REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM Published by C. S. DAUBERMAN, Lessee LAPORTE PA. The failure of the peach crop U overdue. This Is the time of the year for turning on the electric fan. Mona Lisa bids fair to rival Charley Boss In the frequency of discovery. The farmers welcome hot nights, as ■well as hot days, and also steamy showers. "Big hats." says a physician, "re •sult in brain fag." If you don't be lieve it, ask father. A man In New Jersey was arrested »and fined for raising mosquitoes. The 'war is on in earnest. It Is said that Kaiser Wilhelm ichooces his wife's hats. That man ■lsn't afraid of anything. One way to cure Insomnia Is to read the history of the alleged war between Italy and Turkey. An Italian organ grinder Is going 'l>ack home with a fortune of $50,000. Sometimes crime is highly profitable. It Is reported that one of the war correspondents in Tripoli is dead. The onnul probably was too much for him. The American girl who has Jilted an English nobleman evidently would rather be a wife than a financial as set. Perhaps the modern styles In wom en's dress were designed to make bathing suits seem modest by com parison. A Harvard professor says he has dis covered a way to restore life. This will »rouse the enmity of the undertakers' association. » The manager of a losing baseball team has as hard a Job explaining as •the husband returning from a late lodge meeting. Verily, this is a world of wonders. Occasionally we meet a man who owns a motor car, and has not mort gaged his house. We are doing our best in the fly swatting caacpaign, but we would be persuaded to waste cue healthy swat on tho weather man. The neighbor who runs his phono graph late Into the night generally is the fellow who arises at 6 a. m.to run the lawn mower. "A New York man has been ar rested for stealing 1920 collars." Look again and see whether he Isn't really a Pittsburg man. French army aeroplanes are being nsed to carry ammunition, but It strikes us that they are dangerous enough, even when not loaded. A Callfornian has written to his congressman asking for a copy of the Congressional Record. Evidently he Is looking for a cure for Insomnia. A noncapsizable boat has been In- Tented by a genius In Norway, but the fool who rocks the boat will find some other method of bursting into print. A court has decided that It Is not •unlawful for a man to play poker In his own house. But if he Is wise he 'will not do It unless his wife is away. Policeman In Berlin shot three bur glars without notifying the moving picture men. A mistake of that kind In Paris would have cost him his Jab. A French duelist Is about as harm less as a chess master, but a French "taxlcab bandit is not the sort of per son one would care to meet in a dark alley. A Chicago hotel has abolished the register, and the guests sign cards, which are filed out of sight. Thus Is passing away another cherished insti tution. Brunette in New York want a di rorce because her husband raves in his sleep about "Blondie." Evidently she does not like the color of his af fections. One Chicago man has moved his home by sailing it on the lake. This Is another proof that Chicago people have got past the stage where they use their lake exclusively for boiling purposes. A scientific experimenter has suc ceeded in producing artificial malaria. Such achievements may be fun for the scientists, but it makes the gen eral public feel very much like the famous protesting frogs. Another foolish scientist has been heard from. He says kissing is the most dangerous thing in the world. The most dangerous thing in the world is encouraging a man who thinks he has ability as an alter-dln ner Breaker. A Washington man In support of the term that the "Star-Spangled Banner'' is not singable says. "You ought to have heard the house of representa tives trying to sing It." Groat snakes! What musical composition lr» cla.ssto pr ragtime could survive that 4est? L FATAL REAR-END TRAIN COLLISION "Double-Header" Freight Runs Into Coach Near Latrobe, Pa. PASSENGERS HURLED IN AIR Passenger Train Was Loaded With Picknickers and Babies—Farmers to the Rescue —Mixup of Or ders Causes Collision. Latrobe, Pa.—Twenty persons were killed and many others fatally injured at 3:40 o'clock, p. rn., on the Eigonier Valley railroad when a passenger train carrying picknickers was backing into Wilpen. The accident was due to a misunderstanding of orders. It hap pened at the fair grounds, about one and a half miles from Ligonier. The accident was caused by a dou ble header freight, which crashed into the rear coach of the passenger train, telescoping several cars. Only one passenger on the train escaped injury. The coaches contained a large num ber of children who were being taken by Miss Matthews, a nurse at the home of George Senft, president of the Ligonier Valley Kailroad, for a day's outing. All the children were either killed or sustained severe in juries. The freight engines -ploughed through the wooden coach, crushing it as it would an eggshell. The coach was ripped to pieces. All the occu pants were hurled to the roadbed, some fell in the path of the engines, while others were imbedded partly in the cinder and stone ballasting. The fire engine of the double header pulling the freight train stopped after it had passed through the passenger ccach, turned half way around and fell over on its side. Engineer Frank McConnaughy was thrown under the engine and scalded to death by escap ing steam. Fireman George Byers jumped, but fell on the track, the wheels of the tender cutting his tody in half. Engineer Smith P. Beatty of the second freight engine jumped and sus tained a broken leg, while his fireman, John H. Ankney, fell beneath a car ■when he jumped and both legs were severed. He died while being taken to the Latrobe Hospital. Conductor Charles H. Kuhn of the passenger train leaped when he saw the impending crash and received a broken leg. Engineer Dunlap of the passenger train stuck to his post and was uninjured. Farmers near the scene of the acci dent and men who were at work at the Denny racetrack went to the as sistance of the injured, laying them on the bank. A messenger sped with all haste to Ligonier and notified the residents there of the accident. A frantic call for physicians and aid was sent to Latrobe. Five Latrobe physicians went to the scene in an automobile. A special train was made up on the Ligonier Valley Railroad and sent to Ligonier to bring the in jured to the hospital. The dead: McCONNAUGHY, FRANK, engi neer, age 45; scalded to death under engine. BYERS, GEORGE, fireman, age 28; cut in twain. BEATTY, SMITH, engineer, age 36; died on way to Latrobe Hospital. ANKNEY, JOHN, fireman, age 35; mangled under engine; died on way to hospital. RHODDY, LOUISE, age 11 years. RHODDY, ELIZABETH, age 14 years. BROWN FIELD, SAMUEL, age 4 years. TOYSH, GEORGE, age 68. a weal thy farmer of Ligonier township. DILLON, Mrs. HARRY, age 24 years, and her year old baby, of Wil pen. EDSAL, MiRS, age 20 years, of Li gonier township. HOON, Miss, age 20 years, of Ligon ier township. CAMPBELL, WILLIAM, of Wilpen. ESSE, Mrs. M... age 34, of Wilpen. HTTDOCK, MIKE, of Wilpen; side crushed. MURR, THOMAS, age 52, of Lat robe; head crushed. OVERTON, FRANK, age 10, son of John Overton of Wilpen; body crush ed. OVERTON, Mrs. JOHN, of Wilpen; died on train going ta Pittsburgh. Unidentified Italian; legs cut off; head crushed. HUBLEY, GEORGE W„ Pittsburgh, son of secretary of the Oil Well Sup ply Company. NIEPONT. MATTHEW, Pittsburgh. A majority of the thirty injured per sons were residents along the Wilpen branch. They were brpught to a hos pital here or sent to hospitals in Pitts burgh when it was found they were in a critical condition. READY TO SELL DAUGHTER. Mother Said to Have Considered an Offer of $20,000. London. —It was stated in a Liver pool police court that Samuel David Lee, of Salt Lake, City, had offered Emily Doughty $20,000 for her daugh ter as his plural wife. Mrs. Doughty is being tried for en tering into negotiations with Lee on the basis of the above offer, the tech nical charge against her being at tempting to procure her 17-year-old daughter for unlawful purposes. ROOSEVELT CALLS FOR NEW PARTY Men in 40 States Sign for Con vention in Chicago. TO BE HELD ON AUGUST 5 "Aim Is to Strike at the Roots of Pri vilege in Industry No Less Than in Politics" —"Thou Shalt Not Steal" a Principle. New York. Colonel Roosevelt's third party convention will be held in Chicago on Aug. 5, either in the Coli seum or Orchestra Hall. The call lor it, signed by Roosevelt leaders of 40 states and addressed "to the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences," was issued through Senator Joseph M. Dixon, campaign manager, in the new nation al headquarters of the party at th« Hotel Manhattan. The party will probably be called the Progressive National Party. Maine, North Carolina. Delaware, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, Idaho and Nevada are not represented on the provisional committee which signed the call. Senator Dixon ex plained that in these states the Roose velt faction controls or lias a chance to control the regular Republican or ganization, hence the omission. The call follows: "To the people of the United States, without regard to past political differ ences, who through repeated betrayals realize that today the power of the crooked political bosses and of the privileged classes behind them is so strong in the two old party organiza tions that no helpful movement in the real interests of our country can come out of either; "Who believe that the time has come for a national progressive move ment, a nation-wide movement, on non-sectional lines, so that the people may be served in sincerity and truth by an organization unfettered by ob ligation to conflicting interests; "Who believe in the right and capa city of the people to rule themselves and effectively control all the agencies of their government, and who hold that only through social and industrial justice thus secured can honest pro perty find permanent protection; "Who believe that government by the few tends to become and has in fact become government by the sordid influence that control the few; "Who believe that only through the movement proposed cun we obtain in the nation and tho several states the legislation demanded by the modern industrial evolution; legislation which shall favor honest business and yet control the great agencies of modern business so as to insure their being used in the interest of the whole peo ple; legislation which shall promote prosperity and at the same time se cure the better and more equitable diffusion of prosperity; legislation which shall promote the economic well-being of the honest farmer, wage worker, professional man and busi ness man alik», but which shall at the same time strike in efficient fashion— and not merely pretend to strike —at the roots of privilege in the world of industry no less than in the world of politics; "Who believe that this type of wise industrial evolution will avert indus trial revolution; "Who believe that wholesome party government can come only if there is wholesome party management in a spirit of service to the whole country, and who hold that the commandment delivered at Sinai, 'Thou shalt not steal,' applies to politics as well as to business; "To all in accord with these views a call is hereby issued by the provi sional committee the resolution of the mass meeting held in Chicago on June 22 laßt to send from each state a number of delegates whose votes in the convention shall count for as many votes as the state shall have senators and representatives in Con gress, to meet in mass convention at Chicago on the fifth day of August, 1912, for the purpose of nominating candidates to be supported for the po sitions of President and Vice-Presi dent of the United States." Dwelling on the new legislation, the signers of the call say: "Only this type of wise industrial evolution will avert .industrial revolu tion." Senator Dixon was asked who Col onel Roosevelt's running mate might be. lie said he could not answer. Men prominent in the new party be lieve that Governor Johnson of Cali fornia or Judge Ben Linuse.v, one of the three Democrats who signed the call, are likely candidates for second place. Governors Glasscock, Stubbs, Bass and Hadley do not sign the call. Forty states are represented in the call, but none of the territories. Sen ator Dixon explained that tlie third party did not believe in territorial rep resentation at national conventions, excepting where the territory was about to be admitted to statehood. The eight states not represented are North and South Carolina, Arkansas, Delaware, Nevada, Maine, Idaho and Mississippi. "These eight states," said Senatoi Dixon, "or most of them, \>ill send delegates to the national convention, though have not taken activa part in »' * call." STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS IN ACTION J il i x aßo>o LJ* ~ v< jSßjjwsSlßflß^Bißj^BMß* In' IL ' The way political conventions are pictorially covered. 41 DIE, 50 HURT IN TRAINWREGK Buffalo Limited on Lackawanna Telescoped Near Corning. N. Y. FOG HIDES DANGER SIGNAL Elmira and Corning Hospitals Over crowded with Victims, Many of Whom Were on Their Way to Niagara Falls. Corning, N. Y. —Westbound Lacka wanna passenger train No. 9, from New York, composed of two engines, a baggage car, three Pullmans and two day cars, in the order named, was demolished at Gibson, three miles east of Corning, at 5.25 o'clock a. in., by express train No. 11. More than forty persons were kill ed and between fifty and sixty per sons were injured. Many of the vic tims were holiday excursionists bound to Niagara Falls, who had boarded the train at points along the Lacka wanna line. The wreck was the worst in the liistory of tlie road. Its cause, accord ing to William Schroeder, engineer of the express, was his failure to see the signals set against his train. The morning was foggy and he said he couldn't make out the signals. The wrecked train stood on the main track blocked by extra freight train No. til, which had become crip pled. There was no flag out, accord ing to Schroeder. The signals which Schroeder declared it was too foggy to see were just around the curve. The flying express plunged past them and crashed into the rear of No. 9, bringing death to more than two score of its passengers. Identified Dead. Folowing is a list of the dead who have been identified: ARMSTRONG, William A., Hoboken, N. J. BRANDIES, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, New York City; on their wedding trip. DUAK, Herman, Newark. ERWIN. Mrs. C. E., Chicago. FETODUCATI, Mrs. Lucy, New York City. FREEDMAN, Sarah, of New York. HESS. Mrs. Edith A., Scranton, Pa. IVEY, Dr. E. V., of Bellevue Hospital, New York; home, Suffolk, Va. JONES, Mrs. Anna Hill, Scranton, Pa. LAIRD, George, Brooklyn. LAIRD, Mrs. William R., Brooklyn. LAIRD, Philip, two years old, Brook lyn. LAIRD, Mabel, five years old, Brook lyn. LOWERY, Evelyn, negress, Newark. NOVAK, Antonio, Scranton. NELSON, Anton, Jersey City. PRATT, F. C., Buffalo, traveling sales man. PATOUSKI, M., immigrant, ticketed to Buffalo. PRAVELOWSKI, Regina P., Russia. REYNOLDS, Mrs. Lillian, Brooklyn. SMITH, James, negro, Pullman porter, Newark. SCHULTZ, Ernest. Buffalo. ZIMMER, Mr. and Mrs. John, Scran ton. Of the injured, four of the unidenti fied died in the Corning Hospital. Sev eral have nothing about their per sons by means of which they could be identified. Eleven injured persons are being cared for in St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, while the others are in the Corning Hospital. SAYS ANDREW WAS DISMISSED. Resignation Repeatedly Requested by President and Head of Department. Lancaster, Mass. —Franklin Mac- Veagh, Secretary of the Treasury, in a statement here declared that the resignation of A. Piatt Andrew, Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury, was not submitted until it had been repeatedly requested by both Mr. MacVeagh and President Taft, The Secretary said that Mr. Andrew pleaded to be re tained in the service and brought I every possible Influence to bear. VANIMAN AND CREW KILLED Dirigible Destroyed by Explo sion in Atlantic City Tryout. WIVES SAW THE DISASTER Make Attempt to Fly to Euorpe, Sud denly Is Shattered When at Alti tude of 1,000 Feet—lnventor's Brother One of the Victims. Atlantic City, N. J—With their | wives looking on and 20,000 other per | sons too stunned by the tragedy to utter a word, live men, the commander j and crew of four of the mammoth di j rigible balloon Akron, were killed in i stantly when it exploded 1,000 feet in the air. The men were Melvin Vani- I man, constructor and commander of j the airship; his brother, Calvin Vani | man, and George Bourrilion, Walter Guest and Fred Eliner. The bodies of only two, Calvin Vaniman and Bourri ; lion, were recovered. They were mangled badly. Those of the others I are in tlie wreckage in Absecou Inlet, over which the explosion occurred. Divers have seen fragments of bodies in the tangle of wires that formed the car and made for the crew a latal trap. There does not seem a possibility that enough of any body may be recov ered to make identification certain, unless it should be through clothing that may cling to it. The airship itself was blown almost to atoms. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but it is believed to have been caused by a too sudden expansion of gas. Mrs. Vaniman and the three other widows, Mrs. Elmer, Mrs. Bourrilion and Mrs. C.uest, who were sitting on the balcony of the Vaniman cottage watching the balloon when it exploded are suffering from nervous prostration and are in the care of physicians. The explosion now is laid to the ex perimenting of Vaniman with a new theory in aerial navigation. Inside the great outer shell of the dirigible there was a gas bag under which were several small air chambers. It is thought Vaniman took too much air in these compartments, compressed the gas to a danger point and the rays of the sun condensing it still further caused the tearing of the outer shell and the explosion. FOUR GIRLS DROWNED IN PIT. Little Shoes and Stockings in a Row Marked the Spot. Perth Amboy, N. J. —Four pairs of little shoes and stockings, found at the edge of a water filled clay pit, told the story of the drowning of four small girls in South Amboy. On Sunday afternoon Ellen and Martha Paneon, in company with Su san Pazenski and Frances Stanowitz, all in the neighborhood of ten years old, decided togo to the woods near Sayreville to pick berries. At 10 o'clock on Sunday night the parents of the children became alarmed at their not coming home. Accordingly a search was commenced, and all night long and until next day it was unsuccessful. Frank Marsh and David Kramer, both of South Amboy, saw four pairs of shoes and stockings beside a large clay pit on the outskirts of the city. Being informed of the disappearance of the children, they dragged the pit and recovered the bodies. About three hundred little girj friends attended the funeral. DU PONT CO. CUTS MELON. Stockholders to Get $20,000,000 Out of Dissolution. Wilmington, Del.—The Du Font Powder Company will cut a melon as the result of the programme of disso lution as ordered by the United States Circuit Court. In a statement issued to the shareholders, Pierre S. du Pont, acting president, sayg that two new companies will be created in accord ance with the decree, in payment for J20,0000,000 worth of property to be transferred thereto. All CAMORitISTS FOUND CUILTV Long Trial in Italy Ends With Jury's Quick Verdict. ONE CUTS THROAT IN COURT Seven Years for Priest —Maximum for "Erricone," Head of the Organiza tion—Convicted Men in Cage Act Like Wild Beasts. Viterbo, Italy.—The trial of the Ca tnorrist leaders ended here after the proceedings had lasted seventeen months and six years after the mur ders of which the Camorrists were charged. The survivors of the forty-one men who were originally placed on trial were all found guilty of criminal con spiracy, hut only live were declared guilty of the actual murder. These live -and three others, including Al t'ano, (Erricone,) were each to thirty years' solitary imprisonment. The trial ended with a final outburst of shrieks, gestures, oaths, and curses such as had characterized the pro ceedings from the start. One of the prisoners in the cage, Di Marinas, cut his throat and sank bleeding to the floor on hearing his thirty-year sentence. Women fainted, men shouted, and the utmost confu sion prevailed. The murders were committed iu June, 1906, when Gennaro Cuocolo, a former Camorra leader, was found stabbed to death on the lower slope of Mount Vesuvius. On the same night his wife was murdered in Nap les. Of the forty-one men arrested three have died and fifteen were released after servng terms in jail equal to the maximum sentences that could have been imposed if they had been found guilty of the charges against them. The trial cost SBO,OOO. The unhap py jury had been imprisoned since March, 1911. The jurors in their ver dict had to answer 144 questions. The official reports of the proceed ings fill sixty-three volumes and about 40,000 pages. Most of the counsel spoke for sev eral weeks on end The verdict declares Carrado Sor tino guilty of both murders; Nicolo Morra, Antonio Cerrato, and Mariano Di Gennaro guilty of the murder of Cuocolo, and Giuseppe Salvi guilty of the murder of Cuocolo's wife. Enrico Alfano, the alleged leader of the Camorrists; Giovanni Rapi, Treas urer of the Camorra; Di Marianas and the others are convicted of being in stigators of the crime and members of a criminal organization. The President of the court immedi ately sent for the condemned men. Sortino, Cerrato, Salvi, Morra, Di Gen naro, Alfano, Rapi, and Di Marinas, were sentenced to thirty years' impris onment and to ten years' police sur veillance; Ascrittore to ten years' im prisonment and three years' surveill ance, Ciro Vitozzi, the priest, to seven years' imprisonment and two years' surveillance; the others to five years' imprisonment and three years' sur veillance. The prisoners, who had recovered their composure during the recess, heard their sentences in silence. They appeared to be reconciled to their fate and betrayed not the slightest emo tion. They repeatedly kissed the hands of their lawyers. URGE TO IMPEACH ARCHIBALD. Report to House, Bitter Denunciation of Commerce Court Judge's Actions. Washington.—Formal demand that Judge Robert W. Archbald of the IJni ed States Commerce Court, be ini' peached for "misbehavior and high crimes and misdemeanors" was made to the House of Representatives by the judiciary committee. In excoriat ing phrases the committee declared Judge Archbald's "sense of moral re sponsibility has become deadened" and that he "has prostituted his high office for personal profit." Practically every seat in the House was occupied when Representative Clayton read the indictment of Judge Archbald. The Archbald case, undei the constitution, will goto the Senate and preparations will be made for a trial before that body. Present indi cations are that action-by the Senatf will be postponed until the December session. Seven managers on the part of th House, who will act as prosecutors i the trial before the Senate, will b named. They will be selected froi the judiciary committee. Indication are that the House will report Claytoi Alabama: Floyd, Arkansas; Davi: West Virginia; Webb. North Carolinr Morris, Nebraska: Sterling, lllinoi and Howland, Ohio. Thirteen articles of impeachme: were presented in the resolution. DECIDE THERE'S NO HELLFIRE Bible Students Vote the "Oth Place" Out of Existence. Glen Echo, Md. —The Internation Ttiblo Students' conference here for nlly voted out of existence the hell Scripture and"the lake of fire a brimstone." The conference recorded its disl lief in the ancient theory of the "otl place" after Gen. W. P. Hall of Wa: ington, D. C., had demanded repud tion of the doctrine of eternal "h fire" because it created skepticism.
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