{ title: 'Rural times. (Otego, N.Y.) 18??-1937, December 15, 1909, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84035818/1909-12-15/ed-1/seq-1/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84035818/1909-12-15/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84035818/1909-12-15/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn84035818/1909-12-15/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: Otego Historical Association
Rural Itti Timaa ^O h . XX[X. New Series No. 23. OTEGO O tsego C o ., N. Y„ WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15. 1909 W hole N o . 1484 R ilP a l • V’. S. PULLEE, . Editor and Proprietor* P U B L I S H E D BV E B T W E D N E S D A Y M O B N IN G IN T H E TIMES BLOCK, RIVER STREET, OTEGO, OTSEGO CO., N, Y. D E V O T E D TO LOCAL AND FAMILY READING AN D TO T H E NTERBST OP AGRICULTURE AND PARo TIk© Only Agricultural Paper In the Second sembly Dis'rict of Otsego County. , On@ Y e m 'f.. 1 Mize Months, T ESS3SUE S : In Advance. Not in Adv ........ $ 1 . 25 . . 65 . dvanee $1 50 ; Miss M o n th s,... { l^hrsQ Months, l^fetthe right ofthename stamped on the paper is ’ the date to which the subsenp. on is paid. No paper stopped ui til ill back claims are paid up. ill back claims of the publishe Correspondence on all matters of Local orGeneri )Iicited. The names of corresponded paper stopped ui ti unless at the optio Orrespoi £nteresl t Ication, but as a guarantee agains 'npositHi f*!!© failure of the notification ofit^ tlnnance will be considered a renewal) cription ZELAYA ARRAIGNED. HOPEABANfiONII) F O U E O m Outcome of Operation Feareil by King’s Physicians. L0N6 AND VIVID CAREER. Senator Rayner Calls on Our Govern ment to Punish Him. Washington, Dec. 1.3.—Senator Ilay- ner of Maryland made a .spirited at- < tack in the senate on I^residnt Zelaya of Nicaragua. The senator spoke on his resolution introduced last week au thorizing the president to “apprehend and punish Zelaya” for the “murder” of the two Americans taken as prison ers with the insurgent army, charac terizing the execution as a “crime” in violation of the code of N^aragiia and violation of internationalMaw. He characterized Zelaya as an “arch conspirator.” The resolution he had introduced did not mean war. “1 do not believe it is right to attack tlie peo ple of Nicaragua,” said Mr. Kayner. ^^i^^|who are not responsible for this ^ ^ ^ ^ H |t t|^ a t o r proposed the trial of Ze- is a mur- Senator ut i ons ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ ^ i t t e e on re- Creel, former Mexican f^^T^HJissador to the United States, who ' here, will call upon Secretary of State Knox in an effort to evolve a program of joint co-operation between the United States and Mexico in bring ing about peace in Central America. Senor Creel has credentials as a “dip lomatic agent.” Most of the steps taken by Secretary Knox in handling the Central Amer ican situation have been upon bis own Ruler of the Belgians Ascended Throne at Young Age and Made Europe Buzz With His Exploits For Many Decades. Death of Only Son In Infancy Blamed For Notorious Irregularities of King’s Life. Brussels, Dec. 13.—King Leopold W'as reported to be dying, but the report lacked confirmation. It was known that his condition had reached a crit ical stage. A consultation of attending physi cians was held, when it was deeide<l that if there was no change for the better within a few hours an opera tion would be performed. His physi cians feared the outcome of an opera tion. Leopold II., king of the Belgians, Tvas born in 1835. He succeeded to the Bel gian throne in 1SG5, on the death of his the queen attempted to commit suicide because of the publicity of her con sort’s intrigues, and Queen Victoria, I.eopold’s aunt, was upon another oc casion moved to interfere in straight ening out her nephew’s matrimonial tangles. Four children were born to Leopold and Marie Henrie.tte, three daughters and one son, the Duke of Brabant. The latter died when two years old, and his loss is said to have aided in plunging | the king Into the mode -of life which he followed throughout his career. GRAND JURY TO TAKE UP RATHTUR CASE SEES THE WOBID AFTER50 YEARS OoiiiieGtlciit Convict Has First Glimpse In Half Century. EX-EMPLOYK SAYS TRUSTROYGOTTED HIM HIS SERVED RECORD TERM. Prosecutor Urges Trial of Vic tim's tccused tant. Wife Murderer Who Is Seeking Pardon Knows Little of What Has Happened Since 1859—His First Trip Is to State Capitol, Mile From Cell, to Seek Offi cial Forgiveness For Crime Commit ted Long Ago. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 13.—John P. ! Warren, wlio has been in prison longer than any othbr man in the world, left Sugar Man on Trial Asserts Way to Living Was Blocked. New York, Dec. 13.—Oliver SpitzeP, one of the defendants in the sugat trial before Judge Martin in the Unit* ed States circuit court, was recalled to permit Henry L. Stimson, the gov ernment prosecutor, to. end his search ing cross examination. Mr. Stimsott wanted to know more about the holes in the scale stanchions and the use ot putty paiuted over to conceal them. “Do you think your enemies could have done this, Mr. Spitzer?” asked the lawyer. “They might have,” said Spitzer. The witness intimated that other im- Newark, N. J., Dec. 13.—Comity Pros ecutor Nott of Ne-wark prepared for ■ Connecticut state prison at Welh- porters who also had sugar weighed on presentation to the grand jury the case e^gfield for the first time in just half the Williamsburg docks might have of Miss Virginia Wardlaw, the aged ^ century. I responsible for the holes. 1 “Do you mean to say that other im* ! porters were engaged in defrauding I the government?” asked Mr. Stimson. It is exactly fifty years ago since J spinster held in the Newark jail for the murder of her niece. Mrs. Ocey | was sent to jail for life for Snend, woman whose dead I si„oe then he has not left i ..j anything about it.' body ^^as found oprnnipd pri«<>n grounds. He was allowed uyou went into the business of steva- r ‘dTw\-riift; \'“r iwiv*’ 'm: ««. capitol building, a mile avaj. His “No; the American Sugar Refining aged form was little bowed with the' company blocked me in making a liv- w’eiglit of y ears as he went under | >» guard to ask for a pardon. He is ofli- j uyou were in the cooperage bus!- cialiy designated as convict No. 1 on ; not?” the roster of the Connecticut state j “No; I was blocked there too.” prison. If favorable action is taken I intimation that the sugar trust , was engaged in preventing Spitzer lieved that such will be the case, the by herself and Miss Wardlaw in East Orange. “The only w’ay to determine whether or not this woman is guilty is to in dict her and place her on trial,” de clared the prosecutor. “I am not at all satisfied with the results of the hear ing before Recorder Nott. ' board, and It is generally be- j The prosecutor added that he had a I ,, ...... , ........... ' mass of evidence against Miss Ward- law that he has not yet used. He will not use this evidence till she comes to trial ill the event that she is indicted. All the evidence against the woman is circumstantial, but the state wdll en deavor to show that the death of Mrs. Snead w-as brought about by a con- I spiracy to collect the $24,500 insurance on^ber ~ ‘ have had evidence they secured has been placed in the bands of the prosecutor. Franklin W. Fort, counsel for Miss Wardlaw’, says it wdll be a great in justice if Miss Wardlaw is compelled to stand trial on such a serious charge, although he is confident she wdll be exonerated. Mr. Fort is anxious to coming Christmas will be a happy one indeed for Warren. AVbeii the doors of the big prison first closed behind Warren the civil war had not commenced, railroad transportation wuis in its infancy, and such coiiiiiion conveniences of the present day as the telephone, the eiec- , . . . . -trie car, the automobile and the type- writer, .were unheard of,, not to men- iid detectives at work, the skyscraper buildings, ^reless telegraphy, fiying machines, submarine boats and a hundred and one other things Avitb which the present genera tions is familiar. Convicted of Wife Murder. Wife iiiuider w’as the crime for from gaining a living was received with some surprise. Whether this was intended to show the sugar company had thrown over its employees in reality or only a bluff thrown at the jury to exculpate anybody higher up was a matter for considerable specu lation. BROKAW CASE CHARGES. Husband’s Counsel Alleges Extortion and Wife’s Replies With’ “Lie.” Miiieola, N. Y., Dec. 13.—Before Jus tice Putnam convened court at Mlneola for the second week of the trial of Mrs. W. Gould Brokaw’s sensational ■which Warren was sentenced to life separation suit John h . McIntyre, chief have the case disposed of and hopes ; imprison men t. One day in July, 1859, PRINCESS ALBERT OF FLANDERS. [Consort of King Leopold's heir.] father. King Leopold I. His maternal initiative. The Mexican government grandfather was King Louis Philippe has not as yet co-operated Avitb the of France. United States in the present crisis. | At the age of eighteen, in 1853, King A Mexican gunboat is on the way to Leopold married Mario Heuriette, a Corinto, according to an official dis-' daughter of the Archduke Joseph of patch from Managua received by the Austria. She died in 1902. King Leo- to have Miss Wardlaw released from jail before Christmas, provided the grand jury does not find an indictment. state department. UNCLE SAM WON’T PAY. pold’s heir is Prince Albert, son of Prince Philip, count of Flanders, broth er of the present monarch. Prince Al bert married in 1900 Princess Eliza beth of Bavaria. They have three chil- Refuses Point Blank to Give New York ! eldest of whom, Prince Leo- Fee For Government Automobile. I eight years old. There are Albany, N. Y„ Dec. 13,-Uncle Sam ' three daughters of King Leopold, two has refused poiut blank to pay the state of New’ York. $2 for an aiitomo- ; married and one unmarried. So much for the purely vital statis tics of this ruler who has been called by an authority on European matters “the most scandalous and best loved monarch on the continent.” Biography from the time that Leopold II. became king of the Belgians had to set a fast bUe license on the ground that proper ty of the United States cannot be taxed. i Some time ago Secretary of State I Koenig received an application for a li- cfiuse number and badge for mu,memo-! bUe used by Major General M ood. com- » ^tad singularly mandmg the department of the east. I indefatigable business No. 75,541 was assigned, l.u when the ; ^ secretary of state attmnptcd to codec jnedern days the license fee imposed bj the state it newspapers of the world was not forthcoming. ^g^rly two gener- TRY TO MAKE LAKE GIVE UP ITS DEAD Vessels Scootini Erie For Vlctlins et Stona BLERIOT NOT BADLY HURT. Only Bruised From His Fall From Aeroplane In Constantinople. Constantinople, Dec. 13.—The condi tion of M. Bleriot, the French aviator w’lio had a bad fall when his aero- tplane fouled the roof of a house, is ations. Made Fortune In Africa. When Henry M. Stanley returned from the depths of Africa after his at tempt to rescue Livingstone and start ed to raise money for anpther expedi tion King Leopold’s keen business sense saw a chance. He forthwith or ganized the African International as sociation, advanced vast sums from his satisfactory. His left side was bruised, and it was pocket and sent the explorer back, feared that he had sustained internal Five years Stanley was gone, but injuries, but no serious complications jdeveloped. Looking One’s Best. It’s a woman’s delight to look hei best /but pi in pies,-skin eruptions, sores and boils rob life of joy. ListenI Buck- len’s Arnica ^aWe cures them; makes the skin soft and velvety. It glorifies the face. Cures pimples. Sore Eves. CoM Sores, Cracked Lips, Chapped Htnds Try it- Infallible for Piles. 25s at C.B. Woodruff. •vsThen he returned the way was opened for Leopold to realize a profit from his investment which probably only he himself knows. The Kongo Free State, with its great resources in rubber, was established and neutralized and the sovereignty of it given to Leopold by the Berlin conference in 1885. In the management of his afteirs at home outside of financial matters Leo pold has never been particularly fortu nate. Scandal and tragedy have ever hovered about his life. At one tiine Eiie, Pa., Dec. 13.—Every available craft of any size put out of the break water here to aid in the search for survivors of the Marquette and Besse mer car ferry No. 2, which is supposed to have foundered in the middle of Lake Erie. Nine of the crew of the car ferry w’ere brought here, frozen to death, in a small ten man yaw'l in tow of the state fisheries boat Commodore.Perry. First to leave was the Perry, which succeeded after eighteen hours’ work he invited his eighteen-year-old wife to take a walk with him, and, coming to a brook near their farm in Williug- toii, a small town in Tolland county, in northeastern Connecticut, he sug gested that they take off their shoes and stockings and bathe their feet in the cool waters of the brook. zouiisel for the husband, gave to the reporters a statement which his client had written out. This is Mr. Bro kaw’s statement; “I have been grossly misrepresented by Mrs. Brokaw and by meniliers of her family. The charges have iu> foundation in fact. They wi*rc imide to injure me in the public (‘Vt* and She acquiesced, but once near the j to force a It-r.ue money si-lthmuMit. brook Warren seized her and held her head under the foot or more of water until life was extinct. Just what was the motive that ac tuated the crime none knows, and Warren himself has never talked of i the crime since he confessed and plead- j ed guilty at the time of his arrest. Knows Little of Outside World. Warren’s plea of guilty and his at torney’s earnest plea for a second de gree sentence saved his life, and he was sentenced to prison for life. War ren was taken to Wethersfield before the civil war commenced, and what has happened in the fifty years that Proposition after proi>osilicn has hceil made to me by the plaintiffs si.le to abandon this case if I sh.uil I submit to a large settlement T-f m'lntw. I have refused on each oi-Ta-i Tii. The case was instituted for ;m,; it.iir-ose— namely, to obfaiii luoiie;.. i hive fully determined not to be nie-ia- e '(\ I have never lifted my iituid a.a.tiiist my wife, nor did I ever abuse In-i. \^•llich will be shown by a mim]»er of witnesses.” Mr. Brokaw's statement was submit ted to Arthur J. Baldwin, Mrs. Bro kaw’s lawyer, in an int .-rinissiou. fl^ promptly denounced the statement Rd an “unmitigated and deliberate false* hood and consistent with the polic)'’ have elapsed since that time he hnows ^ of only indirectly and from ■v\’hat he ^ of only indirectly and from w’hat has been permitted to read. The fifty year convict shows little evidence of failing powers, either men tal or physical. Though seventy-one in towing to port the boat containing ^ years old, he looks more like a man the nine dead sailors. For the valiant i of forty-five. search made by the crew of tho little j In recent years he has been allowed boat a fund will probably be raised by considerable freedom in the institution. Conneaut and Erie people. It is believed that further boats win be picked np within the next few hours. Captain Driscoll, commanding case by unsubstantiated statements made without The sanctity of an oath.’* When Mrs. Brokaw resumed the wit ness stand she made further denials of the charges of drinking and flirting that have been made against her. Senator Raines Holds His Own. thou., never permitted to leave the was ^ u e f bF ^ prison grounds. , . ph.ysiclans attending Senator Jobh If the aged “lifer is released through hospital: “Senator the action of the board of pardons he r of the car ferry in them. I hope brothers and other members of his ------------------------ against hope that I may reach the family. It is understood that the appli-1 Saw MiU at Midnight, yawls, if there are any afloat, in time ’ cation for a pardon has been indorsed } , j # i to be of real assistance.” | by many persons of prominence, who , ITkint worked as S t Officers of the company say that the hare interested themselves In the case. -j,; gprlngs, TeSh. Such exposure gave him a severe cold that settled on his luhgsi At last had to give up work. He tried many remedies but all failed till he used Dr. KitigV New Diacoverv.” After using one bottle” he •writes,**! wCnt back to work as well as ever.” Severe colds, stubborn Coughs, inflamed throats and sore lungs Hemmorrhages, Group and Whooping Cough get quick relief and prompt cur© from this glorious medicine. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free, guaranteed bf C. B. Woodruff. loss, including cargo, will amount to $500,000. The vessel was valued at $450,000. _______________ Zelaya’s Nephew Sued, New York, Dec. 13.—Dr. Anlbal Ze laya, the twenty-six-year-old son of Jose, Zelayu-and nephew of President Zelaya “’of Nicaragua, is being sued by Miss Elizabeth .Tuliet Hero, a beauti ful Greek, twenty-one years old, for $100,000 for breach of promise. M ^ y ardeht love letters figure in the suit. Stung For Fifteen Years, by Indigestion’s pangs—trying many _ doctors and $2 000 woith of medicine in vain B. F Avseue. of Ingleside, N C.. at last used Dr. King's New Life Pills and write* they wholly cured him. They, cure Constipation, Biliousness, Siclk jHeadache* Stonaiich, Liver. Kid ney and Bowel tronbles. 25c. at C.B. Woodtttfl.