Republican News Item. VOL. XYI. NO. 41 THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED AT THE COUNTY SEAT OF SULLIVAN COUNTY. 1 COUNTY SEAT J I LOCAL AND PERSONAL | I EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD | s Leo J. Sick of l- shore was in , town Monday. E. Fritz of Benton transacted , business in town Monday. Mrs. Mary McKibbons is visit her sister, Mrs, M- Flynn. H. Shunian, Jr., of Williams port was in this place on Tuesday. , George Bruscliart of Onshore was in town 011 business Tuesday. \ J. P. Lee of Wyalusing register ed at the Lapprte hotel 011 Tues day. J. L. Christian of Lopez trans acted business in this place 011 , Monday. L. Willasli of Towanda was a , business caller in this place on | Tuesday. J. P. Conally of Williamsport , transacted business in this place ( Tuesday. John Hassen. Sr., and grandson, Vincent Hassen. drove to Onshore Wednesday. Mr. N. O. Tarlox and wife of ( Nordmont were calling 011 friends here Monday. For Sale —All Emblem Bicycle in goo 1 condition, will sell cheap. Inquire at this Office. Julius Balil, who kept a barber shop and restaurant here for several years, has moved to Scranton. The Village Improvement Society will meet at the home of Mrs. Meylerton Monday evening, Oct. 21 Mrs. Cilda Eberban and two children of Eagles Mere were the guests of Mrs. Samuel Mfthaffey and family Tuesday. County Commissioners Joseph Sick. John Cronin and Irvin Hot tenstein attended to their duties at the courthouse Monday. The girls of Laporte High School wish to thank Mr, Caven for his kindness recently shown them, by tlie gift of a basketball. Mr. Theo. Mittlestaldt of New- York City, and H. W. RuggleS of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., were transact ing business iu this place this week. FOR SALE —Two lots situated 011 Main street and Spring Alley in Laporte Borough, known as the Wurfflein lots. Inquire F. H. Ingham. Dr. Christian of Lopez and Dr. Randall of Onshore examined the pupils of the Borough School on Monday to determine if they were all in sound health. Ernest Decker of Owego, N. Y., window and sign decorator was in town Tuesday and lettered a few windows. Mr. Decker is a very skilled artist. Mr. Allen of New Albany came down Wednesday and put the t News Item's engine in first class condition. Any one having trouble with their engine should call 011 Mr. Allen. Do not blame the printer for the lateness of last week's issue, but put it on the engine, as when we started to print the paper 011 Thurs day morning the engine broke down and we were unable to issue the paper until Saturday. On Saturday last a tribe of Indian Gypsies enroute for Pittsburg, where they will hold a meeting of the tribe, arrived in town and pitched tents near the railroad station, where they camped until Monday and then again resumed their journey. There were about 14 men and women and fully that many children if not more. NOFKfvSONT. " Claud Speary and Robert Hunter spent Tuesday in Onshore. Mr. Breining of Williamsport was in town Thursday. Misses Mabel Hunter and Dollie Snider spent Wednesday in Hughes ville. Burn to Mr. and Mis. Robert Ernest Oct 13, a daughter. Mr. Harry Carpenter Af Onshore was iu town Wednesday. Many people from this place at tended the fair at Hughesville on Thursday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Fiester Oct. l'>, a daughter. Mr. Mandus W. Reeser of Col ley spent Wednesday evening in town. Mr. and Mrs. Archer Hess and son Herman of Central visited friends in town Sunday Miss Millicent Gavitt, teacher of the Nordmont school, spent Sun day with her parents at Sonestown. Miss Carrie Perry spent Sunday with her mother at Emmons. Mr. William Moraii of Muncy Valley autoed to this place Sun lay evening. Oon't forget to ask Bondman for Fresh Oysters on November sth while in town on election day. Also Chicken and Waffles Dinner, at Sonestown. HEMLOCK GROVE Benjamin Lawrenson, who since the first of April has been employ ed by the Schuyler Lake Lumber Co., N. Y., returned to his work at that place last week, after spend ing some time at his home here. Miss Vera Buck was visiting in Williamsport Thursday and Fri day. Rev. Kaliler being away on his vacation last Sunday, H. Cr-Boat man of Sonestown gave an interest ing talk. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bay and Mrs. L. B. Deckert attended the funeral of Mrs. Heim at Williams port on Monday. Mrs. Ed. Phillips and daughter EfHe were shopping in Williams port Saturday. Miss Alma Warburton spent Sun day with friends at North Moun tain. Those who attended Hughesville fair were: Ethel Myers, Orplia Arms, E. A. Fubner and son,Benj. and Tracy Lawrenson, A. T. Myers and sons, W. 11. Lawrenson and Monroe Arms. M. J. Phillips, with Geo. Pen nington as chauffeur, started on a business trip Monday. Stanton Phillips and Dorsey Sanders when returning from fail with a blind horse got lost and found themselves near Eagles Mere. Fish at Bondman's and no other. Just ask him about Fish. MILLINERY NOTICE I have just received a fine lint of Fall and Winter Hats, of the very latest styles, and am offering them at most reasonable prices. Come and look them over, they aie all beauties. LIZZIE McNELLAN, . Laporte, Pa, [ Going to Bondman's for Oysters I are you YES—Fresh. I Oysters at Bondman's, Sones 1 town, Pa. j Yes! Boudiuau has Oysters / Just ask him. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1912. ROOSEVELT SHOT BK WOUIM ASSASSIN ASSAILANT TAKEN BEFORE FIRING AGAIN Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 14.—Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was shot and slightly wounded tonight as he was leaving the Gilpatriek hotel for the Auditorium to make a speech. The wound was super ficial and the Colonel went onto the hall and began after he had seen the assailant arrested and taken to the police station. Albert H. Martin seizod the man and held him until a policeman came up. A big mob surged around the prisoner, who apparently is mentally upset on the sub ject of Roosevelt's running for another term as president. The man, who is small of stature, ad mitting the shot, and said that "any man looking for a third term ought to be shot." In notes found in the man's pockets at the police station were statements that the man had been visited in a dream by the spirits of William McKinley, who had said, indicating Colonel Roosevelt, "this is my murderer, avenge my death.* With the Colonel was Philip Roosevelt, a young cotisin, Mr. Cochems, Mr. Martin and Captain Girard. The crowd pressed close to the Colonel and gave a cheer as he appeared. As the party approached the motor car Colonel Roosevelt's companions stood aside and he stepped into the car. Martin entered directly behind him, and sat on the further ' side of the car. ! Colonel Roosevelt stood up, waving his hat in answer to the cheers of the crowd. The assassin was standing in the crowd a few feet from the car. He pushed his way to the side of the car and raising his gun fired. Martin caught the (lash and leaped over the car a second after the bullet spend 011 its way. Colonel Roosevelt barely moved as the shot was fited. Before the crowd ,kne v what had happened Martin, who ilr •ix feet tall, and a former football, had - landed squarely on the man's shoulders and had born him to the ground. He threw his right arm around the man's neck 1 with a death-like grip and with his left ■ arm seized the hand that held the revolver. In another second he had disarmed him. Colonel Roosevelt's life was probably ' saved by a manuscript of the speech • which he delivered tonight. The bullet . struck the manuscript which retarded its force as it passed through into the llesh. His assailant was prevented from firing I the second shot by Albert 11. Martin, one j of Roosevelt's two secretaries. A wild cry of "Lynch him!" went up. Roosevelt spoke to the people and told them to spare the man, who then was l- taken into the hotel and held there until . he was taken to police station. In spite of the entreaties of physicians Colonel Roosevelt insisted upon deliver - ing his address. "I will make this speech or die, one or the other," he said. Henry F. Cochems, one of the Wiscon- i l , sin Progressive leaders, told the crowd ) which had assembled in the Auditorium that Colonel Roosevelt had been shot and asked the people to be calm. The crowd ' was thrown almost into a panic by the 1 announcement, but Roosevelt calmed the people by rising and assuring them that he was not badly hurt. Then he began his address. Several 1 times he seemed to be growing weak, and members of his party rose to help him. he motioned them to sit down. Let me ' alone. I'm all right," he said. 1 Colonel Roosevelt completed his speech I at 9:45 o'clock and was taken to the s Emergency hospital. At 10:30 o'clock Colonel Roosevelt was sitting on the operating table talking politics with the physicians while they • were awaiting the arrival of an X-Ray machine. The prisoner told the police after an hour's examination that he was John Schrank, of 370 East Tenth street, New York. He had on his person a copy of ( ' the Colonel's itinerary, written on a sheet e of note paper taken from the Bismark g hotel and cafe, Nashville, Tenn. The wouid-be assassin is five feet five .. inches tall, weighs 170 pounds, light com. " plexion, bald, fairly well dressed. He confessed to the police that he fired the shot and made the remark: i- "Any man looking for a third term ought to be shot." A written proclamation found in the ' clothing of the man who did the shooting reads: "September 15, 1901, 1:30 a. m.-.-In a dream I saw President McKinley sit up in a monk's attire in whom I recognized 4. Theodore Roosevelt. 'This is my murd erer, avenge my death.' "September 12, 5912, 1:30 a. m.—While j writing a poem, some one tapped me on the shoulder and said: 'Let not a murder, er take the presidential chair. Avenge my death.' "I could plainly see** Mr. McKinley's features. "Before the Almighty God I swear this above writing is nothing but the truth." Milwaukee.Wis., Oct. 15.---(l:30a. m.)-- Just as the Roosevelt special was leaving a sudden change in plans was made, and the engineer was ordered to hold the train. It was said that Colonel Roosevelt would probably remain here awaiting the arrival of Dr. John B. Murphy, the Chicago surgeon. It is feared the wound may be more serious than first thought. Uni-nown Man Killed By Train at Muncy Muncy, Oct. 14.—An unknown man, who was supposed to have been riding on the trucks of train No. 12, on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, which arrived here at 4:21 p. 111. Saturday was instantly killed when he fell off north of Muncy station, at what is known as Walton's crossing, about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The body was discovered by two meu who had been working in a nearby orchard. The top of the man's head was terribly mangled, these injuries caused his death, as 110 other cuts or bruises were found on his body. Coroner Hardt, of Williamsport, after learning the facts, ordered the Iwidy reuiovid to a local un dertaking establishment, where it is uow being held pending an in vestigation to lean his identity. On the man's clothes was found a letter addressed to Mrs. E. Bigbee, of Corry. It is stated that the man has been attending the Hughesville fair as several persons who vi wed the body are sure that he conducted a stand at that place during the fair. A card l>earing the dates of coming fairs was also found in his pockets and it is sup posed that he was on his way to another fair when he was killed. Dr. Hardt is now in communi cation with surrounding districts in an effort to learn the unfortunate man's name. President Taft Endorses Tub erculosis Day New York, Oct. 10. Cordial approval and endorse ment of Tuberculosis Day, which will be observed by the churches of the country on October 27th, is ex pressed by President Taft In a let ter to Homer Folks of New York, President of the National Associ ation for the study and prevention of Tuberculosis, made public to-, day. President Taft, writing from Beverly, says; "My dear M r - Folks: "I have your letter of Septanber 16th, and am very glad of an op portunity to testify to my belief in th.? importance of your campaign j of education as to the means of! preventing tuberculosis. You do well to enlist the active support of the churches and of all other agen cies for the dissemination of infor mation calculated to induce every one to do his or her part toward the complete eradication of the dread disease. I hope and believe that a "Tuberculosis Day"in the churches will be productive of great good. Sincerely yours, William H. Taft." From present indications, Tuber culosis Day will be observed by al most every religious denomination in the United States and not less than 50,000 sermons on tuberculos is will be preached on October 27, or in the weeks preceding or fol lowing that date. SUBSCRIBE NOW. VOTE FOR TAFT AND CONTINUE WITH GOOD TIMES AND NO PANICS Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1912. The withdrawal of twenty-seven Roosevelt presidential candidates on the Republican ticket, has clari fied the situation and drawn together the various Republican forces in a way that has inspired the utmost confidence iu those who are light ing for Taft and Sherman and the full Republican ticket. Heretofore there h is been such a confusion of interests and of parties that the campaign in spite of the vital issues at stake and the tre mendous public interest manifested in platforms and candinates, has languished for the reason that the political fighters hardly knew whom they were fighting. Now that the Republican ticket is a Republican ticket, and the danger of its becoming a Lincoln party ticket or some other eleventh hour ticket has been averted, the general apathy in the Republican camp has been suddenly dispelled. Congressman J. Hampton Moore, of the National Republican Con gressional Committee of Pennsyl vania, made his first excursion into tli« State outside of Philadelphia, yesterday, addressing enthusiastic meeting at Birdsboro and Bethle hem. Ex-Governor Wilson of Ken tucky, and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel, are among the "headliners" on the Congressional Committee's list of speakers. Mr. Moore is laying great stress on the southern control of national affairs and he insists that a Demo cratic victory in November will mean the turning over of Washing ton to the planters and ranchmen of the south and southwest. The Congressional Committee and its speakers expect to make very good use of a. statement pre pared for them by Horace A. Doan, President of the West End Trust Company of Philadelphia, which shows that whatever may be the cause of the "high cost of living," there never was a time iu the his tory ol the country when there was such a large surplus of earning in the savings banks. The last published statistics on the subject end with 1911, when there were 1,884 savings banks in: the country, with 9,597,185 de- j positors and deposits aggregating j $4,212,583,598. Ten years ago | when there was not so much com- ■ plaint about having 110 money left when the high cost of living had been settled for, there were 1,03ti savings banks, 6,666,672 depositors and deposits amounting to $2,750,- 177,290, or a little less than one half the deposits owned by some thing more than two-thirds the number of depositors. In the dapression year of 1908, due to the financial flurry, which has been blamed upon political agitation at Washington, deposits were at a standstill and if measured k by the increase in the number of [depositors, there was an actual de crease, but by 1910 they had jump ed over $1,000,000,000 and in 1911 they were nearly $200,000,000 greater than in 1910. Back in Cleveland's time,in 1895, there were less than half the num ber of depositors and about one quarter the number of deposits. Mr. Doan's investigation deals only I with increases of the four cities of Philadelphia, New York, Bhicago and Boston. The manufacturers' luncheon at the Majestic, this week, is regarded here as one of the most significent events of the campaign to date. Nearly 100 manufacturers, most of them from the textile industry,and all of them men of national reputa tion in their special lines,assembled ar the guests of Nathan T. Folwell and told why a protective tariff covering the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad, was necessary in their business. They gave figures to prove that the present high standard of American wages could not be maintained if the tariff for revenue Only were to throw them into competition with manufacturers of England and Germany, who pay in many in stances one-third the wages paid here, and in every instance materi ally less than the American wage scale. The metal trades also had . a spokesman at the luncheon, who SI.OO PER YEAR C. S. DAUBERMAN, EDITOR declared that, a Democratic victory ia November, followed by Demo cratic tariff tinkering, would be aa serious for them as for the textile men. One of the speakers, Howard B. French, said that the time had come when the manufacturer, if he wishes to keep his plant going, must get into politics, mingle with the people, see that his side of the argument is properly put before them and correct the genergl mis apprehension that has got abroad about the man who has his money invested in factories. "We are all represented as trust magnates," said Mr. French, as grinding down the poor, squeezing dollars out of the widows and orphants, and heaven only knows what not, simply because we have left the other fellows do the talk ing. We have got to talk for our selves and we have got to let the voters understand that the interests of the man who owns the factory are identical with the interests of those who work for him. A manu facturer can't pay wages without profits.'' Reports to Chairman Moore, from the Re, üblicau County Chairman of Pennsylvania, and the Republi can candidates, have led him to predict a decrease in the number of Democratic representatives from Pennsylvania. While none of the thirty-two nistricts is being slight ed, the Committee is centering its efforts on the eight which now have Democratic Congressmen,and sever al of these, it is predicted Ity Chair man Moore, are expected togo for the Republican candidates next month. A. Mitchell Palmer, whose dis trict Chairman Moore invaded last night, and who is perhaps the best known Pennsylvania Democrat in Congress, will have the fight of his life against F. A. Marsh, Jr., who has both the Republican and Wash ington party nominations. The fact that Mr. Palmer, while repre senting a district in which one of the largest steel mills in the world is situated, himself introduced the • * bill to put steel on the tariff for revenue only basis, will be nsed against him by the Republican campaigners. They say that Mr. Palmer is a tool of the southern Democrats and by his votes in Con gress, he has done more for the plantations of Dixie than for the sh ps and wage earners of Pennsyl vania. There are nearly 100 entries to date in the prize essay contest on ''Protection versus Free Trade," inagurated by the Congressional Committee. NOTICE OP TRANSFER Notice is hereby given that a Petition for the Transfer of a Re tail Restaurant License heretofore granted to Harold H. Hatton, in in the Borough of Dushore, County of Sullivan, State of Pennsylvania, located on Railroad street, and known as the "Hatton Restaurant" to W. 11. DUBOIS, has this day been filed in my office, and will be presented to the Court of Quarter !Sessions of Sullivan County, Pa., on Monday, October '2l, 1912, at nine o'clock a. m. ALBERT F. HEESS, Clerk. Stackhouse—Shafer Justice Austin, of Waverly, united in marriage Carl Stackhouse and Miss Katherine Shafer, both of Ricketts, on Monda ivening of last week. The cf .iony was performed at the oft 5 jf the town clerk, Chas. Bingban., in Waverly. Arrested Man Kills Wilkes-Barre Policeman Wilkes-Barre, Oct. 12.—Samuel Stair, chief of police,of the Borough of Nuangola, near here, was shot and killed last night by Arthur Stackhouse, of Aldeu, whom the former had under arrest on a charge of burglary. Stackhouse wat. be ing taken to the office of a justice of the peace when he suddenly re sisted and in a struggle with the officer he shot him. The assassin mad# his escape.
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