VOL. LXVI. PILED IN A MASS TERRIBLE WRECK OF THE WALTER MAINS CIRCUS TRAIN. Five Men Killed, Twelve Badly Injured and Others Hurt Savage Beasts Escape, The worst railroad disaster in this section of the state for many years oc- curred at 5.30 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing. The Walter Main’s circus train was wrecked on the Tyrone and Clear- field branch of the Pennsylvania rail road at Vail station, about five miles north of Tyrone. So far as ascertained five persons were killed and 12 injured. The circus was en route to Lewis town from Houtzdale. The engincer the mountain, and the cars dashed away at terrific speed. While going i A number of snakes, a bear, a hyena | and a savage water buffalo but were afterward captured. Among | the bushes a person walking around | was apt to run across a bear or some | fierce beast tied to a tree. | The whole populace for miles around | came tothe place in droves in most | every kind of vehicle imaginable, Six- teen cages belonging to the circus were crushed. Twenty five vehicles met with a like fate, Mr. Main could not estimate of his loss escaped, | make any exact insurance, A! valuable new calliope was also destroy- or ed. The wounded were taken to Altoona | and attended to by a corps of leading | physicians. The scene in the sleeping | cars was a frightfnl Everything | was tossed in all directions, indicating a complete None in the! coaches wi The loss is esti- one, smash up. injured. at the rate of 40 miles an hour the train jumped the track, throwing 14 | cars over a 30-foot embankment, train was demolished and most of the animals were badly hurt. To add to] the horror and excitement a number of | the animals escaped to the woods. After rendering what aid they could | to the injured people a number of the circus people started after the that had escaped. After an exciting experience with the ferocious beasts, during which some of the men were scratched and bitten, they were recap- | tured and put back in the cages that had escaped destruction. The and three coaches remained on track. The lunch car got across track, thus saving the coaches probably a score or more of lives. Nothing is left of the cars iron and firewood. The whole train] was considered by those in the busi-| ness as the best equipped on the road. | The loss of so many lives is awful and the destruction of valuable stock enor- mous, The names of the dead are: Frank | Train, treasurer and ticket seller, In- | dianapolis; James Strayer, Houtzdale, Penna.; William Mutherly, Ohio; William Heverly, brakeman, Tyrone; Charles Lock, Lexington, Ky. The injured who are being cared for at the hospital in Altoona are: Willis | O'Brannon, Chambersburg, Pa., | wounds of the scalp and face; David | Jones, Harrisburg, sprain right thigh; Frank Morse, Rochester, N. Y., eye brow and scalp wounds; William Evans, Williamstown, Pa., laceration of right ankle and probably injured internally, condition critical; William Patchell, Dubois, Pa., contusion of left knee; James Haney, Alberton, Pa. right ear torn off and several scalp | wounds; Louie Champagn, Rochester, N. Y., fatal internal injuries, poor hope of recovery; John Chambers, col- ored, right thumb bitten by a lion; Ar- thur Richards, Butler county, Pa., laceration of left upper eye lid; George Corteen, Hollidaysburg, contusion of chest; Frank Barnett, Tarentum, Pa., | contusion of left arm, hand and lacera- tion of thumb; William Jenks, keeper, | left knee cap bitten off by a lion. For a few moments after the wreck all was. quiet, then came cries and shrieks of the wounded men and ani- mals broke the quiet of the morning, | The sceme was indescribable. A relic train was dispatched for soon as posai- | ble and eame to the assistance at ones Two hours were passed before Frank Train could be reached. He was con- scious all the time. Several times urged his rescusrs and when the last timber was removed from his body, he breathed his last. James Strayer, who was instantly killed, only joined the show Monday night. There were 125 people sleeping in the three coaches, which escaped. Forty. | nine horses were killed outright in- cluding the valuable ring horse, Poor Flake. riss, of the six horse team, died at noon moaning like a human being. He was valued at not less than $1,000, All the horses ridden by Tony Towanda, the principal rider of the company, also dead. Two sacred cows also met instant death. Ihe | animals | engine the | the and | i but old . i Geneva, | of the neighborhood. The birds, monkeys, two “gravedig- gery’’ from Austria, a black panther, a silver tigress from Asia and a lion all of capturing any of them. One cle phant was somewhat injured, but the rest of them escaped; also did the cam- themselves as if nothing had happen- ed. Within a radius of sixty feet square nothing hardly could be noticed but dead animals and piles upon piles of debris, One of the escaped tigers made his way to farmer Alfred Thomas’ home and entered (he yard where Mrs. Thomas was engaged milking her two cows. The tiger leaped upon one of the cows and killed it instantly. The terrified woman screamed, whereupon. Mr. Thomas appeared on the scene with his shotgun and sent bullets through the tiger's head and body ending its career almost instantly, Te mated by th in at §150,- | (0K), ORE authority The coroner of Blair county, Michael d to the but it is improbable that any evidence will to! $08 together Wis summone seene ; be given before to-morrow owing The engineer Steve Cresswell was bad- 1 and has not yet showed | ns up around the scene of the accident, real facts of the cause of the wreek | likely 1 w ascertained at the | The cars were sixty-five feet long and dly built. Visitors to the | witnessed many pitiful sights. | The most pitiful was a little week old | pony whose mother The little thing was wander- | t he soli was killed. among horses looking for its mother. Frank Train will be taken to his old | home for burial where he was well liked and a member of a large number | It is likely the oth- | in a cemelery at) The show exhibited at Bellefonte Saturday. and proceeded from | they Lewistown last show- ed on Mondey, the next stand on Decoration day, and to] was the horrible accident occurred. pases —————— : Tragedy at Mapleton, Chief of PoKee John D. MeDonald, was | by his hour Sunday several come drink- ing, became engaged in a noisy street when Chief McDonald his brother and conveyed him The chief and mortally wounded brother Henry at a late night. The latter, with panions, all of whom had been arrested to the | i his | fight, lock-up. here released latter's promise to go but instead of doing so Henry went to a borrowed a re- olver and hastened to the scene of | he disturbance just as Chief McDon- | ald has arrested another of the com- batants. With a profane threat Hen. | ry hastily drew the revolver and fired | brother, Chief Me- Donald, one of which penetrated his | right side above the hip and tore its way through the intestines. The wounded officer is reported as sinking | rapidly. Henry McDonald was at once arrested and taken to the county | He was foreman at the Mapleton tannery and has a grown up family. 1 home, neighbor's, % ¥ » ® three shots at his jail, Altoona tonne, olf A Mighty Siorm of Applause, A sensational incident occurred at the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian | church, at Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday | The pastor, Rev. Dr | Sprecher, was defining his position | in regard to the errors of the Bible, He declared that he would not be a slave and say that the seriptures are | without error. As this last sentence | gation who had been hanging every word with rapt attention, burst out in a mighty storm of hand-clap- | Where it started, no one knew, | upon | remotest corners of the church, It) continued unceasingly for nearly a. a. ” Faitare of a Banking Company. Ex-Secretary of the Treasury, Chas, Foster, of Fostoria, O., and the bank ing house of Foster & Co. falled mak- ing an assignment to J. B. Gormley, of Bucyrus. Mr. Foster said his lia bilities would amount to $800,000, The failure of thy banking company concerns in which Mr, Foster was in- terested, and the town of Fostoria is much alarmed in consequence, Tur PRESBYTERIAN Assembly at Washington, by a vote of 409 to 145, decided to entertain the appeal in the Briggs case. This decision is averse to Dr. Briggs’ contention. The vote was preceded by a four-hour debate up- on the motion. A — A A For Sale, A large lot of good mason stones. Apply at this office. OPEN LAST SUNDAY, 125,000 Visitors at the ¥Falr on the Fir st | Sanday Opening. fair: hundred and twenty-five thousand souls freed from the inspiring care, in music and feasted al beaunties of the White City, while| their minds were improved by study- |! ing the works of genius and industry, open Sunday and it was 1 The Sabbath sun was SUCCORS, but two hours All their quotas and the to the grounds, modes of trans- brought steamer piers and rail- But begin to arrive un from the the masses did not til afternoon, inning about two 3 four inside t! every gate and by o'clock 60,000 people were enclosure, The people ke afternoon pL on coming he entire and overflowed w hose il the nt elevated to 100... plaisance, unt wWery show was crowded, mark had been en- (XX), After dark the grounds were 3 lighted together with other feat- of attracted more, and when thecrowds weren ures illumination, stil bout home a conservative esti | mate placed their number for the day tand evening at 125,000, It derly, well dressed crowd, which evi dently was of the opinion that it had already been kept away from its prop- ready to go Was an or- Ww He erty altogethet too long, and they to | possession in the name of “toile day." - wn ren Soldiers’ Orphans’ Industrial School, The bill providing for the, recfion of the Pennsylvaniasoldiers’ orphans’ in- dustrial school has become a law, » governor Saturday. It appropriates $150,000 for the erection, furnishing and fitting up on wmnee of 1504, and $50, - al, 1895, { the year ending May 31, 000 for the The present soldiers’ orphans’ year ending May commission is empowered by the act equipping for industrial training, educational the same with shops, ete, as well as for and for the soldiers’ orp The act provides that the commis. COL Meee maintainance of the hans, until 1897 when the presiding officer of and the speaker of the house three members of that body to serve for two commander five honorably discharged soldiers for two years. The governor shall be a member ex-officio of the commission. The commission is given full power to continue the soldiers’ or phans’ schools ss now constituted, o if necessary, change either, any or all to other localities until such time as the school shall be compieted, when the Preference in admissions will be schools shall all be closed, Fivel given may be living; to children of honor | ably discharged soldiers and whose parents may be either permanently disabled. sailo or both WA sins See the World's Fair for Fifteen Conts, Upon receipt of your address and fif teen cents in postage stamps, we will | tion, the regular price is fifty cents, i make the price nominal, prized. It contains full page views of and is executed in highest | style of art. If not satisfied with it, | after you get it, we will refund the stamps and let you keep the book. Address H. E. BuckLes, Chieago, 111 simi tiation A Gexius of Posey, Indiana, thus computes the expense of a day at the Chicago Fair grounds: Street car fare, ten dents; admission, fifty cents; milk at milk exhibit, free; fresh rolls at yeast exhibit, free; buttered crackers at butter exhibit, free; total, sixty cents. This is the ingenuity of econo- my. Now then if any one desires to bum his way through, there you have i k HR SA MP OSAP Tue Cingse government has al- ready informed the state department that if anything is done under the Geary law all relations with China, diplomatic, commercial and otherwise may be considered as terminated. The Americans now in China will be ordered to withdraw and what trade we have with China will stop. Mr. Gresham has already been ‘noticed’ of this, as the diplomatic phrase goes There is nothing further to be said on the part of the Chinese government. NE ~ CAPITOL GOSSIP SFACTION OVER RETAIN- ING REPUBLICANS. | DISSATIS | Republican Chiefs Being Retained Cruses 8 Genersl Grumble ~ Hoke Smith Does Some Repealing, WasHiNGgTON, MAY -Why should democratic Senators and Rep- resentatives insist upon having Re- publicans retained in office? That is + question that has puzzled the Presi-| dent, the members of the cabinet the heads of the important bureaus of | the Government, and times very much embarrassed For instance, a democratic Senator or Rep- resentative the head of a partment ox butesy and asks that a republican ¢ of a division be asked to resign and one of his constituents, a democrat, be appointed to the He | ter Representa ive, 24. also at them. ROCs 10 de hief place . 8 confronted with a le wf HMenntor or with letters from several of sisting and in sone demandis republican imagine if Ti=i~ be ke pt in aflice. nu thnt up Hay Ye i the embarrassmen follows, ki pt disclosures may be mude those de this practice is BOE LOA wien Congress Higets, Ly who breed ie Ye to be democratic | to be ought ats, if chiefs of divisions by democr and reform ily carried out in the it in all wim that democratic i of economy are thoro gl the Governmer its branches, Senats ng sonal friends ships { ior republi- irs entatives have no ht to allow per {to be to whic h ju supposed their CHI OCHS, the reason endorsement, filling 8, to say nothing for stand in the way of | offic . W th © it is I democrat bad effect the retention of these ans will have on the working themselves entitled men no when a place they are after but they like to see republicans retained pls think ought to be filled by democrats, Is ing places, believing to them. These make CO inint is to another democrat, do not in the Os they to earn Hv- and who a man who is able “ suffers ¥ at manual labor disability entitled to rom the Government? Sec, h has decided by the from no wound or while actual service in i pension f Hoke Smit a ruling of sdministration to the « that the Office shall put upon the “disability repealing last as onstruction Pension | not of service origin'’ clause of the pen- sion act of 1880, that he common sense would seem to be the In future man will be granted a pension under fact dis is not, and On no Seerctary's side, hat law unless he establishes the is unable by reason of his to earn a support by There w ill, of Course, be 8 C the pension this ruling because it will reduce that he ability manual labor, certed howl from sharks over $20,000 000 a year, and their fees in a corresponding ratio; but the tax pay-| ers will not object to this saving, ticularly when it is made without priving any old soldier who is unable | ty of a pension, res Says Senator Vorhees, who has just turned from his constituents, rats of Indiana because of the slow. ix | appointments; that they are perfectly satisfied that he Is doing his full duty lin a wise and patriotic manner, recog- | nizing the fact that there are {things requiring his attention patronage. ¢. Lamont, ‘ney, and P. M. G. bl Attorney General Ol-| Bissell left Wash fall be back at their desks early this | week. The trial of Prof. Briggs for heresy, | which is now going on before the Gen- feral Assembly of the Presbyterian | ehurch, in session here, Is attracting the greatest public interest. It seems to be generally believed that he will be found guilty, but there is much doubt as to the punishment the nssem- bly will decide to inflict upon him. Ambassador Bayard has received his Inst instructions from Sec. Gresh- am and he will start from New York next Saturday for London. Among the new democratic officials who will assume their duties this week are Bolicitor General Maxwell, U. Treasurer Morgan, and Commissioner of Customs Pugh. The demand for gold for export has again brought the gold reserve fund several millions below the $100,000,- 000 line, but See. Carlisle is serene and says he sees not the sligtest indies tion of any financial breakers ahead, ot least not for the immediate future. AR Arrived in Montana, A telegram from Missoula, Montana, announces that the Harpster family reached there safely, last Haturday. They left here over a month ago, stop plug off with friends on the way out. ¥ Horole Mensures Necessary tq Stamp out the Plague, ey ¥ LANCASTER 18 LOUSY, within two miles of Manheim borough, a distance of ten miles west where it originally appeared. Eli Hershey, a farmer of Penn township, said he thought they were in his house, Dr. Webster, who represents the state | boardjof agriculture inthe matter, made | an investigation and found the place { actually alive with lice, As the insects are strongly partial to i { { i infest- mingle will un- unless some quaren- and exter i other persons whose homes are | ed come to Lancaster city and | with the people, the lice | doubtedly be taken there, | hnmediate action is takea to | tine the infested sections | minate the vermin. They are spreading very rapidly and q yi now appear in a strip east and west « that city fifteen miles and in Pp laces mil The y were noticed in great numbers on rail long, BOC five 8 wide, fences in East Earl township, and are I'u pt § | ports the Weber I's in the INeasures Dr. gerious esday night's storm, us heroic situation j extreme, and thinks Ae 4 necessity. Dr. D. B. Weber has discovered that eastern wool the past eight months in the i end of Lancaster county, lice to How they got there is a mystery. are belonging equatorial countries, Dr, | Weber is greatly alarmed over his dis covery Edge « i and of tl telegraphed board aid Secretary #. f food ¥ ie stale 0 agriculture state the je doctor says the lice are undoubt- | edly whic! | he fears will be cholera. They are not by the intense invoke al once and re questing sre tary to go there. he forerunner of & pis wWwue shown survived the the | affected by cold, in fact that { cold of last as they winter, in the vicinity of the infested With the coming of the warm {er the lice will multiply with rapidity, and the result places, weath- alarm- must ing be terminate them. Wf Hows atl Chicago The action taken by the commission ers of forelgn countries, {to withdraw their exhibits from World's fair, the diffiiculties of the managers, petition at the increases larein any identified management. There has been stant succession of jealousies, and bickerings, made all the the arrogance and the dictatorial man- | ner of some of the officials, | standings with exhibitors have way with a quarrels worse by been awards, in the arts and sciences, the World's fair is incomparable. Inother matters it is be hind othe r fairs. rtissM AA S rr. Briggs New Venture. it is learned from authentic sources {that Prof. Briggs, now on trial at Washington on the charge of heresy, has been corresponding with E. D. Morris, of Lane Seminary concerning the best method of forming a new church. Dr. Briggs wants to raise the | banner of a new theology. Professor Morris has replied to the letter attempting to discourage the {scheme. He told Briggs that very | few Presbyterian ministers would de | se srt to a new standard. The movement has not been squelch- | well known liberal Presbyterians, of { Cincinnati, have gone to Washington with the avowed intention of assisting Dr. Brigg's new church project. a A Si A NEW FEE BILL. Justices of the peace throughout the country will hail with pleasure the new fee bill which went into effect Inst week. According to the new bill justices can now charge for oath and information 50 cents, docket entry 25 cents, warrants 50 cents, transcript 50 cents, entering discontinuance of as- sault and battery enses 50 cents, enter- ing action 25 cents, summons or sub peona 25 cents with 10 for each addi- tional name, return of summons 25 cents, entering satisfaction 15 cents, execution 50 cents, return of proceed. ings on certiorari or appeal $1, receiv- ing or puying over where the amount is over $100, $1 per hundred. EE Ee RS. Fifty centsjis a small doctor bill, but that is all it will cost you to cure any ordinary ease of rheumatism if you use Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. Try itand you will be surprised at the prompt re- lief it affords. The first application will quiet the pain. 50 cent bottles for sale by J. D. Murray, Druggist. ayy JURE a NO. 22. THE FREE TEXT BOOK, nor Last Week, The free text book bill, which signed by the governor, provides: Bection 1. Be it enacted by the sen- was of Pennsylvania in met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that section first of an entitled an act, authorizing school directors to purchase school books out of the dis trict funds,” approved June which reads as follows: “That school directors or controllers may purchase text books, for use in the public schools of their respective and, Haet, orn 25, 1885, school districts, ed, the shall plied, free of to each pupil for use in the schools of said district, when so procur- necessary books be sup- Cost, wii b- ject to the orders of the directors there- of, to provide care of the turned at the close of the annual school term in each year, or as the board may direct,’ and the is hereby amended so as to read as folls T whose duty it shall be for the safe books which shall be keeping and re be HAe directors or purchase books necessary supplies for use in Section 2. school text {f their respective districts, as such new text books and supplies addition to are required, in dist- th tl Ii supp i] the school pupils or owned by school ricts, out of the fund of district, and, when so procured, necessary books and shall be furnished, free iC ie school { oi for use ie 1 Oost, schools of said district, sul directors o trollers thereof, for the keeping whose duty it return of and safe care of the books, of year, and the annual school each OF § term in as the board may direct. The has bill £1,000,000 with which to Farr free text book bill, which was signed by the governor, appropriation committee $l carry out the sem c— THE PRIME object of every trust is The trusts them- selves were originated and fostered by people he tionable ways. Their object was to destroy competition and make undue Those who bought the stocks desired to partici- pate in the robbery. They preached the doctrine that trusts were “private affairs’’ with which the Gov- ernment had nothing to do. They every of these trusts laws of the The people to be pit- ied are the of the country, whose expenses have been increased by And losses, the these one Masses these illegal organizations, the way been no greatest There is in which too. 000 will measure what “industrials” have cost the consumers of the country. — a Dr. M. I Davis is a prominent phy- gician of Lewis, Cass county, Iowa, and has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine at that place for the past thirty-five years. On the 26th of May, while in Des Moines, en route to Chicago, he was suddenly taken with an attack of diarrhoea. Having sold Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for the past seven- teen years, and knowing its reliability, he procured a 25 cent bottle, two doses of which completely cured him. The excitement and change of water and diet incident to traveling often pro- duce a diarrhoea. Every one should procure a bottle of this Remedy before leaving home. For sale by J. D. Mur- ray, Druggist. tn ess Ee IMPORTANT PESION DECISION The decision of Secretary Hoke Smith, in the question of disability pensions, which will save fifteen to twenty millions of dollars a year, is right and proper. Under the Raum administration anything and every- thing that would give a pension to the faithful was construed as disability within the meaning of the law. The secretary says disability must be so great as to preclude earning a living by manual labor. To«lay there are thousands of pensioners who are well able to earn a living but who are re- ceiving pensions. They will doubt- less soon be off the list. Latest Novelties, Latest novelties in spring clothing for men, boys, and children, Wit boat walt ix She wanriied for men at $10.00, Tailoring a ty. Raloting o apecialy.
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