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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

the poll list of his precinct as we'll as
his a, b, C, and keep tab on deaths,
removals, new residents, etc.
Politics affords shining example
of the wisdom of the rule about open
ing hostilities yourself. Never wait
for the other fellow to assail your abil-
ity. Always start out by soaking"
him. And by this is not meant by any
means to throw mud" or indulge in
abuse. Far from it. Do it in gentle
manly way. Get him on the defensive
and keep him there If possible. One
of the surest ways to do this is to
prepare lot of questions, no matter
how irrelevant to the questions at is
sue, If there happens to be any "is-
sue" and keep hammering away at
him with these questions.
Never answer any question yourself.
Print your platform on your cards, If
you are a candidate, but don't answer
any questions about 1t. The platform
speaks for itself, don't it? A profes-
sional politician ought to be able to
convince the most captious questioner
that his platform" faces every way
to the four corners of the earth and
was meant for the blessing of all men.
When he starts on his career he must
expect to go slowly, as rule, emerg-
ing from one unimportant position to
another until he has either become a
power himself, or has been useful
enough to some Boss" to be placed
on a ticket. Once fairly launched in
a political office, and he becomes a
target for the press and public criti-
cism, and his native ability is sub
jected to the corrosive test of having
power placed in his hands.
A good politician must always be
on the alert to 'catch the instant at
it's forward top" and direct the cur
rent of any popular movement into the
proper channel. If there is a reform
movement in the air he must not only
champion it, but he must be in the
lead of the crusaders. The public are
the sheep, the politician is the bell
wether.
l remember a typical instance Of
this kind.
A certain paving scheme was be-
ing broached, and in the district
where it was proposed to introduce
1t, there We're great many Swedish
American citizens who opposed the
improvement. Nearly all of them un-
derstood the English language as
we'll their own tongue. A grand
mass nsseting was called for and held
amid tumultuous enthusiasm A we'll
known Swedish-American was select
ed as chairman, and a Swede Sec
retary duly installed. Two speeches
were made in Swedish, and then a
popular Irish politician made a ring
ing address amid great applause. He
was followed by a German lawyer
who was even more fiery, If anything,
than his predecessor in denouncing
the outrage contemplated. The law
yer was also politician.
A call for names was started and a
club formed. There were 367 Swed-
ish-American members of the club and
the Irishman and the German 369 men,
bers in all And at the next meeting,
postponed two weeks to elect officers,
the Irishman was elected president
and the German secretary and treas.
urer ERNEST M'GAFFEY
Copyright 1908, by Joseph b. Bowles)
duty to her parents, and afterward to
her husband and her husbands par
ents.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

The first duty of a woman is her
duty to her parents, and afterward to
her husband and her husbands par
ents.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
Grigg, Third Youth, Is
Arrested in Phil
adelphia.
WHEELER'S CONFESSION
IMPLICATES GRANDSON
Owns He Is Guilty, and Says
Zeller and Grigg Aided
in Killing.
GRANDSON TELLS OF PLOT
BUT DENIES ACTIVE PART
Insists He Waited Outside While
Aged Relative Was Shot and
Beaten to Death.
Especial to the Evening star.l

PHILADELPHIA, Nov 1s.-Herbert
Grigg, 10 years old, the third of the
trio of youths implicated in the slay-
ing of aged William Read, In Vine
land, N. j., last Friday, has just been
arrested here. He denies having had
part in the crime.
Grigg was located at the home of his
uncle. William Shuber, 1858 North
Fifty-seventh street, by Bale and Clear,
two special policemen.
When the police arrived at the house
the youth showed little concern. He
said he cid not know that the murder
had hecn committed.
A 3S-cahbre bullet, like the one with
which Read was killed, was found in
Grigg's Pocket, Giigg repudiated the
confession of the other boys and de-
csaied that they are simply trying to
drag him into the murder to tighten
their own guilt. He was held to await
requisition by the yineland authorities,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
ROCKEFELLER ON
STAND IN FEDERAL
COURT HEARING
Especial to the Evening Star. l

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-At 2 p. m.
today John d. Rockefeller took the
stand before Referee Franklin Ferris,
who Is taking testimony for the Fed
eral Court in the proceeding to de-
clare the Standard Oil Company an
unlawful corporation in restraint of
trade. The wealthy magnate was ac-
companied to the hearing by John G..
Milburn and Moritz Rosenthal Of
counsel for the Standard Oil Company.
On his way to the custom house Mr..
Rockefeller was photographed by sew
eral newspaper photographers. He
made no objection. :.
Evidence showing the location and
connections of pipe lines for carrying
oil and showing the rates charged for
its transportation was given today in
the hearing.
Franklin Ferris. the referee, an
nounced today that the spectators who
have been thronging the court room
daily in expectation of Mr.. Roc6efeller's IS
appearance would be excluded while he
was on the witness stand.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
KILLS HERSELF
WITH ACID AFTER
NIGHT OF DANCING
Annie Helen Stuehler Found
Dying i'm Lonely Room After
Fatal Draught.

Miss Annie Helen Stuehler, 25 years
old, committed suicide with earbolic
acid in her room at 102 Commerce
street upon her return from a ball
early today. County Physician Elliott
viewed the body, and gave a verdict of
suicide The body was removed to Null
Inns morgue, in Washington street.
Miss Stuehler went to the dance last
night with party of friends. She re-
turned to the Commerce street house
with them about 430 a. m today, and
went to her room.
Shortly afterward Mrs. Joseph
Schwarzman, who lives with her hus-
band In the house and takes boarders,
heard the woman groaning and en-
tered her room to find that she had
taken the acid apparently right after
she had entered her room. DR.. d. l..
Mccormick, of 253 Mulberry street, was
hastily summoned, but found that she
was beyond aid.
Miss Stuehler was 25 years old and
sometimes went by the name of Mad
den. the police say. No reason has
been assigned for her act. Little is
known about her except that she had
lived in the Commerce street house for
about two years. 1t is thought that
she has brother or other relative
living in Kossuth or Garrison streets.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
SHAKE-UP
DENIED BY KANE,
BAAOER, BONNET
Nothing in It," They All Say
of Report Concerning Five
Captains.

Renewed denials were made by police
officials today regarding the alleged
contemplated shake-up among captains
of the First, Second, Third, Fourth and
Sixth precincts.
Lyman e. Kane, president of the
board. again asserted that the board
would make no such changes.
The following communications from
Commissioners John Baader and Will
lam Bonnet expressed their views once
more on the subject;
To the Editor Of the Evening Stnr:
1'here is absolutely no truth IN the re-
port of the general transfer sf captains
No such shake-up has been. " will be
considered by the Police Board Abso-
lutely none. JOHN BLADDER.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
At no time since l became member OF
the Police Board has any such change OF
captains been suggested or even men
toned, and the first that 1 knew at such
changes was what I read in the paper
So far as l know no such transfers will
ne made. WILLIAM BONNWr.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
ASKS COURT TO
UNTANGLE JERSEY
HIGH FINANCE
N. A. Jolly Wants to Know Why
Popular Hotel Produced
Deficit.

Another chapter has been added to
the latest edition of 1,001 stories OF high
finance by New Jersey corporations, by
Nicholas A. Jolly, wealthy, retired busi-
ness man of Asbury Park, who was
owner of the exclusive family hotel
Touraine, patronized by many Newark
persons, until his meeting with Frank
II. Marshall, Western promoter, on a
fateful day in September, 1907. Now,
Mr.. Jolly declares, in a bill FLED in
chancery, that although he has ac-
quired large fund of experience since
then, he is not sure who owns the hotel
and upon this point he seeks enlighten-
ment
Mr.. Joly's bin of complaint fairly
bristles with such words as ''misrepre-
sentation," fraud unfair" untrue"
and on one occasion his lawyer,
Charles E. Cooke, of Asbury Park, hav-
ing exhausted his vocabulary of parlia-
mentary eXpletives, makes emphatic
use Of the shorter and uglier" term.
Mr. Marshall, 1t appears from the pa
pers In the case. came out of the West
several years ago and secured a lease
upon the Ross Fenton farm at Deal
lake.
Mr.. Marshall with nine years Of his
ten-year lease unexpired. suggested
that he and Mr.. Jolly pool their inter
ests in stock company. The PROPOSE
tion was accepted, and new corpora
tion was born. 1t was ychristened the
Seacoast Hotel Company. 1t was of
$4,000 capital stock, which was divided
between the partners. five shares first
having been conveyed to Town Counsel
James ID Carton. of Asbury Park. Mr.
Marshall set the modest value of $4,000
on his lease: MIR. Joly's hotel, free of
all incumbrances, was given a net
value of $35 900.
Just how it all happened Mr. Jolly
says he does not know, but the claim
is now made that he gave Mr. Marshall
a mortgage for $4,000 on the hotel Mr.
Jolly says he was talked" into doing so
and that he was promised $4,000 in
cash, not yet paid.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
NEWARK BOY AND
MOTHER TOGETHER
AFTER IS YEARS
Poverty-Stricken, Mrs. Caster
ling Gave Child Away to
Wealthy Family.
LAD THREE YEARS OLD
AT THE SEPARATION
Now Both Are in Good Circum-
stances and Wrapped Up
in Each Other.

A stalwart youth. flushed with excite
ment, rushed into the house at la Elm
street today and when the door closed
his arms were about an hysterical wom-
an-both too overcome with emotion to
utter sound.
She was Mrs. William H. Beardsley.
He was Walter Edward Casterling, 19
years old. grown up from the 3-year-
old baby she had given away sixteen
years ago that he might not suffer the
poverty which a deserting husband and
father had inflicted on her.
But the happiness which came to her
today when her son returned, man,
sorrow and tears and longing she has
spent. When an EVENING STAR re-
porter called at the house, less than an
hour after the meeting, Mrs. Beardsley
appeared at the door with her arm
tightly about the young mans waist
and her joy was beaming from her
tear-filled eyes as she said:
Father Disappeared.
"No, you shall not talk to my boy
no one Sldl- I1e l6 Iillile-dll IIlilS.
The lad was born on February 4, 1889,
in Newark, and when his father dis
appeared when he was 8 years old, the
mother was in sore straits. She had
to go out to work by day. The child
suffered and she could not attend 1t
properly. 1t was to rescue the child
she loved SO much from poverty and
suffering that the mother gave the
boy to Ernest Maddox and his wife,
then residents of Newark, and permit
ted them to legally adopt him. Maddox
was rich.
The Madocks moved away from New
ark. The mother lost track of them
Years of worry followed. No word came
from her boy She slaved on. now and
then advertising in different parts OF
the country for information, but hear
ing ncthing.
Then came the light of q romance ir
her life, and she was married three
years ago to William H. Beardsley
who Is now the assistant clerk in the
accounting division of the Newark
water department. Under his guidance
a more systematic search for informa-
tion of the boy was prosecuted, and
the result was that last summer they
learned that Maddox was living In
Leipzig, Germany, and that he then
had the boy with him. Mrs. Beardsley
then wrote the following letter to her
son, in care of the American consul at
Leipzig:
writes to Her Son.
my own dear child: How many lone
years have had to bear in silence the
agony of uncertainty regarding your
welfare. How many years l have had
to crush back the love within my heart
for you, which would not be silent.
lowing to the separation of Mr..
Maddox from his first wife it is but
right that 1 claim the place left vacant
by her and break the silence of the
past long years. My dear and only
child it is your own living mothers s
voice which calls to you from across
the sea in the hope that you will an
swer and set her anxious heart at rest.
1t will not take a great deal to make
me most happy"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
BOY SAVES MOTHER
AND SISTER FROM
DEATH BY GAS

Mrs. Mary O'Hara and her 11-year-
old daughter Annie were discovered
unconscious from coal gas at their
home In Franklin street, Silver Lake
section of Belleville, early today. Only
the most desperate efforts on the part
of DIR. John F. Condor saved their
lives, as the gas had been pouring into
the unventilated room from a stove all
night and it's two occupants were near
ly asphyxiated when found at o'clock.
The prompt action of Edward
O'Hara, 16 years old, the son of Mrs.
O'Hara, probably saved the lives Of his
mother and sister. He arose at
o'clock and went to call his mother.
After repeated efforts to awaken her
he became alarmed and realized the
Significance of the strong odor of gas
h the ROOM
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
GERMANY STILL
SUSPICIOUS OF
The NAILED FIST
People Are Not Certain that
Wilhelm Will Conform to
His Promises.

BERLIN, Nov 18.-The results of the
representations made to Emperor Will
lam yesterday by Chancellor Won
Buelow and the consequent imperial
pledge to keep both speeches and acts
With close constitutional bounds, are
measured in colder mood by the people
of Germany today. The Er..Je Is
still much isolated from the sympathies
of the people.
The talk among the friends of the
chancellor and the ministers today Is
that they must wait and see how tho
Emperor acts when the next keenIy in
teresting public question comes up.
Doubt exists as to whether, at the age
of so, the Emperors impulsive and
candid disposition can be modified.
Prince Won Buelow and his party
will pursue an opportunist policy, ar
firming resolutely that the imperial
conduct will faithfully follow the i'm
perial word.
What France Thinks.
PARIS, Nov 1S.--The opinion of the
French press is divided regarding the
international effect of. Emperor Will
iam's act of submission. While a ma
jority of the papers consider his
majestys assurances beneficial, several
of them, and notably the Figaro, ex-
press confidence in the sincerity of his
majestys pacific intentions.
Attempted Dynnmiting.
FRANKFORT-ON N-THE- MAIN, Nov.
1S.-The authorities are investigating
an alleged attempt to blow up the
train on which Emperor William trav-
eled from Donaueschingen to Berlin.
Dynamite cartridges were found on
tie tracks near the station at Muhlein.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
ENGLEWO0D CHILD DIES
FROM BONFIRE BURNS,
Especial to the Evening star. /

HACKENSACK. Nov. 1S,-Elizabeth,
9-year-old daughter of Patrick Sullivan,
of Englewood. died in the Englewood
Hospital early today as result of
burns sustained from bonfire yester-
day afternoon.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
MIKADO REVIEWS FLEET.

KOBE, Japan, Nov 1S.-The fighting
craft of Japan, comprising 40 vessels.
exclusive of submarines, passed in re-
view before the emperor today. The
weather was perfect.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
TO DISCUSS CROWDED SCHOOLS.

The existing overcrowded conditions
in the South Orange public schools wtll
be discussed by the members OF the
Sonth Orange Board of Education at
a meeting in Columbia School tonight.
Superintendent Henry w. Foster will
make report on the conditions.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
MRS. SAGE GIVES $4,000.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Nov. 1S.--It was
announced here last night that Mrs.
Russell Sage, of New York, has given
$4,000 toward the establishment of a
college for colored youth In Kentucky,
to be branch of Berea College.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-18
wheeler Confesses.

vINELAND, Nov. 1S--Cline Wheeler,
% years old, who is in Bridgeton jail
accused with Walter Zeller, Is years
the grandfather of zeler, at Vineiand.
\. j., on last Friday, has made con-
fession Ia Prosecutor Fithian.
In this confession Wheeler has ad-
nitted that he, Zeller and Herbert
Grigs, 10 years old, killed the aged man.
has given to the prosecutor all three
youths are equally culpable of the
crime. Wheeler declares, however, that
1t WAS Grigg who received all the
money.
Police Hunting Grigg.
He told the prosecutor that he has
no idea what has become of Grigg.
The police throughout the country had
been notified to look for the missing
youth.
Zeller was arrested last night and
confessed he was in the plot to kill the
old man, but declares the killing was
done by Wheeler and Grigg.
The tragedy occurred at the family
home; where Zeller lived with his moth
er, Mrs. w. e. Cooper and the grand
father. The motive was robbery.
Zeller told of an alleged plot by HIM
self, Wheeler and Grigg to rob the old
man on Halloween night. Read awoke,
Zeller said, and the would-be robbers
fed without being recognized.
Last Friday night, Zeller says,
Wheeler and Grigg did the job. He
says Wheeler struck the blows and
fred the fatal shots.
Read Fought for Life.
According to Zeller's story, Read was
asleep when the first blow was struck.
While the boys were hunting for the
money, the confession says, Read re-
vived and made fight.
In later confession Zeller said he
waited about four blocks away while
the murder was committed. He said
he started with the boys, but his nerve
failed him. When they came back In
fifteen minutes they said: my God, we
have killed your grandfather"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-07
TWENTY AND TEN
!. YEARS FOR YOUTHS
WHO SHOT FISCHER
Heavy Sentence for Bennatt0,
Lighter One for Cousin,
Paris0.
WHILE R0BBING HOUSE
THEY KILLED INSPECTOR
First Plead Not Guilty, but
Change Their Minds--Both
Under II Years.

Without displaying trace of emo
tion. Donate t3ennatto received a
twenty-year sentence in State prison
from Judge Ten Eyck, in the Court Of
Oyer and Terminer, today, and his
cousin, Antonio Pariso, one half of that
time. Both are burglars and were
indicted for Staying George IT.
Fischer, 4 tenement house inspector. at
his home, 10 Congress street, early last
New Years morning. They first pleaded
not guilty, through their counsel, Ru-
dolph a. Braun and j. Victor D'Aloia,
but today decided to change their pleas
to non vult.
In imposing sentence upon Bennatto,
whose home is in Jersey City, and who
is hardly of age, the court said that the
plea most be regarded in the light OF
admission to murder in the second de-
gree.
l7ariso is is years old
While n burglary was being com
mtted next door to Fischer's home he
heard the noise and put his head out Of
the window. He was instantly shot
through the head.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-07

men arrived. by that time the condi-
tion of the f1re-escapes was almost
hopeless. Men. women and children
were packed so closely on the narrow
platforms that no one could get down.
While those who had been unable to
get on the crowded fire. escapes
struggle for exit on one side the fire.
men, on extension ladders. labored on
the other. More than one hundred per-
sons were dragged from the overloaded
platforms and carried down the ladders
to the street
1t was while attempting to reach the
upper part of the house that little Hat
tie Kopelmann lost her life and her
mother had remarkably narrow
escape from death Mrs. kopelinann
had gone out on a f1re-escape with the
child in her arms. A misstep caused
her to fall, and as she struck tho sides
of the platform Hattie fell from her
arms and rolled through the opening
to the platform of the escape below,
which was red hot. There the child
was burned to death before anyone
could reach her, Mrs. Kopelmann
rolled across the opening. but saved
herself from falling through.
Mrs. Eva Berg and the Sach boy
were burned to death in their rooms.
apparently having been overcome by
smoke while asleep.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-07
FOUR PERISH IN
INCEND|ARY FIRE IN
JAMMEDT TENEMENT
Mothers Misstep Drops Child on
Red-Hot Escape-Roasts
Alive.
IsIREMEN SAVE A HUNDRED,
BUT TWELVE ARE INJURED
Frantic Tenants Pack Iron Plat
fOrms-East Side Hive De-
stroyed in Early Morning.

NEW YORK, May -Four persons
were killed and twelve injured early to-
day in a fire believed to be of incen-
diary origin, which practically destroyed
the flve-story tenement house at lQl
Orchard street. The building is within
a stones throw of Delaney and Allen
streets, where twenty-six persons were
burned to death three years ago.
The dead are: Eva Berg, So years
old; Samuel Sach, 10 years old; Hattie
Koplemann az years old, and an uni
Identified man.
The fire was first seen by a policeman
when flames We're shooting from Win
down in the lower part of the house.
In moment nearly every ono IN the
house had been aroused and the fire.
escapes were choked with frightened
tenants. The policemen carried several
children To the ground before the fire.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-07
Imprint of Hand on Pole May
Be Only Clue of
Value.
OF WOMAN
NOT YET ELIMINATED
Business Rivalry Also May Have
Been Motive in Staying
Two MesinO Brothers.
Especial to the Evening star.l

RIDGEWOOD, May The police are
thoroughly paffied in their search for
the slaye.s of Frank and Sebastian
Mesino whose mutilated bodies were
found In their shoe shop in Midland
Park yesterday. Three clues have been
obtained, o blood-stained piece of rag,
evidently from the arm of a shirt, found
in a gutter some distance from the shop;
the bloody imprint of a hand on a bar
Der pole outside the shop, and the
hand pricked out with a stiletto on the
breast of Sebastian
1t has been established that the crime
was committed between 2:15 and 2:39
a. m that from the marks on the bar
ber pole one of the slayers must be q
tall man, and that there is some secret
society implicated in the crime, prob
ably the Black Hand.
Coroner De Mund admits ho is batlied.
So great is the fear OF the unseen
death peril that neighbors cannot be in
duced to talk. A cousin of the dead
men. who works in a cobbler's shop, in
Ridgewood. today refused to discuss
the case.
Coroner De Mund has theory that
a woman who is known to have visited
the shop once . week may be involved
IN the crime. 1t is also possible, he
says. that rivalry TO get established in
the shoe business in the town may have
led to the double killing
Experts will photograph and examine
the faint finger marks on the barber
pole
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-07
THIEVES BALKED
BY BARKING DOG
HAD LOOT READY
Get in Market Street Store, Us.
ing Ladder, but Flee, Fear
ing Discovery.
CANNES MASTER SEES
ONE OF GANG ESCAPING
Fooled Robbers Had Lot of CLOTH
ing in Pile When Brute Warm
ing SpoiIs Plans.

But for the barking of dog the
clothing store of Spelnan & Burns,
Is Market street would have been
looted of $1,000 worth of stock early to-
day. Dominick Remolino. of Comes
alley was awakened by the barking of
his pet dog.
He saw a man run from the alley
and investigating found that the shop
had been broken into.
BY means of a ladder found in the
yard the thieves had climbed into a
side window, forced a screen and glass
and entered the place.
Eighty-six pairs of trousers and 100
spring overcoats were found ready for
removal when Detective Sergeants
Farrell and Cordano arrived