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C., meets tlrst and third Wednesday evening of each month, in A. O. U. W. hall, Tionesta, Pa. 'P ION EST A TKNT, No. US4, K. O. T. 1 M., meem i!nd and 4th Wednesday evening in each month iu A. O. U. V. hall Tionesta, Pa. 'P F. RITCIIKY, X ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tionesta, Pa. c URTIS M. SIIAWKEY, ATTORN ICY-AT-LA W, Warren, Pa. Practice In Forest Co. AC .BROWN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Olllcn In Artier Building, Cor. Elm ami Kridge NiM., Tionesta, Pa. J W. MORROW, M. D., Phvslciau, Surgeon A Dentist. Olllcn and Residence three doors north of Motel Agnew, Tionenta. Professional calls promptly responded to at all hours. I) R. F.J. UOVARD, Physician A Surgeon, ' , TIONESTA, PA. DR. J. C. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and URUU'JI'T. OlhVe over stere, TioiHMta, Pa. Professional calls prompt ly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residence Elm St., - between Grove's grocery and Uerow's restuurant. D R J. It. SK JO INS. Physician and Surgeon, , OIL CITY, PA. 7 R. LANSON. 1 . Hardware, Tinning A Plumbing. Tionesta, Pa O J. SKTLfY, O. .1 US 1 ICE OF THE PEACE, Keeps a complete line of Justice's blanks for sale. Also Klank deeds, mortgages, etc. TioiieMla, Pa. HOTEL WEAVER, 15. A. W HAVER. Proprietor. This holel, formerly the Lawrence House, has unilergoneacompletecliange, and is now I'uriiished with all the mod ern improvements. Heated and lighted throughout whit natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comforts ol guests never neglected. ENTRJPL HOUSE, V. MKROW A UEKOW Proprietor. Tionseta, Pa. Tills is the mostcentrally localdl hotel in the place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will lie spared to make it a pleasant stopping place lor- the traveling public. First class Livery in connection. plHL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm and Walnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work Iroin the finest to tlie coarsest and guarantees bis work to give perfect, satisfaction. Prompt atten tion irivoujo mending, and prices rea sonable. ORKNZO FULTON. Manufacturer of and Dealer In HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, And all kinds of HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TIONESTA. PA. S. H. HASLET & GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PENN JEATHS ON THE RAILS. Crashes of Trains In Iowa and West Virginia. Peace In the Far East State Dairy, men'a Convention Winter Wheat and Rye Predicts War With G'ir many Fire In Queen'i Bedroom Panama Treaty Referred. Flvo persons were killed and 10 in ;ured in a wreck Sunday on the Chi fago, Burlington and Qtiincy threo inllea west of Albla. Ia. The west- ootind passenger train was derailed nhib running onto the Cedar Creel: bridge and five cars were wrecked by collision with the bridge girders. Flvo men were killed and several injured by the overturning of two en ginea attached to a heavy Baltimore Mud Ohio freight train on the "17-mile prado" Sunday near Piedmont, VV. Va Threa trainmen were killed and flvo injured in a freight collision Sunday on tho Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad, near Adela, Ia. The collapse of an embankment nea' rardoi-R. Spain, on Sunday derailed train, killing 14 persona and Injuring many others. Peace In the Far East. Peace betwoen Russia and Japan is believed to be assured, as the result of the action of the czar at Tsarskoyo Selo, where he and Foreign Minister Lamsdorf have considered tho reply to the Japanese proposals. If Japan Is willing to accept some modi flea Hons there is nothing to stand In the way of a complete agreement. Tho modifications are said to be of minor Importance. The convention will cover only Corea. Russia ac knowledged Japan's predominating in fluence there, with the right to protect it. Certain reservations are made re garding coast defences or Rtatlons, to prevent any interruption of Russian sea communication with Vladlvostock and Port Arthur, Russia's freedom of tiade and concessions which Corea has guaranteed. A separate understanding will cover Manchuria, Japan agreeing to leave the question of the evacuation In abey ance and to recognize Russia's special Interests there, and undertakes not t.i interfere with them. In return Rm eia is to acknowledge Japan's trading privileges secured under treaties with China. It Is said that throughout the nego tiations the czar was actuated by a spirit of moderation and the desire to preserve peace. State Dairymen's Association. The New York Dairymen's conven tion elected the following officers for the coming year: President, George A. Smith of Frankfort; vice presidents, V. C. Bt-ebe of Arcade, Milton T. Morgan of West Winfleld: secretary, Robert Me Adam of Rome; secretary and treas urer, J. Van Wagenen of La-vyersville; directors, W. H. Jordan of Genevi, Horace Reese of Lowvllle, W. E. Griffith of Madrid. E. F. Rowley of Kennedy. W. H. Hallock of Washing- tonville. J. D. Frederlcksen of Little Falls. i The State association . closed n very successful convention with tho swarding of 'prizes on butter and cheese exhibits. In 133 lots of cream ery and dairy butter the highest Bcoro vps 95, only four being below 90. The highest cheese score was 98 and the lowest 93. The Cornell university sil ver cup was won by J. W. Reed oi Macomb with the highest score on home cheese. The Lewis county sil ver cups were won by J. H. Searl, Ma.' tinsburg export cheese, and H. A. P trie, Turin home made. Many life members Joined the association. Winter Wheat and Rye. Returns to the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture indicate that the newly seeded area of winter wheat is about 32.000.000 acres, a de crease of C per cent from the area es timated to have been sown In the fall of 1902. The condition of winter wheat on Dec. 1 was 8G.C, as compared with 99.7 in 1902, 8G.7 In 1901, and a nine year average of 92.7. The newly seeded area of winter rye is provisionally estimated at 98.0 per cent of the area sown In the fall of 1902. The condition of winter ryo or. Dec. 1 was 92.7. as compared with 9S.1 on Dec. 1. 1902. 89.9 on Dec. 1, 1901, and 9G.6, the mean of the aver ages for the last nine years. The final estimates of the total acreage, production and value of the principal crops of 1903 will be issued on Dec. 28, at 4 o'clock. Reduction In Cotton Mill Wages. Bradstreet's summary of the state of trade says: Distribution along consumptive lines grows In volume with the continuance of cold weather and the nearer ap proach of the holidays. The reduction in cotton mill wages now easily affects 80,000 operatives and future wage scales are the sub ject of much thought In the iron and steel Industry. Speculation does not show the firm ness or confidence exhibited last week, the elimination of large short Interests in stocks, cotton and grain removing supporting elements of no mean mag nitude. There are fewer furnaces now work ing than for five years past. The drop In finished products has not been in proportion, nor Is the awakening In remand for these products so marked, but it is n jted that wire and nail, ifructural and plate.i are rather better t Pittsburg, with more Inquiry noted or ralis at Chicago. Business failurcn for the week end DC Alth Dec. 10 number 241, against !C9 last week and 247 in the like I celt of 1902. Rumored Invasion of Isthmus. The disnatch of the cruiser Atlant-i to the gulf of Darlen is of great im portnnce and interest in connection vith the rumor from Colcn of the de parture of 3,000 Colombian soldiers for . w SEA. MAP OF COLOMBIA AMI) PANAMA. the isthmus of Panama. The gulf Is tbotd 180 miles east of Colon and tho triune In those waters will enable tho Atlanta's commander to keep In close (ouch with developments at Cartage na, fiom which place it is rumored liiat soldiers are to marc'i General Reyes Elected President. The Colombian legation at Wash Ington has recaived a cable di patch from General De Castro, com mander-ln-chief of the Colombian army, dated Port Llmon, Costa Rlea. conveying the Information that the re suits for president held throughout the country on Dec. 8 show a com plete triumph for General Reyes When seen General Reyes would make no statement beyond saying that he expected to remain in the United States for a fortnight longer. Treaty Referred Without Comment. The senate has referred the treaty between the United States and Pan ama for the construction of a canal across the isthmt's to the committe. on foreign relations. There was no discussion of the treaty in any form The senate without comment also re ferred the nomination of General Leonard Wood to be major general to the committee on military affairs Mr. Buchanan Sails Tuesday. Mr. William I. Buchanan of th?! itate of New York, who has been appointed minister to Panama, lunched with the president Sunday. Later ho tailed on Assistant Secretary Loom Is snd received his instructions. Mr Ruch&nan accompanied by his wife v i 1 1 Rhil from New York Tuesday fo:' Colon Predicts War With Germany. Much interest has been aroused by a report of Colonel Jones of the Ha waiian militia to Governor Carter of that territory in which Col. Jones, in commenting on the strategic import ance of the Hawaiian islands and the need of etrong defense, quoted Major General MacArthur, U. S. A., as pre dicting war In the immediate futuro between the United States and Ger many, and that the principal scene of the fighting would be In the Pacific ocean, with the Hawaiian islands as nn objective point. Major General McArthur, who la still in Honolulu, having been there the last two weeks, studying the military situatian In the territory, stated to u reporter that the report of Colonel Jcnes does not correctly represent his views in any particular and utterly misrepresents them in some, Fire In Queen's Bedroom. fire occurred Thursday mornln? at Sandrlngham palace and Queen Alexandra and her secretary, Mlsi Knollys. had narrow escapes. It broke out at 5 o'clock in the morning in Miss Knollys' bedroom, in the chimney fluo. where a beam is supposed to have been smouldering for some days, and spread to the bedroom of the queen, who was asleep at the time. She was awakened by Miss Knollys, who raised an alarm. But the fire had obtained n good hold of both rooms and consid erable damage was done before the fire was extinguished. The outbreak caused a great deal of excitement at Sandrlngham, where a number of guests are staying at present. Wants General Wood Subpoenaed. Senator Hanna will request the sen ate committee on military affairs to subpoena Gen. Wood to answer some of the charges against him by opp rents of his confirmation as major general. The committee expected to t'ose its hearing Dec. 1G, but it Is now believed that at least two weeks more vill be required. Should General Wood be subpoenaed an adjournment Mil be taken to give him time to re turn from the Philippines. Conviction In Postal Fraud Case. Former Clerks Thomas W. Mc Gregor and Columbus Ellsworth Up ton were convicted in the United States district court at Baltimore of conspiracy to defraud the government In connection with the purchase of 20,000 leather pouches for use in the free delivery service. Coldest Since 1876. Sunday was the coldest day in Chi cago for this season since 187G. At 8 o'clock in the morning the thermom eter registered 13 below. During th3 day the wea'her moderated and at night the mercury waf hovering round. th4 wro mark. I FALSE PRESS REPORTS. Complaint of Secretary Root to Senator Proctor. Contradicts the Report That He Op posed Remission of Duty on Jai Ala Silver Service and That He Re ceived Orders From General Wood to Admit It Free. Washington, Dec. 15. Secretary Root has addressed a letter to Senator Proctor, acting chairman of the com mlttcc on military affairs, in which he says that General Tasker H. Bliss ha called his attention to his (Bliss') tea- limony In the case of General Wood end that the press reports of the tes- t'.mop are directly contrary to the actual evidence given by the general Secretary Root continues: "At the same time I wish to call the attention of your committee to the fact that some person seems to be persistently furnlphlng to the press false state- ments of the testimony taken before you, the perversion of the evidence being in every case to the prejudice of General Wood. "It cannot be doubted that the news, papers publishing these reports be iieve them to be true and that the re ports are sent to them by the repre sentatives of the press in good faith under the same belief. It Is evident that some person is undertaking to convey to the press representatives information of what goes on in th-3 committee and Is taking advantage of the fact that the evidence is not pub lished to state it falsely for the pur pose of Injuring General Wood In the public estimation; so that while yott; committee will act upon the evldenc? i ctually before it, the public judgment as to how you ought to act will bo based upon an entirely different and erroneous Idea of what the evidence Is. "If the evidence actually given called for General Wood's presence, I should of course bring him hac'i from the Philippines, but I do not fel justified in withdrawing him from the important duties which he Is perform Ing on account of false reports of evl tlence which has never in fact been given. It hardly seems fair that an t fflcer who is not here to protect him- telf but is serving his country faith fully under orders, on the other side of the world, should have his reputa lion (tabbed in this way.. I earnestly request your committee's attention to this subject." General Bliss, in his letter calling Secretary Root's attention to the evl eence, contradicts the report that hj ttrongly opposed the admission,-with out payment of duty, of the silver ser vice purchased in New York by thd Jai Alal and that he received manda tory Instructions from General Wood to admit said silver service free of duty. . lie says he testified most, positively under oath that neither directly nor in directly, or, in any other manner, "had I received even an intimation as to the remltr-lon of duties upon these art! cles; that I ordered the remission of duty because I believed, then and be lieve now. that it was in accordance with the law. If any mistake was made I was' solely responsible for it. I further testified that eiurins the two and a half years that I served directly undfr the orders of General Wood as military governor of Cuba I knew of no actloi. at his that was not consistent with the character of an honorab'e officer and a man of integrity." When the senate committee on mili tary affairs-resumed its investigation of charges against General Leonard Wood. Dr,-G. L. Fisher - of Chicago. managing editor of the Havana Post, published during American occupa tion, told the story of General Wood's Intimacy with Bellairs and attempted to show that General Wood knew .of Bellairs' bad record. . Dr. Fisher said that in September, 1900, he told General Wood of an ar ticle he had ordered printed In the Havt-na Post exposing Bellairs. The witness said General Wood told him he did not want the story printed and that It had not been used on account of that request. Movement of Marines South. Washingion, Dec. li. The news of the movement of marines southward from Panama, based as it was on tho reported binding of Colombian troops in that part of the Isthmus, was re ceived with keen interest in army cir cles. There was, however, no outcome in the shape of orders to troops, though the ai rival there of Brigadier General Franklin Bell was regarded as' con firming the previous statements to tho effect that the army is- making ready to t'o its share at a moment's notice GeiiPi.il Bell consulted with members of the general staff. New Chaplain of the Senate. Washington, Dec. 15. The Republi can senators in caucus have decided ipon Rev. Edward Everett Hale of L'ostor. for chaplain of the senate be- Inning Jan. 1. He is a Unitarian and f3 years old. Dr. Hale has accepted. Federal National Dank Resumes. Pittsburg, Doc. 13. The Federal National bank, after two months mu persion. resumed busiues under very auspic'ous circumstances. President Young stated that the bank had a- nost $1,500,000 more than the amount if the Individual deposits. STATE ROAD ASSESSMENTS. 0'r,lcn of Attorney General as to Ex emption of Incorporated Villages, Albany, Dec. 15. Attorney General Cunneen has made public an opinion addressed to State Engineer Bond, in the course of which he replies to an inquiry from one John McCann of El mira as to whether, where a state road is built in a town containing an incorporated village exempt from tho jurisdiction of the commissioner highways of the town, the 15 per cent which, under section 9 of the good roads law, the town is called upon to pay, may be assessed upon the whole town or upon that portion only whic Is outr.ide of the incorporated village. "There are two methods provided by Statute for obtaining the 15 per centum .hioii the town must pay," says Mr, Cunneen, "the first method, where the board of supervisors acts without pe- pitlon in my judgment authorizes tho ossesbment upon the taxable property of the whole town, as the provisions of -.he highway law exempting the inhabl tants of incorporated villages from highway tax have no application t toads constructed under the Hlgbla- Armstrong act. "However, section 1 provides tha the resolution shall contain a descrip tion of the highways sought to be im proved, and that no part of the sanr shall be within an incorporated village and it follows that where a resolution was passed upon petition, It would be Impossible to make any assessment against property within such village DEATH ENDED SUIT. fcjectment Notice About to Be Issued When Defendant's Death Wat - Announced. Blnghamton, Dec. 15. Death, and not the city court, issued the dispossess order in a summary proceedings action that was pending before the lower court. John Carroll had an action in city court against Mrs. Susan Johnson and her sister to compel them to vacate apartments they occupied. The case Lad been called; the evidence of thn non-rayment of rent had been present ed and Judge Olmsted was just about to issue the order to eject the two wo men from the rooms when his tele phone rang. When he replied, somo cne wanted to know if Mr. Johnson (son of one of the defendants to the action) was in the court room. When the judge replied that the man was present the voice at the telephone continued: "Will you please tell him that bis mother Just died." That stopped the proceedings. ROW IN COLORED CONVENTION Opposition to President Roosevelt and Dissent From Booker Washington. Washington, Dec. 15. The police were called into the National Suffrage league convention (colored) when Rev. R. J. Nelson, president of the Suffrage League of Pennsylvania, and Rev. J. W. Scott of this city sought possession of the floor. The delegates were In an uproar for half an hour. Two reasons for the dispute are al leged to be that the Scott faction fa vors the passage of a resolution en- dorslug President Roosevelt's attitude toward the negro race and that Book t-r Washington desires to control the convention, a number of delegates ob jectinj: to Booker Washington's recent utterances to the effect that disfran- chissment in the South placed a prem ium on Intelligence, wealth, charactei and thrift. The convention Is said to have be?n called, among other things, to enforce the 13th amendment. WAGE REDUCTION PREDICTED. Employes of Steel Corporation to Re ceive Dividend on Preferred Stock This Month. New York, Dec. 15. The statement was made by a leading official of the United States ; Steel corporation that, beginning Jan. 1, 1904, about 90 per cent of the employes of the corpora tion will suffer wage reductions rang ing from 5 to 20 per cent. This re duction will affect about 150,000 work men. The remaining 10 per cent of the employes aro working under a wage agreement. The finance committee of tho stepl corpoiation, it Is understood, has un der consideration the dismissal of many high salaried employes in add!- ion to those already discharged. It was asserted that, barring some mforeseen technicalities, employes of the corporation who participated in the profit sharing plan will In the com ing ironth receive a $3 dividend on the prefiired stock to which they suh- scribed at 82.50. Blind as Result of Ottawa Fire. Otnwa Ont., Dec. 13. Rev. Father McGiirty, who was hurt In the Ottaw.t university fire, is blind. His sight failed hi in yesterday. He is weaker than he has been since the fire and un less the delirium leaves him, which has racked him almost continually since the accident, there can be liu'-i hope of saving his life. Father Mc- Gurty came bore from Lowell, Mass. Seaworthiness of Torpedo Flotilla. Washington. Dec. 15. All doubt that may have exlstod regarding sea- ,'orthlni'ss o: ttie lirst torpudo iiotilh, es'ined for the Asiatic station, was emoved when the navy department reived n dispatch from Captain ' Tiiin. renortini: the arrival of tho flotilla at Port Royal, S. C, after 1.' nirs of heavy weather No damage was dene the ships. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Summary of the Week's News of the World. 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 Potted. President Roosevelt has again de clined to interfere in the strike con ditions in the Telluride district of Col orado. Reports received at Panama state that 3,000 Colombian soldiers have left Cartagena for the purpose of Invad Ing the isthmus. Consul Davis at Alexandretta, Asi atic Turkey, has had trouble with the local authorities and has left for Bel rut In consequence. Frau Fischer, a professional woman lion tamer, while In a cage with four inlmals in Dessau, was attacked by :hem and torn to pieces. Despite the protests of the opposl Jon the president has sent the nomin ttion of General Wood to the senatj, ind holds that it is a recess appoint ment. Thursday. Herbert Spencer died at his home In Brighton, England, after a long ill ness, at the ripe age of 83 years. Detectives secure much evidence that the interstate commerce act is being violated by railroads east of Chicago. Mayor Harrison of Chicago has or dered the managers of a museum to cease exhibiting so-called "relics" con nected with the capture of the carbarn murderers. itussia s answer to Japan covers only Corea, where certain concessions are made, and Japan is likely to leave the question of evacuating Manchuria in abeyance. Sixty of the jackies of the training ship Buffalo, which arrived from Nor folk on Monday and Is now in the navy yard, Brooklyn, failed to report lor duty at the ship yesterday. Friday. The R, D. and W. trolley road be tween Fredonia and Brocton was for mally opened Thursday morning. In a riot at Chicago growing ont of the recent street car strike a car was wrecked by a mob of union sympa thizers. Senator .Morgan predicted that Cuba would clip the threads that bind her to the United States and declared Ger many might then annex tho island. Miss Erline Sinclair, a school teach er, was thrown into an Icy pond by her girl pupils, In Cass township, Ind., and is seriously ill from pneumonia due to her exposure. Suit for $750,000 was begun against John W. Gates' firm In New York by the Trust company of the Republic growing out of flotation of the United States Shipbuilding company. Saturday. Queen Alexandra had a narrow es cape from being burned to death in a fire which did serious damage at Sand rlngham palace. President Roosevelt lost no time in striking back at the Influences said to be at work creating a presidential boom for Senator Hanna. The Republican national committer began its initial meeting preparatory to the presidential campaign of 1904 at tho Arlington hotel in Washington at noon Friday. Miss Gillespie, , the young woman who was shot by an assassin whlbi fitting by her window at Rising Sun, Ind., two . days ago, died yesterday. The murderer has not been arrested. On the opening of the Japanese diet the house of representatives, In reply to the speech from the throne, criti cised the ministry for temporizing at home and neglecting opportunities abroad. - Monday. Chicago was chosen for the Republi can national convention and June 21. 1904, was the date set. George Sherer of Albany Is the first Larber to be arrested in the state- un der the barber examination law. Charles II. Murray was selected to succeed M. Linn Bruce as president of the New York Republican county com mittee. The president has sent to the sennte the name of William I. Buchanan of New York -to- be minister plenipoten tiary of the United States to Panama. Senator Hanna will Insist that Gen ral Leonard Wood be summoned from the Philippines to answer the charges filed against him In the senate com mittee on military affairs. Tuesday. Ca -roll D. Wright foretells the pass- in ? of the wage system and substitu tion of an era of co-operation A corps of civil engineers under oi era of State Engineer Boyd began n urve of the Buffalo district of the Erie canal. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock eclared In bis annual report that th- public land laws are a menace to th nterests of the government and to homo builders. After searching in New York many week. for her daughter, Mrs. E'lzabelh Dunbar of Seranton, Pu., found the girl's body In a hospital, prepared for the dlFsecting table. A verdict of no cause of action wits rendered In the suit of the American Flno Arts company of Milwaukee tgalnst William Simon of Buffalo for J250.HOO for alleged breach of contract ADMITS HIS SHARE IN THEFTS. Trench Pleads Guilty to Receiving Stolen Express Goods. Uniontown, Pa., Dec. 14. Edwanl French of Baltimore surrendered him self to County Detective Alex M? Beth and pleaded guilty in court tc larceny and receiving stolen goods. I; In charged that on or about Oct. 20 1903, he went into the car of Express Messenger L. J. Blough and receive.! from Blough two overcoats, a woman's cloak and a fur muff. James S. and John S. Hill and H. K Mediary against whom true bills were found by the grand jury have not yet been arrested. L. J. Blough, who pleaded guilty to having broken open the Shaw trunk while it wa3 in transit and abstracting jewels valued at several thousand dot lars and who was remanded for sent ence. has made a full confession, de tailing at length his operations. His confession Involves a number of mes sengers, and it is possible that arrest? may follow. His story tallies with that printed at the time of the discov ery of the Shaw diamond robbery. H exculpates Messengers Turner. MlllPr and Mertz. Left Forceps In Man's Body. Harmon', Ind., Dec. 12. Dr. I. 3 Washburn of Rensselaer, Ind., Is deal at a private hospital at Valparaiso Ind., as the result of a curious blunder made during an operation performed two years ago. He had complained of his side ever since the operation, but did not know the cause of the trouble, and recently decided on a sec ond operation. Dr. Loring operated on Dr. Washburn and was amazed to dis cover in the patient's side near th? liver a steel forceps about 5 inch?1? In length. The forceps had become rusty. Dr. Washburn died a few hours after the operation. Red Cross at Butler. Butler, Pa., Dec. 14. Two deaths and nine new cases of typhoid fever were reported to the relief committee. Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross society of America, and her ftaff of aides, General W. H. Seers of Lawrence, Pa., and Dr. J. A. Hubbell of Washington, D. C. who have assist ed her In her work In Cuba, Turkey and other European points and at Gal veston Tex., arrived here. Miss Bar ton said the Red Cross came to Butler quietly and unheralded to lend a help ing hand in the organized work durin:; the hour of peril. Deaths From Collision on Panhandle. Wheeling, W. Va.. Dec. 14. North bound passenger train known as the Pittsburg and Kenova flyer on the Pan handle road collided headon with a southbound cattle train at Glenova r few miles above this city at 10 o'clock Saturday night. Engineer Thomas Murray of the passenger train an l Fireman James Lanahan of the stock train were killed and two trainmen and Detective William Johnson of rittsbnrg were injured, the last named fatally. Last of Escaped Prisoners Caught. Sharon, Pa., Dec. 14. The last of the four prisoners who escaped from the Mercer jail last Tuesday night by cutting their way through two floors was captured at Wheatland at a late four Friday night by Deputy SlierliT W. A. Lytle of Mercer. He is Dan Danford, charged with robbery. Dan ford supposed the coast was clear and went to his home In Wheatland, where Deputy Sheriff Lytle was awaiting Mm. He was taken to the New Cas tle Jail for safe keeping. Oldest Judge in State Goes Insane. Lancaster. Ta., Dec. 14. John B. Livingston, presiding judge of the courts of Lancaster county, has been committed to a private fanitariuni rear Philadelphia, a rr-H'.uul wreel: from illness. Ho is in ilf 8.1rd yea" and served his 31st year on the bench, being the oldest judge as to years :'. service in Pennsylvania. A widower, he labors under the hallucination that he is about to marry a society belle. Dispensing With Clerical Help. Sharon, Pa.. Dec. 14. The Carn egie Steid company has again weeded out its office force at South Sharon. and after Jan. 1 there will be but five or six of an original force of 50 or GO clerks left. Notice was served on a large number of clerks, heads of de partments and mill superintendents that after the first of the coming year their services will be dispensed with. Sue Railroads For Damages. New Castle, Pa., Dec. 14. Clyde Mc Cready of this city has sued the Penn sylvania Railroad company for I'-'O.OOO damages for alleged permanent Injur ies lie received by being thrown from nn ambulance which was struck by a train. Maud Mullen lias sued the Lake Erie for $:10.000 for alleged permanent Injuries resulting from an accident in Mahoningtown. Fatal Fight Over a Dog. Wllliainsporl, Pa., Dec. 14. Charles Pennington of Sterling Run and hi-! dog met N. H. Prentiss on the streets of Emporium. Prentiss disparaged th" dog and Pennington walloped him with an ax. Prentiss Is dying and Pennington Is in Jail. Shot His Mother In Error. McKeesport. Pa., Dec. 1 1. Surah Langley, a widow, who lives with her son, Edward, was mistaken by her bon early Faturday for a burglar and was shot. The woman may die.
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