REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM Pntdiaked by a P. DAUBEBMAN, Less— LAPORTE PA. Now it's the cold storage cure for hay fever. Almost any candidate is a promis ing candidate. The air continues to be a poor place In which to do fancy work. Our Idea of nothing to feel sad about is losing a job as aviator. The excursion girl now sweetly changes into the matinee maid. It will be Thanksgiving day for Italy if she finally saws a limb o£E Tur key. Tight-skirted women hobbling to catch a car are as funny as a sack race. The slaughter of an aviator now and tfien has almost ceased to be a mat ter of news. Soon the lover of lake sports will wish to exchange his bathing suit for a pair of skates. Bohemia has a woman member of parliament. Showing the true Bohe mian spirit, as it were. Do you suppose the government will get any nearer the telephone trust than a long-distance call? Canada sold 50.000,000 lobsters last winter New York will have to hustle to live up to its reputation. The girl with the coat of seashore tan now looks sympathetically at her tiale-faced, stay-at-home sisters. A python in the New York zoo eats but one meal a year. This reduces houskeeping coses to a minimum. If It were not for the old warships what would the young warships have to shoot at in target practice? Lemons are becoming more expen «ive, but it is probable that many of '.hem will still be handed around. Antiquarians have discovered an- Dther Venus, doubtless without first getting the consent of yseir wives. Tobacco is grown in Kansas, *nd Beveral./tiew brands of Havana cigars soon be put on the market. .- /" London telegraph company is hiring girls to replace messenger boys. Leave it to a girl to carry messages. Baltimore policemen must not play gominoes on Sunday. Probably It is Ihe one game that they don't play at ill A New York man is reported to have borrowed $3,500 from his laun dress, If she had it it is quite pos sible. Any movement to restrain the activ ities of the genius who designs freak •hoes for men will deserve public ap probation. Among all the adjectives that have been applied to the costumes that the girls are wearing now we haven't noticed "modest." An artist who painted $lO bills has been arrested. Painting $lO bills does not seem to be any more profitable than gilding lilies. In Philadelphia all women under thirty are "girls." Philadelphia, the chivalrous and altruistic, is proving '.tself the City of Brotherly Love to Lhe lone sisters. An English actor who wore a corset !has died as the result of tight lacing. Evidently the manager declined to give him a fat part. While a Kansas woman was trying to kiss a bulldog the animal bit her lip. It seems difficult for some Kan sas bulldogs to acquire good man ners. Playing cards has been traced back to the year 800 A. D. It is safe to pre sume that the police of those days gathered in their graft just as merrily as now. A Kansas City man who went to bed one night, leaving $1,700 in his trousers pocket, has registered a vow that he will not be so careless again. He is trying to accumulate another *1,700. Fluffy skirts saved a woman from drowning in the Chicago river. The moral is that women who feel that they must wear tight skirts should avoid falling into that historio dream. There were fourteen billion tele phone calls in the United States last year. Do you wonder that the lines were sometimes busy? Sound proof floors In apartment buildings are a grand Institution, but until the sound proof baby is invented somebody is sure to complain. Now It appears that the English beauty who planned to see the United States In two days is an actress Score sjvoiher point for the alert preat «a*nt. GRAIN YIELDS AT RECORD MURES Tremendous Harvest of Corn, Oats and Spring Wheat HAY REACHES TOP NOTCH Corn Total 3,016,000,000 Bushel* and Condition 82.2 Per Cent. Against 70.4 a Year Ago—Oats 1,417,- 172,000 Bushels. Washington.—Never before have the great cereal crops of the United States been so bountiful as those of this year. Records of production for al most every cereal have been sur passed in some instances by millions of bushels. The October crop report of the De partment of Agriculture shows spring wheat, cats, barley, rye and hay all have exceeded the best record pro ductions, while the crops of corn and potatoes, from present indications, also will be the greatest ever yet har vested. The indicated corn yielfj was parti cularly surprising being given at 3,016,000,000 bushels, compared with 2,995,000,000 bushels a month ago. The spring wheat crop was placed at 330,391,000 bushels, v»lth the quality the finest in years, while the total crop of this country is expec'.ed to reach 720,000,000 bushels. The oata crop also showed a lar>e gain with that of a month ago. The barley and potato crops have been in line with the big staples and have exhibited remarkable increases in size since the first of September. Hay and flaxseed are record crops. The hay crop is tons, as compared with 47,444,000 tons last year and 61,000,000 tons the year be fore. Flaxseed is 29,000,000 bushels. The rye crop is 35,422,000 buf liels, and the buckwheat crop is 18,000,000 bushels. In barley the large increase of 15.- 619,000 bushels was recorded during the month, bringing the total crop to 224,619.000 bushels for the year, as compared with the crr.p cf 160,240,000 last year. This is the largest crop the couiitrv has ever produced. The white potato crop is estimated at 401,000.000 bushels, as compared with 398.000,000 bushels last month and 292,737,000 last year. The yield per acre is 108.8 bushels, as compared with 108 bushels last month and 50.9 last year. CONFESSES TO GRAFT IN OHIO. Legislator Pleads Guilty and Involves "Higher Ups"—Sentence Deferred. Columbus, Ohio. —With the unex pected plea of guilty by Representa tive George B. Nye i Waverly to so liciting a bribe of SI,OOO from Repre sentative B. F. Kimble of Adams county, and a subsequent confession of everything he krcw of legislative graft to Attorney General Hogan and Prosecutor Turner, came assurance State attoreny that fi rther legislative graft exposures, completely overshad owing thos? made a year and a half ago, and involving the much talked of higher-ups will be made forthwith by a grand jury investigation. Judge E. B. Kink ad accepted the Pike county legislator's plea of guilty and upon request of the attorney general deferred sentence. MEXICAN REBELS BURN TOWN Americans and British in Polizada Menaced by Zapatitas. Washington.—The sacking and burn ing of the town of Rods about, 70 miles north of Durango, by Mexican rebels was reported to the State De partment. This town numbering about 1.000 inhabitants, was attacked by 4fio rebels, under Gregorio Sanchez. One hundred and twenty-five state troops stubbornly defended the place against the rebels, but w»re overpowered. Heavy losses were suffered by both sides. After defeating the defenders of the town, the rebels looted the houses and stores, and then set fire to the build ings. Sixty American and British residents of Polizada are menaced by a force of several hundred Zapatistas, according to State Department ad vices. TEST PUBLICITY LAW. Journal of Commerce Seeks to Enjoin Invasion of Private Rights. New York.—Papers in a suit brought by the Journal of Commerce against the post office department and the attorney-general to restrain them from enforcing the new publicity law for newspapers were filed here. Mor ris & Plante of 135 Broadway, counsel for thft American Newspaper Pub lishers Association, of which the Jour nal of Commerce is a member, arc the attorneys. FAMOUS FREAKS DEAD. The Millie-Christine Twins Had Only One Body. Wilmington, N. C.—The celebrated Millie-Christine twins, aged 60, died at the home of the pair near Wilming ton. Millie died first and the other within a few hours. The twins, who were colored, had two heads and two sets of lower ex tremities but had, the same body. They had been exhibited all over the world. They were born in slavery and were sold for $40,000. WHERE BULGARIA'S WARLIKE DEPUTIES MEET I i , in.j 1H 3S . t rf * . 112 j^- •r - life. '| '*jjk This is the liall in Sofia in which the Bulgarian chamber of deputies is holding sessions and determining on the country's course of action during the Balkan crisis. "RIG JACK" ZELIG, GUNMAN, KILLED Rosenthal Murder Witness Slain on Eve of Eecker Trial BOWERY BUM THE ASSASSIN Notorious Leader of Thugs Had Prom ised District Attorney Whitman to Corroborate "Jack" Rose's Story of Plot to Kill Rosenthal. New York.—"Big Jack" Zelig, the most notorious gunman, gang leader pickpocket in the city, was shot and killed at Fourteenth street and Second avenue by Philip Davidson, a Bowery drifter. Davidson had an en counter with Zelig a few hours previ ous, in which, Davidson says, Zelig blackjacked him and took s4' JO from him. The killing of Zelig was David son's revenge. On Zelig's person were found many memoranda and several letters dealing with the Rosenthal murder. Among the letters were four, one from each of the men now in the Tombs indicted for the actual murder of Herman Rosenthal—"Gyp the Blood" Horowitz. "Lefty Louie" Rosenberg, "Whitey Jack" Lewis und "Dago Frank" Ciro lici. These letters contain no reference to Lieut. BecKer, nor is Herman Ros enthal's name mtnuoneu. uut through out them there runs a tone of confi fidence in Zelig's plans to get the four free of the charge of murder, and in every one is a promise that they will soon have freedom and will be in Zelig's company. All the letters are written in a spirit of camaraderie. The letters indicate an even closer intimacy between Zelig and the four murderers than had been suspected. The killing of Zelig on the eve of the trial of Lieut. Becker for the mur der of Herman Rosenthal may lead to undreamed of developments, though there was every indication that behind the murder of Zelig there was nothing more than the personal revenge of Davidson. Zeliz had promised District Attor ney Whitman that he would testify that Jack Rose said that he went to Zelig, at Becker's request, to get the gunmen to kill Rosenthal. Zelig would not have admitted that he had rounded up the murderers, but his testimony in the opinion of the District Attorney was essential corro boration of a part of Rose's story in criminating Becker, which was in great need of corroboration. The death of Zelig also means that the case against Policemen James C. White and John C. Steinert, two of Becker's old strong arm squad, now under indictment for oppression and perjury in causing the arrest of Zelig for carrying concealed weapons and swearing to the falsehood that he had a pistol in his pocket, will have to be dismissed. Another result of the death of Zelig which interested officials and under world alike is that the SIO,OOO put. up for Zelig's bail on the Steinert-While charge will be released. THOMAS J. RYAN, A SUICIDE. Pennsylvania Politician, Dreamland Stockholder, Involved Financially. Philadelphia. Thomas J. Ryan, member of the Donnelly-Ryan-Gufl'ey triumvirate, ended his life in his of fice in the Land Title & Trust Build ing by shooting himself Hyan was hopelessly Involved finan cially. A year ago Dreamland in New York burned down and that loss was sustained almost entirely by him. His creditors were considering plans for a trusteeship. NICARAGUANS KILL 4 MARINES I Leon Occupied by Americans. But Not Without Bloodshed REVOLT IS NEARLY SUBDUED Zeledon Was a Coward—Revolutionary General Flees from Battle and Slays Women in Order to Keep Destination Secret. Washington.—A dispatch from San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, received here reports that, contrary to first Reports, the town of Leon was not ! taken without bloodshed. On Sunday, when the American ma rines and bluejackets under Lieuten ant Colonel Long marched into the j city of Leon to take possession, they | were met in the streets by an irre j sponsible mob, who opened fire. Three ; Americans were killed and four wounded. The marines returned the ) fire, killing fifty of the mob and : wounding forty. The others were j driven out of town. Chinandega is the capital of the department of the same name, lying : about twenty-four miles northwest of Leon. Both towns have been in the hands of the insurgents for weeks past and the residents of both places have suffered much distress. Additional advices showing the treachery and qowirdice of General Zeledon, who was killed while fleeing from Barranca shortly before the bat tle in which the rebels were routed and four American marines killed, were received by the State Depart ment. It was reported that one of the rebel office-s who was captured while fleeing with Zeledon declared I hut the latter killed three women in cold blood soon after he departed from Masaya, in order that they might not carry back news of his movements. Minister Weitzel reported t'.iat refu gees say that after Zeledon urged his men in the Barranca hills to resist any j attack to the end he fled first to Masaya and took shelter in a church, and then left the city at the first sign of the battle at Barranca. The rebels hoisted a white flag from the dim oh, but when three federal officers, in cluding Colonel Alberto Chamorro, ap proached to accept the supposed sur render they opened fire on them. BAR 500 I. W. W. AT LAWRENCE. Mills Discharge Intimidators of Other Employes During Textile Strike. Lawrence, Mass.—With the excep ; tion of 500 all the 30,000 textile oper atives in this city resumed work in I the woolen and cotton mills. The force of the Ettor-Giovannitti "pro test" strike has spent itself and mill officials look for no more trouble for a while at least. The 500 employes barred from the mills were I. W. W. agitators. MAZA GETS 30 MONTHS. Cuban Ssntenjed for Assault on United States Diplomat. Havana. —Enrique Maza, a Cuban newspaper man. who recently assault led Hugh S. Gibson, the American ' charge d'affaires, was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment, i This is not the most extreme penal ty under the Cuban law, but was con sidered by the court as a fair equiva lent of the penalty for the same of i fence in the United States. WAR DECLARED RY MONTENEGRO Troops Cross Frontier and At tack Turkish Towns BIG MASSACRE IS REPORTED Powers Now Fear Peace Efforts Are Frustrated —Turks Fight Ail- Night Battle With Malissori Tribesmen. London. —Montenegro has declared war against Turkey, and it is expected Servia, Bulgaria and Greece will make a similar declaration as soon as their ar lilies can be mobilized. Montenegrin troops crossed the frontier at once and surroSnded Berana, where one detachment was annihilated by the Turks. There was skirmishing on the Servian border a«d encounters between Turks and Greeks near Diskata. Bulgarians ex changed shots with Turks near Djum bala. One million men are facing each other on the Turkish-Balkan States frontier. It is predicted that the first great battle, probably, at Adrianople will be as bloody and decisive as the battle of Mukden. King Nicholas of Montenegro and Prince Mirko left Cettinje for the front as guns roared and bells pealed. European diplomats are bending every effort to prevent the spreading of the war flames to the great pow ers. Greek vessels recently seized by the Turks are being loaded with troops at Constantinople. A dispatch to the Neues Wiener Tageblatt from Oltenitza, Roumania, reports a massacre of Turks by Bul garians at Turturkala, Bulgaria. Ac cording to the despatch, agitators from Hustchutt inflamed local Bui gars and these, in the dead of night, attacked the Turkish residents of the town, slaying all but a few who es caped across the border to Oltenitza. Eye witnesses are quoted as saying that the police shared in the slaughter and pillage. On the next morning, the despatch states, the streets of the Turkish quar ter were lined with piles of corpses, among them the bodte i of women and children. Should the unexpected come about and Greece, Servia end Bulgaria de cline to join Montenegro in a declara tion of war, tile hostilities would not be likely to be serious to Turkey ex vept as she assumed the offensive and invaded the mountain State. The Montenegrins have a fighting reputa tion when they can ao battle in their own mountain and a guerilla warfare tnere would cost Turkey dear. Out side of their own country the Monte negrins, it is thought here, ao-e too few in numbers to be dangeriu* to a power of the size of Turkey, unless the little State can get the help of her neigh bors. That such a thing can happen as that she will be ictt to fight alone seems very doubtful, however. ROCK ISLAND TRAIN HELD UP. Robberi; Dynamite Express Safes and Then Escape. Fort Smith, Ark—A westbound Rock Island passenger train was held up and the express and mail cars were robbed near Howe, Okla. Safes in the express car were dyna mited, but the amount of booty taken has not been learned. Passengers were not molested. Howe is 25 miles south of Poteau. where a Kansas City Southern train was held up several days ago. GRAFT BILLS FORCITY RULE Relief for All Third-class Cities From Burdensome Government PARTISANSHIP IS AVOIDED Initiative and Referendum Favored; Recall and Civil Service Knocked Out—Meeting of Allied Civic Bodies Committee. (Special Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg.—Enactment of a law which will allow the third-class cities of the State to adopt the commission form of government if they desire was urged at a meeting of the Allied Civic Bodies Committee, representing the third-class cities and larger bor oughs of the State. The committee will frame a bill to be submitted to the next General Assembly, calling for a commission form of government with a council of five each man to be head of a department. Council men are to be elected at large for two-year term's, and a non partisan ballot will be used if the bill goes through. The bill will embody the initiative and referendum, but the proposition to in sert the recall was defeated by a vote of 29 to 24 after a long discussion. Civil service also was eliminated from the bill, but changes in election and taxation laws were recommended and it was stated that a bill would bo pre pared to refund three-fourths of the taxes paid to the State by public util ities companies to municipalities in which they operate. Representatives of practically every third-class city in the State and of most of the larger boroughs heard the discussion and ad dresses by Ira W. Stratton, of Read ing; A. M. Fuller, of Meadville; \V. G. Fricklinger, of Erie; Manley O. Brown, of Meadville; George R. Wal lace, of Pittsburgh; Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of Philadelphia, and Richard S. Childs, of New York. Woodruff spoke on the needs of third-class cities, and Childs on the commission form of government, while Wallace cut lined the bills which are to be pre sented. The session closed with a general discussion of third-class city laws and their needs. Prisoners Do Not Run Away. Warden John Francies of the West ern penitentiary, told friends here while on a recent visit his ideas about handling men. The warden has a de tail of fifteen men working on the farm, as he calls the State's planta tion in Center county .where the new institution is to be erected. These fifteen men are working every day and more are to be added. One of the per sons to whom the warden was talk ing asked about the possibility of the men get ig away. "Do you put a guard over them?" was asked. "Why a guard?" replied the warden. "I just tell those men togo to work. They go out and work and return for meals and sleep. If anyone should go away, he will be caught and it will be his loss. I have not had anyone try to get away yet." Duty to Be Assessed. The Dauphin County Court, with Judge Kunkel and Judge McCarrell on the bench, decided in the contest brought by Democrats to have the names of unassessed voters placed on the assessors' lists that it is the duty of every voter to see that he is as sessed. Thomas C. Egenrieder brought the case to compel the assessor to place his name on the list, and said he did not know he had not been as sessed until two weeks after the last day for being assessed. The court in timated that the registration laws are somewhat conflicting, but that as far as this city is concerned the assessors are charged with no duties concerning the voters' list. The case was brought as a test case, as there afe several thousand unassessed persons in the city. Would Protect Buck Deer. Buck deer are scarce in Pennsyl vania and the State Game Commission is being urged by hunters and persons interested in game preservation to recommend to the Legislature a closed season for all deer. Numerous letters on the subject are being received at the office of the commission, and some of the writers suggest that the killing of deer be stopped from five to ten years. The killing of does and fawns Is not prohibited. Philadelphia Milk Tainted? The State Live Stock Sanitary Board has placed the herd and prem ises of Harvey Smedley, near West Chester, under quarantine, some of the cows of the herd being affected with tuberculosis. Until the quaran tine was established the milk was be ing shipped to Philadelphia. Defaulter Disappears. John B. Suavely, former postm«ter at Enhaut, a village near here, under bail for trial in the United States Court for embezzlement of $llOO of post office funds, disappeared from home. He left a note for his wife, saying he could not bear the disgrace, and she would never see him again. He also left a note for his mother, telling her how the shortage might be made good out of his insurance money. Snavely was arrested recently by Post Office Inspector H. E. Lucas.