Pittston Gazette

              JJittoton YVEATHI2K CQNOmONS. THE HOME PAPER Forecast Until 8 p. 111 c,0c\cvN Eastern *»- " x\^°T -or I'or i Iio People of Pittston aiul Vicinity. Rain tonight and probably rain on Thursday. AMi Tin: HOME NEWS. 56TH YEAR. I WEEKt I DAILY US E»* ESTABLISHED 1850. 1ST. Br TIIEO. HART 1882. PITTSTON, PA.; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7,1906. TWO CENTS A COPY. FOUTV 0RNT3 A MONTH. } EIGHT PAGES FOREIGN CHILD KILLED BY TRAIN HELD FORM FOOTMAN'S NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH HAMILTON IS HERE pnny offlolnls to politicnl parties constituted tlio crime of grand larceny. If not. what crime, asked the grand jury. Judge O'Sulllvan after listening to the presentation of the grand'InqitcBt said lie would give that body the necessary reply to their questions next week. This action of the grand jury marked the real beginning of the district attorney's part in tin- following up of the disclosures made in the Armstrong iu surance investigation. TEMPLE IRON CO. PLEADED GUILTY. Six-Year-Old I'pper I'itlston Hoy ■Fames MutVgi, of SclmKtopol, Struck Struck by a Lclilgli Valley K11- by Piece of Coal That Fell Prom Has Returned to Face Char- Little Concern that Shelters Anthracite Combine. gine Yesterday Afternoon Italian Lad in New York the Surface. Claiche Girl Admits Killing ges Against Him. George Navakosky,, a six-year-old school hoy of Polish parentage, was fatally hurt yesterday afternoon, shortly after four o'clock, by being struck hy a Lehigh Valley train as he was returning to his home,, on the west side of the Lehigh Valley tracks, in the rear of the Stegmaicj' branch office, on North—Alain street. He died a half hour later at his home. Navakosky at. tended Jefferson school, having been a pupil in Miss Collier's room. After school was dismissed be loitered on Was Kidnapped. James Moffatt, of SeBastopol, employed as a footman In No. 5 shaft, of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., had a close call from being killed yesterday afternoon while at his work. As it was, he was rendered unconscious for some hours and received painful iit- Moit'iltt Gerdron. SAYS HANDS CLEAN. BAER IS AT ITS HEAD $20,000 IS DEMANDED. POLICEMEN ACCUSED. ASTOR TO PROBE MUTUAL juries to his sculp. District Attorney Surprised by His Return. Practically a Clearing House for Anthracite Matters. Heartbroken Father Says He Cannot Raise Money. standing at (lie rCiot of the. shaft, when a piece of coal was accidentally kicked Into the opening from the surface. The coal dropped with terrible velocity una had it struck Moffatt on the head would have caused his death, lie was struck a glancing blow, the coal cutting into the back of his scalp and just grazing his skull. He fell unconscious from the force of the blow and was taken to the surfacc, where he revived after a time. He was then removed to his home and given medical treatment. was Charged With Being Mixed Up in the Murder Case. President Peabody's Employer Hires a Lawyer to Investigate the Company. New York, March 7.—William Waldorf Astor of London after a conference with Lord Norlhcliffe, formerly Sir Alfred llarinsworth, has commissioned a lawyer iu this city to make an impartial report on the situation in the Mutual Life Insurance company. New York, March 7.—Unheralded and unannounced Andrew Hamilton, the long absent legislative agent of the New York Life Insurance company, slipped into New York on the steamship 1 (eutschland and hastened away to Albany before the news of his arrival had got beyond the officers of the company, who alone were iu the se- In view of the fact that the Temple Iron Co. operates several collieries in this vicinity—the Alt. Lookout, the Forty Fort and the Itarry JO.—the fol- the way homo, with several companions, and when he reacljed the crossing leading to his homo ho stood close to the tracks. It is said that lie stood on the west hound track and was throwing stones at a train on the other track, when an engine and passenger car. west bound, came along at high speed. The hoy did not notice his danger in time and was struck ;i glancing hlow by the engine, which hurled him from the tracks with such force that he landed several foot New York, March 7.—Two letters demanding !?-CD,IHJO for the return sale uiul sound of bis sou Tony, who disappeared from Ills home last Sunday, have convinced John RozzulM, an Italian banker, in business at 114!) First avenue, that the lad is the victim of a kidnaping plot. The heartbroken parent said lie could not raise the ransom money without defrauding his patrons, and in tears be added, "T would rather they would kill my lio.v than that I should cheat my clients." New York, March 7.—Amid a scene of unprecedented uproar iu a criminal tribunal Berthe Claiche, the French girl charged with killing Krnil (Jerdron, whose mistress she had been, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree before Justice Davis aud a jury. lowing article taken from today's Philadelphia Press and giving the inside history of the corporation is of decided interest to our readers: The light against Fish In the Illinois Central board and the fact that President I'eabod.v of the Mutual, who also Is representative of the Astor Interests In tills country, had used the Astor influence in th? Illinois board against Fish alarmed Astor. Senator "Ben" Tillman, of South Carolina. threatens to thrust his pitchfork jnto the famous Temple Iron Company. He thinks by turning over that mysterious little corporation he will find concealed underneath the gigantic anthracite coal combination. The Claiche case had attained considerable notoriety through the disclosure* It brought regarding the so called "vice squad" of the police department. Several policemen were accused by the defense ol' being mixed up In the murder of (Jerdron, and the prosecution asserted that a policeman held (Jerdron while Berthe shot him. The girl's story that (Jerdron had forced her into leading a life of shame that he might live luxuriously upon her earnings and that she killed him in self defense secured her much sympathy at llrst, but revelations iu the courtroom destroyed most of it. The whole case was one of sickening disclosures of the under- cret FIREMEN WIN VICTORY With no concealment save the sign ■i way. Ing mi the ship's register as H. A. Mi tun. which differently punctuated an capitalized is "llaniiltou," the inai The train was Stopped tinC1 (he crew and neighbors rushed to where the ehlld lay. He was alive, hut unconscious, and was carried to his home, where he died a half hour later. The only visible evidenooj of injury were a few cuts on the side of the child's head, but il is believed that his skull was fractured. Besides the child's mother, a brother and sister, eight and live yeai's old, respectively, survive. Ills father lefl home more than a year ago and since that time nothing has been heard of him. Judge NeDvcombe, of the Lackawanna county court, lias decided that tin- Firemen's Relief Association, instead of the city treasurer of Seranton, is entitled to possession of the money received by Seranton from the Commonwealth as its share of the tax Trouble with the general agents C»f the Mutual iii (ireat Britain, (Jerinuiiy and France lias reached an acute stage, and President Peuhody 1ms dispatched llenr.v 10. Duncan, .Jr.. the superintendent hi' foreign agencies, to London. The foreign agents of the company, it was learned, had allied themselves with the protective association of policy holders. Tony Bozzufti is fourteen and a half years old and returned last October from Bedovia, Italy, where lie had spent four years studying for the priesthood in San Mmrn seminary. Since his return lie had been attending St. Ann's academy at Seventy-sixth street aiul Lexington avenue, lie is a bright youngster, tall for his age. In view of the great strike of miners that is imminent it is interesting to examine what tin- Temple Iron Company has been and .is today. Docs it or does it not hold in its hand the hard coal trade of America, which means some $:D.rD0,000,C)00 of business paid by foreign insurance companies doing business in Pennsylvania. The amount of money Involved is about $10,000, being the accumulation of live years' lax. including interest. The money is to be used as a fund for the relief of city firemen who may be Injured. while in tin' discharge of their duties. ii initially The anthracite railroads have declared frequently and persistently that they have 110 agreement 011 coal prices and none on freight rales. .Strangely enough, for half a dozen years these prices and rates, always alike in all cases, have been adopted by the railroads and operators. President Peabody announced 11 int. he had received no further resignations and sent out word by bis secretary that it was "all nonsense" to talk about him resigning. Seen Walking With Stranger On Sunday afternoon Tony's father sent him from their home at ;•:{!D Kast Sixty-second street to invest $10 in past age stamps, at postottice substation No. SI in lDitinoro's pharmacy. Second avenue anil Forty-second street. '1 he cleric in the drug store remembers positively having sold Tony the stamps. Since then none of the lad's acquaintances lias seen him ex- ANTHRACITE SITUATION world A PECULIAR ACCIDENT. While none of the officials !u the district attorney's office would talk for publication as to the attitude of tlie district attorney toward Berthe Olaiche it was admitted by lier attorney, Abraham Levy, that she would tell to the grand jury all she about the relations of the police with the women of the Tenderloin. GUN PLAY ON STREET. If the Lehigh Valley does not arrange with the Heading, or Lackawanna have a compact with Krie and Jersey Central, as their presidents declare, bow does it happen that they always hit upon precisely the same Operators Said to be Likely Train Struck Powder Wagon To Grant Increass and Big Blaze Followed One Foreignsr Shot Another figures ecpt an aunt, who saw him early on Sunday afternoon walking wltli a in Upper Pittston. Kvidently this question has bothered Senator Tillman. In his search for a solution ho has run across the Temple Iron Company and he has struck an attitude, figuratively speaking, like a well trained dog pointing Statistics Submitted ami Hcfcrrctl to The maximum penalty for manslaughter in the first degree is twenty years. In consideration of the »ervice she will do the community in exposing police corruption a recommendation that she be treated leniently will be made by District Attorney Jerome. a Suh-coinmittec, Which W ill Itc- strange man When Tony did not return immediately with the stamps there was little ;inxiety at laune. but at 7 o'clock in tin1 Wagon Was Shattered and tin; lilazc Itlistercd the Taint on the Sides J AXDKKW HAMILTON y\S 1 !CC•CD Tost. AYlio is Under Kail t'oi' prtrt to tlic 0|H'rators" Com- ol' Several Passenger Coaches, Slabbing: Countryman. Nearly t bird mittee as Soon evening his father became so uneasy that lie inquired in all police stations in the vicinity whether any accident to Tony had been reported. Also Slightly Itiiruing tin knows most about flic* famous How dojf" funds which have never satisfactorily explained and was desired Victim- of -a lliillet—.Mail I m-orporal ion of Concern as Possible Kiighietr and Willi CDiiii iiml Also a The Temple Iron Company was incorporated under (he laws of Ponn- The anthracite operators met York yesterday aiid, after Fireman It is said that she will be committed to a reformatory institution. Ihinp iwUlmoii.v fiy tin I{«'«*C11"«I .Miidc His 10s- svlvania In 1 K7. It has one of those easy going charters that permits it to do pretty much anything ii may de- Now brief consultation agreed upon thD Dominic P-ox/utH, tlio hoy's uncle, who lives with llle family, discovered a note under the door to their apartments early on Monday morning. It was addressed to the father of the boy in Tony's own handwriting. The father is confident that the lad was forced to write the note, for it told of Tony's capture and demanded that be paid for his release. Express train No, 1, west bound, on the Lehigh Valley railroad, met with a very unusual accident at 1 o'clock this afternoon while passing through thi' village of Warrior ltun, a few miles below Wilkesbarrc. It seems that a loaded powder wagon belonging to the Oliver Powder Works, at Anns tronu investigating e-jtn glided into New York like : cape—Test sliglit- "lines to be followed in formulating? a tlnal reply to the demands submitted to them more than a week agDD hy President Mitchell, representing 145,- 000 miners in the hard coal tieldH of EXPRESS TRAIN DOWN EMBANKMENT 'l\vCD ltallroad Employes Seriously In- sluulow anil as iftiiekly passed out ly Wounded At first it was iron company iron furnace It simply' oppritted an it Heading. Fa. Prepared to Meet Charges, Several persons who happened to lie on Main street in Upper I'ittston, and .several others, who chanced to be Originally tlic capital stock only $240,000. That was in tin* primitive (lays of its existence, and while it was still in the blast fiii'inue biisi- was jured and Four Mail Clerks Cut To ii friend nt Hit* pieiC tin- innii who D-ol more thiui $1 l.(HK) from the New York I.iff "by order of the president" Pennsylvania near windows in tile same locality saw a bit of real gun play in which Italian* figured, yestC*rCl«j afternoon between 4 o'clock and 4:;iO. A shooting affray, on Main street, (luring the afternoon, was the novelty to which they were treated. That one man did not fall a victim of another's desire to hill him was due only to the merest It Is stated on whin Is given lis excellent authority thut the anthracite operators are williiiK*uj grant the in- Liurel ltun, had broken down on the railroad crossing. The "driver, seeing that it would be impossible for him to get the wagon off the track, qulckly unhitched his horses. He had scarcely done so when the express train came along at a lively rate. The locomotive struck the disabled wagon and shattered it. The collision was so sharp that the friction ignited the powder, causing a large blaze for a few moments. The sides of several passenger cars on the side where the powder blazed tip were badly scorched, the paint peeling off. Engineer Henry Seals, of lias ton, and Fireman Henry Richards, also of Has ton, were slightly burned by the llames, but were able to continue their run to and llruiscd, SI 11(1 Uioiti. Hinghamton, N. Y., March 7—-Erie train No. 7, leaving New York at S p. m., known as the Pacific express and considered the fastest mall and express train on the road running between New York and Chicago, ran into an open switch in this city this morning at 5 o'clock and plunged down a twenty foot embankment into "I am hero prepared to moot any charges that may lie made against mo, jli March, IS9, the Temple Iron Company emerged from its old shell and hlossomeil out into a hard coal proposition. Its outstanding capital has Increased to ?2,f»06.Q00. foal crease of pay, if the men waive tlveir With this an a start- Terms of Release Stated "My hands are clean, and I have no four of the result. If anybody sees tit in «ot after me with a gun lie will Unit out that I am armed with a cannon." ither demand ing point, high hopes arc now entertained that tin- harmuniitlng wo/; now The hanker was Instructed at a eer tain hour and on a certain day tills week to walk north from his hank in First avenue and to have the money vvltli him in cash. He should keep walking until a man should accost him and say, "Brooklyn hrldjre." To this man he was directed to hand over the money without »|uestion. On these terms, the letter said, liis hoy would b? mines at Scran ton', purporting to contain 4 5,000000 tons of anthracite, were purchased. .Something like 2,000,000 tons of coal were mined annually. Although tills is only one-thirteenth of the total output of anthracite, it under way will BO on to a successful Although Now York Life officers, among them Vice President Darwin Kingsley, said they did not know Hamilton was coming back, two officials of tiie company were on the ship with him. chijnee. Of two shots fired at him one out a furrow through his scalp. Had it been a lialf inch lower it must have entered his temple. Immediately after the shooting, both men engaged in it tied. The man who was shot lias hceii located, but tli«• other One is still breathing free air. The conclusion The reply of the operators, it is semi-olllclnlly stated, will be handed President Mitchell within three days. Court street The operators, Including the heads The engineer, Sam Matron, of Horncllsvillc. and the fireman, L. A. Jackson of Cameron, were seriously injured and are in the city hospital in a critical condition. is within the truth to say that the Temple Iron Company is the most potent factor in the anthracite domain. of all coal-currying roads, as xvel'l as repre»eniatives of the independent Hamilton mingled freely with the ship's passengers coining over, hut his secret was well kept, for when District Attorney Jerome was informed that he hud returned he said: mine owners, met late yesterday afternoon in .the 'Jersey Central build- Hozzutli informed police headhuntters of the receipt of liiis letter and was advised to keep quiet while the police worked. Then another letter came tt» the hanker tliroutjli the mall. It was written in Italia!), evidently tD„v a man of education, autl had heen mailed from New York postolliee sub station (i. It reiterated the demand for Jf'-'O.IKM) ransom and added that Bozzuiii would never see his hoy again if it was not paid. Moreover. Bozznffi sa.Vs, the letter threatened Uim personally.released The mail clerks, Edward Jones, William Barlow. 1"). L Gray, B. A. JCrampt, escaped with cuts and bruises. The fire department was called to extinguish a tire.In the mail car. most of the mails being saved. police expect to get him iC] iwover essary to examine what the company now comprises and who are back of To understand why it is only nee- President Haer, of the Heading within a short tinu presided over the meeting The man who was shot Is L.eo Test it. When Temple Iron bought it1* coal lands it was obliged to issue bonds. low-operators would say a word about yesterday's meeting. The sole information made public was the following olliciai statement, handed out by President Thomas, of the Lehigh Val- Xeither President Haer nor his fel- Say re The intensity of the blaze during: the few moments that it lasted may 1hD judged from the fact that it penetrated through a small opening in the express ear door and set lire to several pieces of paper inside the "I do not believe it. I shall have to see Hamilton face to face before 1 shall be convinced that he is here. But even if he were here in this room I would have nothing to say now." of Bolln avenue, who is under bonds for court on the charge of having stabbed Donlinlck Coluzzi on the night of January 28. Coluzzi Is still in the hospital, but is out of danger. The man Who did the shooting is John Colinde, who was also known as John Sandy, but who was generally called Wells Fargo messenger, Sen ton New York, was also slightly Injured. Guarantors of llomls Hero are the railroads thai guarantee the principal and Interest of the 115,000,000 mortgage bonds authorized :— Three hundred passengers, of which half were immigrants westward bound, escaped without Injury. A Lackawanna train was crossing the Erie tracks'and, owing to a blinding snow storm, Engineer Mason did not see the danger signals. An automatic derailer threw the train down the bank. ley railroad Charles E. Hughes, counsel for the legislative investigating committee and the one man who u few weeks ugo wanted most of all to see Hamilton, was out of town. John (J. Milhurn, chairman of the house cleaning committee of tiie New York I.ife Insurance company, which investigated tiie Heading, T.ebigh Valley, Erie, Pelaware, Lackawanna & Western. New Jersey Central and New York Susquehanna & Western. statistics bearing upon miners were this afternoon submitted by the operators. Tliey were referred it week ago by It was said by passengers on the express train that there was considerable dynamite, as well as powder, on the wagon that was struck, and that it was only by the merest chance that it did not explode and cause great havoc. As it was, the accident was one of the most peculiar in the annals of railroading. The railroad and express men on the train said that the blaze was so intense and came upon them so suddenly that it "dazed them Sandy Claus having- shot a man in the head In As in Collude has a record Upper Pitt$ton four years ago These same railroads also guarantee to pay a dividend of C5 per cent, on the capital stock of (lie Temple Iron Company. The stock Is held in trust bv the Guaranty Trust Company, of In a sub-committee to report to thD general eommittet the Test case, it seemed to be his intention to kill his enemy, but the bullet failed to hit where he intended it eommittoe of seven;) call of thp chairman as soon as pos- (tin operators to meet at thf KiCiiin11|DCCI Boy Escnoes, New York, March 7.—Antonio Itozzulii. the 14-year-old son of John Bozurti, who lias been missing since Sunday afternoon and was declared by his parents to have been kidnapped,, returned this morning. A telephone message received at police headquarters, shortly after !D o'clock said: CITY WON SUIT. In Case of Donolnie Vs. Plttxton City "yellow dog" fund and handed in a re port advising that Hamilton and .Mi1 Met'all lie sued for vast sums not ac counted for, is in Buffalo. should The shooting yesterday was the result of the stabbing affray in which New* York, and it can he retired no\Y at any time at par, which is $100 a share. On December P.l of the present year the stock becomes payable, and will bo retired then if not in the meantime. The "sub-committee" referred to has been invested with full power. It is said, to recommend the accepting or Test became implicated. Test was arrested for stabbing Coluzist on the hitter's identifying him a short time after the" stabbing. Test, according to Judge When ton Ordered a Ver- rejecting of any or all of the miners' demand's. President Baer and President Wilcox were appointed members for a moment diet for the Defense. The announcement of Mr. Hamilton's arrival was received in the office of Vice President Klngsle.v of the New York Life Insurance company with the utmost surprise. That no idea of ids coining had occurred to the officials there was shown by the statement of «.ne high in authority, who said: Company'* Officials Surprised Commission to Probe Kilburn In the suit of Lawrence Donahue against the city of Plttston, for $20.- 000 damages for a broken arm. Judge AVheaton this afternoon gave the jury binding instructions to find for the defendant, the city. The defense was conducted by City Solicitor O'Brien and John T. Lenahan. the police, is a tough customer, and, it is said that when he was arrested for the stabbing he gave his boarders George P. Baer is president of the Temple Iron Company. The list of directors embraces ail the big anthracite roads, and it is actually a roster of railroad presidents. Here of the subcommittee "My boy who was kidnapped returned home this morning. He escaped from the kidnappers." Albany, X. V., March 7.—The senate Una nee commit tee by a vote of 7 to o decided to report a bill providing for a commission to in«|Uire into the operations of the banking law ami to investi- Informal talks with members of the operators' sub-committee indicate that nearly every one of the operators is The story told by the boy to detectives who hurried to his home to see him after his return was that on Sunday afternoon while out on an errand for his father he met an Italian who asked him to go to a nearby house to act as an interpreter'for a number of Italians who spoke English imperfectly. Y threats, not to testify One of these boarders more inclined to grant an advance of was Frank Allivc, who- was in the crowd the night of the stabbing and who said lie had seen Test use the knife. Test was released from jail a they are:— George F. Baer. president of the Reading and the Jersey Central. wages than to recognize the union. As a matter of fact, what the great gate any charges against the superintendent of banks which may lie refer red to it by the governor. Tvro former chief justices of court of appeals. Alton Brooks Parker, Democrat, of Esopus, and Charles Andrews. Republican, of Syracuse, are named in the bill to constitute the commission. body of the miners want is more money. The other demands—recognition of the union, an eight-hour day. modification of the conciliation board "Wliat! Andryw Hamilton buck! \Vliy, that's news; yes, that's news to us here. We had not the slightest intimation that lie would return at llii* time. We supposed lie was too ill to stand the trip. Perhaps, though, tinsea voyage was exactly What he needed to make him physically tit again." Ellen B. Thomas, president of the Lehigh Valley. short time ago, Yesterday Antonio William H. Truesdale, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna ti West- Futero appeared before Alderman Brown in Wilkcsharre and had a warrant sworn out for the arrest of Altire, charging him with having stabbed Ooluzzi. The warrant was given to Constable Mulvey to serve and ho —are merely mtfans to an end. It remain* to lie seen whether the operat-7,000,000 tons of coal on JW0 ern Thomas P. Fowler. president of the New York. Ontario & Western. The boy consented and was taken to No. 318 East 59th .street. He was taken to an upper floor room and locked up. He saw three men at various times and until this morning one of them was always with him. ors, with F. D. TTnderwood, president of thr File hand, will care to grant any increase in wages until after the mines have been closed long enough to enable them to dispose of their extra coal at a profit. Accused of Dynamiting. When the insurance investigation took Test with him to Identify Altire. Test alid Mulvey entered the hoarding house of Altire and Collude, located on the west side of North Main J. Rogers Maxwell of the Jersey Central. formerly New York, March 7.—On what is saiil to be ;« startling confession made by one of the men arrested for having been concerned in the dynamiting of new buildings by striking ironworkers two arrests were made on bench warrants issued upon indictments. The nicu arrested are Charles Moran. thirty-live, of 02 Nelson street, Jersey City, and Thomas W'ier, tweuty-tive, of -405 East Twenty-fourth street. was well under way testimony was adduced from oUlcers of the New York Life connecting Hamilton with large sums of money, of which it was said there had never been an accurate accounting, and It was then that Hamilton sprung into fame. A search was made for him. and he was finally located in, Paris. Requests that lie return to tell what was done with the money given him all met with the answer that he was In poor health and that his physicians would not permit 111m to come to the United States. Joseph S. Harris, dent of the Reading, Comfort formerly presi- Today he said the men all left the room, leaving the key on the inside. He Saw his chance to escape and ran out CDf the building and made his way street, near Bolin's crossing had been inside but a few minutes when they caine out in a hurry. Coiinde was following- them, brandishing a revolver, and When they got into the road he fired twice at Test. One of the bullets struck Test's liat and cut his scalp. The other missed him. Colinde was intent on emptying the revolver at his enemy, but at this point the cylinder stuck. Test rushed down town to his home and Colinde ran back to the Lehigh Valley main tracks and started down. Nothing has been seen of the latter In the neighborhood of his boarding house since the shooting. They Albert Borden and I. A. Stearns. Ileal Oilier in Now York. While the company's main, office is alleged to be In Reading1, the stock is only transferred in New York and that is where the meetings of the directors are held. Spend Winter ill South. The Southern's Palm limited affords the tourist luxurious travel. New York and Philadelphia to St. Augustine. All Pullmans. Electric lighted. Southern's own Dining car service. Full information from CliaS. L. Hopkins, IX P. A.. Philadelphia. Pa. home The boy was tired and hungry when he arrived at home. He said he had been given nothing to eat from Sunday until this morning when he was given bread and water. jCow  It is President Baer's unvarying custom to run over to New York every Tuesday. When the Temple Iron Company's directors get together over there what is there left outside so far as the anthracite trade- is concerned? The youngster was taken by the detectives to the house where ho said he had been confined. He led the way to the room In which he had been locked up. SPECIAL NOTICES So to the their respective railrohd companies, after having helped fix it for the Temple Iron Company. FINE ACCimDEONS When matters reached a crisis with the report of the Fowler house cleaning committee a son of John A. Met'all, then president of the New York Life, was sent to Paris to get Mr. Hamilton's statement and to try to induce liim to return. 1-Ie brought back only the report, and Mr. Met.'a11 from his own funds paid the mortgaging his house in New Jersey to raise the money. A rate of coal fixed by (he Temple Iron Company implies the fixing of this rate for all the anthracite companies which are represented by the Temple Iron Company. Clearing House for Hard Coal at reasonable prices: big assortment of Reliable In its arrangements the Temple Iron Company is a clearing house where all anthracite coal matters focus. Technically, perhaps, the Heading has no agreement with the Lehigh Valley or Erie or Lackawanna, but each is a part of the Temple Iron Company and has an' agreement with It. The house at No. 318 East 59th street is a five-story flat house, occupied mostly by Jewish and Irish families. It is kept by a Mrs. Puane. She said she had rented the room in question a. week ago to an Italian. Four or five men occupied the room at various times, but she had seen or heard nothing of them since Sunday. razors made of first class material, and marked at a low price. HAItltY W. YASEEN iisioi mi STOKE, When Mr. Truesdale, a director of (lie Temple Company, arranges with the Lackawanna Railroad to haul coal to New York. Mr. Truesdale, as president of the I,ackawanna, is doubtless aware of all the agreements entered into. In the same way President Haer. of the Heading and Jersey Central, might easily remember what President Itaer of the Temple Iron Company did in the way of setting a price on coal, and in arranging for freight rates to market. And so President Thomas and Underwood and Fowler can readily fix prices for llrcncli of Promise Suit Dismissed 63 N. Main Miss Sarah Maddern, the former ac- New York, March 7.— The suit of RED STAR STAMPS tress, against Peter Duryea, the mil- Consequently, in effect, this queer little organization is the incorporated anthracite combination. When its directors meet all the presidents of the hard coal roads are in session. When it makes a coal schedule it furnishes a copy for each of the presidents to follow. When it figures out the price to be paid to carry a ton of coal to market it establishes the freight rates of the respective railroads represented. given to patrons at this store; full line lionaire horseman, for $50,001), for alleged breach of promise of marriage came to a sudden termination .in the Supreme Court today, when Justice Olegerich, on application of counsel for the defendant, dismissed the complaint.Punctuality meat specialties. HALLOOK'S. Grand Jury After Insurance Men Characterizes Southern's Palm Limited, luxury, speed and safety make the Southern' Railway the favorite route to St. Augustine, Aiken. Augusta, Ormond. Palm Beach and Miami. Full information from Chas. L. Hopkins, D. P. A., S2S Chestnut St.. Philadelphia, Pa. New York, March 7.—Instructions were sought from the court by the grand Jury as to whether or not campiign contributions by insurance coui- Fresh fish every day at Sharp's. 79 N. Maim St Fresh shell oysters at Sharp's. Crown and bridge work. Dr Moon, Try Bohan'a pies, cakes and tread. Lenten eatables at Sharp's,