REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM
Published by Q 8. DAUBERMAN, Lease*
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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.
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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.