tteett $ Semi-Weekly Founded! Wayne County Organ g 1 1908 as of the g REPUBLICAN PARTY $ Weekly Founded, 1844 66th YEAR. HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1900. NO. 37 ACTION MLTSII Grand Vizier and Sheik-u!3 Islam Dismissed. HILMI PASHA IS MADE PREMIER Two Other Cabinet Members Thrust Out of Office Famine at Had jin, Which Was Besieged by Moslems. Constantinople, Mny !. Hy the di rect action of Sultan Mohammed, Tow Ilk Pnshu, grand vizier, nnd Zta Hddin Effendl, SholU-ul-Islnm, n hend of thu Moslem faith, have been summarily dismissed from olllce. Hllml Pasha nnd Mollah Suhlb were Installed respectively ns grand vizier Df tho empire nnd Shclk-ul-lslnm. Nail Bey, member of the chamber if deputies from Sluope and an active worker of the committee of union and progress, replaces Azml Hey ns minis ter of public instruction, and Vice Ad miral Arifhlkmet I'nshu replaces Rlzu Pasha us minister of marine. In the imperial decree ordering the changes the sultan expressed his linn fleslre for the restoration and main tenance Of peace and tranquillity, the welfare of tho country and regularity of administration. This sudden change In the cabinet came as a surprise, It having been nn- HILMI FASHA. nounced that Tcwflk Pasha would re tain the post of grand vizier until after the Investiture of the new sul tan with the sword of Othmau. The change Is taken to Indicate that n full understanding lias been reached be tween the two groups of the Unionist party to support Hllml Pasha. Notwithstanding the presence of the troops at Iladjin. the situation there Is desperate owing to the lack of food and medical supplies. The troops which relieved the city, under com mand of Loutfi Hey, arrived just in time, as the besiegers had succeeded in setting (ire to a house on the edge of the city. The lire spread, but ns the breeze was blowing away from the town only five buildings were destroyed. A heavy rlllo lire was kept up against those who tried to extinguish the Humes. The Mohammedans outside the walls, who numbered many thousands, push ed their attacks energetically ogalnst the inhabitants, killing and wounding many. They were so eoger to get In side the city nnd plunder the place that they did not observe the approach of Loutfi Bey and his men until they were close upon them, whereupon the Mohammedans fled precipitately, car rying off all the cattle outside the city. Tho Christian clergy and the whole population of Iladjin welcomed their deliverers with great rejoicing. Colo nel Loutfl visited the churches and schools nnd placed guards at various points. The famine increases day by day, and starvation faces thousands. A letter from Harnl snys that every man there has been killed. Only wo men, girls nnd boys under ten have boon left alive. The churches nnd houses were plundered, and most of them were burned. The letter, which Is from the widow of n Christian missionary, says: "We have nothing to eat or wear. Wo are living on grnss like animals. Worse than this, the Moslems are trying to force the women nnd girls to become Mohammedans. Already some of the women hnvo been carried away." At Adana many persons are dying from exposure, and the necessity for relief measures Is exceedingly press ing. County Treasurer Found Guilty, Nyack, N. Y May C William J. Randolph, treasurer of Rockland coun ty, was found guilty In the supreme court hero of misappropriating $5,000 belonging to the county. y Results of Sanies Played In National, American and Eastern Leagues. NATIONAL LEAatTK. At Brooklyn Hrooklyn, Si Philadelphia, J. Uatterles Bell and Hersen; Urown, Moore, Jacklltsch nnd Dooln. At Pittsburg Pittsburg, 0; St. Louis, 5. Batteries Camnltz nnd O'Connor; Lush nnd Phelps, At Chicago Chicago, B; Cincinnati, 2. Batteries Overall and Moran; Gasper nnd McLean, Now York at Boston. Postponed. Wot grounds. STANDING OP THE CLUBS. w. L. r.c. w. t,. P.r". Plttsburg.il t! .C47 Chicago... n 9 ..VU Phlla'phla, 8 6 ,C13 Brooklyn, (i S .lifl Boston.... 8 5 .613 St. Louis. 7 12 .SOS Cincinnati 10 10 .500 New York 1 8 .333 AMERICAN LHAOUU. At New York New York, U; Boston, 0. Batteries Brockett and Blair; Arellanos and Spencer. At Philadelphia Washington, 4; Phila delphia, :!. Batteries Smith and Street; Plank and Thomas. At St. Louis-Detroit, 3; St. Louis, 1. Batteries Hpeor and Becltendorf; (ira linm and Crlgcr. At Cleveland Chicago, il; Cleveland, r.. Batteries Owrtis and Owens; Wright nnd Claikc. STANDING OP THIS CLUBS. w. l. r.c. w. t,. r.c. Uetrolt.... 13 5 .722 Cleveland, li 9 .400 New York 10 C ,(M7 Wnsh'ton. 5 S .:!." Boston.... S 7 .333 l'lilla'phla, G S .3N3 Chicago... 8 7 .533 St. Louis. 5 11 .313 EASTERN LEAGUE. At Baltimore Buffalo, C; Baltimore, 4. STANDING OP THE CLUBS. w. l. r.c. w. L. P.O. Jersey C'yti 3 .IW7 Toronto... 4 4 .300 i'rovl'oncaB 3 .025 Buffalo.... 4 3 .411 Rochester. 3 2 .U00 Newark... 3 4 429 Montreal.. 5 5 .500 Baltimore. 2 G .230 BASEMAN EVERS SUSPENDED. Pitcher Walsh Also Disciplined For Tardiness In Reporting. Chicago, May 41. John J. Evers, star second baseman of the Chicago Na tional league baseball team, was sus pended by the national baseball com mission for his failure to report to his team at the opening of the season. Evers Joined the Chicago team sev eral days ago and played his first game. Just before the game with Cin cinnati he received notice of his sus pension. Pitcher E. Walsh of the Chicago American League club Is also under suspension for failure to report on time. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Stock Quotations. Money on call was 2 per cent; time money and mercantile paper unchanged In rates. Closing prices of stocks were: Amal. Copper... 7SV4 Norf. & West... 1)1'', Atchison 10716 Northwestern ..1S1V4 B. & O U4i Penn. R. R 1334 Brooklyn R. T.. 7S3i Reading 13Hji Ches. & Ohio.... 77 Rock Island 2914 C, C C & St. L.. 73 St. Paul 150 D. & II 1821 Southern Pac.U'lTJ Kile 31;'s Southern Ry....29?a! Gen. Electric. ...159 South. Hy. pf... tKV j 111. Central 14i Sugar 133)1 . Int. -Met iffii Texas Pacific... 3::y. I Louis. ,t Nash.., 13fl Union Pacific. ..1SS14 : Manhattan 143 U. S. Steel 55 Missouri I'ac.... 73'!, U. S. Steel i)f...ll!)as N. Y. Central. ...130 West. Union.... 73VS Market Reports. WHEAT Quiet, but firm; contract grade, May, fl.10al.42. CORN Firm and one-half cent higher; Mny, 79Va80c. BUTTER Very strong; supplies still short; receipts, G.S45 packages; creamery, specials, 2ii')ia30c. ; (otllclal 29'c.); extras, 29a29y2c; thirds to llrsts, 23a2SVfci: held, 21a27c.; state dairy, common to finest, 21a 29c; process, common to special, 17a21c. ; western, factory, 17a20c.; Imitation cream ery, 21a22c. CHEESE Easier; receipts, 1,280 boxes; state, new, full cream, special, 14al4Vc.; small, colored, fancy, lSlfcc.; large, col ored, fancy, 13Vc. ; small, white, fancy, 1311c.; common to fair, 10al2e.; skims, full to specials, 2',$aUc. EGGS Easier; receipts, 29,579 cases; state, Pennsylvania nnd nearby, fancy, selected, white, 24Hc. ; fair to choice, 23a 24c; brown and mixed, fancy, 23'e. ; fair to choice, 22V6a23c; western, storage pack ed, 22Ma23c; firsts, 22a22Hc; seconds, 21a 21e. POTATOES Firm for new; old domes tic firm, but European weak; domestic, old, In bulk, per ISO lbs., $2.73a3.12; per bbl. or bag, $2.73a3; European, old, per ICS lb. bag, $1.75a2; Bermuda, new. No. l, per bbl., $4.23a4.73; No. 2, per bbl $3.23a3.75j Florida, No. 1, $4a4.50; No. 2, 3a3.50; culls, $2a2.60; sweet, per basket, $1.50a2. DRESSED POULTRY Firm; fresh killed fowls, choice, 17c; do., fair to good, J6alCM:C. ; old roosters, 13c; broiling chick ens, nearby, 33a40c. LIVE POULTRY -Firm; chickens, broilers, per lb 30a33c; fowls, 17al7Hc: Id roosters, 10Vc: ducks, 12c; geese, 7a8c. GREAT DAY IN MILWAUKEE. "German Athens of Arrjerica" Enter tains the Kaiser's Envoy. Milwaukee, May 0. This city, which has a larger proportion of citizens of German birth or descent than any other In the United States, Is outdoing Itself today In Its welcome to Count Johann Ilelnrich von Hernstorff, the German ambassador to this country. Count von Hernstorff will remain here two days. He wns welcomed to tho city by Mayor Rose and other olll clalB and will bo tho guest of honor at a banquet to1 be given by tho Citizens' Business league. At tho banquet he will speak on "Social Reforms In Ger many." King Cdward Incognito In Paris, rnrls, May 0. King Edward, who has been traveling In the south of Italy, arrived here Incognito. He will remain uutll Saturday, IN CASTIS IL Captain and Crew of Amer ican Ship Held Prisoners. WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LOST American Seaman, Escaped From Venezuelan Prison, Brings News of Seizure of the Whaler Carrie D. Knowles. Kingstown. St. Vincent, It. W. I May 0. Captain Collin Stephenson and the crew of the American whaling ship Carrie 1). Knowles, long since thought to have been lost at sea, are still alive in u Venezuelan prison. Ellshu Payne, an American senman, nti escaped prisoner from Venezuela, has arrived here and laid before the authorities an astounding story of the seizure of the Carrie 1). Knowles at a Venezuelan port, where she arrived Ave years ago In distress, and the in carceration by the Venezuelans of the captain unci his men. The authorities here are convinced of the truth of Payne's story. The vessel was supposed to have been lost in n West Indian storm with all hands. Some of the men belonged In St. Vincent, and after all hope was given up of their return their relutlves put on mourning and the Insurance company paid the claims against It on the assumption that the sailors were dead. The story Payne told to the police authorities here caused great excite ment, not only because of the serious ness of the charges against the Vene zuelan authorities, but because it ndded another to the many tales which have reached St. Vincent concerning the high handed methods adopted by the Venezuelans under the administra tion of Clprinno Castro. Payne declared that the whaler had been disabled In a storm off the Vene zuelan coast and had made port In dis tress. She was at once seized, and the captain and crew were made prisoners and thrown into Jail. On .Ian. 'J7. 1!)(il. the Carrie I), Knowles sailed from Provincelown, Mass.. on a whaling voyage. Her cap tain was Collin Stephenson and her first mate II. A. Martin. The members of the crew were Charles A. Martin of Provincelown, Mass.; Charles A. Mar selean, Hobert C. Kobson, Edward Da vis, .lames L. Hazel and Percy A. War ner of New Hedford, John Sam, Thom as Pierre, Joseph Grant. William Wal lace, Arthur Lewis, Adolphus Jon, Oeorge Lewis and Thomas Kerry. Payne asserts that all of these men are now closely conliued In a Venezue lan prison. MUNICIPAL WAR IN ZI0N CITY Two Mayors and Two Chiefs of Police Each Fearing to Make Arrests. Chicago, May tl. With doors and windows barricaded nnd with a large store of food and water to withstand n long siege. Captain A, K. Walker, acknowledged chief of police under the old regime, holds the city jail of Jon City, lie asserts he was reappointed by W. Hur l Clendlnen the Vollva may or. John P. Jimp, an ox-policeman, wivi appointed by the Independent mayor, E. N. Itlchey. Hoth mayors claim to have been elected. Tho Vollva faction holds the city hall and jail, while the Independ ents hold the administration building, where a temporary city hall has been established, besides holding the cash and the votes cast in thu recent elec tion. NO TIMBER IN FIFTY YEARS. Ten Years Will Denude the States East of -the Rockies. Chicago, May 0. Within ten or fif teen years, according to J. n. Finney of tho Appalachian Forestry associa tion, there will not bo a stick of tim ber standing east of the Rockies nnd within fifty years the entire country will be as barren of timber ns the American desert unless something Is done. Regarding the coal sltuntlon, Mr. Finney declares the country consumes on an average of live tons per capita and wastes three. ADJUTANT GENERAL ACCUSED. State of Washington Offioial Alleged to Have Stolen $50,000. Olympln, Wash., May C Ortls Ham ilton, formerly adjutant general of the state of Washington, was arrested nt tho Instance of Governor E. M. Hay charged with embezzlement nnd for gery. Hamilton ls-alleged to havo stolon .-.0,000 from tho stato military fund. Tho warrant charges embezzlement ol S11.000, BILLS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR STUART Some Important Hills Which Have Heroine Laws, The following bills have become nvs In Pennsylvania: Giving authority to the factory in spector to enforce the law relative to lire escapes, lire extinguishers, and other lire protection in municipali ties other than first and second class cities. Changing the minimum capitaliza tion required in certain cases as far as it relates to hanks of discount and deposit. Authorizing the merging of certain corporations. Amending the act requiring muni cipal corporations to llle answer with in thirty days after tho service of the writ In any action of assumpsit now pending, or hereafter brought. Regulating the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs, also of condlmontnl stock and poultry food. To prevent nn Insurance company or any olllcer or agent from paying, allowing or giving, or any person from receiving ns an inducement to insurance, any rebate of premiums payable or any other valuable con Ideratlon. Exempting soda water apparatus and appurtenances leased, hired or conditionally sold from levy or salej on execution or distress for rent. Repealing an act which provides payment for the minor for all clean coal mined by him. Amending tho act providing for the health and safety of persons em ployed In and about anthracite coal mines so as to increase the number of inspectors and inspection districts and provide Tor the examination of candidates for Dauphin county and redistiictlng of inspectors in Sulli vnn, Susquehanna nnd Wayne coun ties. To authorize and direct councils in cities of the first class to place on the city maps, plans of public streets which shall have been laid out and opened for twenty-one years, or have tieau ends and to declare such streets highways. Fixing the mice to bo nald for va cant or unappropriated lands when conveyed to the State Forestry Com mission. Exempting electric motors, electric tans or dynamos leased or hired from levy or sale on execution or distress for rent. Granting the Soldiers' Orphan School Commission the right to sell and grant to railroad companies tho right to use part of the lands by the orphan schools. Authorizing townships of the first class and boroughs to ncquiro land by eminent domain for the use of parks or playgrounds. Providing for issuing writs or os trepment in action of trespass. Validating divorces granted on the ground of hopeless insanity so as to extend its provisions to tho husband or wife of a lunatic, and to further regulate procedure in divorce. Extending and conferring upon independent school district contig uous to cities and boroughs the corporate powers, authorities and franchises conferred upon townships of the first class. Authorizing tiie State Armory Hoard to acquire certain real estate by purchase or condemnation. Limiting the duration upon real estate of the debts of the descend ents, including the expenses or tho settlement of the estate, and to provide under what conditions the lion may bo continued. Requiring the publication in the legal journal of tho county nil no tices of mergers, increase of capi tal stock or dissolution of partner ships in which court notices usu ally appear. Repealing the act appropriating ? 15,000 for the purpose of drain ing Pymatunlng swamp in Crawford county and improving tho highways therein. Providing for the creation and regulation of municipal liens and the proceedings for the collection thereof In the several boroughs of the Stato. Amending the act fixing tho sala ries of county poor directors in counties of over 150,000 population at ?1000 a year, and In counties of 225,000 and not over 325,000, $1500, and In counties with 325, 000 and not over 400,000', ?2000, and in counties with 500,000 and over, $2500. Empowering auditors in boroughs, townships, poor districts and school districts to collect from any ofll cial the amount of any loss that may occur through his neglect. . Providing for tho llling, auditing and confirmation In tho appropriate courts accounts of trustees and of committees of lunatics nnd of habit ual drunkards. Dr. C. I!, UKADV, Dkntikt. Honcsdnle, Pa, Omen IIouiiB-8 n. in. to 0 p, in. Any evening hy appointment. Citizens' phono, 33, Residence, No. trX. Uioi d i LUN TARIFF Aldrich and Culberson Can't Agree on Increases. TWO ESTIMATES VARY WIDELY Texas Senator Declares That the Bill Now Proposed Has 31G In creases and 356 Decreases Over Dingley Measure. Washington, Mny (5. Statements wore made to tho senate by Senator Aldrich, representing the finance com mittee, and Senator Culborsun, tho mi nority leader, analyzing the tariff bill as It was reported to the s.-nato nnd comparing it so far as Increases and reductions nre concerned with tho Dingley law. Senator Culberson figured tho de creases to be S.'O, the increases SKI and the number of articles on which the duties are unchanged to be 1,271. Mr. Aldrich made the reductions 370, but furnished no figures as to the number of Increases made. Ho ex pressed surprise nt the number of In creases announced by Mr. Culberson and declared that the statement must have been prepared "by a very won derful man." Mr. Culberson retorted that they were prepared by an expert from the treasury department who Is thorough ly competent. The principal schedules on which there have been Increases, according to Mr. Aldrlch's summary of tho high er duties of the senate bill, are agri cultural products and tho various lux uries. Mr. Aldrich contended that the in creases In the chemical schedule, which are largely on toilet prepara tions, were made for revenue pur poses. Tho chief Increase in tho metal schedule, according to the summary, is tho placing of zinc and antimony oro on the dutiable list and the advance in the rates on tho products of zinc In proportion. Mr. Aldrich claimed that the redraft ing of the cotton schedule was for the purpose of obtaining a more symmet rical classification of cotton yarns and the substitution of specific for ad va lorem rates on certain classes of cot ton cloth. Tho latter, he said, are the equivalent of the average rates im posed by the existing law. In support of his contention that In creases are confined largely to lux uries, Mr. Aldrich called attention to the advances In the rates on ostrich and other feathers, articles of wearing nppurel composed of fur, fancy manu factures of leather, manufactures of coral, cork and straw and on novel ties and the liner fancy fabrics of linen. The Increases In the wine and silk schedules were also pointed out as having been made for revenue pur puses. Mr. Aldrich stated that the lumber, sugar, tobacco nnd woolen schedules were not Increased over the rates of the Dingley law. The llnance committee also present ed for the information of senators a detailed statement, giving an estimate of the reductions made by the senate bill in the duties of the present law. In connection with eacli article upon which a lower duty has been placed tho present rate as well as the pro posed rate was given In addition to tlw precontage of the reduction In each case. The possibilities of the passage of the tariff bill and the adjournment of tho special session of congress before July 1 seem to have vanished. Tills conclusion lias been reached by the president as a result of recent talk with senators and representatives. Among those who have followed the trend of Important legislation on the turlff there is a belief that tho real tariff revision bill remains to be fram ed In conference. Whoever Influence President Tuft feels fus can bring to bear in securing a satisfactory meas ure will be exerted upon the confer ees. Tho president Is nverse to being drawn Into the light, and there is no thought that he will be until the con ferees begin their consideration of the two bills as passed by the house and senate. In view of conflicting reports ns to tho president's attitude on the various special taxation propositions that have been suggested lu connection with the new hill, tho president has reiterated his position to recent callers. He is still hopeful that the revenue to be de rived from the new bill will prove suf ficient to prevent a deficit. If It should be shown, however, that tho government finances nre in need of further support to meet tho current expenditures, the president will adhere to his original proposition that a grad uated federal Inheritance tax is the most Just that could be levied and would prove the easiest to collect. If such a tux should not provo suf ficient to meet tho necessities of tho government or If it should not nppeal to tho majority of congress, the presi dent favors as a substitute or as uu additional menus of collecting revenue the imposition of an excise tax on tlio dividends of corporations. An income tax, he believes nnd al ways has believed, should be levied only as a last resort. Tho president has endeavored to make his position clear on these points and is more amused than anything else nt the at tempt of the advocates of the different measures to commit him absolutely to any ouo of the special tax propositions. IHA1NS IIH ID Alienists Testify That Army Captain Went Insane. WRONGS UNBALANCED HIS MIND Then, After He Had Shot and Killed William .. Annis, the Officer's Mental Condition Began to Improve. Flushing, N. Y Mny (l.-At the trial of Captain Peter C. Hulas, Jr., the Jury for nearly two hours listened to tho reading of a hypothetical question containing more than 10,000 words propounded by the defense upon which three alienists were to predicate their opinions of the mental condition of the army officer on Aug, 15 last when he shot and killed William E. Annis at the Haysido Yacht club. In answer to the hypothetical ques tion, which covered all tho actions and speech of tho defendant tending to show Irrationality, as put in evidence. Dr. Samuel L. -Manson declared that Captain Ilalns was suffering from "Im pulsive insanity" at tho time he killed Annis. He had been the victim of "manic depressive Insanity," the phy sician said, from May 111, 1008, the day on which his wife, Claudia Ilalns, confessed to him of her relations with Annis, ui to the time of the shooting. "Manic depressive insanity," the ali enist explained, was a form of "stu porous melancholia," subject to "vio lent maniacal outbursts," such as Cap tain Ilalns experienced when lie shot Annis. The period of "Impulsive Insanity," Dr. Manson said, lasted from the Hum the defendant first hoard the name of Annis mentioned on the Hayslde Yacht club float until the last of the eight bullets had been discharged from his automatic revolver Into tho body of his victim. Then, according to tho alienist, a re lieving "quiescence of mind" from "thu pent up mental fury" followed, and the defendant lapsed into a state of "manic depressive Insnnity." Ills men tal condition had Improved since that time, he added. Dr. Manson parried the district at torney's searching questions in an ap parently learned manner, and the pros ecutor was unable to discredit his di rect opinion In any material particular. Only once during the reading of tho hypothetical question by John F. Mc Intyre, counsel for the defense, did Captain Ilalns show a Hash of Interest. That was when tho lawyer read In dramatic terms thu alleged signed con fession of Claudia Ilalns. Then Cap tain Ilalns raised himself In his chair for a moment and with widening eyes glanced at the lawyer. Ills Interest was only momentary, however, for lie quickly sank back Into ills usual listless attitude. It was one of tho very few times he has shown any Intelligent appreciation of whnt was going on around him since tho trial began. Dr. Albeit Hrush and Dr. L. P. Clarke, other alienists, expressed opin ions similar to that of Dr. Manson. , STUDENT WEDS ACTRESS. Eludes His Chum, Who Pursues, and Gets Married In Jersey. New York, Mny (I. A sudden wed ding In which n young college student figures as the bridegroom and a young actress as the bride was revealed when Justice of the Peace Alfred Sorensen of Jersey City announced that ho had married Donald nuchanan of Huffalo, a Yalo student, and Elaine May Miller of Reading, Pa., whoso stage name Is Helen Chapman. Tho pair left n Broadway restaurant for Jersey City, eluding with dllllculty Buchanan's college chum, Joseph A. Wndo of Philadelphia, who was de termined to prevent their marriage if possible. No license Is necessary in New Jersey if one of tho parties to tho marriage is n resident, and young nuchanan claimed residence in Hobo ken. Huchanan Is n son of General Wil liam Insco nuchanan of Buffalo, a cousin of ex-President Roosevelt nnd formerly United States minister tc Argentlua.