Dubois Morning Herald, The (Newspaper) - November 24, 1902, Dubois, Pennsylvania V V TH MORNING NO 59 I U 16 1A NOVEMBER COMMISSIONER WARE GIVES HIS REPORT Business of Pension Department is While Clerks ate Not Competent to Hand e Ware wants to get rid BOO superannuated clerks who are to perform the duties required at their His annual report pensioners on the rolls the pension a gain of over last For the pension year there were 145 were dropped from rolls and new pensions were granted to There are revolutionary pensioners on the roll and of the war of The total cost of the pension lor the year was The approximate cost for pensions Indian rml Spanish f Tie census department somi 10 issue a statement explaining alleged inaccuracies found in the report on tanning The bureau awaits the return of Director Merriam before making the statement No uneasiness is felt in the state de that the proposed joint dem of England and Germany against Venezuela will result in a vio lation of the Monroe Secretary Roots estimate for the ex penses of the war department shows decrease of President Roosevelt and party re turned from Philadelphia Gores Relatives are After De United State government has begun an tion of the mysterious death of Mrs Nellie Gore in the rooms of De Ryn the Russian The rela charge the Russian with luring to the apartments and because she protected her Reuben Barber Died at Years of Age 85 ben an aged of this died at his at oclock Friday Barber was about 85 years of age and hi was caused by old His wife Im to the grave about 25 and he bns five children who the TRADED MULE FOR A WIFE Groom Also Threw in A Lot of Turnips A special states that William of the made a deal yesterday whereby he cured a wife in trade for a mule an a lot of Allie Bierbower is the Her father approached Garnee about week ago and asked him if he didnt to take his daughter in trade for male that Garnee The latter wanted a week in which lo the natter Yesterday the men met mnd Garnee said that lie would close the Bierbower added would have to have 10 bushels of tur nips Is The prospective groom iras willing to give five A compromise was effected on nnd bushels and the who tied the knot remarked that he the mule would kick the life out of the brides HEAVY FREIGHT Enormous Business Moved in Two railroads here moved cars on Saturday and The total freight tonnage moved was A Drunken Italian Flashed at Officer Roney iate Saturday ol men an cluM 10 the oi me on uxe Mast tie was me worse lor having imbibed freely of a quart had his pock and was from the of his He had lost his hat into the bargain and had missed the His discoverers moved him to the station platform and the Italian take possession of the tele graph Here tie remained for several musing to move or en a motion to The lads operator did not enjoy the fellows presence and an was sent Roney appeared on the scene and took Italian to the Here a search was the Italian submit ting with evident good A and 80 cents in change was found on his This sum Officer Roney appropriated until the name was Antonio and his office could sober and be in better condition to tak care of Paleto was also relieved of several good sized bunches of his quart and pipe and put into one he Before leaving the Italian o sleep off his drunk Roney rcd that the prisoner had something c his He approached the and asked the Kalian what he The latter grinned and offered too officer what he had in his or his The proved to be a crisp and this he officer also took foi Yesterday the Italian v 1 sobered ip sufficiently to go ho vrat his money and fr No harges were made as Lid not been acting m u riy manner of doing anything to merit the of a aside from the fact hat he had allowed his Taut to get he better of HIS HRE Mans Bed on Fire and Fright ened Hotel People A pe culiar of this place on Sunday morn or late Charles who is a contractor on the new branch of the between this place anu went to bed aa usual at the Hotel on Saturday He did not want the electric ight out entirely so he tied his hand kerchief around it go as to soften the ight He went to sleep and in the night the handkerchief caught on fire and fell blazing to the Jr de o the bed wife of one of the was walking through hte I hat that part of the was with She callej lur and an Ms ns fart hat the smoke was loom the one occupied by Jy pounding on the door that man was but was in a condition on account of having been nearly by Medical attention soon revived im and he was much For he was not the only amage resulting being the destruction f the bed SMASHED THE Ruffians Made Things Lively at the National Hotel A crowd of ruffians who were full o lighting booze entered the barroom at the National hotel on Saturday night at 10 oclock and proceeded to make things They picked a fight and went back of the bar and com to smash They were the three well known char ters about the big Joe Miller and two men by the name of Smith and After they had do o al the damage to the bar they in their hands and pro Jown smashing their bottles on the They into the Hoffman house and tiled to pick a quarrel there The big Miller offered to fight any In the and said he could any man but just at the ime that he would have commenced o repeat the smashing experience he WJR Interrupted by Officers Logan and the former of whom ii on the shoulder and placed him arrest He was taken to the burgess office and the wo Hoovers nd the Smith WWR They will be given a VISITED WATER WORKS Council and Citizens go to Anderson Creek On Saturday at the invita tion of tne a body of the business men of the composed of the following members of Engle Schrecongost and and Van T ENGAGEMENT IS Edwi i Mulock to Marry Miss Evelyn Hart and William Mann Irvine ot have announced tne engagement of their Miss Mae nart to Edwin o Miss Hart is a daughter of the late Major of and a descendant of John Hart and also of the engineer HowaU I Oliver two of the signers Walter Johnston and visited tie Ander son Creek water works and waded the tunnel that connects he waters of the two creeks with the bor ough of The gentlemen in spected the works very carefully and were pleased with the Thos with whom the Herald talked were he impression that it would the Declaration of a brother of Miss is pres ident of the Mercersburg Mulock is the son of Mu of this a graduate of the DuBois High school and of Mercers burg He is now at the Princeton Theological institution he has been attending for several The date of tho NEARING COMPLETION Extension to iana Being Hurried Along remark ably fine weather this fall has been a great boon to the and tiny have been making full use of it to push work on the new railroad for all is in As a result the work of ing the line is rapidly The road bed is practically fin ished from Cloe to anc also from this side of that summit to where considerable worn is yet to be From Richmond down the creek valley to Pickering run iue grading is Another the line from STRIKE COMMISSION HAS ADJOURNED Stand is Explained by the Fact that He Is inS to Protect Railroads he requirements of the town all I ding has not been were pleased with the able and bus Hart will spend the winter in Ashe manner in which the work had been There is no donb rat that the members have had th iest interests of the town at heXT when they built the AT THE HOSPITAL Anderson Brought to DuBois Hospital WITS San Ting his tarewell address to the American people tto was struck by a train at ate Friday an of in the Herald on liii uh ing was brought to the t this place last Saturday morning he physicians have examine him nd given him the attention required ut at this time are not able to state he exact extent of his who is 67 years if age and who is the wife of Ander came from her home at to see the old and An of the Elk County National Bank of Earl cf Anderson and wife oi the same Tillie oi Wayne ot were also here to learn the extent their fathers They are with the family of Anderson is an old man and was driving to his He was under the Impression that the headlight saw coming on the head of the en and that the engine was at the that engine and track TO BUILD TUNNEL Contractors Here Looking After The Work There have been quite a number of people during the past few days looking the building of the tun nel on the that is to be put in the hill at This tunnel is to be feet in and it will re quire a great deal of work to build When the was put through the same hill years ago it re quired more than a year to complete and some of the contractors made tor tunes at the while others lost money on With the latter day ap for removing the earth it will require much less time to do the and it can be done much al though it will still be an expensive part of the Years ago when the engineers surveyed for tunnels they made it is for the pur ose of seeing how near they could bring the ends together in the miJ claiming that any surveyor could put a straight The dan cr of the curves in the tunnels have become such they dig them straight now when they the work Is practically The work on the big cuts at this place and Roseboro and the work below is also rapidly drawing to a They expect to wind up everything by Christmas or New They will complete the middle lift on the Griffith summit and the lower one is two hrough the The work on the dif ferent bridges is also being We are informed the company will push the track laying as rapidly as pos sible and they expect the construction rain to reach this uy February Work is being pushed all along the new section from McKees to Black OLDEST DAUGHTER DIED SUNDAY Miss Erie Deat Causes Especial Sadness At an early hour Sunday the eldest daughter of an Samuel ot the Ult grocery on North Brady strec died at the Lenkerd home in tt Fourth after an illness of 7 days Miss Lenkerd contracted seven weeks She was taken after returning from a drive to and for a time her conditio was regarded aa She Improv to such an extent tha the nurse who had been attending he was allowed to and the physician fur a time ceased their Then typhoid fever set In and abou a week ago tne announcement was made that she could i not recover While conscious of condl anthracite coal sirine commission adjourned on Saturday until December 3 and It is hope and expectation of all parties controversy that when the ar again meet an agreement on it not te points in dis pute will have been reached for mission to ana approval of the com Attorneys on both sides express the opinion that an amicable will be and predict that the commissioners will make only one more rip u this Before adjourning a substitute or conciliation committee was ap pointed that tue ot the sent here by who naturally la elated at the turn that has been made In the matter by the nun who refused last summer even notice him except to sneer at Him and say they would never deal him under any The advances were made by former Attorney General MacVeagh for the Erie anu by President ot the Delaware Whether they were acting for the other opera tors Mitchel nor any other re of the miners They assume that there Is gome sort of of an understanding between President Roosevelt IB being kept to formed In a better and more deanl may be officially voiced I manner oa to Is going on In the tnat i matter ho could be by the He Is watching it for tho Dur of getting at the if A CLUE Nancy Dickey May Be Stewarts Sister DEAD Citizen of Reynolds ville Passes Away a teipeeted ot at at U flek tmt in Fridays issue oi tie appeared a in which an item was pub to the that Stew of wasat tawney searching tor his three sisters Nancy and whom he had not seen for 5 The item also stated that so tar his search had been as he could obtain no trace of A Herald reader at Falls Creek has informed office of the fact that Nancy whose home near Jefferson is in all probability one of the nans Her maiden name was and sue was born and reared near Many years ago she mar ried a man named who Later she married Dickey and has resided in the vicinity of Eleanora ever of her the Heralds in could give no but ho is that Nancy Dickey a cf the westerner who has for so many REPUBLICAN They Will Confer Vith B the belief that she would ultimate recover and her fight against Deati was a brave She was hopeful t he and one of her requests was hat as soon as she was shi wanted her parents to take her back to ew where the family had many and where she hat tne years of her early girlhood Miss Erie was of a cheerful anc Being the eldest o the family she was a source of greai to her assisting mother m the duties of the and he care of the She was the dol ot her fathers the likeness of the pair being most she was a familiar figure at the Brady street where she proved to bo an able She was about to enter the High School when she the illness teat in her She was about 17 years of age an numbered many both among the young and Funeral services will be held Tuesday from the Len kerd LOOKING FOR SISTER Young Man From Ohio in Search of Sister A young man from arrived in DuBois a few days ago and registered at one of the He was noticed to go out early in the morning and return late ic the but no person was informed as to his business He attracted but little attention about the streets for the reason that he was never over but it was noticed that he watched every passerby closely ana seemed Lo ae disappointed as he looked nto the face of One day during the it was dis covered that the young man is from and that he is here looking tor It is said that his sister has passed aim on the several but he has failed to recognize for the reason that the girl has naturally hiack vhis she had trimmed oS and at tula time is wearing a blonde wig and has otherwise disguised BO that her brother U not able to recognize her wnen he MM At time the to MM 10 be an in arise in the me commissioners It Is un that they have tne last say In cin by means of actions in thu tue adjustment u differences that I Tue know that they will the full responsibility and it Is assumed the operators cou for it they may anil that whatever is agreed pon must have their full approval be thut fact wnile mailing up their minds that It would be the part of wisdom to come to an agreement the agreement can be put into with Mitchell before he had the to show that tho men are un Tne rani operators who that the combine Is squeezing have the miners to try to enter j not only the but the public aa into an agreement a settlement ct and that it would be Impossible lile differences without waiting fur a Uor a really Independent operator to do decision by the arbitrators are afraid business In that because tho to let tne investigation proceed combination has every owner f a mine absolutely by the Jonn has evidence to prove to the satisfaction ot any jury or any judge that he in an ille al combination and the railroad com panies are as deep in the mua as the coal companies are in tne That is the only reason wuy the operators have approached the miners with talk So far as Mitchells views can be gained from the letters he has it as a matter of no particular moment how he gets the betterment of condi tions for the All he out to accomplish was an of the of the If that end the fair of a settlement outside of the It is understood he will Information to tnat effect has been I fall to sign a treaty of The Company Explains Why Service is Poor To The Morning Gentlemen Believing that your ar icle of the relative to the poor on the Bnit telephone lines be answered in order to plao he above company in a before their patrons as well as the eit in of the of Dynamiters Blew Up a ing 1 Mahanoy bomb with a fuse attached was placed on the uar of the iy Christopher Portland Tld front part of the building was blown firms the street anil the adjoining as a representative of that company either ami other members family sleeping on the i are non Rml during tho KILLED AT will We recognize the fact now and lone so for over a year past the of our lines in To inko worse the Electric has their mm a to ai his is very nail fu ir uit lines which can hardly be Rer C the electric current being hen turned i can state tor the Bell Tele company that they are y anxious to remedy tuis as well as all It is not their pol cy to give this kind service nly way it can ue remedied is by metallic To do this f Weaver Run over By an Engine ami of a sudden nd do It right means stringing lead death while reluming to her home or in other cabling the from the German Reformed church at ity from one end to the At the present time cannot be one on account of the company not ving a of way on the three streets ot the Brady Long avenue and Mam The city being laid out so pe the streets not running at ight nor the alleys all running it is next to impossible to string lead cables and give good ser concessions on the above named the present board of council is to grant and i will state ight that just as long as opi nes are grounded just so ing will we have trouble from the light We want to remedy this trouble and just as soon as possi but under the present conditio is e are unable to do At th present me we have about 16 people cn Main are Ed Gus Weiss reet whom we are unable to give service on account of having 110 that street nor being allowed 10 cild At the next of tho council e expect to present a signed T over of the on the several streets now de ns mud that the City noon Weaver is a lady 60 years of She has lived In this town for a iong aud is highly re While she was on her way home from church she came to the and in crossing no a train of cars coming towards oft the track on the mam but did not notice engine the yard and was struck by the same and almost In Ove wounds on the her right foot was cut both of her shoulder blades were broken and she received internal Walters was summoned at but before he could arrive at the scene of the accident the old lady was beyond the aid of Her husband is a waon er of this place and she has several children who live In this They Frank A coroners jury was impaneled sat on the Nothing was done ami the jury adjourned and meet at Monday morning for tha pur pose of hearing witnesses la the The ot town large
