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THE CENTRE REPORTER.|
Epitor and ProP'r |
THROUGH A BRIDGE,
FRED. KURTZ,
- A KILLED 118 AND MORE THAN 800 INJURED,
Centre Haun, Pa., August 17, 1887, >
An excursion train, carrying 960 pas-
gengers, bound to Niagara Falls, about
midnight of Wednesday 10, plunged
through a barned bridge near the town
of Chatsworth, Ill, on the Toledo,
Peoria and Western Railway. The list
of dead nurabers 118, and of the 2
The oldest lawsuit in [llinois has been | wonded it is propable that many will
. 5 Bows die. The corpses of the dead and the
on the docket for 42 years. It began persons of the injured were plundered
about a 82 hog, and bas cost the princi- | of money and jewelry, and this fact gives
7 000 rise to the suspicion that the bridge was
——————————— purposely fired in order to cause the dis
x aster and furnish opportunity for
robbery.
The excursionists hailed from
points in central Illinois, the bulk of
them, however, coming from Peoria.
Some of the passengers came from
tan, 11 Paso, Washington and, in fact, all
stations along the liae; some from as far
West as Burlington and Keokuk, Ia, A
apecial and cheap rate have been made
for the excursion, and all sorts of people
took advantage of it,
Three miles East of Chatsworth is a
little slough, where the railroad crosses
a dry ran about ten feet deep and fifteen
| feet wide, Ower this was stretched an
| ordinary wooden trestle bridge, and as
ing to form a'great whiskey pool with a! the excursion train came
view of controlling the wholesale liquor | down on it what was the horror of
: | engine 3 gine whe
trade of the United States The capital wp A ! ayiae when
represented by the members of the pool
is estimated at $25 000,000,
An exchange says August is the me-
teor month. Pshaw—we found we could
meet-her any month in the year.
SAI
pals about §
In Wyoming Territory capital punish-
ment is inflicted by shooting. The
caution of Fred Hopt on Thursday was
conducted by a marshall and a firing par-
remarka- |
exe VArious
ty of five men. The case is a
ble one for the Western territorial re-
gion, where punishment is swift and not
always according to the forms of law.
The crime was committed in 1880, and
seven years have been spent in the law's
delays.
EAI
The distillers of the West are combin
It is propos-
Had there
taken
There was no chance to st
yD
p.
been warning it would
have
ed to monopolize the production of lig-
\ 3 “
nor in this country and regulate prices,
Incidentally the combination will take the
| wood, iron and human lives, and
part in resisting the growth of “temper- | train was within 100 yards of the
will the | tongued messenger of death before they
4 a : . a flashed their fatal signals into the engin-
passage of laws “calenlated to injure the eet’s face. ut he passed over in safety,
the first engine keeping the rails, As it
went over the bridge fell beneath it, and
ance fanaticism,” and oppose
trade.” The temperance canse will find
a new and powerful enemy in this whisk-
dol- | :
| of the train which saved the lives of the
{ engineer and his fireman.
Down in the ditch lay
Twenty-five million
lars is a large sum to fight against,
ey monopoly.
the second
of the |
blind leading the blind, or of the potent |
influence of the money of the “American |
Protective Association,” whena conven-
the aboli- |
tion of taxes on whiskey and a perpetua- |
It certainly looks like a case
Applegate badly injured. On top were
piled the three baggage cars, one on top
of another like a child's card house after
he had swept it with his hand. Then
came the six day coaches. They were
telescoped as cars never were before, and
three of them were pressed into just
| enough space for one. The second car
{ had mounted off trucks, crashed
through the car ahead of it, crushing
the woodwork aside like tinder, and lay
there resting on the tops of the
while every passenger in the front
was laying dead and dying underneath,
Oat of that car but four people came out
alive. On top of the second car lay
third, and its bottom was smeared
| the blood of its victims,
{| And to fight the fire there was
| drop of water and only some fifty
bodied men who still had ‘
miod and nerve enough to do their duty.
The only ligl
wi
ing bridge.
¥
tion of laboring men calls for
tion of the war taxes on sogar, salt, cloth-
ing, and other necessities. Do these men
ever stop to think that every
its
monopoly |
of which they complain has grown
'
up
and that every
loss of employment”
and |
which they lament |
has occurred under the high tariff which |
they plead to have kept at the war max- |
imum
‘reduction of wages
. ' : with
Fetich w hin ia } halo or
etichh worship isnot a heip to
progress, not a
able-
The White River Utes, under old Col
in Gar-
The set
eeing to Meeker and the near-
est towns for safety
orow, are again on the warpath
fi i
Xo} i
Hea
county near the Utsh line. And with so mach of its aid
tlers are fl the fifty men went to work to fight ti}
flame. For four hours they fought
fiends, and for four hours
talp. | hung in the balance.
2io- | .
. The ranchmen have
the vit
already organized a volunteer compauy.
Gov. Adams received most urgent
FIGHTING THE FIRE WITH EARTH
grams from Glenwood
¢ . .
ior prote 14
Springs,
He has telegraphed
asking
the |
War Department the nature of the troub-
Farth was the only weapon with which
the foe could be fought, and so the at-
tempt was made to smother it out, There
was no pick or shovel to dig it ap;
baskets or barrows to carry it, and
| desperate were they that they dug
fingers down into the earth, which
long drouth had packed almost as
as stone, and heaped the precious hand-
fuls thus hardly won upon the encroach-
ing flames, and with this earthwork,
built handfal by handfal, kept back
i foe
n.
les, and hopes to obtain the assistance of
United States troops from Utah,
no
BO
:
The reports from the frontier are still an
hard
1
quite meagre, but the Indians ae said to
have fired on the whites then
reservation for
and to
have sent to the more
warriors, $4
ile
TI RESTA I.
The great conspiracy case in Chicago | So. stieY dug up the earth with their
; : 3 s . | hands, reckless « he 1! tre ing
has ended in the conviction of all the ac- | bands, r ck ess of the blood streaming
The | | out from broken finger nails and heap-
ie iatter ling itup inl ttle mounds, while all the
while came the heartrending cry “For
cused parties. include an ex-
Warden of the Cook County Insane Asy-
lum. f of I's sake don't let us barn to death !
i } lly the victory was won, the fire
mem- 1 ont after four hours of endeavor-
ing, and as its last sparks died away a
light came up in the East to take their
place and dawn came upon a scene of
1OFTOT,
. While the fight had been going
One of the twelve | men had been dying and there were
pleaded guilty and his sentence has yet | 80 many wounded take out of
wreck as there had been foar hours
fore. Bat in the meantime, the country
had been aroused; help had come from
Chataworth, Forest and Piper City, and
| as the dead were laid reverently aloog-
| side of each other out in the cornfield,
ns loca - * | there were ready hands to take them in-
» The eleven officials were equal- | 1, Cn gteworth, while some of the wound-
ly guilty and should have been served | ad were carried to Piper City. One
alike, but one juryman voted to acquit | hundred and eighteen was the awful poll
them all, and could only be brought to | of the dead, while the wounded number
an agreement by a compromise which let |
four times that many.
: No sooner had the wreck occurred th
off four of the convicted men with a arred than
slight fine. Bat Chicago will be rid of
a scene of robbery commenced. Some
band of unspeakable miscreants, went
seven rascals for two years; and that fs | Into the cars when the fire was burning
something gained.
EIS
| fiercely underneath and when the poor
COAL BARONS AND
SERFS.
From the Chicago
wr ex-members of the Board
County Commissioners and seven
The verdict |
the jury fixes the punishment of four
of the convicted men at a fine of $1,000 |
h, and {
bers of the present Board.
of
f seven others at two years in ol
» . mn,
ntiary. not
the
he
nen
t
to
to be pronounced. Considering the enor-
mity of the offence the sentences inflicts
ed are very light, especially the four |
fines. The verdict affords another illus-
tration of the loose workings of our jury
system,
them “for God's sake to help them out,”
THE stripped them of their watches and jew.
THEIR
ey. When the dead bodies were laid
out in the cornfield these hyenas turned
Herald
Pennsylvania is a nice State, which in
variably shows up a majority of Mr.
Randall and of 79,999 other Republicans
for the protective idea. The Hazelbrook
and that the plundering was done by an
that this morning out in the corn field
miners are Republicans, too, and as for sixteen purses, all empty, were found in
. 3 d one heap.
protective idea, why, they fairly dote on | and had the plunderers been caught this
it.
It is literally the breath of their | afternoon they would surely have been
nostrils, For if coal mined by the | lynched.
pauper labor of Europe were allowed to |
enter the country and compete with
them they would not be able to continue | out more horrible than all of those hor-
; | rible scenes, In the second coach
in their role as friends of the Ameri : i d Hi
Libor ao J) ‘Tienda oy I a man, his wife and little child,
would they be able to tax the people of |
the United States $6,250,000, as they did |
the other day in a little back room on |
. | broken woodwork, Finally, when relief
Wall street, by adding 50 cents to the | came the man tarned to , friendly
price of coal. The Hazelbrook and other | and feebly said: “Take out my wife first.
mine owners are stout Republicans of | I'm afraid the child is dead.” Bo they
| carried out the mother, and as a broken
the Foraker kind, too. They think that | i was ta
' ken off her crushed bress
the rebellion shoold be suppressed and | the blood which flowed from her an
slavery wiped off the face of the earth | told how badly she was burt. They
That is why they import cargoes of white | carried the child, a fair-haired, blue-eyed
slaves from Hungary and Italy and forge | ¢ i oad Jd he Pw eotufleidy
the chains of absolute dependence about | Then they went buck for tue father and
them in the mines. They havea “com. | brought iin Gat, Both hii gs wore
” | broken, but he craw through the e rn
puny slore a well as a company doctor. | to the side of his wife, and feeling her
9, no, 8 a very tiresome story | |oyed features in the darkness pressed
this, and who should panse to listen | some brandy to her lips and wskec her
when he has only to incline his ear | how she felt. A feeble groan was the
Ohioward and hear the lively fictions { only answer and the next instant she
of Mr. Forker about the wicked 30,00 Whe man felt the forms of his dead
Georgia Democrats who hold their 270,- | wite and child, and cried out: “M
000 fel w-citizens in bondage.
¥
A HUSBANDS SUICIDE.
There was one incident which
is said he got on at Peoria, When the
accident occurred the entire family of
there is nothing more for me to live for
now,” and, taking a pistol ont of his
pocket, pulled the trigger. The bullet
wont surely through his brain, and the
three dead bodies of that little family
are now lying side by side in Chatsworth
| waiting to be indentified,
—_ . .
A CHAIN OF BRIGHT RESORTS, OF
WHICH SEA ISLE OITIESIS A
SHINING LINK.
seaside resorts on the New Jersey
are on islands? From Sandy Hook
| and twenty-seven miles, is a stiring of
resorts, folly seventy-five in number,
For at least two-thirds of this
i
Is now
sandy beaches out in the sea. From
on the main land. These include
Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove,
Ocean Beach, Spring Lake and Bea Girt,
and a dozen places not as well
From Bay Head, at the top of
side the chain of islands.
| wide Park, and Island Beach.
City Beach, Harvey's
Haven, and Sea Haven
Cedars,
Across Little
Bay, Brigantine Island being
Brigantine you eross the famous inlet
and find vonmself at Atlantic
Though the Throughfare and your
takes you to Longport at the end of
boat
at the northern extremity
Great Egg Harbor Bay and you
Peck’s Beach with Ocean City.
throughfare carries you past the
to Corson’s Inlet at the northern end
to call ane
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FURNITURE EMPORIUM OF
more complete than ever.
| examine.
|
er! |
even if Yo
Parlor
u do not buy. We have an attractive
-of all the fashionable styles
They are in Walnut
f
Ash
inave
Store. Cx
Point and Cape May.
What a marvelous coast this
where can anything like it be
And a'l these resorts have been
possible and been developed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. It touches
| everywhere. Some syndicate purchases a
strip of beach and improves it, Next we
hear ofa Peonsylvania Railroad branch
penetrating it, and lo! it blossoms forth
into a full-fledged resort with hotels and
cottages. Before many years there will
he a continuous line of rails from Sandy
Hook to Cape May Point, withnol a
| mile of unoccupied beach land,
Among these resorts you can make
your choice. There is the fashion of Long
| Branch, of Key Fast, of Bea Girt, and
Spring Lake; the less fashionable but
still gav and temperate Asbary Park; the
| great Methodist camp at Ocean Grove;
the restless, crowded cosmopolitanism of
Atlantic City, and the quiet elegance
Old Cape May. Then there is the grand
fishing and sailing of Barnegat Bay and
i the resorts of the neighbarhood, and the
is !
| Atlantic City. Everybody
| lantic, and rich snd poor jostle
other on the beach and in the
ohbies, But if voa would berid of
| that: if you woold travel with a bag
| stead of a trunk, and enjoy a free and
easy life free from the dictates of fashion,
go to Barnegat City Beach, Longport,
| Ocean City, Sea Isle City, and Angle-
BER.
One of the newest places is Sea
It is of easy access, and express tr
over the West Jersey road rake vou
rectly toitin two hours, It only
about five years old, and yet it rejoices in
several hundred cottages and varieus
hotels. Many of these are built almost
upon the very edge of the sea, being
separated from it only by a sea wall five
or six feet high. The beach is hard as a
plank. Itis of peculiar qoality., The
dazzling white of 80 many beaches is
absent in this, Fine black sand is mix.
ed with it in such quantities as to make
it enay for the eye. And there is no safer
beach to be found anywhere, Its sea
wall is a novelty, The wall makes it
possible for bonses to be built cle to
the water, something which is very rare,
Atlantic City and other resorts might
take an idea from Sea Isle. A like wall
at Atlantic would utilize many hundreds
of acres,
You can do as you please at Sea
sr fashion will not dictate. If you are
ired of the hurlvyburly and wish to es
cape the crowd there there is no better
place. You ean be comfortable and en-
joy life by the sea in its purity. Fish.
ing, sailing, and crabbing will give you
diversions on the water, and excursion
trips to Cape May, Ocean City, Longport,
and Atlantie City will help you pass the
time.
At-
each
hotel
all
in.
goes Lo
Isle,
Ring
1
a
is
Isle,
f
f
EGOMMON SENSE
Tells anyone that it is an ut-
ter impossibility for a mer-
chant to sell goods continually
eee A-T C.0-S.T eee .
A
never be conducted on such a
legitimate business can
| basis, as taxes, rent, insurance,
| etc., must be paid and a living
We do
earned. not conduct
| our business upon such a prin-
| ciple, and we only aska rea.
all
sonable advance on our
‘goods. We believe in
| FAIR AND SQUARE
dealing and know that our
goods and prices prove what
we say. Give us a call and be
convinced.
HARPER & KREAMER,
Centre Hall, Pa.
yme and see our Stock,
H* HICKS & BR
onl
sto
fro
you
R3,
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he largest stock at the
prices of any store in our lice of
ss in Centre county. Now that
ephone Connection direct to our}
re, it will more than pay you to order
We ship}
or the
Im us. guarantee prompt
and the lowest H
roe
Pi 1 os
When you can save
money
1 will certainly take ads
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MON SENSE REASONS WHY THE IMPROVED
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lity.
of the best materials
every farmer.
machine that forces the slat or
and completely obviates all danger of inju
past the post, and fastening the wire
i posts, thus Xooping the wood parts
mplgrare or rot. lh in ys J
and oooasion continued expe: repair,
ah material can be tsed for making new fence
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