& PATTON, CAMBRIA CO., PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1899. $1.00 PER YEAR. it From June 1st 1897 une . 1st 1899 we releerted $9,755.00 worth of Cash Register| Checks i in merchandise. Ere aia not sail for Mas Fencing Cheap! for stance poultry wire of all sizes. Plain Galvanized Wire at | Placed $1.75 per hundred which you know can not be bought for less then $2.20 f. 0. b. Be Also jor 4 toilet sets ata i) Ring from 10c a yard up to 18 cents. "The finest line of rockers on the market—Golden oak, art or mahogony finish. ren express wagons | s0¢ $1 and 81.60. _ Glass lass jars at the lowest fig- ugs, {empanis of carpet at hal Win i hades. all prices, glo cottage rods. Stoves and Ranges, the largest line in town. Very Respectfully, d.E. Kirk Haw. &Fur'tCo., C. C. GRENINGER, Mgr. LR 1 THE FIGHTING ¢ i TENTH mm ETERANS all sre the valiant en of the Tenth nnsylvania volunteers, who their homes after Ho year of war Philippines BB ee ros CH sent to re-enforen Dewey, and their be proud. enth is the only fighting Key- # represented in the ware 1t reached Han Fran- ye ig 25, 1898, and was welcomed by a grand chorus of steam whistles in and throngs of people in the streets, distributing fruits and flowers to the Snurcbing volunteers from the of shor win and bong KIL y a fair hand will clasp the a oh a Manila veteran and swear in for the campaign of life. Owing to scarcity of shi ghee un June 18, when it smbaried ob board the Zealandia with Battery B, Diab ar: tillery. In the brigade commanded by To- | General Francis V. Greene these two organizations fought together in the | trenches of Manila in the Spanish cam- puign, Honolulu on the 23d and 34th of June this second expedition to the Philippines was given hearty and gen- erous welcome by the citizens of the | then republic. On July ¥ the transport fleet ran along the coast of Goan, pre- pared 40 encounter fos or friend, but net. Safir. Fjeaidarn later she Gos: ores stroyed The on po of the volan- Seers in the Philippines in described by General Greene in his Century article spon the campaign st Manila. The writes: ‘‘The difficulties of getting established on the shore were not slight. It was in the midst of the | rainy season, and the roads were noth- ing but quagmires. On the water there were available omly two wall tugs which had been from the Spaniards and eight or ten cascos, or native lighters, somewhat resembling the Cbiness junk, but without sails As the landing point was within easy range of the Spanish artillery and the water very shallow it was thought best not to bring the transports up from Cavite. The rations were therefore in the cancos and each loaded to its full capacity with the men, and a string of three or four of them was then towed up'to the landing place at high water and left aground. The men jumped into the water snd waded ashore, and, as the tide receded, re torned to unload their rations. The Spaniards did pot open fire nor inter- fere in any manner, snd 4,000 men were landed without loss or mishap.'’ After telling of the plans to bring the Spaniards to battle General Greene continnes: ‘‘Meanwhile the men made themselves as comfortable an possible in camp. They had nothing but shelter tents and one set: of clothing. It rained | on parts or all of every duy, and the | rain was of infinite variety, from a passing shower to an all day and al! night storm, with a cool wind, and rain falling at the rate of four to six | inches a day. Immediate steps wer: taken to get the men off the ground by building beds of split bamboo set on poets from 18 to 24 inches above | ground. On the top of this the sheiter tent was perched, and while the rain went through the thin cloth of the shelter tent and was driven in at the end by the wind, so that the men were never dry during the 24 days we re- mained in this camp, yet Shey did not sleep on wet ground. i “1 had cansed every bottle of wine and liquor to be removed from all the ships before we sailed frora San Fran- eisco, so that the officers and men land- ed with their systems absolutely free from alcohol for 82 days. Water for drinking and cooling was obtained from wells sunk a few feet deep. It | was abundant in quantity and appar- ently geod in quality, but as a precau- tion every drop of it used was bolled. FE ld mp i Sw RE WATT - Pesssyivasia’s Returning Neroes and 3 NE P— Their Baptiem of Fire » At Malate. . . “ea te004429 This was done in spite of the greatest difficulties. as firewoofl was extremely scarce, the bamboo poles and green trees in the vicinity not being com buostible. “The health of the meu under thane adverse conditions and extraordinary hardships was sorprisingly good-—e0 good that it was bard to account for it Freedom from alcohol, sleeping above the ground and boiling the water were apparently the canges of good health, to which shonld be added the fine spir- ise and enthusiasm of the men. con- fident that in a short time they would take Manila and prond they were to have part in the anccess of so important an event.”’ The first battle between Americans took piace the night of July 831 on the line of the Tenth Pennsylvania and Utah artillery at the Camina Real trench, Malate. Barely 1,000 yards from this point stood Fort Antonio in plain view, and the Spaniards in that work ssw by the ewergy of the in trenchers that it wes pod inaldo’s weak insurgents bad w were pushing the lines of gone earthworks up to the limite of citadel. Bhortly before midnight in the midst of a rain pouring in torrents the Spen- ish infantry and artillery opened on the Pennsylvanians. The fire was returned, and the Utah battery speadily took a band in the game. General Greene’ opt by Major Cothbertson’s battalion of the fighting Tenth. In anticipation of a flank at- tack Major Cuthbertson went beyond the trenches to intercept the Spaniards, and this manenver resulted in the chief loss for the night. The Spaniards got ‘the worst of it at all points. The fol- lowing realistic description by a war correspondent includes the full story of the Tenth and the battery in the ‘‘Hell at Malate: : “The having recoversd from thelr Jethargy of a few days, (om: cinded to stir shings op. greet iossions ou Snait Suw i on a regularity w showed that there wos definite purpose comewhers in eo amp. The bullets nlite began to whistle about our fellows in droves. The guns at Malate opened up also, and their roar, the shriek of their shells and the loud cracking report of btirsting shells added to the other yen eral evidence to the Pennsylvanians that they were under fire. The Spanish fire, heavy as it was, was harmless as long as they kept down behind the sarthwork. Bat the Pennsylvanians sould not resist the temptation to re- torn the fire, and straightway the trou: ble arose. “It was a terrible night. Rain fell incessantly and in torren A fierce wind drove it across the and into the trench, under the little shelter the men had thrown up. A quarter moon struggled to force a little light throngh the heavy clouds and succeeded only in making a ghostly glow, through which all objects showed black and aw ful. The long bamboos were Wmeed about by the wind that roared throngh glant acacias and mangoes with the rush and noise of a Niagara. The litti clomp of bamboo and acacia that dot ted the field in front of our line bobbed about in the gale and was beaten down by the rain in such fashion that it made the best kind of cover for venturesomes devils —if there are any sach among the Spanish—in crawling out to attack our line. The ditch be- bind our parapet filled np with thin mud. Little streams of mud ran down the embankment into this little lake { The platforms built by the Utah boys for their guns were four inches under | mud, and still the rain drove down in blinding sheeta | pickets began to come in. They bad been posted in cossack outposts almost | . yards distant, and they reported that ' the enemy was in force on our right. was serious business. Major Cuthbert- and sent word to Major Bierer %0 come | forward with D and E companies and in on our right across the road. While this was going on the firing of the Spanish was maintained at a ter- rific rate. The erack of their Mauser rifles-—short, sharp, spiteful—was like the long roll beaten on a giant bass dram. It was punctuated continually with the bursting of the shells they were throwing from the fort at Malate. At the start the Pennsylvania men fired by volley and did it well. The roar of their old Springfields, all fired off to and Hpaniards in the Manila trenches “Boon after the Spaniards began their | | regnlar and heavy fire the Penneylvania | directly in tront of our line, about 75 | gether, was like the report of a 10 Then rifle. It was almost impossible to tell whether it was volley firing or cannon: ading. Aft times it sounded as if the Raleigh, which had taken the Boston's place off Camp Dewey, had moved np opposite Malate and opened on the Spaniards with her § inch rifles. The artillerymen from Utah were as cool ae if they were bathing in thelr favorite salt lake. They got their four guns into action in a hurry apd kept them there with a regularity that was un: distorbed by the terrific assauit made on them by the Spaniards. Small as they had made the embrasures for their guns, they were yet largs enough for a bailstorm of Mauser bullets to sweep through. How more of the men were not bit ean never be explained. The steel cased bullets kept ap a con- stant ringing on the metal of the can- pon, but osly one struck a gunner, and be got off with a flesh wonnd in the arm. Lieutenant Gibhe of Battery A, standing with bis right hand resting on the wheel of one of his guns, got an fllastration of how close One may coms to being hit. A bullet struck the tire of the whee! joet inside his thumb and passed nnder his band, leaving a little | burned strip across bis thamb. *‘By this time it was a business fight. The Spanish were veing thelr mage- gines and firing by sqoade. A great ‘deal of the fire was high, some of it . very high, but never before had any of our boys seen the Spanish anywhere pear so accurate, and some of the Amer jeans bad been under their five in the insurgent trenches many times. The bullets were flying over their beads in swarms. They whizsed, they whistled, they sang as a telegraph wire does in a wind, they sipped, they bumased, they droned like a bagpipe far away, like s June bog seeking a light on a hot night, like a bioebottie busing againet a window pane, they best against the outside of our embankment with a sound like bailstones ofriking soft med, they rattled against the old Ca- puchin chapel and through ite fron roof with a Lr as running ¢hildren make with a stick on a picket fence or like a man dramming on » § | window blind. | orders were to acton the defensive, and {no advance war made “Did you ever bear the cook beating up eggs ou a platter with a big spoon! If that noise were magnified a thousand times, it wonid give a suggestion of the tattoo the bullets beat om that old chapel. And all this time there were the shells. They were almost as thick as the bullets, and yet, strange as it seams, there is record of only one man who was hart by a abell, and he was pot at all seriously wounded. He wan Second Lieutenant A. J. Bottermore, D company, Tenth Peonsylvania. A piece of it his him over the left eyo apd waa. bi down. It made an but shat was ail. this was going os Major Bierer ar im D and B sompanies of the Tenth Pennsylvania imto action on our right. Todo this be had to cross the open field iu rear of our trench. It was a perfect bell be had to go through—a bundred yards of open ground, without sign of protection. swept by a storm of {| Mauser bullets that came from left, from front and from right, with shells from the Spanish guns bursting among and around them all the time. Corporal W. E Brown of D company was struck through the body, and be fell dead in his tracks. All about him men were dropping with bullets in the legs or arma Some who wers wounded kept on toward the enemy. A little beyond where Brown fell Private William E. Stillwagon of E company got the bullet that cost him his life. Still the wen went on with fine courage and inte por sition in the open field across the road at the right of our line. There they beld their ground, pumping away at the Bpaniards as hard as they conid.”’ General Greene maid of Malate: *Compared with the battles of the civil war, this was an unimportant skir mish. The Spaniards poured the hottest possible fire on our trenches for about two hours with the intention of driving us out. We were 7,000 miles from the nearest point in America engaged on foreign soil and without any place to retreat to if we had been driven out All the conditions were such as asnally create consternation among green troops, vet the vetezans of abundred bat tiea of the civil war conld pot bave done more thoroughly what was required that night than did those young men from Pennsylvania and Utah There the fight was that we held onr trenches in accordance with onr iostructions snd lost 10 killed and 48 wounded An Apology. Owing to illness of employes of the COURIER office this week we wish to front and was trying to flank us. That | apologize for the scarcity of general { local news in the paper this issue. We - son broaght K and B companies up the | trust that our subscribers will overlook Camina Real into the trench at once | this matter and we hope to be able to make up for lost time next week. Harness Shop Removed. harness shop from the room opposite him, -35t2. at Goldstein's. was no confusion and no nonecessary | excitement and the simple result ol | George Langbien has removed his William's barber shop on Magee ave- nue, to the room next to Weakland’s livery stable on Fifth avenue, where he invites all his trade to call and see Oxford ties at 50 cents on the dollar S TO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. TRY IT AND S sewer CONTRACT LET. Proceedings of Patton Bora Connell Held Monday, July 31. Our Borough law-makers met in regular session Monday night, Jaly ent as per roll call: Hubbard, Bialr, Anderson, Cordell, and Winslow. The minutes of regular meeting held Mon- day night, Joly "a were read and approved, The matter of soeuring stone monu- ments for grade purposes was referred to street committee who were in- structed to take action on same. D. H. C. Warren banded in a bid of $25 for the scraping and painting of the iron bridge across Chest Creek on Magee avenue, with red lead The matter was referred to the street com- mittee for action. The street commit tee was also instructed to meet with Supervisor Crawford, of the P. R. R,, and decide as to the evection of board walks, bridges, etc, on north side of Magee avenne near bridge crossing Little Chest Creek. The following bills were presented to Council: Chas. Rhody, $2.70, for luam- ber; Wm. Gill, $40, for police services for month of July and $6.75 for arrests made, meals to prisoners and arresting 13 dogs; W. P. Jackeom, §3 for special police services on 4th of July; also Wm. Armstrong $3 for same service; E. €. Brown, $82.10 for services as borough sngineer; R.. McPherson, $13 for making out duplicate, ete.; Joba Bimpeon, $1.25 for making dog net; W. A. Mellon, §3 for auditing school ac- count; H. 8. Lingle, #2 for same; Geo. 8. Good Electric Light Co., $71 for | Hght; Patton Water Co., $40 for months of June and July: Patton Clay Manu- factaring Co, $23.96 for sewer pipe, ete for month of July and postage. Om motion of Blair and seconded by And- | the above bills be passed and clerk in- structed to draw orders for same, with the exception of the bills of Chas Rhody, E. C. Brownand W. P. Jack- son, which were held over for investi- gation. On motion of Cordell and seconded by Campbell, it was unanimously oar- ried that Dr. 8. W. Worrell be granted a building permit for a period of three months. The Keystone Paviag Co. and Geo. 8. Good handed in bids for street pav- ing bat the matter was held over for a period of two weeks and the Borough Engineer was instrocted to again ad- wertise for bids to close Monday Aug- ont 14th. that work be commenced at once. Protestion for Merchants. which requires transient merchants in boroughs to pay a license of not less ose of the school funds of that town- ship. The act requires that all licenses fine of nos less than $100 or more than $200 for failure to obtain the license. Reeoived an Inerense. The Windber Era says that the Ber- wind-White coal mining company bas ing after machines, taking effect | August 1st. The rate will be twenty- seven and one-half cents per gross ton, instead of twenty-five cents, provided, however, that their principal competi- tors in the central Pennaylvania district do the same, as they have advertised. Licensed to Wed. The following marriage licenses were issued to North Cambrians since July | (19th: Howard W. Miller, of Moun- Blandsburg; F. G. Simelsberger and Miss Jennie Rennie, of Barnesboro;! Carrolltown. Musical College. The Musical College at Freeburg, | Pa.. is now in session with a large and intelligent class. $33 will pay for six weeks’ board and tuition. Next term begins September 1. Students admit- | i any time. For catalogue address H. B. Moyer. -35t3 At the Haptist Church. Rev. M. C. Alexander, pastor of the | Harlingsburg, ( Pa. } Baptist church, will | preach in the Patton Baptist church on the morning and evening of Aung- ust Sth and 13th. 81st, with the following members pres- erson it was unanimously carried that The following bids were received for . terms, to-wit: able to the eounty tressurer for the | must be renewed monthly. There is a mde another increase in price of load- | § taindale and Miss Nora A. Williams, of Benno Stich and Miss Mary Byrne, of | SE Ld de A A A ti ASSIGNEE SALE el Valuable Real Estate. By virtue of a third Plurias Order of Court, 1 will expose to sale at public vendae or outery, at the hotel of D. G. Myers, in the Borough of Ashville, Cambria county, Pa., on Friday, Aog- ost 25th, 1899, at 1 o'clock p. m., the following described real estate: No. 1. All the right title and interest of D. G. Myers and wife, to that cer tain piece or parce! of land situated in Clearfield township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, hounded and described as follows: On the north by lands of John M. Jordan, deceased; on the east by lands of*John M. Jordan, decessed; on the south by lands of John M. Jor- dan, deceased; and on the west by lands of D. H. Crotcher, deceased, the same containing twenty-five acres. No. 2. The one-half interest in that piece or parcel of land lying and being in Dean township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, adjoining lands of Wop- sononock Coal company, John Sheates, Irwin Brothers and others, the same containing ninety-three acres. No. 3. A piece or parcel of land siteated in Dean township, Cambria county, Penn’a, adjoining lands of Bchriker heirs, Griffith heirs, and Irwin Brothers, the same containing fifty- SATO SCTeS: «No. 4. The undivided one-half inter- est in that piece or parcel of land sita- sted in Gallitzin township, Cambria | and John McGuire, the same contain- ing thirty acres. No. 5 The undivided one-half Jas. Gilliece, $5.16 for clerk services | iDterest in that mineral right in, ander and upon a certain piece or parcel of land sitoated in Dean township, Cam- bria county, Penn’s, and in Ashville borough, Pa., bounded by lands of D. M. Crotcher, deceased, and Dry Gsp road on the south and John Trexler on the east, the same containing one bandred and twenty-two acres. No. 8. The following lots known and nambered on the general plan of Ashville borough as numbers 28, 29, 48, 45, 46, 47, 55, 57, 58, 02, 63, 69, 70, 76, 81, 84, 79, 150, 90, 91, 96, 97, 100, 101, 103, 108, 111, 112, 118 119, 130, 1232, 123, 183 138, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 146, 161, 109, 170, 177, 175, 176, 177, 121, SO, 83, 98, 99, 132, 134, 171. With the appurtenance and in ac- cordance with the petition of the said Thomas H. Myers and the decree of the said court made thereon the third day of July, 1899, upon the following One third of the purchase money to be paid when the property is knocked dows, one-third on confirmation of sale and one-third in siz months from Ander. | dete of sale. Dated at Ashville, Pa, August 1st 1899. TroMAS H. MYERS, Assignee of D. G. Myers. REURL SOMERVILLE, All bids shall be in writing, and shall be submitted to the said Borough En- gineer before the hour of 8 o'clock p. m., Aagust 14th, 1890. Plans and specifications can be seen at the office {of the Borough Engineer, Patton, Penn’a. The borough reserves the right to re- | ject any and all bide Geo. H. Ayer, i } | Patton, Pa, July 31 189. } { Transter of Liquor License. Notice is hereby gives that the petit- lion of D. E. Notley, a resident of | Barnesboro, for the transfer of the re- | tail liquor license granted to Rodger | Bowen, in said borough, for the year commencing third Monday of March, 1898, has been filed in the Clerk’s office of the court of Quarter Sessions of | Cambria county, and will be presented | to said court for its consideration on Monday, 14th of Aogust, 1809, 8 W. Davms, Clerk Q. 8. Ebensburg, 1st August, 1809.-35t2 A $3 Newman hat for $1.30 at Gold- | stein’s. | RE
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