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Reck. Justices oflhs Peace O, A. Randall, D. W. Clark. Oouneiimen. J.W. Landers, J. T. Dale, O. 1). Roblnaon, Wm. Smearbaugh, J. W. Jamleaon, W. J. Campbell, A. B. Kelly. Constable Charles Clark. Collector W. U. Hood. School Directors J. O. Soowden, It. M. Herman, Q. Jainleson, J. J, Landers, 1. R. Clark, V. O. Wyman. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress H. P.Wheeler. Member of Semite 3. IC. P. Hall. Assembly A. H. Mechllng. President Judge Wui. E. Rice. Associate Judges P. C. Hill, Samuel Aul. Prothonotary, Register Recorder, tie. -J. 0. Oelst. Sheriff S. R. Maxwell. Treasurer Oeo. W. Uolenian. Commissioners Win. H. Harrison, J. M. Zuendel, II. H. MoClellan. -District Attorney M. A. Carrlnger. Jury Commissioners Ernest Hlbble, Lewis Wagner. CbroJur Dr. M. O Kerr. County Auditors Gnorge H. Warden, A. C. Gregg and J. P. Kelly. County Surveyor D. W. Clark. County Superintendent D. W. Morri son. Hecalar Tenai f (!art. Fourth Monday of February, Third Monday of May. 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Letters of Administration on the estate of Sarah Walters, late of Tionesta Bor ough, Forest County, Ps., deceased, hav ing been granted to the undersigned, all persons Indebted to said estate are hereby notified to make payment without delay. and those having claims or demands will present tbem, duly authenticated, for settlement. W, H. Hood, Adm'r, Tionesta, Pa. T. F. Bitohky, Attorney. Notice to Contractors. The Commissioners of Forest County will receive sealed blda for tightening loose bolts, removing rust snd scales and paluting the following bridges: Bridge at mouth of Hickory Creek, East Hickory, and bridge near Nebraska, known as the State Bridge. Description or bridges can be seen at the Commissioners' office in the Court House. Contractor to fuaainb paint, which must be of good quWilty. Bids will be opened on tbe first Tuesday of May, 11)10. Commiesioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. W. a. HARRISON, J. M. ZUKNDKL, H. U. 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On March 23 Ambassador Lelshman Cabled to Cairo That the Holy Fa ther Would Be Glad to Grant an Audience to Mr. Roosevelt and Hoped Nothing Would Arise to Pre vent It Roosevelt In Reply Declin ed to Make Any Stipulation. Colonel Roosevelt will not be re ceived by the pope, according to the Outlook, of which the colonel Is a con tributing editor. In Its issue Monday morning the Out look says that Plus 1X who Is lately in possession of a complete set of Colonel Roosevelt's works, endeavored to Impose conditions before Colonel Roosevelt even thought of taking steps or making engagements thtt might have been distasteful to the Vatican. It Is gathered from the cablegrams that passed between Minister Irish man and Colonel Roosevelt, the popa feared a repetition of the Fairbanks incident and desired to utter a gentle hint In time. The Outlook' states though that It Is authorized to say that Mr. Roosevelt had not directly or Indirectly communicated with the Methodists or any one else and had not made any agreement to speak to or receive anybody. "He entered Rome," the Outlook says, "with no arrangements of any kind save an audience with the king, so that the Vatican, in endeavoring to impose conditions upon him, acte-i before he even thought of taking steps for any engagements whatever " As soon as Colonel Roosevelt left the Jungle at Gondokoro In February he wrote to Ambassador Lelshman at Rori'p saying that he would be glad of the hone, of a presentation to His Hollnrps. At Cairo he received a dlt patch from Mr. Lelshman as follows: "Rome, March 23. The rector of the American Catholic college. Bishop Kennedy, In reply to an Inquiry which I caused to be made, requests that the following communication be trans mitted to you. It begins: 'The Hob Father will be delighted to grant an audience to Mr. Roosevelt on April 5, and hopes that nothing will arise to prevent It, such as the much re setted Incident which made the re ceptlon of Mr. Fairbanks Impossible." Mr. Roosevelt replied In a telegram dated March 25 In which he said: Please present the following to Bishop Kennedy: 'It would be a real p'pasure to me to be presented to the Holy Father, for whom I entertain high respect, both personally and as the head of a great church. I fully recognize his entire right to receive or not receive whomsoever. he chooses far any reason that seems good to him. and If he does not receive me, I shall not for a moment question the propriety of his action. On the other band I, in my turn, must decline to make any stipulation or submit to an conditions which would In any way limit my freedom of conduct. I trust that on April 5 he will And It conven ient to receive me. "Theodore Roosevelt." This reply was communicated to the Vatican on the same day and on March 28 Bishop Kennedy was Instructed to send the following communication: "His Holiness would be moat pleased to grant an audience to Mr. Roosevelt, for whom fce entertains high esteem, both personally and as the former president of the United States. His Holiness recognizes Mr. Roosevelt's entire right to full freedom of con duct. On the other hand, in view of circumstances for which neither His Holiness nor Mr. Roosevelt. Is respon sible, an audience could not take place except on the understanding expressed in the former message." Mr. Lelshman telegraphed this to Mr. Roosevelt at Cairo, and the latter on March 29 telegraphed to the am bassador: "The proposed presentation Is of course now Impossible." TWO TEACHERS KILLED Masked Burglar Surprised Four Wo men and Demanded Money. A masked burglar shot and killed Miss Rlackstone, a teacher In the Jef ferson school at Sprlnglield, Mass., and fatally wounded Mrs. Dowd, In tlihe Round Hill section ot the city early Friday night The murderer made his escape but the whole city Is being scoured by the police. Two suspects have been tak en into custody. The burglar made his appearance In the parlor where four women were sitting about a table trying to solve a jig saw puzzle. Ke demanded money and as Miss Itluckstone started to run from th room ho commanded her to stop, threatening to shoot, but she did not het'd him. The burglar fired one shot which penetrated her back, go ing through tht h?art, killing her In stant ly. Mrs. Dowd threw up her arm In an attempt to grasp the burglar and was Ehot through the head. She will die. Violation of Commodities Clause. liallroads violate tho commodities clause of the Interstate commerce act it" they operate cars from which meatti, groceries, shoes, overalls and other wearing npparel are sold to employes. Many carriers havo for several years operated cars with stocks of such merchandise bur, it has been ordered by the commission to discontinue the practice. MINERSJUIT WORK Failure to Sign New 8cale Necessi tated a Shutdown. At 6 o'clock on Thursday night practically every miner of the 45, 000 In the Pittsburg district walk ed out of the mines and at mid night not a wheel was turning. The rcnle expired at midnight and owing lo Its not being again signed for the coming year the strike Is on. While strike leaders declare that It will be a matter of but a few days until the scale granting the advance asked is signed, there Is bitter dig appointment over it having been nec essary to close the mines. Now that they have been closed operators say they will not be in a hurry to open them. The operators are prepared for a long strike. Not In years have the mines run as full as In the past two months and coal Is stocked up heav ily at every available point. It. comea mt that the river Interests have pool ed issues with the railroads and mines in this strike and great tows of coal supposed to be rent south by the river have been tied up and will not be allowed to leave the Pittsburg poolp until all danger of strike Is over. Though mcit of the river coal was loaded to (111 pressing orders In the foiith. thes" orders have been can celled and the coal will be held. The worlmen declare they are In hotter conulMon to handle a fight than ever, before, that they have more money In the treasury and that the operators eie pressed with orders and cannot afford a long strike. INCREASE OF PAY New York Central and Boston and Albany Announce New Scale Effective April 1. Tho New York Central announced It had made the following Increases of pay to Its employes, effective April 1: The pay of yurd conductors and yard brakemeu In all yards Is Increased 3 cents per hour. The wages of all other employes receiving a monthly salary of $200 or less Is Increased 1 per cent, with the following excep tions: A Employes of the engineering and malntpnance of way department. Exception F- Conductors and train men and employes Included In the telegraphers' schedule, the wages of these employes now being under con sideration. At the same time the Boston and Albany mad 3 corresponding Increases In wages. I" accordance with the fol lowing scUdule: The wages ot all employes having a monthly salary of $200 per month or less are In creased 7 pr cent, with tho follow ing exceptions- Yard conductors and vrd brakemen, who are increased 3 cents per hour; employes ot the en gineering ai.d maintenance of ways department, whose salary will be ad justed on a varying scale according lo local conditions and character of work performed. DREAD GYPSY MOTH Orchardist'k Arch Enemy Appears on Long Island. The dread gypsy mot h Is report ed to have been discovered on Long Island In a railroad freight car con taining nursery stock from Mas sachusetts and the state department of agriculture has taken steps to pre vent the spread of the pest. The legislature recently appropriat ed $50.(100 as an emergency fund to bo used in combatting the moth should It enter the state. When the great gypsy moth begins to emerge for its annual feast on the foliage It. will encounter 1,000,000 for eign enemies which were not In the woods last summer. One hundred col onies of the little Japanese parasite, known as the Bchedius, have just been planted from the lnsectory by W. F. Fiske. In each colony there are about 10,000 parasites. These colonies have been liberated in dif ferent parts of the Infected area. In three months about 1,000,000 more will be liberated. They attack the gypsy moth eggs, showing a marked preference for the eggs In which the embryonic cater pillars have developed. With one of these in Its way the little gypsy moth caterpillar will have slight cnances of ever reaching the foliage on the trees. NEW EDIBLE FRUIT California Horticulturist Makes Dis covery From Rose. Hugo Lili-nthnl, a horticulturist of Berkley, Cal., announces the discov ery of an edible fruit from the ".mbing rose. He declares that this fruit .will iu course of time take the place of the loganberry, to which It U allied. Lilenthal succeeded in obtaining the fruit by cross grafting. The fruit, which he says-Is quite nutritious and r:as a flavor like a pineapple, may be eaten either raw or cooked. HILPRECHT'S TABLET STORY Denounced as Fraud at Meeting of American Oriental Society. The tablet Professor Herman V. Hil precht of the department of archeol ogy of the University of Pennsyl vania announced two weeks ago te had discovered in an expedition to Palestine, and which he said upheld the biblical story of the deluge, was denounced at a meeting of the Amer ican Oriental society at ihe Johns Hopkins university as a fabrication Bnd as an exploitation of an arche Uoglcal fraud for purely sensational purposes. SHORTER NEWS TEMS ithy Paragraphs that Chronicle the Week's Doings. Long Dispatches From Various Part of the World Shorn of Their Padding and Only Facts Given In as Few Words as Possible For the Benefit if the Hurried Reader. Nineteen Pittsburg bankers appeal Icfore tho grand jury lnv?stigatine municipal graft. A dog seen in front of the men who 'Vhot up" Browjisvllle, Tex., may identify ra'ders as soldiers of B com pany. Attorney General Wlckersham, In a letter to Representative Bennett denies he ever acted as attorney for the sugar trust. In a family feud fight in Washing ton, Pa., following the kicking of a dog, one man was killed and another mortally wounded. A letter "rotn William H. Buckley, read In Hi'- Insurance 'Inquiry, show ed that he sought legislative work "which no reputable lawyer would undertake." Thursday. Mr. As uilth introduces in the house of commons his resolutions against the lords' veto power. Washington reports that Justice Brewer's death may lead to a re hearing in the. Tobacco and Standard OH casus before the supreme court. Mcnelik M., King of Abyssinia, is dead, at the age of 66 years, and In the 21 Ft year of his reign. Prince Lid! Teassu, grandson of the late monarch, la heir to the throne. A strong south wind has caused the ice coining down the Niagara river to jam. with the result that the crest of Niagara Falls Is bare north from Luna island almost to the middle of the cataract. Friday. Canada concedes Intermediate tariff rate on thirteen schedules In new agreement with United States. Dr. FiHcher, an authority on the nu triment of infants, condemns the pas teurization and sterilization of milk. Senate leaders plan to press charges against Benn Conger unless he heedr the advice of his friends and resigns. The Philadelphia and Reading rail way, following the example of the Pennsylvai 'a railroad, Increases wages 6 per cent. It is generally agreed that Mayor Gnynor's action in regard to the en forcemenl of the excise law will have a wide effect In checking police graft "Eddie" Fay, with a long criminal record, is held In $20,000 ball on a charge of robbing the postofllce at Richmond. Va , of $3,000 In stamps and $3,000 in money. Saturday. Vice Admiral Founder of the French navy says war between America and Japan is by no means impossible. Lake navigation officially opened at the port of Chicago and today the life pavers again are at their posts. Three hundred thousand miners, producing two-thirds of the bltumin oils coal of the United States, quit work. President Taft, say dispatches from Washington, plans the appointment of negotiators to bring about closer trade relations with Canada. That congress may be able to ad journ May 15 Is the belief of Senator Aldrich. expressed on leaving tho White House, where he had conferred with the president. Monday. Secretary Balllnger threatens to Institute proceedings against a New York weeklv for what he calls "mal llcious. villainous and untruthful at tacks." Under Indictments charging con spiracy. 16 brokers are arrested in New York. Philadelphia and Bethle hom, In a frderal crusade against the bucket shops. Cold storace plant methods are de clared dangerous to the public health and unjust to the consumer In a pre sentment to the Hudson county grand Jury In Jersey City. George V'. Aldrldge, nominated to succeed Representative Perkins In Rochester district, as Independent Re publicans and Democrats organize to support James Havens, his opponent. Judge Howard E. McCall submits to Superintendent Hotchklsa a state ment in which he explains his con nection with loans mado by the Phcnlx FIm Insurance company to William H. Buckley. Tuesday. ' Ceorge H. Williams, the last mem ber of President Grant's cabinet, died at Portlaiiu, Ore., yesterday. Between 450 and f00 employes of the seven breverles In Rochester, N. Y., went o-i strike yesterday for more wages and fhorter hours. Theodore Roosevelt definitely can cels his engagement for an audience with Pope Pius on account of condi tions Imposed by tho Vatican. A policeman, intoxicated and run ning wild I- an elevated train in New York, shoots Indiscriminately at ter rorised paspongers. FollowInK predictions of a reform wave at the close of the Albany ses Klon, nliiH Democratic assemblymen Issue a formal pledge to vote for tbf fininan-Grrca direct primary bill, ay proved by Governor Hughes. WORK OF GOLDEN RULE COPS Cleveland Police Station! Turned Into Moral Hospitals. Cleveland, April 5. Chief of Police Kohler, who has abolished the police man's club In favor of the Golden Rule. ha3 given out figures showing, as he believes, the superiority of the Golden Rule over the billy. The figures show in the first three months of the year 19o", the last year of the old system, the police had made 7,126 arrests. In a similar period in 1908 2,679 arrests were made, in 1909, 1,405 and this year 1.283. In a special bul letin to tiie force giving these figures Chief Kohler says: It Is both gratifying and encourag ing to note how widespread has be come the interest In our common sense so termed golden rule policy in the last two years and three months, and we can now look forward to tha very hour when no tide of partisan or factional strife can overwhelm It, as it is manifest In the following com narirons of arrests for the first quar ter (January, February, March) of the years 1906 and 1907, when we were still laboring under the mistak en theory that a great number of ar rests showed our ability as police men, and 19ns, 1909 and 1910 when we became absolutely separated from the usual criminal procedure of the coun try, that we have mado our police btallons not places where punishment as usually Interpreted, hardens the heart of apparent violators, making It ency for thcin to become second of fenders, but we have made them what might be termed moral hospitals, where advice, good will, protection, correction and If possible reformation If, the walchword. The chief goes on to say that 50,000 la only a fair estimate of the number of first and minor violators who have been spared the police court. USES MAILS TO THREATEN WOMEN Cleisland Society Man Arrested For Alleged Blackmail. Cleveland, April 5. Harry L. Mor ris, a society man, resident In a fash ionable apartment house on F.ast Eighty-seventh street, was arrested by Vnlted States secret service men on a charge of using the malls In an at tempt at blackmail. Morris was arrested In University Circle, whpre a decoy package, osten ti!)ly containing $2,000 in bank notes hap" been deposited on the steps of Senator M. A. Hanna's monument. The federal authorities were called In on complaint of Mrs.-D. O. Caswell, who lives on exclusive Euclid Heights. Mrs. Caswell displayed two letters de mavdir.g the sum mentioned upon penalty of the burning of her home aid tho killing of her three children. The blackmailer also conversed with 1-er over the telephone repeating the demands, and Instructing her to place Hip money on the steps of the Hanna monument. Ii was near the statue of the late senator that Morris was arrested. In a search of Morris' apartments, It is claimed that incriminating evi dence was discovered. The young man is raid to be engaged to the daughter of a wealthy man and to have planned a wedding In the near future. Morris was released tinder bail, fixed In a midnight session of the commissioner's court. STRIKE AFFECTS P. & L E. Engines Sld Up and Operations Cur tailed Generally. Pittsburg, April 5. Eighteen hun dred men are affected by the order of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad company to curtail operations on ac count of the coal strike. The an nouncement was made by S. L. Tone, superintendent of motive power. F.n vines arc br'ng laid up on account of the strike r.iul the number of cnl icers Is to bo reduced. Young engi neers will act as firemen and young firemen will bp laid ofT. Working linnrs are to be reduced from ten hours to seven, and the men will work only five days each week. Ofllclals of the Baltimore and Ohio and the P' nnsj lvanla railroads say that the) havu not ytt been nffected by the strike and no men have yet tven laid off. TO SAVE PEACH CROP Professor Sur'ace Will Announce Cure For "Peach Yellows." IlaiT-sburg, April fi. State Econom ic Zoologist II. A. Surface Is confident t';at Ixfore t'e end of this year he uill bo able to announce a cure for the "peach yellows," a hitherto Incur alilo disease of peach trees. So scri ms is this ailment regarded that the law re uircs tho complete destruction of all trees nffected with it. Professor Surface has been con ducting experiments at his farm near Al"ehanlesbiirg and believes he has mastered th dlscasn. While not pre pared as yet to announce his discov ery, he sayg that "dehorning," or cut ting baek, pnd liberal fertilizing are parts of the treatment. I'hihd' lphla The street car men, ,-l:o have been on Btrike six weeks, voted Monday morning to remain, out. WANT OF TACT SOMEWHERE Differing .Opinions .as .to .Colonel Roosevelt' Action at Ron. New York, April 5. ''"he news from Rome was very generally discussed here and opinion was shaded a)' the way from the view that Colonel Roose velt had acted In a characteristically hasty and impetuous way to the view that he had made himself immortal by refusing to be bound by antiquated conventions. Protestant ministers were for the most part frankly bubbling. The Im portant Catholic ecclesiastics decline to express any opinion as to the mis underlng which prevented Pope Plus IX. from receiving the colonel. There was none ot the "harsh and bitter comment such as may excite mistrust and aneer" as Colonel Roose velt seemed to apprehend when he wrote the explanatory letter to the Outlook. Herd and there the colonel was girded for writing such a letter, nn the ground that It was calculated more to stir up feeling than to smooth It down. There was some comment ilso as to why Mr. Roosevelt, If he lid not Intend to make a speech be fore .the Methodist brethren, could not have assured the pope privately or given a hint at least that nothing In the nature of the Fairbanks epi sode would occur. There were a few who went so far as to say that, the colonel never had any serious Intention of being re ceived by the pope and let. himself out of a difficulty with his usual astute ness, avoiding offense to the Metho dists and giving comparatively little to the Catholics because of his insist ence only on independence of action. 23 MEN UNDER ARREST Success of the Government's Campaign Against Bucket Shops. Washington, April 5. With 23 out of a possible 29 under arrest and with two more to come Into custody in this city, the department of justice (eel that Its campaign against the bucket shops has turned out pretty well. Four men, William M. Llllls, Edward S. Boggs and Robert A. Guy ot New York and Joseph Gasklns of Baltimore, remain to be taken, but the department, hopes to land all. Two men surrendered In this city. They were Harry R. Duryee and Charles R. Allen, who conducted the local office of the Standard Stock and Grain dealers of New Jersey. They were released In $1,000 and $500 bail respectively. Four others, according to advices received here, were caught in Baltimore. They were Ed ward Altemus, Oscar J. Raphel, Sam uel Raymond and Robert Hall. Alte mus' bond was fixed at $5,000 but the rest got off by putting up $2,500 each. Edward S. Boggs, a young man who Is said to draw a modest salary from the firm of which he is the ostensible l-.ead, surrendered at Commissioner Shields office in the federal building In New York and was held In $5,000 ball for examination on April 11. At the office of Boggs & Co., 47 Broadway, Leo Mayer and Richard R. Preusscr who were arrested on Sat nrdny were In charge. Mayer said that the company has "suspended ac tive operations," pending the decision of tho case, but that it was still "car rying large quantities of stock bought for customers and held tor them,'' and that the company way "prepared at any time to turn over tho stocks at. the direction of the customers." PAYMASTER COURT-MARTIAL Naval Court to Inquire Into Disappear ance of $3,500 From Ship's Safe. Boston, April 5. Secretary of the Navy Meyers has appointed a court martial to meet, at the navy yard here on Thursday for the trial of Assistant Papmaster Lawrence Q. Haughey of the U. S. S. Castlne, from the safe of which $3,500 was extracted on March 10th. On March 8 Paymaster Haughey put $3,500 In tho safe and went away on shore leave. When he returned two days later tho doors were locked as he had left them, but the money was missing. A search of the ship revealed no trace of tho money, but tho next day a mess attendant found $680 behind a bathtub. TO SAVE PEACH CROP Professor Surface Will Announce Cur For "Peach Yellows." Harrisburg, April 5. State Econom ic Zoologist H. A. Surface is confident that before the end of this year he will be able to announce a cure for the "peach yellows," a hitherto incur able disease of peach trees. So seri cus Is this ailment regarded that the law requires the complete destruction of all trees affected with It. Professor Surface has been con ducting experiments at his farm near Mechanlcsburg and believes he has mastered the disease While not pre pared as yet to announce his discov ery, he says that "dehorning," or cut ting back, and liberal fertilizing are parts of the treatment. Killed While Loading Revolver. Scottdalo, Pa., April 5. -Miss Pose Galllster was shot and almost Instant ly killed at, the homo of her brother. John Gallister, In Scottdale. Miss Gal llster wk-i attempting to load a revol ver when the we-aoii was accidentally discharged the bullet passing through her heart. Miss Galllster was 42 j ears old and resided In Grecnsb-
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