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Rich Carpets
Elegant Rugs
Tapestry, Brussels and Inerains, $5.00 to $50.00 each.
Mattings
In plain snd Carpet Patierns, 19¢ to 0c yard.
4 Linoleums
Tu plain, figured, and matting patterns, printed and Inlaid, 50c to
Lace Curtains
Arabians and whites S9¢ to $12.00 palr.
Novelty Curtains
Muslins and Nets 29¢ to $5.00 palr.
Tapestry Curtains
Shades
All colors and widths, 25¢ to $1.25.
{Home of E. F. Perkins Badly Damag-
ed—Blaze Was Caused By An Ex.
plesion of Gaseline.
Waverly—The residence of Edwin
F. Perkins at the corner of Chemung
and Broad streets was visited by a
disastrous fire shortly before noon
today. The fire was due to an explo-
sion of gasoline. Mr. Perkin's sis-
ter, Bessle Perkins, was in the kitchen
cleaning a skirt with gasoline. She
had a large sized dish full of the ex-
plosive liquid, and had been working
{with it for some time. The gas had
| accumulated throughout the lower
{part of the house, when It was sudden-
ly ignited. The flames Instantly
{spread through the lower part of the
i house, buring the carpets, ruiniug the
furniture, and destroying the paper on
the walls. The curtains and shades
‘at the windows in the parlor, which
iwas four rooms from the kitchen,
were almost entirely consumed. The
woodwork was all badly charred, and
{will have to be entirely replaced. All
{the furniture was ruined
| Miss Perkins was quite badly burn-
‘ed on the hands when the explosion
{took place, and it Is stated that her
| elothes caught fire. Her Injuries are
not considered serious. however
After the fire swept through the
{ house, it settled back Into the kitchen,
land when the firemen arrived, which
(they did very quickkly, there was
| practically no fire in the houge, and
{what little there was was confined to
ithe kitchen, or under the roof that
| covers that part of the house, which
{was only one story high, and it was
| quickly extinguished,
The amount of the loss is rather un-
{certain, but it will probably amount
ito nearly $1,500. >
| ‘The furniture is all ruined, and the
jentire lower part of the house will
{have to be refinished, and repapered
large citles, Seeing Is be.
$125 yar’
i
| Try Strong's cough syrup.
~ New Spring Cloth and Silk Coats
_ The largesl stock, the fowest prices. We invite your attention.
‘VILLAGE TRUSTEES
MET LAST NIGHT
Session Was Short and Devoted Most.
ly to Hearing Report of Committee
We solicit your Banking
business, and will pay you
threes per cent. Interest per
amnum fdr money Jaft on
Account.
The department of savings
is a special feature of this
ank, and all deposits. wheth-
or large or small, draw the
rate of Interest
On Fire Protection.
Waverly—The village trustees held
a meeting last evening. The session
was short, and very little business
war The report of the receipt
of $22000 paving tax from the W. S,
|& A Traction company was reported,
and one or two other matters dis-
i cussed
i The committee that had been ap-
| pointed to confer with the opera house
{owners relative to securing better
| means of escape In case of fire report-
ied They stated that a letter had been
received from the opera house people
ms : asking what steps the trustees de-
sired should be taken.
It was also reported that the com-
missioner of labor had been communi-
{cated with, and be stated that the reg-
ulations required that various means
of egress be provided so that they
could not all be cut off at oue time,
and that escapes and means of egress
should be in sufficient number to In-
sure the clearing of the buliding with-
in a very few minutes
one
NM. H. SAWTELLE,
ty
e Valley Record
WwW. T CAREY, Editor.
every afternoon except
at 203 West Lockhart street,
$3.00 per year; 26¢
ig rates reasonable,
on application.
d 3 Mond clase Juatter ; May
) ce at yre,
und in Be aon Congress of
3, 1879. :
the mews that's ft to print.”
BSDAY, MARCH 13,
WAVERLY
B “Wood, F Representative.
and
Hetowski Disqualified.
Waverly, March 12,1907.
To the Republican Committee of the
Village of Waverly, N. Y
Gentlemen: —1 find upon examina-
tion of the statute, that | am not qual-
ified for the office of Trustee, in that,
Ly the amendment of 1906, a person,
to be qualified for the office of trus-
tee, must be the owner at the time
of his election of property assessed to
him upon the last preceding assess-
ment roll of the village
While at the time of nomination at
the Republican caucus, | was owner
of property assessed upon the last
preceding assessment roll, such prop-
erty was nol assessed to me.
I write you this letter for the pur-
pose of enabling you to fill the va-
cancy caused by reason of my dis-
qualification Respectfully yours,
LEON 8. BETOWSKI.
1907
Mrs. Adeline Bennett of 114 Elm
street left on Lehigh train No. 7 this
afternoon to visit her son In Spring-
port, Mich, and relatives in Lans-
ing and Jackson, Mich.
Mr. and Mra. 8. R. Young left for}
Scranton, Pa, today, and will make
that city their home in the future.
| DEMOCR \TS FILL
| VACANT PLACES.
{Have Made Substitutions For the
i
Va.
cancies, and Only Two Places Are
Now Vacant. .
Waverly—Yesterday, the last day
{left for that purpose, the Democrats
{placed four names ou their ticket to
{fill places left vacant by withdraw-
of men nominated at their cau-
cus
als
BARRED CANDIDATE. ic erica
|
od on the Republican ticket also, takes
e place made vacant by the resig-
[on of E. E. Walker for trustee,
Po P. Teachman, treasurer, to re-
Horton, Cyrus Johnson,
|assorsor, replacing John Hair, and
Ineligible to Serve as Trustee—M. | Edward Palmer, street commissioner,
| replaces Horace Whitaker
The ticket is now complete except
Waverly—It was discovered yester- for one trustee, and police justice
that Dr. L. S. Betowskik, who |
S. Bennett Chosen to Fill Vacancy.
Salisbury — Baker.
for the office of village trus-|
Waverly—Last evening at the home
of Mrs. M. J. Baker G11 Waverly
wedding of her
idaughter, Miss Pearl Baker, and Jay
Salisbury of Custer, Ohio. The wed-
The law as it stood heretofore pro- | | ding ceremony was performed by the
in order.to be a| {Hev. HO B. Cook, and took place at
{eight o'clock. The couple, who were
Vinactompanted. were married under
bell flowers The bride was
that capacity. This was all | at
with regard to the
that is on the assessment roll. Last |
ja of
vell, and carried a bouquet of white
tulips. Miss Mame Clark played Lo-
{hengrin's wedding march. The cere-
mony took place in the parlor, which
{was decorated with white and green
{After they were pronounced man and
{wife, znd all the friends came forword
Ito offer their congratulations, a large
number of hearts that had been
iplaced within the bell, were released,
|and showered down upon the bridal
| couple
At the conclusion of the ceremony
[a wedding supper was served. In all
{there were about 40 guests present,
and those fromoul of town were: AMr
and Mrs. Rufus Baker of Bingham-
ton; Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Johnson
of Owego; Miss Nellie Duel of Au-
burn; Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Hensley
and daughter "earl of Barton; Mrs.
Sarah Finch of Galeton, Pa.; Mrs
Laura Walster of Elmira, and Mrs
Ira Smith of Endicott.
assessed “to him” on the last as-
This addition of the words:
was what barred Dr,
“to |
Betowskl |
He is the owner of |
but jt was |
rendered In-
The place on the ticket is not va-
as M.S. Bennett's
Belowski
Lecture at 7:80.
Waverly—The lecture to be given
Sawyer at the
:30 In-
It will be
in the main auditorium of the
This Is the Place.
Robluson—Squlres, — ?
To get your hair cut, 16; shave
10c; shampoo, 16c; hair singed, 16c;
whiskers trimmed, 10¢; sea foam, bc:
massage, 15¢; moustache dyed, 20c;
hair dyed, $1.00; ladies’ hair switches,
cheap, razors honed 26¢c; shears
sharpened, 10c; scissors, 6c; new
handles on rasors, 25¢. If you have
eczema call and get Lockerby's ecze-
ma cure, 50c a bottle. Thousands
of testimonials can be furnished. Bait
fish on hand the year rourd. Locker:
by Is also an expert taxidermist
Lockerby's barber shop, 418 Waverly
ftreet, Waverly. 236-6m
Readers of The Record, buy from
the merchants who have enough
- | sumption to ask for your patronage |.
[through the columns of your favarits
Waverly—Yesterday afternoon Mrs.
ary E. Squires of Cayuga, N. Y., and
were married by the Rev. G. A.
The bride Is 51 years of age,
Edwin C. Burt, Patrician and La-
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Latham of Nich-
J. Neaves today.
————
Benjamin Renler of Philadephia,
Jerome Wins a- Victory In
Thaw Murder Trial
YEW TESTIMOSY ALLOWED BY COURT
Brother-in-law of Dead Architert on
Stgnd Tells gf Witnessing Roof
Garden Tragedy—Allbl For
White Thrown Out.
NEW YORK. March 15 — After coun
sel had spent more than two hours of
the morning session of the Thaw trial
in argument Justice Fitzgerald over
suled the objection of the defense In
the matter of allowing District Attor
fiey Jerome fo continue his examina
tion of James Clinch Smith, a brother
ln-law of Stanford White. Mr. Smith
had a conversadon with Harry K.
Thaw oun the Madison Square roof
garden just before White was kliled
Mr. Jeroine =ald this conversation Lad
8 very Important bearing ou the ease,
and he had not learned of the conver
sation Itself until Smith returned from
Europe last month after the prosecu.
tlon's case In chief had closed.
Attorney Delmas, for the defense
fought the introduction of this test)
many to the last, but Justice Fltzger
ald rated that in the luterest of Justice
it should be admitted.
Mr. Jerome then recited the shaping
of the case of the state from the night
JAMES CLINCH SMITH
of the tragedy to the present time to |
show that it had been lmpossible for |
vent to Europe,
“1 supposed.” sald Mr. Jerome, “that
Mr. Smith was lo this country when
the trial finally started. 1 bad been
as | thought, that be was here, and
then It was made known to we that he,
expecting a longer delay in the case,
had returned to France ® look after |
large business luterests which demand
ed Lis attention. 1 then communicated
with Messrs. Blackwell & Blackwell
nail requested that they cable to Mr.
Smith and urge upon him that pabiie
duty demanded that be return aud tes
tify. This cablegram was seut, and be
ame to this country by the earliest |
boat available. This trial had so fas
proceeded at that time that the cause
tu chief of the poaple’s case was closad |
and the
vis so far advanced that it
for we to Interrupt it
it was manifestly
introduce this highly
lence before this time
“1 was at dinner at Martin's recent-
ly,” sald Mr. Jerome, “when a friend |
asked mie why 1 did not call Smith
He told me of Sinith's conversation
with Thaw, aod that was the first |
beard of IL”
Then you would
entirely,” replied Mr, Delmas,
in newly discovered evidence
protest against any such course”
Fitzgerald was brief In his
rating He said the evidence Mr. Smith
bud to offer was newly discovered and |
iu the luterest of justice should be
given tu the jury.
“I overrule the objection,”
cluded,
hie vid of the trinl at last seems to
bw In sight, and the twelve men who
have been lu the Jury box for nearly
elghit weeks are to be Harry Thaw's
Judges, Tentative plans for the tinal
stages of the trial were agreed upon
by opposing counsel, even to the detuil
Cialse
was fw
There
impossible to
important evil
wissibile
fore
reopen
‘to put
Tustive
he con
u
P itriet Attorney Jeroliie has burned
behind bim all bridges leading to a
lunacy commission and has irrevoca
bly pointed his Course to proving that
Thaw was saue the night he shot nnd
killed Stauford White aud that, belng
sane. bis crime constituted wurder in
the first degree. Within tea days or
Jury's hands
Mr. Jervis played probably
strongest card when he brought ont
evidence which cawe to his kunowleds
but a few days ago aud which
doubtedly cansed him to abandon the
jdea of mending White's slayer to a
madhouse and to try for a straight oul
conviction under the criminal statutes
The evidence came from Mrs Stan
ford White's brother, James Clinch
Smith, who told a remarkably clear,
succinct story of the events on Mudd
son Square mof garden the niz'y
White was killed snd of a loug «uv
versation be had with Thaw just prio:
to the shooting,
It secs that Thaw sat for som
time with Smith during the fatefu'
first performance of “Mawzelle Charu
pagne” and discussed with hia a vart
ety of toplcx fn n manuer. Mr. Smith
declared, such ns ANY sane wap would
talk. Mr. Smith gave the couversation
In detall, omitting nothiug, he as:erted
With the brother in law of the man
who was se soon te be x victim of hiv
pistol Thaw discussed the play, Wall
street, comtnon acquaintances, play:
for the summer and many other thing
including a fhuxom bruneite” whoni| pa
w declared b xlous to ha
Hil
Patrick’s
Easter.
There was no hint anywhere in the
| repedted conversation of Thaw's lu
ent to inflict bexlily harm upon any
| one Mr. Smith did say, however, that
Thaw, not having a reserved seat,
roawed about the garden and continu
ally looked In the direction of the spot!
where be subsequently killed Stanford
“Waite.
Attorney Delmas, for the defense,
bitterly fought the Introduction of this
testimony for nearly two hours, hut
without snceess
As the last witness of the day the
district attorney called Rudolph Eck
myer, the photographer who took the
pictures of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw which
have been introduced In evidence. The
photographer was employed by Stan
ford White. He had no sooner been
{ sworn than it developed that Eckmyer
{had also been employed by White to
| make the photographic copy of the aff.
idavit Evelyn Nesbit is suid to have
{made in Abraham Hummels office
Mr. Eckmyer identified the negatives
{ made from the affidavit, but they were
not offered in evidences, Mr. Jerouws
i next tried to get the plmjographer to
fix the dates of certain pictures for
{ which Evelyn Nesbit posed, hoping
thus to establish the day the Nesbit
| girl says she had the experience with
| Stauford White in the Twenty fourth
| treet house
| Mr. Delmas objected ou the ground
{ that the evidence tended to contradict
| Mrs, Thaw's story aud was not per
{ missible Mr. Jerome sald he desired
advantage of the walver Mr.
to take
Deltas Lad mde at the beginning of
{the trial In regurd to rebutting Mrs
| Thaw's story
“If you will let we fix the date of
he sald heatedly, “1
that on the night following
the day they were taken, when Mrs
{Thaw says she was ruined, Stanford
| White was wot in the Twenty-fourth
| street house at all”
Mr. Jerome fairly shouted the last
{werds und pounded the table before
him Mr. Delmas sald he myst stand
upon his objection, amd It, wus sustalu
I He then moved that tg district
Lattorney's “lmproper remarks, to which
he has given such emphasis of vole
land gesture” be stricken frou the'rec
| ords
| these pictures”
| will show
| Mr, Jerowe retprted by asking the
court to justruct the jury that the al
{lezed ravishient or ponruvishment of
| Evelyn Nesbit had wvothing whatever
[to do with the case
| Justice Fitzgerald 1oerely
{ed the jurors to pay to the
| remarks of counsel to the
| court and to confine themselves strict
{ly to the evidence
| It was after this conflict of counsel
that the agreement as to the closing
| stages of the case was reached, Mr,
Jerome said he would next lutroduce
as witnesses Abralian Humwel and
{his stenographer. Then if Lis plans
{carried he wonkd conclude the state's
case with the testimony of three ex-
perts—Drs. Austin Flint, Carlos Mae
Donald and Willian Mahon,
admonish
ua hed
addressed
FRANCIS AND MARRIN,
Philadelphia Cotton Fakirs In Grip
of Justice,
PHILADELPHIA, March 13-—-The|ll
sentence of fve years’ hinprisonment
{mposed by Judge McPherson upon
{conviction In the United States district
court on the charge of uxing the malls
to defraud In connection with the Sto-
rey Cotton company of Philadelphia,
which was closed by the postal author.
ities as a swindle, was reduced one
year by the United States court of ap-
peals sitting lo this city,
Francls appealed on technical
grounds. The court affirmed sentences
of two years each on different counts,
but held that the sentence of one year
on another counut was illegally Impos-
ed. Francls, who has heen at liberty
on $10,000 ball, Is given thirty days in
which to surrender himself.
In connection with the Storey Cotton
company prosecutions Judge McPher-
son made an order qua‘hlug the war
rant upon which Frank CC. Marrin,
alias Judge Franklin Stone, was ar
rested by Philadelphia detectives
charged with the forgery of checks for
about $70,000 upon the Brooklyn Na-
tional bank of Brooklyn. Marrin® Is
awalting trial ln the United States
court here charged with the misuse of
the malls In connection with the Sto
rey Cotton company. Marria was held
by a magistrate to await requisition
i
WASHINGTON, March 13—An lox
portant conference ou the subject of
fmmmigration
Hoube last uight. Attorney General
Bonaparte, Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Straus, Commissioner General
of Immigration Sargeant, Commission-
er of Labor Nelli, Assistant Attorney
General Cooley, Senator Foster of Lou:
islana, President Gompers of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, D. A. Tomp-
kins of Charlotte, N. C., and former
Mayor Smythe of Charleston, 8. C,
were among those who participated In
the conference with President Roose
velt. The conference, which was & se
quel to-one In which the matter of
lina was discussed, lasted two hours,
The Hrownsville Inquiry.
WASHINGTON, March
ammunition used in Infautry rifles Is
not xuarded ns closely nx has been
claimed by discharged negro soldiers
and that it is possible for soldiers to
obtain extra ammunition was brought
out in the Brownsville Inquiry here
before the senate committee on mill:
tary affairs. This testimony was giv.
en by Captaiu D. W. Kilburn of the
Twenty sigih Infantry, which preceded
the negro soldiers of the Twenty-Afth
infantry at Fort Brown The same
wituess declared that citizens ue
Browusville made threats that they
would run negro troops out of town If.
they were brought there to supplant
white troops
Ce
On Seveniy-three Warrants.
SCRANTON, Pa
enty three warrants charging embes-
rleinent and in default of $47.000 ball
James T. Haviland, the New York
stock specialist, arrested here, was
committed to jail to uwait trial. He
bad been in the custody of two col-
stables at the Hotel Jermyn sinew his
arrest, the prosecutors agreeing to this
treatment ou account of Lis promise of
a settlement,
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Steck Quotations,
Money on call steady nominally at #08
per cent; prime mercantile paper at SG
per cent, exchanges. $62,011; balances,
17.083, 168 exports uf general merchandise
from the portPof New York for the week
ending March § were valued at 1260058
Closing prices:
Amal. Copper N. "Y. Central.
Atchison Norf. & West.
B&O. ror RRs
Brooklyn R ¥ Heading
C.C.C&BtL Rock Island...
Ches & Ohlo St. Paul. A
Chi. & Northw Bouthern Pao... hy
D.&H.. Southern Ry...
Erle South, Ry. pf.
Gen. Electric, ... Sugar 1s
Texas Pacifio...
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Lackawanna. Union Pacifie.,.
mm UU. 3 Steel...
«18
Louls. & Nash gan
U Steal pr.
wy Vo Boal pF. 0%
Manhattan. ...
New York Markets.
Int.-Met..
Missourl Pac...
FLOUR Steady. but How;
fouls, HIGLEY, win nr
Ww: winter Sa, 5 Pies “mb
ent
Wha Ay tarket opeiied easy
dn northwest receipts and outside
lng. rallied on buJllish foreign news
apprehensions of crop damage In
southwest, but again reacted under
ay od lack of outalde
July, BWUsNe,
To Cieaimety, extras,
ir ercantile Exc hangs oO
tation, rire 3c); .,
Bc. thirds, age. b
Be rete, GI. rad Bi S080
hirds. 21
CHEESE State, full cream, smal
ored, September, fandy, 15¢ ;
colored, small, October, best,
white, Mii good to
We, winter Made, Average
106A
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