THE AVKATHKK On Friday fair and Might! milder weather will prevail, and on Saturday, partly cloudy to overcast weather. K" P ff tC tf C. t? JC JT K" K iC K" If H" o SenrH-Weckly Founded rrtevvic ic'jc v? tC V tc'tf jc if i? i K Wayne County 'Organ kf55 nf fh x k 1908 J k J k Weekly Founded, 1844 J js J J J t Jt J J J PUBLICAN PARTY HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21 1910. 67th YEAR. NO. 6 EE POOL ENDS Causes Wall Street Failures for $8,000,000. EXCHANGE WILL INVESTIGATE. Drop of Sixty-three Points In Co lumbus Hocking Coal and Iron Company Shares Dae to Corner. New York, Jan. 20.-D1 rectors of the Stock Exchange have ordered a searching Investigation Into the pool engineered In the stock of the Colum bus Hocking Coal and Iron company which led to the failures of Lathrop, Hasklns & Co. and J. M. Flske & Co., with liabilities aggregating $8,000,000. The flimsiest bubble that has been blown in Wall street since the Webb- Woror Hvnillnntn nf tlin nineties failed was picked when the stocK or me o lumbus Hocking Coal and Iron com pany dropped G3 points and the two Stock Exchange linns named were carried down In the crash. The embarrassment of these two firms and the smash In Columbus Hocking Coal stock were surrounded by facts as romantic as any that have developed in Wall street In years. The pool in this stock was under the management of the veteran manipula tor, James It. Keene. Hefore the com bination took hold it had been classed among the worthless "cats and dogs." The pool advanced it 70 points with hardly any reaction, and they drew into their net by circulation of stories which would have done credit to the imagination of the old time mining promoter little iuvestors all over the country, who have suffered the loss of fortuues in the collapse. When the Latbrop-nasktns pool stnrted the movement the Columbus Hocking Coal aud Iron company was a harmless concern out In Ohio, which did a small business in the mining of coal and iron. At first they claimed that its earning power had been great ly Increased from the manufacture of bricks. The Wall street notion now Is that these must have been "gold bricks." The next exploit was the discovery of an oil gusher on the company's property, and the guileless bought the stock from $00 a share up to 92 on rumors of the great earnings that were being made out of the oil. Why the Stock Exchange authorities permitted this stock to remain on Its list or how banks could have loaned money to the pool, with Columbus Hocking Coal and Iron as collateral, are the inquiries today following the failures and the collapse on the Stock Exchange. 'Die Columbus Hocking pool Is said to have consisted of thirty members. Its load anally became too heavy, as banks were discriminating against the shares as collateral and the operations of the pool were rendered precarious by the fact that they had to bo con ducted largely on call money loans, quotations for which early this month rose as high as 14 per cent. The Arm of Lathrop, Hasklns & Co. was formed In February, JS90, suc ceeding Lathrop, Smith & Co., and consisted of Henry Stanley Hasklns, who was the board member, and Hen ry Stanton Leverich as a special part ner, Fannie Graves Lathrop, widow of L. C. Lathrop, was another special partner. Her husband up to the time of his death was vice president or the Columbus Hocking company. Hen - ry S. Hasklns Is the president. rPhf Kiiurinntilmi nf ."T M- TiMttlcn & Co. was announced about fifteen mln- utcs after Lathrop, Hasklns & Co. fall- x1 This firm trim Innrfoil im with 10,000 shares at hl$h prices. In an hour one transaction showed a loss of $50,000. NO PROOF OF POLE FINDING. Copenhagen's Final Verdict on Cook's Original Notebook, Copenhagen, Jan. 20. The committee of the Copenhagen university which has been Investigating Dr. Frederick A. Cook's records has finished Its ex-amlnatlon-of the doctor's original note book, which It received two weeks ago. The committee says that Its contents are generally the same as the copy which tho committee received in De cember and which it rejected, as worthless In respect of proving Cook's claim to be the discoverer of tho north polo. Tho committee In its report de clares that tho corrections in the orig inal notebook are of no interest, and the notebook Itself gives no proof that Cook reached tho pole. Members of the examining commtt tco state that absolute falsifications were found In Cook's original note book, and all agree that Cook 1 a swiiiuier. PAULHAN TAKES WIFE UP. Establishes New Aeroplane Record With Her as Passenger. Los Angeles, Oil., Jan, 20. Louis Paulhan, the French, aviator, establish ed a new record of flight with a pas senger here, With his wife In a Fnrman biplane he covered twenty-two miles In S3 minutes 45 -t-5 seconds. Ho made a trip to Rcdondo Beach and return. There was little ceremony In making the start for the ocean with Mrs. Paul han. The Frenchman after gallantly lifting his petite wife Into the biplane sprang to his seat and signaled his mechanician to start the motor. The machine rose In the nlr and soared away. Wireless messages from LOUIS PAULHAN IN FLIGHT AT LOS ANOKLES. thu jfcan told when he reached Her mosa .Peach and sailed out over the salt wafer and when he turned at Ite dondo Beach for the return to aviation field. When M. and Mine. Paulhan reap peared In sight of the grand stand they were about ItOO feet above the ground. Gliding swiftly downward, the machine was lightly brought to a standstill directly In, front of the grand stand. Later Paulhan made a flight lasting eleven minutes with William Ran dolph Hearst, the New York and Cali fornia newspaper editor, as a passen ger. When the aeroplane landed Mr. Hearst said he had enjoyed his expe rience very much. It was his first ascension In an aeroplane. STAFFORD, AERONAUT, DEAD, After Many Close Calls In His Life He Succumbs to Carbolic Acid. IJoston, Jan. 120. Eugene L. Stafford, an aeronaut, died at a hospital here nfter HwalIowlng carbolic ncld. Stafford shot and killed Maynor IJ. Trussell, his assistant. In February, 1004, when he caught him in company with his wife, Camllle. The latter died eighteen months ago, and Stafford married again. He began ballooning in 1800, and his wife, Camllle, frequently ascended with hlrn. They had many close calls In 1807 Stafford had a narrow escape j rom drowning off Coney island. ! ) o-pAWTrrwri WTTTT A RTTOVPT SPANKING WITH A SHOVEL. 1 ' Magistrate Says It Is No Way to Treat j , a Lady' I Atlanta City, N. J., Jan. 20. MI cbacl Hogan started a new style for husbands who wish to chastise their wives when he turned Mrs. Hogan across his knees and spanked her not with heavy palm, but with a fire shovel. The weeping woman ran from her home as soon as slie(was released from tho undignified position she occupied during tho corrective process, and n policeman arrested the husband. "That Is certainly no way to treat a lady," said Magistrate Hughes after he had heard tho story. Hogan was put In jail to await tho action of the grand jury, which will consider the ttory of tho spanking In all its details NO PRISON WORK FOR MORSE In Warden's Absence He is Idle Sesms In Good Spirits. Atlanta, Ga Jan. 20. Charles W. Morse, the millionaire banker, has not yet been assigned tn any work In the federal prison. Tha absence of Ward en Mover, who m turns on Saturday Is tho cause. Morse appears In cood uplrlts and Is nklng his Imprisonment calmly.. . - f - " -V .:.HE?5 i s KM Telephone Probe Hits N. Y. Democratic Chairman. . STORY OF $2,000,000 BRIBE. Stock of United States Independ ent Telephone Company Said to Have Been Given Him Without Consideration. New York, Jan. 20. William J. Con nors, chairman of the New York state Democratic committee, will have to tell the legislative committee that Is taking testimony hero to ascertain whother telephone and telegraph com panies ought not to bo brought under the control of the public service com mission Just how and why he got ?2, 000,O()0 worth of the stock of the Unit ed Stntes Independent Telephone com pany ns a gift The accusation against Connors be-' came olileial when Senator George A. Davis, chairman of the committee, re ceived a letter from James M. K4 O'Grady of Rochester, a former speak er of the assembly, embodying the de tails of the charge and asking that the committee Investigate. The accusatory letter, addressed to Chairman Davis, recited recent tes timony before the supremo court In Rochester, in which President Albert O. Fenns of the Alliance bank of Rochester and President Thomns- W. Flnucane of the United States Inde pendent Telephone company swore that a certificate of stock of the com pany of the face value of !?2,000,000 had been Issued to Chairman Conners of the Democratic state committee at tin' request of Mr. Flnucane without any consideration. The letter contin ued: Mr, Finucanu -Instilled that thla stock was given to Conners because he was an Inlluential man and owned two newspa pers! In tho city of Buffalo, and at an other time Flnucano testllled that the stock was Klven to Conners because Con ners hud been conducting somo investiga tion into telephone franchises in the city of New York, and it was thought advls nlile by him (Flnucane) to buy him (Con ners) off by the payment of this $2,000,000 In stocU. Senator Davis, who is a neighbor of Conners In Ruffalo, .promised that the committee would make a thorough in vestigation. it is a legitimate matter of Inquiry," ho commented. "Personally I think Conners' Influence was greatly over estimated when valued at $2,000,000. The real question Is, Did Conners di vide that $2,000,000 with other persons of lnlluenceV" Thomas W. Flnucane, president of the United States Independent Tele phone company, said ho had joined in a syndicate with $1,000,000 to buy a franchise for an Independent com pany. The syndicate purchased for $250,000 the franchise of the Mercan tile Electric company, which operated a private burglar alarm system In New York under a franchise from the old board of electrical control In 1001. This nucleus franchise was sold to the New York Independent Telephone company for $41,000,000 und promptly transferred to the United States Inde pendent Telephone company. t that time Conners was In New York negotiating for a franchise for an independent telephone company. Flnucane asserted that Conners sub scribed $200,000 to tho syndicate, but never paid in auy of the sum. Later, he said, he gave Conners $2,000,000 of the stock "because of his Influence and the Influence of his two newspapers." FIVE DIE IN FACTORY FIRE. Girls and Men In Unreasonable Panic at Philadelphia Blaze. Philadelphia, Jun. 20. Scores of working girls on the top floors of n four story factory building at Chan cellar and South American streets wero thrown Into a wild aud uurea sonable panic when ilro broke out Ihere. Although the building had an ade quate fire escape, the rush of the Humes through thin wooden partitions mado the girls forget this aud every thing clso In a crazy dash for the street. In the hurlyburly and excite onent men, who sliou'd have been a restraint upon the others, lost tbelr heads completely In tho din of screams, shrieks and cries for help. Wire nettings at windows wero torn away, and girls and men threw them selves four stories to the street. Oth ers Joined In a crush on tho wooden stairway. Four girls and a man wore killed, a woman and a girl were fatal ly Injured, and twelte others were In 4uri Weather Probabilities. Increasing cloudiness; light to mod erate variable winds, mostly south and southwesterly. FOR BALLIUGEIt INQUIRY. Republican Caucus Chooses One Man Opposed by the President. i Washington, Jan. 20. After three hours of vigorous debate In caucus the Republicans of the house of rep resentatives agreed to one-half of the president's desires for the personnel of the Balllnger-Plnchot Investigation committee. By a vote of 4 to 02 the Republicans retained Ollle James, a Democratic caucus nominee, as one of the investi gators. He was one of the men op posed by the president and alluded to at the White House ns one of a "pair of loaded dice." The election of James came as a dis tinct surprise to tho organization. It was dono on motion of Representative Morse of Wisconsin, an insurgent. Six insurgents bolted. They were Representatives Cooper, Lenroot, Lind- bergh, Nelson, Cnry and Davis. The caucus selected the following Republicans to net as Jurors In the Eallinger cnsc:'McCall of Massachu-' setts, Olmstend of Pennsylvania, Mad- ison of Kansas nnd Denby of Mlchl-1 can. The Democratic members chosen were Lloyd of. Missouri and James of Kentucky. Lloyd is chairman of the Democratic i congressional committee. James is the j original choice of the Democrats and , was distasteful to the president and i Speaker Cannon. BRIBER'S INQUIRY ORDERED. New York State Senate Will Investi gate Conger's Charge, Albany, N, Y., Jan. 20. Responding to the demand of Sennte Leader Joth- j crucial moments and In this way was am P. Allds, made In the most dra-, nble to retain his feet nnd escape the, matie manner to his colleagues, the humiliation of a clean knockout, senate today ordered an investigation At the finish Jack's countenance of the charge of Senator Bonn Conger ' bore traces of -having passed through that Allds accepted a bribe in 1001 a painful and damaging siege. He dis wlicn both were members of tho as- played a badly swollen eye and was seinbly. j Senntor Conger says he will give fnlj details of the alleged bribery to1 the committee as soon ns he is called before It. There is little sympathy for Conger. Uliuthc words of one of his colleagues, SENATOR BENN CONGER. 'fniioi- timv ill- iniiv nor mlivlft Allila Conger maj or may not conutt Alius, but by his own admission he has al rendv convicted Concer." "I will show the state what this man Conger Is regardless of any othei feature of this infamous charge acalnst me." said Allds. He says he has facts concerning the operation ol Conger ns the alleged manipulator ol the bridge combine Conger's opera- tions lu this and other states will i form an interesting chapter of the In- "1 Jolted O'Brien with 'the left and vestlgatlon. Conger ndmlts that twctnen came back with a heavy swing for of the bridge concerns In which he . the Jaw, which Just came within an Inch was Interested were Indicted in Mas- connecting with the right spot. Kauf . , , . . , . , . I man uppercut O Urien as the bell clanged, sachusotts and Ohio, but he declares j He hc the upiH.r hand throughout this they were acquitted. PARSON DOWNS SUES WIFE. She Was a Waitress, 24; He a Preach er and 59 Four Men Named. Boston, Jan. 20. Tho Rev. AVlllIam AA. Downs, pastor of tho Bowdoln Square tabernacle, has brought suit against his wife, Sophronla Gertrudo Downs for divorce. 1 The parson charges his wife with, unfaithfulness nnd names four men. t Miss Slayton and Parson Downs were married If 1007 after an ac quaintance which began in a North Market street restaurant wherel tho young woman was a waitress. At the tiino of their marriage Miss Sla'yton was twenty-four years of ago and Downs flftv-nlnn Giro and Schllemsn Must Die. Albany, N. Y.. Jan. 20. The court of appeals has affirmed the conviction of Carlo Giro and Frank Schlieraan for tho murder of Mrs. Sophie L. Btaber, and they must suffer the death pen alty. Mrs. Stabcr was shot by one of the men while they were committing burglary In her home In PUtbush. KAUFMAN VICTOR. He Defeats O'Brien In Six Rounds at Philadelphia. 4.000 WITNESS THE CONTEST. California Heavyweight Gets Re venge For His Previous De feat at the Hands of Qua ker City Favorite. Philadelphia, Jan. 20. Al Kaufman of San Francisco had his revenge on Jack O'Brien of this city In a lively six round light before the National Athletic club here. Four thousand persons witnessed the contest. At the termination of the contest It was ap parent to tho most prejudiced and .keenest follower of the ring thnt the California!! was untitled to all the glo- rles that went with the encounter. In almost every round, with the ex ceptlon of tho first and second, Knuf man was In the lead. He went to O'Brien ns though his opponent was an unknown. He Jolted and dazed him with swings nnd jabs and kept up a volley of blows from start to finish. It was O'Brien's generalship that helped him to survive the light. He was on tho verge of a knockout sev eral times, but he used his head at bleeding from the nose and ear. He could not have lasted much longer. First Round. They went to a clinch al the ytart. O'Brien tried for a left lead, but missed. Kaufman hooked the left to the neck and then clinched. O'Brien swunB tho left hard to tho face and then shook Kaufman with a hard right to the head ,and put tho right to the heart. Kaufman then "walloped tho rlffht on tho head, and O'Brien returned with a right to tho face and Jabbed tho left to the nose. In a rapid exchange Kaufman . vol, , fill, 1 1 fct. .,.,,1, Ul, .w ?uo.." u"n..w,n?..w,r.. ir ","": un iiiu ileal i. i (in iuuiiu niw huuuh even. Second Round. O'Brien found Kauf- .nin ,tl,li ,n.n laft ina In line. T.-fl fh ' Jabbed the left to the face, and the next moment OJBrien slashed tho left to the face. Kaufman found O'Brien with a stiff right under tho heart. O'Brien put ' two rapid lefts to the mouth. Kaufman , connected with two well placed rights to the uoay. u linen joucu jvauiman wnn rights und lefts. Kaufman then rushed and made O'Brien dance all over the ring. This was easily Kaufman's round. Third Round. Kaufman missed, and then O'Brien placed the right to the Jaw. Knufman then ripped the hody with two telling rights. In return O'Brien Jabbed twice to the nose, and Kaufman retaliat ed with the left to tho neck. O'Brien a moment later reached tho Jaw with the . right. Kaufman then rushed and, cor nering O'Brien, staggered him with a Ilerce right to tho Jaw. Kaufman follow ed up his advantage and hooked two I more rights to tho body and nhnost floor- I cd O'Brien with a left to the chin. Kauf man was on top of O'Brien and piled both hands for the body and Jaw. Kaufman ( easily had the better of the round. j Fourth Round. Kaufman went after I O'Brien with both hands nnd sent him to his knee with a right hook to the Jaw. I O'Brien was up quickly nnd clinched. It was eviueni inai lie wub uuzt-u, uui no ,..,, .,. homB .... left Jabg to I tho faco, O'Brien put two rights to the i wind. Kaufman after missing a wen aimed right for the Jaw walloped O'Brien on the head. Kaufman grew careless, and O'Brien hooked two lefts to the wind but Kaufman delivered a staggering right ! on tho Jaw. Kaufman was best in this round Fifth Round. Kaufman started pro ceedings by Jabbing the left to the mouth nnd then nut a stiff left on the face. He followed up his advantage by placing tiie round. Sixth Round. Kaufman Jabbed the left to the faco twice In succession. Both sent leftH to the head. O'Brien then clinched, and nt tho breakaway Kaufman shot the left to the heart, while O'Brien placed tho rlnht on the ear. Kaufman hooked two lefts to the face and had no trouble In reaching Jack, who seemed to be tired. O'Brien put two lefts to the face, but his blows were light. Kaufman evnneri this bv loltlnc O'Brien with vicious bodv knocks and counters, ai wie , ueii O'Brien put tho right to the heart Kaufman' a jviumi. , GALAPAGOS ISLANDS ROW. , ; Ecuador Excited 0veP Aened En. croaehmente by Peru AA'ashlngton. Jnn. 20. Diplomatic re lations betv -a Ecuador nnu rcru have been tvercly strained by the reported encroachment of Peru upon the Galapagos Islands, wuicn are own ed by Ecuador and lie In the Pacific ocean oft the west coast of South America A dispatch was received at the state department from Guayaquil saying that there was considerable excite ment there over the situation. The dispatch "Suggested that tho United States use its good offices to settle tho difficulty. Tho state department, how ever, will not take any steps toward handling tho matter. tEJI. TTO Tl ATT A TlTHTn A TJTf A TTT Professor Munsterberg Says She Uses the Usual Tricks of Mediums. Cambridge, Mbhs., Jnn. 20. Profess, or Hugo Munsterberg, the Harvard psychologist, declares that Mme. Eu sapla Palladlno, who has been giving table lifting exhibitions before select audiences In Boston nnd New York, Is a fraud. Professor Munsterberg will publish In detail In the form of a magazine nrttcle tho result of his findings aris ing out of a private examination he made of the medium. Describing bis experiences, tho Harvard scientist said: "This woman Is a deception. 1 made a private examination of Mme. Palla dlno, and I caught her In a number of tricks which were simply the usual spiritualist manifestations to which they are so well accustomed. "The reason that previous Investi gators were deceived by her Is that they wero all persons of great sug gest lvcness nnd were acted upon by Mine. Palladlno's suggestion. "The woman possesses great sug gestive powers for certain people. The breezes which those observers saw coining from her forehead were mere ly the result of their great suggestive power. "Her principal trick, that of table lifting, known to scientists ns levlta tlon, was done with her own hands. This was shown by the fact that whenever the table lifted was In the air the weight of Mme. Palladlno In creased. "We made a photograph while she was in the net, and the photograph dis closes the fact that she held the table with her hands. Again wo tested her with the letter balance, with the same rr-snlr." UNIONIST GAIN OF 4G. Only In Scotland Do the British Lib erals Maintain Strength. London, Jan. 20. In the elections In Scotland alone the Ministerialists main tain strength approximating that of 11)00. The figures In Glasgow show a slight falling off. while the Radicals loc U somewhat larger proportion. Five Radicals and two Unionists re main as the city's representation. The midlands and the southern coun ties continue to show heavy Unionist gains. Wales contributed its first Un- lonlst gain at Denbigh. The Union- ists made a net gain of four seats la thirty-one constituencies. The composition of the new house of commons thus far stands; Lib erals, 11!); Nationalists, 41; Laboritcs. 21; Unionists, 12!). The total net gain of the Unionists is 40. Eleven Nationalists and one Union Nt have been returned from Ireland unopposed. The Nationalists Include Colonel Arthur Lynch, who command ed the Irish brigade which fought with the Boers against tho British In South Africa. He has been returned from AVest Clare. AA'illlani O'Brien, the old lime leader, has been elected from tho city of Cork. RAILROAD'S LOSS $835,000. President of Western Indiana Charged With Grafting In Real Estate. Chicago. Jan. 20. Sensational allega tions in connection with real estate transactions of the Chicago und AVest em Indiana railroad In procuring team and switch track sites aro made In a bill Hied In the circuit court by Ilnrry Nelson, Jr., representing the railroad company. Among the defendants named are Benjamin and Lillian Thomas, John C. and Alico A. Fetzer, Charles It. and Mary AA'. Kappes and about fifteen trust and safety deposit companies. The method of operation alleged in the bill was for Benjamin Thomas as president of the road to refer a pur chase of real estate to Kappe's, who was tho road's real estate agent and Is now In business for himself. Kappes Is alleged to have then trans ferred the order to Fetzer, who would make the purchase and bo paid for It at an exorbitant price. The difference. the bill charges, was then divided among the three defendants. It alleges that the defendants con spired to defraud the road out of $835, 000 by fraudulent real estate transac tions. STETSON TRUSTEES RESIGN. They Leave It to Victors In Scientist Church to Fill Up Board. New York, Jan. 20. At a special meeting of the board of trustees of tho First Church of Christ, Scientist, held in tho ehvrch at Ninety-sixth street nnd Central Park AVest, four of the trustees who had been allied with Mrs. Vugusta E. Stetsoii resign ed, and their resignations wero ac cepted by the remaining members In the church's governing body. The trustees who resigned are Ed win F. Hatfield, chairman of the board; Dr. John F. Crowell, Adolph ltusch and John D. nigglns. These are the trustees whoso candidates wore defeated la the heated church election yesterday. Tho rote against them was 730 to 480.
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