Harrisburg Telegraph from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 1

VOL LXXIl. NO. 2. Weather: Rain HAHRISEURG, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2. 1903.

Last Edition CL01G ADMINISTRATION ID ITS ACHIEVEMENTS The State's Strong1 Box was wel! Guarded. The Governor Acted Carefully in the 1 Anthracite Coal Strike PASSAGE OF THE RIPPER AND RAPID TRANSIT BILLS When GoTernor William A. Stone retires from office on January 20th, 1903, he will be the sixth Governor to have served a full term as Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the Constitution of 1S73, his predecessors being Hartranft, lloyt, Pattison, Beaver and Hastings, the two first being dead, the others living and honored among men. Governor Stone is not yet 55 years old, and having been active in politics all his life, it is naturally to be expected that he will continue in the game when he goes back to Allegheny coun 4y, and recent "doings" in that city would indicate that the faction with which the Governor trains the regular organization has hopes of politi cal victory, which means supremacy for a good many years. The Governor recently remarked, apropos of his return home, that he expected to continue in politics, and he considered it the duty of every good citizen, who had the welfare of his community at heart, to engage in politics, and be a live man, not a "dead one" with no interest in the most strenuous game that is played in the United States.

Governor life has not been all roses and honey since he took the oath of office as Governor of Pennsylvania on January 17th, 1S99. The five years preceding his inaugural were fraught with factional disturbances in the party that had elected him, and there were still signs of trouble and the political weather man had the storm signals flying. On the day that he took office he appointed a Cabinet that met with opposition and was confirmed by a small vote, showing the Governor what he had to expect in the way of opposition from factionists opposed to him. On that same day the Legislature voted for a United States Senator to succeed Senator Quay, and failed to elect, and as is well known it failed to elect daring that entire session, leaving a vacancy in the United States Senate from Pennsylvania because of that failure. Governor Stone had all along maintained that if the Legislature adjourned without electing a successor to Senator Quay, it was his constitutional duty to appoint a Senator, and on the very day the Legislature adjourned the Governor appointed Matthew Stanley Quay to succeed himself, and had his commission made out, thus showing that he had the courage of his convictions.

It is not the purpose of this story to particularize every act of Gover nor Stone's administration that brought it into prominence and kept it continually in the public eye, but it may be remarked here that an administration that was constantly do MRS. H. F. McREiNOLDS Aged Woman Survived Old Friend By Only Few Honrs Mrs. H.

Frank McEeynolds died at her home, Second and State streets, last night after illness from angina pectoris, aged To years. Mrs. McEeynolds was the widow of 'the late H. Frank McEeynolds, prominent in newspaper circles thirty years ago, and was born in this city, her maiden name being Sarah Cornelia Adams. She had been ill for quite a while, but it was not supposed by her friends that her end was so near.

Half an hour before her death she was reading a newspaper, and made a remark about the death of Mrs. Mumma, who was one of her old friends. As the laid the newspaper down she remarked "I can't see to read any Mrs. McEeynolds is survived by six children, Andrew of Philadelphia; H. Frank, of Waterbury, Mrs.

R. B. Zeis ler, of Philadelphia; Mrs. R. G.

Clifton, of Philadelphia; Mrs. George McGowan and Miss Mary Mc Reynolds'. stenographer in the Department of Public Instruction, this city; ten grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. She was the child of George and Sarah (Fager) Adams, and was born July 17th, 1827, and mar ried 1845 to H. Franklin McReynolds, who died in 1869.

Deceased was a member of the First Baptist Church for many years and was well known for her many kind and charitable acts. A fond mother and kind friend, she was universally beloved, and her death be heard of with much regret by her many friends. FORESTRY COMMISSION THANKS THE GOVERNOR At a meeting of the Forestry Commission held this week the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, The present one is the last meeting which the Pennsylvania Forestry Reservation Commission will hold during the administration of the' Hon. William A. Stone as Governor of the Commonwealth; therefore be it Resolved, That the commission tenders to His Excellency the Governor sincere thanks for the uniform courtesy, wise advice and prompt help he has "always accorded to it in its work; Resolved, That when the time comes for severing our official relations with him it will be done with preat regret Work accomplished is nsually proportionate to the cooperation between the workers.

It is surely worthy of note that during he administration of Governor Stone the State has acquired a half million acres of lajid for its forest reserva ing something that made it prominent must have been a pretty active administration, and not of the "milk and water" order. It is the intention here to select a few of the more prominent acts of the administration, merely to show its prominence in the world of affairs in the past four years. When Governor Stone took office he was warned by the State's financial officers that there was likely to be a shortage of funds in the Treasury in the next few years, and he had better exercise his veto power if the Legislature did not heed his warning. The Legislature refused to do its duty in the matter of cutting down the appropriations, and it was up to the Governor to prevent a passing of the hat or a default, and he promptly got out the veto axe. The dull thud of the axe as it chopped clown appropriations reverberated across the river and through the York hills for thirty days after the Legislature adjourned and there was consternation.

Who, at this day, will say that any institution is any the worse for the Governor's vetoing power? It was at this time that he was also called upon to grapple with the question of vetoing part of an appropriation item. It was maintained that it could not be done, but the Governor coolly loped off a million dollars of the school appropriation, and cut down many appropriations for charity institutions which he considered could stand the cut. There was protest and outcry, and to test the matter as to his right the school appropriation case was taken into court, and from there to the Supreme Court, which sustained the Governor, and decided that he had the right to split an item. This decision settles the matter for all time, and places a check on reckless appropriations. As a matter of fact the schools did not suffer at nil, and there is no record that any of them shortened the school term or reduced salaries because the Governor cut the appropriation.

It is also a matter of record that at the very next legislative session the million dollars were returned to the schools and the old appropriation was renewed, this time without a cut, for there was plenty of revenue. It is history now that had not the Governor split some of the appropriation items a great many institutions that got something might have got nothing at all. and the State was not put in the position of Completely cutting them off. During Governor Stone's administration he was early confronted with Continued on. Sixth Page.

FUEL FAMINE ALMOST. LED GIRL TO HER DEATH The fuel famine was almost responsible last evening at Highspire for a tragedy when 13 year old Minnie Ryder, while gathering chunks of coal for her mother was caught by a big freight engine and tossed aside for yards over frozen cinder. The little girl had been sent out by her parents to pick coal along the railroad tracks in order to fill an empty coal bin, and it was while she was sttop ing over and putting coal into a large sack that she was run down by the engine. The ground over which she walked had been pretty well covered by other hunters and very little coal was to be found. A sympathetic fireman on a passing freight threw out several liberal sized pieces of bituminous and it fell between the rails of the west bound freight tracks.

The child ran after the bounding blocks of black stuff and while picking them up a train from behind ran into her and threw her many feet to cimlpr bank. She was picked up by several men at White House Lane and brought to the Harrisburg Hospital, where it was found that she had sustained a fracture of the right leg and left arm and a compression of the brain. This morning the girl showed signs of improvement and her recovery is but a matter of time. TRACKKAND KILLED WHILE ENVELOPED IN CLOUD CF STEAM Eugene Charles, aged 24 years, a track hand employed in the Pennsylvania yards near RL, was struck by train No. 11, the fast mail flyer, this morning, and received injuries which resulted fatally while the man was being taken to the hospital.

He was struck while stooping and was thrown considerable distance. His skull was badly fractured, a large portion of the top being completely torn off. When the engine on which he was being taken to the hospital reached the station the young man was dead and he was placed in the dead house until an undertaker could be summoned. The young man resided at Liverpool. Perry county, and boarded at 6C3 Peffer street, this city.

He had been in the company's employ about a month. There was considerable pteam blowing at the time of the accident and the man did not see nor hear the train. Will Stand tor Another Term Dewitt C. Fry, one of the First ward's representative in Common Council, will stand for re election in Februarv. He has long resided in the southern section of the city and is thoroughly in touch with the industrial and other needs of the lower jend.

MEN ARRESTED SAY THEY ARE VICTIMS Men Charged With Hold Up, Make Lame Pretense by Blaming Their Accuser Alfred Sprout and Edgar Starry, of East Harrisburg, were arrested last evening by Detective John Welsh on a charge of highway robbery, preferred by H. M. Glenn, 240 South Thirteenth street, employed at the Mc Farland Printery. Mr. Glenn was on his way home Wednesday night, going by way of the Mulberry street bridge, when he was stopped by men, he says, corresponding in description to Sprout and Starry, who forced him against the side of the bridge and went through his pockets.

Mr. Daniel Kicster, of the State Printing' Otlice, with his wife, daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Leakway, were also crossing the bridge and saw the scuffle. Wh the men saw Mr.

Kiester they knocked Glenn down and, stepping up to Mr. Kiester, said they were being held up by Glenn. The latter told a different story. A good description of the men wasobtained and with this as a basis Starry and Sprout were arrested last evening. Both denied the charge and again declared they are the victims of Glenn.

The case was heard this afternoon and a large number of witnesses were present. Both were held for court. Sprout is said by the police to have done time, in jail for an assault on a conductor on an Allison Hill car sometime ago. Mr. Kiester, who is the principal witness in this case, is also the leading witness in the highway robbery case against James MeGraw, who was arrested several months ago, charged with holding up a man on the Mulberry street bridge.

William Gouty Badly Hnrt William Gouty, of 1409 Green street, a machinist's helper at the No. 2 round house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, fell from the running board of an engine there last evening about 8 o'clock. He was unconscious when admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital but gained his senses some time later. He has a concussion of the brain and the hospital surgeons say that how serious his injuries may be cannot be determined fo rseveral days. Minnie Ryde May Die Minnie Ryder was struck by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad last night about 10 o'clock and had her right leg and right arm broken and her head severely injured.

She was brought to this city and was admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital. Her condition was considered very serious. Mr. Messtmer lias Xot Withdrawn Mr. B.

Frank M'ssimer, the well known member of the Friendship fire company, who announced himself as a candidate for Common Councilman on the Republican ticket in the Third ward, stated this morning that he had not withdrawn and that lie will be in the race until the finish. Paxton Company Gets Money Chief Lutz, of the fire department, this morning paid over to the Paxton Fire Company the sura of $123.33, due from April 1st to May 1st. The balance due is still with the Mayor, who is adjusting a number of bills, and will turn over the amount in a few days. Fixing Subw ay Damages Testimony was taken this morning before John Kelley, Forest Hunter and Ellis M. Ford, viewers appointed to assess damages for the building of the Market street subway in court room No.

2. City Engineer Cowden and several other witnesses were examined. Fuel Famine Its Very Worst Stage The happy sound of the rattling coal as it slides down the chutes to empty coal bins is becoming less distinct and less often repeated than it was a month ago; and if indications are believed this special variety of music will be a rareity for some months to come. Xever before have the prospects for more fuel been so dark and the coal dealers are unanimous in saying that they see no outlet to the trouble. The miners in the Lehigh, Ly kens and other regions celebrated Christmas, Xew Year's day and several church holidays in the past ten days and this and the consequent getting over the celebrations has meant much lost time.

Very little coal has been mined during this time and naturally only a limited supply can be brought to the consuming points. In this city an unprecedented tning is occuring. ueaiers who nave more of one grade of coal than their demands call for trade with other dealers for some other size. It is a com Pennsylvania Is Seeking More Land The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is at present negotiating for large tracts of unimproved real estate on the Greenawalt and Heister estates west of this city. A portion of the land is on the west side of the railroad and the remainder lies in Wetzel's swamp, or just west of the strip of low woodland known by that name.

The purpose to which this land is to be put after it has been bought has not been announced. During the past year there have been many reports to the effect that the railroad company is desirous of securing large holdings of real estate both in the Tenth ward and aboe it. As a result there have been few changes of ownership of land in that district during the past year, the owners preferring1 to retain their in IMPROVEMENTS FOR READING Officials Authorize Changes Here and at Shippensburg MORE TRACKS ELECTRIC CRANE Local Yards to Be Made Capable of Unloading 1 75 Cars at One Time General Superintendent Besler and other officials of the Reading visited Shippensburg last week and made arrangements there for further yard changes of an extensive nature. These will be made at once and as soon as completed all Reading freight crews will run as far as Shippensburg only, instead of Hagerstown as at present. The Reading will then withdraw all freight from the Western Maryland and receive from and deliver to the Cumberland Valley.

Seven Tracks and Crane Fassing through this city on the return trip the officials stopped oil here long enough to authorize some extensive improvements. The ground on Tenth street lately purchased by the railroad company had been cleared of the old buildings that formerly occupied it, prepartory to using the space for coal wharves for local dealr ers. The officials, however, decided to change all this and to construct on the plot seven freight tracks for receiving purposes. In addition an electric crane with a capacity for unloading and loading the heaviest castings and bales will be built there. This crane will be so located that freight may be transferred from cars on either of two tracks to waiting wagons or from one car to another.

When these chusiges are complete the local freight receiving yards of the Reading will be large enough for the unloading or loading of 175 cars at one time. The new yards are to be built at once and must be ready for the accommodation of spring deliveries. DECEMBER THE COLDEST IN PAST THIRTEEN YEARS With the exception of last year the precipitation in rain and snow during the past month of December was the heaviest since the local weather reports have been taken in this city. The fall was 4.57 inches as compared with 4.75 last year. This is considerable precipitation for December, as the average is only 2.69 inches.

The highest temperature for the month was 54 degrees, reached on the 3d, and the lowest was on the 10th when the thermometer dropped to 13 degrees. There were but 6 clear days in the month. The month was the coldest December in 13 years. Fire at Paper Store Trimmings from wall paper caught fire at Reamer's wall paper store, Sixth and Calder streets, this morning, and the blaze was extinguished by a plug stream from the Good Will company. The engine house is located across the street from where the fire occurred.

Smoke and water caused damage to the extent of four hundred dollars. The stock is insured. Mr. Reamer was badly burned about the hands while trying to extinguish the blaze. It is thought a lighted cigar was dropped into the pile of waste paper.

Now At mon thing to see the wagon of one dealer in the yard of another and a half ton of pea coal being transferred from the sheds for a half ton of rock sized furnace coal. The same difficulty in receiving coal that has been experienced since the strike was1 terminated is still inconveniencing the dealers. For the next month at least there will be no change in the prices of fuel, the only change in the situation, according to prominent sellers, is that it will be about twice as difficult to obtain coal during the next month or so as formerly. All day yesterday the coal wagons were kept running. The relations of H.

B. Mitchell, who has been the authorized agent of the Reading Coal and Iron Company and who has supplied the local coal men with anthracite, came to an end yesterday and hereafter dealers will be required to secure their supply from the company itself. Mr. Mitchell's district included the city of Harrisburg, the Cumberland Valley, part of the Lebanon Valley, and various points reached by the Reading Railroad within a radius of fifty miles of Harrisburg. Railroad terests in the hope of selling to the railroad company at figures far above what might ordinarily be expected.

There have been many rumors of the placing of big shops at this point but the general idea is that if the Pennsylvania Railroad buys the land it will be for the enlargement of its yards at this point. Condemnation proceedings have been instituted against land held by Mr. Heister above the city. This land is needed at once for the enlargement of the yards and work has been start ed on the improvement. In addition this 140 feet of neu sheds for the repairing of broken cars is now under roof.

There is still a report in circulation to the effect that later these shops will be moved another point. THREE KILLED BY DYNAMITE EXPLOSION A Dozen Miners More or Less Seriously lujnred Pottsville, Jan. 2. A quantity of dynamite exploded in one of the gangways of the Oak Hill Colliery, one mile north of Minersville, and three miners were killed and a dozen more or less seriously injured thereby. The.

dead are: Michael Ondcr, 37 years old, mar ried with a wife and four children. Andrew Onder, married, wife and four children. Joseph Prokop, married, wife and two children. The more seriouslv injured are: James Patterson, Morgan Davis, George Howe, all of Pottsville; George Bowan, Minersville; John Stanton, Edward Kelly, Mt. Laft'ee, and Rynck, Duncott.

Ihe explosion occurred while one of the men was removing a stick of the explosive. HALF THE TOWN BURNED AND MARSHAL MURDERED Official Was Shot When He Tried to Close a Saloun Alexandria, Jan. 2. About half of the town of Olea, on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain Southern Railway, forty miles from here, was destroyed by fire yesterday.

Seven business houses were destroyed, entailing a loss of several thousand dol lars. When the excitement over the fire was subsiding Town Marshal Smith went to a saloon to order it closed as the license had expired. A moment later shots were heard and Smith was found dead on the floor. He had been shot six times in the heart. His murderer has not been apprehended.

BRIDGE TOLLS Traffic Agreement Between People's and nnrnsDars untile lompany 'terminated by the Flood The stockholders of the Harrisburg Bridge Company will have their annual meeting next Monday, when the election of officers and other matters will be taken up. The swer ling away of the bridge owned by this com pany at Market street and the awarding of a contract for the building of a modern bridge are chapters of the old year's history, but it is not generally known that the destruction of the old camel back bridge and the straight section between Island Park and the Harrisburg side by the Sus quehanna at flood also wiped out the traffic agreement between the People's Bridge Company, which owns the bridge at Walnut street, and the older corporation. There had been a traffic agreement as to tolls for several years but it was provided at the suggestion of the late Colonel Henry McCormick in this agreement that the destruction of one or the other of the two bridges would terminate the agreement. As a result competition in the matter of tolls will come probably with the completion of the bridge at Market street this year. WETZEL'S SWAMP It ill Hardly be Secured for Park Purposes The P.

K. K. Wants the Laud Wetzel's swamp as a part of the proposed park system of Harrisburg is probably a dream. The tremendous expansion of the Pennsylvania Railroad yards in the Western part of the city gives rise to the belief that the swamp tract and acres of land in addition will be taken by the railroad company for its yard improvements. The owners of sections of Wetzel's swamp have already been interview by the railroad real estate agents and considerable addtional land on the western side of the railroad property in the vicinity of Greenawalt's lane and beyond that point has been purchased.

Only those who have kept track of the Pennsyl vania Railroad improvements west of Maclay street canjp any appreciation of the euormous growth of this section of the great corporation's interests here. Scores of tracks have been laid and many more are to go down as soon as the armv of track builders can prepare the levels. Instead of the Lucknow repair shops with their two hundred and fifty employes being removed to another point, as was recently reported, an addition to these shops of 140 feet is now under roof. Classification yards and increased freight tracks together with the various passenger tracks which are being removed to the west side of the yards give the upper end of the city an exceedingly busy appearance. STUDENTS MUST PAY FOR CAPS AND GOWNS The Teachers' Committee, of the Board of School Directors at a meeting last night tooK up the cap and gown question for this year's graduating class of the High School.

It was decided that the graduates themselves shall buy or rent the academic garb to be worn at the commencements. It was also decided to recommend to the board this evening that the cadet corps of the High School wear the uniform described by last evening's "Telegraph." Mine Accident In Fifth District Hazleton, Jan. 2. The annual report of Mine Inspector D. Roderick, of the Fifth Anthracite district, made public here to day, shows that twenty four fatal and thirty six nonfatal accidents occurred during the year 1902, leaving thirteen widows and thirty six orphans.

In the previous year there were sixty fatal and eighty nine non fatal accidents. The suspension of work consequent upon the long strike is responsible for the falling off in the number of accidents during .1902. UNITED STATES I COiECTE Completion of First Section of the Cable That Will Eventually Reach the Continent of Asia MESSAGE TO ROOSEVELT ANNOUNCES ITS OPENING Honolulu, Jan. 2. The Commercial Pacific Cable Company completed the first section of the sub marine cable that is to connect the United States with its insular possessions in the Pacific, and eventually with the con tinent of Asia, at 8.40 last night, when the two ends were brought together in Molokai Channel, thirty five miles from Honolulu, where the San Francisco end had been buoyed since December 2Gth.

Shortly after communication was established the fact was announced to the crowd in waiting and was greeted with applause. Judge Cooper, who represented Governor Dole, who was absent from the island, sent a message to President Roosevelt announcing the opening and extending a greeting from the citizens of Hawaii. A public celebration over the completion of the cable will be held in the Capitol grounds to morrow. Thus has been finished, after a memorable struggle against wind and waves, an enterprise which brings the Hawaiian Islands practically two thousand miles nearer the United States, puts an important but hitherto isolated community in communication with the entire world and makes is susceptible to all the industrial impetus which follows ready accessibility. The final splicing of the ends in the waters which for days had been so rough as to render cable work impossible marked the first stage of the undertaking to span the vast ocean with a line of electric communication, the need of which has long been acknowledged by the entire world and the advocacy of which has often claimed the attention of the highest councils, political and financial, of America.

The point of landing was at the beautiful private park of Sans Souei Beach, five miles east oi tne DO NOT LIKE STOCK SCHEME Workmen Oppose Steel Corporation's Profit Sharing Plain Pittsburg, Jan. 2. Employes of the big Homestead plant of the Unit ed States Steel Corporation, interviewed on the scheme to share its profits with its employes, expressed themselves as decidedly opposed to the proposition. The Homestead works employ about men who are entitled to the profit sharing. Of a score of these workmen not one of them favored it.

Their opposition to it is that the amount of stock that the majority of the workmen can buy is limited to a few shares, lor instances, according to the circular, a $1,000 employe can subscribe to $150, worth of stock, a $2,000 employe can subscribe to only $300 worth and a $3,500 employe can subscribe to only $373. A $1,000 a year man cannot subscribe for more than one share. The workmen claim that only the department and general superintendents, who draw large salaries, will be able to purchase enough stock to make an investment worth the while. Another objection is that stock will not be delivered to the employes for five years, and that if a workman leaves the services of the corporation before that time he loses his stock. The objectors assert that the five years' provision is virtually a contract 10 noiu mem in tuc ad vices for that length They claim, also, that it would destroy their independence in case of a dispute.

The opinion of several is expressed by the statement of C. O. Poster, who draws a salary of $1,700: "I believe that we can do better by leaving our money in a savings bank at 5 per cent, than by putting a part of it in steel stock and not be able to get the stock for five years." FRIGHTENED BRAKEMAN JUMPED AND WAS KILLED Williamsport, Jan. 2. Frightened by a flash of ignited gas from the firebox of the engine in which he urnc ritlinrr.

A. N. Merrick, a Northern Central Railroad brakeman, last night 1 3 1 jumpea out oi a cao winuow anu was killed. His body was found along the track with the head crushed. Robbers Frightened Oft' Jimmy marks were found on the shutter at the homes of John and William Schway, 306 30S Cherry avenue yesterday, which were made by an iron bar picked up nearby.

During the night noises were heard by occupants of both houses and the robbers were frightened off. TELEGRAPH'S PICTURE OF THE NEW CAPITOL The many compliments which have reached the "Telegraph" on its handsome picture of the new Capitol have induced us to place upon the market the remaining copies which will be sold at ten cents each. Many Harrisburg people have been sending these pictures to friends at a distance. All subscribers of the "Telegraph" who were missed by the carriers on Christmas morning when the Capitol pictures were delivered will please notify the carriers so that they my i By CABLE city of Honolulu. With the shore end landed there still remained a spaa of almost two score of miles to be closed between the buoyed deep sea.

end in Molokai chaunel and the heavy beach line laid a half mile out from shore. The closing of this gap proved a task that taxed the patience as well as the ingenuity of the Silver town's staff. Five days elapsed, the most of which time was spent await ing the favor of the wind and sea, before the labors of the cable builders were completed and the first signal flashed along the entire length! of two thousand more miles. The First Message Received San Francisco, Jan. 2.

San Francisco and Honolulu are now connected by cable. The first words passed under the ocean a few moments after 11 o'clock last night. The wire worked perfectly. The first message received was to President Roosevelt. It was merely a formal greeting and congratulation from the people of Hawaii to the people of the United States from one chief executive to the other.

The message was transmitted at the Market street office to a wire leading directly to the Executive Mansion in Washington, D. and its receipt was immediately acknowledged. When the message reached the White House President Roosevelt was asleep and the operator refused to awaken him. Right after the Dole signature on the first message came a second message from Honolulu. It was a greet ing 'from the people of Hawaii to Clarence II.

Mackay, president of the cable company, congratulating him on the completion of the cable and expressing sorrow that John Mackay had not survived to see thai instantaneous bond between the isl ands and the American Continent. i HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE Johnstown. A Federation of Catholld Societies of Cambria county was formed here with these officers: President, John Kearns, Johnstown; vice president, W. J. Weakland, Patton; seeretary, J.

H. Mc Cann, Cicsson; treasurer, Professor Ueorga K. Kipps, Carrolltown; marshal, Thomas M. Sweeney, Johnstown; chaplain. Very Rev.

John Boyle, of St. John's Cathollq Church, Johnstown. Lancaster. Harry Clark, alias Wells, re cently sentenced to serve fifteen months in the Eastern Penitentiary for stealing 9i horse in Columbia, died at the county prison here from consumption. South Bethlehem.

Deputy United States Marshal Helms, of Philadelphia, arrested John Scott here, charged with using the mail for fraudulent purposes. He waa taken to Reading for a hearing. Hanover. William G. Leas, of East Ber lin, has brought suit against Dr.

Lewis H. Fackler, of the same place, for $30,008 damages for alleged neglect while attend Ing plaintiff's wife, professionally. Scranton. Seranton, it is rumored, Is to have another electric railway, the objective point of which will be a natural park on the mountain side east of this city, which Is to be converted into a summec resort York. The congregation of the Duka Street Metnodist Episcopal Church has unanimously invited Rev.

O. G. Heck to remain as pastor for another year. Lancaster. While Martin Hetter, aged twenty two, of Lancaster, a Reading Rati, road brakeman, was shifting cars at Rein hold's he slipped, fell on the tracks and was killed.

Chester. The health authorities of this city have Bent an official notice to every manufacturing concern requiring them to insist on the compulsory vaccination ofi employes. Scranton. In a collision of coal trains ort the Honesdale branch of the Erie Railroad, a short distance from Rowlands sta i tion, Flagman Speers, of Deposit, N. was buried beneath the wreckage and in stantly killed.

Another trainman front Port Jervis was badly scalded. York. Congressman Robert J. Lewis has been notified by the Post Office Department that six more rural free deliver routes will be established in this county on February 2. Five of the routes will start from the local post office and ona from Etters, in the upper end of the county.

Lancaster. During the past year 1,321 marriage licenses were issued in this county. This number is only eighteen short the highest records. York. The December Receipts at thS local Internal Revenue Oflice established record for that month.

The amount waa $99,993.43, exceeding the receipts of the corresponding month of 1901 by $19,034.42. Scranton. Patrick McCafferty, of Arch bald, was smothered to death by culm at the Raymond Washery. Tamaqua. Rev.

W. F. Heldt, of Gtrard ville, has accepted a call to the pastorata of the Summit Hill Lutheran Church, Doylestown. John N. Williams, of Tlnleum township, has been appointed Mercantile Appraiser by the Bucks Count Commissioners.

York. An old chest containing odds and ends was bought at a publis sale by Horace Stein, of Freysville, for 70 cents. Mr. Stein found a secret drawer In the chest containing $18.50. Wilkes Barre.

The failures In business the past year in Wilkes Barre involved liabilities, as against $53,450 last year, while the assets were $609,500 and $17,0 respectively. Doylestown. While temporarily derang ed Nathan C. Carver, aged fifty seven years, committed suicide by hanging himself at the home of his brother in law, Theodore White, near Carversville. Wu Frozen to Death on ChrUtntaa Williamsport, Jan.

2. The body of Patrick Haburn, of Portland Mills, who had been missing stnee Christ mas, was found in the woods to day. He had been frozen to death. It is believed that he got lost in the forest. WEATHER FORECAST.

Washington, D. Jan. 2. Forecast for Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain and warmer to night and Saturday; variable windsk becoming fresh southeast..