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AND LOWVILLE TIMES. H. A. PHILLIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY. LOWVILLE, N. Y., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1909. VOLUME BO. No. 36. TIRED OF THE TARIFF. i James J. Hill, President of the Great Northern R. R., Talks. TAFT AS ARBITRATOR. Tariff Nothing to Do With the Price of Breadstuffs—Not a Local Issue. , Waahingon, July 17.—\Jim\ Hill dropped into Washington the other day, with a flannel suit and a palm leaf fan and adapted himself to the ways of the community. He just stepped away from a fishing camp in Labador on hie way West to look after his enormous interests. ' His first move was to take off his coat and comment on the weather. He spent the evening telling John Carroll, his personal attorney, and a half dozen friends all that he has seen and enjoyed in Labrador. He visited President Taft and chatted for a few minutes. Then he went up to Capitol Hill and told \l^ncle Joe\ Cannon, one of his cronies, the precise dimensions of a salmon he had caught and ordered ship- ped to the Speaker packed in a big lot of ice. \The tariff,\ he laughed wheri that omnipresent Washington bugaboo was paraded before him. ' \Why I haven't read it. I am tired of the tariff. All they want is to have the talk about the tariff stopped so that the procession can move on. \No the procession is not standing still. Things are going along nicely. Business is better than it was and busi- ness is getting better. \The passage of the Tariff bill isn't going to stimulate it to any great ex-, tent. It's the politicians who see the great importance in the tariff. A few interests may get together—-I do not know that they have—and.keep it up. But this cannot last always. \Not this tariff, but the tarhT as an issue,\ he continued. \It's politics— too much politics. The sooner the people come to know how little the tariff has to do with prices they will know that the tariff is not a local issue, but concerns all the people.\ '.'Why don't they realize it now if it is so apparent?\ he was asked. \Well a man can't be a bolter; he must so along with the procession un- less he is big enough to go along by himself.\ \How about the prospects for crops?\ \Uood. Not for an extraordinary crop, but for a valuable crop. It will he a crop which will yield money. Wlwat will bring a good price and the farmers will be well compensated for his labor. It is not an inflated price; it is not due to speculation. It is the actual value, of the foodstuff of the world. \The tariff has nothing to do with the price of wheat. This country is growing: at the rate of about 2,000,000 a year. It takes on an average of 15,- 000,000 of bushels of wheat more each yeacta.~feed them. AB the country grows the necessity of the home mar-/ ket increases, and the world price of wheat must be paid in our country. - \The price pf wheat in the United States is made from the price of the surplusLof the United States. Argentine,, Australia. Russia and Canada. In- creasing demand and decreasing supply mean higher prices. That's all there is to it. You cannot tax a loaf; the tariff has nothing to do wth the price of wheat; that price is made in the j market of the world/ -..._.[ \Sixty-five per cent, of our people I art- living in the cities. Only 35 per cent, are tilling the soil. That 35 per cent, cannot consume the manufactures of the 65 per cent. We must have mar- ket for our mnufactures. After All, there are but four sources of wealth— the sea, the forest, the mine and the farm. You cannot fix the prices of their products by statute. \If a farmer can get 65 cents a bushel fort his corn he is not going to feed it to hogs to have them die of the cholera. Consequently the price of meat is going up, and the wage-earner will have turn to breadstuff for his food. This is true throughout the world. Belgium is a good example. There the people have trebled the per capita con- sumption of grain. • \The cost of living is the proof of the tariff theory. If the time is not her it is not far distant when the people will see that it is the demand for sup- ply that makes the prices of food-stuffs and not the tariff. As for the profit of the tariff, it's the great middle class 1 that we must consider—the people of moderate fortune, professional men and all those who enjoy a fixed income. When we hear their side of the tariff it.is another story.\ \When will we get to that point?\ \When the cost of living equals the income then the people will learn that the tariff is not a local issue. Then there will be re-es^ablishment of the natural laws regulating costs, and profits. Just now the people expect big- things. The Government needs a lot o/ money. The tariff produces much revenue. With that revenue the people are acustomed to seeing a great deal - of money. \And right along this line,\ con- cluded Mr. Hill as he got into a taxicab and started for his train, \now would be good-time to begin practicing a lit- tle economy.\ CURTISS' LONGEST FLIGHT. Senator Aldrich and Chairman Payne Have a Three Hours' Talk With the President With a View to a Settle- ment of Their Differences. Washington, Juy 19.—President Taft has already found it necessary to as- sume his role of umpire, arbitrator and referee of dispute in the Tariff Confer- ence Committee. Finding themselves unable to agree on the corporation tax amendment, Senator Aldrich and Chairman Payne, the leaders of the Senate and House conferees, respectively, went to the White House and for three hours talked the matter over with the President, As a result it is expected that the draff of this amendment which has been prepared by Attorney General Wickersham, will be forwarded to the committtee. Despite the pronounced opposition to this tax by the House of. Representa- tives, who prefer their own inheritance tax provisions, there is little doubt that eventually the President's plan will be accepted. In its new form the tax on earnings of corporations will be one per cent, on all over $5,000 and will specify just what deductions may be made by mutual benefit and insurance companies and will exempt all fraternal and build- ing and loan associations, which are really mutual concerns and are not or- gnized for the benefit of the promoters. The President's preference for the cor- poration tax,- however small in amount, for that on inheritance, is due to his belief that it will enable the Federal Government to exercise a greater de- gree of supervisory control over stock corporations and prevent the evils of stock watering and the juggling of their business statements by a few in- siders for their own benefit. Another matter which was appealed to the President was that a part of the bill authorizes the President to employ experts to secure tariff facts to guide him in enforcing the maximum and minimum provisions. The House conferees think they see in this the entering -wedge for the creation of a tariff commission which may eventually take away from the House part of its prerogatives of origi- nating revenue, raising legislation. They have received assurances, how- ever, on.thia-point, and will interpose no further objections to the Senate amendments Save Insect Eaters. Protection of the insect-eating OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Items of Interest from Glorious Gotham. MULTI-MILLIONAIRES. Roosevelt Declares They Are Not a Healthy- Development. AROUND THIS BIG STATE. Brief News Paragraphs From the North, South, East and West. Tunnelimr the Hudson—Farmers Friends —Baseball Bent—Canine' Cops -\Pinching Posies. New York, July 19.—Setting at naught the great watery gap of the Hudson River, four subaqueous bores | are to-day for the first time shooting j hundreds of thousands of travelers to J and from the Jersey coast and both j upper and lower Manhattan. With this J latest outward reach of the burrowing traction octopus New Yorkers are get- ting their first taste of the modern under ground systems that will soon Bend them speeding under land and water _to the uttermost parts of the greater city and its suburbs. Through five monster tunnels, beneath river and bay, hundreds of sou la are now being propelled each minute to the far shores in the evening rush hours. Halfea dozen more bores and three great bridge spans are to-day almost made ready to serve as additional channels for the growing traffic-across the water. Gotham has suffered shamefully for decent means of transit for genera- tions ; but the end aeems to be near at hand at last. Millions of caterpillera are to-day, shipped to Washington from the water front where they have been arriving at the rate of two thousand every day in the holds of the incoming liners. Each fuzy worm contains a precious parasite with which the Government authorities hope to do something toward checking the devastation of the gypsy moth that has already cost the farmers of New England many million of dollars. While birds, whose destruction caused a crop loss of almost a billion dollars to this country in the last year, will be made a campaign issue throughout the na- tion as the result of a general move- ment which was organized in New York a few days ago. Backed by the granges and other bodies representing the farmers, orchardists, ranchmen and planters of every section of the land, the National Association of Audubon Societies is preparing to obtain from every present and prospective repre- sentative of the people in every state in the Union definite declarations of . their stand on thiflquestion of the con-- 8 *£* nd - a ee-its idols4>lay^ servation of the bird resources of the commonwealth. Where the forces of the milliners have been able to exert political pressure to legalize their poaching upon the feathered guardians of the crops, the people will rise this year to demand that their own inter- ests be protected, it was declared by leaders of this new campaign. Representing an industry valued, at less than $12,000,000, a few Broadway feather dealers have just succeeded in defeating in thi3 State the Francis bill for the protection of the insect-eating birds, behind which agricultural inter ests worth over half a billion dollars were solidly arrayed. In spite of the united efforts of the 83,000 farmers re- presented in the State Grange and the Audubon workers, who were backed by the press and people of almost every community in the state, it was reported that the hiring of a lawyer \whose political influence was undoubtedly used to prevent any open consideration of the bill on the floor of either branch of the legislature\ had with other machinations of the milliners resulted in legalizing for another year their traffic in property that belongs to the State, As a first step in the general national campaign for the birds whp guard the cropF. the record of each legislator on this matter will be sub- mitted to his constituents and every effort made to secure from each dis- trict in this State representatives at Albany next year who \will be pledged to heed this strong demand from their agricultural supporters. LIGHTNING IS HOT STUFF. England,—Germany and Austria are\ being scoured in the desperate hope of making these parasites serve to check the moth plague all the Empire State is to-day alarmed by its sudden invaaion just over £he border line not fifty miles above this city. New York has never roused its Legislature to properly pro- tect the birds that are known to con- sume these insects pests in great quan- tities. Through the efforts of the National Association of Audubon So- cieties to guard by stricter laws theBe rapidly waning bird races have never fully succeeded, it is now hoped that the farmer at last recognize the feather- ed insect-eaters as his best friends. With tens of thousands of maddened rooters encircling the base ball grounds every day and hundreds of thousands following each turn of the game by bulletin., Gotham is to-day more roused over the national sport than ever in the histoy of the town. No feature of the summer has proved more impressive this year than the phenomenal spread of this interest in the diamond to every corner of the town. Fully 70,000 fans were clamouring to see a recent conteat while only half that number could be accommodated. If the hold of*\the national sport upon the heart of .the public keeps steadfast it is prophesied that next year will aee the erection here of the greatest base ball stadium in the world, where all New York may Should be a Graded Progressive \It Would be a Particularly Good Thing if the Tax Bore Heaviest on Absentees. New York, July 19.- Declaring that the multi-millionaire is not a healthy development in the United States, but at the same time giving him full credit for his energy and ability in amassing his fortune, providing he has been' of benefit to his country and countryman while he was piling up his money, for- mer President Roosevelt has gone on record aa favoring the adoption of a progressive inheritance tax, aB a partial solution of concentrating wealth in this country. \n a copyrighted editorial in the cur- rent issue of the Outlook,) the former President says: \The worst of all is to have great poverty and great riches side by side in constant contrast. Nevertheless, even this contrast can be accepted if men are convinced that the riches are accumulated as result of great service, if their use is regulated in tbe interest of the whole community. - \The movement which has^become so strong during the past few years to secure on behalf of the Nation both an Adequate supervision of and an effectual taxation of vast fortunes so far as their business use ia concerned, is a healthy movement. It aims to replace sullen discontent, restjeas pessimism and evil aggressive by a healthy de- termination to get at thebottom of our troubles and remedy them. \To halt-in the movement, as those Remains in Air for 31 Minutes During a Trial on Long Island, New York, July 19.—Glen H. Curtiss, aviator, made a flight of 31 minutes' duration in his aeroplane at Hemstead Plains, L. I., last Friday. Curti8s alighted without mishap,say- ing that he could have remained in the air for an indefinite period. His flight is believed to be the longest ever made in the heavier-than-air machine except by the Wright brothers. It followed an earlier flight of 12 minutes' dura- tion. Curtiss' record flight waB the second of two which he made. The first was under conditions far from ideal, fog hampering the aviator to such an ex- tent that he alighted after remaining ir the air about 12 minutes. In th-j second attempt, made after the fog lifted, Curtiss, with his machine apparently under perfect control, cir- cled again and again the three-mile H J£er_Hemp8tead 4lain« r f4naUy alighting as gracefully as a bird amid the Cheers of the crowd which had as- sembled to witness the flights. The flight is the longest on record made by any one in this country except those of the Wright brothers. Orville Wrignt made a flight of 74 minutes and 22 seconds at Fort Meyer, September 12,190?. At Lemans, France; December 31. 198, Wilber Wright remained in the air two hours and nine minutes. Man Who Was Making a Neighborly Call Had Shoes Torn From His Feet. A thunder storm growled and sput- tered over the hills and valleys south of Clinton for over an hour last Thurs 7 day night and about 9 o'clock broke over Clinton. The rain aid not last very long, though it soaked things up well, but the lightning was incessant and the thunder came in long rolls, which were musical to the farmers who have been worrying about brown fields. Upon Prospect Hill, a ridge so high that from it Hamilton College seems to be'in a hollow, lightning struck Arthur Law's-home. The fluid came out the chimney, tore up the oil cloth under the stove, whisked past a man who was sitting in his stocking feet, passed through two rooms and into a third, where sat George Evenden, a caller, and it snatched both shoes off his feet. The electric fluid tore them to pieces and scattered bits of leather all over the room. Mr. Evenden was somewhat shocked and dazed, but he was- able to walk to his home across the road. That dog-policeman will soon be set to patrol every district in Greater New York where houses lie few and far be- tween has been announced to-day by the police officials who have been laboring for years to make practical this novel feature of the force. Already a second generation of Airedale, Belgian and Collie pups, born and bred in the ranks, have gone out from the headquarters of the police dogs to active patrol duty in several outlying parts of town. So successful have the long trials of these canine cops proved that their place with the police is now assured and no longer an experiment, the heads of the force declare. Freedom from political in- fluence is one of the features of the dog squad; which many a man in this town to-day is wishing could be learned by the men of the department. That $50,000 worth of rhododendrons could be lifted bodily from their beds in Central Park and filched away t9 parts unknown would last week have been considered a fairy tale by all New Yorkers. To-day, however, evidence of just this fact is being presented down at police headquarters. An auto, a cop, a chaffueur and a lady with a country greenhouse are apparently all that were necessary to work out this remarkable transition. Everything that is not nailed down or locked up has evidently become easy prey to the progressive crook in this town. _. Mead WESTON'S LONG WALK. blinded men wish who care only for the immediate relief from all obstacles which would thwart their getting what ia not theirs, would work wide reaching damage. Such a halt would turn away men who desire to reform matters from a legitimate object into the channel of bitter destructive agitation. \The reader of Prince Kuropatkin's memoirs must be struck by the damage wrought to Russia by the wise oppo- nents of all reform, who by opposing every sensible movement for better- ment, turned the energies of the young men, who, under happier conditions would have worked for rational better- ment, into the channels of useless and destructive revolutionary movement. \The multi-millionaire isiiot per Be a healthy development in this country. If his fortune rests on a basis of wrong doings he is a far more dangerous crimi- nal than any of the tyt>es ot ordinary criminals can be. If his fortune is the result of a great service rendered, well and good; he deserves respect and re- ward for such service—although we must remember to pay our homage to the serwice i.Uell*nd not to tfee .for- tune, the mere reward for the service, but when his fortune is passed on to some one else who has not rendered the service, then the Nation should impose a heavily graded progressive inheri- tance tax,*!•>•• singularly wise and un- objectionable kind of tax. i. .•' UJ.t would be a particularly goooTthTng if the tax bore heaviest on absentees.\ Johnny's Last Speech. You'd scarcely expect one of my age, in merchandising to engage and hope to get a paying trade without the local paper's aid. And yet I did that very thing; I opened up a etore last spring—this month the sheriff took my stock and sold it at the auction block. DjOn't view me with a scornful eye, but simply say as I pass by : \There goes \H~fgol~wh<y~seemed to think he had no use for printer's ink. \ There is a truth as broad as \earth and business men should know its worth, 'tis simplj' this : \The public buys its good 0 *• • those who advertise.\ -J. S. ~ in a new of rt'*- Met at San Francisco by an Immense Crowd—Was 105 Days on the Road. San FranciBco.July 19.—EdwardPayi son Weston completed his walk across the continent at 10 o'clock last week Wednesday night. He was met at the ferry station from Oakland by an im- mense crowd, which accompanied the tired old walker to the St. Francis Hotel, where he retired very shortly. Weston was apparently very weary after his walk of thousands of miles, but declared he was in excellent con- dition. Weston was greatly disappointed that he had failed to make the walk in the specified 100 days, and said he would have succeeded but for the lack of water at points he touched in Wyoming. He was 105 days on the road. Weston is in his 71st year and he started out to walk across the United States in 100 days (Sunday excepted.) March K to_20, New York to Utica, 273; March 22 to 27, Utica to Chafee, 250, March 29 to April 1, Chafee to Young8town, 225; April 5 to 10, Youngs- town to Toledo, 239; April 12 to 17, i Toledo to Chicago. 276; April 26 to [May 1, Lincoln to Mexico, 246; May 3 to 8, Mexico, Mo., to Topeka, 239; May 10 to 15, Topeka to Wakeeney 259; May 17 to 22, Wakeeney, Kan., to Hugo, Col, 219; May 24 to 29, Hugo Col., to Nunn, 184; May 31 to June 3, Nurm, Col., to Hanna, Wyo, 167; June 7-to 12, Hanna Wyo., toGranger, Wyo., 205; June 14 to 19, Granger, Wyo., to Ogden. Utah, 149; June 21 to 26, Og- den, Utah\ to Carlin,* Nev., 252; June 28 to July 3, Carlin, Nev., to Lovelock, Nev.. 149; July 5 to 10, Lovelock,Nev., to Rosevillee, Nev., to Roseville, Cal., 240; July 12, to Dixon, Cal., 39; July 13, to Benicia, Cal., 37 miles; July 14, to San Francisco, 32; total 3,895 miles. A Night Rider's Raid. The worst night riders are calomel, croton oil or aloes pills. They raid your bed to rob you of rest. Not ao with Dr. King's New'-Life—PIKsr They—never distress or inconvenience, but always ' ^e the system, curing Colds,Head- Malaria, 25c. at F. PERTINENT QUESTIONS. How Long, is Fire-Killed Timber Com- mercially Valuable. Washington, July 20.—How long will timber remain commercially valuable after it has been swept over by a for- est fire? Timber land owners as well as the Federal government are much interested in obtaining this informa- tion, and the government has just be- gun an investigation of a large num- ber of fire areas in Oregon and Wash- ington in order to determine if possible the length of time which will elapse after a forest fire before the timber deteriorates to such a conditon as to de- crease its commercial value. The agencies which cause timber to decay and encourage the attack of wood borers are undoubtedly influenced to a greater or less degree by the intensity of the original fire and the climatic conditions and altitude of the burned areas. All information in connection with this investigation will be obtained first hand by the forest service, either'from government timber land or from pri- vate holdings where logging operations are under way. In this connection the forest service has also undertaken an investigation to determine the relative strength of green and fire-killed timber. The ma- terial which is to be tested is being sawed at the mill of the Eastern and Western Lumber Company of Portland, Oregon, where it will be surfaced to exact sizes and then transported to Seattle, where testa will be made in connection with the forest service ex- hibits at the A. Y. P. Exposition. The fire-killed trees which are to yield material for these tests were se- lected by representatives of the forest service on the holdings of the Clarke County Timber Company of Portland, Oregon, near Yacolt, Washington. This timber was burned over seven years ago and represents fairly well the average of burned timber found in tjhe Pacific Northwest. The logs which vary from\three to^our-feetin^diafne^ ter, were sawed ijito 32 foot lengths. These are being manufactured into 16- foot for joists and bridge stringers. The results of these tests are being anticipated with great interest by for- est-service engineers and by the lum- bermen of the Northwest, because they are expected to disapprove the opinion generally held regarding the strength of fire killed timber. Heavy Flood Loss. St. Louis, July 21.—Estimates place the present flood loss in the Missouri valley at $7,000,000. Half the wheat crop has been destroyed. The Mississ- ippi fiver crest reached here Friday, when it is estimated the high water mark was 5.6 feet, ranking fifth in height in the last sixty-five years. The river, which flooded, the first i f bil stories of buildings all along the levee here, rose steadily and at 7 o'clock the gauge registered 34.8 feet, one-tenth of a foot less than last year's highest flood stage. It was two-tenths of a foot over that gtage by morning. The greatest damage was done at the junc- tion of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. All day a train carried pass- engers from West Alton, Mo. One thousand refugees from Missouri points reached Alton, III., having been warn- ed by John Kite, who rode horse back that section. 'a. —The worst thing about doing some man a good turn is that they seem to think they deserve another. ,- —Sacketta Harbor has a bad epidemic of whooping cough. —All attempts to end the strike of Remington typewriter employes have thus far proved ineffectual. —J. S. Moulton^ of Hudson, is mak- ing a trip to Chicago, intending to go all the way by trolley lines. —Dolgeville is booming. By actual count there are now forty-two houses in course of construction in.that vllage. —The bed for the extra track between Adams and Watertown is nearly com- pleted, and will soon be ready for the rails. t —Upwards of fifty tons of carp have been taken from Cayuga lake this sea- son under the direction of State game protectors. —Three children, 13, 11 and 8 years old, last week arrived in Watertown- from Seattle, having traveled the entire distance alone. : —The lace industry at Gouverneur is picking up rapidly. . Ten machines ar» in operation and new weavers are con- tinually arriving. —The Public Service Commission has been in existence in this State two years. In that time the Commission for the second district has handled 2,990 cases. —The trustees of Waterville are try- ing the experiment of oiling the streets with crude petroleum to keep down the dust. The effect has been quite satis- factory. —A Worcester assessor found eleven dogs and twelve pups at one taxpayers' house. The same man's poultry con- sisted of twenty-one hens and twenty- one roosters. —A Gouverneur marble company has secured the contract for ten thousand dollars* worth of stone to-be uBed in the new telephone exchange building at Cincinnati. —Ogdensburg's expenses are so high that now they are taxing automobiles aa personal property. They are still having their usual trouble over the col- lection of poll taxes. —Messrs. Foster & Babcock have over sixty-nine acres of their farm at Phelps devoted to the raising of cab- bage. Some of the earljr cabbage is be- ginning to head up. —It has\ been estimated by personB who have made a study of the subject that real estate values in rural districts have increased $750,000,000 since the establishment of rural free delivery system. —The New York^ Central Railroad Company has purchased two farms at Watertown, near the golf links. It is the intention of the company to expand the freight yards at that jiiftce. Inn. creased business and demands for more space make the move necessary. ...\ —A Gouverneur kid put a giant fire- cracker under a tin can to see what would happen. The can took out a chunk of the boy's leg, broke the post- office window, shot some glass through, the cheek of a lady standing near, and stirred things up in general. ^ —Jay Alls, fen extensive grower of peaches, near Medina, haB eighty acres of peaches, and over thirty-one acres in actual bearing. His crop this year, promises 50,000 baskets, and the price averaging near a dollar, he can buy a new automobile next fall if everything turns out well. —Quite a number of vineyards in the grape belt in the vicinity of Hammonds- port are reported to be attacked by a large cut worm. As a result several fine vineyards are said to be a total fail- ure this year. The worm works on the buds of the vine at night, and is un- usually destructive. —A strata of rock salt, seventy feet deep, has been struck at Canaaeraga by the company which waa drilling for gaa, and it is now thought the search for gas will be abandoned and a com- pany formed to establish salt works. The rock salt was struck at a depth of 3,100 feet and ia of a very fine quality. —The three rows of cattle, sheep and ^wine sheds belonging to the Oneida County Agricultural Society at. the right of the base ball diamond at River- side Park, in Rome, and the hay barn, were burned to the ground last Thurs- day. There was a total of about 1,500 feet in the three rows of sheds and the loss is total. { —Ellenburgh is declared to be the greatest milk arid butter producing town in Clinton county, there being shipped daily to the city an average of 1800 quarts, and the butter factories re- ceiving daily an average of 25;000 quarts.. In 1908 one factory turned out $45,000 worth of butter and this year's output promises to be even larger than that. —Auburn's handsome shade trees, especially the elms and maples, are in grave danger from a parasite that has been busy on the leaves and limbs of the trees to such an extent that Park Commissioner McGrath to whom the matter waa referred, has seen fit to call in the help of Cornell experts. The trees have been attacked by lice that d_eyelppe(j into .aphis. _a. small winged insect. The leaves ofthe trees, once attacked, exude a sticky, gummy juice, and later the leaves drop off in large numbers. Experts, have recommended that careful and concerted attention be given to the trees. INSURANCE COMPANIES. C. W. CHAPPELL KILLED. Shocking Automobile Acci- dent Near Canattota. Head of the National Casket Company Wae Thrown From His Automobile and Dashed Against a Telephone Pole—Mrs. Chappell Was Hurled 40 Feet and Sustained Fractures of Ribs and Both Arms. Oneida, July 20.—Will Chappeij. Oneida's most prominent citizen, presi- dent of the National Casket Company and known in business circles through- out the country,, met death Sunday evening. Mr. Chappell was thrown from his automobile near Canastota and his braina beaten out by striking a telegraph pole. The other occupants of the car Were Injured, but not fatally. Mr. Chappell,accompanied by his wife and her sisters, Mrs. John Cochrane, Miss Florence Wells and Master Wells Cochrane of this village, were taken in the new Peerless by the chauffeur, M. Lee Brock, of Syracuse, to the home of Mr. Chappell's sister, Mrs. (Dr.) J. E. Salabury. in Cazenovia. On the return the approaching storm about 6:30 o'clock caused Mr. ChappeVl Borne worry and he gave orders to proceed to the Oneida home as rapidly as possible. When Quality Hill was reached, which is on the Seneca turnpike about two miles outside of Canastota, they were proceeding eastward at the rate of about 35 miles an hour. In front of the auto mob ie was a rig being driven by Adelbert Yorton, who lives near the top of the hill. Juat aa the chauffeur attempted to bring the automobile past Yorton the latter turned his horse to go into his drive- way. To avoid hitting the horse^ and wagon, Chauffeur Brock turned the automobile the other side, struck the ditch, and after \skidding'' for 30 or 40 feet the machine turned turtle. It now lies a mass of wrecked machinery N with the front pointing to the west. The occupants of the machine were lifted bodily from their seats and hurled swiftly forward. Mr. Chappell was dashed headlong toward a telepnone pole, striking it with hia forehead. The skull was crushed just above the left eye. So violent was the blow that the pole was dented and a portion of*Mr. Chappell's brains adhered to it when his body fell to the ground. Death was instantaneous. Mrs. Chappell was thrown for a dis- tance of nearly 40 feet and struck on her left side.' She sustained fractures of both arms, and ribs on the left Bide were also broken. Mrs. Cochrane struck on her cheat and was severely bruiaed. She Buffers from the shock. Master Cochrane hurt hia hip. but re- ceived no serious injury, while the chauffeur escaped with a violent shak- ing up. Mra. Chappell waa -taJken to_Oneida soon after the accident by a passing antoist and at her home was treated. Dr. Knapp, of Canastota, went to the Bcene of the accident and attended to the needs of the injured. Some physi- cians also went from thiB city and on ajcmal. here, Mrs.Chapjpell was cared HIS DESTINATION UNKNOWN. ROT. Pro van, Dismissed Recently by Congregational Church, Has Now Set- tldd Salary Question and Gone Toward Canada. Philadelphia, N. Y., July 21.—Rey. James Provan, recently dismissed aa pastor of the Congregational church in thiB village, left town yesterday on the 6 a. m. train going to Clayton. His destination is unknown. Provan settled with the trustees of the church, ac- cepting his salary to July 12. His going away aettleB for a time the situa- tion which has wrought the people of thiB village to a high pitch. Disclosures of a recent date show that there has been in this village a man who hag been guilty of the most outrageous treatment toward his wife that has ever been un- covered in thiB part 01 tfie State. His wife, now satisfied that she is not under hfs control, tells stories of the most brutal sort of treatment. Provan took with him yesterday morning a trunk belonging to Mrs. Kate Berwick who has been the alleged housekeeper at his residence in Phila- delphia.' It will be remembered that she disappeared- from Philadelphia about four weeks ago, leaving two days after Provan left on his vacation. At that time it waa understood that the Berwick woman went to Montreal. Mrs. Provan is temporarily staying with the family of A. C. Comstock, for- mer Member of Assembly. Her plans for the future and for her children have not been made. Within the past few days Provan ap- proached certain Philadelphia people and endeavored to give them some of his children. It has been learned that he did give away some years ago, an infant. The mother to this day does- not know to whom the child was given nor where the child Is now. | m . . r f | N CURRENT RUN DOWN POLE. &- i.\ftf' : for tenderly. She did not~know tfiafT^* 8 ' her husband was killed and was in such condition that she waa not informed of that fact. Mrs. Cochrane, Miss Wells and Mrs. Cochrane's son were taken into the 1iOnTe~<yfrNathan Baker who lives Tear the point where the accident occurred. They were made as comfortable as could be and remained at the farm house. It is expected that they will be about aa usual in a few days. Mr. Chappell was one of the wealth- iest and best known men in Central New York. In Dneida he had one of the finest residences to be found in this part of the State;. He was 64 years of age having been born in Cazenovia on April 5, 1845. He settled in Oneida in 1870, since which time he \had been one of the leading business men of that city. He first went into the clothing busi- ness with Benjamin E. Chase, now of Rochester, who ia secretary of the Na- tional Casket Company, of which Mr. Chappell was president. In 1879 the firm-of Chappell, Chase, Maxwell & Co., going into the under- taking business, until about 1890, when the National Casket Company was founded, with Mr. Chappell as first vice-president and general manager. Dairying in Oregon. Tillamook county the dairy county of mate is moist, \mild I'B pre-eminently Oregon. Its cli- and equable, and Justice Andrews Directs THat Syracuse Concerns be Liquidated. Albany, July 19.—Special Deputy Superintendent of Insurance John E. Dieffderf, who has been in charge of the business of the American, the Capi- tal, the Union, the Aetna, the Phoenix, the Reliable, and the Mohawk Fire In- suaroce Companies, all with headquar- ters at Syracuse, having reported to tire InBurancB-Departmentihat in view- of the financial condition of these com- panies it will be impossible for them to resume business, Supreme Court Justice Andrews has granted an order directing that such companies be liquidated by the Superintendent of Insurance. \The obligations of these companies for fire losses/' sayB a statement issued by the Insurance Department to-day, \aggregate about $21,000. There is but a small amount of cash on hand, and an extra assessment in each of the companies will be nece88ary. \The failure of these companies affects about 5,000 policy holders, who must now secure other insurance, their policies in these companies representing nothing now but a liability.\ ita soil is well adapted to the produc- tion of forage plants, making it an ideal grazing section. Laboring under heavy, handicap be- cause of inadquate transportation facili- ties, the dairymen of that section have nevertheless made a showing in profits and products for several years past that is truly wonderful. For a number ofyears ! the terms \Tilamook butter\ and \Til- lamook cheese\ have been a guaran- tee for excellence in the quality of theBe staple producus that has never been questioned, while year after year the quantity of these products has in- creased, until, as stated in a recent communication from Tillamook, the .checks.paid jto ilairy_ men_last-May called for larger amounts than ever be- fore in a single month in the history of the dairying industry in Tillamook county. I Dairymen have taken the precaution to work together in the matter of plac- ing their products on the market, thus securing a uniformity in price and an unquestioned guarantee of quality, to- gether with the substantial advantages that accrue from large shipments. Dairying in Tillamook baa developed a three-fold industry; it has caused much land to be cleared for growing hay, a yearly increase in surplus stock unavailable for dairy purposea for an ever-clamorous meat supply, and the/ production of butter and cheese in con- stantly increasing quantity for a widen- ing market, ThiB Is prosperity of the type that makes sure advance and is in no danger of turning suddenly upon ita traces. It tells of a comfortable living under all circumstances for those who engage in it,and an assured competence for those who pursue dairying intelli- gently and industriously, even on a amal scale.—Portland Oregonian. Williams—Brooks. At the Methodist parsonage in Low- ville. Wednesday, July 7th, occurred the marriage of C. Helen Brooks and H. Owen Williams, both of Wataon. They were attended, by Merton L. Smith and Jennie E. Wiliiama.eister of the groom. The young couple left on the 4 :S8 train south. Rev. Frank B! Severance per- formed the ceremony. Shocked to Death-a Young Man Who Touched the Rope With His Hand. Floyd M. Bristol, 16 years of age, was standing near an electric light pole at the corner of Church avenue and Elm street at Chad wicks, Saturday night at about 9 o'clock talking with some friends, when he placed his left arm about the pole. Instantly there was a loud report and the lad cried: \Let go, let go; I'm dying,\ and fell to the ground. William H. McAllister and others ran to the boy and carried him into the store of W. E. Johnson. Mr. McAllister called Dr. E. M. Griffiths, who arrived at once and tried to restore life by artificial respiration, but without effect: There were burns on the thumb and first and second fing- ers of the boy'8 left hand. \ .- .! • Coroner Dodd examined the pole; found that the high tension ing the lighting evrrent had been fa*t«»d^#*in£iulat 1 amp. The cro»#-art» had rotted so that the wire had putted the peg from the arm. The power-carrying wire dropped': across the iron mast arm so that-the- current passed from the arm down the rope used to lower the light The»rope astened to -a staple pole. When Bristol threw his arm about the pole he seized this rope and was shocked to death. m '.'-:\-'•*'&• Marcy Old Home Day. . At a recent, meetftig-of the and executive committee of Home Week Association.it was decided to observe Thursday, August 26, as old home day. The rules governing-tiuji\ sending of invitations was changed to- some extent., so that invitations sentTo\ friends in the county- aa those at a distance. m \•iff \• ; S£- Raines Law Hotels Closed. ~ Inspectors oLthe State Excise\ partment have closed five Raines law hotels at Canton^ ; It> j claimed that the hotels did not* hayeK the required number of rooms. Thi^^ owners of the hotels closed are Freid. Brower, W. E. Richardson, Edwn&- Rushton, Homer Romang and John' F. Pay ton. Other towns in northern- New \ York will be visited by. the. Recovered From SL Lawrence. '['' : . The body ~ut Gordon ~Einmett,; ther Fine View carpenter who was drowned*, near Round Island, June 25, was found- ''t last Thursday by John Longways ah 7 ; oarsman, about a quarter of a mile' >: from Frontenac, juBt off HogsbBcfc v Island near a bouy. ^ ; On the day of the fatality Emmett0 was going down the river in a row boat, with Albert Marshall. Just as the skiff in which they were taking the trip;'v reached the head of Round Jsland^ac^\: cording to Marshall's story, EmmetC-J jumped up and leaped over the side of- the boat. Marshall's efforts to \save\ him were unsuccessful. It was. said at the time that the men were more .or. less intoxicaed. Mrs. John Merrihew. Lydia Streeter, widow of John Mer- rihew, passed away Monday mprnj at the home of Mrs: John Chaufty in Collinsville. Mrs. Merrihew had been in failing health for. some time and became so feeble two months since that it became-necessary for\heyi to have the care of a nurse* She \waa^ accordingly taken to the home of Mrs; 1 Chaufty. Deceased was the daughter of Enoch and Catherine Streeter: ana was born April 6, 1846 at Port Leyden; When three years of age she.went to. Collinsville to reside and that village and near vicinity was her home for the remainder of her life, with the excep- tion of five years spent in Johnstown, N. Y. In October 1867-she was united in marriage with John Merrihew by Rev. J. W. Roberts of Turin. Mr. Merrihew died in February, 1898. No children were bora to Mr. and Mrs. Merrhew, James Spires, was 'adopted by the couple in his early years and who has been a devoted Bon, uurvives, as do also two nephews, Hamilton and Willard SpireB, of Saratoga county. Mrs. Merrihew was woman of quiet,re- tiring disposition, devoted to her home ..and family. For several years she was superintendent of the Sunday, school in Collinsville. She was a member of the Baptist church and a faithful attendant upon its services at Turin, until the membership became so depleted and scattered that services were no longer held. It may be said of her in all truth \She waa a Christian.\ Funeral ser- vices were held from the Stone church in Collinsville. m~ • •. '.j-^j'.. k V. >: —Some girls would rather mere man than cherish ah i<* rest of their days, —A girl does »* homely if ' lie 1
