VOL. XV. NO. 34
2 OARIN6 AIRMEN
FAIL_TODEATH
Hoxsey and Moisant Killed
Whan Machines Drop.
DEATH WAS QUICK TO EACH
Former, Who Held Altitude Becord,
Falls at Los Angeles, and Latter
Dies at New Orleans.
Arch Hoxse.v, whose awful death by
falling COO feet in his aeroplane at the
aviation meet at Los Angeles, Cal.,
shocked the world, will be cremated
and buried in Pasadena.
Hoxsey's mother, Mrs. M. S. Hoxsey,
at Pasadena, is bearing up well under
the strain, but it has been decided
that it would not be wise to permit
her to see the horribly mangled body
of her son. For this reason the body
will be placed in <a sealed casket and
cremated immediately after the lune:al
services.
Hoxsey held the world's altitude
record, which he won by ascending
11,474 feet, and a day later sailed ma
jestically 4000 feet above the highest
mountain in California.
When ho was killed Hoxsev was re
turning from a trip into the clouds,
lie was within GOO feet of the earth,
doing the spiral dip, and cheers were
gong up to meet the conqueror of the
higher air, when his machine seemed
to stop, shudder and whirl over and
over to the ground. As in the New
Orleans tragedy, the rear elevator,
rendered useless when the momentum
was gone, flipped around helpless to
aid the fated machine. Hox.jey vainly
endeavored to right his cralt by warp
ing the main planes and by use o? the
rudder. Vain attempts, there, for be
fore sufficient momentum was gained
the frail structure crumpled upon tho
earth, the heavy engine being torn
loose.
Only a fc.v farm hands saw Moisant
hurtle to his death, but Hoxsey's end
came before the horrified gaze of
thousands who had come out in the
pleasant afternoon to watch the bird
men darting here and there through
the air. The day's pleasure ended when
an announcer, sadly lifting his mega
phone, droned out the message:
"Aich Hoxsey has been killed.
There will be no more flying."
Five Children Die In Burning House.
A fire that destroyed throe houses
in Minersville, Pa., resulted in the
death of the five children of John Mar
kasavage. They ranged in age from two
months to eight years.
The infant was burned to death,
while (he other four were slightly
burned, death having been caused by
suffocation. All of the children could
probably have been saved if tho par
ents had not lost their heads In the
excitement following the discovery of
the fire.
They rushed out into the street, tho
mad clad and the wife scantily attired.
Not having a perfect understanding
of English, they informed volunteer
rescuers that all were out of the
house. When the father realized that
bis children were still in the house he
rushed back. He was seriously burned
trying to rescue them.
The fire followed the overturning ol
a lamp. Many of the boarders had not
yet retired and easily made their es
cape. After the fire had been extin
guished the bodies of the dead chil
dren were found up in bed as
though they had never awakened after
the fire started.
Besides the home of Markasavage
two other buildings were burned, the
home of Simon Kanipsky and that oi
Philip Schules.
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ARCH HOXSEY.
Daring Aviator Was Dashed to
Death at Los Angeles.
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Two Daring Skaters Drown.
Disregarding the warning of several
spectators, seventeen year-old John
Cook, son of C. E. Cook, of Bridge
ville, and eighteen-year-old Clarence
Clymers, of Philadelphia, the adopted
son of M. n. Waters, were drowned at
Seaford, Del
Cook, In company with G< *>rge
Ruos, Jr., aged sixteen years, HOII of
Postmaster Ittios. of Uridgeville, came
to Seaford for an outing. Joining Cly
mers, they went to Williams' dam to
skate. As the lads approached the
pond they we. c warned not togo OD
it. but they paid uo heed to the warn
lug.
They were several yards from shore
when Ruos broke through, and Cook,
going to his assistance, fell in also.
Clymers, seeing their perilous nosi
tion, went to their assistance, but he
also broke In. Huos was rescued, but
Cook and Clymers sank from sight
and did not rise again. Their bodies
were found several hours later.
Gives College to Church.
The announcement has been made
in New York of the transfer of the
business college at Port Arthur, Tex.,
to the board of education of the Meth
odist Episcopal church as a gift from
John W. Gates.
The value of the donation is estimat
ed at $250,000, and the church pledges
itself to raise $50,000 within the next
five years for additional building and
equipment and to maintain the col
lege.
Rev. J. W. Legrone, of Port Artur,
acting for the church, took over the
property. It will be known as the Port
Arthur Collegiate Institute.
Emperor ot Austria May Retire.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand for the
first time represented Emperor Fran
cis Joseph in receiving the Aust.ro
Hungarian delegations at Budapest.
This Is regarded as a step taken b>
the aged emperor for the purpose of
preparing the country for his ap
proaching relinquishment of the throne
in favor of the heir apparent.
Speaking on behalf of the emperor,
the archduke expressed satisfaction at
the good relations of the country with
all the powers. The monarchy, he said,
would continue its efforts to maintain
peace.
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1910.
KISS KILLED
BRIDAL PAIR
Police Believe Poison in Chewing
Gum Caused Oeatn.
SUSPECT JEALOUS WOMAN
Believe Some One Sent Poisoned Gum
tc Mies Elosser at Cumberland, Md.,
and Death Kiss Followed.
The mystery of the death of Miss
Grace Elosser, of Cumberland, Md.,
and Charles E. Twigg, of eyser, W.
Va„ her fiance, appears as deep us It
did shortly after the bodies of the
couple were found on the settee in the
parlor of the Elosser residence on Sat
urday, when the mother of the dead
girl went into apeak to her.
Twigg and Miss Elosser were to
have been married Sunday night. It is
suspected that a Jealous woman rival
was the poisoner, carrying out her plot
In a most crafty way.
The mystery begun with the discov
ery on Saturday afternoon of the pret
ty girl and her llance sitting together,
hand in hand, on a sofa in the parloi
of their home—both dead.
So swift, so instantaneous hud beeu
the action of the poison upon them
that they sat is if in life.
The girl's mother went into the
room, wondering only at the very long
silence that sho had noted between
the couple. She saw her daughter and
the young man sitting in apparently
the most natural fashion. They were
holding hands and looking into each
other's eyes.
Then the mother suddenly gasped
and stepped back. There was some
thing uncanny, she saw, in the intent
noss of the gaze the young man and
woman had fixed upou each, other.
There was that which gave a silent,
vague alarm in the fixedness of their
pose.
She spoke to them. They did not ;
answer. She went over to them. She
spoke again and received no reply.
Then she put a hand on her daugh
ter's head and spoke again.
"Grace —Grace," she said. And there
was still no reply, so she gently shook
her daughter by the shoulder. The
mother screamed then and ran from
the room. the girl's head had
lolled to a side and the other woman
had seen that the girl's jaw was drop
ped and her eyes fixed in the piteous
gaping of death.
Then when others came It was found
that the man, too, was dead; that both
had been suddenly and absolutely
stricken. The deadliest of poisons had
been the medium.
This was established by the autopsy
of the coroner's physician, Dr. Thomas
W. Koon. They had both taken cyanide
of potassium. The man had more of
the poison in his system than the girl
In the holiday season there had been
several boxes of candy in the house.
But the medical examination showed
conclusively that neither Miss Elossei
or her fiance had eaten candy.
He had, however, in his mouth a
stick of chewing gum. He had taken
scarcely more than two or three bites
on it. It had not been masticated into
a pulp. In Miss Elosser's mouth was
no chewing gum.
The strange likelihood is being con
sidered by the authorities that the
stick of chewing gum contained the
deadly cyanide. Also that the young
man. with the gum in Ills mouth, had
leaned forward to kiss his sweetheart
and that the kiss communicated the
poison to her lips u kiss offered In
love that was deadly—the kiss of
whose tragic character the ardent be
stower was In all Ignorance.
This Is the only evidence that the
authorities have so far secured to aid
them In the way of solving the amaz
lng mystery.
It has been by no means proven thai
the chewing gum contained the deadly
poison. Dut it poems to be the only
possible source lrujii which the young
man and his swetheart could have
taken Into their systems the deadly
chemical. The candy that was in the
Elosser home had been partaken of by
all the members of the family without
111 effect. Moreover, chemical analy
sis showed ail this confectionery to be
harmless.
The tips of the tongues of both
Twigg and the girl who was to have
been his bride were red and inflamed,
quite as if they had been burned or
bitten. Cyanlfle, of course, takes im
mediate action. The mere touching of
a grain of It to the tip of the tongue
will cause death instantly.
Engineer injured at Throttle.
His skull fractured by a water plug
striking him as he leaned out of his
cab, Martin Diefenderfer, a Philadel
phia & Reading passenger englaeroan,
retained consciousness long enough to
bring his train to a stop at the Mid
dleport, Pa., station, a distance of 400
feet. Then he fell over unconscious,
his limp body hanging from the cab.
ANARCHISTS AT
BAY DiEJN FIRE
Made desperate Resistance
Against London Police
BURNED IN THEIR FORTRESS
Cornered Murderers Battle With Po
lice and Soldiers to the End Amid
Showers of Bullets.
Fighting to the grim end against
desperate odds, "Peter the Painter'
and "Dutch Fritz," reputed anarchists,
went to their deaths in Ixmdon, Ens?
land, shouting defiance to the laws.
It is believed that four companions
perished with them in the Ilames that
consumed their den in Sidney street,
not far from the heart of London.
Only the charred bodies of the two
desperadoes wanted for the assassina
tion of three policemen at Hounds
ditch two weeks ago had been recov
ered.
When their house had been riddled
with bullets from the guns of police
and soldiers and set on fire, the trap
ped men clambered to the roof and
theer made their last stand, Uring at
the crowds below and Jeering their as
sailants until the upper supports of
the building gave way and the out
laws were swallowed up In the seeth
lug flames.
Such a battle between officers of the
law and criminals seldom ha 3 been
waged. Dsieovered In their hidins
place, the handful of terrorists stood
ofT two half companies of Scots Guards
from the Tower of London, several de
tachments of armed police, a battery
of horse artillery with three machine
guns and a Galling gun and a fire bri
gade, until their home was fired.
The authorities sought to take tl\
men alive. It took them seven hours
to get their incinerated bodies.
Throughout the fight the greatest
excitement prevailed, not only in the
neighborhood, btu throughout the city,
and it required 1500 policemen massed
about the scene to keep back the Im
mense crowds.
Detective Sergeant Leeson was shot
and seriously wounded, two other offi
cers received bullet wounds and sev
eral firemen were hurt by collapsing
walls Two soldiers and three civilians
were shot. Leeson was the only one
seriously wounded.
The scene of the battlo was near
where the burglary was attempted
when three policemen were mortally
wounded. The police had found the
headquarters of the anarchists and,
surrounding the place, planned to cap
tuer them.
Detective Sergeant Leeson was re
connoltering in the yard at the rear,
when there was a Hash from one of
the windows, the report of a revolver
broke the silence and the sergeant fell
back in the arms of brother officers,
with a bullet in the lungs.
Police reinforcements wer<» rushed
to the place and a rain of lead was
poured into the windows of the house.
The anarchists responded and for
hours the fight continued, the police
being supported by the Scots Guards
and artillery, though the latter did not
bring their guns into play.
Soldiers were posted on the roofs of
nearby buildings, and fired continu
ously at the anarchists, who appeared
repeatedly at the windows and return
ed hundreds of shots.
The outlaws were armed with maga
zine revolvers and had a good supply
of ammunition, as was shown by sev
eral explosions which marked the pro
gress of the flames.
Piles of straw were lighted near the
house, with the idea of smoking out
its defenders, and it is thought likely
that the flames communicated with the
building.
At any rate, soon after these fires
were started the house was ablaze
and the anarchists driven from the top
story to the roof, and finally went
down in the ruins.
Only when the building collapsed did
the firemen venture to enter. Then
they flooded the lower floor and re
covered two bodies. It is believed that
other bodies will be found.
Kills Wife, Girl and self.
William C. Strickler shot and killed
his wife and nineteen-year-old step
daughter, Deulah Kile, at their home.
2417 East Lafayette avenue, Baltimore,
Md. Strickler then flred a bullet into
his own body.
Domestic trouble was given as the
cause of the tragedy. Strickler was
employed as a fireman at a power
house.
Steer Roping Winner.
By roping two steers in one minute
nine and four-fifths seconds, Joe Gard
ner, of Midland, Tex., won the contest
at the National Cowboys' second an
nual reunion. O. K. Lawrence, of Sul
phur, Okla., was second, and J. E.
Weir, champion of New Mexico, was
third.
WILLIAM E. COREY.
President of Steel Trust Tenders
His Resignation.
W. E. COREY RESIGNS
President of U. S. Steel Corporation
Will Retire.
William Ellis Corey, president of
the United States Steel Corporation
since the resignation ol' Charles M.
Schwab, the first president, seven
years ago, himself tendered a formal
resignation at a regular meeting of
•he finance committee In New York
To all intents and purposes the resig
nation has been accepted.
The finance committee passed upon
it favorably, and it will come formally
before the board of directors at their
regular quarterly meeting on the 25th
o» the month. That they will accept
It there is no doubt.
Even to some of the directors of the
company Mr. Corey's resignation came
as a surprise.
In 1907, when Mr. Corey married
Mabelle Gilinan, the actress, it was
widely reported that he would be suc
ceeded as president, and there was a
faction of the board which rather
openly favored his retirement. It is
understood that Ills retirement has no
relation to his domestic affairs.
Moisant Killed at New Orleans.
All New Orleans is mourning the
death of John B. Moisant, who was
killed by 'the plunging of his Bleriot
monoplane at Haralian, near there, and
the body was placed In a receiving
vault to await his relatives' actions.
He will be buried in Chicago.
Moisant won fame at the meet at
Belmont Park, N. J. Finding himself
without a machine, he purchased one
from a friend for SIO,OOO, and within
ten minutes started on his winning
flight around the Statue of Liberty,
winning a prize of SIO,OOO.
Moisant's aeroplane was a Bleriot
monoplane, and in addition to the
heavy engine in front of the main
planes, he had fastened a tank holding
thirty-five gallons of gasoline. Aviation
experts believe that a sudden puff of
wind stopped his machine dead in the
air, and the heavy weight ahead drag
ged the light framework behind it,
flipping the then useless rear clevaior
toward the zenith in derision. From
this position partly back of the main
planes, Moisant was flipped out, clear
of the machine, and struck the ground
on his head, breaking his nack. Ho
died on a Hat car on which he was be
ing taken to New Orleans.
Bank Robbed of $6416.
The State bank, of New Palestine,
near Indianapolis, Ind., was broken in
to and its safe robbed of sii4l6 cash.
The door of the bank was opened with
a skeleton key and the robbers seam
ed to have no trouble in working the
combination of the safe.
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'BANDITS HOLD UP
LIMITED EXPRESS
Kill a Porter and Rob All
Pullman Passengers.
Southern Pacific passenger train No.
'l, the Overland Limited, westbound,
was held up by two masked men at
Reese, nine miles west of Ogden,
Utah.
William Dav.ls, a colored porter, waa
shot and killed by the robbers. A. W.
Taylor, another porter, was seriously
wounded, and three passengers, one
of them a woman, were slightly hurt.
All the passengers on the train, num
bering twenty-seven, were robbed of
their valuables and S2OOO to $2500 in
cash. After completing their work the
robbers drove away in a wagon.
The robbers did not attempt to en
ter the express car, but devoted their
entire attention to the Pullman cars,
whore they made a rich haul among
the California bound passengers. They
held the train for more than an hour
while they went through the posses
sions of the passengers.
No passenger escaped the robbers
and the trainmen also lost their mon
ey. watches and other valuables.
The killing of Davis and the wound
ing of Taylor were unprovoked. The
two porters were in a drawing room of
a Pullman, and made no move to re
sist when the robbers entered.
One of the robbers asked his confed
erate: "What will we do with them?"
The reply was: "Kill them!"
Davis was shot dead and Taylor was
desperately wounded.
Turning to Hancock, a brakeman,
who was holding the open sack into
which the robbers were putting their
loot, and who was an unwilling wit
ness to the tragedy, the murderer ask
ed: "Did I kill them?"
"I guess you did," answered the
brakeman.
Taylor credits his escape from death
to his feigning death when he fell to
the floor wounded in the arm
$111,500,000 IS MINTED
$105,000,000 In Gold Turned Out In
United States In 1010.
The minis of the United States dur
ing 19l(i scut out rnoie thr.n $111,500,-
000 in coin, of which neatly fiPS,OQO,-
000 was in goid.
The total coinage of silver was com
paratively ißsignificPi)', it being lea
than $1,000,000. Three nii'lkm dollars
in pennies and live-cm pi<ccs wore
coined.
More than 1,000,000 pieces wor <
coined for the Philippine islands nnl
nearly 1,000,000 pieces were co.nej on
contract for Costa Kiea.
GENERAL MARKETS
PHILADELPHIA FLOUR fl m;
winter clear, $3.65© 3.90; city mills,
fancy, $5,756:6.
RYE FLOUR quiet, at s4@4.lf> per
barrel.
WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, now,
95 , /fe@96>*c.
CORN quiet; No. 2. 50^@51c,
OATS steady; No. ,'l white, 38®
38V6e.; lower grades, 27V4c.
POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 15©
lt>c.; old roosters, ll@liV4e. Dressed
firm; turkeys, choice, 22c.; choice
fowls, 16c.; old roosters, 11 Vie.
BUTTER steady; extra creamery,
31c. per lb.
EGGS firm; selected, 42@44c.; near
by. 37c.; western, 37c.
POTATOES steady, at 08©60 c. per
bushel.
Live Stock Markets.
PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)
CATTLE higher; choice, $r>.65@6.85;
prime, $t>.40©6.00.
SHEEP higher; prime wethers, $4.25
@4.50; culls and common, $2(03; veal
calves, s9© 10; lambs, $5©5.60.
HOGS higher; prime heavies, $8 43
@8.50; mediums, $8.50; heavy Work
ers. $8.50@8.55; light Yorkers, $8.65®
8.70; pigs. $5.70@8.75; roughs, $7.70
© 7.75.