Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., May 15, 1891.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EpIiTor
Perverted by Amendments.
The Prohibition party has received
but small consideration from the manip-
ulators of the Baker ballot bill. The
conspirators who have sent in the
amendments to the Senate have so ar-
ranged it that if it shuld pass as
amended the Prohibitionists would
have no chance of a hearing at the |
polls. It provides that no organiza:
tion shall have the names of its can-
didates placed on the official ballot un-
less it polled a certain percentage of
the total vote at the previous election,
and, as none but official ballots could
be voted, parties of small numerical
strength, such as the Prohibition and
the Labor parties, would be disfran-
chised. The special object of this is
to prevent Prohibitionists from break-
away from the Republican ranks. It
is a tyranical design to preserve intact
the Republican majority in the State.
With such amendments, perverting
the original object of the bill, it had
better be dropped, for so amended the
measure is a perfect monstrosity and is
infinitely worse in its features than
the present system of voting. We
trust, however, that there is a sufficien-
cy of honorable men in the Senate to
be able to rectify the bill and make it
a worthy measure of ballot reform.
Let it be recommitted, the objection-
able amendments struck off, and the
wise amendments advocated by Secre-
tary BINNEY, of the Pennsylvania Bal-
lot Reform Association, incorporated
in the bill. The action of the Senate
Elections Committee is, however, not
in the least bit surprising. The Re
publican bosses are unwilling that any
measure of electoral reform shall pass
and they have made the Baker bill ob-
jectionable, preparatory to its being re-
jected. The people, however, are
watching the proceedings closely, and
they will have something to say about
it hereafter.
S———— ———
‘Well Done.
The State administration, so far as
it has legal power and constitutional
authority, ie treating the labor distur-
bance in the coke region with energy,
intelligence and courage. This was
exemplified last Saturday. A com-
plaint was made to the Governor that
workmen were compelled to sleep in
the mines and were denied the necessa-
ries of life. If this were true it would
be an outrage that should require the
interference of the authorities, and
therefore the Governor sent Adjutant
General McCLELLLAN to the scene of
the alleged wrong to make an investi-
gation,
The Adjutant General, upon arriving
at the point from which the complaint
emanated, went into the mines and
made personal examination and in-
quiry. After five hours of under
ground investigation he came away
thoroughly convinced that there had
been a misrepresentation, and he had
an admission from the party who had
made the complaint that he had been
mistaken. If the charge had proved
to be true we have no doubt that the
Governor would have adopted energet-
ic measures to correct the wrong.
This is the right way to treat such
cases. The people, whether laborers
or proprietors, are entitled to their
rights, and no effort shou'd be spared
to aseertain whether their relative
rights are respected and protected. In
taking bold of this question as was
done on Saturday, full justice to both
interests was guaranteed. General Mec.
CreLLax did more in this instance to
restore tranquility in the coke region
than the Pinkertons could do in a
year. :
Increase in the Cost of Living.
The New York Evening Post has
made a careful and exact calculation
by which it is shown that the average
increase in the cost of living during
the past fourteen months is about fif-
teen per cent. This includes the sev-
en months in which the McKinley tar-
iff has been operating. There has
been a reduction in the price of sugar,
but this has been more than counter-
balanced by the increase in the price
of meats, flour, flsh, potatoes, coffee,
butier and other necessary articles.
For the past fifteen years the prices of
necessaries had a tendency to decrease,
but this has been reversed by the new
tariff. While the wages are going down
the cost of living is going up, a circum-
stance under which workingmen will
hardly agree that the McKinley tariff
benefits them.
——Read the WaTcHMAN for polities]
and general news.
The Slaughter of Ballot Reform.
The Baker ballot bill appears to be
doomed. The Republican practical
politicians in the Senate having taken
hold of it, it has been so amended that
very little of 1ts original purpose has
been retained. The amendments pro-
posed by Secretary CuarLes C. BINNEY,
of the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform
Association, were rejected, which have
been substituted by others designed to
render the bill ineffectual and obnox-
ious. The bill has been so completely
altered that the gentlemen to whom it is
indebted for its origin, decline to have
further connection with 1t. Among oth-
er amendments the one providing that
the official ballot shall contain only the
tickets of parties polling more than 10
per cent. of the total vote, is particular-
ly objectionable. Its effect would be
to exclude the Prohibition or any inde-
pendent ticket and so lessen the oppor-
tunity or inducement for independent
voters to vote any but the regular par-
ty ticket. The Republican Senators
appear to be completely under the
thumb of Quay, and it will require a
Democratic Legislature to do any thing
effectual foward the reform of our elec-
tion methods. We believe the people
will see this necessity in 1892.
Mr. C. S. Haun, President of
the Farmer's Alliance of Missouri, is
opposed to a third party movement,
believing that the Alliance interest can
best be served with the present party
alignments. He does not favor any
party that opposes free coinage, but
what he insists upon is “the removal
of the present heavy tariff tax from the
necessaries of life which the poor of
our couniry must have.” And he be-
lieves that the tariff issue will be the
most important in the coming Presi-
dential campaign. On that issue the
Democrats and the Alliance people
substantially agree and can act togeth-
er. Upon no 1ssue is there a substan-
tial agreement between the Republi-
cans and the Alliance.
The Amended Bird Law.
The law that prohibits the killing of
wild birds, usually|called insectivorous,
has been amended by the present State
Legislature in a very important partic-
ular. It was passed two years ago, in-
flicting a penalty of from ten to fifty
dollars ne. The money derived from
these fines was directed to be paid in-
to the county treasury. There was
therefore no personal inducement to
make information against the violators
of this law, which in consequence was
practically a dead letter.
A supplethent to this act has been
passed and has been signed by the Gov-
ernor, providing that in every case of
conviction one-half of the fine shall be
paid to the informer and the remain-
der into the county treasury. By this
means it is hoped to secare the proper
enforcement of the law and prevent
the wanton slaughter of birds. Con-
stables and other well-disposed citizens
can make it to their pecuniary advan-
tage to keep a lookout for infractions
of this law.
——Arbor day was celebrated in
New York State on Friday last, and it
is reported that 30,000 trees were plant-
ed by the school children, thus show-
ing a steady increase in the number
for the last three years. Interest in
Arbor Day has been largely stimulated
in New York by the bestowal of prizes
for the best kept school grounds, for
the best essay on the plans for the
most profitable observance of the day,
and for the best collection of bark,
leaves and seed of the maple tree. The
time may yet come when the Legisla-
tures of all the States will see the wis-
dom of passing forestry laws that will
prevent the waste which is laying bare
our most picturesque woodland.
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The Half Holidays,
The bill for the Saturday half-holi-
day has passed the Legislature and is
now in the hands of the Governor. It
is entitled, “An act designating the
days and half days to be observed as
legal holidays.” The full holidays are
New Year's day, Washington’s birth:
day, Good Friday, Decoration day, In-
dependence day, Labor day, Thanks
giving day and Christmas day. The
half-holidays will be the afternoon of
every Saturday from and inclusive of
June 15 until and inclusive of Septem-
ber 15. There is a permissive clause
in the bill for the special accommoda-
tion of banks and their customers,
making it subject to adoption when a
majority of the directors so decide.
This will remove the objection wo the
Saturday half-holiday so strongly urg-
ed in New York. Doubtless, too, there
will be more or less public discretion
exercised as to its observance. Though
it only applies to three months of the
year, from June 15 to September 15, it
certainly will prove a great boon to
employes generally whose employers
cheerfully give them the advantage
of it,
The Tax Bill in the Senate.
The supporters of the Revenue Bill,
known as the Grangers’ Tax Bill, offer-
ed important amendments on Tuesday,
which would exempt from taxation
horses and cattle under the age of one
year, sheep and swine under the age
of one year, wearing apparel, house-
hold furniture, musical instraments un-
der $100 in value, tools, implements,
instruments and books used for pursu-
ing a trade or calling, and the unsold
products of agriculture, gardens or
manufactories at place of production.
Section 21, requiring full lists of
all taxables to be printed and distribut-
ed, was stricken out, and the present
method of giving assessment notices
allowed to stand. The portion of sec
tion ten, containing what 1s known as
“the spy feature,” encouraging com-
plaints, was stricken out. All these
corrections were made at the forenoon
meeting and no objections were pre-
sented.
At the afternoon meeting the oppo-
nents of the bill showed their animosi-
ty very plainly. What is known as
the Boyer bill, which gives, as Sena-
BrowN puts it, “a crumb from the
rich man’s table,” was considered, and
Senator Porter moved its substitution
in place of the bill advocated by the
Grangers. Senator BrowN vigorously
opposed this,but without avail, and the
Boyer bill was accepted by the Senate
Committee in place of the Granger
Bill. What this substitution may
amount to remains to be seen, but it
looks as if the bill, as designed for the
granger interest, is in a precarious situ-
ation.
ET TTL
Should Be Investigated.
The Governor is said to have order-
ed an investigation of the charge that
imported foreign laborers are com pell-
ed to work against their will in the
coke regions. At the same time the
report comes from that district that
the houses from which the strikers
have been evicted are being set fire to.
All such statements should be thor-
oughly and impartially investigated,
and if either act has been committed
the law should apply the prompt reme-
dy. Itseems incredible that in this
country any one can be forced to work
against his will. It ought to be in-
credible that workingmen can be so
lost to every consideration of law and
good sense as to try to support their
cause by incendiarismn.
Nevertheless, when a conflict has
got to the pass where charges are rife
on both sides that law, property and
liberty are set at naught, it is time to
have a thorough investigation. The
parties found guilty, if there are any,
should be given a severe lesson that
the law is supreme.
——The country regrets to learn of
the serious illness of Mr. BraiNg, who,
while on a visit to his daughterin New
York this week, was overtaken with
illness that has assumed a dangerous
appearance. The Secretary, who far-
nishes the larger part of the brains of
this administration, has been doing
much hard work recently and appears
to have broken down under it.
TAS
When Will the Legislature Adjourn ?
The question ot adjournment forces
itself upon the attention of the Legis-
lature, but although the session is ap-
proaching the end of the fifth month,
the time for adjourning has not yet
been determined. There is business
yet unfinished which may keep the
Legislature together until some time
in June. The leading questions that
have occupied the legislative atteation
still remain unseitled, such as ballot
reform, the revenue bill, the apportion-
ment bills, and others of importance.
It is said that the granger element is
determined to prolong the session un-
til tax legislation satisfactory to the
farmers shall be passed, which might
keep the lawmakers at Harrisburg un-
til the middle of June, and then not
effect the object intended. There is a
disposition to adjourn on the 28th of
this month, but it is doubtful whether
it can be carried out.
——The Harrisburg Patriot ot Wed-
nesday, says: After encouraging to
second reading, the House last night
threw out, by indefinite postponement,
the amendment of Senator MEEK to
the Brooks bill limiting the number of
licenses in accordance with the popula-
tion—not more than one license, in
cities, to each seven hundred inhabi-
tants. The purpose of the measure
was to curtail ‘the number of licenses
granted in populous places, and it
should have had fairer treatment from
our legislators. The Brooks bill /is
good as far as it goes, but there are
many more restrictions which should
be imposed upon liquor-sellers than
they are now subjected to. Lisewise
could the number be cut down in most
places,and the Meek bill tended in this
direction. It was unwise for the House
to set it aside.
The Road Bill Vetoed.
On Wednesday Governor PATTISON
sent the Road Bill back to the Legisla-
ture with his veto appended. The bill
as originally intended was designed to
give the State better roads, but it con-
tained so many objectionable features
that we believe the people will sanc-
tion the Governor's negative action in
regard to it. We will publisb the Gov-
ernor's veto message next week.
——With commendable energy the
Williamsport Breakfast Table last Sun-
day came out in a sixteen-page ‘“Indus-
trial}Issue” detailing the numerous im-
provements in the enterprising and pro-
gressive city on the West Branch. The
advantages of the “Lumber City” in
the way of attracting industries are well
illustrated, and justice is done to the
many manufacturing establishments
and the various occupations of Wil-
liamsport. The Breakfast Table is in
fall touch with the growing city in
which it is issued.
Ex-Congressman JaMEs LyNcH
of Wilkesbarre, has been appointed
Law Judge for Luzerne county, by
Governor ParrisoN. There were some
who were uneasy about the Governor
appointing a Republican, but they
were giving themselves unnecessary
trouble.
Peaches Is Safe.
New York Herald.
“Yes, sir,” said an old Pennsylvania
farmer, as he dusted: the frost from his
beard, where it had collected in the
course of a three hours’ ride in the early
morning, ‘you can just bet your boots
on what I say, and that this year
peaches is safe as if they was picked.
«I’ve watched that ’ere fruit this fifty
years, and I reckon I know a thing or
two about the effect of frost on the blos-
soms. It you ketch it on the buds be-
fore they open look out. Like as not
your crop’s a goner. Or if it strikes ’em
when the bud is wet then yeu are sar-
tain to miss your crop. - But once get
‘em wide open an’ dry, like what they
is now, an’ you have got a sure thing of
it. When once the fruit begins to form
it takes, harder teeth than them of frost
to touch it. Tain’t the same with plums
an’ cherries, which’ll blight even after
they blossomed. No, kind sir, peaches
is safe this year, you take an old man’s
word for it. An’ I should say it is
about time,”
Harrison’s Check on Blaine.
WasHINGTON, D. C., May 8.-—The
Harrison people are mysteriously inti-
mating that Harrison has a letter from
Blaine in his possession which will aid
him grestly in his effort to have Blaine
declare that he is not a candidate. This
letter was written by Blaine to Harrison
before the latter came to Washington
in response to Harrison's letter offering
Blaine the Secretaryship of State, and
defining the foreign policy which the
Administration was to follow.
Blaine’s letter, they claim, contained
a statement to the effect that he would
never again be a candidate for the Presi-
dency, or,at the very least, that he
would not be a candidate in 1892. This
letter, which they refer to as the pledge
of loyalty, “is to be published if Blaine
does not declare himself, as Harrison de-
sires, this summer.” Aft present itis to
be kept secret,so that it may be the
more effectively used upon Blaine when
the President has his settlement with
him.
The Government Labor Bureau is a
part of the Department of the Interior.
It was established in 1884. The bead
of it is known as Commissioner of La-
bor, and his pay is $5,000 a year.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
‘WaNTED.—A good horse in exchange
for carriage work. McQuistion & Co.
—— Ifyou are asked for a contribu-
tion to the proposed 4th of July celebra-
tion, don’t hesitate to miake a liberal
one.
——-The buggies purchased from Mec-
Quistion & Co. always give satisfaction.
Long experience and practical work-
men are guarantees of good work.
——-Miss Mary Hunter Linn left on
Friday morning last for an extended
visit, at Ithica, New York.She visits at
Sage cottage on the grounds of Cornell
University.
Frank Peabody Atherton, eldest
son of Dr. Geo. W. Atherton, President
of State College, has composed the mu-
sic for a new farce comedy entitled “‘a
Spring Checken.”
—C. U. Hoffer, Esq., of Philips-
burg, spent Sunday with his wife and
children who are visiting at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Ger-
berich, on Thomas street.
——Keplinger & Co. are removing
their undamaged stock to the Ammer-
man room on Bishop street where they
will stay temporarily until the old room
is repaired for them.
——Mann’s Axe Factory was added
to the already long list of closed manu-
factories, on Monday. A short demand
for the product necessitates a suspension
for several months.
——O0ld Mr. Davis Sellers, one of the
oldest and most respected citizens of
Buffalo Run, died at his home in Mat-
ternville, on Tuesday, the 12th inst.
Deceased was one of the pioneers of the
"valley and had passed his 70th mile-
stone when death overtook him.
——Gregg Post will celebrate mem-
orial day with fitting ceremonies.
A SorrY SPECTACLE.—On Wednes-
day afternoon a party of little boys, be-
tween the ages of 8 and 14, were seen
emptying the stale beer kegs which had
been piled up at the rear of the Bush
House. When they got their cans tull
all went away to drink it and it was not
long until one of the alleys over in the
west end was lined with children too
drunk to stand up. i
——Sam Rine, who presides with
such efficiency at the Water Works, de-
serves great credit for the plentiful sup-
ply of water he kept in the reservoir on
the occasion of the Allegheny street fire
‘Wednesday morning. Mr. Rine is al-
ways equal to such emergencies, and
takes great pride in keeping everything
in the best of order about the spring and
the water house.
Tae KipNarep Gir L.—The Harris:
burg Patriot, of Thursday, has the fol-
lowing to say about the little girl who
was discovered at Philipsburg, this
county, as having been kidnaped by
gypsies :
Little Laura Virginia Davis is still
in the custody of the auchorities at
Philipsburg. The citizens of that
place have taken a deep interest in
this unfortunate child and are doing
everything possible to make her com.
fortable. She has many admirers,
among them Mrs. Rose Pierce, who
came to Harrisburg last evening to in-
vestigate the condition of the Dough-
erty family and ascertain whether the
statements made by Laura are correct.
She made a careful investigation and
is satisfied that the child's story that
she was kidnaped by a band of gypsies
is true.
Last evening Mrs. Pierce visited the
Mayor's office and obtained from May-
or Fritchey a letter to the Philipsburg
authorities asking them to release the
child. If they do this little Laura will
be taken care of by Mrs. Pierce until
she can find a suitable school to send
her to. Mrs. Pierce told a Patriot re-
porter that the gypsies threaten to
burn Philipsburg if the child is not re-
turned to them. Mrs. Pierce has tak-
en an interest in the child because of
it truthfulness and honesty, and declares
she has not made a single statement
that she could not substantiate.
Laura tells a shocking tale of the
cruelty and wickedness of the gypsies.
She says they forced her to beg and
steal, and beat her savagely if she was
unsuccessful. She says they killed a man
at Harrisburg and burned the house to
conceal the crime. She also says they
killed a man some place on the road
and cut him up and buried the mutila-
ted body under a big rock in the woods:
She further says they have stolen sev’
eral other children and havenow alittle
baby which they stole out of the
house.
AN INVESTIGATION NEEDED.—A
number of complaints have been heard
lately about the filth that occasionally
flows out through the water pipes at
different points in town. We have been
trying to learn its cause forsome time
without success, but a visit to the reser-
voir on Wednesday forever dispelled
all doubt as to the origin.
The large basin which is used as a re-
ceiving tank for our water supply is in
a most filthy condition, and it is a won-
der indeed that the water has not be-
come so contaminated as to produce uni-
versal sickness. Over its sides and on
the bottom there is a coating of slimy
green moss to the depth of au least six
inches. In this place frogs, fishing
worms and minute aquatics of all de-
scriptions swarm. Are you surprised
then, when drawing a glass of water at
the faucet in your house, if a fishing
worm comes wriggling out of the pipe
or a frog hops into your glass?
The place is in a fearful condition
and demands the immediate attertion
of the Water Committee. If allowed
to go much longer, with the weather as
| hot as it is, disastrous results may be
looked for.
A CREDITABLE SEAsoN.—On last
Thursday night Manager Al. Garman
closed the theatrical season with the
musical aggregation known as the Noss
Family. Mr. Garman has merited
much praise for his careful and consci-
entious management of his pretty little
play house, and while the season’s run
of shows was not quite up to the stand-
ard, it would have been ~had the house
been opened earlier, so that good book-
ings could have been made. Bellefonte
theatre goers will nevertheless forget
the few ‘fake’ shows that imposed
themselves on the young manager, in
the pleasant memory of hours spent with
Frank Mayo, Marie Greenwood’s Opera
Co., Gorman’s, Fields’ and Vreelard’s
Minstrels, the Kindergarden Company,
Lizzie Evang, and other shows of high
order that held the boards.
On the whole the season was a suc-
cess, and we can assure the public that
this year’s work has been a valuable ex-
perience to the management, which will
aid him very materially in making his
bookings for next season.
A Hiyr For BerLrLeroNTE.—The fol-
lowing item is clipped from the Wil-
liamsport Sun :
«Shamokin isn’t the liveliest town in
the state, but the barbers of that place
have good common sense. It costs
twenty-five cents to get your hair cut in
Shamokin on Saturday, and the men
who go into the shops to get shaved do
not have to wait half an hour longer to
allow some thoughtless fellow time to
have his birsute appendage removed.
Score one for Shamokin.” :
Just so, and let Bellefonte barbers
take the hint and adopt the plan. Salur-
day hair cutting, when everybody is in
a hurry to get shaved, is a nuisance.
“CRANKS, FooLs AND CAMDEN MAR-
RIAGES,”’—Is the subject on which Rev.
I. W. Bagley, the popular Camden, N.
J, Minister and lecturer, will talk in
Pruner’s Arcade, Tyrone, on Thursday
evening, May 28th. In his lecture he
will relate about the eleven hundred
marriage ceremonies he performed in a
little over a year, all of whom were
Pennsylvania people. He will also de-
scribe ar d illustrate the different kinds
of “cranks” and “fools’’ of the present
day. As a lecturer and impersonator
Mr. Bagley has few equals and no Su--
periors on the American stage to-day.
All who go to hear him will be delight-
ed. The press and public everywhere
are loud in their praises of his excellent :
talks.
Tar Assessor oN His RouND.—
There is no way in which the business
condition of a town can be found-out.
just so well as by the assessor’s report.
We dropped into H. H. Harshbarger’s
office on Wednesday afternoon and in a
short talk with that gentleman we found
that sixty and more idle hosues tell
the tale of Bellefonte’s idle indus-
tries. More than thirty-five of
these are located in the North wa rd
while the rest are about equally distri--
buted between the West and South.
These figures do not include the numer-
ous unrented flats and rooms in the va-
rious large buildings ! Something must.
be done to relieve our town of this stag-
nation, What has become of the Build-
ing and Loan Aassociation ? Why don’t
it agitate new manufactories and en-
deavor to interest foreign capital in the
exceptional natural advantages of’
Bellefonte ?
MarrIAGE Licenses.—Issued during.
the past week :
Samuel Loose and Lydia Bierly, both
of Rebersburg. Frank Detrich, of Zion»
and Emma Dugan, of Farmers’ Mills,
Jeremiah Funk and Kate Rothrock,
both of Philipsburg. Irvin Way and
Estella M. Hoover, both of Unionville.
Leander Green and Annie Stuart, both
of Bellefonte. J. A. Weaver and Fan-
nie K. Mowrey, both of Hublersburg.
Geo. Hollabaugh, of Moshannon, and
Ellen Daughenbaugh, of Port Matilda.
Harry Eckenroth, of Unionville, and
Sarah S. Hinton, of Snow Shoe. Mar™
tin Yanoski and Mary Minarick both
of Snow Shoe.
Johnstown, and Laura Mulroys, of
Philipsburg. Andrew Bottomey and
Annie Sacket, both of Snow Shoe. Ira
C. M. Ellenberger and Mary M. Hast-
ings, both of Gatesburg. James W.
Quick and Maggie C. Eye, both of
Moshannon. T. J. Moore, of Howard,
and Mary E. Bartholomew, of Hublers-
burg. Mike Koopost and Annie Patris,
both of Philipsburg. R.C. Leathers,
of Mt. Eagle, and Fannie D. Gardner,
of Howard.
Pine Grove Mentions.
Miss Nancy Oliver, of Greysville, is the
guest of Mrs. A. P. Mitchell. :
"he epidemic of measles which has infested
this section is subsiding.
The late cold snap did very serious damage
to fruit of all kinds in this sectioa.
© Qur young friend, John Reynolds, is dan-
gerously ill with typhoid pneumonia.
Mr, Russell Port, after spending several
years in search of fortune in the west, recent-
ly returned to his parental roof a physical
wreck from rheumatism, scarcely able to go
about.
Owing to the prolonged drouth many of our
farmers are stuck, waiting for rain to plow for
corn, whilst others are anxiously waiting and
watching for the early planting to peep up
through the scorched and dry soil.
The death of Phebe Fisher oceurred at the
home of John Grimes in this township, on the
4th inst., of diabetes, aged 70 years. She had
been unwell for some days, but always able to
go about and attend to the domestic affairs of
the home. Two days previous to her death
she lay down to rest, as the family thought.
When found she was in an insensible condi-
tion from which she never recovered. Her
remains were interred in the M. E. cemetery
at Pine Hall, on the 6th instant. We believe
that one sister survives her, Mrs. John Houtz,
in the western part of the State.
The forest fires are still raging, the sky be-
ing lighted up with fires apparently in every ;
direction. The people who live along the
barrens have suffered more or less. On last
Sunday forenoon, while people were attending |
church, the wind began to blow a terriflc gal
which fanned the sparks, that were thouglt
the night before to to have been smothered,
suddenly into raging flames, which leaped pr
rods over men’s heads who were firing agains
it, and in some instances men had to flee fd
their lives before the flames. The air was fu
of burning missiles, which set fire to hay ar
straw stacksibelonging to John H. Nidigh; al
burning the house and new lumber which v
on the ground for the erection of a new bt
all of which went up in the flames, bes
gaveral hundred panels of fence were dest’
ed for Mr. Nidigh. The barn of D, LL. MF
was saved only by the timely arrival of ne
bors.
Robt. J. McCans, of
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