Republican News Item JOHN B. ENGLISH, Editor. i apqptf PA. WEEK'S NEWS BY TICK AND FLASH What Interests the World Chron icled by Telegraph and Cable. GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS Washington Looms Large as a Center of Interest—Legislature Busy in Many States—The Lights a.id Shadows of the News. Washington Secretary of War Stimson has or dered a second examination for civil ian candidates for appointment as sec ond lieutenant in ulo army on Jan. 12, 1912. There are about 150 vacan cies. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion lias submitted to Henry A. Wise, United States Attorney, alleged evi dence of rebating in immigrant traffic by the railroads, and the Baltimore & Ohio will be sued. While the Giants have not yet cinched the National League pennant, baseball sharps are figuring out a vic tory for McGraw's men, providing they maintain their present fast gait. Personal Chauncey M. Depew, just back from Europe, says there will be no war be tween France and Germany. Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould cele brated in France their silver wedding anniversary by a cross country trip in a biplane. Residents of Rhinebeck were grati fied by the sight of Coi. Astor and his bribe attending service in the Episco pal Church of the Messiah. The rec tor, vestry and others congratulated the couple after the service. Sporting Governor Dix said the growing de> mand for boxing forced the state to recognize it, and that the Frawley law might be amended if unsatisfactory. Fielder Jones, former manager of the Chicago Americans, nas been offer ed the Presidency of the North-west ern League next year. With weather conditions against him and the track heavy. The Har vester, champion stallion trotter made a vain attempt at the State Fair track. Syracuse, to lower his record of 2:01. General Fully 3,000 persons from Hamiltou County, Ohio, gathered at Cincinnati to hear Eugene V. Debs speak in the defense of John J. and James Mc- Namara. The Governors' conference at Spring Lake, N. J., after hearing an address by Governor Dix on taxation, adjourned, to meet next year in Rich mond, Va. Collector Loeb is said to be slated for Chairman of the Repubiicau Na tional Committee, Taft and his friends believing he could harmonize the warring factions. Mayor McCarthy of San Francisco has substituted a cornerstone bearing his name at the new county hospital for one laid two years ago by Mayor Taylor. George W. Post, alleged noted crook, was arrested by Federal agents in Chicago. With Edward Stark loff he forfeited bail of $23,000 in Philadelphia and is also said to be wanted in New York. The appointment of Arthur Prentice Rugg of Worcester, associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, as chief justice was sent to the executive council. Shoe dealers of Kansas City say that women's feet have almost dou bled in size during the past 20 years in that city. One dealer declared that the hills have something to do with it. The state auditor of Indiana an nounced there was no money in the treasury to meet expenses and a hurry call was sent out to the counties for funds. The balance in the state sink ing funds, $150,000, has been used. As a result of advice given by a Dutch "pow wow"" doctor in Allen town, Pa., Mrs. Meta linmerman, a poor New York seamstress, was hoot ed, stoned, putin jail and driven out of town as a witch. The Manhattan Beach Hotel, New York, will soon be demolished to make ■way for bungalows and cottages. Luke Mcllenry, clerk of the New York State Assembly, died at Clifton Springe, N. Y. j S. A. Potter, alleged head of a,' gang of confidence men, was held in $160,- 000 bail at Chicago on the charge of using the malls to defraud. / Col. Roosevelt visited the Children's Court in New York, sat on bench with Justice Iloyt and questioned many prisoners. Some ho praisei), but be said one boy ought to be spatted The 27th Company of Coast Aitfl l«ry, j/ractißing with tho 10-inch guu» at San Francisco, hit a moving target at 10,000 yards six times in six shots. Seven men were killed and fourteen badly injured in a collision between a freight and a work train on the Belt Line Railroad in Cleveland, Ohio. Forecasts of football prospects are creeping into print, though baseball now overlaps the gridiron season so far the latter doesn't dominate the sporting news columns until well along in October. The first woman to enter the diplo matic service of any country in the ■world is Miss Clotilde Luisi. who has been appointed by the President of Uruguay as an attache of the lega> tion at Brussels. The New York grand jury found an indictment for burglary against Chas. Carrara, arrested through finger print, identification. This is the third time a prisoner has been indicted on this kind of evidence. S. R. Potter, arrested at Chicago for fraudulent use of the mails, was said to have had a scheme under way for defrauding Londerors of a half million dollars through the sale of a "salted mine." A dispatch from Madison. Wis., stated that John A. Johnson confessed to the murder of little Annie Lember ger was sentenced to a life term in state prison and was taken to the penitentiary at Waupun. The plea of nolo contendere was ac cepted from Frank J. Gould in the wire pool case, and like the majority of the numerous other men indicted on the same charge lie was fined sl,- 000. Wong Ben Young, who had put Se cret-Service agents on tho track of opium smugglers, was murdered in the sleeping rooms above his restaurant in New York by supposed members of the gang. President Taft decided the case of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, dismissing all the charges against the chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture; Sec retary Wilson, at his home, in lowa, said the decision was wise and would satisfy the country. In an action for damages the Court of Errors and Appeals in Trenton holds that a man is not to be adjudged guilty of contributory negligence if he dodge out of danger and fails to select the wisest course. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont denied she had abandoned her suffragist farm on Long Island and said- Miss Leonora Brokaw, who called the farm a failure, was a discharged member of the col* ony. Judge Allread, at Dayton, Ohio, granted a suspension of sentence in the case of Rodney J. Diegle, the con victed sergeant at arms of the Ohio Senate, until the court passed upon a writ of error. The body of Sister Sadie, who was put to death to save her suffering in the Shaker colony in riorida, was ex humed and later buried. The Florida tragedy caused discussion of the sub ject of euthanasia all over the United States. Physicians disapproved it as a rule, while scientists were in favor of it. Anthony Baukus, a member of the city council of Gary, Jnd., arrested on a charge of accepting a bribe in con nection with the granting of a franchise, made a confession. Three other members are arranging with the state's attorney to give detailed statements. Foreign The Pope will not select any cardi nals this year. Five French submarine boats that are fitted with wireless have sent and received messages at a distance of 500 miles. On the Montreal Stock Exchange brokers were offering a premium for $5 bills, because of the large shipments of them to the west by banks. The Bank of Montreal's branch in New Westminster, B. C., was broken into and more than $300,000 in gold and currency abstracted; the thieves, five in number, escaped with the loot. The French reply to the German counter proposals regarding Morocco was delivered in Berlin; it was au thoritatively stated that an agreement seemed assured. While missionaries in Szechuen, China, were pronounced safe, Peking advices said the situation was grave because troops at Chengtu, the be sieged city, could not be relied upon. M. Klotz, the minister of finance, in a speech said France was able to place in the field an army of 4,500,000 men, of which nearly 3,000,000 were now nearly ready for service. Venustano Garranza, who was a member of the cabinet of Francisco I. Madero's provisional government dur ing the revolution, was elected gov ernor of the state of Geahuils. The election was attended with rioting. The Huasteca Petroleum Co. at Tampico, Mex., composed of E. I. Bo heny of Los Angeles, Cal., and asso iates, has lost three large tanks of oil, aggregating about 150,000 barrels, by fire, caused by lightning. King Albert of Belgium had a long discussion on the national defences with his prime minister and chief of staff of the army. After the French Foreign Minister had interviewed the British and Rus sian Ambassadors the reply to Ger many's Moroccan proposals was sent to Berlin. Prompted by hundreds cf complaints the Paris police taade a raid on a bucket shop near the Opera Comique. The manager was caught in the mar ket and the concern failed for four million francs, about SBOO,OOO. RACING MOTOR RUNS INTO CROWD, KILLS 10 Lee Oldfield Loses Control of Car as He is Rushing Keck and Neck with Ralph de Palma at Syracuse State Fair RACE IS CONTINUED AFTER THE ACCIDENT Announcement Is Made that Nobody Suffered and Starter Wagner of New York City Orders Finish of Programme Great Confusion Among the Many Thousands Pres ent When Truth is Learned —The Mowing Down of Spectators by Oldfield's Car to be Investigated— Strikes People Lined Up 10 Feet Deep. Syracuse, N. Y. —Ten persona are dead and fourteen others are suffering from serious injuries as tlie result of one of the worst accidents in the his- j tory of automobile racing in this coun- J try. The accident occurred at the State Fair grounds here at 5.30 o'clock p. in., when a Knox racer, driven by Lee Oldfield, jumped from the circu lar track and, plunging through a rail fence, crashed into the crowd. Six , persons were killed outright, two oth ers died on the way to the hospital, and another died soon after his arriv- j al at the hospital. The Dead. Ballantyne, Charles, 28, clerk for the Trust and Deposit Company of Onondaga. Arnold, Frederick H., 30, engraver, died in ambulance. Arnold, Harold, 9. son of F. H. Ar nold, instantly killed. Hamill, Claud, 20, Briar Hill, N. Y., school teacher at Hammond. N. Y. Payne, John W., 47, Cortlandt, N. Y. Smith, Seph, 02, Syracuse; employ ed by city. Bradley, Harry, 35, Franklin, Dela ware county, New York; died at St. Joseph's Hospital. Halpin, Cornelius W., 22, Lakeland; j died at St. Joseph's hospital. Coin, Nicholas, 23, Syracuse. Unindentified man, 20, name thought to be Fay, a machinist. The accident happened during the ! forty-third mile of the fifty-mile race, j which was the feature of the day. j there were nine contestants, and be- | sides Oldfield there were two other drivers, Ralph de Palma and Bob Bur- J man, two of the most noted racing au-1 tomobilists in this country. The track j was not in the best of condition, a j fact that had been noted by the driv ers. President Taft, who was a guest at the fair, had left only a few minutes \ before the accident occurred. His car had been driven over part of the track ; on its way to the main entrance, and | for this reason the officials had had j the entire track sprinkled with water in order to clear the dust for the , President's departure. The previous event, the race for the I Brazard Cup, had been held up for j some time, because both De Palma and Burman refused to race on the j track on account of its condition. The matter had been argued for some time i with the officials, and this had held up the programme. This had delayed the start of the fifty-mile event, and as it had been widely advertised as the feature of the j day, the crowd increased by several thousand during the delay. The race was neck and neck, with De Palma, in frequent bursts of speed, keeping ever ahead of Oldfield. For more than twenty miles, spec tators declared, Oldfield had been driv ing his car with one of the shoes Hap- 1 ping. In the hope of beating out De Palma, however, his manager, instead of stopping him, had, it is said, urged him to increase speed. Several citizens made an effort to stop the race, but Fred. J. Wagner, the starter, who is well known in rac ing circles, refused. The broken shoe could be plainly seen by the spectators. Oldfield up to the fortieth mile had been taking the first quarter turn carefully, shutting down the power in front of the grand stand. Apparently intent upon gaining on De Palma, he evidently decided to make speed at the expense of caution, for after the fortieth mile lie stopped shutting off speed when taking the first quarter. The officials and others by the track noticed that Oldfield was no longer slowing down at the quarter, and there was much speculation as to his reason. EDISON'S AUTO KILLS A CHILD. Inventor and His Party Held in Ba varia, Though Not Blamed. Paris. —Thomas A. Edison's automo bile ran over and killed a child. The accident happened in Lauf, a few miles from Nuremberg. While the police do not attach blame to the chauffeur, who was driving slowly, Edison's party was detained by the authorities for a hearing. | At 5.30, as De Palma and Oldfield rounded the turn into the forty-third I mile, Oldfield had crept up upon his | opponent until his car was nosjng the ; rear of De Palma's machine. De Pal ma swept around the first quarter of this mile. Scarcely a yard behind | came Oldfield, and as the latter ran I well into the quarter there as a loud re . port. The spectators saw Oldfield's machine leap into the air for a few feet, then settle back on its four 1 wheels, continue its mad pace, and then crash squarely into the fence, , which separated a dense crowd from the course. Men, women, and children struggled | to get out of its track, and some were successful, the car speeding past them at a distance of less than a few 1 inches. Those unhurt were piled one | on top of the other, a heap of scram bling, screaming humanity, flanking j the wrecked car. The screams of the injured and the cries of the terrified people who es caped were heartrending. Doctors from all parts of the great crowd, which was estimated at 60,000, the largest that ever paid its way into a Syracuse fair, hurried to the scene to give aid to the injured. There was plenty of work for all to do. The in jured were taken in hand and as fast as ambulances arrived were hurried to ; the Etnegency Hospital on the fair grounds. The car ran twenty feet before it stopped. Oldfield was thrown out and he was unconscious when help reach ed him. The car, when its progress was checked, turned on its side. One man's body was hurled into the air ' and landed in the crowd some feet I from the place where it struck. A boy j was decapitated. Unaware that the accident had been serious De Palma, who had been start i led by the explosion as Oldfield's car ! left the track, kept on racing. Though i the officials were aware that specta tors had been killed they refused to I call off the event, and De Palma fin ished the fiftieth mile. Police arrange j ments were inadequate, and after the j accident crowd broke bounds and | many crossed the track while De Pal- Ima was still speeding on. That no one was killed in doing so was a mira cle. It is the general impression that the | disaster will sound the knell of motor 1 car racing on the State Fair tracks. I That De Palma did not figure in the ; smash-up is regarded as remarkable. I Almost immediately after crossing the finishing line, one of his rear tires ex | ploded, but no damage was done. In the absence of Lieut. Gov. Con way, Mr. Pearson, the State Commis j sioner of Agriculture, is acting as J President of the Fair Commission, and ! he presided at a meeting held at the ; Fair Grounds. I"Was Attorney General Carmody ! asked to rule as to the liability of the j State for damages to the injured and to relatives of those killed?" Commis sioner Pearson was asked. | "He was asked to consider the ac cident in all its phases," was there ; ply. Asked if the accident would result in the elimination of motor car racing as one of the attractions at the State Fair, Commissioner Pearson said he should imagine that it would stop all ! such races on circular tracks. Donald Davidson of this city, an eye witness of the catastrophe, said: "The last time Oldfield circled the track before the crash came I noticed that something was wrong with his steering gear. When he went past us it was evident that the wheel and post were loose, as they would jump sev eral inches, and he had difficulty in hanging onto the wheel. After he went past on the last lap I told the man next to me that it would be strange if something didn't happen." "When the three cars made the turn, almost in front of us, Oldfield, I think, was nearest the inside fence, but all three were bunched. When he came into sight the right front wheel did not respond to the steering wheel, but remained at an angle pointing to the right while the left front wheel turned as it should. Just then the car slewed across the track and hit the fence at an angle, tearing right | through into the crowd." THE MAINE ELECTION, Secretary of State's Tabulation Gives the Repealfrs 136 Majority. Portland, Me.—A* his home in Wa • terville, Cyrus \Y. Davis, Secretary of ! State, said that the tabulation cf every county in Maine with every voting | precinct accounted for figured a ma jority of 136 for the repeal of the con j stitutional prohibitory amendment. His total figures are; Yes, 60,514; no, 60,378. TAFT DEFENDS "RULE OF REASON" Taft Strongly Upholds Recent Trust Decisions. . WOULD ABOLISH PATRONAGE Warmly Endorses Sherman Law In Speech at Detroit —Action of Su preme Court Interpreting Measure "In Light of Reason" Sustained. Detroit. —President Taft twice chal lenged his critics to prove the sound ness and sincerity of their attacks upon him and the policies of his ad ministration. For the first time on the trip he struck out into political issues and his listeners applauded his defiance. in the first important political speech of the trip made before the Detroit Board of Commerce he de fied William Jennings Bryan and the critics of the recent anti-trust de cisions of the Supreme Court to bring forth a case of trade restraint which should be suppressed which could not be proven a violation of the law under those decisons. The challenge was three times repeated and each time cheered by the 1,500 business men to whom he spoke. Later, in an address before a con vention of internal revenue officers he challenged the men who had charged him with a misuse of patron age to meet him in his proposal to place every local federal officer un der civil service and so wipe out patronage and its evils from the government service. "They won't do it,"he cried, "at least, not now." In his trust speech, he invited his critics togo to the limits of their legal imagination to formulate a case of harmful trade restraint which was not a violation of the Sherman law as interpreted by the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases. The Sherman law, he said, should not be amended. The law was not made clear and the two decisions had shown the business public that the Supreme Court, at least, would not listen to the claim that free compe tition was no longer possible. "We did get along with competi tion," he said. "We can get along with it. We did get along without monopoly; we can get along without it; and the business men of this coun try must square themselves to that necessity. Either that, or we must proceed to state socialism and vest the goveri_.nent with power to run every business." Those decisions, he declared, had stamped out an evil which would cer tainly have carried the country to so cialism as a reaction from the vicious control of the few. The President said that the asser tions that the Supreme Court had emasculated the Sherman law in its recent decisions were absolutely un true. There was a wide difference, he explained, between the court or Congress placing in the law the word "reasonable" so as to provide prose cution only for "unreasonable re straint of trade" and the court's inter preting the law "in the light of rea son." Were the word "reasonable" writ ten in the law or placed in it by the court in its decision, it would admit the possibility of a reasonable monop oly and place upon the court the bur den of drawing the line between a good and bad trust. To interpret it j, "in the light of reason," however, he said, was only to place without the pale of the law incidental or minor restraints or cases where the intent was not to monopolize. It was sim ply to prevent a reduction of the law to an absurdity and excluded no case where monopoly or restraint of trade was the chief object of a combina tion. The sole restraint placed upon the law by such an interpretation, he declared, was to hold it"in conform ity with the evil sought to be reached." ADDS "H" TO PITTSBURGH. Uncle Sam Orders Postmaster to Change Cancelling Stamp. Pittsburgh.—Uncle Sam it shall be spelled Pittsburg-h. Postmas ter General Hitchcock has given his official sanction to the final "h," the agitation of Andrew Carnegie aud Phonetic spellers notwithstanding. All mail leaving the Pittsburg post ofiice ofter October 1, will be stamped Pittsburg-h. The cancelling machines will print an average of 550,000 copies every day. City stationery bears the letter "h," but newspapers and indus trial firms havo fought that spelling for years. STOLYPIN DUES OF HIS WOUND. Russia's Strong Premier Cut Off by Assassin's Bullet. Kief, Russia. Peter Arkadibirch Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, Who was shot duting a gala perform ance at the Municipal Theatre here, has died of his wounds. It is an nounced that th« wonded man's heart was not strong /enough to withstand the effects of as internal hemorrhage with which the .doctors in attendance were unable to dope. 0 Cement Talk No. 6 Repairs are the bane of the prop erty owner. Today it is new porch steps, tomor row it will be a new sidewalk, soon it will be a well curb. Why not cut out bothersome patching? Why not build those things once and for all, using concrete? It will stand the frost, rain and sun for years, if you make it carefully. Use clean, coarse sand, well graded gravel or crushed stone and UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CE MENT and stop that repair nuisance. The best dealers sell UNIVERSAL and are proud of its record of suc cessful work. Ask them for helpful book lets and prices or write us. UNIVERSAL PORTLAND CEMENT CO. TRICK BUILDING. PITTSBURG ANNUAL OUTPUT 10.000.000 BARRELS ADDED 'EM UP. Ills—You said your gun would shoot 900 yards. Dix —I know I did. Ilix —It's marked to shoot only 450 yards. Dix—l know, but there arc two barrels. The Trouble With Humor. E. N. Drown, president of the Na. tlonal Railways of Mexico, discussing In New York a railroader who was al ways out of work, said: "He is too quick with his tongue—that's his trou ble. He has a ready wit that he is too apt to use upon his boss." Then, with a laugh Mr. Brown uttered this epigrammatic and true saying: "Repartee has lost as many men their Jobs as it has made others their reputations." How to Find Fault. Find fault when you must find fault. In private; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time. The blamed are less inclined to resist when they are blamed without witnesses; boih parties are calmer and the accused party is struck with the forbearance of the accuser, who has seen the fault and watched for a pri vate and proper time for mention ing It, He Knew Jim. Jim had made an unsuccessful at tempt to conquer the world and came back to the Tennessee town dirty, worn out and hungry. "Uncle John," he said melodra matically, "I came home to die." "No, dod gast you," said unsympa thetic Uncle John, "you came home to eat." —Success Magazine. My friend is dear, but my enemy Is also useful: the friend shows me what I can do, the enemy shows me what I ought to do. —Schiller. 112 \ The Flavour of Post Toasties Is so distinctly pleasing that it has won the liking of both young and old who never before cared much for cereal food of any kind. Served direct from the package—crisp and fresh, and-- "Ths Memory Lingers" Postum Cereal Company, t-td.. Battle Creek, Mich.
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