REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM JOHN B. ENGLISH, Trop. LAPORTE PA. A new cure for cancer has been dis covered again. Chicago women smile naturally whether it helps their looks or not. France gets a new cabinet more fre quently than many a man gets & new bat. The American farmer will be pleas ed to know that he is worth newly nine billion dollars. If the "tip trust" provokes the travel ing men to effective resistance it will aot have lived In vain. It is said that Yale will have a record-breaking crew. Accent on the record or on the breaking? An English preacher has discovered a cure for snoring. An old-fashioned dig in the ribs works pretty well some times. Wasp soup is said to be a delicacy In China, but Yuan Shi does not ap pear to relish the hornet's nest he has stirred up. Lawn tennis on ice Is the latest sport. Knowledge of the game might have helped the American players in Australia. Kansas City citizen wants a divorce because his wife keeps thirty-five dogs in the house. Another marriage gone to the dogs. New York gunmen broke into a gambling house the other day and held up tho proprietor. One good holdup deserves another. It is predicted that 25 years hence we will be eating reindeer meat. Aft er that we may be ready to eat the Christmas toys. Since the automobile began to make such great strides into popular favor very few horse tlileves have gained prominence in the country. Brander Matthews predicts that w® ehall have war again by 1930. We pre dict that In 1930 "war" will continue to be spelled the Bame old way. The Boston Transcript says: "An exchange of feline amenities Is en tertaining Boston." One notion of feline amenities is to see the fur fly. "The mother-in-law la omnipotent In China,"says Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Evidently Ella has discovered the real cause of the Chinese revolution. The Cambridge clergyman who doesn't mind 11' men sleep through his Bermons probably will commend an alarm attachment to the contribution box. A Connecticut preacher denouncei rice throwing at weddings as a filth' habit. The only excuse for It It gives English sparrows P a 1 a . diet * LtiaDge 01 Aviators ' - d abandoning the flying .• oecause of Its dangers, and yet inere are plenty of men who persist In venturing Into the woods to hunt deer. A style congress In Chicago has doomed the hobble skirt to extinction, which, paradoxically enough, will re joice the narrow-minded critics of feminine attire. Wolves are said to menace the pop ulation in some districts of Michigan, but Michigan is not the only state in which people have trouble in keeping the wolf from the door. Russia has Imprisoned a man for writing a volume of poems. Are there, after all, virtues in autocracy? A learned Judge was asked to pass upon the complaint of a family which objected to rag time overhead. He couldn't do It, being a mortal. New York policemen are learning •wrestling that they may arrest of fenders "with less brutality." Why shouldn't they study etiquette? Chinese highwaymen, we are told, succeeded in getting away with a trifl ing sum like $850,000. Even at this early date the Chinese republic has developed successful financiers. One of our historians arises to re mark that Mother Eve was not a good looker, but what's the use of being beautiful when there is only one man in the world and no other women? New Yorker dropped dead when he learned that he had been left a legacy of SIBO,OOO, but In spite of its dan gers most of us are willing to take a chance on being left that much money. A young woman In Chicago has gone to Jail rather than talk. Such a thing would seem incredible if there ■were not court records to prove this amazing charge against any daughter of Eve. A rich man In Pennsylvania, and a mcmbor of the bar at that, has had to pay a S2O fine and SBO costs be cause li© tried to beat Uncle Sam out of a cent by sending through the mall a check folded In a newspaper. Served him right, you say? W« you would. LABOR MEN IN DYNAMITE NET Most Sweeping Action Ever Taken by Federal Government. MURDER CONSPIRACY CHARGE United States Marshals Engineered Great Raid —Prisoners Will Be Tak en to Indianapolis to Answer In dictments for Conspiracy. Washington.—The Department of Justice received reports of the simul taneous arrest of 48 officials or mem bers of union labor organizations, in cluding three in New York City, mark ed the opening of another chapter in the uncovering of the nation-wide dy namiting conspiracy for which the Mc- Namara brothers are serving prison sentences in California. The arrest of Clarence A. Dowd at Rochester, N. Y., was the first on the list. All the arrests were made on indict ment warrants issued at Indianapolis, where the federal grand jury returned indictments charging the prisoners I with either having been actively en gaged in the dynamiting conspiracy or of violating federal laws relating to the transportation of the explosive from one state to another. Other ar rests on the Indianapolis indictments 112 are to be made. They will bring the ( total up to between 50 and 60. Among those arrested were: New York —Frank C. Webb, Patrick Farrell. Indianapolis—Frank M. Ryan, Spur geon P. Meadows, Herbert S. Hockin, John T. Butler, Fred Sherman. Chicago—James Cooney, James Coughlin, Richard H. Houlihan, Wil liam Schoupe. Syracuse —-E. E. Phillips, John Car- j roll. Cincinnati —Edward Clark, Ernest G. W. Basey. St. Louis—John Barry, Paul Morrin. Milwaukee —W. E. Reddin, Herman G. Sieffert. Kansas City—W. Bert Brown, W. J. McCain. Detroit—Charles W. Wachmeistein, Frank J. Murphy. Rochester —Clarence E. Dowd. Philadelphia—Michael J. Cuname. Cleveland—Peter J. Smith, George "Nipper" Anderson. Scranton—M. J. Hannon. Denver—Henry W. Legleitner. Davenport—Daniel Buckley. Duluth—Fred Mooney. Springfield, 111.—A. J. Kavanaugh, M. L. Pennell. Peoria —Edward Smith, James E. Day. With tun nr three exceptions tt Witli two or inree exuepiiunD i» j men under arrest are officers I | nent members of the jJft£ ional l | Bridge and Workerß. Worker B. Union. ! M At , th , e , Xot those arrested was ' I Ryan, president of the In-; lernational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. John T. Butler, of Buttalo, first vice president, and Herbert S. Hockin, sec ond vicepresldent of the organization, wtu succeeded J. .1. McNamara, the convicted dynamiter, as secretary treasurer, also were apprehended. Altogether the indictment contains 128 counts against each of the defend ants. and the penalty for any one of the offences varies from eighteen I months tn two vears. HUNT URGES JUDGE'S RECALL. In Inaugural Address Says Legisla- | ture's Duty Is to Establish it. Phoenix, Ariz. —Arizona is a state. The territorial officials relinquished the reins of government to the Demo crats elected December 12. In the presence of the crowd that packed lower halls of the capitol George W. P. Hunt took the oath of office at noon. The oath was administered by Chief Justice Peace. Standing behind Hunt were William J. Bryan a#d Thomas H. Marshall ot Indiana. Franklin introduced Hunt in few words and the new governor deliver ed his inaugural address. He promised a businesslike admini stration to work at all times for the Interest of the people. He referred often to the people's power and de clared it the solemn duty of the first state Legislature to give the people a chance to restore judiciary recall to the constitution. TO HALVE EXPRESS RATES. Adamson Bill, Cutting Charges 50 Per Cent., Introduced. Washington. —A bill prescribing the rates to be charged by express com-' panies engaged in interstate com merce will be reported to the House of Representatives in the near future. The bill was introduced by Repre sentative Adamson of Georgia, chair man of the House committee on inter | state, it halves the rates. BLOW AT UNWRITTEN LAW. Maryland House of Delegates Passes Bill to Prohibit Appeal to It. Annapolis, Md.—The House of Dele gates by 52 to 31, passed a bill aimed at "the unwritten law." The bill gives judges the right to instruct juries on the law in criminal cases and prohibits counsel for the defense from arguing against such instructions. Delegate Dorsey led the fight against the bill. • I think the unwritten law is one that hangs over the homes as a protection, he said. "0, SAY, CAN YOU SEE?" (Copyright, In Commemoration of Writing Star-Spangled Banner "Old Glory" I* to B« Unfurled 1,000 Feet High—News Item. WRITS FOR FOUR HUNDRED IN BUTTER TRUST Members of the Mercantile Exchange Accused of Conspiracy—Al leged Trade Restraint. New York.—After a two weeks' in vestigation of the butter situation As sistant District Attorney De Ford is convinced that the New York Mercan tile Exchange, an organiation of pro duce dealers which comprises most of the butter, egg and cheese jobbers in the city and controls, it is said, t)5 per cent, of the trade, is virtually a con spiracy in restraint of trade, an ob ject being to lower prices in the sum mer and raise them in the winter. Ha has tiled with Magistrate Murphy in formation to that effect in which he asks for warrants for the 400 mem bers of the exchange. Within a week or ten days Magistrate Murphy will take evidence in a series of public hearings similar to those held last summer by Magistrate Appleton in the ice investigation. It is alleged that two members of the exchange fixed the price of but ter and eggs so that in the spring and summer months, when such products are most plentiful, "they might pur chase them and place them in cold storage at the lowest possible figure and thereafter, during the fall and winter months of each year, increase the price thereof to the retail dealer to as high a figure as the local market (competition between themselves in the sale thereof being eliminated) ! would stand without substantially cur- tailing the consumption of th» and ff tiiom in stnrncp he- , | c ._ jfcD ueiu U> mem in biuragc uc- Yore the season of greatest produc tion." In the information it is alleged that the members of the exchange have conspired to injure trade and commerce, to restrict and prevent competition to the inury of the public and are therefore guilty of violation of section 580 of the penal law. It is the same section under which the live poultry trust, composed of dealers in Washington Market, was prosecut ed last summer and thirteen of its members were sent to prison. U. S. EXPRESS SOLD. Control of the Company Passes to the Harrimans. New York —The E. H. Harriman es tate has acquired control of the Unit ed States Eixpres3 Co. to the exclusion of the Piatt family. C. C. Tegethoff, who used to be Mr. Harriman s con fidential secretary, and who is now Mrs. Harriman's confidential man, has been made a director in the United States Express, and has been selected secretary of the corporation. "Wall Street took the news of the withdrawal of the latter as an outcome of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion's investigation of the express companies, which is now going on at Washington. DIES DAY AFTER MARRIAGE. Lieutenant-Commander Sam. Browne Thomas Victim of Pneumonia. Los Angeles —Lieutenant-Command- er Samuel Brown Thomas, U. S. N., died in the California Club here, 48 hours after he had married Miss Grace Melius. Death was due to pneumonia con tracted a fortnight before while Lieu tenant-Commander Thomas was auto mobiling with his fiancee. TO REDUCE THE CAVALRY. Aboltion of Five Regiments is Favor ed, Despite Opposition. Washington.— The House of Repre sentatives adopted an amendment, of fered to the Army Appropriation bill by Chairman Hay of the Military Com mittee, to abolish five of the present fifteen regiments of cavalry." PITTSFIELD BLOCK BURNED. For Second Time in Two Weeks City ' Suffers Heavy Loss. Pittsfield, Mass.—Fire destroyed the j James M. Burns block in the centre of s the business section, causing a loss ! of $170,000. Five stores were burned out, and three persons were Injured. This is the second serious blaze in o this city within two weeks. Fire on January 28 last burned the old Acade my of Music and two blocks, owned .. by Mayor Kelton B. Miller, causing a loss of $250,000. MORSE BACK, PLANS REVENGE ON WALL* ST. Pardoned Financier Returns to New York Looking Fit—Doctors Say He is Doomed. New York. —Charles \V. Morse, form erly a banker, whose sentence of i:f teen years in the Federal prison in At lanta was commuted recently by Pres ident Taft on representation that his death was imminent, arrived in the city from Atlanta. Morse returned to his old home in re markably good condition for a man whom the physicians gave "only a few days, a month at the most," to live. He stood the journey of almost twenty-seven hours without showing signs of fatigue. Mr. Morse was convicted of a mis demeanor and did not lose any civil rights thereby. On January 1, 1910, however, the offence of misapplying funds of a national bank was made a felony and had Morse been convicted a r ter that date he would have beeu C urived of his right to vote as well as certain other civil rights. As it is now ho suffers no disability whatever and is as free togo and come an' 1 en gage in any form of business as though he had received a full pardon from the resident instead of commutation. It is Morse's plan to remain in New York for about ten days and then to | goto Europe to take the treatment at Bad Nauheim. I Ac an indefinite date, dependent ! upon a continuation of his recovery, I Moree plans to*return to New York j *• vengeance on those in Wall Street ho trusted and who, he de whoiu . . , . , , , , 1 on him when he was claros, turuet. , . „ ... *•-' -ess took from down, and by legai .noi. . him securities to which he c aims o is justly entitled. Washington.—Officers of the Medi- ' :al Corps, who several times exam ined Charles \V. .\lors.> while he was a prisoner in Atlanta, were not in the least shaken in their opinion of his by the fact that the former con vict banker passed through the city on his way to Europe. ( CHURCHILL ON HOME RULE. Troops Guard British First Lord of Admiralty in Belfast. Belfast, Ireland. —Winston Spencer Churchill's incursion into Ulster, which threatened to cause rioting and serious loss of life, has ended without even a broken head. The First Lord of the Admiralty and John E. Hedmond, leader of the Irish Nationalists, spoke lrom the same platform on the II >me Rule bill, and neither was mobbed Churchill outlined the intentions of the Government with respect to self government for Ireland, and said no greater boon could come to the em pire than the settlement of the long and bitter quarrel between the British Government and the Irish people. So far as Belfast is concerned the predictions of bloodshed which had caused the Government to quarter 5000 troops in Belfast were not fulfilled. HAWLEY LEFT NO WILL. Wife of Dead Financier's Cast-Off Nephew in Workhouse. New York.—Edwin Hawley, the bachelor railroad man, who left an es tate worth about $25,000,000, died in testate, according to a statement is sued by JohL. B. Stanchfield, as attor ney in behalf of his heirs. The estate, according to Mr. Stanch field, will be kept intact in the vari ous Hawley roads and corporations by consent of all the heirs. Mrs. Frederick Crandell, wife of a nephew of Edwin Hawley, one of the heirs, is serving a term for disorderly conduct on Blackwell's Island, and, it was said, had not heard of her hus band's good luck. His share will be about $2,000,000. CANADA GRAIN CROP STALLED. Freight Congestion Results in Thous ands of Cars Heing Held Up. Ottawa. The freight congestion caused by the movement of grain has reached a seriouu stage, according to advices received from western termin al points. There are 3,500 cars of grain between Winnipeg and Fort William with no place to store it at the latter point. There are 1,000 cars between Winnipeg and Port Arthur with no room for it there. These 4,500 cars are on the Canadian Northern. DIX ORDERS BRANDT INQUIRY Directs Justice Gerard to Hear Convict's Clemency Plea. GRAND JURY ALSO TO ACT Whitman to Press Grand Jury Inquiry Into Method of Conviction Whether Former Schiff Servant is Pardon ed, Freed or Remanded for Trial. New York. —Folke Engle Brandt, the former servant in the home of Morti mer L. Schiff, sentg|ced five years ago to thirty years for burglary ill the first degree, whose application for Executive clemency was denied, was brought to New York oil a writ of habeas corpus. He was taken before Justice (Serard, in the Supreme Court, where decision on hiii.,writ was reserved, and then lodged "In the Tombs, to remain under the custody of the Supreme Court un til a decision is banded down. Another feature of his ease was tak en up by Judge Rosalsky in General Sessions. Judge Rosalsky, who im posed the thirty-year sentence on Brandt, granted a motion to set aside Brandt's former plea of guilty, but be cause of the previous action of Justice Gerard the lawyers in the case believe the action in General Sessions will not have any effect. Meanwhile, on the suggestion of At torney General Carmody, Governor Dix reopened the case and appointed Jus tice Gerard a special commissioner to hear Brandt's plea for Executive clem ency .which he denied at first, direct ing Justice Gerard to report his find ings to the Governor. District Attorney Whitman statqrl that apurt entirely from any other proceeding' in behalf of, or in connec tion with, Brandt's case, he would pro ceed with a grand jury investigation of the entire matter. Investigation of the files at Policajleadquarters dis closed evidence which will he present ed to the grand jury in the shape of letters written to Inspector McLaugh lin, at that time at the head of the De tective Bureau. Alton B. Parker, in the proceeding before Judge Rosalsky, read into the record of the case a letter to him from Mortimer L. Schiff in which the bank er stated that Brandt wrote an insulting letter to his wife and that he, Mr. Schiff was now prepared publicly to vindicate "his honor and that of his beloved wife." Mirabeau L. Towns, Brandt's coun sel, called attention to the fact that Governor Dix in a public statement since the agitation about Brandt was recently revived has insisted that there was no mystery in the case, a : . *■ wMch Mr. Towns believes is op- | posed to the statenic- ~ nts in Jthe Schiff j letter read in court by Mr. *-«*. er " DIES BEFORE OPERATION. , t Doctor Drops Over After Excitement in Getting Patient to Hospital. Somerville, N. J. —Dr. John P. Hecht, one of the best-known physicians in central New Jersey dropped dead iu the operating room of the Somerset Hospital after he raced to the hospi tal to save the life of a railroad engi neer. Dr. Hecht was called from his home to attend Andrew Grover, an engineer on the Central Hailroad, who was found unconscious in the cab of his en gine, which was drawing a freight train at full speed, it is thought that when the engineer was leaning out of the cab window his head came in con tact with a bridge. GUS RUHLIN FALLS DEAD. Heavyweight Pugilist Is Victim of a Hemorrhage. Brooklyn. N. Y. —Gus Rulilin, once prominent as a heavyweight pugilist, I who once fought Jeffries, and well known in sporting circles throughout ihe world as the "Akron Giant," fell dead iu his home, No. 1490 Myrtle ave nue, from a hemorrhage of the heart. Rulilin was 40 years old. A widow survives him. ARREST LABOR LEADER. Clarence A. Dowd of Rochester, First Prisoner in Dynamite Roundup. Rochester, N. Y. —Clarence A. Dowd of this city, business agent of the Ma chinists' union was arrested here by United States Deputy Marshal Kred C. Vichmann, on a warrant charging him with assisting in transporting dyna mite and nitro-glycerine from one state to another. Dowd is one of the men indicted by the federal grand jury at Indianapolis in connec tion with the dynamite conspiracy cases. FEED SCHOOL CHILDREN FREE. Mayor Connery to Begin the Plan in City of Lynn. Boston. —Lynn is to be the first city in the country to feed its school chil dren free, Mayor William P. Connery after a conference with Mrs. Caroline M. Engler, member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor, ordered the Board of Health to investigate condi tions in tlio grammar schools, with a view to finding out how many children are in need of proper food. She found many cases. TAFT FIRES ON HIS OPPONENTS President Takes the Field in a Sensational Party Speech. HIS DEFIANCE TO ROOSEVELT Would Hurry Us Into Condition Which Could Find No Parallel Except In the French Revolution —Are Not Progressives. New York. —In an address at the twenty-sixth Lincoln dinner of the He publican Club in the Waldorf-Astoria President Taft offered a statement of the platform upon which he seeks tp nomination and re election. Eight hun dred members of the club listened tc the statement. Mr. Taft read the address, and in doing so avowed the importance that his auditors attributed to it. Later in the evening Chauncey M. Depew char acterized the speech as "the text book of the campaign, from which we shall draw the declaration of our position upon every issue," and the members of the club unequivocally bound (hem selves to that view. In the President's reference to "ex tremists who are not progressives but political emotionalists or neurotics," the diners read a fling at the Roose* velt boom, as they did in a later re buke of those who advocate the recall of Judges. These two planus in the pTatform claimed a greater share of applause than did any others, greater eveu than a plea for revision of the tariff, "sched ule by schedule," for the maintenance of the army and navy at their present strength, "at least until tho Panama Canal is completed," or for the enact ment of a Federal incorporation law. President Taft spoke swiftly and ve hemently. The President made a di rect appeal to the common sense of tho Nation. He declared that the ex tremists were not progressives and they would bring us into a condition that would find no parallel except in the French Revolution or of that an archy which once characterized the South American republics. He spoke of the security of the Constitution and the necessity of its observance to give equal opportunity to all men. He scorned the catch phrase that we should prefer "the man above the dol lar." CHINESE EMPIRE FALLS. Rule of Manchu Dynasty Terminated Under Thfee Edicts. Peking, China.—After occupying the throne of China for nearly three cen turies, the Manchu dynasty, represent ed by the child Emperor Pu-Yi abdicat ed. Three edicts were issued, the first proclaiming abdication, the second dealing with the establishment of the I republic and the third urging the mainly °'>ance of peace and approving the conditio.. '"St %SU"u»»*>ii Vne Im perial Premier, Yuan Shih-kai, and the republicans. PU-YI, Emperor of China. The abdicating monarch will retain title, receive an annual grant of $4,000,- 000 (Mexican) and remain near Peking. LORD JOSEPH LISTER DEAD. He Revolutionized Surgery by Anti septic Treatment in Surgery. London.—Lord Lister, the Grand Old Man of Surgery, known to fame as the discoverer of the anti-septic treatment nxHhod in surgery and the first English physician ever accorded the honor of knighthood, died here near the end of ills eighty-fifth >ear. Sir Joseph was often referred to as the most famous living surgeon. Hiß elevation to the peerage came in 1897. CHESAPEAKE BAY CLOSED. Ice In Tributary Rivers Thicker than in Thirty Years. Baltimore. —Navigation in Chesa peake Bay and the Potomac, Susque hanna, Chester and other rivers, as well as Tangier Sound, is blocked by ice. Not in thirty years have the ice conditions been so bad, and the two iceboats are unable to keep the chan nels open. The losses to the oyster trade anil packing interests by the Ireeze-up is estimated at more than SOOO,OOO.
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