REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM Published by Q 8. DAUBERMAN, Lease* LAPORTE PA. ■ After all, a pennant la only t flag. Dlctagrafting 1b the latest addition to the English vocabulary. If you are In favor of pajamas, a» against nighties, tell It to the ma rines. Man's best friend at present Is the electric fan. It is better even than a Mow-bank. If Boston wins the American league pennant baked beans will become the national dish. A Philadelphia policeman is going fnto vaudeville. Going to do a sleep walking act, probably. What a happy little woiMd this 'would be If we could only shovel snow In the summer time. Speaking of civilization, Chinese women once crippled their feet but never wore tight skirts. A Missouri woman has written a t>eok with her toes. Probably it was made up from footnotes. The letter-carrier will be glad when the vacation season with its flood of foolish post cards is over. An aviator fell 200 feet without be ing hurt, but this is no proof that aviation is being made safer. If a lobster Is "not an animal," what Is It If You can't classify It either as a vegetable or as a mineral. A Long Island woman eloped the other day with a liveryman. We sup posed liverymen had become obso lete. Eat six times a day, if you want to be healthy, says a New York doc tor, but not If you would be wealthy, too. Man In Vienna shot himself because three girls were In love with him. He was loved not wisely, but too welL Parmer in Ohio says he owns a cat *rtth three heads. Think of listening In the stilly night to a cat with three voices. Woman in New York has left all her money to her lawyer, probably Dn the theory that he would get it anyhow. The recent death of the 185 year old Mexican must have been a happy one. Think of living 185 years in Mexico! Man in Indiana ate a gallon of ice cream at a single sitting. All of which joes to show how easy It is to break t record. A New York woman says she loves her horses better than she does her husband. Probably she doesn't drive them as hard. The fear that the price of shaves may be fixed under the patent law ne»d not alarm. There Is no law against whiskers. However, perhaps we ought to be glad that the girls are showing a ten dency to wear their own hair in fas cinating little bunches. Archaeologists In Asia have ran across remains of a nation that once worshiped the peacock. But the pea cock, in all his glory, was not arrayed as one of these up-to-date damsels. A scientist says that Cleopatra would, If now alive, be put In a luna tic asylum, but she might put the alienist there first. The mayor of Boston pays that women know less about flying than men. They know more, because few er of them nre doing it. "If you want to be beautiful, ao your own washing," says one of the doctors. Most women will prefer the drug store brand of beauty. A cow up York state Is said to have caught a fish with her tall, but who wants to fish with a cow? Fawncy easting a cow !n a trout stream. Woman up state wants a divorce because her husband insists on talk ing politics. This comes under the Vad of cruel and Inhuman treatment. '- ' Theaters without orchestras? With out the shivery music, how are we to know whether the villain Is hunting mushrooms or creeping up to the Bleeping hero to stab him through the heart? A contemporary asks: "Can a mar ried man be a hero?" Yes. verily, be thows his heroism by marrying. Let us remark In charity that per- Jsaps some of the young women on the vtreet never realized how unclothed they were until they saw It in the pa perß. ' The treasury department plans to make paper money smaller in size, but not because the ultimate consum er Is troubled With enlargement of th* Wok roll GREAT CROP LOSS RY HAILSTORM Southeastern New York and Southern New England Suffer CONNECTICUT TOBACCO HURT Domestic Animals In Bronx Park Slaughtered—Century-Old Long Island Church Deatroyed— Fifty Trees Go. New York.—A severe storm, accom panied by lightning and hail, swept over New York City, Long Island, Westchester county, Connecticut and as far as Newport. Dozens of places were struck by lightning. In some sections of Connecticut the tobacca crop was ruined by the down pour. Christ's Episcopal Church at Manhasset, the oldest house of wor ship on Long island, built in 1800, was struck by lightning and burned to tjue ground. In the Hudson river a bolt shattered a motor boat and three men were forced to swim for their lives. These were Emil Palson, of Ver planck; Frank Beebe and Hugh Bar rett, of Yonkers. In Yonkers a big banner with the pictures of Taft and Sherman in front of the Republican headquarters was struck and burned. Because of the storm Flushing was almost in complete darkness. An elec tric light pole at Nineteenth and- San ford streets was struck and the whole system was crippled until the damage was repaired. A bolt hit. the house occupied by Walter Losee in Dobbs Fery and split the bath tub in two. The nouse took fire. A bolt tore a hole through the roof of a house in Peekskill occupied by Charles Miller. Corn and tobacco were destroyed in large quantities in farm ing sections of Westchester. ' Wind did considerable damage at West Point and mo r e than fifty trees in the Military Academy camping ground were blown down while the wind ripped up several large elms around the post. Nyack and vicinity felt the hail also but there the worst feature was the wind. Large trees were uprooted in great numbers, carrying with them the heavy flag-walks. The most terrific hail storm in the ; memory of inhabitants eighty years old hit the southern part of Hartford, Canton, Simsbury and Satan's King- 1 dom, Connecticut. Hail as large as ' hen's eggs fell, making the ground ! white. Hundreds of panes of glass in j dwellings and other buildings were broken. Tobacco not harvested was riddled. In the tobacco growing districts j damage so far is estimated at nearly SIOO,OOO. The principal damage dona was at Windsor Locks and Warehouse ; Point. A score of barns and houses 1 were struck by lightning and burned to the ground. In South Manchester, Conn., fifteen | persons were shocked when a bolt of i lightning struck a dwelling house. ! Electric car and telephone service ( was generally crippled in Connecticut. 1 Newport was suddenly turned into j darkness. Thunder, lightning and a 1 fierce rainfall unnerved young and old, i lasting half an hour. The wind blew I eighty miles an hour. The battleships Ohio, Idaho and II- | linois dropped additional anchors and made ready to steam into the open sea I if the anchor chains parted. A group of torpedo boat destroyers in Narragansett Bay hauled in their anchors and steamed out to sea to prevent accidents. Providence, It. 1., experienced a half a dozen small fires, started by the bolts of lightning, which seemed to j find a target with every try. The streets there were flooded and traffic was at a standstill. In the Bronx Zoological Park, New York City, the lightning wrecked the raising ranch where the food for the caged animals is grown, and thero killed some SIO,OOO worth of chickens, rats and pigeons. PLAY A 28-INNING GAME. Youthful Roxbury Teams Make a Re markable Record. Boston.—Out in Roxbury citizens forgot about the Red Sox and dis cussed the twenty-eglu inning game on the Columbus avenue playground by the Willow A. C. Juniors and St. I'hillips Altar Ilo; s of Roxbury, the former winning by the score of 5 to 4. The game began at 10 o'clock a. m. and did not finish until 2.?>0 p. m. There were few hits and up to the twenty-sixth inning it was 2 to 2. In that inning team scored a run. The twenty-seventh inning saw no change, but in the first half of the twenty-eighth the Willow A. C. go' two runs. $2,000,000 FOR POLITICAL ADS. Novelty Manufacturer* Learn of Vast Expenditures by Parties. Chicago.—Two million dollars have been.spent thus far this year by the various political parties and candi dates for campaign badges, pins and buttons, according to A. T. Brackett, of Chicago, secretary of the National Association of Novelty Manufacturers. Sixty million dollars, he said, repre sents the amount given by politicians, business concerns and organizations 'or "Walking Ads." HOME COMING OF THE NEW MEMBER MAINE SWINGS TO REPUBLICANS Regulars and Progressives Jnite to Elect State Ticket. ASHER HINDS REELECTED National Divisions Held in Abeyance and Taft Supporters and Colonel's Followers Join in Battle for State. Portland, Me. —The Republicans, al lied with the Bull Moose faction, re captured Maine from the Democrats at the State election. Governor Frederick W. Plaisted | was defeated for re-election by Wil liam T. Haines of Waterville in the closest election in the history of the State. Governor Plaisted attributes his de | feat to the "large outpouring of the | country vote." Mr. Haines says:"lt ! is a great victory for the cause of ' good government." The Republican leaders assert that j I they won by attacking the administra- I lion of Governor Plaisted and declin- ! ing to discuss national questions. The returns show a Republican gain 1 of 9 per *ent. and a Democratic loss of ti per cent. The Republicans have also won one ! seat in Congress from the Democrats, having elected Forrest Goodwin in the | Third district over S. \V. Gould, the | present Democratic representative. In the First district Congressman j Asher C. Hinds, the only outspoken j j Tatt candidate in the election, in i creased his vote of two years ago. The light in the Second district I was close, but Congressman D. J. Mc- ; : Gillicuddy (Dem.l was elected by a I reduced margin over William B. Skel- I | ton (Rep.). In the Fourth district there was an- j other close fight between Congress- ; man Frank E. Guernsey (Rep.) and Charles W. Mulen (Dem.). Republican leaders claimed, on the ! strength of these returns,' to be as sured of a sufficient margin on joint ballot to elect former Congressman ! Edwin C. Burleigh to the United States Senate. The Republicans used State issues entirely as the weapons of attack, and refused to be drawn into any discus sion of national affairs. The Progressive element of the Re- j publicans was in full control of party machinery, but with the approval of Col. Roosevelt a split was postponed. 1 With the ending of the truce pre- : vailing during the State campaign the I rival factional leaders will take up the cudgels against each other and fight j for the six electors that each side has put into the national contest. In conceding the triumph of the Republicans the Democratic leaders admit that present figures indicate the wiping out of the Democratic plurality ; of two years ago. Both the Roosevelt leaders who control the machinery of their party in the State and the Taft men are claiming the credit for the success of their combination ticket. Governor Plaisted issued the follow ing statement: "The stay-at-home vote of the Re publican party, which was noticeable in 1910, got out in large numbers and ; simply offset our reduced majorities in the cities." ACQUITTED OF DYNAMITING. Saeger Freed of Charge of Blowing j Up His Brother's Mill. Alientown, Pa. —William Saeger, of j Richmond, Staten Island, accused by I his rich brother of dynamiting and ! looting the Sager mill here, was ac- j quitted in the Criminal Court. HJ had won in habeas corpus proceedings in New York and came here and sur rendered. He established an alibi. Mrs. Saeger is a niece of former Mayor Charles F. Wallick of Philadel phia. SEVEN KILLED BY A MOTOR CYCLE Eddie Hasha Plunges Into the Crowd in Race at Vailsburg. GOING AT 92-MILE SPEED Wives of Riders See Husbands Meet Death —Mrs. Hasha and Mrs. Al bright Faint as Crack Motorcy clists Are Broken on Track. Newark, N. J.—Seven persons were killed, and more than twenty, several of whom may die, were injured here when a motorcycle, running at ninety two miles an hour, leaped the track of the Newark Stadium-Motordrome i and raked the lower aisle in the grand j stand for twenty-five feet. The ,ma- I chine, one wheel inside the grand j stand and the other hanging above J the track, slid at terrific speed along j the three-foot fence separating the | grand stand from the track. Men and j boys fell before the heavy front wheel j like ten pins. The motocycle crashed i into a big wooden upright, and Eddie j Hasha of Waco, Tex., its rider, was j thrown olvently against the pillar and ; killed. Four boys and a man were I cut down by the front wheel of the j motorcycle, one, about 14 years old, being killed instantly. The three oth er youngsters, two apparently about 14 aivd one 17 years old, and the man died in the City Hospital. Two of the boys and the man were not identified. The main part of the machine, after striking the upright, fell to the track, where another motorcycle running at full speed crashed into it. The rider of the second machine, John Albright of Denver, Col., was thrown fifty feet along the track and so hurt that he died after being taken to the City Hospital. Hasha, before the race signed a con tract to ride in the Motordrome the rest of the season. He did so after persistent urging from the manage ment, and against his expressed deter mination of several days ago not to enter in any more motordrome events. The Dead. ALBRIGHT, JOHN, professional mo torcyclist of Denver, Col., practically every bone in whole body was brok en. FISCHER, EDWARD, 17, who died in the City Hospital; he was a nephew of Alderman Frederick Fischer. HASHA, EDWARD, professional mo torcyclist of Waco, Tex., internal in juries and fractured skull. SOEHNER, THOMAS, 14, who died in the hospital. -Two unidentified boys and an un identified man, who were among the spectators standing in the lower aisle of the grand stand. One of the boys and the man died in the City Hospital, and the other boy was killed instantly. There were more than five thousand persons in the grandstand and on the bleachers, and a state almost of panic followed the accident. Among the spectators were Mrs. Kasha and Mrs. Albright. Mrs. Hasha fainted when she saw her husband strike the rail ing, and it was some time before she was revived and learned that Hasha had been killed Mrs. Albright had her two children with her, and when she saw her husband thrown from his machine she became frantic. STRANGLES WIFE, KILLS SELF. Bodies of Son of G. D. Emery and Wife Found in Home. Portage Lake, Me. —Daniel G. Em ery. son of the late George D. Emery, n mrthoj'any dealer who maintained the largest mahogany plant in the world, strangled Ms wife and then shot himself to death. Neighbors amon* the community of 500 people who make up this town thought It funny that tiey had seen nothing of the Emerys for several days and investigated MEXICAN TROOPS CROSS OURBORDER Taft Permits Federals to Rush Through Texas. UNARMED DURING THE TRIP Military Protection for Cananea— Thousand Rifle* and 200,000 Rounds of Ammunition Ready to Be Con voyed to Miners, Washington.—A detachment of 1,200 Mexican Federals wits rushed across American territory to intercept and dispel the bands of rebels gathering along the northern boundary of Mex ico, especially in tl»e state of Sonora, under the leadership of General Sala zar, and threatening American prop erty. Permission for the Mexican troops to cross the American border was given by the State Department at the request of President Madero and the Mexican senate. Most of the Federal troops were massed at Juarez, crossed the bridge at El Paso, Tex., and shipped by train to some roint near Nogales, where they came within striking distance of the Cananea district. The Mexican troops were accom panied by United States army officers as escorts. Their arms were gfthered together and shipped in a baggage car, so that the soldiers themselves were unarmed during the journey. That this emergency measure upon the part of the Mexican government, adopted because of pressure from the United States, will prove futile is the belief here. There is every Indication that tho rebels will once more vanish. Great stores of arms, ammunition, dynamite, clothing and food have been accumulated, hundreds of extra horses rounded up, and all preparations made for a long and rapid march. It is be lieved that all the rebels in northern Chihuahua and Sonora are to come once more under 'he command of a single leader, probably General Oroz co, for the purposes of this new move ment. The State Department has at Doug las or Waco 1,000 rifles and 200,000 rounds of ammunition for shipment to the Amer.cans employed in these j mines for use in resisting raiders. It : is necessary that there shall be a j safe convoy of Federal troops to get i the rifles to the Americans. For this j reason the Mexican troops are beina; ; rushed int<- Sonorn Texas cowboys | are also massing on tin border. SI,OOO REWARD FOR A CURE. Kansas Governor Offers It to One Who Can Stop Horse Epizootic. Topeka.—A reward of SI,OOO is awaiting the man who, within thirty I days, may discover a cure for a dis- I I ease that i3 causing death to thou- j sands of horso 1 * in Kansas. It has been offered by Governor Stubbs. The death of ten thousand horses in the western two-thirds of Kansas is caus ing much distress anuiig the farmers. Hundreds of them have lost every horse on their farms and are unable to prepare the fields for the new crop of wheat. After a dozen or mere expert veteri narians had talked for three hours at a conference here it was admitted that the nature of the disease was a mystery and that any treatment that might be given was largely an experi ment. Reports show that the malady is spreading, and that an average of 200 new cases arc appearing each day. 133,000,000 CEREAL TONS. Record Breaking Crops to Test Ca pacity of Railroads. Washington.—The cereal crops of the country from present indications will reach the unprecedented total of 133,016,000 tons, Victor H. Olmsted, chief of the Department of Agricul ture's Bureau of Statistics, announced. With record bre-.tking crops of corn, spring wheat, oats, barley, rye and buckwheat, the year' i harvests will ! be 20.3 per cent, greater in weight j than last year's production, 6.1 per I cent, greater than in the big year of 1910 and 16.2 pei cent, greater than-in 1909. These enormous crops, department officials say, promise to test the car rying capacity of 'he railroads to the utmost. KILL SEVENTY-FOUR NEGROES. Uprising on Mexican Plantation Is Quickly Quelled. Guadalajara, Mexico. —An uprising of eighty negroes who were employed on a plantation near Acapulco caused Colonel Emilio Gullardo and a force of volunteers togo to the scene of the trouble and engage the negroes in battle. All but six of the rebellious blacks were killed. HE'S CRAZY ABOUT CONGRESS. Ohio Man Says Reading Congressional Record Drove Him Insane^ Sandusky, Ohio. —Heading the Con gressional Record and numerous other publications sent him by Representa tive Anderson for a year drove Carl Hessenmeyer, of this city, insane, ac cording to his own statement in pro bate court. He was held for observa tion. He said he got so he read nothing else. FUNDS LACKING FOB HIGHWAYS Auditor General Sisson Will Not Release Auto Licenses. MANY CONTRACTS ARE MADE Commissioner Bigelow Will Award Work as Long as Money Lasts— -8,000 Miles of Roads Have Already Been Surveyed (Special Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg.—The fact that Auditor General Sisson will not relinquish the $1,250,000, now in the State Treasury as the automobile license fund, with out a specific appropriation has con siderably hampered State Highway Commissioner E. M. Bigelow in his highway building scheme. Under thy Sproul act 77 contracts for highways, ranging from half a mile to five miles in length, have been awnrded. Four awards were held, and bids for the sections will be readvertised for, to gether with bids for additional roads. The department is nearing the end of its appropriation for new roads, but Commissioner Bigelow will award contracts so long as the money holds out. Of the $2,000,000 appropriated for maintenance under the Sproul act, $2,000,000 is for purposes of construc tion and survey. All of the 8,000 miles of highways taken over by the de partment for the State oil June 1 have been surveyed, the numerous corps having Acted from division headquar ters and having gridironed the State. Of the $1,000,000 appropriated for State aid roads about one-half remains, and Mr. Bigelow will continue his programme of road building until the funds run out. "The money col lected for automobile licenses would help the department materially," said the Commissioner, "but we must wait and have a specific appropriation bill passed by the Legislature before we can expend a cent of that money. However, we still have possibly sev eral more months of good weather this year, during which the construc tion work will be pushed." Mr. Bige low is encouraged by reports coming in from all parts of the State from persons who suggest where needed re pairs should be made. It is an indica tion that the people are alive to the situation. Fakes in Molasses. Now comes fake molasses, which was to be expected, as almost every other article of food has a fake imi tation. Dr. William Frear. vice direc tor and chemist of the State College Agricultural experiment station, has been making an analysis of several hundred specimens of syrups submit ted to him from purchases made by agents of the Pure Food Department, and he tells a few things that are de- I cidedly interesting. Dr. Frear says, however, that tJae goods sold as maple syrups are. with few exceptions, true to name. Glucose has almost disap peare as an adulterant of these sy rups, and if cane sugar is used as a a adulterant it does not materially af fect the original. The syrups labeled "maple and cane" or "cane and ma ple" usually contain only small pro portions of the maple product. Of the good, old-fashioned molasses of our fathers, Dr. Frear says there is little sugar cane syrup on the market. Sulphur dioxide is found in the stuff and the presence of tin and zinc in email quantities is common. The Pure Food Department will ask for legislation on this subject at the next session of the Legislature, and corn syrup makers will have to sell their products for what they are. Closer Milk Inspection. A school for instruction of men who will be in charge of the States milk inspection has been in progress at the Capitol the last few days, the agents receiving special instruction in refer ence to dairy hygiene from the State Veterinarian, C. J. Marshall, and offi cers of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, which will have charge of the milk hygiene service. The service is being organized along the lines of the meat inspection, it being the plan to distribute agents throughout the State for inspection of sanitary condi tions under which milk is produced and handled, and also the examination of herds. The milk inspection will be organized by Dr. Marshall so as to visit the whole State in a systematic manner. Know Him by His "Holler." The mail of State Fire Marshal Jo seph L. Baldwin is full of curios. Hern is one: "Mr. Joe Baldwin . I can coine to Harrisburg on the twenty third. Will arrive at Bin the morning on the Heading. Meet me at .he sta tion. When I get off the train I'll hol ler out your name so you will know me." Pure Food Bureau Pays. The expenses of the Sate Dairy and Food Department a year are about $70,000; but the department has more than paid for itself since January 1. The total receipts for the year up to August 31 were $115,473.14. For Au gust the receipts were $4,068.58, of which $1,578.58 were oleo license fees; $1,425 fines for selling milk that had been too intinyte with the pump; SB4O fines for sexilng doctored and poisoned food; $125 for selling ico cream that never saw cream and SIOO for fines on men who sold soft stuff.
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