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The Newtown bee., 1908-08-21

H., YOUR CHANGE Boys and HeTR = Girls to start business of your own. Thoroughbred Homer pigeons are great breeders. Each mated pair will raise from s to 10 pair of squabs year that will sell in the cities from 90 to 75 cents per pair. We will send you any number of mated pairs warranted. ready for businsss. cheaper than any place in the State. Send card for prices. etc. c. B. Talmage. Coon Hollow Poultry Fla m. Derby Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1908-08-21

E0R SALE-Chestnut driving horse. young. Il sound and gentle for lady. Bike wagon wagon, nearly new. and one new single har- ness. B. l.. Thomas. Roxbury. Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1908-08-21

Trim your whiskers, cut your hair, Mow the weeds and brushes every
 .,,Ln,n tl.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
10, 1852 PERSONS TOOK LIVES
But 1907 Had Fewer Lynchings (6S)
Than in Last 20 Years.

Chicago fSpeciaB - Suicides in the
United States continue to increase,
as they have done for several years
past, and also continue in excess of
other forms of violent DEATH The
number for 1907 was 1879, accord
ing to reports from all sections Of
the country
Until 1906 about twice as many
men committed suicide as women,
but last year there were nearly three
times as many men, and this year
there are more than three times as
many, the record showing S,1SS men
and 1854 woman suicides.
Causes were as follows: Despond-
ency, 4,02S; insanity. 1.010; do
nestle infelicity. 2,173; disappoint-
ment in love, 1928; i'll health, S51;
liquor, 493; business losses, 1913; I'M
known, 786.
In killing themselves 3,917 took
poison and 1854 used revolvers. Be
sides these, 1,154 used the rope,
974 drowned themselves, sol cut
their threats, So threw themselves in
front of trains, 40 stabbed them
selves, 81 jumped from windows or
roofs, blew themselves up with
dynamite, and starved themselves
to death.
There was smaller number of
lynchings in 1907 than in the last 20
years. The total is SO, as compared
with SO in 1906. The number of
lynchings in the various States and
Territories was as follows: Alabama,
II; Arkansas, 8; Georgia. 8; Iowa,
1; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, IL;
Maryland, 2; Mississippi, 49,, Nebras-
ka, 1 South Carolina, 2; Tennessee.
q; Texas, 4; Indian Territory. 1, and
Oklahoma, g.
Deaths by all kinds of violence
except suicide and lynching were
SLIP, or 638 less than for 1906.
The number of legal executions in
1907 was 104, or 10 less than the
number in 1906
Serious automobile accidents were
reported in 1852 places, as compared
with 1872 places last year, showing
the rapidly increasing use of this
kind of vehicle. There were 324
killed and 1,244 injured. as com
pared with zoo killed and 851 in
jured last year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
'DVNAMITED 4 CROWDED BANK
ESQ Persons IN Wild Scramble For
The Doors.

Kansas City, Mo. (Special). = A
bomb was exploded in the basement
of the magnificent three-story marble
building of the first National Bank,
at the corner of Tenth and Balti-
more Streets, in the business center,
q few minutes after the noon hour.
The force of the explosion was ter
rifle, and caused much damage.
John f. Pelletier, superintendent
of the Fire Insurance Patrol, who
was in the banking rooms at the
time of the explosion, and =. F. Swim
ney, president of the bank, are au-
thority for the statement that the
explosion was the result of a bomb
set of by some person unknown to
them At first it was supposed to
have resulted from leaking natural
gas. Neither were sble to give any
cause for the commission of the act.
The bank was crowded with GUS
toners at the time, these, together
with the employees, numbering, per-
haps, $50 persons. A panic ensued,
and there was a wild scramble for
the doors.
The First National Bank building
was one of the most beautiful struc-
lures in the city. 1t was finished
last year, and cost close to $1,000
900. The main floor was occupied
by the bank, which is the largest
financial institution in Kansas City.
The two upper stories are occupied
principally by real estate and law
firms.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10

Washington, D. c. Especially -
President Roosevelt's attitude on
the question of the command of hos
pital ships in the navy, which result
ed in the resignation of Read Ad-
miral Willard H. Brownson, and, IN
cidentally, some caustic observations
on that incident and the controversies
among naval officers and their adj
herents as to details of naval con-
struction and methods of training,
were made known when Secretary
Metcalf gave to the press two letters
from the President addressed to him
on the subject.
In the first of these letters, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, without mincing
words, condemns in unmeasured
terms the act of Admiral Brownson,
declaring it to be unseemly and I'M
proper.
The question to which Admiral
Brownson took issue with the Navy
Department, the President declares,
is one to which there can be entirely
legitimate differences of opinion, but
he adds. There Is no room for
difference of opinion as to the gross
improperly of the admiraps. conduct
in resigning rather than carry out the
orders of his superior officers In such
a matter. The officers of the navy
must remember that it is not merely
childish, but in the highest degree
reprehensible, to permit either per-
sonal pique, wounded vanity, or fac
tional feeling in behalf of some par
ticular bureau or organization, to rem
der them disloyal to the interests of
the navy and, therefore, of the
country as a whole.
Regarding the controversies in the
navy, the President admits there al
to correct, both in the construction
of ships and in the organization of
the department and in the actual
drill of the fleet. 1t is we'll. he says,
that these defects be pointed out,
but 1t is also we'll that they should
be pointed out without hysterical ex-
aggeration or malicious untruthful-
ness. He scathingly rebukes those
guilty of exploiting them in grossly
exaggerated form in the fancied in
terest of an individual or clique of
individuals or for the sake of sup
plying sensational material to news
papers. Because of $50 much mis-
representation and exaggeration" the
President has asked Secretary Met
calf for a statement as to the exact
facts concerning which there has been
dispute, desiring particularly the
opinion of Admiral Converse, former
ly chief of the navigation bureau.
who, because of his high professional
attachments and standard of conduct
and duty, the President considers pc
culiarly fitting to give judgment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
WHACKS BR0WnSON
Resignation Was Grossly Improper
Says President.
NAVAL OFFICERS ARE WARNED.
PRESIDENTS REBuKE.

"The action of Admiral Brown
son in rendering his resignation
because he did not agree with the
President and the department re-
garding an order . was
unseemly and improper, and,
coupled with the various contro-
versies among the officers of the
navy and their adherents as to
the details of naval construction
and methods of training, has un-
doubtedly been prejudicial to the
interests of the navy.
1.-THE officers Of the navy who
are guilty of such conduct deserve
grave rebuke. They cast discredit
upon the service, and their con-
duct is deeply notifying to every
American who believes in the navy
and is anxious to uphold its inter-
est and honor.
There is no room for differ
ences of opinion as to the gross
improperly of the admiral's
(Brownson's) conduct in resign
ing sooner than carry out the or
ders of his superior officers"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
A PosToFFICE sHAKEUP.
Change About In Inspectors Division
Promotions.

Washington, D. c. Especially. -
Postmaster General Meyer had a
shakup in the Postoffice Department,
by which the chief of the inspectors
division for Maryland, the District of
Columbia, the Virginias and North
Carolina is promoted and new man
installed in his place. f. e. McMil-
Ian, who has been division chief, be-
comes chief of the entire force of
inspectors at salary of $4,000 a
year. John r. Harrison, the chief in
charge Of the Denver division, comes
here as chief of the Washington and
Maryland division.
The change is due to desire for
more prompt and effective work with
the entire inspection force. w. J..
Vickery, the retiring official, is trans
ferred to the head of division at
Kansas City, The. action is part
of Mr. Meyers program for reor-
ganization of the department.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
FINANCIAL

The income of the Girard Estate
for 1907 was $1.983,000.
Canadian Pacific shareholders au-
thorized the issue of $28,000.000 UNI
sold stock. tt
According to British authority
stocks dealt in in London declined
during the year $1,700. 1000. 900.
1t is expected that general re-
sumption of currency payments by
the banks will come now at an early
date.
The report from Washington of
pushing the plan to make the Union
Pacific give up control of the South
ern Pacific did not alarm the traders.
There was an increase of 500, 1853
In Atchison's November gross earn
ings, but a net decrease of $1,222.-
s42. The average net decrease for
five months in net profits was 25 per
cent.
American stocks were favorably
affected by the reduction of the Bank
of England's discount rate from to
6 per cent 1t was an indication of
improving money conditions abroad.
A 2 per cent. extra dividend is now
talked of for Northern Pacific.
There was gain of $14,93S in
Chesapeake & Ohio's net profits in
November.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
JAps AND OUR PEACE POLICY
Baron Kurino Gives Out Reasoning
Statement.

Paris (By Cable) Baron Kuri-
no, the Japanese ambassador to
France, gave out reassuring state
ment in which he declares that the
Japanese government has too much
confidence in the Pacific policy of
President Roosevelt to take any stock
In the bellicose intentions attributed
to the government at Washington by
the sensational press.
I'VE interpret the American bat
tleship fleets cruise, which has Great
ed such a STIR" the Baron continues,
more as a manifestation in favor OF
larger navy by demonstrating the
necessity of reinforcements in Pacific
waters"
Nothing, ne said, justified the so
called warlike preparations and the
pronounced talk that Japan was COW
citing the Philippine Islands was
fable.
Continuing, the Ambassador says
the question of Japanese pupils in
the schools of San Francisco has been
practically settled and that he coutd
see no cause for a conflict He pre-
diets that three months will justify
his optimism.
The Patrie in its issue of Friday
afternoon asks In big headlines
Where is the Japanese fieet?" and
publishes an alarming story based OF
reports that 1t has been seen cruiS
ing off Hawaii.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
WASHINGTON

The proposed financial bill as pre-
nared by Senator Aldrich provides for
emergency currency to be issued In
the discretion of board composed
of the Secretary of the Treasury, the
COMPTROLLER and the Treasurer.
The Supreme Court of the United
States declared unconstitutional the
EMPLOYERS Liability Act passed by
Congress in 1906 at the solicitation
of the President.
The interstate Commerce Commits
sion. in its annual report, discusses
the improved conditions brought
about by the Railroad Rate Law.
The Standard OH Company was al
lowed by the Supreme Court to inter-
yene in a case involving the legality
of fines for rebating.
President Roosevelt approved an
order prepared by Secretary Taft de-
filming the duty of the lsthmian
Canal Commission.
In a report to the President, Attor-
new General Bonaparte makes Wig
orous reply to the structures OF Presi-
dent Ripley, of the Santa Fe, who
questioned the motives of the prose
cution of his railroad.
It has been decided to retain at
Thunder Buttee Station, s. D., troop
of cavalry which has been operating
to maintain peace among the dis
turbing Utes.
A report on the situation at Gold
field. New, was made to President
Roosevelt by the members of the
special commission which he sent
there.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf has
signed the order assigning Surgeon
Stokes to the command of the hos
pital ship Relief.
President Roosevelt accepted an in
vitatissn to attend the dinner to be
given by the Gridiron Club. January
20.
Secretaries Root and Metcalf had a
conference with the President con-
corning the Japanese exclusion ques-
ton.
The President has asked for the
resignation of Ernest G. Eaglesonl
surveyor general at Boise. Idaho.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
entertained at dinner several debu-
tantes of the winter and college
friends Of Kermit Roosevelt.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
HISTORY OF THE CASE.

The trouble at the mines In
Colorado began with a strike In
the Occur d'Alene region.
The militia was called out and
a bull pen established.
Frank Steunenberg. who had
been governor of Idaho, and
friend OF mine owners, was blown
up. by a dynamite bomb.
Harry Orchard confessed to the
murder of Steunenberg and inn
plicated Haywood, Meyer and
Pettibone.
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone
were rushed to Idaho on a special
train without having a chance to
consult attorneys or friends.
Steve Adams confessed COM
plicity in the murder of Steunen-
berg, Accusing Meyer and Hay
wood.
Adams repudiated his confess
sion. declaring he implicated Moy-
er and Haywood under fear of
death.
Haywood's acquittal has been
followed by the acquittal of Pet
tibone and the dropping of the
case against Meyer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10

Boise. Idaho Especially After IA
hours deliberation, verdict of not
guilty was reached by the jury trying
George A. Pettibone, charged with
completely in the murder of ex-Goy.
Frank A. Steunenberg No demon
stration of any kind marked the
reading of the verdict which made
Pettibone free man after two years
awaiting trial. All right the ballot
ing of the jury stood 10 for aequittal
and 2 for conviction. There was no
change until the final ballot was
reached, both men who had been
holding out giving way at the same
time
The case against Charles H. Meyer
president of the Western Federation
of Miners, who. with w. D. Hay
wood and George A. Pettibone, was
charged with completely in the as
sassination of former Governor Steu-
nenberg, of Idaho. was dismissed.
William Haywood having been ac-
quilted last summer. the attempted
prosecution of the three leaders of
the Western Federation of Miners,
based on the confession of Harry
Orchard, has fallen fat.
The defendant, Pettibone, pale and
emaciated because of his long Illness,
merely smiled as he heard of his
freedom, and a moment later he was
surrounded by his attorneys and
friends. His wife, who has been by
his side at every session of the court
during the trial, wept for joy.
Expressions from members of the
jury after their discharge showed
that, from the start. 10 of them
maintained that the state had failed
to prove the defendant guilty of the
crime charged. The verdict caused
little surprise in Boise, i'll view OF
the verdict in the Haywood case.
The defense introduced practically
no evidence and did not argue the
case. simply maintaining that the
state lad entirely failed to connect
the defendant with the killing of
Steunenberg.
Attorneys for the state admit that
the prosecution of the Western FEEDER
alton OF Miners leaders for the Steu-
nenberg murder is at an end.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
.aA II|aAL BEGINS
THE PLEh IS AMENDED
Defense Decides Insane Al Time
Deed Was Committed.
EVELYN WAS m GAY SPIRITS
Judge Bowling Orders Night Sessions Of
Court and Keeps Trial Moving With
AIacrity Rules That Jerome Must
Prove That Thaw Was Sane When
Stanford White Was Shot.
THBsTAGE SETTING.

Thaw's former plea of not gull
ty has been amended to read that
he was insane at the time he shot
Stanford White.
Mrs. Harry X. Thaw was In
court, bubbling over with vivacity,
plumper than last year and with
color in her cheeks.
She wore a schoolgirls dress Of
blue and wide-brimmed hat
trimmed with violets.
Thaw has changed but little,
his straight, black hair accentuat-
ing the pallor of his face. His
mannerisms seem more pronounc-
ed, and he talks as much as ever.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
Found Package of 1000.

Pottsyille. Pa. (SpeciaD II Law
renee Prickett. craftsman employ
ed at the plant of the Eastern Steel
Company here. returning from hol-
iday visit to New Jersey, picked up
in a Pullman car a package with
$500 in gold bonds and $4,000
more in negotiable paper. Having
communicated with Philadelphia
broker, he ascertained the owner
and returned the money by express.
He received a $500 United States gold
bond from the owner.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
100 FEET WIDE ENOUGH.
The Isthnus Canal Commissions Rec
ommendation.

Washington, D. c. Especially BY
unanimous decision the Isthmus
Canal Commission will recommend
to the Secretary Of War that the
locks on the canal be constructed at
their present projected width name
~, 100 holding that this will
be ample for all commercial shi :
ping for years to come, II, however,
it is the judgment of the Navy De
partment and of the President that
the proposed width be increased to
10 feet, this can be done at reason
able cost and, 1t is believed, with
out danger of structural weakness.
The suggestion for. increased width
originated with the Navy, where
among some of the officials the opin-
ion prevails this may be necessary
to meet naval development in in
crerased beam Of war vessels of the
future.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
Mary .. Whitney Dead.

New Orleans Is p a ID. - Mrs.
Mary Louise Morgan Whitney, reput-
ed to be the wealthiest woman in the
South, died at her home here, aged rs
years. She had been i'll about two
months. Mrs. Whitney was the
widow Of the late Charles A. Whit
ney, who, with her father, was one
of the builders of Morgan's Louis
lana and Texas Railroad, now one of
the principal links in the Southern
Pacific Railway.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
GIVES s2,291 900.
Rockefeller's Gifts TO Chicago Uni
versity $23, sos, O61.

R0ckefeller'S GlftS 10 CnlcagO UnA-
versity $23, SO9,O61
Chicago Especial John D. Rookie
feller's annual New Years gift to the
University of Chicago has arrived.
The donation amounts to $2,291, 900,
making the total of Mr.. Rockefeller's
gifts to the university which he
founded $23,809,O61.98.
Notice of the donation was receiv-
ed by Martin A. Ryerson, chairman
OF the board of trustees in a letter
from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The
letter said that that the elder Rookie
Teller had placed at the disposal of
the university securities to the
amount of $2,00O,900, which will
give the school an income of $780,
900. The other parts of the dona-
tion were $155,O00 to cover the def
cit of 1907 and a miscellaneous fund
of $4,000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
no suppress schoOl Fraternltles.

Chicago Is ecia D. Otto G.
Schneider, president of the Board OF
Education. it is announced, will In
troduce a resolution at the next meet
ing of the board prohibiting frater-
mites and societies in the city high
schools. and making membership in
them a ground for expulsion. Prof
e. G. Cooley, superintendent of the
Chicago schools, is strongly In favor
of abolIshing the ''frats'' as tending
to vice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
A 1908 NOVELTY.
Women Allowed To Smoke In New
York Restaurants.

New York Especially SO success
full was the plan of allowing women
to smoke in the public dining-rooms.
introduced at one of the prominent
Broadway restaurants for the first
time in New York New Years Eve.
that another of the famous Broad way.
eating places has followed suit. 1t
is expected that several more of
them will fall in line immediately
but the big hotels and the Fifth Ave
nue. restaurants will not, so the
managers say, follow suit, for the
present at least.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
Dynamite And A Needle.

Parkersburg, w. Va. (Special) -
While mending her little sons trous-
ers Mrs. Henry Cummings found q
strengthening object in one of the
pockets. She started to try to open
it with her needle. There was a
deafening explosion. Her left hand,
in which she had been holding it, was
blown to pieces. The curious-looking
object was dynamite cap which the
boy had picked up.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10
Foreign

tor Harden, of Berlin, has APP
from the verdict against him
libel case growing out of his
b attacks on General Count
on Moltke and other mem
* THE knights of the Round
9nch parliamentary commits
investigate charges of scan
graft in connection with the
on of the property OF the
orders.
Sustave of Sweden announced
tion of the pompous cere-
nth which the Swedish Par
hs been opened in the past.
Il of the Baroness Adolphe
child, who died in France,
Is, donates over $1,000
arities.
BIT Castro of Venezuela APP
pave quite recovered from
Illness.
panese are being arrested
Eer for carrying arms and
is asserted, will be made
nst whom convictions can
for violating the law in
htess of Yarmouth, who
lice Thaw, of Pittsburg,
proceedings for the nulli-
her marriage with the
mouth.
ers may have to resort to
Wal demonstration against
follce her to institute finan-
ms lin Macedonia.
kreckl on the Canadian Pacific
near Chaplain, a woman
He'd and score of other per-
Injured.
Won Schoenbeck, of Allen
Prussia, whose husband was
Bd by Captain Won Goeben. has
he insane.
A Rioting in the Japanese quarter al
with the fatal woundine
il one and serious injury of two Other
white men, promises to bring Cana
las troubles with the Japanese to 6
speedy crisis.
The relations between Captain vor
Soeben and the wife of Major voI
3choenbeck, which ended in the kill
ng of the latter by the former, has
saused a sensation in German army
,lrcles.
Count Quadt, who was at one
lime first secretary of the German
at Washington, and latch
consul general at Calcutta, has beer
appointed German minister to Persia
The Cuban custom receipts for thu
year 1907 we're the largest In the his
tory of the island They amounted
TO sec. 005.04S, as against $1S,511.
296 in 1906.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-10

New York Especially The curtain
went up with a rush on the second
trial of Harry X. Thaw for the MUIR
der of Stanford White Monday,
when, after three court sessions, nine
tentative jurors had been selected
out of 81 talesmen examined by
District Attorney Jerome, for the
prosecution, and Martin w. Littleton,
for the defense All of the men In
the jury box are subject to peremp-
tory challenges, of which each side
has 80. In view of the difficulty ex-
perienced last year in discharging five
jurors after they had taken the oath
of service, it was agreed this time not
to administer any Caths until both
sides finally are satisfied with the
full panel.
Legal insanity at the time of the
tragedy is to be the defense. This
was made clear at the very outset OF
the proceedings, when Mr.. Littleton
formally served notice that the form
er plea of not guilty was amended by
the specification that the defendant
was insane when the homicide was
committed.
The occupants of the jury box at
the conclusion of the days sessions
were the following:
1. Charles e. Gremmels, ship
broker.
2. John r. Hatchett, cigar dealer.
8. George B. Morewood, importer.
4. Floyd s. Sanford, bank manager.
5. James E. Conway, hotelkeeper.
6. William e. Brewer, decorator.
z. Arthur r. Naething, baker.
s. Maurice Bowler, exporter.
9. George w. Cary, dry goods deal
er.
Three court sessions, including an
evening sitting from s to 10 O'Clock,
are to be held daily until the jury is
completed. How long this will take
neither District Attorney Jerome nor
Thaw's counsel would hazard guess
Monday. Mr.. Jerome said also that
it was Impossible for him to estimate
the duration of the trial, as much
would depend upon the course OF
events.