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.
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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
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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
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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.
<le was to been tried this month.