Pittston Gazette

              . '*'% :X, WGA1HGR CONDIl* S. THE HOME TAPER Forecast Until p. 111. Tomorrow lor Kastcrn Pennsylvania. I'or the People of Pit Uton anil Fair and slightly warmer tonight; fair on Thursday. Vicinity. Alili THE HOME NEWS, PITTSTON, PAm WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21,1906. 56TH YEAR. I WEEKLY ESTABLISHED I860. 1 DAILY EST. Br THEO. IIART 1882. TWO CENTS A COPY. I FOUTY CENTS A MONTH. f EIGHT PAGES RUSSIAN REVOLT. FROM HOSPITAL TO PRISON CELL CITY'S CONTEMPT THE RUSH FOR COAL UNPRECEDENTED TO CONFER AGAIN proposition, and until we hear from you we still continue to Indulge that hope. ALL OVER STATE I assumed from a report of a conversation over the telephone you had with Mr. E. B. Thomas, that owing to your engagements at Indianapolis, an earlier date than the 26th of March would not suit you for a meeting. We are prepared to meet you at any time you may name. I naturally supposed that you would notify us when you desired to meet us. You will observe that your own statement says: "If there Is a final agreement or disagreement It shall be reported back to our whole committee." Dominick Coluzzi, Who Was Stabbed Retailers Cnftiiol Begin to Supply the Czar's Sailors in Sebastopol a Few Months Ago. Heir for a Chattanooga Mob Defied Demand—Shortage of Pea Coal Anthracite Committee Ac- Interesting Bits of News by Telegraph. Time Yesterday. ltc ported, Have Risen. "Released from the hospital in the morning and in jail by evening were ' a few of the experiences undergone I yesterday by Dominie Coluzzi. who was seriously stabbed in an Upper Pitts ton fight two months ago. Coluzzi was taken to PittstOn hospital after the stabbing and, for a time, it was feared lie would die, but after a long siege he recovered and was discharged yesterday. Coluzzi has given the police considerable worrlment for some time past. When he was first stabbed he pointed out Leo Test us his assailant and the latter was placed under heavy bail for court. Then, when he recovered somewhat, he swore ijhat Frahk Aliire handled the knife, and the result was that Alflre is now under bail on the same charge as Test. The police contend that Test did the stubbing, owing to strong evidence against him and that Coluzzi was influenced to change his story. It is feared now that Coluzzi may leave this section, and the authorities wish to hold him as a witness in the case against Test at the next 'sitting of criminal court. He wus released from jail later in the evening. Federal Court. Strike report* make the business of the retail coal dealers thrive. This class of business in this vicinity has never experienced the rush ot trade that is on at present. Orders are piling in that cannot be filled for days on account of the many orders preceding them. The one complaint of the coal dealers is that they cannot get a sufficient quantity of coal to supply the demand. Today there is a decided shortage of pea coal and, although there will be more of this size In the market, it does not seem that a sufficiency can be secured to supply the demand. At Carpenter's coal chutes about 150 tons of pea coal were received last "vcning and the last of this was being n»jled away this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The trouble is that more of this size cannot be secured readily. So far there is 110 shortage of the larger sizes. Every place that sells a ton of coal at retail Is swamped with the orders that have piled in. One dealer said yesterday that he had 300 orders to deliver, and more coming in every hour. cedes to Request. BAER SENDS A LETTER. SCHMIDT'S EXECUTION THEY LYNCHED NEGRO SPANKED BOYS' TRICK. Told Firing Party He Died After a Stay of Execution Operators Ready to Meet Mitchell on Any Date. Frightened Teachers With "Black Hand" Letters. For Fatharland. Had Been Granted. We\never had a thougnt of abrog."«lng this understanding and have acted throughout on the assumption that there would be a meeting of the whole committee to hear our report. Yours truly. !Di. Petersburg. March lil.—A report is current that, following the execution of Lieutenant Schmidt, leader of the 11.1 vol mutiny at Sevastopol, which lias made a deep impression throughout Russia, the sailors at Sevastopol mutinied and massacred their officers and tile garrison and tired on the city. The report came in the form of two cipher telegrams to a prominent member of Iiiei Social Revolutionary party. As translated and displayed at the otlices-of radical newspapers here tin) telegram!^say that the sailors, infuriated by tlie refusal of the czar to pardon Lieutenant Schmidt and their fellow sailors, rose in their'barracks and seized and imprisoned the majority of their ofiieers. The dispatches add flint Hie city of Sevastopol is almost entirely ill flames. Washington. .March 21.—The lynching at Chattauoo.cn. Tenn.. of the negro Ed .Johnson after a respite had been granted him by the fulled States supreme court is an act in contempt of the court probably without precedent in its history. New York, March 21.—There will be a conference between the two committees of seven members each representing the anthracite coal operators and the miners of the hard coal district. This was decided upon at a meeting In this city of the committee of operators. Later President Baer, of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad, forwarded a letter to President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America, notifying him that the operators' committee are willing to meet the miners' committee at any date Mr. Mitchell may select. McKccsport, Pa.. March 21.—Me- Keesport school teachers who have been worried recently by the receipt of Black Hand letters, threatening all sorts of terrible deaths to them, now breathe easily. It has developed that the letters were written by a band of 12-year-olds who had been soundlywhipped last week and the week before for some misdeeds. The "gang" has been completely broken up by the administration of further sevenpunishment and the school ma'ams are again looking cheerfully upon life. George P. Baer. Chairman New York. March 20, 1906. Mitchell is Pleased Indianapolis, Ind., March 21.— President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, today expressed himself as being very much pleased that the anthracite operators have consented to hold another conference with him and his colleagues over the anthracite wage agreement. Mr. Mitchell said he would not go to Xew York to meet the operators' committee until after the present convention ■of the United Mine Workers, In this city. Is brought to a close, which will probably be next week. An far as can lie ascertained, this is the first time that a positive order of that tribunal has been so flagrantly violated by the people in any section of the country, and it is more than likely that some punishment will la1 imposed upon those who offended or contributed thereto by their negligence to take (lie necessary precautions. It is reported that the demand this year Is much greater than it was three years ago. * This is mainly accounted for by the dealers as a result of the fear that a strike is coming where a great many people believed at the time of the last strike, even up to the time hostilities were declared that the shut-down would be averted. Fully us many people hope and quite as many believe that no crisis will arise this year, but there are not nearly so many taking- a chance on being found with empty coal bins in case of a contingency. Baptist Summer School, OFFICERS ELECTED. President Baer's letter is in reply to a communication from President Mitchell, in which the leader of the miners expressed disappointment because the operators' committee had rejected the demands, of the miners without calling their committee into conference before doing so. Mr. Mitchell then asked for another conference. In reply Mr. Haer says that the operators fully expected to have another conference with the miners and asserts that President Mitchell had not replied to a counter proposition made to him by the operators' committee to the effect that the miners allow the present conditions to prevail.Lewlsburg, Pa., March 21.-r-The Board of Managers of the Baptist Young People's Union of Pennsylvania met In the Baptist church hero anil formed plans for a summer school to be held In Lewisburg Aug. 1 to 10. Tho board is composed of prominent men who are determined that the assembly shall become an annual affair. The work of arranging a programme was given into the hands of committees. The grounds of Bucknell university will be opened for the free use of the visitors. Alter the court had granted Johnson's appeal the clerk of the supreme court notified the sheriff at Hamilton county, in whose custody the prisoner was. and Judge M('Reynolds, who tried liini, of its allowance nnil directing the staying of the execution fixed for yesterday and the retention of custody of the prisoner pending the hearing of the appeal. At a meeting of the Father Mathew society, of Inkerman, held last Monday evening, the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, William*A. Conlan; vice president. John Fahey; financial secretary, Joseph Merrick: recording secretary, Thomas McCue; treasurer Michael Mulderig. seciety is in a prosperous financial condition and has a large and interested membership. SOFT COAL MEETING ADJOURNS The admiralty protests that it lias no news of any such occurrence. Question of Wage Increase Referred to Scale CCyrtmittee, Details of the Execution Indianapolis. 1 rid.. March 21—The second Joint conference of tile coal operators and miners of llie central competitive district, comprising" the states 01' Illinois.-Indiana. Ohio and western Pennsylvania, which is ilie result of the efforts of President Roosevelt to effect a permanent peace in the coal industry throughout the United ■States, lias adjourned. The conference was called to order by President John Mitchell. When Schmidt received the news that the authorities had refused to commute the deatii penalty he wept for the three sailors, his companions, and said he would prefer to die alone. All four were taken to the small deserted island of BorUan and shot at sunrise. Schmidt addressed his executioners, sixty .sailors of the cruiser Terete, saying, "1 die for the Russian people and the fatherland, and many of you doubtless will hereafter die for Proceedings Ordered Suspended Their attention was also called to the law covering such cases, which provides that all proceedings in or under the order of the state courts shall be suspended in tile meantime, and they were also directed la notify Attorney General Whitaker of the state of Tennessee to the same effect. Business and manufacturing places that are using coal in large quantities are preparing for trouble. One of these has at least 300 tons of fine coal plied up close to its fire room. BLACK HAND MEN HELD. ItoblK'i's Got Tea Years' Savings. Shamokin, Pa., March 21.—Mrs. Sarah Dunn took a roll of money from a hiding place in her house to deposit it in a bank preparatory to paying a visit to relatives in England. She counted $420, savings of ten years and secreted it temporarily under a pillow until she called on a neighbor. Before her return the house was broken into by burglars who found her savings and escaped with them. Mr. Baer's Letter. President Baor's letter to President Mitchell is as follows: C Two Italians Placed Under Heavy Bail in Scranton. SERIOUS CHARGE MADE Mr. John Mitchell. Chairman, Indianapolis:With imperfect knowledge as lo the circumstances attending the lynching there is a disposition here to hold the sheriff in considerable measure responsible for it. as he evidently knew the feeling of the people in the matter. He delivered a brief address, at the close of which he moved the adoption of the scale of waires demanded by the miners in the .joint conference which adjourned Feb. 2. The scale provides for an increase of 12'/& per cent. The motion was lost on a strictly partisan vote. the same cause. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 17. There is no misunderstanding between41s as to future meetings of the committee. The minutes of the meeting held on the 25th of February to which you refer, clearly state the understanding. To my suggestion that committees be appointed, tlie record of the minutes is as follows: Schmidt refused to accept the sacrament ami met death with head up and eyes open. The tiring party was stationed fifty paces away. Two of the sailors were killed at the first Volley and one at the third. Schmidt did not fall until tlic fourth volley. In an Application for a License Rehearing Today. Ycung Woman Testified ut the Hearing That One of tlic ]*risoncrs is the Man Slie Saw Throw a Bomb Late dispatches from Chattanooga say that Johnson after being taken from jail by a mob was hanged on a pier of the county bridge. He had been convicted of assaulting .Miss Nevada Taylor, daughter of the keeper of Forest Hill cemetery. Before he was strangled to death the rope broke and Johnson's body fell to the floor of the bridge. The mob shot It full of holes. Cii'oom, 7!D; Bride, 7:5 Against the Front of Iler Pottsville, Pa.. March 21.'—County Register H. H. Seltzer received the surprise of the year when Henry J. Bankes, aged 70 years, and Mrs. Christina Long, aged 73 years, applied for a marriage license. Both live at Tamenend, and say that they are as chipper as they were 4 0 years ago. The license was granted them and they will be wedded on Mr. Bankes' birthday, Thursday. l-'a tlier's Store Affidavit Is in That Detective trunk After the motion had been defeated Mr. Robbins, former head of the operators, moved that the matter at issue be referred to the joint scale committee and that the conference adjourn to reconvene at the call of the committee. Mr. Mitchell seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The boys of the St. Petersburg gymnasium struck to compel the offering up of prayers in school for the repose of his soul. I'uul Trafii and Giuseppi Cagliano, the Scranton Italians arrestod while being handed marked money by Uio- (nslerline and Attorney l-'loyCl Mr. Mitchell: "What we understand is that the separate committee be appointed. seven on each side, and that the miners formulate in detail the propositions we have to make and give such reasons as they choose therefore, and after their scale has been prepared they will submit that to the seven representatives of the mine operators for their consideration; that the seven men representing the operators will then reply to the seven miners of the committee, and if there is a final agreement or disagreement it shall be reported back to our whole committee." Hosts a Witness to vani Fazio, a macaroni manufacturer, whom, it is alleged, they repeatedly threatened, were given a hearing yesterday afternoon and were held in $ 18,000 bail each. (Jive Fal"*D Testimony in Mouow Workmen Mourn Schmidt Case of '"White Horse' In Moscow thousands of workmen wore crape on their arme. funeral services were held In the chapels of many factories, and requiem masses were said in several of the churches. Hotel Hearing Neflroes Throaten Whites, Wry serious charges against Anti- Saloon League workers appear in an affidavit presented to court today asking for a rehearing of the license application of the "White Horse" hotel, In Wilkesburre, conducting by Thomas Morgan. The affidavit was handed In in connection with a petition presented by Attorneys Johh T. Lenahan and Oeorge J. Llewellyn, who represent Mr. Morgan. The affidavit brings charges against Detective Frank Casterline and Attorney Floyd Hess, both of whom were active in Anti-Saloon work. It Is signed by Charles Me- Closky. a prisoner In the county jail, who testified for the remonstrants when Morgan tried to get his license. MeClosk.v stated at the hearing that he witnessed disgraceful scenes in the hotel. Ills testimony is believed to have been the chief factor in knocking out the license applied for. The sensational part of the affidavit of Me- Closky is to the effect that, shortly preceding the time that MeClosk.v testified as above, lie was visited in' his cell—he is serving a term for larceny At the hearing the young daughter •of Fazio swore that Trap! la the man whom she saw throw the bomb which wrecked her father's store. She was looking out of a window on the second floor, where the family lived, when she noticed three men on the opposite side of the street. While she was watching, one of them, whom she identified positively as Trapi, came across hurriedly and threw something on the porch of the store. Immediately there was an explosion and the lower front of the building was wrecked. Fazio himself swore positively that Trapi and Cagliano were the same men who came to his store no less than twelve times after the explosion, demanding money to use their influence to prevent further explosions and the death of him and his family. According to Fazio's daughter, they represented on one of their visits that they had been hired to "put him out of business" by a rival macaroni manufacturer, who is one of Scrauton's leading and wealthiest Over 5(H) negroes surrounded the shop of it negro undertaker where lay the hotly of Johnson, ami many threats were heard against the whites. Pittsburg, Warch 21.—Telegrams received from Indianapolis stated that John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, had decided upon an assessment of 20 cents a week for the local miners!, to lDe used in case a strike is called April 1. Some, months ago the miners were assessed 10 cents a week for a strike fund, but the order was effective but one month. Mitcheli Calls Strike Assessment, Derailed Car Smashes Tower No confirmation of the reported intention of Count Witte to retire front office is 'Obtainable at the premier's chancellery. Allentown, Pa.. March 21.—The collapse of brake rigging" near East Penn Junction caused a car on a fast freight train to leave the tracks and plunge through the window of a signal tower, demolishing the wall and knocking out the signal system. The operator had stepped out of the room but a minute before the crash came and several clerks in the building had narrow escapes. Because of talk of a race war Troop B is iu readiness to quell any disturb- General Kuropatkin in his last order of the day to the First Manchurian army, printed iti the liussky Invalid, the military organ, says that the Hussian defeats,were due to lack of preparation and equipment and to the lack of morale of the troops and of the officers. These conditions ho a!tributes to the oppression of bureaucratic rule during the last fifty years, which in the case of the officers drove men. of independence from the service, leaving only worthless drones. lie congratulates the troops on the advent of lib- ance that may occur. Over 5C iC) negro employees have quit their work in the shops and factories. It is believed Unit further trouble will result. Mr. Baer: "Have 110 objections to that. I speak for myself only. It is a matter of detail." Some of the members of the supreme court arc considering the punishment of the members of the mob that lynched Johnson. The department of justice also is considering action in the matter.Mr. Wilcox: "There are no objections, only it seems to me it will take a little more time." $140,000,000 For Pensions. Mr. Mitchell: "We want to be perfectly frank in this matter, and we do not want to enter into these negotiations under any misapprehension. We do not want to discover later on that there has been any deception; do anything that will lead you to believe we practice deception on our side. Of course any agreement arrived at by this whole committee would be subject to the ratification of a convention of the anthracite miners." Washington. March 21.—-In less than twenty minutes' time the senate voted away $140,000,000 of the pu';lic funds. The sum is carried by the pension appropriation bill. The major portion of the time was devoted to the consideration of the fortifications appropriation bill. All appropriations for the fortifications in the Philippine Island1; were stricken or.it. Fear I'all Will Kill Old Lawyer New Castle. Pa., March 21.—Grave fears are held for the recovery of Attorney Davis B. Kurts, nestor of the Lawrence county bar, who was very badly injured by falling and fracturing his left leg. He is 80 years old. His fortune Is estimated at $1,000,000. made entirely from the practice of law. For more than 50 years he never missed a session of court here. Thousands Dead In Formosa, London. March "1. According to the Daily Telegraph's correspondent a I Tokyo, it is now estimated that several tlHmsand people were killed by the recent earthquake iu Formosa. The whole island was shaken from early morning of Saturday until late at night, the shocks being continuous. Oil the same day slight shocks were felt iu Japan, and from night of Saturday until ih'- following morning five distinct shocks occurred at Kumamoto. Telegrams from Formosa state that the prosperous towns of Dati.vo, ltaishiko and Shinko were completely destroyed. At a rough estimate the damage ertj Robbers Loot Moscow Bank Moscow, March 21.—As the officials were closing the Mutual Credit society's bank twenty armed men surrounded the building, which is near the bourse, and, covering (he employees of the hank with pistols, pillaged the place, getting away w ith S42o.CKND. The robbers made good their escape in spite of the efforts of the hank guards to arrest them. Fire Eater Burned to Death —by Detective I'asterllne and that the latter outlined for him ihe story he was to tell, promising that if he would testify in the manner desired his release from jail would be secured.Mr. llaer: "Is that so? Do you Seattle. Wash.. March 21. A private dispatch from Juneau, Alaska, reports a destructive tire which destroyed the Louvre theater in tliat city as follows: "Theater burned: John King dead." King did the tire eating act. Allentown, Pa., March 21.—The weight of the snow on the roof of the Allentown and Reading Traction Co. in this city caused that structure to collapse and entailed a damage to the amount of over $5,000. Twelve cars in the barn were completely demolished and the building is a total wreck. Snow Causes Heavy Loss. The. purpose of the authorities in demanding such heavy bail is to prevent the possibility of a repetition of the experience in the case of John Costa. Costa was the leader of the Carbondale "Black Hand" and the police had a sure case against him. He got a trust company to go on his bail in the sum of $4,000 and got out of jail. He at once fled to Italy. citizens. Mr. Mitchell: "Anything that do li* subject to ratiflcation.'" come here without power? Mr. "All you can. do is to nake a tentative arrangement, and that has to be reported to the convention and to be passed upon by the Baer FINANCIAL ANID COMMERCIAL. Mississippi Adopts Electric Chair. Mr. Mitchell: "Yes, sir; but that really amounts to nothing. That is tlio instructions from the Shamokin conference of anthracite mine workers." convention ? New Orleans. March 21.—-Mississippi has decided to substitute the electric chair for hanging. As rapidly as possible electric chairs will be lifted up in all the parish seats. Ohio Frowns on Hazing New York Stock Markets furnished by M. S. Jordan & Co., stock brokers, Miners' Bank Building. Knginocr Killed In Freight Wreck Columbus, O., March 21.—The senate passed the antihazing bill, which originated iu the house, and it now goes to I hp governor for his signature. The hill provides that any student of any university or school, public or private, found guilty of hazing shall be lined not more than $200 or imprisoned for not more than six months in 'ail, or both. The heads or instructors of schools who knowingly permit hazing are amenable to a fine of not exceeding $100. nmounts to $45,000,000. Shamoktn, Pa., March 21.—-A fast freight on the Philadelphia and Reading railway ran into a pile of lumber, which had fallen on the track near here. The locomotive and eight cars of the freight were thrown down an embankment, and Engineer Harry Fink ,of Tamaqua, was killed. Trapi, who has a number of aliases, among them Peligrino Niecoli, is said by the local police and Capt. Walsh of the United States secret service, to bo one of the men implicated in the Detectives Seek Money Burner, New York. March :! High. Low. l'JUC. Close Mr. Thomas: anthracite convention votes for it, will that settle it or will it have to go further, to the central committee at Indianapolis?" If the Los Angeles, Cal., March 21.—Walter Scott, the "Death Valley Mystery." Am Sugar 138% 41 % 186% 40 % 137% Trenton, N. J.. March 21.—The house has passed Senator Wakelee's bill per mitting trolley companies to carry freight provided the.v obtain municipal consent. Trolley Cars to Carry Freight, "barrel mystery" in New York, in which, it will be remembered, a wealthy Buffalo Italian was robbed and murdered and his dismembered body packed in a barrel. It is also said that he is wanted in Italy to serve 25 years for attempted murder and 15 years for felonious assault on a girl. He lived with his wife and children in Raymond Court, under the name of Trapi, but got his mall at 214 Linden street, under the name of Peligrino Guiero. "King of the Desert Mine" and widely advertised champion money burner, in sought by detectives with warrants which charge Scotty with conspiracy to rob New York and Los Angeles capitalists. In short, it is charged that Scotty is a bandit of the wooliest sort and that his Death Valley gold mine is a myth. Scotty is the man who created a sensation recently by chartering a special train for a swift run across the continent to New York. Am Car & f Am Loco . . Amul Copper Atchison com B. U. T. . . . IS. & O. . . . Can Pacific Ches & Ohio St Paul . . . C. F. I  Erie  69-7i 10C 67% 104 92% 81% 41 % 68% Mr. Mitchell; "That wilt (settle the matter. And there will be no trouble, that is not important. This committee represents the anthracite mine workers and they are the executive offl- 104H 92% 82% 93% 81% Auto License Money 109% 171% 'ioo% 170 109% 170% Harrisburg, Pa., March 21.—The State Highway Department has collected $16,506 in automobile license fees sincc the Auto act went into effect on January 1. The total number of licenses Issued to date is 5,503. At $3 a license the btireau is more than cers." 174% 63% 42% r.6% 172 Vi 173% 61% 41% 169% 149% 113% 71% 94% In accordance with this understanding. we have frankly and fully answered your propositions. We made a counter proposition to you to continue the existing condtions, which have been highly beneficial to the miners and to the community. You have not answered the proposition we made to you. We sincerely believe that nothing can now be done to improve the situation as it exists, find has for the past three years existed in the coal regions. The miners are contented. They have been fully employed, they have been paid large wages. They have saved money. All the conditions attending the workingman's prosperity are as favorable in the anthracite regions as it is possible to make them. Under these circumstances we have hoped that you would accept our Date Left to Mitchell 60% J*or Sine Standard Hold Rival's Stock 41 '/ St. Louis. MiiV'li 21, — The second day's session or: the oil hearing in the ouster case of Missouri against the Standard, -Republic and Waters-Pierce oil companies was marked by the failure of H. Clay Pierce to appear because of illness. Stock certificates were produced and read to show that the Standard company held stock in the Waters-Pierce company in 1900, when that company was reorganized. L,. & X 111 Central 170% 151 113% 169% 149% 113% 71% self- sustaining Met St Ry M. K. & T. Mo. Pacific Mex Central X. Y. Central Am Smelter Xorf & West Ont & West Pennsylvania Peo Gas .. Sho@s9 State Lets Bridge Contract. Both Trapi and Cagliano are intelligent and prosperous looking. It is claimed by the police that they are the leaders of the "Black Hand" in this region and that between them they have extorted between $15,000 and $20,000 from Italians hereabouts. Gas Trust Must Pay $2,260. 72% Harrisburg, Pa., March 21.—The contract for the erection of a bridge over Lycoming creek, in Williamsport, was awarded by the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings to the Ponn Bridge Co., of Beaver Falls, at its bid of J40,400. New York. March 21.—John A. B. Shelley of Youkers has obtained a verdict of $2.2(50 against the Westchester Lighting company, a branch of the gas trust of Manhattan, as a penalty for shuttiug off his gas. Shelley refused to pay a gas bill amounting to $15, claiming that it was incorrect and extortiouate, but offered to pay $10. The company shut off the gas for 452 days. Mr. Shelley sued the company for $5 a day and won. 24% 145% 96% 24 141% 164 % 94% Comfort 143% 155% 87% 49 87% 49 156% 49 136% 87% SUIT OVER TIMBER. 137% 95 137% 93% 127% Reading 127% 93% 125% j£ow FUNERAL TODAY. Football Captain "Cribbed." Before Judge Staples, in the Luzerne court, all of yesterday was occupied in the trial of the suit of one Wickham against L. A. Sutton and William H. Freeman, the charge being that the defendant cut a road through his timber tract in vFairmount township. about a year ago, and removed the timber. The plaintiff's claim was for $2,000 damages. The case hinged on the ownership of the land, in regard to which there is a dispute. Six different surveys of the timber tract in question had been made and the surveyors occupied the stand for several hours. Miss Laura Cannon, attorney for the defendants, made an unusually strong closing address. The case went to the Jury at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, and this morning a verdict was rendered In favor of the defendants. Rock Island So Pacific The funeral of the late Mrs. O'Malley was held this morning from her late home in Sebastopol. Many family friends were in attendance. A solemn high mass of requiem was sung over the remains in St. John's church. Rev, R. D. Jordan was celebrant, Rev. M. J. Man ley. deacon and Rev. J. P. O'Mnlley. sub-deacon. The body was interred in St. John's cemetery. The following were the pall bearers: John McGotfern, Patrick Hefferon, Thomas Mullln, Thomas Scott, Michael Gill and James Murphy. Ithaca. N. Y., March 21.—Ray Van Orman, the captain of the Cornell football team, was removed from the university by the committee on student conduct for "cribbing" in an examination in veterinary surgery. 66% 40% 65% 65% 40% So Rwy com T. C. & 1. 150 V 40 150 150% 32% So to the Texas Pacific Union Pacific U. S. Steel . U. S. Steel pfd Wabash . . 33% 32% 150% Actor to Wed Next Month 152% 151% 39% 105 51% London, March 21.—It Is stated that Waldorf Astor will marry Mrs. Nannie Laughorue Shaw at the end of Aprltli) Virginia and that they will reside at Cliveden, the Thames residence of William Waldorf Astor. which will be the wedding gift from Mr. Astor. He will also bestow upon his son au income of $100,000 yearly. 40 105% 38% 104% 51% SPECIAL NOTICES. ffietiabte 51% Spanish Ccbinet Quits, MAY BE CONTEST. Xew vegetables at Sharp's Market, Madrid. March 21.—Premier Moret. having announced to his colleagues his intention to resign after the passage of the judicial reform hill, all the cabinet ministers placed their resignations In his hands. BOSTON SDflOE STOKE, A petition has been circulated iu Jenkins township which may bo used as the basis of a contest in that township for the office of tax collector. Anthony Madden claims that Michael Ford was not legally elected to the office. he having been the other contestant. Tomorrow is the last day for tiling contests, and it is expected that the petition will be presented and h contest commenced before the time limit expires. Fresh fish all varieties, at Sharp's. PERSOXAL ATTEXTIOX PAINFUL INJURY. to all watch and jewelry repairing; William Snyder, of Butler street, employed in the Wyoming Valley Paper Mill, suffered a severe Injury to his right hand Monday night. He aecl- Jdentally placed it under u sharp piece of machinery, which descended with force and cut a deep gash in one Of his fingers. He was removed to his home and had the wound sewn up. Dr. Dively is the attending physician. Killed by His Coat Collar. Albany, N. Y„ March 21.—The assembly passed the bill of Assemblyman AvertII of Rochester, which would prohibit the "docking" of horse*' tails or the importation of docked horses from other state*. Prohibits Docking of Horses' Tails. work guaranteed; Harry W. Yaseen, Pottatowu, Pa., March 21. — Blood poisoning caused by his coat collar rubbing bis neck resulted in the death of George F. Blieny of BoyeretoWu. Ha was a veteran stage driver. jeweler, 63 Xorth Main St. Care and promptness with all repairs. The physicians of Plttston and West Plttston have discontinued the use of the old 'phone and are now using the. new 'phone exclusively. 24ml 79 N. Main St. HALLOCK'S MEAT MARKET Money to loan. J. A. Lelbson Fresh shell nystors nt Sharp's. is now located nt 40.S. Main St., Con- Bigs for moving. Pittston Ice Co, nor's old stand.