Club of Oklahoma Women.
A woman’s club has been formed in
Ponca City, Oklahoma, the rules of
which prescribe that the candidate
must remain single, make a verbatim
report in open meeting of every pro-
posal of marriage received, learn how
to smoke cigarettes, write a poem or
story every month, perfect herself in
pistol practice and learn fencing and
boxing.
Her Fortune for Scienc:.
Miss Alice Bates Gould, daughter of
the late Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould
of Cambridge, Mass., who “died a few
months ago, has lately donated to the
National Academy of Science $20,000
as a trust fund, whose income shall be
used for the advancement of scientific’
knowledge on astronomical subjects.
This 1s a tribute to her father, one of
the ablest and most active astronomers
of America, who was at one time di-
rector of the Dudley observatory in
Albany, and from 1868 to 1885 had
charge of theastronomical observatory
in Cordoba, Argentine Republic. Thus
has the father’s fame been continued
by the devotion of the daughter.
For the Complexion.
The scrubbing brush treatment is a
cure for those blackheads which are
the bane of a woman’s life. Be sure
vou get a good face brush. Purchase
a cake of pure hygienic soap. = The
brush should be used at night before
going to bed. Immerse the brush in
hot water. Rub the soap over it un-
til a good lather is obtained. Serub
the face carefully—not violently,
but thoroughly. One minute shonld
suffice for the scrubbing process.
Rinse with warm water and again with
cooler water. Dry with a soft towel.
1f the skin is irritated by the unusual
friction try a good cream or other
emollient. The greasy look will dis-
appear under the face scrubbing
brush also.
Simple but Dainty Dresses for Baby.
Except for the christening robe, the
dresses, slips and wrappers are all
made quite plain, but of the finest
French nainsook. When laces and
embroideries are used, only those of
daintiest pattern and finest quality are
in good taste. Plain hems at the bot-
tom, hand finished or hemstitched, are
simple, babyish and always in good
taste. In most dresses the trimmings
are confined to the yoke, neck and
sleeves, with perhaps a band of trim-
ming to mark the waist line. Many
have the fullness at the back held in
with a sash of the same material,
starting from each side of the fullness
in the front of the waist, which makes
a garment easy to launder and fashion.
—Louise Merion in Woman’s Home
Companion.
The Women of Paris Are Very Beautiful,
‘‘I like the way the French take
their amusements,” writes Miss Lilian
Bell, in a letter from Paris to the La-
dies’ Home Journal. At the theatre
they laugh and applaud the wit of the
hero and hiss the villain. They shout
their- approval of a duel and weep
aloud over the death of the acgetl
mother. When they drive in the Bois
they smile and have an air of enjoy-
ment quite at variance with the bored
expression of English and Americans
who have enough money to own ecar-
riages. We drove in Hyde Park in
London the day before we came to
Paris, and nearly wept with sym-
pathy for the unspoken grief in the
faces of the unfortunate rich who were
at such pains to enjoy themselves. I
never saw such handsome men as I
saw in London. TI never saw such
beautiful women as I see in Paris.
French men are insignificant as a
rule, and English women are beefy
and dress like rag bags.”
The Woman in Business,
If a woman is .ever to retain her
present position in the business world
she must look to it that she makes her
value felt. She has many advantages
—she is punctual, painstaking, patient
of monotony, amenable to discipline,
ready and willing; indeed, she errs,
as a rule, rather from the excess of
zeal than from its defect. But she has
two things to learn: First, that her
health is her only capital, and sec-
ondly, that to rise above mediocrity it
is necessary to think for yourself. For
this last” shortcoming her educators
have much to answer for; but it cannot
be too clearly understood that in the
struggle for existence there is no room
for the typist who has not at any rate
the intelligence of the average ocom-
positor, nor for the secretary who for-
gets to post important letters, or en-
close the letter to ‘Dear Mr. . A.” in
the envelope addressed to ‘“Mrs. B.”
It is lapses of this sort which mar at
present so much of women’s work and
to which apparently all but the very
few are so singularly liable, largely, I
fancy, because they have been studi-
ously taught to leave out of account
physiological facts. —St. Louis Star.
A Unique Calling.
It would indeed be difficult to find
a field of occupation that women have
not invaded. An alert young dame in
New York follows a unique calling
which was disclosed the other ‘day
when there was an accident on the
Broadway cable line. The accident in
itself was not especially noteworthy.
A car that was rounding whatis known
as ‘‘Dead Man’s Curve’’struck a news-
boy who was crossing the street and
knocked him to the pavement, where
he lay unconscious, his head bleeding
from a gash cut by a rough stone.
The car stopped, and the usual crowd
of curious onlookers gathered about
the boy. Soona young woman with a
business-like air, wearing a tailor-built
suit, pushed her way through the
crowd about the prostrate child. She
promptly took care of the boy; di-
rected that he be removed to a neigh-
boring drug store and sent a man to
ring ir an ambulance call. While this
was being accomplished she moved
quickly through the crowd, pencil and
notebook in hand, secured the names
of half a dozen persons who had wit-
nessed the accident, jotted down the
numbers of the conductor and grip-
man and made a rough little diagram
of the spot where the accident had
happened. —all before the car moved on
its uptown journey. Then she hur-
ried back to the boy and remained by
him until his wound had been dressed
and he had been started for home.
Undoubtedly most of those who ob-
served the young woman's actions set
her down as a reporter, but if so they
were mistaken. Harriet Emerson, for
that is her name, states that her in-
terest in people who are knocked
down by street cars is aroused chiefly
by business reasons. She is what is
known as a ‘runner?’ or a promoter of
suits for personal injuries.. She dis-
covered that collecting damages for
injuries received was the chief busi-
ness of many law firms, and she made
up her mind that a woman who knew
what was wanted would have less
difficulty in getting the proper evi-
dence than a street boy who knew
nothing about it. Miss Emerson has
followed her present occupation about
a year, and finds that it pays her bet-
ter than her former empioyment as a
stenographer. She as well _sexges
papers and collects evidence for her
firm. Naturally she does not-see all
the accidents that she investigates, but
more come to her notice than would
be supposed. She is paid a percentage
on the fee from each case, and some of
them net her as high as $50. —Chicago
Times-Herald.
Fashion Notes.
Black Chantilly lace arranged in
flounces is liked for evening toilets.
The jacket suit is the favorite out-
door winter costume for girls over 12.
One of the swellest idegs—in um-
brellas is the plain black-one with a
gay plaid lining. =
A jeweled pin, similar to a safety
pin in shape, is worn to fasten up the
curling locks at the nape of the neck.
A wide lace necktieand large cravats
of kilted black lisse are almost uni-
versal evidences of fashionable dress
just at the moment. :
Extravagant and costly gowns are
intended for the house, to please our
friends and to give color to our homes.
leaving the ‘quieter shades in wool for
the street.
One of the novelties of the season
is the shaped flounce of black net em-
broidered with jet, silver, steel or iri-
descent beads. It is all ready for use
and freshens up a black satin skirt
wonderfully.
In baby jewelry one may buy sets
of pins with pearls or turquoises set
in dulled gold, armlets of old-fashioned
coral, and sets of studs linked to-
gether by a slender gold chain to serve
as buttons for dresses.
The demand for taffeta is unabated.
The favorite shades are cardinal, ox-
blood and.cherry, and they are a trifle
more expensive than other colors.
The national blues, violets and greens
are also popular tints, and plaid taf-
feta is appearing.
Bayaderes are in high favor this
season, and will be seen in the spring
novelties and lightweight goods, such
as mousselines, gauzes, satin and
chiffon. Brocade and jacquard weaves
are held in popular memory rather
than present favor.
All black silks are quite stylish
worn with a gay, bright velvet toque
or bonnet. The effectiveness of a
biack silk costume depends on its
graceful cut. A single rose in the
corsage, the color of the toque, es-
pecially if the latter be a bright red,
will give the dress a youthful appear-
ance.
Rose colored silk or satin waists are
very fashionably worn this winter with
skirts of black velvet, brocade or
satin, and occasionally they are seen
with skirts of dark green corded silk.
These waists are as a rule very much
trimmed with handsome lace, but the
garniture is often of velvet matching
the skirt, with the rich addition of
fur bands and beaded passementerie.
Roman stripes, flowered ribbon,
plain colors and stripes that are less
varied than the Roman areall in vogue
for both sashes and searfs,and are chic
in the extreme. The more costly and
more elaborate sashes show a finish
of knotted silk fringe, which is always
handsome; but plain, simple ribbon
tied in a generous bow is sll that any
girl need crave.
Eggs With Soft Shells.
Tt is usually the inactive breeds of
fowls which at this season show the
effects of indigestion by laying eggs
with soft shells. The remedy is to
make them scratch among straw and
chaff for the grain they get, and min-
gle with this enough lime in some
form to make the material for their
shells. They should also be well sup-
plied with gravel, as this is necessary
to enable them to grind the food in
their crops. Such hens ave almost
always too fat, which is nsually a sign
that their feed has been largely corn,
which is fattening and is
very poor egg producer.
besides a
L.
Vines and Trellises.
Many people are prevented from
planting grape vines under the idea
that the putting up of the trellis is a
difficult and expensive thing to do.
But the first year alight stake will be
all that is required to train the single
shoot to, and even the second year,
when two or three bunches of grapes
may be grown, the stake will be all
that is required. A trellis made by
setting posts six feet apart and five
feet high above the surface of the
ground will accommodate a single
vine. For supports, wires shonld be
stretched between the posts, but the
wires must not be left tight when cold
weather comes on, as the contraction
of the wire by cold will surely
them.
Improving Heavy Soil,
In many gardens the soil is too
heavy for raising most kinds of early
vegetables satisfactorily. Underdrain-
ing and fall plowing will accomplish
mugh toward ameliorating such lands;
but in many cases these means alone
do not make them light and mellow
enough for best results. Such soils
are deficient in sand, and where this
can be procured without too much ex-
pense the investment will prove highly
profitable. At this season when—as
is the ease on many farms—there is
not much work for men and teams,
they could not be employed to better
{advantage than to have them cart and
spread a coat of .from one to three
inches of sand over the garden patch.
By spring it will be all fine and partly
commingled with the soil. A trial on
the smallest scale even, will convince
any one whose soil is too heavy of the
value of sand in the garden.
The Scrub Cow.
The dairy business is far more over-
done by the ‘‘average’ cow than from
‘any other cause. The trouble is she
eats and exists on a man’s farm, to do
just half of what is required of her,
and eats as much good {food in the
year as her betters. The amount of
milk this average cow gives is 3100
{pounds yearly, and it should be as
| many quarts of better milk. If one
looks at this average cow critically the
signs are too often reversed from what
they should be, viz.: Her head is too
large to correspond with her udder,
aud her shoulders wider than her
hips, and her tendency to put tallow
lapon her caul and not in her milk,
pnd has ample storage capacity for
| everything except milk. She isa par-
| asite that eateth by noonday, and
I wasteth a man’s substance by night,
land in the way of ‘‘Heecing the inno-
jeents” she beats all the trusts and
rings combined. San Francisco
Chronicle. 5
|
Breeding for Eggs,
One of the best methods of increas-
|ing the capacity of fowls for egy pro-
{duction is to set the egzs of those
[fowls which are themselves most pro-
lific of exgs. It is, of course, assumed
{that the hens ave mated with fall-bred
icocks of the best
breeds. “There are even in full bred
fowls some individnal peculiarities
which count for much, and one of
these is the propensity to give the
largest part of bodily energy and feed
to egg production. The hens thatare
best for this purpose arealways lively,
and. have particularly brirzht red
combs. When they stop laying they
are not mopish and donot fatten, but
continue lively aad soon bein laying
again. A flock of fowls bred from such
hens, aud thus continued for three or
four generations, would produce a
breed whose chief distinetion would
not be form or color,but the ability to
in a season. This we believe is the
way in which the best egg-producing
breels have been originated, and it is
certainly necessary to keep them from
degenerating in this respect.
Hints for Flower-Growers.
Examine the outdoor rose-bedsocea-
sionally to see that the wind has not
removed the covering.
The plants stored for the winter in
the cellar have now been in some
time. Perhaps they need a little
water or other attention.
Where plants are kept about the
windows, cold drafts from the sides of
the sash should be carefully guarded
against during severe weather.
Frequent cleansing of the leaves of
foliage plants by using tepid water
and a sponge; lends to their attracts
break
ego-producing |
produce the greatest number of eggs:
iveness, and is essential to the health
of the plants. :
Just at this time, when work with
the flowers is very light, is a good
time to consider what will be best to
plant in the garden in the spring.
When the proper time comes every-
thing must be in readiness, so that no
valuable time will be lost.
Cinders form a good material
covering the floors and paths of
conservatory.
To clean old flower-pots “on which
green moss and a sort of white mold
has grown, scrub them vigorously
with sand and water. This will make
the pots look bright and new. Use
porous vessels only to pot plants in.
They will do better in such than in
tin cans.—Woman’s Home Com-
panion.
for
the
Value of Kindness in Animal Training.
Vicious horses are generally the re-
sult of a violent, barbarous training,
and when the greater number of the
horses in any country are trieky und
hard to manage, it means that they
belong to a brutal population. From
time immemorial the contrary hasbeen
the case among the Arabs, where colts
are brought up and exercised with al-
most maternal solicitude. The child
amuses itself by petting and playing
with the colt of which he is some day
to be the rider, and the horse and his
cavalier grow up together. The ear-
liest education of the young animal be-
gins in the family, in the same tent.
The colt is constantly looked after
and caressed, and is never chastised
except for acts of malice or disobe-
dience. He is given the choicest
dainties of food, and is gradually ac-
customed to make himself useful.
When the bit is put in his mouth the
iron is covered with wool, so that
it shall not bruise his lips, the wool
having been dipped in salt. water to
give it a pleasant flavor and make him
like it. The ganimal’s education is
thus always carried on with constant
discretion, and even after it is is com-
pleted the trainers never indulge in
blows or hard words. By such asso-
ciation a real bond of friendship is
formed between the beast and his
rider.—Appletons’ Popular Science
Monthly.
Seasonable Feeding of Hens.
f'o-replace-theworms,; insects and
other fleshy food which the fowls nat-
urally get in summer, feed pork or
beef scraps from some packing house,
writes Mrs. Ida Tilson. These can
usually be had for two and one-third
cents per pound. As they have been
subjected to great pressure excessive
greasiness need not be feared. Soaked,
recooked, well thickened with shorts
and fed warm every third aay, they
bring me a noticeable increase of
ezgs. Raw meat is more laxative and
requires: closer watching. Livers,
tongues, hearts, ete., when obtained
at reasonable rates, boiled and choppad
are best of all: Milk and linseed meal
are good substitutes for meat, but the
latter when not laxative are very fat-
tenning. Rather than watch the ef-
fects of sour milk, T add a little soda,
or better yet make curd and feed it
warm. Sweet milk cannot be given
too freely.
very third day I boil
and feed them warm. My usual com-
bination.is potatoes with a few car-
rots and onions, a pepper pod and
slice of salt pork, My hens think
they are getting their beloved onions,
but I know they ave also. eating car-
rots which help make the yolks as
goldan as possible. When cooked the
vegetables are skimmed out, the liquor
is added and the whole is thickened
with shorts or mixed meals. Raw
beets, turnips or wabbages are chopped
almost every day. Clover chaff is fed
dry or placed in a pail on top of my
mixed meals, where it gets first bene-
fit of my scalding water, then the
whole ig stirred together and allowed
to stand for a few ininutes. It is sur-
prising how green the chaff particles
| become and
tea even such a simple treatment
vields without any trouble of boiling.
For grit, several barrels of sharp
I gravel will last a long time. Old mor-
| tar, sandstone, marble chips, old
croclery, ete., may be pounded into
small bits and fed. Coal ashes with
clinkers rapidly disappear. Since we
must needs secure appetites for meals
as well as meals for the appetite,
many substances not directly valuable
may become indirectly so, by creating
a desire for something that is more
essential.
vegetables
An Oak Tree 10,000 Years Old,
An extraordinary discovery, and one
which is just now exeiting considera-
ble interest in antiquarian circles in
Lancashire and Cheshire, has been
made at Stockport.
vations in the construction of sewage
works for the town some workmen
came across what has since proved to
be a massive oak tree, with two im-
mense branches. Professor Boyd Daw-
kins, the well-kuown antiquary, is of
opinion that the tree is one of the
giants of prehistoric times, and he
says that the tree is certainly 10,000
vears old. The corporation of Stock-
port is at a loss what to do with the
gigantic fossil, which is supposed to
weigh about forty tons.—London
News.
Dulwich, now a populous district of
London, still has a tollgate across one
of its main streets, at which tolls are
collected regularly.
lary
| George
what a strong odor of hay |
During the exca-=
DISCOURAGING DIVORCE.
Costs Must First Be Paid Before Cases Come
to Trial.
The steady
tions- for divorce in the Fayette county
courts and the feilure of a number of
applicants to pay the costs of the cases
have caused the Court to make a new
rule, requiring all costs to be paid in
advance in every case.
The following pensions were granted
last week: Daniel Swearengen, Union-
town, $8; Harlan W,. Defibaugh, Al-
thona, $6; Henry Abbott, dead, Allen-
gort, Washington, $8; Platt Bullman,
Parkers Landing, $6; Ezra S. Heany,
Thompsonville, Washington, $12; Philip
Harman, Soldiers’ Home, Erie, $8; Jer-
emiah S. Murphy, McDonald, $6; James
Brooks, Pleasant Gap, Center, $8; John
Maneval, Liberty, Tioga, $8; William
F. Morgan, Bellevernon, $6; Alexander
C. Miller, Apollo, $6 to 8; Lewis B. Har-
ris, Corry, $6 to 8; David G. Alter, Port
Royal, $8 to 17; Theodore E. Campbell,
Losh, Westmoreland, $10 to 14; Austin
Cooper, Hillsdale, Indiana, $10 to 12;
William L. Garrett, Altoona, $6 to 8;
John D. W. Henlen, Oil City, $8 to 10;
Zimri Farquhar, Fayette City, $6 to 8;
John F. Spalding. Altoona, $6 to 10;
Wm. H. Colory, Mansfield, Tioga, $6 to
8, Jas. Callen, Oil City, $12; George Mc-
Cray, Lemont Furnace, Fayette, $6 to
8: Mary A. Gabler, Upper Strasburg,
Franklin, $8; Emma Walters, Cham-
bersburg, $8; Thomas Balling, Oliver,
Blair, $6; David Blakely, East Brady,,
Clarion, $6; W. W. Cole, Allegheny, $6;
John T. Steiner, Columbia, $6;
Hill, Sycamore, Greene, $10; Oliver
Smith, Greensburg, $8; George Reneck-
er, Orbisonia, Huntingdon, $8:
H. Kettering, Somerset, $6; John
Eckert, Bellefonte, $10;
Treadway, Corydon, Warren,
IE.
$6;
Allen, McKeesport, $8; Isaac Kappen-
haffer, Millersburg, $6; George W.
ner, Johnstown, $4; George Baier, Pitts-
burg, $6 to 8;. John. C.-Fisher, Bast
Springfield, Erie, $6 to 12; John Teetor,
Evergreen, Bradford, $14 to 17; Charles
R. Williams, Phoenixville, $6 to 12;
Alexander M. McKee, Centertown,
Mercer, “$6 to 8; Jefferson Walters,
High House, Fayette, $8 to 10; Samuel
E. Hawk, Patterson, Juniata, $6 to 8;
Joseph Berkey, Hillsboro, Somerset, $6
to 12; Alexander Morgan, Heshborn,
Indiana, $8 to 12; George D. Brooks,
Wellsboro, $17; Nehemiah P. Elsbee,
Athens, Bradford, $€ to 12; William H.
H. MclIlirain, Butler, $6 to 12; Minnie
Heimbach, White Haven, $8.
Miss Annie 4. Edwards of Jamison,
was found murdered in her bedroom
Tuesday night. Her head was beaten
dlmost to a jelly, and the room bore
evidence of a terrible struggle. The
last time Miss Edwards was seen alive
was Friday night. She lived alone. A
chair and a water pitcher had been
used to beat the woman’s brains out,
The motive for the crime was robbery.
The county commissioners have offered
a reward of $1,000 for the arrest of the
murderers.
William Love, son of James R. Love
of Fort Palmer, near Greensburg, com-
mitted suicide the other day by blowing
out-his brains with a revolver. He was
31 and unmarried. Disappointment in
love is given by some as the cause. All
the members of the family except his
mother were absent at a funeral. When
they returned they found the dead son
clasped in the aged mother’s arms.
King Stover, the negro shot by Collins
Winn in New Brighton, died a few days
ago. A post-mortem examination re-
vealed two bullets lodged against his
vertebrae, one passing through the left
lung and the other through the abdo-
men. Winn is in the Beaver jail, hav-
school Tuesday at Carlisie were wit-
ing given himself up.
A serious case has been reported by
an Amwell township physician, at
Washington. Louis Stephens, a coal
miner, who has not been in a mine for
three years, owing to ill health, has re-
ently -begun to expectorate a dark mu-
zus which, under a microscope, proves
to be coal dust which has been in his
lungs since he left the mine.
Letters of administration in the es-
tate of the late William M. Singerly, of
Philadelphia, were granted by the reg- |
ister of «wills last week to James S.
McCartney,
Singerley
died intestate.
increase in the applica-.
Samuel |
P. |
Eolamban | amount is made $10,000.
i H.. Mc € itusville, $6; | x
liam IcDonald, Titusville, $6; John | ihe senate Friday afternoon vacsed tho
Mi- | bill .extending the homestead laws and
Daniel | S@me as that introduced
CONGRESS.
Senate.
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, also
made a suggestion on similar lines, and
on motion of Mr. Perkins, of Colorado,
who reported the resolution, it was
amended so as to provide that the tab-
let be erected in any suitable place in
the capitol. It was then passed. Five
thousand dollars is appropriated. The
house substitute to the senate bank-
ruptey bill was taken up and Mr. Hoar,
of Massachusetts, moved to nonconcur
and ask for a conference. Mr. Stewart,
of Nevada, opposed any action on the
bill, as he considered it the most atro-
cious and diabolical bill that could be
conceived by mortal man in the present
condition of the country. The house
substitute would make involintary
bankrupts of men, and would make
them criminals.
Senator Quay laid before the Senate
Wednesday a petition said to bear the
names of 12,000 citizens of New Castle,
Pa., urging the passage of the bill for
a new Federal building in that town.
Late in the afternoon the senator arose
and moved that the bill be taken from
the calendar and passed. The bill was
taken up and passed. It carries an ap-
propriation of $100,000 for purchase of
site and erection of building.
During almost the entire session
Thursday the Senate had under con-
sideration the Alaskan homestead and
raidroad right-of-way bill. One of the
features of the discussion was a speech
delivered by Mr, Vest, in which he
ridiculed the idea of homesteading any
part of Alaska or constructing railroads
in that district. His motion to elimin-
ate the homestead feature of the bill
by striking out the first section was
defeated. Senator Mason introduced a
resolution for the relief of the widow of
the "colored postmaster recently killed
by a mob at Lake City. S. C. It is the
in the House
of Representatives by Mr. White, of
North Carolina, to-day, except that the
After a debate lasting several days,
providing for right of way for railroads
in the District of Alaska. Compara-
| tively little discussion of general inter-
son-in-law of deceased. Mr. |
The estate, |
according to the petition of the admin- |
istrator, is valued at $25,000, and con-
sists entirely of personal effects.
Exercises at the Indian
nessed by several thousand persons,
training |
many senators and congressmen being |
present. The address before the liter-
societies was delivered by Rev.
Spining, of Orange, N. J,
“Abraham Lincoln.’ The graduating
class consists of 24 Indians, 12 boys and |
12 girls.
At Nigger Hollow, near Monongahela,
recent, a peddler hailing from Charleroi
says that he was held up and robbed
on the public road in daylight by two
men and used roughly, that $150 in
yoney was taken from him and that
his pack, containing $300 worth of
goods, was thrown into the river.
The home of Andrew Miller, of Slate
Lot, Crawford county, about 12 miles
from Corry, burned to the ground a few
days ago with all its contents.
and his wife were away visiting, and
their child, which was in the building,
wag cremated. The loss was $1,600; in-
sured.
The jury in the Much-Goldstein
breach of promise suit at Washington,
last week, brought in a verdict for the
plaintiff of $452 50. Both Miss Much and
Goldstein admitted that they had been
engaged, and the girl said she was still
willing to wed her delinquent lover.
Theodore B. Haupt, of Bellefonte, a
cigar maker and truck farmer, depart-
ed last. week for the Alaskan gold fields.
James L. Rote is arranging to start
March 12. Others who are arranging
to go in the near future are Henry
Jackson and William Barnes.
In response to Governor Hastings’ re-
quest for aid for the Cubans, contribu-
tions of $8,615 91 in cash and $2,278 93 in
merchandise. have been received. Of
this Pittsburg and vicinity gave $500 in
cash and merchandise valued at $426 50.
For punishing two scholars at River-
side schools, Monongahela, Kate Fry
and- Julia Baxter, teachers, have been
ordered to leave, but they refuse.
The breach of promise suit for $10,000
damages of Lena Much, of Pittsburg,
against Benjamin Goldstein is on trial:
at Washington.
James Canon. a cattle dealer, of
Hickory township, the other day butch-
ered a cow and in the stomach was
found the framework of a pocketbook
and several silver coins, including a 50-
cent piece, now turned black.
Merritt Long, who killed Floyd Tuck-
er at Mt. Morris, Greene county, was
convicted of manslaughter and escaped
from the Waynesburg jail last June, is
back at his old quarters, having been
brought from Iowa.
The monthly report of State Trease
urer Haywood shows a balance of $3,-
857,031 85, including $23,278 84 advances
to state employee and officers, at the
close of business February 28.
est was created by the bill.
House.
The house Monday passed the sun-
dry civil appropriation bill after four
days’ debate. The most important ac-
tion was the elimination of the appro-
priation for representation at the Paris
exposition on a point of order.
The house Tuesday adopted a report
by election committee No. 1, to seat
Oscar W. Underwood, of Birmingham,
Ala. G. B. Crowe was the contestant.
A bill for the appointment of an inspec-
tor of hulls and boilers in Alaska was
called up in the house by Mr. Payne, of
New York. He said there was a great
need. for such an official, because no-
tice ‘had already been given that 60 ves-
cels would engage in the Alaska trade
next season, and many of them were
rotten hulks. On a request made by
Mr. Lewis, action was temporarily
postponed.
The Loud bill to correct alleged abus-
es of the second-class mail’matter priv-
ilege last year pased the House by a
majority of 144 to 104, was buried under
an overwhelming majority by the
House Thursday.
Two appropriation bills were sent to
the president Friday, the pension bill
and the consular and diplomatic bill,
both of which went through their final
stage in the house. The most import-
ant action taken in the house was ac-
quiescence in an agreement to make the
claims under the provisions of the
bill appropriating about $1,200,000 for
war claims approved by the court. of
claims under, the provisions of the
Rowman “act a special order for next
Priday. The claims carried by the bill,
780 in number. are for stores and sup-
plies seized during the . war in- the
southern states. Only two bills were
passed, one to pay the heirs of Sterling
T. Austin about $69,000 for entton seiz=a
during the war. and the other to pay
an aggregate of $3,360 in small claims
growing out of back pay, etc., earned
during the war.
MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
Grain, ¥lour and feed
WHEAT—No. 1red $
No2red........ ve. esas
CORN—No. 2 yellow, ear..
No. 2 yellow, shelled
Mixed ear
Fancy straight winter
Rye flour
| HAY—No. 1 timothy
| Clover, No.
on |
|
Miller |
Hay, from wagons...........
FEED—No. 1 White Md., ton..
Brown middiings
Bran, bulk
STRAW—Wheat
Oat
SEEDS—Ciover, 60 Ibs. .
" Timothy, prime a
Dairy Products.
BUTTER—&Igin Creamery....$
Ohio creamery.
Fancy country roli
CHEESE—Obhio, new.
New York, new.
Fruits and Vegetables.
| BEANS—Hand-picked, # bu...3 1 10
POTATOLEB—White, per bu... 75
| CABBAGE—Home grown, bbl.
ONIONB—perbu.............
: Poultry, Etc
CHICKENS, # pair small
| TURKEYS, ¢ Ib
i EGGS—VPa. and Ono, tresn. ...
CINCINNATI
KER—Obhio creamery
PHILADELPHIA.
$5 00@ 625
Ee 100
33
34
21
12
WHEAT—No. 2red
COKN—No. 2 mixed.
OA1B—No. 2 white. ...... cise
BUTTER—Creamery, oxtra....
EGGB—Pa. firsts
NEW YORK
FLOUR—Patents. . ..
OATS—White Western. ...... ..
BUTTER— Creamery
EGGS—nstaté of Penn.
TF TT LIVE STUCK.
CENTRAL STOUK YARDS, EAST LIBERTY, PA.
CATTLE.
Prime, 1,800 to 1,400 Ibs
Good, 1,200 to 1,300 Ibs
Tidy, 1,000 to 1,350 Ibs 4
Fair iignt steers, $00 to 1000 iba, 4
Common, 700 to 900 ibs
$470@ 485
4°55,
0
8 50
a
4 2
8 95
8 50
Heavy
Roughs apdstags............ oe
SHEEP,
Prime, 95 to 105 Ibs, wetners...$ 4 80@
Goud, 85610 80 IDB... eue.ninnn ~ 4500
Fair, Oto 80 Ibs, ..cvvennnen... 3:00
COW
33588 ask srgg
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