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‘BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
vances, the odious character of
sugar trust becomes more plainly reveal-
ed to the thrifty house-wife. :
— In tackling whisky with renewed
vigor since hisrecent victory, SULLIVAN
seems determined to fight to a finish the
only antagonist that in the end is sure
to knock him out.
—The Empire State in
spects surpasses the Keystone State, but
her Johnstowh flood was a mere baga-
telle 1n comparison with Pennsylvania's
champion disaster.
—The question that is now engaging
the attention of political circles is wheth-
er the ‘‘grand old party’’ will be able to
successfully dodge the
boomerang at the next election.
some re-
—THoMAs V. CooPER has at last re-
ceived the nice official plumb of the
Philadelphia custom house. What a
great thing it is to be hopeful, to say
nothing about being red-headed.
—Happy Boston! Her intellectual
eminence has long been admitted, and
now there is none to dispute her mus-
cular superiority. Isn't it remarkable
that a bean diet should be promotive of
such opposite qualities ?
—The Louisiana Lottery Company,in
offering to assume the Louisiana State
debt of $12,000,000 for an extension of
their charter for a certain term of years,
admit the extent to which they are
fleecing their gullible victims.
——The Mississippi Sheriff who is
said to have allowed the Sullivan-Kii-
rain fight to come off in his bailiwick
for the consideration of $250 spot cash,
dis played a talent in theboodleline that
might well excite the admiration of a
DUDLEY or a QUAY.
—CoL. McCLURE of the Times blush-
es like a coy maiden when his name is
mentioned in connection with the Senate
as the successor of Dox CAMERON. But,
as to the matter of ability, the State
would have no reason to blush at such a
change.
—All of the Bellefonte Johnstown
sufferers have retnrned home. Outside
of the locality that was directly devas-
tated no other town in the State can
compare with Bellefonte in the number
of its citizens that were affected by the
Conemaugh disaster.
—The decapitation of fourth-class
postmasters went on with such regular-
ity and dispatch during CLARKSON’S
recent outing that the hungriest office-
seeker couldn’t reasonably complain of
his temporary absence from his post of
duty.
—The bad weather that prevailed
during the entire month of June was
decidedly unfavorable for the interesting
character who greets you wish the inter-
rogatory: “Is it hot enough for you?”
But during the past week he got in his
work in great shape. :
—However much the decent sentiment
of the public expressed its disapproba-
tion of the Sullivan-Kilrain prize
fight, it was noticeable that some very
decent people took a great iMterest in
reading the details of the encounter.
How inconsistent we mortals be.
— That the meteorological influences
which govern the weather may be more
kind to the wheat harvesters than they
were to the hay makers this season is
the ardent wish of all who sympathize
with the grangers in the various trials
and perplexities incident to their useful
and honorable calling.
—The Nipsic that had such rough ex-
perience in the storm at Apia, is return-
ing home terribly cut of repair. To an
enterprising Republican navy ring there
is a mint of money in a ship in her con-
dition. The probability is that the re-
pairing of the Nipsic will go on to the
end of this administration.
—Since the Sullivan and Kilrain
pugilists so successfully defied the au-
thority and evaded the vigilance of the
governors of Louisiana and * Mississippi,
those dignitaries may find solace in the
remark which the Governor of South
Carolina is said to have made to
Governor of North Carolina on a cer-
tain memorable oceasion.
—The Treasury Department has de- |
cided that the four new stars cannot ap- |
pear upon the American flag until July
the 4th of next year. If in the mean-
time any of the new States should turn
out to be Democratic, the stars that rep-
resent them would presenta feature of
our national astronomy that would be
anything but interesting to the Republ'-
Cans.
—The American sharp-shooters who
went over to Knoland this season to try
conclusions with the sharp-shooters’ of
: that country, scored a brilliant victory.
There 1s no novelty in this, for it is a
well known historical fact that in a big
shooting mateh *hat came off something
over a hundred years ago the American
marksmen came out decidedly ahead of
their English antagonists, :
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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NO. 21.
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The Promise and the Reality.
The promises made by the support.
ers of the war tariff system during the
fresh in the memory of the working
people. It was promised that if the
high duties of the system were main-
tained by the triumph of the Repub-
lican party in the contest, the indus:
tries would receive such an assurance
of undisturbed prosperity that labor
would be abundantly employed at re-
munerative wages. The representa
tion that all
necessary to secure the welfare of the
vas made that was
working people was to maintain the
tarifh.
The election resulted in compliance
with the promises and representations
of the tariff supporters, but what has
been the effect so far as concerns the
interests of those who live by their
labor ? The “protective” policy was
vindicated, but the record of the first
four months of this high tariff ad-
ministration, given below, shows to
what extent the interests of the work-
ing people have been promoted by the
maintenance of the war tariff, and
what sort of an industrial millennium
las been secured by the triumph of the
| moncpoly party :
MARCH, :
4—The very day of President Harrison's in-
auguration, 5000 Lehigh coal miners were
thrown out of employment, 1006 puddlers for
the Brooks Iron Company had to accept re-
duced wages and the Reading Coal Company
torced its miners to earn less money by work-
ing fewer hours.
Furnace employees in Mahoning and She-
nango Valley accept a reduction of 10 per cent.
One thousand puddlers, Brook Iron Com-
pany, Pennsylvania, accept a reduction of 7 to
12 per cent.
Five thousand miners out of work by closing
of the nine collieries of the Lehigh Coal Com-
any.
r lice given at twenty-two collieries of the
Reading Company that miners must work
three-quarter time, four days a week.
5—Failure Reading Iron Works. Twenty-
five hundred men out of work.
6—All steamboat travel suspended on Puget
Sound and Columbia River through the action
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com-
pany reducing pay of all employees whose
wages were $60 or upwards 10 per cent.
7—Bsaker’s Union of Chicago claim that
bosses are breaking their contract, and men
are returning to long hours and small pay.
8—Striking employees of the Ames Shovel
Works at North Eastern, Mass, nctified to va-
cate the corporation tenements.
The Findlay (0.) Iron Works assigned,
Alden, Sampson & Co., oileloth manufactur
| ers, Maspeth, L. I. discharged 120 hands. In
last campaign the men had to work for Harri-
| son.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Company re-
| duce wages of large number of employees 3344
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per cent.
9—One hundred girls employed at Bagle Cot-
ton Mills, Madison, Ind., strike for a reduction
of working hours to ten a day.
1i—Fall River weavers strike for an increase
of wages. Ten thousand out of ‘work.
Employees of Brooklyn Rubber Company
| strike against a reduction of 10 per cent. in
wage
12—Silk ribbon weavers at Hellmans & Son's
factory, College Point, L. 1, strike for increase
of wages.
Notice given that Chicago, St. Paul & Kan-
sas City Railroad fomany will cut number of
employees down to half af West St. Paul yards.
13—The last of the pipe miils of the Reading
Iron Company closed. Two thousand men
idle.
shops at Jersey City cut from fourteen to
twelve cents an hour.
15—0One hundred and fifty cigarmakers at
Hahn & Brusel's factory, New York, strike
against 30 per cent. reduction in wages.
Salt lifters at Leroy, N. Y., strike against a
reduction of wages.
99—Pennsylvania Coal Company notified
miners at Scranton that fifteen collieries
would be shut down. The miners had been
earning $6 to $15 a month.
o7r—Tailure of weavers’ strike at Fall' River
for increase of wages.
Notice issued st Clark Thread Works, New-
ark, N. J, of reduction of wages of spinners 15
per cent.
30—Two hundred weavers of the Berkeley
Mills strike on account of a cut in wages,
Providence, R* I.
The broad loom weavers in the Cutter Silk
Mill at Bethlehem, Pa., notified of a reduction
of wages equivalent to thirty cents per day.
Three striking moulders at the Enterprise
Manufacturing Company’s works, in Philadel-
phia, who were charged “with combining to-
gether to intimidate,” held to answer by the
Courts.
APRIL.
1—Telegram from Galesburg, Ill, announces
that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincey Rail-
road Company has reduced the hours of labor
of the shop men, briage men and carpenters
| from ten to eight hours, with a proportionate
cut in wages. Men receiving $1.15 a day cut
to ninety-two cents.
Strike of framers, painters and granite cut-
ters, New York, for nnion scales.
One thousand five hundred carpenters and
painters strike at Baffalo, N. Y. to enforce
I nine-hour work day.
Seventeen hundred carpenters strike at St.
Lonis, Mo., for forty cents an hour.
Pennsylvania Steel Works, Harrisburg, Pa.,
reduced skilled lubor 5 per cent. and unskilled
i labor 10 per cent. Twenty-five hundred men
affected.
A. Pardee & Co, coal operators, Wilkes-
\ barre, Pa., notity employees of a reduction of
2 per cent. in wages. Fifteen hundred men
and boys affected.
Notice of a reduction of wages posted in the
i Sunbury nail works.
2—Omne thousand employees deprived of
| work by the shut-down of Downs & Fox's shirt
factories at Jamestown and Bordentown, N. J.
Dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says that Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company is reducing its
torce all along the line.
3—Street-car employees at Rochester, N. Y.
strike to uphold their union.
Strike of coopers a Standard Oil Works,
Constable Hook, against a reduction.
Strike of ear drivers, Rochester, N. Y.,
against a reduction of wages.
Forty switchmen at Erie Railroad yard, Buf-
falo, N. Y., strike against the refusal of com-
pany to reinstate three of their number.
{Night messenger boys of Western Union
Telegraph Company at Chicago strike for§3.50
a week.
—General strike of carpenters at Salem,
Mass, for reduction of hours of labor.
10—strike of spinners at Clark’s O. N. T.
thread mills, Kearny, N. J. against a reduction
of 17Y4 per cent. in wages.
Strike of sawmakers at Middletown, N. Y,,
against a reduction in wages,
11 —General strike of surface road employees
(horse and cable) at St. Paul and Minneapolis,
Minn., against a reduction in wages.
i3— Wages of employees of Crane Iron Com-
pany at Catasauqua, Pa., reduced 10 per ceot.
Reduction of 10 per cent. in wages of em-
ployees at Allentown (Pa) Rolling Mills.
BRILIY
last Presidential campaign are still |
14—Painters and helpers in Erie Railroad |
Employees of Rathbone, Sard & Co.'s stove
foundry, Albany, N. Y., notified of a reduction
of 10 per cent, In wages.
Cigarmakers of New York city protest
azninst a large reduction in wages.
16—strike of freight brakemen on the one
hurrdred and thirty mile division of the Atlan-
tie and Pacific Railroad between Winslow and:
Mojage, Col, on: account of refusal of com-
pany to allow three men to each train.
18—Fitty bricklayers employed by Bentley
& strochsta, Chicago, 111, strike against the
ten-hour system.
One hundred and twenty-five employees at
Omaha, Neb., Water Works strike for an ad-
vance of wages from §1.50 to $1.75 per day.
Spring bed and mattress makers employed
by B. Fitch & Co., New York city, strike
against a reduction of wages.
19—The coal trimmers of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western coal docks at Jersey
City, N. J., strike to secure more work. Men
claim that the company is holding back the
product of the mines, and that they cannot
average over $5.50 per week.
23—(eneral strike of tinners at Plainfield,
N. J., for the nine-hour work day.
24—Strike of workmen at tube works, Syra-
cuse, N. Y., against a reduction of 10 per cent.
in wages.
Oue hundred and twenty tailors employed
by J. W. Parker & Co., Boston, Mass., strike
for an.increase of wages. The strikers assert
that wages have been cut three times within
the last eighteen months. The last cut was
about 20 per cent.
Failure of the Minneapolis (Minn.) surface
road strike. Men forced to leave their organ-
ization.
26—The two mills of the White Manufactur-
ing Company at Rockville, Conn:, close down
on account of a strike of weavers for gn ad-
vance of wages.
Seventy finishers in 8S. Berg & Co.'s hat fac-
tory, Orange Valley, N. J., strike foran in-
crease of wages.
MAY.
1—Carpenters, jointers, stone masons and
hod carriers to the number of 5000 strike at
Pittsburg, Pa., for increase of pay and against
non-union labor.
Eight hundred railroad miners in the Pitts-
burg (Pa.) district strike against a new scale of
wages.
‘our hundred workmen employed by the
White Manufacturing Company of Rockville,
Conn., are locked out because they assisted
150 weavers who went on strike.
2—One hundred and twenty-five moulders
at Perry’s Stove Works at Albany, N. Y., laid
off indefinitely.
Two thousand block coal miners at Brazil,
Ind. strike against an extraordinary redue-
tion of from ninety to seventy cents for min-
ing.
The strike of the street car men at St. Paul,
Minn., declared off and the men return to
work at reduced wages.
Seven hundred quarrymen strike at Joliet,
Ny for an advance of twenty-five cents per
aay.
4—Shut down at Evansville, Ind., men refus-
ing to accept a reduction of wages to sixty-five
cents a ton for mining. Three hundred min-
ers out.
Miners at Seran ton, Pa., redneed to verge of
starvation. Men with families do not average
£10 a month.
9—Sixty men employed on the water works
at Marblehead, Mass., strike for an advance of
wages from 81.3 a day.
10—Strike of men at Allegheny Bessemer
Works, Duquesne, Pa., ends in a failure.
3—Lockout of silk ribbon weavers in sev-
eral New York shops for demanding an ad-
vance in wages.
-16—Six thousand men employed by National
Tube Works Company at McKeesport, Pa,
strike for a 10 per cent. advance in wages.
17—Three hundred longshoremen employed
in Brooklyn (N. Y.) warehouse strike for an
advance in wages from twenty cents to twenty-
five cents an hour.
20—Freight handlers of Boston & Albany
Railroad, at East Boston, Mass. strike against
a reduction 1 wages.
21—A aispateh from Brazil, Ind., states that
the miners who struck against a 20 per cent.
reduction are on the verge of starvation.
23--Fifty employees of the Lochijel Rolling
{ills at Harrisburg, Pa., who went on a strike
nst a reduction in wages were paid off’ and
harged.
Report from Sharon, Pa., that a general re-
duction.of 10 per cent. in wages of furnace em-
ployees has been made throughout the She-
nango valley.
27—Strike of all the ore handlers at Mar-
quette, Mich., for an increase of wages. About
300 men out. :
A company of militia ordered from Joliet to
Braidwood, Ill, to put down striking miners.
2'—Strike of puddlers’ helpers of Pottstown
(Pa.) Iron Company against Hungarian labor.
JUNE.
June 1—Three companies of militia ordered
to Braidwood,Il1. to keep order among strikers.
Carpenters’ Union of Rn Mass., notified
masters that they would strike unless hours of
work be reduced from ten hours per day to
nine.
Fred, Almy & Co., New York, failed
June 13—Amalgamated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers meet in Pittsburg and ob-
ject to Andrew Carnegie’s proposed reduction
in wages of 20 per cent.
June 13--Executive Committee Coal Miners’
Association of Western Pennsylvania resolved
to order strike against “Pluck Me” stores.
17--Striking iron workers in Lancaster and
Columbia, Pa., resolved to continue strike.
19—Lincoln, Nebraska, Local assembles
Knights of Labor and Brotherhood of Engi-
neers, Firemen, Brakemen and Switchimen re-
solved to support each other in event of strike
on Union Pacific.
Two hundred and sixty brickmakers in
Hammond, Ill, struck for eight hour a day.
20--Citizens’ Committee of Joliet, 111, report-
ed that the Braidwood lock-out miners were
starving to death.
Governor Hovey of Indiana calls on citizens
to aid destitute miners in Clay county, that
State.
22—Ells and Lissing Steel and Iron Com-
pany, Pottstown, Pa., announced reduction of
wages of from 10 to 15 per cent.
21--Shoe workers’ strike at North Adams,
Mass., spreading; 1700 men out.
Miners at Spring Valley, Illinois, leaving,
having been locked out since May 1 because
of refusal toaccept reduction in wages. Town
decreased in population from 5000 to #500.
Great distress and destitution among families.
Saw mill strike at Bangor, Maine, spreading.
27—Attempt of State Board of Charities to
settle coal miners’ strike at Brazil, Ind., a fail-
ure. Neither side wonld yield.
28--Mountain miners and cokers at Gallitzin,
Pa., strize for higher wages.
June 29--Employees of Andrew Carnegie’s
Homestead Steel Works notified that if they
did not consent to a reduction in wages of 25
per cent. they would not be re-employed after
the summer closing period was done.
One hundred more smiths at Mount Clare
shops of the B. & O. Railroad discharged. ‘It
is now believed the entire force of 2600 will be
dismissed and the shops closed by the end of
the summer.”
No other four months in the indus-
trial history of the country can fur-
nish 1 worse showing than is present
ed above. We will let our readers
draw the contrast between what the
working people were promised in case
of the election of Harrisox aud
what has been realized by them since
this high tariff administration got into
power.
Give the Namesakes a Chance.
X : Puck. :
The President—Are any of the fam-
ily leit unprovided for, Elijah ?
Mr. Halford—No, sir.
The President—Good !
begin on my namesakes !
Now let us
ONTE, PA., JULY 12, 1639.
A Fruitless Project.
It is difficult to see what benefit, in
a commercial sense, can result from
the convention about to be held in
which the United States and the South
American States are going to partici-
pate. Our people have but little trade
with the countries lying south of us.
By some it is believed that by having
a friendly conference with representa-
tives of the Spanish American coun-
tries the people of those regions may
be induced to buy more of our manu-
factures. This is evidently a mistaken
impression. Those countries are not
deterred from dealing with us by any
unfriendly feeling. They would natu-
rally give us the preference if other
things were equal. They sympathize
with us politically, besides our location
is such as should promote commercial
intercourse with them. But they can
trade with other nations to a better ad-
vantage than they can trade with us
When we allow none of their produc’
tions, chiefly raw materials, to come
into our ports without paying heavy
duties, we must expect that they will
seek a market elsewhere, going where
they can be disposed of without being
taxed. Those raw materials are ex-
changed for foreign manufactures, and
the nations that take them on equal
terms, without the imposition of tar-
iffy, are the ones that supply the South
Americans with manufactured goods.
England. to the largest extent, is doing
this ; the United States is not doing
it, and hence the English are monopc-
lizing the trade of the southern conti-
nent to our almost complete exclusion.
This is not a matter of sentiment ; it
is entirely one of interest. A friendly
conference with the Spanish American
States will not remove the obstacle,
Take off he tariff on South American
productions and then only can we se-
cure a South American market for our
manufactures.
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Extraordinary Corporate Power.
The papers state that the Reading
Iron Works, which in the early part
of the season met with a collapse.have
come into the possession of the Read-
{ ing Railroad Company, which will put
| them in operation as soon as possible.
In this arrangement there is of course
no respect paid to the provision of the
organic law which was intended to pre-
vent carrying companies from going
inte other This constitu-
tional restriction has been habitually
disregarded by the Reading Company
lin its extensive mining operations.
There has been no legislative and ex-
ecutive authority in the State with
backbone enough to compel it to con-
fine itself to ite legitimate business as
the constitution directs. :
Not only in this respect has this
business.
company assumed extraordinary privi-
lege and power. It has also laid its
hands upon the labor organizations,
and its President can now boast that
by the relentless application of the
screws over which he has control there
is not a workman in its employ that
belongs to any of the organizations
that have been established foc the pro-
tection and benefit ot the working
people. Engineers, firemen, brake-
men, conductors, and every other class
of its employees, have been compelled
to disassociate themselves from such
organizations. This is a great triumph
of corporate power and a complete sur-
render of the rights of those who
labor. But isn't it a remarkable coin-
cidence that this should have been
consummated immediately after the
principle of protection to American
industry had been vindicated by the
election of a high-tariff President ?
OT
——The Prohibitionists are going to
call a State convention in August to
put a State ticket in the field. This
shows pluck after the tremendous de-
feat they sustained last fall, but it will
be generally regarded as a futile move-
ment on their part. It is hardly possi-
ble that they will poll as many votes
as they have polled at former State
elections. But it is very probable that
many of the temperance people, who
are sore over their defeat, will vent
their feeling, not by voting the State
ticket of the Prohibitionists, but by
voting with the party that has the best
show of defeating the politicians who
played false in their treatment of the
amendment question. The Republi-
cans are most likely to suffer from the
result,
A Big Mistake Somewhere.
The labor riot that occurred in Du-
luth last week was probably the most
severe that the history of industrial
disturbances in this country can show.
The difficulty sprung out of a question
of wages, a strike having been organ-
ized to secure better pay, and eventu-
ally the complication extended until
thousands of laborers became involv-
ed, force being resorted to by the strik-
ers, which necessitated the interference
of the police and the military. On
Saturday it was estimated that 25,000
people were engaged in the disturb-
ance, fire-arms were freely used, thou-
sands of shots were fired, with the
bloody result of a list of killed and
wounded.
All this trouble grew out of a de-
mand of workingmen for better wages.
Is there not something strange in this?
Better wages! Why, wasn't it only
last fall that it was determined by the
result of the election that the working
people should have plenty of work and
big pay ? Wasn't this promised by
those who got so many of them to vote
for Harrison and the great American
protective system ? :
Did not Minnesota, where this Du-
uth riot occurred, record her vote in
favor of the Republican candidate, a
high tariff and a consequent prosper-
ous condition of the working people ?
Isn't it strange that under such. cir-
cumstances labor is striking for better
pay and the police and military are
called upon to keep it in subjection ?
Surely there must be some mistake in
this matter.
The Big Bruiser Triumphant.
The great prize fight between StL
Livan and Kicraiy, for the alleged
championship of the ‘world, came off
at the appointed time and place, last
Monday and within two hundred miles
ot New Orleans; with a §oult that
maintains SULLIVAN'S position as the
leading bruiser of the period. Seventy-
five rounds were fought, at the end of
which Kinraix's backer threw up the
sponge and he was led out of the ring
a beaten man.
From the start the big Boston ruffian
had the advantage, and it was only by
adopting MrircneLL’s tactics of dodg-
ing and running away from the sledge-
hammer blows delivered by his antag-
onist that KILrAIN was able to keep in
the ring as long as he did.
To decent people the details of a
prize fight are naturally repulsive. If
they take any interest at all in such
an encounter it is allied with the wish
that the ruffians engaged in it might
exterminate each other and thus put
an end to brutal careers that are so
offensive to the sense of decency which
prevails among civilized people.
Holding Them Responsible.
The coroner's jury of Cambria
county, inquiring into the cause of the
Johnstown disaster by which so many
lives were lost and so much property
was destroyed, have fixed the responsi-
bility upon the millionaire owners of
the South Fora resefvoir who for their
own private pleasure maintained the
dangerous nuisance which at last
wrought such terrible destruction.
The jury could have rendered no
other verdict. The terrible account
must be charged to those who main-
tained their pleasure resort at the risk
of the livese of their fellow-men. In
settling this account they may not be
answerable through the usual legal
process for being the cause of the loss
of life, but equitably they can be held
respongible for the destruction of prop-
erty, and the assessment of their re-
sponsibility should be to the utmost
limit of the law and to the fullest ex-
tent of their means of restitution.
TCS SAL IR,
—That fat-witted pictorial, Judge,
some of whose cartoons display a re-
markable amount of idiocy, in its last is-
sue pictures the Republican partyin the
prize ring knocking out its antagonists,
the Prohibition party being among those
that have been laid out by blows de-
livered from the shoulder. As Judge as-
sumes to work in the interest of the Re-
publican party, this candid but clumsy
admission of what knocked out the Pro-
hibitionists will rather grate on the feel-
ings of the Pennsylvania temperance
people who were fooled by the Republi-
can leaders in the submission of the
prohibitory amendment.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Mr. Brestle is to change the Globe Thea-
tre in Middletown into a hearse factory.
—Myriads of flies have flocked to Williams-
port to scavenger the filth left by the flood.
—Ex -Sheriff George W.Post,of Blair county,
died at his home in Hollidaysburg last week,
aged 80 years.
—Primitive prices prevail in McConnells-
burg, Fulton county, and the hotels only ask
25 cents for a first-class meal.
—Hundreds of tons of hay cut a week ago
at Berne, Berks county, are turning black and
rotting into manure.
—*“Canada soldiers,” a peculiar species of fly
hatched out on the bosom of the lake, have
begun to arrive in Erie in myriads.
—A lady at Mont Alto was struck in the
head with a baseball so forcibly that she faint-
ed and had to be carried to the cars.
—Mrs. Jacob Woodhafe, of Columbia, trod
upon s string-bean at her home on Saturday
and, falling to the floor with violence, broke
two of her fingers.
—An offer of $87,000 has been made for the
famous old camelback bridge at Harrisburg by
parties who want to erect a modern structure
in the vicinity.
—Some farmers in the vicinity of Reading
who housed damp hay which has since
heated are hauling it out of the barns again in
fear of spontaneous combustion.
—Mr. George Hippey, of Columbia, is doc-
toring a large blister on his side, haying been
struck with a ball from a Roman candle,
which burned its way through his clothing to
the flesh.
—The only son of Mr. John Fisher, living
near Chambersburg, died recently of brain
fever. The child suffered excruciating pain,
so much so that his head parted before he ex-
pired.
—Freight Agent J. P. Gordon, of the Read-
ing Railroad, at Reading, says the local freight
business is unusually heavy this year. Re-
cently he handled 179 cars of freight in two
days. :
—The widow of George W. Utermehle, .a
millionaire of Washington, D. C., recently de-
ceased, visited her home near Allentown, two
weeks ago and distribnted $12,000 among her
relatives.
—The annual report of George W. Hensel,
Internal Revenue Collector of the .Ninth
Pennsylvania district, shows the receipts for
the fiscal year ended June 30 to be §1,758,-
910.87.
—A large crow, which had been stealing
small chickens from the barnyard of William
F. Boylen, Concordville, Delaware county, for
some time, was shot on Friday by the farmer's
daughter.
—The corner-stone of an old fashioned
mansion in West Sadsbury township, Chester
county, has proved an unerring barometer.
It accurately predicts all changes in the
weather by its color.
_A tortoise marked “R. E., 1836,” was found
a few days ago on a farm at East Goshen
formerly occupied by Reuben Eldridge. It
had probably never strayed from the farm
after he marked it.
—While intoxicated on Tuesday night
Charles L. Schaffer, a Scranton glassblower,
threatened to shoot his wife, and was himself
killed with a baseball bat by his son, who dg
fended his mother.
—Farmer Schantz, of South Whitehall,
Lehigh county, had forty spring chickens
killed a few nights since by minks, which,
after biting the fowls to death, in every in-
stance sucked away their blood.
—Harry Diner, who has twice served in the
penitentiary, hurled a six-pound stone into an
express train near Conemaugh a few days
since, gashing a passenger's head. He had
been put off for failing to pay fare.
—The lights in Christ P. E. Church all went
out suddenly during the sermon one night re-
cently. After a short delay three candles—
one for the pastor and two for the choir—
were found, and the services went on.
—Abram Collins, of Marietta, Lancaster
county, a prominent Democrat, died = last
Friday, aged 72 years. He was the owner of a
thousand acres of land in Lancaster county,
and large estates in Virginia and Missouri.
—At a Catholic church in Columbia a few
mornings since a bridal party came out as the
funeral of Miss Josie Noll was entering, and
the bride and groom had to brush past the
coffin on the very threshold of the church.
—A Swede named Johnson on Thursday
chot at a bar-keeper in Everson because he
had been refused a drink, aud the bullet
struck a bystander, Robert Hill, in the ab-
domen, causing a fatal wound. Johnson is
in jail.
_The heirs of the Hillman estate, east of
St. Louis, who reside in McKeesport and
Monongahela City, tell a story to the effect
that they have refused an offer of $1,000,000 for
their claim from the present occupauts.
—-A bull being driven threugh Reading on
Friday was frightened by some fire-crackers
thrown after him, and he bolted for a drug
store, the door of which was open. He jump-
ed the soda fountain, and passed through the
house and out the back way.
—Edgar Gilmore, 24 years old, was seized
with cramps Friday evening while bathing in
Loyalsock Creek, at Williamsport, and was
drowned, and soon afterward Andrew Larsen,
a Swedish lad of 7 years, got beyond his depth
in the river there and was drowned. :
—Tully 1000 barrels of carbon oil have been
used at Johnstown to fire piles from the dritt
that otherwise would not burn. For several
nights 100 barrels were used each evening.
Much oil must be poured upon immense logs
which have been water-soaked.
__The 16-months-old daughter of W. A. Hum-
mell, of Stonerstown, had been sick with scar-
let fever for some time, from which a fester on
the neck resulted. The arteries at this fester
ruptured u few days ago, and despite medical
aid the child bled to death.
—Judge Simonton has filed an opinion in
the case of Miss Hannah Ross against Repre-
sentative Hartford P. Brown, of Beaver, an ap-
peal from the judgment of an Alderman in
suit for board, in which he decides that Mr.
Brown was privileged from service of the writ
by virtue of being amember of the Legislature.
—Mrs. Toyeoek, of Lancaster, had been
separated from her husband for some time
prior to his death, which took place afew
years ago, but she did not know that he had
secured a divorce until evidence to that effect
was produced at the will contest recently.
The divorce was a surprise to her.
—The Berks County Agricultural Society is
favorably considering a proposition from
Claus Spreckels to erect a beet-sugar factory
to cost from $325,000 to 400,000 in the neighbor-
hood of Reading, conditioned in a guarantee
of the farmers that 5000 acres be planted in
beets for a definite number of years.