UU Library Ja!jl009 Semite Wayne County Organ Semi-Weekly Founded 1908 1 of the Weekly Founded, 1844 REPUBLICAN PARTY HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1909. NO. 24 66th YEAH. HARRISBURG LETTER. Last Month of Legislative Session Grand Total of Appropriations $82,000,000 Tlic State Auto mobile Road Gets a Black Eye Several Important Bills Signed by the Governor. Makcii 20th. Nest week the Legis lature will start on the final month's work for this session and the Rules Committee has provided for three ses sions a day for most of the time, in or der to Ret away with the major part of the work ahead. Of the 1,000 bills in troduced in both Houses, probably one fourth will get through to the Governor, and the most of them will be appropria tion bills. The General Appropriation billwas read for the first time this week, and will be referred back to the Committee for the purpose of amendment. It carries a total of $27,461,824, but will probably be larger when it comes up for final passage. A large part of the expense of the Legislature has already been tak en care of in a special act, the first one signed by the Governor. The State Treasurer refused to advance the money this year, so an appropriation act be came a necessity early in the session. The big appropriation bill carries $15, 000,000 for the use of the public schools, which means that there will be no in crease over the amount given two years ago. The Health Department gets over $3,000,000, which is a substantial in crease, and brings this next to the schools and charitable Institutions as a heavy charge on the State's income. The total amount asked for by the hos pitals, ':'homes, asylums,' reformatories and insane institutions, with the usual items named in the general bill, made up a total of over $82,000,000. As the total net income of the State is about $22,- 000,000 there must be some pruning done. This work will be begun by the Appropriations Committee, carried for ward by the Legislature and finished by the Governor. When he is through with the bills left in his hands, the expenses of the State for the next two years. will "about fit the revenue. And many' worthy causes must suffer because of the lack of funds. Some unworthy ones will fall by the wayside also. There will be few in creases in the number of office holders in the State, by legislative enactment, and fewer increases of salaries. This is dud to the firm stand taken by the Governor on these matters. One must give the Legislature some credit, how- ever, for it is doing some good work of its own. A few days ago it nearly killed the bill providing for the automobile road from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, notwithstanding the plea made on the floor of the house that it, was the special bill of the Governor. The only thing that saved its life, even temporarily, was a motion to refer it back to committee where it will probably die. Not much will be done for the rest of the session, except as to appropriations The school law finds hard sledding, the mine act meets stumbling blocks, the pension bills are nearly dead, acts tax ing manufacturing companies have been given dope to stupefy them and the Capitol Park extension is gone past re1 surrection. The osteopaths won a victory this week when the Governor signed a bill providing for a State Board of Kxamin era for that school of doctors. A board of five examiners will be appointed to license applicants desiring to practice and the act will become'effective as soon as an appropriation is made available Another bill is on its way through the Legislature which will, if it passes, act aH a virtual repealer of the one the Gov ernor has signed and leave the osteo paths on the back scats. This act pro vides for one board and prohibits any but a licensed physician from practic ing. Among the bills recently signed by the Governor, which places them on the statute books are the following : Allow ing judges to enter non-suits when at' tornoys of record are not present when case is called ; 'Permitting changes of venue in cases whero the Court is satis lied that local prejudice exists ; Regu lating the sale of carbolic acid ; Rcquir ing cemeteries to set aside onu-tonth of the proceeds of sale of lots for perpetual care of the, cemetery ; Allowing super visors of second claps townships to levy a tax for the erection and maintenance of lire houses ; Providing that in pro cecdhiRH before justices of the peace where it shal appear that action was brought with malicious intent, tho mag istrato may discharge the prisoner and divide the costs; Authorizing the Govcr nor to make such regulations for the National Guard as will make it conform to the U. 8. Army ; Authorizing dUtrict attorneys to employ assistants In hoinl cido cases, but limiting compensation to $400 per year. Candidates for State offices to be filled this year and next are out with an nouncements. This year will be chosen an Auditor General, State Treasurer and Judge of the Supreme Court. For the first the following have been men tioned : Senator Edward F. James, of Luzerne ; Representative Edgar R. Kiess, of Lycoming ; E. E. ISeidleman, of Dau phin; Senator John M. Crawford, of Al legheny. For State Treasurer the name of Jesse L. Hartman, of Blair, is most mentioned. No one is heard from as a successor of Chief Justice Mitchell, whose term expires in January n,ext. Senator Sisson, of Eric, is spoken of for Governor next year. Secretary Henry Houck will succeed himself as the head of the Internal Affairs Department next year. Nothing definite will be given out for this year's slate until after the Legis lature has adjourned. N. E. Hausk. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Stock Quotations. New York. March 22. Money on call was 1 per cent; time money and mercantile paper uncnangea In rates. Closing prices oi siocks were: Amal. Copper... 70H Norf. & West... 88 Atchison 103 Northwestern ..17W & o mvi Penn. R. R. 131 Reading 131 Brooklyn R. T.., 72 Ches. &Ohio.... 7 C.C.C&Bt.L.. 75 Rock Island 23 St. Paul 145H & H 174 Southern lac...H9 Erie 25 Gen. Electric... 153 Southern Ry.... 24Vi South. Ry. pf... 61 Sugar 1304 Texas Pacific... 323. 111. Central 143 Int.-Met 14 Louis. & Nash.. ,130 Union Pacific... 180 Manhattan 142?; U. S. Steel 41 U. S. Steel pr...H0',i West. Union.... 65 Missouri Fac... 69H N. Y. Central. .. .1244 Market Reports. WHEAT One cent lower; contract erade. March, Jl.23al.24. CORN One cent lower; Marcn, lUSafic, OATS Steady ; No. 2 white, natural, S8Ha59c. CHEESE Strong: receipts, 1,043 Doxes state, full cream, special, Italic; small, fancy, 15c; large, fancy, 15c; good to fine, 15V4c; winter made, best, 14'ic.; com mon to prime, 12al4c; skims, full to spe cials, 2ifcal2ttc EGGS Firm; receipts, 19,006 cases; state. Pennsylvania and nearby, fancy. selected, white. 23c; fair to choice, 21a 22c; brown and mixed, fancy, 20a20V4.l fair, to chelce, 19al9Vic; western, firsts, ISc: seconds. isac. POTATOES Firm; domestic, old. In bulk, per ISO lbs, S2.50a3c; per bbl. or bag, 25a2.73; European, per 163 .lb. bag, 32a. 125: Bermuda, per bbl...5.&aS.75; sweet oer basket. SlJEal.ES. LIVE POULTRY Steady; chickens, broilers, per lb., 2aa33c; fowls, 18al9c. old roosters, 12c; ducks, 16c; geese, 11a 12Uc. These prices are unofficial. DRESSED POULTRY Firm; turkeys, young, selected, per in., sic; poer to good, 16a22c; fowls, boxes, 15',4alGc. ; bar rels, 14H&15V&C.; old roosters, 12c; squabs, white, per doz., S1.2Sa4.25c; frozen tur keys, No. 1, per lb., 23a23c; broilers, milk fed, fancy, 2Ca3c. ; corn fed, fancy, 22a 24c; roasting chickens, milk fed, 20a3c; corn fed, 17a20c; fowls, No. 1, 14alc; old roosters, 12c; ducks, Ne. 1, 17al8c; geese. No. 1, 12al4c; capons, 24a27c. HA i AND STRAW Quiet ; timothy, per hundred, C0ft85c; shipping'. Wo.; clo ver, mixed, KSaT&c; clover, WaCOc. ; rye straw. JL0tni.lL: small bales. 2!ic leta, Judging from the space which a cer tain class of periodicals devote to the exposition and discussion of various uplift prohlems, such as children In the public schools, public playgrounds for children, sanitation In the home and home surroundings, social better ment and social morals, woman suf fragists have strong grounds for their argument that this Is pre-eminently an e when women should acquire firmer hold upon public affairs. Sir Conan Doyle nobly acknowl edges having received the Inspiration for his Sherlock Holmes stories from Poe. Toe got a pallet of straw and crust for tho output of his genius. while the Briton who worked out the vein got rich. When King Edward travels abroad 'strictly as a private citizen" he takes along a retinue of retainers and bodyguard of police so as to prevent the common people from seeing through his nature fake. Even tho "first lady In the laud" has her troubles, for hired girls hi the White House get "sassy" uud quit the same as they do outside. In the light for national supremacy In sea power It's the longest purse that gets there. If congress will press the button on tariff settlement tho people will do tho rest. Tho Point of View. Tho Organ Grinder now's business? Tho Scissors Grinder Flnol I've never seen It so dull. Cleveland Lead er.- Af rlcn's cannibals and fever microbes alike will forever regret the hour they start In to regulato strcnuousness Theodore Hoosovclt'H corporation. Fortunato now that tho chair of Unto wan built to slzo up with the Btuto and not with tho average man Who might bo called to It. ILL Woman Collapses When Told She Must Die. 0 BE ELECTROCUTED MONDAY Governor Hughes Intimates That No Further Application For Clem ency on Her Behalf Will Be Considered. Auburn, N. T., March 23. Mrs. Mary Farmer, the convicted murderess of Mrs. Sarah Brennan, broke down today when told that she must die in the electric chair next week, as Gov ernor Hughes had refused to consider any further application for clemency in her behalf. The woman wept profusely and be came so ill that the Jail physician was called to attend her. Mrs. Farmer will be the second wo man in this state to die in the electric chair. Mrs. Martha Place, who Killed her daughter in Brooklyn, was the first, she having been put to death on March 20, 1800, in Sing Sing prison, Exceptional efforts were made to save Mrs. Place from the chair, hut Theo dore Roosevelt, then governor, refused to interfere. Governor Hughes In denying the ap plication for executive clemency, made on the ground that the woman was In sane when she committed the crime, Issued a statement in which he gives his reasons for so doing. In this case or in other capital cases," says Governor iiugnes, "mere arc those who ask for executive Inter ference because they are opposed to capital punishment, but the law of the state is that 'murder in the first degree is punishable by death.' However important to the Interests of Justice may be the exerclsq of the pardoning power In exceptional cases, the executive has no right to use tins power for the purpose of effecting a practical repeal. otine irw;.ju:ts executive action that- the raw or the state as to murder as well as other laws is faithfully executed. "As the prisoner is a woman, there are those who urge that capital pun ishment in such a case is revolting and that the sentence should be com muted upon the ground of sex. The law of the state regarding murdsr makes no distinction between the sexes, and a woman who is found guilty of this crime is subject to the same penalty as a man. The law should be impartially enforced." The governor points out that the ap peal for executive .clemency was made on the ground that the prisoner is in sane, but that the case differs from one In which it is claimed that in sanity has suprevened since convic tion. The plea of insanity was made at the trial, and the governor says the question was "fully and fairly liti gated." The governor quotes the law defining insanity and continues: "It Is Important for the protection of society that this test should not be obscured aud that those who are delib erate murderers within this test should not escape conviction and punishment. It should be clearly understood that depraved persons and so called degen erates who are nevertheless responsi ble under the law cannot commit mur der with impunity. A most careful examination of the facts in this case leads to the conclu sion that the conviction was Just. The murder was most brutal and was un attended by any circumstances afford ing the slightest basis for extenuation or appeal to sympathy on the prison er's behalf." CORNELL STEEL ITEM FAILS. One of the Oldest Companies Forced Into Bankruptcy. New York, March 23. One of the oldest and best known firms manu facturing structural steel was thrown Into bankruptcy when an Involuntary petition was filed In the United States district court against tho J. B. & J. M. Cornell Co. of this city. The main plant of the company Is at Cold Spriugs, Putnam county, N, Y. A petition was filed by the Bethle hem Steel company, Froment & Co. and T. P. Kelly & Co., with claims for goods sold amounting to $46,375.39. A. Gordon Murray and Michael Blake were appointed receivers, with bonds of $100,000 each. The alleged bankrupt company is said to havo unsecured liabilities of $500,000, with uncompleted contracta of mora thnn $1,000,000, and outstand ing bonds, secured by a mortgage on the plant: nmountlng to $000,000. This failure Is regarded as one of Hie most Important that has occurred In tlio Iron ami steel Industry since the existing period of business depression set lu. FARMER LOCAL JATTERS. ACCIDENT and INCIDENT What Townsfolk arc Doing Business Changes and Other Happenings. Lambert Artman met with an acci dent on Thursday afternoon last. He was driving along River street, near the Urandamore house, and tried to turn the horse and wagon around. At this place there is no guard rail along the thoroughfare, and the horse backed the wagon down the embankment, which is about fifteen feet high. Mr. Artman .was thrown from the seat and had two ribs fractured. The horse broke loose from the wagon and clambered back to the street. On Friday afternoon last a horse owned by Sheriff M. Lee Braman be came frigh'tened by a noisy carpet- cleaning machine, operating on South Church street. The animal made a dash up the street, throwing the driver, Ed ward Hempstead, from the wagon. Mr. Hempstead was cut about the face and head, and was taken into the office of Dr. W. T. McConviil, whence, after treat ment, he was removed to his home on Main street. The wagon and harness were damaged, but the horse escaped injury. Horace Dexter, of Laurella, was brought before Justice of the Peace It. A. Smith, on Thursday afternoon, March 18th, charged with threatening to kill J. W. Mills, and also with cruelty to ani mals. He was found guilty in each case, on the (irstcharge being put under bonds to keep the peace, and on the second fined thirty dollars and costs, the whole amounting to $50.61. He gave cash bail While driving to Honesdale, last Thursday afternoon, William Strofahl, a butcher employed at Herzog's meat market, fell from the wagon and sus tained a fracture of two ribs. Mr. Stro fahl and George Masker went to Promp ton.that day for a wagon-load of wood, f-ti f 1 on nitnr Itnin'o li ! 1 1 rtr, tha Mitni-m EStVVfi'Ji- l.i. '- i.l .17'. Conductor Ward and his crew "of the Delaware & Hudson passenger train, en joyed their monthly three days' vaca tion last week., A crew from Carbon dale had charge of the train during their absence. ' An unusual number of business changes are taking place in Honesdale this spring. Commencing down town, C. J. Weaver will shortly occupy his new Commercial Hotel, formerly the Coyne House ; the Boston Store will re move to the A. A. Grambs establish ment, Mr. Grambs going out of the mer cantile business; Smith's shoe store will be removed to the Dittrich building, Mr. Dittrich having given up his store ; Fred. Golbert has taken possession of his res taurant on 7th street, vacated by John Theobald, who has succeeded Joseph Schiessler in the adjoining saloon ; Mrs. C. P. Eldred will remove from the Dit trich store to the Schuerholz building : J. Oscar Terrel is offering his Btore and stock for sale ; George B. Kimble is clos ing out his stock of mcrchandisu at cost, and will devote himself exclusively to the carting business, his store having been leased to the Wayne Cooperative Com pany, who will remove from the Ridge way building; Martin Galvin has sold his livery business to Herbert Plum, of Hawley; the Theatorium on 7th street is to be renovated and brought fully up-to-date as a family theatre for moving pic ture and vaudeville entertainments ; the Galvin living rooms over the Herald of fice are being adapted to the uses of the Knights of Columbus ; Schwenker, the baker and confectioner, has established himself in the Powell building; the man ufacturing corporation of the Durland Thompson Co. has been changed to the Durland-Weston Shoo Co.; William II Kranz has withdrawn from the Hones dale Shoe Co.; and will be at the head of tho Honesdale I'ootwear Co., with a new concrete factory at the foot of Park street ; a now photographic gallery will he opened by Thomas .Charlosworth, in thu Schuerholz building ; and many minor changes have been made or are contemplated in the personnel and man agement of other business concerns. -The Carbondale Leader announces the arrival in hat city from Albany of 0, K. McKim, a prominent official of the Del. & Hud. Company, for the pur pose of putting In commission a number of Pennsylvania engines hired to assist in relieving the coal congestion now ex ihtlug there. It will be soino time beforo tho local flrerncn, who aro used to hand' hug hard coal, will bo nblo to manage the soft coal burner. There aro Buveral thousand cars of coal in the local yard and along the road that aro standing still because of the lack of power, SB -The Wayne'County Fair will bo held Oct. 4th, 6th, (Jth and 7th. The Associa tion has secured at a great expense Fred. D. Darling's Animal Circus, as a free at traction. The show consists of dogs, ponies and monkeys, and has performed in all the large cities of the United States, Europe and Mexico. Elijah Swingle, formerly a resident of South Canaan, who, after 47 years of service as a brakeman, lost both legs in an accident at No. 5 Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s colliery, Dunmore, on March 21, 1006, was in the Lackawanna court last week, as plaintiff in a suit against that company for damages. Swingle is now 66 years old, and is a survivor of the old gravity days when a brakeman had none of the safety appliances now provided for him by the government laws. He survived the days of the link and pin coupler and all other death traps to be finally caught after nearly a half cen tury of experience. WM. CONNELL'S DEATH. Scranton's Multimillionaire at Rest An Active and Useful Life Ended. William Connell, former eon pressman, extensive coal operator, capitalist and philanthropist, died at his home in Scran ton on Sunday last, March 21st, 1Q09, from a stroke of apoplexy. He was born at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Sept. 20, 1827, his parents being of Scotch-Irish descent. When he was a child his parents moved to Hazleton, Luzerne county, and it was there he be gan his life's work in the mines at 40 cents aday. He died a multi-millionaire. In 1856, Mr. Connell went to Scran- ton, and shortly after was placed in charge of the mines of the Susquehanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad and Coal Company, with offices at Scranton. In 1870, when the charter of that corpora tion lapsed, he was enabled to purchase the plant, and reorganized under the firm name of William Connell & Co. From.tbis beginning he developed into the largest individual coal operator in theAVyomingregion, and later organized imdf.TrtrtaallyAo wned . the. Connell Coal saw sold to the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Mr. Connell was actively, connected with numerous important interests in and around Scranton, and it was largely due to his financial assistance and his influence among capitalists of Scranton, that the National Elevator and Machine works were established in Honesdale In politics he had always been a staunch Republican and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896 and also to the recent conven tion. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Republican Committee and was elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eightl Congresses. Six of his eleven children survive him Mrs. Connell died seven years ago, and Mr. Connell's decline in health dated from her death. One of the biggest tasks Mr. Connell ever undertook was when he was arbi trator for the Lehigh Valley road, in set tling claims arising from the Mud Run disaster of Oct. 10, 1888, when sixty three were killed and 120 injured. Only one case went to court. Mr. Connell was also active as a mediator in the at tempted settlement of coal strikes and other industrial disputes. Funeral services were held at the Connell home yesterday afternoon. PRIZE ESSAYS. The approaching completion of the High School buildings will soon neces sitate the grading and arrangement of the school property grounds. No one.is more interested in having this work properly done than the pupils who are to use them, and no' landscape gardener should attempt the task without con sulting them. In order to stimulate suggestion on this point The Citizen offers the scholars of the Public School two prizes of $1.00 each for the best two essays on "The Best Way to Arrange tho New School House Grounds," the competition to close April 15th. The ar ticles, which must not exceed four hun dred words in length, are not to be signed, hut the name of the writer must be written on a separate slip, and en closed in an envelope with the essay The contributions will bo numbered and submitted to competent judges who will decide on their respective merits. The winning essays with tho names of tho authors will appear in the first number of The Citizen following tho award. Now is thu time when tho Kuglish language will receive numerous additions in the baso ball pages of thu daily pa pers. Whether or not the additions will enrich the language ia another question. KIDNAPED BOY BACK Willie Whitla Returned to His Home In Sharon. FATHER PAID $10,000 RANSOM On Receiving the Money the Ab ductors Promised to Deliver the Child After Dark and Kept Their Word. Sharon, Pa., March 23. Disgusted with tho bungling work of the police, J. P. Whitla made a private deal wiBi the abductors of his son. Willie and early today arrived home, bringing the little fellow with him safe and sound. The boy's mother went almost wBA with Joy, hugging and caressing him. as one returned from the dead. The whole town was in an uproar of excitement, which set in some houaa earlier when it leaked out that Mr. Whitla had recovered the stolen chTEl and was coming home as fast as train and trolley could carry them. That the case did not end in a dupli cation of the famous Charlie Ross kid naping is due entirely to the lad's fa ther. Mr. Whitla positively declined to have any more to do with the authori ties and went about the recovery of his offspring in his own way. Whitla had declared all along that he waa willing to pay the ransom demanded and only wanted his son back. Over zealous police officials and private de tectives, with an eye to possible re ward, fairly tread on each others' toes In their efforts to capture the men who successfully carried out one of the boldest cases of abduction In recent criminal history. Aftor thi linsnn fit Aslitnlillln Whitla received another letter from these men and determined to act on his ottb resources. He blindly followed their t instructions. At a drug Btoreito CleT-i' ; , land was another letteftelllng ymt'Z pay $10,000 to a woman at .R. e.exjam- ortHca i'anrt .nramlnlfu. Tt- flol 1 VAr- iw .-i ncr pie promise of the abductors' for what it was worth. They kept their word, however, for,,to the great Joy of tho parent, the little fellow walked int the corridor of the Holland hotel at Cleveland and was quickly enfolded In the father's arms. Mr. Whitla was so overcome with emotion that he couM only fondle the boy and hug him to hta breast After the excitement ha41 passed the reunited pair started for Sharon after telegraphing of the suc cessful outcome of the trip. According, to those In touch with the affairs of the family, In the last com munication from the abductor Mr. Whitla was instructed to go at onee to Cleveland and visit a certain drug store, where he would find a letter containing further instructions. Hnvlng paid over the money and re ceived the promise that the boy wouM be restored to him after dark, Mr. Whitla went to the hotel and waited. About three hours afterward Willie walked into the lobby, putting an en to the family's worrlment. After assuring himself that Willta was absolutely well and strong Mr. Whitla started with him for Sharon. MORE GRAFT INDICTMENTS. Pittsburg Millionaire, Councilmen ana a Banker In the Net. Pittsburg, March 23. Six indict, ments three for conspiracy, one fot perjury and two for bribery were re turned in the councilmanlc graft casei. upon which the grand Jury has beea deliberating several days. The men Indicted are Dallas C. Ux ors, millionaire manufacturer, Indicted Jointly with Councilman John V. Klein, already twice convicted in tht graft cases, and Councilman W. H. Weber on a charge of conspiring to se cure the passage of a street paving ordinance; F. A. Griffin, vice president of the Columbia National bank, charg ed with perjury In one of the graft trials; Councilman Charles Stewart, charged with soliciting a bribe of $2, C00, and H. L. Bolger, hotel proprietor, charted with being an accomplice ot John V. Klein In demanding und ac cepting a bribe. Dallas C. Byers left for Europe for his health about the time the graft in vestigation began and has not re turned. The perjury charge against Grlflln is in connection with a recent council manic graft trial. He has resigned his position as vice president of tho bank'. $15,000 For Kidnapers. Harrisburg, Pa., March 23. The sen. at6 has unanimously adeptcd a concur rent resolution offering a reward oi $1G,000 for Information leading U tho arrest and conviction of the kidnaper of Willlo Whitla. .