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HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1909.
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NO. 59
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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
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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
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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.
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