Punxsutawney Spirit, 1909-08-11

              MADE BY COPPER SALE xiiiti vn i) t\vi<t: hkioiik By United Press. — The KTOItE NEWS. By United Press. KXAIIK ItElTNIOX MiioiikIi I'or llim. Ti'iM'p Says Scat in Hfftise Is <i«mmI «0VE«\011SH!I»?. . NOT MUCH MMRIED AT SQItlflES PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1909. Oil MIK IW Showing. lYaiikllii W iilei* I'liilit Hakes a €■«»«»«! municipal owvKitsifir pays I Tgg j |[||f fttttHofstOtKB fllifif, 3 'S' I ilHT CORKER OTHERS PRICE TWO GENTS D. M. Porsch Held in $50,000 Bond on Charge of Grand Larency. Stunts Com. Has Arranged to Produce 24 Kinds of Weather. DAM OF IMMENSE SIZE GOVERNOR TO REVIEW PARADE r»0 Varieties Will lie Displayed Altogether—f*riy.«*s Tor the llcst Floats. 100,000 l'Vcl Of I iitiitlM'i* Hiljllffed |o Stay Big (Viihiii tlulnark. ' Police n»'lie\r Tlie> \\ ill I-earn Nanu s ol" Financiers W Im» Hacked Job. \ ( II AM !•] |H)lt <ii:\U s WII.I, COST $225,000. \mi;iisI;i BtrkraMclii mid Kiiki'iic GUIkih'I. Augusta Beckenstine and Eu* Guignet, both of Punxsutawney, narriecl at the office of N. D. justice of the peace, this foreat 8:30 o'clock and left on the Iyer to take in the sights at the Bradford Old Home Week celebration after which they will visit friends at Buffalo and Attica, N. Y. The high contracting: parties were att« ndcd by Miss Dorothy Guignct, sifter of the bridegroom, as the bridesmaid, and Laird Simpson as best man. The bride, for a number of years, had been an efficient attache of the Whitney Hotel, and has the esteem of a large circle of friends. Mr. Guignet, Who came here from Rldred, with the new window glass company, has a good position, and is popular among his acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Gulgnct will take rooms for the fall an<l winter, and -will go to housekeeping: next spring. The that Timer, who is opposed by former Congressman Ernest F. Aeheson In the Washington-Heaver distrct, "would like to run for Governor has gained strength in the eastern part of the State and a number of queries have come t«» Pittsburg from Philadelphia on the subject. Both Tener and Aeheson are putting in almost all their time on a long Congressional campaign. "J have never said I would be a candidate for Governor and 1 do not intend becoming a candidate," he said. "1 am a candidate for re-election to Congress." PITTSBURG, Aug. 11— John K. Tener, of the Twenty-fourth Congressional district, announced positively last night that h«* is not and will not be a candidate for Governor. Tie is in Washington, Pa., and the refutation floated into Pittsburg by long distance telephone. filfi GREENHOUSE IS BURNED AT DUBOIS CHEAT THRONG SEE THE VETERANS PARADE Th<- house is now underging a thorough renovating from top t<» bottom, and I'Vrry effor: n il be made t*» a Id to the comfort of th.- patrons. Before having. .lann s Maginni.-*. minagei of th< theater last year, booked a large number of tirst-elas-- sliftus. AH these bookings have bee| retained and of others of th« vary best an bring; added. Hetweon tin- hii? productions vaudo\ 111 ami moving pictures will Ik run n 111!> An endeavor will he mud* ') K«*( the house in sha pe to <<po '  Monilny night with moving pictures uiul first-class vnutcville. If t'i« 1- -sees find it impossible ;o open up then tin y will re tard the op< ning until < »H Home W'l'ck when vaudeville an I p'r.'utvs will In inn each afternon and niufh". The regular theatrical season will probably npun about September 1 with the big musical comedy "Little Johnny .1 on« s' JEFfERSOl TOM LEASED Mitchell anil/M Will Itun It Tills ScawNy—First Claw Shows lt"oked. The Ji-ffet WrtT'theater has been leased for the season of 1909-10 to Messrs. Albert Mitehel and J. Dorst y .Wal. who are at present busy booking what they confidently exp« et to be the best | line of shows i-ver produced in this city. CLUE TO MURDERER OE SCHUMACHER GIRL The first bonds, $.",000 worth, an* not duo until 1913, and it will bo possible to make the change nnd effect a rod lift ion in rates a year or two before tho first bonds arc rodoomcMl. Tho gross Incomo of tho plant tho first your was $-14.74 1.3S and the operating oxponsos $,'*0,30(5.70. FRANKLIN. Pa.. Aim. 11—Frank- Frank-1 iti is having an experience in municipal ownership that is interesting. Last year by a vote of 4 to 1 the people decided to bond the city for $:M»0.000 to purchase the water plant. The first annual statement, just completed, shows a net profit of $1 4,344.- liS. During the campaign that preceeded the election none of the advocates of municipal ownership made an estimate of $11,000 and most of them were under $10,000. The plant has boon under the direction of three ('ouncilmen without experience and they have adopted several measures that will result in considerable economy during the see ond year. The profit the first year would enable the committeeto reduce domestic rates ten per cent., but thN has been thought inadvisable because the committee desires t<» change the pumping system, with a view to reducing the pumping expense onefourth.HOUSE WILL LOSE LEGISLATIVE WATCHDOG By United Press, I {Of11 K.ST FOR, N. V.. A tig. II \ pair of trousors found in tin «■••«d noar tho « emetery whoro Anna Schumacher was found murdered Saturday, furnishes a new clue. Fanners al: » say that a man oalod at « no of their hous'es and asked for a pair of trousers, saying that his were torn. Tho man's l'aee was era < lied, tAu v In some m-unenr hp yet unexplained the .stock was not h«»M by the bank, but was turned over to a clerk acting for Perse h anJ at tin- lattor's orders thrown «»n the curb market and sold for approximately $1»0,000, llow IVrsch obtained the capital to carry through the deal and why the stock was relinquished by the trust company are points yet to be chared By I'nited Press. NKW VnlJK. Auk 11 -Donald M. Porach was held in Jgo.ooo bond on the charge of grand larceny in connection with th« sale i»t $110,000 worth of Hienz» roper stock, which had been posted to secure a loan of 150,000. He was arraigned today as the result of habeas corpus proceeding which hi had instituted. Tie District Attorney hopes to rev i <4il more Inside facts in th ileal. An effort will be made, it is believed, to induce I'orsc f t»t rev .11 tin names of the men who backed him in the deal. Perseh is specitieaily charged with the larceny of $40,000, a profit obtained b\ the sale of 1 .".000 shares of Ohio Copper common and 4,#00 shares of Davis-Daly Copper common, which an agent for Heinze placed with the Windsor Trust Company, of this city, as security for a loan of 5 r.o.000. OPEN BRANCH WEATHERWORKS i The plant was f< rmerly owned by 'Karl E. Jvjftson"and was sold at a receiver's sale for a sum In the m igtifcjrhood of Si2,000. For two months it had not been operated on ai'count of extensive and costly repair* that worn being made to it, and no lire was in the boilers. The John K. DuBois hoso companv responded and staried work on the lire which had covered a large area and gave the ilremen one of the hardest tires they have had for some time. The barn contained a large quantity of green h;iy and some lime The origin is thaught to have been a used by either of these, both having qualities of spontaneous combustion In the barn, also, was abou #1.000 worth of glass for the new ouiidings that will soon be ready for the skylights. The conservatories suffered but slight damage. DuBois this morning had a bad scare when fire broke out a George Minn's greenhouse on Juniata Street and destroyed the barn, ofliee and engine ami boiler houses, causing a loss tha* is estimated at from $ S, 0 0 0 to $9,000. Mr. Minns was out in Boone's Mountains picking berries, or no doubt, his horses would have gone up in the flames, also. On those days M;inn his "Mr. Speaker, 1 object." struck a i hill to the marrow «»f many a meYnber (Continued on paba threw.) WASHINGTON, Aug 11 Puless precedent is to be disregarded there will be at least one void at the next session of the House that will be mighty hard to Mil. It i the oilice <>f Watchdog <»i L'-gislatlon. CongfesMiian James It Mann, of. Illinois, has filled this job fearlessly, j constantly and with fine discrimination, for years. The claims he has j blocked and the bills of shady color that he has held up at the momeii; that tiioy were about to be p i <« d art numbered by the hundred. Mann was keen as a hawk in watching legislation and as relentless. His times of special activity were oil days when members were privileged under tierules to call up bills, usually local in application,'in which they were particularly interested. I > \ unanimous consent or under suspension of the rules. On such days bills of this class arc rushed through by the >,•»;- Many are half-baked pr«»duets of legislation and nearly all of them aim I > take more or less of a hack at the government treasury. TUG GOES 10 BOTTOM ipt. Graft! us now has scores of men 115 teams excavating for thy big yit wedge, which will be almost feet long, and project below the it* of the earth to bed rock from e*l to the other. iiwiiters are at work building wk along the lower edge of tl/f* V$#on, and it will require 100,000 to build the box that the outer edges of the big frill Ifulwark during the course of Right through the center of Mi is enormous filling will be a wall of cement 10 feet at the base and 35 feet high. About two and one half miles east of Punxspta wney, near Cloe Station, obscured from the marts of travel by a bend in Jackson Run. the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad Com- pany has well under way a project that will, when completed, constitute tine of the artificial wonders of this faction of the State. iWhen Supt. Graffius and the cement m;Vn gets done up there, and the waters! of Jackson Run have been checked tfor a few weeks. Punxsutawncy peopSle tan meander up and look over the jplacid bosom of what will be a veritable lake, where once was a pretty lit'jle valley covered with saplings, fvhbs<l foliage scarce ever admitted the sijn's rays. The. railroad people have seen fit to designate the proposed enclosure, a reservoir, but it will be entirely too big toj be appropriately described by that name, Tim people who have been on the ground; whisper, "Getting ready n»r another Johnstown Hood," but they have not figured accurately. The ' reast of that dam will be about 7."0 feet long and 35 feet high at the central point. Where the water is deepst tlie base of the retainer will be 150 feet and the top wide enough for a couple of street car treeks and an automobile pike. The breakwater base narrows as you approach the outer edges and one can, without drawing upon the imagination over much, see a great wall that will be almost as stable as the hills that now flank the rffttTtTf The dam on the sides. * But that is not all. 1 will| cenn Perhaps the most interesting evidence given at tho coroner*h inrfuosi yesterday, was that of the t w< coroner's physicians examined, who testified that part of tin- face of the dead girl was in such a condition is to establish that the murderer visited the scene : the crime twice, and that the body was eposod to daylight for some lime. Efforts arc being made to find a young- woman, who, it is .said, waa with Hiss Schumacher when she w.».s decorating the graves of her family last Saturday afternoon. The funeral of Miss Schumachor w held from h« r late homo todiv and police wore required to hold in eh.ck the great crowds. The trousers were found, not torn, but blood-stained. The police , re [questioning two men who were brought | in today, one of whom has a s. 'M' ii ed face. rATESBORO WEDDING GAME ENDS in DISPUTE In order given followed the posts »f the various States In the order of eniority: Illinois, Wiseonsn, Pennlylvania, New York, Ohio, Connecti•iit, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine, California and Nevada. Rhode 'stand, New Hampshire and Vermont, l_)eJi;• 1t m e n t of tii<' 1'otomac, Virginia j ind North Carolina, Maryland, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, Color a da and Wyoming", Kansas, Delaware, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, Kentucky, West Virginia, South Dakota, Washington and Alaska, Arkansas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Montana Idaho, Arizona, (Jeorgia and South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Utah. SALT l-AKM CITY. rt;i)i, \ug. II The largest crowd ever assembled in Suit Lake City thronged the downtown streets this morning and witnessed the greut parade of veterans, the .spectacular feature of the Grand Army national encampment. With flags flying. hands playing and crowds cheering, the thousands of survivors of the army in blue took part in their forty-third encampment parade. OMlces, stores and factories throughout the city were closed, and tile people made the occasion a holiday. The column started shortly after 1 o o'clock. Along Main street for the distance of a mile, tin- parade countermarched and was reviewed hy officials of the State and city and many distinguished guests, representing all sections of the country. First in line came a squad of mounted police, followed by the grand rnar. ha I and his staff. i'<>mimm«|er-in-<'liief Nevius and invited guests followed in carriages.BROTHERS DROWN IN BIG RESERVOIR After his arrest yesterday afternoon, IVrsch intimated that there were men "higher up" in the transaction, but he refused to say more, upon the advice «>t counsel. He was arraigned late yesterday afternoon before a magistrate, and after unhave bail retUCet t<> 000, wutf eommitt- <1 to the Tombs. Charles lent/, tn isun r of the Kast■ rn Mn'u inn < ompany. of Williamsburg. and Henry t'hlman. a business associate. were amonft the other witnesses examined ;*t the District Attorney's office yesterday, t'hlman admitted that lie made out a note for $.70,000 in I'' is. i s favor, but id not know to what use it was put. He was to receive $1!M> for it. but h« understood the note was not to be dis- counted for use iu any way. FVrseh. according t.» the police, has been arrested twice before, once for forgvrj <>n it charge made at the re- MUcst of his father, and another time in connection with taking subs* riptions for an i • fund. Both charges were dropped. The committee last night voted lo give three prizes of $ir>, $1*0 and $."» each for the first, second and third best floats Tor making weather. As neither the Canoe Ridge observatory or the Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter float will be eligible t > compete for the prizes, here is a fine opportunity for the fellow of 4 nius to make a winning. The Stunts Committee, which has in charge the page ant of the attaches of of the < 'anoe Kidge Weather Observatory for Groundhog Day. <> H. .Week, las' night set on foot plans for the production of 24 of the 57 varieties of weather that will be manufactured here |or the delegation of Oovernor Stuart and the notables who will be here Friday, August L'7. Members of the Punxsutawncy Groundhog Club, who interpreted the call for assistance to get up the parade as including only the Stunts Committee, should undeceive thom- for BrYr Groundhog has use for and requires all who consider themselves loyal members of the club. There will be another meeting of the club members and Stunts Committee next Tuesday night, and all are expected to answer. "Present". The pageant, which will be viewed from a stand in front of the park by Oovernor Stuart and his party, will consist of five divisions. The first division will be the mounted zouaves, in charge of Captain Pitcher, of Troop |>; the second division is to be the prophets in automobiles. The third division will include a replica of the Canoe Ridge Weatherworks, with llr'er Oroundhog and his assistants operating the machinery. Also four beautiful floats, symbolical of Spring. Summer, Fall and Winter. The fourth division will be a succession or floats, where 57 varieties of weather and meteorological phenomena will be produced. The fifth division will bo the* Canoe Ridge Zoo of the Piinxsutawney Weatherworks. Prophets and meterologists will man the floats, and attend the zoo exhibit. Following is a tentative list of the varieties of weather and nieterologieal phenomena that will be on exhibition: Hot weather, squalls, thunder, lightning. cold weather, rain, clear, cloudy and partly cloudy weather, fair weather, clearing up, milky way, backward weather, bell weather, Spring, Summer, Fall. Winter, hurricane, cyelone, aurora borealis, rainbow, heavy weather, gale, breeze, zephyr, mist, hail, sleet, fog. big dipper, dog star, evening star, Venus, pleiades, threatening weather, icicles, sloppy weather, muddy weather, dopey weather, sunset, sunrise, a No. 1 weather, mixed weather, volcano, thermometer, barometer, hot air. cold air, weather laboratory. typhoon, etc. LASORERS ON STRIKE BOSTON. Ma*s.. August 11 misedng men atv Captain Kvans. I>r Trotter, a machinist. \1atf Hylielil. Seamen Taylor and KM wards and Cook White. The tug left Portsmouth at three o'clock for 15 > ton, making good headway, when a mountain-high wave eaused it to turn tur !• Later—i'apt. Kvans and one mem ber «»f the erew were rescued ,'roui floating wn-ckas- . UOSTON. Auk. 11 The I S. (inv• Tnnicnt tug Nezinseott, riirnniaiidi <{ by ('apt. Thomas Mvans, was .struck by a heavy s«-a off Capo Anil, and sank with Iut captain. There wvt" live others aboard, of whom it is l»< - lieved tin- Captain's wiiv and :*»n were drowned. The balanee r< ached land by boat. liiiilding Idiy Down Tools. Thousand Men Working on Oliver Mr. La von may establish a branch weather works on his groundhog farm and run opposition to Gen. Dyrenforth, Willis Moore, et al. the Kailli Affords. Texan Visiting- Here Wants I lie I Jest II. A1. Lavoo, of Dallas, Texas, is visiting at th<- home of his daughter, Mrs. John Barton, of Klk Run. Mr. Lavoo, who is a native of Wayne county, Pennsylvania, went West soon after the war, and has been a resi- dent of the Lone Star State for 113 years. He served in the 17th fa. Cavalry and participated in 17 battles when, during an engagement, his horse fell on him, inflicting injuries which kept him in the hospital until after the close of the war. Since returning to his native State, Mr. Lavoo has learned to eat groundhog and, although retired from tractive affairs of life, he. is now considerng a proposition to organize a syndicate and establish a groundhog farm down in Texas on one of the big cattle ranges, lie believes that the disciples of General Sam Houston have a right to the best that the earth provides, and are entitled to a change from a diet of eTxas steal* steak and prairie chicken. SONS OF VETERANS CAMP ENGLISH STRIKEBREAKERS LEAVE FIR SWEDEN The Hopper boy had reniovt -1 his shoes, and Gardner had his shoes on, ll is believed that Hopper. while va.l-ing. goi beyond his depth, and that Gardner attempted a rescue. The boys left their hom<- v sterday afteruoii, and upon not n urning in tli< r\ i ning. their father organized a si-arching party to scour t » ewoods. The search continued al nuht. and finally the boys were found drowned this morning. I'.y I* Hi ted Press \K\V K KXSINCTiiX. IV,. Aug 11. The bodies of Frank Gardner and llenr> Hop»-r, eight and nin< yearn old. were found, clasped in • aeh oilier'* arms in tie reservoir of th« water company earl\ today I lev. C. W. Mlnvr Will Deliver Address T(>uiori*o\v AI'Utihmhi, IMPEACHMENT TIL ConlinuBd on Page Three The Punx'y players clalme.l it wuh fowl, and the opposition arid 'lie umpire naid "fair". Laird, with two out. singled. and Smoube repeated his feat. I >. Mcguown drew a base on balls, filling the bases. Ben Irvin, next up. lr.ced tiie ball down past third bas< , and before it whs recovered a quartette of Rig Run players had shinned jver tieplate.What happened then was reported by our I»ig Run corrcspi rident as follows:The proceedings, according t«» ill accounts, were not unusual as ball games go, until the seventh inning. When Big Uun went to bat in that chapter, the score stood 2 to I in tavor of the Gleekleritcs. Gleckler's Independent baseball team yesterda*' afternoon went *o Rig Run, where, in a game that lasted sis and two-third innings, they came off with two scores, to live for the opposition.11 \ in Circles I he liases on What I'unx'y I'luyers Claim Was a Foul. MUTE STOPPED FUMES |re now on the ground two and tons and tons of Ijtbne and cement ready for bctor. Ifcial figures have not been tout men who are accounted es of such things do not hesiedict that the big tilling, the faring the site, and the cost id will be mighty little short )0. A $-25,000 lake will be something I worth \VhiIe, and a more charming site I for such a body of water eould not be i manufac tured to order. • Below, a pretty little valley is ear> peted with green fields that shade- off into a fine view of the wooded hills to / the west. Surrounding three sides of Th^ inamnj crush rM the coS The < given  good j$* tatc tcj cost  of the I of Jaaoj the lake, and reaching down just close i enough to form a rim ior a wide boulevard. is a pretty forest of thickly leaved sapling's. On the benches back of I the rim are acres of ideal sites for cottages, and it is not unreasonable to I expect that some day "Xoonan's Lake" will be one of the most fashionable J summer resorts in the Allegheny } mountains. The B., R. & P. has authorized the construction of the Jill for the lake without soliciting assistance from oulside parties at this end of the line, and we hope that these suggestions about the boulevard and summer resort will prove to be a logical outgrowth of the plans as already conceived. SPOKANE, Wash. Aug- 11.—It »* bclievd that Secretary Bellinger will be « ilt d upon to m;ikc an explanation this afternoon t«» the Irrigation Congress, following the publication of the story of the alleged grab of water power [ sites in Montana, -afire the restoration | to entry of lands withdrawn by Roosevelt. Hailinger will speak this after- noon. Reports from Sweden nay thai many farm hands have joined in the strike, and that there is a shortage of help in the agricultural districts. The conditions in Stockholm are normal. By rnited I'r- -m. LONDON. Auk. II. D-.-pile 111-' warnings from the Hoard of Trade \ eral shiploads more of Knglish strikebreakers left today for Sweden. They were told that the doors of organized labor would be permanently closed to them if they returned to Kngland. The Swedish agents work among the English unemployed, who are eager to accept the risks involved for th« sake of employment. The camp .site is situated on the creek, an ideal place in every way. Scores of visitors Inspected the camp yesterday and expressed themselves us highly pleased with the order and military equipment of the camp. Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock Rev. C. W. Miner will delver an address on the camp grounds. Everybody is invited, and a largo crowd fa looked for. The Sons of Veterans, of Punxsutawney, Reynoldsville and DuBols, went into camp yesterday at Alahoe Park with all three camps well reprsented. The Big Bun camp, which was recently organized, will be on the grounds in a few days with a good turn out. S. A. Rlnn and family, >f lMnxsutawney; Minnie and (Moid 'lin.n, of Indiana; Miss Julia R* p-dier, af Rcynoldsvillo; Misses Saily and Ktlie Kettieberger, ('urwensvllh ; Mr. s.nd Mrr. James London, of Big Run; M1ss Lulu London, of Sykesvill ; Mis.s Pearl and Thomas Lingenfclter, of VValston; Mrs. Loma Barton, of Punxsutawnoy; Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Teagarden. The young couple left on the midnight Hyer for Buffalo and Niagara Falls, for a 10 days' wedding tcur. Those present from out of town were an follows: The bride has been a favorit with a large circle of freinds 1m Yateshoro, Punxsutawney and Big Run. and the bridegroom !s a valued employe i i t.h«- Yatesboro store. Alter inspec ting the many present*, the guests sat down > > ;• wedding supp« r of surpassing excellence and appointments.The Presbyterian Church ritual, supplemente ilby the ring e ieinitny. The attendants included Miss Fannie London, sister of the bride, as bridesmaid; Dr. J. Am James as best man: M'ss Mary Rinn, eousni of the bride, of Punxsutawney. as mai l of honor; Mits' Jennie London, sister «»f the bride, was the flower and Miss Minnie Rinn. cousin of ih« bride, of Indiana, rendered, 111 >s. impressively, on the piano, Lohengrin. was used. l ulled ill Marriage. Miss l.doa London and L. s. /'cut/ Yatesboro, a prosperous mining town of Northern Armstrong County, last night was the scene of .1 pretiy wedding, when Miss Edna Viola London and Levert S. I'entz were married. The ceremony, whirl; took place at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. William Brumbaugh, in th presence of a large number of invited guests, was performed by Rev. H. G. Toagarden, of this place, a former pastor of the bride, at 8:30 o'clock. Bring the children to our Clean-Up Shoe Sale and have them tltted. Tonight, 7 to 8. Any woman's $3, $3.CO. $4 tan or bronze Oxfords, $1.69. Tonight, 7 to s, All men's $8.50 and $4 tan or bronze Oxfords, '$2.19. C Hams, 12 1-2 cents a pound. Parke** unmatohable C?offee, 5 pound can SI.2ft. Worth 3ft cents a pound BKVKRLY. Mans.. Aug. 11.— (Special—Dr. Walker, a masseur, of Bos- ton, visited Taft this morning and will continue in an effort to stop the President's increasing weight. Th< treatment consists of massaging th>* che.sl, arms and abdomen. He is then taken to the hack yard where more strenuous exercise is indulged in. Taft I* sensitive of his 326 pounds and i* anxious to reduce flesh. The President golfed later in the day. Ten minutes after the men struck on the Oliver building a large piece of scaffold fell which would likely have cost lives had the men been at tivik. A meeting of the strikers or their committee has been called for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when all matters pertaining to structural work on large buildings will be threshed out. There wil be a meeting tonight when an effort will be made to have all structural ironworkers called from aU buildings under course of erection in the city until the contractors take greater precautions to make things safe. As a result of these various strikes the carpenters and bricklayers are compelled to quit. The structural ironworkers struck because, they allege, the contractor is not providing safety precautions, and the hoisting engineers struck because they allege, two non-union men are cm ployed. PITTSBURG. Aug. 11—Over a thousand men working on the new Oliver building being erected by United States Senator Oliver are out on a strike. Laborers working with the structural Ironworkers struck because, they allege, they ere not being paid the union rate of wages. They claim that they ought to be paid 25 cents an hour and that they were being paid only from J 5 to IS cents an hour. THK WKATUEK. WASHINGTON, D. C\, Aug. 11.— Following is the forecast for Western Pennsylvania: Valr tonight and Thursday. Moderate temperature. OLYMP1A, Wash., Aug. 11—The Washington legislature met in special session today to sit as a court of impeachment for the trial of State Insurance Commissioner John H. Chivoly, against whom charges were filed last June following a sensational investigation of the affairs of the State insurance department by a committee appointed by the legislature. The case against Commissioner Shively is the outgrowth of political scandals which have stirred the State of Washington for many months past and in which charges of alleged mismanagement and dishonesty in the conduct of various departments of the State government have been freely made. The articles of impeachment against the State Insurance Commissioner contain nearly thirty counts in all. been sent, but they were unable to stop the flames until the use of dynamite was lntroducd. Aid from neighboring towns had There is a loss of over a million dollars, and hundred of the summer colonists lost their belongings, and are temporarily homeless. PORT JAR VIS, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Dynamiting early thii* morning stopped the spread of flames that wiped oilt practically the entire business section of Montlcello a fashionable summer resort near here. The Knarrs will hold their annual reunion at Hand's Park fhursdav, August 18. All relatives and friends are cordially invited to cjme and bring baskets. J. B. Kbrrliart Co.. lAil. VOL. Ill-frO.278 ' "TB^KlC Huge feesep/rirBeing ConatTOg(«ByB.)R.&p. —, Co. Near Cloe.  m $ ki. K ■