REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM Published by C. P. DAUBERMAN, Lessee LAPORTE PA. The price of ice remains firm no matter how many icebergs are sight ed at sea. The buffalo la overlooKed when It 1b placed on the new nickels. It has long served on $lO billa. Most of the jokes at the expense of 'college men are written by smart guys •who uuit school in the sixth grade. After reading the advertisements a 'bachelor might be pardoned for won dering what makes a princess slip. Chinese patriots seem to be burning their fingers trying to take their re public off tho fire before it is done. The sultan of Turkey • has more trouble on his hands, but a revolution Is a mere tritle to a man who runs a harem. The Chicago woman who demanded $lO for a broken heart is not what 'might be called a devotee of frenzied finance. Warning boat rockers is nothing but * waste of energy. A man l'oolisn enough to rock a boat Is too foolish to take advice. Having "the blues" is regarded as a possible sign of approaching insan ity. This makes it possible for a man to be his own alienist. "Eat soup and grow healthy," says a doctor. In addition to its health giving properties it sometimes devel ops an ear for music. In New York society It is proper for mother and daughter to play polo on opposite sides. Father and son have not yet Btarted tatting contests. Every time we hear of a joy-rider whose automobile has been wrecked beyond repair we feel a little more •ure than ever that the yorld is get ting better. By the time the last of the lonesome noodles who ask public officials to And wives for them has passed away the world will be well along toward the millennium. Observe the man who haughtily re fuses to help wash the dishes when lit home, but who gladly performs the most menial duties of the camp while he Is In the woods. Possibly some physicist can tell us ivhy It Is that a hammock scarcely big enough for an able-bodied man tuddenly Increased Its capacity when rk pretty girl hovers Into sight. When a restaurant orchestra takes one of Its occasional lapses from rag time into a dirge some arrangement ihould be made to prevent the waiters trom weeping Into the bouillon. Baltimore scientists propose to make a careful study of the mental affection known as "the blues." Any town that has a tall-end baseball team will be able to furnish plenty pf subjects. About the only person who does aot pay according to what he receives is the bald-headed nyin, who is charged lust as much for a hair cut as any male relative of the seven Sutherland listers. Southern Illinois reports a shortage of spring chickens. Stories of disas ter to the peach crop of Michigan can be and are received with indif ference, but this, If true, is a matter Bf Importance. That the lobster is becoming ex tinct 1b the foreboding of many who may be presumed to be Informed on the subject, and the next generation may know it only as a human type. "Find Well-Dressed Girl; Mind ißlank," says the headline in a Chicago paper. It's easy to find well-dressed linen anywhere whose minds are so near a blank that the difference Isn't Worth mentioning. As lightning six times struck a cas tle where the reigning family of Bel glum Is staying with royal guests and hurt nobody, modern science will at once begin Investigating whether roy alty has any peculiar Insulating power which might be developed for modern benefit The advent of the auto, many feared, would result In decreasing de mands for the horse, whereas the con trary would seem to have happened, with New York state officially taking up the problem of an actual scarcity of steeds. There is still work for old Bobbin to do. That youth is not necessarily a mat ter of years, despite the Oslerlan theory, is proved by a Philadelphia ■woman, who at the age of seventy four is not only preparing to wed, but Is also about to take a trip to Europe to do it. Philadelphia women are so prone to primp that it has become necessary to remove mirrors from elevators In that city. We hope it may not be come so bad that Philadelphia men chants will be compelled to hav« t)>«li plate glass windows frosted. VERMONT RESULT IS NOJLECTION Republicans Carry the State, But Fail to Win a Majority. LEGISLATURE MUST CHOOSE No Candidate Receives Required Ma jority, but Republicans Will Control Legislature and Put Fletcher In. Burlington, Vt. —With five tickets in the field, Vermont failed to elect a Governor. Returns give the Demo crats and Progressive candidates to gether about 9,000 more votes than the Republican candidate received, with less than 1,400 votes for either the Prohibition or Socialist candidate. The combined Republican and Pro gressive vote shows a gain of exactly 30 per cent, over 1910. The Demo cratic vote shows a gain of 32.5 per cent, over 1910. While the Republi can party is split 40 per cent. Roose velt and 60 per cent, stand-pat, the Democratic party has gained 2 per cent, in its total vote. For the first time in a Presidential year since the birth of the Republican party it has failed of a majority in this State. The election of Governor will be thrown nto the Legislature, and Fletcher, tho regular Republican, will be chosen Governor. Frank L. Greene and Frank Plum ley, both Republicans, were elected to Congress in the two Yei mont dis tricts. A very heavy vote was cast, and the Democrats polled their full share of the increase over the 1910 vote, an off year. But the Democrats made slight, if any, gains by defections from any other party. Returns show that the next Legis lature will contain 110 Republican, 36 Democratic and 14 Progressive mem bers of the lower branch, as well as 30 Republican senators. The strength of the Progressive party and the gain of the Democrats over previous elections were the fea tures. The Rev. Mr. Metzger carried the city of Barre and a score of small towns. The Democrats carried four more cities and another score of towns, leaving only the little city of Vergennes and the rest of the town) in the hands of the Republicans. The vote of the cities for the three leading candidates was as follows: Fletcher. Howe. Metzger. Barre 367 420 449 Burlington .. 1,058 1,360 416 Montpelier .. 302 571 132 Rutland 686 873 593 St. Albans ... 294 417 162 Vergennes ... 166 120 33 Many Republican leaders claimed that the threatening weather contrib uted to the falling off in the party vote. These men stated that the reg istered vote of Vermot was close to 120,000, and that had weather condi tions been fair the party would have rolled up a total of over 40,000 for Mr. Fletcher. The vote in the hill towns, the Republican strongholds, fell off materially. The strength of the Progressive party was more pronounced on the east side of the Green Mountains and among those towns along the Cana dian border where the Republican re ciprocity measure was distasteful. It is the vote of the Progressive forces, drawn from the Republican party, that is responsible for the re sult. The Democratic vote showed a gain. The significant feature of this, however, was that it stood intact against the onslaught of the Bull Moose. SUFFRAGE BEATEN IN OHIO. Defeats Proposed Amendment to Con stitution by Large Majority. Columbus, Ohio. —All the amend ments proposed by the recent state constitutional convention save that providing for woman suffrage were approved by the voters at a special election. Ohio's constitution will be one of the most radical in the United States. The amendments adopted include the initiative and referendum, home rule for cities, license system for sa loons, taxation of incomes and inheri tances, abolition of capital punish ment, minimum wage, eight hour day on public work and thirty-five others. The women agitating suffrage con ducted an aggressive and spectacular campaign. Their aggressiveness at tracted the fire of an organization op posed to suffrage, but the principal cause of their defeat is to be traced to the liquor interests. These have been well organized in Ohio for years and they found it easy to have thtiir license amendment put through. Since they had their vote well in hand, it also was easy for them to turn th«iir strength against Suffrage. REBELS THREATEN MARINES. Outbreak Againat Troops in Lecn, Nicaragua, Prevented by Leaders. Colon, Panama. —A small force of American marines sent upon another expedition to Leon. Nicaragua, was welcomed there with a show of hos tility and only stern measures taken by the rebel leaders prevented an out break againft United States troops. The Americans have the railroad under control from Managua to Co rinto. Insurrecto activities are con fined to the interor. FEEDING UP FOR THE FAIR ( se~- a/t/* r/aao*r» c ,itV. » —* li # atmo£* . T~*' V 4X V JMt , SCORES DIE IN HEAVY FLOODS Cloudburst Wrecks Pennsyl vania, Ohio and W. Va. Towns. MILLIONS IN PROPERTY LOST Farmer Saves His Wife After House Collapses, but When He Returns His Three Children are Swept Away by the Torrent. Pittsburgh, Pa. —As a result of tor rential rains throughout West Vir ginia, western Pennsylvania and east ern Ohio thirty-six persons are dead and others missing. Added to the list of fatalities are ten foreigners in Colliers, W. Va., bringing the list up to four, and one in Woodlawn, Pa., near this city. From meagre reports it Is believed the monetary damage will reach close to $1,500,000. The storm was the most devastat ing in the history of the localities mentioned. All small streams left their banks, spreading over a wide territory, and trnsportation facili ties in all directions from this city were practically put out of commis sion. After a twenty-four hour period of excessively hot weather the storm broke. In addition to an extraordinary rainfall, the electrical features were most spectacular. The steady rain caused every stream to leave its banks. In a short time the water had washed away railroad tracks in many places and sent tons of earth from sur rounding hills, making impassable all thoroughfares in the flood zone. Latest reports from the various districts give the following table of fatalities: Colliers, W. Va., nine dead. It is estimated that twenty persons met death. Cherry Valley, Pa., six drowned. Burgettstown, Pa., one drowned. Avella, Pa., three drowned. Cannonsburg, Pa., three drowned. At Avella, Washington County, three children of Henry Crow were drowned. The house was located near a little stream, which rose so rapidly that it undermined the building, and when it collapsed Mrs. Crow was badly injured. Crow hastened to her rescue and saved her, but before he could return for the children they were swept away. They were Amelia, twelve years old; John, twelve, and Grace, four. Two other children were tossed about for a time on the surface of the flood and then thrown on the bank of the stream, where they were found by the distracted father. Many manufacturing plants are un der water. The known dead are: Cook White, farmer, Burgettbtown, Pa. George Gillespie, Cherry Valley, Pa. Mrs. Gillespie, Cherry Valley, Pa. Four Gillespie children, Cherry Val ley, Pa. Mrs. Thorley and daughter, Colliers, W. Va. Unidentified Italian, wife and three children, Colliers, W. Va. Eli Hancock, Cannonsburg, Fa. Unidentified foreigner. Boy, 10 years old, unidentified. Amelia Crown, 12, Avella, Pa. Grace Crow, 4, Avella, Pa. DIES TO GET A REST. Man Deprived of Vacations Commits Suicide in East Orange. East Orange, N. J. —While prepar ing breakfast at her home. No. 23 Lin wood place, Mrs. Herman J. Kuster heard a pistol shot. She went up stairs and found her husband dead. Kuster was forty-eight years old and manager for a tailoring establish ment in Fulton street, Manhattan. He shot himself because he had not had a vacation in eight years and had no prospect of getting one. INDICT HEAD DF WOOIEN TRUST W. M. Wood Charged with Dyna mite Conspiracy at Lawrence. WORLD S BIG TEXTILE MAN Charged with Conspiring to Discredit Lawrence Strikers, Surrenders and Gives Cash Bail in the Sum of $5,000. Boston. —There was an astounding outcome of the great strike of mill operatives at Lawrence, Mass., which lasted from January 12 until March 14 last, alarmed the country and brought the workers and militia in sanguinary collision. William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company, surren dered himself here on learning he had been indicted for conspiracy. Mr. Wood is accused of plotting to "plant" dynamite in at least three places at Lawrence so as to discredit the labor unions. It is charged that he and others planned to conceal the deadly explo sive and then to betray its hiding places to the police so as to create the impression that the strikers pro posed to destroy some of the mills from which they had walked out. Joined in the indictment with Wood and the man alluded to is Dennis Col line, a Cambridge dog fancier. The latter is also charged with placing the dynamite on a Boston and Maine passenger car for illegal transporta tion. He is in jail in default of bail. It is charged that the men indicted conspired with Ernest \V. Pitman and John J. Breen to place the dynamite on the premises of the Syrian opera tives. The Syrians, if convicted, could have been given ten years in prison. Their innocence was established and they were discharged. The maximum penalty for the con spiracy charge against the present de fendants is three years in the House of Correction for each offense or a to tal on the six counts of eighteen years. The first public knowledge that the Suffolk county authorities had taken action in connection with the Law rence dynamite case came last Tues day. Several officials of the Lawrence mills, with head offices in this city, were summoned to give testimony. On the same day Ernest W. Pitman, a contractor and builder, who con structed the Wood Worsted Mills of the American Woolen Company at Lawrence, committed suicide at his home in Andover by shooting. The American Woolen Company is one of the greatest manufacturing concerns in the country. It is capital ized at $75,000,000, has thirty-three mills in New England and New York, and employs 35,000 operatives when all its machinery is moving. Fifteen thousand of these are at Lawrence, where the company bore the brunt of the strike. President Wood, now forty-seven years old, was born in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, of Azcrean Portu guese parent 9. Mr. Wood married a daughter of rD. Frederick Ayer. SALUTE TO DIX KILLS "WOMAN Apoplexy Follows Fright at Monument Unveiling Ceremonies. Elmira, N. Y.—Mrs Anna Palmer ol Owego, a great-great-grand-daughter of Gen. Sullivan, came to Elmira tc witness the dedication of the monu ment erected to the memory of het ancestor. When the artillery fired a salute foi Gov. Dix she fainted. She was bur ried to a hospital here, but died it a short time, apoplectic seizure In i duced by fright causing hjr death. WATER CLOSES MANY MINES Relief in Caravans Rushed to Sufferers in Flood Districts. FIVE BRIDGES WASHED OUT Stock of Mine Pumps in Pittsburgh Exhausted —Miners Repairing Railroads— Many Homes Isolated. Pittsburgh—Heavy rains that fell In Washington county and in parts of West Virginia added to the destruc tion wrought by Sunday night's storm. Hundreds have been added to the host of the homeless who have seen raging streams carry their homes away. Relief is being sent. The Wheeling Board of Trade raised SIO,OO. An appeal has been sent to Governor Glasscock of West Virginia and State aid is assured. At Wellsburg and Follansbee, W. Va., and Martin's Ferry and Steubenville, Ohio, public subscriptions are being raised. The Associated Charities in Pitts- | burgh and Wheeling have arranged I for the shipment of food and clothing, j As no railroads or trolleys are run ning in the flooded district, great car avans of wagons are carrying supplies over the mountain roads. In Washington and Green counties and in the Pocahontas district of West Virginia many of the great coal mines have been flooded and thousands of miners are out of work. The Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio and Wabash railroads, however, are offering all these men work in re pairing miles of track that were swept away. Five big concrete bridges on the Wheeling division of the Balti more and Ohio were washed out. The Wabash Railroad announced that the losses to the road in Wash ington county would exceed $150,000. Six miles of the Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Line were shifted by Peters Creek. Coal operators in Washington, Greene. Fayette, Westmoreland and Cambria counties have during the last three weeks taken out of Pittsburgh practically all the big mine pumps that were held in stock here. At many of the mines it will be weeks before the water is pumped out and mining resumed. Washington, Pa. —The additional floods have desolated this county and the financial damage will amount to millions of dollars. The loss is piling up every hour. Two railroad divisions have been wrecked for many days. Hundreds of homes are under water and the own ers of them are without adequate shel ter. Telephone and telegraph com munication has been almost entirely destroyed. ROOSEVELT WINS CALIFORNIA. More Than Four-fifths of Nominees Pledged to Him. San Francisco.—Taft Republicans saved very little out of the wreck at the Presidential primaries. More than eighty out of 100 nominees for the State Legislature are pledged to vote for Roosevelt electors in the legisla tive convention, which means that California's thirteen electorate votes will be cast for him unless the Taft men can devise some method of blocking the game. Three Taft Republican Congressmen are elected —Kahn in the Fourth, Knowland in the Sixth and Needham in the Seventh. Curry in the Third and E. A. Hayes in the Eighth are Taft Congressmen who seem to be elected, but the fight is so close that all the returns will have to be can vassed before the result is sure. The victory of the Progressives in San Francisco came as a surprise even to the Progressives themselves. The same thing occurred in Los An geles, which used to be the banner city in the State in rolling up big Re publican majorities. DEEPER WATERWAYS SESSION. 750 Delegates Hold Session at New London. New London, Conn. —The fifth an nual convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Assocation was called to order in the auditorium of the Gris wold Hotel by the president, Congress man J. Hampton Moore, of Philadel phia, with 750 delegates present from all the port cities of the Atlantic State*. The session was opened with an in vocation by the Rev. J. Romeyn Dan forth,. and addresses were made by Mayor Bryan F. Mahan of New Lon don, Colonel Pleasant A. Stovall, edi tor of the Savannah Press, Governor Baldwin and Governor William Hedges Mann of Virginia. HELEN KELLER TO LEAVE HOME. To Join Socialist Mayor Lunn's Pub lic Welfare Board. Schenectady.—Miss Helen Keller has decided to move here from Wren tham, Mass., where she has long made her home. The reason for this is her lifelong friendship for Mrs. John Macy, whose husband is the secretary to the Rev. C.oorge R. Lunn, Schenec tady's Socialist mayor. Miss Keller will be appointed by Mayor Lunr. as a n>»mber of the Board of F'.iV.lo Welfare. She s a Socialist REBELLION IN NICARAGUA ENDS Government Forces Win In Three Decisive Battles. MANY PRISONERS CAPTURED Makes Progre&s Toward Checking the Revolt—Army Active in Different Sections—Treachery Found— Prominent Officers in Jail. Washington.—The Nicaraguan Gov ernment has bestirred itself and made considerable progress toward putting down the revolution in that country, according to dispatches to the State Department from United States Min ister Waltzel. Col. Dias has defeated 350 Zelayis tas under Col. Berrios at La Paz. La Paz is on the railroad from Co rinto to Nicaragua. More than 2,000 rounds of rebel ammunition were cap tured, and Col. Berrios, who was Sub- Secretary of War under Zelaya, was taksn prisoner. The same afternoon the Government won a more impor tant victory at Tipatapa, where tha rebels several weeks ago won one N of the first engagements of the revolu tion. Gen. Arsenio Cruz defeated tha force of 500 men under Col. Cerillos, and recaptured Tipatapa. The Gov ernment forces made prisoners of two colonels, including Cerillos, eight cap tains and thirty-three subordinate of ficers of the rebel force. At Tamarinda, on the east side of Lake Managua, the Government forces captured Gen. Irias, a deputy in the National Assembly, with 140 armed men. This force was attempt ing to join Gen. Mena at Grenada. It is reported that Mena at Grenada and Zeledon at Masaya have collected a great deal of cash by robbery and extortion. Much treachery has been uncovered in the administration forces. It is stated that the peniten tiary at Managua is becoming filed with prominent army officers who were found to be plotting against the Government. It is expected here that Admiral Southerland and his subor dinate officers will see that the Gov ernment authorities do not exercise the same cruelties toward rebel pris oners as the revolutionists are being I accused of in the cities where they are In control. It is the belief at the State and Navy departments that the revolution In Nicaragua is over and no serious disturbances are looked for. GEN. MACARTHUR DIES. Noted Soldier Stricken When Speak ing at Veterans' Reunion. Milwaukee, Wis —Lieut.-Gen. Ar ! thur Mac Arthur, U. S. A., retired, died suddenly while attencijng a banquet of veterans here. He was speaking at the reunion ol his old regiment, the Twenty-ninth Wisconsin. He had been in ill health, the heat was intense, and he sank back in his chair, saying he could not continue. He lapsed into uncon sciousness and died in a few minutes. While he lay dying, supported by those who had known him through life, his comrades, 100 in number, stood around the chair reciting the Lord's Prayer. As they finished he opened his eyes, looked around and passed away. Arthur Mac Arthur was born in Springfield, Mass., June 2, 1845. TAKES STRIKING MINERS' GUNS. West Virginia Confiscates War Mate rial—Prisoners Court-Martialed. Charleston, W. Va. —Hundreds of miners were disarmed in the' Cabin Creek and Paint Creek districts by the militia. The men made no resistance. The collection cf arms and ammu nition includes almost every kind of j weapon from the vest pocket pistol i to the modern war rifle and machine j gun. Much of the ammunition confis j cated savors of barbarism. Dumdum j aad poisoned bullets, long since i placed under the ban at the Hague peace conference even in time of war, are included in the lot. Members of the inilltia have arrest ed dozens of men in the trouble zone and there have been twelve court-mar tialed. ' The majority of the arrested are mine guards employed by the Baldwin detective agency. SEES AVIATOR AND DIES. Octogenarian Went to Fair Against the Wishes of His Wife. Ogdersburg, N. Y.—Against tha wishes of his wife, Thomas Kavan augh, 81, a retired farmer living near Elgin, went to the Brockville Fair to see a flying machine for the first time. As Aviator Hemstrough in a biplane, after a long detour, reappeared in front of the grand stand, Kavanaugtx died of heart disease. FLEAS PUT STOP TO BUSINESS. All the Entomologist* of Germantown Baffled by Plague. Philadelphia.—Germantown has a plague of fleas. It is so bad that busi ness is almost at a standstill. Tha fleas are there in millions. They ar rived a few days ago and they have been multiplying ever since. They bite and leave an ugly red mark. En tomologists declare they are perfectly good dog fleas, but they are unable to give an adequate solution for their banishment.
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