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VOL. XL. NO. 52.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1908.
$1.00. PER ANNUM.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Burgess. S. T. Carson,
Justices of the Peace O. A. Randah, D.
W. Clark.
OuMteumen. J. W. Landers, J. T. Dale,
O. T. Anderson, Win. Smearbaugh, E.
W. Bowman, J. W. Jamleson, W. J.
Campbell.
Constable W. II. Hood.
Collector W. H. Hood.
ik'.hool Director! i. O. Scowden, Dr.
J. C. Dunn', Q Jamlnfton, J. J. Landers,
J. K. Clark, ,V. (J. Wyuian.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
Member of Congress N. P. Wheeler.
Member of Senate J. K. P. liatl.
' Assembly W. D, Shields.
President Judge W. M. Llndsey.
Associate Judges F. X. Kreitler, P.
C. Hill.
Prothonotary, Register dt Recorder, te.
J. C. Heist.
MerifT.A. W. Stroup.
Treasurer Geo. W. Uoleman. .
Commissioners Leonard Agtiew, An
drew Wolf, I'hillp Etnert.
District Attorney A. C. Brown.
Jury Commissioner J . B. Eden, H.
H. McClellan.
Coroner Or C. Y. Detar.
County Auditors-Oeorge H. Warden,
IT I. Manirh M. T. Pftritnii. l
County toirveyorD. W. Clark.
County Superintendent ). W. Morri
son. , Heaular Term f Crt.
Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meetings of County Cominis
goners 1st and Sd Tuesdays of month.
Church mat Sabbath Hehaal.
Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a.
in. : M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m?
Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab
bath evenlnir by Rev. W.O. Calhoun.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
H. D. Call, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
V. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each
month.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
mi' N ESTA LODU E, No. 869, 1. 0. 0. F.
1 Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows' Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. UEORQ E STOW POST. No. 274
O. A, R. Meets 1st and 8d Monday
evening In each month.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No.
1S7, W. R. C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
RITCHEY A CARRINGER.
ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW,
Tlonesta, Pa.
CURTIS M. 8HAWKEY,
ATTORN EY-AT- LA VV,
Warren, Pa.
Practice in Forest Co.
AO BROWN,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
Office In Arner Building, Cor. Elm
and Bridge Sts., Tlonesta. Pa.
FRANK S. HUNTER, D. D. S.
Rooms over Citizens Nat. Hank.
TIONESTA, PA.
D
R. F. J. BOVARD,
Physician A Surgeon,
TIONESTA, PA.
DR. J. C. DUNN.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
and DRUGGIST. Office over store.
Tionesta, Pa. Professional calls prompt
ly responded to at all hours of day or
night. Residence Elm St., between
Grove's grocery and Uerow'a restauraut.
GEORGE SIGGINS, M. D.,
Pbysioiau and Surgeon,
TIONESTA, PA.
Office In rooms over Forest County
National Bank.
Professional calls promptly responded
to stall hours of day or night.
D
R. J. B. SIGGINS.
Physician and surgeon,
OIL CITY, PA.
HOTEL WEAVER,
E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor.
This hotel, formerly the Lawrence
House, has undergone a complete change,
and is now furnished with all the mod
ern Improvement. Heated and lighted
throughout with natural gas, bathrooms,
bot and cold water, etc. The oomforU oi
guests never neglected,
CENTRAL HOUSE,
UEROW A UEROW Proprietor.
Tlonsela, Pa. This Is the most centrally
located hotel in the place, and lias all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to 'make It a pleasant stopping
place for the travellug publftr First
olass Livery in connection.
pHIL. EMERT
FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER.
Shop over R. L. Haslet's grocery store
on Elm street. Is prepared to do all
Kinds of oustom work from the finest to
the coarsest aiurguarantees his work to
T;ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
ion .given to mending, and prices rea
sonable. JAMES HASLET,
GENERAL MERCHANTS,
Furniture Dealers,
AND
UNDERTAKERS.
TIONESTA, PENN
AC. DREY,
LIVERY
Feed & Sale
STABLE.
Fine Turnouts at All Times
at Reasonable Rates.
Hear of Hotel Weaver
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Telephone No. 20.
CAPITOL CONSPIRE
Vecdict of Guilty Against Four
Defendants at Harrisburg.
Fleet at Magdalena Bay Verdict on
Collinwood Fire China Yields to
Japan Thaw's Answer to His Wife's
Suit Priest's Slayer Sentenced.
Sucessful Air Ship.
The Jury in the first of the Capitol
conspiracy cases to be tried gave a
verdict of guilty as to every one of
the four men who have been on trial
at Harrisburg, Pa., for the last seven
weeks, after bIx hours deliberation.
The men found guilty are: John H.
(Sanderson, contractor; William P.
Snyder, former auditor-general; W.
L. Mathues, former state treasurer,
and James LI. Schumaker, former su
perintendent of public bvildlngs and
grounds.
The maximum penalties for each
defendant In this case Is two years
Imprisonment and $1,0VH) fine.
The four men were convicted of de
frauding the state in furnishing the
new Capitol, which cost the state
about $13,000,000 Instead of $1,000,000,
the figure at which the contract was
estimated.
The present case constituted one
of the longest jury trials In the his
tory of Pennsylvania courts and it
attracted much attention throughout
the country.
The prosecution of the alleged
frauds was the outcome of the politi
cal upheaval In Pennsylvania in 1905
which resulted in the election of Will
lam H. Berry, a Democrat, as state
treasurer In the fall of that year.
Berry threw open the books of the
state treasury and showed that the
cost of building the Capitol was more
than three times the amount of the
contract.
The case was laid before the attor
ney general and iidlclments were
found against fourteen persons.
Fleet to Return by Suez Canal.
News that the American battleship
fleet is to make a tour of the world
within two months after its arrival at
San Francljeo May 5 was flashed by
wireless telegraph to the battleships
of Admiral Evans' command at Mag
dalena bay by the government station
at Point Loma.
Admiral Evans, who will relinquish
command of the fleet during its stay
at San Francisco, and who goes on
the retired list in August, was ex
pecting some official word from Wash
ington on future movements of the
fleet, and it was to enable the depart
ment to prepare Its program that he
sent the message the night of his ar
rival off Magdalena bay that the ships
could start on any mission at a day's
notice.
The fact that but two months are
to be allowed between the arrival of
the fleet nt San Francisco and its de
parture for the Far East indicates
that no serious repairs are needed by
any of the vessels and that any stays
that may be made In drydoclts will be
exceedingly short. The time for re
pairs will bo cut down by the excur
sion of the fleet to Puget sound to
give the people of the North Pacific
coast an opportunity to see and visit
the ships which have recently occu
pied so much of the world's attention.
It Is believed by navy officers here
that the fleet will visit France, Ger
many and England instead of sailing
direct from Gibraltar to New York.
A formal invitation from Japan, It
Is said, might he compiled with during
the stay of the fleet In the Philippines
or after the completion of the fall tar
got practice.
Busy Week For Big Ships.
The American battleship fleet nt
Magdalena bay will put in a busy
week at target practice. At Pana
ma preparations have been ma'de for
n series of entertainments for the tor
pedo boat flotilla's officers during the
week. The vessels are scheduled to
leave Panama Saturday for Acapulco,
Mexico.
Verdict on Collinwood School Fire.
Coroner Burke has rendered his de
cision In the Collinwood school fire.
Conditions existing are blamed, but
no fault is charged to anyone.
The coroner says the Are was
caused by overheated pipes and the
death of the children was due to faulty
construction whereby a partition pro
jected in front of the stairway.
The coroner recommends that the
Btate legislature pass a law to make
all school buildings fireproof and that
automatic devices be put in the
buildings to further safeguard the
lives of the children. '
The fire resulting from the Ignition
of the front stairway from the over
heated pipes started in a closet under
the stairway and the partition projec
tion at the bottom of the stairway
made the children turn out of their
way In their rush for the door.
The coroner holds that the children
became panic-stricken and were
jammed In the doorway because of
the turn In the hall to get to the door.
Janitor Hirter is exonerated. The
coroner says the janitor was at his
post when the fire broke out and that
lie duly gave the alarm upon discov
ering the fire, and that ho opened tha
front and rear doors of the building.
China Yields to Japan.
A satisfactory settlement of the
Tatsu affair was announced at ToUio
on Sunday afternoon. Vhlua has con
ceded all that the Japanese demanded.
She will purchast ih arms aod am
munition on board o Tatsu a?d will
hoist the Japanese fijr ovtt the ves
sel. While the flag is bqlng hoist
ed, a Chinese warship will fire a sa
lute. There is a general feeling of re
lief In consequence of tht settlement
of the Incident.
Tried to Destroy Hit Faml'y.
Lionel Cole, itASlstan cashic. u! the
Mutual Life company's o(H at Buf
falo, is in jail. Charges murder and
larceny have bee brought against
him.
At Cole's pretty little horn in the
village of Hamburg a suburb, his
one-year-old son is dead and his wife
Is 111 abed. The evidence Is that Cole
killed his baby rt nbioro'fjrm and
tried to kill his wir aid himself.
Neighbors, ro-t.ed b. tha wife's
screams, brought a doc'or to the
house at 6 in the mornlinr. He found
the baby dead, the wlfo frantic and
Cole dopey. Cole had turned on the
gas In the house, intending, as the au
thorities think, to disguise the fact
that he had used chloroform. They
think the wife was wakened by the
chloroform and then Cole lost his
nerve or changed his mind when his
wife fought for her life. Manager
Bewley of the Mutual Life office In
Buffalo says he doesn't know how
much Cole stole. The attorney says
It is at least $5K)0.
Alia Sentenced to Death.
"Is there no appeal?" These were
the words spoken by Giuseppe Alia
when Informed by Interpreter Mat
ter that the jury at Denver had
found him guilty of murder in
the first degree and fixed sentence ot
death. Just eighteen days after firing
the shot which brought death to Fa
ther Francis Loo Heinrlchs at the al
tar in St. Eli.iibeth's Catholic church,
while in the act of administering the
holy sacrament, this wanderer from
Italy, an alleged but not proven an
archist, heard his doom. In the court
room not three blocks from the
church where he commuted his crime
and within the round of the chimes
which he said die him to that
church, Alia recehed the judgment
delivered by the Jury. The attorney
for the defense nude a motion for a
new trial and was granted five days
in which to file papers.
Successful Flight of Aerodrome.
Professor Aearder Grnham Bell's
new aerodrome, the "Red W't, was
given Its tu ft'ght over Lake Keuka
by F. W. Bsldwln, tho engineer in
charge of Its n in'reolloQ by the
Aerial Experiment association, for
Lieutenant Thorns SeliVirigo, U. S. A.
The aeiodtoniH, after gliding over
the ice on Lane Kenka for about 2vTO
feet, rose gorily to the height of about
ten feet and sailed at that elevation
for a distance of "10 feet at the rate
of from 25 to ,10 miles an hour. After
having covered this distance a portion
of the "tall' gave way and the aero
drome was brought down for repairs.
This Is declared to be the first suc
cessful public flight of a heavler-than-nlr
flying machine In America. The
flight was witnessed bv a number of
people from Hnmmondsport.
Railroad Lost In Second Trial.
A. Jury In New York city which
did not flip a coin to decide an acci
dent suit as did a previous Jury in the
same case returned a verdict of $1,
250 In favor of Thomas Dixon against
the New York City Railway company
for the death of his brother, Little,
4tfc years old. In the original trial
the jurymen after being out all night
reported to Justice Guy in the su
preme court a verdict In favor of the
railway company. Investigation re
vealed t"at one of the jurymen was
anxious to close a real estate deal,
and as all were apparently hopelessly
divided they decided to flip a coin,
heads for the defendant company, tails
for the plaintiff. Heads won. Jus
tice Guy excoriated the jurors for vio
lation of their oaths, fined each of
them $50 and ordered a new trial.
Death of William Sutherland.
William A. Sutherland, recently ap
pointed counsel to the public utilities
commission in the Second district,
died in the City hospital at Rochester
at 11 o'clock Wednesday night. Suth
erland was a former corporation coun
sel for Rochester and was active In
Republican politics and Masonry. He
had been a delegate to Btate and na
tional conventions and was once a
member of the Republican national
committee and also held the office of
grand master of Masons In New York.
He was a brother of Supreme Court
city and of Rev. Ward Sutherland,
who lives In the southern part of this
state.
Thaw's Answer to Wife's Suit.
Denying the cl.arge of insanity and
praying for dismissal of suit, Harry K.
Thaw through his counsel made
answer to Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's suit
for an annulment of their marriage.
Thaw's answer was delivered to Dan
iel O'Reilly, counsel for Mrs. Thaw,
who after receiving the papers stated
that the case would be put on the
trial calendar In the supreme court
next week. The answer of Harry
Thaw Is brief and contains only the
barest legal formalities. A. Russell
Peabody, lawyer for Thaw, declared
that the case would be thoroughly
contested by his client.
Futile Effort to Find Lost Seaman.
The cruiser Yankton has reported
to the navy department her arrival at
Acapulco. She also reported that her
expedition to Indefatigable Island to
find Jeffs, an American seaman who
was abandoned there, had been futile.
SIMM
EXECUTION
Of Alleged Political Conspira
. ' tors by President Nord.
Statement That General Antenor Fir
min, Who Is a Refugee In French
Consulate, Had Organized Through
Correspondence a New Insurrection
In Port au Prince Other Arrests.
Port au Prince, Haytl, March 17.
The Haytien government's attitude
in summarily dealing with a number
of alleged conspirators in a threatened
uprising has had the effect of causing
anxiety In the hearts of many, for it
Is not known where the next blow
may fall, or how far reaching the rev
olutionary troubles may be.
Outwardly, Port au Prince is calm,
and, following the execution on Sun
day of ten or eleven men alleged to
have been implicated in the plot. Pres
ident Nord Alexis issued a proclama
tion to the people, in which he felici
tates them upon their calm attitude
In the present trying conditions and
gives reassurances to the community,
promising that order and the security
of the government will be maintained.
The statement is made officially
that the government, having come
into possession of proofs that General
Antenor Flrmin, the leader of the
late unsuccessful revolutionary move
ment, who is now a refugee In the
French consulate at Gonalves, had or
ganized, through correspondence, a
new insurrection In Port au Prince,
decided upon the arrest of the prin
cipal conspirators.
This uprising, the statement contin
ues, had as its object the overthrow
of the government and the assassin
ation of the president and it, was dis
covered through the interception of
letters sent by General Firmin to a
number of his adherents and others
In an attempt to enlist them In the
new movement.
The conspirators -were taken by sur
prise with arms and ammunition in
their possession, and were executed
forthwith. The chief conspirator,
Masillon Colewi, before he was exe
cuted, gave the names of several mil
itary officers who, he declared, were
Implicated in the plot. These men
have been placed under arrest and
will be given a trial, it Is stated, be
fore a regular court.
AMERICAN WAR VESSEL
On Its Way From Guantanamo to Port
au Prince.
Washington, March 17. An Amer
ican war vessel, probably the gunboat
Eagle, Is on the way from Guantana
mo to Port au Prince, Hayti, where
the Haytien government Sunday sum
marily executed a number of alleged
revolutionists.
The vessel is not sent there because
of any serious apprehension on the
part of the officials here that Ameri
can Interests at Port au Prince or at
other points in Haytl are in serious
danger, but as a matter of precaution.
It Is asserted that General Flrmin, the
Haytien revolutionary leader, now a
refugee in the French consulate at
Gonaives, is at the head of another
revolutionary movement against the
constituted authorities and it is be
lieved that the shooting of the Hay
tiens at Port au Prince is the direct
result of the discovery of this fact.
It is not believed at the state de
partment that foreign interests in
Haytl are seriously menaced. The
disposition of the administration is to
keep hands off and to give the people
of Haytl an opportunity to work out
their own salvation.
Most of the revolutionary refugees
in Haytl are in the French consulate
at Gonaives, where in addition to
General Flrmin there are about seven
ty native Haytiens seeking shelter.
The Haytien government Is anxious
that these men shall be required to
quit the country, but the friends of
the refugees are opposed to sending
them away. The government believes
that If they are permitted to remain
it will not be long before they will be
engaged in another revolutionary
movement.
Ambassador Sternberg of Germany,
who has Just returned from a trip to
Cuba, was at the state department
late in the afternoon but his mission
was to seek Information of the condi
tions in Haytl so far as the state de
partment was In possession of them.
Daniel Leroy Dresser Arrested.
New York, March 17. Daniel Leroy
Dresser, who was president of the
Trust Company of the Republic, which
went Into liquidation several years
ago, was arrested on a warrant charg
ing him with misappropriation ot $1,
00. He was arraigned In court t.nd
paroled In the custody of his counsel.
Mr. Dresser was prominent In the dry
goods trade of this city and the Trust
Company of the Republic, with which
Le was connected, had a large share in
the promotion of the l'nit-?d Sui'tS
Ship Building company.
Mexican Bank Robbers Arrested.
El Paso, Tex., March 17. A tele
gram from Juan A. Creel, manager of
the Banco Mlnero of Chihuahua, Mex
ico, the local branch of that bank,
says that the robbers who recently
secured $205,000 from that bank have
been arrested and that the stolen
money has been located but not yet
recovered.
SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITS
Ware Surpassed by Withdrawals to
Amount of $31,608,897.
Albany, March 17. A general re
vision of the banking laws affecting
co-operative savings and loan asso
ciations is recommended by Superin
tendent Clark Williams cf the state
bank department in his annual report
o the legislature on building and
loan and co-operative loan associa
tions. The report says that this class
of financial Institutions passed
through the recent financial disturb
ance with a greater increase of assets
than In any other period.
In discussing national and local loan
association the report says that "It
seems almost an absurdity that these
small Institutions organized for the
same general purpose should be trans
acting business under no less than
flve different laws. There should be
a general revision of the laws relating
to such corporations in order to pro
mote uniformity and give the public
generally a better understanding of
their merits. .
"Under present conditions, such di
verse methods were pursued by differ
ent associations that even those who
are fairly familiar with the business
of a particular association have a very
slight comprehension of the methods
pursued by other associations.
"The practice of making loans upon
the divided or second mortgage plan
should be prohibited by law. A limi
tation might well be placed upon the
loaning territory of such associations,
and provision made for the rebate of
gross premiums upon the repayment
of mortgage loans before maturity.
Such associations should also be pro
hibited from treating unearned gross
premiums as a present profit for the
purpose of paying expenses and de
claring dividends. The practices,
however, which such amendments
would correct have been largely dis
continued. "Business depression, deprecia
tion In the value of securities and
other unusual conditions character
ing the year necessarily had their ef
fect upon the savings banks In com
mon with other classes of financial
Institutions. Though the aggregate
of amounts deposited had never be
fore been so large In any one year ex
cept in 1906, the withdrawals were
altogether without precedent, exceed
ing the record of any former year by
$43,000,000, and for the first time
since 1893 overtopping the deposits
received.
"This excess of withdrawals over
deposits for the year amounted to
$31,608,897 the deposits having been
$390,095,749, and the withdrawals
$421,704,646. Dividends credited pre
vented a decrease for the year In total
resources, which were $1,403,295,607,
a gain of only $344,844 since the pre
ceding January, though the amount
due depositors Increased $18,363,253
in the same period.
"The surplus of the savings banks,
based on the reported market value
of their stock and bond Investments,
decreased $18,936,989 during the year,
while the par value surplus gained $7,
80,871; In January, 1907, the market
value of the stocks and bonds held
was something like $36,000,000 under
cost, and In January, 1908, the differ
ence had increased to nearly $00,000.
000. During the year the number of
savings banks paying Interest to de
positors at the rate of 4 per cent on
at least some part of their deposits
Increased from seventy-six to ninety
seven." German Editor Sentenced For Libel.
Berlin, March 17. The notorious
Hau trial has been brought to the pub
lic attention again by the sentencing
of Herr Schmidt, editor of the Morgen
Post, to nine months' Imprisonment
on the charge of libeling Olga Moll
tor. Carl Hau was tried and found
guilty of the murder of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Molltor, and Olga Molltor
Is Han's slster-ln-law. The libel oc
curred In certain alleged Interviews
with the state's attorney and the at
torney for Hau in which Schmidt
hinted that Olga Molitor might havo
committed the crime herself, that she
had been very friendly with Hw, and
that she lived on bad terms with her
mother.
Wagner Declines $10,000 Offer.
Pittsburg, March 17. Hans Wag
ner, who has retired from baseball,
received a letter from President
Schllchter of the Philadelphia Union
League club, containing an offer of
$10,000 to play with tho team this
season. "I will not consider the of
fer ot all," Bald Wagner. "The sntn
of $10,000 from Pittsburg looks bet
ter to me than that of any one else."
Wagner says If he plays hall again It
will bo as a member of the Pittsburg
flub.
Dead Man May Be Marcus Hansen.
Binyhuniton, N. Y.. March 17. The
body of a man believed to be Marcus
(Hansen of Jamestown, N. Y., was
found on the Erie tracks at Susque
hanna, Pa., at midnight Saturday. It
Is thought he was struck by Erlo pas
senger train. In the pockets was a
mirror. bearVig the Inscription: "War
ren Cafe, 10 South Main street, James
town, Martin Hansen and Jud Han
sen proprietors."
Fireburgs Destroy Stock and Barn.
Marietta, O., March 17. A large
stock barn on the W. R. West farm,
eaBt of this city, burned early Sun
day morning. Several horses and
cows and a thousand dolars' worth of
feed were consumed. The fire was
of Incendiary origin. The loss Is $7.
000, half, covered by insurance.
SHORTER NEWS ITEMS
Pithy ParagraphsThatChronicle
the Week's Doings.
Long Dispatches From Various Parts
of the World Shorn of Their Padding
and Only Facts Given In as Few
Words as Possible For the Benefit
of the Hurried Reader.
Wednesday.
Captain Daniel J. Aiusworth, com
manding the revenue cutter Rush,
shot himself while on duty In the ca
bin of the vessel at Seattle, Wash.
Wireless dispatches were received
from the battleship fleet showing that
the vessels will arrive at Magdalena
bay on March 12, two days ahead of
schedule time.
Districi Attorney Jerome filed with
Governor Hughes his answers to the
charges on which his removal from
office Is demanded, declaring they
were "mendacious."
Thursday.
Western railroads are making ar
rangements to begin a wage cutting
program in unison.
"Night riders" renewed their raids
through Kentucky aha Tennessee,
shooting and whipping residents and
burning buildings.
Swarthmore college officials reject
ed the offer of $17,000 contained In
the will of Anna T. Jeanes, and will
retain Intercollegiate sports. ,
Great Britain's foreign office, says a
London dispatch, denies the report
that Great Britain has intervened in
favor of arbitration In the Tatsu Maru
affair.
Governor Charles E. Hughes made
three speeches In Boston, urging tem
perate treatment of the railroad regu
lation question by the people of the
country.
Friday.
Rear Admiral Evans' fleet arrived
at Magdalena bay. Lower California,
four days ahead of Its scheduled time.
Miss Sarah C. Weed shot and killed
Miss Elizabeth Hardee, her chum
and partner in a fashionable girls'
school at Boston, and then committed
suicide.
President Roosevelt sent a message
to the senate recommending a law to
permit negro soldiers discharged as a
result of the Brownsville raid to re
enlist on proof of Innocence.
Lieutenant Gherardl, sent in charge
of a naval expedition in search of
Frederick Jeffs, an American sailor,
marooned on one of the Galapagos is
lands, reported that a signal pole anl
a rusty razor were the only traces dis
covered of the missing man.
Saturday.
Brndstreet's reported a decrease of
12 per cent In the cost of living within
the last year.
President Roosevelt hopes to pla
cate both labor and financial Interests
by having congress pass amendments
to the Sherman anti-trust law.
A- dispatch from Shanghai shows
that Japan Is suffering from a finan
cial crisis, more than twenty import
ant collapses having occurred In the
last Inj-.tnight.
Representative Hohson, before a
homo Investigating committee, said a
submarine boat concern's representa
tive had offered him Influence In ex
change for support.
Testifying for the government, a
one time employe of the Standard Oil
company declared that tho company
paid for Information concerning the
shipments of Its rivals.
Monday,
British Liberal government breaks
with the Socialists and defeats tho
"right-to-work" bill.
Dr. Wiley In an address before the
Mothers' congress al Washington says
that mothers should demand pure food
for children.
Speaker Cannon's secretary denies
that the Electric Boat company's lob
by secured the appointment of Con
gressman Hohson on the naval com
mittee.
Alarmed by the apparent far reach
ing effects of the flood of excise bills
now pending In the legislature tho
brewing interests are preparing for a
vigorous opposition to the measures.
Representative I.llley's lawyers re
tired from the investigation of the
submarine scandal on the ground that
the commit lee's restrictions left them
no chance to be of service tr Mr. Lil
lcy. Tuesday.
No member of the cabinet will at
tend the Republican national conven
tion as a delegate.
Led bv two bloodhounds, residents
of Rnnison, N. J., riding In uutomo-
biles, pursued an alleged incendiary
to Seahrlght.
La Question Soelale, organ or the an
archists in raterson, N. J., published
an article I'dvocating murder and ar
son, and ollleials are Investigating.
Washington dispatches quoted Pres
ident Roosevelt as declaring Secre-
arv Taft would have ,W votes on the
first ballot in the Republican conven
tion.
Justice Blanchard in tho supremo
court In New York city ordered the
comedian Raymond Hitchcock's ac
quittal on the Indictment against him
growing out of the charges of hllen
von Hagen. a young girl.
REWARD AWAITS DETECTIVES
Pittsburg Men Who Worked on Brad
dock Case to Get $2,500.
Pittsburg, March 17. Detectives
Ted Dillon, Leff, Lally and Hanley,
who arrested John Furman, alias John
Taylor, and Joseph Haas, while, It Is
alleged, they were in the act of mak
ing counterfeit half dollars in the
rear of 558 Braddock avenue, Brad
dock, Saturday, will be handsomely
rewarded by the federal government.
Jt is said the government will pay a
reward of $2,500 for the capture of
the twenty-five sets of molds taken in
the raid.
The reward will no doubt be divid
ed between the four local detectives,
who took up the case and brought It
to a successful ending. The govern
ment gives a reward of $50 a mold for
all taken in raids on counterfeiters'
dens, and as twenty-five complete sets
of molds, fifty In all, were found, the
mount to be received by the detec
tives will he a tidy sum.
It was learned that three sticks of
dynamite were found In tho room.
The officers think the men did not
mean to he taken without a desperate
struggle, and had they been able to
use the dynamite would have attempt
ed the lives of the detectives. As it
was Furman Is said to have put up a
hard battle and is alleged to have
drawn a knife.
No additional arrests have been
made, it Is believed all the local par
ties Interested have been taken Into
custody. Detroit has recently been
flooded with botis half dollars, most
of them having been put off on elec
tric car conductors between Detroit
nnd Toledo. The coins In circulation
there were identical with those that
have annoyed local merchants and
business men for the last few weeks.
It Is now thought that local men
were shipping the coins to confeder
lites in oilier cities for circulation
there. Secret service men have been
notified to watch for the counterfeits
In Detroit and Toledo. Much of the
$50i in bad half dollars taken In the
raid were wrapped in bundle ready
to bo shipped.
PREPARING FOR CIVIL SUITS.
Brotigl-.t to Recover From Men Ac
cused of Capitol Graft.
Harrisburg, March 17. Immediate
preparation for the civil actions which
me to he brought to reco'er from the
men accused of Capitol graft some of
the moneys wrongfully taken from the
stale treasury in the furnishing con
tracts Is to he made by the attorney
general's department. There will be
fully a score of these actions, perhaps
more, as men not implicated in crim
inal actions may be made defendants.
The preparation of these suits has
been held back by the stress of mak
ing ready for the criminal actions,
which have occupied Mr. Scarlet and
the other attorneys, but now since the
state has won a victory the way is
open to proceed. Another fact which
will hasten the filing of these actions
Is that the period of limitation on
some will expire belore mid-summer.
David T. Watson, the eminent Pitts
burs lawyer, will he associated with
the attorney general and the special
counsel In these actions which are ex
peeled to result in trials destined to be
?otne as celebrated In Dauphin coun
ty's common pleas court annals as the
criminal cases growing out of the fur
nishing of the new state house.
Since the verdict of guilty against
the four men on trial for the last sev
?n weeks It Is assumed that all of the
men Indicted ami some who escaped
that fate will be sued.
Some of the civil actions based on
furniture and metallic casing con
tracts must be docketed by the last
of May owing to the six-year period
of limitations. They will bo tried
when the criminal suits are ended in
nil probability, as most of them will
be based on the transactions which
led to chaiges of conspiracy and false
pretense. The ti mo of trial Is, there
fore, uncertain, but it may be safely
said they will not go before juries
this year.
Cling to Overturned Yawl.
Freedom, P.i.. .March 17. William
J. Graham and l'cter Johnston, rlv
ernieii, employed at Dam No. 5 on
the Ohio river, went out In n yawl on
Sunday night to place a signal light
in a bear trap, and their boat, strik
ing the light-mast, was upset. Cling
ing to the overturned yawl they float
ed several hundred yards down
Btream before they were rescued by
J. Johnson, who heard their erie for
help and went out In a boat. AsldJ
from being severely chilled neither
man suffered from his experience.
Sleeper's Terrible Fall.
Marrietta.O., March 17.-Wh!le walk
ing In his sleep Albert Tbornlley, a
country boy, fell from a third-story
window of the St. Cloud hotel. He
alighted on the brick pavement and
both arms were crushed. An ankle
was broken and he was badly cet
about the face and head. In this con
dition he crawled around a block Into
tho hotel olllco and aroused the night
clerk. He Is in a hospital here with
fair chanees of recovery.
Thousand Men Co Back to Work.
Sharon March 17. Announcement
was made that the entire plant of the
Sharon Steel Hoop company would
resume onerations Tuesday morning.
T!iC open hearth, blooming mill, 8. 9
and lft-ineh billet mills will start.
Abo, t one thousand men ore ein-
V'uvcd.