—-
a
A BR TT
Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 16, 1892,
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EpItor
Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
ADLAI STEVENSON.
OF ILLINOIS.
State Democratic Ticket.
EOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE,
GEORGE A. ALLEN, Erie,
THOMAS P. MERRITT, Berks.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
CHRISTOPHER HEYDRICK, Venango.
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 S. Leiby,
Azur Lathrop T. C. Hipple, :
Thomas Cha. fant, W. D. Himmelreich,
P. H. Strubinger, H. B. Piper,
Joseph D. Orr, Charles A, Fagan,
Andrew A. Payton, John D. Braden,
John A. Mellon Michael Liebel,
Thomas McDowell, Jamet K. Polk Hall,
Democratic County Ticke
FOR CONGRESS,
Hon. GEO. F. KRIBES,
Subject to the decision of the District
conference.
For Associate Judge—C. A. FAULKNER,
: 1 JNO. T. McCORMICK,
For Legislature— { 58” SCHOFIELD,
For Prothontary—W.F. SMITH,
For District Attorney—W. J. SINGER, Esq.
For County Surveyor—HORACE B. HERRING,
Democratic County Committee of Cen-
tre County for 1892.
Districts. Committeemen,
Bellefonte N. W................. J. C. Meyer.
ot S. Ww. A. S. Garmam.
oe Ww. VW. .Geo. R. Meek.
Centre Hall Bor...
Howard Bor.....
Milesburg Bor..,
Millheim Bor...
Philipsburg 1st
Philipsburg 2nd W
* 3rd
8. Philipsburg...
Unionville Bor..
Bee
oggs N.P.
LS
.Abe Weber.
¥. H. Carr.
Samuel Weiser, Jr
James A. Lukens.
H. W. Buckingham.
Frank W, Hess,
C. B. Wilcox,
...E. M. Griest.
.. B. K. Henderson.
....Philip Confer.
....G. H. Leyman.
“WW. P «James W, Lucas.
Burnside... ... William Hipple
College E. P.. I. J. Dreese
“ w.DP, ....J. N. Krumrine.
Curtin, ceo, .N. J. McCloskey.
Ferguson E. P... ..Daniel Dreibelbis.
RR W.p
John J. Orndorf.
Huston .. ...Henry Hale.
Liberty.... .W. W. Spangler.
Marion .. James 8S. Martin.
Miles E. P. George B. Stover,
“ B. Kreamer
se U. S. Shaffer
Patton H. Reed
enn C. Stover.
Potter .
«ud. W, Collins.
..... William P. Brown:
William Kerin,
.L. H. Wian.
Jasper Brooks.
John T. Merryman.
Aaron Fahr.
J. H. McAuley.
.W. H. Williams.
Hamilton's Attempt to Get Away from
his Position on the Fence Question.
Stare CoLLEGE, PA., Sept. 7, 1892.
To J. A. Fiedler, Ed. of the GAzETTE.
Dear Sir—Since my name has been before
the citizens ot this county as candidate for the
Legislature, 1 have been asked by various per-
sons to define my position in regard to the
fence laws of the commonwealth, and particu-
larly to state whether I am for or against a
fence law. I have no hesitation in saying that
I am in favor of a Local Option Fence Law,
which will permit the citizens of the various
counties of the State to vote npon the question
and determine for themselves whether they
will have fences or whether they will not.
This will allow such counties as Lancaster,
Bucks, Berks, Chester and other similarly sit-
uated to abolish fences if they so desire, and.
will permiv counties having a large amount of
waste land to continue to fence if they see fit.
In all cases it will put the determination of the
question in the hands of the people where it
properly belongs, and will prevent one section
of the State from imposing a law upon other
sections that the citizens of these sections
deemundesirable. Such a law has the advantage
also of being possible. No one acquainted
with the situation in the Eastern and South-
ern counties of the State, where for many years
fences have been abolished, except sofar as
individusls choose to fence for their own con-
venience, supposes that those counties would
permit a general law to be enacted Ione
them to again fence their property and involv-
Ing them in an expense of many millions of
dollars, and since their sentiments are backed
by the vote of such cities as Philadelphia,
Reading, Lancaster, Lebanon, Harrisburg,
Pittsburg and Allegheny this work could not
be successfully opposed.
But a Local Option Law is possible inasmuch
4s it does not interfere with the conditions
that exist throughout the State, and therefore
would doubtless receive general support.
Such a law is in my judgment entirely consti-
tutional and eminently fair to all the people
and to every section of the State.
Besides it settles the question in accordance
with the principles of tree government, the
majority deciding. Such a law as this will
doubtless meet the approval of the thinking
men of both sides.
Respectfully yours,
Jorn Hamivrox,
The above we got from the Gazette
of last week, we give it in full, in order
that Mr. Hamilton’s supporters may
not charge that we have either misquo-
ted his statements or falsified his posi-
tion.
When the WarcamaN stated that
Mr. Haminron, the Republican nomi-
nee for legislature, was opposed to a
fence law it knew exactly what it was
doing. It knew that he had been so
open and avowed in his opposition to
any legislation that would require eith-
er individuals, or corporations, to keep
their property enclosed with fences,
that he would not dare deny the fact,
and the above letter is but confirmat.on
of this paper's charges.
It will be seén that Mr. Hamirron
doés not deny the position that we
have asserted he occupies, nor does he
» answer the question, “whether he is for
or against a fence law.” He evades
that by stating that he is “in favor of a
Local Option Fence law which will-
permit the citizens ot the various coun
ties of the State to vote upon the ques-
tion and determine for themselves,
whether they will have fencesor wheth-
er they will not.”
Now,if Mr. Ham1LToN knows enough
to be a representative at Harrisburg,
he knows that no such a measure as a
“Local Option Fence Law,” or any
other kind of a local option law, could
be enacted, for the simple reason that
this kind of legislation, on any subject,
has been declared by the Supreme Court
to be unconstitutional. And he also
knows, that since the new constitution
went into effect, that every local option
bill that has been attempted to be en-
acted into law, has either been vetoed
by the Governor or declared inoperative
by the Supreme Court, Consequently
his answer to the question, he says
he has been “asked by various persons”,
is no answer at all,but an evasion of it,
intended to deceive the public with a
promise that he knows he cannot
fulfill,
If Mr. HamintoN was honest in hie
professed desire to have the people vote
upon this question, he would have told
them that the only way they can ex-
press their preference, either for or
against a fence law, is in their votes for
members of the legislature; that if
they want a fence law they must vote
for Representatives who stand pledged
to favor the repeal of the present law,
as Mr. McCormick and Mr. ScHOFIELD
do; and if they are opposed to fencing
they can show it by voting for Mr.
Hamivton and Mr. DaLE.
This is the exact situation, and all
Mr. HaMinton’s theories, excuses or
explanations, will not aid him a parti-
cle in getting away from the position he
now finds himself in. He is opposed
to the repeal of the present law, and
the voter who casts a ballot for either
him or Mr. DALE votes against blotting
from the statute books, the unjust
measure, therailroads,and thickly pop-
ulated counties of the east, have fas-
tened upon us.
What It Means,
Evidently Mr. BrainNe's letter, and
Mr. Harrison's acceptance, and Mr.
MoKiNLEY's speeches,and the Repabli-
can party’s tariff and its force bill ideas,
have not met with the approval of the
voters of that party in either Vermont
or Maine. A loss of 9,000 votes in the
former and of over 10,000 votes in the
latter, after the extreme efforts that
were resorted to, to hold them to their
political faith, means more than the or-
dinary Republican will want to admit,
or more than those who hope for the
success of that party will dare to ac-
knowledge. .
It; means that the people want a
change ; that they have lost confidence
in Republican promises and Republican
theories; that they have grown tired
of waiting for the prosperity that a pro:
tective tariff was to bring, and weary
watching for the fulfillment of the
prophecies of good times that was made
in such profusion but four years ago.
It means in short that the masses have
lost faith in the Republican party and
are ready to look to the Democracy for
relief,
——From the efforts that are being
made by the Republicans they evident.
ly have an idea that Ohio needs close
watching and vigorous efforts to keep
it in the Republican column this fall.
And we guess they are right. It re-
quired them to steal the day observed
as the anniversary of Perry’s victory ;
the date for holding a regular county
convention ; to have candidate Rip,
McKiNLey, a half a dozen congress
men and all the brass bands they could
hire,to get up a respectable meeting, at
Woodsdale Island on Saturday, and
then mustered less than 2,000 people
are told.
— If you read Mr. Brain's letter,
which was given in all of the Republi-
can papers last week, you doubtless no-
ticed the fact that he did not know that
such a person as HARRISON was a can-
didate. After the election others will
be in doubt if any such an individual
was upon the ticket. In fact, every in-
dication goes to show that he is neither
“in" nor “on it” this year,
One Strike OfY,
Prr1sBure, September 13. —. The
strike at Shoenberger’s Sixteenth street
mill has been declared off by the Amal-
gamated association and the men are
returning to work at the employers
terms. The works will be operated in-
dependently of the Amalgamated asso-
ciation hereafter,
A IRS
Emperor William's Seventh Child.
BerLIN, September 13.—The em-
press gave birth toa daughter at 3.80
this morning, in the palace at Potsdam.
i This child is the seventh one born to the
emperor and empress.
After Davenport..
His Methods as Election Supervisor to Be Thor-
oughly Probed.
John I. Davenport, the notorious Re-
publican supervisor of the Federal elec-
tions in New York city, and author of
the Lodge force bill, has begun to ap-
preciate the fact that the Democrats
propose this campaign, as they never
did before, to carry the war into the en-
emy’s country. During the closing
days of the last congress Representative
Ashbel P. Fitch got a resolution adop-
ted empowering a special committee
composed of himself and Congressmen
Geissenhainer of New Jersey, DeForest
of Connecticut, Ray of New York and
Harmer of Pennsylvania to investigate
Mr. Davenport and his doings. The
Republican congressmen made a bitter
fight against the resolution, for they
feared it meant mischief, and now they
know it. Mr. Fitch has not allowed
such a legal weapon to grow rusty. He
has called a meeting of the committee
and the inquiry will be prolonged until
this fortress of Republican iniquity has
been tumbled to the ground.
It is the tremendous scope of the res-
olution which frightens the Republi-
cans. Mr. Fitch is an able lawyer
and knows what he is doing. Theres.
olution empowers the committee to send
for all papers relating to Mr. Daven-
port’s acts ever since he got his law
passed giving himself the place of Uni-
ted States supervisor of elections, and
making himself irremovable and uncon-
trollable except by the Republican
judge of the United States circuit court
in this city. It also empowers the com-
mittee to bring all persons whom the
majority of its members may believe to
know about Mr. Davenport’s acts, chief
of all Mr. Davenport himself, and to
get out of them under oath all the
truth possible.
CAUSE FOR PERTURBATION,
Lt is this last point which purturbs
Mr. Davenport and the Republican
leaders. Most of the day he has been
in consultation with Secretary Tracy
and Senator Hiscock, two of the best
lawyers on the Republican ide, devis-
ing means of defense or evasion. It is
understood that Mr. Fitch’s committee
has engaged Bourke Cockran as coun-
gel, and that the intention is to put Mr,
Davenport upon the witness stand from
time to time and between now and elec-
tion day, and make him give an ac-
count of his devious ways during this
campaign. They propose to have him
tell how many toughs and repeaters he
appoints as his deputies, where he gets
his money, and what he does with it,
and the other secrets of his business.
This alone will be of immense advan-
tage to the Democrats of the State, as
New York is the pivotal State to the
Democracy of the country.
Chester A. Arthur, the creator of the
Republican machine in this city, used
to smilingly remark that Johnny Dav-
enport was worth 20,000 Republican
votes every federal election. This was
when he was unmolested, when, as in
1888, he spent $500,000 in this city
alone, swore in deputies by the thou-
sand, and kept an immense force of
clerks at work for weeks making out
complaints to bring Democratic voters
before Republican judges and frighten-
ing them from voting. No one has ev-
er been able to force him to an account-
ing. One of the auditors of the treasu-
ry tried it during Mr. Cleveland's ad-
ministration, but Davenport defied him,
and upon an examination of the law it
was found that the government was
powerless. He has been able to spend
Just as much of the government money
as he pleased and be responsible to no
one.
EXTENT OF HIS EMOLUMENTS.
Nobody has been able to find out the
extent of his emoluments, though it
was stated after the election of 1888,
and uncontradicted, that the national
Republican committee made him a
present of $50,000 for his services.
Davenport is the real author of the force
bill. He has had a force bill in this
city for nearly 20 years. He has used
his powers, there 1s good reason to be-
lieve, to colonize thousands of Repub-
lican votes from Pennsylvania in this
city ; especially colored men, who are
run into the west side of the city, where
colored people are thick. As close as
elections are in this state, over a thou-
sand colonists may elect a President.
This year, Davenport will have a hard
time. He will be forced to show his
hand from the start, and the expose of
his methods will have a good effect
uot only in this city and state, but all
over the country.
A ———
Lieut. Peary Is Safe.
He Returns from His Search for the North Pole.
—The Expedition a Suceess.
St, Jorn. N. F., Sep. 11.
Lieutenant Peary and his Arctic ex-
plorers are safe! They have returned
from the land of the midnight sun after
accomplishing in almost every detail
the purpose for which the expedition
was sent out in 1891 by the Academy
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Lieutenant Peary furnishes an ac-
count of his journey from McCormick
Bay np the coast of Greenland and in
the interior. He pushed to within
about 550 miles of the North Pole and
made mauy important discoveries.
His party fared well and with the ex-
ception of one man who was lost all re-
turned in good health. The Kite’s par-
ty found Peary near McCormick's Bay.
The letter of Lieutenant Peary is as
follows :
“The expedition brings back much
ethnological material including tents,
costumes, eledges, kayako and dogs of
the Northern Esquimaux. Meteoroli-
gical and tidal observations and a large
number of photographs of natives,
and costumes and arctic scenery.”
World's Record Broken.
PriTsBURG, Sept. 12.—S. W. Flower
of this city, swam 150 yards at nata-
torium this afternoon in 59 seconds,
beating the worlds record.
Cholera at Our Door.
Houw the Pestilence Was Brought to the Shores of
America and the Great Efforts That Have
Been Made to Keep It From Reaching the Cit.
ies—New Cases in Paris, Hamburg and Russia
— Latest Reports From All the Infected Ports.
QUARANTINE, S. L., Sept. 10.—T ues-
day, August 30, 1892. will be a marked
day in the American calendar. At 10
p. m., that date the Bloravia arrived
with cholera on board. It had broken-
out during her voyage from Hamburg,
the worst cholera infected port in Eu-
rope. :
When Health Officer Jenkins board-
ed her the stereotyped ‘‘all well on
board” was given, but when he asked
if there had been any deaths, he was
thunderstruck when the reply eame
490.7
“Cholerine” was given as the cause
of death, and bit by bit the story of her
voyage of death was told. She had left
Hamburg on August 17 with every soul
on board well,
ORDERED TO QUARANTINE.
Ou the evening of Friday, September
2, Doctors Jenkins and Tallmadge, the
deputy Health Officer, madea trip
down the Bay, aot returning until next
morning.
Before leaving Dr. Jenkins had left
orders with the boarding officers to or-
der any vessel arriving from Havre or
Hamburg to be turned back to lower
quarantine at once. The first vessel
to arrive was the Stubbenhuk, from
Hamburg, with her 258 passengers.
She was ordered back to lower quaran-
tine.
As day was breaking the Hamburg-
American steamer Rugia came up.
The magnificent express steamer Nor-
mannia, with 495 cabin possengers and
552 emigrants, belonging to the same
line of steamers, also dropped anchor
opposite the quarantine station.
At about 5.30 the doctor arrived up
the bay and visited the Rugia and then
the Normannia. Whilst he was visit-
ine the latter the Rugia hove up anchor
and slowly turning steamed down the
harbor toward lower quarantine, In a
few minutes the doctor had landed and
once again the appalling statement was
made, ‘“cholera and on both ships.”
CHANGES FOR THE WORSE,
New York now had three vessels
with cholera on board anchored at low-
er quarantine, but one was considered
to Lave rid itself of the pest. Late
that night Dr. Jenkins paid another
visit to the new arrivals and found
things worse. Two more deaths on the
Normannia and one on the Rugia, and
still the Moravia kept free.
On the 4th, however, things :chang-
ed and the Moravia had a solitary case
and death in one and the same victim.
This death on the 4th was the last ap-
pearance of cholera up to the present
on board the Moravia, and at present
Dr. Jenkins thinks that it is succesaful-
ly stamped out in that direction. If
the Moravia was clear, neither tlie Nor-
mannia nor the Rugia were. On the
same day there were two deaths on
board the Rugia and two on board the
Normannia.
The next day, the 5th, the steamers
each had one; on the 6th the Norman-
nia escaped any deaths and the Rugia
had one. The same was the report on
the 7th. In the meanwhile the cholera
had struck among the crew of the Ham-
burg American Liner. One by one of
the stokers of the Normannia began
to fall, and finally it seemed to confine
itself altogether to the steamer’s fire-
men, On the 8th the Normannia had
two more of her crew taken, and one of
the steerage passengers of the Rugia
fell a victim to the dreaded disease.
ON THE WYOMING.
The steerage passengers of the Nor-
mannia had now been some days on
Hoffman Island, and, as regards the
cholera, they seemed to be for the last
few days exempt. A sensation was
caused on the 9th by the report of two
deaths on board the Guion Liner Wy-
oming, which from all accounts had
choleraic symptoms.
STARTLING NEWS.
At last a telegram arrived from Dr.
Byron to Dr. Jenkins and slowly he
read out: ‘Have just been round
ships; all O. K, except Scandia, just
arrived. She has thirty-two deaths,
twenty-nine in steerage, two among the
crew and one in the cabin. Iam now
starting to transfer seven patients to
Swinburne Island.”
This was the last night telegram, but
the official account to-night makes the
list as follows: Dead 34, two since ar-
rival ; sick, 11 ; suspects, 12.
DAY OF TERROR.
In addition to the fact of the cholera
itself there has been another horrible
picture to be watched by the anxious
relatives and the awe stricken passen-
gere. Shut up on board the Norman-
nia like rats in a pit were the cabin
passengers. Day after day went by
and they got no relief.
Day by day they heard the rumors
of new cases, deaths and saw the bodies
of the victims taken ashore before their
eyes. They had written letters, sent
out public appeals to be released from
their awful prison, but without avail.
The officials were not ready for the sit-
uation. They had not expected the
pest to come on them in such dimen-
sions and they had to take a breathing
spell to get ready.
For seven days they were walled up
without a trace of cholera in the cab:
ins or saloons, and every day dreading
that it would sirike them down.
THE BOHEMIA COMING.
The next steamship of the Hamburg
Line that will bring immigrants is the
Bohemia. She is due on September 2
with eight cabin passengers and 682 in
the steerage.
She comes direct from Hamburg.
She brings provisions and water trom
the infected port.
THE PURCHASE OF FIRE ISLAND.
Fire Island became the property of
the State this afternoon, and the Surf
Hotel and its thirteen cottages situated
! on its 125 acres became a hospital for
' the reception of quarantined cabin pas-
sengers during their detention.
The sum agreed upon as the price of
the sterile strip of land, or sandspit, is
{ $210,000. D.S.S. Sammis, owner of
| the property and proprietor ot the ho-
tel, reduced his price from $250,000.
Governor Flower sent a. message to
Dr. Jenkins yesterday authorizing him
to rent or purchase land or buildings
or Fire Iceland.
The hotel will accommodate 500 peo-
ple comfortably and the chief and
corps of assistants are to remain. The
kitchen will have a capacity for feed-
ing 2000 a day.
THE STONINGTON READY.
The Sound steamboat Stonington,
furnished by J. Pierpont Morgan for
the reception of the Normannia’s ca-
bin passengers, started from the Ham-
burg dock in Hoboken at 10.10 this
morning fully furnished with stores,
and proceeded to Lower Quarantine.
She reached there about 11.30 o'clock
and preparations were at once made to
take off the 280 first cabin passengers
of the Normannia. The Stonington
will lie inside the Horseshoe at Sandy
Hook,
The state rooms on the Stonington
will accommodate 234 passengers, and
rooms with two berths in each have
been put on the freight deck for the
accommodation of those who cannot be
placed in the regular state rooms.
REJOICING AMONG THE PASSENGERS.
There was great rejoicing to-day
among the imprisoned passengers of
the Normannia and Rugia at the pros-
pects of their removal from the infected
ships. Early in the afternoon the
work of transferring the first cabin pas-
sengers of the Normannia to the Ston-
ington was begun. The task was a
tedious one and lasted well into the
night.
The old war vessel New Hampshire
will be ready by. to-morrow, and tothat
boat will be transferred the szcond-ca-
bin passengers of the Normannia and
the Rugia.
THE WYOMING SURGEON STRICKEN.
Of the new cases reported to-day
perhaps the most significant was that
of the surgeon of the Wyoming, who
was taken to Swinburne Island this af-
ternoon vomiting and suffering from
symptoms of cholera, When the Wy-
oming left Liverpool there were no
signs of cholera whatever.
NO MORE STEERAGE PASSENGERS.
Loxpox, Sept. 10.—The Hamburg.
American Packet Company has tele-
graphed to the agent of the Associated
Press in this city declaring that the
company has entirely stopped its steer-
age passenger business.
The steamers Bohemia, which sailed
from Hamburg Sept 1, and Poaria.
which sailed from the same port
September 5, are the only vessels of
the company now on the way to the
Uvited States with steerage passengers.
No change in sailing dates is intended
by the company, and the only altera-
tion 1n the company’s arrangements is
that its express steamers will now only
carry cabin passengers from Southamp-
ton to New York and vice versa.
Some of the company’s other vessels
will carry saloon passengers from Cux-
naven.
Haumpure, Sept. 12.—Four hundred
and tour new cases of cholera and 110
deaths are reported for yesterday. The
statistics of all returns as to the totals
to Sept. 10th give 10,328 cases of the
disease and 5,305 deaths.
CABIN PASSENGERS TAKEN TO THE CITY,
QUARANTINE, Sept. 12.—The cabin
passengers of the Wiland were trars-
ferred this afternoon to the steamboats
Rosa and John Moore and taken to the
city without delay.
WON'T LET THEM LAND.
Fire IsvLawp. Sept, 12—Two at
tempts were made to land the passen-
gers on the Ceppius, which were suc-
cessfully opposed by the bay men. The
steamer is anchored in thejchannel op-
posite the hotel.
CHOLERA ON BOARD.
New Yorg, Sept.12,—Dr. Walker,
who inspected the French line steamer,
La Champaigne, corroborates the re-
port of Dr. Jenkins that there is a
case of cholera on board. The victim
is a stoker of the vessel. The vessel
will be ordered to the lower bay and a
thorough investigation of her passen-
gers will be made.
NEW CASES AND DEATHS IN PARIS.
Paris, Sept.13.—There were re-
ported in the city of Paris to-day 34
new cases of cholera and 22 deaths,
while in the suberbs there were re
ported 6 new cases and 4 deaths.
Five Deaths In New York, —
NEw York, September 14.—The
board of health announced this after-
noon that from a bacterological exami-
nation made by Professor Herman
Briggs on the bodies of several suspec-
ted cholera patients there have been
five deaths from Asiatic cholera in the
city of New Ycrk., The names are as
follows : Charles McAvoy, who died
September 6, address not known ; Mrs.
768 Eleventh avenue; William Wig-
man, husband of Sophia Wigman, who
died at the same address on the follow-
ing day ; Minnie Levinger, a child, who
died on September 11, at 11 East For-
ty-sixth street; Charlotta Reck, 33
years old, who died at 11 o'clock yes-
terday (Tuesday) morning at 464 Sec-
ond avenue.
————
A Harrisburg Rumor.
HARRISBURG, September 18.—It “is
intimated here that all of the troops
will be withdrawn from Homestead this
week. Previous to Governor Pattison’s
departure for Saranac lake he left cer-
tain orders for Adjutant General Green-
land, who will be here this evening.
Plague Stricken Russia.
St. PETERSBURG, Sept. 11.—The
cholera statistics show that 8,700 new
cases of the disease and 1,869 deaths oc-
curred throughout Russia yesterday.
, In this city during the same time,
eighty-one new cases and thirty deaths
' were reported. y
Sophia Wigman, died September 10 at .
Found At Last.
The First Man Who Enlisted in the Union Army
And he Lives in Snyder County. —His Name is
General E. C. Williams—He Also Served with
Distinction in the Mexican War and Helped
at the Battle of Chapullepee.
SELINSGROVE, Pa., September 11.—
The first volunteer of the civil war is
General E. C. Williams, of Chapman,
Union township, Snyder county, Pa.
His claim cannot be doubted as the re-
cords prove him to be the first, He is
also a hero of the Mexican war, and
helped suppress the Piiladelphia riots
of 1844. At the outbreak of the Mexi-
can conflict Williams raised a com-
pany and presented the roll to Goy-
ernor Shunk, who refused to accept it,
stating that it was not a regularly or-
ganized body ; but after some persua-
sion by others the company was accept-
ed and marched to the front, They set
sail on a vessel for Lobas Island, Gulf of
Mexico. After about forty day’s voy-
age they arrived, but were not permit-
ted to go ashore on account of the many
cases of smallpox. As soon gg they
were sufficiently recovered the company
began its march toward the city of Mex-
ico. They had many skirmishes with
the enemy, but the blue coats fought
hravely and came out victorious each
time. The important event of this cam-
paign took place at Chapultepec. The
firing was terrific when General Williams
and Captain Montgomery, with brave
determination, raised the “first American
flag or the citadel and kept it flying
there until General Scott rode up the
causeway. Others have tried to claim
this distinction, but Willams holds
the proof that the honor belongs to him.
He served through the entire war and °
on his return home succeeded in bring-
ing the flag with him, and later on pre-
sented it to Governor Curtin, who, on
account of the part it had taken in the
conflict, had it encased in a neat frame
and to-day it occupies a prominent
place among his army relics.
When the call for troops for the late
war was made Governor Curtin ordered
Williams to raise a force for the service
and in a ghort time had camp Curtin
fully officered and men for duty re-
sponded rapidly. His date enlistment
shows that he was the first volunteer of
the war. The General’s record is “first
volunteer mustered in the United States
service in the late war on the 15th day
of April, 1861, in the executive chamber
at Harrisburg, Pa., between the bours
of 9 and 10 o’clock a. m., by Captain S,
G. Simmons, United States America, in
the presence of Governor Curtin and
all the heads of the departments.” he
was mustered over two days before the
Logan guards or any of the other first
five companies.
He is postmaster at Chapman and has
held the office for twenty years. He is
in the 73d year of his age and expects
togo to Washington on the 20th inst,
to take part in the Grand Army en-
campment and review. He enjoys the
best of health.
HE ——— ——————
One of the Republican's Infants.
From the Pittsburg Post.
One of the weak and rickety pro-
tected infants is the copper trust. The
report of the annual meeting of the
Calumet and Hecla Company in’ Boston
last week showed that its dividends for
the year ending April 30 were $2,000,-
000, or 50 per cent. on the par value of
the stock. This is its usual dividend,
though under adverse circumstances it
has fallen off at time tothe beggarly
sum of $3,300,000. There appears to
have been a disposition on the part of
some of the stockholders to want more
dividends next year, and onc of the
speakers at the meeting put the cost of
copper production at 8} cents a pound
This is the first information of the cost
at the Hecla mines that has reached the
public. Tt is probable that 8} cents a
pound is an overstimate, however, as
this is the best equipped property in
the country, and several neighboring
properties have in the past reported
considerable cheaper production. But
at this figure the Calumet & Hecla does
do well. Tt produced last year about
70,000,000 pounds of refined copper, and
the average selling price was 12} cents
per pound. The new profit, therefore,
was about $2,760,000.
It is gratifying to know that there is
a prohibitory tariff on copper, and
none is imported. The tariff ranges
from } cent a pound on copper ore to
1jcentsa pound on bars, ingots and
pigs, while in brass the dutyis 13}
cents a pound on all its forms. Itis
also a fact that American copper is
generally quoted in the.London market
lower than in the United States. But
for all that, under McKinley's prohibi-
tory tariff, this feeble infant, the Calu-
met & Hecla, pays 250 per cent. divi-
dend on the par value of the stock, and
distributes annually in dividends in the
sugherhoed of two millions of dol-
ars.
-—
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Attend the bail game to-day.
——The “Silver King’’ will be the at-
traction on next Tuesday night.
——J. D. Hicks Esq., of Altoona was
nominated for congress, by the Republi-
cans of that District, on the 213th bal-
lot.
——1It took 61 ballots to nominate
Geo. W. Rhine, of Altoona, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Senate from that
District.
—— Pumps are busy at work empty-
ing the shaft of the Houtzdale mine.
When the water is all out operations
will be resumed.
——Jas. Haley, the man who was
found murdered on a lonely Blair coun-
ty road, was for eighteen years a resi-
dent of Houtzdale.
—=Mr. Charley Brown is the champion
tomato grower this season. Judging
from a specimen he brought into this
office,one day last week, which weighed
2 1bs and 2 oz and measured 21 inches
in circumference.