THE KEYSTONE STATE
ITEMS WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR
INTEREST TO PENNSYLVANIANS.
Brief Mentlou of Matters Which Every
body Should Know About—A Week's
Accidents and Crimes Accurately and
Concisely Chronicled.
PHILADELPHIA, June 28.—William Simms,
postmaster of Fitztown, Perk's couuty, is
tinder 11,000 bail on a charge of opening
letters addressed to William Shnrman, jus
tice of the peace. Mr. Simms has been
postmaster of Fitztown for fourteen years.
The prosecuting witness, Justice Sharman,
is the postmaster's bondsman.
A Strike Inevitable.
PITTSBURG, June 28.—1t is now believed
hero that a strike of iron men is inevitable.
Should one be inaugurated and all the firms
that have refused to sign the scale of the
Amalgamated association remain firm sixty
mills and from 35,000 to 45,000 men will
be implicated. The fight between the as
sociation and the bosses hjis narrowed down
to the manufacturers of muck bar and fin
ished iron and steel in all shapes.
Killed by a Baseball.
PHILADELPHIA, June 28.—While playiug
baseball Robert ShifHer was accidentally
struck on the temple by a ball, from the
effects of which he died.
Commencement at Lafayette.
EARTON, Juue 27.—'The annual commence
w xnent of Lafayette Btate college began with
the baccalaureate sermon preached by the
Rev. Dr. S. F. Lourie, of Philadelphia.
Dedicated by Archbishop Kyan.
CHESTER, June 27. The first Catholic
church iu Ridley township, to be known
as the St. Rose of Lima, was formally dedi
cated by Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia.
Looking for a Brute.
WEST CHESTER, June 27.—A posse of de
termined farmers are making a vigorous
search of the country about Darlington's
Corner, a hamlet three miles south of West
Chester, for a negro brute who attacked
Anna and Mary Tyson, two young sisters,
of Downlngtown, who are visiting the fam
ily of Charles Wilson. Both giris are in
jured, though Mary, the older, is in the
worst condition.
Pennsylvania Directors' Consideration.
PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Because of the
deep sorrow fel£ for the sufferers by the
Harrisburg wreck a dinner which the di
rectors of the Pennsylvania railroad had ar
ranged to give President Roberts at the
Bryn Mawr hotel, as a fitting prelude to his
departure for Europe, was postponed until
Mr. Roberts' return in the autumn.
An Accident Throws 800 Men Out.
POTTSVILLE, June 27.—A heavy machine
need in washing silk in the Tilt silk mill
here exploded and several of the flying
pieces struck William Higgles, an operator,
seriously injuring him. Eight hundred
hands will be idle for a few days in conse
quence of the accident.
A Probable Blatrlcide.
PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—When Myles
Leary, aged nineteen, went home from work
his intoxica(ed mother, Julia Leary, de
manded his monoy. They quarreled, and
the son cut and kicked his parent so badly
that she will probably die. The son is under
arrest.
A Blot Feared.
READING, June 27.—A riot is imminent
in the vicinity of Mohonsvllle, about five
miles south of this city. The Italian rail
road laborers have not been paid and most
of them stopped work. Those who con
tinued have been threatened by the idle
men.
The Sister llildeberta Inquest.
READING, June 27.—Coroner Kantner has
begun holding an inquest upon the body
of Bister Mary Hildeberta, who died in Ht.
Joseph's hospital from the effects of kuife
wounds inflicted by Peter Buccieri, an Ital
ian patient. The evidence of a number of
patients who were in the same ward with
the Italian, was heard. Information charg
ing Buccieri with murder was lodged against
him.
A Philadelphia Magistrate Arrested.
PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—William Koch
sperger, magistrate of court No. 17, was ar
rested charged with misdemeanor in office.
Rochsperger was released on his own recog
nizance.
A Youthful Diamond Tliief.
PITTSBURG, June 26.—Willie Hoarr, a sev
enteen-year-old clerk in the jewelry store
of George W. Briggs, was arrested for steal
ing diamonds aud jewelry valned at $lO,-
000. The boy had been systematically steal
ing for months, and when arrested had
nearly SI,OOO worth of diamonds on his por
tion. Young Hoarr is well connected.
Eighteen Cars Demolished.
HUNTINGDON, June 25. Two freight
trains on the Pennsylvania railroad collided
two miles east of this place at 4 o'clock,
both engines and eighteen cars were demol
ished.
To Sell the Poughkeepsie Bridge.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—The sale of the
Poughkeepsie bridge under the foreclosure
proceedings will take place next Thursday,
and the now company will probably be for
mally transferred to the Reading early in
July. It is probable that the bondholders
will lie wiped out, unless the property it
sold at a very high figure.
Horrible Outrage at Wllliamsport.
WILLIAMRPORT, June 25.—A horrible out
rage was perpetrated on Mrs. Nora M.
Bhotter, the pretty young wife of a baseball
player, between ft and 10 p. m. The wom
an was on her way home on a lonely street
when she was felled by a stone thrown by
one of three negroes. The men picked up
the helpless wofnan, stifled her cries and
carried her to a vacant lot, where they re
peatedly assaulted hor. Earlier in the even
ing Mrs. John Keau, residing in South Wil
liamsport, was assaulted by a white man,
but sho succeeded in defending herself. The
police have no clew to the assailants.
Jury .Swindlers Sentenced.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Michael Me-
Keown and Charles S. Meyers, who oxe
. cutod a scheme by which Meyers personated
another man on the grand jury and drew
twenty days' pay, were sentenced by Judge
Rood. McKwown got two years in the
Eastern penitentiary, aud Meyers one year
in the county prison.
Tliey Saved Pennsylvania ® 150,000.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—The board of
mercantile appraisers have almost finisbod
their work for the year. Compared with
the last board of mercantile appraisers the
present hoard has saved the state about
$150,000. Included in this estimate is the
money saved by not advertising the list in
the newspapers.
His Tender Years Suveil Him.
PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Because of his
youth Frank Kline, aged eight years, es
caped punishment for pushing Jacob
Marsch, Jr., off Green street wharf into the
Delaware river and causing his death. Coro
fer Ashbridgo's jury rendered A verdict of j
$ cidenUi death _
THE CHICAGO TICKET
THE DEMOCRATS NOMINATE MESSRS.
CLEVELAND AND STEVENSON.
Both Win on the Very First Ballot and
Cleveland Has Sixteen Votes to Spare.
An Electric Light Falls and Nearly
Strikes Governor Flower.
| CHICAGO, June 23. —When the delegates
to the Democratic national convention were
comfortably settled in their seats Wednes
day nooq Senators Mills and Palmer were
tailed upon for speeches. Mr. Mills bash
fully fled from the hall, but the Illinois sen
ator made a short address, appealing for
harmony.
Permanent Chairman W. L. Wilson re
ceived an ovation. In beginning his address
he said that the mission of the Democratic
party was to fight for the under dog, and
when Republicans were in control the
American people was the under dog. Re
publican success in the coining campaign, he
said, meant that the people are to be
stripped of their franchise through force
bills in order that they may be stripped of
their substance through tariff bills. The
i speaker denounced federal control of elec
tions.
The first mention of Cleveland's name in
the convention was when Mr. Vilas in the
first paragraph of the platform read "From
Madison to Cleveland." It called out the
pentup enthusiasm of the delegates.
The Platform.
Boc. 1. The representatives of the Demo
cratic party of the United States in national
oonvention assembled do reaffirm their alle
giance to the principles of the party as formu
lated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long
and illustrious line of his successors in Demo
cratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland.
We believe the public welfare demands that
these principles bo appllod to the conduct of
the federal government through accession to
power of the party that advocutcs thorn; and wo
solemnly declare that the need of a return to
these fundamental principles of free popular
government, based on home rule and individual
liberty, was nover more urgent than now,
when the tendency to centralize all power at
the federal capital has become a menace to the
reserved rights of the statos that strikes at the
very roots of our government and under the
constitution as framed by the fathers of the re
public.
Federul Control of Elections.
Sec. 2. Wo warn the people ot our common
country jealous for the preservation of their
froo institutions that the policy of tho federal
control of elections, to which the Republican
party has committed itself, is fraught with the
ADLAI E. STEVENSON,
gravest dangers, scarcely less momentous than
would result from a revolution practically es
tablishing monarchy on tho ruins of the repub
lic. It strikes at tho north as well as at the
south, and injures tho colored citizen even
more than the white; it means a horde of depu
ty marshals at every polling place, armed with 1
federal power, returning boards appointed and
controlled by federal authority, tho outrage of
the electoral rights of the people iu tho several
states, the subjugation of tho colored people to
the control of tho party in power, and the re
viving of race antagonisms now happily
abated, of tho utmost poril to the safety and
happiness of all; a measure deliberately and
justly described by a leading Republican sena
tor as "the most infamous bill that ever crossed
the threshold of the senate."
Such a policy, if sanctioned by law, would
mean the dominance of a self porpotuatlng oli
garchy of officeholders, and the party first in
trusted with its machinery could be dislodged
from power only by an appeal to tho reserved
right of the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all self governing communities, j
Two years ago this revolutionary policy was
emphatically condemned by the people at the
polls; but in contempt of that verdict, the Re
publican party has defiantly declared in its
latest authoritative utterance that its success
in the coming elections will mean the enact
ment of the force bill and the usurpation of
despotic control over elections in aM the states.
Believing that tho preservation of Republican
government in the United States is dependent
upon the defeat of this policy of legalized force
and fraud, we invite the assistance of all citi
zens who desire to see the constitution main
tained in its integrity with the luws pursuant
thoroto which have given our country a hun
dred years of unexampled prosperity ; and we
pledge the Democratic party if it be intrusted
with power, not only to the defeat of the force
bill, but also to relentless opposition to the Re
publican policy of profligate expenditure, which
in the short space of two years, has squandered
an enormous surplus and emptied an overflow
ing treasury, after piling now burdens of taxa
tion upon the already overtaxed labor of the
I country.
We denounce Republican protection as a
fraud ; a robbery of great majority of the
American people for the benefit of the few. We
declare it to bo a fundamental principle of the I
Democratic party that the federal government I
has no constitutional power to enforce and col- 1
lect tariff duties except for tho purpose of reve
nue only, and demand that the collection of such
taxes shall be limited to tho necessities of the
government and honestly and economically ad
ministered.
The MuKinley Bill Denounced.
We denounce tho McKiulcy tariff law enacted
by the Fifty-first congress as the culminating
atrocity of class legislation; we Indorse tho ef
forts mado by the Domocrats of the present
congress to modify its most oppressive features
in the direction of free raw material and cheap
er manufactured goods that enter into home
consumption, and we promise its repeal as one
of the beniflcent results that will follow the
action of the pooplo in entrusting power to the
Democratic party. Since the McKinley tariff
went into operation there have been ten reduc
tions of wages of laboring men to one increase.
We deny that thero has l>een any increase of
prosperity to the country since thut tariff went
into oporation, and wo point to the dullness
and distress, the wage reductions and strikes
in the iron trade as the best possible evidence
that no such prosperity bus resulted from the
I McKinley act
We call the attention of thoughtful Ameri
cans to the fact that after thirty years of re
strictive taxation against importations of
foreign products in exchange for our agricul
tural surplus, the homos and farms of the
country have become burdened with a real
estate mortgage debt of over two thousand
five hundred million dollars, exclusve of all
other forma of indebtedness; that in one of
the chief agricultural states of the wost
there appears a real estate mortgage debt j
averaging $lB5 per capita, and that similar :
conditions are shown to exist in other agricul
tural exporting states. We denounce a policy
which fosters no industry so much as it does
that of the sheriff.
Seo. 4. Trade interchange on the Imsis of re. '
clprocal advantage to the countries partici
pating la a time honored doctrino of the Demo- I
cratio faith, but we deoouaoe the sham reel
eroclty which Juggles with the poople's desire
for enlarged foreign markets and freer ex- !
changes by pretending to establish trade rela- !
tlons for a country whose articles of export are '
almost exclusively agricultural, while erecting
a custom house barrier of prohibitive tariff
taxes against the richest oouutrles of the world
that stand ready to take our entire surplus of
products and to exchange therefore commodi
ties which are necessary and are comforta of
life among our own people.
Bec. 6. We recognize in trusts and monopo
lies which are designed by capital to secure
more than their lust share of tho/T'lnt prod
uct of capital ana labor a natural consequence
of prohibitive taxes, which prevent the free com
petition which is the life of honest trade, but I
wo believe their worst evils ran l>o abated by
law, and wo demand the rigid enforcement of
laws made to prevent and control them, to
gether with such further legislation in restraint
of their abuses as experience may show to be
necessary.
Sec. 6. The Republican party, while profess
ing a policy of reserving the public lands for
small holdings by actual settlers, has given
away the people's heritage until now a few
railroads, nonresident aliens—individual and
corporate—possesa a larger area than that of
all our farms betwoeu the two seas. The last
Democratic administration reversed the im
provident and unwise policy of the Republican
party touching the public domain, and re
claimed from corporations and syndicates
alien and domestic, and restored to the people
nearly 100,000,000 acres of valuable land to bo
sacredly held as homesteads for our citizons,
and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy
until every acre of land so unlawfully held
shall be reclaimed and restored to the people.
The Money Plank.
Sec. 7. We denouneo the Republican legisla
tion known as the Sherman act of 1890 as a
cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities
of danger In the future which should make all
of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious
for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of
both gold and silver as the standard money of
the country, and to the coinage of both gold
and silver without discrimination against
either metal or charge for mintage; but the
dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of j
equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value or be
adjusted by international agreement or by such
sufuguards of legislation as shall Insure the
maintenance of the parity ot the two metals
and the equal power of any dollar at all times
in the market and in the payment of debts;
and we domand that all paper currency shall
be kopt at par with and redeemable in such
coin. We insist upon this policy as especially
necessary for the protection of the farmers
and laboring classes, the first and most defense
less victims of unstable money and a fluctu
ating currency.
Sec. 8. We recommend that the prohibitive
10 per cent, tax on bank issues bo repeuled.
Sec. 9. Publio office is a public trust. We re
affirm the declaration of the Democratic na
tional convention of 1876 for the reform of the
civil service, and we call for the honest on
forcemeat of all laws regarding same. The
nomination of a president, as in the last Repub
lican convention, by delegates consisting large
ly of his appointees holding office at his pleas
ure, is a scandalous satire upon froo popular in :
stitutions and a startling illustration of the
methods by which a president may gratify his
ambition. We denounce a policy under Which
federal officeholders usurp control of party con I
ventions in the states, and we pledge the Demo- ;
crntie party^to the reform of these and all other j
abuses which threaten Individual liberty and ,
local self government.
Support for tlie Navy.
Sec. 10. Tho Democratic party is the only
party that has over given the country a foreign
policy consistent aud vigorous, compelling re
spect abroad and inspiring confidence at homo.
While avoiding entangling alliances, it has
aimed to oultivate friendly relations with other
nations and especially with our neighbors on
the Americau continent, whose destiny is close
ly linked with our own, and wo view with alarm
the tendency to a policy of irritation and blus
ter which is liable at any time to confront us
with tho alternative of humiliation or war. We
favor tho maintenance of a navy strong enough
for all purposes of national defense and to prop
erly maintain the honor and dignity of the
country abroad.
Sec. 11. This country bos always been tho rof
uge of the oppressed from every land -exiles
for conscience sake—and in this spirit of tho
founders of our government we condemn the
oppression practiced by tho Rnssian govern
ment upon its Lutheran and Jewish subjects,
and we call upon our national government, in
the interest of justice and humanity, by all just
and proper means, to use its prompt and best
efforts to bring about a cessation of these cruel
persecutions in the dominions of tho czar and to
secure to the oppressed equal rights.
We tender our profound and earnest sym
pathy to those lovers of freedom who aro
struggling for homo rule and tho great cause
of self government in Ireland.
Sec. 12. We heartily approve all legitimnto ef
forts to prevent the United Statos from being
used as the dumping ground of the criminals and
professional paupers of Europe, and we demand
the rigid enforcement of tho laws against
Chinese emigration and the importation of
foreign workmen under contract to degrade
our labor and lessen its wages, but we condemn
and denounce all attempts to restrict tho im
migration of the industrious and worthy of
foreign lands.
Sec. 13. This convention hereby renews the
expression of appreciation of the patriotism of
the soldiers and sailors of the Union in the war
for its preservation, and we favor just and
llboral pensions for all disabled Union soldiers,
their widows and dependents, but we demand
that the work of the pension office shall be done
industriously, impartially and honestly. We
denounce tho present administration of that
offico as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful and
dishonest.
Sec. 14. The federul government should care
for and improve the Mississippi river and other
great waterways of the republic, so as to secure
for the interior states easy and cheap trans
portation to tho tidewater. When any water
way of the republic is of sufficient importance
to demand the aid of the government thut Buch
aid should l>o extended on a definite plan of
continuous work until permanent improvement
is secured.
Sec. Ift. For purposes of national defense and
the promotion of commorco betwoeu tho states
we recognize the early construction of the
Nicaragua canal and its protection against
foreign control as of great importance to the
United States.
National Aid for the Fair.
Sec. 16. Recognizing the World's Columbian
exposition as a national undertaking of vast
importance in which tho general government
has invited the co-operation of tho nations of
the world, and appreciating the acceptance by
many such powers of the invitatiou so extend
ed and the broad and liberal offorts being made
by them to contribute to the grandeur of the
undertaking, we are of tho opinion that con
gress should make such necessary financial pro
vision as shall be requisite to the maintenance
of national honor and public faith.
Sec. 17. Popular education being the only safe
basis of popular suffrage, we recommend to tho
several states most littoral appropriations for
the public, schools. Froo common schools are
tho nursery of good government, and they
have always received the fostering care of the
Democratic party, which favors every means
of increasing intelligence. Freedom of educa
tion being an essential of civil and religious
liberty, as well as a necessity for tho dovelop
mout of intelligence, must not bo interfered
with under any pretext whatever. We are op
posed to state interference with parontal rights
and rights of conscience in tho education of
children as an infringement of tho fundamental
Democratic doctrine that the largest individual
liberty consistent with the rights of others, in
sures tho highest type of American citizenship
and the best government.
Sec. 18. We approve the action of tho presont
house of representatives iu passing bills for
tho admission into tho Union as of the
territories of Now Mexico and Arizona, and
wo favor the early admisslou of all tho ter
ritories having the necessary population and
resources to entitle them to statehood, and
while they remain territories we hold that the
officers appointed to administer the government
of any torritory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska, shall lie bona fide resi
dents of the territory or district in which
their duties are to be performed. The Demo
cratic party believes in borne rule ami tho con
trol of thoir awn affairs by the people of tbe
Vicinage.
oec. W. Wr Ctror legislation bjr congrow and
' state legislature to protoot the lives and limbs
of railway employees and those of other hazard
j ous transportation companies, and denounce
the inactivity of the Republican party, and
particularly the Republican senate, for causing
the defeat of measures beneficial and protective
to this class of wageworkers.
Sec. 20. We are in favor of the onactmont by
the states of laws for abolishing the notorious
sweating system, for nbolishing contract con
i vict labor and for prohibiting the employment
: in factories of children under fifteen years of
j ago.
i Sec. 21. We are opposed to all sumptuary laws
as an interference with tho individual rights of
the citizen.
j Sec. '£&. Upon this statement of principles and
policy the Democratic party asks the intelli
| gent judgment of the American pooplo. It asks
a change of administration and a change of
, party in order that there may be a change of
• system and a change of methods, thus assuring
! the maintenance unimpaired of institutions
| under which the republic has grown great and
powerful.
The First llallot.
I Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, nomi-
I nated Cleveland; W. C. DeWitt, of Brook
lyn, presented Hill's and John F.
Duucomb spoke for 1m s. The first ballot
I resultod as follows:
1 f 111 e *
$ 2. : 9 i S I
5 Inf r i
22 Alabama 14 2 1 1 .. ..
1U Arkansas 16
18 California 18
8 Colorado 3 5
12 Connecticut 12
| 8 Delaware 6
I 8 Florida 5 3
:28 Georgia 17 5 .. 4 ..
j 8 Idaho 0
i 48 Illinois 48
' 30 Indiana 30
28 lowa 28
20 Kansas 20
28 Kentucky 18 2 .. 8 ..
I 18 Louisiana 3 1 11 1 ..
12 Maine 0 1 1 .. ..
10 Maryland 0 .. .. 9%.. ..
80 Massachusetts 24 4 1
28 Michigan 28
18 Minnesota 18
18 Mississippi 8 3 8 4 .. ..
84 Missouri 84
0 Montana 8
16 Nebraska 15 .. .. 1
6 Nevada 4 2 .. ..
8 New Hampshire 8
j 20 New Jorsey 20
i 6 New Mexico 4 1 1
j 72 New York 72
22 North Carolina 3% .. 1 .. .. 10%
I 6 North Dakota 8
40 Ohio 14 6 16 5 5 .
I 8 Oregon 8
M Pennsylvania 04
8 Rhode Island 8
18 gouth Carolina 2 3 13
8 South Dakota 7 .. 1
! 24 Tennessee 24
I 30 Toxas 23 1 8
8 Vermont 8
24 Virginia 12 11 .. \ .. ..
j 8 Washington 8
12 West Virginia 7 1 3 .. ..
24 Wisconsin 24
0 Wyoming 8 .. ~ 3 t#
j 2 Alaska 2
I 6 Arizona 5 .. .. 1 .. !!
I 2 District of Columbia.. 2
2 Indian Territory 2
I 2 Oklahoma 2
| 2 Utah 2
010 Totals 017% 114 103 38% 14 10%
The nomination of Mr. Cleveland was
then made unanimous and the convention
adjourned until 2 p. m. Thursday.
Mr. Cleveland Congratulated.
BUZZARD'S BAY, Mass., June 24. Cloudi
ness and rain marked the day at Gray
Gables. There were few callors, but Mr.
Cleveland's time was largely occupied in
I reading the 200 congratulatory telegrams
that arrived. Among those received were
dispatches from ex-Governor Greene, ol
New Jersey; Governor Pattison, of Penn
sylvania; Pinckney White, of Maryland:
one or two from members of the Tammany
organization, but largely the telegrams have
been from friends. Mr. Cleveland was ask
ed by a United Press representative if he
had received any congratulations from Mr.
Hill or the Tammany organization and he
smiled as he answered in the negative.
True to his promise ex-President Cleve
land notified the reporters at 4:30 that he
was ready to send them his statement. The
statement was presumably written by Gov
ernor Russell, who in this instance enacted
the reporter, representing the combined
press representatives. The statement is a*
; follows:
1 should certainly be charged with donse In
sensibility if I wore not profoundly touched by
this new proof of the confidence and trust o!
tho great party to which I belong and whose
mandates claim my loyal obedience. lam con
fident that our fellow countrymen are ready to
receive with approval the principles of true
Democracy, and I cannot rid myself of tho
lief that to win success it is only necessary to
persistently and honestly advocate those prin
ciples. Differences of opinion and judgment in
Democratic conventions are by no means un
wholesome indications, but it is hardly con
ceivable. in view of tho importance of our suc
cess to tho country and the party, that there
should be anywhere among Democrats any lack
of harmonious and active effort to win in the
campaign which opens before us. I have, there
fore, no concern on that subject. It will cor
taiuly be my constant endeavor to deserve the
support of every Democrat.
STEVENSON IN SECOND PLACE.
lie Receives the Nomination for Vice
President.
CHICAGO, June 24.—Hon. Adlui E. Steven
son, of Illinois, was nominated for vice
president of the United States by the na
tional Democratic convention at 4:5(1 p. m.
Thursday. His principal opponent was
Governor Isaac. P. Gray, of Indiana, but at
the end of the first ballot Mr. Stevenson
was so strongly in the lead that many states
that had voted for other candidates threw
their support to the Illinois man. At this
point the rules were suspendod and Mr.
Stevenson nominated unanimously by ac
clamation. The national committee was
authorized to select the time and place foi
holding the next national convention. At
5:08 p. m. an electric light fell into the mid
dle of the hall, nearly striking Goveruoi
Flower, of New York, and almost creating
a panic. Men lost their heads and women
fainted. Happily, however, a stampede
was averted, and when tho audience learned
that no one had been injured it quieted
down. Chairman Brice, of the national
committee, thanked Chicago for her efforts
in entertaining the delegates, and at 5:18
p. m. tho convention adjourned sine die.
To Attack Monmouth Park Again.
FREEHOLD, N. J., June 29.—The execu
tive committee of the Monmouth County
Law and Order tongue has mapped out
plans for the crusade against Monmouth
Park, and has engaged special offlcors to ar
rest all persons found making books or sell
ing pools each race day. The members ol
tho loaguo believe that this course will
break up the races.
Flod to the .Second Stories.
LANCASTER, Pa., June 28.— A very severe
storm passed over this county. At Wash
ington borough water was several feet deep
in the streets, and the people were com
pelled to seek refuge in the second storiei
of their houses. The tobacco fields wore
completely ruined. Fences, trees and out
bouses wore swept away.
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Spicily Written and Arranged by Dif
ferent Reporter*.
Master Hugh Tolan, late of this place,
but now of Wilkes-Barre, was visiting
friends iiere this week.
Andrew Wagner, Jr., one of our promi
nent young men, is very popular among
the ladies here as lie was seen prome
nading Lovers' Lane Sunday evening.
Saturday is being observed as half
holiday here, all the employes being
suspended at twelve o'clock.
James Heeney, of I.aurytown, took
a pleasant drive through our little village
on Sunday.
William Hayes has purchased a very
valuable bicycle.
Daniel Munday holds his head very
high on occountof a bare-footed stranger
who called at his dwelling Tuesday
morning. It is a bouncing boy.
There are three young men here who
make a habit of leading some of our ner
vous young ladies across the bridge on
the D. S. &S. Be careful, gents, aB the
Rambler has his eagle eye on you.
.Tames McGill, of Buck Mountain, was
a visitor among friends here on Sunday.
John Trimble and Manus McFadden,
of Sandy Run, were among their lady
friends here on Sunday.
John Dennion.of this place, intends to
raise a great crop of pumpkins this year,
as he can be seen every evening as he
hanks them up. John is an old-time
farmer.
Hugh McGill took a flying trip to old
Buck Mountain on Saturday evening
where he intends to purchase Manus
Cannon's farm. The Rambler wishes
him success.
The Neyersweats would like to hear
from the Fearnots, to play a game on or
before July 15, on whatever grounds
they name.
Walter Fernau and Jacob George were
visiting friends at White Haven on Sun
day. They must have had a good time.
The Terrors drove to Yorktown on
Sunday, where they were defeated by a
Score of 9 to 10.
Saturday, July 2, promises to be a
great day here, as there will be a picnic
held in the afternoon und evening, and
the Yorktown club will be here to
contest with the Terrors for the cham
pion game of the season.
Our tpiiet little village is a great deal
disturbed by the candy fiends, or better
known as the ice cream fiends, who
roam the streets at night and will al
most walk down into a man's pocket
book to set up the cream.
In taking a walk through the village
last evening I could hear from every
nook and corner the cry of the monster
they call '"Potato bug." Give them
some Paris green, Roarty.
Mr. and Mrs. James McCormick, of
Philadelphia, are visiting friends here.
"Doc" O'Donnell and Condy McCau
ley take great interest in going towards
Moraine every evening, and they don't
return until a late hour. Wonder what
the attraction is.
During the thunder storin that pre
vailed here on Monday evening the
lightning struck the dwelling of John
Brennan.
The Terrors will hold a grand picnic
here on July 4.
Barney Gallagher spent Saturday
among Stockton friends. I suppose Bar
ney has his eye on something.
Four of our young ladies took a pleas
ant drive on Saturday evening on a
huckster wagon to Moraine, that forlorn
village. While one of them held the
reins the other three occupied seats on
the barrels and boxes and the driver
raised hisvoieeand sang "Maggie Mur
phy." RAMBLER.
FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.
A grand picnic will be held in the
grove in the rear of the company store,
on Saturday evening by the A. O. 11.
A good time is in store for all who at
tend.
John James, the efficient young yard
master on the D. S. & S. at Roan, is laid
up with a sprained ankle.
Hugh Tolan, of Wilkes-Barre, is visit
ing in town.
Mrs. Ward has purchased a new
organ.
Mrs. Oliver Aubrey is visiting relatives
at Upper Lehigh.
Walter Fernau and John George took a
trip to White Haven on Sunday with
their bicycles.
John Russel, of Drifton, spent, a few
hours in town last evening.
William Hayes is becoming an expert
bicycle rider.
James Norris spent Sunday at Drifton.
A. 11. Vanauker and family are
spending a week with friends in Seran
ton.
Dr. Humphrey is spending a few
weeks in Philadelphia.
Miss Mame McClure, of Media, is vis
iting at the residence of D. W. James.
Eckley hall club was defeated at Au
denried on Sunday by a score of 10 to 9.
When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castorta.'
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria
When she bod Children, she gave thorn Castoria.
A. W, WASHBURN,
Builder of
Light and Heavy Wagons.
HEPAIRINB OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
PINE AND JOHNSON BTB., FREELAND.
ALL NATIONS HOTEL
The hotel and saloon
have been refitt**! In elegant style
and iu> invitation
is extended to all to
come and view the plucc.
JOHN SCHNEE, Prop.
JOHNSON and IIIBKRKCK BTHKKTB.
Special!
Special!
TO OUR PATRONS AND
THE PUBLIC.
For the Next Two Weeks Only !
We are offering everything in the various lines of our
large stock at such low prices that they
will astonish you.
Please note the following quotations:
Good tea toweling, 4 cents per yard.
Best skirt lining, 4 cents per yards.
Best light calico, 4 cents per yard.
Good, heavy, yard-wide unbleached muslin, 10 yards for
50 cents.
Double-width fine cashmere, 10 cents per yard. *
Fine 30-inch-wide Bedford cord and chenron and Henrietta
dress goods that were 45 cents are now going at 25 cents.
In our line of Notions you can buy:
Ladies* ribbed undervests. 4 for 25 cents.
Men's seamless socks, 5 pairs for 25 cents.
Ladies' chemise, 25 cents each.
Lace curtains, from 75 cents per pair upward.
Shoe department:
Children's dongola spring heel shoes, 35 cents per pair.
Children's heavy pebble heel, or spring shoes, with solo
leather tip, 75 cents per pair, reduced from #1.26.
Youths' good lace shoes that were $1.25 are now going at
75 cents.
Ladies' common sense dongola shoes, #I.OO.
Men's good shoes, SI.OO.
Ladies' fine dongola shoes, with extension sole and patent
leather tip, at $1.25, reduced from $2.00.
Clothing:
Boys' outing cloth waists. 15 cents each.
Men's outing shirts, 20 cents each.
Boys' knee pants, 25 cents.
Men's good heavy pants, 75 cents.
Boys' knee pants suits, reduced from $2.00 to SI.OO.
Men's suits for $3.00 which were formerly sold at $6.00.
S?" WE DEFY COMPETITION.
♦
Jos. Neuhuroeh,
LEADER IN LOW PRICES,
|P. 0. S. of A. Building, Freeland, Pa.
An ItaifMttoia
And Hardware of Every Bescriplion.
REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.
We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most
improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the
choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil,
selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot bo surpasssed!
Samples sent to anyone on application.
Fishing Tackle and
Sporting Goods.
B\RKQECK'S, p
CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.