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Randrli, D. W. Clark. Cbuneumen. J.W. Landers, J. T. Dale, O. it. Hobinson. Wm. Smearbaugb, J. W. Jamleson, W. J. Campbell, A. H. Kelly. CbnVa6a Charles Clark. Collector W. H. Hood. School Director! J. O. 8cowden, R. M. Herman, Q Jauiinaon, J. J. Landers, J. K. Clark, W. O. Wyman. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress N. P.Wheeler. Member of denote S. K. P. Hall. Assembly A. H. Meebling. President Judge Wtn. K. Rice. Associate Judge V. X. Kreltler, P. C. Hill. rrothonotary, Register A Recorder, . -J. C. Uelst. dheriff S. R. Maxwell. Treasurer Ueo. W. Holeman. Commissioners Wm. H. Harrison, J. M. Zuandol, II. II. McClellnn. District Attorney A. O. Brown. Jury Commissioner Ernest Sibble, Lew if Warner. Colbner Dr. 0 Y, Detar. OotdkrtV U(iior-Ueorge H. Wain, A.C regg and J. I. Kelly. Ouun Vu-veyor U. W. Ultra. Ooun son. uperintendeni O. W. Morri- esutar Term f ('r Fourth Monday of Februar Third Mondav or May. Fourth Monday or pepiemuer. Third Monday of November. eirulac Mentlns: of County Commis- onors 1st and 8d Tuesdays of month. t'kurck HtbbMb Mehl. Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:46 a. m. i M. K. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m. Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab bath evening by Rev. W. O. Calhoun. Preaching in the F. M. Churoh every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. K. L. Milk roe, Pastor. Preachrag in the Presbyterian church every Sabbalb at 11:1)0 a. ni. and 7:30 p. in. Rev. H. A. Hailey, Paetor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 'TU' N ESTA LODG E, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F. 1 M eets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEO ROE STOW POST, No. 274 O. A, R. Meets 1st Monday evening in each mouth. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 187, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month. RITCHEY A CARRINGER. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW, Tionesta, Pa. "SiOURTIS M. SHAWKEY, J ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Warren, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. AO BROWN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office In Arnor Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sta., Tionesta, Pa. 7RANK S. HUNTER, D. D. S. i1 Rooms over Citizens Nat. Bank. TIONKSTA, PA. DR. J. C. LMJNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUGGIST. Office in Dunn A Fulton drugstore. Tionesta, Pa. Profess IimibI calls promptly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residence Elm St., three doors above the store. D R. F. J. BOVARD, Physician 4 Surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. 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, hot aud cold water, etc. The comforts ol guests never neglected. CENTRAL HOUSE, J GEROW A GEROW Proprietor. Tlonseta, Pa. This is the mostceutrally located hotel In the place, and has all the modern Improvements. No pains will be spared to make it a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public First class 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 custom work from the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to ?ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten ion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. Fred. Grettenberger GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. All work pertaining to Machinery, En gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit tings and General Blacksmithiug prompt ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill Machinery given special attention, and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop In rear of aud just west of the Shaw House, Tidioute, Pa. Your patronage solioitod. ' FRED. GRETTENBERGER JAMES HASLET, GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture" Dealers, AND UNDERTAKERS. TIONESTA, PENN OFTICIA1T. Office A 7K National Bank Building, OIL CITY, PA. F.ves examined free. Exclusively optical. NINE PERSONS dhow Capsizing of Rowboat During a Family Outing. Occupants of the Boat Became Panic Stricken When It Drifted Into Swift Current and Began to Dip Water. Some Boys on Bank Heard the Cries but Could not 8ecur a Boat to Help. The Whole Party Swept Down River to Death. Six men, a woman and two children were drowned Sunday afternoon in the Susquehanna river neur Wilkes Hnrre, Pa., by the capsizing of a row bont in which they bad started for an outing. The dead are: Thomas Andrews. William Andrews, Theodore Andrews, Frank Marionosky, Adam Strukus, Frank Ounosky, his wife and two boys, John and Michael. The nine persons had started out for a boat ride in the small craft. While they remained close to the shore all went well, but as the boat drifted Into the swift current It be gan to dip water. The occupants of the boat became panic-stricken and called frantically for assistance. Some boys at play on the bank of the river heard the screams for help, but before a boat could be secured the rowboat In mid stream had filled with water and sank. None of the occupants could swim and thoy were swept down the river to their death by the rushing current. None of the bodies have been re covered. STEAMER SHORES LOST Reported to Have Cone Down on Lake Superior With All on Board. Advices received at Duluth, Minn., are to the efTect that the steamer Slimes slv Hnvs overdue at Duluth. has gone down off Whiteflsh point In I.ake superior wnn an on uoara. The crew and passengers numbered 21. Xpwh n' the nrohiihie destruction of the steamer Shores oft Whiteflsh point in Lake Sunerlor wns brought to Duluth hv sailors of the steamer North land. Thev say that as the North land was passing that point they dis covered wreckage strewn all over the lake. In their opinion It belonged to the Shores. The Adelia Shores belongs to the Manx Transit company of Cleveland and was upbound from Michigan with salt. The shin was of 1.250 tons burden and under command of Captain S. Holmes. The engineer Is R. S. Nott. The eale In which the ship is thought to have foundered last week Bent down the Auranla, the Russia and the Nes tor. The wind then gained a velocity of 70 miles an hour. A violent snow storm also prevailed for three days. making navigation extremely peril ous. $22,500,000 IN BETTERMENTS To Be Expended by New York Central Lines and Pennsylvania. The New York Central lines and the Pennsylvania system have authorized improvements on their roads between New York and Chicago that will mean a total expenditure of 122,500.000, ac cording to the Cleveland Leader. The Lake Shore and New York Cen tral lines will spend $llr00,000 on Im provements at once. Of this $5,500, 000 will be spent on the Lake Shore. The Improvements will consist of ex tension of the lines' third and fourth track systems at various points be tween Chicago and Buffalo. The new track will total about sixty miles. New freight and passenger equipment will also be purchased. BREAKING UP OF COMMUNES Duma Passes Bill to Facilitate Indi vidual Ownership. The dunia at St. Petersburg has passed the third reading of the agrarian bill, which dissolves com munal Institutions and will facilitate the transfer by peasants of property to Individual ownership. The vice minister of the interior announced that up to January 1, 1,300,000 peas ants had declared their intention of withdrawing from the communes and that of these 600.000 a'--ady had ob tained title deads to Individual hold ings. Alleged to Be a Witch. Alleged by her accuser to be a -Itch, Mrs. Laupale Orber was tried at Butler, Pa., on a technical charge of disorderly conduct, convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and serve ten days in Jail. Mrs. Julia Kroner al leged that Mrs. Orber went Into Mrs. Kroner's barn aud by use of witchcraft cast a spell over a cow which has pre vented it from giving milk. Two Students Killed by Lightning. James Merrigold of Woodstock Ont., was almost instantly killed and Edgar Knight of Burk's Falls was fatally Injured when lightning struck r tree on Woodstock college campus under which the two who were stu dents had taken refuge. Thirty other students had lust left the shelter when the crash caine. STATUE OF LONGFELLOW President Taft Participated In the Un veiling at Washington. After years of effort by admirers of the poet Longfellow to honor his mem ory fittingly In the capital of the country which ' he loved a statue of the famous writer was unveiled and dedicated In Washington on Friday. The statue stands in the little public reservation at the corner of Connecti cut avenue and M street. President Taft participated In the dedication exercises, over which Chief Justlve Fuller, who Is president of the Longfellow National Memorial associ ation, presided. Other speakers were General A. W. Greely, Hamilton Wright Mnhle and Bralnard H. War ner. Several members of the Long fellow family attended the ceremony, and music was furnished by the Ma rine band. The Btatue Is the result of twelve years of work by the association. The sculptor,. William Couper, has repre sented the poet seated, with his right hand raised to his head. His left hand, drooping at his side, holds a book, and there Is another book under the left arm. The figure is clad In academic robes. The cost of the mon ument was $25,000, made up mainly of snial contributions by admirers of the poet and his work. Congress appro printed $4,000 for a pedestal for the monument and authorized its location In a public f ,:mre of the capital. CREW OF MISSING WHALER Reported to Have Been Discovered In Venezuelan Prison. The attention of the state depart ment has been called to the report of the discovery of the crew of the whaling schooner Carrie D. Knowles of Provincetown, Mass., In a pris on In Venezuela through a set of reso lutions adopted by the local board of trade as soon as the members had read the dispatches which reached Prov incetown at noon Thursday. The board met at the request of Mrs. H. A. Martin, wife or widow of the first mate of the Knowles and mother of one of the members of the crew. Mrs. Martin was seconded In her efforts by Mrs. George O. Knowles, who succeeded to the ownership of the vessel on the death of her hus band. Resolutions which were drawn up were immediately dispatched In the afternoon to the state department and a copy sent to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. CRISIS IN FRANCE John Blgelow Says Present Labor Troubles Create Perilous Situation. John Bigelow, the veteran author and diplomat, who represent the Unit ed States in France during the civil war, was a passenger from Havre or. the steamer La Provence, returning from a visit to the scenes of his foi mer triumphs. Mr. Bigelow, who Is now 52 years old, said that he regarded the present labor troubles In France as ono of the most perilous situations which that country has faced In modern times. "The leniency which wns shown the strikers in the settlement of the postal diiTlculties," he said, "will always be a source of regret to the far-seeing Frenchman. The government's weak position at that time has incited the workers In all the other departments to push outrageous demands, and the whole battle, which might have been fought and won at the time of the pos tal strike, must be gone over again," MISSISSIPPI NEWORLEANS After May 12 Will Go Up the River to Horn Island. The big battleship Mississippi, which has been brought from the naval station at Guantannmo, Cuba, to receive a sliver service from the people of the state of Mississippi, crossed the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi, entered South Pass and came up the river to New Orleans without mishap of any kind. The Mississippi will remain In New Orleans until May 12, when she will start up the river, making stops at Donaldsonville, Plaqumine, Baton Rouge, Bayou Sara and Natchez. La ter she will go to Horn Island for the sl'ver service. , JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE Coroner's Jury Acquits Woman Who Killed a Prowler. The coroner's verdict at Cincinnati, returned In the case of Mrs. Eliza beth Forsythe, who shot and kill ed Louis D. Plowman, a printer of Canton, O., while he was prowling rbout her window, says the testimony shows Mrs. Forsythe was Justified In firing the first shot (which was the Immediate cause of death), and that she followed Plowman on the street and fired the ser-ond shot while great ly excited, the second shot not being necessarily fatal. GOLD FINN'S ANNIVERSARY Fifty Years Ago Mining Began In the Rocky Mountains. Idaho Springs, Col., celebrated Fri day with speeches and meetings the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of gold in the Rocky mountains. On May 7, 1859, a -.nlning company headed by George V. Jackson, the discoverer of the precious metal at Jackson's bar, within the present city limits, began placer mining upon the first paying deposits of gold evei opened In the Rocky mountains. BOYLES AR Man For Life Sentence, Woman For Twenty-Five Years. Woman Said to Have Taken Poison Sunday Night and to Have Narrow ly Escaped Death Razor Found Concealed In Boyle's Necktie Story of Boyle Implicating Harry Forker In AbdiMion Not Generally Credit ed In Mercer and Sharon. Pittsburg, Mey 11. James Boyle and his wife, Helen Boyle, were lodged la the Western penitentiary here last night shortly before 8 o'clock, the for mer under a sentence of life-Imprisonment, the latter sentenced to serve a term of ?!i years. The prisoners were taken first to a side room and told they would have to say good bye, as the rules of the prison would not permit them to see each other again. Mrs. Boyle threw her arms around JImmle's neck and kissed him. She said "We must take it the best we can." The prisoners then shook hands and the matron escorted Mrs. Boyle from (he room. When Bhe reached the cor ridor she hurst into tears and asked to be permitted once again to see her husband. The request was granted mid she tgaln kissed and embraced Boyle. The man maintained silence. When Mrs. Boyle gave her belong ings to the matron, she asked permis sion to keep a small mirror she car ried, saying "I do not want to leave It behind as that would make me have seven years of bad luck." The mirror was returned to her and she will be allowed to keep it In her cell. During the trip here from Mercer, where they left late In the afternoon, the kidnapers spent most of the time In quiet conversation together. They discussed the sentence which they al lege was unjust and asked what steps they would have to take to get a re view of the case, and how to see an attorney. Mrs. Boyle tried to cheer "Jimmie" and wanted to know if he would be permitted to smoke at the penitentiary. When asked how she felt, Mrs. Boyle said. "Pretty bad." On arriving In Pittsburg she remarked: "Mercer will sleep quieter tonight sleepy old Mer cer, since we are out of It." Sheriff Chase said he was glad to get the prisoners out of his custody as he was afraid they would be suc cessful in their announced Intention to commit suicide. The Bherlff stated he believed Boyle had intended to kill his wife and then commit suicide with the razor the sheriff found In the kid naper's tie yesterday. Neither of the prisoners would deny that this was true. Sensation? followed each other thick and fast. The severity of the sentence appalled Mercer, where it was pro nounced, and surprised many else where. Then came, the sensational scene In the courtroom, when both prisoners collapsed and had to be car ried from the room. Hardly had they reached their cells when the word was given out that the woman had taken poison during Sunday night and had narrowly escaped death at her own hand, and that a razor had been found concealed in Boyle's clothing. Before this thrill had lost its force, Boyle gave out his statement Implicat ing Harry Forker, brother of Mrs. Whltla, In the kidnaping case. In Mercer and Shut on the story does not seem to be generally credited, and as the assistant district attorney has no faith in It, there Is little likelihood of any formal action In the matter. MAY YOHE WEDS ONCE MORE Former Lady Hope Said to Be Bride of Canadian Lumberman. Portland, Ore.. May 11. May Yohe, actress, formerly Lady Francis Hope, and later Mrs. Putnam Bradlee Strong, whose matrimonial adventures have attracted wide attention, is In the lime light again. This time Bhe figures as the principal In a secret wedding with a Canadian lumberman, said to be named Murphy. This latest marriage might r.ot have become known had it not been for the birth of a son. which has been adopt ed by a local druggist, Edward R. Thompson. Miss Yohe came Into prominence In London music halls. She married Ixird Francis Hope, but soon went to the Orient, where she met Major Strong, son of a former mayor of New York. Their Affairs became an inter national sensation. Strong was forced tit of the army and after Lady Hope had secured a divorce they were mar ried. Will Hear Jerome May 26. New York, May 11. Wednesday evening, May 2fi, has been selected by the People's Institute as the time for William Travers Jerome, district at torney of New York, to come forward at Cooper Union to give an "aceount of his stewardship." That Is, to an swer any questions that may be sub mitted concerning the conduct of his office. Mr. Jerome, who proposed the plan himself several days ago, has agreed to the date. Death of Mrs. Dalzell. Washington, May 11. Mrs. Mary L. Dalzell, wif .. of Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania, died In this city last night, after a long Illness. YOUTH ENDS LIFE Boy Hangs Himself to Tree; Little Brother Find Body. Washington, Pa., May 11. "There's a man standing under a tree out there, looking straight up, and he doesn't move a bit!" excitedly announced two little sons of Mr. and Mrs. William Orum to their mother at 6 o'clock Sun day morning, running into the house, near Ten-Mile, after starting to get the cows from pasture. Investigation revealed that Robert Orum, an 1S-yenr-old son, had hanged himself from a limb of a maple tree 200 yards from his home. The boy, who weighed more than 200 pounds, had taken a cow halter, climbed the tree, fastened one end of the halter to a limb and thn other about his neck, and dropped. His neck was not broken and death resulted from strangulation. The motive for the suicide is not (leflnitely known. A week ago the bey was severely rebuked by his fa ther for whipping a horse while the two were working In a hay field. A quarrel followed and the boy, leaving the field, did not return to his home. His parents were ignorant as to his whereabouts during the week, but it Ib snld he had been staying at the home of an aunt near Ten-mile. Saturday night Orum called at Miss Loar's home, leaving there at 10 o'clock. He gave no hint of his plans. Later he was seen by several resi dents of the village from whom he tried to borrow money. It is now be lieved he intended to buy a revolver. Failing in this he resorted to the cow halter, which he took from his father's bnrn. CAN'T FIND BODY OF EMMA PROCH Dynamiting of Creek and Search by 200 Men Proves Fruitless. Latrobe, Pa., May 11. Search for the body of Emma Proch, who mys teriously disappeared from her home on Friday evening, April 30, was re sumed yesterday morning. When the body of 5-year-old Alvin Proch, who disappeared with his slHter was re covered from Loyalhanna creek Thurs day it was supposed the girl's body would be found near. With this Idea over 200 men began work in the creek at the Proch farm. Fifty sticks of dynamite were ex ploded at various places where it was thought the body might have lodged. No trace of the body was found, and the search was nhandoned after the father returned home, declaring he was satisfied his child either was not In the creek or had been carried by the current miles down stream. In the midst of the search a terri fic thunderstorm added to the discom fort of the workers. The Pittsburg and Independent breweries furnished wagons nnd men and hauled the drags, poles, axes and hooks used. Farmers served luncheon for the searchers at noon, Including coifee, sandwiches, pie and cako. WOMEN ATTACK MOTORISTS Car Crashes Through Pittsburg's Sun day Afternoon Crowd. Pittsburg, Mny 11. William G. Wolfe, a representative of the Gotham Knitting Mills company, 414 Broad way, New oYrk, and August WIssell, 47S Washington avenue, New York, were seriously Injured when the speed ing automobile In which they were riding skidded on the wet pavement of Fifth avenue and dashed into the Sunday attenoon paraders on Pitts burg's most popular thoroughfare. Not realizing that the men were badly Injured the infuriated men and women whose clothing had been ruin ed attacked the unconscious men, and might have done them serious Injury had not the police appeared and pro tected the New Yorkers. Miner Shoots Mine Boss. Washington, Pa., May 11. Angered because he was discharged Inst week, Tony Baretto, a miner at Arden, Is alleged to have shot a mine boss known as Little Domlnlek. The bul let struck Domlnlek In the breast, Just missing the heart. He may live. Har etto escaped. Meeting Domlnlek in the street at Arden, Bnretto Is said to have fird at him point blank. Two Men Caught on Tracks. P'ttshurg, May 11. IWilllam B. Cree of Irwin and William Cawley of Boston, .Mass., are at the Allegheny General hospital suffering with cuts and bruls r.. sustained near East Pitts burg by being struck by a Pennsyl vania railroad train. They were walking on the tracks. Jumps Off Car Backward; May Die. Rochester, Pa., May 11. Phillip Hersct, 35 years old, of Anibrldge, near here, jumped off a Beaver Trac tion car backward near his home nnd sustained concussion of the brain. It Is thought his injuries will prove fatal. Imprisoned Miners Released. Potisville. 1'n., May 11. Imprisoned by a fall of top rock for 36 hours, Thomas Puscavage and John Master, minora at the Morea colliery, were rescued uninjured. THE HEMMMMY Short Items From Various Part3 of the World. Record of Many Happenings Condensed and Put In 8mall Space and Ar ranged With Special Regard For the Convenience of the Reader Who Han Little Time to Spare. Wednesday. Coal carrying roads practically won a victory In the supreme court's rul ing on the famous "commodity clause" of the Hepburn act. A reduction of five cents a barrel was announced by the Standard Oil company in the price of crude oil, ex cept Ragland, which is unchanged. Cnrnegle hero fund commission an nounces at Pittsburg the awarding of twenty-three medals and cash prizes for those found doers of brave deeds. Secretary Knox announced the se lection of W. W. Rockhill as ambas sador to St. Petersburg and of Oscar S. Straus as ambassador to Turkey. Captain Carlisle Graham aged 58, who accomplished world-wide fame by making the perilous trip through the Niagara rapids five times, Is dead at Detroit from a cold. Thursday. Trial is about to begin In Richmond, Va., of the suit of Virginia against West Virginia to recover for an ante war time debt. May wheat advanced to 1.2914. a new high record price, shortly after the opening of business on the Chicago board of trade. Premier Clemonceau prepares to test the power f the French government to put dow i the "syndicalist" move ment among state employes. Professor Frank H. Brown, 40 years old, principal of the East Syracuse (N. Y.) high school, dropped dead In his office Ht the hlch school. Mr. Roosevelt now holds the record for lion killing in the protectorate. Since Saturday cf last, week a total of five Hons and one lioness has been bagged by him. Diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela were formally re-establisihed when Presi dent Taft roceived Dr. Pedro E. Rojas, the new Venezuelan minister. Friday. Senator Dolllvar, In continuing his speech on the tariff bill, made spirited attacks on Mr. Aldrleh nnd Mr. Lodge. Fire destroyed a portion of the Wehrle stove works at Newark, O., the largest In the world. The loss Is es timated at $2511,000. That an Invitation has been extended for the aeroplane Silver Dart to com pete In England was reported in a dispatch from Boddeck, N. S. General Garcia Velez, Cuban minis ter, said In a letter to Representative Helm that the Cuban people do not de sire annexation to any country. Saturday. The Sultan of Turkey has command ed that public hangings at Constantin ople cease. Senator Newlands suggested that Insurgent senators combine with Dem ocrats in the framing of a tariff bill. Representative Murphy of Missouri announced I hat he would Institute for mal Impeachment proceedings against Judges McPherson nnd Phillips. Oral bets are not Illegnl, according to a decision handed down by the appel late division of the supreme court In New York. Evelyn Neshlt Thaw did not go to Ludlow street jail. Instead she paid the line of ?25i), Imposed upon her by Justice McAvoy for contempt In fail ure to appear in supplementary pro ceedings. Monday. Government report showed a de crease of 38,000,000 bushels in esti mated crop of winter wheat. A British commit'ee of Inquiry into the condition of the fleet Is debating whether Dreadnoughts or a smaller type of warship is preferable. William Loeb. Jr., collector or the jMirt of New York, announced he would dismiss from the customs service all men found to be lazy or incompetent. Seven former employes of tho sugar trust, were Indicted for conspiracy In the sugar fraud cases and were aban doned by the trust to defend them selves. Tuesday. Mrs. Augusta Evans-Wilson, tho Southern authoress, died at her home In Mobile, Ala., aged 74. Professor II. H. Clayton announced In Boston that he would attempt to cross the Atlantic in a balloon. E. A. Salisbury Is In New York to confer with E. II. llarrlmnn on the financing of a Mexican railroad to con nect with the Southern Pacific. ' Secretary Meyer asked figures from navyyards to determine the exact cost of engineering repairs made neces sary by the world cruise of the fleet. Conditions are favorable for the French government in Its dispute with the postal employes and the threaten ed strike may not be called at once, say pails advices. George T. Earls, aged A3 years, Is dead on land at Bridgeport. I'a., pat ented In 17S.-I by his grandfather, who was afterward killi'il by Indians on th',- banks of the Ohio. George T Fails voted for IS pruMlduuts. COMMITTEE UPHELD 8enate Refused to Adopt Lower Duty on Pig Lead Passed by House. Washington, May 11. Tho ability of the Republican majority of the Ben ate to uphold the recommendation of the committee on finance on the lead schedule, which contains the Dlngley rates In the tariff bill In the place of the lower duties fixed by the house of representatives, was fully demonstrat ed when, by a vote of 33 to 44, tl?e sen ate declined to reduce by one-quarter of a cent a pound the duty on pig lead as recommended by the committee on finance. In this vote eleven Republi cans vottd with the Democrats and two Democrats with the Republicans. By a viva voce vote the senate adopt ed the rate of 2 cents a pound on pig lead as recommended by the com mittee. At the conclusion of the session Chairman Aldrleh stated that he re garded the vote as an endorsement of the action of the commltee and he ex pressed confidence that all the sched ties of the committee would be up held. COUNTERFEITING PLANT FOUND Two Alleged Silver Prospectors Arrested After Struggle. Lntchford, New Ontario, May 11. A complete counterfeiting plant was found on Saturday in the tent of Ade lnrd Dion and Thomas Gascon, alleged silver prospectors from Montreal, who were camped on Bay lake. The men were arrested after a desperate strug gle. Only a small quantiay of spurious coin was discovered, but when the con stables arrived one of the crulciblea was standing on the camp fire. The attempt of one of the men to pass a bogus fifty-cent piece in a Latchford sture led to the discovery of the plant. FRANCO-AMERICAN WEDDING New York Society Woman Becomee Bride of French Nobleman. New York, May 11. The wedding of Mrs. Robert T. P. Fiske, who has bean prominent socially la this city, to Count Lionel do Montesquiou-Fezensac of Paris was celebrated today In the Roman Catholic church of St. Peter at New Brighton, Staten Island. Count Lionel Is a member of one of the most ancient houses of the old French aristocracy. He is a cousin of Count Robert de Montesn.uiou-Fenzen-snc, who lectured in America several years ago. His bride is a sister of H. Wlsner Miller and of George Clin ton Miller. Her first husband died about five ye.trs ago, and she has two young children. Torpedo Boats For Lake Champlain. Washington, May 10. Torpedo boats to the number of half a dozen or more will be sent by the navy da pal tment to Lake Champlain to par ticipate in the tercentenary celebra tion, which begins on July 5. So far the Manly and the Stllletto, torpedo boats, are the only vessels positively selected for the trip. The size of the vessels ordered to tiie lake is limited by tho capacity of the locks on the canal route. MARKET REPORT New York Provision Market. New York, May 10. WHEAT Vu. 2 red, $1.45 f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, J1.32V4. CORN No. 2 corn, 80c f. o. b. afloat; :c elevator. OATS Mlx.-d oals, 26 to 32 lbs., Cmilill'ic; clipped white, 34 to 43 lbs., OV4IHS7C. PORK Mess, $18.r.0(fj 19.00; family, $10.00fi 20.00. HAY Good to choice, 85 90c. Ul'TTICR Creamery specials, 27 27Mic; extra, I.'li'ic; process, 1 7 ( 2,;w.c; western factory, 20c. EGGS State and Pennsrlvanini 23 '4c CHEESE State, full cream, fancy, l.'!13M,c PtlCATOES Maine, per 180 lbs., $3.0-lstato' $2.7511 3.00. 3 Buffalo Provision Market. ltuffalo, May 10. WHEAT No. 1 northern, carloads, $1.28 ; No. 2 red, no offerings. CORN No. 2 yellow, 79V4c f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 yellow, 79c. OATS-No. 2 white, tilfi fit tyc f. o. b. allo;at No. 3 white, KOfff (i0',c. FI.OW'll Fancy blended patent, per bbl., ,'7.007.75; winter family, patent. $f..!i(Kf 7.25. BUTTER Creamery prints, fancy. 30c; state and Pennsylvania creamery, 28fi 28V4c; dairy, choice to fancy, 2rt Ca 27c. EGGS Selected white. 23c. CHEESE Choice to fancy, full cream, I ." Vj i Hie; fair to good, 140150. POTATOES White fancy, per bu., 95c; fair to good, 901 92c. East Buffalo LJve Stock Market. CATTLE--Prlineixpoit steers, $6.63 (ft fi. 7." ; good to choice butcher steers, ?5.r)iir t;.2.-,; choice cows, $5.00C;i 5.2."; choice heifers', $.V0 IHi.00; common to fair beif"rs. $4.2511 5.2."i: common to fair bulls. $3. 25 7i '4.25; choice veals, ?7.r.Mi 7.75; fair to good, $7.007.25. SHEEP AND LAMMS Choice dipped lambs. $S.00f 8.15; yearlings. ?ii.f(l'ii 7.i"i; mixed sheep. $5.5(l'o li.WO. 1H KiS- l.igh: Yorkers, $7.25 'i 7.35: imdiiim and heavy hogs, $7.blil 7.C5 ; pic;s, t6MK" 7.00.