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VOL, XXII. MALONE, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1902. NO. 23.DEATH OF C. E. MARTIN

A Former Franklin County Real-dent.

Charles E. Martin, formerly of Frank-lin county, who had enjoyed a very wideacquaintance and was still interested invarious enterprises here, died at his homein Plattsburgh early Thursday morningin the prime of life and vigorous manhood.The news came as a great shock to** ourpeople, for. just a week previous, he wasin Malone and apparently enjoying robusthealth. He was a perfect specimen ofphysical manhood and a man greatly ad-mired both for his physical and mentalvigor and his fine qualities of head andheart. Mr. Martin returned from Chat-eaugay to Blafctsburgh on Friday, May23rd, and then first noticed his illness. OnSunday his case became serious and themalady was diagnosed as appendicitis, ac-companied by peritonitis. Wednesday anoperation was found necessary to save hislife. It was performed by Dr. Bell, ofMontreal and Dr. Silver, of Plattsburgh,assisted by several other physicians, andwas considered entirely successful; butthe vital spark was evidently too far wast-ed: it nickered between life and death un-til after midnight and then went out.

Few men were more thoroughly admiredand respected than Mr. Martin in thiscounty where he started in business life.He had a faculty of winning many closefriends, to whom he was ever devotedlyloyal, and his sense of fairness and justice

°Vas so finely strung that he was soughtout as a confidential advisor by many anacquaintance. Possessed of rare judg-ment and a natural self-possession anddignity which were charming, he impress-ed all whom he met with his abilities, andthese qualities, with boundless energy andtact, made him a valuable business part-ner in many enterprises. In his home andfamily he was most loving aad exemplaryas a husband and father, and as a citizenhe was public spirited and progressivealong all lines. His death is a severe blownot only to Plattsburgh but to NorthernNew York. The Plattsburgh Press of May29th gives the following brief account ofhis life:

"Charles E. Martin was born in An-sable Forks and was the son of Hugh andSally G. Martin. After a course inbusiness college at Ggdensburg. he enter-ed the employ of Paul Smith, at that timeengaged in building up the hotel businesswhich has since been so successful. Dur-ing this time Mr. Martin made himselfinvaluable to his employer, and came tobe regarded as his right hand man. Din-ing his employment by Mr. Smith, Mr.Martin represented the town of Brightonfor many years on the Franklin countyboard of supervisors.

•'Upon leaving the employ of Mr. Smith.Mr. Martin engaged in the growing ofhops on an extensive scale at Malone. laterremoving to Plattsburgh, where he be-came interested with Mr. Smith in theFouquet House. Disposing of his interestsin the hotel, he was later clerk at Clintonprison and still later became associatedwith Mr. J. Ovette Smith in the manufac-ture of pulp, under the firm name ofSmith & Martin. This later became theSaranac River Pulp & Paper company,Mr. B. S, \V. Clark being added to thelinn. The latter firm sold their mill tothe Glens Falls" ""Paper-Co". ~; later incorpo-rated into the International Paper Co., andpurchased the mill at High Falls at Chat-eaugay. His interest in this mill was re-tained by Mr. Martin at the time of hisdeath, he being an official and director ofthe company.

"Mr. Martin was an ardent Democratof the old-fashioned kind. He served oneterm as clerk of Clinton county. Mr.Martin was also a director of the IronNational Bank? and was one of the com-mittee in charge of the liquidation of thatinstitution, when it was succeeded by thePlattsburgh National Bank,and Ma assistance and advice will be greatly missed byhis colleagues. He always maintained anintense interest in the development of theAdirondacks and the hotels of that regionand recently acted as manager of the Mir-ror Lake-House for several years. He wasalso vice-president and director of Law-

Tence-Webster & Co., of Malone, manu-facturers oi woolen cloth.

•'On October. 31, 1882, Mr. Martin wasmarried to Kate Ebtelle, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. B. S. W. Clark. He is survivedby a widow, three children, Miss Adela.deLydia Martin, Charles Edwin Martin.Jr., Harry Polhemus Martin: three sis-ters, Mrs. William Dnane, of BrightonMrs. John H. Titus, of BloomingdaleMrs. Kate M. Jones, of Lake Placid: fourbrothers, Henry H. Martin and DouglassE. Martin, of Paul Smith's; George M.Martin, of Bloomingdale; Fred E. Mar-tin, of Brighton.

"Mr. Martin was a prominent Masonand was a member of the several branchesof that order, including De Soto Com-mandery, No. 49, Knights Templar andOriental Temple of Troy. ' Mr. Martinhad been elected-?captain-general at therecent meeting or the Coinmandery, Hewas also a member of Plattsburgh Lodge,No. 621. Benevolent and Protective Gfcterof Elks."

Mr. Martin's funeral Sunday was oneof the largest ever seen in Northern NewYork, nearly every town $a this'sectionbeing represented. The concourse was solarge thattbe services were held at theFirst Presbyterian church, of which bewas a trustee. They were in charge ofthe Knight Templars, of which he was amember. The funeral cortege was a solemnand impressive one, being headed by asquad of police, followed by the CityBand, which played plaintive funerealmusic. Then came the Elks of Platts-btfrgh, of which Mr. Martin was a mem-ber, then the mayor and aldermen of thecity. Following them was a delegationof 50, representing the French Canadiancitizens of the city. A delegation of Mas-ter Masons came after and then De SotoCommandery Knights1 Templar, actingan escort to the remains. Behind thearse was a long line of carriages bearingrelatives and many friends of the deceased.Special trains were ran from SaranacLake and Malone, bearing friends of thedeceased and members of the Masonicfraternity. The flowers were nragnifleentThe pall bearers for the family were HenryH., Douglass E., George M., and Fred B.Martin, Phelps Smith and Paul Smith,

Jr. The bearers for the Knights* Tem-plar were Sir Knights Roberts, Bentleyand Johnston, of Chateaugay, DaleTHayes and Tracy, of Plattsburgh. Thespecial train from Malone carried 51 per-sons, including many of the old friendsand business acquaintances of the de-

TUB CHORAL CONCERT.Congratulations are certainly in order

on the concert given by the MaloneChorus Club under the direction of W. R.Chapman, of New York, and Carroll H.Vance, of this village. It was greetedby a splendid audience, and all its num-bers were so much finer than are usuallyheard in Malone that all who missed itlost a treat which is beyond recall. Butthere is a chance for the absentees to re-deem themselves at future concerts, and.if we are to have a resurrection of the oldmusical taste and spirit which Maloneonce had, all must take hold and makethis movement a success. The chorus work 'was excellent, which attests the merit oftbe painstaking instruction of Mr. Vance, jand Miss Laura Gregg covered herself all'"over with glory as an accompanist. Shehas a brilliant future before her as a pian-ist. Miss McKerracher, who carried thesolos in the Redemption Hymn, sang withrare taste and expression, and the audi-ence applauded this Malone girl withpride and appreciation. The foreignartists brought here by Mr. Chapmanwere all suberb, and were it not for thischorus movement such singers couldnever be heard in Malone. Mr. Archam-bmtlt, who appeared first on the program,is a young Frenchman but 22 years ofAge, of most taking presence with a tre-mendous bass voice of pipe organ quality,which carried the audience by storm. Hisis such a voice as must eventually stir theworld in grand opera—one whkh will befound at its best in great auditoriums.He was recalled again and again; theaudience could not get enough of him.He is a marvel and everybody who heardhim was astonished and carried awaywith enthusiasm. Mr. Raben, with hisviolin, was also a surprise and a joy. He,too, was encored as often as he would per-mit, and the delicate shading of the tonesof his instrument transported everybodyto the realm of dreams. Miss Fry, thesoprano, had a voice of pleasant quality,which was remarkably flexible and ofgreat range. In it were the notes of themocking bird and canary, and the moreshe sang, the better shje' ^'^"'appreciated.'Mr. Chapman accompanied all these atthe piano, and one had but to watch himto realize that his soul was filled with themusic and the occasion. Before the dropof the curtain he made a speech whichwas not the work of a novice,giving a gra-phic explanation of his -drorus" work inMaine, New Hampshire and Vermont,and his object in extending the field toNorthern New York. His whole heartseems to be devoted to music and the de-velopment of musicians and the educationof the popular taste to an appreciation ofthe highest and best which music affords.He is just the man to inspire interest andsucceed in such a great undertaking asthe building up of a chorus where noneexists. A man whose entire soul is throwninto the work can know no such word asfailure. Potsdam was carried away withthe concert the evening previous, andMessrs. Ginn and Weed accompanied theartists to Malone to be able to hear themagain. Indeed so enthusiastic has Pots-dam become over the movement that ithas offered to entertain free all the sing-ers belonging to Mr. Chapman's chorusesin the various towns in Northern NewYork who unite with them in the grandunited festival to be held there in thefall, at which only the greatest artistswill appear. We are pleased to add thatthe concert here was a success financiallyas well as musically, and that it has donemuch to insure the success of Malone'spart in the movement. There is but onething lacking. Scores of Malone's bestsingers were not seen in the chorus, andall owe it as a duty to themselves and tothe public to identify themselves with theenterprise, to make time to attend the re-hearsals and lend their voices and encour-agement to the development and uplift-ing of musical sentiment in Malone.

Program for Children's Day at theBaptist church June 8th, at 10:30 A. M.Organ Voluntary.ProcessionalGreetingPrayerPansiesSongCloversGrowingRecitationIf I Were YouSoloJust a Little Girl......A Little Boys Wish....RobinTiny SeedPrimary Offering.The Flowers' MessageChildren's DayThe Little StarRecitationSinrinj?

J. E. Briggs and W. W. TindalL of Og-1 For additional home news and personatedensburg, have gone to San Francisco to see inside pages.

OF LOCAL INTEREST.Myriads of small minnows of the herring

species are filling the Grasse river. Theyrun from two to three inches in lengthand are so thick that they can be scoopedup by the quart with dip nets.

A company has been incorporated inNew Jersey with a capital of a milliondollars to purchase the rights of Knapp inhis roller boat and to build and operateroller boats for the transportation of oil.

The Massena board of trustees havebeen investigating the steam roller ques-tion, as well as Malone, and have come tothe conclusion that good roads cannot bemade without one. The board is negotia-ting to secure one on trial for a couple ofweeks.

At NorttrBangor Friday night occurreda decidedly pleasant Masonic event. Fourcandidates were initiated into the lodgethere and the occasion was made one fora reunion and general festivities. About100 Masons were present, among them 15or 20 from Malone, and several from Chat-' all of which are used to support the bodyeaugay, Ft. Covington and Moira. A flue | when the chicken is resting, but when in

attend the imperial council of the MysticShrine. They will be absent a month orsix weeks.

On Monday night, May 19th, Mr. Alex.Labonnty, of Bloomingdale, found an irongray mare about fifteen hands high with ing the Fourth for 1902. There will bea black mane, standing in the road neat no lack of attractions. The committee is

We understand that the fresh air chil-dren to. be cared for by families in thissection Will arrive about July 14th.

MalonJis first in the race for celebrat-

ghis house. No one up to last week hadclaimed the horse nor had he been ableto find an owner.

Chief Game Protector Pond has been inNew York city the past week or so arrang-ing with dealers in game who desire togive bonds for retaining game secured inthe proper season or in a proper way incold storage until the end of the closedseason. Under a new law bonds may begiven and the goods kept under the seal ofthe commission.

"Philip Gonyea. of Ellenburgh, is theproud possessor of a freak chicken," saysthe Chateaugay Journal. "The littlecreature has four perfectly formed legs,ll f h ih d t h b d

working and means business.A fire at Chazy a week ago destroyed

he cedar and shingle mill of Willis Leng-field, together with 500,000 feet of lumberfor shingles and 100,000 shingles ready forhipment. The loss was estimated at over

$5,000, with no insurance on the property.Steam was used as a motive power for themill.

Wm Johnston. Jr., of Chateaneay. a nd ; ^ the contracting parties being present.Fred H. Mason, of Burke, have contracted ; Mr. DeSbaw j s a very popular railroad

nan and his bride is a young lady of highcharacter and refinement. They will makeheir home in Ottawa, Ont.

. Pauline and Atwood DulleaJ. fi. Fisk

;., .Gladys WilliamsonPrimary

Frank EidredfteElizabeth Moody

Anabel HeamsWalter Walker

Mildred Nichols..Adelaide DeLone

Herbert O'NeOMabel Sher win

Anna Fobare

Pearl CunninghamHs'ellie Ketcuam

Etta BemisIda Town

-—..--„ . Intermediate ClassesSeaittr Precious Seed Mary BadgerThe Little Ojies He Blesses. Ebie DouglassTbe Prayer Blanche MerrillDuett Misses Beaet. and RawleyThe Sweetest Tbing. Lufcy TownA CbiJd'sSong.... Biiifs FeltonSinking. No. IS .^SohoolAll x he Good We Can Eva TeaseR. citation." Ray MerrillBeautiful June Maud BushTiny Brown Seed PrimaryAddress PastorCollection Tbe Grown TjpsGood-by Song . School

There will be rehearsals Friday at closeof school and Saturday at 3:00 o'clock.All members of the school will meet at10:15 Sunday morning.

supper was served at the hall by theBangor lodge.

The new Presbyterian church, at Burke,a brief account of the dedication of whichwill be found on our inside columns, is avery handsome, modern structure costing$6,000. and is practically free from debt.It needs a bell now and a fund has beenstarted for purchasing it, and also a pianofor the Sunday school room. All thewindows in the body of the church are ofstained glass, and, although it has cost agood deal of effort, the people of Burkenow have a much more comfortable andattractive church edifice than the old one.

Norwood is booming. The electriclight company there has bought the Yale-ville water power for $6,000 and has madea five year contract for lighting the vil-lage. Some $10,000 will be spent for newbuildings and repairs. A new local tele-phone company has been formed thereand already 60 phones have been put in.Water works are in view and the placehas a new paper mill and new machineshop and foundry, with a furniture shopand other industries in prospect.

The village of Carthage has just pur-chased a steam roller for use on its villagestreets. The Lowville Journal, in com-menting on the purchase, says: "It reallylooks as though Carthage was going toplace herself alongside of Gouverneur.Canton and other villages in this state inthe good roads procession. As long asLowville hangs to the crushed stonemethod of building roads, just so long willwe have poor roads in the spring and fall.Crushed stone are a good tiling to bangup horses f« et and knock the paint fromspokes and fellies; they are also good tograte on runners and one's feelings inwinter. The practical way to build goodroads is with a steam roller.'r

The forty-eighth session of the St. Law-rence district conference will be held atColtoru N. Y., June 3rd and 4th, underthe direction of Presiding Elder Coit,Rev. E. F. Felton being the entertainingpastor. The program is an interestingone, and comprises an address by the pre-siding elder and other addresses on thefollowing subjects: "An All-ConqueringChurch," J. C. Culligan; "Work Among theIndians,'1 W. C. Kingsbury: "ChristiansSaved for Service,'' E. F. Felton, '-Whatthe World Demands of the Church," Hon.C. S. Plank; "How Will the Church Meetthe World's Demands?1' E. F. Lewis;"Concerning the Collection," O. L. Decker;"A.Layman's Point of View," C. A. King:"The Open Door for Missions," A. C.Loucks; "The Bible aad the Teacher,"Hon. W. L. Earing, Morristown. Tues-day and Wednesday evenings there willbe evangelical services, with a sermon byRev. W. T. Best, at the former. Thelatter will be conducted by Rev. JosephHarkness and others.

Somebody attempted to dynamite theold lack between Round Lake amT theLower Saranac a week ago, but did notsucceed in injuring it materially. Itseems that Capt. Thomas with the littlesteamer Cleo has been making regulartrips from Saranac -Lake village throughthe new state lock into the lower lake andthrough the old lock at the head of thelower lake to the Saranac Lake ClubHouse. The act was evidently done toprevent the carrying of passengers andfreight to the Club House, but it was un-successful. Rocks weighing hundreds-ofpounds were hurled nearly 300 feet andthe surface of the water was covered withfloating planks and broken logs. TheCleo has been doing a good business, asthe ride is a very pretty one. Capt. Thomasis repairing the damage and the businesshien of Saranac Lake have placed a watch-man at the spot to prevent further depredations. Col. Fox, chief forester, ©f Al-bany, has been notified of the offence, andJustice Mclntyre will take care of theperpetrators if evidence to connect themwith the crime can be obtained.

The new Democratic administration inPlattsburgh city has run against a snag indistributing the spoils of office to thevictors. Everything in the Democratic

ITOade from Chateaugay Ore,A dispatch from Bethlehem, Pa,, to the

New York World says that " the govern-ment has accepted more than 600 tonstofthe Bethlehem Steel Company's armor forthe new battleship Pennsylvania sinceSaturday's test, when projectiles ftred at av^oeityof 1,568 feet per second crackedlike eggs on the four-inch plate. Theplate In question was m$de from Chateau-gay ore. ^ ^

George McDonell, postmaster at Cora-wall, Ont., died a week ago from an acuteattack of pneumonia) aged t2 years. Hehad been connected with the post officedepartment of Canada for 36 years.

motion but two are used. Mr. Gonyeamay exhibit the freak at the fairs this falland if he does, it will prove a great draw-ing card—to the fair.

A. B. Cooney, of Chateaugay, JohnHaughran, of Plattsburgb, and CharlesL. Knapp, of Mooers, have been appoint-ed by order of the supreme court commissioners to assess the damages sustain-ed by Mrs. McCrea by reason of the village of Champlain having diverted thewaters from the pond which supplied hermills. The commissioners will meet Sept.3rd in the village of Champlain for thepurpose of organizing and commencingtheir labors. J. P. Kellas, of Malone,represents Mrs. McCrea, and William H.Dunn the village of Champlain.

The Citizens' Electric Light & PowerCo. is being organized by a number ofyoung men of Chateaugay for supplyingelectric current for lighting, power andheating purposes. It is thought that acapital of $6,000 will be sufficient andinost of it had been subscribed last week.A fine water power on the ChateaugayRiver a short distance south of the railroad will be utilized. It is claimed thatsufficient water power can be developedthere for manufacturing purposes, asidefrom the operation of motors and thelighting of business houses and residences.

Mrs. M. E. McClary returned last weekfrom New York, where-she attended ameeting of the Sunshine Society, andjubilant over the success which is crown-ing the efforts of that organization, whichnow has over 100,000 members. The articlessent by the Malone branch brought handsome prices at a sale held in the Waldor;Astoria, the price in some instances beingtwo or three times as much as the samearticles would bring in Malone. The offi-cers of the society were delighted with theresult of the sale and tbe donation. Th<former was applied toward the expense!of the day.

Bishop Doane's celebrated St. Bernarddog, which was wont to follow him abouin Albany, is dead. The cause of hisdeath is said to have been pneumonia, bumore than one person who visited thebishop's house at the time thinks the dogdied of a broken heart. Every morningthe dosr had been in the habit of going t<the bishop's room to wake him up, andwas never far away from early morn tilmidnight when he went to his kennel andthe bishop went to bed. Bishop Doanehad been confined to his room by illnessfor over a week,became ill also.

p p _ g g g _ _ g y ,when Secretary Birdseye,of the state civilservice commission, arrived in town andmade the rounds of the city departments.His visit created quite a l'flurry" amongthe city officiate, is is said, but why thereshould have been any "flurry" does notappear. Elective officers and the headsof departments are all on the exempt list,but policemen, firemen, etc., are on theclassified competitive list and laborers onlublie works are on a registered list,hey are not subject to examination but

their names must be registered with thelocal commission and selections made fromthe list by the superintendent of publicworks. The pay rolls covering labor inthat department must be certified by thelocal commission before the city chamber-lain can pay out the cash. The localcommission must prepare rules for thecity service within 60 days of their ap-pointment to be submitted to the statecommission for its approval. If the localofficials fair to act within this time thestate commission will prepare rules forthe city.

yThe dog moped and

The Massena Observer says: "The T.A. Gillespie company has entirely completed its part of the work on the caualand they are shipping away the machin-ery and material they are through with.They will have the job of constructingthe new railroad bridge across the canalnear the power house, and a large amounof timber is on the ground uow for thefoundations. Aside from this and aodds and ends they are done. Nothingmore remains now to be done exceptin^what the Daly dredges are doing in cleaning up the bottom of the caual. and th<work of the electricians in completing th<dynamos and switchboards, and that iwell along.''

William Amlet, better known as BillPerrica, who runs a line store down onthe frontier and who owns a tract of 27'acres down there, through which the liniruns, has raised an interesting legal ques-tion by refusing to al|ow the internationa]officials to travel on his land or set th<granite posts which have been purchasedfor re-marking the international boundary.Bill has been more than once taken to taskby government officers for the supposedevasion of the customs regulations, andnow he proposes to know "what is wha'and who is who." The question is. Howare the governments to secure a right ofway over this land unless they buy it ofhim? And we can jiist imagine the pricehe will ask.

A southbound express on the N. Y. &O. R. R. jumped the track the other daynear Chrysler and the whole train left therails. The Tupper Lake Herald says thatConductor Bombard, J. H. Brp/vra, of thatplace, and other passengers^^Cr* pi|ed ina heap, so that it was impossible" to tellwhich was Brown and which was Bom-bard. The passengers were thrown intoa panic and one woman-fainted but nobodywas hurt. Chrysler is a small station overin Canada. Two coaches following theengine and a baggage car went 150 yardsafter leaving the rails, and when stoppedwere at an angle which threatened totumble them down an embankment.There were 50 passengers on board whoreceived a decidedly bad shaking tip. Thetrack was torn up for the whole 150 yardsand the ties split into kindling wood.

S N O W B A L L S I N

A Snow Ball Opening: Dayof mid-summer millinery on Tuesday next,June 10th. A day of beauty, style, musicand pleasure—with the mid-summer fash-ions at Mrs. G. C. Williamson's on Mainstreet. All are cordially invited. DonHmiss it! Something new!

Gen. Agent Barbonr of the Adirondacki i f h N Y C l i h i ti e N. Y. Central is authority

for the statement that an extra passengertrain leaving Utica at about 9 A. M. willbe installed June 15th.

A genuine case of small pox is said tohave made its appearance at Hogansburgh.The patient is Isaac Russell who has beenworking in the toy factory there until hewas taken ill. A strict quarantine hasbeen imposed and all who were exposedhave been vaccinated.

Minor G. DeShaw, superintendent of theNew York & Ottawa railroad, and MissEffie M. Berdrow were quietly marriedat the home of the bride's, mother in St.Regis Falls last Wednesday afternoon byRev. William Thomas, only relatives

erect a new ten room cottage at Bluffant, on the Upper Chateaugay Lake, for

Fred J. Loomis, of Beverly, Mass. Thecottage will be of handsome design andcontain.modern conveniences. It will becompleted by July lst^

Massena farmers shipped 300 veal calvesin one day a week ago which netted them$2,100, an average of $7.00 each. Manycalves are shipped there every Saturday.Beef trust prices have no doubt helped thesale of the veal and eggs and imitton ofEastern farmers, as well as the fish of thesalt and fresh water fishermenT

The St Lawrence Baptist Associationwill meet in the Baptist church, Malone,Tuesday, June 10th, and continue in ses-sion till Thursday noon. Interesting ad-dresses and papers will be presented ateach session. Tuesday evening Dr. H. H.Main, of Syracuse, will speak upon thefamily that live in the basement. Thepublic invited to all these services.

A Gouverneur dispatch says that apanther is reported to be roaming thewoods about two miles east of that village.Several declare that they have seen it,and the hired man on oue farm nearbyquit work and left for other parts wherewild animals are not in evidence. It isclaimed that a dog attacked it and wasseriously injured before getting away.

The house of representatives has passeda new silver bill which puts that metalupon its proper coinage basis. The meas-ure provides for coming the silver^bullionnow in the treasury into subsidiary silvercoin, as may be found necessary to meetpublic requirements, and also for the re-coinage of silver dollars into subsidiaryfractional currency. It repeals the act of1890 requiring the coinage of standard siver dollars.

Rumors are again afloat of the buildingof the railroad from St. Regis Falls viaEverton to Loon Lake, which would connect the N. Y. & Ottawa- with the Chateaugay road, soon to be of standard gnage.This would give the N. Y. & Ottawa anoutlet by the D. & H.. as well as by theN. Y. Central,and there may be substancein the rumor. It takes no wide stretch oithe imagination to cover the short distancebetween the terminus otjiie old Rocke-feller road and the endj^fthe old roadbedalready constructed froiu St. Regis Fallsto Everton.

In one of the recent thunder storm!lightning struck tbe large barn of theSaranac Club, passing through the roof

ting fire to some dry lumber storedA bucket brigade was formed anc

soon the fire was under control. It wa:lucky that there was no hay <or straw iuthe building, for if the barn had been de-stroyed all the other buildings would prob-ably have gone up in smoke. In thesame storm lightning also struck a cot-tage on Indian Carry, Upper SaranacLake. The bolt destroyed the chimney,stripped the plaster from the sitting roomceiling and a part of the ceiling of thediuiug room. The inmates of the housewere considerably shocked but nobodywas seriously injured.

At the Warren county convention Satur-day Hou. L.W.Emerson was instructed t<name the delegates to the eougressiouaJconvention. He thus starts into the con-gressional contest in lii.H new district withhis county solidly behind him. Betweenhim and Congressman Littaner, if bothare candidates, there will be a battleroyal. Maj. Loyal L. Davis, of GlemFalls, was nominated for the assemblyin place of Dr. Fuller, and Dr. Fulle:was nominated for school commissione,of the second district. Dr. Fulle:has been greatly afflicted by an aft'ection of the optic nerve for nearly a yea:and found his work at Albany quite diflicult on that account. Mr. Davis willmake a very capable representative.

George S. Larrabee, of Syracuse, isplanning to take his family on a longautomobile tour through EasternNorthern New York and New Englandthis summer, probably iu July. He haspurchased from the manufacturers inCleveland, a Wintoo touring car, a largeand powerful road machine. Its peculiarform, long and low, makes it attract at-tention. It is provided with a fog hornof great noise possibilities. Mr. Larra-bee says that his probable route will befrom Syracuse to Malone and Plattsburghby way of Oswego, Jefferson, St. Lawrence,Franklin and Clinton counties. Thencehe will cross over into Vermont, anddown through the Berkshire hills, inMassachusetts. The machine is expectedto cover at least one hundred mile* a day."

The recent heavy rains have extinguish-ed all the forest fire#: in the Adirondaeks-In the vicinity of Long Lake considerabletimber was destroyed and the fire at onetime threatened to extend to Hon. W. C.Whitney's preserve. The loss there fallsentirely upon private owners the fire nothaving extended to the state lands. Onevaluable woodlot owned by the state wasdestroyed by a big fire which raged be-tween Onchiota and Lyon Mountain, andother lots owned by private parties werebadly damaged, many acres of valuableland being burned over. When the firewas at its highest a Chateaugay R. R.train was obliged to stop between stationson its account. Sparks from a passingengine are supposed to have started the

i blaze.

An exchange says: "Men have various.ways of carrying money. Butchers,millers,grocers and bakers carry it in a crumpledwad; bankers in nice clean bills laid fulllength in a morocco pocketbook. Brokersalways fold their bills once, doubling themoney in the vest pocket, while the sport-ing man carries it in his trousers pocket.Farmers and drovers carry theirs in theirnside pocket, whether it happens to be

fifteen dollars or fifteen cents. Editorsusually carry • theirs in other people'spockets."

The Rutland R. R. station at Chateau •gay came dangerously near destructioaone night last week. The heat from abig kerosene lamp in the office burned theceiling about ttie hook from which it hung ^until it dropped to the floor, scatteringblazing oil over everything. The roomwas quickly filled with fire and smok-e.The section men put ont the blaze by-prompt action before the village fire de/^partment reached the scene. All the win-dows were broken by the heat and the in-:erior of the office was badly charred andsmoked.

The St. "Regis Falls News says: "Nolittle prospecting for gold has been donein this immediate vicinity during the pastyear. Numerous claims have been filed.It is claimed that reports from specimenssent to be assayed, make a good showing.These specimens have been taken fromnear the top of the ground and it is thoughtthat deeper down richer finds may be' lo-cated. Some of those interested now havemen at work drilling and blasting in theledge across the river from the tanneryproperty, and we are all told tbe resultsare encouraging. May success attendtheir efforts."

Last Thursday night the store of Pinney& Tucker at West Stockholm was brokeninto and a quantity of sugar, cigars, fish-ing tackle, &c, were taken. One pack-age bearing Pinney & Tucker's name wasfound in Parishville tbe next morning andwas handed over to Constable Brassee, ofthat place, from whom a young mannamed Garvey claimed it. Piniiey &Tucker identified it as part of the stolenproperty and the young man confessedhelping his father steal the goods. Con-stable Brassee then went to Garvey'shouse to search the premises. It was afterdark and the father was up stairs. Whenthe cemstable lighted a lamp tosearch thehouse the elder Garvey shot him in theleg, knocking the lamp from his handsand inflicting a serious wound. The elderGarvey then escaped, but the son is incustody. Garvey was the prison mate ofGeorge Baker, who escaped from WestStockholm deputies a short time ago.Garvey served four years at Daunemora,being released last fall.

TVOTKS,

The result of action of the United Statescourt in the beef trust matter has beenthe termination of the packers' agreement.Testimony in the attorney-general's inves-tigation at Albany last week brought outthis fact. The agreement was terminatedon Thursday. May 22nd, when the injunc-tion order against the beef firms wasissued—

Six railroads have been indicted by thefederal grand jury at Memphis. Tenu., onthe charge that there is an agreement be-tween them constituting a pool to divideon a pro rata basis the cotton shipped outof Memphis and also to maintain rates.The roads indicted are the Illinois Central :

JLouisville and Nashville: St. Louis, Iron^Mountain and Southern; Kansas City,Memphis and Birmingham: Southern Raii-way^and the Nashville. Chattanooga andSt.. Louis.

The salary of President Palma. of theCuban republic, is to be £25,000, if the billwhich passed the Cuban house the otherday receives the approval of the Cubansenate, and members of congress fo.CJOOeach. Tbe president's message was pub-lished by an enterprising Havana news-paper the night before it was delivered tocongress and the house passed a resolutionpro'tioxineing it a discourtesy on the partof the president, who is greatly irritatedover the matter. Detectives are at workto ascertain how it slipped ont of the presi-dent's office. An aid has been dischargedand a typewriter of the president takeninto custody. Beats all how fast theyare learning American manners down inCuba;

William Long, the man recently con-victed of murder just over the line in Can-ada, has been granted a new trial, and nowonder, for the court of appeals foundthat one witness had sworn on the trialthat the prisoner had set fire to his housenine months before: that another had foldthe jury that the prisoner was separatedfrom his wife; still another expressed theopinion that Long had been the cause ofthe fire in his house, and another was per-mitted to say that he thought the prisonera dangerous man, o£ whom be was afraid,and that he would leave Dundee it theprisoner were let loose. The latter wit-ness also declared that it was well-knownthat the prisoner wanted to get rM of hiawife and that he had burned his house toget rid of her. And this is the w«y theytry people in the inferior courts of Canada.It's a wonder they didn't also try Long asthey do in China, for the crimes of hisdistant relatives.

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