Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., July 29, 1892.
Epitor
P. GRAY MEEK, -
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Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
ADLAI STEVENSON.
t 1% ‘op ILLINOIS.
State Democratic Ticket.
EOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE.
GEORGE A. ALLEN, Erie,
THOMAS P. MERRITT, Berks.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
CHRISTOPHER HEYDRICK, Venango.
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FOR ELECTORS AT LARGE.
MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, Tioga.
JNO. C. BULLITT, Philadelphia.
THOMAS B. KENNEDY, Franklin,
DAVID T. WATSON, Allegheny,
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS
Samuel G. Thompson, Clem’t R. Wainwright,
Adam 8. Conway, Charles H. Lafferty,
W-. Redwood Wright, George R. Guss,
John O. James, Cornelius W. Bull,
William Nolan, James Duffy,
Charles D. Breck, S. W. Trimmer,
Wm. G. Yuengling, Samuel 8S. Leiby,
Azur LahEop T. C. Hipple, :
Thomas Chalfant, W. D. Himmelreich,
P. H. Strubinger, H. B. Piper,
Joseph D. Orr, Charles A. Tagan,
John D. Braden,
Michael Liebel,
Jamet K. Polk Hall,
Andrew A. Payton,
John A. Mellon
Thomas McDowell,
Democratic County Committee of Cen-
tre County for 1892.
Districts. Committeemen.
Bellefonte: N. W. J. C. Meyer.
" S. W . S. Garmam
* WwW. W. Geo. R. Meek.
Centre Hall Bor James Coldren.
Howard Bor Abe Weber.
Milesburg Bo 4. H. Carr.
Millheim Bor.... Samuel Weiser, Jr
Philipsburg 1st W. ames A. Lukens.
Philipsburg 2nd W . W. Buckingham.
4 3rd W. ‘rank W. Hess.
S. Philipsburg. . B. Wilcox,
Unionviile Bo .E. M. Griest.
Benner....... ee ..B. K. Henderson
Boggs N.P Philip Confer.
HARE, Pues H. Leyman
#aoW. Po. James W, Lucas
Burneide...... William Hipple.
College E.. P. 1. J. Dreese.
ec v- P. N. Krumrine.
Curtin... . J. McCloskey.
Ferguson Daniel Dreibelbis.
Li ¥N.P. ..Frank Bowersox,
Gregg N. P.... ..J. C, Rossman.
“EP... .David Sower.
8 WP... William R. From.
.John J. Orndorf.
C. A. Weaver.
avid J. Gates,
ames W. Swabb.
Haines E. P...
JT IW,
..George B. Stover.
2% B. Kreamer.
ohn J. Arney.
..James B. Spangler.
..James Dumbleton.
John T. Merryman.
Aaron Fahr.
2 ...J. H. MeAuley.
Whe eissurddurentinsiinivases W. H. Williams.
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Should Fulfill Their Promise or Change
Their Policy.
At the time the Sheriff of Allegheny
county was demanding of the Governor
that he send troops to Homestead, the
CARNEIGE company, in whose interests
they were asked, was sending out bul-
etins assuring the public that as soon
as the State would furnish protection
they, would start up their mills with a
fall force of new workmen. Every
day’s bulletins were a repetition of the
story told by the firm, that all they wan.
ted was unmolested possession of their
property and protection for their new
employees, and that an ample supply
of good workmen, stood ready to ac-
cept the positions of their 3,000 locked
out men.
The State furnished that protection,
two weeks ago'last Wednesday. It
has cost the tax-payers $400,000 and is
piling up at the rate of $22,000 per day.
At the end of two weeks, the company
that was attempting to have the public
believe that thousands of workmen
were itching to accept their terms and
the situations offered, report that they
have now 400 men at work—an aver-
ageof 21a day. And these were se
cured -only- after ealling-to-their assist-
ance, every employment ageacy, in the
gountry. © pe
A very little figuring will show that
each man now engaged in the Home-
stead mills, has cost the people over
$1,000 and at the tame ratio of success
for the company, they will be able to
have a full complement of workmen
installed in 142 days from the time the
State Guard furnished them the protec
tion they desired.
At this rate of procedure it will cost
the State, three million, one hundred
and twenty-four thousand dollars, to
complete the undertaking it is now en-
gaged in, and enable the CaRNEGIE
company to show to the world that it
is independent of organized labor, and
is able to do business on any line its of-
ficials may dictate.
Is it not about time that those in
whose hands the welfare of the people,
as well as that of the CARNEGIE compa-
ny, has been placed demand of this
company that it put the men to work
it claims military protection for, or
withdraws its determination not to treat
with organized labor.
In this matter the tax-payers have
rights as well as the Carnecie’s and
their rights should not be overlooked.
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Hopeful Signs.
Word from Philadelphia comes that |
local divisions .and factional fights
among the Democracy there have been
amicably settled and that, for the first
time in many years, the party will go
into the campaign with a united pur
pose and a solid frout.
It is such a new condition of aflairs
toexistin that quarter that we scarcely
know whether to credit the statement
or not.
The fact ho—sver that MCALEER,
who has always been one of
the most inveterate kickers and
disorganizers, has been recogrized by
the regular organizations as entitled to
re-nomination for Congress is evidence
that something has been done, and if
the warring factions there have agreed
to bury the hatchet and use their uni-
ted energies to defeat the common ene-
my, there is no telling what inroads
may be made on the boasted Republi-
can majority 1a Pennsylvania this fall.
With a big portion of the Republic:
an votes of the State opposed to the re-
election of Quay ; with another portion
sour and cross because of CAMERON'S
course in the Senate ; with hundreds of
them kicking because they can’t get in-
to office ; with the entire party, except
its office holders, disgruntled at BLAINE'S
defeat and HarrisoN’s success; with
its tariff promises petering out as they
have done, and laboring men getting
their eyes opened to the deceptions of
the Republican party; with a united
Democracy in Philadelphia and a har-
monious and enthusiastic organization
throughout the State, there is no pre
dictingjust now how small the Repub--
lican majority may be whittled down
to, nor is there any certainty they will
have any majority at all to boast over.
litical clouds seem to be vanishing.
TP ICT
Will Discover Soon Enough.
The Republican papers are trying to
take consolation out of the fact that
Senator HILL was not at the great no-
tification meeting, and that so far he
has made no blow or bluster about
what he is going to do in the pending
campaign. Senator HiLL is not used
to doing his political work with brass
bands, nor has he ever yet shown a
disposition to choose the Republican
press as a mouth-piece, consequently it
is presumed they know less of his in-
tended course than those who have al-
ways stood by him, and who are entire.
ly satisfied with his position as it relates
to the success of his party. If our anx-
ious contemporaries will only “possess
their souls in patience,” they will find
out soon enough exactly where Senator
Hil stands, and it will be a findin’
out that will be neither encouragin’ nor
congolin’ to them.
A ———————
The Homestead War About Over,
Although the differences between the
CARNEGIE company and 1ts employees
seem to be as great as ever, the necess-
ity for a large standing army, to main-
tain the peace, is not apparent, and the
Governor has ordered most of the mili-
tia to be sent home. On Wednesday
the Thirteenth and Fourteenth regi-
ments and Governor's troops broke
camp and left, and on Thursday, Bat-
tery C.. with the Fourth, Ninth and
Twelfth regiments, weré reheved from
duty. To-day, Friday, the Tenth ‘and
Eighteenth regiments go leaving the
Fifth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth regi-
ments and Battery B and the Sheridan
Troops in camp. How long these lat-
ter will remain is not known.
AAMT ITITOTC SET
——Governor MoKiNLEY has doubts
if he can present his tariff views ina
way that will be convincing to & Phila
delphia audience, and is consequently
trying to evade a meeting with Col.
McCLURE, editor of the Times, to dis:
cuss this issue. We don’t wonder at
McKiNLEY's position. If we bad fa-
thered. a youngster that turned out us
much of a “fake” as his tariff did, we
would hesitate a very long while
before undertaking to defend it. In this
matter the great apostle of protection has
a level head, and if his better judgment
prevails all through, Col McCLure
will not be offered the opportunity of
giving him such a “whalin” as he has
never before, experienced. « Gov. Mo
Kincey's discretion is to be admired.
‘——1f you have any preference’ as
to who shall be placed upon the coun-
ty ticket at the coming election, now in
your time to show it. Don’t be too
busy or too lazy to go to the primaries
on Saturday next, and then complain
because your choice of candidates gets
left. Commiende right this fall, by ae-
sisting to make the kind of a ticket you
think will be best and strongest for the
Democratic party.
——The Spanish Inquisition in its
palmiest days, could have learned bru-
talities of two of Pennsylvania's State
Guard officers, that would have made
its punishments, pleasurable pastimes,
in comparison with" that invented by
SrreaTor and approved by SNOWDEN.
Democrats of Pecnsylvania the po- |"
Republican Accounts of Them.
Of Grover CLEVELAND, Hon. CHAUN-
cey Depew, of New York, who was
prominently mentioned for the Vice
Presidency, at Minneapolis, said : “he
is the typical American.”
Of Aprat StevansoN, a Republican
newspaper published at his home,
Bloomington, Iil., says: “Mr, St-ven-
son is a gentleman of unimpeac ale
character, and bis political friend- w.il
have no reason to apologize for lit in
that particular, and of him they may
tell the truth, without shame to them-
selves or scandal to their party.”
What more of endorsement could
two men desire ?
A SS
—— The Mifflin county Democrats
have placed the following excellent
ticket in the field, and are going into
the campaign with a determination of
making the county solidly Democratic
when the returns are gathered in : For
Congress, James M. Goodheart; State
Senate, Dr. V. I. McKim; Assembly,
H. J. Fosnot; Prothonotary, Joseph
Baird; Register and Recorder, S. D.
Coldren ; District Attorney, M. M. Me-
Laughlin ; Poor Director, Joseph M.
Fleming.
——The Philadelphia Press is cer-
tain that the road question is alive na-
tional issue. “Judging from the rough.
ness of the path the ‘Republican
party is encountering in its march un-
der the HARRISON and protection ban-
ner, we don’t wonder that its followers |
are getting awake to the importance .of
such an issue.
PS —————
Frick Shot by an Assassin,
Two Bnllets Fired into Him. and Then Stabbed
PirrrsBURG, Pa., July 23.—A des-
perate attempt was. made this
afternoon to murder H. C. Frick, the
chairman of the Carnegie Steel com-
pany, Limited, and the sole manager
of the great Carnegie steel mills in
Homestead and elsewhere. He was
shot twice in the neck.
The murderous hand was thrown
up on the third shot and the bullet em-
bedded itself in the wall over Mr.
Frick’s head. The would be assissin
then attacked him with a knife and
stabbed him twice in the back before
be was over powered,
He was just on the point of being
shot down for his deed, when Mr.
Frick, who retained consciousness, not-
withstanding his fearful wounds, inter-
ceded for him and saved the life of his
would be assassin,
DYNAMITE IN HIS MOUTH.
Later the man tried to destroy him:
gelf by chewing a fulminate of mercury
cap, such as Anarchist Ling used to
kill himself in the prison at Chicago,
while he was awaiting the execution of
the death sentence. He was discoveret
before he had succeeded in biting into
the cap and his plan of suicide was
frustrated.
THE ASSASSIN’S PLANS.
Last Saturday afternoon a young Rus
sion Hebrew called at the office of the
Carnegie Steel Company and wanted to
gee Mr. Bosworth, whois Mr. Frick’s
private secretary and confidential man.
He was a very ordinary looking person
with all the characteristic features of
the Russian Hebrew, the aquiline nose
the thick negro lips and the deep
brown eyes.
Mr. Bosworth’s office is on the fifth
floor. Going up on the elevator, this
young man confided to the elevator
boy that he was in the city on impor-
tant business connected with the steel
company, and that he hoped Mr. Bos-
worth was in. On the fifth floor he
‘handed 4 card on which was engraved
“Berkman, representing the New York
Employment Agency,” to a boy.
FRICK SHOT DOWN.
The boy, when he tock the card,
started at once for the private office.
He had just placed his hand on the
swinging door and was pushing it open
when the young man stepped inside
the rail. One of the clerks said sharp:
ly: “Wait!” The man paid no at-
tention. In two strides he reached
the door to the private office and
caught it just as it swung back, having
been let go by the boy on the inside.
He pushed it in. He brushed the boy
aside. He tock a step toward the desk
and suddenly drew a revolver. \
At the moment he did so Mr. Frick
looked around and instantly the man
pulled the trigger. There was a sharp
report. Mr. Frick started back and a
stream of blood gushed from his neck.
The man took a step nearer and fired
again. Again Mr. Frick started back
and for a minute he appeared about to
swoon.
‘A FIGHT WITH THE ASSISSIN,
At the first shot Mr. Leishman’ had
leaped to his feet. He was bewildered.
At the second shot he recovered bim-
self. He bounded around ‘the desk;
the man was in the act of pulling the
trigger the third time when the vice
chairman came within reaching dis
tance. He threw up his arm and
caught the man’s wrist and swung it
up and back, the bullet crashing up
into the ceiling back of the man’s head.
Mr. Leishman held the arm with the
pistol with one band while be seized
the man by the throat with the other.
Then began a struggle.
At the second shot blood had spurt
ed from the other side of Mr. Frick’s
neck and it was running down over his
clothing, He recovered from the
shock of his two wounds at the third
shot and got on his feet and fairly threw
himself on the struggling men. : Round
and round the trio wrestled, getting
nearer to the front windows all the
time, Though slight in figure, the as-
sailant seemed possessed of herculean
EY IE PC tA ERR TY
| strength. Twice he nearly arenched |
himself loose. * He was trying hard to
free the hand in which he held the
pistol.
FRICK'S PLUCKY FIGHT.
Once he succeeded and snapped the
trigger. The pistol missed fire. Leish-
man seized the hand again and held it,
Mr. Frick had grasped the man about
the waist, pinioning the other hand.
Now they all three appeared about to
fali. They swayed back aod forth,
Not a- word was uttered. Mr. Fiick
was becoming weak: his blood was
staining his assailant’s clothing.
Again the man wrenched himself loose.
His left haud was freed and he plunged
it into his back pocket. At just this
moment Leishman, by a mighty effort,
wrenched further back the hand hold-
ing the pistol and gaining a purchase,
he succeeded in tripping the fellow.
Down on the floor he went in a heap.
All this had taken less than two min-
utes.
The clerks outside had just recovered
from the shock that the three pistol
shots had given them. They rushed pell-
mell to the door, and in time to see the
fall, and there they stood stupefied.
STABBED TWICE.
As he fell, he succeeded in drawing
a stiletto from his pocket with his free
left hand, Mr. Frick and Leishman
were on their feet bending over him.
The stiletto flashed through the air and
was-driven with force into the back of
Mr. Frick. With hardly a moment's
pause, it was withdrawn and again
plunged forward into Mr. Frick’s back.
Then the wonnded man succeeded in
grasping the hand that held it, and,
throwing his weight on it, pinioned the
arm to tbe floor. Leishman held the
other hand. The man was helpless.
'FRICK SAVED THE ASSASSIN.
The clerks regovered their self-poss-
ession and ran to the aid of their two
employers. Deputy Shenff May was
at their head. He had been up to see
Secretary Lovejoy, and had been sent
down stairs to get a passto go to Home:
stead. He got to the door of the pri-
vate office just in time to see the stab-
bing. He drew his revolyer as he ran
forward and was about to shoot. “Don’t
shoot! “Don’t kill him!” pleaded Mr.
Frick. “Don’t shoot! Don't shoot!
The law will punish him!” One of
the other men seized the Deputy Sher-
ifi’s revolver and held it. Two others
got the pistol and the stiletto.
The three shots that had been fired
had been heard all over the building
and out into the street, and a part of
the struggle itself had been seen by
persons in the street.
WANTED TO LYNCH HIM.
Within a minute or two after the
man was conquered no less than two
\ hundred persone were crowding into the
room. There were two policemen with
them. They had heard the shooting.
They relieved Mr. Frick and Mr. Leish-
man and took the prisoner in hand. No
sooner had they got him than there
were cries of “Shoot him!” #Lynch
him !"” and the like.
The patrol wagon in which the as
sailant of Mr. Frick was taken away
was followed to the police station by
nearly a thousand persons, all of them
worked up to the greatest pitch of ex-
citement and many of them continually
crying “Lynch him!” “Shoot him »
“Killhim1”’ Before the police would
take him out of the patrol wagon on
its arrival at the station a second pla-
toon of ‘reserves were called upon ‘to
clear the way. The prisoner on the
way to the station had become fearfully
frightened and was shaking like a leaf,
his face was pale, and he was so weak
that he actually could not step ‘down
out out of the wagon without assistance.
THE PRISONER'S HISTORY.
When he recovered sufficiently to
speak he was brought out and the in-
gpector questioned bim as follows :
“What is your name ?"’ He responded
“Alexander Berkman.”
“Age?” Zid
“Twenty-six years.”
“Where do you 'live ?"
“Forty-second street,
city.”
“Qeccupation 7" 6:9
“Compositor ‘on a New York paper.”
“What is the name of the paper up-
on which you are employed 7”
“The New York—"
Berkham started, but after thinking
a moment positively refused to answer
the question. ;
“How long have you been in Pitts:
burgh 2 asked Inspector McKelvey.
“I came on Thursday and have been
staying at the Merchants’ Hotel, on
Weter street.”
ETSI SLT
O'Donnell In Jail.
New York
The Leader of the Homestead Strikers Surren-
ders.—Hugh Ross Keeps Him Company.—No
Additional Information Sworn by Secretary
Lovejoy, Despite His Statement That He Pro
posed to Take Such Steps.— Weihe and Brennan
Confer with Governor Pattison.
PrrTsBURG, July 22.—O0’Donnell at
noon yesterday went into Judge Magee’s
court ‘with Hugh Ross and’ ‘stated that
he was ready to surrender. The judge
told him he would have to surrender to
a magistrate before whom information
was laid. He went to the magistrate’s
office across the street. McMaster’s was
ointed out to him by a reporter; and
pe then surrendered. The service of the
warrent was accepted, and ina few
minutes later both men were inside the
jail.? § Troi. i
J WHY THE LEADER RETURNED.
O'Donnell: said to. a corresponpent :
«While my mission is not much more
than half over, yetit has been most
gratifying in its results, so much so that
1 feel absolutely certain in saying to
you that strike will be settled satisfac-
torily tous. I'was in New York for
that purpose and’ was Toyally treated by
the newspaper men there.
«1 saw the people who are potentiul
enough to see that justice is done us; and
if Ishould gessbaui I willat once re-
turn andjconclude the negotiations.
«The reason of my return at pre-
sent is that I chafed : too much under
the charge brought against me, and I
wanted to face it promptly.”
RTE RT Pr A AN EV EY
There is every indication that the
Carnegie company propose to start up
its two mills at Lawrenceville before
many days. The natural gas is burn-
ing in the furnace and several carloads
billets are being daily received and
stacked in the mili grounds. The sym-
pathetic strikers have doubled their
pickets and both their land and river
entrances to the mills are being watch-
ed. Half a dozen strangers attempted
to reach the gates yesterday with the
view of applying for work, but they
were intercepted by the strikers and
after a brief parley: agreed not to per-
sist in their intentions for the present.
They claimed to have ‘come from Balti-
more of their own volition. The Car-
negie company 18 said to have received a
large number of ‘applications for posi-
tions ' from men now employed at the
Black Diamond Stee! works and Clark’s
Solar iron’ works.
APPLICATION MADE FOR BAIL:
Application for the release on bail of
Hugh O’Donnell and Ross will be made
today before: Judge Magee. If, how-
ever, Attorney Burleigh is inclined to
be less good natured than he was in the
case of Burgess McLuckie yesterday he
can demand his legal right for twenty-
four hours’ .grace in order to examine
the evidence against the two men. In
this event they will be compelled to re-
main 1n the county jail until Saturday
at least.
O'Donnell was released on $10,000
bail early Monday morning.
No additional informations were sworn
yesterday by Secretary Lovejoy, despite
his statement early in the week that he
propsed to take such steps day after
day until every one of the hundreds of
men against whom the company claims
to have evidence is under arrest. The
officials of the company are understood
to be considerable chagrined over the
failure of the constables to arrest the
seven prominent strikers named in the
initial warrants and to be of the opin-
jon that any move in the direction of
attempting wholesale arrest. of the rank
and file would be little better than
farcical.
BLAME PLACED ON FRICK.
A statement purporting to have been
made by Hugh O’Donnell, reviewing
the incidents leading up to the present
lockout of the Carnegie workmen at
Homestead, places the blame for the
lockout and the bloodshed of July 6 up-
on Chairman H. C. Frick, whose an-
tagonistic attitude toward organized
labor is declared to have been made ap-
parent from the time the Carnegie Steel
company was organized and he became
chairman. 1
While ate Potter had in-
vited the Homestead lodges of the
Amalgamated Association to formulate
a scale, and had declared that the Carne-
gies were opposed to strikes and would
be the first to adopt arbitration in set-
tling the wage question with their em-
ployes, Chairman Frick, upon assum-
ing control, immediately became arbi-
trary, and upon a disagreement with the
committee oyer the adjustment of the
scale peremptorily decided the confer-
ence at an end and locked out the men.
It is declared that with the advent of
Chairman Frick the Carnegie policy was
overturned and Mr Frick’s oh of an-
tagonism to organized lador was inaug-
urated, and that the Homestead trou-
bles were the result of this policy.
HUGH O'DONNELL WILL RESIGN.
Owing to the refusal of the Advisory
committee to Tecognize his attempt to
come to terms with the Carnegie Co.,
whereby the old men ¢ould resume work
at Homestead it is said O'Donnell will
resign its chairmanship. He has been
working, toget the Company to re-
employ the men and his work was sat is-
factory im so far as all but the strike
leaders are concerned and it. looks now
as though there will be a speedy. settle-
ment of the ‘difficulty. "
‘The Company is willing to treat with.
a committee, of workingmen, but will
not recognize any organization. It also
agrees to appoint a committe which will,
quarterly, fix theiprice of steel billets,
The price at which the men are, offered;
work now is $23.00 per ton. All of them
must sign individua articles to respect
the scale which their own committee
TRS ee 3
| The fuct that the Braddock’ workmen
have refused to sttikd gives ouch color
to the theory that the Homestead mills
will séon be in’ operation as of old. 600
non-union men are now in the mill and
will nat be displaced because it will be
operated hereafter as a non-union plant.
BE STOPS
Willing te Arbitrate.
PITTSBURG, July 26.—Three loads
of non-union men, in all about 150,
arrived from the east this morning and
were taken ‘at once to the Homestead
plant. ' Secretary ‘Tovejoy says there
are now about 600 men at work, with
accessions to- the force daily. The firm
anticipates but comparatively little
difficulty in operating the mill full
blast in & shorter time than at first seem-
ed probable, Everything is quiet at the
other plants and no effort will be made
te resume until Homestead is supplied
with a full ¢omplement of men.
The Homestead workmen have taken
the first steps to have their trouble set-
tled by the ‘methods suggested ‘by the
voluntary arbitration act of 1883.
W. J. Brennen, the attornay for the
workmen, said this afternoon that a peti-
tion has heen in circulation among the
Joeal workmen since last Friday. Mr.
Brennen said: It is necessary that the
employes of five firms. should sign the
petition to bave the county court ap-
point a tribunal’of arbitration. Of course
the assent of the Carnegie Steel com-
pany is necessary before the eounty
court can act; in the, jgatter, but we
shall do our part.’,’
‘Harrity in New York. ry
¥
New York, July 26.—William Tr.
| Harrity, chairman of the Democratic
national committee, arrived here to-
night. He is atthe Fifth avenue hotel.
Mr. Harrity said to-night he would
name the executive and campaign com-
mittecs on Thursday or Friday. To.
morrow he will arrange for headquarters
for the national committee.
Retaliation Upon Canada a Law,
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—The
President has approved the Act to En-
force Reciprocal Commercial Relations
between the United States and Canada.
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Drummed Out of Camp.
A Tenth Regiment Soldier Gets Into a Peck of
Trouble. i
HomesteaD, July 24.—The story of
the quick and severe punishment me-
ted by Lieutenant Colonel Streater to a
private of his regiment who cheered
when the news of the Frick shooting
was received was told and verified in
camp last night. When the news ofthe
shooting reached the Tenth régiment
which is across the riverat Camp Row-
ley, private Iams, of Company K. from
Waynesburg, jumped up and wildly
shouted : “Three cheers for the man
who shot him.”
Colonel Streater overheard the re-
mark and ordered out the regiment.
When the regiment was in line, the
Colonel repeated the remark and said
he recognized the voice which had ut-
tered it. He then, without raming
Iams, ordered him to siep from the
ranks, two paces to the front, After
some hesitation Iams did so with fear
and trembling.
The colonel then ordered him strung
up by the thumbs, had his cap taken
away and: cut his buttons from his
blouse. Two surgeons stood alongside
Tams, while be hung by his thumbs,
listening to his heart beating and feel-
ing his pulse. After halt an hour of
the punishment, Iams became uncon:
scious and resuscitated.
The severity of Iams’s punishment
was due to his refusal to take back or
apologize for the expression. To-day
one side of his head was shaved and
the buttons cut from his uniform, of
which he was then stripped. He was
given a suit of cast of plan clothes,
part being a pair of overalls, and was
at once drummed out of camp. The
proceedings were approved by General
Snowden.
LTTE ISK,
Streater Taken to Task.
A New York Lawyer Grows Indignant Over the
Tams Affair.
‘NEw York, July 25.—Charles G..
Burgone, the law printer, to-day sent
the following dispatch to Lieutenant
Colonel Streater, who is in command of
the Tenth regiment at Homestead:
“Lieutenant Colonel Streater, Home-
stead, Pa.—Law abiding men who be-
lieve that every man is entitled to trial
before condemnation and punishment
will agree with me that the outrage per-
petrated by you, endorsed by your sup-
erior officers and participated in by your
regimental surgeons, is a crime onlv
paralled by the crimes of a mob. My
check fora good round sum is at the
disposal of the Pennsylvania lawyer who
will undertake to bring you to justice.
Believe me, there are many men in this
city not only humble citizens like myself
but military mien as well, who are will-
ing to loosen their purse strings that such
a monumental crime may not go un-
unisbed.
[Signed] “C, G. BURGOYNE.,,
Mr. Burgoyne, in speaking of the
matter, said: “The cowardly outrage was-
perpetrated by Lieutenant Colonel St-
reater on the young man Thomas Iams.
because he called for three cheers for
the man who shot Mr. Frick. That
Streater should order Iams to be strung
up by the thumbs for twenty minutes
and then hava his head shaved and be
drummed out of camp is an outrage of
the blackest kind. I have nothing
whatever to say about the shooting of
Mr. Frick. No man has a right to shoot
another except in such cases as the law
gives him the right to do so, and at the
same time no man, be he’ soldier or pri-
vate citizen, has a right to be condemned
and punished without a trial.”
Lieutenant Colonel Streater was at
the head of a regiment to prevent a
mob violating the law. Streater and
the officers who countenanced the pun-
jshment of Iams without a ‘trial acted
like & mob themselyes. They took the
law into their own hands. There is no
precedent that I know of for such action,
Under all circumstances a court-martial
should have been held and then, no
atter what punishment was inflicted it
would be after the sccused had had a
trial, I left my home without breakfast
I was so worked up at the outrage. I
believe that Lieutenant Colonel Streater
' should be punished and that he will be,
and what f have said T will stick to.”
Mr. Burgoyne is an American by birth
and served with a Pennsylvania regi:
men in the late war.
BE ea i———]
700 Men at Work.
PirrsBURGH, Pa., July 27.—The Car-
negie Steel company notified their for-
mer workmen to-day that as they were
no longer in the employ of the compa-
ny, interest on money deposited by
them would stop and the principal
would be paid upon application at the
office. There are now 700 men at work
and all departments are running.
TEER TTR
Mr. Frick Is Better.
PrressureH, July 27.—“Mr. Frick’s
pulse, tem perature and appetite is nor-
| mal,” said Dr. Litchfield to-day. He
| passed a most eatisfactory night. | At
the present rate he will soon be past
any possible danger.” wl of a
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——C. M. Bower Esq, and family,
are off on a trip tothe Thousand Islands.
— Will Garman and. ‘family, of
Philipsburg, spent ~ Sunday at the
pir=ntal home in this place.
Rev. Samuel Creighton. of Wii-
liamsport, will officiate in the Methodist
church on Sunday morning.
——-The Catholic church will picnick
at the Park next Wednesday, August
3rd. Kvery one is invited to attend and
enjoy the pleasant day’s outing at this
favorite resort. All conveniences that
could be désited are there. A'base ball
game between the Urdines, and the
High school will be one of the attrac-
tions. A train willleave the Park at
9 oclock in the evening. Good music
for dancing. Dinner &0cts. Supper
25 cts.