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SETLEY, JUSTICE OF TnE PEACE, Keeps a complete line of Justice's blanks for sale. Also Blank deeds, mortgages, eto. Tionesta, Pa. HOTEL WEAVER, E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor. This hotel, formerly the Lawrence House, has undergone a coin plete change, and is now furnished with all the mod ern improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and cold water, etc. The comiorts ol guests never neglected. c ENTRAL HOUSE, J HKItOW A OEROW Proprietor. Tlonsola, Pa. Tills is tlie mostcentrally located hotel in tlie placo, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will be sparod to make it a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public. Jurat class Livery iu connection. pilIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop in Walters building, Cor. Elm and Walnut streets, Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work Irom the II nest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion t'iven to mending, and prices rea sonable. JORENZO FULTON, Manufacturer of and Dealer lu HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, And all kinds of HORSE FURNISHING GOODS. TION EST A. PA. m lUni.5 WHtKt ALL tL6 rHlW 1 Best Courh Syrup. Tastes Good. Use hi tims. SjU by drucBists. a li'l 'U f & BIRILEFF NAVAL CHIEF. Leaves For Vladivostok to Com mand Russian Fleets. Japs Raise Sunken Ships Three Killed by Bomb Prevention of Con sumption Changes In Insurance Law Ocean Race For Emperor'i Cup Johann Hoch Guilty. Vice Admiral BlrllefT, who has been named for the supreme naval com mand In the Pacific, will leave SL Petersburg for Vladivostok ou May 25th to assume charge there and make preparations for repairing and refitting the vessels of Vice Admiral Rojestveusky's fleet when they ar rive. Reports of Vlco Admiral Rojest ven sky's breakdown and his surrendei of his command continue lu circula tion, one rumor saying that Vice Ad miral Nebogntoff, though Rojestven sky's Junior in rank, has been ordered to assume the command,; but Admiral Dlrllt'ff said ho had no information to that effect. Position of Russian Fleet. The apparently complete disap pearance of the Russian Far Eastern fleet lends to the belief iu Paris either that a buttle Is Imminent oi that Admiral Rojestveusky has suc ceeded In establishing a naval base. On the other hand, it Is pointed out that the position of the fleet May IB in lut. 13.30 and long. 111.30 indi cated thnt It might have been decided to follow a course north of Luzon into the Pnclfic Instead of going through the straits of Formosa, where Ad miral Toko is believed to be awaiting Admiral Rojestvensky. Some experts maintain that the fleet has been divided for the purpose of permitting one division to reach Vlad ivostok while the other occuplea the attention of Admiral Togo. Japs Raise Sunken Warships. Advices from Japan state that the work on the cruiser Variag being rnist-d at ChemtiiiK) is almost com plete. It was expected she would be floated at high tldo on May 28 and will bo ready for Togo a short time there after. A small warship sunk near the dock nt Port Arthur will socn be raised and pliieed In commission. The work of refloat lug the war vessels at Port Ar thur was begun on May 15. There are good prospects of saving six. The Bnynn Is only slightly damaged, no ma terial injury having been done below the water line. Council of National Defense. The first stop towards the institu tion of the long contemplated council of the national defense to co-ordinate vcik of the military and naval ad nitulKtratlouR, has been taken in an Imperial manifesto creating a special preliminary commission under the presidency of Grand Duke Nicholas NIeholaiev'.ich. It is understood the formation of the new council means the definite abandonment of the plan of sending Grand Duke Nicholas Nlcholaievitch to the Far East to assume supreme command on land aud sea. General Lluevitch nnd Vice Admiral Birileff will he left unhampered except as to tfco grand outlines of strategy. Three Killed by a Bomb. Tifl number Injured by the ex pl'islim of the bomb dropped by a workman on Mlodowa street, iu War t:iw w 23, Including three women, one EL. lent and two school boys. Hie man who was carrying the bond) has now been identified as a relish shoemaker named Dobrowolskl, a member of the violent section of the socialists. The latest reports state that two de tectives were In the act of arresting Dobrowolskl when the bomb exploded and all three were killed. A revolver nnd a bundle of papers were found in Dubrowolski's pocket. Enormous Fleet of Colliers. Advices iu Paris from Hong Kong report an . enormous fleet of col liers for the Russian Pacific fleet is oft the Mekong Delta and along the whole const as far as Cape St. James. Forty of the colliers are flying the German flag and a score of others show British, Norwegian, Russian and French flags. Lease Gas Works For 75 Years. Amid scenes of disorder unprece dented in annals of Philadelphia's leg islative body, city councils voted to lease the city's gas works to United Gas Improvement Co. for a term of 75 years tor the total sum of $25,000, 000, the money to be paid in various amounts before the end of 1907. Councils' chambers and committee rooms were crowded with excited citi zens protesting against the lease from 1 p. m., when tho proceedings opened, until after 8 p. m., when select coun cil passed the bill and scut it to tho mayor. Mayor Weaver is expected to veto the bill and In that event both cham bers will probably pass it over his veto. A .letter from Mayor Weaver was read asking tho committee to postpone action for tho present. No action was taken on the request. Standard Pipe Lines. W. F. Gates of Independence, Kan., superintendent of all the pipe lines of the Standard Oil company in Kansas, Missouri, Indian Territory and Okla homa, Bald: "We are preparing to take care of all the oil production in the Kifsat Held. The Whiting, Ind., pipe lint will be completed In a few days and then we can handle all the oil pro duced west of the Mississippi river." Tho Standard's pipe line to Whit ing from its Sugar Creek refinery, re cently established on the outsklrti of Kansas City, will be completed next Friday, according to the ofllceri who have just visited the local plant The Whiting line, the construction oi which was begun last September, is to supply an outlet for six million barrels of oil stored by the companj at Humboldt, Caney, Ramona and Neodesha, Kan. At Wbltlng the pipe line will connect with the company'i lines to Daonne, N. J thus complet mg a line that will reach half way across the continent Prevention of Consumption. - The first annual conference in Wash Ington of the national association 'or tho study and prevention of tu berculosls ended last week with t banquet. Two days have been occu pied with the presentation of views bj the prominent medical men. The comparison of data regarding what is being done to stamp out "tht great white plague" led many speakcri to predict that popular interest it awakened on the subject and the Im mediate future will witness greatei organized activity In the treatment and care of consumptives than in the past As to the treatment, there has been nc division among the speakers as to tht efficiency of the open air and sanl tarlum methods which generally are combined. Changes In Insurance Law. Several Important changes in tht Insurance law In New York state are made by legislative bills which wenl on tho statute hooks by virtue of the governor's signature. The new Jaws affect every branch of the insurance business. Senator Brackett's bill was introduced to prevent insurance com panies from taking advantage of policy holders by Insisting that the state ments of the company's employes who wrote the policy were binding upon the holder. It forbids the Insertion In the policies of any provision that the com pany's employe is the agent of the person Insured. Strike of Japanese Laborers. Most of the White inhabitants at Lahalna on the Island of Maul, in the Hawaiian group, with the military, are prisoners in the court house, which Is surrounded by striking Japanese la borers. One Japanese was killed and two were wounded by the police dur ing r.n attack on a plantation mill. All of the 2,300 Japanese laborers on the Island are now on strike and are showing a violent mood. Exemption From Jury Duty. Dally newspaper meit v '11 be ex empt from trial duty on and after Sept. 1, under the terms of chapter 437 of the laws of 1905, signed by Governor Hlgglns. The general ex emption applies to "an editor, editor lal writer, artist or reporter of a dally newspaper or press association regu larly employed as such and not follow ing any other vocation." Ocean Race For Emperor's Cup. A superb fleet of eleven ocean going sailing yachts swept across a starting line at Sandy Hook lightship at 12:15 Wednesday afternoon and, with the queenly American schooner Atlantic leading the way, headed out Into the broad Atlantic ocean on a race of 3, 000 miles to the English const for a $5,000 cup offered by Emperor Will iam. Evangelistic Campaign. The evangelistic campaign which la to bo waged in New York throughout the coming summer by an interdenom inational committee was inaugurated at a big mass meeting In Carnegie hall, presided over by Bishop Coad jutor David H. Greer. Announcement was made of a thousand dollar check for the work from John D. Rockefel ler. Johann Hoch Guilty of Murder. Johann Hoch, who by his own confession Is a polygamlst and who Is charged by the Chicago police with having married at least 40 wo men in the last 15 years, was found guilty by a jury of murdering the next to his last wife, Marie Welcker Hoch, and has been sentenced to death. Death of Albion W. Tourgee. Judge Albion Wlnegar Tourgee ol Mayvillo, N ' Y., American consul at Bordeaux, France, died Sunday morn ing of acute uraemia, which resulted from nn old wound. He was born at Williamsfield. O., May 2, 1838, and was well known as a lawyer, writei ind lecturer. Secretary Morton to Leave July 1. Secretary of the Navy Paul Mor ton will leave the cabinet July 1, if the president will accept his resig nation on that date. The secretary has not completed his plans for the future. He has a number of offers un der consideration. Federal Control of Insurance. President Roosevelt has been asked to take official cognizance of the situa tion In life Insurance circles resulting from the Equitable scandal and to In stitute n national Investigation of the business In general, but has made no definite promise. Chicago Strike Far From Settled. Another week brings no change In the attitude of either side to the labor controversy now iu progress In Chi cago and everything points toward an ixteuulou of the teamsters' strike. LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODED Tes'ing of Boiler Caused Dath of Six Men. Another Boiler Explosion at Staples, Ont., Killed Two Men and Seriously Injured Seven Twenty Persons In jured In a Collision on Elevated Road In New York. Columbus, O., May 23. Six men were killed by the explosion of the boiler of an engine thai was standing near the Hocking Valley railroad roundhouse on West Mound street. The six men who were killed were at work nearby. The building was damaged and quan tities of the debris were scattered for hundreds of feet in all directions. Sev eral of the men killed were thrown high Into the air. Physicians and ambulances were summoned and the police were noti fied as soon as the first excitement following the explosion had subsided. The engine that exploded was being tested for its first run after rebuilding. Four other engines standing nearby were wrecked. The bodies of the six men were ter ribly ma.igled, arms and legs being scattered in all directions. One man Is believed to liuve been blown into. the river and is not accounted for. The d-ad: Fred Shuttle, Amos Apeakman, Jacob Davis, Fred Crumley, John Birmingham and Carl Hand. One other employe was Injured. COLLISION ON ELEVATED. Shattered Care Narrowly Escaped Pre- cepltatlon to Ground Far Below. .New York, May 23. Twenty per sons were Injured, six of them so se riously that they were sent to hos pitals, an 1 more than 100 persons nar rowly escaped death or serious injury, when a swiftly moving train crashed Into two others on the high elevated structure on the Third avenue line at 133rd street and Alexander avenue. Among the most seriously Injured was Clara Jennings, 32 years old, of Rochester, N. Y. She was taken to Lincoln hospital suffering from shock and cut by falling glass. Only tho best of good fortune pre vented a terrible tragedy. After the crash the ends of the shatteied cars hung far over the side of the elevated structure at one of the highest polnt3 on tho line. Had they moved a few inches more they would have pitched to the ground fur below with awful results. Good fortune also kept the wrecked cars free of the heavily charged third rail. As they bounded from the track they rolled away from the deadly rail and settled down, safely but insecure ly, at the most distant point possible on the narrow trestle. , Two trains were standing on the trestle waiting for the drawbridge over the Harlem river to close, when a third train ran around a curve and crashed into them. The motorcar of the third train and the rear car of the second train were smashed and thrown half around and the other cars were tossed about and some of them over turned. Passengers were thrown violently to the floors of the cars and many of them were severely cut by glass which flew from the shattered windows. The scene which followed was wild beyond description. ' Men and women fought to escape from the cars which they feared might pitch to the street below any minute. A fire alarm brought several ladder companies to the scene, but by the time they had arrived nearly every man who had been on tho train had reached the ground by scrambling down, the iron pillars which support tho elevated structure. The firemen carried down several women and a ffuniber of per sons who had been injured too severe ly to help themselves. Among the passengers in one of the wrecked trains was Miss Anna Wall, a trained nurse of College Point. L. I. Miss Wall dressed the wounds of sev eral severely injured persons, tearing to pieces her own whlto petticoats for bandages. "When the crash came the men In the car acted like beasts. They made a mad rush or the doors and paid no attention to the women who had been thrown to the floor by the shock. One man climbed through a window and anpther tcre a woman's frklrt off in his desperate efforts to get out. "I saw one woman 'irith a baby In her arms pleading with a man to take the child and save it, but he replied: 'Why, I've got all I can dp to take care of myself.' " The motormnn of the rear train has teen arrested and will be held pend ing an Investigation of the cause of the disaster. Boiler Explosion Killed Two, Comber, Ont., May 23. A boiler in one of the mills of the Nicherfall Stave nnd Lumber company nt Staples ex ploded yesterday afternoon. Ralph Walsh and rtobert Fisher, engineers, were killed and Robert Rcllly, Oliver Randoil, Oliver Chevalier, Joseph Doa, James Bailey, John Kelly nnd George St. Pierre were seriously In jured. To Succeed Albion W. Tourgee. Washington, May 23. Dominic I. Murphy of the District of Columbia has been appointed consul to Bor deaux, France, to succeed A. W. Tour gee, deceased. Mr. Murphy, who has held the secretaryship of the Isthmian cnnal commission, was about to sail for I'Hiiama today. NO CHANGE OF VENUE. Eugene A. Georger Must Stand Trial In Erie County. Buffalo, May 23. Justice Daniel J Keneflck In special term of the su preme court handed down a decision denying the motion for a change ol venue in behalf of Eugene A. Georger, late president of the German bank. In connection with the decision he handed down a memorandum In which he set forth that although there might be some criticism among some of the depositors, there Is a disposition among even these to have the civil and criminal responsibility of the de fendant and his associates fairly and judicially determined and that if there be any prejudice it will readily show Itself in securing a Jury, and the court may then grant the relief which the defendant seeks now. The memoran dum follows: The defendant asks that the place of trial of the indictment against him be changed to another county, on the ground that he cannot obtain a fail and Impartial trial here. I have ex amined with some care the voluminous papers presented on this application It appears therefrom that the failure of the German bank, and the causes which led to such failure, have been a constant subject of newspaper com ment and of public discussion since the bank closed Its doors. Many of the articles in the local columns of the press are somewhat sensational In character, after the pre vailing fashion of newspaper report ing, but the editorial discussions are, on the whole, conservative and tem perate. It appears that the defendant's ad ministration of the affairs of the Ger man bank while he was its president, and his action in selling his stock to the persons who were In control ol the bank at tho time of its failure, have met with some public criticism, and have engendered some prejudice on the part of the depositors of the bank. I believe, however, that even among the depositors there Is a disposition to have both the civil and the criminal responsibility of the defendant and his associates fairly and Judicially de termlned, nnd that the larger number of the depositors do not approve ol the grotesque antics Indulged In at a recent meeting of the creditors' organ ization. However that may be, I do not be lieve that outside of the depositors there Is tny such feeling of prejudice permeating this great community as will prevent the defendant obtaining here an Impartial determination of the charges made against him. If any such prejudice exists it will readily show Itself In securing a Jury, and the court may grant the relief then which the defendant seeks now. The motion is denied. Identification of Paul Jones' Body. Paris, May 23 An elaborate de tailed report giving the Identification of the bony of Paul Jones has just been completed and forwarded to the government at Washington. The de day was caused by the labor of cor relating, translating and certifying the lengthy reports of doctors, an thropologists, microscopists and French and American official witnesses and the preparation of maps, reports, plans and photographs. The docu ments Include the declarations made by distinguished scientists, the offi cials of the American embassy and the consul general under their official seals and the highest authorities oi the government and of the city ol Paris, also under their official seals, who certify to the methods pursued in the convincing identification of the re mains. Memorial of John Harvard. London, May 23. Ambassadoi Choate unveiled a memorial window to Jolui Harvard in St. Saviour's church, Southwnrk, In the presence oi a large gathering, including members of the American embassy. The am bassador in presenting this, his part ing gift to Great Britain, said he de sired to signalize his long residence nnd work In Great Britain and though! there was no more fitting manner than as a loyal son of Harvard to dedicate a window to John Harvard In a church so closely identified with the foundei of the great American university. The archbishop of Canterbury accepted the gift. This was Mr. Choate's last pub lic function In England. The American flag floated over the Southwark church during the ceremony. Defendant's Death Ended Suit New York May 23. When the suit of Anna Teresa Anderson for $100,000 damages for breach of promise against Le Droict Langdon Barber, son oi Amzl L. Iwrber, head of the Barber Asphalt company, was called In the supreme court before Justice Gilder Bleeve It vii? announced by counsel fr the defendant that Mr. Barber had died at West End, N. J., on Friday last. As the ac'iou came to an end with tho death of the defendant, Justice Gilder sleeve niarued tho case off tho cal endar. Missing Nurse Found. New York, May 23. Miss Margaret Jalonick of Dallas, Tex., a nurse who has been missing from St. Luke's hos pital In this city since last Wednesday, has been found at Niagara Falls. A telegram from the girl's father, George F. Jalonick of Dallas, notified the police of her discovery but gave no particu lars Medina Votes to Buy Water Plants. Rochester, May 23. A special elec tion was heir" nt Medina at which It was voted to pay $70,0(10 for (he plant of the Medina Water Works company. SHORTER NEWS ITEMS. Pointed Paragraphs Chronicling the Wr. k's Doings. Long Dispatches From Various Parts of the World Shorn of Their Padding and Only Facts Given In as Few Words as Possible For the Benefit of the Hurried Reader. Wednesday. Two seamen were picked up off Scatterie island and taken to North Sydney, N. S., after spending 12 days on ice floes. Russian admiralty officials expect a naval battle In a few days, the com bined fleets have sailed north from Honkohe bay. Cuba has been warned by the United States of. the necessity of promptly carrying out contracts for sewering and paving to protect the health of both republics. Justice Davis of New York, who pre sided at two trials of Nan Patterson, makes the remarkablo statement that he believes the girl is guilty and has lied throughout the case. Due Dec&zes, for whose safety in the motor boat race fears were enter tained, arrived with the crew of the Qunnd-Meme at a Sardinian port on board the destroyer Arbalete. Thursday. Decision of the Panama commission to buy abroad raises a tariff row, arousing the resentment of high pro tectionists. The body of Hiram Cronk, the last survivor of the war of 1812, was taken to New York and was burled In Cypress Hllsl cemetery with full mili tary honors. Woman and two men, believed to be ringleaders of the band which blew open the safe in a private bank at Gil bertsvillo, N. Y., stealing $10,000, are arrested In New York city. General Sokolovsky, governor of Ufa province, in Russia, Is shot and mortally wounded by a man who es capes. The crime closely follows the assassination of his predecessor. Friday. It is believed In Amoy that Admiral Togo will meet the Russian fleet in battle south of Formosa. Pittsburg delectlves have found a Norwegian cotmt working as a motor man on one of the electric roads there. Reforms established by the czar for Poland and the provinces of tho Baltic In effect amount to a complete re versal of the reactionary policy of the empire. President Roosevelt assumed full responsibility for the "cheapest mark et" policy In building tho Panama ca nal, but dissatisfaction was expressed by protectionist Republicans. News reaches Manila that Palo, the outlaw Moro chief, who has been pur sued on the Island of Jolo 'by troops under General Leonard Wood, has been killed. Ills few surviving follow ers are being trailed by the troops. 8aturday. Lieutenant G. L. Chapman Is shot in the back and killed during a sham bat tle at Fort Reno, Okla. Rojesensky's fleets on May 16 were within four days' sail of the Japanese ships south of Formosa. Morocco, urged by Germany, has re fused all tho French requests except that for the Instruction of 2,000 troops. Dr. James D. Moffatt, president ol Washington and Jefferson college, Is elected moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly at Winona lake, Ind. George H. Wood, tho New York iron contractor, pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree in shooting George Williams, a grocer of Watchung, N. J., on Feb. 2. Wood was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Monday. President Roosevelt is asked by a policyholder to take steps for a na tional Insurance Investigation. Mr. Huy has arranged to leave Bad Nauhelm, May 27, and London, June 7, returning to the state department at Washington. The plan being tested In Iowa of consolidating the rural schools has thus far proved to be of great advant age to (he pupils. The armies of Oyama nnd Llnevltch are massing for a decisive battle. In a preliminary skirmish the Russians were driven back. Phlladolphians are aroused over the lease of the city gas works and an ef fort will be made to prevent the cob ftuniniutiou of the deal. Tuesday. Jersey City prepares with joy for tho advent of Wall street brokers when the stock transfer tax goes iato effect In New York. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is reported to be suffering from nervous dyspep sia, the ailment which caused his fa ther to retire from business. The motion for a change of venue In the case of Eugene A. Georger, late of the defunct German bank of Buf falo, has been denied by Judge Kene flck. Japanesa report having reputed several Russlun attacks north of Tl pass, and the Russlun left is con stantly engaged In the Yalu river di rection. Standard Oil company's new pipe lino from Kansas City to Whiting. Ind., will bo completed next EVIdny and tho system wll! reach half across the cou tiuent, ending at Bayonne, N. J. SKIRTING THE PHILIPPINES. Rojestvensky Avoiding Torpedo At tacks and Mines In the Straits of Formosa. Paris, May 23. Much attention Is given here to Vice Admiral Rojest vensky's probable passage Into the Pacific north of the Island of Luzon and suggestions are made that tho re ported intentions of the Russians U -rendezvous at the island of Babuyan will give the American authorities is the Philippines the same dlfllcuUIei In preserv.ng remote points against the incursions of Admiral Rojestven sky that the French authorities ex perienced in the waters of Indo-Chlna The naval expert of The Tempi lengthily points out that the Informs, tlon brought by varlouB steamers to Chinese ports confirms the previous view that Rojestvensky is skirting tha north of the Philippines into the Pa clflc, avoiding Japanese torpedo at tacks and tho mines In the straits ol Formosa and the subsequent concen tration of the Japanese fleet In tha straits of Cnrea. Further, Rojestvensky by this means will be free to make a long dotour and reach Vladivostok through oue of the northern straits of Japan. However. It is pointed out that the presence ol the Russlin fleet north of the Philip pines places the Russians only a few hundred miles from the Japanese naval base at Kelung. (In the northern part of Formosa) and that a fight is still possible before the detour commences. Kansas Wants College Boys. Topeka, Kan., May 23. Kansas farmers are appealing to tho employ ment agencies to send them college boys for the big harvest soon to be gin In So'ithern Kansas. Wheat farm ers say t'.iey got tho best results lasl year from young men fresh from col leges, because they have a pride in do ing more work than the boys on the farms and they are not afraid to work 12 hours a day. The collego boys, the farmers declare, are willing to work from sunrise to sunset. Child Shot by Playmate. Binghanuon, N. Y., May 23. Helen Louise Palmer, 4 years old, lies at th point of death at her home In this cltj with a bullet wound in her head, in fllcted by a revolver In the hands of a playmate. The weapon was an old one and waa supposed to be unloaded and out of working order. Physicians pronounce the case a most remarkable one. They are sure tho bullet peno trated the brain and yet the child Is possessed ot all her usual faculties. MARKET REPORT. New York Provision Market New York, May 22. WHEAT No. 2 red, $1.04 f. a b afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.11 CORN No. 2 corn, 5Cc f. o. b afloat; No. 2 yellow ZGc. OATS Mixed oats, 26 to 32 lbs, 3585V4c; clipped whlto, 36 to 4( lbs., 3f!V440c. HAY Shipping, 60C5c; good to choice, 77H82V4c BUTTER Creamery, extra, 22(3 22c; common to extra, 1922c; statt dairy, common to extra, 1821c. CHEESE State, full cream, small choice, 1094c. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 2021o,' POTATOES Stato and western, per bbl 75c$1.00. Buffalo Provision Market. Buffalo, May 22. WHEAT No. 1 northern In store, $1.05; No. 2 Pacific whlto, 98c. CORN No. 2 corn, Btil&c tab afloat; No. 2 yellow, 58c. OATS No. 2 whlto, 35V&C f. o. b afloat; No. 3 white, 35c. FLOUR Fancy blended patenl per bbl.. $5.7t6.60; winter family patent, $5 005 75. BUTTER Cieamory wontero. ex trak 22c; stato and Pennsylvanls creamery, 2lc; dairy, fair to good 19 20c. CHEESE Fancy full cream, new 12c; good to choice, ll12c. EGGS Selected, funcy, 18c. POTATOES Per bu., 30(332c. East Buffalo Live Stock Market. CATTLE Best steers on sale, $5.7! 6.25; fair to good butcher steers $1.7505.25; medium half-fat steers $1.00ffj)4.75; common to fair heifers $4.00(0)4.50; good to cholco heifers $4.005.25; good butcher bulls, $3.73 4.25; choice to extra veals, $5.73(31 6.25; medium to good, $5.005.80. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice spring lambs, $8.00 10.00; clipped lambs, $0 406.50; handy wethers $5.255.40, mixed sheep, $4.75(fK.0O HOGS Mixed puckers' grades, $5.705.80; medium hog, $5.7005.75; pigs, ligh't, $5.7505.80. Buffalo Hay Market. HAY Choice, $13.00; No, 1, $12.50; No. 2, $12.00; No. 3, $9.00 10.00. Little Falls Cheese Market Utlca, May 22. Sales of cheese on the Little Falls dairy market today were: Small colored, 20 lots of 1.098 boxes at 10c; small white, 20 lots of 854 boxes at 10c; twins colored, 9 lots ol 397 boxes at 10c; twins whlto, 9 lots of 406 boxes nt 10c. Utlca Cheese Market. Utlca, May 22. 0,i the Utlca dairy market today the fslts of I'h-s'H' were fi.OHS boxer, of 83 lots. Small cheese told at 10c uud largo at bito9HiC.
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