Youngstown News, 1902-10-03

              THE YOUNGSTOWN NEWS VOL. XXII. YOUNGSTO WN, N. Y., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 1902. NO. 35. NEW OPERATION PERFORMED Bone of the President's Injured  Found Slightly Affected. SPEEDY RECOVERY EXPECTED Surgeons Positive That There is No Evidence of Matter That Would Produce Blood Polsonlne — Process of Healing Impeded by Mr. Eoosevelt's Restlessness—Expert Called in Conference. Washington, D. C.—Another operation has been performed on the abscess on the left leg of President Roosevelt. In the former operation a simple needle was used to relieve the trouble, but in the later operation the surgeons •with a knife made an incision into the small cavity, exposing the bone, which was found to be slightly affected. The President's case has been progressing satisfactorily, but it is believed by the physicians that the further operation will hasten his complete recovery. They gave the most positive assurances that there is not the least cause for alarm, and say that on the contrary there is every indication of a speedy recovery; that the area of bone affected is very* slight, and will not result in any impairment of the President's limb and that there is no evidence whatever of auy matter that would produce blood poisoning. Dr. Shaffer, of New York City, who long has been acquainted with the Roosevelt family, and who also is a well-known bone specialist, joined the President's physicians in their consultation. It was noticed that there had been a slight rise in the President's temperature, and an increase in local symptoms, and the physicians thought his recovery would be aided by making an incision to drain the wound. The operation was performed between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The President stood the pain very well, and expressed his satisfaction at the result. Dr. Rixey, Surgeon-General of the navy, performed the operation, assisted by Dr. Lung, the President's regular physician. Dr. O'Reilly, who also was present with the other physicians, is the Surgeon-General of the army. Dr. Edward R. Stitt, another of those present, is in charge of the Naval Museum of Hygiene and Medical School. /The physicians took a roseate view of the President's prospects for getting out again. Dr. Shaffer, while he declined to discuss generally the President's case, authorized the most positive statement that there need be not the slightest cause for anxiety or alarm regarding his condition. SON TO CONTEST STRATTON WILL Will Fiffbt For More Tlian $50,000 of the 814,951,000 Estate. Colorado Springs, Col.—lsaac Harry .Stratton, the only child of Winfield Scott Stratton, decided to contest his father's will which allows him only $50,000 out of the $14,951,000 estate, and declares that forfeited if he contests the will. The contest will be made on several grounds, one of them being that his father was of unsound mind when he made the will. Young Stratton has retained Judges Gunnell and Harris, of Colorado Springs, and former Senator Wolcott and Attorney Vaile, of Denver. All the heirs here are non-committal on the son's decision. By the terms of his will W. S. Stratton left $1,000,000 to build the Myron Stratton Home for Sick Persons in Colorado Springs, and most of the rest of his estate to its maintenance. There were eight personal bequests of $50,- 000 each. To his son, Harry Stratton, was left $50,000, "in case he does not contest or cause to be contested this will." The late Mr. Stratton procured a divorce from his wife soon after the birth of his son, and the latter had not lived with his father since his birth. 400 KILLED BY CYCLONE IN SICILY Sea Swept Inland Several Miles—Enormous Damage to Property. Syracuse, Sicily.—Some 400 persons have been killed and enormous damage to property has been done by a cyclone which passed over this island. The stream flowing through Modica, swollen by the terrific storm, suddenly overflowed, inundating the town. Several houses collapsed and many families perished. For twenty-four hours before the cyclone burst a violent storm raged on the eastern coast. The path of the cj'clone was 124 miles long, and everything in the line of the storm was destroyed. The sea rushed inward for several kilometres, while there were violent submarine agitations between Sicily and the mainland. The survivors of the catastrophe have taken refuge in the hills. A relief committee and search parties have been been organized. The disaster is supposed to have been caused by a waterspout. The German steamer Caprera was wrecked at Catania after terrible struggle with the waves, ; Killed Daughter's Slayer. In a quarrel at Upatoio, Ga., Arthur Comer instantly killed his wife Louise, shoting her with a pistol. Shortly afterward J. W. Murphy, Mrs. Comer's father, hearing of his daughter's tragic death, went to his son-in-law's residence and shot him dead with the same weapon Comer had used to kill his wife. TO END THE COAL FAMINE Boston Citizens Ask For a Recoiver For the Coal Railroads. A Bill In Equity Filed in tlie Snprcmt, Court—Nine Fuel Carrying Com panles Affected. Boston. — A committee of citizens, headed by the publishers of a Boston newspaper, sought relief in the courts from the present coal shortage and high prices by asking for a receiver for the coal companies and coal carrying roads. A bill in equity was filed in the Supreme Court against the following named corporations: The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the Deleware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, the Delaware and Hudson Company, the New York, Ontario and Western" Railroad Company, the Erie Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Coal Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The petitioners ask that a receiver be appointed for the benefit of all concerned, upon such terms and in such manner, and with such agents and servants, and with such rates of wages and other conditions of employment, and at such prices for goods produced and sold as the court shall from time to time adjudge proper. The bill is based upon the legal theory of the coal situation given by H. W. Chaplin, a lawyer. Mr. Chaplin says in support bf his position: "Since the public has a right in the mines, a right to have coal forthwith mined for immediate consumption, and has a right to have that coal immediately transported out. of the mine regions by the coal carrying roads, a court of equity, if no other solution of the difficulty is open, has authority to, and upon the application of a representative proportion of the people undoubtedly would, appoint a receiver or receivers, to take into his or their hands the whole business now in the hands of the anthracite coal 'combine,' and to run it in its place." A subpoena to serve on the defendants, giving notice of the bringing of the suit, has been taken out by the plaintiff's lawyer, and it will probably be returnable in November. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN NEW YORK. Slayer Burned the Head of a Man He Had Killed For Money. New York City.—Tlie headless body of a man was found by the police in the cellar of a house known as the Empire Hotel, on West Twenty-ninth street, and as the result of the grewsome discovery a tale of a brutal midnight murder, followed by an attempt to burn the body, has been unraveled. The finding of the body followed the registering of complaints by people of the neighborhood, who declared that there was an almost unbearable stench in the vicinity of the Empire Hotel. Captain Sheehan and several detectives from the Tenderloin Station went immediately to the hotel, which is in the same building with a Chinese restaurant, and made a search of the premises. Under a pile of barrels and boxes in the cellar a nude body was found. The head was gone, and a heavy cleaver, found in the cellar, was evidence of the manner in which it had been severed from the bociy. The body was lying close to a furnace, in which a fire was burning. With a few pails of water the police extinguished the fire, and then, with a long bar of iron, they dragged the half-consumed head from the coals. Detectives spread through the house and made six arrests. Thomas Tobin, a waiter, is now in the Tombs, charged with the murder; Alexander McAnerney, a bartender at the hotel; Thomas Purnell, a medical student, from Charlestown, Mass.; William Hopkins, of Brooklyn, also a medical student; Grace Burnett, a salesgirl, an acquaintance of the two students, and Robert Kelly, a porter, were arrested. Later in the day the girl and the two medical students were released, and two other women, one named Turner and the other Stella Davis, were arrested and held as witnesses. The head of the dead man was so badly burned that no identification could ever have been made from it, but the police say they have information that he was James B. Craft, of Glen Cove, L. I. At the hotel where he met his death and where he was an infrequent visitor he was simply known as "Captain Jim." Bartender McAnerney charged Waiter Tobin with the murder, and described to the Police Captain and later to the Coroner how the man came to his death. While McAnerney was telling his story to the Coroner Tobm, who was in the room, jumped to his feet and declared it was McAnerney who murdered the man and not he. The murdered man's clothing had been thrown into the furnace in the cellar, along with the head, but was not consumed. The police were able to identify a gray mackintosh, a white shirt, a black waistcoat and a checked suit. The police say the clothes indicated that the man was a well-dressed person. The murderer had seen the man display a large roll of money, and killed him to get possession of it. Defaulting Official's Body in River. The body of Edmund Jellinek, a defaulting officer of the Laender Bank, Vienna, Austria, was found in the Danube River. Jellinek's embezzlements amounted to about $1,150,000. GOV. ODELL RENOMINATED Ticket Named by Republican State Convention at Saratoga, N, Y. PLEDGED TO SUPPORT ROOSEVELT Senator F.YF. Higgins Second on the Ticket —The Platform Condemns 3lonopolies, Advocates State Purchase of Adirondack and Catskill lands and Improvement In Canals—For Koosevelt in 1904. Saratoga, N. Y.—The State Republican Convention named the following ticket: For Governor, B. B. Odell, Jr., of Orange; Lieutenant-Governor, F. W. Higgins, of Cattaraugus; Secretary of State, John F. O'Brien, of Clinton; Treasurer, John G. Wickser, of Erie; Attorney-General, Henry B. Coman, of Madison; Controller, N. B. Miller, of Cortland; Engineer, E. A. Bond, of Jefferson; Judge of the Court of Appeals, W. E. Werner, of Monroe. State Senator Ellsworth Avas the permanent Chairman. After the convention had been called to order Chairman Ellsworth recognized Edward Lauterbach, of New York City, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, who read the platform, which was adopted promptly. Senator Lexow then made his speceh nominating Governor Odell. Mr. Lexow was followed by Job E. Hedges, of New York City, who seconded the nomination. The only roll call of the day was on the question of Odell's renomination, Chairman Ellsworth insisting upon that, but abrogating the rule in the cases of other candidates. Frank W. Higgins was named for Lieutenant-Governor by acclamation, and so were the remainder of the candidates.With the completion of the ticket came a flood of resolutions authorizing the appointment of committees, thanking the Citizens' Committee of Saratoga, the officers of the convention, etc. A committee, headed by Senator Piatt, was named to notify the candidates, and it was announced that it would meet in Albapy on October 7 for that purpose. The names of the members of the new State Committee were announced, and at 1 o'clock p. m. the convention adjourned sine die. The platform starts out with a tribute to McKinley, an indorsement of the National administration, favoring Roosevelt's renomination to the Presidency in 1904, praise for the Army and Navy for restoring order in the Philippines, and continues as to Cuba and the insular possessions: "We favor the reciprocity with that new republic proposed by the Republicans in Congress, giving effective relief to Cuba and substantial benefits to our own people without harm to any American industry. "We believe that our new possessions should be accorded such measure of self-government as their development, in the course of time, may require. We commend the Executive for laying the foundation of social order, education and local government in the Philippine Islands. We commend the action of Congress in securing to the peoples of those islands their fundamental, civil and personal rights, in terms borrowed from the Constitution of the United States, for the election of a legislative assembly, chosen by the Filipinos." Turning to State affairs the platform warmly commends the administration of Governor Odell and advocates improvements of roads and the canals. Of the latter it says: "The one obstacle to the successful consummation of necessary improvements is the constitutional prohibition against long extensions of the bonded debt of the- State. The alternative is direct yearly taxation upon the people. "The Republican party, having already through economies and legislation rendered a direct tax almost unncessary, believes that these improvements should not be the cause of aga'in imposing such a tax upon the people, and that without imposing unnecessary burdens upon individuals or other interests, there should be an extension of time in which payment of the principal and the money for the payment of the yearly interest should be provided. "We favor, as the first step toward these improvements, an extension, under the Constitution, of the time when such payments shall be made. To secure these preliminaries the consent of the people must be first obtained, and we favor such legislation as will afford them an opportunity to pass upon these important questions. "We believe that the policies inaugurated by a Republican Legislature and by a Republican Governor, which are giving to the State a better system of highways, should be continued, and we believe in the enlargement and improvement of the canals to such an extent as will fully and adequately meet all requirements of commerce, the expense of such improvement, however, to be met through sources of revenue other than by direct taxation." Protection is indorsed and only combinations of an oppressive nature are condemned. Legislation to secure speedy adjudication of cases in the courts is advocated, and in the conduct of State institutions the highest standard without extravagance is supported. Governor Odell's changes in the system of managing .these institutions is commended.The conservation of the forest preserves is urged, and the resumption of purchases of lands within the parks f 3 vnvpji. GUEST WRECKED HOTEL He Exploded Dynamite and Then Committed Suicide. Disappointed in His For th« Pro. prietor's Daughter He P laced Thirty Lives in Jeopardy. Washington, D. C.—In an evident attempt to murder the family of the proprietor of the Golden Eagle Hotel here Frank McKie, one of the patrons, partly wrecked the building with dyna mite and placed the lives of thirty oither persons in jeopardy at 4.30 o'clock a. m. He then ended his own life. The hotel is at the corner of New Jersey avenue and D street. Louis Brandt, the proprietor, and his wife were painfully injured. All the other persons in the hotel escaped from injury in spite ol the fact that McKie had enough dynamite in his room to blow up a block of buildings. The proprietor's wife and daughter, Sophie, had just returned from a European trip. A banquet was given for them at night by him. McKie is said to have been in love with the daughter. It is supposed that the motives for his act were the failure of Sophie to reciprocate his affection and the desire to seek revenge against the whole family. McKie's room in the hotel was above the rooms occupied by the Brandts. An employe of a lunch room opposite the hotel saw McKie in his room just before the explosion took place. McKie had a revolver in his hand. The explosion lifted the roof off the building and partly wrecked the upper floors. A blaze was started, but firemen were summoned promptly and the fire was put out. Brandt and his family were rescued and the excited patrons fled in terror from the hotel. McKie was found dead in his room from a revolver wound in his head. When the partly wrecked building was searched there were found in Mc- Kie's trunk six whole sticks of dynamite and parts of two or three broken sticks, together with a box of caps and a quantity of wire for long distance explosion. He had had at least r.ine sticks of dynamite in his possession. SHIFTING OF ENVOYS. Tho State Department Announces Important Diplomatic Changes. Washington, D. C.—The following important diplomatic appointments have been announced from the State Department:Charlemagne Tower, of Pennsylvania, now Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Germany. Robert S. McCormick, of Illinois, now Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia. Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Anstria-Huhgary. Arthur S. Hardy, of New Hampshire, now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain. Charles Page Bryan, of Illinois, now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Switzerland. David E. Thompson, of Nebraska, to be Envoy Extraordinary jfnd Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil. These appointments are to take effect when Ambassador White leaves Berlin in November. CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS MEET. Name a State Ticket and Ignore the Kansas City Platform. New Haven, Conn.—The Democratic State Convention nominated the following State ticket: Fcr Governor, Melbert B. Cary; Lieutenant-Governor, E. Kent Hubbard, Jr.; Secretary of State, Arthur B. Calkins; Treasurer, Philip Hugo; Controller, Edward G. Ivilduff; Attorney-General, Nobles E. Pierce, of Bristol; Congressman-at- Large, Homer S. Cummings. The platform adopted simply "reaffirms allegiance to the Democracy of the Nation" and "reasserts faitli in its principles." Trusts are denounced, reciprocity with Cuba is favored, ship subsidies are protested against, and the election of United States Senators by popular vote is demanded. The convention declared its faith in Connecticut's system of town government, but "pledged its efforts to obtain the adoption of a constitution which shall offer the populous communities a just and adequate representation." ATTORNEY KILLS AN EDITOR, Feud Growing; Out of Politics Keaults Fatally in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn. — W. B. Robinson, editor of the Winchester News-Journal, was shot and killed by George E. Banks, a well-known attorney. The shooting was the outcome of bitterness betweeif the two men dating from the time of the last judicial election. Mr. Robinson saw fit to withdraw his support from Mr. Allison in the last week of the campaign and support Mr. Littleton, and this called forth harsh comment from Mr. Banks, which was treated in the columns on the News- Journal in a vigorous style. Banks had a preliminary hearing before Judge Lefever before Robinson died, and was released on a bond of SlOOO. A CONSPIRACY FOR MILLIONS Laura Biggar's Suit For Vast Wealth Dramatically Halted. TWO ARRESTED IN COURTROOM An Attempt to Secure the Fortune of Henrj M. Bennett, the Pittsburg Millionaire- Fails—A Forged Marriage Certificate and a False Story of a Posthumous Child Figure in the Charges. Long Branch, N. J.—Laura Biggar's attempt to get all the late Henry M. Bennett's money, instead of the part of it he left to her in his will, came to a sudden end in the Orphans' Court here, and her action to set aside the will was transformed without warning into a criminal proceeding against both herself and those associated with her. It is charged that the former actress, who nursed the Pittsburg millionaire during the last five years of his life, was assisted by the two witnesses, possibly by others besides, in organizing the most gigantic fraud exposed in the New Jersey courts for many years. In addition to the accusation that the three plotted and committed forgery to prove a. mythical marriage between Mr. Bennett and Miss Biggar, there is the charge that they conspired in asserting that she bore a posthumous son of the millionaire last July, whereas no such child ever was born. Dr. C. C. Hendrick, proprietor of the Bergen Point Sanitarium, in which Miss Biggar has lived recently, and Samuel Stanton, the former Justice of the Peace, who said he married the couple in Hoboken in 1898, were the witnesses arrested and held in $5000 bail, after a dramatic scene among the many lawyers who were fighting the case. A warrant for the arrest of Miss Biggar was sworn out at the same time with the others. In brief, the disclosure in the Orphans' Court was that the wedding certificate, purporting to be the record of the marriage of Laura Biggar to Henry M. Bennett, at the home of Justice of the Peace Samuel Stanton, on January 2, 1898, was a forgery executed only lately by the very man who was alleged to have performed the ceremony. That this man tried to induce the Secretary of the Board of Health to make a false entry in his records in order to make it appear that it had been recorded years ago. That the name of a dead woman was inserted in the forged paper as a witness.That there never was a child, and that Laura Biggar never pretended to be the wife of Bennett until after she had gone to Dr. Hendrick's sanitarium, where the whole plot was hatched. The forged paper was in itself evidence of its character, for, according to the clerk who gave it blank to Judge Stanton and later received it from him filled out. it was a 1900 blank, and had to be scratched out in order to admit of the insertion of the date 1898. As the matter now stands, Laura Biggar is still entitled to three-quarters of a million dollars, but the people who exposed her w'U seek to reopen the fight they abandoned when the will first came up for probate, and to take from her all share in the estate, for the whole of which she plotted, even to the length of swearing she was the wife of a man who had no wife. The Bennett fortune is thought to amount to $2,000,000. The defeat of the plot was simple and crushing, its very complexities made it crumble when the first weak spot was exposed, and it developed that former Justice Stanton had "-been all the time under observation by the forces opposed to Miss Biggar, and his share in the plan was no secret, so they laid their snare and waited. When Laura Biggar's .forces found themselves at bay before the enemy, whose sleuth hounds had run down the woman's confederates, they launched a surprise by withdrawing her suit and acknowledging a willingness to abide by the provisions of the Bennett will as it stands. This step, instead of bringing a trucc in the battle for the Bennett millions, only precipitated the most desperate conflict of the legal engagements, as immediately after the Biggar attorneys had thrown up the case warrants of arrest on a charge of conspiracy were served upon Dr. Charles C. Hendrick, proprietor of the sanitarium at Bayonne, and upon Samuel Stanton, the former Justice of the Peace who had sworn that he married Laura Biggar to Henry M. Bennett, at Hoboken, on January 2, 1898. Another warrant was ready to be served upon Laura Biggar, but she escaped arrest by failing to appear in court. Both prisoners were immediately arraigned before Judge Heisley in chambers, and held in $5000 bail each. The extent of the bail created another sensation, and Charles C. Black, of Jersey City, attorney for Miss Biggar, who at once volunteered to act for the two prisoners, made a valiant effort to have the amount reduced, but Judge Heisley refused to alter the figures. The two prisoners were held in default of bail and sent under guard to Freehold, where they will remain imprisoned to await the action of the October Grand Jury. Says Chinese Leper is Cured. Dong Gong, the Chinese leper patient at the Quarantine Hospital at St. Louis, Mo., is recommended for discharge as cured by Dr. M. C. Woodruff, superintendent of the hospital. He has been a patient at tho hospital more than a year. STATE NEWS. Shot Woman and Killed Himself. Luther Brooks shot and killed Nell Carver, then put the revolver to his own head and killed himself in front of the Seneca House, at Baldwinsville. The tragedy was witnessed by scores of people. The couple had just left Justice Marvin's office, where the woman had gone for a warrant for Brooks on the charge of creating a disturbance. The man was infatuated with her, and because she would not listen to his declarations of love, he threatened her life. She went to the Justice's office in the morning and had been talking with him a few minutes when Brooks entered. Justice Marvin left them talking in his office when he wept to the bank. He had just gone a block when he heard the woman scream and turned to see Brooks chasing her with a revolver in his hand. As the woman reached the front door of the Seneca House Brooks fired. The bullet entered her right side under the arm. She fell on the steps and died Avitliin fifteen minutes. Brooks then placed the revolver to his right ear and pulled the trigger, dying instantly. Both were well known in Baldwinsville. The murdered "woman was thirty-five years old and the murderer fifty. Brooks has a grown up son and daughter living in Baldwinsville. Married Her Unruly Pupil. The best way to control an unruly pupil Is to marry him. This seems to be the policy adopted by Miss Anna Wells, who has just resigned her position as instructor in the Rochester High School. Miss Wells, who has taught for four years, has always presided over an orderly room, her pupils, charmed by her pleasing ways, being ready to obey her slightest wish. This year Charles Salvatore Valla proved an exception. Miss Wells tried several ways to control her big pupil without success, finally marrying him. Both have left school—he to enter a law office, she to keep house. State Bank to Be a National One. The stockholders of the Albany- County State Bank, at Albany, voted unanimously to convert the institution into a National bank, under the Federal banking laws. John R. Carnell is President and William N. S. Sanders Cashier. At the time of the last quarterly statement the bank had resources of $1,542,380, surplus fund $100,000, capital $250,000. due depositors $743,- 374, and undivided profits $659. The loans and discounts amount to $992,- 542. State Crop Report. The crop conditions of the State fo*- the past week were summarized as follows: Moderate showers in extreme east and heavy rain on Long Island, but dry elsewhere; little damage by frosts; week favorable for work and maturing crops; corn, beans and potatoes very poor; buckwheat uneven, but generally well filled; tobacco safely housed; apples variable, crop generally light; all seeding somewhat delayed by dry weather. Prominent Seneca County Man Dead. Peter Vanness Boliue, seventy years old, oge of the most widely known men in Seneca County, died suddenly at his home in Lodi Village of heart disease. He served several terms as Supervisor of his town, served as School Commissioner of the county, and was once a candidate for member of the Assembly. He was a cousin of the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. A wife and two children survive him. Odell Names Temporary Judge. Presiding Justice Adan,s of the Appellate Division for the Fourth Department being necessarily absent on account of sickness, Governor Odell has designated John M. Davy, of Rochester, to act temporarily as an Associate Justice. The Governor takes this action in order that the business of the court may not be unduly impeded. Two Years For Marrying a Child. James Ingram, of Cliicopee Falls, Mass., in the Fssex County Court, at Elizabethtown, pleaded guilty to the charge of abduction and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Dannemora. Ingram married Helen Andre,' of Ticonderoga, a girl not yet fifteen years old. A Father of Twenty-one Children. James Deming, of West Day, Saratoga County, is dead at the age of. seventy-three. He was twice married,' and was the father of twenty-one children, fourteen of whom are living. The children and grandchildren who' attended the funeral numbered sixty. Suspected Robbers Arrested. Robert J. Evans, John Sanford and John Conlilin, suspected of attempted robbery of the banks at Holland Patent and Bridgewater, Oneida County, and of robbing the Fayetteville (Onondaga County) postoflice of $700 a week! ago, was arrested at Syracuse. $ For a New Railroad. The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway Company, capital $10,000,000, has been incorporated at Albany to operate a steam road eigoiy-five miles long from Wellesville, Allegany County, to Buffalo. "Woman Burned to Death. While endeavoring to light a gas stove in her parlor at Ithaca, Mrs. Orlando Spaulding was burned to death. She was alone at the time and the manner of the accident is unknown. Woman Appointed to an Office. Governor Odell has appointed Miss Grace Gillette, of New York City, a member of the Board of Visitation of the Manhattan State Hospital. This completes the membership. 'XJK * An Independent Re* publican Paper. | G. OLIYER FRICK, • Efiltor. J The Brightest and  J County Paper. 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