The Morning Herald from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 1

9 bbbbbm um bb i oming Vol. 2. No. 15. UNIONTOWN, FAYETTE COUNTY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24.

ONE CENT 6,000 OVENS STARTED SINCE FIRST OF YEAR; WILL BE DOUBLED SHORTLY Increasing Signs of Ac- Shower of Gold When tivity Seen All Over Region Daily. DEMAND LABORERS GREATEST DRAWBACK OF PRES ENT SITUATION IS LACK OF IS STARTING 400 OVENS. WHILE FRICK COM PANY PLANS TO PUT 4,000 IN BLAST AT ONCE. MANY IN KLONDIKE ARE INCREASING AND STEEL PLANTS AND FURNACES ARE GETTING BUSY. Bomb Wrecks a Bank Hands Explosion Sends Whir lino Through New York Street Like Confetti but Plucky Young Almost Whole Amount.

TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD.) General business resumption Is indicated in reports of increased activity in all lines of trade. With steel mills and blast furnaces starting all over the 'district, the increase In the number of coke ovens being fired up is marked, and it is stated upon reliable authority that the present movement will include more than 4,000 additional ovens. Signs of activity are seen all over' the coke field, and while a general resumption is retarded because of prevailing price of and the sc a re- Ity of lalmr, the indications are that considerable activity will 1 noticed within a very short time. At Republic the Republic Iron Steel Company announces that it will start its entire capacity of ton ovens and will give employment to 500 men. It is stated that 40 ovens will blown in at once and that the number will be increased to capacity as soon as possible.

A new hnulgge system has been installed. It is of the compressed air type. Over 200 ovens are in blast at Leek rone. 150 at Riverview and 25 at the Sterling plant. It is stated that since the first of the year there have been started 5.818 ovens and preparations are under way to fire up a large number of others.

Among the Frick company plants the signs of resumption are general Since the first of the year the Frick has started approximately 1,200 ovens, and It is stated that will be 4.000 more of the Frick ovens put in blast as soon as the men can be secured to man them In the matter of labor the chief (11 Acuity in starting the ovens is found Many thousands of coke workers from this neighborhood have gone to the old country and there are still a mini preparing to leave ihe country However, works that are to start are endeavoring to recruit men from the plants that are shut down. Allen, traveling passenger agent of the Baltimore Ohio rail road, who was In Uniontown yesterday, stated that the flow of workers to Kuropo Is steadily decreasing and that he the travel to cease entirely in a short time A. Menderson. agent for the French lino of i steamers, ami A G. Kail, local foreign hanker, states that the outflow of foreigners is ceasing.

Lack of Is being widely men ted on and Is given as an evidence of improvement of conditions It is slated that every man in the region who wants work will have an oppor tunity to get it wlthotfi delay. There is a general increase In the orders turned In to steel mills and to the furnaces Three more were put In blast last These; were In the Sbenango valley, and as soon as a number of other furnaces; are relined they will be put In blast The Carnegie company blew out smalt furnace at the Edgar I hotnson plant at Hraddock, but put in blast a larger The mills that Hum first of year without knowing now long they would continue are now as-1 sured of a long run. Jones Lnughlln state that came better last week than at the depression started while Crucible Steel makes a similar statement. Spang, ('halfant Company put In two more furnaces and have started their fourth! bar mill. They will lucreaae their as soon as they assured of securing billets.

Many of the other big mills In the; Pittsburg district running tlmo or a largo part of their and all are looking for a perceptible brightening of the situation. The Republic Iron Steel works at Youngs town are starting, and for this reason their coke plant at Republic, this conn ty. Is now starting Many other could flied in this nelghlsirhood wore It not for tin refusal of the Independent to make term contracts at Unit present prices. Standard furnace coke Is now selling in the neighborhood of $2 10 per ton oil short term -uisiai ts i operators refusing to them up until the price up to better figure. However, a general resumption.

among the mills and furnaces seems to In sight tfud with greater ntatid for coke price will axsuredl) go up. Another factor which the men are figuring on Is thel abor ques tion and they do not care to up too tightly until they can he assured of enough men to man their plants. forget the Amuse photo gal lery, Kast Main street, upstairs. NEW YORK. Jan.

like varicolored confetti, greenbacks, foreign notes and gold and silver coins rained around the front or an Italian banking house in street to-night when a bomb, thrown into the hank windows by an unknown man. exploded. No one was severely Injured, but Salvatore Pati, a member of the firm of A. Pati Sons, own the bank, was slightly hurt. As the wealth showered upon hint Eye in Sounds a Fact Pati rushed to the street like a man and unheeding his wounds work until lie had almost every dollar of the money'safe in bank Tile front of the building was torn out by explosion and bank heavily damaged.

Thousands of persons rushed to the scene hut too late to share in the os. In the small crowd that gathered with report of the explosion, the; bomb thrower mingled and escaped. Proctor Is on Trip to Bethlehem TROUBLE IN LABOR GANG BRINGS FUED Murder and Two Assaults Near Dunbar Traced to Split. ROBBERY NOT MOTIVE STATE POLICEMAN ALLEN G. LITGOW SPENDS DAY AT FAYETTE AND WATT STATIONS AND LEARNS CAUSE OF THE CRIMES.

BOARDING BOSS STARTS HOUSE FOR ONE SET AT WATT, WHILE OTHERS CONTINUE TO LIVE IN CAMP BLOOD BREWS RAPIDLY. High Time for the Law to Give the Vicious Criminal a Taste of His Own Medicine. Physician Extracts Portion of Dolly's Ana tom from Aural Cavi tv of Tittle Girl Mother. Summit Coal Promoter Leaves Jail on I a cation With Constable and State Policeman. Badly mixed anatomy confronted doctors at the hospital Wednesday afternoon when they were upon to an eye from a ear In question, how ever, had originally belonged to one of little Nellie dolls, whose slender construction could not witn- stand attacks.

The child is an inmate of the institute for orphans conducted in North Gallatin avenue by Mrs. Ansel! Las? Sunday while playing she broke her doll ami thoughtlessly stuck one of its eyes In her The eye was removed ami operation pronounced successful. Republicans! I am a candidate for council tn Fourth ward. Uniontown. this means of soliciting suiymrt of those whom 1 may not he able to see persouall.v.

1 am a property holder. ALBERT McCABE I am a candidate for constable of the Third ward of Uniontown, subjected to decision Republican primary Saturday next. Having unable to see all my friends ac count of rheumatism. 1 klndB ask their support JOHN A 1.11 MAN See the Chorus. There will a number of musical introduced in I tiion You should not fail hear Chorus from George Cohen's latest play.

Talk ot New Announcement. A justice of the peace being chosen by the voters of all the wards I solicit the support of all the voters In the borough. JOHN N. DAWSON To With all tin going on, you purchasing at Main Purchasers. downtown i can do still No.

George H. Proctor, of New York. promoter, negotiator of notes and a prisoner under sentence to penitentiary. left Cnlontown yesterday afternoon on a trip to Bethlehem, Pa. Proctor was in the custody of Constable Milt Morris and State Police man John A.

Doerr. It is understood that vacation from the local jail will extend until to-morrow or Sunday. This trip is the culmination of many effort to compromise Proc tor's difficulties ith a number local who state were severely bitt'-n in the New Yorker's business schemes which involved the floating of Summit Coal Company. There has been a matter of or so which has been demanding adjustment for some time and Proctor could pro hut in neighborhood $3, OuO or $4.000 In cash. Following his plea of nolo dere In the local courts he was sentenced to a two-year term in the penl- tentiary, but he was not hurried away from the hveal Jurisdiction, as he began to make strong to straight out his dltficulth and thus his freedom umler a suspension of son- time ago Proctor secured the indorsenx'nt Garrett It.

Linderman. of South Bethlehem, on worth of paper and it was thodght that difficulties were rapidly clearing, hut it was that while Linderman was rated a wealthy man were hundreds of thousands of dollars of his notes floating around in Kast without buyers. An effort was then placed on foot to have some trust company guarantee payment of notes, it is this mission that Proctor desired to visit Bethlehem, believing that Lln- influence in his home town would In securing necessary securlt) to satisfy local men and his release at hands court. NOMINEES OE ALL PARTIES TO BE CHOSEN Republican Candidates Exerting Every Effort Now in Advance of Saturday's Balloting. Cracksmen Rob Store and Fire It ree ries a In ce dia ry ire la ed B.

0. EARE CASE Will BE ARGUED HERE on Invaders of Decision by Supreme Who Escape on Hand Car 1 Court No( Affect MANY CONTESTS IN VIEW Justices of the Peace. Constables. Councilmen, School Directors. Election Boards and Party Organizations Occupy Attention in Busy Times in Store.

nos better by Hast A small lot of about 1 dozen to close at at Chis Store. Thaw-White Tragedy at Amuse-U all this week. Admission free. Are you interested in the White case? If so, see it at the U. Admission Thaw Amuse To clean up at once a lot of Coats, fine poods ranging in price from $5 to $18.50 at $2 at Store, Minerva.

performance he given at Lyric theater next by Minerva, Handcuff is most talk of its kind put on any Minerva is only lady in this performance in which a general invitation is to any person to bring regulation handcuffs and adjust them Minerva iront which will her elf without assistance. Minerva will apirear afternoon and at each performance in evening. One-fourth off during our cut Gall and us to-day. Fumi ture, carpets, stoves and in fact everything ready to go to housekeeping. on Broadway.

Candidates Republican and1 Democratic nominations itt the bor oughs and townships Favette conn ty are exerting every effort during last days the primary to to-morrow afternoon between 2 and 8 o'clock contest is known as the winter print arv and nominations offices to he in the smaller dis-; tricts. There are a large number of justices of the peace, constables, councilmen. school directors, election officers and organization members to be selected in boroughs. Cnlontown has quota of all these, two of peace, four constables, a titint- of school ctors and four conn- oilmen named on Republican ticket. In Uniontown belief Is general and founded that a nomination on the Republican is equivalent an election, so greatest is being made now.

There two candidates for Justice of the peace on Republican ticket. They present N. Dawson, ami Captain Blerer mg hard tight Following competency the council, much interest laches to the fight for co os a contest in the which will wal A. Hill, chairman of ilm (HERALD CORRESPONDENCE.) SOMERFIELD, Jana. bur- garlars who looted the store of Dr.

T. I. Jacobs, across the river in Fayette county and robbed the Baltimore railroad depot here escaped toward Confluence on a hand car while Roy Van Sickle was firing revolver shots to alarm the residents of Somer- ficld. The same men are suspected of having early Wednesday morning fired the postotflee at Tissue, located in the store of Sebastian Tissue. The d-rug store of Dr.

Jacobs was entered his blown and the con- which amounted to about $25, taken. Neighbors of Dr. Jacobs heard noises about 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning and one man heard explosions and saw two nten at whom he fired. The station was thoroughly and all baggage looted. store was burned to the ground, the starting after 11 o'clock Tuesday night.

Nothing was saved from the building and the loss will he $1,000 with some insurance. Roy Van Sickle, the burglars, fired several shots to give the alarm hut no one came to his aid. The burglars threw their hand car from the rails into the river about a mile from captain Metzler, of the Baltimore Ohio railroad police, is working on case. the Other Road. Fayette County Will Probably Witness cond Battle Against Rate Law in Short Attorneys Have as Yet Received no Instructions on Question.

Fayette county will undoubtedly have an opportunity of witnessing in courts an argument on the constitutionality of the twocent passenger rate law, on which the supreme court passed recently insofar as act affects the Pennsylvania railroad Following the passage of the act. Baltimore railroad brought proceedings in this county similar to those brought in Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania, and the hearing here has been permitted to lag until the ue In the Pennsylvania case was first rendered. It is generally accepted that the de- (Continued on Page Four HEATHER. U. S.

Weather Bureau, Washington, D. Jan. 23. Forecast for Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West cold weather Friday. Saturday cold and not so fair.

I am a candidate for Constable in the Ward of Uniontown subject to the of the Republican primary Saturday next. Because of the demands on my time as Chief of Police 1 find that it will be impossible to see all my friends in the I take this means of soliciting their support and influence. JUDSON SI8LER. is matk Now and Always. $1 $2 worth of at Klim' No 261 Kast Main big Bridge at mis To-Night! scenic producibili the at the Grand seeing great bridgi The Grand ToNight! Don't fail to this big -conic at MPiuigh! plush and velvet Capes, Golf Capes at high as $16.50 to go at $2 at Stcfre.

Croft's Photograph Studio, A. llagan Bldg. 28 E. Main street Bostonian Shoes, $3.50 and $400 at $3,00, at 71 West Main street. A fine selection of of alt kinds at Half Price at Store, May Man tons Patterns at No 261 East Main street.

Get tickets for January 3u, at $1, 75, ami 2 centi Lots of Remnants, odds and ends, ati nice and seasonable goods at Half Price at Chisholm's Store. A lot of Coats and Golf Capes from 50c to goods at committee really fina consider) is people of ward an indoro no- oppom ntK A popular young Theophlius Democrat, and on cumbenN. is also Democratic For Keeoml light liis opponents and to develop tl large Chief Constable A I contest their fi (nation in Fourth ward position for opposed at tt ici Hurst, a of ill- lit members naturally ut-j incll. There Third Frank cotincllmanlc i which committee uccs at this time to ivoring to have the give loose meth nt. IBs strongest ex Chisholm, a in the ward, and J.

G. Rider, of present in candidate on the you want your piano tuned? Orders at Music Store will receive prompt attention. S. A. TOOMEY.

Will only he in town a few days. Free! Free! Free! January 30, a beautiful $325 piano at the People's Furniture Store, 66 WVst Main street. Young Men. You are cordially invited to and inspect the International Tailoring Company's spring and summer pies for suits, trousers, top coats or fancy vestings. Have tust arrived Note fabrics, and at Kline's, No.

216 East Main (FUvRAIJ) DUNBAR, Jan. man murdered and at least two severely injured is the result of a feud between rival hoarding camps of foreign railroad laborers, near here, which "ount.v authorities and local police have finally discovered to he at the bottom of the recent fights which were at first reported to the police as holdups. The slaying of Mike Levlch, who died from his wounds yesterday, and the injury at the same time of Mike Bogavitch was avenged this morning bv of their friends, who assaulted Mike Molinski In a c.tmp at Fayette station, near here, and severely beat hint. Police and detectives are now sifMng evidence so far gathered and hope to soon stop the wave of crime. Responsible for all the fights within the last few weeks, according to the evidence gathered by Countv Mex McBeth, State Constable Allen G.

Llthgow and Constable Alex Duncnn, of Dunbar, is the founding of a hoard camp for foreigners at Watt sta- tlon, just outside Dunbar. Many Ja! borers been employed by the Baltimore Ohio railroad in their line from Connellsviile here. A camp was established for the men it Fayette station, but recently a a rival boarding camp at Watt. The rivalry between the amps into open fights. When Levlch and Bogavitch, who belong to the Watt station camp, were I it tacked Tuesday night, by the Fayette camp followers, they with the retlc- of their countrymen, refused to I divulge the names of their assailants, saying they were robbed.

One of their friends, from the Watt camp, entered the rival camp about this morning and finding Mike Molinski alone in a severely beat him. Molinski, who is a Slav, reported the affair to Dunbar authorities, who found him when he went to Dunbar for medical assistance, as a robbery. Detective McBeth being busy in detailed State Constable Vilen G. Lithgow to Investigate the I and Lithgow, with the aid of Duncan, revealed the true Mate of affairs. Bogavitch and Molinski are both in i serious condition.

Varying stories by the men led to suspicions by the authorities that they I were not held up and beaten. AH tne men in the feud are or Horwats and are laborers on the I railroad. Coroner Harry J. Bell, of Dawson, held an autopsy on the body of morning and found that the man -ante to his death from a deep hemorrhage in the brain caused by a frao of the skull, apparently received by being struck by a clinker of some heavy blunt weapon. A Duncan, W.

H. Cottom, J. N. turbans, James Harper, C. A.

ag- and John Thorpe were empanel- as a jury and viewed the remains this morning. The iver the body will be conducted by Coroner Bell on Saturday morning. Vssistlng Dr. Bell In the autopsy were Dr Thomas U. Kehard.

of Connellsviile. Dr. McKinney and Ur. Junk, of Dunbar. ou hold a hunco on the piano making 11 ani.

bringing Fee, strong hits A'o promises eut ot a to If tur of given awav 8 days from now? not, why not? The Peoples Furni- Store. Great night at the Grand Carload al scenery and udson Sister and Bowie are making a light to land the nom- Third ward in Morris has no op- nominatioii. but will election Nathan nocrut. C. It.

Woods Buy Divide Do It Now, four tickiMH for at Grand Monday Ladies and Gentlemen. Why by wearing mis fit clothes when (with very little ex pense) you can any transformed into a perfect fit with so well admired tailor-made KLINE, the Clothes Specialist, No. 116 East Main stree? The piano will positively be away free to the holder of the number, January 30, at the Furniture Store, 66 West Main street The date for drawing of the $325 piano offered by the Peo- des Furniture Store, No. 66, West Main street, will be January 30. Large Cast.

One hundred and fifty people will akc part tn the big home talent play Union ou Thursday, January 'Great the Bridge at night at Grand. Go and little actress, Mice Stevans big One fourth off itt all Big Furniture Store on Broadway. cut-price sale departments and Hardware and Daniel Ri au wa muniti on rlv in als for the First meat market for choice meats. ad on page 5. cuts For which night Secure Your Tickets! lienry to Grand Chinese Restaurant Now open again for business, January riing.

Nu. 34 Hast Main street. The hat showed at Pittsburg, at th Same Cast the Nixon theater, Grand Monday night. Monday Skirts, good at $2 to at once at at Herbert and Ji Wonderland. mes, Irish comedians Read Rrumberg cy saving Letter ad.

mini Bargains in alt kinds of Dress Goods at Read Brumberg ev saving Red Letter ad. mon Blnlgb bells and Hlbbs. Blankets and robes; Hlbbs, Mill Bt Buggy tonni bar ss, Hlbbs, Milt Bt. The Huh Restaurant. 8perlai large plate with ed cabbage, pot atoen, beef, with bread butter, lOe.

Big short urder, 15c Bean and vegetable soup, a bowl, 52 South street Sale Now On for Great which conies to your city Monday night, January 27. Nittleton now $4 50, Shoes, $6 and at $7 Ew meat market for choice cuts of meats. Btv ad on page 5, Miss Rae Irving at Wondarland thts week, odeler. Lee Hoffman, Tramp Juggler at Take dining rood. Take dinner at room Take dluuer at McClain dining room.