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THE DAILY NOTES ELEVENTH YEAR---NO. 3102 CANONSBURG, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1904 PRICE ONE CENT PREPARING TO TAKE A HAND First Move is Now, Being Made to Take Part in the War Against Russia 72,000 MEN ARE TO BE EQUIPPED Pekin, China, April may be regard c. as the first definite move on the part of the Chinese governmeat to prepare to take part in the war between Russia and Japan was taken when an imperial order was issued to the viceroys to equip and prepare for active service at once 72,000 troops. This, in addition CO the men already in the field, will give China an army of not far from 200,000 men, armed with with modern rifles and equipped modern munitions and in the main drilled in accord with modern military methods and officered by fairly competent men. The work of making an army, which has been in the hands of the Japanese, has been done very quietly but much more effectively than the Europeans or Americans have any idea of.

China has a potential strength of fully 1,000,000 men wha are fighters, and, in the opinion of foreign experts, with proper drill and under capable officers, these men will make good soldiers. St. Petersburg, April cf decisive action on both land and sea is momentarily expected here and the people are fearful that the story will again be one of Japanese success. The Japanese fleet is evidently about to begin operations against Vladivostok, and another attack on Port Arthur both by land and sea is also feared. An official message from Viceroy Alexieff states that Japanese ships have been sighted six miles off Port Arthur and that 10 Japanese cruisers and six torpedo boats were seen in Ussuri bay, adjacent to Vladivostok.

The general impression here is that the Japanese will make a desperate attempt to avenge the work of the Vladivostok squadron which sank A Japanese collier with 73 men on board on Monday. There are also persistent rumors of fighting on the Yalu, but it is stated that no decisive engagement has yet taken place and that the fighting has been limited to affairs of outposts. London, Aprol correspondent of the Daily Mail at Kobe, Japan, says the captain of the Japanese schooner Chihaya, which has arrived at Gensan, announced that he had rescued a boatload of 45 soldiers and nine members of the crew of the Japanese transport Kinshiu Maru, which was torpedoed and sunk by the Russians at midnight of Monday last. M'CLANE HEARING ENDED Hitch Caused By Misunderstanding About a Switch---News From County Court House The hearing in the Washing ton Canonsburg Railway com pany case was not completed yesterday afternoon, as there was a large number of witnesses to be heard. It was not until noon today that the hearing was completed.

No day was set by the court for argument, and it is understcod that a compromise is being considered. This is thought by many to be the best way to settle this litigation. All the witnesses for the McClane heirs testified that they were not opposed to the railway company's lines across the farm, nor did they wish them removed; they desired, though, the right to lay a switch across the railway tracks from the farm. The railway company testified that it was willing to allow this switch. The hitch was in the fact that the McClane heirs wanted "switch privileges" and the railway company contended that this was indefinite.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Houston Cal her Harriett Canonsbarg Charlie Manes. Oanonsbarg Mahala Rodgers. Canonsburg Deeds Recorded April 15, 1904-A. H. Montgomery, et ux, of East Finley township, to T.

B. Cook of Canonsburg, tract of coal in East Finley township, containing 174 acres; consideration $5220. The McKees Rocks Gazette advocates taking the dirt that will be pavated in removing the hump in Pittsburg and using it to fill up the ow part of McKees Rocks. Save Notes coupons. PREPARING TO OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY Paxton Post Appoints a Committee to Arrange For Honoring Dead Soldiers on May 30 Paxton post, No.

126, G. A. held a meeting Friday evening and made preliminary preparations for the observance of Memorial day. A committee consisting of John W. Grubbs, John C.

Phillips, Robert Cain, David Orr and James F. Speer was appointed to make arrangements for the observance of the day. Another meeting of the post will be held on Friday evening, May 6, at which the committee will make a report CHURCH ANNOUNGEMENTS Hours at Which Services Will Be Held at the Different Places of Worship Tomorrow First Presbyterian Church, Robert Howard Taylor, pastor- -At 9.45 a. Sabbath school. At 11 a.

m. preaching by Rev. C. W. Miller of the M.

E. Church. At 7.30 p. m. preahcing by the pastor.

At 6.30 p. m. young people's meeting. A cordial invitation to all services, especially to young men. First M.

E. church, O. W. Miller pastor-Preaching at 11 a. m.

by the Rev Robert Howard Taylor and at 7.30 p.m. by the pastor. Sabbath' school at 9.45 a. m. Epworth League at 6.45 p.

m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Christian Church. Meets in old Oddfellows Hall, Ritchie Diamond. Rev.

R. G. White of Washington will preach at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p.

m. Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Usual prayer meeting at 7.30 Wednesday evening. The publis are invited to these services.

Central Presbyterian charch, Rev. J. M. Work, pastor. Sabbath school at 10 a.m.

At 11 a. m. and 7 p. preaching by pastor. Junior C.

E. at 4 p. m. Senior C. E.

at 6. p. Greenside Avenue United Presbyterian Church, Charles D. Fulton, pastor-Preaching at 11, a. m.

and at p. m. by the pastor. Sabbath school at 10 a. m.

Junior Y. P. C. U. at 4 p.

m. Senior Y. P. C. U.

at 6.30 p. m. Strangers are cordially invited to any or all of these services. Chartiers United Presbyterian Church, Rev. W.

B. Smiley, D. pastor-Sabbath school, 10.30 a. m. Preaching services, 11.30 a.

m. and THE LATEST THING OUT Old Sol Deigns to Show His Face For a Few Moments Today and Then Withdraws Old Sol, groundhog-like, came out from his hiding place today, but speedily withdrew himself, although peeping ont once or twice later. Sunshine has been a rare article in this latitude for a solid week past, the king of day having refused to show himself, even for a moment, from Sabbath last anti' today. Yesterday's weather forecast was for fair today, and the weather man appears to have been onto his job, for he hit it to a T. The forecast for tomorrow is for showers.

VENICE, Venice, April W. Harper spent Sabbath with his family here. Mrs. Margaret Seibert was a MoDonald visitor Tuesday. Ira Lawrence of Houston spent this week with Lawrence Harper.

Mrs. Arthur Gray and son are visitthe former's sister, Mrs. Samuel Herriott. Miss Hazel Vorheis has returned to Houston after spending two weeks at her home here. THE DEATH RECORD THOMAS M'OLELLAN.

Thomas McClellan, colored, late of Canonsburg, died at the home of Anna Johnson, in West Middletown, on Thursday, April 28, aged 67 years. Mr. McClellan is survived by one son, Carl McClellan, of Canonsburg, and one daughter, Mary McOlellan, of Akron, 0. Mr. McClellan was 8 soldier in the war for the Union, he having served as a member of Company Forty fifth regiment.

The funeral took place at West Middletown at 1 o'clock this Saturday afternoon. BASEBALL SEASON OPENS IN ONE WEEK First Game Will Be Played With Brown A. Band Will Turn Ont The baseball season in Canonsburg will open with a flourish on next Saturday, Mav 5, when the newly organized team of this place will meet the Brown A. O. of Pittsburg on the South Oanonsburg grounds.

The newly organized Canonsburg cornet band will turn out, and after parading along Pike street will move to the ball grounds, where the organization will render musical program. A TEMPERANCE ARGUMENT Editor Phillips Points to the Chartiers Valley as Proof of Prosperity Without Saloons We saw the other day the greatest argument against the saloon as means of bringing business, that we have ever seen. The argument was ten miles long, and is the richest and most flourishing piece of country we have seen in this or any other country. There are about 40,000 people in the ten-mile valley we refer to. Trolley cards, always crowded with passengers, run the length of the valley, and the valley is filled with coal mines and mills, old ones an new ones, that fill the streets and roads with armies of men when they let out.

We are coming to the point now when we say that a saloon, where liquor is sold by the drink, has not been known in this valley in the memory of the present generation of middle-aged people. We refer of course to the Chartiers valley from Canonsburg to Washington. Facts are greater than any theories, and there is the most unanswerable argument ever produced against the open drink -drink saloon business promoter. The people there, too, show the effect of their public habits. The army of the bleareyed that brace up the brass-sign corners in so many, many places, is notably absent from the streets over there.

Even the very Croatians and Slavs look cleaner and more businesslike than around Pittsburg or Carnegie. The boys who grow up in that valley do not have the everlasting swinging green-shutter doors and fragments of beer-stenched conversation floating out, always before them as a legitimae proposition. It matters PAVED FROM END TO END Pike Street is Now a Bricked Thoroughfare For More Than a Mile Pike street is now paved from borough line to borough line, a distance of more than a mile. As stated in an item in these colamns Friday, the work was completed that afternoon, and the street is open for travel. The paving of the section east of the railroad tracks eliminates one of the worst pieces of street in the borough.

In recent winters East Pike street, a8 well as some other streets in the town, has been at times in a dangerous condition. The Hallam Construction company has now completed the contracts for paving awarded them last year by the town council. If weather conditions are favorable the work of grading East College street, preparatory to bricking it, will be commenced Monday by Peabody, Filbert Company of Pittsburg. The magnifioent special scenery for has arrived and been stored in the opera house. The costumes provided are very rich and beautifal.

The flowing. oriental robes are aniversally becoming to their fair wearers. The special sittings for the production, ten in number, were painted by Moses Hamilton, leading artists of New York, now located at the Broadway theater. The opera will be presented at the Lyric theater, Washington, on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 2, 4 and 5, and will be given in its entirety each evening. Mrs.

Joseph Richards of Ridge avenue, whose husband and two sons work in the East Canonsburg tin mill, shoys us a sheet of tin manufactured at the new mill which is certainly of fine appearance aud quality. GRAND JURY TO MEET ON MONDAY Will Be Followed By Three Weeks 'of Criminal and Four Weeks of Civil Court FOUR HOMICIDE CASES ARE LISTED The members of John R. Paxton camp, Sons of Veterans, and all old soldiers in the community will be invited to take part in the services, as well as to attend the annual memorial sermon. This sermon will be preached in one of the churches, probably the First Methodist Episcopal, on Sabbath evening, May 29. It is probable that Rev.

C. W. Miller will be invited to preach the sermon. Music will be a feature. 33 DEATHS DURING APRIL Coroner's Report For Month Today Shows Many Fatalities in the County Coroner W.

H. Sipe reports that during April there were 32 violent or sudden deaths in Washington county. The causes of death were: Killed on V. C. railroad, on C.

St. L. railway, on B. 0., drowned, killed in mines, electrocuted, burned, congestion of lungs, heart disease, apoplex died without doctor's attendance, spasm, homicide, fall, strangulation, killed on Pittsburg Charleroi street railway, 1. 7 p.

m. by the pastor Young men's Bible study at 3. p. m. Senior Christian Union at 6 p.

m. A special invitation is given to strangers to attend all services. Payne A. M. E.

church, Rev. J. W. Jeffries, pastor. -Preaching at 10.45 a.

m. and 7.30 1 p. m. 2 p. m.

Sabbath school. Morning subject, "Devine evening subject, "Christian Candor." Monthly Communion tomorrow. St. Thomas Episcopal church, C. M.

Young, -Sunday school, 2 p. evening prayer and sermon, 3 p. m. A supply of the postage stamps issued in connection with the Louisiana Purchase exposition have been received at the Canonsburg postoffice and will be on sale beginning on Monday morning. The stamps are of different denominations and of tiful design and finish.

The two-cent contains a picture of McKinley, the one-cent of Jefferson, while the 10- cent contains a map of the world's fair grounds at St. Louis. BETTER WALK IS NEEDED Citizens Endorse Statements Made About Condition of Sidewalk on Lower Central Avenue A South Canonsburg resident says he endorses the views of James F. Speer, as printed in Thurday's Notes, concerniug the condition of the sidewalks on lower Central avenue. He says the merchants of the old borough should insist that decent walks be put down on that street.

This, he argues, the merchants should urge council to do for the trade the merchants receive from the residents of South Canonsburg. The walks on this street, as well as on Jefferson aevnue, are such that ladies from the south side cannot come over into town evenings to attend church or entertainments during wet seasons, like the present. It is said that some of the property owners on lower Central avenue are willing to lay sidewalks if ordered by council to do so. The street, it is asserted, should be widened, and although the matter has been frequently discussed, council has never taken the matter up. Some of the sidewalks on lower Central avenue are in bad condition, but there is' a prospect that these will be remedied soon.

Died From Effects of Wrestling At noon on Saturday John Oross, of Charleroi, a single man of 21 years, died, it is believed, from injuries received while wrestling with another young man on Saturday night last. Dr. Woods and another physician were called and ministered to him, but their efforts were unavailing. Coroner Sipe has been notified and will conduct an investigation on Tuesday next. O.

E. Gumper, a machinest in the Fort Pitt Bridge Works, is off duty on account of an injured foot. The extremely wet weather of the past week has interfered with the practice work of the local team, but the boys wlil be ready, ing, to meet their opponents and notwithstandgive a good account of themselves. With the fair weather next week the Canonsburg players will get down to hard practice work. The game promises to be full of interest, and as it is the first of the season the attandance is expected to be large.

TO GIVE MINSTREL SHOW Newly Organized Band Preparing For a Great Entertainment on Evenings of May 20 and 21 The Canonsburg Cornet band last night gave its first rehearsal for the minstrel show to be given in the opera house on May 20 and 21. Not all the parts have yet been assigned. The tambourines will include John Meisser, G. Roberts, C. D.

Brisbin; J. H. Pettit, George Lambert and Edward Coleman. The program will be an interesting one. There will be quartet, and the performance will include many specialties.

The entertainment will be for the benefit of the band, and the affair promises to be one of the most interesting home-talent shows given here for some time. not that at midnight in the back ravines kegs of beer may be consumed in the midst of riotous orgies. This is not what attracts the young to beer drinking. The young man knows that more than that goes on in the back alleys and ravines, and cares not at all for it--he knows it is outlawed, dishonored, forbidden, and all that is needed to stop it is for it to come within the sometimes slow, but sure, arm of the law. But when you take these things and set them on the best corners of the town, and hang the American flag over them and show the young man that that is what we fight for in war-that will produce anarchy in any well organized young mind, and effect a detachment of the idea of law from that of morality which will in good time bring forth its proper fruit in this America.Oakdale Times.

PLANT SOLD AT BARGAIN Clairton Steel Plant Cost the United States Steel Corporation Four. teen Million Dollars New York, April Gary of the United States Steel corporation makes formal announcement of the purchase from the Crucible Steel company of the Clairton Steel company properties. The properties will be paid for by the guarantee of the United States Steel corporation of securities heretofore issued by the Clairton n. company, aggregating less than $13,000,000 and the delivery to the vendors 10 United States corporation 60-year 5 per cent sinking fund gold bonds of the par value of $1,000,000. The properties are acquired free and clear of all floating liability or indebtedness.

A contract has been made with the Crucible Steel company whereby the latter will receive and take from sub. sidiary corporations of the United States Steel corporation for a term of 10 years about 120,000 tons of steel per annum and about 80,000 tons of pig iron per annum on a sliding scale of prices. The property has been se. cured at a price materially less than its cost. A statement given out by officials of the Crucible Steel company recites the facts of the signing of the contract and adds: "The effect of the contract is to relieve the Crucible Steel company from meeting the rapidly maturing obligations of the Clairton Steel company.

which have for the months been absorbing the earnings of the company to the detriment of its f- nancial credit and the injury of its stockholders, and while making the contract the Crucible Steel company has made a considerable sacrifice, the contract for the supply of its raw material places it in as good a position in that regard as it was with the Clairton plant and at the same time it is relieved from the heavy tiens of that company." Save Notes coupons. The grand jury for the May term of court will convene at Washington on Monday. On the following Monday criminal court will open and continue for three weeks, and this will be followed by four weeks of common pleas court. From 175 to 200 cases will come before the grand jury, the list not yet being entirely made up. There are four homicide cases listed for the May term.

Three of these cases have already been before the grand jury. James Callihan of West Washington, charged with killing Moss Bay recently, will come before the grand inquest next week. There is a sufficient number of minor cases--from violating the liquor laws to false pretense -to keep the grand jury busy for a week at least. Milovar Pattrovick has been before the grand jury and a true bill found. He will be tried during the week of May 16.

For that week 20 additional jurymen have been drawn. Of the 24 grand jurors summoned to appear at Washington on Monday next, seven are from Canonsburg and nearby boroughs and townships. They, are: George B. Hiles, D. A.

Scroggs, Canonsburg; Samuel Neill, South Canonsburg; W. W. Donaldson, Houston; R. D. Hamilton, Chartiers; Samuel McPherson, Cecil, and J.

W. Simpson, Peters. COL. MORGAN OF MORGANZA. Paper on Pioneer Will Be Read Before Historical Society.

A meeting of the Washington County Historical Society will be held at Washington next Monday night, when arrangements will be made for a public meeting about the middle of May, when the pictures of Lincoln and Grant, gifts of Francis L. Robbins of the Pittsburg Coal company, will be presented. A paper on the life and times of Col. Morgan of Morganza will be read by Miss Julia Morgan Harding of Pittsburg, a descendant. Today the sun is shining occasionally.

It is a glad sight, as it has not shone since last Sabbath, and the week has been one af the wettest, darkest and gloomiest this region has seen for a long time. NEW Y. M. C. A.

BUILDING Structure at Washington Will Be 0c- cupied Next Week -Program of Exercises The splendid building which has been in the course of erection for 8 year past by the Young Men's Chris. tian association of Washington has been completed and the program for the opening has been issued and is as follows: At 8.15 a. m. Sabbath, May 1st, praise and consecration meeting will be held in charge of H. A.

Baldin, general secretary of the East Liberty branch of the Pittsburg association. At 2 p. m. there will Le 8 boys' meeting in charge of C. B.

Horton of the Pitteburg Newsboys' Home. At 8.15 p. m. in the new gymnasium will be held a man's meeting, to be addressed by Rev. Dr.

S. Edward Young of Pittsburg. Next Tuesday night the opening reception be will held, when the address will be made by W. K. Jennings, chairman of the Pittsburg district of the Young Men's Christian association.

Friday afternoon and night Harry Caines Hawn of New York, president of the National association of Elocutionists, will give recitals under the auspices of the Woman's Auxiliary. Saturday afternoon there will be reception for boys and Saturday night a reception for men. The officers of the association are as follows: President, Minor H. Day; vice president, W. A.

H. Mollvaine; treasurer, J. Howard Blair; recording secretary, R. Welch Knox. James Vinson is the general secretary of the association and John B.

Craighead is. the physical director. The new building has stores the first floor, is fitted up for the tion on the second floor, and has sleeping rooms on the third and fourth floors. At the rear is the gym, and beneath it is 8 swimming pool and the baths, lockers, etc. There is also a finely built bowling alley of the regulation size..