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The Pittsburg Daily Headlight from Pittsburg, Kansas • Page 10

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1 PITTSBURG DAILY HEADLIGHT. SATURDAY EVENING, 27, 19C6. OOOOOOGQS 30303G3e30Gfc SlTWf Fail in Sparks CINDER CAR WAS BURNED. Shrewd Shoppers Will Note This Beginning Saturday, January 27 and continuing to Tuesday 30. we will offer a beautiful line of Muslin Underwear, just in from New York.

Corset Covers 19c to 98c Gowns 35c to 98c Drawers 25c to 98c UnderSkirts 35c to 50 pieces of Linen Torchon Lace. 2 1-2 in. wide 5c 50pieces beautiful Corset and Flounce Embroidery, per ya.rd, 25c Mrs. A. K.

R.OSS and Co. FIRR AT FHONTEYAC TIII1RATE3V- ction of knuks OTII Kit A KK.H HAVl'A KB KOI Sl II I SR. Our Special Offer! We will sell you the famous Bridge Beach celebrated Air Tight and Hot Blast Heaters at a price never before offered on this class of goods. We are also making special prices on everything in our line. Call and see us, we will take pleasure in showing you the many bargains we have in our mammoth stock.

If you need anything in our line it will pay you to inspect our slock. Orlitln iif Hie Are a mystery I-ookB I.Ike lucemllnrlnni Fire Discovered nt 3 o'clock Friday Mornlnir. 3, FRANCE "A BAS THE CROCKERY; IT INTERFERES WITH TJtUt tached to the passenger train Nd, 119 going south. BIG STICK." Kngine 61 In charge of pnssenge No. 11 broke down here Wednesday morning and engine 400 pulled the 8 Pittsburg Furniture Cok train to Joplin, The destruction of a car loaded with cinders near the Santa Fe round house Friday morning threatened to do damage to the round house and engines besides several other cars near by and it was only through the united efforts of the round house force that saved the company from heavy damages.

The fire was discovered about 2 o'clock Friday morning and at the time tirst seen by the round house men, the bottom of the car was entirely In llames. Dripping oil was seen coming through the car and the work looks like that of aonie one who had a personal grudge against the company. The night employes of the round house tried to get the car off of the cinder pit but were unable to get an engine close enough to couple onto it. The lire was spreading in a direction toward the roinid house and the engines were taken out of that building to places of safety. No cinders had been loaded Into that car for several days and It was hardly possible that It cu ught from hot cinders that might have been in the bottom for several days.

The car destroyed was one of tiie new large cinder cars and was totally destroyed. There was no water Firemnn C. L. Woodslde hns been as' I i signed to the vacancy on the Joplin local with Engineer Berry. fj 613 North Broadway.

Phone No. 162. Firemnn J. M. Hill has been assign ed to the vacancy with Engineer liall on train J17L Snnln Vc.

An order has been issued to the em ployee of the round house at Fronte-nac for one man of the force to always be In the round house and that at no time must all employes leave the building. The order Is the result of the recent strike of the machinists. some of the miners receiving $225 each. In his tinnnl report First Assistant PoHtinaster-( leneral Hitchcock saya that the low salaries paid clerks in first and second-class postoffiees is LABOR. NEWS.

in the large tank at the time and all the employes could do was to prevent further destruction of property. There has been no water In the large tank nt Frontenac for the past week and all engines have to come to Pitts fllven Merit llnrks for Service. It is so seldom that a railway em Corral mill employes nt Ronton, 111., who have boon out for an long, nre hive orKunlzoii and secured a charter, making sains. The president of tlio decreasing the standing of efficiency. It Is Impossible, he says, to induce efficient men to enter this branch of the service when the salary, to begin with, is but $tii)u a year, with no certainty of promotion for perhaps several burg for water.

Some trouble in the pipes from the reservoir to the tank is responsible for the scarcity at Fron ploye is complimented for his services Km ploying Hikers' Association sold An- his shop and it was unionized tenac. that following case shows to a good graces of the company in one case at least. Several weeks ago Engineer Kidley of the Frisco was given ton merit marks for giving good attention to his engine and getting the train NEWS OF SPORTS. in on time and also rendering further services to the company. Rtdley was in charge of a fast freight and the engine failed on account of leaky flues.

He immediately procured a sack of bran and some starch and by those means able to get in with his i-jmploving printers In (iiiloslmrt? with hut one exception signed for the tight-hour day. The International convention of Bricklayers and Masons is In session at Menneapolis. Minneapolis labor men ore nlrealiy making preparations for the questioning of candidates. Charles Athcrton, of Poytnn, has been appointed general seeretary of the Metal Polishers. Another counterfeit of the United Hatters' Union Lahel has been unearthed in Providence.

R. I. Molders at Glen Falls, N. secure the nine-hour day at former wages. They had been workina ten hours.

Peoria Street RailWuy Employes Union, 30l members, subscribed in a body for their local la-bor paper. Four hundred and fifty delegates are in attendance at the Bricklayers and Masons' international convention ut Minneapolis. train. The leaks were closed temporarily and his services were recognized within a few days with a fine compli otlit-r shop at once resigned und others are expected to follow. Motornnn and conductors of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company, who have been in the employ of the company for ten years will receive cents an hour.

The advance In wages is entirely voluntary and conies to nearly 00 men. Many obstacles are being met by the Cincinnati Employers' Association in the organization of an employment bureau similar to the ones in Chicago and St. Louis. The plan Is to give scabs work in open shops and use them as strike breakers in other cities. The delegates to the Schenectady.

Trades Assembly from unions affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World have been expelled on the ground that their election was unconstitutional. Among the deposed delegates are the president and the secretary. At a recent meeting of the i1 Labor mentary letter and a public bulletin was issued In the case. Conductor Hart made one trip this week on tl passenger in the place of Conductor Latimer, Trainmaser Ramsay was transacting business a short time in the city Thurs day afternoon. Traveling Freight Agent Miller of Chanute was transacting business in the city Thursday.

Conductor Travis is back on local No. 241) after being off for about a week. Mifmourl Pacific. Road Master Overbeck of Nevada was transacting business in the city yesterday. Engineer Brennan of the yard switch crew has been laying off several days of this week and his place is being filled by Engineer Russum of Nevada.

Conductor Fauikenstein well known in this city, was among the list of conductors who are at present doing the work of brakemen. All of the Missouri Pacific engines have been grouped in their respective New Hide Track for Frisco. The Frisco has made arrangements Mrs. John Gemme! is numbered for another switch track in the with the siek yards. The wew track will start at a Ten scholars braved the snow storm Monday at 4S school.

OUR NEW LIST FOR PROPERTY BUYERS point near the Standard Oil company's buildings and will extend west on the north side of the present tracks to a point near KUtt street. The new track Miss Olu Christine arrived homo from Purkvi.le, Thursday. Mrs. J. M.

Irwin culled upon Mary W. H. Williams, state labor commis- Is being put in to accomodate the ware house of the Hood Implement com Henlff Friday afternoon. avr Council of Vallejo, the subject of Bioner of Minnesota, favors the large number of accidents th Continued from 1st I'nge.) Mayor Brand Whltlock, of Toledo. Ohio, has slammed the ltd down hard on boxing.

Sunday base ball is also coming under the ban in the Buckeye State this summer. New base ball leagues formed during the last month Include the Kansas State, Georgia State, Ohio. Pennsylvania and West Virginia Tri-Statu Kind Michigan State leagues. More are yet to be heard from. Joe Gans' stock has gone up several points since he put away Mike "Twin' Sullivan in Frisco.

lie still claims that he can make the lightweight limit at any time and is willing to defend his championship title. President Taylor, of the Tloston Americans, declares that there is no truth In the widely circulated reports of friction between Manager Collins and himself, and shows a three-year contract with the great "Jeems" in proof, The speed skating contest for the championship of Minnesota and the Northwest Is sofieduled to be held tomorrow and Monday under the auspices of the Twin City Skating club of St. Paul. Manager MeGraw, of the Champion Giants, will try out three new men tiis tspring. They are Ferguson, a pitcher from Louisville; Fitzgerald, a catcher, from and a pany which will be located directly across from the Standard buildings Albert1 and Ola diristine wen? the making eight hours the limit for guests of J.

M. Hewett's Friday af It will be about two blocks in length TO CONSIDER ternoon. and will give the company at least 600 feet more track accomodations. Mrs. Charlie MeClelhin and Miss Cora were Girard visitors the lust of the week.

lleudiniarterH to Kmporln. Topeka, Jan. 27. Operating Mrs. J.

H. Slusher and Mrs. Jamen classes and renumbered. The yard switch engine here has been changed befell the employes of Mare Island navy yards last year was taken up and steps were taken to secure a law to Indemnify navy yard workmen who are Injured the line of Governor Hoch of Kansas, has taker, under advisement the application for pardon of Arthur K. Ireland, a of the Atchison, Topeka Santa machinist' strike, who lias been sentenced to six months In jail for striking a scab.

The application is being resisted by the Santa Fe Carey visited ut the Sluttery home on officials of the Atchison, Topeka children, who work. Fur sewers and workers on ladies' garments in Montreal are preparing to organize. They will join the United Garment Workers. Ten thousand five hundred unio carpenters ol Chicago have asked for 6o cents an hour on April 1, an increase of 5 cents an hour. Milwaukee printers did not go out lor the, eight-hour day, being under contraut until June 20, 1907, and union men will nut break contracts.

Cloth Hat and Can Cutters tlniont from No. ssl to 3Lit. Santa Fe have decided to transfer the Wednesday. headquarters of the superintendent of Mrs. J.

W. Allison and Ollle were The chain gnn work out of Nevada the eastern Kansas division of the guests of Dr. Thurston's from Friday system from Topeka to Emporia, on the freight service is reported rather slack at present and a number of the conductors have bden returned FrtMco. to extra work and number of the ex until Saturday. Harry Wyley, Kdwln Cuthbertson and Fitz Smith are attending school at Cherokee.

airs. James H. Andrew and Mrs. Houston were guests ot Thomas Greggs' for dinner Wednesday. Dun und T4 rvln Smith drove to tra conductors to brakemen.

There were 25 extra conductors reported on the board at Nevada yesterday. A bulletin has been Issued to all Cherokee. Wednesday with a loud of of Huston, voted to pay an assessment; 1 State Labor Commissioner Ratchet $10 a week to assist the locked lias 'KSuod his annual summary members of the craft in Detroit. ot tllp conditions of employment In Boston Elevator Constructors Union: I as to is lighting the 6pen shop, and ha 5 Z'! enough applications for men to pi o-1 5 "I Iim lJ; vide jobs for all the men who strike. "P'd.

or 644 more than lsul Con- it ions gen rally have improved. 1 he Waukegun, Trades Council i has entered a protest against the em- A Pittsburg dispatch says as a repayment of Dowle's non-unionists oC piece noik being introduced the plant of the American Steel and Into tlie Baltimore and Ohio shops nt Wire Company. icienwood, the boiler makers and rtv conductors and brakemen as well as engineers in the passenger service in regard to the weighing of the maLls which will commence within a few days on the Missouri Pacific system. brother of Christy Mathewson. The Carlisle Indians and the Naval Academy will play a base ball game useful articles fur three xof the High school students.

Mrs. E. L. Smith and daughter Grace, Mrs. George Gennnell, M.

Irwin und at Annapolis In May. The game will They are instructed to be careful In regard to leaving a station until the mails are all on the cars and weighed. J. VV. Smith's for dinner Wednesday.

W. H. Ewan and wife will leave Feb. 1st for Spear vi lie, hop ing the change will prove beiieticiul Attend the Grand Ball given mark a renewal of athletic relations between the two institutions The Middles will also play Princeton for the tirst time this season. Jake lira in, the veteran pugilist, who became famous through his ti lit with John L.

Sullivan, has the fighting business for good. He Is anxious to break into base hall, hav outs wi-nt on striKe. Tm-y were paid $3 a day. and claim that while a few can make $4 per day at piece work tie majority could not make living wages. An association 4if ministers at Minneapolis recently proposed a labor temple for that city.

The central body has now taken the matter up and eu- dursed the movement. by Ihe K. 0. T. M.

Tuesday Jan jOth. Lou Miss it. Fireman M. Phillips who had bid in the fast meat run from Kansas City through Girard has decided not to take that run and Fireman C. M.

Richards being the next oldest fireman bidding for tiie place has been assigned to the run. George L. Burgess, stationer, at tiie general offices at St. Louis has resigned and Charles G. Shearer will take the position on tho first of next month.

The official bulletin was received here yesterday. Tom MoKillop has bid in the vacancy of fireman on the Aurora branch and Is now in passenger service. Tom formerly lived here and has made quite an advancement during the past year. Engineer L. A.

Rpafford, extra engineer, out of Pittsburg lias been working several days during the past week assisting In the double header work out of Ft. Scott in charge of the passenger trains. Several of the Pittsburg engineers and tlremon have been working out of Ft. Scott during the past week. The freight engines were double headed with passenger engines In charge of the passenger trains.

General Superintendent S. L. Ttalney was In the city a Short time Wednesday morning. His special car was at- Thomas Kidd, who was secretary AJ' of the Amalgamated Woodworkers' A Newark, dispatch nays: 1. 5 room house, E.

9tri brick walk, city water, corner lot. Price $700-, $350 cash, balance 1 and 2 years 8 per cent. 2. Vacant Lot on W. 6tb.

St. Price $250. 3. 5 room bouse, corner 10th. and St.

55 foot corner lot, can be bought, worth the money look this up. 4 2, three room houses on E. 15th close to shop. Price $450 each small payment down, balance $10.00 per month. 5.

Six room modern cottage, west fifth street, 75 foot front, and an ideal home. Look this up. 6. Five rooms and pantry, good porches and stable, house in fine condition, sixty-foot front, on cast eight street close to shops, price $900.00. $300.00 cash, balance on long time at 6 per cent.

7. Fine, modern five--oom house on south Broadway, pantry and closet, bath room, good barn, cistern, cith water in pantry, one of the est homes in the own, price $1300.00. Can make satisfactory terms. 8. "We malte loans, write insurance, and do a general real estate brokerage business, let us show you our list before you buy.

PIERCE REALTY CO. 503 1-2 N. Broadway Newark rejoices over the settlement ing played amnteur ball with good success lor several seasons. Another month and reports will be International Union for fourteen 1 'lira, and an active trades unionist 'for twenty-five year, has retired from Division No. 3US of the Elevated Railway employes in Chlca- ot the stove polishers' strike at tu Werhle foundry.

The company de dines to ti-ll the terms of the settle mint. Hud eolds are the order of the day. to their health, hey will ne great ly missed in Sabbath school und church at Jdell. Mrs. Jessie Allison Is stopping with her sister in Girard while Dr.

Cole is caring for her hand. Miss Jessie cut her thumb upon a dust-pan, only milking k. slight wound, but blood poison aet in and she has had a very serious time, having her thumb lanced four times but we are glad to report she is better ut this writing. The funeral of Mrs. W.

G. Gem-mel. Wednesday, ut Slifer was very large, the church and school house be- ing lllled. Rev. Burger of Guard, Hev.

Howel. of McCune, und Rev. Sehlable gin to come in from the training Rnbt. Smith left lust week for Tex as to look ut the country. The law committee of the Cincinnati 1 'Pon him and as a tribute grounds in the southland regarding the wonderful work of his or thai hen oni.

Hut by the time the sea Iks Lulu Winger hnn tli grip. She in ins services to the union in iiehalt did not ttfuuh school Monday. son opens the 'great Hud" usually has Mrs. A. E.

Krauter and Martin of a.bitrailm pros. ted Kidd with a silver service, In the strike commission decided that J. S. Wentss of Free-land, must pay their coal miners spent Tuesday with J. U.

KrauLer. been sent back to the woods. Orator" O'ltourke, owner of the ttov. VHcHionifful lert M'oucfuy Trades Council is watching violators of the child labor law. All violations ai" rpurled to the factory inspector and the latter enforces the law.

Forty las tors are on strike at the Mwe factory of A. F. Smith at Lynn, for an increase of f-om Ei to 7 ei-nis, a pair for ileal machine operators on patent leather goods. Ttie. striking bakers of Newark, Lullarpe and Linton town to help in were present und participated in the Ht'iilgepurt, team, has been playing ball longer than any other it per cent advance.

The case has; a protracted meeting. man on the diamond today, lie caught Miss Clara Krauter visited with Mrs. liexsie Kiggs from Friday until i em oeroi me nncina ion Hoard (Several times, and on each occasion the hoard decided against the The llrni lias just paid $5,1100, over 100 games for his team last season and has a son. who graduated Sunday. from ale, playing with him.

Airs. Ida Sprague and son Paul who have spent tho lust lour months in Inst sud rites. Ella J. McWiiiiuins was born Nov. 12, 1 StiO, was married to Win.

G. Gemmel, March 21. and Hie bereaved husband find children have the sympathy of the entire column nlty. vitatiuns of Muble lSwv.n and Susie Wright and spent Thursday evening ut W. W.

wan's. Oysters were served and a jolly good time was enjoyed by till. It was a genuine surprise to Mr. and Mrs. Ewan: E.

R. Vance and wife, John Carey and wife James California with her brother, left for Kansas, Friday. The pie supper nt Liberty was not very well attended on aceount of the weather but those present report a good time. The proceeds were MIDWAY ITKMS. Wright und wife.

G. Hanshnw und wife, Win. Hutlield, wife und sister-in-law Mrs. Alters, J. E.

Ewan and family, Lawrence Ewan and wife, Mr. Riehwlue and family and J. M. Doug-The following responded to tho When your lungs are sore and Inflamed from coughing, Is the time when the germs of PNEUMONIA, PLEURISY and CONSUMPTION find lodgment and multiply. RIGID LEY'S Si John Ofthm has been on the sick list this week.

Mrs. Cleve Quick has purchased a new piano. i Miss Gahm has purchased a line range stove. Kd Solomon's horse was badly cut In a wire fence. Frank Crane has been on the slcH list this week, Guy Turner was visiting friends in Midway Friday.

Mr. Harvey has been on the sick list for the past week. Miss Edna Price has been on. the sick list this week. Miss Edith Gahm has been vlsitiug relatives In Midway.

war R.ules. M0NIYAMD1M No class of business 'requires more careful attention, or insists upon more rigid rules than that of banking-. It has always been our earnest endeavor to conform to these requirements. Safety, first, Liberality next. First National Bank OF PITTSBURG, UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY, Pittsburg, Kansas.

stops the cough, heals and strengthens the lungs. It contains no harsh expectorants that strain and irritate the lungs, or opiates that cause constipation, a condition that retards recovery from a cold. FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR is a safe and never failing remedy for all throat and lung troubles. Th cjclers Said He Had Consumption -A Marvelous Curs. L.

M. Ruggles, Reasoner, Iowa, writes: "The doctors said I had con. sumption and 1 got no butter until I used FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR. it helped me right from the start and stopped the spitting ol blood and tbs pain in my lungs and today 1 am sound aad well. Three 50c, $1.00.

The SO-cent size contains two and one-half times as much as the small size and the $1 .00 bottle almost six timet as much. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. Ilox Soclnl. A box social and entertainment was given ut the StllweM school on lust Friday evening. Very Interesting program was rendered and every one present had a good tlm.e.

The program was ag follows: Recitation Martha Konske. Recitation Nora Harder. Recitation Louise A Herman, Diulogue Census Taker. Recitation Mary Harder. Recitation Guy Bpungler.

Recitation Lurune Hpungier, Song Open Gate. Recitation Belle Spangler. Dialogue Rejected. Recitation Ada, Clark. After the program the boxes were sold and a cake was given to the most popular young ludy present.

Miss Lu-rane Spangler received the cuke. Tiie proceeds amounted to $10, which will SO into the literary (und. J. R. LINDBURG, JAS.

L. ROGERS, Oashiek, 1 l'A( E. MAXWELL, Ass't Cashier. COLD AND RECOMMENDED BY T. J.

CR0WELL. Druggist, 405 North Broadway..

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