Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-06-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, May 26.

Through the capsizing of raft OF
The East river at New York three Ital.
ian boys were drowned. Two others
were rescued.
Alexander Combee. of Breathitt
county, KY, was killed from ambush
while floating down the Kentucky
liver on raft.
Forty-eight pals of cloves, consign-
ed to Cincinnati spice company. will
be destroyed under the pure food act
by federal inspectors in New York.
The oil has been extracted from the
cloves by chemical process and they
have been stained with iron to hide
this fact.
Friday, May 27.
The Panama Railroad company has
contracted for semi-bituminous coal,
totalling $4,000 tons. for next year.
Owing to the danger of spontaneous
combustion, due to excessive moisture
1 nthe zone air, no bids for bituminous
coal were considered.
B. w. Ebelen, well known horse
man of Henderson, KY. was shot and
killed, and Matte White. colored
servant, was fatally wounded by Mrs.
Ebelen. Mrs. Ebelen gave herself up.
saying either she or her husband had
to die. Jealousy was the cause.
Roy L. Hickman, twenty-one years
old, son of DR.. Glyndeur Hickman, was
electrocuted at the Metropolitan Elec-
trio company's plant in Reading, Pa.
his foot coming in contact with
charged wire. He was engaged to be
married to Miss Gertrude Devine.
Saturday. May %.
Goaded by schoolmates, who made
fun of his suffering, Leonard, the fif-
teen-year-old sou of S. d. Lawrence a
lumberman at Genoa, ILL.,, drowned
himself in Fox river.
The total catch of fur seals by ma
tives off the Alaska coast this season
will not be more than 125 pelts. Japa-
nese sealers using mufiied power boats
will reap harvest.
Clad only in night robe, Mrs. Will
liam Stroker, forty-three years old, of
Chicago, committed suicide by throw
ing herself in front of train. Her
body was badly mangled. She was de-
ranged.
Monday, May 80.
His axe slipping, Edward DietZ, OF
near Marietta, Pa, cut his left foot so
seriously that he tainted as he hobbled
| in to his home.
Fourteen hundred employees of the
Malleable Casting company, of Toledo.
| O., are thrown out of work through a
| strih, OF seventy men in the moulders'
department.
Herapron catching fire from stove
| about which she was doing some cook
| ing, Mrs. Margaret McGarvey, aged
| eighty-four years, of Wilmington, Del,
was so badly burned that she died at
| the Delaware hospital.
Under the guidance of Father John
| G. Hagen director of the Vatican OBJ
| servatory in Rome, the pope has made
an observation of Halley's comet His
| holiness remarked that what he saw
| scarcely warranted the commotion that
| the comet has caused throughout the
world.
Tuesday, May 81.
Bernard Dierkes, city auditor of st.
Louis from 1901 to 1909, shot and kill
| ed himself.
The output of the governments
| smokeless powder factory at Picatin-
ny, N. j., arsenal is to be lrebled and
| the factory will turn out 5000 pounds
| daily.
Two houses in the village of Guth-
rie, w. Va. were destroyed by cor
nado which passed up II . Elk valley.
! Several persons were injured and
much live stock killed
Van Pressly shot and killed his faith
er, John Pressly, at Laurel Hill, near
Nashville, Tenn, because the latter re-
fused to let him have a horse to ride.
The young man is barricaded in his
! fathers house and declares he will not
be taken alive.
Wednesday, June I.
Three hundred and fifty coal men.
representing associations of Ohio,
Michigan and Indiana. met in Toledo.
| O.. and effected a merger of the three
organizations.
The statute of Missouri. passed on
March 13. 1907. prohibiting foreign
corporations from doing business with
in the state II they seek litigation in
the United States courts, was declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court
of the United States.
| Shuford Abernehty. thirty six years
old, lumber dealer of Bridgewater,
near Hickory. N. c.. was instantly
killed and Robert Hodges. aged thirty
seven years, also of Bridgewater, was
seriously injured by Southern freight
train while walking on a siding.