THE FOREST REPUBLICAN Published every Wednesday by j. e. WENK. Oflio. iu Bmearbangh & Wenk Building, KLM BTBKKT, TIONBtTA, FA. Trreje, MX Yr. Hirinly la Advaare. No suliaoription received for shortor ,,rliKl than throe months. Corroapondem-o solicited, bill no notice will bo laketi of anonymous commiinica '.Ioiih. AIwa)silve your name. RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one inch, onewwk... 1 00 One Square, one iucli, one month. 3 00 hie Square, one inch, 3 months.... 5 "0 One Square, one inch, one year ..... 10 ou Twobquures, one year. IS 00 Quarter Column, one year SO 00 Half Column, one year - SO n0 One Column, cue year ISO e Legal advertisements ten cents per line each insertion. We do Que Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but it's cash on delivery. Forest Republican. VOL. XXXHI. NO. 44. T10NESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY, FEJJKIM11Y 20, 1901. $1.00 PER ANNUM. BUHOUGH OFFICERS. lu.or..-T. K. Ritchev. ihciiiii. Joseph Morgan, T. Dalo.W. F. Ilium, Ja. 1. Ivih, than. 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Presbyterian Sabbath Sclusd at 9:45 a. in. : M. K. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m. 1' reach i n ir in M. K. Church every Sab bath evening bv Kev. V. P. Mur.ay. Preaching in tlie F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Kev. C. II. Miller, Pastor. Sorrii-ea In the Presbyterian Clmreb every Salibaih morning and evening, Kev.' J. V. McAiilnch ollViating. The regular meetings of Old W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on I he second and fourth) Tuesdays of each in- nth. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 'PL NKSTA LODGE, No. Slid, I. O. O. F. 1 Meta every Tuesday evening, in Odd follow' llall, Partridge building. LMKI'.ST LODGE, No. ISI, A.O. U. W.. I Moets'evory Friday evening inA.t.U. W. Hull, Tioiu sta. CI A PT. G EOH 1 K STOW POST, No. 274 J (1. A. It. Moot 1st and 3d Monday evening in each month, in A. t). U. V. llall, Tionesta. CVM'T. GEORGE STOW COUPS, No. J 1:17, W. It. ('., meets llrst and third Wednesday evening of each month, in A. (. V. W. liall, Tioneata, Pa. 'PIONF.STA TKNT, No. Kit, K. O. T. 1 M., moeis 2nd and 4th Wednesday evening in each month In A. O. U. hall Tionesta, Pa. 'P F. HITCH KY, 1. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tionesia, Pa. 1) M. CLARK, 1 Attoii.n ky-at-Law, Tionesia, Penna. Olllce, for the present, over Haalet'a store. OAMUEL C. CAI.IIOUN, O ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W, Olllce at Caraon'a jewelry store, Tio nesia, Pa. All legal business and collec tion promptly nud faithfully attonded to. J, W. MOKHOW. M. P., Physician. Surgeon A Dentist. Olllce and Residence three door north of Hotel Agnew, Tionesta. Professional calls promptly responded to at all hours. L) It. F.J. ItOVAKD, Physician t surgeon, TIONKSTA, PA. nit. J. C. HCNN. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Olllco over Heath t Killmer'a store, Tionesia, Pa. Professional calls prompt ly rescinded to at all hour of day or night. Residence May SU 1 It. J. ll.UREAVKS, I Physician and Surgeon. Olllce and residence above Forest Co. National Hank. HOT El. WEAVER, E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor. This hotel, formerly the Lawrence House, has undergone a complete change, and is now furuhdiod with all the mod ern improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comfort of guests never neglected. fiKNTIUr. HOUSE. V. WEItOW A (iEKOW Proprietor. Tionsela, Pa. This is tlie most centrally lM-nlod hotel in the place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will lie spared to make it a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public. First class Livery In connection. piIIL. EMERT FANCY ROOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building. Cor. Elm and ill nut streets. Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work Irom tlio liuest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. J ORHNZO FULTON. Manufacturer of ami Dealer iu Harness, collars, bridles. And all kinds of HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TIONESTA. PA. 1. 1 mm k mi GENERAL merchants, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIOSESTA, PENN. NONE LEFT: Kbeuuiatio Aelics, Head Ache or Lumbngn, After Using WANO ELECTRIC OIL -25C. It Removes i'implca and Makes (lie Rkiu 'soft and Gn. All I -n st. irn. or sent p re-pnld. THE WANO CO., Warren, Pa. STILL FLOODING MINES, Several Days Before Bodies of Victims Can Be Reached. Aid Fur UMreMod Famllle Premier Daniinillr Orders Storekeepers to Olv Them Whatever Supplies They Need. Cauie nf Ksploslon Will Mever Ite linneo, VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb. lS.-The terrible ncciilciit at Union mines, Van couver island, which lins pliuiccd the (own of Cuinlicrlauil and the entile prov ince into mourning continues to cngros public attention. The greatest exclte- The Cnuailiun Pncilic Itnilwny com pany's sieniiier Tuitnr nrriveil nt Van couver yesterday nfteruocm from the coaling si alien nt Union. SI miles from Cumberland. She brought two pnssen Iters, II. Raymond and (Seurge Bennett, both coal miners. Neither hud any theory ns to the en use of the explosion in No. (1 shaft, in which the accident oc curred. They rny the cause Is not known mill that il will never he known. When (lie Tartar left Union at 7 o'clock yester iliiy morning the latest news from No. U shaft whs Hint the Hooding process was still Is'ing continued. The lire wns still burning, ilthoiigh not so fiercely ns luring the preceding .'111 hours. The tre mendous volume i)l water pouring iu tlie mine from the continuous supply fur nished by nil H-inch innin was grnilunll) performing the desired service, nn.l bf tonight it is ciiiiliileutly expected that tin lire will be extinguished. It will be several days, Itnymund snys. before the bodies of the 01 entombed mi ners can be reached, because after the Are hns been completely put nut it will lie necessary to pump the wnter nut of t he mine before a rescuing party can hope to remove the corpses now lying at the bottom of the shaft. GOOD PROGRESS MADE. searchers Within 100 Tards of Where Hod let Are Kipeeted to He Found. VICTORIA, B. C, Feb. 19.-Splonilii! progress wns made yesterday by the men who are searching for the bodies of the unfortunate men killed by the explo sion nt the Union mines. The fires have been put out and the Inspectors hare penetrated through No. 5 mine to No. 11, expelling the gas as they proceeded, anil at Inst reports were within 10(1 yards of where they expect to Mini the first bodies. Experts will not express opinion as to the cause of accident. Premier Puns in it i r and party left the scene Inst night for Victoria, having left the work of re covering the bodies in the hands of four experts, who have the company's full ttulT nt their disposal. No. & mine was uot badly dnuutgiii hy the tire, but No. I) is a complete wreck. hlory of the Dlia.ter. SEATTLE. Wash.. Fch. 10.-A special to The l'ost-Intelligencer from Victoria ays: What is feared will prove lo be one of (he most horrible mine accidents in the history not only of tlie province, but of the dominion, took place Friday at tlio Union mines, ow ned by the Welling Col liery company, of which James Duns muir, premier of the province, is the prin cipal shareholder. The telegraphic ad vices received so far give no complete utory of the accident. As near ns can be gnthered the explo Imi took place nlsnit 11 o'clock in the forenoon in No. (! shaft, situated iu the village of Cumberland. There were 00 men in It when the explosiou took placo I ml not one escaped. The explosion ignited the mine, wreck ing the shaft from miilwny down to the bottom, and filling it with a solid mnss at rocks, earth and timbers. The first explosion wns followed by several more, from the vent holes indiinteil that lira while a dense volume of smoke pouring lis well as gns wns doing destructive work below. As sisui as possible the men of the morning shift iu No. 5 shaft organized a rescue party. No. 5 is situated about a mile from No. (I, but the two workings ire connected by a tunnel, and through Ihis channel an nttempt wns made to hel; the unfortunate men in the wrecked ihnft. They hail not cut their woy many yards through the debris when they encoun tered lire, which rendered the place un tenable nud obliged the party to desist. Overcome at hist by gas and smoke they reluctantly withdrew from No. 8 and commenced work on a long cut from No. i, the only other menus of reaching the nun. Work ou this wns prosecuted with the greatest vigor until abatement of the Grc in No. 5 enabled them to once more return there. City Sure street Railway Company. WORCESTER. Muss., Feb. 19.-The Consolidated Street Railway company was yesterday sued by the city of Wor rester iu two actions of contract to re cover an aggregate of $.'!.IKJ(I. One suit isks for damages amounting to f'Jo.OUO by n anon of repairs done by the city on a number' of streets and claimed to bo the duty of the railway company. Au ither, for $10,(MKl, is for removal of snow liy the city with similar allegation of neglect on the part of the railway. Editor Shoots Reporter. HONOLULU, Feb. 10-Edwin S. Oill, i-ditor of The Republican, shot and seri ously wounded .Mortimer II. Stevens, a member of the stnlf of The Advertiser, in the olllce of The Republican on the .veiling of the (ith. The shooting fol lowed n controversy nhout an article Gill hnd published concerning sonic young ln lies who were stopping at the Hawaiian hotel. ltonsetelt et Denver. DENVER, Fch. 10. Vice President dect Roosevelt, who hns just returnul from a five weeks' hunt, hns arranged tu leave Colorado Springs today on a spe cial Colorado and Southern train for Denver, lie will start Eust from here over the Union Pncilic, Chicago and Northwestern. King and Qneen Return to London. L6ND0N. Fob. ID-King Eilwanfaml Queen Alexandra have returned to tow. GIFTS OF SAENGERBUNfO President McKinley ami Emperor Will iam Kavh Receive an Album WASHINGTON, Feb. lO.-Mnjor Cnrl I.eliti, president, and 'M directors of the Northeastern Snengerbiind of America, called in a body at the White House yes terday nud presented to the president an album bound iu red leather and contain ing the songs sung by the society ut its sst meeting in llKKl, On tlie Hy leaf of the album is inscribed ill illuminated let ters the words: "Willinni McKinley, president of the United Slates of America, in coininemor ntlon of the festival in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Northeastern Sneugcr fcuiiil. Brooklyn, N Y., June 30 July 4, l'.KK)." The directors also presentud to Em peror William, through the (icriuun am bassador, an album of rare beauty, said to have cost $U'm. This is on ac knowledgement of tlie emperor's coutesy In oftVring a prize nt the last Saenger fest. The ambassador received a cablegram from Emperor William, authorizing him to receive, iu his inline, the souvenir of the Sucngcrbiind. After the presentation the ambassador and the delegation drank the health of Emperor William. The ulbuiii is of American manufac ture nnd n masterpiece of art. It consists of two silver plntes, weighing 40 pounds, bound in leather richly embellished with scrolls and silver mountings. Upon tlio face of the first plnte is engraved the American nnd (ionium Hags and coats of arms, while on tlie back is a resolution of thanks for the emperor's prize. On the face of the second pinto is Inscribed the song that won the prize at the last !aengerfest, and on tlie back Is an en graved resolution of the "Wandering Minstrel," the emperor's prize. S P E LLbTn15"i NG T R AMP. Invaded a Matlo Teacber's Home and Meimirld Her With the riauo. NEW YORK. Feb. 15.-A tramp who refused to give his name or nuy informa tion about himself wns sent Wednesday to the county jail for (HI days by Record er Hegenian of North Bergen. The tramp called nt the home of Henry Rich creek and asked for money fnun Mrs. Richcreek. She refused to give him any, and pushing her aside he walked Into the house and began to wreck the furniture. The sight of a piano arrested his destruc tlveness. He sat down at the instrument and begmi to piny. Mrs. Richcreek, who is a music teacher, was thoroughly frightened; but fear gave way to admi ration when the trump began playing se lections from operas and classical music. Mrs. Richcreek is n pianist. She snid she sat spellbound while the man played. When he stopped he gave the piano keys a vicious pound and walked out of the house. When .Mr. Richcreek came home his wife told of her experience nnd de scribed her visitor. Richcreek notified the police and the tramp was arrested. ENGLAND IS INTERESTED Inclined I o Take the Itusslsn filde InTarlfT War Willi t'nlled Siie. LONDON. Feb. 1!).-There is consid erable interest here in the outcome of the tariff dilllctilties between the United Stall's and Russia. The advocates of a change in the Rritish fiscal system hope to find in them some support of their contentions that retaliatory duties should be imposed on countries taxing Rritish products. The St. Jiiuies linzette says: "Some Americans, including Secretary Gage, appear to think the United States have the monopoly of the protection pol icy, but they have been shnrply remind ed by Russia that two can play nt the game of hostile tariffs, ns the import of Russian sugar is n tritle compared with the exports to Russia. The present game of retaliation is one iu which Russia holds the best cards. Therefore sho will win most of the tricks." CONSTABLE ARRESTED. Alleged to Ilftva Incited Rro t i Burn Hon to Collect limurnnce. rOUGIIKEEl'SIB, N. Y., Feb. IS). Theodore Adams, a constable of Hope well Junction, Dutchess county, and Charles Miller, a negro living near that place, arc iu jail here to await the action of the grand jury ou a charge of arson. Miller was arrested ou Saturday night. He confessed to the authorities ill this city that he set the housiy on fire nud charged Adams witli inciting him to commit the crime. He said that Adams wanted to buy a threshing machine to cost I,NH) and hud $M) toward it. Adams proposed to him to hum his home, telling him that he could collect at least ?I!(X) insurance. Then they would buy the machine in partnership, mortgaging it for the re maining $IKH). Miller said he burned the house, believing that the constable would be able to shield him. Severe Weather In Knrope. PARIS, Feb. II). The. weather is less cold here and in this vicinity, though several deaths have lieon reported. Rig orous cold continues in the provinces, the rivers in the extreme south being frozen, while several feet of snow have fallen in the department of the Voages and iu the Dauphnc, in the southeast of France, comprised in the departments of Drome, Hautes-Alpes nnd Isere. Fifteen de grees below zero has been recorded ut Grenoble, capital of the department of Iscre. Switzerland is also suffering from the severe weather nud snow covers the northern pnrt of Italy. A dispatch from Rome reports au unprecedented snowfall there yesterduy. Sir. Keller Out ot Hunger. 1'ATERSON, X. J., Feb. IS). After Sic attending physicians hnd visited the Rev. Mr. Keller yesterday they snid that his condition continued to improve and thnt he wns practically out of danger. The physicians agrii that the wounded minister will not lie totally blind. There is every indication thnt tlie sight of the left eye will be preserved. It is now be lieved that if Mr. Keller continues to Improve before many days he will be able to appear in court nnd ti'stify ngninst Thomas C. Barker, who shot him. Fire Uentroys Models and To-ds. TROY, N. Y.. Feb. Fire yesterday destroyed a large number of valuable models for silk and knit goods frames owned by Tompkins Bros. Valuable tools were also lost. KRUGER'S FINAL PLEA. "Will No One Arbitrate?" Cries Heartbroken Boer. Re(ret( Ue Is Too Old lo Flght-Thlrty. One Sons and Grandsons He line In the Field, Fighting a War I'lJ.i.tly Tliroit t'pna Them, but He Says liners Will Win Vel. LONDON, Feb. Ki.-lhe rail Mall Mngazlue will publish, Feb. IS, an inter view with Mr. Krnger in part as follows "Will no one arbitrate? Will no our give ns a chance of defending ourselves" We may luivp dune wrongly. We hn our faults and our weaknesses. We de clared war, but our hands were forced and we can prove it. Get someone v judge between this England and our selves. "But the Lord will help us in the end We shall win. I do not know how oi when, but we shall win nt last." Mr. Kruger says the Transvaal offered more reforms in one week than an oldei country would make in 40 years, giving in on all points almost to the uttermost, but thnt the uttermost was seized upon ns a stumbling block. Referring to his reception In Europe Mr. Kruger says: "I care nothing for flowers; nothing, nothing. The people who send them menu well, and I am grateful; but I care nothing for them. What I want if a fair hearing. If they will only givt us a fair hearing nud justice I ask f i justice. "We are little folk, but we have made gicnt steps." When asked why he came to Europe he snid to the interviewer: "I could not go out with the comman does as Mr. Steyn can. I am too oil. but I may be of some use here." Regarding Mrs. Kruger, he snid: "I mil sorry for her, too. I have a doon sorrow fur her, but I have fur more sor row for my country. My wife hns hoi children. Six nre still with her. They were left with her in her home. Two of my sons have died on the battlefield. Two were captured, I believe two more arc dend also, ns 1 have not heard from them for two months, nnd I know they were in the thick of the fight. "Thirty-one sons nud grandsons I have in the field yet, but I could not go on column lido. I have not heard from my wife for lii days, but she has six chil dren with her and she is uot to be piti.il." NO FURTHER LENIENCY. Foreign Kuvoyi' Decision In Ite.pert to I'uiilflhinetiti of (tullty Is Irrevocable. TEKIN, Feb. IG.-The Chinese peace plenipotentiaries have replied to the lat est telegram from the imperial court that the decision of the foreign envoys with respect to the punishment of the giulty is irrevocable, although the sentence upon General Tung Fu Ilsinng cuu be suspended "until such time as it comet within, the power of the court to place hi m in restraint, when his death will be demanded." Although there, have been no otllcial communications on the subjict between envoys nud the Chinese plcnijKitcntiurh'S there have been long unoflici.il consulta tions between the hitter nnd M. DeGiers nnd Sir Ernct Satow, the Russian nnd British ministers. A definite reply from the court is not expected before the end of tlie new year Cell brntions, nt least 10 days off; but, the envoys believe that the court must yield. Count Von Waldersee has issued a for mal deninl of the published statement that the German troops nre leaving China. He says that he could not move cue without instructions from Berlin, and that these have not been received. MRS. NATION RAMPANT. Caused Alt Kluds or F.ioltouient at Tnpeltn, Kan. TOPE K A, .Knn., Feb. lS.-Mrs. Cnr rie Xntion put in a busy Sunday in To peka nnd us a result the enpitnl city has experienced more genuine excitement than can be remembered by the oldest iu hubitant. Mrs. -Nation succeeded in hnv ing the contents of a notorious joint smashed, broke into a cold storage plnnt In scorch of liquor, ruined the mirrors on several bars found stored iu n livery barn, addressed a large massmeoting of men nnd women nnd wns arrested four times. The last time thnt the law In hi its hands upon her was when Mrs. Na tion emerged from the church where the mnssiueetiug had been held. Last night Mrs. Nation announced thnt she would not rest until nil the joints in Topekn had been closed. American Henley Aured. BOSTON, Feb. 19.-The American Henley, for which so ninny plnns have tscn fostered, only to fall through In lie end, is now prncticnlly an assured fact. Several of Boston's bestknown rowing men have developed a plan which embraces the larger athletic and rowing clubs and colleges. It is proposed to hold a week of racing nt New Loudon nt the time ot the Harvnrd-i'nle college race, to include classes from the single scull tip to the eight-oared crews. Many of the leading rowing organizations have agreed to scud entries. Another Carnegie Library. GALESBURG, Ills., Feb. 11). Andrew Carnegie has written the Galosburg pn lic library board that he will give 000 for a new library building in this city providing the city appropriates $o,000 a year to sustain it Injury rrnveil Fatal. KINGSTON, X. Y., Feb. M.-reter Stolfi of Hnbart, who was Injured by an explosion of dynnniile while working on the Oupouta trolley road extension Saturday, died Sunday. Oil I Killed by Train. TROY, N. Y., Feb. 1!).-Mnbcl E. Botitell, a fnrtory girl of ."S Grand street, was killed by an engine ou the Huston and Muiiie tracks yestci-d.-iy wlulo try ing to avoid u ii incoming train. Hermit round Frozen to llentlt. KINGSTON', Fell. IS).-Thilip Geiuild. a hermit, was found frozen to death at his hoinu iu Ellciiville on Saturday. REVIEW OF TRADE. llrsdslreet'e Report or Coudltlons of llesltiesa Thrungh-mt the Country. NEW YORK, Feb. IC.-Brndstreet'i review of trade says: Trade advices an- rather more cheer ful. Prices show exceptional strength, all things considered, the one weak spol bi ing raw cotton, which shares the rathe! unsatisfactory tone manifested by th cotton goods and yaru markets. For eign demand for our breadstuff s has been rather better, and this is reflected iu heavy exports, particularly of corn. Specially cheerful reports from the slusf nnd leather, the lumber and the iror trades, the strength of prices of the Int tir having been increased by the tulk ol pending consolidations, although the volume of business is restricted from the same cause. Failures are smaller than of late, and current railroad earning! phnw large gains over good returns I year ago. Despite the check to new business given by the talk of consolidation, a fall volume of trade is doing at all lending iron markets aud the advances noted Ic these columns Inst week are firmly held Expectations of a favorable outcome hi the negotiations for a combination of the principal steel companies caused the tucks of those concerns to show decided fi-iiiness and a readiness to advance. Uu certninty ns to the terms of the dent, however, checked the development ol speculation iu them. Wheat, including flour, shipments fot the week aggregate 4.M4.878 bushels, np-alust 4.SH7.S1S bushels last week, 3, R'il.OI'O bushels in the correspondins week of 1SHHI, 2.4."4,778 bushels In ISSifl nnd 3,83-2.744 bushels iu 1SHS. Corn exports for the week nggrt gote l,7i!0.422 bushels, against 4.471.440 bush elr (corrected) Inst week, 3,41K'..'i.'l3 bush els Iu this week a year ago. l.fHtO.ISl! bushels iu 1SS! and 5, T(J,575 bushels in 18! IS. Failures for the week number 220 a npainst 250 last week, 10! in this week a year ngo. 100 in 1S!r), 201) In 1SS)S am! 323 In 1807. CURIOUS FiSH FROM WELL They Had Neither Head Nor Tail and Could Swim llackward or Forward. GOSHEN. X. Y., Feb. IB. Some time ngo a driven well was sunk at the Howell creamery. Pine Island, to the depth ol 250 feet. The supply of water obtained equalled only one-tpiarter of the amount necessary, nnd in order to obtain a great er supply two charges of joveite, a uew explosive, were discharged by William J. Brown, nn expert in Its use. Both chnrges were set off simultaneously hy an electric buttery, nud a column of wa ter eight inches in diameter was thrown to a height of 300 feet. Many curious things came up from the bottom of the well, including three cu rious fish. They were uliout eight incher long nnd hnd neither hend nor tail, both ends lieing nlike. They could swim at easily backward as forward and were not provided with eyes or mouth. There were-several small orifices at each end of these curious lish. When they came down with n shower of stones from tin top of the column of water they bounded repeatedly many feet in the air. One wns captured by a Polander, who, curious to see its interior, struck it with a dull hatchet, but made no impression whatever upon the fish, although he killed it. One is still olive in captivity. Y. P. S C. E. CONVENTION. Plant For Steeling at Kyracuea Being Kapldly 1'erfeeteil. SYRACUSE. Feb. 18. Plans for the state Y. 1'. S. 0. E. convention to be held in this city Oct. 21 to 2.1 and which it ii expected 3,(HSI delegates will attend are being rapidly perfected. The general subject of the convention will be "The New Century Awakening." Ornnge and white have been designated as the convention colors and the daisj elected ns the emblem. An order hm been placed or 3,000 badges. They nre to be in the form of a duisy with a rile bon nltnched. For the first time at a state conven tion of this society there will be evangel istic, meetings at the noon hour among the workmen at the city factories. Dele gates will be assigned to speak iu dif ferent parts of the city. The Fhut Presbyterian church will be secured for Syracuse night. The quiet hour service each morning will be held at the First Baptist church. SERIOUS CHARGES. Patrick Coyle Aconies Town Anthorttles nt Avondale, N, J. ALBANY, Feb. 1!). The state com mission iu lunacy is investigating as to the truth of charges made by Patrick Coyle, the husband of Margaret Coyle, an insane woman, formerly employed as a domestic in Avondule, N. J., who al leges that without notice to him the town authorities of Avondule, finding bis wife wns insane nnd likely to fall as a churge upou the town, had her conveyed to New Y'ork city at night, where she wos aban doned. Within a short time she fell Into the hands of the police and was committed to the Bellevue pavilion, whence, owing to her condition, she was transferred to the Manhattan state hospital, where she died within a few days of p.ieuinonia. Stam lord Will Have Liquor I. Irene. KINGSTON, X. Y'., Feb. llt.-The vwers of the town of Stamford, in the Ostskills, have voted to have a license town for the next year. The town last yeer was no license and hotel keepers claimed they have lost money, summer boanlers going to license towns. Freight Trains Collide) No One Hurl. WATERTOWX. N. Y., Feb. 10,-An rxtra freight train nnd a rogulnr freight train ou the Rome, Watertown and Og dVusburg ruilroud met iu headou collision at Kasog yesterday. The engines of both trains were budly smashed aud many cars derailed. Xu one was hurt. From lllngbauiloa to lsw.K BINGUAMTON, N. Y.. Feb. H). l'lans nre under way looking to the ex tensiou of the lilies of the Binghauiton Railroad company to Maine, a village about 18 miles west from this city, aud ultimately to Owcgu. SUMMARY OF THE NEWS Short Items From Various , Parts of the World. I Reeord'of Many Haeulliga Condensed and Put la Small Sptoe aud Arranged With Nprclal Kegaid For the Conveul enoe or tlio Header Who Has Little llmo to Spare. W. II. Harris, for the past quarter of a utiii-y proprietor of numerous low priced circuses, is dead from heart dis ease. Mrs. Thomas C. Plutt, whose condition has been causing great anxiety for the last few days, is reported as being na belter. According to the Italiun newspape'-s, Signor Guiscppe Zunurdelli hns been def initely charged by King Victor Emman uel to form a ministry to suceceed the Snraeco cabinet. Iu thnt event It is be lieved thnt Signer Gioletti would lie the minister of the interior and the actual premier. A westbound passenger train ou the Chicago nnd Erie ruilroud wds partially derailed 12 miles cast of Decatur, Ills. Fireman Finney was killed in jumping. II. W. Schmidt, superintendent of the Illinois Southern railroad, is dend at Spartn, Ills. His son Harry died Satur day night nud Mrs. Schmidt is not ex pected to live. It is supposed they were poisoned by eating corned beef. Thursday. An explosion occurred in the Chilworth gunpowder works uenr Giuldford, 17 niili-s from London. Six men were blown to pieces. The unvy department has received a cablegram fn ji Commander Delano of the training ship Topekn, announcing his urrival at Rarbailnes. The Topeka re cently Railed from Cnpe Verde and ap prehension was felt in some quarters as to her safety. More than 150 shots were tired, a ser geutit of policrf and two negroes were wounded, and a ballot box was stolen in the course of an election riot at St. Louis. It is rumored thnt the queen mother will go to Bonn shortly to undergo a se rious operation, the necessity for which is the reason that (Juecii Wilhelmiua's Uinrriiige festivities Were not postponed, as they would otherwise have beeu be cause of the deuth of (Jueeli Victoria. Friday. Dr. Campbell Brown, the city analyst, testifying ut a beer poisoning Inquest at Liverpool, estimated from samples ex amiueil that the average weekly con sumption of beer in Liverpool in summer time would contain 300 pounds of arse nic, enough to kill a million people it ad ministered in equul doses aud ut one time. Mrs. Thouius C. Piatt, the wife of United States Senator Piatt, died at 0 o'clock Wednesday morning at the Fifth Avenue hotel, where she had been ill for some time. Her husband and suns were at the bedside. Charles Cnrroll Mann, aged 72 yenrs, a retired stock broker and for years a prominent Democratic politician, com mitted suicide at Philadelphia. He had been suffering from a complication of dis eases for 10 years. Northern and Central New Y'ork are feet deep in the worst blizzard of the winter, and in some respects in recent years. SatnrdPT. I.ovelnnd J. Miller, Jr., a young mnn convicted of muiisln lighter in the second degree iu killing Walter D. Tyler, wns sentenced to six yen is and six months in Auburn prison. Coroner Tnrliell nf Troy finds that the death of Lebbeiis 3. Rice was caused by a gunshot wound iu the hend. which was inflicted wrongfully, feloniously and with intent to kill by some person or persons unknown. Anti-saloon crusading In Wiufield, Knn.. is so serious troops muy be cnlled out. Mrs. Currie Nation was followed by dense mobs in Chicago. A Berlin special tells of many Ger mnns offering to tlie British embassy fur service in Smith Africa. London has contradictory reports, ac cording to a special cnble, about theVick-ers-Maxim-Cruinp deul. Monday. From the Battery in New Y'ork 100 Ice bound vessefs could be counted. It is said that the dowry of the Prin cess of tlie Astnrins will be 211.000,000 franca. For the first time in many yeurs the Deli'Wnrc river is closed to navigation, due to the Inrge amount of ice in the stream. Syracuse nud vicinity are snowbounil. the blizzard which begnn Tuesday has bnted somewhat, but snow is still fall ing, nnd railroads nre suffering. The hitter cold mused the loss of two liven ill New York. Lawrence Veill. a stableman, and an unknown mnn, em ployed as a coal heaver, were frozen to death. A dispatch from Portsmouth says tho royal yacht Victoria and Albert has In-en commissioned to take King Edwunl ami (juecn Alexandra of Germany, and it i expecti-il the British channel squadron will form the escort. Tuesday. ' The hody ot "William I lend rick son, a veteran 03 years old, wns found on rsil load tracks at Troy. He died from ex posure. Minnie Units, 15 years old. the daugh ter of .lames 1 1 ii 1 1 z. one of the wealthiest "to in Indiana, has been kidnaped. The condition nf Queen Sophia is so inticii improved that it is now believed she will no liui f -r lie confined to her bed. M. H'-cko of Pittsburg was shot and killed while defending himself from be ing robbi-d by three negro highwaymen at McKee's Rocks. Two mgnss are In-Ill uu suspicion. Tlie American Tobacco company, the largest concern of its kind in the world, is about to establish a large plant in Al bany, which will furnish work for up wjids of a thousand persons. BR DE ONLY JOURTEEN. Hy Agreement Husband la Not to Claim Her Far Two Tear.. WII.KESBARRE. Feb. 1H.-A 14 year-old girl was married Thursday to I 27-yiar-ohl man, and he signed a cob tract ugreeing to let her live with her pa rents until she is 10, which will be el Christinas dny, lis 13. The bride wai Mnry Jnne Renker of Plymouth town ship nnd the l.rid t'room Nicholas llurk hart, a prosperous young butcher of thb cily. They met last summer aud fell ii love with each other. ince thea the) have often met anil it wns his love foi the girl that induced the parents to al low the marriage, althoagh they stlpula ted that he should not cluirn her for twi years. The girl looks hardly more thai 12 years old. The wedding took place here befori Justice 1. W. McKeown and t!.er. wen present the girl's father a id . : ani Bel- brother, besides the I ;.- 'tin. After the ceremony the ..i 1 -., nt !inf with her parents aud the I- !! : o... wuMI buck to his shop. BU LOING TRADES STRIKE. ritutiiirjr la ThrAAtooed With One t fjtrs;' D iii"ri-tnnft. PITTSBURG, Feb. IS.-Unless thi nu ster builders of this city comply with the demands nf the building trades coun cil a general strike will be declared which will involve at least 150,00 work men. Nearly every mechanic in the city II expecting au advance of from 5 to 2( per cent. The carpenters nnd jniueri hnve already asked for an advance, aul the bricklayers, painters and il iratorf, pniiei-haiigei's, plasterers, structural iru workers, machinists ami stone masoni are preparing their scales and In everj case it is proposed to make demands fol higher wages. The window glass work errs, it is said, will also ask for an i en use of 20 per cent when the next scull cenference meets. The date upon which ninuy of 'hi scales expire is April 1 and unless tin master builders grant an advance th indications nre thnt there will be a gen eral suspension in the building trades and work on the big structure will have U be suspended. S'LK MILLS IDLE. Strikes Have Tied I'p This Indnstry la Lackawanna Valley. SCKA NTON, Feb. IS. Every silk mil in the Lackawanna valley is Idle by rea son of strikes, excepting the Klots mill 4 Cni lioiiihile. where the employes contlnm working, pending the arbitration of dilB cutties by the Rev. Father Coffey. Then nre 4. olio girls and men on strike nnl they show every determination to staj out until they receive a considerable lo crease in waires. Around the strikers' headquarter there is renewed hopefulness of an earlj settlement. Among the iiianufactiirers. how ever, the feeling is that the shutdown will lie a long one. WOMAN'S INQUISITIVENESS. ehe Was I'o.lui 11 reus and Opened Lovers Letters to Her Morrow. BELLEFOXTE. Pa., Feb. 18. Mist Mai-ion Peters, assistant pnstmirress ul Mimroville, was urrested by Postofhci Inspector Malone of Harrisburg for tinu perini: with tlie mails. Miss Peters ad mitted the truth of tlie charge, which wns npeiiink letters nnd pneknges ad- dressed to others. She acquired the hanll" through nn uncontrollable desire to read the hive letters of the youug men an women nf thnt community. Miss Peters wns held under 500 bat for trial nt next term of Uuitud itutm court at Pittsburg. Tonus- Woman Assaulted, NEW CASTLE, Feb. IS.-Miss Ma mie Ryan. 20 yenrs old, wus assnnltco Friday night by an unkuown mnn. Mis! Ryan left her home to go to the honn of a neighbor. Clara Voegele. Sin passed a deserted barn on the woy when she was grasped by a mnu. The glr creamed for help and struck at her as Bailout. She managed to break awaj and ran to the Voegele residence and throwing open the door, alio fell fniniiuj on tlie floor. Frew Refused a New Trial. T'NIONTOWN, Feb. IS Harry Frew of Everson. who was convicted of second degree murder for Wiling his brnther-ln-law. Dr. Norman King, in the bedroom of their little sister-in-lnw, was refused a new triah liK.vis l. mi it t. SHARON Joseph Mclntyre of ncai Wuitemhtirg fell down a flight of stuin and brco.e his neck. He died almost in stutitly. BEAVER FALLS Lilly, the four-old daughter of Edward Cloud, win was terribly burned by her clothes catch ing fire at an open grate on Friday, hat died. UXIOXTOWN Edward U. Spinner colored, who was found guilty of uinr let in the first degree for killing Troy Tiuo wus granted a new trial on the strength of new evidence discovered since the trial NEW CASTLK lames J. Morrisscy, a bi-'ikcinnn on the Pennsylvania linea lost his life here nnder the wheels nf i freight cur. from which he slipped nud fell. The accident occurred iu the cen ter of a long bridge over the Nesiian nock. HOLLIDAYSr.URG David N. Treese, manager of the quarries of the Juniata company at MeKces Gap,, this cminy, while inspecting the work, ventured un der a large amount of rock thnt had beeu blowu loose. A toll of rocks came down on him, killing him instantly. GRI'ENSltl ltG Captain Richard D. Laird has received orders from Colonel Burnett to take his company to the in augural ion ul Washington. March 4. GKKENSBURG-Rev. Dr. Towus D. I.. pastor of the Unity Presbyter!. in liurch. wns stricken with parulvis sud I is li t t si.le is completely paralyzed. Dr. l'owii-i-nil has been pastor of the Unity Presbytei inn chilli h for 30 years. WASHINGTON. I'a. -An-'cl Garcia, a tilling Cuban, entered Washington and Jiffeison college. Garcia liisliiculiii.il III the preparatory department, and is the second Cuban ihat bus become a stuoinl ut the institution this year, the hut bj ing I-'raiiciM.-o Dias.
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