The Democrat
FKIDAY, AUGUST 80,1889.
INGALI.B tbjnks Harrison's policy Has
erystalized, but most other people are at
a loss to know what Harrison's policy is.
THE Prohibitionists are apparently as
lively as the proverbal flea and the Re
publicans are not nearly so happy as
they would be otherwise.
THROUGHOUT Italy the principal* towns
are one alter another, providing buildups
for the treatment of hydrophobia accord
ing to Pasteur's system, and the Munici
pal Council of Rome has lately decided to
devote the necessary sum of money to
furnishing a Pasteur institute there. This
isa strong proof of the increasing confi
dence felt in the treatment.
THE last session of the Legislature set
apart September 2d as a legal holiday, to
be dedicated to labor, under the name of
Labor Day. Labor Day being a legal liol
' tpay in this State, the bonks will not l>
open for business, and consequently all
notes drafts, bills, acceptances and simi
lar i bligalions maturing and payable at
sank on that day will be due on the pre- |
vious business day.
VOUDOOISM, according to the Now Or- j
leans papers, is not dying out in that city. !
On the contrary, it is on the increase. It j
will be remembered that a few months ago |
an establishment in that city was raided
and a number of white and colored wo
men were found dancing around an old
voudoo doctor, whose incantations they
imagined benefitted their health. The
Other night a meeting of the same kind
Wa3 held, and it was more numerously at
tended than the former ones.
THE Prohibiten Convention at Harris
burg to nominate a candidate for State
Treasurer is going to be a large and im
posing body. Philadelphia itself will
Send about one hundred and fifty dele
gates. If the Prohibitionists stick to their
own man, as they say they will do, Mr.
Boyer's majority will be a semewhat slim
affair, if indeed he gets any majority at
all. The Prohibitionists and the work
ingmen in the mining districts ought to
slaughter htm between them.
THE people of Vermont are lamenting
the fact that thousands of acres of land
once in cultivation arc now barren and
uncultivated simply because no one wants
to farm them. With 200,000 of her people
living in other States she has 385,000 at
ItOmc. An effort is being made to bring
agricultural people from Sweden to farm
vacant acres. Other States are oon< efned
in like manner, but they can hardly rem
edy the matter. Most of the emigration
Ifl to the West, %
As Oregon fishing company has made
Such a success of its first consignment of ;
frcsli fish for the New York market that j
it talks of extending its business < ml con
verting what has been an experiment into j
a steady supply. The fish are caught j
from steamers which make short, swift
trips to tiie fishing hanks from Portland, I
Oregon. At Portland they are put on
cars and are speeded through to New
York. The Pacific fish trains may yet be
common oi ir trurk lines.
THERE is hardly a school boy who does
not remember when electric lights were
first used to any extent in this country,
and many of tlicm can remember when
the telephone was something of a novelty.
Now the telephone business represent it
least sßo,uoo.oooof invested capital, while
the electric lighting and electric power
intercs ts arc placed as high as >::0U.0(J(I,-
000. These two industries are now in
their Infancy, and what they will amount
to wh en full grown is almost impossible
to imagine.
IT is A singular fact that California ha g
30 Sunday law. There was such a law, i
but it was repealed in 1888 ; yet it cannot
be said that there is any less observance
of Sunday since the repeal of the law.
On the contrary, an investigation shows
th at Sunday is observed more us a Sa- I
creel day this present year than it was |
tko year the law was repealed. All of |
which shows that men are not controlled !
SO much by law as by custom and com-1
mon sense. Every man who works at ail 1
hails Sunday as a day of rest and recrea
tion. lie will have it, law or no law. It
is a necessity. Sunday observance has
become part of our being. It is au un-1
written aw '.hat the shops must be hut
one da j in the week, and it will he for all
time, no difference what men beljuvu, or
what laws they pass or do not enact.
DESCI I ITONH of the new postal cards, |
which IN JU to he issued by tin. depart- |
ment, I ow that the cards themselvc will
he bcai As. There will he three izes
when the c .tracts have been filled. The
first of th • will be much larger than ue j
one uo> i i use, and will be the one n d I
mainly by business men. Its size will <; |
sulfide 1 tt- ndmitof the printing ola 1 s
nr c i! at the top,and still allow plenty
of root for the message below. T et•< -
OI d w ill be of about tbe same size as the
present c-ud, and will be for brief lioth -.
and tlic like. For the ladies, who are !>• - i
ginning to iook irnieh more favorably r 1
on tin mediums of communion' • j
there will be a still smaller one, line, .i i
quality, nd more lesthetic in appearand e.
The old l.uff color gives way in the three
sizes to a whiter shade, which everybody
will welcome. Kick out tbe sickly gr< en
stamp, Mr. Wanamaker, says tlie Phila
delphia Inquirer, and your administration
will be voted a success.
CRIMINAL CA LANDAR.
The following is the list of cases re
turned to the Prothonotary and set down
for trial by District Attorney Fenlon at
the first week of Court, at Ebensburg,
commencing on Monday, September 2d,
1889:
Commonwealth vs. Jacob L. Custer,
larceny; Jacob Rubritz, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Ernest Ashley, lar
ceny; Eby E. Hamilton, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. John Arbter et al,
larceny; Victor Hildebrand, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. M. H. Zundell. lar
ceny; Amos Sulka, prosecutor. ,
Commonwealth vs. Henry and John
Kay, larceny; W. H. Varner, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. John Owens, lar
ceny; Edward Hanagan, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Peter McDonald,
larceny; Herman Walter, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. John Gallagher,
larceny; Thomas Duffy, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. James Thomas alias
Thomas Williams, larceny; E. Golden
hcrg, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Mrs. Annie Ripple,
larceny; Levi J. Ripple, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. William Mullen,
larceny; J A. Boyer, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. John Noll, larceny;
D. T. Sharp, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. George W. Kuck
enbrode, larceny; John Brown, prosecu
tor.
Commonwealth vs. Conrad Lcntz, lar
ceny, Austin S. Hatch, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Levi J. Ripple, lar
ceny; Annie Ripple, prosecutrix.
! Commonwealth vs. A. Yetter, larceny;
Jerry Good, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. William F. Farrell,
1 larceny; C. F. Rudolph, prosecutor.
! Commonwealth vs. Peter Messenger,
| larceny; Frank Berkey, prosecutor.
! Commonwealth vs. Annie Beckel, lar-
I ccny; A. Yost, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Nictor Tomaski,
1 larceny; Campbell Robinson, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. James Sarvcr, lar
ceny; D. T. Sharp, prosecutor,
Commonwealth vs. F. W. Clark, lar
ceny; John P. Lloyd, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Harry Bridge, lar
ceny; Peter Hughes, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Daniel Allison lar
ceny by bailee; Harvey Mabon, prosecu
tor.
Commonwealth vs. Robert L. Hunt,
seduction and fornix etc.; Eliza Jane
Stilller, prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. F. W. Murphy,
highway robbery; George J. Asliton,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. James Felix, Sam
uel Berkeybile, obstructing an officer;
John W. Stork, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Richard Plunkett,
assault and battery upon an officer;
John C. Hanlin, prosecutor.
! Commonwealth vs. Iladcu Weakland,
assault and battery upon an officer; A. J.
| Miller, prosecutor.
j Commonwealth vs. Albert Orris, Wm.
| Horner. Ezra Mock, ci-ulty to animals;
• B. B. Boyer, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Peter Lyon, malic
ious mischief; Enoch Jones, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Frederick Ilohn,
malicious misahief; Thomas Morris,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Felix Mcllugh,
malicious mischief; Ann Baker, prose
cutri x
Commonwealth vs. Patrick Fogarty,
malicious mischief; C. 11. Stifilci, prose
cutor.
Commonwealth vs. Annie L. Frank
houser, murder; William Baker, prose
cutor.
Commonwealth vs. Morris Knox, Wm.
1 Johnston, arson ; S. R. Varner, prose-
I cutor.
j Commonwealth vs. Moris Knox, Wil
liam Johnston, arson; John T. Harris,
! prosecutor.
| Commonwealth vs. Joseph O'Donnell,
j Uriah Montgomery, Edward Montgomery,
arson ; Philip Pritsch, prosecutor.
I Commonwealth vs. Fred Kring, Albert
Kurtz, Adolph Kiel, conspiracy; Wil
liam fcjgodder, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. George Roos, false
pretense; Samuel Masters, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Harry Ellice,
Rub' rt Davis, Susan Davis, E. A. Davis,
riot; Thomas Leahy, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Frank Kinney, ag
gravated assault and battery; Charles Coll
ser, piosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. M. D. Little, aggra
vated assault and battery ; Peter Cord
well, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. B. F. Watkins, W.
J. Watkins, aggravated assault and bat
tery ; William S. Stutzman, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Michael Stibach,
aggravated assault and battery ; William
Connelly, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Lewis Burk, aggra
vated assault and battery ; Annie Davis,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Peter McGoldriek,
John M, McGoldriek, aggravated assault
and battery ; James G. Blaine, prosecu
tor.
Commonwealth vs. Edw. Ream, aggra
vated assault and battery ; William Witt,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Frank Dott, aggra
vated assault and battery ; Morris Oilman,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Adolph Graff,aggra
vated assault and battery : Adam Bohu,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Frank George, as
sault and battery with intent to kill ; J.
C. Williams, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Edward Ream, as
sault and bnttery with intent to kill ;
Theo. Seigb, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Peter Kurtz, assault
and battery with intent to kill; Annie
Francis, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Charles llohan, as
sault and battery with intent to kill ;
Mike Rusice, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. George Scott, car
rying concealed weapons ; L. Uildehrand,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Ed. W. Jones, car
rying concealed weapons ; Cornelius Al
len, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Michael McGoe,
rape : Maggie Ellen Philips, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. John Plunkard,
rape ; Elizabeth Owens, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Edw. Spencer,rape ;
Hannah M. Hollen, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Daniel Inx, assault
with intent to rape ; Charles A. Pearson,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs W'.II. Lufforty, big
amy ; R. B. Dignan, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Joseph Miller,
arson ; Louis Fries, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Emma Ilouch, as
sault and battery ; William Caldwell,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. William Caldwell,
assault and battery ; Emma Houch, pros
ecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Annie Sliircy, as
sault and battery; Rachael Ann Shirey,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Jacob Gates, assault
and battery; Mary Gates, prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Frederick Walden,
assault and battery ; Elizabeth Watson,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Peter Brown, as
sault and battery; Margaret Brown, pros
cutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Peter Brown, assault
and battery; Margaret Brown, prosecu
trix.
Commonwealth vs. William Broderick,
assault and battery ; William Broderick,
Sr., prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Henry Bittner, as
sault and battery; George Redmond,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Benjamin Cooper,
assault and battery; Emanuel Cover, pros
ecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Max Friek, assault
and battery; Louis Newhouse, prosecu
tor.
Commonwealth vs. Samuel Seely, as
sault and battery; Ellen Seely, prosecu
trix.
Commonwealth vs. Luke Bush, assault
and battery ; Jennie Bush, prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. John Gallagher, as
-1 sault and battery; Thomas Duffy, prose
cutor,
Commonwealth vs. Edward Zimmer
man, assault and battery ; Jeremiah Bar
nett, proseeutor.
Commonwealth vs. Henry Stemmer, as
sault and battery; Philip Berg, prosecu
tor.
Commonwealth vs. William Watkins,
assault and battery ; 8. B. Corn, prosecu
tor.
Commonwealth vs. Joseph Miller, as
sault aud battery; Louis Frirz, prosecu
tor.
Commonwealth vs. William Baker, as
sault and battery; Annie Frankliouser,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Henry Diencr, as
sault and battery ; William Rich, prose
cutor.
Commonwealth vs. Simon Boehler, as
sault and battery; Annie Boehler, prose
cutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Charles Foust et al,
riot; John A. Leap, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Barbara Raap,
keeping bawdy house ; Ellen Wisermau,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Adam Smith, selling
liquor on Sunday ; Thomas A. Brown,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Adam Smith, selling
liquor to minors; Thomas A. Brown,
prosecutor.
, Commonwealth vs. Clarence Evans,
fornication and bastardy; Nicholas
Beliey, prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Samuel Bair, forni
catiou and bastardy; Caroline Krise,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. James M. Bowers,
fornicatiou and bastardy ; Annie Ressler,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Benton V. Mostol-
I ler, fornication and bastardy ; Izora Bcr
i key prosecutrix.
1 Commonwealth vs. Jerry Gill, fornica
j !..uu and bastardy ; Annie Tipple, prose
en rix.
Commonwealth vs. Philip Lantzy, for
nication and bastardy; Mary Delaney,
prosecutrix.
Common wealth vs. John Craver, forni
cation am 1 bastardy ; Mary Ann Green,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. William Rhodes,
fornication and bastardy ; Sallie Living
stone, prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Philip W. Stephens,
fornication and bastardy ; Lucy Beckel,
prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. David W. Prlco,
surety of the peace ; Mary C. Price, pros
ecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Joseph R. Bolvin,
surety of the peace ; John H. Rawley,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. James Dougherty,
surety of the peace ; George J. Akers,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Jennie Bush ; sur
ety of the peace ; Michael Bush, prose
cutor.
Commonwealth vs. John Saly, surety of
the peace ; Ellen Saly, prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Henry Beitner, sur
ety of the peace ; George Redmond, pros
ecutor.
Commonwealth vs. Luke A. Bush, sur
ety of the peace ; William A. Gray, prose
cutor.
Commonwealth vs. Michael Broderick,
surety of the peace ; William Broderick,
prosecutor.
Commonwealth vs. William Graham,
surety of the peace ; John Leahy, prose
cutor.
Commonwealth vs. Ethv. C. Binglc,
desertion ; Luclnda Bingle, prosecutrix.
Commonwealth vs. Emanuel Hale, de
sertion ; Mary J. Hale, prosecutrix.
New Furniture Firm.
Messrs. John W. Wonders and W. F.
Burggraf, who arc about to opeu the Con
emaugh "Valley Furniture Company, have
made every arrangement to start with a
large and elegant stock of goods. Their
building is being rapidly pushed, and
they expect to be ready to do business on
September Ist. Tltey are young meu of
experience and ability, and will be pleas
ant gentlemen to deal with. The Altoona
Timet of Friday said : Messrs. John IV.
Wonders and William F. Burggraf, of
Johnstown, came to the city yesterday
morning to meet representatives of var
ious furniture factories located in She
boygan, Wis., Cincinnati, Detroit, Wil
liamsport, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
the purpose in view being the purchase
of an immense stock of furniture, the
two gentlemen named having just formed
what is henceforth to be known us the
" Couemaugh Valley Furniture Com
pany." They are having erected on Clin
ton street, Johnstown, the first perma
nent building put up on that thorough
fare since the recent terrible flood. It is
to be a brick-cased building, 100 by 2?
feet, two stories high, aud will, when
completed, be one of the most commodi
ous and best located business houses in
the New Johnstown. We wish our
worthy friends immense success in their
stupendous enterprise, and are sure that
the wants of the community, coupled
with honest goods and honest dealing,
will bring the returns the new firm hopes
to achieve.
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Another Flood Victim Keportod.
New York World.
It is no doubt a fact that Gov. Beaver,
of Pennsylvania, was killed in the Johns
town dam disaster. The Governor got
tangled up in the relief funds and was
carried beyond lite reaelt of succor.
Flimls From Abroad.
Governor Beaver received another con- i
tributiou of i.COI) Friday from the citi
zens of Berlin for lite dc iitutc people of
Johnstown. This makes the total contri
bution from Berlin about $24,000 and the
grand total from Germany, $31,000.
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
By the Hoard of Education of Johnstown.
JOHNSTOWN, PA., August 6, 1889.
To County, City, and Borough Superinten
dents of Pennsylvania.
As the Boara ot i',(mention of Johns
town, Pennsylvania, we beg leave to pre
sent for your consideration the following
statement of facts touching the educa
tional interests of our city. We do this in
the hope that you may feel justified in ex
tending to us the aid necessary to open
our schools and provide educational
facilities for our children.
The terrible destruction of property and
the bitter suffering of our people by the
flood of May 31st rendered it impossible
for us to secure, by means of taxation,
the money required to mantain our
schools during the current year.
No portion of the money which has
been so generously contributed by a
sympathetic public can be used for pub
lie school purposes, as it will be exhaust
ed in supplying the immediate and press
ing wants of our stricken people.
We have appealed to the Governor of
our State for assistance, but whilst admit
ting the necessities of our position, lie yet
does not feel that he possesses the author
ity to apply to our relief any part of the
educatioual appropriation of the Com
monwealth.
During the past year we had thirty-six
schools, thirty-eight teacher"-', and an en
rollment of nineteen hundred and thirteen
pupils. The expense of maintaining the
schools for this period was in round num
bers $23,000. At the opening of the ap
proaching school term we shall have
eiglittcen hundred children for whom
school accommodations and educational
facilities must be provided. Some of out
school buildings were destroyed, others
are seriously damaged, and we have not
the motley with which to build or repair.
There is, in addition to our loss, a bonded
indebtedness of $12,000, which, with our
reduced valuation through destruction of
property, will bring our indebtedness up
to the limit allowed by the Constitution.
To supply the needful accommodations
and provide the necessary teaching force
will require, for the year, an expenditure
of not less than $25,000. This money we
cannot secure oy taxation or loans, and,
as we have exhausted every other resource
known to us, we now appeal to the edu
cational people of Pennsylvania for aid in
this, our hour of need.
Humanity forbids that our children be
left to roam nbout the streets, subject to
the contaminating influences of street as
sociations. But the cause of the public
schools of this city, in their utter destitu
tion, needs no argument before the school
men of this State. We feel that we have
only to state our need to secure the requi
site aid.
We desire to open the schools at the
usual time, and, to this end, we hope our
friends will be prompt in giving us assur
ances of co-operation. A. small sum
gathered from the citizens of each of the
twenty-two hundred school districts of
the State will not be missed by them, and
will be a blessing to us.
Johnstown has been a prosperous city
in the past, and when she rises, as she
surely will, from the ruin and desolation
which enshroud her at present, her grate
ful people will not forget in their happier
hours the friends whose generous and
sympathetic hands were stretched out to
them in the night of their sorrow and
want. 11. L. COULTER, President.
D. J. JONES, Secretary.
James J. Frouheiscr, Gotlieb Bantly, J.
W. Ilaiuer, Horace It. ltose, John
Von Alt.
FROM OR. E. E. 11IGBEE, SUPERINTENDENT
OF ITItUO INSTItrOTION.
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, ]
DEFARTMKNT of PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, '
QAERISBUEG, August 10, 1889. J
We fully endorse this touching appeal
of the School Directors of Johnstown to
the schoolmen of the State. No interest
has suffered more frotn the disastrous
flood than the schools. They need imme
diate help, and surely it will be given.
Let every borough, city, and county su
perintendent take prompt measures to
gather contributions, and forward the
same at once to the School Board at
Johnstown, that the schools may be
opened and the children gathered into
them.
Our peoplo will not neglect such a
challenge as this upon their generous
sympathy. They will not see destitute
parents, their property and their fiicuds
buried beneath the flood, suffering the
additional misery of being deprived of all
opportunity of schools for their children.
They will respond to this appeal.
No superintendent, therefore, need lies- '
itate a single moment to organize the |
work of soliciting contributions,by teach- I
ers and others, that sufficient funds may '
be secured to start the schools into opera- I
tiou. Then the busy hum of happy cliil-1
drcn at their studies may help to drive
away the sad memory of the horrors
through which the wrecked city lias
passed. Very Respectfully,
E. E. HIOUEE,
Sup't. of Public Instruction.
Search for Photographs of Dead Children
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
8. C. Poland, of No. 2GO Stonycrcek
street, Johnstown, very much desires to |
secure the names and addresses of two j
photographers who visited Johnstown j
last summer and made pictures of busi
ness houses. He believes they belonged ]
to Allegheny City. One was a journey- j
man and the other was his assistant. In
the flood Mr. Poland's children were
drowned. He and his wife have no por
traits of their lost darlings, but they re
call that one day las' sunup- • tlie children
stood i.i front of a stoic where the photo- (
grapher was at work. Their photograph 1
in the pictures were perfect. Now the
parents want a copy of that picture.
OCR BOROUGH OFFICIALS.
Prompt Action to Provide for exigencies
Demanded—No More Time to Lose, in
Further Inaction.
What is the matter with our represen
tative people ? At the speecial meeting
called for tiie Board of Trade, on Saturday
night, only two members put In an ap
pearance.
Our borough Councils since the Hood
have only held one or two meetings, and
nothing has been done.
The municipality is in bail shape, and
it behooves those who represent the peo
ple, to hustle themselves and get matters
on a better basis. Here it is now over
twelve weeks since the flood, and no at
tempt whatever has been made by the
authorities of Johnstown, to get the affairs
of the borougli into shape again.
The iron belonging to the bridges that
were washed away, all lies in the river,
and should be fished out and takeu care
of. We need bridges the worst kind of
away. The present flimsy structures
will not stand the force of a heavy rain.
The djsastrous i ui-u-quences of a consid
erable rise in the rivers are so apparent
that it is criminal negligence not tospecitily
provide for the smile.
Good bridges must be built, and the
sooner steps are taken in that direction,
the better. It is folly to wait until the
present oiu s, erected only for an emer
geuey, are swept away. But this is bound
to come, ami everyday brings the date
nearer, and if immediate action is not
taken, wc will all sutler the consequences
of the folly of delay.
To provide for the emergencies that are
filmost sure to overtake us, there should
be foldings across the river, one near
each bridge nt nnvrafe. But here are our
borough authorities sitting on their
haunches anil making no attempt to clear
out a place for fording the river. Now,
while the river is low, is the time to do
this work, and not when the bridges are
swept away by high waters, when there
will be no convenience nor time for do
ing the work. Johnstown always has
had need for boats, the occasion Imsarisen
frequently of In e. It will arise again and
from past experiences it would seem an
act of only ordinary prudence that the
municipality should keep a few good
boats at convenient places for public use
Whether from iua -tivity, incompetency,
or what, the t.-IHcinl* of Johnstown bor
ough have bun very dilatory, and their
inaction has caused much criticism, not
only from tin citizens of the place but
from people if distant places who have
taken tin interest in our :"iirs.
Now Mr. Largess, gentlemen of the
Johnstown borough Council, as well as
the officials • the aiij lining boroughs, it
is time to v.ake up. K IUSC yourselves to
Immediate ae'l >n, take cognizance of the
wants of the people, uiul it is not too lute
yet to partly redeem yourselves from the
charges of incapability so freely made.
Provision must he made for the high
waters that are sine to come, and Un
people wul stand by any proper
measures yon may take for that purpose.
Kiel-trie Genius.
Gnlltl/ln Virn.li or.
Masti. I'- eir, i -iinul, of Pittsburgh, a
fourteen-yi -r-old boy. who is visiting his
uncle, Mr. W R. Go" i d, of this place, is
certainly ■ electric genius. He has a
fair knti-vl ilge of telegraphy, anil since
he came he lias fitted up different elec
tric upp'hi.ices for Mr. Conrad, anil Is
about to A op the Catholic Pastoral res
idence i - ti-is p! ce, with an electric ap
pliance. lie i,s also invented an appli
ance to replace i-id telegraph wires with
new one- iluout cutting the circuit. At
the rate in is ogress big he promises to
be one of t-,e it eh etricians of the fu
ture.
Near Corner Vain an ' Market .Street*.
To thr KM tor of lh ' John?- <•// Di'inocrat.
1 huve noticed in your paper several j
times that prisoners were ordered to he '
taken to the hospital by the Burgess.
Will you kindly intorm me where the hos
pital is located, aud what doctor is in
charge of it? Attxti G.
With pleasure, Annie G. The hospital
was, until recently, located by reason of a
certain powerful agent over which the
authorities lmd no control, near the cor
ner of Lincoln and Walnut streets. Like \
Alladin's palace, it was transferred there i
almost in the twiuking of an eye. Sev
eral days ago it was removed by artisans
experienced in the art of handling inck
screws and rollers to its piuscui location
on Market street near Main. It is a thing
of beauty both internally and externally,
but the inside rather overtops the out
side. The physicians in charge are Drs.
Horrell and Harris, anil tlieir knowledge
of medico-legal law is profound. We
would like to whisper in your left auricu
lar, however, Annie, that Dr. Harris runs
the shop. This in confidence. If you j
would like to inspect the hospital, it is j
probable there would be a good many
yards of red-tape used before you could
get a pass. The surest way to get a view
of the frescoed walls and tread the mosaic
floors is to put yourself outside about live
quarts of beer and lay down some even
ing, say on Washington street, near the
B. &0. depot. After you have stretched
your lithe form preparatory to a snooze,
a pair of the Shah's dodos (they always
travel in pairs) will swoop down on you
and in the morning Dr. Harris will see
that the portals am opened uuto you—for
five days. |
UelutMWd t Leeehborg.
Mr. 11. F. Hill, formerly of Leechburg, !
hut for a long time a resident of .J oh us- ;
town, lost his six year old daughter, Ivy, j
from liis residence No. 22* Washington |
street. The child was a twin, lier sister. 1
Myrtle, and the rest of the family being
saved. The body of little Ivy was rec"v
tired on the eia of tiii month, in til • cel
lar of 1 u.'.Cf. en Vine street, and tern
pornrily Intent" \ here Mr. If ill had tin
body lifted yesterday anil this morning
will leave on the (5:38 train for Lecchbiin . I
where it will oe interred in the family
plot in tlic cemetery at that place.
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TWO DM'UESSINO ACCIDENTS.
Three ( Mhlren Injured My till KX))1OBIOD of
Powder, and ** Little Girl Severely*!
Scalded.
Mr. David Castlow keeps a hotel at No. |
388 Railroad street, Coneimiugh borough.
Mr. George Ripple is a near neighbor.
Late Friday afternoon Clara May
Castlow, aged live, and John and Lizzie
Ripple, aged respectively six and eight
years, were playing in the yard of a j
neighbor, Mr. Fogle, with George Gey-1
hart, 1 ten.
Bv some means a can, once used to |
hold cough drops, but containg several •'
pound of powder, was found by the chil- •
dren. Little John Ripple went to the !
house for a match, young Gephurt gave i
him his hat to put over the euu, and then J
retiring a safe distance, watched hint ex- (
plode the " firecracker " as they called it. t
In an instant there was a flash, and three 5
little blackened forms laying in the yard.
Neighbors tenderly bore them to the house .
and Doctor Kistlcr, who had been hastily
summoLud, dressed their wounds. Little
John was injured most severely. Hoi
'must have been bending over the car.
when it exploded, for his face a d breast
are severely burned ami also bis limbs.)
C'lara Costlow was burned in tlie face and'
stomach, it is feared they inhaled the
flame and IJr. tCisller fears they cannot
recover. Lizzie Ripple was the leas' irL
jured, site is burned in various places'. <
Site says young Gephart, who escaped! 1
uninjured, found the can and told her
brother to light it. Ttte amount of pow.
der it contained must have been cou-id-f
erable, for top nut! bottom are blown out
and its ides are perforated.
The children were made as comfortable
as possible and late in the evening were '
resting quietly.
About 1 o'clock yesterday as. Mrs
Michael .McCanu, of Coal stnet, (.V
--nuuigh borough, was lifting a bitsin of
hot wafer from the stove, her little daugll
ter Annie, aged six, ran violently ttguir-f
her. The basin was upset one the face
neck of tiie child, can ing very so
ami painful wounds. Dr. Sheridan at'i
tended the little sufferer, anil while ro '|
nouncing the case very serious dot:- not 1
think it fetal.
BACK FROM mi. ivitsr.
u ill i iMt'hee ami i- aintly Keturif l-'riKUfl
a Visit in l„wa.
.Mr. \\ ill C. Loutlier, wife and child re f
turned on Saturday morning trom Water- yi
100, lowa, where they iiad been on a visit |
to ins wife's relatives. During his st ,*
Mr. Loutlier traveled around eonsideiably
and everywhere much sympathy was oxjr
pressed for the Johnstown people. A
great deal of money is yet hel , .Mr.
Loutlier says, l>y ditferent cities that war
contributed for the sufferers hi ri, tiuj
which iias not yet been sent on accounts
the manner in which the Commission if
managing the ilistribu ion. The roc real
lion which was uffordeil scorns to have
benefitted Mr. Louther, as he is lookim* •
remarkably well after tiis trip, but th
stoi which he tells about the lemonade U
the -vest being responsible for his red uo j
A 11 not take among his friends here wins .
km- him best, as he was never known ti|
be particularly partial to that beverage. '{B
The Morrell Institute. ,
The cireul ir letter of our Board of Kdp
cation recalls the fact that another iusutu*
lion, wliich iias been a great help t
Johnstown youths by affording the uicaii J
of an education to many whom the publb
scliools could not reach, iias suffered li
the late calamity.
Beginning as a commercial and ai |
school it had grown under able manages
meat until its faculty numbered half : i
dozen skilled instructors, and its dep.'.*>
ruciits cmbraceit the usual curriculum (
an academy, together with the school o.
art ami music, in which its instruction
was excellent and excelled many of thy >
more pretentious and more widely know,'
institutions of larger cities.
The large Morrell homestead hud it
ceutly been leased and fitted up for tin
accommodation of several hundred sti
dents. Mr. Sanders, a well-known in
structor, was to have had a Normal ddra
during the summer, and in May there we
an attendance of about two hundred an
fifty, many of them night pupils wh
worked during the day. Twenty-five o
thirty lost their lives when the town wjif
destroyed.
The management intend reopening th
Commercial and Depaitinent of F.nglk
about October Ist. A corps of teach,e
will then be added as soon as possibl
A catalogue will be made out, giving o
account of what was previously done,a
plans for future work. In Jnnuary tl
music and art department will be reaper
ed. The rooms are now being recarpete
and refurnished, and will be rinds
September Ist for occupancy. Studei
are waiting for the school to op£n, an '
notwithstanding its losses, a good yet
seems to be before Morrell Instituti
The heads of the school, Messrs. Benin
and Greer, deserve all encourngemei
LATE reports from St. Paul annount
that the Northwestern wheat crop, r
ecntly put down us a partial failure, wi
turn out better than an average ere
Recent rains and cooler weather ha
worked wonders with the pawh
and shriveled grain. It is .ill
shrewdly hinted that the sickly uppe:'
apce presented by the wheat fiif l
to the eyes of the farmers just before t
harvest was caused by an anxiety to sta
the crop out upon the market at a got
ligure. The Jersey and Delaware peai
crops arc invariably reported as n "fij
tiro " a few weeks in advance, but as tl|
regularly get into market all right, n|
the " failure " stories lmve long cense®
e'tract much attention. The gmi>'
ure reports will soon come to be iooL
upon as ol' little more consequence.