Titusville Herald

              THE TITXJSVILLE HERALD.
FIRST PAKT.
TITUSVILLE, PA,  OCTOBER 31, 1904,
PAGES  1   TO 6.
OPERATIONS IN MANCHURIA
PRACTICALLY SUSPENDED.
Weather Conditions Have Interfered and Commanders of Both Armies Are Making Hew
Dispositions of Their Forces.
TO REFUTE JUDGE
PARKER'S SAYING.
There has been an end, for the time
being, of the fighting on a large scale
which began when, on OcL 9, General
Kuropatkin announced to bis army that
the time had arrived for an advance
against the Japanese.
Heavy rains and consequent bad
roads have made military operations on
either side extremely difficult if not
impossible. The interruption, according to advices received at SL Petersburg, is being utilized by both the
Russians and Japanese commanders in
making new dispositions of forces and
new objective points are likely to dt-
velope when active operations are resumed.
A Tokio dispatch says that the Japanese government will seek to make
representations to St. Petersburg
through the American embassy against
the alleged use of Chinese uniforms by
Russian troops, in violation of the
usages of war.
Russia is hastening the organization
ot the second Manchurian army.
CAU8E OF DELAY
18 NOW EXPLAINED
HON. J. H. CALDWELL LEFT
WEDNE3DAY   FOR   ALA8KA
He Is Receiver for a Large Mininy
Property tn tha Far North.
Hon . J. H. Caldwell left Tuesday
for Seattle, Wash., from whence he
Will sail on OcL 26 for Homer, Alaska.
where he win look after the property
of the Cook Inlet Coal Flelds company.
Mr. Caldwell was recently appointed
receiver of this company by the United States circuit court o fthe West Vtr»
ginia  division.
The company has a capital stock ot
$1,050,000 and owns the town site of
Homer, a prosperous mining settle*
ment of Alaska, located on Cook Inlet.
Also listed with the property are a
wharf, mines and seven miles of railroad, the latter fully equipped with
rolling stock. The company was incorporated in 1899 under the laws of
West Virginia. The home office ls in
Philadelphia. ,
Mr. Caldwell expects to be absent for
seven or Ight weeks. The lateness of
the season will guarantee his Witnessing some of the cold weather and terrific Storms that prevail in that far
northern coutry. ; •
Japanese Ware Misled by Maps as to
Russian   Movements.
•WITH GENERAL OKU'S LEFT Alt*
MY AT THB FRONT, OoL 17, via
Fusan, Oct. 19.—3 p. m.—Maps captured by the Japanese show that the
Russians had arranged for a series of
retreats and these maps Indicated
where stands were to be made Tnis
accounts for the slowness of the advance of the Japanese and their failure to dut off the Russian retreat
which was conducted with great skill.
Ravines and guiles met with by the
Japanese obstructed the advance. The
cavalry on the left crossed the Hun
) river and prevented a Ruslan flanking
movement.
The right and center armies held
their lines all through the battle, working forward at the same time.
A Russian force which attacked the
right fiapk of the right army was driven back to the eastward. At last accounts the whole Japanese force now
holds a line fifteen miles to the north,
where the armies are resting. ,
NEWS FROM
'-■ NEARBY TOWNS
TILLOTSON.
OcL 19.
Mr. and Mrs. Casslus Blakeslee of
Macksburg, o., are visiting relatives
and friends in this vicinity, the home
of their, childhood days.
Mrs. Julia Young, who has been a
guest of Mrs. Sophia Young for several
weeks, returned to her home near Harmon sburg on Friday last.
19)111801 Sexton of Union City and
Miss Neva Sexton of Ferdinand spent
Saturday and Sunday at the home ot M.
Sexton.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander of Cambridge
Spring,  Pa., veislted their aunt Mrs.
Myra Parkin and cousin, Mrs. Ralph
!■ Blakeslee, on Friday last.
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Deming spent Sunday with friends at Britton Run.
Rev. S. C. Aldrich will be the pastor
of the M. E. church at Lincolnville during the balance of this conference year.
Mrs. Grace Welman of Spring Creek
and Mrs. Lillian Piatt of Britton Run
were visiting friends here yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson of
Townville spent Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. Frank Young.
Clare Rossell has been having a tussle with the grip, but ls better.
Mr. and Mrs. Silvanus Blakeslee, assisted by their seven children and their
families held-a very pleasant birthday
party on Tuesday In honor of the twins,
Mrs. Alice Adams of Macksburg, O., and
Albert Blakeslee of this place, at the
farm home of the latter, It being tho
43d anniversary ot their birth. All the
children and nearly all the grand children were present and In years to come
that will be remembered aa a red letter
day in the family.
Mrs. Davis, who resided In the Loyal
Grant house was married last week to
Styles Bisbee, and has removed to his
'home near Wattsburg.
Dawson Alsdorf spent last week at
North East In the home of G. W. Alsdorf, where he was called because of
the death of his cousin, Charles Alsdorf,
who fell from a fishing launch and was
drowned tn Lake Erie on the 11th inst.
"Charley" was favorably know and
highly respected In this vicinity where
he formerly resided. His body had
not been recovered at last reports. -
OBITUARY.
James Siggins Henderson.
(Communicated.)
James Siggins Henderson was born
at East Hickory, Pa., March, 21, 1884,
and died Oct. 14, 1904, at the age of 20
years, 6 months and .23 days. He was
the youngest son ot James S. Henderson, a life-long resident of Eagle Rock,
and Nancy Louisa Henderson, now deceased. He was married Oct 14, 1908,
to Elsia M. Wadsworth now of this,
place, formerly of Towflvllle, Pa. He
Is survived by his wife and 7-weeks old
baby girl, his father and two brothers,
Frank J., of East Hickory, and John T.,
of Eagle Rock; two sisters, Mrs. W. P.
Crouch, of East Hickory, and Mrs. N.
E. Holmes of Nebraska, Pa. He was
well known In Nebraska and Eaglo
Rock, having-been employed at both
places In the capacity of locomotive
fireman, and was carried to his last
resting place by six fellow workmen
from these places.
This was one ot the saddest deaths
that has been known in this community in recent years, having occurred
on the first anniversary of hts wedding.
He was taken, 111 with typhoid fever at
his home in Eagle Rock, and after a
few days was removed to the Oil Cl^r
hospital, where the best skill that the
city and the hospital afforded was obtained for him, all of which was of no
avail, and within less than a fortnight
from the beginning of his Illness he
passed away, surrounded by all of his
nearest relatives. His body was brought
to his father's home in this place on
the afternoon of the day he died, where
it remained until Sunday when at 11
o'clock, it was taken to the M. E.
church, followed by a large concourse
of friends, not more than naif of whom
could gain admittance to the church.
The -floral offerings were many and
beautiful. Services were conducted by
Rev. Mowrey, pastor ef the M. E.
church. He was laid to rest In the
family cemetery. We say "laid to rest"
because he had found that rest which
the Saviour gives to those who seek
Him.
The sympathy of the entire community goes out to his brothers and sisters
in their loss; to his aged father sorrowing for his youngest born; to the grief
stricken young wife, robbed by death
of her young husband, and to the baby
daughter to whom her father will bo
but a name.
East Hickory, Oct 18, 1904.
War Department Figures to Sho-y. He
Magnified Philippine Expenditures.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct 19.—Figures are being compiled at the war department to show that Judge .Parker
multiplied the truth when he said tho
Philippines had coik the United States
about $670,000,000.
Col. Clarence Edwards of tha Insular
bureau has been having an argument
with his superior, Secretary Taft, because the latter In his speeches, said-
the cost would not exceed $250,000,000,
The army officer maintains that the expenditures that may be legitimately
charged to the Philippine account do
not total more than $100,000,000 exclusive ot the $20,000,000 we paid Spain.
In obtaining those figures he also subtracts the cost of the Pacific transput
service, approximately 175,000,000, lie-
cause, he says, It is chargeable to i;fie|
account of the Spanish war.
In his speech at the opening ot tho
Ohio campaign Secretary Taft put the
cost Including the compromise payment, the $3,000,000 of distress appropriation and the transport service, at
$189,000,000. All but $23,000,000 of that
sum he contended, was made necessary
by the insurrection, whicb was undoubtedly fostered, if not provoked, by
the utterances of the anti-imperialists.
FAIRBANKS ANO SHAW
SPOKE IK BROOKLYN.
CLERMONT RINK    CROWDED    TO
HEAR   REPUBLICAN   LEADER8
ATTORNEY JOHN CHICK
RESIGNS HIS POSITION
GEORGE   H.   ROBERTS   PRESIDED
Tha   Speakers   Were   Entertained   by
Former   Lieut.   Gov.   Timothy   L.
Woodruff—Some Extracts.
A KANE GLASS BLOWER
WA8 KILLED AT CORRY
Attempted to Board a Freight Train
and Went Under the Wheels.
CORRY, Oct. 19.—(Special)—Joseph
V. Ellis, aged about 25 years, the son
of Mrs. Martha Ellis of Emporium,
was killed by the cars at the Crosi
street crossing in tbis city at 2 o'clock
this afternoon. Elllis, who was a glass
blower, was en route to Kane where
he Is employed. He attempted to
board a moving freight train, slipped
and went under the wheels. He was
carried several yards and dropped beside tbe track. Life was extinct wben
when assistance reached him.
Often a woman who would like to
marry the Iceman has to compromise
on a man with cold feet.
DAVI8 HA3 ENDED
WEST VIRGINIA TOUR
Traveled 1,300 Miles Within the Past
Ten Days.
WAYNE, W. Va.. Oct. 19.—Henry G.
Davis ended his whirlwind campaign
through West Virginia at Wayne tonight. Just how he regards the expedition may be gleaned from his references to tt in addressing his audienco
here.   He said:
"We are concluding a trip of 1,300
miles which has occupied ten days. We
have crossed the state 300 miles, east
and west three times and once north
and south, visiting seventy-eight cities
and towns. At night, at the large
places, we have had two separate
meetings. The number of people in
attendance at all the meetings le estimated at 100,000. We have gone
through twenty-eight counties, being
more than half of the counties of the
state, containing about three-fourths of
the population. Among the speaX.frs
were two United States senators and
three ex-United States senators, two or
whom had been governors of their
states. We have been received every,
where with, the most respectful attention and 4n most places with much, enthusiasm."
THIS YEAR'S BALLOT
WILL BE BULKY
Official Specimen Received for State
Department.
Voters In Pennsylvania will cast their
ballot this year on a blanket ballot
larger than usual. The commissioners
have, received an official specimen from
the state department. This sample Ls
31x28% Inches and contains eight presidential tickets, as follows: Republican,
Democratic, Prohibition, Socialist, Socialistic Labor, Citizens, Independence,
and Roosevelt-Fairbanks Protectionist.
The electors for each ticket'"are grouped
In separate Column and there is a blame
column In which voters may write the
names of electors which are not printed
on the ticket. The sample ballot does
not have a stub, which will add three
or four Inches to the length of the
official ballot. The county commissioners will add the names of the county
candidates and then bids will be requested for the printing of the ballots.
OIL COMPANY CHARTERED.
DOVER, Del., Oct. 19.—The Colonial
OH company, capital $700,000, was .Incorporated here today. The company
Is authorized to purchase, store and
sell crude petroluem products. The.
incorporators are residents of Greensburg,  Pa.
SHELMADINE SPRINGS.
Oct. 19.
There will be a social at the Sunny-
side school Friday evening, OcL 21,
proceeds to go toward a bell for the
school.   All are invited.
Mrs. Simmons, the national organizer
and lecturer for the W. C. T. TT., gave
two very interesting and instructive
lectures in the Bethel church Saturday
and Sunday evenings.
Mrs. K.'K. Kelly of Grand Valley ls
visiting friends at this place.
Uncle John Shelmadine was tn town
last week.
Mrs. J. B. Kerr of Titusville was a
guest at the home of her brother, H.
Hill, over Sunday.
Elmer Alcorn has started a milk depot in Titusville In connection with hia
dairy.
The sawmill on the Lockwood farm
ls shut down at present owing to the
illness of the head hawyer, W. R. McBride, at his home in Enterprise.
Mrs. W. E. Fay went to Erie yesterday to visit Mends., dj&S"
NEW YORK, OcL 19.—The Republican mass meeting held In Brooklyn tonight at the Clermont rink, was addressed by Senator Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana, Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M. Shaw and J. L.
Griffith of Indianapolis. The rink was
crowded and the audience a most enthusiastic one.
Previous to the meeting the speakers
were entertained at dinner by former
Lieutenant Governor Timothy L.
Woodruff.
George H. Roberts presided and Introduced Senator Fairbanks as the first
speaker.
In the course of his speech In Brooklyn Senator Fairbanks said:
"We are to decide at the Fallot box
In November whether to approve or
reject the administration of President
Roosevelt. We witness Its fruits about
us everywhere. Under It we are enjoying unprecedented prosperity In all
the avenues of human activity. There
is peace and good order at home and
we, sustain amicable relations with all
the powers of the world. For more
than three years the President has been
engaged In the consideration of problems of moment. What act of his would
we undo if we had the power? What
administration has more successfully
administered our public affairs? Let
us be candid about It. Let us not unfairly judge what has been accomplished. We have never had a Democratic administration under which the
people have prospered to so full a degree as undfer the administration of
President Roosevelt. Is it the part of
national wisdom to overthrow a successful administration and invite Into
power one pledged to carry out unwise
opposing policies? To do so ls to invite disaster, it is to make a plaything
of the ballot:" -
Mr. Fairbanks, closed with a eulogy
of the administration's work In connection with tbe ganama canal.
Secretary Shaw In part spoke as
follows:
"The Democratic platform adopted
at St. Louis declares that 'Protection
ls robbery of the many to enrich tho
few.' In discussing the subject In his
speech of acceptance Judge Parker
commits himself unqualifiedly to revision. He then expresses the conviction that this can be accomplished, to
Use his language, 'without creating that
sense of uncertainty and unstablllty
that has on other occasions manifested
itself. This,' he says, 'can ue accomplished by providing that such a reasonable time shall intervene between
the date of the enactment of the statute
making the revision and the date of its
enforcement as. shall be deemed sufficient tor the Industry or business affected by such revision to adjust Itselt
to the changes and new conditions Imposed.'
"Judge Parker may be learned In the
law, but tbe two sentences I have
quoted are quite sufficient to prove thai
he is as innocent as a child of Industrial conditions and the sensitiveness
of business.
"If the tariff could be revised during
the night and new schedules pat in operation the next morning the Injury to
business would be very slight compared to the effect of delay.  '
"A general reduction in the tariff to
go into effect in the future would re-
sult in total paralysis of business. No
man would buy anything until he
knew whether the tariff would have the
effect the Democrats claimed for It, and
no man would enlarge hts capacity to
produce unless he knew the effect the
tariff would have on the people whose
wants he was planning to supply. I
am convinced that this historian who
seeks the most unstatesmanllke acts
tn the public career of Grover Cleveland will find them in nis messages to
congress while the country was in a
state of panic.. It will be remembered
that during his last'administration he
told the people that t hepurchaslng
told the people tnat the purchasing
lble for conditions most alarming."
As Democratic Committeeman In first
Ward—Hurrah for Teddy!
John M. Chick, Esq., Democratic
committeeman in the First ward, on
Wednesday tendered his resignation to
E. Lowry Humes, Esq., of Meadviile,
chairman of the Democratic county
committee. Ih his letter Mr. Chick
stated that, after a careful study of the
political situation this year, he has decided to vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
When interviewed by a representative of the Herald yesterday Mr. Chick
corroborated the statement given above
and added that he would support the
ticket at the November election.
"It seems to me," said Mr. Chick,
that the party for the young man is the
party of Theodore Roosevelt. Not that
I- believe implicitly tn everything found
in the Republican platform, but more
nearly than any other It represents
the principles which I think to be right.
It seems to me that the' Democratic
national convention nominated Heary
G. Davis as candidate for vice president because he had plenty of money
and not for any Inborn fitness for the
position. Judge Parker is undoubtedly a good man but I do not believe that
he would be as good a president as
Theodore RoosevelL"
There are several other men In Titusville, friends of Mr. Chick and former
Democrats, who expect to vote the Republican ticket this year. The position
left vacant by the resignation of. Mr.
Chick will be filled by appointment.
Mr, Humes being vested with the right
to name substitutes for such positions.
SIBLEY SPELLBINDERS
TOURINGTHE COUNTY.
HELD THREE MEETINGS YESTERDAY, ENDING AT NIGHT
WITH      PLEA8ANTVILLE     RALLY
Party Spent the Night at the Mansion
House and Will Hold Three Important Meetings Today.
8AFE CRACKERS USE
HOR8ELE88   CARRIAGE.
PRODUCERS' 8UPPLY CO.
A charter has been issued to the Producers' Supply company of Franklin,
the directors being Simon D. Mays,
Charles H. Sheasley, W. D. Boyle, Mark
D. Mitchell, J. D. McCalmont, E. W.
Echols, ahd Charles Lamberton, all of
Franklin, who are at the head of the
corporation, the capital stock being
stated at $160,000. The Producers' Supply company was organized about one
month ago to take over the George Ma-
' loney machine shops.
They Travel in Buckboard Hauled by
a Mule.
Deputy Sheriff J. A. May, of Elk
county, passed through DuBois Monday
In charge of a youth named George
Woodruff, whom he was conducting to
the Huntingdon reformatory. At the
recent session of courts the young fellow was convicted of larceny.
Speaking of the recent robberies that
have taken place throughout this section of the state during the past fortnight, the deputy said that there ls a
growing suspicion that the safe crack:
ing at Marienville and the job at Crenshaw. Saturday night were the work of
the same men and tbat the robbers are
traveling across the country In a buck-
board drawn by a mule.
He stated that the outfit was seen In
Forest county the day of the robbery at
Marienville and Saturday the two men
and the mule were known to have driven through Ridgway in the direction ol
Brockwayvllle. The men are experts
at opening the safes with nitro-glycerine and are making goad hauls.
MAYOR JONES' ESTATE
18 MUCH ENTANGLED
Refused to Make Will as Didn't Know
now Much He Had.
The executors of the estate of the late
Mayor Samuel 'Jones of Toledo,, discovered that he had been giving away
over $100,000 a year since he was elected
mayor, and that he had endorsed over
200 notes for amounts from $20,000 to
$25,000 each. He had helped over fifty
delinquents and defaulters in sums
ranging from $5 to $5,000 each. Hts
affairs are in a terrible condition. He
had refused'tQ make a will because he
did not know what he had or how to
divide it properly between his heirs and
the public. When elected the first time
he was worth over $1,000,000 and his
annual income was over $20,000, and yet'
Jess than a third of a million assets
have been discovered.
PLEASANTVILLE   NEWS.
PLEASANTVILLE, Pa.. OcL 19.—
(Special.)—Miss Laura Mix of Sugar
Grove is the guest of Miss Grace Byers.
Miss Olyve Rosenteele, of Apollo, Pa.,
is visiting Miss Pearl Keely.
Shelmadine & Dunham drilled in a
dry hole on the Shepherd lease the latter part of last week.
Oiler & Redfleld began spudding yesterday for a well on the Shreve farm.
Shattuck Brothers started to drill
yesterday on Howorth farm.
Farel, Lytle ft Davidson are building
a rig on their Zuver lease.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Corwin returned
from Asbury Park, N. J., where they
have been staying for the benefit of
Mrs. Corwin's health. Her condition Is
much Improved as a result. Enroute
home they spent a week tn New York
city.
Rollo Coe will leave this evening for
Marlon, Ind., where he will have employment in-'the oil fields
Through a mistake the names of part
of the choir which assisted materially
to make Saturday's institute a success
were'omitted in our account of the m-r
stitute. The complete choir was:
Mieses Winifred and May Noyes, Mrs.
W, S, Coe, Miss Belle MeLauchlln, Mr,.
ahdMts. W. J. Arnold, Will 8. Corwin
and Rollo Coe,
Congressman Joseph C. Sibley, the
premier political campaigner of Western Pennsylvania, Is registered at the
Mansion house. In his party are the
following candidates and stalwart Republicans of Venango county, who ara
making a tour of the small towns and
villages In this parf of the district:i J
Hon. George W. Magee and Hon. B. H.
Osborne, candidates for assembly; F. ,
H. Taylor, Mr. Sibley's private secretary; Samuel H. Gray of Washington,
official stenographer of the house; John
R. Connor, Republican chairman of
Venango county; James B. Borland,
editor of the Franklin Evening News;
Oeneral John A. Wiley, M. S. Phipps,
J. H. McElhaney, candidate for sheriff;
Dr. S. G. Foster, D. B. Goodwin, Esq.,
W. H. Gilmore, Hon. B. B. W. Hayes,
O. D. Bleakley, I. H. Borland, W. H.
McConnell, John L. Havous and H. W.
Roden.
This party left Franklin early ia the
week for a stumping tour ot the county.
Yesterday morning they were at President where they were greeted by a fair'
crowd for a meeting at that hour. In
the afternoon they addressed every
man of voting age in Plumer and vicinity, the entire countryside turning
out to welcome them.
From Plumer they came overland last
night In carriages to Pleasantville,
where they held a mass meeting In the
Holman opera house. There was a
large attendance, composed ot voters
of every party, for Mr. Sibley's popularity does not end with those who believe as he does politically.
The meeting was called to order by;
Chairman Alex. Brown of Pleasantville.
B. H. Osborne was the flrst speaker. His
address was short and to the point. It
dealt wtth state Issues and In tho
course of his remarks he took occasion ■
to pay a warm tribute to Mr. MeEl- I
hianey, the candidate for sheriff.   •
Dr. George W. Magee was the second
speaker. He talked of the party's record in state affairs and gave some logically reasons why the voters of Venango county should return their assemblymen to Harrisburg for another ,
two years.
The address of Mr.- Hayes1 was confined principally to the discussion of
an editorial recently appearing In tha
New York Herald.
When Congressman Sibley was announced he was greeted wtth applause.
He has lost none of his old time vigor
in the prosecntlon of a campaign. His
arguments were pointed. He spent
sorpe time in defining the position of
the Republican party respecting prohibition. He sought to show tbe voter
that practical temperance, worked out
by a party that has the interests of the
country at heart ls to be preferred ta
the arguments of a political class wlth-
vague ideals and impractical candl-
dates. In his discussion or national
politics he likened the two parties to
ships, defining their construction, their
eargoes, their pilots, t&eir destinations and their attainments. Frequent
applause marked his address.
General John A. Wiley was the last
speaker. He confined himself almost
entirely to the supposed "military Issue." This brought about a consideration of the Philippines and in the
course of his remarks he referred to
the popularity and success attending
the military service of Mr. McElhaney,
who was a major during the Spanish-
American war.
Following the meeting the party
came to Titusville by way of the street
railway and were guests over night of
Mine Host Frank Watson at the Mansion house. This morning they will
go to Cherrytree for a meeting. In the
afternoon they will address the voters
at Chapmanville and wind up the day.
with a rousing meeting at Cooperstown.
BUELL.
Oet. 19.
William Morris, Esq., and wife are
Visiting there son in West Virginia.
The children and other relatives of
James and Nancy Chase sprung a surprise on them last week, it being their
50th anniversary of married life. They
received some valuable presents and
$5.00 In cash.
James Vrooman remains the same,
with little hopes of recovery.
Mrs. B. H. Morris Is down with an
attack of typhoid fever.
Last Thursday J. E. Morgan of BueU
had a severe stroke of paralysis, affecting his right side. Slight hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
Ira Fish, who has been very ill for
several days, ^reported some better.
Hamilton, Stewart returned from Spokane, Wash., last week.
M