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HONE SD ALB , WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1909.
NO. 88
New York Mayor Elect Re
grets Tammany Defeat.
MURPHY MAY HAVE TO RESIGN
Bank and File of Organization Dis
gusted at Loss of Board of
Estimate and Scores of
Important Offices.
New York, Nov. 4. Although former
Justice William J. Gnynor la elected
mayor of New York by a plurality
which turns out to be 73,010, ho Is far
from rejoicing over the election, for
bis regret nt the utter defeat of Tam
many Hall for all the other ofiiccs on
the city and county ticket takes away
nil the pleasure he would otherwise
feel.
Prior to the election Justice Gaynor
had said that he would not serve as
mayor unless the nominees of Tam
many Hall were elected with him as
members of the board of estimate,
which passes on all franchises, makes
all appropriations and awards all con
tracts. Now not a single one of Tam
many's nominees for the board of esti
mate was elected, the fuslonlsts carry
ing everything but the mayoralty.
Still Justice Gaynor Is not expected to
decline the mayoralty.
John Purroy Mitchel, fusion candi
date for president of the board of
aldermen, said he was prepared to as
sume the duties of mayor if Justice
Gaynor lives up to his campaign threat
of refusing the office now that his
Democratic associates in the contest,
the board of estimate, were not elect
ed with him.
"Mr. Gaynor has stated publicly and
repeatedly," said Mr. Mitchel, "that in
case Mr. Murphy's board of estimate
was not' elected to office with him he
would resign. We-expect so eminent
and pious 'a Jurist to keep his word.
In that event it would be my duty to
assume the office of mayor under the
law."
Gaynor received 250,078 votes and
carried all boroughs. Otto T. Bannard,
the fusion candidate, is second, with
177,002 votes. Hearst's total vote is
153,843.
Mitchel was elected president of the
board of aldermen by 71,031, and
Prendergast got the comptrollershlp
by a majority of 74,539. The opposi
tlon also bowled over Christy Sullivan
for sheriff, Roesch for city court Judge
and all the Tammany candidates for
supreme court Justices and coroners.
Whitman was elected district attorney
over Battle by 20,000.
Bannard run 84,000 votes behind the
vote polled by Governor Hughes last
fall. Gaynor's vote of 250,000, which
exceeds that of any candidate for
mayor in 1005, being greater by 22,000
than McClellun's, Is 88,000 short of
Hearst's vote in the city for governor
in 1000.
Counting in four Democratic bor
ough presidents and one Republican
and the Democratic president of the
board, the next board of aldermen
will stand: Democrats, 4G; Republic
ans, 33. Only twenty-two of the Dem
ocrats are Tammany men, however.
Charles F. Murphy's leadership of
Tammany Hall is seriously imperiled
as a result of the election, and it is
eaid that he will be forced to resign.
The rank and tile of the organization
are disgusted at the situation.
Not even the most hidebound adher
ent of the wigwam can fail to regard
the result of the election as an utter
rout for Tammany. It is pointed out
that Murphy took Gaynor us a candi
date in the sole hope of saving the
board of estimate for himself and of
getting his county ticket elected. Now
he has Gaynor, whom he did not
want, and ho has not the board of es
timate and the county ticket, which he
did want.
Not one of the three Tammany can
didates for the supreme court was
elected. In fact, all that is left to
Tammany is some Judges of the mu
nicipal court and Gaynor. it is no
secret that Murphy considers Gaynor
as at least "eccentric."
FIFTY FLIGHTS AT BADDECK.
McCurdy's Aerodrome a Succeta Mil
itary Experts to See It.
Baddeck, N. S., Nov. 4. John 11c
Curdy, the Canadian aviator, has made
fifty successful flights here in his new!
aerodrome, sister to the one that was
wrecked at Petowawa military cainp.l
tie new lounecn nines in twenty-one
minutes over a course slightly over,
the mile.
The turns were made easily, and
higher speed could have been made.1
This aerodrome will be exhibited be
fore Canadian military experts.
MAY ELIMINATE DRAPER.
Failure to Hold Bay State Republican
Likely to Shelve Governor.
Boston, Nov. 4. Governor Draper's
plurality In the state election proves
to be 8,092, a loss of 52,004 from that
of a year ago, and already the ques
tion Is bell raised nnioug Republic
ans whether It will be safe to give
him a third nomination, as has been
customary In Massachusetts.
The Democrats are almost as Jubi
lant over their work as If they had
carried the election and are already
planning for 1010. Lieutenant Govern
or Frothinghain hnd n plurality over
isugene N. Foss of 0,710, a reduction
of 89,597 from that of last year.
The total vote of the state was 371.-
008, and Governor Draper received
100,045. Last year the total vote was
390,480, and Draper had 228,318, a plu
rality of 00,150.
CLOSE CALL IN MARYLAND.
Disfranchising Amendment Costs Dem
ocrats Many Offices.
Baltimore, Nov. 4. As belated re
turns came in from the counties of
Maryland the majority against the dis
franchising amendment Increases, and
It will exceed 15,000. Of this Balti
more city gave 11,500.
Hering, Democrat for comptroller, is
re-elected over Williams, Republican,
by 4,000. Boyd, chief Judge of the
court of appeals, is re-elected by
about 500 votes.
In Baltimore the amendment cost
the Democrats some of the choicest
offices. It dragged down to defeat n
Judge, a court clerk, the sheriff and
the surveyor, the Republicans break
ing even by electing four of their
eight candidates on the city ticket
The Democrats barely managed to
save those returned, and so close is
the vote that the official count may be
necessary to decide. Their candidate
for state comptroller got a plurality of
only 1,200.
The legislature Is strongly Demo
cratic, the senate having twenty-one
Democrats to six Republicans owing
to the large proportion of holdover
Democrats. The house will stand fifty-six
Democrats to forty-five Repub
licans. Benator Royner's re-election iw reas
sured, '
SWEEPS SAN FRANCISCO.
Union Labor Party Wins Minor Offices
and Board of Supervisors.
San Francisco, Nov. 4. The Union
Labor party victory is far more sweep
ing than was anticipated. Bo many
straight tickets were voted 'by P. H.
McCarthy's supporters that he brought
in with him a number of minor offices
as well as a majority of the board of
supervisors.
McCarthy has 9,000 plurality, while
Charles M. FIckert, Republican, for
district attorney, has 9,000 majority
over Francis J. Honey. Only four of
the old board of supervisors were
elected, all of the other fourteen being
Union Labor men.
West Hoboken's Mayor Republican.
Hoboken, N. J., Nov. 4. Charles A.
Mohn, Republican, was elected mayor
of West Hoboken by n plurality of COO
votes over Mayor Richard J. Lynch,
smashing the town's record for an un
broken string of Democratic mayors.
MURDERED PRINCE RUDOLPH.
Royal Austrian Tragedy Revived
by
Slayer's Death In Denver.
Denver, Nov. 4. The death of John
Salvator, Count von Vetsera of Austria,
Is reported to have taken place here,
but his body has not been found. The
report comes through Austrian official
channels from Washington.
The tragedy was one of the most
startling sensations that Europe has
known. After twenty years its mys
tery has not been solved.
On Jan. 30, 1899, the Crown Prince
Rudolph, heir to the Austro-Hunga-
riau throne, was found dead in his
hunting lodge at Myerllng, near VI
enua. In the same room was found
the body of the Baroness Marie von
Vetsera. An attempt was made to
make it appear that the prince had
died of heart disease, but the court
physician refused to sign the death
certificate, and it then became known
that he had been killed by a pistol
shot in the temple. The baroness, who
was a beautiful young girl of the Aus
trlan court circle, had been shot
through the breast.
MRS. ROOSEVELT COMING HOME
Wife of Ex-President Wilt Sail From
Naples Next Wednesday. j
Rome, Nov. 4. Mrs. Theodore Roose
velt, her daughter Ethel and her sis
ter, Miss Carow, are sightseeing here.'
They nre escorted by Commander
Long of the navy, who was recently
assigned as attache to the American
embassy hero. He Is kept busy help
ing the party to dodge interviewers
and photographers.
The Roosevelts will leave for Naples
in a day or two and will sail thence'
for New York on tho steamship Holtke'
next Wednesday. I
MEDAL FOR PEfflf
National Geographic Society
Votes to Honor Him.
DR. COOK'S CLAIM IS REFERRED
Subcommittee Authorized to Send
For Papers and Make Neces
sary Journeys In Its
Investigation.
Washington, Nov. 4. Commander
Robert E. Teary was voted a gold
medal by the National Geographic so
ciety for having reached the north
pole. The board of managers of the
society In meeting accepted unani
mously the report of its subcommittee
of scientists who had examined the
explorer's records and proofs and
found them to be conclusive of his
claim that he hnd reached the pole.
The society decided that the ques
tion of whether any explorer reached
the north pole prior to 1900 shall be
referred to a subcommittee of ex
perts, with authority to send for pa
pers or make such Journeys as may be
necessary to Inspect original records.
This Indicates that the society pro
poses to pass upon the records of Dr.
Frederick A. Cook as soon as possible.
The resolutions adopted follow:
Whereas, Commander Robert E. Peary
has reached the north pole, the goal
sought for centuries;
Whereas, This 1b the greatest geograph
ical achievement that this society can
have opportunity to honor; therefore
Resolved, That a special medal be
awarded to Commander Peary.
Resolved, That the question of whether
or not any one reached the north polo
prior to 1909 bo referred to the committee
on research, with instructions to recom
mend to the board of managers a sub
committee of experts who shall have au
thority to send for papers or make such
Journeys as may be necessary to Inspect
original records, and that this action of
the society be communicated at once to
those who may have evldenco of Impor
tance..
Resolved, That In view of the able sea
manship, pertinacious effort and able
management of Captain C. A. Bartlett
displayed during the Peary arctic expedi
tion of 1909-10 and that he reached the
high latitude of 87 degrees 40 minutes
north he bo awurded a medal by the Na
tional Geographic society.
Of farreachlng importance Is the so
ciety's action in deciding to follow up
vigorously the question of priority in
discovery of the pole. The scientists
will spare no expense in order that
they may be convinced on this point.
Dr. Cook will be advised immediately
of the society's action.
Present at the meeting of the board
of managers were fifteen men, all
prominent In the scientific world. Aft
er the report of the subcommittee was
submitted there was a debate of more
than two hours, but finally the board
voted unanimously to accept the re
port of the three experts, who be
lieved without any question of doubt
that Commander Peary reached the
north polo on April 0, 1909.
In addition to awarding Commander
Peary a special j;old medal as a token
of the highest honor the society can
bestow upon him, it was also decided
that n medul be given to Captain R. A.
Bartlett, who was declared by the so
ciety to have displayed "able seaman
ship, pertinacious effort and able man
agement" during the Peary arctic ex
pedition. COOK GETTING DATA READY.
Explorer Returns and Will Keep In
Retirement For a Few Days.
New York, Nov. 4. Dr. Frederick A.
Cook returned to town from his lectur
ing tour looking thinner, and his fuce
is pale and haggard.
He said he hoped to be able to for
ward his reports and data to the Uni
versity of Copenhagen within tho next
three or four days. He will devote
himself to this task, nnd no one will
be permitted to see him until his
charts and reports have been sent to
the board of examiners he has chosen
to pass upon them.
C0NOUER MOUNT ZENIA.
Two Members of Roosevelt Expedition
Reach 16,500 Feet Attitude.
Nairobi, British East Africa, Nov. 4.
J. Alden Lorlng and Major Edgar A.
Mearns, members of Theodore Roose
velt's expedition, ascended Mount Ke
nia to an estimated height of 10,500
feet This was within 700 feet of the
summit.
They collected specimens of more
than 2,000 birds nnd mammals and
mado many photographs of the moun
tain. Railway Clerks Vote to Strike.
Now Haven, Conn., Nov. 4. Ninety
five per cent of tho union clerk In
the freight and yard departments of
the New Haven road have voted to go
out on strike for increased pay and
Day lot overtime.
ORVILLE WRIGHT KETUKHS.
Back From Aviation Victories In Ger
many, Where He Met Kaiser.
New York, Nov. 4.-Orvlllo Wright
and his sister. Miss Katherlne, arriv
ed on the While Star liner Adriatic
today from Europe and were met by
their brother Wilbur.
. They were also welcomed by Presi
dent Cortiandt, field bishop of the
Aero Club of America, on behalf of
his organization. He invited the
Wright brothers to be the guests of
honor at the annual banquet of the
Ohio society on Jan. 10.
While he was abroad Orvllle Wright
made a now record for height UIghts
In Berlin and was honored by the Ger
man cmporor. He mndo n trip in
Count Zeppelin's giant dirigible while
ut Frankfort. Wright nnd his sister
also were present when Lambert made
his spectaculur flight around the Eiffel
tower.
Tho Wrights will go immediately to
their home In Dayton and resume the
manufacture of aeroplanes, for which
many of thMr clients are clamoring.
ART PARTS CLEWS AND WIFE
New York Banker's Daughter-in-law
Wants Legal Separation.
New York, Nov. 4. Differing views
on art and inharmonious tempera
ments arc given as prompting the sep
aration of Henry Clews, Jr., the son
of the banker, nnd his wife, who was
formorly Mrs. Frederic Qebhard and
was born Louise Holllngsworth Mor
ris. Mrs. Henry Clews, Sr., who returned
from Paris with her son, admitted that
she had failed in her effort to con
cillato the young people and that the
family was now divided. She said
that divorce proceedings had not been
MRS. HENRY OLEWS, JR,
begun, but would not deny that Henry
Clews, Jr., intended to bring suit for
a legal separation. Young Mrs. Clews
romnlns In Paris with their two chil
dren. When they were married in 1001
Mrs. Gebhnrd was assumed to be seven
years older than Mr. Clews, who was
twenty-three.
Society was somewhat startled by
the marriage. Mrs. Gebhard, then Just
divorced, was a woman of the conven
tional world with other suitors, nnd
he was a painter who had refused to
take up with his father's business of
banking.
Mrs. Clows, who Is noted for her
beauty, has a wonderful complexion
nnd dark hair and eyes. One admirer
had called her "Galatea Come to Life."
She was Mr. Clews' principal model.
At Bar Harbor on a "dare" Mrs.
Clews shinned down an elemental
country fire escape, some one having
remarked that no woman would do it.
On nnother occasion, in company
with Harry Lohr, she Jumped Into n
fountain on tho way home from a ball.
TO NAME TEN CARDINALS.
No American on the List For Consist
ory to Be Held In December.
Rome, Nov. 4. It Is learned that At
tho consistory to be held in December
ten cardlnnls will be created to fill va
cancies in tho collego of cardinals. No
American prelate will be raised to the
dignity of a prince of the church.
Tho ten to be named are three Ital
ians, the nuncio at Vienna being the
ono known to be sure of appointment;
three Frenchmen, of whom tho arch
bishop of Paris is ono; one Austrian,
ono Spaniard and the archbishop of
Westminster and the patriarch pf Lis
bon. EXPORT TAX ON CUBAN SUGAR
Bill Aimed at American Companies
That Hire Plantation Labor.
Havana, Nov. 4. The first working
session of the house of representatives
was devoted to reading a bill intro
duced by Senor Masferrer, a Repub
lican, providing for an export tax on
sugar of a dollar per bag of 323 pounds
when produced by tenant sharers.
Tho bill is aimed at the American
companies, who employ laborers at
wages Instead of raising sugar on
shares. The measure was referred to
a nomrolttea
SIML TRIAL
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Accused woman rames alsl
tacks From the Judge.
MOVES AUDIENCE TO APPLAUSE
She Taunts the Prosecution With
Not Daring to Confront Her
With Her Lover A Splen
did Aotress.
Tarls, Nov. 4. Mmc. Marguerite
Steluhell, Innocent or guilty, will not
need to reproach herself for the man
ner In which she endured her long or
deal In court here at her trial on the
charge of having murdered her hus
band and her stepmother.
She parried with llghtnlngllke rapid
ity every thrust of the presiding Judge,
who in the French assize court acts
as tho prosecuting attorney. Once she
drove him from his line of question
ing by the scornful way lu which she
(aid, "You seem to take me for a com
mon street walker."
She moved the audience to a mur
mur of admiration and applause when
she replied to the Judge's comments
on her contradictions before the mag
istrate who conducted the preliminary
inquiry, saying:
"When a poor woman has been for
seven hours u day for days facing a
magistrate who keeps harassing her
with questions and never ceasing to
repent: 'I know you are guilty. You
killed your husband nnd mother;' when
your mind bus been tortured and your
spirit broken, are contradictions un
natural?" When Mme. Stelnhell appeared in
court, dressed in black and wearing a
small toque, with' a long black veil
behind, a feeling of disappointment
went through the male audience.
Was this the beautiful "Mag," the
original of all the seductive portraits
that had appeared in the newspapers?
Surely a year's imprisonment and her
anxious position had had their effect
Her eyes alone retained their won
drous beauty.
After she had conducted her case for
a short time, however, her old time
charm reasserted itself, and it was
understood how this lowly born wo
man had uchleved her position in Par
is. She was lu turn beseeching, im
ploring and menacing. Her silvery
voice was now full of pathos and
again vibrated with indignation. . She
needed no udvocate.
She made all her points with the ut
most possible effect. She taunted the
prosecution for not daring to confront
her with her lover, Borderel, whose
evidence is the government's strong
est argument. Her indignant, "I have
never sold myself," made Judge Valles
confess that she was no money leech.
M. Brieux In his play "The Red
Robe" has not argued more powerful
ly for u change In tho French form
of Investigating crime than did Mmc.
Stelnhell. "If you seek light," she
exclaimed, "why not have Investiga
tions public? This Is my first oppor
tunity to publicly fnce the charges
against me. I will speak."
It must be said that the dominant
thought of tho audience was "What a
splendid nctress!" The feeling would
not be dismissed that she was not, as
she declared, sustained by the thought
of her Innocence. It wus felt that she
was playing n role not written by an
other hand and learned, but one imng'
ined by herself uud acted with superb
ability.
Judge do Vnlle brought out that
Mme. Steinheil's father died suddenly,
and he said to her:
"You are accused already of tho
death of your mother. I do not wish
to accuse you of having caused the
death of your father."
Then the militant spirit of Mme.
Stelnhell was aroused. She fought
back like a caged tigress. Step by step
she battled against tho accusations
that her husband was aware of her
shame in engaging the Villa Vert Lo
gls as a house of rendezvous.
"It is false," she cried. "He never
knew."
They brought out charges that she is
said to have made against her bus
band, unprintable accusations against
his morals.
"It is false," she cried again. "I
never said it."
She was confronted with statements
she mado nt her preliminary hearing.
"You lied," declared the Judge.
"I did not He; they made mo He,"
sho screamed. "My examination was
a martyrdom."
Thon began such a baiting of a pris
oner as was never seen outside a Lat
In country.
Mme. Stelnhell, furious, weeping,
sobbing nt ono moment, ilery with an
ger the noxt, remorseful as she admit
ted a fault that In tho Decalogue is
classed as a sin, turned upon her
Judges, saying they drove her into lies,
auhtorfutraa nsfd fiitae arnusatlonR. Kho
ore that her only real belief was
it a band of Lovltcs had committed
s crime.
She told of her lovers rcpentnntly
d with loathing, sometimes with a
gust that brought laughter.
Probably Fatal Election Shooting.
HacUensack, N. J., Nov. 4. Lewis
Wilson of Woodrldgo Is dying in the
Passaic General hospital from n bullet
wound In the stomach which he got
In a quarrel at the polls with Michael
Rossa over the merits of John Gallon,
n candidate for township committee
man. COLONEL ASTOR ANNOYED.
Says He Left New York to Avoid Talk
of Wife's Divorce Suit.
Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 4. Colonel
John Jacob Astor of New York when
seen here on his yacht Nourmahal re
fused to say whether he had put in
tiny defense to his wife's suit for ab
solute divorce.
"Why should all this fURS bo made
about one's private affairs?" he suld.
"My attorney In Now York has cntlra
control of my legal affairs, nnd I am
sorry to tell you that I cannot give
you any information whatever."
Colonel Astor added that he left New
York for a long southern cruise for
the particular purpose of avoiding
"meddlesome people."
An officer of tho yacht said that Colo
nel Astor had been greatly worried
over reports from New York telling
of the publicity given to his wife's
suit.
Wife Has Kept Proof Secret.
Intimate friends of Mrs. John Jacob
Astor say that sho has been for a long
time In possession of proof that would
enable her to obtain a legal separation
from her husband. It Is said that Mrs.
Astor held this proof even In the llfe
tlmo of the elder Mrs. Astor, who was
leader of New York's exclusive socloty.
Regard for the family nnme caused
tho younger woman to keep silence
widle her mother-in-law lived.
HIGH SCHOOL STRIKE.
Cleveland Boys and Qirls Demand Bet
ter Food at Luncheon.
Cleveland, 6., Nov.-4. ofafir 2d0'boy
and girls of the West Side high school
have gone on strike, demanding single
sessions nnd better lunches. The strik
ers, who come from the upper classes.
walked out in a body and held n mass
meeting on the public square. It was
decided that none should return to
school until single sessions were re
stored nnd better lunches provided.
Tho pupils say they were compelled
to wait for an hour nnd a half for
lunch because of poor service. They
declare the lunch they received was
poor and high priced. The butter, they
say, was rancid.
There Is discontent in all of the
schools of the city over the matter,
and the strike promises to become
general unless conditions are reme
died. WOMAN BUYS AEROPLANE.
She Will Take Lessons and Plan to
Become Expert Aviator.
Hummondsport, N. Y., Nov. 4. Mrs.
n. A. Arnold of Florida has bought an
aeroplane of tho Curtlss type, lu which
she Intends to muke llights.
Mrs. Arnold owns n magnificent
country home near Jacksonville, Fla.
Tho grounds and outlying country nre
admirably adapted to aviation. The
machine Is for her own use, and she
has engaged an experienced aviator to
Instruct her lu aviation.
The machine, while primarily Intend
ed for one person, will enrry a pas
senger as well ns tho aviator. It i3
the intention of Mrs. Arnold to be
come nn expert In making aerial
flights.
This Is the first purchase of an aero
plane by n woman In any part of the
world.
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MME. N0RDICA IN COURT.
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Singer, With Her Sisters, Is Contetti
Will of Her Aunt. .
Boston, Nov. 4. Mme. Lillian Nor-!
dlca and her three sisters were pres
ent In tho supreme court at East Cam-!
bridge to testify In their contest of;
the will of their nunt, Mrs. Fannie F.
Allen of Maiden, who cut them off
when she disposed of her property. (
In her will Mrs. Allen stipulated that
since the property left by her had'
been accumulated by her husband it
should revert to. his relatives, and she,
directed that the four female contest
ants be omitted becnuse they already!
were well provided for. J
SUCCEEDS CHANG CHIH TUNGj
Lu Chuan Lin Promoted New Chinese,)
Minister Sails For United States.
Pekln, Nov. 4. An imperial decree;
appoints Lu Chuan Lin, tho formers
president of the board of civil appoint
ments, grand secretary in succession
to tho Into Chang Chlh Tung.
Chang Ying Tang, the new Chlneso
minister to the United States, will
leave here for bis new post next week.