EM TP SH A SR A I SE OR PT A re
Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Beliefonte, Pa., March 28, 1894,
EpiTor
P GRAY MEEK, - - -
To the Democratic Voters of Centre
County:
A grand Democratic or county meet-
ing will be held at Bellefonte in the
Court House, on Tuesday evening the
24th day of April, A. D. 1894. This
meeting will be held for the purpose of]
ratifying an amendment te the Rules of
the Democratic party of the county of
Centre, passed by ‘resolution at the last
county convention, whereby the time
of holding the annual couaty conven-
tion was changed from the month of
August to the month of June. Other
important matters and measures of great
moment to theorganization,management
and welfare of the party, will be dis-
cussed and voted upon atthe said meet-
ing. All Democrats are cordially invi-
ted and requested to be present. Come
from every section of the county. ‘Let
no precinct or school district be unrep-
resented in this gathering of Democratic
«citizens. Able public speakers will be
present to address the meeting, and the
result will be one of profit and pleasure’
to all who participate.
,ELLis L. Orvis,
N. B. SPANGLER, Chairman.
Secretary.
The Best Tnder:the Circumstances.
the country, would like to have seen
the tariff reform bill a good deal more
‘thorough in the reduction of duties. A
Democratic tariff should greatly differ
from the one which MJKINLEY de-
signed for the benefit of special favored
interests.
But a reform movement that has to
encounter powerful interests ~entrench-
-ed by a long.continued.system of favor-
«dtism, and comes in contact with deep-
dy seated prejudices and cherished
theories, has. obstacles in its way that
wender it impossible to accomplish im-
amediately tbe full measure of its pur-
pose. If it can attain a portion of its
object it is that much ground gained,
and the way has been ‘measurably
eleared for a further.advance.
For years past it-has been the policy
of the government.to stimulate indus-
trial growths by artificial meavs.
Manufactures, which would have at-
tained a healthier and sounder condi
tien by less coddling, were forced to
an.unnatural development by the hot-
hause process of excessive protection.
This unnatural and unhealthy stim-
ulation has been the:fanlt of the gov-
ernment, a fact that must be taken in-
to consideration in the present treat
ment of these abnormally developed
industrial placte. To take the hot-
house cover off entirely and expose
them suddenly and fully:to a more nat-
uralacd vigorous economic atmosphere
which would have been better forithem
if they should have had it from the
start, would be too much for growths
that have been reared under glass.
The fresh and invigorating air of tariff
"reform will dothem good eventually,
but the, present condition «of some of
the industries is too delicate to have it
turned en them all at once, :
Therefore, in changing and reform-
ing such,a debilitating tariff system
the impulse to cut deeply into its im-
perfections is checked by the circum-
stance that many industrial interests
have been made to rely upon artificial
support, and that they would not be
able to stand a deep ineision at the’
start of the weform. Out of considera-
tion for this circumstance MoKaNLEY
duties, ranging from 50 to 100 per cent.
are not reduced lower than to an
average of 30 per cent.
This cut, ewen with an increased
free list, does nat come up to the point
of tarift reform contemplated by the
Democratic tariff policy, but consider-
ing the delicate coadition in which the
hot-house effect of excessive protection
has put many of the industries,a mod-
erate reduction of duties is probably
the best and most prudent that can be
done at the present time. Although,
not going as far as might be wished, it
is certainly a forward movement—a
step toward that attainment favored by
President GaArrFi1ELD, who wanted such
tariff reform as pointed ia the direction
of, and would eventually lead to Free
Trade.
——1It is not very flattering to Judge
Furst to have less than half of the
Republican lawyers in the county sign
a letter asking him to be the candi-
date for re-election, There is some
chicanery in the matter and it ought
to make itself apparent to Mr, Love.
——If you want printing of any de-
scripton the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
No Occasion for Alarm,
age bill recently passed by Congress, if
1it should become a law. Interested
parties having dene their utmost to
give silver a bad name as a monetary
metal, there are people who have thus
been taught to be alarmed whenever
silver legislation is presented in Con-
gress; but we believe that tke bill aun-
thorizing the coinage of a portion of
the silver in the hands of the govern-
ment, if it shall assume the form of
law by the signature of the President,
will not hurt the country, but that its
effect will be rather beneficial than
otherwise.
It is entirely a different measure
from the SHERMAN purchasing act,
which was objectionable in that it re-
quired the government to exhaust its
means in buying silver that was neith-
er needed nor used, it having been
simply stacked up in bars in the gov-
ernment vaults, with no use or service
to anyone except the silver miners for
whom it was intended to supply a pur-
chaser for their product. The Seig-
niorage act is different, inasmuch as it
proposes to coin a part of these silver
| bars into dollars and put them to some
use.
The SugruaN law was a Republican
provision, with the Republican char-
acteristic of squandering the people’s
money for the sake of a tavored inter-
est and for a purpose that was of no
public benefit. The Seigniorage
ems 1 proposition has a Democratic feature,
Those who understand the charac-|
ter ot Republican protection and the]
general injury it has inflicted upon |
in that it intends to turn to public ad-
vantage this uselessly purchased pig-
gilver by converting it into money.
But upon the proposition to put this
metal to its legitimate monetary use
we hear the objections of those pro-
found metallists who think that all the
‘financial wisdom is centered in them-
selves, and are ready with their fine-
spun theories about maintaining the
groper equilibrium between the two
monetary metals, glibly dilating upon
the danger of one being swamped by
ithe other. Their opinions are merely
:theoretic, partly founded upon mis-
apprehension, and partly upon the in-
‘terest of those who look for their ad-
vantage in a limited money supply.
The gold theory is found to be most
strongly maintained in the banking
and speculating centres.
How presumptuous it is for the ex-
clusive gold advocates to claim super-
ior wisdom on the money question,
We would direct their attention to the
superior air assumed by England at
the recent Brussels conference—how
superciliouely she turned up her nose
at anything but gold as a monetary
mete), and spurned the proposition to
restere silver to the position from
which it had been degraded in the
money systems of most of the leed-
ing nations. To-day she is anxious
for the holding of another conference
that may relieve her of an embarass-
ment that has resulted from her silver
demonetization policy.
We expect to see the exalted goldites
of this eountry eating similar humble
pie on the silyer question before many
years shall have rolled around.
--The Seigniorage bill hes passed
both House and Senate and now only
awaits the President’s signature for it to
become a law, If he signs it the silver
pigs in the treasury will be minted into
coins and scattered over the land. They
will be gobbled up by the pigs too.
——What will the Hon. Jorn G.
Love think of the Hon. A. O. Furst’s
last letter, or not so much that, as
what will he think of the signers of it ?
Conrad Gets the Office.
Dr. H. B. Piper Gets Left in His Place-Hunting
Daal.
W asHINGTON, March 19.—The fight
for the Tyrone postoffice has ended in
the selection of W. Fisk Conrad. It is
said that after Cleveland’s election
Conrad and Dr. H. B. Piper agreed
betweea themselves that the first was
to make a strike for naval officer at
Philadelphia and the latter for the
postoffice at Tyrone.
Mr. Conrad soon discovered that he
was notin the naval officership fight
and immediately started after the
postoffice. The result is that be has
got it and Dr, Piper got left.
God in the Constitution.
Senator Quay. Presents Memorials Asking for the
Change.
WasniNgTON, March 19.—Senator
Quay seems to be regarded as the
main friend in the Senate of the move-
ment for the recognition of the Deity
in the Constitution. He to-day pre-
sented memorials praying for such a
change from the East End Reformed
Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg ;
citizens of Renfrew and Mars, Butler
county ; 200 citizens of Pittsburg and
and Allegheny ; citizens of Youngs-
town and White Cotiage, O.; 100
citizens of Philadelaphia, and from the
Cooper Memorial College of Kansas.
— Subscribe for the WarcaMAN,
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No fear need be entertained by any From the Amador, Jackson, Cal. Dispatch.
one concerning the effect of the Seignior-
Death of Armstrong Askey.
Armstrong Askey, one of the oldest.
| best known and most respected citizens.
{ of Amador county passed peacefully
| o'er the mystic river, at the National
hotel last Thursdey evening, the 8th
inst’ at about 5 o’clock, after a linger-
| ing illness of something more than two
| years. He was one of the most univer-
sally loved men by all who knew him,
that it has been our pleasure to know ;
and his death will cast a shadow of
gloom over the entire county, besides
being mourned by many in other por-
tions of the state who knew him well
and long. He was a man of most gen-
ial temperment, and even after he fully
realized that his last ailment must nec-
essarily prove fatal within a very short
time, he never became morose, but ever
had a genial word for those who met
him, and seemed intent solely upon an
effort to make others more Lappy and
light hearted, and to detract their at-
tention from his own suffering. He was
indeed one of the best men we ever knew
and we knew him long and inti-
mately. We sympathize deeply with
his sorrowing widow, relatives and
friends in this, their hour of profound
sorrowing ; but can also rejoice with
them in the faith that his life was such
that the rich rewards of heaven are most
surely granted tohis departed spirit.
He was born August 17, 1827, on Bald
Eagle creek, near Howard, Centre coun-
ty Pa. He left Pennsylvania when
about 19 years old and went to Indiana.
From Indiana he went to Louisiana and
engaged in business of building cotton
gins with dis cousin Ellis Evans, now
of this town. In the Spring of 1849 he
went to Stephenson Co. Ill. and remain-
ed with his brother until the Spring of
1850 when he concluded to cross the
plains and seek the gold fields of Cali-
fornia arriving at Volcano in this coun-
ty in the fall of the same year. He
soon learned that his cousin, Ellis Evans
who has preceeded him to California was
Bl Jackson, when he came down to see
im.
Mr. Evans was at the time engaged
in merchandising in company with D.
C. White.at Jackson and Butte City
He also owned four 15 ft. square claims
in Butte basin and made the deceased a
present of an interest in them. These
claims were very rich paying about $4
to the water bucket of dirt. Deceased
worked these ciaims on the Coyoti style
at a depth of about 17 feet, taking out
about 16 ounces of the precious metal
per day. He soon accumulated enough
money to buy an interest 1n
the mercantile firm of Evans,
White & Co. This firm in the
early days built the old Lousiana
House in Jackson and engaged in the
hotel business. This house was burned
down in 1862, and the present National
Hotel put up on the site by Evans &
Askey, and has ever since remained un-
der their ‘management. During the
Frazer River excitement in 1858, Mr.
Askey became imbued with the fever to
go there, but the venture did not prove
a financial success so he only remsined
in that country a few months when. he
again returned to Jackson.
He was appointed wharfinger at San
Francisco in 1871, which position “he
held for some time when he was promot-
ed to the position of Assistant Chief
Wharfinger with Capt. Blethen, by
Gov. Irwin, which position he filled
with honor and credit till the end of
Gov. Irwin’s term. He was married in
San Francisco, in 1871, to Miss Mary E.
Brown daughter of Hon. A. C. Brown
of Jackson. The deceased, while ever
charitable to his political opponents,
was always a prominent eo nsistent
Democrat. In 1855 he was the candi-
date of his party for the office of sheriff
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Sheriff Phoenix who was killed by
one of the notorious Joaguin’s gang. He
was, however, defeated by Geo. Dur-
ham, who was the Know Nothing can-
didate—that party sweeping the entire
state during that year.
Deceased commenced to fail in health
over two years ago, and for about a
year past has only been able to talkin a
whisper ; and while realizing that his
end was rapidly drawing nearer and
nearer, he ever remained cheerful, and
seemed perfectly resigned to his fate
without a murmur or complaint. He
retained his reasvn to the last, and pas-
sed away without an apparent pain or
struggle, surrounded by his loving wife,
relatives and friends, among whom was
deceased’s cherished and life-long friend
T. D. Wells of Alameda County. A
truly good man has passed from us, and
many and lasting are the sorrowing of
hearts caused thereby throughout Ama-
dor county and other portions of the
State. Peace to his dust and joy to his
spirit.
‘Will Sign the Silver Bill.
The President Ready If Promised No More Sil
ver Legislation, Which Request Will Be Com-
plied With.
‘WASHINGTON, March 19.—The Bland
seigniorage bill reached the White
House to-day. The assertion is made
in administration circles that if the Pres-
ident can be assured that the signing of
the present seigniorage bill will put an
end to silver legislation during his pre-
sent term, he will sign it, but unless
such assurances are received he is in-
clined to veto it. Such assurances, it
was said at the Treasury Department
this afternoon, have been made to the
Secretary by prominent and influential
members ot the House Coinage Com-
mittee. :
Bellefonte Academy.
Spring term opens April Ist, stu
dents, however, may enter at any time
and are charged from time of admis-
sion. Pupils from the country can
buy special rate tickets on the rail
roads, and the classes are arranged to
harmonize with the railroad schedule.
Thorough preparation is given for
college for teaching or for a business
life. 39 12 2t.
Beltzhoover Turned Down.
York, March 20.—The Democratic
county committee met here to-day.
Beltzhoover men tried to run the meet-
ing, but were defeated, and the resolu-
tions passed failed to include the Con-
gressman in the general indoreement
given national and state administra
tions,
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Rosebery Explains.
§ Home Rule Will No be Shelved by His Admin®
istration—His Speech at Edinburg.
LoxpoN, March 18.—Home rule will
not be shelved by the Rosebery admin-
istration. In a speech at Edinburg last
night, that was cheered to the echo by
5,000 Liberals, the new premier made a
definite statement of his purpose to-
ward Ireland, which, he said. were
exactly those of Mr. Gladstone. To
make home rule in the Emerald isle one
of the cardinal parts of the Liberal
program
“When I spoke in the house of lords,”
he said, “I declared with frankness my
attitude toward home rule. Unfortun-
ately, the interpreiation which my
opporents puton my words was not
what I mean. If rightly interpreted,
my words must have carried coavic-
tion to the heart of England that what
I said was a truism, although net in
the sense in which the Unionists inter-
preted them.
“The advocates of home rule knew
that if they were to wait for the pre-
dominating vote of England, they might
never carry anything. The present
government has carried the parishes and
councils bills for England with the
Irish vote. Itis not necessary to de-
mand an English majority to carry &
home rule bill or to beat down the En-
glish vote in order to convince the
English people of the justice of Irish
home rule, (Cheers.) .
The new premier aiso hurled a telling
shot at the house of lords, saying that
he had often pointed out the dangers of
a hereditary chamber, The govern-
ment must now face the vital danger
of such a chamber, because the commons
could no londer be thwarted by the act-
ion of a non elective body of legis-
lators.
The week’s events in the British par-
liament have been of the startling order.
The agitation, especially on the home
rule question, is subsiding, largely
through John Morley’s politic talk with
Irish parliamentary leaders. The latter
find it necessary, for prudential reasons,
to preserve an independent attitude and
refrain from open allegiance to Lord
Roseberry, but they fully recognize the
practical good sense of his policy.
Nevertheless, the belief grows strong-
er that the new ministry will find it im-
possible to execute a long parliamentary
program. Few think a general election
can be delayed longer than July. If
the lords throw out the registration bill,
the agitation against the peers will re-
ceive a tremendous impetus.
To-day’s demonstration in Hyde Park,
on account of the rejection of the em-
ployers’ liability bill, will assuredly be
the greatest popular protest in recent
years. Itis believed the various pro-
cessions and assemblies will contain a
quarter of a million of people. Sixteen
speakers’ stands will be provided, and
all Sorking London is expected to at-
tend.
Coxey and Pattison.
Exchange of Telegrams Between the Crank and
the Governor.
HARRISBURG, March 17.—Governor
Pattison was seen to-night concern-
ing the threatened raid of J. S. Coxey,
of Massilion, Obio, with his alleged
army on the national capital.
The Governor did not seem at all
alarmed, but was unprepared to say
what kis course would be should an at-
tempt be made to pass through Penn-
sylvania on their way to Washington.
He received a dispatch from Mas-
silion to-night stating that the excite-
ment in that city was intense in conse-
quence of Coxey’s movement. The
Governor also received this dispatch
from Cozxey :
“My morning mail says that Sheriff
John Moore, Greene county, Pa., has
received instructions from you to meet
our band of peace at State line and read
the riot act. Wish this either denied or
corroborated by your Honor.
The Governor telegraphed this reply :
“The Sheriff of Greene county knows
his duty,and I have no doubt, will
folly perform every requirement of the
aw.” :
The Methodist University.
Interesting information was given
Monday in the Central Pennsylvania
Methodist conference, in session at Har-
risburg, concerning the movement to
erect a great Methodist American Uni-
versity at Washington. A site of nine-
ty acres has been secured at a cost of
$100,000. Washington citizens agreed
to pay the purchase price, all of which
has been covered save $10,000, and
id was given by a Roman Catho-
1c.
A lady of New York has given $100,-
000to endow the chair of history and
previous to that a gentleman in Ohio
gave an equal amount. Thereisnow an
endowment of $500,000, beside the land,
which is now worth $500,000. The cor-
ner stone of the first building will be
laid next fall. Christ church college,
where Wesley went to school, is to be
reproduced, to be called Asbury hall,
and is to be paid for by Methodist
preachers. It will cost $100,000, of
which $61,000 is now on hand. '
More Happy Democrats.
ScraNTON, Pa., March 19.— United
States Revenue Collector Grant Herring,
of the Twelfth Pennsylvania district,
which includes twenty prosperous coun-
ties, to-day announced the following
appointments : W. T. Burke, of this
city, to the general store keeper and
gauger, at the main office in this city ;
Jobn F. Brosius, of Clinton county, to
be deputy collector for Centre, Clinton
and Union counties ; Sylvester Weave,
to be deputy collector of Northampton
county ; N. L. McGee, gauger and
storekeeper at Reish’s distillery in Union
county, Joseph Habershaw, of Clinton
county, stamp clerk, and Jasper N.
Brooks, storekeeper and gauger at Pleas-
ant Gap distillery, Centrecounty.
Was Aged 121.
PHILADELPHIA, March 21.—At the
age of 121 years Mrs. Annie Bailey,
colored, died suddenly in her room at
No. 921 Lombard street. Although
there is no authentic record of the old
woman’s birth, her own story and the
testimony of her relatives leaves little
doubt that she was aged 121 years.
A Row Over Prohibition,
The Introduction of Politics in the Methodist
Conference Causes Great Excitement —A
Preacher Who Will Voie for Hastings.
HARRISBURG, March 19.—Great ex-
citement was caused in the Central
Pennsylvania Methodist conference to-
night over the presentation of the re-
port of the Committee on Constitution-
al Prohibition, which reflected on the
Republican and Democratic parties be-
cause of their attitude on the liquor
question. Rev. J. P. Benford, of Liv-
erpool, Perry county, objected to the
reference to political parties, and de-
clared his intention to vote for Gen. D.
H. Hastings, a represeatative ot one
of these parties.
Rev. F. B. Ridlde, of Renovo, follow-
ed in a speech in which he favored the
Prohibition party, and other members
of the conierence expressed similar
views. During Riddle’s speech great
confusion existed. Cries of “sit down”
were loud and numerous, but he con-
cluded his remarks. The report of the
committee was adopted.
At to-day’s session of the conference |
the Board of Stewards reported that
the Altoona, Danville, Harrisburg, Jun-
iata and Williamsport districts had
contributed during the year for the sup-
port of supernumerary and superan-
nuated ministers and widows $7,802.
Other contributions increased the
amount to $9,756, or $2,189 less than
the sum demanded. The supernumer-
ary and superannuated obtained $3,615
and the widows $6,117.
The committee on the Bible cause
recommended the use of the Bible in
the public schools as a text book, and
the placing of a copy in the hand of
every Sunday school scholar. .
Tyrone was selected as the place for
the meeting of the next conference.
The Pennsylvania State College.
The annual catalogue of The Penn-
sylvania State College, now being dis-
tributed throughout the State to persons
desiring it, is an interesting publication
of about two hundred pages. The insti-
tution exists under the appropriations
made by the national government to
the several states and under the liberal
grants of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania. The catalogue shows a pros-
perous year and a very remarkable
growth of the college, during the past
few years, along industrial lines. There
are 816 students in attendance this year,
pursuing eleven different courses; nine
technical (scientific) and two general.
Electrical Engineering attracts the larg-
est number of students ; Mechanical
Engineering comes next, closely follow-
ed by Civil and Mining Engineering.
Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Agri-
culture are also well represented. A
number of graduate students are doing
work along electrical and mechanical
lines. There are forty-one in the corps
of instructors. Courses in Mining En-
gineering and higher mathematics have
been addeil during the past year. The
very full directions for preparing for
admission to the college show thata
good standard is maintained and guaran-
tees a work creditable to the culmination
of the public school system, of Pennsylva-
nia. Examinations for entrance -are
announced to be held in the leading
cities of the State about Aug. 27th.
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Want to Continue the War.
Leaders of the Brazilian Rebels Still Hopeful.
Buenos Ayres, March 20.—Advices
received here from Porto Allegre, capi-
tal of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande
do Sul, are to the effect that the insur-
gents in that State appear to be deter-
mined to continue their struggle to
overthrow the Federal Government.
The leaders of the rebels declare
that they have sufficient resources to
carry on war and, they add, that the
prestige of the Republican revolution
has been increased by the flight from
Rio de Janeiro of Admiral da Gama,
who was in command of the former
insurgent fleet there and who is sus-
pected by the Southern insurgents of
having monarchical tendencies.
Coxey's Crusade Will be a Farce.
MassinLoN, O., March 21.—Coxey
received three letters yesterday promis-
ing recruits and supplies from Michi:
gan City, Ind. ; Jackson, Mich., and
Bradford, Pa. Inquiries were sent by
the United Press to each address given,
and in each instance a telegram was
received declaring the reported enlist
ments to be inventions pure and sim-
ple. The telegrams indicate that Gen-
eral Coxey is being made the victim
of practical jokers all over the country:
Judging from the investigation so far
as it has proceeded, the crusade will
be a monumental farce.
Father Lambert Becomes a Protestant.
NEw York, March 21.—Father A.
Lambert, one of the most active mis-
sionary priests of the Redemptorian or-
der of the Catholic church, has with-
drawn from his former connection and
announced his conversion to Protestant-
ism. His defection will doubtless cre-
ate great excitement in the order to
which he belonged and in the Catholic
church at large.
Kilied 200 Malays.
Maprip, March 21.—Two hundred
Malays have been killed by Spanish
troops in a fierce battle on the Island
of Pantar, in the Malay archipelago.
The ferocious natives attacked the
Spanish garrison which defended their
position stoutly and succeded in re-
pulsing the invaders. The Spaniards
had but one man killed, though many
were wounded.
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Tents for the Old Soldiers.
HAarrisBURG, March 21.—Governor
Pattison has offered the tents belong-
ing to the National guard for the use
of the old soldiers who will attend the
Grand Army encampment at Pittsburg
pext fall. The offer has been accept-
ed and the tents will be located in the
parks. on vacant property and in pub-
lic places.
Labor War at Altoona.
American Workmen Drive Away Italians Em-
ployed on a Railroad. —The Crowd Then
Marches Into the Town With the Intention of
Burning the Forcign Settlement.
AvrooNa, March 20.—This city and
the territory lying between here and
Bellwood was the scene of a lively
labor war to-day and a serious riot was
only narrowly averted. The trouble
was brought about by the employment
of Italians at seventy-five cents per day
by Charles Sims & Co., contractors for
the extension of the Altoona and Logan
valley electric railway.
This morning wore than three hun-
dred Americans marched on the Ital-
ians at Red Bridge, below this city,
and compelled the foreigners to cease
work and take to the woods, some cf
them being very roughly handled. The
mob then continued eastward to Eliza-
beth Furnace, where in two shanties
were between fifty and one hundred of
the foreigners, who were run out like
sheep, some of them being pretty badly
used up. The shanties were then set
on fire.
DROVE THE FOREIGNERS BEFORE THEM.
Driving the Italians before them,
the crowd went on to Bellwood, where
all the Italians and Hungarians who
could be found were driven off and
then the mob returned to this city, ar-
Tiving here about 3 o'clock in the after-
noon, and going at once to the foreign
settlement on ninth avenue with the
expressed intention of cleaning it out
of houses as well as people.
While waiting for some leader to in-
augurate this programme, Superinten-
dent Sheppard, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, made his way into the heart
of the crowd and asked the men todo
no violence, saying that the Italians
would not be given further work, and
would leave the city if given the oppor-
tunity. He also gave the assurance
that unemployed residents of this city
would be given the preference in the
giving out of work by the Logan Val-
ley Company.
THREATS OF USING DYNAMITE.
Sheriff Hughes and Mayor Hoyer
also spoke to the crowd and cautioned
the men against the exercise of further
violence and the crowd gradually dis-
persed. :
Open threats are made that it the
Italians do not leave, the row of houscs
occupied by them will be blown up
with dynamite or burned, and there is
undoubtedly a bitter feeling existing
which only needs a spark to be fanned
tnto a flame at an instant’s notice.
All work will be suspended on the Lo-
gan valley extensions until the troub-
le is finally and peacefully settled.
Arbor Day Proclamatiom.
Harr1sBURG. March 20.—Governor
Pattison to-night issued arbor day
proclamation designating Friday,
April 13, and Friday, April 27 as the
days to be observed in the planting of
trees and shrubbery. The selection of
either date it left to the discretion of
the people in the various sections of
the commonwealth, each locality ob-
serving that day which is deemed to
be most favorable on account of clima-
tic conditions. Governor Pattison
calls upon the people to lay aside tor a
season the habitual activities of the
day and devote sufficent time to tree
planting. Attention is also called to
the importance of forestry and the pro-
tection of trees, and the great work
now being done by the state forestry
commission.
Louis Kossuth Dead.
Turin, March 20.—Louis Kossuth,
the Hungarian Patriot, died at 11
o’clock to-night.
His son, sister, and other relatives
were present when he died. He
passed away, holding the hand of the
Hungarian Deputy Karoly. The ago-
ny of his last moments was extremely
harrowing. :
The body of Kossuth will be interred
in Genoa near that of his daughter.
Edmond DeAmicis, the Italian author
will deliver a funeral oration in the
name of Italy. The obsequies will be
attended by a great gathering of Hun-
garians,
Will Be Tried by Court Martial.
WasniNgroN, March 20. — Com-
mander Heyerman is to be tried by
tourt martial at the Brooklyn navy
yard on Thursday for suffering the
Kearsage, through his negligence, to
run upon a reef and be stranded, and
for, culpable inefficiency in the perform-
ance of duty.
The president of the court which is
ordered, is Commodore C. C. Carpenter
and the judge advocate is Lieutenant
Commander J. D. J. Kelly.
Lieutenant Lyon, the navigator of
the vessel, may be tried after the Hev-
erman court reaches its conclusion.
Wigton’s Suit Withdrawn.
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 19.—The
Dauphin county court having no juris-
diction under an act of 1893 in cases
such as was instituted a short time ago
in the mandamus proceeding against the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
alleged discrimination in the carrying of
bituminous coal, the suit was withdrawn
today by ex-Judge Krebs, representing
R. B. Wigton & Sons, the Philipsburg
coal operators who had brought suit for
damages for alleged discrimination in
freight rates.
Both Hanging to a Tree,
A Young Man and a Young Woman Commit
Suicide.
Rosenin, Iowa, March 20.—The
bodies of John Reed, aged 20, and Et-
ta Shaw, aged 19, were found last eve-
ning hanging to a limb of a tree, the
conple having committed suicide.
No cause is known for theact. They
| were both members of respected fami-
! lies.
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