Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-10


cratic party to call upon the country
to put them in power, so that they
may reduce the dangerous surplus
in the United States Treasury: That
is one of the few promises made by
it that was faithfully fulfilled, and,
in doing so, it also reduced the sur
plus of almost every citizen in the
Union. AS a suplus reducer and a
deficit creator that party has record
that can not be successfully assailed.
A peculiar circumstance connected
with the accidental death OF Joseph
Walterhouse, at Muncy, was related
Monday. WalterhOue saw Thomas
G. Swenk, the Western Union oper-
ator, receive a telegram from his,
Waltcrhouse's wife in Wilkes Barre,
addressed to his parents, telling them
she has heard that her husband was
dead and requesting to be told when
the funeral was to take place.
At this moment Waltcrhouse
heard freight train approaching,
and exclaiming that he was the live
liest corpse they ever saw, made a
grab for handle, missed it, fell and
was ground to pieces.
The Reporter Journal, Republican)
Of Towanda, has divulged the secret
of its great success to its brother pub
fishers of financial contraction by
publishing the following:
GA gentleman who is candidate
for political honors asks if the Re-
porter Journal will publish sketch
of his life in the interest of his cam
didacy. TO which we reply, that
we will be glad to do so-at the reg
ular advertising rates of the paper.
So plain a business proposition in
wolves no doubt in the mind of the
publisher and can have but one an
swer. Inasmuch as we have been
asked the same question by several
other candidates for Office Il few
words on the subject may not be out
of place at this time.
"The Reporter Journal is a news
paper whose object, primarily, is to
make a living for its publishers.
The publication of the news and
matters of general interest are incl
dental to that end. The publication
of matters calculated to advance per-
sonal interests or the private gain of
its readers or the public does not
come within the scope of this policy,
and all communications or articles of
this nature must be paid for. They
are clearly and properly a legitimate
soucre of revenue to the publisher
who does the work.
"The foregoing statement is made
for the benefit of large class of
persons who have very crude con-
ception of the functions of the news
paper and who seems to think that
it should do for nothing a work that
has a definite pecuniary value to
those for whom it is performed"
The NEWS ITEM will not attempt
to figure up the amount of this class
Of advertising and labor it has given
away. Were it now to be paid us in
one lump we would feel like con-
tributing $4,000 of it to the Nation
al campaign fund.
Judge Thompson, of the United
States District Court at Cincinnati,
has decided that the law does not re-
quire any revenue stamp to be fixed
to bonds of potaries public
A party Of pupils of the Vera Cruz
State Normal School will leave jail
apa, Mexico, to-day to visit Chicago,
New York, Philadelphia, Washington
and other cities.
"A Denver despatch says that it will
take two weeks and 100000 to re-
pair the damage to the roadbed of the
Colorado and Southern Railway in
Platte Canon by the recent floods
The converter and billet mills of the
Illinois Steel Company's plant at Joliet
are closed indefinitely, as the result of
the closing of the American Steel and
Wire Company mills. About $500
men are idle.
At Ysletta, Tex, Pablo Alvares, a
jealous lover, while attempting to
shoot his sweetheart, Miss Logan, ac-
cidentally wounded two young men,
The young lady is dead from the ef-
fects of shock.
The system of registering letters
by mail carriers was on Saturday ex-
tended to 1853 postoffices, and there
now remain less than 100 cities hav-
ing free delivery where this system
is not in operation.
1t is current talk in Yokohama that
10000 Japanese will leave their native
country this summer for British Col
umbia; and, it is believed, that the
coming to the United States
will be enormous
The wedding of His Imperial High
ness Crown Prince Yoshihto, of ia
pan, and Princess Sada Ko, daughter
of Prince Kujo, which is to take place
May 10, will be attended with great