Pittston Gazette

              a/THKoHHART8?S PITTSTON", PA.. WKDNHSD.W, \)VA\ 19, 190(S. v$$& r K.YTIIEU C'oy.»mCNS. For the People of Plttnton and Forecast Until 8 p. in. Tomorrow for Eastern Pennsylvania. Vicinity. Fair and warmer tonlglH: Thursday, Increasing cloudiness, snow and warmer. THE HOME PAPER. 57TH YEAR. t WKRKtiY R l DAILY KST. B A COPY. A MONTH. 16 PAGES. QUESTION OF JAPS letters of apology to Drs, Oniori and jtokamura from tlie governor of ttai majors of Sun Francisctj f,. " postmaster anCl chiet j of*V»f/, ' *r ©granctseo. All expressed ?i{v ( tt-t ~i that the attacks should InTr*-. ,"ed and vigorously denounced the assailants. The postmaster ptomised to discharge the postal boys implicated in the assault, and he subsequently did discharge them. INSURANCE FIGOT HUGHESTOWN COUPLE WEDDED SINGS IN A TOMB MAN'S EPIDEMIC. A MILLION SHORT ICrncst Schmaltz. nncl Miss ltose Nolan Forty-Eight Reported in Scranton Today. President's Special Message Both Sides Claim ths Elec- I'nited In Marriage at Buried Miner is Very Cheer- Waynesburg National Bank Xoon Today to Congress. tions. A very pretty wedding took place at high noon today, in St. Peter's Lutheran church, Hughestown, Ernest Schmaltz and Miss Rose Nolan, both of that pbfee, being united in the holy bonds of matrimony. The ceremony was performed by Rev. John A. Bender, former pastor of the church, now of Seranton, in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives of the young people whose lives were being united by wedlock. The bride was accompanied, as bridesmaid, by Miss Myrtle Lumley, of Hughestown, and Harry Nolan, a brother of the bride, acted as best man. Both the bride and her attendant wore blue traveling gowns. ful. Wreck. 4- % : Tlio Total Number of C'as»«» 'n the C'ltD OLD REGIME MAY WIN. FED THROUGH A TUBE ut Preneiit Is 287—the .\Citlioi-iti«*s CASHIER GIVES BAIL. DEPLORES BOYCOTT Arc Much Hxcrclscd Over the To Investigate Child Labor. The .senate devoted nearly four hours to the consideration of unobjected bills on its calendar. The result was the passage of a number of measures of minor importance. Among those passed was one authorizing a government loan of $1,000,000 to the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition company and another providing for an investigation of the industrial, social, moral, editca tional and physical condition of woman and child workers in the I'nited States by the department of commerce and labor. How the Votes of Stockholders Were Cast. Rescuers Are Able to Talk With Him. situation mid Are n( Work He Aspifed to be Political Report Made by Secretary to Combat the Epidemic. Leader. * tiv; Metcalf. Forty-eight new cases of typhoid were reported to the Scranton bureau of health today for the 24 hours ending: at noon. This makes a total of 287 cases at present existing in the eily. The number of cases reported today is six less than yesterday, when 54 cas»s were reported. This may be taken as a hopeful sign. New York. Dec. 19.—The administration tickets in both the Mutual , and New York Life Insurance companies were probably successful at the elections for trustees of the two companies. If the boards of inspectors, after the official count, return them victors the decision will be contested in the courts by the International Policy Holders' committee. It will take from forty to sixty days to complete the count, and during the canvass many thousands of votes sent in by agents, officers and other employees of the two companies will be challenged by watchers of the international committee. Bakers field, Cal., Doc. 19.-—The miner Hicks, buried eleven days under Granite mountain by a landslide, lectures to his rescuers at the end of the iron tube through which he is fed. Pittsburg, Dec. 19.—It has been found that the Farmers and Drovers' National bank of Waynesburg, whoso doors were closed last Saturday by the comptroller of the currency, was more than $1,000,000 short, instead of a few thousand, as had been said. Washington, Dec. 19. — President Roosevelt sent to congress the tiual report made to hint by Secretary .Metcalf on the situation affecting the Japanese in San Francisco, accompanied by a short message, in which he said: MIsh Rose Morris presided at the organ during the Interesting: ceremony. Following the marriage ceremony, the bridal party went to Scranton, where they enjoyed a wedding dinner. They will return this evening and Mr. and Mrs. Hchmalts will take up their residence in tly«, Gruver house on Center street. Iloth of the young people arc well known in thi.1: vicinity and have many friends who extend (heir hearty congratulations and best wishes on their entrance Into married life. Miss Nolan Is an accomplished young woman, a former resident of Washington. D. C. The voice from the tomb Let the Japanese come schools? No, sir!" : "What! into our Dr. Arndt, the city bacteriologist, gives out a statement in which ho gives it as his positive opinion that the typhoid was traceable to the water from the reserve distributing dam at Elm hurst, which had been used for distributing during the eight weeks, prior to last Saturday, when the No. 7 dam, the regular distributing dam, was being cleaned out. Cashier and Vice President J. B. F. Rinehart gave himself up to the federal authorities, charged with making false reports to the comptroller. Hn gave bail in $10,000 and waived a "The report deals with three matter* of controversy—first, the exclusion ot the Japanese children from the San Francisco schools; second, the boycotting of Japanese restaurants, and third, acts of violence committed against the Senator Patterson introduced in tlic senate a resolution directing the Judiciary committee io make an investiga tion of published reports that it lobby has been endeavoring to influence matters relative to the Kongo Free State. "Shut up. Hicks. You are a fool, and a lucky one. Cheer up and strike up a tunc-that one that makes you feel like a prince," was the reply. hearing "Oh, the sun shines bright in my old Kentucky home!" It is alleged that Rinehart aspired to bo the political leader of Greeno county and did a heavy business In the notes of politicians. More than half the shortage is said to be on notes of men in politics, which cannot at present be brought to the surface. Jupaucse. The Indian appropriation bill was passed by the house. The exodus of members lias already commenced for (lie Christmas holidays, the vacaiit desks during the consideration of the Indian bill and the consideration of District of Columbia business silently indicating: that Yuletide Is near. "As to the first matter, I call your especial attention to the very small number of Japanese children who attend school, to the testimony as to the brightness, cleanliness and good behavior of these Japanese children in the, schools and to the fact that, owing their being scattered throughout thcj city, the requirement for them all to go to one special school is impossible ot fulfillment and means that they cannot have school facilities. fie snug the souk 111 rough, a cheery, ringiug voice from ihe grove in the Granite mountain, mid then for 111' teen minutes he attacked that part of the president's message relating to the Japanese question. The doctor had read him portions of the state document shortly before. There have been only four deaths as yet from the epidemic, but one of the physicians employed in the battle against the spread of the disease stated that there will likely be many deaths before the disease Is stamped "tit. lie would not be surprised, he said. If the Dumber reached 100. In the New York Life 440.000 votes wore cast and in the Mutual 345,000. In the New York Life rtttO.OOO policy holders did not vote, and in the Mutual •.Mo.QOO failed to exercise the franchise conferred upon them by the legislature at its last session. It is claimed that in making his last report to the comptroller, Rinehart disclosed only $80,000 of rediscounted notes when that Item should have read $600,000. GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON •'You caught me, did you, old manV" he shouted up. "You need not think I'm crazy. 1 do a little spieling to myself once In awhile Just 1o pass the time. Those first few days, when you would not have traded a corpse for me and given 5 cents to boot. 1 delivered more orations than Daniel Webster." Water, from the Uaekawann:#' and Scranton storage reservoir is now exclusively used, and all public places, mills, and the like are furnishing only boiled water under a penalty of $l0ii. Soda water fountains and bars are advertising "only boiled water used here." ' Sixty banking institutions of Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania, as well as some in Chicago, are said to be losers becauso of the rediscount paper of the Farmers and Drovers' bank, but no names are given. Congressman Coins New Word. X * ashingtou, lty«e. 10. — UepresfiiUat\vv* ".•'Lues of Tennessee coined a new .voni u the house while correcting the leco'" in which was printed the collo (ply Between himself and Mr. Underwood of Alabama regarding the Increase in members' salaries. He spoko of some of the changes as "interpolated pencilaneous writing" ou the ste nograplier's copy. Both Sides Claim Victory, Vice Presidents Darwin 1'. Klugsle.v and Thomas A. Buckner and Secretary John C. McCall of the New York IJfe asserted that the administration ticket in the company had won by 100,000 Property WoKh Half a Mil- "Let me point out further that there would be no objection ex eluding from the schools  on the score of age. It is oWTousiy not desirable that young men should go to school with children. Exclusion of Adults Upheld lion Lost. The Waynesburg institution was considered one of the best country banks !n the State. It carried $75,000 of .state funds. These are protected by a trust company, which will be called on to pay. majority Mayor Diinmiek and the city health authorities, co-operating with Dr. 1 Moulton and engineer Wetherill, of the State Department of Health, are I working night and day in a systematic ' and thorough manner to stamp out i the disease. Vice President George T. Dexter of the Mutual Life declared that the administration ticket in that company had won by 130,1*00 majority. Whole Shopping District of the City There was a long silence, and then he was beard laughing. It gives one a queer feeling to be keeping iu touch lu such a strange manner with the emotions of a man burled alive. You are In the simllsht. and he Is down nearly a hundred feet below. Inside of the mountain, iu a little trap blacker than night, and everywhere his hand reaches It is tiK'tist nv;oinst unyielding rock and earth. Laugh* Deep Under Earth, Was Knihmgereil—One fireman "The only point Is the exclusion of the children themselves. The number of Japanese children attending the public schools in San Francisco was very small. The government has already directed that suit be brought tc test the constitutionality of the act ill question, but my very earnest hope i* that such suit will not be necessary and that as a matter of comity the citizens of San Francisco will refuse to deprive these young Japanese children of education and will permit them to go to the schools. Overcome l»y the Smoke and United States District Attorney Dunklo asked the department of Justice at Washington to detail a man to work on the criminal end of the More arrests are considered Japanese Fear Maine's Fate. Samuel Fntermyer, counsel, and George It. Scrugham. manager of (lie International Policy Holders' committee, asserted that their ticket had won In the New York Life 'by from fi.OOO to IL',000 and In the Mutual Life by from 7.000 to 10,000. Two Others Injured by Honolulu, Dec. 10. — The Japanese consul here says that the visiting squadron which will arrive in Honolulu in February will not proceed to San Francisco, as originally Intended, because a repetition of the Maine disaster is feared, owing to the alleged overwrought condition of American feeliug.mi Explosion W. W. Scranldii. president of the' Keranton Has and WoKr C.?„ has notl-j fled the mayor to do anything the doe- ! tors ana engineers direct in tliCD way! iDf eradicating the alleged coutamina- j tlon of the water and charge the ex- 1 pense to the company. Milkmen, at | the request of the health bureau, are refusing fp deliver milk in bottles to any house. The householder Roston. Mass., Dec, 19.:—A tierce fire, which endangered the whole shopping district, raged in the square between Washington, Winter, Tremont and Hroonifield streets today. Flames were discovered in the furniture store of Kldridge & Pea hod y. A genera) alarm has been sounded. The fire started in the rear of the furniture Store, a difficult place for the firemen to reach. ITnabie to get at the blaze from the front, the firemen were forced lo drag their hose through an alley way to reach The rear of the store. case possible Riiichart eamo to Pittsburg1 and registered at a hotel under an assumed name. He was known, but nCD effort was made to arreBt him. His attorney went to the United States authorities and asked th# amount of bail. He was told it-would be $10,000. Rlnehart had the bond prepared, then telephoned the authorities that to escape publicity he would like to be arrested at the office of his attorney. He was accommodated. The bond was turned over and he was released This is the way the vote was cast hi the New York Life: Agents, officers and other employees of the company turned in 114.000 proxies in favor of the administration ticket. Examine! Fulde of the state Insurance department turned in ltC'.Ooo sealed ballots received by mail at the company's office since Oct. 18. The Iiiternationa; Policy Holders' committee turned In 127,000 ballots and 7.000 proxies in fa vor of its candidates. Hicks rapped on tlie pipe, and Dr. Silnchlield answered. "What do you waut, old innu?" must provide a container into which the I milk can be pntire,i by the milkman - — ■ ■  THAWED OUT DYNAMITE "Doctor, how can I go up to the hospital when I haven't got any cleau clothesV" he complained. "I ain't tit to lie iu a clean bed. I wish you would bring up my things from the camp." Wants Japanese Protected SPECIAL NOTICES. "The question as to the violence against the Japanese is most aduilra bly put by Secretary Metealf. and I have nothing to add to his statement. 1 am entirely confident that, as Secretary Metealf says, the overwhelming sentiment of the state of California it for law and order and for the protection of the Japanese In their persons and property. Both the chief of police and the acting mayor of San Francisco assured Secr«tnpy -Metealf that every thing possible would lie done to project the Japanese in the city. John Panzo, Italian, Fatally In spite of firemen on the roof of THE NAME BBnitY the Orpheum theater the flames caught there and in a short lime they had eaten through the roofs anil a sec- "Don't worry about clothes," called Dr. SlinchfleUt. "We have everything you will need lu tlie hospital." has been identified with exclusivej Injured. style and unequalled workman- ltlnehart is reported to have nyftfld the bank appear to thC- comptroller of' •ho currency $l,OSt,r,46.0r"fMtlef* The Mutual Life vote was cast as follows: Officers and employees of the company turned in 30,CM)0 proxies foi the administration ticket. Kxaminer MacArthur of the insurance department turned iu 307.000 sealed ballots received at the company's office by mail since Oct. 1H. The International Policy Holders' committee turned iu 108.000 ballots and .*D.000 proxies in fa vor of its candidates. Hon caved in Buried Man in Good Condition., ship in the Watch, Clock and Ity the time the firemen reached the spot the whole six floors of the furniture store were In flames. "What do yo\i think of that?" the doctor exclaimed. placipg the plug iu the pipe. "A man who lias been In his situation for eleven days auk lug for clean clothes. There In not one person out of ten thousand who would not have been driven iusane by Micks' experience, yet he appear* to be in good physical condition. 1 judge from the strong, clear tone of bis voice that this is the case." k'.-» ■ ■ Jewelry business in Plttston for than was the case Put ti Stick on a Tin in I,allin Mine more than 35 years, which is suf- There Is apparently an effort to. keep the public in the dark as to the halt million dollar* not** which do not appear in the bank's account, and which are said to have been re-' discounted for political purposes lit the last campaign. and Held His Lamp Vnder it— All floors were stocked with new Roods unpacked. -xcelsior and packing: boxes made food- for the flames which swept through, despite every effort of the firemen. Then the flames Jumped to the old studio building, adjoining, breaking through a firewall, and making toward liroomfleld street. Then the Phillips building, oc_ cupled by the Herrick Shoe Company and Allan Brother*, milliners, caught next. Then the theatre and the Broomfleld- Methodist Rplscopal Church. flelent guarantee of his unf|iKDs- Body lladly Torn l«y Fright- tloiipii reliability ful ( 'oih'UhmIoii — Died berry the jeweler loiter in Moses Tay- "1 authorized and directed Secretarj Metcalf to state that If there whs fall ure to protect persons and property, then the entire power of the federal government within the limits of the constitution would be used prompt 1D and vigorously t0 enforce the observ ance of our treaty, the supreme law of the land, which treaty guaranteed to Japanese residents everywhere In the Union full and perfect protection for their persons and property, and to this end everything iu my power would be done, and all the forces of the l!nit-, ed States, both civil and military.' which 1 could lawfully employ would, be employed." lor Hospital GET OUR PRICES ON SILVER- John Panzo, an Italian miner, who worked at colliery, of the D. & H. Coal Co., was fatally injured yes- WARE A foreign merchant who lives In Sealed Ballots to Decide. Harry Yaseen, jeweler, 63 North Maltby called at the Plttston Specialty Co.'s supply house this morning- to give an order. He was seen taklnff ft package containing several boxes of candy and was arrested by the city police. He was given a hearing and fined $.1. He also settled a bill he owed the candy company, for $11.76,, in order to save further prosecution..' terday through his own carelessness. Not realizing the dangerous qualities of dynamite, he set about to thaw some out before putting it in a hole. The result of the election In both companies hinges itpou the proportion of votes for the opposition tickets iu the sealed ballots, which have beeu In the custody of the insurance depart incut representatives. In the Mutual Life the policy holders' committee claims that .'10 per cent of the votes, or 02,000, will go to its candidates. The company claims more than 9!) per cent of this vote for the admin istratiou ticket and only allows the policy holders' candidates about onehall' of 1 per cent, or 1,000 out of W. S. Cone, general superintendent of construction, who is directing the rescue work, looked worried at the suggestion of another cave-in burying Hicks. They will have their heaviest timbers and steel !Deauis In the grasp of their quickest and strongest men when the wall of granite Is broken through, for another cave-in is dreaded.Mnln street BItt REDUCTION SALE MOW ONT After drilling a hole in his chamber Panzo prepared to put the dynamite in it. When he examined tlie explosive he found that it was frozen and would not explode. This was a new condition in mining to him and, instead of seeking advice, he set about to thaw out the substance in his own own way. He placed the dynamite on a small piece of tin and then set his lamp under it. In a few minutes there was a terrific explosion and Panzo was thrown with great force from the spot where he had been thawing out the explosive. Workmen In nearby places hurried to the spot and found Panzo badly injured and unconscious. He was removed from the mine and placed aboard a train for Scranton. He was admitted to the Hoseman Griffin tried to force his way into the flames on the second floor, dragging a hose after him. He was overcome and but for the assistance of Hoseman Bryan he would have perished In the flames. Bryan carried hiiri to the street on his shoulders.at Harry Yaaeen's Jewelry Store, 63 North Main street, Hicks knows that this danger threatens, Once the hammering against the face of the tunnel caused a disturbance in his tomb. He called up anx- Shortly after 8 o'clock two hot air explosions occurred, in which Fireman John Gerrity and Prank Holmes and Mark 1. Adams were badly cut by flying glass. Gerrity was burned about the face. The conclusion of Secretary Metcalf to which the president calls special at -07,000 lously In the New York Life the policy holders' committee claims 40 per cent of the 102,000 sealed ballots, or 7ti,00*i votes, while the company claims SX) per cent for the administration ticket. The policy holders committee also says that at least ;i0,0tx» of the 114,000 proxies cast by the agents of that company are fraudulent, or duplicates ol ballots. Where a policy holder executed both a ballot and a proxy the ballot will lie counted and the proxy thrown out. "That work is shaking the bowlders around me, and I can feel tine earth falling on my face aud hands." tention, is Will Invoke Federal Power. "If, therefore, the police power ol San Francisco is not sufficient to rneel tlie situation and guard and protect Japanese residents iu San Francisco to whom under our treaty with Japan we guarantee full and perfect protec- ( tlou for their persons and property ; then, it seems to me, it Is clearly tilt duty of the federal government to at' i ford such protection. The first explosion occurred in the studio of John Nitting, on the fourth floor of the old studio building. The second was in the room of the Hub Magazine company. At 11 a. m. the tire was under control. The loss is $500,000. Rockefeller Not In Kongo Deal. London, Dec. 19. — The Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked. pastor of Pembroke chapel, Liverpool, the well known preacher, to whom the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in New York has lieen offered, says In a letter to the secretary of the Kongo Reform association that John D. Rockefeller assured him that neither he uor any member of his family is Interested lu the Kongo concessions. Moses Taylor hospital, but died a short time later. His remains were removed by Undertaker Burns last night and taken to his home in Latlin. BISHOP M'CABE IS DEAD For iErery Memikr Of tie Family. "All considerations which may move a nation, every, consideration of duty iu the preservation of our treaty ol) ligations, every consideration prompted by fifty years or more of close friendship with the empire of Japan, would unite iu demanding, it seems to to me, of the United States govern ment and all its people the fullest protection and the highest consideration for the subjects of Japan." FINANCIAL AM) COMMERCIAL, Succumbed to a Stroke of Probing New York Life. New York Stock .Markets furnished by M. S. Jordan & Co., stock brokers, Miners' Hank Building. New York, Dec. 19,—The grand jury began an investigation into the affairs of the New York Life Insurance company and within three weeks is ex pected to hand up indictments of high officials of the company on charges ol perjury in swearing falsely to reports of the company made to the state in surance department and grand larceny in diverting funds of the company to outside uses. Apoplexy. Newspaper Men Fined Xew Doc. 19, 190(i. High. Low. Close. 133% 131 Vi 132 42 40% 41% The Deceased Was One of the Best Utiea, N. Y„ Dee, IB. —Henry N. Cary, publisher of the Morning Telegraph of New York, paid $100 In lines for himself and \V. B. Masterson, a writer on the Telegraph, for contempt of court in writing and publishing an article concerning the Gillette trial iu which unfair comment was made upon the case. What better Xmas gift than a neat pair of shoes or a comfortable pair of slippers? Nothing more useful, something needed; something appreciated. Known Men of the Methodist Am Sugar . . Am Car & F Am . . Amal Copper 73 1 13 % 1 oa 70% 1 10 % 101 72% 112% 102% ■episcopal Church and Was Popularly Known as Children's Rubbar j g Boots t $1.25 to $1.50. Secretary Metealf'n report deals ex Atchison com I!. It. T. 8 1 119% lit4 Vi so v "Chaplain McCabc.'' LADIES' SHOES. taaustively with the action of the board ]D. & Cj. of education iu providing a separate can Pacific school for Chinese, Japanese aud Ko- Chcs & Ohio rean children, which, he says, is gen- St Paul , . . erally upheld by the city press. I C-. F. I  IIS 119% 193 D{, New York, Dec. 19.—-Bishop C. C. McCabc, known belter as "Chaplain" MVCabe. rtieil early today in the New York Hospital from apoplexy, with which he was stricken while passing through the city recently. He was here on his way to Philadelphia. in all styles and leathers. r.o v i r,4 190 % independence League Recognized 98c to $4.00. 147 % ir.o% r.4% 4.1 New York, Dec, 10. A compilation of the returns of the votes cast at the recent election, the official tally of which was dually passed upon at A! bany by the state'board of canvassers, shows that the Independence league polled over 140,(.K*» votes, which gives It full standlug as a party throughout the state. Kentuckian Shoots Five Men, 43% 172 14 r. vi 40% 93% fD4 42% Charleston, W. Va„ Deo. 19.—In a row near the postofflee of Blue Creek George Goodwin, a Kentuckian, shot live men, one fatally. After a race with the sheriff, who shot at Good'win six times, he was captured and Jailed. The light was the result of a trivial dispute. Many of the foremost educators of Kl"'r th*.state, however, he says, are oppos- i Central ed to tbe discrimination. Ij- & Prominent Visitor. | *{o 1pnc,fic The report also gives full details of M)Dx c,,mral the boycott of Japanese restaurants y y. Central and of assaults on individual Japanese, am Smelter referred to by the president. Xorf & West 172 14 X 172 140 3!)% 92* LEGGINS Mrs. McCabc and the Bishop's niece, who had been with him almost constantly, were a t I lie bedside when the noted divine passed away. FY»r men. women and children; made In long or short lengths, doth or leaiher, black or colored material. & T. 38% 92 26% 128 129% ir.o--H 90 ',4 4 7 14 11 129 Bishop McCabc was born at Athens, Ohio, October 11. 183(1. He entered llie Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church in lSOO, and two years later became chaplain of the 122d Ohio Infantry. He was captured at Winchester, and spent four months in Blbby 48c to 98c. 14 7 14 90'4 47 130 14 8% 90 14 Secretary Metcalf Jays particular , ont & West . stress upon the case of Dr. K. Omori I Pennsylvania of the Imperial university of Tokyo, ; Peo Gas . . . one of the world's most distinguished j Reading; . . . scientists, who was sent to Sau Fran- i Rock Island . clsco by the .Japanese government to j -tJ°- Pacific . . study the causes and effects of the | j*" ,tuD' com earthquake. While taking photographs ! Texas Pacific he was stoned by young hoodlums, j some of them in the livery of the post- ' ' ' ' ' a I service. His hat was stove in. Dr. I " '' ' T. Npkutmira, professor of architecture I ' '' 47 14 Steel Trust Raises Wages. Shanghai; Dec. 19.—The famine In Kiangsu is growing worse. According to reliable reports received here 500.- 000 destitute persons are encamped at Trinki.msn and many have arrived at Hanking. The rebellion in Kitiagsi has heen crushed. Half Million Chinese Starving. SLIPPERS. • All sizes, all styles, plain and J ancy, for men, women and * ,-ounff people, leather and 4 ;loth. • 48c to $2. A Gift for the Man. \V. Jj. Douglas' famous Shoes J nil leather*, all stylni. a $3, $3.50, $4, $5. Near Main A'ButlerSi. J r*s 79 North Main i vooqqoqooqooooooooooooqq*0 137% 13714 Joliet. 111., Dec. 10. — The- United States Steel corporation anuounced that the wages of its .'{,(D00 employees in the Joliet mills will be Increased .Jan. J. Common laborers will receive 10 cents a day additional, and llie otli er grades will be benefited proportionately.95 144% 29% 93% 13716 9414 139% 28% 29 14 After the war he became pastor of a church in Portsmouth, Ohio, and later associated with the Board of Church (extension. For more than thirty years he was popularly ktuiwn as "Chaplain McCabe," and the title cltniK to him even after he had been made Bishop in 1S96. prison. 91 V, 92% 3214 3rD% 32% 35% 181 A 30 % 181 V4 178% There was a slight tire in the belt room, near the round house, in Coxton. yesterday. small lamp exploded and set fire to the woodwork. The yard (ire company arrived on the scene in a few minutes and ihe Hames were extinguished after about $2S damage had been done. 47% 104 40 % 102% 17% 47 1 Big Lumps of Gold Found, 103% 17% Melbourne. Dec. 19.-Several big gold nuggets were discovered recently near Tarnagulla. Two were found weighing respectively 5Xi" and :-!73 ounces. They are the largest seen In Australia iu forty years. Bishop McCabe was chosen chancellor of the American University, at Washington, in 1902. in the Imperial university, was simi- | Miss Anna Fitzsimmons. of Lin- Jarly attacked, aud sand and dust were coin Hill, Avoca, died yesterday after thrown over lifni and l»U assistants, j an illness of several months. She is Dr. Omori was nNo assaulted in En- survived by her father, three sisters | Shoe Sto SmSJLiSLSLSLiSJLS 0 o Be van, tlie Tailor. Will be found in Boom No. 3, over Antrim's dry goods store. reka,Oal. and brother. The funeral will The secretary appends to h'4 report ':l'i0 P'aep tomorrow morning. Come and hear otvr $50 canary bird Best grade nreats at Halloek's,