PAGE 8 TIM UTIEKN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1012. E, KILLS T Negro Holds Posse it Bay Many Hours. DEPUTY SHERIFF A VICTIM. At Scottsville, N. Y., William Twyman Surrenders After Man of Own Raco Promises to Protect Him Mur i dered Father and Later Killed I One of the Officers. Rochester. N. T.. Jan U. -Hidden In a cellar of a house nenr Setit IkvIIIp. twelve miles south of Rochester. Wll Uatn Twyman, a negro, killed two men and held nt bay for live hours the herlff of Monroe county nnd his depu tics, n detachment of the niitloiuil guard nnd nearly every nblehodled man In that section of the county He sur rendered only on the assurance of mi other ninn of IiIk own raco that no vlo leneo would lie done him if he wave up His surrender followed the arrival of a detachment of slate nnvnl militia with h one pounder cannon Above him as he fought. In the iront room of the house, the body of his aged father, whom he had murdered, laj In a litter of liquor bottle, and scarcely a rod from the side of the house throughout a great part of the siege, the body of Deputy Sheriff Simon V Hermingbnm lay where he fell with a hole through his forehead made by a bullet from the negro's rllle. Deputy Sheriffs Herbert M. Abbott and Ed ward A. Jenks and a villager. William L. Vogt, were wounded by Twyman's Ure. Twyman has been known ns a "bad innn" for years He win a hunter and a dead shot One of the colored families of the vil lage was nroused by the smashing of a window of their home and a demand from Twyman that he be admitted. The weather was bitter cold, but In acted so strangely nnd talked so in coherently that they were afraid He then went down the street to the home of James L Cox Mr. Cox came to his door, and Twyman stepped Inside Twyman asked Cox to come orer to the house nnd help him haul out the bodj f Turner Twyman, his father, whom ae said he had murdered. Cox grappled with the negro and man aged to get him out of the house. Twy man llred a shot through ('ox's door and went down the village street smashing wludown till he reached liiu house. William I. Vogt, a prominent Til lager, undertook to get Twymuu out of the house, but had to retreat before a volley of shots It was then that Slier Iff Ilarlejr A Hamlll In this city wa not I lied As soon as he goi the mil the nerlff. with Deputies Abbott, Hermlngham, Jenkins, Pollock, Hawlcy, Smith and Burton and First Assistant District At torney James Munn rushed to Scott ville In an auto. Thinking that when Twyman saw the posse approaching the bouse he would surrender. Sheriff Uutnlll, accompanied by the deputies and several villagers. Including Wil llatit Vogt, ran up to the house The inn 7.7. 1 e of Twyman's gun poked through a window, and before he could be sum moiled to surrender Hermlngham had been shot dead Ah he fell one of the deputies tried to lift his body from the ground, but Twyman opened fire dguln, and before the deputies could reach cover Abbott and Jenkins had been shot each through the anus and Vogt had received n bullet through hN neck MILLIONS Ifl VAULTS SAFE. Equitably Securities Unharmed by Big Fire. New York, Jan. 11 --The biggest new from the lev palace that wns once the Equitable Life building Is the announreiMi'ni of President Wll Ham A Day of the Assurnnee society that tin nritles worth $1.0(10.(100.000 or more, stored In the vaults nf the Equitable nnd the Mercantile Safe De posit company, are unharmed and that the 110.000 policies on which the K.qllll able had loaned $70,000,000 had been found Intnct In the steel eases on the second lloor. Ollieers of the Kqultnblc Life As kurance society and of the Mercantile Safe Deposit company sent vault ex perts Into the ruins to determine if possible whether thero was nny reason to be worried about the securities. In these vaults are stored the securities of the Harritnan and Gould estates. Rutin. I.oeb A. Co., Knuntze Bros . August Belmont A Co.. H Wllllnm A ftead A Co and others. ADMIRAL POTTER RETIRES. Accident on New Year's Day Cause of Ending Service. Washington, .Tnn 11. -Hear Admiral IT. P Potter Is detached from duty and granted leave' of absence for four months, at thu expiration of which time be will retire from active serv ice In the navy. This abrupt termination of Admiral Potter's active career In the navy came as a result of the Injuries huh talned on New Year' day, when he fell down the steps of tho navy de partment building He was not seri onsly Injured Captain C. B. Dahlgren Dead. Trenton, N- J. Jan. 11. Captain Ouarleit it. Dahlgren, retired naval olll- cer, Is dead In this city Ue was a son INSAN of Admiral Uaulgrea. OSCAR HUSIIEY. Whose Speech Won the Demo cratic Convention For Baltimore. WANT LOWER RATES Southern Iron and Seel Men Blame Trust and Will Appeal. New York. .Ian 11 -All of the inde pendent steel and Iron companies In Alabama and Tennessee hnvo decided to npply to the Interstate commerce commission for reductions In freight rates. Their attorneys and experts arc now preparing the papers nnd statis tics. The purport of these will be that railroads or the south, particularly the Louisville nnd Nashville nnd Southern ral'way, nro maintaining exorbitant rntes so thnt the United StnteH Steel corporation may continue to command the markets of the north and west, to the detriment or prnctlcal exclusion of nil the companies In the south. The principal point at Issue Is the freight charge on Iron from the Bir mluglmin and Tennessee districts to Ohio river points. In the flush days of the Iron Industry In 100(1 and the early part of 1IK17 the railroads advanced freight rates on Iron to Ohio river points $1 a ton. Al first, when Iron wns selling at $1K a ton, the railroad advanced the freight rnte M) cents a Ion, and then, when the price of Iron advanced to $20 a ton, the railroads, according to these steel men. elabo rated the principle of charging all the tratllc would bear nnd Imposed a further charge of M) cents PRrNOETON TRUSTEES MEET. blnr.tion of a President Expected Hlb hen May Be Namad. Princeton, N J. .Tnn. 11. --There Is a strong feeling nbnnt the campus that the board nf trustees nt Ihelr regular lanuary meeting here today will de elde upon a president The trusteec are silent on the question It Is re ported, however, thnt the Rubcommlt tee of seven appointed to nominate a man has been unnble to agree upon any one nnd thnt they nppear unable to proceed further. John L. Cudwal ader. chairman of the committee. It Is expected, will not be present, due to Illness, nnd the other six member are said to he evenly divided on can dldates Though there Is no word from any trustee ns to who nre to be consider i'd nnd though the selection of a mnn will depend Inrgely upon how events shape themselves In the meeting. Pro fessnr John Grier Hlbben of the fno ulty is mentioned most frequently us a loglcnl emidldnte He Is n Prinreton man, class of IRS2 nnd one of the most popular men on the faculty among un dergraduutes He holds the chair of logic CLARK HAS REGRETS. Wuntxd Democrats to Meet In the Mid die West. Washington. Jan. 11. -Speaker Clark xnld he regretted the national ennven tlnn of his parU hud not gone to tru middle west "I think." ho said, "that n national convention should be hold In the mid die of the country, mi that the people from the east, west, north nnd south enn Journey there without having to trnvel clear across the continent, but If It had to come here n the enst I think Baltimore Is the best place to hold It Certainly the Klfth regiment armory where the convention will meet. Is one of the best buildings for the purpose I have ever seen." PRINCE TO SANITARIUM Don Jaime of Spain Suffers From De fective Hearing. Mndrld, Jan 11. Don Jaime, the second son nf King Alfonso, has been bent to Switzerland and will enter Kunltnrium The royal prince has been suffering from defects In hearing and in speech nnd litis been under thu care of eml nent Swiss physicians nnd surgeons Several successful operations hav been performed upon him King and Queen Sail For England. Bombay, Jan. 11. Klna; George and Queen Mary nailed for Kngland aboard the royal liner yacbt Medina. i " FIND DESTROYER. Admiral Ostcrhaus Reports, Little Vessel Safe. HAD BEEN MISSING A WEEK. Navy Department Officials Relieved to j Learn That the McCall With All , on Board la Proceeding Under ! Own Steam Toward Ber muda Islands, Wnshlngton. Jan. 11. The navy de partment hna received a dlspntch from Hear Admiral Osterbni's, commander In chief of the Atlnutlc fleet, anuounc Ing thnt the missing torpedo boat de stroyer McCall has been found north east of Bermuda nnd thnt she Is pro cecdlng under her own steam with alt on board well. The receipt of this news greatly ro lleved the minds of ofllcials of the unvy department, who were beginning to have fears over what mny hnve happened to the McCnll In the storm Unit scattered and damaged the At Inntlc Meet It wns Just n week ugo thnt the tor pedo boat destroyer McCall left the New York navy yard for Gunntnnnmo, Cuba, nnd the dispatch is the first that has been heard from her since by the navy department. The message an nouncing the McCall accounts for all he vessels that were scattered In the recent severe storm. Admiral Osterbaus' dlspntch, how- ver, contains further disquieting news In the statement that the United States torpedo destroyer Paulding ran ground In attempting to leave Ber muda tind had to put back to thnt place to be docked Here Is the dispatch received here from Uenr Admiral Osterliaus, whose flagship Is the Connecticut. The commander in chief Atlantic tleet reports having discovered the Mc Call in latitude 33.30 uorth. longitude G2.1fi west under her own steam and nil well. The Connecticut is convoy ing the McCull to Bermuda and, after temporary repairs, the McCall, in com pany with the Birmingham, will com to Norfolk." GUN TEST IN ZERO WEATHER. I Secretary Stimson Pleased With Pr tice at Harbor Defenses. Washington. Jun 11. It has Just be come known thnt the big guns of the defenses guarding the southern en trance to New York harbor were test ed last Saturday In the presence of Secretary Stimson and General Wea er, chief of coast artillery The day was a raw one, the thermometer stand ng nt about R degrees above aero. and a gale of fifty miles wns sweeping over the harbor The soldiers were obliged to operate the del leu te range finding Instruments with their bare bauds, and so tnteusn was the cold that he gun carriages worked stlflly, mak ng loading operations much harder Under all these dillii-ul t li-n splendid results were attained Two targets werr towed by a tug nt n dlstnnce of hree and a half miles from the bat teries. and there Is no doubt that every shot at them would hnve been u hit on the battleships of the large type. This was the tlrst time the coast artillery ever underwent such prnctlce under such unfavorable conditions of wind and weather Secretary Stimson was greatly pleased with the rusulta CANT MARRY DIVORCEES. Connecticut Congregationelists Oppose Such Unions. New nnven. Conn., Jan. tl. Organ ized action by Congregatlonallst rain Isters of this stute will be taken iigalnst the marrying of divorced per sons Resolutions passed by the New nn ven Association of Congregational Mln isters, which has in Its keeping the ministerial standing of about fifty cler gyman, provide that no minister of the association shall perform a marriage ceremony where cither of the contrnct Ing parties htm been divorced under statutory charges or when the divorced party is unknown to him The penalty for failure to comply with this resolution Is expulsion from the association MAY FIGHT THAW'S RELEASE State, However, Has No Information of Slayer's Appeal, Albany, N. V, Jen. 11. In the event of another attempt by nnrry K. Thaw to regain his liberty on habeas corpus proceedings Colonel Joseph P. Scott, stnte superintendent of prisons, will nsk Attorney General Canuody to rep resent the state Although reports hnve reached Al bany that Thaw will renew bis efforts to be relensed from the Mutteuwan Stnte Hospital Kor the Criminal In sane, where he wns sent nfter his trlul for the murder of Stanford White, no olllrlul cnnllrmntlon has been re celved by the stale prison department, which has Jurisdiction over that Insti tution Now Leggings For Army. Wnshlngton. .Inn. 11. - The entire United Stutes army Is to be fitted out with leggings of n new type, be lieved to be much better than the old puttee. A New York city firm has been awarded the contract for supply Ing 250,000 pairs at 01 cenU a pair. JOSEPH F SCOTT Favors Abolishing Capital Pun ishment In Now York State i'hotu by Aiiiorloiii !'rrs Association WOULD ABOLISH EXECUTIONS. Colonel Scott. Head of Now York State Prisons, Calls It Barbarous. Albany. N Y. Jnn 11. The aboli tion of capital punishment In this state Is favored by Colonel Joseph V Scott, stnte superintendent of prisons, who will outline bis views in his forthcom ing report. Superintendent Scott wild he will mnke a formal rccummeudtt tion, but content himself with exprs lug his convictions "Cupttnl punishment is a relic of bar barism," said Colonel Scott "It Is a survival of the old English form of punishment when a mnn wns sentenced to denth for stealing a shilling As for Ub deterrent effect. It did not keep peo ple from stealing In the old dnys, und I doubt If It keeps people from murder Ing in these times " HEAR RFMANIGAL'S FATHER Tells Grand Jury About Visitorp at Home In Cleveland. Indianapolis. Ind . Jan 11 James j McManignl, the aged rather of Ortle ; McManlgal, the confessed dynamiter, was before the federal grand Jury for several hours ; It was in an abandoned wood shed Just back of his house that the detec Uvea found a large quuntlty of dynn mite, and his testimony related to the IM'rsor.s who came to his house to see his son, many of whuni he knew and photographs of whom he lias since ldentitled. As Cleveland was the meet ' lug place of the men who were en gaged In the active work of dyuumlt lug. It Is believed that some of the In bor leaders In thnt city visited McMan igal at his home and were famlllm j with the operations of the gnng J Joseph Shaeffer and Lewis Bell, Cin ' cinuati detectives, who searched tho ' home of the McNamaras at Cincinnati after the arrest of John J and turned up some tools nnd other mnterials and who also assisted other detectives In (Hiding frank Kckhoff. were hWo wit nesse STERLING. .Sterling, Pa., Jan. 10 We aro now having pretty com weather and on the morning of Jan Cth It was 8 below zero. Snow cov ers the ground but not enough for sleighing. Mrs. A. J. Cross' mother, Mrs Hildebrand. who has been with them for sometime past, was 81 years old a few days ago. She has been a helpless Invalid confined to a chair for a long while and of lato has been sadly afflicted. In due time death will bo a sweet relief. John H. Lco is also confined to his bed Wo aro sorry to say that Mrs. L. T. Catterson wns not very matoriai ly benefitted by her trip to New Jer sey and is now homo again For several months past F. L. Hartford's family have been afflicted with sickness. Last week whllo his brothor Georgo was driving his teams In tho woods, he had tho misfortune to break one of his horse's legs. Tho Ladles' Aid moot next Wed nesday at tho parsonage for dinner and refreshments. H. U. Megarglo was elected trusteo of tho M. K. church, Sunday, to ill! tho vacancy caused by tho resignation and removal of W. B. Leshor. While wo aro shivering hero with zero weather T. F. Frazeo Is enjoy ing tho oalmy air at Norfolk. Va. On Jan. 3, Hov. F. L. Hartford In stalled offlcors in Sterling Grange. No. 80 1, and wound up by indulging In an oyster supper. On tho Cth tho Odd Fellows also treated themsolvcs to an oyster stow at a lato hour for frozen bivales aro not palatablo un til thawed out. A good nntured crowd patiently awaited results. Mary 1 1 end en, a nleco of Mrs. Hildebrand of Pittsburg, is a guest nt A. J. Cross'. Mrs. Frank Harris' father, Mr. i. incline, Is her guest nnd Is also suite indisposed. Dr. Simons Is in attondnnco. Mr. and Mrs. James Hlnolino, Nathan Hlnelino nnd daughtor of Salem called to seo thorn lust weok. CASTOR I A Tot Infants ana Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho BBflsi BBBSanlBBBBBtl BBBB W jj BbBBH BBBBLmV l&Kr HIflR YBBaaaBSBBBBBk v OLSoflp jIbBBBBBBBBBSI Signature BESTED 0. Carnegie Tells Steel ProLcr of Ore Deal. MEMORY FAUITY ON TRUST i Ironmaster Appears Before Stanley I Committee, but Evades Questions Throwing Light on Steel Corpor ation's Activities Got Good Price For His Properties. Washington. Inn 11 Andrew Cnr negie chuckled every time he recalled how be got the better of John D. Hock efeller In u deal Involving Lake So pcrlor ore The Stanley steel In vest I gating committee before whom II Carnegie testllled. also chuckled. In fnct It wna amusing for the commit tee While Mr Carnegie was ou the stnnd he devoted most of the time to enter tninlng the commltee with an account of Ids rise from humble beginnings and giving his views on subjects of cur lent Interest The committee elicited very little information from Mr Cur negie that Is I in port an t in lt lnvestlgn lion of the United States Steel corpora lion When It came to getting down ' :" -..r,m,., tion Mr. Carnegie's memory often proved treacherous, fie wns positive, however, in his denial that he had held out for a big price on the Carnegie properties, because he knew they were absolutely ludlsprnsable to the success of the steel corporation. He named J213.00O.00O as the amount that he per sonally got from the steel corporation for his property, and In bis opinion tin corporation got a mighty good bargain Mr Carnegie told how he had forced the Pennsylvania railroad to grant cor cessions to him, but never beyond those thnt were being granted to III competitors It Is true his companies had engaged In pools, supposed now to have been In violation of the Sherman nutltrust law. but he had never bur dened bis mind with these details, ami he wns very glad that he hadn't The thought that he has been able to outwit John I) Rockefeller In a bus! iii-ss denl pleasi-d Mr. Cnrnegle lin mensely He referred to It severa times in the course of his testimony The transaction Involved the obtaining by Mr. Carnegie of ore from Hockofel ler ou a royalty basis of from 1.1 to cents per ton The steel corporatioi has since capitalized the same propcro on n basis of $1 n ton Mr Carnegie said that when he con celvi-d the lden of leasing these on tieils lie summoned .lames Gnyiey. out of his pnrtners, and'snld to him: 'You go to New York and don't you come back until you have those leases ' Mr Gnyiey went and conquered. "1 did Mr. Rockefeller on that trade. paid the Ironmaster, smiling broadlj 'and 1 bnve to laugh evtry time I thiol of it It's quite a Job, you know, h get the best of n man with a head 111 Rockefeller " Mr Carnegie felt so jood over th recollection of this trnnaetlon that h went on to tell tho committee about call that he and Mrs. Carnegie bad made on the Rockufellcrs on Neu Year's day "When w,e arrived nt the Rockefeller borne," said Carnegie, "we fouud Mr and Mrs Rockefeller seated on tin porch Mrs. Rockefeller is a fine wo man and a tine wife, but she Is doing poorly now The old gentleman was In good fettle There be wan, tall, lean and spare, smiling and beaming, ns happy as he could be. He told us thnt cold weather did not affect him much, ns be wore a paper Jacket, thnt kepi out the weather He gave each of u. one. and really It Is a One thing to keep the body 'warm We had a chat ovei old times an'd" fhere Mr Cnrnegle in dulged in another chuckle) "I didn't mention the ore transaction wherein 1 got the better of him "That was one time at least." he ndd si. "that I took In my fellow million aire - TOWN UNDER MARTIAL LAW MeComb. Miss., Still Having Trouhli With Railway Shop Strikers, Mc('omb. Miss., Jan II. At the sug gestion of Mayor Arnold, Governor Noel placed McComb under mnrtlal Inw and ordered an additional mllltla company here. Adjutant Gener-I fridge arrived soon nflerwnrd and took charge of the situation The declaration of mnrtlal Inw was a result of a series of vlo lent disorders la the railway shop men's strike. The fact that several striking em ployees have returned to work nnd the mnyor's belief that others desired ti do so, but were deterred by fear, caused the mayor to appeal to the chief executive TALE OF THE WEATHER. Observntlons of the United States weather bureau tnkeu nt S p m. yesterday follow: Temp. Weather New York 20 Clear Albany 12 Clear Atlantic City .. 80 Clear Boston 1 Clear Hurrnlo 4 Cloudy Chicago 3 Clear St. Lohla 10 Clear New Orleana . . 4A Clear Washington ... 2". Cloudy ALDENVILLE. Bpsclal to The Cltlsen. Aldcnvllle, Pa., Jan. 1 0 1 The continued cold weather into la pleasing to lco men. hut lumbermen nro all anxious for sml Tho recent Icy condition of roads has made traveling dangerol Knnpp & unyiord's teams whllo turning irom wnucs valley wl heavy loads of mine, rooflng, wj thrown down tho Dank anil load3 sot near Creamton. ortunntoly no! ing sonous occurred. At tho annual business meet I of tho Baptist church hold at t piaco aunuay, unviu lioiiKlns ! elected secretary; G. II Kn: treasurer: Mrs. G. G Gavlord gnnlst, and Percy Curtis chorisj Tho church unanimously voted toaccopt tho resignation of III James llnlney. Tho Clinton Cut Glass Co . aftol two weeks layoff, has again resunl operations. Mrs. C. C. Lozler, who was tuV, to the Hahnnotnnn hospital, Scrl ton, is roporteti doing nicely Lawrence Wlnnlo is seriously with pneumonia at this place William Hitter, glass cutter of tl place, nas accepted a position Honesdnle. THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNliy STATEMENT OF THE " Wayne County Farmers' Mutul FIRE INSURANCE 01 OF WAYNE COUNTY, PA., Amt. of insuranco Dec 31, 1911 $4,248.2961 Premium notes Dec. 31, 1911 109,9311 RECEIPTS Cash in bank Jan. 1, 1911 7.1811 Cash received on appli cations 4 SI Cash ree'd on assess ments 9,97! Money borrowed 1,00(1 Interest from Savings Bank, etc 1311 ?1S,7S1 EXPENDITURES. Paid for tho following losses BURNED. C. H. O'Neill, barn and con tents 30C Robert Marshall, furniture damaged by flro Chas. Mnnnick. house and contents 70(1 Samuel Gregory, houso and contents damaged by lire '1 Jos. Liccionie, barn and con tents 1,20( Mrs. Clara Snedeker, house. 251 Minor A. Crosby, house and furniture damaged E. L. Chapman, furnituro Henry Branning, clothing and furniture Wallace Lynn, barn and con tents 19:1 Mrs. Mary Owens, household goods Joseph E. Edsall, houso turned A. E. Rude, house damaged il Oshorno M. Baker, houso damaged DAMAGED BY LIGHTNING Henry Utegg, barn' damaged Wm. F. Osborne, barn dam aged 1 " Mrs. Dlan Stephens, barn and contents burned 3GI Mrs. Eliza McGraw, barn damaged l'l E J. Meanton, houso dam aged 3d Albert Glllow, houso and tools damaged IS August Frank, house dam aged i; Fred Kreiger, barn damaged l'l Wm. Waltz, farm damaged -I Grant W. White, barn dam aged 11 I. G. Simons, house damaged 1 Arthur Deitrlch, barn damaged 23 R. D. Woodward, barn dam- I aged 1 W. J. Bone, barn damaged 1 1 Henry Martin, house damaged 21 J. E. Tiffany, house an'd con- I tents 3 M. F. Clemo, barn damaged H. B. Lord, barn damaged Geo. E. Moaso, corn crib dam. Eugene Stroh, houso 1 E. H. Lange, house damaged 2 Mrs. Alice Shlffler, barn dam S. M. Carlton, barn damaged J. C. Carlton, house damaged 2 George Brucher, ibarn dam B. H. Kays, house damaged 3 George Hlller. houso damaged 1 Mrs. Bertha Ostrander, barn and shed burned 39 Stanley Chudzinskl. barn dam Daniel Acker, wagon house Patrick Madigan, 3rd barn damaged 4 Geo. W. Anderson, barn dam John H. Davis, barn burned 4 Wm. Highhouse. barn damaged C. E. Fitzpatrlck, barn dam aged Wm. J. Colo, barn and con tents burned 1,15 James Rolston. houso dam. Arthur Dietrich, burned S5 G,35 1 1.84 1,01 14 Refunds Olllcers nnd employees Borrowed money paid Printing Rent of offlco Tolephono Gas Postago Stationery Livery 8 3 12 $9.C3j ASSETS. Cnsh In Treasury 3,1 3l Cash In hands of agents 13l Asoossmonts In courso of col lection : Safe nnd Furniture 10 Premium notos In forco 1C9.93I ?179.52l LIABILITIES. Liabilities 1.201 Assets in excess of liabili ties $178,231 H. C. JACKSON, Pr.l PEnRY A. CLARK, Secretary! 4-2w