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TIONESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1G. 1901.
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BOHOUOH OFFICERS.
llurqcA. F. It. LaiiHon.
(hHHCitmen. Dr. J. Ci Dunn, O. O.
UHNton, J. II. Miiho, O. K. Weaver, J. W,-
lenders. J. T. Dale, W. F Killmor.
Juntir.es of the I'eaceO. A. Kandall, 8.
J. Nntlev.
Constable S It. Maxwell.
Collector H. J. Sutley.
. Xvhooi IHrectorsL. Fulton. J. O.
Hcowdtin, J. 10. WenK, It. L. Haslet, E.
W iliiwinan, Geo. llolemanw
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
i JemfceroOni're.w Joseph O. Sibley.
Member of tieniUeJ. KP. Hall.
. Assembly C. W. AmsJIir.
n-esident JudieW. 51. Llndsey.
. Associate Judges-t-K. H. Crawford, W.
H. II. Dotterer.
ProtKowtury, Register S Reeorder, Ce.
J. O. Hoist.
.'!.. IT duo W Nrllillt,
VVeaamer Frd. A. Keller.
Commissioners C. Bnrhenn, A. K.
Shipo, Hmirv Wuingnrd.
District' Attorney H. D. Irwin.
jury Commissioners V.riwsi Sibble,
I,o wis Warner. '
ixtroncr ur. o. w . mm row.
County Auditors W . H. Ktlles, leo.
W. lloleinan, It. A. McCloskey.
County Snivelor 1. W. CUrk.
County Superintendent K. E. Stitzln-
ger.
Itrnulnr Term of t'ourl.
Fourth Monday If February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of .September.
Third Monday of Novombor.
Church npi Hiibbnlh Hrhool.
ilivtnrUn Sabbath School at 0:45 a.
ht v uui.tiHtli Si-hool at 10:00 a. m.
i.uj.li I tier V II M. K. Church every Sab-
'i evening by Hev. O. II. Nlckle
...... .li..,. in iim b . ri. i nurcii everv
bbal.li evenintrt the usual hour. Rev.
A V.l.i.lM..r I'oHtor. '
H
..r.i..u iii rim PriiHbvtnrlaii Church
every Sabbath morning and evening,
Kev. li. W. Illingwnrth, l'astor.
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
IT. are bold at the headquarters on the
Becond and fourtn Tuesdays of each
in. nth.
BUSINESS QJRECTORY.
PP . N KSTA LOIN 1 H, No. 309, 1. 0. 0. F.
1 Ments every Tuesday evening, In Odd
Fellows' flrall, Partridge building.
IfHMtKST LODGE, No. 184, A. O. U. W.,
1 Meotsnvery Friday evening lnA.O.U.
W. Hall, Tionesta.
C APT. GEORGE STOW POST. No. 274
O. A, R. Moeta 1st and 8d Monday
eveningjln each month, in A. O. U. V.
Hall, Tionesta.
CAI'T. GEORGE STOW COUPS, No.
137, W. It. C, meets tirMt and third
Wednesday evening of each month, iu A.
O. U. W. hall, TionoHta, Pa.
rpiONESTA TENT, No. Iti4, K. O. T.
1 M., meeis and 4th Wednesday
evening in each month in A. O. U. .
hall Tionesta, Pa.
r F. HITCH FY,
ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW,
Tloneata, Pa.
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UKTIS M. SHAWKEY,
ATTwttN K Y-AT-LA w.
Warron, Pa.
Practice in Forest Co.
AO .BROWN.
. - ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW.
Olllce in Amor Hiiildimr, Cor. Elm
and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa.
W. MOKKOW, M. D.,
l'livsician. Surireon A Dentist.
Olllce ami Uiwldeiice three iloors north
of Hotel Agnew, Tioinwta. ProftwHional
calls promptly responded to at all hours.
u
K. F. J. BOVAKD,
t Physician A Surgeon,
TION EST A, PA.
DK. J, C. KUNN,
PHYSICIAN AND SUKOEON.
I I . I I T It 1 f 'C llltl,uiniii.Bl.ia
Hllll I'uuvrini, , v. ...... ,
Tionesta, Pa. Professional calis prompt
ly responded to at all hours of day or
night. Residence Elm St., between
Urove'a grocery and Oerow's restaurant.
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K. J. B. SIOOINS.
Phyfiician and Surgeon,
OIL CITY, PA.
It. LANSON.
. . Hardware, Tinning A Plumbing.
- ' Tionesta, Pa
J. SET LEY.
k5. - J US I ICE OF THE PEACE,
Keeps a complete line of Justice's blanks
for sale. Also Blank deeds, mortgages,
etc. Tionesta, Pa.
HOTEL WEAVElt;
E. A. WEAVElt, Proprietor.
This hotel, formerly the Lawrence
IIousn,"hii8 undergone a complete change,
and is now I'urniKhed with all the mod
ern improvements. Heated and lighted
throughout with natural gas, bathrooms,
hot and cold water, etc. The comforts ol
guests never neglected.
OENTKAL HOUSE,
W O EKOW,ifc (1EKOW Proprietor.
Tionseta,- Pa. This is the inostcentrally
located hotel in the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to make it a pleasant stopping
place for the traveling public. First
class Livery in connection.
piIIL. EMERT x
FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER.
Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm
and alnut streets, Is prepared to do all
Kinds of custom work Iroih the finest to
the coarsest and guarantors his work to
give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
tion given to mending, and prices rea
sonable. r ORENZO FULTON,
1j '
Manufacturer of and Dealer in
HARNESS. COLLARS, BRIDLES,
And all kinds of
HORSE FURNISHINMOODS.
TIONESTA. PA"
5. H. fill & SOIL
GENERAL MERCHANTS,
Furniture-. Dealers,
AND
UNDERTAKERS.
TIONESTA, PENN
FIERCE FIGHT AT SEft.
Rnssian Torpedo Boats Attack
Japanese Fleet.
Japanese Advance In Manchuria.
Lynching and Riots In Ohio Indig
nant Congressmen Grain In Farm.
ert' Hands Women Opposed to
' Smoot Buffalo Bill Seek Divorce
The story of the fierce fight off
Port Arthur between the torpedo flo
tillas which viccurred Wednesday and
the bombardment which followed on
Thursday morning shows that the col.
Ilslon' between the torpedo flotillas
had occurred accidentally during tho
night while the Russians were scout
,iig in search of the enemy.
Aa far as is known this is tho
first time torpedo boats have engaged
each other at sea. Although the odd
were against the Russians, as the Jap
anese flotilla was supported by the
cruiser squadron, the Russians made a
heroic dash for the foe and apparently
had the better of the combat, sinking
a Japunese torpedo boat, until the
cruisers got within range, and one of
the latter's shells crippled the Stero
guschtchi. Not much Importance is attached
to the later bombardment on account
of the great distance of the enemy
from the batteries. Their cruiser
took refuge behind the Llao Tishin
promontory, fearing to expose them
selves to the direct fire of the forts.
On tho ships which participated In
the night attack one officer was seri
ously and three others were slightly
wounded, two Boldiers were killed and
18 were wounded.
Port Arthur Badly Pounded.
According to the St. Petersburg cor
respondent of the London Telegraph
v.igue rumors are current there that
latur telegrams describe the bom
bardment of Port Arthur as much
inoro serious than has been admitted
officially.
Special dispatches from Toklo and
Yin Kow also give reports of heavy
Russian casualties at Port Arthur,
amounting to 40 men killed and 100
wounded, but they are so conflicting
In details that it is not wiso to give
them much credit.
In a dispatch from Toklo dated
March 13, a correspondent of the
Dnlly Telegraph says that in the la
test attack on Port Arthur two Rus
sian torpedo boat destroyers were
sunk and great damage was done to
the docks, forts and arsenals, Including
the explosion of a powder magazine.
Dalny is reported to have been al
most entirely destroyed; several guns
there were dismounted and tho crews
of four torpedo boats In tho Inside
harbor are said to have deserted.
The Dally Telegraph publishes a
dispatch from a correspondent at Yin
Kow who reports that the Russian
battleship Retvizan, at Port Arthur,
was hit five times by Japanese projec
tiles, and that there were 20 casual
ties on board.
This correspondent declares further
that the presence of the Japanese at
Feng Huan Cheng (the Manchurlan
town about 45 miles northwest of
Wlju) has been confirmed.
In a dispatch from Chefoo, dated
March 12, a correspondent of the
Daily Mail describes an Inspection of
Port Arthur made on the 11th inst.
from a boat. The pew city seemed to
be on fire; three columns of smoke
were ascending from It. The Bread
Hill fort appeared to have suffered ter
ribly; the defences were shattered
and the earthworks torn up. No guns
were visible. The line of forts on the
Tiger's Tall also appeared to have suf
fered damage. At sunrise no sign of
life could be seen anywhere nnd Port
Arthur looked like a city of death.
Japanese Flanked the Russians.
According to the Tien Tsin corres
pondent of t.ie London Telegraph tho
Japanese advanced from the Yalu riv
er, captured Fung Wang Chang and
drove out the Russians in the vicinity
to the Tau Ling eastern pass, and aro
in force 70 miles east of New Chwang.
The Russians with 35,000 men are
entrenched strongly at Liao Yang and
Hal Cheng, where fighting is Imminent.
Some small engagements already have
been fought, tho Russians retiring
with losses.
This correspondent says further
that the Japanese are using the same
tactics and advancing along the same
route they had followed during tho
Chinese war.
The Yin Kow corespondent of the
Paris edition of the New York Herald
also vaguely reports the Japanese to
bo 50 miles northwest of Antung and
well to the westward of the Yalu river.
To some of the military critics it Is
Inconceivable that Japan can . really
have executed such an unexpected
and successful turning of the Russian
position on the Yalu river, which" It Is
thought would have necessitated the
employment of a much larger forca
Mian It Is believed Japan can possibly
have at this point.
The Dally Telegraph says that if
the news of this strange and marvel
ous collapse of Russian power on land
Is true, there is nothing to prevent
the Japanese from seizing Mukden and
the railroad. There has boon nothing
to compare with this move since Na
nnlenn sHeserd Europe by appearing
In tho plains of Italy from the Alps.
Its effect throughout the East will bo
stupendous.
Lynching In Ohio Town.
Richard Dixon, a negro, was taken
from Jail In Springfield. O., and shot
to death in the Jail yard by a mob. HU
body was then taken to tho corner of j
Main street and Fountain avenue anil
hung to u telegraph polo, where the
mob spent the next half hour riddling
the body with bullets from several
hi" 'red revolvers.
l).xon shot Policeman Charles Col
11s while they both were In the form
er's room in a hotel. Dixon had de
cided to quit the place and fearing
trouble with Anna Corbln, a woman
with whom ho was acquainted, he
asked Collls to go to the hotel with
him. While in his room Dixon and
Miss Corbin quarreled and Dixon Is
said to have shot h;r in the breast.
The policeman then attempted to ar
rest Dlxon when the latter fired Into
the officer's body Inflicting fatal
wounds. Collis died on Monday and
scores of people became aroused over
the tragedy.
The race aisturbances which havo
terrorized the town for the last three
days since the murder of Patrolman
Collis and the subsequent lynching of
the negro Dixon, who shot Colli3. are
held well In hand bytho 13 companies
of militia. '
While a special grand Jury will sit
Monday to Investigate the lynching.
It Is thought that it will be Impossible
to Indict either the leaders of the mob
which did the lynching or those re
sponsible for the fire.
The funeral of Collis was attended
by an Immense throng of psople.
Indignant Congressmen.
That ar. investigation of the post-
office department by the house will
result from the publication of tht
report involving members of congress
in that connection, was indicated by
every expression possible short of a
vote. With a whirlwind of protest the
report was taken up by indignant mem
bers, their personal connection with !t
explained, and epithets hurled at
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Brlstow.
Mr. Kitchin charged General Bristow
with having deliberately suppressed
Important facts for the purpose of giy
lng a false impression to the country
and said BrNtow had undertaken "to
blackmail congress, to silence con.
gress."
Mr. Williams, the Democratic leader,
urged a complete investigation of the
whole postoffice department and re
ceived the hearty applause of both
sides of the house and galleries.
The house of representatives after
indulging in seven hours of explana
tion, accusation and vituperative d
nunciatlon, ordered, with only two
negative votes, an investigation of
postal affairs, so far as members of
the house are concerned, by a special
committee of seven member3 to be
appointed by the speaker, who like
wise are to examine into the origin
of the Brlstow report so far as It con
cerns members of the house.
Increased Acreage of Cotton.
Bradstreet's summary of the state
of trade Rays:
Weather i mdltions have Improved,
and with them jobbing trade at load
ing Western points. The Iron trade
also shows a gain in pctivity and in
prices of crude material.
Ihawbacks to general spring trade
outlook are found in the slowness of
Eastern buyers to take hold of spring
goods and In serious floods.
Southern trade advices all point to
nn enormous acreage going into cot
ton. Texas planters are making good
progress and a 10 per cent Increase
In acreage Is looked for.
Business failures for the week end
ing March 10 number 200, against 195
last week. 176 in the like week In
190n. 224 In 1902, 207 In 1901 and 190
In 1900.
Grain In Farmers' Hands.
The March report of statistics of
the department of agriculture shows
the amount of wheat remaining In
farmers' hands on March 1 to have
been about 132,000,000 bushels, or
20.8 per cent of last year's crop, as
compared with 24.5 per cent of the
crop of 1902 on hand on March l;-1903.
The corn In farmers' hands Is esti
mated at about SH9,000,000 bushels, or
37.4. per cent of last year's crop,
against 41. C per cent of the crop of
1902 on hand on March 1. 1903.
Of oats there are reported to b3
about 273,700,000 bushels or 31.9 per
cent of last year's crop still in farm
ers' hands, as compared with 3G.9 por
cent of the crop of 1902 on hand on
i ,
Buffalo Bill Petitions For Divorce.
A petition for divorce filed In court
of Big Horn county, Wyo Jan. 9 last,
by Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo
Bill), has Just been made public. Tho
complaint charges cruelty and alleges
that on Dec. 20, 1900, Mrs. Cody at
tempted to poison the plaintiff. An
other ground on which plaintiff asks a
decree is that the marital relations
have been Intolerable to him by hW
wife's refusal to entertain his friends
at his former home at North Platte,
Neb. Mrs. Cody, who is at North
Platte, denies her husband's charges
and will content the suit. Colonel and
Mrs. Cody were married at St. Louis,
March C, ISfifi.
Women Opposed to Smoot.
At a meeting in Washington of
the executive board of the Na
tional League of Women's ongani7.i
tlons of America a resolution was
adopted requesting that on Sunday,
March 27, or as soon thereafter as pos
sible, every clergyman in the Unites
States ask every man to write to his
senators requesting them to vote
against the retention of Mr. Smoot In
the senate.
Bill Against Monastic Orders.
Premier C'oombes of Franco has
brought forward a bill suppressing all
tho schools of monastic orders and pio
hfliitin monks nnd nuns from teach
ing except in private.
NORTHERN -SECURITIES.
Merger Case Decided In Favoi
o' th; Government.
Majority Opinion Declares That Con
gress Has Supreme Power to Regu.
late Interstate Commerce, and That
the Anti-Trust Law of 1893 Is
Constitutional.
Washington, March 15. In the
United States supreme court yestei
day, an opinion was delivered in tha
merger case cf the Northern Securi
ties company vs. the United States in
favor of the government's contention
that the merger was illegal. Tht
opinion of the court was handed down
by Justice Harlan and It upheld th
Jecreo of the circuit court for the dis
trict of Minnesota In every particu
lar. Four of the justices dlssente
from the five constituting the major
ity.
Close Shave For Government.
Very soon after Justice Harlan had
concluded his presentation of the
case It became evident that the court
had divided on the questions at issue
and as other opinions were announced
it developed that there not only had
been a very close shave for the gov
ernment but that one of the members
of the court who cast his vote with the
majority entertained opinions of his
own, which fact rendered the division
all the more marked and Interesting.
This was Justice Brewer who while h
concurred In the result announced In
an Independent opinion of his own
that he held the view that previous
anti-trust, decisions had been more
sweeping than was Justified. Four of
the nine Justices dissented outright
These were Chief Justice Fuller and
Justices White. Peckham and Holmes
The fact was noted by several per
sons that the argument in the case
was begun Dec. 14. just three months
previous to the decision. For so lm
portant a case this Is considered a
very brief Interim between the argu
ments and the decision. The case was
brought by the United States against
the Northern Securities company, a
corporation of New Jersey; the Great
Northern Railway company, a corpor
ation of Minnesota; the Northern Pa
cific Railway company, a corporation
oif Wisconsin;-James J. Hill, a citizen
of Minnesota, and William P. Clough.
D. Willis James. John S. Kennedy, J.
Tlerpont Morgan, Robert Bacon
George F. Baker and Daniel Lamont
citizens of New York.
Its general object was to enforce
as against the defendants, the provis
ions of the statute of July 2, 1890.
commonly known as the anti-trust act,
and entitled "An act to protect trade
and commerce against unlawful re
straint and monopolies."
. The Majority Opinion.
Justice Harlan reviewed the facta
as disclosed by the record In the case.
Of the government's case he said:
"The government charges that If the
combination was held not to be In
violation of the act of congress, then
all efforts of the national government
to preserve to the people the benefit
of the competition among carriers en
gaged In inter-state commerce will be
wholly unavailing, and all transconti
nental lines, indeed the entire railway
system of the country, may be ab
sorbed, merged and consolidated, thus
placing the public at the absolute
mercy of the holding corporation."
Of the railroad case he said:
"The several defendants denied all
(he allegations of the bill Imputing to
them a purpose to evade the provis
ions of the act of congress or to form
a combination or conspiracy having
for Its object either to restrain or to
monopolize commerce or trade among
the states or with foreign nations.
They denied that any combination or
conspiracy was formed In violation of
the act."
Justice Harlan camo Immediately to
the judicial consideration, his opening
sentence indicating the decision. He
said: '"In our judgment the evidence
fully sustains tie material allegations
of the. bill and shows a violation of
the act of congress. In so far as It de
clares Illegal every combination or
conspiracy in restraint of commerce
among the several states and with for
eign nations, and forbids attempts to
monopolize such commerce."
He said It was indisputable that
upon the principal facts of the record,
under the leadership of Hill and Mor
gan, the stockholders of the two rail
road companies having practically
parallel lines of road, had combined
under the laws of New Jersey by or
ganizing a corporation for the hold
ing of the shares of the two companies
upon an agreed basis cf value.
"The stockholders of the two com
panies disappeared, as such for tho
moment, but immediately reappeared
as stockholders of the holding com
pany, he said. Necessarily by this
combination tho holding company In
the fullest sense dominates the situa
tion and the constituent companies
cease to be in active competition for
trade, the jiwtlee wrote.
These constituent companies havn
become "practically one powerful con
solidated corporal Ion by the nnmi! of
a holding corporation, the principal,
If not sole, object for the formation of
which was-to carry out the purpose of
Ihe original combination under which
competition between the e in t il iient
companies would cease."
Ho said th.! stockiiol i. is of 1111 t vi
old companies aie now nnit"d in tlvi
Interest In preventing all competition
between the two lines nnd that th"
would "take cue that no poisons art
chosen directors if the holding 'jo:u
jany who will permit competition be
tween the constituent companies.
"No scheme or device could more
certainly come within tho words of
the act, 'combination In the f-)rm of a
trust or otherwise in
restraint of commerce among the
states or with foreign nations' or could
more effectively and certainly sup
press free competition between the
constituent companies.
"This combination is within tho
meaning of the act, a 'trust'; but If
not, it Is a combination cf restraint of
interstate and international commerce
and that is enough to bring it under
the condemnation of the act. The
mere existence of such a combination
and the power acquired by the holding
company as trustee for the? eombina
tion, constitute a menace to, and a re
straint upon, that freedom of com
merce which congress Intended to rec
ognize and protect, and which the pub
lie is entitled to have protected.
"If not ' destroyed, all the advant
ages that would natural'y come to the
public under the operation of the gen
eral law of competition, as between
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific Railway companies will be lost
and the entire commerce of the im
mense territory In the northern part of
the United States between the Great
Lakes and the Pacific at Puget sound
will be at the mercy of a single hold
lng corporation, organized In a state
distant from the people of that terrl
tory."
Controlled by a Single Person.
He agreed with the circuit court
that the combination placed the con
trol of the two roads in the hands ol
a single person, and second, that it
destroyed every motive for competi
tion between the two lines by pooling
their earnings.
He deduced from the consideration
of precedents the following propoRi
Hons a sapplied to the present cape:
"That although the act of congress
known as the anti-trust act has no
reference to the mere manufacture
and production o" articles or commodi
ties within the limits of the several
states It embraces and declares to be
lllegal every contract, combination oi
conspiracy, in whatever form of what
ever nature, and whoever may be par
ties to it, which directly or necessarily
operates in res'.rain of trade or com
merce among the several states oi
with foreign nations.
"That the act is not limited to re
stralnts of interstate and Interna
tional trade or commerce that are un
reasonable In their nature, but is di
rected against all direct restraints,
reasonable or unreasonable, imposed
by any combination, conFpiracy oi
monopoly upon such trade or com
merce.
"That railroad carriers engaged In
inter-state of international trade or
commerce are embraced by the act.
j nat combinations even among
private manufacturers or dealers
whereby inter state or International
commerce is restrained are equally
embraced by the act.
Free Competition Prescribed.
"That congress has the power to
establish rules by which inter-state
and international commerce shall be
governed, and, by the anti-trust act,
has prescribed tho rule of free com
petition among those engaged in such
commerce.
"That every combination or con
spiracy which would extinguish com
petition between otherwise competing
railroads engaged In inter-state trade
or commerce, and which would in that
way restrain such trade or commerce
is made illegal by the act.
"That the natural effect of competi
tion is to increase commerce and an
agreement whose direct effect Is to
prevent this play of competition, re
strains instead of promotes trade and
commerce.
"That to vitiate a combination, such
as the act of congress condemns, it
need not be shown that such combina
tion in fact results or will result in
total suppression of trade or In a com
plete monopoly but it is only essential
to show that by its necessary opera
tion It tends to restrain Inter-state or
international trade or commerce or
tends to create a monoply in such
trade or commerce and to deprive lh3
public of the advantages that flow
from free competition.
"That the constitutional guarantee
of liberty of contract does not prevent
congress from prescribing the rule of
free competition for those engaged In
inter-state and international com
merce. "That under Its power to regulate
commerce among the several states
and iforeign nations, congress had au
thority to enact the statute in ques
tion."
Justice Harlan directed a very largo
share of his opinion to the right of
federal control over state direction in
Eiich cases. Speaking of the state's
rights plea of the railroad representa
tives he said:
"This view does not Impress us. By
ts very terms the act regulates only
commerce among the states and in tin
foreign states. By the txplicit word"
cf tho constitution that instrument
and the laws enacted by congress in
pursuance of its provisions, are. the su
preme law of the land supreme over
the states, over the courts, and even
over the peoplo of the United Stales.
'An net of congress, constitutionally .
passed under its power to regulate
commerce among the stales and will-
foreign states. Is binding upon all a.-;
much so as if it wore embodied in
terms in the ein'.titution iis-df. Not
?von n state1, f til ! less one of !l ; ar
tifieial creatures, ,-in stand In the via;
Df Its enfoic -ment."
Court of Ap;':nla r-ilsndar.
Albanv, March 15. Court of a pp '.!!;
nlendar '.'or Man h 15: Nos. 575, 573.
)7J, 5S0, 581, 410, l i.'! and 172.
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
Pointed paragraphs Chronic
ling the Week's Doings.
Long Dispatchns From Various Patti
of the Wuld Slisrn of Their Padding
and Only Facts Given in as Few
Words as Possible For the Benefit
of ti:e Hurried Reader.
.. Peter Schrora of Ruthton, Minn., Is
dead of shock resulting from an oDera
tion to remove three false teeth from
his stomach.
Dr. Andrew II. Draper, president of
the Illinois university, will be elected
commissioner of education of New
York state by the legislature.
The Jamestown, N. Y., common coun
ell has rescinded the city ordinance
giving the board of health authority to
rfiake vaccination compulsory.
Dr. John H. Pryor ol Buffalo has
been appointed superintendent of the
New lork state consumption hosnltal
at Raybrook, Essex county, in the Ad-
irondacks.
The Japanese naval department an
nounces that 13 Russian warships, ren-
resentlng a total of 94.000 tons, have
been damaged since the opening of
hostilities.
Thursday.
Japan warships bombarded the forH
at Port Dalny and then attacked Port
Arthur on the night of March 8.
It is reported that a fight has oc
curred between Coreans and Russians
on the Ccrean side of the Tumen river,
A Paris dispatch says that 100 per
sons perished In the wreck of the
steamer Camboge off the coast of
Cochin-China.
Eight companies of Ohio militia are
on duty at Springfield, 0 on account
of race war 'following the lynching of
the negro Dixon Monday.
The flood situation near Harrisburg
was less threatening, but at and near
Wilke3-Uarre the danger was Increas
ing. There were heavy freshets in
various parts of New York state.
Stockholders oi the Grand Trbnk
railroad, meeting in London, ratify the
agreement with the Canadian govern
ment for the construction of a new
line across the Dominion.
Friday.
Jesuits may now re-enter Germany,
as the bundesrath has passed a bill re
pealing the exclusion law.
The Japanese fleet again appeared
off Port Arthur Wednesday at mid
night and bombarded the forts until S
next morning.
Four unidentified workmen were
burned to death in a box car contain
ing gasoline at Branch Intersection, 10
miles east of Harrisburg, Pa.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin says the
Japanese had advanced across the
Yalu and had driveu the Russians from
towns occupied by them and taken up
positions east of Niu Chwang.
Governor Odell has sold his hold
ings In United States Shipbuilding
company securities at a loss of $125
000. He Is now In a position to push
the proposed legislative Investigation.
Saturday.
Former United States Senators Ed
ward Murphy and David B. Hill patch
ed their differences to help the Par
ker presidential boom.
Activity of the Mormon church In
state and national politics was the
feature of the senate committee's
hearing in the Reed Smoot Investiga
tion. The Russian torpedo flotilla left
Port Arthur Friday morning and at
tacked the Japanese fleet. One Jap
anese torpedo boat and one Russian
torpedo boat destroyer were sunk.
The recent experience of Rochester
and Baltimore with various styles and
Flzes of fire hose couplings Is the basis
of a bill by Assemblyman Moreland,
requiring standard uniform hose coup
lings.
Monday.
Niagara reservation commissioners
and representatives of business men's
association protested against the bill
in the legislature giving the Niagara
and Ontario Power company increased
power.
Charles Goodman, who fell from a
third-story window at the Hotel Ken
more In Lockport, badly fracturing his
skull, died at the Flagler hospital.
Postmaster Fisher of Hastings,
Neb., denies in the Dietrich Investiga
tion at Washington that he gave a
note In payment for his nppolntmenc.
Death on the gallows is the fate de
cided on for Harvey Van Dine, Peter
Neldemeyer and Gustav Marx, the
Chicago carbarn slayers, whose esca
pades were attended by eight murd
irs. Tuesday.
Gustavo Mark, one of the carbarn
bandits sentenced to death In Chicago,
confesses to killing live men besides
the one for whose murder he is to bo
i xecuted.
The Reorganized Mormon church,
which Is strongly anti-polygamy,
opened Its new building in Brooklyn
and attacked Apostle Smith and his
principles.
George Gath. an engineer on the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg rail
road, was held up and assaulted Sun
day morning, receiving Injurls;: which
may prove fatal.
A dispatch from St. PvicnUirg says
there Is no truth In report that, tho
Russians have abandoned Port Arthur.
Japanese reports say that thft last
bombardment was very effective snd
that Ihe town Is burning.
BABY LEFT AT THC'fl DCOn.
Childless Rich Coup!: Get C.-.: '.'.'o-
man Neighbor Nov A:k3 For One.
Pittsburg, March 14. Mrs. Tho.raj
Rohan of 1023 Hill struct, V.'i!!:ir,s
burg, answered her doorbell about :)
o'clock Saturday evening. On lirr
front porch she found two basket!.
One, lined with silk, contained a child,
to which waa pinned a las. with tho
words, "three months." Ths o'.her
basket contained garments.
The baby Is a fine boy. Mr. f:nd
Mrs. Rohan are a wealthy couple who
have been marrlsd nine years, bur.
have no children. Wiii!'1 nrvspapor
reporters were Investigating tho
story, Mrs. Jeannette Green, a neigh
bor oif Mrs. Rohan, was vlsitins t'.iu
baby. She told ihe nowepapor r...;.i
that Santa Clans hnd never i;top:e-l
at her homo since she had been mar
ried and requested that they place a
notice In the p.ipers to n--U the pcruon
who left Mrs. Rohan a I.aby to please
leave one on her dooiv.op.
Mrs. Rohan burned tho clothes o
the child so that they could p it be
Identified and said that 'ihe will 1:??:
the boy.
A SHERIFF'S PERPLEXITY.
White Man and Negro Are to Die oa
the Same Scaffold.
Pittsburg, March 14. Sheriff Dick
son has received an order fro:,i Gjvor
ror Pennypacker to hang William L.
Hartley and James Edwards on tha
same day, and 13 much disturbed owy
it.
"Under the circtimsUncos," ho s:iid,
"it strikes me as entirely improper
that the two men should be hanged at
the same time. One is a wbiie man
and the other a negro, and there is a
natural prejudice against associating
the two races.
"They were never together In their
life, and that Is another reason why
they should not meet death together
Of all places In tho world, the scaffold
is one where nothing that cju! 1 offend
the condemned man should ba dono.
There is more thaa sentiment In this,
there Is humanity."
JAIL BREAKERS SENTENCED.
Prisoners Held In Check by Warden's
Wife to Serve Long Terms.
Norristown, Pa., March 14. George
Bond, the jockey who murderously as
saulted Warden Gotwals and Under
Keeper Beckwlth, to e?enpo jail, was
sentenced to 11 years In the Ear.tern
penitentiary.
William Cornwell. who took a hand
in the attempted jail breaking, pot 12
years. Bond escaped four years addi
tional Imprisonment by an error in the
Indictment, which tailed to includfi
Beckwlth In the murderous nssiult.
The men's plana for freedom were
frustrated by the bravery of the war
den's wife, who held them in cheek
with a pistol.
Gorges Frozen to the River Bottom.
Wilkes-Barre, March 11. Tho only
place on the north branch of the Sus
quehanna where more Hood damage
Is threatened is along the Wyo:niiu:
valley, where three large ice gorg;
choke the channel of the river nnd
threaten to spread the waters over
this city. Pittston. Wyoming, Forty
Fort, PlainviUe, Dorraneeton. Kings
ton, West moor, Edwardsvill - Bro:;'..tn
and Plymouth, if there is a steady
rain end thaw.
Engineers Inspected the gorge
They found the gorge below thu dty
to be solid and apparently frozen to
the bottom of the river.
The passing out of the gorges farth
er down the river remove, 1 the (lun
ger there. The railroads I'm 1 they
have to blast a way through the
mounds of Ice with which their tracks
are blocked and it will be some weeks
before all the repairs are made.
Shoots His Father.
Waynesburg, Pa., March II. Al
pheus Huggins, a wellknown farmer
near Garaids Fort, Greene county, was
shot and seriously wounded by his
son, Charles. The father, it is Mil
had driven his wile and smaller chil
dren from the house, and they sought
refuge at the home of the oldest son,
on the same farm, the father follow
ing. One of the children was s"iu U:
summon Charles from a .sugar carip
and be secured a shotgun and re
spnnded. At bis approach the fathet
advanced, unheeding the command tc
halt, and received a charge of shot
in the face, neck nnd arms The sou
Is under bond for court.
Continued Heavy Traffic.
Philadelphia. March II. Leading
railroad officials from diliierent auc
tions of the country who nt tended ihe.
Pennsylvania railroad meeting list
week express the greatest ciai'doeee.
In the continuance of u heavy tiiilroil
tiafflc. Even some of those Wio were
disposed to a different vi3v :omo
weeks ago have dung I their minds
and the opinivu !-' now general thm
business will be luge and profitably
throughout the spring and early suiu
mer.
General Tracy Selli Out.
Middletown, N. Y Mnrd 1-1 -General
B. F. 'f't tcy, secretary of tin- ikivv
i.nder President lUivi . e i an I for a
number of year.4 a pronilne;,: breeder
of trotting horses. 1ms disp d of hi
racing stock and retired per" -ei, n:'.y
from tho business. He vi'!. Ie.-v, -retain
his pt-upeity n u" Goshca,
where many tided hore.; have bfen
foaled.
West Newt -hi John C. I.nudspar
!?or, a deaf mute, was Instantly killed
by the Pituhiu'tt and Lake Krio pS
train