BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—
Ink Slings.
—Republican harmony seems to be
taking its summer vacation.
If there was 8 People’s party in
Pennsylvania who would belong to it?
—A man’s strength is not so much in
muscle and brawn as in the way he gets
along with his wife.
—JerrY Rusk and gerrymander
sound something alike yet they mean
+ widely different things.
—4The farmer in politics” has
about the same significance as ‘‘the
needle in the hay stack.”
& —Now that the convention is over let
every Democrat turnjin to help rolljTup
an old time majority in Centre. &j
—County chairmen might call the
PINKERTONS into service to help drive
their party kickers into line.
—HARRISON 18 rusticating at Loon
lake where he,'perhaps, will geta “spell”
to last him through his campaign. lj
—Three northern States will give
their electoral votes to HARRISON, as
for the rest, one can’t always sometimes
tell.
—The eight hour law will have no
effect whatever on the amount of time
QuAY and CAMERON put inin the Senate
chamber.
— There would have been nothing
strange about it if the “Jags” committee
of Congress had found CoBB considera-
bly “corned,”
i '—The HARRISON campaign {is tobe
started next week. Thanks to its man-
agers. We will enjoy the fall in tem-
perature it is sure to bring.
—Republicans are trying to drag the
Race problem into the campaign. They
seem t00 blind to see that the fight they
are into now will prove all the race
they want.
—HarrisoN should be re-elected, for
it is said some of his family have been
discovered,up in Mars and ilsa shame
that they haven’t had a governmental
position.
—Mr. Tsiw, the Chinese minister to
the United States, is to be called home
to get his pig-tail pulled. The Em-
peror doesn’t like him so hari kari wil}
be in order.
—This hot weather is working won-
ders for the church, If hell is much
hotter than earth has been for the past
few days surely no one could desire a
domicile there.
1 ATR TREE ange
| er EE whl
--The cheer of victorious Democracy
will be the knell of the obnoxious
Force bill. America is for Americans
and not a place where bigotted parti-
sans are to receive life tenure of office.
— Astronomers can plainly see snow-
fields on Mars, but they are unable to
discover any connection between them
and the political frigidness that follows
the nomination of HARRISON and
REID.
-—A stream in Arizona possesses &
certain property which enables it fo
petrify all soft substances thrown into
it. This probably accounts for the fact
that no Republican editor is to be found
in that vicinity.
—With her back bone shoved out by
American charities Russia is undertak-
ing war in Afghanistan. There must
heve been some of HECKER'S self rising
buckwheat flour in that cargo the Phila-
delphians sent over.
—When astronomers get done dis-
covering what Mars looks like, they
should turn the Lick telescope upon
PLATT, and relieve the anxiety cf the
Republican party by discovering, if pos-
sible, what he is going to do.
—As thereis a time for all things,
this is about the time that Republican
officials, at Washington, should be con-
sidering what business they propose fol-
lowing after the 4th of March next.
-—Wae are surprised to hear that Mr.
CARNEGIE has said ‘‘there isa poverty
of issues in this fall’s campaign.” Sure-
ly, ANDREW, Protection is ali you want
to fight for, and every one will admit
that its issue is poverty to all, but men
of your class.
—BLAINE will not stump for HARRI-
son and we don’t blame him at all. He
is the only statesman whom the Repub-
lican ranks can muster and his con-
science will not permit him to under-
take to help inflict a Second Term fizzle
upon an all suffering people.
—A $100,000 subscription to their
campaign fund is the price CARNEGIE
and FrICK are expected to pay to the
Republican party, for its support in
their efforts to reduce the wages of their
workingmen, This is the bed-rock rea-
son for the continuous abuse of the
Homestead workingmen by the Repub-
lican papers.
--We would suggest that in view of
the fact that every American workman,
whose wages have been raised by the
McKinley bill, is to send the Republican
National commities & dollar, the gov.
ernment printing presses be set to work
right away so there will be plenty of
bills, if they should be needed.
amr
Aemaeralt
RO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL TI
“VOri. 27.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 12, 1892.
NO. 31.
Over One Hundred Millions Less.
The Republican press of the country
is having a busy time trying to make
the people believe that the Democratic
Congress which has just adjourned wae
as extravagant in the matter of appro-
priations as was the Republican Bil-
lion Dollar Congress that preceeded it.
They manufacture, iwist and distort
figures in all shapes to make plausible
their assertions, but they fall far short
of the mark, and when done can neith-
er get the figures to fit nor the facts to
sustain, the statements they make.
The truth is the total amount of
money appropriated by the Democratic
Congress that adjourned on Saturday
last is just $33,529,909.98 less than the
amount appropriated by the Republi-
can Congress that preceded it. Of
the total appropriations $78,527,602.62
was necessary to meet the requirements
of laws enacted by the Billion Dollar
Congress, and in no way can be charg:
ed to Democratic extravagance or
recklessness.
In addition to the outrageous rob-
bery of the Treasury,that depleted it of
every penny of surplus that had accu
mulated under President CLEVELAND'S
administration , the Republican Con-
gress of '88-'90, enacted laws that re-
quired the following amounts to be
provided for by the Congress that has
just adjourned :
“For foreign mails—$390,290. For
“Indian depredation claims—$478,252.-
462, For collecting sugar bounty—
$230,890. For increase of Judicial
“gglaries — $88,000. For additional
«clerks under new pension laws—$695,-
«490, For mint at Philadelphia—
$620,500. For pensions (estimated)—
$48,000,000. For diplomatic and con-
“gular officers’ salaries—$25,000. For
“redemption of national bank notes—
49,500,000. For expenses treasury
“notes—$125,000. For refund direct
“rax—$225.000. For payment to im-
“porters—$5,000,000. For debentures
“or drawbacks — $5,000,000. For
bounty to Sugar producers “$10,000,000.
For snag boats, Ohio “river—$25,000,
For colleges, for “agricultural and
mechanical arts — +“$833,000. For
the World's Fair — “$3,291,230.”
Making a total of $79,527,602.62,
that this Democratic Congress is
no more responsible for than
it is for the amount that is paid the
President or for the hundreds of mil-
lions that goes for pensions. If to thie
amount is added the difference, $33,
529,009.98 between the appropriations
of the Republican Congress, that czar
Ree presided over, and that of the
Democratic body, that adjourned on
Saturday, it will be seen that in the
matter of economy the Democratic Con-
grees has the best of it to the extent of
one hundred and thirteen millions, fifty-
seven thousand, five hundred and twelve
dollars and sixty cents.
In the estimation of party organs
that endorsed or excused the looting of
the public treasury, to the extent of a
billion dollars, by a Republican Con-
gress, with REED at its head, this may
not appear as a very large sum, but to
the people, from whom all public
moneys are wrung, through tariff and
other taxes, it will be enough to prove
that in the hands of the Democracy
their interests are cared for and that if
they want to prevent a recurrence of
the corruption and extravagance that
attended, and the kind of times and
tariff taxation that has followed the
Republican Congress of '88 and '90,
there is but one way todo it, and that
is to defeat that party atthe polls
in November next.
SATS,
Its Not Down Seuth.
Western Pennsylvania, with its
CooLEY gangs, JACK REEDS, strikers)
cowardly sheriffs, and PINKERTONism’
can discount any of the southern States
in out-lawry, disorders and general
unabashed deviltry, and yet you
don't see a word in Republican papers
charging it up to a failure, on the part
of the people generally, to respect the
law or desire its enforcement, as is
the case when similar acts occur in
Tennessee, Kentucky, or elsewhere
throughout the South. We have won-
dered why this is so, but when we
come to think of it we remember that
Pennsylvania is the banner Republi
can State, and these outrages and dis-
orders do not occur in Democratic
communities.
A Change of Situation That Don’t Help
Republicans.
There is nothing like being able to
take advantage of all kinds of situa
tions. T.ast week when it was believed
to be certain that the Farmers’ Al
liance candidate in Alabama was down
under an adverse majority of some fifty
thousand, Republicans took great con-
golation out of the fact that the Al
liance amounted to nothing and that
in consequence the Republican States
of the Northwest thal are now in the
hands of that organization would cer-
tainly swing back nto the Republican
column, Late returns show that the
first reports from Alabama were incor-
rect, and that in place of the Alliance
disintegrating, it has held its own and
is as strong to-day as it was when it
swept Kansas, Nebraska and other
Republican States. Now they take
consolation out of the fact that the
Democrats did not increase their ma-
jority and that the South is not as sol:
1dly Democratic as it was believed to
be when last week’s election was
heard from.
These papers forget the fact that in
the South no State has yet been taken
from the Democrats by the Alliance,
while in the west Kansas and Nebras-
ka both have been lost to the Repub-
licans, and Minnesota and the two
Dakotas made so doubtful that no one
can tell where they are to-day.
If the Alliance people can hold their
own in Alabama, why can they not do
the same thing throughout the North-
west ; and if they do, what hope is
there for HARRISON receiving the
electoral vote of either of the States in
which fusion tickets have already
been been agreed upon ?
Verily, the last condition of the Re-
publican party, in this matter, is worse
than the first.
No Credit to the State Gnard.
It is not likely that the re-election of
Lieut. Colonel StrEATOR, who made
himself notorious for the outrageous
treatment of a private in his command,
| will elevate the public opinion of the
National Guard, or tend to strengthen
public confidence in it. When the of-
ficers of an organization approve of and
: endorse the inhumanity that was ex-
{ hibited by StrEATOR, and attempt to
“work up a sentiment to sustain such
acts, 1t is time for others who are -not
officers and those who have friends in
| the service who are only privates, to
| consider the danger they are subject
to.
1f Corstitutional rights can be over-
ridden by a fool who happens to wear
shoulder-siraps when there is neither
war, nor danger of war; if swelled:
headed officers, can inflict such pun-
ishment upon their men as their vin
dictiveness may dictate, without either
trial or conviction ; if they are to be
Judge, Jury, and Executioner all, what
safety is there for any private, or what
surety is there that any one falling un-
der the ban of his superior, may not
be treated even more brutishly than
was Iams for his offence ?
The re-election of STREATOR is a blot
upon the militia of the State, that will
take a long while to wash out.
A.C IMS A
—~—The Republican press is mak-
ing no little ado about the extrava-
gance of the late Democratic Congress,
and yet its appropriations are over one
hundred million dollars less than those
of the Republican Congress that pre-
ceded it; sixty millions less than the
Republican heads of departments de-
manded in their estimates, and thirteen
millions less than the Republican Sen-
ate proposed and favored. Possibly a
little looking into this matter on the
part of our esteemed Republican con-
temporaries would open their eyes to
the fact that the less they have to say
about extravagance, the better they
will be off.
J —
—Masor Erris P, Prieps, who rob-
bed the paupers in the Philadelphia
Almshouse some years ago, and served
a term in the penitentiary for his ras-
cality, isat Washington after a pen.
sion. He will very probably get it.
There ig not much discrimination as to
who goes onto this roll, that should be
oneof honor,andif the old soldiers waken
up some day and find themselves in the
company of JAlsshouse robbers like
Pripps, they caw, to a very great
extent,blame themselves for advocat-
ing a pension system that benefits the
unworthy as well as the worthy.
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An Other “Infant Industry” Uncovered.
Ever since the McKinLey bill went
into effect the newspaper people haye
been industrious’y looking up the in-
fant industry for the protection of
which a tax of $10,000,000 is annually
levied upon the users of tin pails, tin
cans and other tin utensils in this
country. They have not been success:
ful in finding many of them. / The Re-
publican organs were, however, sure
they were as plenty as soup houses in
a charity district, and that they were
important and promising enterprises,
in which tens of thousands of laboring
men were finding profitable employ-
ment,
To excuse a party for levying a tax
of ten million of dollars per annum
upon an article that is as generally
used,'as is tin, and particularly on an
article that is found in all shapes in
the homes of the poorer people of the
country, would require a very plausible
reason. This was given, as it was
stated, in the fact that the tin industry
was furnishing employment to armies
of working men, and, with a tariff tax
could prosper and pay remunerative
wages to all connected with it. There
were doubts as to the capacities of
these works, as well asto the number of
men employed in them, but the tax
was put upon it,and every man who
carries his dinner in a tin pail or
drinks his water or coffee from a tin
cup, has since been paying his share
of that tax.
When cailed upon to locate the in-
dustries, for which this enormous tax
was levied, the friends of the measure
failed to do so, and the public was left
in the dark as to where they were, the
number of men employed by them or
the amount of the output.
Two or three have come to light re-
cently. One in Philadelphia that was
destroyed by fire, in June last, the en-
tire machinery ot which, with the
building in which it was located and
the stock on hand, was estimated at
less than $7,000. It gave employment
to ten men and boys, all told, and
turned out about enough'of tin, in a
year, to can the fruit that would grow
on a half a dozen Pennsylvania farms.
Another has just been uncovered
at Anderson, Indiana. It was found
by a hungry creditor who had placed
his claim in the hands of the Sheriff,
and was sold to satisfy claims on Sat-
urday last, The value of the plant is
not given but the number of employees
are. They consisted of four men three
boys and one girl. It had been run-
ning since July '91, and the output is
not stated.
And these are the kind of enterprises
for which the Republican party has
forced every man, woman and child
in the country to pay tribute to the ex-
tent of ten millions per year.
EA TE
A Lie Without Foundation.
Some fool Republican correspondent
of the Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette,
ahose desire to say something was
greater than his respect for the truth,
last week telegraphed that paper from
this place, that Mr. Tmomas CoLLINS,
one of the delegates from this district
to the Chicago convention, had de-
clared for HagrrisoN. Mr. CoLLiNs
was in Clearfield busy building rail-
roads at the time and knew nothing of
the report, until his return home on
Saturday evening, when he immediate-
ly wired the Commercial-Gazette, de-
nouncing the statement as untrue,
without any foundation whatever and
requesting the name of the lying auth-
or. Up to the present time this has
not been furnished, and he is still in
the dark as to who the dirty whelp
was that attempted, in this way, to
libel him and encourage Republicans.
Mr. CoLuins is a Democrat. He is
one of the kind that allows no person-
al preferences to interfere with his po-
litical faith, and while he would have
preferred Gov. ParTisox as the nom-
inee, Mr, CLEVELAND's nomination set-
tled the matter and he is as earnestly
for the Democratic ticket to-day as is
any Democrat in this section.
Mr. Corrins will not eniy vote and
work for CLEVELAND but believes he
will be elected, and in proot of this be.
lief forwarded his check for $1,000 to
the Pittsburg Post on Monday last, as
a wager that he would not only carry
New York but would be the next
President. As yet it has found no!
Republican taker.
Discrimination in the Mckinley Tariff.
From the New York Times.
«Speaking of the tariff,” said a New
York merchant. « ‘take "linens. On
those that run over 100 threads to the
square inch the duty is 85 per cent. ; on
those that run 100 threads or less the
duty is 50 per cent. This makes a plain
discrimination in favor of the wealthier
classes, who can afford to buy a fine
grade of linen. The poor people, who
have to use the coarse and cheap kind,
have to pay more for itin proportion
than the wealthier citizens do for theirs
Of course the idea was'to protect the
American manufacturer of linen. The
thing has been tried, but save for the
manufacture of the cheaper grades of
crash it has proved a failure.
Take worsted dress {oods, too, on
which we pay an ad valorem and a
weight duty also. Here's something
that costs 2s. 6d.on the other side, That
is, 60 cents. The ad valorem duty is 50
per cent.—that makes the goods cost 90
cents a yard. It weighs thirteen
ounces to the yard, and the weight duty
is 44 cents a pound, or 86 cents per.
yard, So a yard of the stuff costs us :
Original cost... 80] Weight.cessersrioresnin36
Ad valorem. 30 ——
ceessesetsasernses easirsasniin 1 20
Tof
«That we sell for $1.50 per yard, and
the cost of it in England was only 60
cents.
«And here are Roubaix goods—a
common serge, this—that cost 24 cents
originally, and cost us 55 cents to land
here. And this one cost us 1f. 20 c.,
or 18.3 cents in France, and landed it
costs 46 cents—-something like 125 per
cent. increase.
“The same way, too, with coat lin-
ings ; what we pay 14 cents for on the
other side costs 80 cents landed here.
«Tn the face ot 11 this, the manufac-
ers over there claim that they are mak-
ing money. And the fact remains that
we are selling more|goods than ever. The
people need them, and it shows that the
goods are not produced on this side
when they continue to buy foreign goods
so lavishly.
Capital in Politics.
From the Glen Falls Republican— Den.
Capital takes good care of itself.
Monopoly is shrewd and smart in se-
curing protection to itself and absolute
control of prices in the home market,
an affectionate “lick and a promise,”
Capital says, “Vote for your interests,
no matter about the question of justice,
equality, right and wrong. Vote for
me and my accumulations, or I will re-
duce your wages and squeeze you to the
level of want,” and in some instances
labor, forgetting its wonderful power
of self-defense, has in times past yield-.
ed its judgement to the merciless extor-
tioner, but in the coming contest the
tricks and frauds of the wily schemers
have been seen through and their over-
tures will be repudiated.
ATE TTS AS
Cleveland's Popularity.
From the Syracuse Courier.
An advertising agent who was in
Syracuse last week, himself a Repub-
lican, but going to vote for Cleveland,
mentioned a little siraw showing the
direction of the wind, “I was on the
boat going to Seabright the other day,”
said he, “chanced to eit on deck near a
group of of seven prominent business
men of New York, all Republicans.
They got to talking politics, when it
was discovered that every one of the
seven was going to vote for Cleveland.”
One of the group, he added, is an em-
ployer of 2,800 persons, 1,500 of whom
are men like “straws” can he picked
up almost any day.
CT AE SRR
How They Make It Up
From the Clearfield Republican.
The workingman, he pays the bill in
the Rebublican campaign. Four years
ago Carnegie gave, it is said, $100,000
to help elect Harrison and last year gave
the McKinley people in Ohio a hand-
some contribution. «This year he redu-
ces the wages of his workingmen in or-
der to save enough to give Harrisen
another $100,000. This is the infernal
style of class Congressional legislation
as Troyeat by the Republican party,
and leads to anarchy.
Would Double the Amount.
From the Danville Intelligencer.
Major McKinley need not waste his
valuable time in pointing out the bene-
fit of high taxation to Western Chatau-
qua circles at $350 a lecture. The lock-
ed-workmen at Homestead would pay
twice that sum to be informed wherein
they have profited from his bill.
Do You Know ?
From the Columbia Independent.
There is no danger of a contusion of
issues this “year. Everybody knows
what the parties and their candidates
stand for, and the people will judge
between a policy of high taxes, extrava-
gance, centralization and force, and
the opposite of all this.
——
Changes Wrought by Times.
From the Lelinsgrove Times.
1888.4A high tariff makes higher
wages.” 1892. “The tariff has noth.
ing to do with wages.” That,is the way
our Republican friends view the matter
at different times. The tariff tax remains
all the same.
ER,
—When a vessel geta coaled it is no
sign that people on board will be chilly.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A cold bath killed Jesse Grubb, of Poits-
twon. -
-—h premature fall of rock ina quarry to
death. ;
—Tramps burglarized six houses in Lancas.
'l ter Monday night. 13
—W. J. Graham has been appointed post-
master at Monteau, Pa.
—Thomas Tierran was run over. by a train
at Altoona and killed.
—F. J. Rahm, who swindled half the jew=sl-
ers in Allentown, has disappeared.
—Brakeman Thomas Gannon fell undér his
train at St. Clair, and was cut in two,
—O0ld Sol Wednesday drove the working-
men from the iron mills at Scranton.
—Bishop Kephart, of Iowa, preached to the
United Brethren at Mt. Gretna, Friday.
high River to connect the two Bethlehems.
—Death overtook Benjamin Deturk on the
turnpike at Menocacy Station, Berks County:
—Tumbling from a picnic swing, at Sham
rock, little John Strasser was seriously in”
jured.
—Railroad telegraphers from three States
will hold a convention in Pittsburg August
16th.
—Every gas meter in Reading is being torn
out by the gas company to undergo examina.
tion.
—The doors of the Luzerne County Prison
have been shut against prisoners. The prison
is full
—Lightning shocked James Brennans, of
Wilkesbarre, as he slept, and his right side is
paralyzed.
—Chambersburg gave her soldier boys of
Company C, Eighth Regiment, a jolly banquet
Friday night.
—Miss Sij Elei, of McKeesport, dissolved a
dozen match heads in a glass of water, drank
it and died.
—About 200 brothers: of the Brotherhood of
the Union of Pennslyvania met in convention
at Columbia.
—An ice wagon was driven: over John R-
Kauffman’s little child, at Sunbury, crushing
its head flat. . §
—A building collapsed in Lancaster, serious-
ly injuring Henry Rudy, Frank Hart and
Daniel Stewart. ‘
—In attempting to board a freight train
William Bedderow, of Mahanoy City, was run
over and killed. .
— James Lick, who gave the Lick Observa.
tory to California, was a tanner’s apprentice in
Lebanon county.
— Like many other towns of the State Har™
risburg’s schools will be supplied with text
books by the city.
—Theskeleton of the suicide found near
Reading has been identified as that of Ernest
M. Miller, of Steelton.
—Levi Brandt jumped from a swing at Mt.
Gretna in order to touch a high bough, and
fractured his skull.
—The Schuykill River is as low at Reading
as it was two weeks ago, when a water famine
threatened Philadelphia.
—Heat overcome Farmer C. H. Meckley, of
New Salem, York county, as he was going
‘home from market, and he died.
__A rattlesnake six feet long and whose tail
was adorned with 28 rattles was killed by Al-
len Bricker, near Greensburg, thn
— As he was seated in Dr Ludlow’s office’ at
Easton, and being treated for a tumor, Wil-
liam Metz fell to the floor dead. .
A vicious cow routed a fishing party of fe-
males near Reading and (ossed Mrs. H.C.
Weber over a barbed wire fence.
—A runaway team dragged George Hagger-
ty, of Landenberg, half a mile, seriously in-
juring him. One horse was killed.
—A Bethlehem citizen has presented a pair
of new shoes to each of 85 “fresh air” boys in
that town who came from New York.
. —A drunken man went to sleep across’ the
tracks of the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad,
Keading, and was rescued just in time.
John McCormick, on old man at Johuns-
town, wandered off to the mountains a week
ago and was found Saturday a maniac,
— Frank McClure, a construction laborer, on
the Pennsylvania Railrord, fell through a
bridge near Paoli and was dangerously hurt.
_ —L. E. Taylor has been appointed a fourth -
class postmaster at Sand Rock, Pa.; J.J. Neu
land at Arthurs and J. Des Foeas at Grange.
—A rousing congregation greeted the ape
pearance of Bishop Dubs, at Quakertown, yes-
terday, where he preached at the Evangelical
camp.
—Miss Fannie McGraw has caused the ar-
rest of Borough Councilman John Hocking, of
Eddystone, for the non-support of their 7-year-
old child.
—Dr. James Kleckner, of Mifflinburg, has
been arrested, charged with assaulting his
cousin, Mrs. Aunie Kleckner, a society leader
of the town. ;
—Reading’s Cannstatter will invite the Phila.
delphia Cannstatter, Volksfest, Verein and
Stuttgarten Club to participate in Volkefestr
September 5. ‘ '
— Arthur Croft, of Pittsburg, thought he had*
whisky, but it was carbolic acid. Mrs. Croft,
who had hid the whisky bottle from her hus-
band, is a widow.
—The Harrisburg Insane Asylum authori-
ties say that forger John S. Seheifle, of Read
ing, is merely shamming insanity, and they
want him dismissed.
—Good corn-and tobacco crops, fair potato
yield, many pears and apples and no peaches
is the consensus of opinion of the Berks Coun-
ty Agricultural Society.
—To escape death in a freight wreck on the
Reading, at Shoemakersville, Conductor
8.8. Wolt leaped} down a high embankmeng
into the Schuylkill.
—Thirteen horses, two of which have al-
ready died, belonging to Thomas Dallett,
Cheney Station, Delaware county, were poison-
ed by refuse from a creamery. x !
—The Sixteeners’ Association, composed of
bstween 14,000 and 15,000 pupils of the soldiers’
orphans’ schools of the State, is holding its
twelfth annual reunion at Lancaster.
—Too much attention to Mrs. Lucian Blair
by John Dougherty, at a colored camp meet*
ing near Pittsburg, caused Mr. Blair to fit
Dougherty with bullets, and he is dead.
—A retrenchment of expenses by reducing
wages of employes is making by Robert H.
Coleman, the Lebanon iron ore and railroad
magnate, by which he proposes to save $10,00Q
a month. -
Mischievous lads at Tamaqua ran four cars
from the Greenwood siding an the main _ track
Monday morning and wrecked the early morne
ing passenger train with injuries to. four pea
sengers. :
—A new bridge will be built to span the. Le-
sw