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new season's goods and we're gen
erally the first to close them out.
Although we've scarcely reached
mid-summer, we're making a clean
sweep of everything strictly turn
merlsh, and today we single out
'Novelty Wash Goods as an Illustra
tion of how price-cutting goes,
when a complete clearance is de
sired. All the cloths mentioned be
low are this season's styles.
Stripe Crepes
Cream and other grounds, with
pretty woven effect, and pirn and
light tan stripes in contrasting
colors.
This is a dressy fabric of elegant
appearance.
Has been sold for 25c.
Sale Price, 10c
Only a few plecea left. They look
as rich as silk tufted stripes, tut
they're so light and comfortable for
hot weather. They've brought 18c
all season.
Sale Price, 12 l-2c
A pretty cob-webby material with
light woven stripe and daintily
printed sprays, figures, etc. About
40 pieces left.
Sale Price, 6c
Only 18 pieces left. White grounds
with light printed slrlpes and fancy
woven effects. Never sold a yard
till now, under 1214c.
Sale Price, 8c
Fancy Japiettes
25o la their market value today.
We've only a few left, but the pat
tern are very choice and there Is
ot a more attractive cloth on the
market.
Sale Price, 12 l-2c
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THAT VERY WEIRD STORY
Mr. Quay and His Democratic Friends
Are Worried.
PRESS BUREAU ALARMS THEM
Alleged Iramatie Story Concerning the
Secret Doings of the Administration
News Bureau- legitimate Cam
paign Work .Magnified.
Special to the Srranton Tribune.
Philadelphia. July 9.-A very weird
and alleged dramatic story ha9been go
Inft the rounds of the Quay and Demo
cratic press during the past three days
concerning what Is known as "The Ad
ministration News Pureau." In this city
The story, which was written In the
Quay headquarters, in this city. Is to
the effect that two well-known news
paper men of the state have been en
gaged In secretly sending to the coun
try newspapers circulars attacking Sen
ator Quay. The falsity of the story
lies In the fact that while newspaper
articles reflecting on Senator Quay's
political career have been sent out from
press headquarters of the administra
tion in this city there has been no at
tempt at secrecy whatever.
When it came to the knowledge of
Governor Hastings' friends that Sena
tor Quay, as long ago as three weeks,
had commenced sending out newspaper
attacks on Governor Hastings from his
news bureau a plan was formed to
counteract It by establishing a press
headquarters, devoted to the Interests
of Governor Hastings. William Rus
sell, of Philadelphia, was placed In
charge of that part of the work relat
ing to the distribution of news matter.
Thread of the Amuiinc Tnle.
The newspaper articles In question
charge that Colonel Henry Hall, of
Pittsburg, and Colonel George Nox Mc
Cain, of Philadelphia, have been seen
carrying armfuls of papers nnd mall
from the news bureau box; that a de
tective, who hod been placed to watch
the box, witnessed this transaction.
The fact of the matter Is that while
both of the gentlemen-named 'have been
in a measure interested In campaign
work there have been no such pro
ceedings as the Democratic newspapers
and Quay organs have alleged.
In an Interview at the press head
quarters today Mr. Russell stated that
neither Colonel McCain nor Colonel
Hall had ever been near the news
paper box, and that the wild stories
sent out by Senator Quay's hired news
paper writers were absolutely false.
Senator Quay has been sending hun
dreds of columns of plate matter to the
newspapers of the state, al'though It
was strenuously denied by his friends
that such was the case.
The headquarters of the administra
tion bureau are at 24 South Eighth
street, where a whole floor has been
engaged and a corps of typewriters and
amanuenses are at work. There has
been no concealment In the matter of
the work, which Is of a perfectly legiti
mate nature. Senator Quay and his
friends began It three weeks ago. The
headquarters were opened for the first
time on Monday.
CONSIDERS US DOUBTFUL.
Senator Quay Not Sanqiilne Over Ills
Success in Lackawanna.
WIIkes-Barre, Pa., July . The hwad
quarters of United States Senator Quay
at the Wyoming Valley hotel were the
mecca of all the politicians of high and
low degree today and they came from
al! sections of the county.
Mr. Quay was asked how he found
thirwti politically in Scranton. He re
plied: "Well, I found things favorable. The
Lackawanna people received me pleas
antly at the Wyoming."
"How about delegates up there?"
"Well, I wouldn't like to My."
"Then you consider the number
doubtful?"
"Well, perhaps."
Mr. Quay had no opinion to express
regarding the outlook in this county.
It was th Intention of Mr. Quay to
visit Hazleton before he left the coal
regions, but the programme wn
changed today and he goes direct to
Beaver In the morning.
EVERYBODY'S FRIEND.
Mr. Qnay Will Not Oppose Judges Wil
ls rd or Rice.
Wllkes-Barre, Pa., July 9. Senator
Quay, who is making a tour of this sec
tion, advocating his candidacy for Re
publican state chairman. In opposition
to State Chairman Ollkeson, was In
conference today with ex-Congressman
Shonk, ex-Attorney General Pal
mer and others. Mr. Quay, when asked
for an opinion upon the fight for the
control of the party organization In
Pennsylvania, simply said that he
hoped to win.
He, however, repeated a declaration
that he would not oppose Messrs. Rice
and Wlllard, or any of the other supe
rior court judges. The senator left for
Hazleton at 1 p. m. Just before leav
ing he remarked that he was well sat
isfied with the results of his Wllkes
Barre visit.
IN THE FIGHT TO WIN.
Christopher L. Magee'e View of the Situa
tion to Rate.
Philadelphia, July 9. C. h. Magee, of
Pittsburg, who Is opposing Senator
Quay In the Republican contest In this
state, left Philadelphia tonight for
Harrlsburg, where he will meet Gover
nor Hastings. Mr. Magee said today:
"There Is a good deal of talk about
confidence on the part of the Hastings
people, but when we say that we are.
going to win, we mean It, because our
calculations are made on a most con
servative basis. The character of the
attacks made, on the administration by
the Quay newspapers, ' backed by the
Democratic organs, in having-its effect
on thinking Republican!, and the senti
ment awakened is In favor of the ad
ministration." TALK OF COMPROMISE.
The JTsme of Colonel Watres for Chair
man Is Hstaewted. , ,'
Harrteburr, July I. The element of
the Republican party that la clamoring
for peaoe between the) two flihUfig
faction Irava renewed aopea that a
oentprotsiM will too fe ai xtsi Tha
plan Includes the withdrawal of Bank
Examiner Gllkewjh as a caidkaite for
re-eleotlon aa state chairman, and the
acceptance by both factions of ex-Lieu-tenant
Governor Watres as Mr. Ollke
son's ucoeesor.
It is thought also that the death of
the latter' wife may go a great way
in Influencing Mr. Ollkeson to withdraw
ftcm the fight It la not, howuver,
thought he will do ao unless Mr. Quay
agiieefl to wit 11 raw also, and accept
Mr. Watres as the compromise candi
date. It Is not known whether or not
the Huntings people would be satltftled
with such a deal.
RULES FOR THE TRIBUNAL.
Judges of th superior Court Meet at
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. July 9. Judges Reeder,
Rice and McCarthy, of the new Su
perior court, met In the olWce of the lat
ter today as a committee to --epare
rules for the tribunal, which will hold
Its first session on July 24 at Harrls
burg. '
The committee will be occupied wlrtl
the work for several days, and the
rules will be eubmltted to all of the
Judges for confirmation before the
opening of the inew court.
THAT ALLEtiKU DEAL
The Quay-Cameron Managers Hcsortlng
to Political Fakes to ltecelve the
People.
Philadelphia, July 9. In the stuff
sent out through the rtate from the
Quay literary bureau to those .newspa
pers that still adhere to the Junior sena
tor's falling fortune. one statement
ftn-Js a conspicuous place. Ita absurd
falsity plainly shows the desperate
straits to which Senator Quay finds
himself reduced in his hopeless and un
necessary fight against the state ad
ministration nnd Republican party. It
Is the proverbial straw at which the
drowning maa catches.
This statement is to the effect that
the administration fight le based upon
a great political deal, to which Gover
nor Hastlr.gs, Senator Cameron and
Mayor Warwick, of Philadelphia, are
parties, each to receive 'his part of the
spoils of victory, that which goes to
Senator Cameron being a re-election to
the United States senate. This, coming
from Senator Quay. Is so ridiculous as
to be almost pathetic. It shows that he
sees certain defeat staring him In the
face, a.nd Is fast becoming reckless.
Kvery one who knows anything of the
Jr.slde history of the recent struggle
knows t'hat It Is being fought In Senator
Cameron's Interest. To his political for
tunes Senator Quay is tied by bonds he
could not break if he would. He Is for
Senator Cameron for eemator, and,
what is more, he is for Senator Cam
eron for Pennsylvania's candidate for
president. He has, within less than a
month, written a letter in which he
says that "If Per.nsylvainila has a candi
date for president it would be Senator
Cameron." In private and public con
versation, while at Harrlsburg fighting
apportionment, he stated that he op
posed a reapportionment of the state
because it would not be to Senator
Cameron's Interest to have It done.
This was no eecret. Neither Is ad
herence to Senator Cameron a secret
now. ,
Cameron In the llnckgronnd.
Senator Cameron Is being wisely kept
in the background in this contest. No
one hears a word from him. die does
not figure In It.
In fact, it is a eertous question
whether fifty Republicans obt of the
CC0.000 in the state he has reresented In
the senate for Mve past eighteen years
could tell whether he Is cow within Us
boundaries or in South Carolina. But
he is Id the fight Just the same. From
him come the sinews of war with which
the fight called a fight for Senator
Quay's vindication, but In reality one
for Cameron's re-election Is being
loudly waged. Senator Cameron. Is
shrewd enough to eee that he Is In the
same boat with Senator Quay. He saw
this during the senate fight over the
resolution to Lexow Philadelphia when
he said, "Quay has got to win this
fight. If he Is licked my name la Den
nis." He knows now that Senator
Quay's defeat In this struggle Is his de
feat too, and though carefully kept be
hind the scenes he Is on hand at the
cash box. It must be humiliating to
him, though, to know that those who
are fighting his battles are endeavoring
to make the people believe 'that 'he Is
really hi league with his opponents.
DROWNED IN LAKE KEUKA.
Five Persons Lose Their I.Ives In a Cap.
sired Boat.
Bath, N. T., July 9. A drowning ac
cident occurred Just off Bluff Point, on
Lake Keuka, about 1 o'clock today by
which five persons lost their lives.
Terry Tufft, with his wife and three
children, left Gibson's landing In a sail
boat to cross the lake.
A strong wind waa blowing, and when
opposite the Point the hoat waa cap
sized and the whole party were
drowned. No one saw the accident and
the boat was rot discovered until 3
o'clock. The bodies were recovered In
about ten feet of water.
CHATTANOOGA COMMISSION.
Ficcutlve Committee of Battlefield
Association Is Appointed.
Harrlsburg, Pa., July 9. The execu
tive committee of the Chlckamauga
and Chattanooga battlefield' commis
sion will meet In this city tomorrow af
ternoom The governor this afternoon
appointed the committee as follows:
Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Robinson,
Pittsburg: Lieutenant Sylvester W. Ale
Clockey, PlWsburg; Captain Oeors W.
Pklr.ner, Pittsburg; Captain Thonns
Rlckert, Pottsvllle; Colonel Archibald
Blakcsley, Pittsburg; Captain. J. H. R.
Storey, -Philadelphia: Lieutenant Ed
ward M. Boring, Philadelphia.
. ICE CREAM KILLS A LAD.
Investigation to Petermlae If It Con
tained Poison.
Hazleton, Pa., July 9. The 11-year-old
son of Hans Cook died this after
noon. The little fellow had eaten a
dish of Ice cream, which Is believed to
have contained poison.
An Investigation will be made. ,
: EKhehaan Judge Advocate.
Harrlaburg, July l.-Colonel B. Frank
Eahalmaa. of Lancaster, has been ap
pointed judge advocate general tt h Ma-
ttoaal (ttaM. , :-,-
TAMPERED WITH A BILL
Ao Important Proviso Disappears
from a Measure.
WHO STRUCK OUT THE CLAUSB ?
Manufacture of Fertlllicra Will Gain
Over $3,000 Per Year by a Secret
Change Made In tho' Bill.
State College Loaee.
Special to tho Scranton Tribune.
Hurrlsburg, Pa., Juiy 9. The fertil
izer manufacturers doing business In
Pennsylvania will save about $3,600
a yeur at the expense of the state col
lege by the surreptitious elimination of
a clause In a bill passed by the recent
legislature and approved by Governor
Hastings. The act of June 28, 1879, re
quires manufacturers of fertilisers to
take out licenses and file an affidavit
of sales with the secretary of the com
monwealth. An analysis of each brand
of fertilizers Is filed with the secretary
of agriculture, and the license fee paid
to the state treasurer. This arrange
ment caused much contusion, and In
order to slmplfy the matter Secretary
Kdge had a bill Introduced changing
the time for taking out the licenses
from Aug. 1 to Jan. 1, and providing
that all papers should Issue from and be
tiled In the department of agriculture.
When the bill was under considera
tion In the house of representatives on
second reading, an ofllcer of the state
college used his influence lo have In
serted a proviso that the certificates
could only be extended after the pay
ment of one-third of he license fees
of the previous year. This was done
because the college receives the li
cense fees for making 'the analysis of
samples of fertilizers furnished by tho
department of agriculture, and If the
licenses were extended as was at first
proposed, without any additional fees,
the Institution would lose about S3.G00
per year.
Tho State College Proviso.
The act was eent to a committee of
conference to eliminate some objection
able features and was reported with,
the State College proviso all right, but
In some manner the proviso was taken'
out of the bill before It reached the.
governor, and as a result the college
loses $3,500 and the manufacturers gain
that amount.
The college officials are anxious to
know how, when and whore the proviso
was dropped out. The possibilities are
that it was stricken out by some friend
of the fertilizer manufacturers during
the confusion incident .to ithe closing
'hours of the session. Inasmuch as oth
er changes, which were made necessary
by the omission of the proviso, were
made, it 1s probable that it was taken
out during the last day of .the session
without the knowledge of the friends of
the college.
CRUELTY CHARGED.
Strange Story Related by a Olrl Who
Escaped from a Convont.
Pittsburg, July 9. A special to the
Plttsbuprg Dispatch from Mexico City
ays: A young girl belonging to an
excellent family In a rural town near
this city, owing to disappointment In
love, was Induced to enter a convent
and become a novice. Shortly after
ward she ram away, returning to her
family.
She now Charges that the Mother Su-
erlor was exceedingly cruel, and that
among other things she compelled the
novices to arise In the night to pray.
As this 'girl could not avoid dropping
to Bleep, the 'Mother Superior, she as.
rerts, fastened to each eyelid a steel
spring attached to a cord in order to
hold the lids open something like a
form of Chinese torture.
The girl further declares that she
and other girls. In order to keep them
humble, was not permitted to eat at
the table, but were compelled to sit
under the table, and were served with
very scant fare.
People who have Investigated the
case say the Mother Superior undoubt
edly Is Insane, her passion for auster
ity and asceticism carrying her to In
credible lengths.
NEGROES LEFT TO, DIE.
Mississippi Authorities Display Great
Craelty to Smallpox Patients.
Memphis, July 9. Dr. A. S. Ray
mond, superintendent of the county
board of health, returned from a trip
down the river to a levee camp, where
smallpox was reported. He tells a hor
rible story of the sufferings of four ne
groes, who had toeen Isolated in a
swamp near the state line and left to
die of smallpox. In a tent pitched on
stilts In mud and water a foot deep, he
found the corpse of a negro man who
died Thursday, and by his side another
victim In the last stages of the dis
ease. In another tent waa a man at the
point of death, and a woman almost ex
hausted from the rtraln of nursing him.
The dead negro was burled, and the
.Mississippi , authorities were tele
pruphed to remove the others, but this,
Dr. Raymond says, was refused, arid
tney were left to die.
GRASSHOPPERS DIE.
Consumption Carries Then Off and Crop
IMstrletn Are Safe.
Bristol, Colo., July 9. It was recently
determined by scientific Investigation
that the grasshoppers In this vicinity,
which threatened to destroy all crop
possibilities, were dying of consump
tion in vast numbers. So great has
been the scourge that agricultural In
terests are now safe from hoppers rav
ages. Application has been received
this week from Minnesota and Idaho,
for quantities of the dead and drying
grasshoppers. '
The Intention is to scatter them
about In districts where the crops art
In danger from the hoppers, with the
Idea of spreading the disease.
GUILTY OF BOOT-LEGGING.
Girl Member of an Outlaw Rand Sent to
, Jail at Guthrie.
. Guthrie, O. T., July 9. Mrs. Jennie
Metcalf, alias Jennie Stevens, a hand
some girl of 16, has bten sentenced to
six months In the federal jail here for
boot-legging whiskey to the Osage In
diana, 8h was found la Uu Oaaff
county masquerading in male attire
In company with Frank Wilson, a
rounder from Pawnee, Jennie Stevens,
as she chooses to call herself, was
raised on a farm.
For several years her folks have lived
In the Creek nutlon near Jennings, and
It was there she made the acquaintance
of Bill Doolln, Slaughter Kid and a
number of other bad men. She aften
listened to a recital of the outlaws'
depredations and finally began running
through the country with members of
the gang. Her arrest was effected by
government officers.
BIG SCHEME OF POPULISTS.
To Call a Conventloa In St. Louis or
Chicago and Select a Candidate.
Little Rock, Ark., July 9. It Is
learned from reliable Populist author
ity here today that a call is soon to be
issued by the national leaders of that
party for a delegate convention of free
stiver advocates of the United. States,
to assemble at St. Louis or Chicago
early In August, to formulate plana for
the campaign next year.
Presidential timber Is to be agreed
upon, aiMl If the convention develops
sufficient encouragement from the two
old parties, the name "Populist" will
be dropped and some appropriate ap
pellation agreed upum. Free silver will
be the Issue of the campaign. The
south wMl favor Caldwell and Morgan
for standard bearers.
TRANCE FOR SEVEN DAYS.
A Remarkable Manifestation of the
Power of Hypnotlsm-santonelll's Test
t'pon Harmon Leonard.
Cleveland, July 9.-The announce
ment that a hypnotist named Santo
nelll, who had placed a subject under
tho hypnotic Influence at Lake Hrudy,
some thirty mllea south of this city, a
week ago today, would bring his subject
out from the trance this afternoon,
caused several hundred excursionists
to go from this city and other points
to that spiritualistic Chautauqua today.
Santonelll In of striking u.piearance
and rather more refined than the well
known Svengall type. A week ago he
secured the consent of the parents of
Harmon Leonard, living In Ravenna,
to attempt a seven days' test, during
which all the physical functions except
the action of the heart were to be en
tirely suspended.
j During an ordinary seance on June
30 Leonard was commanded by Santo
nelll to leave the auditorium In which
he was exhibiting and go to a tent
that had been erected some hundred
yards away and to lie down and sleep.
Leonard obeyed Instantly. The tent in
whlch'he lay has been open to visitors
every day since. At night the subject
waa guarded by a young companion,
who refused to leave him during the
test. When he fell asleep his pulse was
M.'r'fhla. Santonelll reduced by hyp
notism to 64 and on the following clay
to 64. and then to 44. It af forward rose
to about 50 and remained at abut that
point until Just berore he was awak
ened today. During this time young
Leonard has not had his clothing
changed and has not left his couch
except as h was ordered to "stiffen
out" so that he could be raised by two
attendants and photographed a day or
two ago. His guards are willing to
make oath, to the fact that he has re
mained without food or stimulant and
that his physical functions have been
dormant all this time.
Leonard waa taken out of the trance
by Santonelll In the presence of a large
oowd of people this afternoon. His
pulse had risen to 120, but subsided to
aibout 90 soon after. He expressed lg
nrance of the fact that he had been
asleep, and supposed the crowd about
him was the one he had left a week
before, Drs. C. S. Leonard and H. P.
Hugus, of Ravenna, who attended him
today, manifested the greatest Interest
In the result of the experiment, claim
ing that In the case of gunshot wounds
In the abdomen, when a suspension of
the functions would materially assist
recovery, the use of hypnotism would
be of vivid Impo-tanee. Santonelll
proposes to make a, two weeks' test.
under .the supervision of Cleveland phy
sicians, In a few weeks.
MOORE'S FIRST REPORT.
Temperature Conditions of th Week
Have Keen Favorable
Washington, July 9. The first crop
report signed by Professor Willis
Moore, the new chief of the weather
bureau Issued today says the tempera
ture conditions of the week have been
favorable throughout .the country, but
the northern and central portions of
the cotton region have suffered from
excessive rains, while drouth conditions
In Michigan and Minnesota have been
intensified.
Northern New Tork, central Ohio and
eastern Iowa are also suffering from
drought.
FAVORS PANAMA CANAL.
President of Colon Thinks the United
States Shortsighted.
Colon, Colombia, July 9. The Nicar
agua canal commissioners1 will leave
here on the United States warship
Montgomery. They say It will be de
cided after getting home whether they
will make a report on the Panama,
canal or not.
The local president thinks It Is a
pity that In the Interest of the United
States and commorce, congress did not
give Instruction for a report on the
Panama canal, which Is partly finished,
wHh a shorter route, and to cost less
than the Nicaragua canal.
SIX PRISONERS ESCAPE.
Saw Their Way Out of the DeWItt Conn,
ty, Illinois, Jail.
' Clinton, 111.. July 9. Six prisoners es
caped from the DeWitt county Jail this
morning between t and S o'clock. They
sawed nearly fourteen Inches through
a boiler-Iron casting to a window and
then removed the brick.
, None of them have been caught.
Rifle Insneetor of the Eighth.
1 Harrlsburg, July 9. Colonel Frank Ma
gee has appointed L. V. Rauch, of Maha
noy City, Inspector of rifle practice for the
Blghth regiment, vice Lieutenant Frank
I Hotter, promoted to staff of Third
brigade. ; . . - . . : .
Pottsvllle for Qoav. '
Pottsvllle, Pa., July. .-The Pottsvllle
Republican club held a meeting tonight
and decided to exert Its Infbieno to .sup
port Mr. Quay for chairman of the state
Mousuttoa. .':'-'
WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH
A Young Naa and His Auat Charged
with Awful Crime.
DEATH OP MRS. LEVI FIERCE
She Is Found Dead In Her farm House
Kitchen Result of the Cor
onera Inquest Youthful
Couple Arrested.
Grand Haven, 'Mich., July 9. Mrs.
Levi Pierce, the wife of a farmer, was
beaten and choked to death in the town
ship of Talmadge, near Hen In, yester
day morning, and her daughter, Mary
Piuroe, aged 13, and her grandson,
Oeorge Chesbro, aged 17, are In Jail
hi-re, charged with murder. Mrs,
Pierce was 53 years old and the mother
of a large family.
Mr. Pierce left the houso early In the
morning to work on a neighboring
farm. About 10 o'clock Mary came
running to him, telling him that her
mother waa dead. He found the body
of his wife lying on the kitchen floor.
Her chin waa gashed to the bone, sev
eral teeth were knocked out, and her
throat was swollen nnd black, as if
from strangulation. The,floor had been
freshly mopped, but a broken glass Jar,
not cleaned up, gave evidence of a
struggle at the coroner's Inquest. The
girl and boy told conflicting stories
and were arrested.
It Is alleged that the young girl was
unduly Intimate with her nephew. It
Is said that the mother and daughter
quarrelled about this intimacy, and
that the old lady started to punish the
girl. It Is supposed that young Chea
bro came to his aunt's aslstance, and
In the struggle which ensued Mrs.
Pierce was beaten and choked to death
by her daughter and grandson. Both
prisoners protest their Innocence.
The girl claims she saw a strange
man near the house. It Is believed
young Chesbro will break down and
confess. The girl Is cool and collected
and expressed no sorrow at the death
of her mother.
NO CHANGE IN PRICES.
Coal Sales Agents' Have Adjonraed to
July 20.
Mew York, July 9. The anthracite
coal sales agents have adjourned until
July 30. The meeting was E'hort, and
there was no change made in prices.
The production arranged at the last
meeting, 75 per cent, of the output of
June, 18!3, will stand.
The meeting today, while .not produc
tlve of any changes In the coal trade
policy for a month, was regarded as
necessary to take further action In the
matter of restriction for July.' Produc
tlon It was shown, Is within the limits
prescribed. It was thought by some
that the faillure to take action on prices
was due to the wish of capitalists, who
are arranging for a rehabltatlon of the
Industry, the argument being that the
time for such action Is not ripe and
might upset negotiations.
RESULTS IN TWO DEATHS.
ratal Accident to an Alabama Boy Kills
Ills Grandfather.
Birmingham, Ala., July 9. The re
mains of Kd Lewis, a prominent young
man who dropped dead on the Memphis
and Charleston train en route to Blem
phls yesterday, were brought back to
New Decatur, Ala., his home, today
for burial. As the funeral procession
passed along the street, Frank Reeves,
aged 10, climbed a tree to get a better
view.
As the hearse was passing Reeves
fell and, striking on his head, was in
stantly klllud. The boy's grandfather,
who was lying at the point of death,
on hearing of the accident, expired.
RIVAL TOWNS USE DYNAMITE.
Shawneo nnd Teeumsch at War Over a
Kollroad Line.
Berry, O. T., July -9. Advices from
Shawnee are that a number of 'bridges
on the Choctaw railroad were partially
blown to pieces by dynamite a few days
ago. The rivalry between the towns of
Shawnee and Tecumseh has beeru very
great for several months over the
building of the Choctaw railroad.
An attempt was .made to burn the
bridge across the Canadian river.
eighty-seven miles from Shawnee, and
dynamite waa put on severat trestles
near Shawnee. The end of the bridge
was blown out.
PIANO SWINDLERS WORK.
Leave Instrument on Trial-Kecelpta
Prove to Be Notes.
Creston, la., July 9. A gang of
smooth piano swindlers, driven out of
Illinois by newspaper exposure, are
now working In southwestern Iowa,
The only Union county citizen known to
have been victimized is J. A. Thomas.
A salesman called at the farmhouse,
representing that he was with the
American Piano company. 'He asked
permission to leave an Instrument In
the house. The farmer receipted for It
and the receipt turns up as a $500 note.
Many farmers In adjacent counties
have been swindled. Detectives are
after the gang.
TURNS HIGHWAYMAN.
Despoils Three Women of Keg of Beer
W hich They Had Purchased.
Wlnterset, la,, July 9. John Mona.
ghon, a well-to-do farmer living near
Patterson, thla county, held up three
women near Bevington and took a keg
of beer from ithe carriage, which they
had purchased In Des Moines.
He waa arrested and brought to this
city. He waived exaxmlnatlon and waa
bound over to .the district court for
highway robbery.
PARADISE FOR WOMEN.
A 19-Year-Old Olrl Serves ae Governor
Pro. Tern.
St. Louis, July 9. Governor Rich
ards, of Wyoming, who has been In
town all week as an encampment vis
itor, has not allowed affairs of state to
worry him. Ha know that everything
Is all right at home, for his 19-year-old
daughter is in charge, and she aends a
reassuring .telegram every afternoon.
Here is a specimen message:
' "All quiet at the state house. The
Fourth Is lovely. The children are all
well."
"In Wyoming," said the Governor,
women are a power. My young
daughter, just out of college, Is my
private secretary, and upon her de
volves all of the routine responsibili
ties of the olTlce. She knows all about
the ofllce of the executive. She pre
pares the most Important of state pa
pers, and In my absence she Is In charge
as completely as It Is possible for a sec
retary to be."
SEEK TO QUASH THE BILL.
Two Rules Filed In Margaret Thompson's
llrciich of Promise Suit.
Philadelphia, July 9. A rule to ehow
cause why the breach of promise suit
by Margaret May Thompson against
Dr. Gilbert Joseph Palen, Jay Oould'a
rephew, ehauld not be quashed was
filed by defendant's counsel yesterday.
Accompanying the writ to quash the
case counsel filed a eecond rule calling
on the pIul'Mirr to ehow cause why the
defendant should not be discharged on
common, ball.
The effect of these rules, if granted,
would be to either throw Miss Thomp
son s case entirely out of court or re
duce the suit to one of common law. re
leasing the defendant at once from the
responsibility of ball and the onus of
further arrest. Dr. Palen and his
bride sailed today for Europe on the
steamer Southwark.
CAMERON JJEHlXi) QUAY.
This Is the Kcol Sccrut of tho Present
Fight AgainM the State Administration
and Colonel (iilkcNon.
r'hiladrlt hla, July . Political w r
fare within n tj-eat body of thinking
men such as compose the Republican
pao-ty of Pennsylvania, Is deplorable at
all .times; but when war does break out,
a Justifiable reason must and will be
required by the people. The Republi
can party has had war forced upon it.
Old lints are being obliterated and life
long political associates and workers
are in arms against each other.
Wliat Is the isr-iue? Cameronlsm.
This is tin story in Its smallest com
pass. It Is the outbreak of a storm
that has been gathering for years In
this rtate, and dlpfrulae It aa they will
Senator Quay's friends have been com
pelled to admit that such is the fact. It
Is the mony of J. Donald Cameron
that is furnishing sinrws of war for the
men who today are fighting the admin
istration of Governor Hastings.
Behind them In this contest which
Senator Quay and ex-State Chairman
Andrews are waging, stands the form
of United States Senator Cameron. No
true-hearted Republican In the state
will deny that the senior eenator has
for years misrepresented the Ftate. Not
only has he. not been In sympathy
with Republicanism, as shown by his
Vite In the senate on the federal elec
tions billj but he has given the piestlge
of his name, and that of the great and
of his name and that of the great and
movements which are as unusual as
they are unpopular.
Senator Quay desires to secure con
trol of the state machinery by being
made Its chairman, for the purpose of
once more forcing upon the people the
election of Senator Cameron, "the silent
man of the United States senate." Be
sides, he has dictated to the Republi
cans of Pennsylvania so long that the
Idea of younger men coming into poli
tics who will not bow the knee to him
Is exceedingly distasteful. He Is now
making the flpht of his life for him
self, and for J. Donald Cameron. The
question now is. shall Cameron suc
ceed himself and shall Senator Quay
continue to exercise a dictatorial pol
icy In the councils of the Republican
party In this state.
CRUELTY TO A GIRL.
Dragged to tho Mountains Near Ash
land. Kv and Murdered.
Ashland. Ky., July 9. A horrible
story of murder comes from the upper
Illaine Creek district of Elliot county.
A young girl named Jordon, .while
crossing a stretch of woods, to the home
of a neighbor, was forcibly tken to an
old deserted house In the mountains
and assaulted by three youngr men.
The fiends then choked the girl until
they supposed, her dead, and, placing
her aftalnat the wall of the house with
her arms extended, nailed her hands to
the logs. The Rlrl was discovered some
time later by a searching party and
recovered sufficiently to tell the names
of her assailants. She died later, and
the enraged people are huntlni? the
murderers, who escaped to the moun
tains. AN INTERESTING FAMILY.
U'ldowor and Widow, f.ao'.t with Ten
children, Marry In Wisconsin.
Green Bay, Wis., July 9. When Mr.
and Jtt.s. Jerry Coleman call the roll at
their breakfast table .they will see
twenty smiling faces, the family havlnp
been doubled by the marriage of the
pair. Mr. Coleman, who is chairman
of the town of Eaton, Brown county,
Is a widower with ten children, lie
married Mrs. D. Fitzgerald, a widow
with ten children.
The ceremony waa observed at the
Roman Catholic church, la the vil
lage of .Humboldt, and the children of
the happy pair,, all of whom were pres
ent, occupied the entire front row of
seats.
Tan Per Cont. Increase.
Reading, Pa, July 9. The Brooke Iron
company, Birdsboro, has just posted no
tices In the rolling mill 4hat commencing
July 29, the wages of employes will be re
stored to the figures paid before the last
reduction In May, 1894. About 460 em
ployes will be benefited by the increase.
It wlH be 10 per cent.
Fatal Temperance Drink.
Lancaster, Pa., July 9. While charging
siphons of seltser water this afternoon at
Fred Engle's bottling works, a bottle burst
In the hands of Fred Engle, Jr. A piece
struck htm In the throat, cutting him
windpipe and penetrating to the Jugular.
His Injuries are probably fatal.
Joint Cnrronev Dobnta Proposed.
Washington, July 9. The American Bi
metallic league, through its president, A.
J. Warner, has challenged the committee
on sound currency, ot which the Hon.
Charles 8. Fearohlld ia charman, to a
Joint defeat on the money question.
WEATHER REPORT.
For eastern Pennsylvania, ' ganerally
fair; wotar. ,-. , t , . .
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