THE CENfRE REPORTER FRED. KURTZ, when paid in ad previous Eprror and Pror'r “TERMS; ~One year, $1.50 ance. Those in arrears subject te bi rms. $2 per year. Advertisements 20 cents per line for 8 inser ns.and 5 cents for each subsequent insertion. Cxxthe HaLy, Pa., Truss, Fxn. 25, 1889, THE KEYSTONE STATE. NEWS TOPICS OF LOCAL INTEREST TO PENNSYLVANIANS. Fancies Gleaned Bolled the from Many Down to Brief Benefit of Busy Facts and Sources and Paragraphs for Readers, Rocurster, N. Y.,, Feb. 21.--It is an- phia and Reading railroad express system, the management of the Adams express, The Legislature. Harmisnura, Feb, 22, urday half holiday bill by a vote of 20 to 12, Fow's White Cap bill, prohibiting the sending of intimidating letters, circulars and posters, was reported affirmatively, punishment by imprisonment and fine. The attendance in both house and senate Wednesday night was small and no business of great importance was transacted. Among other bills introduced in the house was one to appropriate $5,000 for the celebration at Lan- caster of the signing by Washington of the first tariff law in 1759, to be held July 4, 1580 In the senate Thursday a senatorial reap- portionment bill was introduced by Mr. Ru- tan, and it referred to the on senatorial apportionment, of wh Rutan is chairman. The bill was committee sh Mr. handed was in his pocket. He refused to allow its provis- duced: Prohibiting the erection of ches g hibit the restriction of trace by the formation of trusts and combinations In the senate Friday a bill was introduced by Mr. Thompson, of Dauphin, prohibiting the charging of more than one-f per single mile for a seat in a parlor car and one-half of a cent per mile for a sleeping berth, and making companies conducting this kind of business comunon carriers and requir. ing to pay for loss « on their cars. Adjourned until Tuesday at 4p. m. In the house Friday superintendent of public instruction at £5,000 was favor Bills pre f viding fou ssion and makir f personal property Bill fixing salary of al a railroad Monday in known a abor day, Hg Hy reported. first ay, to Ix atively 4 181) res inowd 8 Grand Army the mother The bouse « nents to the our senators and « service pension bill that the vote the rights and regulating the and tricy to, and the striking out the clause tak way and road commissi regulate. Cooper's bill aboli ii tax was passed finally, and will go he governor McCullough offered a resolution, which adopted, eulogistic of Adjourned until Monday evening, White Caps Could Have Greexsevre, Pa, non, a Frenchman who ville, committed = on af of three Caps. Two weeks ago, it is stated, four masked men met Shannon on the high- way near his home, and warned him to leave the neighborhood or suffer the alty inflicted by the order. the man that himself for the atta late he procured a de and placing the muzzis to his side chambers, He had attached a fue to an oil can, and just before he discharged the gun be lighted the fuse, but it failed to burn It is thought his intention was to burn the house and cremate his body. oncwrred in Skinner res fon requestis for Patterson asked ongressm to vote a Mr which defeated the act ies be reconsiderad + act passed se Was ington. Done No Worse. 2 John Bhan resided Braden ide on 8 y¥ night od White 3 Fel made by i. three or severest pen- This so alarmed te kK. Un Saturday night barrelled shot gur able 4 RISO Fire at Rlegelaville, Pa. Doyrestows, Pa., Feb, 21. — Fire at Rie gelsville, Pa., burned a block, including the local Grand Army rooms, Dr. Lever's stare, Adams & Sherer's store and merchandise and the libraries and other property of the Meth- odist and Lutheran churches, Loss, £30,000: partly insured. Two Lives Lost at a Fire. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.—An overheated stove in the dry goods and notion store of Isidore Horn, at 915 South street, caused a fire last night which resulted in the loss of two lives, although the monetary loss is al- most insignificant. In the second story of the building in which Horn's store was located lived a man named Brodie, with his wife and child, while in the third story lived Max three daughters, the youngest being but 8 months old. Brodie and his family got out of the second story, and Schwartz ran to one of the windows and Jurmaped to the ground, escaping without injury worth mentioning, but his wife and her babe were suffocated, and their bodies were afterward cremated by the flames. The other two girls escaped from the building safely. Guilty of Importing Contract Labor, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. ~The trial of the civil suit of the government, brought to re- cover a §1,000 penalty from Joseph and John Lees, trading ns James Lees & Sons, for al leged inportation of contract labor at their mills at Bridgeport, Pa., was brought to a close last ovening. The jury were out only ten minutes, when they brought in a verdict in favor of the government in the amount of the penalty sued for, $1,000, Big Sale of Conl Mines. Prersron, Pa. Feb, 22. Ouse of the largest transfers of mining property ou record has just been made here. The plant owned by elson Cowan, of Corning, N Y., has bean sold to the Butler Coal company, limited, of this place. It includes the Behooloy and Bos ton collieries and the Benoca store. More than 1,000 men are affected by the of The consideration is not made public, Restricting the Coal Output. Priraveiruia, Feb, 22 The anthracite coal companies have practically determined SWALLOWED UP BY FIRE. Horrible Death of Eleven Girls at Plymouth, Pa. CHARRED BEYOND RECOGNITION. Death Comes During a Pleasant After Dinner Chat—A Large Squib Factory Instantly Wrecked by Mysterious Ex- plosions—Blackened Bodies and Bones. Wikespannre, Pa, Feb, 20. —Eleven girls, varying in age from 15 to 22 years, lost their lives in Powell's squib factory at Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Powder squibs are manufactured at this place for the use of miners. The squib is a sort of fuse which is inserted in the drilled hole in the coal. Girls are employad to make these squibs because their labor is cheaper, and they can do the work more satisfactorily than men. Powell's United States and Canada, and some are ex- ported to the English collieries, When trade | is good the factory employs about eighty | girls, what slack, and last week part of the ma chinery broke down, and the superintendent | was compelled to lay off forty of the girls Yesterday morning all bands reported for | work, but the machinery was not yet in| order, and all were sent home with the excep | tion of about seventeen, who were retained to do some odd jobs. When the 12 o'clock whistle blew six of the girls who lived near by went to their homes for their midday | meal. The remainder-—eleven all told-—ate their dinner in the factory, After all had dined the girls adjourned to an ante-room containing a stove, Here they all sat and | chatted, Maggie Lynch said she had an invitation to a social in the evening; Charles Beatty had | asked her to accompany him, and she said | she guessed she would go. All the other girls | urged her to do so, saying she would havea good time. What passed between the girk after this is not known. There the story | stops short, Alice Reese, who carried dinner fur two of the workers left for her home Lately, however, trade has been some | A few minutes before | starting up time — John Thomas, who resides near the factory, was sitting at a table eating his dinner, when a | violent explosion shook the dishes from the | table, At first he thought it was an ex plosion in the mines, but looking out of the | window he saw the roof of the factory shoot ing up in the air, and when it fell back again the the building were falling in. | Then fire enveloped the and ten | minutes time the reduced t ashes The spread of the flames was so rapid that | go to the social sides of debris in structure was it was impossible for any one to enter the | The miners fr lard slope rushed to the burning boil hervically atten wi the Gay dng and pte] to pull away the 1 iy seve the Lives of sn the § ned is, but the flames had gained headway and the men were absolutely power ¥ nnuch lesa When the firemen arrived they found that | he at i to render material as | When the fire finally died out for they were also unable unfortunate girls Their heads, were dug from the arms and logs were but thelr charred bodies, which were entirely unrecognizable Miss Maggie Lynch's body being recognized only by its large size Thousands of persons had gathered about the wrecked building, and the j of the relatives of the dead girls was heart rending. All of the bones that could found were placed in blankets and taken tw Undertaker Williams’ establishment, where the relatives gathered and vainly endeavored to recognize the charred remaing The following is a complete list of thow who lost their lives Katie Jones, aged 20; Maggie Lynch, 21: Hattie Reese, 15; Mary Walters, : Mary Ann Lake, 17; | tuth Powell : Esther Powell (a sister of | Ruth, hariotte Humphries, 17; Jane | Ann Humas, 17. The only person who was in the building at the time of the explosion who remains to tell the story is Foreman Reese, and he is fatally burned Ha says he was standing by a stove when | the first explosion was beard. He rushed i the door to notify the girls, when several ex- | plosions occurred, and he next found himself in the cellar. He managed to crawl out into the open air, but is so terribly burned that he can live but a short time The cause of the explosion is not known Mr. Powell says there was but a small quan- | tity of powder in the building, a magazine near by being used as a storage house. Ope theory is that a box of squibs became ignited debris, dleous cries la i =; Fatal Boarding House Fire. Scranton, Pa, Feb 26 A terrible con- | miles above Carbondale. The alarm of fire was sounded and it was found that a large | fire. In less than five minutes after the fire was discovered the whole structure was a mass of flames. A large number of boarders were in the house and most of them escaped by jumping from the windows, After every. body was supposed to have escaped the forms of a man and woman were suddenly seen at different windows ifi the upper stories. Their appeals for help were heartrending but un- availing, as there were no ladders near the enough to cast themselves from the windows, and soon fell back into the seething mass below. After the fire had cooled they were taken out burned to a crisp. They were Sarah Ford, of Jackson street, this city, a domestic, and Patrick Sweeney, of Kingston, & miner, Bulelde om the Church Steps. Canvisie, Pa, Feb, 20 -Curtis Crom leigh, aged 18 years, residing near Anderson: town, committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol. He attended church and seemed in his usual good spirits, but immediately after the service, and while yet on the church stops, he pulled out a revolver and fired three hen picked up be was dead. It is supposed he was jilted by a o— - eh —— guests, the occasion was a highly enjoyable AUSTIN CORBIN'S GREAT ENTERPRISE, He Is Organizing an American Line of Fast Ocean Stesmers, probable that inside of the next two years American travelers to Europe will be able to cross the Atlantic ocean in American built chips, flying the Stars and Stripes, manned by American crews and backed entirely by Amgrican capital and enterprise, From pres ent indications the long desired ** American” line will become an established fact in reality us well as in name, Austin Corbin, the financier, who is not only president of the Philadelphia and Read- ing railroad, but also controls the big net werk of railroads on Long Island, has an im- mense scheme on hand for the establishing Ad equipment of a line of transatlantic steamships which are to surpass anything of the kind afloat. A stock company is said to have been formed, composed of substantial capitalists, with Mr Corbin at their head, and with a capital stock of $10,000,000, The company proposes to build six mam- moth ocean steamships at a cost of not les than $1,250,000 each, These vessels will em- body every possible modern improvement, and will be fitted up with every comfort and travelers, They are expected to be equal in L L,and Liverpool By landing passengers at Montauk Point and then trans ferring them to New York by rail it is be Joust twelve hours ahead of the coming to the docks in New York and Jersey bay will be no inconsiderable inducement Aid will be asked from CONE Tess sidy for carrying the mals, asx the vessels will be built with this purposes view, and many members of congress have their aid in the plan Considerable work will have to be done in the vicinity of Brooklyn in the termini, and to adjusting matters that rail road communicstion from Montauk Point will be prompt and efficient. This work is now being estimated upon, for a sub especially in way of arranging A SECRET SOCIETY RATE WAR. It Is Bendered Possible by an Action of the New Jersey Knights of FPythias New Brusswick, Feb, 90 action taken by the Grand Lodge of the Knights of FPythias, at its recent session here, is likely to lead to a lively cut in rates mmong secret societies and war. The constitution of the Pythians pro- vides that th fixed at specially given by the supreme chancellor ’ the request of Lone ination fee shall never be joss than $10, unless by disow a grand lodge of a st ew Jers hile often more tion fow, w than than ws than th of vented the growth o Sal WE few years at jeast fifty men — Joined the Pythians had it not cost m The Grand ledge at its tes tie Le wis in. SP To solved pe in the supreme chancellor ing the to # bos 88a ¢ HX the ita ™ his discretion recpuests for The constit fall below 86, ¢ but this Janit w then a The Knights of Pythias are now the third order in the world in point of bers, the Masons © and Fellows sex sod. & redoucts in fee 1 « ution provides that it sh ’ en in osse of a dispenaati he rurdrsas hud ME undoubtedly reached, sO lion num the (ddd oning first Red Nosed Mike Doomed. Wikssnanne Pa, Fob for a new &r the oase of Mike,’ Jd. B McC The motion tal in ure on June 19 last, was argued before Judge Rico yesterday, A stubborn fight was made for the defendant by his as signed counsel, but all to no avail, the court promptly overruling the motion and pro souncing the death When asked by the court if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him the prisoner replied: “I have not; can I say sontanice what The judge's opinion in overruling fe death en od Mike was lsd to impressive language, After 1 tence had been pronoun the prisoners’ dock in the court room and bandcufied. Om being taken to the prison van he wept bitterly and bade farewell to his counsel as be jolt the court room. About That Cabinet, Wasnizoron, Feb 20-01 underetond that Gen. Harrison will sand for prominent Republicans in congress as soon as he arrives, with a view of receiving opinions and advice fa regard to filling out his cabinet slate. He ws slope and the northwest, The latter for John M. Thurston, of Nebraska. There were two aspirants for the cabinet under the next administration upon the floor of the house yesterday: Casiuse M Clay, of Ken tucky, who desires to bo woretary of agri culture, and Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, who has strong backing, it is said, to become Attorney General Garland's successor, Mother and Two Children Suffocated. CHICAG0, Feb, %0.—An awful tragedy was enacted at No. 220 Irving avenue, by which Mrs. Lizzie McAuley and ber two children lost their lives. At 10 o'clock in the morning the inmates of the house noticed that the Mo. Auleys had not appeared. On approaching one of the doors they noticed an odor of coal gas. The door was forced open, and on the bed were the dead bodies of Mra McAuley and her children. A rubber tube attached to a gas jet had been separated from a standing bracket and the end of the tube lay on the pillow of the bed and through this the gas escaped, filling the room with the fume, Mrs McAuley is the woman who, Dec. 4, 1887, shot and killed her husband Operatives Becoming Restless. Farl River, Feb. 2 Delegates from twenty mills reported to the Weaver’ union expcutive committee that they had waited on agents of their mills and requested an ad- vance in wages, Seventeen agents agreed to grant the advance provided a majority of the board of trade agreed to it. An unfavorable the president and secretary of the board of trade are agents. Delegations from twelve mills reported in favor of a strike. The ecutive committee will Should Have Stayed Where lie Was. Brvoxrorr, Conn., Feb, 28. — Herman Kompinski, a Russian EMPIRE STATE G. A. R. Capt, Clark, of Norwich, Elected Departs ment Commander, Bixenaxron, N. Y., Feb. 22 apt, Har- rison Clark, of Norwich, was elected com. mander of the G, A. R. department of New York by the state encampment, receiving 51 votes to 373 for Floyd Clarkson, of New York, and six scattering. T, J. Hood. of Delhi, was elected senior vice commander: Scott, of Low. ville, junior vice commander: Baudry, of Al bany, ehaplain, and Caldwell, of Pulaski, medical director, Clarkson's friends are very sore because Kay's supporters went over to Clark after the first ballot, Commander Clark is about 45 years old, was born in Chat. ham, Columbia county, has thrice been ele ted commander of Bmith post, of Norwich. has served as alde to Past Nationa! Commander Rea, was twice promoted on the fleld for lantry, and lost a leg at the Wilderness, Resolutions favoring the following mens. ures were adopted: The per diem service bill: the prisoners of war pension bill : petitioning | the legislature to provide common schools with the American flag; request to preveat the use of the flag ments, The resolntion tuning G, A over to the state on dissolution « pation wag 4 legislation as they did while in bomes. No action was faken Bath Boldiers’ home, Two hb was subscribed to the John A ment fund The encammnent a The Woman's I" C. Mink, of Watertown, president, elected Imogene I. Guion, of Seneca senior vice: Ada vice, and Jennie | treasurer TO HONEYCOMB gal- ing congress | in advertise L property * Organi One in favoring ithiors and w EV 10% i5, AL thelr man indred ling the doilars Logan mony curne | without day, Relief iw re-elected Barah and Fal Mohr, of Brooklva rR Ro Ssaephierd, of Benoca Falls, WwW NE YORK Mr. Clark's tireat Scheme, Behind Whieh There Is Enormous New York, Feb 28 i's man Clark, the } broached a scheme for nels under Now Y North rivers, connect arban points, Litile at the plan, as it was consder Mr. Cla the completion of the arra rying out the great w O00 000 has been Wealth, Well to be practicable Ns guaran ted O00 (XK is considerad suf neling. The tunnels will the surface, thus avoiding gas pipes, ofc, and avo with the rivers, The main from the city hall in New park, on the north island, on the east, and under Jersey City Newark. There will be four tracks and passengers will i gor rains wil mder Brookiva be carried 1 run at full express ¢ # gi ov wii nyYey | vators N.H. Downs’ # positive cure for Coughs s, Influenza, Spitting Blood, e , Co Bri 1 diseases of the Throat, Chest and La constant use has proven its virtues, Sold everywhere, a sure cure for Costiveness, Biliousne Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Apoplexy, Pal acl 3 neumatisn Kidneys, tat ns, Er Bowels, and Digestive Organ result, manent cure by 113 i} he Ladies and others the nse of Price Henry y purify the blood, Henry, Johnson & Arnica and Oil Lai best external remedy for Rheu r Burns and Scalds, Sciatica. Backache } and Aches, ud effect &c, Horse instantaneous, It is a safe, sure. and eifed Sores, Cine gud 50 ots on . per bottle, Fors D.aMurray ar it 1 Whooping Cough, Catarrh, Hoarse- Asthma, Lung Fever, Pleurisy, and A a i, no equal, it heals six years of in the house, ¥y Burlington, Vt. [EEN] - itters a Ind iscases of tl . 12 Lon 3 £5 1 Headac) ms and Skin Disen king racy Head ne i wor Propri iment f (¢ eo RE riot Se Cos paren ECATILD for In “Castoria is nen iL as supers ro well adapted to children he Floany pr ripticn § A peso wd A il Fr did STC betwen the street s tulaamy Tow + jaan ion shreds : i AE Be Do ments for th Ww rw the required permission to Ms rit Wire CHILDREN EXPOSED TO CONTAGION. Three Children Door ie of fo a Public Diphtheria Re hol, Mavoex, Maw , Feb Wi Wikis donos of the family & Centre school Was not fied that no mor the «i FRoeNd, m2 know had Sullivan, one of the clans of this cases, Tadled city. who report the 8s required the and oli hots several diphtheria was sarod a © notify There are « upaing « the Withdrawing from the Knig Bosrox, Feb, 3 7 » widespread dently Trade they b eral officers culminated in n Inrger shoe towns to» ) the trade with the Knirhts + fal day night a meeting 4 by the b shoe makers ofeHaverhill, Mass same result. Commitioes have boon apple by these organizations t 1 boot and shoe power » i§ i with workers, calling leave the Knights of Later and union, and the resolution meetings will be sent to all local assemblies of shoomakers in the country wm oat adopted 8% Whos Prohibition in Rhode Isiand, Provinesce, Feb 86 The special commit toe of the general ase biy whom was referred the petitions for the resubsnsdon of the prohibitory amendment gave a hearing in the house of representatives. No speeches wore made for the petitioners, but the re monstrants were represented hy (Jen. T F Morgan, Mr. H. B, Metoalf, Mre BE Bur lingame, president of the Woman's ( hristian Temperance union, and others, The hoaring is still on | After Twenty-five Years. Boston, Feb, 26, ~Joreph Bont, a life con- | viet in the state prison, who has already | sarved twenty-five vears for the killing of a fellow sailor on an American sailing vessel in 1864, was discharged yesterday, his pardon having been granted by President Cleveland, | Bent, whose real name is Joseph Bento, is a Portuguese, 70 years old, and left in the after. | noon for New Bedford, where be expects to find some of his countrymen, fo mn Murder Over a Game of Cards, Prarmsvne, N. Y., Peb. 26 — News has Just reached here of a murder at Tupper Lake, Franklin county, in the Adirondacks, Zeb Wescott and John Smith quarrelled over a game of cards snd Wescott drew a pocket knife and cut Smith's throat (rom ear to oar, causing instant death. The murderer sure rendered to the authorities, A Well Known Weekly Changes Hands. New York, Feb 20.-W, J Arkell, of Judge, has bought Frank Leslie's Iilustrated Nevspagss for $400,000, 0,00 being paid or printed in lish and $100,000 for the German. 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