AN. . uoiiahed every Wednesday by J. C. WCNK. Offloe in Bmearbangh k Wenk Building, BLM STREET, TIOHMTA, PA.. Term I.OO A Ymt, gtrlolly la Unm, Entered as second-class matter at the pont-olllce at Tlonesta. No subscription received for a shorter period than three months. Correspondence solicited, but no notioe will bo taken of anonymous communica tions. Always give your name. RATES OF ADVERTISING! One Square, one Inch, ooeweek... 1 00 One Square, one inch, one month- 3 00 One Square, one inch, 3 months...- 6 00 One Square, one inch, one year .... 10 M Two Squares, one year................. 15 00 Quarter Column, one year 30 00 Half Column, one year. 60 00 One Column, one year .. 100 00 Legal advertisements ten cents per line each insertion. We do fine Job Printing of every de scription at reasonable rates, but it's cash on delivery. Forest Refuel VOL. XLII. NO. 11. TIONETSA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1909. $1.00 PER ANNUM. ican. BOROUGH OFFICERS. Burgess. J. D. VV. Reck. Justices of the Peace C. A. Randall, D. W. Clark. Oouneumen. J.W, Landers, J. T. Dale, O. 1). Kobinson, Wm, Smearbaugb, J. W. Jsmieson, W. J. Campbell, A. 11. Kelly. Constable ChsrlM Clark. Collector W. U. Hood. Svhool Directors J. O. Soowden, It. M. Itftrtnsn, Q. Jainieaon, J. J. Landers, J. R. Clark, V. G. Wymsn. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress N. P. Wheeler. Member of Senate J. It. P. Hall. Assembly K. 11. M editing. President Judge Vim. E. Klce. Assoetate Judges F. X. Kreitler, P. C. Hill. Prothonotary, Register t Recorder, de. -J. C. Gelst. Sheriff-H. It. Maxwell. Treasurer Geo. W. Holenian. Commissioners Wm. H. Harrison, J. M. Xuendel, II. H. McClflllan. District Attorney A. C. Brown. Jury Commissioners Ernest Hibble, Lewis Wagner. (Kroner Dr. 0 Y.Detar. County Auditors George H. Warden, A. O. Uregg and J. P. Kelly. . County Surveyor D. W. Clark. County Superintendent D. W. Morri son. ltr(nlr Term mt Cmh. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. r ourm Monuay oi oepieuiuor. Third Monday of November. 'Regular Meetings of County Commis sioners 1st and 8d Tuesdays of montn. (jhnrcfc ana Hakbalh 8ehl. .Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a. m. t M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. in. 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. E. L. Monroe, Pastor. Preaching in the Presbyterian church everv Sabbath at 11:00 a. in. and 7:30 p. in. Rev. H. A. Bailey, Pa-lor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the seoond and fourth Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TM' N ESTA LODGE, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F. 1 Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274 O. A. R. Meets 1st Monday evening in each month. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, moets first and third Weduesday evening of each month. RITCHEY A CARRINGER. ATTORN E YS-AT-LA W, Tlonesta, Pa. CURTIS M. HIlAWRKIi ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Warren, Pa. Practioe in Forest Co. A' 0 BROWN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Office In Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sts., Tlonesta, Pa. FRANK S. HUNTER, D. D. 8. Rooms over Citizens Nat. Rank. HON ESTA, PA. DR. J. C. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUGGIST. Office in Dunn fc Fulton drug store. Tlonesta, Pa. Profess ional calls promptly responded to at all hoflrs'of day or night. Residence Elm St., three doors above the store. D R. F. J: BOVARD, tr hystoian a 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 Improvements. Heated and lighted throughout with natural gas, bathrooms, hot and oold water, etc. The comforts of guests never neglected. guests net c4s RAL HOUSE, HRRrtW (4KROW Proprietor. Tionseta, Par This is the most cenjxaliy located hotel in the place, and J the modern improvement. No paWwill be spared to make it a pleasant stepping place Tor 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-froin the finest to the coarsest and guarantiees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tionivento mending, and prices rea sonable. Fred. Grottonborger . GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. AlTwork pertaining to Machinery, En gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit tings and General Blacksmithlng prompt ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill Machinery given special attention, and satisfaction guaranteed. 8hop In rear of andjust west of the bhaw House, Tidioute, Pa. Your patronage solicited. FRED. GRETTENBERGER JAMES HASLET, GENERAL MERCHANTS, Furniture Dealers, -AND UNDERTAKERS. ' , TIONESTA, PENN S OPTIOIAIT. Office ) A 7K National Bank Building, OIL CITY, PA. Eyesexamined free. Exclusively optical. BANDITS STEAL MAIL Ran Detached Locomotive and Mail Car Down the Track. After Looting Registered Mall They Re versed the Engine and 8ent It and Mail Car Crashing BacK Into the Passenger Coaches Twelve Per sons In Sleeping Cars Were Injured Amount Stolen Said to Be Large. Following the hold-up of a Great Northern passenger train by six bandits between Colbert and Mead, Washington, twelve iiersons were ln Jured when the locomotive and the mail car. cut off from the rest of the train, ran back wild after the bah dlts had rifled the malls of an un known amount, and collided with the rest 'of the train, which had been left standing there where the bandits got possession of it. Having taken the detached mall car down the track a considerable dis tance, the robbers looted the regie tered mail and, reversing the engine, sent the locomotive and the mnil car crashing back into the passenger couches. The conductor saw tne wild cars backing down the track and he and another trainman placed a tie on the track to arrest their flight, but the cars, though partly stopped by this means, plunged Into the coaches, throwing passengers from their seats, rutting them with glnss from broken windows. A trainman, nerved to the tusk, sprung aboard the locomotive as the collision occurred and shut off the steam, stopping the havoc. While It Is reported that the bandits obtained a larg sum of money from the registered mall, the amounts be ing placed at $20,000, railroad officers and mall Inspectors say the amount Btolen Is not known One of the ban dits who entered the cab was more than six feet tall and evidently was an experienced engineer. T. N. Wilson and wife of Spokane were the most seriously injured of the passengers. He suffered a fracture of two ribs and Mrs. Wilson waB severely bruised. : FIVE PERSONS DROWNED Boat With Party of Eight Capsized In Hackensack River. Five persons, four girls and a young man, members of a party of eight, were drowned Friday night at Hack ensack, N. J., when a boat in which they were attempting to cross the Hackensack river, during a storm, capsized. The remaining three swam to the Bhore. Those drowned were: Catherine Huffman, 20 years old; .Mary Sachs, 17 years old; Lizzie Sinaneckl, IS years old; Mary Moranzi, 15 years old, and Peter Hollowlnskl, 19 years old. The victims were on their way home from work at a paper mill on the river bank. All eight were crowd ed into a small boat. The craft was struck by a sudden gust of wind. The Kills became. frightened and stood up, thus overturning the boat. Brother and Sister Drown. While canoeing In the Genesee riv er at Genesee Valley park In Roch ester Sunday afternoon, J. Louis Minges, 28 years old, and his sister, Carrie Minges, 30 years old, were drowned by the capsizing of their ca noe. Two men in a gasoline launch tried to rescue them but failed. The bodies have not yet been recovered. The young man was employed in the local postofTtce. The water of the river Is deep where tho accident occurred and the current swift and the wind was high, but not withstanding these conditions the young man had a sail in his canoe. ALENIATION OF AFFECTIONS Suit Begun Against Emma Eames by Baritone's Wife. Suit has been begun at Philadel phia against Mme. Emma Eames, who Is charged with alienating the affec tions of Emilo de Gogorga, a baritone In her company. The complainant Is Elsa de Gogorga of New York, the baritone's wife. The prima donna was served at the hotel where she Is stop ping prior to lier departure for Europe. No statement has been filed and George Graham, .Mrs. de Gogorga's attorney, declined to discuss the case. Brandenburg Locked Up. Broughtnn Brandenburg, the maga zine writer, whose troubles followed publication of a letter in the New York Times last fail purporting to have been written by the late Grover Cleveland, Is a prisoner in New York. He was locked up at police headquarters after being brought from San Francisco by two detectives who were Bent from the district attorney's office here to tho coast after Brandenburg's arrest some weeks ago, following his disappear ance from this city when he was want ed for trial. River Pirates Sentenced. At Ogdensburg, N. Y., two brothers, James and Frank Peterson, alleged members of a gang of river pirates who for a long time have occupied the attention of the police on both sides of the boundary, robbing St. Lawrence summer homes on tha American side cf the river and escaping to Canada with the plunder, weia sentenced to serve live years at Kingston, OoL METROPOLITAN HANDICAP fas Won by King James Betting of a Sort Was Tolerated. Amid the rousing cheers of 10,000 persons King James, carrying 125 pounds and favorite in the betting, easily won tho Metropolitan handicap at Belmont Park, N. Y. Fayette was second with Juggler third. There was considerable rough riding In this race In which a number were thrown out of the running. Nimbus went to the front at the start, followed by Don Creole and King James. At the far turn King James went to tho front and from there to the finish It was no contest, the favorite winning easily by six lengths. Betting of a sort was tolerated. The new form, however, is a sad travesty of the practice flourishing In the days of the Percy-Cray law. The layers stood on the concourse In front of the grandstand and In whispers and by nods accepted wagers and gave odds. If the would be bettor was known to tho ln.ver his bet was accepted with a muttered "you're on." No money vas passed the layer trusted the bettor to search him out after the race and pay him the amount of his wager If he lost, and the better on his part trusted the "bookmaker" to look him up in the same fashion and give him his winnings If he won. Some of the layers settled outside the grounds after the last race and others on the trains coming back, but most of them put off settling up time until morning at appointed quarters in town. BILLS SAID TO BE PADDED Blank Book Manufacturers Arrested on Charges of Grand and Petit Larceny. Alfred J. Purvis and his son George were arrested at Utlca, N. Y, on charges of grand and petit larceny irspectlvely. The accused men conduct a blank book manufac tory and stationery store and have been furnishing supplies to the board of supervisors for years. It is charged that after their book keeper had made out the county bills, the father and son would take the bills and udd various items, Increase the price of ether Items or the amounts charged and then give the bills back to tho bookkeeper for re copying. In this manner the bills were padded, it Is alleged, many thousands of dollars. Documentary evidence has been Be- cured in the shape of original bills which the bookkeeper had retained, al though In instances Purvis had writ ten across the face of the bill direc tions that it be destroyed. The alterations and additions arc all made In the handwriting of Purvis or his son. Purvis was placed under $fi,000 bail and his son under $3,000 bail for appearance for examination on the 19th. 25 CENTS TON ON IRON ORE Senate Adopted Recommendation ot Finance Committee, 61 to 24. The senate adopted by 61 to 24 the recommendation of the finance com mittee for a duty of 25 cents per ton on Iron ore. The house had til.icod that article on the free list, while thfl present law levies a duty on it of 40 cents per ton. In taking this vote party lines were annihilated, as 17 Democrats voted "aye" with the Re publicans and 12 Republicans ' voted "no" with the Democrats. Senator Bailey In announcing that he purposed to vote for the duty on Iron ore as a revenue measure, do dared that such action- did not affect the prosperity of the United States Steel corporation, and added that even If It did there was a better way , to deal with that organization by an' en forcement of the anti-trust law against it. For the first time there was a sug gestion looking to the fixing of a day for a vote, but It came to naught be cause of objection from Senator Bever ldge. 101 YEARS OLD Real Daughter of American Revolu tion Celebrated the Anniversary. At her home in Clayton In North ern New York Mrs. Susan Hurd Cook, aged 101, the oldest real Daugh ter of the American Revolution, cele brated the anniversary with a large gathering of "D. A. R.'s" from the numerous chapters In Northern New York. A delegation from the Leray tte Chaumont chapter of Watertown presented a bouquet of 101 carnations to the aged woman. John H. Sanderson Dead. John H. Sandorson of Philadelphia, ihe contractor who was Indicted in connection with the frauds alleged to have been committed in building and furnishing the new Capitol at Harris burg, died at Sherry's In New York Thursday night. Brlght's disease was the ouse. Mr. Sanderson had been ill at the hotel for many weeks. His friends claim that worry over the trouble Btirrcd up by his Capitol contracts undoubtedly led to his fatal 111 less. 307 American Houses In Messina. Messina, Sicily, May 18. A total of 307 American houses have been erect ed here for the use of the earthquake survivors. The first buby to be born In any of these houses saw the light yesterday. It was named Theodore after Theodore Roosevelt. ARREST PROFESSORS Charged With Preparing Papers For Students. investigation Conducted by State Ed ucational Department Disclosed Frauds In Procuring of Entrance Certificates For Study of Profes sions One Professional Imperson ator 8aid to Have Earned $4,000 In Securing Certificates. Albany, .May 18. Following a hear ing before Dr. A. S. Draper, state com missioner ot education, In the case of a student who had completed his sec ond year in one of the New York dent al colleges and who Is suspected of having obtained his entrance certifi cate fraudulently, it was announced that the state department had certain similar enses under consideration which aro likely to result In the arrest of those responsible for the -sale of fraudulent certificates. It. was stated also that several young men who were suspected of having secured similar certificates un der the same circumstances would probably have their certificates re voked, resulting In the loss of several yer.rs of study and all the expense and time In the securing of an education for the profession which they cannot practice under the laws of the state. According to a statement given out by the education department, regents' examinations have been passed by means of Impersonators, who, taking advantage of tho large number exam ined In the Grard Central palace, New York, hoped to escape detection. As a result of the Investigations con ducted during the year the department says it learned that Max Sohlnsky, a graduate of the College of the City of New York, had written papers for fourteen different men, Including sev eral professions. The department has been active al so In prosecuting certain frauds which centered about St. Francis College and Academy, Brooklyn. Two pro fessors were arrested, and one, C. D. Christie, was sentenced to one year In the penitentiary. The other was discharged for lack of substantial evi dence. It appears that these profes sors made a practice of dictating pa pers to certain students. It has been brought to light recent ly that a certain professional Imper sonator earned between $3,000 and $4,- 000 by securing certificates which are equivalent to a four years' course In a high school and must be obtained be fore a student can take up the study of a profession such as medicine, law or dentistry. As a result of the disclosures great er safeguards have been thrown about these examinations hy the state de partment. WAGON POLE THROUGH BODY Motor Cyclist Killed by Collision With Farmer's Wagon. . Newburg, May IS. In a collision be tween his motor cycle and a farmer's wagon, John K. McLoughlln, an em ploye in the local postofflce, was In stantly killed. McLoughlln was trying out his new machine on a country road, and was making about 40 miles an hour when he rounded a turn in the road and ran Into the wagon. The shaft of the vehicle was driven through his body. HAINS GOES TO SING SING To Begin Servlna Indeterminate Sent ence of Eight to Sixteen Years. Flushing, L. I.. May 18. Captain Peter C. Halns, Jr., V. S. A., who was convicted of manslaughter In the first degree for killing William E. Annls at the Bayslde Yacht -club last Au gust, was taken to Sing Sing today and will at once begin serving the sentence Imposed by Justice Garret son In the supreme court. The sent ence Is an indeterminate one, under which the minimum period of Im prisonment will be eight years and the maximum sixteen years. His time in prison must be spent at hard labor. Counsel for Ilalns late yesterday practically agreed to his Immediate transfer fiom the Queen county jail to Sing Sing, when they announced after a consultation with General Halna, his father, and Major John P. Halns. a brother, that no application would toe made for a certificate of rea sonable doubt to act as a stay of exe cution. An appeal based on the gen eral court record In the case will he taken In regular course, however . Death of George Meredith. London, May 18. George Meredith, the English novelist, died at 3:35 this morning. The Immcdldate cause of death was heart failure, following grave symp toms that developed early In the even ing. Mr. Meredith's Illness began on May 14 and he steadily declined since that time. So serious was his con dition last night that the attending physician remained constantly at his bedside. He was born In 1823. GREEK'S LOVE IS SPURNED Double Tragedy Follows Girl's Rebuft of Devoted Lover, Youngstown, O., May 18. Angered because she laughed at his protesta tions of love, George A. Goramantls, aged 22, at 1:30 yesterday morning shot Miss Iva Ayers of Wampum and then shot himself. Both are wounded In the abdomen and the physicians at the city hospital declared neither will recover. The shooting took place at the house of Sadie Allen. 258 East Front street, East End. The girl, who was also known as Annie Morgan, has been In Youngstown hut a short time. Her parents are respected residents of Wampum. Gnramnntis, a Greek, Is employed at the Belmont hotel by D"ter Kallas, the Greek leader of Youngstown. According to what was learned by the police the Greek had been thrust ing his attentions on the Ayers gM for several weeks. Yesterday morning be called at the house and Insisted or kissing her. .Miss Ayres spurned her ad mirer'B advances when, without warn ing, he drew a revolver and fired two shots Into her body. Then he Bhot himself. STARVING MAN ENDS HIS LIFE Appeals In Vain For Help From Those He Knew. Philadelphia. May IS. "Sooner than die of starvation," wrote Henry Davis, aged 84, a native of Norwich, England, "1 will end my life." The old man was found lying uncon scious In his room In this city, and re moved to a hospital, where at first It was thought he was merely suffering from old age. Not until after his death was it known, through a letter he had left for the coroner, that he had committed suicide by drinking laudanum. In the letter the old man, after telling who he was, said he came to this country In 1874 and engaged In business. He lost his hearing and was otherwise Injured In a trolley ac cldent. His stock of money became exhausted and at the time of his death he owed seven weeks' board He says: "I have appealed to several people who knew me for help, but they would not help me. When I am gone they will say: 'If I had known he was so hard up I would have helped him.' " OWES LIFE TO A DOG Animal Gave Alarm and Saved Man From Sinking to His Death In Quagmire. Chester, Pa.. May 18. His atten tion attracted by the actions of a dog on the tracks of the Reading railroad between this city and Eddystone, Will lam Peet of Chester followed the an imal. The dog Ird him to a quag mire a hundred yards from the tracks, where he found Harry Morrison of this city stuck In mud up to his armpits and sinking. Morrison was released by Peet and several other men. Morrison was caught In the quagmire making a short cut to Eddystone. He hnd shout ed for help until he was unable to speak and probably would have been burled alive hnd It not been for the dog's efforts In his behalf. The strange part of the story Is that the dog does not belong to Morrison nor does ho know who owns the ani mal. The dog, a shepherd, scampered off as soon as he saw that Morrison was safe. Auto Plunges Over Bank. Johnstown, Pa., May 18. Running over a steep embankment west of tills city, an automobile containing five men plunged 23 feet before it struck a tree. One of the passengers, ex-Constable James C. Herzog of this city, was seriously Injured. Jacob Goenner, owner and driver of the car, was severely cut. Dynamiters Blow Up Power House. Indiana, Pa., May 18, Unknown men blew up the power house of the Clymer Ilrlck works, 12 miles from hero, causing $2:1,000 loss, and es caped without leaving a clew. No motive Is known. The powder house of the works was broken into and from It were taken 150 pounds of dy namite in three cases. Lad Drowned In Ten-Mile Creek. Washington, Pa., May 18. While bathing with companions in Ten-Mile creek at Marlanna, John Barney, 11-year-old Bon of Frank Barney, a miner, was drowned. He was takei from the water a few minutes after he sank, but a half hour's work fulled to revive him. Fireman Killed o Philadelphia, May 18. Fire destroy ed the feather and artificial flower stock of David lleiily's Son. at 831 Arch street. Albert Kllinger, foreman of engine company No. 11, was killed by falling from a fire escape while fighting the flames. The loss Is esti mated at CGO.OOO. Mrs. Augusta Evans-v'llso;i, the Southern authoress, died at her home in Mobile, Ala., aged 74. the fmmm Short Items 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 Haii Little Time to Spare. The British tenders for the construc tion of Argentine warships are likely to be accepted, says a dispatch from Ixmdon. Collector Loeb dismissed from the customs service in New York five of the oldest and most trusted assist ant weighers. High tariff men win on test vote in the senate; eleven Republicans vote for lower duty on lead; two Demo crats against it. Colonel Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama canal, reported a falling off In excavation for April from the work In March. President Taft sent a special mes sage to congress asking the curtail ment of ihe Puerto Rican self-government to end appropriation delays by delegates. George T. Farls, aged 93 years, Is dead on land at Bridgeport, Pa., pat ented in 1785 by his grandfather, who was afterward killed by Indians on the banks of the Ohio. George T. Farls voted for IS presidents. Thursday. German authorities threaten to seize an Australian vessel for alleged Insult to the flag, says a dispatch from Sydney, N. S. W. Constantinople witnessed mother batch of executions when 24 mutineers of the army and navy were hanged in public In various parts of the city. The reactionary St. Petersburg newspaper Znamya and the radica' Pravdazhl7.nl have been fined $1,500 each for attacks upon Premier Stoly pin. President Taft told General Stew art L. Woodford that all the battle ships In commission on the Atlantic coast would be sent to New York on the week cf the Hudson tercentenary celebration. Friday. The French government at a cnbi net meeting decided to dismiss 228 striking postal employes. In spite of the opposition of the snl tan, Mehmed V., twenty-four more sol dlers and marines were publicly hanged in Constantinople. William H. Bishop, United States consul at Palermo, arriving from Eu rope, said there was little probability that Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino's assassins would ever be apprehended. Twenty men were killed by a pre mature blast of dynamite In a stone quarry at South Bethlehem near Al bany. Among the dead are John H. Callanan, vice president and manager of the company, and his brother. Saturday. Enthusiastic neighbors greeted Or vllle and Wilbur Wright on their re turn to Dayton, O. An Irade just issued at Constanti nople appoints Tewflk Pasha, the for mer grand vizier, an ambassador at Ixindon. Theodore Roosevelt, In nn editorial In The Outlook, declares that the In fluence of the teachings of Count Tols toy has been bad. Railroads, by reducing rates be tween New York and Chicago, are ex pected to make New York city more of a summer resort. Slason Thompson, editor of the Bu reau of Jlailway News, reported that statistics 3how a great decrease In railroad fatalities in 1908 bb compared with 1907. Monday. Pullman company will spend $3, 000,000 in adding one-third to its car producing capneity. President Taft sharply rebuked Gov ernor Stubbs of Kansas for Inducing an appointment afterward hailed as a factional triumph. Natural tin in alloy with bismuth has been found In Catherine 1 1 III, on the shores of Tunk Pond. Me. A dispatch from Washington told of a move In the senate to heavily In crease the duty on steol fittings used In the construction of skyscrapers. The much discussed silver service for tho battleship Mississippi, hearing Jefferson Davis' picture, has been completed and shipped to .Meridian, Miss. Tuesday. Professor David N. Todd explains his plan for Intercepting possible mes sages from Mars. Residents of Harlem, New York, ob tained a first glimpse of the floats for the Hudson-Fulton celebration. From $7.".0,00i) to $1.1)1)0,000 Is the estimate placed on the strawberry crop of Delaware's threo counties. Final fetes In honor of the beatifica tion of Joan of Arc were the occasion tf royalist demonstrations. Many representatives Interviewed In Washington declared that the coun try demands the passage of the tariff bill without further di lay. Ech Moek and his son Raymond wore killed with a shotgun near Rich mond, Ind., by Jo. eph Itnilsbat k In a quarrel ov-r a line feme. Railsback was wounded In the leg. UNITED STATES EXPRESS CO. John L. Dudley Applies to Court For a Receiver. New York, May 18. Tho fact that John L. Dudley of this city has ap plied to the court for the appointment Df a receiver and for the dissolution 3f the United States Express company became known when an argument on the application was mode In court. This action is separate from that of Benjamin F. Speaker of Canajoharle, N. Y., who has brought a somewhat similar suit. Counsel for Mr. Dudley, who as lerts that he is a stockholder of the Express company, applied to the su preme court for a writ of mandamus to compel Edward T. Piatt, treasurer of the company, to permit an examin ation of its books. Derision was re served. LEPROSY VERY PREVALENT Many Victims Seen In Streets of Ponce. New York. May 18. What Is said to be alarming laxity on the part of the Porto Rican government In the care and "ontrol of persons suffering with leprosy will be brought to the official attention of the United States government by Dr. Edward Ehlers, one of a party of four European experts who have been studying various dis eases prevalent In the West Indies, who arrhed In New York on the steamer Caracas from Ponce. Dr. Ehlers sold that under present conditions in Porto Rico It Is possible for ninny lepers to emigrate and car ry the disease into the United States. "In the city of Ponce," he said, "I found leprosy very prevalent, and I saw many victims in the streets of the city. Two men In an advanced stage of the disease I observed beg ging In the market place." Dr. Ehlers said that the expedition of which he was a member, which wm financed In part by a Danish philan thropist, Mayer Davidson, had arranged to build a laboratoty for the study of leprosy In the Island of St. Croix, In the Danish West Indies. There It Is hoped to study the disease in detail, especially as relates to the probabilty of Its transmission and that of elephan tiasis through mosquitoes and other blood sucking Insects. MARKET REPORT New York Provision Market. New York, May 17. WHEAT No. 2 red. $1.44 1.45 f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.33. CORN No. 2 corn, 8H4c f. o. b. afloat; 84c elevator. OATS Mixed oats, 2(1 to 32 lbs.. 60M-f?fi1c; clipped white, 34 to 42 Ins., fiUiCTe. PORK Mess, $17.75'?? 19.25; family. $ 19.25 ffi 20.00. HAY Good to choice, 85fi 90c. BUTTER Creamery specials, 27fa 27 Vic; extra, 2S'4c; process, 17(5 23l.c; western factory, 20c. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 25c. CHEESE State, full cream, fancy, 13ft 13c, POTATOES Maine, per ISO lbs $3.00; state $2.C2'ff 2.87. Buffalo Provision Market. Buffalo, May 17. WHEAT No. 1 northern, carloads, $1.31; No. 2 red, no offerings. CORN No. 2 yellow, 80'4 c f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 yellow 79V4c. OATS No. 2 while, 61-ffi 62V4c f. o. b. afloat: Xo. 3 white, f.0 fff file. BUTTER Creamery prints, fancy. 27c; state and Pennsylvania creamery, 2fio; dairy, choice to fancy, 22W2lc. EGGS Selected white, 22V4l9 23c. CHEESE choice to fancy, full cream, ViHiMc; fair to good, 12 13c. POTATOES White fancy, per bu- 90fi 92c; f;ilr to good, 8fifi88c. Fast Buffalo Live Stock Market. PATTLH Prime export steers. Ifi.50 fffi.75; good to choice butcher steers. I5..ri0iiin.2!; choice cows, ;i.ut)r(j.2.r; liiiice heifers. $5.50fl(i.00: common in fnlr heifers. 1 1.25?i '5.25 : common to fulr bulls, $3.254.25; choice veals, $7 75fr8.no; fair to good, $7.25 f 7.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice clipped hi nibs. $S.150 8.40; yearlings, Ifi.75fii7.25; mixed sheep, $5.r0fff 6.25. HOGS Light Yorkers, $7.30fff 7.10; medium and heavy hogs, $7.7037-75; pigs. $7.00ffj7.15. Buffalo Hay Market. Timothy, No. I on track, $13 00 $13.50; No. 2 ttm.Vhy, $12.00; wheat and oat straws, $8.5'J. Utlca Dairy Market. Utlca. May 17. On the Utlca dairy board of trade today the following bus iness was reported: Color. Lots. Boxes. PR. Large while 1 50 12 Large colored ... 3 205 12 Smi'll white 3 227 12 Small white 2 125 12 Small colored .... 28 1,831 12 Small colored ... 6 350 12 Totals 43 2,788 Hi'TTEIt Crenmery. 4" tubs sold at 2(Vic and 120 tubs at 27c. Little Falls Cheese Market. Utlca, May 17-On the Little Falls bourd of trade today 5ti lots of 2,803 boxes of cheese sold at 12Vic
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