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Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a. in M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. in. Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab bath eveulng by Rev. W. O. Calhonn. Preaching In the F. M. Church every Ksbbath evening at thermal hour. Rev. It. A. Kahniaer, Panto Services In the PeLbyterlau Church every Sabbath nioriiing and evening, The regular moetliigs of the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each in. nth. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 'TM' NKSTA LODUK, No. 369, T. O. O. F.' 1 Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. .X)KK8T LODOK No. 184, A.O. U. W., I Meets every Friday evening lnA.O.U. W. Hall, Tionesta. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274 G. A. K. Meets 1st and 3d Monday evening in each month, in A. O. U. W. Hall, TiouettU. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month, In A. O. U. W. hall, Tiunusta, I'a. rniONESTATENT, No. 164 K. O. T. 1 M., meets 2nd and 4th Wednesday evening In each month In A. O. U. W. hall TioneHta, Pa. y F. RITC1IF.Y. 1 . ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Tionesta, Pa. CURTIS M. SIIAWKEY, ATTOKNKY-AT-LAW, . Warren, Pa. Practice In Forest Co. AO .BROWN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Olliceln Amor Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sis., Tionesta, Pa. J, W. MORROW. M. D., T'livsiclan. Htirureon it Dentist. Office and Residence three doors ortli of Hotel Agnew, Tioneota. Professional calls promptly responded to at all hours. D R. F. J. BOVARD, Physician A Nurgcon, TIONESTA, PA. DR. J. C. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUGGIST. Olllce over stere, Tionesta, Pa. Professional calls prompt ly responded to at till hours ol' day or night. Residence Kim St., between Grove's grocery and Gerow's restaurant. D .It J. B. SIGGINS. Physlciau and surgeon, OIL CITY, PA. H. v.. Mi.KINI.F.Y. Hardware, Tinning Jt Plumbing. Tionesta, Pa O J. SETLEY, O. JUSI'ICE OF THE PEACE, Keeps a complete line or Justice's blanks for sale. Also Blank deeds, mortgages, etct. Tionesta, Pa. HOTEL WEAVER, E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor. This lintel, formerly the Lawrence House, has undergone a complete change, and Is now rnriilshed with all the mod ern Improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The oomforts oi guests never neglected. CENTRAL HOUSE, GEROW A GEROW Proprietor. Tlonsela, Pa. This is the most centrally 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 FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm and alnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work trom tiie lljiest to tlio conisest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion I'ivttii to mending, and prices rua sonnblu. TORUNZO FULTON, Manufacturer of and Dealer In HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, And all kinds of HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TIONKSTA. PA. S. H. HASLET & GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PliNN S1DVANCE ON MUKDEN. General Sakharoff Reports Sev eral Minor Successes. Armlet Ravaged by Disease Danger ous Torpedo Afloat Death of Sena tor ,Hoar Democratic State Candi dates Notified Many Railroad Men Barred by Age Trade Review. Efforts by the Russians to retake posltlonscoinmandingthe water supply of Port Arthur have resulted In hard righting, the losses on both sld.is be ing reported to lave been heavy. K"Srho Japanese retain tho contested ground. It is said That heavy guns newly mounted threaten the Russian war chips In the harbor of Port Atthui which may now be forced to go out and face the fleet of Admiral Togo. There is a report that a Japanese gunboat was sunk by coming in contact with a mine south of tho Llaotung peninsu la; the report adds tha: a portion ol the crew were rescued. Field Mnrslial Oyama has begun the long expected advance upon tha Rus elan army at Mukden, and a coined dent movement against Slnminttn la Indicated by the fact that the Japa nese have occupied Siaobeyho, west of the Liao river. There Is a concen tration of Japanese forces In the vi cinity of the Yental mines and the ad vance lines are being gradually pushed eastward. General Sakharoff In the dispatchea to the war office at St. Petersburg re peats successes In several engage ments of a minor character. An undated dispatch from General Kurokl headquarters reports that the present Japanese military organiza tion Is as efficient as it has been at any time since the war began. there Is no ddflnlte new from Port Arthur. Change In the Russian mln Utry of marine and In naval command! are announced on high authority. New head of the admlrnlty. It Is said, will be Vice Admiral Doubasoff, an of fleer of wide experience in war and the present head of the technical burean of the ministry of marine. Japs Fire on Burial Parties. Russians residing at Chefoo claim to have received information that the Japanese losses in the last assault on Port Arthur which begun Sept. If were 7,000. A Chinaman who left the fortress on Sept. 26 says that the Russian losses were between E00 and 600. This Chinaman says that the Japa nese wre unable to remain in three supplementary forts which they cap tured and that they retired at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of Sept. 26, after en during several days of tremendous firing from the inner forts. He adds that the Russians attempt ed to bury the dead on both sides at night, because the decomposing bodies seriously menaced the health of the garrison. The Russians allege that it Is the deliberate policy of tho Jap anese to undermine the health of the Russian troops by means of the idors from the decomposing bodies and for that reason thPy fire on the burial lartles. W -i v. I ...1. .-. M MAMt.. who ijiiiiiaiuaii hii fan a luiuuci of a burial party says that the Japa nese fired when he arid other Chinese attemptod to bury the dead. He adds that when the wind carries the odora toward tho Japanese, the latter re tire. Chinese say that 'the most severe at tacks were made on the supplemen tary forts of the Itz and Anshu moun tain forts. The Russians had under mined the ground and several hundred Japanese were blown up on Sept. 2S. Young Tolstoi a Jingo. Count Tolstoi's son, Leo, in an article in the Novoe Vremya of St Petersburg, takes a position dia metrically opposed to his father's ideas. He has Just returned from see ing ofT his brother, who is departing for the front, and writes of the touch ing scenes he witnessed at Tamhofl as the reserve men left for tha Far East. Young Tolstoi says the peas ants are united In agreeing thnt tho war must be fought out until Japan Is subdued. He adds: It is a hard time for Russia, hut It is the period of her regeneration. The war in the Far East Is a great war, such as Russia hasiot seen since the days of Peter the Great a war for the possession of the eastern shores of the European-Asiatic continent, Just as in the days of Peter it was for the -western shores. Just as in the war with the Swedes we suffered at Narva, but we conquered at Poltava, we are now suffering reverses with the Asiatic Swedes; but there will come a day when Japan will be vanquished." In concluding, young Tolstoi pre dicts tho triumph of-Russia, which he declares Is deftlnc-d "to become,. In stead of England, the greatest nation in tho world." 119 says tho Slavs will spread over and absorb all the neigh boring people they have already sub jugated in the Crlmpa, the Caucasus, Eastern Russia and Siberia, adding: 'Russia In lhi only power destined tn realiv.o the dream of world con finest." Dangnus Torpedo Afloat. Two torpedoes wero lost from the United States submarine boat Tike, Which has been experimenting in San Pablo bay under the direction' of Lieu tenant McArthur. One has been re covered by Italian fishermen. The other Is still at large and may be ex ploded by a passing vessel. A reward of $230 is offered for Its ' recovery. The one already recovered had lost Its compressed air and was practically harmless. Death of Senator Hoar. United States Senator Hoar died Friday morning at Worcester, Mass., at 2 o'clock. Ho maintained to the last a wonderful fight against death, and for the last 12 hours his pulse and breathing were so faint that noith er could be scarcely detected. i SENATOR OKORGB P. BOA&, George Frlsbie Hoar was bom at Concord, Mass., In 1826; graduated at Harvard, studied law and graduated at Dane law school ; settled at Worces ter, where he practiced: was cltv so licitor In 18C0; member of state house of representatives In 1S52 and of the state senate in 1857. Elected repre sentative to 41st, 42nd, 42rd and 44th congresses. Was nn overseer of Har vard college 1874-1880; presided over the Massachusetts Republican con ventions of 1871, 1877, W82 and 1885; was delegate to national convention of 1876 at Cincinnati and of 1880, 1884 andl8RS at Chicago, presided over the convention of 1880. Was one of the managers of tho Belknap impeach ment in 1876; was a member of the electoral commission In 1876; regent of the SmlthRonian Institution; vss a member and has been president of many historical and scientific socie ties; was trustee of the Feabody fund; was elected to the United States sen ate to succeed George S. Bout well; tcok his seat in March, 1877, and waa re-elected In 1883, 1889, 195 and 1901. He has lately published Recollec tions of his Congressional Life. Fraudulent Life Preservers. A conspiracy developed by officials of the department of commerce and labor and department of justice re sulted In the arrest at Camden, N. J., of J. H. Stone, H. C. Qulntard, Charted W. Russ and James Runs, officers ot the Nonpareil Cork works. They were apprehended by tho Unit ed States marshal for the district of New Jersey, under an Indictment found on Sept. 29 by the United States grand Jury at Trenton charging them, under section 5,440, revised statutes of the United States, with conspiring lo defraud the government and pre judice the administration of the steam boat Inspection laws by putting upon the market compressed cork blocks for use in making life preservers, and each of which blocks contained in its center a piece of bar Iron about C Inches long and weighing eight ounces. Missionaries In Danger. Twenty-six Canadian missionaries are reported to be at present In Hunan, China, where a general mas sacre of foreigners is said to have been decided upon by a Chinese so ciety, to occur on Oct. 17. Two others, Rev. J. Mowat and Mrs. Mowat are on their way out. Kev. R. P. McKay, Presbyterian foreign missionary sec retary, says that letters received from Hunan recently were vsrv reassuring The fact that Blnce the Boxer outbreak French and English capitalists had bisected the province with railroad made the conditions more favorable than four years ago when the pre vious trouble occurred. Theso rail roads would enable the missionaries to get out In two days, whereas three weeks were required by house boats. Democratic Candidates Notified. At Odd Fellows' hall In Albany, on Saturday, amid an enthusiastic gather Ing of Democrats from all parts of the state, the candidates on the New Tork Democratic state ticket received form al notification of their nomination. A special train from New York city brought a large delegation, headed by Duncan Campbell Lee and members ol the Democratic state committee. Judge Herrlck, William Burton Har rison, candidate 'or lieutenant gover nor, and Attorney General John Cun neen made speeches of acceptance In response to the notification by Chair man Lee. Many Over the Age Limit. Over 1.000 employes of the Pennsyl rania system northwest and tho Penn sylvania southwest have left tho ser vice of the company because of a gen eral order that has Just been made op eratlve, that no employe of tha com pany who was hired after ho reached the age of 35 Is to be retained. If a man was hired before ho was 35 he re tains his position. On the Cleveland nml Pittsburg railroad about. f0 em ployeH of the company will bn out ol positions. Floor of Church Collapsed. While Right Rev. Thomas D. Bcav en, Roman Catholic bishop of Spring field, was laying the corner stone ol St. Stanislaus Polish church at Adams Mass., Sunday afternoon, a floor col lapsed, precipitating 150 persons lntc the basement. Thirty-seven persons were so In jured as to require medical treatment Of this number tho Injuries of 16 are serious and In ono caso may prove fatal. BOODLER'S CONFESSION Charles F. Kelly Relates Story of St. Louis Combine. Kelly Names a Politician Who Gave Him $15,000 to Keep Out of Reach of Grand Jury Plots to Intimidate and Discredit Circuit Attorney Folk. Price of Votes. St Louis, Oct. 4. In a written con fession Charles F. Kelly, speaker ol the house of delegates during a period In the life of the boodle combine, re lates the story of that combine. Kelly details the Btory of the city lighting deal, for which he says a boodle fund of $47,500 was divided be tween the 19 members of the combine at Julius Lehmann's birthday party. He declares that a go-between gave him the boodle fund and that he took it to Lehmann's house and that he there divided it "We had a fixed schedule of prices," ho said, "for various bills, according to the value of the franchises or privi leges given. We hardly ever received less than $1,000 for the combined vote On one or two occasions, though, we got as low as $50 each for our votes, end some of the boys took $5 each. "Our combine was not along party lines. Both Democrats and Repub licans belonged to it. My experience has been that boodlers Hue up accord ing to their own interests and not un der party standards. Democrats and Republicans In St. Louis usually nom inate men to go tn the house of dele gates for the money they can make out of It. "Each party man votes for his own fellow and either one that gets in serves those who rob the city of fran chises. I believe this has been tol erated in St. Louis, because the heads of so many of the large corporations of the city used to think it less trouble to buy what they wanted than to eleel honest men to the house of delegates. "There are many other things I can and will tell later on, but this will do now. This, in brief, Is my story and the confession of my Infamy. I be lieve, though that If the people of St Louts allow this man (a prominent pol itician Is named) to go on and control both political parties and put his men In office, the public will be Just at guilty as I am today. "I am now suffering the penalty ol my crimes, am degraded and dis graced. I shall endeavor for the rest of my life to atcne for the wrongs 1 have done." Kelly declared that the politician he mentions paid him $15)00 of the $50, 000 promised on condition that Kelly would keep away from tho grand Jury Kelly went to Europe, Intending to re main until after the statute of limita tion had run out on the lighting deal By a miscalculation, Kelly said, he came back too soon and was arrested Kelly added: "I know from my own knowledge and from the statements made to me by those on the Inside that bribery has been going on in the municipal assembly of St Louis foi the past 25 years. Hardly a bill passed that body In the last quarter of a century unless It was paid for. We did not fear exposure and punish ment. "When the present prosecutor (Cir cuit Attorney Folk) commenced hie war on us, we tried to intimidate htm by threats of assassination and when this had no effect we laid all sorts ol traps for him, without success. Then some decided that the best plan would bo to start a newspaper and libel him so fiercely as to draw his fire by tak ing up his time In libel prosecuting, or if he did not, his Influence would be weakened and destroyed. "Although we could And nothing after a thorough search to make at tack on, libels were deliberately made up for the purpose of affecting public Bentlment. This plan was participat ed In, not only by members of the house of delegates under Indictment for Doodling but by prominent finan ciers of St. Louis who feared exposure and by those who gave ua the money." Of the combine, Kelly had this to say: "We never thought of passing a bill out of which any money could be ob tained, unless we were paid for our votes. We went about it in a busi ness like way and had combine meet ings at stated times and fixed the bribe price which we were to receive for our votes, by a majority vote ol the combine. Then we would select ene of the combine In whose honesty we had confidence, to go out and get the money. "Among ourselveB, understand, we fad a high code of mora'.-, and it wat considered extremely dishonest for a member of the combine to accept brlbo money without dividing it among his follows." Conspirators Gave Ball. Trenton, N. J., Oct. . Julius S Stone, Harry C. Qulntard, James Rusf and Charles W. Russ, who were Joint ly Indicted on a chargo of conspiracy against tho United States government and prejudlco against the government steamship inspection laws by placing pieces of iron Inside of cork life pre servers, pleaded not guilty today and gave bail. Bartholdi Critically III. Paris, Oct. 4. Frederick Auguste Bartholdi, the Bculptor of the Statue ol Liberty In New York bay, Is critically ill of tuberculosis. Hopes of his re covery havo practically been abandoned. ALONZO J. WHITEMAN. While on His Way to Buffalo He Tale graphed Dolson & Dolaon to Act For Him. Buffalo, Oct 4. The wellknown legal firm of Dolson & Poison In EM cott square has been asked to defend a client who does not appear to re quire the services of an attorney Just at the 'present time. The client is Alonzo J. Whlteman, wanted on a charge of forgery, but whose whereabouts are being diligent ly sought by the Buffalo police and Plnkerton detectives. About 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon the firm received a dispatch from and evidently sent while en route to this city. The dispatch stated that Whlteman had no personal acquaint, ance with the Buffalo attorneys, but that they had been recommended to him by a couple of Judges of his ac quaintance and he wished them to act for him In the legal difficulties In which he expected to become Involved as soon as be reached Buffalo. Later, Whlteman seems to have de cided to trust to his own efforts to keep clear of prison, as he broke away from the officers at Dunkirk and es caped. The report that Alonzo J. Whlteman boarded a ship at Philadelphia has proved unfounded. No trace of the fugitive has been secured. The Buf falo detectlvo from whom he escaped has been suspended from duty. POWDER MILL EXPLOSION. Two Men Killed and Roof and Sides of Building Blown Away. Scranton, Pa., Oct. 4. By an ex plosion in the corning mill of the Du-pont-DeNomous Powder company's plant, near Peckvllle, two men met in stant death. They were: Richard Hassey of Jessup and Walter Alls worth of Olyphant. The roofs and sides of the building were blown away and the mill took fire. The employes of tho other mills nearby soon had the flames under con trol. This Is the fifth time these mills have blown up in a period of 20 years and four times within the last four years, always with fatal results. 8lx Men Buried In Landslide. Cartersvllle, Ga., Oct. 4. By the falling of earth and ore estimated at 1,000 tons weight, four men lost their lives near here. Two other men are expected to die. The dead are: R. P. Morgan, presi dent and manager of the Morgan Min ing company of Cartersvllle and James Harris, Jr., and two negroes. The cause of the disaster was what Is known by miners as a "slick head." A heavy stratum of oil lay above a mass of clay and the latter gave way. Mr. Morgan has relatives In New York and Boston. A Martyr to Science.. Orange, N. J., Oct. 4. Clarence M. Dally Is dead at his home In East Or gan ge from the effects of a cancerous growth resulting from long continued persistence In experimenting with X ray apparatus In tho Edison labora tory. The history of his case shows him to have been a martyr to science to his devotion to the solution of the mysteries of the X-ray and fluoro ocope. For 16 years Mr. Dally was employed In the Edison works and seven years ago became assistant In the X-ray experimental department, where continuous exposure to the mys terious power of the rays Induced the cancerous growth on his hands which finally caused his death, after Intense suffering, and the successive amputa tion Of both his arms. Attempt to Settle Textile Strike. Fall River, Mass., Oct. 4. The cot ton manufacturers were presented with a request that they meet the tex tile union officials at a conference and attempt to end the strike which has been on since July 25. It Is under stood that the manufacturers will agree to a conference. The peace ef forts were given a slight setback when 1,200 striking weavers passed a unan imous vote not to return to work un less assurances were given that no more than eight looms will be operat ed by one weaver. Johnson Murder Case. Towanda, Pa., Oct. 4. Mr. and Mrs, Lorenzo Heeman of Blnghamton, N. Y., who were charged with conspiracy with Blgler Johnson In the suspected murder of Johnson's wife and ten ear-old niece, Annie Benjamin, were Slscharged from custody. They pro bably will be used as witnesses in tho ease. Funeral of Senator Hoar. Worcester, Mass., Oct. 4. Thirty five thousand peoplo passed througl City hall and viewed tho body of Sen ator George F. Hoar between 4:30 anf 9:30 yesterday. Tho four hours nl lotted for this ceremony proved lnado quate and an extension of an hour wai made. Fifty thousand Menple massed in front of City hall and adjacent wayi end many cases of fainting womer were noted. Police ambulances car rled nineteen peoplo from tho crush tc their homes and others were cared foi In the City hall. Tho body was taker at 11 o'clock today to Concord foi burial. The mind Is refreshed nml Invigorat ed by distractions and amusement, but abuse of them leads to dissipation and dissipation to vice. To be sensibly dressed Is tj give free dom to one's movements uml enough warmth to be protected from sudden chamres of teniueruture. SUMMARY OF THE NEWS Short Items From Various Part of the World. Record of Many Happenings Condensed and Put In 8mall 8pac and Ar ranged With Special Regard For the Convenience of tha Reader Who hat Little Tlma to Spare. Alonzo J. Whlteman, once a promi nent Minnesota politician, was arrest ed In St Louis for alleged forgery In Buffalo, N. Y. President Roosevelt plans to Issue his call for the reassembling of The Hague peace conference within six weeks and will not await the con clusion of peace between Russia and Japan. Hugh Gurney, third secretary of the British embassy, was fined In Lee, Mass., for contempt of court and for speeding his automobile In Stock bridge, and the United States will apologize to Great Britain for the af front Thursday. A collision between two Grand Trunk freight trains at Eastwood Wednesday morning resulted in the death of four railway employes. Judge Henry C. Phelps, who fined the third secretary of the British em bassy In Lee, Mass., for contempt ol court and speeding an automobile, Is ready to apologize. With the evident intention of doing an injury to the battleship Connecti cut some person or persons placed an obstruction on the ways the ships rests on In the New York navy yard. Thirty-five Btudents, living in vari ous states of the Union, who won Ce cil Rhodes scholarships of a course ol study at Oxford university, sailed from Boston Tuesday on the steamship Ivernla, bound for Liverpool. Friday. The Duke of Orleans has asked per mission of the Norwegian government to hire the Fram for an Arctic expedi tion next year. By a test vote the opponents of the division of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York carried the dlo cesan convention. Because one of their women teach ers was Bald to be a negro the children of a Chicago school organized a union and went on strike. Judge Herrick Is announced tc stump the state and Grover Cleveland Is expected to speak at a ratification meeting In Madison Square Garden. Indictments for bribe taking have been found at Buffalo against three al dermen and four ex-aldermen. Ball In each case was furnished for $1,500. The district attorney says the trials will begin In two weeks. Saturday. Battleship Connecticut, which Is to be the largest and most powerful ves sel In the United States navy, ia launched successfully In New York. EuchariRtlc congress closes In New York after unanimously rdoptlng reso lutions denouncing the government ol France for expelling the Catholic or ders. Main Russian army has retired north of Mukden, according to a re port received In London, and the southern approaches of the city have been carefully mined. Governor Bates of Massachusetts Bent to the state department at Wash ington an apology for the arrest anl fining of Hugh Gurney, third secretary of the British embassy, for violating the automobile speed laws of his state. Monday. Canadian blockade runners are said to be furnishing the troops In Port Arthur with flour. Russia plans, according to a St. Pe tersburg dispatch, to place three ar mies, numbering 500,000 men In all, In the field. At Odd Fellows' hall In Albany on Saturday the candidates on the Dem ocratic state ticket were formally no tified of thel'hpmlnatlon. C. D. Straight, editor of the Olean Times, has been selected by Governoi Odell to fill the unexpired term of E. E. Alderman as county treasurer of Cattaraugus. Divorce as a bar to remarriage will be the great question to be considered at the general convention of the Prot estant Episcopal church, which will meet In Boston next Wednesday. Thirty-five students, living. In var ious states of the Union, who won the Cecil Rhodes scholarship, for a course of study at Oxford university, sailed from Boston Tuesday on the oteam ship Ivernla, bound for Liverpool. Tuesday. Letter of Henry G. Davis, accepting the Democratic nomination for vice president, Is made public. Panama has filed In the state de partment In Washington n formal pro test against alleged oppression by 11.. s government on the Isthmus. Nonpareil Cork works In Cnmden, N. J., in which Iron-weighted "life pre servers" are said to have been manu factured. Is guarded by armed men. Toklo naval department reports de struction of a Russian steamer used In clearing mines at the entrance ot Port Arthur. Tho steamer struck a mine and sunk. Thirty-seven persons were hurt at the collapse of a floor of the new St Stanislaus Catholic church In Adams, Mass., at tho laying of tho corner stone ot the edifice. BROTHERHOOD OF 8T. ANDREW. National Officers Elected, the Presi dent Being Robert H. Gardiner. Philadelphia, Oct. 3.-Brothcrhood ol St. Andrew delegates selc-cted Chicago as place of meeting of next year's con vention. At a meeting of the newly-appointed council the following national o'llcerc were elected: President Robert H. Gardiner, Gardiner, Me.; vice presi dent,' Judge G. Harry Davis, Philadel phia; second vice president, Edmund G. Billings, Boston; treasurer, George H. Randall, Pittsburg; general secre tary, Hubert Carlton, Pittsburg; offi cial secretary, Edgar P. Criswell, Pittsburg. J. A. Houghtallng of Chicago and Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., discussed "The Forward Movement," and J. A. Catto of Toronto and J. II. Smale of Chicago spoke on "How Can the Brotherhood Movement be Best Promoted?" LAID TO ANARCHISTS. Woman Said to Have Attempted Hus band's Life at Their Bidding. Canonsburg, Pa., Oct. 3. Mrs. Gulsepue Grogonskl is under arrest at Cecil charged with attempting to kill hsr husband. It Is alleged sho re ceived orders to kill her husband be cause he refused to have anything to dc with the advocates of anarchy. It Is charged that on last Tuesday night Mrs. Grogonskl procured a ropi, which Bhe laced around his neck, and was In the act of chokirrg him to c'eatli when he awoke and freed himself. When seen in her cell Mrs. Grogon skl. who Is a German, 48 years old, said that had shs succeeded In kill ing her husband she Intended to cut bcr own throat. She said the or.lers of the league must be carried out, and she will see that they ar- when sho In released from jail. Her husband Is a German shoemaker and the two havo bepn living In Cecil about 11 years. Large Freight Boats Ordered. Cleveland. Oct. 3. Two largo freight boats have been ordcrltl from the American Shipbuilding company. One of the boats is for the United States Transportation company and will cost $150,000 and bi built at De troit. The second vessel Is for the Buffalo and Susquehanna Steamship company and will cost $330,000 and be built at Pay City. Both boats will come out next spring. There are now $3,000,000 worth of boa's uml con tract In the yards along the (Ireat Lakes. Police Looking For Alleged Forger. Oil City, Pa., Oct 3. Officers are looking for George W. Rnwell, 40 yetrs old. who It is alleged victimized mem bers of the Knights of Pythias In this city and Meadvllle, by means of forged checks. Howell rlalnied to ha a district organizer. Local members cashed checks drawn on Vermont and Philadelphia banks for Amounts aggre gating $50. Meadvllle members lost about the samo amount, and had a warrant Issued for him. Pittsburger Won $2,500 Automobile. Pittsburg. Oct. 3. While In St. Louis on Labor day, J. F. Loffler of 42 Frankstown avenue bought a chance from an automobile company for $1, and forgot that It was any morn than part of tho expense of seeing the world's fair. Saturday ho received word from the company that he hnd drawn an nutomobllo valued at $2,500. Tho machino will be shipped to him. Dies During Baptism. Sandusky, O., Oct. 3. The 3-months-cld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Pfalt died suddenly as the minister tpoke the Inst word of tho buptlnnial prayer. A happy party of relatives had gathered at tho homo of Mrs. Pfaff's sisters, the Misses Schafer and the child had Just been christened Mildred Leona by Rev. J. Q. Enslln of the German Protestant church. Firebugs Menace Canonsburg. Cannonshiug, Pa., Oct. 3. It is be lieved that Incendiaries are at work In Canonsburg, ns during the past few days three attempts havo been made to burn buildings In the busi ness section. Tho cigar factory of Cumpper &. Harper was set on fire, hut the flames were extinguished be fore the building was entirely de stroyed. Presence of Mind Saved Llff. Connoll8ville, Pa., Oct. 3. Leonard Blasey of New Haven narrowly es caped being electrocuted and Is In n rerlous condition. While cleaning :i street nn electric light wire fell. He placed his hand upon tho wire, receiv ing a heuvy voltage of electricity. Charles II. Hnlsh-y wrapped Ills coat about Iiluscy's feet utnl pulled him loose from tho wire. Body Cut In Two. ninghamton, Oct. 3. Samuel Junes. J.S years old. Erie station SK'Mit at Great Bond, Pa., was instantly Killed Saturday morning. Ho started across tho tracks nhnnd of a passenger train and was struck by a freight train ap proaching from the opposite direction. His body was cut entirely In two. Oldfleld Lowered Records. Pittsburg, Oct. 3. Ilirney OldfleM broko the 24-horse power machino 10 mllo record at t!ie Pitshurg automo- ," bilo meet Saturday by poing the dis- (" tunce in 10 minutes 50 1-5 seconds. Eleven minutes was the best previous Itcord. Obllield ulso lowered th'S track mile record to 58 1-3 seconds.