t - I nieSomersetJIeraW: PWAED &CVLU Editor and Proprietor. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. Election, Tuesday, Nov. 13th. STATE- Kor Onvprnor Iar,il H. Hasting. Tor Untenant GoTemor-Waller Lyon. For Auditor Genera! Amos H. Mylin. Kor Secretary of Interna Affairs James W. Latta. For Congressman at-Laree Calasb A. Grow and George F. Huff. COUNTY. Stat Sex t : X. B. CritcbSeld, Jenner Township. habct to tie doc:siin of the Ii-trict CorJer- Asxhlt : Vm. Hmry Miiler, yieniaboning Ttrp. Jeremiah Manrer, Stoyuwn Borough, Jl'ET CoilJflSMOSEE; Sarun-1 J. Ilowser, Milford Townsliip. William pall, Miiford IWnabip. t;i-E credit l.ere credit is due. Kor once Mr. Cleveland diJn't dig bait and goa Csiiinon Decoration Day. Last week Le attends iLe services at Arlington and listened decorously. Returns from the Washington county Ilepnl.h-an primaries held Saturday show that E. F. Atchison has carried the county over ex-Assemblyman Brit Hart f,jr Congress by a larji majority. I'vis Sam burned the old carpet in the PLiiaCeiphia mint and took oat of the ashes JJO in pure gold. He u.-'ed 70 to buy a new carpet. Your ancle is about as clse trader as they make. O.lonel Thomas 11. .Searight "got it in the n?ck" at the Detnoiratic primaries in Fayette county Saturday. The Colonel was a candidate fr nomination for Puite Senator. Tlie returns indicate that be has carried less tUaa ae-third of the jireciact if the cointy. rESiiEs destroying the industries of the North the South is pressing war claims against the government to the amount of '(01( 0,000. The South be lieves in stopping the pensions of Union soldiers fn order to pay these claims, and it receives the support of Northern lem ocrats in the enterprise. H.'tt -horrified Hoke Smith and his Southern friends must have felt the oth er day when Senator Dan Voorhees jumped up and said he wanted all I'nion soldiers' pensions rrised to fli per month. Perhaps they accounted for the milk in the cocoa-nut by remembering that another election is fast approaching. Hari ek llniy, a free trade, Mug wump adorer of (irover Cleveland, edit ed by Carl Schurz, in ita last issue, after reviewing the imbecile work of this Ad ministration, gives vent to its disgust as follows : " The Iemocratic party has had its tri al and has failed. It has been p'aced in control of the Federal Government and it ban demonstrated its incapacity to car ry out ita plexites." Oi k State campaign is not yet a week ' old and it is already in evidence that we will soon have occasion for the services of tlie "fool-killer." Some scatter-brained fellow has already nominated Genera! Hastings for President in IS'.;, on the hypothesis that he will be alinrt unani mously elected Governor in November, and that the antagonism between the friends of McKinley, Harrison and Reed w ill preclude the nomination of either and the popular Pennsylvanian w ill ea sily walk away with the prize. Of Gen eral Hasting'g election this fall by an overwhelming majority there exUts no doubt, but it is well enough to remember the recipe for cooking a hare u First catch your hare." Let us first elect Has tings Governor, and then, two years hence, we can look after the Presidency Oi b Democratic friends are having a halcyon time endeavoring to get a candi date for Governor to stand up and take his punishment from Hastings. Within the coming four weeks the victim mast be se'ected, and yet not a single promi nent Democrat in the State so far has announced " Here am I." It looks as if the scapegoat, on whose back will be picked the sins of the Democracy, will have to be selected by lot. Volunteers cannot be had and in the distracted con dition of the party a promised bounty is not "a sure thing." We observe that our neighbors of Westmoreland county are casting a w istful eye on the "barl" of Coxey's friend, "Joe Sibley." But then Sibley has been there before and knows how it is. and more, he didn't accumu late his ducats by giving something for nothing, and Coxey's hobos cannot vote in Pennsylvania. I.?t us see; there is the gentleman who thought he was run ning against Galusha A. Grow for Con gressman at-large. How would he do? One hundred and eighty thousand ma jority is only a trifle to overcome. Tin is the way Henry Walters on, the eloquent Democratic leader of Kentucky and editor of the Louisville (VinVr Jmtr itit, sizes up the situation : "All the Conner J-'uruaV dark fore bodings with respect to tariff legislation have come to pass. The situation could not be worse, the outlook darker, the act with whose passage we are threaten ed more disreputable. Action of some sort is urgent. His the President the su preme courage to retire the Administra tion from all responsibility and concern as to the measure before the Senate by eending a message to Canereas denounc ing the while proceeding, calling the I lemwrttic masse to his side and hav ing the effect to stampede and adj3urn the entire rotten Rump concern ? Nothing could be lost by such a pro ceeding. As matters are going, and, in any event, Demoratic hopes are battled, Ieinoeratic pledges stultified. Democrat ic prospects blighted. Hitter another two ears of the McKinley tariff, pure and simple, and another appeal to the people upon the old line fair and square, w ith everybody forced to toe the mark, or to go over to the enemy, or to take to the woods. If we lose, we should at least go down with our flag Hying, our honor intact; whereas victory, undtr present conditions, can only be purchased by the degradation of all things great and noble in oar national life. " Kesides, it is not victory, bat defeat, that stares ns in the face." While on Wednesday last tb.3 graves of the ded aoldiers of the Union were being strewn w ith flowers throughout the loyal states, tlw er-rebels were dedi caticg a monument La Richmond to the dead soldiers of the Confederacy- The WEDNESDAY June 6. 14. city was tiled with visitors and with en thusiawn. The Governor of Virginia with his staff. General Fitzhugh Lee, rl Itamnton and other distinguish ed citizens of the South, were present to add dignity to the occasion, ine princi pal speech of the day was made by Rev. R. C. Cave and was rapturously applaud ed Dy his hearer. Among the gems of the oration we find the following : " I do not forget," he said, "that a Herod was crowned and a Christ cruci fied, and instead of accepting the defeat of the South as a divine verdict against her I regard it as but another instance of Truth on the smtiold and Wrong on the throne," Tiemendons ajpiaue.J From this ascription to the Lost Cause the reverend orator proceeded to contrast the principles and types of civilization which contended on southern field. On the one side were arrayed "the cava liers," men of '"honor," despising moral littleness," possessing "a lofty regard for plighted faith," and "an unfaltering loy alty to constitutional government Ibis was the southern side. On the other were the exponents of the "spirit of Pu ritanism," "characterized by the Pharisa ism that worships itself," and that "from the time of Oliver Crumwell to the time of Abraham Lincoln has never hesitated to trample opon the rights of others in order to effect its own ends." Thus re spectively represented in council and in battle not the North but "the South was in the right;" "the men who took cp arms in her defense were patriots who bad even better reason for what they did than the men who fought at Concord, Lexington and Bur ker Hill." and "her coercion, whatever g-xI may have result ed from it or may hereafter result from it was an outrage on liberty." Ap plause. The speaker s reason for this conviction was that the onion "existed onlv in name;" its "essential principles had been overthrown and trampled in the dust" before the South stood up "w insist npon her rights." Much allowance, of course, can be made for the utterances of a w hipped bully m Jm imagined before his everthrow that he was immeasurably the superior of his adversary, but when a "Reverend" gen tleman, a professed follower of the gen tle Nazarine, after a lapse of more than thirty years, will mouth such bitter and foolish babble for the apparent purpose of kindling afreh the emWrs of past an imosities, and these ntterauees are receiv ed with rapturous applause by the for mer participants in the Rebellion and their descendants, it gives the lie to tne declaration so frequently heard in Con gress and on the hustings from the lips of Southern men that they accept the results of the war and rejoice in the pres ervation of the Union. It forces also on the minds of Northern men and L mon ies the fact that the representatives of the people who listen to and cheer such sentiments now control the Government and give laws to the people of the entire country, a very large proportion or wnoin are thus bitterly assailed and traduced. The snake of Southern treason was only scotched, not killed, if these utterances trnifv nresent sentiment in that portion nf the states, and will aeain raise its ven omous head when fitting occasion offers. We simnlvcall attention to this affair as a portion of the current history of the times containing ample notice of things yet to come. Is the interest of science, and with no hick of consideration for "one of our most remarkable men," we suggest that Governor Davis Hector Waite, of Colora do, has a duty to perform. He ought to impanel a jury of medical men, alienists, psychologists, and cerebrologisls, and to have his head opened and his works ex amined. He can't keep on winding him self up every day with such a buzz and rattle. This terrible whirring is ominous. The old boy ought to get himself repair ed at once. He has been striking twen ty-five at 1 o'clock for more than a year. Something w ill snap soon. That would le a blow to the Governor. What if he should go sane? Suu. The Arkansas Populist State Commit tee has given orders that deleg.it is to the State Convention at Little Rock next Ju ly shall make their way thither on foot on horseback, and ia wagons. This will be a sort of imitation of Coxeyism, and it will also spare the fopulists the indig nity of having to ride cn those pestifer ons creations of plutocracy, the railroads, We infer that the Arkansas railroads are not distributing free passes to Populist patriots this season. If the Arkansas Populists wonld apply to transportation their own ingenious financial ideas, they would not walk or ride or drive to Little Rock. They would press a button on the port side of their jeans and at once be speJ on the sightless couriers of the air and dumped on the slejis of the conven tion hail. Fiat transportation is the thing. V. . Sin. CLOSED FOR LACK OF FUEL. From il.e Chii 6go later Ocean. A great many factories have closed since G rover Cleveland was elected Pres ident of the United States, the reason b.'ing a lack cf orders. Manufacturers d) not pile up large stocks of goods trust ing to luck to be able to sell them at a profit. If sales fall off production must also. Millions of laborers have been thrown out of employment during this administration as the result of the de cline if not absolute stoppage of demand. And now comts a new cause of enforced idleness. The industrial establishmenta of the country are beginning to experi ence a ditli.-ulty hitherto unheard of. The locked doers of workshops are cow cjuiuieueing to bear this inscription : "Ciosed f jr Lack of Fuel." The novel and distressing sjectacle is presented of one class of labor conspir ing to take the bread out of the mouths of another class. A few miners who as class were enj lying special immunity from the hard times Lave undertaken, by resort to crime, to produce a general coal famine. As yet the effect of this conspiracy has not been generally per ceptible in the domestic needs of fuel, although no doubt the hardship in this regard has been severe in many house holds. Tbe poor man in coal, as in food, lives from hand to mouth, as the phrase is, buying his coal in small quantities, partly because he has not the money to do otherwise, and in large cities partly because he lacks storage room. This form of distress has not become sutlicient ly stringent and general to appear on th? surface. Fortunately the summer ia at hand, this being the last day of spring, and if need be cooking can be greatly simplified. Bat fuel for thegeneration of power used in running machinery is un affected by the seasons. The thermome ter cuts no figure in the case. If this con spiracy, for it is not a strike in tbe ordi nary sense of the term, is not broken up soon the calamity will be absolutely ap palling. Upon the face of things it would ap pear that industrial America is house divided against itself, and that the work ingtnan of this country might well say : "Mine enemies are they of nine own household." But as a matter of fact the perpetrators of these crimes are few aliens who have been brought over here from the very 6cnm of Slavonic F.urope in violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the law against importing labor. They re in every sense aliens, and abhorrent in their methods to the instincts of our people. The great bulk of our foreign born population has come from I re lan d Germany, and the Scandinavian count ries of the North. These open perpetra tors of crime come torn downtrodden Hungary or despotic Russia. To them liberty is a kind of intoxication. They represent the jimjams of centaries of tyr anny, thrown off by the magic of immi gration. It would be crnelly unjust to both the Laboring class as a whole ana our foreign-born citizens to see in these rabid coal miners the representatives of anybody except themselves. There is only one way, apparently, to teach theee malefactor to respect the laws of the land and the rights of oth ers, and that is to be swift in the inflic tion of the penalties of their crime. The language of punishment is a vernacular common to all rational human beings, and the voice of the law can thus be brought to their nnderstanding. Sherman and Tariff. In a speech on the Tariff bill, Thursday, Senator Sherman alluded to the differences in the IVmocratic ranks on tariff questions, and contrasted Mr. Cleveland's letter of ac ceptance with the Democratic platform of 18!2. He then gave numerous other in stances of IVmocratic dissension. He charged that the sugar schedule had been drawn by the refiners, and contradicted the statement made by Senator Gorman that the protection offered the sugar trust bad been reduced, asserting that the statement was a palpable misrepresentation. Ue denounced the protection given the sugar trust and de clared that it was five-eights of one percent, or equal to the entire cost of refining sugar, including the wear and tear of machinery. He characterized free wool as the "culmi nating atrocity of the bill." He reviewed the platforms of tbe Demo cratic party and the utterances of the Demo cratic loaders from Jefferson to Buchauan, to support his statemtnt that all the plat- fjrms and all the leaders of that party down to 1X' bad been in favor of protec tion. Even from lst to lsJ2 the platforms of the party bad admitted in a "milk and waier way" the djctrine of a tanfl for reve nue with incidental protection ; and the platform of proclaiming a tariff for protection unconstitutional and a robbery bad been repudiated by Mr. Cleveland, who was too shrewd to step into that pitfall. The author of the Chicago tariff piank, Law rence T. Neal, had been defeated by Govern or McKinley on the direct issue by plurality, the most overwhelming defeat ev er administered to any political candidate in Ohio. Eeterring to Senator Gorman's recent speech, Mr. Sherman said : " Finally the pending bill was brought in, and the Sena tor from Maryland, with a blare of tram- ets, annound it had back of it a solid Democratic majority. "This in the fact of constant evidences that it bad the honest support of neither faction, and that many ef its provisions ere resented as un-Demo- cra'.ic." He believed the bill would create a great reaclion in the country ; that distress must follow a reduction of duties and that a re daction of wages must come if, indeed, in duatries were not driven eutirely to the wall. Widespread discontent would result. The p.-ople of this country were not like those of other lands. The fact that some of our people were walking the streets and follow ing an ignis fat u us did not necessarily argue a critical condition of affairs, but where there was a well grounded feeling of discon tent in tbe minds of the American people they would find their remedy. The bless ing of a protective tariff was becoming ap parent in the South, and the country was indebted to the Southern Senators for some ameliorations. He mentioned in this con nection coal and iron ore. The South had demanded the duty on sugar and rice. These duties were not levied for revenue. The Mc Kinley bill had been persistently misrepre sented ai a bill to increase revenue, when, as a mitter of fact, it decreased revenue i'K im in a year. Mr. Sherman then attacked the income tax feature of the bill, declaring such a tax had never been proposed except as a war tax ; that there was no necessity fjr such a tax ; and that if there was. should be left to the States : it was an act of ararianism and injustice. The idea of tax ing the profits of savings banks and build ing corporations was enough, he said, to make his blood boil. Tho maa B. Reed on Silvar. Washington, June 3. The article in the "Fortnightly Review" of London by Thomas B. Reed on the silver question is attracting much attention. He surest that an agree ment be made among the nations to use til ver, and that a discriminating tariff be made aeainst those nations which refuse to use the metal f jr money. Among other things he said : "One thing at least I have learned since the o"casion of silver purchased last year that cheap silver is an effective stimulus to Asiatic ex iiorts: and ilns being tbe case, we have eot to consider ail ver and the tariff not as two issues, but as one. It is evidently no lim to lower our tantts wiien the currency of everal hundred millions of Orientals ii depreciating, and their exporting powers to ei.J-usira nat.ons is thereby increasinc The fail iu silver, its value to pay wages and to buy products in India and China being as gnat a ever this it is that makes tbe silver .j jest'on an issue that we are forced to face." This is taken as meanirg the keyncte of the next Republican campaign. Silver coin age will be an issue. A MINUS QUANTITY. From the Chicago Herald. " If you re-elect me," shouts Col. Breckin ridge to his constituents, "there will be but one master for your representative, and that my own conscience." This is a pretty dark outlook for the Ashland district, for if there is one thing more than another upon which Col. Breckinridge is weak it is in the matter of conscience. A close scrutiny of his ac tions for the past ten years, as acknowledged by himself, can U.-ai to no other conclusion than that the man doesn't know what con science ia. E3rontery, impudence, supreme hardihood be has in abundanc, 'jut if be possesses either shame or conscience he has concealed the fai t with perfect success." Found One Million Dollars. Poh.hkkepsie, Jf. V., June I. William W. Cornell, an eccentric and miserly man, d.ed last Saturday in his modest home at No. II Gartield Place, where he had lived for tbe last thirty years. He was childless, and his only companion was 1 rs. Hulburt, his housekeeper. His wife had been dead fifteen years. The next of kin and heirs at law of the deceased, in searching through the house, opened an old trunk in a bedroom and found a box which contained railroad, town and Government bonds and other securities and bank books representing an aggregate value of over one million dollars. It has also developed that Mr. Cornell before his death presented his housekeeper a ith $j"J. He inherited tki.Ouj from his father. Dropped From the Parachute, Ci.ti iKXATO, O.. May M. A foolhardy amateur aeronaut, who had never ascended in a balloon, met his death here to day. When Professor Hill refused to ascend, ow ing to rain, Isaac Adler, a youth of the city, slipped away from bis mother and sister, and volunteered to go up. When feet in midair he released the parachute. The latter worked all right, but Adler bad bis bold shaken and fell cn his back in the Ohio River, near the Kentucky side. Adler disappeared and several boat men went to tbe rescue, but he was doubt less rendered unconscious by the fall and was not seen again. The Grave Gives Up a Secret. LxwisBrEii, Pa., May 30. Samuel Mock was locked in jail to-day, charged with the murder of his father, Klias Mook, aged about 70 years, who was buried on February 24. There bad been a quarrel in tbe Mook family, who reside six miles from here, along the Buffalo Mountains. Suspicion of foul play being aroused, tbe body was ex humed. It shows marks of a knife incision in tbe breast and bruises about the head. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that Mook had not died from aatnral causes. Confusion Alt Around. CoLmscs, O., June 3 Another week baa passed and a settlement appears to be as far away as eter. In Maryland the operatoia bad W. B. Wilson and other taken into court. Wilson was acquitted, but bis com panions bad to pay costs because tbey spoke to a man upon the highway. Tbe object of the suit is apparently to intimidate the men from speaking to those at work. In Western Pennsylvania the operators have placed the settlement of affairs into tbe bands of a committee of 10, with full power to settle. Tbe most notable event in Ohio is tbe rapidity with which the railroad men are joining tbe American Railroad Union and the practical sympathy shown by the mem bers of that organization in refusing to haul stab coal. This led to tbe fiasco at Glouster and has caused tbe Wheeling and Lake Krie railroad to refuse to receive any more coal from the Fairmont region, of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee remain in tbe same position as last week, with the excep tion that Coal Creek miners have again sus pended. In Indiana tbe miners held up a coal train at Clinton, but on receipt of a letter from President McBride, the train was allowed to proceed aad the miners returned to their homes. Scnsa'.ional reports appear in the press from Washington, ltd., but until we receive news from tbe miners themselves we are inclined to believe these reports exagger ated. Tbe most important event of the week was tne attempt w onng me conn iciing in terests in Illinois together ao as to make it possible to effect a settlement. At onetime it looked as if this would be effected, and President McBride remained three days in Illinois working towards that end. The re sult was a failure, and the national otlieers were confronted with the fact that the oper ators in the Fast, while willing to settle, would not settle with them because they were so far West, and the oierators of Illi nois would not meet tbem because they were so far East, while at both places the opera tors expressed themselves as eager to end the present difficulty. Realizing tbe embarrassed position they were placed in, and that under such condi tions no settlement could be effected, and not having power to make any change in the policy mapped out by the Cleveland con vention, President McBride issued a call to the presidents of the several districts, togeth er with the National Executive Board to meet in this city on Tues lay next ior the purpose of laying the exact condition of things before tbem, so as to adopt some rea- s inable method by which the suspension can be brought to a speedy and successful termination. P. Mi Bevdc. Sec'v-Treas. United Mine Workers. Latest Strike News. PrrrssrEG. June 5. Under gntrd of dep uty sheriffs a train load of men, gathered from different sections of the country, will leave tbe Pittsburg A Lake Kne depot to night to go to work at various points along the Youghiogheny river, and a number of operators, who have combined for the pur pose, will make the first attempt to day to break tbe miners' strike. Anticipating a conflict, the 0ratoni arranged with Sheriff Bicharda yesterday to have a sulUcieot farce of armed deputies accompany the train and remain at tbe mines to protect the imported men. In anticipation of a oail ct be'.n the strikers and the non-union men and depu ties the commauders of several regiments of the Second brigade have been given secret orders by AdjU-tien Greenland to be in read iness to move to the scene of trouble with tbe greatest possible speed. The unusual activity at the state arsenal.indTcates that there can be no doubt of this. S.ipt O'Neill of the state arsenal has hundreds of tents aiked In boxes ready for shipment and in aide of six hours could have tbem on cars. In tbt event ot a conllict in Clearfield county the Fifth regiment and the Sheridan troops of Tyrone will be ordered there. Uv. Paltisoa believes there will be trouble as soon as the operators make a determined effort to resume operations. Scottdali, Pa., June 4. Tbe striking coke workers have shown an entire disregard for the Governor's proclamation to day. This morning neailyoOO strikers assembled in Mt. Pleasant and marched here. They expected to meet a large reinforoemeut from the south end here, and the combined forces were to perade the entire north end of the region. Tbe contingent from the south eud failed to materialize, and the crowd dispersed and re turned to their homes. They gave notice, however, that the marching would betaken up again. Sheriff McCann posted a proclamation all through the district, warning tbe strikers against marching. Tbe notices are all being torn down as fast as the sheriff puts them up. Bfllaire. O., June i. To-day several hundred coal miners camped at Franklin, O., stopped all the coal trains on the Balti more & Ohio railroad, that were carrying coal west. This practically blockades the Cleveland, Lorain it Wheeling road, the Baltimore Ohio and the Wheeling t Lake Erie railroad, from hauling any oal west. Hundreds of cars of coal are in the yards here. Mostiiojiiey, W. Va , June 4. As the miners at Powellton were leaving tbe mines to-night several shots were fired at them from tbe surrounding timber, resulting in four men being killed. None of tbe man wbo did the shotting were discovered. Ci'mbeslakd, Md., June 4. Trouble is threatened in the Cumbar'anJ region to night. The young strikers are becoming restless and the old miners who were led into the trouble through sympathy and anxious to return to work. The continu ance of work in the Consolidation mines are the refusal of tbe operators to attend a con ference in Cumberland to day bad a depress ing effect on the strikers. An effort is being made to get together all the men of tbe Mary laud, American an J Georges Creek compa nies, who are willing to go to work and start tbem to-morrow. This start will not be made unless either company succeeds in getting at least 5) mja . Rioting Must Cease. In response to a letter from Sheriff Wil- belm, of Fayette county. Governor Pattison has issued a proclamation which reads as follows : " Whereas, It has been represented to me by the proper authorities of Fayette county that riotous demonstrations exist in various sections of said county, whereby the lives and property and the peace and satiety of tbe people are threatened, which tbe civil authorities are unable to suppress; and, whereas, the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth authorize tbe Governor, whenever in bis judgment the same may be necessary, to employ th - militia to suppress domestic violence, and preserve the peace ; now, therefore, I, Robert E. Pattison, Gov ernor of said Commonwealth, do hereby ad monish all good citizens and all persons within the territory and under tbe jurisdic tion of the Commonwealth, against aiding or abetting such unlawful proceedings, and I do hereby command all persons engaged in tbe said riotous demonstrations to forth with disperse and return peaceably to their respective places of abode, warning them that a persistence in violence will cocnp;! resort to such military force as may be nec essary to enforce obedience to the laws." A Witness Shot In Court. IxniAKAFOLis, Ind., June 2. A fatal shooting affray occurred in tbe Court room at Tipton at noon to day. William Good night was testifying x to tbe character of Miss Cox. daughter of a farmer, in a slander suit. Her father sat near the witness stand. During the proceedings Cox exclaimed: "You have sworn to a lie." He then drew a re to! ver and fired twice at the witness. One ball struck him in tbe face and the other in the back, inflicting probably fatal wounds. All parties sencerned are very prominent. Whole Town Swept Off. Denver, Col , June 1. The Flatte river went out of its banks at 11 o'clock last night, and continued to rise until after day lighL Shantylown, in Jerome Park addi tion, suffered tbe worst, over 5 poor peo ple being made homeless. B it one life is reported lost, a boy named EJward Wick man. Tbe Denver and Rio Grande track, between Colorado Springs and Pueblo, follows the Fountains river, and this stream changed its channel in two places. In places only the rails were left swinging across great gaps and near Eden the double track has entirely disappeared for a long stretch. All the bridges for miles around Boulder were carried off by the fearful flood that swept out ,f the canyon above there last night. The loss to property will exceed VK,eoo. The towns of Crisnian, Sunset, Copper Rock and Salina are uninhabited to night, and the buildings generally buried in the debris. At Crisman the entire town was swept away. Copper Rack is alt gone. Sugar loaf Camp is swept awiy. Prussian and Corning Mills are flooded. Vi.Ncorvia, B. C, June 1. The Frazer liver is still rising. It is now two feet high er than ever known. So great has been the destruction that ocean steamers passing in through the Straits of San Juan de Fuca are now encountering floating rocfa of bouses and barns and innumerable carcasses of hogs, sheep and cattle that have passed out of tbe river. It is estimated that more than 2,000 families are homeless, and that the property loss is fully iS.UOO.OuO. Pi eblo, Col., June 1. So far the coroner has been notified of nine dead bodies from the flood. Seventeen persons are still miss ing. It is believed that no bodies cn be re cover? 1 until the sink holes have teen pumped out and that the current of the riv er carried several bodies far down stream. No Pension No Flowers. Mteestows. PAJune 1. A determined woman armed with a pistol Wednesday stood guard over her husband's grave and prevented the Grand Army of the Republic from strewing flowers upon it. Mrs. Eliza A. Spangler is the widow of a soldier. She had some misunderstanding with the G. A. R. in her application for a pension. Two years ago she notificJ Post No. 4? not to dec orate her husband's resting place. Her wish es were disregarded. Last year the widow again warned the o'.d soldiers and again her request was unheeded This year she noti Bed a justice of the peace and he formally warned the G. A. R. not to decorate the grave Mm Spangler summon ed four members of the Jr. O. U. A. M. to her assistance and marched to the cemetery. She fctationed her guard around the grave and placing herself near the heaJstone, pull ed a pistol from her pocket and waited. The Grand Army post filed through the cemetery and performed ita usual ceremony. The sturdy front presented by Mrs. Spang ler kept the veterans away from her hus band's grave. His Throat Cut by a Bandit. Hazletox, Fa., May 31. James McNelis was attacked by an Italian bandit at the dor of his home at Pleasant Hill last night and his throat was cut from ear to car. The assault was one of the most daring and out rageous ever committed in this vicinity ind created intense excitement. The Italian, who is known as Curley, came down Baline street, accompanied by a countryman. Mc Nelis bad just stepped from the porch of his house to speak to a neighbor as the I'al ians approached. While oonversing, Curley dashed between the men, at the same time firing his revolver. The action was so quick and unexpected the neighbors had not re covered their astonishment when the Ital ian sprang at McNelis with a stiletto, cut ting his throat. Tne cries of the wounded niaji and noise made by the firii.g c'lrce'ed an excited crowd, and to save themselves the bandit and his companion fled. The motive of the crime was robbery. M rNelis will recover. A Cruel Practical Joke. Wilkesbaeeb, Pa , June3. A cruel prac tical joke was played upon the family of James S. Anderson, of this city. The wife received a telegram yesterday that her bui baad had been killed in a viaduct in Cincin nati. The family was thrown in the deep est grief and crape was hung on the door. This morning Mr. Anderson arrived from the West, and finding crape on his own door inquired with auxiety of his neighbors whether his wife or one of his children was dead. The telegram was explained and be immediately opened the door and confront ed his wife so suddenly that she swooned. Mr. Anderson says he mu-t be the victim ofa practical J ke, as the telegram was sign ed by one of his Western friends, and stated that the body was on th-a way East. Victim of Fiendish Robbers. Gbeesville, Ta., May 31. Elizabeth Williams, a widow aged SO, living in the suburbs, .was robted last night by three masked men of $Uo0, which she had just received as an inheritance from Ireland. The men chloroformed Mrs. Williams, threw her on the floor and tramped on her body until she was insensible. She is left without means of support. A National Lutheran Home. Washixutoic, D. C, June I. The Nation al Lutheran Home for the ai;ed, located at Montello, within a short distance of Win. tbrop Heights, the second station from this city on the main, or Washington, branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was inau gurated to-day. The house is surrounded by a tract of about 30 acres, the gift of Mrs. Sarah Uterraehle, of this city. Dr. J. G. Morris, of Baltimore ; Dr. R E. Alb?rt, of Philadelphia, and Dr. 3. B. Barnitz, of Des Moine?, Ia., and other ministers from Balti more, Philadelphia and elsewhere took part the exercises. The cottage plan for the home has been adopted by the trustees, so that instead of one large central building it is proposed to erect a group of cottages, thus maintaining more properly the features of home life in the institution. Lost In Roaring Floods- Immense damage has been done by floods in the West and Northwest. In British Columbia the Frazer River Valley has been devastated for a hundred miles. Over 2000 families are homeless, and $.1,003,000 will not cover the property loss. A cloudburst has wiped out the town of Conconnully, Wash. The inhabitants were fortunately warned of the danger and escap ed to high ground. Probably 40 miles of Union Pacific Rail road tracki in Oregon have been washed out by the raging Columbia. Two floods on suece'sive days have done at least half a million dollars worth of dam age in and around Pueblo, Col. Several hundred homeless are being cared for by tbe city. Tbe railroad service of the State has been badly crippled by gieat washouts, one being 3o miles long. Denver and vicinity have suffered severe ly from tbe overflow of tbe raging Platte. Many other Colorado towns are heavy losers by the high water. No Punishment for Lynchers. STEot npBCBG, Pa., June 1. The Grand Jury has failed to throw any light npon tbe lynching of the negro murderer, Richard Puryear. Judge Craig last week ordered an investigation and instructed the District At torney to bring np the case. Witnesses were summoned wbo were examined in Court to day. They all profess to know nothing of the outrage. That settle! the matter, and the lynchers are happy. Tbe Serb iff was censured for his carelessness in allowing Puryear to escape from jail. Economy. 10 to 20 per. cent can be saved by buying your foods at Sipe's general store. If you want to buy a suit, a hat or a pair of shoes, it will pay yon to examine his stock and learu his prices before placing your order. News Items. England taxes coffins. Whisky is made ofgras?. Wine ia made of potatoes. Chimneys date from 1317. A sleeping car cos's $13.i. Brick dust niortargains favor. Eug'and has electric bicycle. Faris has 100,tii0 electric lights. Electric pianos play themselves. Uncle Sam has 14.frVi.7jO horses. Newport reports a 17-pound lobster. Austria police must be telegraphers. Victoria is abolishing married teachers. Modern bee keeping has reached lliJpt. Canadian fisheries yield $20.XiO,OU) a year. Our gold production is J-W.ital.OiiO a year. The German array has tight lady Colonels. It takes an orange two years to grow and ripen. Uncle Sam Issued 2:5.070 patents last year. A remarkable wedding took place in Old Forge township, Lackawana county, last week, when Evan Lewis and Mrs. Margaret Llewellyn became husband aud wjfe. L?wis is SI years old and bis bride is C J. Thieves entered the stable of Charles Schrum near Dunbar last Friday night and stole three ofhis horses. Echruai is a tea li ster, aud after the day's work ou Friday tied the horses in the stable as usual. In the morning they were gone. They were valued at fijo. There is uo clue to the robbers. Through an open switch, turned by some designing fiend, a fast Wisconsin Central train dashed to destruction about 1 o'clock Thursday morning at Mannville. Six per sons were killed in the terrible crash, or consumed in tbe flames that Iftcrward swept through the wreckage. Several cf the wounded are also likely to die. It is piobably not widely known that only seven out of the seventeen transatlantic cables are in use 10 baring given out from various causes. Estimating tbe cost of eich cable at ',""O,0"', here is an irreclaimable investment of $:),000,0i0 safely biried beneath tbe ocean at a depth ranging from a few fathoms to over five tulles. Rev. Russell H. Con well, the notvd Baptist divine and platform lecturer, who took bis dei-arture for Europe Thursday, had a remarkable send-off, over one thous and of bis parishioners having accompanied him to New York from Philadelphia, there to bid him a last God speed upon his journey It was a unique demonstration of affectionate regard and esteem for a well-beloved pastor. The agent who brought Virginia negroes to Frick's Standard Works at Mt. Plea-taut, Thurlay had a rough experience. The wives of the strikers caught him and tore out most of his beard. He dually escaped and came to town only to run into a crowd of strikers, who gathered about him and treated him roughly. Lawabiding people slipped him off to tbe station, where he was kept under cover nntil train time. Notices have been posted in the various parts of the Cambria Iron Company's mechanical department that one-half of the employes would be supended indefinitely at onco. Tbe Bessemer Sieel Works and blooming mill have also closed, laying eff j00 men. About l.t-io men are employed is tbe mechanical department. None of the stonemasons srn at work. The can ie of the cutting down of tbe forca is that no coke can be obtained. Mrs. U. S. Grant paid a visit on Mon day of last week to the spot in Ironton, Mo., where the general received his commis-icn ns brigadier general, and where, to con memorate the event his old regiment, the Twenty-first Illinois, erected a bronze statue a few years ago. There also the citiz ns of Iron County have placed, by tbe tide of a spring at which General Grant refreshed himself, a figure of the angel of peace, with the inscription ; 'Thither an Embryo Hero Came; He Drank, Departed, Corijiered. ' A wild man who is described as a man beast, is lurking in a cave in Washington county, Ky. He is described as having long, white hair hanging down from bis head and face as coarse a a horse's mane, with legs covered with hair, feet like those ofa bear, with long claws, hands more like a feline than a human being, and with light from his eyes and mouth similar to fire. He lives by stealing chickens and egs, and he has terrorized the neighborhood in which he has bis lair. A rancher on Vashion Island, Wash., last fall found a box which contained about 200 pounds of what he thought mas a fine quality of tire proof paiat timing in the sound. The paint was packed in small tin cans and bore a foreign label, and as it had cost him nothing he painted his house with it, inside and out. The ran:her has since discovered, much to his sorrow, that instead of fire-proof paint he has his h ne covered with about il 0n0 worth of smuggled opium which was thrown overboard by smug glers. The enormous searchlight which adorned the roof of the Manufactures Building at tbe World's Fair is to ba placed in operation at Sandy Hook during the coming week. The light is said to be the most powerfjl in the world, being 10l,oX,cO candle power. It is asserted that a newspaper can be read ten miles distant by the beam of light, and that the rays may be seen loo miles away. Vessels can be detected twenty miles distant. The lightcanalsobe managed for telegraph ing and signaling, and is so arranged as to give flash iight at any desired interval. It is claimed that the rays of the light will be visible from Philadelphia. Max Klein, the wholesale liquor dealer of Allegheny, appeared at an adjourned court in Beaver to answer a charge of con tempt of court. Jui! Wick Lam imposed on him a fine of $10 and costs. During a recent license court Klein is said to have offered to Let on tbe result of the granting of a license to the Hotel Lakel in New Brigh ton, and also is alleged to have made re marks to Henry Sepp, a wholesale liquor dealer of Beaver Falls, which would in dicate that he bad some occult influence with the court in the granting of licenses. Klein, however, denies this, and on account of insufficient evidence he will not be pros ecuted further. James Bor' i, Jr.. son of Albert Borlin of Greensburg, met a horrible death at that place on Saturday evening. Borlin hod been at Connellsville with bis brother attending the bicycle races. He left for borne on the 5:5 3 South w est train. Just at tbe east end of the tunnel young Borlin went forward to tbe baggage car to get his brother's wheel. He put his head out of the door and looked back at a dog that was Mlowing the train. It was only a second until his heal came in contact with the end of tbe tunnel, knocking him from tbe car and under the train. The body was mangled beyond recognition. Tbe skull was crushed and both legs cut off. Borlin was 22 years of me and a general favorite with those who knew him in Greensburg. Leaders of the Seattle band of the Coxey army were brought into the United States Court at Helena, Mont , last week to answer the charge of contempt in seizing a train on the Northern Pacific at tbe Western line of the State on May 13. J. W. Kelley. the leader, who is a brother of the Kelley whose band is now in St. Louis, was sentenced to the County Jail for six months. John Ross, the engineer, wbo had served two terms in the penitentiary and was released last Jan nary, was also given six months. William Blair, Stewart Lackey and Thomas Davidson were each sentenced to thirty days. In fal sing sentence. Judge Knowles said the whole "army" seemed to be crossing the country with some purpose in view which did not commend itself to reasonable men. The idea, he said, of any number of men in the United States proposing to assemble in Washington with the intention of coercing Congress was not to be endured if the Govern ment wts to live. Mourning the Lost Cause. . . i. ...,.;i;r, f dm federate roonu- A I tuc v. moot at K.cbmonJ, Va , the Kev. U. Cave, orator of the diy. in the course of his address said: "I am not one of tbos wno, clinging to the old superstition that tne will of bearen is revealed in the immediate results of trial by combat.' fancy that right mustalwavsbeon the sua oi biiSui. speak cf Appomattox as a judgment of God I do not forget Ibat a ouwoaiu and a Kosc iusko fell ; that a Nero wie.ded Uie sceptre of empire and a Paul was be headed : that a Herod was crowuru uc . Christ crucified. Instead of accepting the defeat of the South aa a dmue verdict against her, I regard it as but anolber w ir..f 'Truth on tbe scaffold and wroug on the throne.' Appomattox was a triumph of the physically strouger in a emmet be tween the representatives ol two esseriuaiiy different civilizatious and antagonistic ideas of government. " At Appomattox pnritariism, backed by overwhelming numbers and unlimited re sources, prevailed; but brute force cannot settle questions of right and wrong. I be lieve the South was in the right ; tbat tne cause was just ; that the men who took cp arms in her defense were patriots wno naj even better reasons for what they did than had the men who fought at Concord, Lex- in.tou aud Bunker Hill, and tbat her coer cion, whatever good may have resulted or may hereaf;er result from it, was an outrage on liberty." Bees For Sale! Golden Italian bees in 8 frame dovetailed hives ; combs built on wired foundation ; everything in first class shape; bees strong and warranted pure Italian. The Italian bees are hardy, gentle and the best honey gatherers in the world. Price for colony or stand in May, $7.00; June, K0O; July, o 00. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. My apiary which ia one of the largest and best equipped bee yards in the State is lo cated one mile west of Confluence, Pa., where I produce thousands of pounds of choice comb honey every season. Address C. S. Yoisxis, Confluence, Pa. When you go in to collect a bill, the man at the counter is less apt to inquire about the health of your family than when you go to pay one. The odds makes the differ ence. Crossing the Atlantic Usually involves sea sickness. When the waves play pitch aud toss with you, .strong indeed must be the stomach that ran stand it without revolting. Tourists, commercial travelers, yachtsmen, mariners, all testify that Hostelter's Stomach Bitters is the best remedy for the nausea experienced in rough weather on the water. Nervous and weekly travelers by land often suffer from something akin to this, and find in tbe bitters Us sur est remedy. No disorder of the stomach liver or bowels is so obstinate that it may not be overcome by this prompt and thor ough remedy. Equa ly efficacious is it for chiils and fever, kidney and iheumatic trouble and nervousness. Emigrants to the frontier should provide themselves with this fine medicinal safeguard against the effects of vicissitudes of climati, hardship, expos ure and fatigue. LAWN MOWERS A handsome line and cheap. For s lie by J s B. Hoikeebai m. 117-AiMTFn QAI FRMFN line of NURSERY STOCK aiM SEED POT A- TnV iMi.T wsklv Ptrm&n-rt snt tv:ii.r I iiSiTloN; to ir. mon. H,-rinl huinre vM to bfi;tniin. tACU M fc itKRlU'K. givva THE HAWKS NURSERY CO.. Rochester, N. Y, I'VE GONE ! To niT lawe new rmiMin. Federal strvet, wbrre every one :il have the choice of Itie lreel anl m-l eompit-re m 'rie an. I UM rinunlien, hye hi-kie Wines, ete. iuihei-ity. A. A. p ire Hye. il l sal.; Tip- r-eeanoe, Tar oil. .,J; I ai.ia-i. j llri.l-epiiri . Thompson Eij-rt pure rye Si.V uere&l : kllen Weiiiii'ir. li.V.m' a d Ko'mumiu t o. Ryes, liouiriierty . Mooiii-eilo ami Harmis-viile, "1 : aiso the riiie.-t H-year oi l C'alifurnia ice, eiclit Dtim. I'.ry no eet. $1 ' per eat ; liupnreJ k! special low liirures. irter-i by mail i.ronipiiy kt- tcnletl to. S'ail for price li-L No extra ctharcre .or juas or paciiLa. Tclei-Uone olo. A. ANDHXESSEIS:, 1SS Federal S! ALLEGHENY THE PEOPLE'S STORE, This MONTH The beautiful month of the year, we are offering such values in all departments as will pay you to come to this store, no mat ter where you live. We know it takes great inducements to make people spend money thee days, but we are offering such bargains as will do it. Let dress goods stand for all the other departments. 40 inch All-Wool Color! Dre linnrK in put checks, terxes. diagonals anl fan- QC cy mixtures , real value .'e L.DC F ell 5G-lnch wide lrray ami brown mixt ures. The opporiunity of a Utj- 5Q time ZcL 40 inch Novelty Dress (kxmU, in ai! the deMrahle shades aivl oombiuationa. Ofi euould sell at Me ZiJC 0-Inch strictly all-wool Xovettv THvm Goods checks a mixture, in a beautiful QQ combination of col. its or black A while OJC 50 pieces ot 40-inch Whirxw-ls in all the new. choice colors. Mever btforesold OQ, under 50c 0)3C JCavr I;lu Storm Serge, ftill f. inches wide. The best value In this vicinity. AQn Price only HiC 2f piece of all-wool French Aramre. In the very neve-'t spring suades. Import- CA. ed to retail at 7'iC CUC 4-Vlnch all-woo! Oman Henrietti, in the TerychoicestliueofcoIorH. Kevuiar r silk liDL-h. Never before Mil under c DUC All wool or Jilk and wool French and (ierman Xoveluea. and tti inches "7fi wide. Regular il and l.si qualities l)C Fimt Imported silk an.1 wool mixed Novelties, full 46 inchea wide. The 4 ir regular Sl.Tfi and I J. CO quality ID Housekeepers ! Do you know that we keep furniture now. Everything you want for furnishing your house. Furniture, Carpets, Cur tains, Beddings, L;nens, etc., and all at prices that will save you money. OUR MAILORDER DEPARTM'T Brings the People's Store to the People's homes. Sample sent of anything at any time. Try ou.' system of shopping by mail. Campbell & Smith, Successors of Campbell & Pick, 81, 83, 85, 87, & 89 Fmh lYsnns, PITTSBURG. SUGAR MAKERS SUPPLIES. WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK OF WE HANDLE THE BEST --.p. A Main Cross Street, RAIN : OR : SHINE THE FURNITURE STORE PRDMPTIY AND HE GIVES : I I BARGAINS - The Storo is Accessible to : : : : Sidewalks. : : : : Styles are bright and merry as you you thought we had. A HINT HERE 13 all we Lave space to give yon. C H. COFFROTH, Iain Croas Street, Great Inducements. Goods reduced in price in every line. Dry Goods, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Lace Curtains, Ladies' Coats, c. Xow is the time to buy to save money and get something good. JAMES CLINTON STREET, S5, J The Beat Prm for -ff the Lral Moarj. v J :- v'S3.50 Pol r-t v YSV S2.5C It "s?h ys rs-: ,j V X V$3' $2.50 $2,51.75 ' I "ezzs V3? lniswl. Stylish. IVKrrt I - ittiUKUJ - It t-att.r.KrH I 1HI5 1STKE IftCT?55 "UF tY bottom. briN ktu DEALERS who push the sale of V. L. Douglas Shoe gain customer, which helps to increase the sales on their full line of goods, iiwy n fiord to ell at U- profit, an.l brllrT yon run u. aionrr by having all jaa luotweatr 9t U ilcaOvr Uvenited below. Cataiqanw fraa upon Bupllcmtioo. J. D. MILLER SON", K..ck'.v.md, Ta. B. & B IT IS Superfluous To add a word of praise for our immense assortment of DRESS GOODS, SILKS AND SUITINGS. Every one who has ever patronized this store knows whut a superb etH-k of these pxuls is constantly on hanl. Those mlcoilon't mill tin.i it to their in terest to come, or write our M:iil Order IVj.artrnent for .samples which will, in part, tell the tale of merit ami low price A larje anl important purcha just made that will ohm; the people, anl hun dreds of nuii I orders as well ail wool French Challis plain, dark, and medi um grounds with medium-Mzed coin opot de-ins in briirht harmonizing fol r all wool 50ct Challis they are, and for 2act a yard. 100 pieces assorted all-wool French Chal lis dark ground, ."0 cts., Ccallis w ith lloral deeixnK, 30et a yard. Artistic shade of rose in line stripes on hiack grounds all wool French t'hallis 35cts a Yard. 200 pieces finest, all-woo! French Challis I x t ri Iijrht an J dark combinations -The choicest of late I'aria importations The very cream in style and design of the French makers 50cts a yard. 151 pieces Cream Jround :i-4 Wool Chal-lis,-neat ti.iires and heantiful tl iral printings-.J Vt quaiitieVJ'.i inches wide I7cts. , SKI pieces American Challis, fine twilled cloth. Doth in liiiht and dark irr-mnds, handsome styles and excellent quality -30 inches wide, lOcts a yard. Handsomest line of new Novelty and Tnf feta Silks forentire gowns and wai.-U shown this season; in quality and style none better; Prices that jtf.iiit the wav to exnouiical huvin g, (Vic. 7V. (vc. tojl.1'5. A Wash Dress-Goods Department without a rival we doubt if an equal in the country. Write f.r full line of samples and learn what is newest and best and at what little ca.-t- oc, 51c, 7-lc, 8c, liic, U'ic, 13c, to ti nest imported i-wifses, lr- gandien, etc., to 75cts t yard. Boggs & Buhl, ALLEGHENY, PA. J. D. SWANK, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Next Door West of Lutheran Church, SOMERSET, : : PJL I Am Now prepared to supply the public with Clocks, Watches and Jewely ol all descriptions, as CHEAP as the Cheapest. SQoialiy, All work guaranteed. Look at my stock before making your purchases. J, D. SWANK. - - - - Syrup Cans Sap Buckets, Sap "Spouts, Gathering Bucket Sugar Pans, Etc., at rock bot tom prices for cash. Maple Evaporator on the Mar ket at less than half the priCe asked for some others, it "pay you to get our prices beiore buying. SCHELLY SOMERSET, rK OF C. H. COFFROTH IS OPENED I FVFRY MflRNIMft ! EVERY DAY. - - ADMISSION FREE. all Highways, Byways asi please. More pretty Furniture t'oa AND THERE-:- You must see them. You'll m:.!cr-;.;:.i Somerset, P, QUINN,-: -JOHNSTOWN P W. L. DOUGLAS S3 BM CIMLXE WELL . lue.iUrs, Bottom Waterproof. Best Shoe sold at 'heprica. S4 and S3.50 Dress Shoe. -.ji.4 lUMi'in T. i4 w, infill irtaU iO Jv ice Shoe. 3 Solei. i VV 4aung Sttcc evex made. . and S2 Shoe?, Loquail-i at tbe price. 52 & SI.75 School Shoes i iniro Promoted. riease note this in your Memoran dum Book, STENGER. THE DRY GOODS MAN, -IN' JOHNSTOWN. Will stay at Ki3 oM ?ta:i-l. Lut t:.o Xo. lias been clianiri-il froiQ 227 to 515. We Shall Continue Our Old IV 1 U l IKJ .eail ali'opl fur iao:..y. $15 115 Fifteen Dollars has a power w draw, if correctly inve-ul. beats a lottery. For Fifteen P lars you can dratr a nue Cu"--"4 Suite no blank tiekeu. Fifteen Dollars Uoposlie-l Suite SURE. It's like u;v lar for dollar. You have seen or hearJ of os: $16 Suite. What you ?a or hear! of in that Suite you can fa J ;a and more, you save a which U an item to mo.-t of u-"- f One tiling sure, if you buy one 0. these $15 Suites you v't a r-' article from a reliable Una. Suite will "stand by" you and e u stand by " the Suite. i HENDERSON . . rr i FURNITUKt JOHNSTOWN.JM IMPORTA5 TO DVEKT,f Li' f la Eemington'a County ' adTerusers avail mem.-. -- vtauitf8 i . f which can be r I Bruk, of Kev York Kttrfws-
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