J. T. Corbia was ia Towanda | 1 Goods Dept “A Bean Line of New Bilks, Deeas Goods, Walstings love Hosiery, Umbrellas Fias Lingerie, Bath Robes Flannel sad Silk Petticoats Framed . Tok Stands, Jewel Cases Mirrors, Perfumes olen A en Fans, Belts , Clocks, Hat Pina Furniture Dept Parlor Furnitare Dining Room Furniture Comb, Writing Deak & Case China and Masio Cabinets Oak Bedroom Sets Library Chairs and Tables Reed Rockers, Office Chairs Couches, Davenports Frass and Iron Beds Children's High Chairs Gilt Chairs, Morris Chairs Sideboards, Buffets Sectional Bookcases Hall Racks, Chiffionlers Dreasing Tables Large and Seall Mirrors Crockery Dept Dinner Sets, Tea Sets, Vases Lamps, Toilet Bets Bric-a-brae Toys Toys Hook and Ladders Blocks, Drums Steam ines, Rattles Trains of Iron Wagons Police Patrols, Tea Beta Mechanical Toys, Dolls Magic Lanterns Banks, Safes, Games, Ete. Toys Men's Furnishings Kid Gloves, Wool Gloves Mufflers, Xmas Neckwear Umbrellas, Ssspeoders House Coats, Bath Robes Night Shirts, Dress Shirts Wool Underwerr Collars, Cuffs, Cvff Butions Men's and Boys' Bweaters Sujt Cases, Trunks, Tags, Collar and Caf Boxes, Shaving Stands, Wardrobe and Staamer, Trunks. Home Furnishing Dept A Handsome Assortment of Carpets, Rogs, Art Squares, Carpet Sweepers Linoleum, Door Mats, Art Goods Dept The Christmas Line Ready Nancy Pin Cushions Pi'low Tops, Fancy Pijlows. Pleture : Stamped Linens, Pillow Bhams, Eareka Silk, Lyon Brand Yarns, Pillow Corde, Fancy Baskets, Pyrogtaphy Ouiaig and Stampe ces of all sorts ~~ Ohnstmas. | i Git DAM GAVE WAY. Avizona Town Huined hr =a Tere | rifie Flood. i SOLOMONVILLE, Ariz, Dec. 6 | As the result of thirty hours FIERY ( Arizona the min | was swept by un terrific flood Owing to | Most of the population are Mex! | cans and Italinus, whose huts are now | inundated { The catastrophe began with the breaking of a big reservoir in the, mountains, precipitating a vast flood | on the Chase creek quarter of Clifton. | and Ranges From $10 to $75. | We repair stoves and furnaces. wis along this street that the fatalities occurred, as the flood came in a head and engulfed the people without warn ing. The dead are mostly foreigners whose names cannot be learued ; Two Americans are known to have of wreckage amd drowned, North and | south Clifton are swept by the current of the San Francisco river. ! A new school bullding and a score of houses were washed away. The railroad bridge is totteriug. All in-| formation Is sent out from a telephoue | office surrounded by water. The great smelting plant of the Arizona Copper works at Clifton is sal to have been greatly damaged. The Arizona and also be a heavy loser, as its yards and shops are inundated, ! Two bodies were recuvered from ibe | exact number of deaths cannot be told. | Joe Throm, who was rescued from the | flood aud whose wife was lost, was | taken to the hospital in a serious con- | dition, but will probably recover Three men were caught looting and on refusal to surrender were shot and fa- tally wounded Ly officers. So mauy restaurants and hotels have been destroyed that it is almost impos- sible to find a place 10 eat or 10 sleep in the town, All trains on the Avkzoos and New Mexico rallroad are held up Convert to Use of Corsets. A doctor who was talking to a wom an's club about corsets declared that the women of America know what they are about. “Before | made a visit to Europe,” be said, “I was an enemy to the corset. Seelng the shapes pro: senfed to public view on the other side, 1 ave been converted. Do as you please, ladies. J is better to be shapely even though you are a little constricted in ihe breathing appara tus.” Apples Are Abundant. Fortyelght million barrels are sald to have been harvested In this country this year. This would make a big pile, But after the large exportation iu acconufed for, not half a barrel apiece 1s left. That would nowhere neatly ea APD day, Wier Closing Steck Quotations. Money op call stringent at 15 to 19 per just before the close of the market the call money rale rose to IZ per cent; while loans were being made at this fig- ure one large national bank was offering money at § per cent] prime mercantile paper, Gilthy per cent: exchanges, $384.210.- Closing prices Amal Copper 1125 N.Y Atchison H Central 150% i Norf. & West. i, 118%; Penn. BE KR 1, Reading 143 C.C.C&a8tl 0 Rock Island iu% Ches. & Ohio... II% SL Paul 151% Chi. & Northw. M8; Southern Pac. %% *N'% Southern Ry in; Erle 4% South Ry, pf. Gen. Flectric 157 Bugur 13 Jil. Central 17% Texas Pacific YN Lackawanna... 549% Union Pacific, 188%; Louis & Nash . 14 17. 8 Steel 48 Manhattan Is, U8 Steel pf. 108% Int-Met .- 3's West. t'nion EL) Missouri Pac... Sy New York Markets. FLOUR-Sleady and unchanged; Minne sola patents, $1064.80, winter straights £00200; winter extras, $2%@2 10; winter patents, 1.5404 WHEAT-Strength in the northwest and higher Liverpool rghles caused the wheat market to rule «0 20y durlag the early session, trading was quiet and the price range narrow. May, M%US Llu BUTTER-State, dairy, tubs, fresh, fan. Cy, 2; firsts, SAD seconds, OG 3c thirds, 214 Zc ; creamery, extras, 14430 ; firsts, Bode ; seconds, SGT. held, ex- tras, Sc. CHEESE~-State, full cream, small, September, fancy, 1c | best, 13% large and October, iste made, 12G13,c.; Inferior, ule; half skims, Lest, small, 104 Wise. ; large, 10%¢c.; part skims, prime, FUN; alr to good, Thali EGGS~Fresh gathered, extra, r dox- en, Be: nearby, fresh gathered, firsts Tic TALLOW. Barely steady country, blyuéy fo. HAY <=Quiet; shipping, 57x city Cec. . Eoud to BEANS Easy; marrow, $24, medium, $1.65; pea, 3150157; red kidney, 2@ POTATOES — Bteady; New York and western, cholee, per bushel, WG. New York and western, falr to good, per bush- el, G4. Pennsylvania, choles, per bushel, 0003 LIVE POULTRY — Dull and weak; fowls, Nalk old roosters, 4 spring chickens, 11413. ducks, 12G13c., turkeys, gle . Reese, 12813¢ YRESSED POULTRY — Barely steady: fowls, choice, 13¢.; do. fair to good, 12¢ 12%c. ; old roosters, c.; nearby chickens, 14Gl6c.; western, do, JGHc i turkeys, nearby, choice to fancy. 1%; do, western, choice to fancy, 181%; fair to , 18 te. spring ducks, nearby, . western, 134l4c.;: old, do. W Live Stock Markets. CATTLE-Supply light; market steady; choice, LG, prime, HB.0G5%, veal calves, $80 HOGS Receipts light: market active and higher; prime heavies, BE.T0{6 75; me- diums and Yorkers, $6. 75G6 0; pigs, $.590 £75; roughs. $5655. SHEEP AND LAMBS — Supply light: market steady; prime wethers, $5 06S 7. gulls and common, $203; lambs n Distorted Compliment. “Very gratifying!” said the young and conceited novelist. “A gentleman writes me that he took a copy of my last work fo read during a mliway journey, and as a result suddenly dis covered he had gone 20 miles beyond his destination.” “Dear me,” com mented the young autbor's (friend; “sleeping on trains Is a bad habit!’— Stray Stories ———————————— She—And what | you to me} . Paul Henry was at Towanda to- day oa business, Mrs. O L. Haverly atteaded the Towanda musicale today. Walter Beck, of Painted Rock, Pa. is in town on business. Mrs. Dell Stone of Elmira is vi- siting her cousin F. A Armstrong Mrs. Mary Horton of Wellsboro is the guest of her father, N, V. Weller, - W. L. Collins who receatly un- derwent an operation at the hos. pital is much worse. Constable McGovern was sub poacning witnesses for the Messen ger murder trial today. ——————————— — —— M:s. John Edwards of Granville, N. Y, has been visiting her daugh- ter, Mrs. McClarty, and returned heme yesterday. : ree ———— J W, Beamwnjand wif: went to Philadelphia yesterday where Mr Beaman will attend the Grand lodge of Masons. Will Burns and wife of Muasing Mich, are in Athens this week where Mr. Burns is visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary Burns. eae Mrs. Eva Sackett went to Rome this morning where she will spend a few days with her father and mother Mr.and Mrs. John Forbes. There was a much larger crowd in attendance at the Presbyterian fair in Elsbree opera house last night. The play was enthusiasti- cally received. The receipts will probably be $200 net. Rev. A F. von Tobel will go to Seattle, Washington, tomorrow, on business and will return December 21. The Presbyterian pulpit will bs: supplied by a student from Auburn next Sunday. } A resolution was passed at the meeting of the board of health on Monday cvening prohibiting all children from entering the public or Sunday schools without first getting a certificate from the health physician, Dr. S. W. Badger. This regulation is in conformity to sec~ tion 7S of the school laws of the state of P nniylvari: and is subject to ths penalties prescribed for its violation. Chester E McKinney had a very eventful jrurney home from his western visit. He started from Phoenix, Arizona, over two weeks ago, returning via New Orleans and Mobile. He was justin time to witness the havoc the cyc'one had played about Mobile. Trees and houses were swept away, leavs ing only occasional dwellings as lonely sentinels in the path of the gale. Some of the inhabitants were vainly looking for their homes that had béen lifted from their foundations and sect down in the adjoining county. j OFFICERS ELECTED Athens—The following officers were elected at the the Union Vets eran Legion meeting yesterday afternoon : Colonel Commander, Blair of Stacding Stone, Lieutenant Col, John H. Chaffee, Hornkrook. Major, Abrazinah Freach, Shes shequia. . Chaplain, C. T, Hull, Athens, Quartermaster, N. P. Chafee, Athens. Surgeon, W, R. Vancise, Shes shequia, Officer of the Day, H. H Joslin, Ulster. Trustee 3 years, John M Kramer Athens. The installation will take place Wednesday afternoon, January 2, 1907. It was decided to have a dinner for the comrades and their wives at that time and the installa. tion should be followed by a pub~ lic meeting with H. C appropriate gacy to’ furnished by an cfficer of the church, We further say that the account we gave was written after of the church. A CORRECTION yesterday's issu: the tator, la‘e of died in Boston in Juse last left between £1,000 aad $20c0 as a trust fund to be known as the Richard Malcolm Douglass fund, Miss Freeborn is presumably the sister of Mr. Freeborn, who in the 40's lived in Athens with his wife and son Richard, and who owned at one time the lot known as the Estabrook lot, corner of Maia and Elm streets. We make the above correction with pleasure as the fact still res mains that the legacy will go to the church. We have stme addi tional facts in rel: tion to the Fres- born family that we will publish iiter a time, ANT ENB Athent—The first exhibit ol the Turner pictures took place at the Masonic banquet hall last evening, ind was visited by the best people 1 s'udy and as catalogues are fur- aished, it gives all who attend to make careful observation of the artistic designs of their authors. Hence it is not a mere recreation Sut a source of profitable instruc- ion, where you can not only spend an hour but a much longer time Zaining valuable knowledge. The rime was enlivened by good music The following is the program fr tocizht: Piano Daet— “Attack of the Ublans”. ... Teresa Knaresboro and Teresa Maney. Piano Cuet—Rhapsodie Hoogroise, Liszt Earl Armstrong and Earl Crom. Piano Solo—* Moonlight on the Hadson" Clarence Langland. Violin Bolo—Polanalse. ..... Marguerite Stiles. Piano Duet “Qui Vive"... .. ..Gapz Mildred Heatherton and Harry Voorbis. Piano Duet—Orand Military Galop, Bohm Ruth Myer and Ina 6tevens Fuchs ROOM FULL OF LOOT. Alesander J. Scheren Held by Boston Police For Newburyport Robbery. BOSTON, Dec. 6.—1u the arrest bere of Alexander J. Scheren, claiming to live at 1108 Manhattan avenue, Brook Iyu, on a charge of theft of household gouds in Newburyport three weeks ago the local police not only recoverad per- sonal property that almost filled Sche- ren's room in the south eud, but cap- tured a man who they allege has been operating throughout New England for many months in the guise of a travel Ing salesman When two officers arrested Scheren in Lis room there were three loaded revolvers on a table. The police say that Scheren hired a small store in Newburyport last month for a period of oue week. Near by was the house of the late Mrs. Elizabeth C. Frost, snd when Scheren went away It was found that the Frost house Lad been looted of property valued at $1,500. A large nmount of thé property found In Scheren’s room has not been identified, and the police are looklug for the own: rs Berne's Great Tunnel. The Canton Herne has just plunged Into an enterprise which Is as great as that of the Simplon tunnel, hut with: out the natiomal subvention which alded that undertaking. The project is the plercing of the Rernard Alps un- der the Loelschberg, In order to place the city in direct rallway communica- tion with the nerth end of the Simplon tunnel at Brig. The canton and pri- vate subscribers will face the great re- sponsibility alone, The canton has it self voled a sum of $4,600,000 toward the $17,600,000 which the making and equipment of the line will cost. The tunnel is to be about eight miles Jong, and everything is to be completed in five years. Is Strange Coincidence. Some remarkable coincidences are recorded in the case of two men, Wil liam Connally and Patrick Cantwell, who were drowned a short time ago by the upsetting of a “float” on the Grand canal near Tullamore, England. The two men were born on the same day 36 years ago; they were baptized in the same water; they were drowned in the Grand canal, and they have now been buried together, Sacrifice of Horses. The average number of horses killed In Spanish bull fights every year exceeds 5,000, while from 1.000 10 "1,200 bulls are sacrificed. ————————— dr —— dl) CRA TERR AER = ; 20 ER A : ; D\ /@ Henty Books 20c. Alger Books 20c. It's Not Too Late To have a mod- ern steam or hot wa'er heatin system install before extreme cold weather sets in. We can make your housa ¢'m-~ fortable in every ccrper ard your coal bill will be no larger. Let us give you an eslimalse on an up -to - date sys- tem. We sell the well known Cheerful Home Furnace which can't be beaten. Plumb- ing, Heating and Tin work. Gas Fixtures, Burpers and Glassware. H. R. TALMADGE. Both 'Phesss. Elmer Ave. ES EET H. TUTTLE, MN. D. Specialist to diseases of the Rye, Ear, Noss and Throat. Glasses fitted. 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