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Sa. 10 II 12 U3 J4 J5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 .24 25 2G 27 28 29 .30 : i j. BOKdUGH OFFICER. Burgess. K. C. Heath. OouHeitmcn. Joseph Morgan, J. T. Dalo.W. F. lilum, Ja.s. 1). Davis, Cltas. Clark, ,T. K. Armstrong, II. II. Shoe miikor... - Justices uf lh Peace C. A. Randall. S. . .'J. Sotloy. Constable II. K. Moody. Collector V. 1. AniHlor. Hi-hoot Jhrectors W. Iloloman, L. Agnew, J. K, Wonk, Q. Jamieson, J. V. Soowdon, Patrick Joyce FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member o Congress J. K. P. Hall. Member of Senate KzM. Neoloy. Assembly Dr. 8. S. Towlor. -PresidenlJudgeW. M. Lindsay. Associate Judges Jos. A. Nash, A. J. McCray. Prothonotary , Register it Recorder, if c. John II. Koliortson. Sheriff. Frank P. Walker. Treasurer H. M. Henry. Commissioners W. M. Coon", C. M. Wliiteinan, Herman Mum. DmtHct Attorney H. I). Irwin. Jury Commissioners . 11. Carpon ter, Geo. D. Shield. Coroner Dr. J. W. Morrow. ConHf.v A uditors ill. E. Abbott, J. K. Clark, H. J. r'lvnn. County Superintendent 15. K. Stitzln- gor. Itruuliix Term ofl'ourl. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of Noptombor. Third Monday of November. Church and Sabbnlh School. Presbvterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a. in. : M. E. Habbnth School at 10:00 a. m. Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab bath evening bv Kev. K. A. Huzza. Preaching in the F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Kev. F. W. McClelland, Pastor. Services in the Presbytorian Church every Sabbath morning and evening, Kev. J. V. McAninch officiating. The regular meetings of alio W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. IMONESTA LODGE, No. 3fi!, I. O. O. F. 1 Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fallows" Hall,"Partridge building. i FOREST LODGE, No. 184, A.O. U. W., Moots every F riday evening in A.O. U. W. Hall, Tiohosta. . I7ASHINGTON CAMP, No. 420. P. O. VV H. of A., moots every Saturday ove- ning In A. O. U. W. Hall, Tionesia. APT.UEOIWE STOW POST, No. 274 O. A, H. 'Meeta 1st and 3d Monday evening in each month, in A. O. U. W. Hall, Tioilesta. CAPT. fi EORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. H. C, moots first and third Wednesday evening of each month, in A. O. U. W. hall, Tionesta, Pa. TIONESTA TENT, No. 1(S4,K. O. T. M., mools and and 4th Wednesday eveningin each month in A. O. U. . hall Tionosta, Pa. PMrCLARK, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, and District Attorn fey. Olllce, cor. of lm and Bridge Streets, Tionesia, Pa. Also agont for a number of reliable Fire Insurance Companies. Hi F. IUTC1IEY, J.. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tionesta, Pa. J W. MORROW. M. D., rhvsician, Surgoon A Dentist. Olllce and .Residence three doors north of Hotol Agnew, Tioneta. Professional calls promptly responded to at all hours. T 0. BOWMAN, M. D., M.J. Physician A Surgeon, TIONESTA PA. Office in building formerly occupied by Dr. Nason. Call promptly responded to. night or day. Keaidonco opposite Hotol Agnew. DR. J. C. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office over Heath tfc Killmer's store, Tlnnnsta. Pa. Professional calls prompt- responded to at all hours of day or . .. r 11...U !.'.. vt.., M niglll. IVtJSHIUllow i'nn. oiuw wi'i dore above Jail building. B. SIGGINS, M. D . Physician, Surgeon A Druggist, J OIL CITY, PA. rOTEL AGNEW, L C. F. WEAVER. Proprietor, This hotel, formerly tho Lawrence House. hasunderKonoacompletechange, and is now furnished with ai; the mod ern improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comforts of guests never neglected. c CENTRAL HOUSE, H. W. HORN lilt, proprietor, Tionseta, Pa. This Is the mostcontrally located hotol ill tho place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will lie spared to make it a pleasant stopping place for tho traveling public. First class Livery in conneciiuu. pUIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm and W alnut streots, Is prepared to do all uinl. nr nnarmn wnrk f'rnm the finest to tho coarsest and guarantees bis work to give period salisiaction. rnuiipi aneii' tion given to mending, and prices rea aonable. T V 7.A ITTMVfJl.lR. I. PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER and Jeweler of 25 years' experience, is prepared to do all work in his line on short notice ana at reasonauie prices A 1 wava rrtmrAiitnoti nutisfuction. Watch es, Jewelry, kc, ordered for parties at it, lowest nnsHihle fiure. Will be found In the building nest to Kceley Club DREYFUS CONVICTED. Sentenced to Ten Years Impri sonment For Treason Tat 9rt Years Already Served May It Counted as Doable Time and lilt Karly Release la I'robable The Verdict on deuinad Hy All the Civilized fiovern inent of the K.nllre Country. RENNES, Sept. 11. Dreyfus hae borne the terrible shock with marvel ous fortitude, one might almost say with unnatural calm. He seemed stu pefied when M. Labor! communlcateJ to him the verdict, but he has sincj rallied. He passed a quiet night and he rose when his orderly brought him water at 5 o'clock In the morning. Jusl as he did during the trial when it was necessary. Madame Dreyfus and Matthieu Drey fus, his brother, visited him during the course of the afternoon, his brothet subsequently leaving for Paris. The application to tha court of revision was taken to him at noon by M. La borl'a assistant and he signed it. He CAPTAIJt DREYFUS. has spoken little, though he has seemed In better spirits than might have been anticipated. The meeting with his wife was naturally very affecting, but both held up ns well as possible. He said to her: "I am not uneasy regarding myself, as I shall soon be free, but 1 think of you and my poor children. They will be branded as the children of a traitor." He Is convinced that the 10 years' imprisonment to which he is sentenced will be wiped out by the five years of solitary seclusion he has undergone on Devil's Island, and he expects to be released by Oct. 15. which will be Ave years from the date of his former con demnation. He Is so sanguine that he has made an extraordinary request of his wife for a novel to read In the meantime, explaining that his mind Is so shaken and weighed down by recenl events that he needs to divert his thoughts and try to get all the recollec tlong of. the last three months out of his mind. He thinks that reading a novel will afford the d-slred mental repose and keep him from brooding. Madame Dreyfus' father said his daughter was bearing up well, consld rrlng the circumstances, but desired to remain undisturbed In view of the emotional strain of the Interview with her husband. M. Hadamnnd said thai Mine. Dreyfus and the family were hopeful and looked forward to some. favorable develpoment. "The verdict," he added. "Is an In famy Captain Dreyfus Is in poor health as everyone knows. He has been extremely ill from the moment of his arrival In France and has been put on a special regime. His health has not Improved and the nervous effect of this terrible blow Is bound to react on his general condition. His suppression of all outward emotion Is due to his almost Incredible force of will, but it does not Imply that he Is Insensible to the mental and physical torture he has undergone. On the con trary, the family Just now see In his weak state of health an abnormal Im passivity, an ugly sign and fear for him more than they care to express." One strange fact is the extraordin ary difference of opinion respecting the exact effect of the Judgment whether he can be degraded again, and whether the five years' solitary confinement he has undergone will be regarded as equivalent to the 10 years' detention to which he is now sentenced and he be released next month. This matter Is quite aside from the general Im pression that he will be pardoned in a few days by President Loubet who will find some ground to exercise clemency. M. Demange thlnka the live years will count for nothing and that Drey fus according to law, will have to suf fer 10 years detention. Many others, however, Including several lawyers, hold a contrary opinion and declare that he will be released In October. This, as already cabled, Is the belief of Dreyfus himself. Colonel Jouaust also declared that Dreyfus must serve 10 years, but Fpeaking with friends, he expressed a conviciion that there would not be a fresh degradation. This ceremony re quires breaking the prisoner's sword and tearing off his cpauletes. But Dreyfus never had his sword restored to him and he only wore, undress uni form without epaulctes, so that it would he impossible to carry out the regulations for degradation. This is Colonel Jouaust's view. Those who think Dreyfus will be re leased in October because the five years on Devil's island will wipe out the present sentence, saw in the fact that he was sentenced for exact ly 10 years, confirmation of their view, but they were mistaken. He was sent enced to 10 years not because that happens to be double his term on Dev il's Island, but because, according to the military code, the recording of two votes In his favor fixes the term of detention at 10 years. Had the ver dict been unanimous, he might have been sentenced to 20 years. An Interesting fact developed Is that the police had taken every precaution to get Dreyfus safely out of Itennes In the event ot acquittal, in which case it was unanimously agreed there would have been serious disorder and probably an attempt upon his life. The police had arranged to conduct him back to the military prison after the verdict with the same precautions as during the trial. He was to have been given civilian attire and a false beard and then to have left the prison by the small door of the recruiting office, leading t the Avenue de la Gare. No one would have expected him to leave through that bunding, which Is attached to the military prison and, thanks to the disguise, the police hoped he would reach the station safely where a special train was waiting to rush him off before the crowd could have learned ot his leaving the prison. INDIGNATION IN ENGLAND. Everybody Condemn the Verdlot, Even From the Pulpits. LONDON, Sept. 11. It would be difficult to describe adequately the In dignation the verdict of the Dreyfua court martial has evoked everywhere In England. The excitement In the Jewish quarters of London is only nat ural. Special prayers were offered throughout Saturday in all the syna gogues on behalf of Dreyfus, and ai soon as the verdict was known. Jewi and Jewesses were seen at every street corner expressing execration and many sobbing bitterly. At the Music halls, especially the Palace theater where cinematograph pictures of the Incidents and leading actors of the Dreyfus affair were ex hibited, the news was greeted with groans and hisses. In the French quarter of London there was much ex cltement, accompanied by some street fighting. CONDEMNED IN GERMANY. How German Fell Abont the Conviction of Captain Dreyfu. BERLIN, Sept. 11. The Dreyfus verdict causes a feeling almost of stu pefaction in Berlin. It has been hoped that the statement of the reichstag, as emanating directly from Emperor William, would have rendered Impos sible the repetition of what Is de scribed as "one of the greatest Judicial and political crimes of any age." It Is universally agreed that the sec ond verdict Is a grave political blun der, a violation of the laws of clvlllza. tlon and an act of moral cowardice, which the world will find it difficult to pardon. The German press unanimously de scribes the verdict as cowardly and Impolitic, not to say criminal. FRENCH FLAG BURNED. A Ueroonntratlon In Indlanapoll Over h New of the Dreyfn Conviction. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 11. When the news of Dreyfus' fate reached Indian spoils, Captain Wallace Foster, who originated the plan of floating the American flag over Indiana school houses, announced that he would have the flag of Franco burned in the pub lie streets. That evening a large crowed was drawn to his home In North Capitol avenue, and encircled by women, chll dren, bicycles and buggies, the trl colors were brought out and burned on the Macadam boulevard. There was loud cheering as the flag which Captain Foster had obtained at the world's fair was reduced to ashes, A Frenchman participated In the cere, mony. Drryfnn Mill Not He Deported. PARIS, Sept. 1. Under the terms of his eentence. Dreyfus will have the privilege of serving it In France. He will not be again deported. It Is ru mored that the five years he served on Devil's Island r. - be reckoned as equivalent to a similar period of con finement In a cell, nich counts dou ble. In this event D-eyfus will be con sidered as having purged his convic tion and will be released. If he is again degraded the ceremony will be carried out In the Champ de Mars at Rennes. Public 1'repared For a l'ardon. PARIS, Sept. 12. The Journal de Debats says it hopes that after the Rennes verdict the sentiment of hu manity will find scope even in the most desperate of conflicts. Public opinion, It adds, is quite prepared for the event uality of Dreyfus' pardon. JAMES B. EUSTIS. Former United Stated Senator and Am basaador to France Die In Newport. NEWPORT, R. I.. Sept. 11. Hon. James B. Eustis, former United States senator from Louisiana and Ambassa dor to France from the United States during the second administration of ex-Fresldent Grover CUeveland. died at Newport villa. Mr. Eutis had been fairly well until about 10 days ago when he caught cold, and on Tuesday last pneumonia set In. His attending physician, Dr. Harry J. Knapp, saw there was little hope for his patient. His children were at his death bed. They are James B. Eustis, Jr., the well known polo player: Nelson Eus tis and Miss Lydla Euells. James B. Eustis was born In New Orleans on Aug. 27, 1834. He gradu ated from the Harvard law school In 1854 and practiced law In New Orleans after 1856. He served as Judge advo cate on the staffs of Generals Magru der and Joe Johnson during the war of tho rebellion. He was subsequently elected to the Louisiana state legisla ture, serving In both houses, and was chosen United States senator in 1877 for two years. He was re-elected In 1885, and served till 1891. In 1893 he was named Minister to France. Since 1895 he had been practising law In this city, and had affiliated with Tammany Hall politically. Two riremen and a Child Killed. CINCINNATI, Sept. 12. Two mem bers of the fire department and a child Bf 4 years were killed by gases In a vault. Monroe Dent, aged 4 fell into the vault In the rear of his father's house In Clinton street, and the fire department was appealed to for aid. Thomas Bland and Harry Heinsheimer responded with a ladder and de scending, were suffocated by the gases. The bodies were all recovered. (ilooHir Outlook at Key Wt it. KEY WEST, Sept. 11 Twenty-three new cases of yellow fever and two deaths have been reported In the past 24 hours. The situation Is still very gloomy and large numbers of people are being sent to the detention camp at Dry Tortugas. PREPARATION FOR WAR. England Is Rushing Troops to South . Africa. All tha Traniporta Available Have Been lecured At the Same Time the lloem Are Mailing On the Frontier and Ihere I No Abaleineat of War I'reparatlon In the Trauvvaal. LONDON, Sept. 12. The activity In the war and admiralty offices eontln ues, though there Is nothing new r' gardlng the Transvaal situation. Th; government will follow to the end it project of sending force sufficient t' protect the enormous British interest In South Africa. Officers of the af mlralty office have started for variou; towns on the coast to Invest IsaU transport facilities and perfect ar rangements for shipping the troops which will probably sail this week. II is understood that General Sir n d vers-Buller, who will command tlu British forces In South Afrca In th field, will start for Cape Town on Sat urday. The Indian authorities are chartering steamers to transport tr.iop; to South Africa as rapidly as possible It Is said that orders have been s'ul to America for light, iron girders and bridging sections for probihle use in South Africa. Transports are moving to the docks preparatory to embarking troops. Special dispatches from Johannes burg report the greatest anxiety there. Fifteen hundred people left town cn Saturday, and It Is proposed to trans fer the business of the stock exchange to Cape Town. The Johannesburg town council- is appealing to the gov- ernment. for power to elart relief works, to meet the exceptional dis tress. A dispatch from Bloemfonteln report? the distribution of arms and a consld erable exodus to Cape Colony. Ac cording to this comspondent the Boers are massing on the frontiers and there Is no abatement of war preparation! In the Transvaal. GUARDING THE LINE. Hollanders In the Tranavaal Will Help the lloers, but Itatlxn Neutral. JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 12 The officials of the Netherlands Railway company have been notified to hole themselves in readiness to gucird thr line in the event of war. The Italians In the Transvaal havf decided to remain neutral should hos tiltties arise. The Transvaal Hollanders here held a meeting and adopted resolutions o sympathy with the Transvaal govern ment. pledging their support. Excitement at I'retorla. PRETORIA, Sept. 12-Excltemenl prevails here pending the decision r.1 the cabinet. Secretary of Stale I" ti has left this city for Johannesbui i; ani Cape Town. The likelihood of war i much discussed. The coming of Brit Ish troops Is not regared as meaning certain war, but merely as making ur for the paucity of troops in South Af irca, so much commented upon during the past month. Kefugre Iteach Capo Town. CAPE TOWN, Sept. 12. Four tralni containing refugees from Johannesburg have arrived here. Four hundred ref ugees have also arrived at Durban During the past week the relief com mlttee of Johannesburg ussl-ied 2 00( cases of distress reported throughoul the Transvaal. PEARY HFARD FROM The Arctic Steamer Have Had No On I mi-ltv lo Ilffall Teem. BRIGUS, N. F.. Sept. 11. The Peary Harmsworth steamer Windward, Cap tain John Bartlett, from Etah, North Greenland. Aug. 26, arrived here, re porting all well on board. She will bf followed In a week by the Peary Arc tic club's steamer Diana. Captain Sam uel W. Bartlett, also from Etah. Th( Windward reports that all on board tht Diana were well at the time the vesse separated. The two steamers met nt Etah or Aug. 12 and worked In company un der the personal direction of Lieuten ant Peary In collecting supplies for tht winter and the equipment for nexl kdHiik's campaign. The Wlndwarc -was Icebound in All Man bay. on tht wrest side of Kane basin, about 5( miles north of Cape Sabine, from Aug 18, 1S98, to Aug. 2, 1899, being in a sori of eddy undisturbed by wind or cur Tent. The season was one of contlnuout calm, with very little snow, the mln lmum temperature at the ship beimi "70 decrees below zero. All the v lnrt ward's company, Including the 10 Es qulmaux, were exempt from illness, ac cldent or casualty or any Kinu. iionlnar Uelr After Million'. T.ATrTTW Tnrt.. gent. The Hen- low families of Western Pennsylvania and Indiana are Investigating the val idity of an estate in Wales, valued at 187,000,000, which attorneys uenevt will ultimately be distributed amonf those of kin in the United States. E t r,.on. nf Vennnco eountv. Pennsvl XJ. .J . ...... . 1, - r vanla, has been named as a member r a MKimliiup which will visit Wales JL C tv, "... - - to lay claim to the fortune. The heirs are said to numuer iiu. No I'linUnjj I'rem iiiubioi-. YVKSTERLY. R. I.. Scpl. 12.-C. IS Cottrell & Sons, manufacturers ol vHnt!nir nresses. have declined to ally themselves with the proposed printina press combine. As the Westerly Urn- controls 90 per cent ot an un- iasi presses maue in the United States, IU refusal s tlxiucht to mean me ian urn nf the promoters' uluns. Those wht advocated a combine are New York men. Criieril Mile I'rraldlnir. NEW YORK, Sept. 12. The board ol ordnance and fortifications went inlc nlnn here to receive reuorts of ex periments with high explosives anc lanre ordnance conducted during tn( summer at the Sundy Hook proving grounds. Major t;enerai kelson a. Miles presided. No report of th pro ceedlngs will be made public. CONSUL UNDER A CLOUD. Serlona Charge A ruin' a Keiatone Man at llnWAon f ty. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-Ther la another Pennsylvania tonsul best !es Dr. Bedloe against whom charges ar? pending at the state department, a d James C. McCook, stat'oned at Daw son Cltv, Northwest Ter.ltrry, ig the unlucky man. The state department has clippings from the Klondike Nugget of Dawson wherein it is set forth that on April 12 McCook had a very hilarious time with the men and women in a dance hall. The newspaper alleged that he tried to beat a young Canadian because he re fused to forswear allegiance to her Britannic majesty, when McCook came Into the hall, roaring out. "Who's not an American?" and offering to equip anyone not so blessed with a full- fledged citizenship in this glorious re public. Before the consul left the dance hall he lost his watch chain and the next day he had a girl arrested for the theft, but the evidence produced at the trial was to the effect that during the evening McCook had told the girls who surrounded him to take anything he had, and had given the watch and chain to "Nellie." Before the affair of April 12 the rec ords of the state department show thit Consul McCook sued The Nugget for $20,000 for libel, the action being based on a cartoon showing the consul per spiring very profusely In an effort to write a dispatch In grammatical Eng lish. The record shows that . he lost his suit. The department knew noth ing about the scrape in which the con sul was Involved until In his dispatches he began defending himself. Then he was investigated and the facts were brought out. The department has Just closed the newspaper Incident by admonishing Mr. McCook that a consul should avoid controversies with newspapers. EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. Snujjoaed F.xplbalon of aubterrnneau Gases Shook Cambria County, I'a. ALTOONA, Pa., Sept. 11. An earth quake shock was felt In the mountain districts of Cambria county. A ter rific subterrranean explosion occurred, followed by a perceptible quaking of the earth over a radius of 50 miles Window glass was shattered all over Cambria county, Carrolltown suffering the most. Windows In nearly all the town residences were shattered. Tho shock was left at Johnstown and Gallltzin, 20 miles from the center of the siesmlc disturbance. Word from Elk Lick, 50 miles away, says the shock was felt there. A perceptible quiver of the earth was followed by a alight detonation. Local scientists ascribe the phenomenon to an explosion of sub terranean gases. BISHOP MOOhE. STRICKEN A Florida Prelate Attacked by l aral In 1't.f nity vanlH. WILKES-BARRE.Pa., Sept. 8.-Rlght Rev. Bishop Moore, of the diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, was stricken with paralysis at the cottage of Dr. O'Malley at Harvey's Lake. The bishop has been In the Scranton diocese for a month soliciting funds for the rebuild lng of his cathedral In St. Ausus.i.ie. He was at St. Mary's Church, this city, on Sunday last, and accepted an Invitation from Dr. O'Malley to be a guest at his cottage for a few days. The stricken prelate was removed to St. Mary's parochial residence, thit city, and the Vicar General of the St, Augustine diocese notified. He is now resting very comfortably Shocked by Lightning. NEW CASTLE, Pa., Sept. 8. A ter rifle wind, thunder and rainstorm passed over this city, and for a time there was an incessant peal of thunder, accompanied by vivid 11 s.ies of light ning. The First Presbyterian church was struck by lightning, and a portlor of the cornice was knocked down. Mrs Marie Crowthers and her grandson, Frank Ranney, who reside acr ss the street, were both stunned by the thun derbolt and are still suffering fr m ths shock. One or two other houses wer struck during the storm, which lasted about an hour. Ur.'Kichard VV. Hell Killed. NEW CASTLE, Pa., Sept. 8. A tel egram was received here from Mount Pleasant, by A. C. McGown, stating that his son-in-law Dr. Richard W. Bell, had received Injuries there and died as a result therefrom. The doctor had been out driving, when his horse ran away and he was thrown from hit buggy. He was formerly coroner of this county, was a son of John Bell of Nashannock township, and was borr and reared near this city. FoUoned Her Children and Herieir. PITTSBURG, Sept. 11. Mrs. Mar) Gallagher, 35 years old, wife of Felix Gallagher, a mill man of Port Perry poisoned her three children and hersell with laudanum. Mrs. Gallagher and her 4-months-old babe died, but the two daughters, aged 5 and 7 years, wll orobably recover. The husband's sviU ment to the coroner is that he knuwt of no possible reason why his wife should commit the deed. I' roved It an Accident. CHAMBERSBURG, Pa., Sept. . By direction of Judge Stewart the Jury returned a verdict of acquittal of John Plttinger, the youth In Jali since March 1 for killing Mrs. Sadie Shoemaker In a room in her home. The evidence dl not show any Intention on his part to shoot rhe woman, but made it clearly an accident. A StrUa l ievente.t. SCKANTON. Pa.. Sept. 8. An amee ment has been reached by the Lack i wanna officials and the Joint commit It will be formally ratified and theii terms made public. The firemen en tered upon their conference as soon af the others had concluded. Hone and Cow t'remaie.l. SHARON, Pa., Sept. 8. During an electrical storm a burn belonging to Augustus Riddle was struck by -Iht-ning and burned. Two horses an I three cows were cremated. The mt Is about $2,500. on which there is H.00C Inaurnuc' BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Pointed Paragraphs Chronic ling the Week's Doings. lontf Dlnpatehe From Tarlon Part of he World .-horn of Their Paddlo; and Only tne Fact Given In a Few Word aa HoMibl For tha Benefit of tha Hur ried Reader. Michael O'Neil of Despatch. N Y.. was run down and fatally Injured by a passenger train on the New York Cen tral railroad. President McKinley has commuted the death sentence to life Imprison ment for Thomas McVeigh, who mur derously assaulted his superior officer at Manila. The St. Jseph's Orphan asylum at Hartwell, O.,- a suburb of Cincinnati, was entirely destroyed by fire. No lives were lost. Daniel L. Fish, author of Fish's arith metic and other well known school books, died at his home In Rochester, N. Y. He was 79 years old. The Spanish officers on trial for sur rendering Santiago to the Americans, have all been acquitted. The Thirty-third regiment of volun teers have been ordered from Fort Sam Houston, Tex., to'San Francisco, where they will embark for the Philippines. Richard Kesse, a prisoner sentenced to death for murder at Springfield, Mo., committed suicide in his cell by taking morphine smuggled to him by 6orae unknown person. Charles L. Bailey, one of the most prominent Iron merchants In Central Pennsylvania, died at his home In Har rlfhurg, aged 78 years. Charles A. Danolds, a prominent ca nal contractor, died at his home In Al bion, N. Y. An Incendiary fire at Port au Prince, Hayti, destroyed 20 buildings. General Shatter may be retained In the volunteer service after his retire ment from fche regular army next month A temporary Alaskan boundary may be agreed upon until the question is permanently settled. The New York butchers' association has secured two large packing plants at Wichita, Kan., and will fight the beef trust. The New York Central depot at Cay uga, N. Y.. was destroyed by fire. The Olympic Park hotel at Lake View, near Paterson, N. J., was de stroyed by fire. Loss, $:I0,000. Seven persons were killed In a col lision between a freight and passenger train at Miller's station on the Erie railroad. Five persons, three of them children, were bitten by a dog on Eighth av enue, New York city. The dog was killed. John Y. Mi Kane died at his home at Sheepshead Bay. aged 58 years. Admiral Dewey Is well pleased with his reception In Gibraltar. The G. A. R. encampment elected Colonel Albert D. Shaw, of Watertown, N. Y for commander-in-chief for the coming year and selected Chicago for the meeting In 1900. Captain Henry Geek, aged 73 years, died at his home in Rochester nf par alysis. He was captain of the famous Old Thirteenth New York during the civil war. William R. Smith, a prominent drug gist of Troy, N. Y., died from an over dose of chloral. Whether suicide or an accident is not known. Fourteen dwelling houses In the vill age of South Harwich, Mich., were de stroyed by a timber fire which swept through the little town. Mrs. Michael G. Mundy, 68 years old of Rochester shot and killed herself. Her mind had became unbalanced by worring over an Invalid husband. The United States transport Sheridan landed the Minnesota and South Da cota regiments at San Francisco. John Brewster killed John Collins by a blotv of the (1st In a fight In a Buffalo restaurant. The internal revenue department at Washington has decided that the war tax must be paid on deeds transferring church property from one owner to an other. William Metzgar, a well known at torney of Condersport, Pa., shot him self on account of business troubles. Rear Admiral Philips says that less than 20 war vessels will take part In the Dewey reception on account of so many of our vessels being In foreign ports. It is said that Rear Admiral Sampson will be assigned to the Boston navy yard when relieved of the command of the North Atlantic squadron. J. B. Eustis, formerly ambassador to France, died at his home in Newport, R. I., of pneumonia. The Sons of Veterans in se.-ion at Detroit decided to meet next year in Syracuse, N. Y. William H. Longstre- t, a music deal er of Klmira, N. Y killed Himself with a pocket knife. Ill health had un balanced his mind. Two fires In Louisville destroyed property worth ,2.10.000. One fir man and a spectator were fatally Injured. John T. Lesher aged 73 years, pro prietor of the Mansion House at Ron dout, N. Y is dead. He had been a hotel man for over 50 years. James Crowe of Klmira, N. Y., brooding over III health, threw himself from a second story window and was killed. M. Gaston Tlssandler, the distin guished French chemist and aeronaut, died in Paris, aged 59 years. As soon us congress meets a bill will be introduced withdrawing the support of this government from the PhtIs ex position on account of the Dreyfus case. George H. Horne of .M.-udville. Pa., a fireman on the Erie railroad. W' killed In a wreck near Randolph, N. V. The Rev. James C. Caldwell, a Well known Presbyterian minister of Phil adelphia, was Instantly killed In a run away accident In G-rmantott n .- su burb of that city. A collision of freight train- n r filrh'ti 1. Ind., killed ltrukeman Clsrkstn and Injured six others be longing to the train crewa IMPORTANT DECISION. Taxation af Deeds for War Keveaoa Ea tend to i hnreh Property. WASHINGTON. Sept. I. Acting- Commissioner Wlliams of the Internal revenue bureau has rendered an im portant decision on the question of the taxation under the war revenue action of a deed of conveyance of church property, executed by the executors of a Roman Catholic bishop to his suc cessor. The acting commissioner held that such deed was taxable. The question arose in the case of the Right Rev. Bishop McGovern of Har rlsburg. Pa., who willed the property to his executors, and they in turn con veyed it to his successor. Right Rev. J. F. Shanahan, the present bishop of the diocese of Harrisburg. It wan contended in opposition to the tax that the bishop holds the title to the property in trust, and that he has no personal interest or estate therein. It Is held, however, that the deed ful ly vests the title, and under the law the succeeding bishop is a purchaser, although he does not pay any consid eration for the conveyance. A stamp tax of $1 per $1,000 of value will be re quired. t'recautlo" Againat a Panic. JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 12. Tha city council held a special meeting and passed resolutions advising the people to keep quiet and not create a panic over the outbreak of fever liv' cn -of one year ago. The quarantine of the entire sta;e against N-w uneai.a went Into effect at noon. All trains from that city carry inspectors. City Clerk Porter, the only patient, Is con sidered better. enerl Tracey Argument. PARIS, Sept. 12. General Benjamin F. Tracy continued his argument in be half of Venezuela before the Anglo Venezuelan boundary arbitration com mittee, claiming the Spanish title to Guiana was established before the ar rival of the Dutch. He then proceeded to deal with the rules of law which he considered applicable to the case. Kecrnita Vlake 1 h-ir Vlrat trt. SALEM, Mass., Sept. 12. Seventy eight recruits for the new Forty-second regiment volunteer infantry, sta tioned at Fort Niagara, N. Y., for ser vice In the Philippines, left Saiem to jidn the command. Cnhax t'r.. n. r. heleaaed From t'adi. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Senor Quesada has been Informed that nine more Cuban prisoners have been re leased from the Spanish military pris on at Cadiz. MARKET REPORT New York Money Market. NEW YORK, Sept. li Money on call, 5ii8 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4VHS per cent cent. Sterling exchange. Actual business la bankers' bills at 4.1tiV4'a.86H for demand, and $4.83'i4.S3 for sixty days. Posted rates, fl.M'u t f7H. Commercial bills. S4.82ti4.824. Silver certificates, s!Ku 51)0. Bar silver, oMhic Mexican dollars, 4'Ve. New Vnr t'rodiioe Market. FLOl'R Winter patents, l3.5B-ffI.Tli winter siralghts, 3.30'i3.40; winter ex tras, K' t'wlwi; winter low grades, ti te9 $2.40; Minnesota patents, $3..s5u -I.Ou; Min nesota bakers', 12.95113.20. RYE No. 2 western, Kic, f.o.b. afloat. State rye. 5UfnG0c, c.t.f. New York car lots. HVE FlA)lit-W.i',i3.40. I! A HI. 10 V Malting, tSfijao delivered New York feeding, 42'i44c, f.o.b. afloat. PI CK Wll K AT FLOL'H-12.05 CORNMfcAL Yellow western, 74375c; cny, 75ii7i;c; bnindywlne. J2.15'a2.2S. WHEAT No. 2 red, 74V. f.o.b. afloat. No. 1 northern Duluth, 7,JIiC, f.o.b. afloat. Options: No. 2 red Sept. 73'ic; Deo. 76e. CORN No. 2, 3!lac. f.o.b. afloat. Op tions: Sept. 374c; Dec. 35c. OATS No. i. 2fc; No. 3. !5V4e; No. I white, 27'c; No. 3 white, 27c; track mix ed western, 'Mil 27c; track white, 2iiVs 33c. II A Y Shipping, 50460c; good to choice, 65i Hoe. PORK Family, $10.6511.60. BUTTER Western creamery, 18 23c; factory. 13'olc; Elglns, 24c; Imita tion creamery, 15iil7Mic; state dairy, 15'tf 20c; creamery, ls'ailic. CHEESE Large, white, 11c; small, do. ll'ic; large, colored, 11c; small, do, ll',c; light, skims, 7'ySc; part skims, an 7c; full skiina, On 6c. EGGS Stale and Pennsylvania, UVii9 19'ic; western, U'u "!c lluffhlo Provision Market. BUFFALO. Sept. 11. WHEAT No. 1 old. 7tic; No. 1 north ern, 74lc. Winter wheat. No. 2 red, 70c. CORN No. 2 yellow, 37Vjc; No. I yel low. 37'.4C. ..... OATS No. 2 white, 25c; No. t mixed. 23c. RYE No. 2, 61c. FLOUR Spring wheat, best patent per bbl., e4.2Hi4.iu; low grades, $2.l)0v2.60 win ter, best family, UTS t4 00; graham, $3.60 fa 3.75. BUTTER Slate and creamery, 21tfj!2c; western do. aniilc. CHEESE Fancy, full cream, ll'.i&lllio; choice, do, lu',yullc; light skims, 8!cj aklms, 74, so. EUGS-tSiaie, 18'ulVic; Western, Kaat ItnffWIo Live Mock Market. C'AlTLE Extra export steers. li.WS 6 0o; good. 00, $i.6t"B5.'5; choice, heavy butchers. $4.0Ku4.O; light, handy do, $3 U 4 l- cows and heifers, extra, $3.4Oj4.0a; cslves, heuvy fed, $3oti4.30; veal. $7.00 7.60. SHEF.P AND LAMBS Choice to extra, wether. $i..l5'u525; fair to choice ahetp H.,j.iu; cummon 10 fair, 4 4iku4.i choice to extra irlng lamb. $.&)w.50; common to fair. $4 ij'yj.W. HOGS Heavy, $4 wit.o; medium and mixed. $I SO.it.8i; Yorker. $4.fi'a4.e&; pl. $4 itH I.Si. I tire I heeee Market. ITfi'A. N. Y.. Sept. U. CHEESE -On the Utica Board of Trade the sales were: 4.415 boxes large, colored at 11c; l.il boxes large, colored at lec; 5ti0 boxes do at 11c; SMt boxe small, color ed at lie; 1.52(1 buxea do at UK.c; 180 boxes email, wiiile at H'V; 235 Luxes do at Ho; 5?' boxes do at lie; 5sj boxes do at UV op the curb a few fancy, large, colored sold at ll'.'all'jc. und small, colored at II sc. HUTTER Sales were 1U package at i',.c; U package at 22c, and 83 package at Ik. Utile telle theeae Market. LITTLE FAI LS. Sept 11 These sale wire mmie: 7-Vi boxes lartse. colored at He. is Imixc la use. white. nl lV; 44 bus laree b.ie at tV; boxes large, wlilte at He; 4 .": boxts small, white and coloied at lie; l7 boxes small, colored at prlVHie terms BUTTER-only a f( w iMckagi were oid to me local trade at lluiX. Room.
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