a i ee I — mal — EC Lehigh Ave, Lockhart Bldg. Both Phones. ESTATE ave ed wares ducts INSURANCE Property Bougls, Sold sad —Reohaaged— \ Loans Negotiated 117 Packer Ave., Phone £30x, Sayre, Pa. ELKINS ON RATE BILL ure In Senate. LAW MUST REMEDY MANY DEFECTS Seaater Is Fer Nadieal Cure of In. Justice, Abuse and Wrongs Prac ticed by the Ratlroand Me. : nepolists. WASHINGTON, April 7.-1u making an effort to get the senute Lo agree up- Impertast statement thal next week debate ou the measure He failed, however, to secure the coussnt of Mr. Aldrich, whe sald that be would net be willing te agree to vote on the bill until it was wore pearly perfected than itnow is There were several speeches on the rate LIL The first of these was made by Mr. Elkius, who, while expressing the opinion that the situation demands legislation, Indicated many defects in the pending bill Mr. Bikins was frequently interrupt. ed. snd several spirited colloqules marked the progress of his remarks Mr. Elkins nunounced at the cutset his desire fo secure legislation that would give to the people “a prompt SENATOR ELKINS and adequate remédy for the evils, iu: justices, abuses and wrongs of every kind practiced by ralliroads or In any way grewing out of their operation,” but be sald that while be favored the pending bill, he wanted to wake It “better and stronger.” “I stand first for the luterssts of the people of my owp state,” he went on, “and after that for the interests of all the people of the United States. 1 have oe Interest that can affect my judg ment or prevent me doing my duty as be the mother of inven- and “COMPETITION” Jita.of trade but “CON- highest purpose is to secure and serve the public Interest. Because of my suppesed (nterest iz raliroads it Is charged and believed that I favor the rafiread side of this question. This bas besu so often repeated that I am sure it will be pardonable if I say, in justice to myself, that my interest on the side of the shipper Is ten times greater than en the side of the railroads and that my interest in railroads is confined te those of ny own state.” He declared his principal objection te the house bill to be that it does not go far emough in remedying evils and expressed the opinion that if enacted Into law it weuld prove an genera! dls appointment. He sald that be was In hearty accord with the president on the subject of rate regulation, aud then In- dicated the respects in which, accord: ing to his apinion, the bill falls short in sceomplishing all that should be ac complished by raliread legislation. Among the features the bil! Jacked were the following: A prohibitien agalost rallroads produciag, selling or sbipplug their own coal and other like articles In gompetition with other own. ors; a requirement that switches shall be bullt where needed to accommodate business; a requirement compelling in- terstate reads to mike comuections with cennecting lines aud a require ment for the fair and just distribution of cars among shippers. He bad, be sald Introduced amend. ments covering these defects. “The most Important of these” he sald, “is the one providiag that Interstate lues shall make prempt connections with coaneeting brauch or lateral lives and fair, just and reasonable prorating wr rangements with them. He declared that the pending bill was & clear delegation of the congressional power to Hix rates and added: “It weuld seem, therefore, neces. sarily to fellow that the provisions of the bill couferring rate fixing power upon the commission are unconstitu- tonal.” During bis speech Mr. Elkios re ferred te the pending Lill as Mr. Till man's bill. Mr. Tilman esrvestly disavowed re sponsibility for the measure, and Mr. Elkins respended, “You bave got it fastened on you with all the disgrace attendiog it" “1 repudiate the intimation that there Is any disgrace attaching to su effort to secure 4 reasonable rate bill” respond. od Mr. Tillaian. Carnegie at Atlanta. ATLANTA, Gu, April 7.—Andrew ute, fturaing to the werth from pa VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION. Villagers, Abandoning Their at Bescotrecase, Panle outs NAPLES, April 7.-The eruption of | Mount! Vesuvits Is now moat vielent On the Pompeii side the main stream of lava has divided into two, one threat- ening Ottajapo, sa commune of 20,000 fobabitents, and the other threatening Torre del Greco, with a population of 80,000, The dauger is becoming serious, and calls for the immediate evacuation of Boacolrecase, the uearest village to the crater, whicli has a population of 9,000 souls, which is threatenwd. The inhabitants of the villages in the near vicinity sre In & condition border. Ing ou panic. Many homes have been abandoned for the open alr, there Is a thick fog, and the atmosphere bas becu dense with veleanic ashes and the fumes of subterranean fires. The churches are crowded day aud night with people praying for deliverance from an impending peril, manifesta tions of which are heard and felt In explosions, which resemble a heavy cannonading, and in the trembilogs of the earth, which are constantly recur ring. The main stream of lava proceeding from Vesuvius is 200 feet wide, and it advances at times at the rate of twen- ty-one feet in 3 minute, the Intense heat destroying vegetation before the stream reaches It. The peasants at Porticl, at the west foot of Vesuvius, cleared thelr grounds of vineyards and trees in the offort to lessen the danger from fire and resisted the progress of the lava to their utmost The popula tiou of Boscotrecase, ou the southern declivity of the mountain, have sought safety in flight, and Bosco Heale, to the eastward, Is also threatened. Wo men of this village weeping with fright, carried 2 state of Bi. Aune as pear as they could go to the flowing lava, imploring & mirsele to stay the advance of the consuming stream The cemetery at Boscotrecase has been luvaded by lava. The scene at uight is ene of mingled grandeur and horror, as from the sum mit of Vesuvius there léaps a column of fire fully & thousand feet im height, the glare lighting the sky and sea for many miles. Ocoaslonaily great mass ex of molten stone, sone weighing as much us a ton, are ejected from the crater. The village of Terra del Greco, which has been eight thiues destroyed and as often rebuilt, is again threatened, spd the inhabitants dre iv extreme terror. TRADE CONDITIONS. R. © Dan & Co.'s Weekly Business Review. NEW YORK, April 7.-R. G. Dus & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Opening of spriug trade is uot per- coplibly retarded Ly the partial inter ruption to coal mining except in Me Immediate vicinity of anthracite mines. High temperature not only broadens the demand for seasouable merchan- dise, but stimnulates agricultural opera tions, reopens northern uavigstion and starts many contemplated bulldlag op- erations. Were it not for a few laber controversies the cemmercial horizen would be cloudless. But some manv- facturing plants will be compelled to suspend If the fuel supply Is out off, sud structural werk is Interrupted ly demands for Ligler wages iu certain localities. That the year 1908 started out to eclipse all records is evidenced by bank exchanges being 18 per cent larger than in the first quarter of the previous prosperous year, Rallway earnings ln March were 09 per cent larger than last year, and for eign comimerce at this port for the last week showed gains of $1,189 860 ln lm ports and $537.630 lu exports as com- pared with the corresponding week in 1808, Progress In the (rou and steel Indus- try has not suffered as yet from the partial suspension of coal mining, and pew business comes forward each week In great yolume Domestic crop news continued favor able, and cables from abroad contain ed no unsatisfactory developwents, Western receipts of 2.847.004 bushels of wheat compare with 1,900,104 in the same week last year. Commercial fallures for the week In the United States were 187, against 101 Inst week, 218 the preceding week and 232 the corresponding week last year, Fallures in Canada number 15, against 17 last week, 37 the preceding week sud 28 last year, Liabllitles of com- werecial fallures reported for March were $10,040,033, against $0,004,880 last year. Japan Is Acting In Geod Falth. Rl, PETEHNSBBURG, April 7.-The position of affairs lu the far east is far less menacing than has beeu reported, The Japanese evacuation of south Mau- chiuria Is proceeding actively and In good faith, but the statement avoids reference to Chinese relations or the possibility of trouble lu this quarter. Rusein is preparing to take up with the Japanese minister the definition of fHsh- Ing rights ou the Siberian coast grant- ed by the treaty of Portsmouth. “Lord” Ashburton Accused. BOSTON, April 7—Charles F. Rich. ards, also knowu as Willlam Grills and “Lord” Ashburton, whe was ar- rested on suspicion of baving passed worthless checks, was released, as no one appeared to prosecute him. Rich. ards is sald te have served several sen tences iu both Awerican snd English prisons for swindllug. No “HOUSE OF MIRTH" | andy Field Denies That He Ever Gave a Bribe. ‘WAS HONEST IN PAYING OUT $600,000 Tales of High Reveiry at Albany Were Gross Libela=No God Fear. ing Man Seed He Ashamed of Deolungs There. NEW YORK, April 7—Charges sim iar to those recently made against the directors of the New York Life lusur ance company by Andrew Hawmllton were made here agalust the trustees of the Mutual Life lusuruunce company by Andrew C. Flelds. The former leg- islative agent of the Mutual is now In seclusion at his Lome at Dolbs Ferry He is said to be seriously ill and bas denled Bimself to all callers The charges against the Mutual frus {ees were made io u foriual statement which Field Issued through bis physi: cian, Dr. C. H Judson. In this state went _ be declares that the Mutual trustees well knew the uature of bls duties while he was employed Ly the company as legislative agent and also had charge of its supply departiuent aud says that he has come hoe “pre pared to tell the truth, uo matter whe it burts, be Li= position bigh or low.” He denies that he ever gave a bribe to any oue, declares the story of the so called “House of Mirth” at Albauy to be a waliclous libel and claims that while seting for the Mutual he saved the company many buundreds of thousands of doliars. He says that the records of the Mutual's supply department which tad been reported as missing are with iu easy reach and that they will be forthcoming whenever the trustees wail them He promises to wake a full aud com- plete explauation of the manner In which the $800.00 or wore which was paid to Lim Ly the expenditure com mittee was disbursed aud to show that every payweni was fully authorized Mr Field says that la all his career at Albany Le pever had any personal dealings with Audrew Hamilton, long the legisintive ageut for the New York The statement in which Mr. Flelds savagely arraigns the olficers of the Mutual with whom Le had dealings says in part: ‘Iu the first place, | never gave a bribe to any vue lu the whole course of my career. | have come howe pre pared to vindicate mysell completely, In dolug so | stall let the truth, which 1 shall speak, fall upon whom It way All of those trustees of the Matual who are now pointing the finger of scoru at me were aware of all 1 was Jdolng Ia connection with legislative work for the Mutual, sod whew they say that they were ignorant of the character of my work they are saying whbal is un true. | aw bere to challenge thew lo every such statement they way wake or bave made. | am uot ap ould man like Richard A McCurdy, whose age Is se great that he could not defend him self. “While my bodily strength Is net what It might be, | ain wentally as strong as ever 1 was, and 1 am deter wined to vindicate myself In the ayes of the public. I have to laugh when | read the statements of the trustees to the effect that a portion of the records of the supply department of the Mu- tual is missing or was destroyed. “AS to the payweuts by Robert Oly ptant, chairman of the expenditure cominittee, of awounts ranging from $35,000 upward and aggregating In all about $800,000 paid te me, 1 will say that [ can furnish a full aud cowplete sxplapation of exactly what was done with this money and can show that avery payinent was fully authorized [ saved for the Mutual by my work at Albany bundreds of thousands of dol lars aud in doing #0 never comwwitted a dishonest sct “1 do not propose that the wel asso glated with me in the Mutual shall de stroy my reputation to further thelr own private euds. The story about the so called ‘House of Mirth’ In Albany was a gross libel. Nothing ever took place In that house, which was slwply ny Albsuy resideuce, of which 1 or ashamed [| am prepared to tell the truth, no matter who it may burt, be tis position high or low.” Dr. Judson said that Mr. Flelds would not Le able to see any oue for two weeks at least. His patient Is suf feriug from an lucurable disease, he sald, but by careful treatineut his life may be prolonged for years. Willlam H. Truesdale, chairman of the Mutu al's Iuternal investigating cvwwmittee, sald “It would not Le proper for we to state that Flelds will be called upon to make a statement to this committee, (hat such a course is likely, however, iss probability.” Contractors Sued For $8,000,000, PHILADELPHIA, April 7 Civil proceedings were lnstituted by the city axa lust the contractors and former city officials iuterested ln the coustruction of the wunicipal Blitration plant to re cover $5,000000, which sum is alleged to have been wrougfully retained by the defendants Murder Near Sorantos. SCRANTON, Pu, April 7--George Weneflsk!. a Polish teamster, who lived alone on the outskirts of the city, was brutally murdered. His partially de nuded body was found pear his barn Robbery was the motive, Treohold Rife at Plltsbary. PITTEBURG, Alt 7. = Fifty-six | HAREM OF SEVEN WIVES. “Prophet” of Zion Wished te Imitate the Grand Terk, ZION CITY, 111, April T-At a meet.’ ing of the officers of the Zion Christian church bere It wus revealed that John | Alexander Dowle, the deposed frut | apostle of Zion, had planned a of seven wives. He had gone so oo 48 to select the women who were to! demonstrate to the world the secret polygamous tesching Dowie Lad se lected all of them. Five of them bad | accepted Dowie and his harem were to have been the nucleus around which It was proposed to found Paradise colony in east central Mexico Dowie outlined | this plan of a polygamous colony to bis | W. G VOLIVA overseers. At the same time be asked thems to help bim divorce his present wife on the ground of incompatability The proposition was made to the lead- ers of the church about a week before Dowie was stricken with paralysis Mrs. Dowie attended the meeting With a voles trembling with emotion and with tears streaming down her face, slie told the overseers, the dea cous and deswconesses, the evangelists und the elders Dowle's proposals to put her away that Le might espouse seven Youhger women One by one the elders who hind been apprised of Dowle's polygamous plans by blmself told how he bad argued with them aud the violent rage that followed thelr rejoction of his propos nls. He was held up to scorn as a man who had uot ouly robbed Lis trust ing followers of the product of thelr toll, but who bad shattered every sacred tradition of the howe. Mrs Dowie told how Dowle had threatened her with violence. Que of these occasions was last May, ou Dow e's birthday, wheu be wished to sig. ualize the event bY a proclamation of Lis lotentions te found a polygamous Overseer Vollva plans to make the en- tire tatters public ext Sunday, begin nlug at 2.30 in the afternpoun. Dowie bas nnuonnced ln a private telegram to ous of his deacuns that he will return to Zion City late Mouday ulglt apd “performs a wiracle” He prowises, amoung other thiugs, tu Lriug to the “faithful lu Zion" $10,000,000 In gold and several scrulls of parchment upon which are written the five books of Moses. Iu the wessage Dowle declared that he is “now greater than he ever was belleved to be” Officials of the church at Zion City declare that Dowle has lost sus ag gregating close to $1,200 (kK) jn specu lation in Wall street, New York Hungarian Political War Ends. VIENNA, April 7 After fourteen wouths of controversy, always of ap acute and often of a Litter nature, be tween the throue and the coalition parties the Huugariau crisis has finally been settied Both sides express satis faction with the result obtalued, which, on the vue hand, Is declared to be a complete victory for the crown, but ap pears to be really lu the nature of a cowpromise ‘The news of peace ls re celved with rejoicing ou ull sides, and Hungary cau vow return to her normal political existence. ‘The elections will be held within the proper time, and, parliamentary government reestab service will be voted, aud the customs, tariff and commercial treaties will be ratified by the Hungarian parliament The comtuercial vulon with Austria Is assured uutil 1017 A New Havem Branch Lime. NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 7.-The directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rallroad bave voted to Hue Letween a point on the main Hoe between Greenwich and Portchester through Ridgefield to a polut on the New LEuglsud reliroad Just west of Danbury Station, about thirty wiles in length, at a cost of approximately §2, BuO, 000 Bad (ltlaen Hanged. ROANOKE, Va, April 7 Morris Creawans was hanged st Pearisburg. Ya., for the wunder of John Kidd, whow be killed here Creamaus had a long career of crime to his credit, Le having killed three wen and participat ed In seversl other murders. He La been a horse thief, highwayman, post office robber aud all around bad man He had been In prisou thirty-seven ties Kalser's Auto Not In Accident. BERLIN, April 7.-The report that an automobile In which Ewperor Wil Ham was ridiog mn down and killed a woman is denied An automobile con- taining two adjutants, who were fol: lowing the emperor ou bis. visit to Chancellor von Billow at the reichistag, rau down A wornan and caused slight Proposal Out of the West From Mine Operators BITUMINOUS COAL MEN'S PEACE PLAN —— Fresldent Winder Telegraphs Hoose- velt and Makes Offer te Mitchell and Committees Which May Avert a Strike. NEW YORK. April 7 - Interest in { the Inbor troubles In the unthracite re gions Is overshadowed by the propos! tion hat cawe out of the west fur the between the soft cual operators who bave not yet agreed to the 1G scale aud their miners The offer of the soft coal operators is identical, word for word, except where the term bituminous i= substituted for anthracite, with the one President Mitchell prescuted to the Lard coal op erators here. The receipt of the propo sition caused quite a stir, and there was considerable specuiation as to how the miners’ leader would receive his own arbitration plap for another field He was much interested in the pews but maintalued his usual silence when asked what he would do Within an bour of the receipt of the offer from J. H. Winder, the head of the Ohio soft coal operators, Lie sent a reply to the effect that he had no pow er to act on the proposition, but wenld submit it to the international executive board of the union at its meeting in Indlapapolis week after next Mr Mitchell was asked what be thought of Mr. Winder's literary ability, and he jokingly replied that be “admired it very much” Leaders of the miners’ union who were at headquarters did uot think the international executive boanl would favor the proposition. A mewber of the board sald that couditions in the soft coal regions are wich different frown those in the anthracite feld« He polated out that manus operators had already signed the I scale aud that the nuiuber Is lucreasiug each day Nothing developed in the suthracite sftuatiou to clearly Indicate what the outcome of next Monday's meeting be tween the sulcommitiees of the miue owners and the unlou leaders will be It was reported that the arbitration offer of the miners would be flatly re fused, but It was denied by those in authority that a fiual decision had been arrived at It was also reported that the operators may accept arbitration, but with a different sort of a tribunal President Mitchell said his side Las nothing to do now but walt for the op urators’ answer [thas practically been settled that If the operators re fuse the arbitration offer a call will go out at once for 4 waveution President Roosevelt Las received n telegram from John H. Winder at Co lumbus, president of the bituminous operators of Oliv, a duplicate of which was sent to President Mitchell of the winners’ uunlon, proposing arbitration At the White House It was stated that the telegram was sent to the president for bls iuformatiou; that no reply is expected and uolic will be sent At a meeting last night at Pittsburg of the (udependent soft coal operators who organized to fight the granting of the 1108 scale & wajority of the opera tors decided to sigu it Striking Miner Murdered. GREENSBURG, Pa, April 7 John Wessell, a striking miner, was shot and killed last night while going from bis Lowe to an outbullding. It Is not known who fired the shot. Wessell, it Is alleged, had promised to go to work this worniug. The shooting Las created great excitement here. Preparing to Shell Bambaata Out. GREYTOWN, Natal, April 7 Bam Laata, the leader of the Zula rebels, is believed to be within seven wiles of Ureytown. He Las ouly 200 follow ers. It is impossible for infantry to peuetrate the Lush lu pursuit of the rebels, but overlovklug their hiding place Is an eminence, ou which artil lery Is being placed. Natives also are prepared to tackle Bambaata io vative fashion fu the bush Brave Boats' Crews Rewarded. LIVERPOOL, April 7 The Ship wreck Humane society has presented zuld medals to Cuptuine Clark of the Bostonian and Schann of the Manu heim, silver wedals to the subordinate oficers of the steamers abd wone) awards totallug $200 to the boats’ crews of the vessels who assisted iu the rescue of the steamer British Kiug which foundered off Sable island on March 11 Portland Has $100,000 Fire. PORTLAND, Ore, April 7 Fire here Las destruyed part of the Cham ber of Commerce bhullding aud caused the death of Homer Hallock. agent of the Whlawetic Traction company, who Jumped from the Commercial club roouis to the roof of the central court several stories below [he property loss Is $100 (kw) $1. Mary's Seminary Buraed. PROVIDENCE, IL 1, April 7.-The sixty Inmates of St Mury's Rowman Catholle Seminary For Girls at East Providence escaped In safety from w burning building bere. Five partially destroyed the left wing of the sem! pary and damaged the watn bullliog The loss is $10,060) Author Refuses (0 Be a Candidate. WARSRAW. April 7 Henryk Sien- klewles, the Polish author, has declined {6 be a candidate for the national par- lament, saying that nll kis talents and are due Jo bis amiire jad SATURDAY SPECI Dress Goods 40 in. storm serge, wool and excellent weight. The best fabric made for hard service. 50¢ kind in all staple shades, Saturday and Monday 43c. 16 in. sicilian, heavy lus- trous cloth, worth 6 comes in navy, cream, black, brown and green. 65¢ i ity, special 19c. Better Values Still : A 52in. Panama new chif- fon finish, all the most want- ed shades, such as grey, reseda, tar, red, navy Alice blue. A wond value, worth 75¢ an 52 in. wide, special Soe. Moire Silks A few remnants of the formerly $1.00, tlodinEl 8c. Sheeting Special 9-4 best known br worth 2ic. Saturday Monday 2lec. = Ladies’ Muslin Gon Usual 65¢ kind,- full si aud made of excellent mus- lin tucked and trimmed with insertion. Saturday and Monday 50c. ra New White Goods 25¢ kinds including new line of dotted swisses, all size dots, very special, Sat- urday and Monday 18e. Hosiery Children’s 15¢ hose, sizes, extra heavy rib, dou- ble heels, toes and knees. Special 10c. Talmadge Block, Elmer As: VALLEY 'PHONE. H. H. Mercere Attorney-at-Law Notary Public Special attention to Penson Valley Phone 11 X, 12 Desmond Btroet, * { Office Maney & Page Block Rooms formerly occupied By Iate John R Murray, OMoe hours: —§ t010 a, m.3 | to8 p,m. At other times dup day at Valley Record offices, Small Farms, Large Farms, Good ings, good fruits, well watered. pla in gi or Tr prices. Houses ANDREW NY Home phove ne
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