REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM Publ shed by C. S. DAUBEK3IAN, Lessee LAPORTE PA. Vacation days are spending days. The style in gowns Is certainly Close to nature. The plug Tiat la to be abolished even In English society. Occasionally the mercury volplanes In order to get a fresh start. One way to keep cool is to avoid reading rules about how to do it. It Is predicted that the sheath Bkirt will disappear with the summer girl. You cannot convince a. sunburned man that there are spots on the sun. Walt until cool weather comes be fore you wear tight collars or discuss politics. According to a Boston savant. Americans will eventually be a flat footed race. It takes a hero togo about in hi# shirt sleeves, and a martyr to keep liis coat on. Bathing suits bought early in the season now call for talcum powder and a shoe horn. It might help some, these days, to go down in the basement and fondle the snow shovel. Once In a while a baseball writer speaks of a player's fingers as fingers and not as "digits." "The black death" is leadinp to a general crusade throughout the coun try against the rats. That New York man who left his $250,000 estate to his landlady may have been fond of prunes. The only effect hot weather has on the small boy is to increase t'ae popu larity of the swiamin' hole. The national fly swatting campaign is a huge joke on the Hies and a huge effort to stay the hand of disease. A French surgeon recently per formed a remarkable operation on himself. Maybe he cut his own hair. How important it must make the small boy in the bathing suit feel to be told that he has a riparian right! In thin brand of weather the ama teur gardener clings to his hammock and lets the weeds grow where they will. Two and a half millions of Amer icans live by writing, including, of course, those who write home for money. California woman died as a result of wearing too small a corset. Some ■women would rather die than be out of form. Just one lfttle favor! When the eun begins to broil again, please say: "Hot, isn't It!" instead of: "Hot, ain't it!" You can't induce a self-made man to believe that his son would ever suc ceed in getting anywhere without a lot of help. There are said to be 10.000 music teachers in New York. We presume that this is in addition to those who teach ragtime. Statistics show that every New Yorker takes some sort of ear ride every day. New Yorkers certainly crave excitement. They *re fighting the grasshopper pest in California with vacuum clean ers. And, strange to say, there seems to be money in it. The man who tries to cross the At lantic in a dirigible balloon or an aeroplane is pretty sure to succeed in crossing the Styx. A scientist warns us that if women do not behave the race is in danger of decay. Just like a mere man to lay the blame on the women. Somebody asks a western editor how to stop shoes from squeaking. It's none of our business, of course, but one way 1b to take them off. Grand Circuit trotting races are be ing held this year as usual, notwith standing the fact that trotting races are hardly ever accompanied by fatel ities. Concerning universal criticism of rats who desert a sinking ship, it seems that ordinary Justice to th« rats will give them credit for knowing when the ship Is sinking. The hammock is one of our most popular institutions these days, espe cially when there is a girl in it. It is a good thing that the post of weather man is not an elective one, for just now everybody in the ''ountry would vote unanimously for his retire ment to even hotter climes. There is a good deal of intelligence on the bench, a Judge having decided that a man has no right to cross his tegs in a car and muddy othar p*oplo'« 'totbea. BANKERS EXPOSE BECKERS HOARD Revelations About Police Lieu tenant in Rosenthal Case. HAS $200,000 ON DEPOSIT Additional Deposits. Held In at Least Five Banks Not Yet Investigated— Great Sum Is the Frugal Sav ings of $2,250 Salary. LIEUT. BECKER'S BANK BOOK. Corn Exchange Bank. Washington Heights Branch, at Amsterdam Avenue and 143 d St. Nov. 1911 $ 500 Nov. 1911 1,000 Feb. 1912 130 March 1912 255 April 1912 6,000 May 1912 4,330 June 1912 5,500 July 1912 10,900 Aug 1912 1,500 New York. —A thrifty man Is Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, now in the Tombs accused of the murder of Gam bler Herman Rosenthal, for coining between him and his income. Above were the deposits that Charles Becker made in one bank in ten months. Ilis salary as a lieutenant of police was $2,250 a year, or $183.75 a month. But there are other records supplied to the District Attorney by bank offi cials concerning Lieut. Becker's pre cautions against a rainy day. There is proof now that while the graft was good he made these deposits in four lanks: April, 1912 —Lincoln Trust Co.. .$1,500 May, 1912 —West Side Savings Bank ",000 April, 1912—Empire City Savings Bank 11,500 Nov. 1911 to Aug., 1912 —Corn Exchange Bank .10,115 Total $35,115 A glance at these records reveals that while Lieut. Becker was deposit ing $4,330 in the Corn Exchange Bank he was also storing $3,000 in the West Side Savings Bank and that while he was putting s*>,ooo in the Corn Ex change Bank he was entrusting $1,500 to the Lincoln Trust Company. And besides these accounts obtain ed from bank ledgers, the District At torney, through the intelligent work of his assistants, has information that Lieut. Becker had at least live other bank accounts in Manhattan alone and that Becker's total cash savings approximate $200,000. Becker's money and the use he made of it was the central feature of the developments as to the lieuten ant's part in the blackmailing of law breakers and in the murder of Rosen thal, the blackmailed. After the District Attorney had got the records of bank accounts the Grand Jury heard from Jack Ilose and Bridgie Webber that it was Becker's cash that went to pay the pistol men who shot down Rosenthal. Before the murder Becker owed Webber SSOO. Bess than an hour after Rosenthal was murdered he told Brid gie Webber in front of the Murray Hill Baths, in the presence of Rose and with Jack Sullivan standing by, that he hadn't much money with him, and he ordered Webber to give Rose or Schepps SI,OOO "so that the boys could get out of town in a hurry." He told Webber that he would pay him the whole $1,500 the next day. Webber sent Jack Sullivan three times to get the money from Becker. Having scrutinized and analyzed the profits of blackmail as exemplified in Becker's bank accounts, the District Attorney examined with much interest a tabulation he got from William J. Burns and from eight gamblers as to the assessments and rates of black mail —the financial details of the gath ering of what Rose says was $2,400,- 000 in Manhattan alone. This tabulation reveals that there was a complete and systematic slid ing scale of collections from big and little gambling houses and other un savory resorts, from stuss and crap games, from poker rooms, from pool rooms and even from the dice throw ing privilege in saloons and cigar stores. OVERRIDES TAFT'S WOOL BILL. Twenty-One Republicans Aid Demo crate in Passing Measure. Washington.—Under a ruling by Speaker Clark, sustained by Mr. Mann, the Republican floor leader, the House of Representatives passed the Underwood-La Kollette Compromise Wool bill over the veto of President Taft, 174 to 80. BEEF IS CHEAP IN PANAMA. Uncle Sam Buys From Packers and Sells at Low Prices. Washington.—The high cost of liv ing problem hasn't reached the Pana ma Canal Zone. Porterhouse steak can be purchased for 20 cents. Sirloin brings 25 cents, pork 18 cents and ham is 28 cents n pound. The explanation is that on the zone Uncle Sam himself is the storekeeper, buying direct from the packers and selliug to the public at wholesale price plus only the cost of selling. AMBITION FOILED, SHE DISAPPEARS ; < <1 112 ■' ffijg v, : jaßEs "'^^^^jjilltP^i ' » S3SE&3k BBmmM -, ■> <. p, ; > Mrs. John S. Bogges of Chicago, whose picture is here presented, is believed to liave drowned herself because her plans for completing her musical education in Europe could not be carried out. Recently she had a stroke of paralysis which disabled her hands, and she became very despond ent, and disappeared a few days ago. CANAL BULBARS R.R.OWNEB SHIPS Provision for Remission of Tolls to All American Vessels. PASSES SENATE 47 TO 15 Measure Admits to United States Reg istry Foreign Built Craft Owned Here it Not Engaged in Coast wise Trade. Washington. Disregarding the pro test of the British government, the Senate passed the Panama Canal bill, providing for the maintenance and op eration of the canal and the establish ment of a government in the Canal Zone, by a vote of 47 to 15. The measure as passed provides for the remission of tolls to American vessels engaged both in coastwise and foreign tratlic, prohibits railroad own ed vessels from using the canal, ad mits to American register American owned foreign built ships not in coast wise trade, and contains a modifica tion of the House provision divesting the railroads of their steamship liues in an amendment, offered by Senator Bourne, placing,this question under the administratii a of the Interstate Commerce Commission. An amend ment, offered by Senator Ueed, bar ring the canal to \essels of companies violating the anti-trust law was also attached to the measure. As the bill pasted, it would permit American coastwise vessels to pass through the canal free, without condi tions; while American foreign-trade ships might pass inrough free if their owners agreed to sell the vessels to the United States at a fair price in time of war or emergency. The bill will compel the divorce ment by the Southern Pacific Kailroad Company of its steamship lines Further, the legislation puts in jeop ardy the New Haven road's extensive holdings in coastwise lines and the holdings of the New York Central and other roads in shipping on the great lakes. FREE CANAL FOR OUR SHIPS. Senate Extends Coastwise Trade Ex emption to Ocean-going Vessels. Washington. important amend ments of a sweeping nature were add ed to the Panama uiil in the Senate. The free passage provision for Ameri can coastwise ships was extended to apply to our foreign trade as well, provided that the owners of the ships in foreign service would sign an agree ment that in case of war or other pub lic emergency their ships could be tak en over by the Government. TAFT VETOES WOOL BILL. In Message Says Lo>" Duties Would Cripple Vast industry. Washington.—President Taft vetoed the wool tariff revision bill, the result of the coalition of Democrats and He publican insurgents in I'ongress. He stands firmly by the tariff board and takes a firm stand for revision based on scientific data furnished by the board. He holds that most of the rates in the Underwood-La Follette compromise bill are so low that they would result in irretrievable injury. SEVEN DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Highest Number in a Day Since Electricity Was Adopted. ALL WAS OVER IN AN HOUR Six Italians and One Negro—Five for the Murder of Mrs. Mary Hall, One for Killing Policeman, and Ferrone, Wife Slayer. Ossining, N. Y. —In one hour and sixteen minutes in the same electric chair the State exacted the extreme penalty from seven men. Of the seven, six, guilty of the murders of two wo men, went to their deaths protesting to the priests that they were inno cent ; the seventh, a negro, who while on a spree killed a policeman, had been caught redhanded and did not deny his guilt. This is the largest number of deaths in the chair in this State on a single day. Long before the first man was led to his death everything had been put in readiness. The straps on the chair had been tested, the electric arrange ments made peifect, the doctors and the priests were present. Collins, the first of the seven to be led from the cells, entered the death chamber at 4.58. a. m. The last of Mrs. Hall's slayers, Cona, stumbled into the death room between two priests, pallid and mumb ling his innocence. As his lips met the crucifix one of the clergymen held out for him to kiss he swooned and had to be lifted into the chair. Contrary to the general expectation, Ferrone went quietly to his death. He had been a troublesome prisoner. Dur ing his trial in New York it was said the "death sign" was made in the court room against a witness, and when Ferrone was declared guilty he attacked and slashed a juror with a piece of glass. He raved like a mad man in the Tombs, and attempted to kill himself. Fighting and struggling, he had to be literally carried from the railroad station to Sing Sing prison. Ferrone quietly submitted to his fata. The five men involved in the killing Mrs. Mary Hall, wife of Henry Hall, a pipe boss on the aqueduct work, in vaded the home of Mrs. John Griffin, in a lonely section near Croton Lake, intent upon robbing the house of $3- 000 they believed was concealed there. Joseph Ferrone murdered his wife by cutting iter throat on Oct. 24 last in The Bronx. Collins, the negro, shot and killed Policeman Michael Lynch on July 1, 1911, in New York city. PROFESSOR HANGS HIMSELF. J. H. Corey Ties Rope to a Bridge In Ohio. Newark Ohio. — J. 11. Corey, aged 40, professor of English at Denison University at Granville, committed suicide by lmnging himself with a clothesline from a bridge alongside of the Beaver athletic field. The body was discovered by a boy who was going to a nearby pasture to milk cows. No reason can be assign ed for Prof. Corev's suicide. CITIZENS DEMAND END OF GRArT New York in Mass Meeting De clares War on Crime. DESIRE A PURIFIED CITY Meeting, Solemn and Intense, Demands Cancer of Vice and Police Graft Be Cut Out—Committee of Citizen* to Carry Out Orders. New York. —Citizens of New York city in mass meeting at Cooper Union demanded in no uncertain terms that police graft and blackmail here must cease. Hinging resolutions, preceded by speeches by District Attorney Whit man, Alderman Curran, Emory R. Buckner and others, were adopted calling for a thorough inquiry into the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, and the conditions which gave rise to that crime, and pledging hearty co-operation to those who have undertaken to end the so-called epi demic of corruption and oppression in this city. "The killing of Herman Rosenthal was a murder, of course —but it was more than that," said Whitman. "In the light of all the circumstances it was a challenge to our very civiliza tion itself." It was a remarkable assemblage in more respects than one. Three times as many people turned out as were able to get into the ancient hall. It was enthusiastic only on occasions. The temper of the three thousand men and women who gained admission was pitched on the grave and solemn lines of those facing a serious duty. It was an earnest and intense gath ering, which served to show the re verse side of the picture which the events of the past month have im printed as typical of New York. No one was attacked. No bitter ness was displayed. The voice of or derly. law-abiding New York was reg istered. And, lastly, it adopted a series of resolutions which call into existence a committee of determined citizens, em powered to raise funds and set diligently and perseveringly to reform the conditions which called it into being. The committee consists of Eugene H. Outerbridge, Jacob H. Schiff Eu gene A. Pliilbin, Dr. Henry Moskowitz. Allan Robinson. F. S. Tomlin, Ray mond V. Ingersoll, Mrs. Charles H. Is raels and George B. Agnew. $25 A WEEK WILL KEEP THREE. Secretary Nagel So Holds in Overrul ing Immigration Board of Inquiry. Washington.—Secretary Nagel, ov erruling a decision by immigration officials of New York, that a weekly salary of $25 is not sufficient to sup port three persons in the United States, authorized the admission to this country of Marv and Cecilie Flem ing, two elderly maiden sisters of Dub lin, Irelanu The women landed August 10 and sought permission to make their home with their nephew, John F. Byrne, a newspaper reporter, whom thev had reared from infancy. Byrne, who will support his aunts, appealed from the adverse decision of the Board of In quiry. BOY NAMED JOHN JACOB. Youngs.ter Sixth to Bear Name of Founder of Astor Fortune. New York. —A son was born to Mrs. John Jacob Astor at 840 Fifth avenue. The child weighs seven and three (.tiarter pounds and seems to be a lusty youngster. It was said that Mrs. Astor was re covering as well as could be expected. The baby has been named John Jacob Astor for his father, who lost his life on the Titanic on April 14. By the provisions of Col. John J»icob Astor's will his posthumous son, who is the sixth to bear the name, inherits $3,000,000, which is to be kept in trust for him until he attains his majority. HARRY GILMORE A SUICIDE. Son of Confederate Cavalry Leader Shoots Himself in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pa. —A man who regis tered at the Fort Pitt Hotel as Harry Gilmore of Baltimore. Md., was found dead in bed in his room, with a revol ver in his right hand and a bullet in his temple. Baltimore. Md. —Harry Gilmore was a son of Col. Harry Gilmore. a famous Confederate cavalry leader and a member of an old and prominent Maryland family. He was a bachelor, 38 years of age, a member of the ex clusive Maryland Club and the Klk ridge Hunt Club. Like his father he was an expert horseman. CANAL FREE TO COASTERS. Deny Free Toils to American-Owned Vessels in Foreign Trade. Washington. \ complete agree ment was reached by the Conference Committee on the Panama Canal bill, retaining in effect practically every thing proposed by the House, as well as some of the Senate changes. The agreement eliminates, however, the Senate amendment extending the free toll provision for American coastwise ships to include American ships in the foreign trade. JEALOUS WIFE KILLSHED RIVA Mrs. Leola Jones of Nashvill Shoots Dead Mrs. Alva Cave THE VICTIM WAS A WIDO'. Two Bullets in Her Heart —Slay< 'Phones Police and Is Arrested as She Leaves Street Car on Her Way to Surrender. Nashville, Tenn.—Mrs. Leola .Tone is a prisoner in the county jail, chars ed with the murder o* Mrs. Alva Fra ces Cave, widow of"Steve" Cave an daughter-in-law of the Rev. R. Li Cave, pastor of the Woodland btre< Christian Church and Chaplain Gei eral of the United Confederate Vete ans. The motive behind the killing < Mrs. Cave appears to be jealously, a Mrs. Jones's husband's name hud bee connected with Mrs. Cave's by th neighborhood gossips of North Nasi ville on several occasions. Some months ago Mrs. Jones file a petition for divorce against her hut band, but the petition was dismissei She had not been living with him fo several months, but neighbors say h had been seen about the home of Mrs Cave, 1,207 Ninth avenue, where th killing occurred. Mrs. Cave was sitting in her fron hall when the front gate opened am Mrs. Jones walked toward the houst No word was spoken, «-.d as Mrs Jones approached she tired twice, hot! shots taking ( effect in Mrs. Cave heart. Notwithstanding this. Mrs Cave managed to reach her bedroon and there she fell dead across the be>.' Mrs. Jones then walked to a dm store near by and telephoned to th police station. An auto patrol wagoi was hurried to the scene, but not be fore Mrs. Jones had boarded a cai She was apprehended as she was lea\ ing the transfer station bound for tli police station. Mrs. Cave was 30 years old am rather striking in appearance. Sin leaves a little girl 5 years old and : son 2 years old. Her husband die« about eighteen months ago. Mrs. Jones operates a dry cleanint establishment in North Sixth avenui She was visited in person by her fatli er, J. M. Hooper, who is employed b; the Nashville Railway and Light Con. pany, and everything that could b done to make her cell comfortabl during her confinement was arrange! The killing has caused a sensatioi not only by reason of the principal being women, but on account of th prominence of the family of Mrs. Cavt Dr. R. Lin Cave, her father-in-law, i a venerable and beloved pastor of thi city. He has held charges in Atlants and has a brother in the ministry it St Louis. For several years he wa connected with one of the leadin church colleges in Lexington, Ky., am for years he has been one of the lead ers in religious circles throughout thi section. BUDGET BILL VETOED. Taft Disapproves 7-Year Tenure o Office in Civil Service. Washington.—President Taft sen to Congress his second veto in thre« days. He returned without approva the legislative, executive and judiciarj appropriation bill because of th< bill's provisions for a seven-year ten ure for all clerks in the govern.nen civil service, and also because it pro vides for the abolition of the Unitei States Commerce Court. The Presi dent's veto, it is contended, is sure U extend the session of Congress. In at attempt to pass the bill over the presi dential veto the House fell 20 vote! short of the necessary majority. Om effect of Mr. Taft's veto of the bill i: to hold up his own pay, that of ever> member of Congress, every Kedera judge and every member of the Unitei. States courts. BANDIT HOLDS UP TRAIN. Robs Express Safe of $3,000 at B• It more, N. C. Raleigh, N. C. —A telecram from Asheville says an unattended express robber boarded the Asheville-Spartan burg train at Biltmore, two miles frotn Asheville, and with a revolver forced the messenger to open his safe and give up its contents. The messenger turned over $3,000 to him and the robber escaped. PITTSBURGH -CLEANS UP. One Hundred Resorts Closed by Or der of Morale ~hief. Pittsburgh.—A demand by Dr. P. A. Rhoades, head of the Morals Com mission, that the police attack the so cial evil, resulted in an order that closed 100 resorts. SUNBURN BLISTER KILLS MAN. Becomes Infected and Blood Poison ing Causes Death. Ray Shore. L. I.—An infected blist er, caused, it is said, by sunburn, is thought to have caused the death of Wintbrop Jordan, a summer resident of this place. Jordan, several days ago was sunburned and the skin be , Kin to peel. Soon blood poison start ed in his under lip, where a blister l.ad formed, and in spite of the cffr of a physician he grew^on^t^
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