Bellefonte, Pa., July 3, 1894.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Eprror
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
For Kieutenant Governor,
JOHN 8. RILLING,
For Auditor General,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WALTER W. GREENLAND,
For Congressman-at-Large,
HANNIBAL K. SLOAN
J. C. BUCHER.
Democratic County Ticket.
J JAMES SCHOFIELD,
For Legislators, ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
Will They Have a Candidate in the
Field.
Will the Republicans venture to put
a Presidential candidate in the field in
1896 ? Intoxicated by the inconsequen-
tial result of local elections thathave
occurred within the last year, they
easily deceive themselves with the be-
lief that the popular vote is about to
reverse the verdict of 1892, and that
their party will be restored to power at
the next general expression of the peo-
ple. Their mental condition while
thus intoxicated is such that they are
unable to form a correct conceptiou of
the situation of their party. They are
not sufficiently sober to understand
where it is at.
The Republican party staked its for-
tune on the tariff game. All its cards,
from ace to king, were played on that
issue, and the game has gone against
it. It claimed that the prosperity of
the country was maintained by its
high tariff measures. It persuaded
the working people that their living de-
pended upon the continued enforcement
of its protective policy: Iv went per-
iodically to the voters with an appeal
to support the party whose tariff sye-
tem, as they alleged, protected labor;
increased wages, ensured industrial
prosperity, and prevented a collapse of
all business and manufacturing inter-
este—an appeal coupled with a warn-
ing against the free trade designs of
the Democrats whose only object was
represented to be the enactment of tar-
iff legislation that would destroy every
industry and pauperize every working-
man. [i dolefully assured the people
that the mere anticipation of Demo-
cratic tariff legislation was enough to
paralyze the business of the country.
This has been the game, upon which
its political fortune was staked, but
having been beaten at it, what is the
situation which the Republican party
finds itself in? The Democrats will
pass their tariff bill which their ene-
mies have represented as sure to bring
ruin in its train. Less than a year’s
experience will show that it has not
ruined the country. In far lessthan a
year restored industry will testify
against those who so misrepresented
the effect of the Democratic tariff poli-
cy. A general improvement of busi-
ness will give the lie to the McKIN.
LEvites who pictured the Democrats as
conspiring against the business inter-
ests: A general resumption of indus-
trial operations will expose to public
contempt and derision the lying politi-
cians who taught the people that a
Democratic tariff would paralyze the
arm of labor and take the bread out of
the mouths of the workingmen.
There can be no possible economic
impediment to a full restoration of busi-
ness activity between this time and the
next Presidential election. All the
conditions conspire to bring it about.
The markets are bare and need re-
plenishment. The over-supply pro-
duced by the unnatural stimulation of
McKiNLEYism is nearly exhausted
and the mills must go to work. There
is an economic necessity for the wheels
to be put in motion and they will move,
The energy and industry of an enter-
prising people will not remain suspe nd-
ed to accommodate the dolorous pre-
dictions of Republican calamity howl.
ers. The hum of industry and the
profitable operations of business will
be going on two years hence from one
end of the land to the other, all under
a Democratic tariff which the Repub:
licans had pictured as the reason of in-
dustrial destruction.
Will not this be a beautiful situation
in which to trot out Bi. McKINLEY,
Tom Reep, BEN HARRISON, or any oth-
er candidate on a McKINLEY tariff is-
sue, and in the name of heaven what
other issue will the Republicans be able
to muster up? It would not be sur-
prising if, under such circumstances,
they should not put any ticket at all in
the field, but should try to hang them-
selves on to the Populists.
a -e“h a a ————
A United Party.
The name of WiLLiam M. SINGERLY
at the head of the Democratic State
ticket means a united party. It re
moves a cause of weakness from which
the Democracy of the State as an or-
ganization has long suffered. For
some years past factional differences,
particularly in Philadelphia, have im-
paired! the strength which it would
have been able to exert at the polls if
it had been united. The signal defeats
recently sustained have oecurred not
because the party was inherently weak,
but because it was factiously divided.
When one faction was deterred from
existing itself because the other fac-
tion was in the lead, the result as
against the common enemy was neces
earily ineffective.
No candidate at the head of the
ticket could be better able to allay
these internal troubles and remove
them as an impediment in the State
campaign, than the distinguished tariff
reform editor whom the Democrats
have nominated for Governor. He is not
a gelfish adherent to the party, nor has
he ever been a seeker for political pre-
ferment, and therefore has never an-
tagonized opposite feelings and inter-
ests. His party service has been per-
sonally disinterested. His efforts have
been chiefly in behalf of a great econo-
mic principle. He has belonged to
none of the factions, but has always
endeavored to compose their differences
and allay their strife. The State ad-
ministration has been given his hearty
support without his considering it nec-
essary or expedient to collide with
those who have opposed it.
Nowhere as much as in Philadel
phia has the party suffered from fac-
tional contention. The factious epirit
that has prevailed among the Demo-
crats of that city has been a perpetual
cause of weakness to the organization
in the State, and an ever occurring
discouragement to the Democrats of
the country districts. To adjust the an-
tagonisms growing out of this jarring
disposition, and to substitute harmony
for the strife of faction among the
Philadelphia Democracy, has been the
constant effort of WiLriax M. SiNGER-
Ly. His role has been that of a peace-
maker. If the factions in that locality
have been brought to a better under-
standing and are more dispcsed to fight
the enemy than each other, it is large:
ly due to his recent endeavors to bring
the party in that city intoa harmon-
ious union.
Sach ie the auspicious situation that
finds this peace-maker at the head of
the ticket, as the leader of the Demo-
crats in a contest which will involve
the great principle of tarift reform of
which be is one of the ablest, and cer-
tainly one of the most unselfish advo-
cates. This situation ensures a united
party in Philadelphia and the largest
Democratic vote that city has given in
many years. Here is encouragement
for the country Democrats to exert
their fullest strength, for they can be
assured that their efforts will not be
neutralized by a slump in the city vote.
Do not these circumstances point to a
great achievement by the Democracy
of Pennsylvania with Wirniam M.
SINGERLY as their candidate ?
What the Head of the Ticket Repre-
sents.
Several weeks before the meeting of
the Democratic State convention the
WaTcHMAN said :
“What could be more exactly adjusted to
“the fitness of things than WiLLiam M. SINGER”
“Ly’s name at the head of the Democratic tar-
“iff reform ticket in the coming State cam-
“paign.”
We are entirely too modest to claim
that this suggestion induced the action
of the convention that resulted in the
nomination of Mr. SiNgerLY. Our re-
mark was but a premonition of the
popular Democratic feeling in the
State which demanded, for a contest
in which the tariff would eo largely en-
ter, a leader conspicuous for his quali-
ty as a tariff reformer—a feeling which
naturally materialized in the selection
of one who as an enemy of tariff abus:
es and iniquities was earliest in the
fight and never turned his back to the
toe.
The very nature of the contest with
opponents pledged to the support of a
monopoly tariff system, made the
nomination of WiLLiax M. SIiNGERLY
eminently fitting—a fitness almost
amounting to a necessity. On a plat
form that arraigos a Republican tariff
for being the cause of “the derange-
ment of business, the disturbance be-
tween labor and capital, the reduction
of wages, the unequal distribution of
profits in economic operations, and the
gross disparity in social conditions,”
what could have been more suitable
than the nomination of the man who
for years had been the unwearied and
unwavering antagonist of a system
that produced such injurious effects,
aod untiring in exposing the
fallacies and abuses of a high tariff
policy. In a contest against McKiN-
1. v1sM, which this State campaign, in
SRD
:. large measure, will be, the person
nominated for Governor by the Demo-
cratic convention is the complement of
the platform it enunciated.
The tariff reform Democracy of the
State can be expected to muster their full
force under stich a leader. There can
be no doubt as to the construction that
will be put upon their vote. They can
be assured that their expression at the
polls will be interpreted as a condem-
nation of McKiNLEyisM and an en-
dorsement of the Democratic policy of
tariff reduction and reform, of which
the candidate at the head of the ticket
bas been one of the earliest and wost
earnest champions.
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The Arraignment of a Great Culprit.
There are actual and vital State is-
gues involved in the pending political
contest in this State, which will be
prominently brought forward and in-
sisted upon by the Democratic party.
The Republicans endeavor to evade
them, and preferto conduct the cam-
paign on their exploded and disproved
tariff pretensions. While the Demo-
crats will eagerly meet them on that
issue, they will not allow their enemy
to escape the condemnation due them
for the misrule and mal-administra-
tion which they have so long main-
tained in this good old, but politically
abused Commonwealth.
The Democratic platform contains a
severe arraignment of the dominant
party for the abuses of legislation and
administration which have attended its
political supremacy in the State. It
brings that party before the tribunal of
the people as a culprit charged with
having disregarded and violated the
constitution, not merely in a single in-
stance, but continuously, intentionally
and systematically, in failing, for a
partisan purpose, “to make Congree-
sional, Senatorial, Representative, and
Judicial apportionments, as command-
ed by the constitution,” and in refus-
ing to pass the legislation necessary to
protect the public from unjust dis:
crimination by corporations as is re-
quired by the organic law. It ar-
raigns this political culprit for failure
to equalize taxes which have become
burdensome to one class of citizens to
the advantage of another; for putting
the State moneys in the keeping of fa-
vored depositories, and shaping the
ballot law for the express purpose of
facilitating fraud and assisting corrup-
tion.
These are some of the counts in the
indictment against the organized politi-
cal iniquity known as the Republican
party of Pennsylvania, sufficient to
bring it punishment, and if the people
are true to themselves, and the Demo-
cracy maintains a united and aggressive
attitude in the campaign, a verdict of
guilty on this indictment will be ren-
dered in November.
TT RBIS
— In answer to an inquiry of
some of his friends who were anxious
that he be a candidate for Congress in
this, the twenty-eighth district, ex-
Senator WicLiam A. WaLracg, of
Clearfield, has made public this reply :
“Neither my business affairs nor my health
permitsuch candidacy. There is scarcely a
conceivable condition of political affairs that
would induce me to accept or to re-enter ac-
tive political life at this juncture.”
.——A great deal of deceptive clamor
has been raised about the tariff bill be-
ing manipulated in the interest of
trusts, but there is not a trust that
would not vastly prefer to have the
MoKinLey tariff go right on with ite
operation. McKINLEY got up his bill
for the special benefit of the monopo-
lies, and no other tariff regulation will
suit them half as well.
Where Singerly Was Brave.
Seconding the nomination of WiL-
LiaM M. SingerLY for Governor in the
Democratic State convention, and
speaking of his advanced views in re-
gard to tariff reform, Magistrate WiL-
HERE, of Philadelphia, said. ‘He has
won a reputation for bravery by de-
manding free raw material, despite the
fact that he is an extensive manufac:
turer.”
It was Mr. SiNGERLY'S business
sagacity that convinced him that
nothing could be more beneficial to
manufacturers than to furnish them
with their material free of tariff taxa-
tion. He will scarcely claim credit
for being brave in demanding that
which commended itself to hie common
sense as an advantage to his own in-
terest as a manufacturer as well as to
the interest of all other manufacturers.
But where Mr. SiNcerrLy displayed
heroism in his tariff reform position
was in his newspaper enterprise. He
made his paper the exponent and ad-
vocate of an economic policy that an-
tagonized the prevailing high tariff
gentiment of the community in which
it was published. It was a daring
venture to ventilate his anti-tariff views
in the midst of a population whose
minds had been befogged and bedevil
ed by the doctrines of the high protec
tionists. He did this long before
CLEVELAND bad erystalized Democratic
sentiment and concentrated Democratic
effort in a grand movement for the cor-
rection of tariff abuses. But he was
convinced of the correctness of his pur-
pose, and the wonderful success of his
newspaper has fully vindicated and
abundantly rewarded the courage of
his conviction. He should be addi-
tionally rewarded by an election as
Governor in a contest whose result
should be an endorsement of the prin-
ciple which he has so long and brave-
ly and successfully advocated.
The Great Strike Still On—The Situa-
. . tion Improved.
Cr1cAGo, July 11.—The most import-
ant developments in the labor situa-
tion during the past twenty-four hours
is to be made to invoke the federal
laws against the members of the Geo:
eral Managers’ association, and that
with this end in view a conference will
be heid to-morrow between W. W. Ir-
win, of Minneapolis, the principal
counsel for the men arrested for par-
ticipation in the Homestead riots, and
a number of local attorneys who have
made the laws of the United States a
legal combination and conspiracy a
special study.
Mr. Irwin, so it is authoritatively
stated, is now on the way to Chicago
in company with a prominent member
of the Knights of Labor who was sent
from this city to enlist his services in
behalf of the union.
This move on behalt of the striking
element receives additional weight
from the general impression that pre-
vailed around the federal court section
of the government building to-day, and
which was tentatively endorsed by
Judge Grosscup and District Attorney
Milchrist that justice would be meted
out impartially to all violators of the
federal statutes whether they were rail-
road brakeman. =
When Judge Grosscup was asked to-.
day whether the special grand jory
was empanelled, simply to inquire in-
to the offenses of the employees, or
whether it was within its scope to in-
quire into probable violations.
There were fewer white ribbons to be
seen to-day and ten times as many pa-
triotic emblems. Many banks and
other institutions and buildings, not
content with hoisting the stars and
stripes on their fronts, decorated their
grouud floor fronts with monster flags.
The military encampments on the
Lake front and at the government
building attracted large crowds, but
they were eminently good natured and
chatted socially and with heartiness
with the regulars that were off duty
and mixed with them.
At the stock yards the blockade was
effectually broken. Business was re-
sumed on every road and all was hus:
tle and bustle in the miles of pens and
along the tracks.
The first incoming cattle train in
two weeks steamed into the yard at
daybreak and by 4 o'clock sixty-nine
cars of live stock were brought in by
the Burlington, forty by the North-
western and fifty by the Santa Fee.
The military was on guard at every
important point, but there was no
need of its services.
For the twenty-four hours ending
patrol alarm was turned in from the
district and Police Captain
O'Neill, who ie in command of the dis
trict, officially reports that the police
are in full command of the situation,
and that there appears to be no furth-
er use for the troops. At the same
time any attempt to withdraw the lat-
ter will be met by the general opposi-
tion of the packere and other business
interests, and even if present condi-
tions should continue for several days
to come, it will be regarded as neces
sary to hold the military in reserve.
The anticipated tie-up of business,
a result of the sympathetic strike or-
der issued by the representatives of the
allied trades and theappeal to the
Kuights of Labor of Mr. Sovereign, did
not matertalize to any visible extent.
The most radical reports keep the to-
tal that has so far responded within
15,000, while conservative estimates
do not go much beyond that number.
It is claimed, however, that many of
the unions are so situated that they
cannot shut down at an hour’s notice
and that the full effects of the tie-up
will not be apparent betore the end of
the week.
The situation to-night ie that ot an
armed truce. The railroad men, by
watching every move of their adver
garies, say that they are satisfied with
the situation and that their policy is
absolutely “No surrender.” The
union officers and directors also profess
to be equally satisfied and adopt the
same motto. Each side is waiting and
wondering how long this condition of
affairs can possibly continue, Mean-
while, with a sufficient force of mili-
tary to command the situation, im-
munity from eerions riot or disorder
may be regarded as literally assured.
Cleveland's Ultimatum.
WasHINGTON, July 9.—At a late
hour last night President Cleve land is
sued the following proclamation :
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS, By reason of unlawfu' obstruc-
tions, combinations and assemblages of per-
sons, it has become impracticable, in the judg-
ment of the President, to enforce by the ordi-
yy course of judicial proceedings the laws
of the United States within the State of Illi-
nois and especially in the city of Chicago
within said State, and
WHEREAS, for the purpose of enforcing the
faithful execution of the laws of the United
States and Frofeoting ite property and remov-
ing obstructions to the United States mails in
the State and city aforesaid, the President has
employed part of the military forces of the
United States.
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, Presi-
dent of the United States, do hereby admon-
ish all good citizens and all persons who may
be or may come within the city and State
aforesaid against aiding, countenancing, en-
couraging, or taking 5ay part in such unlawful
obstructions, combinations and assemblages;
and I hereby warn all persons engaged
in, or in any way connected with such unlaw-
ful obstructions, ccmbinations and assem-
blages to disperse and retire peaceably to
their respective abodes on or before twelve
o'clock noon, on the ninth day of July instant.
Those who disregard this warning and per-
sist in taking part with a riotous mob in forei-
bly resisting and obstructing the execution of
the laws of the United Stutes or interfering
with the functions of the government, or de-
stroying or attempting to destroy the property
belonging to the United States, or under its
protection, cannot be regarded otherwise than
as public enemies.
Troops sThpjosed against such a riotous
mob will act with all the moderation and for-
bearance consistent with the accomplishment
of the desired end ; but the stern necessities
that confront them will not with certainty per-
mit discrimination between guilty partici
pants and those who are mingled with them
from curiosity and without criminal intent.
The only safe course, therefore, for those not
actually unlawfully participating is to abide at
their homes, or at least not to be found in the
neighborhood of riotous assemblages.
While there will be no hesitation or vacil-
lation in the decisive treatment of the guilty,
this warning is especially intended to protect
and save the innocent.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this eighth
day of July, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-four, and of
the independence of the United States of
America the one hundred and eighteenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
By the President, 3
W. Q. Gresuam, Secretary of State.
MAY BECOME GENERAL.
Cu1caco, July 10.—At four o'clock
this morning a meeting of ninety-eight
leaders of trades unions representing
hundreds of thousands of men was
held. It was decided to order a gen-
eral strike on Wednesday unless Mr.
Pullman agrees to arbitrate before
noon Tuesday. :
Eugene V. Debs Arrested.
The President of the American Railway Unions
With a Number of Other Strike Leaders,
Charged With Obstructing the Mails and
Hindering the Execution of the Law—The
Prisoners Admitted to Bail.
CHICAGO, July 11.—Eugene V. Debs,
President of the American Railway
Union, George W. Howard, Vice Presi-
dent ; Sylvester Keliher, Secretary ; L.
W. Rogers, director and editor of the
Railway Times, and James Murwin, an
engineer, who is is said to have thrown
a switch on the Rock Island road .some
time ago, endangering the lives of many
persons, were arrested yesterday after-
noon on warrants sworn out pursuant
to indictments issued by the Federal
Grand Jury which convened to-day at
twelve o’clock. The full listof indict-
ments are as follows :
Eugene V. Debs,George W. Howard,
Sylvester Keliher, L. W. Rogers, James
Murwin, Lloyd Hotchkins,A. Paizybak,
H. Elfin, James Hammond, William
Smith. John ‘Westerbrook, Edward
O'Neil, Charles Nailor, John Duffy
William McMullen, E. Shelby, Fred
Ketcham and John W. Doyle.
All, with the exception of the first
four named, has been arrested and ar-
ranged before United States Commis-
sioner Hoyne prior to the returning of
the indictments and are out on bail in
$10,000. They are accused of interfering
with the business of the United States,
obstructing the mails and also of pre-
venting and hindering the execution of
the laws of the United States.
THE ARREST OF DEBS.
Although to some extent it had been
anticipated, the arrest of President Debs
and his associates was the sensation of
the day. The President of the American
Railway Union and his colleagues were
brought in quietly and without any of
the lurid fires or outbusts of popular
indignation that sensationalists had pre-
dicted. The federal grand jury, com-
posed almost entirely of out of town
residents occupied less time than had
h | ng | been expected in reaching the decision
this evening not a single fire or police
that the evidence presented for its con-
sideration was sufficient to justify the
return of true bills against the leaders
of the union. No other result had been
expected by those who listened to the
charge of Judge Grosscup.
ARRESTED MEN GIVE BAIL.
The arrested men took the situation
in a nonchalant mood. No glittering of
steel bayonets or tramp of military
forces marked their progress to the gov-
ernment buildings, nor were there any
handcuffs brought into requisition. They
came like free citizens, joked and laugh-
ed and enjoyed the hospitality of the
district attorney’s office while waiting
for bail, put their signatures to bonds as
a matter of personal recognizance and
then returned to their headquarters to
resume the work that had been tempor-
arily interrupted.
Their reappearance was the signal for
enthusiastic cheers and greetings from
the crowd in waiting which had been
venting its fury over the arrests by de-
nouncing the action of the government
and hurling maledictions upon the heads
of those of the federal officers responsi-
ble for the proceedings.
Miners’ Troubles in Philipsbuag.
PRILIPSBURG, Pa., July 11.—Several
mines at which the compromise rate had
been paid for a week past, suspended
work this morning, and at igton’s
Troy mine the men went on strike until
all the miners had been offered the same
rate.
The situation is more complex that at
any time since the beginning of the sus.
pension. Three hundred men from
Munson marched to Morrisdale where
Wigton’s shaft is located and who were
been running at the company compro-
mise rate. They told the men who were
working that if they did not quit and
stand out with them until they were of-
fered the same price they would go to
work at 40 cents.
District President Bradley and W. B.
Wigton will be in the region to-night
and will try to better the situation.
An airshaft at the Baltic mine was
burned to day.
MINES SHUT DOWN.
HouTzDALE, Pa., July 11.—Mt.
Vernon No. 5 and Mt. Vernon No. 6
have shut down again, having been in
operation but a few days under the com-
promise rates.
The United Collieries company, which
has been operating these mines, savy
they are not objecting to paying the 45
cents per ton, but say that the whole
difficulty is that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company will not handle their cars
promptly for them.
Samuel P. Langdon, president of the
United Collieries company, is also presi-
dent of the Altoona and Philipsburg
Connecting railroad company. This
road will be completed as far as these
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mines by August 15 and the company
has given out that they will not resume
operations till they can ship coal over
the new road.
One Indignant Sheriff.
The High Offtcer of Clearfield County Objects to
Certain Things.
HourzpALE. Pa., July 6.—The condi-
tion of affairs in this region is fast be-
coming desperate. All the large opera-
tors, with the exception of the Berwind
White Coal Mining company and J. C.
Scott & Sons. having resumed operations
at the compromise price. These two
firms have refused to pay the 45 cents
per ton gross, or 40 cents per ton net,and
yesterday morning J. C. Scott & Sons
attempted to resume operations at the
reduced rate.
About a dozen men went to work. In the
afternoon about 400 miners went to the
mines with the intention of compelling
the men to quit work. James H. Minds,
the general manager of the company,
ordered the men to keep off the com-
pany’s land, and after considerable dis-
cussion and after numerous threats were
made the strikers disbanded. After sup-
per they again went to the mines and
affairs looked serious. No violence was
done although the leaders of the strik-
ers experienced great difficulty in re-
straining the Hungarians and Italians
from making an attack on the black
legs.
This morning thirty deputies were
sent here from Philadelphia, and the
sheriff was sent for to take charge of
matters. The foreigners are desperate
and trouble is looked for hourly.
Later information is to the effect that
Sheriff Cardon arrived from Clearfield
at about 12 o'clock and at once went to '
the scene of the trouble. He examined
the papers of the thirty persons sent
from Philadelphia, and discovered that
their commissions did not authorize
them to act as police except in the city
of Philadelphia, and that they had no
authority to act as duputies or police in
this county.
He also found that no actual violence
had as yet been done and refused to
swear the deputies until there was some
necessity of it being done.
The company have withdrawn the
men they had working until Monday
when they claim they will have suffi-
cient men to operate the entire mines.
The sheriff also insists that the names
of all persons sworn in as deputies be
entered on the record and be actually
under his control.
Coal Operators Stand Firm.
A dispatch from Philadelphia on f'ri-
day last stated that the bituminous coal
operators of the Clearfield and Beech
Creek regions to the number of about
twenty five met at the office of Berwind
‘White coal mining company there for
the purpose of discussing the strike
situation and taking action thereon.
Edward J. Berwind, president of the
Berwind-White company, acted as
chairman of the conference, which be-
gan in secret at eleven o’clock.
The conference ended at one p. m.
and the following resolution, which had
been adopted unanimously, was given
out :
Resolved, That we stand firmly for
the rate of wages now in effect, viz.,
forty cents per gross ton for digging
coal ; alsc that any question of dead
work and other detail of management
be referred to the local operators, where
they properly belong.
All of the leading coal operators of
Central Pennsylvania with one excep-
tion were represented. The operators
discouraged the sending of non-union
men into the district to take the strikers,
places, such a step being deemed inex-
pedient.
About fifteen of the representatives
reported that the old men were return-
ing to work at the forty cents per gross
ton rate. The operators expressed the
opinion that in ten days there will be a
general resumption of work at the wa-
ges they offer.
All Maryland Mines Working.
BALTIMORE, July 10.—Ocean mine,
the only idle mine in the Maryland re-
gion, resumed operation yesterday with
between fifty and sixty employes.
Postponed Until Friday.
Cuicago, July 11. — All but
three local trades unions have decided to
postpone the strike until Friday.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——A new post office just established
at Hecla, this county, is known ag
Strunktown with Isaac Strunk as post-
master.
——Joseph Funk, of Philipsburg
and Miss Refina Berger, of this place,
were quietly married in the Catholic
church here yesterday morning. Rev.
Father Mc Ardle officiated.
——Mrs. David Meese, of Paradise,
Buffalo Run, died suddenly yesterday
morning and will be buried this after-
noon at 2 o'clock from the United
Brethren church at that place,a husband
and five little children survive her
Deceased had been 1n her usual health
as late as Tuesday.
——A rumor found credence here yes-
terday that George Potter, the oldest
son of John F. Potter Hsq. of Miles
burg, had been found dead in the woods
in Potter county with his throat cut
from ear to ear. Nearly three years
ago he left home to find work and while
known to have been in Potter county
very little has been heard from him
since. It is not known whether the un-
fortunate is a suicide or the victim of a
murderer, or whether it is George Pot-
ter or not. Inquiry at the family home
elicited the intormation that Mr. Potter
was over in Penns valley and none of
the family knew whether George wa
dead or not. He was about twenty-one
years of age.