RATES OF ADVERTISING: One Square, one inch, one week... 1 00 One Square, one inch, one month. 3 00 One Square, one inch, 3 months.... .5 00 One Square, one inch, one year .... 10 00 Two Squares, one year 15 00 Quarter Column, one year 80 00 Half Column, one year 60 00 One Column, one year 190 00 Legal advertisements ten cents per line each insertion. We do fine Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but lt'a cash on delivery. THE FOREST REPUBLICAN. Published every Wednesday by J. E. WENK. Office in Smearbaugh 4c Wenk Building, ELM HTllKKT, TIONESTA, VA. For LICAN. 1viui, 9 1.00 A Year, Hirlcily lo Advance. No subscription recolved for a shorter period than three uiontbH. Correspondence solicited, but no notice will bo tukeu of anonymous communica tions. Always Rive your name. VOL. XXXIX. NO. 30. TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1906. L.00. PER ANNUM. REPXJB EST BOROUGH OFFICERS. Burqess. J. T. Carson. Justice of the reaeeS. S. Can field, S. J. Hotley. T Councumen. J. 11. Muho, J. W. Lan ders, C. A. Lansou, Geo. Iloleman, U. T. Anderson, Win. Smearbaugb, K. W. liowinau. (Amiable W. J I. Hood. Collector W. 11. Hood. School Directors 1. C. Scowden, T. V. Ritehey, A. C. Brown, Dr. J. C. Dunn, (i. Jamiesou, J. J. Landers. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress Joseph C. Sibley. Member of Senate J. K. P. Hall. tAssemblyJ. H. Robertson. President Judge W. M. Lindsey. Associate Judges F. X. Kroitler, P. C Hill. . . Prothonotary, Register t Recorder, sc. J. C. (JeiHt. Sheriff. A. W. Stroup. Treasurer W. II. Harrison. Commissioners Leonard Agnew, An drow Wolf, I'hilip Kutort. District A Uorney-H. D. Irwin. Jury Commissioners J . U. Luon, J. P. Castnor. Cm!nlvAuditors-Vf. II. Stiles, Chas. 1 Kllnestiver, S. T. Carson. County Surveyor-It. W. Clark. County Superintendent V. W. Morrl- Itnulnr Trrun of Court. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of September. Third Monday of November. 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TIONESTA, PENN WIOI F.lontrin Oil. Guaranteed for Tiliniimatiim. Snrains. Sore eet. Pains. Ac. Atalldoaiers m CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Couirh Syrup. Tastes Cood. Use ' I time. Sold by druggists. WWW OF WORTH IS ILL EVIDENCED IN EDWIN S. STUART A Famous Journalist's Story of the Rise of a Poor Boy to High Public Honor. "INEVIiR MADE A PROMISE THAT WAS NOT FULFILLED" Emerged From Trying Term of Office With Echoing Plaudits of a City. There was no more aggressive sup porter of the fusion Btate ticket and the City Party movement in Philadelphia a;t fall than the Philadelphia "Even ing bulletin." Its editor-in-chief, Willinm Porrlnc, author of the famous Ponn" comments upon men and meas ures In that Independent Journal, gave this word picture of tho Republican nominee for governor in ills character istic, frunk and manly manner, shortly after tho selection of the Republican 8luuuard-bearer: At the close of the gubernatorial campaign four years ago It was ob served thnt the Republican candidate came put of it without having been coil pelted even once to defend his per sonal character. Amidst all the gibes that were cast at Judge Pcnnypacker and all the controversies over his po Utlral status, his record as a man was proof against reproach. It Is alto gether certain that his successor as a gubernatorial candidate will repeat this experience In the coming campaign. For the life of Edwin S. Stuart In Philadelphia from his boyhood has been so clear, clean, simple and open that it would be hard even for the adroitest of slanderers to fasten upon him the suspicion of an illicit or dU reputable. act. In his early manhood he framed for himself a code of up right and honorable dealing in his business ambitions and in his dally relations to men; he had a sterling reputation for hts squareness and sin ccrity among those who knew him when he was only In his teens, and In the course of the more than 30 years of his comings and goings among the peo ple, and largely in public life, none has been able tq noto in him any essential deviation from the principles-and tho habits which marked him In the hum ble beginnings of bis career. The Man In the Making. 'When as a lad he had hardly ceased doing chores in the old Leary book store at Fifth and Walnut Btreets, he was almost as btg and strapping a fel low physically as he Is now. At 17 or 18 he had the frame and girth of a six-footer, the level-headed sense of judgment of a veteran in the book business When he would go to Thomas' auction rooms on Fourth street, for example, to do the buying for his house, and an unusual facility, for a youth, of knowing how to hold his tongue and yet winning friends with perfect ease. It is sometimes the haoit of those who criticise him to call him 'over-discreet' or 'too non-committal.' But this sort of prudence Is not a merely political trait or the result ot political life. Caution is an instinct with him; It was natural to him when he was earning his $3 or $4 a week and carrying ills coffee every morning from his downtown home to warm it up In the middle of tho day at the Fallon shoe store, and when at night time the row of tall boards which encased the cheap stalls on the outside walls were fastened together, young Stuart was ns careful to see that they were made quite as secure in protecting the 5 and 10-cent stock as he was that the rarest editions on the inside should be safe. guarded from theft or fire. And yet with all his circumspection in speech there wasn't a more cheerful or more sunny-faced lad in the neighborhood He worked all day long and frequently well Into tho night as' If he never knew what it was to be tired, nd although he was singularly free of the loose or hurtful habits which most lads contract In the growing age, no one thought of associating him with the Idea of n milksop or a pretender. To everybody about Fifth and Walnut streets he was 'Ed,' 'Ned' or 'Eddie,' and even then there was a sort of Intuition among the denizens of the corner that he had the making of a somebody in him. ."Mr. Stuart was at one time, when still young, a Sunday school teacher. Some years ago he told me how amused and pleased he was one day In finding among the books which came tq his store on Ninth street a copy of a little Testament which contained the inscription Unit he had written on its fly-leaf In the early '70's when he pre sented It to one of his pupils. In his relations to his mother, who was of sturdy, religious stock, he was a sig nal example of tho loyalty and grati tilde of the son who honors the chin: author of his being; he lived as much for her ns for himself; the pride whlr'i she might find in his ambitions was not the leant of his motives In court ing public advancement, and whim he had almost reached the mayoralty of his native city, tho sorest blow of hi life was thnt death should rob him of her In their little home on Tenth street, and that he should be cut off, on the eve. of his triumph, from sharing it "trlt.h her. Stuart had little schooling, except what ho got In the Southwest Cranimar school, ami the education which he gave hlnit;elf was largely the result of what he read at Leary 's in pare moments, or In his winter even ing hours at home. But he was em phatically a specimen of what we sometimes call 'good mothers' sons.' and the moral stamina and Scotch Irish Bense' in the man came to him through her, in a domestic atmosphere of frugality, thrift and those simple virtues that are chastened by patient toil in the face of suffering or sorrow. A Character That Told. "It Is to the rharacter which was Jhus formed In Stuart that the offices ?nd the honors which have been given hiin In Philadelphia are primarily due. His nomination for governor of Penn sylvania, like his election to the presi dency of tho Young Republicans when, a quarter of a century ago it became a stepping-stone of his career, his elec tion to select council, his election to the mayoralty, his election to the presi dency of the Union League, his ap pointment to the board of city trusts, and his appointment, which ho de clined, some months ago, to the re constructed board of education, not to Bpeak of the profTers which have been made to him at various times of other olllces, have almost Invariably been the outcome of respect for, or confi dence in, his character. Thnt the favor able impression which a mun of his unusually large and forceful physique makes upon the publltf mind enters to some extent into this disposition to recognize him Is not to bo doubted, for Stuart has an external appearance which ambitious men may envy. But this is a comparative trifle when com pared with that sort of Impression which Is made year in and year out, in little things ns well as In big things. by sobriety, nnd steadiness, and dig nity yet simplicity of conduct, and im munity from scandal, and square deal ing, and charity of thought, and truth fulness of speech. Thus there Is not a division of tho humblest citizens of the 2Uh ward In which the name of Edwin S. Stuart Is not trusted today as a household word, and often it has been known to be commended by working men as a model to their boys; on the other hand, there is not a member of the Union League who feels that Its honor before the nation will ever be tarnished by any act of his while he is In its presidency. Nor Is there any sem blance of moral ostentation in his char acter, none of thnt affectation or self- consciousness or preachiness which sometimes Imparts a smugness or dis agreeable stiffness to the intrinsic quality of a good man. The instinct of rational fellowship In him Is strong: no other public man In Philadelphia probably has more friends or acquaint ances to salute him when he comes down Chestnut street, and in his inter course there is that abundance of heart iness which comes from seemingly perfect health, a kindly disposition and the frankness of a clean nature, There Is no discrimination In his con duct, whether he meets a millionaire or a coal heaver, and there Is no trace of a sign in his manner or his manners that the recognition which has come to him in securing some of the most coveted prizes of ambition has spoiled him in tho sense of making him for getful of his struggling days or of turn ing his head. In fact, it would be hard to find among the noted characters of Philadelphia a man less suggestive of anything like vanity or self-approba tlon. Tempernte in Word and Deed. "Tho chief weaknesses attributed to Stuart are want of posltlveness, slow ness in reaching conclusions, and ex cess of amiability. They are the same weaknesses that MeKinley's critics passed upon him up to the time ho went Into the presidency, and the Stu art temperament Is undoubtedly a kindred one to' the 'JIcKlnley tempera ment' In both its personal and politi cal aspect. In all his career in Phila delphia I do not recall that he ever felt himself publicly moved to abuse a man or to speak harshly of one, however much he might condemn a vice or a wrong, and in his private conversation there is the same absti nence from merely personal reproba tion. He is a believer in the wisdom of the motto thnt haste makes waste, but if he Is slow to reach his con clusions ho sticks to them when he gets there. From his point of view a man in office is not so much the leader of the people as he Is the instrument of the people, and it Is less his bus! ness to form public opinion than to obey public opinion. The real test of the usefulness of a public man con sists in the substantial and lasting betterment which he produces for his community, and yet there are In Phil adelphia some men who with notable reptuations for being 'jHisitive' could not stand that test and whose vigor of afllrmation is sometimes hardly more than a windy, worthless ver bosity. An Eventful Term. "Thus Stuart, when ho became niovor of Philadelphia, made few promises, and, such as they were, thev were simply and carefully ex pressed. I!ut the city and Its material Improvements advanced during the four years of his term; tho average of the personnel of his administration in point of character and efficiency was creditable, and no responsible op ponent, however bitter, ventured to advance even a suspicion dishonorable to its head. At all times he was ac cessible to all citizens, and none whoso complaint misht be worth making ever suggested thnt he did not have an op portunity for fair play and courteous hearing. The mayor, It Is true, was always reluctant to make a promise, but when one was made It was kept Politically the Combine of Martin and Porter flomlshed during his term, but I thre was comparative peace In the politics of Philadelphia. Stuart made the effort, but failed In it, of taking the police out of politics. Indeed, at the start It looked as If his administration might bo a wreck. His first director of public, safety was proved to have been a thief, but the mayor promptly got rid of him. The city treasury had been robbed right and left by Bardsley, but the mayor lost no time in getting his experts Into the office and putting Bardsley under arrest. The Queen Lane reser voir was charged with being infected by the rankest jobbery, but tho chief licenser broke down in a court of Jus tice and an equity suit was dismissed from consideration by the Judges. When the first boulevard or parkway bill passed councils, largely at the in stance of the' Pennsylvania railroad, Stuart vetoed it, but he took the ground substantially that it was doubt ful whether the city could afford it. and that the majority of the people, as was then true, were probably op posed to it. This subjected him to criticism as a man who was not bold and progressive enough to lead In the making of a great municipal Improve ment, and the same kind of criticism was directed against him with much vigor by tho Traction company or Its spokesmen when he halted the origi nay trolley bills, although there was no doubt that the majority of the peo ple were against them also. But the outcome of Stuart's action was the most valuable concession the railway Interests have ever made to the city. 'This wa3 the acceptance of the obli gation to put asphalt Improvements on the streets which they occupied and to maintain the pavements; and it has been chiefly under the operations and effects of that covenant in the past dozen years or more that Philadelphia became one of the best-paved cities In tho United States. The reclamation of Broad street as a highway was another of his special policies, as was also the asphalting of small or comparatively obscure streets in the poor and con gested quarters, so that neighborhood cleanliness and sanitation might be ad vanced. But the foremost act of an administration which was fruitful of the well-dlstrlbuted improvement that counts in d"tail, was the initiation of the movement for abolishing the grade crossings on the main line of the Read ing railway and the construction of the subway on Pennsylvania avenue. Set a Standard. "The comparative rapidity with which Mayor Stuart and the late Edward SI, Paxson, as the chief representative of the Reading, came into an agreement on a problem which was generally thought to be entirely beyond tho reach of immediate solution, has been In striking contrast with the delay of years over the Ninth street crossings. Stuart managed his end of the case with admirable patience, tactfulness and ' persistence, without fussiness or the slightest effusion of promises; and when the undertaking, which began tin der his administration in co-operation with the company, was completed there were not only no jobs charged against it, but the expenditure was ac tually less than the amount of money appropriated. "When he went out of the mayoralty It was with no general lessening of the personal respect which he had when he went into it, but which It had been the lot of most mayors, sometimes unde servedly, to lose on mnklng their exit. Stuart's experience in that respect, however, was like this that there was a disposition all around among thought ful men to put upon his head and not his heart the responsibility for his er rors of commission or of omission and to greet him as ono who had done hl3 part honestly and with clean hands, The citizens' dinner which was given to him when he retired to private life was one of those appreciations which really mean something. Its guests were made up of men of all parties and various representatives of religion like Archbishop Ryan, Bishop Whitaker and the present Bishop McVickar; Charles Emory Smith performed his happiest offices as an orator, and John Wana maker likened tho young mayor, I think for he was then but 42 after his four-years' term to a sort of Dick Whlttington. of Philadelphia. A Tribute to Worth. "As a matter of fact, Stuart formed an ambition for that office in the days when it was first occupied by Stokley and when be himself had not become a voter, and it is the only office, ex cept his seat In councils years ago, that he has deliberately and openly planned to secure. The self-restraint which he has time and again exhib ited in putting away from him the baits which politicians have cast in his direction hns been marked. Thus it might have been possible for him to have made a dash for the gover norship while he was mayor, when various plans to head off Hastings were on foot and when all the lxiot lickers of politics who ever gather around a mayor were urging him to let his administration be set up in his be half. But Stuart, with all his ami ability, can tell a hawk from a hand saw in politics as quickly as most of the erperts, never lost an hour's sleep over the affair, eventunlly put his foot on it quietly, and thereby removed from Hustings' path the only formid able obstruction that might have been set in his way. And now, in the full ness of time, with a new political gen eration coming into the field, and with Quay nnd half the cither old lend ers dead or nearly dead, the nomi nation cont"s to him without the lift ing of a finger on his part and with the expectation that It will meet the popular sentiment of the nour. "Whatever d.-.p (t mUy or may i'iot be, politically, it Is personally at la.it a striking tribute to the worth of ' character. PENN." AMERICAN TROOPS LAND 450 Marines Came Ashore Sun day Night at Havana. Ruin In Gulf Cities Net Decrease It Pension Roll Stensland In Prison Central's First Electric Train Pres Ident Returns to Washington Inde pendence League Ratifies. The work of dispersing peacefullj the forces in arms against the Cubat government Is already under way. Brig odler-General Funstou, chairman ol disarmament commission, hud twe amicable conferences Sunday witt Generals Pino Guerra and Del Castilh and arranged a program perfectly sat isfactory to all concerned. In fuel General Frederick Funston said th winding up of this particular duty will be so smooth and rapid that It wit take much less time than had been an ticlpated. The first landing of any consider able number of Americans took place Sunday night when 450 marines came ashore from the squadron in the har bor. This force proceeded for Cien fuegos at 9 o'clock that evening on a special train. It was explained that this movement was not on account ol any actual trouble in Clenfuegos, but to exert a calming Influence owing to the local situation, which contains some possibility of a conflict because of the tense feeling existing between the government volunteers and the Insurgents. The first American soldiers will be landed at Havana next Saturday. Meantime the marines and bluejackets from the American fleet in Cuban wa ters will protect American interests and support Secretary Taft, the pro visional governor of Cuba, in the pres ervation of order and the protection, of life and property. Pensacola's Water Front Wrecked. As a result of the storm last week the entire water front at Pensacola is a mass of tangled wreckage. The costly bridge of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, spanning Escambia bay, was demolished and it will be many days before trains can go east ward. Train service north has been restored. Out of 13 fishing schooners of Sand ers & Co.'s fleet only one is afloat. Warren & Co.'s fleet suffered equally only one being und:.maged. The others are on the beach and some of them broken up. Two tugs are high and dry in Pine street. More than a dozen ocean going craft are hard aground. Mrs. T. F. Matthews, wife of the bridge tender ut Escambia bay, and two children were carried away In their house and were lost despite the frantic efforts of Mr. Matthews to res cue them. Mobile's Death List 125. The number of deaths in the vicin ity of Mobile was brought up to a certainty of 79 and a possibility ol 102 by tho reports that reached Mo bile during the night and early Monday Four bodies not before counted have been found at Codcn and it is estimat ed that 23 lives have been lost from the Oyster fleet around Cedar Point. This last estimate is not known to be accurato and is probably somewhat exaggerated. It does not seem like ly thot tho present death roll will amount in this vicinity to more than 125. Net Decrease In Pension Roll. The net decrease in the pension roll of the United Slates for the fiscal year ending Juno 30 was $12,470, the largest decrease in the history of the country. These facts are brought out in the annual report of Commissioner of Pensions Warner, which has just been completed. In tho report the commissioner ex presses the opinion that there will be still more marked decrease during tho present year. During the year there were added to the roll 33,509 new pen sioners and 1,405 restorations and re newals, making a total addition of 34,974. The total number of pensioners on tho roll during the year was 1,033,415, The number ot pensioners dropped from the roll durlug the year was 47,- ii-l, leaving the number of pensioners June 30, 190G, 985,971. The maximum number of pension ers In tho history of the bureau was reached Jan. 31, 1905, when It was 1,004,1110, since which date there has been a steady decrease aggregating to June 30, V.m, 18,225. Death was the principal cause of the decrease- of the past year, tho number of nairies dropped on that uc count being 43,300. Stensland In Joliet Prison. Paul O. Stensland arrived In Chi cago from New York at 8:55 Wednes day morning. He was taken Immediately to the criminal court building. Slensluiid appearing before Judge Kersten In the criminal court in the afternoon, plead ed guilty to charges of forgery and embezzlement. Judge Kersten sent enced him to 1111 Indeterminate perioi in Joliet penitentiary. Stensland, his daughter, Mrs. Ing; Sand berg, Deputy Sheriff McMnhon and Jailer Whitman arrived at Joliet at 2:25 p. m. and left the train at the prison station, about five minutes Valli from tho penitentiary. In the recep tion room Mrs. Sandberg fainted as her father was being turned over to the prison olllclals. Steel Workers' Stock Raised. If any more workmen employed "by the United States Steel corpora tion want to take more stock In th concern, an opportunity which has been given the men annually for the lust four years, they will havo to pay the full par value of $100 a share. This is the information which hat been brought to Pittsburg from the New York headquarters, and not a lit tle Ill-feeling is shown by the work men over tho news. In years past the workmen have been allowed to take the preferred stock at from 55 to 81, and the raise announced Is almost 25 per cent ovei the highest ever yet paid by thom There are now 123,404 shares of the stock held by workmen of the corpora tion, most of it In Pittsburg. Will Build Eight Big Lake Steamers. The organization is announced of a steamship company on the great lakes that will build at once oisht snipe each 000 feet long and each costing about $475,000. Moses Taylor, vice president of the Lackawanna Steel company, is mentioned as prominent in the company and it Is stated that other capitalists associated with Mr. Taylor In the Lackawanna Steel com pany are interested, although the steel company itself does not appear in the transaction. The new ships are tc come out in 1908 and are to be unfit by the American Shipbuilding com pany. Threw Brother's Head Into the River. Following the confession of Aram Tashjlan, a 20-year-old Armenian, that he had murdered his brother Mahrar, portions of whose dismembered body were found in the vicinity of 3Cth street and 11th avenue on Sunday and Mondi.y, New York police began drag ging the Hudson river In search of the victipi's head which Aram said he threw Into the stream at the foot cl West 3Cth street. After throwing the torso and the arms and legs away, Tashjlan told the police he placed his brother's head in a small valise which he weighted and deposited overboard. Central's First Electric Train. . The New York Central's first elec tric train, drawn by a 100-ton electric locomotive, was run Sunday from High Bridge, seven miles from New Y'ork, where the present electric zone ter mlnatep, to the Grand Central station. The train consisted of eight cars and there were about 100 passengers aboard, including New York Central and other railroad officials. Tho test was pronounced satisfactory. No at tempt was made ot high speed. Elec tric power will be used for the run through the tunnel of all trains within 30 days, it was announced. President Returns to Washington. Monday witnessed the transfer of tho executive department of the Unit ed States government from Oyster Bay to Washington. President Roosevelt with his family and members of his executive staff will start for Washing ton this forenoon. On Thursday the president will go to Harrisburg to deliver the oration of the day on the occasion of tho dedica tion of the new Pennsylvania state Cnpltol. He also will deliver an nd dress at York, Pa., 011 the return trip from Harrisburg to Washington. Russians Not Wanted as Guests. Notices have been posted at most of the hotels and private houses . at Zurich, Lucerne and other cities in Switzerland announcing that Russians are refused accommodations. This arises from the recent discovery of a Russian bomb depot in Switzerland and the assassination at Interlaken of a Frenchman named Mueller, who was mistaken for M. Durnovo, tho Russian ex-minister of the interior.. New Vein of Coal Discovered. A vein of coal extending a mile In length and an eighth of a mile In width with an average thickness of 12 feet has been discovered by tho Phil adelphia and Reading Coal nnd Iron company In the Mahanoy valley. Ex perts say it contains millions of tons, valued at from $30,000,000 to $75,000,- 000 and that It will require over GO years to exhaust. Independence League Ratification. The state ticket of the Independence League was ratified at a gathering that filled Madison Square Garden, New York, to its capacity Friday night. The Municipal Reform Alllanco joined the lfcaguo in tho conduct of tho meet ing. The principal addresses were de livered by William R. Hearst and Lewis Stuyvesunt ('hauler, respec tively the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor 011 both the Dem ocratic und Independence League tickets. Violation of Safety Appliance Law. Attorney General Moody directed that suits be brought against several railroad companies to recover penal ties for violation of the safety appli ance law through failure to keep their equipment in proper comlil ion. The largest number of violations alli'ibuteil to any road Is 31 against the Delaware & Hudson company. The total num ber of violations is 181. Auto Contest For Vanderbilt Cup. On Saturday IS automobiles, among tlu lii the speediest racing cars iu tho world, will niaUe a 297-milo dash over a measured course 011 Long Island for the trophy known as the Vanderbilt cup. America, Fiance and Italy each will be represented. Secretary Root Returns. The United States naval gunboat Sy'ph with Secretary Hoot on board ariived lu Washington Sunday. THREE DEAD IN WRECK. Express Ran Past Signal and Crash Into Stalled Train. Philadelphia, Oct. 1. Running a great speed past a signal set agalns it and a flagman who was wildly wai ins a warning to the engineer, a Nei Yoik express train bound for Phllade! phla on the New York division of thj Pennsylvania railroad crashed Into I stalled Long Branch express at Ed dlngion, 19 miles north of here, Satui day, with the result that three pei sons are dead and 40 injured, severa of them probably fatally. That mon persons were not killed Is considerei remarkable, as three of the cars o the Long Branch train were tele sconed. The dead: Mrs. Vi II. Connonnell Trenton, N. J., wife of a railroad braks man; Mary O. Malley, Rah way, N. J.. Mary Cronln, Philadelphia. The most seriously injured are Alary Utile, colored, Atlantic City body badly injured; A. J. Conway, Ceo tral Falls, R. I., sprained back; Thomas Scott, Providence, R. I., sprained back Mrs. I, Weatherly, Trenton, N. J. sprained back; Mrs. J. Lefford, Mo Veytown, Pa., sprained back; Matildi E. Warrick, colored, Washington, bad ly hurt. At Brfston, four miles north of Ed dlngton, the New York express was 1 minutes behind the Long Branch trail and was running at high speed in or der to make up nine minutes. Thi Long Branch express was compollef to stop at Eddlugton because of 1 faulty airbrake, and while tho train men were trying to locate the troubli tho rear hrakeman went back 171 yards to flag approaching trains. Engine; r Van Arsdale of tho Netn York expiess, who was not hurt, sail he saw tho red signal as well as tht flagman, but was unable to stop hli train. The Inst four cars of the stall ed express were day coaches and somt of the passengers were strolling aloni the tracks. When they saw tho on rushing train they set up a cry o warning but It was too late for an; one In the last three cars to escape The engine struck the rear car witl terrific force, causing It to be tele scoped. The next coach was llfte from its trucks and forced through th conch all cad. T!?o havoc done was so great tha' at fu st It was believed that every oni in the last two cars had been killed The wreckage was piled high, bui willing workers from the New Yorl express, none of whom was hurt, an the uninjured travelers of tho Lon Brandi train quickly set to work aa found that most of the Imprisoned passengers were alive though manj were unconscious. Word was sent t Eddlugton and Beveral doctors trer soon on the scene nnd others front Bristol and neighboring towns were summoned by telephone. After tho nccldent. Fireman Bos wick of the New York express, said he found tho angle cock of the thlri car of his train turned, which cut oB the air from all the cars back of tht first three. Ofllcinls of the Pennsylvania rail rond said that they were unable tc say what could have caused tho angle cock to be turned. Constable Disarmed. Washington, Pn., Sept. 29. Con stable Albert Little of Conton town ship, who handed his resignation tc the court yesterday, gave a peculiai rei'ison for It. Little was charged wlili unbecoming conduct. He says two men following a circus here thlt week gave him a drink of whisky thai was drugged and that they then stole all his money, his revolver and hia handcuffs. He says ho was so ashamed of having been niado the victim of Biich an old trick that he ha not the courage now to wear an offi cer's badge. Oil King Dies a Hero. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 29. William Haggerty, a millionaire oil man ol Lima, O., died at Merlin Thursday. While in tho Tilbury oil fields a few days ugo Haggerty tried to rescue C Thomas, who. was In an oil tank cleaning it and had been overcome by gases. Before Thomas could be res cued ho was asphyxiated. Haggerty was ulso affected and ho died without regaining consciousness. Thomas be longed In Sandusky, O. Will Spank Girls Who Flirt. Cleveland, Sept. 29. Mayor Kenpel of Akron In his crusado ugalnst "mashers" who illrt with girts on the street has Issued ,1 statement asking the niol hers to help him by spanking their daughters who persist In going downtown tit nfght, seeking adventure. The major says the girls are largely to blaiiio for the "mushing" evil. Many mothers have promised to com ply with his request. Private Bank Closed. Pomeioy, O., Sept. 29. Tho Middle port bank, a private lustltution.at Mid dloport, O., failed to open its doors yesterday. It is staled nearly all the drposils, amounting to $115,000 are missing and great excitement pre vails. Most of the depositors are poor people. The president of the bank, E. ('. Fox, is away and In his absence no oi'.icial statement of the condition of the bank has yet been made. Fined For Carefulness. Muhunoy City. Sept. 29. For refus ing to sell a glass of beer to William llusey, within u few minutes of the elusion hour, Alexander Cozlowski, a saloonkeeper ut Mount Carmel, was found guilty l y a jury and Judgu Sav iilge tiued him $25. This Is the first Instance In tho history of the North umberland county courts of a saloou proprietor being mulcted for fallura to serve a customer
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