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AND LOWV/LLE TIMES. H. A. PHILUPS PUBUSH1NG COMPANY. LOWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1909. VOLUME 50. No. 28. PRESIDENT IN THE SOUTH Taft Speaks at Memorial Pennsylvania Valor. to Guest at Banquet—Praises the South and Talks of Its Great Business Future and Its Relation to the Tariff After his speech at the dedication of the shaft or memorial tablet at Fort Stedman erected by the state ot Penn- sylvania to the soldiers who lost their lives in the blood/ fight around the old breastwork* he returned to Petersburg where there wa3 a parade in which regular artillerymenjrorn Fort Monroe, Confederate veTerans, Union veterans and local military organizations took part. More than 1,100 men were guests at an outdoor luncheon given in Mr. Taft's honor in the grounds of the Centre Hill mansion. One hundred tables were set on the lawn, each table having Beats for ten persons. On the long portico of the mansion werq tables ~at which President Taft, Governors Swanson and Stuart and the principal guests sat. There was much cheering when the President appeared on the portico. At the end of the luncheon there were toasts to Pennsylvania, Virginia and Petersburg, responded to by Gov. Stuart. President Edwin Alderman of the University of Virginia and W. B. Mcll.vaine. of this city. Gov. Swanaon was toast-master. Dr. Alderman's ad- dress was particularly eloquent and President Taft applauded frequently during its delivery. After the toasts the President and the luncheon guests went to the lawn at the rear of the mansion, where Mr. Taft delivered an address from a stand erected oTTarknoll. The lawn presented a pretty scene with several hundred Petersburg school chil- dren grouped in the form of a keystone in honor of the Pennsylvania visiors; \Virginia Welcomes Pennsylvania\ was the legend formed in large letters of red. white and blue mounted on standards erected on the lawn. The school children sang \America\ and \Dixie\ and cheered the President heartily. The President's statement that it had been a great day for the whole country and that he knew the cheers were sin- cere for the Pennssylvania veterans as they passed along the streets was greeted with loud shouts of approval. Once when he spoke of \the war be- tween the States\ a man in the crowd called out: \That's the right name!\ Mr. Taft spoke in part as follows: ] could not but feel as I sat and listened to the truthful and unexaggerated statements of Virginia heroism, of Vir ginia sentiment, of Virginia ability, made by President Alderman, that Vir- ginia had a right to the feeling of pride in her past, and had a right to the strength of sentiment that unites Vir- ginians wherever they are. I heard something about the declara- j tion of independence in Philadelphia! when Virginia and Pennslyvania were j the only ones for a time to respond..but I am going to North Carolina to-morrow (laughter) and I want you gentlemen to '• understand that with reference to dec- larations of independence there are; other pebbles on the beach (laughter i and applause,) and my brother Alder- —man-had-betterbe-a-ltttleeareful -in- his expressions committing himself too much to the Virginia and Pennslyvania declarations when he visits the home of his nativity (applause.) Now. there is not the slightest doubt that the danger to the country that arose in the Spanish war united the South to the North in a way that noth- ing else could. It put a touch of the common country in all of us, and I be- lieve that more than one single thing it has made us a united country (ap- plause.) But, my friends, a national war is just a bit expensive in point of money and blood, and I think we have go to the point where we can go on getting closer and closer without that - supreme test that a national \**jkb rings about. (Applause.) yr We must look forward to training up j those virtues, less heroic,less spectacu- : lar, if I may use that expression, but \ quite as essential to the building- up of j a great people, and a people of great character, as the test of courage and warlike and martial ardor. We must have the economic spirit of self-re- ' straint, of providence. We must culti- vate the unselfish desire to promote the public weal every day and every week,- and not every three or four years. (Applause.) I don't know anythingr about politics —(laughter)—such a day as this. I think we ought to exclude it; but it is a little difficult to keep away from the line, so that some gentlemen, less gen- erous than my friend, the Governor of Virginia, may not assume that there is a little politics in what I am going to say. )Laughter)' I believe it is possible if we all strive — in the same spirit to make this one common country for us, to make it so in every respect. (Applause.) I know that a very sensible and patriotic Northerner can sit and listen to the tales of heroism of the Southerner in ; the war between the States and feel j proud of the the deeds that were done | by the men-of the-Sunny South in that contest. (Applause.) And I know that tfre-sensi b*e men of~the South—cnr do the same thing with respect to the re- counting of the glorious deeds of the Northern army in the same contest. But, my dear friends, you will always find in a community some extremists who get as far apart from each other as possible. You will always find some fool at one end of the crowd saying something that a fool at the other end of the crowd takes as a challenge, and then they try to stir up the middle by some altogether thoughtless statement that we know sensible men would not pay any attention, to (applause) and therefore what we have got to do is to restrain the fools. (Laughter.) Now, my friend, I should like to go on and talk about the business future of this great South. I am not going to be mean enough to say that a tariff for revenuejs just the same as a tariff for protection!fit reaches the same amount (laughter and applause), but what I am going to say is that if a man in Alabama is in favor of $2 on lumber for re'-fme and a man in Washington is in fa •cfr of $2 on lumber for protection they haven't any great amount of dis- pute between them as to the duty they want to have put on lumber. I am not in favor of $2 on either Alabama or the Washington lumber, but we are working together by a little different road. I appreciate some criticism in some of your southern newspapers of a fail- ure to appreciate on the part'of your southern representative the grand old principles of free trade. Well, I am in -favor of upholding any principle by a representative that the people he rep- ressents are in favor of, but I assume that your distinguished representatives in Congress are perhaps as familiar with what your people desire as the leading newspapers of the same terri- tory. I only refer to these things to point out that were getting togethe rand that we are going to have ultimately two parties,a nucleus for each in every state to hold the other in a sort of proper condition to do business properly and that when we have reached that condition we shall go on to prosperity, prosperity such as we deserve if we up- hold as we must the standard of politi- cal and official integrity and insist on that in every respect, whether it be in Washington, in the White House, in your Governor's chair, in Congress, in the-SenateiOn the beneh.or in the-State Legislature. (Applause.) , Now, my friends, 1 count this a great day, not in the history of Petersburg alone,not in the history of Virginia and Pennsylvania, but in the history of the country,for I believe it cannot but con- duce to a closer union of Northern and Southern hearts in a common love for the country for which we are all will- ing, if necessary, to die. r THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Items of Interest from Glorious Gotham. Against a Puritan Sunday—Ready for Riots—Betting Buds—Farming for Fun—>Drawing Devery. New York, May 25.—For the first time in tne history of Gotham the Sun- day sentiment of its four million of people will be put to a real test at the end of this week on the great play- grounds of Coney Island. Whether or not the army of pleasure seekeis that invade the sea shore for the Sundays of GOVERNOR'S VETOES. Governor Hughes Hat Vetoed Special Bill Calling for $3,425,650. The following list comprises some of the items vetoed: For expenses of the National Guard in connection with the obsequies of Gov. George Clinton, $3,650; in connec- tion with centennial celebration at Nunda and Salamanca, $155 56; in con- nection with the inauguration of the governor on January 1, 1909, $2,703.09. Of these items the governor says: \Those may be charged against the general fund.\ For the repair and improvement of highways, as follows: On. various In- between Tariff Talk and Bad Weather are About the Only Drawbacks. According to the trade reviews the lengthening tariff debate and irregular weather conditions are the chief ob- structions to business development Dun's says: Almost every development, except the lengthening debate on the tariff, is favorable, and the gains made in spite of the tariff disturbance are a fair in- dication of what may be expected when that i3 out of the way. The domestic agricultural conditions are excellent, and yet the prices of farm products continue to advance. The area of im- provement in iron and steel is rapidly widening, and a notable event of the week is the restoration of wages by the independent producers. The reports of the railroads are of steadily increasing business, and the latest earnings show a gain of 14.9 per cent, over last year, the decrease, as compared with 1907,being 12.8,per cent. Nothing discloses the expansion of trade from the recent narrowing de- pression more signally than the bank clearings, which, outside of New York, were 19.4 per cent, greater than last year and 16.8 per cent, better than in 1906, the record in New York showing gains of 19.4 and 16.7per cent., respec- tively. The reports of the principal cities are generally cheerful. The dry goods market probably reveals the effect of the hesitation due to penning tariff legislation as rriuch as any other. Bradstreet's says: Weather con- ditions continue irregular, but a change for the better has occurred in staple crop conditions and retail business is slightly improved, though disappointing and showing evidences of the depression heretofore evident. Record business from jobbers and wholesalers has been rather quite, but there is, if anything, a more assured optimism jpermating the reports as to the outlook for next fall and winter's trade. The agricultural situation indicates favorable progress. Best reports as to retail trade come frorxLthfejipperLpar±_o£ the gxeat.. cen- tral valley and its tributaries. At wholesale, preparations for a good trade later on are found in a number of lines. Lowered prices for iron and steel have brought out the business, and values of finished products tend to stiffen. Iron mills are increasing the wages of employees. TAX ON SUGAR TOO HIGH. Senator Clay Say* We Have Paid to the Sugar Trust in 12 Year* $660,000,000. Washington, May 22. —Senator Clay, of Georgia, denounced the sugar trust in a speech on the tariff bill in the Sen- ate and urged a substantial reduction in the rates of duty in the Dingley act on raw and refined sugar. The Ameri- can people, he said, were great con- sumers of sugar. Only a small amount of the sugar consumed in this country, he declared, was produced here. The total amount of beet sugar produced in this country last year was only 440,200 tons and the total amount of cane sugar,was only 33,5000 tons. The tariff on sugar, Mr. Clay de- clared.in 1907 cost the American people $54,310,082. During the last twelve years, he said, the American people have paid an annual tax on sugar of ap- proximately $500,000,000, or $600,000,- 000 in that period. The people of this country have paid in the last twelve years the sura of $660.0000,00 to the sugar trust, Mr. Clay declared. The Senate Finance Committee, he said, proposed a duty of about 80 per eent. on sugar, while many luxuries are taxed at mucn lower rates. \Why should we place a tax on sugar at nearly 80 per cent, and only 45 per cent, on automobiles?\ he inquired. \Why should we place a tax on sugar at 80 per cent, and 10 per cent, on dia- monds?\ Senator Clay charged thatt the sugar trust has repeatedly sold large quanti- ties of sugar.- for export—at jieariy .2 town are to-day vigorously lining up to have finally decided. E^ ery element in cosmopolitan New York is preparing to stand its ground with fill the force of its convictions when the law is en- forced for court interpretation at the next Sunday session of the big resort that is just opening in full blast. Never has the issue of liberal Sunday law torn the town as it is to-day divided, and the action of the courts on the ; Operation of the poliee army that is i massing to enforce the letter of half- l forgotten Sunday statutes Will precipi- j tate a crisis in public opinion. New J York is of many minds over the privil- j eges it should allow its Sunday hunters ; of happiness. Religious riots are_hourly impending thrt ughout the East' Side quarters of this city to-day where the shut-down of the bakers after the long and violent strike of their men is already making loaves of Kosher bread scarcer than hens'teeth .Already the Hebrews are beginning to storm the barred doors of the idle, empty bake-shopa with wild demands for the food which their race and creed demand. Followed byturbuent crowds of striking bakery hands, the zealots of the faith are crying out for their Kosher bread with a frenzy that is stirring the whole section to restless energy. Thus far the boss bakers have remained firm in their refusal to run their shops at a loss under strike con- ditions, while all attempts at arbitra- tion have failed. It takes only a spark of this sort to set the whole East Side spirit afire and the police are now fully prepared for emergencies. With little loss of its former patron- age and attractions, the horse racing game is in full fling out at Belmont Park to-day. Though the slate-writing book is banished from the rejuvenated track, no one has yet ^found it impos- sible or even hard to make bets, big or Bmall.on the results of the races. For the rich and fashionable the tport of the thoroughbreds as retained every one of its old features and apparently all its old popularity. Though there is some falling off in the following outside the club lawns and enclosures for the big bettors, the more modset patrons of the game still seem to flock after it in considerable numbers. No sign that this resuming of race track betting will be attacked, as it was so bitterly last year.has been seen here yet and friends of the sport are freely predicting an unrestricted future for it. -With a force of many men, squads of horses and tons of implements and sup- plies. Father Knickerbocker has tc^day Just finished his spring farming which yields a constant crop of human enjoy- ment over every square foot of the big stretch of Central Park. To fit his big playground for the sight and steps, of the millions who w\U seek it through out the coming summer is always the greatest tasks for the amateur agricul- | turalists of the park department. This year a large company of \tree den- tist*-\ Tvas been over every foot of tim- ber in the great playground and set it to rights with their saws and cans of paint and cement. Other detachments of park farmers have groomed the lawns and lakeshores till they shine with brightness. For all the theory and politics that Usually impede this bit of Gotham's public farming, every- one believes its retults make it well worth while. For the first time in many moons the only \Big Bill\ Devery has boWbed up j again before the public eye; this play- ing the part of a '\molasses 1 * motorist. In language rich and rare the portly ex-police chief has taken oath before the bar of law that\this here buzz buggy of mine won't beat molasses running from the bunghole.\ So touched was the magistrate at this plea that he has held the chauffeur of the \Big Chief for higher courts, where everyone is waiting to witness Devery scientifically prove his proposition. New York will never grow dull while \Big Bill\ Devery lives aid talks in public. Mead. TWOJWEN KILLED. Fatal Accident Aboard the Launch May in Ogdensburg Hospital of Piercefield, St. Lawrence county, $2,500; between South Colton, $4,000; for the improvement of tht highway leading to the -state dam at Stillwater, Herkimer county, $6,000; for that portion of the highway in the town of Edinburg, Saratoga county, known as 'Glass Mountain Road,' $10,- 000. Of these items the governor says: \These items are placed under the head of 'Department of Public Worksl But we now have a Highway Commis- sion, and outlays for the repair and improvement of highways should be expended under the supervision of that commission and pursuant to the provis- ions of the general law If this law is inadequate.to provide for all state obli- gations, it should be amended and special items of this sort should be omitted from the supply bill.\ Expenses of legislative committees (a duplicate item,) $25,000. Improvements and alterations in the legislative rooms of the Assembly,$10,- 000. Compensation and expenses of expert accountants employed by the controller in special investigations, $5,000. Animals stock,tools,farm machinery, vehicles, etc., for the State Agricul- tural School at St Lawrence Univers- ity $10,000. Additional appropriations for print- ing and distributing; hunters' licenses, blanks, etc., together with allowance to county clerks of ft sum equal to 3 per cent, of their recelptes for hunters' licenses in addition to their actual dis- bursements, $10,000. Additional appropriation for estab- lishing additional nurseries for the pro- pagation of forest trees, $10,000. Appropriation in addition to the gen- eral fund provided for suppression of forest fires for rebates*to towns, $20,- 000. Investigations in other jurisdictions of the method of practicing forestry, etc., $5,000. Additional salary of the Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner from January 1. 1909. to September 30. 1910, $1,750. Salary of an additional stenographer in the legal department of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission, $72. Purchase of a portion of Lotus Island, inthe St. Lawrence river, $5,. For Highway Commission for clerk hire, printing and general expenses in connection with the motor vehicle law, $48.. For SV Lawrence State hospital, to purchase the WilHarn J.Morrison farm, $10,500. For^ Manhattan State Jiospital for de- ficiency fn ••aproj)riationnf^T~a3dTtional accommodations for medical staff, $6,- 000. For repairs and maintenance of two state dams and locks herein, beween Middle Saranac Lake and Oseeah Lake, on the Saranac river, $5,500. For removing stumps and dead tim- ber and improving and rendering safe the navigation of Big Tupper Lake and Raquette Pond and the channel be- tween, $10,000. For constructing-\k~ breakwater at Cranberry Lake, St. Lawrence county, $5,000. For rebuilding dam across the Black river at Carthage, $15,000. For expenses of the governor, his staff and committee of the Legislature, to attend the Alaska-Youkon Exposi- tion, $15,000. Of these items the governor says: * 'These items are objected to upon the ground that they are severally either unnecessary or unconstitutional, or, in view of the demands upon the State, are inexpedient at this time, or do not represent obligations of the State which should be recognized and discharged in this manner.\ FAKES ABOUT ROOSEVELT. Ex-President Sends Out Statement Through Correspondent. Nairobi, British East Africa,May 25. —A staff correspondent of The Associ- PresB EARLY REMINISCENCES. Origin of Names of Towns of Lewis County. The County, With Her Eighteen Full- Fledged Town*. Are Important Fac- tor* in the Empire State. Mr. Editor:—After the formation of Lewis county the settlers came in large numbers to the Black river country from New England, penetrating far- ther and father into the dense forest, consequently new towns must be organ- ized for the better carrrying on of local government. Denmark was Jhe^ftrst. to be added to the original towns, and was taken from Harrisburg in. 1807, and named after the land of the Danes, as also Copenhagen for an important city in that kingdom. Pinckney was taken from Harrisburg in 1808, and was named in honor of Charles C. Pinckney,. a distinguished statesman ot South Carolina. Messrs. Pinckney. Gerry and Marshall, were sent to France in 1797, to adjust difficulties then existing between the two govern- ments; the French government refused to receive them, but intimated that a considerable present of money would facilitate negotiations, and refusal to \ pay the bribe would lead to war. \War \ be iti then,\ replied Mr. Pinckney; \mijlions for defence but not one cent for tribute.\ They were ordered to leave France. Later a coin which for a long time passed for a cent was made, having stamped on it the follow- ing motto. \Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.\ Many of the older people will remember the Pinck- ney cent. The- residents of Pinckney may well be proud of their historical name. Watson was organized in 1821 and embraced all the territory in the coun- try eaBt of Black river and was taken from flyeyden.£ James Watson was a former owner, hence his name was adopted. Greig was organized in 1$28, being taken from Watson. It was named Brantingham.for Hopper Brantingham in whom the title was vested for a short time; afterward changed to Greig in 1832, for John Greig, of Canandaigua, who owned large tracts of land in town. Diana was organized in 1830, taken from Watson, and received this classic name in compliment to the wishes of Joseph Bonaparte, the land owner. West Turin was organized in 1830. The first Sunday school coiinty conven- tion was held that year in the Presby- terian church on Leyden hill, and of course all the children were anxious to attend. Harriet Brainerd, about my age, living in the nearest house, niece ; of Dr, Thomas Brainerd, the leading man m the \Union Volunteer Refresh- ment Saloon,\ organized in Philadel- phia during the Civil war for feeding soldiers, came and invited me to go with her to the convention; I refused, ; for I had no shoes to wear. She said i she had two pair of shoes, and I might j wear her every-day shoes. She came ; with her shoes and we went to the Sunday school convention together,two happy children. Such was child-life\\ in those daya. Lewis county now stands out as little Lewis full grown with her eighteen towns that have made her quite an important factor m theTSHSptre\ State, with the Black river canal com- pleted in. 1850, and Utica and Black River railroad completed to Carthage in 1870,and formerly called by outsiders j the \sapbush railroad,\ now one of the important railroads in the State. i Henry C. Northam. Lowville, May 26, 1S09. ARE GUILTY OF CONTEMPT Supreme Court to Punish Tennessee Men. Six EARLYSE1 TIERS. Constableville Business Men Mr.. Editor-.—About the year 1840 the business men of ConBtablevilie con- sisted first and foremost of Col. Seth Miller. He had a farm and cheese fac- tory. The dairy and factory were run by one Vickery. He also ran an ashery, making crude potash. The establish- ment was worked by Xucius Pease, a brother to Diodate and Alpheus Pease, men of county fame. The firm of Miller and Duff (James C.) ran the largest village store. Col. Miller also dealt in cattle.packed pork, and bought butter and cheese for shipment. The cattle were driven on foot to Orleans county, and sold to New York city people. James Duff was a very smooth, plausible importation from Scotland. Goods were sold mostly on credit, and paid for in the fall by the sale of farm dairy and stock, or by settlement and note drawing interest. Miller & Duff were admirably adapted to work to- gether. Miller doing the outside work and collecting, while Duff smoothly sold the goods and smoothed over the passions aroused by Miller's harsh way of collection. Goods, in those days were sold on liberal profits and the firm grew rich.. The colonel was an ardent Whig and always secured the post-office when that party was in power. He taken from Turin ; it being the south- j looked after town politics and was often westerly part, was named West Turin. Croghan. was organized in 1841, taken from Diana; named in honor of Col. George Croghan,born in Louisville.Ky.; Berved in the battle of Tippacanoe and also with Gen. Taylor in the Mexican v ar. Usceola was organized in 1844, taken from West Turin . The name was sug- gested by a Miss Jay, of New York, afterward Mrs, Henry E. Pierrepont, and in memory of the Indian chief who for years was a terror in conducting the Seminole war, which lasted some time. The Indian chief (Osceola) was captured in 1827 confined at Fort Moultrie. near Charleston, till his death, which occurred in 1838. A re- membrance of the Florida Seminole war is perpetuated in the name ofa Lewis elected supervisor and dictated or selected the other town officers. He was not a man of wide information but a thorough looker after home interest Thomas W. McLane, superintendent of a Utica cotton factory, moved into town and started a store in company with Robert W. Bennet, at one time shoemaker in Oneida county. They were nice men, but their little capital and Miller & Duff's long credit, made a failure and closed out business, los ing their less than $2,000 capital. Mc- Lane moved away and died a poor man. While he lived in €he village he and his wife led the church choir. He played the bass viol in church, by the use of an artificial hand of his own invention Be- cured to the stump arm at the wrist. Their little daughter Susan lost her county town. New Bremen was organized in 1848, and was taken from Watson and Cro- han. No particular reason for its name, unless to make it attractive to European emigrants. A village built up in this town was formerly called Day- ansville, named for Charles Day an, who was then agent for Mr. LeRay, who owned a large tract of land here i The post-office was Dayanaville for' many years. \\Montague was organized in 1850 and r was taken from West Turin, and named ' for Mary Montague Pierrepoint, the daughter of a large land owner, at that time. LewRwas oryanzed in 1852,and was taken from Leyden and West Turin. No better name being presented the name of the county was adopted. High market was formed from West Turin in 1852. All this tract of land had formerly been called Kiaba, which many of the older inhabitants will re- member. Many of the inhabitants wished to have it .called Sligo, but some one suggested that it have a name that would distinguish it from all others, and, Highmarket was the name and has proven a success. Lyonisdale was organized in 1873, taken from Greig, and was named for the Lyon family. Caleb Lyon, sr., settled at Lyonsdale in 1819, was Mr. Greig's land agent for the Brantingham tract, and was very successful. The writer remembers of his sudden death in 1835. He started for Turin on s.gh^through-watching_ aboy^thiow^- _teW»*-df Mtv-Sfcipp's going to^the-jaiU ^W rows into the sky. The return arrow j U8t ice Peckham said: \The sheriff'* Si- put out one eye and sympathy with was 63 years of age at this time and oo . .vC§& other eye destroyed the sight She was account of hisphyscial condition unable- :• 'f^. in any < vent to have offered any great ^|? resistance.\ ~ ,\ '\>i?A; & lively little girl and everybody was sympathetic. After many years Duff withdrew from the firm. Miller had other partners and at day of death the firm was Miller & Son. During the early partnership of Duff he went to Scotland to collect money left by the death of a relative. He caught the amaLl-r.QX on his return across the water home. Col. Miller's TollTs cared for him in their own house and more then took the disease. Only one person in the vil- lage took it, and that was Nathan Dex- ter, the village blacksmith's boy. The little fellow had trouble cutting his teeth. Dr. McVickar had just come from Duff's bedside, and mounted his sulky. The father \ laced the boy vp in the sulky for the doctor to see his swollen gums. The lad caught it and came near dying. Now another singu- lar part of the matter. The black- smith's house was small—a kitchen and a little bedroom and pantry-below, with an open fire place. The boy was in the little bedroom. Several small brother's and sister slept up stairs. The father and mother cared for all.. The father working in his shop every day. None of the family caught the disease, and there was not another case in the vil- liage, or surrounding country. L. L. Fajrchild, Rolling Prairie, Dodge CoJWis. Suprcme^Court Had Granted Appeal in Ca«e of Negro Under Sentence of Death in Tenneuee—Night Following Court'* Action Negro Wu Taken From Jail by Mob Without Resistance by Sheriff and Deputies. Washington, May 24.—For the first time in so serious a case, the Supreme Court of the United States will, Tues- day of next week, undertake to mete out punishment for the crime of con- tempt of the court itself, and the im- portance of the occasion will be en- hanced by the number of the defend- ants. The proceedings will be in connection with the cases of Sheriff Shipp and Deputy Sheriff Gibson of Hamilton county, Tennessee, and of four other residents of that county,named respec- tively WilliamB, Nolan, Padgett and May. These men were to-day declared by the court to be guilty of an act of contempt in combining in 1905 in con- spiracy to lynch a negro named John- son. Johnson had been sentenced to death by the lennesste torn is on the charge of rape and in whose case the Supreme Court had interferred to the extent of granting an appeal which had the effect of a supersedeas. The night following the announce- ment of the court's action Johnson waa taken out of .tKe~Jait*in Chattanooga by a mob and lynched. There was no re- sistance on the part of the jail authori- ties, and Shipp and a numLer of his deputies, as well as about 20 citizens, , were proceeded against on the charge of contempt of the United States Su- preme Court. The case has been pend- ing ever since and the number of de- fendants was from time to time reduced to nine. Of these nine, three were to- day found guiltless and the other six are to be brought into court Tuesday of next week. The case is regarded as of exceptional interest because it is practically the first time^ the highest courtt in the United States has ever undertaken to assert its dignity or to resist acts or words reflecting upon it. In one pre- vious case some years ago a defendant was fined for some expression of con- tempt, but the case was eo compara- tively insignificant as practically to leave the present proceeding standing alone. In the cases of SheriffTShipp and Deputy Gibson the court in effect de- clares that there rr.ay be conten.pt in a failure of officers of the law to pre- vent a crime in contempt of the court and in taking cognizance of.an offense at so great a distance, the' court for the first time asserts by action its right to compel the proper respect for and treatment of its verdicts in all patta of the Union. In the dissenting opinion of Justice Peckham, concurred in by Justice White and McKenna, it was held that there was no evidence whatever con- necting Sheriff Shipp or his deputy with ai y part in the lynching conspir- acy. After detailing all the circum- stances leading up to the lynching and ••& •\&. n •'••-'•:}& 'i*: PROTOCOL WITH NICARAGUA. ated Press returned to Nairobi this morning after a two days' visit at the horseback, and when within about one Roosevelt camp as the gue t of Mr. ~* \\ u \* : ~ ' T \*~\\~ V ~ :J — Roosevelt. * The camp waB on 'the Henry Purtell and Peter Wadenhoff., chief engineer of the gasoline launch Ida May, met death Saturday by the explosion of a compressed air tank for- ward of the engine and beneath the floor of a stateroom on the boat. At cents a pound less than the price quoted in the domestic market. The average wholesale price of granulated sugar in Hamburg for 1908, Mr. Clay declared, was 2.64 and in New York 4.96 cents per pound. Passes Philippine Tariff. Washington, May 24.—The republi- cans of the House to day again took matters into their own hand and with a sudden show ^>f strength passed the Philippine tariff bill, the consideration of which had been concluded two weeks ago, referred the message of the Presi- dent regarding Porto Rico affairs to the committee on ways and means and devoted some time to a discussion of the bill amending the laws of Porto Rico so as to divest the Legislature of certain^authority. Wnen fie body met \Mr. Macoh (Dem.~ ArkTY made\\his* usual point of no quorum, but Majority Leader Payne, instead of moving an adjournment, as he had done hereto- fore, forced a call of the House and a quorum appeared within a short tirre. The feature of the day was a speecn of considerable length by Mr. Larri- naga. the Porto Rican commissioner, vigorously opposing the bill affecting the island represented by him, and de- nouncing the executive council or upper branch of the Legislature of Porto Rico. The bill was pending when the House at 2:27, adjourned until Thursday. —Just as insects and disease attacks a weak, sickly plant, so misfortune heaps upon a nan who is do\vn t the lime oX the_fixplosioji the_ Aay at the St Lawrence river dock back of the International Harvtster Co's. build- ings in Ogdensburg. Her seams were I opened by the concussion and she now lies on the bottom of the river in shal- low water. The men were horribly mangled. The Ida May was 80 feet in length and developed 500 horse power, being the largest gasoline cruiser on the St. Lawrence. She Vas owned by the late Joseph Corrigan, the Cleveland, O., oil magnate who had a home opposite Waddington and owned a fleet of pleas- ure craft. Mr. Corrigan's death becur- red last winter. The air tank which caused the explosion was used in.start- ing the gasoline engine. Wadenhoff was 28 years of age and a resident of Bridgeport, Conn. He was unmarried. Purtell was 32 years old and a noted -powerboat engineer;—He—was-to—sail the motor boat Standard at the inter- national power boat race on the Medi- terranean last fall,going there for that purpose.- An accident to the Standard prevented her competing. His home is in Cleveland but he had been on the St. Lawrence for the past, three or four seasons. Fie leaves a widow and chil- dren. Five Babies at One Birth. Eau Claire, Wis. May 25.—The wife of Fay Irish, of Thorp, Clark county, Friday gave birth to five babies, three daughters and two sons. All are alive and well. There are no^V ten children in the family. The other five were born separately and all are living. Heatley ranch on the banks of the Nairobi river. Mr. Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, are in remarkably good health, and they are delighted with the success of the expedition. The accuracy of the rifle fire of Mr. Roosevelt and his son has astonished not only the settlers, but the members ot the party. Kermit killed recently at |-close-range- him, and he has also eome very near making a record bag of female wart- hogs in a given space of time.. To-day the party is staying at. the Heatley ranch, but to-morrow Mr.\ Roosevelt, his son and Edmund Heller are coming into Nairobi. Maj. Meams^and J. Alden Loring will remain at the Ju Ja ranch until Wednesday, collecting birds and mam- mals. Mr. Roosevelt is annoyed at certian special dispatches which it is reported here are appearing in American or En- glish newspapers. He requests The Associated Press to send out the fol- lowing statement: A \No newspaper has a representative with the Roosevelt party, nor any nearer means of gaining information of the _P. art i f beyond what^ is generally knowril Any specfardispatehees a ing are in all human probability sheer inventions. Moreover, the details which purport to he thus obtained can only be due to bribery, and it is safe to state that a dishonorable man giving a bribe and a dishonorable man accepting the same would be willing to invent un- truths for money or traffic in other forms of dishonor.\ mile of what is known as Davis bridge] across Black river he dismounted from i his horse, sat down and was soon found : dead. Such sudden deaths were rarely j heard of in those days, and every body ! was shocked at the sad news. His sons j were Lyman R.,. of Lyons Falls and! Caleb, who lived for many years at Lyonsdale. The family name has no representative now in this country. Mr. Lyon^was in the Assembly in 1824 and was an intimate friend of DeWtt TAFT'S VISIT TO GETTYSBURG. Will Attend Monday Dedication Monuments to Regular Army. of hyena-^a^hadr:vftttaci»edT Clinton ; he advocated at that time the building of the Black river canal, but did not live to see his plan carried out. It is quite difficult for this generation to realize a time when there were no railroads in this State. The New York Central was commenced in 1830, and completed between Albany and Schen- ectady in 1831: in a few years it completed to Utica. Previous to the farmers of Lewis county drew their grain and other produce on sleighs to Albany, their nearest market at that time; cattle were fattentd, driven to Albany and taken to New York on boats. Just a few reminiscences may be interesting here. The record of 1816 contains the following. \Long memorable as the cold season. The spring was mild and a few days of April oppressively warm. This was followed by cold and frost every month Gettysburg, Pa. May 26.—Arrange- ments have been completed for the dedication on the battlefield of Gettys- burg next Monday afternoon of the monument erected by act of Congress to commemorate the services of the regular army-of the United States in the Gettysburg campaign of June and July, 186?.- President Taft will be the central figure in the ceremonies and will deliver the oration. Miss Helen H. Taft, the President's daugh- ter, will unveil \the monument. The President will arrive in Gettys- burg Monday morning from Pittsburg was land will be met by a committee of that' prominent citizens of the historic town and will be escorted by United States regulars. Secretary of War Dickinson will de- liver an address and transfer the monu- ment to the Gettysburg National Park Commission. The memorial will be ac- cepted by Lieut. Col. John P. Nichol- son, chairman of the commission. Following the placing lauiel wreaths —Watertown has a trades school where children are taught for a penny a lesson. The progress made is very gratifying and the school is filled with youngsters who are learning to be self supporting. —The world is full of amateurs who are claiming to be professionals. rally I xouowea uy coia ana irosc every montn ^^rfof-the-summeis In-Pinckney-it-snowed- ! and drifted like winter; June 6th, 7th, 8th, the snow lay ankle deep in .the! fields and many newly shorn sheep perished.\ \May 14, 1S34, snow three feet deep in drifts in Denmark, and on the 8th nearly as deep; plum and cherry trees in blossom were broken down with snow, and many trees were killed by frost.\ The writer remembers that year very well. He and about twenty-five others were in school that day, all bare foot, and it snowed fifteen inches that day in Leyden. Sleighs came for the chil- dren at night. A pleasing reminis- cence of the next year, 1835, will be appropriate here, although personal. g pg at the base of the monument by the oldest n gimental or battery commander in the Gettysburg campaign attending the dedication, President Taft will re-, view \the troops on the field.. The monument is a beautiful shaft 85 feet high, surrounded at the base Iby a broad granite terrace. It stands on Hancock avenue, a short distance south of the high water mark of the battle- field of Gettysburg. The monument represents all of the 43d Cavalry, the artillery, infantry and engineer organ- izations of the regular army that par- ticipated in the campaign. In addition there has been erected a smaller monument, seven feet high, for each of the commands at the position- it occupied during the battle. The large central monument and the 40 smaller memorials are all appropriately in- scribed. Secretary Knox and Nicaragua'* Rep* recentative Attach Names to Agree - men! for-Settling Every Claim. Washington, May 25.—A protocol for submission to arbitration of Emery claim was signed at 8:30 o'clock to-night with representatives of the Nicaraguan government at the home of • Secretary of State Knox. . V r In the protocol is a provision that\\. • during four months from May 25 the* ;: representatives of Nicaragua will ha*e the opportunity to endeavor to reach, a definite settlement of the claim di- rectly with the company,subject to the. , approval of the government of 'the^ United States. Failing in such-set--!'^ tlement the course of arbitration will . begin at the expiration of the four -;' months. i The claim, which has been long pend- - ! ing, arose out of the annulment by Nic-^; aragua of a concession granted, for 2 J cutting mahogany becuase of an alleged violation of its\ provisions. About two '% weeks ago Pedro Gonzales arrived, in. •'\'' Washington as a special messenger from President Zelaya.of Nicaragua.-to^ settle the claim either by compromise; • or by arbitration. Soon after Secre- :• tary Knox came into office he sent to---^ Mr Espinoza, Nicarapuan minister in*. ' Washington, a communication generally* j regarded as an ultimatum, whereupon President Zelaya announced the ap- pointment of Mr. Gonzales as special ambassador to settle the claim. In receiving Mr. Gonzales on May 17 - last, President Taft said to him in part: \When performing the acts which constitute, your, mission_JL_nee|d__- not assure you that you will be received^ £• and kindly disposition which has always 1 ^ characterized the attitude of the United - States toward Nicaragua, and which, V coupled with mutual trust, sincerity . and regard for justice, iB the only sure ; ground of continued relations.\ Pc»t-Office Safe Cracked. Syracuse, May 25.— Thepost-ofT.ee at Elbridge, about 16 miles west of Syra- cuse, was entered by burglars early to- day, the safe was blown open and about $1,000 in stamps and cash taken. The money order book and two registered letters were also carried away, • The Bafe was almost a complete wreck. _The work jwaa evidently that of professionals. Tools were taken from a blacksmith shop. The Bafe was in the front window and a light, was burnitf.; The office clock..stopped at__ 3:27 a. m. lived 152 Year.. Wm. Pair—England's oldest man— - married the third time at 120, worked in the fields till 132 and lived 20 years longer. People should be youthful at 80. James Wight, of Spourlock, Ky., shows how to remain young. \I feel Just like a 61-year-old boy,\ he writes, \after taking six bottles of Electric Bitters. For thirty years kidney trouble made life a burden, but the first bottle of this wonderful medicine con- vinced me I had found the greatest cure on earth.\ They're a godsend to weak, sikely rundown or old people. Try them. 50c at F. C. Snyder's, m- ...:<;ji^r •Jt .'- -i'.t \ ;;-./';p\^'*-Vi'V'^- r \k^^
