REPUBLICAN NEWS-ITEM Published by O. P. DAUBERMAN, Lease* LAPORTE PA. Nobody ib ever hurt when an air meet is postponed. The pigskin and the oyster go hand In hand, so to speak. Smaller currency will compel our leading counterfeiter to revise their dies. The motorcycle has proved deadly enough to suit the most exacting "lov ers of sport." Chicago has a "kissing burglar," but, girls, he Is not even passably j good looking. Humanity is assured of a ripe old j age If we can keep our scientists ! trcm dying young. A New York inventor is building an aeroplane with 18 wings. Hope he'll arrange them so they won't Interfere. Explorers in New Mexico recently have found a prehistoric flat, but even the Janitor had become extinct. It is carrying the humanitarian : movement quite too far when bandits try to chloroform their victims. One desirable step in that proposed *ar of phthisis would be the amputa tion of the superfluous consonants. Men may become too blase to buy tickets to an aviation meet and yet grow excited over a casual dog fight. Aviators are not the only people ■who deliberately take chances. There are many amateur mushroom gather ers. There is this to say for marriage: Those who have had experience with it are always willing to give it another trial. Cincinnati woman declares she has discovered a man without a fault. Wait till they've been married ten years. While fashion has decreed that wo men's hats shall be smaller this win ter, the prices still remain disgraceful ly obese. Philadelphia is to have women cash iers on street cars. Now we see where the "move forward, please," never can be enforced. A Chicago court bailiff, named Hunter, Berved 13,014 writs and trav eled 127,952 miles in two months. Some hunter. Pueblo Indians of the fifteenth cen tury are discovered to have danced the "grizzly bear." Yes, and where are they now? A German visitor here says that there are no trusts in Germany, only syndicates. There Is much in the power of words. When a baseball player dies of heart disease after years of service in the big leagues no man can consider himself exempt. Father is a pretty good fellow when It comes to paying the bills, but some times he doesn't get any credit, even In his own home. It Is reported that an earthquake was recently felt at Reno. Hut It doesn't seem possible that anything could shock Reno. The craving for wealth still rages In the breast of the humble but beau tiful chorus girl. One has just eloped with an iceman. A Gotham policeman had his pocket picked on a street car. The pickpock ets are evidently going where they think the money is. Why should the men be blamed for not giving up their Beats in street cars when the women prefer to wear stand ing-room-only skirts? Piano makers in several states are threatening a strike. And yet this Is « business which depends for its :ery existence on harmony. An abnormality has been discovered, that of a woman who is talking her self to death. As a general rule a husband is the victim. Now It 1b announced that ITncle Sam is going to make money small er Wonder if it will cause a de preciation in salaries? A telephone system is to be ln utalled in the Pennsylvania peniten tiary for the convenience of Its in mates. Possibly a palm garden with the usual musical and liquid acces- ; lories will be the next Improvement. There is no indignation apparent over the charge that the American women have larger feet than of yore. There Is no plnched-ln effects about the modern progressive woman, de spite the attempted slavery of the hob ble. She Is expanding That nameless but distinguished physician of Seneva who thinks that I too much sleep is as bad as too much food will arouse only academic inter tst by his discovery. Most uf us are to busy getting food that we have no ttma to torn oursalvaa with slaas BULGARS TAKE KIRKKILISSE Key to Adrianople Falls to In vaders After Heavy Fight TURKS KILL MANY GREEKS Battery of Quick-Firing Guns Left on Field by Defeated Troops—Montene gro's Ruler Joins the Forces Com manded by His Three Sonß. | The four Kings of the allied | Balkan States that are fighting the Turks are now directing all j operations from the several fields. King George of Greece is be fore Servia, the Turkish town cap tured. King Nicholas of Montenegro is directing the southern forces of his country. King Peter of Servia heads the force that has swept the Otto- ] mans out of control of the north western Turkish frontier. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria directed the fighting that resulted In the capture of Kirk Kilisse, the key to Adrianople. Sofia, Bulgaria. The Bulgarian army, which for several days, un der the personal supervision of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, had been press ing the Turkish lines guarding the api proaches to Adrianople, won a great victory by capturing Kirk Kilisse. This town, strongly fortified, was regarded as the key to Adrianople. The battle was the bloodiest that has been fought in eastern Turkey since the war began. The force of i Bulgarians was part of the army of 50,000 that has been trying to capture Adrianople. It was estimated that 70,- 000 Turks were spread over the coun try from that city to Kirk Kilisse. Inspired to greater effort by the vie- I tories of the last faw days, the Bulgari- j ans showed reckless courage in the J battle. In defiance of the heavy guns j of the Turkish forts, they rushed for ward and easily swept aside or killed the outlying defensive forces. The cannon of the Turks sometimes mowed down the Bulgarians by the dozen, but more damage was done by the infantry fire, as the Bulgarians had to move across open country. In the trenches of the outer works, the ! fighting was hand to hand. Occasional- j ly groups of Turks were trapped in j the pits and killed by volleys from the i victorious invaders. For several days the Bulgarian forces had been directing all their strength against Kirk Kilisse (Forty Churches). Both sides fought with great determination, realizing the im portance of the position. It was the headquarters of the Turkish Third army corps, commanded by Kenaan Pasha. Its garrison of 5,000, including two generals, surrendered to the IJul- j garians, and another force of Turks that had been sent to aid the garrison was driven to flight. -Heavy losses were suffered by both sides all along the line to Kirk Kilisse. At last the Turkish garrison, real izing its dangerous position, attempted a sortie from the northeastern quar ter of the town. For more than an hour there was hot fighting a short dis tance in front of the Turkish fortifica tions, and then the defenders were forced back within the walls. They left twelve cannon on the field. Strengthening their positions over night, the Bulgarians made a general advance in the morning. Their forces had been so distributed that the town was surrounded and there was no chance of the garrison escaping. For several hours the fighting raged around the Turkish fortifications, and finally a Bulgarian division captured one of the redoubts. News of that vic tory was spread along the Bulgarian line, encouraging the attacking army to greater effort. At 11 o'clock the town was surrend ered. Part of the Turkish force that had been sent to reinforce the garri son encountered the attacking force and WHS routed in a sharp battle out side the city. That force retired in disorder to Bunarbissar, fourteen miles to the southeast, leaving on the field a battery of quick-firing guns, six teen ammunition wagons and largo quantities of ammunition and food. The Greek army, commanded by the Crown Prince, captured the Turkish town of Servia. The Turks, before evacuating the town, massacred the Greek inhabitants. The King and Queen of Greece have gone to the front. It was announced TWicially at Bel grade that the Servian forces have occupied five towns, including Kuma i nova, a short distance from Uskub. j The Turkish batteries around Kumano- I va were annihilated in the three days' fighting. The Montenegrin troops have occu pied the height of Cliirki. dominating the city of Scutari. From Constantinople comes an ad mission of the defeat of the Turkish forces near Kirk Kilisse. but all oth er claims of victory by the allies are ! denied. There was the wildest sort of a cele bration in Sofia when news of the cap ture of Kirk Kilisse was announced. There were thanksgiving services in the churches and the streets were Jammed, with the Jubilant populace carrying the flags of the alile ß and singing the national anthem. WATCHING HIS MONEY BURN \MICAGO AMERICA*. WARN MEXICO TO KEEP PORT OPEN United States Takes Step to Safeguard Americans TAMPICO AS A SAFE EXIT Rebels Capture Eastern Seaport— Soldiers Go Over to Diaz and He is ! Ready for Battle Communica tions with Coast City Kept Clear. Washington.—Viewing the Diaz in eurrection on the Gulf coast of Mexi co as by far the most serious move ment against the Madero government i that has yet appeared, the United j States Government took precautions to ! insure the safety of Americans in southern Mexico. The Mexican Government was in- ' formed through the American Embas- 1 sy at Mexico city that the United States will insist upon communica- j tions between the capital and the port j of Tanipico on the east coast being j kept open regardless of circumstances. | This precautionary measure has j been adopted for the purpose of mak- j ing it certain that Americans in south- j ern Mexico will have a means of exit j if they Jind it desirable to leave the j country should the situation become j more menacing. It is also for the j purpose of insuring communication between Washington and Mexico City, j Vera Cruz, Mexico. —The Twenty first battalion of Federal soldiers, in command of Fort Uluoa, in the harbor here, has gone over to Felix Diaz. Dur ing one day 200 men deserted from the regiments commanded by Generals Bel trail and Valdez outside the city, and it is not by any means certain that the other soldiers here now nominally loyal to Madero will fight if asked to do so by General Beltran. In twenty-four hours 1,000 seasoned fighters have joined Diaz. Volunteers are coming in by dozens. The new rebel leader is not in a hurry to fight, but says he will move on Mexico City. NURSE GIVES FATAL DOSE. Young Woman Unbalanced When Told Patient is Dead. Yonkers, N. Y. —Through the mis take of a nurse, Mrs. Alice Haight, 27 years old, who three days before had given birth to a boy, swallowed a dose of oxalic acid that killed her in ten minutes in the Homoeopathic Hospital in Yonkers. Florence Harris, the nurse, who had prepared the dose in the belief that the poison was epsom salts, was thrown into convulsions by the patient's death, and soon after ward lost her reason. Physicians said she will be insane permanently. KNOX TO QUIT ON MARCH 4. Secretary to Leave Political Life No Matter Who Wins Election. Pittsburgh.—ln an inspired state ment the Pittsburgh Dispatch for many years the organ of Secretary Knox, announces his determination to retire from public life on March 4 next, lo matter what the result of the pending elections. BRIEFS IN NEWSPAPER TEST. New York Publishers Want Appeals Contesting Publicity Law Advanced. Washington.--Briefs in the newspa-' per test case of the new |>ostal law have been lilt d in the United States Supreme t'ourt. This action Is in sup port of motions to advance the hear ing of the New York newspaper ap peals contesting the contesting the constitutionality of the publicity act requiring daily newspapers to print statements of their circulation and [ ownership U.S. AND CHICAGO FIGHT PUGILIST Federal and City Authorities Investigate Jack Johnson IS ACCUSED OF ABDUCTION Finishing Blow When Mcintosh Carv eels Fight—"lt's Good Night for the Champion," Say Sporting Men—License Under Fire. Chicago.—The Federal authorities | "got after" Jack Johnson, the city au ! thorities began looking up his "black ! and-tan" resort, the Cat'e de Cham ! pion, the women leaders in reform 1 movements threatened to start a cru sade to put the black pugilist out of , business, and as a finishing blow he received notice that Hugh Mcintosh would not stage his tights with Lang ford and McVey in Australia, from | which he had counted on cleaning up i at least $50,000 this winter. Altogether it was a bad day for 1 Johnson and the prediction was freely made that his hour had struck, both ! as champion pugilist and as an offen i der against the good morals of an out raged city. ' The Federal authorities got busy when Deputy United States Marshals ! and agents of Department of Justice i invaded the Cafe de Champion and served employes of the place with sub poenas to appear before the Federal Grand Jury, which is investigating charges that the negro pugilist had abducted Lucille Cameron, a white girl. Twenty-five subpoenas in all were served in various parts of the city. Prominent club women all over the city joined in condemning not only Jack. Johnson, but his cafe and the fact that it is permitted to keep its doors open, in the face of the present storm of public indignation. James S. Mclnerney, the City Prose cutor, declared that Johnson would have to answer live charges in munici pal courts for illegal operation of his saloon. Johnson was in conference with friends concerning the cancella tion of the Australia fights. Hugh Mc intosh, as the sporting world knows, conceived the idea of a series of fights in Australia In which Johnson was to star, and sent an agent, W. W. Kelly, to Chicago to offer Johnson contracts calling for $50,000 for a series of en gagements with Sam Langford and Sam McVey or Joe Jeannette. Mcintosh wired Kelly to drop all negotiations with Johnson, explaining that Johnson's role as the alleged ab ductor of Lucille Cameron has so an gered the sporting public in Australia as to make the black pugilist a doubt ful attraction, even though he is the champion of the world. Golden Raps I. W. W. Leaders. Hoston. —That some of the Industrial Workers of the World leaders, reaped a rich harvest and are living in "riot ous debauchery" while thousands of persons are suffering at Lawrence was the declaration of President Golden, at the convention of the United Textilt Workers of America. LOOKING TO DIAZ. Mexico Awaits Next Successful Move of Rebel General. Washington, if Gen. Felix Diaz has the strengtli and the genius to follow up the advantage he has already gain ed from the blow struck at Vera Crua all Mexico is his. This is the conclusion reached here after a period of official dispatches from all points within the present lone of the insurrection being led by the nephew of the exiled former Presi dent. BECKER GUILTY OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREF Jurors Find New York Police Lieutenant Caused Death of Rosenthal PRISONER CALM AS HE HEARS REStJLT OF TRIAL Prisoner Denounces Charge of Court to Jury as Unfair, and Wife Joins Him in Attacking Bench for Its Instructions to the Jury. New York. —Lieut. Charles Becker of the New York police force, charged with directing the' assassination ot Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, was convicted of murder in the first de gree on the stroke of midnight. Jury was out seven hours and fifty-seven minutes. When the jury came in Becker was called to the bar and in a few mo mentis heard Foreman Harold B. Skin ner pronounce the verdict. Becker listened with composure and after the usual perfunctory motions by counsel he was remanded to the Tombs for sentence. There was never any question in the minds of the jurors as to the guilt of the accused man. The degree of his i guilt, was all that caused doubt. On | the first ballot the vote stood eight to I four for a verdict of murder in the ! first degree. It was there that the contention i arose. In th«' minds of the four who i were holding out for a second degree | verdict there was doubt as to the | strength that was to be given to the i testimony of Sam Schepps, and the | testimony taken in Hot Springs, Ark. Then another ballot was taken, wnicli showed twcj converts to the first J degree verdict, the jury then standing ten to two. Almost two hours more \ of argument followed, and then came the agreement. Justice Goft's charge was a shock to j the defense, in effect, it expressed a | doubt that Jack Hose could have in [ vented such a story as he told against i Lieutenant Becker, and that there was no evidence to show that Sam Schepps j was an accomplice. The justice was particular in in structing the jury that Becker was not called upon to prove his inno cence, and that if there was u reason able doubt of his guilt the verdict 1 must be acquittal. But the features of his long address were his statement } that the jury must take into consider- I atiou whether Hose was capable of j weaving such a story as would with- I stand seven hours of cross-examina- I tion and the statement that there was ! so much of a doubt in his mind as to j whether Schepps was an accomplice I that he would refuse to link Schepps i with Rose, VallOn and Webber, the | undoubted accomplices. In dwelling on these main points of the case, Justice Uoff said concerning Rose: "To a large extent, you will depend ! in your rendering of a verdict 011 the truth or falsity of Rose's testimony. You must use your own personal im pressions as to whether he should be I given full credence or not. You must j also take into consideration his de- I meanor, whether it was friendly or j hostile; consider his frankness or I suppression; the consistency of his narrative and Iris ability to withstand | the rigid and thorough cross-examina j tion. Then, too, you must consider ! his surroundings, his life, his compan-' j ions and his business. And you have the right to ask yourselves whether his story is true or not. In this con nection you must consider whether : his mental faculty is capable of weav ! ing such a story. If you do not be | lieve the testimony of Jack Rose, if you do not accept it as the truth, you must acquit the defendant." In connection with Schepps, Justice Goft' had this to say: "There is a question about Schepps being an accomplice. 1 must say that j I am in doubt. 1 decline, as a matter I of law, to instruct you that he was an j accomplice. 1 don't find any testi i mony that would justify a judge as a j matter of law In saying that Schepps j was a co-conspirator. Being an ac | cessory after the fact cannot make him a principal in the crime." Lieutenant Becker and his lawyers | furiously denounced the charge as un | fair and as a virtual direction to the : Jury to convict the defendant. After ! tfie justice and the jury left the court room Becker stood up in court and said loudly: "That charge was absolutely unfair. U was one-sided. It was not a charge but a summing-up for the State. He might as well have told the jury to find me guilty." In answer to many questions, Mr. Whitman said: "We shall go ahead with the prose cution of the remainder of the Rosen thal murderers as rapidly as possible. I The gunmen, "(!yp the Blood," "Whit ey Lewis," "Dago Frank" and "Lefty Louie" have applied for separata trials. I'nder the law the request must be granted. "1 will move for a special panel of veniremen from which the jury for the first of these trials may be select ed on the first opportunity. It has not been decided which of the gunmen will be tried first." FOUR AUTOISTS MURDER WOMAN i Chauffeur Rushes Posse in Pur suit and Three Are Caught COSTLY GEMS UNDISTURBED All Are New Yorkers—Deny Knowing Woman, Who Was of Attractive Appearance, but Came from a Disorderly House. Stratford, Conn. —Following a night ride through the country roads be tween Bridgeport and Peck's Mills in an automobile, four men and a woman, known as Hose White, of Bridgeport, alighted in the road near the last named place and ordered the chauf feur of the car to drive back to Bridgeport. When he had gone a hun dred yards he heard five revolver Bhots in the rear. .Looking backward, he saw the four men surrounding the woman and firing at her. The woman had fallen in the middle of the road. The men then ran into the shrubbery at the side of the road and disappeared. William Hall, driver of the car, see ing the woman had been murdered, at once put on full speed and drove to Stratford, near the scene of the mur der. Here he aroused Chief of Police Judson, who at once sumtnohed his aids and departed for the spot in Hall's j automobile. After scouring about the wooded countryside for more than an hour Judson and his deputies overtook the men, who were traveling in pairs. The men showed Bigns of fight and ex changed shots with the police. Jud- I son captured two of the men and his | deputies got a third. The fourth man | got away. The prisoners, who are evidently foreigners, would make no statement about the murder. They would only say that, they came from New York, and that they knew nothing of the woman. They gave their names as | "Joe" Buonna, Joseph Mottes and 1 Frank Prizzichenl. From Hall it was learned that he | had been hired by the men at Bridge port. They told him to drive along Water street When they reached an alleged disorderly house on that street, they alighted, went inside, and came out with the woman, who seem ed willing to accompany them. Hall was then told to drive to Stratford. Throughout the trip the men and their woman companion appeared in the best of spirits, and drank plentiful ly of champagne, which one of the men had with him in a suitcase. When j the road near Peck's Mills was reach i ed one of the men told Hall to turn j the car around and drive back, The | next minute Hall heard the shots and | saw the woman fall. The woman's body was taken to j Stratford in Hail's automobile, and ! placed in the morgue. She was ex- I pensively dressed and wore jewelry, | but this had not been touched. The \ woman was about thirty years old, and I of attractive appearance. ROOSEVELT GETS HOME. Stands the Journey Well, and Only Needs Rest. 'Oyster Bay, L. I. —Theodore Roose velt reached home as happy as a boy. Smiling and unassisted he walked | from the private car which had I brought him from Chicago to the W. ! Kmlen lioosevelt limousine awaiting him at Syosset, and with a waved greeting to the few who attended his unexpected arrival was borne swiftly across the intervening four miles to Sagamore Hill. He lies comfortably in his upstairs room to which he ascended with only slight assistance. All four of the doc tors who escorted him hither and the nurses have been dismissed for the time being at his order. And the guard of six men placed at the Saga more Hill entrance was likewise re moved. Nothing about the residence of the ex-President indicated that all was not as usual. He needs only a brief rest to be himself again. BAYONETS END HORSE RACING. Gov. Marshall Orders Militia Out to Suppress Gambling. Mineral Springs, lnd. —Racing and race track gambling came to a sudden termination here when two companies of state militia swooped down on the track and with fixed bayonets drove racing officials, jockeys, horses, their owners and speculators from the course. The two companies were or dered out by Governor Marshall, who is in California, by telegraph, follow- I ing representations that the county j officials had failed to suppress the race track gambling. The soldiers | camped on the racetrack. VOTING MACHINES BARRED. Illinois Supreme Court Decides Against Mechanical Ballot. Springfield. 111.- The State Supreme Court decided that the voting ma chines shall not be used tn the voting precincts In Chicago at the November election. The mandamus was issued after an experiment in the Supreme Court room in which 12 men voted by ma chine to show the speed. The law al lows only one minute for the voter to CttKt his tut! Ist.
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