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of of I a a a a a a a a a a FRIDAY, DECEMBER $1, 1897, THE RECORD OF THE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1897, BANQUETERS. University of Pennsylvania Graduates at Scranton. THE AFFAIR HELD AT HOTEL JERMYN-PROMINENT ALUMNI TAKE PART IN THE PROGRAM -QUITE A NUMBER PRESENT FROM WILKES-BARRE AND VICINITY-THE 'OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE. The meeting in Scranton Tuesday for the purpose of organizing an alumni society of the University of Pennsylvania was a marked success. Some seventy-five sat down to dinner at the Jermyn at 7:30 o'clock.

Those present from Wilkes- Barre were Rev. Dr. H. L. Jones, Dr.

L. H. Taylor, Dr. H. M.

Beck, Dr. Walter S. Stewart, Dr. Harry Walter, "Billy" Goeckel, George L. Darte (consul to Martinique), F.

C. Johnson; from West Dr. McFadden, Dr. H. B.

MacKown, Frank Cool, Mr. John Stark; Pittstop, Dr. Underwood. The menu card was an elaborate affair, each French-named dainty having a classical quotation associated with it. The cards were printed in the red and blue of the university and bound in parchment covers.

The college songs were not reserved for the close, but were interspersed the courses. Dr. Tom Jones of Scranton sang several selections, accompanying on the piano. He was a glee club and Mask and Wig man and his singing elicited great applause. There were numerous other musical numbers.

The music was all led by "Billy" Goeckel, trainer of the University Glee Club, and was fine. In addition to the set songs on the program, the musical end of the table broke out in repeated snatches of college song and the Rahrah-rah yell of the university. No alumni association hereabouts has made such a fine showing in the way of college songs. The university represented by Dr. John Marshall, dean of the and Dr.

John K. Mitchell. The university foot ball team was represented by its celebrated coach, George Woodruff, and the rush, Samuel A. Boyle, Jr. When the plates were pushed aside Rev.

F. S. Ballentine, as toastmaster, started the speech making, Rev. Dr. Henry L.

Jones of WilkesBarre on behalf of Columbia College. He indulged in some pleasant references to the inspiration arising from university brotherhood, and the men struck up the university yell in fine form, ending with "Columbia!" George Sanderson spoke on behalf of Harvard, which he said had only two or three representatives in Scranton. Hampton Carson, who dropped in from another banquet, that of the league fraternity, was pressed to speak for the law department of the university and was greeted with great applause, as the most popular professor in the faculty and the next district attorney of Philadelphia. George B. Davidson spoke for Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania.

Rev. Dr. Isaac J. Lansing spoke on the university and primary education. His speech was a serious and highly thoughtful plea for the best training in child life.

George Woodruff, coach of the university foot ball team, was called 011 to speak for athletics, which he did in a manner to create great enthusiasm. Telegrams and letters of regret from Dr. William Pepper, Dr. H. C.

Wood, Provost C. C. Harrison, Vice Provost George S. Fullerton, were read. S.

A. Boyle, end rush of the university foot ball team, was introduced amid thundering applause from. the gridiron cranks and spoke pleasantly on favorite topic. He protested against the term championship as being too commonplace for university athletics. Dr.

L. H. Taylor spoke for the University Hospital. Dr. John Marshall, dean of the faculty, spoke on the medicine and veterinary departments and was followed by several speakers from Scranton.

The affair was a notable one throughout and it is proposed to have quet a year hence in Wilkes Barre, at which time permanent organization of an alumni association will have been perfected. The committee on banquet was Dr. John L. Wentz, '82, Scranton: Dr. F.

C. Johnson, '83, Wilkes-Barre: Dr. Lewis Frey. '83, Scranton; Dr. Lewis H.

Taylor, 80, Wilkes-Barre; Dr. W. E. Keller, Scranton; Dr. Charles H.

Miner, '93, Wilkes-Barre; George B. Davidson, Scranton: Dr. Levi I. Shoemaker, '86, Wilkes-Barre; Dr. Edson M.

Green, '91, Scranton: Dr. Walter S. Stewart, '83, Wilkes-Barre; Dr. Harry M. Beck '88.

Wilkes- Barre; William C. Gayley, '81, Hazleton. SHICKSHINNY WOMEN DEAD. ONE OF THEM DIES WHILE AWAY VISITING AND THE OTHERTWO AT HOME. Miss Carrie Beadle, one of Shickshinny's most prominent young women, died on Monday night of pneumonia.

Death occurred at Dagus, Elk County, where she was visiting at the home of Mrs. George Warren. Miss Beadle was 33 Pears of, age and was a daughter of Jesse Beadle, who is widely known throughout the State and who is a director of the First National Bank, this city. The body was brought to Shickshinny last evening. Miss Annie M.

Macafee, aged 33, died at her home in Shickshinny on Monday of consumption. She is survived by two sisters. Mrs. Abram Smith of Dorranceton and Mrs. Charles Wolfinger of Summit HIll, Schuylkill County, and one brother, Frank, who resides at home, The funeral will be held on Thursday at 2 p.

m. from the Shickshinny M. E. Church and interment will be in the cemetery there. Mrs.

Ell McKennon of died on Monday evening after a lingering illness of consumption. She was aged 30 years, and is survived by her husband and one child. The funeral will be on Thursday at 10 a. m. and interment will be in Shickshinny Cemetery.

The funeral was held Tuesday at with services at the home. Rev. William C. Mickey will officiate. Interment in Shickshinny Cemetery, Changes in the Patent Laws.

Inventors are warned of the changes In the patent law embodied in the amendments which go into effect 011 Jan. 1, 1898, which may seriously affect their rights. The new law inhibits the patenting of any invention which has been patented or described in any printed publication in this or any other country more than two years prior to the apblication. No patent shall be refused nor shall any patent be declared invalid reason of its having been patented frat in a foreign country, unless the said application was filed more than seven months prior to the application in this country. Under penalty of being recarded as abandoned, the application must be completed and prepared for examination within a year after the fling said application.

An interference will not be declared between an original apslication and a patent issued more than two years prior to the date of filing the bald application. It should be borne in mind at the same time that the term the United Stater patent will not be Sortened by the prior filing or issuing a foreign patent for the same invenit la possible, therefore, for the erican Inventor now to proceed with applications without waiting for States patent to be issued. AROUND HARVEY'S LAKE. THE BUILDINGS NOW AND THOSE YEARS AGO- LITTLE HISTORY OF THE LAKE. Harvey's Lake covers 1.285 The pure, perch and trout are indigenous, and pike were placed in the lake by Hollenback and Urquhart, who owned nearly the whole of Lake Township at one time.

Salmon were put in the lake in 1876. by the State authorities. The principal supply of water is from unseen springs in the bottom of the lake, from which the coldest water is obtained by sinking jugs. Except in severe winter weather ice does not form over these hidden springs. During the autumn months the water has been three feet lower than it was last spring.

At present the water is rising. There is a good, substantial road around the lake, over which many people drive for pleasure when the weather is favorable. Bicycle riders find it a capital track for a spin. The distance around the lake is nine miles and a fraction of 8 mile, The lake has been called. by different names, one of which is Lake Skandara: another Shawanese Lake, while it is commonly called Harvey's Lake.

It has been: said by some persons that its shape is that of the letter while others assert that its shape is that of the letter L. The picture of the lake on the map does not resemble either the letter or L. Two miles of the lake have been walled by he Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.

and a number of cottagers. Judging of the future by the past, the lake will be entirely walled in twenty-five years, The present owners of the land covered by the lake are the heirs of the late Judge Charles Barnum and the late Hendrick B. Wright, who purchased the same of the State, The Barnum heirs are Mrs. Frank Ferries of Bellwood, James Bernard Barnum of Laketon and Benjamin Franklin Barnum of Wilkes-Barre. The Wright heirs are George Wright and sister.

Mrs. Graham of Wilkes-Barre, This winter there are over fifty cottages vacated by the owners. Old residents predict that in less than twenty-five years every lot bordering on the lake will have been sold. Many lots have been purchased on which no cottages have been built. Eight persons have been drowned in Harvey's Lake, namely, a young son of landlord Clayton a number of years ago, Miss Agnes Kitchen, Miss Annie Smith, Joseph Johnson, Westover, a young boy from Kingston: Gowen C.

Herdman and Lewis A. McCarty. The last were drowned June 23, 1895. Fifty years ago an old Wilkes-Barre newspaper tells us that ten buildings could be seen by rowing around the lake, they were the following: Log school house at the west corner, then the woods; a house on the Warden farm, where William Allen Hived; Joseph Worthington's house, Martin Myers's, John Fosnock's, Moses Perrego's, Jesse Kitchen's, Daniel Caspear's, William Crandall's, Recently while rowing around the lake there were counted the buildings that may be seen from the lake, and our knight ot the oars kindly named the owners as follows: Benjamin Franklin Barnum, Seligman J. Strauss of Wilkes-Barre, Abel Perrego of Laketon, Daniel Lewis, William L.

Roberts, Martin Fahey of Edwardsville, John Lohmann of Laketon, Winfield Hancock Perrego of Kingston, Protestant Methodist Church, Mrs. Margaret Baird of Lake Township, Rev. Walter Randall, Jacob Sorber, Frederick Davis, Laketon west corner school house, F. H. Vaow, Joseph Kraft, Herman Krumbigle of Laketon, Judge John Lynch.

Dr. A. P. O'Malley of Wilkes-Barre, David Myers of Lake Township, Mrs. Sabina Myers of Lehman, Benjamin Franklin Myers of Kingston, Walter Pettebone, HarN.

Pettebone of Dorranceton. Theoper dore Puterbaugh of Lake Township, Mrs. Fred Bittenbender of Nanticoke, Joseph Sweitzer of Plymouth, Judge, William Cool of West Pittston, Mrs. Matilda Anderson of Lake Township, Nelson Pringle of Kingston. Edward Mackin of WilkesBarre, two houses owned by Draper Smith of Plymouth, James M.

Schooley of Wyoming, William L. Raeder of WilkesBarre, Mrs. S. J. Atherton, of Brooklyn, N.

B. F. Myers, A. C. Leacock and Charles of Kingston, Dr.

Olin F. Harson vey of Wilkes-Barre. T. L. Newell of Kingston, Mrs.

Henry Reichard, Mr. Bidwell, Mr. Landmesser of Wilkes William Eno of Plymouth, Mr. Pethic; Albert Marcy, George Anderson, Mrs. Martha Anderson, Thomas Ford, Allen Puterbaugh, Ira Puterbaugh of Lake Township, Ephraim Troxell, Llewellyn J.

Fogel, Col. Samuel Sturdevant, Mr. Goff, J. C. Payne of Wilkes- Harry Landis, proprietor of Grove House, the new Grove House which is being erected; photographer Beecham of Plymouth, Patrick Doyle of Larksville, Jacob R.

Shafer Trucksville, James Parks of Lake Township, Charles Rhodes, proprietor of Lake House, which is located in Lehman Township; Mrs. Sabina Myers, Mrs. Alice Worthington of Lehman, Nathaniel Rutter of Wilkes-Barre, Joseph Worthington, Mrs. Jacob Johnson of Lehman, a house owned by the Dymond Lewis Land Co. of Kingston, William Weaver, Thomas Long, Isaac Rogers, William Thomas of Lehman, Jane Shoemaker, George Wright, the late Mrs.

Brisbane's cottage, Mrs. Emory, the late J. B. Crawford's cottage of Wilkes-Barre, Dymond Lewis, Andrew Hunlock of Wilkes-Barre, Dr. E.

Troxell West Pittston. J. Bennett Smith, Mr. Lewis, Calvin Dymond, John N. Pettebone of Kingston, William Moore of Wilkes-Barre, Dr.

William Thompson, Benjamin S. Thompson Luzerne Borough, James S. Miller, Archibald Weiss of Lake Township, Arthur Stull, George M. Young, three dwellings owned by Albert Lewis, Alderson school house, Dr. Henry Trimmer, Abraham Shultz, Harvey's Lake Supply store, the Albert Lewis boarding house, Lehigh Valley R.

R. freight depot, Albert Lewis, log cottage, Lehigh Valley R. R. station at Alderson, the Albert Lewis Lumber Mnufacturing the Albert Lewis lumber office, tenement house of Albert Lewis, Mrs. Julia Ann Kitchen, Daniel Kitchen, Joseph Kitchen, Mrs.

J. A. Kitchen, M. E. Church and parsonage at Alderson, three dwelling houses owned by A.

V. Honeywell of Lake Township, George Matchell of Dallas, Aaron Smith, two houses owned by Henry S. Major, three owned by J. W. Kocher, two by John C.

Kitchen, P. O. S. of A. Hall, Charles Kitchen, Edward A.

Lamoreaux, a tenement house of Albert Lewis, Frank Davis, M. L. Avery's drug store and dwelling, Fred Luckey, Ira Morton's two houses, Albert Lewis, grist mill and dwelling of Walter J. Allen, Edward Gaynard, Mr. Kuschke, Thomas Dolan, James B.

Pierce of Dorranceton, Frederick Davis, Peter B. Kitchen. Albert Lewis, Lakeside school house, Samuel Shafer, Mrs. Peter Shupp, Charles Shupp of Plyouth, William Davis, Shawanese Lake Pavilion, Hamilton Kocher'9 two houses, James B. Kocher of Lake Township, George L.

Burnett of Kingston, IS. M. Herring of Wilkes-Barre, two cottages OWned by Peter Gessner and two cottages owned by James Bernard Barnum. There were counted 160 dwellings, Ineluding three school houses, two churches, stores and other business places. Christmas has come and finds no bridge on the lake.

It purposes making one as soon as the days begin to lengthen and the cold begins to strengthen. On this crystal bridge happy swains and pretty maidens will glide singing merrily. Fell Dead at Plymouth. Mrs. George Sullivan died suddenly at her home in Plymouth on Monday.

She fell in a faint to the floor and could not be revived. Coroner McKee was notified and he empaneled the following jury: J. D. Williams, Joseph Harris, John Stine. William Lewis, Charles Bryant and Abram Mose.

An Inquest was held last evening and a verdict of death from heart disease was rendered. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon. Died in Fairmonnt. Mrs. Diana Harvey, widow of the late Lewis Harvey, died in Fairmount, this county, on Dec.

26, aged 76 years. She was a daughter of the late Peter Boston, who died a few years ago at a great age. She was a well known and highly respected lady and survived by three brothers and one Mister and three children. OF A POLITICAL NATURE. WHAT CONGRESSMAN WILLIAMS SAYS AS TO WASHINGTON A Congressman Williamsis home spending the holidays and looks very well.

The Record reporter met him in. his office in the Coal Exchange building and discovered, after a few minutes' conversation with him, that he is thoroughly in earnest in studying public affairs and is doing. his very best to keep his district well to the front. He thinks the great question before Congress is the money issue. and nearly every representative has a scheme in his pocket which he thinks will truly solve all the difficulties hedging about our finances and bring him fame as the savior of the nation.

Our congressman thinks Mr. Leisenring will declare himself a full fledged candidate for governor in a few days. He believes the district will stand by him as soon as he makes it clear that he is in the field in earnest. As to Mr. Reed's candidacy for the ca collectorship, he says it is hard to tell what success will have.

Every district has a candidate of its own, and as that means a good many, the district being composed of nineteen counties, it is impossible to tell who may have the best pull at the end. Mr. Williams thinks the Record makes a mistake in not giving Quay effective help in his efforts to run this State entirely free of factional disturbances, Since he has been in Washington he has learned to know Senator his ability and judgment as a public Quay well has a high a regard for man. Mr. Williams will return to his duties in Washington next week.

COAL PROPERTY WILL BE SOLD. RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATES WILL BE ISSUED AGAINST THE NATALIE COAL COMPANY PROPERTY. A dispatch from Pittsburg says that Common Pleas Court No. 2 has made an order authorizing the Pittsburg Trust Company, receiver of the Natalie Anthracite Coal Company, appointed in the equity proceedings brought by the Third National Bank of Pittsburg and Herbert Hostetter against the Natalie Company and about twenty-five other defendants, to issue receiver's certificates to the amount of $30,000 for the operation of the coal works and other necessary expenses. The circumstances of the were related in the Record some days ago.

The plant of the defunct company is estimated to be worth $2,000,000. The certificates, it was stated, will be used as needed during the ties, months, uniess a sale of the property affected. In granting the issue of certificates Judge J. W. F.

White remarked that he thought a sale advisable. D. T. Watson, who, with J. R.

Sterrett and John S. McCave, represents the plaintiffs, assured the court that arrangements would be made for a sale as soon as possible. The action of the court has brought out the story of the sensational litigation between Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other Pennsylvania capitalists. The suit involves a tract of land in Northumberland and Columbia counties, bought by Nathaniel Taylor in 1889 from Asa F. Packer.

Taylor mortgaged the property to the extent of 075.000 and organized the Penn Anthracite Coal Company, to which all the property was conveyed. The mortgage being unpaid in 1892 it was foreclosed and the property was sold to attorney Thomas C. Lezear, who conveyed it to the Natalie Anthracite Coal Company. Lezear was secured by $2.000,000 worth of bonds payable in thirty years. The bonds secured to the Pittsburg Trust Company by mortgage.

Lezear sold the bonds. Taylor, who was made president of the Natalie Coal Company when it was organized, claims a portion of the stock. The Nathaniel Taylor referred to was formerly a resident of Wilkes-Barre. He was a member of the Luzerne County Bar and operated a marbie works on Market street. SOME COAL QUESTIONS INTERESTING FACTS FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN THE COAL BUSINESS The following are from a series of interesting coal questions in the Anthracite Coal Operators' Journal: Is buckwheat coal used at the mines for any considerable period for steam purposes because there is no market for it, or does mhtie market take all the buckwheat at the collieries? Few of the collieries use buckwheat as fuel owing to there being no market for some cases, when working on short" time, there is not sufficient rice and smaller sizes to maintain steam and then buckwheat is used for this purpose.

When there is no demand for buckwheat the majority of the collieries prefer stocking it and holding for a market rather than burning under the boilers. What amount of pea and buckwheat is put on the dirt bank for lack of market? In practically no cases are pea and buckwheat thrown on the dirt bank for lack of a market. They are often stocked when the market is overloaded. but are always taken up shipped when the demand improves. Dirt banks from old collieries contain these sizes, but in 1867 pea coal became marketable product, and in 1876 buckwheat was separated, and since that time there has been a steady decrease in the amount of coal thrown away.

How much more rice and smaller sizes could be made at the breaker than are now made, if a market could be obtained for them? In the absence of any actual trial no reliable figures can be given to show how, much more rice and smaller sizes could be made at the breakers if a market was obtained. It is variously estimated that from none to 30 per cent. more could be produced. It is probable that this would depend as largely upon the price to be received as on an expansion in the market. If the price at the breaker was satisfactory there is no doubt that many collieries now using rice and smaller for fuel would burn only the smallest sizes and dust.

together with such "bone" and other unmarketable coal as is now thrown on the dirt bank. Many would also, no doubt, use old culm bank material for boiler fuel if the above did not furnish sufficient steam. As the average colliery consumption for steam purposes amounts to about 8 per cent. of the product it might be fair to suppose that at least one-haif of this could be marketed under proper conditions. This would make an increase, on the total production from all regions, of about 1,700,000 tons per annum.

OUR MINERAL VALUES. Interesting Facts. From a Report of Geological Survey, COAL PRICE COMPARISONS Cost of Anthracite In Prinelpal Cities. The Bituminous Article -Only Slight Increase In the Value of Our Mineral Product. Washington, Dec.

port of the mineral resources of the United States for 1896, just issued by the logical survey, is notable for containing what is probably the first authentic comparison between the wholesale and retail prices of the American coal prod. uct at the leading points of consumption. In anthracite coals the cheapest markets last year were Wilkesbarre and Shenandoah, in the heart of the Pennsylvania mining region. The average wholesale price at Shenandoah for coals of all sizes ranged from $1.75 to $2.24, and at Wilkesbarre from $1.75 to $2.50. Pea coal could be bought cheaper at to $2.40 wholesale-and Orange, N.

to $2.50 wholesalethan at Pottstown, where it cost $2.75. At Pottsville, the average of all sizes was considerably better than at to $2.58 wholesale. The lowest figures quoted at Brooklyn, which has as great an advantage in point of water transportation as boken, are for broken coal, ranging at wholesale from $3.40 to $3.62 per short ton, equivalent to about $3.81 to $4.05 per long ton: whereas at Hoboken, where the long ton prices alone are quoted, broken coal brought from $3.10 to $3.85. A curious difference is observable between some of these points in the percentage of increased cost at retail. Thus at Orange, N.

the retail prices rang ed from 25 to 28 per cent higher than the wholesale prices; at Wilkesbarre from 20 to 72 per cent: at Pottstown from 25 to 41 per cent; at Shenandoah a pretty uniform 11 per cent, and at Pottsville only 4 per cent. Gotham's Coal Supply. New York city bought her anthracite coal for from $3.90 to $4.50 wholesale and from $4.50 to $5.50 retail. Poughkeepsie, with her direct rail route from the coal beds, bought her stove coal at $3.70 to $4.70 wholesale and $5 to $5.60 retail, and her pea coal at $2.95 wholesale and $3.60 to $3.92 retail. Boston $4.65 to $5.10 wholesale and $5.95 to $6.43 retail.

Philadelphia paid $4.45 to $4.70 wholesale and $4.75 to $5.75 retail. These were a measured in or have been here reduced to long tons. Chicago bought by the short ton at $5.25 to $5.85 wholesale and $6 to $6.75 retail, which would, if reduced to long tons, be a fraction-say 10 or 12 per cent--higher than Boston's figures. St. Paul's prices bound rapidly upward, being from $7.10 to $7.60 wholesale for short tons, or about $7.95 to $8.50 for long tons, and $8.10 to $8.35 short, the equivalent of $9.07 to $9.32 long at retail.

Duluth bought at her lake wharfs nearly $2 cheaper per ton than St. Paul at her railroad yards. San Francisco paid for her Pennsylvania anthracite from $10 to $14 per long ton wholesale and $12 to $16 retail, and Portland, about the same. both cities having an advantage in their water freights over cities lying a great deal nearer to the coalfields. but depending upon rail routes exclusively.

Wichita, paid almost as much as the Pacific coast ports for the same article. Butte, paid more than $19 a long ton at wholesale and more than $21 at retail, but Spokane, capped the climax with $19.60 wholesale and $22.40 retail. Coals. The comparison of prices for bituminous coals could not be abstracted in this way, owing to the great variety of qualities of coals concerned, the geographical dispersion of their sources and the different purposes for which their consumption was designed. In tabular form, however, as they appear in the printed volume, these data are most suggestive, especially to manufacturers who are studying local conditions with reference to setting up plants in which large quantities of fuel are consumed.

Among other interesting matters in the same work are Dr. Becker's paper on "The Witwatersrand Banket." in which he shows that the rich conglomerates in the South African goldfields are only a very ancient form of our California placers, metamorphosed by heat and pressure into hard rock. The figures of production and commerce in the great metal industries. showing that we have reached the ex. port stage in many of our metals, even shipping pig iron to Great Britain last year, are of special interest apropos 01 the widespread desire among our Amer.

ican experts that this country shall make a particularly impressive display of her metal production at the Paris world's fair in 1900. A less agreeable line of thought, but one from which we cannot escape, is suggested by the summary prepared by Dr. David T. Day, the editor of the volume. "Instead of a normal increase 01 at least $25,000.000," he writes, "the mineral product of 1896 showed only a slight increase in its total value, from $622,628,685 in 1895 to $623,717,288 in 1896 There were nine substances, of whick the product was not only increased but for which the value was the great est ever attained.

Among the tant ones are gold, copper, aluminium and petroleum. On the other hand, the product of many substances was in creased in amount, but the value wa. less than that of the smaller product yielded the year before. This includes such important substances as lead bituminous coal, building stones, eral waters, salt and pyrites." Wisconsin Central Foreclosed, Milwaukee, Doc. Jenkins It the United States circuit court today sued a decree of foreclosure in favor John A.

Stewart and Edwin H. Abbot as trustees, against the Wisconsin Co trai Railroad company for $12,000. the amount of the first mortgage borlis unpaid interest coupons of $1,800,000 and interest on the deferred interest ments since July 1, 1894, the tota. amount being $14,309,125. Lost Cargo In a Storm.

Sydney, Dec. Alexander Gibson, 30, for Yokohama, rudder damaged Jury rudder. She soned a portion of American shit from New York, July has arrived here with and steering with a reports having jetti. her cargo. Killed by His Brother-In-law.

Wilmington, Dec. Sassa- fras, today John Davis, a young farmhand, was stabbed to death by his brother-in-law, Joseph Wallace. The men met at John Anderson's store and quarreled. Biate In Windsor, Ft. Windsor, Dec.

28. The largest fire in this place for several years 00- curred early today. The large hardware establishment of Stone, Penniman Payson was The loss is estimated at FITZSIMMONS WILL FIGHT. BUT CORBETT AND M'COY MUST PIRST ESTABLISH THEIR RIGHTS MEMBERS OF BOB'S CLASS. Chicago, Dec.

28-Martin Julian today on behalf of Robert Fitzsimmons, made the following statement: "Fitzsimmons will defend his right to the title of champion. Mrs. Fitzsimmons has released him from his promise of retirement." Referring to the conditions on which Fitzsimmons will fight Corbett and MeCoy, Julian's statement says: conditions are as follows: Let Corbett beat a man like Maher or Choynski and establish his right as a member of Bob's class; let McCoy beat his way up to a commanding position and come along with his challenge afterward, But -first McCoy must fight a fit opponent at the middleweight limit and not at catch The statement concludes as follows: "I am not going to allow Mr. Fitzsimmons to accept offers from inferior men. When the proper time comes Fitzsimmons will meet them all one after the other in the same ring if needs be.

(Signed) "Martin Julian, "Manager of Bob Fitzsimmons, world's champion middle and heavyweight." M'COY IS ANXIOUS TO FIGHT. New York, Dec. McCoy announced to-night that he had arranged to meet "Al" Smith in this city to-morrow and that he will then post $1,000 as a guarantee that he will meet any man named by Fitzsimmons. It is to meet Martin Julian's condition, announced in Chicago to-day, that McCoy has arranged to-morrow's conference. He is anxious, he says, to find out who Fitzsimmons wants him to fight.

DALY AND EVERHARDT DRAW. New Orleans, Dec. Daly and "Jack" Everhardt met before the Tulane Avenue Athletic Club to-night with about a thousand persons present. match was originally for twenty rounds, but the mayor would not issue permit for over ten and a charged $500 for that. Everhardt said he had trained for twenty and refused to go on until he secured an that if both 'men were on agreement their feet at the end of ten rounds the fight would be declared a draw.

Everhardt tried to make it a rough and rushing fight from the start, but Daly clever enough to keep away from was punishment. Daly's left was weak, so that there was not much harm done until the seventh, when Daly learned to use his right and kept it going body. In the tenth round Daly's right did rushing business on Everhardt's body and there was danger of a knockout. Then Everhardt clinched and wrestled and saved his until time called and referee Duffy declared was it a draw. IDENTIFIED AS THE MURDERER.

TRAMP CHARGED WITH KILLING CONDUCTOR GALLOWAY GIVEN A HEARING--MOTORMAN IS SURE HE IS THE MAN. Norristown, Dec 28. Martin- Connors, a tramp, who was arrested yesterday in Ardmore on suspicion of being the murderer of conductor Galloway in the trolley car hold-up on Sunday, was arraigned before Magistrate Lenhardt today. Connors was identified as the man who fired the shot and was committed without bail to answer at court. Motorman Charles Matthias and Mrs.

Henry Barnshaw, Misses Martha and Lydia Barnshaw, Martha Boothand Emma Ober, who were passengers on the car, were waiting at the City Hall when Connors arrived and they were all taken into a private room. The suspect was confronted by the witnesses and all positively identified him as one of the tramps, while Matthias said that he (Connors) was the man who shooting. The prisoner was then formally charged with murder by District Attorney Strassburger, who stated that in the absence of counsel for the accused he would act for the wealth and the prisoner. The motorman his story of the shooting and the district attorney asked him if any one of those four men was present. He replied: "Yes, there is one of them." "Do you see the man who fired the shot that killed Galloway?" was asked.

In a clear and distinct voice Matthias said: "Yes. he is the man." as he pointed to Connors. The women passengers also identified Connors as the man. In answer to the testimony Connors said: "I never had a revolver in my hands. I was never in this part of the country.

Last Sunday I was playing cards in A shanty near North Wayne. That night slept in Mr. Barrett's stable, South There was with me Denny Lenahan, William Gallen, James Killen and a Dutchman slept there that night, and they will tell you the same." The police are still hunting for the other three men who were implicated in- the shooting. THE READING IN NOVEMBER. BOTH COMPANIES SHOW A DECREASE FOR THE MONTH--THE SHOWING FOR THE YEAR.

Philadelphia, Dec. statement of Reading R. R. Co. the Philadelphia Reading Coal Iron Co.

for November shows gross receipts for the railroad company of expenses, $992.307: net receipts, $922,410, a decrease compared with November. 1896. of $48,867. The gross receipts of the coal and iron company were $2,227.058: expenses, $2.109,496: net earnings, $117,562, a decrease of $127,676 compared with November, 1896. The net increase of the company from other sources during the month was $37.201, making the total earnings of the companies $1.057,173, a decrease of $176,543 compared with November, 1896.

Against these net earnings is charged $745,000 fixel charges, taxes, leaving a surplus of $342,173. For the five months of the present fiscal year to Nov. 30 the net earnings of the companies were $5,582,208, against $5.255,629 for the corresponding period of 1896. or Killed Him with Rat Poison. on Vas non, Dec.

Burtation, id Ernestine charged Burtoch with the were mur- atge ret to-night, the woman's Charles Selhausen, fer husband, in September. The It The of Selhausen was exhumed last or thht and autopsy disclosed poison. boarded with Selhausen and a cirweek ago married the widow. The woman confessed, after her arrest, that. she had killed Selhausen with rat poison, and implicated Burtoch.

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The proposal was coldly received. Killed by His Son's Locomotive, Saint Hyacinthe, Dec. Antoine aged 55, was run over and Instantly killed at Richmond yesterday by train whose engineer was Coyette's ROD, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. FAIRS. LESSON FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JAN.

2. Text of the Lesson, Math. Ill, 1-17-Mes ory Verses, 13-17-Golden Text, Math. 111, 17-Commentary by the Rev. D.

M. Stearns. Let me at the beginning of our study of the gospel by Matthew, in which we are to continue for six months, quote a few pregnant sentences from "Studies In the Gospels" by Rev. Henry G. Weston, D.

"The Bible is a history of the contest between Christ and satan for man and his dwelling place; of redemption provided by God proceeding from His love, with love determining the method and the end. The gospels are the history of that part of redemption which was wrought by the Lord Jesus Christ in His earthly life, death, burial and resurrection. The point of view of and the purpose in each gospel determine in every case what shall be inserted and omitted. The Old Testament closes with the Jewish nation looking for the fulfillment of the prophecies of a king who shall reign in righteousness, under whom the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Matthew is the gospel of the Jewish king rejected, resulting in the rejection of the nation, until the church, His body, shall be gathered out of all nations.

In the Old Testament God is for His people; in the gospels He is with His people; in the Epistles He is in His people. These three, God for us, God with us, God in us, are the method and the end of the Divine dealing, holiness eternal in the heavens, incarnate on earth, embodied in the saints." 7. generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to Chapter i gives the genealogy of the King from Abraham to Joseph, the husband Mary, who was of the royal line through Solomon, son of David. Luke iii gives the genealogy of Mary, who was also of the house of David, but through Nathan, the son of David. Math.

1, declares that Jesus Christ is the inheritor and fulfiller of all things promised to David and Abraham. 8. Bring forth therefore fruits meet for or, as in the margin, "answerable to amendment of Paul's preaching also was, "Repent and turn to God and do works meet for repentaneo" (Acts xxvi, 20). The teaching of all Scripture is that by nature we are away from God: God is calling us to come to Him, even as He called Adam from his hiding place in the garden, and has ever since been secking lost sinners. When we turn to Him, He receives us graciously, forgives us freely and makes us His children through Jesus' blood.

Then He asks us to walk worthy of our calling. 9 And think not to say within yourselves, "We have Abraham to our Father." Even to our Lord Himself these people said proudly, "We be Abraham's seed," but He replied, "If ye were Abraham's dren, ye would do the works of Abraham," and then He told them very plainly, "Ye are of your father, the devil" (John viii, 33, 39, 44). It will not do for us to say, "I all a member of the church, I have been baptized, my people are all Christians, I do the best I can," as if any of these could save us. There must be a true reception of Jesus Christ as our own personal Saviour and a whole hearted reliance upon His merits only. 10 Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire." Both in the Old Testament and in the New the believer is compared to tree.

See Ps. 1, Jer. xvii, 8, and compare our Lord's words in Math. xv, 18, Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted 11. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." John sought no honor for himself, but he loved to point to the mightier than he, whose shoes he was not worthy to bear.

We have not the right spirit if we ever seek any glory for ourselves. Repentance and the ness of sins are God's free gift and make us to be surely saved, but being saved we must be filled with the Spirit in order to serve Him and bear the fruit which will be to His glory and make manifest that we are His. 12. Whose fan is in His band, and He will thoroughly purge His floor and gather His wheat into the garner, but He will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire." May there not be some reference here to the fire of the last verse? Compare the harvest time of chapter xiii, 40-43. I have heard poople pray for the fire, and I have wondered if they were even ready for the Spirit.

13. "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him." Consider where He had been for the last 18 years since He said to His mother at Jerusalem, "I must be about My Father's business." Ho had certainly been about that business, but how and where? In the humble home and carpenter's shop of Nazareth, subject to Joseph and Mary, willing and obedient and waiting God's time for public work. We need to lay this to heart also. 14. "But John forbade Him, saying.

I have need to be baptized of Thee, and comest Thou to So John was ever humble and ready to lay himself at Jesus' feet. When they told John a little later that all men were following Jesus, he replied, am not the Christ, but sent before Him; the friend of the gridegroom rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled" (-lohn ill, 26-29). Just a voice; anything or nothing if only Christ is magnified. 10. And Jesus answering unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all This was His consecration to His public work, a life of constant and manifest death to self that He might glorify God, manifest and declare His Name and fulfill all that had been written of Himself in the law, the prophets and the Psalms.

As His witnesses there is no other way for us than self renunciation. 16. "Lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon Him." Heaven is always witnessing what 18 going on on the earth, and, though a here. yet it is even 80. I believe it firmly there may be no outward manifestation as and have found great comfort in such asgurances as IL Chron.

xvi, 9. At Pentecost tho Spirit came as tongues of fire, for there was purification needed as well as power, but there was no sin in Christ. 17. "And, lo, a voice from heaven, say- This is My Beloved Son, in whom I well pleased. It is written in Luke 21, that Jesus was praying, and in 39, that the Spirit abode upon Here are very plainly the Father, and Holy Spirit.

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