Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-09-15

man at Plainfield, N. j., factory.
Damage to the torpedo boats and
other naval property at Charleston, 8.
c., by typhoon, will not exceed $4,000.
Textile mills in New England, en-
ploylng $4,000 workmen, were re-
opened
Joseph w. Bailey says under no cir
cumstar ces will he again run for the
United States Senate.
The itinerary of the Presidents
13,O00-mile trip through twenty-fous
states, was announced in Beverly,
Mass.
The Merchants and Miners steam
ship Lexington, ashore on the Georgia
coast, has been moved 700 feet by the
wrecking crew.
The National Association of Super
visory PostofIice Officials voted to
place all postmasters under the civil
service with life teuure of office.
Mrs. Eddy's bequest of $4,000 to
the Second Christian Science Church
was adiudged valid in the New Hamp-
shire Superior Court.
At Winchester, Ind, 125 glass blow
ers went on strike on account of cut
in wages of / to A cents gross on all
wares.
Beattie still expressed confidence of
ultimate freedom and said he did not
believe in showing grief to outsiders
or in wearing mourning.
Jacob Becker was arrested in New
York charged with being concerned
in the blowing up and burning OF
German newspaper in Paterson, n. J.
William E Kelly of Brooklyn, was
elected president of the National AS
sociation of Letter Carriers, in session
at Rochester, n. Y.
Grahame-White carried a passenger
thirty-three miles in twenty-seven
minutes in a contest on the Boston
aviation meets closing day.
Members of the faculties of prom
inent American colleges denied the
statement of r. T. Crane that dissi-
patton was general among students of
American universities.
With potatoes bringing from $3.50 to
$1.75 a bushel at Branchville, n. j.,
only about quarter of a normal crop
will be harvested as a result of the
dry spell of midsummer.
Mrs. Marietta Casco, the tenth vic
tim of poisonous toadstools gathered
in the fields of Westchester County,
died at her home in the Bronx, New
York. Three deaths from the same
cause were reported from Paterson.
Arthur X. Hamilton, young nephew
of Mrs George J. Gould. was fined $5
for speeding through Lakewood, n. j.,
on a motorcycle and disturbing the
community's peace.
Application will be made for the
probating of Father John ]. Quinn, a
Connecticut priest who disappeared
seven years ago, wlliles aboard
steamer, and is now regarded as
dead.
John C. Richberger, president of
the Illinois commission on uniform
laws, stated at Chicago that more
than 80 per cent of the states have
uniform legislation in the causes for
divorce.
Henry Solomon, Commissioner of
Prisons, reported in Albany, n. Y,
that conditions in Sing Sing had i'm
proved since Warden Frost was su-
perseded and that the convicts were
happier.
Sopwith and Hammond fell with
their biplane into the ocean at Bright
on Beach, New York; Graham-White
had narrow escape from death when
his $4,000 monoplane landed in
dith. and Beatty's machine was
wrecked when it crashed into fence.
Samuel Cohen, who had been ar
rested in New York on young wo-
mans charge that he obtained all her
savings after promising marriage, was
held in $4,000 when a detective made
affidavit that Cohen is wanted in Chi
cago for the alleged theft of violins
worth $4,000.