a Bellefonte, Pa., September 14, 1906. P, GRAY MEEK, Teaus or Svsscmirriox.— Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance................... $1.00 Paid before expiration of year......... 1.50 Paid after expiration of year........... 2.00 Democratic State Ticket. FOR GOVERNOR, LEWIS EMERY Jr. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, JEREMIAH 8. BLACK. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, WILLIAM T. CREASY. FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, JOHN J. GREEN. FOR CONGRESS, H. 8. TAYLOR, of Centre County. Democratic County Ticket. FOR ASSEMBLY, JOHN NOLL, of Bellefonte. FOR JURY COMMISSIONER, ADAM HAZEL, of Spring Township. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. GRANGE ENCAMPMENT AND FAIR—The graoger’s encampment at Grange park, Centre Hall, will be the attraction bext week and that all WATCHMAN readers may know just what to expect we publish the program in fall, as follows : Saturday, September 15th. —Camp opens when all tents will be in readiness for those desiring to camp. In the evening there will be a grand festival by Progress grange. Sunday, September 16th, 2:30 p. m. — Harvest Home services. The anniversary sermon will be preached by Rev. Geo. W. Mcllnay, of the M. E. church, Centre Hall. Monday, September 17th.— Exhibition will open when exhibits will be received and put in place. 7:30 p. m.—Opening entertainment by Slater's comedians, to which everybody is invited. Taesday, September 18th.—The arrange- ment of exhibits will be continued. 2 p. m.—Openiog exercises by the Coun- ty grange. 7:30 p. m.—Egtertainment in the aodi- torium by Slater's comedians. Wednesday, September 19th, 9 a. wm. —Grand parade by the Knights of the Golden Eagle. Followed by a meeting in the aoditorium, when addresses will he delivered by prominent officials of the Order. 2 p. m.—Addresses hy Hou. W. T. Creasy, Democratic candidate for Anditor General, and others. Hon. J. T. Ailman, secretary of the State Grange ; Hon. A. M. Cornell, lecturer of the State Grange, and Hon. R. 8. Conklin, forestry com- missioner. 7:30 p. m.—Entertaitnment hy Slater's comedians. Thursday, September 20th, 10 a. m. —Addresses by Hon. W. F. Hill, master of the State Grange ; Hon. N. B. Critch- field, secretary of agriculture : Hon. A. L. Martin, deputy secretary of agricnlture, and Dr. B. H. Warren, dairy and food commissioner. 1:30 p. m.—Addresses by Hon. Edwin 8. Stuart, Republican candidate for Gov- ernor ; Hon. Rohert 8S. Murphy, Heory Houck, Robert K. Youug and others. The chairman of the Republican county com- mittee will bave charge of the meeting. 7:30 p. w.—Grand entertainment by Sla- ter’s comedians. Friday, September 21st—Closing exer: Oises. 2 p. m.— Auction of stock that may be offered for sale. Exhibitors should be prompt and en- deavor to get their exhibits in on Monday and Tuesday, but the entries will not be closed until Wednesday noon. All pre- miums will be paid on the day articles are offered for exhibition. ~The Great Centre County Fair will be held one week later than usual this year, Oct. 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. The change has been made so as not to conflict with the Milton fair and the result will be that there will be far more race horses and obher attractions here than ever before. —— A —— —-——After an illness that almost cansed his transplanting in she large lot at the rear of bis home on east High street L. H. Wiau is able to be out again. He is look- ing much the worse and bas lost 251bs, though he expects to pick itall np again shortly. A———— A ———————. —=—Viotor I. Walker, of Rebersburg,bas gone to Miami, Florida, to superintend the erection of a large concrete bridge. He is a civil engineer and for two years past has been working for the New York Central railroad company. —— Ap fp rm. ~The WATCHMAN is in receipt of an invitation to attend the dedicatory ceremo- nies of the new State capitol at Harris- burg, on Thursday, October 4th. ———— A —————— ———Hor. Fred Kurtz, whose serious illness was mentioned last week, is very little improved, a severe case of bronchitis having developed. m————— A <r rms. ~~ ——Both a ferris wheel and a merry-go- round will be on the great Centre County Fair grounds during the fair next month CorLis ALLEN FAULKNER.—The grim reaper was mach in evidence in Philips- burg last week, in one day, (Thursday), claiming as his victims two of the best known residents of that town, one of whom was Hoo. Corlis Allen Faulkner, the next to the last associate judge elected in Centre county prior to its being made a separate judicial district by the Legislature of 1895, and the last to serve on the bench in that capacity, associate judge Benjamin Rich, who was elected in 1894, baving died with- in a year thereafter. Mr. Faulkner bad been seriously ill for a month or more with a complication of diseases which it was be- yond the power of medical science to sue- cessfally combat. Deceased was of New England stock, baving been born in New Hamsphire March 25th, 1840, thus being aged 66 years, 5 months and 12 days. His parents were W. A. and Clarissa Faulkner. They came to Centre county aod located in Philipsburg in 1857 and it was there the subjecy of this sketch lived ever since. His school- ing was received in the public schools of Erie, where his parents lived for ten years prior to coming to Centre county, and in the Girard Academy. He learned the car- penter trade under his father and followed it a number of years until he was sucoess- ful enough to embark in the contracting business. He aléo was in the hotel husi- ness a number of years. In politics he was a staunch Democrat and filled a number of borough offices. He was elected associate judge of Centre coun- ty in 1892 and served until the end of bis term in 1897. He was a member of Centre Council Royal Arcanum and of the Phil. ipsburg lodge of Odd Fellows. He wasa man of rather unassuming disposition but one with rare genial qualities, who made many friends and beld them to the end. He was married in 1887 to Miss Florence Shoop, of Philipsburg, who died some years ago. They had eight children, seven of whom survive, as follows : Corlis A., Mrs, Joseph Barnes, Irvin, Pierce, Mary, Florence and Paaline. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. B. F. Morgan, of Philipsburg. The funeral was held at 2 o'clock Sat- urday afternoon, Rev. S. D. Wilson officiat- ing at the services. Interment was made in the Philipsburg cemetery. i I I FAs1G.—George Fasig, an old Belle footer, died at the Williamsport hospital, at three o'clock Wednesday morning, of concussion of the brain. Tuesday after- poon he was riding on a street car when his bat blew off. He started to get off the car and the conductor called to him not to make the attempt that he would stop the car but Mr. Fasig jumped. He was thrown violently to the ground his bead striking the bard pavement. He was takeo to the hospital where it was found that the acci- dent had produced concussion of the brain and he died without regaining conscious. ness. Deceased was a son of Jerry and Catha- rine Fasig and wae born in this place Auv- gust 24¢h, 1857, thus makiog his age forty- pine years and nineteen days. By ocoupa- tion he was a painter, like bis father be- fore him. He was a member of the Logan fire company and his last visit to Bellefonte was daring the recent firemen’s conven. tion. He was united in warriage to Miss Mar- garet Wolf who survives him with the fol- lowing children : Jerry, Joseph, Catha- rine and James. He also leaves the [fol- lowing brothers and sisters : Mrs. George Garman aod Mrs. David McNeal, of Ty- rone, aod Henry, of Bellefonte. The remains will be brought to Belle- foote this worning over the Central rail road of Peunsylvania and taken to the United Brethren charch where the funeral services will he held, after which inter. ment will be made in the Union cemetery. il il HaworTtH.—Followiog very close on the death of Judge Faulkner, of Philipsburg, came the announcement of the death of John Haworth, anotber very prominent citizen, who died at 11 c’clock Thursday night of kidney trouble, after several years illness. Deceased was a native of Eogland, bav- ing been born in Lancashire, October 18th, 1820. He came to this country in August, 1862, his wife and family following in November. They first located in Powelton but soon after moved to Philipsburg where for many years he wae one of the successful merchants of the town. For forty years be was a faithful member of the Baptist charch. He was also a member of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias. Sarviviog him are his wife and the fol- lowing children : Mrs. T. J. Ebock, Geo., James, Mary, Laura and Anpa, of Phil. ipsburg; and Mrs. Charles Sweeney, of Portageville, N. Y. The funeral was beld at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, Rev. J. H. Higby officiating at the services. 1 1 i i STONERODE. — John M. Stonerode, of | Birmingham, father of the late Curtin P. Stonerode, of Milesburg, died at the home of his son, in Pittsburg, Wednesday of last week, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He was a vative of Lewistown. He went to work for the Pennsylvacia railroad company when only eighteen years of age as a seotion foreman and soon arose to fore- man of the bridge building division and it was under his supervision that the thirteen wooden bridges between Tyrone and Spruce Creek were built. He alse bailt the Bir- mingham seminary. i i i HaLg.—Heuory Hale, an old time resi- dent and well known citizen of Julian, died on Monday of a Sumpiieativn of dis- easea, He was aged sixty-one years and is survived by his wife, one son and two daughters. faneral was held on Wed- ay afternoon. HassELL.— Wednesday evening Mrs. C. | Rev. A.S. Wolfe presched Lis farewell | F. Montgomery recived the sad vews of the death of her father, Mr. William H. Hassell, at bis home in Philadelphia. He had been in his usoal beaith, in fact a let- ter received by Mrs. Mootgomery that morniog stated that the family were all in excellent health. From the meagre intel: ligence received it would appear that Mr- Haseell’s death was the result of heat pros- tration Wednesday afternoon. He was aged eighty-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery went to Lock Haven in Jobo Porter Lyon's car where they took the Penpsylvania flyer for Philadelphia. As this writing no arrangements for the funer- al have been made. 1 i i DROWNED IN THE WesT—Mm. William Danlap, of Freeport, 111., with Miss Nettie Murphy, were drowned in the Apple river on Sunday, September 20d. Tbe two women were members of a driving party enjoying a day's outiog. A storm came ap which amounted to a cloudburst and in at- tempting to cross the Apple river the horses were swept from their feet, the vehicle overturned and the occupants thrown into the stream. Six of the party escaped. Mrs. Dunlap was a sister-in-law of county com- missioner John L. Dunlap, of this place. Her maiden name was Osborn, and she was a native of Centre county. i i i ——Jobp Shipley, son of Alex Shipley and a grandson of J. H. Shipley, of Union- ville, died in a Philadelphia hospital in the fore part of the week from an over- dose of morphia, self-administered. He is survived by his father, who lives in Phil. ipsburg, his step-mother and one sister, Ruth. il il i BARNES.—Miss Esther Barnes, youogest daoghter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barnes, of Barnesboro, died Wednesday of last week, at her home, of typhoid fever. Miss Barnes was only twenty-two years of age. m——r inane Tine ror HoLDING COURT CHANGED. —Several terms ago a committee of the Centr: county bar was appointed to revise the rules governing the time for the hold- ing of the various terms of court, which sabmitted its report at the August sessions two weeks ago. Judge Orvis last week handed down a decree in which the com- mittee’s report wae affirmed and, after the first of January, 1907, Centre county courts will not be held on the fourth Monday of Janoary, April, August and November, as they have been for the past three-quarters of a century but will he held in February, May, September and December. Just the reasons for making the change have vot been fully given but one is to avoid the bot summer month, Aungust, and another was to change the November term to December 80 88 to avoid the necessity of adjourning for Thanksgiving day. The change from the old to the new system is being com- mented on hoth favorably and unfavorably by members of the bar and, whether it will be an improvement or not, there is likely to he considerable complication among litigants and in the drawing and issoance of court pape:s before the attorneys become thoroughly familiarized with the new order of things. In fall the court’s decree is as follows : Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, } County of Centre, Aud now, September 1st, 1006, in compliance and in obedience to the command contained in the 10th section of the Act of Assembly, approved August Tth, 1583, entitled ‘An Act to designate the several Judicial districts of the Common- wealth as required by the Constitution,” it is hereby ordered and decreed that the time for holding of the regular terms of the court of the county cf Centre comprising the 49th Judicial district of Pennsylvania, shall be as follows : On and after the first day of January, 1907, a regular term of the court of common pleas, of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, a court of quarter sessions, and an orphans court, shall be begun and held at the court house, in the borough of Bellefonte, on the 4th Monday of February, the 3rd Monday of May, the 4th Mon- day of September and the 1st Monday of De- cember of each year, at 100'clock a. m,, each of said terms to continue for a period of two weeks. Regular argument courts shall be held as fol lows : Beginning on the first Tuesday of January, the 2nd Tuesday of April, the 3rd Tuesday of June, 8rd Tuesday of November of each year, each argument court to continue as Jong as business may require, By the Court, ELLIS L. ORVIS, P. J. Attest : A. B. Kiwrory, Prothonotary. —— A —— MARRIAGE Licexses.—The following marriage licenses were issued the past week by Register Earle C. Taten. John Cartin and Jane Watson Farst, both of Bellefonte. George Styers and Annie E. Garbrick, both of Bellefonte. John E. Osman and Margaret M. Albert, both of State College. Scott W. Wood and Margaret Eliza Sen- sor, hoth of Philipsburg. Harry Cowher and Verona Laird, both of Port Matilda. Robert S. Woomer and Iva E. Flegal, both of Philipsburg. Harry W. Lewis and Martha A. Morri- son, both of Philipsburg. Albert Smith, of Bellefonte, and Jessie Pearl Green, of Milesburg. Charles R. Shermav, Pittsburg, Agabel Bathgate, of South Philipsburg. and Lemont. Mrs. Lavina Houser is not improving. Prof. R. U. Wasson opened his school at Aaronsburg on Monday. George R. Roan, who had the misfortune to step on a spike, is improving slowly. Farmers are busy sowing wheat and cut- ting corn, the latter becoming very ripe. Prof. George Bible, of Philadelphia, visited with his mother the latter part of last week. Misses Sara and Rose Smith, of Tyrone, are spending a few days with F. A. Holder. man’s, sermon to the Houserville congregation on Sunday evening. David O. Etters, county superintendent, has started on his rounds of inspecting the schools of the county. Mrs. John Shuey, of Shilob, bas been very ill since last week but is now getting along as well as can be expected. G. W. Ralston shipped his household goods and went to Dewsrt, on Tuesday; Lemont has lost one of its most industrious young men and the school board will suffer a lose, for he has been secretary of that body for three or four years. Pine Grove Mention, John Reyuolds is making improvements te his home. E. 8. Tressler transacted husiness in Altoo- na on Monday. The Reformed church at Pine Hall is un. dergoing repairs. H. H. Goss sud wife attended the Snyder county centenniul last week. Prof. Thomas Houtz, of Selinsgrove, was in town greeting friends of long ago. Miss Loze MeMahon has gone to New York State to become a nurse in a home for the aged. Almost any evening Frank Smith can be seen ou the driveway, speeding his Maude 8. for the fair. With a full outfit for a first class huckster Ray Hoover made his first venture to the Mountain city Monday Mrs. J. G. Hess with ber daughter, Yiola Smith, of Medina, Ohio, College visitors Tuesday. George O'Brian and wife have been spend. ing their honeymoon at the well known O'Brian home, on Church street. Joe. B. Goss, who holds a good position with the Carnegie Steel company at Brad. dock, is home for a ten days’ outing. Hon. J. Will Kepler is in Tionesta this week looking after some coal and timber interests there and in Jefferson county. N.T. Krebs and Prof. M. E. Heberling spent last week fishing for bass in the West Branch. Not a fish story will they spin. Mrs. Gertrude Cunningbam, of Pittsburg, Mrs. were State and her cousin, Miss Bertha Musser, of Freeport, Il1., are visiting relatives in Centre county. The venerable J. C. Bike has been visiting Pennsvalley friends of long ago and spent Sunday with his cousin, Mrs. Sallie Fortney, on Main street, Last Saturday the Brown scrubs, at Penna Furnace, went to the Huntingdon Furnace picnic and did up the Tyrone athletic ball team to the score of 8 to 0. Mrs. Sadie Lemon, of Morgantown, W. Va., is visiting her parental home in the Glades. She brought little Bernard to attend school at Gatesburg this ter. Rev. C. T. Aiker, president of the Susque- haona University, was here the early part of the week, looking after some business matters that needed his attention. Mr. John Peters, of Missouri, is making his anuual visit among his many Peunsval- ley friends. As he is a noted nimrod he will likely stay for the hunting season. Last week Emanuel C. Fye was taken to Philadelphia, where he had an operation performed for a tumorous growth on his eye. At last reports he was doing nicely. Robert Reitz made his regular weekly vis. it pear town and failed to catch the early train, but the walking was not all taken to Alto, where he is (George B. Thompson's right hand man. Col. J. R. Lemon is spending a few days at his Gatesburg home. For several years the Colonel has had a big land deal up his sleeve, being manager for Chess Bros. He now has a deal on the sale of some twelve thousand acres of coal and timber lands to J. K. P. Hall, of Ridgway; Kaul Bros.. of St. Marys, and Col. J. L. Spangler. Should the deal go through, as it likely will, the Colonel will likely take stock in the Wabash. — Home-made crosses fit like home- made clothes. TWO ray HED WHILE ROWING Couple Fiom Woodbury, N. J. Lose Lives In River at Allentown, Pa. Allentown, Pa.. Sept. 10.—Charles Hughes and Mrs. Joseph Green, both of Woodbury, N. J., were drowned while rowing on the Lehigh river. Hughes came here three weeks ago as foreman of a pile driving gang em- ployed by the Lehigh Valley Transit company in the construction of a coal wharf. Saturday Mrs. Green arrived here, and the two registered at a local hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hughes. In the evening they went rowing, and two hours later their boat was found floating, bottom up. Their bodies were recovered. THINK EMPLOYES DISHONEST Wilmington Street Car Company Has Five of Its Conductors Arrested. Wilmingtony Del., Sept. 11—The Peo- ple’s Railway company has caused the arrest of five of its employes in its endeavors to stamp out dishonesty among its conductors. The five ar- rested were Richard Megginson, Albert Dekyne, Wilmer C. Nolan, Alvin Mor- ris, William Rhein, of Philadelphia, and Arthur Mellin. The men were taken before Magis- trate Hollis and held under $200 bail for a hearing Friday morning. The men arrested are all well connected in Delaware, Colored Miscreant Feared Lynching. Norfolk, Va., Sept. 11.—Fearing that he would be lynched, John Smith, col ored, was brought to Norfolk by the sheriff of Princess Anne county for safekeeping in the local jail. Smith, who was out on bail, following a hung jury, in which he was charged with assault on the wife of Henry Owens, colored, is pow charged with having attempted an assault on a Mrs. Leg- gett, near Nimmos, in Princess Anne county, on Saturday night. -— - — i 70 SUBSCRIBE OVER 83,00,000 Philadelphia, Sept. 10.—All of the jirectors of the Real Estate Trust fompany, which was wrecked by its suicide president, Frank K. Hipple, principally through heavy loans made to Adolph Begal, a promoter, on flimsy collateral, have agreed {6 Ro ceiver Earle's plan for reorganizing the company. Mr. Earle received a | telegram from Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the only member of the board of direc- tors who is away from the city, agree ing to the proposition that the direc- tors contribute the amount deemed necessary by the receiver. Dr. Mitchell expresses his willingness to bear his portion of the burden. The other direc- tors had previously assented to the plan. Receiver Earle spent Sunday at his home in Bryn Mawr working on the details of his proposition, which he hopes to be able to present to the directors very soon. He also expects to call a general meeting of stock- holders and depositors in order to thoroughly acquaint them with his pur- pose. “It is slow work,” he said. “I am not in a position at present to say any- thing more definite than has already been published concerning my propo- sition, but I wish it understood that the directors in signing the agreement have pledged themselves to raise the amount which I consider necessary. This money is given absolutely, with- out promise of return or security. They are putting up the money from their own pockets so as to ‘¥nake up the losses which have been sustained through the bad Segal loans.” The loans made to Segal by President Hipple aggregate more than $5,000,000 and his securities are believed to be worth about $2,000,000. Consequently the directors will subscribe something more than $3,000,000. It was stated that some of the Segal securities, which are considered of little value, would be given the directors for the money ad- vanced by them. Receiver Earle de- nied this. A statement issued by Rev. Dr. Rob- erts, stated clerk of the General Assem- bly of the Presbyterian church, an- nounces that in addition to the $30,000 of the trust funds of the trustees of the church which were lost in the collapse, deposits amounting to about $130,000 are also involved. These deposits were the current funds of the board of min- isterial relief, the trustees of the board of publication and Sabbath-school work, the trustees of the general assembly, the stated clerk of the general assem- bly and the Women’s Foreign Mission- ary Society. It developed that the last state exam. {nation of the trust company was made by Banking Commissioner Reeder in 1902. Robert McAfee, who was state banking commissioner from April, 1903, to July, 1905, made no examination, and Commissioner Berkey, who suc- ceeded McAfee, also failed to examine the institution. The two expert ac- countants appointed by Commissioner Berkey to investigate the condition of the concern, at the end of their first day's work announced that they found the trust estates, of which the Real Estate Trust company acted as trus- tee to be intact. The preliminary hearing of Adolph Segal, the pre:moter; William F. North, treasurer, and Marshall S. Colling- wood, assistant treasurer of the Real Estate Trust company, took place, and the three were held in heavy bail for trial. Many depositors who placed money in the bank on Monday and Tuesday after the directors knew that it was insolvent were allowed to withdraw their deposits Thursday. There were 414 deposits, and of this number 138 were returned. That there will be no prosecutions against the directors of the trust com- pany was the authoritative statement which emanated from District Attor- ney Bell's office. The announcement was made after Special Bank Exam- fners Vollum and Goldsmith, who were appointed by State Banking Commissioner Berkey to investigate the trust company’s affairs, had made a partial report. Although the exam- {ners are not through with their work, enough has been learned to relieve the directors of criminal responsibility for the collapse of the institution. An investigation of the contents of the strong box of the Detre estate, for which President Hipple was trustee, developed the fact that mortgage pa- pers representing $25,000 were miss- ing. An effort to trace them will be made. WHOLESALE ARRESTS FOLLOW Havana, Sept. 11.—President Palma {ssued a decree suspending all consti- tutional guarantees, with special ref- erence to articles 15, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24 and 27, in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana and Santa Clara. The law enforcing public order, which is equivalent to martial law, also is put in immediate effect in the three prov- inces named. A supplemental decree has been is- sued suspending the decree of August 28, pardoning repentant rebels, and ordering that all rebels be arrested and jailed. Co-incident with the issuance of the decrees, which followed the decision not to yield to the peace demands, the government crdered the arrest of practically every prominent Liberal Alfredo Zayas, president of the Liberal party, and several others have disap- peared. When the news of the issuance of these decrees reached the veterans’ peace committee, which was in session at the home of General Menocal, there was immediate and almost unanimous | per Sarre dewineination of President Palma and! NG. other members of the government. Senator Sanguilly, Independent, who was present, and who usually is mod- erate in his utterances, made an impas- sioned speech, in which he declared that there remained for Cubans but two roads to travel, one of honor and the other of disgrace. The govern- ment, he said, had refused offers of endeavors to settle the difficulty paci- fically, and so nothing was left but to side with its opponents. General Callazo and other prominent veterans made similar speeches, and General Menocal co-incided with the views of the other speakers. It appears probable that most of the members of the veterans’ peace committee will join the insurgents. The government does not intend that membership in congress shall shield anybody from arrest. Senator Morua Delgado was one of the first arrested, and several representatives were quick- ly added to the list of prisoners. For- mer representatives in congress and veterans are being searched by the po- lice. Senor Zayas and most of the other leading Liberals in this city have mysteriously disappeared. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED’ Wednesday, September 5. Lawson Addison, colored, murdered two negro women at Lowryville, 8. C,, and escaped. The monthly statement of the na- tional debt shows that on September 1 it amounted to $970,368,383. Estel N. Kirk, a Pennsylvania rail- road car inspector, was crushed to death between cars at Camden, N. J. A man supposed to be W. J. Jones, of Richmond, Va., committed suicide by shooting in a hotel at Halifax, N. S. Robert Cotton, colored, who mur- dered his wife by literally cutting her body into pieces, was hanged at Vin- ita, 1. T. Thursday, September 6. The fourth annual convention of the American Institute of Bank Clerks was held at Atlantic City, N. J. Judge David Torrante, chief justice of the Connecticut supreme court, died at Derby from heart trouble. United States Senator P. C. Knox, of Pennsylvania, arrived in New York from Europe on the steamer Oceanic. While gunning for reed birds, John J. Steyer, of Philadelphia, dropped dead from heart disease near Chester, Pa. The director of the mint rejected all bids for silver because they were too high, the lowest being 673% cents an ounce, Friday, September 7. Mrs. Eliza F. Wheeler, mother of Professor A. W. Wheeler, of Yale, died at Easton, Conn., aged 101 years. George K. Johnson has been elected president of the Penn Mutual Life In- surance company, of Philadelphia. The convention of the Chapter Gen- eral of America, Knights of St. John and Malta, will be held at Philadelphia next year. Paul Pietjan, a machinist, and Louis Zoebel, his helper, fell five stories in an elevator shaft in a building in New York and were instantly killed. The comptroller of the currency has issued a call for a statement of the condition of national banks at the clore of business Tuesday, September 4. Saturday, September 8. lTowa's corn crop is estimated at 381,000,000 bushels. President Roosevelt has reappoint. ed Brigadier General R. M. O'Reilly surgeon general of the army. The National Association of Span- ish-American War Nurses will hold their next convention at Norfolk, Va. While fighting a fire in a grocery store at St. Louis, 11 firemen were seriously injured by the explosion of gasoline. Blamed by a coroner's jury for a fatal accident, John O. Backus, super intendent of an Illinois traction com- pany, committed suicide by shooting at Mattoon, Ill. Monday, September 10. An explosion at the Dupont powder works at Nimours, Va., killed one man and fatally injured four. The Master Steam Boiler Makers’ Association has elected J. H. Smythe, of Paterson, N. J., as president. Cutting his throat with a knife be- dier of the Civil War, will likely die. Rolling a hoop over the Reading at Shamokin, Pa., John Bick- Tuesday, September 11. William J. Bryan has accepted an invitation to visit Jackson, Miss, on September 22. Miss Rose Porter, widely known as an author, died at her home in New Haven, Conn., aged 66 years. The Catholic church at Parkesburg,, near Coatesville, Pa., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $30,000. Twelve persons were injured, one fatally, in a collision between trolley cars at the New York end of the Brook: lyn bridge. ‘While engaged in a friendly boxing bout with a companion at Little Rock, Ark. Carney Griffith became {ll and died of over-exertion. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. PHILADELP — FLO GEE YE CORN steady, Feineyivini Ted 7 i
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