RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one inch, one week... $ 1 Ot One Square, one incb, one month. S 0 One Square, one inch, 3 months.... 6 0 One Square, one inch, one year .... 10 00 Two Squares, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one year 30 Ot Half Column, one year. 60 00 One Column, one year 160 00 Legal advertisements ten cents per line each insertion. We do flno Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but it's cash on delivery. Published every Wednesday by J. E. WENK. OiBoe iu Sme&rbaugh & Wenk Building, ELM STRKKT, T10NKMTA, PA. Term, 0I.OO A Year, Hlrlnly In Airmae: No subscription received for Bbortor period than three months. Correspondence solicited, but no notice w 111 bo taken of anonymous couitnunlca lloiiH. Always give your name. PORE EPUBLICAN VOL. XXXVI. NO. 38. TIONESTA. PA., WEDNES DECEMBER 2, 1903. $1.00 PER ANNUM. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN. sr ( i , in BOKOUGH OFFICER!. DwgtHK.V. R. Lannon, OoUHCtlmen. Dr. J. C. Dunn, G. O. Omiton, J. B. Muse, O. E. Weaver, J. W, Landers. J. T. Ualo.W. F Kllliuer. Jimtieet of the react C. A. Randall, S. J. Hetley. Countable N. R. Maxwell. . Collector 8. J. Sotley. School Director L. Fulton. J. O. Seowden, J. E. Wenk, it. L. Haslet, E. W Bowman, Uoo. lloleinan. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Ctmtfrew Joseph C. Sibley. Member of Senate J. K. P. Hall. Amembly C. W. Ampler. 1'ieaidenl Judge W. M. Llndsoy. Amiocmte Judge U. B. Crawford, W. II. II. Dotterer Prothonotary, Regiiler dt Recorder, . J. (!. (leiHt. Sheriff. Geo. W. Nobllt. Yeaanrer Frd. A. Keller. CommiiiianerV. Burhenn, A. K. Khlpe, Henry Welngard. IHHtnet A ttorneyH, D. Irwin. jury CommUHionera Ernest Slbble, Low In Warner. Coroner Dr. J. W. Morrow. County Auditor W. H. Nttles, Geo. W. Holmnan, B A. MeOloskey. County Sutveyor-D. W. Clrk. Courtly Superintendent E. E. StlUin- ger. Keaular Terms of t'urt. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday or May. Fourth Monday or Heptemlwr. Third Monday of November. Church and Hnbbnth Hrhool. Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a. in. j M. K. Kabbath School at 10:110 a. in. Preaching .n M. E. Church every Sab bath evening by Kev. O. II. Nlcklo Preaching In the F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Kev. Mctiarvy, Pastor. Services in the Presbyterian Church every (Sabbath morning and evening, Kev.' K. W. IlliliKWorth, Pastor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are hold at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each til' nth. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. pi N EST A LODGE, No. 300, 1. 0. 0. V. 1 MfwU every Tuesday evening, iu Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. I .X) REST LODGE, No. 184, A. O. U. W I Meetn every Friday evening IniA.O.U. W. Hall, Tionesta. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST. No. 274 G. A, K. Moot Island 3d Monday eveninir In each month, in A. O. U. W. Hall, Tioneata. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. :I7, W. K. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month, in A. O. U. W. hall, Tionesla, Pa. rl"MONE.STA TKNT, No. 104, K. O. T. 1 M., meeis 2nd and 4th Wednesday evening in eaeh month In A. O. U. W. hall TionesU. Pa. Hi F. KITCHKY, J . ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Tlonema, Pa. c URTIS M. SIIAWKEY, ATTORN KY-AT-LAW. Warren, Pa. Practice In Forest Co. AC .BROWN, ATTORNEY-AT LAW. Office in Arner Buildinir, Cor. Elm and Uriiige Sis., TlmieHta. Pa. J, W. MORROW, M. D., Phvslclan. Siiriroon A Dentist. Office and Residence three doors north of Hotel Agnew, Tionesla. Professional calls promptly responded to at all hours. D R. F.J. BOVARD, Physician t ."surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. DR. J. O. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUUGl'T. Office over stere, Tionesla, Pa. Professional calls prompt ly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residence Elm St., between Grove's grocery and Gerow's restaurant. D R J. B. SK JOINS. Physician and Xiirgeon, OIL CITY, PA. FR. LANSON, . Hardware, Tinning Plumbing. Tionesla, Pa O J.SKTLEY. O. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Keeps a complete line ol Justice's blanks lor sale. Also Blank deeds, mortgages, etc. Tionesla, Pa. HOTEL WEAVER, E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor. This hotel, formerly the Lawrence House, has undergone a com pletecliange, and is now furnished with al'. the mod ern Improvement. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comforts ol guests never neglected. CENTRAL HOUSE, V. O EROW A 1 E RO W Proprietor. Tlonseta, Pa. This is the inostcentrally located hotel in the place, and has all the modem Improvements. No pains will be spared to make It a pleasant stopping place lor the traveling publlo. First class Livery In connection. piIIL. KMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm ami alnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kind-ol custom work from the tlnest to the coarsesl and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion I'iven to mending, and prices rea sonable. RKNo FULTON. Manufacturer of ami Dealer In HARNESS. lOLURS. BRIDLES, And all kinds of HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TIONESTA. PA. I H. HASLET t GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PENN LONG LIST OF MURDERS Three Chicago Desperadoes Caught After a Fight. Sale of Execution Apparatus Cut-Off Across Great Salt Lake Chicago Strike Ended Senator and Governor Agree Panama's Protest Report on Postofflce Scandal Inquiry. i Chained wrist to wrist, their hair n at tod with dried blood, their clothing covered with dust and dirt two beard less boys, Peter Nledermeier and Har vey Van Dine, sat Friday night In the presence of Mayor Harrison ot Chicago and Chief of Police O'Nell, calmly confessing to their share in a three months career of crime which has included nine murders, the wound ing of five other men, and a long se ries of robberies. The two young bandits, neither of whom la over 21 years ot age, together with their companion, Emll Roeski, who is no older, were captured near Liverpool, Ind . after a tight in which they battled against policemen, rail road detectives, railroad laborers and farmers. One man was killed, an other fatally wounded and all three of the young bandits w,ere wounded but not seriously. The three men were wanted by the police for complicity In the murder at the car barns of the Chicago City rail road company on Aug. 30, when two men were killed, a third badly wound ed and (2,250 stolen from the com pany. Gustave Marx, who Saturday night, Nov. 21, murdered Officer John Qulnn when the policeman endeavored to place him under arrest, confessed, aft er his capture, that he. In company with the three men, had committed the crimes at the car barns. The hunt for Van Dine, Niedermier and Roeski has been hot ever since. Although they knew that the entire police force was looking for them the throe men remained in the city until Wednesday morning. Panama Wants to Annex Islands. The newspapers of the isthmus of ranania are asking the government of the republic ot Panama to oc cupy and establish sovereignty over the Islands of San Andres, Providence r.nd Albuquerque, as well as other smaller Islands in the Caribbean sea iu longitude 84 degrees, as the terri torial limits of the new republic He be tween longitude 79 degrees and 84 de grees. The department of Bolivar, though bounded by the 78th degree of longi tude, has hitherto exercised control over the islands, where English only Is tpoken. The newspapers propose that the government shall negotiate for the transfer of the islands to the United States for use as a coaling station. Colombia's Official Protest. Colombia has entered protest to the attitude o ftho United States in a note to Minister Beaupre from Foreign Minister Rico, claiming It Is a viola tion of the treaty of 1840. Says a Colombian army Is marching on the isthmus, which is certain of victory if the United States does not Interfere, and hopes we will remain neutral. Sale of Execution Apparatus. The last legislature of New York appropriated $10,000 to purchas-3 the patents owned by E. D. Davis, who conducts the executions by electricity l.i the state. Davis has taken out two patents for execution purposes. The chair has never been used, but the helmet and leg electrodes have been used by Davis at all executions for several years. He also has other apparatus, not patented, that he uses. He cairies this apparatus with him in his little black grip from place to place and has jealously guarded his secret. Davis refused to sell out right but now has agreed to It. In the meantime there has grown i'P a considerable opposition to capi tal punishment and it is understood that Governor Odell will not allow the payment of the money to Davis until it Is learned what the legisla ture will do in the matter. In any event Davis will have to instruct sev eral people In the use of the apparatus and that will take some time, as he must wait for practical tents with criminals. Cut-Off Across Great Salt Lake. One hundred and two miles of track, composing what Is known as theOg-don-Lucien cut-off across Great Salt Lake, Is formally declared complete and made a part of the Harrlman system. The use of the cut-off will throw out ot trans-continental traffic the old Une from Ogden to Luclen, Nev., around the north end' ot Great Salt lake. This stretch of track, 147 miles In length, Is one of the most difficult and expensive of the Harrl man system. Its maximum grade, over the long Promontory hill is 104 feet to the mile and helper engines ere necessary. The elimination of this tieckage means a saving of more than $1,500 a day In the actual opera ting expenses and a saving of twe hours In running time. Report on Postal Scandal Inquiry , The report of Fourth Assistant Post master General Brlstow and the mem orandum of the president, just mado public, find a condition of gross cor ruption in the office of the first assist ant postmaster general and of the as sistant postmaster general for the postofflce department. I All the documents In the case havo oeen forwarded to the postoffloe Jepartment. and will be held ready for mbmittlon to the congress whenever it may choose to ask for them. A melancholy feature of the case is that with one exception all the of fenders have been for a number of years In the government service and a list Is given of the fourteen post office employes In the service at the t'me this Investigation was begun, who tiro apparently most seriously impli cated in the wrongdoing, together with an account of the steps that have been taken by the government In each case and a statement of the date of original appointment of each man in the service. Stimulus to Retail Trade. Bradstreet's state of trade says: Continued cold weather has offered a needed stimulus to retail trade in all seasonable lines, but particularly In clothing and wearing apparel. Thu In turn Is reflected in better re-order business with jobbers at interior cen ters, who also note more Interest In holiday goods, fancy groceries, furs and kindred lines. Despite dullness and persistent ham mering and weakness in the neglectej and less prominent industrial stocks, the New York market for railway and other standard shares continues steady to strong. Business failures for the week end ing with November 20 number 107 against 182 in the like week of 1902. Chicago Strike Ended. Cams were run Thanksgiving night by the Chicago City railway for the first time after dark since the strike vas called two weeks ago. When the strikers reported for duty Thursday morning, all of them with the exception of 59 were given their positions. Of those whom the com pany refused to reinstate 53 were train service employes and six wro members of the cable splicers' union. These men, it Is claimed by the offi cials of the road, were guilty of mis conduct during the dispute and ac cording to the terras of settlement are not entitled to reinstatement. Senator and Governor Agreed. Senator Thomas C. Piatt and Gov ernor Benjamin B. Odell of New York have reached an absolute and entire agreement, politically. Both will work In perfect harmony with each other and with President Roosa velt. This in brief. It was announced, was the net result of a conference held at the White House Tuesday night. The parties to the conference were the president. Senator Piatt. . Governor Odell and Colonel G. W. Dunn, chalr manho Republican state commit tee ofKew York. President of Both Companies. Charles P. Cutler was elected pres ident of the Central New York Tele phone and Telegraph Co. and of the Empire State Telephone company at meetings of the directors held In ftica, N. Y., last Tuesday. Mr. Cut ler Is now president of all the Boil Telephone companies In this Btate ex cept what is know as the Buffalo Bell. H looks much tike a beginning which will end In consolidation of all the Fell Telephone companies In this state and already It Is something mors than federation. Hon. Warren B. Hooker Designated. The governor has designated Hon. Warren B. Hooker as associate Justice of the appellate division of the supreme court In and for the Second Judicial department for the term of five years from Jan. 1, 1904, in the place of Michael H. Hirschberg, who has been designated as presiding justice of such department for the term ending Dec. 31, 1910, to succeed Hon. William W. Goodrich, whose designation as such presiding justice will expire by limitation on the 31st day of Decem ber, 1903. Life Insurance For Church. The Rev. F. M. Kirkus, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, Bergen Point, has suggested to his people that 25 members of the church carry $1,000 life insurance each to form an endowment fund. He says he Is will !ng to be one of the 25. The church revenues have decreased because ol (he removal of wealthy members, Mr. Kirkus' plan has been favorably received. Thirty Deaths From Shanty Fire. The funeral of 28 victims of Satur day's holocaust at Lilly, Pa., took place Monday afternoon. One dozen coffins were used In some of which the remains of three or four victims were placed. With two dead In tin hospital the total is now 30 ns the result of the shanty fire. Oldest Woman In the State. Mrs. Sarah Andrews, who lives ut Silver Springs, Livingston county, and V'ho is supposed to be the oldest wo man In the state of New York, on Sat urday celebrated her 101st birthday Her health Is good and her faculties well preserved, except that she is hard of hearing. Mr. Cleveland's Positive Refusal. Grover Cleveland has sent a letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Dally Eegle announcing his "unalterable and conclusive determination to never egaln be the nominee of his party for the presidency." and the Eagle accepts the decision as final George J. Stogie of Port Huron, supremo record keeper of Maccabees cf the World, died at a sanitarium at Flint, Michigan. He had been 11! some weeks. MR. WILSON'S REPORT. Favorable Balance of Trade Due to Exporc of Farm Products. Value of Farm Exports For 1903 Was Over $878,000,000, Exceeded Only In 1901 Value of Horses, Mules and Cattle New Method of Seed Distri bution Foot and Mouth Disease. Washington, Dec. 1. The seventh annual report of the present secretary ot agriculture has been submitted to the president. It opens with a dlscuw lion of the educational requirements of the research work of the depart ment. Although the department has availed Itself to the fullest extent of graduates of the agricultural colleges, it has been necessary. In view of the rapid development of the work, to se cure competent men wherever they could be found. Mr. Wilson reports the admission to the department since 1S97 of 490 students; 249 of these are still in the department, not less than 132 having passed into the classified service. ' Secretary Wiison reviews at length the production and exports of-Amcr-ican agricultural products. The in crease in the exports of farm pro ducts for the half century ended 1901 was from $147,000,000 to $952,000,000 550 per cent. The exports of farm products for the closing decade of the last century was over $700,000,000 a year, and for 1903 over $878,000,000, ai. amount second -only to that of 1901 Although the consumption of cotton In this country Is greater than that of any other country In the world, yet, in addition tc supplying the home market (he South exported last year over 3V4 billion pounds of cotton, worth 31? million dollars. Of grain and grain products, the ex port exceeded in value 221 million dol lars, and in the supply of animals, meats and meat products, the value ot exportation was 211 million dollars. Farmers' Balance of Trade. Discussing the balance of trade, the secretary shows that the favorable balance to the credit of this country is due entirely to the farmers. The balance of trade In favor of farm pro ducts during the last 14 years, no year excepted, aggregated 4,800 million dol lars. In products, other than those of the farm, during the same period the balance of trade was adverse to this country to the extent of RR5 mil lion dollars. Our farmers nofolfty can celed this Immense obligation, but placed 3,940 million dollars to the cred it of the nation when the books of in ternational exchange were balanced He concludes that, "It is the farmers who have paid the foreign bondholJ era." Reviewing the magnitude of agri cultural production, after giving the figures of the most important cropi, Mr. Wilson states that the value of all farm products, not fed to live stock, for 1903 considerably exceeded their value In the census year, when it wa given as 3.742 million dollars. According to the department's in ventory of farm animals for Jan. 1, 1903, the value of horses was over one billion dollars, and of mules, near ly 200 million dollars. The value ot cattle of all kinds considerably ', ex ceeded 1.300 million, of sheep. 108 mil lion, and of hogs. 305 million dollars. The secretary reports a gratifying extension in public education alone meteorological lines Regular courses of lectures or classes have been con ducted by weather bureau officials In not less than 12 colleges and universi ties. Many of the representatives o( this bureau have, moreover, delivered occasional addresses In other classes or colleges, and to teachers of schools The demand for instruction on these subjects increases rapidly Value of Weather Forecasts. Several disastrous floods occurred, some of the greatest of which there Is authentic record. Fortunately, the de partment's warnings were prompt and timely in the most remarkable degree and no dangerous flood was unher alded. An increase of nearly 20,000 is shown In the number of places recelv lng forecasts by telephone without ex pense to tho government, thus securing a rapid extension of weather informa tion among progressive agriculturists The campaign for the suppression of the foot and mouth disease In New England is reviewed at length. Opera tlons were begun Dec. 1, 1902, and thr last diseased herd was slaughtere' May 9, 1903. The co-operation of th several states was prompt and com plete. The number of animals slaugli tered was 4.101. of which 3,872 wer cattle and the rest hogs, sheep an'1 goats. The department allotted 7' per cent of the appraised value as In demnity, and the amount thus pah' was $128,908.57. Including all th.' other expenses, the secretary esti mates the total cost of the eradication of the disease at less than $300,001 The stock raisers of the country wer saved from a great, calamity by thi successful termination of this worl A general extension of the contagion over the country would have cause' cattle raisers direct losses aggregat lng hundreds ol' millions of dollar? while indirect losses from restriction--on traffic and embargoes on our expor' trade would have been simply 1'iea: culable. Special attention has been given tc the matter of securing Improved virl eties of seed for general distribution This has been especially exeniplifl'.'d ir the case of cotton, forage crops. anr home grown sugar beet seed In s;)it- of all efforts to Improve the character of this distribution, however, the sec retary states that the work does not accomplish the ends for which the law was originally framed. Over 40 mil lion packets of miscellaneous vegeta ble and flower seeds are distributed on congressional orders, and while theso are the best the market affords, the large quantity required necessitates that the seed be standard sorts only. The secretary believes that no practic al object is to be gained in distribut ing this kind of seed, and declares it would seem wise to limit the work en tiiely to the distribution of seeds, plants, etc., of new and rare sorts. The plant breeding work of the de partment will afford Increased oppor tunities of securing valuable seed, and to distribute the same effectively tho advice and assMtance of senators and representatives having agricultural constituents could be secured. The work the coming year will be inaug urated along these lines, and the sec retary hopes to receive the co-operation and aid of congress in the mat ter. KANSAS EIGHT-HOUR LAW. Supreme Court Affirms Its Constitu tionality'ln Relation to Public Work. Washington, Dec. 1. The United States supreme court has affirmed the constitutionality of the Kansas eigh: hour law regulating labor on publk works. Justice Harlan in handing down the opinion said that if thu Btatute is mischievous the responsibll ity. rests with the legislature and not with the courts. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Brewer and Peels ham dis strited. The suit was brought by W. W. At kins, who had a contract for paving streets in Kansas City and required one of his men to work 10 hours a day, He was prosecuted in the state courts, convicted ami appealed to the federal court, claiming violation of the na tional constitution In not receiving due protection of law and being deprived of his property. The Kansas law In question affecta not only work carried on by the state but by counties, or other municipali ties and makes eight hours a day's work. The opinion rendered by the su preme court, was based on the theory that all the municipalities of a state are the creatures of the state; that work for them Is of a public character and does not Infringe on the personal liberty of any one. Justice Harlan said: "Whatever may have been the motives that antrolled the enactment of the statute In ques tion, we can Imagine no possible ground to dispute the power of the state to declare that no one under taking work for it or for one of its municipal agencies Bhall permit or re quire an employe on such work to la bor in excess of eight hours each day and to Inflict punishment upon con tractors who. disregard such regula tion." Taking up the question of public pol icy, Justice Harlan said: "If It be contended to he the right of every one to dispose of his labor upon such terms as he deems best as undoubtedly it is and that to make it n criminal offense for a contractor for public work to permit or require hl3 employe to perform labor upon that work In excess of eight hours each day Is in derogation of the liberty of employe and employer. It is sufficient answer that no one is entitled to abso lute right and as a part of his liberty, to perform labor for the state; and no contractor for public work can ex cuse a violation of his lawful agree ment with the state, by doing that which the statute of the state under which he proceeds distinctly forbids him to do." On the point of the validity of a similar statute affecting private em ployment, Justice Harlan said: "Whether a similar statute, applied to laborers or employes in purely pri vate work, would be constitutional is a question of a very large I in port, vhlch we have no occasion now to de termine or even to consider." Explosion In a Powder Plant. Carthage, Mo., Dec. 1. The mix house of the Independent Powder company plant, five miles southwest of Carthage, blew up, Instantly killing two mixers and seriously if not fatally Injuring four other men. The cause of the explosion Is not known. Heath Goes to Washington. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 1. Perry B. Heath, secretary of the Republican national committee, which meets In Washington Dec. 11 to select a next convention city will leave here Satur day for Washington, stopping over :i few hours at Chicago on the way ' The lennn. OKI Lawyer Why do you feel that your client will lose his case? Have you exhausted every nieuns ut your dis posal to Young Lawyer No, but I hnve ex hausted all the meuns ut his disposal. Keep in the sunshine nnd go where men and women are hopeful. If it rnlns keep enough sunlight In your heart to last till the sun beams again. Schoolmaster. Fully lOi plained. "Yes, she has a case of 'nerves.' " "What's that'" "Well, to be frank, it's the name we use when u wealthy patient Is Just plain cranky." Chicago Post. People who grumble In cloudy weath er usually wear veils when the mm shines. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. Pointed Paragraphs Chronic ling the Week's Doings. Long Dispatches From Various Paift of the World Shorn of Their Padding i and Only Facts Given In aa Few Words as Possible For the Benefit of the Hurried Reader. James McNamara of Scranton, Pa., lost his lUe by falling Into a pot of molten metal at the Lackawanna Steol ylaut at Buffalo. President Roosevelt, In the role jf 11 peacemaker, Is seeking to prevent 1 factional fight among the Republicans In New York state. Princess Alice, wife ot Prince Fred erick Ernest of Schoenburg-Walden-Lurg, has disappeared and Is believed to have eloped with her coachman. Thursday. The Chicago railway strike was set tled after a prolonged conference. The men gained none of their original de mands. Four shots were fired at Mc. Ken neth. Grahame, secretary of the Bank of England, by a man who Is said to be a lunatic. The Pittsburg Reduction company at Niagara Falls will continue work on paying royalties on aluminum patents to the Cowlea company. Gustav Marks confessed to the Chi cago police that he took part in five murders in that city, including tho murder of three men in car barns. Itla announced that Eugene F. Ware, commissioner of pensions, will retire from that office by about tho middle of November of next year. Friday. Pennsylvania college football team defeated Cornell at Philadelphia by a score of 42 to 0. Lieutenant Peary returns from Europe enthusiastic over his chances foi discovering the North pole. Miss Violet Armstrong of Buffalo, a school teacher at Wright's Corners will be tried at Lockport on the charge of assaulting Clara May, a pu pil, and injuring the child's collar bone. The letter writin? chain of the Buf falo Sun Publishing company is de clared by the federal authorities to be In the nature of a lottery and letters In connection with It are barred from the mails. After a stubborn contest of 20 rounds Bob Fitzsimmons was given a decision at San Francisco over George Gardner of Lowell, Mass., for light heavyweight championship Wednes day night. Satuiday, John Alexander Dowle, general over- peer of Zion City, 111., admitted his need of cash to meet urgent creditors Mrs. Ellen Bailev 70 years old, was convicted of ha'in plotted a fatal train wreck in Virginia for , poses of robbery. The Luclen cut-off of the Harrlnmn railroad system across Great Salt lake was completed, cutting off two hours hi the running time to Sail Francisco. The jury in the case of William Sil verman, at Lake George, charged with the murder of his sister, failed to agree upon a verdict after being out 21 hours and were discharged. General Dionis.o Jhalnez, one of the Colombian envoys, in Washinvin n, de clared that Colombia would probably have a war with the United States in the event of an unsatisfactory adjust ment of the Panama affair. Monday. General Reyea saysflombia will of fer to give a canal concession to the Inlted States without cost. While walking on the tracks of the Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston rail road, near Coal Bluff, Pa., Minnie and Eveline Thompson, were killed by a tialn. Former President Cleveland, in a let ter to St. Clair McKelway, emphati cally announced that he would not again be the nominee for the presi dency. George T. Hoxsie of Frankfort, an engineer, was killed while working be side his locomotive In tho I'tlca yard. Ids arm being caught in a drive wheel v-hlle oiling a shaft. A brakeiiian was killed and two de tectives shot in a running fight with Peter Neldermyer, Harvey Van Dine pnd Emil Roeski, accomplices of Gustave Marx In the Chicago Btreei tar barn robberies and murders of last August. Tuesday. The sheriff's committee of the boarl of supervisors of Orleans county will petition Governor Odell to reinovn Sheriff Fred L. Riee. The safe of the passenger station of the Pennsylvania railroad at Phoenix ville, Pa., was blown open with dyn i mite nnd robbed of $150 No clue t-J the robbers. Fourth Assistant Postmaster .Gen eral Bristow's report on Investigations in the postolllce department was made public and discloses a system of gross corruption In seveial offices Mayor Ailolph J. RodenbecU of Ro chester has filed his formal resigna tion as mayor to accept a judgeship on the state court of claims, In place ot the late Charles T. Saxton of Clyde. Charles Kruger, in Jail at Greens burg. Pa., under sentence of execution Jan. 14, has confessed to the murder o! Policemen Pennell and Devlne In Chi ?! and to the murder of 10 other per sons ji Kentucky and the East JUDGE BALDWIN'S DENIAL.. Says Mr. Bristow'a Statements About His Criminal Knowledge Are Fait. Canton, O., Dec. 1. In emphatic terms Judge Baldwin, consul at Nuremburg, Germany, now here on a furlough, declared that the statements of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Brlstow that he, Baldwin, knows much about the postal frauds and brib ery, are absolutely false and unwar ranted. Consul Baldwin said: "I went once tc Mr. Heath for my son-in-law, Mr. -Miller, and said to him that my son-in-law desired to introduce these ma chines and asked him to give them a trial. Mr. Heath said he would inves tlgate the matter. I have never seen Beavers or Driggs, nor have I commu nicated at any time with them." Consul Baldwin says he never ad vised his son-in-law "to make any agreement or arrangement for dollars and cents with anybody." Referring to the statement by Mr. Bristow that "there Is reason to be lieve that Judge George E. Baldwin knows as much about this fraud as any other party, not even excepting Btavers and Driggs," Mr.BaldwIn said; "I desire to say that statement Is ab solutely fali In every particular. I knew of mWraud being perpetrated, attempted or contemplated." CANADIAN SHEEP AND LAMBS. Dissatisfaction Over Customs Changes as to Entrance of Stock. Chicago, Dec. 1. Canadian sheep and lambs took nine of the 12 prizes awarded at the National stock show for entries In two classes, and exhibi tors from the province of Ontario point to this in connection with the re fusal of the St. Louis world's fair ti recognize the stud and herd books of Canada. Of this international complication Garnett C. Porter, a proiifinent visitor from Toronto, Ont., said: "The Cana dian exhibitors are much concerned over the proposed changes in the Unit e dStates customs relating to the en hance of stock from the Dominion. So Intense is the feeling In Canada Just now that the government has formal ly declined to make any display at thj St. Louis fair, notwithstanding that $100,000 had been appropriated to pay freight on the animals which were ti have been sent to St. Louis." Bribery of Municipal Officials. Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 1. Hear ing in the charges against State Sena tor David E. Burns, implicated by for mer City Attorney Lant K. Salsbury in his confession In connection with brlh ery of municipal officials and others in the so-called water deal, was begun in police court. Mr. Bryan Lunched With Lord Mayor. Belfast, Dec. 1. William J. Bryan lunched with the lord mayor of Belfast and subsequently made a tour of the Queen's Island shipbuilding yards and other large manufacturing concerns. MARKET REPORT. New York Provision Market. New York, Nov. 80. WHEAT No. 2 red, 89c f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 Dultith, 91c. CORN No. 2 corn. 50 c f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 yellow, 51 c. OATS No. 2 oats, 41c; No. 2 white, 42V4c; No. 3 white, 41c BUCKWHEAT FLOUR $2.25 2.30. PORK Mess, $12.75 13.50; family, $18.00. HAY Shipping, 0075c; good to choice, 85(Q921;4c. BUTTER Creamery, extras, 25c; factory, 1510c; western imita tion creamery, 1718c. CHEESE State, full cream, Hood to prime, 12n. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, fancy, selected, 4043c. POTATOES State and eastern, pr bbl., $1.752.12. Buffalo Provision Market. Buffalo, Nov. 30. WHEAT No. 1 northern. 87c; winter wheat, No. 2 red, SUVi a. CORN No. 2 yellow, 62c .'. o. b. afloat; No. 3 yellow, 51 He. OATS No. 2 white, 40 c f. o. afloat; No. 3 white, 39c. FLOUR Spring wheat, bpst pateut. per bbl.. $G.005.75; low grades, IJ.iti 4.00. BUTTER Creamery western tra tubs,, 25c; state a.id Pennsi vania creamey, 23c; dairy, fair to good. 19(3 20c. CHEESE Fancy full cream, 12'4; jood to choice, 11 V4 12c; common !o fair. 8 10c. EGGS State, fresh .fancy, 3:"836c, POTATOES Per bii., G872c. East Buffalo Live Stock Market. CATTLE Best steers on said, $5.23 5.Gr; good to choice butcher gtams, $4.10 4.75; medium half fat fUwr3, $3.25 4.00; common to fair heifers, $Mi0fr3.00; choice to extra fat heifers, $4.00(1(4 50; good butcher bulls, $3.00 (it 3.50 ; choice to extra veals. $S.O0 8.2."); fair to good veals, $7.25(57.75. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice lambs, $5.00 5.70; culls to common, $1.00".00; yearlings, handy weight. $4.00 4.50; wether sheep, $4.004.25. HOGS Mixer packers' grades, $4.7) 4.75: medium hogs, $1.754.85, pigs, light, $4.854.90. Buffalo Hay Market. KAY --Timothy, new, per ton, loosa, $14.00 10. ou; hay, prime on truck new. $14.00 14.50; No. 1 dodo, $13.0'J 13.50; No. 2 do do, $11.00(312,00.
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