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HONBSDALB, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1910.
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HAS APHASIA
Explorer's Sister-in-law
Says He Is Very ill.
WIFE IS NOW AT HIS BEDSIDE
Ouce Honored Polar Voyager Is
Such a Nervous Wreck That
When He Wants Butter
He Asks For the Salt.
New York, Jnu. C Mrs. Josephine
Dudley, sister of Dr. Frederick A.
Cook, the discredited explorer, says
that Dr. Cook Is a victim of aphasia,
unable to think on any subject for
more than an Instant, that Mrs. Cook
Is constantly at his bedside, that while
on the way to recovery recently he
suffered a severe relapse and that he
continually insists that Mrs. Cook shall
not leave him for a moment. Mrs.
Dudley is the one woman in New
York who knows where Dr. Cook Is
concealed. She is In charge of the
two Cook children at Hamilton Insti
tute and Is in constant communication
with Mrs. Cook. She knows more of
the explorer's condition than any one
else except his wife and physicians.
Mrs. Dudley lias received the follow
ing cablegram from Walter Ionsdale,
Cook's secretary, In Copenhagen:
Mrs. Josephine Dudley:
Cable Fred's address nt once. All im
portant. Must see him now.
LONSDALE.
No answer to the request has been
sent yet, us Mrs. Dudley did not like
to risk the explorer's secret hiding
place over the wire.
"Of course we know where Dr. Cook
is," she said, "and we may answer
the message later If we think it safe."
Despite assurances from the, cable
company that carried the message that
it was genuine and came from Copen
hagen. Mrs. Dudley expressed n fear
that it was a ruse to reveal the loca
tion of her brother-in-law.
"We are praying that Dr. Cook will
Boon recover so that he can defend
himself," said Mrs. Dudley. "Until
this last relapse lie was getting on so
well that we thought it would be a
matter of but a few days before he
would be able to come out and strike
a blow in defense. Now It may bo
months before he is himself again.
"1 am in constant communication
with Mrs. Cook. She is at her hus
band's bedside. In his dire extremity
she has forgotten her grievances."
"We had grave fears for the doc-,
tor's health for some time," Mrs. Dud
ley continued. "He was in terrible
shape, ne could not concentrate his
mind on anythiug could not think on
one subject for more than a moment.
He might want some butter and
would ask for a pinch of salt. Follow
ing a ueivous collapse his constitution
broke down. The only reason ho Is
concealed Is to evade a host of people
who would disturb him if they knew
his whereabouts."
COOK GAVE "N. G." CHECK.
Greenland's Former Governor Accuses
Discredited Explorer.
Copenhagen, Jan. (5. Former Gov
ernor Muller of Greenland says that
In 1804, when Dr. Frederick A. Cook's
arctic expedition on the steamer Mi
randa was stranded in Greenland,
Governor Muller offered to Dr. Cook
assistance to continue the voyage and
Invited him to the governor's resi
lience At the house Dr. Cook noticed two
eider duck rugs and wanted to buy
them. The governor reluctantly acced
ed, and Dr. Cook wrote a check for
$500.
The check was returned indorsed
"No nccount."
Then the governor tried to collect
the amount of the check through the
Danish consulate in New York. At
llrst Dr. Cook refused to acknowledge
the claim, hut ultimately he paid one
third of the amount.
When Dr. Cook landed at Copenha
gen last autumn Governor Muller, who
was then in Sweden, telegraphed to
the Danish foreign ministry and also
to Danish Consul Wolman Informing
them of Dr. Cook's previous dealings
and advising caution.
16 WARSHIPS FOR AUSTRIA.
Great Fleet of Dreadnought to Bo
.Ready In 1913.
Vienna, Jan. 0. Austria is making
plans for a considerable Increase of
her strength as a naval power. By
the scheme under consideration she
will possess nlxteen battleships by the
year 1013.
Those new Dreadnought will hare
the latest model high power' guns and
the boat armor. They will also bare a
high rate of speed and great radius
of actloa.
SWITCHMEN TO ARBITRATE.
Agree to Submit Demands to the Inter
state Commission.
Chicago, Jan. 0. Members of the
Switchmen's union, representing forty
western railroads, have agreed with
the General Managers' association to
submit their requests for advanced
wages aud change in hours to arbitra
tion under tl Erslxan law.
The following joint telegram was
sent to C. P. Neill, United Stntcs labor
commissioner, and Martin Knapp,
member of tho interstate commerce
commission:
A committee of the Switchmen's Union
of North America, representing the em
ployees engaged In switching scrvlco on
certain railways, having failed to reach
settlement of tho question at issue. Joint
ly Invite your action as mediators under
the Erdman act and respectfully request
you to name a place and date where n
meeting can bs had to that end.
Both sides agree that the tindlng of
the arbitrators Is to be final, and both
parties waive the right to Hie excep
tions thereto for matters of law ap
pearing upon the records as provided
for by the act.
GEN. GRANT TRANSFERRED.
He Will Succeed General Wood In
Commano at Governors Island.
Washington, Jan. 0. The war de
partment announces that Major Gen
eral F. D. Grant, commanding the de
partment of the lakes, with headquar
ters at Chicago, will return to Gov
ernors Island as commanding olllcer of
MAJOIt GEN. FltED D GUANT.
the department of the east. General
Grant will succeed Major General
Leonard Wood, who will become chief
of staff of the army.
Major General .1. Franklin Bell,
whoso term as chief of staff will ex
pire in April, will assume command of
tho Philippines division, succeeding
Mnjor General William 1 Duval, who
will be granted leave of absence, until
his retirement in January, 1011.
TWO LIVES LOST IN STORM.
A Farmer and a Woman Caught In
Blizzard and Frozen to Death.
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 0. Two lives have
been lost in this section during the
last twenty-four hours as a result of
the extremely cold weather.
When driving toward home In the
blizzard .Morgan Tuffey, nn aged farm
er, residing at Newmarket, became
stuck In n snowdrift and was found
about a hundred rods from his home
frozen to death.
Miss Harriet White, sixty-four years
old, who also resided near Newmarket,
started to walk to Carthage to pay her
taxes, but was overtaken by a blizzard
and perished within a quarter of a
mile of her home.
The Name of Mud Lake Stands.
Washington, Jan. C Tho people of
Mud Lake, Mass., have been refused
permission by the United States board
on geographic names to change the
name of their town to Crystal Lake.
VICTIM OF A COOK FAKE.
Alaskan Prospector Says Doctor Never
Rescued Him From Bear.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 0. A. D. Bur
ton, tho famous Alaskan prospector,
has returned here from tho north and
makes strong denial that Dr. Freder
ick Cook ever rescued him from a
bear, as the doctor related in a graph
ic magazine story. Burton said:
"The year of Dr. Cook's last trip to
Alaska 1 saw Edward Burrlll at Sew
ard and gave him my photo, as ho was
an old friend. 1 had had a battle
with a bear aud was chewed up badly.
My surprise was great to read la Dr.
Cook's magazine nrtlclo that ho and
his party rescued me from a bear, as
Cook was never within ISO miles of
the country whero the bear attacked
and nearly finished me. In the maga
line article there was a fake picture
f my battle with the bear."
Call to English Pastor.
New York, Jan. 0. The Fifth Aye
nue Presbyterian church has cabled a
unanimous call to Its pastorate to tha
Iter. John Henry Jowttt of Cnrr'a
Lane Congregational church, BirmlBg.
ham. England, e tiering him 113,000 a
year and a pastor house.
CLASH H PAMIM
Heated Colloquy In Congress
Over Canal Zone Bill.
KEIFER AND IMANN FALL OUT.
Amendment Excepting Cities of
Colon and Panama From Entire
Government by the United
States Is Carried.
Washington, Jan. C Representative
Joseph Warren Kclfer of Ohio and
Representative James It. Maun of Illi
nois, tho great objector, locked horns
In vigorous fnshion during the debate
ou tho Maun, bill, which provides a
change of government on the Panama
canal zone.
The bill, which minority members of
tho Interstate and foreign commerce
committee have declared is too drastic
in that It denies the right of appeal In
criminal cases and vests almost abso
lute legislative, judicial and executive
powers In a director general of 'the ca
nal, failed to except, nccordlng to Mr.
Kelfcr, the cities of Panama aud Co
lon from Its provisions. Mr. Kelfer
therefore offered an amendment that
these two cities, exempted from entire
government by the United States
through tho treaty of 1003, should not
be subject to the proposed law.
Mr. Mann heatedly informed the
gentleman from Ohio that his amend
ment was ridiculous. "Was not men
tion made in the report that these two
cities were not included';" ho said.
"If there is anybody setting an ex
ample of being 'ridiculous,' " retorted
the Ohio member, his face reddening,
"it is the gentleman from Illinois, the
author of the bill, who leaves out of
the bill a provision which lie incorpo
rates parenthetically in a committee
report."
I Sir. Kelfer, with sarcasm, also ex
. pressed regret that everybody did not
I have the discerning mind of the mem
J ber from Illinois aud therefore mlght
i not "understand" that 'these 'cities.
were exempt.
t "Did 1 say the gentleman from Ohio
was ridiculous?'' asked Mr. Mann. "1
said the amendment was ridiculous.
My distinguished colleague Is never ri
diculous; lie Is merely funny. 1 in
cluded mention of these two cities iu
my report for the especial benefit of
the gentleman from Ohio In order that
lie might understand the bill."
Both members were nettled, and Mr.
Kelfer abruptly asked for a vote on
his amendment, which provided for In
sertion in the bill proper the exception
of Colon and Panama.
"These cities, it happens," lie said,
"are within the limit of tlve miles
which this drastic bill covers, and peo
ple not endowed with so much sense
as the gentleman from Illinois ihjs
sesses have a right to see in the bill
itself the provision that It does not In
terfere with the treaty rights of 1003."
Ou the iirst show down Mr. Kclfer
won by standing vote, 01 to 50. Tellers
were demanded, and while the house
smiled Mr. Mann and Mr. Kelfer took
their places as tellers. Mr. Kelfer won
again, for eighty members passed
through the line for the affirmative
and only fifty-three against the amend
ment. LEISHMAN SUED IN PARIS.
French Merchant Wants $1,800 For
Curtains For Ambassador's House.
Paris, Jan. 0. John G. A. Leishman,
American ambassador to Italy, has
appealed from a decision rendered by
the civil tribunal in favor of a Paris
merchant of the name of Senac.
Since 18S2 Mr. Leishman has rented
a house in the Avenuo Bois de Bou
logne, which was furnished with cur
tains aud blinds on Mrs. Irishman's
order.
Tho account amounted to $1,800. It
was not paid, nnd Senac, learning that
Mrs. Leishman was about to go to
Home, obtained an order from tho
court to seize the goods. The appeal
court postponed decision to consider
whether the extra territorial rights ac
corded to diplomatists applies in this
case.
SIX ILL FROM PTOMAINES.
Tainted Canned Beans and Eclair
Lay Syracuso Family Low.
Syracuse, N, Y Jan. G. Mrs. Gcorgo
McDowell and tlve of her children are
In a serious condition at their home
here suffering from ptomaine poison
ing believed to have been caused by
eating canned bcatis and chocolate
eelalra. One of the children may die.
Texae and Mexican Governors Meet.
Austin, Tex., Jan. 6. Governor Jes
os de Valle of Coahnlta, Mexico, and
Governor T. M. Oampbcll of Texae
met at Del Illo, on the bank of the.
Bto Grande, and afterward ware
(Marts at a Interna Usual banquet
MILK: TRUST INQUIRY.
Farmers Testify That Prices Are Fixed
by tho Exchange.
Now York, Jan. 0. At tho milk trust
Inquiry, which Is being held before
Befcrco Brown nt tho attorney gener
al's offices here, Howell and Johnson,
farmers from Goshen, N. Y., who sup
ply milk to New York dealers nnd are
members of the Consolidated Milk Ex
change, were the first witnesses.
They said that they had verbal or
written contracts with all the dealers
which stipulated that they should sell
at tho price fixed by the exchange.
from month to month and that unless
they adhered to this price they were
unable to obtain a market.
A witness for the milk trust, Mr.
Levy, said he did not know a great
deal about the Milk Dealers' associa
tion, of which he Is a member. He
said the meetings were not for the
purpose of ngreelng upon any price.
"Tho last meeting wasn't to cele
brate the raise Iu the price of milk,
was it?" asked Mr. Coleman, special
deputy attorney general.
"No," responded Mr. Levy, "Just to
drink n little beer and smoke a good
cigar. If we all agree as to prlco it Is
only n matter of friendship. There is
no penalty Iu the association for uu
dcrselling."
NEW HEINZE INDICTMENTS,
Accused Coppor Magnate Pleads Not
Guilty to Two of Them.
New York, Jan. tl. Fritz Augustus
Ilelnze, the copper magnate nnd friend
nnd associate of Charles W. Morse,
was arraigned in the federal district
court hero on two new Indictments.
On one indictment charging misuse
of the funds of the Mercantile Na
tional bank Helnze was arraigned
alone. On the other Ilelnze was In
dicted and arraigned with his brother,
Arthur P. Heinle, and Stanford Uoblu-
FUITZ AUGUSTUS HEINZE.
j son, Carlos Warlield and Calvin O.
i Gur for conspiracy in removing secret
ly the books of the United Copper com
pany. All of the accused were bailed out
after pleading not guilty. Ilelnze gave
ball In $50,000.
Fritz A. Hcluze wns president of the
Mercantile National bank In 1000 and
1007. Tho general tenor of tho new
Indictment, which contains eighteen
counts, is to tho effect that Helnze,
his brother, Arthur P. Helnze; Max
II. Schultzu nnd the llrm of Primrose
& Braun were engaged in n scheme to
create an inflated and false value for
the stock of the United Copper com
pany and that the funds of the bank
were used for that purpose.
The total amount of the funds of
i the bank which Helnze Is charged
with misapplying exceeds 52,000,000.
MADRIZ NOT RECOGNIZED,
Nicaraguan Minister Gets Cold Recep
tion at State Department.
Washington, Jan. 0. Senor Don Luis
F. Corea, former Nicaraguan minister
to the United States, who was appoint
ed recently to represent the Madrlz
government at Managua, called at the
state department nnd had a conference
with Assistant Secretary of State Wil
son. Senor Corea received no encourage
ment, as tin attitude of tho United
States toward thu Madrlz factlou con
tinues unchanged.
Tho state department maintains that
the national assembly of Nicaragua
had no legal authority to elect a presi
dent to succeed Jose Santos Zelaya,
and Secretary Knox declines to recog
nize the validity ot the election of Se
nor Madrhs as president of Nicaragua.
Gordon 8worn In as Senator.
Washington, Jan, 0. Colonel Jatnes
Gordon took the outh of ofUce aa eeaa
tor of the United Statea for Mhwlaalppl
In the senate. Ho. was escorted, to tha
desk by his colleague. Senator Mosey,
the minority leader. Tb oath nt ad
ministered by Tlce rraetfeat Saar num.
LAI FRAUD PROBE
Congress Takes Up Ballin-ger-Pinchot
Scandal.
JOINT RESOLUTION OFFERED.
Committee of Twelve to Conduct
Investigation and to Compel
Attendance of Witnesses
With Documents.
Washington, Jan. C Investigation
of the Balilnger-Pinchot controversy is
ordered by n Joint resolution introduc
ed in the senate by Mr. Jones and In
the house by Mr. Humphrey, both of
Washington.
Tho resolution calls for the broadest
kind of Inquiry and Is of such charac
ter as to require tho signature of tho
president, which will give it all tho
force of law.
A committee of twelve Is to conduct
the investigation, six designated by
Vice President Sherman and six by
Speaker Cannon.
Unquestionably Senator Nelson, chair
man of the senate committee on pub
lic lands, will head the list of sena
tors, and this will result lu his selec
tion as chairman of the Joint commit
tee. The scope of the Inquiry is thus out
lined: The committee Is hereby empowered and
directed to make a thorough and com
plete Investigation of the administration
and conduct of the Interior department,
its several bureaus, officers and em
ployees nnd of the bureau of forestry In
Cie agricultural department. Its officers
and employees touching or relating to
the reclamation, conservation, manage
ment and disposal ot the public lands ot
the United States or any lands held In
trust by the United States for any pur
pose, Including nil the natural resources
of such lands.
And said committee is authorized nhil
empowered to make any further Investi
gation touching said department. Its bu
icaus, officers or employees and ot said
bureau of forestry. Its officers or em
ployees as It may deem desirable.
Authority is given the committee to
sit dtirlug sessions ofcgugress and In
recesses and to compel tho attendance
of witnesses aud the production of
documents.
Any person refusing to obey the
process of the committee or to auswer
any question propounded shall be
deemed guilly of contempt, and Juris
diction is conferred upon the court of
appeals of the District of Columbia
to try sue.h charges of contempt.
Employment of assistance, "legal or
otherwise," is authorized. This pro
vision Is to enable the committee to
procure the services of able attorneys.
It is the wish of President Taft to
have the committee name some com
petent attorney to conduct the case,
and it is possible that both principals
may bo represented by couusel. The
Investigation will be public.
In presenting the resolution in the
senate Mr. Jones said:
The press and magazines of tho coun
try for several months have been tilled
with charges against the present secre
tary of the interior and his conduct of
tho office he holds.
Theso charges range from petty Insin
uations and Innuendoes to direct charges
of malfeasanco and misconduct in office
which if true show that ho has most un
worthily discharged his trust.
If he has used his high office to ad
vance special Interests, If ho has sacri
ficed the people for private or personal
gain, let it be shown.
If, on the other hand, the peoplo have
been deceived and he has been unjustly ac
cused that should be shown not only
that Justice may be done him, but that
public confidence In tho honesty and In
tegrity of Its public servants may be re
stored and strengthened and the animus
of the uttacks disclosed.
Senator Jones explained at length
Secretary Balllnger's position with ref
erence to thd conservation of the na
tion's untural resources and conclud
ed by asserting that the secretary
wauted uo whitewash, but rigid, thor
ough, complete Investigation.
W. W. DUDLEY'S SON REMOVED
President Taft Ousts Land Register
on Balllnger's Recommendation.
Washington, Jan. 0. President Taft
upon recommendation of Secretary
,' Bellinger has removed John W. Dud
ley as register of tho land office at Ju
neau, Alaska, and has appointed Clyde
D. Walker of Coeur d'Aleue, Ida., to
succeed him,
It la anuouueed that Dudley was re
moved for "neglect of duty aud for w
slstlug applicants for laud, in a man
ner wholly Incompatible with his duty
as register."
Dudley la a eon of the late General
W. W. Dudley of Indiana, who died
here recently. He has been register at
Juneau for about eight years.
Henrietta Croeman Seriously III.
lliddletown, N. T., Jan. 0. MIsa
Henrietta Crosman, the leading lady
la "EbaBir" produced at the Strattoa
theater here, waa taken suddenly 111
after the perfenmnee. and li cob Darxl
to her bed at a hotel here, with a (
rare attack cf hmbage,
EDIS01 i A PROPHET.
He
Predict . iheaper Commodities
Within i Hundred Years.
New Vorl i. 0. Thomas A, Edi
son In an m-mrie In the independent
makes a number of remarkable prophe
cies concerning inventions of the fu
ture. "There Is much abend of us," he
says. "In 200 years by tho cheapen
ing of commodities the otdlnary la
borer will llvo as well as the man
does now with $200,000 athiual Income.
Automatic machinery and scientific
agriculture will bring about this re
sult. "Not Individualism but social labor
will dominate the future. Industry
will constantly become more social and
interdependent. There will be no man
ual labor In the factories of tho fu
ture. The men lu them will be mere
ly superintendents, watching the ma
chinery to see that It works right.
"The work day, I believe, will be
eight hours. But It will be work with
the brain, something thnt men will be
Interested In and done In wholesome,
pleasant surroundings. Less and lea
man will be used as an engine or as
a horse, and ills brain will be employ
ed to benefit himself nnd his fellows.
"The clothes of the future will be so
cheap that every young woman will
be able to follow the fashions prompt
ly, and there will be plenty of fash
Ions. "The most Important problem of tho
future is to get the full value out of
fuel. A pound of coal has enough en
ergy to carry Itself arouud tin world.
"Kadltim is the cause of the carth'a
heat. The possibility of harnessing
tills force for our use is somewhat ot
I a speculation.
j "Windmills connected with storage
batteries will lay up the energy ot the
1 winds In electrical form. Sun engines
! are very promising machines.
1 "In steam volcanoes there Is a source
of power which might be obtaiued and
; sent out by electricity.
i "The aeroplane of the future will, I
' think, have to bo on the helicopter
! principle."
, FIRST BRITISH VOTE JAN. 15.
Parliament to Ba Dissolved Monday.
1,330 Candidates Now.
London, .Inn. 0. The privy council
meeting, wnlch is to tuko Jehu., f
dissolution of parliament, will be held
next Monday at Buckingham palace.
After the king has signed the proc
lamation for the dissolution of parlia
ment." business incidental to the is
suance of writs for the election of tha
new parliament will be hurried on.
The iirst election will be held on Jan.
15. It is understood that the dissolu
tion proclamation will fix the date for
the opening of the new parliament on
Fob. 2.
There are no fewer than 1,330 candi
dates for election iu the field. Of this
number 001 are Unionists. This party
will have a walkover in three places
Burton, Penrith and West Birming
ham, tho latter Jos-eph Chamberlain's
constituency, where the Liberals or
Laborltes have made uo nominations.
BIG STEAMSHIP BURNED.
The Norse King Abandoned by Her
Crew In the South Atlantic.
London, Jan. 0. A dispatch from
Ascension island, In the south Atlan
tic, says the British steamship Norso
Prince, Captain Campbell, from New
York for Cape Town, has been sighted
off the Island on tire.
The crew abandoned the ship and
took to the boats. All on board, in
cluding tho captain, were saved. The
vessel, which Is ten tulles off the
coast, is still afloat, but burning fierce
ly. The Norse Prince belonged to the
Prince line. She was of 3,550 tons
register. The crew numbered llfty
men.
CONGRESSMAN GRIGGS DEAD.
End Comes Suddenly at His Home In
Dawson, Ga.
Dawson, Ga., Jan. 0. Itepresentntlve
James M. Griggs of the Second Geor
gia district, one of the most brilliant
and able of the southern Democrats in
congress, died suddenly nt his homo
hero of apoplexy nt the age of forty
ulne. Ite-elected to the session of congress
which met only a mouth ago, Mr.
Griggs had served during six prevl
ous sessions. As a member of tho
ways and means committee he was
especially active during the special ses
sion which passed the uew tariff bill.
WHY SEARCH FOR ASTORt
Congress Resolution Asks About Use
of Revenue Cutters.
Washington, Jan. 6. A resolution
tailing on the secretary of the treasury
to inform the house under what au
thority of law revenue cutters were
tent In search of the Nourmahal, Job
Jacob Aetor'o yacht, which, disappear
ed for a time during the West Indka
storms last fall, has been reported fa
vorably by the committee on exposA
tores lu the treasury depart meat.