The Somerset Herald. EDWARD SCTLL, Editor d Proprietor. WEDNESDAY. BEPUBLICAH KCMINATI0K3. FUR n:iIDKST, OEX. EENJ. HARRISON. OF IXMANA. FOR VICE ri:iIIENT, WUITELAW LEW. OF EW YOEK. STATE. FoK El.EtTOKS-AT-LAlU.-E. JOSES, WILLIAM W OOD. J. K. IL'SLAP, WILLIAM H. A i EX. FOK CONGRE.---MES-AT-LAKOE, ALEXANDER MeDOWELL. WILLI 4 11 ULLT. JUDIOAR. FOE Jri'iE OF Tilt srrp.ESIE rOl'KT. Jii.'IS I'EAS of BinirC'oun'.y. COUNfY. FOR : IMPRESS, FIWARr S I'LL, of Somcrvet. uliiect tu tbe tiecisi.n of tde distriet touference. F K ASSEMBLY, ErHSAIM i. H.'LLEE,of Eorkwood. JOilS C. WELLES, of iliiford ttunivMri. FOU L'lSTEICl ATTORNEY. J. A. F.EECEV. of frraereel. FOR rOOR r I HECTOR, J. M. WEIGLE. of Somer-t tonnkhip. It means soiiietLitg U join a militia company in the? days. Ia three States the boys are behind guns fur business. Ma. Warwick's dta!h makes the thir teenth among the a.embers of the Fifty-t-cond Congress. AnJoiJyoue sc-tjon Las been heiJ. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, Las ba l a good deal of trouble with his eyes, but he can still wink one of them at the story of his resiifnatioa. The ?n, and the soil, and the m inds, and the rain, and the genera1, j.rosj'erity and Ls;iiiness of the people of the Na tion, all unite in waking 1?:2 "a great Iler-uLlkan year." The Methodist church once had a seri ous controversy as to whether it was proper for men to wear suspenders "galluses,"' Ihey called them then. And now the women vre2rthem. Ces.-ts statistics show that three fourths of the males of voting ae in the United States are native born, and more than one-half of the foreign born adult males are naturalized citizens. 1)em-tratic Texas is also split. But Texas conlJ be split into kindling wood and alavs elect a Ieiuoerat Ieujo crats are in no danger in any Southern State as long as they have the counting of the ballots. Thees will be no fusion in Iowa this Jftr. Tkk 1 kunnvnl it- s.t A o Co&v4&tiwD has nominated a straight State and elec toral ticket This inures a three-cor uered fight and makes Republican suc cess certain. Nasty Havks pulled down the record a second and a half. Dat the bicycle ve hicle which she pulled is said to be "two seconds fister" than tbe old fash ion.'d gu'ky. Maud S. and funol should be given another chance. NoTfliS'. is plainer than that Tamma ny has given up all hope of carrying New York. " The dime fund" to carry the West tells the story eloquently. The party hag reached the " Where was I at?" stage early in the campaign. iL.u-ToSE by bis fourth accession to the Premiership of Great Rritain, Las broken all previous records of the nam berof times that one man has hell that oilice. No one else but the Ear! of Der by ever occupied it more than twice. Con;ke,-5ias Tom Watson seems to be Lavinga larsre amount of fun down in (ieorgix A fellow who keeps sober enough to inquire, " Where was I at ?" is temperate enough for Georgians, and they make great sport of Congressman Tom for Lis suucnui-hncfs. Oi.n Mr. llolman of Indiana has aban doned the task of vindicating the work 01 me lH'mocrais auricg ine recent ses sion of Congrew. He couldn't even con vince himself that there was any good in Congress, say nothing of convincing disinterested, intelligent observers. CosiiREsM ax Watsox, of Georgia, Las challenged his Democratic opponent for re-eleciion to a joint debate. The Dem ocrat ha cot yet accepted, and it is pos- nible that he is trying to discover "where be is at"' before inectiDg the man who kept tab on Democratic remarks in the last Congress. Gk", tit Cleveland found time to mite "to my dear little namesake" aged S years and hoped "he was firmly ground ed on Democratic principles," but he Las found not a moment's time to answer the carefully-worded letter of the New York Free Trade League, which asked some plain and eimple uesti ins. The reception to II jn. Whitelaw Reid, the next Vice President, in Sprir.gGeld iii., is prooi ol tlie iat that Adlai Ste venson's nomination bv the Democracy is not going to di aw any votes Irom the hepublican prty. Mr. Reid was accord pi a greeting such as is only given to a r.iaa who tbe people. believe .is going to w in. One of the best proofs that the McKin- ley tariff is a success was the refusal of tbe Democratic House to attempt to re peal it. That body scolded and abused every one connected in any way w ith the tariff, ba fear ofthe workingaien deterr ed the Hoaw from laying violent hands o on this Republican legislative master piece. At preoent there is a great strike among tie slonen utters in the East There are over 50,000 w oik men in tbe Kriae, and they have, it is estimated, lost tS 00,000 in w agea. As it is an un protected iudustrv, freetraders who Lave charged np other strikes to protection ebould father "the stone cutters' atrike" as one of their assets. No part of the Tammany corruption fund "for the campaign of education in the West" will be used in Kentucky. Kentucky Las already 30ti great distiller ies in full blast and inns Ler own "cam paign of education." She will b usk and put into Ler stills 000,000 bushels of prime corn and give a rousing Democrat ic majority in November. T .vr rir. according to the Commis sioner of Tensions, 25,000 pensioners were dropped from tbe rolls. Next year he esti.na'es that tbe latt march will swallow up no less than 40.000, and the following year no les than 50,000, with no original claims to add. Tbe roll w hich now looks so formidable will grad ually melt awav. Lfthe enemies of the old veterans will be patient they w ill De delighted at their rapid exit to that bourne from which even the old soldier dous not return to destroy the ieace of the Deinoc-atie party. Unless the Buffalo strikers receive ad d itional strength they are hopelessly de feated. The success or defeat of the strike now depends upon the firemen. If tbey go out on a sympathetic strike the companies will Lave a very serious affair on their Lands. If the firemen decide cot to take a Laud in the matter, ihen it is a certain defeat for the switchmen. The long lines of freight trains being run from the Buffalo yards would indicate that tbe situ ition does not trouble the railroad oiiiciala. Fortunately there Las U-en no clash between strikers and sol diers, and bloodshed Las been averted. The efforts of Messrs. llolman, Dock ery and Savers to explain away the terri ble fact that the appropriations of the first session of the Democratic Congress are $44,000,000 in excess of the List Re publican Congress is not lees amusing than futile. It is a fact which cannot be explained away. Their platform, adopt ed at Chicago on June 21, nays that if the Iiemocratic party is intrusted with power it will oiler "relentless opposition to the Republican policy of profligate expendi ture." N'o amount of artifice, no juggle ry with figures, no contemptiole whine that past Republican Legislation forced tbein to do it can get away with the crys tal fact that "relentless opposition" on the part of Democrats to "profligate ex penditure" on the part of Republicans means just $41,000,000 more expenditure than the Republicans are accountable for. That fact has gone to the voters, acd they will know Low to deal with it Xnr Yori Tribune. Arms for the Enemy. From the Hrri-Lurg TeiegraU. The Democratic candidate for Vice Presi dent has been on the defensive from the day he was nominated, and his squirming in the hot water is something pitiful to see. His records an unbroken line of queer doings that continually need explanation, j ut a short time ago it waa shown that his name was enrolled among the Knights of the Golden Circle io Illinois, an organization composed of stay-at-home Democrats who declared the war for the Union a failure, and txiended aid and sympathy to the South in its unholy struggle. Then Mr. Stevenson was ihown to Lave ground down the miners in his employ to the starvation waes given the pau-r labor in Europe, and, when they n fused to work, locked them out until they came to terms. And here comes Tarker Gardner, a well known and highly respected farmer of Wa bash, Indiana.'.wiio rw-ided in Illinois dur ing tbe period of the drafts and relates in an aSdavit what he personally saw Stevenson do, as follows : "In the year 1 "'2 I was a resident of Wil son towiiship, lie Witt county, Illinois. At tu.it Lmt- 1 was acquainted with Adalai L. Stevenson, Democratic candidate lor Vice l'resiilent, he being a resident of Blooming ton. 111. I stood in my own yard in Wiison township early in the summer of tbe year aforesaid and saw Steven-on and Jamec Ew ixig. present partner of said Stevenson, come on burse-back otftbe prairie and went to ihe residence of Air. Ellsworth, neighbor, wkflrs h ol.l Ivn rivji varc on f. ,r WilA- worth and the other for Lis Son. Stevenson and Eing Lhcn went across to the south side of salt creek, where there was a camp of llie 'Knights of the Goldeu Circle,' and Ste venson there sold eighteen revolvers to members of the order. James Spratt. now living in the same county, informing me that he bought two revolvers himself, and that Stevenson was jddlinc the arms for tbe purpose of enabling men to resist the draft. Mr. Eilswor.h at the same lime in formed me tbat his object in purchasing the revolvers was to arm himself and son apainst the draft rtneers, and that Stevenson so uu derstoxl the purtose ior which they were to be used." Mr. Gardner makes affidavit to the above, and thus proves Stevenson to have been one of the meanest kind of IH-mocrat?, and there were some pretty mean ones. The old soldiers of this connty, and every man who was loyal in time of war, will remember with what apprehension was heard the news that the draft was being re sisted among the Democrats in the Western Statef and wherever Democrats were in con trol. It was a fire in the rear at a very critical period in the Nation's history, and required a firm band to suppress it. That Stevenson should encourage it was nothing singular. That his friends should try to d.ny it noar will not save him. lie and Cleveland are doomed. Fruits of Democratic Teaching. From tiie K. Y. I'ress. It may be a surprising statement to make that the Democratic party is largely re sponsible for both the llutTilo trouble and the Tennessee trouble, but nevertheless such is tbe tict And T! Pros is ready not only tj assert it but to prove it. Anarchy and lawlft-a outrage are foreign to the genius of American institutions. There is neither place nor excuse for them in a land where evry laboiing man, no matter how poor he miybe, l.asa vole and can appeal to the biiljt box. Bat Democratic party, even while it was opposing with all its strength Republican ba.lot reform and anti-bribery legislation, has been sowing the seels of an nhy by telling the people that capitalists corrupt the ballot box and poison its verdirt, in order to make and keep on the statute boils laws LUat unduly favor them by oppressing their leilow citizens. It has heid up and iaoeied "robbery"' a sv:eni of economic legislation based on the accepted truth that capital is as necessary to the work of a highly organized and diversified society as labor is, and the obvious principle of the justice of extraordinary insurance against extraordinary risk, such as the risk that foreign coniiietition would deprive our ountryof the benefits of industrial diversity. It matters not that the S-nate Finance sub committee's report, signed by Democrats as well as by U-puhhcans proves by facts and figures that nobody is robbed, ll matters not that university professors of political economy, like Edwin It A. Seligman of Columbia, prove that only consumers who are not producers, or who have nothing to sell, pay taxes in the last analysis, because tbey cannot add them to the price of what they have to sell, and that, therefi're, capital as distinguished from labor jvj tbe taxes at last The Democratic d-magogtis, in spite of all these teachings of fact and reason continue to teach and to encourage the anarchistic cry "capital is robbery." Democratic lerponnibility for the bone of the Tennessee contention, convict labor, is equally clear. Democrats upheld slavery, wbich mtde man a thing, and tbey have been reckoning laboring men as only things, part of a great bloodless machine, ever since. Their creed as to foreign commerce is "buy where you can buy cheapest, no matter if the cheapness does mean the degradation of labor and the destruction of ihe home," by sending women to work in iron foundries. as in Kcgiacd. Their creed in the Sonta Is the same old slavery and free trade creed in another shape. It is the creed that convict la!or is to be used as a source of money profit to the State, regardless of the injury d ne to honest labor the same old creed j that men w ho are down are but things for men who are up to make money out of. There stands the Democratic party, the enemy of tbe usefulness of capital and the enemy of the dignity of labor. Its firstborn child was slavery and its latest brat is anarchy. The Campaign Opened. THE REPUBLICANS START THE BATTLE AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Whitelaw Reld'a Strong Speech. Si-Bix.-FisLB, August IS The Republican national campaign opened in the State of Il linois at noon to-day. It did not open by a burst of partisan oratory in accordance with convention taethods of tbe past, but by tbe drop of a gnvel which at 12 o'clock called to order the Republican league of the state, and gsve the signal to the young voters of the state that the campaign of 1 Sin! was on. At 5.0o Whitelaw Ileid entered the ball arm in arm with Senator Co Horn. Upon his appearance, the delegates jumped into their chairs and cheered for several minutes. After three tremendous beers were given for Ueid, Senator Cullora rapped for order, and introduced Governor Filer, who said : "Iknow of no Utter place to open this campaign than right here iu Springfield, the meccaof Aiueri.an statesmanship here in this city, that was ouce the Lome of Abra ham Lincoln who helped organize the Re publican party, and ltd its first great victory. My friends, we have with us to-day our can didate for vice-president, a Republican from his early youth to the present hour. I know you feel honored by his presence and will be delighted to hear him. I therefore take great pleasure in introducing to you. Mr. Reid. who will now address you." Great applau- greeted the appearance of the vice presidential candidate, and amid fre quent bursts of applause, Mr. Reid spoke as follows : "This great assemblage of young Repub licans is most cheering. No patriot can fail to rejoice at your political a'tivity. Next to the service of God, the service of the peo ,;e that is to say the work of politics is the highest of human interests and the no blest of human occupations. ' Your league methods are imbued with the spirit of Republicanism. Its inspiration is love of country rather than love of office. It has tbe oin-mindedness of honest and generous youth ; it welcomes discussion, encourages a campaign of discussion and throws wideojn its doors and its plaliorm to these of opposite beliefs. "A practical friend says he would Ue to hear about some New York men of to-day and asks what about tbe big foar? Well, I will bring you their greetings united and aut'ior zed greeting', too the gre.tings of Hi.scock and Warner Miller, of Thomas C. Plait and of Chauncey Depew, of Morton and Horace Porter, and Cornelius Bliss and Sherman Rogers, and of our candidate Fas sett and of our chairmen, Brook field and Hackett; wilh the assurance that while we do not undervalue our opponents or under estimate the hard struggle before us, we be lieve we have an organization and a titna tion making our prospects for victory this fall as good as yours in Illinois. We have no quarrels, but healthy one, and no fac tions excepting in the eager reports of our friends, the enemy. Our organization is well advanced, and the column is moving. The enemy boast that, like themselves, we have laggard:. I dot know it and do not believe it ; but if wc have, the thing which will happen to them is the thing which has happened to laggards before. They will get left The Republican work in the state of New York is now so advanced that, wilh the earnest and enthusiastic continuation until November of the camjaign already be gun, it is beyond the power of anybody in the enemy's ranks or in our own to defeat iL " But I am not here to make a campaign speech ; neither am I here to utter one word against the gentlemen whom the opjosiug party presents for the popular suffrage. " We may well thank them for the clear ness end candor with which they have for once staled their precise position on the tariff. " They demand a tariff for revenue only, declare any other unconstitutional, aud pro claim iLls "the ftiniAmcntal principle of tL Democratic party.'' We are bound to take them at their word ; bnt how that party has changed. " To day the Democratic party, to use the current political slang "turned down'' Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson ai.d all its old political leaders, repudiates ali ke their constitutional interpretation, their po litical beliefs and their acts, announces in stead identically the same doctrine with Jef ferson Davis and the confederate states, and proosis that Grover Cleveland ia your name shall execute it. Ask the people if they want that "There is no conceivable doubt that the Democratic party in national conveniton as sembled, did want it Their committee re ported something else a mild suggestion that at least the tariff might do a little some thing to maintain American wages, but the convention promptly threw that aside, took the matter into its own hands, and framed the declaratson as you find it now in thtir platform a tariff for revenue. Ask the woikingmen to contrast European with American wages, and then tell yon what they tbink of that "The democrats declare the McKiuley bill not only unconstitutional, but "the cul minating atrocity of class legislation." Weil, you have seen how it works. In the establishment of ne w industries, in the new attraction for foreign capital, in the better demand for your products and even io the price of what you have to buy, you can measure the height and depth and breadth of its atrocity. " We have to thank the democratic con vention for equal candor in other imiort- cnt matters. They denounce the sham reci procity which our state department has been so busy in introducing. Our sham re ciprocity has been in effect but a short time, with some of ihe more important countries on'.v four months or less down to the end of the fiscal year on June 3o ; in most of them less than a year. Bat the increase in our ex ports to these countries iu the articles affect ed by our agreements down to June 3U was over ten million dollars. Ask the peo pie if they want to throw away a policy that in tbe first few months brings such results because the democratic convention chooses to call it a sham.. " Next to Washington's unconstitutional tariff, and this administration's sham reci procity, comes Salmon P. Chase's national bai.king system. That, too, must be abol ished, and so the democratic platform de clares for tbe renewal of Ihe wildest banking by the abolition of the long and wisely maintained tax on state bank issues. Such a proposal calls for the return of the good old time when every farmer had to consult a "Thompson's Bank Note Reporter' before lie dared to take a one-dollar bill for more than fifty cents. " B Jt I forbear. One might pursue such themes till he drifted into a campaign speech aud I have toid you I proposed to make no campaign speeches this year. "O.tr enemies have made our campaign for us. Hold them to their own deliberate ly avowed principles. The democrats want this country to have an immediate and an absolute change. Let us rise up and go for ward. They have been bl'uhd again by their own destruction, and are delivered in to our hands." Mr. It-id was followed by Governor gels by and James F. Burke, pnsident of the na tional tollege league, who made stirring speeches. Tbe convention then adjourned amid great applaose. Saved By Her Corsets. LttccASTXR. Pa, Aug. 21. Tbe value of corsets as bullet-proof shields was again strikingly illustrattd last night George Kitteras, a veteran of the bate war, and an attendant at the hospital, this city, and Mary Flowers, one of the cooks of that institution were strolling out from the city last night. Kilters suddenly stopped, put his arm about the girl's waist and told her if she didn't m irry him he would shoot her. She object ed to being proposed to with a pistol and so told bim. Tbe disappointed lover took out his revolver and fired. The bullet struck her belt, penetrated it, but was stopped by a corset steel. Kittens fled and tbe girl re turned to the hospital, wounded only in mind. i Be Sure You are Assessed. Every legal voter in Pennsylvania should charge himself with the discharge of two du ties betwnn now and September 8th next He should see that bis own name is on the Assessors' list and tbat any other names im properly there are erased. There is a copy ofthe assessment made in May banging out side each polling place in the State. Tbe Assessors willl sit at the polling places Sep tember 7 and 8 to make tbe final corrections to the assessment list Each voter should examine the list exposed in Lis own pre cinct at onoe to ascertain whether his own name is there, as well as to ascertain wheth er any voters have been improperly assessed from his own Louse or the houses of bis near neighbors with whom' he is acquainted. There is ample time in wbich to do this between now and the last day in which as sessments can be legally made, and to do it is a duty which every citizau owes to him self and to the country. Tbe present haw in regard to asessments was carefully framed to prevent fraudulent voting. Under its provisions an entire new assessment must be made every year, tbe assessors being requir ed to make a bouae-to-hotise visitation, put ting only the names of those they find to be actual residents upoa the assessment roll. As the names must be placed upon the list in the order of the street numbers and not in alphabetical order, every householder who will take a little trouble in the matter will learn for himself whether the assess ment has been carefully and honestly made or cot, and this he is bound .in all honesty to do. This is a Presidential year and every citi zen honestly entitled to vote should be on the assessment list and have his taxes paid in time to give bim a legal right to vote. What is more he should pay his own taxes snd own his own vote. As a preliminary to doing his full duty as a citizen he should make it a personal matter to know that be is properly assessed, which be is required to be sixty days before the election. The new ballot law involves great changes in the manner of voting, but the assessment and tax provisions of the law are the same as be fore, and are imperative upon all who want to vote. See to it that you are properly as sessed, and see to it at oux:r!iUahlj,Ma Tunes. A Democratic Tariff Difference. The New Y ork Sua alleges that Cleveland "was baffled and disappointed by the popu lar acceptance of the message (of 1387 ) as a challenge to a free trade battle. He tried to impose his own interpretation on the St. Louis Convention, and again on the Chicago Convention, but in each was defeated by the sentiment aroused among the masses of the party by the crusade which bad been preached in bis own name, and of which they were determined be should be the lead er." To which the Louisville Cvurier-Jrwrnd replies with a general "you bear us shout in'" air of conviction. "This is very absurd. Mr. Cleveland bus no place in the Democratic party except as the reeofruized head and-front of Tariff Re form. His popularity and power are the di rect emanation ofthe leadership of the poli cy of a tariff for revenue only. That omit ted, and there is nothing left of him, for a grtat majority of the party do not agree with his financial views or his views on the civil service." Mr. Waltcrsou continues wilh considera ble show of heat : " In his Madison Garden speech Mr. Cleve land plants himself squarely upon tha' plank. In his letter of acceptance he will emphasize his position. Anything else would be some thing worse than an act of felo de se ; it would be a criminal and cowardly aband onment of a great cause and a ureal party in the face of the enemv and at a moment of victory. Mr. Cleveland ia incapable of any thing ofthe kind. Go to, Mr. Dana, goto! You cannot beat the ticket and you cannot stop the onward trend of the legions of Tariff Reform of Free Trade, if you like that better and when we get the power, as please God we shall, we mean to knock McKinleyism as high as a kite, and make tariff for revenue oniv. such as was done afler Polk's election in IfU. Put it in your pips and smoke it, Mr. Dana. Tell these "protection Demo crats'' n you can rind them that their room is better than their company. They are not Democrats at ail. They are' Repub licans, and, if ihey be honest men, they will vote for Harrison. We don't want them." It must be evident to the unprejudiced ob server that both these distinguished and in fluential Democrats are in part right There is no doubt, as Mr. Wattcrson claims, that Mr. Cleveland is an enthusiastic free trader and that once elected, he would do all he could to further the adoption of that policy by the United States government. But it is undoubtedly true also, as Mr. Dana claims, that Mr. Cleveland shrinks from going before the people on a plank so unequivocally assailing American interests and industries asdoes the tariff plank of the Chicago platform, and won 1.1 much prefer to cloak the bald ugliness of his tariff convic tions until after the election. But the people are pretty well informed as to what Mr. Cleveland represents, and Mr. Watterson need have no fear that they will take him for anything but what be is tLe prophet of free trade. Sequel to the Mysterious Death of a Pretty Woman. Selis's Geove, Fa., Aug. H. The sequel to the mysterious poisoning of Mrs. Charles Swengel, of Paxtonville, the pretty young wife of Rev. J. 8. M. Swengel's son, which caused her death two weeks ago, was the ar rest yesterday of the husband, charged w ith the crime. As the dead woman was the daughter of Prothonotary J. C. Sehock, of this county, and the prisoner is the son of one of the best known evangelical preachers in this section, (he dramatic affair has cans ed grest excitement The young people were married two years ago. A week ago last Friday night Swengel and Lis wife drove to Middltburg. The wife complained of neuralgia and her husband purchased some morphine, alto two grains of strych nine, from Druggist J. Y. Schindel. The wife the next morning said she would take some morphine for her illness. She got strychnine instead and died. Dr. Leffmann of Philadelphia examined the stomach aud taid it was a case of strychnine fioisoning. The Coroner's jury found that the husband had maliciously placed the poison within his wife's reach, and upon the strength of that be is now in jail. Young Swengel denies the poisoning, and says be got the strychnine to kill a weasel He gave himself np quietly yesterday. No one even ventures to suggest a motive that might have led to the crime. Farmer Train Robbers. Wichita, Kas., Aug. 2J. The Su Louis it San Francisco railroad passencer train which left here at 10:30 Saturday night was held up and the Welis-Fargo express car robbed by fonr masked men near Augusta, Butler county, about midnight, and before 9 o'clock Sunday morning the outlaws were captured w ith a part of their booty." As the train slowed up at the Santa Fe crossing. about a mile east of Augusta, two masktd men mounted the locomotive from either side, and, covering tbe engineer and fireman with guns, ordered them to stop tbe train. The outlaws did not attempt to rob the passengers, and the latter kuew nothing of the robbery until ail was over. The amount of money secured cannt be ascertained, hut il will probably not exceed $3,0u0. The robbery was committed by four farmers living in the vicinity of Douglass, Butler county, and, it seems, was expected. Sher iff Nipp, of Cowley county, was informed that such a scheme was on foot by the fifth member of the gang early in the Week, and bad a posse in waiting. As soon as be got wind of the hold-up be pounced upjn the outlaws. Dynamite In the Crave. Baisroi, Tenn., August 19. At Wise Court House a most revolting outrage has been perpetrated. Racently Ira Mullins, a des perate moonshiner, with his whole family. was murdered near R jund Gap. The bodies were buried near ise. Yesterday a relative coine to the eraves fonnd that someone bad dug a bole near them, inserted a dynamite cartridge and blown the bodies out of the ground. They were found scattered in all directions. There is no clue to the criminals. Ili-hcct cf all in Leavening rower. -Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOLUTELY PURS A Bloody Battle. The trouble over the employment of con victs at coal mines under the lease system In Tennessee are coming thkk and fast and culminated in a pitched battle at Oliver Springs Mines Tuesday ruon.ing, when sev eral men were killed and wounded. A bloody fight seems inevitable also at Coal Creek. About tK free miners were observed by bead warden Farris approaching the stock ade. They marched iu a solid body, and the leader was heard to exclaim, "close up boys, and let's take 'era." The warden yelled back, "come and get us if you can." Then the miners opened a hot fusilade from two sides, and firing continued for some time, the miners advancing all the time. The guards, entrenched behind the stockades, rfplied with a galling fire, and soon two or three of the miners were seen fall and one guard was wounded. Tbe min ers hoisted a flag of truce and asked permis sion to carry off their wounded. This ws granted, and three wounded men were re moved and the miners sullenly withdrew to cover and prepared for a second attack. The news of the skirmish was flashed all over the state, the first official confirmation being a dispatch from the adjutant general to Colonel Cator Woolford, directing him to order out the Third Regiment of the Ten nessee National Guard and report wilh all available men at once at Oliver's Springs. The troubles reached a .crisis Thursday, U,(.iw) miners making an attack in force upon the camp of state troops at the Coal Creek stockade. Tbe wires around Coal Creek were cut early in the day, but it is reported that three assaults Were made upon the fort, each of which was repulsed with loss of life on both sides. I a one of these attacks several of the miner's leaders were captured, and a bulletin says tbat during a truce, in which overtures were made for tbe release of three prisoners, Captain Ander son, the commander of the troops, fell into tbe hands of the mob. The soldiers stuca to their posts. Tennessee's troops were victorious in their campaign as"118' 'be main body of striking miners Friday. They won at every point They had lost a part of the Fort Andeson stockade the previous day by putting 190 soldiers against 3oJ charging miners. Twelve miners were killed in that battle. Near Ginton on Thursday night, General Carnes' forces were attacked from ambush. Four miners certainly were killed there, and four soldiers. After the Coal Creek rioters had surrender ed to General Carnes, Friday morning, strik ers attacked his forces between Coal Creek and Camp Anderson. Three miners are re ported killed, and so were John Walthall and Bosh Givens, sSrldiers. Camp Anderson was subsequently captur ed and the strikers surrendered Captain An derson. Hostilities broke out 'afresh in Tennessee Saturday. A thousand striking miners, hiding in the mountains whither they bad Med when General. Onus captured Fort Anderson, uear Coal Creek, attacked Cap tain Roche's troops as they were coming down the mountaiu. It is known that two miners were killed in the skirmish. None of Roche's men were injured. Friday's battle, before the capture of Fort Anderson, turn out to have been more dead ly than was at first reported. Fourteen men were certainly killed (10 of them miners), and many wounded. Was a Walk-Over for Slpe. Watkesihro, Ta., Ang. 19. The Demo crats of the Twenty-fourth Congressional district, composed of Green, Washington, Fayette and part of Allegheny county, to day nominated W. A. Sipe, an Allegheny City lawyer, for Congress lor the unexpired term of Craig, deceased, and for the full term following. Fayette county presented Mr. Harrigan's name, but he only received 15 of the 17 votes. Killed for a Burglar. Ruimoxn, Va., Aug. 0. Mrs. Lizzie- Hicks, a widow, living in the suburbs of the city, shot and killed her 1C year-old daughter, a beautiful girl, under painful cir cumstances last night. The vicinity has been terrorized by burglars, and the widow kept a loadisi revolver. She heard a noise and seized the pistol and crept to the back window to listen. While there she heard a slight step behind her, and turning quickly and greatly excited, saw a figure standing close beside her. She fired, and au awful scream followed as her daughter Carrie cried: " '!i, mamrr a, you've killed roe." She til in her mother's arms and died. When the mother ascertained that her daughter was dead she ttiernpted to kill herself A Retaliation Policy. Washisotus ,Aug. 21. Yesterday Presi dent Harrison issue 1 a proclamation direct ing that from and after September 1, 1-SJ2, until further notice, a toll of 20 cents per ton he levied, collected aud paid on all freight of whatever kind or description passing through the St Mary's Falls Canal in transit to any port ofthe Dominion of Canada, whether c.rried in vessels of the United Slates or of other nations. Included in the aftermath of this Canadian retaliation proclamation is a statement that this course hss been under careful advise ment since before the adjournment of Con gress. Af:er the act of July 2, authorizing, retails ion, tad goce through both houses without opposition, it was stated that the members of the Foreign Affairs Committees, who reported the bill, had done so at the personal request of tbe President. A Broom Stopped an Elopement. NoBBisTowif, Pa., Aug. 13. Hearing tbat her youthful son intended to elope yester day with a married woman from Manayunk Mrs. .Butler, who lives in the vicinity of Elm and Jacoby streets, laid in wait for the groom prospective where he was to have vjel his intended bride. The angry mother chased the ill-fated young man wilh a broom fbr two squares and she made one les mar riage ceremony in Camden yesterday. Ex Senator Spooner Chosen for Governor. Mit-WACKis. Aug. 17. At the Republican State Convention here to-day ex-Senator Spooner was chosen for Governor by accla mation and John C. Koch, of Milwaukee, for Lieutenant Governor. Secretary Edge Stricken. Habrisbibo, Pa., Aug. IS. Thomas J. Edge, secretary of the State Board of Agri culture, was found in an unconscious condi tion at tbe department to-day. He soon rallied under medical treatment, and was much better to-night He suffered from a ruth of blood to the brain and his condition was regarded as serious. Is Protection a Fraud ? No one familiar wilh the history ofthe steel and iron industries in the United States of the protection secured to wages and of the pressure the tariff brought to bear on consumers Io use the borne product, can doubt that tbe "war tariff" has wrought this prosperity. For instance, where there was one person employed in those lines in this country thir ty years ago there are now ten. Again, the output of iron and steel in Al legheny county, Pa., in IS74 was 23,!U tons. Iu IS91 it was 1,512,922 tons nearly sixty, five times as much. Protection did ii ! Mite waer Railroaders Strike. The switchmen employed on the New York, Lake Erie arid Wr stun, the la-high Valley or Beading, and the Buffalo Creek railroads are on a strike at Buffalo. The ob ject is virtually to ebtain higher wages, al though the question often hour a day is in volved, and of ceoiSiity becomes an auxiliba ry to the wage question. Freight trains and passenger trains have been trown from ihe tratks, switchmen's bouses have been burned, coal trains have been started down the immense trestle ofthe Lehigh and Reading roads and have been crushed at the bottom of the incline into a twisted and broken mass, and for two nights tbe eastern sky has been blood-red with the glare of incendiary fires, aud hundreds of freight and refrigerator cars have been de stroyed by the torch ofthe firebug. Over 150 cars filled with merchandise have been burned, entailing a loss of not less thaa $150,000, and a quarter of a million dollars worth of property is spoiling in the thousand or more cars which are lying on the tracks. As the situation at Buffalo now stands there may be a general strike, involving the engineers, firemen, conductors, and train men on the I-chigh, Erie, Central, West Shore, I-ake Shore, and Nickle Tlate. ex tending from New York to Chicago, ordered by the strikers' leaders. Governor Flower has ordered altogether SjO of ihe state mili tia to Buffalo in anticipation of trouble. The companies refuse to submit to aibitration. It is said that, before yielding this light, the leaders will extend the strike westward to Chicago and eastward to New York, ulti mately calling out, perhaps, not only switch men, but fireman and trainmen. Good Bread. If you want good old-fashioned bna 1 like mother used to bake, buy the Cinderella Range. It's large, high ovens insures good baking and roasting. Sold by James E. Hol dertauru, Somerset, Pa. An Ohio Farmer Who Was Bitten by Another Will Lose His Lire. Ijha, O., August IS. County Commis sioner William Brice, who was bitten in a recent fight with an angry farmer, is dying wilh blood poisoning. His thumb was amputated, but the poison has swollen his body up to enormous pro portions. The fight occurred over bad roads. Exodus From Homestead. HoniTAr, Pa Aug. 1:. The sureit sign ofthe death ofthe strike is the exodus ofthe locked out men. They are leaving Homestead in large numbers to seek em ployment elsewhere. The families of 10 non-union workmen are now quartered in Uie company's houses, tuber men v. ill come out of the mill to live as ioonastLe houses are built. Nancy Hanks is Queen. CiiKAio, 111., Aug. 17. Maul S. is r.o longer queen of the trotting turf. The proud position which the daiu-ht-.r cf II ir!d has held so long hss been wrested from her, and Nancy Hanks reigr.s tn her s'eal. This afternoon, at Washinrrtoa Pa.k. in the presence of lO.ft.K) Sectators, P.udd IKb:e drove his beautiful mare to beat her record of 2 00. She not only beat her own record, bnt lowered the world's trotting record from 2.0S-, the time of Main! S., to 2.0!. Time or Temper. No time or temper wasted when you use the Cinderella Range. Its large and Lih oven insures perfect baking and roasting sold and guaranteed by Jauirs Ii. Hoiiler baum, Sommerset P a.. Didn't Talk for Eleven Years. Hatfixlp, Pa., Aug H. Mrs. Tillie Erncy who has just died at her sister's home at this plae, had not uttered a sound fcr eleven years. Twelve years ago she w is taken to the Norristown Insane Hospital and a year later, without apparent cause or reason, she suddenly stopped talking. No amount of persuasion conld induce her tosjcak a syila bie, although the doctors said she was able to do so, and for ail those years she was as siknt as a sphinx. I have now and will have for one mon'.li hereafter a full lot of Fine Ground Bone Meal, Dissolved Animal lk-:.e and Boce Phosphates for fail crops. A. C. Davis. A New Feature Injecteu Into tho Evangelical Church War. Reai-iso, Pa.. Aug. if. A new feature, that of demanding damages, has been in troduced in the Evangelical Church war. A bill in equity has been filed by the Bowruau fastion, asking that Rjf. Iwac Hess be allowed possession of the pulpit of the Mohnsville Church, and p:.iy i::g that liev. B. D. Albright, the ami Bowoianile, be ousted. The Bjwmanites alsociairu damages for bciuf deprived of religiou, purposes. MadoA Stranze 'will. DovLEsTowir, Ta., Aug. IS. A unique will has been admitted to probate. It is a leaf torn from a. "Gentleman's Letter Writer" which gives various forms of wills. Thomas Curly, of Hilltown, owned the book and wishing to leave his property to his wife merely signel his naino without any date to the form Leaded. "Property Left to his Wife Only." Tiie widow certified t.i the signsture atid she will get all the estate. Look Here Would inform the progressive farmers of Somerset County that I am agabi in the Held with a full line of Fertilizers, and my self or my agent wiil call to see you to Sviiut your oHers for tbe coming season. My agents this season are S. B. Yoder, Pugh. Pa., Joseph Eeiman, Stanton's Mills, Pa., W. H. I-amlis, Meyersdale, Pa., Solomon Davis, Norma'ville, Pa., and Teter Fink, Somerset, Pa., who is also delivering and shipping agent at Somerset, where goods will be kept in stock throughout the season. I would thank all for their most liheral patronage during past seasons, and hope all will favor myself or my sgents with your orders for both spring and fall crops. Should we miss seeing yon, just drop ns a line early and you will have our very Lest attention. Ou behalf of the Susquehanna Fertilizer Co., A. J. Ko-tEK, Guern s cy, Ta. Reunion of Old Sailors And Soldiers. Two coming important events of interest to sailon and soldiers of the late war wiil be tbe Reunion ofthe Naval Veterans at Balti more, September 15th to 10th, and the Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Washington, commencing September 20lb, immediately after the Sailors Reunion. Interest in the reunion will be heightened by the presence of the White Squadron in tbe harbor of Baltimore. Tbe O. A. It E icampment will be the occasion of the greatest military assemblage in Washington since the Grand Review of 13tT following the fall of Richmond. For both of these events the Baltimore and, Ohio Railroad will ssll tickets at greatly reduced rales, and will grant most liberal conces sions in the way of stopover privileges. Tickets will be sold from September 11th to 2-th inclusive, valid lor return journey nn'U October Mth, and will bjgojd to stop off, going or returning, at all stations between Cumberland and Baltimore a region renderel familiir to all veterans by the constant warfare along tbe Potomac. For more detailed information as to time of trains, rales, and sleeping car accom modations, apply to nearest B. &. O. Agent SPECIAL IK DUCEHEftTS for buyers daririf, ihe months of July and August, in every DEPARTMENT. Iu Black and Colored Silk,, India .Silks, Eiark and Colored C'acbniores. Black and Colored ferges, Bedford Cords, Camel Hair Stripes, I'ress Goods of all kinds at great reduction. Domestic Department. In our Domestic Department we will offer Outing Cloths, Cbaliiea, Salines, Fercals, Ginghams, Calicoes, hirt ings, etc., at special low prices. WHITE GOODS Department. We will offer our entire line of La dies' and Childrens' Flouncing", Hamburg Edgings, Laces, Table Lin ens, Towels, Bed Spreads, Ijidics' Muslin Underwear, etc., at prices that will astotish you. A nice line of Chenille Table Covers, Chenille Portiere, Lace Curtains, Scrims, Table Oil Cloths, Stair Oil Cloths, to be closed out in this sale. NOTION Department. We hwe a nice line of Dress Trim mings, Eibbons, Kuchintjs, Corset., Stocking, Buttons, etc., at reJiii-ed prices. Special low prices on rarasobj and ticnlleruans' Furnishing tiood-i. A nice lot of Kemn.int;? of Dress Goods, Ginghams and quite a variety of all kinds cf EemnauLs cheap. July anl Atrjruit tain;; tlio dull months we Dropo to olTcr Special Inducements by iriviti our friends and patrons tlte benefit ol" buying troudj at reduced price?. PARKER & PABKER. C ARIV30 The Celebrated English Hack ney StalHon- PADMft is 'o !"-M'y the f.M ',!nr-!.-.l UAfllVlU lli' tait Iirv-ever imprr.tJ in to mis co;::ttry EXPORT CERTIFICATE. Hackney Horse Society- This is to eenify tliat the transfer of the t:ii!inn ht r-in:ift.-f t--er!lei h teii I't'LY KK'ils TEKKI" iii the Vuuksof '.be Society, via: NAMK-tAHMC. FOALED ! vu. O 1 1 Buy or Brown. BRKKliMl-l Tuomas Cook, Tiiiveudaie, Y..rk-r.;re. SIKh-HI.U'K At'STKR. Tran-u r fr..Ti Thrciii-i 'ok to oiittraltL Ilru., J;.nc-vf:l ivon-i;:. t". r A. KESKY K. Kl'tthX. Secretary, of Iliu'W'.K-y aWil Loot ."Oc.cty. Cilice: 11, CLiSK'ii St., I.'Hi'loii, W. BLACK AUSTER, 2S' ter Eiuiie Hrse 6tww ia piniin won th? pri at t).e R-v.il Mun UnnlVlU ciientrr U'i Uverp.l JKrx: alio iu Iws, w utu he was ou.y two ytars old, ydeen Bess, rtiinef.. woier. f-ti mare Nnparit'l nhi UivJ 100 miih:i htM to a rnrt. ri ;r-:r l j ti i : I f in 1 ho-ir am 1 r, afit-T Vt';'t:n M1 r.i;:r,::- i;t tr; t.-il 4 :rii-" witbin !ir hour anl tir.lhi-i liiv V tni'n !i y Iiotirs, 5. riinnti-s V7 tot .n i-. atol hovreti notympunus of ir in o : ate a !t i! im- l!::trly t:rU -Z J.LI t X-.iK Lat;Ii &'.--r V. I.Lu sue vt aikcvl 1 iait$ tu whtriv "he vtts kcj t. Tbe IVkny Hursrs ar v"-y -emariiaVie IVr tlie.r (rculieiiv?, pw1 aad erlura:ut Ca r-rr I now cwnoil ljr lh n. A. !T IlliVj iorlrutta. if Somerset. Pa., and wiil I.- for the axiu unuer the cure auJ. clnrge of the miivrsigiH.il. ICiioih PIoiikIi, SOMEE.-ET, r-A. PkJl PIC-NIC GOODS. Fio-nic Flates, per dozen, Te Fic-nie Mu.tr?, Flani-Vd Tin. -ric. Fie-nic Knives and Forks. Sc. Fic-nic Spoons, per dozen, 10c. Fic-nic Folding Cups, 9c Fic-nic Lemon Squeezers. 9c. Fic-nic Baskets, 2oc NATHAN'S, FARM FOR SALE. The un.lrie!l hv vnhte firm fir sale, Riltiiiie fttMMii ilirve mi'e west of Kkcr-TiDe, on Ihe pnhlie r..l le.iii,r fr.no Vomer--! to'.Mt l-iea.'siiit, l,..e.,utl1ii:ix 'i4 . re.. of w hi h liw arre. re ceieU, l;u. e nnril imi trvj. Ihe cieare.1 lun.i i- tn a b-x1 nte of euiiiTati.m covered with hue roi of urna; umber uouk.'i oa the Un-1 tofy for the farm, with hrn an-i houw, a'M will K'H the wnie at tn dollars -r aere. Fur further infucjuatiua eail on or rite to W. H. MIKH, J. H. I 111-sumerst-t, fa. - sale Retailer Fifth Aveiui?, Guaranteed all Solid Leather, i : PLAIN TOE. PATENT TIP. SPRING KEEL HEEL. ALL WIDTHS. ALL SIZES. ALL STYLES. INDIES' Send $1.00 for a p:ur. trivintj size, width and .tle f they don't more than .'atUtV yon, scud them lack at oi.r c. ' ,:' CAMPBELL & DICK, ! 81-83-85-87-&-89 5th Ave., Pittsbur? ! THE NEW WHITE FRONT BUILDING!; No. 113 Clinton St., Johnstown,?; "GHISS OLD STAND, NOW QUIXNS. LEADING STORE OF THE CITyi TO BUY YOUR BEY GOOIB, CARFETS, LIMEIJiB, FANCY GCCS, With econoni and profit to the Customer. Come Jas. n.5 Jl;T UKiT.IVF.n Honch & ALL STEF.L FltAUE SPRING-TOOTH HARROW wLicH Is a wonderful ini-ri.ve:i. m iu SPRING-TOOTH HARROWS. Teeth in:.t!y a-jtisf. .1 hy tmlv !"-eiiiii one nut. The be.-t TOOTH HOLDER Kver Invert?.-!. Tit t.-vTi is l.r'.l in r.:;;..n t,v a Rilrh.-f w'th wV. h It r w ,' e.1 &. to wear fr-.m l.i t- IS in, r.rrtiie ).itir ..f th, t.-.rh. whi.li is (..-, ,r r;rt ;..,:, I oU.e-i fVm any .r:, lwih W.w ;.m-;.. arid examine itiis Harrow, JAMES B. HOLDERBAUI PAUL. A. SCHELL. Ve have in stock and sell very low, Kitchen ware and f u r.'-'.' of all kinds. MILK FAILS, MILK CAN'.-, ?IIIITIXC, ard HAULiNG A STEP I.AM'L'IiS, CLOTHES WHACKS, WASHING .MA CHINES, TCDS, WRINGERS. WASH BOARDS. ICE CREAM FREEZERS. SCREEN DOORS. SCREEN WINDOWS. IRON. WOOD and RUCKET PUMPS. IRON FIFE. VALVES and FIT TINGS, and SEW ER FIFE. c Live al.-o put in a uieo stock of P V, i'. O'Ai. Viral sh o. Su': Colors of heit make. Ready mixed paint from one pint o ju-i receivcu a carloa-1 ot Praia i ;io very cheap for firm age Paul A. Schell, SOMERSET, PA. E- Acrer.t fjr Dorne?tie Sewing Machines OUR MAMMOTH STORE! Havin? filled the lanje l.tiildin; formerly occupied ly ' ' Morrell & Co., with a larrc ttock of ' ; Gren era! iVJerch a n cl i we rtvpo:tfuIly call the attention of Somerset Countv l.nver t- t ; Our DRY GOODS and NOTION DEPARTMENT is iVd oi .7 1 . .1 I. . - . - . w y . 4 j he late styles of Staple and Fancv 'ETS, MATTINGS. CLOTHING". LINERY GOODS, HATS,' GROCERIES, etc. are full end c :,-' Wilh our increased facilities for handling goods, we at e L'.'y i ' pared to meet the wants of the general public, with event! :! '- - l ''; torn prices " : PENH TRAFIC CO., LIMITED,; Lower End of Washington t., JOHNSTOWN, P- When in JOHNSTOWN, don't fail to call at GEO. K. KLINE'S JXEW STORE, 2-11 Main St., hre will bj fo:ial a Complete Stock of Dry Goods, Ladies' in dents' Farm-diiuis and raps. All the Newest' thinsrs in Dress G -including Silks, Serge?, Henriettas Camels Hair, Redford Cord-, tt'-":' en, Crepes and all other Novelties in the Dress Goods line. 1 complete line of Staple Goods, such as Mucins, S!:eetiit'. Tut '-1 ens, Crashes, Ac. Our Line of Ladi.-s' Wrars, inchd'-s J.ici-;-Caj.cs and New Markets ofthe latest St.rin Stvles OUR MOTTO : BcA Goods, Latest Styles and Lowest Y:' ii e an ds cc ns GEO. KLIjSTE. DOlHiOIvi SlM.r AT $1.00 A PAIR. Holderbaum, A CAT. LOAD OF THE. Drumg'old an - .11,1 ,UL. 1 - Goods; while oi:r Ere- 'f n FOOTWTii! ?r imv YX.. .V i t .i t'.- " 1:1 a .- ! ' I . t
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