NEW, SECRETARIES. Senate Confirms Moody, Bana- y parte, Metcalf and Straus. ——— RAYNER'S ATTACK ON PRESIDENT. Sn —— Congress te Spell According to Stand- APPEAL TO POWERS Vatican Strongly Protests Ac- tion of France. VIOLATES RICHTS OF HUMANITY, Day of Grace Granied the Parisian out of his residence. A crowd of 2 00m] accompanied the officials to the resi dence, hooting then constantly. The! bishop will be prosecute] on the charge of assaulting a policetian be cause he laid his hand upou a police man's shoulder while he was leaving his residence a — et, WALTHOUR TEAM PROTESTS, — Rew at Madisoua Square Garden 3» PRICE ONE C Holiday It you are looking for a dress ard Diectigsaries-Taft Reports on Desth of Ten Manila Conviets : By Poisonous Germs. present president of the United States,” WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The sen- | sald Mr. Sullivan, ate confirmed the nominations of Wii-| Mr. Lacey (Ia) thought the para- Ham H. Moody of Massachusetts to be an associate justice of the supreme Day Bicyrle Contest. can pleass you. Our own NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Vigorous pro- [of both French and German fests have been made (0 the manage- fare here for your ment of the six day bicycle race at|prices compare wi PARIE, Dec. 13—Dispatches from | yfadison Square Garden by the Wal- P pa th the largest at ie 50 h ’ Rome say that Cardinal Merry del Val. | thour-Bedell team on the unfair ad- [oper 00 ot? Our expenses the papal ‘secretary of state, will pre | vantage taken A be and partien- Natur and our comibuned output a Churebes Expired Teday—Folice sud Sgldiers Guard Cham- ber of Deputies. He sald the uew — ws w— Finest Beers, Ales, Wines | § Cigars 1a the Valley. FRED J. TAYLOR, ‘Sayre, Pa. We Do Not Ask You to Believe Us That we are the best Tailors, bul those who have tried us are cons vineed of the fact. Those who have pot tried yet are cordially invited to give us only ons trial—after they will be regular patrons. We Are Genuine Tailors ® A. Atkin, Over Raymond &~Haupt's Confection- ery Btlore, Lockhart St QUALITY, QUANTITY, PRICE It you buy from COLEMAN HASSLER, No. 116 Brie St, Sayre. Yen get the three. Ask your neigh. bors. Both Phoues. W. T. Carey, Justice of the Peace, OFFICE Room 5, M. P. A. Building, Valley Phone 246y. FRENCH FEMALE PILLS. court of the United States, Charles J. Betaparte of Maryland fo be attorney general, Victor H. Metcalf of Califor ula to be secretary of the uavy and Oscar S. Straus of New York to be sec retary of commerce and labor The opposition to Messrs. Moody and Bonaparte, which timid been mised In the senate by a number of Democratic senators, was nol strongly pressed at the session, and no roll call was asked naparts, however, there were a num- per of negative votes on the minority side sslimated at about fAfteen. Senators Culberson aud Carmack led the discussion against both Mr. Moody and Me Bouaparfe. Against the fer mer they ralsal the question of bis fitness for the supreme court bench, bused upon measures be had Introduce od as 8 member of the house, It was agalo urged against Mr. Bo paparte that his utterances agalnst legislation for the regulation of com- binations of capital unfitted him to en- force legislation of that charscter the president would not name a man for the responsible position of attorney general unless he was sure that the nominees was lo sympathy with the ad- ministration’s desire to break up such combinations. There was no opposition to either Mr. Metcalf or Mr. Straus. Secretary Taft made a report on the death of tea couvicts at Manila, In mates of Billbld prison. who during experiments, without resistance on their part, were given a bottle of bu boule plague serum, which was prob ably substituted for a bottle of cholera serum, with the result that the native prisoners, to whom It was administer ed, died. A thorough Investigation Is now be ing made of the causes of the accel: dent, and the commission has taken steps to care for the families of the deceased. The secrelary says, "It Is an occasion of great regret and will doubtless Insure greater precaution in the administration of such dangerous agencies.” Governor Smith in his cabled report says the plague colture became nixed with anticholern sertim through the misplacement of one of the bottles by a visitor, The evidence submitted at the White House by Gilchrist Stewart of the Constitutional league in behalf of the discharged soldiers of the Twenty-fifth iafsatry has been turhedl over to Sec retary Taft The presideat’s answer to the gennte resolution calling for information re garding the discharged soldiers it ls ex- pected will be sent to that body shortly. Several bours iu the house were con sumed io debating an amendment re ferring to simplified spelling, with the result that the original provision on that subject was eliminated and an- other amendment adopted. The new Jerse instructs the publie geiniee to perchance by constant association we might get used to them. “To put them by executive order In to the Jaws of the laud before they Barve reached literature,” remarked Mr. Lacey, “Is getting the thiug wrong end foremost. Litersinre comes first, or thography afterward.” Mr. Tawney reinarked that if the simplified spelling should go (uto effect it would necessitate the reprinting of all the school Looks aud dictionaries. to say nothing of the cost it would put upoh the goverowent to make the change. While Mr. Grosvenor was discussing the amendment Mr. Towne (N. Y) asked him whether the item referred to was not “on page 21, Leglnning with line 237" “Yes, I believe 50.” replied Mr. Uros: yeuar, “Then is not that a double skiddoo, and If so does it not of necessity go out?’ “Oh, that's an old story,” replied Mr. Grosvenor amid laughter. Mr. Dearmond (Mo.) lusisted that the amendment altered existing law and ‘rightfully should ge out on a paint of order. Caustic criticiam of President Roose velt's position on the Japanesa gues tion prefaced Senator Rayner's dis cussion In the senate of the constitu tional questions involved. If the military and civil forces of the feders! government were to he used by the president, Mr Ravner sald, it be came very important to know Lis exact power in the matter. “Because,” he sald, “It Is quite a se- rious matter, In view of the great ca. lamity that has lateiy befallen the city of San Francisco,, for the president to contemplate the bombarding of the city at this time and to declare war aguinst the boards of county school trustees of California If there Is no dertaken.” White Mouse Reception, WASHINGTON, Dee. diplomatic corps and their families at the White House, Mrs. Longworth and Miss Huguer, Mrs. Roosevelt's sec retary, assisted In the dining room, and Captain McCoy of the president's staff presented the guests. Two Jap Regiments In Honoluls. HONOLULU, Dec. 13.—1t has been reported to the United States govern- ment at Washington that two regl- ments of Japan-se, completely officer od, are In Howolulu disguised ag la. borers. Whether they are armed Is not known Fossum Massacre Tale Untrue, MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. Dec. 183 -A letter Just receives! by the Rev. Thom as Eggen of Minneapolis Yeveals the fact that the Rev. I. O. Fossum, wife and daughter were not massacred at Urmila, Persia, as was reported RL 4 ed protest against the action of the French government in searching the archives of the nunclature at Paris. This protest will be handed to the members of tbe diplomatic body ac credited to the Vaticau. The secre tary of state sets forth, among other things, that the incident in question is the fiest instance in history of such a violation of the rights of man. The pope. when he heard that Car dinal Richard, archbishop of Paris, had been compelial to leave the epls- | ately placing the palace of the nun- clature in Paris, which is owned by the Vatican. at his disposal and at the same time expressing his cordial sym pathy with the venerable prelate. The day of grace granted to the churches of IMaris in the execution of the law providing for the separation of church and state expired at noan to- day. The delay has only. served to ln crease the excitement cansed by the expulsion from Frauce of Mgr. Mon- tagninl, secretary of the papal nun- clature at Paris A detachment of police now guards the buildings occupied by the chamber of deputies and the scoate in order to prevent possible antigoveroment demonstrations on the part of the cleri- cals. It turns out that the papers selzal at the papal nunciature placed In the government's hands Important evil dence which may prove exceedingly embarrassing to the Vatican if open war ts to take place. They include, recent ipstroctioas from Cardinal Mer ry del Val, the papal secretary of slate, a wass of letters from prelates all over! the world and letters in the handwrit ing of deputies of the Right party. M. Jaures, the Socialist leader, as serts in bis paper that the seized docu: ments even prove the existeuce of a conspiracy, The clergy bave appealed to thelr | parishioners to be present at the churches today at the first mass cele- brated outside the pale of the law, The government, however, ia proceed. broken up, but policemen in attend. ance noted iufractions of the law and cited officiating priests before the pear est justice of the peace. The chief danger of disorders in Paris is in the possible invasion of churches by row. dies and free thinkers. lleserves of | gendarmues are stationed at various | points throughout the city to guard | against trouble The efforts iwnade by certain mem- bers of the chamber of deputies and | other disinterested persons to insure a spite of the papal veto by inducing | Catholic laymen in each parish to make the forbidden declaration have much success, - There was a riotous Jdsmoustration | at Nang. while the bishop was Moving ED ZL NEZNEEN Ne 3 Ne RIO. A Jp alN a os rr +" “Si EW NP SS) iP) 2) Be FF ho / \ SY / \ *)) on the track the moment it appears that the Walthour-Bedell team, now a lap behind, has an opportunity to regain the loat distance. Twice, it is said, when it looked as though the lap waa regained. Folger and then Hoot went sprawling on the track. At each time either Walthonr or Bedell was a half lap ahéad of the bunch, with two men as a block be- tween, ntl seemed to have the lap re- gilned the red flag from the scorers box flashed In the face of the sprinter, Hisses followed the falls and con tinued at intervals, for the spectators want to see a fair fleld and no favor with the riders on even terms. One of the fastest sprints since the race began was witness&l late ln the afterncon, wheu Matt Downey and Jinmy Morau, the Irish team from Massachuseits, rellevesl each other at tienrly every lap until they had practi- cally gained one cirenit of the track only to have it disallowed on account of a spill in which five of the riders fell iu a bunch, though none was badly injured. It Ils not particularly the matter of being folled In thelr sffort to regaln the lap on which the Walthour and Bedell camp base their protests, but every time one of these riders tries to jump the field and sprint out a lap fn the lead he loses more vitality than in a day's riding, and vitality counts for everything in a grueling race of | this kind. The teams powVieft in the race are { Root and Fogler, Downey and Moran, | Vanderstuyft and Sto], Macdonald apd Coffey, Breton and Vanonl, Samuelson {and Hollister, Mettling and Logan, | Hopper and Downing, Rutt and Mac | tarland, Galvin and Wiley, Pye and | Clark, Georget and Georget and Wal { thour and Bedell. | The score at noon stood at 1553 {miles for all the teams except Wal thour and Bedell, who were a lap be- hind. ~ Increase Ban Johnson's Salary. CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—~The American | Baseball league is a united and happy | tamily once more. For the past year | Ban Johnson, president of the league, | and Charles Comiskey have been at | loggerhends, and their differences have threatened to spread dissension i among the other members of the or ganization. At the annual meeting of | | the league bere these two men be- | came reconciled and have renewed the | | close friendship which existed for 0] many years between them before the! | split twelve months ago. As an evi. | dence of his pleasure at theWweessation | { of hostilities Mr. Comiskey suggested | | that the clubs lucrease Johnson's sal- | ary from $10,000 to £15000 a year. | | This proposal met with unanimous con sent, | Don Hamilten Won All the Way. | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 — The, {feature of the card at Oakland was) the Fairy Rose handicap, ‘which pre | sented seven classic performers, 'rop | er, the favorite, spoiled his chances | at the start, and Dou Hamilton, get. | | ting off in the lead, Leld that position | {to the fulsh, with Corrigan coming | samely for place. Naran al New Ocleans. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 13. ~The stee plechase over the short course at City | park was the exciting feature of the| racing. Two horses—Esterjoy, the fai | vorite and Scepter—fell, while another | horse ran out of the course. Narau, at {® to 2, was first | } Fooled Aubura Carloalty. { AUBURN. N. Y., Dec. 11 --Prison | officials succeeded pretty well in fool | | Ing a thousand people who had asseny | | fed at the Central station to cateh al { glhmpse of Chester E. Gillette. Han | { lug made preparations to stop the tralu fon the outskirts of the cliy, prisen | | guands fu uniform were still sent to the | | station, while the wanlen's private | equipage with Priucipal Keeper Tup- | { per nud two guards wus seat to Per | | rine street crosshug, where the train | { stopped, and Gillette and Shed Klock | fof Herkimer quickly entered the car riage and were driven to the prison Shah Mas Four Days fo Live, TRHERAN, Persla, Dee 13.-The comlition of the shah remains practl cally unchanged, although he has ral Hed slightly, At a consultation of phy. siclans It was discovered for the first time that his majesty's beart has be come seriously affected, thus adding a new complication to the situation, Iwhich already wis considered grave The coddition of his heart snd the re peated syucopes lend to un concensus of opinion that the shah cannot live more than four days Lords and Commens Disagree. 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