FRED.KURTZ, Eprror and Pror'r “TERMI: —0Ona v $1.50, nee. Those in arrears sal rms. §2 per year. Mr, paid in ad to previous Advertisements 20 cents per line for 3 inser ns and 5 cents for each subsequent jusertion, Centra Hav, Pa, Taurs, June 20. A MINE EXPLOSION. mo Another Disaster In the Nottingham Colliery at Plymouth, Pa. WILKESBARRE, Pa. 18, —An- other frightful accident, following that last Monday, when four lives were lost, June has occurred at the Nottingham mine of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal com- pany at Plymouth, Polish to speak English, disregarded the danger sign placed at the head of the slope. One of them removed it, and seven or eight of them entered the fourth, or Big Baltimore, gangway, at the east end of the largest mine in the region. The de- struction of the warning of the fire boss caused the intelligent miners to follow, not knowing that there was any danger. The Polanders carried naked lights, and the gway being filled with gas, which had accumulated throughout the night, a terrific explosion followed. Every man in the gangway was knocked down l injured, Some of them were I nirned. Might Have Been Appalling. The injured number nine. four of whom will die. As all of them are Po- landers, and went by numbers, true names are not easily obtainable. Une, a young man known as Frank Taylor, burned to a crisp. His clothing uding his were torn complet the from his Ix t a skele ton, and over an hour The other VET pital and are at death's door Had the acci ocourred i EAngway A number of laborers, unable wis shoes, iy and half i wou have been filled witl employed in the + life would have been the miners were on slope wher thus avoided 3 the ex yr Wales acrkeaps Emperor William, Viexsa, June 15 The N lle Rev will i blisi I to | W ing t suffers is led to re throat her lay woman | from ear t aged mar manner and th ww versed were the re of i ia er i he old man, station. Oil Fired by Lightning. NEw Yor, J Lig} struck tank 18 in Storage company s 3 { Point, Jersey ( 44) J oxled, blowi #et in the Jun 17 ining Dok aven later the in eX iron seventy ng houses in La- LY. AR) galions of the top oil tank ie the yr and sl) fayette, a mile away. explosion. , In this city of the Church of ception, done, Over the church were lightning but : worshipers in frightened MeDavitt Indorses Sullivan. Loxpos, June 17 Alexander Sulliva Davitt says with the In an interview on arrest Michael Me- id of the arrest shment. 1 have the highest opinion as to the character of Sullivan. I think the charge that he has been implicated in any way in the assassination of Ir. Cronin absurd I also think that the allegations that he ever misappropriated one penny of the funds of the National league are ground. less. I believe him to be the ery soul of honor.” greatest astond is Fifteen Acres Harned Out. MONTREAL, June 18.—An extensive fire broke out at Mile Fnd through the upsetting of a coal oil lamp at the Bush. nell Oil refinery. The fire spread with great rapidity, and soon covered fifteen acres. The refinery being alengeide the milroad track. the fire Cation] « onsider- able havoe to cars, telegraph poles and the track. About ten cars were de stroyed. The refinery was burned to the ground. Nothing was saved but a stack of empty barrels. Ruthless Land Pirates CARTON, O., June 18,—Frank Ryan and Frank Saddler, under indictment on two counts for attempting to wreck the Fort Wayne limited near this city on April 2 and 9, pleaded guilty in common pieas court on the first count and were sentenced to ten years each and pay costs of prosecution. On the second count they were given five years and sentenced to pay $00 each. They con. fessed that their object in wre king the train was plunder, Disemboweled by a Music Teacher, 22 Kmgwoop, Va., June 18— William Miller, a farmer, is dying from the ef. fects of knife wounds inflicted by George Hell, a music teacher, at Stemple’s Ridge. A few evenings ago Soll was conducting a song, when a son of Miller interrupted and a fight ensued. Rell whipped young Miller. The father in- terfered and Sell disernboweled the elder Miller with a knif The Ancient Order of Nobles, CHICAGO, June 18,-The annual con vention of the imperial council of the Ancient Arabic Qrder of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine is being held in this city, About 400 nobles are in attendance as delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada, representing a mem. bership of 6,000, all Knights Templars or thirty second degree Masons, LIGHT IS BREAKING, Gen. Hastings Expects to Finish His Labors in One Week, A SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING. wil quested to Go to Johnstown Next Her Yote He Hee Sun- Deliv Twenty-five Clergymen day to Offer Up Praise for win Constitutional Amendment. Pa., have orance~ Residents on the 17, ~Johns- down June town's settled their routine life again. There al- most a total suspension of work in the yesterday, and the JOHNSTOWN, Citizens was valley was spent very quietly, There was no improvement in the weather, The mercury registered 80 degrees, Re ligious services were held by all denom- inations, Nearly all of the ware, from necessity, conducted open air. The sermons and counseled the people to be brave and keep up heart. The Dry or Wet Question, It is understood that polling places will be open here on Tuesday to give the residents a chance to the con- stitutional amendment, About 150 men were gorge to make a wider debris, Seven hoisting engines were working all day, and as a result the nel is now oven twenty feet wide, A hundred other men we engaged in searching for dead bodies and six were recovered during the day. None were identified. Late last evening a large quantity of oil was poured over the debris below the and the torch ap- plied. At 9 o'clock there was a sheet of flame twenty feet high and 200 yards in length along both banks of the river. A careful search for dead Wis de before the torches were applied, aw having ued orders that mains shall be burned when » to avoid it, in the addresses vote on working at the opening in the bodies Tha “3 LOl, 25,000, of the Survivors Estimated Rogers, at who is in charge 2,500 survivors have left without registering and are being entertained in the brine were not to register legitimate als 15,568 name the locality many others they fuse 4 ‘The approximately ws LN) sUurvi pulation, leave he, ach, mparison a Fil shi i iy Week Will i raders Finish It. and ar » work with all are re- favorable ill be but lit- wxt Saturday n. Hastings of s expressed the determin. were for ri the exe q : x days nes there undone by mn onfident is Ge # ra Finis Of AWAY if few Clearing wisi ble su : } ible speed aiZed and on weather intervie 34 -— i $ tie work lef LOOKING TOWARD THE BURNING DEBRIS, atian of asking this week that twenty five ministers of various denominations vi own next Sabbath and hold special thanks iving services for the aved from the visitation. Ca + BS oF Rapid Railroad Constroction. Prrrssvne, June 17. Yesterday a special train over the Peunsylivania rail- road left here for South Fork, On board were fifty newspaper men of Phila- delpbia and Pittsburg and a number of railroad and city officials. The purpose of won was to view what re- mained of the wrecked dam and the val ley below. By the middle of next week 8 double track will have been completed to Altoon, and the limited wil run again in its regular schedule, About 4,000 men are at work on the construc tion of the road. The progress of the work has been almost phenomenal, the exem The District Decinred a Nuisance. Hamsuspuna, June 15. ~{Fovernor Bea- ver has received an official report from the state board of health, in which the district from the railroad bridge over the Conemaugh river at Johnstown to the mouth of Stony Creek river is de. clared a puisauce, The governor how has the legal machinery and the fund to apply it, and the work will be pushed without delay. The governor has issumd a proclamation, of which the following is an abstract: The Proclamation, To the Public: The work of supplying the pressing bodily wants of the sufferers by the late floods in the Conemaugh valley goes on without interrup. tion. Supplies for this purpose sre furnished in abundance, and will continue to be 8 fur. nished without stint. Thanks to the generous donors the world over, no one has Tacked, or will Inok, if be makes his wants known, food, clothing and vhelter, The problem which confronts the people of Johwstown and vicinity, and In the solntion of which & everywhere must be deoply as possible of the u the machinery of supply and demand. merchant aged to begin the ance If ti helr weil wi Hitoresie i ual channels of trade and work ir property had been destroyed ahce upon which to begin business, Under present conditions, however, Lave simply and absolutely nothing, propriety of weing the money contributed by generous donors for the benefit of individual they business might be questioned, partic ularly if that business should prove remunerative here. after. A Fund for Board Shantlies, DIED IN PRISON, Where He Languished for Belling Cider with a Stick in It EASTON, Pa., June 18. Josiah Sandt, in the Faston Jail. On Wednesday last he was Cons without a license, and Wis sent to prison for three months and directed to pay a fine of $500, and although sober when com most useful and judicious expenditure at the for putting up simple board shanties, quently in thelr behalf. Credit cover for their goods and wares, #5 wo pe Fo 7 Gl CONBTRUDTING A TRESTLE BRIDGE POR THE TRNY! A RAILBOAD ding board shar # in pied he a will present great tend 11100 il i of t pnormal con. Ail that « ity. Johnstown Will Be Rebuilt Umm nn will be ! Contributions of Lamber Acceptable, p 2 offered d . AT Wes Hered days ago y June 1 The first mm Chicago and the west over line of the Pennsylvania rail r the United mail, Broad street station last night 12 o'clock. } Come A : 2 a little over THE PROTOCOL SIGNED. Self Government PHILADELPHIA, train fre Ntatos rior Raving ¥ hnstown in Assured to Samoa Une der a Joint Protectorate—The Treaty Now Awaits the Senate's Action. 15. ~The Samoan agree gned, The American ving withdrawn the princi they had raised to the previously reached, it was sary for the plenipotentiaries to make some unimportant modifications in the wording of the draft of the treaty before it was ready to receive the signa- tures of the delegates of the contra ting nations The treaty guarantees an autonomous administration to the Samoan islands under the joint control of Germany and America, with England acting as arbi trator in the event of differences arising between the joint contre Hing powers, LAN, Jum resmen HAY Ney The Samoans Will Rale Themselves The Samoans are to elect their awn king, a viceroy, and are to be represen. tatives in a senate composed of the principal chiefs, and a chamber of rep- sentatives to be elected by all the peo- ple. The government constituted will have the right of ley ving duties of every kind The treaty Crermans whose pr BO also provides that the perty was destroyed during the recent conflicts on the islands shall indemnified by the Samoan government for their losses. A special court is to be appointed to take cogui ance of the land question on the islands, The od Conditionally, The American adhesion to the agreo- ment is made conditionally and will only become absolute upon the ratifi- cation of the treaty by the United States senate. In view of this necessary delay the plenipotentiaries have reached an understanding that until December next the status quo shall be maintained. Count Herbs Bismarck left for a three holiday to Koenigstein, among the Taumis mountains, and Mr. William Walter Phelps sails for New York from Bremen today taking the treaty with him. ——— Gin and Gunpowder Restricted. Loxpon, June 15.—-The Times’ Berlin special says that the gist of the Samoan agreemont is that King Matietoa is to be reinstated and the control of affairs on the islands is to be left mainly to the Samoans themselves. On questions, however, affecting the life or property of subjects of a foreign government there will lie an appeal to a resident Judge, to be appointed hereaftor, and who will be either an American, a Ger. man or a British subject, The importation of liquors and five arms is to be restricted, Dae Americans Sig ww ka The Shah Inspects Krapp's Gun Works, LoxpoN, June 17.-The Shah of Persia arrived at Amsterdam last even. ing from Cassel. On the way he stopped at Essen and was shown through the ex. tensive Krupp Gun works there, The Freneh General Elections, PARES, June 17, <The government has decided to hold the general elections on Sept. 22 and the scrutin ballatage on ot. 6 i his trouble was pronounced delirium tremens, and he was treated accordingly borne by malpractice, and by the lar jail physician, Sandt was 52 years of age, and leaves 8 wife and ten children. He shoemaker, and besides following that trade kept a small confectionery, He also sold cider, soft drinks, and a stomach bitters of his own manufacture. At the trial several young men testified that they had called at Sandt's shop and “drank cider with a stick in it." The “stick.” they said, was stomach hitters, and it made them feel lively. That is the evidence upon which Sandt was Pennsylvania Postmasters, WASHINGTON, June 18, —The ing fourth cla postmasters have for Pennsvivanis i). Acker; W. DD. Messin Henderson, Dempseytown: Mrs Donnelly's Mills: W, J. E MeLain, Dravosburg: J. T. Akers cansvillie; R, Henry Kapp. Fertigs: E. Acker, N. J. Temple Dun Jon 8. F (1, aunett 34 C. D. Andrews, Hudsondale: J K Intercourse: Ella Fos Kk, Labar, Lakin: J. W Wir burg; Mm. A Y. P Me Peck, Mount Ferguson, Murray; J. T. Hickman Northbrook, Franklin Schwarts Perm; H. H. Bodine, North Wales: F. R. Scofield, Penfield: U. Shreckingost, Put neyville, W. E, Hair, Roaring Spring: Hannah Steubgen, Sexonburg: W. P, Herrick, Run; W. H. Rapp, Union Deposit; H. Bean, Upper Black Eddy; J. M. Perrine, Utica. ag 14 nd §.} LOobLD Sterling H Pennsylvania's § relight Trae, Eastox, Pa , June great damage to the road in the Conemang of only ong In Owing to the Pennsylvania rail adie track at ji hs BRrvice , that section, the company iow Erie, Sunbur then York route to get its Most of the fre We i Say rain which In order Givinions of Lhe jo oy to the Flathrook . Survived a Lightning Stroke. RT, Pa., Juns i freigl ain an au the shock He was bro ) } and is in a fair way for speedy recover s home in this ci ” to hs hl to Floods on the Lycoming. WitLiaxsront showers prevailed v £1 Pa., June 18. —Heavy again in this 1 streams fo rise rapidly aod in Lycoming creck swe pt ties of bridge Nos. 9 and Bodine's and Ralston, on the Northern Central railway, completely cutting off communication on that road between this city and Elmira All trains on the Northern Central between these two points are again tied up and will be for several days until the gaps can be closed he tre A Prisoner Attempts Saleide. PorrsviLig, Pa., June 18 James Boss, who murderous! sssaulted Dock. ing Ross and Frank Stephens at Ply. mouth, attempted suicide in jail. He took a nickel spoon, which he sharpened on the flagging of his cell, He then tried to cut his throat, but failing in this. he opened an artery in his arm. He loft a letter in which he stated that he intended to kill Stephens, and having failed in this determined to kill himself. A physician saved Ross’ life, A Law Library for Johnstown. Prrrepvnre, June 18,—The Pittsburg Bar association held their annual picnic at Rock Point. By resolution they do- nated 81,000 to the erection of a library building and the purchase of a law Ji brary for the attomeys of Johnstown They will call on every bar association in the state to take similar action. Traveled on the Wrong Pass Reaping, Pa., June 18. A man who gave his name to the police authorities as Edward T. Taylor, and claimed to be traveling for a Philadelphia jeweler, is in jail here on the charge of traveling on & railroad pass belonging to some other perso. Miners Olject to Company Stores, Pirrseuro, June 14.-At a dele gate convention of railroad miners of western Pennsylvania, held in this city, & committee wns appointed to draft resolutions demanding that the coal operators discontinue their stores, W. W. Phelps for German Minister. BERLIN, June 17, Mr, William Walter Phelps is regarded by every one as the coming United States minister, though he himself denies that he has been of- fered the position. Mra. Wagner Went Over Niagara. NiaGARA, N. Y,, June 19.—The body the woman who went over the falls Friday afternoon has been identi fied as Mra, Wagner, of Buffalo, RoME, June 18, Prince Louis Napo- leon, at the request of his father, Prince Jerome, has resigned his commission in the Italian army, John Gilbert Dead. Boston, June 18. John Gilbert, the Veteran actor, died yesterday afternoon. | meter im in ney wee PCO TT PEE SFY LR IRN I I GIR Wonk. MRE HUMPHREYS’ 42 Wl OB. 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Try your lek st once - a» WOOL WANTED The highest marke: price paid for ali kinds of Wao, st al! Limes, by W. M Allison & Bro, Polters Mills. my in BL —— A —— WELL DRILLING. Mr. Clemens, of Mifflic county, will coine into this valley about Int of May with bis steam drilling machine, Per. fore dering wells pat down on their weimiisen, upon favorable terms, oun wave their orders at the Reporter office Yapit J AL 111 pr my £m hl MA Oo0D ood every slay ww TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. os Ser won rey Address Ny y ”; v LVERWELL ME ICAL CO. New York, N.Y. Post fice Box, 630 Piso’'s Cure for Con- Sumiption is also the best Cough Medicine. If yon have a Coush withoui dises of the Langs, a fow doses are all you need, Bul if vou ne. gloot thin easy y { safely, the slight Cough may become a serious matter, and several Lote Hes will be required, cans o for Oatorrh Me sent ET. HMarelline, Warren, Pa.
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