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,H..iiilVHM.ifr I-. - - TrtjtxaaKfttti1 'M aife PRICE TWO CENTS MT. VERNON, 0., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1910 No. 77 1 ESTABLISHED 1836 Bfttittet; WtWL JvJV . TAFT GIV Mas For His Guests Seven hers Of Cabinet Difficulties That Beset Administration To Be Thoroughly Discussed For Next Three Days-Postal Banks, Changes In Nicaragua, Economies In Departments And Judicial Appointments Among Subjects To Be Discussed Washington, Sept. " 2G.-Aftcr an absence of nearly three months Pres ident Taft has returned to Washing ton, and this morning his official ad visers gathered at the White House for a three-day "bouse party." Secretary Dickinson is the only member of the cabinet not on hand to have his room assigned to him at the White House. He Is in Japan, and the president and tho other members of the cabinet will have to wait for a later meeting to hear from. blm. Is Unique Affair. -"ThJ5"Kree-day cabinet meeting is Colng to bo a unique affair. Old timers in Washington have been scratching their heads and 'trying to recall a similar Instance of the presi dent taking all the members of his official family under the roof of the White House for a three or four days' stay, but they say that this is tho first time of which they have found anyrecord. . The president is going to be cramped for room in entertaining his eight guests, but by doubling up two of them he will be ablo to make a go of it. Secretary Norton, who has been designated as "room clerk" by the president, declined to say what assignments he had made. Life in tho White House for the next three days is going to bo pretty sharply regulated'. Tho members of tho "house party" aro all expected to be at tho breakfast table by 8:30 in tho morning. There will be an informal discussion of administration affairs over the coffee and toast in the morning, but the formal session of tho cabinet will not be called until 11 o'clock. Each session will last un til about 1:30 In the afternoon, when the cabinet-makers will again gather In the dining room to renew their discussions at luncheon. Each after noonuthe president will try to get ex ercise on the golf course or by riding horseback, and ,lt is likely that he will take some members of his offi cial family along with him on these elde excursions. Secretary Knox and Secretary Meyer are the only two golf players in tho cabinet. Dinner will be served at 7:30 and the' evenings will be given over to further discussion of the problems confronting tho administration. The cabinet "house party" is to be strictly a family affair. The president docs not intend to Include any outsider, even on the dinner lists. Mr. Taft expects to thresh out with his ad visers all the difficulties of the ad- I" ' ' "" - " " ' POLICE HAVE A IN A Cleveland, C-T, Sept. "JB. Dpnaia Patterson Btubbs, who shot himself in his office hero, has only a fighting chance for life, so surgeons in tho Lakesldo hospital told John C. Stubbs, traffic director of tho ttarri man lines, when tho father of the wounded man arrived from Chicago. "Ho Is discouraged ond not eager to recover," the father added later, explaining his belief Tu his son's in sistent repetition to him that tho shooting was accidental. Police, who searched tho offices of ES BIG 'WE PARTY" Mem ministration and to Invite the frank est possible discussion. Discuss Court Vacancies. While the filling of the vacancies on the supreme bench is to be dis cussed at' tho cabinet meetings, the president, It Is known, will not com mit himself on this matter and will make his own decision after lie has obtained tho cabinet's views on the candidates. There is no reason at this time for believing Jhat anybody stands a better chance 'than Governor Hughes for the appointment far chief Justice. I Desides tho question of tho .estab lishment of postal savings banks, the effecting of further economies in ad ministering the executive depart ments and tho judicial appointments, the president and his cabinet also will consider foreign affairs, including the readjustment of affairs In Nica ragua, and tho general political situ ation. It is In regard to the possi bility of some political development from the cabinet meetings that offy cial Washington is chiefly interested at this timo. The president appreci ates the critical situation of the par ty l,n reference to the coming con gressional elections, and It is believ ed here that some plan of action will bo considered and adopted at the three-days' session, Columbus, O,. Sept. 2C "Mother" Jones of Chicago, of country-wide reputation as a friend of labor, is in Columbus today and Is preparing to take an active part in the streotcar strike. THRTFlE Cleveland, O., Sept. 2G. Mm. Mor ris Stepp and her two little children wore killed and Dr. Stepp seriously injured when tho latter drove his au tomobile directly in front of a speed-' lng electric freight car. THEORY SUICIDE CASE the Union Pacific's general agent hero after ho, was carried to the hos pital, finding papers pulled from tho drawers of StubbB' desk and the room nojsomo because of his having been 111, Reported the case as '"'at tempted suicide." Killed by Traction Car. Dolaware, O., Sept. 2G. Russell Blddlo, 25, was run over and killed by an extra car in charge of Motor man Daniel Jones near this city, Ho was sitting on tho track asleep. "MA" JONES TO SPEAK KILLED HSHEViliSHBHBHfiBBIBBHKiHBSSBSSHB39fiBB Copyright, 1910, by American PreBS THE HON. JUDS0N HARMON, GOVERNOR OF OHIO. IS. CHRISTY GIVES UP A! COMES TO OHIO Zanesvllle, O., Sept. 26. At a fam ily luncheon Howard Chandler Chris ty, the artist, announced to relatives that a thorough understanding has ieen reached between himself and Mrs. Christy and that the couple were reconciled. He said that Mrs. Chhrlsty would go to New York next week to terminate her engagement with a newspaper there and dlsposfi of other matters, after which she would return to Duncan Falls. It Is understood that, Air, and Mrs. Christy wlllspendthg sreajter part, of each GOES OVER EMBANKMENT Young Woman Killed and Three Hurt In Auto Wreck. Hastings, N: Y., Sept. 26. Miss Marion Morgan was killed and three others seriousjy Injured when an au tomobile left' the"road and tumbled down a steep embankment on the es tate of William F. Chrystie. Tho dead woman was caught under the car and had her back broken. Tho machine was a large touring car-, driven by Robert Reilly, a chauffeur employed by tho Wilson Distilling company, owners of the car. Reilly had with him, In addition to Miss Morgan, Miss Mary Mullen and Wil liam O'Brien, both of New York. Reilly is suffering from a broken arm and Internal injuries. O'Brien had a broken collarbone and his arm and shoulder blade were splintered, and Miss Mullen's shoulder was bro ken and she too had Internal Injuries. HER LOVER Cleveland, O., Sept. 26. TJecauso of efforts by her mother to force her to abandon her acquaintance with Paul Muller, a friend of her husband, Mrs. Lawrence Dlstel shot and in stantly killed Muller and then turned her revolver upon herself, inflicting a wound from which sho died shortly afterwards. plasterer: Columbus, O., Sept. 26. Settlement of tho strike of local plasterers, which has been in effect six months, with 200 men Involved, will probably result from tho peaceful Influence of tho Operative Plasterers' association, who are' holding their biennial con vention in this city today. Will II MEETNG Association. year, In the Ohio hqme."wlth occa sional vslts to -New Yoric, and if tho artist's business permits, spend part of each 'tntr in New York. James Announces Candidacy. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 26. Congress man Ollle James formally announced himself a candidate for Unltca States senator to succeed Thomas H. Payn ter. He says he will not be a candi date for speaker of the house, but is for Champ Clark. INJURED ATFIRE Cincinnati, O., Sept. 26. A Are at tho Hugh Merrie plumbing establish ment caused a loss to building and stock of $50,000. Joseph Frels aud Joseph Frelde, firemen, were Injured by falling walls, the former fatally. westImIay lose all cadets Four Glasses Face Courfmartial For "Silencing" Captain. West Point, N. Y., Sept. 26. The entire cadet corps Is undor arrest and facing general courtmartiol for gross disrespect to Captain Rufus E. Longan, instructor in tactics, and in subordination. Major General Rich ard H. Barry, superintendent of the military academy, sent tho four classes of 500 young men to their quarters after mess and a board of officers is sitting, endeavoring to find out why the cadets "silenced" Cap tain Longan. They won't tell.. The whole corps has stood out against General Barry's insistence. First class men with almost perfect rec ords in scholarship and conduct have remained as stubborn as the tail-end-ers whose demerits run up into the hundreds. Tho penalty, provided by law for this degree of Insubordina tion is dismissal from tho military academy. 8lx Killed In Wreck. Tipton, Ind., Sept. 26. Six persons were killed and "six Injured In a wreck on tho Indianapolis and Peru division of tho Indiana Union Trac tion line, two miles north of this city. A southbound freight car crashed Jnto a northbound passenger car, tho blame being placed on tho crow of tho former, for alleged failure to obey orders. TRAIN HITS AUTO Three Killed In Wreck at Grade Crossing In New Jersey Town. Philadelphia, Sept. 2C. An auto mobile containing three men and two women was struck by a Olassboro elerctric train at the Essex street grado crossing of the West Jersey & Seashore railroad, In Gloucester, N. J., and two of the men and ono of the women were killed and tho other two Injured. Thoso killed were: Clayton P. Davis of Colllngswood, N. J.; Charles P. Fest, nephew of Davis, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Amanda Mack yy, daughter of Davis, and wlfo of William B. Mackey, the chauffeur, of Colllngswood. The injured: William B. Mackey, chauffeur, and Myrtle 5V?Rt, 16, daughter qt ChmrJcs P. V&t,, Injurod about arms and legs. DESCRIBES PACKING OF GREWSOME TRUNK Nurse Implicates Doctor In San Francisco Mystery. San Francisco, Sept 23. That Dr. Charles Grant caused the death of Eva Swan, tho young stenographer, whose mutilated body was crowded Into a trunk last April and burled un der the basement of a lonely cottage in the Mission district, is alleged In statements by the police. Marie Messerschmldt, a trained nurse, who for a year has acted aa Dr. Grant's assistant and office at tendant, made a confession to the police. To the detectives she said: "Eva Swan had made two visits to Dr. Grant's office before she camo for the operation. The doctor put her on an operating table, but before he was through he became greatly alarmed oyer her condition. Her heart fall 1, and in spite of every thing he could do the girl died 10 days later. I nursed her In the doc tor's hospital. Young Paul Parker was a frequent caller on her and she told me he was responsible for her condition. "Dr. Grnnt was in a state of great alarm and decided that the body must be removed promptly, and he swore both me and Willie Soak, the office boy, to secrecy, declaring that we were all in one boat. Then he fetched a trunk and began sawing the bones of the dead girl's legs so he could put her, in the trunk. He went at this work as though he was butchering an animal, and It made such Impression on me that I faint ed. When I came to the doctor was chaffing my hands. I told him I couldn't help him as I couldn't stand tho sight, so he told me to go home and brace up. I don't know whenthe body was removed. All I know li that when I came back two days later the trunk was gone" A Scotch Superstition. Scotch fishers, who may bo reckoned among the most superstitious of folk, Relieve that contrnry winds will bo the result of having eggs on board with them. Sunny Spain. Spain gets more sunshine than any other country iu Europe. Its yearly average Is 3,000 hours. In England the yearly average Is 1,400 hours. LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN CHICAGO Cattle: Beeves. i 308 30; Texas steera, ?3 756 00; western steers, $4 257; stoclters and feeders, i -5(9 6 Ou; cows and heifers, t'i 15BS E0. Calves $7 0010 00. Sheep and Lambs Native sheep, $2 G5S4 45; western, ?3 !5 4 40; native lambs, $5 257 25; west ern. $5 507 00; yoa'rllngs, U 7E5 70. Hoes t.lb'ht, $9 10(ff9 50; mixed, JS 4uifl 9 45; heavy. 8 -509 30; rough, JS 23 8 43; piss, JS G09 40. Wheat No. 2 red, 9Je931Hc Corn No. 2, 5454'(ic Oats No. 2 white. 3535V4c. EAST BUFFALO Cattle: Export cat tle, $6 2507 50; shipping steers, G 00 6 35; butcher cattle, $5 7506 75; heifers, U 00516 SO; fat cons. S3 75(ff5 25; bulls, ?3 50j5 25; milkers and springers, $25 00 4C75 00. Calves $10 00010 75. Sheep and Lambs Itlxeil sheep, $4 254 75; weth eis, $4 7GQ6 00; ewes, $4 2504 65; Iambs, $6 D0&7 50; yearlings, $5 50C 00. Hogs Heavies, $9 2509 40; mediums, $9 50 9 70! Yorkers, $9 809 90; pigs, $9 70; roughs. $8 40; stags, $7 007 50. PITT8BURG--Cattlo; Choice, $7 250 7 50; prime, $7 0007 20; tidy butchers, $6 0006 40; heifers, $3 0003 75; cows, bulls and stags, $2 5005 50; fresh cows, $J0 00000 00. Calves Veal, $7 00010 30. Sheep and Lambs Prime wethers, $4 60 04 75; good mixed, $4 2004 50, lambs, $5 0007 40. Hogs Heavy hags, $9 50, heavy mixed, $D 6009 65; mediums and Yorkers. $9 7509 85; pigs, $9 2509 -70. CLEVELAND Cattlo: Choice steers, IS 50(17 00; heifers, $5 5006 00; fat cows, $3 -:5G4 00; bulls, $4 0004 50; milkers, uni pSr'jera, $20 00060 00. Calves $10 00 down. Sheep and Lombs lllxed sheep, $4 0004 25; owes, $3 7504 25; best nhetp, M 60; lamlis. $4 0007 25. Hogs Heavies, $9 0009 10; Yorkers, $9 60; pigs, $9 50; roughs, $8 OO0S 25; stags, $7 00(07 25. CINCINNATI-MVhent: No. 2 red, 99c0 $1 02 Com No. 2 mixed. 55W056O. Oats No. 2 mixed. S1031HC Ryo No. 2, 75077c. Dull: Mtats $13 00. Hacon $14 25. Lnrd $12 10. Cattle $2 2507 00. Sheep $2 0004 10. Lambs $3 6007 00. Hoss-10 0009 45. TOLEDO Wheat, $1 ul; corn, 5Ce; oats, SOHc; rye, 73'io; cloverseed, $9 42. MISE PROVED BY Harmon Submits Voters Many Details Of Administration Set Forth In Campaign Opening Speech At Canton-Some Handicaps That Could Not Be Overcome Legislation That Was Proposed Candid Discussion Of State And National Questions HARMON'S CENTER SHOTS. $ i When the voters have once T tried a man It is a simple mat- J ter to decide whether they want X him again or not. 4 Shall the conduct of the pres- ? ent governor and treasurer be J approved or condemned? 4 The rise to wealth and high J bank positions of officials deal- 4 lng with public money, who had $ come to Columbus poor, had j been too frequent not to arouse 4 suspicion. J The state had for years lost 4 large amounts of interest which f went to qualify Its officials for , entry In financial circles. t t Evidence of these wrongs was laid before the attorney general, with a request that he bring suits to recover for the state T the profits thus made at it- ex- 4 pense. All money collected Is prompt- 4 ly paid over and deposited so as 1 to draw interest for the state. A bill was drawn and recom- 1 mended at each session to re quire a like course by all treas urers. In spite of frequent urg ing this bill was twice rejected by the majority In control of the general assembly. The tax payers can draw their own con- 4 elusions. 4 It Is sufficient to say that 4 there has been no halting, shirk- lng or shielding by the Execu- "f tlve in the work of reform, and 4 that it Is proceeding and will '2 proceed as rapidly as conditions permit. 1 Never keep explosives con- cealed on the premises when J dangerous persons are known to 4 be prowling about. Either be careful to have none, or explode 4. them yourselves. 'Y Personal inclination must ever 4 give way to public duty and the J hidden sore be cured by the open and faithful wound. jL 3- Good government In Ohio Is ? T necessary In order that she may T keep her high rank In the sis- t terhood of states and be able to $ do her full share In maintaining $ T the well-being of the Union. J canton, O., Sept. 24. The Demo crats of Ohio opened their state cam paign in this city the homo of Atlee Pomerene, the candidate for lieuten ant governor today. Jlembers of the party from all' parts of the state were here in great numbers and the affair throughout was a veritable love feast. Enthusiasm was mani fested throughout the proceedings and the hearts of the candidates were mado glad by the reports brought from different parts of the state. There was no street parade or at tempt at outdoor demonstration of any kind, and at 2 o'clock Stato Chairman Nichols called the largo crowd that packed tho auditorium to order. He made a brief address and then Introduced Governor Harmon who was groetcd with tremendous ap plause. Reviews Administration. Tho governor spoke for 45 minutes, in which tlmo ho reviewed tho prin PERFORMANCE lis lo Oi Ohio Record cipal events 1 of his administration and submitted his record to the voters of Ohio for their considera tion, contending that when the voters havo once tried a man it is a simple matter to determine whether they want him again or not. In referring to conditions in tho statehouse when he took charge of the executive oiOce he Bald that the rise to wealth and high bank positions of officials dealing with public money, who had come to Columbus poor, had been too frequent not to arouse sus picion. He also referred to the fact that the state for years had lost large amounts of interest which went to qualify its officials for entry into financial circles. - --" TJnder the -new order of things, he- said, all money collected Is promptly paid over and ' deposited so as to draw interest for the state, and tho attorney general has brought suit to recover for the state the profits made by former officials. The governor intimated thit the taxpayers can draw their own con clusions from the fact that a bill was drawn and presented at each session. to require all treasurers to deposit money in banks, but that it was. twice defeated by the party In con trol of the legislative branch of tho state government. He announced hat there has been ond will be no halting, shirking or shielding b the executive in the work of reform and that it is pro ceeding and will proceed as rapidly as conditions permit. He advised that explosives never be concealed on the premises when dangerous per sons are known to be prowling about.. Either be careful to have none, or explode them yourself. f Good Government Necessary. The governor closed by saying that good government in Ohio Is neces sary in order that she aay keep her high rank in the sisterhood of states and he able to do her full share 'in maintaining the well-being of tho Union. Atlee Pomerene, candidate for lieu tenant governor, sroke for an hour on business methods in public life. The principal points brought out In his speech were a denial that the Democratic platform charges the Re publican party with shielding and de fending grafters, but that It did say that tho Republican officeholders shielded and defended grafters; that Ohio might be willing to trust Har ding alone, but not Harding in com panionship with Cox; that the people of Ohio can not afford now to make a change; that privilege does not grant favors to the public, but ex tracts them from the public. Timothy Hogan of Wellston, candi date for attorney general, defined a progressive Republican as one who loves Democratic principles and wantB to adopt them. He appealed for votes in the following language: "The need of a legal adviser in full sympathy with the administra tion Is most apparent, and I trust that the re-election of Governor Har mon will also insure the election of all his associates on the state ticket." Among other things Mr. Hogan said: "What can wo oxpect of Ohio, where Republican insurgency Is ram jant, with a stnnd-pat platform and n hitched-tlght candidate for gover nor and a hltchod-tightcr candidate for United States senator? "Our opponents insist that graft is not a party question. This does not mn well f.om thoso who offered their protection to tho gratters two years ago and who would bo silent now were they not driven from un der cover by Governor Harmon." Excutslons. wcro run. on aJL rail; i a W tm v. $ '2 fit . w mm.' twmv tv V i , 'u A . 'itj A'u v,