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VOL. XLII. NO. 48.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1910.
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BOROUGH OFFICERS!.
Burgess. J. D. W. Reck.
Justices of the Peace O. A. Randall. D,
W. Clark. '
Oounetimen.J. W, Landers, J. T. Dale,
. it. nooinson, wm. Nmoarbaugh, J,
W. JamioHon, W. J. Campbell, A. B,
iveny.
Constable Charles Clark.
Collector W. H. Mood.
School Director! 3, 0. Soowden, R. M
Herman, u- Jainieson, J. j. Landers, J
R. Clark, W. O. Wyman.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
Member of Congress N. P. Wheeler.
Member of Senate J. IC. P. Hall.
Assembly A. K. Mecbllng.
President J mine Win. E. Rice.
Associate Judge P. C. Hill, Samuel
Aul.
Prothonotary, Register dt Recorder, de.
j. v, uemt.
Sheriff H. R. Maxwell.
Treasurer Geo. W. Holeman
CommMaiotiers Win. It. Harrison, J.
M. .uenilel, II. II. McUlellan.
District Attorney A. Carrlnser,
Jury Commissioners Ernest Hlbble,
Lewis Wagner,
(kroner Dr. M. C Kerr.
County Auditors llmrg H. Warden,
A. C. Uregg and J, 1'. Kelly.
County Surveyor D. W. Clark.
County Superintendent I), W. Morrl
son.
Itraular Twm ( i'rl.
Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meetings of County Commis
sioners lt aud 3d Tuesdays of montn.
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bath evening by Rev. w.u. Caltioun.
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V. are held at the headquarters on the
second and rourth Tuesdays or eaco
month.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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X M eetn every Tuesday evening, In Odd
Fellows' Hall, Partridge building.
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O. A, R. Meets 1st Monday evening
In each month.
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137, W. K. C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
F. RITCHEY,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Tionesta, Pa,
MA. CARRINGER.
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
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Bank Building, TIONESTA, PA.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Warren, Pa.
Practice in Forest Co.
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ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
Office In Arner Building, Cor. Elm
and. Bridge St., Tionesta, Pa.
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Rooms over Citizens Nat. Bank,
TIONESTA, PA.
DR. F. J. BOVARD,
Physician A Surgeon,
TIONESTA, PA.
Eves Tested and Glasses Fitted.
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R. J. B. SIOGINS,
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
pENTRAL HOUSE.
L UEROW A UEROW Proprietor.
Tlonsota, Pa. This Is the most centrally
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 publto. 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
f;ive perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
ion giveu to mending, and prices rea
sonable. WANO
Electric Oil. Guaranteed for
Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore
Feet. Pains. Ac. At all dealers
$2.65
for
Any Woman's
Shoe in the
Store.
All leathers, Former prices
$3.50 to 5.00.
LAMMEES
OIL CITY, PA.
'GIVE OPMLES
Crderof Robber to Passengers
on a Kansas Train.
None of the Crew With Exception of
the. Conductor Knew a Robbery Was
Being Perpetrated Train Continued
at High Speed and After the Last
Passenger Was Stripped the Three
Robbers Dropped Off at Cornell, Kan,
Three unidentified men held up and
tabbed the pnssengeis on an east-
bound Missouri Pacific passenger
train five miles cast of Pittsburg,
him., Saturday uigiU. They were
unmasked. About $400 and a small
amount of Jewelry was taken.
The robbers boarded the train,
which was a local accommodation
running between Coffeyvllle, Kan.,
und Nevada, Mo., ou the outskirts of
Pittsburg. They took seats In the
chair car and rode quietly until the
train was near Cornell, Kan. There
they leaped from their seats, backed
Conductor Garrity Into a corner, and
drawing revolvers, warned him not to
cull for assistance from other mem
hers of the train crew.
One of the robbers then covered the
passengers with two large revolvers.
"You will now prepare to give up your
valuables," he fluid. "My partner
here will pass among you. Please be
quiet "
"The partner" thereupon produced
a gunny sack and started on his col
lection tour. From each passenger
he took everything of value. Money,
watches,' diamonds and rings all went
Into the sack. One woman screamed
and fainted. The collector calmly
lifted a ring from her finger, picked
her purse up off the floor to which it
had fallen and passed on to the next
victim. Passengers revived the wo
man after the robbers left the coach.
Throughout the progress of the rob
hcry the train hurried ahead. Not
one of the crew with the exception of
tho conductor knew a robbery was be
ing perpetrated. When the lights In
the town of Cornell loomed Into W.i
several of the passengers at the rear
of the coach who had not been reuch
ed by the robbers had hopes that they
would escape with their valuables and
they began placing them back In their
lockets. But they were doomed to
disappointment. Just because the
train stopped at the station the rob
beis did not hurry away.
FOR NEW RAILROAD
Testimony Before Commission In Fa
vor of Proposed Buffalo, Rochester
and Eastern.
Testimony from Cayuga and Wayne
counties that the proposed Buffalo,
Rochester and Eastern railroad would
greatly benefit the fruit and other dis
tricts of Western New York and that
the value of farm lands would be In
creased was given befoie the up-state
public service commission at the third
day's session of the hearing ou the
petition of the new road for authority
to build. Other testimony was given
by merchants of Troy regarding con
gestion In handling Inbound freight
on the C'ei'tral in that city and undue
delays in getting deliveries of goods
shipped to them from the West.
A delegation from the New York
State Grange came before the com
mission and presented resolutions
adopted by the grange requesting the
granting of authority to build the pro
posed road, which 'It was stated would
pass through 1 r.O villages and com
munities having no railroad facilities.
Attorney C. L. Grouch for the Syra
cuse Chamber of Commerce favored
tho building of the new road, provid
ed the route was changed to reach
Syracuse.
The commission has adjourned the
bearing until Wednesday, Feb. 16.
TARIFF WAR AVERTED
America and Girmany to Accord Each
.Other Minimum Tariff Rates.
The tariff negotiations between the
United States and Germany which
have been pending for several months
have been concluded satisfactorily to
both governments. A tariff war will
be averted.
The United States will obtain not
only the Gorman minimum rates now
enjoved iii'der the special agreement
which will expire ou Feb. 7 next but
will receive also tho benefit of all tho
minimum rates of the German tariff
imw accorded to foreign governments.
In return Germany will receive the
minimum tariff rates of the Payne
Aldrlch tariff act after March 31 next,
when the maximum and minimum feat
ures of the American law will become
operative.
FORD JURY DISMISSED
Unable to Agree; Stood Eight For Ac
quittal and Four For Conviction,
The jury at Cincinnati In the sen
sational case of Mrs. Jeanette Ford,
charged with attempting to blackmail
C, T. Warriner, the defaulting Big
Four railroad treasurer, was finally
dismissed by Judge James B. Swing,
who had been notified at his home of
that body's utter Inability to agree as
to a verdkt.
At a suggestion from the judge
Foreman Isaac Levendorf stated that
the jury stood eight for acquittal and
four for conviction and that It did not
seem possible for an agreement. Mrs.
Ford's bond of $2,t00 with a bonding
company as security was continue)
In pffect.
AFTER JOBBERS' TRADE
8xeel Corporation Preparing to Supply
Everything Direct to the Small
Consumer.
The United State Steel corporation
goes after the steel jobblug trade and
the steel Jobbers' profit throughout tho
United Slates, while at the same
time delivering a telling blow to the
Independent makers of steel. The
plan was revealed in Pittsburg through
the letting of contracts by the Car
negie Steel company for a monster
warehouse ut Twelfth and Pike streets
In the heart of business Pittsburg.
Dptails of plans show that the cor
poration will deal directly with the
.mall consumer of steel, something the
big concern has never before done,
i'he Pittsburg warehouse, which Is to
he dupMcated In Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, Cin
clnntl. St. Louis, Omaha, New Or
leans and Dallas, will carry with It
eleclrlcily to the extent of 050 horse
rower to run cranes, cold saws
planes, punches, etc.. in order that the
small consumer who has hitherto
bought from the Jobner cai have his
material cut and fitted Dcfore It leaves
tho warehouse.
This open bid for the retail Iron and
steel trade of the country Is seml-offl-dally
explained at Pittsburg by the
Hta lenient that there has beon much
complaint by the small consumer over
unsatisfactory service rendered by the
small jobber, who has to set his ma
terial from the storehouses of the
corporation or of the Independents,
II Is lntendd now that it v.-ill be as
P7sy to buy a keg of nails or one steel
beam from the steel corporation direct
as to buy a steel bridge.
S10.0C0 BILL STILL MISSING
Boy Now Says That He Was In a
Trance When He Lost It.
Benson Lang, thhe 17-year-old mes
senger boy foimeily employed by the
stock exchange house of Hornblower
Weeks, at No. 42 Broadway, New
York, who was sent to deposit
a $10,000 gold certificate in the Na
tional City bank on Friday mornlni?
and who appeared before his employ.
ers on Saturday noon minus th.j
check and with a story of having been
In a trance for several hours after he
had started out with the money, was
arraigned In the Tombs court and
committed to the Tombs In default of
$10,000 bail. He will have a further
examination Thursday.
Aaron J. Levy, who appeared as
counsel, suggested among other things
that the boy might have pulled the
bill out of his jxicket in taking out
his handkerchlof.
Lang himself made no additions to
his s'ory of Saturday, but his father,
David Lang, a dealer in real estate
who lives at 148 Lenox avenue, and
his mother were vigorous In the ex
pression of their belief that the boy
was not quite right In his mind.
The bill has not been found. The
fact that 21 hours elapsed between
tho time the messenger received the
certificate and his reappearance at
the broker's offices with the report
that he had lost It is an element tak
en Into consideration by the detec.
lives, who believed that a second per
son had a hand in the disappearance
of (he money.
VERDICT AGAINST HATTERS
By Judge's Order Jury Awarded Plain
tiff $222,000.
The jury in tho hatters' trial In
the V n I ted States circuit court at Hart
ford, Conn., after hearing the charge
by JudgJ James P. Piatt direct
ing It to bring in a verdict for the
plaintiff, fixed the amount of dam
ages which D. K. Loewe & Co,, hat
manufacturers, should recover from
Martin Lnwlcr and about 200 other
defendants at $74,000 because of a
strike and boycott of the plaintiff's
goods.
A? the Sherman anti-trust act un
der which the action was brought al
lows triple damages, Judge Piatt
multiplied tho $74,000 by three, mak
ing the amount lor which the defend
ants arc liable $222,000. The result
is a victory for tho Dunbury manu
facturer. He reckoned 'he loss to
his business caused by the strike of
July 23. 1JI02, and the boycott against
his hats that followed at $80,000 and
asked for $240,000 damages.
A stay of execution for sixty days
was granted. The defendants will
appeal to the circuit court of appeals.
Arrangements were made for a hear
Ing before- Judge Piatt at 11 o'clock
March 7. At that time a motion to
set fld the verdict as excessive will
be m g nod.
'ARMERS ORGANIZE
Formed Delaware Produce Exchange
For Selling and Shipping Fruits
and Vegetables.
Delaware farmers from all parts
of the state assembled at Dover,
Del., on Friday and organized the
Delaware Produce exchange for thd
packing, selling and shipping of fruits
and vegi'tables. James T. Shallcrosa
of New Castle county presided.
As President Shullcross put It,
Heretofore: we have had to beg the
transportation companies with our lit
tle offerings of legs than a carload.
Now with our aggregate products of
hundreds of carloads we will compel
them tu beg us."
Gold and Diamonds In Liberia.
Gold anj diamonds have been dis
covered In Libe.'1-la, about thirty miles
from tho coast, according to a reHirt
to this government by Charge d'Af-
fairos George W. Wellis of Monrovia.
L
EKford Pinchot Gives His Views
on Conservation Bills.
Three of the Bills, He Says, Are Posl
tlvely Bad, Two Are Good but Need
Slight Changes, and Two Are Bad
In Equal Proportion Waterpower
Bill Has Defects as to Contei vation
and Also Interest of the Companies.
Washington, Feb. 8. The National
Conservation association, of which
Gifford Pinchot Is president. Intends
to take an active Interest In politics
Mr. Pinchot has Issued a circular let-
ler to thp niembei8 of the association
outlining tho attitude to be assumed
by the members of that organization
towards nine bills relating to the con
sprvation of the natural resources of
the country Introduced In congress on
behalf of the secretary of the Interior,
in which the psnociation Is interested.
Ho advlaed the members of the as
soclaticn to write to their members
of congress on the subject. Two of
the bills, he said, are good but needed
slight ch;:i,ges. Two are bad in equal
proiKirtion. Three other bills are bad.
"Nothing is more important to this
association," the letter said, "than tho
passage of good laws for the protec
tion of our natural resources at pres
ent session of congress. For that rea
son your officers expect to keep in
touch with the progress of legislation
with the view to making reports when
action by the members is required."
Dlncussuig one of the bills, the wa
terpower bill, Mr. Pinchot said: "It
has conclusive defects whether seen
from the point of view of conservation
or from that of the waterpower com
panies. It Imposes on the datter re
strictions which are far more burden
some to them than they are valuable
to the government.
"Such is the possible unforeseen In
crease of charge at every ten year per
iod that It would seriously hamper the
financing of such enterprises. The
Immediate effect of the passage of
this bill would doubtless be to stop
the development of waterpower on
government land. The restrictions
on rates chanted to the public would
be easy to evade. The provisions
against monopoly are less effective
than those now in force under the sec
retary of agriculture, from whom by
a radical departure from existing
laws, and at the obvious cost of dupli
cation of work, It takes the control of
waterpower development In national
forests.
GIRL SWEPT OVER
AMERICAN FALLS
Deliberately Entered the River
about 50 Feet From the Brink.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., Feb. 8. Miss
Bettrice R. Snyder of Buffalo commit
ted suicide by going over the Amer
ican falls yesterday. She entered tho
river about 50 feet back from Pros
pect Point at the end of the railing.
She hesitated a moment and then
threw herself Inthe current, which tho
next instant swept her over the brink.
On the bank she left a handbag, hand
kerchief and a note which reads:
Dear Mama and Papa: May you
both forgive me for bringing this aw
ful disgrace upon you in these later
years of your life. Also may our
heavenly father forgive all my sins.
But T have always been very good,
thank God. You will find a slip for
the money- under your dresser scarf.
With my heart full of all the kindness
and tender love. With love to all.
Goodbye. Lovingly, Beatrice."
In her purse was a communicant's
card, signed by Dr. Edwin H. Dickin
son, pastor of the North Presbyterian
church of Buffalo. In nn Interview
following the suicide this minister
stated that Miss Snyder and her moth
er were in his study shortly after noon
Monday and that atfer they left his
study they went out In the street,
where Mrs. Snyder left hpr daughter,
who was supposed to go lo work In a
store where she was employed. He
could give no explanation of the
cause of suicide, which was a great
shock to hiin.
CONFLICTING REPORTS
President Madriz Claims a Victory
and So Do the Insurgents.
Washington, Feb, 8, Sepor Don
Luis F. Coren, former minister from
Nicaragua, who Is the representative
of the Madriz faction, received a ca
blegram from President Madriz claim
ing that his troops won a victory over
the 'nsnrfcents. The revolutionists,
the dispatch ndded, hud been sur-
Olllided mid defeated.
Olllcers of the state department,
however, do not believe that this dis
patch is correct U"ci"'e official re
port? have hem received at the navy
department saying that the insurg
ents won the battle.
Jose De Ollvares, the American con
sul at Managua, reported to the stato
department that a strict censorship
had been established at Managua by
President Madriz. The officers of tho
department believe this has been the
cause of the dearth of dispatches from
Managua within the last few days.
NOT
RESOURCES
KENNEDY'S STOCK
Rectrainccl From E;lng Transferred
by Ir.juncfOT In Minnesota.
No v Yovk, FlI). S. Tho stato ol
Minnesota hrs secured hii Injunction
aa-i-ui t:.o Great Northern railroad
by wh'ch it Is restrained from trans
ferring the EtocI; hold by the late
John Etcvri Kennedy. Tho ground
upr.n whlrh he Injunction was ob
talned was that tin heira of Mr. Ken
nedy are debt to the .nat.s of Min-tiei-ola
to the amoiii.t of ahoui $100,ik J
under tho inhc! it.mee tax !v of that
stele.
About two weekfr ago Attorney Gen
eral Simpson of .Minnesota, Assistpnt
Attorney General Weeks and Robert
W. De Forest, evscutor of John Stew
art Kerpf ily's will, held a conference
In Vow York. Subsequently the state
authorities soe-ured the Injunction
against tho railroad.
Mr. Deforest raid that the point
involved Is nev.- .to New York. "It Is
sn attempt or. the part of the state
of Minnesota," he said, "to collect an
Inheritance tax upon stock held in New
York."
TALK OF SECESSION
Sulzer Denounces Proposed Govern
ment of AlasWa by a Commission.
Warh.ngtrn, Feb. 8. Revolution,
secession, Indspendence were tho
features of a tall; Representative Sulzer
of New York put up to a .group of
Alaskans In tho shadow of Thomas
lefferson's statue In the house lohby.
"If." said he, "congress enacu this
iniqiiltioiis measure for the govern
ment of Alaska by an apixilntlve com
mission I i m in favor of Alaskans re
belling. They have every right to re
volt that the citizens of the thirteen
colonies had to revolt from the rule
of Geo-f,e III. The quarrel with the
dominant authority Is quite as lust.
They should secede from the United
States and establish a government ol
their own. If this be treason make
the most of it.
"I fear thr.t this so-called .idmlnlS'
tratlon measure for th'j government
of Alaska wli! pass," eonthried Mr.
Sulzer. "Every effort should be mrde
to stop it."
BEEF TRUST INQUIRY
Grand Jury Hears From Former Inde
pendent Packers and Butchers.
Chicago, Feb. 8. Witnesses from
New York appeared before Judge
Landis' federal grand Jury which Is In
vcstlgatlng the alleged beef trust.
They were former Independent pack
ers and officers of meat trafficking
companies that had come under the
ownership of the National Packing
company, the $15,000,000 Armour-
Swift-Morris firm suspected by the
government of being a trust.
Tho first witness from the East to
be called was Frederick Joseph, pres
ident of the New York Butchers'
Dreased Beef association. Other New
York witnesses now In Chicago to tes
tify are M. H. Joseph, his brother, who
arrived yesterday, aud Arthur Block
and Aaron Fiichbaum, also olllcers
of the Dressed Beef concern.
These men nnd the other Independ
ents who will tell what they know of
tin? absorption of this company by the
alleged trust were summoned last
weelt.
HOCKING COAL AND IRON
James R. Keene Notified to Appear
Before Commissioner Alexander.
New York, Feb. 8. James R. Keene,
the Wall street manipulator, showed
up before United States Commissioner
Alexander at the J. M. Fiske & Co.
bankruptcy hearing growing out of
the Hocking Coal and Iron ool
smash. Solomon Hauford, Mr. Keene'3
lawyer, asked for an adjournment un
til next Monday. He Bald that Mr.
Keene wanted time to prepare a
statement. Mr. Keeno was sworn
and then n.it Hied to be ou hand next
Monday again.
The statement which the receiver's
awyers have asked the Wall street
operator r, prepare will cover all his
transactions during the life of the
pool. The preparation of this state
ment will not, however, excuse Mr.
Keene from producing his books be
fore the commissioner.
BIG ELEPHANT EXECUTED
Strangled hy Noose and Trace Chain
Drawn by Horses In Opposite
Directions,
Kvansvllle, Ind., Feb. 8 Fargo, the
Vrgest elephant iu. tho Norris & Rowe
riicus, went lusHue and It was decided
to kill him a veterlnarles said he
would never be well. He has been
suffering from rheumatism for more
than a year and yesterday became un
manageable from the intense pain and
wiw pronounced crazy.
A noose was tied In the middle of a
large rope and the ends were run
through pulleys and each was fasten
ed to a trace chain and a dangler
from a harne-ised horse. When the
noose- had been adjusted the horses
were driven In opposite directions,
thus choking the big beast to death.
Mrs. Ford's Second Trial.
Cinrinuatl, Feb. 8. Prosecutor
Hunt requested Judge Swing of the
criminal court t sot the second trl'il
of Mrs. Je.iiuiette Ford, charged with
the blackmail of Charles T. Vurr!nnr,
defaulting Big Four railroad's ticas
tirpr. for Feb. 2:!. Attorney Thorn
dyke for the defense will ask for fur
ther tlmp to li-vi stigatp statements
by Warrlner on the witness stand.
Thorndyke prlletr-d an acquittal at
the Fccemd tri.il.
NEWSY
PARAGRAPH
i umnary of the Week's News
of the World.
Happenings From All Parts of the
Globe Put Into Shape For Easy
Reading What All the World Is
Talking About Cream of the News
Culled From Long Dispatches.
United States officers raided a fully
'quipped Illicit still In operation In a
itable at Ilayonne, N. J.
Mons. Weill of the noted French
family of steel manufacturers visits
Canada to perfect plans for a great
plant In the Dominion.
Louis R. Glnvls testified at the Bal-linger-P.'nthot
inquiry that he nad
been told that coal land owners pre
vcnied Mr Garfield's reappointment
to the cabinet.
Charles L. Warrlner, defaulting Big
Four treasurer, testifies In the trial
In Cincinnati of Mrs. Jeanette Stewart
Fold, charged with blackmail, that in
seven yinrB he paid her $81,000 for
her sllei.cn.
Thursday.
7e-althy women are halted by San
FranclKco customs authorities after
large quantities of undeclared duti
able goods are discovered.
Senator Ald'-ich's return to Wash'
ing'on Is signalized bv pledges that
the policies of the president will have
the right of wsy in congress.
A New Jersey grand jury finds 36,'
000 000 eggs kept In cold stor.ige in
Jersey City, waiting a rise in prices
to be sent to the New York markets
Ernest licit y Fackville-West's suit
for recrgnitirn as the heir of the late
Lord Lionel Sackville-West brings an
Interested crovd to the probate court
In London.
Friday.
Montr--l's city election results In
complete victory by large majorities
for the citizens' reform ticket.
S!xty-eii;iit men were killed anl
fifteen ir-jnrd by a coal mine explos
ion at La.s Esperanzas, .Mexico.
Anti-Suit'iagists call on Governor
Hughes and anne-unce that they will
make a determined fight against votes
for women
Edward Payson Weston left Pasa
dena. Cal.. on a walk across the con
tinent which he expects to complete
In ninety tlayF.
New JeiFey pledges f I.'i.OOO for pre
liminary surveys and borings for the
proposed Hudson river bridge from
179th streets to the Palisades.
Henry P. Toler. Christian Science
enthusiast ar.d supporter of Mrs. Stet
son, drowns in escaping from tho state
hospital for the Insane on Ward's is
land. Will i i d P. I'owen of a firm of in
suiance brckeis in Buffalo, in a fit
of temporary insanity, shot and killed
h's daughter Gladys and then killed
hlniseif.
Saturday.
Eight hundred employes of tho
Bethlehem Steel company went on
strike because their demand for time
and a half for overtime was refused.
Representatives of the religious and
fraternal press appear befoie the
house posloiiice committee to argue
against an inrrease In the second
class rate.
The Mi.dii. government charges the
Niciragunn conservatives witn plot
ting to fire on an American warship
at Corinto In the hope of bringing
about. I'nited States intervention.
Monday.
Professor Frost of the Yerkes ob
servatory my g Halley s comet is one
mllion times larger than the earth.
Vlvlsectien Reform., a new magazine,
makes It appMrume and stales its
position as rs.iinst the needless tort
ure of nnimals.
Secretary Wilson of tho department
of agriculture ays the high price of
living Is due lo a "miserable lot o(
small trusts."
An offer by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
lo con tribute $2.1,000 to defray the ex
penses oi a v. iiite slave Inquiry by the
grand Jury Is declined In New York.
Canada will not be able to recover
for the loss due to the Quebec bridge
disaster, reports George P. Graham,
Dominion minister of railways mid
canals,
The New York Ceniral purchases in
Monroe county the fli st of the demon
stiatlon farms which it will establish
for Ih"1 pmpoH.? of educating the farm
owners on how to increase production
Tuesday.
Th govenm"nt's food price Inquiry
promises to be wider than any one
dipatncd.
One hundred Nlcaraguan revolution
ists are reported to have been killed
In the battle al Santo Tomas.
Mons. Gohron's aeroplane in a
fight at Hell')M)lls, Egypt, caught
fire and ho fell thirty feet to tho
ground but was uninjured.
Hum-' n ?nd T, a foreman employed
by the nissara Linseed works, was
frozen to death while fishing through
the We in the lake at Buffalo.
I'lider the national Ineoriioration
hilt Introduced in congress yesterday
the charters will not exempt the hold
ers from the opcrailon of the Sherman
act.
Charles W. Fairbanks may not be
ipe!vd ip audience by the nope, the
r.'json I-ing that Mr. Fairbanks In
ti.dcd up : n fppiking at tho Ameriea'i
!l;h( d;.-t eliureh in Rome.
INCOME TAX EQUITABLE
Says Governor Fort In Special Min
tage to New Jersey Legislature.
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 8. Govcrnsr
Fort sent a special message to the leg
Ulature urging the adoption in thir
state of the proposed sixteenth amend
ment to the United States constitu
tion permitting congress to levy an In
come tax. Ths amendment has not
met with favor on the part of politi
cal leaders generally In this stale end
Its adoption by the legislature is re
garded an doubtful. The governor la
his message described an Income tax
as the most just and equitable form of
tax that ci'U be levied and says that It
Is evident that the burden of general
taxei is not proportionately borne by
all upon whom the burden rests.
"The citizen of moderate holdings,"
the message continues, "whether real
or persona), usually does not escape.
It has been stated with some semb
lance of certainty, that over 80 per
cent of nil the vested wealth of this
country la owned and controlled by
3,000 estates, corporations and Indi
viduals. If Is obvious 80 per cent of
the annual taxes levied is not borne
by the group just mentioned. It may
be that this estimate Is Inaccurate.
The casual observer, however, is con
vinced that the burden of the taxpay
ing is borne very largely, and out of
all due proportion, by the citizens of
moderate means."
LATEST GRAFT CASES
True
Bills Found Against Five
De-
fendants In Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Feb. 8. The February
grand jury took up the latest graft
cases in Pittsburg and brought in In
dictments against Delinquent Tax Col
lector M. G. Leslie, President Edward
R. Jennings of the Columbia National
bank of Pittsburg, Frank A. GrlnHi.
former cashier of the same bank;
Frank F. Nicola, a rich business man,
and Charles Stewart, a former Pitts
burg councilman.
Jennings and Griffin, who turned
statp's evidence at the preliminary
hearing, continued jglvilng evidence
for the state and were the only wit
nesses ex'imlned. True bills were
found against them on their own testi
mony, but it Is understood they will
not be prosecuted.
ARMOURS PLAN MODEL TOWN
Buy Hill City, Minn., Site and Wooden
Ware Company There.
Hill City, Minn., Feb. S. Armour &
Co. have begun to make Hill City a
model factory town. New houses are
under way and 175 families havo
moved from Ithaca and .Marble, Mich.
The Chlcaag packers ctosed a deal
with the owners of the Hill City town
site Saturday and will exend $200,-
000 In Improvements within a year.
They have purchased all the property
of the Hill City Wooden Ware com
pany. The Mississippi, Hill City and
Western rnilway, built Into this sec
tion six months ago, was backed by
Armour Interests.
MARKET REPORT
New York Provision Mrket.
New York, Feb. 7.
WHEAT No. 2 red, 91.28; futures
closed higher, May $1.17, July
$1.0S4.
CORN No. 2 white. In elevator.
new, 71c; futures unchanged, aiay
75Vc. July 74 c.
OATS Natural white, 26 to 32 lbs..
new, 52'(j.iic; cupped wnite, n to
42 lbs.. 4!)53c.
PORK Mess, $23.50(5 23.75; family,
$25.50g 20.00.
HAY Prime, $1.15fff 1.20.
BUTTER Creamery. specials.
30c; extra, 2J1aj; process, 23V4j!
1.S7; Btnte, per bbl., $ 1.50(f) 1.65.
CHEESE State full cream, spo-
clals, 17tt18c.
EGGS State and Pennsylvania,
31$ 36c.
POTATOES Maine, per bag, $1.50
28c; western factory, 22V4'324c.
Buffalo Provision Market.
Buffalo, Feb. 7.
WHEAT No. 1 northern, carloads,
$l.l!y; No- 2 red, $1.2h.
CORN No. 2 yellow, 6jV4c f. o. b.
afloat; No. 3 yellow, 64'4c.
OATS No. 2 white, Slc - b.
afloat; No. 3 white, 50 V c.
FLOUR Fancy blended patent,
per bbl., $6.507.25; winter family,
patent, $6.00(fJ6.75.
BUTTER Creamery, wesMi,
prints, 32c; state creamery, 30c;
ialry, choice to fancy, 28 29c.
CHEESE Choice to fancy, full
cream, 16'i((?17c; fair to good, 15
01 6c.
EGGS State selected white, 34c.
POTATOES White, fancy, per bu.,
5c; choice, 40?42c.
East Buffalo Livestock Market.
CATTLE Prime export stee-rs, $6.75
7.2.i; good to choice butcher steers,
$5.75 ft '6.25; choice cows, $5.00415.25;
choice heifers, $5.751' 6.00; common
to fair heirers. $4.23(T 5.50; common to
fair bulls. $3.00'ii3.50; choice veals,
$10.2510.50; fair to good, $9.75
10.00.
SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice
lambs,, $!t.00(f 9.23; yearlings, $7.75'iP
8.23; mixed sheep, $.V!wfff6.75.
HOGS Light Yorkers, $9.009.0:.;
medium and heavy hogs, $9.05(5 9.10;
pigs, $9.0(Kj9.10
Buffalo Hay Market.
TJraothy, No. 1 on track, $1S50T
19.00; No. i timothy. $17,007! 17.50;
Straw, wheat and oats, $10.00 'a; 10.50.