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DECE3IBER 10, 1006. 3IOXDAY 3IORXIXG, THE PITTSBURGH POST, OLD UNION BRIDGE ORDERED TO BE RAISED. DIDN'T FOLLOW TO GALLOWAY WILL GET fl BETTER POSITION. C. W.

Duer, of the Pittsburgh District, Takes Vacant Place at Baltimore. The officials of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company are expected to announce the arointment of a successor HOLIDAY SHOPPERS AND VISITORS IN THE CITY will find the FARMERS BUILDING RESTAURANT i A 'tX I. F-x-, Ma ttV Covered structure at the mouth of the Allegheny river, which makes the stream unnavigsble for certain classes of vessels. The fine packet S. S.

Brown recently had to be sunk In order to get into the Ohio river, after having been built on the Duquesne way wharf. The bridge company has appealed to the highest courts from the decision of the war department to have the structure put higher above the fow-water mark. (No. 512 Wood Street.) Service and Appointments Equal to Anything in This Country. MUSIC to B.

V. Duer as superintendent of the i Pittsburgh division, before the close of this week. Mr. Duer, who is spending a few weeks in the South, will probably return to Pittsburgh in a few days, and leave the latter part of this week for Baltimore to take up his new duties as superinfendent ef t-lxe Baltimore division. GaLluWAT, Recently appointed tipTlnendnt of ranftportatton Of the Baltimore Oblo rnllroad.

Mr. Duer succeeds Charles W. Gallo way, who has been appointed superintendent of transportation of the Baltimore AL- Ohio. This is a new, office, and Mr Galloway will assist Arthur Hale, gen eral superintendent of transportation. Mr.

Hale Is chairman of the car hire committee of tha American Railway associa-. tion. and in the future will devote a con-s dt-rablb portion of his time to providing a batter supply of cars. Mr. Hale is really the father of the per diem car service charpes and was instrumental In bringing about the increased, rates, which became effective December 1, and which.

It is believed, will do much toward Klv-inK the shippers a much better supply of cars. Mr. Galloway Is one of the best known men on the Baltimore Ohio system and has spent the greater portion cf his tins in the East. Says He Did Not Pay Bills. Luiy Milanovlch, of 40 South Thirteenth street, was locked up In the Southside police night by Policeman William White on complaint of the man's wife.

She alleges her husband cannot satisfactorily account for the disappearance of which he collected from the boarders Saturday. The woman explains that she does the work. She says that the money was paid over to him Saturday and that no bills were paid. CHAxvS w. k.5 1 1 he sure of pleas- Jl of the family 11 on the ques- iQL.

gift, let us show you JfQ QlobcVcrcickElastic'yPp and Colonial TSa in to 1 TEA, 3 TO 5 BAKER OFFICE 815-817 Liberty the absent ones are re 11 jfpTj yu wish to aH members 13 WC yoursc Afttion of a suitable holiday our complete stock of WKStaniard, Mission AGfe Pattern I THE PROGR President's Way of. Seeing Things in Panama Was Disconcerting. lKEPT THE COMMISSION CONTINUALLY GUESSING. Vas Particularly Anxious to Investigate Things That Were Not Going Right. SPECIAL TO THE PITTSBURGH POST.

AXTOON Dec. 9. J. R. Heck-'tnan, of Somerset county, has received en interesting letter from a friend In the canal zone, giving: a brief but much more Interesting: account of President Roosevelt's visit to the canal than was contained In the dispatches.

Tha letter follows: "Teddy was here and saw more In three days than the commission has seen in two years. He did not go any placa they wanted to take him; he Just went where darned pleased. He never ate a meal at their banquets. He would sneak off and eat at soma of the Government boarding houses, where they least ex- pectod him. He actually went through tnud up to his knees, with hia white suit on while tha rain fell In bucketfuls.

He Fooled Them. "Oh, he fooled them. He told therrf that he did not want to see the places that were all right; It was the places that were not right that he wanted to see. There was not one In the bunch that could keep up with him. He went Into 'nigger quarters aa.d eat down and talked with the and asked them aU kinds of questions.

Also he went into the white quarters. I heard he told officials how things had to be from this on. Some of them went to arguing the case, and said that such could not be done. He simply said that if they had no remedy he had or.e. "I heard he got mad at one place and 5ust raised Cain; talked out In "tha street so everybody could hear him.

you should have seen hfra galloping down some of these muddy streets, the mud flying high over his head. He showed them how to get around." ILIES OUT ALL NIGHT WITH FRACTURED LEG. Han Struck by Train Unable to Attract Attention by His Cries. SPECIAL. TO THE PITTS BURGH POST.

1 BRIDGEPORT, Dec. 9. After attending a celebration at Wheeling Creek 'last night, James Taylor, a young man of Rayland. started to walk along the Cleveland, Lorain Wheeling railroad tracks, and. becoming tired, sat down on a crosstie to rest.

He fell asleep and was struck by a freight engine. i With a fractured leg and his ribs crushed in, he lay all night calling for help, but his cries were not heard. He was found at daylight this morning, and i as a result of exposure, will die. fUST GIVE BACK POLICYHOLDERS' MONEY. (Tennessee's State Commissioner Warns Insurance Companies to Do So Within 10 Days.

By Associated Preea. NASHVILLE. Dec. 9. State Commissioner of Insurance Folk yesterday sent telegrams to tha Mutual and the New York Life Insurance Companies giving them 10 days In which to refund certain amounts of policy holders' money.

The Mutual, he charges, used several thousand dollars as compensation and expenses for agents to electioneer for the administration ticket, and cites the evidence. To the New Tork Life officials 10 days are given to convert into its treasury money spent for printing and circulating 800,000 administration ballots. NEGRO HELD FOR MURDER. Stabs Boy and Is Later Identified as a Fugitive From Another County. PTJNXSUTAWNET, Dec.

of Police E. Palmer to-day received a telegram from Chief of Police Edward Wagner, of Erie, notlf ying him to hold William B. Wright, a negro who was arrested here Tuesday for stabbing George Brady, a bell boy at the Pantall hotel. Wright was identified. It is said, by a photograph, as the man who shot and killed Cameron Pattan at Erie, last October.

After the trouble here he was locked up in the Brookvllle jail, but it was arranged to-day to drop the prosecution in this county so that Wright may be taken to Erie to be tried on the more serious iCharge. MAY BE REARRESTED. Perm Avenue Man Is Charged With Locking Wife in Burning Room. John Halligan, who is accused of his wife, Mary, In a burning room, may be rearrested to-day to await the result of her injuries. Mrs.

Halligan, of 2022 Penn avenue, was rescued early yesterday morning. She Is at the West Penn hospital in a serious condition. Her husband was fined yesterday by Magistrate James J. Kirby. Halligan went to his home, shortly after midnight, and, it is said, began to quarrel with his wife.

An oil lamp stood on the floor beside a bed. Halligan is reported to have upset the lamp, scattering the burning oil over the bed and carpet. Rushing from the room. Halligan is accused of having closed and locked the door, leaving- his wife a prisoner in the room, which was soon enveloped In flames. GIRL TAKES HER LIFE.

Drinks Carbolic Acid After Disappointment in Love Affair Previously Cheerful. Mary Singer, 19 years old, committed Bulcide late last night by taking carbolic acid at her home, 715 Webster avenue. Th motive for the affair could not be learned by the police, though it is supposed disappointment in love had something to do with it. The girl was found unconscious in her room shortly before o'clock. By her side lay the empty bottle which had contained the acid.

A physician was called He ordered the girl sent to the Homeopathic hospital where she died shortly before midnight. neural irla friends of the voung woman accompanied hr to tho hospital Khe had been cheerful and apparently happy a fvw hours before committing the deed. 1, II HI IS SSsjaw EXPRESS PACKAGE GONE; CFFIGIALS ARE WORRIER. Said to Have Contained Large Sum Belonging to Pennsylvania Itailroad. SPECIAL.

TO THE PlTTSBtTRGH POST. NEW Dec. 9. Mystery surrounds the alleged disaripearance of an express package shipped here through the Adams Express Company, Its amount is variously from flO to T. S.

Moran. of the com- declared there had leen r.o roul-ory. He says Frank Peebles, a driver, Friday evening receipted at the JVnnsylvsfii.i station here for an express packais- containing flo, which he forgot to rcaiove from tho cars. Later this was recovered. Morm says.

Huperinternlent P. A. Newton, of Erie, was here last night and interviewed Peebles and others, hut nothing Is out. The package Is said to have Thursday evening and is al-lejr-d to have contamed tlm receipts in rah of Sharon, South Sharon and Creen- ...11 ,...1. I iu w.c rui)4ui uuhniu, wii wcri' being Kent to th National of j.aw,0l: Oountv.

which the nk.ial lhe rairoad. Health Regulations Violated, NEW CASTLE. Dec. Un rence County Medical society wants a board of health established hero, which independent of councils, The society ask that representative men rP I' cte.i. wuti one pnysir.au as an a-ivisoiy niemifr.

rhe doctors claim the regulations violated. are being constantly Divorcees Remarry; Leave Children. HELLKFONT A IN K. Dec. 9 Hiram Fihol'ft wa last wek granted a divorce and custody cf the ch'ldrcn.

To-day a tjote was rerrjvrd by friends Lake-vie saying th divorces conr.le had to remarry. They directed that the chiklren be committed to a children's home. i.it. j.im..:iiL vLwmmi 1 1 1 1 1 iijMim mm ic3v mil -V am 'it Jf'' I -t- FORTUNE SPENT Estimated That a Half Million Dollars Have Already Been Expended by Defense. ENORMOUS FEES PAID TO EMINENT LAWYERS.

Special Agents Sent All Over "World to Gather Evidence in Case. the "NT1TTV opi thousand dollars is a conservative mate of what tha shooting of Stanford WlJte by Harry Kendal Thaw, will have cost the Thaw family after White slay- er shall have been tried. Of this amount fuilv has al- ready been expended in the preliminary preparation for the fight to he made to save Thaw from the electric chair and! tha mad house. A world-wide search has been con senrch has been con ducted for every scrap of corroborative evidence that will tend to show Justi fication for Thaw's deed. Great law firms are receiving fees for private investigation and advl-e.

and special agent have been wnt by Clifford W. Hartrhlge, the chief counsel for Thaw, to every quarter of the globe, Big Lawyer's Fees. Pelphin Michael IVlrnas, the Na poleon of the -California bar, who is said to have received i 1 0.OX) to devote his abilities to the Thaw case. Is in dally consultation with Hartrulge and Pea-body. Well authenticated rumor has it that Hartridge nas received a retainer, and it is reported that Judge Ol-colt's firm received flO.OXi.

That Mrs. Thaw, wort in her own right, will spare no part of her vast fortune in the fight to save her sort, has already been proven by her own i statement. "No efforts will bo spared either money, time nor lepal counsel to protect my son's interests." Mrs. Thaw declared just prior to her recent departure to Pittsburgh. Hhe has gone there to se to it that a vast amount of ready cash be made available.

Florence Kvelyn Neshit-Thaw has also been spending large amounts In a private Investigation of the case. The family would not be satisfied with a commitment to the iv. ad house. Thaw himself is most Insistent upon "this point, lie la confident of acquittal on the plea of tn unwritten law. Tie never considers the death chair as a possibility in his case.

TRAIN CUTS HORSE LOOSE FROM BUGGY. Animal Is Instantly Killed, but Occupants of Vehicle Are Uninjured. Special to The rittsbureh Ton. WARREN, Dec. 9.

Judge T. I. Gill-mer and his son, United States Commissioner R. I. Gillrner, had a narrow escape from death here this afternoon They were driving in Tod avenue, and at the Erie railroad crossing, as the horse stepped on the track it was struck by an east-bound Cleveland Pittsburgh flyer and instantly killed.

The sped of the train was so great that It cut the horse away from the buggy, leaving the latter standing not two feet from the cars. Neither man was injured, and the only part of the buggy that was damaged was th shafts. FUNERAL FROM OLD HOME. Remains of Miss Ethel Ferver In- terred Near Pulaski, Where She Was Born. NEW CASTLE, Dec.

9. -The fun-eral of Miss Ethel Gertrude Ferver. who committed suicide Friday In Pittsburgh, was held this afternoon at the home of her uncle. W. J.

Riblet here, and was largely attended. Rev. Dr. H. K.

Den-linger, of the First Presbyterian Church, officiated. The Interment was at King's chapel, near Pulaski, where Miss Eerver was reared. Banquet of Braddock Churchmen. At the nnnual banquet of the Men's club of the First Presbyterian Church, of Braddock, this evening. Rev.

L. F. La vert the new pastor, will preside and the speakers will be Rev. s. Edward Young, of the Second Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, and Rev.

W. A. Jones, pastor of the KnoxviUe Presbyterian Church and moderator of the Pittsburgh presbytery. Iron City Trust Company Westinghouse Building Business Individual and Savings Accounts High Class Bonds Foreign Exchange Directors Geo. E.

McCague Win. L. Abbott Chat. N. Hanoa Willis F.

McCook Wallace H. Rowe Charles W. Brown Grant McCargo Chas. A. Painter V.

1. Ciillespis Edw'd A. Woods Jarr. H. Pak W.

A. Nicholson Thos. A. McGinley John A. Topping Adam Wilson Capital, Surplus and Profits, $2,725,000 THAW AS i i I I I I IS' TILLMAN'S PROFANITY.

Bellaire (0.) Church Trustees Cancel Excitable Statesman's Lecture Engagement. BELLAIRE. Dec. 9. The trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Churcff have canceled the engagement of Senator Tillman, who was to have delivered a lecture here "next Tuesday night for the benefit of the church.

After hia Chicago lecture, in which Senator Tillman was reported to have indulged in profane language as a result of interruption, from his audience, the trustees wrote to the South Carolinian to exact a promise that he would not indulge in any vulgarity or profanity. They intimated that if the promise was forthcoming they would be compellei to cancel his lecture engagement. Senator Tillman replied that he could make no pledges of tha nature asked. as ne couia not foresee wnat woua occur during tha lecture. Ha was then notified that his place on the church lecture course would bo filled by another.

NECROLOGICAL RECORD. John B. Higbee. John B. Higbee, C4 years old, died suddenly at the family residence, Grand-view avenue, yesterday morning.

He was born in Upper St. Clair township, this county, June 6, 1542. He was a son of the late Joseph P. and Abigail Higbee, and was educated in the public schools JOHN B. HIGBEE, Well-known Klass manufacturer who died yesterday.

and at Bethel academy. Nearly all his life Mr. Higbee was engaged in the glass business, being a member of the firm of Boyce, Higbee of Homestead, which was organized in 1S79. Mr. Higbee 13 survived by his widow, Jennie Espy Higbee, and or.e son, O.

J. Higbee. The funeral will be held from the residence to-morrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Interment will be private. Ralph Eugene Irvine.

Ralph Eugene Irvine, 21 years old, son of J. Q. A. Irvine, principal of the Etna public schools, died late Saturday night. He had been in Colorado for his health and returned home about a month ago.

Services will be held to-morrow afternoon at the Etna United Presbyterian Church, the interment to be at Mars, Butler county. Besides his parents, eev-eral brothers and sisters survive. Charles A. Forse. Charles A.

Forse is dead at his late residence, 151? Tremont street, Allegheny. He was the oldest son of the late Oliver P. and Elizabeth A. Forse. of Avalon, Pa.

He is survived by his wife, Effle E. Forse (nee Wampler), one brother, Elmer E. Forse, and a sister. Myrtle M. Forse.

The funeral services will be hold at his late residence on Tuesday, December Jl, at 2 p. m. George Henry Thalaker. CUMBERLAND, Dec. 9 George Henry Thalaker, aged 86 years, a pioneer resident of Grant county, and one of the founders of Myerstown, is dead at Petersburg, W.

Va. George Laley. George Laley, 65 years old, died yesterday at his home in Walnut street, Mc-Keesport, where he had been living but a short time. The -body will be taken to his former home in Connellsville. Mrs.

Annie E. Hasson. GREENSBURG, Dec. 9 Mrs. Annie E.

Hasson, widow of Herman P. Hasson, died this afternoon. She was years old. One daughter. Mrs.

Xorris Huffman, of Beaver, survives. GREEKS CAUGHT IN RAID. Police and Poker Players Make Rushes for the Stakes and the "Kitties." Fifteen Greeks were caught in a raid on an alleged gambling house, in the rear of Fourth avenue, near First avenue, last night, by Captain Thomas McCabe and Lieutenant John J. Ford. Three poker tables were found doing a thriving business.

The entrance of the police was a signal for a mad rush, first for the "kitties," table stakes, and then for freedom. The Greeks succeeded in rescuing the money from two of the tables, but the police were too Quick for them at the third, securing the monev and the cards, which will be presented as evidence this rnorin.ig. in proprietor escaped arrest because of his absence from the place. Get Increase in Wages U.A ALE, Dec of a seven oer cent lnfT-, 9. Notice wajres has been received by the Bir Four blacksmiths in the big shops here, CAN TAND SENATOR gfo-.

Vgfvf rSr V3 i i FURNITURE Tittsburg, Pa. 3 4 S3 7 jif.tMJl, 1 1 UJltd I HI i I i Cfotietmae TLibe. The glad Yuletide has come again and whole land revels in 41 Qood Cheer." the From far and near turning for the home gathering. The woods and fields have been ransacked for Holly and the Christmas Tree which soon will sparkle with a thousand lights Gifts are exchanged old friendships are renewed while peace and happiness reign over all. You will comply with an ancient and time- honored custom if PERITY" in good Tech Beer which you pledge "PROS mellow Xmas wel- i extends its come to an.

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