REPUBLICAN MEWS-ITEM Published by C. B. DAUBEftMAN, Lena* LAPORTE PA- There appears to have been a bump er crop of fuzzy hats. Sunday sport still continues to «• act toll in human lives. It Is a wonder that nobody thought of clean money long ago. The country is safe in spite of the dire predictions of certain politicians. It Is possible to be a perfect dare devil in an aeroplane, but what is the use? If it were not for politics a lot of young lawyers would find existence dreary. What has become of the old fash ioned joint debate between leading candidate? Some plutocrat should offer a prize for the encouragement of longevity among aviators. Not only does it hurt an oyster to be eaten alive, as Doc Wiley says, but It cannot talk back. Women's dresses, we are told, are to be tighter. Gracious heaven! Can such a thing be possible? Artificial rubber is said by an ex pert to be a failure —not able to stretch a point—so to speak. After a while perhaps Americans "*lll learn to utilize their housetops us well as their sleeping porches. Even If abstaining from gossip will not remove superfluous hairs It will leave a sweeter taste In the mouth. It Is a sad world. You escape a scorching automobile by the skin of your teeth, only to run into a candi date. After all, It is only fair to attempt to make a man of a monkey, since so many monkeys have been made of men. 112 Once more the last of the pas senger pigeons has died. That bird will accomplish that feat once too often some day. Now it Is explained why the small boy and the tramp are so healthy. A Boston physician says that soap Is a carrier of diseases. The dear little boys in the kinder gartens may be shy on some branches of useless knowledge, but they are learning to sew nicely. It Is hardly reasonable to suppose that all the police in New York are bad, but the bad ones are most In Mie limelight Just now. The New York milkman who of fered to accept kisses in pay for his wares must have been dispensing the oiilk of human kindness. This is a grand year for fruits, but certain well-known gentlemen with cravings for office will remember it because of its sour grapes. Toadstools caused the death of thir teen persons in Paris during the last peason. Another proof of the unluck- Iness of the number thirteen. Despite all predictions of an early hard winter, it can be regarded as certain that navigation up Salt river will remain open until after Novem se-r 5. Harvard surgeons have Installed a device that records heartbeats at hun dreds of miles. Pooh! The ordinary love letter has been doing that for aeons. Why would It not be a good Idea for some one to seek to develop the commercial utility of the aeroplane rather than to display its circus pos sibilities? "Lots of Americans are fools." says the Charleston (S. C.) News and Cour ier. This may be true, but the for eigner who says it is going to get in to trouble. People who insist on dancing the "grizzly bear" even when there Is danger of being shot for doing so may be said to have enthusiasm that is worthy of a better cause. A Chicago man, struck by lightning.' ■was cured of his rheumatism for 24 hours. The method may be all right, but the difficulty of making it prac tical comes in securing your bolts on schedule. California scientists are endeavor ing to find out whether the sun is nrrowing cold. This is the time of year when people who desire to make ■uch a discovery are most likely to be successful. New Zealand has Introduced a let ter meter by which mail Is registered and paid for without the use of stamps. Must be rather inconveni ent for each individual to have to lug a letter meter around. A Waukegan lady who has tried one reports that old bachelors do not make good husbands, because they are too firmly "set" In their ways. This only proves the correctness ol the theory that the lf.dy who expect* to have a satisfactory husband must tatch him aad train aim early. BULLET BROKE ROOSEVELT'S RIB Chemist Discovers No Trace of Poison on Cartridges MRS. ROOSEVELT AT BEDSIDF A New X-Ray Photo Definitely Locates Bullet in a Fracture of the Fourth Rib About Four Inches From the Sternum. Chicago.—After a bedside consulta tion among Colonel Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Dr. John B. Murphy and Dr. Arthur D. Bevan, it was decided that it was safe to remove the wound ed ex-President to his home at Oyster Bay. He cannot, however, unless every present indication tails, return to any active part in the Presidential campaign. Schrank's bullet fractured Mr. Roosevelt's fourth rib on the right side, immediately above which it en tered and toward which it was de flected by the steel spectacle case which Roosevelt habitually carries in a right side pocket, and which was far more ot a factor in saving his lite; than the hundred pages ol' manuscript he chanced to be carrying there Mou •day night. The fractured rib, it was explained, had caused Mr. Rooseveii pain in his breathing. By the first X-ray plate the bullet is shown partly imbedded iu the fracture in the fourth rib about four inches from the sternum. The radiograph shows an extraordi nary spread and arch to the uninjured ribs, indicating the unusual fize ot the Colonel's lungs and development of his chest. While the X-ray photographs give the first definite location of the bullet, it is said that the fracture of the rib had been known to Col. Roosevelt's surgeons for the previous forty-eight hours. Until Mrs. Roosevelt's arrival, however, they kept their knowledge to themselves, and even the statement made to her was not allowed to become public until after a third X-ray photo graph of the patient's thoracic cavity had been taken. Until then the only ad mission the surgeons would make regarding any such injury was that that rib had been splintered, a very different state of affairs from thit at tending a' fracture Prof. R. E. W. Sommer, the Milwau kee analytical chemist who tested t'ut unfired bullets in Schrank's pistol, a* well as the empty shell, declared that .10 trace of poison existed. Schrank was asserted to be legally sane by the Milwaukee prosecutor, but alienists will examine him The assail ant will be tried after election. As Schrank possesses property, he will be required to engage his own counsel. Schrank had indicated that he would ask the Slate to supply one. Milwaukee. The decision that Schrank is sane was announced by District-Attorney Zabei wha, in a statement, says: "1 have 110 desire to interfere with the Presidential campaign of Mr. Roosevelt and for that reason will not cail the case for trial in the Municipal Court until after election. 1 believe that the assault in Milwaukee should not be an issue. For that reason I will not keep the matter alive by plac ing Schrank ou trial immediately. "On the other hand, Schrank is en titled to the full benefits of the law in the light of a defendant and must have time to prepare his case. He says ha is the owner of property valued at $25,000 and assessed at $16,000. He is in comfortable circumstances. Be cause of that fact he is in good posi tion to retain his own counsel. He is not ignorant of court procedure, eith er." KILLED FOR WISHING T. R. DEAD. Merchant Stabed When He Says Roosevelt Deserved Bullet. Pittsburgh.—Because he declared, in the presence of a crowd that Roose velt deserved the bullet he got James W. Colbeck. aged Is(>, a dry goods mer chant of 723 Frederick street, was killed by two men whom the police are seeking. Colbeck in a cafe heard a group of men discussing the shooting of Col. Roosevelt. He got into the discussion. "Well, anyhow," said Tony Breck, the bartender, "I'll bet that bullet puts him in the White House and that will be twice Teddy's been shot into the President's chair." "He deserved what he got, the said Colbeck. "It's too bad the bullet didn't finish him." Colbeck got a blow in the face that floored him. He arose and rushed at the man who struck him. Another man who Breck says was an Italian plunged a long knife into Colbeck. He died an hour later at the Ohio Valley Hospital. STORM HITS TEXAS COTTON. Unpicked Crop Badly Damaged by Wind and Heavy Rain. Austin. Tex. —Almost the whole area of Texas was deluged by continuous and heavy rains. Unpicked cotton was badly damaged but the benefits derived from breaking the prolonged drouth will be much greater than the losses which the rain inflicted. The storm extended along the coast from Corpus Christl to Brownsville, I about ITO miles and worked inland GREEK TROOPS READY FOR THE WAR . _____ , t^rwJUJ PKOTOS) BVUNDfKwOOO *WD U«tOtRWOOO The upper photograph shows the Crown Prince of Greece reviewing the efficient troops tha* may be sent out against the Turks. Below are seen Greek soldiers in the field handling machine guns. ROSE SAYS BECKER ORDERJEDMURBER Impassive Gambler Swears Lieutenant Gloated Over Body PROTECTION WAS PROMISED Regretted He Couldn't Cut His Tongue Out and Display It as a Warning to Others—Fear of Exposure Mo tive—Webber Head of Slayers. New York. —Lieut. Charles Becker, 011 trial before Justice Uoff in the especially convened extraordinary term of the Supreme Court for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, listen ed for more than three hours to an arraignment ot himself such at per haps 110 other man on trial for mur der or any other crime ever before was compelled to hear. Jacob ltoseii zweig. or Jack Hose, as he has c-aileu himself for twenty years, and "Billiard Hall Jack" as he is called behind his back, told a damning story of Becker's demand for the death of Rosenthal, which culminated when the gambler, his voice skillfully conveying hatred and vencjm. coupled wth the cold blooded satisfaction which must have accompanied such a statement, de clared: "Becker said: 'lt was pleasant for I me to look and to see that squealing there, and if it was not for the presence of Distict Attorney Whitman I would have reached down and cut his tongue out and hung it somewheres as a warning to future squealers.' " Because of the light in which it portrayed the accused Lieutenant, leaning gloatingly over the body of the dead Kosenthal in the back room | of the West Forty-seventh Street Po | lice Station, the declaration was a j smashing blow to the battlements of the defense. But. as a part of the long I tale which Rose told quietly, unerao- I tionally, and convincingly from the witness chair, the quotation was like | the shot of a single big gun. | It struck a single crushing blow be i neatli which Becker staggered, but it : was the myriad of lighter assaults, : dotting Rose's testimony like commas, ; which reduced the swathy, virile ex leader of the Strong Arm Squad to a | state bordering on physical collapse; a'collapse, however, in which the tre ! inendous will and mental powers of i the man were unaffected. Lieut. Becker presented a strange spectacle in court. Before the eyes of ttao throng that crowded the court room his face went through a multi tude of changes. It was as though the very composi tion of his face, its contour, the qual ity of his skin were passing in a few short minutes through the changes that should require years. He enter ed the room, smiling and unconcerned as he has aways been. His face, once ruddy, long ago lost his color in the close confinement of the tombs, but its glow has always been healthy. TURKS LOSE 300. Montenegrins Defeated Enemy In a Sharp Battle Near Scutari. London.—The latest news from the Montenegrin-Turkish frontier tells of a battle, near Chafbobotll, in the neighborhood of Scutari, in which the Turks were defeated with a loss of 300 in killed and wounded and some prisoners. The Montenegrin forces are divided into three armies, one surrounding Tusi, another at Scutari and the third pressing forward. 016 FiEET GREETS TAET President Reviews Two Long Rows of Fighting Machines GUESTS ON THE MAYFLOWER Ceremonies Start with a Review cf Ships by Secretary Meyer—Thou sands View Spectacle from Shore —Cabinet Men in the Party. New York. —America's fleet of 123 superdreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, battleshps and armored and un arinored cruisers and lesser craft, fighting ships which have cost the Na tion $324,000,000, was reviewed as it lay at anchor in the Hudson by the President of the United States, who for two hours stood oil the bridge oi the naval yacht Mayflower as it steam eu u and then down the column of ironclads The review \ u place n the afternoon and thousands thronged the Manhattan side of the river from Seventy-ninth street to Washington Heights to see it. The President's face beamed as his eye caught the trim officers and sailors who' manned the rails of the warships. As the Mayflower passed each ship ho lifted his hat in salute. From each ship as his yacht passed floated to him the strains of The Star Spangled Ban ner. This was followed by the thun dering Presidential salute of twenty one guns. Altogether 4,412 guns were fired in the l'esident's honor during ; the afternoon. The day, which will go down in navy annals as marking one of its greatest demonstrations in its history, began with a review of the fleet at an chor by Secretary Meyer. A salute by all the ships was also fired in his hon or. Never before was so much powder used in the history of this country in a peaceful function. In the review President Taft had as ! his guests on the Mayflower Mrs. Taft, Charles P. Taft, Henry W. Taft, Postmaster General Hitchcock, Attor ney General Wickersham, and Sena tor Penrose of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs. Four torpedo boats flanked her and kept the course clear. She steamed up the river at about eight knots an hour and as each war vessel was I passed the bluejackets manned the rails and the shipo bands played and the Presidential salute was fired. Hardfy had one vessel finished its salute before the next began. For more than two hours the President watched the long line of mighty war vessels pass to the rear. Then the smaller vessels and auxiliaries were reached. These made less noise and I smoke as they had no saluting guns. When the two tugs marking the north end of the line were reached the May flower turned southward and again steamed slowly past the vessels. There were nißre salutes until the Mayflower got back to her anchorage. DEFERS NEW EXPRESS RATES. Board to Complete Schedule of Re ductions Before Ordering Them. Washington. The express com panies have won the first round in their bou' with the Inter-State Com merce Commission over the commis sion's prospective order lowering ex press rates throughout the country. While the commission declined to per mit railway companies to intervene, i! I granted the protest of the express companies against putting the ne\ i lower rate into effect. DIES TO REACH WOUNDED OIRD Charge of Shot is Fired by Mishap Into His Heart MEETS WITH INSTANT DEATH Hunter Tries to Rescue Game From Water When Gun is Discharged— Accident Witnessed by the Victim's Half Brother. Darby.—»-Anxiety to capture a black bird which he had wounded, and which had fallen into Darby Creek below Moore's, cost the life of Fireman Wil liam T. Barrett, 37 years old, of No. 129 Marston street, Philadelphia. Bar rett, a diligent, enthusiastic hunter, had been gunning for birds along the creek a short time when he shot the fine blackbird in question. Crippled only in a wing, his game fell to the water and began half-swimming, half fluttering away. With one oar, hast ily grasped, the hunter vainly tried to paddle his skiff and overtake the es caping bird, when his half-brother, Marry J. Godshall, of No. 2217 South Seventeenth street, Philadelphia, call ed out to him from the bank: "Shoot your game again or you'll lose it:" Acting on this advice, Barrett reached for his gun, leaning muzzle toward him on the skiff seat. As he drew the cocked weapon toward him the trigger caught on the seat and the gun dis charged its load of birdshot in one solid mass into his heart, only seven or eight inches distant. He fell in tho boat, and it was evident that the shot had killed him instantly. Godshall and others got a skiff and rescued his boat in the creek, only to learn, when Deputy Coroner Charles H. Dewes, of Darby, took charge of the body, that death must have been irn ! mediate. Berks Teachers Meet. Reading.—The 18tli Round Table Conference of the Grammar and High School Teachers of Berks County was held here, with about 100 teachers in attendance. Samuel 1. Henry, of Wyomissing, president of the asso ciation, presided. It. E. Rocky, of j Philadelphia, made an address on "The Chestnut Blight." Rose M. R. Fetherolf of Harrisburg, and Prof. W. W. Deatrick, of the Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, also ad dressed the conference. The Read ing City Teachers' Institute was held in the Boys' High School. Reed B. Teitrick, Deputy State Superintend ent, made an address on"The School j Code." Dr. Henry of the j Teachers' College, Columbia Univer | sity, spoke on 'The Dominant Prob lems of the High School." Miss Liz | zie I. McGowan. .Miss Araminta B. | Richards, Miss Mary S. Adams, Miss i Lillie V. Schoener and Miss Anna H. j Shearer also made addresses. Pittsburgh.—Peter Liebach has been j released from the County Home and | took up his residence in his shack on the top of the Madison avenue hill. Peter appeared at his old stand in the Allegheny Market House with bunches of peppermint, and says he was going to stick to this business. The police took the hermit to the poorhouse several days ago. when kindly-disposed persons said he was j starving and could not get enough to live on. The police visited his shack. They got a wagon and hauled to the i bank $26,000 in currency that Peter j had hidden in tubs, buckets and other j receptacles. In an old book were j found $5,000 in bank-notes. Jail for Liquor Peddlers. Mattch Chunk.—Because they ped | died liquor, Thomas Fedorack and Michael Metro, two Schuylkill county wholesale dealers, were fined 500 each and sentenced to the county prisou for three months by Judge Heydt. The Judge said they had a legal right to solicit orders and deliver them, but no right tv> come into this county and | peddle. Stabs l.ocked-in Caller. Ceniralia. —Finding the doors of his home locked, Milton Juko broke into the dwelling and found Michael Nicho | las there. In his je?lovs rage Juko 1 plunged a knife into Nicholas, inflict ing probably a fatal wound. Juko at tempted to escape to the mountains, but was overtaken by the police and I jailed. Kill Big Bear in Cornfield. Bloomsburg.—The first bear seen in Greenwood Valley in years, a 300- pounder, was Killed alter near-by farm ers had been summoned by 'phone to join in the chase. The bear was seen in a cornfield near the road, and W. W. Parker and Frank Parker shot it five times. Home and Savings Burn. Altoona. —Ever since her husband accidentaly shot and killed himself some years ago, Mrs. Clara Human has been saving money earned from washing and other hard work to buy a home. A month a,;o she and her three children took possession. While she was out working, varnish which a :>ainter was heating on the range ex ploded, he said, setting fire to the liouse, which was rutted. When Mrs Duncan came home she became hys erical. She was rendered penniless, .9 she carried no insurance. PRICES FORCE SALKOF QLEd State Has 235 More Licenses Than Last Year NOT TO RESEMBLE DUTTEC Effect of Recent Decisions of Superior Court Sustaining Courts of Schuyl kill and Northampton Counties — Colored Olio Off the Market. (Special Harrisburg Correspondence.) Harrisburg.—A' greater demand for oleomargarine in Pennsylvania is evi denced by an increased number of licenses, due to high prices of butter. Up to October 1, 1911, 857 licenses were issued by the Dairy and Food Department for the Bale of oleomar garine at wholesale, retail, hotel, res taurant and boarding houses, says Commissioner Foust. Up to October 1 of the present year the number in creased to 1092 In Philadelphia coun ty, when Commissioner Foust was ap pointed.in April, 1907, there were one wholesale and '.wo retail licenses. and 201 in the entire State. Up to Octo ber 1 of the present year 69 licenses had been issued to Philadelphia coun Railroad Commission has been callfed for a special n eeting on Octobei- 22 and the principal business will be consideration of the complaint against the coal charges of the Phila delphia and Reading Railway from the Schuylkill district to Phila delphia. This complaint was made by Hairy E Bellis and endorsed by a number of associations in Philadel phia. The commission plans to make a prompt inquiry, as the complaint >s specific and meets all requirements of the State officers.