Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-01

Will restrict the sale OF liquor by drug
stores in Connecticut
The Massachusetts Tax Conmis'
sion has caused the LenoX assessors
to add 100000 valuation to the es-
tate of Mrs John Sloane, late of Lenox
and New York.
Oliver Lock, negro wife murderer,
at Eddyville, KY, broke the straps in
the electric chair, when the current
was turned on. The execution of SEN
tence halted until restrapped.
In saving the farm house Of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland at Tamworth, N. H.,
from destruction by fire, Will o. Cook
the caretaker, so years old, was fatal
ly burned.
Christopher C. Wilson, former head
of the United Wireless Company, and
two associates were taken yesterday
to Atlanta Prison, where they will
serve their sentences
George Stahl, sixteen years old, ar
rested as a witness of the Coatesvllle
lynching, was denied freedom on ha-
beas corpus and held without bail on
a charge of murder.
Beulah Binford said she no longer
loved Beattie, was afraid of him and
VIC aid not marry him should he be
acquitted.
A dispatch from Chesterfield Court
House, Va, stated that the defence of
Henry G. Beattie, Jr., on trial for the
murder of his wife, will attack the
story of Paul Beattie, cousin, who
asserted at the Ccroner's inquest that
he purchased the gun with which Mrs.
Beattie was murdered.
Many industrial, health and acci-
dent insurance companies were Sc
verely criticised at the convention or
State Insurance Commissioners at
Milwaukee: it was declared that many
such concerns resort to every form or
trickery and deceit to escape honest
obligations.
All manner of devices are in use by
EIopknsville, KY, horsemen to secure
immunity from the bite of small
green fly infesting that region. Mules
are encased in sacking. the coverings
for the legs consisting of cast OIL
trousers.
San Francisco's registration for the
coming primary and municipal cleo
ton is 100000, against 91,49S two
years ago.
The Brooklyn League gave out
statement saying it favored amend
ments to the present city charter rath-
er than the adoption at this time OF en-
entirely new one.
President Taft, Secretary Stimson
and Clifford Pinchot will address the
National Conservation Congress in
Kansas City in September.
The State Conservation Commission
asked the upstate Public Service Com
mission to compel lumber roads in the
Adirondacks TO use oil burning loco
motives.
Two more victims of the Lehigh
Valley train wreck at Manchester
died, making the death roll twenty
nine.
The death roll of the Canonsburg
Opera House stampede was reported
at twenty-six, all of whom died from
suffocation; twenty-five were serious
ly injured; break in the moving pic
ture film, causing a bright light on
the canvas, was given as the cause OF
alarm of fire by a small boy, which
started the stampede.
An electrical storm struck Egg Har-
Dor, ~ J. The water reached the
middle dam which guards the large
Gloucester cranberry bogs. Within a
half-hour the water flooded the bogs
and the surrounding country.
Gen. Otis, owner of the Los Angeles
Times, whose plant the Mcnamara
brothers are accused of dynamiting,
was threatened over the telephone
with death if he failed to give $4,000
for the McNamaras' defense.
Arthur Rhooes, teller of the bank in
Dolgeville, n. Y, killed himself in Lit
he had in three years.
Labor unionists in Denver and
throughout Colorado have purchased
a coal mine near Erie Colo, which
promises to furnish them fuel on 20
year contracts at a price lower than
current rates
Tim Murphy sued Mont Tennes, his
former partner, alleging Tennes con.
trolls the gambling situation in Chica-
so and boasted that he had agreed to
pay $4,000 for protection and obtain
a like control in New York.