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i i i CT u.eCT 1 1 aeTniage' no attempt 'at re 'IIigli grade confectionery. Hart e3l I OX DA THE PiTTSTOK CFiflCZETTB 1011 PAGE 3. MI'S BODY mmery IMPORTANT I 0 Changes of Advertisements must be handed in at the Gazette Office not later than 9 o'clock in the morning in order to insure Tfaiportant 3esplutioit You will mi doubt make good resolutions for the year of. I all. Why not include the resolution to save money is very importa nt.

Persistent saving wins. tin; habit today by opening an aew.iinit with the 'First National 3 Interest Pfid on Savings Deposits Coiiiiotuilel Semi annually $39,322.21 PAID in INTEREST Tcj our satisfied) savings ilc sitois is our record for the half of the year One Dollar Will aid yon in securing a part in our SKMI AX XUA I. distribution of interest money. Hotter start the account today and add a little every day. OF PITTSTON.

PA. United States Depositary. Surplus and Profits $400,00000. MINERS' SAVBNGS BANK, insertion the same day. AL GLEANINGS ITown Talk and hvenfs In and About Pitts ton City.

I.ehigh Valley Police Captain Sulli Ithae is critically ill ol 1 it is feared that he will apoplexy, an ot lee over. Rev. K. Jleliowell, a missionary stationed in ier.sia. he the speaKer at services to he held in the.

lecture room of the First Presbyterian llroad street tomorrow I Tuesday; evening' at An imitation is extended to all to attend. he series ol entertainments eon ted in the Knights of Father Mathew Society: halls. Inkermnn. Hoc i ifi COnXER MAIN AXI liROAU Your Exact Fit is There is quite as much Capital $250,000. EAST WILL SOON BE IN GR FIERCE BLIZZARD ishinKton, IX Jan.

2. A bliss za rd over the Atlantic states from Maine to Florida is due within the next 3'i hours, the Weather Bureau reports today. The Middle West is now in the grip of the storm and the mercury shows below in Montana. PEOPLE FLOCK 10 PAY TRIBUTE TO IMiwhieh were discontinued during Ad will be resumed on Wednesday I properly as there is in hanging a skirt or shaping a jacket. Just give us the privilege of demonstrating how well and comfort ably your foot can be clothed the next time you.

shoes. Womens from $1.50 to $4.00, will 1 every pair guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction; O. P. C. O.

Shoe Store MOWS IMORYiHI i J1 1 rr STREETS I'lTTSTOX, PA. and Perfect Mere. of a knack in fitting a foot Main Street 6 N. Main Pittston. A I.

EX AX DKU EE i I SOX Alexande Ferguson, a native and. former resident of this city, who was well known among the older people, met a violent accidental death last month in Texas, where he had lived for many years. The Texas Railway Journal (Fort Worth, Texas,) has the following complimentary notice: "one of the saddest things we have to chronicle is the death of a personal friend, especially when it occurs as diel the deatn ol Itni. Ferguson. In an accident, while working in the Cotton Belt yard on the North Side, he was run ver noni killed.

"While standing on the footboard of the engine, a bolt from the Marine Creek bridge struck the footboard, knocking him off so that he fell under the engine. Brother Ferguson leaves a wife and daughter, who reside at 2220 Biseomb street, this city, and to whom the Journal offers the sincerevt sympathy, in this hour of bereavement. Brother Ferguson was one of the ideal men among his assoc iates, and one who enjoyed the confident of all itiuens who knew h.m. Truly one of God's noblemen. The remains were prepared' for burial by the Ki.e th Worth Fndertaking Company and laid to rest under the auspi.

os of the Order of Railway Conductors, of whi' ii organisation he had been on honorc member for many yea is." Tcl's How to Make a Pint of Laxative Cough Syrup Very Cheaply at Home. i. The reason that all cough syrups are i 'vo, is that the ordinar Hons are very const' ifter a while the ingestion an i live i DISCOVERED The dead body of a female infant, jaged about one month, was found by William Cradle in JoneS1 Paru, at Duryea, this morning. An investiga tion is being made. While ilr.

Prattle was crossing the 'park on his way to his home, which lis near by, his attention was attraet I edto a peculiar' looking bundle lying near the patii. lie investigated ami upon unwinding the coarse cloth was horrified to discover the body of an infant child. lie reported his frightful discovery to Burgess Joseph Freeman and Chief of Police Uawrence Cosgrove, who made an investigation. physicians examined the body and expressed the opinion that the child, a female, was about, a month old, and had been lying exposed to tne climate for the last three weeks. Tne nody was somewhat decomposed.

Deputy Corner Bonn was notified and will conduct an inquest. An autopsy will be held in an effort to discover whether or not the child came to its death through natural causes. The body was taken in charge by Vn dertaker It will be impossible to determine until an autopsy is held, whether or not the; child met a natural death. There were no evident marks of violence. The place where the found is a small park in body was Duryea own ed by William Jones.

It is located on the hack road near the Iehigh Valley crossing. The bundle containing the corpse lay in a spot where it was not apt to attract attention and many people probably passed by within a short distance of it every day. DURYEA MINER KILLED ON THE LI John Surdock, a Poli.h mine worker: of Duryea, was instantiy killed at: 10:5 1 this morning about f.00 yards north of the Pittston station, on the W. railroad. His head was so that the brains oozed out rind his was badly his hones were broken and the flesh was bruise and torn.

'Passenger train IXo. 719, wes; hound, due at the "Pitts ton Junction station at l. being 10 minutes late, was rounding a. curve in fa .1 time. Sur.lock was walking down the eastj bound track, according to the train men, am.

stepped em the west bound track, in the way of the train. lie was some distance, and was by the time the engineer had stopped the train and the employes had gotten to the body. The remains were placed in the baggage car and taken to the station. r.rian Smith, coroner for his section, was called an.i, af ter investigating, gave permission that the bo.lv lie taken its c'large by an undertaker and buried. I'ndortakor Howe ll r.

moved the body to his mot in'. Surdock was ntitie.l by Fdwartl Shalley, of Cpper PUi.ston, who recognize. I him a.s having once worked with him as a lr.borer in I'aruum colliery. Surdock was a'so identified by a ear: loaiid in his pocket, with a rnefeage in Polisii, but with the ad in Knglisl "John Surdock, Box till. Duryea Fa." In one of his pockets was a pocket book ontii ining A2e.U.

Sui'i. ock is a betwei'n and 10 yens of age. ille is a married man with a family. DIED ON NEW YEAR'S With the incoming of the year. Bill, the spirit of William M.

Boliu, a patrolman of this city, passed out. At 2 o'clock Sunday morning the end came, after three months of suffering. In September last his health be gan to fail and on October 8 he was obliged to quit his duties as a patrolman, lie was never able to resume his beat. Slowly he sank, as complications developed from, stomach trouble. and dropsy at length set in.

but ho was hopeful until shortly before his death. About 20 minutes before' the end he asked to be allowed to sit up in a hair Alter a few moments there he requested to he placed back in bed that he might ille. William M. Bolin was the son of William and Nora He was born in this city US years ago and had always resided here. His father died when he was bill a lad, 2li years ago.

In his boyhood and y. ung manhood he excelled as a base ball player anil al various times for several years played on the faste, st amateur teams in this section. For severai he was employed in Ambrose Bang an's hotel, cottier North Main and Curtis street. Th. itter pan of June he was appointed a punrolman by Mayor W.

II. Gillespie, to succeed Thomas F. Keating, who resigned. Patrolman ltolin began his duties on the llrst week In lie was good officer, doing his duties quietl' and following instructions with In' ligeni'c. The friends that he ma held, lie was loyal to them a been dutiful to the mother and faithfully supported years.

Surviving Patrolin' mother, Mrs. Nora he lived nt sister. Alls, I2H North Tile lu inornin' o'elo It. IN uuRYEA PARK MMWM The lorraal ls Kthe V. siJ.

a c. Bjiollowins: 'ind the pnlii Hliiowever. to iiijj; made on will hi "Pen Ai Reduced Prices. $3.50 trimmed hats now $1.98. $5.00 trimmed hats now $2.98.

$4.00 fur liat.s now $1.98. felt hats all now styles all colors, regular price to $2.50. reduced to 49c and 9Sc. See Our Window Display. Waidmao 49 N.

MAIN STREET 'V 51 5Jt I ST X. lltiin over i mkoi Bell Phone, ir.l li. iammwimsimmtimais33 try? 7 Ail i 1 us hand greeting. liich for past patronage ami inn i out inue in tie In on all he g. hings xdiirscl I Willi a I hn he nming ('.

ha ppi ness, fly. Ami a 1 1 an I i I ovoll I n't I er Va 1 10 KtiolK St. With many thanks for your generous patronage, I extend to all best wishes for a Merry and joyous Christmas. Yours very truly, J. A.

LEWIS, Jeweler. 1 1 ShwQn frjL, EH Ktiiit re, cnliilirnw.nrii.. cinle. 'J'hcv da iust as much good spectacles and look better than spectacles or ordi nary eye I old the lenses iiniiiy in tjlat without pinching kj the lio c. Eg IS Stop in and tee.

is. 8 "We Would Ik; pleased to put pj 8 yuor old iense.s,into new "Shur in no.se piece. 1 gt. Tin; deep curve of the ToKIC Kj eliminates eye tirinjj re "flections from the haei: of the lens and a vide ansle of fa vision. They improve the looks pi its well as the vision.

HI We e'l iod ioir ouo nyc rind pii 13 can dnpli. ate any lens while yon wail. "With everv fair or la. we Ea sell, we give a very line nc Mlh fi gold moiineni in. This alone is a h1' olea.ial oveseril for Hi i tacl.

wearers. 1. 1 1', 1 A Tfemtr flew Vmv 1 mm I i iit your in i New Year's our thanks i hope that it we. We wish liia! con wish I low added, a nil trust yen will bi i y. hi hea It h.

a up pr. I go nr to In I end be y.in for colli' uMlil i i pa fei CYANIDE CAUSED DEATHS OF COUPLE ON EVE OF WEDDING Cumberland, Jan. 2. The police are today convinced that Grace Flosser and Chtirles lidwitrcl TwiRg, who were to hav ebeen married yesterday, hut were found dead together in the parlor of the young woman's home here on Saturday, were poisoned by cyanide, givcirin chewing gum. i Gum was found in Iwiggs mouth Sand the tongue of each showed traces hining been iiurned, while there was cyanide in both stomachs.

The suicide theory is now scouted, and murder is believed to have caused the deaths. The bride to be will be buried ddiiig gown. The body of taken to his home at Va. Already attention is being directed to a woman who was suspected of being jealous when she learned of the coming marriage. "It is no longer possible for us to say it was suicide." declared Coroner lieall.

after having conducted his investigation all night. "We found no vessel or package of any kind which might have contained poison around the parlor or on the bodies of cither. We no longer think we know that cyanide was the poison used. It is simply a ease of the mystery getting deeper." JUDGE BLAIR TO DISiSS GRAND JURY West t'niou. Ohio.

Jan. 2. Judge Blair, who brought about the indi. meut of more than men for vote selling, today refuses to dismiss the grand jury, fearing that he' may not be able to get another 'jury because of the jinmiicr of ineligibles. He is doubtful ol even Three 'oumy Keutiic .1 tldge getting a petit jury.

hundred residents of Adams lire said to have moved to fearing the bribery probe. Blair held tour: in the lobby of his hotel today and fifteen more pleaded guilty and ere is! ra hised. Hundreds of others are flocking to town. The arrest yesterday of six men irged with making threats against developed that an attempt had node to steal the records, which hav now been transferred bank vault HARMON WANTS LAWS PASSED AGAINST TRAFFIC IN BALLOTS Columbus, Jan. 2.

Governor Harmon, in his message to the first Democratic legislature in many years, asked that laws be made against vole buying lie also disclose in Adams county, asked for the passage of a law compelling the publication of campaign expenses as part of the remedy in prevent traffic in votes. NVESTIGATiNG ALLEGED JAP PLOT IN PHILIPPINES Manila, Jan. 2. The ordnance department has a line on the ease" of mi tie ma ing paraphernalia, supposedly for planting in the harbor. The report that explosives were discovered In the house of Japanese cv The espionage been redouble i is of nil the firmed today.

Japanese, has AVIATORS ARE INTIMIDATED DY DOUBLE AIR TRAGEDY os Angeles, Jan. 2. The aviation meet concludes today, a day earlier than had been planned. The aviators are without nerve, following the deaths of lloxsey and Moisant, and refuse to fly. The llo.vsey body was taken to I he morgue nt 1 The funeral will be held tomorrow.

A. DIX Nffl YORK STATE Albany. X. 2. John A.

DIx, llrst go oritur of New Y. rk In HI years, was inuiigurated' al noon toeliiy. He kisse the tllext. i it your heart he I'' teeiiiii lu.picr of John. In taki oath, on his reitt.

st. o. I he new goeernnr. b. Ml the eni'i'ol were those id the im.lisi.

FIVE flWF BF" I 1 13 North ALLEGED INTOXICATED MAN SHOT SMALL BOY Stanley Brown, a 'seven year old boy, was shot in the right leg yester day afternoon by Polish man, aid to have heen intoxicated. Tne affair happened about 4 o'clock at the min ing settlement known as Westminster, i The little lirown lad, who is of Pol ish parentage, a bright little chap, told the story at Dr. McGinty's priv i ate hospital. He, with two other boys of about his age. was playing near aj saloon, he says, when several Polish men came along, cine of them pulled a revoiver and.

shot twice, the first bullet hitting no one but the pecoiid i entering his leg just below the It nee. The men ran when he fell dow cry ing out with the pain. Dr. MeGinty was notified and hoy was removed to his hosoilal. and Dr 11.

I removed buliiT, which is of large c.libre, the He th last rest with imat war evening, and the ran all patient is ing easily, apparently cunt, nt hoc.ks and toys. Joseph Brown, the father, in! ed that he intended to have a rant sworn out for the man who did the shooting, but up to press time it could not be l. arncd that he had: done so. MISS .11 I.I A A. EASTIVI iX lF.

l. Weliesley, Jan. 2. Aliss Julia; A. Knstman, founder and for eighteen! years principal of Dana Hall School, tor Girls, a fitting school for Welles ley college, died at her home here at the age of 74 years.

Miss F.astn besides being noted as an instructor! was tin author of several chil'lren's! books. 1 Ol EEX MARIA PTA IS II, Naples. Italy. Jan. 2.

The King has sent his personal medical adviser to Naples to visit the Dowager Qui en Maria Fin, who has been suffering front a nervous omlition. due to there cent events in Portugal. GEOKGE II! I.I. )EAI. Paris, Jan.

2. Dr. George well known oculist, formerly Yoik, died hire lb had time. HAEIfK SOX IX Wilmington. 1 New 'ast le, 1 miugton.

a mobile in1 G. Cox Hold I 'o I ftr th fie i jevenins of this week. The reading' I room will he open, there will lie card I frames, and music will he furnished tor dancing'. A old coin was presented to each i member (if, the clerical force of the Miners" Savings Hank as a New Years pil't. A New Y0ar's dance will be eon ted this evening' in the State Ar ni.ry cents The admission orchestra will will be provide milKlr.

Beginning prieo of the 1 3 per year, cents per we Rev. Or. today. Jan. '1, Fill, the Fittst.m Gazette will be 25 cents per month, six ok, one cent per copy.

I. M. Colville and dauKh of Dinglmmitnu, X. with Mrs. Bankeiv Side.

r. until. pen! today lite West Mrs. James Clark and children returned this afternoon to their home in Towanda, after a few days' visit to relatives and friends here. The cantata wiven Christmas by the WeFh 'Haptist selioal will he repeated tomorrow evening in the uirch at A.hnission cents.

Co. will drill t.unorro'w (Tuesday) evening P.esinnlng' next week the! company will have two drills a week to prepare for the competitive drill on Wednesday, The officers recently elected by Division No. A. (i. were installed ast County President iViyle and the decree team of Division No.

32, of Wilkesbarre. i onducted the c.o'eire my. A snui'Ker and an informal sessi. of cnlertaintneiit fol lowe 'open house iroKratn siier.sed with today at improvements ndition as to iorbid th lit? i the ustom. Meml i treuerai are inspect the prol' the btiildhis.

The rooms and the officers of the iatioti will be glad come. re Next i riday the Compai 11 team will play Taylor any basket in the State it will idayi Taylor will which is now Armory, and next we. rre team, ar line up. together, materially sir site basket hi Wilkesbarre nglhened. I team, com 'la rk, bin hlan and 'oinpauy team, tiii: I las city, iSulf.er, centre of the Barber.

I this will thi Taylor of the morning for ening play 1 linil and 1 r(. ea in ami Jesse Meyers, is, last e'eninfr ciiiug pra League, of hr.rch. elcete of Parsonage street, at the regiil ir Sun er service ol lie r.p .1,., i first ice president nat organization, succeeding iiai house, who recently resign he office. I arrests were made between Saturday no. ill and Sunday noon, but in ac cord with the orders that lenience should cnci'c isi'il during the hnli day season only one of the prisoner; was pun.

she el beyond ernl moment lor several hours in jail. Sin Hal ser ices, in observance of the Week of 1 Tayer, cry evening this week evening in the Firs ill be held ev except Pri'sbyteri'cn First Methodist Fpiseop.it and Methodist Prut' stanl churches. Servl es will be held in the First Baptist chinch every evening of the week, except Monday and Saturdiy evenings. M' Mary 1.. Ah Dona I I fell upon an s'lie v.aik ye.

lay afternoon about I o'clock wh.ia returning to her home, s. I i re. t. Brow mown, and frac her collar bone. Th.

Fugle Hose Co. will have its unmtnl election of others this cve ning at o'clock. C. nte ts are being made for the majority of the ollices. The oih.

c. nie is eclipi e.l by that for. inn n. r.id and ani! elibi are the candidates. Knch is popular wild tne niomoers tne coiu lauy a ii I eapal'le ol lining lie posi tion.

As tile lance oins about e.pial the elietion will he a close one. The Itinera I of Patrick Brady, who his home in morning at if his sister. died Thursday nfternon at Wilkesbarre, was held tin; o'clock from the home Airs. K. nun Walsh, of DC! Carroll street.

A miss of reiiuiein was celebrated in St. John's B. church at IBIIO by I lev. P. I'.

Alc llugh. The pall bearers were: P.i I rick Alcl lotiald, Phillips lliggins, Moughan, Wliliam ollalro, Jfilin Ford and Thonvis McDonald. Ailss Ciimniing iickno wh clges, on behalf of Pllt. liin hospital and through District Supirinteiiibiil Bead, the donation of from the employes of No. colliery, Piunsx! vima I'oul Co.

T.I1K in, WEATllEK. and collier. Ki TEMlMOlfATURtf TODAY. Shown by recording ttiermon.eter on Gazette building up to Mix. 12 noon; a Water Street Drug Store i ton.

of tin HUYLERS i i I New urleans, Jan. 2. The admirers of John Li. Moisant. the aviator who was killed on Saturday, flu.

Led the receiving vaults, following the service this morning at the undertaking establishment. The funerai was private. Hew John Malone. of St. John's Catholic Church, offi.ated.

There were floral pieces from the Aero Club of Am erica. 1'Jng laiici. ranee. ami ui'i The hotly will be sent to Chicago fo burial. EX JUDGE.

MAKES ATTEMPT ON 01 LIFE WiTH RAZOR Greensboro, X. Jan. 2. F.x Ji nitre 1J. ol' the Ch.ie liw and IniTan courts Oklahoma, in a critical conditi'on today, following ills attempt, iit suicide v.

ith a razor, ie was an inmate of the KecKy Institute and had become Cvs iion.leiit. lie was a. prominent political! and c.v cha irinan of the Kopuhli nill coaimittce. JUDGE BLAIR, OHIO'S BALLOT I FRAUD PROBER, VOICES VIEWS Continued from page one. dor present, statutes, about four years w.c) measures to the Ohio legisla It was prepared ion into that I One was along the lines of the (corrupt practices act, now with the objectionable featur Garfield repealed, of that statute eliminated.

The other bill provided for the same penalty in the case of a man who solicits a bride as the man who offered or accepted one. The two bills were introduced into the state legislature but neither measures ever reached a vote. The passage of these Would have ai(r in ol gr the eatly hastened and: work of purifying the: nui fl and similar measure vould have. I am eon ther states nt, tile sane tfeet there. PORTUGUESE OFFICIALS Badijcs.

Spdin. Jan. 2. The provisional rule of Portugal, particularly Foreign Minister Ala. ha.

la. are sal.1 to be in clanger of a savsma ion by radicals ol party. nt lira and his cab inct have a firm hold oi the government, hot. arc onstantlv in danger and have received many anonymous threat.) of LAST SN OF YEAR 00 IMMIPDAMTO tVIIVitUiXMIl 1 0 Ian. The last shi of th year to aril Jill ra mine was Cnrm from Finnic, Gibraltar, which dropped Napl.

h.r 'unard and anchor at 1 I (Ml on iiturday She was out of ijuarantine at a. in. yesterday, and although night In the more had arrived at the bar than eight hours previously the 'arma nia Cunardc reached her sup tirst, having been Bikem up the the North river by the drifl The Cielric landed her fifty nine steerage passengers yesle rday, but the Carmiinia's l.atnl immigrants will have to wait until tomorrow before they go to Kills Island. We wash everything Clarke's Laundry, but the baby. lirfl.l Tub iinei nwn nnti1 If You Have A Cough Imht iisthm: id of a 1 1 'tie "Hll a hacking nigh, or any cur.

il wlih nigh. dh. ii Pineatol 1 1 give's Uef hi ii any .1 her out. harmless, i I'eliel cure It is pleas remedy Price 50 cents Kane's Pharma; 120 SfMltll M.llll MKTl. tl M1V lull.