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Only One Dollar A Year. THE TITUSVIIXE HERALD, All the' Home News Weekly. The Best Weekly In Crawfcrd County. VOL. 54. TITUSVILLE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 19 11. NO. ST. SENSATIONAL DAY IN »NK MURDER TRIAL DR. HUPP'S EVIDENCE WAS DAMAGING. DEFENSE WAS UNABLE PI0HsI»!°&is!$TANDARD OIL CASE To Shake His Testimony p.*; on Cross-Examination ]'ii —-Prisoner in Good Spirits. i/': "" ' Z* j B" Associated Press. WHEELING, W. Vs., Jan. JO.—Tbe atate today began its work of weaving a powerful web of circumstantial evidence around Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk, charged with attempting to poison ber millionaire husband, John O. Schenk. While but four witnesses bave been examined, Prosecuting Attorney J. B. Handlan has shown tbe tread of tbe case which he expects to set up. '' Three witnesses were questioned in the morning, but it was at the afternoon session when Dr. Frank De Moyne Hupp, toe physician who discovered and revealed the alleged poison plot, was,pnt upon the stand, that sensational developments began to come. This witness was under direct •gemination throughout the entire afternoon session and Strong points were made by the state, li was shown by hia testimony that Jobn O. Schenk was, the victim of poisons, lead and arsenic. A Dramatic Incident. The most dramatic incident .of tbe day came when Dr. Hupp declared tbat Mrs. Schenk had said to him on the occasion of a visit to the millionaire's bome: "Perhaps I would be better satisfied if you let him die,". Through William Wolfe, the companion of John O. Schenk in bis travels through Europe, the state showed that the packer was in perfect health during all the trip. Tbat bis illness developed soon after bis return, and a Utter cross-examination by J. J. P. -O'Brien, the brilliant .young attorney for the defense, failed to reveal a flaw ln the testimony of the witness. By Dr. Gregory Ackerman, the state showed that Schenk was suffering from lead poisoning before Dr. Hupp was brought into toe case; that he bad been brought trom a local hospital, after remaining but a few days; that be had advised toe patient against eating anything which was brought from the latter's home. Every symptom of lead poisoning, declared the witness, was found in the blood tests, as well as all others made, and -the defense passed cross-examination, pending further direct examination ob the part of the state, as was the case when Dr. D. E. Biggar Best, an Island physician, jvas put on tbe Stand Given Two Poisons. It was shown clearly tbat the state expects to prove during tbe progress of the trial tbat not one but two poisons were used by toe wife. That .acetate of lead was first administered to Schenk, and that arsenic in the form of Fowler's solutions was later tried. That tbe milUonaire was brought to death's door through this means. Dr. Hupp told ot having had samples of the Ballardvale water and medicine used by Schenk tested at JOhns Hopkins university and tbe University ot 'Virginia. While he was prevented from placing these tests in evidence they will' be produced later ■to the trial when two celebrated chemists of the two institutions where the tests were made will be placed on the stud. Prosecution's Strong Case. It is the Intention of the state to show that Schenk was given two poisons. Later ln tbe trial witnesses will be put on to prove where Mrs. Schenk obtained those poisons, declared Prosecutor Handlan, when they were administered, and when the change from one to the other was made by the accused. While but one cross-examination, that of Wolfe, was made by the defense, it is still assured that the case will be set up along the Une of insanity and alleged conspiracy. Big Crowds at Trial. " Today was the flrst of testimony, and brougbt out crowds wbo fought for admittance. Women tore tbelr garments in the mad scramble, aiit the fight was unavailing to all but those who were flrst and secured seats, for following tbe usual ruling, Judge Jordan refused to allow spectators to stand in the aisles or occupy seats inside tbe rail. At only one stage of the proceedings today did Mrs. Schenk display extreme agitation. That came when Dr. ' Hupp told of her having said toat it ..would please her as well If her husband be allowed to die. The accused dropped her head and grew pale as the allegation was made. Throughout ahe has kept up her spirits to a remark- ■ able degree, and while she has not • smiled since the case opened, she has taken a keen interest In the proceedings, frequently consulting with her attorneys. He Is a Bit Sore Over Cannon Victory. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Declaring that the flght for progressive legislation will go on, Representative Norris of Nebraska who led the big rules flght in the house, last March, issued a statement today characterizing yesterday's proceedings in the house when Speaker Cannon's decision was sustained, as looking "verjn much like a frame-up, brought about by the speaker and his friends for a vindication." Mr. Norris said that in yesterday's rules fight the Republican insurgents with a few Democrats showed them- selve to be consistent but were apparently overridden by a majority combination of Republicans and Democrats. Mr. Norris adds that tfie reforms, that the insurgents instituted in the house, have not been abrogated. Mr. Norris pointed out that yesterday's fight was not an insurgent affair Inasmuch as it 'was started by Representative Fuller of Illinois, one of Speaker Cannon's allies, who, according to Mr. Norris voted against his own position to sustain the speaker, and Representative. Gaines of W. Va., another of the speaker's lieutenants, who appeared from the decision of the chair, on roll call voted against his own appeal to sustain the speaker. • READY FOR ARGUMENT SUPREME COURT TO HEAR IT SOON. TOBACCO CASE DONE Statement of the Government's Charges, With Reply of Defendant's Counsel. OUTSIDER IS FAVORED FOR THE 8ENATORSHIP. New Jersey Legislature Convened Tuesday. By Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 10.—The New Jersey legislature of 1911 which is expected to be one of the most interesting in years was called into annual session shortly afternoon today. Both houses organized and Governor Fort's last annual message was read The principal talk among the legislators and others was the United States senatorship. The followers "of James E. Martins seem to take much hope from the situation to Hudson county that has been brought about by the death yesterday of Robert Davis, the Hudson county leader. The Martlne men claim that former Senator James. Smith, Jr., will get but four votes in that county out of the thirteen Democrats in the delegation.; A great deal of the talk among the outsiders leans toward a third man. WIDOW OF QUAY DIED TUESDAY Was Well Known in Capital Sooiety. By Associated Press. PITTSBURG, Jan. 1.0—Mrs. Agnes B. Quaji, widow of the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay who died in 1904, died today at her home, Oak Spur Road, Shield's Station, near here. Mrs. Quay's death was the direct result of a stroke of apoplexy suffered Sunday night last. She was bom in Beaver,. Pa., and was married to Senator Quay in 1854. Funeral services will be held at the family home Thursday afternoon, and interment will be made in the Beaver cemetery. Mrs. Quay was one of the best known figures in Washington society for many years. HONDURAS LOAN . IS CONSUMMATED Means Rehabilitation of Its Finances. ' By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—After more than a year of negotiations, consummation of the proposed loan for the rehabiliation of the finances of Honduras was made possible today when Secretary of State Knox and General" Juan E. Paredes, minister of finance of Honduras, signed a convention binding Honduras to the fulfillment of the obligation to be imposed by toe loan. The treaty will be submitted by President Toft to the senate within a few days for ratification and Senor Paredes declared tonight that within a week the contract between Honduras and J. P. Morgan & Co. for the proposed loan would be signed. The state department did not make public the text of the convention, but it is known that the treaty does not establish any financial protectorate over Honduras. The convention will, it is believed, completely reorganize the financial status of Honduras. The outstanding debt of the country is estimated at about $112,000,000, toe accumulation of principal and interest of four loans made since 1867. PROBABLY PERISHED. By Associated Press. ASTRAKHAN, Russia, Jan. 10.— Eighty-five fishermen" were carried out into the Caspian sea cn an ice floe today. A steamer was requisitioned at Baku and sent to the rescue of the men, but the chances that any of the number will escape death were poor. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The Standard OU dissolution suit will advance to the center of the stage in the supreme court, of the United States tomorrow immediately after argu ments are concluded in the Tobacco dissolution suit. For the remainder of the week, at least, the court wlll give its' attention to a consideration of this second problem under the Sherman anti-trust law. For the government there wlll appear Attorney General Wickersham, Frank B. Kellogg and possibly C. A. Severance. Opposed to them and defending the Standard Oil will he John G. Johnson, John G. Milburn and D. T. Watson. The Government's Claim. The government's chief object is to have the court declare void the corporate organization of 1899 whereby the Standard Oil company of New Jersey with its increased capitalization changed its stock for the stock of nineteen other oil corporations, which controlled in turn a great many more such corporations. It is claimed that this amalgamation of the stocks of all these companies in the Standard Oil company of New Jersey resulted in a combination more closely and effectively held together than before and is in restraint of trade. The resultant control of oil through the subsidiary corporations is said to constitute a monopoly. Both results, the government contends, are in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. In support of its case, the government will claim that following the action of the court ih the Norther Securities case, it must dissolve the Standard Oil company of New Jersey as a holding company suppressing competition. In urging upon the court the proposition that the Standard is monopolizing, the government will urge that evidence must be considered by the court of price-cutting to drive competitors out of business, rebating and preying on competitors by secret organization. Monopoly Is Charged. "If the Sherman act means anything in this country," say counsel for the government in their brief, "it means a monopoly acquired by such methods of competition as this. Unless it is enforced the small corporations or individuals who wish to engage in business will have absolutely no opportunity at all. This testimony is valuable, as showing the intention of the Standard Oil company to. monopolize the commerce ih oil throughout the United States. In many states it has an absolute monopoly. We mean by absolute monopoly that in those districts it does all of the business and has eliminated every competitor." Combinations effected by purchase, according to the contention of the government, are just as much within the law as combinations effected by trust agreements or pooling. The Standard's Argument. Replying to these accusations and conclusions, counsel for the Standard [will argue that the Sherman law does not prohibit the method of holding property by stock ownership. "All methods are lawful," Mr. Watson will argue, "if not used to restrict trade or gain an unlawful monopoly." "The Sherman act has no application to the transfer to, or the acquisition by, the Standard Oil company of New Jersey of the stocks of the various manufacturing and producing corporations," it is argued in the brief of Messrs. Johnson and Milburn, "for tne reason that such transfer and acquisition were rot acts of interstate or foreign commerce nor direct and immediate in their effect on interstate or foreign commerce, nor within tbe power of congress to regulate interstate or foreign commerce." Following out this line of argument, they will urge that purchase or acquisition of property is not in any sense a contract, conspiracy or combination in restrain of trade. CAUGHT NAPPING. By Associated Press. BAY CITY, Mich., Jan. 10.—After one hour and fifty minutes of hard wrestling here last night John BUleter of Toledo, lightweight champion of the United States, caught WUliam Bingham of London, England, English lightweight champion, napping, and with a hammerlock put Bingham out of commission for at least two months. His shoulder ligaments were torn. Bingham's manager defaulted the second fall with the understanding he is to have a return match, thus leaving the championship title undecided. LATHAM'S ESCAPE WAS REMARKABLE Uninjured When Monoplane Was Wrecked. By Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Hubert Latham, the young French birdman, had a remarkable escape from death at San Francisco's aviation field today. In his second flight of the afternoon he encountered "adverse wind conditions that forced him to descend suddenly, after he had attained a height of about thirty feet. Alighting he crashed into a fence, completely wrecking his Antoinette monoplane. The body of the craft was broken into three pieces. Latham sat tight and escaped without a scratch, while his machine splintered about him. When an army ambulance which dashed out from Camp Selfridge, near which the accident occurred, reached the aviation field Latham was found ruefuly inspecting the wreck of his machine and puffing hard on a consoling cigarette. This Is the second machine wrecked by Latham in his last two engagements, his first mishap having occurred at the recent Los Angeles meeting. BALTIMORE MAN KILLED HIS WIFE OF A MONTH. Mrs. Joseph Robb a Former Harris, burg Girl. By Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.—Following a quarrel with his wife of a month as she lay in bed today Joseph F. Robb, 30 years of age, crushed her skull with a hammer, inflicting wounds which are expected to result fatally. Robb then went to the river front and jumped into the water with the apparent intention of drowning himself but changed his mind and swam ashore. He was arrested later. The wbma, who is 29 years old was Miss Julia Dean, of Harrisburg, Pa., where her mother lives. Jealousy and the alleged refusal of his wife, to give him money was said to have been the motive for Robb's deed. SCHLEY THINKS BOTH ACHIEVED2CEE POLE Rear Admiral Writes to Explorer Cook. By Associated. Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook received a letter today from Rear Admiral W. S. Schley, U. S. N„ president of the Arctic club, under whose auspices Dr. Cook made his expedition to the north. It says in part: "I thank you very much for your kind letter and I would assure that I shall never vary in the belief that you and Civil Engineer Peary reached the pole. After reading the published accounts, dally and critically, of both claimants, I was forced tb the conclusion from their striking similarity that each of you was the eye witness of the other's success. "Without coUusion it would have been impossible to have written accounts so similar. "I have been broad enough in my views to believe that there was room enough at the pole for two. I believe that both are entitled to tbe honor of achievement." SUGAR COMPANY'S OFFER ACCEPTED Sum of $700,000 Paid the Government. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—United States District Attorney Henry A. Wise aneunced today that the compromise offered the government by the American Sugar Refining company in the drawback duty dispute at this port had been accepted by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh. - The deposit ot $700,000 in settlement of all civil claims against the company already has been made and the money is at the disposal of the government. Of the possibility of other action Mr. Wise said that his investigation had disclosed no indication of intentional fraud on the part of the company. PROTEST NOT ALLOWED. PARIS, Jan. 10.—The international aeronautical federation which- met Here today, decided that it had no authority to consider the protest against the award of the international balloon trophy to tbe Americans, Alan R. Hawley or Augustus Post, On the ground that the protest as made was irregular. The federation, declared that the protest should be lodged first with the sporting commission of the American Aero club. Grahame-White Pretest. By Associated Press. PARIS, Jan. 10.—The International Aeronautical Federation voted today to send the matter of Grahame-White's protest against Molssant in the Statue SEVENTEEN PERISHED IN THEANGRYSFAS THREE BARGES LOST In Terrific Gale on Peaked Hill Bar—Life Guards Powerless to Extend Help. By Associated Press. HIGHLAND LIGHT, Mass., Jan. 10. —The worst disaster the Hfe guards of the storm-lashed coast of Cape Cod have seen in more than a dozen years occurred today on the treacherous sand bars that make off from the peaked hills. They stood on the beach with their lifeboats and other apparatus unable to render assistance, while three stout coal-carrying barges were hurled to destruction and all on board, seventeen men, lost their lives in the boiling surf. The barges were the Treverton, Corbin and Pine Forest, valued together at $125,000. With the exception of Captain Brown of the Treverton, who belonged in Lincolnville, Me., and Captain Hall of the Fine Forest, a Provlncetown man, toe drowned sailors were Philadelphians. Lost in the Breakers. As two of the barges, the Treverton and Corbin, broke up very quickly, it is believed that twelve'lives were lost within an hour after the barges broke away from the tug Lykens about 3 o'clock this morning and went into the breakers. Five other seamen were seen clinging desperately to the Pine Kc rest until mid-forenoon, when in attempting to reach shore in their own Uttle boat they were hurled into the seething billows and lost. The tug Lykens of the Reading Coal company started frem Philadelphia last week with the barges for New England ports. Ooming over Nantucket shoals Monday the Lykens encountered a heavy southwestern gale, which began hauling into the northwest as she rounded Monbmoy point, where She met the full force of the storm. The life saving patrol' saw her standing off shore to avoid the Peaked hill bars, but darkness blotted her out four hours before the dawn. The last watch of the night patrol was just starting out from the Peaked hill station when he discovered wreckage in the breakers. The crew '-was quickly summoned, but it was too dark to make out anything. . Stranded on toe Bar. At dawn a stranded barge with a single mast could be seen far out in the breakers on the outer bar, while in the offing hovered a tug which afterward proved to be the Lykens. The life savers soon realized that no lifeboat pulled by men could* traverse those SOO yards of cross-whirling billows. Two men were seen clinging to the rigging and three others holding onto the house. It was apparent that the other two barges had long since broken up. The Lykens could not render assistance owing to the heavy sea and started for Province- town. Shortly before 10 o'clock the men of the Pine Forest were seen to gather in a group. Before those on the beach realized their purpose, the little dory on top of the barge house had been cut loose and then launched. All five men then tumbled in for the last fight for life, but before they had grasped their oars a big comber came rolling around the stern cf the barge and over teem. That was the end. TRYING DAYS FOR LONDON POLICE Bull Dos Kept Them Five Hours at Bay. By Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 10.—These are trying days for tbe London police. A dozen of tbem'were beld at bay for five hours this afternoon outside a bedroom by" a bulldog guarding the bodyt of bis master who had committed suicide. After exhausting their efforts to cap- tore or kill tbe dog, a doctor was sent for. He poisoned some meat which was thrown into thf room through a hole in the door. Not until tbe animal was dead did the police enter the room. Tbey tben removed the body, to a morgue. Taken ln connection with toe battle against two anarchists a few days ago, ln whlcb hundreds of police and large detachments of soldiers took part, this incident has served to increase tbe ridicule to which tbe police are being subjected. LANGFORD WON, Ay Associated Prest. BOSTON, Jan. 10.—Sam Langford defeated Joe Jeannette In a slashing bout of twelve rounds betore the Armory Athletic club tonight. Langford had a derisive lead ln every round but ELECT SENATORS IN THREE STATES George P. McLean Named in Connecticut. A TERRIBLE DISASTER OFF OAPE COD. By Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 10.— George P. McLean, governor ln 1900 and 1902. will succeed as United States senator from Connecticut tbe piesent senator, Morgan G. Bulkeley, whose term expires March 3. McLean defeated the senior senator ln tbe Republican caucus today by a vote of 113 to 64, 90 being necessary for a choice. The nomination then was made unanimous, and toe Democrats being In tbe minority, there only remains now the formality of voting for him by the two branches of the general assembly separately, which wlll be done next Tuesday. Mr. McLean ls a lawyer. He ls 54 yea i s- old and is considered one of the wealthy men of the state. CAPITOL CASES ALL WOUND UP TUESDAY Spalding Also Ran. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 10.—The house of representatives of the state legislature gave a majority for Judge John D. Works for United States senator, over A G. Spalding, by avote of 62 to 16. This ensured Works' election whatever the vote of the state senate may be, as the total vote of botb houses is only 130. Ohio's New Senator. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 10.—In spite of the bitterness of tne late Democratic senatorial campaign, the victor, Lieutenant Governor Atlee Pomerene, was elected to the United States senate by tbe legislature today by the vote of every Democratic member of that body. In the senate Lieutenant Governor Pomerene received 19" votes and in the hcnse 70 votes. The two houses meet at 11 a. m. on Wednesday to complete the election. of Liberty flight race back to the ' rne nnd In the firit round dropped Aero ('lull of America tor a decision. Jeannette for a count of eight. BENJAMIN CRAMP FOUND DEAD IN HIS BATHROOM Family Say He Had No Rer Suicide By Associated Prett. g PHILADELPHIA,,- Jan. 10.—Benja- j mtn CratopV;* a-yna^feei of the wett4| known ship building family of William I Cramp & -Sons,.died from gas poisoning tonight. He was found in the itathroom of his home by his wife who Is prostrated by the shock. The family say he had no reason to end his life and say that his death was nn accident. , LORIMER CASE WILL TAKE MUCH TIME Senators Foresee Protracted Debate. By Associated Press. i WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The impression is growing among senators that the consideration of the charges connected with the election of Sen- iiior Lorimer of Illinois will be protracted. Already two speeches, both in opposition to Mr. Lorimer, have been delivered and while many others are promised, comparatively few senators are yet prepared to proceed. Members of toe committee today expressed the opinion tbat tbe question ■ ill be before tbe senate for at least I a month to come. Mr. Lorimer him-! self is preparing to speak. He has made an analjui s of the testimony and loday took full notes upon Senator Crawford's speech ln opposition to his j retaining his seat. Among those who are expected to speak are Senators Burrows, chairman ■ of the committee on privileges and elections; Heyburn, Depew, Bailey, Paynter, Beveridge and Frazier. STATS RECEIVES VERY tARGE AMOUNT. INDICTMENTS NULLED: And All Other Proceedings Discontinued by the Terms of the Final Settlement. By Associated Prest, HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 10.—With today's action in the Dauphin county court all cases resulting from the scandals attendant upon the furnishing and equipment of the state capitol have ended. The state secured today 11,300,000 ln eaah and warrants wortb $158,000 additional so that counting in all moneys, warrants and claims given up toe commonwealth recovers $1,596,- 740.07. The proceedings of today consisted of decrees ordering payments to be made by certain respondents and the dismissing of the actions against the trust companies and other suritles and against T. L. Eyre, former superintendent of public grounds and build- ings, after which all criminal cases remaining on the dockets were formally dropped on motion of the district attorney. Lawyers Were Mum. The lawyers tonight declined to state how the restitution money was made up. Tbe decrees by Judge Kunkel today required the payment to toe state of $1,800,000 and the surrender of warrants by John H. Sanderson's estate aggregating $108,000, and by Joseph bt,. Huston, architect, amounting to' $77,000. Sanderson was a contractor for fur-- nishlng the capitol and Huston was architect and the designer of ie of the furnishings. Sanderson ^ was convicted of conspiracy to defraud tb^ state and died while his case was pehdlng In a higher court on ap- |iiqa). ,.jluston has a)R.o linen convicted but is out' on ball penctiag an appeal; The Cases Closed. Tbe cases closed today wens' two actions In equity and twenty criminal actions. In one case $1,100,000 to cash was paid over and in another $200,000. In the cases of the trust companies the demurerrs were sustained because the principals having effected a settlement the sureties could not be held. In the case of T. L. Eyre, he filed an answer and toe case closed -without taking testimony. When the proceedings had ended Attorney General M. Hampton Todd made this statement on the result of the series of cases: "The settlement made today ln no way affects the criminal case now- pending against Architect Huston in the superior court, nor has the oom-' nonwealth waived any remedy that it could sustain against any of tbe defendants by consenting to entry of a nol pros ln the untried criminal cases. WARDWELL WILL FILED. By Associated Prett. NEW YOBK, Jan. 10.—Provided tbe Red Cross hospital here continues its present practice of using as sparingly as possible medicines containing alcohol, it eventually will receive an addition of $100,000 to its endowment fund from the estate of WUliam T. Wardwell, former secretary of the Standard Oil company. . Tbe will of Mr. Wardwell, wbo died last Tuesday, was filed for probate today. President JOHN FERTIG Vice President W. J. STEPHENS Cashier F. C. WHEELER r Established 1865 Nationa ^. TITUSVILLE, PA. I >i CAPITAL - - SURPLUS - - $2/5.000.00 We have the most complete banking facilities'for meeting the requirements of all classes of people. ' Large Resources. Savings Department. Safe Deposit Vaults. • Foreign Exchange Dep't. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. Safety the Best Policy. —DIRECTOR8— John Fertig WiUiam Bayliss Louis K. Hyde John H. Scheide S. C. Fertig Samuel Grumbine John L. McKinney W. C. Warner. W. J. Stephens
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Full Text | Only One Dollar A Year. THE TITUSVIIXE HERALD, All the' Home News Weekly. The Best Weekly In Crawfcrd County. VOL. 54. TITUSVILLE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 19 11. NO. ST. SENSATIONAL DAY IN »NK MURDER TRIAL DR. HUPP'S EVIDENCE WAS DAMAGING. DEFENSE WAS UNABLE PI0HsI»!°&is!$TANDARD OIL CASE To Shake His Testimony p.*; on Cross-Examination ]'ii —-Prisoner in Good Spirits. i/': "" ' Z* j B" Associated Press. WHEELING, W. Vs., Jan. JO.—Tbe atate today began its work of weaving a powerful web of circumstantial evidence around Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk, charged with attempting to poison ber millionaire husband, John O. Schenk. While but four witnesses bave been examined, Prosecuting Attorney J. B. Handlan has shown tbe tread of tbe case which he expects to set up. '' Three witnesses were questioned in the morning, but it was at the afternoon session when Dr. Frank De Moyne Hupp, toe physician who discovered and revealed the alleged poison plot, was,pnt upon the stand, that sensational developments began to come. This witness was under direct •gemination throughout the entire afternoon session and Strong points were made by the state, li was shown by hia testimony that Jobn O. Schenk was, the victim of poisons, lead and arsenic. A Dramatic Incident. The most dramatic incident .of tbe day came when Dr. Hupp declared tbat Mrs. Schenk had said to him on the occasion of a visit to the millionaire's bome: "Perhaps I would be better satisfied if you let him die,". Through William Wolfe, the companion of John O. Schenk in bis travels through Europe, the state showed that the packer was in perfect health during all the trip. Tbat bis illness developed soon after bis return, and a Utter cross-examination by J. J. P. -O'Brien, the brilliant .young attorney for the defense, failed to reveal a flaw ln the testimony of the witness. By Dr. Gregory Ackerman, the state showed that Schenk was suffering from lead poisoning before Dr. Hupp was brought into toe case; that he bad been brought trom a local hospital, after remaining but a few days; that be had advised toe patient against eating anything which was brought from the latter's home. Every symptom of lead poisoning, declared the witness, was found in the blood tests, as well as all others made, and -the defense passed cross-examination, pending further direct examination ob the part of the state, as was the case when Dr. D. E. Biggar Best, an Island physician, jvas put on tbe Stand Given Two Poisons. It was shown clearly tbat the state expects to prove during tbe progress of the trial tbat not one but two poisons were used by toe wife. That .acetate of lead was first administered to Schenk, and that arsenic in the form of Fowler's solutions was later tried. That tbe milUonaire was brought to death's door through this means. Dr. Hupp told ot having had samples of the Ballardvale water and medicine used by Schenk tested at JOhns Hopkins university and tbe University ot 'Virginia. While he was prevented from placing these tests in evidence they will' be produced later ■to the trial when two celebrated chemists of the two institutions where the tests were made will be placed on the stud. Prosecution's Strong Case. It is the Intention of the state to show that Schenk was given two poisons. Later ln tbe trial witnesses will be put on to prove where Mrs. Schenk obtained those poisons, declared Prosecutor Handlan, when they were administered, and when the change from one to the other was made by the accused. While but one cross-examination, that of Wolfe, was made by the defense, it is still assured that the case will be set up along the Une of insanity and alleged conspiracy. Big Crowds at Trial. " Today was the flrst of testimony, and brougbt out crowds wbo fought for admittance. Women tore tbelr garments in the mad scramble, aiit the fight was unavailing to all but those who were flrst and secured seats, for following tbe usual ruling, Judge Jordan refused to allow spectators to stand in the aisles or occupy seats inside tbe rail. At only one stage of the proceedings today did Mrs. Schenk display extreme agitation. That came when Dr. ' Hupp told of her having said toat it ..would please her as well If her husband be allowed to die. The accused dropped her head and grew pale as the allegation was made. Throughout ahe has kept up her spirits to a remark- ■ able degree, and while she has not • smiled since the case opened, she has taken a keen interest In the proceedings, frequently consulting with her attorneys. He Is a Bit Sore Over Cannon Victory. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Declaring that the flght for progressive legislation will go on, Representative Norris of Nebraska who led the big rules flght in the house, last March, issued a statement today characterizing yesterday's proceedings in the house when Speaker Cannon's decision was sustained, as looking "verjn much like a frame-up, brought about by the speaker and his friends for a vindication." Mr. Norris said that in yesterday's rules fight the Republican insurgents with a few Democrats showed them- selve to be consistent but were apparently overridden by a majority combination of Republicans and Democrats. Mr. Norris adds that tfie reforms, that the insurgents instituted in the house, have not been abrogated. Mr. Norris pointed out that yesterday's fight was not an insurgent affair Inasmuch as it 'was started by Representative Fuller of Illinois, one of Speaker Cannon's allies, who, according to Mr. Norris voted against his own position to sustain the speaker, and Representative. Gaines of W. Va., another of the speaker's lieutenants, who appeared from the decision of the chair, on roll call voted against his own appeal to sustain the speaker. • READY FOR ARGUMENT SUPREME COURT TO HEAR IT SOON. TOBACCO CASE DONE Statement of the Government's Charges, With Reply of Defendant's Counsel. OUTSIDER IS FAVORED FOR THE 8ENATORSHIP. New Jersey Legislature Convened Tuesday. By Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 10.—The New Jersey legislature of 1911 which is expected to be one of the most interesting in years was called into annual session shortly afternoon today. Both houses organized and Governor Fort's last annual message was read The principal talk among the legislators and others was the United States senatorship. The followers "of James E. Martins seem to take much hope from the situation to Hudson county that has been brought about by the death yesterday of Robert Davis, the Hudson county leader. The Martlne men claim that former Senator James. Smith, Jr., will get but four votes in that county out of the thirteen Democrats in the delegation.; A great deal of the talk among the outsiders leans toward a third man. WIDOW OF QUAY DIED TUESDAY Was Well Known in Capital Sooiety. By Associated Press. PITTSBURG, Jan. 1.0—Mrs. Agnes B. Quaji, widow of the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay who died in 1904, died today at her home, Oak Spur Road, Shield's Station, near here. Mrs. Quay's death was the direct result of a stroke of apoplexy suffered Sunday night last. She was bom in Beaver,. Pa., and was married to Senator Quay in 1854. Funeral services will be held at the family home Thursday afternoon, and interment will be made in the Beaver cemetery. Mrs. Quay was one of the best known figures in Washington society for many years. HONDURAS LOAN . IS CONSUMMATED Means Rehabilitation of Its Finances. ' By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—After more than a year of negotiations, consummation of the proposed loan for the rehabiliation of the finances of Honduras was made possible today when Secretary of State Knox and General" Juan E. Paredes, minister of finance of Honduras, signed a convention binding Honduras to the fulfillment of the obligation to be imposed by toe loan. The treaty will be submitted by President Toft to the senate within a few days for ratification and Senor Paredes declared tonight that within a week the contract between Honduras and J. P. Morgan & Co. for the proposed loan would be signed. The state department did not make public the text of the convention, but it is known that the treaty does not establish any financial protectorate over Honduras. The convention will, it is believed, completely reorganize the financial status of Honduras. The outstanding debt of the country is estimated at about $112,000,000, toe accumulation of principal and interest of four loans made since 1867. PROBABLY PERISHED. By Associated Press. ASTRAKHAN, Russia, Jan. 10.— Eighty-five fishermen" were carried out into the Caspian sea cn an ice floe today. A steamer was requisitioned at Baku and sent to the rescue of the men, but the chances that any of the number will escape death were poor. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The Standard OU dissolution suit will advance to the center of the stage in the supreme court, of the United States tomorrow immediately after argu ments are concluded in the Tobacco dissolution suit. For the remainder of the week, at least, the court wlll give its' attention to a consideration of this second problem under the Sherman anti-trust law. For the government there wlll appear Attorney General Wickersham, Frank B. Kellogg and possibly C. A. Severance. Opposed to them and defending the Standard Oil will he John G. Johnson, John G. Milburn and D. T. Watson. The Government's Claim. The government's chief object is to have the court declare void the corporate organization of 1899 whereby the Standard Oil company of New Jersey with its increased capitalization changed its stock for the stock of nineteen other oil corporations, which controlled in turn a great many more such corporations. It is claimed that this amalgamation of the stocks of all these companies in the Standard Oil company of New Jersey resulted in a combination more closely and effectively held together than before and is in restraint of trade. The resultant control of oil through the subsidiary corporations is said to constitute a monopoly. Both results, the government contends, are in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. In support of its case, the government will claim that following the action of the court ih the Norther Securities case, it must dissolve the Standard Oil company of New Jersey as a holding company suppressing competition. In urging upon the court the proposition that the Standard is monopolizing, the government will urge that evidence must be considered by the court of price-cutting to drive competitors out of business, rebating and preying on competitors by secret organization. Monopoly Is Charged. "If the Sherman act means anything in this country," say counsel for the government in their brief, "it means a monopoly acquired by such methods of competition as this. Unless it is enforced the small corporations or individuals who wish to engage in business will have absolutely no opportunity at all. This testimony is valuable, as showing the intention of the Standard Oil company to. monopolize the commerce ih oil throughout the United States. In many states it has an absolute monopoly. We mean by absolute monopoly that in those districts it does all of the business and has eliminated every competitor." Combinations effected by purchase, according to the contention of the government, are just as much within the law as combinations effected by trust agreements or pooling. The Standard's Argument. Replying to these accusations and conclusions, counsel for the Standard [will argue that the Sherman law does not prohibit the method of holding property by stock ownership. "All methods are lawful," Mr. Watson will argue, "if not used to restrict trade or gain an unlawful monopoly." "The Sherman act has no application to the transfer to, or the acquisition by, the Standard Oil company of New Jersey of the stocks of the various manufacturing and producing corporations," it is argued in the brief of Messrs. Johnson and Milburn, "for tne reason that such transfer and acquisition were rot acts of interstate or foreign commerce nor direct and immediate in their effect on interstate or foreign commerce, nor within tbe power of congress to regulate interstate or foreign commerce." Following out this line of argument, they will urge that purchase or acquisition of property is not in any sense a contract, conspiracy or combination in restrain of trade. CAUGHT NAPPING. By Associated Press. BAY CITY, Mich., Jan. 10.—After one hour and fifty minutes of hard wrestling here last night John BUleter of Toledo, lightweight champion of the United States, caught WUliam Bingham of London, England, English lightweight champion, napping, and with a hammerlock put Bingham out of commission for at least two months. His shoulder ligaments were torn. Bingham's manager defaulted the second fall with the understanding he is to have a return match, thus leaving the championship title undecided. LATHAM'S ESCAPE WAS REMARKABLE Uninjured When Monoplane Was Wrecked. By Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Hubert Latham, the young French birdman, had a remarkable escape from death at San Francisco's aviation field today. In his second flight of the afternoon he encountered "adverse wind conditions that forced him to descend suddenly, after he had attained a height of about thirty feet. Alighting he crashed into a fence, completely wrecking his Antoinette monoplane. The body of the craft was broken into three pieces. Latham sat tight and escaped without a scratch, while his machine splintered about him. When an army ambulance which dashed out from Camp Selfridge, near which the accident occurred, reached the aviation field Latham was found ruefuly inspecting the wreck of his machine and puffing hard on a consoling cigarette. This Is the second machine wrecked by Latham in his last two engagements, his first mishap having occurred at the recent Los Angeles meeting. BALTIMORE MAN KILLED HIS WIFE OF A MONTH. Mrs. Joseph Robb a Former Harris, burg Girl. By Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Jan. 10.—Following a quarrel with his wife of a month as she lay in bed today Joseph F. Robb, 30 years of age, crushed her skull with a hammer, inflicting wounds which are expected to result fatally. Robb then went to the river front and jumped into the water with the apparent intention of drowning himself but changed his mind and swam ashore. He was arrested later. The wbma, who is 29 years old was Miss Julia Dean, of Harrisburg, Pa., where her mother lives. Jealousy and the alleged refusal of his wife, to give him money was said to have been the motive for Robb's deed. SCHLEY THINKS BOTH ACHIEVED2CEE POLE Rear Admiral Writes to Explorer Cook. By Associated. Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook received a letter today from Rear Admiral W. S. Schley, U. S. N„ president of the Arctic club, under whose auspices Dr. Cook made his expedition to the north. It says in part: "I thank you very much for your kind letter and I would assure that I shall never vary in the belief that you and Civil Engineer Peary reached the pole. After reading the published accounts, dally and critically, of both claimants, I was forced tb the conclusion from their striking similarity that each of you was the eye witness of the other's success. "Without coUusion it would have been impossible to have written accounts so similar. "I have been broad enough in my views to believe that there was room enough at the pole for two. I believe that both are entitled to tbe honor of achievement." SUGAR COMPANY'S OFFER ACCEPTED Sum of $700,000 Paid the Government. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—United States District Attorney Henry A. Wise aneunced today that the compromise offered the government by the American Sugar Refining company in the drawback duty dispute at this port had been accepted by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh. - The deposit ot $700,000 in settlement of all civil claims against the company already has been made and the money is at the disposal of the government. Of the possibility of other action Mr. Wise said that his investigation had disclosed no indication of intentional fraud on the part of the company. PROTEST NOT ALLOWED. PARIS, Jan. 10.—The international aeronautical federation which- met Here today, decided that it had no authority to consider the protest against the award of the international balloon trophy to tbe Americans, Alan R. Hawley or Augustus Post, On the ground that the protest as made was irregular. The federation, declared that the protest should be lodged first with the sporting commission of the American Aero club. Grahame-White Pretest. By Associated Press. PARIS, Jan. 10.—The International Aeronautical Federation voted today to send the matter of Grahame-White's protest against Molssant in the Statue SEVENTEEN PERISHED IN THEANGRYSFAS THREE BARGES LOST In Terrific Gale on Peaked Hill Bar—Life Guards Powerless to Extend Help. By Associated Press. HIGHLAND LIGHT, Mass., Jan. 10. —The worst disaster the Hfe guards of the storm-lashed coast of Cape Cod have seen in more than a dozen years occurred today on the treacherous sand bars that make off from the peaked hills. They stood on the beach with their lifeboats and other apparatus unable to render assistance, while three stout coal-carrying barges were hurled to destruction and all on board, seventeen men, lost their lives in the boiling surf. The barges were the Treverton, Corbin and Pine Forest, valued together at $125,000. With the exception of Captain Brown of the Treverton, who belonged in Lincolnville, Me., and Captain Hall of the Fine Forest, a Provlncetown man, toe drowned sailors were Philadelphians. Lost in the Breakers. As two of the barges, the Treverton and Corbin, broke up very quickly, it is believed that twelve'lives were lost within an hour after the barges broke away from the tug Lykens about 3 o'clock this morning and went into the breakers. Five other seamen were seen clinging desperately to the Pine Kc rest until mid-forenoon, when in attempting to reach shore in their own Uttle boat they were hurled into the seething billows and lost. The tug Lykens of the Reading Coal company started frem Philadelphia last week with the barges for New England ports. Ooming over Nantucket shoals Monday the Lykens encountered a heavy southwestern gale, which began hauling into the northwest as she rounded Monbmoy point, where She met the full force of the storm. The life saving patrol' saw her standing off shore to avoid the Peaked hill bars, but darkness blotted her out four hours before the dawn. The last watch of the night patrol was just starting out from the Peaked hill station when he discovered wreckage in the breakers. The crew '-was quickly summoned, but it was too dark to make out anything. . Stranded on toe Bar. At dawn a stranded barge with a single mast could be seen far out in the breakers on the outer bar, while in the offing hovered a tug which afterward proved to be the Lykens. The life savers soon realized that no lifeboat pulled by men could* traverse those SOO yards of cross-whirling billows. Two men were seen clinging to the rigging and three others holding onto the house. It was apparent that the other two barges had long since broken up. The Lykens could not render assistance owing to the heavy sea and started for Province- town. Shortly before 10 o'clock the men of the Pine Forest were seen to gather in a group. Before those on the beach realized their purpose, the little dory on top of the barge house had been cut loose and then launched. All five men then tumbled in for the last fight for life, but before they had grasped their oars a big comber came rolling around the stern cf the barge and over teem. That was the end. TRYING DAYS FOR LONDON POLICE Bull Dos Kept Them Five Hours at Bay. By Associated Press. LONDON, Jan. 10.—These are trying days for tbe London police. A dozen of tbem'were beld at bay for five hours this afternoon outside a bedroom by" a bulldog guarding the bodyt of bis master who had committed suicide. After exhausting their efforts to cap- tore or kill tbe dog, a doctor was sent for. He poisoned some meat which was thrown into thf room through a hole in the door. Not until tbe animal was dead did the police enter the room. Tbey tben removed the body, to a morgue. Taken ln connection with toe battle against two anarchists a few days ago, ln whlcb hundreds of police and large detachments of soldiers took part, this incident has served to increase tbe ridicule to which tbe police are being subjected. LANGFORD WON, Ay Associated Prest. BOSTON, Jan. 10.—Sam Langford defeated Joe Jeannette In a slashing bout of twelve rounds betore the Armory Athletic club tonight. Langford had a derisive lead ln every round but ELECT SENATORS IN THREE STATES George P. McLean Named in Connecticut. A TERRIBLE DISASTER OFF OAPE COD. By Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 10.— George P. McLean, governor ln 1900 and 1902. will succeed as United States senator from Connecticut tbe piesent senator, Morgan G. Bulkeley, whose term expires March 3. McLean defeated the senior senator ln tbe Republican caucus today by a vote of 113 to 64, 90 being necessary for a choice. The nomination then was made unanimous, and toe Democrats being In tbe minority, there only remains now the formality of voting for him by the two branches of the general assembly separately, which wlll be done next Tuesday. Mr. McLean ls a lawyer. He ls 54 yea i s- old and is considered one of the wealthy men of the state. CAPITOL CASES ALL WOUND UP TUESDAY Spalding Also Ran. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 10.—The house of representatives of the state legislature gave a majority for Judge John D. Works for United States senator, over A G. Spalding, by avote of 62 to 16. This ensured Works' election whatever the vote of the state senate may be, as the total vote of botb houses is only 130. Ohio's New Senator. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 10.—In spite of the bitterness of tne late Democratic senatorial campaign, the victor, Lieutenant Governor Atlee Pomerene, was elected to the United States senate by tbe legislature today by the vote of every Democratic member of that body. In the senate Lieutenant Governor Pomerene received 19" votes and in the hcnse 70 votes. The two houses meet at 11 a. m. on Wednesday to complete the election. of Liberty flight race back to the ' rne nnd In the firit round dropped Aero ('lull of America tor a decision. Jeannette for a count of eight. BENJAMIN CRAMP FOUND DEAD IN HIS BATHROOM Family Say He Had No Rer Suicide By Associated Prett. g PHILADELPHIA,,- Jan. 10.—Benja- j mtn CratopV;* a-yna^feei of the wett4| known ship building family of William I Cramp & -Sons,.died from gas poisoning tonight. He was found in the itathroom of his home by his wife who Is prostrated by the shock. The family say he had no reason to end his life and say that his death was nn accident. , LORIMER CASE WILL TAKE MUCH TIME Senators Foresee Protracted Debate. By Associated Press. i WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The impression is growing among senators that the consideration of the charges connected with the election of Sen- iiior Lorimer of Illinois will be protracted. Already two speeches, both in opposition to Mr. Lorimer, have been delivered and while many others are promised, comparatively few senators are yet prepared to proceed. Members of toe committee today expressed the opinion tbat tbe question ■ ill be before tbe senate for at least I a month to come. Mr. Lorimer him-! self is preparing to speak. He has made an analjui s of the testimony and loday took full notes upon Senator Crawford's speech ln opposition to his j retaining his seat. Among those who are expected to speak are Senators Burrows, chairman ■ of the committee on privileges and elections; Heyburn, Depew, Bailey, Paynter, Beveridge and Frazier. STATS RECEIVES VERY tARGE AMOUNT. INDICTMENTS NULLED: And All Other Proceedings Discontinued by the Terms of the Final Settlement. By Associated Prest, HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 10.—With today's action in the Dauphin county court all cases resulting from the scandals attendant upon the furnishing and equipment of the state capitol have ended. The state secured today 11,300,000 ln eaah and warrants wortb $158,000 additional so that counting in all moneys, warrants and claims given up toe commonwealth recovers $1,596,- 740.07. The proceedings of today consisted of decrees ordering payments to be made by certain respondents and the dismissing of the actions against the trust companies and other suritles and against T. L. Eyre, former superintendent of public grounds and build- ings, after which all criminal cases remaining on the dockets were formally dropped on motion of the district attorney. Lawyers Were Mum. The lawyers tonight declined to state how the restitution money was made up. Tbe decrees by Judge Kunkel today required the payment to toe state of $1,800,000 and the surrender of warrants by John H. Sanderson's estate aggregating $108,000, and by Joseph bt,. Huston, architect, amounting to' $77,000. Sanderson was a contractor for fur-- nishlng the capitol and Huston was architect and the designer of ie of the furnishings. Sanderson ^ was convicted of conspiracy to defraud tb^ state and died while his case was pehdlng In a higher court on ap- |iiqa). ,.jluston has a)R.o linen convicted but is out' on ball penctiag an appeal; The Cases Closed. Tbe cases closed today wens' two actions In equity and twenty criminal actions. In one case $1,100,000 to cash was paid over and in another $200,000. In the cases of the trust companies the demurerrs were sustained because the principals having effected a settlement the sureties could not be held. In the case of T. L. Eyre, he filed an answer and toe case closed -without taking testimony. When the proceedings had ended Attorney General M. Hampton Todd made this statement on the result of the series of cases: "The settlement made today ln no way affects the criminal case now- pending against Architect Huston in the superior court, nor has the oom-' nonwealth waived any remedy that it could sustain against any of tbe defendants by consenting to entry of a nol pros ln the untried criminal cases. WARDWELL WILL FILED. By Associated Prett. NEW YOBK, Jan. 10.—Provided tbe Red Cross hospital here continues its present practice of using as sparingly as possible medicines containing alcohol, it eventually will receive an addition of $100,000 to its endowment fund from the estate of WUliam T. Wardwell, former secretary of the Standard Oil company. . Tbe will of Mr. Wardwell, wbo died last Tuesday, was filed for probate today. President JOHN FERTIG Vice President W. J. STEPHENS Cashier F. C. WHEELER r Established 1865 Nationa ^. TITUSVILLE, PA. I >i CAPITAL - - SURPLUS - - $2/5.000.00 We have the most complete banking facilities'for meeting the requirements of all classes of people. ' Large Resources. Savings Department. Safe Deposit Vaults. • Foreign Exchange Dep't. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. Safety the Best Policy. —DIRECTOR8— John Fertig WiUiam Bayliss Louis K. Hyde John H. Scheide S. C. Fertig Samuel Grumbine John L. McKinney W. C. Warner. W. J. Stephens |
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