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Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 19, 1894.
P. GRAY MEEK, -
EpiTor
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
of ¥Philadelphia.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN S. RILLING,
of Erie.
For ‘Auditor General,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
of Lancaster.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WALTER W. GREENLAND,
of Clarion county.
For Congressman-at-Large,
THOUS. COLLINS,
of Centre county.
‘HENRY MEYER,
of Allegheny county.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
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For Congress—AARON WILLIAMS,
For State Senator—~MATT. SAVAGE.
For President Judge—CALVIN M. BOWER,
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
For Legislators,
Amusement That Hastings Affords.
A Democratic speaker with a talent
for humorous subjects could have no
better fun than ‘to travel after Has-
7inGs’ and subject his calamity oration |
to the overhauling to which its absurd- |
ities and crudities lay it open. He
could cenvert it into a more amusing
comedy than any that Pennsylvania
audiences have laughed over in many
a day. With such a speaker on the
General's trail his progress through
the State would be a source of popular
amusementiand general hilarity.
Could there be a subject more prolif-
ic of fun than HastiNcs’ excuse for
not saying anything about State issues?
His assumption that «there has been
nothing wrong in his party’s adminie-
tration of the;State government and
legislative action, and that therefore he
is not required tojspeak of State mat-
ters, is a} position that affords a Demo-
cratic speaker ‘material for remarks
that can’t fail to excite the laughter of
a campaign audience. Just look at
its amazing and amusing absurdity.
Here is &’corrupt.old party that both
in its legislative and executive action
is notoriously inclined to favor incor-
porated interests; a party that for the
advantage offcorporations has refused
to enforce constitutional provisions in-
tended to restrain corporate emcroach-
ments and Zimpositions;; ‘that has de-
clined to bringirailroad companies un-
der the restriction ofan aoti-discrimi-
nation law]; that has evaded the direc:
tionsjof the constitution by failing to
apportion the State as required by that
fundamental instrament: that has so
deformed the ballot law as to impair
its efficiency for the'prevention of fraud
and intimidation ; that has deposited,
and continues to deposit, large
amounts of State moneys with favored
banks, yielding no interest to the State,
but designed to benefit individuals and
running the risk of BarpsLBY steal:
ings; that has failed to re-adjust the
tax burden so that the bulk of it shall
not be thrown upon the farming com-
munity, and that has failed to furnish
labor with protection in the payment
of wages and the purchase of store
goods by laws which greedy and extor-
tionate employers may pot evade or
violate with impunity.
This is the party whose government
of the State is claimed to have been so
perfect as not to need any defence or
explanation on the part of its candidate
for Governor. What a point upon
which to excite the merriment of cam-
paign meetings is afforded Democratic
speakers by Hastings’ reason for not
saying anything about State issues.
But the most fun that a Democratic
speaker ean have with the General's
campaign oratory is furnished by his
ignoring the fact that the business
slump was brought on by McKixLey-
is and Republican mal-administra-
tion, and by this howling calamity
when every nerve and muscle of indus:
try is tingling with renewed life, and
every avenue of trade ies assuming a
vigorous activity.
——Whatever you do, don’t vote
for McQuowN for Senator. His own
party acknowledges that he is unfit
for the position. He is the creature
of Quay and if elected will do the bid-
ding of the man who is disgraciny the
State.
——Any man who resorts to his
church connection as a reason why he
should be voted for is not fit to bea
judge.
The Gazette Trying to Evade The Wool |
Question.
In our issue of October 5th we inti-
mated that the Gazette knew more
about the effect a tariff has on wool
than it cared to tell its readers. Our
surmise was true, for the following
week it devoted nearly a columa to a
delusive answer to the WATCHMAN'S
| statement that the prices of wool have
invariably advanced under a low tariff.
It elaborated on the glories of Mc-
KiNLeyisM, blamed the Democrats tor
Republican mistakes and crawled be-
bind the chestnutty Republican cam-
paign howl that “the moment CLEVE:
AND took hold of the throttle the
train of prosperity slackened,” all of
which will do very well when people
don’t know any better, but in this com-
munity such trash is looked upon as
an indication of idiocy. Every issue
of the WaroaMAN, for the last year,
has contained facts that brand such
statements as lies through which the
robber tariff party hopes to re-entrench
itself in power.
The wool question is the one from
which the Gazette essayed to make po-
litical capital in its issue of September
21st and then finding what a ridicu-
lous spectacle it had made of itself, it
followed it up in a later issue by quot-
ing a lot of prices which had no bear-
ing on the case whatever. The
| Warcaman asserted that wool has in-
creased in price since the Wirson bill
went into effect and needs but call at-
tention again to the quotations of
prices in the general markets of the
world, It stated that A. J. Greist,
at Unionville, would pay 20 cts. per
pound for certain grades of wool and
as he made that statement to the wri-
ter we haye no reason to doubt that be
will do it. Now with these assertions
reiterated we turn to the Gazette's
statement that Ohio XX wool dropped
from 303 per cts. pound in March, 1893,
to 18 cts. per pound in last August,
and are surprised that the Gazelte
should say such a thing. It knows
‘that the McKINLEY law was in opera:
tion on both dates given and at this
rate if it had not been repealed, when
it was, Ohio growers would not have
‘been able to give the wool away by
this time.
Buch was not the case, however, for
wool was not higher than 23 cts. in
.Ohio last year, the following table will
bear us out in this.
Fine. ai Coarse.
Cents. Cents. Cents.
49 47 41
45 43 31
42 45 35
34 35 32
34 32 30
23 22 21
Now the fact is that free wool is not
going to hurt our home producers and
must necessarily help them. Their
product is not the kind grown in any
of the foreign countries and does not
come in competition with it. But the
American wool is used to mix with
imported wools in weaving certain
grades of woolens. Now if we have
free wool there will be greater impor-
tations of the foreign product and con-
sequently greater demand for the do-
mestic wool to mix with it. This will
result in the exclusion of shoddy in
clothing and it is through this channel
that the masses will reap one of the
greatest benefits of free wool.
When a duty was first put on wool
in 1867, it was worth 62 cts. per pound
but the prices has steadily declined
ever since, until within the past few
weeks when they have increased some.
Since that year there has been a re-
duction of one half in the number of
sheep in the States east of the Mississ-
ippi river, and with this shortage in
American wool and the tariff on the
foreign product, manufacturers resort
ed to the use of shoddy until of recent
years its consumption has equalled the
product of 29,605,168 sheep.
Statistics prove that the price of
wool has been highest when there has
not been a duty on it and that there
were twice as many sheep in the Unit-
ed States when there was no tariff on
wool as there is now. In the face of
such facts, which it knows to be true
the Gazette will lie again if it says that
either grower, manufacturer or con-
sumer will not be benefitted by free wool.
The grower will reap the - bene-
fits of an increased demand for the do-
mestic fleece. - The manufacturer saves
the duty on the foreign raw material
he is compelled to uee and buys domes-
tic fleece to mix with it instead of using
shoddy, while the consumer gets wool-
en goods that are all wool and not
from 30 to 50 per cent. shoddy.
~———Harry CURTIN ought to be
ashamed to ack working men to vote
for him. He has been connected with
one of the worst “pluck-me’’ stores in
the country all his life. A man who
stands in this relation with his own
employees is not the one to send to
Harrisburg to help make our laws,
——Read the WATCHMAN.
~— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN,
The Philadelphia Press and Hastings
Relations With the Miners.
Our Republican coatemporary, the
Philadelphia Press, takes exception to
a recent assertion in the WATCHMAN
that candidate Hastings steadily
avoids a statement of the position he
holds with reference to the enforce:
ment of the law requiring semi-month-
ly payment of wages and the suppres.
gion of the iniquitous “pluck-me store”
system. :
The Press is guilty of garbling for
the sake of political argument and be-
cause we said “the question of semi-
monthly payment of wages to em-
ployees and of ‘pluck-me’ stores at
which workmen are compelled to deal
come home to him personally as a coal
operator and employer of labor’ the
Press cries, untrue, as if the Warca-
maN had stated that candidate Hasr-
1NGs' had really refused his men semi-
monthly payments and forced them to
buy at a company store. The fact is
we do not know whether the STERLING
Coal Co., of which candidate HastiNes
was president until the strained rela-
tions between its managers and
miners made it best for him to with-
draw from the position, ever failed to pay
its employes semi-monthly or w hether
it ever operated a company store.
What the WarcamaNn wanted to
know, and wants to know yet
is this: Will Hasmines, in the
event of his being elected Governor,
usé his position to entorce the law re-
quiring the semi-monthly payment of
wages and the suppression of ‘‘pluck-
me stores 7 Will he have the courage
to fight the plutocratic corporations
that make up the party he represents
and force them to an obeyance of these
law.
This question does ‘come home to
him personally.” His connection with
one of the largest coal operations in
the State has long ere this made mani-
fest to him the necessity of regular
payments to employes and the sup
pression of the sweating systems adopt
ed by company stores. Now what
has candidate Hastings to say,
will he pledge himself to use
his every eficrt toward an enforce-
ment of these laws, which he
knows are being violated every day ?
The Press asserts that HasmiNas “is
not now an employer of miners.” Why
not ? He owns just as much stock in
the Sterling Co., to-day as ever he did.
His was only a quasi withdrawal. When
he saw the strikes coming on he got
out for fear they would hurt his Gub-
ernatorial interests, but he waited too
long. Trouble arose among the Ster-
ling operatives before Hastings retired
and we would respectfully call the
Press’ attention to the following reso
lutions which were read and adopted
at an indignation meeting of the Ster-
ling Co’s. miners, held at Houtzdale,
Pa., May 20th, 1892 :
WHEREAS, On the 11th day of April, 1892
the miners employed by the Sterling Coal
Company, in the Houtzdale region, did at a
meeting appoint a committee to wait on Su-
perintendent McHugh and request him to
equally divide the work between those then in
employment and their fellow miners who had
been thrown out of employment by the clos-
down of mine No. 7, and
HEREAR, Up to April 20th Mr. McBugh did
not fulfill the promise he had made our com-
mittee to comply with our request. Therefore
our Checkweighman Executive Board did per-
fectly proper when they sent President J. V.
Henderson, of Checkweighman Fund, Wm.
Scott and Agent White to consult with D. H.
Hastings and if possible have him intercede
in behalf of the locked out miners and
WuEREAS, Mr. Hastings promised our repre-
sentatives that inside of four days all the lock-
ed out men would be put to work, which prom-
ises have not been {fulfilled even after our
Agent serving notice to that effect upon Mr.
Hastings, an
Wuereas, Officials of Sterling Coal Com.
pany have pulled down notices which were
posted up calling meetings of miners. There-
fore, be it
Resolved, that we the miners of the Ster-
ling Coal Company, most emphatically con-
demn the methods pursued by said compan
and its officials as tyrannical. And be it
further
Resolved, and agreed to, That we consider
the action of D. H. Hastings, in failing to ful-
fil the promise made to our committee, un-
gentlemanly in the extreme, and his promise
but a mere subterfuge to shift the responsi-
bility of the company’s base methods of crush-
ing labor, on some one else’s shoulders.
Wx. McVey, Chairman,
Dennis Smith, Secretary.
These resolutions were presented
and adopted by his own miners and
seen to disprove the Press statement
that “there are no people in Pennsyl-
vania who have greater cause to know
that they have a reliable and practical
friend in the Republican candidate for
Governor than those who earn their
living by daily labor, whether in the
mines or elsewhere.
Will candidate Hastings or the
Press state what he intends doing to
ward enforcing the semi-monthly pay.
ment law ?
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—— The Pittsburg Press, in speaking
of the recent Hastings gathering in
that city says: “The meeting was a
howling success, beyond all question.”
Undoubtedly it wae. The only kind
of meetinga DAN can hold are howlers,
but the howl all comes in on the ca-
lamity.
—— WouEeLsDORF, the Republican
nominee for Legislature, is pledged to
the Republican club of Philipsburg
never to vote for any candidate who is
not a Republican. Remember this,
Democrats, if he atks any of you to
vole for him,
Matt Savage—His Career.
MATT SAVAGE, editor of the Clear-
field Public Spirit and Democratic can-
didate for State Senator in the Penn.
sylvania General Aesembly 1n this
Senatorial district, has always been
closely identified with the edu-
cational and agricultural interests
of his county. In 1884 he was
unanimously chosen the Superinten-
dent of the public schools of Clearfield
county, and in 1887 was unanimously
re-elected to the same position. He
was strongly urged by the directors of
his county to accept a third term, but
his ' Democratic ideas forbid any
thought of & third term and he de-
clined to be a candidate. The energy
and enthusiasm with which he carried
on the schools, together with the many
original plans which he executed for
the welfare of the teachers and chil-
dren under his care, made the public
schools the table talk oi the whole
county, and the high character of his
institutes made Clearfield county the
banner institute county of the State
and it was so recognized all over the
State. The proof of this is found in
the fact that in 1886 the Pennsylvania
State Teachers’ Association elected
him its president and he presided at
the Scranton meeting in 1887.
Very many of the young men of
Clearfield county, who are prospering
in business, trade or professions, owe
their success to the kindly encourage-
ment of Mr, SAvAGE when they were pre-
paring to enter the teachers profession
and during the first years of their ex-
perience they invariably found a friend
in him. He administered his office
with care and ability and it was never
charged that he discriminated between
applicants for schools or teachers in
the echools on account of political
bias. Many young Republicans who
were befriended by Mr. Savace, will
quietly cast their votes to help him
now that he needs friends.
In 1885 Mr. Savace was invited to
connect himself with the Mt. Joy
Grange in Lawrence township, Clear-
field county, and since that time he
has been prominently identified with
the farming interests of his county,
always using the columns of his news-
paper for the promotion of the Grange
and farmers geoerally. He is always
invited to participate in the Farmer's
Institutes and is a live, active worker
at all these meetings. At present he
is secretary of the Clearfield county
Agricultural Society and was appointed ,
two years ago, by Governor PATTISON
to represent the 28th Congressional
district in the National Farmers’ Con-
grees. Although reared on a farm he
is not now engaged as a farmer, but in
his appointment represented the news-
paper fraternity in order that the do-
ings of the Congress might be thor
oughly disseminated throughout the
United States. It is the custom to ap-
point two or three newspaper men for
each State. Mr. Savace attended the
National Farmers’ Congress at Savan-
nah, Ga., last December, and took care-
ful notes, and upon returning home
gave a full page report of the proceed-
ings and the country through which he
passed. Cyrus Woops Esq., Master
ot Pomona and Prohibition lecturer,
was made his substitute this year
as it was impossible for him to attend
the Parkersburg, W. Va. meeting last
week.
For five years Mr. Savage has
edited the Clearfield Public Spirit and
has always been a staunch supporter
of the national, state and county party
organizations and administrations and
is always ready to go upon the stump
or use his pen for the ticket of his
party, whether his friends or enemies
occupy a place thereon or not. He is
now the only Democratic nominee in
the 34th Senatorial district, baving
bad the unanimous support, whether
by the rule of three or the Orvis plan
of the twe populous counties of Centre
and Clearfield. Four years ago he
had the nomination of his county, and
withdrew in favor ot the Centre
county nominee. He has earned the
place which he seeks, and if he is elec:
ted will make an active Senator in the
interest of the district. He will be
found capable, honest, faithful and
always sociable and approachable.
Upon no conditions would he vote for
either CAMERON or Quay. He isan
uncow promising tarift reformer, but in
the State Senate could not interfere
with the tariff if he would. He isa
safe man for the Republicans to vote
for because his election will not inter.
fere with their majority in the Senate,
and because everybody knows that the
man who is running against him wears
the Quay collar and is in this cam-
paign receiving financial aid and party
comfort from the two millionaire Uni-
ted States Senators whese wealth and
chicanery keep them in their seats
a life time to the exclusion of men of
more eminent ability as statesmen, and
whose personal and business charac:
ter are more in keeping with the exalt
ed positions which these bosses hold.
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A vote for Mr. Savage is a vote for
the farming, mining, manufacturing and
general laboring interests of the district
and will help a man into the State
Senate who will not be owned by the
corporations and trusts of the State
and whose well known opposition to
monopolies has made him the cham-
pion of the interests of the plain, com-
mon people.
LL T_T
Tired ot Tariff Contention.
There is a marked change of
sentiment in regard to the effect of the
new tariff among those who were dis-
posed to veiw it unfavorably. They
are beginning to recognize the fact that
it is a moderate measure, and that as
it must necessarily stand, with no pos-
sibility of annulling it during the pres-
ent adininistration, the best policy for
the country is to give it a fair trial and
not to interfere with it by political agi-
tation that can in no way stop its opera-
tion. They are becoming convinced
that tariff contention in the present
campaign can have no practical eftect,
and that it is unreasonable, as well as
jojurious, to plunge into the disturbance
of another tarniff fight that can deter-
wine nothing and has no other object
than to carry a State election.
Common sense, even among those
who opposed the passage of the new
tariff bill, is settling down to the con
viction that the country needs a rest
from that kind of contention ; that it
wants a period of repose in which it
.may be allowed to discover by exper-
ience what will be the effect of a tarift
that is commended by its moderate
character. When to this view of the
question is added the indisputable fact
that business is already showing the
most encouraging signs of improve-
ment under the new tariff, thoughtful
citizens are not willing to continue an
agitation that 1s intended to retard the
revival merely for political effect.
AT IT SAE
Pattison on Politic s.
The Governor Says the Republican Majority in
Pennsylvania Will Be Greatly Reduced—He
Is Anxious for the Success of Hill in New
Tork.
HARRISBURG, October 14.—Governor
Pattison is not taking great interest in
the Democratic campaign in Pennsyl-
vania, but in the important and far-
reaching political battle in New ‘ York.
Although the Governor's friends from
this State were strong adherents of Cleve-
land in the Chicago National conven-
tion, he earnestly desires the success of
David B. Hill.
Governor Pattison seems to take no
stock in the predictions of Republican
leaders of a majority of 200,000 for
Hastings for Governor and says that
party will do well if it maintains the
majority received by Harrison in the
last Presidential election. He appears
to believe that many thousands of Demo-
crats who remained at home at the elec-
tions last November and February will
be found at the polls next month de-
positing their votes for Singerly and the
rest of the Democratic ticket, and that
in consequence the Republican majority
will undergo a tremendous reduction.
Reasons for the abnormally large de-
crease of the Democratic vote at the last
two elections he declares no longer exist.
As to the result in the Third Congres-
sional district in Philadelphia, the Gov-
ernor expresses the belief that M’Cullen
will be elected. He says the factional
trouble in the district will not be suffi-
cient to insure the success of the Repub-
lican candidate for Congress. The Gov-
ernor is understood to have favored the
nomination of M’Aleer for Congress this
year, but be does not think the dissatis-
faction caused by his defeat will be a
material factor at the election.
Peace Overtures Rejected,
The Japs Considered That the Proposals Made
Were Inadequate— The Chinese Were Satisfied.
LoxpoN, Oct. 16.—The Central News
claims to have the highest authority for
the statement that overtures looking to
a declaration of peace between China
and Japan were made yesterday eve-
ning, but that Japan rejected the pro-
posals made, considering them inade-
quate. According to the Central News,
however, there is every reason to be-
lieve that the proposals were eminently
satisfactory to China and that her repre-
sentatives signified the willingness of
their government to acquiesce in them.
Sickness of the Czar.
Ae Is Afflicted with Cancer—A Sensational
Story.
St. PETERSBURG, Oct. 15.—It is as-
serted that Dr. Zacharian has admitted
that the theory that the Czar is afflicted
with cancer is correct. A dispatch
from St. Petersburg to the London
Times says the reports that the czar is
better are confirmed by advices from the
best circles near his majesty. On the
other hand, the Vienna correspondent
of the London Times hears that the
Czar’s condition is extremely unfavora-
ble.
Pays to Be a Base Ball Player.
New York, October 15.—The re-
ceipts of the benefit tendered to the New
York base ball: club in the Broadway
theatre last night were about $4,000,
which will be equally distributed among
the players. This, with the amount
realized from the Temple cup series, will
give to each Giant a bonus of $1,018
over hie salary as a leaguer.
——
Invested by the Japs.
Lo~NDoN, Oct. 16.—A dispatch from
Shanghai says it is reported there that
Port Arthur, the Chinese stronghold,
where the fieet of China has been refit-
ting after the battle fought at the mouth
of the Yalu river, has been invested by
the Japanese. who later captured that
important port.
Hastings Is Called a Political Coward
and Don’t Resent It,
“Dunc” Karns, Populist candidate
for congress in the Twenty-second die-
trict, has addressed the following letter
to General Hastings : r
D. H. Hastings, Esq., Republican
Candidate for Governor: Sir :—1I
would like to divide the time with you
in your addresses to the people of Pitts-
burg. We think here it is fully time the
people were addressed on the financial,
transportation and monopolistic qres-
tions—quesuons they desire to hear
about and which you are afraid to dis-
cuss. Can you understand this ? Afraid
to discuss! For the reason that the
policy of your party is and has always
been in favor of the national banks and
the money power, and against the in-
terests of the people. In favor of the
control of the transportation and the
state and national politics by the rail-
roads, instead of by the people, favor of
a monopoly of the issue of money by
the national banks, who are lending the
people’s money at from 6 to 16 per cent.
Passing no laws to curb the Standard
oil trust, sugar trust, flour trust, meat
trust, elevator trust, cordage trust,
whisky trust or any of the hundreds of
trusts which are robbing the people of
their hard-earned wages.
I charge you and your party with be-
ing a cowardly party, afraid to cham-
pion the cause of the people, and I wish
to brand you so on your own platform,
and give you a chance to refute it ; but
you will not dare notice this challenge.
Your only hope is toignore these things,
and harp on that old chestnut, the tariff,
which you say enables the manufac-
turer to pay high wages, only limited
by the price at which be can hire Poles
and Hungarians to do the work. I
would also like to ask you to explain
why Republican financial legislation is
not a crime and a failure since the cen-
sus shows the nation has run in debt
twenty-eight billions of dollars in thirty
years ; thirteen billion from 1890 ; that
there were nine million mortgages un-
satisfied in 1890, amounting to twelve
billions of dollars, and if this was not
caused by scarcity of money and conse-
quent low wages, what did cause it ?
Not the Democrats ! who did not go in-
to power until 1892. The country was
already ruined. I would like to hear
you explain who did it. We would also
like to hear you explain why your party
votes against the free coinage of silver
which you admit contains 50 per cent of
commercial value, and advocates the
issue in your state platform of $40 per
capital of paper money with no commer-
cial value. We would like you to ex-
plain your evident insincerity and at-
tempt to bambooze the people ot the
state. If you refuse to divida the time
on the platform, I have no doubt the
English language is sufficiently copious
for you to answer which side you are on
in plain unambiguous language in the
daily press. Respectfully,
S. D. KARNS.
Opposing Armies Facing Each Other.
Lo~voN, October 16.—A dispatch to
the Central News from Wiju, dated
Monday, says : The two opposing arm-
ies still face each other on the banks of
the Yalu river. The Chinese have not
fired a shot, but work night and day
strengthening their defences. Count
Yamagata, the Japanese commander-in-
chief, is awaiting the arrival of heavier
artillery before attacking the Chinese
position. Japanese scouts estimate that
the Chinese force altogether numbers
25,000 men. The scouts have brought
in detailed information as to the condi-
tion of the Chinese defences, showing
that they are not so strong as the first
reports indicated. The Chinese artillery
is shown to be less formidable than the
Japanese had supposed. A decisive at-
tack is expected shortly. Various in-
dications justify the belief that the chief
stand of the Chinese will be at Kuben-
chao.
A dispatch from Tokio says that sev-
eral hundred Chinese prisoners who
were taken at the battle of Ping Yang
arrived in Tokio to-day. Crowds were
in the streets to see the captives and fol-
lowed them from the station to the pri-
sons. The crowd was quiet and orderly,
indulging in no insults or signs of ex-
ultation. 4
The Japanese legation in London has
advices to the effect that the Japanese
transport steamer, Ariaki Maru, has ar-
rived at Yokohama from Hong Kong.
A Chinese gunboat left Hong Kong a
few hours before the Ariaki Maru, but,
contrary to expectation, made no at-
tempt to engage the transport.
Business Getting Better.
New Jersey Industries Are Sharing in the Re-
vival.
Dover, N. J., Oct. 16.—The shops
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad “have been put on full
time, and there is work enough ahead
to keep the employes busy for a year.
The shops have been running for only
eight hours a day, despite the fact that
work was on hand, and as a conse-
quenca cars had to be sent to the Scran-
ton shops.
At the Dover Boiler works, F. F.
Birch, the proprietor, says there are
enough orders on hand to keep them go-
ing on full time all winter. Frequently
the works run all night.
The Dover Iron works, which started
in last month with the expectation of
running a couple of weeks, are going
full blast, with orders on hand to keep
them in full operation.
The Singleton Silk Manufacturing
company’s mills are on the jump with
several big orders. The mills formerly
employed but three dyers, but now
there are thirteen steadily at work.
There is considerable talk of the
building of a large new rolling mill, te
employ many hands.
Expenses of the Division Encampment,
HARRISBURG, Pa., Cct. 16.-—— With the
exception of the items of Railroad trans-
portation, Adjutant General Greenland
has paid all the expenses of the recent
division encampment of the National
Guard at Gettysburg, which will cost
the state in the aggregate about $240,-
000. Of this amount $140,000 has been
paid to the troops for service ; $20,000
for subsistence and horse hire and $10,
000 for incidentals. The cost of trans-
porting the troops, baggage, Etc., will
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