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JwMcet of lhe reace-O. A. Randall, D. W Clurk Cbuncumen. J.W. Tenders. J. T. Dale, O B. Koblnaon. Win. Smearbaugh, R. J. Hopkins, G. V. WatHon, A. O. Ke,,y- . OonKtnbleX. L. Zuver. Collector W. H. Hood. School JHrectorsW. C. Imel, J. Clark, 8. M. Henry, Q. Jamleaon, D. H. Ilium. FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS. AfeWeroOmorM-P. M.Hpeer. Member of tienate-J. K. P. Hall. 4Mmoly-W. J. Campbell. AiuoetateJwtge -Samuel Aul, Joseph M. Morgan. rrothonotary. Register Recorder, r 8. R. Maxwell. tfAerir-Wm. H. Hood. rbmmtrfoner-Wm H. Harrison, J. C. Hcowden, H. U. MeClellan. Xt Attorney-1. Jury Oommitor J. U. fcden, a.m Moore. Cunfv urtUuM-Uenrge H. Warden, A. C. Gregg ami . v . oniem. Cbunfy Surveyor-Roy H. Uraden. County Superintendent J . O Carson Keaulur Tre f C"rt. Fourth Monday of February. Third Monday of May. u .i. v(ni.,i.n nf Snntnmber. rOUTiU iinmuwj -i Inipottiint Opinion Hy The Court. In tlieane of the County Commisaionerb veru WH. Brazee, Treasurer of Forest County, tie Court bas filed the following opinion : Jttltion fur writ of peremptory tnandamuio compel Ibe respondent, the Couuty Treuurer of Forest county, to pay certain urun given Dy me Uounty Coin- missione s i tbelr salary. The petition of the relators e forth that the petitioners are the Couty Cominisaioners of Forest county, dulylectod at the municipal elec tion held Notnber 7, 1911, for the term of 4 years and Ive duly qualified as such; mat me popuiion or me uounty or iroreet according to e last census is D,W; that the Couuly ororest constitutes a separate poor dintrlct.kylng complied with the Act of Assembly tproved June 4, 1879; that W. H. BrazeireBpoudent, is the County Treasurer of Hi Forest county; that under the Act of Aspbly approved May 10, 1909, the County (luinsiouers are eutltlrd to a salary or JHOUr year; that on February -u, wit, iua nuiy i omnnsslvuers gave orders upon tlCouuty Treasurer, pa able to each respilye, for the sum of $lii.67 each, for llirpeetlve salaries for the mouth of Janu 1912. and that the said Couuty Treaiiu has refused upon demand to pay Bldr, olalinlng that the amount of the orde ul. be $', each as provid ed by the ft ijuue 13, 1911. The Act of April II, I vl eulltled "An Act fixing Third Monday of wovemuor. Apru ii,v euutied "An Act fixing Regular Meetings of County Cominls- lhJ itiarf,l( provUling for ,be eXpenses loners 1st aud 8d Toeedey. of month. of CoHtll..(Jimil(11,lonerHi , C0U0tl(.8 of - . . . ... , I tl.la fr.llta.OBlll. I T I J . b.NfeM4MMIiltak-l PreHbyterian Sabbath S19;45 nul M. K. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. rn. Preaching In M. K. S',,u",hV",ryn bath evening by Rev. VV. Preaching in me r. m.wiuiv,u.., Sabbath eveulng at tbeuBual hour. Rev. U. A. Oarrett, Pastor. . Preaching in the Presbyterian cbnrob every Sabbath at 11:H) a. m. and 7:. p. m. Rev. H. A. Badey. Pastor. The regular meetings or the W . C. , 1 . U. are held at the headquarters on tae iecond and fourth Tuesdaya of each UJI'Dth. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. "PI' N EST A LODC1 K, No. 869, 1. 0 O. K. 1 Menta every Tuesday evening, In Odd Fellowa' Hall, Partridge bulldiug. n PT. OEOBOR STOW POST. No. 574 (J U A. R. Meets let Tuesday aOer nK)u of eah month at 3 o'clock. rAPT. OEOROE STOW CORPS, No. C ,ff W. R. C, meets ttrat and third Wednesday evening of each month. F R ATTORNEY-AT-L AW Tionenta, Pa. MA. CARRINOER, . Attorney and Counsellor-at-Iaw. Offl. over" Forest $"?V? Bnk Building, TIONbSTA, rA. O ATT0RNEY-AT-LAWW(irr6njPa Practice in Forest Co. A BKWTTORNEY.AT.LAW OtBoein Arner Building, Cor. Elm and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa. PRANK 8. HUNTER. D. D. S F liooms over Citizen, Mtnk. DR. F.J. BOVARD, Physician A Surgeon, ' TIONESTA, PA. Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted. R. J. B. SIOOINS. Physician ana pA, D OTEL WEAVER.krcKi pr()prlet(ri nottrm, FZirrnverenoe'8 Z CVaStON. Proprietor. Tlnnsota Pa. This is the moat central ly SSSltoWlD the place, and has all the place for the traveling public. DHIL. EMERT FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER. Shop over R. L. Haslet's K""ry.f'r.e on Elm street. Is prepared to do-all Kind,, of custom work from the Hujt to t"b" coarsest and guarantees 1. work to crivH ner eel saiiHiwinm. . - tiou giveu to mending, aud pricea sonable. Fred. Grottenborger GENERAL BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST. aknd0,erama,Lksi,n iv done ai i,w -- , Machinery given special atlention, and Mtiafautton guaramecu. this Confcweallh." It Is nnantnii I in, that jaunnal salary of each member of tbs hi of County Commissioners, in the sevepouutles in this Commonwealth, shall beWlows: Iu counties containing ten thoiil population or less three hun dred di Ttie salaries herein fixed shall btlill and in lien of all other com. peosatiir the services of Couuty Coin missionxcept traveling expenses neces sarily lred in discharge of their official duties, tier acting as such or as poor directnqin the performance of any ser vice, oftW duty imposed upon County CommUrs. The Act of May 10, 1909, is eutlllVo Act regulating the salaries of Couitoaimissioners aud their em Dloves. I .aid CmnUKlminr. ra illri-t. ore of lllnty poor, In counties of less than selflve thousand inhabitants." This Aci(de4 that salaries of County Coinnilun, n counties having a popu lation of )llu seventy five thouoand in which CocululuB,onel.g arBi or will be, the di, 0f the poor shall be as fol lows: lnjeB 0f H8, lnan twenty-five thousand 4,I1 eight hundred dollars per year. kct 0f Juue 13, 1911, is en titled, "A0 amend an Act, entitled An Act n,e saliaritss and providing for the ex,f County CommiAsioners, in counties Commonwealth approv ed the folh (Uy 0f April, Anno Domini oiLaa mue huudred and five." Thnnend, tne of J!K)j only In renue grartM 0f population, thus niakiieconij grade consist of counties ha ti,ir,y Buj umier ,llr ty-five thoti,leu in lhe Aot of ms contaiuou oyty auii unuBr thirty, eight thoui,ua,olli it joeg -not change the n.8i Mog C0UD,ieg con. taluing ten j population or less. The Act of lever, omits from the anieudmeut the Aot of m5 designating .ce8 randoms, to wlt: "whether act,ch or a poor Qirect. ors." Iu our, tlie amenametit by the Act of 19lAct of 190.1, has not Wiped out the,ng 0f the Act of 1909, aud the Act olLtll lu foroe and ap. nlies to countil ty Cominisslo4aoe ex-nfllclo those of poor dlrectolIt woulJ i0OD c)ear that by the prof tl)B Act 0f lyoo, the Leg siaiuryj fof aiarte, t0 County CommSn coauties having less than sevenl0U(lald p0pulation, in those cases County Commis sioners are also 0f the couuty poor as distinguished,, ca()eg where ,be counties do not L a 8Bparate poor district and the I oversight of the poor does not falll8 County Com missioners. Tbre by ,ue Ao, ef June 13, 1911, wit0 ex0uje from the Act of 190.,lledi tue word8 whether acting a, poor directors. Ana we musi rnIciU810n as In tentioual, aud It t0 ba for tlle purpose of leavln,ue provjaion 0f the Act of 1909, ljflcany oovered lhe salaries of thd Commissioners who were acnng Actors. We are constrained to hde Aot 0f iom amending ibe Actjogg uot enct those couuties wboraceil wltuu the provisions 01 im . nAr. rea- Shop In rear of and just west of Shaw House, Tidioute, Pa. the Your patronage solicited. . FRED. GRETTENBERGER THE TIONESTA Eacket Store Can supply yur wants in such staple a. N.iwi PRinteil China. Japan ese China. Decorated Glassware, aud Plain nl.rl PlinrV Disheg. Candy, as well as other lines too numerous to meutiou. , Time to Think of Paint & Paper. TuCvre vmi titan your snriue work in painting and papermg let us give vou our estimates on the complete job. Satisfaction guaranteed. G F. RODDA, Next Door to the Fruit Store, Elm Street, Tiouesta, Pa. queue vs. Berks Oj,lper,or court ;7. mereiuro, tne Treasurer should pay the ord(y ,ue County Commissioners for n at t,,e rata ofH00 per annum, by tue Aot of 1909. Kow, Ma a pra eajp. tory mandamus is irecteii lo ue iHHiied against V. hnni.T.uaa. urer. commanding ltn t0 pay tb8 relators, w. a. .c gcowd0n and H. H. MoClellah.0nul88lo1. ers. the three said lr.1(,rH ,,.,.. February 20, 1912, , of ji(JG7 each payable to eily for tb9 respective salary ol, Cou),. Commissioners, for t jauuaryi WVl. The cost of thL t() b() paiJ' by the County of Fof Ickley, ?nt Judge. The number of inJoy Qny popularity In Ire Bmall although personalte q(mll fled to attract It. H magge hnow the history ocountry better than the cldit Thpy have long niemor tradition what Le thorlty, that "the titles are histotica memories not of h A "Union" peer at the same category llan" landholder in U uiin hnld cn tpnaciofcw Btock." Londou Trut: HUNGRY TOILERS LQOKJOMINERS Desperate. Effort to Stop Suf fering and End Trade Crisis. HOUSE PASSES INCOME TAX BY LARGE MAJORITY FOR MINIMUM WAGE BILL Ex-Premier's Opposition to Legislation Rushed to End Coal Strike Voted Down by Large Majority In creasing Destitution. London. By un astonishingly large majority, the minimum wage bill was passed in I'arlianient and it la hoped that the unprecedented distress caus ed by the coal strike will cease. Al ready the strike's consequences are appalling and every day sees further curtailment of business and railway services. It Is announced that the Great East ern Railway, which up to the present, because of its enormous coal reserve, has been able to maintain a full ser vice, will begin to cut down. The tram way company serving the London su burbs was given notice to Its employ es that It will not be able to run any cars after the end of the month. From ull grear industrial district!, come tales of increuBing destitution. luteiiBllied by the cold and Inclement weather, and, In the northern coun ties, snow and sleet. The Paisleys Thread Mills were closed, letting out 12,000 workers. The ports are all congested by idle shipping. It Is estimated that tonnage amounting to 100,000 is lying idle at the Southampton docks, Including the liners Oceanic, Majestic, St. Paul New York and Philadelphia. The total of the men out of employ ment is Increasing daily, and it Is now estimated that besides the million miners on strike nearly two million other persons have been made idle The people In many centres dally besiege the offices of the mayors, where relief Is freely distributed. It is thought probable that unless some thing is quickly done to bring thecriBis to an end, hunger marches, such as that which took place In the fishing town of Grimsby, when three hundred starving men marched to the town hall and begged for relief, will become a common sight all over the country. Details of the hundreds of individu al cases of starvation and Buffering would fill pages of a newspaper Through the Lancashire district con ditions are pitiable. Relief funds have been started In Wigan,- St. Helens, Bolton, Preston and other coal towns, where fully 40 per cent, of the coal workers are women and quite 10 per cent, children. Men and women are literally starv ing by tens of thousands. But it is war to a finish with the miners. Their leaders vow they will starve to death before they will give In. The fight is equally bitter on the side of the opera tors, who insist the Minimum Wage bill la a revolutionary, blackmailing piece of legislation. Some o f them hint that the mines may remain clos ed; but no one believes this for a mo ment. Their profits are quite enough to take care of the minimum wage. $130,000 PEARL THIEF CAUGHT. Postoffice Inspectors Nab Man Who Stole Jewels Aboard Liner. St. Louis. Postofiice Inspectors ar rested Daniel Callahan on a charge of stealing pearls worth $130,000 belong ing to Mrs. Maldwin Drummond from a stateroom on the Hamburg-American liner Amerika in February, 1911. Callahan was taken In a restaurant, and a man with him, who gave his name as Charles F. Miller, was arrest ed at the same time. The rewards ottered for the arrest of Callahan total $10,0000. Washington. The arrest in St. Louis of Daniel Callahan by postofiice Inspectors ends a chase of a year, which took lu a large portion of the United Stales and England. Callahan, who is 30 years old according to re cords of the PoBtoffice Department, has a long criminal career and lias been the leading spirit in some of the largest robberies in the country. INDIANA FOR GOV. MARSHALL. Delegates to National Democratic Con vention So lnstn-td. liidianapolts, Ind. The thirty-delegates from Indlcna to the Democratic National Convention were instructed, in the platform adopted by the State convention, "to present to that body the name of Governor Thomas II. Mar shall as the first and only choice of the Democracy of Indiana for the nomina tion of President." ' Marshall, who cal'ed the convention to order as temporary chairman, was wildly cheered. Kern w permanent chairman. TOM MANN SENT TO PRISON. w bv llth nn. IJ1 1DU .1 with v.h in W-.7 D. Held IWthout Bail, Charged With In citing Soldiers to Mutiny. Manchester, England. Tom Mann, the noted British Socialist labor lead er, was sent to jail in Salford because he urged soldiers to refuse to shoot tliPtr lathers and brothers if called out ior strike duty. The charge against Mann was 'ought by attorneys representing the Office, who alleged he had inclW -rg to mutiny. Eighty Republicans Join Democrats in Vote on Measure Expect Senate to Concur. - Washington. The Democratic Ex cise bill to tax virtually everybody's income when it is $5,000 or more a year passed the House, 250 to 40. The Democrats voted solidly for it, and carried 80 Republican voteB with them. Forty regular Republicans were the opposition. The bill now goes to the Senate, where its fate is a guess. Many Sena tors said that if on analysis they found the House measure would tax all classes of people alike they would sup port it. Democratic Senators, with a few exceptions, are expected to vote for it. Democratic Leader Martin ex preBsed the hope that the Democratic Senators and the progressive Republi cans might put the bill through. Re publican leaders are depending on the President's veto to check revenue re vision bills from the House. f l.c Kxclse bill, though primarily In tended to produce anywhere from $20, 000,000 to $60,000,000 a year to make tip for the losses on free sugar, is also expected' to be oue of the offsets to general pension legislation, which seems sure to be enucted. Democrat ic Leader Underwood held his majori ty Intact through the passage of the bill. Not one Democratic vote was cast against it, and the measure was pass ed exactly as framed. An outburst of applause from the Democratic side accompanied the an nouncement of the vote, and was re newed when it was learned that 80 Republicans had voted for the meas ure. The bill would extend the existing Corporation Tax law to include a tax of 1 per cent, on the yearly net In comes of all firms or individuals in ex cess of $5,000. N. DAKOTA FOR LA FOLLETTE. Results of the First Presidential Pri mary Ever Held. Fargo, N. D. Senator La Follette carried the primaries in North Dako ta by at least 15,000, and he may have more votes than Roosevelt and Taft combined. It Is not Improbable that he carried every one of the forty-nine counties. The Progressive Democrats went for him almost to a man. There was no real contest In the Democratic ranks and as a conse quence the radicals in the party vot ed for La Follette, as they cau under the primary systeiCSllu this State. EANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN. Blow Open and Rob Express Safe on the M. & O. Road. Corinth, Miss. Mobile & Ohio pas senger train No. 4, northbound, was held up and the express safe blown open and robbed seven miles south of Corinth by four men, heavily armed iinrl masked. After accomplishing the robbery the men took to the dense un derbrush of the Tuscumbia River bot toms. Bloodhounds were telegraphed for and a posse was organized to take up the pursuit. MILLIONS FOR ORPHANAGE. Lord Wandsworth's Will Provides $6, 250,000 for Institution. Loudon. A bequest of $t,250,000 figures in the will of the late Baron Wandsworth for the foundation of an orphanage. Sydney .Tames Stern first Barcn Wandsworth, who died recently, leav ing no heir to the title, was the son of Viscount de Stern, from whom he In herited the title of viscount In the kingdom of Portugal aud a large es tate. Lord Wandsworth never married. STRIKES ADJOURNMENT GAIT. House Passes $26,000,000 Rivers and Harbors Bill in Three Hours. Washington. Evidence of a dis position on the pa't of both Deaio irats and Republicans of the House to hurry up the work of the session so that Congress may adjourn In am ple timo for the national conventions of the two parties was furnished when the rivers and harbors appropriation bill, carrying cash appropriations of t24,0G2,r20 and contract authoriza tions of $2,200,000, were put through. LEGISLATORS FACE INQUIRY. Four Members of New Mexico House Accused of Bribery. Santa Fe, N. M. The trap set by the Republican State Central Com mittee in which four members of the House Jose P. l.'vero, Julian C. Trujillo, Manuel Cordova and Luis R. Montoya were arrested, charged with accepting bribes to vole for certain senatorial candidates, was declared by the accused men to ha"e been set by themselves to catch the "higher ups.". The accused men resigned. Substitute for Soap. Boiled potatoes make an excellent lubstltute for soap If your hands have become blackened with contact with pots and pans. Take a little of the potato and rub well Into the skin, (hen rinse It off with warm water. Cornered. "That chauffeur was a great disap pointment." "I thought he would be." "But you gave him a letter of recom mendation." "Of course. And I advise you to do the same. It's the only way to get htm to eo ru arr-r.M " IS GIVING AWAY HIS REALjSTATE Phipps Tired of the Burden Its Care Entails TEN MILLION GOES TO SONS Were Not Previously suffering for Ne cessities of Life Public Ben efactions of Donor Have Been Many. Pittsburgh. Pa. Henry Phipps, Sr., has divested himself of his realty holdings In this city, estimated at $10,000,000, by giving it to three sons, John 8., Henry and Howard Phipps, all of Nassau county, New York. The gift includes the Fulton, Bessemer and .Manufacturers skyscrapers, all on the banks of the Allegheny, the McEl veen Furniture Company's building, the Philips model tenements on the North Side, besides other less we!l known but valuable parcels. Included In the gilt are two farms, one In Ross township and another in Jefferson township. The deed is an ordinary typewrit ten document In which no space Is wasted with recitals other than de scribing the properties. Nothing is said about how the three sons are to share In the ownership of the proper ty; the $10,000,000 more or less of skyscrapers and other real estate Is jtiHt given them In fee. Henry Phipps and his. wife, Mrs. Annie C. Phipps, signed and acknowledged the docu ment in New York city, the date in the transfer being March 12. 1912. Less than a month ago Mr. Phipps gave his "boys" $3,000,000 worth of Chicago real estate, and neither the father nor the boiis would comment upon that gift which, It was Bald, was simply to relieve the parent of much work and worry. It was not because John S., Henry C. and Howard need the real estate. The eldor ones, John and Henry, have mansions of their own In Long Island that are as imposing as their father's in New York. They own enough of the United States Steel Corporation to enable them to have homes in Pitts burgh and estates in Scotland. The youngest son, Howard, lives mostly with his father, and also has a few bonds of the Steel Corporation In his deposit vault. The sisters of the Phipps boys, who do not share In the Pittsburgh real estate, are Helen, now Mrs. Bradley Martin, and Amy, now the wife of the Hon. Frederick Guest. Mr. Phipps a few years ago spent $1,000,000 building model tenements in New York. He gave $500,000 for a Phipps Institute to treat tuberculosis in Philadelphia, his birthplace. He gave a similar sum to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., for the study of insanity. A few of his other beneflclencleg have been: $100,000 for the aid of the Boer families distressed by the war with England; $50,000 to Paris to tight tuberculosis; $100,000 for scien tific research in India; $10,000 for a memorial to Henry Ward Bcecher, and $10,000 to the Educational Alli ance of this city. LATHAM RELEASED BY McGR -W. Old Timer Has to Make Room for Youngsters Seeking a Job. Dallas, Tex. Arlie Latham, one of the most famous of all the old-time baseball players, aud one of the char acters of the modern-day game, who has been carried by the New York Giants In the capacity of coach for the past four years, has been released. Latham's value to the club as a drawing card was quite definite, hut he had to he included in the 25 ball play ers allowed a manager after May 15, and McGraw drew In so many valuable youngsters this year that he finally had to make room for them somehow. Walter Arlington Latham celebrat ed hid fifty-third birthday in camp at Mailin a few days ago. He was the oldest man in point of service earning a livelihood out of the game by Btill appearing in uniform, having been player, manager, umpire and finally coach for almost 40 years. He was one of the greatest baserunners of all time and one of the best fielding and hitting third basemen. Few of the Giants with whom he worked were even born when he was in liis prime. REAL RECALL IN OHIO. Socialists Will Try to Oust Mayor Who "Fired" One of the Faith. Lorain, O Thomas Pape, the Soc ialist Mayor of Lorain, lias been offic ially notified by Secretary Goll of the Socialist party that, unless he appears at a meeting of the party next Thurs day and satisfactorily explains why he'discliarged G. A. Storck, a Socia'ist, from the office of service director and appointed L A. Dawes, a Republican, ho will be recalled by the patty ami his resignation sent to tho council. Mayor Pape says that ho will not ut tend the meeting and will ignore I lie official notification. There are but two Socialists In the council and the resig nation will not cany in tnnt bod-'. The mavor, when lie dropped Direc tor Storck, said that it was because .he latter was entirely Incompetent to perform the duties of the office. MARQUIS OF HERTFORD DIES. His Heir Former Husband of Alice Thaw of Pittsburgh. London. Tho Marquis of Hertford, father of the Karl of Yarmouth, died on .March 21! and the Earl of Yar mouth, the former husband of Alice Thaw of Pittsburgh, succeeds to the title and what there Is of the estate. Yarmouth, who went through bunk iMiptcy for n bout $100,000, succeeds to tn estate that is impoverished and mortirasod heavily, and debts of vail ous descriptions abound. 105 LOSE THEIR LIVES IN MINE EXPLOSION disaster in Oklahoma Caused by Ac cumulated Gas Had No Chance to Make Escape. JlcCurtaln, Okla. One hundred and five lives Is accepted as an approxi mately correct estimate of the hu man toll taken when mine No. 2 ol the Sans Bois Coal Company here was wrecked by an explosion. Of 11 'J men of the day shift only eleven are known to be alive. The otners are entombed behind the debris. In the opinion of Government experts and mine officials they are dead, and a spiclal train which broiii'lit physi cians and nurses from Fort Smith, Ark., returned at once because they were not npeded. Five physicians re mained In the faint hope that some of the imprisoned men may be found alive Among those unaccounted for are members of a surveying party, headed by W. D. Roper of Clio, S. C. Forty-three Americans were employ ed in the mine. Frank Fields, a miner, was the first to stagger out of the mine. He was walking In an entry and heard the explosion, he said. Nine other min ers escaped through a "man-way." Superintendent Brown of the coal company led the first rescue party Into the mine, but they could proceed no further than the sixth level. They returned to the surface with the body of John Colwas, 17 years old. All night half a hundred rescuers worked In relays. They took out four bodies. The bodies are black ened and burned and are practically unrecognizable. Brown said the force of the explosion was such that only by Mie remotest possibility could any St Lie e.itombed men be alive. The explosion resulted, mine ex perts said, from either accumulated gas or coal dust. Scranton, Pa. Mine gas creeping through crevices Into the cellar of a dwelling In Dunmore, this county, In which nine persons, seven of them children, were sleeping, reached the kitchen where an oil lamp was burn ing. In the explosion that tore the house to fragments two mothers and six children were killed outright and the seventh child was fatally hurt. The dead are Mrs. Jean Batiste Co viello, 48 years old; her children, William, aged 21; Lizzie, aged 14; Lucy, aged 12; Domlnlck, aged 8; Mrs. Vito Summa, aged 28, a mar ried daughter, and her children, Rose, aged 4; Frank, aged 5. The seventh child, Mamie Summa, was found lodged in the branches of a tree in the street in front of the wrecked house when dawn broke two hours after the explosion. The region of the explosion Is honeycombed with worked out veins, the topmost of which comes within twonty feet of the surfuce. ROOSEVELT FEARS OLIGARCHY. Tells Audience Taft Doesn't Believe In Popular Government. New York. Speaking to a large, at tentive and enthusiastic audience In Carnegie Hall, Theodore Roosevelt, In his first appeal made in this Stute for the Republican nomination for the Presidency, explained his Columbus speech, enunciated a more moderate doctrine than he laid down then, at tacked President Tuft unqualifiedly for the latter's Massachusetts address, and stirred the atiLience to applause In n passion of oratory which carried the radical portion of his audience with him. That President Taft does not believe In popular government that he inclines to oligarchy or government of tho many by the few, and that representa tive government in this country is tending to oligarchy and has got to be altered to a true democracy, are Bomo of the things Colonel Roosevelt told his audience. JOINCD IN DEATH AS IN LIFE. Three Aged Women, Seeking Health Together, Die Within Three Days. Jersey City, N. J. The Misses Mary and Alice McCrarn, the first 80 and the other 78 years old, and their sister-in-law, Mrs. Susan McCrarn, also 78 years old, went into Orange Coun ty, New York, rome two weeks ago, for their health. A few days after their arrival they caught tho grip. Mary died on March 1G, her sister-in-law the next day, and Alice on March 19. HEARS SHOTS, FALLS DEAD. Mrs. Murray Mistook Them for FeuJ at Court House Murder Trial. London, Ky. Shots fired as a fire alarm here aud mistaken for tho sounds of u feud battle at tho Court House, where dm. May is on trial for murder, so excited Mrs. W. II. Murray thnt she fell dead. May, who it is said has killed four men, Is on trial for the alleged murder of Mrs. Sherman Merida, In tho heart of tho fond country He Is undergoing a life sentence for killing hor husband. Friend of Dumas. There lives at St. Die, France, In a little commune near Rehatipnl an old woman of gofcd figure and utidimmcd eye, notwithstanding the fact that she was borne 111 years ago. Cente narians are not at all uncommon about the Vosges. Her name Is Mine. Vlry and for a long period she was In the Bervlce of Alexandre Dumas pere. She has many recollections of tht time spent at the house of the author of the "Trots Mousquetalrcs," and she describes Dumas as an excellent man but very fond of a good dinner, fowls beliig his specialty SIDE BY SIDE IN LONG SLEEP Aged Couple Pass Away Almosl Simultaneously WIDOW'S WISH CARRIED OUT "I'm Coming John," She Said Lovely Close of Long Devoted Com panionship Marriage Ante dated Civil War. Reyno'.dsville, Pa. The oldest couple of this town, in residence as well as age, ar j dead. They are Mr. and Mrs. John S. Smith. Mr. Smith, aged 80, died lust Friday morning anil his wife,, aged 79, Sunday morning. They will be buried side by Bide Wednes day, according to a request made by Mrs. Smith last Friday. Many times Mrs. Smith' had said: "If my husband dies first 1 want to live long enough to know that he is dead." She was greatly uttached to him. They had been married 02 years, and when he was serving in the Civil War she put her four children in an ox-cart and drove from Reynoldsvllle ;o Georgia, Tenn., to be near him and to take care of him should he be wounded. Both had been ill over a week from pneumonia. When the husband died ihe agod woman, in another room, Knew by the hush that had suddenly fallen over the household and the sad ."aces of her children that her com panion had gone. She called them to iier beuslde. "John is dead, isn't he?" she asked. She was told the truth. An expres sion of eagerness came over the ATinkled face. "Don't bury him till Wednesday," she said calmly. Those at the bed lde knew Bhe wished this delay in he hope that she would be burled be jide him. Sunday morning she said, as if to erself,, "I'm coming John." Then a nnlle passed over her face and she vent to ioei). Mrs. Smith was born iu Panic, five niles from Reynoldsville. She and lr. Smith were married 10 years be ore he joined Company 1, One hun ired and Filth Pennsylvania Volun teer Infantry for service in the Civil .Yar. Mrs. Smith was left with four mall children. Besides taking care it her house she worked in fields, lauled logs and cut timber. Sha otild endure this but a year, when onging to be near her husband over ame her, and she traveled to Ten essee In an ox-cart with her chil ron. H-'r husband's regiment was here. She remained there till the var was over. Mr. Smith was born in Clinton coun y. As a young man lie taught school vhen schoolhouses were log huts with vindowH of greased paper, loiter he lecame a civil engi er and staked off he plan for Reynoldsville. He sur 'eyed nearly all the roads In Jeffer jon county. The following children survive; Sid ley F., Marietta. O.; Frank D. Wash ngton, D. C; W. I., of Punxsutawney ; D. of Lynchburg. Va.; MrB. Joseph oesan of Woodslkid. O., and Mrs. iValter Fleming of Buffalo, N. Y. Newsboy Confesses to Being Firebug. Butler, Pa. fl'he source of the in 'ndlary fires which have aroused But er the past week Is said to have been ienred up when "Mike" Flint, a nlne earold Ita'.lan newsboy admitted to 'hlef of Police that he (Flint) started hem. 11-e Is alleged to have said he darted the two fires because the two enants did not buy newspapers from 1 1 in and tn have explained the blaze .11 County Surveyor George Pillow's of Ice because Pillow "kidded" him and lecauae lie wanted to see if the auto noblle fire truck could get to the lire faster than the horse-drawn engines. '.Mike" is very industrious and is veil known about the courthouse. He vas gWcn u lecture by Burgess Amy and Chief of Police Sehultz und per nltted lo go homo on the proniiss that he would start no more fires. New Freight Record Established. Ilarrlsbuig, Pa. The Philadelphia Hvision of the Pennsylvania Railroad 'omimny handled S.425 freight cars larch i'i and broke all records for Movement of freight cars between t'hiladeiiilila and HairiShurg. By nil odd coincidence the books of Su perintendent William U. McCaleb show that the best previous record was 8, 1 10, made on March 21!, 1907, Ave ears to the day. The average move-in-lit of freight cars on t ho division or the lo da.vB previous was 7,237 laily. Vile Wretch Gets Swift Justice. Salt Lake City, I'tah. Quick Justice jviib dealt out here whes George Par y. aged lis, arresti d Friday charged .ilh attacking an 11-year-old girl, was ntenced to servo til years In the ,tni e penitentiary. Parry was par Icned ill 1910 alter serving nine years f a 20 J ear bcntetice ou a similar charge. Interstate Commerce Commission decided railroads must take Biimc rate between states as within any state and that federal law truuscenda Mtate law, in all Interstate commerce. Whole Life in One House. Salisbury, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Char es R. Haselbarth, who celebrated heir golden wedding recently, have pent their entire wedded life heie. .lr. llatelbarth lb a native of Ger '.luny and came to America when 24 i us old. His wife, who was Lydla livelv, was born iu Salisbury, she has lived her entire life, 72 years, in the house in which she was borti. Ttiey luiv-e seven children. Annuil report of Carnegie Founda tion showed ui'tch impioveuieut la 1
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