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VOL. XLV. NO. 4.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1912.
$1.00 PER ANNUM.
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BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Burgess. J. C. Dunn.
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.