REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM
Published by a P. DAUBERMAN, Lessee
LAPORTE PA.
Go swimming while the swimming
Is good.
Looks as If summer has returned
from Its vacation.
Putting It mildly, summer has been
▼ery lenient with us this year.
Once In a while summer remembers
the address as well as the telephone
cumber.
Hay fever about this time of year
ceases to be a theory and becomes
a condition.
"Listen to your wife," advises a
medical expert But what If you real
ly need the sleep?
What will our courts do without
that garrulous ancient mariner, the
hypothetical question?
Some magazine might make a hit
by putting the picture of a girl in a
bathing suit on ltß cover.
The new mikado has only one wife.
This may be taken as an Indication
that he does not care for war.
Switzerland has forbidden kissing
In railway stations —so that trains
may depart on time, we infer.
It Is said that the new emperor of
l*lpan does not inherit his father's
W\dency to write poetry. Banzai!
One source of wonder is why the
most crowded restaurants usually em
ploy the fattest waiters or waitresses.
New York man threatens to tour
Europe on a capital bankroll of $75.
We presume that he is a good swim
mer.
Mow Is the oldest inhabitant run
ning around in circles trying to re
member a summer that beats this for
variety.
The one redeeming feature of Chi
cago's new magazine for poets is that
there is no law compelling any one
to read It.
An expert says that the automobile
1s not displacing the horse. That, in
deed, would be rank ingratitude to
man's best friend.
A New York motorist used maple
syrup in mistake for lubricating oil
on his machine; and a sweet time he
had of it, too.
Luther Burbank is one of our best
little benefactors, but the crowning
glory of his career would be an odor
less motor car.
New York man who is married to
his mother-in-law says he is perfectly
happy. This is a severe blow to the
jokesmiths' union.
Women In Newport have taken up
the fad of doing their own marketing.
A woman will even descend to wovk
tf it is fashionable.
Helen Keller, deaf, dumb and blind,
has learned to sing. This indicates
that there Is hope for some of the S
cent theater artists.
Pupil In an aviation school In the
east fell 200 feet and escaped unhurt
Several football coaches are said to
'ie looking him over.
Why not ship the boys who are pos
sessed with a desire to be "bad men"
down to . Mexico or Central America
and let them become revolutionists?
It wouldn't hurt us, and It might do
the real revolutionists some good.
There may be some truth In tne
Boston doctor's claim that beans are
more nourishing than beefsteak. Look
at the Boston Red Sox.
The double decked street car In
New York carries 88 persons. Any
old car can carry 100, although It will
not Beat but 50 of them.
King George has Invented a new
Tangled kitchen rage, but a glance at
his photograph convinces one that he
never has invented a safety razor.
Druggists are demanding that phy
sicians' prescriptions be written leg
ibly. What! Take the romance and
■lystery out of medicine?
The aviators are still trying tn maxe
records. The air has a hypnotism of
Its own that no amount of accident or
fatality seems able to overcome.
A thief at Atlantic City made off
with his booty In a motor boat. Evi
dently he believes in having all the
latest Improvements in his business.
A Chicago hotel clerk has been
fined S2OO for flirting. Hotel clerks
should confine themselves to the wear
ing of sparklers and the business oi
Informing people that there are no
$2-a-day rooms vacant.
The popularity of the automobile
and the amount of leather used In the
manufacture of those vehicles will
force up the price of shoes for pedes
trians. This is adding insult to in-
Jury in the motor craze's making ever
• Miking higt>»».
WORLD PREPARES
TO USE GANAL
Every Nation Going After
Panama Commerce
UNITED STATES A LAGGARD
Every Country but Ours Planning fo'
Share of Immense Business Bene
fits to Come from Opening
of Great Waterway.
Washington.—After a tour of Eu
rope, John Barrett, director of the
Pan-American Union, thinks a sharp
warning to American manufacturers
and exporters is necessary if the
United States is not to tail in the in
ternational race for the trade of the
Panama Canal and Latin-America.
"Get ready for the Panama Canal
and go after Panama commerce." Mr.
Barrett says is the slogan which
American commercial interests must
now adopt. He says in part:
"Unless the manufacturing, export
ing and snipping interests of the
United States ,exert themselves to the
limit during the next eighteen months
they will find they will be distanced
from the ,ptart by foreign competitors
in deriving practical advantages from
the canal and the rapidly developing
field of Latin-America.
"Every important port of Great Brit
ain, France, Germany, Holland, Bel
gium, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy and
Australia is being Improved to the
highest degree of efficiency. Every
European ship-building yard of recog
nized standing is busy to its capacity
constructing ocean-going merchant
vessels.
European governments are instruct
ing their diplomats and consular
agents to study and report upon every
phase of trade opportunity expected
to result from the canal. Their cham
bers of commerce and commercial or
ganizations are co-operating along the
same lines and the business schools
are training men for the field. Their
banking and Investment houses are
extending their foreign facilities. Pri
vate business companies are sending
agents and scouts to Latin-America
and all parts of the world affected by
the canal to investigate trade possi
bilities.
"In Japan three steamship com
panies are building vessels for the ca
nal. Japanese banks are considering
the opening of branches in Latin-
America. A score of Japanese manu
facturing, exporting and Importing
houses have numerous agents on the
ground. Australia's commercial or
ganizations are sending men to South
America to develop trade, while Aus
tralia and New Zealand are planning
to establish a canal steamship line or
their own. A new line of freight ves
sels is to run from India to South
America. Canada will run two new
direct lineß from Vancouver and Mon
treal to Latin-America.
"The Pacific coast of South America
is showing great preliminary activity.
Chile, Peru and Bolivia are spending
$50,000,000 in opening up their inte
riors with railways. Chile is building
at Valparaiso a new artificial harbor
to cost 115,000,000. Guayaquil, the
principal port of Ecuador, is to be
made sanitary. Calloa, Peru, is being
improved on the east coast. Argen
tina and Uruguay will spend almost
$50,000,000 in port improvements. Ven
ezuela and Colombia, Central Amer
ica, Mexico, Cuba and the other West
Indian countries are awakening to the
significance and possibilities of the
canal."
TO REFORM U. S. FINANCES.
President Orders Budget Prepared on
Business Basis.
Beverly, Mass. —President Taft an
nounced that he would send a budget
to the next Congress, thereby reform
ing the financial methods of the gov
ernment. In a letter to the secretary
of the treasury Mr. Taft pointed out
that the present system of making
appropriations not only was anti
quated, but as practiced by Congress
was also unconstitutional.
President Taft's letter to Secretary
MacV'eagh directs all heads of gov
ernment departments or independent
officers of the government to make
their estimates of revenue and expen
ditures for the fiscal year in conform
ity with the budget plan.
BOY'S PRANK COSTS LIFE.
Tries to Catch Grasshopper and la
Drowned in Canal.
Rochester, N. Y. —When Leonard
Taylor, seven years old, threw a grass
hopper into the Erie canal the insect
started to swim ashore.
Leonard leaned over the bank to
catch the grasshopper, lost his bal
ance and fell in. Before aid could ar
rive he was drowned. The child was
an only son and heir to $40,000.
FEARS AIRSHIPB AND DIES.
Man Drowns Himself to Escape Fan
cied Danger.
Pottsville, Pa.—Because of his fear
of airships, Washington Clauser, of.
Hegins, drowned himself, his body be
ing found in Yoder's mllldam, near his
home.
Clauser believed aerial navigation
would be fully solved soon, and he had
a premonition that an airship would
fall on him from a great height and
mangle his body, after which he would
| '■> in great agony.
SHARP WARNING
TO NICARAGUA
Emphatic Note Sent by United
States to That Republic
OUR MARINES AT GRANADA
Regarded at the State Department M
Second in Its Significance to
None but the Knox Note
of 1909.
Washington.—The first official and
complete statement of the policy of
the United States in the Nicaraguan
situation was issued at the State De
partment in the form of a text of a
note presented to the Nicaraguan
Government by United States Minis
ter Weitzel at Managua, on telegraph
ic instructions from Huntington Wil
son, acting secretary of state. The
note has also been placed in the
hands of the leaders in the recent
Nicaraguan revolt, for their informa
tion and has been given out for pub
lication in every newspaper of the re
public. •
It was telegraphed to every United
States legation in all Central America
and thus communicated to the gov
ernment and the people of the entire
region.
The purpose of the United States in
Nicaragua, the note asserts, is to
guard the American legation, keep
open communication in the republic
and protect American life and prop
erty from injury and destruction.
Of even greater significance are the
declarations that the United States
will not countenance a restoration of
the "corrupt and barbarous" order of
things which prevailed under the ty
rannical rule of the former dictator —
President Zelaya. General Mena is
branded by the note as a man who is
attempting to impose upon Nicaragua
the destructive regime of Zelavaism
and castigated in the severest terms
as a man of unheard of cruelty, a
breaker of solemn pledges, and the
leader of an attempt to seize by force
the control of Nicaragua without pre
tence to principle in his frustrated
revolution.
It is believed the widespread publi
cation of this note both in this coun
try and in Latin-America will go far
toward creating a better understand
ing of the policy of this government
in regard to the troubled republics of
Central America.
The denunciation of General Mena
makes it clear that his candidacy for
the presidency will be impossible at
any time. It is expected now that he
will take place with Zelaya as an ex
ile, after he has become fully con
vinced of the hopelessness of his
present position.
American marines and sailors have
reached Granada, the Mena strong
hold, at the terminus of the railroad,
thirty miles from Managua, the capi
tal.
It is declared that when communi
cation with Granada is again restored
the report of conditions brought
about by the rebels will shock the civ
ilized world. Meager reports which
have reached the American legation
have stated that Mena and his forces
have practically starved the entire
population of the town, having them
selves confiscated all the food sup
plies. The greatest anxiety is felt for
the fate of the young women and girls
in the French college there. Most of
the students are daughters of foreign
residents of Nicaragua. Not a word
has been received from them in the
forty-five days which has elapsed
since General Mena began his revolt.
Relief of the famine conditions at
Granada will be the first task of the
American forces under command of
Major Butler.
RICH BANKER ENDS LIFE.
George C. Morrison Humiliated by
Charges He Aided Gambling.
Baltimore. George C. Morrison,
president of the Title Guaranty and
Trust company in this city, vice-pres
ident of the Baltimore Trust Com
pany, a member on the directorate of
many busings institutions here, a
former state senator, chairman of the
Democratic advisory committee for
Maryland, a turfman and breeder,
committed suicide in a private room
in the Baltimore Athletic Club. When
his body was found there was a tube
in his mouth attached to a gas jet
with a full flow on. In addition he
had tied a pistol around his neck with
the evident purpose of shooting him
self if, by any chance, the gas failed.
On the dresser was a note explain
ing the deed. It referred to the news
paper publicity given to his interest in
the racetrack in Havre de Grace, of
which he was part owner and presi
dent.
GRACE HELD AS SLAYER.
Inquest Into His Brother's Dea.th Ends
with That Action.
Walden, N. Y. —Evidence was of
fered at the inquest into the death of
Jack Grace, the wrestler found mur
dered at Walden a week ago, which
led Coroner Buss to hold William
Grace, brother of the dead man, on a
charge of murder.
It was testified that blood-stained
jewels belonging to Jack were found
in William's suitcase by his bride
after the wedding trip.
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in 'em? j/f ji
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SPENCER MEETS
DOOMJN CHAIR
Jekyll and Hyde Murderer Pays
Penalty for His Crime
MODEL CLERK IN DAYTIME
Was Abandoned to Fate—Fought for
Life at First, Even Appealing to
President Became Burglar
Just for Excitement.
Boston. —Bertram G. Spencer died
in the electric chair in Charlestown
prison at 12.18 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. His death was the penalty for
the killing of Miss Martha B. Black
stone, a Springfield school teacher,
who was slain in the home of her
friend, Mrs. Sarah J. Dow, of Round
Hill, Springfield, on March 31, 1910.
Spencer waß officially pronounced
dead five minutes after the curreut
was turned on, although death was
probably instantaneous. Spencer was
calm and walked to the death chair un
assisted. As he took his piace before
the chair he faced the small group of
witnesses, and, speaking clearly, with
head up, said:
"I wish to say to the world and the
newspapers that this is not nerve, but
the love of God which has sustained
me. Good night."
He sat down without a tremor. The
electrodes were adjusted and he calm
ly awaited the shock. Carrying out
the dead man's wishes, the body will
be cremated.
For several days he had been re
signed to his fate, although he had
caused his counsel to carry appeals
for pardon not only to Governor Foss,
but also to President Taft.
The trial of Spencer had stirred
public interest throughout New Eng
land. The peculiar, dual character 112
the man made his case second only
to that of the Rev. Clarence V. T.
Richeson in mystery and magnetism.
Spencer, a man of only twenty-five
years, lived by day the dull, unevent
ful life of a shipping clerk in a fac
tory. By night he was one of the
most daring and persistent burglars
with whom the police have ever con
tended.
For months his successful robberies
had baffled the authorities. His
treatment of his wife, his child and
his aged mother was gentle and ten
der. Yet he could shoot to death an
innocent and defenseless girl for the
sake of paltry booty.
VICE-PRESIDENT MUST REST.
Doctor Orders Quiet for Sherman,
Who Is at Grove Beach.
New Haven, Conn.—Vice-President
James S. Sliermaii of Utica is stop
ping at Grove Beach, Conn. He is
there for the restoration of his health
and by orders of his physician. Mrs.
Sherman is with him and seeß to it
that he takes his medicine regularly.
Vice-President Shgrman said that
his doctor told him that if he did not
pick out a quiet place and remain
there he would not live long.
SMALLPOX AT PITTSBURGH.
Six New Cases and Twenty Suspect
ed Are Quarantined.
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Six new cases of
smallpox were reported in one day,
twenty suspected cases were put un
der quarantine and two died. Dr. F.
J. Edwards appointed twenty-five ad
ditional city physicians and started
hem on a house to house vaccination
•ampaign. Other city physicians be
.;an the vaccination of all school chil
iren. The fear of it kept scoraa from
NAVYBOYS DROWN
IN LAKE SQUALL
United States Cutter Capsize?
Near Shore at Chicago
RESCUE WORK IMPOSSIBLE
Gunner's Mate Makes Heroic Attempt
to Save a Lad and, Failing,
He Lets Himself
Go Down.
Chicago.—Twelve young men, all
apprentices at the United States
naval training station at Lake Bluff,
111., were drowned in Lake Mich
igan about 5 o'clock Sunday after
noon, when the recreation cutter at
tached to the station was swamped
on a sand bar close to shore. A 40-
mile gale was blowing. The cutter
held twenty-five men, of whom only
thirteen were saved. It is believed
that the bodies have been carried out
into the lake by the force of the gale.
Until the storm subsides systematic
search for the bodies by dragging the
lake will be impossible.
The boys were between 16 and 20
years of age and were from the Mid
dle and Western States. The party
left the training station shortly after
2 o'clock, and, after cruising about for
two hours, headed tor North Chicago.
A few minutes later, while the cut
ter was north of Lake Forest, a squall
struck the boat. The sails were low
ered and an anchor was thrown out.
Gunner Negis, it is said, planned to let
the cutter ride out the storm, but the
waves soon were running so high that
the boat dragged its anchor and was
driven toward the beach.
The tragedy was enacted in view of
hundreds of residents of Lake Bluff,
who were without any means of giv
ing assistance. A north gale of forty
miles an hour had been blowing for
several hours and a heavy sea topped
with -white caps was running in the
lake.
The rescue of the survivors was a
thrilling spectacle. When the big
cutter turned turtle the boys, who had
all been at the oars, clung to them
and a few life preservers that were
lying in the bottom of the boat and
floated free. With the oars in their
hands they were driven shoreward by
the high wind and the waves.
The cutter disappeared, but came to
the surface again some distance from
the spot where it went down and so
far away as to be of no assistance to
the struggling lads.
Chief Gunner Negis, who had
charge of the boat, held two boys up
with a pair of oars and tried to reach
the cutter, but was compelled to give
up the attempt. He lost one boy be
fore he reached the shore.
The desperate struggle to reach port
occupied four hours and fifteen min
utes. Men, women and children crowd
ed the end of the Lake Bluff pier
shouting words of encouragement to
the helpless young seamen. During
all this long period the doomed cuttc r
was close in shore, but all human ef
fort to get her was unavailing.
GYP AND LEFTY CAUGHT.
Pair of Rosenthal Suspects Found In
Flat In Queens.
New York. —Lefty Louie and Gyp
the Blood wer earrested at "56 Wood
ward avenue ,ust over the Brooklyn
line In Glendale, Queens borough, by
Deputy Police Commissioner Dough
erty and a force of detectives.
Louis Rosenberg and Harry Horo
witz, which are the real names re
spectively of the two men, were taken
just as they were sitting down to din
ner with their wives and a visitor.
MILLIONS FOR
MOVING CROPS
U. S. Treasury May Pat $50,-
000,000 in Country Banks
FEAR A MONEY STRINGENCY
Record Breaking Crops Will Require
More Money to Harvest and Market
Than Can Be Provided by Banks
In the Agricultural States
Washington.—To prevent a money
stringency during the movement of
the bumper crops, this fall, the offi
cials of the Treasury Department are
considering the making of deposits
of from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000
among the banks in the farming sec
tions out of the surplus money in the
government vaults. Already banks
have government deposits, but Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury Bailey
has gone to Dublin, N. H., for a con
ference with Secretary of the Treas
ury MacVeagh with regard to increas
ing these deposits.
The secretary of the treasury has
ample authority to exercise his dis
cretion, whenever a stringency is
threatened, and it is the opinion of
treasury officials that the record-break
ing crops this year will require more
money to harvest and market than
can be provided by the banks in the
great agricultural states of the West
without forcing oppressively high
loaning rates in the commercial cen
ters. The banks in the fanning sec
tions, reflecting the great prosperity
of their patrons have surplus funds
which have been deposited in the
East and in the large cities of the
West for loaning purposes. Most if
not all of these funds must be with
drawn to move the crops, and will not
be sufficient in the opinion of the
treasury officials.
Assistant Secretary Bailey proposes
that the treasury shall assist to the
extent of preventing any injurious
flurry in commercial circles which
would follow high bids.
CHICAGO PAYS sll FOR BEEF.
Quotations Are Now as High as Dur
ing the Civil War.
Chicago.—Consumers may expect
another boost in the price of beef, co
incident with the record price for
steers of sll per hundred weight ob
tained at the stock yards.
Prime 1,577 mixed short horn and
| Hereford steers, fed by A. W. Eber
-1 said of Union Star, Mo., sold to Ar
' mour & Co. on the Chicago market at
sll per hundred weight, the highest
I price paid on the open market in trade
| history. Mixed yearlings also reached
i a record figure, $10.40, and $y.75 was
the new record established for a short
load of heavy range beef.
The sll a hundred mark is the high
est quotation for beef recorded at the
Union Stock Yards since the civil war.
Dealers at the stock yards with sport
ing proclivities are now preparing
odds that the price of first-class steers
around Christmas time will be sls a
hundred pounds.
SMALL PAY MADE HIM STEAL.
Married Bank Employe with sl2 a
Week Embezzled $6,500.
Philadelphia.—"l feel safe in saying
that he is here as the result of a mis
i taken policy on the part of many of
j our banks in not paying adequate
I salaries to their employes," declared
counsel for C. L. McCracken, who was
| charged with embezzlement in the
United States District Court.
McCracken was an employe In a
: bank in a nearby Pennsylvania town
and had pleaded guilty to embezzling
st'»,soo. Altliough a married man with
! a family of four small children, and
! with a salary of only sl2 a week, he
■ was required to maintain a good ap
pearance and a certain position in the
i town.
The minimum sentence of five years
j was imposed on the prisoner.
$3,000,000,000 FOR IMMORALITY
! Cost to American People from Social
Plague, Says Hygiene Lecturer.
Washington. Startling statements
concerning immorality and the social
evil were made by Vernon M. Cady,
1 lecturer of the American federation
i of Sex Hygiene, as the leading feature
| of the health exhibit with the Inter
national Congress' on Hygiene ai.d
Demography.
Mr. Cady declared that there are
300,000 registered white slaves in this
country and that the police of the
various cities estimate that there are
1,000,000 more not registered. He
threw upon the screen a table show
ing how Americans spend their
money, $3,000,000,000 going annually
through white Elavery, social diseases
and immorality in general.
RICH MAN HANGS HIMSELF.
Melancholia Drive* George W. t'
Hughes of New Haven to Suicide
New Haven, Conn. —The dead h
of George W. H. Hughes, fort;
years half owner of tho Hype
Theatre, was found dangling fr
rafter in his stable by his son, fie. ,
Mr. Hughes had be-n a nervot.
wreck for months, and had suffered
acutely from melancholia.
Mr. Hughes was 64 years old and
lea\es a widow, Mary, and one son-
He left an estate of about $.500,000.