Mercer Dispatch

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TOL. 24, NO. 2.
MEBCEB, MEBCEB COUNTY, PA., FBIDAY, MABCH 3. 1911.
VOL. 70 OLD SERIES
HEWS FROM NATION'S CAPITAL.
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President Will Call Extra Session of Congress Unless Senate Totes ou Canadian
Reciprocity Measure.
While tbe Administration has not
entirely abandoned hope that tbe Canadian
reoiprooity agreement will be enaoted into
law at this session, President Taft is ready
for tbe alternative and ia prepared to issue
a call for an extraordinary session as soon
as tbis Congress adjourns. Despite all the
forebodings of politicians and predictions
of disaster to the party, the President ia
adhering to bis annonnoed intention and
proposes to summon an extra session
immediately after adjournment. The
politioal phase of tbe situation does not
influenoe tbe President in any degree.
Intimations were made Mouday tbat tbe
President might be kept from convening
Congress in extra session if some sort ot a
vote oould be seoured, whether direot or
not, tending to show strong opposition to
the measure. Tbe President deolared
emphatically tbat nothing wonld satisfy
Mm bnt an absolutely honest vote on the
merits ol tbe bill. Tbis was after a oonferenoe at tbe Wbite Honse. Tbe subject
disonssed at the oonferenoe was tbe date of
the meeting of tbe extra session. The date
now rests praotioally with the Repnblioan
leaders and tbe President will wait until ba
has beard from tbem before fixing the time
definitely.
It tbe Senate is oalled baok in extra session it will aland more strongly for the
agreement tban it does now. Thia is shown
by a poll of the naw fienators. Of the fourteen new members of tbe Senate, wbo will
take tbeir seats at an extra session, eaoh
one, aooording to tbe poll, stands for Canadian reoiprooity. That it wonld pass the
Senate in extra session by a two-thirds
vote.
The Senate Committee on Finanoe on
Friday reported tbe agreement without
recommendation. The Administration feels
confident tbat if it oomes to a vote it will
be passed. There are at least fifty votes
for it that oan be relied npon, it is stated,
and that number is said to be a very conservative figure. Tbe only thing in the
way ot a vote is the determination of
Senators Cummins, Bristow, Borah and
others to maintain a filibuster against tbe
Ull, and it tbey adhere to tbeir intention
tbere is no possibility of reaching a 'vote.
Tbe Senate on Tuesday defeated the resolution proposing an amendment to the
Constitution so bs to provide tbat Senators
be eleoted by direot vote ot the people. A
brave fight bad been made by tbe support-
era of tbe measure, aa was indicated by tbe
vote. Fifty-four Senators stood for the
resolution and thirty-three against it.
Though thia division showed to large a majority ot the Senate to favor popular eleotions, the number waa not sufficient by fonr
to oarry the measure, whiob required a two-
thirds vote for its suooess. Senator Borah,
who has led the advocates of popular eleotions, though disappointed in the resnlt, was
not discouraged. On tfcte ooutrary be felt
that tbe vote plainly indicated the growing
popularise! the measuv».
mm^dfrt^*>^nlip&~Mvm-tLji SSAin tati^q.eed
at the first session ot Congress," be said*,
"regular or extraordinary, and nrged unremittingly. The next Congress, in my
judgment, will pass favorably on the resolution?? .
After nearly five hours of debate the
House on Saturday night voted overwhelmingly in favoi of the polioy of fortifyiDg tbe
Panama canal and appropriating $3,000,000
to begin the work, tbe total oost of wbioh
has been estimated at $13,000,000. 'Tbe
aotion of tbe Honse praotioally settles the
question of fortification, for tbe sentiment in
tbe Senate is said to be more tban two to one
In favor of proteoting tbe Isthmian waterway Jay seaooast batteries.
The tarifi program of the Sizty-seoond
Congress will be taken np for aotion, along
witb seleotion of committees, at a meeting
of the Demooratio members of the Ways
and Means Committee of the next House,
whiob bas been oalled for next Monday.
Demooratio leaders of tbe House expeot an
extra session ot Congress, and plan for the
committee, or rather its Demooratio members, to determine npon the Demooratio
personnel of all the committees of the next
Congress and to ontline a tariS procedure.
Tbree courses of tarifi prooedure will be
oonsidered: First, the tariff revision
legislation and then reoiprooity; seoond,
reoiprooity and then tariff revision legislation; third, tarifi revision legislation incorporating tbe reoiprooity bill as a part
thereof. Speaker-to-be Champ Clark and
others prominent in the party oonnoils Say
there ia no donbt whatever of reoiprooity
legislation passing the Honse at an extra
session.
President Taft sent a speoial message to
Congress Tuesday, transmitting information
prepared by the Tariff Board,  relative to
such artioles and commodities named in the
Canadian reciprocity agreement oonoerning
whiob tbe board had available information.
The report was oalled for in a resolution offered by Senator Cummins. Tbe statistios
transmitted dealt with pulp wood, pulp
and news print paper, farm produots, inolnding live stook, aud onrrent relative
prioes in Canada and the United States of
wheat, barley and food produots of tbe
farm, inolnding meats, poultry, eggs, dairy
products aud vegetables.
The general defioienoy bill, the final appropriation measure before it, was pa-teed
by tbe Honse oo a viva vooe vote Tuesday
night. It first defeated an amendment by
Hon. A. Mitohell Palmer, ot Pennsylvania,
to strike out the entire seotion relating to a
Government bonding bnreau. There were
no important amendments made.
TYPHOID RASING IN ERIE.
In the Hey-Day
of Success
Keep constantly in mind that there's a
sunset due, and that the evening should
find your account in some BANK on a
par with your day's zenith. And don't
count yourself a success unless you 've a
Bank-book to prove it. There s a welcome awaiting all beginners at the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
0P MERCER, PA.
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CAPITAL,
SURPLUS, .
RESOURCES,'
$180,000
.   9120,000
$1,000,000
Feared Epidemic Will Surpass Terrible
Scourge Id Butler tn 1003—State Fighting Dread Disease.
With nearly one tbonsand oases of typhoid fever soattered throughout tbe oity
and new oases developing at tbe rate of 25
per day, tbe State Health authorities, nn
der tbe personal direction of State Commissioner of Health Samuel G. Dixon, are leading the fight to check tbe epidemio, whiob
holds Erie in its grasp. The scourge now
threatens to far surpass tbe Butler epidemio
of 1903, beoause of tha mystery whioh surrounds the contamination of the oity's
water snpply. Tbe entire oity is placarded
witb instructions tbat no water be used unless boiled for 20 minutes; that no dishes
be used unless soalded, and that every precaution be exercised wherever any liquid is
used.
Seventy-six deaths have ocourred thus
far, and phvsioians rieolare tbat the disease
ia ot an unusually virulent type. St. Vincent's and Hamot hospitals, both Erie
institutions, are filled with patients. If
the disease continues to spread more
quarters will bave to be secured to care for
tbe siok. Tbe Mayer bnilding, in the center ot tbe oity, bas been tnrnsd into an
emergeooy hospital. Tbis hospital now
cares tor 76 oases, attended by relays of
State nnrses. Tbese women have been
doing splendid work, taking time from
tbeir duties in bospital wards to visit the
siok through the oity. Eighteen ot these
nurses are in tbe oity.
Witb tbe epidemio there is mystery. The
oity draws its supply of water trom Lake
Erie, tbe same as many other lake oities
whose health at present is first olass. This
water supposedly is pure, bnt imperative
orders, issued by the State Health Department, strike a blow at tbe aooepted high
standard of lake water. Tba oity must at
onoe oonstruot a filtration plant and a sew*
age disposal plant. In the meantime, a
oorps of engineers, under the direotion of
State Engineer Herbert S. Snow, bave constructed an emergenoy hydro sulphate station where this obemioal is shot into the
water for tbe purpose of killing germs.
The examination made by Mr. Snow,
State epgineer, developed that the contamination of the viator fosjy nave ooourred
irouveewng'e befog tbiow-o "nto the lake
and settling upon tbe bottom, from tbence,
in soma way, leaking into the intake. Tbe
oity's water snpply la from & station on a
peninsula known as "Big Bend." The
water is taken from the lake at a diatanoe
ot two miles trom shore. "Big Bend,"
however, forms a bay and sewage wbioh
flowed into this bay covered the lake bottom and, protected from onrrent, was dormant. How it enters the intake pipes is
not known.
The oity water commissioners bave had
experts from all parts ot the oountry examining into the situation and for a time
wonld not believe that tbe water trom tbe
lake was contaminated. A oorps of bacteriologists from the Health Department,
however, established tbat the water contained typhoid germs. Dr. Dixon bas
made several trips to tbe oity and personally looked over tbe work of bia men and
and he la expeoted again the latter part of
tbis week. Dr. Dixon, as a safe-guard,
has also ordered all milk dealers to deliver
milk unsealed to obviate any danger from
tbia aouroe,
A curious coincidence in tbis and the
Butler epidemio is that the scourge reaohed
its height before tbe general pnblio beoame
concerned with it, and even now the
authorities bave difficulty in seouring oo-
operation. Little has been aaid ot tbe
progress of tbe epidemio, it is said, beoause
"tbe town might- be hart." Tbe business
men, however, realise that tbe only
measnre is for tbe State and oity to oo-
operate, qniokly stamp out tbe disease and
establish purifying stations whioh will
made future epidemics impossible.
UNIFORM PRIMARIES CONDEMNED
Americans Great Pork Eaters.
"Pork eaters" is a term wbioh may rightfully be applied to tbe people ol tbe United
States if the figures jnst made pnblio by tbe
Census Bureau for 1909 may be taken as a
basis. Tbe figures show that dnring that
year 4,483,000 more bogs ware killed in
this oountry for food purposes than all
other animals oombined, inolnding beeves,
oalves, sheep and lambs, goats, kids, eto.
During 1909 36,448,000 hogs were killed
for food purposes and 31,960,000 of all other
animals.
Stoves to Save Peach Orop.
To beat a square mile of orchard with oil
stoves sonnds impossible, but tbat ia wbat
W. H. Underwood, of Hutohinson, Kansas, says be will do this spring. Mr. Underwood was in Kansas City reoently directing the manufacture of 18,000 stoves.
Tbese stoves, eaoh of whioh bas a reservoir
wbioh holds ten gallons of oil, will be
plaoed in his orohard, near Hutohison, to
prevent damage to tbe trees by frost. Tha
orchard contain- six hundred aores, and
about 30 stoves will be used to keep tbe
heat of eaoh aore above the freezing point.
Oow In a Class By Herself.
Reports reoeived Monday from Prof. T.
L. Davis, of Cornell University, by W. J.
Vosler, of Cato, N. Y., are to tbe effeot
tbat Vosler's prize Holstein-Friesian oow,
Daisy Cornucopia Pauline, has established
a new world's record by producing 34|
pounds of butter in seven days. This exceeds by two pounds the former world's
reoord held by Pontiao Glade. Tbe new
reoord bolder ia fonr years old. The Cornell
experts are conducting a 30-day test of bar
butter capaoit).
—Cheapest aooident insuranoe — Dr.
Thomas' Eoleotio 041. Stops tbe pain and
heals the wound.   All druggists sell it.
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Election    law    Commission   Makes   Preliminary Report to Legislature Recommending Charges in Statutes.
The report of the State commission  to
revise the election laws of Pennsylvania
was presented in the Senate Wednesday by
Senator E. L. Tnstin, of Philadelphia, and
in   tbe   House  by Representative  W.  C.
Freeman, of Lebanon. Tbey also Introduced
tbe registration and primary eleotion  bills
prepared by tbe  commission.    These  bills
are tbree in number.   One. oovers tbe sub
jeot of registration and tbe otber two that
of primaries.
Of tbe latter, one provides for an annual
nominating primary to be held in tbe even
numbered years, or when there are general
eleotions, tbe first Saturday in May; in tbe
odd numbered years, ormunioipal eleotions,
on tbe fourth Saturday in September.
Tbe otber bill would obrogate uniform
primaries, permitting the different politioal
parties to select tbeir own time for nominating oandidates, either by direot or indirect methods, tbat is at the polls, by oonvention or oommittee endorsement, suoh
primaries to be held by offioers seleoted by
said parties, but under the same restrictions
and penalties provided by the present law.
The qualification of voters is to be determined by tbe party rale and oost of tbe
primary to be paid by the party instead of
tbe State.
Tbe commission is unanimously opposed
to the primary system now ia foroe. It has
prepared a oomplete oode of existing laws,
arranged as to subjects and preserving
wherever possible the language of tbe
statutes. The report submitted Wednesday
oovers only registration and methods ot
nomination. A oomplete and final report
will be made later in the session.
Half a dozen or more of tbe big bills
whioh are on tbe program for tbe 1911 session of the Legislature will make their
appearanoe within tbe next fortnight
Thus far 803 bills have been introduoed in
tbe House, against 1,235 for tbe whole of
last session. Ot tbis number 141 have been
reputed out. Fully 300 bave been presented in the Senate. This is less tban half
of tbe total nnmber for tbe Senate last
session.
Prominent agricultural organizations are
said to be baok of a bill tbat has been prepared for tbe establishment of a Pennsylvania State fair. Tbe bill provides for tbe
oreation of a State Fair Commission, oonsisting of the seoretary ot agrionlture and
seven otber members to be appointed by
the Governor, their terms to be four years.
This board is to provide a site and make all
arrangements for an annnal State fair.
Appropriations made to the State fair by
tbe Legislature sball be expended by tbe
board in snob a manner as will best promote tbe interest! of agrionlture, live
stock, breeding, dairying horticulture,
manufacture and domestio arts. Tha
board is authorized to purchase and hold,
title to tbe property neoessary for tbe State
{air purposes. The bill oarries an appropriation of $300,000.
Speaker John F. Cox says tbat the
friends of looal option oan lefljisnanTfl Sum
tbey will be giveu fair treatment in the
vote to plaoe - tbeir bill on tbe oalendar.
Some of the supporters of tbe measure had
■the thought tbat tbere might be an attempt
to prevent tbe snbjeot going to a vote. The
Law aad Order Committee negatived tbe
bill and tbe report waa made to the House
last Wednesday. Representative Berkey
H. Boyd, of Westmoreland, on Monday
night offered a motion to pnt the bill on
the calendar, notwithstanding tbe aotion ot
tbe oommittee. Tbis must lie over for a
week and will oome np for a vote oo
Marob 6. Speaker Cox aays that not a
thing will be done to prevent a full discussion of the aubjeot and every member will
be given an opportunity to go on reoord on
tbe legislation. Boyd aaya that while be
wonld prefer to have bad a pnblio bearing
before tbe oommittee aoted, be will be satisfied it the frienda of looal option are
given a sqnare deal on tbe floor of the
House.
The House by a vote of 119 to 76 on
Monday night sustained the deoision ot
Speaker John F. Cox in ruling ont of order
the Kelly resolution to instruct Pennsylvania's United States Senators to support tbe
amendment to the Federal Constitution to
eleot Senators by a direot vote. The ruling
was made on the ground that it ia not competent for the House to instruct Senators.
At the same session tbe House by a vote
of 96 to 82 made it plain that it is not
ready to fix tbe date of final adjournment.
The Rockwell resolution to olose on April
97 was oalled up for consideration and
voted down. Mr. Dearden tben presented
a rale that no bills be read in plaoe after
Maroh 17. It was referred to the Rules
Committee.
The bill tor tbe pnrobase of Capitol Park
extension was presented Monday night by
Representative William S. Tunis, Dauphin,
and Senator Jobn E. Fox, ot Dauphin. Tbe
ground is to ooat $2,000,000 and the annnal
expenditure is to be $400,000, unless it is
fonnd tbat the revenues will permit of an
expenditure of $1,000,000 a year. The
Governor.is to appoint a commission ot
three. It tbe Harrisbnrg people want to
get their bill throngh, they win have to out
out the trimmings. Tbe measnre, tt is
said, will bave a ohanoe If it is amended to
plaoe the purchasing of the land In tha
bands of the Publio Gronnds and Bnildings
Commission.
Satisfactory progress was made Tuesday
in tbe consideration of tbe proposed sobool
oode by the joint Committee on Ednoation
of tbe Senate and tbe Hou«e with members
of the Code Committee appearing in an
advisory capaoity and prepared to explain
any features ot tbe measure reoommended
by tbem that might not be thoroughly understood. As a result the proposed legislation is better understood by members of
tbe Assembly, as many of tbem attended
the bearing. At the oonolusion ot the
bearing tt was annonnoed that beginning
next Tuesday tbere will be two sessions
daily of tbe House Committee, and Obairman Carroll expressed tbe opinion tbat
they will be able to report the bill abont
the middle of Marob.
A radioal measure applying to sooieties
and otber organizations having olnb bouses
in wbioh liquor is sold to members was introduoed Tuesday by Representative
Wilson, ot Jefferson. The bill provides for
a system ot oonrt liqnor lioenses for fraternal or benefioial orders, aeoret sooieties,
olubs, organizations or otber combinations
of individuals. Tbey are prohibited from
selling or distributing among themselves in
any manner liquor for a profit exoept nnder
the license provided.   Lioenses are to be
granted as otber liqnor lioenses are now
granted. Liquor oannot be sold, however,
to others tban members and mnst be drunk
on the premises. No liquor oan be sold on
Sundays or eleotion days, nor at any time
to a minor, intemperate persons or one
visibly intoxicated.
With the aim of gaining additional votes
for tbe judges' salaries increase bill, Representatives of different parts of the State
bave been consulted, the result being a
new arrangement of salary figures by the
Judioiary Special Committee of tbe House,
according to population of jndioial distriots.
Tbe new sobedule of salaries adopted is as
follows: Distriots having a population of
less tban 100,000, $6000 a year; between
100,000 and 360,000, $7000; between 250,-
000 and 500,000, $8,500; between 600,000
and 1,250.000, $10,000; over 1,250,000,
$12,000; Superior Court judges, $13,000,
witb $500 additional for president judge;
Supreme Conrt justices, $14,000, witb $500
additional for chief justioe. Mi
A bill was introduoed in the Senate Mon
day night making tt unlawful to keep in
storage for preservation or otherwise any
kind of food or any artiole used for food for
a period longer tban six montbs withont
tbe oonsent of the State Buard of Health.
The bill, wbioh was introduced by Mr
Hoffman, provides tbat no food artiole
sball be taken from a oold storage house or
otber refrigerating establishment without
first having branded, stamped or marked
on it tbe day, month and year when the
artiole waa reoeived by tbe storage oonoern.
FRED MYERS MEETS   AWFUL   DEATH.
HARD BLOW TO RAILROADS.
Interstate Commerce Commission Decides
Against Proposed Increase In Rates—Old
Tarifi' Restored.
By a unanimous vote, tbe Interstate
Commeroe Commission has deoreed tbat the
railroads of tbe United States bad no right
to enforce the increases in freight rates filed
last summer. Tbe increases bave never gone
into effeot, having been suspended by
agreement so tbat an investigation as to
tbeir reasonableness might be made. Tbe
railroads are now ordered to withdraw the
iooreases. Unless they do ao by Maroh 10,
tbe commission will issue an order that will
oause tbe old rates now in operation to remain in effect for a period of two years.
Nearly all tbe railroads in tbe oountry
aoted simultaneously in filing tbe sobedules
ot inoreases, wbiob were on all olass rates
and on nearly one-balf of tbe commodity
rates. There was snoh evidenoe of concerted aotion tbat President Taft ordered
the attorney general to begin proceedings
in tbe West, charging tbat an agreement
bad been made by tbe railroads in violation
of the Sherman Anti-trust law. Proposed
advances in olass freight rates in offioial
olassifioation territory, aggregating among
all the railways in tbe territory approximately $27,000,000 a year, were disapproved by the commission.
In brief, tbis is tbe disposition made by
tbe Interstate Commeroe Commission of tbe
most important oases ever bronght to its attention. In a sense, tha deoisione ware in
the nature ot a surprise to railroad offioials
and other experts wbo had followed olosely
the proceedings, a majority of wbom believed the commission would grant some
inorease to the Western lines if not to tbe
Eastern.
Ohuroh Notes.
The "Diamond Jubilee" for whiob tbe
Erie oonferenoe of tbe Methodist ohnrob
provided at its last session, is just beginning to be observed in good earnest Tbe
object is to finish np tbe raising nf $100,-
000 as an endowment fnnd for superannuated preaobers, one-balf of wbiob bad
previously been gathered. Last Sunday
was tbe first of a series of Sundays to be
utilized, wben tbe ottering was taken in
some twenty-five pastoral oharges. Reports so far reoeived indicate tbat tbe cash
and pledges received aggregate fully $10,-
000. R. S. Borland is in obarge of the
oampaign.
A representative ot the Pennsylvania
Anti-Saloon League will speak at Bethany
Presbyterian oburoh next Sabbath morning
at 11 o'olook. There will be preaohing in
tbe obnrob at 7:30 p. m.
Tbe suhjeot for disonssion by the Men'a
Progressive Bible Class at the First U. P.
ohnroh next Sabbath morning will be,
''Is tbe Time and Method by Wbiob People
Are Taken Out of Tbis World Always Decreed by God?" Visitors will be cordially
weloomed
A men'a meeting will be beld in the assembly room of tbe oourt house Sunday afternoon at tbree o'olook and a union meeting In tbe evening to be addressed by E. E.
Bailey, ot OU City.
Communion aervioe will be held at the
First Presbyterian ohnroh next Sabbatb,
with preparatory services Friday evening
at seven o'olook and Saturday afternoon at
two. At the olose of the preparatory
servioes the session will meet to reoeive any
who may desire to unite with the ohnrob.
Rev. S. D. Goodale, of St. Louis, is holding a series of meetings at Millbrook
assisted by John Olson, of Cbioago, gospel
singer. The meetings are nnion and bave
been well attended and already bave resulted in some conversions. They will
oontinne two weeks longer, witb preaobing
eaoh night and Sabbath mornings at 11
o'olook. The week day servioes are at 10:30
a. m. Rev. Goodale is a powerful preaoher
and the influenoe of the meetings la good.
The cooperation of all tbe christian people
of the oommunity is asked for the meetings.
Rev. -R. A. Blair, a retnrned missionary
from China, will preaoh in the Covenanter
ohurob next Sunday. On Monday evening
at 7:30 he will deliver in the ohnroh an
illustrated leoture, showing 150 views of
mission life in Turkey and China, witb
speoial views of tbo Armenian massacres.
Tbere will be no admission fee, but a
oolleotion wiU be taken. A oordial invitation is extended.
Idet of Letters
Remaining in the postoffioe at Meroer, Pa.,
Maroh 2,1911. Persons oalllng for letters
will please say "advertised," as one oent
extra will be oharged :
Mr. and Mrs. Marin Colmes, Clarsie
Fleming, Fangree Miller, Henry E. Pitts,
Mrs. Kate Urey.
D. L. Barton, P. M.
—"I suffered habitually from oonstipation.
Doan's Regulets relieved and strengthened
tbe bowels, so tbat tbey have been regular
ever sinoe."—A. E. Davis, grooer, Snlphur
Springs, Tex. mar
—Real burning oil, the kind for inenba
tors or  good  light,     at  tha ' Corner Dru
Store. 52tf
Prominent Business Man and Politician
Instantly Killed By Erie Passenger
Train at Sharon.
Ex-County Commissioner Fred Myers,
bnsiness man, prominent in monicipal and
oounty affairs and a Republioan candidate
for oounty treasurer, was run down hy an
Erie passenger train and instantly killed
On Wedkesday. Hia borse met a similar
fate and tbe wagon in which be was riding
Was reduced to kindling wood. Tbe accident happened at tbe Broadway orossing,
a short distance above the Carnegie North
Works, in Sbaron.
Mr. Myers was struok by one of tbe
hoiler rods on the locomotive and tbe right
side of his bead was terribly crushed. The
body was lodged so securely on tbe front of
tbe locomotive tbat tbe train ran to the
State street station, a diatanoe of about
half a mile, before it oonld be removed.
At tbe station, Undertaker Sample, witb
tbe assistance of tbe trainmen, lifted tbe
orumpled form from the engine.
Mr. Myers was on bis way to bis oonntry
bome at tbe time of the aooident and was
driving a small wagon filled witb groceries
for tbe bouse. He was very deaf, and did
not hear tbe approaoh of tbe trail, whioh
was running at high speed. The engineer
tried to stop the train, throwing on tbe
emergenoy brakes, but tha collision oould
not be avoided. Tba pilot of tbe engine
struok the horse a terrifio blow, killing it
instantly. Mr. Myers and the wagon
were literally impaled on tbe front ot tbe
locomotive. Tbe wagon dropped and was
thrust aside about 200 feet below tbe crossing, but tbe body of tbe viotim was so
wedged in that it defied the first efforts to
remove it when the train was brought to
a stop about 800 feet from the soene of the
aooident.
The death of Mr. Myers is particularly
distressing, and the members ot the strioken
family bave tbe sympathy ot the community. One son, Fred., Jr., is suffering
from nervous prostration, and on Tnesday
bis physioian ordered bim to give up all
work for a year in order to reouperate.
Few residents of Sharon or Meroer oounty were better known tban Mr. Myera and
tbe shooking fate that came to bim will
oanse widespread sorrow. He was born in
Buffalo, N. V*., on February 14, 1848, was
eduoated in the public sohools of tbat oity
and there learned tbe oarpenter and nail
making trades, both of wbioh be followed
for many years after removing to Sharon in
1868. Beooming aotive in polities, he was
eleoted oonnty commissioner in 1893 and
re-eleoted in 1896 and 1902, serving nine
years in the offioe, a reoord no otber oitizen
of tbe oounty ever has attained. Hs was a
oonrteous, painstaking and oompetent official and established a reoord in wbioh he
and his friends justly took great pride.
S»me time ago be annonnoed bis oandidaoy
for tbe offioe of oounty treasurer and by all
faotions was admitted to be a formidable
contender for the position.
Sinoe retiring from offioe Mr. Myers bad
been engaged, in partnership with his sons,
in tbe grocery business in Sbaron. He also
bad extensive real estate interests. Ha is
survived by his wife and tbe following
children : William, George, Fred., Jr.,
Joseph, Elizabeth and Marian, of Sharon,
and Benjamin, of Detroit.
Mr. Myers was a man of high character
and pleasant disposition. He was a member ol St. Paul's Reformed ohnroh of
Sharon and fraternally was affiliated with
the I. O. O. F., P. H. 0. and B. P. O. E.
As a man and oitizen few men occupied a
more enviable position than did he. By
his honesty and integrity be won tbe re-
speot and trust not only of his neighbors,
but also of tbe general public But perhaps hia moat distinguishing trait, and one
wbioh won bim hosts ot ardent supporters,
was hia loyalty to his frienda. Tnis loyalty
was proverbial and was demonstrated in
many ways. His death will be sinoerely
mourned in every seotion of the oonnty.
Tbe fnneral servioes will be' held at the
home tbis (Friday) afternoon at 9 o'olook.
witnessed the conseoration, bnt only one
not an Episcopalian clergyman was in the
procession. The presiding bishop was Rt.
Rev. Cortlandt Whitehead, of the Pittsburg
diooese. Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, of Bethlehem, and Bishop Boyd Yinoent, of Southern Ohio, were co-oonseorators; Bishop S.
L. Lloyd, of New York, was preaoher, and
Bishop J. H. Darlington, of Middleton,
Conn., aod Bishop C. T. Olmsted, of the
Central New York diooese, were presenting
bishops. Bishop Whitehead ordained
Bishop Israel many years ago and also presided at the oonvention whiob elected him
bisbop of Erie. The Erie diooese, whioh
was reoently formed from the Pittsburg diooese, takes in thirteen oounties of this
State : Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk,
Erie, Forest, Crawford, Jefferson, Lawrenoe, MoKean, Meroer, Yenango and Warren, .
RECENT DEATHS.
Wife Slayer Executed.
Last Thursday Alton- Y. Hoover was
banged in tbe Erie oounty jail at 10:93
o'olook for the murder of his wife at tbe
home ot ber parents in Atlantio, Crawford
oounty, November 11, 1908. He was tbe
first man to pay the deatb penalty in tbis
oonnty la 16 years. He was assisted to tbe
eoaffold by Sheriff Jndd H. Brnff, ot
Allegheny oounty. Hoover collapsed while
oarpenters were bnilding tbe gibbet on
wbiob he was exeouted, but reoovered his
composure. His aged parents, Dr. and
Mrs. T, F. Hoover, visited him for the last
time Wednesday, They had spent their
entire fortune—$50,000—to save tbeir son's
Ufa.       	
Bishop Israel Consecrated.
Rev. Dr. Rogers Israel was on Friday
consecrated bishop of tbe new Erie diooese
of the Episoopal ohnrob. Six bishops, otber
bigh ohnroh men and nearly 900 others
witnessed tbe oonseoration. Tbe oeremony
took plaoe in St. Luke's ohurob, Scranton,
ot whioh Dr. Israel has been reotor for nineteen years. Ministers from otber denominations in the city were among tbose wbo
B.  C.  FARVER.
R. C. Farver died at his bome in New
Lebanon on February 16, in the sixty-seventh year of bis age, of organio heart trouble. He was born in French Creek township, and was for many years a prominent
oitizen, a reliable and very suooessful business man of New Lebanon. At tha time of
bis death he was holding the offioe of justioe
of the peaoe. Sandy Lake Lodge No. 573
L O. O. F., of whicb ha had been a mem-
hat for over forty years, bad oharge of the
burial servioe. The funeral servioe was
oonduoted by Bar. H. A, Teats at one
o'olook on Sunday afternoon at nto home.
Interment was made in tbe New Lebanon
oemetery. He is snrvived by bis wife, one
son, B. C, Jr., and a'daughter, Mrs. Anna
Cox, of New Castle.
JANE   M'ELHOY.
Miss Jane McElroy, a life-long resident
of Meroer oonnty, died Monday at tbe bome
of Miss Sarah MoKnight, Nortb Pitt street,
aged 65 years. Death was oaused by an af-
teotion of tbe throat, after a very brief ill- -
ness. Sbe. resided near Pardoe, tat for
some time bad heen visiting in Meroer. She
was a woman of exoellent oharaoter and for
forty-five years bad been a member of the
Covenanter ohnrob ot Meroer. Sbe is survived by one brother, Joseph McElroy, of
Quinter, Kas. Fnneral servioes were held
Wednesday in the ohuroh and interment
was made in Springfield oemetery.
MRS. HENRY SMITH.
Mrs. Belle Smitb, widow of Henry Smith,
died at ber bome in Worth township
February 12. Sbe was one of the most
widely known women of Eastern Meroer
oounty, was highly esteemed wherever
known and will be greatly missed lo the
community. She was a devoted Christian
and a woman of most estimable oharaoter.
Sbe is snrvived by two sons and one
daughter, Fleming, at home, and Lamont
and Mrs. Coleman, of near Centertown.
Franklin Wants Market Honse.
A movement wbioh promises to be of
muoh importanoe, not only to Franklin,
but also to tbe agricultural interests of Yenango oonnty, was inaugurated by the Civil
Improvement Sooiety at its last regular
meeting, when it deoided to endeavor* to
bring abbot tbe erection of a market bonse
in tbat oity. Tbe matter bas been under
consideration for some time by several well
known oitizens of Franklin, and the preliminary steps had been disonssed, bnt it
remained for the Civio Improvement Society to take the matter np in definite form
and start tbe movement by whioh it is
hoped tbat Franklin will secure a market
bouse this summer.
Is Cleaner Than Oarpet.
Paint yonr floor aronnd tbe border ot
tbe room with L. & M. Floor Paint. Costs
abont 60 oents.
It gives a bright varnished finish.
Clover the oenter of the room with yonr
home made oarpet rug.   Looks splendid.
Get it from J. B. Good.
Suttragettes To Be Heard.
For tbe first time in the history of the
State, it is said tbe women of Pennsylvania
who desire to vote will be given an
opportunity to argue the qnestion before a
Legislative oommittee on Maroh 14. A
joint resolntion proposing an amendment
to the State Constitution, giving women
eqnal suffrage, has been introduoed in the
Senate and the Judioiary General Committee at that body bas consented to hear
the advooates of tbe proposition.
Winter Cholera At Erie.
Chief Engineer F. Herbert Snow, of the
State Department of Health, is responsible
for the statement tbat notwithstanding the
typhoid epidemio now raging in Erie, the
lake front oity has been suffering with a
far worse epidemio of winter oholera. He
states that more than 10,000 oases have
been discovered sinoe Deoember 1. These
startling figures have not hem given out
by the Erie correspondents, and wonld
probably be unknown had it not been for
tbe remarks of Mr. Snow. Winter oholera
is not neoessaiily fatal, bnt is a disease
accompanied by muob suffering.
—Warren T. Baker sells the best farm
watron nn earth.    Call and see. 16tt
ECONOMY IS A GREAT REVENUE
Are you economical—are you saving all
the money you can ? Whenever you
have spare cash, come here and deposit
it, where it will be perfectly secure.
3%
INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS
ACCOUNTS OP $1.00  AND  UP.
Mercer, Pa.
CAPITAL, $80,000.00 PROFITS, $40,000.00