Terms $2.00 A Year,in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., May 23, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK,
mn
Ep1iror
m—
——The Monopoly Tariff Bill came
to the final test inthe House on
Wednesday and was passed by a vote
of 164 for it and 142 against it. All
the Democrats, of course, voted nay,
together withtwo Republicans, Core-
MAN, of Louisiana, and FEATHERSTON,
of Arkansas.
A HAI RE
———As was to beexpected, ex-Speak-
er OaruisLE has been elected to the
United States Senate to succeed the
late Senator Beck. It may seem un-
gracious, yet we must say that we
would rave been better pleased if the
Kentucky Democrats had selected some
other man to fill the vacancy, for the
Democracy can hardly afford to lose
the services of Mr. CaruISLE in the
House of Representatives.
rre———————
There. was practically no opposi-
tion to the election of Ricmarp Vaux
to congress in the Third district last
Tuesday. The Republicans, under-
standing the fruitlessness of a con-
test, put no candidate in the field, and
a few votes were cast for a Prohibition
candidate. With this trifling excep-
tion, the more than 8000 votes polled
were for the grand old Democrat whom
the Democrats had nominated to be
Mr. BANDALL'S successor.
— The faction that was defeated
at the recent Republican primary elec-
tions in Lancaster, instead of shutting
up and quieting down after their defeat,
as well regulated party men should do,
are making a great outcry about the
thousands of dollars which they say
were corruptly used by the other fac-
tion to defeat them. But what is the
use of their making a fuss about a
thing that is of annual occurrence in
Lancaster county, and is the common
custom of the party? It is not to he
expected that money wiil be kept out
of Republican primaries when it is
recognized as the party's chief motive
power in Presidential elections.
Er ER RTO NE.
The cotton industry, whose raw
material the natural situation protects
from taxation, is in a most prosperous
condition. The New England manu-
facturers are making money and every-
thing is lovely in the cotton mills.
On the other hand, the woolen manu-
facturers, whose raw material is sub-
jected to a tariff tax, are having a
rough time. None of them are making
money and many of them are embar-
rassed. What a lucky thing it is for
those who manufacture cotton goods
that the production of Southern fields
prevents the Republican tariff mongers
from having a whack at their raw ma-
terial. It is to this lucky circumstance
that they owe their prosperity.
Perrom————
— Notwithstanding their over-
whelming misfortune last year the Pro-
hibitionists of Pennsylvania are going
to try another State campaign this
year, and for this purpose have called
a Prohibition State convention to meet
in Harrisburg on the 15th and 16th
of July. One day is sufficient for so
small an affair v8 a Democratic or Re-
publican State convention, but it will
take two days for the Prohibitionists to
launch a State ticket on the boisterous
waters of Pennsylvania politics. So
far there has not been developed much
of a contest for first place on the ticket,
but the names mentioned for the guber-
patorial nomination are W. W.
Hacug, of Tidioute; H. T. Amzs, of
Williamport, and Jorn E. Gir, of
Greensburg.
Frightfully Expensive.
There is good cause for the Senate's
becoming alarmed at the figures that
are presented by the esiimated cost of
the service pensions provided. for by
the Morrill bill, To carry out this
measure to its ultimate conclusion will
require an expenditure running into
the billions, as the total amount will
be not less than $1,333,109,820. This
should be enough to frighten any body
of sane men, yet a measure of this
kind was promised to secure the soldier
vote in the campaign that elected Har
RIsoN. If the promise is not fulfilled
the political consequences will be dis-
astrous to the party, while its fulfill-
ment will be equally disastrous to the
nances of the government.
FE —
Unneeded Protection.
The Chicago Herald makes the
charge, and sustains it by reliable and
ample evidence, that agricultural im-
plemenis made in this country and sent
abroad for sale in foreign markets, are
sold there for considerable less than is
asked and received for them when sold
a
Thus American plows
| that cost our farmers $11, are sold to
: foreigners for $8.40: a cultivator which
is sold for $8 at home goes abroad bill-
| ed $6 75 ; another grade sells at $7.20
at home and $4.50 to go abroad. On
plows the discount to foreigners is less,
being 10 per cent. Thus a plow that
costs $5.60 at home is sold to go
abroad at $5.04; a two-gang plow, four
! to our farmers.
horses, all steel, $58.80 at home,
and $52.92 abroad. Oa shovels
the difference is greater. A dozen
shovels that are sold at home for
$0.20 are sold at $7.86 for export, a
difference of about 15 per. cent.
There couldn't be more conclusive
proof than this that the manufacturers
of agricultural implements are making
such a profit that they do not require
protection to shield them against for-
eign competition, and that the high
tariff, instead of being needed to pro-
tect them, enables them to fleece the
American farmer.
an ——————
Probably Unwise.
After the conclusion which the min-
ers of the Jefferson county and neigh-
boring coal regions came to last week,
not to go out on strike, their decision
this week to stop work with the com-
pulsory purpose of bringing “their em"
ployers to terms on the question of
wages, may be considered an unwise
determination. There does not seem
to be a concert of intention among the
operatives of the different regions, with-
out which the hope of a successful
movement is the vainest of delusions.
Even united purpose and action very
rarely effect the object of a coal strike.
The miners are evidently not getting
the wages that ought to be received by
people who are said to be benefited by
a “protective tariff,” but sad experi-
ence has proved that strikes are of no
avail in secaring them their share of
the tariff benefits. Tze men who put
the capital and not the men who put
the muscle into the coal business are
the beneficiaries of the protective
policy.
A Weak Invention.
With mischievous intent the attempt
has been made to create the impres-
sion that the two leading candidates
for the Democratic nomination for Gov-
ernor represent an antagonism on
the Presidential question. Mr. War-
LACE is set forth as heading an anti-
Cleveland movement, while to Mr.
Parrisox is ascribed the leadership
of the sentiment in favor of the ex-
President.
It is needless to say that this is not
the case. There is no reason to be-
lieve that the contest for the Demo-
cratic nomination is in any way in
volved with the Presidential question.
As for Mr. WALLACE, he openly disa-
vows the statements gratuitously made
that his candidacy implies hostility to
Mr. CLEVELAND.
It was unnecessarygfor him to make
such & disclaimer. The position in
which it is attempted to place him
with reference to the next Presidential
nomination, is evidently a weak inveu-
tion of the enemy.
mmm merce a ra
Revising the Road Laws.
The Commissioners appointed to re-
vise and improve the road laws of the
State have had a meeting and adjourn-
ed. Before proceeding further in the
performance of their duty they want
to get from the people who use the
roads their opinion as to the measures
it would be best to adopt to bring about
a better condition of the roads and
highways. For this purpose circulars
will be sent to persons in all part of
the State who are likely to be able to
give valuable advice on this subject.
No doubt this will include intelligent
farmers in the different counties, who
from experience know the public detri-
ment resulting from bad roads,and also
have decided opinions as to the ex-
pense the farmers in the their present
condition are able to stand for the im-
provement of the highways.
Some of the papers are condemning
the commissioners for not going straight
ahead in the formulating of new road
laws without consulting any one,but as
the public is to be served in this mat-
ter,it will be better to get the aggregate
of the public sentiment and then en"
deavor to attain the best average. One
idea, however, seems to be prominent,
and that is that the State should be
made to stand part of the heavy ex-
pense that will be required to put the
roads in good condition.
Delamater Crosses the Rubicon.
Philadelphia Times.
The crucial test of Senator Delamater’s
strength as a gubernatorial candidate
was in the battle for Laneaster and for
the northwestern counties of Erie, Ven-
ango, Cameron, McKean and Clarion.
In these counties. centred two powerful
elements of opposition to Delamater—
the strength of Secretary Stone, who re-
sides in a central location of the counties
named, and the hostility of the oil pro-
ducers, led by such able men as Emery,
Lee, Philips and others.
Delamater carried Lancaster.
Al-
though not instructed, the delegation js
known to be for him, and his success in
Erie and Venaango by decided majorities
and his neck-and-neck battle for Cam-
eron and McKean, both in Secretary
Stone's congressional district, exhibit a
degree of strength in the weakest part of
his lines that practically puts him across
the Rubicon in the gubernatorial eon-
test.
Dela mater has his own congressional
district ,composed of Erie and Crawford,
solid for him and by a large popular vote,
and he has carried Venango and lost
McKean and Cameron by a scratchin
Stone’s congressional district. Clarion,
that closely joins Stone’s district, has al-
so been carried by Delamater, and he
has thus stood the severest test of his
power where he had most opposition to
encounter.
Had Secretary Stone carried his con-
ressional district by a decided vote as ; C
Bo | Y ‘livthg is high.
Delamater did, and made the inroads
upon Delamater’s district that Delamater
has made in Stone’s district, there would
have been a loud call upon Delamater to
decline ; but he has more than fulfilled
the expectation of his friends in the re-
ceat contest for delegates, and the ston-
jest portion of his path to a nomination
has been traveled in safety.
Delamater has passed the Rubicon and
his nomination can’t now be successful-
ly resisted. Only his own declination
could now put him out of the race, and
he won't decline.
FE —
Politics the Pretense, Private Gain the
Object.
Correspondence of Boston Herald.
“The string of questions distributed
by the Census Office known as the sol-
dier schedule is gotten up ostensibly to
furnish ground for pension legislation,”
said a gentleman, pointing to a copy of
the Sunday Gazette in which the publi-
cation was made. “And I suppose if
may be valuable in that way. But I
was told that two prominent pension
attorneys bad a hand in framing it.
“What was their object? Why the men
who could get copies of those original
soldier schedules would make millions
of dollars.
«Phere is one firm, alone for whom
the Government collects from pensioners
an average of $2500 a day or nearly
$800,060 per anum. I suppose you
know that Uncle Sam won't trust the
old soldier to pay his lawyer’s fees, but
collects them out of his blood money be-
fore it will pay his first quarter. This
one firm has had a swing for a long
time, and |.8s, somehow or other, had a
hand in framing pension laws, and been
particularly successful in discovering
people entitled to pensions who never
dreamed Uncle Sam owed them any-
thing.
“Now if this firm with ex-Commis-
sioner of Pensions Dudley, who is also
in the pension business now, could get
the copies of these lists, as they hope
to do, on the pretense which the ex-Com-
missioner will make that they are to
be used for political purposes, you can
see what a bonanza they would have.
If the pending pension bill passes there
would be at least $10,000,000 in it.
“Tpis would not be the first case
of the use of census papers for political
purposes, either. It was done in Nev
York in 1880. In this case, however,
politics would be the pretense, and pri-
vate gain the real object. [ do not say
that Superintendent Porter is in the
combination, but I am sure Mr. Har-
rison would be only too glad to pay
Dudley back the political debt he
owes him by giving a wink to Por-
ter that he wanted Dudley & Co.
to have the original returns.”
A Chorus of Denunciation.
Philadelphia Record.
Under the beading of “Widespread
Discontent” the Boston Z'ranscript pub-
lishes nearly a page of protest on behalf
of the business interests of that city
against the passage of the McKinley
Tariff bill. Dealers in tin-plate, pro-
visions, dry goods, pottery and glass-
ware, drugs, fruits, toys,hard ware,paper,
all join in one chorus of denunciation.
As the disposition at Washington to
force the bill to passage becomes more
apparent the popular alarm increases.
The mutirous dissatisfaction in those
parts of the country where the people
have heretofore given the staunchest and
steadiest support to the Republican
party has apparently no other effect
than to intensify the desperate haste in
pushing forward a measure that will
not bear discussion.
It is all fair and right to pay party
debts ; but it may be doubted whether
at the next election of Congressmen the
voters will be satisfied to indorse a plan
of tax revision that has been devised
solely for the purpose of repaying out of
the general pocket the Republican cam-
paigning expenses of 1888.
Tried Self-Crucifiction.
A Demented Young Man Tries to Nail
Himself to a Cross in a Church.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 18.—Sev-
eral. hundred worshipers at vespers in
St Mark’s Roman Catholic Church at
Bristol, Pa., the other night noticed
that a fine-looking young man, who
moved from one pew to another until
he had reached the pew directly in front
of the altar, was laboring under nervous
excitement. He was Charles J. Curran,
of No. 8 Brace street, Bristol.
The congregation was astonished when
he entered the enclosure in front of the
altar, and placing his hand on one of
the arms of a large wooden cross in the
chancel attempted to drive a nail
through his palm with a stone he had
brought with him. He had partially
succeeded before Father Vandergrift
could stop him.
Curran told his friends that he wish-
ed to serve Jesus Christ and that he was
willing to offer himself as a sacrifice to
the Lord. He 1s about 23 years of
age and he has worked in several of the
Jdarge millsin Bristol. Father Mohr,
who is ccnnected with St. Mark's
Church, said that Curran had been mild-
ly deranged for several years and he
thought that the tragic death of Patrick
Cryle, a relative of Curran, who was
drowned a few days ago, had aggrava-
ted his malaay. His family to-day said
that his hand is not severeiy injured and
that he was resting quietly.
—— Baseball is drifting rapidly to-
ward a home market condition.
Protection a Catch Phrase.
Kansas City Times.
Protection to the laboring man has
been a favorite catch phrase of the pro-
hibitory protectionists. They tell him
that the tariff is for his benefit; that the
tax which the Government places on
foreign goods is given to him in wages;
that the higher the tariff the
higher’ will be his wages, and
that any decrease in custom duties
means a decrease in wages. The farmer
at present is receiving a practical de-
monstration of the falsity of these
assertions. He is protected by the
highest tariff in the history of the na-
tion, and his cora is selling at ten cents
a bushel. The laborers in the proteced
factories of the east are beginning to
learn the same lesson. The laborer in
the protected industries of New England
is as poor as the western farmer. His
Somebody gets his
earnings as well as the farmer’s crops.
His employers are protected. His con-
dition shows that he is not. He toils at
the loom and the forge as the farmer
toils in the field, and gets about the
same reward. He lives on the poorest
fare, in the poorest house and wears the
poorest clothing—protected shoddy-—
that he himself weaves without protec-
tion, while paying the tariff’ tax to his
employer, as does the farmer. Ile
makes protected hats, while the boss
hatter pockets 100 per. cent tax,and pays
it whenever he buys a hat—the very hat
he himself has made. So of his coat,
shirt and boots, and every tool he uses
from an anvil to a cambric needle. The
system of protection robs workingmen
east and west, north and south, the con-
sumers who pay the tax everywhere,
while it enriches the men who employ
labor.
arr nr TTC CUES.
Grand Army Veterans Against the
Pension Raiders.
Philadelphia Evening Telegram. (Ind. Rep.)
All honor to the Grand Army veterans
of Galena, Ill., who have taken the
head of the column for defense of the
Treasury against the pension raiders.
Despite the urgent appeals of General
Hawley and other old soldiers in Con-
gress, both the House and the Senatehave
been ‘“‘stampeded”’ by the claim agents,
and now the best hope the country has
of escape from danger of {rightful spoli-
ation rests with the menin whose name
the raids on the Treasury have heen
planned. It the alleged beneficiaries
of the vast pension jobs before Congress
rise up and protest against being made
stalking horses for the brokers and dem-
agogues who are hoping to divide a big
share ot boodle between them, the repre-
sentatives of the people in Congress may
hesitate before voting away hundreds of
millions of the people’s money. The
llinois soldiers are the first in the fizld
to make it in earnest. They distinctly
denounce the Morrill bill as an iniquity
which “offers a premium for depend-
ency, and makes all pension laws a
stench in the nostrils of the people.”
These be brave words, well said, timely
and trenchant. If the Grand Army
‘men would adopt them and send them
ringing to Washington from all over the
the land, they might yet put un stop to
the incalculable robbery now nearly con-
sumated. What another glorious ser-
vice that would be.
Mr. McKinley's Workingmen.
In His Own District They Ask Him
Some Hard Questions About
Protection.
CaxTtox, O.. May 18.—The following
is being circulated among the working-
men of this vicinity, and is being freely
'signed : Hon William McKinley, Jr.
Washington D. C.:
Dear Sir—The undersigned voters
and workingmen in the district of which
you are the representative in congress,
where your distinguished abilities are
employed in making laws for the well-
being of ourselves and others, recogniz-
ing your eminence as a politicial econo-
mist, respectfully ask you to reply to the
following questions, feeling confident
that, as the subject is one which con-
cerns us materially, you will do so read-
ily :
“First —You have said, substantially,
that under the influence of protection the
wages of the working classes are higher
in this country than in any other in the
world ; in other werds, that high wages
are due to high tariffs and that the iat-
ter are necessary to maintain them. We
find that Germany, Italy, Austria, Hun-
gary, Spain, Prussia Persia, Portugal,
Belgium, Cuba, Russia, Norway, Swed-
en, Servia, Siam, Turkey, Japan, China,
and nearly all other foreign countries
have high tariffs, some of them even
higher than ours, the Island of San
Domingo, for example having a tariff that
averages 65 per cent. If, as asserted,
high tariff makes high wages, will you
kindly explain why it is that these
countries have such notoriously low
wages ?
Second—Is it true, as declared by
Myr. Blaine, that ‘the inequalitiesin the
wages of English and American opera-
tives are more than equalized by the
oreater efficiency of the latter and the
longer hours of labor ?’
«Third—In your reporton your new
tariff bill you give as a reason for taking
the duty off sugarand permitting us to
pay a bounty tothe growers instead,
that not enough of the article is produc-
ed in this country, and (to quote your
own words) ‘duty is, therefore a tax
which is added to the price not only of
the imported but the domestic product.’
Permit us to ask why, if this reason is
cood in the case of sugar, it will not
likewise hold good as regards other ar-
ticles enough of which are not produced
In this country ? Moreover, if remov-
ing the duty on sugar will benefit us,
will not (for the same reason) striking
the duty off of wool, ete., and granting
a bounty to growers,be still more to our
advantage, since clothing for ourselves
and families is an item of greaterim-
portance to us thansugar?
«Will you, honorable sir, do us the
favor to make reply to the above in your
closing address in the debate now in pro-
gress, in order that not only ourselves but
others may be enlightened on these
points ?”
ET —r—t
— Dedicated to Baby McKEr—
Rock-a-bye baby, you are on top,
When the fat fries the eradle will rock :
When the fat stops the cradle will fall,
And down comes protection, cradle and all.
Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye, never you fear,
R« a-bye, rock-a-bye, the G. O. P. is here.
He Smoked Cigarettes.
And Died of Lockjaw After
Weelis of Terrible Agony.
Three
NEw Brunswick, N. J., May 9.—
A particularly distressing death occur-
na at the Wells Memorial hospital.
John F. Hickey 13 years old, son of
Terence Hickey, a laborer, of 50 Div-
ision street, was taken to the hospital
four weeks ago. The boy was a con-
firmed cigarette smoker, having formed
the babit when 10 years old. He
begged and borrowed money continually
tosupply his craving for cigarettes, and
smoked from three to six packages daily.
His fingers and lips were stained with
nicotine, and he was a pitiable bundle
of shattered nerves when his father call-
ed upon the matron of the hospital to
have the boy treated.
When the boy found himself deprived
of the nicotine poison he pleaded pit-
eously for cigarettes, and the doctors,
inured to sad sights in the hospital,
were moved to pity for the lad. Drs.
‘Williamson, Clark and Bald win worked
heroically to save the boy’s life. Hick-
ey’s system was wholly impregnated
with the poisonous nicotine, and the
doctors were unable to administer a ton-
ic that would correct the deadly eifect
of the cigarettes.
Lockjaw was the inevitable result af-
ter three weeks of the most terrible tor-
ture. The boy lingered in the throes of
the fatal malady until Monday morning
when death came to his relief.
During the greater part of thre years
he had averaged four packages of cig-
arettesa day. He lost color and flesh
perceptibly during the last year. His
eves were of a pale yellow cast and
deeply sunken. -While naturally robust
and cheerful, he grew slender and mo-
rose, and when deprived of the fatal
weed he would rave as if in frenzy.
Those who knew of the terrible grip
which the drugged weed had upon him
often furnished him with cigarettes to
put him out of his misery. Hickey in-
haled the smoke of the cigarettes and
smoked them without cessation from
early morning until late at night, often
leaving his bed to gratify the frightful
craving.
A Destructive Cyclone.
Sia Persons Killed in the Western fort
of Pennsylvania.
East SANDY, Pa., May 12.—A fright-
ful catastrophe in the shape of a cyclone
visited this section of the State on Satur-
day night, and the destruction along
the path of the storm is fearful. The
storm lasted only a few minutes, but
during its progress a scene of terror
was witnessed. Four persons near this
place were killed outright, while up
till noon to-day it was learned that
25 others had received serious, and in
some cases fatal, injuries. Houses
were blown down like piles of shingles,
while barns and outsheds were torn
from the foundations and stock killed
in large numers. The loss to property
in the storm’s wake is as yet inestimable.
FraNkLIN, May 12.--The cyclone
that swept over this section on Satur-
day night did awful damage. It is
estimated by the reports received here
up to 12 o'clock to-day that fully
forty people have been injured. Noah
Jackson and wife, of this place, were
killed by the falling of their house.
The storm was general throughout the
country, but the deadly cyclone, only
about three hundred feet wide, extend-
ed about twenty-five miles. Everything
in its path was demolished, trees up-
rooted and houses and barns completely
demolished—in one instance a house
containing an invalid was struck and
the bed containing the sick man was
lifted up bodily and carried out into the
yard, where it fetched up against a
tree. The sick man was badly injured.
Ingalls Will Roost Lower.
Philadelphia Times.
Senator Ingalls has been a terror to
his political foes because of his supposed
genius for hurling at them the keenest
invective and the most crashing epi-
thets ; but the development of a day
unhorses him. Henceforth when hesays
something specially keen or strikingly
logical, the inquiry will be as to whose
wit or logic he has stolen.
The deadly parallel column has shiv-
ered the lance of many intellectual glad-
iators in the past; but the deadliest of
all the deadly parallel columns of mod-
ern times is Massillon’s sermon and In-
galls’ speech. It is simply the plainest
literary theft, not only of ileas, but of
language, and it proves that the ready
and mecisive disputant is simply loaded
with stolen ideas and stolen language,
gathered in his closet.
Literary theft is the one crime of
which genius is entirely incapable, and
henceforth Senator Ingalls will be re-
spected only as a painstaking student of
the loosest literary morality, rather than
the brilliant and fertile genius he has
Leen regarded. The versatile originali-
tv accorded to him has perished in a
duy, for he who is truly original can
never be a copyist, and, above all, a
thieving copyist. Another idol shat-
tered ; that’s all. Ingalls will roost
lower.
EE ATR SS ET
Republican Discontent With the McKin-
ley Tariff Bill.
Chicago Tribune (Republican.)
It is hard, indzed, to find a western
Repullican newspaper of any stand-
ing in favor of the pending (McKinley)
bill. The Milwaukee Sentinel (Repub-
can) says the measure is not what an
important number of Republicans had
a richt to expect. The Atckinson Globe
(Republican) declares that it is designed
to enrich the few at the expense of the
many, ‘The many bear all the burden ;
the fow reap all the benefit.” The XNe-
braska State Journal (Republican)
speaks of the revisers as ‘ready to im-
pose a tariff on everybody's business
but their own.” The Minneapolis Jour-
nal (Republican) says: ‘They have
| increased duties right and left without
‘consulting the parties most interested
Lor taking in the true situation” The
| Omaha Bee (Republican) says the bill
disappoints the popular expectation that
| revison would be downward rather than
upward, and co ‘disrecards a nearly upi-
versal and urgent demand which the
party in power cannot afford to 1gnore.”’
TE RS CA I
Tribute of Respect.
Resolutions adopted by the W. .C., No.3, of
Milesburg, on the death of wwember:
WHEREAS, it has pleased Almighty God, the
allwise Ruler of the universe, to remove from
our midst a mother, one of our sisters, Martha
Eckart, who departed this life May 17, 1800,
Resolved, that while we reeognize the divine
will of Him who doeth all things well, and
humbly bow in submission to His holy will,
we deeply mourn the loss of our dear sister,
who has been called from us. We will miss
her words of kindness, always ready and will:
ing to do her part in the work. She always
had a word of kindness for every one around
her; but she is gone and we must snbmit to
His will, feeling that her loss is our gain,
and knowing that He doeth all things well.
Resolved, that in her death we have lost an
honored and respected member, her children
a kind and affectionate mother, and her hus-
band a dear and loving wife.
Resolved, that we tender the husband and
family of our lamented sister our sincere and
heartfelt sympathy in their hour of great
trouble and bereavement, and be it further
Resolved, as a token of respect to the memo-
ry of our dear sister, that each member shall
drape her badge for the period of thirty days,
and that the charter be draped for the same
length of time.
Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be
given to the family of the deceased,and also be
entered on the minute book of our order, and
published in the county papers.
Saran McKinwy,
ANNIE STONEROD,
SreLLA THOMAS,
The Condition of Crops.
Bad Weather in the Northwest, Favor-
able in the Atlantic States.
‘WasHINGTON, May 19.—The weather
crop bulletin for the week ending May
17 says: The weather during the past
week in the northwest, including the
states of the Missouri and upper Missis-
sippi valleys and upper lake region, was
generally unfavorable for growing crops
owing to low temperature, which was
accompanied by frosts, causing some in-
jury to fruit and retarding growth of
Crops.
Drought continues over portions of
Minnesota and North Dakota where-
high wi: d: have rendered some replant-
ing necessary. More rain is needed in
Nebraska and Kansas while the exces-
sive rainfall in the states of the Ohio
valley, attended by cold weather, has re-
tarded farm work, the ground being too
wet for planting.
In the South Atlantic states condi-
tions are more favorable, and cotton,
corn and potatoes are reported as very
good. Although planting has been de-
layed by rains in New England and the
middle Atlantic states, the crop and
fruit conditions are reported as favor-
able and the grass and grain excellent,
The weather conditions were fayor-
able on the Pacific coast and crops were
improved, but a continuation of dry
weather in Oregon will result in some
injury to the grain crops.
Eighty Miles an Hour.
The Fastest Time on Record on the Sun-
bury Division.
One of the strangest things that ever
happened on arailroud occurred on Wed-
nesday afternoon during a storm on the
Sunbury division of the Pennsylvania
railroad near Creasy. Engineer George
Rose was bringing down the Wilkes-
Barre passenger train to Sunbury with
No. 278, two passenger coaches and a
baggage car. After leaving Creasy for
Nescopeck the lowering clouds and
black sky indicated the coming storm.
The train came along at the rate of thir-
ty-five miles 2n hour, when suddenly
the storm burst upon it with terrible fu-
ry. Itcame sweeping down the riverin
the same direction the train was going.
Suddenly Mr. Rose discovered that the
speed of the train was being increased to
an alarming extent by the wind. The
engine rushed along like mad, while the
cars rocked and rolled as if they would
leave the track. Away dashed the en-
gine, not prope led by the steam but by
the great wind. Mr. Abercrombie, the
engineer of the Sunbury division, who
was a passenger, stated thatit was the
first time that he ever had any fear of
the railroad, but to see the telegraph
poles dispersing so fast that they could
not be counted indicated a great speed,
possibly reaching eighty miles an hour.
The engineer seeing the danger shut off
the engine, but sway flew the train just
as fast. Then the air brake was applied
at full force, but although every wheel
slipped over the wet track away they
dashed. The engine was then reversed
and the wheels turned backward at a
bigh rate of speed when slowly the train
first slackened and then stopped as tle
storm passed it in its mad race down the
river. “It is theonly case of the kind
on record.’ said a prominent railroad
man, “where the air brakes failed to
stop a train propelled by the wind.”—
Shamokin Dispatch.
A Ghastly Awakening.
Horrible Discovery of a Pittsbnrg Ho-
tel Guest.
PrrrssURG, May 19. — Yesterday
morning, about 3 o'clock, J. W. Wag-
ooner, a guest of Boley’s hotel, on the
Diamond, was awakened from his slum-
bers by something that seemed like a
tapping at his window, He got up in
bed and peered out in the night, and was
thrilled ‘with horror to find the white
face of a corpse. The body was hang-
ing from the window of un adjoining
room, and the Wind swaying it about
made the noise as it brought the body
over to Waggoner’s window.
The eves were open and the hands
were closed together. As soon as Wag-
ooner could recover from the great
shock he alarmed the household. The
body prove to be that of John Smith,
an oil driller. He had retired for the
night and on reaching his room had tak-
en the chain used as a fire-escape, wrap-
ped it twice around his neck and swurg
out of the window, where he hung un-
til he was strangled to death. Ife was
a man of powerfvl build, being six feet
four inches in height.
He has a number of acquaintances in
this city, who know his history. About
thirteen years ago, when the cil excite-
ment was high about Clarion county,
Smith was living at Ebensburg.
murder was committed, in which Smith
was implicated with a man named
Rowls, and another named Brooks was
killed. Then Smith turned State's evi-
dence and got clear, but he was from
that time on known in the oil country
as “Murdering John Smith.” To be
called by this name preyed upon his
minded and led to his suicide.