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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
OBITUARY,

Margaret (Maudsley) Young, wife
of Coe F. Young, Jr., died of Brights
disease, at her home near Braman
Nov. 81, 1909. She was born near
Lookout, Pa, in September, 1880.
Mrs. Young was bright and am
bilious young woman. Having a
talent for music she spent four wint-
ers in Honesdale perfecting herself
in the art. She was we'll and favor
ably known throughout the county,
having taught music for about eight
years. On May 15, 1907. she was
united In marriage to Coe F.
Young, Jr., of Braman. Besides her
husband and their fifteen-months-old
daughter, Ada, she Is survived by her
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Maudsley, seven brothers and
four sisters.
Several years ago she Joined the
M. e. church at Lookout and has
since been a consistant and faithful
member and organist of that church
until her removal to this place. She
was Of genial and happy disposi-
tion and will be greatly missed in
the home and by host of friends.
The funeral, which was held at
the Braman M. e. church, Wednes-
day, Nov. gath, was largely attended
and unusually sad. The six-day-old
son of the deceased, who died on
Tuesday, Nov. 23d, was buried in
the casket with his mother.
A young life is finished and the
bereaved husband has the sympathy
of large circle of friends.
Rev. w. S. Empleton officiated at
the funeral, and interment was made
in the Braman cemetery.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08

tongue when about to swallow a
mouthful of the tea and had spat 1t
out.
Levy said that the first time Mrs.
Wilhelm had tried to bribe him to kill
her husband was at her home four
years ago. The second occasion was
two years ago, when he was painting
factory at Academy and Silk streets.
There, he testified, she made an offer
similar to that made in her home.
In opening for the state Prosecutor
Mott said he would show that Mrs.
Wilhelm was in love with Nicholas s.
Sica and that she had repeatedly ex-
pressed a desire to marry him. He
would show that Sica, who was in
dicted with Mrs. Wilhelm, was at the
Wilhelm home on the day Of the trag-
edy, that there was a quarrel over a
proposed real estate deal and that the
defendant sided with Sica to prevent
her husband from sticking" him. He
would also show that after Sica left
the house she remained alone with her
husband.
Mrs. Wilhelm sat between Chauncey
H. Beasley and e. s. Black, her law
yers. She was dressed in black. AL
though her face showed traces Of the
strain she has undergone in prison
since her indictment, she did not ap-
pear alarmed as to the outcome Of the
trial. She has all along expressed the
utmost confidence that she would be
acquitted.
Behind the accused woman sat her
sister, Miss Bertha Stafford, and their
gray haired mother, Mrs. Harriet Staf-
ford
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
MAY BLOCK SUGAR INQUIRY.
Leaders In Senate and House Are op-
posed to Investigation.

Leaders In Senate and House Are Op-
posed to Investigation.
Washington, Dec. IA congression-
al inquiry into the crooked operations
Of the sugar trust at the port Of New
responsible leaders in the house and
senate unless the administration indt-
Gates that it approves of such an in
vestigation.
President Taft and his advisers are
very much shocked over the recent
revelations in the New York custom
house, but they take the position that
it would be unwise for congress to
probe into the sugar scandal because
of fear on the part Of prosecuting
officers that their plans would be di-
vulged and possibly a measure Of i'm
munity gained by officials through
compulsory appearance before a COM
mittee of congress.
If the leaders can prevent 1t no ac-
ton will be taken for some months to
come ON resolutions offered providing
for an inquiry into the operations OF
the American Sugar Refining compa-
ny, but nearly all the Democrats and
a considerable number Of Republicans
insist that the sugar company should
be brought to justice and the methods
by which II has made enormous profits
through n system Of corruption laid
bare to the public.
Two resolutions have been introduc-
ed In the house calling for an investi-
CATION Of the activities of the sugar
trust. One Is offered by Representa-
tive Campbell OF Kansas and the 9th
or by Representative Garner Of Penn
sylvania, both Republicans.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
SPECIAL MESSAGES COMING.
President to Discuss Conservation and
Interstate Commerce Legislation.


Washington, Dec. 7.-Within the next
week President Taft will send two
special messages to congress. One will
be on the conservation of natural re-
sources and the other on interstate
commerce legislation and the Sherman
antitrust law. The president has in
formed callers that he will give his
views on these subjects to congress
within that time, and he has made it
plain also that he does not purpose for
the present at least to have the anti
trust law disturbed. .s,.4,5
The president contemplated mention
ing his desire for amendments to the
interstate commerce act in his annual
message, but refrained because of the
fact that the subject was too big to be
dealt with in company with the many
others contained in that document.
In the special message on the inter-
state commerce legislation the presi-
dent will suggest to congress the crea-
ton of a commerce court of five men,
bers, and he will also ask that the in
terstate commerce commission be CIV
en- the power Of initiative in rate
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
Port Jervis Man Under a Cloud

Robert Davidson Muir was cashier
of the National Bank of Port Jervis,
from the time of it's reorganization in
March, 1900, to January, 1905. He
came to Port Jervis on the recon-
mendation of National Bank Ex-
aminer l. C. Moore of Washington,
who was appointed receiver by the
comptroller when the bank was
compelled to suspend because of the
Goldsmith defalcation. He was born
in Missouri and later the family
moved to Lincoln, Neb. At the age
of nineteen years, Muir entered the
First National Bank of Lincoln, as
messenger, and rose to the position
as assistant cashier. From this Of
fee, he was made national bank
examiner and was the assistant of
Bank Examiner C. e. Hanna for the
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington territory.
In January, 1905, he was forced
to resign his position because OF his
irregularity. He also attempted to
wrest the control Of the bank from
DR.. w. l.. Cuddeback. It's president
since the reorganization by securing
proxies of stock, but was unsuccess-
full. Later he attempted to organize
trust company in Port Jervis, but
failed In that also. From Port Jer-
Wis, Mr.. Muir went to New Haven.
He became cashier of the Peoples
Trust Company. He has now unac-
countably disappeared and 1t is ru-
mored a shortage of $4,000 is the
cause OF his going away.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
FLAW IN GAME LAW.
If Deer Was Shot With Buck Shot no
Crime was Committed.

If Deer Was Shot With Buck Shot no
Crime was Committed.
1t develops that it is no crime in
Pennsylvania for a person to have
in his possession after a season the
carcass of deer providing the deer
has been killed with buck shot.
George C. Mexican was arrested at
his home at McKean's Valley, Pike
county, for having deer in front of
his house. Mexican told four game
Wardens that he shot the deer with
rife, but he could not explain the
appearance of buck shot in the car
cass. At the hearing before Justice
Ludwig in Milford, Mexican and r.
Jacob Westbrook testified how the
former had shot the buck and fol-
lowed it six miles, before it was
found dead. Attorney C. w. Bull
summed up for the defense and w.
S. Leash of Delaware Water Gap, for
the Commonwealth, and while the
latter admitted that it had not been
proven that Mexican shot the deer
with buckshot, he contended that he
nevertheless was guilty of having
the illegally killed game in his pos
session, and should be fined. After
considerable discussion, Mr.. Mexican
was discharged and the wardens
turned over the deer to him. They
failed to find anything anywhere in
the Act of assembly which makes it
a crime to have in possession a buck
deer shot with buck shot, and 1t was
buck shot and not a rife ball that
they claimed Mexican used.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
Witness TeStifieS Mrs. viii.
helm Offered $1,000.
TO GET RID OF HER HUSBAND
He Swears That Woman on Trial
For Murder Told Him She Her
self Had Made Attempt,
but Had Failed.

Newark, N. j., Dec. 7.-At the trial
here Of Mrs. Mary j. Wilhelm for the
murder Of her husband in February
William Levy, painter, testified that
on two occasions Mrs. Wilhelm had
offered to give him $1,000 IL he would
kill her husband.
He swore that she had also told him
about an attempt she had herself made
to do away with her husband. The
witness said that Mrs. Wilhelm told
him that she had on one occasion put
ground glass in her husbands tea, but
that he had felt the glass on his
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
HOUSE BILL CLERKS BUSY.
174 Public and Between 1900 and 1000
Pension Bills Presented.

Washington, Dec. THE bill clerks
of the house are doing a land office
business. One hundred and seventy
four public measures-most of them
reintroductions Of bills thrown into
the hopper in the special session OF the
sixty-first congress, during which no
general business was considered-and
between 1900 and 1000 private PEN
sion bills have been already presented.
The government printing office has
put on the regular congressional night
and extra shift and expects to get rid
OF the whole batch by tomorrow. -
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
Meoann Beats Toledo Giant.

Philadelphia, Dec. II. - Hugh Nc
Gam, the Rochester light heavyweight
boxer, gave Jack Reed, the Toledo
Giant, terrible beating in four rounds
at the West End club here. McGann
displayed championship caliber. His
manager is anxious to match him
gainst Stanley Ketchel.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
MSmbSrs Of the Russian Royal Family
Hasten to LIvadla.

st. Petersburg, Dec. THE czarina
is seriously Ill at Livadia. She has
had several attacks, from which she
has recovered with great dificuIty.
She II greatly depressed. Several
members OF the Russian imperial fam
fly have received urgent requests from
LAvadia and have gone to see her
majesty. 49,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
KING MUST LOOK ELSEWHERE.
American Girl Says Hes Only a Boy
and She Won't Marry Him.

New York, Dec. e. Miss Yvonne
Townsend, daughter Of Lawrence
Townsend. former minister to Portu-
gal. arrived from Europe and denied
that she was going to be married to
young King Manuel Of Portugal.
She said that the rumor was absurd,
as the king was merely "boy OF
nineteen or twenty" When the king
was a little prince Of nine Miss Town
send and he were playmates, and she
renewed her acquaintance with him
In EnGland recently.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
NO. OF
ESTIMATES FOR CONGRESS.
Total 10 $1o3, 3,27o,3os Less Than Appro-
priations For Current Yaar.

Total 10 $1o3,27o,30 Less Than Appro-
priations For Current Year.
Washington, Dec. 7.-That there has
been a careful scrutiny Of the esti-
mates Of appropriations for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1911, is shown by
the figures submitted to the house Of
representatives by Secretary of the
Treasury MacVeagh.
The grand total of estimates for 1911
is 1882, ,223,O75, which is $103,37O, ,30S
less than the appropriations for the
current fiscal year and $123, ,S66, ,493 un-
der the estimates submitted a year
ago.
The estimates In detail for the vars-
ouF departments are:
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08
The Rev. H. z. Mott Not RsInstatsd.

Elizabeth, N. j., Dec. THE Eliza
beth presbytery has denied the petit
tion OF the Rev. Henry Elliott Mott
for reinstatement to the Presbyterian
ministry. He was suspended q year
ago for unbscoming conduct.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08

meet by the proceeds of bonds issued
to pay the cost Of constructing the
Panama canal. approve this pro.
nnaal.
Continued on page 2.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-08

Expenses Of the postal service are
paid from the postal revenues and are
not estimated for.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
By Louis Joseph Vance
Copyright, 1908. by the Bobbs-Merrill Co.

haste into the car behind.
WHO wos that?" demanded the
girl without moving her head.
How did you know?" he asked. as
tonished. You didn't look
II saw your lnuckles whiten beneath
the skin. Who was it?"
Hobbs" he acknowledged bitterly,
"the mate of the Alethea."
81 know. And you think
eyes. He must have been ashore
when l was on board the brigantine.
He certainly wasn't in the cabin. Evil
IDENTIFY they hunted him up or ran
across him and pressed him into serv-
ice. You see they're watching every
outlet But We'll win through, never
fear!"
The train. escaping the outskirts OF
the city, remarked the event with an
eNultant shrek, then settled down
droning steadily, to night devourins
flight In the corridor car the few pas
sengers disposed themselves to browse
away the coming hour-the short
hours ride that, in these piping days
of frantic travelling. separates Antwerp
from the capital city of Belgium.
A guard. slamming gustiy in through
the front door, reeled unsteadi!y down
the aisle. Kirkwood, rousing from s
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
(To be continuedl
Peary Finds the Pole.

That two arctic explorers should at
tain a goal striven for during four hun
bred years or more in the same year
and possibly within few months of
each others, and should flash each the
news of his triumph to the world within
five days of each other is not only re-
markable, but unprecedented.
That each of the two successful eX-
plorers is a citizen of the United States,
and that each hoisted the stars and
stripes at the top of the world, is a
national achievement to which we may
warrantedly point with pride.
Possibly the return of Lieut.. Peary
to civilization will result in controversy
as to who is the original discoverer of
the pole: there may be unpleasant
things said, but they will hardly be on
the part of Cook, who has revealed
excellent temper and large breadth of
spirit in his comments upon the lieu
tenant success.
There is honor enough for both in
the discovery of the Pole. While the
question of original discovery may new
er be settled, and may become as much
matter of controversy as the author
ship of Shakespeare (or Bacon's)
plays, the lay public will be satisfied in
the knowledge that the original dis
coverer is an American citizen, and
that the only flag at the Pole is the
American flag. -Telegraph-Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
500 REWARD, 500

The readers of this paper Will be pleased 10
earn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all It's
stages, and that Ia Catarrh. Halls catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known TO
the medical fraternity, Catarrh being con
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ternaly. acting directly upon The blood and
mucous surfaces of the syslem thereby destroy
ing the Foundation of the disease. and giving
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tuition and assisting nature in doing 5 work
The proprietors have So much faith III rs cura-
tive powers that they II + one Hundred
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or list of testimonials.
Address +. j. CHENEY 4 co. Toledo. o.
Sold by ali Druggists, 7Sc.
Take Halls fam.ly Pills TOR cnnstipm ton.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
MANKATO CHARTER FIGHT
CITY FIRST TO ATTEMPT TO
ADOPT COMMISSION RULE.
Special Election Will be Called Mon.
day-SaIoon Men Oppose
New Plan.

Mankato, Mimi, Sept. 27.-This city
adopt the commission plan of govern
ment, and on Monday the citizens will
vote on the new charter, which resem-
bles the Galveston and Des Noines
charters, but is modified to meet local
needs. 1t provides that the only cleo
tive offices shall be mayor and four
councilmen, who shall conduct the
city and be held responsible. They
are to give bond and to be subject to
the recall The initiative and refer
endum are also incorporated in the
charter.
The business interests are mainly ia
vorable to the charter and the labor
interests are also largely for it.
Against it are arrayed the saloon vote,
a large part of the COMMUNICATIONS,
who are fearful that the saloons will
be regulated too strictly, and the most
of the present city officials and en-
ployes. who are afraid that they could
not hold on to their jobs under strict
ly business administration.
There is nothing in the new charter
antagonistic to the saloons, and where
they got the idea is mystery, but it
is thought that city officials who are
10th to give up jobs have thrown the
scare into them. Letters received by
the charter commission from brewers
in cities having the commission plan
recommended it highly and say that it
not only has not worked to the disad
vantage of the saloons, but to their
advantage, the same as every other
business has been benefited.
Germans Fight Charter.
The Blue Earth county branch of
organized to combat the Anti-Saloon
league, has taken a hand and called
the Germans to meet to raise funds
to fight the new charter. On the 9TH
err hand, the charter commission has
been holding ward meetings and eX-
planning the charter and gaining
friends for it in every ward in the city.
A mass meeting will be held at the
theater, when Ernest A Sherman, of
| SSudl INdpluo, Id, q ulSlilDSl VI lAC
commission there, and newspaper
man, will speak of the advantages to
be derived from the commission form
of government. Other speakers will
also be present and the Germans have
been invited to be present and divide
the time and discuss the new charter,
so that both sides could be fairly dis
cussed. A labor meeting is also pro-
jected in favor of the new charter.
The Commercial club has already vot,
ed Al to 2 in favor of the new charter.
The German organization, or Central
union, has gotten out pamphlet
called THE Other Side" in which the
new charter is opposed and arguments
advanced against it.
1t will take a toursevenths majority
to adopt the new charter and Mondays
battle at the ballot boxes is being
looked forward to with great interest
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
ISN'T IT STRANGE?

Did it ever occur. to you that the
reason medical doctors have so little
success in curing tuberculosis, is be-
cause they really do not practice medicine?
To say that Il specific exists for the
cure of Consumption is perhaps too
strong statement, but in Eckman's
Alternative, we have medicine that
las been the means of saving many a
life to years of usefulness and in per-
manently curing Il large number OF
Consumptives.
Telling every sufferer to gorge him
self with eggs and milk is apparently
the limit of modern treatment. Ger
tainly a person afflicted with wasting
disease should be we'll fed with whole
some nourishing food; but frequently
raw eggs in quantities, cause digestive
breakdown. and then no food nourish-
es. AS for milk, Il very good food for
many: but a producer of biliousness
for some.
Any diet that keeps n Consumptive
we'll nourished is the right one, but
1phat is going to cure the tatisnt?-Eck-
mans Alternative has cured and is cur
ing many a case of Consumption. Let
those speak who know. Here is a
Specimen
Memphis, Tenn, September. 5, 1907.
Gentlemen: {. f. The patient for
whom we ordered the Alternative some
time since has regained his health. The
doctors say his lungs have healed.
Respectfully,
(Sicned) SISTERS OF ST. FRANCIS
Eckman's Alternative is good for all
Throat and Lung Trouble and is on sale
in
Cresco by P. A. Clemmer and othe
druggists. Ask for Booklet of cure
cases
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
Mr.. C. K. Slonneper.

The world seems dark and life not
worth living to to the person who suf-
fcrs from Indigestion and.stomach troub-
lie year in and year out in spite of his
question of being fortunate enough t.
strike the right medicine. c. X. Sion
meyer, Liberty, Ind, says the right
medicine for Indigestion and stomach
trouble is DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
which cured him. 1t is absolutely guar
anteed to DO what is claimed, and if
you want to try it before buying. send
your address for free sample bottle
to Pepsin Syrup Co.. 1l9 Caldwell
Bldg, Monticello, Ill. 1t is sold by all
druggists at soc and 81 bottle.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-10-01
Hazardous.

With the report that Burbank or
another of the wizard species has
forced reluctant nature to yield
cobless corn, some will be promised
to ask how much further this up
setting of the order of creation can
proceed with impunity?
So long as positive law creates no
social distinctions, we have the great
er need to safeguard all adventitious
aids to salutary subordination; and it
is certain that corn without cob to
cat it from ceases, by that, to be the
means wherewith gentility has not
seldom indicated itself, and breeding
gained significant, albeit subtle, at,
testation. Can we afford it?-Puck.