vj 'A t THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. i. ii a V. r 3 III I .V Iff m. I I r. If it r-:'; )v.:kA. ; I H J.-;' mm km mm J, I ' ! ' i . f ' s; . ; ' if I STANDAHDOILWINS; GOVERNMENT LOSES Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Motion for Rehearing on $29,000,000 Penalty. CASE TO BE CARRIED HIGHER Court Altncki Attitude of Trial Judge nn1 lr(r'diiro of I-Vdcrnl AttoriipjH. To IU' Derided by Trl- bunul i.f Last IteMort. Chlrapo, Nov. 12. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals re affirmed Its own decision exculpating :he Standard OH Company from pay ing a $29,240,000 fine for rebatliiR. The opinion, written this time by Judge Baker, denies the Government v rehearing on its appeal from the rerdlct of the same court on July J2 last, when Judge Grosscup put forth the decision, based on techni cality of the inw, that the compnny was not guilty. The next day President Roosevelt said of the verdict: "There is ab solutely no question of the guilt of the defendants, and the President vould regard it as a gross miscar riage of Justice if, through any tech nicality the defendant iscaned punishment, which would inqestlonably have been meted out o any weaker defendant who had ieen guilty of such an offense." Though the Government side in he controversy has so far failed to :omment upon the decision against It, the understanding Is that the President and Attorney General, will force the case from the court, where .t has now had two trials into the Supreme Court, of the United States, nd that the final trial will be press td Immediately after the Supreme Court reconvenes, December 1. In Judge Grosscup'a original de cision, upon which the President sommented, it was declared that fudge I.andis, In imposing the $29, 340,000 fine, had used evidence ad lured against only the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, upon which to his conviction of the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey. This decision is reaffirmed, as is the protested Grosscup ultimatum Vhat Judge Landls erred, when he ased fine on car lots of rebated relght, instead of on train loads of shipments in the whole. The court takes all the Govern nent officers concerned 1 i the rase o task for having in'roJuced "an ?norance of the law," into their .ilea. The Governr-ent, In its petition, 'ntimated thr.t if the opinion of the fudges of the Appellate Court 'rosscup, Seaman and Baker were -Uowed to stand, it would nullify early every shred of rate reforma iry legislation accomplished by the .'loosevelt Administration. ! HUNTERS KILLED. laughter of Men in Wisconsin und Michigan Before Season Opened. Milwaukee, Nov. 12. The most Trlble slaughter of hunters ever re orted in Wisconsin and Upper Mlrh 'an has been the feature of the sev--al weeks preceding the actual open ig of the deer hunting season. There ave already been twenty-one deaths s.is year and thirty-seven hunters ave been wounded, some seriously. The majority of the cases were here there was carelessness In the se of firearms and a larger propor on of the deaths than usual were iose of the careless hunters them - dves. In other years the compan- n of the careless hunter has been -le victim. This year nearly half of e dead have killed themselves. "i.YNCMED IN DAYLIGHT ..ejrro Jlunued for Attacking White (iirt Near Hiloxi. Biloxl, Miss, Nov. 12. The Jail ! ire was stormed by an angry crowd ' white men, who took Henry Leidy, .. negro, three-quarters of a mile : om the Jail and lynched him at 30 P. M. Not a single shot was : -ed. The mob was orderly and arched back to the city and dls : -rsed. The crime for which the negro was nched was committed upon Eliza th Mauser, seventeen years old, at est End, near Biloxl. The negro as Identified by the girl. Vlctoileii Surdou Dies in Paris. Paris, Nov. 10. Victorlen Sardou, an of French dramatists, a member the French Academy and known roughout the world as probably e greatest and most protlllc of cou .nporary playwrights, died here of lmonary congestion after an Hi ss of several weeks. He was sev-sty-seven years old. J. Nelson Veit, a young broker, lied his mother and then commit 1 suicide in the Hotel Ansonla, w York City. His secret mar :ge, revealed by the tragedy, Is be ved to have led to the crime. C. F. Murphy, of Tammany Uall, . a statement declared Ilryan was feated by his own weakness and tiled that he was knifed in New iirk City. U'JOODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC ELECTORAL VOTE. TAFT. f 'iillfortiln in Connecticut 7 Delaware . it Idaho .1 Illinois 27' India nil 13 Inua 1:1 Kansas 10 Maine O Maryland 2 Massachusetts 10 Midi titan 14 Minnesota . 11 Missouri 18 Montana 8 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 12 New York 80 North Dakota 4 Ohio 28 Oregon 4 Pennsylvania ........ 84 Uhode Island , 4 South Dakota 4 Utah 8 Vermont 4 Washington 5 West Virginia 7 Wisconsin 13 Wyoming 8 Total 321 BRYAN. , Alabama 11 Arkansas 0 , Colorado 5 Florida 8 (eorgla 18 Kentucky 18 Iioulslana 9 Maryland (I Mississippi 10 Nebraska H Nevada 8 North Carolina 12 Oklahoma 7 South Carolina I) Tennessee 12 Texan IN Virginia 12 Total 1A2 COOOOOOOOOOOCXXDDOOOOCXXXXXJ NORTH DAKOTA, NEW SEA TERROR AFLOAT Giant lluttlcslilp Is Successfully launched ut Quinry, Mass. Quincy, Mass., Nov. 12. With re presentatives of the State and Fed eral governments and Governor Burke and staff, of North Dakota, present, the giant battleship North Dakota was launched at the Fore River ship building yards. The ship was christened with a bottle of North Dakota's own vin tage by Miss Mary Denton, daughter of Colonel John K. Denton, of Fargo, N. D. The North Dakota is the largest battleship ever projected, her nearest competitor being the Urltish battle ship Collingwood, launched in Eng land last Saturday. Doth are of the Dreadnaught class. The North Da kota is over 20,000 tons displace ment. She Is meant to go 21 knots an hour. The North Dakota weighs over 9,000 tons. Her construction has broken all records. Her keel was laid December 16 last. SPECIAL TRAIN HITS AUTO; FOUR DEAD. California Man Tried to Dash Ahead of Southern Pacific Special at Ked Muff. Red Bluff, Cal., Nov. 12. A spe cial train on the Southern Pacific Railroad crashed into an automobile here. Four persons were killed and one was badly Injured. The victims were in a big touring car, which was hurled 200 feet in the air. The dead aro George K. Willard, his wife and his daughter Olive and Mrs. Irene Hayes of Wal lace. Imogene Willard was caught on tho cowcatcher of the train and ser iously cut. Willard was at the wheel. He tried to dash across the track in front of the train, but was caught midway on the tracks. LOEB TO BE AN EDITOR He Receives an Offer From the St. 1'aul "Despatch." Washington, Nov. 10. The latest report concerning the future of Wm. Loeb, Jr., secretary to the President, places him in an editorial chair In St. Paul, Minn. That some sort of an offer has come to him from the St. Paul "Despatch" Is an accepted fact among his friends, some of whom said to-day that the secretary made the committal remark In connection with the St. Paul offer. "It looks good to me." Died From Full In Iluth Tub. Winsted, Conn., Nov. 10. While taking a bath In a porcelain tub In ber home, Mrs. Fred A. Schlechweg, of Bristol, aged seventy-six, slipped and struck ber head on the side of the tub. She was dead when her (laughter found her. Advices from Wlllemsted said that Holland would not begin Immediate ly a blockade of Venezuelan ports, but that warships would soon put to ea and cruise along the coast. EX-SEMft . KILLED IN A DUEL IJoliln Cooper, a I.nwyer, Is Wounded in AvciiKiiitf Criticism of His Fnl Iter. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12. For mer Senator Kdwnrd Ward earmark was shot ami Instantly killed at 4.30 P.M. by Robin .1. Copper, a young lawyer, son of Col. Duncan H. Coop er. The traTedy took place on Vine street, in front of the Polk flats. Youii.-j Cooper, who was accompanied by his fat'.ier, wns shot once In the right shoulder, and the second and last of the bullets from Carmack'S revolver passed through his left coat sleeve. Cooper, though badly wound ed, will recover. Immediately after the shooting Col. Cooper put his arms around his wounded son and carried him to an Infirmary, a few doors down Vino street, from whence he was soon taken to St. Thomas's Hospital. Col. Cooper, who did not fire a shot, promptly gave himself up, and was later taken to the station house, where he was held for the night, say ing he preferred not to ask for ball until after the preliminary Investiga tion had shown that he was entitled to It. The tragedy wa the outcome of Carmack's repeated attacks on Col. Cooper, both on the stump and later In his paper, the Nashville Tennes seean. Cooper supported ex-Gov. Robert L. Taylor in tho contest for the Sen atorial nomination In which earmark was defeated two years ago. He was the close friend of Gov. M. R. Patter son in his race against Gov. Cox two years ago also took an active part In the Gubernatorial campaign last sum mer In the interest of Gov. Patter son, who defeated Carmack for the nomination. Great excitement was caused by tho tragedy, as Mr. Carmack was the best known man In Tennessee and had recently been before the people In every part of the State in a series of Joint debates with Gov. Patterson, In which Mr. Carmack was the cham pion of Statewide prohibition. Feeling between the saloon inter ests and the temperance forces ran high during the recent primary, and since his defeat for the Gubernator ial nomination Mr. Carmack bad been active In an editorial way In support of Statewide prohibition. The Tennessee Legislature meets early in January and it Is freely pre dicted that Mr. Carmack's death will result In driving the saloons out of Chatanooga, Memphis, Nashville and La Follette, tho only four places In the State where liquor is now sold. POSTMASTER MORGAN SHOT BY A LUNATIC. Eric II. It. Murkuy, 1 'scaped Madman, Hud Record of Violence, New York, N. Y., Nov. 11. Im pelled by homicidal mania and a fancied grievance, Eric Hugh Boyd Mackay, aged 35, member of an Eng lish family of note, shot and danger ously wounded Postmaster Edward M. Morgan. Prompt and heroic action by Miss Dorothy Morgan, the Postmaster's sixteen-year-old daughter, in shoving the would-be assassin's revolver aside, undoubtedly saved her father's life. Mackay, after shooting Mr. Mor gan, turned his weapon, a .38 cal ibre, self-acting affair, on himself. One bullet entered his left breast and he fell dead with another through his head. The tragedy occurred on West One Hundred and Forty-sixth street, Just west of Broadway, and close to the Morgan residence. Police Investigation revekled per sistent planning by Mackay for months to kill Mr. Morgan. It also disclosed that he has been Insane nearly all his life, had shot a man In Boston, and had escaped from a Massachusetts asylum a few years ago. BOY FROZEN TO DEATH Bis Body Found Covered With Snow In Roscoe Conkllng Park, V'tica. Utica, Nov. 10. With a bed of leaves beneath him and a coverlet of snow the body of Michael Flleto, a schoolboy, was found In Roscoe Conkllng Park, in the southern part of this city. The lad, who was 15 years old, was frozen stiff, and as far as appearances would Indicate had died of exposure. The boy could hardly have lost bis way, for there were several houses within a few hundred feet, and at night the lights of the city gleam bright In the valley below. Pluymates of the boy suggest that he ran away from home In a fit of t inper. Divorce Mill to Close. Sioux Falls, 8. D.. Nov. 10. Enough definite returns are at hand from the vote on the divorce law referendum to show that the state has put the seal of disapproval upon the old statute which has rfnade South Dakota notorious as a "di vorce mill." Governor Magoon, of China, Is con sidering a suggestion to grant a life pension to the widow of former Pres ident Estrada Palma. President C. VV. Eliot of Harvard resigned and his resignation, to take effect May 19, 1909, was accepted. i HUM MAN FOUND KILLED Triple Tragedy in East Pitl&hurjj Linked with Mysterious Death a Year Before. MOTHER'S VENGEANCE A THEORY Mrs. Win. Casey Slays Soti-ln-l,:sv, an 'Adopted (ilrl mid Thi n Takes Her Own Life. Crlr.ie's Inner History May Never Ue Kov n. East PittRburg, Nov. 12. A triple crime, tho inner history of which probably never ran be known, wus discovered here by William Casey when he returned to hl.i hov.ie. In Fifth avenue, shortly after midnight. On the bed, her throat cut, lay his wife; beside her, her head nlmost severed from the body, lay Irene, (I years old, whom Mrs. Casey had adopted after the tragic death of her daughter a year before. At first slRht George Hartzell, Mrs. Casey's son-in-law, appeared to be missing. But the fumes of chloroform led Casey to a trunk In a corner of the room. Raising the lid he found the body of Hartzell. Like the others, Hart rell's throat was cut. A cloth that had been soaked In chloroform was wrapped about the head. That llttlo Irene had heen on in nocent victim was plain, but there was little to show which of the two others was tho murderer. A blood stained razor that evidently had been used in tho killing lay on the bed beside Mrs. Casey's body, and from that fart the police built a theory closely connected with the death of the woman's daughter. They believe Mrs. Casey killed Hartzell because Bhe believed he a year before, had killed her child, who, at the time of her death, had been a bride only a few weeks. Young Mrs. Hartzell was killed In her home by a pistol shot. Hartzell was arrested, but told a story of how his wife had kissed him goodby as he was leaving the house to go to work and then running Into another room, had shot herself before he closed the outer door. Mrs. Casey openly accused Hartzell of the mur der of his bride, but she was unable to produce proof, and when the Cor oner's Jury brought In a verdict of suicide Hartzell was released. The widower went to live with the Caseys, and. If the story told by the police is true, Mrs. Casey from the first hour he entered the house set all her woman's craft to the task of fastening the death of his wife upon him. She was 37 years old and Hart zell 22, and the two cam to spend so much time together that Casey became Jealous and frequently quar reled with his wife on the score of her friendship for her son-in-law. Mrs. Casey, it is said, soothed her husband by telling him she was seek ing to trap Hartzell into a confession that he had killed their daughter, and the strange Bceming friendship continued and grew closer. 'if I ever can really satisfy my self that George shot my child I will kill him in cold blood with my own hands," the woman in said to have told her husband a few days ago. Whether she actually learned any thing from the young man's lips probably never will be known. The police believe that, in her own words, she "satisfied herself" of his guilt, and, after first trying to suffocate Hartzell with chloroform, cut his throat with the razor as he lay un conscious. Then, crazed with the sight of the blood and with the re alization of what she had done, It Is believed she killed the little girl and herself. ROOSEVELT TELLS OF TAFT'S RELIGION Rebukes Man Who Thought It Might Influence Votes. Washington, Nov. 10. Denuncia tion of religious Intolerance In Amer ican politics is uttered by President Roosevelt in a letter made public. Ia It he answers numerous correspon dents who asked during the cam paign about Judge Taft's religious beliefs. The letter says: "Secretary Taft's religious faith is purely his own private concern and not a matter for general discussion and political discrimination." The President condemns bigotry In politics and says men who tried to use Taft's faith against him in sulted Americans. Manhood Ib the only test. The President adds that he expects Catholics and Jews will be presidents. Discrimination against holder of one faith means retaliatory discrimination on men of orber faiths. Oil Wells Abandoned to Flames. Mexico City. Nov. 12. After an outlay of between $400,000 and $500,000 in a vain endeavor to con trol the burning Dos Bocas oil wells, Pearson & Sons have decided to abandon the attempt. The oil Is flow ing at the rate of 14,000,000 gallons a day. A well known missionary, twenty eight years resident la China, de clared the Chinese people of all class es earnestly desired an alliance with America. WORLD NEWS OF THE WEEK. Covering Minor !Inppenina Trsa All Over th Globe. DOMLSTIC. The Ways and Means Committer began hearings on tariff revision, and the drug Interests, heard on Sche dule A, expressed themselves, with few exceptions, as satisfied with the present rates. Major-Gen. I-onard Wood reliev ed Major-Gen. Frederick D. Grant of command of the Department of the East, with headquarters at Govern or's Island. C. W. Morse was denied ball by the United States Circuit Court of Ap peals, New York, and must remain In the Tombs for nearly a month at least. Officers of t tin fleet interpreted re cent orders to mean that the embers of the Pacific fleet are to be mobol Ized In the Atlantic. According to the estimate of the Department of Agriculture, issued at Washington, corn, wheat, oats and eight other farm crops this year ag gregated 2.4 per rent more than the average for the last five years. The Rey. Dr. Alfred H. Harding, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Washington, was elected Bishop of Washington. Major-Gen. I,conard Wood, who succeeds Major-Gen. Frederick Dent Grant In cammand of the Department of the East, U. S. A., r.rrlved from Europe. Washington despatches reported Samuel Ciompers would probably not be invited to the coming "labor din ner" at the White House. Washington despatches declared that Secretary Root was almost cer tain to be chosen for the Senate from New York to succeed Mr. Piatt. With a good attendance and many excellent entries the annual horse show was opened In Madison Square Garden, New York. Three masked burglars held up Charles E. Tayntor, a wealthy man, with his wife and three children, at their home. No. 4.820 Fifteenth ave nue, Borough Park, Brooklyn, ran sacked the house and escaped with $10,000 booty. Washington despatches reported that the framers of new tariff sched ules had been set back by the refusul of foreign merchants to give Infor mation on the cost of production. President Roosevelt made public a letter he wrote since election In which he announced as un-American the attempt to make political capi tal out of Judge Taft's religious be liefs or associations. Charles H. Jones, cashier of tho First National Bank of Seabrlght, N. J., was arrested on a charge of embezzling $16,000. Nat Goodwin, actor, and Miss Edna Goodrich, actress, were married in Boston. Federal Judges Grosscup and Bar ker, at Chicago, granted- the com plaining railways an injunction In the MIsssourl River rate case before the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, pending final adjudication by the United States Supreme Court. Judge Taft left Cincinnati for Hot Springs, Va., for rest after the cam paign. American officials in England have been greatly disturbed by the refusal of British shipbuilders to give them Information about the cost of production for uso In the re vision of tho United States tariff. FOREIGN. Emperor William was bitterly at tacked by representatives of all par ties in the Reichstag for utterances In his famous Interview, and Chan cellor Von Buelow declared he had decided to remain as Chancellor, but he could not say for how long. An agreement was signed at Ber lin by which France and Germany, after exchanging expressions of re gret for the Casablanca incident, agree to settle the question at The Hague. J. Hennlker Heaton, speaking in London, attacked' the management of the cable companies and strongly urged a conference of postmasters general to bring about a penny a word rate in Europe" and afterward In America. M. Cambon, French Ambassador In Berlin, and Baron von Waechter, for the German Foreign Office, have signed an agreement In settlement of the Casablanca incident. Iord Sholto Douglas was arrested In British Columbia for shooting a man he found In his home when he returned unexpectedly. Premier Asquith Indicated at the Guild Hall banquet, London, that the clouds darkening Europe will soon disperse without a storm. Austria has repeated her refusal to pay indemnity to Turkey, and plans for the renewal of negotiations are likely to fall. Russia and Great Br.ltain will not agree to the abolition of the Persian Parliament, and will support the Bhah and his constitution. The Qorman War Department de cided to purchase the Zeppelin dirig lLle balloon. The delegation of business men from the Pacific Coast met In Tokio and adopted a resolution to devise means whereby American-Japanese trade might be Increased. HORSE, 15 YEARS, CURIiS LEI Former "Ice King" Doomed to Hard Labor in Federal Prison at Atlanta, Ga. BANKER'S TOOL IS SET FREE, Fainest Plea for Merry Causes I',.,, cral .Iiulj;e to Suspend I he l.atter'j Sentence Disnraerd Financier Ii Hooted on Ills Way to Tombs. New York. N. Y., Nov. 12. ("has. W. Morse, fifty-two years old, former "Ire King" and steamship owner, with a chain of banks to do his bla ding, and who a year ago was world $22,000,000. was sentenced by Judge Hough, In tho United Stales District Court, to serve fifteen years In tha federal prison at Atlanta for mis application of the funds of the N.i tlonal Bank of North America, of which he as formerly vice-president, and for making false entries in the bank's books. Judge llonuli granted a stay of ten days in the ex ecution of the sentence. Alfred Curtis, former presld'-nt of the National Bank of North America, who was convicted with Morse on the same charges, rerclved the. mini mum penalty five years but Judge Hough suspended sentence, nnd Mr. Curtis left the courtroom a free man. The Jury which convicted the two bankers recommended clemency in the case of Curtis, and United States Attorney Stimson, who prosecuted the rase for the government, urged leniency. No sooner had tho former "lea King," and manipulator of tho funds of the National Bank of North Amer ica heard tho sentence than the con fidence that had marked his manner throughout the trial gave way to tears. In the moment of his deepest humiliation and disgrace when the fact was forced In upon him that prison stripes awaited him, Morse was unable to restrain his emotion and he wept In despair. The popular approval of the out come of the trial was shown In tha scene In court. The crowd, which filled every Inch of tho room, ap plauded when sentence on Mr. Cur tis was suspended. Whatever It may have thought of the former bank President it had genuine sympathy for his wife. No one could look at her, almost fainting from tho tor ture of her position, yet bearing up to render what comfort she could be to her husband, without feeling thankful that the court had seen fit to show mercy in his case. The crowd applauded again when it heard the fate of Morse. It had no sympathy for the man whose sys tem of speculation had been laid bare and seemed to hold him largely responsible for the panic of hist year and tho suffering It Involved. Morse was Jeered when, two or three hours later, he walked ucross City Hall Squaro under guard to Cen tre Street and the Tombs, and the last words that fell on his ears from the world of freedom as the iron gates of the prison clanged behind him were the taunt: "How would you like to bo the Iceman?" " Through it all the prisoner's stoic ism never deserted him In public. He broke down when alone with his family, but to the crowd he present ed the same determined front he had preserved throughout the trial. I'lucky Woman Foils Blackmailer. Denver, Col., Nov. 11. While Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phlpps, di vorced wife of Lawrence C. Phlpps, was shopping a woman entered her automobile and when Mrs. Phlpps re turned threatened to kill Mrs. Phlpps, little Miss Phipps and her self with dynamite If not given $10, 000. Ms. Phlpps said It would be necessary to go to the bank, and there tho woman was arrested after throwing at a special officer a stick of dynamite, which failed to explode. NEW YORK MARKETS. Wholesale Prices of Farm I'rodurts Quoted for tho Week. WHEAT No. 2, Red. $1.09V43 $1.09. No. 1, Northern Duluth, $1.13. CORN No. 2, 77 0 77. OATS Mixed, B162V. BUTTER Western firsts. 23 0 26. State Dairy, 23 25. CHEESE State full cream. 13; 0 14,i. MILK Per quart, 3 C. EGGS State. Fair to choice, 33 42, do., western firsts 27c 31c. SHEEP Per 100 lbs., $2.50 $4.00. BEEVES City Dressed, 7 10. CALVES City Dressed, 8 14. HOGS Live Per 100 lbs., $5,50 0 $5.75. HAY Prime per 100 lbs., 85c. bTRAW Long Rye. per 100 lbs.. 80 ?00. LIVE POULTRY Spring Chickens per lb., 14o.; Turkeys per lb., 14c; Ducks per lb., 12 13c.;, Fowls per lb., 9 014. DRESSED POULTRY Turkeys per lb., 12 017c, Fowls per lb., 10 0 14c; Chickens, Phlla., per lb., 15 0 22. VEGETABLES Potatoes. Jersey, per bbl., $1.6O0$2.OO. ONIONS L. I., per bbl., f 1.25 0 $1.50 "v .. .
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