P. GRAY MEEK,
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EpIToR.
Pemocratic County Committee, 1889.
C M Bower
Patrick Garrety
Joseph W Gross
.J W McCormick
...M I Gardner
.J Willis Weaver
..C W Hartman
..J D Ritter
J H Riley
Bellefonte, N. W..
“ S.W
& WW.
Centre Hall Borough.
Fr Borough...
esburg Borough.
Millheim Boroug!
Philipsburg, 1st W
3 2d W
ad W..
Unionville Borough..
Burnside...
Renner
Boggs, N.
pa W.P..
.William Hepple
John Mechtley
Philip Confer
...T F Adams
.H L Barnhart
Daniel Grove
iia T S Delong
hn T McCormick
Samuel Harpster jr
Geo. B Crawford
...J C Rossman
J A Bowersox
C A Weaver
Wm Bailey
.C C Meyer
klin Dietz
John Q Miles
D W Herring
. Henderson
J J Gramley
D L Meek
Haines, E. P.
“rf YP.
Hugh MeCann
erly R C Wileox
William Kerrin
.R J Haynes jr
Snow Shoe,
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TINE cooetesnerrnrrrsersisedormurrsrssssrinosns J N Brooks
Horie Wm T Hoover
Union .....Aaron Fahr
Walker J H McCauley
WOTtN....... coin ravens crvnseresnsantsstrnan iors Levi Reese
WM. C. HEINLE, Chairmam.
Tanner Not Likely to be Removed.
There arereports that if Comm ission-
er of Pensions TANNER does not mend
his ways he will be bounced. The
loose manner in which he is scattering
the surplus among all kinds of pension
claimants is said to be meeting with
the disapprobation of his superiors,
and hence the impression that they
may find somebody else to take his
place. :
This is thorough nonsense. As Tax-
NER is merely carrying out the policy
of the administration with regard to
pensions, it is folly to believe that his
eourse is dissatisfactory to those who
put him in his position. The promise
of indiscriminate pensions was one of
the means used to elect the Republi-
can candidate a year ago. Of the
many corrupting influences employed
for that purpose no other one was more
effective in securing votes for HARRISON.
The venality of those who aspired to
be on the pension rolls was appealed
to, the pension agents taking an active
part in representing that the Republi-
eans would remove the restrictions by
which CrLevevaNp had prevented a
general raid on the Treasury. Those
who have a recollection of the incidents
of the campaign remember the circu-
lars that were scattered broadcast
among theold soldiers reminding them
that pensions would be placed within
their reach by the success ot the Re-
publican candidate. It was as much
a part of the system of bribery that
was practiced by the Republican man-
agers as was the purchase of votes by
QuaY’s corruption fund.
This being the fact,what more is Tax-
NER now doing than fulfilling the demo-
ralizing promises that were made when
Harrison needed the votes that made
him President ? Is it likely that the
Commissioner of Pensions is incurring
the displeasure of his superiors by per-
forming such a duty? His course has
had the full and unqualified approval
of the Republican State conven-
tion of Ohio, which indorsed the policy
of turning the treasury over to the pen-
sion sharks, and it cannot be doubted
that what he is doing is fully approved
by the vitiated sentiment of his party.
It may be accepted as certain that
TANNER won't be bounced.
Sm —
A Boom by the Sounding Sea.
After the labors and perplexities in-
eident to his onerous duties at Johns-
town,it was natural that General Hasr-
1NGs should retire for a season to some
gea-side resort where the healthful
ocean breezes would reinvigorate his
overwrought physical and mental fac-
ulties. Ie selected Cape May for this
purpose, where he arrived last Satur-
day, but he had hardly struck the
sands of that popular retreat of the
gea-sidellounger before he became irre-
sistibly drawn into the vortex of a po-
litical movement of which he was the
central ficure. His friends and admi-
rers were there by the score, who im-
mediately upon the General's appear-
ance in their midst proceeded to hold
a meeting at which he received the
most hospitable and complimentary
greeting.
The tenor of the speeches made on
the occasion was that Hastings ought
to be the next Governor of Pennsylva-
nia ; in fact, that the great common-'
wealth was positively yearning for a
chief executive of his build and ap-
pearance.
present who avowed their willingness
to forswear their party allegiance and
roll up their sleeves for Hasrinas if he
There were even Democrats
should be put on the gubernatorial
track, while one especially enthusias-
tic admirer declared that the office of
Governor wasn’t good enough for him
and that he ought to be nominated for
President. It is not stated how much
the party had been drinking before the
meeting convened.
The General is said to have stood
this shower of compliments with great
modesty, declaring in a little speech he
made in reply to them, that he would
sooner be Adjutant General than Gov-
ernor or President, but it may be be-
lieved that this declaration was made
with a mental reservation.
Paticnce—Promptness.
Just now there are very ugly ru-
mors and a very discreditable look
about the management and distribution
of the money donated to Johnstown and
the sufferers thereabouts. For the sake
of our own people who had so much
to do with the distribution of supplies
and the handling of the money con-
tributed and appropriated, we do hope
that when Gov. BEAVER, General Hasr-
1NGs and Cor. SPANGLER get their ac-
counts straightened out, there will be
no cause for newspaper criticism, and
no grounds for the growing suspicion
that they was a “feathering of private
nests ”’ out of the fund intended for the
stricken people of Johnstown.
A little bit of patience on the part
of the newspapers making the charges
of misappropriation of funds, as well
as of the public which seems inclined
to believe them, and prompt action on
the part of those who directed and
handled the contributions, in showing
where every cent was put, will save a
most disgraceful scandal in the future.
Let the press and the people be
patient. :
Let the Governor and those under
him be prompt.
Appeal to Organized Labor.
Master Workman PowDERLY sounds a
bugle call to the Knights of Labor,
urging them to assume a political atti-
tude that will check the movements of
the corporations and capitalists that
have conspired to break up the labor
organizations. The course of President
CorBIN, of the Reading railroad, in
compelling the employes of the company
to withdraw from the working people’s
protective associations to which they
may have belonged, was the §mmediate
cause of Mr. PowDERLY’S pronuncia-
mento. He says that it is high time for
the working people to enforce by their
votes the provisions of the constitution
that are intended to restrain corporate
encroachment and usurpation of which
this man CoRBIN is a conspicuous repre-
sentative. ‘We can’t see how this ob-
ject cun be attained unless the votes of
the people whom the Master Workm an
addresses are cast against the party
which through legislative and executive
indifference or opposition has prevented
the enforcement of that part of the con-
stitution which relates to corporations.
There can be no doubt that
Gov. Lowry of Mississippi has his
bristles up. The peace and dignity of
his State having been disturbed by a
ganz of prize-fighting blackguards who
proceeded with their ruffianly business
in defiance of his authority, he is deter-
mined to get square with them even if
he has to follow them all over the
Union. It would have been better if
his efforts to prevent the fight had been
more effective, yet he can serve his
State by bringing the offenders to pun-
ishment although he couldn’t prevent
the offense. The owner of the land
who allowed the fight to take place on
his property has been arrested and
bound over for his appearance at court;
the referee in the fight has also been
arrested ; the superintendents of the
railroads that carried the ruffians
through the State, knowing upon what
errand they were bound, will be brought
to Mississippi for trial by extradition
papers on the Governor of Louisiana;
and a similar process has been issued !
to the Governors of the States where
Svrrivaxy and KiLraiy may be found.
Governor Lowry means business, and
every good citizen wishes that he may
be suceessful in it.
When the CarNEGIES and |
monopolists of that class get into
trouble with their workmen, by what
warrant of law do they resort to Pink-
erton’s ruffians to help them out of
their difficulty ? As an agency for the
preservation of the peace or an instru-
ment for the quelling of disturbance
| Pinkerton's force is not recognized by
| the law. Yet in every instance where |
| the employes of these arbitrary barons
{make a demonstration in defence of
| their rights, this illegal force is as
' coolly brought into the controversy as
if its employment was sanctioned by
"the law of the land. This abuse has
, grown up under the present State ad-
ministration. Gov. Parrison would
never allow the employment of such an
instrumentality, irregular in its charac-
ter and entirely unknown to the law.
It is gratifying to observe that
no less than nine States have adopted
ballot reform laws that arz intended to
secure more a honest method of holding
elections. Though differing in details,
most of them are based on the Aus-
tralian idea and are unquestionably
improvements on the old ballot systems
that were of such great advantage to
professional election manipulators. The
nine States that propose to secure
more honest elections by legislative en-
actments are Massachusetts, Montana,
Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Tennessee,
Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana and
Missouri. The reform measures in
some of them are rather rudimentary,
but they have been started and will
bear more perfect fruit in time. The
boodler and bulldozer must go.
Will Be Worse Before They Are Better.
Pittsburg Post.
The German army of 600,000 men
cost, in 1888, the sum of $121,061,600.
The French army for the same year,
500,000 strong, cost $105,614,655, and
the British army of 130,000, $90,901,630.
There was paid for pensions in the
United States in 1888 $76,646,146.37,
but the payments for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30 reached $90,000,000, and
for the current fiscal year the figures are
placed at $115,000,000. This is the way
Coporal Tanner is working the pension
laws as they stand with the aid of the
claim sharks, some of whom are million-
aires.
The Republican party will next win-
ter probably pass the dependent pension
bill vetoed by President CLEVELAND, as
well as aservice pension bill. The Ohio
Repulican State Convention blazed the
way for the party by indorsing TANNER'S
methods as well as the service pension
bill.
are carried out the pension appropria-
tions for the closing year of the Harrison
administration are likely to be over$150,-
000,000, and may reach $500,000,000.
There will bea pension forevery one who
enlisted, but this will be independent of |
the present pensions for special causes.
There is one peculiarity in this pen-
sion business that has become recently
noticeable. It has to a great extent de-
moralized the great body of the Union
veterans. Deserving soldiers who see in
every neighborhood the undeserving
ones receiving pensions, very naturally
reason to themselves that as they have
strongerclaims on the government boun-
ty than the “coffiee-coolers’ they also
should receive pensions. But for the pro-
fligate and prodigal abuse of the pension
system they would never have thought
of applying for a pension. Their services
would have remained a remembrance of
patriotic duty performed, and as such
would have been a priceless legacy to
their children. All this is changing.
Every duty discharged in connection
with the war is having its price fixed.
‘We do not know that the growth of
this feeling has ever had a stronger illus-
tration’ than at the election of depart-
ment commander of the Grand Army at
Erie a few months ago, when a certain
Mr. Stewart, an active politician, con-
nected with the pension rings and the
choice of the soldiers’ orphan school ;
syndicate, was elected department com-
mander for this State over General Me-
Creery, a veteran who served during the
war, was a Libby prisoner, and carried
several ounces of rebel lead in his body.
He was a type of the noblest class of
His opponent—Mr.
American soldier.
Stewart-who was elected to this represen-
tative position, never smelt hostile pow-
der, enlisted when big bounties were
paid, in February, 1865, was detailed
for clerical duty, and discharged in June,
1865, after a four months’ term.
When we have such evidence of de-
cadence in what claims to be a represen- !
tative organization of the American
soldiers, but which is changing tea gi-
gantic political club, isit any wonder that
the millionaire claim agents are becom-
ing the inspiration and direction of the
great body of the Union veterans? Is it
rot time to call a halt? But the truth is |
things will probably become worse before
they are better, bad as they now are. In
this: respect Commissioner Tanner may |
He is ,
be rendering important service.
hastening the day of the inevitable revol-
ution in public sentiment.
Truth or Good-Nature ?
Harper's Weekly.
When a famous orator wasdenounced
as inhuman and malignant for criticising
severely the conductof a public man who
had been dead for many years, he replied
to his censors: ‘Ifthe lapse ofa few
years is to make forgetulness of evil-do-
ing a duty, I have offended; but if it be
a duty to prevent evil-doing, you are the
offenders.” One of the most powerful
incentives to upright living and to the
i honest discharge of public duty is the
certainty that weakness or cowardice or
carelessness or selfishness or venality in
the discharge of such duty will cover the
memory of the offender with odium. If
the treatment of public menduring their
lives is often bitterly unjust to them, !
the treatment of them after their death
is often asignal injustice to the commun-
ity and to public morals. In the height
of Tweed ’s success, when he was trium-
phantly stealing the public money and
corrupting public life, the tons of coal
that he gave to the poor, and the pretty
plots of flowers in the City Hall Park
and the Battery, led many a man to say.
«Well, old Tweed may be a thief, but
he has a good heart.” Such shrewd lit-
tle tricks appealing to universal good na-
ture led to the shallow and reckless con-
doning of great crimes against the com-
munity. There was a vague feeling
that the coal and the flowers proved a
certain goodness of heart upon Tweed’s
‘part. Butit was forgotten that the mon-
‘ey which paid for them was stolen and
that it wasspent,not for the purpose of re-
lieving suffering, but it facilitate further
stealing.
The orator to whom we alluded laid
down a fundamental principle of public
duty. Plain speech in regard to official
conduct is as much a moral obligation of
the press as honest administration of his
trust isofa public officer: Yet such plain
speech and censure are often denounced
as detraction and aserious public injury
SRR i Ch a
If the plans of the claim agents |
SRD
because discrediting public life. False-
hood and slander are deserving of that
denunciation. But that is not its inten-
tion. The derunciation implies that all
such comment upon public men and
life 1s false and slanderous. As uttered
by many public men it has the purpose
of Tweed’s coal and flowers. Itis in-
tended, by charge of slander, to divert
attention from fraud. A newspaper calls
attention to something ‘shady’ or
“crooked” in the course of a Senator or
Representative or an executive officer,
and thereupon we are told that the
campaign of mud has opened, or that
the statement is a secret stab, or a base
calumny, or jealousy, or the detraction
that always dogs public men. But this
is a retort merely, not a denial. It is the
discoloration of the water, presumably to |
facilitate escape.
The newspapers which in commenting
upon the late death of Simon Cameron,
have told the truth ofhis career have
performed a more patriotic public service
than those which have celebrated his po-
litical smartness and unserupulousness
and pecuniary success. The latter have
aided to debauch public sentiment,
which certainly needs no encouragement
to accept such success as the chief prize
of life. The former Mave shown that
whatever the lapse of years and the
peacefulness of declining life, the truth
will be told at last, and the pare idealsof
public character will be vindicated. Yet
how strong is the temptation to conceal
and distort public wrong in high places
is shown by the fact mentioned by the
Philadelphia “Telegraph,” that although
President Lincoln summarily removed
Mr. Cameron from the Secretaryship of
‘War after the public censure of the
House in 1865, practically for official
corruption, yet in the very act of remov-
al he appointed him to another honora-
ble office, and subsequently permitted
the preparation and publication of a cor-
respondence which conceded the fact of
the removal, and substituted for dismiss-
al for the highest cause a voluntary resig-
nation. Mr. Lincoln’s good nature was
infinite and the national situation was
perilous, but this incidentseems to us the
most to be regetted in his whole career.
the Relief Money
Johnstown.
Distributing at
Jounstrow,July 15.—The board of in-
quiry met to day and issued orders for re-
lief to those entitled to it. The commis
sion at Cresson classified the suffers into
classes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and recommended
| that immediate payment be made to
classes, 1, 2, 3; requiring $496,000. Class-
es 4 and 5 would require $686,000. As the
commission only appropriated $500,000
without intimating when another dis-
tribution would be made the board deter-
mined to apportion the $500,000 among
the five classes instead of the three class-
es as at first proposed. Accordingly
they wiil be paid on the following basis.
Class, will get $600;%class 2, $400; class
3, 3200; class 4, $125, and class 5, $80.
All those in the Seventh ward received
' the bit of paper to day. Judge Cummin
will devote one day to awards in each
| ward. Tomorrow those in the Fourth
"ward will receive like orders and so on
throughout the city. Before paying out
| any money the judge, for some purpose
. of his own, will require each personto be
i qualified to his or her loss.
A meeting of delegates on the question
| of consolidation was held to day. Each
delegate had canvassed his berough and
i reports were nearly all favorable to the
: project. The board of trade also favored
| the plan. Colonel John Linton was
. elected chairman, and the question will
; be placed before the people at the next
election.
The board of trade to-day indorsed the
action of the citizens’ meeting of Satur-
| day and among ofher resolutions adopted
| by them was one urging all the citzens
| of the valley to unite in an appeal to the
i general government to aid in restoring
| the water ways of the Conemaugh valley
to a sufficient width to carry off all the
{ water, and that they be dredged and all
. obstructions to natural flow of water in
all seasons be removed.
i
Two bodies were found near the Mor-
rell institute to-day.
Beech Creek Miners Meet.
1
They Send Money to Strikers and E- 1
press Sympathy in Other Ways.
PHILLIPSBURG, July 15. —The miners |
‘ofa portion of the Beech Creek region met |
| in mass meeting yesterday morning to
, hear the reports of their delegates to the
{Altoona Convention. They indorsed
| the action of the Convention and agreed
to pay 5 cents a ton per man to the sup-
i port of the men on strike. A telegram
| was read from Punxsutawney, announc-
ing that the demand for an additional 5
cents per ton had been made, had been
i refused, and that the men were then out
| on strike. Arrangements were at once
made to send $1,000 to the men on strike
and plans made to stop all operators in
the Clearfield and Beech Creek regions
whe might attempt to fill orders for oper-
i ators whose men were not at work. It
| begins to look now as if both the Beech '
: Creek and Clearfield regions would yet
| become involved in the trouble, though |
| originally that was not the intention of |
the miners. At the meeting a plan was |
also adopted to plant the new miners’
organization—the Progressive Union—
in this section, the leaders in this move- !
ment being men who are opposed to the
further rule of the Knights of Labor.
Sad Death of a Young Man.
It is not often that one reads of a sad-
der affair than the accidental killing of
Willis Henderson, who was out riding :
near Charlotte, N. C., on Saturday, on
horseback as the escort of a young lady.
All at once her horse took fright and
dashed off’ at a furious rate. Young
Henderson saw at once the necessity of
immediate action, and lashing his horse
was soon at the heals of theflying steed,
and directly side by side with the young
lady. He had just leaned over to rescue
her from her perilous position when his
head struck against a tree with terrific
force, crushing his skull and knocking
him from his horse. He was picked up
dead. The girl fell from her horse, but
was not injured in the least, except the
terrible fright she received and theshock
experienced at seeing tie dead body of
her gallant escort, who lost his life for
her sake. But an ill reward for so much
devotion. .
TRE
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Treed by An Elephant.
Desperate Plight of a Hunter in Search
of Adventures.
Elephants in a wild state are remark-
ably exclusive, so much so that if an in-
dividual becomes in any way hopelesly
separated from his own herd he is nct per-
mittted to join any other. Being com-
pelled to live thus by himself he develops
a peculiarly vicious disposition, -and is
commonly known and dreaded in India
as a rogue elephant.
In the Natural History of Ceylon
there is a story which illustrates both
the blood- thirsty temper and the extra-
ordinary intelligence of such animals:
‘We had expected to come up with the
brute when it had been seen half an
hour before, but no sooner had one of
our men, who was walking foremost,seen
the animalat a little distance thar he
exclaimed : There! there! and imme-
diately took to his heels, and we all fol-
lowed his example.
The elephant did not see us until we
had run fifteen or twenty paces from the
spot where we turned. Then he gave
chase, screaming frightfully as he came
on.
The Englishman managed to climb a
tree, and the rest of my companions did
the same. As for mysalf, I could not,
although T made one ortwo great efforts.
But there was no time to be lost. The
elephant was running at me with his
trunk bent down in a curve toward the
ground.
At this critical moment Mr. Lindsay
held out his foot to me, with the help of
which and the branches of the tree,
which were three or four feet above my
head, T managed hastily to scramble up
to a limb.
The elephant came directly to the tree,
and attempted to force it down. First
he coiled his trunk around the stem and
pulled with all his might, but with no
effect. Then he applied his head to the
tree and pushed for several minutes, but
with no better result. He then tramp-
led with his feet all the projecting roots,
moving ashe did so several times around
the tree.
Lastly, tailing in all this, and seeing
a pile of timber, which I had lately cut,
a short distance from us, he removed it
all, thirty-six pieces, one at a time, to
the foot of the tree and piled it up in a
regular business-like manner. Then
placing his hind feet on this pile he rais-
ed the fore part of his body and reached
out his trunk, but still he could not
touch us as we were too far above him.
At this point the Englishman fired,
and the ball took effect somewhere on
the elephant’s head, but did not kill
him. The wound made him only the
more furious.
The next shot, however, leveled him
to the ground. I brought the skull of
the animal to Colombo, and it is still to
be seen gt the house of Mr, Armitage.
The Pennsylvama Railroad Excursions
to the Jersey Coast.
Of all the excursions offered to the
people of this section none possess more
merit than those of the Pennsylvania
Railroad to the attractive resorts of the’
New Jersey coast. The dates of these
trips are opportunely fixed, the limit of
the tickets cover the usual vacation pe-
riod, the points of destination, Atlantic
City, Cape May, Sea Isle, or Ocean City
are not only the choicest seaside resorts
of the land but they have individual at-
tractions which suit every taste; the rate
is so liberal as to come within the means
of every one and the means of transpor-
tation is of the highest grade.
These characteristics have made these
trips exceedingly popular and have af-
forded many of our people a delightful
holiday tour, arranged, as it were, to
their order.
The first trip of this season was a bril-
liant success and the second, which will
occur on July 25th will doubtless be
still more successful as it comes ata date
nearer the height of the seaside season.
Excursion tickets will be sold as here-
tofore at $10.00 from Pittsburg, and cor-
respondingly low rates fron other sta-
tions, valid for return trip ten days, and
the special train of Pullman Parlor Cars
and Day Coaches will run on schedule
as below: —
Altoona....... 1230 P. M.
{ Bellwood. 12-41 ¢
Clearfield.... 9.40 A. M.
Philipsburg 10.7 *
' Osceola....... 1045 «
! Bellefonte 10.25 « «
i Tyrone....... 12.53 P. M,
{ Huntingdon 1.93 «
The members of the party will spend
the night in Philadelpbia and proceed
to the shore by any regular train of the
following day. The return coupon of
tickets is valid for use on any regular
train except New York and Chicago
Limited within the return limit.
The Kind of Girls They Have in Johns-
town.
Johnstown Tribune.
A short time after the flood Miss Jes-
! sie Coleman, who had been a clerk in the
store of Mr. William Masterton, on
Main street, being without employment,
like a great many others, called on Gen-
eral Hastings personally and made ap-
plication for a tent, which was granted
her. She opened upa refreshment stand
on Somerset street serving lemonade,
cakes, ete., and met with such remark -
: able success as to encourage her to go
higher. She therefore caused to be
erected on the site of the old Miller bak-
| ery a wooden structure of a comfortable
. size, where, under the firm name of J.
D. Coleman & Co., she will carry on
. the bakery, confectionery and ice cream
. business,
The Preferred Rebels.
Germantown Independent.
General Sherman, whose service in be- |
half of the nation entitled him to some !
consideration, made but one request of |
this administration, the retention of Gen.
Joe Johnson as Railroad Commissioner.
Joe was a Confederate soldier, but he
was not a bushwhacker like Mosby, ora
political harlot like Mahone, Riddleber-
ger, Longstreet or Chalmers, and he had
to co. His place is used to muzzle an-
other alleged editor from wayback.
—The “two hundred and TFiftieth
anniversary of the first establishment of
the first public school in the United
States, sustained by a direct tax on the
eople,” was held at Meeting House
Till, Dorchester, Massachusetts, on Sat-
urday, June 29th.
The Flood Funds.
What Governor Beaver Says of the
Money for Johnstown.
Speaking of the distribution of the
Johnstown funds Governor Beaver said
to a reporter of a Harrisburg paper on
Tuesday that the flood commission con-
sidered that they were trustees ofa sacred
trust, and thought they should disburse
the money just as they would distribute
their own charity. He said there was
no such thing as arriving at definite
figures at this stage on account of a large
number of bills still remaining unpaid.
“Altogether,” said the governor, ¢I
have received and depositad to the treas-
urer of the central fund at.Harrisburg
$1,000,000. On this sum, by the direc-
tion of the commission, I have drawn
drafts amounting to $732,000, and $500,-
000 of this last named sum isthe amount
appropriated by the commission to be
distributed among the people of Johns-
town according to actual need, and is
already in the hands of Judge Cummins.
“I myself have expended about $225,-
000 ot the funds contributed by the state
of Pennsylvania. Of this amount about
$100,000 went for furniture, and $100,-
000 for transportation expenses, leaving
a balance of about $40,000. I should
say that we have about $1,000,000 in
cold cashavailable for future use. Mon-
ey keeps coming in constantly. Our
commission has nothing to do with the
distribution ot clothing, location of
houses, and the o‘her details of the work
of relief. All this is in charge of a local
committee. Our idea was that the money
should go in sueh a way as to help peo-
ple to help themselves. Every man was
compelled to make affidavit of his losses.
If the committee was satisfied that the
representations contained in the affida-
vit were true, the required relief was giv-
en. The number assisted this way was
about 4,000. We thought the widows
ought to get about $1,000 apiece, if pos-
sible. The committee told us that they
wanted 1,500 houses built, and wanted
them at once. Then they wanted half
a million dollars. They will probably
get this money assoon as the citizens’
committee reports to us. The fact of
the matter is I like to hear this growl.
It isa healthy symptom, and shows
that Johnstown is convalescing.”’
He Drank With John L.
And the Gentleman Thus Entertained
Now Thinks the Champion a Chump.
“Didn’t know I was acquainted with
Mr. Sullivan?” said Jchn Stapleton.
“Oh, yes, I know him. I made his ac-
quaintance several years ago in New
York. It was when I first joined
Augustin Daly’s company. One after-
noon I went around to the Ashland
House to meet a friend who was with a
friend in ‘Wall street. I met him and
we were about to leave the hotel when
he excused himself to run up to the
room for something he had forgotten
and TI strolled into the bar-room.
“There was a very boisterous crowd
there and lots of talking by a very big
man, who seemed to be as near teing
in the king business as is possible to get
in this country. Nobody contested any-
thing he said, and whenever he gave an
order it was filled without question. I
stood off to one side, enjoying the per-
formance, when the big man called out:
“All hands up to take a drink.”
“I didn’t think this meant me, so I
turned to look out ef the window. A
moment later a great hand closed on my
coat collar and yanked me up to the bar.
Then the gentleman who owned the fist
smashed it down on the bar and said:
“You're drinkin’! What’ll you have?’
“I begged pardon and said I'd take a
glass of beer.
“Hell” roared the big man, contempt-
uously, and then said to the man in the
white apron: ‘Rye whisky for this dude?’
“Everybody laughed at me of course,
and this tickled the big man more than
ever. He made it his business to see
that I drank the whisky he poured out,
and I only gov away when hehad grown
tired of watching me and had gotten in-
terested in something else.
“That was John L. Sullivan. A
most hospitable gentleman is John L.
Sullivan.— Chicago Mail.
Swallowed a 820 Gold Piece.
Wilkesbarre Leader, July 13.
Yesterday about noon Christopher
Bates, a resident of Woodward Hill and
an employe at the Woodward mines, re-
ceived his pay, and going directly to his
home gave his little seven-months-old
child a twenty-dollar gold piece to play
with, thinking it was too large for the
little one to get into its mouth. In less
than twenty minutes from the time the
money came from the bands of the pay-
master the gold piece was stuck in the
child’s throat. The grandmother of the
baby hastily picked up the sufferer and
endeavored to extract the coin, but ut-
terly failing in this and believing the
child to be dying, she pushed the money
down. A physician was summoned as
promptly as possille, but the first one
sent for was not at home, and another
was called. Upon his arrival the child
was found in a thoroughly comfortable
condition, manifesting no symptoms of
injury trom its unusual experience, and
there was nothing to be done, at least
for the present. The little one was re-
ported all right yesterday morning, but
there are grave doubts as to the result
of the accident, which may not be de-
termined for a couple of weeks. One
of the physicians says that the milled
edge of the coin makes it more danger-
ous, but Mr. Bates is of the opinion
that the edge of this piece was worn
quite smooth. The case wiil be watched
with considerable interest.
What's the Matter ?
Madison Republican.
What means these strikes and lock-
outsin the East, and this flood of tramps
in the West? Isn't the tariff tax as
high as ever; isn’t Harrison “all right;”
isn't Blaine premier? What are you
fellows with tin buckets standing
around idle for? Didn't you vote for
“Harr son, protection and good times ?”’
Maybe vou're waiting for some of your
“protected” manufacturing friends in
the East or some of your national bank
friends, who are all over the country,
to divide vou into “blocks of five’ and
present you the 10 per cent. interest
bearing mortgages they hold on your
little homes.