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m- 7 THE PHli.ADEIii'ltiA.' IXQtTWfel-WEDKKSn'AY MORNIb ClDBETi 13, 1897. WE MAKE NO CHARGE FOR TRIMMING HATS, WIRE ANO LINING INCLUDED j. it jnnit aY.t nn are POiiJiars in i wmm1 ft RESTORES HEARING nn Eighth Street THE KINGS OF LOW PRICES 2) The Great Sale of Clothing and Out-1 fittings, caused by hampered re-building vt operations and lack of selling space, si? most unusual values to shrewd buyers. works we" should so Inform the cap! talists Of the county and ask them; tabids, and pass an ordinance asking tft proper officials to give all the inform tion necessary enable them know just what we offer for sale. I be lieve we would get an offer ten-fold bet ter than any yet received.

It is one the. most valuable or franchises. The ab solute monopoly of supplying gas to city with such posisbilities as "Philadef phia would invite capital from all part of this country. "The gas works are the property o-the whole people, and should never surrendered, either by sale or lease without their consent. We should, if this matter is to be further considered, asl the Legislature to enact such legis latlon as will enable the mater to submitted to and voted on by th( people, who should only have the right to say whether or not they desired tc part with their property, and not give i away to a corporation who has takec two years to investigate a proposition that they ask us to settle in a few weeks, and then after several better offers have been made.

Good business sense demands that the city should propose its own terms and then ask for bids. "This, it should be distinctly understood, should not be done until the people have declared in favor of a lease. Then, when the time for final action comes, the lease should be made to the bidder that has the greatest responsibility and CARPETS in? RUGS That's the new merchahdise we have added, and to-day we make the first grand showing of reliable qualities and makes. Everything new, pleasing designs and rich colorings. To properly introduce this department we have made prices so far below regular retailing that you'll at the genuineness of the qualities, but it is said that "the proof of the pudding is the eating thereof." Come and convince yourself.

ivs Yi IN as ft The usual $5.00 grades of Snellenburg Cloth- vj in for the Lads offered $7.50 mercantile values, by virtue of saving all middlemen's profits. Just now this same $5.00 Snellenburg Clothing is marked at $3.50. Come, ye clever parents and prove it. Prove it, to the contentment of all parties concerned. Reefer Coats and Suits, Blouse Suits, Vf Sack Suits, Vestee Suits, Junior Suits, Topee Coats, all of $5.00 Snellenburg value all now $3.50 Other Bargains it Oversacks $6.00 to $15.00.

Regarding Men's ft ft ft ft The $18 Snellenburg Plain and Fancy Worsted made of the Priestley Mills are now Sl2. And there's not Overcoats, $5.00 and upwards Arch Strcot our Tiiir.ir.iED hats BIN 4.98 Arc) cheic in the best materials, rich in be coming splendor. See those at They're marie equal in style and finish to those that you'll see at SIO.OO and S12.00. INTERESTING VALUES IN LADIES' TAILOR-MADE GARMENTS 2d floor. Arch Street Btore Suits in Blaek or wOi7w Blue all-wool Serge; also Tn Brown and Green mixed cloth.

The jackets are the newest fly-front reefer effect, lined throughout with black or changeable silks. Skirts that have the graceful hang that onlv comes waen cut full four yards wide; lined and velvet bound. They are worth $9.00. r4 f-s Ladles' Boucle Cloth Skirts vO In black and colors; also plain black and blue serges and plain mohair. Each kind is finely tailored; full wide, lined and velvet bound; perfect fall style.

Worth $4.00. O.Q Ladles' All Wool Bicycle and yOC House Waists in black and white Shepherd plaids; also rich and bright plaids in red effects; trimmed with braid; soft collar of same material. Regular price $2.00. gjAt Ladles' Black Melton 3 Cloth Capea, rolling lalald velvet collar, full circular shape; a regular $8.00 Cape. Ladles' Astrakhan Cloth Jackets, buttoned latest style high to neck, rolling collar, lined through to arm seam with silk.

Value, $6.00. DRESS GOODS Very Important Offerings ft yard, 52-ln. wide Broad Cloth. ijyC black and a choice selection of colors; splendid quality, which retails always at 50c. as a bargain.

rrd, 58-in. wide Wool Serges, 53 Cashmeres and Fancy Novelties, rich weaves, pleasing colors and pretty designs; were to retail at 89c 4awf yard 46-Inch wide Sllk-O I 2C nnlshed Black Henriettas, also a few pieces of Black Serge that retailed at 59c. yard 40-inch wide Fancy QfJC Novelties in Basket, Jacquard weaves and stylish Camel's Hair effects. Kither quality worth 75c. yard (6-lnch wide Raman JOC PltB, small and massive checks, a cluster c-f hanisome bright colorings.

Always retail at 29c Grades of Suits, as Worsteds, a sin- silk-lined throughout at $10.00. yty Heavy-weight Cycling Suits, $5.00 others have these at any price). ft gle suit but what is of ft ft dealer value. We closed out all full lengths of piece goods from this well-known Camden Mill, intending to sell them at $18. But we're forced to an immediate clearance.

ft ft ft vw6 $4.00. Furnishings and Hats the savings offered in Clothing, especially the New Hats at $1.35 And the $100 MARCH at $29.50 with Flush the SnellenburgGuarantee, the dollar-saving propositions Largest Clothiers and Outfitters world. ft There's not a cotton fibre in warp )k or woof. Slim or stout sizes. Double or single-breasted coats.

And the price is ft but v. N. Snellenburg; ft iv LARGEST CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS IN THE WORLD Market and Twelfth Sts. Fifth, South and Public School Teacher. ALL.

MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT AND ACCURATE ATTENTION upen mi 0.15 v. m. TO SAVE THE GAS WORKS Continued From First Page. scheme of the "eminent respectables." Invitations were sent to nearly every bicycle club in the city to have members attend the gathering at the Temple. They ran as follows: Attention Wheelmen! Tou are Invited to Attend a Meeting' To Be Held On Wednesday 13, 1897, at Odd Fellows' Temple, To Prepare for a Street Parade in Opposition to Leasing the Gas "Works.

It is desired that a representative of each Bicycle Club in Philadelphia be present, but all wheelmen are invited. By request of the Executive Committee of the Patriotic League of America- Gliorry Street LADIES' WRAPPERS, ETC. Ladles' Wrappers. Indigo Bins. Black and Grey Chlnte, Rises 81 to 44, stylishly made, full fronts and full wide skirts.

$1.00 is the regular price. $3.50 si! Indies' Black Taffeta Silk Undernklrts, um brella shape and nnlshed with two small ruffles. Reduced from $5.00. Large Size Single Shawla, 9 I a CO 7 desirable shades of Brown and Grey, fringed all around. Reduced from $2.00.

Boys' Rubber Coats of good. 3D I quality rubber; aires 0 to 14. Always retail at $1.98. SPECIAL PRICES AT SILK DEPARTMENT yard 21 -In eh three-toned OSC Changeable Taffeta Silk, also plain Taffetas In all leading colors; retails at 75c. AJQ- yard Black Satin Dnchesse, all OiC pure silk, extra high grada quality.

Regular price 86c. GREAT VALUE GIVING IN KITCHEN UTENSILS I TO -DAY Prices never within such easy reach a box for the best fterman Pats OC a box of the best German Polish, either worth 10c. per box. With tha shoe polish wa give a box of Imported matches. Flae Shoe Brush Polishers, all sell at 35c Heavy Japanned Bread Boxes, splendid finish, at one-half rerular asking.

Kteiall 23c. Large size. 33c. Worth 4o. ExtraUfgeslxe, 4.30.

Worth 69c. 5 Large Broilers or Toasters, extra heavy wire, well mada and never offered under 25c. for a line lot of Imported Waato I Paper Baskets, made to retail at 89c. 1. Large size Bethlehem Market I Baskets, none better made.

Always sell at $1.50. 4 quart full size Dresden Kft tie or Sauce Pan, covered. worth -50c. I for fa" alze quart Milk Ket C7C tie. Worth 75c The editor of TABLE TALt says: I' Telley's Teas are.

the best." Free sample and a taste, id floor, 8th Street store. KNEIPP MAL 7 COFFEE fully demonstrated. 2d floor, Arfh Street store. Free sample and a taste: foil Vfliiir rVchilc To plan your house for heating with ths PARAGON furnace. We will give him or yatt alt the information desired.

The time to think about the best Way of heating It Is before the houae is built Any enterpriiing dealer win bid on I8AAC A. SHEPPARD CO. fourth. Stmt and 6r Montgoaiery Annua taUKCRS EXCELSIOR RANGES Partabl and Brick-Set 14 To Big Headed Men WE MAKE A SPECIALTY op EXTREME S1ZE5 geo.bTwells Market and I3th Sts. 9I9 Market St.

and Branches Dentistry, Mich ourm, muat be teat be fully sijprertated. have no mncli rnnfirience that our work will be nettfr wear better, look better, fit better than you can set anywhere else la the city, that we give you oar personal ruarnntee. Oar reputation for honest deallnR anil thorough work ha been an eTatHlnhe1 fart A for 32 years. Painless dentistry, moderate charges, warranted work mean all that It fh says. Open evenings tul fcnndaya until DRS.

NEALL CASSIDY, 1011 VINE STREET. 2 Ir. I. S. Caasldy, Pncrewor.

BAKDERS SOAP for the complexion. Wonderfully fine: 2UX3. EVANS and all druggists. sessed at and the Bets Bulldlnir, at $1,000,000, cover the Bite, and thu this particular place has Jumped from $202,000 to 1,950,000 In twenty years-. Other sections sliow Increases that In many instance are but intrinsic, not having been improved to so great an extent.

Arrested sis) He Left Prlaoa. Prank Marvel, who yesterday finished a nine months' term at BJackwell's Island for shoplifting, was arrested bjr Detective Bond, of this city, on th charge of the larceny of a diamond stud, valued at $350. He was brought on her and will be given a hearing before Magi istrate South this morning. Inder Police Escort. Despite angry mutterlngs of the mill girls who made the attempt to do them bodily harm on Monday evening, the three Russians, Sarah BroskL Kachatl scitzier ana Jennie ecitsier, retumea their work yesterday morning at Camp- ty-nrst street ana wasn- Irgton avenue.

They remained at work all day and In the evening were escorted to their homes by policemen. Is on very wrapper of CASTOUIA. am Mr. Ernest C. Kenley.

a traveling salesman, -esidine at 2213 N. 7th Philadelphia, says: "Munyon surely cured me of both catarrh and heumatism after I had concluded that there vas no hope for me. I had the worst form of for fully five years, and my head md throat were frequently so stopped up hat I could scarcely breathe or talk. The 7-assages leading up to my ears became clogged with mucus, and the consequence was that it times I was as deaf as a post. The discharge from my nostrils was very offensive so much so that I was often ashamed to approach customers, the disease materially Interfering with my business.

I tried all kinds of so-called 'cures' and 'special treatments." When I began the Munyon svetem I had about made up my mind to keep the catarrh for the rest of my life. I used both Munyon Internal Catarrh Remedy and his Catarrh Tablets, and within a few weeks my andrtnhaWat the discharge stopped. had no return of the disease since reat deal 1f trouble with rheu- y.r coupie or vials of Munyon Cure the disease out of mj tried other of Munyon's Remedies and believe them to be the greatest medicines of the times. MUNYON'S ST4T1P rr.vrn'Dir.ir CHINE cures Rheumatism, Stiff Joints. Paral- uraIfrjavand Kives new life to the nBf2tS and brain weary.

MI-NEON'S LIFE CHAMBER cures Ca-tarrh. Asthma and Bronchitis and heals and c.iviiicj 'ine iuuks ana air passages. MUNION'S HOME REMEDIES cure each disease with a separate specific. For sale at all druggists mostly as t. a rioi MUNYON'S SKILLED SPECIALISTS give uiosuusis prescriptions ror any dis- dutr a11 da-y and evening.

Sunday, 2 to a P. M. PIIEE TRIAL TREATMENT. V. i i or any i nroat or Lung Complaint, call and receive a free trial local ucoiuiciu.

positively cure catarrh. 1505 ARCH STREET News of the State WOMEN ARE RESCUED FROM UPPER WINDOWS Cloud Burst at Reading Causes Damage Amounting to Th ousands of Dollars. MARKET HOUSE FLOODED Ponr Feet of Water Surges About the Stalls and Patrons Carried Out to -Safety With Difficulty. Special to The Inquirer. READING, Oct.

12. One of the severest storms that ever visited Reading struck the city shortly after :7 o'clock this morning, and for over two hours the rain came down in torrents. It was a veritable cloudburst, which did a vast amount of damage throughout the city. For a time all traffic was stopped. The sewera.were inadequate to the demands, and as a consequence cellars and houses were flooded.

Offi- incaaui cnicnu cauvv Hill, i yn IIIUIICS ot rain ieii. On Nieholls street, from Oley to Robeson, where floods have been of frequent occurrence, there were the usual scenes of people being rescued from their houses in boats. The sew er at that point overflowed and the water backed up against the embank ment of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. In a short time the water was up to the second stories of some of the houses and the occupants of the dwellings were rescued from the win dows. The flre department was called out, and the firemen rendered valuable as sistance in rescuing women and children.

Suits will be Instituted against the city, on account of the alleged de fective construction of the sewer. Damages will be claimed amounting to over S3O.0UO. There were remarkable scenes in the market house at Fifth and Button-wood streets. The rise of the water was so sudden that the market folks were unable to save anything, and It was a struggle with them to reach places of safety, as there was no telling when the building might be Under mined and give way. Fences and de bris were already floating around outside, the building in a few minutes be ing surrounded with water -to a depth of four feet.

Men carried the women out of the market house. Some of the women fainted. A number lost their wraps and market baskets. The street car tracks at Fifth and Buttonwood streets were under water to the depth of several feet. Houses on Church and Little Oley street were rendered untenable.

On Schuylkill avenue, near Button- wood, a number of houses were in dan ger of falling down and had to be prop ped. The large hosiery mill of the Isolde Hurst company, one or tne biggest in -the country, was damaged. J. G. Leinbach woolen mill, on North Fourth street, was flooded for the first time since its erection.

Great damage was done to the new sewer on North Eleventh street, for the construction of which $180,000 was expended. There were cave-ins at nu merous places. The sidewalks on North Eighth street sank at a number of points, and the sewer catoh basins were clogged with sand. The yards Of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, from Walnut street to Green, were flooded for the first time In years. The tracks were covered to the depth of two feet.

POOR DIRECTORS CONVENE President J. W. Walls Commended for Hi Statement. Special to The Inquirer. SCRANTON, Oct.

12. The Association of the Directors of the Poor and Charities of Pennsylvania is holding Its twen ty-third annual meeting in this city. Dr. Drop Price of Goal Bills. That's what happens to you when you put in either an Active Fortune or Specialty Furnace.

In fact, they save vou in cost of coal nearly They burn Pea Coal (cost of which is $3.50 per ton) and all its gases, giving greater heat with less and cheaper fuel than any other furnace. We Make no Secret of It. We show you how coal gases are burned scientifically, creating by far more heat than the old way, at the Builders' Exchange, 18 Sv 7th where both Furnaces are In operation. Descriptive Catalogue of any dealer or of the makers. Thomas, Roberts, Stevenson Co.

WE FURNISH PADDING FREE 3fa CIkrse for malting and laying all BrnMfit, Axmluittr, Moquette and Velvet Carpeta. yl Ol yard Reliable quality Tfc2C Brussels Carpeta, that is nice to look at, and will give good "ervicei regular price 69c. CZCk0 for extra heavy quality, UW rich designs, choice patterns. Same kind you'll see everywhere at 75c. OQ- yard High.

Grade Heavy Brus-OvC "la Carpeta, that cannot be duplicated lor less than 85c. and $1.00. d0 4Q Extra Heavy Ingrain Art 23 3 I 13 Squares. 8x3 yards square, bandsomo designs and superb quality. Regular value 5.00.

A each, for Ingrain Ruga, IV yda IUC by 1 yd. Worth 2oc and 50c Today 10c. 1T yard for Extra Heavy RagCar-wC pt, several designs. Worth 30c yd. SPECIAL PURCHASE OF 3000 palra of Pin Chenille Portieres came to us yesterday for spot cash.

They are from a vrell known Phlla- delphla maker and they are Just as they should he, correct. pair for handsome 3rd I ioug Chenille Portieres, new colors, rich dados, deep fringe. Wholesale price, $2.00. 1 pair for Extra Heavy NP Chenille Portieres, deep dados an.l handsome frieze frlnke. Wholesale price, $3.00.

7 Plr for auperlor qnal. I ity Chenille Portieres, 50 inches wide, extra long, handsome floral deep dados, tassel fringe top. Wholesale price, $4.50. TWO SPECIALS 10 "P.01 f9r, Amory Thread, 200 yards, Vhite and black, all numbers; worth 2oc. To-day lc.

spool: lOc. a dozen. 1f each for either Woodbury Pa-VJG cial Noap. Dental Cream or Facial Cream) advertised as bargains bv others at 16c. Our price lOc.

each. THE GREATEST SHOE BARGAIN that was ever offered in this citr. A L.adtes'Flne Paris Kid Button Shoe, made with flexible soles) medium size hull dog toe, handsomely made nnu elegantly finished; there is no shoe oflered anywhere at S2.00 that Mimm inr same steriinar qualities aa this shoe at yard for9-lnch U2w IrfMse that is worth from V2hc to 15c. Vote For Your Favorite Sunday J. "Walk, of Philadelphia, the president, made a statement in his address this morning which eailed for the following: resolution later in the day: "Resolved, That theMmffortant ques- tion of the- unwise- appropriation of public moneys to institutionjj under State control of the State Leglfaaturfe so ably presented by Dr.

Walk in his president tial address, be -referred to the Committee on legislation for consideration and report." The day was mostiy.consumed In hearing: addresses and papers on poor and charity topic and reports from imany of the SO) delegates In. Attendance. It was voted that the should be a delefrate to the national conference and should choose two associates. SUNOAY SCHOOL WORKERS Annual Convention of the State Organization in Session at Ilarrla-wursr. KA.RRJSBURG, 12.

The twenty-third annual convention of the Pennsylvania Sabbath Schol Association convened to-day in the Westminster Presbyterian irt this city, and will be In session the next three days. Rev. Dr. H. TJ.

Roop, of Shippensburg', superintendent of the State Normal Department; Rev. Dr. Chaa. H. Roads, of Ph'l-adelphla, and Dr.

C. J. Kephart, of Ann-vllle, general secretary, were among- the first arrivals. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, president Of the association, delivered an address. A field-workers conference was held this afternoon in charge of Rev.

Roop. The Sta te primary council held a short session this evening, at which these officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. M. G. Kennedy, of Philadelphia; secretary; Mrs.

J. Nelson Clark, Harrisburg; treasurer, E. S. Gray, Pittsburg. YEAR'S LABORS ENDED State Temperance Worker Adjourn at Will lam port.

WILLIAMSPORT, Oct. 12. The twenty-third annual convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union came to a close at noon to-day, after a successful meeting. The last department report was read by Mrs. Olive Pond-Amies, of Philadelphia, on the 6chool of method.

After considerable discussion It was decided to withdraw support from the Women's Christian Temperance Union Temple at Chicago. Col. North's Resignation Accepted. HARRISBURG, Oct. 12.

The resignations of George H. North, of Philadelphia, Assistant Adjutant-General of the divisions N. G. and Major William S. Millar, of Scranton, inspector of the Third brigade, were acepted to-day by Governor Hastings.

Colonel North will be placed on the roll of retired officers. SOME STATE NEWS CHESTER. Frank Flanijran, 19 year of ag-e, fell under a freieht train and both legs were cut oflf. STROUDSBTJRG. U.

S. Hull, a prominent citizen of Monroe county, died yesterday from heart trouble. MAHAtJfiV CITY. William Kennedy was badly hurt by a fall of Coal in the Tunnel Ridge Colliery. fortv-third annual fair of the.

Columbia County Agricultural Society will oien here rmpsTEH. The fourth annual meetimr of the Delaware Baptist Union Association be gan here yesterday. SCR ANTON. A D. x.

w. ma went over a tntv-flve foot embankment, but the engi neer and fireman escaped Injury. xr a pnmp.r'RO. Governor Hastings has granted a respite ran October 26 to January 7 to ranjc jnarus. wi CHESTER.

A contract for an addition to th. irtiRtfr Manufacturing Onmranv has been awarded and work will be begun soon. hjzif.TON. The breaker boys of No. 5 CntUfTv nf the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, went on a strike yesterday for an increase or wages.

ti Ay.T.PrrOTJ. At a mass meetlm last nisht stona in taken toward securing additional industrial enterprises for the city. MKDT A TYorA wa received Tiere yesterday that Morrt Foreman, of this place, had been arrested at Hampton, charged With shooting a man during a quarrel. Josiah Adams, of Mt. Ephralm, yesterday morning reii into a Droaen lntei si Ninth and Arch streets, was helped out by 9-year-old.

WUUe MacArtnur, ana tna two wera taken ty te distfrLct station house and provided with dry clothing. that offers the most advantageous terms to the city." HONORED BY FRIENDS Congressman LondeBslager Tendered a Reception at the Belleme. The Bellevue was last night the scene of a most notable gathering of men prominent in political affairs in -New jprsev. the Occasion being a dinner to Congressman Henry C. Loudenslager in honor of his return from an extended trip to the Pacific coast and Sandwich Islands.

The spacious dining room pre sented a picturesque scene with the one hundred and fifty guests seated about tables amid decorations of pink roses and white carnations. Mr. Loudenslager reached home Monday, after having gone to San Francisco as the guest of a delegation of the citizens of West Virginia to attend the presentation of a silver service to the gunboat Wheeling. From San Francisco he sailed to Honolulu, and spent several weeks among the Sandwich Islands. He reached his Paulsboro home on Monday.

The dinner tendered the representative from the First Congressional district of New Jersey was a pleasant surprise to Mr. Loudenslager, and its success was-due in no small manner to Franklin Smith, of this city, and Isaac Moffett, two of the popular Congressman's most intimate friends. The affair had attached to it much political significance by the presence of such men as Senator Sewell and ex-Congressman John Kean, of Elizabeth, who is a prominent candidate for the United States Senate, as invited guests, Other prominent men present were: Wilbur F. Wakeman, United States New York; Robert Hand, nom inee for State Senator of Cape May county, and Barker Gummera, of Trenton, clerk of Mercer, county, and Chairman of the evening. SWALLOW MASS MEETING The Prohibition Candidate for State Treasurer" at the Academy.

A well-attended Prohibition ximonstra-tlon took-place: at the "Academyi of Music last night. Arthur Burton, president of the Law and Order Society, presided, and addresses were made by- Evan-spn, Maine; Michael J. Fannery, of Michigan; Dr. Swallow, the candidate for State Treasurer; L. L.

Lathrop, of Scranton, candidate for Auditor-General, and C. Paul, the party nominee for City Treasurer." Dr. Swallow touched very Ifghtjly upon the toplO of Prohibition, most of his time to a discussion of State "issues. 'A' silver collection was 'one of the features of the A curbstone meeting was held in front of the Academy, but attracted very few auditors. Clerk of the Quarter Sessions Ahem yesterday formally applied to the City Solicitor and the County Commissioners for instructions regarding his part of the work in caring for the loan bill ballot boxes.

-He has applied to the Building Commissioners for a vault in which to store the 981 boxes. The Democratic City Committee will on Friday issue an address to the voters against the $12,200,000 loan bill. The William J. Bryan Silver Democratic Club will give a reception this evening, at their headquarters, N. W.

corner Nineteenth and Callowhill streets. NOTES OF THE COURTS Execution was Issued from the Common Pleas Court vesterdav against John H. Lack on ludements entered on two Judgment notes one for S600 in favor of James F. Judd, and the other for $553.53 in favor of Arthur Evans. Five attachments under the fraudulent debtors' act of 18fi were yesterday issued from Common Pleas Court atrainst Herman Kohn ami Levi Kline, tradlnfr as Kohn Kline, by creditors of that firm to recover for merchandise sold and delivered.

S. E. Kraus. Victor Freeman. Ianiel Franklin.

Bernard Gould and Jacob Chalkley. of-licerfc of the S. E. Kraus" Democratic Associa tion, were acaultted of selllnsr liquor without a license and keepine a ramtnar house. The charee was made by Joseph Jacoby.

an cx- Doliceman. trs. Mary Gillerole yesterday secured verdict for Sou erdlct for $50 against I. C. Oibbonev In an action to recover damages for injuries to the plaintiff's character and reputation, resulting from her beins arrested on the chance of sell- insr linuor without a license.

The arrest was acknowledged to be a mistake. Before Juilpe Finletter yesterday, the suit of F.mma J. Ijirv against the Union Traction Company to recover damages for injuries receive! by belna: thrown to the grround through the premature startlne or a car ended In a verdict for plp.intift for $62oO. A motion to set aside the verdict was made. The Jury In the case of Clarence M.

Busch against John Sharp, before Julire "Wilt-bank, in Room D. of Common Pleas Court No. 2. renderd a verdict late yesterday in favor of the plaintiff for $369.39. The action srrew out the sub-lettine of the contract for the removal of the islands in the Delaware Hiver.

The Union National Bank yesterday "issued execution from the Common Pleas Court airainst James McCadden. trading: as McCad-den on a ludernent note for $2500. An attachment under the fraudulent debtors' act of 180ft was issued against the same defendant by the Seventh National Bank to recover a debt of $14,284.49 for moneys loaned. William H. Craaln.

charred with aggravated assault and battery on his mother, Anna M. Crasrin. was acquitted yesterday before Jude-e Gordon on the srround of insanity. The mother said she had no recollection of the occurrence, but the policemen, who went Into the house in response to the request of the defendant's sister-in-law. said they found the mother lvinsr unconscious cn a bed.

and that when auestloned the prisoner admitted having knocked his mother to the floor and then kicking her. He was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Norristowiu IT IS RULED OUT The Objection to Victor Hngro's Great Soyel Holds Good. The objection registered to the introduction of a French edition of "Les Miserables" mto the list of text books for the Girls' High School, at the meeting of the Board of Education's committee on that school, on Monday, has been effective, and and It has since been decided that the book shall be removed from the list. Principal William D. Rorer, when seen at the school yesterday, said that after conferring with Miss Dalcour, the head of the French department, they had come to the conclusion to withdraw the book, so there might not be the slightest suspicion of objection.

In the edition proposed, he added, that all -objectionable parts had been expurgated, so there was really no ground for objection, although to avoid criticism they would now substitute some other work. A Trinmphaat Trip to the Garden of Grandeur, Pennsylvania Railroad excursion' to Mauch Chunk and the Switchback Thursday next, October 14. via the scenic Delaware Valley route. Only $2.50 round trip. Special train leaves Broad Street Station 7.34 A.

Mr The will of the late Leonard Rodenhau3er was admitted to probate yesterday, disposing of an estate valued at $100,760, in. private bequest Suits As to double required in this direction could be provided if the ordinance now pending in Councils Committee on Finance and Gas is defeated. Under these conditions it rests with the citizens of Philadelphia to say if this ordinance is to pass. It rests with them to prevent extravagant expenditure of public moneys in any form, and it becomes their duty to prevent corporate power from discharging workmen that such corporation or individuals may accumulate for their own private uses the money which should go to tlte City Treasury. THE DUTY OF ALL CITIZENS.

To this end the Patriotic League of America, which is organized solely for the purpose of preventing such evils, requests all citizens to attend the meeting to be held on Wednesday evening, October 13, at the Odd Fellows' Temple, there to perfect arrangements for a great street parade in protest against the passage of the gas works lease. It is desired that one or more representatives from every division in each ward shall be present. Do not imagine that someone else will represent you, but come yourself. There are 17(X employes in the gas works. They may not dare to part in any opposition to the gigantic scheme now on foot.

This coercion should arouse all wage earners to take part in the proceedings of tomorrow night. The loss to the municipality by the proposed steal would be enormous and should be met with steadfast resistance by every patriotic organization or citizen who has the interest of thp school children at heart. Each labor organization and each patriotic body should be represented by one or more members at the meeting to-morrow night. Request -Is made that the managers of any band of music, not engaged for Saturday, October 1(5, shall send written proposal of charges for parading on that night, to either the office of the Protective League of America, No. 1405 Filbert street, to-day, or to the meeting at Odd Fellows' Temple tonight.

MORE TAX PAYERS AROUSED A Blgr Meeting: to Be Held I p-Town To-morrow Aisbt. Closely following the Wednesday night meeting there will be a big gathering of taxpayers to-morrow evening at the Second Regiment Armory, Broad street and Susquehanna avenue. Senator Penrose is expected to be present and other well-known Citizens will explain what would result from the lease of the Gas Works. The Twenty-eighth Ward Anti-Combine League will take a prominent part in the meeting. THE ACADEMY MEETING How Tickets of AdnilNsion May Be Obtained -Enmlnent Speakers.

The Citizens' Municipal Association has the arrangement for the mass meeting at the Academy of Music next Friday night well in hand. Among the distinguished speakers will be Hon. Wayne MacVeigh and Hon. William Potter, both of whom have represented the United States Government as Ministers to Italy; Edwin S. Stuart, ex-Mayor of the city, and Peter Boyd, who made such a gallant fight in behalf of the people before Mr.

Clay's sub-committee. Other prominent citizens will also deliver addresses, but some of those who have been invited do not wish their names announced until they are positive that they can be present. Tickets of admission to the Academy can be obtained upon application to Agent T. B. M.

Addis, at the headquarters of the Citizens Municipal As sociation, in the Heed Building, No. 1215 Filbert street. Organized bodies or individuals who may Joe unable to obtain them by calling will be supplied by mail by sending their address to Mr. Addis. STILL DELIBERATES Both the Snh and the General Committees to Meet To-day.

There are some anxious faces about City Hall these days and many rumors bearing upon the result of the Gas Works fight. City Solicitor Kinsey is still engaged In. preparing his opinion, and though Mr. Ciay and Mr. Seeds both issued calls yesterday for meetings of their committees this afternoon, they will not receive a report from the city's law officer.

It was stated positively by one of the Solicitor's assistants yesterday that the all Important document would not be ready to-day. For what purpose, therefore, the subcommittee and the Joint Committee on Finance and Gas will assemble, the one at 2 the other at 2.30, cannot be made clear. Mr. Clay's call says his committee "will meet in Room 496, City Hall, to consider the matter tof leasing the Philadelphia Gas Works." Invitations to be present, have been sent to the attorneys the various syn HE Covert Black (few ujro Men's, share in and $1.85. Bicycles Joints and crown of the in the Open open it I of Co.

and Passyunk Ave, Till 9-30 P. M. 1 ill 9.30 K. J- j.v dicates that have made offers for the lease. One of the rumors is that the Ridg-way people will present a new proposition Involving the payment to the city of a vast sum of money.

Captain W. W. Ker, who has been- acting for capitalists who are Organized as the Consolidated Gas Company, is prepared to give the names of those he represents to-day if the committee so desires. STUART'S STRONG WORDS The Ei-Maror Snr Some-Pertinent Thins Resrardlnsr the Lease. VJ Ex-Mayor Edwin S.

Stuart last night expressed himself in a vigorous and conclusive manner Regarding the pending proposition to. lease the gas. works. He evinced a disinclination to talk at first on the ground that his views upon the matter were known, but- when pressed for his views the general proposition he talkeO freely and with an evident knowledge upon the subjeet. He said: -T am now and always have been emphatically opposed to the sale or the lease of the Philadelphia Gas Works.

The present offer is but a repetition of that made to the city about ten years ago, after an ordinance to sell the works outright for ten millions of dollars, I think, had been defeated in Councils. The same Interests that desire the property now afterward offered to lease the plant for a period of twenty-five years. According to their estimate at that time only three millions of dollars- were required to put the works in first-class condition. They reserved the righ to charge the taxpayers $1.50 per thousand for gas. "Now, after the city has spent over two millions and a quarter of dollars in permanent improvements, they come to the front again and say that it will require five millions of dollars to put the plant in first-class order.

With it they ask the right to bind us to a certain price for gas. Now this is a fact that should be firmly established in the minds of the people and will bear repetition. Ten years ago they wanted to bind the public to gas for twenty-five years. Now they, want to bind the people to a certain priced gas for thirty years. It is within the range of possibility and even probability that the city If controls the plant may be able to furnish it at a much lower rate.

Boston and Chicago are even now agitating the question of lower priced gas. The fact that this municipality has reduced the price from $1.50 to per thousand feet since the original proposition to sell or lease was made is evidence of the fact that a still further reduction may be made in the future. "The city, through Councils, has said most positively within a year that we do not desire to sell or lease the works. Yet here is a corporation which prepares Its own lease, the terms fixed by its own officials, and the form prepared by their own counsel. The people know nothing of it until it is presented to Councils, although officers of the cor poration say they have given it the most careful investigation for some months, and in some instances for upwards of two years.

Yet they ask the Councils to rush it through in a few weeks. This, after it has taken these able business men, according to their own statement, two years to consider it do not think Councils will ever agree to such a monstrous proposition. I have never seen the people so strongly opposed to any movement as they are to this. I am Informed by good legal authority that the hew charter gives us no right to make such a lease unless the Legislature so amends the city charter. If we were certain we had the right, and the city desired to lease the Cost new $750.

Good order. Taken in exchange for the LESTER Piano. Send for list of bargains and special plans payment. F. A.

NORTH CO. ch'Jtaui PIANOS RENTED. It has been suggested and the idea Is likely to. be carried out, that on the evening of the demonstration, wagons drawn by double teams of horses and accompanied by bands of music shall be started from South-wark, the southeast section, Kensington, Germantown, the Thirty-sixth ward, or southwest territory. West Philadelphia and Manayunk.

Transparencies will be carried inviting all citi2ens, who are opposed to the gas works outrage, to evidence their disapproval of the same by joining in the procession. One thought is to liave all the paraders meet at Broad and Columbia avenue and, after for mation, to march down Broad street to South, countermarch to Chestnut, thence to Ninth, to Market.and thence westward to the court yard of the City. Hall, where speakers address the assembly. These plans -will be submitted at to-night's meeting and may be adopted as they stand or changed accord- lng to the wishes of those present. There are over 2o0() wheelmen in Philadelphia, and a.

large proportion --of this number should -be in line. -All the bands, red fire and other neees- sary accompaniments are to be sup-'t plied by the committee of the Patriotic League' so that ho expense will be by those who take part in the demonstration. IAXK.TO THE SCHOOL. HOUSE. -In connection-with the great move- ment to save the gas works, the Pa- trrotic League has issued an address which should command general public attention, it says: It has been estimated that from twenty millions to thirty millions of dollars will be absolutely given away by the granting of the proposed lease.

Such action cannot fail to affect all the peo- pie, when you realize that the city t'o- day is sorely in need of more school houses to accommodate thousands of r. children who are being deprived of edu- cation by being afforded only half time at school or altogether excluded. If the Compulsory Education bill should be. enforced there is not sufficient room to supply anything like the demand that would to be made for additional school houses. All that is or may be GOBIN'S APPOINTMENTS Commander-in-Chief of the G.

A. R. Announces JMia iLlist. HARRISBURG, Oct. J.

P. S. Go-bin, -of Lebanon, Commander-in-Chief the Grand Army of the Republic, iseued general orders to-day through Stewart announcing these appointments: Inspector-General, Alonzo Williams, Providence, R. Judge Advocate-General, Ell. Torrance, Minneapolis, Senior Aido-d-Camp, Milton Gherst, Lebanon, Executive Committe of the National Council of Administration.

E. R. Monfort, Cincinnati, P. M. Ster-rett, St.

Louis, William H. Armstrong, Indianapolis, Ind. Robert W. Hill, Oanandalgua, N. Y.

(member from Indian Territory); Thomas W. Scott, Fait field. Luman L. Cad well, De-corah, Iowa; Ellwood Craig, Wilmington, Del. Ex-Councilman Cook Dead.

Special to The Inquirer. WAYNE, Oct. 12. John H. Cook died at his country residence at this place this morning from a sudden attack of stomach trouble, after a brief illness.

Mr. Cook was for many years prominent in Republican politics in the Tenth ward of Philadelphia and served two terms in Common Council. Dorman Investigation to Be Dropped Special to The Inquirer. CHESTER. Oct.

12. Further Investigation into the cause of the death of Annie Dorman will not be made unless some positive proof is forthcoming. District Attorney Schaffer says there Is nothing at present to work on, and he declines to Dut the county to any additional expense. NEWS DOWN IN DELAWARE Special to The Inquirer. WILMINGTON.

Oct. 12. One Of the most Important sales held in Wilmington for a long time was held to-day, when the Girard Trust Company of Philadelphia sold as receiver the property of the Wilmington Dental Manufacturing Company. The King street factory, where artificial teeth were manufactured, was sold to Gideon Sibley, of Philadelphia, for and the Riverview factory, where surgical instruments were made, was sold to the same purchaser for $4000. The Rev.

Albert E. Keigwln, of the Millville Presbyterian Church, who is now in this city, wi.l probably decline the call to the Second Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg. Thieves have appeared in New Castle In the past few days and several stores have been touched lightly. A car load of members of the Order of Knights of the Golden Eagle went to Trenton to-day to attend the supreme meeting the order in that place. State Secretary E.

B. Frazer, of the Rnaril of Health, has gone down the peninsula on an inspection of the towns which have no local health boards. The Union Republican County Committee of New Castle county has called a meeting for Saturday, to take action for the election of deiegates to the coming State convention. REAL ESTATE VALUE GROWS A Gain of Over Twenty Millions In a Score of Yeara. In the twenty years which- have elapsed since 1S77, the Increase, in the value of real estate surrounding the City Hall amounts to more than The particular properties which have thus so wonderfully enhanced are embraced within Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets, and Chestnut and Arch streets.

In all of that district the assessed valuation, in 1S77, was but $6,073,300, while to-day the tax assessors rate it at $27,605,500. And this is not 06 per cent, of what it would bring if put on the market. The most notable Increase in value is that of the east ride of Broad street between Chestnut stret and South Penn 11 are. Twenty years ago. this place was unimproved, being covered with ancient houses, and its entire assessed value was $202,000.

To-day the Girard Building, as- The fac-slmils ignatnre of A Limited Number of Gentlemen's Tine ward aiches in 14 kt. Solid Gold Cases The Regular $90 Watch Son S28 Chestnut Street 51.