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Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
. Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 28, 1892.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Eprror
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. 0. BULLITT, Philadelphia.
THOMAS B. KENNEDY, Franklin,
DAVID T. WATSON, Allegheny,
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS
Samuel G. Thompson, Clem’t R. Wainwright,
Adam 8S. Rai Charles H. Lafferty,
W. Redwood Wright,
John O. James,
William Nolan,
Charles D. Breck,
Wm. G. Yuengling,
George R. Guss,
Cornelius W. Bull,
James Duffy,
S. W. Trimmer,
Samuel 8. Leiby,
Azur Lathrop. T. C. Hipple, ;
Thomas Chalfant, W. D. Himmelreich,
P. H. Strubinger, H. B. Piper,
Charles A. Fagan,
seph D. Orr,
Josey : John D. Braden,
Andrew A. Payton, r
John A. Mellon Michael Liebel,
Thomas McDowell, Jamet K. Polk Hall,
Democratic County Ticke
FOR CONGRESS,
Hon. GEO. F. KRIBBS,
Subject to the decision of the District
conference.
For Associate Judge—C. A. FAULKNER,
: JNO. T. MeCORMICK,
For Legislature— }i AS. 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.
a S. Ww . 8. Garmam.
4 WwW. W eo. R, Meek.
Centre Hall Bor. James Coldren.
Howard Bor. .Abe Weber.
Milesburg B. .15. H. Carr.
Samuel Weiser, Jr
James A. Lukens.
.H. W. Buckingham.
Frank W. Hess.
.C. B. Wilcox,
E. M. Griest.
Millheim Bor...
Philiosburg 1st W...
Philipsburg 2nd W..
$ 3rd W.
S. Philipsburg...
Unionville Bor..
Benner... B. K. Henderson,
Boggs N.P Philip Confer.
a . P. .G. H. Leyman.
. W.0. James W, Lucas.
Burnside... William Hipple.
.I. J. Dreese.
J. N. Krumrine.
N. J. McCloskey.
Daniel I'reibelbis.
Frank Bowersox,
J. C, Rossman.
David Sower.
College E. P..
"WW, P.,
Curtin...........
Ferguson E. P...
W.P..
Greer
«WV. William R. From.
Haines E. John J. Orndorf.
“* w.r C. A. Weaver.
Half Moo David J. Gates,
Harris ..James W. Swabb.
Howard ...H. M. Confer.
Huston ... ....Henry Hale.
Liberty... ..W. W. Spangler.
Marion .... ...James 3. Martin.
Miles E. P. ..George B. Stover.
# XN.P. ..J. B. Kreamer.
...U. 8. Shaffer.
.«R. H. Reed.
William Kerin,
L. H. Wian.
Taylor.
Union Aaron Fahr.
Walke: . H. McAuley.
Worth... ...W. H. Williams.
Playing a Confidence Game.
When Mr. Jorn HawminLtoN was
nominated by the Republicans,as their
candidate for legislature, the Warcn-
MAN was inclined to the belief that he
was a gentleman of toc high character
to stoop to trickery, and as a citizen too
honest to attempt to deceive the peo-
ple.
His conduct since becoming a candi-
date has caused us tojrevise this opinion
and hereafter the WarcaMaN’s ideas
of Mr.j HamiLroN as a man of high
moral character, honest intentions
and pure{motives, must be very differ-
ent from what theyjwere before he un-
covered himself Zand showed his real
character.
In not a single instance since his
nomination, on questions. pertaining to
the duties of the position he aspires to,
or to the interests of the people of the
county, has he been either honest, man:
ly, or straight-forward.
While he is heart and soul for the
re-election of M.S. Quay to the Uhni-
ted States senate, and pledged to vote
for him for that position, he attempts
to leave the impression with anti Quay
Republicans and Democrats that he is
not for him, and wonld cheerfully join
& movement to secure his defeat.
To the farmer who wants a re-vision
of the tax-laws, so that corporations
and other moneyed interests would be
compelled to bear their share of the
burdens of taxation, he makes pre-
tense of favoring a change, but does
not tell them that he has written and
argued in favor of such laws as would
pit all taxes upon improved property,
and leave the wild lands of the county,
in which he is largely interested, as
well as capital invested in speculative
enterprices, piractically without any
taxation. :
On the question of prohibition he
out-Herods Herod, as an enemy of the
ram traffe, when talking to those;whom
he imagineslare against license, and to
others argues in favor of a law that
would put the privilege of selling in-
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toxicating drinks upat auction, and of
selling licences to maintain bars in ev-
ery town in the county, to the indivi
duals who would pay the most for
them. ..
On the fence question, a matter that
interests every farmer in the county and
is of vital import to the safety and
prosperity of the people, while he is
the most ultra opponent ot fencing, he
professes to favor a local option law on
this subject, knowing that no such law
can be passed, and that if passed
the supreme court decisions against
the local option principle in legislation
under the present constitution, would
render it of no use to any com munity.
And to cap the climax of his false
pretenses and deceptions he has for
the past ten days been travelling
through Penn’s valley, clothed in a
cast away suit and professing to be a
plain, hard working every day farmer.
The trath is, he has not done a day’s
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his acts, or can condone his offences,
And just so surely can no Democrat,
or no honest right-thinking citizen, vote
for Representatives who are pledged to
endorse him and his corrupt methods,
by voting for him for United States
Senator, as HaminroNn and DALE have
promised and pledged themselves to do.
Who is Responsible.
The Homestead strikers are now un-
der indictment for treason. However
s incere they may have been in their
conception of what they imagined to
be “the rights of labor,” there can be
no question, that they were altogether
wrong in their violent interference
with the rights of others. Whetker
their action in support of their extra-
ordinary view of the relation between
employers and employes amounted te
“treason,” is quite another question.
The Chief Justice of Pennsylvania in
his charge of the Grand Jury at Pitts-
burg, left no room for doubt as to his
opinion upon the subject, and it was
unmistakably declared with all the
if ever. He came from down the
country some place, to the State Col-
lege as a student in 1867 or 1868, He
graduated at that institution in 1871,
and since that date has made his living
out of the college, first as a professor,
then as business manager, and for the
last few years asits treasurer. It is
from this source that he draws his
income and not as the result of
any labor he does as a farmer
While he is the owner of a good sized
farm and one of the finest residences in
the county, he is one of that class of
farmers who never soiled their clothes
with any kind of farm labor nor
hardened their hands with any kind
of toil. We doubt if he ever plough-
ed a furrow or has done a day's
work of honest, farm labor in his life.
He is that kind of a farmer who takes
the income, and requires the other fel-
low to do the work--a theoretical, gen-
tleman, “farmer,” who believes that
manual labor is beneath his dignity,
and is reported as asserting that
90 cents a day was wages enough for
any man who wasn’t smart enough to
make his living without work.
And yet in the face of these facts he
attempts to palm himself off upon the
voters of the county as an every-day’
hard-working, poorly paid farmer.
We appeal to the honest, industrious
farmers and workirgmen of the county,
to rebuke this kind of deception and to
vote for their own interests by voting
for men whose sympathies, feelings and
interests are with them, as are those of
Messrs. McCormick and SCHOFIELD,
—— The trip recently made by gen-
tleman farmer Jorn HamiLtoN, down
Penus valley, dressed in old clothes,
palming himself off as areal, every-day
working farmer, will fool no one
but Mr. Hamitton himself. He
imagined that he could deceive
the honest farmers of that val
ley into the belief that he was one of
them and deserving of their support in
consequence. When he reads the re-
turns from that section he will discov-
er how badly he was fooled in imag
ing he was dealing with men who could
not see through such shams.
a ———
Are You For Quay.
When a Democrat comes to think
about it, that a vote for either of the
Republican candidates for legislature is
a vote for M. S.Quax for United States
senator, he will be a queer kind of Dem-
ocrat who casts it that way. In fact he
will be no Democrat at all.
There might be atime when no po-
litical significance attached to a vote
for Representative, and when men might
forget their party allegiance and pay a
personal compliment toa friend, without
injury to his party or treason to his
principles; but when the fight is made
by the Republicans, for a member of
the Legislature, solely to elect Quay to
the United States Senate, and prevent
an honest apportionment of the State
that would give to the Democracy a fair
show of representation in the House,
the Senate and Congress, no one who
has a particle of Democracy about him,
or who regards the welfare of the peo.
ple or the honor of the State, could
think for a moment of doing so.
A vote for either Hamivrox or Dare
in November, is as direct a vote as can
bz cast for M. S. Quay for United
States Senate. It is a vote against any
change in the unjust and partisan ap-
portionments, and a vote to harrass and
hamper in every way, that partisan re
resentatives can, every effort ofa Dem-
ocratic Governor to benefit the people
and do credit to the Commonwealth,
Is there a single Democrat in the
county who has forgotten the warfare
that Quay has always made upon the
Democratic party; the efforts he has
resorted too to bring about the defeat of
Democratic principles; the extent to
which he has gone to defraud the Dem-
ocratic orgamization and Democratic
people of victories honestly won, or the
methods he has employed to defeat the
will of the masses, corrupt elections and
disgrace the State?
Surely no Democrat has forgotten
work,as a farmer,in twenty-five years— |
weight of the authority ot his high
office. It seems like a condemnation
from the bench before the fair trial to
which these men are entitled. But
that all their legal rights will be ob-
served in the conduct of their trial, we
bave no doubt. Itis the highest duty
of a Judge, sitting in a Criminal
Court, to see to it that the citizen whose
liberty is imperiled, has the benefit of
every doubt, and is not convicted with-
out clear and convincing proof of
guilt.
There can be no question of the entire
sincerity of these misguided men, in
the belief. that other men, who sought
work on terms they had refused to ac-
cept, were ‘‘invaders’’ and robbers, who
were coming to drive them from their
homes and impoverish their wives and
children. That they had an extraordi-
nary theory of the “rights ofthe Ameri-
can workingmen,” anda vague, but
entirely sincere conception of certain
privileges guaranteed to labor under
the laws of Protection, is beyond all ques-
tion. They seriously and earnestly un-
dertook to preserve peace and order in
the town of Homestead, and they calm-
ly and deliberately prepared to lay down
their lives if necessary in defense of “‘the
rights of labor” and the homes which
the “invaders were coming to destroy.”
And it may be profitable to consider
whence arose their strange theory of
“rights” in this matter, and their mar-
velous conception of the reciprocal
rights and duties of the employer and
his employes.
The newspapers, the orators, and the
statesmen of the Republican party, for
many years past, have been indus-
triously engaged in teaching the pro-
tected laborer that the one end and aim
of Republican legislation has been to
“protect the working man,”” to preserve
Lim from the competition of cheap
foreign labor, and to secure for him a
continuance of the high wages he en-
joyed under Republican Tariff laws.
The prosperous condition of the country
has been attributed to the continuance
of a system which has prevented com-
petition—‘‘for the benefit of the work-
ingman.” These men have taught,
that competition is not the life of trade,
but the death of-it. The law of supply
and demand, eternal and immutable as
any other natural law, has been persis-
tently denied, and it has been falsely
declared unto them, that the price of
labor could be and was fixed and de-
termined by laws of man’s contriving—
such as this absurd and unjust Me-
Kinley bill. This enjoyment of high
wages under Republican laws has been
declared to be ‘‘the workingman’s
right,”” and he has been appealed to, in
fervid orations and specious editcrials
to ‘preserve his home,” to “save his
wife and children from hunger and nak-
edness,” and to secure for himself a con-
tinuance of *‘the high wages and steady
work secured to him by the Republi-
can party.”’ So far, indeed, has this
idea of treating the proposition of com-
petition in the labor market with scorn
and contempt been carried, that the
President of the United States has not
hesitated to say, “A cheap coat makes
a cheap man’’—as though, men who
would sell their labor cheaply, were on-
ly to be despised and condemned, The
men of Homestead had been taught by
the Republican party that the Tariff
tax, was a tax for their benefit, and that
the manufacturer was but a Trustee
who collected the enormous fund for
their special use. .
No good comes of lying. All this
system of fraud and false pretence was
deliberately contrived and carefully
carried out for the purpose of deceiving
the working people into voting the Re-
publican ticket. For many years, this
scheme has been successful. The peo-
ple were cheated into the belief that any
interference with Tariff taxation would
bring ruin and disaster on the country,
and reduced labor to a. condition of
pauperism. At length, in 1887, the
bold, fearless utterance, of a man who
‘“‘would rather be right than be Presi-
dent,” exposed the lie of “Protection
for the working-man,” and Grover
Cleveland’s campaign of education be-
gan; The defense of Republicanism
was to add lie to lie, and fraud to fraud.
In 1888, Mr. Harrison was elected by
protected laborers on the distinct pro-
mise of continued work and high wages.
The men employed by Carnegie &
Company voted for him to defend their
homes, to secure the tax imposed for
their benefit (as they were taught) and
to prevent the disastrous results which
the Republican party assured them
would follow the competion of cheap
labor. And it is not difficult to under-
stand how the false position of the strik-
ers at Homostead seemed to them to be
a perfectly natural one, in which they
would be supported by the Republican
party—whose doctrines they were car-
rying into practical effect.
For every false word and unrighteous
act, the penalty has to be paid at last.
Not always, indeed, by those who are
most guilty, but paid by some one.
Lies and frauds bear within themselves
the seeds of retribution. The blood
shed at Homestead cries out from the
ground against the Republican party
to-day. But the refuge of lies is swept
away at last, and the end of the wicked
system which is responsible for the
labor-troubles in Pennsylvania is close
“at hand.
‘of engine 538, which was pulling the
A Railroad Horror at Shawmont.
Many Killed and Hurt. An Express Plunges
Into a Coal Train. Fire Adds to the Terrors
Two Consumed After the Smash-up. Police
Take Charge of the Bodies—A Dozen of the
Injured Removed to St. Timothy's Hospital.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25th, 1892.—
An express train dashed into a coal
train at Shawmont (near Manayunk) on
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad,
at 9.45 c¢’clock this morning, killing
several passengers, and a score or more
were badly injured.
It was one of the worst wrecks the
Reading road has suffered in this vi-
cinity of recent years. Cars wera piled
up two stories high, and the cries of the
injured could be heard a long distance
down the track.
Fire added to the awful terrors of the
situation, two cars being entirely con-
sumed. A dozen of the injured were
removed to St. Timothy’s Hospital.
The police took charge of the persons
killed outright.
The express train was from Shamokin
and due at Broad and Callowhill streets
station at 9.30 A. M.
M. F. Bonzano, assistant road super-
intendent of the road, was on the scene,
directing movements.
The cause of the accident was due to
disobedience of orders by the engineer
freight.
He had received orders to remain at
Pencoyd until after No. 2 train, run-
ning from Conshohocken to West Falls,
on the nourch-bound track, had passed
that point.
He failed to do so and No. 2 run into
his train, causing the awful wreck and
such terrible loss of life.
The first report sent in this morning
said that from fifteen to twenty had
been killed and about twenty injured.
The second report to the main office of
the company states that from seven to
ten were killed.
The third report, furnished by Mr.
Bonzano, states the real number of per-
sons killed is seven, five of whom were
passsengers, one ofthe express train's
crew and one of the freight.
SOME OF THE KILLED.
Thomas Welsh, the fireman of the
express train, was crushed in his en-
gine, while Jacob Kilrain, a brakeman
on the frieght, was caught between two
cars and horribly mangled.
Two women, supposed to be mother
and daughter, named smith of Phenix-
ville, and Daniel J. Herr, a Harrisburg
lawyer, were among the killed on the
express.
Miss Sides had her right leg broken
in the awful crash and was cne of the
many wounded taken to St. Timothy’s
Hospital.
President McLeod and Superintedent
Bonzano are at the scene, doing all that
is possible to get the matters righted. It
is expected that the south-bound track
will be cleared this afternoon.
Three of the jurymen doing service in
the United States Circuit Court were
passengers on the wrecked train coming
to this city. Two of them were Charles
Bensinger and Hugh M. Coxe. The
other’s name was not ascertained. None
of them were in the slightest way in-
jured, but they suffered a bad scare.
FULL LIST OF INJURED.
The full list of the injured now at St. Timo-
thy’s Hospital, is as follows :
M.D. Cowder, married, of Harrisburg.
Mr.and Mrs. Moritz Lippert.
Mrs. Mary Tease, widow, aged 50, of Valley
Forge and two children.
H.C. Prince, aged 27, married of 1515 Per-
kiomen street, conducter on passenger train.
Annie E. Sides, aged 43 of Reading.
Mary C. Prettyman, aged 36, married of
Pottstown.
Ella Devine, aged 27, 2417 Perot street.
Annie Kemp, single, aged 33, of Harrisburg.
William H. Embrace, aged 33, of Reading.
James E. Berfield, aged 29, of Renovo.
Thomas Fitch, engineer of freight train.
Howard Gottscholi, married of Reading.
Dr. James E. Wright of Phoenixville, both
legs broken.
William H. Decker, aged 32, Pottstown.
James A. Chillson, aged 27, married ; em-
pliyed on the Reading Road.
W. 8. Jarrett, hand cut off.
John E. Wincoop and three others, who are
now unconscious.
Nearly all are now under the influence of
ether and are seriously injured.
HOW THE CRASH CAME,
The accident occurred just after the
freight train had passed through the
Flat Rock tunnel. It had gone about
thirty car lengths from the tunnel when
the express swept into view around the
curve.
The engineers of the two trains ap-
plied the air brakes and sanded the
tracks, but all to no avail, the crash
coming in a few short seconds.
WRECKAGE SET ON FIRE,
The details may thus be briefly stated :
The incoming passenger train was the
express leaving Shamokin at 5 A. M ,
due at Broad and Callowhill at 9.30 A.
M. At9 A. M,, as it was about enter-
ing the tunnel to the north of Mana-
yunk, it came in collision with a coal
train jast emerging.
The force of the meeting was terrific,
for the coal cars and coaches were jam-
med into u huge mass, with a wrecked
locomotive pushed on top. The glow-
ing coals from the fire box were scatter-
ed broadcast, and within a few moments
the debris was on fire.
The passenger train was known as’
the “Through Express No. 2,” and
usually runs very full. This morning
its number of passengers rather ex-
ceeded the average, and the train was
coming in full when it was brought
to a sudden and direful halt at the en-
trance to the tunnel.
The Reading officials at the Fourth
street office gave out this statement of
the cause of the disaster: ‘The south-
bound track was completely blocked by
loaded freight cars, so that it was neces-
sary to run the south-bound express
from Shamokin on the north-bound
track,” :
In the third car of the express was
found a pretty little babe. It was
crying heartily. To whom it belonged
is not known, but it wus taken in carge
by a man in crowd, who will return it
to its parents when discovered.
J. Clayton Keppler, baggage master
of the express, is reported as being
among the killed.
SA
Forest Fires.
Reaping, Pa., October 23.—Fierce
fires among the timber are raging at Mt,
Penn and Neversink mountain here to-
night, and a large number of men are
out fighting the flames to prevent: their |
spreading to valuable buildings. includ. !
ing several summer resorts. An i
Mrs. Harrison Dead.
She Expired Early Tuesday Morning After
Long And Patient Suffering—It Was at
Twenty Minutes of 2 o’ Clock That Her Soul
Departed from Its Mortal Tenement and
Passed Into the Other World.—Her Death
Had Been Long Foreseen and When it Cams
It Was Not a Surprise.—Sketeh of her Life.
WasHINgTON, Oct. 25.—Mrs. Harri- |
son is no more. At 1,40 a.m. came
the end. For the second time in the
history of the White House a presi-
dent's wife has died within its walls.
Mrs. Harrison metdeath with the pa-
tience and resignation of a devout
Christian and her last days were com-
paratively free from pain. For twenty-
four hours the president and family
had been almost constantly at her bed-
side awaiting the end. Last night was
without special incident, but late and |
earlv, so frequently that he could have
slept but little it at all—the president
was in and out of the sick chamber
and was neveraway for any length of
time,
A SKETCH OF HER LIFE,
Mrs. Harrison, whose maiden name
was Carrie Scott, was born at Oxford,
a small town in Ohio, nearly 60 years
ago. Her father, Rev. J. Witherspoon
Scott, was principal of the female col-
lege which was then run in conjuction
with Miami Unversity. When Carrie
had grown to the age of young wom-
anhood there came to the University
one Benjamin Harrison who soon
evinced a decided liking for the win-
some daughter of the professor. Their
friendship grew and ripened into love
which was consumnated in their mar-
riage on October 20, 1853. The honey-
moon was spent at the Harrison home,
at North Bend, below Cincinnati. In
the following March they moved to In-
dianapolis where Fenjamin began the
pratice of law. His exchequer at that
time amounted only to $800, a legacy
which some old ancester had bequeath -
him. On August 13th, 1854 their first
child, Russell, was born.
As time passed prosperity smiled up-
on them. The husband’s law prac-
tice grew and he acquired a degree of
prominence when sent to the United
States senate in 1881. At Washington
Mrs, Harrison at once became recog-
nized as a leader, a woman of rare tact
and an earnest worker for charities.
When she took up her duties as first
lady of the land ber health seemed of
the best, but prostrated with the death
of her sister, Mre. Lord, which oceur-
red on Dec. 10th 1889, she recovered
only to beseized with the Grip. The
Californian trip was taken upon her
recovery, butshe brought back a trou-
blesome cough which caused much un-
easiness among her friends. It grew
until it became necessary for her to
give up her social duties and retire to
the home at Loon Lake. There the ra-
vages of the disease did not slacken
and realizing that the end was near she
requested that she be taken home to
die. Her return to Washington was
sad in the extreme for all seemed to
realize that the end was very near.
In appearance she was a type of
matronly beauty. In figure she show-
ed the generosity of nature and in
mind nature’s equal beneficence ex-
panded by training in the acquirements
of a liberal education drawn from the
broadest opportunities. A lavish
growth of hair silvered with the
threads of a little over half a century
of life and floating in curly waves ov-
er a well shaped head and ending in
a graceful coil, her regular features
dark expressive eyes, formed a piciure
of ripened womanhood. She had a
voice softened by the instincts of a gen-
tle nature and a gift of conversation
which, while animated, was thought-
ful. Her inclinations were toward art
and her talent for painting 18 said to
have been quite rare. In the domestic
circle she was a simple, loving mother
and the sweet traits which developed
when she did her own work in the
humble little Indianapolis hoge made
her loved as the mistress of the White
House.
THE FUNERAL.
The funeral services were held in
the East room of the White House,
yesterday morning, conducted accord-
ing to the Presbyterian forms by the
Rev. Dr. Tennis 8. Hamlin, pastor of
the Church of the Covenant, on Con-
necticut avenue, of which the President
and Mrs. Harrison have been regular
attendants. The body did not lie in
state, but was takenimmediately to the
special which is now carrying the fun-
eral party to Indianapolis.
The train is made up of a combina-
tion baggage and drawing car, three
sleepers, a dining car, an observation
car, in which the body lies, and the
President's private car. It left Wash-
ington yesterday morning at 11:30 and
will arrive at its destination to-day at
9:30. The President, his family all
excepting the little grand children, a
few personal friends including the vice
President, members of the cabinet and
their families are the only members on
the funeral train. At 10:30 to-day the
church services at Indianapolis will be-
gin. They will take place in the First
Presbyterian church of Indianapolis,
on the corner of New York and Penn-
sylvania streets. The Rev. M. L.
Haines, pastor of the church, will offi-
ciate, The body will tiren be taken to
Crown Hill cemetery and interred, af:
ter which the President will retarn to
Washington.
The remains of Mrs, Harrison lie in
a casket made of Spanish red
cedar covered with fine black broad-
cloth, It has a copper metallic nner
case, hermetically sealed, and lined
with cream tufted satin, The exterior
of the casket . has no orsamentation
whatever, except
haudles, which run its tull length,
and a solid silver oxydized plate “bear-
ing this inscription : ]
CAROLINE SCOTT HARRISON,
wife of
Benjamin Harrison,
Died
October 25, 1892.
A view of the casket impresses one |
with its simplicity and elegance.
There is no ‘trace of ostentation; and in
the oxydized bar
- a
I AR ET
all of these respects itis in full keep
ing with the'life and character of her
who will make it her last home. The
i travellin z case is also made of Spanish
{ red cedar, highly polished with brass
I handles and corners. This case is said
to be one of the finest ever con-
structed.
Fifty Thousand Drowned.
Great Floods in China and One Million People
May Die.
SAN Francisco, Cal., Oct. 23. —Ter-
rible accounts of the loss ot life and
property, caused by the breaking of the
banks of tae Yellow River which is
aptly called “China's Sorrow,” come
by letters from the flooded section. It
is only three years since the whole
| basin of the river was flooded, and now
comes a new flood fully as disastrous.
FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE DROWNED.
The flooded districtjis about 150
miles long, by 30 miles wide, and is
estimated that over 50,000 people have
been drowned, and that fully 1,000,000
will starve to death unless the Chinese
government turnishes them food from
now till next spring.
nese figures furnish some idea of
the extent of the calamity in single vil-
lages in which the whole loss of life at
Johnstown, Pa., is surpassed. The
work of strengthening the embank-
ment of the river was poorly done three
years ago, and the high water this sea-
son swept away the dykes as though
they were made of straw.
In several districts the water is 15
feet deep, and whole families are
perched on the roofs of their houses.
Ouly the most substantial structures
resist the action of the water, the mal
jority of the houses are crumbling away
and carrying the wretched people to
death.
em——cr——
Says Cleveland Will Gain.
New York, October 23.—Demoecra-
tic national headquarters to-day issued
the following : Kx-congressman Char-
les H. Turner, who has just returned
from a three weeks’ tour in the western
part of the state, was a visitor at nation-
al democratic headquarters. He said ; “I
find that Mr. Cleveland is going to gain
a great many republican votes. The
farmers have not been pleased with the
workings of the McKinley bill and
there is a feeling among the republican
farmers that tariff reform would be best
for them. I feel sure that Mr. Harri-
son’s vote of four year’s ago will be cut
down at least 15,000 in the rural districts.
He will lose more than that proportion-
ately in the cities in the state. 1 cannot
see how it is possible for him to come
down to the Harlem river with more
than 68,000 majority. I have person-
ally found a great many cases of former
republicans voting with us on the tariff
owing largely to the decline of farm
values, and this is true in the heavy
ropublican counties. I have not found
a republican county where the republi-
they would get the same majority as
they did 1n 1888.”
Mr. Cleveland's Condolence.
New Yorg, Oct. 25.--Mr. Cleve-
land sent the following despatch to
President Harrison this morning :
“To Benjamin Harrison, Executive
Mansion Washington ;
“I hasten to assure you of my sincere
sympathy in the hour of you terrible
bereavement. GROVER CLEVELAND.”
For a Limited Time Only.
From the New York World.
The increased prosperity of the Z7i-
bune printers doesn’t date back to the
passage of the McKinley law. It be-
gan shortly after editor Reid was nom-
inated for office, and will very likely
cease after he is defeated.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——-Many Belletonte store’s are now
illumined by the arc light. It seems to
be a great improvement on the incandes-
cent.
——Mrs. Judge Riley, of Boalsburg,.
was a visitor on Tuesday. Mrs. Riley
is well up in politics, as every true
American woman should be.
——F. P. Blair. & Co., jewelers, put
a new sign out in front of their store, on
the corner of Allegheny and High
streets, on Monday morning. Itisa
large gilt clock which stands on an iron
pedestal about six feet high. The
clock is supposed to be a “dummy,” as
such signs usually are, but when walk-
ing rear it the “tick, tick, tick,” which
is plainly heard, soon attracts your at.
tention and upon looking at its face
you see the correct time. It was made
at the Phenix planing mill, in this
place, after the Louis XIV model.
The centre of the wooden case is mortis-
ed and in that opening Thos. Moore
has placed the clock works. The sign
is ornamental as well as useful, for
pedestrians can see the correct time even
when the court house clock is hidden
from view by leaves.
——Tor abolit two weeks previous to
last Sunday workmen were busy mortis-
ing and preparing lumber for a new
frame rail-road trestle that spans Spring
creck just above the passenger station,
in this place. Oa Satarday evening
the timber was all ready just to lay in
its place on the piles, in fact the bridge
stood on the working trestles just as it
was to be placed when completed.
Trains'ran in over the B. N. & L. as usu-
al, on Saturday . Bright and early Sun-
day morning a gang of men went to
~ work tearing. off the rotten timber in
the old structure and before night it
was replaced by the new. Thus com-
pleting ‘the “work without delaying
trains a minute. The trestle is 120
feet long.
can leaders were willing to say that.