REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM Published by C. S. DAUHERMAN, Lease* LA PORTE PA. Vacationers have no ambition to "come back." Girls in tight 6kirts —well, the less ■aid about them the better. Dealers in evaporated eggs do not always succeed In evaporating th« smell. Golf a rich man's game? Non sense! Just look at the numtfer oi poor players! No matter what may be said about the weather man, it can not be denied that he is hot stuff. Tt's a heap easier to denounce tha bad habits of the other fellow thar It is to renounce our own! A man never enjoys his summet vacation so much as when he return! home to get a square meal. Speaking of refreshing subjects, a motoring party in the Alps was losl the other day in a snow drift. The gondoliers of Venice have gone out on a strike, leaving the public to paddle its own canoe, so to speak. According to reports the ballot this fall In Oregon will be nine feet long, and yet women Insist that they want It. Since a telephone girl is said to have won a prince, lots of girls will prac tice saying "Number, plee-us?" in dulcet tones. A statistician tells us that the wo men of Paris outnumber the men bj 200,000. Now we know why rich Americans like Paris. What brings the blush of shame to the Chicagoan's cheeks is the taunl that the largest fish in Lake Michigan can be caught on a pinhook! Since a correspondent has retaliated with some heat, saying that man's cede that at least it is slightly inar tlstic. Some men are born enemies of man kind, and some develop the habit ol getting their hair cut on Saturday aft ernoon. Observing the oddly unbecoming costumes afTeetcd by aviatrices, one marvels that any girl ever cherishes aspirations to fly. Every time we hear that a pleasur* boat has knocked a hole in a battle- Bhip we are led to wonder why th« government doesn't build a fleet ol pleasure boats. One thing which Berlin is certain to do in 191G Is to dwarf Stockholm In Olympic crowds. The ten-to-one nd vantage in population settles thai point far in advance. Over four thousand killed them selves in the United States last year But, still, that left a fairly reassur Jng proportion of the population thai yet believed life Is worth living. It Is Interesting to read that « Housatonlc woman dug twenty good sized potatoes and three small ones from one hill a few days ago, but what was her husband dolpg mean While? Our army has adopted a new form of sword which is said to be highly effective. We can picture a gallant officer, sword In hand, battling with a gatling gun at a distance of a mile and a half. A young woman In a New York wa terside resort came near being drowned by her hobble skirt. Still, 6tyle is not worth being a cause If It is not to have its martyrs, as well as its votaries. A New Jersey man claims that he has perfected an invention whereby peas can be made to grow by elec tricity. That may help some, hut wouldn't it be more effective If he could induce electricity to kill the weeds? The Baw fly Is cutting the leaves off New England's maples and the spruce bud moth Is attacking the balsams, which are needed for pillows and for Christmas trees. Still nobody Is do ing anything to Increase the number of the birds. A man arrested In Chicago for be- In* drunk confensed that his wife, a milliner, had sent him out to buy thread and he had spent the money for drink. His wife pleaded to save him from jail, on the ground that she needed him home to do the house work. Great excitement has been caused In London because the king and queen went to a vaudeville show. What they want now Is to get up a con vention on the American plan It tlw wish to be up to date in their amuse ments and want some excitement which is really worth while. Shoemakers are proverbially 111 shod, dut it would seem as if the men In the Pittsburg factory who struck because while they turned out 600 bathtubs i day they had none to use themr-elvei bad something to complain of. DYNAMITE PLOT BY MILL OWNERS Builder of Lawrence Plants Kills Self When Court Calls. SENSATION AT LAWRENCE Prominent Men Subpoenaed by Bos. ton Grand Jury Investigating Charge of Conspiracy to Plant Explosive. Boston. —A sensation was sprung at the courthouse when it leaked out that District Attorney Pelletier had caused the grand jury to investigate a charge of conspiracy against big mill men in Lawrence in connection with the planting of dynamite in that city at the time of the big strike. Ernest W. Pitnam, who built the large Wood worsted mills at Law rence, one of the men involved In the conspiracy who was summoned to ap pear before the grand jury, committed suicide in Andover. The announce ment of his suicide stated that the cause was unknown. In view of the fact that he was one of the men un der investigation and was also under summons to testify, it is stated that his suicide was due to the present in vestigation. Among those summoned to appear before the Suffolk grand jury in con nection with the dynamite plots at Lawrence were seven of the most prominent residents. Just what they know about the charges is not known at present and nobody can be found who would venture to give an inkling as regards their testimony. Those who testified were: Louis S. Cox, postmaster at Lawrence; George E. Kundhardt, treasurer of the Kund hardt mills; Ever Sjostron, treasurer of the United States Worsted Mills; Fred C. McDuflie, treasurer of the Everett Mills; Charles Wolcott, treas urer of the Atlantic Mills, and John J. Breen. John J. Breen was arrested for planting the explosive, lie did not take the stand at his trial and was fined SSOO. District Attorney Pelletier learned that the conspiracy to plant the dynamite was conceived and prac tically carried out in Boston and the investigation by the grand jury relates to that conspiracy. The purpose of the plan alleged to have been formed Ly the mill men, it is said, was to destroy the labor or ganizations by creating public opinion hostile to them by the use of dyna mite. It is said that the men involved in the conspiracy figured that if dyna mite could be traced to those inter ested fn the strike public opinion would favor the owners and be inimi cal to the operatives, with the result that the strike would be crushed and the labor organization injured. ROOSEVELT ELECTORS QUIT. Flinn and Taft Managers in Pennsyl vania Reach a Compromise. Harrisburg, Pa.—A compromise was reached between the Taft and Roose velt forces in Pennsylvania. The Roosevelt leader will withdraw Roose velt electors from the ticket if the Taft managers will that the Penrose plan to nominate a Penrose State ticket in opposition to tthe Re publican ticket be abandoned. William Flinn controlled the State convention and virtually dictated the names of the candidates placed on the State ticket in opposition to the Re publican State ticket, but when Flinn went over to Roosevelt and claimed the majority of the electoral ticket Penrose proposed the advisability of running a State ticket of his own. The percentage of the strength or the two factors is shown by the fact that when Chairman Hilles of the Re publican national committee, wrote to the thirty-eight men who were placed on the electoral ticket he received re plies from twenty they would vote for Roosevelt. This would leave eighteen for Taft. KILLS FATHER TO SAVE MOTHER Boy Says Blow Was Struck In Her Defense. Vineland, N. J.—Henry Carton, 21 years old. of this place, stabbed his fatht.', Edward 11. Carton, to death with a potato paring knife. He gave himself up four hours after the kill ing, telling the police that he had struck in self-defense while lighting to save his mother. According to Henry Carton's story his father, who had been drinking, seized a knife from a table in the kitchen and attacked Mrs. Carton in tthe dining-room. Mother and son fled to a relative's home, where Mrs. Carton sought to keep her son with her. He finally persuaded her, he says, to let him go and give himself up. PRIEST LYNCHED IN PORTUGAL. Monarchist Who Fatally Wounded Mayor of Guarda Is Slain by Mob. Lisbon. —The Republican mayor of Guarda arrested a monarchist priest named Sousa at a funeral in a village nearby. The priest drew a revolver and shot and fatally wounded the mayor. He fled, but was pursued by a mob and captured He was then lynched a?.d his body stripped and left in the road The mob prevented a subsequent at .empt to bury the body. "AFTER US THE DELUGE!" TAFT SIGNS CANAL BILL President Answers Objections That It Violates Treaty. GREAT BRITAIN TO PROTEST Taft Contends Congress Has Right to Let U. S. Ships Pass Free—Praises Measure Highly—Most Beneficial Ever Passed by Any Congress. Washington.—President Taft sign ed the Panama Canal bill, afterward sending to Congress a memorandum suggesting the advisability of the pas sage of a resolution which would de clare that this measure was not con sidered by this Government a viola tion of the treaty provisions regard ing the canal. This means that the question of free tolls to American coastwise ships will be protested by Groat Britain and that the case will be carried to the Hague. It means alJo that the South ern Pacific Railroad will have to abandon its plan to establish a J22,- 000,000 line of boats from New York to the Orient and that the New York, New Haven and Hartford and other railroad lines will be obliged to divest themselves of their steamship hold ings. In discussing the British protest against the exemption of American shipping from the payment of tolls for the use of the canal, Mr. Taft says the irresistible conclusion to be drawn from it is that "although the United States owns, controls, and has paid for the canal, it is restricted by treaty from aiding its own commerce in the way that all other nations of the world may freely do. "In view of the fact," Mr. Taft con tinues, "that the Panama Canal is be ing constructed by the United States wholly at its own cost, upon territory ceded to it by the Republic of Pana ma for that purpose, and that, unless it has restricted itself, the United States enjoys absolute rights of own ership and control, including the right to allow its own commerce the use of the canal upon such terms as it sees fit, the sole question is: lias the United States (by the terms of the Hay-Pauncefote deprived it self of the exercise of the right to pass its own commerce free or to re mit tolls collected for the use of the canal?" The President points out that the rules specified in the article of the treaty which is made the basis for the Britisli protest were adopted by the United States as the basis of the neu tralizing of the canal, and for no other purpose. This article, he further says, "is a declaration of policy by the United States that the canal shall be neutral; that the attitude of this Gov ernment toward the commerce of the world is that all nations will be treat ed alike, and that no discrimination would be made by the United States against any one of them observing the rules adopted by the United States. Saw the War of 1812. Worcester, Mass.—Mrs. Louisa Wa terman Carpenter celebrated the 107 th anniversary of her birth in the home of Mrs. Annie H. Vance, at No. 8 Boynton street, this city. Her friends believe Mrs. Carpenter is the oldest woman in New England. SUICIDE ON OPERATING TABLE. Patient Seizes Surgeon's Scissora and Stabs Himself. San Bernardino, Cal. —Snatching scissors and scalpel from the hands ol the surgeon, Joseph Ulrich stabbed himself on the operating table at the Emergency Hospital. He had been placed on the table in order that self inflicted wounds might be dressed. Brooding over the murder of one riend, of which another friend was .onvictev --.Lulanced his uiiud. LONG SESSION OF CONGRESS ENDS Appropriation Bills Passed, Ex ceed a Billion Dollars. NOEXTRA PAY FOR EMPLOYES Rush from Capitol Begins as Taft Signs Last Bills. —Senators Recede from Insistence on Old State Claims, House Wins Victory. Washington.—The end of the second session of the Sixty-second Congress came as peacefully and quietly as the tired statesmen on Capitol Hill could make it. The desire to shake the hot dust of Washington from their feet overcame the belligerency of the four Senators who had been insisting upon an appropriation to pay several State claims, and they withdrew their fili buster. The Senate also saw a light or the question of the Penrose resolu tion providing for a sweeping cam paign contribution inquiry and this went through without a dissenting vote. Both bodies adjourned without a quorum, and, all told, there were prob ably less than a hundred members of Congress af the Capitol when the gavels fell. The House marked time all the afternoon, awaiting the surren der of the Senate on the general de ficiency bill, the tie-up on which pre vented adjournment Saturday night and threatened for a time to prolong the session indefinitely. In order to adjourn the Senate had to make complete surrender on the General Deficiency bill. The State claims of Maryland, Virginia, Oregon, and Texas for $600,000, and the Sen ate proposal to give every employe at the Capitol an extra month's pay, amounting in the aggregate to $200,- 000 more, were abandoned when it be came apparent that the House not yield. With these items eliminated, the General Deficiency bill was passed and then signed by President Taft in time to enable him to leave shortly after 5 o'clock for his Summer home at Beverly. The scenes in both the Sehate and House at the closing were as tame as could be imagined. Only about thir ty-five Senators were in the chamber and it would have been impossible to have secured a quorum if anybody had insisted on a point of order on this score. A wild Outburst of applause greeted Speaker Clark's announcement of ad journment as his gavel fell in the House. The floor immediately became an animated scene, members bidding each other good-bye and shaking hands. Old-time political foes buried all differences, and all feuds apparent ly were forgotten in the general leave taking. Appropriates $1,019,000,000. Washington.—By a margin of $19,- 000,000, Congress at its session just ended beat the record of the famous "Billion Dollar" Congress under Presi dent Roosevelt. The appropriations made by this Congress were $1,019,- 000.000. Senator Warren and former Speak er Cannon predicted that the expenses would increase with every session of Congress in the future. FUGITIVE COUNCILMAN BACK. Burke of Philadelphia Goes Home to Family and a Job. Philadelphia. William Burke. Councilman from the Thirty-third Ward and confessed former convict, who fled from this city two weeks ago because he was unable to protect him self from blackmailers, returned .tome determined to start life anew. His wif? says she will be with him through thick and thin. Burke de clared it had be«n only his wife's fait*- that kept him from his old ways. BOOTH'S FUNERAL SOLEMN SCENF Salvation Chief Has Greatest Burial Service. HIGH PITCH OF EMOTION No Pomp or Display, No Symbols of Mourning—Congregation in Tears —Children's Chorus Breaks Down When Called to Sing. London. —Funeral services over the founder of the Salvation Army, Gen. William Booth, were held in Olympia, in accordance with the traditions of that organization, without pomp or symbols of mourning, but with a most moving fervor and impressiveness. Thirty-four thousand people partici pated in the service. Nearly half wore the blue coats and red jerseys or bon nets with red ribbon so familiar on the streets of cities in many coun tries. The body of the late General In a plain pine coffin rested high on a white catafalque in front of the big platform across the end of the hall, where all the chief officers of the or ganization were seated, and where forty bands were massed. The crim son flag of the army "of fire and blood," which the General unfurled on Mount Calvary, was planted above the coflin. A bank of flowers com posed of the tributes sent by mem bers of royalty and many societies was behind it. Flags of various na tions in which the Commander-in- Chief had waged campaigns and the standards of the older divisions of the army were arrayed in front of the platform. These and more Salvation Army flags in the galleries, each tipped with white ribbons, and twenty portraits of the evangelist, surmounted with green laurel wreaths, with a broad orange ribbon connecting them, were the only decorative effects. Bramwell Booth, tin late General's son, who has been made his successor, wept at his father's coffin. Up to that moment he had borne his grief in silence. Commissioner Adelaide Cox offered an impressive prayer, in which she said: "Lord, we do not want to disappoint Thee; help us to save the world." The service itself was not only a memorial, but a mammoth meeting of prayer and praise. No other congre gation comparable with it was ever seen in London, if in the world, save at the funeral of the General's wife, held in the same hall twenty-two years ago. The most solemn moments of the long ceremony were when the coffin was borne along the middle of the hall to the music of the Dead March in "Saul." A small procession, repre senting many branches of the army's activity, made up of men and women, and a detachment of officers from the foreign branches carrying the flags of their respective countries, preceded it. Immediately before the body a brigadier bore aloft the crimson flag which the General raised at Jerusa lem, and under which he died at Had ley Wood. Following it marched offi cers from Sweden, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Canada. France, Denmark, Norway, India and Australia. Then came the new General. Bram well Booth, with his wife, each wear ing the uniform of a commissioner; Mrs. Booth-Helberg and the grandchil dren of the late General —Adjutant Catherine Booth. Capt. Mary Booth, Capt. Miriam Booth, Cadet Sergeant Bernard Booth and Cadet M. Booth- Tucker. This revival servica was concluded with the singing of the refrain heard at every meeting which Gen. Booth had conducted, "His Blood Can Make the Vilest Clean; His Blood Avails for Me." The most impressive feature of the solemnities followed. All the soldiers of the army rose and recited the cov enant of fidelity, pledging themselves to be faithful soldiers of the Lord. The catafalque was then wheeled slowly down the aisle while the great gathering sang, "When the Koll Is Called Up Yonder I'll Be There." The coffin was placed in a hearse and con veyed to the Salvation Army Head quarters, whence it was taken to Ab ney Park Cemetery. TO GIVE CITIES POWER FREE. Secretary Fisher Will Also Let Public Have Water for Irrigation. Washington.—Secretary of the In terior Fisher purposes to grant free permits to cities for the development of water power for municipal purposes and for irrigation. Water power com panies will have to pay rent, though, according to a fixed schedule. All permits are revocable at any time. BLEASE WINS BY 1,100. South Carolina Governor Got Most Votes in the Primaries. Columbia, S. C. —Gov. Cole L. Blease has been renominated for a second term, according to practically com plete returns received from the Dem ocratic primaries. The returns indi cate that Governor Blease has a ma jority of over 1,100 votes. Reports have not been received from fifty-nine precincts. The figures are: Bleiise, 67,1145; Ira B. Jones. 64,072; John T. Duncan, 2,036. Senator Tillman won. 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—ltems of Busi ness and Pleasure that Interest. Because there were very few forest (Ires in Carbon county this summer, sportsmen think game will be plenti ful this fall. Eight baby boys have been sur named Woodrow in the vicinity of Concord Bince the Baltimore conven tion. To enter the Methodist ministry As sistant Postmaster J. Donald Hock man, of Waynesboro, has left tho Government service. William p. Houeer has been ap pointed Justice of the Pence at Par sons, Luzerne county, vice W. R. Bryant, resigned. Ground was broken for a large ad dition to the plant of the James H. Mann Ax Company, in Mann'«> Nar row B. C. F. Bonner, of Tamaqua, defeated for the presidency of the Panther Creek sub-district of the United Mine Workers, held the office five years. St. Thomas has raised $335.50 for improvements to its village and will hold an ox-roast to replace 1293.24, the sum expended during the year. William Pomeroy killed a six-foot blaeksnake that had entered his sis ter's kitchen, near Concord, and was on its way to the top of a towel rack. An expert believes there Is an inex haustible supply of crude oil on the farm of Jeremiah Yaukey, near Fay ette ville, and Yaukey will bore for it. W. J. Denning, storekeeper at the Pennsy's Altoona car shops has com pleted 55 years in the service of the I company and will be retired in Febru- I ary. The small army of mine laborers who left the Lehigh mining region for Europe when the spring suspension began will be back on duty before S Thanksgiving. The Yorktovn Local of the United Mine Workers paid the funeral ex penses of Charles Williams, of Mc- Adoo, shot in a row with a companion over a woman. Attorney F. H. Woods has resigned as a member of Council of Washing- I ton borough, preparatory to moving to Cincinnati, lie is a son of Dr. llen j ry Woods, of Washington and Jeffer son College. The greatest production of hay per | acre reported this season in Lycoming county is that of Charles Williams, j above Hillsgrove, who harvested 31 tons from seven acres. The field was j at one time the bottom of a mill dam. M. E. York, an aged resident of Wy sox, near Hazleton, narrowly escaped ieath under the hoofs of an infuriated bull. The animal had pulled himself loose from a stake in the stockyards and was walking away when Mr. York took hold of the rope, intending to lead him back to the tethering post. The maddened bull turned on Mr. York, knocking him under foot. For tunately he was driven away before Mr. York was seriously injured. William Richart, of New Columbia, a teacher in the public schools for 40 years, was in Montgomery recently en deavoring to organize a reunion of the Muncy Station School, Clinton town ship, of 1861, 1863 and 1864. Mr. Richart taught the school these years. The building was erected in 1861, and Mr. Richart was the first to teach in the building. Mr. Richart is endeavor ing to get enough of his former pupils together to hold a reunion. A few seasons ago misguided ports men of Spartansburg planted what they believed to be seed of wild rice in Clear Lake, at that place, to pro vide food for migrating wild ducks and encourage them to stop there long enough to be shot. It has since de veloped that the seed was that of the rankest kind of waterseed. It is said that unless the lake is drained and dredged free of the roots of the growth, fishing in the lake will bo completely spoiled. Charged with adulteration of milk, Daniel Hughes, of Downlngtown, has been arrested and held for a bearing. Kicked in the abdomen by a horse, William Stuber, aged 72, died at Han overville, Northampton county. For many years the foremost sur geon in Franklin county and dean of the hospital staff, I)r. Charles F. Pal mer became a patient in the Chaiu bersburg Hoepitai as the result of in fection incurred while performing as operation.
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