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FREELAND, PA., JULY 3, 1893.!
A. hot time may be looked for when
it comes to selecting a congiessmnu
to succeed the late Mr. Mutchler, of
the eighth district. It is said that
Ex-Congressman Storm, of Monroe,
and Ex-Senator Craig, of Carbon, are
already in the field, and as both have
their friends and enemies the faction
al fight for which the district is noicd
will break out anew.
A modest. Pbiladelpbiau, wbo evi
dently believes tbat the office should
seek tbe man, is said to bave recently
written to President Cleveland as fol
lows: "Here is a description of my
person. If you bave any offices tbat
are bunting for a man of my style
please let me know." Tliis applicant
deserves a good job. He is willing
to accommodate any office which
happens to be looking for an incum
bent. Modesty'should not go unre
warded.
Parties as well as individuals often
make serious mistakes in taking tbe
measure of men. Altgeld, governor
of Illinois, is a Democratic mistake,
and a serious one. Tbe general dis
approbation of bis action in pardon
ing tbe Chicago anarchists should
warn tbe enimies of public order tbat
they must not mistake the foolish
clemency of one man as an indication
of a changed or tolerant public
opinion. Tbe American people de
test the crime of which pardoned
anarchists were found guilty, and all
criminals capable of such bloody
work. — Record.
It is odd to bear foreigners visiting
the country complain about American
railway cars. One frequent source
of complaint is tbat tbe seats in tbe
American cars offer very limited
room for two persons and their backs
are too low to afford any support to
tbe bead; a single crying infant or
spoiled child annoys sixty or seventy
persons instead of fho few in 0110
compartment; the passenger has little
control over bis window as some one
in tbe car is sure to object if be opens
it; tbe continual opening and shutting
of the doors, with the consequent
draughts are annoying; tbe iucesrant
visitations of the traiuboy with bis
books, candy and other articles for
sale render a quiet nap almost im
possible, while in tbe event of an
accident there are only two exits for
sixty people, instead of six or eight.
Year after year, as tho forests are
cleared away and population in that
section grows denser, tho western cy
clone becomes more and more deadly.
From the earliest dayß of sottlemont
by civilized man tho region between
the Mississippi river and tho Rocky
mountains has boon recognized aa pe
culiarly susceptible to violent nn.tr oo
rological and atmospheric iulluotco : ,
but of late years the degree of fatal
ity from these visitations have largely
increased. There are not, in all
probability, a greater number .of cy
clones nowadays than in former times;
yet the people are crowded more close
ly together, and the resulting fatali
ties are widespread aud involve more
and moro victims in each season.
The cyclone is a meteorological factor
that may bo reckoned with closely
upon reasonably accurate data of per
centages and averages.
The World's fair paid attendance
is progressing rapidly toward the nu
merical porportions which were an
ticipated from the beginning. The
incompleteness in somo departments
at the opening, the hostility of the
press in rival cities, the flooding
rains, the uncertainty about Sunday |
opening and some other causes re J
duced the amount of the receipts for j
the month of May to a discouraging
average. But with the completion j
of the buildings and the exhibits j
fully installed, with the report which i
every visitor gave of its manifold
attractions and triumphs, with tho !
recurrence of June's pleasant skies J
and airs, with the pomps and glories
of the opening summer added to tho
scenes of wonder at the fair, tho poo I
pie enter the gates in growing num
bers and the admissions indicate that
the expectations formed at the incep-1
tion of tho enterprise will bo fully or i
more than realized. —Newsdealer. ]
Not the Man He Was Thought.
From the Sentinel.
There is no question now that Mr.
Harris will abandon the Reading to its
fate in July. His resignation is in, and
ail denials to the contrary will not hide
the fact very long.
Mr. Harris has proved a failure. He
only added to the perplexities of the
Reading by detracting business froui the
Lehigh Valley to the Central railroad.
The popular estimate of Mr. Harris was
not sustained. He lacked backbone and
energy and was allowing himself to be
steered into ways that if not devious
were certainly dangerous.
He allowed the publication of state
ments showing the Lehigh to make
enormous profits, and yet when cornered
admitted a loss of nearly a million
dollars. He allowed the other receivers
to ask the court for permission to issue
receivers and they fully in
tended to use the money to pay McLeod's
speculative debts and other expenses
entirely out of the receivers province to
pay.
Until Wilbur and Paxson are thrown
out there will be no confidence in Read
ing or Lehigh. A determined effort is
being made to eject them. They are
not likely to go as soon as Harris, but
eventually they must go because any
plan is likely to be a failure in their
hands.
I Mr. Wilbur had complete control of
the Lehigh Valley and didn't make it
pay, and there is no real reason for ex
pecting him to .make it pay now. Move
ments will soon begin in other courts
; outside of Philadelphia that will com
-1 inand attention and force an issue.
Grand Army Encampment.
Grand Army men are looking forward
with special interest to the encampment
this year at Indianapolis. The residents
of the city have raised $150,000 for the
purpose of entertainment and the deter
mination is to give the veterans royal
treatment. A largo attendance is ex
pected, for Indianapolis is only a short
distance from Chicago and the old
soldiers will take that opportunity to
visit both places.
The Grand Army organization now
includes forty-live departments, 7,500
posts and nearly half a million members.
It has grown far beyond the expecta
tions of those who started the organiza
tion twenty-seven years ago, and its end
will come only with the death of the
last of those who fought for their coun
try in the memorable early sixties,
A Word to WIVOH and Mothers.
If your husband or son is addicted to
the use of tobacco, morphine or liquor,
you can free them from their habit.
Hill's chloride of gold tablets cost but
SI.OO and are guaranteed to cure drunk
enness, morphine or tobacco habit in a
few days. These tablets may be given
in tea or col Tee without the knowlege of
the patient and will cause him to volun
tarily give up the use of tobacco, liquor
or the drug.
Do not delay, but put an end to the
sufferings you have heretofore under
gone. Cure your husband or son and
gain happiness for them and yourself.
Ilill's tablets are for sale by all flrstclass
druggists.
A recent traveler through tho rural dis
tricts of Franco writes that tho country
people there wear a crushed and subdued
air. The reason is that ceaseless toil and
pinching parsimony tako all tho lifo out
of them, so there is nothing but inero
existence. Ho writes: "You 800 in their
faces tho grinding caro and greedy, thrift
which fill the lives of these people. They
are not a lovely folk, these ever toiling
French peasants. The joy 6eems to have
gone out of tho lives of young and old."
Thero is only ono subject that really
awakens their interest outsido of scrap
ing money together, and that is talk of
war between Franco and Germany. They
would give their livesas one man to fight
again and tako back Alsace and Lor
raino from Germany.
Under tho law of 1890 tho United
States treasurer may at his discretion
pay either gold or silver coin for the sil
ver treasury notes issued in exchange for
tho silver bullion purchased. But they
will not bo paid in silver at present.
Thero is no fear of that. President
Cleveland has issued, to use his own
words, "my emphatic contradiction" of
any rumor that Secretary Carlislo will
redeem any kind of treasury notes in any
thing but gold. "Tho president and liis
cabinet aro absolutely harmonious" on
that point, quoth President Cleveland.
A Now York rabbi is cut up in his
mind because tho children of Polish Jews
in that city aro being enticed into Chris
tian Sunday schools by gifts of cake,
candy and shoes. lie complains of it as
an unfair way of attempting to make
proselytes. Then ho remarks that all
this will do no good, however, for Jews
cannot bo enticed away from their faith,
j Then what is he making this racket for?
They say that Chicago was shocked at
tho high art crayons sent to tho fair by
the Philadelphia academy, becauso tho
drawings displayed too much absence of
clothes, and they wero thereforo ordered
down. Why, Philadelphia, fie, fiel At
your age, too, and you a Quaker city I
It is re]>orted that Melbourne is over
flowed with men who want work but
I aro unable to secure it.
I Old iiisWHi>aperH for sale.
ALLATOONA PASS.
THE FULL STORY OF CORSE'S GAL- I
LANT FIGHT.
Tlio Hold Confederate Plan to Get Shopman
Out of Georgia—Corse's Lightning Work
In Throwing Help Into the Pass—Heroic
Deeds of His Soldiers.
[Copyright, 1893, by American Press Associa
tion. Look rights reserved.]
ft OLDTHEFORT"
ft J J I | After Commander
| KM R—l OU9 feat in sending
Chester, twenty
defense of Allatoo
na Pass, Oct. 5,18G4, is the best remembered
single figure episode of the war. The hero
didn't save Allatoona single handed, hut
neither did Sheridan nor Cushing achieve
the wonders that made them famous all
alone. There was a crisis hovering over
Allatoona, and Corse met it boldly. The
story has been but half told.
The capture of Atlanta by Sherman's
forces at the close of the summer of 1804
left the magnificent Union army of the
west loose in the heart of Dixie. The Con
federate leader, General Hood, finding that
• ho couldn't cope with it in open battle, de
termined to paralyze it for offensive opera
tions by doubling back on Sherman's long
line of railway communications, extending
. from Atlanta past Marietta, Allatoona,
Kingston and Rome on to Chattanooga
and Nashville. Slipping out of Atlanta
to the west, he "lay low" until Oct. 1, then
moved northward to the vicinity of Dallas.
To keep pace with Ilootl, Sherman moved
back to Marietta, and while his columns
were toiling slowly over the mountains
north of that point Ilood struck out 011 the
right flank to destroy the railroad from the
mountain district northward. On Oct. 3
the track was completely destroyed for 10
miles north of Marietta, and the Confeder
ate division of General S. G. French was
ordered to march several miles farther
north to Allatoona, where the road passed
through a cut 65 feet deep, fill the cut with
stones, earth and logs, burn the Union
army stores at Allatoona, then slip away
west and south and rejoin Hood's main
army on the Dallas line before Sherman
could intercept the raiding column. One
of Sherman's divisions, under General J.
M. Corse, was scattered along the railroad
from Allatoona to Home as railroad guards.
Corso was at Rome with the bulk of Ids
troops. A small brigade was at Allatoona.
French's orders were imperative, and al
though his eyes were opened at every step
of the march as to the difficulties in the way
he had 110 choice but to go ahead. Among
other things, he learned that Allatoona Pass,
which he was expected to bury under a
mountain of rubbish, was fortified and gar
risoned, and that there were Union reserves
northward at Kingston and Rome that
might speed southward by rail and reach
Allatoona ahead of his toiling foot soldiers.
He learned also that from a signal station
on lofty Kenesaw mountain Sherman was
sending messages north to alarm road
guards and reserves. Not to be outdone in
enterprise, he dispatched 15 fleet horsemen
across the country to destroy the railroad
bridge over the Etowah river a few miles
north of Allatoona to shut off Corse's re
serves from the pass. That clever plan
went "aglee;" hence Corse's meteoric ad
vent at Allatoona in nick o' time to save
the pass.
About noon 011 Oct. 4 a message from
Sherman at Kenesaw, traveling from signal
station to signal station on the mountain
tops, reached Corse at Rome, ordering him
to re-enforce Allatoona, for the enemy was
inarching upon it along the railway from
the south ahead of Sherman's relieving
column. There were no cars at Rome for
the movement of troops. A train ordered
up from Kingston was wrecked on the way.
Ry wiring and sending out engines in all
directions Corse got together 20 cars, loaded
1,000 men into them with 105,000 rounds of
ammunition, steamed toward Allatoona,
clearing the wrecked train out of the path,
and reached the pass at 2 a. m. on the sth,
while the garrison outposts were engaged
in a lively skirmish with French's Confed-
French had made a night march of 10
miles between 11 and 2 o'clock. The night
was pitch dark, and he was without maps
or guides, and as soon as his skirmishers
struck the garrison videttes he surmised
that the Sherman signals which ho had
seen, but could not interpret, had forestalled
his expedition, and the filling in of Alia
toona cut would call into use other tools
than ax and spade. Pickingtheir wayover
crag and precipice and througli underbrush
and slashings, liis men enveloped the place
on the south, east and west and waited for
daylight. Morning disclosed an abrupt,
fortified ridge extending east and west from
the railroad and defending the deep cut on
all sides. On the crest of the ridge east of
tho pass was a star shaped earthwork with
guns, and rifle pits and abatis encircling it
from the brink of the cut above and below.
Tho ridge on the west was crowned by a
stronger fort, with three small redoubts,
and rifle pits and abatis additional. In tho
mouth of the cut on the south were the de
pot and store buildings, tho latter contain
ing 1,000,000 rutions, and all under the guns
of tho worksabove. The 1,000 men brought
„■>►<*? ft
rsOO^TeOVTtOS
. soflitaa \
FIELD OF THE GAME,
up by Corse increased the garrison to 1,000
men. Colonel Tourtellotte, with 450 Min
nesota boys of the Fourth regiment and
part of the Twelfth Wisconsin battery, lay
in tho fort east of the cut. In the brush
around the works were 150 skirmishers of
tho Eighteenth Wisconsin. General Corse
sent over to the east ridge 150 of the Twefltli
Illinois and 250 of the Fiftieth to be held
in reserve behind the works ready to move
anywhere at call. On the west ridge 300
Illinoisans of the Ninety-third were scat
tered as pickets and picket reserves all
around the semicircle. The Seventh Illi
nois, 207 strong, and the Thirty-ninth lowa,
numbering &SO, formed a line of battle on
a spur of the west ridge in flie pits and re
doubts covering tho main fort.
| French planted 12 pieces of artillery on
| the south of the cut to sweep its whole
length and bombard the ridge as well.
.A brigade of Missouriana under Colonel j
Cockerell and one of North Carolinians and j
Texans under General Young climbed the
st eep acclivity of the west ridge to storm
tje main fort, and General Sears' Mississip
pians inarched squarely around the pass to
tlie north and destroyed the railroad and
telegraph, so as to isolate tho garrison com
pletely. That done, French summoned
Corse to surrender in order to save "need
less effusion of blood," allowing five min
utes for deliberation. Corse replied at once
that he was "prepared for 'the needless effu
sion' of blood whenever it was agreeable" to
General French. He told his men to pre
pare for the worst. The ditch outside the
main fort was filled with riflemen, and three
companies of the Ninety-third Illinois were
posted in a trench overlooking tho store
house in tho cut, with orders to keep the
enemy's torclimen away from it at all haz
ards. The moment tho saucy reply of the
garrison commander reached French he
gave the signal for an assault all along the
line. Emerging from tho woods on the west
ridge and threading the tangled abatis and
felled timber, Cockerell's Missourians and
Young's Texans dashed forward, their
lines swept by the fire frtfm the pits and
the fort. Tho Thirty-ninth lowa and the
Seventh Illinois bore the brunt of the first
attack. Two companies of lowans were far
to the front skirmishing, three companies
were posted in observation on a knoll out
side the works, and three companies lay in
j tho trenches. French's lines overlapped the
j defenders, and tho lowa skirmishers with
| their supports were driven back on a tan
gent. Colonel Redfleld and four lieuten
! ants were killed, scores of men were killed
and wounded, and a few survivors got back
to the main fort. The three companies lying
in the riile pits were overrun by a heavy
massed column of Confederates, and all but
nine were killed, wounded or captured. The j
•olor gunrd stood out until the last man of
them was bayoneted. The color companies
having been dispersed, the flag fell into tho
hands of the Confederates. The fighting
was chiefly hand to hand, with bayonets,
stones and clubbed rifles, and was desperate
to the extreme.
Out of six lowa officers shot down five
were killed, and out of 80 men hit 35 lay
dead on the field. Colonel Redfleld was
shot four times. Tho Seventh Illinois,
fighting beside the lowans, suffered equal
slaughter and lost 07 wounded and 35
killed outright. The bloody work on the
west ridge lasted over two hours. In the
heat of it Corse sent an aid across tho cut
to the east fort for help, and the Fiftieth
Illinois reached the west fort just as the
hard pressed fragments of the Seventh and
Thirty-ninth got back to the shelter of its
walls. Before tho assailants of the west
fort could recover from the staggering
blows delivered by the lowans and Illinois
ans and form for a regular assault the para
pets and trenches of the works were lined
with men. Even the rough ground, the
rocks, stumps and logs outside the fort
sheltered marksmen waiting coolly for the
onset. When it came, it was terrible, and
the fire poured in on the north, south and
j westforcesof the work, sweeping theditchea
GENERAL JOIIN M. CORSE,
and parapets. The valor of the assailants
was sublime. The colonel of tho Forty
sixth Mississippi, W. H. Clark, leading the
advance with the battleflag in his hands,
fell dead on the brink of the ditch. Behind
the Misßissippians followed the Twenty
ninth North Carolina, the flag far in ad
vance in tho hands of Color Sergeant Rich.
"Come on, boys!" he shouted, waving the
flag in front of them, and went down so- '
verely wounded. Tho nearest comrade,
Lieutenant E. 11. Alexander, grasped tho
standard, echoed the sergeant's cry, "Come
on, boys!" and immediately fell dead. Ser
geant Parker next took the colors and bore
them ncross the ditch to the parapet, where
he held them until ho was blinded by a
wound in the face.
The defenders, not to bo outdone in valor,
boldly exposed themselves above the para
pet —the officers setting the example—and
fell in scores. There*were six commissioned
officers killed and 20 wounded on tho west
ridge. The Twelfth Illinois lost 50 killed
and wounded, 24 of the number being com
missioned nnd noncommissioned officers.
Corse was hit in the face and stunned dur
ing the height of tho assault. Ho came to
just as the cry was going around, "Cease
firing!" His soldiers thought the case was
hopeless and were contemplating surrender
to avoid annihilation. The artillery ammu
nition was all used up and the cannon si
lent. Some brave fellow whose name has
not been recorded, hearing Corse's appeal
to go on with the fight, volunteered to steal
out of the fort, cross the fire swept cut and
bring ammunition from the chests in tho
east fort. He succeeded and brought in an
armful of canister and case shot. He was
just in time, too, for tho Confederates were
massing a new storming column under
shelter of some buildings 150 yards ftwa>
The case shot was hurled into their ranks
with terrible effect, and the riflemen in the
trenches took heart again, mounted tho
parapets, and by a continuous and galling
fire of bullets broke and dispersed the col
umn for good. It was then nearly Bp. m.
The light had lasted over six For
an hour longer it raged fitfully, and the
Confederates at hist abandoned tho field,
leaving their dead and wounded lying as
they fell. The cavalry advance of Sherman
was rapidly galloping to the rescue from
the south.
Colopel Tourtellotte and his Minnesota
boy Bhad defended the east fort and by good
long range shooting helped to break up the
Confederate columns marching against
Corse from the north.
Corse's loss in defending both ridges was
about 500 killed and wounded. Confeder
ate reports admit a loss of 042. Corse bur
! ied 231 of the enemy, and General Young,
who was wounded and captured, estimated
the loss among his people at 2,000.
General Corse magnanimously attributed
to "the extraordinary valor" of the officers
and men of the Thirty-ninth lowa and the
Seventh Illinois the salvation of Allutoona
Pass. History declares that Corse played a
great part in it, and the man who answered
Sherman's order to hold the fort with the
! dispatch, "I am short a cheek bone and an
' ear, but am able to lick all h—l yet," must
, always be the populur hero of Allatoona.
Geobue L. Kilmer.
A RATTLESNAKE FANCIER.
110 laClotlicil In Garments MadoFrom tlio
Skins of Serpents.
Solomon in nil his glory was not clothed
like Rattlesnake Pete. Joseph's coat of
many colors was a very modest garment
compared with the scintillating costume of
snakeskina worn by Peter Gruber of Oil
City. Tho report
that a man pro
logs* posed to visit tho
\VGrid's fair dress
yi ed in the skin of
a boa constrictor
\ lation of "Ratt-le
\ snake Pete," as he
1 is familiarly call-
U'fj M ed, and ho iiumc
-11 \ diately set about
rH ' It ivl preparing the most
unique suit ever
L -nl'YwrirV worn by man. It
ni M/| j consists of a coat,
W/ffi i Mr i'Willi i vest, trousers, hat,
mmil shoes and shirt. A
IINMXVttf iIMVISII 1 snft keskin stuffed
Ikl {jtllMv.v ! nn( l varnished an
imsM' BWerß or a cun<^
j/l'V forascarfpin. Two
vV'f mil hundred snakes
n&f wero required to
make the outfit,
RATTLESNAKE PETE, and to preserve the
brilliancy and flexibility of tho skins in the
greatest possible degree tho snakes were
skinned alive, first being made unconscious
with chloroform. Gruber, who is now 33
years old, has been catching rattlesnakes
for nine years and has subjected them to all
sorts of experiments.
"This rattler," he said to a Cincinnati
Enquirer man in his place of business tho
other day, "is pure and unadulterated,"
and with that ho yanked out of the cage a
big rattler and tossed it on a pool table.
It was right on its dignity and rattled fu
riously around tho table, showing its fangs
and darting tongue. Watching his chance,
he seized it by the back of tho head with
his naked hand and inserted in its mouth an
ivory knife and showed the poison sack and
fangs on the upner jaw of tho now thor
oughly enraged reptile. To more fully
illustrate tho snake's way of doing busi
ness, Pete removed the knife and then pro
ceeded to tease liim with a stick. 110 be
came furious and struck ut the stick, emit
ting a poisonous yellow fluid. The snako
used on this occasion was the Rocky moun
tain rattlesnake, and was 5 feet in length,
its string of rattles numbering 18.
Ho said the rattlers Vero the most dan
gerous between the Ist of July and the Ist
of September, when they are molting tlieir
skins. They go blind when the shedding is
in progress and will strike at any strange
sound or touch. Even the eyes of the snake
peel off in the shedding of the skin, which
sometimes takes place in a couple of hours
and sometimes requires several days. Of
the varieties of rattlers, tho black, the yel
low and tho swamp rattlesnake, he has
found the last mentioned the most danger
ous, being the quickest to snop and mak
ing the lightest noise when it rattles.
Though the black and tho rattlesnake are
enemies in the woods, they never fight in
captivity, but the blacksnakes will some
times attack each other when hungry, tho
victorious reptile not infrequently swallow
ing another half or two-thirds us large tut
itself.
Peto also volunteered tho information
that the rattlers used by snake fakirs in
museums arc perfectly harmless. Their
mouths are invariable sewed up. If they
arc too lively, drugs are used to deaden
them. No man would be foolhardy enough
to place a genuine rattler about his neck
unless his snakeship was ffxed for the oc
casion.
There are snakes in Petc'B place that
have not eaten anything in three years.
Food is offered them, but they tako nothing
but water. They are fat and slick as when
first caught. Some of them eat occasional
ly in captivity, their preference being chip
munks, swallows, English sparrows, mice,
etc.
The female rattler gives birth to her
young alive and is the only snake that
does, the others laying eggs from which the
young are hatched.
FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE.
Their DiftguiHut* Often Arouso Suspicion
niul Lead to Detection.
Shaving off the beard or mustache is one
of the commonest methods of disguise
adopted by criminals, but the police always
recognizo such a proceeding as probable,
and an expert thief taker is well able to
identify his man minus such adornments.
In some cases indeed the wanted person's
likeness is put into the detective's hands
with the mustache and whiskers removed,
showing what the man will be like without
them.
An absconding bank caßhier a short time
ago attempted to leave the co.ur.try dressed
as a woman. His disguise was seen through
by a keen eyed detective who was watching
outward bound vessels, and although he
did not recognize the man lie detained him
on suspicion, and communicating with the
head authorities the prisoner was soon
identified. In that case the disguise itself
actually led to the detection of the crim
inal. In two other recent cases men wear
ing false beards and mustaches were se
cured by the policemen anxious to discover
their reasons for assuming them. These
afterward proved so unsatisfactory that
one of thorn received 8 and the other 11
years' imprisonment.
The thing which most stands a criminal
in good stead in making his escape is his
having a "common face," ono with no mark
ed peculiarity, and an iron nerve to enable
him to carry himself like an innocent per
son. In many cases the buying of the
things selected by the fugitive as being
most helpful to conceal his identity affords
a clew which insures his capture.
A Novel Duel.
One of the most unique duels ever known
is that of two Frenchmen who decided to
fight in the air. Two balloons were made
exactly alike, and upon the appointed day
each soared aloft, accompanied by his sec
ond. They were each armed with a blun
derbuss, the agreement being that they
were to fire not at each other, but at the
balloons. They arose to the height of half
a mile, and then the preconcerted signal
was given. One fired and missed; the other
follosved suit with more disastrous effect.
He hit his opponent's balloon, which in
stantly collapsed, with the result that the !
occupants of the car were dashed to the
earth with frightful rapidity and instantly
killed.
The Champion Sandwich Man.
A wealthy young Cuban visiting in Paris
recently made a bet with the carver of one
of the leading night rcstnurants on the
Boulevard, the wager being for 1,000 francs,
that the latter would not cut and mako
2,000 complete sandwiches in 24 hours. The
carver won the bet easily, accomplishing
the feat in 19 hours and 40 minutes, demol- I
Hiing 22 hams in the operation.
WANTED.— Salesmen, to soli our choice
und hardy nursery stock. Many special
v:u*ic(ics to offer built in fruits and ornament
als, and controlled only by us. We nay com
mission or salary, give exclusive territory and
pay weekly. Write us at once and secure
choice of territory. May Brothers, Nursery
men, Rochester, N. V.
AM AItVEL is our A DOING MACHINE. It
. adds the longest.columns in a surprisingly I
quick space of time, invariably giving the
correct result. Business men, bankers, book
keepers and others fully indorse it. Every
person having adding to do, wants one. Full
description und illustration sent free on appli
cation; or a machine prepaid on receipt or one
dollar and tifty cents. One good agent, wanted
in this section. Write at once to the Cincinnati
Specialty Manufacturing Co., 70 W. Third street,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
rniNANCIA I, STATEMENT of Freelund bor
_L' ough school district for the year ending
Junes, 1898.
Evan Wood ring, collector.
DK.
To amount of duplicate £3004 61)
CR.
To amount returned to county
commission $ 418 31
Exonerations. - 105 SKI
Abatements 89 07
Collector's commission 109 38
Making extra duplicate 5 00
Paid treasurer 1700 00
Ain't due from Col. Wood ring... £l6 46
Adam Sachs, treasurer,
in account with l'reeland borough school
district.
I>R.
Received front state appropriation SI3BB 71
" " ex-Collector Doudt 3SO
" " Titos, J. Moore 165 00
" unseated lands 384 9H
" " Collector Woodring 1700 00
$3491 49
CH.
Amount paid on labor, salaries, etc., as fol
lows:
Mrs. Brennan, cleaning school houses. .$ 300
Auditors' salaries J893 13 00
James Huff, interest on loan 48 00
11. C. Koons, supplies * 5 60
Freelund Water Co., water rent and suj
plies 17 '.O
James Liudsuy, wood 1 00
J. L. Simmons, district institute 1 03
H. M. Doudt, attending county institute
and labor 5 70
W. E. Wat kins, attending county inst. 5 00
Adam Sachs, attending county institute 5 00
Borough council, cleaning sidewalks. - ... 4 70
11. (J. Fisher, hunting coal 8 50
E. 11. Butler und Co., books 30 94
John M. Cunnius, lumber and labor— 11 50
Leopold Sliunno, attending county insti
tute and labor 10 50
Cassie Sliunno, cleaning school houses.. 30 00
Tribune, printing, and publishing state
ment 34 40
Adam Sachs, commission mi :io
Adam Sachs, overpaid account 16 73
John Smith, salary 1803-03 100 00
St. Patrick's bund, music on Columbus
day 10 00
John Bmifh, express and postage.... .. 753
Progress, publishing statement 13 no
Isaac Davis, labor 8 50
Thomas Birkbcek, supplies 18 10
James E. Grillitli, building fence ami
labor 63 50
M. J. Moran, labor and supplies 19 on
C E. Fans, supplies 6 15
W. E. Wat kins, supplies 5 08
Owen Doudt, limiting eoul 43 50
J. D. Hayes, liens on sidewalks 35 83
American Book Co., books 17
Silver Hiirdette, books 66 00
r. B. Marshal, chart 87 50
Benj. Bute, supplies 30
11. L. Edmunds, supplies 4 hi)
Alvin ltickert, hauling coal 14 .70
Win. Williamson, supplies 10 15
George Fllby, cleaning snow from sidc
walks 31 65
S 807 88
Teachera' Salaries—
-11. L Edmunds £7lO 00
Susie Gallagher 460 00
TlUie Lindsay 456 53
Lulu Schmidt 455 50
Lizzie Shiek 7 88
George T. Brown 65 00
Amount in hands of treasurer 538 61
SM9I 49
HKBOURCBB*
Due from ex-Collector Moore 56 40
Due from ex-Collector Woodring 386 46
Amount in hands of treasurer 538 61
Buildings and grounds BH9O 00
Furniture and fixtures 600 00
$5311 47
1.1 A 111 I.ITI EB.
l)uc Adam Sachs, commission.. .$ 59 30
James Huff, loan 800 00
Auditors, 1 13 00
Resources over liabllites slllO 21 j
< >\viiiHr to the fact that, the school board did
not k!vo the ox-tax collectors their lull com
mission in tin- past two reports, there is a dif
ference in the tax collectors' favor as follows:
H. M. I)o\nit. ex-collector, 1800 sl2 6!)
Thos. J. Moore, ex-collector, 1801 2H *KI
We, the undersigned, auditors or the borough
of Freehold, after being duly sworn according
to law, do say that the foregoing statement of
the I'rcelana borough school district is true
and correct, t the best of our knowledge and
belief, so far as the accounts presented to its.
John Hell, |
Rodger McNeils, - Auditors.
H. O. Deppc, )
Keiper's Steam Marble Works.
COR. LAUREL and MINE STREETS.
Monuments, Headstones,
selling at cost lor next thirty days.
Iron and Galvanized Fences, Sawed lluilding
Stones, Window Caps, Door Hills, Mantels,
(Irates, (.'oping, Cemetery Supplies.
VIII I.IV Khi Phil, PROl\, Hazleton.
HERE'S A BARGAIN.
One of the best located
properties on Centre street,
Five Points, is offered at a
sacrifice. Any person de
siring to make a paying in
vestment should investigate
this.
A tine, well-built two-story building,
23x4 4 feet, containing a dwelling and
back kitchen, also a storeroom, 2:txlH
feet. A good stable, 1-lxl H feet, is on
rear of lot.
The owner lias good rea
sons for wishing to dispose
of the property, and the
purchaser will be given easy
terms. For further infor
mation
AI-I'I.V AT THE TRIBUNE OFFICE.
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE noWP.
Do you wear them 7 When next In need try a pair.
Best in the world.
#5.0q )j dr""NJ3.oo
MOOJf \42.50
#3.50 f 52.00
A a K-A ; FOR LAD,E *
#2.50 <3f 00
* 2 -25% -M. I *1.79
If you want a fine DRESS SHOE, made In the latest
stylos, don't pay $6 to SB, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or
$5 Shoe. They fit equal to custom made and look and
wear as well. If you wish to economize In your footwear,
do so by purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoes. Namo and
price stamped on the bottom, look for it when you buy.
\V. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Man, Sold by
John Smith, Birkbeck Brick.
EMDiI SULOOAD SYSTEM.
o. LEHIGH VALLEY
DIVISION.
Anthnioite coal used cxclu
f sively, insuring cleanliness and
f comfort.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
MAY 14, 1808.
LEAVE FREELAND.
6 05, 8 47, 9 40. 10 41 a m, 13 35, 1 83, 3 27, 8 45,
4 55, 6 58, 7 13, 8 47 p m, for Drifton, Jcddo. Lum
ber Yard, Stockton and Huzlctnn.
6 05 A in. 1 83, 8 45, 4 55 p IU. for Munch Chunk,
Allcntown, Bethlehem, Phila., Euston and New
York.
9 40 a m for Bethlehem, Boston and Phila.
7 26, 10 56 a m, 13 16,4:14 p in, (via Highland
Branch) for White Haven, G leu Summit, Wilkes-
Barre, Pittston and L. and B. Junction.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
11 40 a in and 8 45 p m for Drifton, Jcddo, Lum
ber Yard and lla/.lcton.
845 n in for Delano, Mahanoy City, Shcnuu
doali. New York and Philadelphia.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
5 50, 7 0!), 7 36, 9 18, 10 50 a m, 13 16, 1 15, 2 18,
4 :m, 6 58 and 887 p m, from llazlcton, Stockton,
Lumber Yard, Jcddo and Drifton.
7 36, 9 IS. 10 56 a m, 3 18, 4 84, 658 p m from
Delano, Mahanoy City and Shenundouh (via
New Boston Brunch).
I 15, 6 58 and 8 87 n m from New York, Euston,
Philadelphia, Bethlehem, Allcntown and Muuch
Chunk.
9 18 and 10 56 a in, 1 15, 6 58 and 837 p m from
Euston, Phila., Bethlehem and Mnuch Chunk.
9 18, 10 41 a in, 3 37,6 58 pin from White Haven,
Glen Summit, Wilkes-Barrc. Pittston and L. and
B. Junction (viu Highland Branch).
SUNDAY TRAINS.
II 81 a m and 331 p m, from llazlcton, Lum
ber Yard, Jeddo and Drifton.
11 81 a in from Dcluno, Hazleton, Philadelphia
and Euston.
8 31 p in from Delano and Mahanoy rcpinn.
For further information inquire of Ticket
Agents.
C. G. HANCOCK, Gen. Pass. Agt.
Philadelphia, Pa.
A. W. NONNEMACHEU, Ass'tG. P. A.
South Bethlehem, Pa.
—GREAT—
SLAUGHTER SALE
ut the
Columbia Trading Co.'s Store,
opposite the Central Hotel, Freelund.
BARGAINS
In Watches, Jewelry,
Acoordeons, Silverware,
Cutlery, Dry Goods,
Notions, Novelties,
and thousands of other articles from a
NEEDLE To tin ANCHOR. You will
miss the opportunity of your lite if you
fail to call. Just look at these figures: ""
Three ounce watch, stem winder.. ..£1.25
Best accordean in the world 2.00
All other goods as low in proportion.
THIS IS NO AUCTION, but a GENU
INE BARGAIN SALE of RELIABLE
GOODS. In order to avoid the crush ut
night ladies urc invited to call during
the day. Goods at the same price as in
the evening.
COLUMBIA TRADING
COMPANY,
Opposite Central Hotel, Freeland, Pa.
CITIZENS' BANK
OF FREELAND.
CAPITAL, - $50,000.
OFFICERS.
Joseph IllrkUik, President.
11. G. Koons, Vice President.
11. K. Davis, Cashier.
John Smith, Secretory.
PIKEOTOUS.- Joseph Dirkbook, Thos. Birk
beek, John Winner, A. Itndewlok, 11. C. Koons,
( has. Dusheck, Win. Kemp, Mat bias Sehwabe,
John* Smith, John M. Powell, 2d. John burton.
Three i>er cent, interest paid on saving
deposits.
Opeirdaily from ? a. 111. to 4p. m. Saturday
evenings from 6 to H.
Dr. H. E. Nyer's
DENTAL PARLORS.
11. W. MONROE, Manager.
R CAMPBELL'S BUILDING, CENTRE STREET.
Teeth filled and artificial teeth inverted.
Painless extraction. Reasonable prices and
• all irork guaranteed.
GEORGE FISHER,
dealer in
FRESH BEEF, PORK, VEAL,
MUTTON, BOLOGNA,
SMOKED MEATS,
ETC., ETC.
Call at No. Walnut street. Freehold,
or wait for the delivery wagons.
; VERY LOWEST PRICES.
A BIG STOCK OF
WAGON" UMBRELLAS,
FLY NETS,
LAP SHEETS,
EAR NETS, Etc.,
on hand at WIRE'S.
1 -A.ll. IKCim-cis
of
H-A-^IsnESS
From $6.00 Up.
s GEO. WISE.
No. 35 Centre Street, Freeland.
Also Jed do, Pa.