VOL. LXIX.
FRIEND OF MINERS
SPANGLER ON RECORD AGAINST
"PLUCK-ME" STORES.
zations Refute Charges.— Who Kin-
sloe ls,
JAMES McCANN, President, EDWARD
MuLHERN, Vice President and Sam’L
J. MircHELL, Becretary and Treas.
Independent.
ORDER OF KNIGHTS OF LABOR,
Office of Sec’'y and Treas, Dist, No. 2,
GEBARHARTVILLE, Clearfield Co., Pa.
October 2, 1596
DISTRICT OFFICERS ASK FOR INFOR-
MATION.
MR. Roser McGowan, Esq.,
Dear Sir: Please let me know Col
J. L. Spangler’s position in regards to
the company store question. And
whether he is in now or at any previ-
ous time had a store of his own or al-
lowed one of his bosses to have one, If
call on Mr. William P. Duncan when
next he visits the mines. I will
my influence to correct any violation
of the general policy of the term,
Very truly yours,
(Signed) J. Li. SPANGLER,
The Bituminous Record, edited by
one R, A. Kinsloe, has asked a large
number of questions of Col. Spangler,
the Free Silver candidate for Congress,
with a view to conveying the idea that
Mr. Spangler is unfit to represent this
district.
WHO IS R. A. KINSLOE?
Does anyone know
from ?
Did he ever dig coal ?-
where he came
If not, how
ners ?
Did he not give the secrets of every
Nnews-
papers and to the operators ?
Was he paid for it? If
much ?
Why is Kinsloe always talking about
a reduction and never ad-
»
#0, how
about an
you have had any dealing with Spang-
ler or know nothing about it,
write in detail as there is some talk up |
here about him running a pluck-me in |
Barnsboro or Spangler. Hoping to]
hear from you soon, - |
I remain fraternally yours,
SAMUEL J. MITCHELL,
[reas
please |
Sec'y aud
LOCAL OFFICER'S REPLY.
Oct. 8
Sec'y and Treas
In reply to your |
would say that
SPANGLER, , 1866
MR. 8. J. MITCHELL,
Dear Bir and Bro: —
inquiry of the 6th inst,
Col. J. L. Spangler has never had at |
any time any connection with compa-
ny Hastings,
Barnsboro. At one time
started by one of
soon as the miners
immediately ordered it closed. Hs
away from the for |
about two years. About eight months |
ago we asked him to define
tion in regard to the pluck-me
tion, as there was some talk of
pelling the miners to deal in any store
located at Spangler. 1 enclose a
copy of his reply. This letter was read |
at a meeting of the miners, and
ed the men very
check weighmen on all tipples, |
and his men are paid in cash every two |
weeks. I do not think that any of the |
miners in this section has any ill feel- |
ing towards Mr. he al-
ways treated them as and |
they got anything they asked for, |
Very truly yours,
RoBErT McGowaN,
stores at Spangler or |
store
but
notified him,
a
his bosses, as |
he |
has been mines
his posi- |
] Ues- |
Com.
you
pleas |
much. There are |
his
Spangler, as
an equal
i
i
i
i
$
FRIENDLY OFFICES OF COL. SPANG-
LER TO CORRECT ATTEMPTED IN-
FRINGEMENT OF COMPANY'S
POLICY
SPANGLER, PA, April 4, 1896,
J. L. BPANGLER, Esq., Bellefonte, Pa.
Dear Sir:—We have been instructed |
by L. A. 1505, [. 0. K. of L., in re-
gard to the company store evil, which
certain persons are trying to fasten on
the miners of this place going
around the Sterling mines Mo. 11 and
others, and getting men to promise to
deal with them, and sign an Iron
Clad so that they ean stop what mon-
ey the men will have due them
through the Sterling Co., and believe
you to be a friend of the miners, and
Sterling Company always having a
good name of dealing justly and hone
estly with their men, we hope you will
use your influence to get this evil stop- |
ped. You will confer a great favor on
the miners of this place, and if at any |
by
time they can return the compliment |
I assure you they will do so. Hoping
we will hear from you soon, with a fa-
vorable reply, we remain respectfully,
Committee,
James O'FArreLn, M. W.
RoBeERT Mctiowax, W. G,
Jas, Graxcy, Recording Sec'y.
REPLY OF COL SPANGLER GIVEN
EIGHT MONTHS AGO,
PHILADELPHIA, April 14, 1896,
Messers, James O'Farrenn, Rop-
ERT M'GowaN AND Jas. GrLaxcy,
Committee, Spangler, Pa.
Gentlemen: —I have your letter of
recent date in reference to certain ef.
forts that are being made to secure the
store trade from the employees of the
Sterling Coal Company.
I wish to say that I have delayed an-
swer to your letter until I eould have
a personal interview with Mr. Will
jam P. Duncan who has absolute
charge of the mines in Cambria coun-
ty. I have had no connection with
the active management of these mines
for over a year, but in talking with
Mr. Duncan today, I can say to you
that no employe of Duncan & Bpang-
ler is required to deal at any particular
=~ store. This is a matter for the miner
himself. The firm has no store of its
own nor any connection with store
business, It is your privilege to elect
to deal wherever it suits you best. For
Is it because he loves the miners or
{ because the operators pay him for it?
Why has he opposed every
big suspension of 1864 ?
Why has he fought every officer of |
WHY DID
DAN
HE FIGHT
LENNON,
RAE,
M'BRYDE, JOHN M'BRIDE,
| PENNA and scores of others ?
Did he do it to build up the confi.
dence of the miners in their organiza-
JIM
PAT
or to destroy it 2
If the latter, was he paid for
If so, by whom ?
Did he obste
oOo
yecer
it”
it
i
{
H - {7 J . i
tin the secrets of the min- |
re agital- i
pire
fhe 1
ges, under pre-
rs a twwhrn
ago
aed
ing for an ANCE in uy
Did he bets
ong distance ts lephio we 1
om
can, an operator ?
? Ifthe
the miners then is he doing so now |
If he then,
Was he paid for it betrayed
v i
he |
was against them is
Did Spangler refuse to pay Kinsloe
Did Kinsloe go
Did he sec A
to DuBois?
rn Wed or his rere S73
{
i
(i=
i
If he asked
much did he recy
»
how
Spangler §1,000, |
his i
!
|
i
fon - J
ive from Arnold or
re swreacnfatlive
These are some questions that the |
answer and until he does 80 to the sat- |
isfaction of the miners, his malicious
Spangler
the vote
of this district that an assertion of!
Benedict Arnold's would have had on
the founders of our government.
A A ssn,
Preacher Porr io Trouble
Rev, W. 8. Porr, years ago a minis-
ter of the Centre Hall and the Rebers
burg Lutheran charges,
missed from his office by the Bynod in
sex<jon at York, last week. The par.
ticulars are given thus;
Failure to make restitution fn
blind man of whom he had borrowed
$5000, and who subsequently died
broken heart, has cost Rev,
8. Porr, of Steelton, his
prerogatives,
The Western Pennsylvania Luthe-
ran Synod has refused to restore Mr.
has been dis
to
of a
William
ministerial
of the synod.
About eight years ago, while officia-
ting in Dover, York county, churches
Henry Cassell, a blind and childless
parishioner. Porr erected a drug store
for his son at Bteelton, Cassell tried
to get the money from Porr, but
failed, and it is said he died of a bro-
ken heart, Cassell’s executors invoke
ed the aid of the law to get the money,
but also failed. The synod has now
taken the case in hand.
Tue Standard Oil candidates Curtin
and Womelsdorf see the hopelessness
of their case in the record they have
Centre county
wants no monopoly representatives,
We want men to look after the agri
cultural interests,
A SA HAAN
One Way to be Happy.
I= to attend to the comfort of your
family. Should one catch a slight
cold or cough, oall on R. E. Bartholo-
mew, Centre Hall, and G. H. Long,
Spring Mills, and get a trial bottle of
Otto's Cure, the great German Reme-
dy free. We give it away to prove
that we have a sure cure for Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Constipation, and all
disenses of the throat and Lungs.
Large sizes 50c. and 25e,
~The Philadelphia Branch leads in
common sense clothing at common
sense prices—hard time prices, They
look for only a fair profit there. In
many of the goods they sell they don't
WERE THESE ANARCHISTS?
Mr. William J. Bryan has been
charged with anarchy because he ad-
vocates the adoption of the double
standard of gold and silver. Peter
Cooper, a man of large wealth, but of
larger humanity philanthropy,
one of those rare and estimable charac-
ters who regard it as right that
riches they have made out of the
and
archist and a revolutionist, Yet
ter Cooper was outspoken in his advo
cacy of bimetallism and severe in
condemnation of the single
gold policy. He wrote to
Hayes in this manner:
President
The demonetization of silver was a
trick of the enemies of the poor man's
currency. The remonetization
ver will be a great relief now, in the
w ®
There is
arise
of
nal and best measure,
in this country
the
aristocracy that can curse
fast forming an
worst form
the
tocracy of wealth,
in the wisdom of silver |
in these remarks:
Witly regard to the
of silver, intelligent
demonetization
every man must
that as silver
now forms more than
one-half of the coined money of the
the effect
ver must not only
the
sil
of
appreci-
of demonetizing
the
mist
lessen value
bt
¢ the value of gold in proportion as
world's money,
the value of silver has been reduced.
he plan for
said to have
demonetizing silver is
the
great
been just presented to
the
It reqiired but lit.
rope al
zation of silver would
the v gold
hundreds of millions to their
At another time Mr. Coo
his mind with
appre.
add
wealth
of and thus
alue
wno
per,
directness, said:
the
the
Corporations are fast becoming
They
of right
Government
usurp
to the o
and
Hberties of the
powers that belong H-
t
and the acts
Jr
The rich of the world are wedded to
It to the
h and moneyed kings
is
interest of the ric
ake
they
silver and m gold
ie sole currency because Own
i
he gold,
- » —
OAK HALL
Persons Who Have Hieen Visiting
Oat of Town
in and
The weather was quite bad on Tues-
Our farmers are about through husk.
grownch
Eg crop
Apples are very plenty at this place
ling very low,
J. H. Weber, of B
ing a car of potatoes,
joad-
the |
mlsburg, is
this makes
6th car of potatoes shipped from this |
station.
Our schools are getting along well
this year as our teachers can give more
and both teachers,
Miss Bathgate and Mr. Geiss are well
liked,
Some of our people have done their |
butchering.
The of D. CC.
was largely attended and
went at a fair price. Mr.
left for Altoona on Monday
family followed
time to the lessons,
public sale Gingerich
everything |
Gingerich |
his |
i=
Ju-
we hope he may be success- |
and
he
going into the grocery business in
niata, Pa.:
ful.
I. I. Tressler’s shredder arrived on
Saturday; now farmers have your fod-
der shredded.
William of Linden Hall,
was the guest of his sons William and |
Edward of this place last week.
Two suspicious looking men were |
«een on our streets last week, walking |
on Tuesday;
wel fers,
looking for something, i
OF Interest to Liverymen, |
A decision of importance to the liv.
ervrnien of Pennsylvania has been
handed down by Judge Orlady, of the |
Superior court. It sustains as consti |
tutional the Act of Assembly of 1887, |
known as the Livery Act which mak: s :
it a misdemeanor punishable by a fine |
or imprisonment, to wilfully damage |
the property of a livery stable keeper.
It was passed to cover cases of injury
to horse or vehicle by reckless driving,
The judges of five cotirts have decided
the act was unconstitutional. Asa re-
sult the law became a dead letter.
Now that the Superior Court sustains
it, many eases are likely to be added
to the business of the courts, People
who drive hired teams recklessly and
injure them will have criminal suits
entered against them as of yore,
tsa os ————
~The knack of looking well is due
principally to the clothing one wears;
to dress well does not necessarily mean
that one must own a silver mine or
have a “corner’’ on gold. Inquire at
the Philadelphia Branch —what they
don't know about fitting you out nob-
further information I trust you will
get any.
bily and at a low fgure no one else
knows.
| CAPITOL NEWS
|
A. and Will Attack
Mr. Bryan.
Wasniyaron, Oct, 19
most ardent Bryan men have been ab-
cent unexpectedly good news
has come into Washington.
Democratic Clubs in
says he
which makes him certain |
York,
Congres<ional committee has
that Bryan will carry New and |
syivania are in a fair way to
Bryan states, owing to a tidal wave
silver sentiment which is
the
ranks and making
working
stanch sup-
of
them
A
Committee
porters of Bryan, member
Nate
Democratic
Bryan will not have less
than 30.000 plurality in that state, and
# Democratic poll of lowa shows a ma-
Hon. F. H.
been nll over
Jority of 37,000 for Bryan,
Lovejoy writes: “I have
Wisconsin,
and Se
Minnesota, and
and
itl
lumberit
Michigan,
Ni
COTne
wrth mith Dakota, have
in personal contact with the vot-
the
and 90
ers, especially in large i
per cent, ol
for Bry:
an
nles
towns and mill
1 hese
men intend to vote
feel sure that all these st will go
for Bryan a r
iy.
It must be evident even to Becreta-
Morton himself ti
very poict of view when he
il that by a good majori-
Silver is on top, sure,”
ry iat he made a mis
take from ©
undeserv-
Pugt
support
made that uncalled for and
od attack upon Senators Harris,
and Morgan, their
of free
because of
As strongly as President
members of
thes
language of
Waslhi-
example
wily
er.
Cleveland and the other
sined v posed to
the
Nobody in
the
Democrats on the
118 Onl silver,
toa man deprecate
Secretary Morton,
FR
Vir
>
K
ington would follow
by some of the
he Potomac, in hangin
Morton io effigy, but he has
fro ly eo
ginis side of t
Te retary
been very wmdemned by all
Here a vers FEE
nex pressed
May or of Eu fala,
“1 have
front
and as
clnsses of men. is
Gaping
’
McKenzie,
servalive
P.B
and a gold Democrat:
Secretary Morton in the rank of
a sound
I
for President.
money Democrat, | was anxious to see
3 f
jut af-
him nominated
unjust and
to
character,
ter his late utterances, so
modify
His
I am bound
of
1
fasnuit
uncalled for,
his
my
foolish
opinion
on Senator
h and Harris, and his attempt to
wave the bloody shirt by rousing prej-
hurt the
cause he wants to aid more than
It will turn
of wavering voters in
| people imagine,
every
Secretary Carlisle has the
Treasury building.
had come to Washington to
Mr. Carlisle to make a speech in Balti- |
As Mr.
engagements in
election,
Ken- |
| #0 to Baltimore, he proceeded to make |
{an anti-silver speech then and there to
forgetting, perhaps,
ts were being kicked out
of office for daring to do much less in |
behalf of silver. The
| the delegation,
latest removal |
Als, who dared to
candidate for Congress.
The Republicans who have been |
| bluffing about their expectation of car- |
when a man with $500, which
wanted to bet that Bryan would carry
Texas Ly 150,000 majority, arrived in
down.
Senator Butler, Chairman of the
Populist National Committee, doesn’t
talk like a man who Js either luke
warm in his support of Bryan or
doubtful of the result, both of which
be Laas been charged with being by Re-
publicans, He said: “While I was in
Chicago, assurances were given me
that the votes of Minnesota, Indiana
and Michigan are absolutely sure for
Bryan. Should Mr. Bryan not lose
any of the border states, the vote of
Indiana alone, in addition, will elect
him. The voles of the other states
will simply add to his majority.” Mr.
Butler frankly said that he did not
care to express any positive opinion
about Iliinois or Iowa, because the in-
formation he received concerning those
two states was of such a mixed nature
that he had not formed any.
Mark Hanna has captured the Na-
tonal bilicers of the A. P. A., bag and
2%)
or -y
1896.
[ee and they are preparing
Fig an official attack upon Mr
iryan, which will indirectly appeal te
lA. P. A. men to vote for McKinley, It
has been known to Mr, Bryan's man
agers for some time that this
but they have not
deemed the matter of sufficient im
| portance to try to prevent it. In fact,
{some of them think the A. P. A.
| tack on Mr. Bryan will make
action
{ him, and are for that reason rather dis
posed to welcome it,
revo i
LINDE NH ALL.
News of the Past Week Gathered from Our
Neighboring Town
Mr. and Mrs. made
{trip to Centre Hall and back on Satur-
| duy afternoon.
}ible i
Henry Zeigler was visiting at Pine
day.
Calvin Goble
Grove on Tues
made
| Tusseyville on Baturday;
another
there
trip
Hust
| be some attraction.
John Lee, of Tusseyville,
3
iL to our town on Saturday.
Two of our fiue young men
{quite a distance to attend a
tion last week, but poor Jimmy |
walk home,
Pittsburg
mother
(ieorge from
to his
Mrs McClellan east of tow
Mr. aud Mrs. John
Penn Cave, were v
i Henry 7
Jurchfield
came home on a visit
in-law,
Rossinan
siting at the
igler on Sunday and )
pr
ty #
Hale Pr
ant made a trip to Falrbroo
I
enter merci
Mou-
Hoss, our ising
WK On
day of this week.
Ihe
farmer
rainy weather is bother
the
present,
seidents
wind
, and again start
about as much as
iestion around | ut
Ye
fost,
Liere
wir corre<pondent was
i but fort wis |
unately
genial cow buyer x
Lis WAY
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POTTERs MILLS,
Latest News Items from Across the
Given by our (
Mi
is
arrespotident
LRTI
VW 14d
thie sick list
Mrs,
Cormicl
oy
iam
able to be
Jennie Shaffer, of
ing friends at
and
A day in oo
hormas Treaster
Alex McCoy
have c¢
siiver,
ir town thi
moved
Bro's wnmenoed
Hing their props to the Fort sidin
town
ht ti
Sat
ep
and have moved to our
slew
uel Reeder,
from
who has boug
the Z stle Bro's
io town,
The
vicinity
has also
# Mills and
bio
Fit
1 ¥ f »
hunters of Potter
ti
not had the
they
when the season opens,
to the
fires which passed through the
have
ver this fall as Fenner
"
‘he
Very scarce owing damaging
moun.
tains last spring
Wo
COBURN,
J,
Rote Last Week.
William Walter,
Mrs. Wood, of Curwensville,
present visiting at the
chael Evart.
Mr. RO.
are
home
i
Braucht and two chil
day, where they will visit
Rev a retired
Weand,*
timable wife were visiting friends
this place on Baturday and
| Years ago the reverend
preached for the Rebersburg charge, to
{ which place he went Mouday
on to
Mrs J. F. Garthofl is spending the
week while
{ out hunting shot a large deer; the first
{ of the season for our nimrods.
The almost continuous rains greatly
| ing of their corn in this section.
pss Mp MSS
THE school appropriations from the
«tate were cut down, and the taxpay-
| ers were compelled to make up the de
(ficiency. Curtin and Womelsdorf vot-
| came up before the House. And for
their fun the heaviest taxpayer, the
farmer, reaches down in his pocket
and pays the bill
A vote for McKinley means a con-
tinuation of the present low prices in
all farm products. The Republican
party promises no relief to the masses,
They want it to remain. Do you want
a change? Bryan and free silver can
never make prices for wheat any lower
than they are,
Tug goldites are holding elections
every few days and have McKinley
elected every time with an increased
number of electors, at a rate which
will soon give them five times ae ma
ny electors as there are in the Union,
On Nov. 8 the free silver men will do
some voting that will knock MeKin-
ley 1 million miles from the Poemiden:
oy
NO. 42
|
{ PABAGRAPHE OF INTEREST,
i
' Bilver wns worth §1
i"
aga per
fing open
151 is
’
in 187
caused by French
to 1. Ho
oll nee,
nt 154
$1
“
par value at
8%.
RBilver in 1806 is worth 66 cents per
caused by closing the mints to
|
| coinage for tl
{ How it afl
| ounee, «
+p iblie,
wets the shown
A
in
farmer
is
by taking wheat as an Hustration,
of wheat worth
1872,
in 1806, o
tmishel Ws Ore
{ India, in one ounce of silver,
| $1.32
All products sol
ne ounes of silver, 66 et
in E
with sliver-using ¢
iin
It makes ad
products
(XX IEE ann
rong
i in oom-~
petion intries
have decline roportion,
value of
American than
£1.0060)
The
loses th
{1
i
ually
American far miner
atl sum mante-
ii sm.
vluets
ia
1«»
iy ap-
8 NOG.
mnmtin-
de
of
Dy
ower
«troy
od half
more than hall the pe
If
surely
buy at present,
they su
manufac
i
the pric of
tured goods are to be advanced
consumers cannot
cannot if fe te]
by a higher tariff.
A cont
{i Means -
inuanoe of the gol i standard
3
hing else
and it can mean not
suffering.
gland.
r
vet lower prices;
Wall street
Banks
| dictation of Wall street,
vel mnre
represents Es
everywhere are under the
ish this
y main-
Thev have assisted to estal
| ruinous policy and are helping 1
it.
MeAns
{tain
It
| industry.
tion to American
destru
JUMPS TO 83
i tp
WHEAT CORNERED
§
the biggest
un Chi-
A Syndicate has made
corner ig wheat ever known, i
cagn, this week. Ou the sly the spe-
| culators have been buying up all the
the
their hands on and
wheat in country they could lay
now chesed the
price up to 87 oenls, by which they,
the syndicate, make millions of dol-
lars, 2nd the farmer makes—nothing !
The speculators are dancing with de-
light over their big pull and the far-
| mer is wondering where the money is
{to enme from to pay his taxes This
syndicate is composed of the men whe
are contributing to the corruption
| fund to buy McKinley's election and
keep up the trusts. Farmers, bear this
in mind when you vote—DBryan is
dead =et against the trusts,
Flour has now gone up high to the
injury of consumers, Now take your
ballot and vote your choice,
a MM
Rev. Rearick's Appointments,
Sunday, October 25, at Centre Hall,
t7p m.; at Union church, at 2p.
m. ; at Georges valley, at 16 a, m.
If your children are subject to croup
watch for the first symptom of the dis-
ease—hoarseness,. If Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is given as soon ax the
child becomes hoarse it will prevent
the attack. Even after the croupy
cough has appeared the attack can ale
ways be prevented by giving this rem-
edy. It is also invaluable for colds and
whonping cough. For sale by Wm,
Pealer, Spring Mills, 8. M. Swarts,
Tusseyville, and R. E. Bartholomew,
Centre Hall
al
1