Nuk, and Vest Sweats ors. Colors; — White, Black and Oxford 's Furnishings, Hats and Shoes. acer 4 Ave, Sayre. RST NATIONAL OF SAYRE Both Phones. For sale in Athens, ESTATE Sayre and Waverly. Coat INSURANCE Property Boaght, Sold and — Exshanged — IIT Packer Ave., Valley Phone 230x, Sayre, Pa. ALEX D. STEVENS, the thing for Baby's Bath PURE ITE CASTILE or hn Equitable Profits ‘Strangely Disappear. Senator Depew Brought Inte lnves- | tigation as Participant In 2 Twe Million Dollar Deal-large Sums Missing. NEW YORK, Sept. 25-The most astounding revelations made since the begloning of the lusurauce investiga tion came to light through the testi mony of Heury Kogers Winthrop, as paid over to the Equitable as profits in| syudicate transactions had strong: fy | disappears] nud thst expert account ants were hand at work on the coinpa funds; that United States Senator De | pew and others had participated in! syndicate deals without the consent of | the finance committee, for themselves where alone put up the cash; the Equitable transaction and that the Equitable ——— CHARLES E. HUGHES. put up all the money for the deal; that these syndicate deals, {uo which indi Subway Tavern, Opened by Rishep Petter, Goes Under, | NEW YORK, Sept. 28 ~The Subway | tavern, the saloon which was opened | with prayer by Bishop Potter a year ' 8go, has closed itz doors. The owner locked it up, saying that the temper ance saloon bad not been a paylog iu- | yestment” The Subway tavern ended its exist- ence as a temperance experiment on the first of the present month and has {slice been running ne an ondluary | drink dispensary. It was locatal at the corner of Mulberry and Bleecker streets. At the opening Bishop Potter | made a speech, in which he sald that the Subway tavern might become the {first In a similar chaln of poor man's clubs, which could be very beneficial to society, W. H. Bkidimore, the proprietor, who i shut up the saloon, sald of bis experi i | ence: i “It was altogether too much of a poor man’s saloon, It would not pay with a | blessing on It, and it wouldn't pay aft {er we had taken the blessing olf.” | While the tavern was still a novelty the temperance venture had many cus- | tomers, but these dwindled In number untll the saloon was changed Into an ordinary saloon in an effort to make it | more profitable, | His Ashes Widely Scattered, | CLEVELAND, O. Sept. 25.—Anna | D. Wadsworth filled a sult against ©, { W. Purdy and all the other bene | Aiclaries under the will of Herbert W, | Baird, a well known attorney, who died | here, leaving most of Lis estate to the jcanse of Sociallsm. Mrs. Wadsworth {says she Is the sole heiratlaw and | the next of kin. She asserts the will which was probated should be set { aside, as It i= not the Jast will of the deceased. Baird's will provided that his body be cremated aud the ashes Chinese Bomb Thrower EKacaped. PEKING, Sept 28 — Nothlug has transpired yet regarding the motive of last Sunday's outrage. Prominent Chi. uese belleve It was a direct outcome of the anti-American boycott, the more violent of the agitators resenting the restralnlug measures of the govery- went. The generally accepted view of the affair is that it was directed against the dynasty. The thrower of the bomb has not so far been ldentl fled, Lut he is known to beloug to the better classes, were with J. P, Morgan & Co); that the Equitable, like the New York Life, ex- ecuted dummy loans through minor employees to wipe certain stock trans actions off its books. The checks for the “missing sums” were (ndorsed by Comptroller Jordan. He has been discharged by the Equita- ble and cannot be found It was poluted out by observers that these checks were paid during the first McKinley campnign, and it wos sug: gested that the tracing of the checks, which were all indorsed by Comptrol ler Jordan, would slow the means, hitherto mysterious, by which the Equitable made its coutributions to the Republican fund, as did the New York Life and other large Insurance con- cerns. Jacob H. Schifr, it Is anuounced by Chalrmap Armstrong, will be called as a witness. ; “United States Senator Dryden, presi dent of the Prudential Life, will also be & witness, Mr. Bchiff, one of the most eminent of American bankers, will be asked to explain the transactions between the Equitable Life and Kuhn, Loeb & Co, the firm of which lie is the head Mr. Schiff declared on oath before Superintendent Hendricks that his firm bad no dealings with the Equitable, of whose finsnce committee be was a member, He branded as false those records of the Equitable which showed that wil lions of dollars’ worth of Union Pacifie stock bad been bought of Kubp, Loeb & Co. George C. Van Tuyl, Jr, secretary and treasurer of the Albany Trust company sisce March 20, 1000, the first witness, submitted to Chlef In- vestigator Hughes a statement of the account of “Judge” Andrew Hamilton with Mr. Vao Tuyl's company. The pame of Senator Chauncey MM. Depew was brought into the luvests gation as one of the participants In a $2,000,000 Pennsylvania coal purchase syndicate, in which nearly everybody connected with the Equitable Life ap pears to have heen a participant, to gether with the Equitable, The syndl- cate was managed by J. P. Morgan & Co. “James H. Hyde and associates” eame In for a cool million participa. tion In a $2.000,000 syudicate transac tion in Western Maryland stock. The other $1.000900 was taken by ove of the syndicate managers. There wers two managers, Vermilye & Co amd George I’. Butler, “The symlicite ts not closed,” said Mr. Winthrop, “and there have been no profits as yet. “The Hyde participation has been transferred to the Equitable” In connection with a $1.200000 Chl: engo and Northwest syadicate deal there was snother missing check epi sade. This was for 812.000, mde pay: able to the Equitable Life by Kuhn, Loe & Co, the syndicate mnvagers. This check has not heen traced since. A FOO participation by J. H. mahiged hy Kulin, Loes Moun to huve uty Stele $230,000 From Singer Company. ELIZABETH, N. J., Sept. 28 —Fred- erick Merker, employed as a shipping clerk by the Singer Sewing Machine company, has beon arrested here on a charge of stealing $250,000 worth of machine parts from the company, He was held without ball for trial. Merker had charge of the shipment of parts of sewing machines to agents. Nearly all the stolen waehivery was taken from boxes which had already been packed for shipment to South America or Australis, Moresnet Riotted Out, BRUSSELS, Sept. 28 —An agreement has been reached between the Belgian and Prussian governments for the ces- salon to Belgium of the neutral terri- tory of Moresnet in exchange for a strip of land adjoining the town of Eupen in Prussia, eleven miles from gian frontier. Thus the smallest Eu. rogean state has been blotted gut. The existence of Moresuet as an independ ant state dates from the treaty of Alx- la-Chapelle. Prominent Lawyer Dies Saddenly. NEW YORK, Sept. 25 Wheeler H. Peckham, the lawyer, died suddenly here io his office at SO Broadway. Pa- ralysis is thought to have caused his death. Mr. Pecklam was born In Al bany, N. Y, and was seventy-three years old. He was appointed federal district attorney of New York In 1x84 and In 1594 was sppoluted to the fed- eral supreme court by Pres'dent Cleve: land. The senate refused to confirm bis nomination, Eemstives Wani Awnfonomy. : MOSCOW, Bept. 28 —The congress of zomstvos and munleipalities continued the discussion of a resolution demaund- ing that the rights of the different na- tionalities In Russia be recognized; that the fundamental law guarantes all uatiomalities in the empire autonomy, freedom and the use of their local lan- gunges except for the central adminis- tration and In the army apd pavy, where Russian must be used. General Halas Seriously Hart, WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. -General Peter (. Hains, one of the members of the Panama canal commission, will uot be able to accompany the board to Panama by reasou of Injuries received from a fall In the bathtub at his apart- ously that bis phiysicidan declared that ke could not accompany the board on 80 long a journey, Dr. Chadwick's Body Cremated. BOSTON, Sept. 28. The body of Dr. James BR. Chadwick, president of the Massachusetts Cremation soclety aod prominent medical lecturer at Harvard aunlversity, who died as the result of a fall ut his summer bowe in Chocorua, N. H, Saturday night. has been cre mated at Forest Hill cemetery. Rev. James de Normandie conducted the service, Woman Victim of Yellow Fever, NATCHEZ, Miss, Repi. 28 — Miss Landman, white, who Is dead hove, Is e fourth » ; Jellow fever. Mia | Fifth TAFT FROM ORIENT Secretary of War Ieterviewed at San Francisco. DESCRIBES TOUR IN FAR EAST. Great Receptions at Tokyo nnd Ma- alla~Philippines Not Heady Vor Independence—{hinese Boy- eotl Fading Away, BAN FRANCIBCO, Eept. 28 — The Pacific Mall Steamship company's lune Korea, Captaly Zesder, with Secretary Taft and purty on board, arrived from the orient, beating the trauspacitic re ord Ly several hours, In an luterview Secretary Taft maid “Reports coming from the Philippine Islands secmd to Indicate that It would be wise for the head of the war department to make a visit of Inspec tion to the Islauds during the past summer, and bis golug with a sum clent staff was thought to preseut a guod opportunity te form a party of congressmen, senators and representa tives to visit the Islands as guests of the Phillipplue government. “Ihe Philippine government was poor and was unable to do wore than arrange for the passage money of the congressiwen who would form part of the party. This did not Ingude the sleeping car accommodations or the meals aloug the way and Indesd left the congressmen to defray from their own pockets by far the larger part of the actual traveling expenses. “The party as orgaulzed consisted of twenty-three representatives and seven senators. Of these thirteen were companied by their wives, In addition Miss Alice Hoosevelt and her [riends, Miss Boardman sud Miss McMillan were of the party, and then a pumber Of otligr persons, pleasaut associajes Joined the party, numbering about eighty more. “We set sail from San Francisco on the 5th day of July on the Pacitic Mall steamer Mauchuria. We reached Hon olulu on the 14th and spent there culs the hours between sunrise and sunset of that day, when we sailed aguiu for Yokoluina, “We arrived In Yokohama on the 24th and were surprised by the elab- orate reception which had been prepar ed for us by the emperor, his cabinet ministers, the governors of the prov inces, the mayors of the towns and the Japanese people. For five days we | were the guesta of the goveruwent, | and nothing could have excesled the kindness and enthusiastic manifests. tious of the people which were shown to us. It was chiefly due to the pres- | ence of the daughter of the president, to whom the people wished to show their gratitude for his efforts for peace. We were housed in Tokyo, and the whole of the official party, fifty-three | in number, lunched with the emperor aud empress after each member had bad a personal audience with them Tle premier, Count Katsura, gave the whole party a banquet at the Kotel Imperial, and the minister of war gave a garden party at the arsenal gardens, which added much variety of iuterest, “In leaving Tokyo we were given a popular farewell such as had never been seen iu Tokyo before. “Most elaborate preparations had been made for our reception in Manila, but we arrived one day aliead of time. Accordingly all of the reception ex- cept the fotilla of boats, which wet us in the harbor, was postponed, when wo were given an opportunity ts see in the procession the progress which bas been made io civil government and In the business of the islands, The proces slon was certainly most lunstructive and worthy the character of the mu- nleipa)l organization of Manila, The choice of the school organization and the fire department of Manila showed that thelr city was now, under Ameri can management, an excellent up to date city. “The political situation In some re spects was not as good as it ought to be. A wave of ladroulsmn has swept over the province of Cavite, and It has been found necessary to suspend the writ of babeas corpus In the province of Cavite aud Batangas, the ueightor- ing province. The same, was true of Samar, but the use of troops In Sawar nnd the use of the scouts nnd con stabulary In Cavite has put an end to the business, “Some of the younger men of educa- | tion have been advocating Immediate | indepéndence. It therefore bLecomes | necessary to state with conslderable | emphasis the policy of the adwinstra | tion on this subject and to say that in | the opinion of the ndministration there | was po possible hope for independence | short of a generation because the peo. | ple could not be Attend for self grvern ment lu that time. Indeed, It will prob. | ably take a much longer period. “With reference to the boycott In! Canton amd China I am not sufficient: | ly advised to speak with great authorl ty. My impression is that it will fade | out becduse of the necessity that the! Chinese merchants are under of pat roalzing American manufactures” ac Guam Well Satisfied. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 ~ Com: | mander G, L. Dier, naval governor of Guam, in bis annual report to the navy department says the natives sre well pleased with the sovervignty of the United States and that there is no sen timent amoug them for Independent | government, i Army Offeer Weda at Platiaburg, PLATTSHRURG, N. Y. Sept. oN be John W. Wright of the United States Intintey, son of Bere ast sight | BELMONT'S TIPTOE. Second Half of Produce Stake by the Favorite, NEW YORK, Sept. 2X — August Belk | mant’s Tiptoe, favorite, haif of the I'roduce stakes for fillies Iwo years old at Hrighton Beach. Zie * Won second and Single Shot thin, The start was poor, Blvouae, while St. Ursula Jumped off in front, followed Ly Tiptoe. This onder to the strewuh, Ursula stopped amd Tiistoe holding her advan won In a drive where St tage to the finish, by the early part fds] strong and got the place by two and a ball lengths from 8S nghe Slot Bix favor oq and lu cach « backed. von out of seven races, nut they Sunnaries: First Race. Coarley, first; trian, second; Deliore, thind Second Hace. Grandpa, first; Ker, second; Plous, thinl Third Race —Aerouaut, second; Saflice, thind Fourth Hace —-Tiptoe, second] Blugie Shot, Fifth Race were heavily Laucas Paula first: Druid, first; thin, Land of the Vale, Oxford, second; Lambie, third Sixth Race —~Quadrille, first; second; Hanalbal Bey, thinl Seventh Hace —Alma Dufar, Spring, second; True Wing, th. nd, Zienap first; Platoon, first; BASEBALL SCORES, finmes Played Yesterday hy the Nao tloual and American League, Clubs. N ATIUNAL LEAGUE At Pittsb 2616000040" ¢ £0 209 ¢ 01 York. 10; Pittsburg, 1& Er- York, 6; Pittsburg. §& Hat. und Bresnahan, Leifleld, Leever nr +d Gilsson At Chicage Lrooklyn Chicago Hits— Brooklyn Brooklyn, § scher and Bergen; At Cincinnati— Boston es Cinclanati Hits—Eoston, $0000 ¢ 2 € 0 2 § ¢ — o 8 Efrors— iatleries— Doe. Lundgren and O'Neill : Vv “hica C0 2016813 0 3-14 ¢ 0122611 3-10 15; Clncinnatl, 4 Errors —Hozton, 2. Clncinnatl, 7. Batteries— Wil. {ts and Neodham; Vanwinkls and Street At Bt leis Philadelphia 100300 0¢-% 8 ¢ ¢ 606 0-0 louis, 5. Fr ouis, 3 Rat and 0 ¢ 1, 8 0: Bt Doolin; Taylor Grady TAULLE York Pitisburg Chicago Philadeiphi PERCENTAGES W i New oston Brookiyn 5] i AMERICAN LEAGUK At New Yora st Louis , $0611 New York § U 0 ¢ © {its—-8t., Touls, 11: New Yo rors—8t. louls, §, New Yoru terics—~Huwell and Spencer and Kieluow At Boston Chicago «9 0 0 0 B00 8 oO Bogton 06160180 Hits—~Chicago. v; Boston, 6 Erivrs i Baostor Hatteries Owen ullivar Dies Armbrustey 1d Gan Puttmann 8 ard $ 50 a 061 0 6¢ 0-1 Laston. + Errors Hoston, 4 Hatteries- Alin k and McFarland, Hughes and Cri- v 1-15 Hite— Chie age. §: Young. gor At Philladelphia~ Prtrokt 4 hiladelphia Hits—~Detrolt, rors—Detroit, 4; teries—Eubank an Schreck At Washington Cleveland .0 006080 Washington . 23483103 Hits— Cleveland, 16; Washington rors—Cleveland, 2; Washiogion, ¢ teries West and Clark; don. TALLE OF PERCENTAGES Ww i Philadeiphia 53 Chicago 5 Detroit Cleveland Hoston New York Washington St. Louls 15; P worau, Henley and eg 0 0-0 2 0 % ~ a Er- Bat- Hughes and lley- Kings tounty ( hamplon Won. NEW YORK, Spt 25 - Frederick G. Anderson, the Kings conuty cham plon, won the final of the lawn tenuis shigles lu the tournament of the Stiten Island Cricket and Lawn Tennis club at Livingston, N.Y, defeating CP. Watson, Jr, of the Orange Lawn Ten nls club by the score of 4-3, 1-0, 0-4 and 6-4. Cornell Defeated Hamilton. FITHACA, N.Y, Sept. 25 Cornell opened her football season, defeating Hauilliton 4 to 0. Short halves and Cor pell’'s lack of preparation accounted Hamliton was in excellent trim, but Cornell exhibited poor team work and made many costly fumbles Foothall Opena at Princeton, PRINCETON, N. J, Sept, 23 The Princeton football season has openad here with a victory over Villa Nova by the score of 41 to 0, The gnme was raged at thes and marked with fre quent fambles, but the Privevton team Athalar nt Woonsocket, WOONSOCKET, RL, Sept. XN -On Iy oue favorite came up to expecta local track. Athalar won the 2:30 trot In straight heats. Great Medivm was defeated tn the 2.17 trot had been run off, Hobart featen hy Syracuse, SYRACUSE, NY, Sept. No Hobart put up a plucky ght against the Syra cuse university eleven here, but was defeated by 24 100 The play of the Syracuse team was siow and marred by fowmbling a souore of Military Sargeons’ Congress DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 285 An ad dress by Uolonel Valery Havard, ©? Rossian armoy fo Manchuria was the | feature of the afternoon session of the Ganal Nermints City Saved by Sheer Good Fortune. ALL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS GONE Municipal OMces, Postolice, Ofice of Gevernor Judiciary and Other Structures He- : duced (0 Ashes. COLON, Sept -~ By sheer good luck the city of « oct bas been sav ed | from cotuplete destritction. At v.23 at night, when wore than half the peuple of the city were asleep, the sharp whis tles of the police anuonucing ua fire were heard from end to end of the ty, quickly followed by the loud tootiug of ad engities, Thousands were Soop &1 withered at the scene of the fire, which was next to the residence of the Spanish consul, on Bolivar street, a hundred yards east of the railroad, the main building« of Which owing to a fresh Lrvezo from the southeast were complotely demolished in lens than thirty minutes There belug no fire brigade at Co lon, the railroad officials under the per sonal supervision of Superintendent Blerd with commendable alacrity Lrought hose from Motkey Wl and soon begau to play salt water ou the fire. The Hoya! Mail steamer Trent alsa putiped water on the Hawes and detached seventy of Ler crew to ald the fire fighters The crews of the steamers Mexico and Advance and the American ele meat here, notably amoung them Su. perintendent Blerd, R. J. Foster, Steve dore Ellisan, Material Foremau Nichol- son, Yardmaster Jussen and other Pau- ama ralirvad employees, all rendered signal ald The Panamp Banking Company, an American coucern, and the Panams railroad main offices bad a most nar row escape from destruction. Nearly all the records and documents of the Roveruwent were destroyed. The post. office was completely burned out. only a handful of mall being saved. It is believed that the government's specie was the only property saved The postinaster has sent a requisition to Pauawa for a supply of stamps and other necessaries for carrying ou Lusi ness Oniy a small percentage of the loss, which le conservatively estimated at $70,000, 1s coverwd by insurance owing ta the high premiums asked and the dificulty of obtainlug acceptances of risks, The fire next destroyed the Phenix hotel, an American owned concrete and iron trussed bullding The heat was so itense at this spot that the railroad rails were twisted iuto all sorts of shapes The fire then leaped across the street to a liquor store, continuing northwand and completely destroying two hotels, several liquor establishments and the tensuieut honses aloug Bottle alley and Bolivar street almost up to Cartagena street. Within this zone was a large house known as Rowe's bull ng, con taining the postoflice, the offices of the wunicipality, of Goveriior Melendez the port lospectors, the Judiciary aud other offices. This bullding sou caught fire and was quickly destrored. The treasury bullding was alse burned The fire destroyed a considerable por tion of the business and resllence sec tions of Colon, including practically all the 'anawa government bulldings With the assistance rendered Ly the Panama fire department the contlagra tion was finally overcome Helendes, Kalser HHonors Witte, ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. NM Witte Is expected to arrive bere totay His progress through 'rapce and Ger many bas been watched from hers with interest; but, noue the less, It bas added to the jealousy of him ln certain quarters, which was more or leas free ly maunlfested after his success at Portsmouth. Ewperor William's gift to M. Witte of the Order of the Black Eagle has had a gratifying effect here, much more so than when bis majesty conferred the order on General Stoes sel, Pollties, N. J, Sept. 2% Ministers In ATLANTIC CITY, Duriug the session of the Unitarian congress Rev. Dr. Richard W. Boyn ton of St. Paul, Minn, took occasion Iu his address to declare “that minis tors pe well us Javwen should take a hand in politics when a state of af fulrs exists such as In Philadelphia at present.” Dr. Boynton lauded Presi dent Roosevelt aud bis strenuous lle Threw Goods In the River, OGDENSBURG, N.Y, Sept. 2x William MceBath, a prowiuent resident of Lisbon, was held by Commissioner Kellogg Lore for the United States grand jury to answer a charge of smuggling goods from Canada Noh Ing wag fouud ou Lis person, The cus tows officers allege that the smuggiel gods were thrown into the river Congress Must Decide. WASHINGTON, Sept. IS - Secretary Ropaparte bas advised parties In Brooklyn who have communicated with Llu In refercuce to the sale of the bis torie frigate Consthution that he will not take up the watter until congress meets, Brady Nominnted at Catskill CATSKILL, N.Y, Sept. 25 Greene Republicans in convention st Calro nominated William CC. Bendy of Athens for member of the assembly, ——— Long Ne-electod at Harvard. PRICE ONE CEN ‘Underwear Our lines of ladies men's {children's underwear are now We sell the best 25 tleaced Hi {where We lave better ones of course up to the finest wools. We have the shaped garments for misses, also girl's styles and boy's styles in inde r drawers. Hosiery Four specials for the week: Girl's 12), for 25¢. : Men's 15¢ one-half Hose, 8 10¢. Ladies’ 12}e hose, special 1 Blankets Re Now is the time to buy blankets We have them in sizes at Globe Warehouse p We bought both cotton and wool fore the advance direct from mills, saving the middle man's it for you. Dress Goods Weare showing Panamas, ma Checks, Drape de Alma, riettas, French Serges, Storm Poplar Crepe, Danish cloth, downe, Adova, Changeable Mohairs, Mannish Suitings,” On pines, Crepe de Paris, Crepe mure, Prunella, Venetians, Cloths, etc. Any of thess pe weaves wo are pleased Lo show at any time. Largest line of D Goods in the valley and all at¥ usual Globe Warehouse's low g Silks Radium Checks, Plaids, Shad Checks, Maire, Velour, Changes Fancies and full line of staples. Glad to show our line anyti You'll not be pressed to buy. ¢ school hose, 3p Talmadge Block, Elmer VALLEY PHONR- If you want a \ ANGE in stock Sterling, Dockash, Thought and Ga Steel Ranges, é BOLICH BRO: HARDW Desmond St.