| THIEF FRIGHTENS ARTIST. Painter Of “The Bath" Offers Treas On Demand, { Special). and which ure Pittsburg MeKeasport has very series of the police department, dio of H. L. Ward, artist city, was robbed a few days $8.000 worth of paintings, A few days later, in broad daylight, two strange men called at the house rep- resenting themselves as book agents and asked for a rope te tle some books together, but instead tried to tie Mrs. Ward, who was alone in the house, so that they apparently could rob the place. A strange at the house while out, and told Mrs. Ward he would kidnap her only son if she did not give up a picture called “The Bath.” Mr. and Mrs. Ward are terribly worried and fear harm Mr. Ward now announces he is willing give up the paintix to the thie the; will only let 1g to and hi son alone, a unusual mysterious baflling stu of that ago of are The Cases art gince has called her husband was man to es if him wife and 8 QUOTES DEFENSE. Declares President-Elect Said Courts A Little lx ON, Wore friend ASKS 810,000 I'OR Williams Love, lecnses Wite® turning stein, who Phoenix lL. delphia found her a man Hotte fran tia LIAN MINE FIRE KILLS 18 MULES, Smoke And Gas Prevents Fire. men From Working. al) to Dense Mahanoy City (Speci teen mules were burned in the and igs 8t. to Suffcik Mine during th so filled smoke th al Nichol suspe fn Thus adelphi Co a wafall er unavaili smd gas The " stabil, the uffolk, faple ; lleries were operations, far the {forts 16 & Reading Coal & ielials to te and the blaze have prov- Dense Iron loca BC- volumes hters back in an undergri al) The Novem Reading Railway Lo employees in this city will be dis- tributed December 17. 18 and and wil amount to over $240,000, Railroad and shop employees in this city will be paid on December 17 and 18. The pay car will run as far as Pottsville and Palo Alto, and on De- sember 19 the employees south and fver the Bast Penn and Perkiomen btanches whi receive their pay. 81 wif 3 Reding ber pay of the 8 Scores Readog Fire Department, Reading (Epecial). — Reading's Volunteer Fire Department, the larg- sgt in the United States, is pronounc- sd inefficient in the report of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, agents of which recently made an ex- amination of local conditions, The sity’'s fire-fighting aparatus and other facilities are also severely criticised. Wounded n Killing Cattle, Allentown (Special). —Dr. Court- aey Mclean, one of the inspectors of the State Live Stock Board, is in a focal hospital, suffering from a bro- ken leg, an Injury that he sustained while assisting in despa‘ching a herd of cattle inflicted with foot-and mouth disease on the farm of John Jacoby. i A —— Engineer Buried v der Train. Bellefonte (Special), — A fatal freight wreck occurred at the “Big Fill,” on the Snow B8hoe branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, when an engine and two cars left the rails and went down over a 60-foot embank- ment. Alonzl Bauchman, the engi- neer, was caught under the engine and so badly injured that he died in the Bellefonte Hospital shortly af- tar being admitted. The other mem. « berg of the crew escaped. Bauchman was married and resided in Tyrone. onl ANIMALS ON FARM. - STARVED Plenty Of Food On Hand, But Feared Stock Would Die From Polsoned Drain, B reel ag: d been Lancaster (8pecial). — Israel Beebler and his sister, Maria, lents of West Earl Township, between 60 and 60 years, have uresied on the charge of cruelty animals, the specific allegation being that they starved to death a horse, \ cow, cat and fifty chickens while they had under lock on their farm a plentiful supply of food for all The alleged action of the palr is result of a dispute with the who opened a road along the s farmer immedi is perfor HE to he drain on the Deibler proper.v. The itely closed it, and after th ince was repeated several times, the supervisors brought suit and Deibler was fined $10, which he 1efus=d t pay. Execution was issued him and the sheriff will sell satisfy 2 executi publie aAgains the $10 Delbler pai turned farm by ened by the npervisors was pois us to nia and as migat 10 mn vation Jailed Black Diphth Home eria Darkens r sub Freigh fon of maint aan traflic the R aining an averag cars a day, Just before Patrick fTohnstown, died he statement that Emil assaulted him with davs ago. Francusky on a charge of murder. Charles Osborn fell fifty feet 1 an electric crane in Worth's Mili, Coatesville, fracturing both arts Draper Colliery, employing ¢ight hundred men and boys, closed knife a few was slope, On information furnished by the charity organization society of Eas ton. County Detective Jobfison bad Richard Young, a fobaceo dealer. trrested on charge of selling elgar- ettes to small boys. Although several charges of dyna- mite have been discharged over the place where he was drowned. the body of David Walker, the motorman, has not been recovered irom the waters of Darby Creek Oliver C. Gunn, a well-known resi. dent of Uwchland Township, near Downingtown, was found dead in bis home at Dowlin's Forge, by a visit- ing hide dealer. He found Gunn the oven. a' the State College Wednesday and Thursday, December 30 and 31, and Jannary 1-8, Among the many gpeakers will be Dr. 8. . Dixon, Commissioner of Health, and J. II. Funk. of Boyerstown. Mrs. Harry Kulp, 35 Years old, was Iatang raed at Swamp. An open fire, kin for washin . ted her dress. 8 lon ‘The board of trustees of Wilson College, at Chambersburg, has an- thorized the erection of a new reci. ‘ation hall at a cost of $50,000. PAE <P (OMMERGAL COLO. | Weekly Review of Trade ad lates’ Marka! Resorts. 13 4 ay “ » . in 4% W EY a Iradst per’ 8 SAVE: ~ Re \ # 7 Oy Weather eofitfftions have been IF- i regulee, but the arrival a coi wave following uanseasonably mild has stimulated retail North, Wes: and East, and helped business at the South at some points, though holding of cotton and low prices therefcs bave tended to check buying in the. cot: ton belt as a whole. Collections bave shared in the irregularity in trade, and there is noticeable more complaint as to those than to busi- ness generally, more par.icularly at the South. Heavy wearing apparel, shoes and coal have been helped by climatic developments Holiday trade, too, shows signs of expansion, ind comparisons with a year ago in all linés are naturally in favor of current business n some lines of wholesale trade there are evidences f more quiet conditions Thus in raw wool, leather and some lines of ‘ottons and iron and steel there is rather less doing, partly because large business antly booked; part. tecause of a desir what oO he next ring month Og will b rth, and al nt ad- EE £ 5 of even of tO see becauge of rece in many pri failures y ih United 20 ances Pd RE JIBINEER i teg for the week ending cember inst ao i i gf yy 3 in 1} 1 1904 Whale New York. 4 fey Went. do at INATrS y 3 +3 Mare; turnabl« ern firsts, current mark (Chee firmer roosters, ens, 114 @12% ducks, Poultry 11% @12%ec 8 LL 44 a: spr ring geese, 10G 11 Dressed poultry ed fowls, choice, 1 to good, 11% © 1215: old 91%: Western roasting cof do.. brolling, 12@ 186: 176218; fair ducks, 91 @r1 Baltimore. ~Flour changed Receipts, 2, ports, 1.085 bbls Wheat Easier 1.06% 0.1.08 a Yostorn, 1 ds is @0 1.085: 1.06% @ 1.068%: January, 1.07% @ 1.078: May, 1.12% asked; steamer No. 2 red, 1.03% @1.03%. Receipts, 47.587 bush.; exports, 48,000 bush. Southern. on grade, 1.03% 1.086, Corn-—8teady. new spot, 6T@ 67%; year, 67 663 @ 66% ; February, 66% @ 66% ; steamer mixed, 640 64% 73.285 bush.; exports, New Southern white corn, 66% ; new Southern yellow 61% @ 66 % Oats—Firm; No. gales: No. 3 white, 2 mized, 53% @ 54. ! 910 bush, Rye Firm; No. 2 Western export, $2@ 82%. Receipts, 2,068 bush. Butter — Firm and unchanged; | fancy Imitation, 24@25; fancy | creamery, 32@ 33; fancy ladle, 20@ 21: store packed, 18@ 19. Eggs Firm and unchanged, 32@33. Cheese—Firm new large, 14%; new small, 14%. Ye Slowey New York. = Beeves — Receipts, 343: no trading: ! dressed beef slow at T% @10%e. for | native sides: no exports, | Calves — Receipts, 220; [feeling steady. all sold; veals, 6.00@ 10.00; C enlls, 5.00; 2.76; Westerns, 4.75; dressed calves, 0G 15; country dressed veals, 5@& 16; eity dressed, T@13; a few at 13¢. per pound. Sheep and Lambs-—Receipts, 2. 096; sheep and good to prime lambs steady; medium and common lambs dull to a shade easier; sheep sold at 3.006 4.00; no choice shes of- fered; strictly common to cholee lambs, 5.006 7.86. Hogs — Receipts, 2,675; feeling nominally steady: prime light to hav weight State hogs sold at 6.00 @6.1 mated at 8.500; market strong; steers, 4.6040 8.00; cows, 3.000 5.26; heifers, 2.50@64.60; bulls, 2.76 @ 4.50; ve, 2.60 @ 6.76, » # * turkey steady; fresh kill do... 3 roosters 3H turkeyz, good, 15@ goed 16; choice, to i a9 Firm and 906 bbls un- eo. contract 2 red December, spot, NO gtit spot 61% @ corn, 2 white, AV, @ 55; Receipts, No 2, at unchanged; 14%; and new flats, oH “Whi i Needs: ~ Agileulture Riper rige-{b meet the Soiitgo. Mae lending agricul tural colleges are now so well estab- lished and-aveteaching in guchidirect Liat ‘they: Are v and sentd 5 ¢ that-has Med Hi¥dh ing* equafy Ti sabi uoyer Been kaawn before, ey and gentimentds bound 10 ax press jiself, The influence of these col- | fa 8 and experiment. stations will surely remake agriculture and re- direet it, This redirection will not show it gelf In increasing the productiveness of the earth only, although this must te the fundamental effort and result, It must consist as well in reorgan- izing the business or commercial in- teresis of agriculture, and ig a radi the ideals and modes of living. We shall be able to in- crease the profitableness of farming when we have learned to apply our science, and to organize it as a part of good business systems. We are now in the epoch of the laudation of sclence itself, as if the mere knowledge of the laws underlying good crop and animal production ean make a fcod farmer.—Century Mag- azine, Ingenuity. box of pill Youthful “1 want another like I got for mother vesterda “Did good?” “No gun." your mother Ray they they ende but Flieg Gintinen! Con: leware of That oF E80 Ling, ans Somewhat Different. #100 Only une “ii Phat 1s l.axn vr the signa ome Quinine” Quinine 1 § } {31 » i sc World over to Jure a Cold in Une | A Dry Plant. st Bits enough INVALID'S SAD PL IGHT., mol After Indlammatory Hair Came Ont, Skin Peeled, aud Bed Sores Developed = Only Cuticara Proved Successful. ! = About four TR l a vere attack of inflam My skin peeled, havo yon } wilh {| bunches. 1 also } 3 1 on my back. 1 d t ga ! } i i 3 : my 0 very MAY, poor, I tried were of Jide ra and my appetite was very : “sure cures’ but they help, and until 1 tried Cut 1 bad bad no real relief. Th plexion cleared and soon 1 fe bed sores went very soon a fow applies cations of Cuticura Ointmen?, and wien [ used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for my hair, it began to regain its former glossy appearance. Mra. Lavita J. Henderson, J38 Broad St, Stamford, Coonn., March 0 and 12, 1007.” Our leading physician recommends Coti. cura for eczema. Mrs. Algy Cockburn, Shiloh, 0, Junie iil, 1907." many fH my on £1 # ter etter. The The way to kiss a wir) against her will ander a hat that is in your way is to walt for her to take it off for you. dre. Winslow's Seothing Syrup for Children sething, softens the gums, reduces intanma won, allays pain, enres wind colic, ca bot tie. « The trouble ‘with a “divorce is that in insurance goes with it against do- ing it again. PUTNAM 47% Any arms withow TI ap Wr George Willlam Sellers, the Wesi- ern rerieksfery-deseribed i Chicagn, his attempt t® teach oric ia-the men; Ar his Andiagpta Fikes > of 4h, Pert lelsdrely /game. than DaFeha Hy SF Mr. ‘Sedona, “Ve played it on my An the proper, Jclgurely Joanne all my men scotmeT first match was with "One of my men-—-<hig John -—geeémed particularly John did fall J fe before the match too the luneh served in the marquee on the lawn. He enjoyed, too, the meat tea that pleasantly in terrupted the afternoon's play. At each ifonings he was on Concord nanie pleased is we were passed. “During the open-air dinner that up the first day's play 1 turned to John and said: ‘Well, old man, what think of cricket?” ‘Mr. Sellers,’ be a grand game this here fieldin’ between meals.’ do you said he, ‘it would] if it wasn't and runnin’ Reason For Doubt. Officials have a right to ask tions in the performance of duty, but there are occasions when seems they might eurtall or forego privilege. Not long ago an Irish- whose hand had been badly } entered ques- the APUDINE CURES COLD and GRIPP Pe Contains. He He Acetanilide SAE $300’ SHOES $350 W. L. Douglas makes snd sells more men's $3.00 aud 83.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world, he. ecnuse they hold their shape, fit hettery and wear longer than any other make. , Shoes at All Prices, a Every Member of the / Family, Men, Boys, Women, Misses & Ohildren W.L Douglas $4.00 and $6.00 Gut Edge Show runot be sguadisd at any price, W. 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One LE $ il mn » c A : i mn scientifically ground and honed keonest possible edge. You you save nineteen-twentieths of the as to “angled” to oer you the hole Razor at market for our biades, SHAVR" Blades, 5 for 2%c And HRP HAVR N. Y. CITY. RAZOR Is tive of price. SS DYE HATE 2m HEED ATL ah Mave sovarad over JS nd vu GASLT S000 ne, an Aliomes, Ih Gree
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