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Member of OongretM Joseph C. Sibloy
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This holel, formerly the Lawrence
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.