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EODDA, Next Door to the Fruit Store, Elm Street, Tionesta, Pa. LAWYERS ARRAIGNED Patent Attorneys Allegedto Have Tampered With Affidavits. Edwin H. Rlsley and His Son, Former Deputy Attorney General Everett E. Rlsley. Both of Utlca, Charged With Fraudulently Altering Docu ments. Edwin H. Rlsley, for 47 years a practitioner at the Oneida county bar, und Lis son, former Deputy Attorney General Everett E. Rlsley, both of Utlca, N. Y., and widely known as patent attorneys, who were arrested on' a chargo of offering In evidence in a supreme court action nn affi davit that Is alleged to have been fraudulently altered, were arraigned for examination before Supreme Court Justice Merrell at Herkimer. They were held in $1,000 ball for action of the grand Jury. The alleged fraudulently altered affidavit was of fered In evidence in the court In Her kimer on Feb. 7 In the case of Lewis Bennett vs. the Ironclad Manufactur ing company of New York city. The action was commenced severl years ago to collect royalties from the Ironclad company. Papers on nn ap peal In the case were placed on file In the office of the Heiikmer county clerk end when an affidavit by Edwin R. Gil man, counsel of tho manufacturing company, was offered In evidence be fore Justice Merrell, Attorney Mellor charged that the words "the same" bad been inserted In the affidavit changing its meaning materially. Evi dence was presented in substantiation of the charge. JENKS FOUND GUILTY Cornell Student Convicted of "Rough House" In Ithaca Theater. Renjamln L. Jenks, the son of J. W. Jenks, the wellknown Cornell pro fessor and government .expert, was found guilty of disorderly conduct at the Lyceum theater on the night of Feb. 4, when a party of Cornell stu dents "rough-housed" a show at Ith aca, N. Y. His trial was conducted In police court and he was sentenced to pay a fine of $20 or go to Jail for 20 days. His lawyers obtained a stay and are considering taking an appeal to tha county court. Cassadaga Man Drops Dead. Truman Richardson of Cassadaga., N. Y-, dropped dead in the waitlngroom r the Buffalo & Lake Erie Traction company at Fredonla, N. Y. He had just bought a ticket for Buffalo and as he waa walking across the room, stag gered and fell. He was carried into the private office of Superintendent William Schwartfager and a physician was called. Dr. Johnson, whose office is on the second floor of the building, came at once, but the man was dead when he reached him. His death was due to apoplexy. He was C3 ears old und unmarried. New Policy at Elmira College. President A. C. McKenzle of Hie Elmira, N. Y., college has announced a new policy in the college curricu lum. That policy is the establishment of three new courses. First, a music course, leading to a degree, and sec ond, two vocational courses, as they are called, leading to degree. The current year Is a particularly notable cne In history of the college for it marks the opening of the new science hall, rlw gift of Andrew Carnegie, In addition to the broadening of the cur riculum on the lines stated. Ex-Senator Gardner Acquitted. Former Senator Frank J. Gardner of Brooklyn was acquitted of the chargo of offering Otto G. Foelker $12,000 for his vole on the Hart-Agncw bills in 1908. after the Jury before Justice Seabury In the criminal branch of the supreme court had been out an hour and had taken four ballots, the first standing eight for acquittal, the sec ond 10 and the third 11 for acquittal. Bought Congress Spring Park. Congress Spring park, one of the most famous parks In the state, was bought by Saratoga, N. Y., and v. Ill be added to the state mineral springs reservation for which the state has authorized an expendi ture of $C()0,000. The reservation com mission which has in chargo the pur chase of the spring properties recently acquired for the slate the Carlsbad and two Hothorne springs. Ithaca Newspaper Plant Burns. The plpnt of the Ithaca, New York, Chronicle and Democrat, one of the oldest weekly papers In that part, of the state, was burned at an early hour Sunday morning, causing a loss of about $10,000. The Chronicle was the publisher of the Cornell Daily Sun and other student ond university publications. Robinson For Assembly. Theodore Douglas Rablnson, neph ew of former President Roosevelt, has teen In Little Falls, N. Y.,, several times last week running over from the family estate at Warren and to sever al of his friends he has announced his intention of being a candidate for the Republican nomination fon member of assembly from Mcrkimci county this year. LOUIS D. BRAND EIS Lawyer Is Highly Pleased Over the Railroad Rate Decision. FULL OF ENTHUSIASM Fruit Growers of State Form a New Organization. A new organization was formed und officeis were elected by two asso ciations at Ithaca N. Y., in connection with the farmers' week events at the Cornell State College of Agriculture The new body Is the New York State Fruit Growers' association. Following are its officers: President, C. P. White of Iona; vice president, M. H. Holinwood of Orchard Park; secretary, Paul Work of Ithaca; treasurer, C. H. Aldrlch of Mattituck. The New York Slate Drainage as sociation elected these officers: Presi dent, Professor Elmer O. Phippln; sec retary, I. C. H. Cook of South Byron; treasurer, C R. White of Iona. The New York Plant Breeds, asso ciation elected: President, Samuel Frazer of Geneseo; vice president, Herbert P. King of Trumnnsburg; sec retary, Arthur W. Gilbert or Ithaca; treasurer, George R. Shauber of Ball ston Lake; executive committee, U. P. Hedrlck of Geneva. E. W. Mosher of Aurora and J. P. Eastman of Morris ville. BULLET PIERCES HIS HEART Aged Canand.-.igua Business Man Kills Himself Accidentally. John Reznor, aged 68 years, business man. philanthropist and highly re spected citizen of Canandalgua, N. Y., met a tragic death, when an old revolv er, he was cleaning, was discharged, inrt the bullet entered his heart kill ing him Instantly. Sir. Re.nor, who had recently re tired from nctlve business, was In the office of the carriage works, which he had conducted for 36 years, when he happened to think that an old revolv er, which had laid for years in the eafo untouched, might be useful at the house. He got It out, sat down nt a desk and with oil and cloth went at it. Fif teen minutes later workmen in the building heard the report of a pistol. Albert Van D'isen, a woodworker, who was In the same room, saw Mr. Rez nor sink In the chair and groan. Charles Swazcy, proprietor of the place, was In an adjoining room. He rushed to Mr. Reznor, took him In Ms arm. There was one gasp and tho pulse stopped. Physicians sum moned d'd not reach the man until several minutes after he had breathed his last. POLICE INTERCEP'TeLOP ERS Eva Dennlson, 17-Year-Old Daughter of Hornell's Postmaster, Disappears With Her Aunt's Suitor. Miss Eva Dennlson, daughter of Postmaster and Mrs. George Dennlson of Hornell, N. Y.t returned home after a romantic elopement with Emil Hot tlnger of New York. A few months ago Hottlnger ndvertised for a bride, and Miss Dennison's maiden aunt, it Is said, answered the advertisement. Correspondence is alleged to have fol lowed and Hottlnger had gone to Rex vlile. While there he fell In love with the niece, aged 17 years, and the elope ment wa.s the outcome. Postmaster TJennlson at once notified the New York police and when the couple alighted from the train at Jersey City they were met by an officer. Hottlng er Is 27 years old. Dennlson has now changed her mind about marrying Hottlnger and is glad to get back home. The elope ment took place on Wednesday. Shepard Quits Senatorial Rar.9. Edward M. Shepard Is out the New York Statu senatorial race. He announced his withdrawal In a long letter to Montgomery Hare, who had been acting as his political man ager. The letter was written at Mr. Shep ard's Prookbn home on Saturday aft er a series of conferences with his po litical advisers and his personal friends and the Insurgents who are op nosing William F. Sheehan. Sudden Death Followed Banquet. While returning fiom a banquet at Hotel Rochester in Rochester, N. Y. Margaret Cleary cf Corning. N. Y., feli to the pavement with an Illness from which she. died a bhort time afterward THAW WRITES TO DIX Letter Tells of Alleged Cruelties at Matteawan. Investigation Into Alleged' Harshness of Attendants at Asylum Said to Be Sufficiently Substantiated Nugent's Case Attendant McDonald's Dis charge Urged. Albany, Feb. 28. Governor Dix re ceived a letter from Harry K. Thaw last night, In which he told of alleged cruelties practiced on inmates by at tendants at Matteawan. The letter was turned over to William Church Os borne, legal advisor to the Governor, who is conducting for the Governor, with Mayor Van Kennen, the Investi gation of stTte departments. Members of the ft ate lunacy com mission had a conference with Gov ernor Dix and gave him a preliminary report as to their investigation into the charges of alleged cruelties prac ticed on Inmates at Matteawan. It la stated that In their preliminary reports the commissioners told Governor Dix that. they had found sufficient evidence o convince them of the truth ot "harges ag?!nst Attendant William McDonald of cruelties and harshness towards Inmates. The lunacy commis sioners have advised McDonald's dis charge by Dr Lamb, Superintendent of Matteawan, forthwith. McDonald, It Is stated, was not concerned In the alleged brutality practiced on John J. Nugent, the Matteawan patient who died at the hospital February 3. As to the Nugent, case the commis sioners reported to the Governor that the Invesligatton which they had bo pun had been postponed until after the district attorney of Dutchess county shall have completed his In quiry Into the circumstances .unwind ing the case. Dr. Albert W. Ferris, president of the lunacy commission, who was pres ent at the second autopsy on Nugent's body, reported to the governor that it was the opinion of the physicians that the condition of Nugent's heart was suhc that violent exercises or a strug gle might have caused death. PATIENT TESTIFIES Declares Attendant George Galbraith Struck John E. Nugent at Matteawan. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 28. John Seery, n patient at the Matteawan state hospital for the criminal insane, In a statement made here to Assistant Attorney Edward A. Conger, declared that he saw George Galbraith, an at tendant, strike John E. Nugent, the patient whoso lifeless body was found on the floor of his room In the Mattea wan asylum on the morning of Friday, Feb 3. This story is In contradiction of the story told by Galbraith last Saturday night In v. '..ich Galbraith gave testi mony on which Daniel Riley, another attendant, was arrested. Much Importance Is attached to Seery's Insistence that the beating of Nugent took place on Wednesday, Feb. 1st, whereas the story of Galbraith Is that Riley did the beating on Thurs day, Feb. 2d, Nugent's lifeless body being found Friday morning, Feb. 3d. STILL NO CLUE Detectives Have Not Yet Found Trace of Mrs. Drummcnd's Gemr. New York, Feb. 28. The public and private detectives who were hustling for clues that might lead to the crook who got away with Mrs. Maldewln Drummond's $130,000 worth of pearls and diamonds, on board the ITnmburg Amerlcan liner Ametika last Saturday night, have no clue. Mrs. Drummond Is still at the Hotel Plaza with her husband. The Drummonds were more insistent than ever today that their servants must 'not be suspected. Mrs. Drum mond told Assistant General Manager Meyer of the line when she talked to hi in that her maid was not in the state room when she undressed and put her Jewels In the writing desk. The maid waa not feeling well and went early to her own room, so Mr. Drummond CU the unhooking. Mr. Drummond's valet, she declared, was net In Mrs. Drummond's stateroom at any time. The robbery did not lie within the field of the New Yoik police and so there was nothing for Flynn's men to do but look In the pawnshops and send out circulars describing the Jewelry. BOY SHOT DEAD IN PLAY With a Group of Other Lads He Was Enacting "Wild West." Philadelphia. Feb. 28. John Kelly, 15 years old, was Hhot and instantly killed by James Engle 10 years old, whll" playing cowboy and Indian with a number of other boys on a lot near their homes, In West Philadelphia. The boys have been accustomed to niP"t on a lot every Sunday and repro duce Wild West shows. On previous occasions they have been contented with rope lassos and ap pistols, but bst night, two of the older boys pur chased a small rifle and brought it to the lot today. Eni;le, nrnif d with this weapon, was being pursued by John Kelly with a lasso, when, according to witnesses, Erigle, without looking, turned und fired Kelly I 'll with a bullet through II;, heart. PANAMA BANK ROBBERY Thieves Enter Institution on Isthmus Through Tunnel Half a Block Long. Panama, Feb. 28. A moat daring and clever robbery was perpetrated here last night, when thieves effected an entrance Into the offices of the Panama Banking company by means of a tunnel which extended half a block to the bottom of the vault. Three Americans are said to have done the work, which occupied them for six months with the use of modern appliances. The thieves escaped In morning In a gasoline launch. The authorities are pursuing them. No blame attaches to the manager of the bank. The amount of money the robbers secured car.not be definitely ascertained. BABY'S BODYS BLOCK SEWER Street Commissioner's Investigation Reveals Dead Infant. Scranton, Pa., Feb. 28. Street Com missioner Bolglnlck of Dickson city, found the body of an Infant In the sew er pipe at Mensll's saloon. Something was blocking the pipe, and when the street commissioner In vestigated, he made his find. The cor oner says the baby was prematurely born. WOULD PROHIBIT PROFANITY ON STAGE Ordinance Now Being Consider ed by New York Aldermen. New York, Feb. 28. The board of aldermen hekl a hearing on proposed ordinance of Alderman Mulhearn to prevent the usa of blasphemy on the stage. The ordinance was drawn up because ot the frequent use of the word "damn" In one of Clyde Fitch's plays. Mr. Mulhearn said: "1 don't claim to be an angel, but when folks delib erately come or the stage with pro fanity I'm opposed to it. This ordi nance ought to Include moving pic tures as well. Why, I went to a smok er in the Bronx one night and saw a picture that Comstock never came across In his raids." "Speaking of profanity," Alderman Levin observed later, "Alderman WH IG rd is just after telling me that Shakespeare, who wrote some ot the most renowned books In the world, used 154 hells and 1S1 damns or words to that effect. We don't have works of that Hind now, Mr. Mulhearn. We're not up to date." Mr. Mulhearn conceded that times had advanced. The debate swung to the question, "What Is profanity?" "If I was to tell you to go to hell, is that a disorderly act?" Alderman John J. White wanted to know. Arthur S. Cclhorne, president of the autl-pro-fanity league, thought It would be. The chairman felt impelled to men tion towns whose theatres were worse than New York. One of them was Al bany. Yes, Albany was pretty bad, Mr. Colhorne admitted, and he knew ot Western cities even worse. 'Oh, I never took Albany seriously ns a city," Alderman Mulhearn said, ''and I probably know It as well as any of you." After further debate it was suggest ed that the ordinance now in the com mittee providing for a board of 25 theatrical censors would sufficiently purify the stage. Among the organisations represent ed at the hearing were the Long Island chapter, Knights of Columbus, the men's class of Grace Presbyterian church, Brooklyn; the Holy Name So ciety and the German Catholic Feder ation. HUPPUCH RESIGNS Quits State Chairmanship to Take Up Duties as Public Service Commission. Albany, .N. Y., Feb. 28. John A. Mason, secretary of the Democratic State Committee, who is also secre tary to Governor Dix, received a letter from Winfleld A. Huppuch, resigning his position as chairman of the com mittee In view of his appointment as a member of the upstate public service commission. Mr. Huppuch will assume his duties as public service commis sioner tomorrow, displacing John W. Carlisle of Watertown, whose term ex pired on Feb. 1 last. In his letter to Secretary Mason, resigning the chair manship, Mr. Huppuch says: "It Is with much regret that I tender to tho Democratic State Committee through yon ns Its secretary my resig nation as Its chairman. 1 feel, In view of my shortly assuming the position ns one of the public service commission of the Second district to which 1 was recently appointed by Governor Dix, that It will not bo compatible with the duties I will be called upon to perform, for me to retain the chair manship of our shtate committee. "I wish t take this opportunity of thanking the members of the commit tee for the hearty and entmislasllc support which they have accorded me since tho dale of my assuming the duties us chairman and without which l.upport, It would have been Impossible to have wm our great victory ol November 1." NEWS! PARAGRAPHS Summary of the Week's News of the World. Happenings From All Parts of the Globe Put Into Shape For Easy Reading What All the World Is Talking About Cream of the News Culled From Long Dispatches. Wednesday. Senator Aldrlch has Informed Pres ident Taft that he favors approval of the Canadian reciprocity agreement. Boilermakers and their 'helpers struck at various points on the New York Central lines In response to a call for a general strike. China is beginning to enforce sani tary measures to check the spread of the plague; bodies are being burned In all the Infected regions. China's reply to Russia's ultimatum Is apparently satisfactory to the Rus sian minister, and the dispute Is ex pected to be speedily ended. General Navarro captured Guada lupe without fighting, according to a dispatch from El Paso, and Madero, the Insurgent leader, retreated; anoth er dispatch said that 90 rebels were killed. Thursday. The Irish parliamentary party decid ed to take no part In the coronation ceremonies of King George. Tribesmen In Yemen captured a Turkish convoy and repulsed an at tempt to retake It; fifty men were killed. The Russian government la reported pleased with the tone of Chln.i's re ply to the demand regarding the treaty of 1881. A dispatch from New Orleans said that Manuel Bonllla and General Lee Chrlotmas denied violation of the neu trality laws, for which they were In dicted on Saturday in New Orleans. Governor Dix, who In January forced the state highways commission to hold up road building contracts (or nearly $4,000,000, reversed himself and in structed the commibslon to go ahead with the work. Friday. Haytlan troops began fighting among themselves; one man being killed and ten wounded. Four persons died and a fifth Is dy ing as the result of drinking wood alchohol at Horton, Sullivan county, N. Y. The house of commons, by a vote of Sol to 227, passed on first reading the parliament bill, curbing the power of the house of lords. After another conference nt New York police headquarters the father of Dorothy Arnold reiterated his belief that the missing girl was dead. A young man from Chicago, who eloped with and married a girl of 18, was arrested In New York for the Chi cago police on a charge of burglary. Saturday. The French minister of war, Gener al Brun, fell dead in his office. The entire population of a village near Harbin was discovered dead from the plague. The Russian governor of Tchernl gov, a province In Little Russia, ex pelled 219 Jewish families, marching them through heavy snow-drifts. Former Slate Senator Frank J. Gardner of New York was acquitted of the charge of attempting to bribe Ot to G. Foelker to vote against the anti racetrack gambling bills. Both In the Kastern and Western rate cases the Interstate commerce commission nnnounced at Washington thnt railroads were not entitled to any Increare In rates; the carriers were ordered to withdraw the proposed ad vancea by March 10, leaving the old rates in effect. Monday. Threo hundred native dwelling houses In the Tondo district, a suburb of Manila, were burned. The Buffalo end Rochester Ad clubs held a Joint meeting by means of tho telephone, although 69 miles apart. It was announced at Buenos Ayres that advices received there state that another revolution has started In Par agua. - The English Liberals are assured of the full government majority when the parliament bill comes up on second reading; the country shows apathy re garding the fight between tho houses. Statements expressing gratification at the approval of the new treaty with Japan were made at the state depart ment and at the Japanese embassy in Washington. Tuesday. A boy of fifteen was shot, dead by a lad of ten while thev were playing "wild west" In Philadelphia. Great gratification was expressed Japan over the ratification of the treaty with the United States. A sheriff's posse in Hellefnnlalne, O., saved a a farmer and his son from would-be-lyiuhers, following a fatal quarrel among neighbors. Vasquez Gomez, head of the Mex ican insurgent junta in Washington, said that he had received indirectly overtures for peace from the federal government. The bureau of statistics at Wash ington announced that the reports from this country In January 1911, showed a. gain of $r2,rino,000 over those ot Jan uary lust vear. Own Your Own Mind. Ilnve you ever cuusldered the possi bility of doing this": Remember that living in a rented mind, furnished with opinions bought on the installment plan, never utters any Inducement witb it for the future. Not only this, but you are not saving up anything. The advantages of owuiug your own mind will be apparent at a moment's thought. In the first place, you come to take a personal Interest, which you do not feel wheu it Is owned by some one else. Then ngaiu the natural Increase In value redounds to your own profit. You have no ouu to dictate to you aa to the inside furnishings und decora tions. Besides, it makes you more par ticular with regard to what you put into It. if you live In u rented mind you dou't care much. You will drlvn nails in the walls und get generally careless about It. But when you own your own mind you arc constantly go ing about picking It up. You take real pride In it. Be It ever so humble, there Is no place like a mind that you own your-self.-Life. Length of Dreams. Three physicians were discussing the matter of the length of dreams. "One afternoon," said one of them, "I called to see a patient, and. much to my satisfaction. 1 found him sleep ing soundly. 1 sat by Ii 1m bed, felt of bis pulse without disturbing hiui and waited for him to awaken. After n few minutes a Junk dealer's cart with discordant ringing bells turned Into the street, and as their first tones reached us my patleut opened his eyes. "'Doctor.' he said. 'I'm glad to seo you and awfully glad that you woke me, for I have been tortured by a most distressing dream that must have last ed for several hours. I dreamed that I was sick, as 1 am, and that my boy came Into the room with a string of most horribly sounding slelgbbells and rang them in my ears, while 1 hadn't power to move or speak to him. I suf fered tortures for what appeared to be an Interminable time. I'm so glad you woke me.' "Tho ringing of those bells for one second had caused nil of that dream and Just at the waking moment.'' Tough Turkey. Mark Twain when he worked In Ne vada on the Virginia City Enterprise Inserted In the news a good ninny boarding house jokes. Ill revenge the humorist's sensitive fellow boarders In Virginia City de cided to put up n game on him. They enlisted the landlady's help, and nt the Thanksgiving dinner nt the boarding bouse Mark Twain by a dexterous piece of sleight of hand wns served appar ently direct from the fowl with a tur key leg of painted wood. The humorist sawed away solemnly at the wooden leg for some time. Then he said to the landlady, with a smite: "You've changed your poultry dealer, haven't you. ma'am?" "Why. no. Mr. Clemens," she replied. "What makes you think so?" "This turkey." he answered, giving the wooden drumstick n little wbnek with his knife. "It's about tho tcuder est morsel I've struck In this house for somo mouths." A Modest Judge. A certain prominent English jurist wns transferred from the chancery court to the admiralty court rather un expectedly. While conversant with English law to a surprising degree, this gentleman had spent little time In marine law and wns rather dubi ous ns to Ills ability to cope with the duties of his new office. His colleagues. In recognition of the occasion, gave him n dinner, after which he wns called upon for an address. Ho made a long and serious speech, which embraced about everything from free trade to England's foreign policy. Then, paus ing a moment, he glanced round the crowded room and said: "Gentlemen, in closing I can think of no better words than Hie lines ot Tennyson: "And imiy there be no moaning" ot the bnr When 1 put out to sea." To Munch a Viper. Though the prescription seems to have disappeared from the pharmaco poeia of modern "beauty specialists," It was for centuries notorious that to feed on snake meat was the way to win perpetual youth; to cure goiter, again, or any other swelling, all that was necessary was to munch a viper, from the tall up, ns it might be a stick of celery, while yet another snake, if eaten, conferred the power of under standing all the tongues of birds. Costly Counsel, "I can understand all you have to say on the subject In an hour's time." snld the Judge. "Beg pardon, your honor," persisted tho young lawyer, "but I shall con sumo at least live hours lu my argu ment." "Very well; have it your own way." said the judge, witb reslguatiou. "But it will take the prisoner about five years to tell why he employed you." Harper's Weekly. Inherited. "Where did l'hiycm get his pro pensity for ballooning?" "I don't know, but his grandfather died In the nlr." "Above the trees?" "No; uuder one." New York Jouruul. The Greatest Financier. "Who was the greatest financier ever known?" "N'oali. because ho floated his stock when the whole world wns lu liquida tion.". Think of yotrt' wonderful immuulty from harm if you mlud your own business. Loouiln.