Deoalics atm Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance. Bellefonte, Pa., Cct. 14, 1898. P. GRAY MEEK, - - EbpiTor. The Democratic State Ticket, FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE A. JENKS, of Jefferson. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, WILLIAM H. SOWDEN, of Lehigh. FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS, PATRICK DELACEY, of Lackawanna. TOR SUPERIOR JUDGE, CALVIN M. BOWER, of Centre. WILLIAM TRICKETT, of Cumberland. FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE, J. M. WEILER, .of Carbon. FRANK P. IAMS, of Allegheny. Democratic District Ticket. For Congress, J. K, P. HALL. For Senate, W. C. HEINLE, Democratic County Convention. ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College. J. H. WETZEL, Bellefonte. Prothonotary,—M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte. District Att’y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte. County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp. Assembly, The State Leaders Coming. On Saturday evening Oct. 29th, GEo. A. JENKS, WM. H. SOWDEN, PATRICK DE- LACEY and all the candidates on the Dem- ocratic state ticket will be in Bellefonte to attend the great meeting that will be held here for honest government and state re- form. : On such a platform - they are the friend of every citizen in the State. Turn out and hear them. Take Advantage of the Situation. An opportunity such as the present af- fords for winning an overwhelming victory has seldom been presented the Democracy of Centre county—at least not during the last half score of years. From every pre- cinct the same news comes of divisions and dissuasion among Republicans, and of har- mony and hopefulness among Democrats. And there are reasons for this condition of affairs. Honest Republicans have grown tired of the rule of a boss. Self-respecting Republicans have become disgusted with a system of politics that makes two or three political upstarts in this town the mouth- pieces of a state machine that dictates not only State, but district and county tickets as well, and then demands obsequious sup- port of all its acts, or denounces as disloyal those who have manliness enough to pro- test against them. Tax-paying Republi- cans, are, with the other people of the county, feeling the effects of incompetent and profligate county management, and are anxiously waiting for the time when they can protest against the needless in- crease of county expenditures and a finan- cial management that has increased not only the property valuation in the county but the tax millage as well. These conditions, coupled with the fact that the local Republican ticket is distinct- ly and avowedly a Quay ticket—a ticket which if elected will exert every influence to continue the same obnoxious system of political bossism against which decent men of all parties are now arrayed, has placed that party in the county in a situation that turn which way it will it finds trouble in its own ranks, and which will require every energy and every effort it can put forth to save its own vote. It has no time to spend on Democrats. It can make no fight, for it has nothing to fight for but a continuation of the same bad State and County managements of which the people now complain. It can promise nothing for its candidates for they fear to open their mouths, or say to the people what may be expected of them if successful. Handicapped, divided and discordant as the Republicans are, there should he no trouble for the Democracy redeeming the county and placing it in the Democratic column again by an old fashioned majority. It can be done without doubt, and it should be done without question. To do it, and to do it certainly will r equire but little work. Let each Democrat who feels an interest in the honor of the Common- wealth and in the welfare of the county, interest his less interested neighbor in the necessity of going out and voting the Dem- ocratic ticket. Let the organization and those charged with its work, simply at- tend to getting the Democratic vote aroused and to the polls, and the work will be done. Converts are all right; there are plenty of them ; but they will see to themselves. What is needed is to poll every Demo- cratic vote, and when this is done, the vic- tory will be won. The time to prepare for that is now, and the way to begin is to get your neighbor and your neighbor’s neigh- bor interested in the good work. ———On the night of September 22nd W. C. ArNoLD was made the Republican nominee for Congress in this district. This paragraph is published for the information of our very honorable friend, the editor of the Gazette. The matter of ARNOLD'S candidacy for Congress seems to have slip- ped his memory and we know that it would be a lasting sorrow in the sanctum of our up town contemporary if it missed any op- portunity to say sweet scented things about Mr. ARNOLD. —=JIM HALL in Congress means that ever man, woman and child in Centre, Clearfield, Clarion, Elk and Forest coun- ties will have a friend there. It is a Good Sign. When a man is popular at home there can be no doubt of his being an honest, up- right, estimable citizen. It is to the popu- larity of J. K. P. HALL, the Democratic nominee for Congress in this district, that attention needs be called so that the voters will know that the man who has friends at home is the one who will look after the in- terests of those abroad. as well. In com- menting on Mr. HALL’S nomination the Ridway Evening Star, the only Republican paper in Elk county, gives the following reasons for tacking his name to its mast- head and giving him its unqualified sup- port. The result of the Democratic Congressional conference at DuBois last night is extremely gratifying to the majority of the voters in Elk county, Republicans as well as Demo- crats. Not that the former have any love for the nominee whose efforts have been the means of keeping the county in the Democratic column for years past, but because they recognize in J. K.P. Hall a winner and a man who will put an end to the disgraceful misrepresentions that the district has labored under for the past two years. “Of two evils choose the lesser,” isan old and time-honored injunction, and will be faithfully followed by the greater number of Republicans of the county, who believe in bonesty, integrity and faithfulness. No Democrat, whoever he may be, can bring the 28th Congressional district into more disrepute than it now is. For that reason, Mr. Hall will be supported by hun- dreds of Republicans who never voted any but the Republican ticket, but who do not hold to the fallacious idea that ‘‘the worst Republican possible is better than the best Democrat.” Mr. Hall is able, conservative and honest, and will not insult the Chief Executive of the whole people with bombastic utterances intended to further his own interests and to please hair-brained jingoists and extremists. Mr. Hall did not seek the nomination and much preferred not to make the race. It was only after he became convinced that the majority of the people of the district irrespec- tive of political lines, preferred him as their representative instead of the present ‘en- cumbrance,”’ that he consented to the use of his name. He has made no pledges has no promises to redeem and will be the representative of the who people, and not of a pap seeking and office holding contingent whose interest in politics never rises above post office appoint- ments and federal plums. Mr. HALL is exactly the kind of a man that this honest Republican paper says he is and when such a journal comes out open- ly in support of him there ought to be no doubt left in’ anyone’s mind as to his desirability as a Representative. Sudden Change of a Campaign Program. There was something comical in the sud- denness with which the machine managers had to change the program of their cam- paign. . They started out to whoop the machine state ticket through with a war hurrah. The people were to be so dazzled by the brilliancy of the Republican war record that they would lose sight of the abuses in the state government. This program broke down when the hor- rors of ALGER’S army management began to unfold themselves to the view of an out- raged and indignant people. Instead of being able to answer charges of state mis- rule by ‘‘pointing with pride’’ to the man- ner in which a Republican administration conducted the war, army abuses were add- ed to state misrule as a double odium which the Republican politicians had to be answerable for in the pending political con- test. They no longer flaunt the old flag in connection with the war, as they did at the beginning of their campaign, to cover the rascalities of the state corruptionists. The war record of the McKINLEY adminis- tration has entirely failed as a source of Republican campaign ammunition, leaving the machine managers to face the fact that while the Democrats forced the war for the freedom of Cuba, and supported it by vot- ing ample supplies of men and money, the Republicans are responsible for all the out- rages and disgraces connected with it. The sacrifice of the lives and health of thousands of soldiers was caused by a Re- publican President putting a corrupt and incompetent politician in charge of the army, and by the appointment of Shoals of inexperienced and ignorant political hangers-on and personal favorites, whose incapacity to conduct the commissary, quartermaster and medical departments turned the camps into pest holes, where American soldiers were made the victims of Republican army management. As the Democratic connection with the war was honorable and patriotic, while everything connected with it that was per- nicious and disgraceful came from a Repub- lican source, is there anything surprising in the suddenness with which the machine managers stopped waving the flag and dropped the war as a campaign issue ? ——The reason that TOWNSEND and DA- LEY don’t tell the people where they would stand if elected to the Legislature ought to he very apparent to all. Neither one of them knows where he would stand, simply because they would both stand on QUAY legs. — “Of two evils choose the lesser’’ and vote for JIM HALL, for Congress, says the Ridgway Evening Star, the only Republican paper in Elk county. The Boss in a Criminal Role. The prosecution that has been instituted against M. S. QUAY, ex-Treasurer HAY- WooD and others of the political ring that has had control of the state money, should not surprise the public. They have been prosecuted for using for their own personal profit state funds which had been deposited in a banking institution under the system which has long served their personal and political interests. The people have no reason to be ignorant of the fact that such abuseful use was being made of the public money. For years the Democrats have charged the machine cor- ruptionists with using the state funds for their personal and political profit. There has not only been Democratic demands that a stop should be put to the practice of favored banks and machine politicians di- viding the profits of public money deposit- ed in such institutions, but during Gov- ernor PATTISON’S first administration a Democratic bill was passed that took at least a part of the state funds from the clutches of corrupt manipulators, and put it where its profits could not be ‘‘divided’’ among a gang of thievish politicians, but went to the State in the shape of interest. The passage of the bill introduced by Democratic Senator KIMES, and signed by Democratic Governor PATTISON, was de- signed to put state funds out of the reach of the machine rascals by investing them in United States bonds that would bear in- terest for the benefit of the State. If Democratic control of the state treasury could have continued there would have been an end put to the misuse of the state money for which QUAY now finds himself prosecuted. The people had no reason to be ignorant of these dishonest practices when they were informed of them from Democratic sources, but it appeared to require the suicide of that poor victim HOPKINS to produce such a disclosure of this corruption as to enable it to be made the subject of criminal prose- cution. There is nothing in the public career of QUAY that renders it improbable that there is just cause for the prosecution against him for using the money for his specula- tions. His reputation is not of the kind to fall back on for support under such a charge. Acts imputed to him in connec- tion with state funds, which, if true, should have sent him to the penitentiary, have been openly and repeatedly charged in responsible public prints without evok- ing from him the vindication of a prosecu- tion for libel. The proceedings against him in conneec- tion with state money in the People’s bank cannot be regarded as intended for political effect, as they have been instituted by a Republican prosecutor. But whether the criminal action to which the Republican state boss is now subjected has been insti- gated by political enmity, or not, there has been sufficient evidence .produced in the preliminary hearing to justify proceedings in the courts against MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY for “shaking the plum tree” that has furnished such profitable fruit to the ma- chine ringsters. Do You Favor the $60,000 Steal. If you are opposed to paying the $60,000 expense bill of the fake investigat- ing committee that put in its time drink- ing wine aud living high at the hotel Wal- ton in Philadelphia, three years ago, un- der the pretense of investigating the mu- nicipal mavagement of that city, and neither discovered nor tried to discover anything wrong. you will vote for FOSTER and WETZEL. An appropriation to pay this bill was passed by the last Legislature. It was vetoed bv the Governor. Senators QUAY, ANDREWS and others in whose inter- ests that committee was created, will again attempt to saddle this hill upon the backs of the tax-payers. DALEY and Town- SEND will both vote for it. They are tied up by the parties who nominated, and are working to eleet them, to sustain the ac- tion of the Republican legislative caucus, and that causcus will endorse that bill. QUAY is for it and Quay will control the Republican caucus in its favor. If you want to be fleeced with this bill, vote for the two Republican candidates for Legisla- ture. If you are opposed to it, you must vote for FOSTER and W ETZEL. ——The Philipsburg Ledger has taken up the Gazette's contention that ELT didn’t say it, but we still insist that he did say it. We were frank enough at the time we quoted him to give him the benefit of the doubt by suggesting that he might have been so rattled that he didn’t know what he was saying, but he did say that he had never voted for a Democrat in his life all the same, whether he knew it or not. And if ELI and the Ledger and the Gazette wonld like to hear it we will tell them that the same day that he made that speech, in talking the subject over with one of Phil- ipsburg’s most responsible and popular business men, this business man from his own town said : ‘‘Well, even if he didn’t say it I'll bet he never did vote for a Democrat.” ——1If the editor of the Gazette would stop to think a minute before he gets so ex- cited over what he is pleased to call Jim HALLS political perfidy he would look in- to his own personal relations with Con- gressman ARNOLD. By the way, dear friend, why haven’t you said something for Mr. ARNOLD, in your “official organ of the Republican party for Centre county,” since he was nominated. You have had since Sept. 22nd to do it. This political perfidy business depends entirely on whose | ox is gored, doesn’ it ? —A meeting of the Democratic state press association, will be held at the Dem- ocratic state headquarters in Philadelphia, to-day, Friday, at 2 o’clock. - sd Wy, | rd { forty years in the building. Who Pays the State Taxes? In his speech at Gettysburg Mr. Jenks showed that the machine boast that the cost of the state government is gotten from the corporations, even if true, would be small consolation to the average taxpayer. This, because of the total taxes collected in the State, only about $12,000,000 are col- lected by the State, while $38 000,000 are collected by the counties, municipalities, etc., and the bargain of the machine with the corporations is that, if they pay the state tax they shall be exempt from all other forms of taxation. In other words, the people pay, as county and municipal taxation, more than three times as much as is collected as state tax. The people pay all, indirectly, of course, and directly they pay in this way more than $3.00 for every $1.00 that passes into the hands of the state treasurer. Under the Democratic party, before the war, and in every other State of the Union, the corporations pay their full share of local as well as state taxation, so that the rule in Pennsylvania is a favor to the corporations rather than to the people. But it is not true, as the machine apolo- gists seek to show, that the corporations pay all the state tax. The fact is they pay little more than half of it. According to the report of auditor general Mylin, in 1896 (the last auditor general’s report pub- lished, though 1898 is nearly through with), the sources of the state income were as follows : From financial corporations and associations............... teres From corporations (r and associations............ $962,210 39 5,983,680 75 $6,945,900 14 From the counties in tax on per- sonal property, liquor licenses, CUCL... ute savienderoihinte se doniivasssanvanie Other sources, notaries publie, fees of officers, fines, etc..............u...... $5,967,943 45 5,406,371 88 561,571 57 Polak.iicii ii didi Grand total...................0.. . $12,913,843 59 This completely explodes the contention of the machine that the corporations pay all, even of the state taxes. They pay, as the foregoing figures show, but little more than half of them. Of the $50,000,000 col- lected by all the tax levying authorities in 1896 they contributed something less than $7,000,000 and the people, chiefly the own- ers of real estate, something more than $43,000,000, so that as tax-yielders the people, whose aggregate property is worth very little more than that of the corpora- tions, are made to give up, under machine rule, over six dollars for every one dollar surrendered by the corporations. It is notorious that everywhere the poor man’s cottage or the small farmer’s hold- ing is assessed ata far greater percentage of its real value than are the larger proper- ties of wealthy individuals and corpora- tions. It is the poor man, therefore, that is most injured by the machine taxation system. He pays in tax many times as much in the first instance and in one way or other is made to pay it all in the final summing up. The Democratic party does not believe in further taxing anybody. The Republican machine, on the other hand, is busily engaged in devising new schemes of taxation to meet their steals and extravagances. The Democratic party would not alter the present tax laws other than to amend them where it should be made clear that they are unfair to any par- ticular class. The Democrats believe in economy, but are not content to sit silent- ly by and have their Republican opponents gather glory from a tax system that is not, as they falsely. and impudently contend, in any sense, a bénign scheme from the standpoint of the best interests of the peo- ple.—Dem. Press Bureau. The Forty Years’ Carnival. Mr. Wanamaker has repeatedly said that the present Republican machine has taken This carries us back to the first election of Simon Cameron to the United States Senate as a Republican, in 1857. Three Democrats— Lebo, Maneer and Wagonseller--voted for Cameron under circumstances that left no doubt of their having been corruptly in- fluenced. All three were ruined by their perfidy. [Five years later, in 1862, there was a Democratic majority in the Legis- lature on joint ballot, of just one. Charles R. Buckalew was the Democratic choice for Senator. On the day of election a host of Democrats assembled at the capitol from all parts of the state, some, it is said, with pistols in their pockets. At any rate, though there is every reason to believe that certain Democratic members had been tampered with, all voted for Buckalew when the test came. It was considered safer. The elder Cameron was unquestionably the founder of the Republican machine now dominated by Matthew S. Quay. It had taken shape with his election to the Sen- ate. When the war began he was Secretary of war. Our soldiers in the field were often quartered, in those days, in rotten tents, shivered under half-weight blankets, went practically bare footed in shoes with paste board insoles and as good as naked in shoddy trousers. But the contractors turned in for the machine. Cameron was censured by formal resolution of the House, and Lincoln was compelled to drive him from the cabinet. Political influence sub- sequently caused the resolution of censure to be expunged from the record. The tariff, about this time, was exploited for all it was worth. Scores of tariff bills were: passed and the beneficiaries joined and ‘‘put up’’ for the machine. Offices began to multiply, and corpora- tions also, and these were made to pay the machine tribute. And then, in their turn, came the ten million steal, the lumber boom bills, the Kemble & Mackey frauds, the George O. Evans swindles, the Pitts- burg riot loot and a hundred other in- famous procedures differing from these in degree but not in essence, each of which marked some epoch in the rise of the ma- chine on the tide of fraud and corruption. With the single exception of Beaver, every Republican Governor during these forty years has, more or less openly, been forced into antagonism to the machine, its exactions of them hecoming, in the long ran, too much to be patiently borne. Cur- tin drifted into the Democratic party, Geary revolted after he had signed legis- lation at the machine's behest that he knew to be unconstitutional and strikingly in the nature of robbery. Even Hartranft was finally goaded into kicking. Hoyt entered upon open rebellion, but too late. His final message, in 1883, was a fierce ex- coriation of the machine's arrogance and infamies. We all know how Hastings turned upon the looters in 1897. Only Beaver was complacent. First the elder Cameron, then the younger and now Quay—these make up the record. Each in his turn was head of the machine. Simon organized and started it upon its career. Don improved upon the methods of his father, from the machine standpoint; Quay has made it intolerable. We have had forty years of it, as Mr. Wanamaker says, and forty years is an abundance. The machine must go.—Dem. Press Bureau. Pittsburgers Never Saw the Like of the Knights. Two Score Thousand Men Were in the Grand Knights Templar Demonstration There.—An Im- mense Assemblage Viewed the Demonstration from Many Points of Vantage—Even the Down- fall of Rain Did Not Interfere.—Opening of the Conclave. PITTSBURG, October 11.—The parade of the twenty-seventh triennial conclave of Knights Templar is now an event of his- tory. Whatever had been anticipated in the way of gorgeousness and splendor and all-round success was amply realized—that is, all but the rain, which was not expect- ed. But even at that, it was the grandest parade ever held in this city from which- ever view one may take it. In point of numbers there were 20,000 marchers in line, it easily doubled similar occurrences of the past, and as far as the appearance of the men, their uniforms, the trappings of their horses as well as the perfection of their movements were concerned, Pitts- burg has never seen anything to equal it. The day started with not a cloud in the sky and long before the booming cannon announced the start of the marchers there was a multitude of people packed together in an impenetrable crowd along the line, extending from the heart of Allegheny City over into Pittsburg, out Fifth Avenue to Schenley park, a distance of seven miles. The number of onlookers on the streets, in the windows and on the roofs and in the reviewing stands has been variously esti- mated from 500,000 to 1,000,000 people. At 10 o'clock the wonderful cavalcade completed its formation and the march be- gan, and three hours later the last detach- ment passed the same point. The rain com- menced at 1.30 o’clock, and for a while it looked as if the parade might be broken up but the knights walked along with the same spirit and displayed the same martial and dignified bearing in the rain as they had done under the shining sun. The crowd soon began to reorganize, and the volleys of cheers and applause, that had been thunderous before, now buist forth in perfect tornadoes. Such encouragement could not but have its effect, and the re- sult was the line remained unbroken until the end came. The arrangements were perfect. The social features of the conclave took place to-night at the Duquesne Garden. This was the reception exclusively for mem- bers of the different Knights Templar com- manderies and no laymen or any one ex- cept ladies, without a templar uniform, was admitted. The guest of honor was grandmaster of the grand encampment Warren Larue Thomas. After the recep- tion there was a grand ball and the gather- ing did not break up until after midnight. Duquesne Garden is an immense building and it is estimated that more than 8,000 knights with their ladies attended the re- ception. Immediately after the parade the formal opening of the twenty-seventh triennial conclave of the grand encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America, took place in Carnegie music hall. Chairman Wigley, of the reception com- mittee, introduced mayor Ford, who wel- comed the grandmaster and Sir Knights to Pittsburg in a few appropriate remarks. The mayor was followed by grand com- mander H. H. Kuhn. of Pennsylvania, and Sir Knight Lee S. Smith, the chairman of the local executive committee, both of whom indulged in a few words of welcome to the meeting. Grandmaster Thomas was then formally; introduced, whereupon he delivered the annual address. After the formal opening the grand mas- ter ordered the roll call, and the organiza- tion of the grand encampment took place. Thereafter the reports of the grand treas- urer Lines and general and recorder Mills were read and referred to the proper com- mittees. The meeting adjourned to reconvene at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. When the election is taken up on Thursday the of- ficers will he moved up in rank, each a point, except the grand recorder, who holds his office permanently. The grand prelate may be advanced. His term of office does not expire triennially, but there is a move- ment to change the constitution as regards this office. elected, and for this office Lees Smith, of this city, is suggested. Seriousness of Uprising was Exaggerated. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Officials of both the war department and the interior de- partment are inclined to the belief that the seriousness of the Indian uprisings in Minnesota has been exaggerated. They are not disposed, however, to take anything for granted. Adjutant General Corbin telegraphed General Bacon to-night that he could have all the troops he might deem necessary to quell the demonstration of the hostiles. The Fourth infantry, now at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, and the Eighteenth infantry, now at Columbus barracks, have been placed at General Bacon’s disposal. Both regiments are prepared to move to the scene of the uprising at a few hours’ notice. Indian Commissioner Jones has gone in person to Minnesota to investigate the sub- ject of the uprising. He was expected to arrive there to-day, and the Indian bureau is looking for information from him to- morrow. Litigation About Roosevelt’s Tax Ended, NEW YORK, Oct 10.—The motion of counsel of Theodore Roosevelt to discon- tinue the certiorari proceeding brought in his behalf to contest the assessments on him of a personal tax of $1,005, by the city authorities, was consented to by the cor- poration counsel when the motion was call- ed by Justice Smyth in the supreme court this morning. The payment of the tax and the order of discontinuance therefore ends the litigation over Col. Roosevelt’s liability to pay taxes as a resident of this city. ——Is it right that public school offi- cials should be forced to borrow to main- tain the schools? Well, that is what they are now doing, and it is just what they have been doing for some time, and all over the State too, While favored bankers are holding school funds and dividing the prof- its with certain state officers, the tax pay- ers are obliged to hire money at six per cent. The fact is the State is bankrupt and cannot pay the appropriations made for schools and charities. It is high time there was a change. ——The railroads all over the country are retrenching. How ? By throwing men out of employment. Is this done because railroad officials are opposed to the work- ingmen having steady employment? No. ‘Why is it then ? The why and wherefore is that bard times, another name for McKin- ley prosperity, has struck the railroads and struck them hard. That’sall. Vote for Jenks. EEE R A \ A grand junior warden is to be: Bloody Fight With Strikers. Imported Negroes Shot Down in [llinois.—S8even Dead and Eighteen Wounded.—Troops Were Or- dered to the Scene and the Town is Compara- ‘tively Quiet. History of the Trouble. VIRDEN, Illl.,, October 12.—The little town of Virden is comparatively quiet to- night after a day of riot and blood-shed, the long expected clash between the union miners and imported negroes having taken place. At 12.40 o’clock this afternoon the Chicago and Alton special bearing 200 ne- gro miners from the South arrived at the stockade around the Chicago-Virden Coal company’s mines and immediately the ter- rific firing began. The list at 10 o’clock to-night stands seven dead and eighteen wounded. It is said that six men were wounded in- side the stockade, but this has not been verified, and those inside the stockade re- fuse to communicate with outsiders. TRAIN WAYLAID. For the past two weeks rumors have reached Virden daily that a train having negroes from Alabama would reach the city and the Chicago and Alton depot has been surrounded day and night by vigilant miners determinedly awaiting their arriv- al. To-day the Chicago and Alton limited, due to pass here at 10 o’clock, got through en route to Chicago an hour late displaying flags on their rear indicating that a special was following. Immediately the word was spread and a dense crowd of miners lined the station platform, while another crowd collected at the entrance of the stock- ade, a half mile north of the station. D. B. Kiley, a Chicago and Alton detective, stood guard at a switch at the south end of the station platform to see it was not tam- pered with. At 12.40 the special train passed the sta- tion and signal shots were fired from the south end of the train announcing the spec- ial’s arrival. FIRST SHOTS FROM THE TRAIN. Immediately shots were fired from the moving train and outside and the battle was on. A few moments after the train had passed the switch where Kiley was sta- tioned and while he was talking with two citizens he threw up his arms and dropped dead with a bullet through his brain. He was the first man killed. The train continued to the stockade, the miners firing into it all along the route and the negro passengers returning the fire. The moment the train reached the stockade the miners opened a desperate fire with Winchesters, revolvers and firearms of every description. The negroes on the train answered with a steady fire. A CONTINUOUS VOLLEY. The miners and the train were envel- oped in a cloud of smoke and the shooting sounded like a continuous volley. Engi- neer Burt Tigar received a bullet in the arm and dropped from his seat. His fire- man seized the throttle and pulled it open with a jerk. The train was under speed carrying a load of negro passengers to Springfield. How many were wounded is not known. . The train stopped at the stockade but two minutes. Its departure did not cause the firemen to cease. The tower of the stockade was filled with sharpshooters armed with Winchesters and they kept up a steady fire into the crowd of union min- ers. Eyewitnesses say miners were killed after the train had departed. It is not known how many men are stationed be- hind the walls of the stockade, but an es- timate is placed at between twenty-five and forty. Harrowing Story. Told by a DuBois Soldier of Treatment Received by Himself and Companions. NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—The transport Obdam, with troops from Porto Rico, ar- rived at quarantine late this afternoon. Speaking to Governor Hastings, of Penn- sylvania, who went down to the Obdam to-night on the steamer Fletcher, Colonel Gibson, of the National Relief association, said that he had been the means of saving many soldiers from starving. ‘‘Governor,”’ he said, after an exchange of greetings, ‘I have a story to tell you that will startle the country.” As a result of this remark there was a conference between the commissioner and Governor Hastings, after which the Gover- nor decided to take off the Pennsylvanir soldiers and have them sent to the hotel for the night. Ralph Harwick, of DuBois, a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania volunteers, told a harrowing story of the treatment he and his companions had received while in Porto Rico. ‘‘“We got there on July 28th,’ he said. ‘‘and were landed from the trans- port Mobile. Many of us had contracted typhoid fever in the military camps in the South. The tropical climate developed the disease but, notwithstanding our weakened condition, the Sixteenth made a good fight when it encountered the Span- iards. ‘The regiment was under fire for over an hour and at the close of the engagement thirteen Spaniards had been killed and sixty-five wounded. We deserved better treatment than we got when Porto Rico had been taken. The regulars were well looked after, but the volunteers were starved. When finally the men were forced to succumb to the fever and were sent to the hospitals, they were treated shamefully. Although delirious, we were forced to get out of our cots to watch some poor, brave fellow dying. Some of the men went mad under the strain: Only think of it, delirious men nursing the dy- in 1 Harwick’s story was but a sample of the complaints which were recited hy the men to Governor Hastings as they had been transferred from the Obdam to the Fletcher. Reduced Rates to Philadelphia via Penn- sylvania Railroad, Account Peace Jubilee. For the grand Peace Jubilee at Philadel- phia, October 26th and 27, the Pennsylva- nia railroad company will sell excursion tickets from all ticket stations on its line, to Philadelphia, at rate of single fare for the round trip (minimum rate, 50 cents). Tickets will be sold and good, going Octo- ber 24th to 27th, and returning leaving Philadelphia to October 31st, inclusive. This jubilee will be one of the greatest events in the history of Philadelphia. The rededication of Independence Hall, recent- ly restored, the unveiling of the Grant Equestrian Monument, Fairmount Park ; a monster civic and industrial parade, and a grand military and naval pageant, led by General Miles and other distinguished heroes of the late war, will be prominent features. The President and his Cabinet will also he present. For the accommodation of persons desir- ing to witness the evening ceremonies and return the same night, special late trains will be run from Philadelphia to the prin- cipal cities on each division each night. 43-40-2¢. hii, nin,
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