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FAHtPOBT, N. Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBElf'18, 1913.
VOL. X X X D I , NO. 51.
TY IS FAMILY
SCHMIDT'S ATTORNEYS.
New Tariff Bill Has Increased
importation Into This Country.
itflcManus and Olcott, Both
Noted Criminal Lawyers,
Represent Defense at Trial.
Schmidt's Father Told of Sev-
Secretar/oJledflefd Says Fopd Supply
Has
Been Unquestionably Broaden-
ed—Increased Importation at Lower
Rates of Duty Seems to Have No
Effect
on Prices Charged to
Ulti-
m a t e G o n s u m e r s — O t h e r Items.
The Underwood-Simmons tariff law
has materially increased the importation of foodstuffs into this country. It
has, according to Secretary of Commerce Redfield, unquestionably resulted in broadening the fond Riinnlv of
\e United States.
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lis is the^deduction drawn by Mr.
Redflel3 from statistics which has
just been compiled by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce, showing the total imports in October last,
the first montt in which the new tariff
law was in operation. These are the
first official figures given out on the
Bubjectand will be scanned with greot
interest by politicians as well as business men and the humble consumers.
But although Secretary Redfleld's
statement asserts that the new tariff
law has broadened the food supply of
the United States, there is no explanation of its effects upon the prices
that the American public are paying
for their daily foodstuffs.
As a matter nl fact, the increased
importations at lower rates of duty
seems to have had no effect on the
prices charged to the ultimate consumer. . The Redfield statement shows
that there has been a large increase
in the number of cattle imported into
the United States, in the amount of
corn, fish, fresh beel, cream, potatoes,
wheat and other foodstuffs
Yet v the prices, if the general complaints of consumers which have recently been pouring in on congress are
true, remains as high as they were, if
not higher than under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
KILLED BY HIS HIRED MAN
F a r m e r Dies Fr.om-Wound Received
In Quarrel Over a Quarter.
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Lewis F. Snyder, Who was shot at
his home last week by Clinton Steinmetz, his hired man, died at the Allentown, Pa., hospital. The tragedy
occurred near Howertown, in Northampton county, where Snyder, after a
successful career as a horse dealer,
purchased a large farm.
Just before lapsing into unconsciousness Snyder said Steinmetz had demanded from him a quarter, which
Snyder acknowledged he owed. Steinmetz was uncommunicative for a time
after his capture, after an all-day
hunt, but now says, in short, that both
got drunk o n ' a business trip to Allentown during which Snyder bought
two horses, and that the weapon
which killed Snyder was discharged
accidentally in a struggle for its possession.
Farmer in Rage Kills Another.
George Kline, 45 years old, a farmer, was shot and instantly killed at
Bentley Creek, Pa., %a small village
nine miles south of Elmira l a s t week.
He was asked to go to the home of
Samuel Wheeler,, a short distance
away, and assist In pacifying Mr.
Wheeler, who was in a violent rage.
As Kline crossed the threshhold of the
house, Wheeler shot him dead with a
shotgun. "Wheeler was arrested and
t a k e n . t o the jail at Towanda, Pa.,
charged with murder. It is believed
that he is not sane. A few years ago
he was sentenced to the penitentiary
for biting off a man's ear during a fit
or rage at Bentley Creek. He is
about 70 years old. Kline was a respected farmer and is survived by a
wife and one daughter
Prices for Meat Has Soared.
Although the meat supply of the
United • States kept pace with population growth in the decade from 1899
to 1909, the price soared to nearly
double the 1899 figure, according to a
census bulletin Monday. Meats "on
the hoof" went up 75.5 per cent. The
dressed product showed a slightly
smaller increase of 73.8 per cent
Americans we're eating 105 pounds of
beef, veal and mutton per capita In
1909,'as against 106 pounds in 1899,
although the total per capita meat
production In 1909 was 107 pounds.
PhotOB b y American P r e s s Association.
SAVED FROM ENRAGED BULL
Young Woman's Control of Animal
' Prevents Farm Hand's Death.
Her control over a young and: vicious bull enabled Miss Rosie Yocum,
18 years old, of White Deer, near
Milton, Pa., to save the life of James
Wertz, 50 years old, who was attacked.
Wertz was knocked down and gored
when he prodded the bull with a pitchfork handle to make it leave its stall.
Hearing his cries, Miss Yocum ran
out, and called "Billy, Billy," to the
enrageu animal. The bull stopped,
and plowly walked to her side, where
it stood contentedly, allowing her to
rub his nose while the injured man
crawled away.
He was rushed to the Williamsport
hospital. He has a broken jaw, laceration of the f a e and possible internal
injuries.
Miss Yocum had pet-ed and fed thi^
bull ever since it was a calf, and it
will follow her anywhere.
Captain Wiard Passes Away.
Captain George Wiard, president of
the Wiard Plow 'company, died last
week in Batavia from general debility
and heart failure. He had visited his
office of the plow works on Monday
morning and the office of the Genesee County Loan association, of
which he was also president, the same
evening. He was conscious and conversed with his wife until an hour bebefore his death. Besides m s /ife,
Captain Wiard is survived by five
children, Mrs. J. Ernest Fifle of Montreal, Louis W^ard, mayor of Batavia
and general superintendent of the
Wiard Plow company; Ernest E. ot
Batavia, Henry L. of Buffalo and Harry G. Wiard of Syracuse,
FARMED UNTIL DEATH AT 111
Mrs.
Hannah Murphy, Mother of 12,
All Dead, Directed Employes
Even When III.
Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 17.—Mrs.
Hannah Murphy is dead at her home,
eral Cases of Suicide.
in the town of Vestal, at the age of
111 years. She was born in County
Father and Sister Told Jury How Clare, Ireland, in 1802, as Hannah
Casey, and came to New York in 1830.
Murderer Used to Play at Slaughter
She married Dennis Murphy in 1835,
House "When a Child, Drinking and in 1842 they moved to a farm in
Blood and Playing W i t h the Se- the town of Vestal, where she has re-Eta^trslirce^
verea Meads ot howls.
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Twelve children were born to her,
New York, Dec. 17.—The sister of all of them living to reach maturity,
Hans Schmidt, Mrs. Elizabeth Schad- but all preceded her in death. Her
ler, told~at—her^jyother's trial of a husband died about 30 years ago, and
"vision" she once h a d p a n d - j h e n de- since then Mrs. Murphy had directea
scribed a vision that had come
alr-pf-the-farm w o r k ^ l t h o u g h for the
her. The slayer of Anna Aumuller last ten -years she had been an ininternrpted-hia-ownr-eounsel, W. M. K-i- valid because of cancer of the stomOlcott, to deny that he is insane. ach, which finally caused her death.
Schmidt's father took the stand and
During the years which she had
told of several suicides and cases of been confined to the house she held
insanity in the fahiily.
morning interviews with her help,
Father and sister of the murderer giving instructions for the day's work
Bwore to a bloodlust, developed In and each night has received reports
childhood, to religious mania and to of the work done during the day. She
Schmidt's belief that he is not the leaves a comfortable fortune, which
son of his father, but the child of his goes to her grandchildren.
own mother and John the Baptist.
People Rest§d Case.
KEEPS VIGIL FOR SISTER
The. people rested its case and ex,Judge Olcott, opening for the de- Woman Burns Lamp and Watches
fence, said he would show that
Nightly for Lost K i n .
Schmidt is, has been and always will
Winsted, Conn., Dec. 17.—Every
be insane. Schmidt edged forward in
night Miss Mary Considine sits alone
his chair afid said in a low tone: "Ach,
in her home with lamb burning hoping
that is not-so. I protest."
against hope that her sister, Miss
A hand on his shoulder stilled him. Margaret Considine, will return. Two
His eye roved wildly later when his years ago last Thursday, Margaret,
father looked sorrowfully at him from middle aged, disappeared.
the witness chair, but he showed
The night of her disappearance a
greater emotion when his favorite sislight rain was falling and it was
ter was testifying. She was near tears
thought she Jumped into Still river.
much of the time. Schmidt looked at
A search of the waters for weeks afther, then seemed unable to, and aperward failed to disclose any clew as
peared half sick.
to her fate.
Schmidt, said father and sister, used
Woods, too, in vain, were explored
to play at a slaughter house as a for miles in every direction. What
child, drinking blood and playing with became of Miss Considine is as much
the severed heads of fowls.
conjecture now as it was the night
In his room he improvised an altar she disappeared.
and imitated the sacrament of the
mass. St. Elizabeth he held to be his
THEY LIVED LOFTY LIVES
patron and he loved his sister because Elizabeth was her name. He
American Giants Averaged 12 Feet In
was often ill.
Height; Bones Found.
As a boy he was so devout and quiet
Winnsboro, La., Dec. 17.—Skeletons
that the neighbors called him "Our
little chaplain." Soon after his first of a race of giants who averaged 12
communion he told his sister of hear- t'e'et in height were found by working God's voice say to him: "Thou men engaged on a drainage project
at Crowville, near here. There are
shalt become a priest."
The boy was certain that St. Eliza- several score of the skeletons and
beth had ordained him and imitated they lie in many positions*
It is believed they were killed in a
her generosity, so that he gave away
prehistoric
fight and that the bodies
even his clothes when not watched.
lay where they fell until covered with
Mrs. Schadler Tells of Vision.
Mrs. Schadler's own vision sne told alluvial deposits due to the flooding
of as follows: "A child of a sister of the Mississippi river.
No weapons of any sort were found
of mine which was dead appeared to
and
it is believed that the Titans
me about 18 years ago. I cried over
must
have struggled with wooden
it because my own child had died.
Suddenly a cold hand passed over my clubs.
Farmers May Take Over Plant.
Forty farmers and investors held a
meeting at Batavia, N. Y., to discuss
the formation of a company to buy
the plant of the Batavia Preserving
company, now owned by Sprague,
Warner & Co., of Chicago. The firm
does a wholesale grocery business and
wants to withdraw, from the manufacturing end. The plant is offered
for sale at $25,000. An effort will be
made to raise $50;000 to buy it and to
provide a working capital.
Baby Born as Flames Rage.
While firemen were trying to save
the residence of Guy T. Justice, superintendent of the Erie, Pa., Associated
charities, last week, a baby was born
in a part of the house not affected by
the flames. The firemen knew nothing
of the incident until the announcement was made by the father aa they
were about to leave.
Puts Ban on Cattle From New York.
Governor Dunne's proclamation prohibiting the shipment Jnto Illinois.of
Hunt Wolves at* Bowman, III.
dairy cattle from various states InThe Appearance of a large pack of
cluding
New York and Pennsylvania,
wolves near Bowman,. 111., has
caused the farmers to arm and was Issued last week. It alms to prebegin a) systematic hunt for the ani- vent the spread of bovine tuberculosis.
mals, which have begun to kill poultry and cattle. Women and children
Girl Grows $1,269 One-Acre Crop.
are afraid to go out at night Several
Agnes Frldell of Cedar Falls, Iowa,
of the wolves have been killed, and whose champion gardening of the year
Clarence RlvordaViof, Roaedalo Town- wbn her a trip to Washington, obtain*
ship tripped one.- The pack.ls headed ed a cash return of $1,269 an aero by
by*a powerful .wolf wtiictiV it Is said/ growing tomatoes. She is 17 years
was leader*fait' y'&fc >
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SHORTER NEWS ITEMS
Pithy Paragraphs that Chronicle
the Week's Doings.
Long Dispatches From Various^ Parts
of the World Shorn of Their Padding and Only Facts Given In as
Few Words as Possible For the
Benefit of the Hurried Reader.
Thursday.
Secretary Lane designated l,75u,000
acres of dry lands in Western states
for entry under the enlarged homestead act.
-Autopsy-show^d-bieutena_nt Colonel
tJalltaTtmiell from an infiltrating1 brain,
tumor, which could not be treated by
surgery.
Albert Bollschweiler of New Jersey
was nominated for United States marshal of New Jersey by President Wilson.
Ben F. Moffatt was fined ?1.000 and
sentenced to one year for fraudulent
sales of Buick Oil company stock in
St. Louis.
Patrolman Thomas F. Madden of
Detroit was shot dead when he attempted to question two "joy riders"
in a stolen automobile.
Friday.
Connecticut woman held for manslaughter after her automobile kills
another woman.
Miss Leona Dalrymple of Passaic,
N. J., wins $10,000 first prize in novel
writing contest.
Government's allegations against
Chicago butter and eggs board sustained by investigation.
Louis KuehJe, Atlantic City's "boss,"
drives in his automobile to prison to
begin year term for grafting. .
New Haven railroad, for first time
in 40 years, passes dividend, due to
high wage demands, low freight rates
and expensive improvements.
Saturday.
Search for Miss Jessie E. McCann,
missing settlement worker, shifts to
Philadelphia.
__.James .Marshall milHojiair^ h a t
manufacturer of Fall River, returns
home after disappearance in New
York.
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Representative/Hobson attacks Mr.
Underwood inJibuse for alleged liquor
and W a i r s t r e e t support.
Governor Glynn, cuts from excess
appropriation bill claim of Sulzer publishers.
Mexican rebels drive federals back
into Tampico proper; General Villa
orders all Spaniards to leave Chihuahua, and seizes Luis Terrazas, Jr., in
British consulate.
Monday.
face. 1 looked up and there stood
my sister with my own child in her
arms. She said that I ought to be
very happy because my child was in
heaven."
When Schmidt met his father here
just after his trial had begun he refused to speak to him or take his
hand. To his sister he said tenderly: "Tell my mother I have brought
this sacrifice that was demanded of
me." His sister begged him to look
at his father, but Schmidt replied:
"He is not my father. My Father is
the Father, the Son and the Holy
GhoBt."
MINE OWNERS COMPLAIN
Coal
Men Say Employes A r e Disregarding Agreement.
Philadelphia, Dec. 17.—The Asso-:.
ciation of Bituminous Coal. Operators
of Central Pennsylvania made public
a communication sent to the union
mine workers in that part of the state,
threatening to dissolve the association, which would have the effect of
repudiating a contract existing between the operators and miners, unless alleged violations of the agreement cease within ten days.
It is declared the mine workers have
disregarded the arbitration provisions
of the agreement; also .the provision
giving the operator right to hire ana
discharge employes, and that the mint
workers have closed«- down mines
where non-union men failed—to join
-the^unjon.
"This conduct," the communication
says, "has resulted in more than 100
strikes during the life of the agreement."
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Boarding-House Thief.
Philadelphia, Dec. 17.—Bleazer Grler,
20 years old, son of a minister living
in Buffalo, admits being a boardinghouse thief, according to a policeman,
and that pretty girls were his downfall. He was held under $1,500 bail
for a further hearing.
The police expect to fasten many
boarding-house thefts on him.
Grier was arrested Wednesday. His
room was searched and several stolen
overcoats were found, according to the
police. A silk shirt, said to have k
been stolen from a department store,
was also found, but the management of the store refused to prosecute.
The police also say Grier served a
term in the penitentiary at Elmira under the name of Jacob Fisher on the
charge of larceny.
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Hunters
In Maine Woods End Big
Game Season.
Bangor, Me., Dec. 17.—Maine's biggame season ended last night. The
-estimated number of deer kfTIeir was
10,000.
Seventeen persons were killed in
the woods—seven by accidental discharge of their own guns, four through
being mistaken for deer, three by
dragging guns muzzle first, two by
getting in range of men firing at game
and one by drowning.
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Warrant Out for Embezzling Cashier.
Paris, Dec. 17.—A warrant has been
issued for the arrest of Earnest Laporte, cashier of the Paris office of
the New York Herald, who is charged
tvith the embezzlement of $24,000. Laport left a letter for James Gordon
Bennett, in which he said he was a
partner in a prosperous Oriental
pearl business in America. Some time
ago he wished to extend this business
and took $20,000 of the Herald's money
which he sent to his partner, who disappeared. Laporte says he did not
want the business to collapse so he
took $4,000 more and started for America. In his note Laporte says he
hopes to repay the money with interest in a short time.
The police of Halle, Germany, proOleo Manufacturers Win.
Albany, Dec. 17.—The court of ap- hibited the dancing of the tango in
peals in a decision yesterday inter- public.
The income of the state of Pennsylpreted against the 'farmers of the
state and in favor of the oleomargar- vania for the fiscal year of 1913 was
ine manufacturers and dealers, the reported as $35,348,615.35.
Senator Elihu Root warned that disprovision of the state agricultural law,
which was designed to prevent the aster would follow unless the brakes
sale of oreomargarine for butters. The were put on currency inflation.
Millions of dollars were sent from
court in an opinion by Judge Collin,
holds that the law "does not compel Pennsylvania to Europe as Christmas
the makers of oleomargine to con- gifts, especially from the coal regions.
sciously choose the ingredients having
Attacks on soldiers at Mayence, Gera shade of color which will not pro- many, gave rise to fears that the antiduce that of butter."
military agitation was spreading be8uffragettes Set Church on Fire.
yond Alsace.
Liverpool Dec. 17.—Militant suffraMrs.
Emmeline Panknurst, the gettes in revenge for the rearrest of
Wife Buries the Wrong Man.
THINKS HE'S NOT MARRIED
Two months ago a body taken from British suffragette leader, was re-ar- Mrs. Panknurst set fire to tbe Church
the
Erie canal in Utica, N. Y., was rested on a train between Dover and of St. Annes. The cnurch pews were
New Y o r k e r Postpones Divorce Trial
buried at the expense of the county. London on her return from France.
destroyed, the organ was damaged and
Until He Studies Records.
On
reading
a
description
of
the
body
the entire interior disfigured.
The
New York, Dec. 17.—Ezekiel Henry
Ti*esday.
Mrs.
Alfred
Hewitt
of
Utica.
believed
usual suffragette literature was found
Piatt, wealthy building construction
Search
for
Miss
McCann,
missing
it
to
be
her
missing
husband.
She
about
the church. The incendiaries
superintendent, wants to know whethteacher
of
New
York,
continues
withhad
the
body
disinterred,
identified
it
entered
the building through a winer he is married or divorced from
out
result.
dow.
Gertrude W Piatt, a former actress. as t h a t of her husband and held a
Miss
Zelip
Emerson
of
Jackson,
funeral,
burying
the
body
in
her
own
In order to find out his status he asked for an adjournment in supreme lot. Now it is discovered that Hewitt Mich., is arrested in suffragette riot
Churchill Will Visit Paris.
court. His wife Is suing for divorce. 1B alive and in Rochester, and Mrs. In London.
London, Dec. 17.—Winston ChurchEleven patients in Nassau hospital Ill, first lord of the admiralty, denied
Eugene M. Piatt, appearing as at- Hewitt has sworn out a warrant for
contract diphtheria from nurse and in- the report that he intended to spend
torney for Piatt, said that Piatt is his arrest for non-support.
stitution is quarantined.
under the Impression he got a divorce
a three-week vacation in Berlin. This
The battle of Tampico is ended by report led to a rumor that Mr. ChurchPresident
Receives
a
Visitor.
from his wife In Philadelphia six or
Washington, Dec. 17.—President retreat of the rebels; the situation in ill was going to Germany to discuss
eight years ago.
Wilson
was so nearly recovered from the 'north of Mexico becomes more his "naval holiday" proposal with the
Supreme Court Justice Gavegan gave
the
cold
which has confined him to critical.
him a week's adjournment
German government. Mr. Churchill
the house for the last week, that he
After shooting two policemen and will spend his vacation in Paris.
Bad W i n d H a l t e d o n m a n Aviator.
received a visitor and later met the one of his own companions, "Bad Joe"
Buenos Aires, Dee. 17.—Thousands cabinet. The visitor was President C. West escapes^In the outskirts of Newof persons lined the route of the C. Moore of the Panama-Pacific ex- ark, N. J.
"Back to the Farm" Falls In Kansas.
trans-Andlo railway to see Figueroa, position, to whom the president said
Representative Jefferson M. Levy
The back-to-the farm movement has
the ^Chilian aviator, fly across the he would send a special message to defies Mrs. Martin W. Littleton and been a failure in. the state of
Andes from Las Andes in Chill to congress recommending an adequate declares he will never part with Mon- Kansas, according to the school
Mendoza In the Argentine republic. -approprIfttIon,-/or -tha—er-£cUon—of- a- tlcello, blrthplneo-of-Jeffer8onT
• Tcensns-of-the -state,- completed -by-Wrr
The aviator was 'flying at an aVtltucfe" federal building at the exposition.
D. ROBB, state superintendent of
of 6,600 feet when a violent wind
Wednesday.
schools. The rural school population'
nearly wrecked the machine and comIndiana
woman
keepB
runaway
horse
harf^decreased 13,891 in the last five'
Glynn Signs Compensation Bill.
pelled him to descend. He will wait
Albany, Dec. 17.—"I do not flatter In barn 14 years and hoofs grow foot years, and in the same period the
for an abatement of the wind before myself that the compensation law long.
city population has increased 16,000.
renewing the flight.
DeeT'cbWefi from woods near Say*
New York has adopted Is perfect,"
Kansas Farmers Killing Bugs. •.'..-';
said Governor Glynn, last night in Vllle, L. I., and races besldo motorPostmaster a Suicide.
Farmers daily send requests to ther
signing the workmen's compensation cycle.
James A. Smith, for many years
Devere Hall, lawyer from Bay City, Kansas Agricultural college, at Manhill, just passed by the legislature.
postmaster at Cameron Mill., N. Y.,
"But I believe that It Is the best law Mich., Is killed by a fall from hotel hattan, Kan., for Its circuhvrs tell*
Committed suicide last week by shootIng how • to hum clinch,' hugs,
which sincerity of purpose and fixity window in New York.
ing himself through the head soon aftof intentloNi could provide. Experience
M)rsy HUdegarde McKenna Pultz, Many, Kansas counties plan to bo
er Post Office Inspector Johnson en\
will show what Imperfectations there daughter of Justice McKenna. of the Without" a single t u g next year,-aa'
tered the building and informed Smith
may bo in the law, and experience, will United States supreme court, receives bug burning has been taken; up In ; i :
that ho had come to make an Invest!-*
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