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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25
Facts Under Republican Ma.
tiOnal LEGISLATION.

The Government has a surplus of
revenue over expenditures.
We have an average favorable bal
ance of trade amounting to $500, ,000,-
600 annually.
Our manufactures have doubled
since 1896.
Our farm values and crop values
have doubled since 1896
Employment and wages have in
creased from 80 to 100 per cent since
1896.
Our bank clearings have trebled
since 1896.
\ thousand million dollars have
been added to our savings banks de
posits since 1896.
And failures, in spite of the enor-
nous increase in business have fall
en- off more than half as compared
with 1896. Sheriff Buck as well as
sherifls in other countless have no
business. The poorest times for
sheriffs all over the land ever known.
Then why not vote for pour Repub-
lican candidate for Congress, DR..
Samuel.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25
HERNICE ITEMS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wright of
Sayre, were visiting friends at this
place last week.
). .. Deffenbach of Mildred, was
visiting friends at Sayer last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Doueher
of Mildred, are visiting Wilkes
Barre and Lehighton friends this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Matthew are
visiting Monroeton and Towanda
friends.
Misses Maggie Watson and Win
ME Deffenbach of Mildred, were at
tending Young Peoples Christian
Endeavor convention at Wilkes
Barre last week.
Mrs. John Walters and Mrs. Ed
ward Bumgardner are attending the
funeral of her grandson, Orva Mitch
ell, the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Mitchell of Schenectady, N. Y.
Daniel Schoonover of Mildred, was
ToWanda visitor last week.
G. E. Jackson, John DAILY, II. l..
Mclaughlin, DR.. J. l.. Brennan and
John Fitzgerald were Williamsport
visitors last week.
DIR. ]. L. Christian of Lopez, was
calling on friends at this place on
Monday.
The school opened up on Monday
in the X. of L. hall with Thomas
Gallagher of Cherry, as principal.
Frank Babcock has moved his
family to Monroeton.
Mrs. Maggie Cook of Mildred, who
Was called to Boone, Iowa, on ac-
count of the death of her son-in- law,
David Peacock, returned home Oh
Thursday of last week.
John s. Lines is assisting Ii. /.
Schaad in the butchering business.
The dance in the K. of l.. hall on
Friday evening was failure on ac-
count of rain.
There will be dance in the K. of
l.. hall on the 30th.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25

Falling into line in the movement
started by Columbia county, and
promptly taken by Northumberland
Luzerne and Lackawanna, Schuyl-
kill county commissioners are now
sending out instructions to their as
SCISSORS informing them that they
will be held accountable for rigid
and perfectly impartial and just as
sessment of all valuations throughout
the county, and that they live up to
their oath of Office in every partic-
ular. This will mean that the as
sessments on coal land and the prop
erty of other big corporations will be
greatly increased there, as it will be
IN other counties which have taken
up the crusade for just assessment.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25
DeininSer-Simmons.

Ga Wednesday evening October
"a, at 6:30 very pretty wedding
took place at Sonestown, when
Mr.. James Deininger and Miss
Rose Simmons were united in mar
riage by Rev. X. S. Slower, at
the home of the BRIDES parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Simmons,
in the presence OF a large number
of guests. The bride who was
most tastefully attired was attend
ed by her sister Miss Ada Simmons
as bridesmaid, while the groom
had as his attendant Mr.. r. S.
Starr. Mrs. R. S. Starr PLAYED the
wedding march. They were the
recipients of many costly and USE
full presents.
Mr.. Deininger hold the position
OF assistant chief clerk in the De-
partment at Harrisburg. Mrs.
Deininger is one Of Sonestown's
most popular young ladies. Upon
their return from a brief wedding
tour they will go to housekeeping
in the beautiful home that Mr..
Deininger recently has had built
at Sonestown. The News Item
extends its very best wishes to
the bride and groom for a happy
welded life.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25
HEMLOCK GROVE ITEMS.

Misses Elsie and Clara Wilson
spent Sunday as the guests of their
parents at Sugar Hill.
The box social held at this place
on Saturday evening was success,
clearing about twelve dollars and
fifty cents.
Bruce Phillips is confined to his
bed with an attack of pneumonia,
but is somewhat improved at this
writing.
Mrs. Jacob Doubler, of Hughes
vile, is spending some time at this
place.
Mr.. Albert Swank, who has been
employed in the southern part of the
State, Is spending some time at this
place.
The following were Muncy Valley
visitors Saturday Harry Phillips.
Thomas Swank, Earnest Fulmer,
Misses Mildred and Maizie Phillips
and Edna Bay.
The following of Fairview attend
ed the social Saturday evening
Misses Lulu BartlOw, Ora Fulmer,
Mamie Bartlow, Myrtle Neufer;
of Sonestown, Miss Gladsy and Mr..
Frank Sheets; Of fStrawbrldge, Misses
Clara Bartlow, Mabel Myers and
Mr. Jason Myers; of Marsh Run,
Misses Alma Weaver, Laura Phil
lips and Lula Weaver.
Miss Muriel Phillips, who is attend
ing school at Benton, was the guest
of her parents Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday services at the churches as
follows: AT the Methodist Episco-
pal church, Sunday school at $50.
AT the Evangelical church, Sunday
school at $50; preaching at $50.
All are welcome at these services.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25
DR.. SAMUEL CERTAIN WIN
NER
II Unfair Methods Being Employed Are
Continued by His Columbia
County Opponent.

American people love fair play,
and ordinarily they help at the fair
play game. Some of the methods OF
the McHenry hired men will not
bear the light of day at all, and
when more light is turned on the
people will turn to the doctor en-
masSe.
The latest is circular sent out by
the McHenry Grange in the upper
end of Columbia county. McHenry
is not farmer, he uses up lots of
rye, but he does not do the. hard
work necessary to grow rye and yet
he is prominent in grange work just
now.
The grangers have issued a circu-
lar letter attacking the Congress-
man in language that is so studiously
careful as not to be libellous while
insinuating a number Of grossly un-
truthful things. The doctor is charged
with having voted for bills against
which he voted, and having failed
to support bills which were never
before the Congress at all during the
last session, the one in which Dr.
Samuel sat aS a member. He is
charged with being tnfavorable to
legislation that is purely state and
has no possible connection with ma
.ional affairs.
McHenry is evidently spending
vast sums of money from out his
and he spending some of il
o get the Democratic farmers near
lis distillery to send out defamatory
etterS. And the alaclity with
he McHenry managers are catch
ng at straws indicate the weakness
If their canvass. 1t is very likely
hat Northumberland county will
i've the doctor nearly as large ma |
ority as he had two years ago, and I
he unpopularity of Mr.. McHenry
n his home county will cut dow
he adverse majority up there to al |
most nothing. Mt. Carmel News.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25

Desperate men are terrorizing the
people of Genesee, Hickox, West
Bingham and other places in that
section of Potter county by burning
buildings, shooting into houses and
doing other desperate deeds. The
Coudersport Democrat says that
Tuesday night they set fire to the
lGmber piles at the Hickox mill and
it was only after hard work that the
mill was saved.
The desperadoes, three in number,
then went short distance from
HickoX and began shooting at
houses and at every person who APP
peared. One woman who was in
her home was wounded by bullet.
They started to burn the harm of
Thomas Coulston and fred at Mr..
Coulston, but left without firing the
structure. The barn of Bert Perry,
nearby, was burned and Mr.. Perry
narrowly escaped being shot.
Thursday night the gang burned
tool house near Newfield Junction
and they evidently intended to burn
a railroad bridge near that place, as
some waste saturated with oil was
found under it. Along the road
from West Bingham to Newfield
junction they tore down the r. f.
ID. boxes and shot at houses. They
burned barn at West Bingham and
several houses near the site of the
former Cobb mill.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25

DR.. E. w. Samuel, candidate for
Congress from this district, will poll
a tremendous vote in his home coun-
ty and from present indications will
carry his county by large majority.
Mr.. Samuel is sterling man and his
host of friends throughout the die
trict are active in his behalf There
is no other who could better repre-
sent the Sixteenth District in the
National House than Samuel and he
will have the approval OF the voters
at the polls, a hearty endorsement
from all parts of the county and dis
trict.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25
Gets the Glad Hand from Col
umbia County Farmers--W Will
Have Flatterina Vote.

Hon. f.. w. Samuel has returned
from his visit with the Columbia
county people at the Bloomsbury
fair. The weather was not pleasant,
but the reception given to our Con-
gresham was very gratifying to
him and his friends.
Columbia county few years ago
was veritable bulwark of democ-
racy, but times have changed ideas
and property under republican gov
ernment and soup-houses under dem
omcratic regimes have a vakened
even that old Fishing Creek confed-
eracy to the needs of the times, and
the Democratic majOrities in Column
bia have been very materially cut
down in recent years and in some
cases turned into Republican MAORI.
ties. The rapid growth of the man.
ufacturing town of Berwick has add
ed very largely to the Republican
vote of the county. The continued
prosperity OF that end of old Colum-
bia will entirely change the political
complexion of the county in few
years.
This Republican growth coupled
with the feeling upon the part of
many intelligent Democrats that the
district must be represented by a Re-
publican if it is to be really repre-
sented at all, will probably give to
DR.. Samuel an almost even vote in
Columbia county next month. The
doctor will carry Catawissa and
Bloomsbury by small majorities and
he is expected to have at least a
thousand majority in Berwick.
If Mount Carmel and Mount Car
mel township, and Shamokin and
Coal township will give the doctor
any where near the vote the region
should give to the man who so dis
represents this section, he
will be reelected by big majority.
1t is up to the coal regions to say
whether they want to be represented
by one who knows theis interests or
by one who is a representative of the
hated trusts.
Everybody get a hustle on and
send the doctor back. Make it coal
region pride to send back the doc
tor. Ask your neighbors to interest
themselves in his e-election.-I
Mount Carmel News.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25

During the last session of Con
gress Hon. +. W. Samuel, the broad
guaged and capable member from
this district, has represented us and
we defy the opposition to point to a
single vote in which he did not re-
fleet the sentiments of his district.
He is fully conversant with the
needs of his constituents and at all
times and upon every occasion he
was actuated by desire to so cast
his vote and to use Ills voice that the
best interests of all concerned NAV
be conserved. He has proven him
self one of the best and most faith
full servants that our State has in the
National House of Representative
He is recognized as one of the most
conservative leaders on the Republi-
can side of the House. There was
never any question as to how he
would stand upon any important
measure during his term as Con-
gresham. TO return DR.. Samuel
add to his influence and will be
the better for our entire people, both
Democrats and Republicans, and we
bespeak for him the entire vote of
this county and return to Con
gresS by one Of the largest majorities
ever given in this district.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25

Philadelphia, Oct. 20.-Suit was
begun this afternoon bv Senator
James p. McNichol against Lewis
Emory, Jr., the candidate for gov
ernor on the fusion ticket, charging
criminal libel, and capias has been
issued for Emory's arrest. In the
statement of claim McNichol asks
for $3.50, 600 damages.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25

A combined movement of the
preachers of Williamsport with the
Young Mems Christian Association,
is being organized to evangelize
that city during the coming winter,
and old Satan will be given the live
liest chase he ever experienced in
the Lumber City. All denomina
tions will take part iu it. In the or
ganization that has been effected
Rev. Robert +. Gibson of Trinity
Episcopal church, was elected presi-
dent, assisted by the pastors of the
Methodist, Baptist and Congrega-
tional churches. They will preach
simultaneously on "The Call of the
Ministry" "Good Citizenship and
"Sin and Repentance" and other
themes that will lead the Williams
porters to better sence of their re-
ligious and civic duties.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25
Married.

An event of very pleasant char
acter transpired at high noon on
Wednesday, October 10th, when at
the home of the BRIDES parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Lloyd Ford of Jackson
township, Columbia county, their
amiable daughter, Della and Mr..
Clayton Speary were united in
marriage. Theceremony was per-
formed by Rev. w. r. Mather
of Rohrsburg, in the presence
of the immediate relatives. AT
ter congratulations had been tender
ed and received all partook of a
sumptuous dinner T,.e bride was
attired in a very pretty blue silk,
while the groom wore conventional
black.
Mr.. Hess, uncle of the bride, en-
tertained the guests with his phono-
graph, which added to the enjoy
ment of the occasion.
The happy couple left on the 3
O'Clock train for their wedding tour.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1906-10-25

Engineer James Casey of the b. Il
S. passenger train is confined to his
home at Jamison City, as the result
of an accident at that place Wednes-
day afternoon. Mr.. Casey was assist
ing in moving the household goods
of E. r. Harvey from his Jamison
City residence to the train to be
taken to Bloomsbury where the fam
lily is moving, Mr.. Harvey being
clerk at the Central Hotel. When
the wagon was nearly filed, and as
Mr.. Casey was up on the load, he
lost his hold and fell backwards.
HIS left leg caught in the furniture,
and he hung suspended by that
limb, the knee being badly dislo-
Gated. He was promptly extricated,
however, and taken to his home,
where physician was summoned,
but it will be some time before he
can resume his work.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
SITS IN CHAIR
OF PRESIDENT
OKLAHOMA MARSHAL TELLS
OF EXPERIENCE
Wanders Into the White House and
Finally Plants Himself at the
Head Of Table at cabI-
net Meeting
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
LAWTON, Okla, Feb. 9--John ABB
ernethy, a newly appointed United
States marshal of Oklahoma, returned
from Washington today and related his
adventures in the national capital.
After telling how he wandered around
the White House inquiring for the
president Abernethy said:
II was finally directed to a room
where at a round table were seated a
number of fine looking men. Looking
around and seeing only one empty chair
and that at the head of the table,
squatted. 1 no sooner did so than 1
noticed the men looking at each other
and smile and I woke UP to the idea
that in some manner 1 had put my
foot in it. But 1 thought to brave It
out, so laid my old white hat on the
floor beside me and waited for some-
body to touch off a magazine.
II heard the door open behind me
and then some one came in and then
two powerful hands slapped me on the
shoulder, and looking up, / saw Presi-
dent Roosevelt standing over me. He
grabbed my hand and shook it like a
brother. Then he laughed and said:
John, you are getting up in the world
occupying the presidents chair at a
cabinet meeting.'
The president laughed heartily and
then excused himself to the other men
and took me to another part Of the
White House, where he introduced me
to Mrs. Roosevelt"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
RIOT IN FRENCH CHURCH
Attempt to Take Inventory In Ver-
saiIIes Causes Missiles
to Fly
BY Associated Press.

VERSAILLES, Nov. 9.-When the
commissioner to inventory church
property went to the church of St.
Symphorien yesterday he found the
doors of the church closed. Prefect
Poirson ordered the military engineers
to break into the church with hatchets.
After the doors had been broken open
the prefect parleyed with the cure, who
asked that the gendarmes be not per-
mitted to enter. The prefect consented
and entered the church with the COM
missioner. They were Immediately
bombarded with a shower of chairs
and brickbats by few manifestants
who had barricaded themselves in the
organ loft. The prefect was hit in the
head with a chair. The gendarmes,
after a sharp tussle stormed the loft
and in the fracas seven of them were
so badly wounded that they had to be
sent to a hospital. The inventory was
then made, all entrances to the church
being guarded with dragons and en-
gineers.
The manifestants were arrested and
taken before the summary jurisdiction
court, which sentenced Devezin, Bos-
quet and Du Humel to two years inn
prisonment and to pay fines of $100
each. Master, aged 20 years, and Tou-
baz were sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment, Marchand, aged %, to one
year and priest named Briere to one
month in prison.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
PR0TESTANTS CLOSE IN
SMOOT INVESTIGATION
SENATOR'S REPRESENTATIVE is
NOT READY TO PROCEED
Declares, However. That He May
Have to Call From 100 to 200 Wit
nesses, Unless Filling Of Affldavits
Is Permitted
Bv Associat ted Press.

Bv Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.--The intro
duction of testimony against Senator
Reed Smoot of Utah was closed by
the protestants' counsel today before
the senate committee on privileges and
elections. A. S. Worthngton, who rep
resents the senator said he was not
ready to proceed, but that he would
communicate with Chairman Burrows
within few days. The character of
the evidence offered this session, said
Mr.. Worthington, had convinced him of
the desirability of calling witnesses for
the defense. With reference to the list
of members of the Utah constitutional
convention, members of the legislature
and state officers, charged to have been
polygamists, Mr.. Worthington said
that it might be necessary to call from
100 to 200 witnesses to disprove the tes-
timony of the prosecution unless the
committee permitted the filing of af-
fidavits. He said that Senator Smoot
was anxious that the case should be
closed and that there should not be
one day of unavoidable delay.
c. A. Smurthwaite of Ogden was
called for cross-examination by counsel
for Senator Smoot in today's proceed
ings. The witness said the usual course
to settle difficulties between members
of the church is to lay complaints with
the teachers of the ward in which the
aggrieved reside and the bishop. after
hearing the complaint, ordinarily in
structs the teachers to do everything
in their power to adjust the differences
Mr. Worthington asked Mr.. Smurth
waite if he had any reason to believe
his trouble with President Smith over
rival salt interests could not have
been adjusted in the same way.
Yes the witness replied. my
knowledge of the leaders Of the church
convinced me that was impossible"
Senator Knox then inquired of the
witness if the Mormon first presidency
had followed up it's threat to ruin him
because he insisted upon continuing
the salt business. He said his company
went on and made salt, but it's COMPETE
tors reduced the price of crude salt
from $S to 50 a ton. The witness said
his company had been compelled to
pile up it's product. The effect, he said,
was to injure his credit and depreciate
the value of the stock of the company.
After explaining the tithng. system of
the Mormon church Mr.. Smurthwaite
was asked if the tithes were invested
in corporations.
81 am fearful that it is," he replied.
He estimated that tithing brought the
church a revenue of from $1,500,00 to
81. 900, 900 a year, but no accounting had
been made so far as he knew.
The protestants' counsel then an
nounced their case was closed.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
TOWN NEARLY WIPED OUT
Eight Hundred People in West Vir.
ginia Are Rendered Home
less
Ry Associated Press.

by ASSOCldIeu tTeS5
NEW MARTINSVILLE, w. Va,
Feb. .9.-Fire broke out in Lyttleton,
an oil town near here today, and be-
fore it could be extinguished nearly
every business house was destroyed,
about 800 of the 1900 inhabitants were
without homes and a financial loss of
more than 100000 was sustained.
The fire broke out about noon in the
attic of the William c. Rowe grocery
in the center of the town. Inside of
twenty minutes the entire business
block along the Baltimore & Ohio
track was ablaze. The bank of Lyt-
Teton, the opera house, the CONNER
cial hotel. and several smaller. stores
and residences were destroyed. From
this block the flames swept across the
Baltimore & Ohio track to the EX-
change bank and the Delbrugg hotel.
The flames spread with great rapidity.
Assistance was sent from Wheeling
and also from Cameron, w. Va, and
dynamite was resorted to, but the
high wind carried the flames across the
streets and over the tracks, licking up
the frame dwellings in it's path. One
hundred houses were burned.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
IN INTEREST OF The WEST
Seventeenth Session Of Transmissis-
sppi Congress to Meet in
Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Feb. 9.-The
executive committee of the trans-Miss-
issippi congress today fixed upon Tues
day, November 20, 1906, in this city, as
the time and place of the seventeenth
congress. The session will continue
four days.
1t is expected that the governor of
every state in the trans Mississippi
section will be in attendance and a
majority of the representatives and
senator's.
Some of the subjects that will be dis
cussed by the congress are irrigation
improvement of western waterways,
Chinese immigration, the Panama can
al, forest reserves, transcontinental
transportation and statehood of the
four territories in the trans s-Mississippi
section-Oklahoma New Mexico, Ari-
zona and Indian Territory. 1t was the
unanimous sentiment of the committee
that the trans Mississippi section is
greatly interested in having each of
these territories admitted as a separate
state in order that this section may
have it's just weight In the Legislative
halls of the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-10
EMMONS is INDIGNANT
Denies Statement Of C. e. Ehlers That
He Was Shot by the Former
Senator

By Associated Press,
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 9. - Former
Senator e. j. Emmons, who is volun-
tarily in the county Jail preparing his
bill of exceptions in the bribery case.
Indignantly denies this morning the
statement of Charles E. Ehlers to the
effect that Emmons had shot him at
Bakersfield last December Emmons
said:
'I deny Ehlers' statement absolutely.
The story is made out of whole CLOTH
He would not dare say that if I were
not in Jail, for he knows that l am in
a position to prove by incontrovertible
evidence that it was a physical impos-
slbility for me to have been near him
when he was shot; tnat 1 never had a
weapon for a month prior to the shoot
ing, and that he shot himself with a
small derringer purchased by himself
three or four days before to use on a.
fellow clerk in Redlick's store.
"I think it is an unfair. an unjust
and cowardly proposition for the press
of California to be hammering me in
my defenseless condition My wife and
two children are absolutely helpless
under these attacks.
"I intend to institute libel proceed
ings to establish the falsity of these
stories. 1 am tired of all these mis-
representations"