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EBENSBURO, CAMBRIA CO., rx.,'r.
FRIDAY. - DECEMI5ER 21Jhf.
JOHsr HuNTisGixiSj clerk,- i- the
Citizen's ", State, bank, --Clouncil
Bluffs. Ia.." on lieiny -." closelv dues-
tionned about $500 shortaee. -of wbich-Ph
b'"was Ix-licved to have. been guilty
know led Je, '..shot, bank inspectors F.
N.. Harden ant! Cromwell and then
committed suicide. The inspectors will
recover."
Secretary Herbert and his naval
aide, Lieutenant Southerland, appeared
before the house nava! affairs committee
on Monday in sup-ort of the recom
mendation for three battle ships, one to
be named the Kearsarge, and twelve tor
pedo cruisers From opinions advanced
by members of the the committee, Sec
retary Herbert it confident that the pro
Ioged increases in the force afloat will be
reorted favorably to congress.
Amrassador Bavakd has been
prompted by the conviction of James
Frazier Jacques for obtaining money
nder false pretences to warn Americans
against being deceived by letters from
Knglishmen who have discovered vast
estates with translantiu heirs, and desire
remittances to "defray legal expenses."
This has grown to be a flourishing bus
iness. The ambassador concludes:
"Tne condition of law in this country
does not favor the division of estates,
and the statutes of limitation and re
pise rigidly prevent the collection of
Stale and antiquated claims."
The high protectionists have always
claimed that the foreign manufacturers
paid the tariff on our importations, and
that our home consumers were not af
fected by the duties on imported goods
one way or the other. But the dry
goods advertiser publishes more logic in
his purchased space than the high pro
tection editor can crowd in forty columns
of leaded brevier when he advertises
large reductions in woolens on account
of the removal of the tariff on wool, and
follows this up by similar reductions of
prices on other commodities due to re
duttions in the tariff schedule.
The Philadelphia lb-cord thinks there
should lie some law enacted to prevent
the extinction of deer in Pennsylvania
Wherever the game is supposed to be,
hunters by the hundred abound as usual;
and unless some effort shall be made to
prevent the continuance of this whole
sale slaughter the extinction of deer in
this state is sure to follow. Hunters as
a rule approve of the enactment of a
law to prohibit the killing of deer in
Pennsylvania for several years and also
for legislation that would confine the
hunting of these animals to legitimate
sportsmen.
There is a prospect, says the Commer
cial (Jazette, that Governor-elect Hast
ings will, in his message, favor the
movement that has been under way for
some time to concentrate the authority
of certain state departments in responsi
ble heads, instead of allowing them to
remain in the hands of boards, as at
present. It is thought if this plan is
carried out that one of the first of the
l ards to le abolished is the state board
of agriculture, and another is the state
tioard of charities and committee on
Lunacy.
Is New York there is talk of a build
ing 200 feet wide by COO feet in length
and 16 stories high. There is to be a
good sized hotel on the premises, booths,
a theatre, postofhee, bank, and tele
graph otlice, beside all the other depart
ments known to our great shops. The
boast of the establishment is to be that it
will contain the largest dry goods shop,
grocery, house-furnishing store, millin
ery, bookstore and stationery, shoe store,
hat store, furniture store, and restau
rant in America, all under one roof.
The out of-town patron can go there
and never leave the place while he or
she is in New York. He can shop all
day and go to his restaurant, hotel and
theatre at night all on the premises.
A telegram trom New York says that
after the first of the new year the Pep
fierell Manufacturing company, the La
coning Mill company, the Otis company,
the Columbia Manufacturing company,
Thorndike company, the Androscoggin
mills, the Warner cotton mills, the Pal
mer mills, the Boston Dock compar
and the Cordis mills are are all expected
to start up on full time. Nearly all the
mills are now working on about half
time.
The above mills, through their agents
in New York, will sell over $2,000,000
worth of staple this week, cleaning out
all this season's stock. This is one of
the largest annual sales ever made. Ow
ing to the dullness in trade the past
year the stock on hand amounts to 27,
CXX) packages of goods. The sale will
have the effect of setting the price of
staples for the next year.
It is didifficult to detect any change
in current business, says Dun's Review.
Prospects for business after January 1
quite generally considerd more hopeful.
In some branches there are larger or
ders, and the West bound shipments of
merchandise are a little larger. But the
working force naturally diminishes near
the end of the year, and the holiday
traffic bjings just now a temporary activ
ity which is not of much general signif
icance. The meeting of congress, and
the announcement of the new currency
plan and of various bills proposed, have
not affected the situation perceptibly.
Payments for bonds have been comple
ted without disturbance, but do not pre
vent the shipment of some gold to Eu
rope to-day. Od the whole, agricultu
ral products are scarcely stronger, and
wages of labor do not advance, but there
is reason to expect the employment of a
somewhat larger working force after the
The Republican papers ot'thisty,
Ihat . were so jubilant "a few d;iytsigo
over the biil.of Senator Quavwhieh was
to expose the kjconsisteacies of theDeirrn
ocrat-? on Jbe- sujrar tax, says ttie Pitts
-burg 11x4, e'em to have ignored i.ht3 sub
ject jut as if it nf,vT batl'iin existence.
They were patlinu tjuay on the ghoulder
the other day as the nnp perfect wnator j
wi,s the crut sl.oul.l be I
disciplined, and tvere l-md in their i.nH
ation of his bili repealing the tax of one
eighth of a cent a pound in f.ivor of the
trust, supposed to worth to it six jr
eight millions of dollars a year. There
has been action by the senate and by Mr.
Quay on the question, but the Repub
lican papers of Pittsburg areas dumb on
it as if they had lost the sensts of hear
ing, speaking or seeing. It is lamenta
ble, this atlliction that has lefallen them,
in view of Mr. Quay's assertion he was
bound to smoke out the rascally Demo
crats by his bill repealing the trust's su
gar tax.
Somebody has been smoked out. In
stead of the Democrats, however, it has
been Matthew Stanley Quay. One week
he introduces, with a great flourish of
trumpets on the part of his newspaper
backers, his bill rerealing the tax ou re
fined sugar. He would have it inferred
he was against the trust. But the test
came a week later, when a bill precisely
to the same ffect as Mr. Quay's, and
which had precedence over his bill, and
the advantage if being recommeded by
the senate finance committee, was
brought up in the senate on the motion
of Senator Gray, of Delaware. How did
Mr. Quay stand on this test, so under
stood by every senator, between the
friends and opponents of the sugar
trust? Diil he vote against the trust, as
his own bill left it to be inferred he
would? Not a bit of it Mr. Quay
tlopped in the most audacious way, and
voted straight for the trust. If he had
made no profession, and his newspapers
had not posed him as the one man who
was going "to do up" the trust, it
would not have mattered so much, but
after all these professions O shame,
where is thy blush!
Mr. Quay voted with the solid lb-pub-lican
side of the senate, with the popu
lists and with the Democratic sugar com
bine, to stand by the sugar trust. They
are all senators from the state of Have
meyer. The solid Democratic vote of
the senate, with the exceptions noted,
stood up bravely for the repeal of the
trust duty and to break its autocratic
power over the sugar trade. The mo
tion was defeated by 23 to 27, but the
closeness of the vote has encouraged the
anti-trust senators to try again, and it is
said the senate will have another oppor
tunity to make a record. It should have
the opportunity every day of the session
The Western Pennsylvania miners
that is the miners confined to what is
called the Pittsburg railroad district
who assisted with rare enthusiasm in
piling up the Allegheny county o8,47."
majority tribute to bounty protection,
says the Philadelphia Timrs, are now
meditating upon the tariff benefit they
were assured would come by their Vote
Eleven thousand of the number arc
about to strike because their convention
failed to agree on any compromise be
tween the G'J cents a ton demanded and
the 55 cents to which the operators have
cut the rate. Twenty mines are now
running at the lower wages, while one
large company has all its operations go
going at 45 cents the ton. It is not
what the miners think on this matter,
but what they shall take, as the day for
thinking again is two years away.
In the meantime the Nova Scotia coal
syndicate, about which so much has
been said as powerful competitors with
American bituminous coals, keep on
paying their miners 75 cents to v cents
a ton and find a market for all they can
produce. The Pittsburg miner must
take 45 to 55 cents as his scale or stop,
but the 50 cents a ton tariff tax keeps on,
not as wages balance compensation, but
as a bounty that figures as an additional
profit from the investment.
Secretary Carlisle has approved the
regulations prescribed by the commis
sioner of internal revenue for the en
forcemen of the collection of income tax
under the late tariff act. Under the reg
ulations every citizen of the United
States, whether residing at home or
abroad, and every person residing or do
ing business in the United States who
has an annual income of more than
$3,500, shall make a full return of the
same, verified by his oath, to the collect
or of internal revenue of the collection
district in which he resides, or, if uot a
resident, in which his business or prop
erty from which income is situated on
or before the first Monday in March,
IS05, and shall include all income from
every source received in the year of 1'.'4
from the 1st day of January to the 31st
day of December. Guardians, trustees,
and all persons and corporations acting
in any judiciary capacity are required to
make similar returns for all miuors,
wards or beneficiaries for whom they act.
Persons having less than $3,500 annual
income are not required to make the re
turn, but all persons having an income
in excess of that amount, whether it
reaches the taxable limit of $4,000 or
not, must make return.
Let the Republicans say no more
about the Democratic alliance with the
Havemeyer ring. They gave the sugar
trust more protection in the McKinley
bill than even the Gorman conspirators
gave in the Wilson bill, but they de
clared last summer and autumn that it
was all a mistake. They held up their
hands and with solemu faces declared
that it was unwittingly done, that the
trust should have no protection, and
they shouted to the people to behold tfie
wicket Democrats in their act of mak
ing the government help the trust to
keep its hands deep in the pockets of
the people. Now we see them rushing
solidly to thetiefense of the trust against
the designs of the wicked Democrats to
deprive it of sojne of its protection. I
W asliinrfiH Lt-ltrr.
; WajbirrSb.n, I- C, Doc, 15 1S04.
Secretary Carlisle has every reason to
feel proud of the result of the hearings
pr inted by the House committee ou
P;iiiking and Currency, this week, ou
his plan fur currency reform. H;s p!au
ha.- mit-SiifWcd by niip.iri-ou with
'ho j.l.n aaJ opini.'ins of the prominent
financiers X.O nave a;,e;irt;il teti ie tne
commit;' e O.i 'iit- contrary, it has
t.een l!ii.':-f (iff . t-s!: . ;il Ir in d. and
it is now t ie i. i.t r i! i--i-i tn.it the
committee will .-i.orlsy report t th
tioiise a bill, which, if not i-iccis- l the
same its thut submit t.-d to th- com notice
by Secretary Carlisle, will certainly !
along the t lie s ime or similar hues. It
is hoped that the committee can report
the currency bill before the holiday re
cess, in order that the people may have
an opportunity to study it and e.pri?s
their view before the house takes it up
for final action.
Many statements have been made as
to how Democrats will vote on this bill,
but the most of them are guesses. Of
course it is probable that the I K'liiocrats
of the house will, with a very few excep
tions, support the bill thai will be report
ed by the banking and cunencv, but
that they should wait until the bill is re
ported before committing themselves is
perfectly natural. Your correspondent
knows that the Democratic senators
are much more favorably inclined to
wards the plan proposed by Secretary
Carlisle than they have been reported to
be, and that they are auxioiisly awaiting
the action of the house, although the
refusal of the senate to change its rules,
which was emphasized by the defeat by
a vote of o f to 24 of Senator Vest's mo
tion to take up his nS"huions, has ma
terly lessened the Clialict s for getting a
currency bill, or any other bill thai is
opposed by the Republicans through the
senate.
The vote on the bill amending the
interstate commerce law so as to make
freight pooling by railroads legal, whicii.
was this wet k passed by the house by
by a vote of loo to 1 10, was
not governed bypaity politics. In Un
vote for the bill the names of such
prominent Democrats are found as (Slack,
of Illinois, who, by the way, was this
week unanimously confirmed as 1". S
Attorney for the Northern District of
Illinois, a position to which he was nom
inated by President Cleveland without
his knowledge); Catchings, of M i.-.-is.-ip-pi;
Cu!be:tson, of Texas: Hatch, of Mis
souri: Otithwaite, of Ohio; Richardson,
of Tennessee: Springer, of Iiiinois, and
Wilson, of West Virginia, while in the
votes east against it may he found the
names of i uuallv prominent Democrats.
For i.istauce, iSyran, of Nebraska; the
two Coopers, of Florida and Indiana, re
speclively ; Dockery, of Missouri; Heard,
of Missouri: Holman, of Indiana: Mi
Creary, of Kentucky: Mc.Miiiin, of Ten
nessee; Savers, of Texas, and Turner, of
Georgia. The division of the Republi
cans was not quite as marked, as a big
majority of them supported the bill.
There is little doubt that the bill will be
passed by thestnate, if it can be brought
to a vote: but it is far from certain that
it can fie: It will aii depend upon how
determined the opposition is.
Three Democratic Senators I'laneh
ard of Louisiana: Martin, of Kansas,
and Roach, of North 1 l.ikota and all the
populist senators Voted w iih the Repub
licans to defeat Senator Gray".- motion
to take uji die I ill reported from the
finance committee at the last r-es.-ii.n, as
a -ubstitl'.c for the house free sugar bill,
which was lost by a vote of 27 to 2:1.
Among the Democratic senators who did
not vote were Urice., Gorman, Irhy.
Morgan, Murphy, Gibson, Turpie, and
Smith. It is not thought that any
further tariff legislation will be attempt
ed at this session.
The I'rtrid. nt. Mrs. Cleveland and
t(ie child n n aie now hack at home in
the White Hoi.-e. The pp.-iiicnt has
i onureiv rec
i . . .
oveo-d fpm h:- long
attack of rheu matist.
arelitlv in peri'ect I:
and
a ml
i'th.
tr 'UOiesi 'lie.
is now apt
He is reported to have said in rep.y to a
question that the administration had
done it's duty in pointing out to con
gress what it believed ought to b done,
and that it now remained for congress to
do them or uot do them, leaving the
final judgment to the people.
The Republicans arc opposed to the
bill making ail ships free, but they are
willing to support a hi!! allowing a single
foreign built ship an American register
as often as part lis having sutlicient
"pull'' ask for it. This week the
senate passed one of that nature. the
Democratic idea is to extend the privi
lege of receiving an American register to
all vessel owners who dcsi: it, instead
of bv speiitl legislation to a favored
few. "
The opponents of the income tax were
only able to muster 54 votes in the house
when they attempted to organize the
machinery for the collection of the tax,
which is in the emergency appropriation
bill. " ' m.
ISig Pamagcs for Injury to Reputation.
Camden. N. J.. December 14. For
damages to his reputation, Samtiel H.
Bell to day received a verdict of $20,011 )
against the Reading Railroad company
in court lure. JSelt was until NovemUr,
1'.'2, a ticket agent of the Atlantic City
railroad in Camden. He was' arrested
tiien on a charge of forging the endorse
ment of an employe of the road to a sal
ary check for ? 57. '.'2. On his trial on
this charge ISell was acquitted. After
his acquittal, Bell brought suit fordam
ages against the company, claiming that
his reputation had suffered by the charges
and his arrest. Counsel for the com
pany said that an appeal would be taken
from the verdict.
He rr keil the Hotel.
San Rafael, Cab, Decern tier 15 An
attempt was made by Antonia Victorias
this morning to destroy with dynamite
the Swiss hotel, a cheap boarding house,
and thereby kill Mrs. John ISraro, the
proprietress. Victorias had proposed
marriage to Mrs. Braro and was reject
ed. He called on her this morning and
when she again refused to marry him
he threw a stick of giant powder" in the
stove and ran away. The house was
badly damaged, but no one was fatally
hurt. Victorias is in jail.
Bank Cashier Short.
Rome, N. Y., December 1 John E.
Bieiby, cashier of the Central national
bank, is a defaulter in the sum of $27,
0O0. Mr. Bielhy admitted that he had
taken aU.ut ?27,tKKJ and says he speeu
lated in stocks. The hank is secured by
Mr. Bieiby 's U.nd for 20,om, and se
curities he owns in New York to the
amount of $s, 0(11. Samuel Gilette, teller
of the bank, and mayor of Rome, has
disappeared, though Bieiby says he had
nothing to do with the defalcation.
Iixdon, December 14. A news
agencv publishes a dispatch from
Shanghai, saying that General Wei, who
was supposed to have Ik?cii executed for
cowardice at 1 ing Yang, is in prison at
Pekin. He admits that the man lie
headed as General Wei was procured at
hia instigation to represent him.
Hunting's Inauguration.
Harrisburg, December 17. Governor
elect Hastings and family have accepted
the iniutiou of Mrs. Margaret J. Hal
deman, daughter of the late General
Simon Camerou, to he her guests during
the early part of inauguration week
They will arrive from Beiiefonte on the
Sundav preceding the inauguration, and
to be the gtiesis of Mrs. Haldeman until
Monday noon, when they will go to the
executive mansion in dine with Govern
or and Mrs 1'attisou. The governor
elect and hi- family will -(end Monday
night at the mansion, and on inaugura
tion day they will entertain the retiring
governor and his family.
The arrangements for a military dis
play at the inauguration will not be
made until after the appointment of a
legislative inaugural committee. Adju
tant general Greenland says that the en
tire division of the guard will not le here,
but a provisional brigade, composed of
one regiment, will take part in the cere
monies. Many political clubs have
made applications to hotels for accom
modations during inauguration week.
I he Hot ater Ita?.
An excellent authority savs that tne
uses and value of what is known as the
hot water bag are not understood as fully
p.s thy should be Many jersons right
fully consider them indispensable in the
house, and in a large sense, they are
right. They are admirable lied warmers,
that is. they take from the sheets the
chilliness so rejelling to most x-ople.
They serve as an alleviator of neuralgia,
and not unfreqdently digestion will be
promoted by the use of the bag laid di
rectly over thestomach. Very frequent
ly, for various reasons, persons are com
pelled to retire with cold feet than whicii
scarcely anything is less conductive to
sleep A hot water bag partially filled
and placed where the feet can have ready
access to it warms them, stimulates fir
dilation, and prepares the user for sleep,
which, but for this comforting appli
ance, might not come for hours, and
sometimes not for the entire night.
Those who try the hot water bag in the
directions indicated will not readily dis
pense with it.
llealtliy liauk ."Votes.
The Bank of Ingland never reissues a
note. Every bill passed over its coun
ler from the inside is crisp and new, free
from bacteria, baciln, microls or any
other disease germs. A London news-
payer states that even if a customer
should draw a check, receiving these
new bills, and then decide that he pre
ferred coin, the man in charge of this
department would take the notes, tear a
corner from each, and pass over tht
gold. The bills are then burned with
out ceremony. The bank of France al
s issues only new notes, but for four
teen years it has turned the old ones in
to pulp instead of burning them. It
takes about twenty-four hours to trans
form them into a blackish pulp, useful
onlv for the backs of ledgers or card
board of low quality. As a sanitary
measure this destruction is probably-
wise, and in the end may be even eco
inimical. Some of our American bank
notes take on an alarmingly unhealthy
look before they get into the furnace.
catToId tJiTPS May.
Elizabeth, N. J., December 17. This
afternoon while a number of carpenters
were at work on a new fertilizer factory,
w hich is being erected at Cateret for the
tirm of Williams & Claik, the scaffold
on which they were standing collapsed
and the men fell to the ground, a dis
tance of 45 feet.
John Monanty, aged 33 years, of
loronto, Canada, was so badly injured
that he died to night. Two others,
Frank Morgan, of Newark and Morris
iuick, oi r.iizanctnport, ..J., were
removed to the hospital unconscious, and
their condition is said no be precarious.
The other men who were injured were
attended by physicians, and afterward
sent to their homes.
hate to night Wittick regained consci
ousness and declared the scaffold which
collapsed had fx-en built too weak to
bear the weight of the of meu who had
to work on it.
A Herofc Engineer.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre says that
the heroism of Thomas Lloyd, the en
gineer of the Stevens Colliery, at West
l'ittston, saved the lives of forty-six
miners early yesterday morning The
engine house caught lire and the flames
communicated to the fanhouse, the de
struction of which meant death to the
nu n who were at work in the mine, 500
feet below. Loyd ran to the telephone
and told the foreman of the shaft to
give the alarm. Notwithstanding the
foreman's haste, it was more thau twen
ty minutes U fore all the men could x
gathered together at the bottom of the
shaft preparatory to being hauled to the
surface. In the meantime the engine
house was completely envelo-ed by tire.
Three trips were necessary U fore all the
men were brought to the surface. Lloyd
stuck to his pst however, and was "so
badly burned that he may die.
He Was Lincoln's FriYml.
Indianapolis, Decemlr 15. Henry
R. Pomeroy died to-dav at the city hos
pital. Although he was an object of
charity at the time of his death, he had
leen a personal friend and neighlmr of
Lincoln, a companion of Grant, and an
acquaintance of Arthur. He was once
part owner of the St. Louis CLA Dno
nit. He wrote two books on mining,
and his knowledge of the subject btought
him to the notice of General Grant, who
afterward recommended him as consul
to Chihuahua, Mex. Pomeroy was sev
eral times an inventor. He had a pro
ject for making rain. He invented a
psychronieter to indicate the moisture
ami temperature in rooms.
List winter Pomeroy and his wife
were in the county poor house, and his
wife is now at the Friendly Home for
omen. They claim to have wealthy
relatives.
Cockroaches in Her Ear.
South Bethlehem, Pa., December 14
Mrs. Fly of 4". Canal street, West
Bethlehem, had 17 cockroaches taken
from one of her ears yesterday by her
hiisbaud. About 10 days ago Mrs. Flv
felt a pain in her ear. She thought it
was the result of a cold, but when it
grew worse she applied a linament.
This did not relieve her and her husband
dropped a small quantity of camphora
ted oil into the ear. The pain continu
ing, .Mr. Fly blew tobacco smoke into
his wife's ear, and his surprise may lie
imagined when he saw a live roach
crawl out of the ear. With a hairpin he
then extracted five more, but the were
dead.
At intervals since then more of them
have been taken from Mrs. Fly's ear,
till 17 in all have been extracted. The
house in which thv lie ; .,u
iuii jg
xoachea.
Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U.S.Covt Report
R"N P & P RRP
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toastle, I
Brewer Carl Kierst, West e
Pa., was found in a ravine witli a Imll- l
through his head and a revolver ry ins
side.
Addison rhi'ips. of Parker. Pa., lias
fallen heii to a fortune "of $H.it. be
Hiiesttlied him by bis uncle, who Uro the
- atue name.
John Wanamaker replied to the Ke'ld-
ingstoektn.ld.-rs' reqii't that lie run for
the prc-ideiicv. tun refu--j to tell the na
t
ture of Ins answer. t
Louis lre-ch .hiced on trial at
Wheeling on Monday for the murder of his
wife last October. The entire day was
spent in selecting a j'iry.
The most largely a't.-nde-i teachers'
institute in the iii-tory f Uu'.'cr county
opened on Monday al ISutler, Pa... and w ill
remain in session until I'iiU-ij'.
Annie, the i"-ear-o!d daughter of
Jacob Lutz. or ISeli's Ktei-i..n. Blair
county, was burned totl.-atti on 'I uesday
by the explosion of a coal oi! l imp.
Thieves chloroform'-d Po-i;!i.-iter J.
B. Roberts and his w ife at -;.i iI .n. Vi -naugo
county, and got $lo in cj-Ii.
worth of stamps and a gold watch.
Nathan Barnes t Sreeiy. the la-t sur
viving brot her of Horace ( oveiey. Jie.i at
the old Greeley homestead, in 1 In; tow n of
Wane. Pa.. Monday, aged s! veurs.
In a fracas over t'l-g.ite p.iyiocnt
near Nashville. 'lVnii.. two ininiiow-n men
killed Ollicer Edward Manlove and dan- I
gerou-ly wounded II. W. Wilkinson. 1
Sidney II. Miller, an attorney nf j
Crawford cotijity. had one foot cut olf and i
the other badly mangled by jumping from
x train at Union City, Pa., on Monday.
The strike of Metropolitan Street
Railway Company conductors ami drivers,
it Washington. I). ('.. has bi-en cmnpro- ;
inised on reduced pay, tint shorter hour-. !
The secretary of t he navy transmitted
to the senate copies of the correspondence
between thedcparlmc nt and Rear Admiral
Walker, relating to the Hawaiian reputi- ,
lie. :
The most elaborate experiments that
have so far been made in aerial piopulion
showed tl.at the screw is the device which
exerts the greatest propulsive power in the
air.
Southev mentions that the first settlers
in Brazil paid Sl.."oo for a cat. and lor kit
tens their weight in gold-iiu-t. An offer .
of t"J..Vio for a Persian cat at the Sydenham
Cat Show in l-ni'.t was refused. j
I'urcell. the most extraordinary musi
cal genius that Englai.d eyer produced,
died al the age of .17. from a cold contract
ed by being locked out of the house by ;
his termagent w ife. j
As learned from Washington the I'ni- :
ted States lias more railways by al.onn
miles than all the rest of the woild. And
as for the mortgages and receiverships and
all that, the rest of the world is nowhere.
Constable Hawk, of Pirkersburg,
stepped out of a room in Lancaster for a
few minutes, and John Bryson, charged
w ith horse s'ealing, w lioin he was taking
to the Huntingdon reformatory, escaped. j
A cedar tree 407 feet in height and
measuring 10 feet in circumference at the
base has been felled near Ocosta, Wash.
It was sixty feet to the first limb of the
tree, and the limb itself was seven feet in
diameter.
A Paris manufacturer of artistic fur
niture has just executed an order fur a
chair, the front legs of which are solid gold.
It is vabied at ?:i7,a) and. most likely, is
not intended for some editor who is just
setting up house.
The longest frosts in England are, as
a general rule, those w hich begin between
Christmas and New Year's Day. and the
deepest falls of snow during the last
twenty years have commenced in the mid
dle of January.
I'nited States Circuit Judge (SofT has
decided that, in consequence of an act of '
congress, the Washington Light Infantry, '
of ( hat ieston. S. C. could not lie deprived
by Governor Tillman of t heir arms because
of refusal to his orders.
Six persons have tried suicide at Find- :
lay, O.. within the last month, tin Sun
day morning Davie. i)r' ig, a well-known 1
citizen, took a Oo-n of morphine, and half
an hour later. Ollie Wi'heliu, Orwig's in-
iimate irienu, aiso swallowed poison.
Both will die.
In tearing down an old building at
Franklin, la., workii.gmeii found in a cor- '
ner-stonn a tin liox containing f lo.mm
worth of Lee county, la., railroad bonds in '
a g.Kid state of preservation, although al- j
most worthless at the time of their issue
forty years ago. j
Mrs. Daniel Watts, aged forty-two, j
while atlendi.-ig services in the Methodist I
church at Birdsboro, Berks county, Pa., i
Sunday night was seized with a violent'
Spell of coughiug. She attempted to leave
the edilice, but fell in the vestibule and
expired, having burst a blood vessel.
Information was received at Bethle
hem, Pa., on Wednesday that masked
burglars had secured several thousand I
dollars from Thomas and David Athold, J
hermits, residing in tht; back woods neir I
lSussonville. Berks county. The burglars
numbered six and received the plunder by :
torturing the men with hot pokers.
Gall, the noted Sioux chief, has died
nearStanding Rock Agericv. Hewas next
to Sitting Bull in rank as chief. In early
youth he w as a fighter and was a follower
of Sitting Bull in the Custer campaign.
L iter he dropped the traits of sava 'erv
.,! K..,.,.,.. ........f..i ... .
... tiui laimcr itnu even a
! church member.
The Central Neil's' correspondent in
Tokio says that the Japanese w ar minister
will goto Port Arthur, probably to as
! certain the basis of the persistent rumors
i that the Japanese soidiers killed civilians
! after capturing the town. The Times'
correspondent in Tien Tsin say that Li
, Hung Chang's official position is firmer
I than ever, as the court has found him in-
dispensible.
Iri a saloon brawl at Anderson, Ind
ium Woods was shot and killed and his
brother, James, has several bullets in his
body. Sam Haskell, w ho did the shooting
in self defense, was struck on the hea 1
w ith a brick which made an ugly looking
gash. His housekeeper, Mrs. Rebecca
Tegan. had her skiiII fractured by a mistle
thrown by one of the Woods boys. They
and Henry Ford, all steel workers, tried to
clean out Haskell s saloon after drinking !
anu reiusing to pay Tor beer and whiskey.
Four masked burglars on Saturday
night robbed David Slocum, of near Edin
boro. Erie county, of the savings of a life
time, amounting to between rr.ooo and
$10,000, in the true old Western fashion,
packed their spoils in a p;liow sham, es
caped, and are still at large. Slocum and
his aged wife, both past seventy, lived
alone in a sparsely settled region. The
robbers applied hot irons to the old gen
tleman's feet to induce him to disclose the
hiding place of his wealth, but he refused;
they then knocked him senseless with a
club and proceeded to ransack the Louse.
The woman was not maltreated.
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Another Sensation Before
Lexow's Committee.
EX-INSPECTOR STEERS 1M0LYEIL
rollcc F-r(r-nt Taylor Tetifl- Thl
Merr !:" Monln From I".licrin-n.
l'olieo Hl-ll Are Anii-l Th Ar
tuird Mao a ( onuplcuoui I burclimtD.
Nfw YmtK, Dec. 19. Police Sergeant
John J. Taylor of the steamboat squad
has testified Ix fore the Lexow commit
tee that ex-Insi-ector Henry V. Steer
has systematically exacted nioniea from
policemen who were paid for extre
work by steamship and railroad com
panies. Other witnesses swore that
..i,t:uTi Ma t E. Schiuittberger. An
thony Allaire and ie rge Ga-thn had
Ix-en guilty of similar offenses. A futik
effort was made by Counsel iotf t
elicit from John W. Kepimhagen addi
tional facts of imjiortuuce concerning
the payment by Captain Creedonof 4-i.-uuo
for his captaincy.
Superintendent Byrnes when told of
Sergeant Taylor's testimony against ex
Insiector Steers uianifefti-d great aston
ishment. "I am amazed, astounded,"
was his only comment, and no argument
could induce him to prouounce an opin
ion. lns;iectors Wiliiams and Conlin
evinced similar findings. Sergeant John
Harley, who was formerly detailed V
duty in Inspector Steers' office, said: "I
have, and do now consider Insj-ctor
Stivers a man of unblemished character,
and 1 cannot l lieve he ever accepted
any brilie monies."
And so many other officials of the po
lice department expressed thems' lves.
Steers was for many years captain of
city hall tjuad. He was made inspector
when Superintendent Murray bad
charge of the department and retired
two years ago. At that time ho was
chief inspector in command of the de
tective, office. His pension of 2,-ioo per
annum goes with the now defunct rank
of chief insjx'ctor. He is a conspicuous
and popular memlier of the Washington
Heights Methodist church.
Deiore any business was transacted by
the committee the senators and their
counsel indulged in a public discussion,
the upshot of which was a decision that
any action, criminal or civil, against
Captain Creeilon w;is barred and illegal;
that the testimony and proceedings of
the Lexow committee are privileged;
and that Captain Cre-d'u's reinstate
ment by the j ml ice loaid was acum
iueliduble proceeding.
Additional Clmrjif Mail.
Washington. Dee. 19. Additional
charges against C. II. J. Taylor, the col
ored recorder of deeds for the District
of Columbia, alleging that he offered to
enter into an agreement to make clerical
apimintmeuts in his office and pay money
to W. Calvin Chase, editor of a local
negro journal, to cease the publication
of attacks on him, have been filed with
the civil service commission.
A Mis Snlt for lirfitiMK.
Jacko, Miss.. Dec. 19. State Iieve
nnc Agent Adams Ins brought suit
against the Y:iz-v and Mississippi Val
ley railroad for fit" 1.001), alleged to be
due the state for taxes in l'.iii-i'4.
A lit (sullrr lor J7.MMI
Rome, X. Y., Dec. ltt. (ireat sur
prise has lx en caused here by the newi
thnt John V. Bieiby, the trusted cashier
of the Central National bank, ia a de
faulter in the sum of -7,0o0.
Substantial
Gifts
Likekly to ne the rule this season.
Whatever the demand, the supply found
here in either sulrstanlial or ornamental
articles.
Some DRKSS GOODS AND SI'ITINGS
suggestions. Timely hints for acceptable
Christmas prest-nis:
Handsome, large and stvlish
Bouclc Checks
lSlack and red, brown and blue, brow n
awl green exceedingly styli-h and fa-h-iona
tile g.Hds used specially for skirts to
wear with separate waists regular i.T
goods, well bought to sell
75 cents a yard.
.m-INC II ALL-WOOL MIXED SUIT
ING. Browns. Greys. Red. Green and
various other desiiahie mixtures. Klegant
wide goods. Legitimate worth, . and 7.
cents. All to go at one price. .o inches
w i Jo,
50 cents a yard.
ALL-WOOL Hrt-IXCH FANCY SUIT
INGS. Four di Herein weayes in great va
riety of color combinations. Karlier in the
season sold at :t."i and 4." cents. The holi
day price.
25 cents a yard.
NF.AT CHECK SCITINGS-at least '.5
dilferent styles. A fortunate purchase.
Excellent copies of suiting at four times
the cost. .'3 and .'H inches w ide.
15 cents a yard.
Write our Mail Order Deprtment for
samples, also for New Illustrated fata-
! !"f "' r.,iyK.- A" orders promptly and sal-
I s'acioiny nneil.
BOGGS&BUHL,
Allegheny, Pa.
rOMV HC-LTM THE LlVttt MUST HE IK OOOm.
Cures thousands annuallvof LiverCom-
piaints. Biliousness, Ja dice, Dyspep
sia, Constipation, Mala.i. More Ills
result froruan Unhealthy JJverthanany
other canse. Why suffer when you can
be cured t Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigor
ator in a celebrated famifv meirlpe
VOl tt DKUltlsr WILL. fcCl-l'LY voc
"Vf 1'E.
i. We. f e unter5ik'nr(l. hereby all per.oooa
imt to hunt. tlh or irem's In nv wj en our
preml-. a we will prutec'ite to th- lull extent
ot mo law. H H NiiKI.
JOHN f.'KIIK.
Al.tXfl S WILL..
J. A. ill.ss,
A. I. M M VI.T.VS.
hl'HH M'NKUJS.
Uleartlelil township. March t. isw.
1 A pnlr Klx-k Match Hinwror rale cheap.
8 year old: will weigh from to 1 300 c-h
yr particular inquire at theuthceol the Kur
oeli.
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CARL PlIVITsriTjg
PRACTICAL
AND DEALER ii;
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men s ran uoining
SUSTS AMD OVERCOATS,
fap; inu-rs, "( In viols, f lay?, Ilomesjiuns, Diri nai, y.
Twills, Tve'l., Flaniiol.s
All the new shapes of Sacks. Cutaways, Regents nn.l prilv
berts. A perfect fit .ami reliable workmanship.
7, , 810, $15 and SIS.
rhiMren's Suits. 4 to 14, 7-5c, 00.-., $1.00, !.- . fU.iio
s4.no, si.")0. if -j no.
A Graml Exhibit of Hoys Clothinp: new anl lovclv v
Fall, lltiy your own ami your Children's Hats of u. v
antee you a positive saving oft25 per cent.
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I-anca-ter Gint:lifims, o cents.
IV-st 1'rints. ." cents.
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Hrcs Cioods. resitilar price 2e , .'Wo , 4"c.
price now, l.vc., ooc, I n-., .c. and
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trzr ALL OTHER GOODS IN PROPORTION.
SOON AND GET A BARGAIN.
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ill Pay You
Packages.
Is Parly Rising
Healthful ?
ltl IITnnMartlh llaj toy Rradlnc
Ihc Klicht Kind nf a fa.
papvr. and
The Patriot U the right kln.l. It if the only
complete m..rnlim ne5.aer that reaches Cen
tral HeDDlvania at an early li..u- of the Jay.
It Is ore ol the loremo; 1 1 lemorraOe D(w.ieri
In the "tate an.1 the only one ricted at the State
I'apltAl the official anil political centre ol the
Common wealth.
It p-lnts the newp, re.etv-ln It over its own
wir- through the extraordinary tvMIHir l t.e
uri r I'e5 Association?, ai-le.l t It own cor
re p indent.
1 I'airtoi is Iieraoeratle to the core. It in
oppuafMl to bo?.ej and an t an efiemT ol erru t
mon polirt. It isn't a'rif.l t- hutit the wrong: it
er hsi:'e to l.irit tor the riichl.
t makes a ecia'tv i i dep-rttnDt news in I
lves m re each day than all other State pa; eri
coTnhlnel.
The Legislative session ol ISv5 will te ol itreat
lmMirtani-9 to the -eople ol the State. I he.
falrlol with special reporter- will keep its
reaj-rs tully Inlurme l cmcernfnir this and all
other o!itlral and cnmomio Matters. It had e;
clnitve op-ort unities lor securinit advan'se newt
ol a public kind.
tA! I.T, every week dy morning In the year. 1 I',,TC1'I' A
a a yrir.
W I- "EKI.Y. Tuesday even Inn of each week, fl
a year
THE Ii.llLY Issue will f-e sent four mocths
on tri. -. Iy mail only, on r-eipt ol '26 cents.
1 tie Falrlwl is the best advertising medium
In t ensy iT.ma ouicide ot Pittsburg and t'htla
deluMa. Fiee to the T'ceniplcyed; It inserts without
chartre adverti"en.e jts nf thoe wntini employ
ment. Its Hvlp tlrdrr has hromiht afe:ftnce '0
hundreds It has a Cent a Word Waul Column
tor other Wants. Address.
THE fATKUIT CUMPANY.
decai. HarrUtur,c. Pa,
ANTEM. Iocal and travelinir salesmen to
handle our Hardy Canadian Urown Nur
sery Stock.
We guarantee satXartion to representatives
and customers. Our Nurseries are the lamest In
(he liominlon over Too acrs. o substuutlon
In orders Exclusive territory and 1 literal terms
to whole or part time atcects. Write us.
STUNE WKLUNdTHS.
Head oltice. Toronto. Canada.
The only Nursery Id Canada bavicK testiaic
trcharda. J 1 2ai3.
AND nV.AT.PR iv Y
tllllTAIira
HI I MLS, CUEr
! JiUELIiBlLUMn
JMDSICAL ffiSIBlfi
I OPTICAL GOODS,
CELEBRATED BOCIF:
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CARL :7r
1300 Eleventh. Ave., Altoona, Pa.
Of Dry Goods, Hoots. Shoes ami Rubbers at the j A
wholesale ami retail store of J. W. SHARBAUCH ff
lays only. We will always do what we say. It will y
you to come 10 miles to buy 10 worth of rocl, a
positively save you so. We quote you a few j ri es t p
you an idea:
Cue.
7-c.
CAU
J. W. SHARBAUGH
CxRKOLLTOWX.
Trk crn ti fTl I IIMrVflCS PlInfnTi ctrr t .T..tr.?:..
f- v a V f Vll j V1IUIVU . t. 1 V v.
buy Carpets, Linoleums. Matting, 0:1 t
ClanKets, Feathers, &e. Priees Iie-lu
ecu
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Goods, and FREIGHT PAID
All L-."
oil
Jaiies Quinn.
THE SU
The first of Aiv.r
CHAKI.KS A DAN A.
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The American
American Idea, tin'
Those first. la.--t. and -a
evor.
I:iily. tiy mail
Iai!v a iid Sunday t'V
The Weekly
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A:i:er:
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The Sunday Sua
is the Greatest Sunday '
world.
Trice, 5c. a copy
F.v 1114;" -
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STtH-KHOLIEKS' 1IT' , ..f "
A meetinu ol the .t - kh.' :if( .:,
delpbia and ritt-hur K:!.l ,k
held at theUeneral orr.-c; ' f'f' '
sijtiraru puiiuhik- ie';-'' J
vanla. on 1K1HAV. I'K
11 so o'clock, a. . lor tt r i
certain ncreeair... j,n-
and metverol said Ccoil " .
na and Youithioithenv " ",.nAj i'-r
the Pitfhurit and Ka'IcrTi h-
By order ol the K.i.r.1 . ' l''' , , , KV
tlW.Kl' r JJ- f-
Iec. I lSI it.
1-tL.EtTTl'i.N M'TICK
Ii Notice l. hereby f
en t!:
directors ol the Protection tti
mpany d Cauiaria C.":'! ,"'...
ottle ol the Secretary in r. .- ...
MuMllY. JAM AK 1. 5'
IutJ'
hours of 10 a. a., and - r. . r : !!
Mi
Iec. 1I.1SV4.
DR. uw?UTT?
SURGEON and SPECIE j
Treatment el all Cbroni - ' , si" t
of Women and troubles rr ,J t'
Hflice hours up t- 1 " ' ' a.I-
lie lltH All-ill.- ,
)anla.wi
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