REPUBLICS NEWS-ITEM JOHN B. ENGLISH, Prop. LAPORTE PA. Why doesn't an Ice floe flow" There seems to be no kind of Insect powder tiiat is fatal to humbugs. The forty immortals have slid back Into obscurity, and all is forgiven. There never before was a time when the world had so many ex-potentates. The peach crop promises to be big enough for cholera morbus pur poses. — Other seeds may be higher this year, but seeds of kindness will cost no more. What a pity that the average man has no place to store away ice for a dusty day! A 27-pound lobster has been caught at Atlantic City. It was not accom panied by a chorus girl. It was with difficulty that Michigan was kept from freezing from shore to shore this winter. Somebody has said "we are what we eat." We doubt it especially when wt» eat boiled cabbage and turnips. Doctors saved tie life of a New York man whose ueck was broken But he will still have to live in New York. China invented fireworks a good many hundred years before it had an independence day to explode them on. Automatic starters may be all right for automobiles, but they never do to set a political campaign in mo tion. Though a Minnesota man caught a ton of fish with his hands, others have made greater catches with their imag inations. The couple who get married in a fly ing machine evidently do not destre elaborate ceremonies—Just a plane ■wedding. Fashion notes make it easy to fore tell that ladles' hats will be high and pocket-books retain their usual ehape of flatness. Golf balls are to t>e cheaper. But we cannot paraphrase Marie Antoin ette and eat golf balls if we can't have bread. We await anxiously the time when the little ex-Emperor Pu VI will be gin making attempts to come back. They all do it. A gun made of cement is one of the latest devices for wax purposes. It is dangerous to stand either at the mus cle or the breech. We take off our hat to the -pulmotor v which not only draws suicides back from the dark shore, but patches up their lovers' quarrels. The Massachusetts man who has been on the operating table thirty-flve times may be merely trying to estab lish a reputation as a cut-up. Don't boast, even If you did have eggs for breakfast, Th<* man to whom you feel so superior may have had butter on his Johnnycake. A New Yo»k surgeon says the ver miform appendix fulfills an Important function. Ho is. of course, speaking from the surgeon's standpoint. Those Mnnchurlan princes do not make any pretenses to the effect that they stepped out of power In order to devote more time to the uplift. A near scientist tells us that when ever a man tells a lie his big toe wiggles. There must be some enthu siastic wiggling on the bathing beaches in summer. The death of Lord Lister, who dis covered antiseptic surgery and has saved the lives of thousands, recalls the fact that he was not placed in the list of the twenty greatest. A Connecticut bank has gone to the wall because Its books had not been balanced for forty years. It seems, therefore, that the balancing of bank books iB important, after all. A prominent dentist Informs us that false teeth are more sanitary than real ones, but the man who knocks out his fellow man's teeth is not necessarily looked upon as a philanthropist. A New Jersey woman is suing for damages because after a surgical operation a pair of forceps was sewed up inside her. She is lucky not to have the price of the instrument charged against its loss in her bilL The Palace of Peace at The Hague ■will bo completed In July of next year. The work Is not being hurried. A Boston highbrow tells us that If he had created the world he would have made every woman beautiful. And what would the beauty doctor do then, poor thing? Now a society for promoting effi ciency has been launched. One of th# ways of dn'ng it would be to waste less time on forming fool organixa •U DEATH FOLLOWS WIND AND FLOOD South Atlantic States Swept by Fatal Hurricane. BRIDGES ARE CARRIED AWAY Houses Swept from Banks—Dams Burst—Railroads Beyond Chicago Almost Put Out of Business by Blizzard. Washington.—A wind and rain i storm of a severity unparalleled iu j recent years swept the South Atlantic j Coast States, leaving behind it a path lof wrecked buildings, bridges torn j from their foundations, uprooted tele | phone and telegraph poles, and, in ! several instances death. Five persons were killed outright in Headland, a few miles below Troy, I Ala., two others were hurt mortally ! and four or five were injured. In | Spartanburg, N. C., two persons were i killed and two lost their lives in I Raleigh, N. C. Railroad traffic had I been paralyzed by the carrying away |of bridges and by landslides and floods. At Greensboro, N. C., two bridges | were carried away, in Raleigh trains i were wrecked, and a power plant de ! stroyed. Rivers and creeks in the j Piedmont section of the State have | overflowed their banks, causing wash ! outs on the railroads aud great dam | age to property. Reports of the ravages of the storm j reached here from as far south as Sa- I vannah, Ua., and as far north as Con j ecticut. From Savannah came news that the rainfall was unprecedented ! and had caused freshets in nearly all the streams. Train schedules have been disarranged and service tied up. : Power plants are among the many ! buildings which have been destroyed, ! and trestles and bridges have been j undermined and washed away. In ! t'heraw, S. C., the wind tore down ! every smokestack in town and laid in | ruins several churches and houses Many railway lines have been oblig j ed to abandon trains, and mails are | being delayed seriously. Lines be tween Omaha and Colorado Springs, Omaha and Denver, and Omaha and | Sioux City are blocked with snow. | Trains to and from the Black Hills re | gion are moving slowly. Many branch j roads throughout Nebraska are block ed and their service suspended tem j porarily. [ The Weather Bureau officials said that the Western and Southwestern | storms had combined into a single i storm of greater intensity over the j Upper Ohio Valley. Chicago.—Chicago and the middle j west felt the grip for D 4 hours of one |of the worst blizzards of the year, j Transportation in the city was com j pletely paralyzed, telegraph and tele- I phone service badly crippled and busi ness demoralized. Incoming and outgoing mails were j demoralized hopelessly. Trains from ! the East were from 30 minutes to I three hours late, while those from the | Southwest were delayed indefinitely. | Western trains were running from 12 to 36 hours late. A dispatch received from Omaha states that about 50 passenger trains j were tied-up in Nebraska, Kansas and | Colorado. It has been impossible to 1 get to tliern with food. BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS. Storming of Allen's House Like a Bombardment. Ilillsville, Va.— I Two more deaths, | both of women, have resulted from the prisoner's relatives made their at j gang" upon the Carroll County Court | House, in which Circuit Judge Thorn ton L. Massie, Commonwealth's Attor | ney Foster, Juror Fowler and Sheriff Webb were slain. The second death was that of Nan cy Elizabeth Ayers, a nineteen-year old girl, who was in the courtroom as a witness against Floyd Allen when the prisonr's relatives made their at tack. Juror Worrall was only slightly j wounded, while the wound received J by Clerk Dexter Goad is in the flesh of the neck and his injuries are no i longer regarded as serious. Floyd Allen aud his brother, Sidna, | are prisoners in the county jail here, ; closely guarded by forty heavily arm j ed deputies. The storming of Allen's house was i the next thing to a bombardment. j Judge Rosalsky's friends said they i believed the bomb which exploded in j his apartment in New York was sent by some person on the Fast Side: j while the police advanced the theory .that it was the work of an insane man, who also sent to Mrs. Taylor the bomb which killed her. GUATEMALA HONORS KNOX. City Decorated for Visit of American Secretary of State. I Guatemala City.—This city gave j Secretary of State Knox what might be described as a royal reception. Pub ; lie and private buildings were decorat ' ed. triumphal arches spanned the | streets and Mr. Knox was received ; like a king in the centre of the city, j Later he was driven through two | miles of streets lined with soldiers, j Many children took part in the cere- I monies, dressed In national colors 1 POPULAR FICTION (CopyrixbLJ JUDGE AND NINE OTHERS SHOT IN COURT ROOM Also Kill the Prosecutor and Sheriff of Hilllsville, Va.—Nine Other Men Are Shot. Richmond, Va. —A guns of moun taineers and moonshiners known as The Aliens shot, and killed Circuit Judge Thornton L. Massie in the little i red brick county court liouse at Hills- j | ville, the county seat at Carroll coun i ty, on the southern border of the < State; killed Commonwealth's Attor- ! ' ney William L. Foster and Sheriff j j Lew Webb and mortally wounded A. I IC. Cane, a juror; A. C. Fowler, a | j juror; Dexter Good. clerk of the court, i and Stuart Warrall, a spectator. Floyd | Allen, the leader of the gang, got two , i bullets. Seventeen of the outlaws then back- I ed out of the court room exchanging 1 i shots with the jurors and the deputy i sheriffs, who had drawn g'ins the j j moment the fusillade on the county j | officers and jurors began and j Judge Massie was shot three times, j 1 V\ ebb stopped four bullets ai.d Foster i •wo. Cane was shot twice. Fawler | tw'ce and Good ones. Floyd Allen was taken to a hotel j ! room suffering from two gunshot | ' v. ounds in his stomach and one in his | side ai d a broken leg. llis ltg was 1 broken as a result of be ng trampled I upon iii the court room Following j the escape ot Jackson antf -iinoy icn, | ursued by the only offcers able ! to follow, Floyd Allen was removed to j | the hotel room, where his son Victor heavily armed, stood guard and threat j ened to shoot any one who attempted i j to enter his father's room. The tragedy occurred in tlie little j court in this town, just as Judge Mas sie had passed sentence on Floyd Al : len, convicted of aiding a prisoner to escape. Allen was given one year in the penitentiary at hard labor, and Judge Massie had hardly finished pass l ing the sentence when from some | where in the court came the words ! "that is hell ain't it." Then there was a sound of a pistol j shot, and in less than a minute the court room was resounding with revol ver shots, curses of the outlaws and j the cries of the wounded. The first shots were fired by Sidney and Jack Allen, brothers of the man on trial. Hardly were the words "that is hell, \ ain't it," uttered before these two men, who were standing close up to the rail where Floyd Allen was seated, whipped out their revolvers and began ! firing. Judge Massie, after the first | shot, dropped back into his chair and fell dead, with his head resting on his j desk. Sheriff Lew Webb, sitting by the j prisoner, had half risen with his hand | reached for his gun, when he was shot ] down by a concentrated fire, and died j immediately. When the Aliens opened fire on the i jury box, the jurors, themselves, not j unsupplied with weapons, returned j the gunplay and at the same time the | deputy sheriffs scattered about the | court unlimbered their Winchesters j and in the hail of bullets that | ed Dexter Good, was dropped with a I bullet in his neck, and J. H. Blanken | ship, one of the jurors, was wounded When the return fire against the Al { lens and their followers began to get ; too hot for them they backed out of | the smoke-filled courthouse, took to their horses and broke for the hills. The Aliens have long been consider ed the most dangerous men in this section. They have a large following and the average citizen is afraid to in terfere with them in anything they at tempt to do. Governor Mann immediately order ed the militia companies of Roanoke and Lynchburg to be in readiness to goto Hillsville in case the followers of the Aliens should organize to resist the capture of those concerned in the shooting. The governor offered a re ward of $3,000 for the capture of the assassins. SHOT AT ITALY'S KING. Would-Be Assassin, a Youth Named Antonio Dalba, Roughly Handled. Rome, Italy. Throughout Italy there is rejoicing over the escape of the King and Queen, at whom a young Anarchist named Antonio Dal ba fired several shots. Neither the King nor the Queen was hurt, but Major Langa was shot. The would-be assassin was rescued by the soldiers and police from the people, who would undoubtedly hare lynched hin>. TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED FALLS INTO RIVER Ice and Steel Cars Avert Horror on ' N. Y. Central —Cars Plunge Into Hudson. New York.—The Twentieth Century j Limited —long boasted of by the New ' York Central Railroad as "the most | famous train in the world"—escaped \ ' |by marvelous good luck, the title of ' j "the most deadly train in the world." Entering the homestretch of its j j Chicago-New York run, the flyer j 1 j struck a fractured rail, four and a \ j half miles above Poughkeepsie. It; | was traveling on a curve at a speed j j admitted 0., th,e company to have j been forty-five mi'e« an hour and said j ! by some of the passVnfv ••s to have ] 1 been seventy miles an hour. Five of the Century's Pullm<Vn 1 1 sleepers were shot off the line, down ! j an embankment and into the Hudson I River. In these were about fifty per- | i sons- —the whole train was carrying ] ; fifty-eight. Only the fact that there was an I eighteen-inch coating of ice over the j I river saved the lives of most of these. I This semi-solid surface kept the cars j | from plunging further outward, into j water of drowning depth. That bit of luck—and the fact that | the cars were of steel —saved a long i death list. But it was apparently lax j construction or inspection of the road- j bed that caused the wreck, and its re- ! suit was bad enough: Fourteen persons injured—a quar- j ter of a inile of track torn up—all ! trains delayed from one to three j i hours—sso,ooo worth of equipment in I the river. I The panic stricken passengers, j men anc'. women, most of them scan'- 'y clad, were fished by rescuers out. of the submerged wreckage of the overturned cars and out of the icy river, and gathered together in one i of the least damaged cars. A relief \ train of physicians and nurses was ; dispatched from Poughkeepsie nearly | two hours later, when the passengers ! were started on their way to New York in the second section of the Twentieth Century which had been but ten minutes behind the first, j Twenty-eight of them were injured, several very badly. Opinions as to what caused the ! wreck did not differ much among those not connected with the rail road, all attributing the mishap to a broken rail. Washington.—The wreck on the ! New York Central Railroad of the Twentieth Century Limited at Hyde ! Park, N. Y., is said by officials of the ' Interstate Commerce Commission to | bear out the report made by the com- j mission's experts that the limit of j speed or wheel pressure has been i reached and probably surpassed on rails of the usual width and shape of | head and that the ten or more wrecks j since the first of the year is a warn- ! ing of this fact. TO STOP GUN RUNNING. Resolution to Enforce Neutrality In Mexican Struggle. Washington.—The President decid- \ ed on sharp measures to prevent the encouragement of hostilities in Mexi co by the shipment of arms and muni tions from the United States, and Con gress at once showed its willingness to support him regardless of party lines. A joint resolution was intro duced in the Senate and unanimously passed authorizing the President to forbid by proclamation or otherwise the shipment of arms or munitions of war to American countries in which domestic violence is being promoted by the aid of supplies from the United States. A big sum of money, estimat ed at $4,000,000, has been deposited in banks in El Paso for the purpose of buying arms and ammunition to be shipped from the United States KILLED IN HORSEBACK DUEL. Mississippi Planters Open Fire In Presence of Two Girl Friends. Vicksburg, Miss. —In the presence of two young women, friends of both, two prominent young planters of Clai borne County fought a duel with pis tols. John E. Elliott is dead and Robert C. Norwood was fatally wounded. The young women spectators are Miss Ed -1 na Musgrove and Miss Allie Mae Jeter. The dispute was over an alleg ed land trespass. THE MAINE RESTS : UNDER THE SEA Guns Boom and Bands Play as ( Wreck Goes Down. BURIED 600 FATHOMS DEEP | Great Flag Almost Covered the Ship ( as She Passed Out on Trip to Her Last Resting Place—Cu bans Join in Tribute. Havana. —Under lowering skies and | in a heavy tumbling sea the old battle- ! ( ship Maine, resurrected after fourteen years' burial in Havana Harbor,plung ed with her colors flying to her ever lasting rest 600 fathoms deep in the sapphire waters of the Gulf. The sinking of the liui«" ■ ■ .rneil out precisely as planned, marking the end of the great work begun more than a year and a half ago. After imposing ceremonies in the j morning which ended with the formal j transfer of the custody of the bodies of the Maine's dead by the Mayor of j Havana, Julia de Cardenas, to Brig.- j Gen. W. H. Bixby .Chief cf the Engi- I neer Corps, U. S. A., and tne represen tatives of the United States, the cof- I fins were taken'aboard the armored | cruiser North Carolina, where they j were deposited on the quarterdeck, ; completely covered by a great mound of floral tributes, under a guard of j honor composed of marines. Minute guns were fired by the North Carolina and the scout cruiser Birmingham and the batteries of Cabanas fortress until j the ships cleared the harbor. As the relic was without a helm she j n»oved slowly, as if tender hands were j guiding iier A great American Flag j covered a large part of the hull. Mil- | lions of flowers were heaped on the ! deck. Silhouetted against the sky on her ! highest deck was a lone, black-clad j figure. The thousands lined along the i shore asked who it was. It was Capt : John O'Brien, ("Dynamite Johnny,") j now a pilot of Havana Harbor, who did so much for Cuba's cause of fiee- j com. The North Carolina and the Bir- j mingham followed the slowly moving, j vreck toward the entrance to the hur- j nor. The former carried the last \ ic- j *rn6 of the Maine, which are to be J buried at Arlington ( eme'ery. Then i came- four gunboats of the Cuban j Navy, and these were followed by j steamers and tugs, c mtainiiu; civic or- j gai izations. Practically every Ameri- j can resident in Havana <n c-.e or j another of the boat? One hundred thousand persons wit- j rested the event. Sailors from the American warships had been detailed to open the sea- j cocks letting the waters of the Gulf j into the Maine, and afterward they j took to a small boat. It seemed at first as if the Maine ; was not going to sink. Then, gradu- ; ally, she went lower and lower. The j vessel seemed to fight against her ' fate, but at last, tilted at an angle of i 45 degrees, she sank slowly out of sight. There was a flash of red and blue and white as the great ensign flying ! from the mast struck the waves and J disappeared. Simultaneously the decks were blown up by the air press ure, and the Maine plunged down, j leaving no trace save flowers tossing on the surface of the sea. Twenty minutes elapsed from the j opening of the valves until the vessel disappeared. Taps sounded from the nearby war- | ships. Then a pandemonium of whis- 1 ties broke loose as the old ship's fu- j neral dirge. The noise died down, and then the North Carolina and the Bir- j mingham boomed their parting sa lutes. On account of the velocity of the ! Gulf Stream it is believed that the Maine did not reach bottom until car- : ried many miles to the north and east ward. NATIONAL CHAIRMAN HILL DEAD Edward Rosewater Appointed Acting Chairman of Republican Committee. Boston.—Former Governor John F. Hill of Maine, chairman of the Repub lican National Committee, died at the Hotel Touraine here. Chairman Hill was stricken with an attack of heart disease while a guest at the Touraine. He had suffered from a heart affection for years. John Fremont Hill of Augusta was j for two terms Governor of Maine. Be- J sides being a prominent man in Re- j publican politics he was also a man ; with large business interests. Mr. J Hill was born in Eliot, York County, j Maine, on October 20, 1855. Victor Rosewater, publisher of the ; Omaha Bee and Vice Chairman of th<» Republican National Committee, has j been appointed Acting Chairman to , succeed Mr. Hill. MISSISSIPPI HAS INCOME TAX. To Be Imposed on Amounts of $2,500 ' and Over—New Land Tax. Jackson, Miss. The Mississippi ! Legislature, before adjournment, pass- j ed a bill imposing a tax of 20 cents an j acre on all land holdings over 5,000 acres. Another bill signed by Go vendor Brewer provides for a gradautei tax upon incomes in excess of $2,500, ranging from 5 mills on the do'lar on those not over $5,000 to 20 n«1lls on those of $20,000 and upward. SNAPSHOTS AT STATE NEWS All Pennsylvania Gleaned for Items of Interest, REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy in Every Locality- Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objects —Items of Busi ness and Pleasure tnat interest. Nicholas Holanisch was run down and killed by a i'ennsly vauia Kailroau U'aiu ' iear bhamokiu. At public sale held on the Elijah Neater larm, at Bechtelsville, a iiu year-oid horse brought *Ol. W. 13. Miller, a Douglassvilla poul try fancier, will make -t shipment o£ birds to Brazil. Spring flowers are in bloom in some of the towns in West Chester —crocu- ses, tulips, etc. The Maucli Chunk Foundry, one of the town's leading industries, may bw discontinued and dismantled. Miss Pearl Montgomery of Chester, was attacked by a dog and seriously bitten on the arm. Taylor Klick, aged 22, died in the hospital at Williatr.,sport from injuries sustained by being kicked by a horse. The Dickinson College senior class ride this year will be to Luray Cas erns, in Virginia. Mrs. B. F. Rute, wife of a prominent citizen of Freeland, hanged herself, having been melancholy for soru* days. For over 37 years Jacob Lmngood has been a tenant on the 135-acre Vru Heed farm, in Oley, and has leased it for another year. Mrs. Henry Hammel, wife of a Read j ing druggist, has passed the State ex | amination and has been qualified as. j an assistant pharmacist. Clayton A. S. Myser is in the Lan ! caster' Jail, accused of embezzling from Lippipcott Ac Co., Philadelphia grocers. 4 Fourteen eabiij of scarlet fever hive developed in Hmnwmdou alkl tbe Board of Health may close the FourtM. ward schools. Apple butter poultices so aggravated the burns to two cows owned by D. F. StaufTer, of York, after a lire, that they h*d to be killed. Because no one lays claim to a va cant lot in Camp Hill, Cumberland county, Sheriff Walters will sell it for a lien of about $32. The Superior Court began its March session at Harrisburg, with cases from Adams, York and other Central Pennsylvania counties listed. Tn his 17 years' pastorate of St.. John s Lutheran Cliurcb ut Lewlsto'vn. the Rev. Dr. M. T . Cressman has per formed 400 marriage ceremonies. Thomas J., 7-year-old son of Mr? .Tohn Bowes, of Port Carbon, died as the result of a headlong fall of only two feet from a wheelbarrow. A bequest of $100,«00 to Swarfh more College is among the $300,000 left to charity and education by the will of Mrs. Alice A. Hicks, filed at Mineola, L.l. Edward Miller, of Shamokin, has been captured at Oil City, having fled to that place after an alleged attempt to murder Michael Mee-lian, Overseer of the Poor. Red foxes are plentiful in ( learlield county, and are so hungry that they are making many visits to chicken coops, causing consternation to th* fowls as well as to the owners of th® fowls. William Smith, a structural iron, worker, of New York city, was ground to pieces under a Reading express i train, and John D. Rhine, a repairman, , of Sheridan, was struck by a light en gine and killed, both near Lebanon. Young men who fear the pitfalls of leap year are rushing to join a newly ■ organized Bachelors' Club at Johnson ! City, Northumberland county. One of the recruits stated he received a pro ; posal from a Shamokin lady friend I and fearing that he might be caught ; In her net, thought It advisable to be ' come a member of the club. Tlans for a big municipal band for York are to be brought before Coun cils; the enterprise Is to be supported ! by public contributions. I The running of through coal and : coke trains on the Lehigh \ alley from ; Delano to Easton will shortly begin. Cyrus T. Fox. one of the demonstra tors at model orchards for the Statf Agricultural Department, and a botan Ist of distinction, declares that th* chestnut Might was in Berks count: as long as DO years ago.
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