Pittston Gazette

              CONDITIONS. . THE HOME PAPER. For the People of Plttston and Forecast Until 8 p. m. Tomorrow Cot' Eastern Pennsylvania. Vicinity. Historica1 Society AlAi THE HOME NEWS, Local rail M«» — j • 57TH YEAR. I WBRKLY ESTARMSHEIl 1850. 1 DAILY EST. BY T1IKO. HART 1882. PITTSTON, 22, 1906. TWO CJ5NT8 A COrY. I FORTY CKNTS A MONTH. I 8 PAGES. THOUSANDS DEAD FATAL EXPLOSION. PEORIA PARADOX mands for recognition by delegates and liTf"!!"!!/ Ill 91^11101^0 the cheers of tlie factions ns the vote. W 11n H llw r n|\I wns announced made the hnll a bed- || (J|||t |[* | IlllJIJtJ lam. The flnnl result showed for plac- ' Ing the» motion on the table. 1,038; against the motion to table. 570; not voting, 51. The convention then passed the Bryan*resolution and adjourned. the 12,000 buildings were finished ufid ready for occupancy the plumbers would have acquired $10,500,000 in wages.  CUBAN TROIIBL 'Ihrcf Victims of a Blowout of Ac- cumulated Gas at a Pittsburg Every permanent building that will rise over the burned district must be plastered, and there would be laid on the walls of a four-story brick building, 4 5 feet wide by 110 feet deepD 5,000 yards of plaster. In 12,000 buildings the wn'is would be covered with 60,000,C„o yards. The average cost would be about 40 cents a yard. Sixty million yards would cost $24,- labor and all, the plasterers getting at least ten per cent, of the final cost under normal conditions. The labor situation, however, is not normal, and the plasterer is making almost 100 per cent, more than usual, bringing his share up to 20 per cent. Then there will be $4,800,000 as the plasterers' share of the reconstruction millions. Property Loss in Chile Esti- Furnace. Democrats Endorse Bryan Workingmen Will Reap a Three Engagements Are Re- Pittsburg, Aug. 22.—Three men are dead, (wo are in a serious condition and nine others were rendered unconscious by a blow-out of accumulated gas at: the Ellssa furnaces of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., at Soho, this city. mated at $100,000,000. and Sullivan. Harvest. ported. ■i * MURPHY FOR HEARST. HAVE MARTIAL LAW CONVENTION RED HOT But Hearst Emphatically Declare! He WILL GET $190,000,000 JOSE GOMEZ ARRESTED The men were engaged in dumping ore and coke Into the furnace from the top, when there was an explosion of accumulated gas. Is Not For Murphy. Xew York. Aug. 22.—Without saying "I am for IJenrst for governor" Charles F. Murphy, lender of Tammany Ilall, praetlcally declared for Hearst. Mr. Murphy Was united If he had a candidate and said: The People Still Living Delegates Indulge in Fist Wages Higher than Any 610 Prisoners in the Havana Flames shot up and enveloped Andrew Marsley in the deadly fumes and he fell over unconscious. His brother, George, went to his assistance, but he too, was overcome, and Michael Boyd, who followed him, was also rendered insensible. Place in the World. Outdoors. Fight. Jail. * H! "No, I have nfc candidate." "Will Tainmamy Hall support Hearst if he Is nominated?" "Certainly," \«as the reply. "Is there any fenilment In the organization for Jerome for governor?" "None that 1 -have discovered," was the answer. San Francisco, Aug. 22.—Rebuild- Rebuilding of Sun Francisco is proceeding more hopefully, despite the strikes of the trades unions and more strikes that are bound to come. Some optimistic citizens believe that the city will have arisen grander than ever within five years, and others set ten years as the time necessary for rehabilitation and the erection of buildings adequate to take the place of those destroyed by earthquake and lire. Valparaiso, Aug. 22.—The loss of lif« by the earthquake of Thursday. Aug. 18, probably will not be short of 3.000, while the property destroyed is estimated at $100,000,000 and possibly Is far iu excess of that sum. Teoria. 111.. Aug. 22—By a vote -D* 1,038 to 5T0 the Democratic convention placed upon the table the request oi William J. Bryan for the resignation ot Hoger Sullivan from the national com tnlttce. Despite the fact that Mr. Bry an had declared tltat he did not wish to be indorsed unless Sullivan was re pudinted, the convention declared him to be the one and only man capable ot leading the Democratic party to victory In 1008. The Indorsement of Bryan and the tabling of the motion calling for the resignation of Sullivan came at the close of a most exciting session of the convention, in which there were several lights and throughout which confusion reigned supreme. ( A plank in the platform which received much applause was that declaring In favor of governmental ownership of telegraph and telephone lines. Havana, Aug. 22.—The insurrection is spreading. Fighting continues in widely separated districts. Three engagements between rebels and government troops have been reported. In spite of their realization of the fate that awaited them each of the 11 men remaining attempted to succor those first attacked, and every one in his turn was overcome. The following table was computed as fairly conservative estimates: Hricklayers $ 46,000,000 Carpenters  Hod carriers, mortar men 20,000,000 and Incidental labor.. Cleaning debris  Plumbers  Plasterers  Laborers (reconstruction) Teamsters  15,000,000 15,000,000 10,500,000 In spite of official assurnnces that Havana province was cleared of rebels, a body of them boldly took possession of tiuines, a town of 2,000 inhabitants. They met with no resistance, and their presence so near the capital has caused great alarm here. By this time notice of the accident had reached the workmen below and the. gas was shut off. The men were then rescued and taken to the company's emergency hospital. "Is there any Hearst sentiment" "Plenty of it." said the boss of Tommany. and he smiled as he said It. Ordifr Is being maintained with the utmost severity by the military, police and armed citizens' patrols, who are empowered to shoot looters on the spot. The authorities are showing the utmost energy Iti the protection of property. "Isn't the leader of Tammany largely guided by the sentiment In the organization ?" 4,800,000 12,000,000 10,000,000 Four hundred million dollars Is the figure set as the cost of rebuilding and labor. Despite the representations of the walking delegates, who are responsible for much of the difficulty in the way of getting buildings up. labor will get nearly half of this amount. Thirty thousand workmen are employed, and this number probably will be steadily incneased, if the rehabilitation is to make the progress that is expected. TOWNSHIP DIRECTORS. Cement workers  Electricians ..... Ironworkers ...... ..... Painters .. Lathers  Tinsmiths  Foremen, superintendents Other trades and crafts. . r.,ooo.ooo 4,000,000 The most desperate lighting was near Hoyo Colorado. One hundred citizens, having been Informed that General Banderas Intended taking the town Monday night, armed themselves and joined forces with the rural guard. Banderas made an attempt at dawh, but was badly defeated, leaving two dead on the ground. There were no casualties In the government forces. \ "Always," said Murphy 2.000,000 4,000,000 "With the first terrible shock of the earthquake buildings collapsed, their ■walls falling with a tremendous noise. The Inmates in many eases were unable to escape. The shock was followed almost immediately by a fierce storm, the wind prostrating walls that had been weakened by the earthquake, and these broke trolley wires, which flashed Incessantly. The second shock wns even heavier than the first. When this interview was brought to Mr. Hearst's nttentlon he gave out the following statement: 1,000,000 15,000.000 19,700,000 1,000,000 Elect? d Two Teachers Last "I have no Interest whatever in the factional disputes of Tammany Hall. Those declarations for or against me are nothing more than attempts to influence votes In primary contests. Evening. Total $100,000,000 Committee on Old Accounts Heports "Over throe months ago I pave an Interview to the Brooklyn Entile defining iriy position, which I have not altered.Ordinarily the labor put Into ft building costs about 33 per cent, of the total construction charges. In Han Francisco the general - average of wages for men of all crafts, as well as the unskilled labor, is at least 30 per cent, higher than the prevailing rates which are usually considered In estimating the cost of building. This will give to San Francisco's working forces about 43 per cent, of the totaH cost of reconstruction, or about $175,- 000,000. No reckoning is taken here of the cost of clearing the ruin-plied area of the burned district. This will amount to about $110,000,000, of which sum laborers, derrick men and teamsters will get more than $15,000,000, making a final total of $190,000,000. SWIMMER WAS DROWNED Progress—Repairs on Buildings "Bryan First and Last." General Jose Miguel Gomez, who ran against Palnia for the presidency, was arrested on Ills cattle ranch in Santa Clara province. The government assertR It has evldeuce that he was plotting to Join the revolution. This his friends vehemently deny. General Gomez Arrested. Ordered'—IClvel,v Argument The Bryan resolution was worded as follows: Fires Start In All Directions. "I repent now thnt I am absolutely nnd unalterably opposed to the Murphys and the McCflrrens and nlso to the Sullivans and the MeClellnns nnd the kind of politics that they all represent.Five minutes afterward fires started In every direction, and immediately the whole town, which had been momentarily In darkness, was illuminated with the lurid splendor of gigantic flames. The firemen made a desperate fight, though there was but little water, as most of the mains had been broken by the earth tremor. The Victoria theatre and the Naval club were destroyed by the earthquake, and the National theatre succumbed to earth-3uake and fire. The Club de He ti em bra, ie Church of La Merced, the buildings of the French fathers, the navy department building, the city hall and many other buildings were destroyed by the earthquake. The destruction by fire, however, was infinitely larger, and probably 00 per cent of the commercial houses were totally ruined. In Brazil u venue alone nearly thirty blocks of buildings from three to live stories high were destroyed. Over lUKiks—New ltcad- For president of the United States the Democrats of Illinois, first and last, have but one choice, and that man is William Jennings Bryan. John Conlan, of Inkerman, cis Miid Geographies Seized With Cramp. Adopted In this period of official hypocrisy, political corruption and cowardly surrendei of principles to expediency whenever Republicanism holds sway William Jenningt Bryan towers above all Americans fitted to lead in the fight to rescue our government from the hands of special interests and restore it to all the people. The Democracy of Illinois eagerly looks forward to 1H0S for the opportunity to join with her sister statos in nominating and triumphantly electing him president of the United States. An adjourned regular meeting of the Plttston Township School Board was held last night In the Dupont school house. All the members of the board were in attendance. The government had been positively Informed that General Gomez hod left Yaguajay, province of Santa Clara, accompanied by a band of insurgents. "I am opposed to boss rule in poll tics. Was Accounted a Good Swimmer and Was In (lie Middle of tlie Itlvcr oil The committee 011 finances reported that it had not yet completed the work of .examining the claims presented for payment out of (he proceeds of the recent $18,0011 boftil sale. This matter was left with the committee for further investigation, with the understanding that a report would be ready for the next 'meeting. "I am opposed to corporation control of parties through machines, and the fact that a boss or a machine declares for me does not jilter my attitude In any particular. ijnm also oj.posed to the Rynns and Belmonts and their Jeromes In politics, to the corrupt use of wealth to debauch the ballot nnd to the purchase of puppets in ottice. Ills Way Across. When lie Previous to this definite information there had been a number of rumors, hitherto authoritatively denied, that General Gomez was planning to lead a revolution in Cuba. His visit to the United States last winter Is said to have lteen to purchase arms. This also was denied. Suddenly Sank — Body Hccovcrcd In 2(1 Minutes The time calls for a president of Bryan's honesty, sincerity and political philosophy.John Conlan. of Inkerman, who was accounted an expert swlmmeh was drowned in the Susquehanna, near Port Blanchard, yesterday afternoon at 5:30. He was swimming across the river alone and, when in the middle, suddenly threw up his hands and sank. It Is believed that ho, was seized with cramps. Conlan was a powerful man. weighing fully 250 pounds, and lie made a practice when in the river of swimming across and sometimes back again. The drowning took place almost the Port Blanchard hotel and was witnessed by several people. Thomas Kelly, of Inkerman, a friend of Conlan, was fishing In a boat and he rowed to  the body had disappeared. He dived several times and at the end of 20 minutes located the body and brought It to the surface. Undertakers  & Murray took charge of the remains and removed them to their undertaking rooms nnd then to the Conlan home in Inkerman. Labor leaders In the city assert that the minimum wage scales have not been changed by the lluilding Trades Councils since the tire; they admit that the minimum scale is universally disregarded. As a matter of fact the wages paid to the various classes of labor are from 50 cents to $2 more than the scale calls for, (Jreat Cost of linlwn- The reading of this resolution, which called forth terrific applause, closed the platform. Air. Kern then announced that a resolution had been submitted to the committee calling upon National Committeeman Sullivan to resign. The committee had declined to embody It lit the report, but It had been agreed thai the resolution should be presented from the lloor and each side allowed fortyfive minutes for discussion. The police are searching all houses In Havana for arms and  but with the police themselves involved with conspiracy there Is no safety felt. Captains Maso and Regu«tyra were thrown Into prison. A vacancy in the corps of teachers in the Browntown school was filled by the election of Miss Alice Manga H. She received the votes of directors Brown, Corcoran, Mitchell and Schmaltz. The other candidate. Miss Ford, got the votes of Messrs. Clisham and Mulhern. "Mr. Roosevelt says the people need a 'square denl.' I would add thnt to have n square deal they must have a new deal, for nearly all the cards In the old political packs nre marked by the corporations and dirty and do* oared from the corrupt uses to which they have been put.'! There are now 010 persons in Havana Jails, arretted TfWitti the last three days, charged with conspiracy. Statistics show that the San Francisco workman is receiving the highest wages paid anywhere in the world at any time, and there Is every prospect that the high wage scale will continue throughout the reconstruction period, and, perhaps, be forced higher to gratify the pride of walking delegates and labor leaders. There were 20,006 trades union men employed in San Francisco before April 18. Secretary O. A. Trevitmoe, of the Building Trades Councils, says that more than 30,000 men are now engaged in the rebuilding. Fully 10,000 workmen have been attracted to the city during the last three months, and they are still arriving In large Slight Shock* Continue, Miss Reddington was elected substitute teacher for the district to fill the position of any teacher temporarily absent, Her compensation was fixed at $l.r.O per day for each day that she may act as substitute, this to be deducted from the salary of the teacher In whose place the substitute may teach. (Slight shocks are continuing. The people have not yet returned to their homes, hut are sleeping on the surrounding hills and in the streets and squares. The fires have all been extinguished.CANNON BOOMED. J. Q. A. Ward Weds Again at 7lB. The first speaker was Judge Owen Thompson of Jacksonville, who read the Sullivan resolution, as follows: Now York, Aug. 22.—J. Q. A. Ward, dean of American sculptors find for more than half n century n leader In art, was showered with congratulations on his marriage. It was a surprise to his legion of friends to learn that tfee noted sculptor, who has Just passed the seventy-sixth milestone In life's Journey. had taken his third helpmate, many years his junior. The name of the bride is a profound secret. Illinois Republican Convention dorses Him For President. flesolved, That this convention does hereby request thnt Roger C. Hylllvan resign his position as memWr of the national committee from this state. Springfield, 111., Aug. 22.—The presidential boom of Joseph (?. Cannon for 1008 which was launched Inst week lDy Ills own congressional district was given an enthusiastle Indorsement by the Republican state convention. The mention of Cannon's name brought the convention to Its feet, and there was enthusiastic cheering. More than one hundred men taken ill the act of committing robberies have lteen shot, mostly in public. Contractor KnKlisb was authorized to make certain repairs on the walls at the Houston City school house at a cost not to exceejtL $30, and to repair the* plastering o,n the walls of the Browntown school and the putters and leaders on the Dupont building. The instant the reading was concluded pandemonium broke loose In the convention. There were loud cries of Largo parties of convicts who escaped from the prisons have been committing robberies and other crimes at Valparaiso, Casablanca and Vina del Mar, but the majority of them have been captured, and the shooting of more than fifty of them in public has had a salutary effect on the convicts who are still at large as well as upon all plunderers. "No, no!" Hurrah for Sullivan uproar continued for several minutes The The question of adopting text books for a term of three years came before the meeting, when the report of the, teachers' meeting that was held recently to recommend changes, Judge Thompson declared that .Mr. Bryan had asked the resignation of Mr. Sullivan and said. "In the face of this are you going to indorse Sullivan?"Conlan was about 35, years old. He was born and raised in lnkerman and was well known. His mother, Mrs. Mary Conlan, live brothers, Michael, Patrick, Peter, James and William and two sisters, Katherine and Mrs. John Gorman, all of lnkerman, survive. The funeral is to be held Friday morning at !* o'clock. A mass of requiem will be sung in St. Mark's church at 9:30, and Interment will be made in St. John's cemetery. Outside of the indorsement of Speaker Cannon for president and Senator Cullom for re-election there was little of general interest In the convention's proceedings. numbers, Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 22.—Ten persons of Waukesha, Wis., signed affidavits as the heirs of the late Michael Roup, a rich brewer of Germany, who left an estate of *100.000,000. Edward Roup of Buffalo, a cousin of Michael Roup, was in Waukesha consulting with the heirs to prerttfrit' the Claims. The German ambassador Ih Washington has communicated with the heiro and says the estate is boua flde. Ten Heirs to 9100,000,000. The thirty-odd thousand men receive in wages $108,000 a day. or almost $650,000 a week, even When they do not work overtime and on Sundays. submitted. This report was in favor of the text books now in use, with changes of renders, arithmetics and physiologies and the adoption of a new series of geographies. The board adopted, for the next three years, the text boods In use, those of the American Book Company, except as to the geographies, in which a change was made, the Frye geographies, published by Ginn & Co., being substituted.was "Certainly!" "Yes. yes!" came from all parts of the hall. Relief Work Begun Masons' Share in Rebuilding. All the public bodies ito Chile are cooperating In the relief work, and the sufferers from the disaster are engaged in repairing the damaged buildings and the telegraph and railway lines. Sullivan intervenes, Barbers Indorse Hearst. About 18,000 buildings were destroyed by the Are. All of this number. there is every reason to believe, will eventually be rebuilt. At least 12,000 structures will be built of brick. Four thousand temporary structures have been put up since the disaster at an average cost of about $1,000, aggregating $4,000,000. Judge Thompson continued to dwell upon what he called the outrages of the last convention, and the confusion became so great that Roger Sullivan arose and said. "I hope my friends will keep silent and allow Judge Thompson to tinish his speech." Albany. Aug. 22.—Resolutions indorsing William Randolph Hearst and the Independence league were adopted I)}' the State Association of Journeymen Barbers. „ AFTER THE TRAMPS. The greatest damage occurred in the provinces of Valparaiso and Aconcagua. The town of Abarea suffered severely. TJnillai Is reported to have entirely disappeared and Limnehe and Hierro Vlejo have been almost totally wrecked. At Vina del Mar three-quarters of the houses are in ruins. MITCHELL'S DENIAL. The Lehigh Valley railroad is carrying on without cessation its war on tramps and others looking for free rides on its trains. The two men who were arrested yesterday at the Water street station were held in the city lockup all night and released this morning. The tight against tramps Is not confined to this section. Lehigh Valley detective Shaffer arrested six men at Sayre and lodged them in the boro lockup, charged with illegal train riding. They were -given a hearing before Justice Nelson, who discharged all but one, named H. Johnson, who was fined $5. Suicide With Black Cat Ih Lap. Xew York. Aug. 22.'—With a black! cat seated In liis lap and a newspaper before hlui. Henry ICrekel, a WijrH known figure on Broadway, where fie was a tlt%et speculator, ended Ills life by shooting himself In the right temple with a revolver in the office of h|s friend, J. M. Yannett of (128 Eighth avenue, after he had asked Vannett, who is an undertaker, to take charge of hla funeral. The discussion of this question created considerable heat and friction, the old element of the board opposing the adoption Of any series of text books for the term tixed by law, three years. The new directors advocated compliance with the statute, winning by a vote of four to two. Directors Urown. Corcoran. Mitchell and Schmaltz voted for it, and Clisham and Mulhern against It. Wild cheers followed Sullivan's remarks, and when his voice cpuld be heard Judge Thompson said, "Mr. Sni-. livan having given his orders, I hope we may now continue." Hisses r.nd cat calls greeted this remark, and Judge Thompson repeated it with deliberation, eniphnzing the word "orders." lie was again hissed by the convention, the cheers of his friends mingling freely in the uproar. The speaker closet! with an earnest appeal to the delegates not to turn down Mr. Bryan. National President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, in a letter received by Attorney James TC. Lenahan, of Wllkcsbarre, denies that he suggested the candidacy of Attorney James It. Shea for the Democratic nomination for Congress, in opposition to Attorney John T. Kenahan. At the time that Shea entered the contest It was announced that hP did so upon the suggestion of Mr. Mitchell owing to the filet that Lenahan had represented the non-union mine workers at the hearing before the strike commission and bad frequently appeared 'for them The only way of calculating the cost of the reconstruction of the city is to take some building as a standard and figure from that. Engineers say that a four-story brick building on a plot 4 4x110 feet is as good a standard as any. In the construction of a fourstory building of the type mentioned 548,000 bricks are used. Ten years ago t.OOO bricks could be bought and laid for 111. Today. In San Francisco, it costs almost as much as that for the labor. A bricklayer's labor In laying 1,000 brick costs $6.12. Then there is almost $4 for hod carrier and other labor to figure on the work, bringing the total up to about $10 (new brick in San Francisco now costs $9 a thousand). Therefore, the charges of labor In erecting a 548,000-brick building would be about $5,500. In 12,000 suoh buildings the grand total would be more than $60,000,000. The authorities of Valparaiso have taken over the feeding of the people, and provisions are being brought iu from places that were not destroyed. MEXICO TO GET NEXT QUAKE As the matter now stands, new readers, of the American Book Company. and new geographies, Frye's, of Ginn & Co., are the only changes In the text books. IDr. Moon Hack to the Old stand, Former office newly fitted In Leyy! Bldg., over O. P. & C. O. shoe store. 80 Says Dr. Hayes, United States Government's Expert. SCRANTON RACES. Washington, Aug. 22.—Meningitis is affecting the backbone of the American continent, according to Dr. c. Wlllard Hayes of tin* geological survey. In his opinion Mexico will be the next country to be visited by a seismic disturbance. Dr. Hayes says: "Those mountains, mistakenly called the backbone of the American continent, are among the newest in the world. The California and Chilean quakes were not volcanic. "The earth crust is thinner along those newer mountain systems. In the , processes of cooling and adjustment of the crust to the conditions within there comes times when great strains accumulate on the outer crust. Something has to give, rtnd when the crust at last by a sudden movement adjusts itself to .the new conditions there is a slipping along the line of a fault in It. Tills fault line is likely to follow the C*purse of one of the newer mountain ritiges. This is what happened at San Francisco and in Chile." The cleaning of the Browntown, Cork Lane and Dupont schools and outbuildings, at an expense of $25 for each, and of those at Tannery. Houston City and Paddy's Land, at $10 each, was authoribed. When he had concluded linger Sullivan took the platform in his own defense. He was greeted with tumultuous applause. lie said in opening: "Yon have witnessed the spectacle on this platform of an Individual trying to gratify . Ills personal grudge and drag it Into this convention. He came here to gratify his spleen, hatred and mullce against me." since Shea has for Home time been one of Mitchell's attorneys In this region and acted for him during the strike commission hearings. Mitchell declares that he has made no statement of any kind regarding Shea's candidacy. The opening of the Centra! New York racing circuit took place yesterday on the new grounds of the Scranton Driving Club, at Minooka. Owing to the rain the attendance was not as large as was expected. Four races were scheduled, but only three heats of the first two races were run off. as the rain made the track very slow. The races will be finished tilday. The first heat brought out a new record for Lackawanna county for the opening heat 011 a new track. It was made by Sinclair, the time being 2:11%. IlSIEISil ■ Secretary Corcoran reported that the tax duplicate was ready for the collector, and the president and secretary were authorized to make out a warrant for the collection of the taxes and place it and the duplicate in the hands of Tax Collector Keating. SALE SCAFFOLD BROKE. If the city Is to be rebuilt within ton years, however, It will require tho continuous service of at least 3,000 masons. If, as has been estimated, 6,576,000,000 bricks go Into the rebuilding of San Francisco, the aggregate earnings of the bricklayers employed on the work during the re- Police Drag Fighters Out. Thomas Toole and Charles Sites, painters engaged in the city hall, were in danger this • morning from the breaking of a scaffold, but both escaped without injuries. A scaffold has been erected in the council chamber, which is to be repapered, and the boards used by the workmen are about 10 feet from the Iloor. Toole and Sites were removing the old paper from the ceiling, when one of the boards gave way, and the section of the scaffold on which they were standing fell to the Iloor. As a matter of course they fell too, but neither man was hurt In the slightest. One of the chandeliers and one of the fans were smashed by the falling boards. "You're a liar!" came from the Dupage delegation. Instantly a Sullivan delegate sprang for the speaker, and It took half a dozen policemen to stop the light. Order was finally restored, and just as Sullivan commenced to speak two men, clutching each other by the throat, staggered through the door on the opposite side of the hall. They cuffed each other without mercy, and It took a platoon of police to drag them out of the hall and put them on the sidewalk, where they started the secoud round. Sullivan concluded his address by declaring that he wished to Inake no trouble, and if he was not wanted as national committeeman the matter could be adjusted two years from now. WGSITE MNVA8 A report of taxes collected since July 10th was tiled by Tax Collector Keating, showing $40 collected in that period. This report was ordered tiled and he was directed to make payment to the treasurer of this amount and all other taxes still in his hands. SHOES AND SLIPPERS FOR UWES construction period will be something like $46,000,000. Other labor will get out of the work hod carrying and preparing the mortar $23,016,000. SPECIAL NOTICES. EMBROIDERIES. The meeting was then adjourned until the second Monday of Sept., the 10th, the regular meeting night, Sept. 3, falling on Labor Day. Undoubtedly 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber will go into the rebuilding. A few years ago this amount of lumber would have cost less than $30,000,000. The normal price of lumber Is $14 a -thousand. There is little likelihood that it will go below $20 a thousand. The cost of labor will be about 50 per cent, of the cost of the material. Consequently, the carpenters and joiners will share about $20,000,000 of the money spent In the rebuilding. l'art of Other Trades, You'll find that our new line of 75 Cents Corset Cover Embroideries has no equal In this city; It's a real nice as- ITALIAN BURIED IN FALLING EARTH sortment, 'prices ranging at 30c, 35c, Per Pair 45. 50c We also have a very choice assort- An Italian laborer, who was employed in excavating for the foundation of a large building, that is being erected at the corner of Main and Pettlbone streets, Duryea, by Contractor Davis, of Taylor, for Friedman Bros-, had a narrow escape from being burled alive, this afternoon. A gang was at work on the excavation, when the earth on one side caved In very suddenly and one of the laborers wus caught in the fall and almost buried in the earth. Nothing but the prompt assistance of tils fellow laborers, who immediately started to dig him out. saved him from a frightful death by being-buried ulive. Usually Sold At $1, $1.2$ London, Aug. 22.—A cable dispatch from Chile says that the conservative estimate place* the number of homeless people at (10,000 and adds that the distress, which is already great, Is increasing.Sixty Thousand Chileans Homeless. NOT A CANDIDATE. ment of embroideries suitable for la- dles' and children's hats. and $1.50 KX-Congressman T. J. Kern closed the debate by moving that the antl- Stilllvan resolution be laid on the table. Instnntl.v there was great confusion, a dozen men clamoring for recognition amid wild cries for a roll call. The roll call proceeded- amidst great confusion. Cook county voted ,r»00 yea, which meant to lay the motion on the table, and 35 nay. John M. Ourman. of Wllkesbarre, denies that he Is a compromise candidate for tire judgeship of the Columbia-Montour county district, where a deadlock has existed for some time. In a statement he said that he was not considering the Judgeship at all and while he appreciates the Interest* of those who have been booming him for it his personal des'1 to one of the two Harrnan or Herring. regularly nominated. , Plumblng.Js estimated at about 10 per cent, of the cost of the building. Consequently the plumbing in a brick building of the sort used for a standiD/d. presuming it to cost when complete $35,000, would be $3,500. Or-, dlnarlly the labor required, to lnstal the plumbing Is estimated at 25 per cent, of the cost of the material, so that the plumbers would get $875 out of each building. Then, before all of Ladies' muslin night dresses re- duced for one week from 75c to 59c, Ladies' muslin drawers 25c Have you seen our line of 45 Inch •Washington, Ang. 22.- The state department received a cablegram from Secretary Root saying that he was abont to sail from Buenos Ayrcs for Root Sails For Valparaiso, Persian Lawns at 20c 25c and 35c, Boston Shoe Store Butchers' Linen 20 quality 12V6c Kllarney Cloth, 40 Inch, 20c ?9 N. Main St, Uttston. CLARA WAGNER. 18 *S. Main St. Repeated challenges, increasing