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TRIES SUICIDE
BY LAUDANUM
Hawley Girl, Discouraged Over
Affair with HonesdaEe Man,
Takes Drug and Is Saved By
Timely Arrival of Doctor.
HAWLEY, Aug. 25. Saturday
morning Dora Weiss, a young woman
nbout 19 years old, failed to come to
her breakfast. Her sister on calling
her the second time failed to awaken
her, but discovered an empty bottle
labelled laudanum. In the bottle
were Ave or six drops, enough to tell
It was laudanum.
Dr. M. H. Ely was called, but he
failed to awaken the girl. He gave
her antidotes hyperdermically and re
peated them In half an hour. At
the end of an hour he was able to
awaken her.
Miss Weiss said she took the laud
anum because she wanted to die.
Dr. Ely learned by a young woman
friend of his patient that she had
had a dispute with a young man in
Honesdale. She said that she took
the laudanum early Saturday morn
ing. All she would say was that she
wanted to die. She was on the street
. I , . ,
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had happened.
Dr. Ey went to the store where,
Bne uougui wie muuauuui. i ue uitrin.
said he sold it to her, not knowing
he had no right to do so.
Miss Weiss is a frequent visitor
to Honesdale and has a number of
friends here. It was said in Hones
dale today that the young fellow
back of the trouble no longer lives
here. He is understood to be a
stripling of not much more than 20,
fairly goodlooking, very well dress
ed, and something of a favorite with
the fair sex. He was seen around
one of the . hotels In town a good
deal and for several weeks' before
leaving town was not known to do
any work, though he was generally
well supplied with money.
HE FINDS HIS HOUSES.
Aldenville Farmer Discovers Them in
Mow of the Ham.
ALDENVILLE, Aug. 25. W. L.
Hopkins this morning found the two
horses, a eray mare and a black
horse, that he missed Wednesday
morning and at lirst thought had
been stolen. They were In the hay
mow, which Is In the second story
of the barn and Is reached by a
bridge on higher ground at the back
of the building.
Early this morning Mr. Hopkins
was In the barn when he heard a
sudden pawing In the loft.
"What's that?" he said. "I'll go
up there and see."
Mr. Hopkins climbed a ladder to
the' loft. The horses, a valuable
working team weighing 1100 apiece,
were found In the loft, half covered
with hay.
"They probably strolled out at
night and walked over the bridge
Into the mow and lay down," said
Mrs. Hopkins over the telephone this
noon. "At first Mr. Hopkins and I
thought they'd been stolen. We are
glad to know we have no such
neighbors."
XEW JERSEYITES AROUSED.
To Start a Campaign For Rational
Auto Ijuvs.
TRENTON, Aug. 25. The auto
lsts of New Jersey have become
thoroughly aroused at the non-re
clprocal and retaliatory measures
employed against them because of the
New Jersey laws and are planning a
state wide campaign that has for Its
slogan "Reciprocity."
The New Jersey Automobile and
Motor club, with its 2,500 members,
is first in the field, and on Aug. 17
at the Newark clubhouse held a mass
meeting nt which the moWlsts ex
pressed their views on the laws cur
rent in this and neighboring states.
At this meeting every club in New
Jersey was instructed to carry along
the campaign for more rational laws
and reciprocity.
Hall Pluyer Gets Good Position.
Fred Schuerholz of Honesdale,
who has been twirling fine ball for
Youngstown In the O. & P. league
this year, has been bought by the
Washington American League club
and will go to that city after the
close of his season's work on Labor
day.
Schuerholz Is well known In this
vicinity and pitched for Damascus
against Calllcoon In a. gamo on
Freda's flat last summer. Sullivan
County Democrat.
THE WEATHER Friday overenst
HONE
WILD WEST TRICK
COMES NEAR SEXDIXG ONE
HONESDALE HOY TO SWEET
HYE-AND-HYE COM HADES. IX
Sl'IHED HY MOVING PICTURE
SCEXE, HAX(J HIM TO HEAM IX
HAHX.
Quite a little sensation came to
the people on Ridge street one day
this week, when it was found two
boys in the neighborhood had strung
nnother boy to the beams of a barn
and kept him hanging there until the
lad was black in the face. A neigh
bor showed up just in time and cut
him down.
A doctor who was hurried to the
boy's home said a few minutes more
might have been fatal.
! nnnnnrc flint flia lirtT'C 1i 1 il lioun
it, ikI'VUt O kilt l kitt- uu,' u .v-
tQ the movlng pictures, where they
witnessed a Western hanging via
rQUte T, h Rnd
tried the game themselves. It came
near putting one good boy out of
business.
All the boys Involved are members
of excellent families and an effort
is being made to hush up the un
fortunate happening, but it is not de
nied that the boy was strung up and
that he soon would have needed a
coffln Instead of a doctor.
O. & W. HAS DIG COXTHACT.
CARBONDALE, Aug. 25. The
D. & H. R. R. has entered into a
contract with the O. & -W. to haul
5,000,000 tons of coal to tidewater
for them. The coal is coming out
of eastern Pennsylvania, over the
Scranton division.
Sain Reed's Lawyer on u Trip.
Charles A. McCarty started this
morning on a trip, which will In
clude Montreal, Canada, a sail on
the St. Lawrence to Quebec, from
thence around by way of the Gulf of
St. Lawrence to Halifax, Boston and
New York. The trip will take In an
ocean voyage of 1500 miles.
Mr. McCarty called on Sam at the
Jail Wednesday and went over the
case again, this time in more detail
than at any of their previous Inter
views. Sam's lawyer when he came
back to the sheriff's office with the
keys observed that the man from
Equinunk is in need of exercise. He
added that he wished the sheriff
could find some wood for his client
to saw. The principal work at the
Jail these days Is the work In the
garden, and that, of course, a man
held for murder cannot be allowed to
do.
"Give Us Greater Honesdale!"
By all means let us have a Great
er Honesdale. Our borough pos
sesses the same boundaries that it
did when founded some eighty
years ago. The population of the
town, within its corporate limits, is
3,000, while with what really con
stitutes HoneBdale there are at least
6,000 people. The outlying districts
are all built up solidly to the bor-
ough line, so that an outsider is un-
able to distinguish where Honesdale
ends and Texas township, which sur
rounds our town, beglnB. A small
number of the residents of Texas
have applied to court and had their
properties annexed to our borough
for school purposes, but they are de
prived of the benefit of our finely
equipped and vigilant fire depart
ment, high school, electric lights,
etc., which give the population at
Honesdale after consulting maps,
etc., which gives the population at
3,000, when In reality It Is double
that. Honesdale has more manu
facturing plants, and greater in va
riety, than any other town of Its
size In the state. Give us a Great
er Honesdale!
MAIN STREET.
Honesdale, Pa., Aug. 24, 1910.
MILD TYPHOID IN MOOSIO.
MOOSIC, Aug. 26. Mooalc is suf
fering from a mild epidemic of ty
phoid fever, two residents of Miller
Hill being stricken with the malady
within the past two days. They are
James Dick and Hazel Collins. Both
were taken to the Taylor hospital.
Mrs. John Bossar, who was strict
en some time ago, Is rapidly Tecov
ering, There are a number of oth
er cases reported In the borough.
weather will prcvnll, with slight to
SD ALE, WAYNE CO.,
President Taft Has
Look as
The famous smile of President Taft "that won't come off" has been her
alded from east to west and from north to south, but when It comes to n
serious view of the nation's chief executive few words have been snld. In
the past few weeks the president has had much to do with political questions,
and that he Is Interested In what others say Is evidenced by the expression
on his face in one of the pictures. In the other view there is n look of
Berlousness as he speaks to n great crowd of his loynl citizens.
STATE CANDIDATES
PHILADELPHIA, Aug.
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gubernatorial campaign will prob-1 addresses will be made by N. B. ' Game,
ably be fired on Sept. C, 7 and S, Critchfleld, secretary of agriculture, ' Here Is the way they look at It In
when the candidates of the Keystone, j and Mortimer Whitehead of Indiana. : Carbondale, according to the Lead
Democratic and Republican parties The following day the leading; er:
will address the great crowds ex-! speaker will be Webster Grim, Dem- One more game, which will be
pected to attend the annual farm-,
ers picnic at Chestnut Hill park. ;
The farmers decided to appoint a 1
special day for each candidate, each
day to be designated by the name 1
of the sneakers' party. Thus, Tues- 1
day, Sept. C, will be called Keystone ,
day, Wednesday Democratic day and
Thursday Repubfttan day.
On Keystone day the principal
speaker will be William H. Berry,
LONGEST ERIE TRAIN EVER.
Huns Hetuecii Siisoui'liiiniiii mid l'ru l
,KtvI Has 127 Cars in All. !
Said Tuesday's Port Jervls Ga
zette: Probably the largest train that
ever ran over the Delaware or New
York division of the Erie started
from Susquehanna, Pa., at 9.34
o'clock this morning for Port Jervls,
where, It Is expected, It will arrive
this evening.
The monster train consists of Erie
engine 1C34 and 127 cars, and it
Is In charge of Conductor Edward
McAndrew and Engineer Scales,
It Is thought to be an experiment
to see how many cars can be pulled
by one of these large engines and the
train will no doubt be eagerly watch
ed by the railroad officials. If this
number of cars can be pulled by
one engine over the grades It will
mean a big saving to the railroad
company.
It Is doubted, though, If there are
many switches along the line which
can accommodate this train.
Mrs. George S. Purdy took ex
Editor Edward A. Pennlman of The
Citizen and Mrs. Pennlman for an
auto ride Tuesday. It was a ride
the Pennlmans will always remem
ber, the retired nowsman said today.
The Purdy car went to Liberty and
other places in Sullivan county and
circled Lake Huntington. The day's
run was 94 miles. Mr. Pennlman
met some friends of bygone years,
one of whom he had not set eyes
on In 27 years. He also dropped
Into the office of the Liberty Register
and was shown about the place by
the management. The Register Is a
fine llttlo country Bbeet, with 2500
circulation. It wilt soon Install
linotype and then there may be an
ticipated the very distinct and notice
able improvement that comes to any
paper the moment it swaps hand
composition for the machine.
ttipcraUiro changes and light variable
Ctthett
PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST
Serious
Well as a Smile
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AND OTHERS
OF THE STATE
TCpvstnnn nnniHflnft fnr
t
governor.
Ilool.lnc Atr. Tiar-yv It nrnl.ol.lo (lint !
ocratlc candidate for governor, be-1
sides whom Joseph W. Hunter, state
highway commissioner, is expected I
to speak. j
Sept. S the Republican candidate j
for governor. Congressman John K. i
Tener, will be the chief speaker and
wlth him will appear probably all
the other candidates on the Repub-'
Hcan ticket and Professor William
T. Green of West Chester.
REUNION OF ROBINSONS.
Enjoys Fine Dinner and Company of,
Man From Bryan's State
Fifty-six people attended the Rob
inson family reunion at the home
of Mrs. Martin K. Kimble at the fair
grounds Tuesday. The meeting last
ed all day and there wore no dull
moments. A business session was
not necessary, for the old officers
hold over from last year and there
was no special business to be trans
acted. The dinner was served at noon and
It was a big and bountiful one. The
oldest person In the company, Uncle
John Robinson of Lebanon and Dy-
berry, Is 85 years old and reason
ably well and active for a man so
far advanced In life. John Thomp
son, the Arlington, Neb., Jeweler,
who came from his western home to
combine business and pleasure on a
trip East, was delighted with the
hospitality of the Robinson reunion.
Mr. Thompson Is a Jeweler In Ar
lington. He will visit factories In
the East before going back to Ne
braska. "I didn't know before how many
relatives I had In Pennsylvania,"
said Mr. Thompson. He will visit
a number of them in Wayne county
before going back to Nebraska.
Mr. Thompson was asked by some
men he met to give his opinion of
the political outlook in the West. Ho
said Nebraska and the West regard
Col. Bryan as a man of much ability
but that people who believe ho can
get another nomination In 1912 are
few and far between.
"Mr. Bryan," said Mr. Thompson,
'is politically dead. That's the way
we feel about It out in Nebraska."
The Midnight Sons will conduct
one ot their popular dances in Lyric
hall Friday evening. Music will be
furnished by Miss Beck, and Leon
Katz.
winds and local rain.
26, 1910.
MILK MAY BE
CHIEF CAUSE
State Inspectors Take Day Off
From Water SampSing and Go
To Beech Grove To Examine
Dairies and Pastures.
THAT FINAL GAME
CARBONDALE WILL MAKE DES
i I'EltATE EFFORT TO GET DE
CIDING STRUGGLE OF SEKIES
WITH IIOXESDAIjE AT LAKE
LODORE SUNDAY EITHER
PLACE WILL RUN' EXCURSION.
, CARDONDALE, Aug. 25. Mana
ger Murtaugh of the Carbondale base
, ball team accepts the challenge of
i the Nationals by their mauager, Wll
j Ham McNulty, for a game of base
i ball or a series of games for the
I amount of money mentioned In the
challenge.
Mr. Murtaugh will have a team
composed of all Carbondale players
and will meet the Nationals' repre
sentatives this evening between 7.30
' and 8 o'clock at the Burke building
I for the purpose of drawing up an
agreement and posting a forfeit.
I Tne ueciuing game or tue uamon- decide," he said. "It isn't the ques-dale-Honesdale
series will be played I tion whether or not I'm ready now.
! on next Sunday afternoon at Lake or ready any time," he remarked.
I Lodore. This game will no doubt be Mr. McMullen said the Inspection
I the most Interesting and hardest , 0f the watersheds was extremely
fought battle of the series. Each team
has won two games, and Manager
Murtaugh says that he was never .
surer of winning a game than he Is !
of next Sunday's, which means bu- J
perlorlty for one or the other.
The' team has arranged for an
excursion to the lake next Sunday.
It will leave Carbondale at 1 o'clock.
The Carbondale lineup Is as fol
lows: Mack, c. McAndrew, p.; Sher
key, lb.; Wllilams, ss.; Murray, 3b.;
King, 2b.; McGarry. If.; Kelly, cf.;
Neary, rf.; extras, Mofflt, Mulherln,
Roche and Doudican.
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laillllllUUIC KHHM1II' J5I1L' Will
played on the Lake Lodore grounds ;
in the very near future between
Nick's crowd of balltossers and that
Honesdale aggregation, will decide
whether we nro still superior to
Honesdale In the world of baseball.
, It is said that Nick will have a ilrst-
class lineup and the local uoys are
very optimistic of winning the final
game of the series. The Lake Lo
dore park Is one of the best ball
grounds hereabouts and the bleach
ers will accommodate a large crowd
of fans. It Is expected that a dele-
gntlon from this city will accompany
the team to the lake.
TROOPS TO FIGHT FIRES.
President Taft's permission to use
the troops to fight forest fires in the
west was in line with the wise and
common sense policies of his admin
istration. A standing army in time of peace
is not a profit-bearing institution. It
is a valuable machine lying Idle, for
the most part a machine which we
dare not be without, but one which
wo have been taught to believe Is do
ing us the most good when It Isn't
doing anything.
If we can turn this formidable
fighting engine from a passive to ac
tive service we shall have accom
plished an economic triumph. Little
training should be required to make
our regular soldiers, disciplined as
they are, the equal of any corps of
firemen In the world.
In all probability this new order
will result In saving thousands of
acres of valuable timber from the
ravages of the flames. Editorial In
Harrlsburg Telegraph.
-Alive to the necessity of having
the uiuuseuient features of tho fair
in keeping ' with tho others, special
efforts havo leen made to secure a
lino of attractions of such a cliarac
ter as not to displea.se the most
fastidious, and at tho same time of
such a nature as to please all classes.
These are for the entertainment of
onr guests. Come and enjoy them.
"John, did you take the note to
Mr. Jones?" "Yes, but I don't think
he can read It." "Why so, John?"
"Because he is blind, sir. While I
war in the room ho axed mo twice
where my hat wuz, and it wur on
my head all the time," St. Louis
Star.
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NO 68
The water Inspectors of the state
board of health that were sent here
by Chief Engineer Snow to Investi
gate the cause of typhoid In Hones
dale are Ralph Irwin and M. E.
Shaugnessy. They left Scranton
Tuesday and Immediately upon get
ting here boarded an automobile
with Dr. II. B. Ely, county health
oillcer, and Supt. Silas E. McMullen
of the waterworks for a trip to the
watershed.
They spent two days taking sam
ples of water, which will be analyzed
by the state chemists. The report
will be filed and published within a
few days, it Is expected.
When the newspapermen got to
Supt. McMullen this morning they
found him a little sore over a report
In one of Tuesday's papers to the ef
fect that "Mr. McMullen says he is
now ready to give the state board of
health Information." He said the
writer never Interviewed him, either
face to face or over the telephone.
"That would be something for the
i board of directors of this company to
thorough and careful.
.'s0 far na j know," he said, "no
trace of infectuous disease was
found."
The superintendent added that the
company Is to make very radical and
extensive Improvements In the plant,
which, he said, was In poor shape
when he took It. After the water re
port the directors will meet to plan
these Improvements, which have
been contemplated for some time and
would have been made anyway, ty-
puold or no typhoid, Inspection or no
I t!.M
"We have over d.ouo consumers
and there are only eight typhoid
cases a small percentage," said he.
"Doesn't it look as though the cause
of this sickness might be elsewhere
than In the water?"
The finger of suspicion, which for
merly pointed toward water, now-
evidently points In the direction of
milk. This afternoon the two In
spectors and N. B. Spencer are at
Beech Grove, looking over dairies
and pastures. It is understood that
some of the afflicted families have
the same milkman.
KX'Al'l IS A HROOMMAKER.
Former Deposit Hanker Kept
at
Work In Auburn Prison.
Says the Sullivan County Demo
crat: A friend of ours, who is a guard
in Auburn prison, has written us
that Charles P. Knapp, who was
recently convicted by an Otsego
county Jury for having received de
posits in the Knapp bank at De
posit after he knew the bank was
Insolvent, has arrived at the prison
and has been assigned to his cell
and work.
At present he Is doing hard labor
In the broom department and the
prospects are that ho will remain
there for some hue.
In speaking to the guard of his
confinement, Knapp said: "It's hard
on a man who has always been used
to the good things of life to be
compelled to make brooms all day,
get In line with his tin cup at meal
time and sleep on a hard bunk."
THE IRVING CLIFF HOTEL.
It's Coming, Say Two Lawyers In
terested In tho Project.
William H. Dlmmtck and Chester
A. Garrett, the two men as much In
touch with the scheme for a summer
hotel on Irving cliff as anybody, are
authority for the statement that the
parties Interested In the project are
at work and that the hotel Is going
to be built.
Mr. Garratt Is on the committee
uamed at the last Board of Trade
meeting to consider the cost of put
ting up tho hotel. The other men
named at that meeting were Charle3
J. Smith, the Board's president, and
Attorney Charles P. Searle. Mr.
Smith has declined to servo. Mr.
Garratt says he and Mr. Searle are
going to serve.
There Is nothing to give out yet.
Col. Dlmmtck and Mr. Garratt say,
but before long they hope .tQ have
something to tell the public
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