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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
THOU SHALL NOT STEAL.

John H. Sanderson, the contractor
who furnished the state capitol, is
dead. 1t has been a sorry story since
the marvellous figures of the cost of
that furnishing were made public,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer. The
prices charged in many instances
amounted to sheer robbery. An in
vestigation having paved the way,
prosecution followed. Conspiracy
was charged. Sanderson, State
Treasurer William L. Mathues, Au-
ditor General Snyder and the super
intendent of public grounds and
buildings, James M. Shumaker, were
tried together and convicted. The
court refused a new trial and pass
ed sentence upon the defendants.
An appeal was taken to the Superior
Court and the decision is pending
In advance of the decision Mr.. San
derson has succumbed. He waE
preceded by Mr.. Mathues. Geo. F
Payne, builder, accused of charging
double for certain work, did not
live to be tried. Mr.. Shumaker has
been very much of physical wreck
for a long tine. Yes, it is a sorry
story, filled with tragedy.
When the decision of the Superior
Court regarding a new trial is rem
dered it will affect only Mr.. Snyder
and Mr.. Shumaker. Not long age
Mr.. Huston, the architect, wal
brought before the Dauphin county
court, but on the plea that Mr.. San
derson, who was the important wit
ness in the case, could not be pres
ent because of illness, the trial wal
postponed. Whether the cas'
against Huston will now fall is
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
FLEAs OF CALCUTTA.
Little Green Insects a Plague of the
Indian City.

One of the evils Of Calcutta is the
plague Of green flies, from which the
whole city suffers at certain times in
the year, says Answers. The happy
hunting time of these minute insects
rs during the late autumn and early
winter. They are serious nuisance
both in and out of doors. They wing
their way through all the open doors
into the houses and into every room,
making life unbearable.
Like most insects, the little green
flies have great affection for the
flame. On occasions the inhabitants
have found 1t necessary to put out all
ner-and to take their meals practi-
cally in deep gloom, illuminated only
by flickering candles.
Naturally, 1t Is not at all pleasant
to go on eating with dense clouds of
insects swarming overhead or, roast
ed to death, falling about one in pat
tering showers.
They seem to spring into existence
from nowhere; perhaps it is almost
dusk when the lights of the street
lamps are becoming visible. Then
suddenly the air, which a moment
before was quite clear, is full Of
myriads of green flies, drifting in
misty patches, and obscuring the
street lamps.
Often the number of insects which
have been scorched to death is so
great that little heaps 70 them col
lect inside the lamps while bucket
loads have to be swept up from the
roads next morning.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
SUPT. KOEHLER TO
HOLD EXAMINATIONS

Teachers Examinations for Provis-
ional Certificates, 1909.
Examinations for Teachers Pro-
visional Certificates for Wayne
county will be held as follows:
At Aldenville, May 28.
At Winwood, June l.
At Sterling, June 8.
At Waymart, June IL.
At Pleasant Mount, June Ia.
At Ariel, June "a.
At Damascus, July 2.
At Honesdale, July II.
All applicants are required to
furnish themselves with legal-cap
paper, lead-pencil, pen and ink, and
a stamped envelope containing ad-
dress. No person under II years
of age is allowed to take the exami-
nation and it is very doubtful wheth-
er a license to teach will be granted
to any one under 18 years of age
A standard of at least TN per
cent must be attained. The
branches required are Spelling,
Written and Mental Arithmetic,
Grammar, U. S. History; Geography
Physiology and Hygiene, Civil Gov
ernment, including Nation and State,
Penmanship, Algebra as treated in
High School textbooks to Proper
ties of Qudratics, Reading consisting
of an oral test, and written test
in phonics and Tennyson's Idylls of
the King, namely: The Coming of
Arthur, Gareth and Lynette, Lance
lot and Elaine, Guinevere, and The
Passing of Arthur; Theory of Teach
ing based on Sabin's Common Sense
Didactics, the first nine chapters,
and Schmucker's Study Of Nature,
the first ten chapters.
The examinations will begin
promptly at n. M.
No substitutions will be allowed
in Reading and Theory of Teaching.
Every applicant must avail herself
of one of these examinations, and
one only. Letters asking for spec
ial examinations during the summer
will be ignored
Directors are invited to attend.
j. j. KOEHLER,
Supt. OF Wayne County Schools.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21

IF YOU WISH to sell your Farm will
furnish a purchaser. If you want to buy
farm, town lot or business place, drop me
postal, or call at my office-I may have on
wish to dispose of your business, preparatory
to change, consult me-let me explain my
IRer9G facilities stotR for sc 6s
special representative in this section for the
largest Cooperative Real Estate Association
offices in United States, Canada, Mexico
and Cuba. Property listed with me will be
placed on sale at each of these offices. Re-
deal is consumated-and then only small
commission. Name your wishes-I do the
rest. No publicity. Correspondence conti-
mailed you on application. M. +. DORM.
The Real Estate Man, 1902 Spring street.
Honesdale, Pa.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21

named Bank, do soemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
ii. H. Russell President.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
29th day of April, 1909.
q :---aAS4- Gaea1z w, II. STONE, n. p.
Correct-attest:E
Andrew Thompson, !
III. II. MennerY Direct ors
X MURRAY. 35t4
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
LABORERS WORTHY OF THEIR
HIRE.

The Bowery Mission Free Labor
Bureau is prepared to supply any
number of men, for any kind of la
Dor, at Il moments notice. Within
the past twelve months their cashier
has paid out $1,453.S6 for railroad
expenses on thousands of worthy,
willing and able-bodied men, to all
parts of the country. Address John
G. Earl, Financial Secretary, 80
Bible House, New York City.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
Hawk swapped Quail for Hons.

Winsted, Conn.-Because 1t did not
play fair, Ronald l.. Bronson, Gull
ford farmer, shot and killed a hawk,
which had been IN the habit of bring
ing a dead partridge or quail to his
premises and taking away in ex-
change one Of his best hens. With
eggs selling at 55 cents a dozen, the
swap. Bronson thought, was all In the
hawks favor.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
TO BANGLE CHICKEN, CRUEL.
Man Arrested for Carrying One Up
side Down from Market.

New York City.-For carrying live
chicken head down in paper bag,
John Dellizzi was held in $500 bail
for trial by Magistrate Steinert, in
Yorkville Police Court on the charge
of cruelty to animals. Dellizzi was
leaving a market when Agent Burrett,
of the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals, saw the chickens
feet protrqding from the bag and ar
rested the man.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21

During the last quarter of century
there have been several cases OF
wholesale murders committed to gain
money, from the Bender murders in
the seventies to the Guinness murders
in Indiana, discovered year ago.
The Bender murders were commit
ted by a family of that name, which
consisted of an old man, his wife, his
daughter Kate, and son, who lived
in Morgan County, Kan. They are
supposed to have lured ten men to
their cabin and killed them for the
purpose of robbery. The last victim
was a doctor named York, whose muir
der raised such hue and cry through
out the State that the Bender family
disappeared, and no trace of them has
they were captured by a vigilance
committee and burned to death, but
there is no proof of this.
In the early nineties man called
Henry H. Holmes, whose real name
was Herman Mudgett, was hanged in
L d'ICl hdNlllS GU
nine men, women, and children, gen.
orally to get the insurance money.
Last year, in May, woman named
Mrs. Belle Guinness set fire to her
house near Laporte, Ind, and was
burned to death with her three chill
dren. When the ruins of the farm
house were searched many human
bones were discovered, and suspicious
were aroused. Six bodies were found
on land belonging to the woman, and
were identified as those of men who
had answered her advertisements for
a husband. In all, Mrs. Gunnes was
believed to have committed eleven
murders, two of the victims being
women.
An Australian named Deeming was
hanged in London, England, about ten
years ago for numbering his wife and
burying her under the floor Of the
kitchen, which he had cemented. In
vestigations made by the police in
England and Australia by digging VI
the floors of the kitchens of the houses
in which Deeming had lived under
various aliases showed that he had
murdered twenty-five women whom he
had married for their money.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
WOMAN KILLS 300
At WIVES BEHEST
Charged Small Fee for Admins
tering Poison to Undesirable
Russian Husbands
She JUSTIFIES HER KILLINGS
Declares She Never Killed a Woman
Mob Seeks to Burn Her at the
Stake, but is Prevented-Woman,
Who Has Confessed, In Jail.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-Arrested
after full confession had been made
by one of her conscience stricken en-
ployers, a woman who is believed to
have killed more than three hundred
men within the last thirty years is in
prison at Samara. The only name
given by the police of the wholesale
murderess is Popova.
All the murdered men were hus-
bands whose wives wanted to get rid
of them The woman charged nomi-
nal sum prior to the murder and the
remainder after the victim was killed.
She would make the acquaintance OF
the man she was to kill and then man.
age to put poison in his food or drink.
After one woman whose husband
had been murdered became stricken
by her guilty conscience she sent for
the police, made full confession, and
squad of policemen were at once
sent to the home of the Popova wom-
an. In some way the charge against
the prisoner became known, and be-
fore the police started from her home
for the prison they were surrounded
by a mob of several hundred persons
Infuriated at the atrociousness of
the woman's deeds, the mob demand
ed that the prisoner be turned over to
them and that they might burn her at
the stake.
With drawn revolvers the police
held the mob at bay until soldiers,
who had been sent for, arrived and
drove the crowd back. Then the wom-
an was taken to the Jail.
After she had been taken to the
prison the woman made no effort to
conceal the fact that she had been a
wholesale murderess. She declared
that she was justified in her work, for
the only persons she killed were men
who had abused their wives and that
her numbering them had saved the
women further misery.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Farmers and
Mechanics Bank
OF HONESDALE, WAYNE COUNTY, PA
at the close of business, April 2s. 1909.
RESOURCES.

Reserve fund. ......................$
Cash, specie and notes. $S.429 IS
Due from approved re-
serve agents. s........,.: .$l5,SOl 99-A,23l s.
Checks and other cash itemS...... 81 9S
Bills discounted, not due ............ 55.5l9 IS
collateral. - 2l.OOO 90
Loans on call with collateral ....... S,S25 90
names NATURALIZATION. 1851 so
Loans secured by bonds and mort
Investment securities owned excltl-
Svc of reserve bonds, Vi2..........
stocks. bonds, etc. .......Sis29O IL
Mortgages and judg-
mcnts of record ..... 81 .34j 9l-79.G36 32
Real estate. Observation-Disclosures. 1889 50
GVerdrafs 6Venl1ff ana !!c llS!!res': lSCi % %
2Il,3}O II
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in..,.............$ $3.50 90
Undivided Profits, less expenses ''''' w "
Deposits, subject to check. .,$ld.3Aj ii '-'' -
Deposits, special .l2O,3O2 53-l66,656 81
$24l $50 Il
State of Pennsylvania. County of Wayne, SIS
|. G. A. Emery. Cashier of the above named
company. do sOlcmnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best of my knowledge
c, A. EMERY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this Is
RENA S. EDGETT. y, p.
Correct attest;
}5'E = !; s. s +: s'fSS'; s$f1 ESssrz. Directors.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-21

ReSCrVC fund.. +
Cash, specie and notes. $S.429 IS
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
STORM SWEEPS SOUTH.
Score Of Lives Lost and Much
Property Destroyed.

Louisville, KY, Feb. 6.-Death for
nearly score of people, losses of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in prop
erty and the Gripping of many tele
graph wires resulted from series of
small cyclones and tornadoes, which
swept Dixie from the Tennessee line
to the Texas Panhandle. The storms
were accompanied in most cases by
hail, darkness and terrific lightning
flashes and sheets of rain.
At Stuttgart, Ark, Mrs. Garfield
and child of Will Story were killed,
while Mrs. Story is reported fatally
injured.
At Sulphur Springs. Tex, Mrs. c.
Caldwell was killed.
From Rolling Fork, Miss, word
came that four are dead, while Booth,
Miss, reported to Birmingham thar
six had met death there. At Ennis
and Waxahachie, Tex, and Boscoe,
La, many dwellings are said to have
been demolished by the force of the
wind. Arkansas and Upper Louisiana
rice fields were injured to the extent
of many thousands OF dollars
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
SUSPENDED FOR SIX MONTHS
Captain 0l:aItrough Found Guilty Of
Being Intoxicated.

Gibraltar, Feb. Captain Edward
F. Qualtrough of the battleship Geor.
gia, having been found guilty by
courtmartial of being intoxicated
while Oh duty and of conduct preju-
dicial to the good of the navy, has
been suspended from duty for six
months with an additional punish
ment of the loss of ten numbers in
rank. Rear Admiral Sperry, comman-
der-in-chief of the Atlantic battleship
fleet, has approved the findings of the
conrtmartial but the secretary of the
navy must take official action on the
recommendation for loss of numbers.
Captain Qualtrough has been de-
tached from the fleet and ordered
home. He will go as a passenger on
The Georgia. Lieutenant Commander
George W. Kline, who was placed in
command of the Georgia, will con-
tinue in command on the homeward
iOurney
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
SEVENTEEN men DEAD.
Explosion Occurs in a Coal
Mine in Alabama.

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 3.-Seven-
teen men are dead as the result of an
explosion in the No. 2 Short creek
mine of the Birmingham Coal and
Iron company. Five of the dead are
white and twelve are negroes.
The explosion is thought to have
been caused by windy shot. The
mines are about ten miles west Of
Ensley and are difficult of access. The
bodies were taken from the mines aud
the rooms and passages are now clear
The mine itself is practically unin-
jured.
Alex .Bonneman, general manager
of the company, and Mine Inspectors
Hillhouse and Flynn hurried to the
scene to render what aid they could
and to make an inspection.
Ambulances were sent from Ensley
to the mines and collins will be rushed
out to the Inflated mine The mine
was running in short force or the
death list would have possibly been
much larger.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
CENSUS VETO BY PRESIDENT
Says Bill as Passed Is Return to
Spells System.

Washington, Feb. SIN ringing
message President Roosevelt today
returned to the house, without his ap-
proval, the bill providing for the TAX
ing of the thirteenth census
His principal reason for yetoing the
measure is that it contemplates the
employment of employees for the cen
sus after non-competitive examination
which, he declares, is nothing more
nor less than return to the old
spells system.
He also wishes the bill amended so
that any printing done outside the
government printing Office shall be
under the eight-hour law.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
Separate Schools for Japanese
in California.
OTHER MEASURES DEFEATED
President Says Bill Approved Is
Most Offensive.

Sacramento, Cal, Feb. 5.-Grove L..
Johnsons bill compelling Japanese to
attend separate public schools passed
the assembly by vote of 48 to rs.
. Mr.. Johnson's other bills, prohibit
ing aliens from being members of
boards of directors and restricting
them in residence districts at the op-
ton of boards of supervisors, were
defeated, the former by a vote of 81
to Is. The latter measure failed Of
passage because of a tie vote, the
friends of the bill being unable to
muster the required Al votes. Roll
call finally stood 81 to 81, after a call
of the house and several changed
from aye to no, and vice versa. John
son changed his vote from aye to no
and moved to reconsider today:
Walter Leeds of Los Angeles
changed his vote from no to aye on
the school bill and moved to reconsid-
er that also.
There was little support for the
corporation measure, the vote for the
bill falling thirteen short of the num-
Der cast for the Drew bill.
The principal debate was upon the
residential segregation bill. Many
who voted against the land and cor
poration measures announced that
they favored segregation of undesir-
able aliens because that was effective
anti-JaDanese legislation.
Refuse to Reconsider.
Shortly after the disposal of the
Japanese bills Mr.. Drew moved that
the vote by which his land bill was
defeated Wednesday be. reconsidered
He offered to amend the measure by
striking out section which, it had
been declared, violated the treaty
rights of several nations. He de-
clared that as the school bill had just
been passed and that was the one
most strenuously, the assembly should
go a step farther and pass the land
bill also. .
The motion was lost, the vote being
sc ayes and SO noes. This showed a
gain of ten votes for the proponents
of the bill. ~'-
Governor Gillett is preparing mes
sage to be sent to the assembly ask
ing that body to reconsider the vote
by which it passed the bill compelling
Japanese children to attend separate
schools This intended action is the
result of a. message received from
President Roosevelt appealing to him
to devise some means of blocking the
measure in the legislature
The governors message to the as
sembly will be strong appeal to the
members to stand by the administra-
| ton.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
Notice of Sale by Referee.

"A judgment having been duly entered.
rendered and docketed on February g. 1909
in the District Court in and for Brown
County, Minnesota, in an action wherein
Charlotte Boettger is plaintiff and Joseph
Boettger, an insane person, is defendant
in and by which said Judgment am duly
appointed Referee by said Court to make
sale of the premises in the complaint and
hereinafter described, and a COPY of said
judgment duly certified to by the Clerk of
said Court having been delivered to me:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that |, the
undersigned, as such Referee will sell at
public auction to the highest bidder for
cash at the front door of the Court House
in the City of New Ulm, Brown County.
Minnesota, on the 27th day of March 1909,
the following described real property sit
uate. lying and being in Brown County,
minnesota, tO-wit: =.
Southeast quarter; Southeast quarter Of
Southwest quarter; East half of South
west quarter of Southwest quarter; South
half of Northeast quarter of Southwest
quarter; Southwest quarter of Northeast
quarter;
All in Section Twenty-eight (2s). in Town
ship One hundred and Nine QO9j, North of
Range Thirty-one (3U West, comprising II,
the aggregate Two hundred and EIGHTY
acres more or less, according to Govern
ment survey.
Dated at New Ulm, Mimi, Feb o, 1909.
HENRY N. SOfSEN, Esq. S. A. GEORGE.
AttofhSy LOT IlalntlH, Referee.
view Clfn.Y tHlnn. GIL
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
ROOSEVELT GETS TO WORK
Declares School Measure Should Not
Become Law.

Washington, Feb. 5.-News >of the
passage by the assembly Of the Cali
fornia Legislature, of the bill providing
for the segregation Of Japanese school
children was received in official quar-
tiers here with surprise and consterna.
ton President Roosevelt Immediate
ly sent to Governor Gillett telegram
in which he described the bill as the
"most offensive bill of all' and CLEAR
ly unconstitutional.
President Roosevelt also stated in
his telegram that the measure should
be tested in the courts, and ended by
inquiring if the act could be stopped
in the legislature or by veto.
Governor Gillett's telegraphic reply
to the president was not made public,
nor could it be learned whether the
president sent him an immediate re-
ply.
President Roosevelt indicates clear
ly in his telegram to Governor Gil
lett that he has not changed in his
clared in his annual message to con-
gress, submitted just previous to the
visit of the San Francisco delegation
that "to shut them (the Japanese) out
from the common schools is a wicked
absurdity, when there, are no first
class colleges in the land, including
the universities and colleges of Cali
fornia, which do not gladly welcome
Japanese students and on which Japa-
nese students DO not reflect credit"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10
TAFT TALKS TO CANAL MEN
Tells Them Not to "Worry About Ly-
ing Reports"

Panama, Feb. 4.-William H. Taft
made an address to large gathering
of canal employees and members of
the Isthmian Red Cross society. He
said that the present condition of the
work and the progress made were
source of great satisfaction to him and
that the engineers who accompanied
him had been impressed with the or
ganization and spirit of energy pre-
vailing throughout the entire force
He cautioned his hearers against
worrying about lying reports and
criticisms in the United States by
irresponsible writer's. Congress knew
the temper of the people and the ap-
preparations would be ample to COM
plete the canal by 1915, if not before,
he said.
Mr. Taft viewed the nine miles of
the Culebra cut from the hills at EN-
pire, while the engineers of his party
inspected the channel leading into the
Pacific entrance of the canal.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-02-10

STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF BROWN. IS
In Probate Court

Special Term, February 4. 1909.
In the matter of the estate of Carl A.
Hat berg deceased:
On Reading and Filing The Petition Of
Adolph Wagner, administrator of said es-
tate, setting forth the amount of personal
estate that has come into his hands, the
disposition thereof and how much re-
mains undiSpOSed or the amount of debts
outstanding against said deceased. as far
as the same can be asCertained; the lega-
cles unpaid, and description of all The
rea! estate, excepting the homestead of
WHICH said deceased died seized, and the
condition and value of the respective por-
tions or lots thereof; the persons inter, s.
ted in said estate, with their residences:
and praying that license be to him gran >.
ted to sell at public auction the real estate
ing by said petition that there is not suffi-
Gent personal estate in the hands of said
administrator to pay said debts, the lega-
cieS or expenses of administration, and
such debts, legaCies or expenses. to sell
all of said real estate;
1t Is Therefore Ordered, That all persons
interested in said estate appear before
March. 1909 at 10 OCH OK A. NJ, at the Court
house in the City of New Ulm, in said
County, then and there to show cause Gf
any there bel why license should not be,
granted to said administrator to sell So
much of the real estate of said deceased as
shall be necessary to pay such debts, le-
SaCieS or expenses.
And 1t Is Further Ordered, That this or
der shall be published once in each week
for three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing, in the New Ulm Review a
weekly newspaper printed and published
at New Ulm in said County.
Dated at New Ulm, Mimi, this 4th day
of February A. D. 1909.
By the Court
S S. ,,,a 90 O. Ross Soi