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VOL. XIY. NO 49
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Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier.
Net Profits,
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Accountsoflndivid- j g Bull, John Ball.
uals and Firms
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LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1910.
FOREST FIRE GIVES
LAPORTE A SCARE
Ravaging Flames Threaten To
Destroy Buildings.
Last Saturday evening the alarm
of fire was sounded in Laporte, and
a lire in the woods came raging up
the hill from the border of the
Lake. There was a furious cold
wind which drove the fire directly
toward Ford's Cottage, the Cem
etery, the School House and the
Gansel Cottage. It was realizb at
onee by those who reached the fire,
that it must be stopped, or very
serious damage done to the town.
The bells were rung and a call for
help telephoned to Tannery Town
which was quickly responded to.
Men and women also came to fight
the fire; but fire cannot be fought
to much advantage without water,
and none was near, but many
brought pails full, and very soon
active hands were raking away
leaves, and pounding the advancing
(lames with wet hemlock branches.
When it was possible back fire
ing was resorted to, but not much
could be done back firing against
the wind, and it seemed at times
that it would be impossible to save
the buildings.
About midnight it was thought
the lire was so much subdued that
a few could handle it, but that was
a mistake. The fire got a new
start, and the bells were rung again,
and the fire fighters came back, but
it was found that the fire had ap
proached much nearer to the build
ings and the danger was greater
than ever. The wind blew a per
fect gale and drove before it showers
of sparks starting new fires which
luul to be extinguished at once.
It was after four o'clock in the
morning before it was fully checked,
and even then it has to be watched.
Some of the workers remained un
til daylight bofore the fire was com
pletly extinguished. The citizens of
the Borough appreciated very highly
the assistance rendered by the
active residents of the Tannery
Village.
It is satisfactory to know that the
fire has so completly cleaned up
the woods in that section that no
danger from lire is apprehended
from that direction again.
Ed. Kennedy Believed
to Have Been Robbed.
Says the Towanda Daily Review
—Ed. Kennedy a lumberman from
Kicketts, is believed to have been
robbed in Towanda Monday night,
lie was found on the sidewalk in
the rear of the Keystone opera
house by a boy, who notified Special
Officer D. W. Allen, who took
Kennedy to the lockup.
Kennedy was very much intox
icated, and was unconscious to all
that took place. Yesterday morn
ing when arraigned before Burgess
Foust on the charge of intoxication
he made a statement which was
found to l>e true, and which shows
that some one "touched him" for
his money.
He came to Towanda on the even
ing train Monday, and had s24.(>r»
in his possession. The last he re
membered about his money he had
SIO, but when taken into custody
he had only a dollar which was in
another pocket. Burgess Frost sus
pended sentence.
Chief Miller has made an in
vestigation, and is satisfied that
Kennedy was robbed.
Lopez Man in Trouble.
Alex Honjkulich of Lopez was
brought to this place Tuesday and
lodged in the jail on the charge of
assault and cruelty preferred by his
wife. After a short sojourn in the
county safety vault he dug up the
price of freedom and was allowed
togo his way. Mr. Honjkulich is
a native of Austria Hungary.
ORDER REHEARIN6S
ON TRUST GASES
Supreme Court Action Puts Off
Decision on Government Suits
for a Year Perhaps
NO EXPLANATION IS OFFERED
The Court Desires a Full Bench to
Decide Them —With Two Vacan
cies the Court is Evenly Divided—
Interest in Brewer's Successor.
Washington, D. C., April 19. —In the
brief announcement that the cases of
the government against the Standard
Oil Company and the American Tobac
co Company were ordered for rehear
ing, the Supreme Court demonstrated
the absoluteness of its power and
threw the industrial world backward
in Its history at least a twelvemonth.
This decision is taken to mean that
the court is divided 4 to 3 on these
Important cases. Whether the court
j stood for or against the Government
is of course purely a matter of specu
lation, but the report current at the
Capitol to-day was that three of the
Justices had stood for the Govern
ment's contentions and three againßt
j them, with one member of the court
| undecided. This would make at 4 to
1 3 decision whichever way the one un
i decided member voted, and it is be
lieved that the court came to the con
clusion that at least a majority of the
full court of nine ought to be behind
decisions of so great importance to
; the business world.
! Late this afternoon President Taft
let It be known that this action of
; the court had not in any way altered
, his intentions with regard to the filling
j of the vacancy caused by the death of
| Justice Brewer two weeks ago. No
I date was set for the rehearing, but in
| the natural course of events It can
I hardly come much, If any, before the
| Christmas recess.
The order In the two great trust
cases completely surprised all in the
courtroom. It is another evidence of
the absolute secrecy which surrounds
the doings of the Supreme Court, that
not an Inkling of what was to come
had reached even the closest of the
court attaches.
BEVEN DIE IN AGONY.
Three Women and Four Men Succumb
from Wood Alcohol.
Westerly, K. 1., April 18. —As a re
sult of drinking whiskey of the "made
while-you-wait" brand three women
and four men are dead in or near this
city, and so great is the excitement
over the tragedies that Attorney Gen
eral Greenough, at Providence, has
ordered an investigation into the
deaths and also of all places in which
so-called medicinal whiskey Is made
and sold.
The Dead.
DOUGHERTY, EDWARD, Pawca
tuck, Conn.
HOOD, CHARLES H„ Pawcatuck,
Conn.
LARROW, HENRY, Pawcatuck,
Conn.
MURRAY, MRS. ELLEN, Westerly,
R. I.
PERRIN, W. D„ Hopklnton, R. I.
TUCKER, MRS. ALBERT, Wester
ly, R. I.
HUGHES DEMANDS INQUIRY.
Calls for Legislative Investigation Into
Bribery.
Albany, N. Y., April 18. —In a spe
cial message Gov. Hughes called on
the Legislature to follow up through
a general Investigation the trails of
legislative corruption laid bare by the
Allds bribery trial and the Hotchklss
investigation into the business meth
ods employed by the fire insurance
companies.
"They have caused every honest
citizen to tinge with shame and in
dignation, and have made irresistible
the demand that every proper means
should be employed to purge and to
purify," said the Governor In his mes
sage.
The message was formulated by the
Governor after a report summarizing
the results of his investigation had
been submitted to him by State Super
intendent of Insurance Hotchklss.
JOY RIDERS IN ENGINE KILLED.
Four Bodies Found In Wreck at Foot
of Steep Embankment.
Oil City, Pa., April 19.—1n the
wreck of a locomotive found at the
foot of a steep embankment on the
Baltimore ft Ohio narrow gauge line,
between Shlppenvllle and Clarion, the
bodies of four men were found.
There were those of Engineer Kel
ley. Fireman Watsoti of Foxburg, D.
Dennlson and M. Neuland of Luclnda.
The latter were friends of the engi
neer and fireman. The wreck occur
red during the night at a time when
no other trains were moving, and it Is
believed the party was having a Joy
riue va the englnn cab.
FOUR MEN CLIMB
MOUNIM'ILEy
Members of Fairbanks Expedi
tion Reach Summit After a
Month's Work
COOK DATA WAS NOT FOUND
Tom Lloyd's Party from Fairbanks
Got to the Summit on April 3 After
a Month's Effort—Two Peaks Visit
ed —Cut Steps in Ice for 4,000 Feet.
Fairbanks, Alaska, April 19.—Tho
party consisting of Thomas Lloyd and
three companions which left here
three months or so ago to attempt the
ascent of Mount McKinley, the highest
mountain In North America, has suc
ceeded In its purpose. The summit
was reached on April 3 after a month
of steady climbing from the base of
the mountain.
The party left Fairbanks on Decem
ber 22. They established a camp at
the base of the peak in March.
No trace of Dr. Cook's ascent could
be found on either peak and no re
cords were discovered.
Thomas Lloyd led the party. His
companions on the perilous ascent
were W. R. Taylor, Charles McQoni
srle and Daniel Patterson. There were
six other men In the party, but they
were left in charge of the four camps
which were established on the way to
ward the top of the Great Peak.
According to Lloyd no trouble was
experienced In making the ascent for
the first 12,000 feet. The next 4,000
feet, however, was covered only after
steps had been hewn out of a solid
sheet of ice. The final dash was made
by the four men from the last camp
which had been established at tho
lt>,ooo foot level.
The expedition was financed by
August Peterson and William McPhee
of Fairbanks when the Cook contro
versy was raging.
The obstacles encountered were not
so great as had been predicted. Four
camps were established during the as
cent and a trail was blazed all the way
to the crest. Up to 12,000 feet the
climbing did not present unusual diffi
culties.
For the next 4,000 feet the way led
over a steep Ice field which at first
seemed to forbid further progress, but
over which upon exploration it was
found possible to establish a path.
The final dash to the top was made
from the 16,000 foot camp. Mount
McKinley terminates In twin peaks of
equal height, one somewhat rounded
and covered with snow, the other com
posed of bare and wind swept rock.
On the rocky peak the Fairbanks
climbers placed an American flag in
a monument of stones.
The expedition was provided with
Dr. Cook's maps and books and at
tempted to follow and verify his route,
but failed to do so.
In the centre of a great Alaskan
wilderness, 20,300 feet high, stands
Mount McKinley, In latltlde G3 de
grees, longitude 151 degrees west,
forming the apex of a great watershed.
EDITOR KILLS MAYOR.
Result of Three Years of 111 Feeling
In Morehouse, Mo.
Morehouse, Mo., April 18. —Claude
B. Hay. editor of the Hustler, a local
newspaper, shot and killed in the
main highway Dr. L. \V. Hart, the
Mayor of Morehouse. The tragedy
marks an epoch In a feud that has
lasted three years and has involved
all of the public men In this part of
Missouri in one phase or another of
the bitter controversy. The friends of
the leaders in both factious say to
night they fear for further conse
quences, owing to the wrought-up
state of the community.
Hay and Hart both come from old
and prominent families of this State,
and each has been influential In town
and county politics.
NO MORE COEDS AT TUFTS.
Trustees Adopt Reports In Favor of
Separating the Sexes.
Boston, April 14. —Separation of the
sexes at Tufts College was decided
upon by the trustees after a special
committee of the trustees had report
ed to the full board of recommenda
tion for the establishment of a wom
en's department at the college next
fall, to be known eventually as the
Jackson College for Women. The com
mittee urges that action be taken at
once to raise the necessary funds.
Loses Life from a Canoe.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 12.—William
Knlpe, 17 years old, of Wilkinsburg,
was drowned when he and his brother
in-law, Ernest M. Johnson, opened the
canoeing season in the Allegheny Riv
er. The men of whom they rented a
canoe had argued that It was pressing
the season, and had tried to persuade
them to take a skiff.
75C PER YEAR
MUTUAL CHARGED
WITH EVADING LAW
Superintendent Hotchkiss' Re
port Filed at Albany Says It
Merits Severe Criticism
MORE PAID THAN RECEIVED
Accusations Against the Insurance
Company Were Made After a Long
Investigation of Its Business with
Evidence to Support Them.
Albany, N. Y., April 19—The .Mu
tual Life Insurance Company, as late
as 1908, was evading the Armstrong
Law (which its Irregularities helped
to place on the statute books after the
Hughes Investigation, by making Il
legal payments to its agents for ob
taining new business.
The Board of Directors of the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company, acting
under the advice of Joseph H. Choate
and James McKeen, In 1908, squand
ered nearly a quarter of a million of
the policy holders' dollars by "com
promising" the suits against McCurdy
and others, exceedingly $0,000,000, but
reduced by counter claims to $3,000,-
000, the compromise costing $250,000
more than the company received.
The Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany at the end of 1908 understated
its liabilities by more than half a mil
lion dollars.
These accusations, with direct evi
dence to support them, are made in a
report which has been placed on iiie
here by State Superintendent of In
surance Hotchklss after a searching
Investigation of the company's busi
ness for the years 1906-7-8.
"The company merits severe criti
cism" for those palpable infractions
of the law," the report reads, although
In other ways the investigation re
vealed valuable reforms. The woist
offence, the report declares, was
squandering $250,000, under the legal
guidance of Choate and McKeen.
The committee's statement advising
the compromise was, in Superintend
ent Hotchkiss's mind, "untrue in at
least two particulars and deceptive in
one more."
Concerning the first-named viola
tion of the Armstrong Law, the report
says:
"The examiners find that during
the year 1908 the company paid for
supervision of old business," the sum
of $354,114. There is no record at
the home office of the company which
satisfactorily explains what was done
in return for the expenditure of this
money.
"The company claims It was paid In
good faith to various agents for look
ing after business already on the
booka, to prevent the lapsing of poli
cies. The examiners state, however,
that an investigation of a few of the
branch agencies, which received a
considerable part of this amount, leads
to the inevitable conclusion that the
money was paid, not for supervising
old business, but substantially In the
form of business to those agents who
were most successful in securing new
business."
It is pointed out that In this way
the salutary purposes of Section 97
can be utterly defeated.
"The examiners also note that in
1903, during a campaign for the elec
tion of directors, the company In
creased its agents' advances by more
than double the amount paid during
any other quarter of the year, and
that during the same period the man
agers expended $168,351 more than
they had been authorized to expend
by the Committee of the Board of Di
rectors."
SEE THEIR MOTHER SLAIN.
Two Children Are Eye Witnesses to
Their Father's Crime.
New Rochelle, N. Y., April 18. —Mil-
ton Wood, a Janitor in a mat factory
at North Pelham, went to 51 Winy ah
avenue, New Rochelle, where his wife
went to live after she had left him
two weeks ago, and shot her four
times. One bullet pierced her heart
and killed her Instantly.
The crimes was witnessed by Wood's
two children and Thomas King. AVood
acknowledged the crime, and the re
volver was found in his pocket.
Wood and his wife, who are
negroes, came to New Rochelle from
the West Indies several years ago.
MRS. SAYLER GUILTY.
Dr. Miller Too—Her Sentence Three
Years for Manslaughter.
Watseka, 111., April 18.—Mrs. Lucy
Sayler and Dr. William R. Miller were
found guilty of killing J. Byron Say
ler, Mrs. Sayler's husband, July V.
last..
The Jurors after deliberating thirty
six hours fixed the crime as man
slaughter, and directed, as is their
legal privilege in this State, that Mrs.
Sayler be imprisoned for three years
•nM Dr. Miller for twelve years.