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(iREAVKS, J f Physician and Surgeon Office ami residence above Tho Davis Pharmacy. D K. J. H. SliiOINS. Physician and Surgeon. OIL CITY, PA, 1 It. LANSON. T . Hardware, Tinning A Plumbing. Tlonesta, Pa O J.SETLEY. O. JUS.I ICE OF THE PEACE, Keeps a complete line or Justice's blanks for sale. Also Blank deeds, mortgages, etc. Tionesta, Pa. IOTKL WEAVER, E. A. WKAVI'.K, rropneior. This hotel, formerly tho Lawrence House, has undergone a complete change, and is now furnished with nil tho mod ern improvements. Heated and .lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot ami cold water, etc. The comforts ol guests never neglected. Mi,'vi'iiii. imiisiv V (i KROW tV OEROW Proprietor. Tionseta, Pa. This is the most centrally located hotel ill 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 Liverv in connection. )I11L. EMEKT FANCY P.OOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm mid Walnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work from the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to. mending, and prices rea sonable. J ORENZO FULTON, Manufacturer of and Dealer in HARNESS, COLLARS. BRIDLES, And all kinds or HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TIONESTA. PA. UMSfflfc GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PENN HAS NO CORN-WHEAT. No Hybrid of the Two Cereals Known to Department Inquest Into Burdick Murder Trade Review Niagara Falls Almost Dry Canal Bill Goes to the Governor Increased Liquor Tax Suicide ot General MacDonald. t The department of agriculture al Washington has reported that an nor nioua number of letters are being received at tho department from farm ers in all parts of the country asking for definite information concerning a so-called new grain called "cort wheat'- and usually at the same time requesting samples for trial. These letters are the result of wide ly published newspaper reports. The department authorizes the statement that there is no such thing as corn wheat and that it Is probable that nc hybrid of corn and wheat could evei be produced, or at any rate, one thai would he fertile. The grain which caused the news paper publications Is known correctly as Polish wheat. The newspaper re po:ts, the department says, are correct in saying that the heads and grains vi this wheat are very large, the grains being In many cases actually twice as largo as those of ordinary wheat. The statement that it yields CO tc 100 bushels is, however, probably con siderably exaggerated. The experi ments made by the agricultural de partment and by experiment stations in a few places show that the" yield is rather disappointing. The iwheat has been grown only ex perimentally in this country except in a very few places. From experiments bo far made the Inference would be that the grain would be very good as a hog food. Polish wheat is much re stricted In its adaptation and the de partment says could not be success fully grown anywhere east of the Mis sissippi river. The department has no seed of tho grain in stock. Burdick Inquest at Buffalo. Mrs. Durdick finished testifying in the murder inquest at Tuesday's ses sion. She swore she had no knowl edge as to who murdered her husband. Sho declared she never had any im proper relations with Arthur R. Pen noil. She left the stand without be traying any emotion. Throughout the trying ordeal of her examination by the district attorney she was cool and self possessed. Sho donled striking her husband with a chair. She denied that Pennell had executed a bond In her favor for $50,000 to take care of her if anything happened. Documents were read, showed that he did. She admitted she wired to Pennell to meot her in Buf falo on her arrival after the murder. Pennell was al the Falls and did not keep tho appointment. Mr3. Burdick admitted that Pennell induced her to oppose Mr. Burdick's action for di vorce. Sho testified that Pennell sard te would go West and get a-divorce from Ills wife and marry Mrs. Bur dick. ' Letters written by Mrs. Pennell after the last separation of the Bur- dicks and pleading with Mr. Burdick to forgive his wifo were read in court and caused several women to weep, Carol and Alice BimMck, tne two youngest daughters, of the murdered man, were sworn after their mother. At 5:02 o'clock the inquest was ad journed until 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Sixth Session. Thsr Burdick Inquest closed Thurs day afternoon. It lasted six days. Whether it has iic-compllshed anythiug besides making public sensational de tails of family scandals is a ques tion. The ir.quest has served to develop several theories relative to the crime that had been suggested many days ago, but it would hardly be correct to say that the investigation has addod anything more 'than appearance of reasonabillty to any of those theories. There has been no pvidence pro duced that couia possibly ie consid ered as bearing upon any feature of the crime other than Its motive. There has been not the slightest direct evl dence tending to establish the Identity of the murderer or to reveal any of the circumstances surrounding the ac tual commission of the crime. After the session Judge Murphy, Chief Cusack, District Attorney Coats worth and Medical Examiner Danser held a conference in the office of Judge Murphy. It was decided then in view of the part played In the Burdick affairs by Arthur R. Pennell, to hold an inquest upon the death of the latter and his wifo In the automobile aocident at the Gehres stone quarry, beginning Mon day. Building Material and Labor High. Weather, crops, distributive trade, transportation and even collections show improvement this week. Tho only fly in the business and Industrial ointment, in fact. Is tho abundance of strike talk, which a3 yet,. however, has been confined to threatened rather than actual- widespread suspensions of Tho price situation, shows few Im portant changes, !ut so far as actual indications are concerned, demand shows no curliinr; as a result of in creased cost. Railway earnings con tinue excellent, those for the third week of March showing the enormous gain of 17 per cent in gross. Lumber continues active, with de- liveries unequal to requirements at many points, and building material o! all kinds, in fact, is active, though quotations are 30 to CO per cent highet than a few years ago, and labor mani fests a desire to get all or more than all that building traffic will bear. Large orders for export to Italy hav been received for finished machinery at Providence. Leather is steady at the East and Massachusetts shoe shipments are 1 per cent larger than a year ago. Wool is firmly held at the East, supplici are closely held and London prices are higher. Business failures for the week end ing with March 2G number 175 . Canal Bill Passed Assembly. The $101,000,000 canal referendum bill passed tho assembly Thursday aft er a discussion of nine hours, in which party lines were practically abandoned All but. four of the negative votes were east by Republicans, the Demo crats voting almost solidly for the bill. It now goes to the governor, and It is said he will sign it. There was an attempt after adjourn ment to get the excise committee ol the assembly together so a3 to report out the bill raising the excise fees bj 50 per cent. The probabilities are that the bill will come up for final passage Wednes day. Governor Odell, it is understood will await its passage before he signs the canal bill, as ho desires to hav the reven'tie-producing bill a law be fore he signs the big canal bill. Increased Liquor Licenses. By strictly party vote, after nearly seven hours of parliamentary struggle and 12 calls of the senate, the bill in troduced by Senator Raines increasing the liquor license fees Vy 50 per cent, wag passed at Albany Wednesday. Admiral Explained Interview. At the instance of the president, Ad miral Dewey called at the White House Saturday and made a full ex planation of a recent newspaper inter view in which the admiral was quoted as saying the Caribbean sea manoeu vers were "an object lesson to the kaiser, more than any other person." The admiral assured the president that he had uo Intention of rellecting In the interview upon Gtmany, her emperor, or her navy, and that while the state ments credited to him were substan tially what he said, he neglected to caution the Interviewer against quot ing him. ; Afterward the admiral declined to make any statement for publication. At the White House it was stated that the admiral's explanation was sat isfactory to the president. It is not be lieved that further official notice will be taken of the incident. Miners Interested In April Circular. No one is looking forward more anx iously to next Thursday than are the miners in the Scranton district On that day the ccal operators Issue the April circular, which will contain the price list on which the rates for coal will be based for a year. Invaribly so far the price has dropped 50 cents on April 1, and In creased 10 cents a month for five months, when tho 50 cent drop is re couped and continues stationary for the winter. - Coal is now selling for $5. If It is cut to $4.50 and advances 10 cents a month until September, the miners un der the award of the strike commission will next winter be receiving a 20 per cent advance over the present rates of pay, as they are to get a 1 per cent advance for every advance of 5 cents a ton that coal takes In excess of $1.50. President's Western Trip. Arrangements fur President Roose velt's Western tour are completed. The president will leave Washington Wed nesday, April 1, at 9:03 a. m. over the Pennsylvania railroad and will be ac companied by Secretary loeb. Assist ant Secretary Barnes, the surgeon general of the navy, and three steno graphers; C. R. Rosenberg, represent ing the Pennsylvania Railroad com pany; representatives of three press associations, three weekly papers and a photographer; P. W. Williams, West ern Union Telegraph company; J. P. Gooeh, Postal Telegraph-Cable com pany; three messengers and four others. The run to Chicago will be made di rect, allowing only for . railroad changes. Chicago will be reached the morning of April 2. Niagara Falls Almost Dry. Owing to immense fields of Ice gath ered on the rocks above Goat island the American falls of Niagara were practically dry this week, and for the first time In 55 years residents and visitors have witnessed this wonder ful spectacle. The Horseshoe Falls was. not af fected so much as tie American; the river bed near the Three Sister is lands was dry, and the center fall be tween Goat and Luna islands was a skeleton of itself. Tho condition is likely to exist several days. Suicide of General MacDonald. Major General Sir Hector MacDon ald copiniandini; I he British forces on the island of Ceylon, and one of the foremost officers In tho British army, against whom charges based on immoial acts were filed some time ago, committed suicide at the Hotel Regina In Paris by shooting. Portrait of President McKintey. The portrait of ex-President Will- las McKiuley, painf'd iy wiiuam i. jriirphy. who was In competition i-itH n niiMilw-T iif artists. has been accepted as the one that will be hung in the White House. The pic ture is encased In a frame of gold. SHOT BY AN INTRUDER, fter Throwing WifVs Visitor From the Room. rVife Ran Screaming and Weeping After the Two Men Intruder Shot Husband Dead and Escaped Police man Four.d Man Dead and His Wife Unconscious Over the Body. New York, March 31 Filled with jeak-us anger at finding another man boing entertained by his wife yester day afternoon, William J. Peppier threw the visitor out into the hjll, fought him from tho third floor to the front dcor of the apartment house in which he lived, with the wife scream ing and weeping at their heels, and was there shot dead by the man who he thought had wronged him. This man was William Earl Dobson, a cashier In a stock broker's office. He fled and the police have sent out a general alarm for him. Peppier was about 2fi years old and a clerk. He had not been married long. A policeman summoned by tho cries of the ctier tenants of the house who were alarmed by tho shooting, rushed into the balding and in the hall stum bled over the dead bt;dy of Peppier, on which his wife was lying unconscious. Peppier had been shot in the side, tho bullet passing through the body. After being revived, Mrs. Peppier said she and Dobson were together when her husband leturned unexpect edly from work and a fight followed, resulting in Dobson being thrown out of the room and pursued down stairs by .her husband. In the lower hall the men clinched again and Dobson fired one shot. After that the woman remembered nothing, for she fainted. Dobson is said to be a married man with a wife and two children living somewhere in North Carolina. Raines Bill Taken Up Today. Albany, March 31 The Raines bill increasing the liquor license fees throughout the state by 50 per cent will be put upon its passage In the as sembly today by suspension of the rules, notice of which wa3 given In the assembly last night. It was ex pected that the bill would be put upon its passage on Wednesday but later the Republican leaders decided to join the Issue today. The assembly had hardly convened when majority lead er Rogers gave notice that "at some future date" he would move to sus pend the rules for the purpose of dis charging the committee on excise from the further consideration of the bill and passing It out of the regular or der. There was no debate, beyond the sugggestion of Mr. McKeown that the "some future date" be fixed for November 1. ' Corbett-McGovern Fight. San Francisco, March 31. E.ldle Graney, who will referee the Young Corbett-McGovern fight tonight, visited both training quarters. He wished to get an exact interpretation of the agreement which Coibett and Mr Govern's managers signed Sunday night. As the agreement reads, In case a foul is claimed by either side the decision cf the referee must be withheld until after a reputable phy sician lias made an examination and reported what injury. If any, has been Inflicted. Graney wants to have the full meaning of the agreement under stood by both- parties. At ncxra the betting odds were 10 to 8 in favor of McGovern. Indicted Officials Gave Bail. Newark, N. J., March 31 The men indicted for manslaughter In connec tion with the trolley car wreck of Feb. 19, which resulted in the death of nine high school pupils, appeared in court. They were E. F. C. Ycung, president of the North Jersey Street Railway company; David Ycung, vice president and general manager; A. W. Pratt, roadmastor; ' Charles H. Shipman, general superintendent, and James Smith, division superintendent; A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad; John 1). Crimmlns, Ellsha B. Gaddls, Dr. Leslie I). Ward and J. Roosevelt Shanley. All pleaded not guilty and furbished $2,000 bail each. Miss Roosevelt Leaves Porto Rico. San Juan, P. R.. March 31. Miss Alke Roosevelt, Governor Hunt and their party returned hero at 2 o'clock Monday morning by special train, hav ing visited the towns on the north coast. Miss Uoosevelt was received with great enthusiasm everywhere, the inhabitants vicing for the honor of having her as their guest. Much of the trip was made on horseback, which Miss Roosevelt said she greatly on joyed. Last evening Miss Roosevelt attended a reception given by Colonel James A. Buchanan and Captain Jo seph T. Crabbs of the Porto Rico reg iment. She will sail for New York today on the steamer Coa.mo. La Salle Postoffice Again Robbed. Niagara Falls, March 31. The post office at La Saile was entered by burg lars some' time Sunday night. The safe was blown open by dynamite, and the thieves took from It $.'ni, several packages of postage stamps and sev eral bunches of trolley tickets for the Buffalo & Niagara Falls, line. The burglars secured entrance by breaking open the front dcor, which wai inse curely fastened. This is the third time the postofllio at I-a Salle has been robbed. COMPARING FLEET3. Count Von Reventlow Thinks Ger many's First Squadron Superior to Dewey's. Berlin, March 31. Tho foreign office here is fully satisfied with the explana tions Admit al Dewey made to Presi dent Roosevelt regarding the inter view with the admiral which appearec recently in a Newark, N. J., paper anc in which the German navy and tin German emperor were mentioned. Nc communication on the subject has passed between the foreign office anc the German embassy at Washington because the officials here, from the be ginning, felt certain that if Admiral Eewey had been correctly reported the government of the United States woulc do everything proper on its own Initia tive, without any reminder from here Count Von Reventlow, in the Tage blatt, compares the German and Amer lean navies. iHe says Germany's first squadron Is homogeneous and always ready for instant service. "It could,' he added, "smash Dewey's heterogen eous assemblage, which had not a sin gle -modern armored cruiser." The count regards the American maneuvers as "generally childish" anc as "aluays resulting in defeats of .h hostile fleets, the naval commanders therefore gaining large newspaper glory." Count Vcn Reventlow refers to the "poor marksmanship of the West In dlan fleet," to its insufficient nunibei of officers and men and to the "low morale cf the navy, as Indicated bj the numerous desertions," and says he believes "the United States will some day have a fine fleet, but she has not cne yet." NEW COAL PRICES. Fifty Cents Reduction For April, With 10 Cents Advance Monthly. Philadelphia. March 31. The Phil adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, through a circular, gave offl clal notice of a reduction of 50 cents a ton in prices cf prepared or domestic anthracite coal for the month of April. The sizes affected are broken egg; stove and chestnut. There will be nc change in the price cf furnace and steam sizes which are largely sold tin der contract. The new prices are; Lump and steam-heat, $2.50; broken, $3; except ing Lcrberry and Schuylkill red ash, which will be $3.25; Lykens Valley red ash., $3.00; egg, 3.25; stove, $3.25; chestnut, $3.25. The reduction applies to April only, as monlhly hereafter prices will be ad vanced 10 cents per ton until basic rates are reached again. The prices announced are for line and city trade, free on board at the mines, unless changed by the com pany. The Reading officials declined to say what effect the reduction will have on the wages ot miners. Inspection of Militia. Washington, March 31. Prompt and satisfactory responses have been re ceived at the war department from adjutants general of states and terri tories to a roreut telegraphic inquiry as to when the organized militia will be ready for personal Inspection by an army officer, in order to determine the number of magazine arms and equipments to lie Issued to them un der the picvislons of the new inllllla law. With only few exceptions the state troops will be ready for the proposed inspection during the month of April and it is expected that the war department will be able to an nounce its plans for the Inspection In a few days. Among the states which have announced their readiness for inspection, either during April or at the convenience of the war department are New York and Vermont. Trout and Whitefish In Lake George. New York, March 31. Three hun dred thousand lake trout, salmon trout and whitefish fry were shipped to Lake George b ythe Now York aquar ium. This Is the first .product of the fish hatchery established this inter in the aquarium. The eggs were sent to the aquarium by the United States fish commission for the benefit of the New York state fish and game com mission, which designated LakeGeorge as the depository of the first hatching. Hereafter all the product of the aquarium hatchery will be used for stocking waters named by the New York commission. Battle In San Domingo. Cape Haytien. Haytl, March 31. A serious engagement took place Saturday b:teen the Dominican gov ernment troops and the revolutionary forces at Juan Calve, near the town of Bajabon. The losses on the gov ernment side were 20 killed and 43 wounded while the revolutionists lost five killed and 11 wounded. The tele graph line Is interrupted beyond Gotul. It Is rumored here that the govern ment troops have suin.unded the capi tal, Santo Domingo, and that a battle is imminent. ' ' Anti-Combire Clause of Tariff. Ottawa, Out., March 31. Walter Scott, M. P., West Assinibola. has ad dressed a memorial to t;ie ministers of justice on the subject of complaints alMiut the conditions of the lumber trade of the West, urging the holding of an Inquiry with a view to applying provisions cf the atiti-eoiiihine clause of the tariff act or section 52d of the criminal code directed against combi nation in restraint of trade. If a clear case Is made out, then American dressed lumber will be placed on the Ireo list. POINTED PARAGRAPHS, Summary of the Week's News of the WorlJ. " Cream of the News Culled From Long Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape For the Hurried Reader Who is Too Busy to Read the Longer Reports and Desires to Keep Posted. Wednesday. The capital of Santo Domingo has been captured by revolutionists. The Davis-Bostwick 1,000-ton barge canal was taken up in t'e senate and wa3 passed by a vote of 32 to I I. Owing to immense fields of ice gath ered on the rocks above Goat island the American falls at Niagara were practically dry. Mrs. Burdick confessed tho story o! her love for Pennell, and described how she slipped from a windaw when surprised In the lawyer's room by hei husband. The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in an address to Methodist ministers, star tled tftem by repeating his theory that the Bible relates merely the religious experiences of weak human entitles. Thursday. General Nelson A. Viles was the guest Tuesday night of the Auburn Business Men's association at Its ban quet. After reading his special message tc congress. General Castro iwthdrew his resignation of the presidency of Vene zuela. The New Y'ork Tribune says thai control cf the New Y'ork Central has been obtained by the Rockefeller-Petin-sylvanla-Morgan interests. Mrs. Burdick, after stubbornly de fending name of Pennell, tho man she loved, turns on ihim and blames him for the wrecking of her happiness. Trying examination ends with donlal of knowledge of Identity of murderer. General Sir Hector MacDonald, It Is announced is to be court martialed in Ceylon to answer serious charge ol Immorality. Reported from Paris that the general ha3 committed sui cide". Friday. General Castro withdrew his resigna tion as president of Venezuela. Dr. R. S. Newton, alienist and ex pert, witness in the first trial for mur der ot Roland B. Mollneux, died. General Sir Hector MacDonald of the British army, a cable dispi'.ch states, committed suicide by shooting himself In a Paris hotel. The Inquest into the death of Edwin L. Burdick at Buffalo concluded. No decision yet announced. Tho inquest into the death of Mr. and Mrs. Pennell will begin Monday. The Irish land purchase bill of the British government was Introduced in tho house cf commons and read a first time. Comments of all parties are ex ceedingly favorable to Mr. Wyndham's bill Saturday. , Henry Currey, secretary of the Rail road Y. M. C. A. at Water-town, N. Y., has been missing for over a week. - Conferences between employes' griev ance committees and President Under wood of the Erie, bring wage increase to engne drivers. Officials of the North Jersey Trac tion company, on whose road nine high school pupils of Newark were killed on Feb. 19, were indicted by the Essex bounty grand jury. ; The Antarctic exploration steamer Discovery wintered further south ttrnn any other vessel has ever done, nnd Captain Scott, who discovered lofty mountains In latitude 82 dog. 20 mill., thinks land stretches to tho pole. Monday. Marabebe scouts defeat San Miguel's force after a brisk battle. The enemy left 45 dead on the field. Gold finds in the Tanana district in Alaska are said to bo richer and more extensive than those (it the Klondike. President Roosevelt ready to start Wednesday. on his record-breaking tour of West. lie will travel 14,000 miles and visit 22 states and two territories. Burdick inquest is to be resumed Monday for examination of New York bartender, who is said to have heard Pennell threaten to kill Buffalo club man. Transfer of rural free delivery di vision from office of first assistant to fourth assistant postmaster general may result in removal or resignation of Mr. Machen, Its chief. Tuesday. A herd of 10 cattle on a farm at Charlton, Saratoga county, werefaund Infected by foot and mouth disease. The Pennell Inquest at Buffalo has been postponed indefinitely u.v.ng to the absence of an imixirtant witness. The westbound New York and Cleve land express was derailed at Concord. Pa., and 23 passengers were more or less injure!. Two lions escaped rem a cae 3t Pittsfield, Mass., and afierl;l!l!nK two horses one of the beasts was sln-t and the other captured alive. Tho safe In tho postoillce at La Salle, Niagara county, was dynamited and the thieves secured $-"0i), several packages of osiage stamps and tnd ley tickets. Gustavus Franklin Swift, prcsidsat of the packing company' which bears his name, iie3 unexpectedly Isi ChicuKO as tho result of an operatiuu BUY3 JONES PLANT. Ssmi-Officially Announced That thl Deal Has Been Closed. Pittsburg. March 2S. Charles M 3: 'i wab, president of tho United States Steel corporation, arrived in Pittsburg Thursday morning. Strict se crecy 'was observed as to his move toents. Soon alter breakfast at his homo, in the East End. Mr. Schwat went to the office of the Carnegie com pany, where ho was in consultation v ith officers of the steel corporation. Conferences were held during the day with representatives of the Jones & I aiighlin Steel company, and it is given out seml-offlcially that there Is no doubt thai the deal for the absorp tion c f that big steel Interest by the Lust will be closed. It is announced that the terms hav finally been agreed upon and that the Ag ue at whica the plants and proper ties will be taken over Is $SO,000,000, the price originally asked by tho Jones & Iaut.ilin company mhen negotia tions were first opened several months ao. The only hitch in the deal mentioned Is the terms cf payment, and to Mr. Schwab has ben entrusted tho task of smoothing over the objectionable features and making a satisfactory ar rangement with the company. Must Raise on Coal. Cumberland, Md., March 28. The announcement posted by the coal op eiators of an increase of 18 per cent for mining coal, to apply to the mines of the Georges Creek and Somerset, Pa, regions, will have a double ef fect. The scale, which goes Into ef fect April 1, meets the demand of the miners' union, hence there will be no strike in the regions referred to, aa was expected. With tho Increase granted for mining coal, the local coal dealers have been notified that when the contracts for coal that are made from April 1 to April 1 each year are made this season the Increase will be such that the local dealers will be compelled to raise the price on so? coal r0 cents per ton. Tills will make the price ?2.7" per ton and will be the highest price scft coal haa sold for in the territory since 1SS0. King Wanted a Diplodocus. Pittsburg, March 28. When King Edward VII visited Andrew Carnegie at Skil o last year ho expressed wonder on viewing a picture of a huge fossil reptile, nnd he asked Mr. Carnegie what it fas. "That is a namesake of mine," said Mr. Carnegie. "That Is tile Diplodocus magniflsslnius Carno giensls " The king said he would like to have a diplodocus, &c, and now Professor Hatcher of tho section of paleontology of the Carneglo museum hero is assembling the fossilized bones of one excavated in Wyoming. It will be a gift from Mr. Carneglo to the British museum. Twentieth Centery Fund. York Pa.. March 28. An Important step has been taken here by represent atives of all boards and benevolent agencies of the general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church In the United States. It. was decided to es tablish a twentieth century benevo lence fund , for all objects of tho church. Every Lutheran Is to be asked to give 1 cent a day for a period of one year. From tho 250,000 Luth erans in the syftod it Is expected to realize nearly $1,000,000. Passed 70 Icebergs. Philadelphia, March 28. Seventy icebergs and quantities of floo Ice were passed on March 17, in latitude 4-': 15, longitudo 4!) to 51, by the British steamship Lord Ivcagh, Captain Minis ter, which arrived hero from Ardros san, Scotland. Captain Clarke, com manding the British ship Maryland, In port from London, reports that on March 21 in latitude 42:28, longitude 51:5(i, he passed a number of small Icebergs and floes of field Ico. Favors the McConnell Bill. Harrisburg, March 28. Governot Penny-packer Is said to favor the Mc Connell bill, which takes the power ol granting liquor llcent-es from the courts ami lodges it In three men in every county. Several conferences, have been held this week by the house leaders on this matter, ami it is expect ed tho McConnell bill will be reported out of the houso committee on law and order on Tuesday night. Will Get New Passenger Depot Indiana, March 28. Tho Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg railroad will build a $5,(i00 passenger station in this place. It will be locate. I ou the old paper mill lot, will adjoin the plant of the Indiana Woolen Mills com pany, and will bo of brick. The new railroad will have trains running be tween Puuxsulawney and McKees Mills alter Juno 1". Boy Killed With an Umbrella. Maham.y City, Pa., March 28. Ac umbrella thrown by the driver of brewery wagon caused tho death ol John Tracy, the II year-old son of for riier Councilman Thomas Tracy ol Shenandoah. Tracy had annoyed fh driver and the latter hurled the uni brella, the point of 'which pierced the boy's bend. Minister Shoots Himself. Altoona. Pa. March 2S. Kev. John C. O rim.-s of Ne-ci p'ck, Pa., who has been attondinu t'i Central Pennsvl vanl.i .Meth'xlis.' conference here, shol hitulf tw:c:- Thursday and is spri nis ly w-Himie 1. He had been a suuVroi from, weUucholia
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