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NEW TLE THE OFFICIAIv OP' THECITY VOL. XV-XO. 93. XEW" CASTLE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1894. TEN CENTS A AVEEK A BOLD MERCHANTS SUFFER Held up Roy Sankey in an Alley Near the Onion Depot Saturday Evening.

AFTER EXPRESS DRIVER. From the XumerouH AgeiUH that are Flooding the 1 With the Home Mr-rehant. i He Taken for the lirtver of one of the Wagons They Were After the Iron Kox. Highwaymen are Btill at work in this city, and they are becoming more bold in their work. At first they coiitined their nefarioiw work to the outpkirte of the city, bnt Satar iay night they held up Roy Sankey in the very heart of the city.

Roy drives J. D. Linjj Co. delivery and Saturday nijjht wtiile piittiny: Bome goods in the wagon which was standing at the rear entrance of the store, he wasaccoeted by a man who took him by the collar and ehoving a revolver in hie face told him to keep quiet. He then proceeded to go through his pockets, hut luckily, for Sankey, the highwayman only got 25 cents and a pocket knife, which he returned to Mr.

Sankev. The light fingered gentleman evidently thought that it was the express wagon Mr. Sankey was driving, as the room now owupied by Long Co was formerly occupied by and the office of the express company was located in the back room. After he had gone through Mr pockets, he aaked him where the iron box in which they carried their money was, and demanded the key to it. Sankey informed him that they had no iron box, but that he was driving for a grocery store.

The man evidently saw his mistake, as he released his hold on Sankey ami started down the alley on the run. The alarm was quickly given, but no trace of the fellow could be found. This makes the fourth time that highwaymen have been at work in this city in the last three weeks Harry Quest was the first, then a man was held up on the Grant street bridge, one in South New Castle, and now the one mentioned above. The people who live in the outskirts of the city are becoming alarmed and many of them have taken to carrying revolvers. Dead Heat.

Our watches and run a dead heat with time all the year round. Buy one of them for a Christraas present and permit a friend to view puch exciting race. J. H. anna t'c on iH)t4 Jewelers and Opticians.

ice cream for dinners. Leave orders at Drug etore. The displays of holiday in the various of the business portions of the city reflect great credit on the merchants for their enterprise and good taste. And, by the way, they are generally accommodating to their customers, and we know that tney are wise not to charge exhorbitant prices for their wares just because it is holiday season and they deserve your patronage for they are reliable. But is this so with the thousand and one agents who are bothering the very life out of our citizens and women, generally, buy pictures, tea, clocks, watches, rings and from firms in distant cities, on the inetallnient plan? No it is )t, you can always get goods from your home merchants very much cheaper than from agents and generally a much better class of gotxls If you want pictures enlarged patronize the photographers in your own city and you wi'l always be much better satisfied.

The city is being canvassed now by some picture agents who are also in the busi- nets of selling tea. Picture agents approach a lady and tell her that if she will give them a picture to enlarge they will do it free of charge just as an advertisement, but the past experience of many with similar agents here is that is generally demanded for a rude frame and if the person demurred about paying it they absolutely refused to give back the original photograph. A lady on Chestnut street sometime ago gave an agent a highly prized photo to enlarge and that was the 1 she ever heard of either the photo or agent. Nel- Iv Bly in Fridays issue of the New York II says on this subject. more contemptible is the cur who has been working through Brooklyn.

A woman writes to me that this scoundrel called at her house to get an order for enlarging photographs. The samples he carried were and the price he so low that she glad to engage him to do pome work for her. She had one photograph, an only one, of her dead baby. She had never had but this one child, and the pliotograph was more precious than everything el.se she owned. The man sai 5 he had to have a small payment in advance, to show the good faith of the woman.

She paid it readily, and he with her photograph The time elapsed for the delivery of the crayon, and the woman, getting nervous, went to the address he had given, to make some inquires. There was no such firm at the address and nad never been. Too late the mother realized that she had been swindled, bnt as she wrote to me, how little she eared about the monev she lost, if she could onlv have regained her dead Fireman William Crowe Meets With a Serious Accident Saturday Night. FELL FROM THE REEL While to an Alarm From Box VVaM L'ncouHciou8 for Some Stitches Required to Sew up the Wounds. CLEVER SWINDLE.

Saturday night about 10 an alarm of fire was sent in from box 15, and when the department responded they found a large hay stack in the rear end of James lot, on Beaver street, to be in flames. A line of hose was quickly laid and the tire was soon out. It was clearly the work of an incendiary, as no one had been around the hay with a light, and it was standing olf by itself, away any house, bo that a spark from a flue could not reach it. As the Phillips hose reel was going around the Park on their way to the fire. Fireman William Crowe met with an accident that came near being fatal.

When the reel left the headquarters Crowe was riding on the rear end in company with one or two other firemen. As the reel turned down Washington street, two or three outsiders jumped on the reel and crowded the firemen so that Crowe said he would get up on the spool. He succeeded in gatting part way up, and had nis hand on the rod that controls the lock, when it bent. Crowe lunged forward and fell down be tween the wheels but in falling he etruck the side of the reel so that it threw him out of the way. His head struck the pavement and when picked up and taken into I) C.

drug store he was unconscious. From here he was taken to a office, where it was found that his head was so badly cut that it re quired fourteen stitches to sew up the wounds. Had Crowe faPen in such a way that the wheel would havp struck him he would have heed killed. Several people who were standing on the park at the time, stated that they ran to where Crowe was lying, expecting to pick him up dead. Councils should pass an prohibiting any person but firemen from riding on the truck or reel.

Time and time again firemen have gone to engine houae on an alarm being sounded and found both truck and reel crowded with outsiders. Had there been no outsiders on reel Saturday night Mr. Crowe would not have had to get up on the spool. Farmer Thinks he is Signing a Marriage Uertiticate but it Turns out to be a Note. One day last week a atranger dressed as a minister drove up to the home of a farmer near Pulaski and asked if was a hotel in the neighborhood.

He was told that there was none and was invited to stop for the night at the farmers house. A little later in the evening a man and woman came up in a buggy and the man said that they wanted to find a preacher at Pulaski to marry them. The farmer told them there was a clergy man in his house and that they need not go any further. The marriage took place in the home. A marriage certificate was gaade out, and the farmer signed it as a witness.

Two days ago he was notified by a bank that his note for $100 was due, and when he investigated the mat- U-r found that the supposed marriage cer tificate was the note in question, and that he was the victim of a clever swindle. He is as Enthusiastic Over Good Eoads as When He Spoke at Brinton Park. AT NEW CASTLE JUNCTION will attempt to put itno at Washington in January. He to start an ilItistrated paper which will be called the The paper will be iliustraied and will be of a sensational Character. Saturday on Way Home to Spend is Accompanied by Carl be Commonweal Army Next Spring.

ARRESTED. A New Information Against Him at Mi 11 vale by His Sou. John McMutrie, of New Castle, was brought to jdil last on a commitment issued by Justice John E. Rheam, of Mill vale, as a fugative from justice, says a Pittsburg paper. He quarreled with his wife and sou about a week ago and the latter accused him of threatening to burn the house down and sued him He was located yesterday in Pittsburg, near the Sharpsburg bridge, and the son, George McMutrie, had the new informa tion made against him, MUSIC PRICES.

Paderewski or a Foot Ball Man Would be Electrified by the (Jheapuess Thereof. No doubt you think of presenting your daughter with a piano or organ for a Christmas present. She will like the but that may cost too mucM and you think therefore she will be happy with an organ. However it is can quote you prices to make hair to lay flat. Do you believe it? Well as a substitute bring your foot ball plaving son as a substitute and watch the efl'ect on artistic locks.

We are open dav and night. C. anna tSc on 00.4 Jewelers and Opticians, J. S. Coxey and Carl Browne, of Commonweal fame, were at New Castle Junction Saturday.

They were returning from Washington, D. and were on they way to home at Massillon, O. Coxey is working in the interest of his good roads bill, and, notwithstanding his defeat for Congress, is just as enthusiastic on good roade as when he made hia speech at Brinton Park last fall. He is greatly elated over a promise of a hearing before the and Means Committee. To a reporter lie said: will return to Washington immediately after the holidays and remain until I get a hearing I will lay both of my bills before the Ways and Means Committee, and then take my bond bill before the Finance Committee.

The bill, I think, will set at rest the trouble Carlisle is now having with the financial policy. Browne and I will spend Christmas at my home and will then leave for St Louis to attend the national conference of the Populist party. Arrangements will be made at the conference for the Presidential When asked if he would be a candidate for President on the Populist ticket, Coxey said he would not answer as to that In speaking of the late Commonweal Army, two Fections of which through New Castle last summer, Coxey said that there was a probability that a similar rnovement would be inaugurated next spring if Congress does not pass his bills Browne has a new scheme which he Shoe Palace Is the place to do yonr trading. Our large and well stock of Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, and our immense assortment of Fine Slippers, suitable for holiday presents, is causing the trade winds to constantly blow the stream of shoe buyers our way, and the storm of low prices prevaiHog with us, is filling our store with satisfied You should get in the stream and er joy the feast of choice bargains before it is too late and the many lines we show become badly broken. Honest value and low prices are constantly kept at the helm, while polite and intelligent service guides our large and constantly increasing business to success.

Come and see, and note our window display. Fl HE VOTED FOR WALLACE And His Parsnip Grew to be a Vard Can Anyone Gutss This Kiiidle? you put that in the said J. Kaufman, of street, as he threw down before tlie reporter a parsnip whose root could have been for a yardstick, for when the tape measure was brought, the part of this ambitious nip which had grown beneath the earth measured j-ist three feet in length. said Mr. Kaufman with a wink, it grew so deep because I yotevl for Wallace at the last Post-otlice Hours for Christmas.

will make deliverys trover- ing entire route. General delivery window open from 10 to 12 a. in. and delivery windows open from 5.30 to 6:30 m. Money order department closed all day.

GiiisoN, P. M. The Weather. Increasing cloudiness and showers; warmer. The Court.

Mrs. Fair was arrested Saturday for being drunk and disorderly, was discharged Sunday morning. James McCutchen, arrested for drunk- ennest, was discharged. night She saving appliances of all kinds at tf eath EH hitla Highest of all in Leavening Latest U. S.

Report I Powder PURE Every Pair Must be Sold at Once Prices Very Low! I have just received another invoice of those 82.00 Dress Shoes, which shall continue to offer at S1.43. 5 We have Everv Size. See them. 2 19 We shall continue to sell those 83.00 Dress Shoes in Kid and Cloth Top, in all sizes at S2.19. Remember these are the Very Latest Styles.

SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY! H. E. McGOUN SON..