J. W. Bishop, W T. Goadnow, , Seward Baldwin, F.T. Page, I 3 Page, Cashier. "Bade Managed Collecting . E. Reynolds, : ESTATE Forme in Athens, Bayre and Waverly. Komtima INSURANCE Het taht, 2d ot —Rrchanged— “Toons Negotiated “117 Packer Ave. “NECESSITY” y be the mother of inven- and “COMPETITION" PRICE ONE Mitchell and Miners Throw Bombalisl! at Operators. if Propesition Is Accepted All Opera- tions Will Be Hesumed atl Onve. "Refusal by Owners ls Fore shadewed. NEW YORK, April 6—-FHaviog falled fo come 1u an agresnient among them: selves, Wie Lard coal miners of Peun- sylvanis, through their representatives, proposed to the operators that all mat- Ters In dispute be referred to a board of arbitration for settlewent, the tri buna! to be composed of the board of conciligtion which was created by the award of the anthracite strike commis sion lo 190, with Judge George Gray of Delaware, or any person be way ap- point, as chainuan aud umpire, If the operufors accept the proposi- tion and 8 coaveution of mine workers approves the plan the 180,000 wen now idle in the anthracite Sells will return to work at cuce. ‘While it bad been reported for several days that the min- ers might ask that the differences be arbitrated, the proposition made to the mine owners came to then as a great surprise, as they did not believe the union leaders were ready to leave the controversy 10 a third pariy at this time. ; “That the operators will accept the miners’ proposal as submitted is not generally believed. In fact, It Is intl mated they may Batly refuse the offer oa the ground that existing conditions are the result of arbitration. The em- ployers bave decided fo carefully con- sider the miners latest move and prom- ise to give President Mitchell and his men an auswer on Monday, when an. other meeting of the two subcommit teas will be held in this city. President Mitchell tirew 8 bombshell juto the catup of the operators by of- fering to submit all the peinls In dis pute to the board of conciliation, which went out of office with the expiration of the three year sgreetient ou March 3L The board of conciliation ls composed of three operators and three representa: tives of the miners unlon. Judge George Gray of Delaware, who acted as chalrman of the arbitration com. mittee, is proposed by Mr. Mitchell a= the man te name the umpire In case the conciliation beard should deadlock, as it nadoubtedly would on many gues- Mitchell's move was entirely unex. pected and confounded the seven rall- road presidents making up the oper: ators’ committee. It puts the situation right up te the operators. Mitchell's offer is to submit the questious In dis- pute to a comilttes in which each side is equally represented, final de- cision to rest in the hands of a wau to be appointed by Judge Gray, whose fairness is unquestioned. “If the operators don't agree to this” remarked ue of the union leaders, “it will be because they Invite a strike And if a strike comes, all that will fol- low will be ou the operators, not ou us. We want peace.” The proposition of Mr. Mitchell was made, as be explained, “iu the interests of peace.” He set forth that the winers bave real grievances and the ouly fair way to settle thet is to take testimony on both aides, weigh It and leave the decision to a disinterested person Ip case the representatives of the dispu tants fall to agree. The conference of the subcommittees lasted less than an bour, and at its con- clusion the operators held a meeting to informally discuss the miners’ of- fer. Later they Issued the following statement; “It should be observed that in the astutely drawn proposition of Ar. Mitchell and his committee the oper- ators are asked to submit to arbitra- tion the question of the ‘closed shop’ and the ‘check off" —a scheme requiriag, in the words of the miners’ committee, ‘that each company shall collect from each employee such amounts 4s may be levied by their organization mouth- ly. the amount thus collected at each colliery to be turned over to au au- thorized committee at the colllery'—a plan which wo! make of-every oper ater a collecting agency on bebalf of the strike funds of the miners. In their letter of March © to the miuers' committee the operators sald, concern ing the ‘check off” ‘As & matter of pol icy we would not make such au agree ment as you request and as su matter of law we are not permitted to make it’ “On these two subjects also the nu. thracite coal commssion of 1K ap- pointed by President Hoosevelt made the following vigorous declaration: * “The right to rematn at work where others have ceased to work or to en gage anew In work which others have abandoned Is part of the personal ither ty of a citizen that can never be sur rendered, and every infringement there of 1oerits apd should receive the stern denouncement of the law. All govern- less, but more, necessary (np self gov- erned communities than in others to compel restraint of the passions of men which make for disorder and law. lesstiess. Our language is the language of a free people and falls to furnish any form of speech by which the right of a citizen to work when he pleases, for whom he pleises and on what remembered, to extend the Andiogs of the coal commission until April 1, 1008." — Searching Miners’ Homes For Arms. YATESVILLE, Pa, April 6—District President Nicholls of the Lackawanua- Wyoming district received a complaint from mine workers of Yatesville to the effect that the state constabulary were entering and searching thelr bowes for firearms. Mr. Nicholls sent lnstruc- tions to his orguuizers in the field to take medsures to protect the miners and to employ counsel if necessary, NOCQUET BURIED. Ballooaist's Death Was From Expo- sure and Exhaustion. NEW YORK, April 6-Doubt as to the actual cause of the death of Paul Nocquet, the young Belgian balloon- ist who lost his life In the swamps of Joues' Leach, New York, was set al rest when, after ap examination of the body by expert physicians at Amity ville, It was declared that the {ll fated aercuaut died solely from the effects of physical exhaustion, No autopsy wus held, as the evi dence determining the cause of death was apparent. [It was established that Young Nooquet died after struggling through the marshes and swamps of the lonely strip of sand in his endeavor to reach the will-o" the wisp lights of Amityville. Au opinion that Nocquet was meu tally sound when be Janded on Jones’ beach shortly before his death was given by Dr, J. P. Thomas of Amity- ville. Having examined the ground covered by the young mau In his fatal attempt to reach Amityville, he be- lHeved that the course adopted showed every evidence of gol judgment. Iu an inslde pocket of the undercoat which Nocquet wore in the air flight was found a letter of four pages In which be tells what disposition he de- siresl to be made of his property In the event of Lis death. The lotter is dated “New York city, April, 1006" the day of the wonth belug omitted. The letter Is as follows: “My name is Paul Nocquet; my pro fession a scuiptor. Iu case of death send for my good frieud Guizon Ber- gum, Esq. sculptor. of New York. “He certainly will be so kind as to write to my Urother-lu-law, Albert Vanderkindere, #1 Rue des Palais, Bruxelles, Baigium, who will take all care possible to tell It to muy beloved mother, who lives In Belgiom. Her address is Mme. Nocquet, Place Com- munals, 5 Uccles Brabant, Belgium. “Everything that belongs to me is for my mother, or in case of death to my sister, Bertha Nocquet, who lives with her. If M. Borgum can do it he can make an auction of my works, bronge, terra cotia, plaster, which are In my studio or stored in James Loel's sta- ble. “My money is deposited (n the Mad!- son avenue branch of the Mechanles' and Traders’ bank, New York. This can be taken from there by my friend, Gutzon Borgum. I do not care for my sculptures. | only want to remain in America. 1 took my first papers eof American citizenship and intend to re main in America a citizen and consider that I am sn American citizen.” A simple funeral service was held to day from the studio of Gutzon Bor gum, at 100 East Thirty eighth street, Mr. Borgum was & chum of the Bel- glan aeronaut, and the two were fast friends In France. Will Tell of “Man With Mock Rake,” WASHINGTON, April 6-—-President Roosevelt will deliver his Decoration day address this year before the Army and Navy uniou at Norfolk, Va. The address will be practically a repetition of the address he delivered at the din- ner recently given by Speaker Cannon to the metbers of the Gridiron club and other guests. The text of the speech was “The Mau With the Muck Rake,” In which the president compar- ed certain publishers and writers with the fauious character lu “Pligrim's Progress.” He denounced the men who devote thelr ecergles to an exploitation in a sensational way of the graft and rascality which they by auy meaus can rake up, ignoring at the same tie the 00d lu the world, which the president believes Is predominaut, Cooper Murder Trial at Augusta. AUGUSTA, Me, April 6.—The prin- cipal feature of the session of the trial was the testimony of Adelbert E. An drews and Miss Kuby Doe, who testl- fied that at a Christian Eodeavor weet- lng at Cooper's Mills ou the Bunday eveulug preceding the tragedy they sil ln on pew directly In frout of Mrs. Cooper and Northy. Both testified that they beard Mrs. Cooper say to Northy, “Come over Tuesday, and If you don't you will be sorry.” Tuesday was the duy of the tragedy Weol Royer Huried Near Tiflis. TIFLIS, April vi ~The expedition in- vestigating the disappearance of J. B Stock, an Englishman who was engag- ed lu the exportation of wool to Amer- ica and who early last month mys- teriously disappeared from a neighbor Ing Tartar village, has learned that the body of Mr. Stock was fished up in a lakelet near Karnjas and afterward thrown back into the water. When Mr. Stock disappeared he bad $10,000 with bim Perisllo Couvieted of Manslaughter, WATERBURY, Conn, Apri) €-8a- bino Perfello, charged with abetting the murder of Angelo Solomita, who was shot by Cirelaco Capoblanco, was convicted of manslaughter and seu- tented to not less than one nor more than fifteen years in state prison. Ca- poblanco, who was convicted of mur der in the first degree and Is now un- Russian Emancipator Leaves Cherbourg For America FOR “BREAD, LIGHT AND LIBERTY" Exiled by Cesar, He Comes te Enlist Co-operation Here to Ald His Countrymen In Struggle For Freedom. CHERBOURG, April 6 — Maxim Gorky, the great Russian emancipator, is on his way to the United States, whither Le bas goue to inaugurate an agitation awong Kussian refugees and friends of liberty In gencral, to the end that the present autocratic govern- ment of the czar may be overthrown. He sailed Wednesday night under an assumed nawe on board the North Ger- msn Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilkelm der Grosse It is reported that several Russian secre! service ugents, who have been dogging bis footsteps since he left St Petersburg, sailed oo the steamer with Gorky. Tue propaganda which Gorky Is about to begin In America will enlist the cooperation of a number of fa- mous political exiles both in New York and Chicago. It i= not known whether Mme. Plesh- koff, wife of the distinguished novel- ist and liberator, accompanies ber hus- band Gorky bas an adopted son in New York, hut so precipitate was the nov- elist's flight from Frapce that even this son was in iguorance of lls fa- ther's salllng antll told of It Ly a re porter Gorky's banishwent from Russia and departure for America Is the culmina- tion of mouths of political agitaton in Russia abd the afteriuaty of the revo lution of January, 1903, when the troops of the czar shot down in cold blood Ju-the strects of St. Petersburg thousands of peaceful workiugmen on their way to present a petition to the emperor. At the time Gorky wrote a stirring letter of appeal 10 the officers of the St Petersburg garrison caliing upon them not to sacrifice their houor to the cause of oppression and to re fuse to bear arms against their own brothers In thelr struggle for “bread, light and Hberty."” The Russian government at once ar- restex]l Gorky on the charge of inciting the army to treason, and he was taken from Riga to St. Petersburg and thrown Into a dungeon of the St. Peter and St Paul fortress. A cry went up from all over the civilized world when It was learnal that Gorky was marked for execution, and petitions poured upon the car from all over Europe and even from America begging that clemency be ex tended to the distinguished Russian for the sake of Russian literature aud the world of letters in general The Grand Duke Constantine Con- stantipoviteh interceded with the em- peror In person and secured Gorky's release from prison on the coudition that be leave Russia. WON BY ZULU PRINCE, Columbia's Highest Oratorical Honor the Prize of Pka lsaka Seme. NEW YORK, April 6 — Columbia university's highest oratorical honors went this year to a full blooded Afri can prince, who won the annual cou- test for the George Wiliam Curtis medal. Prince Pka Isaka Seme is the name of the winner, and he Is a son of the Hne of chiefs that ruled Zululand up to the time the English gained con- trol. He is a member of the class of 1908 in Columbia college and is a very ardent student, specializing In eco nomics, After getting his bachelor degree from Columbla, Beme will spend three years at Oxford and then return to Zululand, where the position of attor- ney general for bis people Is belug held opeu for Lim The subject of his oration was “The Regeneration of Africa.’ Ie pointed out the greatness Africa achieved In past ages through tbe civilization spread by Egypt and declared that sys- tematic education will again bring out the wonderful qualities of the land and people iu the dark continent. Second prize lu the coutest, a sllver medal, was won by M. K. Ellenbogen Philadelphia Woman Shot Herself, CHICAGO, April 6 Mrs. Edith Cooper, whose address is given ns 2830 Germantown avenue, Philadelphia, committed suicide iu the Palmer House by shooting herself through the head. She went to the Palmer House with Emo Bardelelben The woman regls tered as Mrs. Bardeleben. They were assigned to un room, aud Bardeleben left the hotel. He returned three hours tater and found the room locked. The door was forced open. The woman was dead on the oor with a revolver beside her New Yourk Woman Hoebhbed. AUGUSTA, Ga. April 4 — Mrs Charles R. Clark of New York city was robbed of diamonds valued at $4, 000 at the Hawpton Terrace, a loeal tourist hotel, where she had been stop ping for some time, She reports the Jewels were taken from her roow, where she had left thems lu a small case. It Is the second robbery of the kind of recent date, a niece of Andrew Carnegle being the victim of the first Woman's Sufirage Bil Passes PROVIDENCE, BR. I. April 6 The woman's suffmge bil providing that women as well &% wen may participate in the election of presidential electors, was passed by the Rhode [sland state senate Ly a vote of 24 fo 7. The senate gallery was fliled with women during the consideration of the weasure nr FIFTY-FIVE DEAD. Hotel Enum Hirsehen <(oliapses at Nageld, Germany, NAGOLD, Black Forest, Germany, April 8 Fifty-five persons were killed and a bundred seriously injured by the collapse of the Hotel Zumn Hirschen {the Stag hotel). The bullding had not been fully completed, and the catas trophe Is attributed to the ponobsery- auce of proper precautions. The roof of the building bad ouly been put In place, and the event, in sccordauce with German custom, was celebrated Ly a feast. The guests are reported to have engaged in a dance, which caus ed the collapse, The accident 1s attriblited to careless. ness on the part of those who were making repairs on the bullding, which had been mised five fest from the ground in order to give more space for the lower story. The keeper of the hotel invited the workmen and a large number of townspeople to a grand dio- ner. The company assembled In the middie banquet room and was drinking the health of the builder and landlord when suddenly a crash was heard above. Twenty of those lu the banquet room jumped from the windows and doors In time to escape when the house crumbled 1nto a heap of ruins The town presents an indescribable scene of borror and grief. There Is hardly a family but has lost one or more members. The dead are [ald out in the town hail adjseent to the scene of the disaster. The work of rescus Is still proceeding. The full losses are not yet known, BETTIE LANDON AT 100 TO 1. Upset nt Beannings Track In Second Eveant—=Five Favorites Beaten. WASHINGTON, April 6 —8ensation- al finishes marked the races at Ben niogs. The sport generally was the best thus far of the meeting Ouly oue favorite Auished In front the other races being taken by four otitsiders aud a second choice. A big upset occurred iu the second, when Bettie Landon, af 100 to 1, gave the adds on favorite, Al Powell, and Bath Maria, a sound beating, winning in the fair time of 5S secouds for the four aud a balf farlongs. The winner closed fast on the tiring favorite in the stretch aud won by half a length Chisftaln and Lackey were made even favorites In the first event, a handicap at five aud « half furlongs. Sterling was playad more than a little for place and show. Royal Window, Blue Coat and Lackey made the run- ning to the stretch fn the order named Then Royal Window collapsed, and Sterling took up the running He gradually overhauled the leader and nosed out Blue Coat in the last jump Lackey could do no better than third, Reldmoore was an odds ou favorite for the third, but he got off badly and did not figure in the result. Nousense came fast ju the last furlong and in a thrilling finish barely beat Parkville, which was almost neck and neck with Setauket The Cameron Runa Hunt Pink Coat steeplechase, the fourth event, was sbandoued and a steeplechase substi tuted. Garter Knot was made the fa- vorite and led throughout the race uu- til the last hundred yards on the flat, when Le tired, and Black Death won handily, with Croxton third Qul Vive, the favorite, easily won the fifth. Bhe never was In danger Frills as easly took the place frum Noblesse Oblige The sixth was regarded as an open event, every one of the six starters he ing played generously Amberjack finally was made the favorite, with Bill Curtis, Northville and Merlingo in a strong demand. BUI Curtis led prac tically all the way and breezed In at the finish, with the favorite second and Northyille third. Summaries First Race. Sterling, first; Blue Coat, second; Lackey, third Secoud Race Bettie Landon, first; Al Powell, second; Bath Maria, third Third Race -—-Nonseuse, first; Park ville, second; Setauket, third Fourth Race. — Black Death, first; Garter Kuot, second; Croxton, third. Fifth Race. —-Qul Vive, first; Frills, second; Noblesse Oblige, third Sixth Race —Blll Curtls, frst; berjack, second: Northville, third Am Jay Gould and Sands In Finals. NEW YORK, April In the na tional court tennis championship tour nament the survivors are Charles E Sands of the New York Racket and Tennis club and Jay Gould, the sev euteen-yearold player who represents the Tuxedo Racket and Teuunls club Schenectady Soldiers Win, OGDENSBURG, N.Y, April 8- Company E of Schenectady defeated the Fortleth Separate company at basket ball at the State armory last pight by a score of 38 to 21 Lodge's Secretary Accused. BOSTON, April 6 Officers of the Republican state committee and John GQ. Bestgen of Quincy were examined by the grand jury bere in connection with charges brought by Mr. Bestgen agalust Robert GG. Proctor, private sec: retary to Neoator Henry Cabot Lodge. Mr. Bestgen has declared that he gave $225 to Mr. Proctor as a contribution to the campaign fund in October, 1904, and that there 18 no record of what be came of the mouey Queen Natalle to Give $15,000,000, BELGRADE, Servia, April o.—-1It 8 reported from au authoritative source that former Queen Natalie of Servia, mother of the murdered King Alexau- der, intends ta present the kingdom of Servia with all her properties in this country, valued at $15.000.000, for the erection of a cathedral, provided the body of Klug Milan, her husband, and that of King Alexander are (aterred In it 3 DELEGATES IN TEARS Sensation at Congress of Na- tional Council of Women. THANES FROM MORMON MEMBERS, Mere. Manchester's Report Sald te Contaln Charges Invelving Pope Plus X, and Kalser Wil- helm of Germany, TOLEDO, 0. April 4—The unaul- mous rejection of a resolution present ed by Mrs. I. C Manchester, delegate to the National Association of Loyal Women of American Liberty, protest ing agalust the appropriation of sny money by congress for the support of sectarian schools and the delegates re- tiring weeping from the convention ball was the sensation of the session of thie National Council of Women Following this Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood in an lmpassionate defense of the Catholic church presented a res olution to preveut any report from be ing wade ln public if it contalued any thing inimical to any creed or political Lellef. This received the unanimous approval of the council. “In the pame of 1M 000 Catliclic wo men 1 thank Mrs Sherwood” =ald Mrs. Elizabeth McGowan, president of the Ladies’ Catholic Benevolent socie ty. “In the name of JM.) women of the Mormon church I thank Mrs Sher wood,” sald Mrs. Clarissa Williams of the National Women's Relief society of the Mormon church Mrs. Manchester retired to the next roo, and several of the uational offi- cers tried ln vain to comfort her. The adoption of Mrs Sherwood's resolu tion prevents Mrs Maucliester's re purt belux read before it is passed upon by the executive committee, and she declared that unless she is allowed fo read It In full she will withdraw hier asswciation from the council It becaive known that Mrs chiestar's report contained agaiust the Catholic church, threatened war of Frauce wany Is fu revenge for the the Freuch government toward Vatican aud that the pope Emperor Willlam as a catspaw is one of the allegations ino the report and that the Jesuits were responsible for eight of the wars that have juvolved £0 many pations lo recent years is an other The motto of the national council is the Golden Rule, and ju the discussion there was a unanimous defense of this policy. Man charges that the aud Ger action of the is using BLOOD MAY FLOW. Elon City te Have Factlon War Over Dowie's Dethronement, ZION CITY, 11, April 6 — Blood may fow In Zion City as a result of the factional war here and the de thronement of Jolin Alexander Dowie otherwise “Eltjal 111.” founder of the religious community. This is the belief of Mrs. Dowle, according to a report here. Mrs. Dowle's fear Is based upon ru wors that the factiou supporting the ‘First Apostle,” her husband, has grown so strong that a serious conflict will be inevitable on the arrival of her husband, who has left the City of Mex ico ou his way home to confront his enemies within the fold He is known to be losing no time iu his northward dight and is Keeping the wires hot with messages to his leu tenants, In which he voleoes his wrath Against former trusted advisers, who turned upon him In the recent conclave which cast him from his dictatorship Ever since the disclosures were made concerniug the aged prophet’'s efforts to divorce his wife iu order to marry Miss Ruth Hofer, the Swiss helress whom he converted to his peculiar creed, Mrs Dowie and her sou, the ‘vukissed” Gladstone Dowie, have been aligned agulust him and In ac tive cooperation with the enemy Ro great has Leen the strain on Mrs Dowle that her conviction of coming bloodshed has resulted In a complete physical collapse Goluchowaski Visits Storer. VIENNA, April 6. —Count Goluchow- ski called on Mr. Storer and spent an hour with the retiring ambassador. [It Is understood that the latter will be re ceived by Emperor Francis Joseph In private audience after Easter There after Mr. Storer will go to Versailles ind take up Lis residence there It is reported that the Marquis de Rever seaux, the French ambassador bere, in reply to an fnquiry of the French gov ernment asking hiw If the report that be lent assistance to Mrs Storer in ber endeavors to further Catholic prof ects was correct, telegraphed to Paris that the statement was unfounded No More Living In Courrierea Mines. LENS, Frauce, April 4 The num ber of striking miners at Courrleres has slightly increased, and the salvage work continves without result up to the present A double line of gen darmes and dragoons surround the pit wouth, holding ick the crowds of wo men who continue to foment disorder pelting the troops and denouncliug the engineers as murderers aud bandits The salvage men comiug up from the mine report that there are no toes of any living men Barrymore Operation Saccessinl BOSTON, April 6.—An operation for appendicitis was performed on Miss Ethel Barrymore, the actress by Dr, W, A. Brooks, Jr. at his haspital on Bay Btate road, Rack Bay. The operation was successful, and Miss Barrymore ls resting comfortably. 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Hosiery Children's 15¢ hose, all sizes, extra heavy rib, dou- ble heels, toes TE knees, Special 10c. Globe Warcliolse Taimadge Block, Elmer Ave. VALLEY THONER $id HICH JUSTICE OF ™E PEAGER EOfice Maney & Page Block, Rooms formerly ocoupled bye late John R. Murray, Office boars: to 10 & m.; 30. k to Sp, m. At other times during + day at Valley Record office. REAL ESTATE BARGAINS Small Parma. Large Farm, Good Tes ae Hist bargain prices. Houses to rent. 5 ANDREW EVARTS, Room &, Home phove Fl.w : R. HK. DRISLANE, Contractor and Builder Plens and Estimates Furnished. 103 Lincoln St. Sayre, Pu. RR, 100 Lake St. West Sayre, OFFICE HOURS: A 8 to 11:00 = m., 1 0 4:30, 7:00 to
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