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T Oouncumen. J. B. Muse, J. w. Lan ders, O. A. linnson, Geo. Holeman, U. T. Audorson, Win. Bmearbaugb, E. W. Jiowtnau. Constable W. II. Uood. Collector W. H. Hood. School Director J. O. Seowden, T. V. Kitehey. A. C. Brown, Dr. J. C. Dunn, (4. Jainleaou, J. J. Landers. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress Joseph C. Sibley. Member of Senate J. K. P, Hall. (Assembly J. II. Robertson. President Judge W. M. Lindsey. Associate Judges F, -X. Kreitler, P. C. Hill. Prothonotary, Register & Recorder, fte. J. C. (Joist. Sheriff1. A. W. Rtronp. Treasurer W . II. Harrison. Commissioners Leonard Agnew, An drew Wolf, I'hilip Emort. District Attorney a. D. Irwin. Jury Commissioners J . B. Eden, J. P. Castnor. tormUii Auditors W. II. Stiles, Cuas. V. Kllnestlver, S. T. Carson. Countv Surveyor D. W. Clark. County Superintendent D. W. Morrl- BOQ. . Itecular Terms f CurC. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of September. Third Monday of November. Regular Meetings of County Commis sioners 1st and 3d Tuesdays of montb. Ctrnrrk n4 Subbnth MrliMl. Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a. 111. 1 M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. ni. Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab bath evening by Rev. W. O. Calhoun. Preaohlng in the F. M. Church every Fsbbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. It, A. Zahulser, Pastor. Services in the Presbyterian Church every Sabbath morning and evening, Kevi Dr. Paul J. Slonaker, Pastor. The rogular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each Month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. mp ; N EST A LODU E, No. 869, 1. 0. 0. F. 1 Meets every Tuesday evenlng.lnOdd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274 O. A, K. Meet 1st and 3d Monday evening In each month. CAVT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 1:17, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month. KARL E. WENK. nRVTTST. TIONESTA, PA. All wnrlc guaranteed. Rooms over Forest County National Bank. DR. ROSS PORTER. DENTIST. Formerly of Marienvllle. 31 Seneca Street, OIL CITY, PA, RITCHEY A CARRINGER. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW. Tionesta, Pa. CURTIS M. SUAWKEY, ATTORN EY-AT- LAW, Warren, Pa, Practice in Forest Co. O BROWN, A ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Offloe in Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sw., Tiouosta, Pa. D K. F. J. BOVARD, Physician S wurgeon, TIONESTA, PA, DR. J. C. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUGGIVr. OlHce over store, (ri va l),-,.r,.uulIinul ihiDh nrnnint- 1 IUUr9lllt ' - ---- r , ly responded to at all hours of day or nighl. Kesuieuce nun nu, uovtu Groe's grocery and Uerow's restaurant. D R. J. B. BIGGINS. Physlciau and surgeon, OIL CITY, PA 11. practice limited to dlseasos of the Lungs and Chest. OlUoe nours Dy ap pointment only. OIL CITY. PA. No. 116 CENTER ST. t- r mT.Tir f n. Vi. ta,,Hfa iimitml tn diseases of the Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat. Special attention given 10 mu umug u n""' OHlo hf.nrs 9-12 a. m., 15 p. m., 7-8 p. m. OIL CITY, Pa. JS... 110 CKNTEti ST. rjOTEJj WEAVER, 11 r a wntVKR. Pronrletor. This hotel, formerly the Lawrence House, has undergone a oonipletechango, and is now furnished with all the mod ern Improvements. Heated and lighted .1.- nutnral crna. Imt.hrOOIllH. hot and cold water, etc. The comforts of guests never neglected. J GEROW A GEROW Proprietor. n...i. Pu 'PL w iu tliB incislcentntll V located hotel in the place, and has all the i..i..r..u..i.iuiitM No naiiis will be spared to niHke it a pleasant stopping r u,a mr L1IH irtvHi I U IIUU1IUI class Llverv in connection. nUIUKMEHT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER, c,i 1 Tlt.,u l.oil.limr Pnl-- 101 111 C1IIIIII 111 iiniwin and Walnut streets, la prepared to do all Kinds of custom work iroin the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect suKislHoi.ion. rroniii.iwu lion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. JAMES HASLET, GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture' - Dealers, andA UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA. PENN WiO Electric Oil. Guaranteed for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Feet. Pains. Se. Atalldealers fJWAfj.-qj.l-ltr,a CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Ka Best 0 wh Syrup. Tastes Good. P.! Us tu "ime. Sold by drueelats. r.HMim&hsiigrgi TRIUMPH OF WORTH IS WELL EVIDENCED IN EDWINS. STUART ' A Famous Journalist's Story of the Rise of a Poor Boy to High Public Honor. "NEVER MADE K 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 state ticket and the City Party movement In Philadelphia last fall than the Philadelphia "Even ing Bulletin." Its editor-tn-chlef, William Perrinc, author of the famous "Pnnn" comments upon men and meas ures in that Independent Journal, gave this word picture of the Republican nominoe for novernor in his character istic, frank and manly manner, shortly after the selection of the Republican Btanuard-bearer: "At the closo of the gubernatorial campaign four years ago it was ob served that the Republican candidate came put of It without having been coil pelled even once to defend his per son!.,! character. Amidst all the gibes that were cast at Judge Pennypacker and all the controversies over his po litical 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 had been so clear, clean, simple and open that it would be hard even for the adroltcst of slanderers to fasten upon him the suspicion of an illicit or dis reputable, act. In his early manhood he framed for himself a code of up right and honorable dealing in his business ambitions and in bis daily relations to men; ho had a sterling reputation for his squareness and sin cerity 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 note in him any essential deviation from the principles-and the habits which marked him in the hum ble beginnings of his 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 streets, he was almost as big 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 ,'hen 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 habit 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 his coffee every morning from his downtown home to warm it up In the middle of the day at the Fallon shoe store, and when at night time the row of tall boards which encased the cheap Btalls on the outside walls were fastened together, young Stuart was be 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 Are. 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 the 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 .1 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 tn finding, among the books which came tq his store on Ninth street a copy of a little Testament which contained the inscription that he had written on its fly-leaf In the early '70's when he pre sented It to one of his pupils. In bis relations to his mother, who was of sturdy, religions stock, he was a slg' nal example of the loyalty and grati tude of the son who honors the chief author of his being; he lived as much for her as for himself; the pride which she might find In his ambitions was not the leant of his motives In court ing public advancement, and when he had almost reached the mayoralty of his native city, the sorest blow of his life was that 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 u with her. Stuart had little' schooling, except what he got In the Southwest Grammar school, and the education which he gave himself was largely the result of what he read at Leary's in. upare moments, or in his winter even ing hours at home. But he was em phatically a specimen of what we Bomo times call 'good mothers' sons,' and the moral stamina and Scotch Irish senffe In the man came to him through her, In a domestic atmosphere of frugality, thrift and those simple virtues that are chastened by patient toll in the face of suffering or sorrow. A Character That Told. "It is to the fharacter which was lhus formed In Stuart that the offices t.nd the honors which have been given hi in in Philadelphia are primarily due. His nomination for governor of Penn lylvanla, like his election to the presi dency cf the 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 he de clined, some months ago, to the re constructed board of education, not to speak of the proffers which have been made to him at various times of other offices, have almost Invariably been the outcome of respect for, or confi dence In, his character. That the favor able impression which a man. of his unusually large and forceful physique makes upon the ptiblitf mind enters to some extent into this disposition to recognize him is not to be 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 as well as in big things. by sobriety, and 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 the humblest citizens of the 2(lth 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 that affectation or self consciousness or preachiness which sometimes imparts a smugness or dis agreeablo stiffness . to the Intrinsic quality of a good man. The Instinct of rational fellowship in him is strong; no other public mnn 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 the 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-approbation. Temperate In Word and Deed. "The chief weaknesses attributed to Stuart are want of positiveness, slow ness in reaching conclusions, and ex cess of amiability. They are the same weaknesses that McKinley's critics passed upon him up to the time he went into the presidency, and the Stu art temperament Is undoubtedly a kindred one to' the 'McKlnley 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 that haste makes waste, but If he is slow to reach his con clusions he 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 busi 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 reptuatlons for being 'positive' could not stand that test and whose vigor of affirmation is sometimes hardly more than a windy, worthless ver bosity. An Eventful Term. "Thus Stuart, when ho became mayor of Philadelphia, made few promises, and, such as they were, they were simply and carefully ex pressed. But the city and Its material Improvements advanced during the four years of his term; the 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 mlbt be worth making ever suggested that 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 flouii3hed during his term, but there u comparative peace in the politics of Philadelphia. Stuart made the effort, but failed In It, of taking the police out of politics. Indeed, nt the start It looked as If his administration might be 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 accuser 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 the Traction company or Its spokesmen when he halted the origl 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 the United States. The reclamation of Broad street as a highway was another of his special policies, as was also the asphalting of Bmall 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-distributed improvement that counts in detail, was the Initiation of the movement for abolishing the grade crossings on the main line of the Read ing tail way and the construction of the subway on Pennsylvania avenue. Set a Standard. "The comparative rapidity with which Mayor Stuart and the late Edward M. 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 un 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 making 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 one 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, BlshopWhltaker and the present Bishop McVickar; Charles Emory Smith performed his happiest offices as an orator, and John Wana maker likened the young mayor, I think for hp 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 he 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 has 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 boot 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 experts, never lost an hour's sleep over the affair, eventually put his foot on it. quietly, and thereby removed from Hastings' 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 coining Into the field, and with Quay and half the other old lead ers dead or nearly doad. the nomi nation cores to him without the lift ing of a finner on his pnrt and with the expectation that it will meet the popular sentiment of the nour. "Whatever else It may or may aot he, politically, It Is personally at ltist a striking tribute to the worth oi character. PENN." AMERICAN TROOPS LAND 450 Marines Came Ashore Sua 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 Cubai -overnment Is already under way. Brig adler-General Funston, chairman ol disarmament commission, had twe amicable conferences Sunday witl Generals Pino Guerra and Del Castilk and arranged a program perfectly sat lsfactory. to all concerned. In fact General Frederick Funston said th winding up of this particular duty will be so smooth and rapid that It wll take much less time than had been an ticipated. The. first landing of any consider able number of Americans took place Sunday night when 450 marines came ashore from the squadron in the hap bor. This force proceeded for Clen fuegos at 9 o'clock that evening on a special train. It was explained thai this movement was not on account ol any actual trouble in Cienftiegos, but to exert a calming Influence owing to the local slfuutlon, 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 15 fishing schooners of Sand ers & Co.'s fleet only one is afloat. Warren & Co.'s fleet suffered equally, only one being undi.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 at 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 the reports that reached Mo bile during the night and early Monday Four bodies not before counted have been found at Coden 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 accurate and Is probably somewhat exaggerated. It does not seem like ly that the 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 the report the commissioner ex presses the opinion that there will be still more marked decrease during the 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 the roll during the year was 1,033,415. The number of pensioners dropped from the roll during the year was 47, ii4, leaving the number of pensioners June 30, 190G, 985,971. The maximum number of pension ers In tho history of tho bureau wiib reached Jan. 31, 1905, when It was 1,004,190, Blnco which dato there has been a steady decrease aggregating to June 30, 1900, 18,225. Death was tho principal cause of the decrease- of the past year, tho number of uairics dropped on that ac count being 43,300. Stensland In Jollet 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. Stcnslund, appearing before Judge- Kersteu in the criminal court in tho afternoon, plead ed guilty to charges of forgery and embezzlement. Judge Kersten sent enced him to an indeterminate period in Jollet penitentiary. Stensland, his daughter, Mrs. Inga Sandberg, Deputy Sheriff McMnhon and Jailer Whitman arrived at Jollet at 2:25 p. m. and left the train at the prison station, about five minutes walk from tho penitentiary. In the recep tion room Mrs. Sandberg fainted as her father was being turned over to the prison officials. 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 last four years, they will have to pay the full par value of $100 a share. This is the information which hai been brought to Pittsburg from the New York headquarters, and not a lit tle ill-feeling is shown by the work men over the 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 them. There are now 123,464 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 hkei ihat will build at once eight fnlp each COO 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 ic come out In 1908 and are to be oullt by the American Shipbuilding com pany. Threw Brother's Head Into the River. Following the confession of Aram Tashjlan, a 20-year-old Armenian, thai he had murdered his brother Mahrar, portions of whose dismembered body were found In the vicinity of 36th street and 11th avenue on Sunday and Mondr.y, New York police began drag ging the Hudson river In search of the victim'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 York, where the present electric zone ter minates, 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. The test was pronounced satisfactory. No at tempt was made at 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 the 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 Harrlsburg to deliver the oration of the day on the occasion of the dedica tion of the new Pennsylvania state Capitol. He also will deliver an ad dress at York, Pa., on the return trip from Harrlsburg 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, the 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 and Iron company in the Mahanoy valley. Ex perts say It contains millions of tons, valued at from $50,000,000 to $75,000. 000 and that it will require over 60 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 Frlduy night. The Municipal Reform Alliance Joined the league in the conduct of tho meet ing. The principal addresses were de livered by William It. Hearst and Lewis Stuyvesant Chanter, respec tively the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor 011 both the Dem ocratic and 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 tho safety appli ance law through failure to keep their equipment in proper condition. The largest number of violations attributed to any road Is 51 against the Delaware & Hudson company. The total num ber of violations Is 181. Auto Contest For Vanderbllt Cup. On Saturday 18 automobiles, umong them the speediest racing cars in the world, will make a 297-mile dash over a measured course 011 Long Island for tho trophy known us the Vanderbllt cup. America, France and Italy each will be represented. Secretary Root Return. The United Slates naval gunboat Sytph with Secretary Hoot on board ariived lu Washington Sunday. THREE DEAD IN WRECK. Express Ran Past Signal and Crathat Into Stalled Train. Philadelphia, Oct. 1. Running a great speed past a signal set againa it and a flagman who was wildly wai lag a warning to the engineer, a Nei Y01 k express train bound for Philade! phla on the New York division of thi Pennsylvania railroad crashed Into I stalled Long Branch express at Ed dington, 19 miles north of here, Satui day, with the result that three pel sons are dead and 40 Injured, eevera of them probably fatally. That mon persons were not killed is considered remarkable, as three of the cars 0 the Long Branch train were tele sconed. " The dead: Mrs. Wv H. Connonnell Trenton, N. J., wife of a railroad brake man; Mary O. Malley, Rahway, N. J.. Mary Cronln, Philadelphia. The most seriously injured are A.'ary Hule, colored, Atlantic City body badly Injured; A. J. Conway, Cen tral Falls, R. I., sprained back; Thomai Scott, Providence, R. I sprained back: Mrs. I, Weatherly, Trenton, N. J. sprained back; Mrs. J. Lefford, Mo Voytown, Pa., sprained back; Matlldi E. Warrick, colored, Washington, bad ly hurt. At Brffuon, four miles north of Ed dington, 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 compellot to stop at Eddlngton because of 1 faulty airbrake, and while the train men wore trying to locate the troubli the rear brakeman went back 171 yards to flag approaching trains. Engineer Van Arsdale of the Nen York express, who was not hurt, sail he saw the red signal as well as thi flagman, but was unable to stop hii train. The last four cars of the stall ed express were day coaches and sorm of the passengers were strolling alon the tracks. When they saw the 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 ahead. Tlie havoc done was so great tha' at first It was believed that every oni in tho last two cars had been killed The wreckage was piled high, but willing workers from the New Yorl express, none of whom was hurt, an the uninjured travelers of the Lon Branch train quickly set to work aa found that most of the iraprlsone passengers were alive though manj were unconscious. Word was sent t( Eddlngton and several doctors wen soon on the scene and others front Bristol and neighboring towns wen summoned by telephone. After the accident. Fireman Bos wick of the New York express, salt) he found the angle cock of the thlri car of his train turned, which cut oB the air from all the cars back of th( first three. Officials of the Pennsylvania rail road said that they were unable tc say what could have caused tho angl cock to be turned. Constable Disarmed. Washington, Pa., Sept. 29. Con stable Albert Little of Canton town ship, who handed his resignation tc tho court yesterday, gave a pocullai rec son for it. Little was charged with unbecoming conduct. He sayi two men following a circus here thlt week gave him a drink of whisky thai was drugged and thnt they then stole all his money, his revolver and hit handcuffs. He says he was so ashamed of having been made the victim of such an old trick that he hat not the courage now to wear an offi cer's badge. vii ring uiei Hero. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 29. William Haggerty, a millionaire oil man ol Lima, O., died at Merlin Thursday. While In the Tilbury oil fields a few days ago Haggerty tried to rescue C Thomas, who. was In an oil tank cleaning it and had been overcome bj gases. Before Thomas could be res cued he was asphyxiated. Haggerty was also affected and he diod without regaining consciousness. Thomas be longed In Sandusky, O. Will Spank Girls Who Flirt. Cleveland, Sept. 29. Mayor Kenpel of Akron In his crusade against "mashers" who flirt with girls on the street has Issued a statement asking tho mothers to help him by spunking their daughters who persist In going downtown at night, seeking adventure. The niujor says tho girls are largely to blatuo for tho "mashing" evil, Many mothers have promised to com ply with his request. Private Bank Closed. Pomeroy, O., Sept. 29. Tho Middle port bank, n prlvato Institution, at Mid dleport, O., fulled to open Its doore yesterday. It Is stated nearly all the deposits, 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 mid In his absence no oillcial statement of the condition of the bank lias yet been made. Fined For Carefulness. Mahanoy City, Sept. 29. For refus ing to sell a glass of beer to William Ilusey, within a few minutes of the closing hour, Alexander Cozlowskl, a saloonkeeper at Mount Carmel, was round gulljy by a jury and Judge Sav idgc tined him $25. This Is the first Instance In the history of tho North umberland county courts of a saloou proprietor being mulcted for failure to Eerve a customer r i
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