a * Hardy, a negro, while making a raid A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Wednesday, October 10. i Nathaniel R. Hart, a prominent law- i yer of Stamford, Conn., shot himself to | death in his office. The Chamber of Commerce building at Los Angeles, Cal.,, was damaged to the extent of $100,000 by fire. | The 34th annual convention of the | International Association of Fore | Chiefs was held at Dallas, Tex. i Joseph H. Glidden, the inventor of the barbed wire fence, died at his | home in DeKalb, Ill, aged 93 years. : Despondent on account of ill health, | and after kissing her husband good- bye, Mrs. Joseph Siegfried, aged 19, a | bride of a few months, committed sui- cide by shooting at Akron, O. | Thursday, October 11. i The first snow of the season fell at | Altoona, Pa., on Wednesday. The 42d annual convontion of the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School As- sociation was held at Gettysburg. Miss Florence McDonald, a chorus girl, was killed by falling from a fourth-story window of a hotel in Chi- cago. Two men were killed and five seri: ously injured by an explosion of a blast furnace of the Illinois Steel com- pany in Chicago. United States Senator Beveridge is ill at the home of George Baler, at Boston, and all his campaign engage- ments for 10 days have been canceled, | Friday, October 12. : The stockholders of the Norfolk & Western railroad voted to issue $34, ' 000,000 of additional stock. Norman Luby, of Newark, N. J., said | to be wanted by the police of that city, | was arrested at London, Ont. : In a head-on collision on the Union | Pacific railroad near Laramie, Wyo., | three men were killed and several in: | jured. | The Joe Jefferson farm, near Hack: | ensack, N. J, was sold by the sheriff | for $17,168, covering the mortgage, in terest and costs. : Three men were killed and a dozen | injured by an explosion in the Penn sylvania railroad tunnel under Long’ Island City. Saturday, October 13. Sibley College, Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y., was damaged by fire | to the extent of $5,000. Policeman R. M. Beach, of Roanoke, | Va., was shot and killed by John! | on a building occupied by negroes. | One student was burned to death in| a fire which destroyed the main build: ing of the Oakwood Manual Training | School for Negroes at Huntsville, Ala. ' While playing truant from school, | Louis Catto, 8 years old, was run over | by a freight ‘train and killed in Phila | delphia. | Monday, October 15. ! New York is trying to secure Presi. | dent Roosevelt's attendance at the! Jamestown exposition for Robert Ful- | ton and New York days. { A falling crowbar crushed the skuil | of Frank Dunkelberber, of Hegins, in the shaft of Good Spring colliery, at Pottsville, Pa., and he may die. Finding some gunpowder, two chil- dren of G. K. Jones, of Carlisle, Pa. threw it in a stove and were severely | burned by the resulting explosion. { Southern Railway clerks between EI Paso and. New Orleans, belonging to the Order of Railway Clerks, are on strike for a 10 per cent. wage increase Daughters of the American Revolu- tion at Brunswick, Ga., will plant a liberty tree November 10, around which will be placed soil from the 49 states and territories. William Cheney, a foreman in the employ of the sanitary district of Chi- cago, was shot and killed by an Italian whom he discharged. General Frank M. Reardon, brigadier general of volunteers during the Civil War, died of Bright's disease at Den- ver. A memorial marble shaft and foun- tain erected by the Order of Elks to Meade D. Detweiler was unveiled in Reservoir Park, Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Robert Arrol died at Anderson, Ind., making the third death in one family from eating toadstools by mis- take for mushrooms. i i Mrs. George W. Peck Dead. Winnetka, Ill, Oct. 15.—Mrs. Peck, wife of former Governor George W. Peck, of Wisconsin, died suddenly at this place. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS The Latest Closing Prices In the Principal Markets. PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR : es, ; family, $19.50. BEEF beet fama, 318” POULTRY: Live fim. - choice fowls, 15¢.; old roosters, 10c. Butter firm; creamery @23c.; ne I eo southern, 22@24c. POTATOES steady: WHEAT easy; No. 2 78%c.; steamer No. 2 69%c.; ie! CORN sa ea 53 ; Steamer m , B4lc.; po Bic. OATS steadier; white, No. 2, rd No. 3 e.: No. 4, 34% ; mixed, RP 37 c.; No. @36%ec.; No. 4, BUTTER ; sepa. rator ex 25 held, Gi; nts, 26@27c.; nna. rints, quiet: land, na. and Virginia, ; West Virginia, 23c.; southern. 22¢. per dozen. Letter to Philip Beezer, Bellefonte, Va. Dear Sir : A pound of good ment and no boue is worth more thau a half pound of meat and a hall-pound of hove; but there ! Cole, Crider's Exchange. pound. Give ‘em hone; that's right; give ‘em plenty of hone ! There are people who won't pay more than $1.50 a gallon for paint; give ‘em hone I There's no better