The Democrat.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER,I3 1889.
THE Shall lias left Paris for Baden. If
all the stories are true, the Shah is rather
a had 'un himself.
THERE must be something terribly
tragic about an electric execution when a
big theatrical company orders a whole
outfit and will uso it in one ot their plays,
introducing a beautiful girl a- the victim.
THE Schuylkill valleys are just now ex
periencing an industrial boom, several of
the iron works having started up this
week with large forces of men at increased
rates of wages. Reading, Seyfert's
station and Pottstown industries are
among those that seem inspired with new
life.
REV. JOHN JASPER, the colored minister
of • Richmond, whose views on the sun
have made hint celebrated, has been
preaching since 1840. lie was a slave
when he professed Christianity, and his
first religious labor was performed amoDg
iris fellow workmen in a Richmond to
bacco factory.
WHEN the Susquehanna county Repub
lican Convention met in Montrose the
other day lion. Galusha A. Grow made a
speech In which he told the delegates that
it is useless to try to fight for Prohibition
in the Republican party; Dial true Re
publicans must accept high license and
henceforth lot Prohibition severely alone.
Mit. DAVID DUDLEY FIEI.O, in a recent
speech before the American Bar Associa
tion, referring to the tardiness of justice
in this country, said : "So far as lam
aware, there is no other country calling
itself civilized, where it takes so long to
punish a criminal, and so many years to
got a final decision between man and
man."
WE HAVE been too apt to ridicule the
Salvation Army. As everybody knows,
there is a tremendous strike now in the
city of London. This has caused much
distress, not the least of which is hunger.
And this among God's poor. But listen .' j
The cable brings the intelligence that the J
Salvation Army over there is busily em- a
ployed in feeding the hungry women and
children of the strikers. The Salvation j
Army deserves applause for this at least. I
*
THIS IS a year of big figures in the crop
world. There will be about 500,000,01-9
bushels of wheat, 2,000.000,000 bushels of j
corn and almost 8,000,000 bales of cotton, j
to say nothing of the large crops of oats j
and potatoes. Taking in the aggregate j
these arc the largest crops we have ever i
grown. There is an abundance for every >
man, woman and child iu the hand, mil- j
lions for export to k" : s favored countries.
Truly, this is a land of abundance, a veri- j
table Canaan. . i
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THE "City of Paris," of the lnman i
Line of Ocean steamships, has not only j
beaten the record of all other steamships
cronsing the Atlantic, but last week it j
beat its own record by nearly four hours. !
Its time from Queenstown to S; tidy
Hook was live days, nineteen hours and I *
eighteen minutes. P L a good tiling to j
lower the records if it can ho doac safely, i
Modern civilization obi ie rates time and!
distance, but often at the expense of afe
ty. In ocean travel it is better to go slow
than to go down.
A MASSACHUSETTS law provides that the
physician shall receive a fee of twenty
live cents for eaeh birth reported. This
wL. help secure a bettor and more accu
rate compilation of vst.ai statistics than
obtains in this State, where physicians
may or may not report births. That
there is need of some ■ . stem of regis
tration that is reliable is conceded, and
if the payment of a small sum will in
sure a complete list of these important
episodes, that inducement had better be
offered.
MU.FOHD, one of the oldest towns in
Southern Connecticut, on Wednesday last
celebrated on a grand scale its 200th anni
versary. Among the features of the
parade were " ilo-.tts " representing the
purchase of the town from the Indians;
the old stone mill, for corn, of which the
grinding-stones were brought from Eng
land and set up William Fowler in 1039;
an Indian wigwam, an Indian canoe, a
lot of squaws, all alive, and many inter
esting things. Among other features of
the day was the bapiism iu the Wepowaug
river, of a ten-year-old boy, the tenth
William Fowler, on the spot where the
settler set up his mid.
EIGHTY thou- d Americans have gone
to Europe thus far Ibis year, on tours of
pleasure or husiin- . ol putting the ex
penditures of eaeii while in the Old
World, at y-' 1 Of), imounts to #8,000.000
spent mostly to h< c.-vice, and passage
to and from the i i.iicd Plates, which is a
small average. Ol tins *O,OOO. one half
will spend S3OO c- ;h, bicli will run the |
expenditures up ' o 13,000,000 more, |
which will maki an myregato of $20,-!
000,000 thus far tumid lo Europe by !
American tourists tli y ,r. It is more j
money than i b (lie I'nitcd
States by individua. ti i Europe, visit
ing hero in ten year
Diri.irrn is stil! )•<- . and promises,
ere long, to even cciip- - e glowing pic
ture of it cominir greu moss drawn by the
Hon. J. Proctor Knott in a speech in
Congress, which madi him famous. At (
tho present time the. re more than one (
hundred elegant new >< idences being {
erected in Duluth, to say nothing of the ]
great number of inferior dwellings which a
arc being rushed up to accommodate the J
new arrivals. The new car works are
just being opened, and six hundred men
will commence work in tiiem this week.
It is estimated that 2,500 men will be
needed iu the shops to fill present orders
before one year. Duluth is fast becoming
the centre of the iron industries of the
Northwest.
Ws can have little idea of the promi
nence of the Chinence in San Francisco,
but it is graphically presented in the ac
counts of the festivities on Sunday in
honor of the god of charity. Imagine in
our own country, iu one of the greatest
of our cities, a solemn procession of a
thousand Chinamen in magnificent cos
tumes escorting a wonderful dragon a
hundred feet long,ingeniously constructed
so as to writhe and squirm along between
its forty guards, and preceded and follow
ed by gorgeously arrayed allegorical
figures in the highest style of peculiar
Chinese art. This procession passed
through dense crowds of Mongoliaus,
who looked on with superstitious awe
and felt and looked as thoroughly un-
American as if they had been ott the
other side of the Pacific.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, saysthe Lan
caster New Em, a dozen varieties of to.
mntoes were all that were known to tin
market gardehers. To-day there is an
exhibition of these vegetables in New
York which includes more than eighty
varieties, ranging from the "Strawberry."
which is about as large as a hazel nut, to
" Livingston's Perfection," which is as
large as a good sized mushmelon. The
colors are nearly as many as the names.
Of course the greater number are red or
shades of that color, but some are yellow,
green and even brown. The shapes are ;
also very many, and the tomatoe- are .
named after the fruit they resemble, sue.- ;
as the cherry tomatoes, plum tom.-.i- < ■ |
the pear tomatoe and the currant tomuto
One variety, the. peach tomato, lias si
light, downy skin, and at a distance, re
sembles a peach. Cureiul selection of
seed and hybridizing have wrought those
results.
AN OLD-TIME MU EI.IM'.
A correspondent of a New York paper
asked where he can obtain George Lip-
I pard's works. He has looked far anil
i wide and has failed.to find tlu-m. And
| yet only yesterday, so to speak, George i
Lippard was famous. In the Inst gem :a- j
| tion he was one of the most pop .?ar !
! American novelists. He wrote book after
J book and everybody read them and j
■ eagerly called for more. Of all the sen-1
i Hational and lurid story-writers that this
i country has produced he was ens tly
] the first, llis imagination was boundless
j and riotous. His style was blood
! curdling.
Lippard leaped into the noonday Maze
j of notoriety at once, and became as p p
! ular in his day as Rider Haggard is in
'ours. He was no penny-a-liner tram the
! slums, no dime novelist, no hack writer
for tlie blood ami thunder weeklies. He
was a master of the mysteries of soma- j
tional story-telling, and lie wrote good I
English. Daniel Webster was certainly a
man of good literary Judgment. If lie
could find Lippard's romances fascinat
ing it is fair to suppose they had merit.
The great statesman was au enthusiastic
admirer of the novelist. He pronounced
him a man of genius, and predicted en
during fame for his works.
But where are these once popular
novels to-day, and who knows anything
about their author? Even in New York,
a city full of book stores, one lias to ap
peal to the newspapers to answci the ques
tion. Just what happened to Lippard will
befall many a man who is now working
like a slave to win fame and fortune.
To-day a man's name is ringing through
the land ; to-morrow it will lie remem
bered by a few, and day after to-morrow
men will write to the newspapers asking
whether tlio man really lived or was only
a myth. Bitch is fame in ninety-nine
eases out of one hundred. But men will
long for it, fight for ii and die for it to
the end of the world. .
Marriage Licenses.
(John Knelth Cambria borough
Vruresa Erne Cambria borough
( Kobert s. Jordan lohinuown
I eella Klioads lolinstown
(Isaac Kauffniar somerset county
(Susan Hanson Somerset county
I.'•'rank I-lister concmaugli borough
(Kate Boxler Wootlvale
(George Gates Morreltvllle
(Prose-Ilia Woolf MorrellviUe
(John Kessler Conomaugh borough
(Mary Woss Croyle township
j Frank McCaffery Nolo, Indiana county
(Kate Flecker. Mitchell's Mills,lndiana county
(John Price Johnston a
(Ellen Davis Pittsburgh i
(Sidney Clcmenoe wnrtiingu . :
(Mary Uelmun Washington |
/Lewis K ring ... Adams township
(Lizzie lthoads \dants township
l James bowers Lower Yoder
i Annie Bessler coo(iersdale
I Amos Campbell Blnekllck township
(M. E. Makin Blackllck township
ILawrence Nothholfer Kieltland township
(Mary sarlouis lUelilaud township
j Lawrence Hammond Nlektown
(Jennie McOOmble bail township
JD. 1L Kreame lolinstown
(Elizabeth Stewart rohnstown
iDaniel Williams. Pittsburgh
(Kate Williams I Listings
(Samuel J.'-nhnrt lolinstown
(Maggie Phillips Johnstown
(Harry Lehmiro xichiand township
(Martha orris Ulchland township
(J. J. Mcoeaiy oalUtzln
(Bid Klley GaUltzln
(l)anlcl llanlln Aslivlllo
(Mary Hollls Coalport
j William Livingston somerset eounty
I Elizabeth Keafer .. .Upper yoder
(Charles Williams Keepers Stonycreek
(Lizzie Beatrice Menscr Stonycreek
(Charles Glook Johnstown
(Etta Swank lolinstown
(Edward waltz Elder township
(Martha Abel Elder towhship (
—
At Mt. Gretna.
Quartermaster J. it. Beano, a son of j
Gapt. Hamilton, and Private Smith, from i
Camp Hamilton, were at the rifle con- i
test at Mt. Gretna. Mr. Smith is a mem- I
ber of the team, and Quartermaster I
iSonne kept the score. Twenty prizes, I
amounting to SSOO wero distributed. Adj. i
Roll, of tlie 14th regiment, securing one. |
Til KICK HUNDKKI) KILLED. I
One Tliouhhiiil Person*, Mostly Women, nre '
Injured—The Explosion Cnnaed by Tak
ing Old Cartridges to Pieces.
The explosiou in a dynamite cartridge
factory in Antwerp, on Friday, caused
the lo9b of 300 or more lives, and the
wounding of nearly 1,000 persons. Every
employe in the immediate vicinity of the
first explosion was blown to pieces, so
that it is impossible to tell how the acci
dent occurred, but it is probable that
some oue dropped a package of the ter
rible explosive. The cartridge factory
was situated behind the docks upon
which millions of cartridges were being
loaded. Tt was adjacent to the petroleum
stores, and two huge Russian petroleum
warehouses were set on fire and destroyed
with their contents. The bourse is in
the near neighborhood, and the building
was struck by Hying fnigmeuts and set on
tire. The structure was crowded with
bunkers and business men and they rushed
out. trampling one another down in their
fright. The factory was completely torn
to pieces and all the building in the
immediate vicinity shattered. The dam
age to property is enormous, but is light
ly regarded in view of the dreadful loss of
life.
The polic", gendarmes and troops were
at-once summoned to assist the firemen
in extinguishing the flames and extricat
ing the wounded and the bodies of the
dead. A strong cordon of troops kept
back the crowd, but outside of this wall
of bayonets was a pitiful throng of weep
ing wives and mothers. A large number
■of the employes were girls. The roll of
the dead is "simply the list of employes
the building, less those found among the
; wounded and the few who returned to
their homes. Of the killing there is but
; a mass of dismembered limbs and man
| gled trunks of bodies. The wounded
i arc ulso horribly disfigured and many will
die. As the wounded were brought out
they were tickuu in charge by the priest
and sisters of charity. All that the for
mer in many cases were able to do was to
shrive the dying. • They were conveyed
to the hospitals and everything possible
done to alleviate their sufferings.
The explosion occured in a work-shop
where old cartridges were being taken to
pieces. Men and women .were actively
i engaged at breaking them up and 25,000,•
I 000 had been partly broken,
i The dense black smoke lrcm the burn
, ing petroleum hung all day like a pall
over the city and Friday night it reflected
the glare of the flames, which are still
i raging. The fire now covers two acres,
the flames shoot up to an immense height.
Amid the roar of the flames there is a con
tinuous succession of loud reports, sup
posed to be from the ignition and explo
sion of packages of cartridges. Beyond
the Russian tanks and Noble's sheds there
are numerous houses burning. The ship
ping at tlie African and American docks
is in danger. It will be impossible to ex
tinguish tiie flames in less than twenty
four hours. Several vessels have been
I burned. Owing to the intense heat the
firemen are unable to approach the flames
nearer than one hundred yards.
The explosions continued until afler
midnight. At the American docks all
the ships have been saved owing to the
favorable direction of the wind. The
stained windows of tiie cathedral are
smashed and it is feared that the steeple
will collapse. The whole vicinity is
strown with debris. The dock sheds ami
hydraulic cranes are greatly damaged, .
The soldiers of the garrison and a large I
number of citizens are assisting the lire-;
men. Many are dropping from suffoca- ,j
tion. The scenes of the hospitals are !
heartrending. King Leopold has sent a i
telegram expressing sympathy and asking i
for particulars.
The explosion occurred in the Corvilei
an Catridge factory. This establishment
had been condcmcd by the Communal
Council, but the deputation permanente
allowed work to continue. The people
are incensed at the deputation permante
for allowing work to continue in the cart
ridge factory.
The victims are mostly factory girls.
Windows three miles distant were shat
tered by the explosion.
Wlutt Woman Can I><>.
She can come to a conclusion without
the slightest trouble of reasoning on it.
and no sane man can do that.
Six of them can talk at once and get
along first rate, and no two men can do
that.
! She can safely stiek fifty pins in her
dies* while lie is getting one under his
thumb nail.
Site is cool as a cucumber in half a
dozen tight dresses, while a man will
sweat and fume and growl in a loose
shirt.
She can walk half the night with n '
colicky baby in her arms without once ex- j
pressing the desire of murdering the in
fant.
She can but what is the use? A woman
can do anything and everything and do it
well.
She can do more in a minute than a man
can do in an hour, and do it better.
She can say " no " in such a low voice
that it means " yes. "
♦ ♦
Exaggerated ltepiuts.
With all that is being said and printed
by certain people here, and some people
east and west of us, we do not believe 1
there is any more sickness in Johnstown i
than is usual at this season of the year.
In fact, we doubt if there are as many 1
eases of malarial and typhoid fevers in
and about town, as there are in and about
such supposed healthy localities as moun
tain sections of this and Somerset coun
ties. Taking tiie much larger population '
of Johnstown into consideration, our in- i
formation justifies the statement that |
there are fewer instances of deaths here
than in the aforesaid sections that boast
so much about pure water and health- I
promoting air. s
IM POUT AN I' COMMITTEE.
Tke Committee <>t Eirieen l.einlmg Citizens
Appointed ly 11,•- Itojir.i ~f Trade to
tAge CiiiiHolldatloii „r the MormigliH,
D'e-Iyinu ~f tl,e tllve.-R, ami to Pincme
Aid Cv.tni tlie National ami stale Oov- 1
eminent*.
At a reeeht lmcling of tln, Board of >'
Trade, resolutions ivr:e adopted favoring
the consolidation of tin- different lior- (
ougbs iii this vicinity under . city char
ter, to urge the rebuilding of the bridges, 1
cleaning out I lie rivers, and providing for 1
tlie ii|>pointmeiit of a com mil ice id lil'lei U 1
to attend to Ibis ini|>oit< tit dutv. i
The following i* |tn- work mapped out *
for this committee to perform : •• |'o ine< I l
witli the Councils ami citizens or ,u u '
several municipalities.: to counsel \ ith '
Senators Cameron and tjuay, m d with
Congressman Scull, n. 1 prepare and
provide proper matter pr> cure aid from
our National or N'*ic government- in
dredging our rivers-ami protecting their
embankments." pie-ulcm James (.Juiim.
Secretary George V,. Wagoner, and s.
Dean ClUian. of iVi Board id Tinde, Wen
apponled to sckvt tiie number- of tin
committci. 'I Ik-c gentleim-ii mil yes
terday afternrs.o ami appointed the fol
lowing named g* iiileinen to perornt Toe
diuies mentioned : lletiiian Bautiter.
Scott Dibert. I*. S. Fisher. John Hani.an,
Thomas E. J.towc, Thomas L. Johnson,
Charles. l. Mayer, G. W. Moses, A. J.
Moxhant, Ja i lies Mr.,iUlen. John M. I<ue.
11. W. Storey, George T. Swank, L. D.
Woodruff. B. L. Ycacley.
Johns!own Jew. !. is Uoil.m, thus).
" There's one Joliiisii,.vn industry that
is just booming." -al l a travel ho ill
passed through theCoi.emntigii Valli v o,
his journey eastward. " Tie jewelers an
up to their ears in business. Tliev -ire
toiling night ami day, vet the pile of
watches and clocks that are waiting to Is
repaired seems never to grow less. Many
of the watches were carried through the
flood by fortunate survivors ; others were
taken from the bodies of the dead ; semi
of tlion passed daw iu flic w nier, and are
grown so rusty tint the purchase of a
new timepiece would be a far greatei
economy than the repui'-imv of the old
one. But every i tie r. • .ids awa Mi that
lias come through 'he Coneiiiangli deluge
as a i Invaluable relic, ami some pi rsuns
are willing to expeml thrice the original
price to have their witches put -In good
running order. To set straight a time
piece that lots siep' through days and
nights in the bed of the OOneimiuah. or
floftti (I on the surface of the river iu the
pocket of some person is a task that re
quires nice skill and rim pioieiiee. The I
work is necessarily very slow, but it pays J
well. In some cases one 'work man wilt'
spend an entire wek over.one timepiece, i
and. as every otte of tlie half dozen jew- |
clry shops of lite town ha- eiic hundred or 1
more battered ape •intent . the clock-1
makers'art awaiting tneir turns, it lock
as if the jewelers' boettt would last o!
winter.
A Cirutt-hi* VisHttlloii.
One of the most guileful visitations our ,
lown has bet u honored with was the
timely moist it re oi tl e past few days. L
etitne gt nth - , mildly, and altogether tut !
like thai which rushed down upon its in
such an overwhelmingly destructive foret '
on the 111-fated Friday of May 3tst. Tin
'.shower of T . snay w.t- supplemented by
a tolerably steady down-pour of several
hours on yesterday forenoon, which had
not only the effect of allaying the several
inches of dust, but of materially cooling
the atmosphere. If the clerk, who i- '
popularly believed to pre-ide over the
weather department, will only cause the
clouds to pour out a suflici' quantity of
the water 'ley contain, to give our almost
dried tt, creeks such an upward tendency
as to carry off the refuse matter that now
clogs ttu their channels, our citizens will
be ready to vote thanks with a unanimous
voice.
Tin* Keslllt of the Johnstown Flooit.
Lancaster I ntelllgeneer.
George Nauntan, attorney for M. S. ami
Abide W. Davis, entered a suit this after
noon in the Court of Common Pleas
against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. The plaintiffs were passengers on
the Day Express caught by the llocd at
Oonemaugh which destroyed Johnstown,
and all their baggage was swept away. |
The suit is brought to recover the value J
of the baggage. The statement of the
articles destroyed has not yet been tiled,
but the loss sustained by Mr. Davis is
about $1,500.
The Kubrit/.-Ciifiti-i <
In the case in which Jacob Rubritzhad
prosecuted Jacob L. Custer for larceny,
which was tried at Court yesterday, the
jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
Although it is quite likely that the money
belonged to Rubritz's father, as claimed,
and was lost, In the flood, yet there was
no means of identifying it. The money
will now he turned over to the Committee
on Valuables, where, if Rubritz can sub- J
stantiate his claim, he will likely get it. ,
ICulhim) Mori* Than Whs Ah1<o(I. I
The Committee appointed to solicit 1
funds for tlie institution of tlie South '
Fork Fishing Club investigation met last *
niglit In the John Tltonuts building. It t
was found that considerable more money
hail been raised than was at first asked.
No further action was taken by those ,
present.
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Tin* •!o!iiihlo\vii School Fund'
Somerset Herald. f
A subscription fund was started at Ber- f
lin on last Friday, and by Saturday even- I
ing nearly one hundred dollars had ti
been contributed. We hope to hear t
equally encouraging reports from other e
parts of the country. Full statcmcuts t
will be made later. s
TIIE KELXKP >1 >'(•.
.Johnstown. P.-, . A ; ii-nihfr S. r
To th' I'lll'< -I ' of th .. . . in-'- h . .-ml •
The e'iito! of tin- /'.-/'iK-rieiti :.-i i iliro'i.tl
lasl no lit n.aki x soon- r.iHtrmvii'f legard
ing "u- deluy i.i iE.c id-liiMilii n of tin
ivi' i fund tliiit, wiii viNin h l • -crutiny.
A Jr. Swank is a lie-in.ni of tin- Finance
(A • tioi.il Ino llu-sc -DDi-monls iifo iM'.f hat
-i iiiii a i. Thepnhu; ill l hit i: ..I 'his
m-li oillcial. or-.-iiii-offi. i.ti ocm-nt
fmm „-y member of tois i.n.ro-' inly,
nod .in- occasion now n. • > incini: -
in tlt-fcnae of it.n-i- o< i
sponsible lor tic- *1 * 1., i;. i. . 1 1 i.'iu'. ..
iiu-tnotny carii w i - u.c -.'..y-iii.ii
lieu Inert- is n 11111-1. t>s - - ... u< ..g to nils
h • i in- p*-ph
'•!' Swank s.-r. : • r.-n-i-- lm. been no
u-i .-"en (loin- in Inc people o. Johnstown
in - - ■ withholding id i n rciicl fund.'"
I -- in lit of tlii-i in.iy lie licfn t -leter
iioii- .1 oy each imiit iilino-nifi no'him-
I---H. afi i if t-acli is wiliioa '•<> linil Hit
's ill be more u--n- h.ni in i m
w- • a month I ..:u i.t ili.-m il |
..ml i ... ve been fix w.i-lo no. lui-n t■.<- I
t-iin lit is il is believe.t. ho . :
e--i -. mat in ll.t- tux- ol -imn i n ban:-. !
WO-i-e almost Sole cie.lil Is in • iiinonill ' 1 I
111" y thi-V Will I- ci ive I; mi ile '. ■I ,
Fun I. ilia' li iii lm-in. ss nfV.io ■ .- .„! ! I
been botf.>r handled bad they h i !
' • r i-ioiicv sum. liu.i ,tv a.,ii ;i would
have iii-en niii! -tore °nt ! .factory to!
iin-i Thi- ja-■ iiom. h!-(, |,.is , i.ininj;,
cvuiu cen.dnly ■ n.ml i •'(•• p.-ogri ■-• '
in | .ovitliag sLlllli' fot ki huuitv* if I'--'
Ua w tUu Uioney. He bus no ere,ill. lo !
'.ith building operations. did t-ol j
tiowi ■_ tbo Binolinl be ins\ it-ei-ivr. liel
Je -.ii llleiv. 110 promises. V.'!, nhe lh.it* |
..ibis tcouey it will b. m. in ,o tor i
that be ennnot erect a innne liefort
the cold weather *t-'s in and eons quernl) ]
.urnself am! tam'ly may i,w\o to sn.Vtri
throughout the winter, ami yet ibis sage j
-rrr.arks that "no injustice has be.
done."
The in-xt statement n-rarding the ; ro
-11-• nyn t-iits tbnt ah-cmlv lnivt- been
> i Ugllt ' be Ci ■< i I con: g frori Hie j
sou ■ • it does, yet th - Finn ' . nmmix m :
has that mailt i 1 . .- , ;u- I. -m
-on • I no- he w- .. or '.i , "i -I;tvi ;
| n-en j.|:i n class Foil 'Old Fi-.e especially , '
i" Im: , ..id much on this nloi-in iliou. us !
the iiri-.iosfemcn' mav he rbnii e-l olio-!
| cc:lter. Those i-i higher el -i- : •> tit '
likely to b ve their r!-itm cb-ci,i. 1
and () mi •- tit til'- lime .< of Hit: !
amount he ... Hit- may ; i f.
The btatci that tin- filial dlstvibu- j
tioii will ' ! ill I - weeks is clieeriiiv: j
urnl it is .I 'l'- tl it may prove correct.
The si at (-men t that a score of clerks
have been working every day, part ol
.
V.as I ossi! ! for '! cm to :e! T for any
01,,- . let. tbein Im'.- .be nmoiin'. wbicti
w.as likw't to be bud for distribution and
tot b ' they eo- M ■ (•'lu-ir talinmtes"
i ialsi -■ -.veil m misleading It is false
cause ihere a - only ilve clerks working
r the Board of Inquiry now, and Hie
• -gl" ' nuiiihcr for a long lie e -. .is or.'v
tin- A! one ii;.". -there were n . i inc
;i!oyc j bile the :- ;.ilc Coituni-smi two |
pitying ■ r the H -'iny . liiit lliul tv.is ail j
ti ii lie.! king ago, and tie few eleik - now j
in tin- .in ploy <jf the State Commissiou j
an-, prepo:i":r siati? icitl mutter only foi |
of liiing away n tin- ureli- i
ivi-s t,' - sburg, il is misli ;ni'ii_, be- |
canst- i ,:ni of Inquitx is mil inak '
ing the u., ju.-linent as to ilu: ainouut of .
fieoev .ii will recieve. This Hoard i j
,- ci( tying the pro; b- min tlu-ir ii-l -
n or lie- 's, and consequently need not I
know tin- amount which wa- likciy to
tie bad for lie., distribution and on which
they could base their estimates."
On proof of tb's it is here asserteti that i
not a single member of the Board knows
anyways near the amount of money- for
distribution. The members of ttie Board
of Inquiry have worked f virhfully hut
tl;ere was too much laid out for them lo
do, although at the present, il does not
look as if an attempt was made lo do
much, one of them being sick and another
giving a large share of bis time to his
private law business. If the same plan
was lo he pursued there should have
been several Boards and each have had
a certain district to adjust.
It looks to the writer as though there
hud been a stiidit d purpose in the delay.
Perhaps it was because this vast sum of
money on deposit would benefit the
lrientls of Governor Beaver. Again it is
said that certain persons here had private
interests that were in such shape that
they were not ready to take advantage
of the distribution of this vast sum
among the people, arul I din. positions
of influence tlicy manipulated tiie delay for
tlu-ir own advantage. One thing i - per
tain Ibis vast, charit hit- fund whi ii a
generous people everywhere donated,
tor the immediate use of the
sufferers here, lias not reached their
hands as was intended. Many of the de
lays might have been avoided, ami the
money could have been put in the hands
of the people long ago. Those who had
the management of affairs either from in-!
competency of from mister motives, !
signally failed to carry out the wishes of
the tionors of this fund, and therefore
violated a great trust, and " the witlihold
holdiug of the relief fund" lias done a
great hvjuatiei to tin people who were
entitled io r-'.-i it m • withstanding the
Sta'ements -■!' Mr. Swi-uk to the contrary.
S.
A stm ji on '■ -:igbt in tbo Kiver. ,
York Dally.
An immense turgeon. weighing over
two hundred s u- !-• ami measuring soven
feet in lcngb - 0.1,11 tied in the Sus
quehanna rivet below i'eacUhottom on
Monday morning hi-t by Messrs. Burkina
and McCoy, it was stunned by a blow on
the head with a club, after which tin: fish
ermen passed a rope through its gill and
tliey now hold it captive, allowing it to
swiut out into the river.
MtM.vit.l.l: I
t-.;..trl t r Iti" tti-giilui- V'-i-tlng of (-(i.Tiirlnj
.in siituribiv E* (i-iiiui;.
A meeting i.f tin* Miilville borough
(.'otitic I at which nil members were
|.r... - HI. wh i.i l-i ul Ilu- new Burgess
I'.iliT "ti I' *"t street on Saturday rich!
la-d. Mr I botiins P. Kc. dy presided,
Willi \X. S. O'ilrii ii ,is Sc. rctiD-y. Tin-
Burir.-i.-s 11 iiiirtc,; lii.i s -unl costs to fhe
aniuiint ol -.-HO. IrcnMinr Bri.M er rc
tiorii-il 1-.pern-11 lot- for ibe in*in llt of
Au-gii-' STirs IM. i.ivtne bai.-una-1 fetish
I*l In Ho of 'llll. IBills due the
I Bi.-.bt I lUtpniiy- for -lime and
iiiu. I,'oyi. As -1, which iniil been oh.
j'-i'ied to ni a previous nut-:' were or
dered II- l.e pnyc l, ,M|-. (iridium StHlt'll |
,: '-t ' 1: •- -. llii.iidtou promises to eiean j
tin- niiei i.s it ii nefittra.
! 'olinwuig liid- were ordered to hel
payed; ' • "
.loba ii. i.e. ke, tor pollen serrlev # 00 no i
•leu-, i-t- r r ii-i-iiiiig pel Miner, . m r.-g
• >ii 'it tv . -< imu'.-, for poiii f hervii.T r*< ini
\. '' t I <• 11 r M l'Vl. " (K>
i'f.ht i Kir police service.. .{ imj
1 l> • Ms. ,t>r pill in In# 17r 117
<) vii tippl.\ i.tillhe. for plUirltlliv'. M< .'!!•
1 i tmllt'.v t.pj iter •*, fur iic' t liimdisc ... (Ip
1 : ,i: ' •*'• '• i'"'i ••• M'rs'Uv 11 051
j „I. I' needy. Mbtry 31 ...J
, i.iiii.--lyi'll.l. or [lll.l,.(.servile ill r,i*
• tcllHU, *:, ; ||,tc. I ilcc . i;j ;u3f
! u * ' lo' : I'"" :> .1 • service !• IM)
blKt ,fui lJi:itlA;ire •*! |U
y in. I.if-.v ;-v . ;i, r.i rpenicr work.. .' 1:17
j •loi* , 1 m ti Kiev! Me i.lttlif Cu . fur
tf < JuJ.*r.sl uer.s eiitrK ruii lor '
tO(i
| An. "iiii. CoiinciliMin from the
! First ward, handed in his resignation
I w-liicn 1:1- .1 ee|-tcd. Air. Conn intends
jto mine I'liibjiect.
Mc—r- |{.. -emi l Frletlhoff, two of the
■ 1 ommi'li n of ii ve -elected to confer with
I .Milivill- ( , cit iI regarding tl.e con
; l- o'-ola itridgc, were present,
i • 1 •.!! tin- Committee were not there.
, u..;. Httsiioui. except to arrange'for a
Hn im- night this week to deter|
1 in'- I-.,-. -I.me lino of action in regard
j to iids important matur.
.- THn'Ti iv rxi'itiiss
•11 'ii .iiiln.aiotrn 1 luoil Cuukctl by Ncgli
•;e,.ii Stilt KutPrci'. Against tbo Pctin
nvlvnnl-- r.-illi-mul.
! 1 - . I-. I arlii-li on Sii'ur.lay in Pitta
'm . ' - - ei-i-d -mi against Ihe T't-nnsy.
lo'ilo ail ('on:puny I r.-g.">0,000 dan
. - ii; im 1 ten Ili ..| id- wife and time
1 ' In -.• im were lost In the John*town
' i'.iiull stuii.s tin t be bought
ins w. . alary K. Tarhcl), and
; - 1 i'iiii', agid two. live and
-- • vi-his. ft. m tii vt-laiui to Tyrone.
I" ■ • with via tin- Cleveland aml
!'i;i-.in tli iiui i'e.uti:yhauia.
1 Vr ,i;, when lli iraiu tliey were
I on Hi, i | I'a'eil Day K\press, had reached
--1 in Iwo no cast of Johns-
I ' wn, tin- iniiroad oilb . 1 s, so In. alleges,
d not:• -i• ..I int- ii in. . from Hit- flood
m l in- unlicipitted bio -ling of the £><ulii
i'ork dnm. '['lie train was held at that
point foi six hours, and though tliey had
ample time ami fair warning, tliey failed
to remove ilu- train. It was overwhelm
ed in tin- llnod, it ii' 1 M.-. Tarhctl and tße
three rill! In u were lost. Their deaths,
it i- .I A were dm :o ihe negligcnct
of the H. ' .ad Company in not removitifi
the lr. I mi a| i.:t ot danger. .Mr
Tarh. • .. •. ,-iieys are ex-Bet.liter J-jht
i J. liall am: .'daisliall iin-t Imhrie.
s 9
-teetlng II .liiliii-totvit lEinii'il ul Directors
On Thursday night next 'lie Direeion
I ! ibe Johnstown Sc'-1 I-I Board will nice
I i i the ofllec of Superitiio ident Johnson ti
. ' i-t tcaclu-rs for tin- ensuing year. Ui
nlay tin- ElOtli of September, the sclioo
jii .a will ht-_ In. Tiie Union, Adam, ant
11 Di rt street lauiiliiigs will then he read;
f" oeciipuncy. lis length is at the optioi
| of I'm directors. Inn probably will h
eight months. There arc already man)
ap; ''rants for positions as teachers, lm
tnnsi I,in- own town, will he Hie one
i most dt-sired. Seven members of th
i mps of Johnstown Teachers, lost tliei
livi son Mav 31st, and otic. Miss Gregg
has since died front a sickness the dircc
result of subsequent exposure.
Rv. I>r. Hubert \V. Oliver.
llt-v l: ihert \V. Oliver, rector of th
Cbureli of tin- Good Sbepbcrd, Kearney
Nebraska, and his daughter. Miss 0. T
Oliver, wliose arrival in the city w
noticed a few days ago, are guests at th
Bed Gross Ilou.se on f.ocust street. 'I)
Oliver was the first rector In Johnstowt
lb was also the first rector of St. Luke
F. E. Church in Altoona, ancl built thcol
stone church which preceded the preset
structure, ami the school house and pa
sonago. Lie was also the originator (
the Mechanics' library, Altoona. He
gladly met by old acquaintances here.
Wreck at Itolivar.
About 4 o'clock on Satjyday aftcrnoor
a freight wreck of oAiMdci ible tlimor
siom- occurred at Bolivar on account i
wlii'-h Eastward hound trains w,<5 r ® 'I
laved three hours. A train of cmpt
freight cars ran front a siding into an a]
proucbing train on the main track, earn
ing the de-railing of about fifteen coi
trucks, and damaging them all more c
less. Two engines were also badly dan
aged, one being thrown across the tract
No one was injured, ami travel was agai
resumed after the above nteutioned di
lay.
**•*.
llotly Fountl.
Tin: body found on Saturday afternoo
in a cellar at the corner of Walnut an
Chestnut streets, had in pocket of clotl
ing a store hook with the nuni :
on it of J. Tyler. From the clothing am
the book the hotly has been identified ty
that of John Tyler. lie resided i
tlornerstown, and was at work the day c
tiie Wood in the Gautier Works. The rt
mains will be interred to-day at 10 o'cloc
a. m ., from Henderson'-Morgue in
View.
Rev. F. I'. Baylor, of the Evangeliet
Association Church, is still dangerousl
ill, but is believed to bo improving.