REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM
LAPORTE PA.
A calendar gives no trustworthy
cnie to w*atter.
No sunstrokes have thus far been
reported this spring.
Life Is getting to be just one state
convention after another.
—.
Distinctly, the opening of the base- 1
hall season was not a frost.
Now the umpire in his turn becomes j
the object of oratorical attack.
Nobody will care how much the fly ;
Is kicked arounu this summer.
You do not hear band musicians
objecting seriously to political cam
paigns.
A large spot has been discovered
on the sun. Draw your own political
deductions.
When an editor becomes gloomy
he rises to predict the revival of the
hoopskirt.
Our notion of an easy job Is to
persuade a man to become a candi
date for office.
The incubator craze is leading to
numerous fires. This will not, how
c ver, check the craze.
New York, the worst crowded mc
tropolis In the world, always has room
for easy mark visitors.
The world certainly do move. It
has been lo! these many years since
■we read a folding bed joke.
Much more readily do some men
pay out hard cash to a baseball Im
presario than to a coal dealer.
Now they are going to grow Turkish
tobacco in California. Why not as
well as Havana or Connecticut?
A New York woman wants a di
vorce because her husband has an
other wile. Isn't she the finicky thing!
A Cleveland lawmaker Insists that
male bathers on the beaches be forced
to wear skirts. The shameless hus
sies!
The report that The Harvester was
sold for $50,000 Is enough to make
an automobile salesman green with
envy.
The Little theater in New York is
said to be for intelligent people. Now
wo know why it is called the Little
theater.
A license of $1 has been Imposed
on cats in New Jersey, but a license
on midnight concerts would be pref
erable.
People who insist on building near
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers should
get on the safe side by building sky
scrapers.
That Missouri man who is hatching
prrasshoppers to feed his chickens
should be careful that the supply does
not exceed the demand.
While those reformers are Investi
gating the baseball trust, we hope
they will establish an age limit lor
peanuts.
Just to prove that there is nothing
new under the sun a Harvard profes
sor has discovered that women talk
too much.
A Harvard professor savs Oklahoma
Is five years ahead of any other state.
It's a long way trom Harvard to Ok
lahoma, too.
A European judge has declared that
it is not lawful to cheat American
tourists. Nor especially easy, we may
edd.
Why does no one ever Intone a
hymn to the vernal recrudescene of
the chorus of the frogs? It is not so
bad.
Some alarmist now announces that
sauerkraut is a dangerous explosive,
but we'd rather risk it than boiled
cabbage.
A statistician tells us that only
one song out of ninety-five becomes
popular. Judging from the popular
songs w'e have heard, the worst song
of the ninety-flve is selected.
A military authority tells us that
Washington could be captured easily
by a foreign foe. He does not realize
that myriads of office seekerg would
arise to defend their chosen city.
A woman in Philadelphia broke the
record by obtaining a license to marry
three minutes after her divorce had
been granted. Compared to this. Phil,
adelphia is even swifter than Reno.
Russia is said to be planning for tho
greatest navy of dreadnoughts in the
world. And by the time it gets it built
dreadnoughts will be all out of style.
Navies are largely built to be thrown
on the junk pile.
A Boston reformer says each bride
groom should have a certificate of
financial competence to support a
wife, and each bride a certificate ot
culinary competence to feed a hus
band. In the absence of these ther<
thould be no weUdiug ceremony.
TITANIC DEAD
AT FINAL REST
Impressive Rites in Three Hali
fax Cemeteries.
STONE MARKS EACH GRAVE
Catholics, Protestants and Jews Laid
Away—Military Band Plays "Near
er, My God to Thee," at Burial-
Community Shows Sorrow.
Halifax, N. S. —Fifty-nine unidenti
fied bodies from the Titanic were
buried during the same day in name
less graves within three Halifax ceme
teries. All were buried according to
rites they had professed in life. Men
and women of every creed united in
honoring the unknown.
The Nova Scotia Legislature was
prorogued, and out of respect for the
dead all the brilliant military formali
ties attending such an event were
abandoned. Probably for the first
time in this city there were no strains
of martial music on the streets, such
as has been the custom at the closing
of the House in the past.
Four bodies were buried in the
Catholic cemetery, nine in the Jew
ish cemetery, and forty-six in the
Protestant cemetery. At the later
cemetery 100 sailors from the Cana
dian warship Niobe formed in line at
the graves, brief addresses were made
by clergymen, and the Royal Canadian
Regiment Band played, "Nearer
God, to Thee," and the "Dead March
in Saul."
On each casket was laid a spray
of lilies with the inscription: "I will
ransom thee from the power of the
grave and I will redeem thee from
death."
Each victim was placed in a sepa
rate grave. Over each rises a simple
slab, bearing the name in case it was
known, but in the great majority of
cases only the number by which the
body was designated when it was re
covered from the sea, appears.
Nine Hebrews were buried in the
Jewish cemetery, the services being
conducted with all the rites of the
faith by the rabbi of the Jewish syna
gogue here.
Memorial services in Catholic and
Protestant churches testified to the
sympathy and sorrow of Halifax over
the Titanic accident.
There was a special funeral for the
two-year-old baby boy whose body
was found floating by the crew of the
Mackay-Bennett. The officers and
crew of the Mackay-Bennett made the
arrangements.
Ninety-two bodies of Titanic dead
are still at the Morgue here, but most
of these have been identified. Several
of these have been claimed by rela
tives, and as soon as arrangements
can be made the bodies will either be
forwarded or interred at Halifax. It
is thought that fully forty or fifty of
the identified will not be claimed.
Mrs. H. R. Rood of New York was
at the morgue seeking the body of her
husband, but found no clue. She
placed flowers on all coffins contain
ing unidentifie/l victims. Mrs. Rood
also sent flowers to all the churches
holding services. Mrs. Rood is ac
companied by Mr. Teeds, a New York
undertaker. She will await the ar
rival of the steamer Minia in the hope
that the body of her husband may
have been recovered.
Two representatives of the Guggen
heim family have arrived to look for
the body of Benjamin Guggenheim.
They are Mark Condell and B. L.
Knowles, officials of the International
Steam Pump Company, of which Mr.
Guggenheim was president. They will
await the arrival of the Mima. They
will also claim, if identified, the
bodies of Victor Giglio, secretary, and
Rene Bemot, chauffeur for Mr. Gug
genheim.
The Mina has seventeen bodies and
has reported by wireless that it is im
probable any more victims will be
found, as they have floated far south.
MINERS EXPECT SHARP FIGHT.
Difference of Opinion in Coal Regions
Over Result of Convention.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. —When the news
reached here that the district leaders
! had decided to put the peace terms of
| fered by the operators up to the min
l ers in convention it was freely predict
ed by the rank and file that a 10 per
cent, increase and a modified form of
recognition is not sufficient to send
the men back to work.
The five weeks suspension and the
loss of money they have sustained for
ces the men to take the stand that the
concessions are not enough and that
the only result of the convention will
be to reject the plan and send the com
mittee back to urge better terms from
the companies.
SLAIN FOR 'PHONE INSULTS.
Mob Kills Negro Who Sent Messages
to White Women.
Shreveport, La.—A negro who had
aroused the whole countryside by tele
phoning Insulting messages to white
women from houses into which he had
broken was hanged by a mob at Yel
low Pine.
I The man was captured after a
I search in which a large number ot
; angry citizens took part. At first he
was whipped and ordered to leave
1 town. He refused.
THE INTERNATIONAL LAUNDRYMAN
FLOOD SWEEPING
SCORE OF TOWNS
River Pouring Through Crev
asse Causes $10,000,000 Ruin
FEEDING 120.000 HOMELESS
Scores of Towns Submerged and 250,-
000 Persons Will Be Rjndered Home
less— Engineers Give Up Fight
to Close Break.
New Orlenas. —Over 250,000 persons
in southern Louisiana are homeless
and crops valued at $10,000,000 have
been wiped out as a result of the rush
of water from the great Torras cre
vasse. Submerging scores of prosper
ous towns and rich plantations, the
combined waters of the Mississippi
and the Red Rivers, at the highest
flood stage in their history, swept
southward from this crevasse, leaving
ruin and desolation in their waKe.
The floods coursed through the low
lying sugar plantations at a much
more rapid rate than the waters in the
northern part of the state, and there
was nothing to check them between
Torras, which practically marks the
junction of the lied and the Mississip
pi rivers and the Gulf of Mexico.
The levees about Torras, La., went
out and five negroes were drowned.
Owing to the constant wash against
the tops of tlie levees for the past few
days they crumbled when struck by
a slight rise.
Government engineers who rushed
to the scene on special trains announ
ced that an attempt to close the break
is worse than useless and the forces
of workmen were withdrawn, while
the muddy torrent unhindered, con
tinued slowly to crumble the earth
walls and admit the waters in con
stantly increasing amounts.
The cow that kicked over the lamp
and destroyed Chicago now has a riv
al in the Louisiana craw tisli. The fed
eral engineers say without doubt it
was crawfish holes in the great dyke
that caused it to fail.
Throughout the "sugar bowl of Am
erica,"he section now inundated, peo
ple are fleeing for their lives. Hun
dreds of horses and cattle already
have been drowned and their carcass
es, together with the bodies of hun
dreds of deer, are mingled with the
debris of ruined homes and farms. Fat
to the south, even along the Gulf Coast,
where the waters will not arrive for
several days yet, the people are pre
paring to abandon their possessions.
$237,000,000 FOR POSTAL WORK.
Appropriation Bill Passes House—Ru
ral Delivery $43,000,000.
Washington.—The Post Office bill,
carrying appropriations to maintain
the postal service in the fiscal year
that will begin July 1 next, was passed
by the House. The appropriations
authorized by the bill are a little in
excess of $237,000,000. One of the big
items is one providing for the main
tenance and extension of rural free
delivery. The bill authorizes the es
tablishment of a system of parcels
post on rural routes. It contains a
provision requiring newspapers and
other publications to print weekly a
list showing the names of the owners,
publishers, editors and stockholders
of such publications.
HOMER DAVENPORT DEAD.
Famous Cartoonist Succumbs Sudden
ly to Pneumonia.
New York. —Homer Calvin Daven
port, one of the greatest cartoonists of
his generation and ranked in force
fulness as the successor of Tom Nast,
died of pneumonia after a short ill
ness.
Davenport, who was known to both
continents, came very prominently be
fore the public in the Presidential
campaign of 3806. He was born at
Silverton, Ore., March 8, 1567.
BAY STATE REPUBLICAN
VOTES ARE DIVIDED
Massachusetts Situation a Tangle Un
paralleled in Politics—Wilson
Defeated by Clirk.
Boston. —The net result in Massa
chusetts is 18 votes for President
Taft and IS votes for Colonel Roose
velt. It is a dead heat in actual fig
ures:
For Taft (preferential) 74,50S
For Roosevelt (preferential) ..71,153
For La Follette 1,756
For Roosevelt delegates-at-1arge.74,121
For Taft delegates-at-large ....66,876
Col. Roosevelt got ten delegates in
the district elections, and President
Taft carried nine districts. Counting
the eight delegates at large for Roose
velt, both he and Taft have eighteen
delegates from the State to the Na
tional Convention. But giving the
delegates at large to Taft, he has 26
to the Colonel's 10.
Clark's majority over Wilson is 19,-
021, in a total Democratic vote of 47,-
900.
The Republican primaries resulted
in the election of eight delegates-at
large pledged to Mr. Roosevelt, while
Mr. Taft was declared the choice of
the party for the Presidential nomina
tion by a majority of 3,655.
The success of the Roosevelt ticket
for delegates-at-large was due to the
independent candidacy of one man,
who had himself put on the ticket by
petition as "pledged to Taft." His
name appeared above the eight Taft
candidates, and thousands of Taft men
voted for the whole nine candidates,
thus Causing 18,000 ballots to be
thrown out as invalid.
When Mr. Roosevelt learned this he
issued a statement admitting that Mr.
Taft was the choice of the Massachu
setts Republicans for the nomination
and calling upon the Roosevelt dele
gates-at-large to obey the party will
and vote for Taft in Chicago.
The Roosevelt delegates-at-large
at first jointly declared they would
not accept the colonel's advice. Later
they reconsidered their ac tion and de
cided to leave each of the eight to act
as he might see fit.
A somewhat similar situation was
created on the Democratic side. Speak
er Champ Clark, who had no pledged
delegates on the ticket, won a two to
one victory over Governor Wilson in
the Presidential preference contest.
At the same time delegates-at-large
pledged to Governor Foss of Massa
chusetts were elected to attend the
Baltimore convention, though the
name of Governor Foss did not appear
in the Presidential preference col
umn.
STANDING OF THE CANDIDATES.
Headquarterc Give Out Their Latest
Information.
Republicans.
Delegates in convention 1,078
Necessary to choice 540
Instructed for Taft 469
Instructed for Roosevelt 291
Instructed for La Follette 36
Instructed for Cummins 10
Democrats.
Delegates in convention 1,094
Necessary to choice 729
Instructed for Clark 200
Instructed for Wilson 128
Instructed for Marshall 30
Instructed for Burke 10
Instructed f®r Underwood 64
Instructed for Harmon 4
Instructed for Baldwin 14
BRYAN WOULD BE CHAIRMAN.
Democrats Interested in Report Colon
el Seeks Temporary Job at Baltimore.
Washington.—Democrats in Wash
ington are interested in the report
that Colonel William J. Bryan is him
self after the nomination, and is loom
ing up as a formidable candidate. The
most significant development in this
direction that lends color to the re
port, say these Democrat j, is the fact
that lirya: is now trying to have him
self designated as temporary chair
man of the Baltimore convention.
SUFFRAGE ARMY
OUT PN PARADE
Make Great Impression by Their
Demonstration in New York.
ARE TOO EARNEST FOR JESTS
All Classes In Line—Women Start
Mighty Parade on the Minute and
Present Wonderful Spectacle
—6OO Men in Line.
New York. —The promise of woman
suffrage leaders to eclipse all previous
demonstrations here for their cause
was fulfilled when nearly 20,000 per
sons paraded for three miles up Fifth
avenue under suffrage banners. Hun- J
dreds of thousands of persons looked I
on from windows and balconies of ho
tels and business places along the ave
nue, and the sidewalks were so crowd
ed for the entire length of the route
that the mounted police were unable
to keep the spectators within bounds.
There was no disorder, however. !
The spectators, three-quarters of whom !
seemed to be women, passed among '
themselves all varieties of comment j
upon the demonstration, but there was
neither, much applause nor any jeering j
as the marching throng passed.
There were women, men and chil- |
dren in the ranks. Almost every pro- I
fession and industry in which women J
are engaged from educational leader- |
ship to laundry work was represented
by a delegation under appropriate ban- |
ners. A squad of mounted police led (
the parade, but, vying with this equest
rian show, there followed nearly 100
wom&n pn horseback, most of them
riding astride. .The riders were dress
ed in simple liabite and all wore rough |
three cornered hats <>f black straw j
with a purple and green and white j
cockade.
The parade was under command of
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, presfUent !
of the Women's Political Union. The |
arrangements which had been engag- I
ing the suffrage leaders here for j
months were carried out to the letter, j
and so determined were the women to S
obey the commands for promptness
that the parade was organized and tin- ;
der way punctually at the stroke of 5
o'clock.
Among the groups which took their
places as the procession formed at
Washington Square were school teach
ers and students, doctors, lawyers, en
gineers, architects, nurses, writers,
artists, actresses, librarians, social
workers, milliners, dressmakers, wait
resses, domestic workers, office work
ers. civil servants, office holders and
representatives from the six suffrage j
States and various States which are j
fighting for the vote for women. There
were til!) men also in the parade.
Aged Pioneers in Line.
There were a number of pioneers of
the suffrage movement in line, includ
ing Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
!i4 years old, who rode in a flower
adorned carriage; Mrs. Charles V.
Mills, mother of the president of the
New York State Suffrage Association,
and Miss Emily Howland, 85 years old.
A majority of the paraders wore 39-
eent hats of yellow straw and some ef
fort was made to preserve uniformity
| in simple dress of white and black.
The women kept step well to the mu
! sic of 20 bands and conducted them
t selves with the dignity which their
leaders naa enjoined hat they show.
The parade concluded with a meeting
at Carnegie Hall.
MOB CLAMORS FOR ARNOLD.
Village.s Demand Banker's Life, but
Arrest Saves Him.
Utica, N. Y. —A mob of 800 men and
women clamored for the life of Frank
T. \rnold,wrecker of the First Nation
al Bank at New Berlin, before his $20,-
000 bungalow when the Federal offi
cers arrested him. Not until dawn did
United States Commissioner James
Flanagan of Norwich and United
States Marshal Foster Black dare take
him from his sick bed ai.d rush him in
an /automobile to the county jail at
i Norwich.
The bitter feeling against Arnold
lias been increased by the suicide of a
; depositor and by the ease of a woman
j who lost her reason as the result of
i her losses.
FIVE BASEBALL MISHAPS.
One Death and Four Serious Injuries
in and Near Washington.
Washington.—Within four days one
[ death and at least four serious acci
! dents have resulted from baseball
[ game 3 hereabouts.
One player, George S. Hiett, was
killed. Sylvan King and Henry Mess
of the Central High School baseball
team were badly injured at Alexan
j dria. Earlier in the week Lewis Wat
j kins of Eastern High School broke his
j leg, and Robert Marmion of the Mount
Pleasant team suffered a fracture of
his right arm.
TWO CANOEISTS CROWN.
Brothers Perish, but Their Two
Friends Are Saved.
Lancaster, Pa. Carl and Leroy
, Young, brothers, of Harrisburg, and
j Gilbert Oges and Morris Glace, also
I of Harrisburg, went canoeing on the
! Susquehanna River. A few miles be
| low McCall's Dam the canoes were
! upset in a rapids. The Youngs were
drowned and their bodies were not
! recovered.
Persons ashore were able to rescue
[ Oges and Glace.
SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEW r
All Pennsylvania Gleaned
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy in Every Locality—
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—ltems of Busi
ness and Pleasure that Interest..
The new $82,000 Sliamokin Federal
j building is ready for occupancy.
The School Board of West Chester
| has re-elected Professor R. W. Reck
ard principal of the High School.
While attempting to board a freight
| train at Jolinsonburg, John Erickson,
j 20 years old, of Ridgeway, was killed.
St Peter's Catholic Church, Read
ing, will build an addition to St. Peter's
j parochial school, costing $15,000.
| Dr. O. M. Philips, of the West Ches
| ter State Normal School, reports 874
students enrolled there.
Mrs. Daniel H. Hastings and Miss
j Sara Hastings havo returned to iielle
| onte from a trip abroad.
Rosa Fulir, of Lansford, brought a
| breach of promise suit against Louis
Kupras, also of Lansford, for SSOOO.
All the meat of eight hogs, except
one shoulder, was stolen from the
j smoke-house of Ralph Mate, near Red
j Lion.
Pretty Ella I.atimer, the poorly paid
j New Bethlehem money order clerk,
j who embezzled to aid friends, has
been sent to prison.
It is asserted that Harry Houpt, of
J Mauch Chunk, set a hen three weeks
! ago with seven double-yolk eggs, and
i now has 14 chicks, all twins.
Mrs. Elizabeth Plucker, of Reading,
! fell downstairs at her home, and sus
! tained such serious injuries that she
died.
Beaten in the higher Courts, Coun
! oilman John McHugh, of Allentow
' went weeping to jail as a violator
J the liquor laws.
For stealing a horse and rig froxp
| Clarence S. Hope, of Valley township,
: David Viley goes to prison for fr(>m
three to ten years.
( In a driving crash with a trolley car
; at Trindle Springs, Miss Hazel Pef
| fer broke her collarbone and three ribs
and Charles Hotter broke * clavicle
; and a rib.
The Rev. Edward Flynn, assistant
rector at. St. Edward's Catholic Church
; in Sliamokin, has been assigned to
i preside at the Sacred Heart Church,
| Cornwall, Lebanon county.
Andrew Carnegie has pensioned at
S4O a month for life 60-year-old John
Piper, an infirm son of Colonel Piper,
long associated in the Carnegie Iron
Company at Braddock.
Judge Charles I. Landis, of Lancas
ter, accompanied by his wife, will sail
| for the Orient on a four months' visit
to China, Japan and the Eastern coun
try.
Reynoldsv'lle people have hopes of
the early development of several thou
sand acres of coal land in that region.
J. Ci. Warnick, of Greensburg, holds
options on a big acreage there.
John Hughes, aged 4 years, son of
Newton" Hughes, died in the Coates
| ville Hospital of typhoid fever. This
| makes 34 typhoid deaths since Febru
-1 ! ary 1.
i Edward Brior, of Hazleton, who
! pleaded guilty of shooting his wife,
was Sentenced at Mauch Chunk to
pay a fine of SSOO and costs and to be
imprisoned in the Eastern Peniten
-1 tiary for from five to seven years.
At a mass-meeting of citizens of
Catasauqua a recommendation was
; made to the School Board that a bond
I issue of $45,000 be floated for the com
' pletion and furnishing of the new high
school and other purposes.
Sheep raising is becoming profitable
! in Blair county, despite drawbacks to
its success up to this year. Nearly all
] the wool sheared naxi month by farm
ers in the eastern end of Blair county
will be sold to wool dealers residing
in Huntingdon county. There are 12
! buyers in that vicinity who purchase
l an average of 4»,000 pounds each
; spring.
Miss Agnes Strauss, a daughter of
i the Rev. W. H. Strauss, of Lehighton,
! is dead, as the result of a throat op
eration.
Packer-township, Carbon county, su-
I pervisors have decided to buy a crush
| er costing $3500 and put 35 miles of
roads in first-class condition.
Clarence C. T.itzenberger badly
wounded George Tabor in a desperate
fight in the cellar of his home at Slat
ington when Le accidentally discover
ed the latter there as a burglar.