Hois Paper -—For the Home I ht* circulation <>i this paper is in creasing rapidly. It will pay you 'o advertise 111 the AMF.KICAN. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER YEAR !>»;. IKVI.M; H. .IKNNINGS, m lt lt K N't IST. Ojfirr Hour* 9 A. .»/. to 12 .»/ I<U Mi" < s '-. r l'. .»/. to U 1' V Jhmrillt. /'"• 1 *HM.T/.. >1 PJS MM »r., IMWM I I. I'A. ilineases of the Stomach and Inteshney .. Specialty. DR. C ». REYNOLDS, DENTIST— 28ft Mill St.. - Danville, Pa. Dentistry in all Its branches. Charge Moderate and till work Guaranteed Established 18W? CONDENSED NEWS. Every slipjiery sidewalk invites a suit against the city for damages which may result from a fall on the walk. Keep the gutters open and avoid sloppy streets. March is doing double duty this year, carrying January's load of win ter and her own fickle Weather. Miss Margaret Fie'ds is able to be about after a severe attack of tvphoid fever. There's a blizzard in Montana. We hope it may stay there —at least that it will not come here. Among the weddings celebrated re. cently is that of a man of 101 and a woman of 100. The dispatches say that it was a romantic affair, but perhaps they mean rheumatic. Admitting that its sewer system is almost a farce, Mt. Carmel directs at tention to the fact that there wen only three deaths from typhoid fever in that place last year,and claims that the good record is due to the splendid supply of excellent water. Bihop Andrews says"the literature of today is keeping folks from church. " Why not hire the authors to write ser mons for the parsons? The townships are having trouble to secure road masters. An application has been made for a! charter for"The Saloon Keepers' Anti j Sunday Selling Association of Slia-j mokin." Reports from the maple sugar camps j of northern Coluiuria county say the j *ap is sweeter aud runs more freely than for a number of years past. Last 1 year the sugar production of that sec tion was a failure The Pennsylvania Bee Keepers' As- j sociatiou will meet on March 2W-:{0 at J State college. Snow gets a warm reception from! Mother Earth these days. There is a growing sentiment in fav i or of better roads iu Pennsylvania. j The Congressional hunters evidently j regard this as the "ojien season" for railroads. It is said that the new Lvudhurst ' Hotel at Shamokin will he ready for occupancy by June first and that when furnished it will l«- the finest hotel in this section of the State. The groundhog's reputation as a weather prophet is complete. A Plymouth Rock hen owned by j Calvin .I. Kline, Vine street, laid an I egg yesterday which measured H 1 j ' inches by T'._. iuc > - iud weighed 4 ounces. President Castro has decided not to invade the I'nited States. Occasional ly he manifests a gleam of something lieariug a striking resemblance to hu man intelligence. A western representative says h# will introduce a bill to stop the coin- ; age of cents. His measure will have the support of every church in which (MIX, plate or basket is passed around. The Betsy Ross flag house has been offered to Uncle Sam. As defender of the flag the house produced, he would apjiear to be the pnqier custodian of I he house itself. Common sense exercised by the op- ! erators aud miners may save the coal consumers' dollars. Contractor E. H. Myerly is building tiu addition to Russell Foust's estab lishment on East Market street, in which will he installed a new bake oveu. The country appears to he disposed to make the two cents a-mile railroad rate unanimous Does your baking powder contain alum ? Look upon the label, Use only a powder whose label shows it to be made with cream of tartar NOTE. Safety lies in buying only the Royal Baking Powder, which is the best cream of tartar baking powder that can be had, illnnUmr American. "THIS COINTRY WILL NEVER HI- ENTIRELY I'RHH UNTIL IT SUPPLIES ALL OE ITS OWN DEMANDS WITH ITS OWN PRODUCTIONS." \ 01. r>ii--No i Li RIVKR COAL Nil LONGER A FACTOR j Tlu* water commissioners, who dur- I ing the lust millers' strike relied al j most entirely upon river coal, realize I that in the event, of another strike the river artiele will prove a poor sub stitute to depend upon. It is the con sensus ot opinion among those who are in a position to know what they are talking about that the days of riv er coal are practically over. Up to the time of probably the last ! strike it would seem that methods I bordering upon the wasteful were prac- I ticed at the mines. <>n the culm banks i along the river anil the mouth of the creeks were dumped with the coal dirt 1 not only vast quantities of the very smallest sizes of coal but also a pro portion of No. ♦> anil even larger sizes. With each flood, the culm banks were 1 cut down by ttie water, the coal dirt 'and coal alike being carried down the i river. • Since the last strike, it seems, the ( coal companies have practiced methods ,of greater economy and have been j much more careful to extract all si/es lof coal, no matter how small before 1 placing the culm on the dumps. The evidence of this lies in the fact that during the last couple of years river coal, especially of the larger sizes, lias been becoming scarcer and scarcer. Last season Mr. LeDnc of our town found tlie river bottom practically bare for miles above and below the bridge and in order to secure any return for labor and investment was obliged to take his coal digger up stream, in the vicinity of Bloomshurg, where little coal bad been extracted and where sev eral extensive beds remained that were deposited there on previous years. If is the general opinion that in that section as well as in the river here in the future will be found only widely scattered deposits aud these will be made up almost exclusively of coal dirt In case of a strike among the anthra cite miners the water commissioners do not expect to lind river coal either satisfactory or an abundant substitute for the regular graded article shipped from the mines, now in use. They have, however, taken care to have a large supply of good coal on hand. One of the water commissioners last evening said that in the event of a ] strike a little coal could be made togo a great way aud a plan would be ad opted, if necessary,whereby the water works could be kept in operation prac tically all summer with thesupplv of coal now on hand. Live Stock Brings Good Prices. The public sale on the farm of our town-man, William Vastine, located half a mile below Cameron, took place yesterday and was very largely attend ed, upwards of a hundred jier-tons from Danville and immediate vicinity being present. Some fifty jiersous took the 9:15 I). L. & W. train, which on this occasion was permitted to stop op posite the farm. Public sales are not nearly so com mon this season as during years past when there was less profit, in farming. Yesterday's sale, therefore, which was a large one,had some of the charms of novelty Hud a big crowd was the re sult. Bidding was quite spirited and as a general thing good prices were secur ed. Horses sold as high as two hun dred dollars, ranging between one hun dred and forty dollars and the former figure. Cows sold as high as fifty dol lars. Mr. Vastiue, whose home is on West Market street, formerly managed this farm himself. The frequent trips back ward and forward over a distance of nve miles or so became very weari some, however, and Mr. Vastiue de cided to rent out his farm. He will henceforth live retired. (iame NVas Canceled. The basket ball name that was to have been played here last night l>e tween the Danville team and the Old Bucknell Stars was cancelled yester day morning by J. Beaver Gearhart upon receipt of a message from man ager Thompson of the Stars stating that three of the men advertised would not appear m the game. The three men who would not have been able to play were Anderson, Griffith and Mc- Cormack. They were compelled to stop playing on account of business. j MASTERS The township siqtervisors. three in number, elected under the Sproul's ' good road act of April I'J, 1 !♦<>,*>, met oil the sth inst.,the first Monday of March, for the purpose of organizatiou,&c.,as required by the act. Just as was pre dicted bv many they have no easy time of it in finding .suitable nersons for road masters. Associate Judge Frank G. Biee.who ' was ill town Saturday explained some ■of the difficulties that his own town ! ship—Derry —has to contend with and he ventured the opinion that everv other township of the county will have the same problem to solve. The Derry supervisors divided the township roads into four sections re quiring four road masters. Ot this ' number up to Saturday only one road master was obtained aud the worst part of if was that no one could see where the other three are to come from. Not only in Derrv, but in other townships of the county. Judge Blee \ stated, there is a scarcity of men suit- I able for the position so situated that they can give their time exclusively or even to any considerable extent to ' work on the roads Men in the coun j try generally live on land, which re | quires about all their time, or they , have other business, which they could j hardly lie induced to relinquish 1' rtlie I position of road master with its re i numeration of probably $1.50 | H* r day. At the same time, Judge Blee states, the people of the county realize that I the State is very much in earnest and 1 that to keep up with fhegeueral prog j ress of the times improved methods ! will have to prevail in road building. I Every effort is being conscientiously made, lie said, to comply with the Sproul's good road act of April 1-, 1!#I5, and he has no doubt notwith standing trouble in finding road mast ers that the demand will be met even tually and that all the difficulties in cideutal to the change of the system will be adjusted. Instead of repairing the highway-a has been customary ill the past,by lilt ing up the middle with ground thrown in from the sides of the road repeat ing the same process year after year, ! from now on probably a section of township road each year will be en tirely rebuilt employing approved methods of construction. Those who favor this plan believe that the long stretch of had roads in Derry tow n ship extending from the foot of "Dan ville hill" around through Washiug tonville to Strawberry Ridge in this way iu a few years time could be much improved and that the additional out lay would be scarcely perceptible. Valuable Dogs Poisoned. A dog poisoner is plying his nefar ious vocation in Danville. One of the last victims was Bounce, the fine brin dle bull dog belonging to George W. Hoke, the liveryman, which gave up his life on Mill street yesterday morn ing. Bounce wasa most intelligent canine and was a general favorite along the street. He had formed quite an at tachment to the policemen, newspaper reporters and others seen daily on the street and if was his delight to trot along with these men as they made short trips about town in the perform ance of their duty. Yesterday about 11 o'clock the dog made his appearance on Mill.street but he was sick. In a short time he was seized with a spasm. He recovered ap parently and trotted up the street as far as the Baldy house where he was again seized with convulsions. He later made his way to the Montour House where he died. Up to the present we have not heard of any one unkiud enough to say that Bounce was mad, nor that in his case there was the least symptom of rabies. All who examined the dog seem con vinced that he was poisoned. On Tuesday a valuable bull dog be lonigng to George Gross, West Market street, died under circumstances that could be explained only on the theory of poison. Other dogs about the first ward have also died myster iously and on the whole Chief of-Po lice Mincemoyer feels convinced that a dog poisoner is abroad. Rev. Stevens Presiding Hlder. Hev. Emory M. Stevens,of Williams port, will receive the appointment a presiding elder of the Danville district of the Methodist church if the report announced by the Williamsport "News" is true. This is a question whichhung in suspense for some time, and the outcome is anxiously awaited by all members of that denomination. The Willinnis]>ort paper makes tin following statement: " 'The Evening News' has learned from a reliable authority that at the recent cabinet meeting of Bishop Berry and the pre siding elders of the Central Pennsyl vauia Methodist conference at Harris burg, if was decided that the Hev j Emory M. Stevens of Williamsport, j should take charge ot the Danville dis j trict as the presiding elder at the com | ing conference. While this action ha j been looked for by Mr. Stevens'friends : there was enough uncertainty about it | to Keep alt concerned in suspense Indiana Horses. I A sale of 10 head of fine huh.m i horses will be held Tuesday, March 20, at the Ninth street stables, Blooms burg. Sale will commence at 1 o'clock Don't miss this opportunity to secure some of this good stock. DANVILLE. l'A.. Tilt'ltSDA Y MAHCII 15. ttMMJ. TO WILKHS-BARKH A big audit'noe was present at the armory Saturday evening and saw the Wilkes-Barre team defeat Danville I»v a score of 55 to With the exception of parts of the first half the contest was listless and uninteresting. The Wilkes-Barre team came to Dan ville with but four men. Warren John son, of the locals, played forward for the visitors, and with the exception of Good, center.put up the best game for Wilkes-Barre. scoring 10 goals from the field. It was an oft' night for the Daville tossers.and it would have been difficult for any one not acquainted with the members of the team to have recognized in them Saturday the same men who did such fine work recently against the Indians and IT.ofl T . 0112 P. The small boys—"the five cent rush" —were a factor in Saturday night's game that can not be overlooked. This gang lias always been more or less ob streperous and annoying at the games, but Saturday night they ran things with a high hand. Seated on the bal cony at one end of the floor they would strike or kick the ball whenever it came within reaching distance. When Charlie Lunger, the armory janitor, went among them to maintain order, they attacked him and nearly threw him over the edge of the balcony unto the floor below. But the crowning bit ot nerve they displayed when they grabl»ed the ball during the second half, ran unto the floor and started a rough house contest of their own to the elimination of the regular players. The line-up: Wilkes-Barre. Danville. Powell forward.... Welliver Johnson forward Bedea Good . center Sechler Hoar guard . Peters Barber guard Russell Goals from the field—Good 12, Joh nson 10, Hoar "i, Barber 1, Powell 1, KIISM'U lledea I,Welliver "J, Peters2. Coal- from fouls.—Bedea 15, Barber !{. Happy Ending of Pretty Romance The < "berryvale, Kansas," Journal," of March ♦ fll , contains the following interesting article about the marriage of two young people well known in this section : "A very pretty wedding was solem nized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D C. Kllsworth, on Kast Fifth street at seven o'clock last night, when Mr. F. Kugeun Hagenbuch, of I'herrvvale, was united in the bonds of holy wed lock to Mi>-- L Gertrude Bobbins, ot Danville. Pa. But two or three friends of the groom and the. members of the Klls worth family witnessed the ceremony. Promptly at the hour the bridal party entered the parlor to the strains of the wedding march from Lohengrin, play ed by Mi-> Metcalf. Rev. Vanorden, pastor of the Presbyterian church,then spoke the words that made them man and wife. After the congratulations a fine wedding supi>er was served. Mr. , and Mrs. Hagenbuch will reside on Kast Third street, where the groom has neatly furnished a cosy cottage for the reception of his bride. "Mr. Hagenbuch auit Miss Robbius were betrothed in Pennsylvania, pre vious to Mr. Hagenbuch's coining west six months ago and the wedding lasl night was the culmination of a happy romance. "Mr. Hagenbuch is the manager of the undertaking department of 1). <'. Kllsworth & Son. Miss Robbius is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John ( Robbius, of Danville R. F. I). No. I, ! and lias a large circle of friends and , acquaintances. Mrs. Hagenbuch is a i native of Milton. "The young couple have the best wishes of a host of eastern friends." i I). L. & W. T\ay (io to Ashland. According to the Mt. Carmel " Item" it would seem that the D. L. & W. Railroad may possibly have in con- j temptation the building of a line through the Schuylkill region to Ash land. On this subject the "Item" speaks as follows: "The corps of surveyors that has been at work between Ashland, Mali anoy City and Tamaqua and is now proceeding through West Peun town- ! ship is unquestionably surveying a' route for a railroad. In fact the en- ' giueers no longer deny this but they ' will not say by whom they are em ployed. It is estimated that the sur vey that lias already been made lias' cost SIO,OOO. "The officials of I lie Delaware, Lacka- , wanna & Western Railroad will neith er deny or affirm the published report , that it has established a tonnage in the Schuylkill region and is planning to extend it> line from Stroudsbiirg to Ashland.'' Many think that the work i> Iteintr | done in the interest of the Wabash j Railroad, which is trying to gel a line through Pennsylvania between I'itts { burg and New York. Pushing Trolley Extension. Work on the extension of the Sha mokiu & Kdgewood trolley line is again in progress and will be pushed rapidly to the objective points Trev orton and Snnbnry. The present contemplated terminus is the Weigh Scales to reach which will mean the building of about one and one-hall miles of track from the present terminus at I'uiontowu. A gang of forty men are engaged grad ing the route mneh of which must be mi le through deep cut> of heavy shell rock. •>n acount of these conditions the road u ill not be completed before the first of May. Then the construc tion of the Trevorton branch will be commenced which will take several months to finish. I PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS I ... Miles Barber,of Wilkes-Barre, spent Sunday with his parents in this city. Bruce Bennett,of Wilkes-Barre, spent Snnclav with friends in this eitv. i Isadore Rosenthal, of Johnstown. ! spent Sunday with relatives in this i city. Jesse Lougenberger, of Sunbitry, j s])ent Sunday at thy home of James Brosius, Walnut street. (reorge Yocum and David Kowe. of Milton, visited relatives in this city 1 on Sunday. Miss Margaret Hull, of Milton, is ] the guest of Miss Margaret Me<"ortnick. West Market street. Mrs. S. A. Yorks„ of Philadelphia. 1 is visiting friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watson, of Philadelphia, arrived Saturday lor a week's stay in Danville. Walter Arms, of Sunhury spent Sun day at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Arms, Ferrv street. Mr. and Mrs. William Spade spent Sunday with friends at Plymouth. ! Miss Laura Essick, a student at Bloomslmrg State Normal School, spent Sunday at the home of Dr. I!. S. Patten, Hast Market street Mrs. F. P. Colburu.of West < 'heater, is a guest at the home of (i. Slioop Hunt, West Mahoning street. W. A. Shepperson left yesterday morning tor a trip to Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. William Mettler. of Kushtown, were visitors in this city yesterday. Harvey Dietrich left yesterday for a trip to Philadelphia. Mrs. Clifton Mallieu, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is visiting tit the home of her father. William M Lloyd. Bryan C'. Dennin, of Anthony town ship, was a visitor at the courthouse yesterday. Miss Bertha Kase returned last even ing from a visit with Mi»> Emily Voris at PottsglOVe. Kev. C. W Baser returned yester day from the North Branch Lutheran conference held at Bloomshnrg this week. W. Kase West. Esq. was a Sunhury visitor yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Jones, of Sun hury, spent yesterday with friends in this city. S. Books has returned from New York for a few days' visit with his family on West Mahoning street. Do You Want S2O? Failure of the courts to obev the mandate of an old law relating to horse stealing has been revealed through the city of Philadelphia be ing called ujion for the lirst time in more than a quarter of a century to pay a reward for tl>* arrest and con viction of a horse thief. Through the application of Frank Moles,of Norristowu, the county com missioners have been directed to pay a reward of $2-> to him under the law referred to, which was enacted by the Legislature in 1831, and which applies to every county in Pennsylvania. Early in January a horse belonging to Charles K. Smith,of Chestnut Hill, was stolen by Joseph Hasson. Moles captured Hasson, whom he handed ov er to the authorities of Philadelphia county. On January 2:s he was con victed and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Moles in some manner learned of the existence of the law, and made appli cation for payment of the .S2O reward by law, together with the additional amount of »> cents for every mile neces sarily traveled. When the matter was brought to the attention of the com missioners, they were amazed, but af ter an investigation by Commissioner Anderson, who is a lawyer, the fact that the law made such provision was discovered. It is expected that as a result of Moles' action, the commissioners may be flooded with applications for re ' wards. According to the jxilice rec -1 ords.the crime of horse stealing is not ' rare, and the thief is usually c.tptur -1 ed. The act of 1821 reads : Whosoever, after the passage of this j act, shall pursue and apprehend »any 1 jH-rson who shall have stolen any mate, i horse or gelding within any county of this Commonwealth,on the conviction j of the person so apprehended, shall be I entitled to a reward of S2O and ti cents for every mile necessarily traveled. F-or Uniform Hsh Law. The legislative commission to co operate with fish commissioners of ; other states will hold a conference ' with a similar commission of the State of Maryland at Annapolis today. This Pennsylvania commission exists tin del* a joint resolution of March 1,1 ' and was created in order that uniform : legislation might be arranged with New York, New Jersey, Delaware Maryland, Canada, Ohio, etc., ill order that fi>h in boundary waters might be given equal treatment by the several States and the dominion of Canada. The similar commission in Maryland recently invited the Pennsylvania com mission, through Secretary Hudson,to meet in Annapolis today and the meeting will beheld. Numerous mat ters iin connection with the lower reaches of the Susquehanna will be taken up and Commissioner Median says that the meeting is very likely to poduce very important results. I ' i.\ (in id mil si: The high school commencement this | year will be held in the courthouse i 011 Thursday, May .'slst. Mr. Pursel reported that the high ! school committee had helil a meeting j in conjunct ion with the graduating I class for the purjiose of selecting a date and a place for holdintr commence j ment. Nothing definite, however, was 1 determined upon, although the class was very anxious that a date for com mencement at least be fixed, as the class is anxious to arrange details as to out invitations, &c. The I date favored by the class was the first | Thursday of June. Since the meeting with the class the i high school committee met with the j county commissioners and determined ! that the class could have the use of ' the courthouse for commencement at no expense beyond what might be re -1 quired to remunerate the janitor. Borough Superintendent Gorily ex i plained that the school term this year will terminate on Friday May 25th, which is much earlier than for many years past. He suggested that Thurs day following. May .'list, be selected j as the date for holding commencement, as .lune Tth, the tirst Thursday, would he too long after the closing of the schools. Ou motion of Mr. Pursel, therefore it was ordered that commencement he held in the courthouse on Thursday, May :51st. Mr. Pursel reported that the tin gut ters at two places on the roof of the second ward school building are out of repair and need painting. On motion the matter was referred to the build ing committee. Mr. Fischer reported that the jani tor of the first ward reports a shortage of No. 2 coal in that building; also that the second ward building has a large overplus of No. 2 coal. On mo lion of Mr. Fischer it was ordered that a quantity of No. 2 coal be haul ed from the second ward to the first ward school building. Prof. Gonly reported that Prof. Shaw, principal of the thin! ward schools, had failed to appear Monday morning and that yesterday he receiv ed a telegram from Professor Shaw dated at Pittston which stated that he would not he back until Wednesday. Meanwhile the fiorough superinten dent is filling Professor Shaw's place. Professor (Jordy was unable to state whether the professor is detained on account of illness or some other cause. Treasurer Schratn presented a state ment of finances to date which showed a cash balance on hand of $7213.88. Borough Superintendent Gorily pre sented a report for the last month a follows : Boys registered during month, ."i<sß •rirls, (500; total, 1174. Average attendance of boys during month. .">l-1 ; 548; total, 1062. Pefeeutage of attendance by boys during the mouth, 92; girls. <»•>; total, «.»•>. Number of pupils absent during mouth, (570; number of pupils tardy during month, 287: cases of tardiness by pupils, 404; cases of tardiness by teachers. 1. Number of pupils who have not at tended 75 per cent, of time belonged, 84 ; number of pupils reported to the truant officer, 54; cases of corporal punishment, 12. The borough superintendent called attention to a remarkable feature of the rejKut as it related to the third ward grammar school. In this room each of the boys and each of the girls was present every day of the month, earning the remarkable showing of one hundred in percentage all around. The truant officer presented a report which revealed that 1'.»•"> pupils were on the sick list. There were nine cases of tiuaucy. Six pupils were detained at home for want of shoes. Ten notices were sent out. The following members were pres ent : Adams, Orth, Pursel, Haring, Werkheiser.Trnmbower, Heiss, Fisch er, Yonßlohn, Harpel and Grone. The following bills were ordered paid : Standard Gas Co $ 2.47 William Miller . 2.00 U. I. Gorily 24.86 G. A. Kossnian ... . 26.10 Roberts «V Meek .. . 7.45 K. W. Peters 25.(X) Surface Will Demonstrate. State Economic Zoologist H. A. Sur face will be present at two San .lose scale demonstrations to be given in Northumberland couuty next Monday. Monday morning a demonstration will be given hv Prof. Surface at C. B. Witmcr's place, in Hast Sunbury, and Monday afternoon he will demon strate at William L. Nesbit's at East Lewisburg. It is thought that a num ber of people from this county will at tend the demonstrations. Dr. Groff, Prof. Surface's professional antagon ist, will be present at the East Lewis burg demonstrat ion. Crabill's Pine Work. Evangelist Crabill, who will be re membered as having recently conduct ed a most successful series of meetings in the First Baptist church, this city, has just completed a four weeks crusade against sin at Muncy. where 265 con versions were made. Broke Alley Record. Tom Moore broke the alley record at Achenbach & Moore's bowling al leys last night when he bowled 207. He bowled N strikes in succession, 2 spares and y. KSTABLIKIIEI > L\ 1555 A petition from Dauville to the State legislature forwarded over oue hundred years ago and containing among the signatures many well known names has just come to light in a \< ry curious way in the great New berry Library, of Chicago, a building famous as the repository of more old and valuable records than are to be found in any institution of its kind in the country The petition bears the date of 1802 and is of interest as revealing how in adequate the facilities were for trail portatiou at that early day. It was be fore the days of the canal or railrjid, when the country was undeveloped, and there was no other way of gettiug the products of the prosperous settle ment here into the market than by shipping by are down the Susquehanna or by hauling longdistanc.es over prim itive roads, which meant mountain climbing and the fording of streams. As will bo seen by the petition the river even presented obstacles to trans portation and the citizens of Dauville were content to pray for improvements many miles down the stream satisfied with the advantage that would in directly accrue to them if this great common highway were made navigable at all seasons. The petition was discovered among other old records by Mr. Philip H. Miller, of Chicago, who was looking over a lot of old papers for altogether another purpose. Now it happens that Mr. Miller was a native of Dauville; he was at once attracted by the old petition and he saw of what interest it j would be to the present residents of i our town. He at once made a trans cript of the petition, which he sent to a relative, Mrs. W. 11. Andy,this city, 1 together with a full explanation of all j the circumstances relating to its dis- i eovery. The petition is as follows: To the Senate and House of Kepre- j sentatives of the State of Pennsylvania ! in General Assembly met. The petition of the subscribers here- I bv sheweth : That at a time when the happy re- j turn of peace lias bv its immediate op- j erat.ion greatly diminished the neat value of our produce we believe it will well become a wise and virtuous leg islature to turn its attention to the improvement of the roads and rivers so that transportation may be facilitat ed : which the late liberal prices by prompting industry to a more exten sive cultivation of new lands in the interior of the country has very much discovered the necessity of ;all of which leads your petitioners to beg leave to recall your attention to the reports of the commissioners—Reading Howell, William Dean aud Frederick Antes in the year 1790 and that of Timothy Matlaek, Samuel M'Clay and John Adlum of the same year, 1790, partic ularly as they repsect that part of the Susquehanna river at and near Me- Kee's Falls and that part of north-east branch of said river designated as Crook's riffles aud riffles near Ten Mile run; not because these are the only places worth notice, hut because we are assured from full experience that if those places were improved there will scarcely be a time through the whole summer but a boat can car ry half a load from Mahoning or Dan ville to Columbia and so great is the quantity in produce, in wheat and flour exported from Danville that all the boats on that part of the river were employed last season lrom the opening ot the winter till harvest and were in sufficient to transport it; and by hav ing these places improved we presume a considerable quantity of produce might be transported through the whole season. We, therefore, pray your honors will be pleased to approp- lie sums mentioned in the above reports to these particular objects, not doubting but as soon as the Governor can command the money persons will ; be found who will undertake aud ex- 1 ecute the above improvements much to ! the advantage of the public as well as to your petitioners. And as duty bound J they will ever pray. (Signed) William Montgomery, John Gray I William Whittaker, Henry Best, John Montgomery, Benjamin Houck. .lames Giles, Robert Gehr, John Donaldson, James Low, .lames Casterline, Samuel M. Farren, Thomas Woodsiile, Robert Fairman, J. Brady, John Russell.Wil liam Cott, William Sheriff,Alex. Cott, James A. Larson, John Huntingdon, Daniel Montgomery, William Mont gomery, George Met'all, John Boyd, William Cornelison,W. P. Macla\ and Daniel Montgomery, ot' Northumber land. The above communication, the rec ords show, was read in the Assembly January 2t>, 1802, and was laid over tot further consideration Cave in Feared. The Lehigh Valley Coal Compauv has ordered all the occupants of prop erty on Locust Avenue, at Centralia, to vacate a-- soon a> possible as they fear that section of the town which i* undermined i- seriously threatened. Locust avenue is the principal business portion of the town aud ,-t large amount of money lias been invested which it is believed \% 111 be lost. JOth Wedding Anniversary. The thirlietli anniversary of the wed ding of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowe, was celebrated yesterday at their home on East Market street. A number of their friends called during the da\ and extended their congratulations JOB PRINTING The office of the AMERICAN being furnished with a large assortment of job letter and fancy typ anH job material generally, the Publisher an nounces to the public tnat he is prepared at all times to ex ecnte in the neatest manner. JO 15 PRINTING Of all Kinds and Description M.SOX CHS "Battling" Nelson was given the de cision on points in tlie six round bout with Ten v McGovern at the National Athletic Chili at Philadelphia last night. The big crowd that was pres ent was not at all pleased with the fight, anil there was a strong impres sion that it was "fixed." The big au l torium was packed to the doors, main from a distance hav ing come to Philadelphia to see the tight. The betting at the ring side was ! slightly iu favor of Nelson. In the first two rounds the lighting was slow and clinching frequent: Mo- Govern had the best of the argument iu these two rounds. Disapproval was expressed by the audience with jeers and hisses. In the third round the real lighting began. Nelson gaining strength and McGovern becoming weaker. McUov ern also seemed to have the best of the third. Iu the fourth Nelson came forward strong and during this and the follow ing rounds was easily the master of the ring. McGovern stayed until the end of the sixth. Amazing Wealth in Petroleum. Oil is a vastly greater source of riches to the United States than gold, silver or copper. Statistics show that oil leads in money all of the mineral products of America, and can be pro duced at one-tenth of the cost of rain ing gold, silver or copper. The great oil products of the United States at the wells, for the year 1905, was worth $150,000,000. Converted by the refin eries into gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, gas, lubricating oil, vaseline, par affine, waxes, and a thousand other by products this value was easily quad rupled or advanced to the stupendous sum of $600,000,000; turning out an equivalent of (500 new millionaires. This means a grand annual distribu tion of the equivalent of 1,200,000 in sums of §SOO each: (">OO,OOO of SIOOO each ; :ioo,ooo of S2OOO each ; 120,000 of SSOOO each ; til),000-of SIO,OOO each. In some of the older fields the oil deposits are not producing sufficiently to keep abreast of the enormously in creased demand but in various parts ol the country new and powerful corpora tious are opening up new fields, deter mined to secure a share of the enorm ous profits that are embodied iu suc cessful oil operations. In Kansas the oil wealth is great almost beyond com prehension,and the development of the I last three years seems beyond beliet to any one who lias not been on the field and seen with his own eyes. Com pared with Kansas, the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana fields seem small; while the oil fields of Texas and Cali fornia yield only fuel oil. Kansas oil is almost entirely of the highest grade illuminating variety. The mere fact that the refining companies have ex pended over *:i0,000,000 in refineries, pipe lines, storage tanks and pumping stations in Kansas for the development of these fields should be proof of the solidity and profitableness of a Kansas oil producing investment proposition. There need be no hesitation iu say ing that one of tlie strongest most in teresting and best-managed of Kansas corporations, is the Coffeyvilie Consol idated Oil Company, of Philadelphia, operating in the Coffeyville field,some interesting details in regard to which have just been secured by this paper. The capitalization of this company is small; only a half million dollars,and the honor "and integrity of its manage ment is unquestioned. On the prop erty of this company, which is most advantageously situated at Coffeyville, Kansas, are eleven wells, a number of large tanks, engines, etc. ,Tiie com pany owns its own drilling rig and all necessary tools and equipment for drill ing wells, all at a cost of many thou sands of dollars and all paid for. The stock of the company is selling readi ly at five cents per share (par value 10 cents). The money from the sale of the stock is used for development. The Coffeyville Consolidated Oil Company can get along very nicely on its own resources, and they are offering stock for sale, not because their need for money is imperative, but because more capital means greater immediate growth, greater immediate supply, greater immediate returns. Applica tion has been made for the pipe line to the tanks of the company and the management expect to pay dividends from the first sale of oil:' half being retained for further development and the other half to lie paid to the stock holder- in tlie form of dividends. There is very little speculation in a good oil producing company, and to those with money for investment, who are looking for a genuinely good thing we do not hesitate to say that who ever invests in the securities of the Coffeyville Consolidated oil Company is w i>e. Any one wishing a prospectus and literature of tlie company can have fnrt her particulars bv addressing the >ecretarv,Mr. E. N. i.egg. at No. 12rt-> Drexel feuilding. Philadelphia, Pa Pleasant Party. A pleasant party was given Tuesday evening at the home of Noah Stump, Liberty ti>\\ uship. Those jiersent were : Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Acor, Mr. and Mrs. George Keiehard, Mr. and Mrs. William liiue, Mr. and Mrs. William Sfarner, Mr. and Mrs. David Hitte, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Dye, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Stump.Mr. and Mrs John Long, Mi and Mrs. William Clewell. Mrs. .lane Stump. Mrs. Nora Clark. Misse- Carrie Long. Wilda Sheets, Sallie Neiss Lizzie Sheets, Messrs. Thomas Perry, Raymond Acor, Sam uel Stump, Walter Keiehard, Luther liiechard. Franklin Stump, Harry Cle well, Paul Clewell,Peter and William Starner. The evening was spent with music and games. A sumptuous sup l>er was served. Pittston Saturday Night. The above team will play the Cham pionship Game at the Armory uext Saturday night with the Danville team, each team having won three games the deciding oue will be it corker.
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