THE WEATHER On Wednesday, light variable winds and local rain; and on Thursday, partly cloudy and slightly cooler weather. ttfam $ Wayne County Organ Seml-Wcckly Founded i S o of the 1908 I RF JBLICAN PARTY j Wecly Founded, 1844 HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1909. Q Hi NO. 59 36th YEAR. rnrr ninrn runr M v m. riiLL nuJLo ousiL Conferees Agree if House Will Cut Shoe Rates. MUST GIVE WORD IN ADVANCE. If Bargain Fails Whole jogram Will Be Called Off Lower Body May Decide on It Today. Dressed upper leather, 714 per cent, as against in per eeut In both the house and sunntc Mils. Boots and shoes, 10 per cent, ns against 15 In the house hill and 20 per cent In the somite hill. Saddlery and harness, 20 per cent, as against 35 per cout In the house bill and 40 per cent In the senate bill. According to Senator Warren the story that the packers are engaging ex tensively In tanning aud will be the principal beneficiaries of a duty on hides has been used by the "free hide lobby" In manufacturing sentiment against the protection asked by the cattle Industry. lie submitted tlgures to Senator Aldrlch to be used In re futing this argument. Mr. Warren declared that the three largest packers in the United States annually tan l,:5tia.OOO hides, which, he said, Is only 7 per cent of the en tire domestic production. He denied that the beef packers are able to con trol the leather market. Senators who were Intrusted with the task of canvassing the senate re port that It will be Impossible to adopt a report providing for free hides. These senators conferred with some of the house leaders and were Inform ed that under present conditions It Is Just as Impossible to pass a report through the house without free hides. This Information was communicated to the conferees and convinced them that It would be futile to spend any more time trying to reach an agree ment unless concessions were made to cattle Interests In the form of reduc tions on leather. According to the leaders the plan Is to complete the conference report be fore presenting a rule to the house providing for the reduction of the shoe and leather duties below the house rates. It Is said that the conference report will be submitted to the house on the same day that the rule is adopted In order that the action of the house shall not result In pressure being brought to bear upon the conferees by those Interested in the leather schedule It is also desired that Representative Payne shall have ample opportunity to prepare an exhaustive statement NM III DANCER BASEBALL RESULTS. Games Played In National, American MS SUTTON FOES We May Intervene to Get a leenth Polite Answer. and Eastern Leagues. j NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Boston Boston, 3; New York, 3 called by darkness end ot soven- lnnlnc). Natterlos Mattern and I Graham: Ames and Sehlel. lyn.1 rUatt?? Dooln: . HOW f Iflllt W3S FOPCCd. Wllhelm and Hcrsen. i At Pittsburg Cincinnati, 0; Pittsburg, 4. Batteries Gasper and McLean; Camnltz i Marine Corps Private Tells AMCDIPAMC MTDP MAITDFATFI) and Gibson HltlLIUUrtllO MLIVL UinLIIM.ni Li At st LoUsst. Louls-Chlcago game Life Must Be Protected, Washing ton Insists, or Troops Will See to Proper Order as a Last Resort. Washington, July 27.-Tbe conferees on the tariff bill have Anally agreed to report a provision for free hides pro vldlng the house In advance authorizes Its conferees to reduce the leather and shoe schedule below house rates. Prob ably a resolution authorizing such a schedule will be presented In the house today. The conference will not be concluded until after the house acts. Hides will be put on the free list If boots and shoes und other manufac tures of leather are reduced below the rates Used by the house bill. Unless the advocates of free hides are able to carry out this bargain the whole pro gram is to be called off. The conferees began work again at 11 a. in. and the house members as sembled half an hour earlier in order that they might lay their plans for exe cuting their part of the agreement. It Is expected they will have u report from the house leaders as to the pos sibility of passing a rule conferring jurisdiction upon them to agree to lower rates on leather than those named In the house bill. Senator Aldrlch has informed sena tors from the northwestern states that hu will not consent to the abolition of the duty on hides unless there is a material cut In the rates on boots und shoes and other luathfi g..nls. in i:j other way, he said, can he get the votes necessary for the adoption of the report lu the senate If It carries free hides. Senators from cattle raising states have insisted that the only way con sumers can gut any benellts from the t MICHIGAN HAS MORE SPEED. removal of protection on hides would bo by corresponding reductions in the j America Will Soon Own Thirty-five duties on boots and shoes and harness. First Class Battleships. The Rhode Island senator's views co-1 Washington, .Inly 27. Having In her ineide with this statement. olllcial trials fully met the rigid ro- If for any reason, parliamentary or i qnlroinents of United States naval otherwise, any thing should occur to I constructors, the new iirst class bat upset the plan to give the conferees t tleshlp Michigan probably will be jurisdiction to adopt rates lower than those named by either the house or postponed by rain. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. w. I.. I'.c. w. t r.c. Pittsburg. 0) 24 .714 Phlla'phla 37 45 .451 Chicago... 54 25 .1154 St. Louts. 34 47 .4IM New York 47 33 .SsS Brooklyn. 31 63 .3) Cincinnati 44 42 .512 Boston.... 24 5D .D AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Cleveland Cleveland, 2; New York, 1. Batteries Berger and Bemls; Hughes, Doyle, Kleinow anil Sweeney. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C. WAS WARNED TO KEEP QUIET Navy Witnesses Exhausted and Now Slain Officer's Mother and Daughter Will Take the Stand. Washington, July 2 1. Panama f am- c L- p-c- Annapolis. Mr.. July 27 As there tude In falling to take proper no ce of Detroit.... 57 31 .C4S Chicago... 42 45 .4 no other navv wltllessoa ou uand( the maltreatment of American itlzens j "ton..?! 40 isS s?LouTs l 35 60 '.2 It is expected that Mrs. Sutton and her within her borders during tne past Cleveland. 4S 3S .55$ Wash'ton. 2 53 .203 j daughter will testify at today's session two years and a half has Irritated tue United States government to the point of Insisting upon the prompt settle ment of these cases to the satisfaction marine corps, who was mysteriously Annnrcntlr reliable testimony show- ! Rochester. 49 34 .590 Baltimore. 41 45 .477 i Shot two years ago. ... .,o.,ua nn.i r,Miri I Provfence 43 40 .sis Toronto... 40 41 .476 Surprise was afforded by the testl- rZir-t H B" "ony given by Charles W. Kennedy, mg naval officers, during the past two " - now private in the marine corps at years and a half has been presented to ftAmClT PnT 0ttT of GAME i N?r 'olk; Va" md Surgou A. D. McCor i.n mwmot with a view BIGAMIST PUT OUT OF UAmb. , niick of the navy. ... ,,.,.,..... I Kennedy dropped into the situation men? of the 'oKZ " " W"? B' i a.blt T tM for Injury or death ana ponce rerorm but nil to no purpose. Only the most . t, eastern Lifc.ALtuh. , of tuo uoard of inqUrj. nt the Navnl At Rochester Rochester. 2; Newark, 1. 1 J , At Buffalo-Bufralo. 4: Jersey City, 2. academy which is investigating the At Toronto Baltimore. 3; Toronto, 1. ! clrcumstauces surrounding the death At Montreal-Montreal, C: Providence, 0. j o Lieutenant James N. Sutton of the STANDING OF THE CLUBS. W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C. cago, but Stole Second. ' a frank, straightforward story of some Honolulu, July 27. It. M. Baker of of the Incidents prior to the shooting iin:nif.ifinvv n.nlli's have been re- Chicago, who was arrested on a which had not been mentioned by any poIi-imI from Piuima 1 charge of bigamy, pleaded guilty and 1 of the young olllcers who have already The attitude of the government of . was sentenced to three years hard , testified, the isthmian republic is Inexplicable 'bor In the penitentiary by Judge Thougl to the state department officials, who Sanford 13. Dole. have asked nothing more than pimple hough an eyewitness to tlio earlier encounter between Sutton and Lieu Baker arrived on May 1 from San tenant Adams on the night the former " " T 1. -.. l,.,n,..l . 1 . , . f t . 1 .1 I...M. 1,. . . 1 . . 1 T 1 ..1 . . justice shall be meted out with proper "auimu. - uu.nu .uu o.-... snui. ivl-uuuhj name m uui reparation for the families of those who have suffered. Minister Herbert G. Squid's has been instructed to urge insistently to satisfy settlement of these cases. While the United States government has no Idea, so far as cau be learned. of intervening in Panama affairs with which will be presented to the house j a view to maintaining order, yet it with the conference report. This will 1 V-irly lias the Viidit to do so should require two or three days and on that! Panama fail lo maintain public order account it Is likely that no effort will I be made to get a rale through the house today. The house may adjourn today until Thursday. the senate the conference committee is holding what is regarded as a trump card in reserve. This provides for the preparation of a conference report putting hides on the free list and re ducing the rates on shoes and other leather manufactures. The report, it is said, then would be presented to President Tuft with the statement that the conferees had not In the cities of Panama and Colon and In the territories and harbors adjacent thereto. Tills right is given by article seven of the treaty of 11)03. The disposition of this government is to give Panama every opportunity to prove itself equal to the task, of pro tecting life and property within Its borders and intervention would be re sorted to only as a last resort. On four different occasions Ameri cans have suffered at the hands of Panamanians, and in none of these cases has this government been able tn ..lilnln nnv :i t ii.':!c. Iitn frnm Pn.in. turned over to the government by her, ()nu lustani.0 t.,lprt wnH of nn as. , builders, the New ork Shipbuilding KnM m w ,. Wi,rner, an employee company, early in August. j 0f the Isthmian canal commission, lids splendid new ship, which thus v ,s aHl ,,nitnHy cUlb. far is the speediest war vessel of her bwl otllonvls( w.VCrely handled by class, having surpassed the record of t,u C()1(m Mw m ,)oe 1m the battleship Georgia, will make the 1 r,,,.,,,,., AmoriiMm otiiP,. of thn cerncd in the affair. His testimony supported the conten tion of Sutton's mother and sister that Sutton did not seek the fights with Adams and the other olllcers. In at tacking his credibility Major Leonard the judge advocate, went into the pri vnte's record and showed he had been twenty-eighth iirst class battleship of the navy. Five other battleships, a sister ship of the Michigan and four others more powerful and speedier, at present are cruiser Columbia, In uniform, were ar rested in Colon on June 1, V.XM,, with out sufficient cause. It is alleged. They disciplined on several occasions In the service. Kennedy said lie had been reluctant to mention his part in the affair be cause Lieutenants Utley and Adams his superiors, had both admonished htm on the morning following the shooting to "keep quiet." On ills way to relieve a sentry at 1 o'clock on the morning of the shoot Ing he had come upon Sutton, Adam Osterman and Utley In an angry argu ment, the witness said. Adams wa In his shirt sleeves ready for a fight and Sutton had accosted him (Kenne dy) and asked him to hold Ills blouse capo and cap, "All right. Adams; if you want to light I'll fight you." he heard Sutton say. the witness testified. They fought hard for a few min utes, and Sutton's face was bloody, when Lieutenant Utley interfered and JUDGE SANFOltD B. HOLE. stopped the fight, saying the guard met Mrs. Eva B. Wallace, who was would be out if they did not stop. A coining to the islands to marry a . second time he saw Adams and Sut- IHAW GO ON STAND TODAY. Chats With Jerome Like Old Friend Reunited. White Plains, N. Y., July 27.-Irt the Thaw case the efforts of Stanford White's slayer to obtain his release from the Matteawan asylum are cul- tntuatlng In the testimony of the ex ports called to prove him sane, and when they are through the prisoner will take the stand himself. His at torney, Charles Morschauser. says h may put Thaw on tills afternoon, but he may not reach the stand until to morrow. The proceedings were a continuation from July 15, when adjournment was taken to enable both sides to examines the voluminous records of the two homicide trials. In two respects tins hearing was a reminder of these trials. District Attorney William Travers Je rome of New York, who at the request of the attorney general's office broke off his vacation to aid the state, ap peared in court and took entire charge ' of the state's case. Mr. Jerome, stained a deep brown by the summer sun, and Thaw, gray white with his prison pallor, sat side by side, so close that their chairs touched, and If the prisoner had any fear of the man that sent him to the asylum his face did not show it. All but one of the witnesses were Thaw's, and his equanimity was un disturbed. At times he and the New York district attorney chatted and smiled like old friends reunited. The other familiar feature of the bearing was Dr. Brltton D. Evans of the New Jersey State Insane asylum at Morris Plains, famous for his in troduction at the murder trials of the term "brain storm." Dr. Evans testified that Thaw has not now and never has had the par ticular kind of Insanity known as "paranoia" which the state and county authorities contend still afflicts him. The oldest practicing physician In White Plains and one of the youugest also testified. Both said that Thaw was mentally sound. Dr. Henry Ernst Schmidt, aged eighty, qualified as an alienist, while the younger man. Dr. William J. Meyer, testified in his ca pacity of White Plains jail physician, which gave him numerous .opportuni ties of seeing and talking with tho prisoner. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw hns not yet come to White Plains. Mr. Jerome says that she is still under subpoena and may bo called for cross examina tion after Thaw testifies. Dr. Evans said that during a recent talk with Thaw in tho jail here tho prisoner declared that his wife's asser tion on the stand week before last that Thaw had threatened to kill her was false. Thaw Is expected to repeat this on the stand, and the state may call his wife to make the charge once more. member of a well known Honolulu ton come together as he was going were roughlv handled and clubbed firm. So ardent was Baker's lovemak- away to ills post, Kennedy said. and then thrown Into Jail, whore they ing that the widow forgot her waiting Half an hour later Kennedy heard been able to muster sufficient votes to j under construction, and two "(5,000 ton wero uft fm. seVl,.al 'hJurg without )llllK.0 and promised to become his tho shots from his post at the naval assure its adoption, and it would de- battleships have been authorized by volve upon the president to procure the necessary support for the pro gram. In the event of failure, according to promoters of this suggestion, the con ferees would submit a report placing a small duty on hides and the house rates on leather. The president would be asked to get tho necessary votes in the house to insure the passago of sucli n program by that body. Obnoxious as such a plan would be to most of the conferees, It Is said to have been suggested In all seriousness. Few of the conferees believe that it will be Incumbent upon them to resort to such tactics, however, for all of them realize that the criticisms usual ly heaped upon members who oppose the administrative view make men hesitate to combat the president's will. On that account It Is generally be lieved that the compromise giving cheap rates on shoes and other manu factures of leather In return for free hides will be adopted. Senator Warren says that the west ern senators would not be represent ing their Btates If they were to con- sent to the abolition of the duty on hides In the lutcrcst of the manufac turers of shoes and ether leather goods unless manufacturers In New England and other eastern states are compelled to concede lower rates on leather prod ucts. While tho western senators take the position that the removal of the duty on hides will be Injurious to the cattle business, some of them say they will withdraw their protests because of the Insistence of President Taft if rcduc' tlons are made all along the line In the leather schedule. The program on which the conferees are working Is as follows nidcs free, as provided by the house, against tho senate rate of 15 per cent id valorem Sole leather, 5 por cent, the same as In the house bill, ns against the senate proper medical attention. wife. Thev were married immediately ; hospital and soon after Adams ap- congress. Those, when completed, will Tho attack) lt ls sald was unpi.0. ' on arriving at Honolulu. Baker has a , peared at the hospital and volunteered Increase tho American battleship fleet voked No stcps lmve l)0CI1 takon by wlfe and children living in Chicago. 1 the information to Kennedy that Sut- Panama to comply with a demand that ; ton had shot himself and that Adams nn Inilnninltv lr lvilrl tn ihn nfflAnrc IT -n A HTC nTTf. T A TCrme TrATTTrPC ' had had Ills flllgCr Shot Off. UtlOV alSO can make nn average speed of 20i ,,,,.,,,.. ,,,,,,, ..miv lmvino- .iisninimod 1 I told him at that time that Sutton had all blame in the matter. I Mlssina official's Note Savs It Will klUed himself, the witness said. TO COMBINE AIL COKE OVENS. knots. On her final standardization trial at sea lt ls reported that she ex cceded 10 knots. In the hour straight run to sea talned an average of more than 17 knots, lt is said. Boatswains' Mate Charles Band was twnntv fmir " - ray expenses. she maln-l k,,lwl n"d ,oseph Clesllk' a SaUr" Tipton, Ind., July 27.-The First Na AMERICANS HURT IN MEXICO. Mob Breaks Up Diaz Meeting and Two Hundred Are Arrested. ' City of Mexico, July '27. More than 200 arrests were made, a score or more were injured, Including two Ameri cans, and two were killed in political riots In Guadalajara. Tho riots started when a mob broke up a meeting In Delgado theater, called In the Interest of Porfirio Diaz, the president, and Ramon Corral, vice president, for re-election. The orators were stoned in tho street cars, car rlages and automobiles in which they rode and these were partially wrecked. Mobs paraded tho, streets crying: "Down with Diaz. We want Reyes." In ono section a barricade was erected and many shots were exchanged. Six foot police and two mounted police were wounded. The other casualties are not known. All the plate glass windows In the downtown section were smashed. The Diaz orators were escorted to the railway station by a cordon of mounted police and tho Tenth regi ment of infantry. Luis Rojas, a prom inent Diaz adherent and a well known lawver. was badlv wounded. both of the cruiser Buffalo, was in Jured as the result of a fight with the Panama police on Sept. 28, 1D0S. From tho evidence in this case there appears to bo no doubt, according to the state department, that the two men were brutally treated by the police, who clubbed, handcuffed and dragged Rand through tho streets, badly wounded. It ls further alleged that "while he was in police custody Rnnd was al lowed to He suffering and bleeding in tho Jail for more than an hour without medical attention. Similar treatment ls said to have been given Clesllk. Last May Charles M. Abbott, white, and John Williams, colored, both Americans, were killed in a riot, the former by a rock supposed to have been thrown by a rioter and the lntter by a rifle shot supposed to have been fired by a member of the Colon police force. Neither of these men, It ls said, appears to have taken any part In tho disturbance. STRIKERS' PICKETS UPHELD. Georgia Bant Trading Stamps. Atlanta, Ga., July 27. The senate passed the house bill making illegal the giving of trading stamps In Georgia. Tin Plate Company's Injunction Against Men Denied. Goshen, Ind., July 27. The petition of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company for an Injunction against lta striking employees at Elwood, Ind, was denied by Judge Baker In the United States circuit court. Judge Baker held that tho strikers had a right to organize and leave their employers In a body and maintain pickets bo long as they did not inter fere with the employers' access to the labor market. tloual bank of Tipton is closed and its assistant cashier, Noah U. Marker, is gone, taking with him between $30, 000 aud $00,000, all the cash that was in the bank's vaults at tho close of busluess. Marker set tho time lock on the safe and left a note on the cashier's desk saying that he had gone foreTei and that ho had taken "enough money to pay his expenses." DRAWS SHIPS TO ITSELF. Weird "Magnetio Island" Reported at Having Arisen From the Pacific San Francisco, July 27. According to Captain Quatrcvaux of the French ship Thiers, which has arrived here from Newcastle, Australia, a new Is land that resembles the "magnetic Islands" of ancient stories has sprung up from the waters of tho Pacific. Captain Qautrevaux says that there ls something uncanny about the new Islet, for when his ship approached it, although no wind was blowing, a mys terious swell drew the vessel toward the shore and it was with the utmost difficulty that she was saved from go ing on the rocks. Try Russians Where Japt Failed. Honolulu, July 27. Hawaiian sugar planters may Import Russians to solve tho labor problem. They have experi mented with Japanese, Spanish, Por tuguese and Torto Rlcan laborers, and some have struck, others became dis contented aud others left their stands. Next morning both cautioned him not to say anything about the affair. While at early drill on the following morning, the witness said, he saw Lloutenant Utley go to the edge of the parade grounds and pick up a 38 cali ber Colt service revolver, which Utley carried into the barracks with him. The Incident had been observed hy other privates In the company, the wit ness said. Kennedy's testimony was not shaken by the cross examination of Adams' counsel, Mr. Birney, nor by that of Major Leonard. Dr. McCormlck was present at the autopsy held on Sutton's body and ex amined the bullet wound, he testified. He located tho wound back of and slightly above the right ear, while Dr. Plckrell testified it was near the top of the head. Dr. McCormlck thus cor roborates Commander Doyen. Several former witnesses were re called and questioned by Mr. Davis, Mrs. Sutton's counsel, as to whether any of them had handed a revolver to Sergeant Do Hart on the night of the shooting, as Do Hart testified. They aU denied lt. To substantiate Kennedy's testimony Lawyers Davis and Van Dyke, Mrs, Sutton, Mrs. Parker and several news papermen went to tho parade grounds and took tho various positions from which tho witness said he saw and heard the fights. Lawyer Davis said afterward that their case would rest principally on the testimony of Kenne dy and Mrs. Parker. The Smallest Jail. Tho smallest Jail in tho world Is the old prison at Sark, In tho Channel is lands. The jail has but two cells. Independents to Merge With Consoli dated Connellsville Company. Connellsvllle, Pa., July 27. The pro moters of the coke merger which will consolidate the Independent coke oper ators In this district Into the Consoli dated ConnoHsville Coke company an nounce the plans of organization. According to the present plan 23 per cent of the valuation of the coke plants will be paid the operators in cash and the balance will be paid in bonds. Tho purchasers and operators shortly after Oct. 1 will Incorporate under the laws of Pennsylvania, the corporation taking over all titles to property. The company taking title will issue 5 per cent gold bonds, ot which $15,000,000 shall remain In the treasury, as against an equal amount of bonds of sundry coke companies outstanding to be exchanged as oppor tunity presents. One Drowned by Boat Capsizing. Jamestown, N. Y., July 27. A skiff In which Ernest Peterson and Alfred Le Berg were fishing in Chautauqua lake was overturned by a sudden squall. Peterson was drowned, but Le Berg clung to tho boat and waa rescued. Courting Concomitants Taxed. Atlanta, Ga., July 27. The legisla ture passed a tax of 10 cents on every gallon of fruit sirup In the slate for soda fountain purposes. Sends Defeated General Home. Madrid, July 27. General Sanches, military governor of Granada, has been reamed to replace General Marina In cnmmarul nt. Molllla STRIKERS ARE FIRED UPON. Rioting Breaks Out at McKee's Roekt After Long Armistice. Pittsburg, July 27. For tho first time in ten days rioting broke out at tho plant of tho Pressed Steel Car company at McKee's Rocks and the striking employees were fired upon by deputy sheriffs. No one was injured. Tho authorities have again put on extra sentries and the car plant is surrounded by armed guards. It ls not believed tho employees will hold out after Aug. 1, when eviction from the company housoa will take place. " IK MP
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