Lower coast gazette., 1913-09-27


ceny in Philadelphia, was noticed ner-
vously pacing up and down his cell
by a jailer. He asked for pencil and
paper and wrote a confession in which
he admitted that he nad strangled
Catherine Schumacher in Rochester,
New York, in the Holy Sepulcher GEM
etery after he had flirted with her
and kissed her and she had resented.
The murder was committed on Aug.
7, 1909. Wolfsohn married after
wards but the hell in him continued
to torment him. He became a thief
that he might be further tormented;
that he might no longer keep the
bloody secret of the murder; that the
murder would out as God knows and
wants it should.
Gaynor's body lay in state in the
fower-flled rotunda of the New York
City Hall. More than 100000 citizens
viewed the dead body of a man who
was a man in life worth while.
One Of those who called to view
the remains of his friend was a
Brooklyn youth whose part the mayor
took when it was said he was being
prosecuted by the police and which
resulted in an investigation and the
removal Of the boys photo from the
rogues gallery. Mayor Gaynor's body
was buried last Monday. A regi-
ment of police led .ne funeral pro-
cession. In it were 200 firemen and
delegations from every city depart
ment. Ex-President Taft was an hon.
orary pall-bearer.
Cotton last Monday fell 80 points
as a result Of a report made by a
reporter of a Wall Street Paper that
President Wilson had indorsed the
Clarke Amendment to the cotton fu-
lures tax schedule. President Will
sons desire that the matter of get
ting the lariff signeu We speeded up
was construed by this anxious report
err to be an Endorsement by the Presi-
dent of the Clarke amendment. The
president wants the tariff to 60 into
effect as soon as possible and he would
rather see it be maze a law with
out the cotton futures tax if the dis
cussion of that point would delay the
PRONUNCIATION Of the new tariff.
Governor Sulzer must face trial.
The constitutional objections to tue
proceedings raised by his counsel
were o%ver-ruled. When put a vote
of the court the presiding judges de-
cision was sustained by a vote Of 81
to /. Senator Gottfried, H. Wende,
of Buffalo, democrat, an ardent sup
porter of the governor, cast the soil
tary nay. Seven members of the
court were absent. H. G.. James OF
Findlay, Ohio, an authority on oil, an
nounced that the Standard Oil Com.
pany had perfected a new process OF
gasoline that may be refined from
crude oil. This will produce a grade
of gasoline tor use in automobiles that
will sell at four cents a COLON less
than the present price. At a cost Of
$1,5OO,OOO the process has been in
stalled at their Whiting, Ind. refinery
/. and at their Alton, Ill. plant.
The inventors of the new process
are working or a newer process b!
which rs per cent Of crude oil can b.
converted into gasoline.
, Attorney General McReynolds ha
!, directed attorneys familiar with tn
antitrust law to go over the record
: upon which Attorney General Collin
of Mississippi attacking the validit
of the merger Of the /. G. & Y. & M
! V. railroads. He wants to know whe
) Their the Federal government Shout
: or should not act also in the mat
ter.
E Wolfsohn, who confessed the kill
S ing of Anna Schumacher in Roches
ter in 1909, r%epudiated his confessio
and says he made the confession t
end a life that was a failure.
S The National meat supply lesser
y year by year. A meat famine is SUI
S if small farmers fail to raise cattl
The south should raise more cor
and hogs. The animal production d
creases while the population and II
s need for more animal production il
creases.
e Speakers at the American me;
it packers convention held in Chicas
It suggests the following mean of rem
ii dying the precarious situation:
T. Every small farmer should raj
at least two beef steers a year
offset the decreased production Of Il
ID great ranches Of the west.
a The remaining ranges should
d cut up to put all farmers on an equ
IS footing.
10 Development of the hills Of Nc
y. England with their bountiful sprin,
lie and prevailing shades as a beef-pr
r. ducing country.
ne Substitution of corn for cotton