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Justices of Hit react O. A. Randall, D. W. Clark. Oouncumen.J. W. Landers, J. T. Dale, O. R. Robinson, Wm. Bmearbaugh, R. J. Hopkins, W. O. Calhoun, A. H. Kelly. Constable Charles Clark. Collector W. H. Hood. dotool Directors J. O. Soowden, R. M. Herman, Q. Jamleson, J. J. Landers, J. C. Qelst, Joseph Clark. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress V. M. Speer. Member of Senate J. K. P. Hall. Assembly W. J. Campbell. President Judge W. D. Hinckley. Associate Judges?. C. Hill, Samuel Aul. ProtKonotary , Register c Recorder, ate. -J. O. Geist. Sheriff 8- R. Maxwell. Treasurer Geo. W. Holeman. Commissioners Vfm. H. Harrison, J. M. Zuendel, H. H. MoClellan. District Attorney M., A. Carrlnger. Jury OommUtionert Ernest Slbble, Lewis Wagner. Cbroner Dr. M. C Kerr. Oountv .duditors-aeorge H. Warden, A. C. Gregg and J. P. Kelly. Oountv Surveyor D. W. Clark. County Superintendent li. W. Morri son. Reealar Terns f Crt. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of September. Third Monday of November. Regular Meetings of County Commis sioners 1st and 3d Tuesdays or month. Chareh Sakhalh HcfeMl. Presbyterian Sabbath School at 0:45 a. m. t 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. U. A. Garrett, Pastor. Preaoblng in the Presbyterian churoh every Sabbsth at 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Rev. H. A. Bailey, Pastor. The regular meetings of the W. C. T. U. are held at the headquarters on the second and fourtu Tuesdays of each month. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TI.N KSTA LODGE, No. 869, 1. 0. 0. F. M sets every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274 O. A. R. Meets 1st Tuesday after noon of each month at 3 o'clock, CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, meets first and third Wednesday evening of each month. F. RITCHEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tlooeeta, Pa. MA. CARRINGER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Office over Forest County National Bank Building, TIONESTA, PA. CURTIS M. 8HAWKEY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Warren, Pa. Practice in Forest Co. . . AO BROWN, ATTORN E Y-AT-LA W. Office In Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge St., Tlonesta, Pa. FRANK 8. HUNTER, D. D.S. Rooms over Cltlsens Nat. Bank, TIONESTA, PA. DR. F. J. BOVARD, Physiolan A Surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted. D R. J. B. BIGGINS. Phvslo an and Nura-eon, 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. KJ R. A. FULTON, Proprietor, Tlnnneta. 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 lor me traveling puuuu. pHIL. EMERT 1U(1V BOOT Jk SHOEMAKER. Shop over R. L. HaBlet's grocery store on Klin street, is prepareu w uu an Kinds of custom work from the finest to .1, mbmimiI anil cuurfllltMMI llin Work tO give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten tion given to nienuiug, uu jihuwj iw sonable. Fred. Grettenborger GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. All wa.It t.nrtaininfr tn MalllflflrV. En glnes, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit tings and General Blacksmithlng prompt ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill Machinery given special attention, and sausiacuon guarauiHeu. Shop In rear of audlust west of the KUaw House, xiuiouie, ra. Your patronage solicited. FRED. GRETTENBERGER WaJl Paper I have just received Two Thousand Kolla of 1U11 WAIX TAPER Now ia the time to get your paper ide done before the spring rush. Then it will be almost impossible to get a paperhanger and that will delay your housecleaning. Wall Taper, Window Shades, Oil Cloth, Paints, Oil. Varnish, Sewing Machine - Supplies and JNottons. G. F. RODDA, Next Door to the Fruit Store, Elm Street, Tionesta, Pa. FIRE SWEEPS BANGOR Maine Town Suffers Loss ol Over $6,000,000. Thousands of People Are Made Home- lets by the Conflagration Fine Residence Part of City Destroyed Together With 8everal Churches and Banks- Public Library a Heap of Ruins Other News Items of In terest. Damago already estimated at nearly $0,000,000 has been caused by a fire which brcke out in Bacon & Robin son's coal sheds In Bangor, Me., short ly after 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Two are known to have been killed and over 20 have been Injured. Ev erything north of York street, from Kendukeag stream to the east side of Broadway, has been burned. Nearly nil of the fine .residences in the most exclusive section of the city as well as the postollice and Hll of the largest office and business buildings are lu ruins. The First Congregational church In Broadway, one of the oldest In the Htate; Rt. John's Episcopal, Central Congregational in French street and the Unlversallst church are gone, as Is the Windsor hotel and the high school building. The Bangor public library with one of the most valuable collections of books In New England Is totally de stroyed. The mammoth lumber mill of Morso & Co., In Valley avenue, caught and the huge plies of lumber along the stream were burned. Help arrived on a special Maine Central train from Augusta,' Watervllle, Lew Iston, Bwkspori and Old Town. The First Paptlst church also burn ed. Thousands are walking the streets, homeless and destitute. More than a square mile of the busi ness section of the city ha been burn ed up. The City Hall, somehow, es caped the flames, although It Mood di rectly In the path of the fire. One per son Is known to have perish. She was an unfortunate woman whose name lias not been learned. She patsed too close to a burning business Mock and a tongue of flame reaching out of a window Ignited her clothing. She screamed and began to run, but before she had taken ten steps was overcome and falling upon the side walk was-burning to death In sight of hundreds of horror-stricken people. RIDDLED WITH BULLETS Proprietor of Saloon Attacked a Hs Stands In Door of Hia Place- Frank Farchlsha, proprietor of a saloon in Geneva, N. Y., was shot five times as he stood on the doorstep of his saloon early Thursday morning. It is said a man In woman's clothing was seen In the vicinity a short time before the shooting occurred. Sev eral policemen were on the scene im mediately, but the assailant had es caped through the railroad yards. Farchlshl died at 12:05. An inquest will be held by Coroner Flint. Boy Baffles Olean Police- Martin Dubois, the boy picked up by the police of Olean, N. Y., a few days ago. has been sent to the Jail at Lit tle Valley to be detained until some one Is found who can throw some light onto his Identity, or where he belongs. Some think him Edward Knauss, who was twice arrested In Ni agara Falls, both times escaping from there. The boy while In the lock-up at Olean tried to force himself be tween the bars to the window and had to be taken out by the police. Protecting Grape Suds. Professor F. V. Hartzell and Pro fessor F. E. Gladwin of the Fredonia (N. Y.) exuerlmental station are de voting much time and attention to the destruction of the steely beetle, which destroyed young grape buds. Spray Ine with arsenate of lead has been found very serviceable In ridding vines of these insects. Yeggmen Loot Poitoffice. The postofflce at Van Etton, 20 miles north of Elmlra, N. Y., was en tered by yeggmen Friday night and robbed of everything of value, the loot belner worth several hundred dollars A few months ago a gang of yeggmen, supposed to be the Bame gang, tried to rob the office, but were frlghtenad away. Child's Body Recovered. The body of Marguerite Ross, the fitnr-year-old daughter of Mrs. John Culver of Medina, who was drowned In Oak Orchard creek on Feb. 25, was found Wednesday In the creek by Pat rick Landers and Leo Zimmerman. Ex-Sheriff of Oneida Paroled. Samuel Jones, former sheriff of Oneida county and prominent Repub lican politician, who was sent to Au burn two years ago for complicity In graft cases, was released from prison on parole. He left for Utica. Woman Found Dead In Cistern. Mrs. Alice M. Douglass of Lima, N. Y., was found drowned In a cistern on her pb.ee Sunday morning. It Is iupposed that after raising the door the either stumbled or fell backward Into the cistern. WIFE OF MIKADO'S HEIR Crown Princess, Who !i Critically III From Typhoid Fever. WOMEN HELD UP AND ROBBED 8ame Man Thought to Have Done Both Jobs. The Police of Genova, N. Y., are searching for a hold-up man whe robbed two women of money late Sat urday night, the two Jobs being dom within a block of each- other. Mrs. William Van Gieson was knocked down and rendered unconscious at Washington street and Jefferson ave nue and then relieved of $10. Mar garet Gatvey was attacked at Milk and Poultney streets and n bag con taining $5 torn from her wrist. Mrs. Van Gieson Is under the care ol a physician. The attack on Miss Gar- vey was made under the glure of an electric light. Six Injured In Runaway. While a hack, which was driven by Martin Callahan, and occupied by two ladles, two men and a child; was de scending the eteep hill, half a mile south of Gusport, N. Y., afte; the funeral of Warren Welch, the hold back brake broke, allowing the heavy hack to go forward onto the horses, causing them to run away, throwing out the occupants, severely bruising them and throwing Mr. Callahan some distance. He landed on his head and shoulders and was unconscious for tome time. Train Hurls Man Into River. Search is being made for the body of Silas Wing, a Civil war veteran, who was hit by a train on the Erie railroad at Rock City, Pa., three miles west of Allegany. At that point the railroad runs very close to the river. Mr. Wing was seen attempting to cross the track as the fast passenger train approached and it hit him with sufficient force to throw him Into the river. He lived with his brother Asa. Mr. Wing was about 70 years of age. Valuable Timber Burned. One thousand or more acres, which embrave very valuable timber land with a heavy growth of pino, hemlork and spruce, have been burn ed over by forest fires which have been raging at Blenheim, Burnt Hill, Westklll and Cole Hollow in the West ern Catskllls since Saturday morning. One hundred and fifty men fought the fire all day and apparently had it un der control. There has been little rain of late and the woods are very dry. Government Bars Saccharin. It has been ordered that Saccharin cannot he used In food stuffs sold in the United States after July 1 next, Eminent pure food experts have de cided that Its continued use is deleter ious to health and under the authority of the pure food the law, the secretary of agriculture, the secretary of tho treasury and the secretary of com merce and labor have Issued an order against Its use after July 1. This or uer Is a blow to many Industries. Family Almost Wiped Out A fire almost completely wiped out the family of Mrs. J H. Nunn, whose home was burned 8t Roanoke, Va., last week Friday. The family consisted of Mrs. Nunn and ten chil dren. The mother perished together with seven of her children, ranging in ages from 5 to 24 years. Three es caped, but are badly burned and cut by broken glass. Of thee William Nunn died Friday night from burns nod Injuries. Miles of Tile Laid In Genesco Town No less than four miles of tile has been put In the town of Geneseo, N. Y., so far this spring and a mile or more remains to be put In till:) month. This far surpasses all previous drain building records here, and the activi ties of the Genepeo farmers along this line are believed to be duo to the Interest aroused on that subject at the recent agricultural Institute here, ( 4 -" i' I'M 1 f i x ELEVEN LIVES LOST Utica Teachers' Special Derail ed on the Penn. Railroad. Victims Were Caught In the Wreck and Burned to Death Four Were Employes of. the Railroad Dozens of Teachers Escaped From the Train With Their Hair and Clothing Ablaze Greeted by Crowds on Their Return to Utica. Eleven lives'were lost In the derail ment and burning of the teachers' i-eclal near Martin's Creek, Pa., last Saturday afternoon. The railroad men themselves says the most remark able feature of the wreck la tiat 100 were not killed In the terriflo shock and the sudden sweep of the fire. Flames were rushing from end to tnd of the train while bruised women were clamborlng up the sides of tilted cars or striving for windows. Their hands were burned as they raised themselves on the sills to be helped out. Half a dozen teachers got to the ground with their hair ablaze. Wor minutes afterward the Utica women were tevuig burning skirts from each other. One ran an eighth of a mllo across a plowed field trying to loose herself from n burning skirt. It wa3 lucky that Farmer Dan Hllliard saw her distress. Besides the seven teachers, four em ployes of the Pennsylvania are dead Persons, the conductor; Venoy, the engineer; Harry Wilmer, the baggage man, and Joseph P.lcknell, the tourist agent, whose home was In Phila delphia. Unable to Identify Fragments. The fire made such thorough work that It wa impossible for the surgeons to tell whether the fragments found are the remains of men or women. Dr. H. C. Jonos of Utica, who camo here with Mr. Day, thought the frag ments taken Sunday pfternoon from the wreck were the remain of wom en. Many of tho?e who went back to Utica carried Injuries, some of them serious but tbey were able to travel and preleried to get home as quickly as posil'j'o. ' The ln "'iil.-.otlon made by Profes sors Burton and Vincent Brown and Miss Marian Harkins, one of the hero ines of the wreck, determined dellnite ly tlwt at least 50 of the teachers were burned or cut or bruised. On board tho special that left Belvl dere late Saturday night for Utica there were 30 women whose hands or faces were bandaged. Some were un able to sit up on account of sprained backs or dislocated ankles. Among the misleading reports given out. was that some of the curs were Pullmans. Of the flvo coaches, the leading one was an old fashioned wooden combination smoker and bag gage car. The next three were wood en chair cars. The fifth coach was a dining car. All of them were lighted by acteylene gas, containod in tanks carried under neath the car bodies. When the coaches ground together In the gully to the east of the track, the tanks burst. The gas escaped through four coaches simultaneously and was Ignit ed lu some way, probably by friction and shot a train of lire through that Ignited the diner which had temalned partly on the track. It was speedy combustion. The whole train was ablaze th9 minute It craphed Into the earth. And the pas sengers had to fight their way through the fire to get out. There will he an Investigation of the wreck on the part of the authori ties of Warren county. TEACHERS ARRIVE HOME Many Carried Arms In Slings, While Others Had Their Heads Swathed In Bandages. The majority of tho Utica school teachers and many of tlhelr friends who had been In the railroad wreck near Easton, Pt., Saturday afternoon arrived In Utiea at 9:4 o'clock Sun Cay night and were received with open f.rms by relatives and friends. An Immense crowd of men, women und children stood by and joined In cheor for the returned travelers. Many of thoso who Ilqhted from the special train which the D., L, h W. Railroad company van from the scne of the wreck to this city for the accommodation of the excursion ists carried thfr arms In slings, oth ers had their heads swathed In band tiges, still others were unable to walk and had to be carried from the cars to waiting automobiles which whisked the bruised and battered teachers and their injured friends to their respec tive homes. BODY FOUND IN CULVERT Discovery Made by Girl Near Where Heldeman Killed Marie Smith. Asbury Park, N. J., May 2. The body of John V. Brown of West Grove was found by Grace Thorn, 9 years old, yesterday afternoon, in an Iron culvert, near where Frank Heldeman killed Marie Smith, a 10-year-old school glil. The Thorn girl saw a man's leE-i protruding from the pipe in which there was not more than live inches of water. Physicians say death was not caused by drowning. In his pockets were $")5 and a watch. SULPHUR FUMES INJURIOUS Copper Company Will Eliminate Emis sion of Deleterious Gases Which Desfoy Forests. Washington, May 2. It was an nounced by the department of Justice that an agreement had been entered into between the government and the Anaconda Copper Mining company with a view to settling the suit now pending in the federal courts against that company to restrain It from emit ting from Its great smelter at Ana conda large quantities of sulphur fumes. ' The government charged that these fumes have greatly injured the na tional forest preserves In that vicin ity. Under the agreement tha Anaconds Copper Mining company will endeav or to prevent, mlnimie and ultimately eliminate the emission of deleterious gases from Its copper smelting works. CHAMBERLAIN HYDE INDIGTEOFOR BRIBERY Charged Hs Was Gainer In Transaction Between Banks. New York, May 2. Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde was Indicted yester day afternoon for bribery. He was not arrested because Samuel Unter myer, his counsel, assured 3upreme Court Justice Vernon Davis he would appear today to be arraigned. The Indictment, returned under sec tion 372 of the penal law, a section that relates to malfeasance by public officials, Is based on evidence that Chamberlain Hyde forced the North ern bank to lend $130,000 to the Car negie Trust company and that he was a gainer for the transaction. It was not expected that tho grand jury which has been conducting the criminal proceedings against the chamberlain would act so speedily. It developed that the Indictment comes now In order to forestall per sonal Influences that were being brought to bear against the district at torney. The penalty for the offence Is im prisonment for not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than ?3, 000, or both. Mr. Hyde, when told that the grand jury had reported an Indictment against him seemed to be cheerful. "I have heard the report," said he, "but I do not give a damn." BIG BOND ISSUE State Will Appropriate $20,000,000 to Provide For Water Storage and Electrical Power. Albany, May 2. A state bond Is sue of f?0,000,000 to provide water storage and electrical power In ac cordance with the plank In the Roch ester Democratic platform of last fall Is provided for by bills Introduced last night by Majority Leader Wagner in the senate and Majority Leader Smith in the assembly. One of the bills is a conservation bill which Is to accompany the pro posed constitutional amendment Intro duced last week, permitting water storage through state supervision, con trol and maintenance. This constitutional amendment and conservation bill while they were drawn by George P. Decker, counsel for Slate Forest, Fish and Game Com missioner Thomas Mott Osborne, are not department measures, according to a statemont given out by Mr. Deck er last night, who said, however, that these two meisures did- embody the recommendation in regard to the mat ter In Governor DIx's annual mes sage. The bill creates a department of conservation and a commissioner of conservation to hold office during the pleasure of the governor. His salary Is to be $8,000 a year and his ex penses. He is to have the powers of the for est purchasing board, the forest, fish and game commission and the state water supply commission. The new commissioner Is to have ten deputies who shall act respectively as chiefs of the department bureaus. Mother Saves Children. Washington, Pa., May 2. Mrs. Charles Intravatol risked her life when she awoke and found the house on flro. She carried the children down a burning stairway. Tho house was totally destroyedt with Its con tents. Loss $2,000. Had Right Leg Crushed Off. Youngstown, O., May 2. Harry Gil len, supposed to be from Erie, Pa., was run down by an Erie railroad train and had Wb right leg crushed off. He is not expected to survive. A Choice of Calves. Tho difficulties the early Virginian colonists had with tbclr live stock is curiously Illustrated by the fact that In the colony of Massachusetts Hay a red calf was cheaper thau a black oue, experience having shown that tho for mer was more likely to bu nttnc':ed by wolves owing. It was thought, to tho wolves mistaking It for a deer. A Dilemma. Irishman (as some one knocks at his door) Shure, It 1 don't answer It's some wan to give me a Job, nn' If I do It's the landlord after the rlnt." Lou don Punch. NEWSY PARAGRAPHS Summary 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 It Talking About Cream of the Newt Culled From Long Dispatches. Wedneiday. Tho Pacific mail steamer Asia was wrecked on Finger Kock, south of Shanghai, and will be a total loss; the passengers were rescued. A meeting of the bishops of Portu gal has been called to discuss the at titude to be taken toward the separa tion law. Twenty-two miners, all but one of them Americans, were Imprisoned by nn explosion In a mine of the Davis Coal & Coke company at Elkgarden, W. Va. Carlos Morales, ex-president of Santo Domingo: Maurlclo Jlmlnez and General Torlliio were arrested by a United States marshal at San Juan, P. R., charged with plotting to or ganize a military expedition against the Dominican government. Thursday. Forest fires swept over 1,B00 acres of timber and brush land In North eastern Connecticut. Advices from Fez, dated April 20, said that all were safe in that capital, and that a route of escape was open. Deaths from plague In India during March were 95.884, more than double the fatalities In the preceding month. Chinese pirates attacked the crew of the wrecked steamer Asia after the passengers hat been rescued and car ried off a stoker. Bills appropriating $2,925,000 for the construction of Improved highways were paseed by the New York assem bly. Samuel Adams of Chicago was ap pointed first assistant secretary of the Interior to succeed Frank Pierce, re signed. Friday. The Unionists in the house of com mons were again beaten In an attempt to amend the parliament bill. It is reported that the Dutch have hauled down the American flag and taken possession of the island of Pal mas, 60 miles southeast of Mindanao. A party of Brazilian government of ficials and scientists sailed for the Is land of Trinidad In search of treasure, indicated in -government documnets. Cornelius V. Collins of Troy, state superintendent of prisons, tent his resignation to Governor Dix at Al bany, to take effect at once. Dr. Orville W. Owen of Detroit, who Is digging for Paeon's Becret In the River Wye, found a hard surface be neath a deposit of stones and a layer of clay. Saturday. General Reyes left Paris on his re turn to Mexico. Rumors were current In Tangier that Captain Bremond, in command of the forces attempting to relieve Fez, had been killed. Assembly leaders at Albany fixed the date of adjournment as May 19, although It Is likely to be advanced considerably. The American Independent potash Interest! will, according to a report from Frankfort, deal directly with the German syndicate at Hamburg, on May 10. The arrest of Edward Tllden, O. M. Benedict and William C. Cummlngs, Chicago bankers, charged with con tompt In the Lorimer Investigation, was postponed. Monday. Mexican Insurgents attack Mazatlan, Pacific port of Slnaloa. Pope still suffers from gout and is confined to room. New York Italian kills driver of truck who ran over his son. Young woman who took $150,000 from Mrs. S. B. Armour of Chicago may be taken In custody. Jay GouU Is wedded to daughter of princely house of Hawaii in New York city. Records reveal that Senator Ste phenson served In Illinois while still an alien. M, the toatal of Cmton, China, has been assassinated by the rebels, who are again strong. A correspondent In London says King Goorge'B Influence Is beginning to Bmooth the way for the passage of veto bill. Tuesday. A dispatch from Fez, Morocco, stat ed that the Btock of provisions was low and a famine threatened the pop ulace. It waa saldi at Washington that tho wooU'n schedule was likely to cause trouble In the house of representa tives. It was announced at Boston that the revenue cutter Gresham had during the last winter saved 52 lives and- re covered vessels and cargoes valued at about $200,000. A d-seperate condition of affairs was reported' at Canton In a dispatch from Hong Kong; tho United States gunboat Wilmington was at Shaiulen, Just above the city. CARNEGIE HERO FUND New York Lad Awarded Medal For Saving Another Boy From Drowning. Pittsburg, May 2. The Carnegie hero fund commission has awarded 35 medals and $34,100 In cash and $2, 200 a year to widows of deceased he roes. Among the awards waa a bronze medal to Frederick W. Zengen of New York. Zongen is 13 years old. He saved Ferdinand G. Ludke, aged 10, from drowning, on March 19, 1908. Zengen dived Into the East river and swam to Ludke, who had fallen into the riv er and was being carried by the tide. (Zengen irod water, holding Ludke by the hair until assisted. Calvin C. Williams of 18 Eeset street, East Orange, X. J., was award ed a bronze medal and $1,000 as need for saving the life of Louise Felberg, aged 20, and Pertha Whlttaker, aged IS, from drowning in Spring Lake, N. J., Aug. 7, 190R. GRAFT CHARGED IN OHIO LEGISLATURE Detectives Say 25 Members ol That Body Have Taken Bribes. ' Chicago, May 2. "Bribes from $100 to $500 were taken by 25 members of the Ohio legislature at Columbus from three of our operatives who posed as manufacturers desirous of hiving cen tain bills pass the house and senate." This statement was made by Raymond Burns, son of William J. Bums of the Burns detectlvo agency, who received telegrams from his three operatives Investigating graft charges In connec tion with a coterie of solons who for many years had passed certain legis lative bills at so much per bill. "No bill of any nature In recent years passed the legislature tn Ohio which did not have its price," contin ued Burns. "Tho price was named by the members of the legislature. Marked money was given to the mem bers of the legislature and when se cret Indictments are returned by the grand Jury against the men -wno so licited bribes and accepted them, many sensational disclosures will be made In Ohio state politics." Three men from the Burns agency were the men from whom the mem bers of the legislature took bribe money. ANIMALS PERISH IN FIRE Boy With Lantern Causes Blaze That Destroys Farm Outbuildings. Bordentown, N. J., May 2. The out buildings on the farm of John Wright, In Pennls Manor, Pa., opposite White Hill, with crops, farming Implements, three horses and six cows, were de stroyed by Are last night, satd to have been started from a lighted lantern. A boy, who had been In the employ of Wright only a short time, said he dropped the lantern, and1 later said a hors-e kicked it from his hand. Th loss Is $5,000. Two Appointments by Govtrnor. Albany, May 2 Governor Bit sent to the senate the nominations of George C. Van Tuyl, Jr., of Albany to be state superintendent of of banks In place of O. H. Cheney and James Aus tin Holden of Glens Falls as state his torian In place of Victor II. Pulslts. MARKET REPORT Nsw York Provision Market New York, May 1. WHEAT No. 2, red, 95c, elevator, CORN No. 2, f. o. b., 59V4. OATS Standard, 39c. PORK Mess, $18.0018.50. BUTTER Creamery, specials, 224c; do, extras, 20!f?20'fcc; packing stock, held, Wdnbc CHEESE State specials, 14o. EGGS State and Pennsylvania, 19 31c. POTATOES Bermuda, new, No. 1 per bhl., $4.254.75; state, in bulk $1.621.S1. Buffalo Provision Market Buffalo, May 1. WHEAT No. 1 northern, carloads, $1.04; No. 2 red, 9c. CORN No. 2 yellow, 6c, f. o. b., afloat: No. 3 yellow, bllfac. 0TS No. 2 white, 36e, f. o. b., afloat; No. 3 white, 33o. FLOUR Fancy blended patent, per bhl., $5.fiO(R)fi.25; winter family, patent, $4.75$ 5.B0. BUTTER Creamery, westefa tubs, extra, 23c; creamery, state fair to cy, per bu., 62f?ji66c. EGGS State selected white, 190 19c. CHEESE Good to choice, new, 11 UMiC. FOTATOES White, choice to fan cy, per bu., 63C4c. East Buffalo Livestock Market. CATTLE Prime steers, $6.155 6.25; 1,200 to 1,400 steers, $5.40!3 5.65; choice fat cows, $4.905.00; choice he'fers, $5.f05.75; common bulls, $3.754.75; choice veals, $6.25(JJi 6.50; fair to Rood, $5.756.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS Yearlings, $4.25(4.75; clipped mixed sheep, $3.65 3.90. HOGS Light Yorkers, $6.30(ff6.35; heavy bogs, $6.206.25; pigs, $6.35 6.40. Buffalo Hay Market Timothy, No. I, on track, $1T.60 No. 2 timothy, $15.50 16.00; itrair, wh.ea.1 and oat. $6.5087.00.
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