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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.
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) o-pAWTrrwri WTTTT A RTTOVPT
SPANKING WITH A SHOVEL.
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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..
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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
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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.