HQSBON BACKS UP
LILLEY'S CHARGES
THAT ELECTRIC BOAT CO. USED
IMPROPER INFLUENCE ON
CONGRESSMEN.
LILLEY MAKES STATEMENT
That the Electric Boat Co. Has IJo
Plant and No Assets, Its Only
Business Being to Secure
Contracts for Boats.
Washington, D. C.—The Lilley sub
marine boat inquiry was begun in
♦■arnest Thursday by a special house
•committee. Representative Lilley was
heard at length. He began his testi
mony by reading a long typewritten
statement, a part of which was in the
nature of an affidavit, in which he out
lined his charges in detail. When he
had completed this formal presenta
tion he was questioned by Mr. Olm
sted of the committee, who was de
signated by Chairman Boutell to per
form that service.
During the afternoon session Repre
sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson
testified that he had been approached
in November, 1907, by Lawrence
Speer of New York, representing the
Electric Boat Co., who told him that
if he would support the claims of that
company before congress the com
pany could bring influence to bear on
Speaker Cannon to have him (Hobson)
appointed on the committee on naval
affairs.
In reply to one of Mr. Olmsted's
•questions Mr. Lilley said the Klectric
Boat Co. had no plant and no assets.
He declared that that company did not
build boats, its only business being to
secure contracts for boats ami then
sublet the contracts.
Mr. Lilley gave the names of the
Connecticut manufacturers and the at
torney who hail asked him, according
to his statement, to vote for an appro
priation for submarine boat legislation.
The manufacturers, he said, were
Franklin H. Taylor of Waterbury, and
A. M. Ferris of the Bridgeport Brass
Co.; the attorney was John T. Kellogg
of Waterbury.
Mr. Lilley said he could only name
two newspaper men at this time who
had worked for the Electric Boat Co.
and he gave the names of two who, he
said, had admitted having worked for
•the company.
WAGES WILL BE REDUCED.
Pay of New England Cotton Mill Oper
atives Is to be Cut 10 Per Cent.
Boston, Mass.—A general reduc
tion in the wages of cotton mill opera
tives of the north will be made the lat>
ter part of the month and during
-April.
Notices were posted Thursday in all
the cotton mills of Lowell, on receipt
of instructions from the head offices
here, informing the 20.000 operatives
that wages will be reduced 10 per cent
beginning .Monday, March 30.
With the exception of the Stark
mills of Manchester, N. IT., which an
nounce.! Tuesday that a reduction of
about 8 per cent will be made in the
wages of their 1,500 employes, the
Jewell mills are the first in the cotton
industry in New England to give posi
tive notice of a cut. It is understood
that practically all the cotton mills in
northern New England will post no
tices during the next few days an
nouncing a reduction.
It is not known here what action the
Rhode Island and New Bedford mill
owners will take. Otis N. Pierce, pres
ident of the New Bedford Manufactur
ers' association, and Mr. Gammell, a
prominent Rhode Island mill operator,
•expressed the opinion that a wage cut
seems inevitable.
Manufacturers give as reasons for
the change in wages the depression in
the cloth market, high cost of cotton
and lower prices for goods.
JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY.
•Guiseppe Alia, Slayer of Rev Hein
richs, Is Convicted of Murder.
Denver, Col.—"ls there no appeal?"
These were the only words spoken
by Guiseppe Alia when informed
Thursday by Interpreter Matter that
the jury found him guilty of murder
in the first degree and fixed sentence
•at death.
Just 18 days after firing the shot
which brought death to Father Fran
cis Leo Heinrichs, at the altar in St.
Elizabeth's Catholic church, while in
the act ol administering the holy sac
rament, this wanderer from Italy, an
alleged but not proven Anarchist,
heard his doom.
in the court room not three blocks
-from the church where he committed
his crime and within tfee sound of the
chimes which he said drew him to that
church, Alia received the judgment de
livered by the jury. Stolid to the last,
he simply nodded his head and whis
pered to the interpreter, "Is there no
appeal?" Then his chin sank on his
breast and he made no further com
ment.
When the jury had been polled the
ludge thanked them for having done
their duty and expressed his approval
of the verdict. Attorney Widdecombe,
of the defense, made a motion for a
new trial and was granted five days
in which to file papers.
Battleships Reach Magdalena Bay.
San Diego, Cal. —When the Ameri
can battleship fleet under command
of Rear Admiral Evans steamed
Thursday into Magdalena Ray, the his
tory making cruise of more than 13,-
•000 miles, begun at Hampton Roads
less than three months ago, practically
came to an end.
Fire Cost Six Lives.
Marysville, Cal. —Six Chinese dead,
two others badly injtired and one
building partly destroyed, was
the result of a fire in Chinatown
"Thursday. The fire is bell»'*ed to have
4»een the work of an incenuiary.
ILL FOUR ARE FOUND GUILTY
VERDICT RENDERED IN PENNSYL
VANIA CONSPIRACY CASES.
Men Accused of Defrauding the Stata
are Convicted After a Trial Last
ing Seven Weeks.
Harrisburg, Pa. The jury In
the first of the capitol conspiracy
cases to be tried gave a verdict of
guilty as to every one of the four men
who have been on trial here for the
last seven weeks, last night, after six
hours' deliberation. There were two
ballots taken, but the jury did not
come into court until two hours after
reaching a conclusion.
The men found guilty are John F.
Sanderson, contractor; William P.
Snyder, former auditor general; W. L.
Mathuesi, former state treasurer, and
James M, Shumaker, former superin
tendent of public buildings and
grounds.
Motions for new trials were made in
each case.
Only Sanderson and Snyder were in
court when the verdict was given and
neither woudl talk. None of the coun
sel for the defendants would say any
thing about the case. The state's at
torneys when questioned said that
they were pleased with the result of
the hard work. The maximum penal
ties for each defendant in this case is
two years' imprisonment and SI,OOO
tine.
The four men were convicted of
defrauding the state in furnishing the
new capitol, which cost the state about
$13,000,000, instead of $4,000,000, the
figure at which the contract was es
timated.
The present case constituted one of
the longest jury trials in the history
of Pennsylvania courts.
The prosecution of the alleged
frauds was the outcome of the polit
ical upheaval in Pennsylvania in 1905,
which resulted in the election of Will
iam H. Berry, a Democrat, as state
treasurer in the fall of that year.
Berry threw open the books of the
state treasury and showed that the
cost of building the capitol was more
than three times the amount of the
contract.
The case was laid before the attor
ney general and indictments were
found against 14 persons.
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS,
Proceedings of the Senate and House
of Representatives.
Washington.—Amendments to the
postoflice appropriation bill were
adopted by the house on the 11th in
creasing the pay of letter carriers to
$1,200 a year and prohibiting the
transmission through the mails of in
toxicating liquors and cocaine. In the
senate a message from the president
and reports from the military affairs
committee on the Brownsville affair
were read. Senator Clarke of Arkan
sas spoke against the currency bill.
Washington.—The house devoted its
session on the 12th to discussion of
the postoflice appropriation bill. In the
senate speeches on the currency bill
were made by Senators Lodge and
Paynter, the former in favor and the
latter against the bill.
Washington.—On the 13th the house
passed the postoflice appropriation bill
and 405 private pension bills. In the
senate Senator Bacon of Georgia
spoke at length of the encroachments
of the executive on the legislative
power of the government.
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Progress is Slow, but There is a Little
Improvement Each Week.
New York City.—R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Sentiment is more cheerful because
of good weather for farm work and
higher prices for securities. Actual
progress in commercial channels is
slow, but there is a little improvement
each week, while evidences of an early
spring have stimulated sales of sea
sonable wearing apparel in most job
bing and wholesale departments. Many
manufacturing plants have increased
forces, especially the factories that
supply farming implements and the
canning industry.
Building permits in February show
ed a large decrease as compared with
the same month .ast year.
Small gains are recorded in some
departments of the iron and steel in
dustry, while other lines remain un
changed. Tin plate mills are resum
ing, production now falling little be
low normal in this division.
WALSH IS SENTENCED.
Chicago Banker is Given a Five-Year
Term in a Penitentiary.
Chicago, 111. John R. Walsh,
former president of the Chicago
National bank of this city, and con
victed of illegal use of the funds of
that institution, was on Friday denied
a new trial by Judge Anderson of the
United States district court, and
sentenced to serve five years in the
federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven
worth.
The court directed that the de
fendant pay the entire cost of the
trial.
An application was immediately
made to Judge Grosscup of the United
States circuit court of appeals, for a
supersedeas, which was granted and
Walsh was released under bonds of
$50,000 pending the hearing of his ap
peal.
A Famous Fireman Dies.
New York City. Hugh Bonner,
fire commissioner of New York, died
Friday. Mr. Bonner was one of the
ablest and best known firemen in the
world. He entered the New York de
partment in 1860, aged 21, and
continued in the department until
1.899, when he retired as chief.
Will Sail Around the World.
Washington, D. C.—Admiral "Bob"
Evans' battleship tteet, after leaving
San Francisco, will visit Hawaii,
Samoa, Melbourne and Sydney, Aus
tralia, the Philippines and return to
New York by way of the Suez canal.
CAMERON GOU.NTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1908
i EVELYN THAW
SEEKS DIVORCE
SHE CLAIMS HER HUSBAND WAS
INSANE WHEN THEIR MAR
RIAGE TOOK PLACE.
THAW WILL CONTEST SUIT.
Counsel for Thaw's Mother Says He
Sought a Reconciliation With His
Wife, but She Refused His
Overtures.
New York City.—Evelyn Nes
bit Thaw will Institute proceedings to
day for the annulment of her marriage
to Harry K. Thaw. The action will
be based on the allegation that the
defendant was insane when the union
was contracted. Thaw purposes to de
fend the suit. The papers in the case
will be served today and an early trial
is expected. In the meantime the two,
by mutual agreement, will remain
apart.
In official statements by counsel for
both parties last night was confirmed
the long suspected culmination in the
wedded lives of Stanford White's
slayer and the woman whose story
in his defense brought her an unhap
py notoriety as wide as the reading
world. For weeks it had been gos
siped that a divorce was imminent
and even during Thaw's last trial,
throughout which his wife stood by
him, it was generally believed that
whatever the outcome for the prisoner,
the two would never again live to
gether.
These reports were frequently
based on rumored opposition to the
young woman on the part of the Thaw
family. In their statements last night,
however, counsel denied that Mrs. Wil
liam Thaw, Harry's mother, had taken
any part in the proposed separation.
During Tuesday Col. Franklin Bart
lett, counsel for the elder Mrs. Thaw,
made a statement in which he said
that there was no truth in the reports
that detectives employed by Mrs. Wil
liam Thaw had had her daughter-in-l
law under surveillance for months. As
to a poesible separation, Col. Bartlett
Bald:
"The matter is inchoate. There is
every disposition on the part of my
clients to bo absolutely fair and just
toward Evelyn Thaw and to make lib
eral provision for her support, and
even more than that. Harry K. Thaw
has sought a reconciliation and has
not desired that his wife should leave
him, but she desires a permanent sev
erance of the marital relations. Any
thought of espionage upon the young
Mrs. Thaw would be abhorrent to Mrs.
William Thaw and has not at any time
been entertained by her."
Soon after Col. Bartlett's interview
became public, Russell Peabody, per
sonal counsel to Thaw, left for Mat
teawan. where, since his last trial,
Thaw has been confined in the asylum
for the criminal insane. After a talk
with his client Peabody returned to
the city and met Daniel CRielly, one
of Thaw's former attorneys, who is
now counsel for Evelyn Thaw. The
conference extended well into the
evening and at its conclusion Mr.
O'Reilly said:
"This action will be tried in New
Yourk county. As yet no mention has
been made of any settlement in favor
of EveJyn. If after the annulment
proceedings are through and they are
in favor of the plaintiff, some action
may be taken for the recovery of
counsel fees and alimony."
ORCHARD PLEADS GUILTY.
Slayer of Ex-Gov. Steunenberg Will
Be Sentenced March 18.
Caldwell, Idaho.—Harry Orchard
on Tuesday, before Judge Fre
mont Wood in the district court,
was allowed to withdraw his former
plea of not guilty entered at his first
arraignment by order of the court,
when he stood mute, and entered a
plea of guilty to the charge of mur
der in the first degree as charged in
the indictment. Judge Wood will sen
tence Orchard on March 18.
Orchard pleaded guilty to having
killed ex-Gov. Steunenberg by the ex
plosion of a dynamite bomb at the side
gate of his residence here early In the
evening of December 30, 1905. He was
arrested for the crime on January 2,
1906, and in February, 1906, confessed
that he was hired to kill Steunenberg
by William D. Haywood, secretary,
Charles H. Moyer, president, and
George A. Pettibone, honorary member
of the Western Federation of Miners.
Haywood and Pettibone were tried in
Boise and set free. The case against
Moyer was dismissed.
Author of Two Murders is Sentenced.
Belleville, 111.—Joseph Genetti,
an Italian miner, on Tuesday
pleaded guilty to the murder of
Joseph Cologna by an infernal ma
chine and was sentenced to 30 years
in the pen. This makes a total of 45
years he must serve. He was sen
tenced recently to 15 years for the
murder of August Genetti, his cousin.
Genetti was convicted of placing an
infernal machine in August Genetti's
tool chest and the two men weib
killed. An accomplice, Joseph Zadra,
was sentenced to a life term. August
Genetti's obpections to Joseph's at
tentions to his sister caused the dou
ble murder.
Alleged Poisoner is Arrested.
Champaign. ll.—Mrs. Gertie Pier
son, who is charged with poisoning
her young husband, James L. Pierson,
at Fooslaud that she might be free to
receive the attentions of a man 62
years old, was arrested Tuesday at I
Gibson City, where she has lived since
the sudden death of Pierson.
Night Riders Shot Negroes.
Paducah, Ky.—Nearly one hun
dred masked "night riders" rode into
the town of Birmingham late Monday
night, shot six negroes, one of them, 1
it is believed fatally, and whipped I
others. • |
BTORES A NECESSITY.
Small Retailers Fixed Permanently at
Factors in Social Life.
There are pessimists who view with
alarm the revolutionary forces at work
I in the business world. These people
' of narrow views solemnly announce
that within a few years there will be
no place for the small retailers, that
the so-called country merchant will be
driven out of business, and will be sup
planted by large concerns that will
have the trade which 13 now divided
among a dozen or moro small stores.
Some of them go so far in their dole
ful predictions as to predict that the
business of the country will be trans
acted in the larger cities, and that
the country town Bhall become a
thing of the past.
These woeful prophets fail to take
into consideration the force of natural
law in the social and the business
world. They are illogical enough not
to weigh the relationship of economy
to trade conditions. Trade, like light
ning or like water, follows the lines
of least resistance. Citizens and towns
exist upon economic foundations. On
the virgin western plains a small col
ony of settlers seek homes. The
wants and necessities of these set
tlers must be supplied. The result is
the establishment of a store at a cen
tral point in the new colony. This
store becomes the nucleus of a town,
a city in embryo. As other settlers
come in, the town grows more impor
tant, new industries are established,
local government is organized, roads
, radiate from the place, banks and
other financial institutions are estab
lished, and here we have a thriving
town created.
This town exists because there is a
necessity for its existence, and this
i necessity is the working out of
economic laws. Wherever communi
! ties exist, tradesmen will exist. They
i are a necessary part of the social and
I business life. They are necessary
agents in the distribution of com
i modifies. They are the outgrowth
jof thousands of years of commer
i cialism, and they cannot be sup
! planted by any other system. Large
• stores of the department kind
may grow up. They are also a neces-
J sity and are revolutionary in char
acter, but there will ever remain a
j place for the small store, it matters
! not how large the city or how small
■ the town.
FREE PREMIUM DEAL.
| Get-Rich-Quick Concern Put Out of
Business by Postal Department.
Verily, fishing is good for the catch
ers of gudgeons and the various other
kinds of suckers. They are caught of
every class and kind, and so numerous
are they that the post office depart
ment of the government pays out
thousands of dollars monthly to pro
tect them. But whether it is worth
while to keep the brainless persons
from parting with their change is the
question. Yet it is one of the b<»-
nign features of our government ma
chinery to protect children, women,
fools and incompetents in general, and
as far as possible punish those who
make any department of government
the means of defrauding them. Re
cently a fraud order was issued
against a New York city mail order
concern, claiming to be "dealers in
any kind of merchandise." It had
been doing an extensive business, and
in the possession of the New York
postmaster when the order went into
effect were 5,000 letters, each of
which was supposed to contain 88
cents to pay packing charges on a
"premium, a very valuable, beautiful
silver fruit dish, gold lined, and guar
anteed quadruple silver plate." These
articles had cost the concern 30 cents
each. The letters in the post office
addressed to the company were in
response to a circular which in
formed the "lucky" person that "you
answered a premium offer some time
ago, and we have just completed the
list of the fortunate ones who may
receive presents, and are now ready to
ship them. Your name is on the list,
and this notice is sent that you may
claim the present." Then the gen
tle touch of 88 cents was made to
"cover expense of packing." This is
only one of hundreds of similar con
cerns which cause the post office de
partment great annoyance, and the
unsuspecting heavy losses.
Co-Operative Scheme.
One of the latest grafts to gather in
the farmers is the co-operative store
game. The field for this work is pro
lific; the west has had prosperity that
has filled the pockets of many farm
ers, and it has made them greedy for
more, and easy victims for the man
who has a scheme that promises a
field for investment and the saving of
more dollars. The co-operative store
is a plan that takes, and everywhere
a success has been made of a co-opera
tive elevator or similar enterprise
that may be in the farmers' line the
promoter of the co-operative store gets
busy. If only a little stock is sub
scribed for, all the same, as it gives
the promoter and his backers a better
swing, and the jobbing houses that
are behind the movement will have
things their own way. The big rake
off is in the supplying of goods at from
ten to fifteen per cent, more than the
legitimate dealer would be required
to pay, and selling at a smaller per
centage of profit. The salary of the
manager and the clerks takes up the
big share of the "profits," but as Ion?
as a showing of earnings can be made
the scheme succeeds, and the regular
stores find business dull. Dozens of
stores of this class have failed with
in the past few years.
A Tip.
Never do any worrying to-day that
mjq be put off till to-morrow.
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I and if you are looking for re-
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* prices, we are ready to serve 1
| you with the best to be found.
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worthy goods and flair dealing
|f is too well known to sell any
| but high grade goods.
|| Our stock of Queensware and
B Ohinaware is selected with ffl
|| great care and we have some jfi
P of the most handsome dishes p
ever shown in this section,
fi both in imported and domestic
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Art Squares and of fine books In a clwHceJlbrary
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