Pittston Gazette

              ' 1 ... .. 1 WEATHER CONDITIONS. Forecast Until 8 p. in. Tomorrow for Eastern Pennsylvania. THE HOME PAPER F'or the People of Plttston and Vicinity. Fair and cooler tonight and Sunday.ALL, THE HOME NEWS. 56TH Y 1 listorica1 ESTABLISH R1 D I860. •satbY ICST. ity TI1KO. I1AUT 1882. PITTSTON, PA., SATUKDAY, MAY 19, lOOti. TWO CHNTS A COPY. FOUTY CUNTS A MONTH. 8 PAGES CASSATT'S VIEWS. THEATRICAL MEN EFFECT A TRUCE NO El OF GRAFT the Pittsburg division, testified to his holdings of stock In coal mining companies. Ho said he had stock In the Keystone Coal Co., the Latrobe- Connellsville Coal Co.,■ Liucesco Coal Co., Shelly Conl Co., Atlantic Crushed Coko Co., Greenwich Coal Co. and the Cardiff Coal Co. Asked how he procured It, he said (hat most of It was given to him when the. companies were organized at which time he paid his assessment of 10 per cent. For 600 shares of the Keystone Coal Co. lie said he paid $.ri00 anil the Income amounted to atyout $30,000 annually. Further questioning brought out the fact that Mr. Jamison of the Jamison Coal Co. had given Mr. I'itcalrn a certificate for 200 shares In that company. The witness explained that when the stock was ofTc.red to him he told Mr. Jamison that he would not accept it If it was Intended that he should show the company any favors. In accepting other stock, Mr. I'itcalrn said he had the same understanding w Ith the persons who gave him the shares. Mr. I'itcalrn said he had supervision of the car distribution over the division on which the mines in which he held slock were lo- FIRES IN FOREST. RATE BILL PASSES prohibit the granting or acceptance* of rebates and reinstate the Imprisonment penalty for violation of the law. . There are alno changes In the law relative to the reports to be required of common carriers, nnd a penalty of $100 a day Is Imposed for 1'nilnre to comply with the report requirement. Poll and the Keith Interests Have Come Together—Poll Gets Scrun- Gives Interstate Commis- Favors Government Rail- ton and Wllkosburre Numerous Railroad Officials Northwestern Settlements Great Interest In theatrical circles attaches to the announeemeht that the Keith anil Poll vaudeville Interests have concluded a trucc, that will dissipate the threatened war between these magnates of the variety class of amusement. All danger of u clash is now over and the result, as it affects this region, is that Poll will have an undisputed Held in Scranton and Wllkesbarre. For this privilege he gave up to the Keith people Springfield, Mass., and Waterbury, Conn., where the older vaudeville men will have full sway. The conciliation of the hitherto rival interests allays all danger of what threatened to be a bitter war. Following within a week the alliance of Keith and Proctor, for years old time rivals, the agreement between these allied Interests and Poll seems to be a forerunner of a centralization of all vaudeville interests in the country. sion Power to Fix Rates. Railroads Must Show Books. road Regulation. Accepted Large Gifts are Threatened. The commission is given access to the accounts of the cdmpanles affected by tht» act, but examiners are forbidden. under penalty of a heavy flue and long imprisonment, from divulging the facta ascertained. Fines of $."D00 for each failure to keep proper accounts is provided. A falsification of accounts is inadc punishable by line and imprls- MANY AMENDMENTS. PROTECTION NEEDED. FROM THE OPERATORS FLAMES WIDESPREAD. Sees Possible Menaca in Al- Chief Psnnsy Officials As' tonished by Revelations. Bonanza Mining Camp Re- Principal Provisions of the Measurp. liance of Roads. ported Wiped Out. onment. Circuit and district courts of the United States are Riven jurisdiction over all complaints by the commission of failure to comply with its orders, and such courts are required to issue writs of mandamus compelling such compliance. Washington. May 19.—The senate has passed the Hepburn railroad rate bill, reported from the house. Only three senators, Foraker, Morgan and Pettus, voted against the bill. The yeas were 71. it was announced for every absent senator that he would vote for the bill. New York, May 10.—President A. .1. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania railroad, the greatest railroad system in the world, has declared himself in favor of government regulation of railroad rates. His views oil the subject were given in an authorized interview shortly before' Mr. t'assatt's departure for Europe and will be published in an article on the railroad rate tight in n June magazine. Philadelphia, May 19.—After hearing much additional testimony concerning donations of stock to officials and employes of the Pennsylvania railroad by soft coal mining companies, the Interstate Commerce Commission adjourned until next Wednesday, when it will resume its sessions in this city and proceed with its Inquiry into alleged discrimination by the railroads In the distribution of cars. Frank H. Wigton, president of the Morrlsdale Coal Co., appeared before the commission and corrected his statement that his company had received rebates from the Pennsylvania railroad within a few months previous to the retirement of General Traffic Manager Joyce in 1903. Mr. Wigton said that upon Investigation he found that the company had received no rebates after 1900. Milwaukee, Wis., May 10. Many deaths and wholesale destruction ill forest fires are reported from citlcs, towns and villages stretching over a wide area on both sides of the great lakes, extending into two states and a Canadian province. Three towns are said to have been wiped out by flames, and the latest bulletin Is that the tires are spreading southward rapidly, while there is small hope of cheeking them.- When the session opened the senate resumed consideration of the Teller amendment, striking out of the provision giving to the interstate commerce commission the power to prescribe rates the words "in Its judgment." cated After seventy dnys of almost continuous delilieratlon tin* senate passed the bill wldch Iihs received more attention from the senate and from the country at large than any measure that has been before congress since the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act in 1803. For the past year—or nearly that— Scranton anil Wllkesbarre have been points of contention between Keith and Poll. The latter "found" them lirst, but he hud scarcely opened negotiations for building sites beore Keith' came along and promised rivalry of the most lively r.ort. Toll secured sites and then Keith opened negotiations for some of the present theaters. Poll, while not a ncwcomer in the vaudeville field, was not a rival of Keith's until lately, and the latter was evidently determined to crush competition in the bud. It promised to be a battle royal, the organization and wealth of Keith against Poll, who is reputed to be a millionaire a few times over. The latter seemed determined to fight it out rather than retreat at any point and, with his large resources, would have made Keith hustle. It appears, however, that lately both fcldes huve made up their minds that conciliation is better than war and the agreement for a division of contested cities was the result. As a result of these negotiations it has come out that Keith had tentative arrangements made to secure a large part of the time of the Lyceum theater In Scranton and the Grand, in Wllkesbarre. Of course he will now leave the Held entirely to Poll, who is preparing to erect fine playhouses In both of tho neighboring cities. It has not been learned what effect the Agreement will have in preventing future contests for sites that promise paying business. Chief Ollichtls Surprised Philadelphia, May 18.—The following statement was Issued by Captain John P. Green, first vice president of tile Pennsylvania Railroad Co.: The amendment was adopted Tit) to 24. Mr. Cassatt is known to have had many Interviews with President Itoosevelt. He says in his carefully revised interview: One of the towns reported to lie burnlug was the new bonanza mining town! Cobalt, with a population of more than 5,000. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested in silver milling properties tiiefe, and great anxiety for the fate of the settlement is expressed by scores of stockholders as well as by persons interested only through having relatives lu the new Held. In striking out the words "In its Judgment" the senate defeated one of the Allison compromise propositions. The words were in the bill as it came from the house, and during all the (lis cussion a great deal of opposition to them was developed. "The recent developments at the hearing in progress before the interstate commerce commission in this city in respect to the acquisition and ownership of the stock of coal companies and the acceptance of gratuities by its employes, are a surprise to the management. While it Is not believed that these have caused injustice to the public or the company, the facts with respect thereto will be thoroughly Investigated and no ownership or practice calculated in any manner to affect the lull and Impartial discharge of the duty owed by the company, its officers and employes to the public will be tolerated." "I have for several years believCCd that the national government, through the interstate comnferve commission, ought to be in a position to tlx railroad rates whenever the rates made by the railroads themselves are found, after complaint and hearing, to be unreasonable, provided, of course, that there shall be the right of appeal to the It was reported to the senate on Fob. 20 and was made the u nil ill shed business on March 12. From March 12 to May 4 the bill was under general discussion without limitation on the duration of speeches, fifty-eight of which were delivered. Senator La Follette, the Junior senator from Wisconsin, spoke for three days and Senator llan-. lei of Virginia for two days. Senators Halley, Foraker. Lodge. Hayner, Dollirer and others each spoke for one entire day. After the senate concluded the third reading of the bill and it was ready for passage Senator Kayner took the floor to discuss the general aspects of the measure. Ills speech dealt mainly with the president's conneHion with the legislation and was largely personal throughout. Mr. Itayner said that he was firmly of the belief that the president would again change his mind before this controversy was over, and if the speaker of the house of representatives would nominate n man on the conference committee who had the courage of his convictions and who would not waver upon the question of constitutional review the president would abandon the Allison amendment and go back again to theXong amendment, the place that he started from. F. L. Sheppard, general superintendent of the United Itaihvays of New Jersey, was examined as to his stock holdings in coal companies and alleged pier privileges given the Berwlnd-White company at tidewater. F. M. Gross, western manager of the Keystone Coal & Coke Co., told of men in the motive power department of the Pennsylvania railroad who owned stock in the various coal com- Stanley, also with n population of 5,(100, in Chippewa county, Mich., is said to be ablaze. Auburndflle, Wood county. Is said to have been swept by flames, with a loss of $100,000, and dispatches from Michigan said that Talbot, a town of 300 population north of Menominee, has been destroyed. courts "Experience has shown that closer relationship and mutuality of Interests are necessary to prevent the covert and destructive warfare between American railroads which produced the secret rate and rebate system. Principal Purpose of Bill panies. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.V Great Range of Flames. The principal purpose of the railroad rate bill is to permit the interstate commerce commission to fix rates. The provision conferring this authority is found in the fourth section of the bill, which amends section 15 of the interstate commerce law so as to accomplish that result. That section directs the commission to Investigate complaints of unjust and unreasonable charges on the part of common carriers In the transportation of persons or property or of regulations or of practices affecting such charges. It also authorizes an inquiry as to whether the rates or practices are "unjustly discriminatory or unduly preferential or prejudicial or otherwise In violation of the act," and in case any of these conditions are found to exist the .commission Is empowered to determine and prescribe what will lie the just and reasonable maximum rate and what regulation or practice is just, reasonable and fair. Further, authority is given the commission to enforce Its orders, and they are to go Into effect within thirty days and continue In force for two years unless suspended, modified or set aside by the commission or by a court of competent jurisdiction. Other powers conferred by this section are: Public Must Protect Itself, Kicli Christmas Presents. New York Stock Markets furnished !Dy M. S. Jordan & Co., stock brokers. Miners* Bank Building. New York High. A tract thirty miles square near Escanahu, oil the west shore of (Jrcen bay, is reported to have beeti devastnted by lire. The greatest range of the tires is from the central part of Wisconsin, east to the middle of the Michigan peninsula and thence northeast to Ontario. "It is only right, therefore, that the public should have the means of protecting itself against even a remote danger suggested in the Increased power developed by this wholesale and, from every sound standpoint, necessary spirit of alliance. Edward Pitcairn. trainmaster of the Pittsburg division, admitted having accepted stock in coal companies, and It. B. Freeman, another trainmaster, said he received Christmas presents of money from («oal companies. May 19, 1906 Low. Close. 13 5% 136 40% 41 68% 109% 109% Am Sugar 136 MaJ. Hlchard Coulter, jr., during his testimony said that Frank Thomson, u former president of the Pennsylvania railroad, had participated in stock distribution. Am Loco Am Car & F "Let the government regulate us. For my part and for my associates in the Pennsylvania Italiroad company I am generally heartily in accord with the position taken by President Roosevelt, and we have been all along. I told the president himself when he made his first recommendation on this subject to congress, more than four years ago, that I believed him to be in the right. Amal Copper Atchison com 15. R. T. .. . 109% Included in the list of towns reported burned or burning was Gladstone. Mich. Several of the bulletins speak of loss of life, but almost all the dispatches are indefinite in that respect, and it is impossible to say yet just where the deaths in tlanics have oc- No Chance to Lose President, 88'/ lie said tiiat while there was no chance of anybody ever losing the president there was no telling if within the next few days "some new Chandler, to fortune and fame unknown, might not get possession of the president and tide him over the breakwater of the Allison amendment back again to his original terminus." H. & O 107% 160 83% 82% 107% 107% 160 100 83 1/4 It. B. Freeman, trainmaster of the Pennsylvania at Tyrone, testified that during the Christmas holidays lie received from several coal companies* gifts of $100 In money. •'can Puclttt Ches & Ohio St Paul .. . f.8% 58% 58% 168% C. F. I 50 43% 145 34% 168% 167% 50 4 3% 145 34% 93% CHARGE AGAINST DURYEA BURGESS Kill That at least a half dozen persons have been burned to death, however, appears to b«' beyond question, and It was believed the list of fatalities will grow with each passing hour. The only specific Information was that several men were killed in an explosion due to the fire in Cobalt. No names were mentioned in the bulletin. curred E. M. Gross, of Grecnsburg. Pa., western manager of the Keystone Coal & Coke Co., was examined relative to his knowledge of the connection of railroad officials with coal mining companies. He named Bobert Pitcairn. Jr., Edward Pitcairn, B. L. O'Donnell. J. Purviance, VV. A. Patton and a number of smaller officials, including two clerks in the motive department of the Pennsylvania railroad, as stockholders in a number of coal companies, lie said the railroad men received their shares on the same basis as all other stockholders. When1 it was decided to form a company, Mr. Gross explained, a party of friends would be gathered and the stock distributed.L & X Mo. Pacific M. K. & 93% 23 Mr. Itayner said the processes of reasoning through which the president reached a 'conclusion were so changeable that it was Impossible to follow him. lie said that he resembled an unadjusted kaleidoscope whose reflecting surfaces after shaking it up frequently exhibit the beautiful colors in symmetrical forms, but after you have ad- Justed and focused It flies into its original fragments and resolves itself into its component parts. "But it Is equally Important tlmt Un- American people should recognlase the grave necessity for greater harmony of action iiiid interest between the railroads of tliin richest and busiest couptry hi the wfcrld. It Is Alleged that Burgess Stevenson Mex Central Collected a line Illegally—Man- N. Y. Central Am Smelter Nnrf & West Ont & West Pennsylvania Heading . . 139% 155% 89% 155 D4 89% 50 139% damus Applied For Faustlan Yankowski, of Duryea. has applied to the county tDurt f.Dr an alternative: writ of mandamus to compel John Stevenson, burgess of Duryea. to issue a transcript of the pro- 50 *4 131!% 13 % 'A. 85 13214 131% 6 4% "We have trampled out the secret rate and rebate system, which was not only milling the railroads, but also made enual and fair conditions of business Impossible In America. The secret rate system can never 1kD revived again unless the railroads are prevented by unwise legislation from maintaining such relations among themselves as will insure the maintenance of reasonable and stable rates." iSo. Pacific Our Sailors Hurt In Cuba So Kwy cum Union Pacific U. S. Steel 37 % 37 ' 148 V 37% 148% Washington. May 19.—The navy department received a report of a serious light at C!uantanarno, Culta, between American sailors and natives, In which one American was shot and twenty-two were otherwise wounded. While the sailors were ashore at (lunntauanio they left the naval reservation and were attacked by a large band of natives, who used their knives and niachetf's with telling effect. The bluejackets had no weapons, and, although outnumbered three* and four to one, they fought with their fists until all were disabled. The sailor who was shot has recovered. ceedings in it cast before him Ill of the 14!»% 40% ior.% 40% 105% 40% 105% which (he petitioner was oik U. S. Steel pfd He said this was a great era for natural disturbances and that tile president seemed to lie somewhat jealous of the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that had taken place and was going through a sort of coinetic performance himself, illuminating the horizon, lint tearing through space oblivious of where he came from and with no definite conception of where he is going. defendants, so that he can take an ap- peal Hank Statement, May li). 1006, Reserve, decreased Reserve, less l_ Yankowski claims In his petition that on May irD he wan assaulted. by 2,765,325 To apportion joint fares, establish routes and maximum joint rates and prescribe their divisions and to determine compensation to be paid to shippers doing service for carriers. Section lft of the present law Is so changed as to provide for an award of pecuniary damages to complainants found entitled, and in case payment is not promptly made in accordance with tills award the beneficiary is authorized to file suit in a United States circuit court to compel compliance. The finding of the commission is to be received as prima facie evidence of the facts in such suits, and the petitioner is absolved from all liability for costs. Another provision renders legal the service of the orders of the commission through the mails and provides that these orders shall take effect thirty days after service unless suspended or set aside by the courts. A penalty of $5,000 for each offense in disobedience of the order is Imposed, and the penalty is to accumulate at the rate n! $5,000 a day in case of continuous violation. Orders other than those for money payments are to be enforced by the federal courts through writs of mandamus or injunction, and in case of appeal to the supreme court these cases are to be given precedence over all others except those of a criminal S. doc rD.ix5.6oo two tree agC nts on the streets of Uuryea anil he went before BurgeM "Why ilo you Kive stock to railroad people?" queried Mr. Glasgow. "To have them associated with us Loans, increased  Specie, decreased  Legal tenders, Increased Deposits, increased .... Circulation, decreased . 15,071,600 1,001,800 Stevenson and asked him for warrants for the arrest of the tnen on the charge of assault and battery; that instead of the burgess issuing the warrants he placed him (Yankowski) under arrest and locked him up. afterwards fining him and that the burgess refused to release him until he had paid the above line. Oji his release Yankowski secured counsel who,advised him to get a transcript of the proceedings from the burgess so that he could appeal the case, but that the burgess refused to give the transcript, although several demands 1,305,600 Charge Against Carnegie, in business. 12,276,500 The astonishing revelation is made In the same article that, although Mr. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil trust created the secret rebate system, through the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, the greatest beneficiary of the system in recent years was Andrew Carnegie, or the Carnegie Steel company. "Well, why do you present stock to a clerk In the motive department?" "For business purposes." Companies Needed Friends. 366,900 In concluding his remarks about the president Mr. Kayner said he might have reunited his party on the floor of the senate, but that he had unhappily divided the people. "It is a good thing to have friends In the railroad," interposed Commissioner Clements. SPECIAL NOTICES. VEGETABLES IN ABUNDANCE Pago Case Suspect Freed, "Better to have friends than enemies," responded Mr. Gross. The witness said that nearly all of (hi; companies in which railroad officials were Interested furnished fuel coal to the Pennsylvania railroad. and the freshest the farm can produce Skowhegan, Me., May 10. — Jerry Hayes, the laborer who was arrested at Bingham in connection with the murder of Mabel Page at Weston, Mass.. March hi. 1JM»4. was discharged from custody. No one appeared against the prisoner. Hayes was arrested on complaint of a reporter of a Boston newspaper whn had heard of a statement alleged to have been made by Hayes two months ago to the efToet that he had called at a house In Weston on the day of the murder. always in stock at this well stocked Speaker's View on Adjournment. It was by the secret rebates that John D. Rockefeller laid the foundation of the greatest fortune in the world, and the same secret rebate system later helped Mr. Carnegie to the second largest fortune in the world and to illstance every competitor of the Carnegie Steel company. market place Tomorrow's supply Washington, May 10.—Several members of the house who called on the speaker and asked if it wtotild be safe for them to accept invitations to deliver Fourth of July addresses at home received a negative reply. "You must count on being here July 4," was the will include new potatoes, new cab- were made for the samt Maj. Richard Coulter, jr., secretary of the Keystone Coal & Coke Co., was called arid questioned concerning the connection of railroad officials with coal companies. He was asked who were the original stockholders in the Hempfleld Coal Co. He said the company was organized by his father, Richard Coulter, sr.. and that the stock was distributed among Frank Thomson, a former president of the Pennsylvania railroad; Robert Pitcairn, George F. Huff and Uoyd B. Huff. bage, ripe tomatoes, red beets, tender The court granted the alternative writ of mandamus and made it returnable 011 May 23 at 10 a. m. rhubarb, green onions, red radishes, flue pineapples, choice sweet straw- OLCOTT ENTHUSED LARGE AUDIENCE berries sweet oranges, ripe bananas. speaker's answer. In a wireless message of inquiry sent to the Celtic, on which Mr. Carnegie is sailing to Europe, he was asked about the Cassatt article. Mr. Carnegie replied: Full line of garden seeds, and lawn Pastors Hurt by Platform's Fall, Was Called Before tile Curtain for a seed Pes Moines, la.. May 19.—The platform in the Auditorium, where the Presbyterian generiU assembly is holding its sessions, collapsed with several hundred Presbyterian assemblymen while they were being photographed. Five ministers were injured. I)r. Wills of Mendota, III., was rendered unconscious. Ills back and legs are hurt. Itev. W. O. David of Monongah, W. Va., is the most seriously hurt and is under a physician's care, although his injuries are not critical. S|Deech ami Gave tlie Audience Fresh fish every day, particularly on New Hearing For Tucker. "Cassatt entitled to credit. Doing more than any other railroad official to establish equal rates for all by reducing extortionate rates of Ills predecessors and Inducing other railroad systems to advance theirs. "Molly-O." Friday Boston. May 1ft.—1The discovery of new evidence in the case of Charles IC. Tucker, who is under sentence of death during the week of June 10 for the murder of Mabel l'age, was the basis of a request for Governor Guild to give a hearing on the question. Governor Guild informed Tucker's lawyers that he would ask Judges Sheldon and Sherman, who officiated at Tucker's trial, to give the new evidence a judicial hearing and report on the same to Let us know by phone—you'll get Chauncey Olcott was at the Broad last evening and so was an audience that tilled the theater. The popular tenor hadn't the least trouble In winning the good graces of the audience, and he worked up more genuine enthusiasm than has any play In the Broad for a long time. He took the leading part in the drama, "Edmund Burke," a play In which the great Irish statesman was the central figure. Olcott had the title role and played it smoothly. The piece itself was an interesting composition, especially Inasmuch as it gave Olcott a lot of the spot light. Chauncey charmed with a number of new ballads, but none of them seemed to fill the place of "Molly-O" and his old admirers shouted for the song with such insistence that he finally came before the curtain and sang It. A little speech was also called for, and the tenor re* making a few remarks. Olcott was surrounded by a capable "Was the stock given to the men named?" asked Mr. Glasgow. your order promptly SHARP'S MAUKET. "It was," replied the witness, character "Much less injustice exists today than in my time, but government regulations still Imperative." "The idea then was to take In such railroad oflieials as would strengthen the organization, was it not?" queried Mr. Glasgow. Courts Given Review Power, 1 mn' CIAL The bill was amended by the senate bo as to give the United States circuit courts jurisdiction to entertain suits brought to annul or cbuiige the orders of the commission and also to provide ugainst the granting of Interlocutory decrees without hearings and making appeals from such orders direct to the uupreme court Electrocution In China "I believe that was the purpose." The witness stated further that the company Had been absorbed by the Keystone Coal & Coke Co. Peking, May 19.—Wu Ting Fang, the former Chinese minister at Washington, who was Intrusted with the task of codifying the laws, is memorializing the throne for Jury trials, for permission for native lawyers to practice before the courts and for the electrocution instead of the decapitation of criminals condemned to death. New Royal Arcanum Rates Upheld hiui Boston, May 10.—The increase in assessments made by the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum last year la held to be both legal and right by the full bench of the Massachusetts supreme court, which body has dismissed a bill brought by Stephen W. Reynolds and others versus the supreme council. The bill was brought to prevent the enforcement of the new schedule of Maj. Coulter said he knew of no special assignment of cars to the Keystone Co., neither had he any knowledge that the Keystone Co. had paid money other than dividends to railroad people. Well Known Actress Dead New York. May 19.—Fanny Herring, once a theatrical favorite in this cltyj has (lied in Simsbury, Conn. She was ah Englishwoman who made her debut in the Old Bowery theater In 1842 as the boy in "The Battle." Afterward she starred here and In other cities. In lKti!) she traveled with a burlesque troupe playing "Ixion." She was seventy-four years old. Other provisions extend the definition of the word "railroad" so as to make it include switches, spurs, tracks, terminal facilities, freight depots, yards and grounds and defines the word "transportation" so as to make It embrace cars and other facilities for shipment or carriage "Irrespective of ownership or of any contract," the intention being to make the railroads responsible for all special car service. It Is made the duty of carriers to furnish ■peclal car service upon reasonable request.Ijloyd B. Huff, of Greensburg, Pa., testified that he held stock in seven coal mining companies, including the Keystone, of which he is treasurer, most of which furnished fuel coal to the Pennsylvania railroad. Mr. Huff said the Keystone Co. had never received rebates, special rates of concessions from any road. SPE Bar For * W Wo have just received a lo of flue oxfords In all sizes, stylt mid weights, In patent, colt and line dongolay leathers, heav and light soles. This particular Oxford was made to sell at J2 per pair. As a spring bargain we offer them while the lot lasts, at only St. Petersburg, May 11).—The issue of the first encounter between the monarch and the representatives of the people hangs for the moment In the balance. Though the houses of parliament adopted addresses in reply to the speech from the throne, no afcswer has been given to either, and none is expected before Monday. No Reply From Czar. rates, Noted Missionary Dead. company. New York, May 10.—The Presbyteriaji board of foreign missions learned of the death aboard the Kaiscrin Auguste Victoria of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Labaree. Dr. Labaree was one of the board's oldest missionaries, and he had done a remarkable work among some of the half civilized native peoples of Persia. PUiluCli'l|Dhia Will Get »s,©00,000. Russia and Britain Getting Together. London, May 19.—The Standard In the course of n Ions article dealing with the progress of negotiations for an Anglo-Russian understanding says the execution of a definite compact may confidently be expected and congratulates Sir Edward Orey and the government Hn this memorable diplomatic achievement. New York, May 19.—A decision which Is expected to result in releasing over $3,000,000 to the city of Philadelphia for use in building of a museum and Institute in memory of Thomas W. Evans was handed rlown by the Appellate division of the Supreme court. This reverspa a decision of a lower court whereby the heirs of Mr. Evans had broken the original will giving them about $250,000 and had secured $800,000. Mr. Evans was a dentist and lived for a long time in Paris. Questioned concerning the Kent Coal Co., Mr. Huff said it was organized by himself and Robert K. Cassatt. They had purchased some land which is still undeveloped, but it is their intention to make it an operation.Young' Cussatt's .Mines. Senate amendments include oil pipe lines, express companies and sleeping car companies under the head of "common carriers" and make them amenable to the requirements of the bill. Other senate modifications prohibit the Issuance of passes or the granting of special favors to one class of passengers over another, prohibit railroad companies from transporting commodities produced by themselves, require such companies to put In switches nt the reasonable request of shippers, Rebels Defy Sultan, London, May 11).—A dispatch from Port Said to the Daily Mail reports that the Yemen rebels have reoccnpled the principal fortress at Sanaa, repudiated allegiance to the sultan and formed their own government. $1.50 Per Pair "Where did you get the money to purchase the land?" asked Mr. Glasgow.Albany, N. Y., May 10.—New York messenger, bundle and office boys who are under sixteen years will liuve to quit work hereafter ut 7 o'clock in the evening. The Agnew bill, which was signed by Governor lllggins, makes It Illegal for an employer to permit a boy to work after 7 o'clock. Children Must Stop Work at 7. IIST01 SME STOIEj ?9 N. Main St Mikado's Gift to Roosevelt. "Through the Girard Trust Co. of Philadelphia." Washington. May 10.—Mr. Aokl, the Japanese ambassador, called at the White House and presented to President Roosevelt as a gift from the emperor of Japan a piece of ancient steel armor elaborately embellished. It will be placed In the White House. "Isn't It a fact that the money was raised by the Pennsylvania Railroad Oakland, Cal., May 19.— A slight shock of earthquake was felt In Oakland and at San Jose and other points. No damage Is reported. Earthquake at Oakland. Repairing work promptly done at Fred. Schussler's, cor. Ferry bridge. Co.?" "No, sir, the Pennsylvania railroad had nothing to do with it." Base bail goods at Garrison's. Edward Pitcairn, trainmaster on