georgia coast, has been moved 700 feet by the wrecking crew. The National Association of Super visory Postoflice Officials voted to place all postmasters under the civil service, with a life teuure of office. Mrs. Eddy's bequest of $72,000 to the Second Christian Science Church was adjudged valid in the New Hamp shire Superior Court. At Winchester, Ind., 125 glass blow ers went on strike on account of a cut In wages of 1 to 4 cents a gross on all wares. Beattie still expressed confidence of ultimate freedom and said he did not believe in showing grief to outsiders or in wearing mourning. Jacob Becker was arrested in New York charged with being concerned in the blowing up and burning of a German newspaper in Paterson, N. J. William E. Kelly, of Brooklyn, was elected president of the National As sociation of Letter Carriers, in session at Rochester, N. Y. Grahame-White carried a passenger thirty-three miles in twenty-seven minutes in a contest on the Boston aviation meet's closing day. Members of the faculties of prom inent American colleges denied the statement of R. T. Crane that dissi pation was general among students of American universities. With potatoes bringing from $1.50 to $1.75 a bushel at Branchville. N. J., only about a quarter of a normal crop will be harvested as a result of the dry spell of midsummer. Mrs. Marietta Casco, the tenth vic tim of poisonous toadstools gathered in the fields of Westchester County, died at her home In the Bronx, New York. Three deaths from the same cause were reported from Paterson, Arthur K. Hamilton, young nephew of Mrs. George J. Gould, was fined $5 for speeding through Lakewood, N. J., on a motor-cycle and disturbing the community's peace. Application will be made for the probating of Father John J. Quinn, a Connecticut priest who disappeared seven years ago, while* aboard a steamer, and is now regarded as dead. John C. Richberger, president of the Illnois commission on uniform laws, stated at Chicago that more than 90 per cent, of the states have uniform legislation in the causes for divorce. Henry Solomon, Comissioner of Prisons, reported in Albany, N. Y., that conditions in Sing Sing had im proved since Warden Frost was su perseded and that the convicts were happier. Sopwith and Hammond fell with their biplane into the ocean at Bright on Beach, New York: Graham-White had a narrow escape from death when his SIO,OOO monoplane landed in a dith, and Beatty's machine was wrecked when it crashed into a fence. Samuel Cohen, who had been ar rested in New York on a young wo man's charge that he obtained all her savings after promising marriage, was held in $5,000 when a detective made affidavit that Cohen is wanted in Chi cago for the alleged theft of violins worth $2,900. Foreign There have been four fatal cases of cholera at Meirelbeke near Gliant in Belgium. The food riots in France increased in gravity. Two riots occurred at the Paris markets, and shops were ran sacked. The Yang-tse-Kiang floods were re ported to have affected 700 miles of the river's length; severe famine is expected. The Portuguese government re ceived a report from its investigator that about 4,000 or 5,000 royalist sol diers in the northe are expected to be gin an invasion in about a week. A movement was begun in New foundland for union with Canada in order to secure better trading terms with the United States than hitherto obtainable. The most important feature of the French army's manoeuvres begain In the presence of the Grand Duke Boris, the minister of war, and foreign dele gates. The plan is to raise the sup posed German siege of Belfort, where the French are assumed to be locked in as they were in 1870. Augusto Vasconcellos, Portuguese minister at Madrid, has informed the government that a monarchist force is contentrating on the frontier oppo site Chaves, intending to enter Portu gal. Dr. Belisario Porras, Minister from Panama, married a Costa Rican sen orita by proxy, he being in Washing ton and the bride at her home. Cholera is ravaging the troops at Constantinople. In two days there have been 8850 deaths. Of 45 officers returned from Albania, 37 died of cholera. Two women of a party of nine were drowned in the rapids of Menkala River at Helsinfore, Finland. The wind caught their sunshades and cap sized the boat. Their hobble skirta prevented them from swimming. j "WETS" WIN IN MAINE Vote Against Prohibition Was Big in the Cities. VILLAGES CAUSE CLOSE VOTE The State-Wide Primary Plan Goes Through—All Officials Must be Nominated on the Same Day, Including the State Officers. Portland, Me.—With the cities of the State of Maine turning out an un usually heavy vote and a large num ber of the towns not polling their nor mal vote, the State came out for the repeal of the prohibition amendment at the special election. The decision of the voters on the face of the returns to take prohibi tion out of the constitution does not mean that liquor can lawfully be sold. The Legislature must act before the present statutory law adopted in lSf>7 can be repealed. Whether Governor Frederick W. Plaisted will call a spe cial session of the Legislature for the purpose is not definitely known, but among prominent Democrats it is re ported that the Governor will take such a step. Adam P. Leighton, president of the Business Men's No License League, said that in the event of a close "wet" victory, steps would be taken for a recount. As had been predicted, the cities were the chief strongholds of the re peal faction, but the majority of 12,- 000 in the total city vote was barely sullicient to offset the vote ol the rur al communities. In addition to the prohibitory law', the people cast their ballots in favor of three t other referendum questions. Two of them have to do with amend ing the Constitution, one to make Au gusta forever the capital of the state, and the other to raise the debt limit of cities of over 40,000 population from B to 7 1-2 per cent., which af fects Portland alone. The third question has to do with the adoption of a State-wide direct primary law which was initiated by petition of 15,- 000 voters. Of interest almost equal to that of resubmission was the question of whether .Maine should adopt nthit wide primaries. The vote in its favor was much larger than was cast for the prohibition amendment. UP TO CHINS IN MOLASSES. Streets Flooded as 5,000,000 Gallons Burst from Warehouse. New Orleans, La. —Several streets in the commercial section of this city were flooded with molasses when tanks containing 5,000,000 gallons of sweet stuff burbt in the warehouse of the Sugar Planters' Storage Company. Many lives were imperiled, as many men, caught in the brown stuff, were compelled to wade up to their chins to get away from the warehouse, where the molasses was thickest. The sticky fluid lolled out in a vast gush and spread in all directions. Its depth just after leaving the reser voir was more than fifteen feet and it reached Magazine street, a third of a mile away, with a depth of ten inches. Just when it was thought possible to save much of the molasses a water main burst in the warehouse section, and in a remarkable short time the water and molasses, mixed together, disappeared in the sewers, but not be fore hundreds carried away tins and pails of the produce. The loss is es timated at more than $200,000. LOCOMOTIVE WORKS TO CLOSE. Lack of Orders Forces Brooks Plant to Shut Down. Dunkirk, N. Y. —Manager Swoyer, of the Brooks Locomotive Works, the Dunkirk plant of the American Loco motive Company, said: "The unpleasant fact exists that all the engines scheduled for the Brooks Works have been completed and only a few orders for repair parts remain to be filled, consequently the company has no other alternative but to close the works indefinitely until business generally takes a turn for the better." TWO MIDSHIPMEN DROPPED. Holmes and Clifford Thus Punished for Quitting Target Practice. Washington.—The escapade of the two young midshipmen, Gaston L. Holmes, of Mississippi and Charles L Clifford, of Massachusetts, in quitting the Naval Academy practice squad ron at Bergen, Norway, has cost the young men their places in the navy. After a careful consideration of all the facts, the Acting Secretary of the Navy has decided that they shall be dropped from the service. LOUVRE SHORT 323 PICTURES. Paris Newspaper Finds Wholesale Thefts —Dogs Now on Guard. Paris. —Ten police dogs have been told off from night duty to watch the art treasures of France in the Louvre. As a result of the excitement over the theft of the "Mona Lisa" the French authorities have ordered an inventory taken of all the pictures in the Lou vre. Curiously enough a representa tive of the French press has just made a careful count and he says that 323 canvases are misßing. I*» L- » ( )l For the Hostess — - • Paper Costume Party. A girl noted for her clever parties Issued this invitation: A Paper Gown Rod, white or blue. Or any shade Preferred by you, We ask you to wear Next Thursday night. And be present to witness A pretty sight. Judges will reign in majesty And award the prizes Of whieh there are three. First, beauty we seek. Originality, too. Or. if the most comical, We'll give to you A dainty little gift That you'd love to win- Now please don't be lato l o or at eight we begin. So wear your paper gown And bring a heart full of cheer. And I'm certnin this party Will be remembered all the year Crepe papers are so beautiful that the judges had a difficult time ren dering their decisions. Tarleton may be used as a foundation for the dresses. One especially amusing costume was made from Fels Naphtha soap wrap pers, the girl called herself "Aunty Drudge." "Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour" was also represented and one girl made a decided hit as the"Local News," her costume bcitig entirely of newspapers. A Grown-Up Party for Children. Children's parties for grown-ups have been very popular and now the youngsters from six to eight years of ige are having loads of fun by giving imitations of mother's afternoon teas. Heal grown-up names are chosen, writ ten on cards which are presented to the youthful butler, and all the youth ful guests are dressed in long skirts, hair done up and have all the acces sories of the grand dames who goto "teas" and "bridges." If desired some of the guests may be asked to bring their children (dolls). Arrange a tea table, a small one, of course, with doll china, and have the little hostesses' friends assist in "pourin." Dainty asndwiches, cambric tea, peppermint bonbons, vanilla ice cream and angel food oake will make a satisfactory menu. A visit to the toy department will reveal some very interesting card games within the comprehension of the guests and prizes may be given. If this feature is not prac tical, the children will have a grand time in just being permitted to dress up and goto a party. A Tree Bazar, All the Ladies' Aids and Guilds are keen after ideas to add money to the treasury I think the scheme outlined a delightful one for this season of the year. It calls for eight trees, which may be dead ones or live ones, as the case may be. Decorate entirely with large potted plants and autumn leaves with wild grape vine and woodbine if obtainable. The crepe papers that come in leaf design will work in beautifully with t-iiis decoration and an entire arbor or lattice may be made by cutting out paper leaves and pinning on the trellis. Oleanders and rubber plants help out, too. Tables may be placed in front of the trees, making booths, the top. Feather Stitch _ ~ *£*!£. - - -m. -