J. Kiron, DRAYNAN. Especial care and prompt at. tention given to moving of Planes, Hotsshold Geeds, Safes CAFE Best of Everything * Lockhart St. Sayre LAWS & WINLACK, at Law. . . TRANSACTED. LAWS BUILDING, 119 DESMOND BY, Valley Phone 180-A. agra gr ALEX D. STEVENS, INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. LOCKHART BT.. EAYRE. al El lai H. L. TOWNER, M.D. a Specialties. Born to hr AT oY pa BLOCK. Vslley Telephone 17x 138 Loathai £} E. N. DUNHAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Qfffos:—Rooma ¢ and §, Eimer Block, A ~ GOOD DINNER will loose half its z:st with- out a glass of good ale such as DID NOT POISON HER TESTIFIES THAT HE LOVED HIS WIFE Ascused Toms River Physician De- seribed Fully Last Illness of Dead Weman—Sald Death From Bright's Disease. TOMS RIVER, N, J, Oct. 16—Dr. Frank J. Brouwer, on trial charged with the murder of his wife by poison, went on the stand (no his own defense. “As God Is my judge I never gave my wife arsenic!” he cried dramatical- In nuswer to questions. “I never ve ber any poison except as my judg. ment as a physician and her condition required.” He told of his boyhood, his studies, bis marriage and his home building. With tears gtreaming down bis cheeks he denied that bis wife had ever ac cused him seriously of being unfaith- ful He denled positively the assertion of Elizabeth Hyer, his dead wife's sister, that he had threatened to get a divorce. “1 could vot, for I loved her,” he sald, declared that Benjamin Hyer had but half the truth In opder to make & petty incident related In his testi- mohy appear Important, Dr. Brouwer described fully his wife's last |llness and the treatment given by himself and the other physi cians calied In to attend her. _ Dr, Brouwer took the stand just be- fore noon. He said he was thirty-six years old and was born In Jersey City. His father died before be was two years old. His mother then went to live In Cedar Creek, Ocean county, N. J. He went to school there from the time Le was six years old and later at- tended school in Providence, R. I, un- til he was sixteen years old. Dr. Brouwer sald that on the last night of his wife's Hliness he gave her brandy and one twentieth of a grain of strychalne. “Did the enema pdministered include strychnine 7” asked Mr. Carmichael. “Noi it did not,” was the reply. “Did you at any time give your wife arsenlo?’ “No; I never gave arsenic to Mrs Brouwer.” “Did you gver prior to or during your wife's lines} give her strychnine?” ‘As God Is my judge, I never gave my wife any strychnine except lo the ong instance the night before she died.” “Did you ever put ln your wife's med- icine or food powdered glass?’ "No; I did not.” “Did you ever do muythiug to cause your wife's death “1 did not.” Dr. Brouwer denled that his wife was ever jealous, although she some times spoke about women who visited his office and after they had goue would ask who they were and what they wanted. “Did your wife ever speak to you about Miss McClenahan or Miss Kearns asked Mr. Johnson. “No; she did not,” the witness re plied. Dr. Brouwer sald that he had pever walked on the street with Miss Kearns, but one octasion took her for a carriage ride. He denied that Le ever told any one he would get a divorce or that he ever beard his wife say she would apply for a djvorce. t about the testimony of Ben- Jamin Hyer to the effect that you once struck your wife?” “Ben Hyer only told half the truth, to my detriment. My wife wanted to punish one of our little boys, and I did not want it. But I never struck her.” “Did your wife ever complain of kid- ney trouble before her last sickness?’ “Yes, and Dr. Cate attended her for it. “What did Mrs. Brogpwer eat just be- fore she was taken 117’ “At about 8 o'clock In the evening she ate canned soup and corn, potatoes, cottage cheese, Lreak and butter, wa- termelon and drank a bottle of beer.” “Did she eat any more that even- ing?’ “Yes. About 10 o'elock she ate three onjon sandwiches and a slice of water- melon and drank more beer.” The witness sald that his wife's sick- ness, In his opinien, was the result of overeating and was not caused by Im pure food. He thought that rn too bearty meal bad produeed cholera mor- bus, Dr. Brouwer sald the insurance on bls wife's life had not been collected. In filling out the proof of death he gave Bright's disease as the cause of death because he believed that that was the cause. Army of Cuban Pacification, WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 Hrigadier General Barry, acting chief of staff, has issued a general order Ly direction of the president that the military forces now assembled in Cuba are constituted an army fo be known as the army of Cuban pacification, under the command of Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell, Physician Des by Gas Method. CHICAGO, Oct, 18.—-Dr. M, G. Pin- gree, a cousin of former Governor Pin- gree of Michigan, committed suicide here by locking himself In his bath. room and turning on the gas Dr. Plu- gree had been a practitioner in Chicago for more than thirty years. No cause for the sulelde Is known. Fear Lynch Meh May Get Him. 10. —~Joda who was HEARST SCORES MAYER. Democratic nad Independence League Candidate on Tour, CORTLAND, N. Y, Oct. 18.—-An ex- ceptionally cordial welcome was ac conded here to William R. Hearst, Democratic and Independence league candidate for governor, A large crowd gathered at the sta- tion and lined the way to the hotel, and biz audiences cheered his two speeches. The opera house was filled to its capacity, and many, unable to gain entrance, crowded the street out- side. Mr. Hearst's own speech was In gen- eral a repetition of those he has heen delivering through the southern tler and included an especially vehement attack upon Attorney General Julius M. Mayer, whom he called a “discred ftad camp follower of these corpora: tions" and a “deserter from the cause of the people” Mr. Hearst will go from here to Syr acuse, thence to Fulton. where he will speak: thence the party will go to Os wego. In respousc to questions put to Lim Ly a number of up state newspaper meu Mr. Hearst declared that be bad himself spent more than $100,000 in the attempt to bave 4 recount of the votes cast In the last New York mayor- ally election. “I have not given up the fight,” sald he, “and 1 am In this fight to continue the struggle of last year" ENGLISH MINE DISASTER. Twenty-seven bodies Taken Out—-Two Hundred Imprisoned Underground. DURHAM, England, Oct. 16. —An ex- plosion occurred lu the Wingate col- liery, pear here, at about midnight. Over 200 men were entombed. Twenty- four bodies were taken out and thirty men were brought out alive from one gortion of the colllery, while forty-four were liberated from another. It is ex- pected that the 131 men, which It Is now announced are confined in n lower main, will be safely brought out before night. They bave signaled that they are all right and are not considered to be in danger. The total number of deatls from the explosion, which apparently was caus- ed by firedamp, Is twenty seven Many bodies of dead men are belong Slowly brought up. The first dead to appear were mostly old men, who had been employed as shifters and stone men. Eighty men were brought out alive. Many of these, however, are in a critical condition and quite uncon. scious. Hurricane's Damage $1,000,000, NEW ORLEANS Oct. 10. -Damages of fully $1,000,000, including the par tial demolition of one town, was done by the hurricane ou the coust of Cen- tral America, which was reported by a brief wireless message roceived here The hurricane appeared ccutral near Bluefields, on the east coast of Nica- ragua. It swept in from the sea, its first fury striking Little and Great Corn Islands, which were swept bare of vegitation and their topography even altered by the waves. On the mainland the storm's datage was confined most. Iy to a path about thirty miles wide, in which banana and rubber crops were destroyed and plantations blown down, Great demolition was reported from Rama, a coast town. Will Henor English Scientist. BOSTON, Oct. 16.—S8ir William Hen: ty Perkin, the Fnglish sclentist, who bas been visiting this city, has left for Washington. He was accompanied by Lady Perkin and his two daughters After a short visit In Washington the party will visit Niagara Falls, Mont. real, Quebec and other points of In. terest In Canada, after which Sir Wil. liam will return cast to receive honor ary degrees from Columbia college and Johns Hopkins university. Storm's Serious Damage at Naples. NAPLES, Oct. 16. — The damage wrought Ly the recent storm in this vicinity are very serious. Travel on the raliroad up Mount Vesuvius has been Interrupted, and the lone Itself bas been partially destroyed. Many houses have beon literally surrounded by the waves of mud. Several houses In Ottajano, which were damaged by the volcanic outbreak of April, have fallen. An avalanche of mud bas In. vaded Bosco Trecase, Third Term as a Duty. COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 10—General Charles H. Grosvenor, congressman from the Eleventh district, in an arti. cle on the subject “A Third Term For the President,” written for the Ohlo Magazine, concludes that no man who Las Leen elected ta the office of pres ident has a worsl right to refose a re- election If the people demand ft Will Not Arrest Peabody. FRANKFORT, Ky. Oct. 18 ~Insur ance Commissioner Prewitt was not at his office to answer questions as to the report that President Peabudy of the Mutual Life Insurance company would be arrested ou his arrival in Frankfort today, but It was under stood that no such action would be taken by the commissioner, Boni Spurns Wife's Offer. PARIS, Oct. 16.-0On the eve of the trial of the suit for divorce brought by the Countess de Castellane against her husband, Count Boul, noe compromise has been effected. The count has re fused the offer made in bebalf of the countess to settle a very liberal fixed lucome on the father of her children On Eve of Thelr Wedding. CHICAGO, Oct, 1 Charles Wil tiams, colored, shot and lastantly killed Mamie Nichols, algo colored, bere and then committed suicide. The couple AN AGED DOCUMENT Weightman Suit For Vast For- tune Mysteriously Halted, SIXTY MILLIONS IN THE BALANCE. Litigation Was Instignied by Mrs. Wister Against Estate to Show That There Was a Coadiell 10 Mil. Honalre Chemist's WIL, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16. The con fest maugurated to have declared In: valid the will of William Weightman, the millionaire chemist, who died leas [Ag an estate valued at about $40.000,- 000, was called for a hearing before Judge Ashman io the orphans’ court, but was ubexpectally postponed after two-witnesses had been examined The legal fight was abruptly halted by the production of a swall white piece of notepaper that Lad turned yel low with age. What the plece of pa- per contalus was not wade public, and the less than a dozen persons who have seen It have pledged themselves never to reveal its contents There are wany surmiscs as to the nature of the contents of the paper, but none of them can be confirmed ext MHS. ANNIE W When Mr. Jobusom, counsel for Mrs. Walker, was asked what it contained he sald “1 will not teil. It is beyond human possibility for that paper to be made public.” Richard WW. Meirs, sou-in-law of Mrs Wister and neplicw of Mrs. Walker, who Is siding with his aunt, sald he hoped it would never see the light of day. “I would rather have iy tougue cut out than reveal what was in that paper,” he sald, William Weightman was the founder of the Powers & Weightman firm of chemists, which sluce his death has be come the PPowers-We ghtman Itosen- garten company. He was known to bare acquired a vast fortune, and when he died the public generally was sur. prised to find that nearly all of the vast forinue wag bequeathed to Mr. Welght nan’s daugliter, Mra. Aunle Welghtman Walker. ‘The sult to set aside the will was lnstituted by Mrs Jones Wister, who was a daughter inlaw of Mr. Weightman, but who retunrried at the death of her busbaud, John Weight man Mrs. Wister ou behalf of her mirror daughter, Martha Welghtman, seeks to prove that Mr. Weightman left a codlell to Lis will amply providing for his granddaughter and the other heirs of the estate. Mrs. Walker de- nies that any such codicil exists and says the will probated was her fatlier's last snd full expression of his desires in the matter If the will Is ULrokea five grand daughters and a graudson of Mr Weightman will be benefited. The case has attracted considerable atten tion because of the soclal prominence of those concerned Castro at Denth's Door, PORT-OF SPAIN, Islind of Trini dad, Oct, 14 Latest advices received here from Caracas, Venezuela, says that the condition of President Castro, who has been HH for sone thue past, Las grown worse. It 1s added that he can no longer speak or move and that Lis death might occur jo a few days fn order to conceal the real facts lo the the uewspapers of Caracas bave Leen publishing reports of acts of clemency on the part of the president Case Ship Lay on Sand AI Night, EUREKA, Cal, Oct. 16. After lying all wight on the hard sand off South spit, at the sutmmnee of Eureka harbor, where she went ashore, the steamer Roavoke, carrying 320 passengors, was Hoated during the day The steamer Scotia, which also stranded, wos toat ed, and both vessels salled for Sun Francisco, Hefuses Stores to Potomac. ST. JOHN'R, N. F., Oct. 16.-The coloulal ministry has refused the American naval tug Potowac, which Is now at Bay of Islands, free entry for stores In spite of the not that this concession Is mccorded French war ships bu these waters Miners’ Ceoungress Upens, DENVER, Oct. 16 -Men known in the mining Indastry throughout the world are gathered In Deaver at the convention of the American mining congress, which here today, there being nearly 1.00 delegates pres. eat, opened Cannon In Vieginin, WYTHEVILLE, Va, Oct. 16. Bpeak- er Joseph Gi. Cannon of the national of representatives spoke at the Bouse here om ““Tnrl® Protec HUGHES T0 SPEAK AT WAVERLY Speech at Opera House at 10:30 a. m.-—Reception Will Follow Speech. © Waverly —At a meeting held last night at the office of Hon Bryan L. Winters plans were made for the reception of the Republican candidate for governor, Chas, E Hughes, who will in Waverly on Wedaesday, Oceoder 24. A committee, of which Mr, Winters is the chairman, was appointed to meet Mr. Hughes, and the Boys band was engaged to furnish music for the occasion. A speech will be delivered at 10:30 in the morning in the Loomis opera house, and alter the meeting there will be a reception given him in Mr. Winter's offices in ths Olid Fellow's temple, at which tims an opportunity will be given to all to meet the man whom the Repub. lican party expects to see placed in the executive chair, Plans weré also made for the conduct of the campaignin Waverly, and com- mittees were appointed for each voting district in the village to lock up the voters, see that they are registered and that a large vote is polled on election day. JUDGE DAWSON LEAVES Waverly—Judge William Daw- son, who has been the representa- tive of the Sayre Times at Waver ly for several years past, has re. signed his position and gone to Newark, N. J, where he will work for the M. P. A. The judge has made many friends during his so journ in Waverly who will wish him the best of good forture in the new business that he has taken up. HUGHES' LONG ISLAND TOUR. Candidate For Governor Hides In Engine Cab Hetvween Stations, BAG HARBOR, N.Y, Oct. 16.—In n campaign tour which started from the borders of Greater New York and end ed at this quaint little fishing village, far to the eastward of Long Island, Charles E. Hughes, the Republican eandidate for governor, set a new mark In the state campaign. He delivered no less than fifteen speeches In villages and towns along the south shore of the island and was greeted at each place by considerable gatherings, the number of hearers varying with the size of the place Mr. Hughes made the journey in a special train of two cars and an engine and rode belween two of the stations in the cab of the engine. It was his frst experience In this line, aud he de clared he thoroughly enjoyed it. The arduous task set for the candidate has told upon him somewhat, and when he spoke here his volce was beginning to show evidence of the strain. The tour Is to be practically duplicat. ed, as when Mr, Hughes starts back for New York he will speak at a num ber of places along the north shore and In the center of Long Island. A feature of his meetings was the large number of women and children in the various audiences. At Rockville Center, Freeport and Patchogue, whare the largest crowds were gathered, the school children were given the places of honor, and Mr. Hughes addressed g number of remarks to thew. He told them to study the history of the United States and to be proud of thelr Institu tions. He told the children to read Abraham Lincoln aud to be like him as far as It wos In their power Prominent Georgian Shot, VIDALIA, Ga, Oct 16 —~Willlam T Gliplo, u lumber Inspector, shot WW McDonald, former mayor aud a prowl nent lawyer of Douglas, at Rime's ho tel. Gllpin learned that McDonald had arravged to meet Mm. Gllpin at the ho- tel. Gilpin secreted bimself in the root And shot McDonnkd when the latter and Mrs, Glipin entered. Me Ronald survived the shooting twelve hours. Gilpin and bis wife surrender. ed to the officers, and both have bean taken to jall Trolley Wreck at Uniontowas, Pa. UNIONTOWN, Pa, Oct. 10.-Eight persons were injured, three perhaps fatally, ln a rear and collision of trolley cars here. The three seriously hurt lost their Jegs. All the Injured were in the first car. The three men whose legs were cut off were In the rear end, and thelr were caught between the bumpers Exposure Brings on Rheumatism Paloful in its mildest form, Yaicily An agony or tortare if When feal the first legs SAM JONES NO MORE Noted Evangelist of the South Dies on Train. UNIQUE SAYINGS MADE HIM FAMOUS With Wife and Fomivy Was on His Way te Cartersville (Ga. Home, Where Today He Plansed Birthday Celebration, MEMPHIS, Tenu, Oct. 18 — Sam Jones, the noted evangelist, died in an Oklahoma, Choctaw and Gulf near Little Rock. Mr. Jones Lad been conducting a most successful revival at Oklahoma City, I. T., and left there for Lis Lome In Georgia He desired to attend a family reunion today, being the fAifty- ninth agniversary of his birth Mrs. Jones and his daughters, Mrs Annie Pyron and Miss Julia Jones, were with’ when he passed aw ay Mr. Jones arose from his berth In the sleeping car about 0 o'clock In the morning and complaloed of nausea, He dragk a glass of hot water aud im- mediately afterward collapsed. The Rev. Walt Holcomb, who had been associated with Mr, Jones for a num- ber of years, took the dying man In his arms, and In a few minutes the evan- gvlist breathed his last. Mr. Joues' home was at Cartersville, Ga Samuel Porter Jones was born in Chambero county, Ala, Oct. 16, 1847 He moved to Cartersville, Ga, in 1850 and ten years later was admitted to the Georgia bar His health broke down, und he began to drink, wrecking his career as a lawyer. In 1572 he pro- fessed religion and became a clergy- man in the M. E. Church South. Subsequently he devoted most of Lis time to evangelist work, Loldlng re vival services in almost every city in the United States. His success ns a revivalist was marvelous. His power over his nudiences was that of a wan Inspired His unconventional style of speak ing is shown in some of the following aphorisies, which Lave wade his ser mons fae We sce God mountaius ar train ill around us. The Gud's thoughts upheav- The rivers are God's thoughts in motion. The oceans are God's thoughts imbedded Ihe are God's thoughts ln pearls “I believe that the whale swallowed Jonal, and the only reason I don't be Heve that Jonah swallowed the whale is because the Bible doesn't Say so ‘You don't believe what you don't understand. Do you understand why folie cows have Lorns and some are mulley ¥ “You don't believe what you don't see, Did you ever see your backbone? ‘The hardest things for me to bellove are the Ten Commandments and the kermom on the mount “Custom is the law of fools and Is runnlog this country “God pity the man who can't run his home without a deck of cards. He ought to have been in hell long before he had children born unto him “1 used to dance, but when 1 wanted a wife I went to the prayer meeting “If any man don't like what I say let him come to me afterward and say so, and I'll—forgive him “You dance with this world and you'll go to hell with this world “Some men think they have back- bone, but it Is nothiug but a cotton string run up thelr backs “There Is more religion in laughing than in crying. If religion cousists In crylug 1 have the best boy in the world. “God bores through the top of a man's head to his heart aud ou down to his pocket” ol dewdrups Will Not Commute Sentence. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. ~The pres|- dent has decided not to commute the sentences of death imposed on Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer, two North Carolina negroes convicted of murder and mutiny. They were found guilty of murdering Captain Rummlll, the mate, the steward and engineer of the steamer Berwind on the high seas Scott, one of the negroes of the crew, has already been hanged for his partic ipation In the crime For Good of the Dank, TORONTO, Oct. 10-—General Man ager McGill of the wrecked Ontario bank admits a shortage of $1,250 (x) Bapkers in estimating the probability of their guarantee being enforced place the loss through McGill's speculations at $300,000 higher. McGill also admit ted that these speculations were car ried on without the directors’ knowl edge, but, he declares, for the ultimate good of the bank Bolivar National flank Heopens. WASHINGTON, Oct 1 --The Boll var National bank at Bolivar, Pa. which suspended payment aml was placed In the hands of n receiver, has been permitted to resume business as an active national banking association, Declines Senatorial Nomination, BUFFALO, Oct 18 -~Willlam Ten. Jost has declined the Republican sega torial nomination In the Forty-nioth district for business reasons Chilean (tnbinet Nesigne SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct, 16 Ax 8 Te «ult of its defeat over the nomination of a member of the council of state the cabinet has resigned Life Imprisonment For Assault, LEMARS, In, Oct 16 Judge Hatch Insan sentenced Tom Davis, a negro, te life imprisonment for assaulting a white girl, Ww eat! her Probabilities. Fair; northeast winds, PRICE ONE CENT SEASONABLE Merchandise AT THE Globe Warehouse New Arrivals New line of plaid belts, Roman stripes, elc., prices from 25¢ up. All over laces in black, cream and white. This is a lace year, every cul in the fashicn sheeke for lace yoke and sleeves. 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