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Justice! of the toaeeC. A. Randall, D. W. Clark. Omnntmen. JW, Landers, J. T. Dale, O. It. Robinson, Win. Hmearbatigh, J. W. Jamieson, W. J. Campbell, A. B. Kelly. Cormtable Charles Clark. Collector YV. II. Hond. School Director J. O. SoowdffltR. M. Herman, Q Jainloson, J. J. Landers, J. R. Clark, W. O. Wyman. FOREST COUNTY OFFICER, S. Member of Congress H . P. Wheeler. Member of NenttteJ. IC. P. Uall, Assembly K. K. Meuhling. President Judge Win. E. Rice. Associate JwlgetV, X. Kreitler, P. 1 C. Hill. rrothonotaiy, Register d Recorder, e. -J. C. UelHt. Sheriff's. R. Maxwell. 'VVMinurer (loo. W. Holoman. Vbmmimiionera Win. H. Harrison, J. M. Zuendel, II. II. McClellnn. District Attorney A. O. Brown. Jury Commissioners Ernest Sibble, Lewis Wagner. Coroner Dr. C Y. Detar. County Auilttors-itpnrxe H. Warden, A. C. Uregg and J. P. Kelly. County Surveyor D. W. Clark. County Superintendent 1. W. Morri son. Kriulnr Term f Curt. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May, Fourth Monday of Hoptember. Third Monday of November. Regular Meetings of County Commis sioners 1st and 3d Tuesdays of month. Church and Nabbnlh Hehaal. Presbyter! Sabbath School at 9:46 a. ni. t M. E. Hablinth 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. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. E. L, Monroe, PaHtor. Preaching In the Presbyterian church everv Sabbath at ll:lK) a. m. and 7:30 p. in. Rev. U. A. Bailey, Pastor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are hold at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. pi'.NKSTA LODGE, No. 869, 1. 0.O. F. 1 Moots every Tuesday evening, In Odd Fellows' Uall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274 O. A, R. Meets 1st Monday evening in each month. CAPT. flEORQE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month. RITCHEY A CARRINflER. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Tionesia, Pa. CURTIS M. 8 HAWKEY. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Warren, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. AC BROWN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Office in Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge 81., Tionosta, Pa. I?RANK S. HUNTER, D. D. S. 1 Rooms over Citizens Nat. Bank, TIONESTA, PA. DR. J. C. DUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, and DRUGGIST. Office in Dunn A .Fulton l rug store. Tlonesta, Pa. Profess ional calls promptly responded to at all hours of day or night. Residonce Elm St., three doors above the store. D R. F. J. BOVARD, Physician A Surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. D R. J. B. 8IOGINS. Physician and Surgeon, OIL CITY, PA. HOTEL WEAVER, C. F. WEAVER, Proprietor. Modern and up to-date in all its ap pointments. Every convenience and comfort provided for the traveling public. CENTRAL HOUSE, UEROW A UEROW Proprietor. Tionsela, 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 traveling public First class Livery in connection. pHIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT SHOEMAKER. Shop over R. L UaHlet's grocery store on Elm street. Is prepared to do all Kinds of custom work from the tluest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. Men Slippers Itecause they add to their comfort. Many a man has been made a "home bird" by comfortable sur roundings. We have a large and Beautiful Showing of those styles that carry easy and wear. LAMMEES OIL CITY, PA. MARQUETTE WL Containing Nine Frozen Bodies Towed into Erie Harbor. Joseph Shenk, the Smallest Man In the Party, Wat Evidently the First to Succumb, as the Others Were Huddled on Top of Him and About Him as If With the Intention of keeping the Spark of Life In the Frail Body. The "last doubt concerning the fate of the Bessemer and Marquette car ferry No. 2 was removed v.'hen the state fish tug Commodore Perry tow ed the car ferry'B lifeboat No. 4, con taining nine dead bodies, into the port at Erieat 4:20 p. m. Sunday. Some silting on the seats and others huddled up In the bottom of the craft, all were frozjm si mot thcjit tti moved all were froMii stiff. Four ambulances he dock and the bodies in Coroner Hiinlev's m morTC, later being identified as fol lows: Thomas Steele, single, coal passer, Conneaut; John Hart, single, oiler, Conneaut; Charles Allen, Bingle, Con neaut; George Smith, steward, mar ried, Conneaut; William Rny, mar ried Conneaut; H. J. Thomas, Port Stanley, Out.; Manuel Sonars, single, Conneaut; Joseph Shenk, Conneaut; O'llagen, Ixindon, Ont. The lifeboat, Its rail almost awash, was sighted by the tug Commodore Perry. 15 miles due north of Erie, at 11 o'clock Sunflny morning. Captain J. T. Drlscoll, without touching the bods, attached a line to the craft and towed it Into port. Joseph Shenk of Conneaut, the smallest man in the party, was the first to succumb to exposure. Others of the shipwrecked crew, evidently with the intention of keeping the spark of life In the frail body, huddled on top of and about Shenk and were found frozen In that position when the boat was discovered. The faces of some of the men were bruised and cut, apparently due to the efforts to keep up circulation. STEAMER SUNK NEAR HARBOR Five of the Crew Were Lost and 14 Taken Off by Another Steamer. The steel steamer W. C. Richardson of the Richardson Transportation company of Cleveland foundered In between 30 and 40 feet of water on Wnverly shoals, two and a half miles beyond the Buffalo breakwater. Five lives were lost and fourteen saed. The loss of the boat and car go is nearly $K00.000. The vessel was bound for Buffalo from Duluth. She hid on board a cargo of 200 000 bushels of flaxseed, valued at $385,000. It was a fortunate thing that the stepmer Paine was near by at the time the Richardson foundered. The captain of the Paine brought his boat up alongside the Richardson and suc ceeded in rescuing fourteen members of the crew. CURE FOR CONSUMPTION That Is, May Be One Has Been Found In Rattler's Poison, Dr. Thomas J. Mays of Philadel phia has been experimenting with the poison of rattlesnakes as a cure for consumption, and with much sue ress, he says. Dr. Mays is a well ktiown authority on consumption, and Is one of the few men who have, had successful results in treating pulmon ary tuberculosis with dings. He is medical director of the Philadelphia Clinic for the Home Treatment of Chest and Throat Diseases, The use of croialln, as rattlesnake venom is scientifically known, is not exactly new, but up to this time It has not been used by many of the lo cal doctors. It Is the dry residue of the salivary secretion of the American rattlesnake, and U secreted from the poison gland. It U Administered hy podennicaily. with a combination of glycerine and distilled water. The In jections are given about once a weak to start, and, after the treatment has been used for some time, Increased. MRS. STEELE'S DEFENSE h In Nature of Counter Action pn Ground of Desertion, Mrs. Jessamine Hart Steele, daugtv tor of the late Bret Harte, testified be fore J. D. Sullivan of Yonkers In the suit for divorce begun in the supreme court, of Bolder county, Colo., by her husband, a wealthy mine owner. The testimony was taken behind closed doors, but. it is known that Mrs. Steele's defense is in the nature of a counter action on the ground of de sertion. Mrs. Steele Is a beautiful woman of 26 and since separating from her husband three years ago, has supported herself by singing and rending her father's poems at musical nnrl private entertainments. She has a host of friends at Yonkers and among them is Eleanor Robson, the actress. Old Chief Red Cloud Dead. Chief Red Cloud, head chief of the Sioux lndUin nation, died at his home In Pine Ridge Agency, S. D., Fri day night from a complication of diseases. He was 8G years old and had been blind fjr a number of years. He died in a house which was built and presented to him years ago by the United States governmttfit. SHELDON WAS A WITNESS Before Senate Judiciary Committee In Behalf of Kelsey and Hit Lieutenants. George P. Sheldon, the Indjctcd ex president of the Phenix FS Insur ance company of New Yor who loaned $230,000 to officials of th)tate insurance department under former administrations, was one of the wit nesses upon whose testimony the sen ate relied In defeating Governor Hughes' first attempt to oust Otto Kelsey in 1907. In his testimony before the senate judiciary committee Mr. Sheldon praised the services rradered by Isaac Vanderpocl, then deRrtment chief examiner, and Robert l Hunter, Lou Payn's lieutenant, wfw was deputy superintendent for a good many years. The retention of theee men in the department after the Armstrong com mittee disclosures wag the principal ground upon which the governor at tacked Kelsey. In the light of Su perintendent Hotchkiss' report, Mr. Sheldon gave this testimony after he had loaned Vanderpoel $130,000 and Hunter about $60,000 of trfe Phenix's money. Mr. Hunter, who Is now postmaster at Poughkeepsle, says In his rtate ment that he did not borrow the mon ey from the Phenix Insurance Co., but from President Sheldon personal ly. Furthermore, his loan, he declar ed, amounted only to $35,000 and not $60,000, and there Is no loss to the Phenix company, as the superintend ent of insurance says. MANIAC SLAYER KILLED W. S. Hoover Brought the Lunatic to Earth Behind a Snake Fence. Ord E. Doley, maniac slayer of Sheriff Bell of Holmes county, . O., who Bwore to kill five other Holmes county men after terrorizing a Luth eran revival meeting in Big Prairie on Wednesday night, to follow with the murdering of the sheriff on Thursday morning, was felled at 6 o'clock Friday night wtih a bullet from the rifle ot V. S. Hoover, marshal elect of Mlllersburg, one of the men Boley swore to kill. He brought the escaped lunatic to earth behind a "snake" fence on the farm of V. F. Wells, a mile south of Shreve. Boley was borne Into Shreve. where a bullet wound In his bowels and a maimed right hand, the result of an earlier encounter with the posse of 200 which had pursued him since Thursday morning, were dressed. He was brought to the hos pital here, where he died at 8 o'clock. GLADDEN DENOUNCES COOK Hit Disappearance, Minister Says, Confession That He Is a Brazen Imposter. Dr. Frederick A. Cook was de nounced as an Impostor Sunday night by Dr. Washington Gladden from his pulpit in the First Congregational church at Columbus, O. "ThiB is a case whore flight is con fession," ' he declared. "Dr. Cook's disappearance, followed by the dec laration of his attorney, makes diffi cult the conclusion that he is anything more than a brazen Imposter. His claims to the discovery of the North Pole seem a deliberate attempt to palm off a He on a credulous public for the sake of fame and few gold ducats. He was willing to be acclaimed a hero and accept praise and garlands, know ing In his heart that his only achieve ment was a monumental fraud Doubtless he imagined he never would be found out and could hide his secret. Now that he Is found out he must hide himself from sight of men. To the grave he will bear with him man kind's scorn for a fakir." FIVE DROWN IN RIVER Ice Breaks While Father 1$ Giving Children a Sledrlde. A hole In the Ice and a sled float ing In the black water Saturday after noon bore mute testimony of a drown ing accident on the Cuyahoga river, near Kent, 0 in which five persons went to death unseen. Of a family ol six, the mother and her young babe only now are left. Her brother-in-law, who lived In the same home, was the fifth victim. The dead: Frank Cormlnle, 33 years rid; Florence Cormlnle, 9 years old; Helen Cormlnle, 7 years old; Mabel Cormlnle, 4 years old; Rusaell Cor tiinie, 22 years old, brother of Frank, Frank Cormlnie, accompanied by fcls three daughters and his brother, all of whom lived in Stowe township, was giving the little ones a sledrlde on the ice. Shortly before dark all flv were found close together near where the sled with Its load had gone through the ice, Killed by His Bull Dog. Carl F. Timpert of 310 West 129th street, New York city, was found dead early ou Sunday morning In the dining room of his flat. Beside him on the floor was a big bi indie hull dog. Tlmpert's face was cut anc chewed and Coroner's Phyi-iuan O'Hanlon Is certain that he was kill ed by the dog after a fight. He died several hours before he was found. Bill to Provide Fund For Dependents ' A bill providing a fund "by which thhe necessities of life may bo given the parents, widows or orphans of la boring men killed while at labor,' defining the method by which sued) fund shall be distributed, and makinc the president the distributor of the fund, was introduced in the house by Representative Guruer (Pa.) NEED NOTBEUEI E IT It's a Matter of Indifference to Wallace E. Til linghasf. Reiterates Hit Story That He Sailed With Two Mechanics From Some Place 40 Milet From Worcester to New York and Then to Boston and Back to Starting Point During a Night Remained Up 46 Minutes Without Power While Machinery Was Being Repaired. Worcester, Mass., Dec. 14. Wallace E. Tillinghast said today that it Is true be sailed in his new flying ma chine from somewhere to New York, around to Boston and back to some where all on a single night; that he does not have to prove It Just now and won't until he gets ready, and that if anybody wants to think the story Is not true It fails to interest him in the least. "I have not asked the public to be lieve It," he said. "I am not offering any stock in the company for sale. I have no axe to grind. One of these days I shall bring the big monoplane out and fly with It; then the public will believe." "The public is pretty Incredulous about the story of your long flight, Mr. Tilllngbjist. They have Just had a Dr. Cook experience, you know." Mr. Tillinghast smiled and said: "Believe me, It Is of no special Inter est to me whether the public believes the story or not." 120 Miles an Hour Easy. Describing the trip In his monoplane of Sept. 8 he said: "We left the place where the monoplane Is kept three of us, the two mechanics and myself after dark. I won't say where the place Is, ether than that it is more than fifty miles from Worcester and 14 miles from a railroad. We headed directly for New York. "It was not difficult to make 120 miles an hour with my machine, which is 72 feet across. It Is not ex actly true that I circled the statue of Liberty in New York harbor. I went within sight of it, I should say about a mile away, and we had trouble with the machinery, and I had an oppor tunity to demonstrate one of the things in which my machine differs from all others. I stopped the motors and for 46 minutes remained in tho air without power while the mechanics made the necessary repairs. "During all that time we sailed about in the air. The machine cannot upset and If It Is stopped high In the air will remain afloat for a much longer time than It did on that occas ion. When the repairs were com pleted we had fallen perhaps 2,000 feet "Then I headed for Boston. I did not pass over the city, but circled It, passing over the harbor at a height of perhaps 1,500 feet. Then I headed for our starting point and arrived there by daylight. Will Appear at Aviation Meet, "Had I had my way nothing would have ever come out about my mono plane until I appeared at some avia tion meet and demonstrated Its power and practicability. Speed of 120 miles an hour may be kept up at long as the power continues to run. The dis tance that can be traversed and the speed at which it may be done Is merely a matter of carrying fuel." CANNON RETIRE? Man Who Said He Would Hat a Vivid Imagination, Said the Speaker. Washington, Dec. 14. Speaker Can non made one of his characteristic comments when newspaper men prod ded him to the point of noticing a newspaper statement that he would retire from the speakership at the close of the present congress. "Laugh ind the world laughs with you," said the speaker, "Please take note that. I am not weeping. A man may retire from the house; may retire from the speakership; a man may re sign front the house; a man may re sign from the speakership but I am not crossing a bridge before I come to It. Incidentally the man who wrote Hie story that I would get out has a vivid Imagination." Mr. Cannon, as he said this, looked as If he would like to punch some body's head. Ho declined to say any thing further. REWARD FOR LIFE SAVING 8cope of the Edward Medal Has Been Extended to Industilal Pursuits. lxuidon, Dec. 14. It was announced that the king has extended the scope of the Edward medal which was es tablished in 1907 for the purpose of rewarding acts of gallantry performed In saving or attempting to save lives in mines or quarries. Under the new order similar acts In Industrial pur suits will be rewarded. There Is also established a king's medal for merit or courage on the part of members of the police force and fire brigades. The purpose of the new medals is to provide suitable recognition for bravery In dangerous callings which might go unrecognized owing to the rarity with which the Albert medal Is awarded. Raines Shows Slight Improvement. Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec, 14, Sena tor Raines showed Blight general Im provement.. fF'nyslflans look for no immediate alarming symptoms. BANK'S RESPONSIBILITY For Accepting Checks Drawn by a Cor poration Officer and Deposited to Hit Own Account. Now York, Dec. 14. A recent decis ion ot the appellate division of the First department is attracting atten tion among lawyers and the manage ments of large and 3mall financial in stitutions, for it charges these insti tutions with a new responsibility In accepting checks drawn by an officer of a corporation as such officer and deposited by him to his private ac count. The court holds that In such a trans action It Is the duty of the bank re ceiving such a check for deposit to make inquiry as to the regularity of the proceeding, and that a bank ac cepting such checks and paying out money on them to the personal bene fit of the officer who has drawn and deposited them is liable to the corpor ation on whose funds the officer has drawn, if reasonable inquiry would have revealed the unlawfulness of the officer's action. The decision was given in the case of the Havana Central Railroad com pany, respondent, against the Knick erbocker Trust company, appellant. The facts in the case are these: C. W. VanVocrhls as treasurer of the Ha vana Central Railroad company, In 1906, opened an account with the Cen tral Trust company. Between April 21 and June 15 of that year VanVoor- his drew three checks payable to the order of "W. M, Greenwood or C. W. VanVoorhis," signing them "Havana Ceutral Railroad company, C. W. Van Voorhis treasurer." These checks ag gregated more than $59,000. VanVoohis at the time had an Indi vidual account v.'lth the Knickerbocker Trust company and he Indorsed these three checks In blank and deposited them there to be credited to his indi vidual account. The Knickerbocker company collect ed the checks from the Central Trust and placed the proceeds to VanVoor his' credit. VanVoorhis continued to draw checks upon his Individual ac count until July 17, 1906, when he drew out all the money he had there and closed hla account. Plaintiff al leges that Inquiry by the Knickerbock er Trust of the plaintiff would have revealed that VanVoorhis was misap propriating and converting the plain tiff's money to his own use. BARGE TURNED TURTLE Captain Carried Down; Other Men Jumped Overboard and Were Picked Up. Atlantic City, Dec. 14. Caught in the howling easterly gale that Is driving big breakers Into every har bor entrance on the coast, a barge loaded with stone and In charge of Captain Martin Cooper turned turtle while being towed Into Cold Spring Inlet between this city and Cape May. Other men aboard the craf Jumped overboard in order to clear the wreckage, but Captain Cooper stuck to bis vessel and was carried down with her. The members of the crew were pick ed up by life savers from Cold Spring station, suffering from cold and ex posure. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The barge was known as "No. 21" and was carrying the load of Btone from Philadelphia to Cold Spring. The storm Is the fiercest of the year and the government shore patrols have been doubled to keep watch for vessels that may be caught in the gale and mist hanging off the shore. Rain is falling In torrents and has flooded the streets. DODGE LECTURE POSTPONED Governor Hughes Cannot Go to New Haven Because of His Father's Critical Illness. New Huven, ' Conn., Dec. 14. The Yale officials announced that two re maining Dodge lectures on citizenship to be delivered by Governor Hughes of New York had been indefinitely post poned. One was to have been deliver ed last night and the other tonight. Word was received during the day from Governor Hughes that on ac count of the critical illness of his fath er be could not come to New Haven. A big reception hud been planned at which the college people and many citizens could meet Governor and Mrs. Hughes. Notwithstanding their absence the veceptlon was held in the Yale Art school. Secretary Stokes and Mrs. Stokes receiving with President and Mrs. Hartley In the absence of Gover nor and Mrs. Hughes. Governor Hughes was booked for a speech at the annual banquet of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce tonight, where President Taft will be a speaker. Pres ident Hadley has been substituted for Governor Hughes. OPERATION ON LEOPOLD Physicians Decided Upon It After Last Sacrament Had Been Admbiistered. Brussels, Dec. 14. The condition of King Leopold is very grave. Accord ing to a report that was said to come from the castle death might be ex pected within 24 hours. This, how ever, was followed by another report which said that death was not so im minent and that the physicians had decided to perform an ojioration, Cardinal .Merrier, archbishop of Mechlin, administered the last sacra ment. At the time the king's physi cians were In consultation to decide upon an operation. The archbishop and physicians remained In the king's bedchamber all last night. The king suffered from rheumatism and diopby during the last week. E Pithy Paragraphs ThatChronicle the Week's Doings. Long Dispatches From Various Part; of the World Shorn of Their Paddimj and Only Factt Given In at Fevt Wordt at Possible For the Benefil of the Hurried Reader. Wednesday. A Paris pawnshop holds the deposed Sultan Abdul's Aziz' jewels because the pawnticket is lost. Charles W. Morse's petition for a review of his case was denied by the United States supreme court. James Allen, hotel manager, shoots and kills Charles H. Guthinger, man ager of Miner's Bowery theater, New York, mistaking him for a burglar. Reorganization of the Phenix Insur ance company of Brooklyn is an nounced and sensational charges against George P. Sheldon, its deposed president, are laid before District At torney Jerqme. After neighbors and friends had searched for 24 hours the body ol Miss Marguerite Dauerty, a formci Vassar college student, Is found In a cistern In the rear of the home of her father at Hughson, Dutchess county. Thursday. Ten are dead and seventeen missing In a fire at Hamburg, Germany, caused by the explosion of a new gas reser voir. Journalists agree that Mr. Henry Watterson's warning against the "yel low" press has come at an opportune tiin-j Washington reports that advices re ceived at the state department indicate that a revolution in Honduras may complicated the situation in Nicara gua. John Quaekenbush of Syracuse, a laborer, was struck by a wheelbarrow full nf bricks which fell fre.m the sixth floor of the r.ew Onondaga hotel and was knocked unconscious. He died soon after. Friday. Interests allied with Goulds with draw from Western Union and officers of American Telephone and Telegraph company take their places on the board. Two men lost their lives and the fate of thirteen others, adrift in a boat. Is unknown, as a result of the burning of the steamer Clarion, near Point Pelee. in Lake Erie. Mr. MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury, tells Massacusetts bankers that the republican party has definite ly r-handoned Its high tariff policy and is marching steadily toward downward revision. Diplomatic Information at Paris is to the effect that since the assassina tion of Prince Ito, Japan has resumed her former projects of pure and sim ple annexation of Corea to the Japan ese empire. Saturday. Unionist lenders in England Issue long program of meetings to be held in defence of the rejection of the budget. Senator Hale threatens to break the agreement to advocate two battleships a year and oppose the construction of more than one. Senator Root's test as leader of New York Republicans Is about to be made in the appointment of the new survey or of the port of New York. Apropos of a debate In the French chamber of deputies, the statement that American shoes, worn in France, are made in Germany, arouses discus sion. Secretary of the Treasury McVeagh declares in his annual report that pol Itlcs and politicians are responsible for demoralization In the custom ser vice. George P. Sheldon, deposed presi dent of the Phenix Insurance com pany. Is to be extradited from Connec ticut if his condition improves enough to permit his removal to New York. Monday. Reports from Minefields say that the Nicaragua revolutionists have been routed In a fierce engagement at Rama. Revised figures bIiow that fifty-eight lives w?ru lost In the storm which swept the great lakes Wednesday night and Thursday morning. General O. W. Greely, veteran Arc tic explorer and staunch supporter of Dr. Frederick Cook, resigns from Ex plorers' club, of which Commander Peary Is president. Miss Virginia Wardlaw, held for the aillon of the grind Jury on the charge of miirdeting her niece, Miss Ocey W. M. Snead, is again locked up in the Kstex county Jail, In Newark, N. J. Tuesday. M. Blcriot, French aviator, was se verely Injured when his machine struck the roof of a house In Constan Inople and was wrecked. General Clarence it. Kd wards, chief of the bureau of Insular affairs, urges in his annual report that American cit izenship should be granted to I'orto Ricans without delay. Secretary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor, reports that only 1,217 vessels were built In Amer ican khlpyarrts in 1909, I he smallest number in eleven years. The nomination of Judge Horace H. I.urton of Nashville, Tcnn . to be associate justice of the supreme court !n succeshlon of the late Justice Feck ham, was sent to the senate. SHDR1 R NEWS MEM A THIRD DEMOCRAT Little Opposition Expected to Eleva- tion of Judge Lurton to Supreme Court Bench. Washington, Dec. 14. The nomlnr tion of Judge Horace H. Lurton of the Sixth United States circuit court to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death cf the late Kufus W. Peckhara, was ient to the senate by President Taft end will be confirmed unless new opposi tion appears. No opposition Is ex pected. There Is no reason to believe that Judge Lurton's nomination will be seriously contested, if it is opposed at all. The president convinced himself that the nomination would be con firmed before ho dispatched it to the senate. There were intimations that there might be opposition from some sena tors whose object would be to delay confirmation In order to permit in vestigation of the charge that Judge Lurton's decisions indicate a frame of mind that would result In a reversal of I he decision of the court of appeals In the Standard Oil case. The eleva tion of Judge Lurton to the supreme court bench would give the Democrats a third representative in the court. Chief Justice Fuller and Justice White are Democrats. Judge Lurton and Jurtice White both served in the Con federate army. TWO MURDERS IN 12 HOURS Man Shot and Placed on Track; An other Killed In Quarrel. Mlddletown, n. Y., Dec. 14. There have been two murders within 12 hours In Orange county. The body of Flero Di Fleppi, a well-known Italian of Monroe, was found lying alongside the Erie tracks between Monroe and Turner yesterday morning. He had been run over by a train and the right hand cut off. Otherwise the body was not mutilated and bullet holes were found In the neck and left hide. A re volver with several chambers empty was found nearby. When found the dead man's left hand was In his coat pocket and it was apparent he had been attacked unexpectedly and after being murdered had been placed ou the railroad tracks. Another murder took place at May brook Sunday night. Gulseppe Dl Vln cenzo and Vinoenzo Lupo, employes of the Central New England railroad, became involved in an argument. Later they met on a dark road and Dl Vlncenzo was shot dead by Lupo aft er the latter had been cut and slashed in a number cf places. Hoped to Get Back to the Bowery. Washington, Dec. 14. Among the effects of James F. Glover, whose dead body was found in bed here yesterday In the Industrial home of the Salvation Army, was a letter he had written thirty years ago in which he isald: "I'd rather be broke on the Bowery than a millionaire in Wash ington." Glover said he Intended to "beat it bark to the Bowery." He had been drinking heavily here last week. Two School Teachers Drowned. Oak Harbor, O., Dec. 14. Nelson Davids, aged 19, and Mary Mylander, aged 21, school teachers, were drown ed while skating on the Portage river. MARKET REPORT New York, Dec. 13. WHEAT No. 2 red, new, $1.26 V4 f. o. b. afloat; futures ciused higher, Dec, $1.22. May 1.17. CORN No. 2 white, In elevator, new, 70c; futures higher, Dec. 70c, May 72c. OATS Natural white, 2G to ? lbs., new, 47(f;50c; clipped white, 34 to 42 lbs., 4S52C PORK Mess, $2u.50tfj 26.00; family, $26.00(Tj 27.00. BUTTER Creamery, rpeclals, 35c; extra, 34c; process, 2rI4fj28c; western factory, 23 V& 1? 25c. CHEESE State full cream, spe cials, 17!j lXc. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 4552c. POTATOES Maine, per bag, $1.65 2.00; state, per bbl., $1.401.75. Buffalo Provision Market Buffalo, Dee. 13. WHEAT No. 1 northern, carloads, $1.19; No. 2 red, $1.29. CORN No. 2 yellow, 6Sc f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 yellow, 6fic. OATS No. 2 white, 49c f. o. b. afloat; No. 3 white, 48c. FLOUR Fancy blended patent, per bbl., $0.25fft7.00; winter family, patent, $5.7506.50. MUTTER Creamery, western prints, 35c; state creamery, 33'fcc; dairy, choice to fancy, ai(!T'32c. CHEESE Choice to (:uicy, full cream, 17c; fair to good, loVid'rtK'ic. EGGS Stat?; selected white, 40c. POTATOES White, fancy, per bu., 4850c; choice, 42fi45c. Eatt Buffalo Livestock Market CATTLK-Prlmo export steers. $6.75 ft'7.25; good to choice butcher steers, $6.006.5t!; choice cows, $4.50'ff5.25; choice heifers, $5.506.00; common to fair heifers, iMfi7t.'ii; common to fair bulls, $3.00?i3.ti'; uboice veals. $9.75fl 10.00; fair to good. $9.259.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice spring lambs, $8.50fi 8.65; yearlings. $fi.25 iff 7.00; mixed sheep, $I.75W 5.50. HOGS Light Yorkers, $S.35tf 8.40; medium and heavy hogs, $8.65; pigs, $8.258.30. Buffalo Hay Market Timothy, No. 1 ou tinrk, $16.uOT K.50; No. ?. timothy. $1E.00; straw, wheat and oats. $9.50.
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