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Juittices vfthe JYaee G. A. Randall. D. W. Clurk. OuuHOumen. J. W. Landers, J. T. Dale, H. II, KobliiBon, Wm. Smearbaugb, J. W. JainleHon, W. J. Campbell. A, It. Kelly. Constable Charles Clark. Collector W. H. Hood. School Directors J. O. Scowden, R. M. llornmn, ().. Jntnlnson, J. J. Landers, J. R. Clark, W. U. Wyman. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress H. P.Wheeler. Member of Senate 3. K. P, Hall. AssenMyK. U. Mecbllng. President Judge Win. K. Rice. Associate Judge?, C. Hill, Samuel Aul. I'rothonotary , Register dt Recorder, te. -J. C. Heist. A'AenTTS. R. Maxwell. 'Iretuurer tleo. W. Holenian, CommiArioners Win. H. Hurrison, J. M. Zumidid, II. II. McClellnn. District Attorney M. A. (Jsrrlngnr. Jury Cominisnioners Ernest Kibble, Lewis Wagner. (kroner Dr. M. C Kerr. County Auditors (Jennie H. Warden, A. C. Gregg and J. P. Kelly. County Purveyor D. W. Clark. County Superintendent I). W. Morri son. Itnulnr Tern ml Caart. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of September. Third Monday of November. Regular Moetliign of County Commis sioners 1st and 8d Tuesdays of month. Church and Nabbnth Mchaal. PreHbyteriau Sabbath School at 9:46 a. til. M. K. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m. Preaching in M. K. Church every Sab bath evening by Rev. W. O. Calhoun. Preaching In the F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. K. L. Monroe. Pastor. Preaching In the Presbyterian church every Nablmth at 11:00 a. in. and 7:30 p. in. Itov. li. A. llailey, Pastor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each Ull'lltll. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. MM- NEST A LODOK, No. 309, 1. 0. 0. F. 1 Meets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hull, Partridge building. CAPT. UKOROK STOW POST, No. 274 O. A, R. Meets 1st Monday evening In each month. CAPT. G FORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, meets first and third Weduosday evening of each month. T. F. RITCIIKY, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Tionesta, Pa. MA. CARKINGER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. OuVe over Forest County National Bank Building, TIONESTA, PA. CURTIS M. 8HAWKEY, V' aTTORNEY-AT-LAVV, Warren, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. AC BROWN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Office in Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sis., Tionesta, Pa. I7RANK S. HUNTER, D. O. S. 1 Rooms over Citizens Nat. Bank TIONESTA, PI. DR. F.J. BOVARD, Physician A Surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. Eves Tested and Glasses Fitted. I) R. J. B. SIUGINS, 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 "1ENTKAL HOUSE, J GEKOW A UEROW Proprietor. Tionseta, Pa. This, is the most centrally located hotel in the place, and lias all the modern Improvements. No pains will bo spared to make it a pleasant stopping place for the traveling public First class Livery in connection. pUIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop over R. L. Haslet's grocery Btore on Elm street. Is prepared to do all KindH of custom work from the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion jriveti to mending, and pricos rea sonable. Electric Oil. Guaranteed for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Feet, PaiiiM. 4o. At all dealers Shoe Trembles Aromnst exasneratine. because un nccessury. Wear our shoes lo find shoe comfort, shoe service, shoe sat isfaction. There is never trouble on loot for the wearer of our 6bues, LAMMEES OIL CITY, PA. T Ifl HOSPITAL Jn Account of S'r et Car Riots In Philadelphia. Rapid Transit Company Sent All of Its Car to the Barns Sunday After noon Widespread Violence of Present Strike Unequaled by Any thing Seen In the Strike of Nine Months Ago Which Was Settled by Compromise. The hospitals in Philadelphia are badly overcrowded with persons who we'-e shot or beaten In the car strike Hots that spread viciously all over 'ihurban Philadelphia Sunday and .un day nli;ht. At least 100 got In the way of bullets or bricks or pav ing stones, and half of these were hurt seriously. The outlook was so alarming late In the afternoon, when the PhlladcLl phla Rapid Transit company wltWk drew every one of Its cars from ser vice and scut them to the barns, that Mayor Reyburn authorized Henry i "lay, the d'ector of public afcty, to recruit 4,000 extra policemen If pos sible The regular force of 3,300 was itterly unable to (mother the trouble. There is a distinct fear that Clay ind Tim O'U-ary even with 4,000 ex tra men may not be able to make the (reels safe for citizens. There was .ever a day In the strike of nine months ago when things looked as ugly as they did last night. The widespread violence that broke cut In twenty places at once during the twenty-four hours has indicated to thns familiar with the attitude of the company slid of the strikers that un less pcinehody with a strong hand Jtepa In, Philadelphia is In for big trouble. Uiiefly, the situation is Just this: The former strike was settled by a compromise that pleased nobody. The rapid transit company and the strik ers were brought together by Jim Me Nichols, the Republican boas, because in election was imminent and Pbll- idelphla was disgusted with the atti tude of the machine. The company knew that the fight was being delayed merely, and it went to work to fortify itself against the time when it could refuse to compromise. In Snuih Philadelphia alone twenty persons wi-ie so badly hurt that they had to be sent to the hospitals. Here, as elsewhere all over the rim of the city, many wc hurt whose names the police could not even attempt to get ar.d whose Injuries were treated In drug stores or at their own homes. The estimate of one hundred furnish ed by the police. Included only those who pot hospital treatment. SMOOT'S AMENDMENT To Postal Savings Bank Bill Objec tionable to President. Senator Smoot of Utah was invited to the White House and President Taft urged him to move for a re consideration of the vote by which the srnate adopted Mr. Smoot's amendment to the postal savings bank bill, and lo permit the amendment to be withdrawn The Smoot amendment provides fur the deposit in banks within the state where the postal funds are re ceived by postmasters, and In the con tingency that the banks should refuse to accept the deposits on the terms offered the funds on being sent to the L'nited States treasury under the gen eral provision!? of the bill are to be Invested lu government securities and other approved state, municipal nnd locil securities. President Taft told Senator Smoot that he feared that the proposed amendment if it remained in the bill, would make the law unconstitutional. Senator Smoot did not agree with the president but said frankly that he would not Insist on his nmepdment if the president and his legal advisors were convinced that It might impair the constitutionality of the proposed legislation. 3.200 Ml LESBY TROLLEY Sherman Inaugural Guzrds Plan Re union and Trip From Utica te Duluth. The citizens of Oneida and Herkim er counties who formed the committee representing thi congressional distrlot k( the inauguration of President Tuft and Vice President Sherman last .March and acted as escort to the lat ter In the inaugural parade, in Wash ington, have laid plans for a reunion Bnd long distance trolley trip from Utica to Duluth, Minn., next June. It Is exacted that Vice President Sherman will accompany the party. The projec t was conceived by C. Loom is Allen, vice president of the Utica and Mohawk Valley and the Oneida Railway companies. It is proposed to take two of the large cars of the Onei da railway and lit them out in the fashion of Pullman cars and lo make the all-el.ictilc trip ill them. The Itinerary will he so arranged that stops will be made at night in the principal cities, while the journeying Will be during the day. The trip will be from Utica to Buf falo, to Cleveland, to Columbus, to J'oit Wayne, Ind., to Indianapolis, to Chicago, to Milwaukee, to St. Paul nnd to the Duluth end of the continu ous electric cur connection. It Is ex pected that the trip will occupy about fourteen days. The distance Is about 3,200 miles. 18X10,000 MAIL BOXES Mil Have to Be Made If Provision In Postofflce Bill Is Adopted. There will bo h good-sized commotion l.n this cotintiy when the most Interest ing provision of the ioatofllce appro prlatlon bill reported to the housn by Representative Weeks (Mass.), chairman of the committee on postof flees nnd post roads, becomes gen erally known. The measure contains a provision prohibiting any letter carrier from delivering mall at any house unless there Is a suitable mall box conveniently placed on the out side to receive It. This radical prop osition will go into effect, If congress approves of It, on June 30, 1911. This means that when the bill be foms effective the mill box manu facturers of the country must make about 18.000.QO0 mall boxes, which v.'lll cost the prople of the country more thnn $20,000,000. The commit tee cxprcts there will bo something of a hcwl raised hut figure that the gov ernment will save $4,000,000 a year by neans of the boxes. Af'er numer ous experiments the committee deter mined that the average postman spends between 15 and 30 seconds nt pach house ringing the dporbell and waiting for a response. The com mittee says that the provision will reduce the number of carriers or greatly In.-ronse their service and efficiency. DEALING IN GRAIN FUTURES Prohibition Would Have Serious Con sequences, Committee Was Told. If dealing in grain futures Is prohib ited there vill be chaos In produce business circles, according to former President Fitch of the Chicago board of trade, who appeared before the lioue committee on agriculture. "That would bo just the result if this committee bill prohibiting deal ings in futures became a law," said Mr. Fitch "We world have to do business or. a large margin. Person ally 1 would have to reconstruct every financial Interest that I have in the West. The chaos would stretch all the way fiom the farmer to the ex po rtpr." While tnlkiiitr about grains Mr. Fitch Incidentally made tha predic tion that "unless congress wants the country to go hungry, it must remove the duty from wheat." John Messnme of St. Louis told the committee the proposed legisla tion would havo serious consequences. The witnesses who appeared before the committee included delegates from the grain exchanges In Chicago. St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Minne apolis Duluth. Milwaukee, Toledo, Buf falo, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. DEMAND FOR NEW ROAD Attorneys For B., R. & E. Prepared to Show Road Can Be Built For $35,000,000. Attorneyi for the proposed Buf falo, Rochester and Eastern railroad are now prepared to show that not only Is the demand for the rail ro:.d gtneial tioni one end of the state to tho ether, but that it can be built for the sum mentioned by them In their application $X5,000,000. By the testimony of James C. Boyd, ex pert engineer connected with the firm of WeEtlnghom-e, Church, Kerr & Co,, It !s expected the commission will be convinced of the feanibility of the route of the proposed railroad from an englaeirlng standpoint and of the fact that he railroad can be con structed for the amount stated by the promoters. The commission has ex pressed the belief that the railroad cannot be constructed for less than $100,000,000. Kefoie the hearing is concluded the attorneys hope to have proved beyond, a doubt that the company will have no dlfliculty In rinmoing the construc tion and can obtain $100,000,000 as easily an it can get $85,000,000, the sum which it claims would be neces sary to build the road and place it upon an operating basis. PRICE OF MEAT TO DECLINE If Farmers Resort to Increased Pro duction of Livestock, Say Ryan. Michael Ryan, president of the Cincinnati Abbatoir company and one of the organizers of the American Meat Packers' rssociatlon, was a witness before the federal grand Jury at Chicago. After he left the grand fury room he spoke of the meat pacK Ine Industry and declared tbat a shortage of crops and the raising of too few animals for slaughter were responsible for the present high prices of meat. Though he would not say 3d, it was understood that In effect tic told the grand jury the same thing. Mr. Ryar. declared that the prices Df meats would decline to a normal basis within one year if the coming ueason's crops were plentiful and if the farmers resorted to Increased pro duction of livestock lu view of the pm-nit h!:-rh pi Ices. He said the an nual saleh of meals amount to about $l.?fi0,Oiiil.O'l0, of which amount 60 per cent Is sold by the Independent dcul trs. nnd further that the meat business was so extensive that it was impos jible for any one organization to con trol it. Indict'on of Jeffries' Confidence, fvew VgrK, Feb. 22. According to II. II. Krazee of Chicago, who man aged tho Jeffries-Ootch theatrical lo'ir, the boilermaker is so confident of whipping Jack Johnson that he has already Bigncd a contract to make -8 tour of the world. T OK LORDS Mr.AsquithPrcm'cesaCill Deal ing With It Will Ce Introduced. Until a Division Has Been Taken as to Question of House of Lords It Is Not the Intsntion of the Govern ment to Let the Budget Pass to the Upper Chamber Redmond Prelects Against Premier's Program. London, Feb. 22. The point in the king's speech which instantly impress ed his hearers by Its momentous ai r.iilcance was that he failed to Identify I'limself w'th the "opinion of my ad visers" uion the proposed measures for limiting the powers of the house of lords. Heretofore, almost without exception, British sovereigns have followed the constitutional practice ol enunciating declarations on the policy of the government In power as their own. Balfour Criticise King's Speech. After the usual humble address in reply to the speech from the throne had been moved and seconded, Right Hon. Arthi.r J. Balfour, the Unionist leader, arose nnd said that whatever else might be said of the "gracious speech from the throne" there was very little in it. The only legislation foreshadowed, he declared, was Borne alteration In tne relations of the house of lords and house of commons and possibly some alterations In the constitution of the house of lords. The terms of the speech, he said, were highly ambiguous. Mr. Baltour went, on to say: "When the budget recoh es the cold and chilly, but numerically adequate sup port of this house it doubtless will be come a law. I believe that the ma jority of the constituencies of Great Britain are prepared to support the budget, but It cannct be pretended that Ireland favors It. Ireland ab stains from op;osing the budget be cause it thinks the Interests of home rule override those of finance. If the budget were Isolated from ali other questions it would be rejected. "If the premier's home rule speech Just before the election had been tak en seriously in England as it was In Ireland all other questions would hive been dwarred. I have had 149 campaign speecnes delivered by mem bers of the cabinet analyzed nnd in only one !s there a voluntary refer ence to heme rule "Xot only th9 lords themselves but all parties In the commons desire that the upper house be reformed. The La bor party T.'ant to abolish it altogether. The English and the Scotch want the reforms as an amendment to the con stitution under which we live, but th Nationalists wish it because the want to get out from under the con stitution altogether." Budget and Veto Bill to Be Passed. Mr. Asipilth speaking for the gov ernment said that- a resolution deal ing with the question of the vetc power of the house of lords would be Introduced And would be carried through before the Easter holidays. Lata these resolutions would be em bodied In a bill. To expedite legisla tion the government proposed that the house should adjourn at Easter for only three days. Business would then go on till the budget and the resolutions affecting tho lords were dlsprse 1 of. In re(ly to questions Mr. Asquith explained that It was not the inten tion of the government to let the bud get pass from the control of the com mons Until a division had been tak en sb to the house of lords It was not the Intention to let the budget pass to the upper ch.imber, The premier than Btated that the house would be asked to paBS the budget before the Easter adjournment with nn materlil changes therein ex cept the necessary one as to dates, etc. John Redmond protested strongly against the order of the governments progiam. The Nationalists, he said, stood now as always apart as an In dependent body allied with no party They supported the government It tho last election because of tne pre mier's pledge of home lule, "If the premier will give a reason, able assurance that he will be able to carry the veto bill to a successful passage this year the NntlonallHtu will vote for the budget, but we art not willing to nav that price for noth ing." Prime Minister Victim of Assassin. Cairo, Feb. 22. Prime .Mlnistei lotrons Pasha, who was shot by a fanatic while leafing the ministry o foreign affairs Funday, died at li o'clock ntxt morning. The assassin belongs to a society which aims tq se pure the triumph of the nationalist cause by ineajis of terrorizing people. Wavdlnl, the assassin, gives, amuou. other thing?., us th! reason for his act the fact that the late premier signed the bill for the special commission which was authorized to place sus peeled Nationalists under surveillance. Vreeland For State Chairman. Washington, Feb. 22. According to views expressed by many members of the Nc'.v York delegation in th6 house, Representative Edward E Vreeland of Salamanca would be tht ideal man to succeed Timothy L. Woodruff as chairman of the Repub lican state committee of New York Mr. Vreeland himself said: "I am em phatlcally not a candidate." AUAI?:5T GUVbKNUK'S PLAN irC'i.'rt've Commirsion Makes Report on D'rect Nominations. Allf.ny, Fib. 22. The legislative roinmlSHMii apro'nted last year to In i.uiro into nppratlon of direct nom Inat'ons 1.1-.V3 in other states reported to the legislature last night flatly against GTVornor Hughes' alleged di rect noin'r. 'tlnns law, the essential feature of which abolishes the party convention. Senator George L. Mend of Roch-e?tc'- was chairman of this commis sion, and while they retain the time honorrd convention plan for nominat ing candidates In a bill introduced cn behalf of the commission, radical changes in the existing method of hold'ng primal ies and selecting dele gates to conventions are recom mended At the ovtset the commission de clared thai even if direct nominations were advisable In this state that be fore such a scheme should be put Into operation, the constitution should be amended ro as to permit the use of the so-called short ballot. The com mission's bill establishes a uniform primary day throughout the state about the middle of September. An official primary ballot is provid ed at public expense and delegates to all conventions shall be named at the primary at tho one time, while coun ty, town and ward committeemen alsc must be elected by a direct vote at the primary. ALLDS TRIAL RESUMED Allegations That Town Boards Were Fixed by Agents of Bridge Companies. Albany, Feb. 22. Despite whatevei efforts have been made to check the scandal growing cut of the trial ol Senator Jothnm P. Allds it looked to day as though nothing could avert a further Investigation. Memhers ol the legislature who represent some of the nearby country districts have been asked to get to the bottom of al legations made that town boards wer? "fixed" by agents of the bridge com panies. Jumes W. Osborne, counsel for Sen ator Conger, said: "1 don't care who they bring Into it, as long as I show that we wf-re not going outside of th specifications we made In this case td drag In dead or living legislators. II counsel on the other side can unearth any new scandals, why that's theli own business." Senator Allds will not be called tc tostify until afler sll his witnesses have been heaid. It Is understood that an efiort will be made by the de fence to show that bridge companies in which the Congers were largely in tereted have been In collusion foi years; that by an agreement amon? these companies bids were raised and a rake off secured by the other com panies from the one securing the con tract. Allds' lawyers will assert thai tha bridge companies for years made a specialty of bribing town boards and of other various methods, AVOID 'ROOSEVELT INCIDENT Catholic Dignitaries, Mindful of Fair banks, Confer on Visit. Rome, Feb. 22. Mgr. Kennedy had a long Interview with Cardinal Merrj Del Val, the papal secretary of state on the Fairbanks Incident and alsc on the prospect arising In connectioi. with ex-President Roosevelt's visit Colonel Roosevelt also has promised to make mi address before the Ameri can Methodist body hre, and, al though tho Vatlcnn authorities are In tensely nnxious to honor him, tin pope must adh"ic to the precedent he has set In the Fairbanks case. If Colonel Roosevelt's audience wltl the pope Is arntnred Immediately upoi his arrival In Rome he will be free te address the Methodist society after ward. The Vatican authorities are nnxlou! to hive It understood that their ob Jecticn Is not to any Protestant vlsl tor addressing bis own co-religlonlsts but that, owing to the methods ol this particular community and its at titude to the Vatican, It Is Impossible for n pope with any self-respect to re celve anybody who Identifies hlmsell with these methods. PLANT SPECIES TO ORDER Radium Rays Are Tried to Create New Varieties of Flora. Colnmblr, Mo., Feb. 22. Plants In the future may be made to older, nc cording to Professor C. Stuart Gagei of the College of Agriculture, wlu. for the last two years has been exper imenting with radium in the agrlcul turn' laboratories of tho Unlversltj of Missouri, An entirely new species of prim rose has been originated by the use of radium here, and it has held true to the new form through three gener ations of I he plant. Th color of the flower was chanced, and the leaves changed from broad to narrow, li; addition to creating new species It If possible either to accelerate or retard the growth of seeds and plants by ex posing them to the action of the ra dlum rays. Irish Nationalists Need Funds. Dublin, Feb. 22. The Freeman's Journal p'iuts a manifesto of the United 111 h parliament!!! y and Na tionalist funds committee appeuline for money to replete the empty war chest. The trustees of the fund say the appeal Is vitally urgent owing tr the pi ol abl'lti' of the immediate disso lutlon of parliament. IMQT li 1 Pithy Paragraphs that Chr:-.' ' the Week's Doings, Long Dispatches From Various f of the World Shorn of Their Pa. and Only Facts Given In as . Words ss Possible For the Bcr. of the Hurried Reader. Speaker Cannon leaves the chair I defend majority rule In the hous? c representatives. live hogs old yesterday at the Chi cago stockyards at the highest mar!', with one exception. In 40 years. Captain B. S. Osbon attacks Mr. Robert E. Peary as a "selfish egotist" and says bis promotion to the grade of rear admiral would be a blot upon conrresn. For the first time In five years Eu ropean egiis ate now being imported Into this covntry. They are shipped by brokers from Hull, England, but were gjtnered originally from Aus tria, Fiance end Germany. Thursday. Sens tor Tillman loses his fight foi the cm.tody of his two little grand daughters. Havana celebrates anniversary ol the destruction of the Maine with elaborate ceremonies. Senator Conger declares on stand that the bridge companies raised a corruption fund in 1902 and placed it In Uie band! of the Republican state chairman. C'ovtmcr Halley of Missouri chal lenglng Sei ator Stone to authorize a recount of ballots In the senatorshlp fight, ofi'ci ? to appoint Joseph W. Folk if Mr Stun? will resign. Joreph Ci ambci Uiln put in an ap penrance In the house of commons for the first time, since he was stricken wHh pav.tly.-'ls. lie was too weak tc sigu tho membership i oil. The at'noi n cement that the United Stftes will grant its minimum tariff rates to J. -pan has been received by the commercial Interests of the em plnj with 're llvt-li st satisfaction and has created an excellent impression generally. Friday. . Senator Conger declared that As semblymar. Burr.Ut received nionej In '.aniieetion with legislation, and bribes I.cuiR Bedell Into the case. Governor Hughes orders a sweep Ing Investigation of the forest, fish and gam? department, in an effort tr. bare alleged extensive land frauds. New York dealers in food products, opposing nn oidlnnnce Introduced by Alderman Dnwllug, assert that cold storage eipiaiizes prices to the con suim-r. Te Paris chamber of commerce and the Fruuh Minister of foreign af fairs tube steps to offset the report of Increased cost of living and epidem ic ;:e-rli In Ike capital of France be cause of the recent flood. Saturday. Sweeping changes have been made In the administration's railway bll niui a subsii.'iite measure introduced In the house. S'lir.tor Tiimati's cundition Is alarm Inp. He Is unconscious and thost close to the family have lost hope foi his recovery, Flghty-eipiit survivors, left on tht hulk of the Lima, In the straits of Ma gellf.n, hi've been rescued ten days after rh wieck by the Ministro Zen teno, a Chililau cruiser. Mr. Hoosevelt's party has reached Gondokoro, In the Soudan, having practically rtn'ofl African jungle ml ventures, and the return to eivili.a tlon will be by easy stages. Monday. President Taft may be forced tc make special efforts to save his con cress program for two new battleship.1 this year. Man posing as .lames A. Currle, cap Itallst. Is Identified as "Red" Adams swindler of International reputation no-v in the Tombs. Eitoimv t-c lies result In the rolch stag from r:i iit:i pll-j,tion by the So cialists asking the Imperial chancelloi Ills position on universal suffrage. Might' m-n convicted of counterfeit Ing In New York are sentenced tc long periods of iniprbonimnt. a 3D year term being Impised on Ignazlc l.upo. "il.e Wolf." who Is a fugitive from .tuslico in Inly. Governor Hughes Is proposed foi tempni ary chairman of the slate con venllon, md Mr. Itoo.sevolt for perm unent chaii in in. by New York R -pub licans In Wellington, anxious to les sen the effect of the bribery 3candal. Tuesday. Several dls lnct earthquake shocks were felt dining a storm in Cheshire England. Richard Watson Gilder's life Is held up a:; an example of high Idea's, at a ineiii'irial meeting In New York. The Fgyptlan premier was shot thro" times by a student, who belonged to h political pn'-.y ho.-tile to the gov nnnvMit. An audience ot 2,000 persons at me rnerial services in Carnegie hall ap pen'i to congress to raise the Maine and iccover 'he bodies from th( wracked battleship in Havana harbor. l ire swept through the business sec tion of lloiuell, causing a loss of morf li a I $I2.i inn The lire started lt the W'tvo -t' r-Macy company, a large rk-partmjni s'tue. nod entirely de slrcytJ tho block. SHORTER I K ira L 70 L CAR OVER EMBANKMENT One Man Was Killed and Many Per sons Injured at New Castle. New Castle, Pa., Feb. 22. One man was killed and the conductor was the only one of twenty other persons aboard who were not severely Injured in tho wreck of a Pittsburg, Harmony, Butler and New Castle street car Sun day night. The car was descending Taylor street hill when it left the rails and dashed down a 150-foot em bankment, overturning when It struck two cars, loaded with limestone, on another railroad at the foot of the embankment. J. R. Barnhart, 25 years old, believed to be a resident of this plane, was killed. Ida Murphy, 14 years old, was perhaps fatally Injured, and nineteen others have broken arms and legs sprained hips, lacerations and bruises. Mrs. Percy Simpson emerged from the wreck to find her baby missing, but her hysterics were suddenly turn ed into ecstacy when she found the Infant safely lodged in another wo man's arms. CREAKING FLOOR CLEARS COURTROOM Girls Accused of Fighting on Train Draw Big Crowd, Irwin, Pa., Feb. 22. The snapping of rafters and creaking of the floor at the courtroom of Justice J. C. Fred erick precipitated a rush for safety among patrons in a barber shop be low, while the crowd that packed the courtroom lost no time in getting out the door and the session was ad Journed without formality. The unusual throng was attracted by testimony expected In hearings growing out of alleged personal en counters among young women of this vlcln'ty employed at the Westing house shops in Kast Pittsburg. Some thing like a feud is said to have exist ed during the past week, culminating Friday night, it is said, In a hand-to-hand battle on the train bringing tho girls home from work, and on the sta tion platform at I-arlmer. FaceB aro reported to have been scratched, while wraps and millinery suffered. Larimer gills swore out warrants before Justice Frederick charging two girls of Larimer, and another girl of Irwin, with assault and battery. Across the hall In Justice Thomas Milep' court another Larimer girl charged the same defendants with as sault and battery and surety of tha pence. While awaiting belated wit nesses the floor started to give way, nnd the cases were continued until next Saturday, when spectators will be barred, according to the officials. The trouble, it Is alleged, started at a lunch time "kidding match" over beaux. TWENTY-FIVE HURT IN PANIC Two Seriously Injured When Opera House Floor Collapsed. Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 22. Twenty five persons were hurt when the floor of the Opera House at Patton, 20 miles north of here, collapsed while an audience of several hundred were leaving at the close of the perform ance. A panic ensued, women and children being bruised and trampled in the struggle to reach exits. A stove overturned, but men nearby succeeded in preventing any serious outbreak of flames, and little damage was done, excepting through a few persons com ing In contact with redhot coals. A young son of John Wilkinson sus tained a fractured nose and arm in the scramble for the door. A. L. Kauffmaui), a telephone lineman, was near the stove when It fell and he suf fered painful burns. Others received minor Injuries. LAD SEEKS MISSING FATHER Ten-Year-Old Boy Has Called at Post office Vainly For Two Years. Oly pliant, Pa., Feb. 22. For two years, since Morgan Williams sudden ly disappeared, leaving a wife and two children, Chester, then eight years old, nnd Valeda. aged six, the boy has called at the iKistolfice and inquired for a "letter from impa," which never caino. For a year both children met all trains stopping at the station and watched the crowds In hopes- thai their father might bo among them. About a year ago tho girl gave up tha trips, but the boy's faith still lln gered and he makes his daily trips to the postolllce, no matter what tht weather may be. Only once has Williams been heard from and that was indirectly from Sayre, Pa., but he disappeared again before his family could reach him. Preacher Good Collector. Butler. Pa., Feb.' 22. Followini evangelistic meetings conducted her by Rev. Dr. W. W. Orr of Charlotte N. C, In which 300 were converted conscience mony Is being paid local merchants. Last evening a convert paid a grocer bill supposed to be be yond collection. Girl Is Drowned While Coasting. Ii'vln, Pa., Feb. 22. 1'iiable to stoj their sled. Oscar and Helen Deter aged 5 and 7 respectively, plunged into Brush creek while coasting. Th little girl was drowned and her Ixulv bus not been recovered. The b) waa rescued.
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