Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-02-10

last week, the jury in the last case
being out all day Saturday, and
reached decision just before night
/ fall. The issue was between Reed
Frutchey of Lopez and the supervi-
sors of Forkston township, the plain
tiff suing for $500 for damage to one
of his horses. Mr.. Frutchey was
hauling out props on tOrkston
Mountain when his team got into IA
bad place in the road, and in floun-
deriug around, one Of them was bad
ly cut on the leg Frntchey alleged
that the supervisors wcre negligent
in not Keeping the road in repair
and sufficiently free from snow to
make hauling safe. The defense
sought to prove that the horse was
not injured upon the highway at all,
but brought witnesses who stated
that they broke through and fell
down i'm the swamp whore the props
were hauled from, and that blood
appeared upon the snow in the field
between the swamp and the road.
After spending day in trying to
reach a q cision, the jury rendered a
verdict of SIS for the plaintiff.
The salient points of the decision
against the beef trust, IA stated by
the attorney general, are as follows:
First 1t prohibits the continuance
of combination to suppress eampe-
tition in the purchase of cattle for
slaughter. The branch of the in
junction rebounds to the benefit Of
cattlemen and farmers.
Second The injunction forbids
combinations to maintain uniform
prices in selling meats. This section
Of the injunction will more directly
affect the consumer.
Third fordids combination be-
tween parties to obtain discriminate
ry rates from the railroad compan-
les. This branch of the litigation
will be of benefit to the cattlemen
and consumers alike.
Wholesale competition and the
breaking up of artificIal-rigged prize
cs should follow this decision, with
the important result that the price
Of meat will be more reasonable than
it has been in IA .ong time. This is
what should happen. But will it?
Miss Anna b. Slate of William,
sport, who is missionary at YOkO-
mama, Japan, under date of January
,, writes to her parents graphic
description Of how the news of Port
Arthur's fall was received III Ioko-
hama. She writes:
"We were all in the parlor when
the news came. The room was full
Of .japenese men WHO had come to
pay their New Years calls and to
meet Bishop Harris. Suddenly the
whistles began to blow: then bells
TO ring, then rockets To go up, and
We all flew out on the steps. People
were running and shouting Port
Arthur has fallen!
In few minutes flags were be-
ginning to go up in all directions.
Miss Lewis and | ran over to the |
school house and rang the bell wild
" TO call the girls to tell them the
good news. The cook, who had gone
down town to buy some things, left |
his purchases in the store and ran
home to tell the story.
must tell you the sweetest thing
about the girls in the school across
the street. At TIL" time of the news |
Miss Pratt ran to call the bible wom-
en- to tell them, and she found that |
they had already heard. Most OF +
them were in their rooms praying.
She said she never heard such beau
tiful prayers-and what Edo you
think? With tears running down
their cheeks, these Japenese women
were praying that God would com
fort Russia and bless Japan. Pray
ing COR their enimies--w wasn't that
beautiful?
As write the shouts OF sbanzai'
comes floating up to me. There is
no confusion. We were afraid at
the beginning of the war that the
people would become proud and