Jaen Beware) Dae BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Our friend, up town, the editor of the Jazette, must have gotten a portion of his “two columns of hot stuff’”’ into his eyes, or else the white paint on those two ‘‘new porches and a balcony’’ must have turned his head a trifle, for after a vain effort to justify the extravagance of the commis- sioner’s during the past year he winds up by abusing poor JIM CORNELLY, who is in jail and has no bearing on the case, what- ever. —The Philipsburg Republicans never miss an opportunity of showing their love for ARNOLD and QUAY. Mr. TURNBACH, of that place, was a delegate to the anti- QUAY meeting at the Bourse, in Philadel- phia, two weeks ago. Mr. TURNBACH, was a candidate for school director in Philips- burg, on Tuesday. Mr. TURNBACH was defeated in a Republican town, but it is a QUAY town and that accounts for his de- feat. —When we read the head lines of the leaders in the Gazette last week we imagin- ed that the editor of that paper was going to make it so hot for us that we could have eaten blocks of ice and hawked up boiling water, but upon investigation we found that it was all head and nothing more. Gas and worn-out homilies are the Gazette's stock in trade, so that no one pays much attention to what it says. —The destruction of the battleship Maine, in Havana harbor, has complicated the Cuban situation seriously and tended to widen the breach between the United States and Spain. Of course the Cubans will take advantage of the great disaster to further their cause, by suggestions of all manner of Spanish plots for the demolition of our great battleship. Whatever may have been the cause it is evident that our floating bulwarks have as much to fear from the inside as from the out. If it was the Maine’s magazine that exploded then negligence of some sort is responsible for the several hundred lives that were lost and the destruction of a $5,000,000 boat. Why not call this war. It has cost the United States almost as many lives as have been lost in battle since the Spaniards and Cubans flew to arms. —The circumstance that LEITER, the Napoleonic plunger in the wheat market, holds 17,000,000 bushels of a most neces- sary article of food for speculative purposes, is not a pleasant thing for the American people to contemplate. This is too large an amount for a legitimate object of trade. Its possession is not intended to meet the current demands of the market; but it is held as a restriction upon trade, simply cornered and kept out of the market until LEITER may be able to realize some mil- lions of dollars out of it. The millers are complaining that the best qualities of wheat are being withheld by this speculator; the farmers whose toil produced the grain are not benefited a cent by his operation. The profit will all go to this greedy representa- tive of a class whose monopolistic gains constitute the ‘“business interests’’ which Republican policies are intended to pro- mote. : ——The evidence in the trial of sheriff MARTIN and his brigade of deputies clear- ly demonstrates the fact that the situation at Lattimer didn’t require the rifle practice that caused the death of twenty-one miners and the wounding of half a hundred more. To check violent demonstrations and pro- tect property from threatened destruction, which is alleged to have been the mission of the sheriff and his posse, hardly requir- ed a volley of rifle shots into the backs of men who were running away. It has be- come quite evident from facts when MAR- TIN and his men went to Lattimer they had their rifles loaded for miners and were anxious to shoot the game they were gun- ning for. ——Senator THURSTON, in his Lincoln day speech, got off a lot of clap-trap among which may be included his remark that *‘every mother who bore her son on Ameri- can soil can fondly hope that he will one day become President.’”” At a former per- iod in our history every American mother could indulge in that kind of a hope, but public affairs have been brought to such a condition that the Presidency can be reach- ed only through the influence of the money power. Its attainment is to be accomplish- ed, not hy the exertion of honest ambition, but through the corrupting agency of vast campaign funds contributed by corporations trusts and bank syndicates to carry presi- dential elections. About as mach as the average American mother may hope for is that the greedy monopolies will allow her son to have a chance to make a living. —It is rather late for the administra- tion to become indignant at the offensive expression of the Spanish Minister. He shoyld long ago bave been regarded as per- sona non grata at Washington for his un- disguised contempt, not only for the Ameri- can government bus for the American peo- ple as well. While he was known to en- tertain such feelings, and took but little pains to conceal them, there was no pro- test against Spain’s maintaining at our capital a Minister of so offensive a disposi- tion. Some years ago he wrote a book in which insulting language was applied to the American people, and particularly to American women. A government having a proper regard for its people would have objected to his diplomatic presence at Washington on that account, without waiting for him to complete his offense by insulting the President. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. - BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEB. 18. 1898. XO. 1. 16 to1 An Honest Ratio. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, in support of the ratio of 16 to 1, declares that ‘‘the friends of the gold standard know that the debtor, whether a public debtor or a private debtor, meets all the requirements of the law, mor- al as well as statutory, when he discharges his obligation according to the terms of the contract.” The Philadelphia Record is neither ingenuous nor felicitous when in replying to this proposition it says: ‘‘The friends of the gold standard and the friends of honest dealing know that it would be a dishonest proceeding to take advantage of the fall in silver to pay debts with it at the ratio of 16 to 1 when the true ratio is 32 to 1.” If the ratio is 32 to 1 the opponents of the gold standard know that that is not the true and honest ratio that would exist if it had not been made so by methods that purposely depressed the value of silver and correspondingly appreciated the value of gold. They believe, and have reasonable justification for their belief, that if the cause of the depression of the value of sil- ver were removed by restoring it to all the uses that can give it value, chief of which is its unrestricted coinage and use as mon- ey, it would speedily return to the ratio of 16 to 1 which was maintained for centuries before the gold monopolists succeeded in reducing its value by demonetization. The supporters of free silver coinage do not want to take advantage of the fall in silver to pay their debts with it at a de- preciated value. They want to retrieve it from a fall in value that has been factitious- ly produced, and they propose to do this by fully restoring its monetary function. ‘When debts, public as well as private, are again made fully payable in silver, as MR. BRYAN contends they should be, that is about all that will be required to bring the ratio back to 16 to 1. The money monopolists, whose selfish interests are promoted by the appreciation of gold, have caused the depreciation of silver by their manipulation of the stand- ards, and the scamps take advantage of their own wrong by decrying the monetary quality of a metal whose value they have managed to depreciate, to the detriment of general interests, but to the advantage of their own. In Trouble of Her Own Creating, Poor old party-ridden and ring-ruled Philadelphia is suffering the penalty that is due her for her partisan stupidity and folly. She has so constantly rolled up big Republican majorities and put the machin- ery of the party so completely in the con- trol of such political characters as those that compose the combine, that she now finds it impossible to get out of their thiev- ish clutches. They have stolen her gas works after having so destroyed its value as to make it questionable whether it was worth keeping. ‘With the object of securing more plunder they have imposed an immense loan upon her in spite of the majority who voted against it and found themselves counted out. They are compelling her citizens to drink water that is dirty enough to turn the stomachs of pigs and so full of disease germs that a glass of it is sufficient to pro- dnce a case of typhoid fever, their purpose being to so disgust the population with the water that is supplied them that they will be willing to hand over for a nominal sum a highly valuable water franchise to the ring of city plunderers who are in the scheme. The Quaker city, through her fanatical party spirit, has put herself in the clutches of these political bandits who have so ar- ranged their machine that she finds it im- possible to effect her release. Discreditable Appointments. No other administration ever made ap- itable in their character as some which Me- KINLEY is turningout. In many instances official fitness is entirely disregarded, while in cases, such as that of DEMAS, of Louisi- ana, where the office is given in payment of service rendered in nominating McKIx- LEY, as per contract with MARK HANNA, decency is ignored. The disgraceful character of many of these appointments is due to their being given to parties to whom the President is indebted for dirty work. Unfitness in point of qualification, where the appointee is not personally disreputable, is in many instances chargeable to Republican Senators and Congressmen who want the places for henchman, and are entirely indifferent as to whether they are competent to perform the duties or not. A disgraceful case of this kind is present- ed in the appointment of GEORGE M. Bow- ERS, of West Virginia, to the responsible and important office of United States fish commissioner. For an office of this kind the incumbent should have some scientific knowledge of fishes, but Senator ELKINS wanted BOWERS appointed in return for political service, and so President McKix- LEY sent his name to the Senate for fish commissioner, although what he knows about fish scarcely enables him to tell the i difference between a fresh shad and a salt | mackerel. pointments in the civil service as discred- | The Capitol Scheme of Plunder. The decision of judge SIMONTON, of the Dauphin county court, that the capitol building commission can not be prevent- ed by injunction from going on with the structure according to the plan they have adopted may prepare the people of the State to expect an expense to he saddled on them in the construction of a building that will run into the millions. The scheme which the action of the commission has developed is to extend the appropriated $550,000 on a structure that will require additions and be adapted to infinite exten- sions. The suspicious delay in beginning the work that has consumed more than a year appears to have been required for the per- fecting of the scheme by which the inten- tion of a reasonably expensive building may be defeated, and a job worth millions to a ring of public plunderers be forced upon the tax-payers of the State. If the Governor was really sincere in his desire to limit the cost of the building to $550,000, he finds that his intention has been circumvented by parties who are in- terested in a more extravagant outlay in this work, and if there was sincerity in the injunction by which he has sought to re- strain their scheme of plunder, his move- ment is found to be unavailing. There is no doubt that judge SIMONTON rendered a proper decision under the circumstances, as it may be believed that the schemers who employed a whole year in maturing their plan devised it with a skill that would put it beyond the interference of the courts. How such immunity from legal restraint may be secured could be learned from the example of the Philadelphia city hall building commission which has gone on, year after year, squandering the city’s mon- ey on that structure despite the efforts to restrain them in the courts and by legisla- tive action. The programme of protracted pillage in this capitol job is now developing itself. The plans are designed for the expenditure of an unlimited amount of money after the originally appropriated $550,000 shall have been exhausted on the initial building that will be merely the nucleus of an indefinite- ly extended and extravagantly expensive pile. tol had visions of spoils that would ‘be continued for at least a quarter of a cen- tury and which nothing short of millions would satisfy. To what extent the incen- diaries who directly applied the torch will profit from the destruction of the old capi- tol will never be known. They probably had no more than an indefinite intention of making a job that would be profitable to such Republican party workers as could manage to get a hand in it. Success in carrying out such a scheme to the full limit of its design will depend on the com- pliance of future Legislators in making ap- propriations that will prolong the job ; but there will be no difficulty in getting all the money needed for this scheme of spoli- ation if the people shall continue sending to Harrisburg the kind of Legislators upon whom Republican majorities for some years past have conferred the law- making power. De Lome’s Offense. The letter of Minister DE L.oME, which has created such a deplomatic flurry, pre- sented a phase of the Cuban question of which the American people have but little reason to be proud. The weak, vacillating and really contemptible line of policy in regard to Cuba which this administration has pursued, encouraged if it did not justi- fy the insulting language which the Span- ish Minister applied to the head of that ad- ministration and the President of the Unit- ed States, in the letter that has caused so great a commotion. When the agent of the Spanish govern- ment at our capital witnessed the servility of the Washington authorities in serving the interests of Spain, and observed how the power of this government was employ- ed in the Spanish interest, how the least sign of friendly feeling for the Cuban patriots was withheld through fear that it might offend the Spaniards, and how easi- ly the President allowed himself to be de- ceived by the promise of autonomous re- forms which the Spanish government never intended to fulfill and could not perform even if it were disposed—when he has had this evidence of weakness and incapacity under his observation ever since the begin- ing of the present administration it was not astonishing that the Spanish Minister should have contracted a contemptuous opinion of President MCKINLEY. But this offense consisted in the expres- sion of this opinion. It is undiplomatic for the Minister of another nation to allude offensively to the head of the government to which he is accredited even in a private letter. It is an insult to a nation to have its chief officer called ‘‘a weak and low politician’’ by the representative of anoth- er power, though there may be some truth in the assertion. National dignity requir- ed that such an offense should be resent- ed and that DE LoME should he reproved by instant dismissal for having been too free in writing his opinion of our President. Tom Cooper Offers to be the Repubii- can Moses. The fight that is going on among the Pennsylvania Republican factionists on the question of the gubernatorial nomination threatens to disrupt the party and sepa- rate it into hostile divisions. The feud aprings from an irreconcilable opposition to QUAY’S supremacy which will not be satis- fied with anything short of an overthrow of his power as the party boss. That either faction will back down to the other is improbable, the situation being one that portends a party split. Any politician less hopeful than THOM- As V. CooPER would be discouraged with the situation into which factional differ- ences have brought the old party in this State. But be has confidence in his own ability to get it out of the difficulty that has sprung up on the Governor question. All that the party has to do to get out of the toils of factional dissension and assure its accustomed victory in the state election is to nominate him for Governor on an an- ti-trust platform, pledging opposition to monopolistic combines and enmity to the money power that has corrupted public affairs and by its influence over the Repub- lican party has greatly impaired the peo- ple’s confidence in that organization. With him as the candidate for Governor, and with such principles embodied in the platform, the red-headed hopefulness of Mr. COOPER sees a way by which the boss- ridden and factionally disturbed old party may get out of its present difficulty and re- tain control of the state government. Mr. COOPER'S proposition shows that he is still of the same sanguine temperament that characterized him when, as the CAM- ERON chairman of the Republican state committee, he stood higher in the manage- mens of Pennsylvania politics than he has for some years past. But he is likely to find decided opposition to his scheme. The leaders of both factions are so wedded fo the monopolistic interests, and regard he money power necessary as to. the existence of the so Republican party, that their consent to discard so impor- tant a factor is not in the least pro- bable. Neither QUAY, nor WANAMAK- ER, nor the state administration, nor the Philadelphia combine will be wil- The rascals who set fire to the old capiggp!ing to harmonize in Mr. COOPER'S plan of making him the candidate for Governor on a platform that would eliminate from state politics the money influence and the various agencies of corruption upon which the Re- publican party depends for its existence. But the old state chairman, who in other days directed the party movements, does some service to public interests by ac- knowledging that what ails the Republi- can party is that it has fallen completely under the control of capitalistic and corpor- ate influences that have substituted money as the ruling power in the government in- stead of the will of the people. This evil must be corrected if our popular institu- tions are to continue to exist. But is it sensible to look for their correction to the party that is responsible, for them, even with THOMAS V. COOPER promising to work such a miracle if he should be chosen as the gubernatorial MOSES of his party to lead it out of its wilderness of abuses? They are more likely to be corrected by turning that party out of power and put- ting in its place one that is opposed to such abuses on principle. - A Guest Who Should Have Been Omitted. The Scotch-Irish of this country are a race that has just reason to be proud of its extraction. It comes from a good stock and therefore when the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish society give an entertainment, as they did at the Belleview hotel in Phil- adelphia last week, they should be a little more particular in inviting their guests. The race is a patriotic one. They would not do anything willing to injure the pop- ular government under which they live, and therefore the Pennsylvania society acted inconsistently in having boodler HANNA at their entertainment, as an hon- ored guest. This man has been guilty of a crime against the Republic in applying a vast corruption fund to the purchase of the presidential office. There could not be a greater injury to the popular government and republican institutions than that which he inflicted through the debauching appliance of the money by which the elec- tion of McKINLEY was secured through his agency. His nature may be too coarse and his moral instincts too blunt to com- prehend the evil consequences of the cor- rupting of elections, but this does not les- sen the culpability of his boodle methods. Those methods have also secured for him a seat in the United States Senate. The charge that he gained the Senatorship by bribery—an offence that rather entitles him to a cell in the penitentiary than a seat in the Senate—stands charged against him and he evades it by refusing to an- swer. He may find immunity from pun- ishment in the indifference with which a demoralized public sentiment regards cor- rupt practices in politics, but the safety with which HANNA can practice his cor- ruptions involves a fearful danger to the | Republic. A Mighty Agency for Good. From the Altoona Times. A warm welcome was accorded to the aged commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army at Pittsburg recently. General Booth is one of the most distinguished men of his time and the work that he has done has heen one of the most conspicuous features of this generation. He had labor- ed hard and zealously for the uplifting of humanity and what he has done has nos been without beneficial results. He is styled ‘‘general,’’ but his character is far from being of a warlike nature. His ways have always been those of peace and in that line he has won distinguished victo- ries. There is certainly a difference of opinion as to the advisability of the way that the Salvation Army does its work, but there can be no two opinions as to the kindly manner in which it aims at what it considers the benefiting of humanity. General Booth has met with many obsta- cles in his work. * His labors and those of his disciples have met with much opposi- tion, bust they have not become discouraged thereby, but are still pushing onward in spite of all obstructions. Their determination is invincible, and the methods which they take to surmount opposition to them are of a very effective character. What they have accomplished has made the fact evident that peaceful means are sometimes the best to accomplish a purpose, let it be what it may. It isan interesting work which General Booth has been engaged in now for many years. He has believed in calling not the just but the vilest sinners to repentance, and has acted accordingly. One Corporation Allowed to Go $6,500,000 Short on a Debt to the Gov~ ernment. From the Pittsburg Post. The administration’s dealing with the Kansas Pacific, having agreed to settle a thirteen million debt for half that sum, is regarded as a great victory for the jobbers and the corporation. At the last moment, after having stood out for full payment, the attorney general telegraphed from Washington to accept the half-pay proposi- tion. The effect of this is seen in the ad- vance of Kansas Pacific bonds from below par in ten days to 115. There is prospect of an interesting talk over this in Con- gress during the week. The close al- liance of McKinley with the corporation interest is seen in almost everything that he does in which government financial in- terests are involved against those of the great corporations that elected him. Grat- itude is certainly one of the major’s virtues, but the people suffer. There has never been a President in our history who has made such a bold dash for a renomination by favoring certain great financial interests. He believes in protection of that kind. ¥ Will We Have to Do Away with Our Cigars Some Day. From the Doylestown Democrat. In New York, there is already talk of not permitting steam locomotives to come within metropolitan limits, and, that in two or three years, trains will be brought in by electric motors. This change would do away with noise, smoke and dirt, great annoyance to the inhabitants about the stations where they stop in the city. Ele- vated roads will also be run by electric motors. Who can guess at the fature of electricity ! Prosperity is Striking Them Hard. From the Cambria Freeman. In the first new year since Mr. McKin- ley’s election a wave of Republican ‘‘pros- perity’’ has struck New England—struck it such a blow that the industries of that section will do well if they ever recover from the terrible results. The blow has not fallen on the cotton mill operatives alone, but on nearly every productive in- dustry in that section. Death Blow to Striking. BosTOoN, Mass.,, Feb. 15.—The great strike of nearly 150,000 cotton mill opera- tives throughout New Eugland, as recom- mended by the federation of labor, cannot materialize. If it did, it might, and un- doubtedly would, result in the great New England cotton manufacturing plants being removed to Georgia, where wages are lower and profits higher. Besides, many of the local unions won’t agree to make so great a sacrifice, mainly in order to aid New Bed- ford’s 9,000 strikers. The reason of the mill proprietors for re- ducing the wages of nearly all New Eng- land cotton manufacturing operatives were brought out in bold relief yesterday at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts cot- ton mills, of Lowell, and the annual meet- ing of the Massachusetts mills, of Georgia. Reports on the year's business of the two mills were presented to the stockholdors, and these showed the disparity between northern and southern wages and the de- pressed condition cf the trade. The mills’ stockholders, therefore unan- imously decided, yesterday, to consider the possibility of an extension of their business in Georgia. Treaty for Aunexing Hawall is Dead. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The Hawaiian annexation treaty is dead and will shortly be buried, while the annexationists will press a bill or resolution of annexation in its place which they expect eventually to get through both Houses, President Me- Kinley’s approval being assured in ad- vance. If it were not for President Mec- Kinley the bill would be dead asthe treaty, for nothing but the influence of the admin- istration would get it through the House, where Speaker Reed stands across its path. Speaker Reed is giving the annexation- ists more concern than all the rest of the opposition put together, for without at least some relaxation of his opposition the legislation they desire cannot be gotten through the House. They are depending on the influence of the administration to affect the speaker’s attitude sufficiently to make him willing to let the bill go through rather than break openly with President McKinley. Spawls from the Keystone. —New Hope, Bucks county, is to havea daily paper. —Over 300,000 tons of ice have been stored at Tobyhanna this winter. —7¥ rank O'Donnell, aged 14, was run over by two mine cars, at Du Bois, Wednesday. —Rev. Edmund Butz and wife on Tuesday celebrated their golden wedding at Allen- town. i —Prison warden-elect, Wenrich, at Read- ing, has named warden Isaac G. Kintzer as his deputy. —A 4-year-old daughter of Jacob Smith, of Mgyerstown, was fatally burned by falling against a stove. —Jonathan Wolfe, 87 years old, of Hoffen- ville, Montgomery county, is cutting a new set of teeth. —The Portland lumber company is to erect a fifty-press kindling wood factory at their Elk county mills. —The Lehigh Valley railroad station at Catasauqua wasentered on Sunday by a thiet, who stole $34,71. —Postmaster Harry G. Walter, of Lebanon, has appointed his son, William W. Walter, assistant postmaster. —The Bucks county fishermen’s pro- tective association has elected Lewis H. Clemens president. —George Bauer, of Mauch Chunk, aged 18, had a leg mangled by cars at Catasauqua, necessitating amputation. -—The clothing store of D. A. Bingamen, at Jersey Shore. was robbed of $500 worth of merchandise on Sunday. —The New York car works company, of Buffalo, N. Y., will build a plant at New Castle, to employ 3500 men. —Avondale’s town council has decided to tax telegraph, electric light and telephone poles 50 cents each per year. —Dr. Alexander Allison, the recently elected pastor of Bristol Presbyterian church, entered upon his duties Sunday. —Marriages are brisk at Bristol. It is said that 400 valentines—not all comic—have passed through the Bristol postoffice. —George Olosksha was killed and George Haycucha and Anthony B. Lasjok fatally in- jured by cars at Wyoming yesterday. —Pupils of the Reading schools are to be drilled preparatory to taking part in that city’s sesqui-centennial parade, in June. —Daisey Carter, a veteran of the one hun- dred and fourth Pennsylvania regiment, died at the Bucks county hospital on Friday. —Thieves looted the Andenreid school building at Hazleton, on Saturday, and turn- ed on the water, flooding the building. Loss, $1500. —1It has been found that the man killed on the Pennsylvania railroad, at Butzback’s Landing, Luzerne county, was Evan Evans, of Plainsville. —Patrick Healey, who was burned by the explosion in the Dodson mine, at Plymouth, died Monday from his injuries making the second victim. —Allentown has received $13,459.28 from state treasurer Haywood, the amount of appropriation. —Card-playing tramps, near Dillerville, Lancaster county, stoned a passenger train Sunday, and one of ‘the stones narrowly missed killing a passenger. —Seven steam-fitters made a narrow escape from death Wednesday night at the Penn. bolt and nut works, at Lebanon, by the blow- ing out of a joint of a boiler. —Burglars on Tuesday night blew open the safe of the Reading railroad company and United States express company, at Lebanon, securing money and valuables. —A runaway engine on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, collided with another locomotive Wednesday at Alle- gheny, and both were wrecked. —Former State Senator H. D. Saylor, re- cently appointed consul to Matanzas, Cuba, has returned to his home in Pottstown after an unoflicial visit to Matanzas. —Albert W. Duy, a Quay leader of Colum- bia county, was admitted to the bar on Sat- urday. He is a son of the late ex-Judge George C. Duy, of Indianapolis, Ind. —Rev. J. L. Liboll, of Philadelphia, par- ticipated in the exercises incident to the re- opening of the Lutheran church at Shire- manstown, near Carlisle, on Sunday, —Senator Flinn, of Pittsburg, has lost a partner, James J. Booth, who has resigned from his contracting firm, and the Senator’s son has taken his place. Magee is in it. —Gowan post, Grand Army of the Re- public, of Pottsville, has taken action oppos- ing Senator Penrose's bill for placing unen- listed male hospital nurses on the pension roll. —C. R. Yost’s grain warehouse, George Martin’s jewelry store and Jerome Emerick’s smokehouse, at Meyerstown, were looted Tuesday night by burglars, who secured much booty. —John McGrann, 21 years old, has been arrested, charged with setting fire to the club house on Seventh street, near Washing- ton, Reading, on Saturday night. The fire loss was $2,000. . —The funeral of Mrs. Ernestine, Weiss, of Dingman’s Ferry, was suddenly postponed during the services on Sunday, daughters of the woman averring that they believed she was in a trance. —Burglars broke into Bingaman's gents furnishing and tobacco store at Jersey Shore Sunday. All the silk handkerchiefs, a lot of underwear and clothing and several hats were taken. Meerchaum pipes to the value of seventy-five dollars wera stolen, and $100 worth of jewelry is missing. The aggregate thefts will amount to over $300. There is no clue to the robbers. Entrance to the store was effected through a rear window. » —At Carlin, fifteen miles south of Holli- daysburg, Sunday, a solid lime stone hill, 175 feet high, 100 feet long and 125 feet deep, moved from its base and went crashing into the valley below. There were 152,000 tons of loose rock in the avalanche, and the thun- derous noise was heard for many miles. The Hungarians who work in the quarries there were away on a Sunday excursion, or there would have been wholesale slaughter. the city’s share of the State’s public schools - RS HE a ad
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