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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12
TAKING PROFITS.
Heavy Sales by Largo Holders
Causes Weakness in Wheat.
Cables We're Steady and North
western Receipts Small.
CORN PRICES SHAKEN.
By Report of Heavy Crop in
Missouri.
Provision Market Weakened by
Decline in Live Hogs.
CORN PRICES SHAKEN.

Chicago. Dec -WHEAT-The wheat
market today opened weak on pronI laEA-
ing sales by large holders me Weslhlles7
here was due almost entirely 10 Ire -
alfzina as cables were reported Sle4l5
and the northwestern receipts Were Sl. -
The trading was principally in the Ny
option; May opened a sIaae tomSi q III
and declined to TS1ze. MinneaDons' ~ ~
luth and Chicago reported recelpls ~ -
cars. 49,.
Throughout the remainder Of the day
the market showed little raiIyIng power
and closed weak with May on 72a7sc a.
7S1kc the lowest point of the day
CORN-The corn market opened esis-s-
chiefly in sympathy with wheat Dur inc
missouri state crop report which claimed
q Weld OF 10 million bushels more than
the estimate of the government re-oi !,
had considerable effect May Opened a
shade lower TO a shade higher at S3sc 70
44c and sold 1T 43ssG14Sszc.
The lowest point of the session Tor May
was reached at 1850. Reports OF Il mere
a depressing effect on the market during
the last half of the day The close was
weak with May down &c at 4S3sa4SS4c.
OATS-The oats market was weak
largely in sympathy with wheat. May
opened unchanged to &c lower at $3.50 to
Soc and sold at $40.
PROVISIONS-The PROVISIONS market
was weak because of selling which was
based on soto 10c decline in the price
of live hogs January pork opened &c
lower at S15.75 and sold down to SIS 81 u
clined to SS.525z Ribs were down nc at
WHEAT-Cash: No. red. 75l1G75s4c
No. 8 red, 73175c; No. hard, TIA SIC;
Sc: no. , ditto, SoQS4c: No. spring. 464
SIC
cQRRgs-No. ? Rothipg doing & No g. 4c-
RYE-Cash; 65lzGs7c.
BARLEY-Cash. A36D55c.
FLAX. Clover and Timothy, MILL
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IN JULY OR AUGUST.
CIlautauqua Assembly WIN Be Held at
Garfield Park Next Summer.

Topeka is to have an annual Chau-
tauqua assembly. J. S. White of Kan
sas City. who makes a business OF
establishing Chautauquas, held a
meeting at the Commercial club rooms
last night, and it was agreed TO add
Topeka to a circuit of Kansas and
eastern Missouri. four OF which have
been established.
A committee composed of Rev. c.
E. HolcOmbe, H. B. Howard. Mrs s.
A. Thurston. Mrs. W. A McCarter.
Mrs. A. H Horton. c. E. Jordan, Mrs.
w. H. Rutter. G. S. Elliott, Dr. Nor
man Plass. Rev F. L. Hayes. H. w
McAfee, Rev. w. NJ. Cleavelaad, and
FRANK Foster, Was named &c choose a
corporate name for the association
and secure articles OF incorporation.
THE Topeka Chautauqua associat tom
was chosen as the official name of the
organization, and Incorporation papers
viii be taken out soon.
Mr.. White will furnish most of the
attractions for the meeting which will
probably be held at GARFIELD park, al
though no definite location has been
chosen. The assembly will probably
be held in July or August 1907.
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LANDS WITHDRAWN.
Over Two-thirds of Choctav Reserve
Held Out From Allotment.


Muskogee, 1. T. Dec. 12.-Tele-
graphic instructions from the secre-
tary of the interior to the Dawes COM
mission ordering the withholding from
allotment of over two-thirds of the
Choctaw nation and twenty-six town
ships of the Cherokee nation. have
been received. The orders from the
department at Washington to the
Choctaw land Office and the land di-
vision of the commission have sur
prised these departments, because,
should the order stand as it is now in
terpreted several large towns in these
nations viii, be without authority to
exist.
The land Withdrawn in the Chero-
lIee nation extends from the Arkansas
lire west to within six miles of Table
quah. The only explanation received
by Commissioner Bixby is The tele-
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BUT ne DIDN'T DO IT.
Italian Confesscs to 4 Crime Which
Probably Never Occurred.

Sheriff A. T Lucas is IN receipt of a
communication from ". B. Griffin,
sheriff at Abba. Iowa. saying that he
has an Italian in custody who con-
fesses thai he stabbed a fellow coun-
trynan to death in this city about a
year ago. No one IS wanted in this
community for such a crime as the
italian describes in his confession.
though il is remem bered that a little
more than a year ago an Italian was
stabbed while working for the railroad
company near Calhoun Bluffs.
He came to the city and tried to tell
the officers what had happened to him
but his limited acquaintance with the
English language was against him and
no warrant was ever issued for his as
sailant. Since that's time he has disap-
peared, his wound growing of a superz
fetal nature and neither the force al
the police station or the ssheriff's Office
are able to throw any further light or
the case
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gram, and a map. on which the tract
tc be excluded from allotment is
marked with a blue pencil. on this
map is notation which says that the
land is withdrawn because of the Jack
Gordon game preserve and the for
eStry reserve.
Three days ago an order came from
the department asking the commits
sion to exclude from allotment all of
the land south and east of the Kia-
MACH river in the Choctaw nation,
but that reserve was small compared
to the one which followed today. 1t
extends from the boundary line be-
tween Indian territory and Arkansas
including two-thirds of the Choctaw
nation. In the tract are many miles of
railroad and towns of considerable
consequence, which will be practically
depopulated If the land around them
cannot be settled.
The towns included in the reserve
area of the ChoctaW nation are Tuska-
hona. Wister. Smithville. Talihina,
Pocahontas, Poteau. Bokoshe, Cow
lington. Tamaha, StigIer. Sana Bots.
Hartshorn, Wilburton, Kiowa, String
town and other smaller towns. The
Jones academy is at Armstrong and
the Choctaw National Female semi
nary east of Tuskahoma-
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DATES ARE FIXED.
senate Finds Ont When Cabinet
Changes VIII Take Place.

Washington. Dec FIT is the
present intention to have Mr. Cortel-
you take charge of the treasury port
folio on March f. said Senator AID
rich who talked with the president to-
day about Mr.. Cortelvou's nomination
to be secretary of the treasury which
was held 10 by the senate finance
committee yesterday. because no date
was specified as to when the appoint
ment would become effective. 1t has
been customary heretofore. the secre-
tary said, to specifically indicate the
date upon which such appointments
are to take effect and its omission in
the present case probably was an
oversight. So far as he was aware,
the senator said, there is no objection
to Mr.. Cortelyou's confirmation or
others pending. #ft
AS the result of the conference be-
tween Senator Aldrich and the presi-
dent the nominations of Mr.. Won Myer
to be postmaster general. and Nj.
Garfield to be secretary of the interior
also will be dated to take effect March
4. An alteration will be made in the
form of the nomination of Attorney
General Moody. to be associate justice
of the supreme court, Secretary of the
Navy Bonaparte to be attorney gen
eral Secretary of Commerce and La
Dor Metcalf to be secretary of the
navy, and Oscar Straus to be secretary
of commerce and labor These nomi-
nations viii take effect OH Decem-
Der 24
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Nerr YorI. S,ock.

Wall Street, New York. Dec. 12-Only
narrow changes from last nights prices
resulted from the opening dealings in
stocks and these were divided between
gains and losses. Transactions We're gen
orally small but there were large blocks
of some of the speculative favoriteS trans
ferred- Northern Pacific and Northwest
ern rose ~ and Great Northern preferred
a point. Canadian Pacific fell a point
The market moved upwards after most
of the list had receded from the opening
prices.
Most of the significant fluctuations We're
confined to the high priced railroad
stocks, especially the sale group and St
Paul Reading was feverish and mainly
heavy.
After the Western group had risen sub
stantially profit taking on St. Paul put a
damper on the buying for a time but at
IL Q clock some of the western stocks
We're moving up again Northern Pacific
improved rs, Louisville and Nashville pa
St. Paul 13s, the preferred > and Toledo
st. Louis and Western preferred ran off
The rise carried Atchison United States
Steel preferred and Cotton Oil preferred
up point Sales to take profits then
turned prices dOwnwards and most of the
rise was lost Great Northern preferred
fel violently Z points. The new sub
Scrlptlon rights were quoted in the out
side market at 5000. but operators in
the stock conclude that the speculative
buying Of II had overva1ued the rights
Reading. Denver and Rio Grande and
Great Northern Ore certificates rose
Bonds were steady
Efforts to raise the market was made
Dy marking ID St Paul That stock
rose again to the highest but the move
ment was disappointing elsewhere and
SelinS VS. renewed,
Virtually all of the important stocks
ruled fraction or more below yester-
days closing. The heavy selling of Read
feated attempts to advance the prices Of
other stocks.
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New York Nronnr

New York, Dec. 12-MONEY-c,1ose.
Prime mercantile paper. 6d61z per cent.
Sterling exchange, weak with actual
business in bankers bills at 81 50 65634 Sc n
for demand and at $47S. s9G4 IS s. for 60
days bills; posted rates, S4S0fT4 S01L ana
S4-S5td4- SIT; commercial bills 81 7S51T4 7S5S
Bar silver. 63Ssc; Mexican dollars 52slc
government bonds, firm; railroads
Money on call strong. 6a15 per cent:
ruling rate 10 per cent; closing bid Is per
cent: offered at 3 -
Time loans duh and strong: 60 days 8 per
cent; 80 days 61z to per cent; xiv
months OK to z per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-12

FREDERICK 9. PEPPER, who is president
of the PeDer Tobacco company and an
executor Of the will, is charged by the
other children with cOnspiring with
Christian Cornelius, the company's
secretary and treasurer. who was
raised by their father to "bulldoze''
the father into making a will giving
Cornelius an equal share in the estate.
Jane Oaker's share $4,000
Upon the outcome of procee dings to
break the viii OF the late Christian
PEPPER. millionaire president of the
Christian PEPPER Tobacco company, in
the circuit court today, depends the
receipt of $4,000 from the estate by
Jane Oaker we'll known actress, and
her parents, Mr. and Mrs Christian
Cornelius.
The case largely depends upon the
ruling of Judge Reynolds as to wheth-
er contestants in the proceedings have
the right to introduce alleged declara-
tons and admissions OF contestees,
Frederick PEPPER and Christian Cor
nelius. made. subsequent to the execu-
ton of the Will.
Actress Smiles at testimony.
Miss Oaker and her parents smiled at
the testimony of the first witness, Caro-
line PEPPER who testified that her father
told that, if Frederick and Christian
Cornelius forced him to make a will
providing for Cornelius he wanted her
to contest 1t. She said he told her also
that he was under no further obliga-
lions to Cornelius The witness testi-
fed also to overhearing conversation
between Cornelius and Frederick Short
ly before the Will was made, in which
Cornelius said:
do you think we can get him to sign
such a will?" TO which Frederick is al
legged by the sister to have said:
I'VE will compel him to-
Tells of Deathbed Scene.
Opening the case, Attorney Laurie,
for the contesters, said:
"A few days before Captain Peper's
death he told Colonel Nicholas M Bell,
his son-in-law, to summon all members
of the family.
there first and ordered Captain Peper's
daughter Caroline to leave the room.
Members Of the family were denied adj
mittance.
they saw this man giving Captain Pc
per whisky out of a quart bottle They
saw him hold his hand over the dying
mans mouth.
Son Gave Father Whisky.
Colonel Bell was indignant and sent
for DR.. Laildley. the family physician.
The doctor said the whisky should not
have been given, as he had not pre-
scribed it.
captain PEPPER died without making
a statement"
The person who gave the whisky.
which the lawyer referred to, was Fred
erick Pepper.
PLAINTIFFS in the suit are Charles F.
PEPPER. Adolphus Pepper, Mrs. Nicholas
M. Bell. and Caroline J. Pepper. Defend
ants are Frederick G. PEPPER, president,
and Christian Cornelius Cknown as Pep
err. secretary and treasurer of the PEPPER
Tobacco company.
The proceedings grew out Of the viii
Of Christian PEPPER, made in July. 1904,
which provided literally for Christian
Cornelius, who was reared by but not
related to the testator.
Jane Oaker is well known in Topeka
on account of her marriage to Hale
Hamilton of this city. son of J. D. NJ
/ Hamilton claim attorney for the Santa
/ Fse railway.
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Kansas City, Dec 12.-WHEAT-Close
Unchanged to &c lower December ttssci
May, 7z15c; July. 7llsc. Cash. No hard.
69s4 Q72ci No. g. 69Q71c; No red, t2Qtsci
No 3, 671z071c-
CORN-Ac lower; December, SIC; May,
39c; July 39stc Cash: No. mixed, 3Sc.
No. 3, 37szc. No. p white, SSs4c.
OATS Unchanged; No. white, S41zcs
No. mixed. $50 3312c-
RYE-Market steady. GOOSE
HAY-Market steady. Choice timothy
SIG. Goals 50; choice prairie, S12.75d 1900.
BUTTER-Market firm Creamery, S0cs
packing, 19c
EGGS-Market steady. 2Sc.
Receipts-W heat. ~ cars.
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0AkER'S LEGACY.
Well Known Actress Figures in
Big Will Fight.
Whisky Fed to Dying Father Is
Sensational Charge.
100000 INVOLVED.
Hale HamiIton's Wife Claims
100000 as Her Share.
Case Is Now Being Tried in St.
Louis Court.

St. Louis. Dec. 12.-Caroline ]. Pep
er, who was on the stand in the suit
to break the 100000 will of Chris
tan PeDer, tobacconist and street rail-
way magnate, it is said, testified that
she and other witnesses looked over
the transom and saw her brother
Frederick giving his father whisky
against the wishes of the family physi-
clan in order to keep the dying mil
lionaire from making any statements
to the other children.
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WORK OF TIE MINIS.
Coinage Has Been Less Than for Sew
craI Years Past.

port Of George Z. Roberts. director Of the
mint. has been filed. It SHOWS that ths
coinage was less during the last year
than for several years previous owing
chiefly to the exhaustion Of the stock OF
silver bullion The Philadelphia mint
was idle three months and the New Or
leans mint four months he San Fran
cisco mint did no work after inc earth
quake and fire The total Of dornestsc
coinage was 10. 271, 035 pieces. of the value
Of s60,2l6. 40. OF this $50 O02. O97 was in
gold coin, s4.016, 36T was subsidiary silver
coin. 3, 5Oz, 397 was in five cent uickcls and
SSsosSS4 was in bronze one cent pieces.
There was also coinage of twenty-five
million pesos IN gold for the Mexican
government, 100000 fractional silver pieces
for the government OF Costa Fsica. ore
million half Balboa pieces for the govern
ment OF Panama, 557. $50 pesos and $50
pieces IN fractional silver coin for the
government of the Phillppine island
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New York. Dec. 12.-POULTRY-Dres
ed, firm; western chickens, 1S4l4c; tur-
keys. 14a1Tc: fowls. Su12c.
BUTTER-Market firm. Street prices,
creamer common to extra. 23432cs held,
common to extra, 22Q301sc.
CHEESE-Malk firm State full
cream, small and large, September fancy.
l412c; ditto. October best, 1312c; ditto, late
made, 12l1G13c; ditto, inferior, 1l412c
EGGS-Market weak. Western average
prime, SIC, official price, frsts, sc; sec
Onds 2SM3lc
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HOW BOSTON VOTED.
: Drop Of 1000 shown in the Majority
fer License.

Boston. Dec 12.=The vote in Bos-
ton yesterday on the liquor question
was. Yes. 43.2S0; no. 1880.
The majority for license, 24,74O-
Last years vote Yes, 55.045; no,
26,422. Majority for license, 2S,613.
Twelve o'clock law: Yes, 39,41T.
no. 1928. Majority for new Law.
1874
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Kansas City, Dec. Z.
Open High Low Close Yes


Chicago, Dec 12-CATTLE-Receipt
81, 600 Market 10c lower Beeves 81 lO1l
rs: cows and heifers, s1.65G5. Is; stockers
and feeders. 81 4aG4-59; Texans, So 800. 6O:
Westerners. s.. 906I5-75: calves, 50. 7507.75-
HOGS-Receipt 5000. Market SC to 1Oc
lower. Mixed and butchers, s. 90G6 20 ;
good heavy, IS. 10G6. 20; rough heavy IS. Is
90 IS; light 50 S016- 10; pigs. $5.30@6 O5; bulk
of sales $ 95G6.15.
SHEEP-Receipts $500. Market steady
Sheep, SSS0a5-S0; lambs. $4.50QS.0o.
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Chicago. Dec. 12-CHEESE-Mark
firm Daisies, 131zc; twins, 1541Ss4cs
Young Americas, lac.
POULTRY-Alive. steady; turkeys, lie;
chickens and Strings, SC.
TTER-Nfarket steady. Creamery.
22031c; dairy. 20Q2Ec
EGGS-Marlet steady, at mark cases
included 26lIaOc-
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u UTIlsIEN y = Z. NIa1l. NUI-lllllss-OIls
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stock.
Office 10 w Sixth ST. Phone 1851
Liverpool cables: Opening, wheat sd
lower; corn sd lower
Second cable; Wheat unchanged, corn
unchanged.
Chicago car lots today: Wheat As. corn
1SS, oats III.
Chicago estimated car lots tomorrow:
Wheat ~, corn 162, oats 81.
Northwest car lots today: Minneapolis
Wheat 2SS, last year 800 Duluth-Wheat
p, last year 124.
Closing cables: Wheat sd lower. corn
unchanged.
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New York Dec 12-STTGAR-Rau
steady; fair refining, 8 5-I663 Il-32c: cen
trifugaI. sc test. 13-16I3 27-32c; 1noIasses
crushed, $50; powdered. $3.50; graduated,
COFFEE Market quiet No. Rio. &c.
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Pittsburg, Kan. Dec. 1Z-Ben Fedeli
a shot-firer employed at No. shaft az
the Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal & Min
ing company, southwest Of Chicopoe.
was instantly killed last evening about
O'Clock while firing shots IN the nina
His body was torn to pieces.
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2
Prices paid ia Topeka THIS week based
Boston ,inotationsl
Topeka, Kan. Dec. r.
GREEN SALT CURED. I2e
NO. 1 HORSE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 81. 50Gt3. Os
NO. TALI-OW ...-..-.-.....-....-......5c
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TOPEKA LIVE STOCK NIARKET-
Furnished by Charles Wolff Packins "a
Yards close at noon on Saturday,
Topeka, Kan, Dec. p
HOGS
MIXED AND BUTCHERS 80 $3.50
HEAVY -..-------. -----..--.--.-.- 3 50 5S21s
LIGHT .. 121zG15. 775k
stays 81 ooG15O less than hogs. accord-
CORN COWS.
COWS. EXTRA GOOD. 81 Oof7s Is
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Galbeston. Tex. Dec. 12.-COTTON-
Market higher. 10 5-16c
closed steady; middling uplands SO so:
niddling gulf, s1O-75. No sales.
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FURNISHED by J. E. Gall. Commissions
Grains Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
office 10 w. Sixth St. Phone 4S6.l
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Kansas CRY Live Stock Sales Today.
THE following sales were made today a
the stock yards. Kansas CITY Mo. and
teleghoned 70 The Topeka State Journa.
By Clay, Robinson e. Co. live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at all
Kansas City. Dec 12-CATTLE-15,0 0a
head. Market steady TO 1Oc lower
HOGS-14,o00 head. Market 10c lower.
Bulk of sales S6.oSd6.15. Top. S617lk
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EveIybody cad The SAC Journal.
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Kansas City. No, Dec 12.-CATTLE-
Receipts 1900. including 800 southerns.
Market steady to 10c lower Native steers.
So. 9oQ6.75; southern steers So O0G5 IS;
southern. cows. S2.00G3 Is. native cows
and heifers. S2.o0Q515; stockers and feed
ers. S25Od4.50; bulls. s.. 25d4O0; calves, s.. 80
Q6.50: western steers, s. 4od5 so; western
cows, s. 25dI4.O0.
HOGS-Receipts 1900. Market sc to 10c
lower. Bulk Of sales, s6.071zG6. IS; heavy,
$6-lo16.lllz' packers, $6-05Q615; pigs and
Light, S5-60G6.1 21z
SHEEP-Receipts 10000. Market steady
Muttons $4.59M600: lambs, ST. coal. 75:
range wethers. $4.50qS.60; fed ewes, $500
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Rnnge Of 1.rIces on stocks.

[Furnis cd by J. E. Gan, Commissions.
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Office ITO w. Sixth St Phone 4S6l
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Chicago. Dec. II.
National Board of Trade Kansas CITY

FURNISHED by J.. e. Gall. Commissions.
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Office ITO w. Sixth St--PhOne zS6.
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Jane Oaixer, Who Is Contrasting a VIII
fer Her SharIe of $1,000. 900 Estate.

Frederick G. PEPPER, who is president
of the PeDer Tobacco company and an
executor Of the will. is charged by the
other children with conspiring with
Christian Cornelius, the company's
secretary and treasurer. who was
raised by their father, to "bulldoze''
the father into making a will giving
Corn eliIls an anllal slaare in the astate
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topeka ride Market.

50. 011IO.O0
ALFALAFA HAY-Loose. sI0.oodl1oO
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lane Oaker is well known in Topeka
on account of her marriage to Hale
Hamilton of this city, son of J. D. NJ.
Hamilton, claim attorney for the Santa
Fse railway.
Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-08-03

Ia cousquerec cs tbs refusal tho
Reading railrOad u reeeiv. freight
from the Cumh rland Valley for two
days last week, there WIS conves,,on
o loaded ears on the is1t.r road which
required a number of large engines
from the Pennsylvania, TO relieve. The
cause OF the refusal on the part OF the
Reading, was the lumber of soldiers
and equipments it was called upon to
transplant, to the national encampment
at MI. Gretna, Pa, On Tuesday and
Wednesday there were 500 ears blocked
at this point and 10 nj Marion, Pa.
The Rev. w. f. Gruver, of this city,
presiding elder of the Virginia District
of the United Bretheru church aud the
Rev. A. b. Wilson, pastor of the
church mere, were among the speakers
at The convention Of the Young PEG.
pies Union Of the U. X. church which
met at Great Caeapoa last week, com
menoing Thursday and continuing un-
III Sundry night. Misses Sarah Naggs
and Nota Crawford, were delegates
from the senior union Of the Mastins.
burg church and Miss Sadie Ambrose
anc Mr.. Earl Lloyd from the Junior
Mol.
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The Standard Lime and Stone Co.
at MiIlviIIe has put In service mon.
ster steam shovel for loading stone on
trucks at the quarrtes. With three
men, one at the engine, and one each
at the crane and shovel. 40 trucks of
stone can be loaded every hour OF the
day. Some idea Of the labor saved by
u can be had when il Is Noted that
one man working 10 hours can load
only about 40 truci =. three men with
tie shove; can do tlsc wsrA II ~ men.
Mahala Chapel the Is year old
d ,ughterof George Ceap ri, a farmer
living in Clarke county, WAS burned
u death at her hcme Wee nj sday The
girl was using Kerosene oil TO light the
kitchen ire when the blaze caused the
can to explode and blazing Gil was
scattered over her clothing. Her mother
who WIS Ia the room at tbs time, seiz-
ed ola lket and endeavored 10 put
out the blaze. She was badly burned.
The girl died within half hours after
suffering intense agony.