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FREELAND, PA., MARCH 23, 1893.
Pennsylvania's legislature has been
in session for nearly three months,
but we have failed to hear of any
jneasures being passetl yet that will j
be of any benefit to the people. The
interests of a number of corporations j
have been very carefully guarded and j
looked after, and while there is any I
thing to be done for these persons no
one else need expect to receive any at-1
tention. Men have been requested |
to amend the semi-monthly pay act J
by having two words striken out ol' j
section one, which would make the [
law compulsory beyond a doubt, but j
the representatives in whose hands j
the matter was left are too busy with ;
schemes that will provide nests for j
themselves when their term expires, j
Carlyle W. Harris, the New York j
wife-murderer, who was sentenced on J
Monday to be electrocuted next May, I
is receiving a great deal of sympathy I
that might be extended in a more |
profitable direction. Conviction of |
murder in the first degree upou cir
cumstantial evidence is not in har-;
mony with the opinion of many peo !
pie and every effort should yet be ;'
made by his friends to prove his in- ' 1
nocence, if he is innocent, but that is
110 reason for his being held up to j
the view of the public as a doomed
hero, as several people, especially
women, have been doing the past few
days. The practice of offering horn- ! 1
age to every thug and' murderer who 1
is found behind prison bars is increas- j 1
ing in this country, and it is about 1
time that this mawkish sympathy iR 1
called down. 1
Republican newspapers are very j
busy just now commenting upon the
haste with which Democrats are de- !
manding the distribution of the offices •
that are to be given out by the pres- >
eut administration. They seem to :
have forgotten entirely the scenes 1
that prevailed about Washington four ■
years ago, when the streets were filled
with thousands of the most hungry
and desperate mob of office-seekers
that was ever brought together in
this country. The scramble and the
cries for an office of some kind that \
took place after Harrison's inaugura ,
tiun can never be equalled again un
til the people are so unfortunate as to 1
elect another president, and that is a I
calamity that will be averted for j
many years lo come. Some Demo 1
crats may bo in somewhat more of a
hurry to get a job than is necessary,
but they are not disturbing the whole
United States with their bleating.
One remedy suggested for the stop
page of frequently recurring strikes
on the railways of this country is that
the government should take charge oi
the business of transportation and
manage the railways itself. " Ihe curt
would be worse than the disease," ac
cording to the Philadelphia Record't
view of the matter, as "tho govern
nient could not regulate wages to
suit itself, nor compel men to work,
nor punish them for quitting work." 1
We think a great many people will
differ with the Records as.-ertiouthat
the government could not regulate
wages to suit itself. If the govern
ment does not regulate wages wi
would like to know who it is that
regulates the wages of tho postoffici
department and its many branches,
which have in their employ thousands
of men? Who regulates the wages
paid in the government printing office,
the largest of its kind in the country,
or for work of any kind that is per
formed for the government by indi
viduals? As to compelling men to
work or punish them for quitting
work, that is out of the quesiion.
This is a free country, and the govern
ment or anyone elso should not com
pel men to work, unless it involves a
breach of contract. The Record hud
better bring forward some other ar
gument besides the wage question if
it wishes to cut any figure in trying
to stop the movement that has for its
aim governmental control of trans
portation.
When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria.'
When alio was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she hod Children, she gave them Castoria.
DR. M'GLYNN.
The Restored Priest Manfully Champion
ing the Cause of the l'oor.
j In close keeping with the newly
j aroused consciousness and conscience of
the people concerning the land question
I is the increasing distrust of and hatred
i for speculators, usurers, monopolists
and the so called trusts. As tho condi
tions of life for largo masses of people
• become harder and harder, men are per
! reiving that by improper social adjust
ments, and by unwise and unjust, and
not infrequently corrupt legislation,
1 they are becoming juggled and swindled
| out of the enjoyment of their equal right
to labor for a living and to enjoy the
full fruits of what they produce by their
labor. They are feeling more keenly
every day that landlordism, usury, mo
nopoly, special privileges granted by
charter and by law, are rapidly tending
to reduce the masses of the people to a
condition of industrial slavery, to make
the rich enormously richer, to concen
trate the wealth of the country in vast
: masses in fewer and fewer hands, to
make the poor poorer, and to reduce the
lowest and largest stratum of society to
a condition worse than that of chattel
slaves.
The strong language used by Pope Leo
XIII in describing the condition of the
working masses in his own Europe are
already, sad to say, largely applicable to j
j our own land. There are here already j
! not a few who care not to sing at all, or,
j if they sing it, sing it much less lustily
i than of old, "Hail Columbia, Happy
! Land!" The words of Pope Leo are well
worth quoting: "Workinginen have been
j given over, isolated and defenseless, to
! the callousness of employers and the
i greed of unrestrained competition. The
evil has been increased by rapacious
! usury, which, although more than once
; condemned by the church, is nevertlie
| less, under a different form, but with
| the same guilt, still practiced by avari
cious and grasping men. And to this
must be added the custom of working
j by contract and the concentration of so
j many branches of trade in the hands of
I a few individuals, so that a small num
! her of very rich men have been able to
lay upon tho masses of the poor a yoke
j little better than slavery itself."
Simultaneously and in logical keeping
1 with tho new,consciousness of men, that
j they arc wrongfully deprived of their op
; portunity to labor, and consequently of
; the just wages for their labor, is tho
growing consciousness that they are be
| ing robbed and oppressed by the turning
J over to individuals and to corporations
of things that by their very nature should
be owned and controlled by tho organ
' ized people, or, in other words, the gov
ernment, in trust lor the whole people,
so that private individuals should receive
110 special private benefit from them
without a perfectly equivalent return.
Common workingmen, mechanics, tail
ors, sailors, printers, self educated jour
nalists who have in their earlier days
sailed before the mast around the world
and been doing their thinking in the
night watches under the silent stars and
later at the printer's case, have been
thinking and mentally controverting and
refuting the stuff that they were |>riiit
ing from statesmen and (save the mark!)
political economists; have been com
pelled partly by their own poverty and
still more largely by a divine enthusi
usm for humanity and sympathy for
their still poorer and less fortunate breth
ren either to tear to pieces and toamp
upon some of tho orthodox political econ
omies or to take from them the kernel of
truth which they contained, and to make
such sternly logical application of them
as to frighten tho now wealthy and hon
ored fashionable lions and pets of aristo
cratic drawing rooms from whoso hon
est utterances of poorer and better days
they have been taken. Edward Mc-
Glynn.
lluilroad Slaughter Peug.
During the discussion in the senate
over measures for the protection of rail
, way employees Senator Culloin said, in
answer to questions, that there wero
1 ,100,000 freight cars in this country; that
j there were 40 different patterns of auto
j matic couplers used, and if tho owners
of 50 per cent of tho freight cars agreed
upon a particular type of coupler tho
interstate commerce commission would
fix upon that as the one to bo used.
lie gave statistics of tho loss of life and
limb by railroad employees through ac
cidents, and said that tho country looked
to congress to hasten tho timo when such
tremendous slaughter would cease. It
had been stated that tho number of rail
road employees in killed and injured in
eight years was equal to the total num
ber of men engaged in railroad service
in one year. These men, lio said, would
bo safer if they were enlisted in the army
in time of war than they wero now as
, railroad employees.
C'orrigun and the Knights.
The statement has been published that
one of tho causes for tho disagreement
, between Archbishops Ireland and Corri
i gan was tho hitter's opposition to the
Knights of Labor. Rev. Father Lavelle
of New York denies for Archbishop j
i Corrigan, the charge. In a recent inter
view Father Lavelle said: "You may
| positively put down tho statement as
false. On March 30, 1887, tho papers
' | printed a memorial presented by Car
j dinal Gibbons to tho pope regarding the
i Knights of Labor. Tho statement was
I made in that memorial that lmt 2 out
of tho 12 archbishops voted to condemn
L tho knights The two lived over 1,000
[ miles from New York."
Suppressing Labor Organizations.
A Panama dispatch says: "The gov
i eminent has issued orders suppressing
all labor organizations and all secret so
j cieties in the capital.
1 "Street gatherings are prohibited, and
; the plazas are strongly guarded by de
; tachments of troops.
: "These stringent orders have been is
sued as a consequence of the bloody
| riots growing out of the attack on the
• house of the Jesuit Professor Gutierrez
by the workingmen, which resulted in
i the killing of 100 men and the wounding
; of more than 500 others before it was
suppressed by tho military."
CONNECTICUT'S STATE PRISON.
Grave Charges Made Against Its Warden
l>y the New York World.
NEW YORK, March 20.—The World prints
several columns under the head "The Black
Ilole of Connecticut," in which it says the
state prison of Connecticut is a dungeon
of horrors. The World goes on to say:
"For eight years Samuel E. Chamber
lain has been warden of this prison. Dur
ing that time mauy men have been hurried
into an untimely grave, many more have
been driven mad. Indeed, the road from
the state prison at Wethersfield to the
Btate asylum at Middletown has been worn
bare by a steady procession of men.
"The warden admits that 10 men out of
less than 30(1 go mad yearly. Others double
his figures. Even the warden's estimate
sends a chill of terror to the heart.
"The punishment for offenses in this
prison is confinement in a dungeon, abso
lutely dark ami below the surface of the
ground, whose walls reek with moisture.
To these dungeons men have been sent
continually who were sick or who were
physicully unable to work. Men have been I
found in them raving mad. Men more j
fortunate have been taken from them dead.
One man, a paralytic, rotted there.
"Convicts in this prison have been beaten )
with loaded canes, and have been starved.
One man who was dying was dragged from |
his cell to a dungeon at midnight by the 1
warden. Six hours afterward he was
found dead there.
" Incredible as it may sound, the dun
geons are for the sick. Warden Chamber
lain believes that convicts never become
i really sick. They say they are sick, but
they say this to escape work. Often these
same pick men die, but that, of course, is
due to pure obstinancy. When a convict
complains of sickness tho proper place for
liiin is a dungeon. This is to teach him
what the warden calls 'a lesson.' He is
simply, in the warden's phrase, 'a dead
beat,' and the place for 'deat beats' is a
place of punishment."
EXPLOSION AND FIRE.
The Town of Litchfield, Ills., Visited by a
Great Catastrophe.
LITCHFIELD, March 22. —Fire destroyed
the Keeler tlouring mill, and in an explo
sion of mysterious origin that followed
nearly every business house in the village
was wrecked. Mauy persons were badly !
hurt by flying bricks and timbers. The
damage to the mill is $1,000,000, to other
property $150,000.
John Cowie, head millwright, late of
Waterloo, N. Y. t was instantly killed.
It is estimated that $5,000 worth of glass
was destroyed in the town. Houses iu
Litchfield were shaken from their founda- I
tions. It is believed that a spark from a ;
passing locomotive ignited the dust in the
mill and caused the explosion.
When the fire started the citizens were
awakened by the ringing of fire bells, and
before many of them could dress they were
stunned by the shock of the explosion and
the next moment found the walls of their
homes falling upon them.
The explosion shook the earth over a
wide area, while the atmospheric concus
sion was felt as far as Decatur, a distance
of 50 miles.
The large elevator standing immediately
across the Wabash track west of the mill
containing 250,000 bushels of wheat was
quickly in flames, and together with its
valuable contents was burned to the
ground. Ten or 12 cars of wheat standing
on the house track were reduced to ashes.
The Panama Verdicts.
PARIS, March 22.—The jury in the Pana
ma cases found Charles I)e Lesseps, M.
Baihaut and M. Blondin guilty.
The court, after deliberation, sentenced
M. Baihaut to imprisonment for five years,
to pay a fine of 750,000 francs and to the
loss of civil rights. M. Blondin was sen
tenced to imprisonment for two years and
Charles do Lesseps to imprisonment for
one year, the one year to run concurrently
with the five years' sentence already im
posed on him. All three of the convicted
prisoners were condemned to pay the costs |
and damages demanded by the civil parties \
to the proceedings.
Ithodo Inland Politics.
PROVIDENCE, March 22.— At the Repub
lican convention I). R. Brown of Provi- j
deuce was nominated for governor and E. |
B. Allen of Hopkinton for lieutenant gov
ernor. M. W. Bull of Middletown was
nominated for congress in the First and A. '
B. Capron of Smithfleld in the Second dis- 1
trict. The Democrats nominated DanielS. 1
Baker, Jr., of North Kingstown for gov- i
ernor, Dalton E. Young of Newport for j
lieutenant governor, and for congress Aus- '
tin Lapham of Warwick and Charles H.
Page of Rochester in the First and Second i
districts respectively.
Thirty Liquor Men Arrested.
FORT SCOTT, Kan., March 22.— Jly order i
of Governor Lewelling, Attorney J. I.
Sheppard took action against the saloon |
keepers of the city who have been running .
wide open in defiance of law. Thirty ar- !
rests have been made, and the cnscs will be !
pushed. The minimum punishment is SIOO
fine and 30 days in jail.
Pierpont Mnrguu's Mission.
NEW YORK, March 22. —1t was reported
from an authoritative source that J. Pier
pont Morgan, who sailed on the Majestic ■
today, goes on an important mission for
the government. It is stated that he has <
been authorized to negotiate a loan of $50,-
000,000 in gold.
General Murkets.
NEW YORK, March 21.—FLOUR— State and
western, steady; quiet; low extras, $2.10<&2.55; I
City mills, $4; city mills patents, $4.40(24.00; j
j winter wheats, low grades, $2.1(X<£2.55.
j WHEAT- No. 2 red declined early with
j Chicago, weak cables and increase on passage;
I advanced bi<7fV4c. on covering and foreign buy
lng; quiet; steady; May, 7ti l-10(0i76J4c.; June,
j HYE—Nominal; western,
I BARLEY—DuII; Arm; state, tt-K&SOc.; west- >
ern. tmstio.
J ('C)RN No. 2 dull; lower; steady; No. 2, 52->4@
j April, r>lJ4c.
i OATS—No. 2 quiet; easy; state, dQQ&Oc.; west- !
| ern, ,
PORK Modcrato demand; firm; new mosa,
£ ll>.. r jO(7jdt.7f>; old mess, $HK&10.25.
I LAIiD -Quiet; nominal; steam rendered,
$12.80.
BUTTER—Steady; moderately active; state
, dairy, Pennsylvania creamery, 28^
j (23c.
1 CHEESE—Moderate demand; steady; state,
10(<i.12e.; fancy, 11^(2.12c.
| EGGS—Fair demand; unchanged; state and
Pennsylvania, 17c.; western, 17c.
I SUGAR- Raw, dull; firm; refining, 2%c.;
j centrifugal, IHJ test, 3%c.; refined, fair demand;
j firm; crushed, 5 3-l<X(£s%c.; powdered,
6 1-lOc.
TURPENTINE—Inactive; steady;
I MOLASSES—-Fairly active; firm; New Or
leans, open kettle, good to choice, JKXWWc.
RlCE—Firm; fair demand; domestic, fair to
! extra, *>6<^oc.
; TALLOW—DuII; nominal; city, fMc. bid;
j oc. asked: country, as to quality.
I HAY—Fair demand; steady; shipping, 70©
1 75c.; good to choice, 80©Wc.
DEATH OF JULES FERRY.
France's Great Statesman Carried Off by
t A flection or the Heart.
PARIS, March 18.—The news of the death
of M. Ferry astounded the city. No other
event since Giimbetta's death has made
such a deep impression. Only three even
ings ago he was at the opera, and the day
before his death lie'presided over the sen
ate. Hundreds of politicians called at the
house and inscribed their names in the
visitors' book. The extra editions got out
immediately after the announcement of
the death sold everywhere in enormous
numbers.
M. Ferry's death was caused by heart
disease. The affection of the heart from
which he suffered was due to the effects of
a bullet striking a
rib near the base
f of the heart at the
( TO time he was at
dES tacked by Auber
j flßpi tiu in - lfSß7 '
the morning, and
. n ! Hde *' ie
moned theconvul
sions continued to
_.y " grow in violence.
JI-LKB FEKUY. Ilia stru KK le for
breath toward the
end became agonizing, and the physicians
injected morphia to relieve him. After a
few unintelligible words be fell into a state
of coma, which en. oil in death. He died
in the armchair in which for years he has
done all his writing and reading. All the
members of bis family and Mine. Floquet
were beside him to the last. His last few
minutes were apparently painless.
TREMONT TEMPLE BURNED.
The Third Disaster by Fire to This Famous
Boston Structure.
BOSTON. March 30.—This city was visited
by a thin! groat lire, which at one time
threatened far worse disaster than resulted.
No lives were lost, however, as was the
case in both the other tires. The total
property loss v approximate $400,000,
the most of \\ hich will have to be liorne by
the insurance companies.
This loss •' mainly that, on historic Tre- !
mont Temp .which is practically in ruins.
There was great danger at one time to that
well known hostelry, the Parker House,
but this was fortunately averted. The fire
was discovered by a gas engineer at the
Parker House and had already gained great
headway, for when the fire apparatus ar
rived the whole rear of the building was in
flames. An alarm was rang in from the
hotel, and a second and third alarm soon
followed. Several streams were soon play
ing upon the building, and after two hours
of hard fighting the fire was under control.
To Rebuild tlio Temple at Once.
BOSTON, March 21.—The owners of the
burned Tremont temple will rebuild im
mediately, adding two stories to the pres
ent height of the walls. The debt on the
temple was *155,000.
THE MISSING NARONIC.
Intelligence Received Showing That She
Mas Surely Foundered.
BREMEN, March 21.—Intelligence has
been received showing beyond any doubt
that the missing steamer Naronic is lost.
The British steamer Coventry from Fer
nandina reports that on the morning of
March 4. when in latitude 42 north, longi
tude 40 west, she passed a lifeboat painted
white bearing the name •'Naronic." The
boat was floating keel upward. In the
afternoon of the same day another lifeboat
from the Naronic was passed. This boat
gave evidenco of having encountered heavy
weather. The mast and oars of the life
boat had been lashed together and at
tached to the painter and then thrown
overboard as a sea anchor to keep the boat's
head up to the wind and sea.
Tl Wonderful Telautograph.
CHICAGO, March 22.—An exhibition of
Professor Elisha Gray's telautograph was
given in the Home Insurance building.
| The telautograph enables one to transmit
instantaneously by wire a facsimile of his
! handwriting to a distance. An ordinary
pen or pencil is employed. As it moves a
; pen at the other end of the line moves si
j multaneously and forms the words and
j letters in precisely the same way. Wliat
| ever is written at one end of the line is re
, produced in facsimile at the other end.
The Fair to Re Open ut Nlglit.
CHICAGO, March 21.—1t was practically
; settled that whatever the fate of Sunday
j closing, the rule at the World's fair will be
I late closing. Chief Engineer Shankland
j said: "The electrical exhibit is the finest
I thing on the grounds. The people will
i want to see it and they will be given a
I chance. This means that the gates will be
kept open until 11 o'clock. Any other rul
ing would be the utmost folly."
Squire Abingdon Read.
NEW ORLEANS, March 20.—Squire Abing
don, the rich Englishman who came here
; with Charley Mitchell and Jim Hall two
weeks ago, and who was one of the most
; famous sports in Great Britain, died at the
St. Charles hotel in the morning of pneu
j mouia. _
A Committee Will Investigate.
BOSTON, March 21.—The house adopted
in its original form the order to appoint a
| special committee to investigate the alleged
| discrimination on the part of the New
| York, New Haven and Hartford company
against the New York and New England.
A llold Robber In Chicago.
CniCAGO, March 17. H. G. Fox was
held up and robbed of $1,200 in the court
house at high noon. The robber choked
the collector into insensibility, and grab-
I bing the money rushed clown the stairS and
escaped into the crowded street.
The Missing Sarnia In Port.
HALIFAX, March 20.—The overdue mail
steamer Sarnia was reported off this har
, bor coming slowly u tier her own steam.
She was accompanied by another steamer,
supposed to be the government steamer
Newfield.
Croker'* Icehouses Destroyed.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 21.—Fire
destroyed the large icehouses on the liich
hard Croker place near here. There were
5,000 tons of ice, valued at $15,000, stored in
the house.
Schneider Hanged at Washington.
1 WASHINGTON, March 18.—Howard Jef
ford Schneider was hanged in the district
jail at the outskirts of the city for the
murder of his wife on Jan. 81, 1802.
Richard Croker Makes a Purchase.
NASHVILLE, March 10.—It is reported
that Richard Croker of New York has pur
chased a half iuterest in the famous Belle
■ Meade stuck farm for $250,000 cash.
A NNt'AL REPORT OF THE MIDDLE CO At
ii FIELD POOR DISTRICT DEC. 31, 18112.
RECEIPTS.
Balance frompreviousreport 3 51,2.1805}
To .1 .! Sweeney, col Hunks
twp, mn $ oiKtw
To J Sundcl, col Mauch ('hunk
borough, 1891 911337
To J Sandcl,col Mauch Chunk
borough, 1892 3,ti1l 42
To Peter Hollauui 490 451
To Win Ileistcr, col Lansford
borough, 1891 187 78
To Win Ileistcr, col Lansford
borough, IHH3 3,191 01
To August liiskc, col West
Hazlctnn borough, 1801— 16901
To August Hiskc, yol West
HnzlcLon borough, 1802.... 518086
To Wm Miller, col Summit
llill liorough, 1801 77 03
To W W Buck, col Weutherly
borough, 1801 810 00
To Isubcllo McGraw, main
tenance 30 on
To Jus Mallov, luaiutenance. 00 00
Tot! C Kirschner, col Hazlc
ton borough, 1801 I,otio 00
To Jas I) Mock, col Jeddo
borough, 1801 0 03
To Jas I) Mock, col Jeddo
Ixirough. 1803 170 SO
To William Leeviu,eol Mauch
Chunk township, 1801 381 80
To John Ehrick,maintenance 01 Hi
To John Davy, " 10 75
To Mrs Lotion, " 23500
To David Giles, " 0125
To H M Doubt, col Freeland
borough, 1890 5 77
To Harriet Hunger mainten
ance 10140
To Martin Chrestman, col
East Mauch Chunk bor 18D1 41*) 00
To Win Flanigan, muiu'atico 221
To David Howells, " 2 25
To Jas Brcslin, col Hazle twp,
180 1,404 23
To Lewis Ilooklur, col Foster
twp, 1801 200 00
To T J Moore, col Freelund
borough. 1801 30000
ToTJ whittaker, insurance
returned 2390
To Matthew Long, insurance
returned 0188
To I. 1. Free ley, col Summit
Hill borough, 1802 .2,102 81
To (' K llooveu, col Weatlier
ly borough, 1802 I,Ull 00
To Hugh J Boyle, col Hanks
twp. 1802 2,417 75
To John Potter, col Lausanne
two, 1892 82 77
To T H Evans, col Mauch
Chunk twp. 1802 2,492 91
To Clnis Atmlller, col Ua/.le
ton city, 1802 7,501 74
To W J Fritz, col Lehigh twp
1892 103 27
To Patrick (livens, col Foster
twp, 1802 2,5W0 00
To C E Foster, col East Mauch
Chunk borough 1802 1,482 02
To J Faux, col Foster twp,
180 1,180 70
To John J Moran, col lluzlo
twp, 1802 6,048 53
ToCiunmissloncrs Carl*in Co.
unseated land tax 222 11
451,730 00
3 40,090 07
PISHURREM KNTB.
Auditing expenses 2O 00
Childrons'Aid Society, Phila. 50 00
Childrcns' Aid Society. Haz
leton 121 00
Coal and light. 1,5101 051
Clothing, boots and shoes.... 573 71
Conveying paupers 007 20
('onveying insane to Danville 230 04
Drygoods and notions 430 80
Election expenses 300 00
Farm implements 55 00
Feeble minded children, El
wyn, Pa 100 00
Farm expenses 807 00
Groceries and provisions— 8,774 051
Hospital expenses 158 23
House expenses 420 07
Improvement acc't (new
pump and washery 803 32
Discount 801 75
Livestock 300 00
Maintenance insane, Danville 0,887 40
Medicine 388 74
OHico ex lenses 130 41
Outdoor relief and burials... 11,143 39
Outdoor medical attendance 488 10
Printing 4s*) 00
Repairs to buildings 077 81
Geo T Wells, steward 3,410 00
Salaries and expenses 1,545 02
Tobuoco 201 35
Whiskey 110 07
Insurance 854 97
Legal fees (attorneys' fees,
§120.00; collecting dupli
cates 3194 10) 314 10
Paid other districts 24 88
G T Wells, bul due from 1891 504 91
3 38,47615
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1892 8,52002
3 46,990 07
The item of $854.97 covers insurance for five
years.
OUTDOOR HEI.IKF AND MRIAI.H.
Outdoor burials, Lower dint. . 113 00
relief, " " 2,861 Ml
" burials, Middle dist 22 00
relief, " " 1,5445 68
" burials, Luzerne" 39510
" relief, " u 6,80176
Total 3 11,543 39
BAI. A RIBS AND EXPENSES.
P H Latham, physician.sal'ry 400 00
Jas McCready, sco'ty salary. 300-00
Jas McCready. writing tax
duplicates 100 00
G W Miller, director, salary. 50 GO
A 8 Monroe, 1 " 200 00
A M Ncumillcr, u " 200 00
Samuel Ilarleman, " 150 00
Expenses of directors attend
ing state convention 145 02
Total $ 1,545 62
CONVEYING INSANE.
AS Monroe 11188
GW Miller 46 66
John Cook 19 46
S T Pettier 3 00
L Smith 3 50
KB Trout 3 00
W M Jones 15 90
FLl.au bach 5 50
Samuel Harlcinan 16 40
W It Longshore 12 00
Total 3 236 94
CONVEYING PAUPERS.
Win Hughes 450
Charles Kessler 500
H Muldowney 200
Fisher Ac Bro 12 00
HFLevan 3 75
John Shigo 3 00
Harry Sweeney 86 uo
Henry Martin 3 00
WCMenan 4 50
P J Boyle £43 50
lloffmeyer & O'Donnell 25 00
S Monroe 86 81
A M Neumillor 75 55
J ilines J Boyle 37 40
Martin A: Nemeth 3221
Daniel Cannon 150
Frank O'Donnell 24 00
G T Wells 16 02
S E Robinson 6 50
II T Haas £OO
Miehael (Itidaskn 3 00
C A Johnson 5 50
C O Stroh 5 50
Kunkle Bros 5 00
J P McDonald 13 65
D A Thomas 5 00
II Duunermau £SO
Geo Wise 3£ 81
3 607 20
OUTSTANDING ON DUPLICATES
(Subject to exoneration and commissions)
H L JRciiuuan, 1888 $ 51 82
1890 406 54
Wm Hester, 1891 6 06
* " 18'. 12 115 14
Henry M Doudt, 1890 £52 48
i Martin Christiuan. 1891 329 <l3
Jacob Sendol, 1891 507 04
* •• 1892 188562
! John J Sweeney, 1891 206 52
Thus J Moore, 1891 £f*
.1 C Kershner, 1891 ,WX?
Lewis Hecklolf, 1891 127 35
John Hrislin, 1891 ? .7
T II Kvans. 1896 666 4
* Henry Fritz, 189£ 164 58
August Hiske, W6 7" *7
I ' II ugh J Boyle, 18t£ 186 20
•Clias E Foster, 1802 599 55
•C H Hoover. 1892 F27 24
I. I. Fruloy, 1H92 --
J J Moran, 1892 46M06
•J D Mock, 1892 38 :2
Patrick (livens, 1892. lß*i6B
♦Charles Altmlller. 1892 2862 22
I "Evun Wood ring, 1802-. my 12
S2O, m 16
Since December 31,1899. those marked thus (*)
have made payment on their duplicates.
The following is a comparative statement of
outdoor relief, and total amount of duplicates
I for each district:
Duplicate#* Relief. Per cent.
Lower district...sl6,49sm 2974 Mi 18
Middlo " ... 6,617 03 1867 '*3 24 8-10
Luzerno " ... 27,53898 7201 26 261-10
The whole number of persons received out
door relief during the year, were 289 adults and
241 children. Of this number 124 are widows.
Approximate value of real
estate aud personal property
as taken and computed by
the directors and auditors.
I 381 acres of land at S4O $15,240 00
Barn and other frame build
! ings 4,500 00
Storehouse 1,500 00
| Alms Loupe, main building... 12,000 00
I Hospital building aud tlx-
I tuies..* 25,000 00
Boiler house and laundry
fixtures 5,500 00
House furniture, ull build
ings 2,500 00
Chop mill and water works... 2,000 00
Uas machine and tlxtures— 250 00
Farm implements and mach
inery 2,000 00
Livestock. 2,500 00
Farm produce on liund 2,785 00
Cash in hand 8,520 02
Uncollected taxes subject to
exoneration and discount.. 20,086 16
Due from W A Grimes, for
taxes collected and not
paid over; I*ehigh town
ship, $208.00; Lausanne $36.-
52 245 48
Due from W A Grimes, bal
ance of unseated land tiwc
for Luzerne district 285 13
$105,711 79
A. S. MONROE, )
A. M. NEUMILLER, V Directors.
SAMUEL HARLEM AN,)
Attest: JAMES McCREADY, Sec'y.
GEO. T. WELTS, STEWARD, DR.
To cash received from direc
tors $845000
To cash received for potatoes.. 137 10
" " " cabbage
and apples 84 (Mi
To cash received for hay 65 40
" " board of
inmates 38 42
To cash l or stock .' 72 50
" grass seed 450
from board of anutomy
of Philadelphia 26 00
To bulance due steward 425 59
$ 4,254 11
CR.
By freight and express $ 328 75
By hospital expenses 130 15
By nurse 380 95
By fireman 3601 X)
By election expenses 8 00
By hum expenses 1120 66
By house ex|ense 512 75
By groceries and provisions — 217 28
By repairs 106 37
By conveying paupers 7 75
By office ex penses 5 00
By tobacco 8 75
By warden 120 00
By traveling expense 22 70
By salary steward and matron. 925 00
$ 4,25411
PRODUCE ON FARM FOIL 1892.
bushels buckwheat, 1230 bushels potatoes,
245 bushels mangel wurtzel, 215 bushels turnips,
bushels beets, 45 bushels carrots, 15 bushels
onions, 800 bunches celery, 40CJ heads cabbage.
8 barrels saurkraut, 7500 pounds of pork, lUUU
pounds of lurd, 4-5 barrels of hard and soft soap,
1150 pounds of beef, 820 poin ds of veal, 2399
pounds of butter, 620 bushels of rye, 91 loads of
of hay, 887 bushels of oats, 1364 bushels of corn
in the ear, 200 bushels picked apples, 8 barrels
of cider.
STOCK ON FARM.
21 cows, 6 heifers, 2 bulls, 8 steers, 7 calves, 8
horses, 2 mules, 1 colt, 18 shouts, 6 sows, 200
chickens, 15 turkeys, 16 ducks.
ARTICLEH MADE IN THE HOUSE.
225 bed sheets, 265 pillow cases, 45 bolster
cases, 40 bed ticks, 36 pillow ticks, 8 bolster
ticks, 42 towels, 38 night shirts, 20 night caps, 18
pairs of women's drawers, 14 pairs of children's
•drawers, 24 under waists, 5 boys waists, 118 wo
men's dresses, 53 children's dresses, 21 infant
dresses, 42 women's petticoats, 20 children's
petticoats, 16 infant petticoats, 90 women's
chemise, 32 children's chemise, 12 infant che
mise. 155 women's aprons, 10 children's aprons,
6 shrouds. It) table cloths, 4 dozen napkins.
MACHINERY, IMPLEMENTS AND TOOLS.
4 2-horse wagons, 1 buckboard, 1 cart, 3
2-horsc sleds, 2 sleighs, 5 plows, 4 cultivators, 2
harrows, 1 grain drill, 1 corn planter, 2 mowing
machines, one reaper and binder, 2 horse rakes,
I 2-horse power thrashing machine, 1 fan mill, 1
corn shelter, 1 stump machine, 1 land roller, I
carriage, 2 spring wagons and the usual suiull
tools aud utensils used about the farm.
STATISTICS.
ADMITTED DURING THE YEAR.
> Male adults 95
! Female adults ;I4
Children 12
l4l
DIED DURING THE YEAR.
Male adults 23
Female udults '. 2
DISCHARGED DURING THE YEAR.
Males 92
Females 27
Children 9
l2B
INMATES REMAI
Males 84
Females 41
Children 9
134
CLASSIFICATION OF^INMATES REMAINING.
Males in hospital 55
Females in hospital 33
Children in hospital 6
Males In almshouse 39
Females in " .. 8
Children in " 3
Total BU
Males insane 15
Females insane 7
CHILDREN.
8 boys and 4 girls under 4 years; 1 boy and 1
girl under 12 years.
Average number of inmates for year 139
DIED DURING THE YEAR.
Joseph Elias, January 4, aged 45 years.
Wm. Howells, January 6, aged 41 years.
Ellon Shearn. February 11, aged 73 years.
Wm. Conyngrmtn, February 12, aged 81 years.
John Moore, March It), aged 76 years.
John Wargo, March 19, aged 40 years.
Washington Sticks, April 14. aged 81 years.
George Trelko, May 20, aged 45 years.
Wm. Eorke, May 24, aged 48 years.
David Drashcr, May 28, aged 45 years.
Joseph Ilranderon, June 19, aged 35 years.
Lazarus Iless, July 6. aged 65 years.
Michael Galyon, August 16, aged 65 years.
Homo Jonut, August 18, aged 40 years.
Edward McCabe, August 25, aged 65 years.
John Subi, August 27, aged 5 years.
Patrick King, September 9, aged 65 years.
Mrs. James Conaghan, Sent. 11, aged 83 years.
John Marko, September 13, aged 50 years.
Henry Farmer, September 18, aged 82yenrs.
Michael Getzerman, October 6, aged 35 years.
Cnrmac Dugan, October 8, aged 0 years.
Win. R. McGraw, November 12, aged 35 years.
Frank Dougherty, December 5, aged 78 years.
Michael Paul, December 27, uged 30 years.
CHILDREN BORN IN 1892.
January 16, Mrs. John Eidleiuan, girl,
January 17, Ella Chisncl, boy.
April 20. Jennie Fey, boy.
May 5, Mrs. Bridget Jennings, boy.
May 25, Annie Seretln, girl.
December 20, Mrs. Hannah Brady, girl.
There were no vagrants or tramps relieved
during the year.
During the year nf ]>, VI indigent insane
persons-reshlcnts of this poor district-have
been mitt ntunu d at the state hospital for insane
at Danville, Pa.
COST OF INMATES.
In tliis statement items not chargeable to
maintenance have bcn deducted
George T. Wells, steward $ MaOOO
1 obncco 291 85
Medicine 505 71
Hospital expenses 158 23
House expenses 4„ 0 7
Groceries and provisions... 3,77493
Fuel ami light 1,391 63
f arm implements 56 00
farm expenses 897 66
Dry goods and notions 430 80
Clothing 573 71
Total cost of maintenance
for 1892 $11,919 09
The cost of maintenance was Increased dur
ing the year by the addition of a nurse in the
hospital and the advance in the price of coul
and freight.
Average number of inmates, including stew
' ard's department. 150; cost per month, $6.tM; |>er
week, $1.62 per (lay, 22c. Excluding stcwuitl's
department, 139: cost per month, $7.16; per week,
$1.05; per day, 23c.
G EORGE T. WELLS. Steward,
IDA M. WELLS, Matron,
f We. the undersigned auditors of the middle
a coal Held poor district, do certify that we have
I examined the foregoing accounts, receipts und
vouchers for the expenditure of the directors *
and find them correct as above stated. *
U. S. GRANT TOBIAS,
T. 11. WILLIAMS,
JOS. SA LMON.
Auditors.
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