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Third Monday of November. t karrh aa Mabkalfc Mraaal. Presbyterian Ssbbath School l 9:45 a. in. I M. K. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. in. Preaching in M. K. Church every Sab bath "Yenlntr by Kev. W.O. Calhoun. Preaching In the F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Kev. 1L A. Zahniser, Pastor. Services In the Presbyterian Church every Sabbath morning and evening, The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are hed at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each in nth. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. pp.NKSTA LODUK, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. K. 1 Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. (KHST LODdK, No. 184. A. O. U. W., I Meets every Friday evening InlA.O.U. W. Hall, Tionosta. CAPT.OKORUKBTOW POST, No. 274 O. A, K. Meets 1st and 8I Monday evening iu each mouth, In A. O. U. W. Hall, Tionesta. CAPT. (JKOUUK STOW CORPS, No. 17, W. R, C, meets tlrst and third Wednesday evening of each mouth, In A. O. U. W. hall, TionesU, Pa. 'PIONI'-STA TKNT, No. 104, K. 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Also Wank deeds, mortgsges, et. Tionesta, Pa. HOTEL WEAVER, E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor. This hotel, formerly the Lawrence House, has undergone Bcoinpletechauge, and Is now furnished with all the mod ern Improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comforts of guests never neglected. CENTRAL HOUSE, GEROW AUEROW Proprietor. Tlonseta, Pa. This Is the mostcentrally located hotel In the place, and has all the modern Improvements. No pains will be spared to make it a ploasant stopping place for the traveling public. First class LiVery In connection. pHIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop In Walters building, Cor. Elm and W alnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work Irom the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to ?;ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atton ion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. JORENZO FULTON, Manufacturer of and Dealer In HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, And all kinds or HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TIONESTA. PA. CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS LJ Best Oroeh Syrup. Tastes Good. PJ Use In timo. . Sold by druggists. SHARE IN GOVERNMENT. Appeal to Czar From Represen tatives oi Russian Communes. Japs Repulsed at Port Arthur Warn ing to British Shlppers--Prcident at St. Louis Nineteenth Week of Strike C. K. Q. Bilings Bjys M&jor Delmar. t "In order to secure the proper development of the life of the state nnd the people It Is Im peratively necessary that there be regular participation of national representative!, sitting as nn especial ly elected body, to make laws, regulate the revenues and expenditure, and control the legality of the actions of the administration." The above Is the final form of the declaration of the zemstvo representa tives In favor of the election of a body not merely to participate la legisla tion as at first reported but to be en trusted with the framing of the laws cf the empire. The meeting also adopted the dec laration In favor of granting general Cnmesty to political offenders Impris oned or exiled by administrative or der. This completed program declaring the necessity of the participation by tho people In tho government was tlgncd by 102 zemstvo presidents, In cluding 30 presidents of provincial temstvo committees out of 32 who at tended the meeting. The memorial will be presented adlhln a couple of days to the minis ter of the Interior, Prince Svlatonolk Mirsky, by a delegation composed ol Presidents Shlpoff, Petrunkeivltch, Prince Ivoff, Count Helder and Rod r.lansky, the most prominent partici pants In the meeting. The meeting of the 7.emstvolsts: "first Russian congress" as It Is now called, may work the inauguration of a new ra for Russia. Emperor Nicho las, the Initiator of the plan for uni versal disarmament, may turn back upon the reactionaries nnd crowu his reign by granting to his subjects the constitution which his grandfather had already prepared when he fell by the hand of an assassin. Desperate Assault Expected Shortly Tho report that the Japanese are concentrating :hslr energies for a des perate assault on Port Arthur In view of the approach of the second Pacific squadron. Is quite generally credited In official quarters at St. Petersburg. Such a move has been expected to tmnsplre as soon as the Japanese learned that the squadron's trip was an actuality and no mere demonstra tion. The authorities are prepared to hear terrible reports of the projected assault. While not hazarding a guess wheth er the fortress can be carried if the besiegers are utterly regardless ol human life, they arc confident that General Stoessel will be aide to make such nn attack one of the costliest operations In history. Japs Repulsed at Port Arthur. Imperial headqun iters at Tokio has ssuod the following announcement: "The works for our attack having been nearly completed against Sung fhu mountain (Port Arthur) and the forts lying eastward therefrom, a gen eral assault was made on the after noon of Nov. 2G, but owing to tho en ciny's stubborn resistance our object has not yet been accomplished. "The lighting still continues." Warning to British Shipowners. Foreign Minister Lansdowne has written to the Chamber of Shipping, Chamber of Commerce and other bod es giving further warning with refer nee (o British colliers and the Russian JaMIc sqindron. explaining that Brit ish owners chartering their vessels foi such purposes as following the Rus shin fleet with coal and supplies nilghl render themselves liable to proceed ings under the foreign, enlistment act, the applicable sections of which he quoted. Lord Lansdowne then refers to the fact that a similar question arose dur ing the Frinee-Grmiin war, when Mr, Gladstone laid down the principle that such colliers would to all Intents and purposes become store ships lo the fleet. "Theretore." concludes Lord Lansdowno, "although neutral trader may trade In contraband at the risk of capture, they should bear in mind the conditions of the English laws." To Meet Second Russian Squadron. The progress of the Russian sec ond Pnclfic squadron excites daily growing Interest In London. A Jap anese correspondent of the Morn ing Post,, discussing possible prepara tions to meet the squadron, suggests that Japan rely upon the older war ships to maintain the blockade of Port Arthur (In fact the correspondent as serts they already ate so employed) and thus enable Togo to release his moro morlern vessels for overhauling at Sasebo preparatory to meeting Ad miral Rojestvensky. President Visits the Fair. President Roosevelt visited the St Louis exposition Saturday and Sunday. Tie was accompanied by Mrs. Roose velt, Miss Alice Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. D. Robinson, Secretary and Mrs. Loeb, Surgeon General Rlxey of the navy, M. C. Latta of the executive of fice and representatives of tho press associations. I Saturday was spent In visiting various points in the exposition grounds. At night the presidential partv attended a bouquet In the main building of the Tyrolean Alps, at which J00 persot8 were present. It had been annoaced that the pres ident would not make a public addrtu while at the fair, but there were re peated calls for aspeech and Mr. Roosevelt replied briefly, expressing his appreciation of the courteous re ception that had been accorded to hliu. Sunday was passed quietly in St. Louis and nt midnight the president and his party left on their spe cial train for Washington, arriving at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning. Hollidny Trade Begins Well. Bnidstreet's summary of the state of trade says: Cold weather Is needed to move re tall stocks of winter clothing, dry goods and shoes, re-orders for which are not brisk. On the other hand, the trade In holiday goods has begun well, and good feeling as regards this line Is completed with confidence as to trade in spring fabrics, which Is proceeding better than a .year ago. Holding by farmers Is credited with affecting collections at several South ern points, but as a whole payments arc better than a year ago. At the South the cot'on crop move ment has been large, a.id private mar ket estimates and ginning reports fa vor (he growth of Inrge estimates. Prices have sagged for this reason. Business failures for the ween end ing Nov. 24 number 193, against 107 In tho like week In 1903. Revision of Commercial Treaties. When the new Russo-Oerman treaty Is ratllled. Russia expects to open ne gnllr.tions for the tevlslon of commer cial treaties with other powers. One of the most Important results doubt less will be the ending of the trade war with the United States which nroso over the Imposition of a counter vailing d.iiy on Russian sugar a few years ago. Russia retaliated. Impos ing the maximum duty on American goods, practically ending American Im portations and destroying the growing Rutflan market for American manu factured goods. The loss to American trade has been about $10,000,000 an nually. Antl Endurance Contest Bill Vetoed. Mayor McCkdUn of New York has vetoed the bill recently passed by the board of aldermen forbidding any contest or race of endurance ol more than fliree hours daily. The mayor snys his disapproval Is given because the ordinance constitutes nn unwarrantable Interference with the ordinary exercise of personal rights ol citizens. Aside from the considera tion that the bill would entail large and unnecessary burden to the already overtaxed police and health depart-liu-r.ts, the mayor adds, It purports to protect public health in matters that are now under the Jurisdiction of com petent authorities. Nineteenth Week of Strike. With conditions so far as the great mass of workers Is concerned un charged the textile strike in Fall Riv er, Mass., Involving nearly 2G.00O op eratives, has reached the 19th week of Its continuance. Following their prac tice of tho past two weeks, the cotton mill owners Monday opened their mill gates nnd invited such of their former employes as are willing to work for wages 12V4 per cent less than they formerly received, to return. Officials of two mills report that they are grad ually securing sufficient help to penult the operation of xheir full plants. C. K. G. Billings Buys Major Delmar. Major Delmar, the famous world's champion trotting gelding, with an unpaced record of 2:01' and a paced trotting record of 1:59)4, was sold at the Old Glory sale at the Madi son Square Garden for 15,000. The purchaser was Mr. C. K. G. Billings, owner of Lou Dillon. It was announced that Mr. Billings would race Major Delmar nnd Lou Dillon In an effort to break the world's record Major Delmar was consigned by E. B Smathers, who bought him last year for $40,000. Co-Operatlon of the Netherlands. The government of the Netherlands has notified the American charge d'affaires that Queen Wllhelmlna will be glad to see the second peace conference meet at The Hague and that the United States may count on the co-operation of the Netherlands, so soou as Emperor Nicholas, the orig inator of the work begun in 1899, and the other powers have given their ad hesion to the proposal. Site For New Insane Hospital. The New York state lunacy com mission will give a heorlng next Tuesday morning on the question ol selecting a site for the new state in sane hospital In Northern New York. Tho last legislature appropriated $50, 000 for the purchase. SWes at Cam bridge, Greenwich, Shnshan, Salem, fomstock and Whitehall, all In Wash ington county, have been offered tho state. Died From Fall Down Stairs. Andrew .1. Barton, manager of tho Delphi Opera House at Lestershtre, died Sunday as a result of fracture of his skull, caused by falling down a short lllght of stairs Saturday niter noon. He was CC years old Would Disfranchise Army Deserters. The enactment of state laws dis franchising nrmy deserters Is suggest ed by Lieutenant General Chaffee, chief of staff of the United States army, In his annual report. Pennsylvania Won From Cornell. Th-' University of Pennsylvania foot ball 11 closed Its season by defeating Cornell 31 to 0. Pennsylvania scored four touchdowns in the llrst half and two In tho second. UNITED STATES ARMY. Secretary Taft's Report For Fiscal Year 1904. fncrease In Army During the Year 660 Men 12.317 Men In Philippines. Comparison of United States Sol dier's Pay With That in Other Coun tries Suacoast Defense. Washington, Nov. 29. Secretary ef War Tuff, subndtted yesterday to the president his annual report. The secretary says In part: On the 7th of December, 1903, the Hate of the last annual report, the army of the United States, according to the latest reports which had been received from tho military depart ments (Oct. 15, 1903), consisted ol 5,081 officers and 55,500 enlisted men; a total of 59,181. In addition there were in the service 2,807 men of the hospital corps, excluded by the act ol March 1, 1SS7, from classification as part of the enlisted force of the army. There were also In the service 20 offl cere and 520 meu of the Porto Rico regiment, ami J9 officers and 4,805 en listed Philippine scouts. At the date of the lust reports re ceived from ths military department (Oct. IB, 1904), the actual strength ol tho regular army was 3,744 officers and 50,4,.!) enlisted men, distributed as follows: Uuited States, 40.4G2; Philippine Is lands, 12,:)17; Porto Rico, 10; Ha waiian islands, 21(5; China, 130; Alas ka, 1,042. Total, G0.183. These figures show a total Increase during the year of 500 men. The total number of enlistments in the army during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901 (exclusive of the hos pital corps and Philippine scouts) was 27.3S0. Of this number 6,372 were ro enlistments and 21,008 were original enlistments. Cf the 27,380 accepted applicants 21, "S9 were recruited in cities, and 5,991 at nnd In the vicinity of military posts and camps; 23,4(i4 were native born; 3,602 were of foreign birth; 32 were born In the Philippine Islands and wore enlisted for band musicians, and 222 were botn In Porto Rico. Of the 27,380 accepted applicants 25,810 were white Americans; 1,218 were colored Americans; 32 were In dians; 222 were Porto Rlcans, and 32 were Filipinos. Five hundred and eighty-nine were enlisted for the staff departments and 20,791 for the line. In maing these 26,791 enlistments for the Hue of the army the recruiting officers examined 110,243 men, ol whom S3, 452, or about 76 per cent, were rejected, as lacking In either mental, moral or physical qualifications; 2,285 of these were rejected ns aliens and 4,608 ns Illiterates. During the fiscal year 401 native Filipinos were enlisted for the Philip pine scouts. The number of men en listed lor the hospital corps was 845. The aggrcgata of all enlistments and re-enlistments during the fiscal year ended June !t0, 1904, Including the hospital corps and the Philippine scouts, was 2S.580. Military Operations. During the past, year tho troops have been principally engaged In the regular routine of military duties In garrisons, and they have participated In practice marches, encampments and maneuvers. They have not hern m action, except for a few encounters with tli9 savnge Moros In the Philip pines, rendered necessary by their defiance of the law In Mindanao nnd Jolo. In one of these actions a de tachment of Infantry was ambushed, resulting in the loss of two officers nnd 13 enlisted men out of 39 men en gaged. The clothing allowance for the American soldier is of the amplest, both in quantity and quality, the ra tion furnished has long been the sur prise and wonder of military men of foreign nnlions, and that the private In the United States army, who re ceives $13 per month. Is well paid can be seen from the following statement showing the pay of privates In other countries per month: Austria-Hungary, 73 cents; France, $1.74 , Germany, $2.50; Great Britain, $7.11: Japan, 60 cents; Russia, 12 cents. Seacoast Defenses, Our present system of seacoast de fense based upon the report made by the Endicott board, Jan. 16, 1886, Is now considerably more than half com pleted. Projects for the defense of 31 localities In the United States have been prepared and npproved nnd act ual construction under these approved projects has so far advanced that 1!5 of the principal harbors now have mounted In fortifications and ready for use heavy guns and mortars suffi cient to furnish an effective defense against any possible naval nttack. Since the inauguration of tho pres ent system of coast defense tho tolal appropriations made by congress for carrying out the work aggregate, in round numbers, $110,000,000, and it la estimated that, it will take $65,000,000 more to complete tho work. New Peruvian Gunbcat. Kingston. Jamaica, Nov. 29. Colonel Pedro Portlllo, formerly Peruvian min ister of marine, arrived hero last evening on the steamer Uurhndiau fi.m Liverpool. He recently superin tended tho building of a gunboat in the United States for Peru, which ves sel will be used on the Amazon river. Colonel Portlllo is returning to Cal lao. The new Peruvian warship will follow him lo Callao later on. EXCITEMENT IN COURT. Defendant In Divorce Suit Fired at the Judge. San Francisco, Nov. 29. Rev. Isaac Selby of Australia, party In a divorce suit, shot at Circuit Court Judge Heb bard yesterday while the latter was or. the bench. The bullet came with in an inch of the judge's head, and lodged in the back of his chair. Selby was at once removed to the city prison and charged with an attempt to corn Eilt murder. Selby recently was sued for divorce. He conducted his own defense, but was unsuccessful, a dr-ree against him being granted. Judge Hebbard, who issued the de cree, was trying a case when Selby I rose from a seat In the court room and fired at the judge, who rushed fiom the bench and grappled with his assailant, preventing him from firing another shot. For a time great excitement pre vailed. When quiet was restored It was learned that the judge had not been Injured. Before being taken to his ceil Selby said: "I shot at Judge Hebbard because that seems the only way for a man to get justice In this country. My only regret Is ihat I seem to have bungled matters considerably. My Intention was to kill him but I was a trlile ner vous." FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. Joseph F. White Arrested For Killing Mrs. Josephine Russell. Albany, Nov. 29. Jojepli F. White, for 10 years orderly in the state treas urer's office, is under arrest hero charged with shooting Mrs. Joseph Russell, a handsome widow, yesterday afternoon. Jealousy Is said to hav3 been the cause. White is 05 years old and a widow er. His home formerly was in Bing humton. He had just been released from the hospital. Mrs. Russell Is 35 years old, and White formerly boarded with her. Early in the morning he appeared at a milk depot where Mrs. Russell trad ed and spent the day until half past four, apparently waiting for her to appear. When she came in the police allege he shot her in the neck. Three more shots were fired into her body. White made no attempt to escape nnd when arrested denied committing the crime. Mrs. Russell was taken unconscious to the hospital, where she died early In the evening. RECORD BREAKING DROUTH. No Ran Near Louisville Since July 3. Distilleries Suspend. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 29. The record-breaking droulh In Kentucky Is be ginning to decrease tho milk supply In Louisville. Several dairies have put their c isfomers on half allowance and confeol loners are unable to secure enough milk for use In making certain kinds of candy. A number of distilleries have suspended operations until rain falls. In a number of small places the citi zens nre inlying water and farmers' are compelled in many Instances io drive stock several miles lo water. For more than a month the Southern railway h;;s been hauling water to its Shelbyville tanks and for the past three weeks It has been hauling 10 carloads of water a day. Freight en gines are carrying double water tanks. There has been no vain since July 3. In many churches Sunday prayers vere offered for rain and today the wf-tdh'T bureau announces a possl blllty of showers within 48 hours. Run on a Savings Bank. Kalamazoo, Mich., Nov. 29 Excited depositors of the Kalamazoo Savings bank created a run on tho Institution, drawing out about $150,000. The bank was kept open two hours later than the usual closing hour nnd it Is con sidered that the run, which is said lo have been caused by suit begun last week by heirs of the Henry Brees es tate, Ih broken. Part of the funds of the estate are kept at the bnnk nnd the institution was made defendant with the executors. This fact Is said to have been misunderstood by a num ber of thu savings depositors and the run followed. Painter Intruded on the President. St. Ixiuls, Nov. 29. Miss Herndl was released at the police station aft er satisfying the authorities that she mraut no hnrm to tho president. She sold that, she had a painting of George Washington on display In the varied Industiles pavilion, nnd was anxious thnt it be viewed by President Roose velt. When he failed to see It on Sat urday she decided to call on him on Eunday to persuade him to seo the picture. Stones Thrown at Pilot Engine. Indianapolis, Nov. 29. A special to the News from Brazil, Ind., says that while the pilot engine preceding Pres ld( nt. ltnosevon's sperhil train was passing a lonely place near Brazil yes terday four men threw stones, break ing several windows. The enginj was stopped and secret service men chased the men, but the Btone throw ers escaped. Increase of Capital Stock. Albany, Nov. 2!). Certificate of In crease of otpilal stock from $1,000 to $IO,nnoooo was tiled with tho secre tary of slate by the Niagara. Lockport ninl Ontario Power company of Lock poll. Half ilirf stork Is common ami half prefeiTed. POINTED., PARAGRAPHS. Summary of the Week's News of tiie World. Cream of the News Culled From Long Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape For the Horrled Reader Who is Too Busy to Read the Longer Reports and Deslrcb to Keep Posted. A dispatch Irom Wonson says that tho Russians are strengthening the fortifications of Vladivostok and con tinue to invade Corea in large num bers. William J. Bodamer of Buffalo and William G. Herzog of Friendship, Al legheny county, were killed ut a Lake Shore crossing in Hamburg while driving across the track. Governors Van Sant of Minnesota and Cummins of Iowa Joined others In urging President Roosevelt to support a measure giving the interstate com merce commission power to establish railroad freight rates. Thursday. An early winter storm has raged throughout the United Kingdom, stop ping traffic and causing much distress. President Roosevelt, in introducing Rev. Charles Wagner to a Washing ton audience, lauds "the simple life" and warns against class hatred. Feeling iu Russia Is by no means optimistic as to the czar's action on the zemstvo petition for a share In legislation, but plans nre being formed to continue the agitation. Nan Patterson nearly collapses when skeletons nre used in her trial In New York to illustrate the course of the bullet with whieh she Is alleged to have killed Bookmaker Young. Five men under arrest as the re sult of a murder and other violence In connection with the Cincinnati and Kentucky molders' strike, and a war rant has been issued for F. Valentine, national president of the union. Friday. Macedonia, official reports to Wash ington state, is disturbed by the acts of Christians, Bulgarians nnd Greeks, who wage relentless war on one an other. A picture bought for $1.25 In South ampton, England, by a resident of Col orado Springs, Col., Is believed to be a Rlbera worth $50,000, and to have been stolen from the Royal Gallery in Dresden. The new cruiser Pennsylvania sur passed In speed nil nrmored vessels of tho United States navy in making an average of 22.43 knots In a four-hours' continuous run on the Cape Ann-Cape Porpois" course. Joseph F. Valentino, president ol tlw International Iron Molders' union, was arrested In Cleveland for complic ity In a dynimlte plot In Cincinnati, and was entertained by the mayor of Cleveland. Saturday. President. Roosevelt cleared up all official business prior to enjoying his Thanksgiving dinner and leaving for St. Louis nt midnight. After a long and bitter fight the au thorities at Washington decide in fa vor of the Chicago Lake Bluff site for a naval training school. New York subway management an nounces that only a 5-cent fare will be charged on Its lines when completed from the Bronx to Coney Island. Captain John Hope of the British navy has presented to the United Stales naval department, the corres pondence between John Paul Jones nnd Lord and Lady Selkirk. James Wallace, confidential secre tary of Edward M. Breltung of Mar quette, Mich., stole $30,000 worth of stock certificates from his employer, disposed of part of them In Boston and was arrested In Liverpool. Monday. Radishes have been transmuted Into potatoes at the Pasteur Institute, ac cording to a cable dispatch. Efforts are being made by the gov ernment to increase the diamond cut ting Industry In this country. Standard Oil company Is to he Inves tigated by the bureau of corporations The inquiry will be opened this week In Washington. North side of Ehrlung fort, nn Im portant link In Port Arthur's defense, Is blown up by the Japanese, several hundred Russians being killed, accord ing to a Toklo dispatch to Rome. In discussing tho probability of the romstvos gaining their ends In Russia M. Souvorin. editor of the Novoo Vremya, does justice to tho work ol Von I'lehwe, saying that some form of tatlonnl representation will come. Tuesday. Opponents of an extra session ol congress for tariff revision are rapid ly gaining ground in Washington. Two prisoners confined in Castle Wllllnm, on Governor's island, escaped In a rowboat after Jumping 30 feet to the ground. Exports from the United Slates til Mexico have reached $ lii.OOO.iMM). and Cnited State- Imports from Mexico have grown to $11,000,000. The Russian war office has re celved Information from Chefoo that the Japanese assault on Port Arthur Saturday was .-epulsod with enormous loss. Colonel J Frunebco Chaves, long n leading elti-n of New Mexico, was shot d'-ad by an unknown person a he sat by a window In bis homo lu Pinas Wells. INNOCENT MAN CLEARED. Attempt to Fasten Murder on Him Unearthed Before His Trial Began. Springfield, O., Nov. 28 An attempt to fasten a crime upon an Innocent man was unearthed in the common pleas court of this county when the case of the State vs. William Nichols, charged with the murder of Wllbui E. lyUttimcr, wus called for trial at Urban a. William Wooley, an inmate of the Mansfield reformatory, had made a verbal and written confession, ac knowledging that he and Nichols had commuted the murder, and upon tbfi strength ut tho confession Nichols and Wooley were indicted. It devel oped just before the trial that Woole7 had been induced to confess on tha promise of Immunity from punishment and a share of the reward offered for the apprehension of the guilty party. When It was made plain to him that the host ho could hone for wos Ufa Imprisonment he broke down and ac knowledged (hut his confession was a He. The ense against Nichols with then dismissed and affidavits were Is sued ngnbist ex Mayor Stanrtlsli o Woodstock and Columbus Bowen of Fountain, charging them with subor nation of perjury. Standlsh and Bow en were arrested and Wooley Is charged with perjury. Lattlmer, a prominent merchant of Woodstock, was shot down as he was returning home, -ibout a year ago. ROWDIES ATTACK FARMER. Twenty-Five Young Men Brutally As sault Aged Countryman. Allentown, Nov. 28. Imbibing free ly of bad whisky nt a football game in Emaus on Thanksgiving afternoon, 25 young nun on their w-iy homo pdted the barn of Joachim Eberts, a truck farmer, with stones. Whon ho protested, they hurled stones at him, and one of them struck him in tho face. Eherts, who is 60 years old, defend ed himself with a lantern, while the cm ire crowd rushed at him In true football sijle mid left him lying un conscious in the bnrnyard with a biokeu nose and concussion of tho brain. hen a son-in-law charged the crowd wlih a shotgun the assailants ran off. Eberts' condition Is precarious. Water Fatiln? In Turtle Creek Valley. Pittsburg, Nov. 23. There Is a wa ter famine In the Turtle Creek valley owing lo a serious breakdown at Witd woud reservoir of ;he engines of the Ptnnsyhanla Water company. Wll mrrdliig. Eist Pittsburg. Tratford City, Turtle Cre-k and East MeKeesport aro the pilncitnil sufferers. Owing to the very dry autumn all tho wells and springs nre dry and the residents of the valley are totally dependent on the water company. The Westing house Electric company has closed Its plants at Wil.iien'.ing, East Pittsburg i.nd TiiilTud City, throwing 12,500 men out of work and entailing a large monetary loss. Tho company has also established a temporary pumping sta tion on tin- banks of Turtle creek to n Ilevp the doni.'stlc situation. Robbers Torture Women. Willu-sbi-ne, Pa., Nov. 28. Six masked men entered lho homo of Mrs. Rose Farley, nt Luzerne borough, this county Mrs. Farley Is the owner of a small store, and has been In tho hat it f keeping money In the house. The robbers asked the old woman and her granddaughter, Annie Gately, ageu 19, to tell tin ni where the money was, but the women protested that they had none The tobb.'rs than proceed ed to torture them by applying light ed mnichcR to the soles of their feet. The cries of the two women fright ened the two ui'-n, nnd they fled. All the booty they Fi-ciiied was a few dol lars and some tobacco nnd cigars. Three Child Victims. MeKeesport, Pa., Nov. 28. One child was killed and two others fatally Injured within an hour Saturday. Mary Wardak, 10 years old, was de capitated by a direct car In full view of hundreds of shoppers. Thomas Onvnnuiigh, 12 years old, was fatally shoi by 13-year old John Shoelmu while playing hunters and the ambu lance with young Onvanaugh was stopped at the railroad crossing to plek up Oscar Nordqnlst. 13, who hnd fallen under a Main nnd received mor tal Injuries. To Found Labor Lyceum. Reading, Nov. 28, Attorneys for piomhiiiit union men npplled to Hit. crurt for n charter for the Labor Ly ceum It Is for I he purpose of en couraelng and promoting the study of social, industrial and economic prob lems and to Instruct the members by n course ot b'ciores. The Lyceum has purchased n large two story brick dwelling In lho center of Hki city for nueting purposes, a'ld the building will be finely equipped. Snowstorm One Mile Wiar. rotisvill.-, Pi'., NV.v. 28. A peculiar snowstor.n extended from Itroml niciinl;iln to .ihovi Wllkeshnrre. a db: lan;-c of '.') miles. Allliourh Hi" snmv fell io a d'-ptb of two Im-hes, ;he .storm was only a nul'e wide, many towns ex-perieni-illg the full effects of til" bib. znrd. while neighboring towns within walking ilNtatii-.' were nt affected nt all. A t i;;h wind ,ieeoniiuiiu ,1 tho htorm. Dsred Him to Shoot and He Did. llaJ'ii'ii, Nov. 2S. Patrick HulYv dared tJi-orge It iinnyder to shoot him lie lii 1 1 and lb' bullet rtriick Puffy, badly wound'iis him
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