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SCRANTOX, PA., MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1897.
TWO CENTS A COPY
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A BIG
FIT
would be appropriate tit this season;
but, truth to tell, we have not got a
big stock that we're particularly
anxious to dispose of.
The new tariff measures now
pending1 makes a great advance In
the price of everything woolen nn
assured fact, consequently It will
pay better to carry over such staple
goods as all wool blankets to next
season, than to dispose of them
now at a sacrifice. However, as It
has been our custom to run a
Blanket Sale
at this season every year, we have
decided not to deviate from the
rule, and If the quantities and num
bers offered are less than usual, you
know the reason why.
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Regular Patrons
take advantage of this sale by get
ting In early, as we positively will
not offer one extra pair more thun
specllled at these ligures.
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Sale Lasts
Oie Week,
Itiesiay,
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BLANKET OFFERINGS
"We have lower qualities than
those quoted below, If you want
them.
1 ease 11-4 Cotton Blankets, were 75c,
row E9c.
1 case 11-4 Cotton Blankets, were
$1.00, now 75e.
1 case 12-4 Cotton Blankets, were
$1.50, now $1.12.
1 case 11-4 White "Wool Blankets,
Were $3.50, now $2.75.
1 case 11-4 100 per cent. White Wool
Blankets, were $5.00, now $4.25.
The last number Is extra full'slze and
heavy.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ipecial
The two numbers which follow
are very slightly soiled, but other
wise perfect:
10 pairs extra heavy 11-4 White Wool
Blankets, that sold for $S.50.
Sale Price, $5.75
10 pairs full 11-4 finest all wool White
Blankets, the best value we ever offered
at $8.50,
Sale Price, $6.00
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B1AMEX OFFERINGS
1 case 11-4 Grey Cotton Blankets,
Were 75c, now 69c.
1 case 11-4 Grey Cotton Blankets,
were $1.00, now 75c
1 case 12-4 Grey Cotton Blankets,
Were $1.50, now $1.12,.
25 pairs 11-4 Grey Wool Blankets,
were $3.50, now $2.23.
1 case New England Scarlet Blankets,
!A11 Wool, and full 11-4 size, were $5.00.
Sale Price, $4.25
35 pairs 11-4 all Wool Blankets, (Scar
let) the best quality ever at $4.00.
Sale Price, $3.25
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1 case Crib Blankets.
jJc. a Pair
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OLO
WAREHOUSE.
BLAUM 1
SALE
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GROVER FLEES
FROM QUEEN LIL
Ror the Second Time He Disappears at
Her Approach.
PURSUINQ THE ILLUSIVE DUCK
As the Dusky Kx-quecn Entered the
Capital llefore Dawn Saturday the
President Was lining Down the
Potomac inn Lighthouse Tender.
Washington, Jan. 21. Lllluokalanl,
the dethroned queen of the Hawaiian
Islands, otherwise known as Mrs. Ly
dla Domlnls, arrived In Washington
at on early hour yesterday morning.
Not long before she entered the capital
the president suddenly left It In a light
house tender going down the Potomac
on a hunt for ducks. The President
is a man of the most remurkuble pre
science. This has been most strik
ingly displayed in the agile and suc
cessful manner in which he has man
aged to be absent from the capital on
the two days when his whilom pro
tege, Lllluokalanl, ex-queen of the
Hawaiian Islands, has visited Wash-
EX-QUElEN LILIUOICALANI.
Ington. It was exactly six weeks ago
that the ever-watchful Thurber
breathlessly sought the President with
the news that Queen Lil was on her
way from San Francisco to Washing
ton. In two minutes the President's
mind was made up. In nn hour ar
rangements had been made with the
naval officers in charge of the light
house service, and before dark the
President was on his way to George
town, S. C, where more than u week
was passed In the pleasant pastime
of duck shooting. Again last night
Thurber broke In upon the privacy of
his chief with the alarming news that
Queen Lllluokalanl was coming to see
her "great and good friend." Again
the President sought the help of the
lighthouse officers. Again the same
old tiick was resorted to, and as the
dusky and dethroned queen entered
the capital before dawn this morning
the President left It, and as she sits
to-day wa'itlng for an audience with
the nation's ruler that chieftain Is
chasing the illusive duck somewhere
along the shores of tidewater, In Vir
ginia. When the President returned from
his last duck-hunting and queen-fleeing
excursion, after having been noti
fied by Thurber that Mis. Domlnis had
stopud over in Washington for an hour
or two and then gone to Boston, he
felt himself safe. He did not seem
to suspect that she went on to Boston
simply because her "great and good
friend," the President of the United
States, happened to be absent from
the city, and during the six weeks
that have Intervened he has learned
to forget that some day he must meet
her face to face. While Oe Presi
dent has thus been living In fancied
security, however, Mrs. Domlnis,
whom he attempted to restore to the
Hawaiian throne, has been only wait
ing for a favorable opportunity to come
on to Washington and lay before the
administration, that ruined Its popu
larity with the American people for
the purpose of securlmr lustlco tn imr
some proposition which she has long
X WEATHER
The Cold Wave Will Extend to the Atlantic Coast Temperature X
Falls from 20 to 40 Degrees In 24 Hours. X
Washington, Jan, 24. The severe cold wave extends ns far east as the Ohio X
valley and southward to Texas, where the temperature has fallen from "0 I
10 iu uegrees in ine pusi twenty-rour nours. It is below freezing in Tenneasue
and central Texas; it Is below zero in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois ami Missouri and 20
degrees below zero over the Dakotus and Minnesota. Light local snows are re
ported from southern New Knglund southward over the Ohio valley, Tennes
see and northern Texas.
The weuther Is generally fair in the northwest and the South Atlantic states.
The Indications ure that the cold wave will extend eastward and southward
over the Atlantic and Gulf coast Monday. The temperature will fall to near
zero from Virginia northward, and freezing weather will extend southward
to the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts.
S-H
been nursing In her bosom, feeling of
course that she Is entitled to and will
receive the enthusiastic support of the
Cleveland administration.
WILL NOT BE INTKHVIKWED.
What that proposition is no one lias
yet been able to find out, and It Is un
derstood that the ex-queen will not
converse upon the subject until she
has first confided her project to the pri
vate ear of her friend, the President
of the United States. He cannot es
cape this time. He must return to
Washington soon, and when he comes
he will rind 'the ex-queen waiting to
receive him. She Is In no hurry. Not
huvlng been In Washington before,
she Is pleased with the prospect of be
ing able to Inspect the city leisurely
and to enjoy herself at her ease. In
the nature of things Mr. Cleveland con
not remain away more than a day or
two. Affairs of state, In congress and
out, demand his constant attention
from now until the 4th of March, when
he will become a private citizen. In
slipping out of town so hurriedly upon
healing that the queen was slipping
Into It, he thought, undoubtedly, that
she, on finding him absent, would go
on her way, but In this he will be dis
appointed, Shu is waiting patiently,
and when he returns, whether It be
to-morrow, or some other duy, the first
person to give him the outstretched
hand after the faithful Thurber shall
have counted the ducks .and landed
him at the White House will be Mrs,
Lydla Domlnis, once queen of the Ha
waiian Islands.
Her Imperial Highness Is accompan
ied by Miss Kla Nahaolelena and Mr.
Joseph Hclelulle, of Honolulu, and
Julius N. Palmer, of Boston. Mr.
Palmer, who does the talking for the
royal suite says the ex-queen Is trav
eling us a private lady, and he does
not know how long she will remain
In Washington, whether phe will seek
nn audience with the President, or
where she will go when she leaves
here. He only knows that the ex
queen is here, having come direct from
Boston, and that she Is very glad In
deed to be In Washington, the cupltal
of the United States.
CONGRESSIONAL EXCURSION.
House Committee on Rivers uuil llnr
bors Will Visit the South.
Washington, Jan. 24. Fourteen of the
seventeen members of congress compos
ing the house committee on livers and
harbors, many of them accompanied by
their wives and others of their families
left Washington this morning over the
Southern railway for New Orleans, Mo
bile and other places to Inspect govern
ment Impioveinonts on wuter ways.
The party traveled In a special car In
cluiree of Captain W. J. Bryant, repre
senting the Commercial shipping and
railway lntTestB of New Orleans. They
will reach Mobile tomorrow, spend 21
hours there examining the Improve
ments In the harbor, reach New Orleans
Tuesday evening and on Wednesday
go down to tlie mouth of the Mississippi
to see the Crevasse in Pass A. Loutre
and the Jetties and southwest pass.
They will return to New Orleans
Thursday and leave that night for Sa
bine Pass to see the government works
there: thence to Houston to Inspect
the improvements on Buffalo Bayou.
After a visit to Galveston, the party
will return to Washington, stopping en
route at New Orleans and Chattanooga.
At the latter place they will exumlne
the government works on the Tennes
see liver. The trip will consume ten
duys.
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THE COLD WAVE.
Thermometer Below Zsro la Many Points
In the Wesl'-The Missouri
River Frozen Over.
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 24. The cold
wave which reached here last night
continues, the thermometer tonight reg
istering 13 below zero. All trains ate
delayed but not seriously.
Fort Wayne, lnd., Jan. 24. This has
been the coldest day of the winter.
At 7 o'clock tonight the thermometer is
seven degrees below zero and Indica
tions are that it will go lower before
mornlns,
Denver, Colo., Jan. 24. The cold
wave struck this section at 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and In less than
an hour the thermometer fell 30 degrees,
from 50 to 20 above zero. Ten above is
the mark registered at 8 o'clock tonight
with prospects of zero weather before
morning.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 24. This has been
the coldest day Nehmsku has experi
enced In two years. At many points the
mercury registered 12 degrees below
zero, and the warmest reported was
four below. The Missouri river Is froz
en over. Little snow has fallen In this
section and railway traffic Is not Inter
fered with.
Utlca, N. Y., Jan. 24. At midnight
the temperature In the Adlrondacks
was as follows: Malone, 13 below
zero; Tupper Lake, 15 below; at Ful
ton Chain 10 below, and at Hemsen 5
below.
Blsmark, N. D Jan. 24. The ther
mometer is 32 degrees below zero here.
Chicago, Jan. 21. At S o'clock this
morning the thermometer registered
14 below. The suffering among the
poor Is Intense, and to-morrow morn
ing Mayor Swift will Issue a proclam
ation calling for bread for the starv
ing. CAPTAIN WOON'S RECRUITS.
First Squad of the Cuban llattaliou
Leave Pnrlicrsburg.
Parkersburg, W. Va Jan. 21. The
first squad of the Cuban battalion en-
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listed here left lost night via Cincinnati
nnd Jacksonville under the charge of
Captain CJ. II. Crawfonl, of Hocklnnd,
Ohio. These are some of the men en
listed by Captain Jumes Woon, of this
city.
Captain Woon admits that he has 200
enlisted men. They will, the captain
says, go In squads of five and six. They
supply their own arms and pay their
own way.
Senator .Sherman's Successor.
Youngstown, O., Jan. 21. County Clerk
J. II. Ituhlniun, who was at the legisla
tive reunion in Columbus on Friday night,
returned home today and said: "It Is
certain that Lieutenant Governor A. V.
Jones, of Youngstown, will be appointed
senator to succeed Sherman. Mark Hen
na will not be senator, and Governor
HushiU'll will appoint Geneial Jones to
the senatorshlp."
Associations m Uurrisburg.
Hariisburg, Pi., Jan. 21,-Severol state
associations will meet In Hnrrlsburg thla
week, including state convention of pho
tographeis, state board of agriculture,
the Stute Editorial association and the
state gume commissioners,
"Thi! Duchess" Dead.
London, Jan. 21. The death Is an
nounced of airs. Hungerford, the novelist,
Mrs. Hungerford's nom de plume was
"The Duchess.' She died today at Bun-'
don, County Cork, Ireland,
FACTIONS LIABLE
TO GET INTO LINE
Senator Jim Mitchell's Resolution Aiay
Cause a Conflict.
SCHEME OF BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE
Mr. Smith's New Libel Measure Will
Cull Out Addresses from Some of
the foremost Pennsylvania Jour-nalists--A
Hill to Abolish Consta
bles ltcturns--Mr. Council Will
Oiler Plumbers' Registration Dill.
Hnrrlsburg, Jan. 24. There will bo a
lining up of the Quay and anti-Quay
factions In the house of representatives
Monday night If nn attempt Is made to
reconsider Senator "Jim" Mitchell's res
olution for un investigation by a com
mittee of three senators und five mem
bers Into the management of the state,
treasury and auditor general's depart
ment. This proposition passed the sen
ates last Wednesday and was defeated
the same day In the house by less thun
a mulorlty of a quorum voting. Many
of Senator Quay's friends favor the
resolution and there Is talk of trying
to have It reconsidered and adopted
with an amundment requiring the com
mittee to report not luter than March
15.
ltobert C Smith, of Philadelphia,
promises to offer a substitute in the
form of a bill authorizing an Inquiry
into the affairs of the state treasury
for a period of twenty years. The
Philadelphia branch of the Business
Men's league Is committed to this meas
ure and will urge Its friends to support
It in prefeience to the Mitchell lesolu
tlon. President pro tern McCarrell will
not announce the standing committees
when the senate reconvenes Monday
night. Ho will wait until after the sen
ate ucts on the report of the rules com
mittee fixing the number of committees,
which has been made the order for
Tuesday. Speaker Boyer may hold
back the house committees until the
senate list Is given out, although It Is
thought he will make the anuoncements
Monday.
COL. EDWIN GOULD'S MISSION.
The reading of bills in place and the
real work of the session will begin
after the committees have been ap
pointed. Many will meet for organiza
tion this week nnd report bills to give
them a good place on the calendar.
Colonel Edwin P. Gould, of Erie, re
mained In Hnrrlsburg during the recess
getting in shape several Important bills
which he will Introduce In the house
after the committees have been ap
pointed. One Is an act to pi event the
sale of intoxicating liquors to minors
and maklnz It a misdemeanor to mis
rcpiesent the age of a minor to obtain
liquor. A similar bill was defeated two
years ago in the .house after one of the
most exciting debates of the session.
Colonel Gould will also Introduce an
act to revise and codify the poor laws
of the state to make them uniform.
The purpose of this legislation will be
as far us possible to adopt the county
plan of districts. The measure will
abolish the piescpt system with alms
houses. Colonel Gould will furnish sta
tistics to show the advantage of this
legislation to the taxpayer and the in
digent class.
Governor Hastings Is committed to a
bill which the Erie legislator will intro
duce. It appropriates $15,000 for the
election of a statue to the late ex-Governor
Andrew G. Curtln on the capltol
gtounds at Hariisburg, the site to be
selected by the board of public build
ings and grounds. The statue is to be
creeled by a commission composed of
the governor, state treasuier and au
ditor general, who constitute this board,
and two citizens to be appointed by the
executive. The commissioners are to
receive no pay for their services, hut
they will be entitled to compensation
for actual and necessary expenses.
Acting for the state legislative board
of railroad employes of Pennsylvania,
Jerry N. Weiler, the representative
from Carbon county, will advocate the
enactment of a law to protect employes
of corporations and guarantee their
right to belong to labor organizations.
Two years ago a similar act passed the
house by a vote of 1C3 to 3 and reached
the senate too late for consideration.
SMITH'S NEW LIPEL MIEASUHE..
V. O. Smith, of Jefferson, will cham
pion in the house the new llljel luw
drafted by the state Editorial associa
tion. The act will be discussed by
Charles Emory Smith, Colonel A. K. Me
Clure and ex-Attorney General W. V.
Hcnsel, at a public meeting to be held
Tuesday evening In the house chamber.
Representative Smith will ulso have
charge of a bill for an additional state
hospital for the Insane to be located In
one of the western counties. The meas
ure will carry with It nn appropriation
of $300,000 lor the purchase of a site and
the erection ot buildings.
A bill amending the laws taxing real
estate will be Introduced by Represent
ative Charles B, Spatz, of Berks. The
measure provides that any part of real
estate which Is mortgaged shall be
free from state tax. Under existing
law the mortgage holders pay a tux
on this Investment so that the state
derives a double tax from this cluss
of property. A bill for the more
equitable distribution of the public
school fund will be offered by William
T. Creasy, of Columbia. It will be
patterned after the New York law.
Mr. Creasy will renew his. efforts in
the last session to pnss a bill reducing
the fare on all steam rullroads in the
state from three to two cents a mile.
He has given the subject cureful study
and will try to show that the con
struction and maintenance of steam
roads has been greatly lessened In the
last twenty years. He will also have
a bill repealing the clause on the qual
ifications of voters requiring the pay
ment of a state or county tax within
two years.
Ben K. Focht, of Union, has framed
a number of Important bills. One Is
an act to protect fanners und produce
shippers In the stute from being de
frauded by commission merchants In
cities. Another allows the use of school
books to children who uttend private
or paid schools In summer. The labor
bill Introduced by Mr. Focht two years
ago and placed on the calendar against
the protest of the general Judiciary
committee will again be presented. It
provides a more liberal lien and ex-
Continued on .Page 2.
MEN OF PROMINENCE.
J. SLOAT
The New York Republican Who
MRS. CARSON DEAD.
She Had Crossed the Ocean Two Hun
dred and Fifty TimesNever
Missed a Trip on Lucaoia.
Chicago, Jan. 24. Mrs. Elijah Carson,
a most remarkable woman, died Friday
night at Anumosa, la. Mrs. Carson
had crossed the ocean 230 times and
possessed the extraordinary record of
never having missed a trip on the Lu
cania since that splendid vessel was
launched. Since 1880 her entire time
has been spent In her voyages. About
two years ago her son-in-law, Julius
Ilohrbach, by the advice of his wife,
made an effort to restrain Mrs. Carson
from taking any more trips across the
ocean. Mr. Hohrbach went before a
court and asked for the appointment
of a guardian, making the statements
that Mrs. Carson had already spent
$250,000 In her sea voyages and that un
less a stop was put to It her entire for
tune would be spent. Mrs. Carson vio
lently fought this legal move. In her
vigorous manner she announced that
she would submit to no restraint, and
that If her son-in-law dared to Inter
fere with her liberty she would cut him
off without a cent.
This so alarmed Mr. Ttohrbach and
his wife that the proceedings were
dropped, and Mrs. Carson was permit
ted to resume her Journeylngs. The In
cident, however, had made an Impres
sion on her mind, for on her next visit
to Belfast she made and had placed
on record a will In which she gave
her daughter but $1,000; $25,000 each to
her banker at Belfast and her agent In
New York city, und the remainder of
her fortune to the officers and crew of
the Lucanla. Mrs. Carson was 74 years
old.
SNOW IN ENGLAND.
Many Trains Have Ucen Blockaded
nnd Much Damage Done on Coast.
Louder:, Jan. 21. The snow storm
which began on Friday continues and
is causing many Inteivtiptlons ot travel
und other Inconveniences. Many sheep
and other small animals have perished
nnd the losses sustained by farmers
and others will be quite heavy. The
snow Is so deep In some places that a
number of trains have been blocked.
The heavy wind which accompanied the
snow storm hns done considerable dam
age along the coast. Some of the fish
ing boats which have arrived at Lowes
toft report the loss by drowning of
several of their crews. A number of
boats were quite badly damaged In the
buffetlngs they received while trying to
make port.
Quantities of wreckage are being
washed ashore on the Norfolk coast, In
dicating the loss of some vessel or ves
sels at sea.
Steamship Arrivals.
Now York, Jan. 21. Arrived: La Gas
cogne fiom Havre. Arrived out: La
Champagne at Havre. Sailed for New
York: Umbrla from Queenstown, Sight
ed: Southwark, from New York for Ant
werp, passed I'rawle Point; Kensington,
from Antwerp for New i'oik, passed Isle
of Wight.
Ituilrond Attorney's Suicide.
Milan, Tenn., Jan. 21. Colonel F. S.
Hanking, attorney for the Illinois Cen
tral railroad, committed suicide this even
ing by shooting himself through the head.
Financial troubles are supposed to bu the
cause.
THIS NEWS THIS M0KN1NU.
Weather Indications Today;
Uenerally Fair; Colder.
1 Queen Lll's Fruitless Search for
Grover.
Woik Mapped Out for the State Leg.
Islature.
Iluboniu Plague Spreading at Bombay.
2 Forecast of Work In Congress,
Financial und Commercial.
3 (Local) Sermon by Hev. Moffatt.
Trusty and Grant.
4 Editorial.
Comments of tho Press.
G (Local) Trouble Over Hen Hur Pro
ceeds. Saleswomen Arrested and Fined,
Mine Wages Havo Not Been Re
duced. G (Story)-"The Majesty of the Law,"
7 News and Gossip of the West Side,
Sububun Happenings.
New Hules of the County Democracy.
5 Up and Down the Valley,
FASSETT,
Is Talked of for a Cabinet Place,
THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.
Terrible State of Affairs at Bombay.
Disease Rapidly Spreading to All
Classes The Death Rate.
Boston, Jan. 24. The American board
has received a croup of letters from
Its missionaries and correspondents In
India relating to the plague and fumlne.
Hev. E. S. Hume, of Bombay, who went
to India In 1SV5 says:
"Things have been going from bad to
worse until the situation is most grave
and even alarming. One third of the
population of the city Is said to have
lied and multitudes are still leaving.
One of the railroads put on six extra
trains In a day and hundreds crowded
about the stations waiting for an op
portunity to get away. At the first the
plague was confined to one ward ot the
city, but it ha,s spread from place to
place, until no section Is free from the
disease. So too, all classes, Including
Europeans have suffered from it. The
published reports greatly underestU
niates the number of deaths which is
probably not less than 200 or 300 a dny.
The native Christians have been mar
velously protected. Not one, so far ns
I know, has suffered from the plague. '
CABINET GOSSIP.
Charles Emory Smith Still ltcgnrded
us u Strong Possibility.
Canton, Ohio, Jan. 21, There Is a
growing Impression that the cabinet will
be practically completed within two or
at least three weeks, with Its possible
exception of one place. Though Major
McKlnley may decide within the next
ten days upon the eighth man who is
to form his official family the final cast
of the cabinet may not be arranged
befoie Match 1.
The New York problem of cabinet
representation will probably be solved
this week. The current gossip Is that
General Stewart L. Woodford will be
the New York member of the cabinet.
Major McKlnley Is more Intimately ac
quainted with General Woodford than
any of the other New York men and if
political conditions continue to be as
favorable as they now seem to be he
Is pretty certain to be the next secretary
of war or the navy. General Algers'
appointment to the cabinet is not re
garded as certain but the belief that he
will be ln It grows, unless Lyman J.
Gage should be made secretary of the
treasury. The doubts about Mr. Gage's
political faith and economic creeds
have been removed within tho last
twenty-four hours by the visit of a
Chicago gentleman to Canton, it may
be s-afely assumed that his appointment
is being more seriously considered than
ever, though the impression still pre
vails here that Charles Emory Smith,
of Philadelphia, Is the strongest possi
bility. Information received here today and
during the last ten days mukes It cer
tain that the Semite of the United
Slates will be favorable to the enact
ment of protective tariff legislation.
BRYAN HAS IMITATORS.
Unknown Scribblers Have Published
Hooks Signing IIU Name.
Chicago, Jan. 24. Judge Horton yes
terday granted an Injunction against a
Philadelphia publishing house to pre
vent an Imitation of W. J. Bryan's
new book.
Of late another Bryan book has ap
peared. While the title page does not
say It was written by Mr. Bryan, the
display of words. In large nnd small
type is such, It is said, us to convev
th'it Impression. The Vtle is "The
Great Battle."
SUFI-RAGE ASSOCIATION.
Prominent Workers Arrive at Des
Moines, I own.
Des Moines, In., Jan. 24. Miss Susan
H. Anthuny, Rachel Foster Avery und
Anna Howard Shaw, of Philadelphia;
Miss Chupmun Catt, Edith Stone
Blackmail and otheis prominent In wo
man sulfruge work, nniveU here this
morning to nttend the national con
vention of the Women Suffrage asso
ciation, which opens here Tuesday.
Many delegates are univlng from all
parts of the country, the west especial
ly being well represented.
Result of'Wnron Coal Prices.
Des Moines, la., Jan. 21. The North
western Coal company failed yesterday as
a, result of the war on coal prices that has
been costing the operators an Immense
amount for a month. It was attached by
the Maple Grove Coal compuny on an $1S,.
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AURSHAL SHEA TO RESIGN.
OlliceNot to His Uking nnd Besides
Interfered with His Business.
Deputy United States Marshal John
J. Shea Is about to resign his position
with the government. The resignation
will be forwarded to Pittsburg in the
course of a week or ten days. He gives
as his reasons that the duties of the
office are In some ways distasteful and
that they interfere with his hotel busi
ness, which has grown to such propor
tions as to require his constant, atten
tion. Mr. Shea succeeded Frank Holding,
Jr., in the office when the latter was
made chief of police last fall. The ap
pointment came to him without much
solicitation, his peculiar fitness for the
place, he having served as a patrolman
and later as county detective, coupled
with the fact that his efficient work
for the party In many campaigns had
deserved the position for him, had more
to do with his seeming the place than
any direct efforts on tho part of him
self or friends.
Who his successor will be can not
even be guessed. Both Wllkes-Haire
and Scrunton are after It but the like
lihood is that It will come to Scranton,
as the Kobliifcons, hud the filling of tlm
office originally and will doubtless have
it again,
FIRES IN NEW YORK.
Mr. Stevenson Receives Injuries That
May Prove I'lital.
New York, Jan. 21. A fire gutted the
five-story brick building ut 1S82 Third
avenue early this morning, causing a
loss of $25,000.
A fire caused by the tip of a burning
match falling among the draperies In
the apartments of George Stevenson,
228 West One Hundred and Twenty
first street this ufternoon, caused $10,
000 damage. 'Mr. Stevenson was se
verely burned about the face and hands
and Ills wife, who was ill, was carried
out In a fulntlng condition. Mr. Ste
venson's Injuries may prove fatal.
Collision of Trolley and Conl Cur.
Grand Itapids, Mleh., Jan. 21, In a col
lision last night ibntween a runuwuy coal
cur und n electric passenger coach near
here, llotorman Prunk Kslnur was killed
and Conductor John Hake seriously, If
not fatally, Injured. Five of the pasacn
gers aboard the ear were iujuied, auma
seilously.
&m9 How BeligMftaP