ALPINE BOLTON'S. Shoes. Both Phones. T NATIONAL BANK OF SAYRE $70,000.00 BANKING ? PERCENT INTEREST id on Time Deposits. DIRECTORS. J. N. Weaver, J. W. Bahop, W. T. Goxlnow F.T. Page, OPERTY OWNERS Rent, Sell, Insure, Ex- 3 Your Property. LEX D. STEVENS, - INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. Negotiated, Insurance , Houses Rented, Rents , Taxes Paid. y. ELMER BLOCK RT ST. SAYRE. GOMFORT All who have worn 8 Truss ITHSONIAN” hirty days Free Trial. L. GILLESPIE down. Our wines are ex- bout bad effects. Why? ARE BENEFICIAL, mothing except it's abso- Liquors that restore the wholesome. We set no PALMER IS OUSTED| Has Two Weeks to Forwarc NX Resignation to President. ACTION TOWARD RICKETTS' CAUSE Thorough Reorganization of Werk fag Feice of Government Printing | Office Will Occur Under New Osicial WASHINGTON, Sept. 6G — Public Printer F. W. Palmer practically has been ousted from ollice. It was learn «i authoritatively last night that Pres kient Hoosevelt bad demanded Mr Palmer's resignation, to take effect on the 13th inst The demand of the president for Mr Palmer's resiguation wus due prima rily to the latter's actfon lu trylug te force Oscar J. Ricketts, foreman of printing, and IL. C. Hay, a foreman of division, out of the government priut iog office. Mr. Paliver askesl for the resiguations of Ricketts and lay oo the ground that they had been insub ordinate. The public printer formulat ed a series of charges against the twe men. These charges, It is known, were forwarded to Oyster Bay | As soon as President Roosevelt learned of the situation that had devel oped he directed Public Printer Palmer te forward to him Lis resignation, te take effect ln two weeks It bas been known for some time that Mr. Palmer would vot be reap pointed to his present office. For sev eral mouths before President Roose velit left Washington for Oyster Bay he was casting about for a suitable man for the position of public printer He offered it to Jolin A. Sleicher of | New York, but he declined it, having something better lu view. Until this time there has been uno change lu the situation. The investigation made by the Keep commission into the letting of gs con tract for seventy-two typesetting ma. chines for use in the government print ing office disclosed a serious condition of affalrs in the management of the of fice. Prominent men in the office force were divided Into cliques, These cliques were so detrimental to the in | terests of the government that the standard of efficiency in the establish | ment was reduced materially The evidence adduced by the com mission In the course of its inquiry cre ated much bitter feellug amoung the men bolding high positions in the of | fice. One of the direct results of this! lc Printer Palmer for the resigua tions of Ricketts and Hay. As the! Keep commission Inquiry, so far as) known, developed nothing to the disad. | vantage of Ricketts or Hay, the presi. | dent acted promptly In taking the whole mstter out of Palmer's hands and placing It in the hands of the Keep | commission for such further (nvestiga tion as might Le necessary. Coupled) with this action ef the president was | iguation. With the Incoming of Mr. Palmer's | successor—and there is ample authority | for the statement that he bas not been selected yot—It is expected a thorough | reorganization of the working force ot | the governmgut printing office will] take place. Among the men mentioned | in connection with the office are Oscar! J. Ricketts, whom the public printer | sought to remove; H. T. Brian, chief] clerk of the office; William B. Hossiter, | chief clerk of the census bureau, and | John Leech, public printer in the Phil | ippines. The office pays a salary of $4500 a year. The annual disburse | ments for the government printing of | fice aggregate about §7,000,000, Joseph B. Bishop Named. WABHINGTON, Sept. 6. —Chalrman Shonts of the Isthmian canal commis | sion amoounced the appointment of Jo seph B. Bishop of New York as execu | tive secretary of the commission, with | headquarters bere. Mr. Bishop's duties | will be to attend to the “publicity and | literary” branch of the canal work | Mr. Bishop has had experience as s magazine and newspaper writer and bas made a special study of the canal | problems. Mr. Bishop will have a sal | ary of $10,000 a year. He will leave! today for Washington, Sisty Point Break In Cotton, | NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—~lollowing the! announcement of the government crog | report there was a very severe and panicky break In the cotton market | yesterday. The market went to smash | with a thod, there belong an unusually | sharp break, prices ou almost al! mouths dropping from forty to sixty! poluts within a very few minutes. The “average condition” was announced as 72.1, which is considerably lower thas that of July, The Morecco Affair. BERLIN, Sept. 6 —Chancellor Prince vou Bulow bad a long luterview with B. Bibourd, the French ambassador Dr. Rosen, German minister designate to Taugler, will go to Paris and discus the Franco-German understanding ae to Morocco with the French ministers with the minimom of publicity before the international conference upon Mo roccan affairs Is held, i Smullen Acquitted of Murder, FONDA, N.Y, Bept. 6 — Danlel! Smullen, who has been on trial before Justice Spencer for the past nine days of the charge of murdering Peter Con rad pear Argusville on March 17 last Was acquitted. OISEAU FIRST IN HANDICAP. Brady's Three-year-old Drives Home | in Front of Oliver Cremwell. NEW YORK, Sept 6. -Juggler, the | Beavily played favorite, scored au easy | sictory in the Autumn stakes for two- | yearokls at Sheepshead Bay. He took | the lead at the start and, making all} the pace, won easily by five leugths. | Belmere was second, three lengths be | fore Athlete Olseay, the 1 to 2 favorite, won the | a handicap, one mile and | beating Oliver Cromwell by | The races were run over a! Tiree favorites won, Sam- | a quarter, a neck slow track maries First Race —Arsenal, first: The Roliesia, second; Lord Badge. Second Race —Burleigh, first: utha, second; Milas third Third Race. —Juggler, first second; Athlete, third Fourth Race —Olsean Cromwell, second; Judge Himes, third Fifth Race.—Zuna, first; Eloisa, otid; Sufliclency, third Sixth Race—Onatas, first; Lady El lison, second; Cloveriand, third BASEBALL SCORES. Games Flayed Yesterday by the Na- tional and American League Clubs. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelphia Brookiyn ¢ 1 9 Philadeiphia via 0 3 Hits -Hrooklyn, 12: Philadelphia, ¢ Er- rors— Brooklyn, 4; Philadelphia. 3 Bat Strickictt and Ritter, Nichols and | Lady | third Adri Belmere first Oliver se 100 1-3 8 © «s 600 *—3 eg 8 0300 I-13 g€ 0 8 € § § 03 Sk louis 3 Er- Louls. 1 DBatterieg | McFarland ~ rors Cincinnati. LI: -Chech and Schlel Grady Becond Game— Cincinnati : ¢ 1 Bt. louis 0 Hits Cincinnati, é; St. Louis rors—Cincinnatl, 1, St. Louls, © —~VYoulnckel and Schiel ting a Sng, cle age : Pittsbur : Hits hicaxo, € Chicagy. 2. Pittsbur bach, Lundgren anc Gibson TABLE OF PERCENTAGES L New York M" Pittsburg “ Bica, A niladelphia 5 Cincinnati Bt Louts Beston e911 21 i 10 i Batteries Taylor and tterles Real. O'Nell. Lyneh and PH © 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Washington — New York 10230180 ° ¢ 00 0 2 Washington Hits Kew York, Washington, Washington terigs—Chesbro and McGuire Falkenberg, Heydon and Kuolis ¢ 006 61¢00¢ 0-2 0006060000 29001-38 Hite—Philadeiphia, 19; Boston, 3 Fr. rers~ Philadelphia, I; Boston, 1. Batteries ‘addell and Schreck; Winters and Cri. 0 1~8} 3: 3 ¢ troft : . 000 8 20 SeChics 0, §, Detroit, 13 Errors- 3 Detroit, | Hatiefies Altroek Sy, Donovan and Drill { Becond rol: 8 0010203 Game— Det Jiita—ci io Detroit, 8 Errors- go < Chisany. troit, Datteries—Walsh Hyan, Cleotte and Warner Hat Cleveland t. Louk At Chicago— Chicago ¢e 00 g1409901 00-3 100 4300 1-6! levela e000 00 0-9 Hite—8t. Louis, §, evelahe, + srrors | t 1's 1, Cleveland tterion— Pélty and Roth: Hess and C Bark TABLE OF PERCENTAGES iadeiphia ... wil} 3 ave nd eeeys New York Boston | aafin ton : . Auto Racing at Atlantie Clty, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Sept. 6-4 bard beach and pleasant weather com- | bined to render favorable the condl-| tions for the automobile races under | the auspices of the Atlantic City An woblle club, which were postponed be cause of the ralu. An Immense throag | | ined the track and board walk, and | ww Tn | Before the regular events Henry Ford | drove Lis wachine a mile against time, | making the distance fn 38 8-3 seconds. A. L Campbell's exhibition mille was Sadie Mac Drops Dead. HARTFORD, Conn. Sept. 6.—1In the fourth beat of the Charter Oak 2:00] one of the favor: yards from the wire won by Angiola, The heat was | Norman B. second | Four Favorites at Latonia. CINCINNATI, 0. Sept. Four fa vorites won at Latonia. Maceona, the wou the | fourth race, the feature of the card, i from Naran, the heavily played favor ite. Rather Hoyal finished third. 4 No Cup Challenge. LONDON, Sept. 6 —Captain Sir Er nest Cochrane of Dublin and Belfast! denies that Le bas agy intention of | | challenging for the Awerica's cup, as | reported from Montreal Dilek Cooley Released. DETROIT, Mich, Sept, 6. Outfielder Dick Cooley of the Detroit American leigue tenn was given his ten days’ notice of release by Manager Arwour ———— Guns Boom as Envoys Sign the Peace Treaty. er et— | TOWNS CELEBRATE THE EVENT. Russia, First to Alls Sigaatare to Document That Closes War In the Far East, PORTSMOUTH, N. II, Sept. 6-4 from the nary yard signalized the signing of the treaty of Portsmouth waking effective peace be ind Japan «=f that sigiiing of the =CYel Hii after 3 o'clock AM was the to atlix Lis signa As soon ag the firing of the eight ech guns was heard all the church bells in Newcastle, Kittery and Portsmouth were a sigu of joy for about fen minutes hoisted, and geuernl Joy was mal S| : The last half hour before the signing was spent in making a tional reading of the treaty AML. Witte, accompanied by Baron Ros- left the hotel for the navy yard at half past lock. Baron Komura, accompanied Uy Min Takahira and Mr. Deuanison, started fiftecn minutes later in an au for the navy yard They greeted by the guests of the Lo Baron Komura bad been preced ed by another wotor car, which car ried Mr. Sato aud the Japanese secre taries, taking thelr copy of the peace treaty iu a large Liack leather port folio. Awong those present at Baron Ko mura’s departure was Bishop Potter of It tite of the forty Witte ture, the official freaty was was aubeun ililes Brst rung as Flags-wen 1ifeste = 04 were tel Both Russian aud Japauese missions iu “the bavy yard were received by Admiral Mead, while two commanded by Major Moses, rendered military honors The coples of the treaty of peace uavy yard had been carefully compared by the secretaries of the two wisslous in order to avold the necessity of reading them before the siguiug. at which personages ex tranecus to the uegotiations assisted When the secretaries had ascertained the perfect exactness of the two coples of the treaty the plenipotentiaries and the other wembers of the two missions entered the conference hall, accompa- nied by Assistant Secretary Pelree, Governor McLane, Admiral Mead and the wayor of Portsmouth M. Witte, the chief of the Russian plenlpotentinries, was the first to sign his name to the treaty. After the cere monles of the siguing of the treaty Baron de Rosen delivered a short and speech, pointing out the importance of the present event and rela tions between the two countries. He ended by expressing the satisfaction he felt at the good relations which have characterized the work of the plent Baron Kowmura Rosen's speech words addressed to himself and to the The entire Russian mission, headed members of the Japaueso mission sald, twentieth century ™ Two Thousand Painters Strike. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8. — More than 2,000) painters of thls city went on hours. Several master paluters have agreed to grant the demands of the Painters’ union on condition that they shall not be required to sign any agree The union, the uulon paluters refuse terms without au annual other trades, it 18 said, have offered to fight Cyclone Hite the Ladrones. AGANA, Island of Guam, Sept The Island of Saipan, Ladrone 1slands, was visited by a cycione Aug. 27 Ihe Unitegl States supply steamer Supply and the German gunboat Moewe been dispatched to assisting the sufferers The government Louse many other bLulldings were de stroyed, and the groves were badly in Jured. Two years must elapse before There was uo i have the © of loss of life Germany's Cholera Epldemie. BERLIN, Sept. U—An official bulle era and one death have been reported, making a total of seveuty seven cases amd twenty-four deaths. A locomotive engineer wns seized with cholera at Posen while on his englue and was where be died Recelver For Secret Soclety, i BUFFALO, Sept, 4 Application was | made in the supreme court for a re | ceiver for the Order of Select Kuights, | a fraternal Insurance organization. | The total liabilities of the order were given as $11,518.16, The order has on | band $1.412 in money and assets of | speculative value worth probably $2.- 000. Sleep Mpidemic In Town Town, SIOUX CITY, Ia. Sept. G.—Inhabit sls of Mason City are sitting up! A Hundred Il With Typhold, WILKESBARRE, Pa, Sept. 6. —-An the town of Nanticoke, ported to the board of health, and so far two deaths have resulted. The opening of public schools has been de Polk Golung te Falr. BT. LOUIS, Sept. 6~Gavernor Felk LOOMIS PRAISES BACON. Former Assistant Secretary of State Commends Mis Successor. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 Loomis, who is to be succeeded as as sistant secretary of state by Robert Baron, In discussing his retirement from the state department, said “About a mouth ago 1 tendered my resignation to the president ten days ago I made public ment of the fact resign. When affairs in cngugements bility take me abiroad “The president has made an admira ble selection in sing Mr. Bacon for ny Sud Iie president's ert la annonce that I expected tc I have finished up my Washington 1 Lave private which will ia all proba clio eaS0T appointment of Hob of New York to ou sticoeed ROBERT BACON, Francis B. Loomis as assistant secre tary of state is well received in Wash- fugton. It is regarded as highly satls- factory to Mr. Root and designed to assure harmony of administration in the departwent Mr. Bacon was until recently a ju nlor partuer In the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co, whose bead pald ag visit recently to Mr. Roosevelt. but the president's secretary took pains to declare, after the appointment was autoutced, that it bad Leen decided upon before Mr. Morgau visited the president Mr. Bacon will not take office until Oct. 1. when Mr. Root will take up his work in Washington YOUTH INHERITS $6,000,000. Only Son of Late Colonel Crocker Twenty-one Years Old on Saturday, SAN FRANCISCO Templeton Crocker, millionaire, Crocker, G—Charles only son of the Inte Colonel Charles Pred was twenty-one years old on Saturday and wlll come into his heritance next week When Colonel Crocker, son of one of the original "big four” Central Pacliie railroad builders, died eight years ago he left au estate of £50000), to be divided equally between Templeton and two sisters. Since then the estate has nearly doubled, so that now It is estimated each of the heirs will receive between $5,000,000 and $0,000,000, making them the richest children i California. Mary, the eldest, who mar ried Burtou Harrison, lives in New | York, while Jenule, the youugest, is still at school Templeton has been well educated, but is of frail physique young he fell over the banisters at his | father's country home near Burlingawe, | aud for a long time his life was de | spaired of. Whree years ago, while Sept { out of a trap and hit a telegraph pole, breaking both Lis legs above the knee. On Witsho@l's Trail, NEW YORK, Sept who bave Leen pumuing (row one end 4 bellevesl might lead thew to the discoy ery of Dr, George A. Witzhoff, the big { amist, who is™said to have married, | robbed aud deserted more than a bun | dred wives, of a woman in this ¢ity by whom they hope place The tectives say, arrest of Witzhoff, the de is only a matter of hours Russian Colony In California. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. d Rauche Guadaloupe, comprising 13,000 acres of tillable soll and wounded lands in lower California, bags been sold to I Russian families through a Los Augeles agency The emigrants pro pose to establish on thelr purchise site a ‘Russian for the raising stock and grains and the milling of ce reals. Watel 15 to be developed at con- siderable cost, and a town laid out culony Girl Killed In “Fighting Flames.” PITTSBURG, Sept, 4 -During the! performance of “Fighting the Flames” at the Pittsburg exposition Miss Jea- pette Lawrence, twenty live years old, a vaudeville performer, was dashed to! ber death from e window thirty feet nhove the stage. The accident was witnessed by about 200 spectators crowded fn a little theater, but ne panic ensued Mme. Nordien’ s Home Nobbed. OSSINING, N. Y., Sept. 86 — The home of Mwme. Lillian Nordica, the stuger, was robbed bere of $5300 worth of Jewelry and silverware. Mme Nor diea leases a cottage near this place, i and while she Is abroad this sommer ber sister is In charge of the house, Jerome on Sep 14 tn an Fighting Between Armenians and Tartars Now On. PART OF SHUSHA [S IN FLAMES, Two Huudred Houses Are Destroyed There, Says an Oficial Estimate, Country In Paule — Eleven Killed at Grandlet. ST. PETERSBURG, Bept. patch from Tidls here says “The whole of the southeast Cauca- sus is now terrurizesd by Tartars, “Refugees are pouring In bere from Baku, Elizabetlipol and Shusha “Details from Shuslha sliow that sey- eral eligagements were fought between Iartars and Armenians behind regular positions and that a conslderable part of the town was soou lb Bames. | “According an official estimate, over 200 houses were destroyed.” A dispatch from Baku says that troops under the direction of the gov- eruor are acting with the utmost vigor, but they Lave not succeeded In restor- jug order, although there is rather loss firlug Armed rioters attacked the oll works in the suburb of Balakban and after a Lot fight set fire to them Tartar bands are scouring the coun- try, murdering and pillaglug The country Is In a state of wild papic, and country houses and farms are belng abandoned The fawiue in wany parts of the cqguutry renders the situation more ter- rible The minister of finance at St. Peters burg Lus received a telesram from the governing committees of the bourse at Nizhul Novgorod urgently appealing to Lim to adopt immediate measures for the re-establishment of order at Baku. 0—-A dis to Fighting at Khankend, ELIZABETHPOL, Caucasus, Sept. 0 ~Ranguinary fighting has taken place between Tartars and Armeniaus in the village of Khankeud. There Is great alarm here. All the Armenian shops are closed, and troops are patrolling the strects day aud night Eleven Killed at Grandlet. KUTAIS, Caucasus, Sept. U.—A con- flict between nobles and peasants took place in the village of Grandlet. Elev- eu persons were killed or wounded Kuights Templars Grand Officers. SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 6.—-The grand commandery. Knights Templars, of the state of New York, holding its ninety secoid annual conclave here, elected the following grand officers Commander, Erastus C, Kuight, Buf falo; deputy commander, Adelbert IP. Kuapp, Saratoga Springs: generalissl- mo, Herman IR Kretschmer, New York; captain, General Edwin A. Ad arson, Palmyra; senlor warden, Edwin C. Hall, Syracuse; junior warden, J Carlisle Louden, New York; prelate, Rev. Warren C. Hubbard, Brooklyn: treasurer, George A. Newell, Madina; { recorder, John H. Boruington, Brook- | lyn; standard bearer, Guy W. Shoe maker, Illyria; sword ULearer, Henry T. Dumary, Albany; warder, Edward A. Krauswman, New York Pig Ten Feet Long. BERKELEY, Cal, Sept. 6 —The of- ficlal bulletin descriptive of the fossils uueartbed by the expedition to the John Day reglou, in castern Oregon, ‘ has been published LY the geology de partment at the University of Call- i fornia. It describes some of the {strange monsters that peopled the | country kuown as the Bad Lands. { Amnong these remarkable beasts are ex- { tinct plgs and peccaries large as cows, { camel-llke quadrupeds and, not the | least loteresting, the famous three toed Lborse. ‘The elotherfuly, or giant hog. fis a mouster wammal nearly ten feet long and six or seven feet Ligh. Parker Referee In $2,000,000 Suit. KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 6. With ex- ; Judge Alton B. Parker as referee a hearing in a lawsuit (nvolving $2.000,- 0) for the coustruction of the Cha- teaugny raliroad lu the Adirondacks begau here against the Delaware and Hudson Railroad company as defend- { ant. The suit Is brought by Charles Sundstrom and Frauk M, Stratton, who suc for the balauce alleged to be due them for construction work. More than i sixty witnesses are to be examined, Beet Slaughtered For Charity, NEW YORK, Sept. 0.-Twenty-one hundred dollars was rulsed for charita- | ble societies by an auction in the abat- tolr of the New York Dressed Beef company, established to fight the beef trust. The highest bidder pald the amount for a siuvgle anlmal which or- | dinarily would have sold for $55. The | occasion marked the formal opening of | the new establishment, which Is now | In full working onder. Two Killed In Aute Crash, | PHILADELI'HIA, Sept. 6 — Nell | Wolf, secretary of a Philadelphia an- towobile company, and Miss Mamie | Hamill, daughter of a prominent citi | gen of Germantown, Philadelphia, were | killed In an avtomobile accident at At- ico, N. J, a few miles below Camden. | The car contained four persons and { was on the way from Atlautic City to | Philadelphia. Alfonso fo Marry, PARIS, Sept. 0A dispatch from Madrid fo the Eclalr majutains that despite denials It Is probable that King Alfonso will marry Princess Eugenie of Battenberg. niece of King Edward. Outipg Flannels Three Best Known Makes In plains and fancies; aver 200 styles, light and dark to select from at the usu Globe Warehouse low pH. c cn Flanneletts, kimono cloth waistings, cte., light, med} um and dark grounds, Japanese, Persian, stap patterns and polka dot We have five grades © these from the best looms in America, and our pri are right. Shaker flannels, Dome baby flannels, embroide flannels, cantons, daisy cloths and cotton blanke all purchased before the vance in cottons, and as own them at old prices will not be piggish them now that cottons 33% per cent higher. Dress Goods Twenty pieces 50¢ Mol in the new mannish wea Just the cloth for schog dresses. School time sp cial 39c. Homespuns The new mixtures wor o0c, this week 306c. See our new line of Silks The newest fr (resh from th looms. Talmadge Block, Elmer Avs VALLEY 'PHONF. The Beer of QUAL- ITY. There is no element of specula~ tion in the QUALI TY of Stegmaiers’ Beer; it is so well known that the wort STEGMAIERS' is a guarantee for only QUALITY, bu PURITY and TURITY as larity means § thing—think it when about Be BAYRE, »
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