Pittston Gazette

              WEATHER CONDITIONS. TllE HOJfE PAPER Forecast Until 8 p. m. Tomorrow for Eastern Pennsylvania. I'or the People of Plttston and . J Vicinity. Rain and colder tonight; Wednesday fair an'' " Dlder. 56TH YEAR,  (*y -WW All; THE HOME NEWS. ESTABLISHED I860. \ bi TIIEO. IIART 1882. PITTSTON, PA., TUESDAY, CH 27,1906. TWO CENTS A COPY. FORTY CKN'TS A MONTH. 1 " EIGHT PAGES IN REGION BURNED TO DEATH HOURS OF :rs _ __ ENTERPRISE BANK Six Perish in New York Fac- Interesting Statement from Five Employes of Pittsburg tory Fire. President Wilcox. Bank Arrested. perators and Miners' Officials Adjourned This Morning Without Reaching a Settlement- Strike Probable—400,000 Mine Work- CONSPIRACY CHARGED MADE HUMAN LADDER. HIS NOVEL QUESTION. Girls Saved in a Most Thrill- Why Don't Anthracite Miners Work a Full ? Clerks Said to Have Wrongfully Honored Checks. ing Manner. ers Will be Affected—Contract Pittsburg, March 27.—Five arrests were made yesterday as a result of the failure of the Entey-jJrise National Bank of Allegheny, suddenly closed its doors last October, following the sensational suicide of its cashier, T. Lee Clark. The arrests were made by Deputy United States Marshals, who took into custody Forest B. Nichols, private secretary to William H. Andrews; Charles Menzemer, George R. Ralston and Edward P. McMillan, employes of the Enterprise bank, and George E. Cook, an alleged partner of Cashier Clark In several real estate deals. The charge against Menzemer Is that as clerk of the bank he certified checks drawn upon the bank by persons who had not sufficient funds on deposit with, the bank to meet the checks drawn and so certified, this constituting a false certification. Nichols is charged with conspiring with an officer of the bank, who is not named, to abstract and willfully apply unlawful moneys, funds and credits of the bank. Ralston and Mc- Millan, who were clerks In the bank, are charged with making false entries In the books to defraud the bank, while Cook is charged with conspiring to defraud the bank by getting false credits. , Ximv York. March 27.—A strange caprice of fate cost the lives of four firemen and two workmen nt a fire which destroyed half a liloek of factory buildings and tenements in old Greenwich village in lower Manhattan. Now York, March 27.—David Wilcox, president of the Delaware and Hudson- Railroad, made a statement today In which he directed attention to the fact that though the "outside" men in the coal regions are asking for an "eight-hour," day," the "inside" miners, as a matter of fact, generally work far less than eight hours, thus leaving the breakers idle. Mr. Wilcox suggests that the further agitation of this point may result in the operators asking that the inside men be called upon to work a fuft eight hours. As most of these men seldom work more than four or five hours a day, the significance of this suggestion is apparent. Mr. Wilcox says: Expires Saturday Night. Indianapolis, Ind., March 27.—The miners and operators of the bitu- SCENE OF SUNDAY MORNING'S FIRE, It now seems that a strike cannot be avoided In that region. The inous region have disagreed, That Captain John Walsh of engine Xo. 14 and three of liin men were killed was due to a record breaking run which they made from (he engine bouse on Eighteenth street# near Broadway, to the scene of the fire. Bedford and Downing strcv'N. Had they not be.Hi the first to reaHi the fire they would not have taken the perilous position from which they were sent to their deaths. To command the best possible fighting advantage tlvy climbed to a roof which wasr crushed in aw the wall of the building on which they were playing their slretm toppled (The blaze was in the Thomas Nichols estate building and the Brick Mill Building, on the west side of No rth Main street, just below the Ferry Bridge. The picture was taken while the second fire was In progress, which ruined the interior of the three' lower storerooms in the Brick Mill Building. The picture shows how narrow was the escape of the ne\y Charles H. Cutler Building and A. B. Brown's new "Flatiron" Building, just erected at the intersection of No rth Main street and the old Carbondale road.) v ish came this morning soon after the operators and men who comprise e scale committees of the central competitive district met. The. United Mine Workers of America, through President John Mit- ell. Vice President T. L. Lewis and Henry G. Perry, president of the nois miners, yesterday afternoon presented to the coal operators in the jcutive session of the joint scale committee of the central competitive strict their ultimatum on the dispute over the wage scale. MONEY CHANGERS BUSY FREELAND'S BANK. The demand of the miners, as stated in the ultimatum was for a re- "There seems to be some misapprehen. elon in regard to the scope of the demands of Mr. Mitchell's committee with reference to hours of labor. The paper submitted by that committee to the operators provides that eight hours shall constitute full day's work for all persons covered by this agreement. "It does not provide that the persons covered by the agreement shall work eight hours per day. This obviously is because the employees now average less than eight hours' work per day. This fact wasifound by the Strike Commission. It «ikl that 'for the contract miners, the hours worked certainly do not exceed on the average eight hours;' and that for the Upon receipt of the ultimatum, the operators secured an adjourn- iration of the wage scale of 1903, which is an increase of 5.55 per cent Statement Made that Hunk Will He- •nt of the committee until this morning. 'embled today the operators made known their refusal to grant the in- When the scale committee often This Week—Depositors to Heavy Demand by Foreigners Homeward Bound. He Paid in Full ase. ovoi Firsmen Crushed to Death Iii the crash tli.it c.irriPil ill1 with it two wcrkniKi living in tin* ten Mnent oil which tin* ino", i.'civ work in j .voro crushed to Clfe.it h. In jiddition 'tivw w louts to (iroiiicn iiiiil men who aided in !he work of re-cic\ President Oswald, of the First National Bank of Freeland; Receiver Hobert Lyons, and Hank Examiner Cutts. of St. Louis, were in Bloomsburg yesterday, on business pertaining to the bank. In regard to the condition of affairs. the following story was In circulation in Freeland: The joint scale committee of bituminous miners and operators at 9:40 lock this morning voted a disagree ment. They decided to call the Joint firemen iterance this afternoon at 2 o'clock, Over $50.04)0 IIus Been Taken From It is estimated that 400,000 of the coal miners are affected by the de- lany iicci ]Mir yea Alone in tlio l«ist Six ion. This number. It is said, will in all probability go on strike at mld- Weeks li,v Russians and Kx- ;ht Saturday, when the existing agreement expires, eliiingccl for 75,000 Rou- "It is confidently expected that the First National Bank of Freeland which closed Its doors on the 16th of this month, will reopen its doors this week. A meeting of the stockholders will be held Tuesday or Wednesday at which time the deficit will be made up and a date fixed for the reopening of the bank. There is no doubt but that the depositors will be paid in full. Receiver Lyons has completed the most important part of his work and has gone far enough in his investigation to assure the depositors they will not lose a dollar." Climax to Sensation The motion to adjourn was made by President John Mitchell of United Mine Workers, and was seconded by J. H. Winder, of Ohio, The lirCD followed a tivineiulous explosion oil the third floor of the factory building in a room used li,v the Metal Stumping company for the storage of huge tanks of gasoline. What caused the explosion is not known. The three linns in the building employed about The charges were formulated some time ago and for weeks there have been rumors that four arrests would be made. The warrants were not issued, however., because the officials desired to secure evidence that was being taken in certain civil proceedings now under way. Wh«n the men were placed under arrest they were arraigned before the United States commissioner and furnished bonds In $5,000 each. The arrests are a climax in one of the most sensational financial collapses that has occurred in western Pennsylvania and are the result of the investigation made by Bank Examiner Edward P. Moxey, who furnished the Information to bles—Kiglit Men Took ujrman of the operators, There was np discussion of any question this remaining employes, taking the region as a whole. In the year 1901 lhe hours averaged 1,980 distributed through 258 days, so that the average day's work was 7.6 hours. All classes of employes were thus found by the Commission not to average eight hours per day; the facts are the same at present. The Commission, accordingly, overruled the demand now made for an eight-hour day, because the employes were already working a less number of hours. $300 Apiece Today rning leading up to the motion to disagree. When asked if there had Within the past six weeks over $50,000 in American money has been | sent from Duryea to one money ex- i change house in New York to be re- j placed with Russian coin. It took be- i tween 75,000 and 100.00 roubles to take up this large sum. There is no j better evidence to be found of the gen- , eral exodus of foreigners from the coal regions than the great sums of money that are being taken by the exiles back to their native home. The exodus, of course, is the result of the n any qualifying clauses attached to the motion, Horace L. Chapman •jading Ohio operator, said «XI girls Absolutely none. The motion was simply to report a disagreement The action of the joint conference on the report of the committee was 'Die force of l!ie shock niade I lie bu'ldlug tremble to its foundation, and uiauy of the girls were thrown to the lloor. In a moment there was a mad nvh for the fire escapes that ran down three sides of the building. The girls on the third floor had barely time to get to the escapes before the flames, spreading with rapidity from the storage room, were at their heels. isidered merely formal. The belief was stated that the report would be opted svithout question and that before night a strike would be declared The flnal cause leading up to the committee's action was the demand he miners for an increase of 5.9 per cent, in wages. Their original OFFICER ACQUITTED. nand was 12.5 per cent, increase, but this was not seriously considered the committee during the two ses lions each day since March 20, "The facts are the same at present. In the case of the Delaware and Hullson Company during 10"D. the average number of hours worked per day by the employes, other than the miners, was 7,246 hours, or an average of about seven and one quarter hours per day; the average nuaiber of hours worked by the miners war 6.656 hours, or, an average of slightly over six and one-half hours per day. danger of a coal strike JIarrlxhtirg: Policeman Declared Not Since the middle of last week the committee has been in -deadlock ow- \Si|uire Savage, of Duryea, is the agent for the money exchange house that handled the large sum mentioned above. All the raoney came from the vicinity of Duryeir and all from Russians, who are returning to their native land. The exchange Is receiving heavier demands every day and it is believed that the sum mentioned above will be doubled within the next few weeks. Today 'Squire Savage received $1,500 for which he is to give 3.500 roubles. This $1,500 was brought in by eight men, all of them employed about the mines. This is some criterion of ■what the 'foreigners save and carry out of the country. Guilty of Murder for Shooting United William T. Lindsey» The Information was based on the, alleged conspiracy of Nichols to use funds of the Enterprise hank in the interest of the Santa Fe Central Railroad Co. and the Pennsylvania Construction Co. to the disagreement among the o [H-rators, led by F. L. Kobbins, presi- Sdvcd by Human Ladders a Burglar t of the Pittsburg Coal Co., on the one hand, and J. H. Winder, as rep- That each session of the com- Ileroic rescues were effected by 111 eans of human ladders. Brave work was done in quieting the fears of scores of families in neighboring tenements tlmt were threatened by the tire, and the teachers in a threatened schoolhouse came splendidly through the test of tire by dismissing several hundred highly wrought up children without panic or disorder. Charles W. Saum, a Harrisburg police officer, was found not guilty of murder yesterday after the Commonwealth had withdrawn its charge of fi.urder In the second tfegree and asked for a verdict on the charge of voluntary manslaughter. The court, on motion of the defense, instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty of murder and of voluntary manslaughter. but ordered Saum to appear in the June term, to answer to the charge of involuntary manslaughter. Bail was fixed at $2,000. enting the great coal producing ral tee would be Its last one has been almost a daily prediction roads, idianapolis, Irul.. Match 27, — Hi? lers, through'President Mitchell and e President Lewis of the nntioniil mization and President Perry of Illinois* body, presented their nlti,11111 to the operators in the joint 'e eoniinittee of the central compel i district'. was li in ted tlmt the Winder faction The stoYy of the failure ot the Enterprise bank Is one of tragedy throughout. One morning in October last the community was startled by th news that Cashier Clark had committed suicide by shooting himself at his elaborate residence at Bellevue, a suburb of this city. Simultaneously the closing of the bank was announced and notice of the appointment of United States' Bank Examiner Cunningham was received. was waiting important word from Pittsburg and that ir it was favorable the break between the miners awl "The present suggestion Is. therefore, no part of a general movement for an eight-hour day; it does not mean any dimunition in the hours of labfor, because they are already less than an average of eight hours per day. Not more than forty per cent, of the employes covered by this demand work under ground. Hut in any case it cannot be seriously contended that labor in unduly excessive or exhausting which is limited to but 7.6 hours per day during but -'58 days in the year. operators would cortic It was tit the-height of the tire that the walls collapsed, burying in the ruins four of the firemen who had been battling bravely with tiie flames as well as two others who had lent their assistance In the work. After that the work of the department was turned to saving the surrounding property, and the lire gradually burned itself out. New York. March 27. Broadly intimating that the anthracite coal oper ntors will concede even less to tin May Make Miners Work Longer was a demand for the restoration he 190B scale, which is an advance The $50,000 being taken away by the Duryea Russians is but a fraction of what the other classes of foreigners are carrying out of thp country. The Russians are by no means predominant in the Duryea section. And there are dozens df towns throughout this locality from which a great deal more is being taken than has come from Duryea, through a single money exchange firm. District Attorney John Fox Weiss, closed the Commonwealth's case Saturday afternoon. Witnesses had testified that Harold Hall, who was shot and killed by Saurn, had committed a felony by forcing the door of Adlestine's jewelry store; that Saura pur.- sued him, and seeing that the fugitive was gaining, shot to disable him. .e. The three officials of the miners .inounced that the miners were united n tills demand and had at no time considered the acceptance of any terms 'ess favorable, nor will they consider 1.55 per cent over the present wage miners' representatives when they confer with them again than the re-establishment of tlie present working agreement which they offered when the new demands were rejected. David Willcox, president of the Delaware and Hudson railroad and a member of the operators' subcommittee of seven, said Hank's Affairs in liwl Shape. Great excitement was caused among depositors of the bank and rumors of heavy defalcations were started. The directors of the bank soon admitted that the funds of the bank had been misused but it was many weeks before the status of the bank's affairs became even partially known. Even at this date no definite statement of the probable dividend that the creditors will receive has been made, although partial reports have been made to the comptroller of the currency. "The effort is to secure an advance in wages beyond the standard fixed by the Strike Commission. If the wages of this class of employes should be lixed at the present figures for eight hours instead of nine hours, the result would be to shorten hours of labor, as these do not at present exceed eight hours, hut to Increase.- the wages per hour 12.5 per cent. This Is shown by a simple example. The result of the present demand would be that the employes affected would be paid for each hour's work one-eighth of the day's wages instead of one-ninth The operators-at once asked for an djourniuent. which was granted. BOLD MASKED BURGLARS 'that the further agitation of tlie point may result in tlie operators asking that the inside men' be called upon to work a full eight hours." This is more thai) the present agreement requires. But prior to adjournment the opertors, through J. P. Morgan's repre•ntative, .John II. Winder, replied to ne miners' ultimatum by delivering PHYSICAL DIRECTOR. Cracked Safe in Catholic FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Miss Margaret Bogenrlef, assistant physical director of the Bloomsburg Normal school who fills the vacancy caused by the residnation of Mrs. A. K. Aldinger, arrived in Bloomsburg yesterday and will at once take up the duties of her position. Miss Bogenrief formerly held the same position and is well known at Bloomsburg. Since leaving Bloomsburg she has filled a number of similar positions in her work and cotnes back with an enlarged experience. During the time Miss Bogenrlef was at the Normal her work was of a very high standard. New York Stock Markets furnished by M. S. Jordan & Co., stock brokers. Miners' Hank Building. •ne in turn Priest's Home. "The operators will never agree to pay more than the present scale," declared Winder. •'Furthermore, there nust be changes in the working condi- Soon after Temporary Receiver Cunningham took charge of the bank Edward P. Moxey was appointed special examiner of the bank's affairs. Cunningham and Moxey, aided by a large force of clerks, worked for weks in the endeavor to bring some sort o forder to the Involved condition of the bank. Cashier Clark's death had left the examiners largely in the dark and the business of the institution was in such an Intricate condition that dally new discoveries of irregularities were made. I'jM-kiuK n School Hamper Secured No Money—Du.smlly Attempt Now York, March High. Low • .. ..140% 18#Vi 1906. Close, 139% 42% 68 Probably there's nothing that a bourdiug school girl looks forward to with more delight than the occasional hamper from home. Packed with nil sorts of good things it's sure to be. but only some one who lias been away to school and experienced tlie delights and the mishaps of hampers knows just which tilings make or mar the Occurred at Plymouth I.iim Ni.niit Am Sugar ions in some states. —No Clue to llie Would-be lis at Am Car & I 42% Reports are coming to the miners' ielegates from their local unions that he coal companies are taking prelimnary steps to get on a strike basis, 'lie companies are calling in the mini's' account books and withdrawing redlt from the miners at company ■tores, pressing collections and in present A ma I Copper Atchison*cCyn H. It. T. TT . U. & O. .. . A m Loco 109% 94% 84% 111% IV 2% r.9% 107% 93 % 83% 07 % 107% 93% Bobbers. "According lo the otlicial figures of the Secretary of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania the average daily wages «f the men affected are approximately $2.86. If the proposed increase be applied t0 this daily rate, for each hour the rate would be 3G pents. instead of 32 cents, as at present. The increase would thus be four cents per hour, und 32 cents per day. making 12.5 per cent. The aggregate wages of the employes affected are not less than $50,- 000,000 per annum, and 12.5 per cent, thereon would be $6,250,000—the increase demanded under the form of an eight-hour duy. This alone would increase the cost pf production of the domestic sizes about 15 cents per ton. Three masked men broke into the parsonage of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, at Plymouth, last night, and blew open the safe in a futile attempt at robbery. Three men were seen running: from the house after the explosion. but they left no clue to their 84 111% 171 % Can Pacific dies & Ohio St Paul . . . C. P. I  Erie  L & N. .. . 111% 171% 58V A good pat of butter, difficult as it is to send, is one of the usually omitted things. Yet there's nothing so delicious as homemade bread or biscuits, and boarding school housekeepers are not usually willing to supply the req uisite amount ot' butter demanded by healthy young appetites. In . cold weather butter will "carry" splendidly. Salt and pepper, sugar—all such little tilings should lie included. least 176% 65% 44 175% Florida, Cuba and Nassau ome cases threatening eviction 43% 149% 72% 94% 24% 144 158% 64 43% Southern's Palm Limited best train from Philadelphia, daily, except Sunday 3:25 p. m. Two other fast trains daily. Through dining car service on all trains. Full information from Chas. L. Hopkins, D. P. A.. 828 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mines to Close Next Saturday. It£v. Michael Bendosc, the pastor, announced with some pride to his congregation-at the services Sunday that at a recent collection J500 was realized. He said he had the money in his house, and thanked the givers for their liberality. That same night the pastor turned the money over to the trustees of the church. identity 151% 150% it became necessary for Receiver Cunningham to resume his work \s examiner of other banks and Thomas B. Ilinaker, a lawyer, was appointed permanent receiver by the comptroller of the currency. Since then Receiver Rinaker and Special Examiner Moxey have been at work. Mr. Moxey made frequent trips to Washington to report to the treasury officials and yesterday's arrests are the result of these months of investigation. Keports that the companies are build iiu; stockades are without foundation, 'nut the mines are being put in the best possible condition for a shutdown. Even should an agreement be reached or all fields the bituminous and most Df the anthracite mines will close Saturday night, many of them to remain closed sixty days. Mo. Pacific M. K. & T 72% 96 72% 95% Mex Central .. N. Y. Central . Am Smelter .. Norf & West . Ont & West . . Pennsylvania . Peo Gas .. 24% 21% 144% 159% 88% 144% 160 88% 50%. 138% 95% 136% 26% 67% 87% 50% 137% 50% 137% 95 Jolly, lo go with the inevitable colli roast chicken; mustard for the cold roast beef, and all the various kiuds of pickles so dear to a schoolgirl's heart; cakes, with the soft icing packed separately, ready to spread on the layers: little cakes—crisp and sugary or thiol and soft; olives, sardines, with a lemon or two tucked in; perhaps, if 'he distance isn't too great, a bottle of fresh, thick cream. With an the big things that have their part in the packing of the hamper, it is the little tilings that go with them that really mean most, after all. Some time after midnight last night Rev. BendoSc was thrown from his bed by a concussion that rocked the building. On going down stairs he found the door of the safe hanging on one hinge, wide open. The church papers and all the documents of importance to the parish were gone, but there was no money missed. "As already said, this suggestion was fully considered and overruled by the Strike Commission. It is properly merely one branch of the demand which has been made for an enormous Increase in wages and raises no issue Independent of that matter. It leads naturally, however, to the Question why the miners should not work full time. In many cases the breakers are frequently idle because the miners do not produce sufficient coal to keep the breakers busy. This would often be remedied if the miners would work full time when necessary. In case the matter is further agitated, no doubt it will be argued that the miners be urged to work full time whenever necessary to keep the breakers fully employed."Reading 133% 26% 67% 40% 147 133% 26% 67% 40% 147 The local managers are letting their inen know this and in many cases tolling them that the strike may as well come as far as the companies are con- Rock Island So. Pacific NESCOPECK TROLLEY. So Rwy com T. C. & I. , 147%' 33% 154% Chief Burgess Williams, of Ncscopeck, last night signed the ordinance granting the Berwick & Nescopect I tail way the right to enter the borough. This marks the last chapter of one of the bitterest fought trolley battles In the histocy of that section of the state. The cdntost that resulted In Nescopeck obtaining $5,000 in securities to be turned into cash and paving of their streets between the tracks and two feet either side, was marked by one of the greatest demonstrations of public interest ever manifested in the town. cerned Texas Pacific Union Pacific U. S. Steel . U. S. Steel pfd 33% 152% 33% 153% 40% 105% While the operators are not united in their statements, the miners are a unit in all they do. Not a hitch has been discovered in any of their plans. 40% 106 % 39% 105% An investigation of the safe disclosed the fact that the visitors were no strangers to the handling of explosives. The cracks in the safe were carefully soaped, and just enough nitroglycerine •ueed to make the Job a neat one If unprofitable.All kinds of stories are afloat regarding the amount of eon! ready for the market and stored. One operator will say that there are enormous quantities uid that It Is absolutely necessary foC- i shutdown of the pits. Another will leclare that there Is very little coal in sight. Here Is a unique memorial notice from n Georgia exchange: The Kretiku of Fate. "Once he was nearly swallowed by an earthquake nud shortly afterward was blown nearly a quarter of a mile by a hurricane, but he triumphed over all these afflictions, only to be kicked out of life by a mule that had a mortgage on It and was blind in one eye.''— There are four classes of ponipus who should not drink large quantities of hot water. These are as follows; (1) People who have irritability of the heart; hot water will cause palpitation of the heart iu such cases; (2) persons with dilated stomachs; (3) persons afflicted with "sour stomachs;" (4i persons who have soreness of the stomach or pain induced- by light pressure. Those rules are not for those who take hot water simply to relieve thirst, but as a means of washing out the stomach. Hot water will relieve thirst better than cold water, and for that purpose it Is not to lDe condemned. But hot water is an excitant and in cases in which irritation of the stomach exists should 1)0 avoided. Hot Water Drinking. CAP FOR ODD FELLOWS Laics9 Fine Sloes I Report* About Railroad Supply Rome give out rumors that the railroads are confiscating coal wherever found and that there is daugor that the supply will be exhausted. It was said that the Lake Shore and Michigan Central railroad did not have three days' supply of coal on hand. May be Worn by Williu»iH]KDrt Mem- TOWN SITE CLAIMED. Dongola and Vlel Kill. Matle C Ut well at $2.5(1 and $S. While / (lie lot lasts, only per iwlr. D SPECIAL NOTICES. bers of that Order in ('anion Atlanta Constitution. Parade. Heirs of John Berkheiaer, who died in the West, are now looking up the title of the town site of St. Clair, several miles northeast of Pottsvllle, which has about 5,000 population. The claim Is that the original titles under which the ground was ceded for the town are defective. Other Objection*. "Gladly would I die for you!" Her look of hauteur was maintained despite this plea. PERSONAL ATTENTION The advisory committee of the I. O. O. P., at Williamsport Friday night took Important action in regard to a uniform style of cap to be worn by the men on parade occasions. It was recommended that each be provided with a black /alt cap of military order embroidered in white silk with a three-link design over the lodge number of the wearer. It may be possible the cap will be worn for the first time at the Canton anniversary. S2.00 to all watch and jewelry repairing; work guaranteed; Harry W. Yaseen, "You are in error," she replied coldly, "If you think the color of your liair constitutes my chief objection to you." IIITI1 jeweler, 63 North Main St. Care and Then came the statement that the Pennsylvania railroad had 1 Tk),000 tons (tored In Harrlsburg. Pa„ and that on every end of a division there was sufficient coal to last months. promptness with all repalra. SHOE STBBE, This promises to develop into another case similar to the celebrated Burkhart-Moser case, which has been pending in the courts for years. The attorneys have thus far kept their investigations a close secret. The good night was brief and soon.— Philadelphia Ledger. WE CAN SUPPLY YOU with the finest fresh meats. Hallock's No two operators can bo found who igree upon any.question except that of » strike. A Bl( Difference. 79 It Mail St. Market, 40 S. Main St, She—How much do you earn a year? He-About $2,000. "But we can't live on thatr' "You asked me how much I earned. I make about $20,000."—Life. tlic best buying; place Tor shoes of Mil kinds. The joint scale committee will meet igaln. No one knows what it Will do or how long it will bo in session. It Shell oysters at Sharp's. New vegetables arriving at Sharp's. Keep your electrical work in Pittston. Have Garrison do it. He employs only electrical experts. All varieties of fish at Sharp'*, Advertise in the Gazette. OH heaters at Aah's.