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8ellefonte, Pa., May 17, 1895.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Epiror.
NOTICE.
NOTWITHSTANLING THE EXISTING
CONTRACTS BETWEEN THE CARNEGIE
STEEL COMPANY LIMITED, AND ITS EM.
PLOYES, FIXING THE RATES OF WAGES
FOR 1895, THIS ASSOCIATION HAS DECID-
ED THAT THE PRESENT BUSINESS OUT.
LOOK WILL JUSTIFY HIGHER RATES,
AND ACCORDINGLY TAKES PLEASURE
IN NOTIFYING ITS EMPLOYES AT THE
tAR THOMPSON FURNACES.
EL RE HOMPSON STEEL. WORKS.
DUQUESNESTEEL WORKS.
HOMESTEAD STEEL, WORKS.
LUCY FURNACES: BE .
KEYSTONE BRIDGE WaBES.
UPPER UNION MILLS, .
LOWER UNION MILLS, AND
BEAVER FALLS MILLS,
THAT FROM JUNE 1, 1803, AND’ UNTIL |
FURTHER NOTICE, THE SCALE RATES
PAID TO ALL TONNAGE, DAY AND TURN
MEN WILL BE INCREASED 10 PER CENT.
THIS WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE 1895
WAGES CONTRACTS STILL IN FORCE.
BY ORDER OF THE” BOARD OF MANA-
GERS, H.C. FRICK,
of CHAIRMAN.
Pittsburg, Pa, May 1st, 1865.
The above notice appeared on all
the «works named in and about
Pittsburg on Wednesday morning.
Though such an announcement speaks
stronger than any words of ours we
cannot refrain from remarking that
the calamity bugaboo is a thing of the
past and Democratic promises are fast
shaping into delicious realization.
Troubled About Silver.
StepHEN B. ELKINS, the millionaire
who succeeded in “inducing the Re-
publican Legiclature of West Virginia
to elect him United States Senator,” is
manifestly uneasy concerning the ef-
fect that the silver question is likely to
have on the Republican party. He
has been out in Colorado interviewing
the silver men of that State, who be-
long chiefly to his party, trying to im-
press them with the fact that in regard
to silver “something must be done to
unite the East and the West, and that
unless it is done it is very doubtful
whether the Republican party will
succeed in the next presidential elec-
tion,”
It is obvious that ELKINS is more
concerned about party success than
a ‘sound currency.” Actuated by
such a motive he urges the silver Re-
publicans of Colorado to concede some-
thing to those in the party who ad-
bere to the gold basis. In other
words, they should not object to such
a straddle of the coinage question as
may be considered necessary in Re-
publican platforms.
The party has the disadvantage of
having half a dozen of its States, such
as Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Mon-
tana, Idaho, and in fact all west of the
Rocky Mountains, that will be utterly
lost to it if unlimited coinage ot silver
is not fully and-unequivocally endorsed
in the next presidential contest. The
Democratic party shows no point as
weak as this on the issue that is to be
the leading one of the near future.
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——There is general manifestation
of disapproval of the cut that is pro-
posed to be made in the public school
appropriations for the current year.
Centre county is doubly interested,
since she is in danger of losing both
on this ground and through the sum
asked for by The Pennsylvania State
College. Should the Legislature final
ly decide to reduce the appropriation
£500,000 much could be done toward
the satisfaction of our people by grant-
ing the request of the College in its en-
tirety.
——Among the appropriations re-
ported by the House committee Wed-
nesday night was one for $6,000 for
maintaining an experimental tobacco
station at State College. The station
had asked for $6,000 to carry on this
work, but the general paring down af.
fects all the requests. In view of the
importance attached to the culture of
tobacco in Pennsylvania and the rapid
growth of the enterprise, the House
would do well to restore the original
amount before the bill is passed:
Tobacco culture isa growing trade in
this State and everything possible
should be done to encourage and per-
fect it.
—— Governor Hastings has justly
earned the righteous indignation of
every woman in Pennsylvania by veto-
ing the bill which provided that a
married woman ehould have the right
to sell or otherwiee dispose of her own
property.
—— If the Republicans should bring
the tariff question into the next presi:
dential election, how could they expect
to make a lively campaign on such a
. dead issue ?
— Subscribe for the WarcaMax,
What Could Be Done.
A trade circular, recently sent out
from A. J. Cruse’s cigar manufactory
in this place, contains the somewhat
astonishing information that there are
about two hundred thousand cigars
smoked and sold in Bellefonte in a
month. In a year this would make a
home consumption of over two million
| cigars.
To produce such an out-put it would
require the employment of thirty-five
skilled cigar makers, twelve strippers
and eight packers earning in all about
£1,500 per month, or $18,000 per
year. Now as the cigar trade is
usually pretty well fixed there is
never much of a falling off in consump-
tion and it would be fair to infer that a
factory, enjoying the exclusive trade of
Bellefonte, would be listed among our
most permanent business enterprises
and would give steady employment to
at least fifty-five men,
These facts should 5pen the eyes of
many Bellefonte business men, The
Board of Trade would do well to con-
sider them before holding out induce-
ments to untried industries to secure
their location ir .ais place. Here is
an opportunity to star: an enterprise
without an out-lay of an additional
penny, from which good results would
obtain and smokers would get as good
cigars as they are using now.
i FREER RA
——There is to be a greater Pitts-
burg. How great, remains to be seen.
The May Cold Wave.
From Summer Heat to Ice and Snow in Many
Places—Crops Reported Untouched—No Great
Damage as Yet, Though Grapes and Other
Fruitsin New York are Sad to be Ruined—A
Snow Storm in Michigan Causes Some Un-
€asiness.
WasHINGTON, May 14.—The Weath-
er Bureau furnishes the following
special bulletin to the press :
The unusually warm weather that
prevailed last week throughout the
Missouri and Upper Mississippi, etc.,
valleys, the lower lake region, Middle
Atlantic states and New Eoglaad, has
been followed by a wave of extremely
low temperature throughout these
same districts, the extremes, both of
high and low temperature exceeding
in many cases the record of any pre-
vious years for the first halt of May.
The warm wave began on Wednes-
dav the Sth instant iu the Missouri val-
ley with maximum temperatures rang-
ing from 90to 100 degrees and moved
gradually eastward, reaching the Mid-
dle Atlantic States and New England
on Friday.
The cool wave eetin in the north-
west on Friday night, frosts being re-
ported Saturday morning as far south
as Kansas and Missouri, and extend-
ing to the Atlantic coast by this morn-
ing, producing light frosts as far south
as Chattanooga and Lynchburg. XKill-
ing frosts occurred Sunday morning in
Nebraska, Iowa and Michigan, and
this morning in Michigan, Ohio and
West Virginia.
Snows occurred along the lakes in
Michigan and Wisconsin. A storm
which developed suddenly during the
last twenty-four hours, and is now cen-
tral in the Ohio Valley, will cause a
still further fall in the temperature as
it moves eastward, producing freezing
weather in the lower lake region and
in the northern portions of New York
and New England.
CROPS ARE BAFE.
Cricaco, May 14,—Cheering news
comes from the fifteen States visited by
frost yesterday morning. The crops
are reported safe. Wheat and oats es-
caped uninjured because neither had
begun to joint, and where cut down by
the frosts or heavy rains. will sprout
out again. Corn was slightly nipped
by the cold in a few States, but not
enough to occasion the slightest alarm
that the yield will be affected to any
noticeable extent.
Small fruits, garden truck and vege-
tables have suffered from the frost in a
few of the Northern states, but no dam-
age of any consequence is reported else-
where. Secretary Garrard, of the{State
Board of Agriculture attributes the
death of millions of chinch bugs to the
heavy rains, and says the ground need-
ed just such an amount of moisture to
make the future of the crops more
promising. :
A BNOW STORM IN MICHIGAN.
Traverse City, Mich., May 14.—
Six inches of snow have fallen since
midoight and it is still snowing hard,
with a strong northeast wind blowing.
Fruit in just in bloom and its entire
destruction is feared, although the mer-
cury has not yet fallen to the freezing
point.
Mr. Wright is Pleased.
The Industrial Resumption, as Indicated by The
Times, Causes the Labor Commissioner to say
a Word About Wages.
New York, May 14.—In an inter-
view to-day, United States Labor Com-
missioner Carroll D. Wright said he
was pleased with the industrial
resumption and rise in wages, in West-
ern Pennsylvania, Odio and West Vir-
ginia, as indicated in the special dis-
patches to The Pittsburg Times of
Monday and Tuesday. He added :
If employers would raise wages
when times are good, as they are now |
doing, the men would not be suspicious
when their wages were cut in periods
of financial depression, but would un-
derstand and bear their portion of the
burden.
Mr. Wright said that although
strikes were almost sure to occur, he
did not expect any this summer, of the
magnitude of those of last year.
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Death of Eckley B. Coxe.
His Illness, Which Began With Rheumatism De-
veloped Into Pneumonia and Baffled the
Physicians. Sketch ot His Busy Life. He
Early Took a Fancy to Mining Engineering
and Received a Superior Education in the
Science at Home and Abroad—His Relations
With His Employees Unusually Pleasant—
His Political Experience.
DrirroxN, Pa., May 13.—Eckley B.
Coxe died at his home here at 10:25
o'clock this morning, aged fifty-six
years. Mr. Coxe had been suffering
from rheumatism for several weeks,
This was followed a few days ago by
pneumonia. Dr. DeCosta, ot Philadel-
phia, and other well known physicians
were brought here but the disease could
not be checked. There is universal
sorrow. Burial will be at Drifton in
accordance with the request of Mr.
Coxe,
MR. COXE’'S CAREER.
Eckley B. Coxe was a Philadelphian
by birth. His grandfather was the
well known Tench Coxe, statesman,
financier and auditor, who died in 1824,
leaving, among others, a son, the late
Charles S. Coxe, who was one of the
Io of the district court of Philadel-
phia some sixty years ago and the father
of Eckley B. Coxe.
The latter wae born in this city on
June 4, 1839. He graduated at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1858 and
completed a scientific course of study in
Europe, having spent two years in the
Ecole des Mines in Paris and a year in
the mining school ot Freiburg, in
Saxony. He subsequently occupied two
years in visiting and sudying the mines
of Great Britain and Continental Eu-
rope, and upon his return to the United
States began, with his brothers, the
business of mining anthracite coal in
the Lehigh region.
Mr. Coxe was well known through-
out the United States for his practical
and scientific knowledge of mining.
For many years he made his home in
Drifton, Luzerne county, near to his
mines and to the homes of the many
thousands of miners and workingmen
whom his firm employs. He was cele-
brated not only for the admirable
methods ot his mining department and
the efficiency of his plant, but also for
the kindly and pleasant relations which
existed between him and the men em-
ployed at his other place in this coun-
try, or even inthe world, an employer
of labor had taken more pains and more
pride than was taken by Mr. Coxe and
other members of his family at Drifton
to minister to the wants and laudable
ambitions of his workingmen and to
establish these cordial relations of res-
pect, confidence and friendship which
should always exist between labor and
capital. Like most other coal operators,
however, Mr. Coxe had his share of
strikes and labor troubles.
From 1872 until 1883 Mr. Coxe was
compelled to battle for the possession of
part of his coal lands in Luzerne
county. The fight which became famous
was known as the Derringer-Coxe case.
It was ended in the common pleas
court in Wilkesbarre on October 15,
1888. An amicable setlement was ar-
rived at, and the jury rendered a verdict
for Colonel Calhoun M. Derringer, the
plaintift, for one-half of his original
claim. The land involved covers 2,000
acres in Black Creek and Sugar Loaf
township, Luzerne county, this state.
It contained valuable deposits of an-
thracite coal, and the whole is valued at
about $10,000,000.
Mr. Coxe was a consistent and ardent
Democrat, and 1880 was elected to the
state senate from the Twenty-sixth sen-
atorial district, composed of the lower
part of Luzerne county and part of
Lackawanna county. He did not take
his seat however, because he declined to
take the oath of office prescribed by the
first section of article seven of the con-
stitution of the state, and on January 4,
1881, issued to his constituents an ad-
dress in which he tersely gave his ob-
jections to swearing in regard to elec-
tion expenses ‘expressly authorized by
law.”
No one who knew Mr. Coxe doubted
for one moment his assertion that he did
not lay out one dollar to procure his
nomination, and that although he had
used money for expenses not expressly
authorized by law, not one cent was
spent with his knowledge for any im-
proper or fraudulent purpose ; and
many of his friends thought he was
overnice and sensitive in adopting a
construction of the law which, if follow-
ed generally, would have left both
branches of the legislature without a
quorum. His constituents accepted the
explanations of his address in the same
spirit they were given, and in 1881 he
was re-elected to the senate by a majori-
ty over three times as large as that
which he had received the previous
year. His name was presented during a
few ballots in the convention of 1883 for
the nomination for governor.
ALS
It Is Hardly True.
Report That Ex-Congressinan Outhwaite Is to Be
Secretary of War.
Coruxaus, O., May 14.—There is a
hint here that before this year expires
ex-Congressman Joseph H. Outhwaite
is to be made Secretary of War, The
story is not denied nor is it admitted
in confidential Outhwaite circles. Mr.
Quthwaite is en route to Europe, to re-
| turn July 1. The President, Mr. La-
{ mont and Mr. Outhwaite are known
| to be very close friends. The talk at
i this end of the line has been subrosa,
| but is printed in full to-day, so far as
| it may be without violating confidence.
WasHiNgTON, May 14.—So far as
| can be learned here, thereis nothing |
lin the report that ex-Congressman
Outhwaite, of Columbus, will become
Secretary of War. No intimation has
i ever reached the public that Secretary
{ of War Lamont intended to resign. If
| he should quit the cabinet, it is not at
| all probable the war portfolio would be
| given to the Ohio ex-Congressman, as
| this would leave New York without a
cabinet place. It is believed the re-
| port about Mr.Outhwaite arose through
! a misunderstanding, as he was recent. |
I ceedingly comfortable berth as a mem-
i ber of the fortifications board, uader
{ the war department, at a salary of
| $7,000 a year.
~==D0 you read the WATCHMAN,
I ly appointed by the President to an ex- |
Why Meade Was Angry.
The Admiral Thought He Was Slighted in Or-
ders About His Flagship, Desired to go to
New York But the Department Had Ordered
His Vessel to Norfolk.
WASHINGTON, May 14.—Secretary
Herbert to-day in response to inquiries
I dictated the following official statement
concerning Admiral Meade :
| “At the navy department to-day it
| was learned that the department had
{addressed a letter to Admiral Meade
| stating that it desired to know if he was
| willing to answer whether he had or
| had not authorized what purported to
| be an interview with him, published in
| the newspapers, and that he had replied
acknowledging the receipt of the letter
| and declining to answer the questions.
“The facts in relation to the failure of
. the department to grant Admiral
{ Meade’s request to have the Cincinnati
‘ ordered to the New York yard instead
: of to the Norfolk yard are that this ves-
sel was ordered to go to the Norfolk
navy yard for some necessary repairs.
This was done upon the recommenda-
tion of the chief constructor, who desir-
ed that work, which is now scarce at
both yards, might be equalized between
the Norfolk and Brooklyn yards.
‘Admiral Meade ,who had selected
the Cincinnati for his flagship during
the absence of the New York,
was thereupon ordered to hoist his flag
upon that vessel upon her arrival at
Norfolk, in the interim hoisting his flag
on the Minneapolis. He afterward for-
warded a second request to the depart-
ment to have the Cincinnati ordered to
New York instead of to Norfolk. On
the day when this latter request was re-
ceived Secretary Herbert was not in the
department at any time. Assistant Sec-
retary McAdoo, being in charge, did
not act upon the request, as he did not
think it proper to take any action in the
matter until the secretary’s return. On
the mext morning, when Secretary Her-
bert came to the office, this matter hav-
ing been brought to his attention, he at-
once summoned before him the chief
constructor, aud, after conferring with
him and Assistant Secretary McAdoo,
jointly, decided to order the Cincinnati
to New York, and at once ordered Ad-
miral Ramsay, who was present, to
make out orders to intercept the ship at
Hampton Roads and order her to New
York. He also directed orders to be
made out to Admiral Meade notifying
him of this change, and orders both to
the admiral and to the ship were written
and ready to be signed when a letter
came in the noon mail from Admiral
Meade asking to be detached from the
squandron, which request the secretary
granted.”
This constitutes all the information
that could be obtained, and leaves the
inference that the action if any, to be
taken against Admiral Meade is not
yet determined.
Monsignor Satolli Answers.
Case of Father Phelan Under the Jurisdiction of
the Archbishop of St. Louis.
AsBURY PARK, N.J., May 14.—Rev.
J. P. Dawson, pastor of the Westmin-
ster Presbyterian church, is in receipt of
a communication from Monsignor Sa-
tolli acknowledging the petition sent
him by the Christian Endeavor societies
of Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, ask-
ing for the removal of Rev. Father Phe-
lan, of St. Louis, for his recent utter-
ances against the society. Mr. Daw-
son showed the United Press corres-
pondendent a copy of the letter, which
is as follows :
Rev. J. P. Dawson
DEAR Sir—I received some days ago
your letter with which you sent me the
protest of the Christian Endeavorers
against the attack made by the Rev.
Father Phelan in his paper on the prac-
tices - of that association. I regret ex-
ceedingly that a question of this kind
should have arisen, but, after a long
and careful consideration of the whole
matter, I feel that itis one which be-
longs to the most reverend archbishop
of St. Louis rather than to me.
With sentiments of sincere esteem I
remain most sincerely yours in Christ,
[Signed] SaToLLI.
Mr. Dawson says he will obtain
another copy of the petition and for-
ward it to the archbishop of St. Louis,
together with a copy of Monsignor Sa-
tolli’s letter. In case the archbishop
pags no attention to the petition Mr.
awson says he will go up still higher.
Reduced Rates via Pennsylvania Rail-
road, account Meeting of German
Baptists (Dunkards) at Decatur, Ill,
For the accommodation of persons
who desire to attend the meeting of
the German Baptists (Dunkards), to
be held at Decatur, Ill, May 28 to
June 8, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will sell from May 24 to
June 3, inclusive, excursion tickets
from all points on their system west of
and including Baltimore, Lancaster,
and Reading, and south of and includ:
ing Sunbury, to Decatur and return, at
a single fare for the round trip, Tickets
will be good to return to starting point
within thirty days from date of sale,
Murdered His Neighbor.
HuxTtiNGDON, Pa., May 14.—A long-
standing feud between Wesley Me-
Cracken and George Hawn, a neigh-
bor, ‘living in Oneida township, this
county, resulted in a murder at an ear-
ly hour this morning. Hawn and a
party of friends were removing a line
fence in McCracken’s property, when
the latter opened fire with a double-
barreled shotgun, killing Hawn in.
stantly.
| Light Frost in Kansas.
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Wicaita, Kan, May 12,—A very
light frost is reported through-
out this section last night. Vegeta:
‘bles and tender grass were slightly in-
| jured, but no damage was dove to oth-
i er crops.
Snow in New York,
{ Du~skirg, N. Y., May 12.—At 6
o'clock this evening this city was vis-
"ited by a snow storm. The air is very
“cold to-night and fears of a frost are
general.
Seven Men Killed.
Ezplosion of a Boiler that Had Been Condemned.
One Survivor Sustains Internal Injuries and a
Broken Leg.
West BiNagHAM, Pa., May 14.--This
afternoon the bodies of eight men, hor-
ribly mangled, scalded and disfigured,
were picked out from the ruins of the
Peck, Haskeel & Cobb sawmill here,
the victims of a boiler explosion. Five
were dead, and two of the three others
have since died. Those killed were :
Claude English.
James Mowers.
Eugene Merrick.
Lyman Perry.
Chas. Rover.
Caleb Converse.
Albert Degroat.
Bell Gridloy was injured internally
and sustained a broken leg, but he will
recover. Two of the men, English and
Converse, happened to be in the mill at
the time as spectators. The mill was
run by steam, generated in an old 80-
horse- power boiler, which; it is reported
had been condemned by an inspector a
. few days before because the steam gague
failed to record accurately the amount
of steam pressura.
Thirteen men were employed in the
mill. This morning they were busy at
work when a belt broke, shutting down
operations. While it was being repair-
ed nobody paid any attention to the
boiler, which was making steam mean-
time at a prodigious rate, for a hot fire
had been kindled under it. It was
nobody’s business in particular to tend
the boiler, for in sawmills everybody
takes a hand at it.
Suddenly there came a boom as of a
cannon, followed by a cloud of steam,
dust and smoke, which rose high in the
air. Four of the victims were torn
limb from limb, and their remains scat-
tered about the mill and the immediate
vicinity. The mill was almost entirely
demolished. Parts of the boiler were
blown hundreds of feet. The victims
were horribly mangled, having their
heads crushed to a jelly, and being rec-
ognized only by their clothing. The
dead workmen were all married and had
families.
BillsSigned and Vetoed.
Revenue Measures Passed on First and Second
Reading.
HarrisBurG, May 15.—The House
at this evening's session passed a num-
ber of revenue bills on first reading,
and others on second. The Governor
informed the Houee and Senate that he
had signed the bill authorizing the
consolidation of traction or motor pow-
er companies; the bill authorizing
such companies to lease and operate
passenger railway lines, and the other
measure providing for the opening of
motor railway routes over streets and
highways. i
The Governor also signed these bills:
Repealing the law of 1857, relating to
fences in Erie county ; extending the
sales of articles at a campmeeting to
other religious gatherings.
The Governor sent to the House a ve-
to of the Focht bill to prevent the cap-
ture and killing of quail and other
game for barter and sale. He said
this bill was too restrictive and pre-
vented the eale of game in hotels and
restaurants.
The bill creating the office of deputy
auditor-general, at a salary of $3,000 a
year, which was defeated last week,
was again brought up on a motion to
reconsider. The bill was again placed
on the calendar.
Advanced Ten Per Cent.
The Pencoyd Iron Works Increased Wages of
Employes.
PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—Closely
following the significant example of the
Carnegie steel company, limited, the
A. & P. Roberts company, operating
the Pencoyd iron works, in Montgom-
ery county, opposite Manayunk, posted
notices in the mills to-day announcing
that all wages would be increased 10
per cent on May 28. Then, itis un-
derstood, work will be commenced
on large bridge contracts, which the
company has taken. About 2,000
hands are now employed, and the an-
nouncement caused great rejoicing
among the workmen and their families.
Three thousand will probably be hir-
ed when the company begins its most
extensive work on the steel for the great
new bridge in New York, and the al-
most equally mammoth structure for
the Pennsylvania railroad across fhe
Delaware, from Philadelphia to New
Jersey.
Carlisle’s Coming Speeches.
He Will Talk for the Administration and Try to
Reconcile His Constituents to His New Finan-
cial Views.
WasningroN, May 15.—Secretary
Carlisle will leave for Kentucky Sun-
day evening to devote two or three
weeks to setting himself right with his
old constituents, on the money ques-
tion. He will make one general speech
for the administration and its financial
policy, at the Memphis ‘sound money”
convention. He will then make sev-
eral speeches in Kentucky explanatory
of his record on the silver question.
Carlisle's old friends in the Blue
Grass State are charging him with be-
ing a turncoat on the silver question,
and he will endeavor to explain to
them how he can be an advocate of
free silver and at the same time sup-
port the administration’s financial
policy.
Heavy Frost in Nebraska and Iowa.
OmaHA, Neb., May 12—There was a
heavy fall of frost in Nebracka and
western Iowa last night. Gardens
were damaged to some extent and fruit
algo in some sections. Corn and other
cereals were not injured.
Heavy Frosts in Illinois.
CHIcAGO, May 12.—Dispatches from
interior points in Illinois indicate
heavy frosts to-night. Beyond nip
ping tender garden stock, no damage is
reported.
Income Tax Law Overthrown,
The Supreme Court Has Decided It Unconstitu-
tional—Justice Shiras Said to Have Changed
His Opinion.
WasnINGTON, May 15.—A Treasury
official, who has much to do with the
income tax stated this afternoon that
the supreme court had decided the tax
unconstitutional, and would announce
such a decision next Monday. This
official declares he has information
from a source entitled to the highest
credence. A former assistant in the
Department of Justice also stated to-
day that the decision of the court would
aunul the income tax law. He claims
to have good sources of information.
These reports agree with the opinion
of the majority of those interested in
the law.
There is a rumor to-night, which re-
ceives much credence, that Justices
Shiras and Brown have reconsidered
their vote in favor of the law, outside
of the features touching rentals and
bonds, and they will write opinions
against the constitutionality of the
whole statute, There is also a rumor
that Justice Shiras alone has joined
the four who were opposed to the
whole law in the first case, and that
Justice Jackson has decided in favor
of the law. This would leave the
court divided, four in favor and five
against the law. Nine out of 10 law-
yers who have followed the case believe
the law will be overthrown.
Heavy May Frost.
Damage Done to Garden Truck, Young
Corn
and Flax. .
Brown's VAL LEY, Minn, May 12.—
This portion of western Minnesota
was visited by the heaviest May frost
in many years last night. What the
damage is to garden truck, young corn
and flax cannot yet be told. The out-
look is for another frost to-night.
Big Drop in the Mercury.
Lansing, Mich.,, May 12.—The
mercury recorded a drop from 91 de-
grees Friday to 28 this morning. Ow-
ing to a clouded sky the damage was
reduced to a minimum.
APDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Mrs. R. G. H. Hayes is slowly re-
covering from her long and serious ill-
ness.
—— Candidates are beginning to real-
ize that they have friends to be visited
everywhere.
——Figured China silks 20cts. a yd ;
striped wash silks 30cts. a yd.—Lyon &
Co.
——-Monday’s frost turned corn yel-
low and potatoes black in the vicinity
of Smithtown.
——Mr. Lewis Tobiax was the only
Millheim Knight in attendance at the
conclave of Golden Eagles at Williams-
port this week.
WaANTED—At Lyon & Co's store,
Bellefonte, 50,000 lbs. wool.
——1It is said that Bellefonte castle
and commandery K. G. E. excited con-
siderable attention at the Williamsport
conclave this week.
——1It looked quite like old times to
see the Haas brewery wagon on the
streets yesterday. It was its first ap-
pearance for a number of years.
——Col. J. L. Spangler has been ap-
pointed by the Governor as one of the
commissioners to the Cotton States ex-
position at Atlanta, Ga.
——The legislative appropriation
committee that was to have visited The
Pennsylvania State College this week
has postponed its trip to that institution
until some later date.
——TFigured China silks 20cts. a yd ;
striped wash silks 80cts. a yd.— Lyon &
Co.
——The corner stone of the new
United Evangelical church at Wood-
ward will be laid on Sunday, June 2nd.
Rev. Stapelton, presiding elder, will be
present at the ceremony.
——Mr. William J. Musser, who for
fourteen years has been a trusted em-
ployee at the Rhoads coal yard in this
place has given up his position there to
accept the charge of Col. W. Fred Rey.
nold’s horses.
——A recent letter from our old
friend Barny Coyle does not say so in
words, but from it we are led to con-
clude that he is still enjoying the pros-
perity that shone upon him the moment
he took charge of the Commercial house
at Emporium. Barnyis an ideal hotel
man and his success is not surprising
when one knows of his genial disposi-
tion.
Wuo Is Tue Deap Max?—The
body of a man, apparently about fifty
years old, was found in the ridges just
north of Fowler station, on Wednesday
afternoon, by Benj. Walk, who was out
hunting fire wood when he made the
ghastly discovery. ’
The body was lying on its back and
had apparently been dead for some time.
No coat or hat was to be found, though
a pocket book containing $56 was lying
by the side of the corpse. The man,
whoever he was, was dressed well and
his expression was calm and did not in-
dicate any distress whatever.
An inquest was held yesterday after-
noon, but the verdict was not learned.
The whole affair is enshrouded in the
deepest mystery.