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P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EDITOR.
Democratic County Committee, 1889,
Bellefonte, N.W..................cieen, .C M Bower
“ EW Patrick Garrety
« ww. Joseph W Gross
Centre Hall Borough
Howard Borough
Milesburg Boroug
Millheim Horus:
Zilipsburg, 1st W.
Philip re 3 3
J W MeCormick
M I Gardner
J Willis Weaver
.C W Hartman
.J D Ritter
=
ackson Gorton
« 3d W.
Unionville Borough. ....ccocereeeerssireerens L J Bing
Burnside. William Hepple
Benner. John Mechtley
Philip Confer
..T F Adams
.H L Barnhart
Daniel Grove
SAC XP
Pandy
by) EP
College
Curtin ..... ..T S Delong
Ferguson, EP. John T McCormick
5 W.P amuel Harpster jr
.Geo. B Crawford
Gregg, S. P
£0 N.P J C Rossman
Haines, E. P. ..J A Bowersox
¢ W.P .C A Weaver
Halfmoon... Wm Bailey
Hamis..... ....C C Meyer
Howard ranklin Dietz
Huston. ..John Q Miles
Liberty ..D W Herring
Marion. A. Henderson
Miles.... J J Gramley
Patton.. .D L Meek
Penn..., W F Smith
Potter, N. Pt che rceienniiensnnoiiin B F Arney
G L Goodhear
Hugh McCann
R C Wilcox
. am Kerrin
.R J Haynes jr
..J N Brooks
ym T Hoover
Snow Shoe,
“ ‘“ E
Spring ....
"Taylor..
Union... .....Aaron Fahr
Walker. J H McCauley
Worth..... ......Levi Reese
WM. C. HEINLE, Chairmam.
RT WS I SEU,
The Constitutions of the New States.
In the constitutional conventions of
the four new States that will soon be-
come members of the Union, proposi-
tions will be made to introduce some
new and improved features into their
State conventions. It is proposed to
provide for an absolutely secret ballot.
The great defects in the ballotsystems of
the old States serve as a warning
to those that are about to assume the
duties and responsibilities of state-
hood. A positively secret ballot is the
only way to prevent their elections from
falling a prey to bulldozers who intimi-
date voters or boodlers who work them
“in blocks of five.”
The new States also projose to elect
‘their United States Senators by a vote
of the people. This is a movement in
a very excellent direction. If general
Ty adopted it would break up the nest
.of wealthy nabobs into which the Unit-
ed States Senate is degenerating, who
are able to buy up State legislatures,
‘but wouldn’t be able to purchase a
majority of the voters ofa State. With
a popular system of electing United
States Senators Pennsylvania would
mever have been saddled with 2 Cam-
eron dynasty and all the political evils
that have sprung from it. Nor is it
likely that the people of the Pacific
States, if left to their own choice,
would be represented in the Senate by
Pacific Railroad officers and silver
kings. It is said that the new States
also intend to have single legislatures.
They have learned from the experience
of the old States the uselessness of
Senates and the danger of small leg-
islative annexes that can so easily be
brought under the control of the
money power and be made the strong-
holds of corporate and monopolistic
abuses.
The new States are on the right
track in forming their constitutions.
A Good Chance.
The Democratic State convention to
nominate a candidate for State Treasu-
rer will meet on the 4th of September
next. There are reasons why the
party nominee will have a good chance
of being elected, notwithstanding the
usual large Republican majority. Dis-
ension prevails among the leaders of
the dominant party, which in an off
year is most likely to develop its fruits.
A large number of the working class of
people who have voted the Republican
ticket realize that they have been
humbugged on the tariff’ question. The
depression in the industrial pursuits
which has increased since the begin-
ning of Harrison's term, will greatly
loosen their party attachment. The
“model” Legislature, by its complete
rejection of every measure for the ben-
efit of the laboring people, has also
done its share in alienating a large
number of those who have contributed
to Republican majorities. The defeat
of the Prohibition amendment
also have its effect upon the Republi-
can strength in the State. With all
these favoring circumstances
judicious selection of a candidate, the
Democrats will have a very fair chance
of electing the State Treasurer at the
next election.
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and a
Trouble with the Johnstown Fund.
Millions of money were contributed
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by tHe overflowing benevolence of the |
country for the relief the Johnstown
sufferers, but it is withheld from them,
or doled out in dribblets,by committees
that have charge of the fund and tor
some reason or other are incapable of
applying it to the purpose for which it
was so generously given. Most of it is
idly lying in banks, bound up, as it
were, by the red tape that hampers
tke movements of those who have been
entrusted with its management and
distribution. There seems to be a fear
that it will be misapplied, and through
this over-caution the afflicted people of
the Conemaugh Valley are deprived of
the prompt relief which. their condi-
tion so imperatively demands. This
money belongs to the sufferers by right;
the people contributing it intended that
it should go directly to them, and the
committees in whese hands it has
lodged should know that they are do-
ing a great wrong in preventing it from
going without unnecessary delay to the
object for which it was so generously
furnished.
Proposed Revival of the Greenbackers.
What is the matter with the money
system of the country that some
people should think it necessary to re-
suscitate the Greenback party ? It
was generally believed that it had
ceased to exist because there was no
reasonable excuse for its existing any
longer, but George O. JoNEs, who
claims the position of chairman of the
national Greenback party, believes
otherwise, and accordingly has issued
an invitation to all persons who desire
to aid in reorganizing a national
Greenback party to meet in their re-
spective congressional districts on or
before the 4th of September next and
appoint delegates to a national Green-
back convention to be held on the [2th
ot the same month.
The old organization vacated its
rather questionable place among po-
litical parties when it got so weak and
insignificant that its leaders could no
longer get a price for their politieal in-
fluence. Do the resurrectionists who
now propose to take it in hand see
anything in the present political situa-
tion to inspire them with the belief
that boodle may be evolved from the
manipulation of a resuscitated Green-
back vote ?
STE TT —
Following a Presidential Example.
Nepotism still goes bravely on under
the Harrison administration. The
President has liberally provided for all
his relatives and for nearly all his rel-
atived relatives, and his subordidates
are closely following his example.
Brave has given the snuggest berth
in his department to his son. Tax-
NER’s chief clerk is his daughter, a
subordinate doing the work and she
drawing the pay. And now T. J.
MogreGaN, the new Commissioner of In-
dian Affairs, has appointed his wife
his private secretary at a salary of
$1,000, and Dr. DorcHESTER, Superin-
tendent of Indian Schools, has been
equally kind to his wife in having her
appointed Indian agent at a compensa-
tion of $6 a day. This “model” ad-
ministration is carrving out the prac-
tice of nepotism as it was never carried
out before in this country,and is enfore-
ing the maxim so generally accepted
as the correct thing by Republican
leaders that public offices are “private
snaps.”
——It is not easy to forget the clam-
or that was raised last year by the Re-
publican papers about the buying of
blankets in England for the medical de-
partment of the army during CrLevE-
LAND's administration.
This was declared to be clearly indica-
tive of hostility to American industry,
and all kinds of ugly things were said
aboutit. But couldn't the same now
be said about the order which under
the present administration has been
gent out to England for bricks which
are to be used in the construction of
the congressional library building in
Washington? Isn’t it as wrong to buy
English bricks as it was to buy English
blankets? ~~ The high tariff organs
should not fail to give this matter
their attention.
Politics in Johnstown.
A special dispatch from Johnstown
says the people of that town have grown
tired of the way things are managed
there by the State and are no way slow
in expressing their indignation. They
think there is too much politics entering
into the work of clearing up Johnstown.
General Hastings and Judge Cummin
attended the last meeting of the local
committee, and the men representing
the people of the stricken district told
them in plain terms that they had de-
cided to appeal for aid to the national
goverment and thus take things out of
the hands of the politicians. Soon after
the great disaster occurred it was plain
that both factions of the republican par-
ty had carried their fight into the deso-
late valley of the Conemaugh, and it is
small wonder that the unfortunate peo-
ple are highly incensed. The politician
who will seek to make political capital
out of the terrible calamity must indeed
be of a very narrow kind.
——-The body of Mrs. Henry Snyder,
who was drowned by the late flood, was
found in a drift pile Monday below
Salona and was buried in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
WaLL Paprger.--Large stock—must !
be sold. Prices astonishing, write for
samples to Jou~n M. Drax & Co,
Williamsport, Pa.
Plain Words.
From the Presbyterian, the organ
and mouth piece of a very respectable
and influential part of the Presbyterian
church, we get the following, explicit
views as to where the responsibility rests
for the defeat of the Prohibition amend-
ment:
The Hon. Jame: McManes is re-
ported in the Press as saying :
“Some days agol was interviewed on the
question of Prohibition, and then stated that I
thought that the Amendment would be defeat”
ed, but that it would be a great pity if the Re-
publican party, with all its power in this State,
would allow it to be defeated by large majori-
ty. Isaid on that occasion that if it were de-
feated by a large majority I thought it would
hurt the party. I simply reiterate what was
stated in that interview. The defeat of the Pro-
hibition Amendment by such a large majority
cannot be otherwise than detrimental to the
Republicans. The leaders and workers of
both parties were against the Amendment.”
“Did you favor the submission of the proposi-
tion to amend in the beginning, Mr.
Manes?’ “I did not. I was opposed to its
submission when the proposition was present-
ed in the Republican Convention in 1886 for
adoption as a plank in the Republican plat-
form. I was opposed to it because 1 could not
understand the purpose for which it was of-
fered. After the Convention adopted it, *how-
ever, I assumed that it had been taken up in
good faith, and with that belief I favored it in
good faith. I considered that it was in accord
with the sentiment of a considerable number
of citizens of the State and felt bound to sup-
port it as a Republican. There was no secret
about my position on the question. Acting un-
der the conviction that it was a measure which
originated with the Republican party, I went
to the poll and voted for the Amendment. I
am now convinced that it was not offered in
Mea-
whelming majority will do harm to the Re-
publican party in the State.”
It is now the policy of the newspapers
that have just finished their service to
the rum power to treat the general con-
viction that the Prohibition cause was
sold out, with a smirk of half disguised
contempt. There are those who obtain-
ed no share of the rum spoils who are
more serious over the subject, and who
will not dismiss it so lightly. The mi-
norities are the men who got no spoils ;
these men vote from moral convictions
and have not had the profits of paid ad-
vertisements, and there are enough of
them to defeat any party.
their pockets stuffed may be merry, but
man can doubt his foresight and devo-
tion to his party; neither is he insincere:
he puts the case exactly as it was. It is
a well-known fact that the Republican
party feared the Prohibition vote and
made a bargain for it and got it. The
condition was not merely to pass a bill
to submit it to the people. Frohibition-
ists were never so silly as not to under-
stand the futility of such a service. They
did just as Mr. McManes said. He
states the whole truth. Every man is
bound to respect sincerity and sense of
obligation to engagements whether Le
personally prefers them or not. To se-
cure the Prohibition vote, overtures and
promises were made not only to submit
the Amendment, but to support it. Mr.
keep its obligations and this responsibili-
ty cannot be joked away, and all such
efforts are only glorying in shame.
The high-sounding phrases about being
the party of moral issues belong to the
past—it has been and this was its glory.
But who can hold up his face now and
tulk of high moral issues? It is no
higher to-day than any other perty on
the highest question of morals and hu-
manity ever submitted to the people.
The number voting aguinst the rum
the odium of the rum party can no long-
er be bandied as a hateful distinction. It
old parties. On that day Herod and
Pilate made friends. They sat side by
| side, cheek by jowl, soliciting votes to
the same end—the support of the rum
power. This rallying ery of “high mor-
al issues’’ has been knocked into smith-
ereens. Prohibitionists, like blind pups,
18th, was emphatically an eye opener.
The writer has always supported the
Republican party, honestly believing it
to be braced by a conscience in morals.
If we continue there will have to be a
divorcement from the late union so con-
spicuous on the 18th of June. Repub-
lican Prohibitionists take this subject to
heart because thoy believe they had
every assurance from their party. © The
Democrats had promised nothing and in
this respect stand before the Probibi-
tionists at an advantage. They are not
deceivers.
of his party in a honorable position. He
explains his position, acting under the
originated with the party, “I went to
fered in good faith and that its defeat by
such an overwhelming majority v ill do
harm to the Republican party in the
State.” If any thing will save it from
injury it will be the honesty of such
men, inspiring confidence rather than
the indecent fun-making of certain men,
cution, riding on their own coffins. The
got the benefits of the coalition. The
watchword hereafter will be either Res-
stitution or “Remember Paoli.”
He Meant Business.
Mrs. Harrison—Benjamin, I think
there is a burglar under the bed.
Hoosier voice from beneath—No,
ma'am, I've got ez good a repertation
in Plumvi'le ez enny man, an’ have a
pertition signed by all the leadin’ eit-
izens ter show th’ gin’ul in the mornin’.
I want th’ post-office, an’ Lige Hal-
ford couldn't stav’ me off with a bluff.
Leavenworth, Kan., has devel-
oped a notable epidemic of sickness, but
it alarms no one but the doctors,who are
not consulted. The patients themselves
just sign the certificates setting forth
that they are ill, and leave them at the
drug stores which are not permitted to
sell liquor in the absence of such trust-
worthy data. Some wonderful health
statistics will be made from these records
some day.
!
1k night found the members of the
good faith and that its defeat by such an over- |
Men with’
there is an unsettled account to be paid. |
Mr. McManes is no alarmist, and no |
McManes is homest and challenges re-
spect for the statement so clearly made.,
The party got the service and failed to!
power in each party was respectable, but |
must be divided equally between the two |
have gotten their eyes open—Tuesday, .
Mr. McManes stands ahead |
the polls and voted for the Amendment. |
- I am now convinced that it was not of-
who are joking on the way to their exe-
cause has been betrayed by designing men |
ofboth parties, butjespecially by those who |
South Fork Club Responsible.
5
No
he Coroner's Jury Fizes the Blame
for the Johnstown Horror.
~
JouxstowN, Pa., July 7.—Coroner
Evans, of Cambria county, and his jury
South Fork Fishing Club responsible
! for the awful loss of life and the destruc-
| tion of property occasioned by the
i bursting of the dam at Conemaugh
i Lake. Only one witness, Mr. James
Shoemaker, a Johnstown shoemaker
who lost all his property, a wife and six
children in the Tn was examined last
night. At the conclusion of his tes-
timony the jury deliberated about half
tan hour and then returned a verdict
| against the millionaire members, couch-
ed in the following words:
“We, the undersigned, the inquest
impaneled to investigate the cause of the
death of Helen Hiteon the 31st of May,
after hearing the testimony, find that
Helen Hite came to herdeath by drown-
ing; that the drowning was caused by
the breaking of the South Fork Dam.
We further find, from the testimony and
from what we ourselves saw on the
ground, that there was not a sufficient
waste vein, nor was the dam constructed
i suflisiently strong nor of the proper
material to withstand the overflow; and
hence we find that the owners of said
am were culpable in not making it as
secure as it should have been, especially
in view of the fact that a population of
many thousands was in the valley be-
i low; and we hold that the owners are re-
sponsible for the fearful loss of life and
property resulting from the breaking of
the dam.”
The Coroner says he fully coincides
with the verdict, it being strictly in ac-
cordance with the evidence, and it is ex-
| pected that speedy action will be taken
by District Attorney Fendelow.
The following is a list of officers and
membersof the South Fork Fishing and
Hunting Club: Colonel E. J. Unger,
President; Colonel J. J. Lawrence,
Vice-President; Louis Irwin, Treasurer;
E. A. Meyers, Secretary; H. C. Frick,
Ycuis Clark, E. A. Meyers, W. T.
Dunn, W. A. McIntosh, Henry Hold-
ship, John B. Jackson, Frank Bissel,
John A: Harper, Oliver McClintock,
William K. Woodwell, Durbon Herne,
Hillery J. Bonnst, John Caldwell, Ben-
jamin Thaw, Frank Semple, W. Chali-
| fant and Ernest Schartz.
Sullivan Wins the Fight.
The Sullivan-Kilrain fight is over and
the former, whom no man seems able to
whip, has again been declared the victor.
The fight took place on Monday fore-
noon, and was an easy victory. for
! Sullivan. From the first round it was
| apparent that Kilrain, after all the blow-
ing and bragging of his trainer, Mitchell,
| and himself, was no match for the great
‘slugger, who knocked his opponent
down pretty much at his pleasure.
! Kilrain adopted Mitchell's tactics of
running all over the ring in the en-
deavor to tire Sullivan out, but failed to
‘do so, and at the end of the contest,
which dragged out to seventy-five
; rounds, Sullivan was almost as fresh as
when he entered the ring. Kilrain was
| terribly punished on the body, as well
us in the face, the blood flowing from
; ears, nose and mouth, with one of his
‘eyes badly bunged. Sullivan was cut a
: little on one ear and had a bruise over
one eye, but didn’t seem to mind it a
bit. Kilrain cried like a baby because
' he had lost the battle,which he deserved
to lose from the contemptible way in
which he attempted to fight it. Sullivan
' now stands the acknowledged and un-
* disputed champion of the world in the
slugging business. He has proved this
so often that hereafter when any man
doubts it he will be looked upon as a
‘fool. Now let John L.retre on his
i taurels and henceforth let us hope that a
stop wi'l be put to the brutal sport of
| prize-tighting for all time. It is a
. business that ought to be banished from
! American civilization and relegated to
‘England from the soil of which it
, sprang.
i Kiliain having consorted with Charles
| Mitchell, who never fought a fair fight
in his life, and having depended on him
for success, now chews the bitter cud of
“disappointment. He would be much
more thought of now had he stood up
like a man and been knocked down
every round, instead of running all
around to avoid being hit. But he was
hit and knocked down often enough
(anyway. Kilrain has had enough of
| John L. Sullivan, although he weakly
‘talks about fighting him again. The
' great bruiser will never bother his head
anymore ebout Jacob Kilrain. The
next time Sullivan fights he will want a
man not afraid to stand up and give
, and take.
conviction that it was a measure which '
The Bread Supply.
Exchange.
1t has been decided that we are to pay
high for our sugar this year, but we are
likely to get our biscuits cheap. In the
Southwest the wheat harvest is in pro-
gress, and careful estimates indicat that
the yield will be fully as good or better
than in any preceeding year. In the
, State of Kentucky, should there be no
misfortune,the harvest will reach twelve
or fourteen million bushels.
On the Pacific Coast this year the suc-
cess of the wheat crop has been unprece-
dented. The yield of Culifornia, it is
known, will reach the immense amount
of 72,000,000 bushels, which will excel
the record of any other Stateor Territory,
the highest previous tctal being 61,000.-
000 bushels, produced by Lllinois in 1880.
Oregon will harvest about 20,000,000
bushels, and Washington more than half
as much. From the Northwest come
the same favorable reports. The two
Dakotas expect to thresh 60,000,000
bushels, und the crop of Minnesota will
be correspondingly large.
With his immense wheat surplus this
Autumn, the Northwestern farmer will
begin to realize that reciprocity in trade
is better for him than a high tariff.
With the "discouragement of foreign
commerce, the market for our spare
grain is yearly contracting. England
prefers buying her wheat from subject
India rather than from us, and Russia
supplies much of the deficit that India
can not provide for. Our foreign
market is every year becoming more
contracted by reason of our restrictive
tariff and the home market is not ca-
pable of consuming our products.
General Cameron’s Will.
Public and Private Bequests in the Dis-
position of His Estate.
HARRISBURG, July 7.—General Cam-
eron’s will has not yet been made pub-
lic, but the following are known to be
some of the bequests: Harrisburg Hos-
pital, $10,000; Home of the rriendless,
Harrisburg, $10,000; his hbrary and
$5,000 to the Young Men's Christian
Association of Harrisburg as the foun-
dation of a library for journeymen and
apprentices; Mrs. James Dufly, of
Marietta, $5,000. in grateful recognition
of her uniform kindness to his son
Simon; German Reformed Church of
Maytown, Lancaster county, $5,000 and
a parscnage; John Campbell his servant,
$2,000; Old Donegal Church, $2,000;
Harris Park, Front street, 51,000. A
legacy of $5,000 to his sister, Mrs.
Bobbs, of Indianapolis, has lapsed by
her death. The Home for the Friend-
less bequest is to be invested and called
the Margaret Cameron fund, in memory
of General Cameron's wife, the interest
to be applied to the support of the in-
stitution. The Maytown Church be-
quest is to be invested by the church
trustees, and the interest to be applied
to the support of a pastor. The will
directs that the collateral inheritance tax
on all these bequests shall be paid out of
the estate, so that they may not be
diminished.
Among the private bequests are the
following: His grand-daughters, Mrs.
David Watts, Mrs. S. H. Chauvenet,
and Miss Janet Cameron, $60,000 each;
his grand sons, Simon B. Cameron, S.
Cameron Burnside and Thomas Burn-
side, $50,000, each the two first named
of the latter also being given a farm each.
Avoidable Accidents.
A young man in this State, in a spirit
of bravado, recently made a bet that he
could put two billiard balls into his
mouth at once. He succeeded in doing
80, but a surgeon had to be summoned
to remove the balls; and in order to ac-
complish this it was necessary to make a
slit in each side of the young man’s
mouth. All this disfigurement and pain
for a foolish piece of daring.
Far more dangerous was the condition
of another young man, who declared
that he could put an open penknife into
his mouth and close his lips.
He tried it. The rerves of degluti-
tion were stimulated, the muscles re-
sponded, caught the knife, and in an in-
stant it slipped down his throat. An
open knife, with its sharp and pointed
blade, is not a pleasant morsel to think
of digesting.
A physician was hastily called. “His
chance for life is small,” said the doctor.
“He must eat all the oatmeal mush he
possibly can, and so ensheath that dan-
gerous knife-blade.”’
Fortunately, this expedient proved
successful. The knife traversed the
thirty feet of the alimentary canal with-
out puncturing that delicate structure,
and the foolish young man— a wiser
man now, let us hope—escaped what
seemed like almost certain death.
Recently, a boy thoughtlessly crowded
a kernel of corn into his ear, and it pass-
ed beyond the narrowest part of the
auditory canal. Here it began to swell,
causing the most excruciating pain. But
worse than this, in rude attempts to re-
move the offending kernel, the tympanic
membrane was punctured, and the boy's
hearing may be permanently injured:
Slavery for Workers,
Philadelphia Evening Herald.
President Austin Corbin of the Read-
ing Railroad and Coal and 1ron Com-
pany is trying the paternal act on the
employees of the Reading Iron Works,
which were bought by the Railroad
Company at auction a few days back.
In order to get employment these men
must sign a formal document agreeing
not to belong to any labor organization
or to indulge in drink. This attempt
at evangelization business is quite on a
par with Mr. Corbin’s general policy, of
which the destruction of the trades
unions was the beginning and a fair
sample. That men can be fourd who
for the sake of bread for wife and chil-
dren will submit to such officious inter-
ference with their rights only goes to
show the complete dependence of our
workers, which is the oul-growth of our
present restricted markets and fierce
‘home competition,” the responsibility
for which the war tariff’ people so glad-
ly assume.
If the President of the Reading were
to require men, as a condition of em-
ployment, to go to mass on Sundays or
vote the Republican, Democratic or
Greenback ticket, he could still find
many who would do so rather than
starve; yet this would be not a particle
more unjust or tyrannical that what he
has done. In fact, tyranny and lower-
ing wages for workmen all around seem
to be as natural outgrowths of our pre:
sent system of trade restriction as a rain
is of a hot and sunny spell of weather.
Just prior to the war a diplom-
atic representative of a foreign nation
broughta cook with him to Washington.
This culinary employe saved hismoney,
bought land in the suburbs of the city,
and became well-to-do. His daughter
fell in love with and married a butcher.
The ox-killer also bought land, and,
shortly after the capital was beautified
by Boss Shepherd, real estate took
them richly, drove splendid equipages,
and only needed the entree to Wash-
seventh or eleventh heaven of
Ther: was a socicty queen who needed
The wite of the butcher, who was also
the daughter of the cook, learned the
facts, and gave $5,000 hard cash to the
society queen for the privilege of being
placed upon her visiting list. It was
done. Presto! Other la.lies asked the
queen why she had taken up with “that
common creature,” and were informed
that ‘her ancestors are among the
bluest bloods of the Old World. Tem-
porary poverty made her father a cook
Honest toil, even by a nobleman, 1s no
disgrace in America; besides, she is a
charming little lady.” In less than
two vears' time the daughter of the
cook and wite ot the butcher became
one of the social leaders of Washington,
The Fight for the Championship.
The battle for the championship of
the world,$20,000 and the Fox champion-
ship belt, between Sullivan and Jake
Kilrain, was fought last Monday near
Richburg, Marion County, Miss., and
was won by Sullivan in seventy-five
rounds, occupying two hours and five
minutes, the sponge being thrown up for
Kilrain at the end of that time.
The battle was one of the hardest ever
fought between big men in this country,
but from start to finish Sullivan had de-
cidedly the best of it. Kilrain did not
prove to be the wonderful wrestler repre-
sented, for Sullivan threw him as often
as he was thrown, and with far greater
severity. The day was intensely hot
and this added to the punishment of the
men. John Fitzpatrick, of New Orleans,
was referee. He is an honest man, but
he is not fully posted on the rules of the
London prize ring, and he exercised
greatleniency toward Kilrain, who went
down repeatedly without a blow in the
most deliberate manner. He equalized
matters somewhat, however, by twice
overlooking fouls of Sullivan, who once
sat down on Kilrain’s breast, and anoth-
er time jumped on him with both knees.
The ring was of the regulation size,
twenty-four feet square, and the eight
pine posts were encircled by a double
row of the finest inch and an eighth
manilia rope. The ground in the en-
closure was hard and level, covered here
and there with a sparse crop of grass,
The sun, which had not shown his face
during the early hours of the morning,
burst forth with great fury at 8.15, and
umbrellas were at a premium, hats were
removed in a jiffy and handkerchiefs
were bound aboat necks. Two cameras
were planted on stands on the Western
side of the ring and two expert photo-
graphers began manipulating the ma-
chines to catch the menin their different
positions as the fight progressed. Sulli-
ran was seconded by Muldoon and Mike
Cleary. Tom Costello was his timekeeper,
and Phil Lynch was his umpire. Kil-
rain was seconded by Charley Mitchell
and Mike Donovan. Burt Masterman
was time-keeper, and Denny Butler
was his umpire.
The first round was short and sweet
Sullivan led with his fist, but missed.
Kilrain rushed in under his arm caught
him around the neck, twisted him over
his hip and flung him to the ground.
“In the second round there was some
sharp hitting. Early in the round the
men clinched and struggled for the fall.
Sullivan was able to push Kilrain on.
After a sharp exchange of hits Sullivan
grappled Jake and threw him hard and
rolled him over and over after he touched
the ground.
In the third round Kilrain three times
struck Sullivan below the beltin a hand-
to-hand rally, but no claim of foul was
made. By and by Kilrain began going
down without blows, and then Sullivan
claimed the fouls time and again, but
the claims were ignored, as were the
two fouls he committed. Kilrain spik-
ed Sullivan’s feet in an awful manner
and trotted awayjand around him in a
very provoking way. The only ‘pro-
fessional” thing he did was to refrain
from striking Sullivan during one of
the rounds in which the big fellow was
sick at the stomach. Kilrain was awfully
punished around the body. In fact, he
took enough punishment to satisfy a
dozen men. Kilrain was terribly beaten
toward the latter end of the seventy-
fifth round. Charley Mitchell went ov-
er to Sullivan’s corner and asked him
what he would give Kilrain if he would
give in.
“Not a cent,” was Sullivan’s answer,
“let the fellow get up and fight.”
Mitchell went back, and then Donov-
an threw up the sponge in token of de-
feat. The instant he did so Sullivan
was surrounded by hundreds of friends.
He broke away from them and wanted
to fight Charley Mitchell then and there,
but he was prevented from striking Mit-
chell by Charley Johnson and Mike
Cleary. Sullivan almost struck Cleary
in his efforts to free himself from his
grasp. The whole party returned to
New Orleans by special trains.
Simply Knocked Out.
Clearfied Republican.
A huge effort was made in our Legis-
lature last winter, to pss a law prevent-
ing dressed beef being brought into this
State from other States. The measure
was accidentally defeated, because such
law would have been unconstitutional
and contrary to good common sense.
However, the Legislatures of Minnesota,
Indiana and some other States passed
the foolish measure, and placed it on
their statute books. In President Harri-
son’s State (Indiana) an appeal was
taken to the Supreme Court by a Chica-
go dealer, and the Supreme Court of the
State of Indiana has decided that the
Act in question is unconstitutional and
therefore void. If the Legislature is
wicked enough to pass an Act to prohi-
bit meat from coming into the State,
wheat, flour, corn, ete., would soon fol-
low, and consequently an irrepressible
conflict would soon break out between
producer and consumer, the end of which
no one could conjecture, as well as the
evils it would entail. The men who ad-
vocate measures of this character need
watching; they are not Democrats
without guile.
Jouxsrown's Estivaten Loss.—The
a sudden boom and the cook and
butcher each became very wealthy. |
They bought fine houses, furnished |
ington society to elevate them to the |
bliss. |
. J . Cordon of Johnstown.
money, and needed it very much indeed. '
secretary of the Board of State Com-
missioners has prepared his report of
the total loss as the result of the great
flood at Johnstown. According to his
compilation to date the amount is esti-
mated at £8,655,144 on actual losses re-
ported and estimates based on them.
Mr.Davies’ work has been completed
and he will be succeeded by Mr. Frank
Theabove does
not inclnde the Cambria Iron Com-
pany, the Johnstown Manufactnring
Company, nor the Cambria and West:
moreland Gas Company.
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WHAT'S IN A NAME.--An exchange
says: “We are, indeed, a happy ele-
gant, moral, transcendent people. We
have no masters, they are all principals;
no shopmen, they are thelps,; no jailers,
they are all governors; nobody is flog-
ged in prison, he merely receives the
correction of the house; nobody is ever
unable to meet his engagements; nobody
is angry, he is only excited; nobody is
cross, he is only nervous; lastly, nobody
i drunk-—the very utmost that vou can
assert is that ‘he has taken his wine.”
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