Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-11-03


elected President of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association.
Secretary of War Stimson, after an
inspection of army posts in the South
west, returned to Washington.
Orville Wright fell with his glider
in an experimental flight at Kill Devil
Hill, N. c.; he escaped with slight in
jury.
j. A. Heany's applications for pat
ents on the Tungsten light, involving
$5,OOO,0O0, were rejected on the ground
of fraud.
President Mellen of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Road said
he saw no reason at present for re-
duction of the s per cent dividend.
Samuel Mcknight Butler, an auto
pioneer, was killed by his machine
overturning while traversing Georgia
with the Glidden party.
The eighth death among the follow
ers of the Rev. Frank w. Sandford,
who returned recently on the yacht
Coronet, occurred at Portland, Me.
John r. Walsh, formerly Chicago
banker died in his home in that city,
nine days after his parole from Leav'
enworth Prison; he had been convict
ed of misappropriating funds.
Edward Hines denied before the
Senatorial investigating committee at
Milwaukee that he had anything to do
with the election of Senator Stephen
SON
The Supreme Court of the United
States cut the time for arguments
with a view to Tearing the docket, now
numbered with more than eight hun
dred cases.
The convicted members of the New
York Poultry Trust were sued for
1925, 900, triple damages, under the
Sherman law, by independent ship
pers.
Walter Diehl was convicted of muir
der in the second degree on the charge
of being the principal in the lynching
of Carl Etherington, an anti-saloon de-
tective, at Newark, Ohio.
Counsel for the defense in the Nc
Namara trial protested against the
presiding Judges method of examining
talesmen on the ground that it indicat-
ed a desire to prevent disqualification
of the man questioned.
The Rev Frank Sandford, leader Of
the Holy Ghost and Us Society, was
arrested at Shiloh, Me, by a federal
officer, on a warrant charging neglect
of his crew and followers on their re-
cent cruise.
George Stovall is authority for the
statement that he will manage the
Washington team next year. He says
Harry Davis will handle the Cleve-
lands.
The instructions relating to unmail-
able matter "are not to be used to ir-
ritate or annoy or intimidate publish
ers" is the order of the Postmaster
General printed in the Official Postal
Guide.
Judge Bordwell and Clarence Dar-
row, attorney for the defense in the
Mcnamara case, came into collision
when the Court refused to immediate.
ly rule on the eligibility of chal-
lenged talesmen as jurors and Darrow
refused to proceed.
Because the mob was too drunk, A.
B. Walker, a negro and confessed muir
derer, escaped lynching in Washing
ton, Ga, after the rope was around
his neck.
Professor Robert J. Sprague of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College at
Amherst, in looking over the last
state census, figures that the
Yankee race is threatened with ex-
tinction. Rugs and automobiles are
blamed in part for the falling off of
the birth rate.
After repeated refusals to answer in
Quiries concerning the ownership of
stock in the Journal Company, of AL
bany, of which he is president, Will
liam Barnes, Jr., chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee, was de-
claYed in contempt by the Senate COM
mittee which is investigating Albany
city and county affairs.