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Guaranteed for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Feet, Pains. Ac. At all dealers VES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS I I Couch Syrup. Tastes Good. 'In time. Suld by druecists. 5 CEEEEEEnaZI GOINGTO SEETHE CANAL President Roosevelt and Party Expected at Colon Nor. 15. Trial of Chester Gillette Conspiracy to Defraud the Government Utes and Soldiers Fraternize General Wage Raise Predicted Collapse of a New Hotel New York Election. "Good-bye, I am going down to see bow the ditch is getting along," shout ed President Roosevelt as he stood on the after starboard deck of the yacht Mayflower as the Washington navy yard, as the vessel was leaving tne dock with the president for his Pana ma trip. Accompanying the president were Mrs. Roosevelt and her maid, Surgeon General Rlxcy of the navy and M. C. Latta, a secretary. Tho Mayflower took the party to Wolf Trap light at the mouth of the Rappahannock river In Chesa peake bay, where a transfer was made to the battleship Louisiana which Is to convey the president to and from the Isthmus. President Roosevelt and .inrty, who are on their way to Panama aboard the battleship Louisiana, are expected to arrive at Colon Nov. 15. On' arriving at Colou Mr. Roosevelt will receive President and Mrs. Amador, Secretary Arlus, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Shouts and Chief Engineer and Mrs. Stevens before leaving the battleship. After landing the presidential party will go .by train across the Isthmus to La Boca, where an Inspection will he made of canal conditions In that vi cinity. The program for Friday and Satur day contemplates a visit to and in spection of all points of Interest on the isthmus Including the Culebra cut. the site of the proposed dam and locks at Gatun and the present and proposed terminals of the railroad and canal at Cristobal. Sunday will be spent quietly on the isthmus and In the evening the party will board the Louisiana for San Juan, Porto Rico, where the vessel is sched uled to arrlvo-Thursday morning, Nov. 22nd. Trial of Chester Gillette. The trial of Chester Gillette of Cort land, N. Y., charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Grace Brown, was begun at Herkimer Monday. The cir cumstances surrounding the death of the girl have never been cleared up en tirely. On July 8 she left home at South Ot boIIc, presumably for Cortland, where she was employed In a shirt factory. It appears that when she left home she met Gillette and went with him to Big Moose, In tho Adirondacks. They ar rived there July 11, registered at a holel and then hired a boat. The next day the body of the girl was found in the lake and the boat upturned. Gil lette was arrested at Inlet July 14 and taken to the jail at Herkimer. An au topsy .showed that the girl was In a delicate condition. After the inquest Governor Higglns, upon the application of District Attor ney Ward, convened an extraordinary term of supreme court, that the case might be given to a grand jury. The grand Jury Indicted Gillette for the murder. It Is expected that the theory of the prosecution will be that Gillette murdered Grace Brown for, the pur pose of getting rid of her that he might be free to devote attention to another woman. What the defense will be is not known. Conspiracy to Defraud Government. Indictments were returned at Pitts burg on Friday by the federal grand Jury against J. Jay Dunn, Charles L. Close and Frank T. Emmett, offi cials and employes of the Shelby Steel Tube company, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with the .boiler tubes furnished for a number of battleships, including the Louisiana on which tho president Is sailing to Panama. No Defective Boiler Tubes, Says Ray. In connection with the report that the grand jury at Pittsburg had indicted three officials of the Shelby Steel Tube company on charges of Il legally tampering with marks upon 6teel tubes intended to be used In the hollers of warships, Rear Admiral Ray, engineer-in-chief of the navy, stated that not a single defective tube has been placed In any of the battle ships. "The tubes," he said, "are sub jected to three Inspections and a final heavy physical test, which, he said, would surely disclose the existence of any defects." To Investigate McCarren. The Democratic state committee met Friday and by a vote of 30 to 13 adopted a resolution providing for an tnvestifiation of the conduct of the Klugs county Democratic organization heided by State Senator Patrick H McCarren during the campaign Just closed. Subsequent to the meeting it was announced that Perry Belmont, representative from the senatorial dls' trict Included In Nassau county, had resigned. ' Mr. Belmont had been serv ing on the committee temporarily since the Buffalo convention, at which time he as appointed by the Nassau county delegates, who afterward were unseated. I Mr. Belmont voluntarily re tired to imke way on the committee for former Senator Edward A. Bailey of Patchogho, Long Island. Utes ana Soldiers Fraternize. According! to advices received at trmy headquarters at Omaha, Neb., the Uto Indians who have been causing trouble In Wyoming and Mou 'ana are expected to arrive at Fort Meado, S. D., about Nov. 14. All stories of clashes or 111 feeling be tween the soldiers and the Utes are denied. The bent of feellcs Is said to exist, the soldiers and Indians hunting together In amity. General Wage Raise Predicted. It was said In Wall street that prac tically all the great railroad and indus trial corporations, the affairs of which are directed from New York, have decided to Increase the wages of their employes. It was predicted that tho action of the Pennsylvania railroad management In Increasing the wages of Its army of 1CS.OO0 men nearly $12,000,000 would soon be followed by all the Important railroad and Indus trial corporations of the United States. The Standard Oil company has de cided to Increase the wages of Its 60, 000 employes In different parts of the United States. The increases will be carried out through the compute's subsidiary corporations. Statement From the White House. This statement was made public at the White House: "For many years it has been the Invariable practice nevor to attempt to quote a private conver sation with the president. It has been found that as a matter of fact the man who quotes such a conversation usual ly misquotes It, whether consciously or unconsciously, and such an alleeed conversation is under no circum stances to be held as calling for either explanation or denial by the president. The president Is responsible for what he himself says In public, for what he writes, or for what he explicitly au thorizes the proper government offi cials to state In his behalf." Collapse of a New Hotel. Five stories of the central wing of the new J750.000 Blxby hotel at Long Beach, Cal., collapsed on Fri day, carrying nine workmen to death In the tons of tangled wreckage. About 150 artisans and laborers were scat tered through the structure when It fell and of these 100 were carried down In the ruins, nine being severe ly hurt. Pitiful scenes were enacted among the throngs who stood outside the lines, waiting for news. An aged mother stood all day long on the bluff overlooking the hotel, weeping and watching for the body of her son. Moody For Supreme Court Tho president has announced the ap pointment of Attorney General Will lam Henry Moody of Massachusetts as Justice of the supreme court of the United States to succeed Justice Hen ry Billings Brown, who retired some time ago. Mr. Moody has filled the office of at torney general since July 1, 1904. Previous to that time he had served for more than two years as secretary of the navy. He had also represented his state In the 64th, 55th, 56th and 57th congresses. It generally Is ex pected that Mr. Moody will retire from the department of Justice tho latter part of December. The Result In New York. The exact plurality of Charles E. Hughes for governor cannot be deter mined until the official count has been completed; but it will be approxi mately 58,000.. The entire Democratic state ticket has been elected with the exception of William Randolph Hearst, Chanler for lieutenant governor having a plurality of about 1,700. The other Democratic candidates have plurali ties ranging from 4,000 to 9,000. The next New York legislature will have 120 Republicans and 80 Democrats. The house of the GOth congress will be composed of 22G Republicans and 1C8 Democrats. Trial of Insurance Cases. District Attorney Jerome has ask. cd Justice Greenbaum of the supreme court In New York to fix a date for the trial of Frederick A. Burnham, president of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance company; his brother, George Burnham, and George Eld- ridge, vice president of the company, who have been Indicted on charges of forgery and grand larceny. Mr. Je rome said that he hoped to proceed with the Insurance cases In a few weeks. Assistant District Attorney Mott will conduct the cases. No Freshmen on 'Varsity Teams. The athletic governing board of Syracuse university on Thursday night Qt last week adopted a resolution rec ommending to the university senate that beginning with the next college year all first year regular and special students be debarred from member ship In any athletic team other than those composed exclusively of first year students. This action is favored by Chancellor James R. Day and will become a law of the university. It means that hereafter no freshmen will he permitted to play on 'Varsity teams, Three Negroes Get Good Offices. The wave which carried the en tire Republican ticket to victory In Cook county, Illinois, has tossed three negroes into office. Ferdinand L. Barnett, a negro lawyer, Is elected a municipal court Judge for two years. Oscar Deprlcst, a negro politician, is elected a county commissioner for two years. Alexander Lane, a negro, Is elected to the legislature. All three ran 30,000 behind their ticket, but. managed to stpiee.e in by a few nun dred. John H. Ketchara of Dutchess coun ty, representative in congress since 1805, died, leaving a vacancy on 'he Republican congressional ticket, which as filled by naming Samuel McMillan. 47 IMMIGRANTS KILLED. In Collision Between Passenger and Freight Train. 8econd Section of a Through Immi grant Train Crashed Into by an Eastbound Freight Disaster Said to Be Caused by Blunder of a Railroad Employe Harrowing Scene. Chicago, Nov. 13. More than one half the passengers on an Immigrant train on the Baltimore & Ohio road were killed and Injured In a collision festorday between the passenger and a freight train near Woodvllle, Ind. One hundred and sixty-five passen gers were on the train. Forty-seven either were killed outright or were burned to death in a fire that broke out In the wreckage Immediately aftef the collision. The names of all the dead probably never will be known, as 45 of the bodies were consumed In the flames or were so badly burned that identification will be out of the question. Thirty-eight persons were Injured and several of these will die. Eighty others escaped unhurt, but lost nearly all their baggage and clothing. The disaster was caused by a blun der of a railroad employe. The pas senger train, which was loaded with Russian Jews, Servians and Poles, all of them recent arrivals In this country and bound for Chicago or places northwest, was the second sec tion of a through train from Balti more. The engineer of the freight train, on Instructions received at McCool, Ind., waited at a siding at Babcock, Ind., to allow the Immigrant train to pass. One report is that the engineer of the freight train had not been in formed that the passenger train was running in two sections; the other is that the first section of the passenger train carried no lights or signals of any kind Indicating that a second sec tion was close behind. Freight Crashed Into Second Train. As soon as the first section of the Immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock. the freight train in charge of Engineer burke and Con ductor Moste started eastward. A light snow was falling which Increased the darkness of the early morning and as the freight was rounding a sharp curve just west of Woodvllle the sec ond section of the Immigrant train came In sight a short distance away tearing toward Chicago at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came together with unslackened speed and In the crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked Into kind ling wood and together with the loco motives went rolling down the 10-foot embankment. Fire broke out almost Immediately In the wreckage and, although a num ber of the Injured were saved by the desperate efforts of the train crew and surviving passengers, the greater part of those who were pinned down In the debris were burned to death. The flames spread through the wreckage so rapidly that It was Im possible to save a number of persons who were only slightly hurt, but were held fast by timbers that weight ed them down. These were burned in plain sight of the throng that stood around the scene of the disaster ut terly unable to lend assistance. The fire continued until all the shattered cars were entirely consumed, and of the 47 persons whose death followed the collision 45 were burned to ashes. The crash of the collision was so loud that a number of farmers and other residents of the neighborhood came hastily to the scene, but they could do nothing except lend assist ance to the Injured who already had been taken from the wreckage. Harrowing Scenes at Depot. Relief trains at once were sent out from South Chicago and Valparaiso, Ind., with every available physician, and every possible aid was given to the Injured. A large number of the relatives of passengers on the ill fated train were In Chicago awaiting their arrival and when the report was received that many had been killed and Injured In a wreck the scenes around the Baltimore & Ohio station were harrowing. Men were there who had come to this country to escnpe the massacres In Russia and who after months of hard work had saved enough to pay for tho passage of members of their families, nnd their grief when they learned that possibly all their sacrifice and effort had resulted only In the death of those whom they lovod was pitiful. Crowds of Russians and Poles waited around the station all day for news from Woodvllle and when a train came in bearing the 38 Injured persons, all of whom were taken to Mercy hos pital for treatment, it was with the greatest difficulty that the police were able to open a passage way for the wounded. Several of the foreigners became so excited that they attempted to attack depot attaches whose uniforms led them to believe they wore employed by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Aged Woman Burns. Greenshurg, Pa., Nov. l.'i. Mrs. Mary Borland was burned to death at her homo In Upper Hurroll township. While alone her clothes caught Hie from an open grate. Almost !Mt years old, Mrs. Borland was too infirm to beat out tho blaze. In her struggles the crawled to an outside door. Neigh bors discovered the body aud saved the house from burning. MR. WOODHUFF'S STATEMENT. Has Not Instituted Any Proceeding to ' Open Ballot Boxeo. New York, Nov. 13. Chairman Woodruff of the Republican state com mittee Issued this statement last night: "I have not been requested by any candidute upon the Republican state tlscket to institute any contest or to Institute any proceeding to open ballot boxes. "So far as the procedure of having a count of 'void and protested ballots' by order of court Is concerned, that Is simply the method provided by the election law to correct any errors that may have been made by the board of inspectors of the various election dis tricts, and is a proceeding which is usually instituted after every close election In order to ascertain the ex act result. "This proceeding can be Instituted by any candidate who has been voted for in any election district, and I took the precaution of obtaining verified petitions from some of the state can didates who were voted for in every election district for use In case it seemed desirable to apply to the courts for a count of the void and protested ballots. "Of course this has nothing what ever to do with the question of opening the ballot boxes, as these 'void and pro tested' ballots constitute a part of the returns of the inspectors placed in sealed envelopes and sent In with the returns." Boys Find Father Dead. Punxsutawney, Pa., Nov. 13. While playing In the woods near their home at Anita, six miles from Punxsutaw ney, George and Arthur Humm, aged 12 and 14 years, found the dead body of their father, Lyman Humm, a for mer bartender in Punxsutawney. The boys ran screaming to the house and Informed their mother. Humm operat ed a country coal bank. He left Punx sutawney In the evening and It Is thought he lost his way and died from exposure. He was 43 years old. Arrested at Mexico's Request. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 13. Lauret Agulrre, recently arrested In connec tion with the alleged Mexican revolu tionary movement, has been re-arreBt-ed at the request of Mexican Consul Mallen, on a charge of "murder com mitted In Mexico." Agulrre edited a revolutionary paper here. Freight Collided With Work Train. Watertown, N. Y., Nov. 13. An east bound freight train on the Rome, Wa tertown & Ogdensburg division of the New York Central railorad collided late yesterday with a work train about two miles south of this city. On the work train was a gang of workmen, four of whom were Injured but none fatally. The locomotive and several cars of the work train were badly smashed and the wreck caught fire. Zola's Ashes In the Pantheon. Paris, Nov. 13. The senate com mittee appointed to consider the mat ter decided In favor of transferring the ashes of Entile Zola to the Pantheon. MARKET REPORT. New York Provision Market. New York, Nov. 12. WHEAT No. 2 red, 81c f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 800 c. I. f. Buffalo. CORN No. 2 corn, 54MjC f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 yellow, 55Vc OATS Mixed oats, 26 to 32 lbs, 39c; clipped white, 38 to 40 lbs., 334-c. HAY Shipping, 7580c; good to choice, $1.00'1.05. BUTTER Creamery, extra, 27c; common to extra, ii))26c; state dairy, common to fancy, 192G14c CHEESE State lull .cream, fancy, 13 c. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 39 40c. POTATOES Long Islnnd, per bbl., $1.75. Buffalo Provision Market Buffalo, Nov. 12. WHEAT No. 1 northern carloads, 8260; No. 2 red, 79c. CORN No. 2 corn, 51c f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 yellow, 52 52 14c. OATS No. 2 white, 2814c f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 white, 37 c. FLOUR Fancy blended patent, per bbl.. J4.75&O.50; winter family, patent J4.154.90. BUTTER Creamery, western ex tra, tubs, 27c; state aud Pennsyl vania creamery, 27c; dairy, choice to fancy, 2520c. CHEESE Fancy full cream, 14c; good to choice, 13&13Vfec. EGGS Selected white, 32ft33c. POTATOES Home grown, fancy per bu., D2c; fair to good, 4350c. East Buffalo Live Stock Market. CATTLE Choice export steers, $3.75 6 15- t5"d to choice butcher steers, $4 sWb.BO; medium half-fat steers, $3 75414-25; fa'r to ood heifers, $3 504.25; good to choice heifers, $4 50fa 4-90; g0(d butcher bulls, $3.50 W3 75: choice to extra veals, $8.25i 8 50- fair to good, $7.75rn8.00.- SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice lambs, $7.irfi7.25; choice year lings, $G.001tG.25; cull sheep, $3.50!ij 4.25. ' HOGS Best Yorkers, $(i..r)OTDG.no; medium and heavy hogs, $G..r)0(&.C0; pigs, light. $0.551 (I.U0. Buffalo Hay Market. Choice timothy, $18.G()Q 19.00; No. 1 timothy, $17..r0'i( 18.00; No. 2 tim othy, $l5.ril( Ili.Od; boKt clover mixed, $15.5010.0". Utica Dairy Board Closed. Utlca, Nov. 12. The I'tiea dairy board of trade closed today for the Reason with no offerings of cheese or butter. SUMMARY OFTHE NEWS. Short Itemr From Various Parts of the World. Record of Many Happenings Condensed and Put In Small Space and Ar ranged With Special Regard For the Convenience of the Reader Who Has Little Time to Spate. Norman Hapgood denied that Col liers' Weekly had proof that the To bacco trust had bribed the legislature of Massachusetts. Six hundred British sailors mutinied In Portsmouth barracks, destroyed much property and were subjected only by the bayonets of a superior force. M. Clemenceau, the French premier, In his address to the newly assembled parliament, declared France's purpose to be the preservation of the world's peace. The Reading Iron company an nounced that Its wages schedules are being revised and that a general ad vance will shortly be made in all de partments. This will affect 3,000 men. Thursday. President Roosevelt dismissed In disgrace from the army an entire bat talion of negro troops. Reports of valuable concessions to an American syndicate in Russia aro denied In a cable dispatch. ltm-s W. Wadsworth, representa tive in congress from the 34th New York district, was defeated by Peter A. Porter by a majority of 5,300. At the meeting of the directors of the Illinois Central Railroad company, Vice President J. T. Harahan was elected president In place of Stuyves ant Fish. Returns of elections to the GOth congress Indicate that the Republicans will have a working majority. Sub stantial gains have been made by the Democrats, however. Friday. Charles E. Hughes, governor-elect, left New York for a few days of rest In the Adirondacks. Captain Amundsen, discoverer of the Northwest passage, sailed for his home in Christiana, Norway, bearing his scientific records of the magnetic pole. President Roosevelt announced that Corporations Commissioner Garfield would succeed Secretary Hitchcock at the head of the interior department on March 4. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, British ambassador at Washington, announced his retirement from the diplomatic ser vice and Esme Howaid is to be tem porarily In his place. Justice Bischoff at New York denies motions by Richard A. McCurdy to compel the Mutual Life company to make Its complaint more definite iu Its suit against him to recover $3,370,341. Saturday. Thieves who stole $20,000 worth of goods from Augustus Hartje's home In Pittsburg sold tho loot for less than $200. Eleven Indictments for giving and accepting rebates In the grain carrying trade were returned against railroads and business concerns at Minneapolis. Prince Albert of Flanders, nephew of King Leopold of Belgium, was offi cially declared the successor of the king as sovereign of the Congo Inde pendent State. Four days before election Mr. Hughes told Brooklyn he would force better transportation service; two days after his election the Brooklyn Rapid Transit announced schedule changes which will end much conges tion. Monday. Maxim Gorky, In a book to be pub lished In Itnly, paints New York in dark colors as a city enslaved by gold. James J. Hill, In a speech before tho Merchants' club of Chicago advocates reciprocity with the Dominion ot Can ada. Fifty thousand Polish children con tinue to fight religious Instruction In German In the German Poland public schools. A thief has stolen the bron.o relief tablet from the monument erected to tho victims of the General Slociim dis aster, In a Brooklyn cemetery. Federal agents charge theft of mil lions of dollars worth of public land iu Utah by tho Denver & Rio Grande railroad and a subsidiary company. King Edward ships pick of tho royitl stables to Chicago for exhibition at the International Live Slock exposition, 111 which his majesty recently has been greatly Interested. . Tuesday, Wireless dispatches from the bat tleship Louisiana reported President Roosevelt enjoying a pleasant voyago to Panama. Henry F. Smith, member of a rich Pittsburg family, is shot and killed by a burglar with whom he has a duel In his home, his assailant, escaping unin jured. The explosii-n of cartridges In a church In Madrid while mass was be ing said and In which a serious panic arose gave rise to rumors that King Alfonso had been assassinated. Mrs. Kusscll Sage will give away the hulk of the fortune of about $S, 000,000 bequeathed to her by her litis bund, to Individuals whom she con siders worthy. It will not he given to endow churches or to those who write begging letters. KILLED BY A BURGLAR. Pittsburg Aroused by Number of Re cent Murders and Hold-Up. Pittsburg, Nov. 12. Henry Firth Smith, 23 years old,- son of Joseph Smith, a prominent and wealthy busi ness man of this city, was shot twice and almost Instantly killed at 4 o'clock Sunday morning by a burglar whom he surprised In the dining room of his father's residence in East End. That a desperate battle took place between young Smith and the burglar ts evident from the disordered condi tion of the dining room and kitchen of the Smith home. In addition to the two bullets which were found to have entered Smith's body five other balls were found lodged In the floors and wall of the two rooms. The cartridges of Smith's revolver had been discharged. Neighbors adja cent to the Smith home heard the shots and ran to their windows, but say they saw no one leave the house. Hundreds of dollars worth of sliver plate had been gathered together by the burglar, who apparently had been In the house some time before being heard by young Smith. The entire police and detective forces are working on the case, but so far no clue has been discovered, The crime following little more than a week after the murder of James A. McMillcn, another wealthy business man of this section, has aroused the city, and with a number of hold-ups by highwaymen during the past fort night, city officials have been Impor tuned for 150 more policemen to sup press the wave of crime. STUART'S MAJORITY 55,000. Practically Complete Returns on Elec tion Show That Figure.- Philadelphia, Nov. 10. Complete re turns from 03 of the G7 counties In Pennsylvania show that there were 489,215 votes polled for Edwin S. Stuart, tho Republican candidate for governor, ngainst 433,586 for Lewis Emery, Jr., the fusion candidate, thus giving Stuart a plurality of 55,629. Tho two missing counties are Ches ter and Columbia. In 1905 the former gave Berry, for state treasurer, a plurality of 3,001, and the latter gave him 2,577. According to the early es timates from these counties, both will remain In the fusion column, but with greatly reduced majorities. The vote in many of the counties Is official, and Stuart's majority will probably re main close to 55,000. Stepmother Guilty of Manslaughter. Youngstown, O., Nov. 12. The Jury In the case ot Mrs. Jennie Anderson, charged with tho murder of her 6-year-old stepdaughter Elsie Anderson on July 1, returned a verdict of man slaughter Saturday. This moans a penitentiary sentence of from one to 20 years. The testimony showed that the little girl died from the effects of 70 sores and wounds on her body, the breaking of both arms and other In juries. Mrs. Anderson was accused ot beating the child with a stick with a nail in ench end and a wound over tho eye indicated that the child had been struck by a nail or some other sharp Instrument. Commission Hints at Bribery. Columbus. O., Nov. 10. In a state ment filed with Governor Harris .mem bers of the Sultana monument com mission, appointed by tho governor, assert that they were offered bribes by a granite firm seeking the contract for erecting the monument. The commission la empowered by act of tho legislature to erect a mon ument In commemoration of those who were lost In the wreck of the Sultana. The amount appropriated was $15,000. After hearing their statement of the mutter Governor Harris said that he would not Interfere with the work of the commission. Wabash Blockaded by Wreck. Washington, Pa., Nov. 10. The flrst serious wreck on tho Wabash railroad since Its construction In this county occurred Thursday morning live miles east of Avella station In Cross Creek township when a broken car wheel flange ditched 28 cars of coal. The cars were demolished. It will be Im possible to clear the track In less than three days. A temporary track Is be ing made. Burglars Visit Two Homes. Monongahela, Nov. 10. The homes of O. XJ. Gee and Thomas Farquhar were entered early Thursday morning. Two gold watches and chains and a qi' intity ol' clothing were taken from tho Gee home besides three pumpkin ph's. The Farquhiir homo was ran--sacked but nothing of value was so cured. Hunters Start Forest Fires. Allodia, Nov. 10. Forest llre.s are raging on tho Allegheny mountains w'8t of this city nnd on the Iop mountains south of llollldayslnirg. Both lires were probably started by careless hun'ors. Little headway Is being made In fighting tho flumes. Fatally Injursd In Runaway. Wayuesburg, Nov. 10. Charles Phillips, a farmer of lllacksville, was probably fatally injured in a runaway accident. Ills right eye was turn from lis socket, his uliiill was fractured, his shoulder was dislocated and he suf fered other Injuries. Fatdl Rear-nd Collision. Alloona, Nov. 10. William T. Me Ilrlde. t'ged HC, a Pennsylvania rail road llagiii.'in, was Instantly killed In a rear-end collision near Gnllitxin. He was single and lived at Voiingwood, Pa. n