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Justices of the Peace C. A. Randall, D. W. Clark. OuuHeiimen. J.W, Landers, J. T. Dale, O, H. Robinson, Wm. Smearbaugh, R. J. Hopkins, U. F, Watson, A. U. Kelly. Cbnuofo L. L. Zuver. Collector W. U. Hood. School Directors W. C. Imel, J. K. Clark, 8. M. Henry, Q. Jamieeon, U, H. Blum. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. Member of Congress P. M. Hpeer, Member of Senate J. K. P. Hall. Assembly W. J. Campbell. President JwlgeVf. D. Hinckley. Associate Judges Samuel Aul, Joseph M. Morgan. Frothonotaiy, Register t Recorder, e. -8. R. Maxwell. Sheriff Wm. H. Hood. Treasurer W. H. Brar.ee. Commissioners V in. H. Harrison, J. C. Hunwden, 11. H. MeClollan. . District ttorny H . A. Carlngflr. Jury Commissioners J, B. Kleo, A.M. Moore. Coroner Dr. M. C Kerr. Countv Auditors -George H. Warden, A. C. Gregg and 8. V. Hhlelds. County Surveyor Roy 8. Brsden. County Superintendent J. O. Carson. Kca-Nlar Ttni f Ceart. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. Fourth Monday of September. Third Monday of November. Regular Meetings of County Commis sioners 1st aud 3d Tuesdays of month. t'harcb tmi Sabbath Mcbl. resbyterlan Sabbath School at 9:45 a. urr: M. ta. Nauuain ncnooi ai iu:uu a. in. Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab bath evening by Rev. W.H. Burton. Preaching in the F. M. Church every Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev. U. A. Garrett, Pastor. Preaching in the Presbyterian church every Sabbath 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 fourth Tuesdays of each m nth. . BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TI- N ESTA LODU E, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F. Meet every Tuesday evening, in Odd Fellows' Hall, Partridge building. CAPT. GEORGE STOW POST. No. 274 U. A. R. Meets 1st Tuesday after noon of each mouth at 3 o'clock. CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No. 137, W. R. C, tneets Brst aud third Wednesday evening of each month. TV. RITCHEY. . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tionesta, Pa. MA. CARRINGER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law. Office over Forest County National Bank Building, TIONESTA, PA. CURTIS M. SHAWKEY, ATTORN EY-AT- LA W, Warren, Pa. Practice tn Forest Co. AC BROWN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Office In Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa. FRANK 8-JMTNTER, D. D. S RopiniUf1 Citizens Nat. Bank, . f HON ESTA, PA. DR. F. J. BOVARD, Physician it Surgeon, TIONESTA, PA. Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted. D R. J. B. 8IGGINS. Physician and Surgeon, OIL CITY, PA. HOTEL WEAVER, J, B. PIERCE, Proprietor. Modern and up-to-date in all its ap pointments. Every convenience and comfort provided for the traveling public pENTRAL HOUSE, -J R. A- FULTON, Proprietor. Tianseta, Fa. This is the mostoentrally located hotel in the place, and has all the modern improvements. No pains will be spared to make It a pleasant stopping place fur the traveling public. pBIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT 4 SHOEMAKER. Shop over R. L- Haslet's grocery store on Klip street. U preparbd to do all ind of custom work from the finest to the coarsest and guarantees his work to ?lve perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten ion given to mending, and prices rea sonable. Fred. Grottenborger GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. All work pertaining to Machinery, En gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit tings and General Blacksmithlug prompt ly done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill Machipery given special attention, and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop In rear of and just west of the Shaw House, Tidioute, Pa. Your patronage solicited. FRED, ORETTKNRKRGER THE TIONESTA Racket Store Can supply your want in such staple liues as Hand Painted Cuius, Japan ese Cbioa, Decorated Glassware, and Plain aud FaDcy Disbes, Caudy, as well as other lines too numerous to mention. Time to Think of Paint & Paper. Before you plan your spring work in paiotiog and papering let us give you our estimates on the complete job. Satisfaction guaranteed. G. F. RODDA, Next Door to the Fruit Store, Elm Afreet, TfoVcsfif; Pa. DEATH FOLLOWS WIND AND FLOOD South Atlantic States Swept by Fatal Hurricane. BRIDGES ARE CARRIED AWAY Houses Swept from Banks Dams Burst Railroads Beyond Chicago Almost Put Out of Business by Blizzard. Washington. A wind and rain storm of a severity unparalleled In recent years swept the South Atlantic CoaBt States, leaving behind it a path of wrecked buildings, bridges torn from their foundations, uprooted tele phone and telegraph poles, add, In several Instances death. Five persons were killed outright In Headland, a few miles below Troy, Ala., two others were hurt mortally and four or Ave were injured. Ia Spartanburg, N. C, two persons were killed and two lost their Uvea in Raleigh, N. C. Railroad traffic had been paralyzed by the carrying away of bridges aud by landslides and floods. At (Ireensboro, N. C, two bridgea were carried away, lu Raleigh trains were wrecked, and a power plant de stroyed. Rivers and creekB in the Piedmont section of the State have overflowed their banks, causing wash outs on the railroads and great dam age to property. Reports of the ravages of the storm reached here from as far south as Sa vannah, Cia., and as far north as Con ecticut. From Savannah came news that the rainfall was unprecedented and had caused freshets in nearly all the streams. Train schedules have been disarranged and service tied up. Power plants are among the many buildings which have been destroyed, aud trestles and bridges have been undermined and washed away. In Cheraw, S. C, the wind tore down every smokestack in town and laid in rulna several churches and houses. Many railway lines have been oblig ed to abandon trains, and mails are being delayed seriously. Lines be tween Omaha and Colorado Springy Omaha and Denver, and Omaha ana Sioux City are blocked with snow. Tralna to and from the Black Hills re gion are moving slowly. Many branch roads throughout Nebraska are block ed and their service suspended tenv porarily. The Weather Bureau officials said that the Western and Southwestern storms had combined into a single storm of greater Intensity over the Upper Ohio Valley. Chicago. Chicago and the middle west felt the grip for 24 hours of one of the worst blizzards of the year. Transportation in the city was com pletely paralyzed, telegraph and tele phone service badly crippled and busi ness demoralized. Incoming and outgoing piails were demoralized hopelessly. Trains from the East were from 30 minutes to three hours late, while those from the Southwest were delayed indefinitely. Western trains were running from 13 tp 36 hours late. A dispatch received from Omaha slates that about 50 passenger trains were tied-up tn Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado. It has been Impossible to get to them with food. OUTLAW'S WIFE KILLED. Mrs, Sidna Allen Shot Dead While Battling with Husband. Hlllsvllle, Va Two more deaths, both of women, have resulted from the prisoner's relatives made their at gang" upon the Carroll County Court House, In which Circuit Judge Thorn ton L. Massie, Commonwealth's Attor ney Foster, Juror Fowler and Sherifl Webb were slain. In a battle in which she was assist ing her husband to resist arrest, the wife of Sidna Allen was instantly killed. The second death was that ' Nan cy Elizabeth Ayers, nineteen-year o)d Rrl wll was Irt the courtroom as a witness against Fpyd Allen when the prisonr's relatives made their at tacH Juror Worrall was only slightly wounded, while the wound received by Clerk Dexter Goad Is In the flesh of the neck and his Injuries are no longer regarded as serious. Floyd Allen and his brother, Sidna, are prisoners in the county jail here, closely guarded by forty heavily arm ed deputies. The storming of Allen's house was the next thing to a bombardment. In a lull, the posse rushed the house, broke down the doors and found Allen's wife shot dead with a rifle in her hands. Allen himself lay groaning in a heap, bleeding profusely. GUATEMALA HONORS KNOX. City Decorated for Visit of American Secretary of State. Guatemala Clty.This city gave Secretary of State Knox what might be described as a royal reception. Pub lic and private buildings were decorat ed, triumphal arches spanned the streets and Mr. Knox was received like a king in the centre of the city. Later he was driven through two miles of streets lined with soldiers. Mtuiy children tqqk part in the ccr mode's, dre&cd in national colors TWENTIETH CENTURY LIMITED FALLS INTO RIVER Ice and Steel Cars Avert Horror on N. Y. Central Cars Plunge Into Hudson. New York. The Twentieth Century Limited long boasted of by the New York Central Railroad as "the most famous train in the world" escaped by marvelous good luck, the title of "the most t'eadly train in the world." Entering the homestretch of its Chicago-New York run, the flyer struck a fractured rail, four and a half miles above Poughkeepsle. It was traveling on a curve at a speed admitted by the company to have been forty-five miles an hour and said by some of the passengers to have been seventy miles an hour. Five of the Century's Pullman sleepers were shot oft the line, down an embankment and into the Hudson River. In these were about fifty per sons the whole train was carrying fifty-eight. Only the fact that there was an eighteen-inch coating of ice over the river saved the lives of most of these. This semi-solid surface kept the cars from plunging further outward, into water of drowning depth. That bit of luck and the fact thai the cars were of Bteel saved a long death list. But it was apparently lax construction or inspection of the road, bed that caused the wreck, and its re sult was bad enough: Fourteen persons injured a quar ter of a mile of track torn up all trains delayed from one to three hours $50,000 worth of equipment in the river. The panic stricken passengers, men and women, most of them scan' 'y clad, were fished by rescuers out of the submerged wreckage of the overturned cars and out of the Icy river, and gathered together in one of the least damaged cars. A relief train of physicians and nurses was dispatched from Poughkeepsle nearly two hours later, when the passengers were started on their way to New York in the second section of the Twentieth Century which had been but ten minutes behind the first. Twenty-eight of them were injured, several very badly. Opinions as to what caused the wreck did not differ much among those not connected with the rail road, all attributing the mishap to a broken rail. Washington. The wreck on the New York Central Railroad of the Twentieth Century Limited at Hyde Park, N. Y., 1b said by officials of the Interstate Commerce Commission to bear out the report made by the com mission's experts that the limit of speed or wheel pressure has been reached and probably surpassed on rails of the usual width and shape of head and that the ten or more wrpeks since the first of the year is a warn ing of this fart. TO STOP GUN RUNNING. Resolution to Enforce Neutrality In Mexican Struggle. Washington. The President decid ed on sharp measures to prevent the encouragement of hostilities in Mexi co by the shipment of arms and muni tions from the United States, and Con gress at once showed its willingness to support him regardless of party lines. A Joint resolution was intro duced In the Senate and unanimously passed authorizing the President to forbid by proclamation or otherwise the shipment of arms or munitions of war to American countries in which domestic violence is being promoted by the aid ot supplies from the United States. A big sura of money, estimat ed at $4,000,000, has been deposited in banks In El Paso for the purpose of buj Ing arms and ammunition to be shiiped from the United States KILLED IN HORSEBACK DUEL. Mississippi Planters Open Fire In Presence of Two Girl Friends. Vicksburg, Miss. In the presence of two young women, friends of both, two prominent young planters of Clai borne County fought a duel with pis tols. John E. Elliott is dead and Robert C. Norwood was fatally wounded. The young women spectators are Miss Ed na Musgrove and Miss AHie Mae Jeter. The dispute was over an alleg ed land trespass. TAFT WON'T INTERFERE IN CUBA President Says Reports from Havana Are Pure Fabrications. Washington. President Taft baa assured the Cuban Minister, Dr. An tonio Martin-Rivero, iu emphatic terms that the United States has no intention of intervening in Cuban af fairs. Characterizing reports of contem plated intervention coming from Ha vana as "pure fabrications," the Presi dent said "intervention is not being thought of." A Simple Request, "What are you going to tell the peo ple when you get home?" "Nothing," replied Senator Sorghum. "And all that I ask is that they'll re ciprocate and sot start In telling me things." They Haven't Tucked In Their Shirts. "And all the Chinese have cut oO their queues." "Well?" "I was Just wondering how the eai toonlst who draws a Chinaman wil1 make the public know that It Is a Chinaman T' THE PASSING OF JOHNM. GREER Was Devoted To War and Bri' liant in Peace. ABLE AND BELOVED JURIST "Large Was His Bounty and His Soul Sincere" Only Good to Say of Hlm-iNoble Example for Youth to Emulate. Butler, Pa. John Morgan Greer, aged 67, former president judge of Butler county and a leading attorney of the Butler county bar is dead at his home here. He had been a boI dler. attorney, educator, Jurist and member of the State Senate. At the time of hi death he had retired as a judge and was the head of the !aw Arm of Greer and Sons, which has an extensive practice in Western Penn sylvania. Judge Greer was born In Jefferson township, Butler Pbunty, Pa., August .5, 1814. His early education was ob tained in the common schools and at ConnoqueneBsIng Academy at Zelien ople. Later he taught school in Win field and Jefferson township. In July, 1862, he enlisted in the Civil War and was a sergeant in Company D. One Hundred and Thirty seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, which served in the Army of the Poto mas in General Wadsworth's division of the First corps, commanded by General Reynolds, until it was dis charged June 1. 1803. This regiment was at the battles of South Mountain, Antletam, Fredericksburg and Chan eellorsvllls. In the following March he re-enlisted in Battery E, Second Pennsylvania Artillery, and was transferred to Bat tery B, Provisional second artillery, as a sergeant. The regiment lost over 200 men, killed and fatally wounded during Grant's campaign in 1804, was in the battles from the Wil derness to Petersburg, remaining in the breastworks In front of that city from June 17 until late in the fall of 18C4. In a number of the battles Greer carried the regimental colors and at the charges in front of Petersburg on June 17 and at the mine explosion of Ju'.y 30, had command of the battery. At this explosion he-received a gun shot wound in the left thigh which confined him to the hospital for five months. His younger brother, Rob ert Boise Greer, was a member of the same battery, received a wound in the charge at Petersburg and was taken to the hospital where he died. After the war the later Judge Greer began his legal studies under Judge Charles McCandless of Butler and was admitted to the bar in 18G7. In 1868 he was elected district attor ney of Butler county and served for three years. Being a man of high Integrity and painstaking in his pro fession he always enjoyed the confi dence of the people. His pleasing ad dress and sincerity made him an ef fective pleader before Juries, loiter he formed a law partnership with Judge McCandless, which continued until the elevation of that Jurist to te bench in 1874. In 1876 Greer was elected to the State Senate from the Forty first district and was re. elected in 1880, serving as senator for fight years. Senator Greer's service in the Sen ate was distinguished. HIb Judgment was sound and his knowledge of the State and its needs comprehensive. His good nature was unfailing and his humor frequently relieved the tedium of the necessary routine of careful legislation. His gigantic fig ure always commanded attention. In 1887 he founded a law partner ship with Everet L. Ralston, which continued until his election to the bench, when his son, John B. Greer, succeeded him in the firm, which be came of Ra'ston & Greer. Governor Beaver, in 1887, appointed him examiner and inspector of the soldiers' orphans' schools of the state, a position which he filled for four years, when, on account of his In creasing law business, he reluctantly resigned. H3 was a past commander of A. G Reed Post No. 105, G. A. R., and was intensely patriotic. Seldom were "taps sounded" over the remains of any old soldier of the Civil War I'l Buf!er county that he was not pres ent at the funeral of the deceased comrade in arms. He was warmly In terested In the cause of education and was one of the citizens of Butler coun ty who were instrumental In the es tablishment of the Slippery Rock State Normal School at Slippery Rock, and he was one of the trustees of that Institution Bince its establishment. He also served for six y?ars as a trustee of the Pennsylvania State C'o'lege. On the death of Judge McMichael, law Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial district, Mr. Greer was nominated on the Republican ticket and elected. He served until September, 1893, when, on account of an act of Assembly di viding the district, with Lawrence county as the new one, he became president Judge of the Seventeenth district (now Fiftieth), composed of Butler county. Upon the retirement of Judge Greer from the bench, in January, 1903, he associated with him his suns, Thomas H. Greer and John B. Gier, both Wreck Victim's Body Found. Steubenville, O The body of Cap tain Edward Swaney of the towboat Diamond, which was wrecked by an explosion in the Ohio river off Avalon, Pa., last December 3, was found float ing In the river here, Saturday even ing. Four others were killed by the explosion, their bodies having been recovered previously. Captain Swancy lived with his family, consisting of Ihree sons and one daughter at Pitts burgh, Mt. Washington. Since the disaster the Swsoey am hy has nw've.4 to Jtit'tiWon, where hey now reijldq. ........... ;iittiiiueis ot tne lint er bar, under tin lrm nnme of "Greers," and resume, he practice of his profersion. Hit wUmkd legal learning, his abllitv nd Integrity as a Judge, hU studiou: liabits, his great natural abilities, jjmbined with his urbane, pleasant ind agreeable manner made him one 3f the most popular judges In West :rn Pennsylvania. He was a wls ible and upright jurist, loved and re jected, and no man who ever sat up .n the bench of the district ever did mote than he to increase and main tain the public confidence In the court. In po'itics Judge Greer was always i Republican, and was one of the nost prominent and popular members f his party In Western Pennsylvania. Judge Greer was a devoted church nan, liberal and active. Although olerant in his opinion and in their xpression he was averse to the use if intoxicants, except medicinally, or obacco In any form. He was a forceful, fluent and elo liient public speaker, injecting a ein of humor in his utterances, yet ie'ther in his public' addresses, nor n h's private conversation did he ever :eimit a word of profanity or vulgar ly to mar his speech. In conversational ability he excell :d. H had an apparently Inexhaust ble fund of wholesome anecdotes a'l lean, pure and wholesome and gath led largely Irom his own broad ex ?prience. .ludse Greer was married in 1804, to ful'a S. Butler, who survives him. our children were born, Hattie, who led in 1870. aged 9; Thomas H. Greer and John B. Greer, both attor .eys of Uuller and partners with their at her in the law business, and Robert t. Greer, physician and surgeon of Jutler, Pa. TWO RIPE OLD LIVES. Century Mark Passed in Both; In One Long Past. Sa'tsburg, Pa. Mrs. Rachel For .hua Wiley, believed to be the oldest oman in Pennsylvania, on Sunday brcrved her one hundred and sixth ilrthday. at. the home of her daughter, Vlrs. William .1. Fennell, here. Mrs. .Viley's maiden name was Rachel For- hua. Se was born iu 1806 in Juniata ounty, and when a child moved with lier parents to what Ib now I.atrobe. .Veen she was 6 years of age her fath- r, Wiiiiam Forshua, left his home on .1 hunting trip and never was seen igain. Whether he was killed by In 1 rns or met with a fatal accident was .lever ascertained. At Blairsville she narried Hugh Wiley, who died in iOC. Two sons and her husband served in the Civil War. Arter the var Ehe moved to Saltsburg. Washington, Pa. Active and leal hy at the age of one hundred and ,ne years, Mrs. Sarah Hemphill iharp, at one time of Danville, la., .nd a native of Washington county. eiebrated her birthday here Sunday. :he enjoys the best of health and as i sts with the housework. Mrs. Sharp s an inveterate amol;er and attribues ler long life to her activity and her doe. Mrs. Sharp is the o'dest living native woman of Washington countv. he was born near WeBt Alexander, March 17, 1811, and is the last of a smily of eight children. She was he second oldest. James Hemphill, j brother, who has sheriff of Washing xn county irom 1886 to 1889, died in !S9:i. Mrs. Sharp was married in 1 838 and six years later Mr. and Mrs. haip started for the west, going lown the Ohio and up the Mississippi jy steamboat. Mrs. Sharp has lived in her present home for more than a half century. HANS WAGNER NEW CAPTAIN. .Manager Clarke Chooses Veteran Star to Direct Pirates' Field Work. Hot Springs, Ark. It's Captain Hans Wagner of the Pirates now. The Flying Dutchman will direct the move ments of the Buccaneers on the field ihis summer, and endeavor to share rith Manager Fred C'ark the glory of winning the National league cham pionship. Wagner is both willing to assume he new position and anxious. He is retiring and diffident, but such traits are manifested only off the field. On the diamond he is a perfect baseball michine, and his entire attention recused on the game. Clarke will manage the club from the bench, and be out on the line in uniform, so that ihe club will have the services of both nieti. FLAMES FOLLOW FUNERAL. Church Burns at Close of Services for Betsy Rose' Granddaughter. Huntingdon, W. Va. While the fu neral services over the remains or Mrs. Edith A. Floyd, granddaughter of Betsy Ross, the maker of the first AniPivran tine were in uroress at does Landing, the Methodist church. In which they were held, took fire and burned to the ground. Mrs. Floyd was past 100 yeiirs of age. Authentic records In the hands of her rami y show that she was the ;raiidrtaighter of the generally ac knowledged maker of the origiual Stars and Stripes, and that her hus band, Finley Floyd, who died 40 years xo, was a grandson of the Fioyds Alio signed the Declaration of Inde pendence. First Nurse to Volunteer Dead. I'HFHdena, Cal. Mrs. Itobert K. Barry, the first nurse to go to the roni from New York when President .incoln iKsued the call for volunteers in 1-861 Is dead, She was 86 years eld. Mrs. Hurry's, maiden name was Susan Hall. Can Any One Blame Her? Ashtuliu'a. O. Mrs. May Langford. aged 37, wife of Arthur Langford ol this city, has fled from her home. She has been married 11 years and has given birth to 13 children only three of whom arc living and is about to become a mother a?aln. She toid uelghbore before leaving that she "ouid not longer withstand the treat inent which she clainu she received from her husband. Condition of anarchy lu China; 'niieii states hittalion arrives at Tl'-'n'slB- OD SURVEY IR THE SOUTHERN ROAD COMPLET ED BETWEEN BEDFORD AND FRANKLIN. TO PLANT PIKE AND PERCH Ztro Weather Damages the Peaches State Water Supply Commission Securing Valuable Data From Streams. Harrlsburg. The survey of the southern road between Pittsburg and Gettysburg will be completed by the end of this month and valuable data regarding this famous highway, which is destined to be made one of the best In Pennsylvania, and connect with the fine roads leading out of Gettysburg is now in hand. The work was done by three corps from Commissioner E. M. Bigelow's department, one working from Pitts burg to Bedford, another from Bed ford to Chambersburg and a Jhlrd from Chambersburg to the battlefield town. The middle course, 06 miles, was In charge of Engineer Gephart of Lan caster and the eastern end in charge of E. S. Frey of York. Pike for Lake Erie. State Fish Commissioner N. R. Bui ler annqunced that he had completed plans with the Ohio fishery authori ties whereby the two Btates would unite in the planting of pike and perch in Lake Erie this spring. This Is the first time joint work has been arranged on such an extensive scale, on the lake and It is believed it will have good results. The Pennsylvania men will go to Put-in-Bay, O., where the Buckeye state hatchery Is located, and will take part in securing the eggs, which will then be brought to this state's hatcheries along the lake and hatched. Peaches Damaged. A well known Cumberland valley tree trimmer who has been doing ex tensive work among the orchards and suburban places along the West Shore says that scarcely any of the thou sands of peach trees will have a single blossom this spring. They were all badly damaged by the below zero weather of the past few months. Of all of the buds he has opened and he has examined thousands not one showed a sign of life. Even the hardi est kind of trees have suffered and only here and there where a tree happened to be in a particularly well sheltered spot is there any chance of fruit on anything like a normal scale. The loss to growers in this vicinity alone will amount to many thousands of dollars. Auto Licenses Climbing. The 30,000 license mark will be reached at the automobile diviiilon of the state highway department this month is the belief of men connected with that branch of the state govern ment. The total number of licenses issued to date is close to 28,000 and the coming of warm weather, which is expected soon, will cause a rush of licenses. At this time last year the 25,000 mark had not been reached. This year it is noted that people who did not take out licenses until toward spring in former years were among the first to enter applications. Many new high power cars are being regis tered. May Regulate Express Companies. The state railroad commission has arranged a conference with the Adams Exiress Co. for Tuesday, March 19. The commission inclines to the position that the rule against the railroads prohibiting a carrier charging more for a shorter than a longer haul should be made applicable to other common carriers. Watching the State Streams. Harrlsburg. Valuable data on the manner in which the unusunlly heavy Ice of this winter broke up on the streams of the state Is being con tained by the state water supply com mission from its gauging experts and Held workers. Practically every stream of any size In the state was observed last fall and again during the winter after the ice had formed, the results of the extraordinary cold weather being noted. It is believed that when reports are compiled that information never gath ered systematically about the streams In very cold winters will be obtain able and the behaviour of the rivers and large creeks when the ice moved out has been noted so that it may be studied tn the future when matters pertaining to water supply and changes to river banks come up. State Capitol Notes. The state railroad commission has been summoned to meet here on March 19 to dispose of a largo num ber of cases. An opinion has been given by Dep uty Attorney General W. M,. Hurgest to Dr. N. C. Schacffcr, president of the state board of education, to the ef fect that there is do provision In the ethool code or any other act of as sembly which compels banks or trust companies to account to the board "for hpV 1101)06118 romaJclng unclaimed fnr a.ny period ol time." COTTON MILLS ANNOUNCE INCREASE IN WAGES Signal Given for General Advance In New England Affects 250,000 Workers. Fall River, Mass. A general ad vance of five per cent, in wages has been anouueed by the manufacturei'3 to take effect In a week. The decision to advance wages was reached at a meeting held at the residence of one of the manufacturers, and was report ed to the executive committee of the textile council at a conference beforo It was made public. Public announce ment of the advance was made at the request of the manufacturer com mittee through the textile council committee, Secretary Thomas Taylor It-suing it. In the presence of four other mem bers of the committee, Secretary Taylor Issued the following state ments, already prepared in writing for publication: "At a conference held this morn ing at the request of the Cotton Man ufacturers' Association, between their excutive committee and the executive committee of the texTiie council, the manufacturers announced that on March 25 wages will be ad vanced 5 per cent. "In connection with the voluntary advance the manufacturers' commit tee stated that in their opinion neith er the past condition of the trade nor the present warranted an advance in wages. Under the circumstances, however, they felt it was for the best interests of all concerned, and they desired to use tlu-lr operatives as well as the manufacturers In other textile centers of the cotton industry. ' They quoted at length the unprofita ble business during the past two years." A general advance In the mills will benefit more than 35,000 operatives, and a five per cent, advance will be worth to them almost $15,000 addi tional weekly, figuring on the full number of operatives that the plants can employ. The general advance now taking place in the New England mills and which, will eventually embrace every mill of importance are averaging 7 per cent., although a number of the Maine mills are naming 5 per cent. On an ordinary mill of 100,000 spin dles the new schedule means "an 1. vance of about $600 a week, or $30, 000 a year. On this basis the added charge is about 30 cents a spindle and with 17,000,000 spindies the total cost to owners in the course of a year will be In the neighborhood of $5,000,000. The entire readjustment when com pleted will affect about 250,000 opera tives and 1,500 mills including those privately owned. SOCIALISTS LEAD THE POLL. Their Candidate for Mayor Sweeps Burlington, Iowa, in Primaries. Burlington, Iowa. The Socialists have swept Burlington, landing their candidate, Schurmann, in the lead for Mayor in the city primaries under the commission plan. They also got two men on the ticket for Councilmen. Mayor Cross was defeated by fifty four voteB by Frank Norton for place on the ballot and Councilmen Bock and Funck were overcome by the op position. Councilmen Canney and Scheurs got places on the ticket. FOUND DEAD TOGETHER AT 90. Husband Succumbed to Age Wife Hanged Herself. Wilmington, Del. John Henry, ninety years old, and his wife Anna, the same age, were found dead in their home at New Castle, Del. The husband had died from general debil ity and the wife hanged herself In the kitchen. She had at first tried to end her life by cutting her throat. COMMISSION IN LONG BRANCH. New Jersey Resort Votes for New Form of Government. Long Brunch, N. J. Commission government won In the election by a majority of 661. The vote was: For, 1,194; against, 533. The new government proposition carried five of tho six wards. Primar ies will be held in April and May, when live Commissioners will be elect ed to succeed the present Government, which Includes tho Mayor, President of the Council, and twelve Councilmen. ASKS $50,000,000 FOR ROADS. Murtaugh Introduces Bill for State and County Highways. Albany, N. Y. Senator Murtaugh Introduced a bill agreed upon after consultation with Democratic State officials and prominent members of the Lecislnture, providing that the State issue an additional $50,000,0"0 for the construction and Improvement of highways. Of this fund $20,000,000 is set aside for the improvement of State high ways and $30,000,000 for county roads. Favorite Fiction. "I Believe I Am to Have the Plens ure of Taking You Out to Dinner, Mrs. Oaruley." ' To Let Desirable Apartments In This Building" , ' Homo Cooking Our Specialty.' "Genuine Cider Vinegar." "Peacoablo Picketing." "All Wool Suits $15." ! "Dear Sir." None May Shirk. Every Imnd is wonted In this world that can do a littk genuine, sincere. Vork.Gcorce Eliot.
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