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Under the new be but four daily it Meyersdale. angement there will senger trains stopping They will be due as follows: WEST BOUND. No. 47, Daily M. No. 49, Da M. No. 4¢ Daily . 4:48 PL ML No. 14, Daily L304 A. Mm. Salisbury Hack Iane, SCIIRAMM BROS. Proprictors. SCHED Hack No. 1 leaves Salis- ). bury at 8 z n ing at Meyer tle at 930 nom. Returnit rsdale atl p- m. arriving at N p.m. HACK No. 2 It ves Si u p. mM. ar- riving at Mey t . m. Returns ing ledves Me rsdale at 6 p.m, arriving at Salisbury at 7,50 p. m. you loosen tlic catch the Horses do the rest. [7 ne ihipner Plow Bu., Sole Manufacturers. ; 3 C fhe Defiance, C. Just Teottved, ot Tur Stir nice line of Visiting Cards. office, =» FE WEDDING Invitations at Tm Star office. A nice new stoek just ceived. tf. re- QUAY’S MACHINE GONE TO SMASH Philadelphia Leaders in Revolt Break Away From the Ma- chine Combination. MACHINE DEFEATS IN STATE. Penrose Mnkes a Scene in the Sen- ate and About Ruins Quar's Case. it Is Weeks Now Postponed For Two and There Is Little Chance of His Being Seated at AlL (Irom Our Own Correspondent.) March 20.—The rumors of a smashup in the Quay ring in Philadelphia were more than verified in the events in that city during the past week. The machine has practi- cally gone to pieces and the general demoralization is about as complete as it was when the famous city com- Harrisburg, bine broke up several years ago, and David Martin went one way and Israel Durham, Senator Penrose and M. S. Quay went another. Teday State Senator David Martin is the one man in Philadelphia whose political supremacy is not endangered Ly dissension among his followers. Mayor Ashbridge is united with him, and the best evidence cof this is shown in the mayor’s desire to have Senator Martin succeed the late Congressman Harmer in the lower house at Wash- ington. As for the Durham-Quay com- bination, it has gone to smash, and of the Quang combination that formerly existed among the ward leaders al that now remain are Insurance Com- oner Durham and Councilman McNichol . Last weel Harbor Master Klemmer, one of Qu appointee Charles I". Kindred, the special agent of the Phila- delphia and Reading railroad, another of Quay’s former ward leaders, and Boss James B. Anderson, of the Fifth ward, Philadelphia, cpenly revolted and declared their allegiance to the machine at an end. Subsequently they made ovetures to Senator Martin for a new rearrangement of political af- fairs in Philadelphia. REVOLT AGAINST QUAY. That this break means war to the knife was shown at the meeting of Philadelphia councils on Thursday ast, where the two factions, led re- spectively by Councilman McNichol and Harbor Master Klemmer, locked horns befere an immense crowd gath- ered there to witness the outbreak. Three of Kindred’s Reading railroad bills were slaughtered by his former friends. The strength ot the factions was shown by 45 votes for Kindred to 6¢ for McNichol. Thus it will be seen that the rebellion of Kindred is a very scrious one to the Quay ring in Phila- delphia and means its pra al ruin. On the same day that tt d was happening to the machine in Phil- adelphia a worse di ter was hap- pening to Mr. Quay in Washington. Senator Penrose, who is in charge of the Quay case, in behalf of Mr. made the worst break that any sena- tor on the floor of that body has made since the time of the memorable out- breaks of Riddleberger, of Virginia. PENROSE ENRAGE Senator Penrose endeavored to se cure a date for a vote on the Quay case. he senate was not willing to teke up the matter, and this no e tha only senator from Penasylvania very and he proceeded to make a strong protest against what he term- ed the dilatory practice of the oppovi- ticn. It was an ugly charge to make, and brought Penrose into direct col- lision with Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire. CGallinger was charged by Penrose with having said that he did not expect to speak on the Quay case. As a matter of fact the New Hampshire senator will make a strong speech against the seating pf Quay. Penrose said, speaking of Senator Gallinger, “He distinctly informed me that he did not expect to speak and that he did not think he would. He may have changed his mind. I know the senator may have become so inter- ested in the earnestness of the debate on this question that he may have changed his mind and that his inten- tion may now be to speak, but I as- sert emphatically when 1 questioned him upon the subject he stated he did not expect to speak.” THE LIE PASSED. Senator Gallinger sprang to his feet. “TI assert empha he shouted angrily, “that the senator from Penn- sylvania does not state the truth. The senator did come and interrogate me somewhat imperiously about the mat- ter and I told him it was a matter of doubt in my mind whether T would speak or not. This is precisely what I said to the senator, and I shall exer- cise the privilege to speak or not to speak as I see proper, and I shall cer- tainly not be instructed by the senator from Pennsylvania.” Mr. Penrose replied hotly: “lI do not know whether it is that I did not state the truth or that the senator from New Hampshire did not intend to tell me the truth. If he did not te'l me the truth it could not expected that I could convey to this body a correct statement of what he in- tended to do.” Mr. Gallinger—“That is unmanly”— Mr. Penrose—*“It is no more unman- I> than what you are sayir Mr. Gallinger—*“And beneath my serious notice. I have stated precisely what I said to the senator, and I stand upon that record.” The senate was in a violent commo- tion, and it looked as if a personal en- counter would be the result, but the matter passed over and no further in- cident occurred until Senator Pen encountered Senator Burrows, who is Tending the opposition to Quay, in a nate cloak room som? time after. The Philadelphia Record’s account of what occurred there is as follows: ANOTHER ENCOUNTER. “Penrose taxed Burrows with having Jie given an advanced cop he intends to deliver quay to the correspor ut of the Phils wdelphia North American. Burrows de- eec 7 of the st nied that he had given a copy of his speech to the correspondent. “ ‘But I know you have given him a copy of it, for he has said so,” Penrose sulleniy replied. # “Well, Which do you prefer to be- lieve, me or the correspondent?’ in- quired Burrows. “I prefer to believe the correspond- ent,” was the reply. “ “Very well,’ said Burrows, flushing up, turning on his heel. ‘But I again tell you I have not given the corre- spondent a copy of my speech.’ ‘“ ‘Ch, you're a liar,” grow] as the Michigan senator moved’ indig- nantly off. Whether the Pennsylva- nian intended Burrows to hear or not, the latter did hear, but tock no notice. “Senator Penrose went to Burrows and apologized. saying the debate in be | | that presides the Chamber had s6 worked him up that he hardly knew what he was do- ing, or something to that effect. “The result of these encounters was that the Qua was about ruined by Mr. Penrose’s action. A warm scene occurred when Mr. Quay and Senator Penrose next met, and there is general chagrin in the Quay camp over the outbreak in the senate. On the follow- ing day, Friday, Senator Hoar got the senate to agree to take up the Quay case in two weeks from today, Tues- day, which will be the 3d of April. The case, however, will have no additional advantages by the Hoar motion. and it is, therefore, not as far along as it was before. In fact, the leading papers of Philadalphia and of Pennsylvania agree that Quay’s chances of getting into the senate this session are as small, if not smaller, than they have ever been.” On Saturday last primaries were held in six counties, in four of which dis- tinct anti-Onay victories were achieved agai the ring. In Lackawanna coun- ty ex-Speaker John R. Farr, who be- came notorious by his rulings two vears ago, was defeated for re-election by an anti-Quay candidate. In Frank- lin county W. C. Kreps, who was the Quay chairman of the bribery investi- gating committee, was a candidate for re-election by the machine, but so overwhelming was the opposition that Kreps was compelled to withdraw from the fight. Two anti-Quay members of the legislature and an anti-Quay candi- date for the state senate were elected. In Cambria county two anti-Quay leg- islators were nominated. It was a magnificent victory and a rebuke to the ring. ~~ Wirar’s the difference between Mas- sachusetts and Kentucky? Massachu- setts is a great leather manufacturing state and produces boots and shoes, while Kentucky is noted for its distill- eries, and produces shoots and booze. - Tie Burr Oak (Kan.) “Herald” shows that the United States mint at New Or- leans coins $50 a minute, or $24,000 in cach working day. Working 300 days in the year this mint can coin just enough money to buy the Jewell coun- ty crops, which last year footed up to $7,074,305. All the mints in the country can not coin the money represented in the crops of 15 Kansas counties. Lucirer Syrrin says in cunching the treasury shortage there is danger of traps. That’s a fact, Lucifer, there are traps, and some of your own political kidney are liable to get pinched in them before this thing is all over. But don’t think for a moment that anybody is go- ing to be afraid of the old rattle-trap over the Meyersdale Scull organette. We know full well that some of you old besmirched political reprobates are very ticklish when that treasury shortage is mentioned, and you would like very much to frighten aster | | even though people into silence about it; but rest assured that all your bluffs will be speedily called. Oh no, Lucifer, an old | jackass like you can’t frighten anybody, you should don a lion’s skin instead of the lyin’ sheet you pre- side over. - ~~ Tiere is no com aiation that has done so much for the welfare of Ameri- can industries and American working- men as the American Protective Tariff League, an association composed of the brightest minds in the United States on industrial questions. It stood for years as a bulwark against the en- croachments of foreign labor and its products the American people. Its sole aim is the protection of our home industries, and its power for good is felt in all manufacturing circles. Congressman Thropp was one of the league’s organizers, and is now one of its vice presidents, a position he has merited by his ability. As long as American industries are protected and defended, so long will our workingmen prosper. It is these friends and pro- tectors of our industries that we need to defend us in the halls of Congress— men who have graduated from the workbench. mill, mine, furnace and farm, who know by actual personal con- tact what our people and our industries need, sturdy and practical men who be- lieve more in doing than in theoretical experiment. This class of men must be given the preference over those who follow polities for pay, if the prestige of our people is to be maintained. —Sea- ton Herald. has upon Colbornism at the Poor House. From the Berlin Record. “Lacey” Colborn’s popularity as a manager of poor directing Poor Diree- tors is well known, as he has “worked” them for fifteen years. This year he successfully manipula- ted the county Auditors—willing, sub- alled report is an ad- show nothing.” jeets—as the so-¢ mirable piece of The debtor side shows but two items. Why not let the people know at what prices you sold thé {imber off the farm? We shall in all pbabilty take that up in another issue. The report shows only $15,665.38 ex- pended during the year, but “Lucy,” did not the Poor Directors, by your management, create a debt of $5,000 against the county that is yet unpaid? This is three times is much money as it cost to run the County Home at the beginning of your reign, which was about 1886. The salary bill is now $1,- 755, of which the poor Poor Board re- It is double the sal- aries paid when you began your rule, to say nothing of the etectera, but the etcetera should receive attention laters and it will be interesting reading if a few more merchants “peach.” This managing a whole poor directing Poor Board, the half dozen employes, four seore paupers, besides negotiating the sales aud Bind and writing the annual address and reading it to the Grand Jury, and getting it published by the county at an expense of $100, is enough keep an industrious man busy. Yet reports have it, “Luey?” still finds time during the year to get in ceives only $150. to 3. Pentiosd training a condidate for Poor Director for the foliowing year, and that this year his candidate is.a brother-in-law “of William Henry Miller, late a mem- ber of State Legislature and the holder of several Quemahoning the town- ship oflices, as his biography, as {in Smull’'s Hand-book man is “Lucey,” states worker” asa’ FOR OUR WESTERN READERS. New Villages o of Somerset County— The County’s New Metropolis. Some time ago one of our western subscribers wrote a letter to the editor of this paper in which he said: “I wish you would give us old Elk Lickers a description of the new towns that have sprung up since we have left those parts. Where and how much of a place is Windber, Niverton, St. Paul, Boynton, Grassy Run, Tub, Chestnut Spring and Keystone Mines?” In order to oblige the many old Elk Lickers who have “emigrated to many localities in the West, where they eagerly read Tur Stag, their favorite paper,every week, we will comply with the request made, trusting that the in- formation given will be of much inter- est to our many western [riends and patrons. WINDBER, Windber is situated in Paint town- ship, at the extreme north end of the county, just about one mile south of the Cambria county line. It is a coal town situated on a spur of the Penn- sylvania railroad. Although Windber is scarcely three years old, it is already the metropolis of Somerset county, be- ing at least twice as large as Meyers- dale and Somerset, and having at least three times as many business houses as any other town in the connty. The town is not yet incorporated, but will be a borough in the very near future. Windber has some splendid buildings, also has electric light and water works, and an electric railway connecting it with Johnstown will be in operation in the very near future. Windber is about eight or nine miles south of Johnstown, and is located in one of the richest coal fields in the state. Ilere are located the Berwind-White collier- ies, the most extensive soft coal mines in the world. All the coal is mined by machinery, shot down and loaded by men and boys, then hauled out by elec- tric motors that run all through the mines at a high rate of speed. The population of Windber is variously estimated at from five to seven thou- sand, and the town bids fair to double in population within the next two years, as an immense amount of building is going on continually. NIVERTON, This village is located at the terminus of the Salisbury railroad, which is in Elk Lick township, not more than afew hundred yards from the old Thomas Lee homestead. Here are located the splendid coal mines of W. K. Niver & Co, who have headquarters in Balti- more, Md., Boston, Mass. and Syracuse, N.Y. The coal at these mines is also mined by machinery, and the openings are on the Elias IHershberger farm. Niverton has a large company store and a grain and feed store, the latter being operated by Eli Stanton & Sons, of Grantsville, Md. The population of Niverton is about 100. The village is less than two years old. Sr. Pavr. This is a little mining and agricul- tural village built up around the wi helm or St. Paul Reformed church, 23 miles west of Salisbury. Keim post- office is located here, and the village alto has a store and a blacksmith shop. The population of this village is not ver 50. Boyxrox. This is a village located in the viein- ity of Livengood’s mill, one mile north of Salisbury. It is scattered about on both sides of the river, but the post- office, the two village stores, a large planing mill and most of the village is located on the old Boyd farm. This hamlet was started by the Dill-Watson Lumber Co. in 1879. Its population is about 200. The inhabitants are chiefly coal miners. Coan Rus, This village was called Grassy Run until a few years ago, when a post- oflice was established and the name changed to Coal Run. The village is located in Elk Lick township, about 115 miles northwest of Salisbury. The vil- lage begins ai the old Jacob Lichty farm, just north of Flog Ilill, and it extends about *; of a mile up the val- toward the Wilhelm church. Coal Run is strictly a mining village, and it is in the very heart of the rich Elk Lick coal region. llere are the extensive mines operated ‘by the Merchants Coal Company, also the W. J. Chapman mines, the Fairview mines, Rees and Meager mines. Of all these collieries the first mentioned are the most exten- sive in the entire region. They employ a great many men, and also use mining machines, The village has two stores, three schools and a total population of about 300. (Tes P.O.) electric haulage, ete. CHESTNUT SPRING This is a little agricultural village in Elk Lick township, about 4 miles south- west of Salisbury. The village has a store, blacksmith shop, school house, Mennonite church, ete. The popula- tion is about 50. MNEs. These mines are located in Elk Lick township, about midway between Sal- isbury and Meyersdale. From here the first coal in the Elk Lick region was shipped to tide-water markets. These mines began shipping coal about KEYSTONE the year 1873. Shipments were made via the Keystone narrow gauge road to Keystone Junction, about two miles east of Meyersdale, where the coal was dumped from the narrow gauge ears into the cars of the B. & 0. Railroad. The Keystone mines were abandoned about 1880, and they remained idle un- til last year, when the Continental Coal Company, of Baltimore, took charge of them. Large shipments are now being made from old Keystone over the Ral- isbury railroad, and the narrow gauge is a thing of the past. The Continental people have built a great many houses on the opposite side of the from their works, and they have named the village Glen MeLaran. is situated in Summit new iver The village township. ht has one store and a population of about 150. RoMaxta. This village is between Glen MeLar- an and Meyersdale, in Summit town- ship, on the Salisbury railroad. It is on the west side of the river, near Shaw Mines, and has a population of about 150. WEST SALISBURY. This village is just across the river from Salisbury borough. The two towns are built up together, with only the Casselman river between, which stream is spanned by two good wagon bridges. West Salisbury is practically a part of Salisbury, although it is not included in the corporate limits. The Salisbury railroad depot is located here, also the Standard Extract Works, a foundry, a grain elevator, a hotel, a blacksmith shop, a shoe shop, a bottling works and several stores. The village has three schools, a Catholic ehurch, and a total population of about 300. A post-office has just been granted for West Salis- bury, and the same will be in operation within a few weeks. Now then, we have given more in- formation than our western friend has asked for, and we believe the same will be read with much interest by our western readers, of whom Tir Star has a large number. THE TREASURY SHORTAGE. “The Star” Has Forced the ‘“Nig- ger” Out of the Wood-pile, but the End is Not Yet. readers remember how Tue Star served notice on the Scull ring that theshortage of Ex-Treasurer Win- ters must be made good within a very short time, and that unless the warn- ing was heeded the editor would bring legal proceedings and try to force the payment of the money due the county. Well, the old gang only sneered about it at first, and they tried to smooth things over by making it appear “that the county was not in danger of losing anything. But that didn’t quiet either the tax-payers or Tue Svar, and when the old gang found out that Tur Star meant business, some of them began to get very nervous. Tune Star meant just what it said, and when the editor last week went over to Somerset to carry out his pur- pose, the old gang got a hustle on, and Mr. Winters eashed up to Treasurer Dumbauld. But the end is not yet. There are a few more Africans in the wood-pile that have some bearing on this case, and if you just keep your eye on Tue Srar you will see them forced out when the proper time comes, and then there will. be more squirming in this county than you ever saw before. Lucifer Smith last week published what Le pleased to eall “the truth about that shortage,” but people who are fa- miliar with the facts know that the Commercial’s statement was noted only for the absence or utter disregard for truth. But poor old Lucifer couldn’t help it, for the rot he published came from his masters at the other end of the line, and of course the poor old pair of pants had to publish it. The editor of this paper was in the Treasurer’s oflice one day last week when nearly all of the men were pres- ent whom Lucifer mentioned in his ar- ticle. The article was there read, and one untruth after another was pointed out and the untruthfulness waseven ad- mitted by some of the Scullions, mem- bers of Luecifer’s own political family. Keep your eye on Tue Star, Lucifer, and you will learn more within the next few months than you ever knew in your life before. You won't like it, to be sure, but you will learn some facts, just the same. Our -—- - The EIkK Liek Strike. The strike for a 5-cent advance in this region is still on, with no prospect of a settlement in view at this time. Primarily, we believe the operators have only themselves to blame for the sudden stoppage of work. We believe they made a sad mistake when they ignored the miners’ request for a joint conference in Meyersdale some weeks ago. It would have been but manly for the operators to meet their em- ployes at that time and talk matters over, and had they done so, we believe there would be no strike to-day. In fact we are quite sure of it. To meet the minersat that time would have shown a disposition on the part of the operators to do the best they could, but to ignore their employes was naturally interpre- ted as a defiance and a disposition to do just as they pleased, whether right or wrong. Naturally this course of the operators invited a strike, and during this era of prosperity a man doesn’t care much whether he vields up a job or not, for he can easily secure em- ployment elsewhere. Men are flocking out of this region by wholesale, and they are having no trouble in securing work in other localities. Although the blame for this strike must rest with the operators, it is gen- erally conceded that the miners made the second mistake. No sooner had the men struck than a number of the oper- ators had a meeting with them in Hay’s opera house, and we are informed that | President Boswell, of the Merchants Company, at that meeting offered five- ninths of the 5-cent increase asked for. was for machine as 5 cents of an advance was all But Bos- and This offer, of course, mining, the pick miners asked for. well’s miners rejected the offer der the present scale price of the dis- trict, and we think the offer should have been accepted. Especially-do we think so since at least two of the oper- ators who employ only pick mirers, agreed to pay the price demanded. We believe that if the men at the Merchants mines had accepted the of- fer made by Mr. Boswell, the whole re- gion would to-day be working upon the same basis George's Creek, viz: Forty-five cents per ton for pick min- ing, and 25 cents per ton for machine mining. And if that is according to the district scale, as many of the min- ers inform us that it is, what more ean the miners of this region hope to get? We would like to see them get a doflar a ton, but that is impossible. as The Defeat of Speaker Farr. The defeat of John R. Farr for re- nomination to the Legislature in the First District of Lackawanna County is one of the righteous results of the Re- publican primaries on § Saturday. It was a condemnation of Mr. Farr’s record in the last Legislature, of Quayism and its tri:k in precipitating the nomination in the district with the purpose of tak- ing snap judgment on the Republican people. They have resented it in a most pronounced and effective way. Mr. Farr was Speaker of the House at the last session. Ile was elected by the whole Republican membership, but he improved the first opportunity that offered to show that he did not regard himself as the voice and servant of the House, but instead a mere tool of the unserupulous political machine. When charged with the duty of naming a committee to investigate respousible charges of attempt to bribe members of the Mouse he selected a majority from members whose purpose was not to uphold the honor of the House but to obstruct and prevent investigation. Into so flagrant and intolerable an out- rage did this act immediately develop that the Ilouse took the matter entirely out of the hands of its unfit Speaker and reconstructed the committee. It is not within recollection when the presiding oflicer of a legislative body has suffered such a rebuke, and it was only through the extreme patience of the members that he escaped deposi- tion. It was hardly to be supposed that any constituency would want to return him to the Legislature. He has been de- servedly beaten, though all the re- sources of machine corruption and trickery were brought to his aid. The district and the State will be the gain- ers. The defeat of Farr and the en- forced withdrawal of W. C. Kreps, of Franklin, to escape certain defeat, are two very large achievements of decent polities in a single week.—Philadelphia - Dress. du Evidence of Weak Cause. Since the campaign opened in Beds ford county for Republican nominations the assertion has been made, and reiter- ated, that “Mr. Thropo bolted the reg- ular Republican nomination for Con- gress in 1896.” Just why newspapers that need and ought to court public confidence should stoop to the publication of such a nak- ed untruth must be beyond the under- standing of the average man. The ex- igencies of the present campaign must be very great indeed to require it. Everybody within the borders of the Twentieth Congressional District who knows anything about the matter in question knows that the Republican Congressional Conference of 1896 failed to make a nomination—that it adjourn- ed without giving the district a nomi- nee. It is true that Mr. Hicks and his adherents bolted the conference and went to Harrisburg, where with the aid of a few machine followers Mr. iticks was “nominated,” but the court of last resort repudiated this machine “nomination” and declared that the district was without a nominee. With this state-of affairs in existence both Mr.-Hicks and Mr. Thropp had their names printed on the bulats through nomination papers, and they thus be- came candidates of equal merit, so far as the right of either to be a candidate was concerned. But Mr. Hicks had in some way won the favor of the machine, and the machine induced the Chairman of the National Republican Congress- ional Committee to “recognize” Mr, Hicks as the Republican nominee. The machine induced this Chairman, who had no more jurisdiction than the Sal- tan of Sulu, recognize” something that the only court of justice which had jurisdiction denied. This Babcock ree- ognition in no way impaired Mr. Thropp’s right to be a candidate, and his being so was in no sense a bolt. After Mr. Hicks and Mr. Thropp had each established his legal right to have his name printed on the official ballots, they both came before the people of the Twentieth Congressional District as Republican candidates, and every member of the Republican party in the district was free to vote for either gen- tleman without in any measure impair- ing his standing in the party. The Re- publicans of the district were anxious to" wanted as much of a raise as pick min- ers asked for. In rejecting Mr. Bos- well’s offer, we honestly think the ma- chine miners made a mistake, offer made was in accordance with scale price of the district. we are informed by miners themselves. SO For example, for the the At any rate some of the if the price for pick mining is raised from 40 to 45 cents per ton, the price for ma- chine mining, according to the district five-ninths of 45 ce If this | seale, should be or 25 cents. price was offered by Mr. Boswell for machine mining. he offered all that could be expected un- | to elect a congressman, and the great- er majority of them would have as freely voted for Mr. Thropp as for Mr. Hicks, but when anxiety was at a high { tension the Babeoek recognition,though without any authority whatever, turn- ed the tide in favor of Mr. llicks and he was elected. The newspapers that are re-iterating the falsehood that “Mr. Thropp bolted the regular nomination in 1896” are putting their character for truth on trial before their readers, and the loss of confidence will indeed be a high price to pay for the gratification of per- sonal animosity. 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