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VOL. XV. NO. 37
PHILLIPS DIES
OF HIS WOUHDS
Author Passes Away During a
Coughing SpelL
ATTACKER HAD DELDSIONS
Goldsborough Held Enmity Towards
Author Because Novel Contained
Characters Taken From His Family.
David Graham Phillips, the novelist,
who was shot six times on Monday af
ternoon by Fltzhugh Coyle Goldsbor
ough in Grammercy Park, died at the
Bellevue hospital in New York.
Mr. Phillips had been vomiting
blood during the day, which symptom
told the physicians that the perfora
tion in the lung caused by a bullet
which had entered the right chest and
had passed out of the body near the
left shoulder blade, was not healing.
Dr. Eugene Puller, Mr. Phillips' per
sonal physician, gave the patient what
relief he could, but the patient's con
dition became especally alarming. The
excessive pain of his abdominal wound
during the day, the constant leakage
of blood into the throat from his lung
and intestinal sufferings following the
administering of ether on Monday, had
worn the novelist out. During a severe
spoil of coughing he died.
At his bedside were Mrs. Frevert,
his sister; Mr. Harrison Phillips and
Dr. Fuller.
Senator Beverldge, who roomed with
David Graham Phillips at Depau uni
versity, had been at his bedside dur
ing the day, arriving from Washing
ton, but he was compelled to leave
for Washington again shortly after
wards.
Many magazine writers, novelists
and artists visited the hospital, but
none of the callers except Senator
Beveridge were permitted to visit the
patient's room. Many of the visitors
and others had sent floral gifts, and
after they learned of the death of Mr.
Phillips these were arranged about
his bier.
More evidence showing that Golds
borough held enmity toward Mr. Phil
lips was learned, but at best no one
seemed able to piece enough of this
evidence together to show why Golds
borough should have gone to the ex
treme of shooting Phillips or, for that
matter, why Goldsborough, unless his
brain -were normal, should hold any
enmity at all.
Stories that the violinist shot the
novelist because Mr. Phillips had writ
ten a novel in which characters in one
of his books, which Goldsborough
thought were taken from Goldbor
ough's own family in Washington,
whero Mr. Phillips lived for a short
while, were repeated to Harrison Phil
lips, and he was asked whether or not
the publishers of the book had not
sent out press notices at the time the
book was published to the effect that
some one had objected to the novel on
the score that it caricatured members
of a certain family.
Harrison Phillips replied that he re
membered that notices of this charac
ter had been sent out when the book
left the press. He was asked whether
he thought these notices were merely
the work of the publisher's publicity
department or founded on fact. He
said that so far as he remembered they
were founded on fact. He said, how
ever, that neither he nor his brother
nor sister knew the Goldsborough
family.
It was learned also that almost a
year ago Goldsborough went to the
city hall to complain to Mayor Gaynor
about persons annoying him. During
this visit the violinist mentioned to
the mayor's secretary, Mr. Adamson,
the name of David Graham Phillips,
but not with any especial show of ani
mosity.
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910.
OAVIO GRAHAM PHILLIPS.
Popular Magazine Writer Shot
Down In New York.
MRS. JR.,
ROBBED OF JEWELS
Gems Valued at $35,000 Stolen
From Her Home.
It became known that while the
family of William Thaw, Jr., were at
dinner Tuesday night their residence
in Pittsburg, Pa., was robbed of Jew
els to the value of $35,000.
Included In the valuables is a pearl
necklace worth $17,000, the property
of Mrs. Thaw. She is a rister-in-law of
Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford
White. Also she Is the mother of Wil
liam Thaw, 3d, who recently took as
his bride Miss Gladys Bradley, of
Bridgeport, Conn., the sister of Mra,
Anthony J. Drexel-Biddle, of Philadel
phia.
A half hour before dinner Mrs.
Thaw had been to the closet where
her jewels were kept, with a view to
selecting those she would wear. Only
her maid was in the room. After lock
ing the door as usual, Mrs. Thaw Join
ed the family in the dlningroom.
She was absent perhaps thirty min
utes. Upon her return she went to the
closet for the pearl necklace. The
door was locked, but when she looked
for the necklace it was gone. Hastily
opening the other cases, she discov
ered all had been emptied of their con
tents.
Calling out that her jewels were
gone, Mrs. Thaw aroused the house
hold. Then It was seen that the thieves
had taken nothing but the contents
of the closet. A hurried call was sent
to the police. Thirty-three detectives,
under the personal supervision of the
superintendent, are working on the
case, while a score or more of plain
clothes men are scouring the city in
search of the suspects.
Famous Yachtsman Dies.
Captain Charles Barr, the nated
American yachtsman, who three times
saved the A erica's cup, died sudden
ly of heart trouble at Southampton,
England. Captain Barr appeaded to
be in perfect health and was break
fasting with his family, when sudden
ly he placed a hand upon his heart
?ud with a cry of pain, fell forward In
the arms of his wife, dead.
PRESENTSSCHOOL
CODE OILL
Act Would Reorganize Educa
tional System,
ALTERS PRESENT METHODS
Divides State Into Four Districts and
Gives School Boards Power to Levy
Taxes.
Senator Tustln, of Philadelphia, in
troduced the school code into the
Pennsylvania senate. This bill lacks
some of the features which made
the code of two years ago unaccept
' le and Is expected to pull through.
_<ne of its chief provisions enables the
Philadelphia school board to float its
own loans and imposes on the school
district, as distinct from the city, a
proportion of the municipal debt.
By enabling the school district to as
sume its own loans the Philadelphia
debt limit will be Increased about $30,-
000,000.
Elective school boards of fifteen
members in Philadelphia and Pitts
burg, each member to serve six years;
the right of the Philadelphia board to
levy a separate tax not to exceed six
mills for school purposes and to make
loans for building new school build
ings; division of the state into four
classes of school districts, the first
class embracing Philadelphia and
Pittsburg; and the divorce of the
school control in any way from city
councils are the important featuies of
the code.
The school districts of the second
class, according to the new code, will
be made up of those having a popula
tion of from 30,000 to 50,000.
In Philadelphia and Pittsburg the
school boards will have fifteen mem
bers, all of whom will be first appoint
ed by the courts, one-third for two
years, one-third for four years and one
third for six years, and at the expira
tion of their terms their successors
will be elected bi-annually at large for
terms of six years. This method ha*
been followed, it is explained, because
of the demand that a board which has
the right to levy school taxes and to
borrow money for improvements
should be elective rather than ap
pointive.
The important feature of the code is
that which gives the Philadelphia
board the right to levy a separate tax
and to make loans. This will give the
city the opportunity of borrowing ad
ditional millions when the school
loans are taken over by the board.
The sohool loanß cannot exceed 2 per
cent of the valuation of the city.
The school board will be required to
pay all school expenses, Interest and
sinking fund charges on all school tax.
The new code provides for a state
board of education of seven members,
to be appointed by the governor for
six years, the term of one to expire
each year. The board members are to
serve without pay, and their function
will be largely advisory. They will
have the power to investigate school
problems and recommend new legisla
tion.
The code calls fcr the accumulation
of a state school fund by revenues
from the forest lands of the state. The
revenues aie to be kept intact, only
the income from them being used.
Medical Inspection for every child
In the schools of the state Is a feature
* «he bill. One section gives superln
idents and supervising principals
the power to select, recommend, adopt
and make changes of text books.
PLEA~FOa EDITOR
President Taft Asked to Pardon So
cialist Serving Jail Term.
Representative Campbell, of Kansas,
petitioned President Taft for there
lease from prison of Fred D. Warren,
a Socialist editor
Warren was ..eni*-;:. Ed recently for
having offered a reward in printed
form of SIOOO for the return to Ken
tucky of former Governor W. S. Tay
lor, of that state.
Grafted Shinbone Into Arm.
Surgeons in Boston are Interested
In the operation that was performed
by Dr. Frederick J. Cotton at the City
hospital upon William Favor, In which
he removed a portion of Favor's shin
bone and grafted it Into his arm
Favor's arm was crushed under a car
It was found necessary to taXe out
about two and a half inches of tht
bone of the upper arm. A sliver oi
bone was taken from Favor's leg and
placed within the aperture of his arm
Apparently the injured man is doing
well.
Canada's Trade.
Trade figures for the first nine
months of Canada's present fiscal yeai
•how that the total trade amounted tc
$677,999,628, an increase of $65,511,
960. The Increase waa entirely in im
aorta.
PAUL MORTON
DIESSODOENLY
President of Equitable Life
Victim of Apoplexy.
WAS STRICKEN IN HOTEL
His Family Was Summoned, But He
Died Before They Arrived —Was Sec
retary of Navy Under President
Roosevelt.
Paul Morton, president of the Equit
able Life Assurance Society, was
stricken with apoplexy just after he
had gone to the Hotel Seymour, In
New York, for the purpose, his friends
said, of keeping an appointment with
Paul L. Kiernan, the lawyer.
Mr. Morton died an hour r "4 a half
later In an apartment just vacated by
Mr. Kiernan earlier In the day and
just a few minutes before his wife and
brother, Joy Morton, of Chicago, reach
ed the house.
Coroner Feinberg, who Is a physi
cian, and Coroner's Physician O'Han
lon agreed, after they had examined
Mr. Morton's body and had talked with
Joy Morton concerning his brother's
condition that death was caused by
apoplexy due to a rupture of a blood
vessel In the brain, which resulted
from artero-sclerosls, from which Mr.
Morton was found to be suffering with
in the past month.
It was explained that a hotel maid
had noticed Mr. Morton apparently
in a faint in the hallway outside of
suite 55, on the fifth floor. This suite
had been vacatd by Mr. Kiernan and
he had moved to a larger suite. The
maid notified the telephone operator,
and the manager of the hotel rushed
up to the fifth floor. He helped the
maid to assist Mr. Morton into the
vacant suite. Word was sent for Dr.
Henry Pearson.
When Dr. Pearson reached Mr. Mor
ton's bedside he was unconscious, and
It was apparent to Dr. Pearson that
he had suffered a stroke of apoplexy.
Then word was telephoned to Mr. Mor
ton's house and to the Metropolitan
club. Mrs. Morton was informed over
the phone that her husband had faint
ed at the Seymour, and was asked to
come to the hotel at once, but he was
dead before she arrived.
Paul Morton was born in Detroit,
May 22, 1857, and went to Nebraska
with his parents six months later. He
began his railroad career in the land
department of the Burlington road In
lowa. In May. 1873, he was employed
In the general freight office of the Bur
lington road at Plattsmouth, Neb., and
from there he went to the general
freight office in Chicago, being ap
pointed assistant general freight agent
of the Burlington in 1878 at the age of
twenty-one. He occupied this and bet
ter positions in the freight service un
til 1886, when, at the request of the
management of the Burlington, he took
the position of general passenger
agent.
From the position of general pas
senger agent he was selected for the
general freight agency, and remained
with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
in that position until 1890, when he en
gaged in the coal and Iron business as
president of a coal company operating
In lowa and Illinois, and vice presi
dent of what is now the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company.
He remained with those companies
until the end of 1895, when he accept
ed the vice presidency of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railway, in charge
of its commercial affairs.
In 1904, largely owing to his per
sonal friendship for President Roose
velt, he accepted the secretaryship of
the navy. In doing this he sacrificed a
salary of $25,000 for one of SBOOO.
Mr. Morton was credited with pos
sessing an Independent fortune, vari
ously estimated from $1,000,000 to $2,-
000,000, having made nearly $1,000,000
on the sale of the Indiana, Illinois &
lowa railroad to the Vanderbilts. In
deciding regarding President Roose
velt's offer, therefore, the monetary
consideration did not enter Into the
question.
In 1905 he was elected president of
the Equitable Life Assurance society
at a salary of $150,000 a year.
Mr. Morton, in 1880, was married to
Miss Charlotte Goodrich, an accom
plished and popular young woman of
Chicago. They had two daughters.
BRIBERY IN SENATE FIGHT
West Virginia Legislator Makes This
Charge and Bolts Meeting.
On the first ballot in the legislature
at Charleston, W. Va., W. E. Chilton
received 62 votes for United States
senator, full term, more than enough
to elect.
Clarence Watson, for the short term,
received 57 votes, two short.
Hubbard, of Wheeling, bolted the
house meeting, charging bribery in
caucus.
PAUL MORTON.
Pre.tiOent of l"r|u,table Life
C-c:;'.y Lies Sjddenly.
Mrs. Martin Gets Seven Years.
Seven years in prison was the sen
tence imposed upon Mrs. Caroline B.
Martin for the part she played in the
death of Ocey Snead, her daughter, by
Judge Ten Eyck at Newark, N. J.
Mrs. Martin, who had pleaded non
vult to manslaughter when arraigned
on an indictment charging her with
murder, apparently expected a much
lighter sentence and became greatly
agitated when she learned her fate.
The body of Ocey Snoad was found
in a half-filled bath tub in a partly fur
nished house in East Orange, N. J.,
Nov. 29, 1909. The indictment of Mrs.
Martin, the victim's mother; Mrs. Vir
ginia A. Wardlaw and Mrs. Mary W.
Snead, Ocey's aunt and mother-in-law,
for murder, followed.
Mrs. Wardlaw died in jail. Mrs.
Snead faces trial, but it is said that
the indictment against her will be
nolle prossed.
Coal Mining Is Dangerous.
More than 29,000 fatal accidents oc
curred in the coal mines of North
America in the twenty years ended
with 1908, according to a report of the
bureau of labor.
In the decade ending with 1908 the
average fatality rate in North Amer
ica was 3.13 per 1000, which was high
er than the fatality rate in any other
important coal field in the world. In
tho United Kingdom the rate was 1.29
per 1000 employes; in Austria, 1.35; in
France, 1.81, and in Prussia, 2.13.
Charlton Loses.
The habeas corpus proceedings that
were brought by Paul Charlton to pre
vent the extradition of his son, Porter
Charlton, to Italy to stand trial there
for the murder of his wife, was dis
missed by Judge Rellstab in the Unit
ed States circuit court at Trenton,
N. J.
Tills means that Charlton must go
back to Italy unler.s the supreme court
of the United States reverses Judge
Rellstab's decision.
Lloyd-George Coming Over.
J. Owen Charles, a native of Wales
and now a citizen of Scranton, Pa.,
arrived in New York city on board
the Campania, announcing that I.loyd-
George, chancellor of the exchequer,
and the most distinguished Welshman
in British politics, would be here in
the fall to attend a Welsh festival in
Luna Park, Scranton.
Kept Child In Shed; Dies.
Kaurt Stehr, three years old. of Nor
folk, Neb., died from the effects of t!:e
amputation of both his feet, which
were frozen several weeks ago while
sleeping In an unlieated woodshed.
Henry Stehr, the child's stepfather,
is in jail, awaiting an investigation of
the case.
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STATUES WEAR PANTS '
First of Barnard Group Put In Place
With Modest Drapings.
The first of the heroic marble figures
of the Barnard group of statues at
the capitol building, Harrisburg, Pa.,
was put Into place and stripped of its
covering and was found to be draped
with plaster of parls.
The treatment is in line with what
Barnard is reported to have promised
when his attention was called to the
protests against the nudity of the
figures.
The men in charge of the groups
say that the plaster will remain until
orders are received from Barnard or
state officials to remove it.
CLUBS WIFE TO DEATH
Fired at Her and Missed, Then Beat
Her to Death With Gun.
John McCombs, a farmer of near
Indiana, Pa., fired at his wife with a
rifle, and, missing her, clubbed her to
death with the butt of the gun.
He then went to the house of Jo
seph Pratros, some distance away, and
told him what he had done. Pratr. s
refused to believe him, and was pre
paring togo back with McCombs,
when the man entered Pratros' barn
and hanged himself. He was cut down
in time to save his life.
Child Witnesses Mother's Suicide.
Mrs. Ida Brooks, forty-one years o!d,
committed suicide by hanging herse'.f
in the room she occupied at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Saville, at
Eighth and Crosby streets, Chester,
Pa. Mrs. Brooks' daughter, Beatrice,
four years old, awakening from sleep,
saw her mother suspended upon the
closet door.
Lenient on Last Day In Office.
Governor Patterson, of Tennessee,
an his last day in office, iss.ed seven
'.sou pardons and commutations to
convicts In the state prison, several ol
whom were serving sentences for mur
der.
Arkansas For Incoms Tax.
The Arkansas house of representa
tlves went on recard in favor of tht
proposed income tax amendment tc
the federal constitution by a vote ol
80 to 3
Finds Wife Dead Deside Him.
Harry Haag, thirty-four years old,
of 718 Walnut street, Wilmington,
Del., awakened an 1 found his young
wife dead in their bed beside nim. It
is said she was stricken with apo
plexy. The coroner io making an inves
tigation. Haag is under a physician's
care.
She Wants a Husband.
Mrs. K. Eberhart, of I'nion Hill, N.
J., has written to Mayor Gebhardt, of
Terre Haute, lnd., asking him to find a
husband for her.
Mrs. Eberhart says she has learned
there are more men in the west than
women. She writes as if she regarded
Terre Haute as a far western city.
All Mail Cars Must Be Steel.
The house of representatives at
Washington, after an extensive de
bate, adopted a provision in the post
office appropriation bill that after July
1, 1916, all mail cars used on inter
state railroads shall be of steel con
struction.
Easton Minister Dies In New York.
Rev. Edward Snyder, of Easton, Pa.,
died of heart disease in the Thirty
third street station of the Hudson
river tunnels in New York. In his
coat was a notebook giving his name
and address, and asking that in case
of accident his wife should be notified.
Flood Victim's Skeleton.
The skeleton of one of the victims
of the Johnstown, Pa., flood has been
found near New Florence, twenty-two
years after the flood. The bones will
be interred in Grand View cemetery,
where 777 other unidentified bod'es of
the flood lie buried.