Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-05-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, May 20.

Councilman F. S. Fernstrom startled
the Salt Lake, Utah. city council by as
serting that he had been offered a
bribe and charging Mayor ]. S Brans-
ford with collusion with a contractor
In changing the terms of a sewer pipe
contract
Complete returns from Tuesdays
election in Denver. Colo. show that
Miss Ellis Meredith, we'll known club
woman, has been chosen election COM
missioner, her total of 20,997 exceed
ing the combined vote of her seven
men competitors. She is the first wo-
man elected to Office in Denver
Saturday, May 21.
Trade between the United States and
Panama in the fiscal year ending next
month will exceed s22 100000
With the jail guarded by three COM
panies of state militia. Howard Harris,
a negro, convicted of assaulting a
white woman, was hanged at Thomas
VILE Ga.
After unsuccessful efforts to take
her life with razor and an axe. Mrs.
J. II. Deal twenty-seven years old. of
lhdiuCh, ~, oalui atSu hSi tiothN'
with oil and set fire to herself. She
leaves two young children.
Travelling alone one-third the way
around the world, ten-year-old Lois
Reed Mcclure arrived at New Castle,
Pa, from Bombay, India. The girl is a
daughter of the late Rev. Reed Nc
Clure, of New Wilmington, Pa, a
United Presbyterian missionary, who
died two years ago.
Monday, May 20.
AS the result of fall against an
iron bed during a scuffie at his board
ing house in Berwick, Pa, Steven Bar
shun has died.
While Mrs. w. II. French, of Craley-
vile, was preparing coal oil to apply
to an injured hog she was burned al
most to death.
Grieving over the dedath of her son
from ptomaine poisoning, Mrs. John
Holland died at Tiffin, O., and was
buried with her boy.
Previous smoking records were
smashed by Walter w. Soergel, at Chi
cago, who smoked an ordinary cigar
for 115 minutes and thirty seconds
without reuBntlng.
Tuesday, May "a.
A fire destroyed the dwelling Of
James Alexander, in Hazleton, Pa,
and one OF the inmates. Mrs. Kate In
cern, was burned to death.
Canares constituted so per cent of
the birds imported into the United
States during the past year. nearly
375,O0O of these pets singing their
way into American ports in 1909.
The department of justice is investi-
eating the subject of the price of
lumber In the United States to deter
mine whether or not the lumber trust
may be reached by the Sherman anti
trust law.
Porter, a twenty-six-year-old horse.
has been given recognition by the Chi
cago commissioners, who have for
mally passed resolutions congratulate
ing him on his sixteen years of service
and retired him. pensioned for life, 20
spend the remainder of his days in
luxury.
Wednesday. May Is.
Two thousand coal miners In st.
Clair county, ILL.,, returned to work,
having been out for two months The
miners got cents ton increase.
Governor Sanders. of Louisiana, has
signed constitutional amendment
submitting the proposal of $4,OOO,OOO
ia kin support of the proposed Worlds
Panama exposition at New Orleans in
1915.
resolution requesting the authori-
ties to prohibit railroads from using
wooden mail cars was passed by the
eighteenth annual convention Of the
Railway Mail Clerks Association of
America at Kansas City, Mo.
The Grand Army post at Bethel, Mo-,
having dwindled from 100 members to
ten, sold it's property. consisting Of
muskets, cartridge belts. swords. flags,
fife and drum. at auction. terminating
the existence Of body organized over
thirty years ago.