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Today's Weather FAIR ESTABLISHED APRIL 14, 1873 )ONA, PA, WEDNSEDAY, DECEMBER 1912. SIXTEEN PAGES ONE CENT. FIRE HIPPED III HUSBAND AND WIFE KI'CARTY LEWISTOWN MAN KILLED Bt SHIFTER Isaac Dreese. Watchlag One Train, Failed to Sea aa Approaching Enfinv IDAHO'S SHE COURT WON THE BECOME RECONCILED Oa Monday the former Testified Against the Utter, bat Yes. terda? They "Mad Up" Lockport, N.

December 10. A reconciliation between Mary M. Hanner and her husband, George Hanner, whom she is accused of shooting with Intent to kill, took place here today in the court whera the woman is on trial. Hanner was shot in the back of. the head and Mrs.

Hanner was wounded in the knee while they were on an automobile trip last October. Hanner testified against his wife yesterday. Today when Mrs. Hanner, pale and weak, came itno court on the arm of a deputy, Hanner rushed over to her and, throwing his arms about her, he- began kissing her Mrs. Hanner broke into tears and Hanner kissed her again and led her to a chair.

Harry Hanner, George's brother, today identified a revolver found near the scene of the shooting as one he gave his brother: Tomorrow! experts will be called to sustain the prosecution's theory that from the direction taken by the bullets, they must have been fired from the rear seat of the automobile, where Mrs. Hanner was sitting. FIFTEEN TEAMS STILL Oil TRACK The Leaders In Bicycle Race Hare Passed tha 1,000 Mite Mark New York, Dec. 10. With all fifteen teams still intact and going strong, the six day bicycle riders at' Madi son bquare liarden were on even terms at midnight tonight after 48 hours grind.

The evening had seen numb of remarkable sprints. At 10 o'clock the riders were 19 miles and 2 laps ahead of the record but a slowup left them 16 miles and 6 laps ahead of the record at 11 o'clock. In the mid-evening sprints the Pyer Butt-Fogler and Kramer-Mo- ran teams ail ngured. A later one started by the Suter brothers of the Swiss team was exceptional. It was kept up for ten minutes, with nrac- tically every rider gaining the lead and losing it to another.

It looked as though; the bunch would be broken up but the puncture or a tire on Moran-'s- wheel forced- an -end to the flight. The twelve o'clock midnight score was 998 miles 9 laps. The teams were bunched with the Suter brothers leading. The best previous record for this time, the forty-eight hour, was 979 mllas 9 laps, made by Van-Houwert and Lapize last year. At 12: 03 o'clock the riders passed the 1,000 mile mark.

FRANK HOLLOVAY AND SOME PALS iroDesed Rescuing a Prisoner from Government Officer, but Scheme Failed Memphis, December 10. That Frank Holloway, Dans roDDer auu escaDed convict, was in Memphis with several of his followers to in terceDt deputy United States mar shals en route from Savannah, to Omaha, with Deggs Nolen, accused of misuse of the mails, and free Nolen, developed tonight in con nection with the raiding of a cottage on the outskirts of Mempnis eany today, the capture of Holloway and several of his followers and the kill ing of another, '-Kinney" Bergen, ex- convict. Holjoway, according to Chief of Detectives James Roper, has admitted that such was his plan, frustrated because of the circuitous route taken by the officers having Nolen in custody. As a sequel Detective Ernest Nolen, of the local force, is under suspension because of failure to make known his alleged knowledge of the presence of Holloway in this city. Deggs Nolen is a brother of the detective; Holloway is a cousin.

"Jack" Mundy, said to be a member of the gang but who was not in the house at the time of the raid is being searched for tonight. Holloway, Brantley, Mitchell, John McCoy, alias "Tex" Wallace, and Mrs. John McCoy, were arrested when a squad of police and detectives swooped down on the McCoy residence this morning. 0 MASTER CREASY Submits tils Annual Re port to the Patrons of Husbandry TELLS OF LEGISLATION Says What tha Orangera Want and Also Paints Out tha Alleged Daftcta HIS STAND US TO LICENSE Clearfield, December 10. The fortieth annual session of the Pennsylvania State Grange opened here today William T.

Creasy, tbe state master, submitted his report for the year. Mr. Creasy reviewed the work of tbe farmers' organization, attacked alleged defects in state goverhmrot and then plunged into the matter of legislation from the viewpoint of the state grange. He said in part: "At the bottom of the whole of the subject of agriculture, lies, great misrepresentation that, the prosperity lies in improved methods. The facts are that adverse legislation had made the farmer the hewer of wood and the drawer of water for his fellow man.

Thc continued inde pendence and prosperity of the farmer- depends not so much upon scientific and improved methods, but upon the destruction of adverse legislation and the accomplishment of constructive legislation that will enable him to bold and enjoy the increment of. his labor and thrift. "Special privilege, watered stocks, taxation, direct and indirect, all need thought and action in any construc tive program of legislation' to better conditions. On the currency question, the grange is decidedly opposed for the government' to surrender iti right to others to issue the money Sentry To our national policy, among other things, we demand the perfecting of the parcel 4a by the tm-act-meiit of postal" express legislation, as in- the Lowis, ftoeke and Gardner' bills. "We demand' that American goods be sold cheap at home as abroad.

and therefore that 'the tariff on all other-articles controlled 'by monopo lies be-removed. "We "are opposed to the Aldrich central bank scheme, or any other plan that look toward the taking of the control of our monetary system from the federal government. "the grange secured the passage of the denatured alcohol law, in the belief that the waste and unsalable products of the farmer would be ufced for the manufacture of alcohol for industrial purposes. We, therefore, insist that such steps be taken as will make the general, manufacture of denatured alcohol possible." Mr. Creasy hopes for many improvement lawts from the next legislature.

"The first real reform to inaugurated at Harrisburg" he continued "1b a change of the rules of the house and senate, doing aiway with the one man power, and lessen the work of the "This is a basis reform movement and lies at the foundation of every reform in Harrisburg." Mr. Creasy also took up the matter of equalization of taxes; initiative, referendum and recall of the "honest" sort; advocated an increase in the appropriation to State College "that it may conducted in a manner becoming favors the great state of Pennsylvania" the erection of a building to be used as a model for buildings in our country communities for organization, educational and general' community gatherings; op poses any law permitting the manu facture of oleomargine of any shade of yellow; favors a radical change in the liquor laws, an anti-treating law, granting of licenses to hotelkeepera alone, placing of clubs under tha same laiws as hotels and the prohi bition of peddling of liquors. In the matter of road improve ments, Mr. Creasy holds that since all use the roads all should contribute to their building and mainten ance. During the past year, forty-eight new granges have ibeen organized in Pennsylvania, the master states Whether there was any loss of life is undetermined.

The hotel management insists that all of its guests were notified in time to get out, while tbe police are of the opinion that there might have been persons left in tbe rooms. This latter opinion. Is based on the rapidity with which the flames spread. The loss Is estimated by the management of the Gibson house at that orf Rendigs-Lothman, Douglas Shoe company, Missouri-Pacific offices. and the Union Trust building, $200,000.

The theory of suffocation in tho Union Trust; building is upheld to a degree by i tbe fact that eleven persons were taken out of the build ing below the fourteenth floor, all of whom were more or less over- come by smoke. Several who effected the rescue were taken out In a serious 'condition and rushed to hospitals. STATE a FIRE SCORCHED Business District Threatened by Livery Stable Blaze WATER PRESSURE LOW Kyper and Kenoto Stables Oe strojed and Other Buildings Damaged FIREMEN 010 HEROIC WORK Bellwood was the scene of a $L600 blaze Tuesday morning, right in the heart of the town. Only the fact that the wind was not strong prevented a wholesale conflagration, as the water pressure, usually Istrong was unaccountaibly low. The progress of the blaze was watched by one of the largest crowds in the history of fires in the town.

The fire broke out at 10:30 o'clock in a livery stable owned by tbe Ky-Per estate. It was noticed by Justice of the Peace Albert McFarland and otherte in ihis office, just across' Cambria street from the etable, which was at the coroner of Cambria street and the alley in the rear of Main street. Before the alarm could be given and the firemen get; their apparatus out of the borough bulding, which also is in the same block, t)he structure was a mass of flames. A defective flue used for a small etove in the office in the coroner the building is assigned as the cause of the fire. The firemen were greatly hampered by the low water pressure and everybody marveled that they iwere able to check the progress of the fire.

The undertaking rooms of Burgess Ira R. Burns, on Cambria street, between the stable and "the Central hotel apartment hoiSse, was in great danger, 'but the water saved it from destruction. The hotel building was afire several times, but waa notier-iously-'damaged. The next stable, on. the Keneta property, was also totally destroyed and the rear of the Kenote store badly scorched.

O. L. Weaver's, on the lot adjoining Mns. Kenote'3, suf fered some damage, but was not burned down. Across the alley from the Kyper stable Is the Cornmessev livery stable.

Tihls was afire and has the rear wall and half the roof badly tbe marvel is that it is standing at all. L. R. Kyperls stable, on the lot next to CornmosBer's was also considerably damaged. The wind did not seem strong, but had sufficient energy to carry embers the entire square, setting afire buildings along the alley far as the shed in the rear of the Methodist Episcopali church and the barn on H.

C. Trout's' property. Tbe Kyper stable rwas an old 'building and the loss thereon is not as heavy as on the contents. TX Ky-per's automobile, which lias itls lome there, was in Altoona, One horse was taking Mr. Kyper on his rural delivery route and another was on a trip to Tyrone.

But one horse remained in the stable and It was taken out safely. Several tons of hay! and feed and some harness were consumed. Mrs. Kenote's stable iwas not so old. Dairyman R.

JT. Rupert hadr been using it and had a large quantity of hay straw and feed stored there. Hie 'loss will be $100 to $150, with no insurance. Mrs. Kenote had $200 Insurance on the building.

Mr. Rupert's horse had not returned from Its morning' milk route. Damage to the other stables and ismaller buldlngs is of varying amounts and there is some insurance. There low water pressure was the subiect of considerable comment and in the afternoon it was said that a trip to the Intake revealed the fact that an accumulation of autumn leave's had caused the trouble. Council will probaibly be asked to take action to prevent a recurrence of another such experience.

It came so near being a case of "locking the stable after the horse is stolen" that nobody wants it to 'happen again: Bellwood nas always depended greatly on its water pressure and iti heroic firemen and the record of its fires shows up well for both. But the firemen cannot put out fire witV out water and when the town has such a splendid (supply it certainly should be available when noeded. MAKING SUCCESS OF FAILURE. Former Altocnan Salvationists' Institution from Brink of Ruin. Captain Henry Hesse, formerly head of the Salvation Army industrial home, 710 Eighth avenue, this city, now executive of a simlliar institution in Pittsburg, Is making a financial success of the latter, though for years It had been a losing proposition.

At the time Captain HesFe was; transferred from-this city, it was understood that the Pittsburg home would be abandoned if he could not make a success of It. A heavy debt hung over the place, and, instead ot disappearing, it was growing. Captain Hesse asked for help at thn home only one month, then he madn self-supporting. Now, he has start- to pay off the old deebt. The army has several industrial homes in Pittsburg, but this one was in a sectior the city that had shown llttl power to keep up such an Institution All the men's rescue homes are sus tained by the sale of paper collecte from business houses and residences BIG BELLWOOD BUSINESS CENTRE 1 Sergeaat Bart Millar Discerered i Slight Blare at Qoldsteln Stare Last Night Sergeant Bert Miller traversing Eleventh' avenue last night about 11 o'clock nipped a fire la the bud at the Goldstein store just above Thirteenth street Coming along the street he notices flames shooting up from the pavement and hurrying to the scene discovered that they were coming from the grate covering the coal hole.

He extinguished it with a bucket of water secured from a nearby cigar store. Sergeant Miller after extinguishing the fire thought that embers might have dropped into the cellar and in a more damaging blaze might result. He notified Lieutenant Mcllvn at the police station who located Mr, Goldstein. The latter hurried to the store and going into the cellar found that all safe. In closing the coal grate some heavy paper and a board were used to keep tne cold from entering into the cellar.

Some one passing along the street evidently dropped a lighted match or a stump of a cigarette or cigar into the grate and it ignited the paper, set fire to the board and burned through to the coal cellar. Clotee by the burning board was the water pipe leading into the building, heavily wrapped with paper and had this caught ftjr.e it would have carried the flames into the building. Miller's discovery -was a timely one and likely prevented a costly blaze' in the city's business centre. No damage was done to the store or stock. INJURIES TO YOUNG WOMAN ARE FATAL Luella Marshall Dies la Trenton Hospital and Her Assailant Is Still at Large Trenton, N.

Dec. 10. Miss Luella Marshall died in the hospital here to- dav from injuries received a week ago at the hands of an unknown as sailant in the outskirts of this city on the night of December 3. Ever since she was found in the middle of a field where she' had been dragged by her assailant efforts to secure a statement' from her have teen avail. In her deltriqm she 'dried out fears of a negro, but iu spite Of the police no -i clue to the perpetrator of the outrage has been found.

Tbe news otj Miss Aiarsnaiis assault spread rapidly throughout the city and' an armed posse of police and citizens scoured the surrounding country throughout the night and tne following day in a hunt' for her assailant. When this search proved unsuccessful wolf dogs were employed with the hope of securing a clue. They led the police to a negro who was arrested, and, charged with the crime, but he was. released after a further investigation. Miss Marshall's skull was fractured and she was terribly torn from being dragged through the wire fence surrounding the' field where she was found by another young woman whose attention was attracted moans from the injured woman.

NATIONAL LEAGUE It Decides to Try the Case larelv-lag the Claim of Roger Bresaahan New York, Dec. 10. The National league decided tonight to try the case involving the claim of Roger Bresna-han, deposed manager of the St. Loui3 club, for alleged breach of contract by that club at a special session of the board of directors, preliminary to the February meeting of the league. This decision was reached at a meeting of the board of directors, The St Louis club was directed to file within twenty days, an answer to Bre8nahan'8 Complaint.

An official copy of the complaint was be supplied forthwith to the St. Louis club. The directors voted to raise the salary of Secretary Heydler and to continue for another year, the of Harry Pulliam's invalid disier, Mrs. M. P.

Johnson, of Louisville, Ky. Garry Herrmann said tonight that the "Tinker deal" wag "off again until tomorrow." He expects to confer with President Murphy of the Chicago club at 11 o'clock tomorrow forenoon but he would not promise that deal would be put through then. He "hoped" it would. THE MURDER TRIAL AT SOMERSET ENDS John W. Mans Conrlcttd of Killing Harrison Brawn, a Rural Mall Carrier Somerset, December W.

Maus was convicted tonight of first degree murder for killing Harrison Brpwn, a rural mall carrier. Brown's mail on September 14, tho day of the killing, included a registered letter containing $600. Maus was an employe of the company to which theletter was "addressed. Brown, the mail carrier, was shot while traveling a short cutthrbugh dense woods. An appeal is to be taken.

BATTLE In Sixteenth Round Was Awarded by the Referee FLYNN WAS WORSTED Duriag Fight Ha Mad Twice done 1 Dawa a ad in Sixteenth Appeared Helpless THE WINNER II NEW COMER Los Angeles, December 10. Luther McCarty, of Springfield, won the heavyweight championship elimination contest at Vernon tonijjfct from Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. The battle ended in the sixteenth round when, after Flynn had gone down twice and appeared helpless, Referee Eyton stopped the fight and declared McCarty the winner. Flynn announced his weight at. t0 pounds.

McCarty weighed in at 205, McCai-ty and Flvnn entered the ring at Betting at the ringside was at even money. Time was called at 9:02. McCarty carried the fight to Flynn throughout the first round. McCarty continued to force the fighting in the second and Flynn seemed unable to reach him effectively. Near the end of tbe round Flynn was staggered by a series of rights and lefts to the face and "appeared groggy.

He came up 'with a rush In the third, but McCarty stop pea mm with a sunger that drest blood from the fireman's nose and! forced him to stall Flynn evened it up in the fourth, rushing McCarty repeatedly and hooking him with an uppercut that rocked the Mlssourian's head. The fifth was a hammer and tonga affair, ending. a fierce mixup in the centre of the ring. In the sixth Flynn staggered McCarty with 'a: left swing that' teent him against -The s- seventh, bitterly contested throughout, ended with -honors, even. Both men showed signs of wear wljen they went to their corners and the succeeding round was tame.

In tbe tenth, McCarty landed a hard right to the jaw, putting veteran down for the count of nine. Flynn arose groggy and hung on. Following up this advantage the -Missourian dropped Flynn for a (second and a third time, ibut the fireman made a remarkable rally and lasted out the round. McCarty tried hard to end it in the tenth, but Flynn Showed strong recuperative powers and held heavier opponent fairly even. Badly battered and rushing blindly, Flyrfn went through the eleventh, rocked re peatedly by the blows that McCarty landed almost at will.

It was the same In the twelfth, the fireman's stamina arousing the wonder of the crowd. Flynn kept boring in in the thir- tenth, shaking his head under the fulsillade of blows that McCarty rained upon his puffed and bleeding face. The next two rounds went the same way, the Missourian having his an tagonist at his imercy, but lacking the driving power to stop him Flynn seemed almost helptess when at the outset of the he was sent down for the count oi: nine and when a moment later, a smash to the Jaiw dropped him for the second time, Referee Eyton stopped the light and declared McCarty the winner. The Informers' Falling Out. New York, December 10.

Jack Rose, at bis home in Queensborough tonight, said that Webber lied when he assorted that there was no plot to kill Rosenthal and that the murder was done on the spur of tbe moment because two of the -men were drunk. Rose said it wa3 true that he never intended to have Ros enthal killed, that he tried to "stave It off" and did so until Becker became exasperated with him and put Webber at the work. Rose denied that any of the gunmen were drunk on the night of the shooting. He said he saw them leave Webber's place in a perfectly serious and sober condition, in his estimation. AUSTRIA IS ANY WARLIKE MEANING But at Same Time Makes an Enemy of Servia Its Chief of Staff of Army.

London, Dec, 10. Official quarters in Vienna deny that any warlike significance attaches to the military Special to the Tribune. Lewistown, DecemDer .10. Isaac Dreese, a well known business man Of this place, was run down and instantly' killed by a shifting locomotive on the MiffliiX and Centre county branch of the Erie division, ac noon today. The victim is the se nior memDer oi me nrm oi Brothers, lumber merchants, who have a large yard at the Chestnut street crossine.

He had just closed his cjfftce for the noon hour ana startea across me tracks to his home. Just as the rear end of the sawdust local passed Mr. Dreese stepped on an adjacent track, was run down by a yard locomotive without a pilot, and cut in half. His remains were picked up and carried to the home of his son, who is a signalman on the Erie divi sion and resides nearby. Mr.

Dreese was 68 years old and Is survived by his aged wife, twe sons and one daughter; also by his brother and partner in business, Joseph Dreese, who is now in West Virginia, where they have large lumber interests. A DROP IN PRICE OF EGGS PREDICTED Clab and Society Women of Phil adelphia Band together to Break Up Combine Philadelphia, December 10. The retail price of eggs in this city is expected to take a decided drop tomorrow morning when four hundred club and society women, assisted by the city authorities, will sell thousands at 24 cents a dozen. This is from six to twenty cents below the prevailing prices, which leaders in the new movement declare, are be ine maintained bv the chain grocery stores and other retail dealers be- cause they would rather make large profits on small sales than lower profits on larger sales. The women were organized into a housekeepers' league, by Harry P.

Cassidy, a former dairy and food agent, who had secured options on more tnau twenty carloads of eggs which the retailers refused to place on sale. of Public Safety Porter has placed the plaza in front of city hall at the disposal of the egg venders as well as stands in two market houses owned by the city. A number of independent stores will aiso handle the eggs. heavyWto "GROWLER" TRADE After January 1 Washington Cit-- izens Caanot Carry Beer Home In Buckets Washington, December 10. It will be against the law to carry home a bucket of beer in Washington after January 1.

The excise board of the District of Columbia today promulgated a drastic regulation which forbids any saloon keeper to sell anything not to be drunk on the premises, "except In original packages." The latter classification is interpreted by the board to mean bottles and the human stomach. The new order specifically states it is aimed at "the growler trade." text of the regulation says: "The sale of intoxicating Hquor3 or beer, to be drunk elsewhere tliau on the place of sale, in pitchers, buckets, cans or vehicles of any kind, except-1 in original packages, generally known as the 'growler' or 'bucket' trade, is hereby prohibited." A Novel Case Brought. Washington, December 10. Probably the most novel case ever brought 1o the supreme court of the United States under the Sherman anti-trust law was argued before that tribunal today when a "trust" in churns and butter workers was asked to pay three fold damages, or more than $400,000 for the alleged driving out or business of a competitor. D.

E. Virtue and his Owatohna Fanning Mill company, of Owatonna, are seeking the damages. The Creamery Package Manufacturing company and the 'Owatonna Manufacturing company are the corporations charged with monopolizing the creamery supplies trade. STILL DENYING with being the sworn enemy of Servta and to have been for a long time possessed of the conviction that nothing but the sword can settle thedifference between Austria and Servia. Further proof has reached London that Austria Hungary is mobilizing.

Many Austrian and Hungarian residents of London including Count George Apponyl and the noted artist Philip Laszie have been called to the colors. According to one report Austria intends to demand a diminution the present strength of the Servian army a demand to which Servia in delegates will be honored with other entertainments, including a luncheon by the lord mayor at the guild hall. it ed ot It Was Subject of Attack by Colonel Roosevelt at Chicago PROGRESSIVES GATHER Farmer President Take Up the Fight to Retain Mr! Per-. kins oa Comraittee IS PROUD TD HAVE HIM Chicago. December 10.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and George Perkins, of New York, were the lead ing figures at the national coherence of the new progressive party here today. Colonel Roosevelt reading irora a prepared address, attacked Idaho state supreme court for. its de cision during the recent campaife" rAirardine Presidential' electors. Mr. Perkins took the ceutre of the stage when It became known', that certain of his fellow progressives had started a movement to oust him rrom iue national executive committee because of his former corporation connections.

Colonel Roosevelt took up the fight for. Mr. Perkins during an address to delegates at the conference. Pointing out Mr. Perkins and calling him by; name, Colonel Roosevelt declared that the New York financier was one of the men-that he was proud to have as a fellow -worker in the progressive party.

Mr. Perkins later made a speeci in which he asserted that he always bad been for progressive causes and measures and that he resented an intimation that he was a new convert to the Taking up the subject of tin; Idaho, supreme court elector decision; Colonel Roosevelt said: "In. Idaho, the election law makes noj)rovision for the election of presidential electprs. The supreme court i permitted republican and democratic elector to-be ip'ut-on tjie keW by onstrujflg a provision wKTch provided for the election of constables" surf other officers to include presidential electors but held the progressive ticket could not nominated by petition because the highest number of votes enumerated as necessary to nominate by petition was 300 for. the election of state officials.

They said that the electors were not state officials. The supreme court of the United States has held more than once that they are not national officials. "I defy any' honest and intelligent man read that decision of the supreme court of Idaho and compare the laxity of the construction by which they construed a statute which did not make any provision for electors at all to permit the republican awl democratic parties to vote on the electors and the quibbling and the technicality of construction bv which they construed the statue to prohibit the progressive, party from getting electors. 'The progressives of Idaho had to write In on the election ballot the iiames of the presidential electors nnd' the extraordinary thing is that over 2B.000 men did so write them in. over zo.uuu men ana women, i should say.

I am using the term men in the generic sense as it always must be used in a gathering of progressives "Now the Capital-News of Boies, the leading progressive paper Idaho criticised that decision. The most offensive criticism they made was to include a telegram from me in which I spoke of the decision with guarded moderation. but- still with frankness. "I hold that decision was an outrageous decision. I hold that it was the duty of every honest citizen to protest i against it and to denounce it in the strongest terms.

"And now that Idaho court continuing to serve the cause of reaction has summoned Mr. Sheridan, the editor of -the paper and others before it for contempt. They have it in their power now by the Infliction of a sufficiently heavy fine to ruin only paper with the independence to stand up against such a monstrous perversion of justice in Idaho. "I will advocate that the progressive party makes good- any fine and I hope that we will send out the ablest lawyers to fight that'ease and that we give the widest publicity to our reprobation of the conduct of that court. "The people of the United States chould with one voice join in con.

demning what has been done and prevent the consummation of the outrage." i Colonel Roosevelt's discussion of he Idaho case was received with ueerlng by delegates that continued for several The Stake la $20,000. Washington, December 10. A stake of approximately $20,000 wa fought for by -debaters in the house today when, the resolution to unseat Representative' Charles C. Bowman, republican, the Eleventh Pennsylvania district, because of charges of fraud and corruption in connection with his election on November 8, 1910. was considered.

His seat in the house is being contested by George R. McLean, a democrat. "A vote on the resolution was put over until next Thursday. The money involved in the contest is two years salary, three round trip mileage accounts and other allowances to a sittinz representative. CINCINNATI'S BUSINESS CENTRE SCENE OF A BIG FIRE Three Big Stores and More Than 100 Offices Fell Before Flames Cincinnati.

December 10. Three of this city's leading establishments as well as moro than a hundred offices were destroyed by fire here tonight when the Gibson hotel, the Rendigs-Lothman company, a. department store, W. L. Douglas Shoe company and tbe omces oi tno Missouri Pacific railway were swept, completely by the flames while the ton ten floors of the Union Trust building, a 17-story fireproof struc turte, were practically gutted charges, -but these assurances fall to'agreg 1 BO lu allay the uneasiness aroused by thel All arrangements for the peace con-fear that-the powerful military party 1 ference In London are now complete, in Servia may force the hands of the Besides being received by the king the government General Von Hoetzendolff, the new Austrian chief of staff, is credited i I.