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The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
SUTTON SLAIN,
DECLARES NEW
EYEWITNESS
Sergeant Todd Says that Young
Lieutenant Was Shot Down
While Running Away.
WILL TELL HIS STORY
AT THE INQUIRY
Officers Dramatic Recital of
Events on Fatal Night Throws
New Light on the Tragedy.

BOSTON, Aug. 1o.-In an interview
attributed to Sergeant Arthur Todd, of
the United States Marine Corps, and
made public today, he states that If he
should be called before the board in
Vestigating the death of Lieutenant
James Sutton his testimony would be
exactly opposite to that given by SUIT
toms fellow officers.
Sergeant Todd, who has been on
range duty at Wakefield. left early to-
day for Annapolis In describing the
shooting he says:
i was corporal of the guard on the
night that Lieutenant Sutton was shot
From the place where 1 was standing
| saw figure about 250 feet away. I
saw Lieutenants Adams and Osterman,
and recognized them. They were near
me. The man who was in shirt-sleeves
started to run, and I heard a voice cry:
Stop running. You're under arrest
"Stop or rII shoot"
The man ram on, and once more |
heard the same voice cry out loudly:
Stop running, or I'll shoot The man
paid no attention and ran on, and then
l saw a flash and heard a revolver re-
port. There were three other shots,
and the man who was running dropped.
L do not know at what shot
Il ran over to him and bent over. 1t
was Lieutenant Sutton. l saw a hole
in the mans forehead, where there was
a ragged entrance, and a hole back of
the left ear, where the bullet came out
clean"
Just after the shooting. when I had
returned to the guard-room, Lieutenant
Rocker came in all out of breath and
greatly excited. He said: My God
Archie think I've been shot
Book Saved Rockers Life.
Il laughed at him at first, but he
was so earnest about it that I felt in
his left hand outside pocket just ovel
his heart. There was a drill regula-
ton book and a bullet had become
iiiuoiiA opiiiCo III AiiS PdSCo, diib lliCi (
was a perceptible reddish tinge just
over his heart, showing just where the
bullet would have gone had the book
not interposed
Rocker and l talked the matter
over, and we agreed that he must have
run into the fire of the bullets, one OF
which had killed Sutton. There were
four shots that l heard in all, and one
of them, I am convinced, struck Roel-
ker.
II have wondered more than once
why l have not been called to go before
the court of inquiry and tell what l
know"
ANNAPOLIS, Aug. 10.-When the
Court of Inquiry now investigating the
death of Lieutenant James N. Sutton
ir., opened its session today it was un-
derstood that Mrs. Rose Sutton Parker
Lieutenant Suttons sister, would be
placed on the witness-stand.
Mrs James N. Sutton, the dead Lieu
tenants mother, was again in court to-
cay She seemed satisfied that her
sensational testimony yesterday will re-
suit in a favorable verdict.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
MAURITANIA CLIPS OFF TWO HOURS

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-A cablegram
received here from Liverpool reports the
steamer Mauretania arrived there at
500 p. m. yesterday, about two hours
earlier than on any previous trip. thus
establishing a record by landing her
passengers at the English port ON Mon
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
CAR CONDUCTOR HURT BY FALL.

William Hornich. q Years old, of 6i9
South Seventeenth street. a conductor
on the South Ofange avenue line, fell
from his car last night and ruptpred
the ligaments Of his knee He was re-
moved to the City Hospital, where Z
was said be would he out IN few days,
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
ESCAPED LUNATEC FOUND
AFTER WEEKS WANDERING

John Wheeland, an escaped inmate of
the Overbrook Asylum, was found wan
dering aimlessly about in West Cald-
well yesterday by Herbert Francisco.
Francisco found him going down Fair
took him In charge. The mans queer
behavlos excited Franciscos suspicion
and he had the authorities at the asy-
lum notified. 1t was found that the
wanderer had left the asylum more
than week ago.
lawn Mowcrs--ssaracn Hose.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10
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1t was expected that the Newark
city Tax Board would be on hand to-
day with its books, bat President
Lathrop Anderson learned that the
board was not ready yet o submit
them II was reported that they would
be on hand ''by next Tuesday"
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10

Asrenaiii ssooeale has been reengaged for the
fenaiuder Of this week and next Sunday n iy
from NeNark's popular resort He will make
ascensions every afternoon and night Adv
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10

LAWN Nowcrs--fsarslcB Hose.
Macknet g poremus Co.. 796-7ss broad st.--Adv,
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10

tconsinped on Fourth r#se)
Jr o. II A. NJ excursion 60 Azbussg Park
August q. Tickets S. children 5pps Adj
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-10

Coney Island today as guests of the STARS
Free Ice and Outing Fund Another proof
of the good done by Newark's greatest sum-
mer charity
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
VENEZUELA GIVES IN
Two American Claims Settled and
Three To Be Arbitrated.
William I. Buchanan Succeeds In
His Mission-N. Y. Asphalt Co.
To Get Back Its Property.

Washington, d. c. Especially -
Special Commissioner William l.
Buchanan telegraphed the State De-
partment that he has signed a pro.
tocol with the Venezuelan Govern
ment for the settlement of the dis.
putes between that country and the
United States.
Mr.. Buchanan's mission has occu-
pied a much longer time than was
expected. What was thought would
be a comparatively easy task proved
to be a very perplexing one. The
State Department officials, however,
we're patient. not desiring to have
the impression created in Venezuela
that an attempt was being made TO
force the issue. Questions of pride
and national honor have operated to
delay the successful outcome of the
negotiations. The advices from Mr..
Buchanan indicates that these have
been overcome and the prospects are
for an end of the ong-standing diff
ferences between the two countries
which led to the rupture of diplo-
matte relations last spring. Mr..
Buchanan will probably come north
on the cruiser Des Moines.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
Mr.. TAFT STANDS BY KNOX
Urges Congress to Pass Bill Making
Him Eligible.
Matter Taken Out OF The Hands OF
The Doubtful Judiciary Com.
mittee-To BE Rushed
Through.

Washington, d. G. Especially -
President-elect William H. Taft's
kilograms to Senator Hale, Speaker
Cannon and Representative Payne
urging that Congress remove from
Senator Knox any constitutional dis
ability it might believe to rest
against the service of the Senator
as Secretary of State in the Taft
Cabinet as a result of a change in
emoluments of that office during his
service in the Senate served to clear
the atmosphere in Congress.
Mr.. Tafts telegram to Senator
Hale was as follows:
New Orleans, Feb. II, 1909.
Hon. Eugene Hale, United States
Senate, Washington, d. c.:
| sincerely hope that Congress will
pass bill to remove any doubt of
Knox's eligibility. ! have no doubt
that bill to repeal the bill increas-
ing the salary of the Secretary of
State will effect this purpose, and !
sincerely hope that 1t will pass.
should regard the loss of Senator
Knox from the first place in my Cab
met as a public misfortune.
William H. Taft.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
FINE MENU FOR
PRES|DENT.ELECT TAFT
New Orleans Does Herself Proud In
the Culinary Line.

New Orleans Especially. - Presi-
dent-elect Taft again voiced his en-
thusiastic faith in the ultimate sue
ccssful construction of the Panama
Canal in an address delivered at the
dinner rendered him by citizens of
New Orleans.
He reiterated his approval. in ac-
cordance with the finding of the COM
mission of engineers who accompan-
led him to the Isthnus, of the lock
type. Of waterway. He was uproar-
iously aplauded by his auditors when
ne expressed the hope that the canal
may be completed within the four
years OF his administration, but pre-
dicted that in any event vessels
would be passing through the chan
mel by January /, 1915.
Mr.. Taft has avoided any state
ments which might appear as leveled
IN reply to utterances antagonistic
10 the present type of canal, with
lts systems of locks, ladders and
dams, that have marked recent de-
Dates upon the subject in the SEN
ate. The problem of answering
those statements is to be left. il is
understood, to the chief engineer in
charge of canal construction.
The banquet, at which 500 per.
sons were seated, formed the culmi-
mating event marking Judge Taft'e
visit in New Orleans. A feeling in
vocation was offered by Cardinal Glib,
pohs, VINO is guest of his brother.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
ROOSEVELT COMMISSIONS
REPORT ON COUNTRY LIFE

Washington, D. c. Especially -
The report of the Country Life Com
mission was transmitted by the
President to Congress. accompanied
by a special message in the course
OF which the President says:
"At the outset | desire to point
out that not a dollar of the public
money has been paid to any commits
sioner for his work on the commits
sion.
Judging by 80 public hearings, to
which farmers and farmers wives
from 40 states and territories came,
and from 10000 answers to print
ed questions sent out by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, the commission
finds that the general level of coun-
try life is high compared with any
preceding time, or with any other
land. If 1t has in recent years slip
ped down in some places, 1t has risen
in more places.
There are three main directions
in which farmers can help them
selves; namely, better farming, bet
ter business, and better living on the
farm. The National Department OF
Agriculture, which has rendered
services equaled by no other SINH
lar department in any other time or
place; the state departments of ag-
riculture; the state colleges of agri-
culture and the mechanic arts, es-
pecially through their extension
work; the state agricultural expert
mcnt stations; the Farmers Union;
the Grange; the agricultural press.
and other similar agencies, have all
combined to place within the reach
of the American farmer an amount
and quality of agricultural informa-
tion which. if applied would enable
him, over large areas, to double the
production of the farm.
Not Better Crops, But Better Life.
THE object of the Commission
on Country Life. therefore, is not to
help the farmer raise better crops.
but to call his attention to the op-
portunities for better business and
better living on the farm. Those
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
The ELECTORAL VOTE
COUNTED BY CONGRESS
Official Record Of the Election Of
Mr.. Taft.
A BIG CROWD WAS PRESENT.
Impressive Ceremony While The
Vote OF The States Is Read In
Joint Session OF The House And
Senate, With Fairbanks Presiding.
The Galleries Are Filled With
Eager Spectators.

Washington, d. G. Especially. -
With Impressive ceremony the closing
scene Of the presidential election was
enacted in the hall of the House of
Representatives.
In joint session the members of
the Senate and of the House of the
National Congress met and counted
the electoral votes for President and
Vice President and declared the cleo
tion of William Howard Taft, Of
Ohio, and James Schoolcraft Sher-
man, of New York.
After tellers, appointed by both
houses, and representing both politi-
cal parties, had carefully scruunized
the returns from the several states,
Vice President Charles w. Fairbanks
announced that out of the 4S3 votes
In the electoral college 321 had
been cast for Taft for President, 321
for Sherman for Vice President, 162
for William ]. Bryan for President
and 162 for John w. Kern for Vice
President.
Incidentally, the fact was recalled
that 1t was the largest vote ever cast
for candidates for President in the
history of the United States, the re-
cent admission of Oklahoma having
added seven votes to the electoral
college since this ceremony was per-
formed four years ago.
The joint session began at 1 O'Clock
in the presence of a notable assem-
blage. Admission to the galleries
was only obtained by card, and these
points of observation were crowded
with the wives and friends of mem
bers. Mrs. Sherman, accompanied
by large party of friends, including
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Fairbanks
and members of their families, were
interested spectators, and the diplo-
matte gallery was we'll filled with the
representatives of foreign govern
ments eagerly watching the process
of declaring the election of a Presi-
dent in the greatest republic on
earth.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE

Z. II. Hartman made his debut a.
a New York Central board meeting.
A leading Philadelphia bank has
bought a big block of Rock Island
bonds for its own account.
The sl3,i00,0O0 Of Baltimore and
Ohio, Lake Erie and West Virginia
refunding per cent. bonds, which
have Just been sold, are a part of an
authorized issue of S75,O0O,000.
II, A. Kuhn, of Pittsburg, has Is
sued an illustrated booklet entitled,
Substantial Prosperity" which deals
especially with the coal resources OF
western Pennsylvania. IL contains
many diagrams which are interesting.
Great Britain last year bought
1000, 100000 of new securities,
France S4OO,O00,O00 and the United
States $l,4OO, 1000. So far this
year France has led, having bought
$3.50, 100000 of Russian bonds in
ono block. English bankers say that
- demand in London for new capi-
tai is almost unprecedented. This
has it's direct effect upon America, be-
cause Il has been thought that the
Pennsylvania and possibly some other
railroads would sell bonds in Europe
this year. At present, however, the
bond market is as good In the United
States as 1t is in London and Paris.
Shareholders of the ]. G. Brill
company reelected their Board OF
Directors and received the annual re-
sort for 1908 from President James
Pawle. Gross business amounted TO
s3,s45,173, compared with 1921 >
S25 in 1907. and s6,s0s,S46 In 1906.
The net profit for the year, after se'-
ting aside S9S,0s9 for depreciation.
was s90,740, which compares with
sl,36s,949 earned in 1907. There
was paid In dividends, mostly out OF
surplus previously earned, amount
ing to 1920, 800, against s375,574 In
1907. The company still has a sur
= ~
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18

engaged in all other Industrial and
commercial callings have found il
necessary, under modern economic
conditions, to organize themselves
for mutual advantage. The farmers
of every progressive European coun-
try have found in the cooperative
system exactly the form of business
combination they need.
1T is not within the sphere of
any government to reorganize farm
ers' business or reconstruct the So
cial life of farming communities. II
is, however, quite within its power
to use its influence and the machinery
of publicity which 1t can control for
calling public attention to the needs
and facts. For example, 1t is the
obvious duty of the government to
call the attention of the farmers to
the growing monopolization of water
power, the farmers, above all, should
have that power, on reasonable
terms, for cheap transportation, for
lighting their homes, and for innum-
cradle, uses in the daily tasks on the
farm.
"The government through the De-
partment of Agriculture does not
cultivate any mans farm for him.
But 1t does put at his service USE
full knowledge that he would not 9TH
erwise get. In the same way the ma
tional and state governments might
put into the peoples hands the new
and right knowledge of school work.
The task of maintaining and devel-
oping the schools would remain, as
now, with the people themselves.
The only recommendation / sub
NIT is that an appropriation of $685.
900 be provided, to enable the COM
mission 10 digest the material it has
collected, and to collect, and to digest
much more that Is within its reach.
and thus complete its work. The
commissioners have served without
compensation. and I do not recon-
mend any appropriation for their
services, but only for the expenses
that will be required to finish the
task that they have begun"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
TERR0RRED BY
BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS
Hold Up a Mail Train lust Outside Of
Denver, Col.
SCARE THE CREW AND PASSENGERS
Flyer Held Up In Outskirts OF Den
yer, Colo.-Engineer And Fireman
Covered With Guns And Ordered
To Slow Down--The Mail Clerks
Marched Out OF The Cara Fusii'
ladc OF Bullets.

Denver, Col. Especially THAT the
hold-up OF the Denver and RIO
Grande passenger and mail train
No. 4, near Denver, was the WORK
of three instead of two robbers and
thot the looting of the mail car yield
ed the bandits possibly $4,000, Is
indicated by the investigation OF the
police and railroad officials. So far
no tangible clue to the identity or
whereabouts of the robbers has been
found, but it seems probable that
the men came to Denver and are now
hiding in this city.
Eighteen packages of registered
mail were secured. These included
five from Salt Lake City addressed
to Greely, Col; Georgetown, COL;
Waco, Texas; White Wright, Texas,
and Denver; one was sent from
Pueblo to Denver; one from Colo
RADIO Springs to Denver; one from
Taylor, Wash, to Steamboat Springs,
Col. one from Winfield, Wash, to
Sterling, Col; one from Leadville TO
Denver, and others from Glenwood
Springs and additional Colorado
towns. One of these packages is
said to have contained a large sum
of money, but until thorough
checking up of the missing packages
is possible the exact amount lost
cannot be ascertained.
The hold-up was remarkable for
its daring. 1t was carried out with
in eight miles of Denver, within less
than two miles of Fort Logan, the
United States military reservation,
and at the spot where habitations
are plentiful. Yet so thorough was
the work of the bandits and so well
were their plans laid that they had
fully an hour and a half start of
the officers.
Search of the vicinity of the hold
up indicates that third man, and
possibly a fourth was engaged in the
robbery, that a rubber-tired buggy
was in waiting for the actual hold
up and the torpedoes and red sig
nal fires were used unsuccessfully
in an attempt to stop the train be-
fore the revolvers of the two men
on the engine tender succeeded in
doing this.
Amid a fusillade of revolver shots
from one of the robbers, while an
other forced the mail clerk to open
the door of his car. The second rob-
ber then cody searched every piece
of registered mail, threw the pack
ages he desired into a sack and
jumped off. AT the points of revol-
vers the engineer, fireman, baggage
man and mail clerks were marched
up the track, and then told to get
back to their train. The robbers
thereupon disappeared with their
booty.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
From Speeches Made At The Lin
coin Day Celebrations.

"As the years roll by, and as all
OF us, wherever we dwell, grow
to feel an equal pride in the
valor and self-devotion alike of
the men who wore the blue
and the men who wore the
gray, so this whole nation will
grow to feel a peculiar sense
OF pride in the man whose
blood was shed for the union
of his people and for the free
dom Of race; the lover of his
country and of all mankind,
the mightiest Of the mighty
men who mastered the mighty
days, Abraham Lincoln"
Theodore Roosevelt.
THE eloquence of Demosthenes
and Cicero were no more nec-
essary to their work, and Lin
coin deserves to have his name
written on the scroll with
theirs" w. J. Bryan.
In revering the name of Lin
coin there Is now no North or
South, nor East or West. There
is but one heart in all and that
heart the heart of patriotic
America" Joseph w. Folk.
ITO Lincoln more than to any
other man we owe, and shall
for all time owe, the joy, the
power and the gift of grace of
mighty people Joined togeth-
er as they never were before
under one flag and one cove
nant Of the law"
Gov. Wilson, of Kentucky.
America had a Washington when
a Washington was needed and
Lincoln when Lincoln could
save them"
M. Jules Jusserand.
1T was Lincoln's dauntless cour-
age and his clear thinking that
fitted him to be the pilot who
brought your ship through the
widest tempest that ever broke
upon her"
Ambassador James Bryce.
Lincoln was like some great in
strument Of humanity. Wher-
ever life touched him he spoke
back its meaning, gave forth
fire to kindle it's life"
Woodrow Wilson.
1.-THE South can and does without
bitterness and in all sincerity
join with all the people of this
nation and all the people of
all nations in paying tribute to
Abraham Lincoln, the liberia
tor, the pacificator, the great
American"
Gen. Luke E. Wright.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
Foreign

The Irish Land Owners Conven-
tion in session in Dublin, attacked
virulently Chief Secretary OF ireland
Birrell's proposed land bill, and
adopted a resolution demanding its
rejection by Parliament.
Mexico will not ask indemnity
from Honduras for the recent as
sault on the Mexican consulate at
Amapala, according to La Presna,
the semi-official organ of the gov
ernment of Honduras.
There has been a serious out
break OF Asiatic cholera among the
stan OF st. George Hospital, an in
stitution maintained by the Red
Cross at ST. Petersburg, Russia.
General Schaffhausen has been re-
tired as minister of railroads in Rus
sia, snd NJ. Rukhloff, former vice
minister of commerce, succeeds him.
Turkey has notified Russia OF it's
acceptance, in principle of Russia's S
latest financial proposal for a settle
ment of the Turco-Bulgarian dis
pute.
Recent changes in the Turkish
ministry are due to the discovery of
plot against the Sultan, having for
its object his deposition.
The arrest of an American at
Georgetown, British Guiana, on the
supposition that he is Raymon Car
riga Cueyas, wanted by the Cuban
government on serious charges of
embezzlement, has caused a sensa-
tion at Georgetown.
Sir Charles Harding's conference
with Chancellor Won Buelow in Ber-
lin on the policy OF Germany and
Great Britain has aroused curiosity
among the German people.
The work OF Nelson Gay, of Bos-
ton, and Earl Dodge, secretary to
Ambassador Griscom, is proving sue
cessful among the quake victims OF
Calabria.
A decision involving the paying
OF S5.000,000 damages was made by
the Priyy Council OF Great Britain
against the Dominion Coal Company.
England will start the construction
OF five battleships OF the Dread
nought type the coming year.
The 125 miners imprisoned for
three days in a mine at Yuzovka,
Russia made their escape through
an abandoned gallery
A company OF the Cuban Rural
Guard at Havana putined because
OF orders transferring them TO the
permanent army.
For the murder OF Oleeka Luiteck,
17-year-old Galician, last Good
Friday. Stefan Swyryda was hanged
al Brampton, Ont.
An anonymous writer informed
the Paris police that he saw Catulle-
Araham Mendes killed by fellow
traveller.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-18
1o Years For Tax Collector,

Pittsburg, Pa. Especially. - John
r. Morgan, former tax collector u
McKee's Rocks. suburb OF this city,
who last week pleaded guilty TO
charges OF forgery and 1G different
indictments for embezzlement. was
sentenced by Judge John ID. Shafer
to serve 16 years in the Western PEN
itentiary and pay fine OF 100000.
Before being sentenced Morgan told
the Court that he had been robbed
OF $4,000 on street In New York
near the Haymarket, but that he had
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