The Democrat. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER,I3 1889. THE Shall lias left Paris for Baden. If all the stories are true, the Shah is rather a had 'un himself. THERE must be something terribly tragic about an electric execution when a big theatrical company orders a whole outfit and will uso it in one ot their plays, introducing a beautiful girl a- the victim. THE Schuylkill valleys are just now ex periencing an industrial boom, several of the iron works having started up this week with large forces of men at increased rates of wages. Reading, Seyfert's station and Pottstown industries are among those that seem inspired with new life. REV. JOHN JASPER, the colored minister of • Richmond, whose views on the sun have made hint celebrated, has been preaching since 1840. lie was a slave when he professed Christianity, and his first religious labor was performed amoDg iris fellow workmen in a Richmond to bacco factory. WHEN the Susquehanna county Repub lican Convention met in Montrose the other day lion. Galusha A. Grow made a speech In which he told the delegates that it is useless to try to fight for Prohibition in the Republican party; Dial true Re publicans must accept high license and henceforth lot Prohibition severely alone. Mit. DAVID DUDLEY FIEI.O, in a recent speech before the American Bar Associa tion, referring to the tardiness of justice in this country, said : "So far as lam aware, there is no other country calling itself civilized, where it takes so long to punish a criminal, and so many years to got a final decision between man and man." WE HAVE been too apt to ridicule the Salvation Army. As everybody knows, there is a tremendous strike now in the city of London. This has caused much distress, not the least of which is hunger. And this among God's poor. But listen .' j The cable brings the intelligence that the J Salvation Army over there is busily em- a ployed in feeding the hungry women and children of the strikers. The Salvation j Army deserves applause for this at least. I * THIS IS a year of big figures in the crop world. There will be about 500,000,01-9 bushels of wheat, 2,000.000,000 bushels of j corn and almost 8,000,000 bales of cotton, j to say nothing of the large crops of oats j and potatoes. Taking in the aggregate j these arc the largest crops we have ever i grown. There is an abundance for every > man, woman and child iu the hand, mil- j lions for export to k" : s favored countries. Truly, this is a land of abundance, a veri- j table Canaan. . i - THE "City of Paris," of the lnman i Line of Ocean steamships, has not only j beaten the record of all other steamships cronsing the Atlantic, but last week it j beat its own record by nearly four hours. ! Its time from Queenstown to S; tidy Hook was live days, nineteen hours and I * eighteen minutes. P L a good tiling to j lower the records if it can ho doac safely, i Modern civilization obi ie rates time and! distance, but often at the expense of afe ty. In ocean travel it is better to go slow than to go down. A MASSACHUSETTS law provides that the physician shall receive a fee of twenty live cents for eaeh birth reported. This wL. help secure a bettor and more accu rate compilation of vst.ai statistics than obtains in this State, where physicians may or may not report births. That there is need of some ■ . stem of regis tration that is reliable is conceded, and if the payment of a small sum will in sure a complete list of these important episodes, that inducement had better be offered. MU.FOHD, one of the oldest towns in Southern Connecticut, on Wednesday last celebrated on a grand scale its 200th anni versary. Among the features of the parade were " ilo-.tts " representing the purchase of the town from the Indians; the old stone mill, for corn, of which the grinding-stones were brought from Eng land and set up William Fowler in 1039; an Indian wigwam, an Indian canoe, a lot of squaws, all alive, and many inter esting things. Among other features of the day was the bapiism iu the Wepowaug river, of a ten-year-old boy, the tenth William Fowler, on the spot where the settler set up his mid. EIGHTY thou- d Americans have gone to Europe thus far Ibis year, on tours of pleasure or husiin- . ol putting the ex penditures of eaeii while in the Old World, at y-' 1 Of), imounts to #8,000.000 spent mostly to h< c.-vice, and passage to and from the i i.iicd Plates, which is a small average. Ol tins *O,OOO. one half will spend S3OO c- ;h, bicli will run the | expenditures up ' o 13,000,000 more, | which will maki an myregato of $20,-! 000,000 thus far tumid lo Europe by ! American tourists tli y ,r. It is more j money than i b (lie I'nitcd States by individua. ti i Europe, visit ing hero in ten year Diri.irrn is stil! )•<- . and promises, ere long, to even cciip- - e glowing pic ture of it cominir greu moss drawn by the Hon. J. Proctor Knott in a speech in Congress, which madi him famous. At ( tho present time the. re more than one ( hundred elegant new >< idences being { erected in Duluth, to say nothing of the ] great number of inferior dwellings which a arc being rushed up to accommodate the J new arrivals. The new car works are just being opened, and six hundred men will commence work in tiiem this week. It is estimated that 2,500 men will be needed iu the shops to fill present orders before one year. Duluth is fast becoming the centre of the iron industries of the Northwest. Ws can have little idea of the promi nence of the Chinence in San Francisco, but it is graphically presented in the ac counts of the festivities on Sunday in honor of the god of charity. Imagine in our own country, iu one of the greatest of our cities, a solemn procession of a thousand Chinamen in magnificent cos tumes escorting a wonderful dragon a hundred feet long,ingeniously constructed so as to writhe and squirm along between its forty guards, and preceded and follow ed by gorgeously arrayed allegorical figures in the highest style of peculiar Chinese art. This procession passed through dense crowds of Mongoliaus, who looked on with superstitious awe and felt and looked as thoroughly un- American as if they had been ott the other side of the Pacific. TWENTY-FIVE years ago, saysthe Lan caster New Em, a dozen varieties of to. mntoes were all that were known to tin market gardehers. To-day there is an exhibition of these vegetables in New York which includes more than eighty varieties, ranging from the "Strawberry." which is about as large as a hazel nut, to " Livingston's Perfection," which is as large as a good sized mushmelon. The colors are nearly as many as the names. Of course the greater number are red or shades of that color, but some are yellow, green and even brown. The shapes are ; also very many, and the tomatoe- are . named after the fruit they resemble, sue.- ; as the cherry tomatoes, plum tom.-.i- < ■ | the pear tomatoe and the currant tomuto One variety, the. peach tomato, lias si light, downy skin, and at a distance, re sembles a peach. Cureiul selection of seed and hybridizing have wrought those results. AN OLD-TIME MU EI.IM'. A correspondent of a New York paper asked where he can obtain George Lip- I pard's works. He has looked far anil i wide and has failed.to find tlu-m. And | yet only yesterday, so to speak, George i Lippard was famous. In the Inst gem :a- j | tion he was one of the most pop .?ar ! ! American novelists. He wrote book after J book and everybody read them and j ■ eagerly called for more. Of all the sen-1 i Hational and lurid story-writers that this i country has produced he was ens tly ] the first, llis imagination was boundless j and riotous. His style was blood ! curdling. Lippard leaped into the noonday Maze j of notoriety at once, and became as p p ! ular in his day as Rider Haggard is in 'ours. He was no penny-a-liner tram the ! slums, no dime novelist, no hack writer for tlie blood ami thunder weeklies. He was a master of the mysteries of soma- j tional story-telling, and lie wrote good I English. Daniel Webster was certainly a man of good literary Judgment. If lie could find Lippard's romances fascinat ing it is fair to suppose they had merit. The great statesman was au enthusiastic admirer of the novelist. He pronounced him a man of genius, and predicted en during fame for his works. But where are these once popular novels to-day, and who knows anything about their author? Even in New York, a city full of book stores, one lias to ap peal to the newspapers to answci the ques tion. Just what happened to Lippard will befall many a man who is now working like a slave to win fame and fortune. To-day a man's name is ringing through the land ; to-morrow it will lie remem bered by a few, and day after to-morrow men will write to the newspapers asking whether tlio man really lived or was only a myth. Bitch is fame in ninety-nine eases out of one hundred. But men will long for it, fight for ii and die for it to the end of the world. . Marriage Licenses. (John Knelth Cambria borough Vruresa Erne Cambria borough ( Kobert s. Jordan lohinuown I eella Klioads lolinstown (Isaac Kauffniar somerset county (Susan Hanson Somerset county I.'•'rank I-lister concmaugli borough (Kate Boxler Wootlvale (George Gates Morreltvllle (Prose-Ilia Woolf MorrellviUe (John Kessler Conomaugh borough (Mary Woss Croyle township j Frank McCaffery Nolo, Indiana county (Kate Flecker. Mitchell's Mills,lndiana county (John Price Johnston a (Ellen Davis Pittsburgh i (Sidney Clcmenoe wnrtiingu . : (Mary Uelmun Washington | /Lewis K ring ... Adams township (Lizzie lthoads \dants township l James bowers Lower Yoder i Annie Bessler coo(iersdale I Amos Campbell Blnekllck township (M. E. Makin Blackllck township ILawrence Nothholfer Kieltland township (Mary sarlouis lUelilaud township j Lawrence Hammond Nlektown (Jennie McOOmble bail township JD. 1L Kreame lolinstown (Elizabeth Stewart rohnstown iDaniel Williams. Pittsburgh (Kate Williams I Listings (Samuel J.'-nhnrt lolinstown (Maggie Phillips Johnstown (Harry Lehmiro xichiand township (Martha orris Ulchland township (J. J. Mcoeaiy oalUtzln (Bid Klley GaUltzln (l)anlcl llanlln Aslivlllo (Mary Hollls Coalport j William Livingston somerset eounty I Elizabeth Keafer .. .Upper yoder (Charles Williams Keepers Stonycreek (Lizzie Beatrice Menscr Stonycreek (Charles Glook Johnstown (Etta Swank lolinstown (Edward waltz Elder township (Martha Abel Elder towhship ( — At Mt. Gretna. Quartermaster J. it. Beano, a son of j Gapt. Hamilton, and Private Smith, from i Camp Hamilton, were at the rifle con- i test at Mt. Gretna. Mr. Smith is a mem- I ber of the team, and Quartermaster I iSonne kept the score. Twenty prizes, I amounting to SSOO wero distributed. Adj. i Roll, of tlie 14th regiment, securing one. | Til KICK HUNDKKI) KILLED. I One Tliouhhiiil Person*, Mostly Women, nre ' Injured—The Explosion Cnnaed by Tak ing Old Cartridges to Pieces. The explosiou in a dynamite cartridge factory in Antwerp, on Friday, caused the lo9b of 300 or more lives, and the wounding of nearly 1,000 persons. Every employe in the immediate vicinity of the first explosion was blown to pieces, so that it is impossible to tell how the acci dent occurred, but it is probable that some oue dropped a package of the ter rible explosive. The cartridge factory was situated behind the docks upon which millions of cartridges were being loaded. Tt was adjacent to the petroleum stores, and two huge Russian petroleum warehouses were set on fire and destroyed with their contents. The bourse is in the near neighborhood, and the building was struck by Hying fnigmeuts and set on tire. The structure was crowded with bunkers and business men and they rushed out. trampling one another down in their fright. The factory was completely torn to pieces and all the building in the immediate vicinity shattered. The dam age to property is enormous, but is light ly regarded in view of the dreadful loss of life. The polic", gendarmes and troops were at-once summoned to assist the firemen in extinguishing the flames and extricat ing the wounded and the bodies of the dead. A strong cordon of troops kept back the crowd, but outside of this wall of bayonets was a pitiful throng of weep ing wives and mothers. A large number ■of the employes were girls. The roll of the dead is "simply the list of employes the building, less those found among the ; wounded and the few who returned to their homes. Of the killing there is but ; a mass of dismembered limbs and man | gled trunks of bodies. The wounded i arc ulso horribly disfigured and many will die. As the wounded were brought out they were tickuu in charge by the priest and sisters of charity. All that the for mer in many cases were able to do was to shrive the dying. • They were conveyed to the hospitals and everything possible done to alleviate their sufferings. The explosion occured in a work-shop where old cartridges were being taken to pieces. Men and women .were actively i engaged at breaking them up and 25,000,• I 000 had been partly broken, i The dense black smoke lrcm the burn , ing petroleum hung all day like a pall over the city and Friday night it reflected the glare of the flames, which are still i raging. The fire now covers two acres, the flames shoot up to an immense height. Amid the roar of the flames there is a con tinuous succession of loud reports, sup posed to be from the ignition and explo sion of packages of cartridges. Beyond the Russian tanks and Noble's sheds there are numerous houses burning. The ship ping at tlie African and American docks is in danger. It will be impossible to ex tinguish tiie flames in less than twenty four hours. Several vessels have been I burned. Owing to the intense heat the firemen are unable to approach the flames nearer than one hundred yards. The explosions continued until afler midnight. At the American docks all the ships have been saved owing to the favorable direction of the wind. The stained windows of tiie cathedral are smashed and it is feared that the steeple will collapse. The whole vicinity is strown with debris. The dock sheds ami hydraulic cranes are greatly damaged, . The soldiers of the garrison and a large I number of citizens are assisting the lire-; men. Many are dropping from suffoca- ,j tion. The scenes of the hospitals are ! heartrending. King Leopold has sent a i telegram expressing sympathy and asking i for particulars. The explosion occurred in the Corvilei an Catridge factory. This establishment had been condcmcd by the Communal Council, but the deputation permanente allowed work to continue. The people are incensed at the deputation permante for allowing work to continue in the cart ridge factory. The victims are mostly factory girls. Windows three miles distant were shat tered by the explosion. Wlutt Woman Can I><>. She can come to a conclusion without the slightest trouble of reasoning on it. and no sane man can do that. Six of them can talk at once and get along first rate, and no two men can do that. ! She can safely stiek fifty pins in her dies* while lie is getting one under his thumb nail. Site is cool as a cucumber in half a dozen tight dresses, while a man will sweat and fume and growl in a loose shirt. She can walk half the night with n ' colicky baby in her arms without once ex- j pressing the desire of murdering the in fant. She can but what is the use? A woman can do anything and everything and do it well. She can do more in a minute than a man can do in an hour, and do it better. She can say " no " in such a low voice that it means " yes. " ♦ ♦ Exaggerated ltepiuts. With all that is being said and printed by certain people here, and some people east and west of us, we do not believe 1 there is any more sickness in Johnstown i than is usual at this season of the year. In fact, we doubt if there are as many 1 eases of malarial and typhoid fevers in and about town, as there are in and about such supposed healthy localities as moun tain sections of this and Somerset coun ties. Taking tiie much larger population ' of Johnstown into consideration, our in- i formation justifies the statement that | there are fewer instances of deaths here than in the aforesaid sections that boast so much about pure water and health- I promoting air. s IM POUT AN I' COMMITTEE. Tke Committee <>t Eirieen l.einlmg Citizens Appointed ly 11,•- Itojir.i ~f Trade to tAge CiiiiHolldatloii „r the MormigliH, D'e-Iyinu ~f tl,e tllve.-R, ami to Pincme Aid Cv.tni tlie National ami stale Oov- 1 eminent*. At a reeeht lmcling of tln, Board of >' Trade, resolutions ivr:e adopted favoring the consolidation of tin- different lior- ( ougbs iii this vicinity under . city char ter, to urge the rebuilding of the bridges, 1 cleaning out I lie rivers, and providing for 1 tlie ii|>pointmeiit of a com mil ice id lil'lei U 1 to attend to Ibis ini|>oit< tit dutv. i The following i* |tn- work mapped out * for this committee to perform : •• |'o ine< I l witli the Councils ami citizens or ,u u ' several municipalities.: to counsel \ ith ' Senators Cameron and tjuay, m d with Congressman Scull, n. 1 prepare and provide proper matter pr> cure aid from our National or N'*ic government- in dredging our rivers-ami protecting their embankments." pie-ulcm James (.Juiim. Secretary George V,. Wagoner, and s. Dean ClUian. of iVi Board id Tinde, Wen apponled to sckvt tiie number- of tin committci. 'I Ik-c gentleim-ii mil yes terday afternrs.o ami appointed the fol lowing named g* iiileinen to perornt Toe diuies mentioned : lletiiian Bautiter. Scott Dibert. I*. S. Fisher. John Hani.an, Thomas E. J.towc, Thomas L. Johnson, Charles. l. Mayer, G. W. Moses, A. J. Moxhant, Ja i lies Mr.,iUlen. John M. I<ue. 11. W. Storey, George T. Swank, L. D. Woodruff. B. L. Ycacley. Johns!own Jew. !. is Uoil.m, thus). " There's one Joliiisii,.vn industry that is just booming." -al l a travel ho ill passed through theCoi.emntigii Valli v o, his journey eastward. " Tie jewelers an up to their ears in business. Tliev -ire toiling night ami day, vet the pile of watches and clocks that are waiting to Is repaired seems never to grow less. Many of the watches were carried through the flood by fortunate survivors ; others were taken from the bodies of the dead ; semi of tlion passed daw iu flic w nier, and are grown so rusty tint the purchase of a new timepiece would be a far greatei economy than the repui'-imv of the old one. But every i tie r. • .ids awa Mi that lias come through 'he Coneiiiangli deluge as a i Invaluable relic, ami some pi rsuns are willing to expeml thrice the original price to have their witches put -In good running order. To set straight a time piece that lots siep' through days and nights in the bed of the OOneimiuah. or floftti (I on the surface of the river iu the pocket of some person is a task that re quires nice skill and rim pioieiiee. The I work is necessarily very slow, but it pays J well. In some cases one 'work man wilt' spend an entire wek over.one timepiece, i and. as every otte of tlie half dozen jew- | clry shops of lite town ha- eiic hundred or 1 more battered ape •intent . the clock-1 makers'art awaiting tneir turns, it lock as if the jewelers' boettt would last o! winter. A Cirutt-hi* VisHttlloii. One of the most guileful visitations our , lown has bet u honored with was the timely moist it re oi tl e past few days. L etitne gt nth - , mildly, and altogether tut ! like thai which rushed down upon its in such an overwhelmingly destructive foret ' on the 111-fated Friday of May 3tst. Tin '.shower of T . snay w.t- supplemented by a tolerably steady down-pour of several hours on yesterday forenoon, which had not only the effect of allaying the several inches of dust, but of materially cooling the atmosphere. If the clerk, who i- ' popularly believed to pre-ide over the weather department, will only cause the clouds to pour out a suflici' quantity of the water 'ley contain, to give our almost dried tt, creeks such an upward tendency as to carry off the refuse matter that now clogs ttu their channels, our citizens will be ready to vote thanks with a unanimous voice. Tin* Keslllt of the Johnstown Flooit. Lancaster I ntelllgeneer. George Nauntan, attorney for M. S. ami Abide W. Davis, entered a suit this after noon in the Court of Common Pleas against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany. The plaintiffs were passengers on the Day Express caught by the llocd at Oonemaugh which destroyed Johnstown, and all their baggage was swept away. | The suit is brought to recover the value J of the baggage. The statement of the articles destroyed has not yet been tiled, but the loss sustained by Mr. Davis is about $1,500. The Kubrit/.-Ciifiti-i < In the case in which Jacob Rubritzhad prosecuted Jacob L. Custer for larceny, which was tried at Court yesterday, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Although it is quite likely that the money belonged to Rubritz's father, as claimed, and was lost, In the flood, yet there was no means of identifying it. The money will now he turned over to the Committee on Valuables, where, if Rubritz can sub- J stantiate his claim, he will likely get it. , ICulhim) Mori* Than Whs Ah1<o(I. I The Committee appointed to solicit 1 funds for tlie institution of tlie South ' Fork Fishing Club investigation met last * niglit In the John Tltonuts building. It t was found that considerable more money hail been raised than was at first asked. No further action was taken by those , present. - , Tin* •!o!iiihlo\vii School Fund' Somerset Herald. f A subscription fund was started at Ber- f lin on last Friday, and by Saturday even- I ing nearly one hundred dollars had ti been contributed. We hope to hear t equally encouraging reports from other e parts of the country. Full statcmcuts t will be made later. s TIIE KELXKP >1 >'(•. .Johnstown. P.-, . A ; ii-nihfr S. r To th' I'lll'< -I ' of th .. . . in-'- h . .-ml • The e'iito! of tin- /'.-/'iK-rieiti :.-i i iliro'i.tl lasl no lit n.aki x soon- r.iHtrmvii'f legard ing "u- deluy i.i iE.c id-liiMilii n of tin ivi' i fund tliiit, wiii viNin h l • -crutiny. A Jr. Swank is a lie-in.ni of tin- Finance (A • tioi.il Ino llu-sc -DDi-monls iifo iM'.f hat -i iiiii a i. Thepnhu; ill l hit i: ..I 'his m-li oillcial. or-.-iiii-offi. i.ti ocm-nt fmm „-y member of tois i.n.ro-' inly, nod .in- occasion now n. • > incini: - in tlt-fcnae of it.n-i- o< i sponsible lor tic- *1 * 1., i;. i. . 1 1 i.'iu'. .. iiu-tnotny carii w i - u.c -.'..y-iii.ii lieu Inert- is n 11111-1. t>s - - ... u< ..g to nils h • i in- p*-ph '•!' Swank s.-r. : • r.-n-i-- lm. been no u-i .-"en (loin- in Inc people o. Johnstown in - - ■ withholding id i n rciicl fund.'" I -- in lit of tlii-i in.iy lie licfn t -leter iioii- .1 oy each imiit iilino-nifi no'him- I---H. afi i if t-acli is wiliioa '•<> linil Hit 's ill be more u--n- h.ni in i m w- • a month I ..:u i.t ili.-m il | ..ml i ... ve been fix w.i-lo no. lui-n t■.<- I t-iin lit is il is believe.t. ho . : e--i -. mat in ll.t- tux- ol -imn i n ban:-. ! WO-i-e almost Sole cie.lil Is in • iiinonill ' 1 I 111" y thi-V Will I- ci ive I; mi ile '. ■I , Fun I. ilia' li iii lm-in. ss nfV.io ■ .- .„! ! I been botf.>r handled bad they h i ! ' • r i-ioiicv sum. liu.i ,tv a.,ii ;i would have iii-en niii! -tore °nt ! .factory to! iin-i Thi- ja-■ iiom. h!-(, |,.is , i.ininj;, cvuiu cen.dnly ■ n.ml i •'(•• p.-ogri ■-• ' in | .ovitliag sLlllli' fot ki huuitv* if I'--' Ua w tUu Uioney. He bus no ere,ill. lo ! '.ith building operations. did t-ol j tiowi ■_ tbo Binolinl be ins\ it-ei-ivr. liel Je -.ii llleiv. 110 promises. V.'!, nhe lh.it* | ..ibis tcouey it will b. m. in ,o tor i that be ennnot erect a innne liefort the cold weather *t-'s in and eons quernl) ] .urnself am! tam'ly may i,w\o to sn.Vtri throughout the winter, ami yet ibis sage j -rrr.arks that "no injustice has be. done." The in-xt statement n-rarding the ; ro -11-• nyn t-iits tbnt ah-cmlv lnivt- been > i Ugllt ' be Ci ■< i I con: g frori Hie j sou ■ • it does, yet th - Finn ' . nmmix m : has that mailt i 1 . .- , ;u- I. -m -on • I no- he w- .. or '.i , "i -I;tvi ; | n-en j.|:i n class Foil 'Old Fi-.e especially , ' i" Im: , ..id much on this nloi-in iliou. us ! the iiri-.iosfemcn' mav he rbnii e-l olio-! | cc:lter. Those i-i higher el -i- : •> tit ' likely to b ve their r!-itm cb-ci,i. 1 and () mi •- tit til'- lime .< of Hit: ! amount he ... Hit- may ; i f. The btatci that tin- filial dlstvibu- j tioii will ' ! ill I - weeks is clieeriiiv: j urnl it is .I 'l'- tl it may prove correct. The si at (-men t that a score of clerks have been working every day, part ol . V.as I ossi! ! for '! cm to :e! T for any 01,,- . let. tbein Im'.- .be nmoiin'. wbicti w.as likw't to be bud for distribution and tot b ' they eo- M ■ (•'lu-ir talinmtes" i ialsi -■ -.veil m misleading It is false cause ihere a - only ilve clerks working r the Board of Inquiry now, and Hie • -gl" ' nuiiihcr for a long lie e -. .is or.'v tin- A! one ii;.". -there were n . i inc ;i!oyc j bile the :- ;.ilc Coituni-smi two | pitying ■ r the H -'iny . liiit lliul tv.is ail j ti ii lie.! king ago, and tie few eleik - now j in tin- .in ploy <jf the State Commissiou j an-, prepo:i":r siati? icitl mutter only foi | of liiing away n tin- ureli- i ivi-s t,' - sburg, il is misli ;ni'ii_, be- | canst- i ,:ni of Inquitx is mil inak ' ing the u., ju.-linent as to ilu: ainouut of . fieoev .ii will recieve. This Hoard i j ,- ci( tying the pro; b- min tlu-ir ii-l - n or lie- 's, and consequently need not I know tin- amount which wa- likciy to tie bad for lie., distribution and on which they could base their estimates." On proof of tb's it is here asserteti that i not a single member of the Board knows anyways near the amount of money- for distribution. The members of ttie Board of Inquiry have worked f virhfully hut tl;ere was too much laid out for them lo do, although at the present, il does not look as if an attempt was made lo do much, one of them being sick and another giving a large share of bis time to his private law business. If the same plan was lo he pursued there should have been several Boards and each have had a certain district to adjust. It looks to the writer as though there hud been a stiidit d purpose in the delay. Perhaps it was because this vast sum of money on deposit would benefit the lrientls of Governor Beaver. Again it is said that certain persons here had private interests that were in such shape that they were not ready to take advantage of the distribution of this vast sum among the people, arul I din. positions of influence tlicy manipulated tiie delay for tlu-ir own advantage. One thing i - per tain Ibis vast, charit hit- fund whi ii a generous people everywhere donated, tor the immediate use of the sufferers here, lias not reached their hands as was intended. Many of the de lays might have been avoided, ami the money could have been put in the hands of the people long ago. Those who had the management of affairs either from in-! competency of from mister motives, ! signally failed to carry out the wishes of the tionors of this fund, and therefore violated a great trust, and " the witlihold holdiug of the relief fund" lias done a great hvjuatiei to tin people who were entitled io r-'.-i it m • withstanding the Sta'ements -■!' Mr. Swi-uk to the contrary. S. A stm ji on '■ -:igbt in tbo Kiver. , York Dally. An immense turgeon. weighing over two hundred s u- !-• ami measuring soven feet in lcngb - 0.1,11 tied in the Sus quehanna rivet below i'eacUhottom on Monday morning hi-t by Messrs. Burkina and McCoy, it was stunned by a blow on the head with a club, after which tin: fish ermen passed a rope through its gill and tliey now hold it captive, allowing it to swiut out into the river. MtM.vit.l.l: I t-.;..trl t r Iti" tti-giilui- V'-i-tlng of (-(i.Tiirlnj .in siituribiv E* (i-iiiui;. A meeting i.f tin* Miilville borough (.'otitic I at which nil members were |.r... - HI. wh i.i l-i ul Ilu- new Burgess I'.iliT "ti I' *"t street on Saturday rich! la-d. Mr I botiins P. Kc. dy presided, Willi \X. S. O'ilrii ii ,is Sc. rctiD-y. Tin- Burir.-i.-s 11 iiiirtc,; lii.i s -unl costs to fhe aniuiint ol -.-HO. IrcnMinr Bri.M er rc tiorii-il 1-.pern-11 lot- for ibe in*in llt of Au-gii-' STirs IM. i.ivtne bai.-una-1 fetish I*l In Ho of 'llll. IBills due the I Bi.-.bt I lUtpniiy- for -lime and iiiu. I,'oyi. As -1, which iniil been oh. j'-i'ied to ni a previous nut-:' were or dered II- l.e pnyc l, ,M|-. (iridium StHlt'll | ,: '-t ' 1: •- -. llii.iidtou promises to eiean j tin- niiei i.s it ii nefittra. ! 'olinwuig liid- were ordered to hel payed; ' • " .loba ii. i.e. ke, tor pollen serrlev # 00 no i •leu-, i-t- r r ii-i-iiiiig pel Miner, . m r.-g • >ii 'it tv . -< imu'.-, for poiii f hervii.T r*< ini \. '' t I <• 11 r M l'Vl. " (K> i'f.ht i Kir police service.. .{ imj 1 l> • Ms. ,t>r pill in In# 17r 117 <) vii tippl.\ i.tillhe. for plUirltlliv'. M< .'!!• 1 i tmllt'.v t.pj iter •*, fur iic' t liimdisc ... (Ip 1 : ,i: ' •*'• '• i'"'i ••• M'rs'Uv 11 051 j „I. I' needy. Mbtry 31 ...J , i.iiii.--lyi'll.l. or [lll.l,.(.servile ill r,i* • tcllHU, *:, ; ||,tc. I ilcc . i;j ;u3f ! u * ' lo' : I'"" :> .1 • service !• IM) blKt ,fui lJi:itlA;ire •*! |U y in. I.if-.v ;-v . ;i, r.i rpenicr work.. .' 1:17 j •loi* , 1 m ti Kiev! Me i.lttlif Cu . fur tf < JuJ.*r.sl uer.s eiitrK ruii lor ' tO(i | An. "iiii. CoiinciliMin from the ! First ward, handed in his resignation I w-liicn 1:1- .1 ee|-tcd. Air. Conn intends jto mine I'liibjiect. Mc—r- |{.. -emi l Frletlhoff, two of the ■ 1 ommi'li n of ii ve -elected to confer with I .Milivill- ( , cit iI regarding tl.e con ; l- o'-ola itridgc, were present, i • 1 •.!! tin- Committee were not there. , u..;. Httsiioui. except to arrange'for a Hn im- night this week to deter| 1 in'- I-.,-. -I.me lino of action in regard j to iids important matur. .- THn'Ti iv rxi'itiiss •11 'ii .iiiln.aiotrn 1 luoil Cuukctl by Ncgli •;e,.ii Stilt KutPrci'. Against tbo Pctin nvlvnnl-- r.-illi-mul. ! 1 - . I-. I arlii-li on Sii'ur.lay in Pitta 'm . ' - - ei-i-d -mi against Ihe T't-nnsy. lo'ilo ail ('on:puny I r.-g.">0,000 dan . - ii; im 1 ten Ili ..| id- wife and time 1 ' In -.• im were lost In the John*town ' i'.iiull stuii.s tin t be bought ins w. . alary K. Tarhcl), and ; - 1 i'iiii', agid two. live and -- • vi-his. ft. m tii vt-laiui to Tyrone. I" ■ • with via tin- Cleveland aml !'i;i-.in tli iiui i'e.uti:yhauia. 1 Vr ,i;, when lli iraiu tliey were I on Hi, i | I'a'eil Day K\press, had reached --1 in Iwo no cast of Johns- I ' wn, tin- iniiroad oilb . 1 s, so In. alleges, d not:• -i• ..I int- ii in. . from Hit- flood m l in- unlicipitted bio -ling of the £><ulii i'ork dnm. '['lie train was held at that point foi six hours, and though tliey had ample time ami fair warning, tliey failed to remove ilu- train. It was overwhelm ed in tin- llnod, it ii' 1 M.-. Tarhctl and tße three rill! In u were lost. Their deaths, it i- .I A were dm :o ihe negligcnct of the H. ' .ad Company in not removitifi the lr. I mi a| i.:t ot danger. .Mr Tarh. • .. •. ,-iieys are ex-Bet.liter J-jht i J. liall am: .'daisliall iin-t Imhrie. s 9 -teetlng II .liiliii-totvit lEinii'il ul Directors On Thursday night next 'lie Direeion I ! ibe Johnstown Sc'-1 I-I Board will nice I i i the ofllec of Superitiio ident Johnson ti . ' i-t tcaclu-rs for tin- ensuing year. Ui nlay tin- ElOtli of September, the sclioo jii .a will ht-_ In. Tiie Union, Adam, ant 11 Di rt street lauiiliiigs will then he read; f" oeciipuncy. lis length is at the optioi | of I'm directors. Inn probably will h eight months. There arc already man) ap; ''rants for positions as teachers, lm tnnsi I,in- own town, will he Hie one i most dt-sired. Seven members of th i mps of Johnstown Teachers, lost tliei livi son Mav 31st, and otic. Miss Gregg has since died front a sickness the dircc result of subsequent exposure. Rv. I>r. Hubert \V. Oliver. llt-v l: ihert \V. Oliver, rector of th Cbureli of tin- Good Sbepbcrd, Kearney Nebraska, and his daughter. Miss 0. T Oliver, wliose arrival in the city w noticed a few days ago, are guests at th Bed Gross Ilou.se on f.ocust street. 'I) Oliver was the first rector In Johnstowt lb was also the first rector of St. Luke F. E. Church in Altoona, ancl built thcol stone church which preceded the preset structure, ami the school house and pa sonago. Lie was also the originator ( the Mechanics' library, Altoona. He gladly met by old acquaintances here. Wreck at Itolivar. About 4 o'clock on Satjyday aftcrnoor a freight wreck of oAiMdci ible tlimor siom- occurred at Bolivar on account i wlii'-h Eastward hound trains w,<5 r ® 'I laved three hours. A train of cmpt freight cars ran front a siding into an a] proucbing train on the main track, earn ing the de-railing of about fifteen coi trucks, and damaging them all more c less. Two engines were also badly dan aged, one being thrown across the tract No one was injured, ami travel was agai resumed after the above nteutioned di lay. **•*. llotly Fountl. Tin: body found on Saturday afternoo in a cellar at the corner of Walnut an Chestnut streets, had in pocket of clotl ing a store hook with the nuni : on it of J. Tyler. From the clothing am the book the hotly has been identified ty that of John Tyler. lie resided i tlornerstown, and was at work the day c tiie Wood in the Gautier Works. The rt mains will be interred to-day at 10 o'cloc a. m ., from Henderson'-Morgue in View. Rev. F. I'. Baylor, of the Evangeliet Association Church, is still dangerousl ill, but is believed to bo improving.
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