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Eit ii- c i i; i.i., c & Wayne County Organ 1908 g$ or me Weekly Founded, 1844 REPUBLICAN PARTY 65th YEAR. HONE SD ALE, WAYNE CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1908. NO. 26 R ... BURSTSJB MIDAIR; Balloon In Race Drops With, Men Clinging to It. TWO NARROWLY MISS DEATH. Accident Thrills Thousands Gath ered Near Berlin to Witness the Annual Contest For the Bennett Gup. Berlin, Oct. 12. The International 1 balloon nice, which started from 1 Sehinnrgeiidorf. was the occasion of n thrilling accident, two American aero nauts having n miraculous escape from from death. The American lmlloon Conqueror, the only American built craft In the eon-1 test, having on hoard A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post, less than two minutes after the start, burst at nn altitude of 4.000 feet. For 2.000 feet It shot down like a bullet, the nor-1 onauts clinging to the overhead ring. 1 and then the torn silk spread out the ' parachute, and the rapidity of the de scent was checked. Coining close to the earth, however, the basket smash ed into the roof of n house, but the two men escnpod with slight injuries. The race. In which twenty-three bal loons participated, representing Great Britain, Prance, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Spain, started In the presence of at least 80,000 spectators. Amid tin? . strains of "America" the first balloon ' was sent nwny. It was the America II.. under command of .Tames C. Mc Coy, who was accompanied by Lieu tenant Voghmann. The balloon was decorated with the stars and stripes. A representative of each of the other ' nations followed the American bal loon In succession at Intervals of two minutes, the nntlonal hymn of the re-: spectlve .countries ringing forth as the ropes were cast loose. The second batch -of eight balloons was led by Forbes In the Conqueror, which was started with some difficulty owing to n gusty wind and too much ballast. But eventually It shot up and reached a high altitude In an Incredi bly short period, the basket swaying violently. Then almost Instantly a cry of horror arose from the crowd, who saw the silk collapse and shouted. "The balloon Is ripping up!" The thousands who had gathered there stood for a moment petrtlled. Some turned away, fainting, as they saw the balloon falling with lightning like rapidity. "They are killed." went In a hushed whisper through the crowd. A few minutes later a tele phone message was received from Frledenou. which announced that the men had lauded nnd had not been killed. One bag of sand fell Into n baby carriage, which was smashed to pieces, but the nurse snatched out the baby and saved Its life. The basket crashed partly through a tiled roof Into an oc cupied room. The man In the room was terrified. "I could cry with vexation," said Aeronaut Forbes, -'after coming so far to take part In the race and then to bo knocked out by such an accident. I cannot say now what was the cause of the catastrophe, which I will Inves tigate. It was our good fortune to be' up so high; otherwise the balloon could not have formed Itself Into a para chute." Brigadier General James Allen, TJ. S. A., chief of the signal corps; Lieuten ant Colonel John P. Wissor, military attache to the American embassy at Berlin, and L. D. Dosier, president of the Aero club of St. Louis, witnessed the accident. All the competitors In the race are provided with rations for three days. This Is the third International balloon cup race for the James Gordon Ben nett trophy. The first race was held at Paris In 1900 and was won by Lieuten ant Frank P. Lalnn of the United States cnvalry by a flight of 402 miles. The second contest was held under the auspices of the Aero Club of America nt St. Louis In October, 1007. It was won by the German balloon Pom mem, which landed at Asbury Park, N. J., hnvlug covered 873.4 miles In an air line. It was piloted by Oscar Erb sloeh. The French balloon L'Isle de France, piloted by Alfred Leblanc, was second, having covered six miles less than the Pommeru. TRAILED BY BLOODHOUNDS. Dogs Lad to Arrest For Murder of Railroad Detective. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 12. T. J. McKlhnney, a special detective, was shot and killed while on duty In the yards of a railroad company. V. 8. Smith, who was until recently employed as a detective with McEl haney, Is In jail charged with tli crime. Bloodhounds tracked Smith to him homo BEAR STEALS HOSIERY. 6natehes Package From Girl Who Won Teasing Him, New York. Oct. 12. A pretty young woman who was amusing herself by poking a long parcel between the bar of the black bears' den In the Bronx zoo soon had a crowd watching as th bears reached for the parcel, which the girl would always just luana'-'c to snatch out of their reach. Suddenly, however, a wise old bruin, pretending to be asleep, quickly grabbed the pack age. "Was It of any value, madam?" In quired Keeper Ferguson. "They were." replied tin- girl and then stopped suddenly only to add hur riedly as Keeper Foiguson offered to get the parcel back: "Oh. pray, don't trouble yourself. I'd rather you wouldn't." The crowd and the girl watched eagerly as Ferguson approached t In bear, but suddenly a shout of laughter arose from the crowd, punctuated by a cry of dismay from the jir, as .lie bear's claws ripped open the package and Hung out upon the ground six pairs of silk stockings. FIGHT ON BRIDGE TOWER. Policemen Struggle With Mndmnn Bent on Making Death Leap. New York. Oct. 12. Atop the great Iron tower at the Brooklyn end of the Williamsburg bridge a most thrilling struggle took place while hundreds of persons looked on from below. An in sane man climbed an iron stairway to the top of the tower. .":!." feet above the Fast river, and was preparing for a leap into the river when two poll e men climbed tip after him. Tin- appearance of the policemen dis traded the man from his purpose, and he turned upon the biuecoats with a razor. The insane man rushed to at tack them, and then on I lie narrow footing at the dizzy height a ten min ute battle tool; place. hich held all who witnessed it speechless with hor ror. Finally the maniac was liaudcurtcd nnd taken, still struggling, down the tower ladders, trying at every step to throw himself and his captors into space. The prisoner said lie was Joseph Krntz of Brooklyn. WHITE PLAGUE AWARDS. Successful Competitors In Tuberculo- i sis Congress Announced. Washington, Oct. 12.- Awards in the great exhibition which formed a part of the recent international congress mi tuberculosis were announced. The prize of S1.000 for the best ex hlbit of an existing sanitarium for the treatment of curable cases was divid ed, $."00 being given each to the While Haven (Pa.) sanitarium and the Bromp ton Hospital sanitarium of Frluiloy, England. For a similar exhibit a gold medal was awarded to the Adirondack cottage sanitarium. Sarauae Lake. X. Y. A gold medal was awarded to the Loomls sanitarium. Liberty. X. Y.. and the Massachusetts State hospital, Tewkesbury, X. Y., for the best exhib it of a hospital for treating advanced cases. MOB KILLS NEGRO. Riddled With Bullets For Shooting Three Persons. Kmplre. Ga.. Oct. 12. Henry White, a negro, was shot to death by a mob. He started out to kill the family of Thomas Allen and on his way met an other negro whom he shot for refus ing to join him. He then shot Allen and his wife. A posse captured White and -placed In the lockup. A band of unknown men took the prisoner from the Jail, tied him to a tree and riddled him with bullets. LINERS IN A CRASH. Thirteen Lives Lost When the Pretoria v and the Nipponia Collide. Hamburg, Oct. 12. The German steamships Pretoria and Xipponla have been in collision in the fog off Scheveniiigen. Thirteen of the Nip ponia's crow, including the captain, were drowned. The Pretoria wns not damaged. The Pretoria belongs to the Hamburg-American Hue, and under the command of Captain Sclirottcr she left Now York Sept. 2ii for Hamburg. The Nlpponin Is owned in Stetlin and left Lulea, Sweden, Aug. 11 for Kindoii. FIGHT IN A CHURCH. House of Worship Wrecked and Two Men Badly Wounded. Xew Britain, Conn.. Oct. 12. Chairs, knives and candlesticks were used in a factional fight between the Galacians nnd Hungarians In a church here. , John Grlb and John Prlstas are In a hospital, the former with his face cut from mouth to ear and the latter with n largo hole In the back of his head. Tho trouble started when one of the two choirs was ordered to stop sing ing. A general tight ensued, which wrecked the Inside of the church. VOM IT FAULT Suffragists Will Hear From Mrs. Sanderson. SHE HAS PREPARED A LETTER Bays Movement Is Retarded In This Country by the Followers of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Buffalo. Is. Y Oct. 12. International intetesl has been given the fortieth an nual convent Ion of the National Ameri can Woman Suffrage association, which will open here tomorrow, by the action of .Mrs. Annie t'obden Sander sou, the militant Huglisli leader of the suffrage movement, who has taken occasion to extend her criticism of "the idle rich" to the women of this country In a letter which will be read at the convention. .Mrs. Sanderson Is at present the storm center of a controversy in Eng land Hint has arisen as a result of her severe reprimand to what she terms "the idle rich" of that country, and .Mrs. Humphry Ward has been fore most in the ranks of those who have replied to the views of Mrs. Sander son. Mrs. Sanderson's views also met with rebuke here on the part of those who oppose the suffrage movement. .Mrs. Sanderson says in her letter, which is addressed to Sirs. Harriet Taylor Vpton, treasurer of the Nu- wimm m '' $ lit W My 1 V i' Vi 1 HARRIET STANTON BLATCH. tlonai American Woman Suffrage as sociation, that she Is glad of the op portunity of replying to the reports which have been given in the Ameri uu press with regard to her opinion or -the Idle rich." "So far as my remarks apply to tin Idle rich women of your country, I do not think there has been any exaggera tion," she writes, and adds that those women are the active force working against the granting of the suffrage to women. "They represent the power of wealth and monopoly," continues the English woman, "just as the women led by Mrs. Humphry Ward in England, who have formed themselves Into an unti woman's suffrage league, represent the spirit of feudalism combined with mod ern Imperialism, the two most retro grade elements In English politics 'to day." Mrs. Sanderson stated that Ameri can women an- more timid than their English sisters and for that reason are less prepared to take an aggressive at titude. The American women work to keep men in power, she says, and existing evils have become so deep rooted that they "can uo longer be ou dured." "A moral revolution Is needed equal in force to the struggle which brought about the emancipation of the slave," the writer says. She asks the Ainerl can women to Introduce Into the stlf frage movement In this country more of "the lire of revolt" and to make the movement a "living, burning Is sue." A feature of the convention will be a programme coinmeinoralive of the six tieth anniversary of the first woman's rights convention held In this stale, the fatuous meeting of ISIS held at Seneca Falls, where the late Mrs. Eliz abeth duly Stanton offered the reso lution asking for women "the sacred right of the elective franchise." The leading speaker on the commemora tive programme will be Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blateh, a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The suffragettes 'of England will be represented by Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of a member of parliament and herself a full Hedged suffragette Woather Probabilities. Cooler, with light variable winds. If Hazing. With the opening of the school sea son come reports from all over tho country that college hazing has by no means gone out of business. Tho up per classmen of Amherst even protest against the abolition of hazing on the ground that It docs the freshmon good and Is really an educational expe rience. This Is virtually the claim made nt West Point and one reason why some officials wink at It there. It Is only fair to the college men to admit that hazing novitiates Is not confined to schoolboys, but seems to be n universal trait of the human crowd. Tho hazing spirit Is everywhere. New recruits In tho army have to sub mit to some sort of rough Initiation, nnd the more they "kick" against tho programme tho rougher It becomes. The dude from towu who strikes tho plains undergoes various humiliations until ho ceases to bo n "tenderfoot." Brokers initiate newcomers on the tloor of the exchange with some form of horse play, and In most all shops and factories tho hazing spirit never dies out. If green linnds do not come In fast enough to supply victims some weak or friendless workman Is Im posed upon again nnd again. Wher ever hazing appears it is a relic of barbarism, and It Is a pity that au thority should be unable to keep It within bounds. Recruits For Our Consular Service. Tho government has recently taken up the question of training young men for service as United States consuls in foreign towns and cities. The field is enlarging becnuse of the rapid exten sion of our trade all over the world. The service itself trains but very few beginners. Recently nn attempt was made to ascertain what class of men can best till the office of consul. The exporters of goods are the persons most interest ed In having capable consuls to rep resent this country abroad, and In re sponse to formal inquiries on the sub ject these gentlemen advised the ap pointment of men whb had had prac tical experience. But the men outside of the service who have had expe rience of tho rifjht kind are young men In active business, and the pay of con sulships is too small to attract them from commercial pursuits. Apparent ly the only way Is to appoint men who show fitness for consular duties In examinations. A steady demand is certain to bring an army of applicants Into the field nnd to Induce greater care in preparation among tho candi dates. GIRL WIFE KILLS HUSBAND. Married Four Months She Declares He Beat Her Frequently. Xew Brunswick, X. J., Oct. 12. Mrs. Julia Mntallne. the girl wife who killed her husband, refuses to make any ex planation except to say: "He beat me more than once, nnd he was ready to beat me again." She had been married four months. Her husband came home late and scolded her for being In bed. While he was at a table eating she crept up be hind him and shot him dead. THAW CASE CALLED TODAY. Hearing Respecting Slayer's Sanity Begins at White Plains. White Plains. X. Y Oct. 12. The case of Ilarrv K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, entered upon another nhase today. Proceedings were commenced before Justice Mills here to determine bis mental status. GUITEAU'S ASSAILANT. Bill Jones, Who Tried to Kill Assassin, Stabs Man to Death. Washington, Oct. 12. Bill Jones, who attempted to kill Gulteau, tho assassin of President Garfield, stubbed a man to death nt Brlghtwood, a suburb. The dead man was a former United States marine. One Chance In Twenty For Farm. Dallas, S. D., Oct. 12. The total reg 1st ration for the Rosebud reservation opening at Dallas and Gregory was r.:t..rM:i and nt O'Neill, Neb., 22,557. This gives each applicant about one chuuee i in twenty to get a farm. i j Young King Manuel of Portugal ha& been voted nn allowance of $1,000 a day. If the neighboring crowned I heads do not drop In on the folks nt the palace too often the boy ought to , pull through on that unless hotgets the nuto speeding fad. With penny postqgo working, our English couslus can afford to write and ask us to explain the joke in the comic papers and paragraph columns wo Bend over there. - 4 ... $40,ft5 Tax Saved By Perham Plan Total Real Estate Tax Saved to Wayne County Is It Worth While? -State Has Abundant Resources to Do It Total Heal Tniv,i,in,-ii, Touchers' Text Total of Lc93 State Kstate Tax Township oi Horo Wattes Hooks Wages A Hooks Appro, for Schools Saved. Uoi-llll $ V.W M $ 101 21 t 2ttW 74 S 1111 UU I 1M7 66 Ilt-tlmny .. . SKI 75 U oil 207 81 185 DO 13181 liucklllfflmm Sill! mi IK 41 !5(iS ill 1414 tK! 1044 XV Oannnn . -JiM It! 12 IfF 27H :il KM W Ulierry KIiIkc 1522 tit :ir, : 15.17 S2 (VM VS tm Vu (UlllUm 21112 B'J 112 (III 2251 511 1812 84 42 26 lllUIUKCUS 11180 l HIS m HITS (HI 8182 HO 8846 10 Orc-her ... lltt" (Kl 55 27 KMC! 27 1272 (VI 41V Bl DylK-rry 17(i1 25 21 111 1727 74 782 21 VU6 68 Hnwley . .. . tiWIll l:n M I757 HS 1(114 14 8112 04 Honcsclllle KW2 It 47178 SS27 00 2818 78 0628 SO Ijlke S8l:l 75 ISO (W BUM SI 1782 70 1200 04 Lebanon 1258 20 107 1(1 1121 18 WS HI 622 21) belllttll 1 17 fill KM 115 lBSt! 45 K58 02 782 Kl Manchester 22X1 75 K2 87 23K! 12 1(171 7 12UG 06 Mt. I'lcasMiit . . , 1722 70 IIU 48 IIH7 18 21115 IB 2721 18 orcKon una ivi 7 s 114185 -units U7H0U Palmyra "ill 25 21 81 7S2 BU 555 HI 220 OS Palipnck law CO 1208 50 521 06 781) 46 Preston .... iKM 25 2S1 17 4217 12 1K17 0 23UV 78 Prompton .. . 57 M 607 60 228 76 2T8 78 Slltoni 2257 50 1UI 27 2IN7 77 1100 211 1221 48 Scott . . ... 27S2 Wl 4S 72 2S81 28 1058 00 1777 83 Seelyvllle '.m 75 as S!i 1027 01 415 31 682 83 South Caluuin 22X.I 75 110 IS 2320 SI US3 18 1330 46 Starnioi-H . . . 1121 25 1121 26 431 07 OS) 68 Sterllnu 1522 m 8S 65 1501 ( 0US 85 802 70 Texas Hon ll 42S Mi isss so 2720 04 2160 26 Way mart . 1117 60 60 2ii 1208 70 831 08 872 White Mills .. . . 1515 Kl 141(15 1050 05 747 HO V08 16 I7IW0 III BlS-LX 737I3 10 $32088 48 140776 tt Mr. Ryndcr sends to us the above ation of 1907. This year, 190S, the taxes STATE AND OUR SCHOOLS Public Revenues Should Pay for Public Education. W. E. PERHAM FAVORS PLAN. A Groat Principle of Justlco for Which tho Support of Wayne Countoans Is Earnostly Solicited A Communication from Thoo. Ryndcr Author of the Freo School Books' Law, on tho Subjoct Everybody This Year Has Complained of High Taxes Tho Proposed Plan Would Llghtontho Burdon. Author of tint Free School Hooks Law nnd the movement to have the stnte maintain the common schools of I'ennsylvnnlu.- Secretary of IVnn'ii. Statu Association to ulHillsli tho school tax. Ho says: Fellow Citizens : As tho working hord of tho Pennsylvania Stato Association to abolish tho school tax on tho farms and I. omes of tho nooplo, and' havo thnt ex- penso paid by tho stato from Its ninplo and Increasing rovonuo, I now address yon. Till: STATl-.'S ItKVKNl'K. Our stato lias nn nnniial income of twenty-seven to twenty-eight millions ol dollars and it lias nn idle halnnco of from twelve to fourteen millions of dol lars in the banks. It ean incieaso Its revenue from four o six millions annually by laying a tax a stock transfers (commonly called -dock gambling) as is done in your nolgliboiiiig stato of New York. Tlioroiro many other nvnllablo sources of rovonuo that could bo added (if they wore needed) without laying tho oppres sive hand of tho tax collector on the farms nnd homes of tho people. Candidate For Representative. W. E. PERHAM. WHAT WAYNE COUNTY CAN SAVR. Tho people, tho farm and homo owners of Wayno county nro tnxod $30,703 nnd flfty-nlno one Hundredths annually for schools, over nnd nhovo tho annual state appropriation tho rnlo being n litlio ovor thlrtoon and n half mills on tho dol lar. This Is a torriblo burdon on tho pro ducing fnrmor, tho meclinnlo and tho laboror. It Is especially outrageous against tho widows of tho votorans of the Civil war; and against nil othor widows who aro trying to keep a homo for nnd rnlso children who will glvo honest man ly strength nnd Intolllgont nnd virtuous motherhood to tho futuro controllers of our country. TIIK STATU COXTKOI.S IT SHOULD I'AV. It Is tho duty of tho stnto to educate Its children. Already tho a Soto of Tenn sylvonlo has assumed practical control of ovorythlng nliout its soliool system oxcopt paying tho bills nnd under tho mandate of tho Constitution It now pnye table based on the taxes nnd appropri are much higher. a part of tho coat; and having tho sur plus moans lying In tho banks, and plen ty of additional nvnllablo rosouroos (If needed) wo want tho stato to pay tho whole of the maintenance hills included' in llio wages of toachors nnd the cost of text books, and hnvo tho homos and farms rellovod of this groat tas burden. Til IS ASSOCIATION. This Association Is stato wldo. It pushed this question to tho front In 1900, nnd secured Its endorsement by Gov. Stuart nnd elected him on it. It secured tho extra appropriation of two millions a year by tho lost legisla ture to tho school appropriation, and it proposes to go forward until tho stato pays It all, and this tax - on lntolltgonco Is taken off, and wo havo really free schools In Pennsylvania. THEODORE PORTER RYNDER. Prirntonnd I.leiit.Oo."G"6Sth Pn.Vola. WHEltK REFOltM MUST COME FItOM, Tho Republican candidate for tho legis lature In Wnyno county Is ono of tho orlgluni and presont ofllcers of this As sociation. It is not too much to say that he lias done as much ns any other mnn in tho state for this great causo of educational progross ond school tax ro ller. Wo rocognlzo thnt any great reform must como from tho majority party, and wo thoroforo ask you to oloct Mr. Warren E. P01 ham to tho legislature because wo need nn nctivo nnd official mombor of this organization in tho legislature, and bocauso ho is n member of tho .Republi can party from whom this great oconom lo measure of .lustlco and tax relief must como. Tho peoplo of Wnyno county whom ho has nhoody served know his fltnoss. There nro great Issues coming beforo the noxt legislnturo-but this measuro Is the only one that can or will give tho 1 great boon of tax relKif from oxcossivh bunions to tho great producing masses of our peoplo tho homo and farm own ers. This measuro wns ondorsed by tho slate grange nt Dullols. A detailed statemont of tho saving to oach soparato school district Is given bolow. This Association urged Mr. Perham to run for tho leglslatiiro.and It urges tho votes of Wnyno county to eloct him. Hon. Waltor K. Roynolds of Iiawronoo county moUo this measuro his principal issue, nt tho primaries. Ho was nominat ed, and ho has repoatodly urged that wn havo o mombor of our official Ixuird In the legislature, and Is particularly dnslnuis that Mr. Porhom I mi elected. For nil thoso cogent reasons I ask Wayno county lo send Mr. Porlinm to the legis lature to ropresont not only Wnyno coun ty, but every homo owner In tho state. Very truly yours, Theodore P. Ityndor, Booy. Ivenneilv's Lnxntlve CoilL-li Kvrim la iinml nearly everywhere, because It not only lu-ala Irritation of the throat mid kIoiis the eoiiBh. hut It drives tho cold out of tliu HyHtt-m tlirouuh Its laxative principle liy iisstirlug a free and ucntle act ion of tliu bowels, and tnut Is the only way to euro a colli. You can't cure it as long as you are constipated. In sist upon Kennedy's Ijtxiitlvu foiiL'ti Hyrup. Sold by PHlb.Thellrui.xIst. The new Itain Coals, at Mknneh & Co.'s are protective and utyliali. '."-'eiti