Terns 82.00 4 Year, in Advanée.
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Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 12, 1890
P. GRAY MEER, - - - Eprmor’
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STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET,
For Governor,
ROBERT E. PATTISON,
Of Philadelphia.
For Lieutenant Governor,
CHAUNCEY F. BLACK,
Of York County. i
For Secretary of Internal Affaira,
WM. H. BARCLAY,
Of Pittsburgh.
For CoNGRESS.
J. L. SPANGLER, Esq.
Subject to action of District Conference.
For SENATOR.
P. GRAY MEEK.
Subject to action of District Conference.
Representatives FON NCORMICE.
Sheriff —WILLIAM A. 1SHLER.
Treasurer —~JAMES J. GRAMLEY.
Register—~JOHN A. RUPP.
Recorder—W. GAYLOR MORRISON.
Commissioners. { oe EN OODART !
“Auditors. jon B. MiTCHELL,
In the Interest of Their Party.
The array of Independent Republi-
cans of Philadelphia who have de-
clared against a contiauance of the
Quay supremacy, was led early in
the campaign by such distinguished
members of the party as Wiarrox
Barker, RuboLpn BLANKENBURG and
Henry C. Lea, and is being rapidly
recruited by the accession of other
Philadelphia Republicans of equal dis-
tinction, as the conflict with boss dom-
ination progresses. During the past
week such eminent Philadelphians, of
the Republican persuasion,as Justus
C. SrrawsrmeE, Jorr J. Bary and
Fraveis B. Reeves have declared
their intention to assist in reforming
the politics and government of the
State by the defeat of the candidate
for governor whom the reckless arro-
gance of a disreputable leader has im-
posed upon their party.
These Republicans, of the highest
personal character, have expressed
their determination to support RoBerT
E. Parrisox. They take this step not
in the interest of the Democratic party,
but rather for the benefit of their own,
which they know must be rescued from
the clutches of bossism if its existence
is to be maintained. All of them were
of the Committee of One Huadred
which in the past grappled successfully
with the assumptions of arrogant and
corrupt leadership, and are again ready
to do their party, as well as their State,
a service in giving that leadership a
final overthrow.
—
Respect for Public Honesty,
The editor of the Republican Pitts-
burg Dispatch, among the other reasons
‘he gives for supportiny Parrison, says
that it is necessary for “the preserva-
tion of a dec nt respect for public hon-
esty.”
A more urgent requirement of this
contest could not be given. The re-
spect for public honesty is challenged
When a man who is charged with be-
ing a treasury thief, and does not deny
the charge, assumes the right and ex-
ercises the power of selecting the can-
didate whom the dominant political
party shall elect governor of the State.
In Quav’s entire public career, in all
his political methods, and in the ends he
has accomplished, there has been dis-
played a contempt for public honesty
that offends the decent sentiment of
every honest and intelligent citizen.
This contempt is presented in a still
more offensive light when the conven-
tion of his party specifically endorses
this reprehensible character and asks
the people also to endorse him by elect
ing his candidate for Governor.
—
The Maine Election.
It was reasonable to expect that the
Republicans would carry Maine this
year, and that Speaker Reep would be
re-elected. The result in that state
was almost a matter of life or death to
the desperate politicians who ae car-
rying on the government with such a
high hand. Even aslight reduction
in the majority in Reep and Brarvg's
state would have been looked upon in
thelight of a rebuke to the men who
have brought congress under the heel
of despotic power and want to resort to
force in controlling the elections,
Therefore every means was employed
to maintain their majority. They had
to do it, and they had the appliances
for doing it. Their money resources
were abundant, and its lavish use in a
state where long practiced corruption
has made a large proportion of the
be evolved than a Republican victory ?
REED was elected by an increased
majority. This was natural. Tt was
the logical result of the free use of mon-
ey, the employment of the Kittery na-
vy yard for election purposes, and the
desfranchisement of a large number of
naturalized Democratic: voters. The
despotic course of the Speaker had to
he endorsed and there were no scruples
standing in the way.
It is easier to manage a small state
like Maine with the usual appliances
of corrupt politics than a big state like
Pennsylvania when its vast voting pop-
ulation rise up in rebellion against the
continued control of a political sharper
and self-confessed criminal.
Worthless Promises.
Quay’s candidate for Governor,
driven to desperation by the tide of
opposition which he sees rising all
around him, is making promises which
are intended to deceive. The emergen-
cy requires him to work this deception
off or the farmers who are justly dis-
satisfied with the opposition to the re-
duction of the taxes on land which has
been the policy of the Republican
leaders,
Last week the Boss's man made a
speech to a farmers’ meeting in Mont-
gomery county before which he had
the effrontery to say: “We pledge
* ourselves to increase, if necessary, the
tax on carporations, and to pay back
“to the counties for school purposes
“sufficient, to reduce the burden from
“ that source.”
If there existed a sense of humor
among the farmers who heard this
speech it must have been with difficul-
ty that they refrained from laughing
when they heard the agent of the
Standard Oil Company make such a
promise. If they had watched the
course of DrrLiMATER in the Senate
they knew that on the question of the
equalization of taxes as between the
corporations and the land-owners he
was on the side of the corporations,
and they had sagacity enough to know
that this sudden friendship for the ag-
ricultural interest was entirely due to
in great need of the farmers’ votes. In
his political distress he is ready to
promise anything, and the farmers will
take his promises for just what they are
worth.
————
——When the workmen of one of
the big coke companies was on a strike
some years ago because they were not
getting living wages, and there were
indications of a collision, the employers
applied to Governor Parrisox for mil-
itary assistance. Instead of forward-
ing a regiment of soldiers to uphold
the coke syndicate in their imposition
upon the working men, he telegraphed
to them that they should pay their
people decent wages and there would
be no strike. Under similar circum-
stances what would likely be the
answer of an agent of the Standard
Oil Company if he were Governor ?
TSA IA
Blind Organs.
The Republican majority in Ver-
mont,which at last year’s election was
28,000, got down this year to 12,692.
Various excuses for this reduction are
given by our ingenious Repablican
contemporaries. It is an off year, they
say, but certainly it is not more “off”
than last year. One attempts to ex-
plain it by saying that it was brought
about by the Senate's shilly-shallying
with the Force Bill and the Tariff Bill ;
through promptly it would have infus-
ed life and enthusiasm into the Green
Mountain Republicans, who otherwise
were dispirited and disgusted, many of
them in consequence staying away from
the polls. It is astonishing how the
average Republican organ is incapable
of comprehending the influences that
are affecting the public mind, They
are unable to see why the American
people should object to force in the
control of the elections and favoritism
in the operation of the tariff laws. It
doesn’t strike them that such party
policies are offensive even to members
of their own party
——
—A prominent Pittsburg Repub-
lican is authority for the statement
that “there is a large amount of
bank at Meadville.” It has all along
been known that his pecuniary obliga-
tion to the Meadville banker and mil-
lionaire was one of the reasons why the
Boss insisted upon DELAMATER'S nomi-
nation. It remains to be seen whether
the people will consent to allow the
governorship of the state to be used to
accommodate Quay’'s pecuniary ne-
cessities.
ER EE MET LT rn
—The force put in the Kittery navy
voters purchasable, had its effect. The
votes were needed and there was plenty
of the stuff with which to get them,
yard to help re-elect Rex, carried out
the principle of the bayonet bill without
the use of the bayonet,
viewed in the light of his past record |
accomplished after claiming to have freed
the fact that candidate DELAMATER is
“that if those measures had been put
Quay’s paper in DELAMATER's private |
ES SRS EEE ET sx
| From such conditions what else could
Clalms Made for Political Effect.
The ‘Republican hasn't a very high
opinion of the intelligence of its read-
Jers when it attempts to defend the
Republican ejunty management during |
the last three years. It speaks of a
reduction of taxation from 3 mills to 2
mills, as it that reduction was not a
sham—a transparent political dodge
which can be seen through by any one
having the most ordinary discernment.
With reckless disregard for the event-
ual payment of necessary expenses and
debts which must follow incompetent
management, the Republican Com-
missiorers assume to have made a
reduction in the millage, trusting that
the election will be over and the Com-
missioners’ office again put under Re-
publican control before the result of
such financiering is shown in an in-
crease of the county deht, which is
bound to follow.
The Republican is slightly previous
in announcing the grand results which
financiers Hinpersox and Deck ER have
the tax-payers of one third their taxes:
It says they have paid upwards of ten
thousand dollars extra expense for mur-
der trials, almost twenty thousand dol-
lars for new bridges, six thousand dol-
lars indebtedness left over by the Demo-
crats, and have almost as large a sar-
plus on hand as was in the treasury
when they came into office. Wouldn't
it be better to have the Auditors’ ac-
count before believing this statement?
All these great payments must have
taken place since the last report. The
people would prefer seeing the next
report before they will be ready to
beliéve that Hexperson and Decker
performed the great financiering feat of
paying thousands of dollars for mur-
der trials and bridge building, and
leaving as big a surplus in the treasury
as they found there when the Demo-
crats went out. Isn’t it remarkable
that during their first two years, with-
out any extra expenses, they exhausted
the available surplus, but in the last
year, with all these extraordinary out-
lays and a reduced rate of taxation,
they have crammed the treasury full
of surplus? Big business that, for
one year! But these claims are about
as substantial as the claim that there
has been any real reduction in taxation,
As they are made before the next
Auditors’ report can contradict them,
they will do for an electioneering
dodge.
terme
A Constitutional Question.
“Kentucky is about to tackle the
task of improving her constitution.
Ifshe cannot succeed in so easy a task
it will simply be because Kentucky is
the most awkward bungler in the sis-
terhood of States.”
This remark is made by the person
who gets off the smart things for the
Philadelphia Press. We would ad-
vise him, however, not to be too caustic
in epeaking of Kentucky's intended
effort to improve her constitution. It
would be well enough for him to re-
member that Pennsylvania tackled a
similar task some sixteen years ago,
I and that the neglect to enforce the pro-
visions of her new constitution relating
to railroads and other corporations has
been caused by something worse than
“awkward bangling.”
It is hardly possible that Kentucky
will allow her political bosses to com-
bine with her corporations in treating
her new constitution as a dead let.
ter. Kentucky is a Democratic state.
——
The Opening.
Garman’s Beautiful Opera House
Opened by Mr. Frank Mayo and
fas Superb Company.
Ever since the burning of the old
Reyn:1d’s Opera House Bellefonters
have been realizing how true the trite
saying is that “we never miss a good
thing until it is gone.” Here we have
been, with a growing population of al-
most six thousand, without a house in
which amusements could be given, for
six years. The thing was talked of by
every person who came to our city.
Our citizens regretted the loss of the old,
but were afraid to investin a new one,
All were alike timid in undertaking a
work which they thought would be a
failure until Mr. Daniel Garman took
the thing in hand and concluded to
push Bellefonte to the front of the many
smaller places which have been boast-
ing a fine play house for years. When
it was reported on our streets that he
intended building, every one discredited
if, but even before some could realize
that it was true, the ground was broken
and the buildicg erected. It has now
been opened and stands as a model of
beauty unsurpassed by anything in cen-
tral Pennsylvania. The building occu-
pies the rear of Mr Garman’s hotel lot
and the entrance is throuch the east
wing of the hotel. Upon entering the
house from High street all that one can
see is a part of the drop curtain, but on
reaching the lobby, which is separated
from the auditoriura by heavy plush
draperies of an olise shade, the whole
lower floor is seen. Furnished in cher-
ry, with the side walls of terra cotta, it
certainly presents a handsome appear-
ance. Going through the lobby and
down the middle aisle until the pit is
reached, takes but a moment, and there
the full beauty of the house meets the eye.
The colors of the ceiling, the proscenium
arch and the galleries all blend har-
moniously to make a most pleasing ef-
fect. From the large bell dome a fla
light of ten electric lamps throws a bril-
liancy over all, while side chandeliers,
with glittering pendants, increase the
brightness with their mellow light.
‘We go down until the orchestra is seen.
In its circle everything is complete. A
unique bronze railing with plush hang-
ings marks its limit. Turning around
there, we look back over the eight hun-
dred folding opera chairs and admire the
beauty of the place, and it is not until
one stands here that he gets the full ef-
fect of all the coloration, and of the
complete equipment of the house.
On the stage we sce a perfect maze of
scenery and flies, and looking up into
the loft a perfect net-work of ropes and
wire suggests how the large drop scenes
are handled. Bencath the stage are six
large dressing rooms, thoroughly lighted
and ventilated,and with a complete lav-
atory. The stage is large enough,
(35x40), for the accommodation of any
troupe on the road, and its conve-
nience is enhanced by several traps and
moveable slides for scenery.
On the whole,the new Cpera House is
about as near perfect as it can be made.
With steam heat, electric light, gas,
perfect ventilation, comfortable seating
and an arrangment by which every
chair in the gallery, as well as those of
the lower floor, commands a good view
of the stage, it is patterned for the con-
venience of the public and no pains have
been spared to make it complete in
every appointment.
Shortly after eight o’clock the Opera
House orchestra, under the direction of
Mr. Chas. Nau, rendered a beautiful
overture, after which Col J. S. Sp ang-
ler stepped out on the stage to make the
inaugural address. The Col’s. speech
was brief but pithy, and he opened his
remarks by expressing his great pleasure
in being called upon to talk on such an
occasion. He then praised the public
spirit which prompted Mr. Garman to
build the house, for it ‘could not have
been made as a mercenary venture, be-
cause as such he had no assurance from
either personal experience, or the ex-
perience of others, thatit would be a
paying investment. The excellent acous-
tic properties of the place were next
touched upon. Mr. Spangler was partic-
ularly pleased with this property of the
room, even going so far as to say that
they were as good as those of the court
House,and that the court House was the
best room he ever spoke in. He con-
cluded by making a little resume in the
history of the tragedy and drama, after
which he congratulated the people of
our city on having such a handsome
place to which they could go and spend
a couple of pleasant hours. He said
“long after we are all gone this beauti-
ful edifice will stand here, a source of
pleasure to our posterity and a beaut ifui
monument to its builder.” The orches-
tra played another choice selection and
the curtain was drawn for the beginning
of the first play in our new Opera House.
The audience was friendly from the
first, and as the exciting situation of the
play unfolded, grew into enthusiasm.
“Nordeck” is a strong acting play and
is sure of considerable success, which it
wins by its deserts. Indeed it might al-
most be called the idzal romance melo-
drama, so many of the excellencies of
the melo-drama does - it attain without
sacrificing purity and elevation of tone,
1 and without violating the personality
of its character. It is founded on War-
ner’s novel, “Vinita.” % *% Tt ig a
pleasure to see Frank Mayo in a part
that calls for the grace, elegance and
power of which he is capable. These
are abundantly brought out in Nordeck
and so framed as to be seen to the best
advantage. No better foils could have
been provided to show the strength that
lies in the perfect simplicity and natur-
alness of Mayo’s acting—that ait which
conceals art, to quote a much abused
but for once appropriate phrase—than
the vociferous vigor of Mr, Taylor's
Witlod and the theatrical effectiveness of
Miss Ficher’s Prineess Zuiliski. Both
were right in their places, and appro-
priate to the characters the actors were
portraying. When the curtain went
down on the last scene the people were
loath to leave the hou e, so well enter-
tained had they been and the opening
was pronounced by all to be a decided
success. Mr. Garman can teel proud of
his success and we believe that the peo-
ple of Beilefonte will appreciate = his
efforts to give them an Opera House to
which they can all pot with pride.
FALLS THROUGH A BRIDGE. —Somes
time on Tuesday afternoon Mp. I. (,
Hicklen, of Mt. Eagle, the track fore-
man on that section of the Bald Eagle
Valley Railroad, fell through the bride
at Curtin. He was found by the crew
f the local freiocht train which was
shifting at that point, and taken to his
home in an unconscious condition. It
was first supposed that he had been
struck by a passing engine, but it is
believed now tha! he slipped and fell
through. His injuries, though seribusgy
are not fatal.
ES PE Bo
-—The Gazette plays the baby in re:
gard to the $000 charge it made agains
Mr. Ismter, by saying that it did
not originate the story but that it came
from Democrats. This shuffling won't
do. Whe were the Democrat: who
communicated it to the Gazette man?
Unless the proof is produced the public
will be convinced that the charge is a
lie and that it originated in the Gazetie
office. FiepLEr must give his proof or
be gibbeted as a falsifier,
Why Pattison ?
A Republican’s Reasons for Supporting
the Democratic Candidate for
Governor,
The Pittsburg Disparch, the leading
Republican newspaper of Western
Pennsylvania, is supporting the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor as against
the regular Republican nominee, Sena-
tor Delamater. I'he editor of the Dis-
patch was asked to tell the readers of the
Buffalo Ezpress why Republicans
should vote for the support Pattison. He
has kindly consented to do so. His inter-
esting letter which follows, speaks for
itself :
Editor Buffalo Ezpress: In reply
to your request for the reasons why Re-
publicans should vote for Pattison in
the coming campaign I would say :
Because the maintenance of the supre-
macy of law over the great corporations
of the State, and the preservation of a
decent respect for public honesty, are
more important thau any of the ‘usual
political issues defined by the party lines.
It is difficult to see how the issues
whether the Constitution and Courts
shall be supreme over the great corpora-
tions can be more clearly raised than in
the present campaign. As the late
Judge J. S. Black said in his letter to
the New York Chamber of Commerce
in 1880, the seventeenth section of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania contained
a series of provisions which, if enforced,
would be amply sufficient to regulate
the railroad corporations in accordance
with the public interest. “But,” said
the Judge, “the railway men and their
advocates have managed to impress the
Legislature with the idea that they are
above the Constitution.” It is an abso-
lute fact that every constitutional re-
straint upon the great corporations of
Pennsylvania is a dead letter, through
the lack of enforcement.
The public is now confronted with
the fact that, though Governor Pattison,
in his former term, secured from the
Courts an injunction forbidding the
greatest corporation of the State to car-
ry out a compact with corporate mag-
nates of other States to buy up and stran-
glea new railway line through thesouth-
ern part of the State, in violation of the
Constitution, it has taken four years of
Republican administration to reach the
point where it is openly announced that
the Pennsylvania Company has done
exactly wii it was forbidden to do by
both the general prohibition of the Con-
stitution and the specific injunction of
the Couris. Governor Pattison has the
creditable record of the one Governor of
the State who tried to make its great
corporations respeet the fundamental
law. © Whatever answers may be made
to other charges against Senator Dela-
mater, it will not be disputed that his
legislative career was that of a friend of
the corporations; that his wealth has
been largely gained by corporate favors,
and that his especial and prominent
work as Senator was the champion of
the Standard Oil Company in defeating
legislation intended to regulate its mon-
opoly of pipe-line transposition. It is
not easy to sec how any man who be-
lieves that the corporations should be
subordinate to the laws and obedient to
the Courts can fail to cast his vote for a
representative of public interests rather
than for the champion of corporate mon-
opoly.
The issue of personal integrity in the
character of our pullic men is not less
prominent. Charges affecting the legis-
lative character of the Republican nom-
inée have been made in the most specific
manner by persons and newspapers pe-
cuniarily responsible. These charges
embrace the betrayal of public interest
in legislative action, and specify the
amount of money alleged to have been
distributed by the Republican candidate
to induce legislators to vote in the in-
terest of the Standard Oil Company. I
have no personal knowledge of the
truth or falsity of these assertions ; but
What everyone knows is that the one
course possible for an honest man under
such circumstances has not been taken
by this candidate. He has been urged
to meet these assertions by papers sup-
porting him ; he has been defied to do
so by those accusing him of corruption y
but up to the present time he has
made no sign in answer to the spec-
ific allegations that he purchased his
election to the State Senate, and that
as a Senator he superiatended the dis-
terest of the Standard Oil Company.
It is a cogent fact in connection with
this attitude of the Republican nominee
that the course to a vindication of his
character, if the charges are false, is
plain and easy. If these charges are
criminal slander the laws of Pennsylva-
nia provide prompt and exemplary pun-
ishment. If Senator Delamater should
bring his accusers before the Courts,
either in civil or eriminal suits, the bur-
den of proof would be wholly on them.
A failure on their part to prove the di-
rect charges they have made would vin-
jeet them to defeat and punishment.
Yet with all this in his favor, and with
the challenge of his accusers paraded in
the press, the candidate of the Republi-
can party has deliberately maintained
the attitude that he will not defend his
own reputation for honesty or confate
his accusers.
With a choice between a man whose
reputation has never been assailed, and
whose tormer administration was the
cleanest the State has ever known, and
one whose reputation (to put it in a
mild form) is assailed without either re-
sponse or denial, a vote for the Repab-
lican nominee in Pennsylvania is prac-
tically a vote that purity in public affairs
is not worth defending and a reputation
tor honesty a valueless abstraction.
EDITOR “DISPATCH.”
Pittsburg, Pa., August 9.
tribution of a corruption fund in the in- |
dicate the Republican nominee and sub- |
TP Aes Se THE ITERIEIOYR
Final Preparation.
All Arrangements Completed for the
P.of H. Picnic Next Week.
By Saturday, the 13th instant, the
preparations will be about completed
for the 18th annual picnic and exhibi-
tion of the Patrons of Husbandry of
Central Pennsylvania to .be held in
Grange Park at Centre Hall, on the
line of the Lewisburg and Tyrone Raijl-
road, during the week of the 15th to the
20th of September.
Mr. John Dauberman, superintend-
ent of Improvements, has done his
work well. The buildings are nest and
attrartive. Capt. G. M. Boal, superin-
tendent of Camp, will have the camp
pleasantly arranged with all the conve-
niences to make it comfortable for the
people. Mr. George Dale, superintend-
ent of Exhibitions, has his plans for the
grounds: completed so that exhibitors
will be able to show their machinery to
the best advantage. Mr. George Gin-
gerich, superintendent of Live Stock
Department, has comfortable and spa-
cious stabling ready for the exhibition
of horses, cattle and other live stock.
He also has charge of the Commissary
Department, which is thorough, Mr. J,
J.Arney, superintendent of amusements
and other satler privileges, will have a
grand treat for the people—musie, fire
works, show, boarding houses and every
thing necessary to make camp pleasant.
The committee has labored incessant-
ly for weeks to make the grounds satis-
factory and pleasant to the people.
Everyone will be greatly pleased and we
feel sure that an appreciative public
will liberally patronize the picnic and
exhibition by camping there during
part or all the week and attending en
masse.
The Programme for the week will be
as follows .
MONDAY.
Going to camp and getting exhi bits
in their proper places.
TUESDAY.
At 2 p. m., opening ceremonies in
the large auditorium tent. The trans-
fering of the entire completed exhibiti-
on to the County Grange by the chair-
man, Hon, Leonard Rhone. An &d-
dress of acceptance by Hon. I. S. Frain
master of the County Grange. Address
by Col James F. Weaver, Lecturer for
the County Grange. Address, by Mr.
R. A. Downing, of Chester county.
VEDNESEAY ;
At 2 a. m., Dedication of grounds
and buildings, which will take place in
the auditorium and be in charge of Col.
R. H. Thomas, secretary of Penna. State
Grange, followed by an address by Mr.
Benninger, of Northampton county.
At 2p. m., address by his excellency,
Gov. Luce, of Michigan. Address by
General D. H. Hastings and J. F. Hall,
the latter mast: r of the Connecticut Sta'e
Grange. In the evening there will be a
musical and literary entertainment by a
local glee club and recitations by Miss
Emma Brewer, of Delaware county, Miss
Mary Rhone and others.
THURSDAY :
At 10 a. m,, address by ‘Col. J. H,
Brigham, of Ohio, master of the Nation-
al Grange, and Senator Brown of York
county, lecturer for the Penna. State
Grange. At 2p. m., address by Hon.
Mortimer Whitehead, of New “Jersey,
lecturer for the National Grange, and
others.
By of Breworks in charge of John Sour-
ck, of Bellefonte. At 8.30, musical
and literary entertainment.
FRIDAY :
At10 p. m., and at 2 p. m., addresses
in the auditorium. The speakers will
be annouuced in the Camp daily dur-
ing the week.
We will consider it a great honor if
those in attendance will do us the honor
to attend the meetings in the Auditor-
ium, especially the Dedication ceremon-
ies, as all the meetings will be public.
We will not detain you at any time
more than one half hour.
Admission free and all are cordially
invited. LEeoNARD RHoNE, Chairman,
Centre Hall, Pa.
Two Men Shot Down in an Ohio Court.
HAMERSVILLE, O. September 9.—A
terrible tragedy occurred here last even-
irg during the trial of George Barngrov-
er vs. Jos. Hiler, before ‘Squire Vanda-
ment. A Mr. Hiler died some months
ago, leaving a will in which he devised
most of his property to his two sons and
two daughters, to the exclusion of other
children. There has been talk of con-
testing the will, and much bitterness has
been manifested. This was a case for
damages under an alleged breach of
contract between Joseph Hiler and Mr.
Barngrover, who was one of the sons-in-
law of Mr. Hiler.
During the trial Constable I. N. Al-
len, another son-in-law, stepped to the
door, when a pistol shot was heard.
Allen came staggering into the room
and fell across “a chair, exclaiming :
| “John Hiller did it.” Before the torri-
| fied spectators could realize what had
| happened the murderer was seen stand-
| ing in the middle of the crowded court
! room and fired a second shot, ‘which took
j effect in the right breast of George Barn-
| grover, passing entirely through his
body.
The excitement was indescribable, the
court room being crowded with men
i and women. As Hiler rushed from the
court room into the darkness he was
| heard to remark: “I have loads for two
{ more men.” It is understood that he
! meant by the remark John Hiler, jr
cousin to the murderer and an important
witness in the case, and Attorney W. F.
| McBeth, who has charge of the "case for
the plaintiff. The town is aroused and
searching for the murderer, who is still
I at large.
Shame on the Men.
A Chicago reporter was horrified the
| other day, during the strike among the
| brickmakers of the city, to find some
! women making brick on Ashland ave-
nue, above Diversey avenue. He told
of his thrilling ®liscovery to some brick-
I makers at another point.
| “Bah!” sail they “that’s nothing.
If you will take the trouble to look
“around, especially in the yards out Le-
yond Western avenue, you will see hun-
dreds of women and children doing the
‘same thing every day. They get 12
cents a thousand bricks for "hacking.
You will probably find their men folk
at home rushing the growler or at some
saloon drinking beer, talking strike and
damning the country.”
In the evening at 6.40, a dis- °