¢ = Lehigh Valley fresh mined anthra- cite. We also sell Bituminous J w. BISHOP, 103 Lehigh ‘Ave, Lockhart Bldg. Both Phones, "WOOD WOOD WOOD FIRST om (EB, E. Reynolds, REAL ESTATE, 2.2. Sayre and Waverly. doases = INSURANCE SS TT Sh daa Investments Loans Negotiated HIT Packer Ave. Valley Phone 230x, Sayre, Pa. Lehigh Valley Coal teed — Bradford Street Yard "Phone, 185d & 1 Ss Offioe at Raymond & Haapt's Stare, yre ELMER A. WILBER, Wholesaler of WINES, LIQUORS BEERS AND ALES EE Tr 209 Packer Avenue, SAYRE, PA. BOTH "PHONES. INSURANGE AND REAL ESTATE. Loans Negotiated, Insurance “need something to protect your health against this changeable weather we are having just now—SOME- THI NG that will brace you oP: B'Vé you a good appe- | tite, enrich your blood, _ steady your nerves, give yon :. health and vitality, something is a morning, noon Stegmaier's Malt Extract Ask your physician what the members of the Slats Medi: cal 1 uth teg- THOUSANDS PAID OUT New York Life Report Scores Andy Hamilton's Methods. 50 PROPER VOUCHERS FOR VAST SUNS Company's Inquiry Committee Dee Reunces “Yellow Dog” Fund-—Me- Call And Perkins Liable Vor Big Amounts. NEW YORK, Feb. 9 Judge Hamil- ton i= to be sued for thousands of del- New York Life. The luvestignting com- mittee finds him accountable for large sums be expended and recommends bis prosecution. The sun of $510.000 was paid over to hm in the last ten years, and Johu A McCall is held Hable for wany of the big items. George W. Perkins is held responsible for sou am Many of Lis notes are subject for inquiry Meeting behind closed doors, the trus- tees of the New York Life Insurance company has adopted the report of the special committee appointed to investi- former Judge pended it. Andrew Hamilton ¢x- wost of the expenditures While the committee takes occasion of the payments were for illegitimate purposes, it calls attention to the fact that a system that permitted of the In secret was radically wrong and con gratulates the company that better methods bave been installed The report says in part: “Or Dec. 2 1'W8, the company’s check for $25,000 and ob Dec Its check for $30.00 were delivered to Hamilton. Oa Jan. 6 or §. 1904, there was paid to him in currency $15,000 On Jan. 23, 1904, he received the cow- pany’s checks for $25,000 and $20,000 and on March 9, 1004. its checks for 55.000 aud $43,000. “The total of these sums is $235,000, for which Hamilton has uot in any way accounted, “These transactions were thoroughly investigated Ly the legislative commit tee, and It is not deemed necessary to set forth thelr detatls here. It Is enough to say that these sums of mouey were all paid to Hawliton by the order of President McCall, and the responsibil ity for these transactions is entirely with bim, and your committee is ad vised that Mr. McCall becawe legally liable for the whole amount This sum be has recently paid 1a full, and the company Is thereby saved from auy loss ou account thereof “It may be that the great bulk of the Sum annually disbursed by Hamilton WAS used for legitimate purposes. The committee has no Information of any of it being put to illegitimate uses “But the fact that there is no infor- mation in the records of the company showing to whom the money was paid or for what purposes cofidemns the methods and system which bave been io vogue during the past ten years. The expenditures of the colpany on this Account should not be authorized or re ceipted for on a different method from that of its other expenditures. For ev- ery dollar paid out there should be a voucher showing to whom It was paid and for what purpose. “Moreover, it appears from the terms of the vouchers for the payments at the bome office of $25,000 on May 10, 1508; of $1500 on July 11, 1509; $2,500 on July 28 1800; of $2500 on Aug. 13, 1509, and of $7.000 on Feb. 8. 1803 that they were to be accounted for, but no account was ever rendered as to any of them, “Your committee is advised that ap Accounting may be compelled from Hamilton with respect to the moneys received by him for the purposes of the $0 called bureau of taxation and legis- lation; that it may be ascertained to what extent and for what purposes they were used and to whom they were paid, and proceedings for such an ac- counting should at once be instituted. “There are now to be considered oth- ef sums of money with which Haml|- tou was connected and which are in an entirely different category.” ee —— Johns Doe After Abbey For Libel KINGSTON, N. Y., Feb. 9 —John Doe proceedings were begun here before the Ulster county grand jury to deter. mine the authorship of the publication Around Town, which appeared here ten days ago. Several city officials were amoug the witnesses examined, The court examination of Steplien H. Abbey, the New York student who was arrested for criminal lbel in connec tion with the pablication, Is set for to morrow, ———e—— Thelr Fate to Rest With President. WASHINGTON, Feb, 0 —~Secretary Bonaparte has reserved Lis decision in the cases of Midshipman Charles M James of Towa gnd Willlam T Boyd, Jr. of Iiinols, members of the second class. both of whom are under sentence of dismissal for hazing Before taking action on these cases the secretary will look more closely Into the facts and possibly consult the president, ———————— Burglars Set Store on Fire. WORCESTER, Mass, Feb. 9. —A special from Greenwich, Mass, says: “The two story frame bulidings of W H. Bishop, containing Mr Bishop's general store aud the postiMice, were burned just before daylight; joss, $4. 000. Burglars are stipposed to have fired the bulldings." MINERS TURNED DOWN. Coal Operators Refuse Inerease of Pay or Recognition of Union. NEW YORK, Feb. 0.- Although the presidents of the coal carrying rail. roads, representing the anthracite mine operators of Peunsylvania. are to meet the representatives of the miners in this city Ia a conference on Feb 15 to conshder the questions in dispute be tween the employers and the workmen, which are now reganied as serfously threatening another great coal strike, Jobin Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, has received a letter from David Wilgs, president of the {Delaware and Mudson company, de- claring positively that no concession will be made to the miners While Mr. Wilcox speaks officially ouly for Limself and his own company, ihe, In fact, represents all the coal op eérators In the positign he has taken upon the question at Issue. Mr Wil COX points out lu his letter that the ‘award made by the anthracite coal | Commission appointed at the close of | the Jast Lig strike was reached after a j most careful consideration of all the { conditions obtaining in the coal fields { He contends that the terms of the jawanrd are eminently Just and that Le { CAD see no reason why they should be i changed. The men, be sass, are getting more | wages than they ever received before, jall that the business will stand. and that he will not accept for his company any change from the existing cond!- tions under the award respecting wages, hours or the recoguition of the union | The greatest stutubling block in the | present diffic ulty is the refusal of the operators to recognize the union. This | was a point that gave the most trouble | preceding apd during the last great strike of the coal miners Miners Vote For Strike. PUNXSUTAW NEY, Pa. Feb. 9 At a mass meeting here of miners em ployed by the Bumalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iren company, the Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and Iron Company aud allied concerns, with headquarters here, it was decided unanimously not to go to work agaln until all grievances between the men and the ciupanles have been adjusted —————— THREE IN IT NOW. Countess Boni's Divorce Suit May In. volve Leaders of Society. PARIS, Feb. 9—Not one. but three Women, It is gow stated, will becowe involved lu the sult which Countess de Castellave, formerly Miss Anna Gould, will press against her husband the Count Boni One of these Is the Duchess d'Uzes, revelations cone cerning whose relations with the count caused the rupture Who the second woman may be can not be learned definitely. It is positive ly stated, however, that while she Is not one of the French nobility, she Is of an old and respected Freuch family, whose husband's pame Is known the world over as a captain of industry The third woman in the case i= nel ther of wealth nor nobility, but one well known in society In Paris The evidence secured by the attor- neys for the countess is sald to be con clusive, and the statement is positive. Iy made that the count will not dare to oppose the sult, which would then In. volve him Iu a publicity which would ostracize him from his friends and fam iy Reports that Count Bon! de Castel lane bas become very humble since the lustitution of a divorce suit are pot borne out by his actions at the prelimi. nary bearing in court. Bool rejected an offer made by the countess to allow him an Income of $40,000 a year when the judge was trying to bring about a reconciliation. To make matters worse the count de- clared that $40.00 wasnt enough even for pin money ————————————— Chicago to Have Gas at S58 Cents. CHICAGO, Feb. §—The city coun- cll In a special meeting has passed the ordinance directing the gas companies of the city to furnish gas to consumers at 85 cents per 1,000 feet. At present some consumers pay $1 per 1000 feet and others pay 00 cents. The ordl- nance will wot become operative at once for the reason that Mayor Dunne bas declared 1h favor of seveuty-five cent gos aud has declared that he will not sign the eighty five cent ordinance until he bas investigated for & further reduction ——— Catter Is After Fagitive Chinese. SAN FRANCISCO, Fob ¥--Salllug under secret onders for some port near Ban Diego, the United States revenue cutter McCulloch left the harbor to ar. rest If possible abont thirty Chinese who are sald to have been legally landed in the United States aud are alleges] to be on an sland of the coast of southern California. ——————————— Higgins (0 Send Fapers Today. ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 9 Governor Higgins will transmit to the finance comnittee of the senate today the doc uments in bis possession relative to the conduct of the stite banking depart. melt in relation to the German bank of Buffalo and the Merchants’ Trust cow- pany. Presidential Appointments, WASHINGTON, Feb. 0 -The prest dent bas sent the following uwomina- tions to the senate: Burveyor of cus toms, Mahlon M, Garland, port of Pitts burg: collector of interna) revenue, Griffith T. Davison, Twelfth district of Pennsylvania, ———————— Yarmouth and Countess At New York NEW YORK. Fel. ~The Count of Yarmouth and the eountess, wha wis PL ad | House Passes Railroad Rate | Measure Unamended. ALSO $139,000,000 FOR PENSIONS. | i Provisions Include Publicity of Rall- way Methode—Failr Freight Charges te Be Fized by Interstate i Commissioners. | i WASHINGTON. Feb, 8. ~The house : has passed the Hepburn railroad rate bill unamended by a vote of 346 to 7 The aunsuserment of the passage of the bill was received with a ripple of | applans, voting agaiust the bill were all Republicans They wer Littlefield (Mes, McCall and Weeks (Mass), Perkins, Southwick and Vre land (N. Y.i and Sibley (Pa). Mr Sul livan (Mass i voted not paired The bill, according to Mr. Hepburn's | statement in closing the debate of the measure, was lutendad sud did, so far as It conld be made, he said, comply specifically with the recommendations | Those present” and was | HARVARD BARS FOOTBALL. Faculty Prohlbita Game Until Rea- sonable Hulea Ape Formulated. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb 6 “Or prohibited to Harvarg students 1906 aml until a reasonable football shall have in gine of been formulated in individual colleges Harvard, is just made public The announcement was some little time in order that the oN pression of opiulon might first reach oh the regulation of athletic sports, to which by direction of the corporation and the overseers, the two Eaverning bexllies of the nalversity, oll questions relating to Caledonians Won Dewar Cup ALBANY, N.Y, Feb § I'he curllag Came to an end with the Caledonian club of New York the winner of the Dewar Caledonians having defeated the rink from Utica in the final match by a score of 16 to 10. The Utica team had and if it had would have permanently CONGRESSMAN W. P, HEPBURN of President Roosevelt on the question It gives the interstate merce commision anthority, when a rate has been complained of = “un reakonable” by a shipper. to invest gate that rate, state whether or not {it Is unreasonable and, if found to be un- reasonable, to nae a rate which is to be just and reasonable and fairly re munperative, which i= to be the maxi! mum rate to be charged This rate so fixed is to go into effect thirty days after it Is announced by the commission, subject during that me to be set aside or suspended by the commission or by the courts After it has gone into effect It is to remain the rate for three Years Other provisions are modifications of existing law They Include publicity of raliroad methods, which is to be aid- ed by preseriblug a system of book keeping and enlarging the conmission to seven members aud Incr islug sala- ries of members to $10,000 a year The Louse also passed the pension ap- propriation LIN, carryiug $130,000.00 for pensions and $1,245,000 for adminis. tration, after a consideration of three bours A number of bills were prssed, In- cludlog one providing pensity of £5,- 000 aud ten years’ Imprisonment for the premature revelation of Kovern- meat information which might have a bearing ou the market price of com malities, the same penalty belug pro- vided agmlust goverument ctnployees who speculate in commoditie regard- lng which the government furuislies statistics In the senate Mr. Tillmay agnin made reference to the charge that the rall- roads In West Virginia were dls rimi- natiug against the private coal mines and bad read a letter from the BOvV- ernor of that state charging that the Peunsylvania con pany contro's all the trunk lines (n West Virgluia to the dis advantage of the state rite com Heuse Will Adjourn For Wedding. WASHINGTON, Feb. 0 — Althmgh the house of representatives will not take oficial rec ognition of the wedding of Miss Roosevelt and Representative Longworth on Saturday, Feb, 17, ad Journinent wil taken on Friday Feb. 16, until the following Monday without avowing the purpose. In this manner the Louse will avold establish Ing a precedent S————————— Indicted Vor Polsoning Husband. JACKSON. Miss, Feb 9. The Wil kinson county grand Jury has returned an ludictment against Mrs. W. (* Stew art on the charge of poisoning her hus band, the of the erfime being that she held a S10.0am) Hite ingur ance policy on the life of her husband The Indictment alleges that Mr« Stow art administered morphine to her has band In large quantities with the felo nlous Intent of killing him be tHeged motive Costly Destruction by Dogfish. BOSTON, Feb. 9—1u a special re port submitted to the legislature upon the damage done by dozatish to the fish Ing intemests of the stat the commissioners say that a loss of not jess than Sion, 0 yearly 1s cnvused by the destrin tive Ash to the marketable tish gear In this state —— Lenleney Shown Poltavataky, MOSCOW, Feb. 9, Poltavatsky, the Youth who attempted to assassinate General Trepoff, has been colidemned to five years’ Imprisonment without loas of civil rights. The trial of Pol- ta ‘wan held behind Massa aud fishing The jentency of the much ». Black Mate at Falr Grounds, NEW ORLEANS, Feb 9 — Top weight, a poor rider and a heavy track handicap at Black Mate and Pro winning favorites, state of the track telling heavily igalnst the others. Black Mate's race the colt standing a and winning with sole thing in reserve was a gowl one, drive gamely Red Light at Oakland, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb §. — Redd Light, the Ascot mare, quoted at 18 to the fourth race st Oakland the odds on favorite, mo from five to eight lengths ahead of her field all the way lu the opening race Only Two Favorites Won. LOS ANGELES. Cal Feb. 9 —Form players had a hand fay of it at Ascot only two favorites winning El Caza dor, at Sto 1: W H. Carey, at 15 to 1. and Masede, at 8 to 1. were the out siders that finished first Colgate Won at Basket Hall. HAMILTON, N. Y.. Feb 8 ~The Col. gute university basket ball te am defeat ed Princeton here jast night by a score of 40 to © ———— Baseball Players Arrested. ALBANY, N. Y.. Feb. 0 Michael J Donlan, center ficlder of the New York Natioual league baseball club, winners of the world's champlouship; Walter Bennett, a Santhern pitcher, and John J. McGrath profes sioun! player, all McGrath being the manager th indoor base ball team en route to begin a series of games at Troy. were arrested here on the arrival of thelr train and locked up at police headquarters on of disorderly conduct and intoxication on the train. Donlan is charged also with assault with a deadly weapon, the alle gation being that he deew a loaded re- volver on the conductor of the train S———— Valencia Wreck Inquiry, VICTORIA, B © Feb 9-—At the government investigation of the Valen cla disaster Quartermaster Tarp said Captain Johuson did not order the boats lowered to the water, but order- el that they be lowered to the saloon rall and lashed The boats, however, were lowered to the water He did uot know who was re sponsible for the lowering The starboard boats would Lave lived through the night had they remained at the saloon ran league another members, of charges and would Iie body Woolsidge, a victim of the has been ploked up uear cove This fis the thirty eighth body recovered Lave saved many Passengers of Harry disaster, Schooner f—— Her Red Coat Creates Wonder, LAKEWOOD, N. J Feb, 9.—A stir bas been caused here by the costume worn by Mrs, John D. Rocks feller, Sr Heretofore she has alw ays been attired In black relieved only by a white collar. Now she wears a costly brown velvet gown of the jatest style girdled at the waist and over it bri} arlet trimwed with fur Her acquaintances Kazedl tn wonder somber nant sd coitt Barial of King « hristian, COPENHAGEN, Feb Hl Armuge ments for the funeral of the Inte King Christian The body will be conveyed to Roskilde the morn mg of Friday, Feb, 1a ifter a short ut the Slothskirke, from which royn! he will by Howedd by the wale members roval familly In stat are published hers SOIY ice the troops«, of the | ree escorted coaches Warship Near Vene taeln, WASHINGTON, eh u I'he battle ship division of the Atlante geet, with A tender, has sailed from Culebra for Trinidad. It 1s explained at the navy department that this nothing to do with the tion, althoug! only a few u dad movement has Venezuela situa the Ven les distant velan canst from is Irini Punishing Hussian Rebels, RIGA, Livoula. Feb. 9—A punitive expedition has captured a large band of revolutionists on the Dahlen estate, In the vicinity of Riga. 1 ifteent of them were tried by conrt martial and shot. The others were flogged with knouts Newburg Pastor Dead, NEWHURG, N. Y., Feb. 0.—The Rev. Willlam Walsh, one of the nidest Epis. copal clergymen li thie diocess of New York, 1s doad Bere, aged sighty-eight 3 MOORESTOWN CRIME Negro Slayer of Miss Allinson Sentenced to Death. (QUICK JUSTICE AT MOUNT HOLLY. {Rufus Johnson, Convicted Last Sight of Marder ln the First Degree, Is to He Executed on Feb. 23 Next. MOUNT HOLLY, N. 1. Feb 0 —~Ru fus Jolinsou. the Begte, who was ar rested in Baltimore charged with kill ing Miss Florence Ww Allinson Moorestown, NJ Was placed on trial Lere, convicted offnunder In the Grst degree Jast wight apd immediately sen i teliced (0 Le from near haugsl two weeks | tod iy Because of the atroe I¥ of the negro's Crime it was feared by the that hostile stration against the def, dant whetf he would be brought into court, iithorities there would be 4 demon but po un seetnly cident marked the trial of the case. Johnsen, whe had been in wortal of violeuee, sat throughout the proceedings i Johnson was defended by Jacob ( | Hendrickson, who had been appointed by the court Ie {against Johnson (ncluded several phy siciians fear woh unmoved Witnesses callnd and persons who had seen the Begro loitering about the Strawhbridge li the stable of which the mur der was committed Jolson took the i stand iu his own defense and repeated the confession be made in Baltimore | He denied that Le assaylted the {man and sald he had no intent on of j killing her. When she sere amed on dis. coveriug him in the barn he choked her to prevent her from giving an as the pollee were after him for com mitting a robbery in the neighborbond The jury was out oily two hours and returned a verdict of murder in the first degree Asked by Judge Hendrickson if he had anvibioe to say why the of the court should not be pronounced Johnson sald, “If 1t could, 1 would like that it be delayed for awhil Johnson evidently thought he was to be executed at once, and his court that the defend int probably meant that he wanted the Lauging delayed =o as to make prepara. > A his death tions BEHRING'S TREATMENT. estite Wo alarm sefitenoe nse] suRgr=texl to thie Berlin Professor still Holds His Se. eret of Consumption Remedy, BERLIN Feb 9 -Professor Emil von Behring, the discoverer of the diphthe ria serum addressing the Ge rinan agri cultural council, announced to adliere to the re solution which be promulzated in Paris of keep Ing his tuberculosis remedy secret till the autumn Lils deter mination The professor discussed lengthily the method of preventing consumption by The secure milk having immunizing proper ties. He claims to have approxhuately solved this problem. Cows ars when very with a fluid which Professor Behring calls tuberculase It Is injected under the skin of the young COWS repeatedly for two to four weeks The remedy at first was very costly because it was almost Impossible to preserve It in good condition. but a method has recently been discovers) by which It can be preserved satisfac torlly and at a moderate cost Professor Beliring also treated which showed a virulent type of tuber culos!s In thelr wilk, but the bac Hi dis appears! after several treat ment. His theory Is that children fed on milk from cows rendered immune through his treatment become them selves immune ——————————————— Fatal Explosion Iu Pareall Mine CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb 9 At least one life was lost In an explosion that occurred in the Parrall wine, near Mount Hope, W. Va Fwenty eight men were in the mine at the the of explosion. Twelve have been res ued and one dead body recoverad The re mainlog fifteen men, It is hoped, will be rescued —————————— Five Injured Near Forsythe FORSYTHE. Ga Feb. 9. —A eud collision between a Chicago Flor ida fast tratn and a Sas annah train o urred three miles north of this cfty on the Central of Georgia rallroad shortly after miduight rear sl CHINE « were injured lumunizing milk cows aim is to treated young OW = Weeks! rear Five passengers lu the ir of the Savanuah train Stevens Nock Harned; Loss, 860,000, WORCESTER, Mass. Feb, 9 The Block, a business structure was damaged to the extent of S30 00 by fire, and the lo the hnild ng bring the to tatoed injuries ously hurt Ntevens £2 10 occupants of total damage up nhont Sd) iuw Seven firemen su but note wers danger Ohio's Two Cent # are NN COLUMRUR, O.. Feb 9 ihe Her two cent railroad rate Li has rss ed the senate and the gov eruor Ihe bill house al most unanimously Provisions of the ite effect twenty days after the Kovertor signs it Fret signed by rissa] the By the teasure it goes Chinese tommissioners at Cornell, ITHACA, N, YY, Feb. 9-“The 1} mperial commissioners. Viceroy Fang and Tal Hung Chi. spent the day visiting Nese Mian rel] dnfversits of President J were received] hy the hom IH him Scharman They nnd enter tained at dinner Colonel 8, Ww, Stocking Dead, WASHINGTON, Fel 0 Colonel Ko- lon W. Stocking, a member of the board of examiners In chief of the United States patent office, Is dead here of cancer of the throat, aged sov- Val Laces hey are hard to get this seascy, undoubtedly tte most wanted mer- chandise today. The Globe stores however, and we have our allotment which we have them Tecg ve d place on culous price, 4 There are numbers in the lot which cannst be bought for less than 15¢ anywhere. Beautiful ported new patterns just im- both German and French productions round and fquare mesh in sets to match. 5,000 yds val laces and inserlions worth up to 5c the yard, Saturday 4c Ladies’ Hose Supporters Hook-on hose supporter best wide elastic regular 25¢ kind, in black, white and blue: Saturday and Mop- day 15¢ Another Lot of those pew serges in grey creations, fast colors and firm woolly texture An ideal fabric for waists or suits,’ 15¢ Ladies Collars 25¢c grades, in lace, chiffon, silk, liwen, ete, ete, Saturday and Mon- day, 15¢. Special prices on Comforts, Weol Blankets, Cotton Blankets, Ladies and Children's Golf Vests as adver- tised earlier in the week 3 Globe Warehouse. Talmadg: Block Elmer Ave. VALLEY PHONE —— iLL & BEIBACH CAPE Best of Everythin g Lockhart St. Sayre. ORCHESTRA Strictly Up-to-Date Musle furnished for Balls, Parties and all manner of Soo (al Functious, either public or private. Any number pieces desired will be far nisted. Call Valley Record for terms, “te, ee —— LEHIGH AND SCRANTON COAL At the Lowest Possible Prices. — Orders can be left at West Sayre Drug Store, both phones; or at the Erie yards at Sayre, Valley Phone 37m. _ COLEWAN HASSLER, DR. A. 6. REES, M.D. 100 Lake St. West Sayre, OFFICE HOURS: $10 11:00 a. mw, 2 to 4:30, 7:00 to 8:00. Genito inary and chronie discases a A spleialty Bot phones, ey MEAT AND FISH When you want the best meat, fish nd scallops at popular prices, call nS. J Bellis, 7 Elizabeth street "hone orders receive prompt atten tion Valley Phone €6x. Bell Phone 138w ey Ca:ds For Sale, The Valley Record bas In stock the nal — ullowing card sig Jor Rat
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