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THE PHILADELPHIA -FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, -1907 German ril NEWS JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA NEW i 1 Ram II II MMII Cake- 27c Thb 'Week. 'S CUT PRICE Dili STORE 1541 CHESTNUT "STREET- PRINTING Always get ourpricas Fink Sons 16 S.5lh! GUARANTEED MAIN SPRINGS llU 1312 ARCH T. ArtRcasTTOIdCarpets Circular or Agent, PENNA. RUG CO. 1 1th Nobis Siajfr.

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Turn Waste Paoer Into Honey Buying and selling waste paper is our business. Highest cash prices- paid. W. also sell iuachinery-wlpinsr rasrs. PENN PAPER AND STOCK CO.

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or. foreign patent. I. S. PRENN ER, E.

E.j Attorney nnd. Connaelor II OS BETZ BLDG. Broad abr. Chestnut WILLOW GROVE SOUS A THE MARCH KING COMJIESCWG AUGUST 10 Frr(rnt Itnpi-t Train, to and From Keadiag Terminal This Coupon is Worth 50c to You For August we make this special offer on part payment for 1 Doz. Cabinet Pictures Keguiar a.uu vaiue CUT THIS OUT AND BRING WITH YOU Nw HERBICK STUDIO A 48 N.

8th Street A Per agreement this coupon is good for oOc towards payment on any phctojjraph over. S1.50 per doz. FOR TH RTY DAYS ONLY LearntoSwiiiifor EverT man. woman and child should know how. And the Glooke Fenner Swimming Jacket is the only absolutely tafe Swim-minR Jasket on.

the market. Yon can't lo-rour life by drowning: if you wear one Made "of solid blocks of will last a lifetime. ALL SI7ES. MAIL. 92.00, Oil Glock Fenner 212 MARKET ST.

Seashore Trips $1.00 EXCURSIONS Leave Chestnut St. South Sit. Ferries, T.O0 A. Jl. Daily, for Atlantic City Cape May: Ocean City x- -Sea Isle City ADDITIONAL.

K'(lRS10tS ATLANTIC CITY ONLY THURSDAYS. SATU; DAYS- AND SUNDAYS, 7.30 A. 31. PARTICULARS OF AGENTS Visiting day Try telephone visiting. Make a dozen calls in town and out.

No" fatigue little Are; You Belltelephoned? 30c AND STATE MILK SUPPLY IS OF HIGH Of 6000 Samples Taken Only Jew Show-Trace of Preservatives or Adulteration Spec! 1 to The Inquirer. HARRISBURG, Aug. 8. The present examination that is being made into- the milk supply of the State untler the aus- pices of the Dairy and Food Bureau is the most extensive and complete in the history' of Pennsvlvania, no less than t000 samples having been analyzed -by. the official chemists.

In an interview today, Commissioner Foust stated thatJ the results obtained axe simply remark-1 able because- of the almost entire absence of violations of the dairy laws of the Common wealth, in singular, contrast with thm many hundreds of prosecutions which took' place four years ago ds a result of a aisnlar crusade. Ia Western where the OH of various kinds of chemical preservatives was most common' years than one-half dozen samples were "found to contain- formaldehyde, boric acid, etc. In the city, of Philadelphia ic is said trere are a few persons who use formaldehyde, and these will be prosecuted-- In other sections of the State several dairymen sold watered and skimmed milk, and. they will have to appear before a magistrate's court and suffer the Imposition of a fine for their indiscretion. The table of places visited and number of-samples procured shows that the Dairy and Food Division has been actively and successfully engaged in a good cause for the people of Pennsylvania.

BUTCHER ROBBED AND SHOT Panther Creek Valley Suffering: From Epidemic of Crime Special to The Inquirer. AM AQUA, Aug. 8. The epidemic of crime which has been prevalent throughout this section and the Panther Creek Valley for the past few months was accentuated yesterday, when Michael Kashaba, a Russian butcher at Nesque-honing, was held up at No. 6, near that town, and was robbed, beaten and shot.

He Is now in a critical condition nt the Ashland hospital, while his assailants are still at large. Kashaba Is a prosperous and popular merchant of the little town and the citizens are grt-atiy aroused over the perpetration of this outrage, it now develops that robberies and holdups are of almost daily occurrence throughout that section, particularly at night, the victims In the main being foreigners. Ma ay of th holdups have been the work of Italians, who have hesitated to tell the police for fear cf bringing down the vengeance of the "Black Hand." It is expected that the State Constabulary will be called upon to aid in breakins these toughs. Lutheran Summer Assembly Opens Special to Toe Inquirer. MECHANICSBURG.

Aug. The first of the eleven days session of the Summer Assembly. which is beinp held here in Irvinp College and consists of the seven leading Lutheran Synods in the United States. opened this morning with Bibl study conducted by M. Coover.

D. D. Rev. W. E.

Fisher. I. of Shamokin. will have charge of the music during the assembly. FIERCE TIGER ROAMING WILLIAMSBURG HILLS S-ec'il The iPMUlrer.

ALTOOXA, Aug. S. Farmers in the country surrounding Williamsburg are going about heavily armed, while women and children are making themselves prisoners in farm houses because of the appearance on the outskirts of the mountain of a -wild animal described as being a tiger. The animal is seen almost daily, but has so far successfully eluded a score of hunting paries which have taken up the trail. It is thought that the animal is on of those that escaped from the Walter L.

Mains circus, which was wrecked near Tyrone several years ago, and that it has been driven out of the mountains by lumber operations. POTATO MARKET'S TOP NOTCH Even nt nigli Price There Is Stampede for Tubers Special to The Inquirer. SALEM. N. Aug.

8. There was plenty doing in the potato market here today and the farmers lost no time getting their loads into town. The price reached the highest of the season $2.45 rer barrel but the average was about $2.30. The buyers did not wait until the loads came to them, but when one wa seen coming down the street they would walk and meet the driver, and taking seats on the sides of the wagons would do some spirited bidding. Most of the lne.ds rave netted the farmers anywhere from S35 to $4.

CUT IN THE APPLE CROP Good Yield East, Bnt FnlHng Off In the West Special to The Inquirer. ATLANTIC CITY. N. Aug. 8.

The entire average growth of the apple crop all over the country Is far below that of last year was a report read here todav by the executive committee of the International Apple Growers'- Association, which closed its thirteenth annual convention. The report on the crop says that from Ohio eastwards to New York, including New England. Canada and Nova Scotia, the crop is far in excess of last year, while the Ben Davis crop-as far 'west as Colorado- shows a big decline; -which off: sets the excess crop of the 1 Reward for Alleged Murderer i Special to The' Inquirer. ATLANTIC CITY. N.

Aug. 8. A reward of $200-for the arrest and delivery of William Marshall, a negro, wanted here for the murder of Samuel Dillon on July 2. was announced today by the Board of Freeholders. 1 Dividend Like Standard Oil Special to The ATLANTIC CITY, Aug.

8. A dividend of 24 per cent, per annum was announced yesterday by the First National Bank, of this city, when after a meeting of the directors they declared a dividend of 6 per cent, for the quarter. This dividend is as much as the Standard Oil Company recently has been paying. Thieves Desecrate Chapel Special to The Inquirer. BURLINGTON, N.

Aug. 8. Thieves broke Into the Presbyterian Chapel in East Burlington, carried off everything valuable and then wrought havoc the other furnishings of the edifice. Women to Sit In New Zealand Assembly WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Aug bill providing for the election of an Upper House by the House of Representatives today passed its committee stage in the latter chamber. One of the clauses, by which women electors are eligible to election a-? members of the Upper House, was adopted by 37 to -26 votes.

The Premier and three Cabinet. Ministers who were present voted for the clause. City Treasurer's Statement' The weekly statement of City Treasurer Brlnghurst shows that the receipts of that department amounted to 1.502,-252.16, and the payments to S92.328.55, which, with the amount on hand from the previous not Including the Sinking Fund account, leaves a balance at the close' of- on Wednesday night of $16,117,611.35. DUALITY BROKERS QUIT BUSINESS Place Ordered Closed After. Cam- den Police Captain's Visit "Wilson stock brokers," as the gilt on the doors read, did not open for business at Third and Federal streets, Camden, yesterday.

At the time Captain of. Police Bdyle thrust his head In the door, just before'the closing hour, Wednesday, causing many of the spectators to flee for fear of a raid. Assistant Prosecutor of the Pleas had two men in the room investigating a complaint that the place was a bucket shop. Just what the officers reported was not made public, but it is known that as. 'soon as Captain Boyle found that a man named White, of Philadelphia, had.

been fleeced, the place was ordered closed- Chief of Police Gravenor said last night that he had been advised that the place as conducted was contrary to law and that he did propose to permit it to continue. A painful operation was necessary to remove a fish hook which had become" imbedded in the upper jaw of the pet fox terrier belonging to J. H. Colkitt, of Mount Holy. annual IRetmctton of Mtofo (Brafce Patent or Tan Variety of Stylet fBent Yom know what this means $4.

$5 and $6 Oxfords at $2.95 $3.65 $3.95 Zimmerman SHOPS 916 Chestnut Street lands Ulint Arcade Open Saturday Evenings Until 9.30 Velvet Loaf Cake, 2c each today and Saturday, at Hanscom's. 734 MARKET. 1119 Chestnut. PATENTS Trade-marks, Labels. Send for my free hook.

"How to Get Them." Inrent something nsetal. There Is money la practical inTentions. whether large or small. Monday henJgs. ADVICE FHl-t.

JOSHUA R. H. POTTS Lawyer Suite- ail, J2U CHESTSIT ST. Philadelphia. Chicagc and Washington.

D. $1.00 2 frnlbon aquarium. 5 gold fish. 1 plant. tadpoles.

1 box CUGLEY MULLEN 122! Market St. My Name is Swartz Ever Met Me 'Oft' 7 I will clean the pipes and heaters. This time of the year I Want You In the early fal You'll Want Me 67 N. 2nd St. Both "Helios" Swartz the Stove Man Don't'TutThingsOff" Good Advice Showing Hew Pr.crs.ati-natian Causes Moat or the Hard The habit of putting things off is the direct cause of thousands of failures, it is a habit as old as the hills against which philosophers have thundered for ages.

Procrastination is the real cause of most of the so-called "hard luck. Opportunities come unbidden, and only those are prompt to take hold reap the advantage, lvignt at this time you have the most remarkable opportunity of a lifetime to procure unprecedented piano values for less than half the actual worth of the instruments. If you want a piano, now is the time to get It. If you put it off the opportunity will pass, and later on the same piano which yon could buy now at an advantage -will cost you from $100 to $200 more. The-.

16th' Annual Sale of P. A. North 13US Chestnut street, the widely known piano manufacturers. Is the greatest-sale of its kind Philadelphia ha had for fifty years. As a rule, piano bargain sales held by-dealers are intended to dispose of.

worn-out, second-hand but the North sale offers only well-known makes; most of which are practically as good as 'new. The sale is. remarkable not only for the character of the pianos offered, but also for the variety of makes. You can purchase the make vou prefer at-a saving of from $100 to $20O. J-ivery piano is rebuilt, retuned and refinlshed like and is sold with the full guarantee of the firm." You run no risk whatever.

The piano you select muss be satisfactory, or-North Co. will return your money. Nothing can be fairer than that. For $223 you can purchase a $360 Vose; mahogany new. For $185 yon can secure a $450 Knabe; rosewood.

y- For $173 you become the owner' of a handsome $550 Steinway; rosewood Tease. For $165 you can obtain a $450 Decker Bros, mahogany. For $125 you can get a $250 Billings mahogany; manufacturers sample; practically new. For $115 you fan bur a $300 Stoddard; large size; 3 pedals; like new." For $100 you can purchase a $300 Shull-hoff; rosewood. OntConpon 'Today COUPON NORTH 1308 Chestnut St.

Send me" your, complete 46th annual Piano Sale bargain lists also special easy-payment plan. Name. P.I, S-9. BIRDS MAKE flEST OUT DF HEIRLOOM Carried Valuable lace Collar Up a "Tree and Men of Affairs Lost Creases in Their Trousers Special to The Inquirer. BURLINGTON, N.

Aug. 8. The mysterious disappearance of a valuable heirloom in the shape of a lace collar, nearly' a century- old; which she had placed in the sun on the lawn to bleach, led Miss Emma Dugdale, of West Union street, to believe that a thief had made off with the finery- A servant- paw a flutter of white in a nearby tree and found birds weaving a nest out of the costly neck piece. Miss Dugdale lives in the fashionable section of the city and 11 physicians and business men who were among the neighbors who learned of her loss gathered under the tree and took the creases out of. their trousers in ineffectual to "shinny" up the tree where the "thieves had t-heir hefet.

A finally accomplished the task at which the. professional men had failed, and received "a liberal reward for restoring the lost iinery to its owner. Down' Warship Hatchway J. E. 60 years, of 1253 Park boulevard.

Camden, fell twenty feet through the hatchway of a warship at the plant of the New York Shipbuilding Company yesterday. He was thought to be fatally injured and an' emergency run was made to Cooper Hospital, where it was stated that he escaped with scalp lacerations and Contusions of the body. Death "of Mrs. James S. Kiger Special to The Inquirer.

THE NTON. N. Aug. 8. Mrs.

Margaret Forman Kiger. of Colonel James S. Kiger. Deputy Adjutant General of the National Guard of the State, died today at her home on West State street. Salem Election Board Organizes Special to The iDquirer.

SALEM. N. Aug. 8. The County Board of Elections has organised by electing Firjuan II.

Lloyd. Republican, president, and William B. Jones, Democrat, secretary. Masons to Lay Church Corner-Stone Special to The Inquirer. PEN NSG ROVE.

N. Aug. 8. The corner-stone of the "new Baptist Church, of which Rev. Harry S.

Kldd is pastor, will be laid with appropriate ceremonies on Saturday afternoon. August 17. The exercises will be in charge of Pennsgrove Lodge, Masons. CAMDEN NEWS NOTES Deputy Surrogate Marple Yesterdav admitted. the will of Alfred Cheshire to probate.

The executrix named is Elizabeth Cheshire, his wiUw. James Watson." aged TO yearsi who fell oft a lumber pile, sustaining injuries that permanently crippled him. was taken to the almshouse at Blackwood yesterday by Superintendent of the Bureau of Charities E. Jefferis, Leroy Shugar. aged ft North Front street.

Philadelphia, and, Harry Markowitz. aged .12 years, of-Thompson street, were picked rip as runaway yesterday. Their parents were sent for -and they were taken home. By the breaking of a chain. of a big crane at the plant of the New York Shipbuilding Company -yesterdaxC Frank Rose, aged 44..

years, of as injured la the left side. He was taken to the Cooper' Hospital. Sparks from a charcoal fire used, to heat, irons caused a blaze in the rear of the store of Charles Huff. Washington and Riley streets. Camden, yesterday that did but little damage, bnt caused intense excitement for a while.

John Brodgey. a Pole, of 1234 Mechanic street, was held in $500 baii by Recorder Stackhouse yesterday on. 'the charge of selling bottled beer without a license to Otto Kapenlek. a minor. "The complaint, was made by Mrs.

Mattie Kap-enck. the boy's mother. Thomas Kelly, a saloon keeper." of Second street and -Kaighn Camden, was yesterday held by Recorder Stackhouse for a further hearing, to await the result of the injuries be is said to have inflicted on his wife Elizabeth during a quarrel night. Mrs. Kelly is in the Cooper Hospital.

JOTTINGS THROUGH JERSEY In celebration "of the sixty-fifth anniversary of her birth. Mrs. Louisa Beal. of received a of 275 souvenir postcards. Miss Sarah, M.

Holmes has been reelected teacher of the primary department of the Dennlsvllle" public school. She has held this position for the past fifteen years. f- C. S. Wallen.

a Vlneland business man. while assisting a truckman to start a heavy load out of a ditch, had one thumb mashed so badly that It had to be amputated. O. Bidwell. known as the "glass sand king" of South Jersey, has sold his sand pits and outfit to George Jonas, the glass bottle manufacturer of Minotola.

The purchase price is said to approximate $50,000. Flemlngton's annual carnival is now under full sway iu the public par. 'Record-breaking crowds have been in attendance since, the carnival opened with the beginning of the week. The quarterly meeting of the Hunterdon County E. Union will be" held at Milford August 15,.

Camp" meeting exercises- will begin at Mount Pleasant Sundav evening and i-on- tinue for ten days. John Saunders, of Lambertville, has been elected district president for the I. O. of A. of Hunterdon county.

The congregation of the Kaptlsttown Baptist Chnrch will hold annual harvest home tomorrow. The third qusrterry meeting of the Hunterdon County Pomona Grange "will be held in- Grange this afternoon. E. N. of Rlngoes, will deliver the address of An occasion that brought three hun dred persons, including many politicians, to the of former Sheriff William A.

Townsend. -near Columbus, yesterday was "the. annual onfing of the Columbus Snapper Soup William Nhinsen made the first packing of tomatoes -the' season at their Salem plant yesterday: The to-matoes were brought to Salem from Glon-cester county on barge. Two- grown mud hens and -seven l'ttle ones attracted attention on the streets yesterday. -s Salem" county is to.

have, another -tomato factory. Benjamin F. Knight having rented the old Salem Iron plant. They will have It ready for operation the latter part of the month. State Road Commissioner.

E. C. Hutchinson has approved the building of the Alloway- and Aldine State road and work will soon be eommeuced. The road is to.be built of ir With the annual -picnic -of the Sunday schools at the Burlington Island Park, Florence-' was near ly "deserted yesterday; AIl denominatIoiis.JoIned..in the outing and the "industries of the town shut down, The four young men arrested at Gloucester City, charged, with assault on Julia Florence Griee. will be admitetd to bail- Yesterday- Jacob Andersen, one of the quartet, was released on -ball.

Mavor Lincoln. 1 of Gloucester Citv. yesterday, returned from his vacation and is back at his office. Gloucester City Council's. Street.

Committee has engaged Contractor Gilmore to continue the work; of cleaning the streets niktii tne next meeting or council. A two nights. lawn festival will Den at Gloucester City tonight under the direction St. Mary's Catholic Church. The police authorities of Gloucester City and -vicinity-are on the hunt for wire thieves.

A committee from the South Jersey Farmers. Picnic. Association yesterday nt-tended the annual picnic of the Gloucester connty at -Alcyon Park. -In-order to raise for the pur chase of a bell, the Lnniberton Fire Com pany will hold a peach on 8atur- WARDEN HAYES QUITS ASYLUM Follows Medical Inspector Ward and Resigns From New Jersey Hospital for the Insane 1KEXTOX, X. Aug.

8. Following the recent dismissal of Dr. John W. Ward as medical director of the New! Jersey State Hospital for Insane, the board of managers of. the institution today accepted the resignation of Warden llliam P.

Haves, who. with Dr. Ward. Mas jointly held responsible for the spread of yphoid fever and other mismanagement at the asylum. Warden Haye3' resignation was at the instance of the board of managers, he having been informed this morning that if he did not voluntarily retire from the he -would be ousted.

Warden Hayes will retire September 1, and in the meantime successor will "be named. Former Sheriff Samuel T. of this county, will likely' land the place, althoun Frederick F. Katzenbach, former proprietor, of the Trenton' House, has been mentioned in connection the post. No action has yet been taken relative to the naming of a successor to Dr.

Ward, but the managers have decided that an expert alienist shall be, secured for the place. The managers decided to place Dr. John C. Felty, the first assistant physician, in charge of the medical department of the hospital until Dr. Ward's successor has been elected.

It is expected that a number of the managers will resign as soon as the present tangle at the hospital has been straightened out. It is reasonably certain that Judge G. D. W. Vroom, presi dent of the board, and Joseph Kicewill sever their connection -with the institution.

Scott Scammell, secretary of the board, will also resign shortly. Additional typhoid cases have developed at the asylum until the number of patients has passed the hundred mark. Nearly twenty deaths have resulted. POLITICIANS AT PICNIC Thirty Thousand Persons Enjoyed Ontinsr Near Pitman Special to The Inquirer. PITMAN, N.

Aug. 8. An attendance today of more than 30.000 at the Grangers Picnic at Alcyon Park broke all previous records. Many farmers who drove from long distances started at daylight from their homes, and by 9 o'clock this morning the crowd was already as large as It was at any time yesterday. Detectives Dodd and Smith, of Camden, and Tate, Scanlon, McFadden and Conner, besides half a doren local detectives, were on duty Last evening they arrested tbr well-known crooks at the station and took them to Woodbury, where they will be given a hearing after the picnic is over Saturday.

They were all well dressed. This morning they arrested five others at the Camden depot, and consequently few losses were reported at the Although the farmers brought big dinners, many persons went hungry nnd thirstv. as "it was Impossible to get near a food stand or a drinking place, so great werujhe crowds. Vehicles were here by the thousands. Horses were tethered in the fields and woods for a half-mile around the park.

The twenty-four acres of the park were packed to the last foot. The potlticians'were lest in the jam. but they iew all there, for this was "Politicians' fav.tt fight for county clerk was the: most nbsorbing topic; SOME TALL FISHING. THIS Prankford Man and a Friend Made Great Hani Special to The Inquirer. WILDWOOD, NV Aug.

g. Charles Lloyd, of Frankford. has returned home from a record-lvreklng fishing trip in the sounds back of Wildwood -and Stone Harbor. He and a companion- on one Incoming tide were apparanetly surrounded by an immense school of weakfish. They got busy at once nnd for a time the hooks never had a chance to sink lower than four inches when two and often three fish be brought up "at once.

When the excitement was over and the fish were counted there were found to be 207 weakfish, 22 hake and 17 flounders. Religious Fervor at National Park Special to The Inquirer. NATIONAL PARK, N. Aug. 8.

"Blackwood and Wiley at the annual camp meeting proved a big day and there was -much religious fervor at each of the Today's services opened with an experience and prayer meeting In charge of Miss Lizzie Sharp. The first sermon of the day was delivered by Rev. W. L. Shaw, while this afternoon Rev.

H. W. Bolton Fpoke. Rev. W.

S. Ludlow was the preacher tonight. The holiness meeting in the temple was full of enthusiasm. The attendance, at the morning service was the largest of the camp. Willie Jones Had His Fun Detective Hart brought William Jones, aged 10 years, of 2.10 North Front streetj to police headquarters in Camden yesterday, where he admitted that he sent a message over the 'phone of "a contractor that sent nearly" all the fire companies to Front and Elm.

streets on a false alarm. When asked why he did it be said he wanted to see the fire horses run and hear the bells ring. No complaint was made because of nis tender years. He was turned over to his parents. Riverside Boy Killed by Train Special to The Inquirer.

RIVERSIDE. N. Aug. Marcello Dufresne was killed at Delanco this afternoon by being struck by a accommodation train. The lad.

who was 9 roam rtl XX- jtVirtnt to rroflff ftTPr to the other side of the "street when the train struck him. Aithougn nis skuu was crushed, he lived several hours. The parents are inconsolable In their grief. Negro Mute Killed by a Train Special to The Inquirer. BURLINGTON.

N. Aug. 8. William Hall. 28 vears old.

a deaf and dnmb negroe, was Instantly killed hy a passenger train on the Mt. llouy line tnis morning. Engineer Watts declares that Hall was walking on the tracks with his back to the locomotive, and did not hear the warning blasts of the whistle. Came From Italy to Defend Son Special to The Inquirer. FLEMINGTON.

Aug. a Cosino Tomasl. father of Michael Tomasi, who is awaiting the action of the Grand Jury upon a charge of having murdered Mrs. Frank Cougilio, of Lambertville, has arrived from his home in Italy to assist his son. Tomasi denies having murdered the-woman.

Atlantic Marshall Wilder's-Home Special to The Inquirer. ATLANTIC CITY, N. Aug. 8. Mar-, shall P.

Wilder, the humorist, has made arrangements to make this city his home. Mr. Wilder, who some weeks ago leased a cottage for. the summer, has become-so much attached to this resort that he will stay all' the Shaw. Family's Annual Reunion Special' to The Inquirer.

BRIDGETON, N. Aug. 8. Three hundred members of the Shaw family gathered at Tumbling Dam Park today for their annual reunion. Many of them came, from distant points.

Wealthy W6man's Serious Fall Special to The Inquirer. MOUNT HOLLY, N. Aug. 8, Mrs. Oliver L.

Jeffrey, a wealthy woman, living onHIgh. street, was seized with and. falling' downstairs, her collar-bone. -r CHOPPED TO PIECES BY REAPER KNIVES Wife of Chanceford Farmer Meets Horrible Death Whan Team of Mules Ran Away Special to The Inquirer. YORK, Aug.

8. Jlrs. Ames Warner, aged about fifty years, a well-known resident of Chanoefc-rd townsblp-died last night as a result of a frightful accident. i Mrs. Warner was assisting hor husband in the harvest field when a team of mules ran awav and Mrs.

Warner was thrown into tne path of the reaper knives. She was horribly choppnl end died in great agony. ST. ATHICK WANTED Epldemir Hattlrnakeii Breaks IiofiP' in mi't'ltn County Special to The Inquirer. LE rt'ISTOWX.

Aug. 8. The. farmers and mountaineers of this section of the State are quietly praying for the ad-rent of a modern St. Patrick, who will utilize his time and talents in an effort to banish at least a part of the snakes from Mifflin county.

Adam Brubaker, an aged mountaineer, reports killing twenty-seven rattlesnakes during the present week. Three workmen employed. at the reservoir work-in Mlnohart's Gap killed nine snakes and brought the rattles to the village, and presented them to their friends as a charm against headache. A large rattlesnake was killed in Oranville and fourteen rattles and a button taken from his tail. This has not occurred before in half a century.

The farmers report the treacherous copperhead lying about in almost every crack and cranny and they are required to use every precaution to avoid their fangs. Bristol May Have Its Own Water Works Special to The Inquirer. DOYLKSTOWX, Aug. 8. Judge Stout this afternoon handed down an opinion in the Bristol water works case, in which the officers of the Bristol Water Company asked the court to enjoin the bnrgess and Town Council of the borough of Bristol from increasing the borough Indebtedness to provide for a water supply anil the construction of a sewerage system in that boroueh.

Judge Stout decided the boroueh had the rleht to establish its own water works and dismissed the bill at the costs of the plaintiffs. Miners Discharged for nding Funeral Special to The Inquirer. W1LKES-BARRE, Aug. 8. The eight hundred mine workers at the Gay-lord collierv of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company, at Plymouth, are greatly agitated bv the discharge of sixteen of their fellow-workers for attending the funeral of nn employe yesterday.

The men had not obtained permission to remain awav from work, but had not expected a discharge and were surprised when- told there-was no more work for them. A strike is threatened. Roberts Milnes- BLOOMSBURG. Aug. Mary Viola Milnes and George Woodwortn Roberts, both residents, of Espy, were married there today M.

UP; bell. pastor of the Espy Methodist Church. YANKED CORPSE FROM COFFIN FOR PHOTO Special to The Inquirer. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.

A ghastly scene was enacted today at the burial of Michael Bekezki, an" Austrian coal miner whose body was interred is the Independence Cemetery. Bekezki last request was that his death picture be sent to his young wife in Austria. When the funeral cortege reached the burying ground the body was rudely dragged from the coffin and placed in a sitting posture against the fence while a photographer snapped the corpse, surrounded bv laughing friends. The body was then bundled back into the casket, lowered into a grave and the funeral concluded. HUGE STRIKE AVERTED Mine Worker and Pittshmrs: Coal Co.

Have Adjusted LHfference Special to Th. Inquirer, PITTSBURG, Aug. 8. At a conference this afternoon of officers of District No. 5, United Mine Workers of America, and officers of the Pittsburg Coal Company all grievances that threatened to bring on a strike of 14,000 men were amicably adjusted and danger of a strike averted." no official statement was issued by either party to the controversy, le-yond the announcement that all difficulties had been settled, it was understood that the company has agreed to the stipulations of the miners' organization and that 2000 men who have been out at some of the company's mines will return to work tomorrow.

The agreement reached at todav's conference will remain in force until March, 1908. STATION AGENT ATTACKED Black Hand Said to Be at Work at EHwood Special to-The Inquirer. NEW CASTLE, Aug. 8, Wilfred Francis, night agent of the B. and O.

Railroad at Ellwood was bound and gagged by two masked men at 2 o'clock this' morning and the station robbed of He was tied and chained and gagged with tissue paper. It is believed to be a Black Hand outrage. Troop of the State Constabulary, under command of Captain J. -F. Robinson, has been ordered to New Castle to round up the balance of the Black Hand gang that has been terrorizing this district for months.

Captain Robinson arrived today with ten men of his troop and another detachment Will arrive tomorrow. Frightened Horse Drags Special to The Inquirer. BLOOM SBURG, Aug. 8. A miraculous escape from Instant death was that last night of.

Mr. Mrs. George Yost, of Benton, when th'-'ir horse took fright at an automobile and. jumping suddenly, threw Mr. Yost out of the carriage, badly Injuring him.

Without a driver, the horse quickly overturned the carriage, pinning Mrs. Yost" and children beneath the carriage top, where, imprisoned, they were dragged a distance before the horse broke loose. All were fiightfully cnt and bruised and it is feared Mrs. Yost's leg is broken. Mob Attacks Fish Commissioner Nesley Special to The Inquirer.

ROYERSFORD. Aug. 8. Fish Commissioner Charles H. Nelsey was attacked on the main street In Spring City this evening by an angry mob -of citi zens, who were aroused over the arrest of George Montgomery, a 16-year-old boy, for illegally setting a fyke net in the stream that runs through his father's farm.

At the hearing before Magistrate Weikel he pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and costs. This roused the crowd's anger and only for cooler, heads the would have been roughly handled. Dubois to Put Lid on Sundays Special to The Inquirer. DUBOIS. Aug.

to a recent motion passed by the Town Council, all of the persons who have been accustomed to transact business on Sunday will liereaf ter be -forced to remain closed or be fined. The dealers state that they will resist -the motion, while the Police Committee say that everything must close. MIS4- BFSIE GINGHLR. HICH SCHOOL GIRL HAS FINE-RECORD Miss Bessie Gingher, of Burn-ham, Not Only Takes Spelling Prize, But Is Never Late Special to The Inquirer. BUEXHAM, Aug.

8. Miss Bessie Gingher, a pupil of Bumham High School, has a record as a regular pupil that challenges competition in the State. She has not been tardy or absent from school for five years. Miss Gingher has taken the first prize in spelling every term since the was first enrolled as a pupil in the primary school. The high school at Burnham has held the banner, or "flag of honor," in Mifflin county oftener than any other school in the county during the last two years.

This banner is given to the school with the best percentage of attendance in the count-. Darby and Colwyn Enjoy the Music Special to The Inquirer. DAUBY, Aug. 8. Darby and Colwyn celebrated this evening with the first of a series of band coucerts, which will continue every Thursday evening during the summer.

The concert was held at Tyler's Heights, central to the two ad- ioininsr boroughs. he music was furnish ed by the Efmwood Band, which is now known as the Elmwood Band of Darby. The cost of the entertainment is met by private subscription. C. T.

U. A. Cadet Drowned Special to The Inquirer. WILKKS-BARRE. Aug.

8. James McGreevey. of this city, a private in Company of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union regiment now camping at Harvey's drowned In the lak this afternoon. He got beyond his depvh and sank before his companions knew that he was in distress. The body was quickly recovered.

i-vs SLUMBERED HIS WAY-PEACEFULLY INTO JAIL Special to The Inquirer. PITTSBURG, Aug. alias "Spotty" Burke, aged 65, said to be one of the best known pickpockets in the United States, this morning was ordered to forfeit $100 or to serve 90 days in the workhouse by Magistrate Frank Brady on a charge of being a suspicious person. At the hearing Burke admitted he was a professional pickpocket, but said he was "trying to reform in his old age. Burke said he boarded a train in Youngs-town yesterday for New Castle.

He fell asleep on the train and rode to this city and was arrested. Pittsburg Bank Robbed of Coupons Special to The Inquirer. PITTSBURG. Aug. 8.

A downtown bank robbery was reported to the Pittsburg police today, the name of the bank is being concealed. Notice has been sent all over the country that coupon notes of the Westlnghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. to the amount of many thousands had been stolen -and the public is warned not to buy them. The numbers of the missing notes have been sent to every banking house of importance in the country and to all police headquarters. Skunk Bested Hunting Party Special to Thr Inquirer.

POTTSVILLE, Aug. 8. A hunting party which left here today to kill a wild cat which had attacked several camping parties in the Tumbling Run Valley had an experience not anticipated. They" failed to find the cat, but were themselves put to flight by a skunk. Two of the party had to send for a change of clothing before they could re-enter town.

PKOBING BRUTAL MURDER Man Arrested Has Same Xame as Irish Baronet's Brother MONTE CARLO, Aug. 8. The finding of the dismembered body of a woman at Marseilles August 6 in the baggage of two travelers, who were first referred to as Mr. and Mrs. Goold, but who have been identified as persons who were known here as "Sir Vere and Lady Goold, has created a sensation here.

The police say the investigation indicates that Emma Levin was murdered by the Goolds. Jewels, believed to have belonged to the victim, were found in the female prisoner's hand-satchel. Investigation in England shows there is an Irish baronet. Sir James Stephen Goold, in Australia, who has a brother. Vere Thomas St.

Leger, who married Violet, daughter of Hippolyte Glrodin. of Chateau La Sone, Department of the Isere. France, and whose address is given in Debrett's peerage as 56 Drum-mond street, Montreal, Canada. PLEA OF SUBJECT RACES Demand Same ItishtM Granted in the-Case of Belligerents THE HAGUE," Aug. a A large' gathering, which was attended by representatives of the Armenians, Georgians.

Albanians, Poles. Boers, today adopted a resolution in favor of the extension to the subject races of the rights granted in the case of belligerents. The meeting decided that the rights of the subject races and populations in time of civil war, rebellion or other disturbance should be identical with the rights of belligerents as denned by The Hague Conference, that tiie. condition of slavery among the subject populations should not be maintained, that the forcible appropriation of land, produce or labor be prohibited together with wrongful" deportation, and that all subjects of a distinctive ationallty should be guaranteed the management of heir own affairs. KING SPENDS $3,000,000 Slam's Ruler Gratifies Taste for Genu and" Plate BERLIN, Aug.

-8. King Chulalongkprn I will leave Berlin for Cassel, where he will be the of the Ger man Emperor and Empress. Stories of the extravagance of the Slam ese King continue to excite and amuse It is considered certain that "he has bought worth of diamonds and gold and silverware. Two gold services' among-, the selections cost $800,000 each. JOB W.

TAYLOR- VETERAN AND FATHER OF A VETERAN DIES John Mi Taylor, of Shamokin, Early Volunteer an i Father of Young Drummer, Pass3S Away Special to The Inquirer. SHAMOKIN, Aug. S. John W. Taylor died here today.

He had the distinction of being one of the oldest and earliest volunteers to the euppoit of Union armies at the outbreak cf the Civil War, while his son William, supposed to be one, if not the youngest, drummer boys, was in the northern forces when his father fought on many battlefields. The sen died several year- ago. The father, aftinr becoming an officer and being wounded, had to quit the service. He was commander of Lincoln Post, No. 140, G.

A. at the time of death. He was a painter and contractor, a prominent Democratic party worker and leading supiorter of St. Edward's Catholic Church, thi place. He will be buried next Saturday.

Thief Gets "Farmer" Creasy's Watch Special to The Inquirer. BLOOMSBnW, Ausr. 8. Pickpockets were no respecters of persons at the Graupe picnic Ui this county yesterday, when thev picked the pocket of "Karracr" T. Creasy, relieving him of $18 in cash, pome valuable papers and several railroad tickf ts.

K. M. Loiubneii. of Forks, lad his pocket picked and about $30 in money was taken. John Harrison, of Forks, and Archibald Patterson, of Or-angevjlle, were also heavy losers.

JAPS JW) NEGROES, IN HOT FIGHT AT MEDIA Epecial to The Inquirer. MEDIA, Aug. 8. Considerable excitement was created here this afternoon by the arrest of T. Temanto and Dan Tania, two Japanese chefs at the Brooke Hall Inn, charged with assault and battery on Samuel Lee, the colored head waiter.

The Japs were sent to jail in default of bail for a hearing tomorrow. The proprietor. Jay M. employs about fifteen of the little brown men as his cooks, there is caid to be otiain-ed relations between them and the colored waiters. According to the police, a quarrel ensued regarding some mistake in the culinary department, and when Lee complained six or eight of the Japs threw themselves upon him.

Lee was rescued by his fellow waiters and a number of guests, and for time great excitement prevailed. LOOPHOLE IN ASYLUM Four Inionr Patient Escape From DanvilJeJn One Week Special to The Inquirer. DANVILLE. Aug. 8.

An epidemic of escapes seems to be prevalent at the Danville insane asylum, which the oflicials of the institution seem powerless to stop. Yesterday morning about 11 o'clock, while she was unguarded, Annie Germain stole from the asylum grounds and started making her way up the river pn foot. "When her absence was' discovered searching parties were sent out after her find she was apprehended at Catawissa, six miles from the asylum. Four escapes have now occurred within the past week. Three of the patients gave the attendants a hard chase before They were captured.

The fourth, a man who got away last Wednesdar. has succeeded in entirely eluding pursuit and is still at large. PETERS FAMILY MEET Rev. Madiion C. Peters Makes Address nt Xeflis Epeeia! to Tho Inquirer.

ALLENTOWN, Aug. 8. Eight hundred descendants of Rodoluh. Jacob and Henry Peters, three brothers who came to this country in 1708 and settled in what is known now as Heidelberg and Washington townships, this -county, gathered in annual reunion today at NeCfs, a pdit of their ancestral estate. Rev.

Madison C. Peters, of New York city, one of the most prominent members of l.irse nnd prosperous family, tle-livered the address -of the day. Army Worm Damages Garden Truck Special to The DUBOIS. Aug. 8.

Garden truck In section is bHn? ravaged 'by a multitude of worms designated by some people as "army" worms. The worm 1s about an inch of dnrk brown color and strips a plant in slirrt order. The worir.s bury themselves in lie "ground during day and work at night. Mrs. Joseph Laponi Buried Special to The Inquirer.

BANGOR. Aug. S. The funeral oi Mrs. Joseph Laponi.

of a niece of Dr. Laponi. the prominent phvs'c'an to His Holiness, the Lr.te l'ope leo XIII. of Rome, was he'd here today. The funeral cortege was nearly a long, there being two bands of mus'c and iive beneficial organizations marching.

Lockjaw Fatal to Steel Worker Epecial to The Inonlrer. SOUTH RETHLKHEM, Aug. S. Lockjaw developing from a crushed hand a fortnight ago caused today the death of Frank Ii. Jons, aged 23 years, son of Robert Jones, of Slatlngton.

The dead mr. was employed at the Bethlehem Bteel Works. Boy Drowned In Turner's Lake Special to The Inquirer. MEDIA, Aug. 8-WhiIe walking along the bank of Turner's Lake, In Morton with his 8-year-old sister, Ronald Miller.

ged 6 years, fell over the bank nd wa drowned. in USE A Call 1 THE I I Filbert 2 BELL 1 790 I oay evening, August: i..