Il; SONERSE Y Sik P. L. Livexcoon, Editor and Publisher. Intered at the Postoffice at Elk as mail matter of the Second class. Subsc ription Rates. THe Stan is published every Thursday, at Blk Lick, Somerset, Co, Pa, at the tollow- ing rates: One year, if paid within 30 days It not paid within 20 days Six months, if paid within 20 da} 1 not paid within 30 days yhree months, cash in Single copies... { To avoid multiplicity of small accounts, all subscriptions for three months or less must be paid in a These 1: terms will be rigidly adhered to. advance Advertising VSIENT READING NOTICES, 10 cents a tine for first insertion; s ce Dts. a line for cash succeeding insertion. To regular vertise 5 cents a line straight. No busi- ness loeals will he mixed with local news trems or editorial matter for less than 10 cents a line for each insertion, except on year 1 contract: RR 3 FOR DISPL AY ADVERTISEMENTS WwW in hin ‘made know on application. AT Epirorian Purrs, invariably conts a line. 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Ne li e o Fogle and Maud Speicher are reported ill with typhoid fever has been quite prevalent in ty for some time. Fever this locali- Republicans, do your duty, next. Tucs- . 4 . day. Getout the vote aud pile up the biggest Republican majority old Som- erset county ever heard of. Company I, Fifth Pa. Volunteers,will be mustered now and next Tuesday. out some Mrs. We are sorry to announce that Edward Loechel is afHicted with diph- theria. Several other mild also reported various this Jocality. Akes are of from parts Johnston, of Wilimerding, Pa., wild numerous where he a week. His to see him. morning remain or about friends glad are Lick, Pa. | tes and | .ixvays ad- | pub- | time between | The examining | surgeons began their work on Monday. | Archie © Cochrane, who disappeared so suddenly a couple of weeks ago, has returned home, just as Tie Star said | [runneth a great risk of having a tin ear J would do. Archie was on a little pleasure trip, that's all. away ness block the Merchant Coal Com- | corner of Grant and Ord streets. The | workmen. are making the dirt fly at a lively rate. ! Mie. W, man, has “4 editor’s free plates of the most delicious oysters Nothing about and his oysters are al- . Lichty, the popular oyster s thanks for several | ever ale. selfish “Roldier Billy, of the best. . Attorny WW. H. and Miss Minerva Covode, a daughter | of Dr. Joseph Covode, of Jenners, were united in at the bride’s | home, last Tne Star extends | its congratulations. Read Mr. we Ruppel, of Somerset marriage, week. ter in this issue of Tur Star. By so doing you | learn much that you ought know. { Thropp is all right and ought to be given an overwhelming majority for | Congressman. lle is able and an hon- Thropp’s le will to est man. Mr. and Mrs. Milton J. Beachy have the thanks of the editor and wife for an invitation to the marriage of daughter, Lucie, to Mr. Ilarvey B. | Keim, which event will take place: at l the First Brethren church, Salisbury, | Pa, Thursday noon, Nov. 10th, 1898, at | 12 o'clock. 3 Rev. Dr. Mackey moved household effects into a portion of Mr. Frank Wagner’s commodious residence. With a preacher next door to the print shop, we have got to be very careful | now as to what we say, and how loud we st ay it, when the weekly proof-read- ing time comes. has « Pa., while bought Salisbury day ; foreclosure s J. L. Beachy, of- other { 510 acre stock farm at | for $16,000. This magnificent body of land | at Beatrice the an ale, at at is situated within two miles of Beatrice, and the amount is very low, ing the quality of the land and its near- ness to a thriving city like Beatrice.— Carleton (Neb.) header. consider- If'or quick work at carpentering, Irvin Tedrow are hard to beat. If you believe it, just size up the sky- scraping business block they erected on Grant street, this week. It is all the work of a few days, and rumor has it that the builders will use ture for a meat market. don’t caped after having brutally assaulted Deputy Sheriff Baker, is again behind | the bars. lle was brought to Somer- set, last week, by Herbert Blough, who resides at ton’s Mills, in the north of the county, and at IXddy has hanging around for some time. Stan- whose home Our big, good-natured friend, Mr. W. W. of Niverton, week West Virginia, had been visiting some of his old-time friends. He reports having had a very pleasant time, and says first rate. Mr. Shawhan was with asthma during the months, but he says he is about rid of the trouble now, all glad to note. Shawhan, from he is feeling sanmer Surveyor Benford establishing grades for sidewalks in this town, this The great trouble in town few was establish- the people week, ing proper grades in this is fact that we alwa; know much that interfere with his judgement, much to the detri- the town. But it would Kill some people if they couldn't th heir bull-headed ignorance on : who think they 50 more than the surveyor they ment of CXPOse and self- Now is the time to plant your fall ad- vertisements in Tne Star. Every bus- iness house in ought to have a a good big “ad” in the local paper, for First, because it pays to in Tir Star, as the paper nearly all the in this locality. Second. because the loeal working for the up- of the com- town two reasons. advertise goes into best homes paper is always building and best munity. It is a home indusiry that de- serves your patronage and encourage- ment ut all times. interests who had been very ill, is but is still far from being a well man. “Work exceedingly hard, and our patrons will | please pardon all shortcomings of the i paper until the editor is physically able | wet out and hustle Report all the you can, and, The editor, wyzain al his post, this week, Tops goes to more for news. news to incidentatly, il you are lindeb favor us with some cash, for we It takes lots of money to hire ex help and battle against disease. it. Married, Sunday morning. last, at 2 Mr. A. “A. Sharp and Miss Luey Delozier.. The ceremony was pesform- | at the home | The groom is n. mm. ted by Rev. E. 8. | of the bride, in 8 Johnston, alisbury. an industrious young man who for some The bride is a t Mr. and Mrs. I. \V. couple went to the groom’s home, | Cambria county, wedding, where they time friends. tends its | Glotfelty. | { { | | Delozier. in visiting Tue ongratulations. his brother-in-law, need | [ put on Ground is broken for the Inrge busi- | | pany people are going to erect on the | "mothers frown | cases. | meanness reigned supreme. | were blown to The editor riseth in the morning and knoweth not what the day may bring | forth. If he telleth all the the and him, and if he telleth not news the people say he is n. g., there is no joy in it. The erafty cajoleth him into giving him a H50-cent pull” for and all il fails flatter their freckled face broods. And all | days are full of sorrow. a D-cent cigar, fond on him he to woe, and Che insur: his ways are ways of man setteth snares for kim, and on the whole he has a ceuce of a time. Iallowe’en capers are being carried a little too far of late years, in and around ihis town, and it is time to call | a halt on the young Hosting: who in- sist on destroying property. lights, are offenses punishable by he: and the Jreaking don ere, wy fines, law should be enforced in such On Monday night deviltry In Ralisbury several B. & O. outbuildings dyna damage to is go- window smashing and Vest pieces with mite, and in this borough much property is also reported. This (ing too far, and some arrests are likely | destroying their | man his | tory [to be made. It is all right for young | folks to indulge in harmless sport, but property meanness and offenders deserve is the gevere punisn- ment. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kan- sas, whose fame as a brilliant writer of remarkable literary attain than that of the distinguished senator, tha nish-Cuban scholarship ments, is even greater introduees a new book on of the American-Spa It is entitled manity in Picture and Story.” published by the N. D. Thompson Pub- lishing Co., of St. Louis, discussion subject War. Tt is Mo., and is an the ca exhaustive his- and a exhaustive of uses of the war, and an equally of its incidents, brilliant analysis of {he famous characters con- ducting it. It promises to be the one great and popular work called forth | by this wonderfully interesting national | tion to this Lin the light ject now so engrosses the pooular mind | Charles Lung and Messrs. Edward and | ‘samples are now r the struc- | [evening last, 3en Eddy, one of the prisoners of the | Somerset jail who some time ago es-! | young people I { | been ! returned this | where he! afilicted | of which we are | { boys and girls children who are and the parents and the! episode. Whatever Senator touches he adorns; and the introdue- book s of his genius. The sub- as to forecast for this will be 1§ sold by subscription only, and the canva sady for agents. advertise it in another column. . DD. H. Leader preached a in the Reformed ehiurch, Sunday that we hear compliment- In the said sermon he universal. will be <= Rev mon ed on all sides. very and their gave some wholesome parents. - remarks were strictly [| hope will do too many young who allowed streets nearly good. Ther women to gad all some in this town are about Ss at hours, day up with an uiter disregard for honora- ble employment. Some of them neither Ith yet they want t their a wen nor. accomplishments, wrry th poor 0-C1 eir noses high and allow parents to wea their lives in supporting in their idleness. way The same can be of some of our young men. This is not as it should be, and parents are largely to blame. Another thing, there aretoo many impudent brats in this town— under twelve yea age, who are tolerated to gowhere they They saucy to older per- rs of please, also to do as they please. and genuine are impudent Meanness There and for they comes Sons, deviltry, are hard to excel. always a day of allowed to grow up in tl children themselves too often sad mistake when it is late. sannot guard foo closely the wel- fare of the and training they are responsible iis way, too ents children whose existence for. a De implacable It never Elk lick, Pu. cleansing, the wollinds, Hay, Soothing healing, Witch Huzel Salve my of burns fails to cure piles. is ene- and Pos SOres, A Slight Blaze. The people of Salisbury were startled yesterday by the ery of “fire!” It that was in the kitchen of Ferdinand Brieg's The was soon discovered house, on Gay street. blaze was | caused by a defective flue, and it was I discov the editor that | ted at this office, plefise call and | i { ira j | i eur ‘ered none too soon to save the building. The woodwork back of kitchen stove w reduced to ashes, would etve taken but a moments until the have been beyond control. the as all few and it fire would The buiid- more Ping wns saved onty 1 None of the family were at g discoverd. work. ie home when the f A cotighis net like a fever. It have to run a certain course. Cure it quick- | Minute Cough | land effectually with One the best remedy for all ages and for the most because it's good. Po 8. Hay, Elk ——— Lick, Pip Tue McKinley administration is evi- ently in favor of organized labor, as all printing not done | ment priuting time has been:in the employ of Jacob | daughter of | The | i ding itself of waste matter. immediately after the | will spend some Sear ex- | PP i at the office is given only oflices that employ printers who are members of the Print EP ers’ Union. vents the body from rid- De Witt's Lit- remove the Constipation pr tle ‘Early Risers will and cul tive liver and clear the complexion. sugar conted, don’t. gripe ol Hay Lick, Pa. ek headache, biliousaess, cause oH. y Aiak news he | mall | his | Ce | yn and | “America’s War For 1la- | Ingalls | Lines and sparkles book a sale that! a} Lg We | [fer- | advice to | is | in order, and we | e are | the | and | night, and too many that are growing | have them said | and | reckoning for | see the | Par- | Witt’s | the conflagration | y quick and heroic | does not | severe cases. We recommend it Govern-! 10} trouble | IN FACTS FOR VOTERS | Candidate Thropp Exposes His Un- | principled Assailants—An Ap- peal to All Fairminded Vo- ters. Evererr, I’A,, I'S of the T Maly Nov. wentieth Men Ist, 1858 Vote Congres - oieal District, of I ve "Y Party: As a ragularly nominated condidate for ithe responsible position of repre- interests in ( the time seems to have come when I should, to some statements of certain parties inthe pag leaders, senting your lONEress, briefly as possible, reply 1 as of the Pemoeratic who seeking to influence you in voting. First: They ! chyrge that employing foreign labor. Answer: | {never brought a foreigner into this country, and out of 560 employes, have | for d country | but five (5) per cent. working me, and they are fillers and coke this {eight to twenty years, in rawers, and have been in from They have been other and working heretofore parts | this state—DBlair, ( Lingdon counties Secoxn: They publish from T. W. Armstrong that to employ and immediately ployed three Ttalians. never employed an Italian and bis sworn affidavit is false. Cambria an aflidavit I declined him, Cr - Answer: I in my life, Turron: They publish another aflida- {vit that 1 50 houses at. my furnace, and that 1 charge for four-room dis- | charged one Bowden because he would rent one. The to that | that the¥verett Tron Co. in which Mar- i shall Williams’ father charged for these sa | not answer is, was me houses have since improved these houses, and have nd are supplied with pure { at the present time they gardens i enclosed a | spring water, piped to their doors, and I charge the men but $1.50 So Bowden’s aflidavit is false. ri: They say that men to deal in the stores at Kearney and Everett. When 1 | possession of the Kearney store, which had been used by a relative of Mar- | shall Williams, T at reduced the prices which they had been charging from 15 to 25 per cent.: but no man has been compelled to deal in it. Subse- quently, IT was asked by some of a store at the furnace, and for them. Fount I compel Answer: took once the men fo start | after repeated requests, did so, and no there. As Earlston store has considerable outside fair. When owned the fur- forced to deal B. Williams & form of order man is compelled to deal trade, its prices must be the ISverett Iron Co. nace, all the men were through the firm of J. Co.. and copies of the Men were forced to take even for so small amounts as and four (4) eents. Will Marshall Williams friend, Jas. ©. Barndollar, wished me to compel all my to deal the Barndollar store, offering to pay me 10 per cent. all | sion. one (1 Ss: and who men in cominission on orders, please explain? An atfiidavit has been procured from John Mellhenny, until lately one of my Ie employes. John is a good fellow. | must have liked me. for he followed me ! out | miles, Schuylkill 250) for me. | weakness; he is fond know when he These wolves going in sheep's and Le the working-men, got John the to work Valley, John from has one a drink, and should of does not ston. about clothing professing to such [SE] friends of drunk. and then led affidavit, him to sign some sort of an after which turned him out in the streets to be put in the lockun. John Bloom’s affidavit was 086, republished now, although Ociober 13th, for work at the sober—be must consider me Ile is being kept drunk nos, ! they obtained in the same manner in and is being Bloom on 1898, signed application furnace, showing—when a fair man. lest he might make another aflidavit explain- ing how Le had been misled in ’¢6. At {that time efforts were made to get two other soldiers to make an aflidavit, { fore they succeeded with bhe- in veteran Bloom. one case, money was offered a I have never “bun to perjure himself. spoken of a veteran mer’ —Bloom’s atlidavit What think you, of man drunk and then lead ns a is false! working-men and all fret him Is your property.the | | i i voters, who would first another to swear to a he? privacy of i yourselves or neighbors safe hands? Need 1 take up falsehoods and deny them? You that country. Men do not have to work for Again, if 1 any | claim—a former friend, an mei honor of in of your homes, the ' such more their ali know this is a free | me. owe man a just employe, or even an ingrate—any sensible mu knows it ean be collected. Now as to: the of all this: Democratic managers know they can- not defeat me without prejudicing the [ working-men, and they tools as they can purchase in trying to blind your eyes, cloud your then use you to accomplish their Will you let them do it? I have spent most of my life in close design are using such reason, and pur- pose. touch with working-men, and have ever | i tried to work in accord with the Divine precept—"All ape wd whether chosen to labor for your inter- ye brothers’—: ests in Congress or not, I shall continue | soto ael that no honest manean accuse | | me of intentional wrong-doing. cto some of his striking mon, are favor | jad : : | ample of friends who are trying to lead of | Hunt- | interested, | $8.00. I which they used are now in my posses- orders | his | I will not promise to make every man’s lot all he desires; no maneando that. 1 only promise to regard all ny constituents as having the right to ask me, their servant. todo all T honestly | can for them, and I will try to domy [duty with all the strength that is given | me. I have never tried to influenee anoth- er employer against a discharged em- plove, yet one neighbor, who is reportod as working against me. in of one letters to me, ealls our Bedford county 1 working-men “ridgerenes” and says 1 ean never successfully work this nace with them; he tells me that a man ar- and in another letter n mado a ie! me to fet rid of him. as he would give speech nl writes In other words, he wished list” me trouble. me fo “black him. Another ex- vou! noes The lowest seale of w at the fur- nace is about the same as was Kemble & Rockhill, [came into Bedford county. My in that connection was to raize I received a letter first mentioned asking me not t the working people by raising wages, when T first act Powelton, wages, party 0 upset when from Inthe opinion of these professed friends | of Iab®r, it [their pay. to thought unsettles the men though 1 then the price of the products of labor warranted | it: Thursday Jed ford visited , the county Democe ratie ¢ di ig] it and later, one Cessna met him. Fresh fuel was probably supplied for the gar- bage mill, and you may ‘resh | flood of Friday ( Williams was in conference prexpect an abuse, morning, with the said ehairman. I understand cert former partner, Richardson, are being contents ain letters from my know their Richardson was a Wilmin partner shown. I do not this same mem- of at the time he was a [Te got trial court but ber a firm in Delaware, gton, with me. the (circuit there, ana in Acheson into trouble before Judge of Delaware) it was shown he had issued, without tlie knowledge or con- sent of his then partners, over one hun- dred thousand doll ($100,000.00) of their paper, and cern, fhking away valued employes, af- ter which he sought to force his old firm At this time fessed to be very iil, and under his own land the representations of his physician, i I was induced to endorse large amounts | of paper for him; that he would put in my hands collateral to This he never done, and I refused to re-indorse the paper. i He then sought to me o the same position as lie had sought to force Wilmington partners; the result being that I met him in court present Judge Swarfz (President Judge of «Montgomery county, Ph. ny attorney, and 1 dictated the terms of dissolution of the partnership which (then existed betwéen Judge Swartz, in a letter to a friend, 24th, 18 was ars into liquidation. he pro- it being promised me as coon as he was restored to health safe. make me force int i his Courts) as us. under date of October 08. ‘The the terms submitted by us, SRY: settled and without refiection upon and integrity controversy upon in the least casting any the honesty, Jnirnoss of Nr. FT ‘ hropp.’ ih Riehardson tried another Thropp, and the court decided in Thropp’s favor, finding fair and just. Rich- ardson carried it io the Supreme court, and Mr. The result of ‘Subsequently action against his transactions the doubt by those who case was never in knew Mr. Thropp, far we who knew Lim convinced that any dishonest take advantage of a partner or any oth- were thoroughly he ould not engage in or dishonorable act er person associated with him in any enterprise.” Louis M. (Childs, who wt ate of Judge Swa 1s the rtz in the above case, h, 1898, writes QSSOCI- under date of October 241 to the same friend: “oq Thropp for twenty years, Nr. and during have been acquainted with 1 that time our relations were found SUgLes- portion of and I have never with wiything wanting either in hon- esty or in honor. Whilst living in he was an extremely active and who while indus- quite intimate, in my tion of n intercourse Lim a county carnest Republican. triously laboring for the success sought to secure the nomination pariy, t of the best cl ass-of candidates.” ulated as to food also been cire said what kind for working-men. 1 have my having + eood enough of is have given thousands ef dollars to provide and families, while the Democratic good food for working-men their were advoeating policies which, in took the food out of tiie mouths of No food, provide d tice, the working-men. or clothing, or homes honestly are too good for those who toil. In Altoona, in a speech, I public Thnflenged dir. Walters to meet any place in the district a issues of the eampaign, our private heard no answer to this me 1 or lives. I have challenge, compare, he desired, nor have hands of A. B. J. Patton Moore. Aliller, veteran, I have placed in the Crawford, Rev. veteran, and Dr. E. J. all of Everett, Pa., the statements herein made. miner, affidavits tions are not argumen False and misrepresenta- ts! I believe the principles of protec: { labor and industries; honest his | paid by | raise | Altoona, said | had bought a rival con- | with the ! Thropp was again vindicated. |! i {oO | | posite. this | of the | leaders ! priac- ¢ I ers supplied the hone nd discuss the | if | : I during any of his lieutenants taken it up. | . : | period for the last t« proofs of all the ini ion to American | mongy ; ! Yand that a candidate s { earnestly A BEAUTIIMUTL LINE or Wedding Presents to be had at Gurley's. The vory newest and up-<tosdate line in the county. Do not mil to see then betore buying. OWL GRLT THE In TX. N, ADDING IBWELER, Meyersanle, Pn, NN TIC IRE TR TI TNT SCT TT TRI TR WENA ee. Somerset County. Clothing, Shoes, il Paper, ¢ B the uy where you can b best goods least will money, make 1t stock hould keep him- self free from complications so that he can serve; to the | the interests = nd more his ability, the ol people there are none wold labor the plain nd ne, nt hi peopice. of whoin I elaim to be « life hi: as beg among whom my whola no spent, and who best premrote the prosperity of our whole country. Working-men of the ‘61 the Democra “mud-sills.” Soldiers of 61 to ’65, they called yous“ Lincoln's and hire- lings.” Now, organs are professing tobe your friends, while they are denouncing one who has, in publie 60 and o called. yon North, in tic organs 1 COLIS these same { and private life, ever tried to serve your interests. this distriet in inevery way If chosen to represent vI-shail, alously uphold the wise admin- istration of President earnestly. considering the working-men, of our own great Congress .endenv- or.to:ze while MeKiniey y, interests of and distriet the others of farmers, Twentieth | Pennsylvania. Twentieth the truatl citizen- Men of all parties in this district who love fair and who value their play, ts sof righ ship, I ask you in a manly way to con- sider the faets, and vote best for your country; Seems own interests; This is your the responsi OUTS, Fait] iy is'y ifall Josip ~~ n wiil vote for Ev ERY true Republica Joseph E. Thropp flor Cor Tuesday. He is Republican. FIORS a good man and a good th Ho stands He stands hich inthe nn- tional councils of his party. thant Republican in He is § jo President of the ective © Tarill at has done the for—evervthing is principle. American, er more laboring in other classes agency in existence. If Americ: Ameri patriotism; wages; then teetionto 1 favor n vor prosper and good vote for Mr. Thropp. favor a return to the ences of free trade, If, however, you blighting the busi and the tic administra- A to bene- i- ni to iness de- closed factories starva- tion wages that bill and the last Democra tion, then Thropp is n pression, came with Wilson ol your mah. vote for Thropp will be a voto fit yourself, your fa try, ters, mily and your coun- Wal- avote for things the op- You might as well cut off your while a vote for his opponent, will be nose to spite your face, as to vote for lat tie Iate for Walters, the Democ:: candi Congress. a wd Populists must not be trol next DeyMocraTs allowed to con the next TOSS, Con The results of Tuesday's election will have a bearing on the greater greater prosperity and general advancement of ‘ongreossional y We [lepublican our country than cleetion held inthe last VATS. afford to congressman, es cannot Pro MeXinley vill be sorely hondiceyp 1m ned in bringing niiers poviaimig fo Uf WATT sue- cessful ending, if we do not r good majority in Congress. - havt Amerie manufactir- So WELL an market, under tariti Europ: of this protection of the Ding Jiave from the first year $100,000,000 abroad woe months Yioss the To House is purchases gaine elect a Republican majority of the to keep up this good work, which i= adding daily to American prosperity. - Overcome evil with good. hs and colds Cure. 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