THE CITIZEN Caters* at rmUMa at Batter as 24 class matter WILLIAM C. IKS LIT. ' THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1896. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. NATIONAL. PRESIDENT, WILLIAM MCKINLEY. VICE PRESIDENT, GARRETT A. HOBART. STATE. CONGRESS-AT-LARGE. GALUSHA A. GROW, S. L. DAVENPORT. COUNTY. FOR CONGRESS, JAMES J. DAVIDSON. Fo* STATB SENATE, W. H. RLTTER. FOR ASSEMBLY, JAMES N. MOORE, JOHN DINDINGER. FOR SHERIFF, W..8. DODDS. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, W. J. ADAMS. FOR PROTB JNOTARY, R. J. THOMPSON. FOR CLERK OF COURTS, ISAAC MEALS. FOR TREASURER, CYRUS HARPER, FOR COUNTY COIOCSSIONSR, HARMON SEATON, JOHN MITCHELL.' FOR COUNTY AUDITORS, W. S. MOORE, O. R. THORNE., FOR CORONER, JOHN L. JONES. REPUBLICAN MEETINGS. Silverville, Buffalo township, Thurs day evening, October Bth, addresses by Hon. J. B. Showalter and J. M. Painter. Opera House, Butler, on Thursday eve ning, October Bth, to be addressed by Hon. A. O. Furst, of Center, Co. Pa., and Col. Jas. P. Colbnrn of Phila,, Pa. Unionville, on Saturday evening, Oct., loth, to be addressed by Col. J. M. Thompson and J. M. Galbreath. Prospect on Tuesday evening Oct. 13th to be addressed by Col. J. M. Thompson and J. M. Galbreath. Cooperstown, Tuesday evening, Oct., 13th, to be addressed by Hon. J. B. Showalter and Newton Black. Evans City, Wednesday evening, Oct. 14th, to be addressed by Hon. George H. Wiggins, of Erie, Pa., and others. Saxonburg, Wednesday, October 14th, afternoon And evening, to be addressed by Col. J. M. Thompson, S. F. Bowser and others. Mars, Friday evening, October i6tb, to be addressed by Col. J. M. Thompson and Newton Black, Honest Money in the Senate. If Mr. McKinley is elected President there is every reason to hop: that the members of the House of Representa tives who will enter office at the same time will be ss strongly in favor of sound money and as strongly opposed to the free coinage of silver as are the members of the present Congress. There is a gen eral impression however, that by no pos sibility can the silver majority in the Senate be overthrown. This impression is, I think, incorrect. The Senate whose term will end on March 3, 1897, are, with their present politics and respective States, as follows: Jone*, Arkansas, silver Democrat. Jones, Nevada, silver Republican. Kyle, South Dakota, Populist. Call, Florida, silver Democrat- Mitchell, Oregon, silver Republican. Morrill, Vermont, gold Republican. Palmer, Illinois, gold Democrat. Peffer, Kansas, Populist. Perkins, California, silver Republicau. Piatt, Connecticut, gold Republican. Pritcbard, North Carolina, silver Rep ublican. Pugh, Alabama, silver Democrat. Squire, Washington, silver Republican. Vest, Missouri, silver Democrat. Vilas, Wisconsin, gold Democrat. Voorhees, Indiana, silver Democrat. Allison, lowa, gold Republican. Blackburn, Kentucky, silver Democrat. Blanchard, Louisiana, siller Democrat. Brice, Ohio, gold Democrat. Cameron, Pennsylvania silver Republi can. Dubois, Idaho, silver Republican. Gallinger, New Hampshire gold Rep ublican. Gibson, Maryland, gold Democrat. Gordon, Georgia, silver Democrat. Hansbrough, North Dakota' silver Republican. Irby, South Carolina, silver Democrat. There is not one vote in this list now cast in favor of gold which could, by any possibility, be changed to silver by the next election, with the single remote ex ception of that of Illinois. But if Mr. McKinley gets a majority of the electoral votes, he is almost certain to receive the vote of Illinois, and the sound money voice of the State will be heard as em phatically in the next Senate as in the present one. Excluding from the list the States whose votes for or against sil ver in the next Senate are in all probality likely to be unchanged, we have the fol lowing. Pennsylvania Oregon, Kentucky, Washington, Indiana, California, North Dakota, Kansas. South Dakota. The present silver majority in the Sen ate varies from three to seven, according to the particular form in which the free coinage proposition may be placed. With the gold ranks remaining unbroken, an accession to them of four silver votes would change the attitude of the Senate. It is obvious that one such vote will be gained, beyound peradventure, by the election of a gold Republican to succeed Senator Cameron in Pennsylvania. All indications now point to a Republican plurality for Mr. McKinley in Indiana, and to an additional vote for the honest dollar in the Senate, in place of that now cast for repudiation by D. W. Voorhees. This would leave only two more votes to be gained from a number of States, sever al of which sanguine Republicans claim as certain tor McKinley. Assuming that Mr. McKinley will receive the great popular majority in the country which all good people hope for ami which the best judges now predict, it would seem likely that the election would sweep more than two of these doubtful States into the Republican column, and land the next Senate safely on the side of common sense and honor. But entirely apart from the votes in the Senate which the election might di rectly cbange.it is apparent that a sweep ing popular condemnation of the free silver fallacy would bring back to the right side many Senators who have been dragooned away from it, and would lead some of these who have been wholly committed to silver in the past to see a light. It seems to me, therefore, that there is good reason to hope that the next Con gress will be all right, both in the House and in the Senate. —Washington Cor respondence. A LtMOB From History The Chicago Tribune translates from the Hemlandet of that Jcity, one of the oldest Swedish newspapers printed in the county, a very interesting and in structive account of an experiment in cheap money made by the Swedish Gov ernment early in the last century. The article was written by Dr. John A. En ander, wboes attainments as a historian have given him a wide reputation, and it is of especial interest just now because it shows what did occur in Sweden in the efforts to.float "cheap" money and what would occur in this country should we undertake the free coinage of silver at the fictitious ratio of 16 to I. We give below a condensed statement of Dr. En ander's instructive article. About the beginning of the eighteenth century the wars of Charles XII. had brought hard times to Sweden. The cir culating medium of the country consist ed of silver and copper. The largest coin was the Swedish riksdaler, about the size of our old silver dollar of 416 grains, but worth two thalers silver or J three thalers copper. After 1718 it was worth three thalers silver or nine thalers copper. In consequence of successive alterations in the quantity of copper with which it was alloyed the silver thaler had in the course of 1 50 years fallen to a third or fourth of the value it had in 1624- This was the condition of the Swedish currency when Mr. Gortz became Minister of Finance— a man whom Mr. Enander describes as a "sanguine, obstinate autocrat." There was still a considerable stock of silver money in the country; but owing to a lack of confidence it was hoarded, and little was in circulation. Mr. Gortz, like our Mr. Bryan, conceived the idea that Sweden could "without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation," establish a financial system upon an in dependent basis. He decided to remint all copper coin at an arbitrary and false ratio in comparison with silver. The copper thaler, he said, was the "money of the poor," the "debtor's dollar." By overvaluing it he thought the price of the bullion it contained would rise in the market. At the same time it was claim ed that by the depreciation of this coin prices would rise, farm products would bring more and industries would revive so there would be a demand for labor. The King did not believe in this finan cial scheme of his Minister of Finance, an 4 it was only after great hesitation that he signed the decree to carry it out. The people soon gave the new thaler the derisive title of "calamity coin" on ac count of the ruin it wrought. Dr. En ander says that not even Mr. Gortz im- agined that it would be possible to float an unlimited number of depreciated cop per thalers. He was not as crazy as Bry an on that point. It was decided to limit the number to two million; ' 'but once on the downward road no place was found for a halt short of the bottom of the precipice." By 1717 there were 13,- 000,000 of these new thalers in circula tion and when Charles xii. died the next year forty million had been minted, and 25, 000, 000 were current. They were made legal tender, and the law declared two of them equal to a silver riksdaler. Then the silver money all disappeared "as if by magic," says the historian" The new money would buy nothing ex- at rainous rates. Every article ot fered for sale had two prices one in honest money and another in the new "cheap" money. Then a decree was is sued against this double valuation of goods, makiug it a crime punishable by a fine of not less than four times the value of the goods, and the result of this was the immediate suspension of all traf fic, except in the primitive form of bar ter. Silver having been driven out of cir culation by the cheap copper coin, the Government issued a decree that all per • sons in posession of silver, native or for eign, coin or bullion, should forward the same by July I, 1718, to the treasury and receive the new copper coin in exchange therefor, This caused an immediate ex portation of silver from the country al though laws were passed to prevent it. The country had then a total of 625, 168, 000 copper thalers in circulation-cer tainly a sufficiency of "cheap," money for a country like Sweden. But this abundance of debased coin brought only calamity to the people and the govern ment. The public debt had reached the enormous sum of 60, 000,000 silver tha lers. and the Parliament that met in 1719 was forced to consider means for getting rid of this debt. It was finally decided to begin by re deeming the "calamity coin" at half its face value. The people were invited to bring it to the treasury and exchange it for silver at the ratio of 16 to i. The Government in fact had no silver with which to carry out its part of this prop osition; but it returned to the owner of each thaler deposited the identical coin deposited by him, which was thereafter to be valued at only two silver ore, and to make up the difference, it gave him paper money of the nominal value of fourteen silver ore. Commenting on thi financial operation, the historian says: "Such of the Swedes as had by indus try and thrift accumulated a small fund with which to support themselves in their old age beheld with dismay the sudden disappearance of one half of their small savings, while they felt the pang of a terrible douot as to the ulti mate redemption by the Government of the paper which it had issued and in which their savings were invested. "In fact, this doubt was justified. The Gov ernment was not able to maintain the credit of either the paper it had issued or of the money it had guaranteed to up hold at a depreciated valuation that was still above the market value of the bull ion of which it was made. The net re sult of operations was a Govern ment disgraced and discredited and a country reduced to poverty and distress. Multitudes of people were compelled to resort to beggary as the only means of keeping body and soul together. At last on August 20. 1723, Sweden's financial delirium come to an end. The Government then decided to reduce the legal tender value of each copper thaler to its bullion value—one ore copper—al though the Government stamp declared it to be worth one silver thaler. At iast says Dr. Knander, Sweden had had enough and more than enough of "cheap money." The fluctuation in the value of copper had enriched a few speculators at the expense of tens of thousands of their poor compatriots. The Swedish histori an closes his instructive article with this paragraph. The Swedish farmer suffered as much as any other citizen, and possibly more for during the hard times he was com pelled to sell his farm, he hail received for it in payment this "calamity" copper coin, and now he had nothing left except the bits of depreciated copper known in Swedish parlance as kopparslantar (pen nies). The farm laborer, who had denied himself of every comfort in life and put away his hard and scanty earnings in the hope of being able some day to purchase and own a farm, was practically swindled out of the results of his frugality and self denial. Little children may need the sting of personal experience to teach them to keep out of danger; but grown men of , a'fterage common sense should be able to profit by the experience of others and by the lessons of history. Our Public School*. There is no better leveler of caste in the universe than that of our common schools, where the rich, the poor, the high and low mingle together on the j plane of equality. A poor man's son plays with a rich'man's son without a thought of the difference which wealth plays in the social world. Our common school system is not as perfect as it should be. When the time comes when it is possible for every child in the land to secure a practical education without leaving home, then the schools will be more useful. Among the most urgent needs is that of the consolidation of school districts so as to provide better facilities in country districts. Without an increase of taxes schools could be consolidated, and thus give "the scholars better facilities for securing an educa tion, Xo school should have less than two teachers; for in all districts are scholars from six to sixteen years old, who must be taught according to their ability. In every school are children learning their letters and from that up to those who would like to study higher mathematics. You see how impossible it is for one teacher to do the work that ousjht to bf, done in the district school. Two teachers could do this work well.— ' For years Massachusetts bad tried the plan of having less districts, and hiring the scholars brought to school in wagons from the outlying districts, and it has pro\ en a gre3t success. Pole Raising in Saxonburg. That the present campaign is an inter esting ono is evident from the fact thet even the school children are taking a very active part. Last Saturday the yonng Republicans of Saxonbnrg, ranging in years from 6 to 10 raised a pole amid much enthusiasm. Just one week previous the voting oilverites. Populists and Democrats raised a pole and held a meeting, and it can be truthfully said that the crowd present was but slight ly larger than the one present at the boys pole raising, tne enthusiasm and interest was remarkable, proving that while young in years, yet they are deep and correct thinkers. The bojs carried out the entire program themselves. A committee con sisting of Clarence Helmbold, Milton Muder, Ollie Maurhoff, Albert Pfeiffer, Willie Pfeiffer, Tom King and Jim Bau man having same in charge. After the pole was in position a speech appropriate to the occasion was delivered by Milton Muder in which he told the boys many truths and showed them the ad vantages ot belonging to the Republican party. May the boys live long and ever be upon the right side is the wish of their Friend. Milton E. Muder, (aged 13.) made the speech of the day. It was a» follows: Friends and school-mates. We meet to gether today to raise a pole, in honor ot the Republican party. We are bar yet young; we are but yet school-children, striving to learn all that may be nselul to us in after life. There are many things we do not know, many things that we can only learn through experience. But my Jriends we have ail learned that 'honesty is the best policy.' We have all learned not to be fur a dishonest dollar. Today we have silver dollais but they are backed by gold. The amount of silver in a silver dollar today is only worth 53 cents, but having the government stamp upon it, combined win, being backed by gold in sures its value one dollar. Our currency is now on a gold stundard.bnt if free silver wins (which it will not) do'lars will be ODly worth 53 cents. Does not our Arithmetics say ono-hund red cents make one dollar, aren't there and always has been one-hundred cents in one dollar. Why shonld a man working for one-hundred cents receive only 53 centsT What we all want is gold or some thing as good as gold. What is meant by tree silver, it means that the mine owners wish to take their silver to mint and get it coined tree of charge. At th« present time the government re tains so much for coining it; this goes to pay off tho national debt. They eay that if gold wins England nil) rule this conn try Who ha.- bten draining thin country for the past two or three year-t England! What has canned lit Free trade! In Re publican times or times of tariff, a duty, a tax is laid on all thing* brought f4om England and elsewhere. This duty goes to the support ol the government. Also when this tax iit off the English manufacturers can undersell our manu facturers, and thereby ruin them. This affect* the workinguiau also, for when the employer is ruined he cannot pay the workingman so high wages. This is what caused ail these strikes, etc. To say more of free silver, they t>»y that wo have had tree silver. Then why is it all the oldert settlers thai bavt, r.een it re lu-e to support it, then there surely must Lis something wrong with it. They say that Wiu. McKiuiey has always been lor free silver until the time ot his nomination. Is that so f No! He may have been for the ooinage of silver, but never was he for the free &Dd unlimited coinage of silver. Sure ly the way he was nominated, so un animously shows that there surely mast be something worthy ol mention in Iho man The way Mr. Bryan was nominated was simply by a uiob convention. They were there at the Chicago convention for nearly a week, they did not know what to do. The gold Democrats were becoming dis couraged and began leaving; a crowd of silventes from the Went combined with Mr. Bryan's following and they adopted the free silver platform and nominated Mr Bryan. Mr. Br> uu goes speaking here and speaking there, but McKinley needs only to step out upon his own porch and tnere thousands greet him Workingmcn save their days wages to Ti«it him Home say they aro compelled to or lose their employ uient, but my lriends the way they cheer lor him so earnestly, any ono can see that they mean it. There is one country today that is ou a silver »t»iidard. What country is itT Wn) our next d< or neighbor Mexico! Mexico, what kind of a country is Mexico! A Very poor country indeiu; workingman'* wage* being only 50 cent* to W) ctnls per day. That same thing would be in this couu try if free silver would win, our bujks would be broke,business would be (topped and workingmen would be uo working men tor tbey wculd receive uo work to do. My friends there are some people who are Democrats became their lathers were Democrats,because their grandfather* wire Democrats. No matter what the Demo crat party would support, no matter what they weald adopt tney would be a Demo crats ntil!. My friends there was a tree silver craze started in the West a few months ago, men built castles in the air of their future i' free oilver would win, but their »ir castles tumbled jver, the »ilver jraze is wearing < ff, they are getting dow:, to solid business, man alter loan, state after state are bjoming lor McKinley. Now 1' y friends my words are nearly en ded, and as Te grow into men and wo meu, some ot us luay even sit upon the Presidential chair, may wo never forget the day when we rallied around the flag of our union and declared for Sound money and Protection My friends beloru I close I wi*h you all to give three routing cheers for our r.ext President, Win McKinley, of Ohio. Nomination Papers. The state department was kept open until midnight last Monday niglit to re ceive nomination papers, that being the last day for their reception. They num l>er almost as many as the certificates of nomination. The People's party and the Prohibitionists filed more nominations than at any time since the passage of the Baker ballot law. This year the official ballot will have four or five more columns iu some dis tricts than a year ago. From Philadel phia alone, there will be candidates rep resenting 17 different political organiza tions. The nomination papers from dif ferent congressional districts indicate in teresting factional troubles. Congressman "Jack" Robinson's op ponent, ex-Judge T. S. Butler, of West chester, filed papers is the independent Republican nominee in the Sixth con gressional district. VV. 11. Ritter, of Butler, contesting the Republican nomination with Wm. M. Meredith, of Kittaniiig, for the state senate, filed his papers as the citizens' caunoun of didate. The nation papers ex-Congressman Sibley as the People's party candidate for congress in the Twenty-sixth district, were presented by ex-Deputy Secretary of the Common wealth Tilden, along with those of the later as the People's party candidate for state senator in the hrie district. The nomination papers of the so-called j "Jefferson party" nominees for congress- j man-at-large and presidential electors, were filed by John I'. J. Sensederfer, of Philadelphia. There are 3.504 names of voters 011 them. Thomas Greevy, of Al toona, heads the list. Water Work* and Clubs. The State Sapreme Conrt opened it* October term in Pittsbnrg, Monday, and an usual began business by "banding down" a batch of decisions. There were 114 ol these and the majority of them were in ca-es appealed from Philadelphia and other eastern counties; a few were from western counties bnt none from this county. The taree decisions that will attract the most attention are two regarding borough and city water works, and one regarding the sale of liquor by clubs. Kegarding borongh water-works the Conrt reverses itself. The decisions are in the cases of J. T. White and others against the city of Meadville, and Martin Metiger against the borough of Beaver Fall*. It is held that a municipality cannot build a water works of its owe if the town is being supplied by a private corpoiation. The borough or city's only recourse it to buy the plant of the private company. The decision puts in force as the law what was contemplated by tie "Woods water bill. It was passed by the Legis lature, but was vetoed by Governor Hast ings. It provided that municipalities could not build water works of their own if private companies were supplying the town, but they must buy ont the private plant. In the opinion in one case handed down by Justice Dean, he admits that the Su preme Conrt made a mistake in its ruling in the Millvale borongh water works case, and that ruling is now reversed. In the Millvale case it was held that a municipal body is clothed with powers of legislation to a limited extent, and when within the limits oi its authority, its acts are ob ligatory. In the contract with the pri vate company no restriction was placed on the borough's right to erect a water works in the future. That is a right, it was held, given to all such bodies by the law, and they mar exercise it, no matter at what cost to pri vate companies whose franchises are held subject to such right. The right of a borough to ercot wa'-er works is independ ent of the right of private corporations t« erect similar works, and it is of no oon seqnence that such erection will injure private franchises of the same character. This ruling ia now flatly reversed, and the injury to private companies is consid ered. In addition to the last decisions, more questions are to be decided. The referee in the Rochester Water Works case made hi 3 report on the same lines as held by '.he Court in the present cases. Exceptions to it go further and raise the question as to the right of a borough, in corporated under the general borough act, to build water works at all, unless given authority by a special act of Assembly. If this is sustained it will bring into ques tion the validity of millions ot dollars worth of bonds issued by such boroughs to build water works. In referring to the decision that had been g'ven in the Millvale case, Justice Dean says: "It was assumed by all parties in the court below, and by the learned Judge of that court, that the authority of the municipality to violate its contract ex isted. With the greatest reluctance on the part of every member of this Conrt the decree of the Court below was affirmed. "That reluctance is oxpressed in no donbttul language by our Brother Greene who delivered the opinion It was as sumed by all counsel in both courts that Lehigh Water Company's appeal was void of contention on that point and the case was decided on other grounds. "It was a mistake. We now are glad of the opportunity for correction, especial ly so because the example of Millvale bor ough seems to have led other municipal orporations to adopt tho same coarse of action." In conclusion, a permanent injunction was granted against the city, restraining it from antering into a contraot for tho construction of a water works. In the Bearer Falls case the opinion in , the Meadville case is cited as covering it. j An injunction is granted against the bor ough restraining it from securing $123,000 for the constriction of water works, or for issuing bonds for tr.at purpose, or en tering into any contract for the erection of the works. The decision regarding clubs, favors the clubs, and holds that it is not a violation of the Brooks law to sell to members. This has been a mooted question since 1887. County courts all over the State have decided it both ways,.but a decision could not be obtained from the Supreme Court until now. The question was raised and argued in tho Superior Conrt, but no decision was given The matter is now settled by the .Supremo Court. S"o decis ion has been handed down in years that directly aflVots a greater number of peo ple than this one. The opinion was Writ let by Justice Dean. Tho suit was that of William R. Klein against the Liviugstone Club. It was appealed from Lehigh cofln- Justice Dean first describes the charac ter of the club, a chartered organization. The soit was brought by a member to re strain the club from selling liquor to mem bers, on the ground that it was a violation of tho license law and imperiled the club's oharttr. It was admitted tho clnb derived no pro fit from the sales. Justice Dean says: "l'hb Brooks law only reduced to a com prehensive system all the features of all the license laws at its date on our statute books. There is not in it, nor in any of tho statutes it replaces, a prohibi tion of the use of liquors in clubs, any more than there is a prohibition of its use in a family. No indictment for furnishing liquors to members of a club could bo sus tained, the evidence showed be yond reasonable doubt such furnishing constituted a sale. The statute being penal, it oust be subject to a strict con struction We cannot extend it beyond its letter if we, in constrning the Brooks statute, adopted the settled rale of con struction. "There are no words in the act, which by any possible construction oan be stretch ed into a prohibition of the use of liquor in clubs, or that can be deemed as requiring they shall be licensed. There is, in fact, no express legislation concerning Ibis dis tinctive, open, notorious, long existing use of liquor; the plain implication is, that the consumption of liquor iu clubs, as known to the Legislature, was not deemed a sale. The general wi.rds of the law, however, make the sale of liquor without liconse il legal everywhere in the Commonwealth; and whether this lie a sale, in now a judi cial and not a legislative question." Itelorring to members of clubs, the Court continues: "They are all owners of the property, wh-.n purchased in equal shares, a.d if a division were then made, each would be entitled to an tqual share of liquor, but one consumes his share and that of others who do not driuk liquor, and he puts back it. the common treasury the va'au of the others' shares, therefore, al though by consumption the division is not equal, yet it is made equal by the contri bmion to the treasury. "Does this constitute a salet We think not; there is no uleuiuut of a bargain,, only a method of distribution of the common property. "it lias been argued that the effect of ocr decision, 11 against plaintiff, will be to deprive the licensed hotels of patronage to which tuey are impliedly entitled, by pay ment of heavy license lees under the Brooks law; that member* of clubs will consume such liquors as they desire in their club rooms, instead of at licensed bars. This is not withoct force, but it should be addressed to the Legislature, who seem, for lilty yeras in all the legisla tion on the liquor question, to have care fully retrained from prohibiting the furnish ing of liquor to club members by their clubs, as well as neglected to impose on them licetiFe fees." FAIR VIEW. There will be a Missionary meeting in the IJ. P Church hero ou next Saturday at 3p. in., the 10th. Guests all are cor dially invited toat'.end. Hugh Young our blacksmith has iinally built a tie » shop, it is exceedingly large and roomy. Will Gibson was the leading carpenter on the job. Will Young our school teacher was made happy by their first born— it is a gill. Lou Maddison was home a day or so with his family last week and returnod to the lower oil held whore he labors. W ill Duir who was recently married to one of our gul.s, Miss Ollie Orris, drove in to town the other day and made a short stay *ith her parents Mi.ses Annie. Murphy and ISstella Myers, of Cbicora, drove over and called on Miss Flonsa .Scott the other day. K. 0 Scott was down at Pittsburg last week to purchase his fait slock of goods; be said he m-t Will Walket, who was for merly cashier in the Petrolia Bank, and is now bookeeper iu Duquesnn Bank of Pitts bury. >V ill is cei taiuly equal to the posi tion. Mrs Mary Oritfin and her daughler.from Peabo.ly, |< ms-s are visiting at Temple tons; Wilt Templeton and family from near Philipstown are visiting at Phil ip Tumpletou's. Pernio hero are not able to take care of their immensely large crop of apples. Dsn T. His Throat Cut. James Welsh, a resident of Hoboken, and employed as foreman on the new Butler and"Pittsburg railroad, w«; brutally assaulted and robbed on last Thursday night at Roi-s bottoms, near Ross grove. Bis throat and head were cut and be wa left for dead. Thursday, Welsh went to Pittsburg on business and did not get started home in til 10 o'clock p. m . via the Penn avenue cable line and the Citizens' electric line to Aspinwall. Hoboken is iully two milts from the latter place, and Welsh started to walk home. The Ross bottoms have for years b»en known as a dar.gerous locality, and very lew peoi le cure to travel the road during the dark hours of night. Many mysterious deaths have occured in this vicinity, and the causes of but few of them have been learned. Welsh is a powerful man. Fully 6 feet tall, weighing pounds, and able to take his »itfc any two ordinary men. When he reached the old railroad crossing just below the Allegheny county workhouse three men jumped ont of a fence corner and confronted him. One of the men said: "Is that you. Welshf He raplied: "Yes," and im mediately one of them struck him with a blunt instrument. Welsh was staggered, bnt quickly recovering from the blow and his surprise be shot out his right band and knocked his assailant unconscious. It was then the other two men, or probably five, for Welsh is not positive how many there were, jumped npon him and beat him to to the earth. Welsh struggled hard to free hmself, and gave up only when he felt the keen blade of a knife drawn over his throat The fellow that used the knife muttered threats to kill Welsh, when one ot the men said: "For God's sake, don't kill the man. All we want is bis money." But the fellow wi'.h the knife didn't heed the remark, and slashed Welsh four more times, each time the knife cut the scalp and the blood spurted in great streams. One of the fellows hit him with a handy biily, and Wolsh was rendered nnconscious. When be came to he was in an awful condition. His wounds were bleeding and he was minus sl2. some small change and a gold watch valued at S9O. Welsh managed to reach the elec'ric car. and was taken to Sharpsburg, where Dr. Hujgins attended him, and had him removed to his home in Hoboken. The only trouble expected is from blood pcisioning and if this sets in he will probably die. Welsh has been in charge of a number of roagh men of all classes during the past few years. He always carried consider able money, and his gold watch, and it is thought some of the men he bad formerly bossed are the ones who assaulted and robbed him. He thinks he recognized the voice of one of the men. Constable Jacob Davall, of O'Hara township, is investigating, and every ef fort will be made to apprehend the p«r petrators of the assault and robbery. SAXONBURG. Miss Lulu Stark has gone to Coopers town to stay tor the winter. Captain Ira McJunkiu, of Butler, install ed tte officers of the Odd Fellows Lodge last Monday evening. Have you had any of tha fresh sausage made by Frank Weber. John Sachs returned home from an ex tended trip to Whitestown and reports a new gasser on his lease in that territory. The new railroad and most every on connected witb it were photographed last Monday. Davey Dale and Ike Meals know how to play "The Silent Quaker." Come see ns on the 14th. Miss Edna PfeifTer who is in Pittsburg having her eyes treated, is recovering ber sight slowly but surely. Mrs. A. F, Knoerr snd Mrs Jno. Krumpe are visiting their sisters in Mannington, W. Va. Ben Grim is all right again and will anon be able to resume work. "Groter" left last week but promises to return after the election. Tho new rail rail road officials were in town last week paying off claims for right of way etc. All Lodges in town now meet at 7 o'clock instead of 8. Youug Milt Muder is a dandy,his speech at the pole raising was very good. J. W. McKeo made a trip to Pittsburg last Monday. Last Monday was pension day and the town was filled with old veterans. Miss Laura Krause will have her Fall Millinery opening, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week. Win Dixon of Penn township floated in to town last Monday. Charlie Muh hoi land was a visitor to the county Beat las'. Monday. Come and bring your fr ends with you on the 14th. Mr. Bremau who was kicked by a horse last week, is getting along nicely and is now able to be around. llarry Bremau was at h> me with his parents last Saturday. Miss Phenic Burtner is at Oakdale Alle gheny county attending school. Look oat for the big Republican rally, which will be heM in Saxon!;urg, Wednes day afternoon and evening Oct. 14th. Parade 3pm Col. J M. Thompson and S. F. Bowser are to do the speaking. The Misses Alice »nd Mary McKee are spending a few weeks with relatives in Pit tsburg and Allegheny. A. B. C. McParland and Geo E Robin son of Butler were visitors in Saxon last week. D. E. Bale, Ike Meals, John Jack, E I. Brugh, all from Butler installed the now officers of the Odd Fellows Encampment last Friday evening Miss Cora Horn has received an elegant line of goods direct from New York, and is now having the Fall opening in Hats, Bonnets and Millinery goods You don't have to go to the Pittsburg Exposition to see new and stylish heal gear; just step into Miss Horu.s Store and s«e the latest in the Milliners Linn. I HONKSTI,V believe that William J. Bryan will carry thirty of the forty-five states. —The Hon. Joe Blackburn. The great defect of Mr. Blackburn is his excessive conservatism. He is always cautious and almost timorous of expres sion. How floes he expect so inspire enthusiasm in the Popocratic bosom by such a pale and halting prophecy as that quoted above? He should put more blood and fire into his bulletins. Only thirty States for Bryan? Why, the Hon. Charles James Faulkner "claims" forty six for Bryan. Shall Kentucky be sur passed by West Virginia in this ignoble manner? Must Mr. Blackburn again be reminded of his own inspiring observa tion that "he who dallies is a dastard and he who doubts is damned?"—Fx. MCKINLBY received fourteen delega tions of al>out a thousand each last Satur day and made fourteen speeches. Among the delegations billed for this week is one of two-thousand Confederate vet erans. THE official ballot for this county will contain thirteen columns, and the I'lli 1- adelphi a county thirty-eight, A HEARING in the case of Ritter vs Meredith, (the Senatorial nomination case; will be had before the Judges of Dauphin county, Saturday afternoon; and Mr. Ritter's conferees and some others have been subpoened to attend it. FLORIDA and Georgia held state elec tions Tuesday ami Wednesday, and Ixjth went Democratic as it was expected they would. X-Rays Of testand trial prove Hood's Sarsaparllla to be unequalled for purifying the Mood because Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists, ft. ' Hood's Pills enr ,'ii I,IV. r Ills, ac cento, j , COULTER & «AKI£R. JI I: ATTORNEYS AT LAW. SI IT GOLD. BE IT SILVER? History of the World'* ( olnafr Art OUT- Inn th* La«t Twcnty-fivr \>ar». The facts embraced in the following cjtf fnd/irembra- •• the history of the world, ■>- Mated to coinage, f"r the Inst quarter of a country 1871—Germany adopt••e seen that the action of the various nations has been uniformly in one direction, that of affirm ing the gold standard. •" * MADISON, IS 10: "It is essential that the nation should I po«c«s a currency of ••qual value, | credit and tfse wherever it may circu- I late." • * The DeH Money for Wages* A ULrjre proportion u/ our of mature year« have had an instructive experience that lowering value of any so called dollar legal tender of payment foe their wages is a lowering that is eompen sated to everybody else before compensa tion reaches them. It is a lowering that lifts tha prices of all commodities before it lifts tho rates of their wages. A dollar for work ingincn of the United States means a poorer dollar. The daily wagesof our workingmen and working women are by far tho larger, by far the most important aggregate of wealth to be affected by the degradation of the dollar, or of any legal tender equiv alent of the dollar. All other aggregates of wealth, the accumulations of capitalists, which can only obtain profitable use by being turned over daily in tho wages of workmen and the employment of the cap tains of their industry—all other aggre gates of wealth which remain unemployed in the payment of wages of the day, the month, the year—are not to lie compared in their sum to this gigantic sum. It is this gigantic sum, the wages of la bor, which is assailed by every policy which would male the dollar of the fath ers worth less than its weight in gold. The debt of the United Suites, large us it is, is a wart beside that mountain.— Daniel Manning, I), m ci-atic secretary of thu treasury, in 1 DK ATI IS. GLESS—At the home .•( her danghter. MM. Goobring, in Zelienople. Sept. 20, 189G, Mrs. M. C. Gless, aged 83 jears. 1 KLIBV—At her home in Connoqnenessin if twp., Sunday, Sept. 13, 1890. Mi*B Priscilla J. Ituby. in her 46ih year. BOYLE—At his homo nenr Sugar Creek church, Sept. 25, 189ti. Daniel Boyle, in bin 83rd year. MAHOOI)—At her home in Washington twp, Oct. 4, 1890, Mrs George Muhood. KOONCE—At his homo near Grove City, Oct. 2, 18%. Win Koonce, in his 86'h year, Lie was the father of 11. W. Kounce of Butler. BELL—At his home i:i Concord township, Oct. 5, 1890. Archibald Hell, son ol'the widow Bell, aged about 22 years. KEEPER—At her home in Hutler, Oct. 5. 1890. Emma, wife of Henry W. Keefer, aiied 34 year*. KIIODEN BAI 'G H— At his home in Pitts burg, Oot. 5, 1896 Kev. W 11. Kho denbaugh, aged 40 yoari lie was born in Harmony. ppw ■ gRpYALie-ajij G POWDER Absolutely Pure. Acreain ol tartar basing powder High JKO of all in leavening strength.— Latent Cintcl States Government food Report. Boric. RAKIKO t'owuFit Co . l(»'. Wall at... N. v J. B, BREDIN. Attorney At Law OlTlce on Main St.. near Court llou: . Hutler fa. S. H. PIERSOL. ATTOKNUY AT LAW. OOlce HI No. 104 Kasl Diamond .H' A. T. SCOTT. ATTOKNtn -AT-I.AW. 31.:e ot N». H. Mouth IHatno'-l. Butler. I'e. NEWTON BLACK. itt'y at Law- once on Sow ii Blue of t>lamon< sitoP. O. DR. S. A. JOHNSTON. .3ENTIST, BUTLt'R, PA. Gold Killing I'ulß i K*tr.ip».jn 't "wePi li(l A rllllo';il ;Vi)l li tvii li >;: ' I■ ■ ■!■«!! v ii.ro.is Oxide »r v'lti' >1 Vu or I.HJ. OiPHtll 'tt "* i; ■i. (»mce "«er Mill T'S URU ry east of Lowry ouje, _ clonics osedWeln.!sd»i s ami Thursdays IH»n*t rrottlfp \Hi» Prracb. 1! : .. . . ( th* fr»« «h«r f*r»jr h»T« iKvii -q • 1*- :irr»!rt hyjuvritot Tk«f adv.. ito free silver tm saga. j>rc>t*n (rr**t i:; H_ .l! :i f«-r %vh»t rfcir #MI Hl« eritn* aim:n- - '.V and •erar* with ail tha in\ w ir.ry can 'Wimnad rh«»* whn do r. t . .!,<■ with lk • Senator »f NVTMU. whu n- 'ilver mine*, wake* hi* co»- tr:. > •'i ill gMri. Aaath»r of thrtr notorious . iv- .its* rh* infaiaeu* geld. has vH- 1.-a«ei af hit huatoa in Chi luaile payabl. in tfold and now, chirping contracts i.f their .-aurfirtnt* for T!C» presi dent. Arthur r-ewatl, hava Iwn pws»nud showing that he has all hi. contracts pay able in «<>ld These are farm not question able. for pr.tofs havr I inn »oo abnujani and clear for evun denial. D« ther pro pose to have silver for th« poor man, depreciated to half »h<» value of a «ru« dollar: Are n«t »ueh fasts •uif.currt to show the Ui>o hypwrriiy—H»eivtt i'ress. Our tsraod Aid Mslc. Republicans of rnan*rlv:aila c>aim Su#,- #OO plurality for M.-Winlor l'en»«ylvani« should do Iwtter than that since Tillman has stumped the common wealth. —»pringr field Union. Those who haro l*en predicting that Pennsylvamia would *ivo McKinloy 400,000 majority probably knew all the rtme that Tillman was to speak In that »uite.—Kan • sas City Journal. Sinee Tillman made hi* speaking tour I in Pennsylrania political prophets are . predicting that that stnpw will give Mc ! Kinley < .>).'oo major; fr fan THlinwn b« in the pay of the Hepublican committee?— Wheeling Intelligencer. ! Raise in Cottoa, Perlin* la Stiver. Why don't the freo siivorites explain why cott .n in the past thraa weeks jumped from •>' ? cents a pound n 8.44 ueuts.wkile silver de -lined iu tho utms i>eriod over tluvoceutaaa ounce? —Chattanooga Turns* Why He Figures ;,r in\ MJ it takes figuring just at this time to make both ends meet, atie good. We can't praise our fall stock too highly for never before have we been in shape to offer high grade footwear at such low prices as we are now. Bread Y/inners List Men's Stag Boots s'.s° Boy's Stag Boots 1.35 Youths' Stag Boots i.oo Ladies' Calf and Oil Grain Shoes i.oo Ladies' Warm Shoes 6.sc, 75c and SI.OO Child's School shoes 50c, 75c and #I.OO. We Defy Competition Ladies, Miss, Youths and Chil dren's Rubber Boots at the uniform prices of sj.oo. Boys Rubber Boots, sizes I to 6 $1.50. Men's Felt Boots and Oveis #1.50. Ladies' Neat Felt Boots and Overs f 1,00. Boy's Felt Boots and Overs 1125, for goods and low prices try Butler's Progressive Shoe House. 2i5 South Main St., BUTLER PA 0. E. MILLER, A. M. CH KISTLEY, ATIOUNKY AT LAW. Oftlce r.n North Diamond Ktreer. oppoatto the Court 1 louse- Lower Floor. J IV!. PAINTER, Attorney-at-Law. md Oiarnonrl, Bur ler P» A. 1. BLACK. ATTORN['.Y AT LAW. Koom J—ArnK.ry Building. - I M i R MAN hvhiumi. ,>n'j gruoroi:. Oiileaat no. 1 r>, u-, »•. t > \-t lit '..irraacy. Butler. Fa SAMUEL M. BIPPUS. Physician ind Surgeon, von \t •:< CunMtiirtmip st. H. n. (iOUCHER. All •• r I.' 1 • -at- la. office in Mitchell butldlu Bui Ipt Pa. oa v p fji.„ tor Dentist. Kormerlv l;i.ov.i, n.s (lie "PKEKLKSS PAIN I.LSh h\ri;.\( T')I! OK TKETII." Located Berniane..!ly 111 ill Knst .IrlTerHon Ht.. Opposite Hotel l.owrv. Ituil.-i-. will do Dciiful oW'ra lons or all klinis l>y the latcwt devices nnd up to dale methods. i I. UUfJALDSON, DantlslT" Butlar, Penn'a. Artli: 1.-tl Teeth liwrt'tl on the lat<»t Im .roved plan. «. >l«i ieoee 315 N. Mi Kcan St For bale A forui <1 20 acret-. Tv i:t; n !>e\en roo'.i. 1111- ftiiiid 11 ..it, or. artlrf, ueil water, oU i-pi i>k •1•• li -. t hou»e and ;. uveiili r I out-buililii •< Vr i!l ell cbeap >r < xel. uj e I r tuv.n property, about a liileit Irom Butler. Fur purticularn imjuiru at ti>i* ofiice. {THREE \ STRADE i STIMULATORS. | SI m H .AT, jg ICampbell g TempletonJg ll The Best $lO Decorated Dinner® gli SET m in America, warranted not to S Spl erase, you can buy part of this set if yoo don't want it all, we |g* will match it up for you for the j(Pt next year. {■£< The Best $12.50 Cookj§ STOVE M I A first class store well made, Kg* large oven and guaranteed to jell I be a first class baker, JHO The Best sl6 Bed RoomJK SET H sp£ antique finished, beveled fc|* ors made up in a first class manner and equal to any S2O JSC *g|j suit you can buy elsewhere, | 8 BUTLER, PENN'A, J§ il Silver or Gold +++ l Of any denomination, from ten-cent piece to dol lars, will be cheerfully taken in our boys' and girls department for all solid School Shoes—and the shoes will be the newest of the new, for our entire line of Fall Shoes have arrived. Especial atten < tion is directed to immense line of Service Shoes. ' > One dollar will be < j Taken in Exchange + I For a pair of these Service Shoes to fit a boy or £ . girl of eight. Large or small sizes in proportion. This Service line has been thoroughly tested. This is the third winter for this line. We know * they are good. Every pair wan anted. Boys' * Satin Calf Lace Shoes at 75 cents, sizes 11 to 2. | These are the lowest prices • For New Shoes ► < . For boys, that have been made th Larger sizes 3tosJ, at 85 cents. Boys' all solid boots, and lower prices than you have ever bought !them. i AL RDFF & SON, ; 114 South Hairi Street. j FRANKLIN HOUSE KSTJA HUSHED 1837. Cor. Bates and Larned Sts., DETROIT, MICH. Only a Block from Woodward and JeUersoa Aves. Very Central. Near All Car Line*. H. H. JAMES, Prop i , o- w icjk DKALBft ID Rough and Worked Lumber OF 1U KINIiS Dours, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Shingles and Lath Always In Stock. LIME. HAIR AND PLASTLK Ofllct opponit4 I'. A VV. Depot, PI ILRh Hotel Willard. Reopened and now ready for the accommodation of the travelinjf'pub lie. Everything in 6rst-e bpb Htyle MRS. MATTIE REIHING, Owner M H BROOKS. Clerk. tfTajunnFML drXobb >. |> U 'U NTll Kl\, I'll 11.A.. VA. ii. If 1 HI limn P':w)(.*ln tbrrur»of«ll • ...... 1 f.11.1 mini. 11 .N,i inaltcr fr.im «»b»l . uim or . •• >•' '!iMu:hiK, I v ill iruimtrJM ft mr» . Itc-l'*-" t-iuUi-UouuJ *A4 nil ll«* I tltU. What is Your Need? If you need any thing in the furnish ing line we can sup ply you. It you want a hat or cap we can show you the best Up -To - Date stock in the county, at very low prices. Colbert & Dale. 242 S. Main St., Butler, I'enn'a