HOUSE REBUKES
THEPRESIDENT
CRITICISES HIM, THEN TABLES
PART OF THE SECRET SER- *
VICE MESSAGE
BY AN OVERWHELMING VOTE
Will Decline to Consider Any Com
munication Which Is Not Re
spectful and Mindful of
Dignity of Body.
Washington, D. C.—After having
made him the target all day for crit
icism, with here and there words of
commendation, the house of represen
tatives Friday night by a vote of 212
to 35 rebuked the president by tabling
bo much of his messages as reflected
on members of congress in connection
with his recommendations regarding
the secret service detectives and also
declaring it to be the sense of the
house that they shall decline to con
sider any communication from any
source which is not in its own judg
ment respectful.
With feelings of outraged dignity
and pride on the part of many of its
members, the house gave itself up en
tirely to a discussion of one of the
most momentous questions that ever
came before it —its functions as a leg
islative body—in contradistinction lo
tluse of the executive branch of the
government.
As had been forecasted, the report
of the special committee appointed lo
deal with the language in the presi
dent's annual message and in his
special message of last Monday bear
ing on the secret service affecting
members of congress was submitted
and it was used as the basis for some
of the most earnest and vigorous
speeches ever heard in the historic
chamber. The house was in no mood
to treat the subject otherwise than
seriously, although in the remarks
which were made the references to the
president almost invariably were
couched in parliamentary language.
Nor was the president without his sup
porters.
PUTS TILLMAN IN TIGHT PLACE
Secret Service Report Mixes Him in
Oregon Land Deal —Wanted Nine
Quarter Sections Reserved.
Washington, D. C. —President Roose
velt on Friday night made public
the details of investigations by post
office inspectors and secret service
agents of Senator Tillman'c connec
tion with an alleged "land grab" in
Oregon. The president undertakes to
show that Mr. Tillman used his in
fluence as a senator in an effort to
force the government to compel a rail
road corporation to relinquish its con
trol of land grants from the United
States in order that he and his family
and his secretary, J. B. Knight, might
profit, through the purchase of some of
the laud; that the senator used his
government franking privilege in
numerous Instances for the conduct of
private business.
The communication to Senator Hale
is of nearly 3,000 words and In addi
tion there are appended numerous ex
hibits, including copies of letters writ
ten by Senator Tillman and his agent,
William E. Lee, showing that they did
make an effort to secure several quar
ter sections of the Oregon land, and
the reports of the postoflice inspectors
who investigated the transactions of
the land agents. It was tk-*>ugh this
investigation that the nlirfced interest
of Senator Tillman was brought to
light, and fate f '-.'.iy, it appears that it
was at his Instigation the inquiry was
begun.
PROGRESS SAFE AND STEADY
So Says Dun's Weekly Review of
Trade.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Credit and confidence are again es
tablished on a firmer basis at the
opening of the new year than at any
time in the past 15 months. Progress
is steady and naturally slow, but is
along very safe and satisfactory lines.
The statement of commercial failures
issued this week clearly shov.s a grad
ual wearing away of the effects of the
financial pressure of the early mouths
of last year and this necessarily im
proves underlying conditions. While
conservatism still characterizes oper
ations in many markets, the develop
ment Is along safe lines. Changes in
prices this week are not significant,
but generally in the direction of fair
ness. Employment in mills and fac
tories is steadily maintained and ad
vanced, with no disposition to lower
the high wage scales previously pre
vailing.
Iron and steel mills continue well
occupied on • business previously
booked, and new orders are constantly
being placed.
Turkish Farmers Suffering.
Constantinople, Turkey.—The dis
tress in Anatolia because of the fail
ure of the crops has reached an acute
phase in the districts of Erzeroum,
Yozgad, Kaisarieh and Mardin. Hun
dreds of persons are actually starving.
New York Has Given Half Million,
New York City.—The local relief
fund for the Italian earthquake suf
ferers is nearlng the half million
mark. The fund was Increased by
more than $20,000 Friday, bringing the
total up to about $476,000.
NIGHT RIDERS FOUND GUILTY
SIX OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER,
TWO OF SECOND DEGREE.
Defendants Take Verdict Calmly, as
Conviction Was Expected Sol
diers Surround Court House.
Union City, Tenn. —With a ver
dict of guilty In varying degrees,
the jury in the Night Rider trials re
ported Thursday night. The 12 men
found Garrett Johnson, Tid Burton,
Boy Ransom, Fred Pinion, Arthur
Cloar and Sam Applewhite guilty of
murder in the first degree with miti
gating circumstances, and Bud Morris
and Bob H. Huffman, the other de
fendants, guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree and fixed their punishment
at 20 years in the penitentiary. The
punishment of the six first named de
fendants was left to the court and may
be death or life imprisonment. The
defense filed a motion for a new trial,
which was set for hearing Saturday
and will be overruled, as indicated by
the court, when s ntence will be pro
nounced.
Court was convened at 8 p. m.and
the jury sent word that it would be
able to report shortly. The bailiff
called for the county physician. Juror
Rosson was in a state of collapse and
needed attention. It was half an hour
before Rosson was revived, the jury
filed in and six deputies were sum
moned to carry in the bed upon which
the sick juror lay.
The defendants took the verdict
with calmness, as they had been ex
pecting it since the closing of the ar
guments. Bob Huffman, one of the
men to escape with 20 years, is the
man who, according to the confession
of Frank Fehringer, fired the shot
which killed Capt. Ranken as he was
being drawn up by the rope.
When the jury's readiness to report
was announced, the military quietly
surrounded the courthouse and a de
tail of soldiers with revolver holsters
open was deployed around the walls
of the court room, but there was no
demonstration. The prisoners were
handcuffed and under military escort
taken to prison. The verdict is con
sidered a compromise one, and no
trouble is feared by the authorities.
MURDER MYSTERY UNSOLVED
Not Known Whose Body Was Burned
in Church Stove—Minister and
Another Missing.
Port Huron, Mich.—The identity
of the person who was stabbed to
death Tuesday evening in the little
country church at Rattle Run near Co
lumbuS in St. Clair county and that of
the murderer are as much a mystery
as they were Wednesday when Myron
Brown, who entered the building to
seek shelter from the storm, was horri
fied to find the interior of the house of
worship daubed with human blood
from end to end. The dismembered
body of the victim, found in one of the
heating stoves of the church, was too
badly burned to afford any satisfactory
clews as to the identity of the victim.
But Rev. J. H. Carmichael, the pastor
of the church, and Gideon Browning,
who lived near the pastor at the neigh
boring town of Adair, are both missing
from their homes and it is regarded
a certainty that one of the tw« i» the
victim of the murder. Every effort is
being made to apprehend the other in
order to clear up the mystery.
Reports were in circulation at St.
Clair Thursday that a stranger re
sembling Rev. Carmichael had crossed
the river to Courtright, Ont., early
Thursday on the St. Clair ferry. Frank
Carrier says the stranger offered him
$2 if he would land him on the Canada
shore.
In support of the theory that the
clergyman left his home Tuesday pre
pared to flee from the country it is
pointed out that no one has found the
suit case that It is known he took with
him Tuesday morning from Adair. An
other point in favor of this theory is
that Detectives Baker and Fenton of
Detroit, who searched the minister's
house, reported that a considerable
portion of his wardrobe was missing.
In support of the theory that Gideon
Browning was the victim, a necktie
pin found with the body has been
positively Identified as Browning's
property.
"Not Guilty," Verdict in Erb Case.
Media, Pa. —Mrs. M. Florence Erb,
wife of Capt. J. Clayton Erb, who
was well known in political circles all
over Pennsylvania, and her sister,
Mrs. Catherine Befo?., who were
charged with the sensational murder
of Capt. Erb on the night of October
6, 1908, Thursday walked from the
Delaware county courthouse free
women. After the jury had been out
nearly 18 hours It brought in a verdict
of not guilty in the case of each
woman, both of whom had been
charged separately and jointly with
shooting the captain. Thus ends a
trial during which much scandalous
evidence was brought out, some ot
which did not reach the reading pub
lic.
Started Fire with Gasoline; Two Dead.
Greentown, Ind. —Gasoline used to
start a fire in a stove nearly
wiped out the family of William Will
cuts here Thursday. David Willcuts
was instantly killed, his mother fatally
hurt and two brothers, Morton and
Harrison, badly burned.
Castro Rapidly Improving.
Herlln. —Gen. Cipriano Castro is
improving rapidly from his opera
tion. \|le was able to converse Thurs
day for a considerable time with his
wife and
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY JANUARY 14, 1909.
PARIS BUNKO
IN DECAMPS
"COUNT" HAMON, BANKER, JOUR
NALIST, PROMOTER, FLEES
FROM VICTIMS.
LIVED A GAY LIFE IN PAREE
Maintained Superb Establishment,
Moved in Good Society, Dabbled
in Various Enterprises and
Finally Went Broke.
Paris, France. —"Count" Louis Ha
mon, formerly known in America
and Europe as "Cheiro, the palmist,"
and before that as plain John Warner,
is a fugitive from France, and the en
tire American and English colony is
discussing one of the most meteoric
and mysterious careers which ever
dazzled Parisian society.
Hamon is charged with embezzle
ment, and his sumptuous offices,
where he edited a newspaper called
the American Register and conducted
a bank and other enterprises, to which
Americans loaned capital, are bare
and empty, scores of creditors having
descended and seized everything.
The complainants against Hainon are
Mrs. Julia P. Newell and Miss Jose
phine Pomeroy, formerly of New
York, but now residents of Paris, who
declare that they turned over to
Hamon stocks to the market value of
$500,000, on which Hamon agreed to
raise a loan through London banks of
$150,000. They allege that Hamon
neither negotiated the loan nor re
turned the stocks, in consequence of
which they began a criminal action
against the Hamon bank, and Hamon
fled to London.
Hamon had been a dashing figure in
Paris since his arrival here six years
ago. He lived in costly apartments in
the Rue Du Bois Du Bologne. Since
he arrived in Paris in 1902, when he
transformed himself from "Cheiro, the
palmist" to "Count Hamon," he has
had easy access to society.
New York City.—The career in
Paris of "Cheiro, the palmist" as
"Count Hamon," otherwise John War
ner, was in many ways matched by his
sensational doings among society peo
ple in New York City eight years ago.
Here he amassed a fortune of many
thousands of dollars, collected for the
most part from society women in. ex
change for reading the past, present
and future on their finely lined palms.
Women prominent in social circles
flocked to the office of Cheiro and he
received $5 for half an hour's palm
reading.
URGES RT'VIARY NOMINATIONS
Gov. Hughes in His Annual Message
Recommends Many Reforms.
Albany, N. Y. Direct primary
nominations and further strength
ening of the laws for the pro
tection of the purity of ejections are
chief among the reecinmendations In
the annual nx ~B a ge of Gov. Hughes
presented '{o the legislature at its
oiwLifig session Wednesday. Previous
legislatures have failed to enact the
legislation suggested and it is pre
dicted that the proposed measures will
result in a bitter legislative struggle.
Gov. Hughes recommends a system
of direct nominations by all parties for
all elective offices, other than those of
presidential electors, filled at the No
vember elections or at special elec
tions called to till vacancies in such
offices; the adoption of a simplified
form of ballot without the party col
umn, in which the names of candidates
for the respective offices shall ap
pear but once grouped under the
names of offices, a more effective sys
tem of forest fire patrol, license tax
for the privilege of operating motor
vehicles, expedition of the work on
the barge canal improvement, proper
supervision over the slaughtering of
animals, inquiry into the questions re
lating to employes' liability, measures
for the protection of the state's
streams from pollution, increased hos
pital accommodations for patients af
flicted with tuberculosis, extension of
the public commissions law to include
telephone and telegraph companies
and a constitutional amendment to af
ford financial relief to New York City.
'The governor ur?es the strictest
economy in the administration of state
affairs.
The National Lawmakers. '
Washington.—The postal savings
bank bill was before the senate on the
6th. The senate also received two mes
sages from the president, one recom
mending additional interstate com
merce legislation and the other relat
ing to the absorption by the United
States Steel corporation of the Ten
nessee Coal & Iron Co. and passed sev
eral bills, on the calendar. The only
Incident worthy of note in the pro
ceedings of the house was a brief dis
cussion of the forthcoming hunting
trip of President Roosevelt.
Always Available.
"What is the trouble?" asked the
wife of the brilliant essayist.
"I have received an offer of S3OO
from the editor cf one of Ihe maga
zines for a 2,000-word artisle on any
subject 1 may choose, but there isn't
a thing I can ihink of to write about,
livery matter of any consequence
seems recently to have bo3n thorough
ly gone over."
"What's the matter with Napoleon?"
"By jove! Of course. Why couldn't
1 have tjiought of him myself?"— Ch
icago Record-Herald.
LARQt 17TH CENTURY MANTEL.
lacobean Oakk Carving from Old Man
sion House, England.
New York.—Among art objects of un
jsual interest colected in the Charles
galleries, at Fifth avenue and Twenty-
Jighth street, is a large mantel from
he old Mansion house in Bristol, Eng
and. In 1833 this building was partly
lestroyed by fire. A portion of the
banquet hall In which the mantel stood
was saved, and this remarkable ex
ample of early English wood carving
was among the objects untouched by
ihe flames. Presumably in the ad
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Mantel from Mansion House, Bristol,
England.
Justment of insurance accounts it
passed ato the possession of the
mayor, from whose descendants the
Charles galleries purchaaed it.
This mantel is nMurljr 10ft feet in
height, with a width of nearly nine
feet. It Is of carved English oak,
which from its age has acquired •
beautiful gray tone. It dates from th«
period of James L, early In the seven
teenth century, and has carved flgurea
of James I.and Queen Anne and the
royal coat of arms. Two caryatides,
male and female, are mediaeval in
character. The frieze is in a grape
vine pattern familiar to collectors.
While the technique is of the Jacobean
period, there are many traces of
Elizabethan influence in some of the
details.
In the same galleries is a set of
Louis XVI. furniture covered with
Beauvais. It consists of a sofa and six
chairs, and the set is valued at $50,-
000. Two unusually large and beauti
ful Burgundian tapestries are re
markable for the vivacity of the fig
ures and colors.
NEW AMERICAN JUDGE IN CHINA.
Judge R. H. Thayer Chosen to Succeed
L. H. Wilfley.
Washington.—Judge Rufus H. Thay
sr has been chosen by the president to
take the place at Shanghai just re
algned by L. H. Wilfley of Missouri.
Judge Wilfley was the first American
sent to preside over the new court
In China, and he promptly made him
self unpopular by his rigid enforce
ment of the rules of practice. Charges
JWGE S. H. THAYER
were made against him, but were dis
proved. After meeting them success
fully, he resigned.
What He Forgot.
A party of young fellows on board a
Cunarder caused some trouble to the
laptain and the rest of the crew by
ihelr pranks. For the want of some
thing more foolish to do, one of them
at last gave a large party, at which
champagne was partaken of freely by
all, especially by Brown, the host.
Next morning one of the number
rose early. As he was leaving his
berth he was approached by the stew
ard.
"Beg pardon, sir. Mr. Brown would
like to see you in his cabin."
The early riser went and found
Brown with a wet towel round his
head.
"Hullo, old chap; how are you?" he
cried.
"Oh, I'm all right,' said Brown. "I
wasn't really drunk, you know, I re
member everything that happened—
that is, excepting one thing. I say, old
chap, who paid for the cab?"
He Knew.
Medium (after the seance) — Can
any one tell me how spirits could have
gotten into the room and moved the
furniture when all the doors were
locked?
Bright boy (raising his band)
With skeleton keya
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