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VJ909 Semi-Weekly Founded 5 Wayne County Organ 1908 Weekly Founded, 1844 I of the I REPUBLICAN PARTY 65th YEAR. HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1908. NO. 27 BALLOON IN SEA 8 Aeronauts Saved by Crew of Passing Steamship. MORE ILL LUCK FOR RACERS. Accident Happens to the St. Louis, One of the Three American Entries In the Inter national Contest. Berlin, Oct. 14. The second of th& three American balloons that started In the race for the International trophy from Schmnrgcndurf has met disaster In the North sea. The St. Kinds, manned by N. II. Arnold of North Ad urns, Mass., and Harry J. How.ltt, was carried overland by treacherous air currents, and later In the ha.e the aeronauts lost their hearings until sud denly they saw the. guard lights of an unknown coast. This meant that they must descend or risk the danger of being driven far out of the track of vessels. They chose the former course, and for an hour they were buffeted by the waves, almost giving up In despair. Eventually they were rescued by n lifeboat, nud the first Intimation that an accident had occurred to the St. Louis was conveyed In a jvireless mes sage from Arnold, sayiTig, "Lost every thing In the North sea last night." Following so closely on the dramatic experience of A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post, the navigators of the Conqueror, which burst at an altitude of 4,000 feet soon after the start of the race, both men having a thrilling cscope from death, the disaster to the St. Louis was the subject of excited Interest in Berlin. f Correspondents were nblc to com muulcatc with Mr. Arnold nt Wil lie! niRhavcn, to which place he had been transported by one of the torpe do boats which was sent out to render assistance to any of the balloonlsts who might drift out over the water. Mr. Arnold told a graphic story of their descent and rescue by a lifeboat. He said: "All day Monday, with the exception of the early afternoon, we were unable to see the earth, and we lowered the balloon repeatedly to communicate with the people to ascertain our where abouts. Apparently we could not make them understand, bu,t this probably was duo to our poor German. Finally we decided to risk proceeding, still having twenty sacks of ballast. "Moving in a northwesterly direc tion In tho evening, wo passed a city the lights of which were visible live miles to the west, and wo learned later that It was Bremerlmven. Soon after ward we noticed lighthouses and buoys which convlncod us that we were raovlug above big water, but we had no Idea whero we were. "In order to avoid drifting out of the lino of ship truffle we concluded to go down to the water, but before do ing so wo put on life preservers. This was a perilous task, for it was dark and there was great danger of being swamped In the basket. "After pitching about In the water for almost an hour and giving up all hopos of rescue Hewitt, who had climbed into the rigging, discovered n ilashllght. "Soon after we saw a lifebont ap proachlng us. The boat, however, could not reach us, as we were being dragged through the waves at tho rate of about fifteen or twenty miles an hour. The boatmen shouted to us to Jump ovorboard, which wo did. "About ten minutes later I was pick ed up by tho boat, which in the mean time had saved my companion, Hew itt." Captain J. O. McCoy, the commander of tho American balloon Amorlca II., which landed, reached Berlin. Ho gave an Interesting account of his journey Jn the air. "Wo flow 150 miles" he said, "and then were becalmed for four hours, Tho wind shifted, and we returned In tho direction of Berlin. Wo then trav eled northward in a thick fog and were unnblo to rend the maps. Sud denly we discovered that we were over water and docldcd to descend. This was accomplished with some dltllculty, and wo landed In a treetop near Wis mar, on the shores of the Baltic. Wo were within ten yards of tho steep cliffs, but wo climbed out of our dan gerous position with the assistance of Ilshermon. Wa WAm MiHrrnrl irt mifr lrvn Hin trees in order to save the balloon. "The duration of our flight was 82 hours 7 minutes, during which wo did not sleop at any time. Although wo were obliged to descend, we had suffi cient ballast to stay up for nnothcr day." Three of the balloons in tho raco aro still unaccounted for. They aro the Gorman balloon Busley, tho Spanish CMtlUa and tho Swiss Helvetia, A report received hero from Wniigor leog Island, In (lie North sen. says Hint n Imlloon passed over there, 1ml, that there were no further tidings of It, 'J'he llotllla of torpedo liont destroyers Is searching Ihe North sea. where a thick fog prevails. The English lialloon Itiuishee. so far ns present estimates fro. has covered the longest distance In the race, 27." miles. TO RAISE YANKEE. Compressed Air to De Used In Attempt to Save Cruiser. Washington, Oct. 11.-The navy de partment awarded to lolm Arl.uekle the wealthy coffee merchant of Ihu.ik lyn, the contract for ilo-itln-. the l ull- j ed States cruiser Yankee, which went: on the Hen and Chickens, In Ruwiirds I ay, about three weeks ago. I The method to lie used by Mr. Ar-! buckle Is that of compressed air. which up to this time has been applied suc cessfully but twice, anil for this reason 1 ihe outcome of tilt matter will be watched with Interest by naval men Ily the terms of thu contract Mr. Ar buckle on the delivery of the Yankee at tho Brooklyn navy yaid Is to re celve SS'.of'O. He estimates that It will cost him !f."ll,oi.() n do the woik. thus giving a profit of $:!7.."0i). If lie spend $.i(Mli)0 and Is unsuccessful. I hen the government Is to reimburse hint to the extent of $.0,H(). f because el "causc!- beyond his control" he llnils before the expenditure of the .frii'.oiut th.il the ves sel cannot be floated, the I'ultel Slates will still reimburse him for half of what he has spent. Russian Cruiser Spitted on Itccf. St. Petersburg, Oct. l-l.-The Itus slan cruiser Oloir, which l-iu ay round about twenty miles from I.i'iau. is fast on a reef. Kll'orts at refloating her have been unsuccessful. IMPLICATES MRS. ERB. Coachman's Wife Declares She Shot at Captain Three Months Ayo. Media, Pa., Oct. 1 (.-Detect Ives in vestigating (lie killing of Captain .1. Clayton Krb at Bed Cables, his sum mer homo, report that Mrs. Eugene Poulson, wlfoof Krb's negro coach man, lus made'tldrf srarCmnit: "One morning about three months ogo I heard Mrs. Krb and Captain Krb EliB SUMMEIt HOME, quarreling. Mrs. Krb protested that something her husband asserted was true was false. Then I heard a shot. Captain Krb came running downstairs. He ran Into tho kitchen. He was pule and said something about being shot at by his wife and the bullet lodging in tho wall. "Some time soon afterward I hoard another Quarrel. The captain came running down the stairs. There was a wound on the forehead. He said that his wife had thrown nn ice pitcher at him." NEW YORK VOTE DROPS. Registration Indicates Thcro Will Be a Shortage of 53,000 Ballots. New York, Oct. 14. The total regis tration hero, with n few districts miss ing, is 081,730. This means a veto ot 047,000 compared with 051,000 in the last presidential year. With n normal Increase of voting population in four years and n corre sponding Increase in registration the figures this year would be about 710, 000 with a vote of about 700,000. On this basis tho shortage in the registra tion is about fi8,000. Republican County Chairman Her bert Parsons declares that the short age represents tho number of Illegal votes that were counted In 1001. Thousands of Chickens Roasted. Chicago, Oct. 14. Several thousand chickens were destroyed by lire In the wholesale produce market here. WILLS BRAIN TO COLLEGE. Dr. Alexander Wilder Adds to Pro fessor's Collection, Newark, N, J Oct. l l.-Tho brain of Dr. Alexander Wilder, journalist and author of many works on evolution, philosophy, psychology and medicine, was bequeathed to Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell university. Professor Wilder has made an un usually complete collection of brains. Latest on Abruzzl-Elkins Match, London, Oct. 14.Thc Dally Tele graph's Rome correspondent says that he Is able to stale on the highest au thority that tho wedding of the Duke of the Abruzssl and Miss Klklns will certainly occur very soon, TAFT GETS II JUL front Trucks of Candidates Car Off Tracks. IHE IS ONLY SLIGHTLY DELAYED ffr.iin Proceeds on Its Tourney After a Halt of Half an Hour, and He Makes a Speech In Cleveland. Sterling, O., Oct. M. The first cam ally to the Tail special In all its trav els occumd as tho train pulled Into a siding at this place. The front truck of Judw Toft's car and the rear truck of n Pullman Just ahead or It left the track. The train whs coining to a slop, and the car of the candidate did not move a length after the accident. One of the Journals of the truck was cracked, but was pronounced to be sale. The delay on account of the de railment was Just thirty minutes, but this, added to the time which had been previously lost, put the special an hour behind in leaving Sterling. The cause of the accident was ascrlh cd to the spreading of the rails of the siding on which the special was mov ing in the transfer from the Krle to the Baltimore and Ohio road. Mr. Tafl. though somewhat shaken up, made his speech to the people of Sterling while the railroad men were putting his car on the track. In the midst of the steel and iron district of Cleveland Mr. Tuft com manded the closest attention of nn Im mense audience. lie declared that the decisions he had rendered while on the bench and for which lie was now condemned by Mr. Bryan and Mr. Rompers were In reality the legal basis of labor organ izations of (lie present day, and upon that basis they had grown and pros pered until they were' stronger than WANTS CANTEENS RESTORED. General Mills Says Soldiers Ought to Have Boer and Fruit. "Washington, Oct. 1 t.-Rcnoral Mills recommends a more liberal policy In supplying troops In (lie Philippines with apples, American oranges, lemons and grapefruit and with sugar cured meals. lie also recommends thai until abso lute prohibition becomes an a tual fact throughout the Fulled States post ex changes should be restored the right to furnish beer to soldiers. POSSE CAPTURES NEGRO. Citizens Arrest Criminal an Hour Aft er Attack on Girl. Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 14. Miss Pearl Tucker, sixteen years old, was attack ed by a negro In the woods near Con cord, twenty miles north of Charlotte. The girl was picking cotton in a Held, and the negro threatened to kill her if she gave an alarm. A posse of 71)0 citizens quickly form ed and captured a suspect an hour after the crime was committed. Bennet Succeeds Du Pont. New York, Oct. 14. Chairman Hitch cock of tho Republican national com. mlttoc nnnounced that Representative W. S. Bennett, member of tho lower house of congress from Now York city, hnd been selected as chairman of tho speakers' bureau In place of Mr. Du Pont, who recently resigned. Will Make Nine New York Speeches. New York, Oct. 14. National Chair man Mack announced that Mr. Bryan would make nine speeches In New York clt.V on' his visit there on Oct. 20. Mr. Bryan will speak four limes in Chicago on Oct. 10. DR. OILMAN DEAD. Former President of Johns Hopkins University Passes Away Suddenly. Norwich, Conn., Oct. 14. Tho death ot Dr. Daniel Colt Oilman of Haiti more, formerly president of Johns Hopkins university, occurred here sud denly. He had gone to his room to prepare for a drive after dinner, whero he was found helpless on tho floor by his wife. Dr. Oilman was born hero July 0, 1S11. Farmer Shoots Schoolboy Sons, (loldsberry, Mo., Oct. 14. -D. O. Sea man, a fanner, went to the district sMiool, called out his two sons, aged ten and twelve years, shot one of them dead, mortally wounded tho other and then shot and killed himself. Was Last Surviving "Bucktall." Atlantic City, N. ,T., Oct. 14,-Colonel Kdward A. Irvln, said to he the last surviving olllcer of the famous "Penn sylvania Bucktnlls," died -suddenly, LEST WE FORGET. Glimpses at the Post Happen ings In lloncsdalc's Early Days. Tllttil) AKTICI.E. Sixty years ago, when the Krio rail road was being extended through Sulli van and Delaware counties in New York, to Susquehanna in this State nud thence on to Binghainton and the west, Scran ton & Pratt had thecontract for furnish ing the iron, a large proportion of which was carted Irom Houesdalu to Big I'.ddy, (Narowsburg), Cochecton, Kqui- nunk, and other points. Hundreds of tons were so hauled, John A. Patinor being the local agent to contract with the owners of teams for its transporta tion, (iood prices in cash were paid for the work, and the job added not a little to the prosperity of the town, and the villages through which the loads were hauled. The job occupied most of the winter of 1SI7-S. M In the early tannery days cash was generally paid for bark and "slaughter lades," while calf, kip, and deerskins ind Inrse hides were usuallv "traded out" at the (annervstores. 1. P. Foster & Sons did a very large and prolitahle business on this basis. In another column will be found nn advertisement of the Secor Typewriter, invented by J. 1$. Secor, formerly a icsidcnt of this place. Tho machines are built in Derby, Conn., by the Secor Typewriter Co., who have one of the tlnest plantsof its kind in the world, and of which Mr. Secor is general manager. ). P. Secor, father of the inventor, himself a man of great skill and ingo nuiily, came to Honesdale and started a factory in tin; building formerly occu pied by Dr. W. F. Denton, for the manu facture and repair of guns. It was in die days of hunting and turkey and target diooting, and the rifles and shotguns turned out by Mr. Secor attained a very enviable reputation among sportsmen and marksmen. It is quite likely that I. B. Secor's inventive faculty received Us lir.it stimulus in his father's shop. The first soda fountain set up in Honesdale was brought here by A. J. Ivans and located in his saloon, which ic called "The Wayne County Retreat," i the basement of the Foster Brothers 'lore, known as "llrick Store No. 1,' ! the corner of Main and Ninth streets, i was built after the manner of the bcci meets then in common use, a goos ."k on a marble slab at one end of tin uinler constituting all of the fountaii i sight quite a different affair from tin narblo and onyx and silver anil plate lass mirror creations of to-day. Ice ream, small beer and lemonade hai' icon the dainty refreshments previously 'erved, and when on May Day, 184(1, Ihe first glass of soda was drawn, it was i matter of town talk. K The original idea of connecting the 'wo hemispheres by telegraph was by .ayof Hchring's strait, the Milwaukee Wisioiisimi thus speculating on such an .ichievement as early as February, 1818: 'A suggestion has recently been made that eventually the whole world will be connected by the telegraph. London and Paris and St. Petersburg can be united with New York, by carrying the line to the Pacilic coast, and running it thence along the coast to Behrings the narrow strait winch separates Asia from America crossing over Siberia and Rus sia to Moscow, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, Frankfort and Paris, and thence to Lon don. This is a gigantic undertaking. At present it may seem impracticable, as did the Krio canal thirty years ago. Its length cannot be less than 12,000 miles. Five thousand miles of tele graph will soon bo in operation in the United States. Whero tho lines will be extended w ithin tho next twenty years, and how much of the globe will bo cm braced within tho magnetic chain tho imagination can scarcely conceive." Ten years later Europe and America were indeed connected by telegraph, hut not over tho practically overland route as suggested. Tho llftieth anniver sary of the sending of tho first cable message across tho Atlantic ocean was celebrated on Monday, August 17th, last, the original event having occurred Aug ust 17, 1S58. Four years previously Cy rus . Field enlisted Peter Cooper, David Dudley Field, Marshall O. Rob erts, Moses Taylor and Chandler Whito in the enterprise of laying tho cable, al though the only submarino wires tested up to that date lay between Governors' Island and Castle Garden. There were great doings in Honesdale when tho flrst message arrived from Queen Victoria in response to one from President Buchan anhand playing, a procession, bon tires, etc. It required several years however, to bring tho system to perfec tion. There nro now thirteen separato cables connecting the United States with Great Britain. moktwaiiy ltuconi). Joseph Atkinson, Sr., died May 5, 1852 1852 1872 1872 1851 1851 1852 1872 1852 1872 1851 Nathan M. Bartlett Sept. 10, George Burnett Feb. 12, Jeremiah T. Barnes Feb. 20, John II. Crandnll Oct. 121, John I). Delezenne Aug. 23, Atwell Foster Feb. 10, Erastus'Guinnip March 1, Daniel Kimble (Texas) May 17, Patrick Keenan . Jan. 1(1, Rev. Gcrshom Williams (Scott) May 2(1, New Lutheran Church Plan. The general council of the Lutheran church, one of the three general bodies of that denomination in the United States, and witli which practically all the Lutheran congregations iit this sec tion nro united, lias adopted an alto gether new plan in carrying on its great work of home missions. The whole lino of Held mission secretaries and superin tendents of the United States nud Cana da has been called in and they will make an itinerary of the prominent Lutheran churches throughout the east, and as far west as the Mississippi river during the next two months. Hundreds of enthusiastic conventions and rallies will be held from Boston to Minneapolis to disseminate both infor mation and incentive. Twenty-seven prominent pulpits will be occupied each Sunday in various large centers of pop ulation by the representatives of the Home Mission cause, and on the follow ing Monday a joint convocation will be held at some central point to consider the work in detail and at which from ten to twelve speakers will bo heard. The pastors and representative laymen from each church will attend. The tour began at Allentown on Sept. llllh and will continue until Oct. Hist, tho anniversary of the reformation of the sixteenth century. A visit to Mknnkk &Co.'r Cloak and Suit department will convince buyers of the style and cloth qualities of their season's suits. 22eitf OUR NEXHJDONGRESSMAN. CHARLES Tho Republican candidate for tho Fourteenth Congressional District com posed of Wayne, Wyoming, Bradford and Susquehanna counties, Col. Charles C. Pratt, is, strictly speaking, a man of tho people. His homo at Now Milford is an old fashionedcountryresidence where lie spends most of his time with his wife, a woman of culture and refinement, mingles witli their neighbors and friends. A more hospitable homo cannot bo im agined. Just in the prime of life, possessed of proved first-class business ability, genial in his overy-day life, ns hosts of friends testify, a common man in the highest senso of that term, a past that is clean and unsullied, and an undenietl ambi tion for public life, briefly outlines tho man. During tho short campaign pre ceding tho primaries Col. Pratt made but few statements, but when he spoke, lio said things just as ho does things. On tho subject of tho oflico to which he aspires ho said : "I havonopct Uieories of legislation, but look upon congress ns tho representative oflico for running the great business in tho world." Ho also has gono on record regarding his posi tion in tho matter of pensions for nil who havo served their country, claim ing that such pensions should bo easily secured without a profusion of "red tapo" and only surrounding absolutely Not a Certain Cure. The publicity given by the nowspapera to the paper of Dr. Denslow at tho Academy of Medicine in Now York, on locomotor ntaxia, and to a statement made by Dr. M. Allen Starr, of Now York, in regard to the improvement mado by such patients from his clinic, has led Dr. Starr to make a signed statement in tho New York Times, warning the vic tims of that dread disease against too much hope of an illusive kind. Dr. Starr says : "I wish to make it clear that I mado no statement that the patients of whom I had knowledge were 'cured.' All these patients had organic locomotor ntaxia, with those signs of tho diseaao familiar to physicians, known as loss of reflex action, and all of them still show these signs nud also other evidenco of the existence of tho disease. Hence nono of them arc 'cured.' All of them, however, were rcmarknbly improved, rendered morecomfortablo, and enabled to go to work, whero formerly incapaci tated, and tliis result I have rarely seen produced by nny other form of treat ment. I think this improvement ia all which Dr. Denslow claimed in his paper for his method of treatment." Philadelphia is one of tho largest, most prosperous, enterprising and great est manufacturing cities in tho United States, it has 105 National banks, trust companies and savings funds, with a total capital and surplus of $170,000,000 and deposits of $590,000,000. Turns out eight locomotives every working day of the year, or 2,501 in twelve months. lias fifty-seven parks and squares, one of tho former, Fairmouut, witli 3,341 acres, be ing the largest in the world. Manufac tures yearly 5,000,000 hats; over 50,000, 000 yards of carpet; 2,000,000 doen suits of underwear; 180,000,000 yards of cot ton piece goods, 12,000,000 dozen hose, and 28,000,000 yards of woolen goods, etc., etc., or one-twentieth of all manu factured articles in the United States. K Tired Mothers, worn out by the pcevlth, cross baby, have found Cascaswect a. boon ami n blessing. Cascaswect Is for babies end children, and is especially eood tor tho Ills to common In hot weather. Look for the In gredients printed on the bottle. Contains no harmful drugs, Sold by PHIL, The DrUffettt. C. PRATT. necessary safeguards to prevent fraud. He thinks pensions should bo liberal and commensurate to the condition of the applicant. Col. Pratt's nomination in the district was clearly tho voice of a largo majority of tho people. Ho has made no pledges or promises to any man or men ; in fact, he would havo withdrawn beforo such conditions mado his nomination a cer tainty had such been the case. Tho method of direct vote, however, gave each individual the opportunity of his choice and the result was obvious. Cap able, courteous and kind ; hopeful for better things to como; having the inter ests of his district at heart, and withal a loyal Republican, who has always given his best efforts to his party, he deserves) and wo predict for him tho same gener ous support ho received for tho nomina tion. At Washington, Col. Pratt would by reason of his personality and ability, rep resent tho old Grow-Wilmot district in a capablo manner, having good' red blood coursing through his veins, being staunch Republican with tho varied interests of tho people sincerely in view, ho would make an ideal representative of tho people with whom lie mingles and is numbered. TunkhannocK Republi