‘VOLUME IL NO. 27
PRICE ONE CENT
OOAL OOAL COAL
J. W. BISHOP
~ Thereis as much difference in
“the quality o coal as there is
between white and yellow sugar.
* We sell nothing but the celebrated
Lehigh Valley fresh mined aathra-
‘cite. We also sell Bituminous and
Loyalsock coal and all kinds of
wood.
Our specialty is prompt service
and the lowest market price.
J. W. BISHOP,
103 Lehigh Ave, Lockhart Bldg.
Both Phones,
WOOD WOOD WOOD
FIRST NATIONAL
—
wn $75,000.00
GENERAL BANKING
'YHREE PERCENT INTEREST
Paid on Time Deposits.
DIRECTORS.
uN PF. Wilbur, JN
W, A. Wiibar, 1. W. Babop,
J. Wheelock. W T. Goodsow,
0. L. Beverly, Sewsrd Baidwia, 7. T. Page,
RV. Page, Cashier.
D. CLAREY COAL CO.
Lehigh Valley Coal
HARD AND SOFT WOOD
Bést Quality & Prompt Delivery
Guaranteed
Oe Aras Haya Shute, Sayre
Both "Phones
ELMER A. WILBER,
Wholesaler of
Wines, Beer and Ales.
OUR SPECIALTIES
LEMGH CLUB WHISKEY, DOTTER-
WEICH BEER AND ALES, NOR-
WICH BREWING O'S. ALES.
209 Packer Avenue, SAYRE, PA.
BOTH "PHONEE
Resting, Fetebes Managed Collecting
E. E. Reynolds,
Sayre and Waverly.
douse“ INSURANCE
L B. DENISON, I. D.
Office, Rooms 2 and 4
Talmadge Building, Eimer Ave.
Valley Phone at office and
residences.
WHEN YOU
feel tired there is noth-
ing so refreshing as a
glass of good old
STEGMAIERS’
BEER
It is palatable, delicious,
invigorating and ABSO-
LUTELY PURE, Have
" a case sent home today.
Prompt delivery.
TONIGHT
Oax Grove Park
Summer Stock Co.
+4444 4444
A BROTHER'S REVENGE
Comedy Drama.
3 Big Specialties
i PRICES, 10, 20, 30¢
+944
Just Think Of It
We have the reputation
of sending the LARGEST
PLUMBING BILLS of any
fiom in the valley. Awful,
isn't it ?
A number of our all-well-
pleased customers have ex-
plained it this way: “We
gave you a small job that
required immediate atten
tion and you attended to
that so promptly, and did
your work so well that we
decided to havea lot of oth-
er work attended to at the
same time.”
We please others, and we
know that we can please
you if you'll give us a
chance.
Try us on anything in
Plumbing, Heating, Gas-
Fitting and Tinwork.
H. R. TALMADGE,
Both "Phoves. Elmer Ave.
White
Mountain Freezers, Oil and
Gasoline Stoves, Screen
Doors and Windows at
Refrigerators,
BOLICH BROS.,
HARDWARE
ALEX D. STEVENS,
INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE.
Loans Negotiated, Insurance Writ-
ten, Houses Rented, Rents Col-
lected, Taxes Paid.
ROOM y, ELMER BLOCK
LOCKHART BT., AYRE,
JOHN C. PECKALLY,
DRALER IN
Foreign and Domestic Fruits.
Pare Olive Oil Or 1 medical purposes.
Macaroni at B, 8 and 10¢ per pound.
No. § Elizabeth St. Waverly.
» is no nook nor cor-
‘The
LIGHT ON REBATES
President Cassatt tOrders Clerk
Boyer Discharged.
ANOTHER ACQUIRES $75,000 STOCKS
MeCrea, Vice President, Testified That
Freight Hebates Stopped When
(tommunity of Interests
Pian Started.
PHILADELPHIA, Juse 8 — New
light was shed on the motives leading
tv the abolition of freight rebates by
the milroads when McCrea,
first vice president of the Pennsylvania
company, ch operates the PPenusyl
vaula railroad lines west of Pittsburg
appeared us a witness before the inter
Mr. MM:
Crea wipressed Limself as favorable to
publicity io the rativg of mies and
the distribution of cars
He surprised the commissioners and
thelr counsel by announcing that for
uearly two years aud up te the Uwe of
President Cassatt’'s recent departure
for Eurepe the board of directors of
the Pennsylvania railroad, of which he
Is 3 member had been considering
weans for eliminating the private car
James
whi
slate coliierce culninisston
ALEXANDER J. CABSATT
from the lines of the company He de
clared the company bad concluded that
the use of these cars was uuwise
Mr McCrea admitted finally that the
rebating stopped when the community
of interests plan started He asserted
that the shipper was never so fairly
treated as now
8 F Potter, president of the Dono
hoe Coal and Coke company, whose op
erations are located In Westmoreland
county, charged that the Pennsylvania
railroad had committed gross indis
crimninations In the distribution of cars
to Lis company. One car a day was his
aliotment for seven months, he de
clared. He said also “We sant a de
tective to the Loyalhanna mine to see
bow many cars were sent there. They
ehot at him, and be was afraid to go
back.”
At the luterstate comnierce hearing
Joseph K. Alken, who has been chief
clerk lo the superintendent's office
of the Monougabela division of the
Peuusvivania raliroad, revealed aluost
as startliog evidence as that giveu by
Joseph H. Royer before the comtuission
on Wednesday Ou a salary which, be
sald, varied from $80 to $129 per
month Alken had purchased stock in
different coal companies amounting to
nearly $75,000 He admitted baving
received gifts of cash from coal op
erators on the Pennsylvania lines and
8ls0 had received $50 a month for sev
erul months from a company store
Joseph H. Boyer has been dismissed
from the service of the Pennsylvania
company When the matter was
brought to the attention ef President
Cassatt be directed the lmmmediate dis
charge of Boyer, who in his testimony
before the commission sald that he
bad acoepted more than $46,000 from
coal mining companies during a period
of three years. He was chief clerk In
the office of A. W. Gibbs, superintend.
ent of motive power of the Pennayl
vauia Railroad company, snd purchas
ed the fuel coal used in the locomo
tives of the company. The domors, he
sald, were five diferent coal compa:
niles which furnish coal to the rail
roads. Boyer testified that he had
been allowed from B te 5 cents on each
ton sold to the rallroad company In
such a matter of fact manner that the
commissioners were almost stupefled
by the startling admissions
Indlot Rejestvensky ne a Coward.
ST PETERSBURG, June 8 ~The na
valgotirt of inquiry presented an indict
ment against Vice Admiral Rojestven
sky, who commanded the Hussian fleet
at the battle of the Bea of Japau, and
the officers of the terpedo boat destroy
er Bedovl for surrendering to the ene
my after the battle. The Indictment Is
8 crushing arraignment of the demor
alization nod cowardice of the oMcers
contrasting their conduct with that of
the officers of the torpedo boat Grozny,
which in practically the same position
as the Bedovi engaged aud sank a Jap.
anese torpedo boat. The trial of the
fudicted otlicors bus been fixed for July
4. The penalty is death
Twe Fell, One Was Killed.
OSWEGO, N. Y, June SS - Arnold
Bartlett fell seventy-five feet from
scaffolding ot a paper company's plant
ten miles from Oswego and was killed
Another workman also fell but saved
himself by cateblog a projection fifty
fost from the ground
Gunbonts Captured by Dewey Sold.
MANILA, June 8 The gunboats A)
ba, Mindanao and Malleno, which were
esptured hy Admiral Dewey when he
Seatrosed the Spquieh Beat baye bean
as jusk for $0,008 at Olongepo.
The bouts participated fn the battle of
NEILL DEFINES ODORS.
Congressional Committees Meat In.
spection Hearing at Washington.
WASHINGTON, June = At the
meat lnspection bearing Mr. Neill de
nied that the uaveatiiated rooms in the
packing houses referred to in his re
port applied to the cold stomge roots,
as ludicated by T. E. Wilson, a Chicago
packer Representative Scott asked
what he weant by “the odor of decay
od weats” In bis report, in view of the
stateagent of Mr. Wilson that from =
business proposition decayed meats
could-aot be left arvund
meat,” persistwl Mr Neill
Lave Leen from the rotten
ed wood.”
“What do you wean by ‘stinking? "
asked Mr Wadsworth ‘One
infer you weant a horrible,
stinking condition”
“That's what It was" said the wit
ness, who suguested that veut
might be the reivedy. “There was one
“It may
ueat soak
rotisu
ilatiou
from the weat roows”
Mr. Nelli's definition of
this
“stink”
and questions asked “In a word
workers.”
sis expectoration?”
Wadsworth
“1 thought so,” answered Mr Neill
Then, awplifying, he sald be saw wen
there whom Le believed to be tuber
cular
Mr Neill denied that the working
giris could sit down. “They way have
peruiission, but there Is uothing for
thew: to sit ou.’ Le sald
Asked to go into the details of his
instructions from the preaident to
make the Investigation by Representa
tive Cromer (Ind; Mr Neill replied
that he was pot told to go auywhere
except Chicago However he should
refuse to go luto this subject further,
as he might be compelled te refuse to
answer other questions
asked Chairman
A JOHNSTOWN FLOOD.
Cloudburst Caused Much Damage In
City and at Hooveraville.
JOHNSTOWN, Pu, June 8 Hoo
versville, a town eighteen miles north
of here, was visited by a cloudburst,
and Stony creek at this polot rose
te eighteen feet In a short time
The lowlaude are inundated, but no
serious duinage has resulted
Portions of the lower part of this
city are under water Stony creek
rose steadily and kept golug up so
fast that at Franklin street bridge,
connecting the city with Keruville,
where the crevk narrows, It registered
elgltean feet
The water is up to the first floor In
wany houses, and business in the vi
cinlty of Franklin bridge has been sus
pended Near this polnt there is a
large tenement which housed about
tweuty families, owned by PP. J. Fear!
The waters made such laroads
around it that Chlef of Police Mullva
erdered the people to vacate the prew
isos for fear the Lutlding will be wreck
od Ly the flood
Island perk, = pleasure resort two
imlies from the city, has Leen practical
ly wasted out of existence. The flood
came at a time when the park was de
serted, and no lives ware lost
Ihe ouly fatality resulting from the
00d 30 far reported 1s the killing of a
woman, who was struck by a train
while standing on the famous old stone
bridge watclilug the high water
The dawage along Stony creek is es
timated at $200000. At Hooversville
an unoceup'ecd frame schoolhouse was
ewept away and a country bridge was
washed from its foundations
The flood Is sald to have been the
worst since the disaster of May B81,
1889
The greatest daninge was In Hoovers
ville The water reached tho fret
floor of many dwellings, and all the
factories in the low lying section of
the town were obliged to suspend op-
erations
BRYAN BOOM SPREADS.
The Indiana Demecratic Convention
Nanos Nebraskan Fer 1008.
INDIANAVPOLIS, Ind, June 8 - Dew
ocrats of ludiama In state convention
adopted a platform strougly Indorsing
W. J. Bryan for the presidency. Ben
Jamin F. Shively of Bouth Bend, for
mer cougressiman from the Thirteenth
Iudlana district, wos permavent chalr
wan. In bis address he sald
“That which Is today eulogized and
approved ng broad statesmanship and
enlightened patriotism in Theodore
Roosevelt was only a few years ago
denounced as reactionary, revolution
ary and aopatriotic ln Willlam Jen
nings Bryan The aftersight of the
one Is almost equal to the foresight of
the other.”
Arkansas Indevess Bryans.
‘HOT BPRINGS, Ark, June 8 ~The
convention of the Democratic party of
this state lo session here unanimously
adopted resolutions Indorsing William
J. Bryan to be the Democratic stand
ard bearer In 1008 and nomiuated Gov
ernor Jefferson Davis for United States
seustor
Captain Wynne May (uit Service
NEW YORK, June 8 E. 8 Theall
of Washington, counsel for Captain
Robert J Wyune of the United States
warine corps In his court martial for
alleged insubordination, made the
statement that the testimouy warrants
Captain Wynne's retirement froiu ac
tive service for disability, ineurred by
TUCKER -MUST DIE.
Governor Will Not Arrest Sen-
tence of the Law.
HAS MADE PERSONAL STUDY OF CASE
Gives Detailed
Heazons Why Me Will Allow the
Execution of (ondemued
te Froceed
BOSTON, June = Charles
of Auburudale, convicted
tiurder of Mabe! Page
Tien will
Louis
uf
at Weston
electrocuted in the
wi during the
tae
state prison at Charleste
June 10
Curtis Guild announced at
that Le Lad de
the sentence
week Twginning
fsovernor
a late he
clded
one of {if
Iu his st
to the pe
ur last night
st to eosmtaute to
mipriscuninent
which is addressed
titioners for the co
tetent
wiinutation
CHARLES |
of the sentence of Charles L
Governor Guild says
“1 have given to your petition and to
the case of Chiarles LI. Tucker the most
careful consideration. | bave read all
the evidence presented in the lower
court and the official stenographic re
port, 2.808 pages of the proceedings in
the superior court, together with vari
ous affidavits and reports submitted to
ue
“1 have given a lengthy bearing to
the counsel for the prisoner aud to all
witnesses as to the facts whow they
chose to suiumon, even when the test!
wony offered was such as could not be
Leard In a court of justice, recognizing
that the governor ou a plea of clemen
cy is not beund by techulcal laws of
evidence
‘1 personnlly examined the neighbor
hood of the murder and have ou foot
passed with time tests over the roads
and ways about the Page house In
Weston and at about the hours of the
day when the murder was committed,
apd I have examined the various ex
hilits In the and have myself fit
ted the blade of the kuife of Charles
IL. Tucker into the slit in the blood
stained corset of Mabel Page”
IT'UCKER
Tucker,”
case
COURTSHIP CUT AND DRIED.
Would Have Young Men Declare In-
tentions Before Making Love,
NEW ORLEANS, June 8 —T. Spence
Smith of Rapides has lutroduced lute
the state legislature a bill to regulate
marringe contracts and preveut race
sulclide Ibe blll ouly applies to
whites and provides
It shall Le unlawful fer any young
wan to attempt to court apy young
woman before he Is twenty four years
of age
Before making such attempt he shall
Inform the parents or guardian of the
wowan be proposes to court of his lu
tentions to do so
He shall wake afMdavit before a jus
tice of the peace that his courtship will
be in good falth and to couviuce the
young woman that {t will be profitable
for her to marry htm
It shall be unlawful for widowers
over the age of forty years to attempt
to court any wowan under the age of
eighteen beyond the confines of the
parish of thelr residence
After the passage of the act all chil
dren born to legally warried people lo
Loulsiaua shall be raised aud educated
at public expense An appropriation
of $17.0 000 to carry out this educa
tional feature is provided for In the
Lill
Bogns Gold Colne Galore.
BLUEFIELD, W_ Va, June SN
white men giving thelr names as Ber
nard King aud Johan Miller, claiming
to be from Pennsylvania, but refusing
tot the were arrested here
charged with being counterfeiters and
King mada
which led to the ar
rest of Miller, who, It appears, was
doing the banking.” Ou Miller wus
found §1.04w) of counterfeit gold coln
composed of five ten and twenty dol
lar gold pleces £1000 belng In twen
ties The men claim to have purchased
the spurious from an unknown
man, but the police discredit the story
Two
Mit town
passiug spurious gold colo
partial confession
cola
Women's Clubs Down on Smoot
ST. PAUL, Mit, June 8 ~The
of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs passed
oon
yention
with much en
Unit
action |
Ing the
the
1 resolution
to
thusiasmn nak
ed States senate Approve
mending the unseating
Reed Smoot of Utah
Alfonso’s Cabinet Oat.
MADRID,
yesterday presented to the King the
resignation of the Satie cabinet.
WESTMINSTER HANDICAP,
Ge Betvi eu Won Feature at Graves
ev d in Fieal Furlong.
NEW YU! Juue Ss Closing with a
great burs: of speed in the final fur
long, Uo | (ween down from
12tol toy 11 the $10 000 West
minster bau te f« and a quar-
ter. at Urn: vu! Euvenia Burch an
added starter and quoted at 15 to 1 for
the wie secold awd the bot fa
vorite, Calrn, ors, third
Pater the lvad at the
Wis feuding is a ivugtlh passing
stand
1 rong
backed
won
oe 1
place
toi start aud
the
followed Ly Vou
liugorm This rder
tained to the half mile pole
uudiug the far turn Crimmios sent
Burch up The ware went
from seventh place to the lead and was
in front the fleld swung into the
stretch Meanwhile Shaw on Go Be
who was trailiug Lis teld for a
began to make Liles Love
ied gamely to the
gradualiy overhauling his
caught the leader, Eugenia Burch
the finish aud in a bard drive
won golug away by half a length Eo
Kenia Burch was three quarters of a
length before the favorite, Cairngorm
Court ress, odde on favorite, easily
won the Criterion stakes Soprauc, an
added starter, cut out the running to
the stretch Court Diress then took the
lend and won by three quarters of a
length A killing was made with Ora
culum, owned by the former jockey
George Odom, lu the seventh race
Lady Auelia, Court Dress and Ballot
were the winning favorites. Suma
ries
First Race - Lady Amelia, firet; Hal
ifax. second, lotus third
Second Race — Drowedary first;
Kulght of Elway, second, Tow Cogan,
third
Third Race
prano, second,
Fourth Hace
frst ire
atid «
Was 1:a
Ho
Eugenia
us
Iwesn
nile
Gio Beta eeu nv spot
whip
field
avar
aud
Court Dress first; So
Adoration, third
Go Between, first
genia Burch, second, Cairngorin
Fifth Race Glenecho, first,
Cole, second; Red Friar, third
Bixth Race Ballot. first. Red River
second, Xmas, third
Seventh Race Ora
renue, second,
Eu
third
King
ulum, first; Tou
Kentucky Beau, third
BASEBALL SCORES.
Games Played Yesterday lo the Na-
tional and Awaerican Leagues,
NATIONAL LEAUUF
At New York
Chicago 3 2 3 13466904 0-48
New Yo i " ¢ ¢ 0-0
His EE, ax i Ne x York 4 Er
rors Chic J, New re Hatteries
Plajster yi aibach , Moran, Mathew
son. McGinnlty and Bowerman
At Prookiyn
t. Louls 1 2 2 01 ¢ 0-1
ropkiya 1010000013
ot gt he is, 8, Brooklyn § Errors
Hrookliyn L terien Tay-
wn and Bergen
oye . aa Scanion
WER delphin
atl 1 00900 9
olp fon 1 8 v9
he innatl, 12. Philadeliphi
rors—Cineinnatl, i. Philadelphia, 4
terios— Weimer and S hisi. Sparks and
Deooln
TABLE OF PERCENTAGES
L Pr
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is
=» 11
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12
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Auln—
a er 0000901 008-4
Bt Lous, 0 9 1 01006010 00-1¢
jiite New York. 10 t. Louls, I Er
~-New York, ¥ dt [outs 3 Batteries
and McGuire, Powell and Hicker
eveland
J Q
elgg p. § Jovy Ar Errore
Bostdn, #8, Rvelas 0 Batteries Har-
ris ang Arebro ister, Qoss and Clark
etre!
JX aaningren QC 0 00100 O11
etrolt 0 0 0 ¢ 0310 «1
Hite— Washington, §. Detroit, W Errors
Washington. + etroit, 5 Batteries
*aticn and Kittridge ouohue and
ayne
TABLE OF PERCENTAGES
New York : i
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Detroit
Bt [ouls
Chicago
Washington
Boston
hicago
tisburg
New Yor
‘hiladelphia
t Louls
Brooklyp
Slnolanasl
osten
9 9
o
3 1
Miss Sutton Won Hard Mateh.
LIVERPOOL, June S — Miss May
Sutton of Pasadena, Cal. was given
oue of the hardest matches she ever
Las had io Eugland Iu the second
round of the northern couuntive ladles’
singles champloushlp played at Alg
burt, Liverpool. Her opponent was
Mrs Sterry, who as Miss Cooper galn
el many tenuis honors a few years
ago It was ouly the wonderful agill
ty of Mise Sutton that saved her
Four In Tennis Semifinals.
NEW YORK. June 8 F Ander
sou, ex Cauadian champion, H H
Hackett, the Yale veteran; U C Kel
lay, the Seventh regiment expert, and
Hurry Torrance of Englewood won
their places in the semifinal round of
the wetropolitan luwn tennis
ploushilp singles
u
chaw
Fordham Won (hamplonship
NEW HAVEN Tune N
Fordham won the
ship of the Catholle colleges by defeat
ing Holy Cross here ou Yale feild, 3 to
OU The gaiue was played In this city as
a feature of the ouveution of the
Knights of Columbus
Lt oun
baseball chmpion
Heres Kicked, Dropped Dead.
BUFFALO, June 8 Dr. Moody, a
three-year old rucer, was kicked in the
side while at the post for the fifth race
at Kenllworth After trailing the tleld
for tive furlongs he dropped dead
Vanderblit's Prestige Wine at Parle.
PARIS, June 8 WW. K bilt's
Prestige the Sevuour stakes at
the Longchamips rmoes
Vander
won
Pastor Indicted For Firing
June
Chareh.
8 The
dictmentyfor arson In the third degree
agninst Rev Charles Stuart Bain, who
fa alloged to have set fire to the First
be was pastor. He will be arraigned
Wm court ou Tuesday mevaing nemt.
SATURDAY
Sheer White Material
Never 1a the history of the Globe
Warelicuses, said the buyer in
Scranton Thursday (and we have
been al it 4U years) has white goods
are this season
We therefore give you three rons-
ing specials in the scarcest kind of
goods just now when you need them.
48 in. Persian Law, special 10c,
36 in. Lenon de Amerique 18c.
One case 32 in. India Linen, gsod
value 20c. Special 12}¢.
See them, your judgment will
tell you whether they are a bargain
or not.
Printed Material
One Int, good 8c Lawns, Se.
25¢ French Organdie, 15¢
15¢ to 18¢ Printed Batiste, Print-
ad Mulls, etc. in the new stripes,
rugs, dots and floral designs, 12{e
25¢ fabrics in plain and printed
materials, closing at 19¢.
$2.00 pure silk umbrellas, all
lors and nicely bordered with
vanous designs. Speci §1 49.
New Belts
Washable and kid belts, all the
latest styles. Will be here Satur-
day. Prices begin at 10c.
New rey Dress Goods
Light weight, medium and dark
Greys 54 in. wide, just the thing
for an outing skirt, worth 75. Spec
1al at 59c.
| Shirt Waists
Another lot of shirt waists, short
and long sleeves, worth up to $1.50.
Special for 98¢c. Open front and
back
$1.75 and $2.00 waists, $1.49,
$2.25 waists, $1 98.
$2.50 waists, $2.15.
Table Damask
60 and 62 in. Silver Bleached Ta-
ble Damask, pure flax, Irish and
(German makes, 10 patterns to select
from, regular 55¢ qualities. Spec-
al 48¢
These goods have advanced 25
per cent since the above were
bought. Sale closes Monday.
Notice
It is always a pleasure to show
the gcods advertised. Bring this
ad. with you and we will show you
every tle,
“We advertise what we have and
g.ve you what we advertise."
Globe Warehouse,
Talmadge Block, Elmer Ave.
VALLEY "PHONE.
A.E. BAKER,
Garpenter and Bullder.
17 Pleasant St. Waverly, N. XY,
Advertise in The Record.
THE NEW MARNESS SHOP
Harness, Washed, Olled,
Harneas Bought, Sold, Traded
Bicyeles and Lawn Mowers
Mirrors and Looking Glasses Replated
Boots and Shoes Repaired
A I CONKIN, - East Lockhart SL.
TOUHEY'S HOTEL
Rverything New and Up-to-Date.
Thomas Ave, Opposite L. V, Station,
Rates $1.50 Por Day. sare,