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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
The YOUNGSTOWN Disaster.

For a week past the readers of the
daily newspapers have been furnished
by the column, with the sickenlng de-
tails of the most appalling disaster which
has ever afflicted this country. The
Chicago confagration possibly exceeded
it in the amount of property destroyed,
widespread devastating floods have
swept the valley of the Mississippi, and
swift forest and prairie fires have laid
bare vast areas in the west and north
west, but the worst of these visitatioLs
have not been accompanied by the ter
rible loss of human life. which marks as
monumental IN its character, the catas-
trophe of the Ccnemaugh Valley. I'm
welcome as the destruction of large
amounts of property may be, and en-
failing suffering, discomfort, and want
upon thousands, yet that can be re-
pared, the lost property can be re-
stored by the expenditure of labor and
energy, but for life destroyed nothing
can atone. The dead cannot be brought
back to life. Bereavement so general
as this, has pathos that is inexpressi-
Bile, because it is beyond reparation by
any human agency.
AS contemporary we'll says, Sin the
face of such a calamity we realize the
insignifcance OF human power, and are
taught afresh the uncertainty OF life and
the weakness and littleness of human
effort. The mind, stunned by the vast
ness of such a disaster, may wonder
why so many innocent lives should have
been destroyed and why the Providence
which overrules all earthly affairs should
permit so terrible a visitation. But it
may be that in an age which every day
grows more boastful in the pride of its
intellectual, scientific and physical
achievements, 1t is necessary to recall
the fact that man at his best estate IS
more helpless than an infant in the
hands of nature, and that above and
beyond our science and our civilization,
are forces with which the strongest as
we'll as the weakest must humbly bow.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
The Higher Court Against the
Clubs.

The EaSton Gazette is confident
that the clubs will be closed up, not
outstanding the failure of the cases IN
the court there last week. 1t says:
The cases hinge on the application
of the term sale. The State says that
a member OF the club buys and the
proprietor sells. The counsel for the
defendant says 1t is not sale in a legal
sense. To this the State demurs. The
court sustains the defense. The State
files a writ of error which is an appeal
to the Court OF Appeals at Annapolis,
when undoubtedly the decision of the
lower court will be revoked and the
State sustained. 1t must be remembered
that the decision of the Court of Ap
peals constitutes Law and judges of the
circuit courts must obey it IN the fu-
ture whether 1t is their judgment or
not.
There are eight judges on the Court
of Appeals bench. In the present club
case, Judge Robinson is disqualified
from sitting on the Appeals bench be
cause he has rendered decision in the
lower count. Four of the other Judges
are already on record as having decided
that to sell liquors to members of clubs
would not only disregard the terms of
the statute but the manifest object
sought by the legislature. OF the other
three one is deceased andthe term of
one expires before Court sits next fall.
So it is fair to presume that his success
sor will be judge who would more
naturally decide with -four than one.
This will sustain the demurrer of States
Attorney Stewart and the clubs will
haze to give up their charter. Already
our clubs of the county have surren-
Tered their charters, one at Whitman,
,ne at Screamersville, two at Oxford. |
Report says one other proprietor has
led.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

BILE Democratic authority as the SuH,
answered, not by inference or implica-
ton, but by explicit and definite state
ment and declaration. The taxpayers
of Maryland have undoubtedly for years
been merciiessly robbed through the
medium of this political corporation
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal the
State has already invested over seven
millions of dollars in it, to say nothing
of the other millions Of unpaid interest
due it. It's management has beer
characterized by unblushing jobbery
and decentralization, and the time has
undoubtedly come when the State
should tree itself of this and all similar
| political corporations.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

At Joint conference of the Execu
tive Committees of the prohibition
party, the State Temperance Alliance
and the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union held in Baltimore on Tuesday,
it was decided to CO operate with
proposed movement OF citizens OF that
city, the object of which is 20 secure
high license law similar to the Brooks
law now in force in Philadelphia. The
attitude of the three organizations
named towards the high license move
ment was stated in the following ad
dress prepared by Mr.. Edwin Higgins
"We are in perfect accord with every
effort to restrict and restrain the drink
traffic. We are in favor of the restric-
tive features of the so-called Brooks
high license law of Pennsylvania. The
title of the act referred to is IAN act to
restrain and regulate the sale of intoxi-
cant liquors. The trainers of the act
believing that it would not be possible
to abolish summarily the legal license
system of the State sought to engraft
upon that system such restraints as
would reduce to a minimum the evils
of the drink traffic. Restraint, not Ii
cense, was the purpose, and license
only an unavoidable incident of the
bill. We are in favor of all other wise
restraints and restrictions upon the
traffic, such as requiring the saloons to
close from n p. m. to 7 a. M, the re-
moval of screens, the right Of local oD-
ton for precincts and wards; but we
cannot lend a helping hand to any
measure that shall tend to foster and
intrench the evil in the habits of the
people or the stupidity of the taxpay-
ers: Therefore be it
"Resolved, As an expression of our
deliberate convictions, that high license,
per Sc, for revenue, is appealing to the
cupIdity of the taxpayers, IS vicious in
principle, and has been by abundant
experience to foster, protect and in
trench the evils of intemperance in the
habits of the people and powerless as a
temperance remedy.
"rhat while we are opposed to the
granting of license, be it high of low,
for the sale of intoxicating liquors, and
if it were in our power we would pro
hibit 1t, and while we shall continue to
work to secure prohibition, yet aside
from the license features we, under the
existing circumstances, approve OF for
the city of Baltimore such restrictions,
restraints and regulations as contribute
to public peace and sobriety which shall
sooner or later demand the suppression
of the traffic.
"That committee of nine, composed
of three from each organization repre-
sented, be appointed to confer with any
committee that may be appointed by a
meeting of citizens, and to report at a
future meeting.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

Our usually conservative contemporary
the Baltimore San, seems to see some
thing "providential' in the destruction
by the storm of last week, of that great
political highway, the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal. What is believed to be
the practical destruction of the canal,
the Sun thinks, "may result in ultimate
gain, and may be regarded in many
quarters as blessing in disguise, but it
represents nevertheless the loss of mil
lions of dollars which had been invested
in costly waterway, whose bed has
almost been lined with gold in the eff.
fort to make it pay, and which is now
little better than muddy ditch scarcely
capable of floating any longer even the
political canoe of ward politician,
much less the barge of any OF the great
bosses who used to be pulled along
over its placid bosom by the mule power
of subservient party politics to official
gain and glory. For this consummatIon
we might, perhaps, be devoutly thank
full to the storm had all pernicious poll
ticians accompanied the canal into a
condition of innocuous desuetude."
While our contemporary is consigning
to the imaginary realms of "innocuous
desuetude" all pernicious politicians, it
seems a pity that it is not more specific
in its denunciations. That the patron
age of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
has been potential factor IN the Dem
ocratic politics OF the State we all know
and that it has been faithfully used to
promote individual interests by proml-
nent Democratic managers we all be-
heve. But the Suns sincerity would
hays been very much more apparent,
had it frankly stated Who the great
bosses are VINO gilded barges subser-
Went (Democratic) party politics have
drawn to official gain and glory, over
the placid bosom Of this political ditch.
Who are the men1 Are they bosses
still prominent in the Councils OF the
Democratic party in Maryland1 Are
they managers still in control of the
party machinery, and who hope and
expect to maintain their positions of
influence and leadership These are
the questions the people of Maryland,
the taxpayers of the State-would
like answered by SO eminently respecta-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

From the morning of the day on
which the Cecil Democratic Primaries
will have been held, until the rising OF
the sun on Election day, Old Sol will
have risen and set, just one hundred
and forty four times. What a magnifi-
cent period in which some local man
ayers may repent the folly of their pre-
cipitancy.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
ELKTON. JUNE 8, 1889.

The two greatest money losers by the
storm and the bursting reservoir have
been the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and the Cambria Iron Company.
They are also the largest contributors
to the relief fund.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
Better Wear and Looks!
Better Quality and Fit!
Better Dollars Worth !

These the mutual interests between you and
WANAMAKER & Brown. Summed up in still fewer
words-Reiable Clothing at Lowest Prices
We expect your trade only because serve you
so well it pays you to deal with
What is our now?
The has got along so far that if you're
going to buy at ALL is your time to buy because
must sell now if we're going to sell at all.
The situation makes a big difference in the prices.
You pick up bargain almost anywhere in the
house.
1t h been great season anyhow for low and
medi,nt ices. WANAMAKER & Browns, usual,
lowest 0 all. For instance:
Hundreds of Suits at $40. All Wool and All Styles.
of at usually S. or
WANAMAKER & BROWN,
Oak Hail. Sixth and Market
Philadelphia.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
StraWbridge Z ClotF Ter
PHILADELPHIA.
Car Great Stock Of Uhite Goods.

commanding attention far and wide This could scarcely
fail to be the the stock is both comprehensive and
highly attractive, and includes many beautiful styles which
cannot be found outside of our establishment.
Leading the whole country by general admission,
have done for Silks and Dress Goods rapidly
dong the same great and increasing business Cotton
Dress Stufs of all kinds, Foreign and Domestic; included in
which are the vast varieties of White Goods.
In this department Mrs. Emma A. Burns is using the
great facilities her command in n up business
that will fully rank with the great departments named above
Housekeepers and all buyers of White Goods will seek
their interest by examining the basis which the above
claim is made.
STRAWBRIDGE &CLOTHIER }EHHgE$#E s:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

A Fountain Pen, with filler
and rubber case, for 40 cents.
Just as good as the high-priced
ones, but hasn't gold pen. A
composition affair. They say
it won't corrode. 1t will, in
time. We give two extra pens
to get around that; and all for
40 cents. Send one cent extra
for postage.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets,
and City hail square.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
L. MARSHALL HAINES, Solicitor.

'~S@-~-NO.'
Anna r. Ramsey. Marian L. Cross and Andrew
b. Cross,
Alicia Gottier Francis b. Gottier, Millicent Ann
Howell, Jr, Cornelia s. Moore, Elizabeth &.
Fehrman, Mary Tylce Moore, Thomas VI. Moore
Louisa Moore, his wife, Charles Haght or
Heath, Anne NJ, his wife, Martha Reese. -
Reese. her husband, EIecta p. Mo Ire Archibald
McCo,kle, William b. Ostrom. Elizabeth NJ.
OstrOE, William e.. OstrOm, Jacob OStrom and
the unknown heirs at law OF Fanny Vandervort
and the American Bible Society.
The object OF this suit 10 procure Il decree for
the sale vi ce' tain lot OF land situate at the
Her oil Bow or BeauX street and Main street in the
town of EiRtoD, Cecil County, MARYLAND. The
bill states that said lot was formerly owned by
Thomas Moore. who ed in the state Of New York
about 1872 having devised the said lot OF land to
five OF his children viz: Thomas g. Moore John
Moore Alicia Gotter, Martha Jane Moore and
Abigail Moore. with certain provisions for the
benefit OF Ezekiel Moore, and nth certain restrc-
lions with regard to the share devised to Alicia
Got,ier. That said Abigail Moore, Thomas &.
Moore ana Martha j. Moore are all dead and
that their inter ess in said lot Of land passed to
taeir brother John Moore their sister Alicia Got
er to said Martha Reese ami Elccla p Moore
and to said Archibald McC)rkle, William b. Us
from. Elizabeth NJ. Dstrom, William G. Ustroln,
Jacob Ustl ON the unknown heirs OF Fanny Van
dervort and the American Bible Society iu tn"
proportions particularly set forth i'll said Bill
That said John Moore is also dead intestttte and
that tn. interest OF his widow Cornelia ). Moor e
and Of his children and heirs at law Eliz beth C.
Fehrman, Mary Tylee Moore, Thomas NJ. Nor,
and Annie NJ. Haight or Heath has passed by IA
decree OF the CIcur Court for Cecil County in
Equity and Il sale made hereunder to the com
plaimants Anne X. Ramsay aud Marian L. Cross
That said parcel of laud is not susceptible OF a.
vision without .oss AID Injury to the parties ell
titled to interests there md that all the several
defendants above named reside out OF the State
OF Maryland. The said The American Bible So
ciety, being corporation OF the State of Nea
Io k, and Lot c,tp)r, ton %! the State o. Mar,
land. and living no person IN tnc State OF Mary
land. on v hon service OF process can he made.
1t is theIculOp Ills seN en- ecDtu day of May
1889 adJudk ed and urder ti.at the cumplainants
by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in
some newspaper printed anu published in Cecil
County once week Tor four successive weeks be-
fore the 18th day of June next give notice to tn.
aid absent defendants OF the object and substance
OF this bal, and warn them to appear IN this Court
III person or by solicitor before the fifth day
OF July next to answer the premises and show
cause, If any they have why decree ought not
to pass as prayed.
JAMES A. DAVIS,
True Copy, Clerk.
Test: JAMES A. DAVIS.
Myls-sw Clerk.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
- BROWNS IRON BITTERS

Cures Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala-
ria, Nervousness, and General Debility. Physi-
clans recommend it. All dealers sell it. Genuine
has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

You require reading matter
for the Summer, of course.
But what shall you read?
There's the rub. If you wish
to know, Book News Csc a
number, soc a year) will lift
the covers of the new Books,
and give you a taste of their
Quality, and also tell what the
best critics think of them.
Much pleasant literary gossip
besides. The June number is
ready. A portrait of Wilkie
Collins, suitable for framing,
goes with it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
NOTICE OF MEETING.

A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TOWN
ACommissioners will be held at the Ha DWARF
store of John K. Alexander & Son on Monday
evening ext at O'Clock. Corrections in the as
sessment lists of the town will be made and ques-
tions Of valuation of town property be heard
JnS-w JOS. L. WELLS Sec
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
DEsoLATIoN BEYOND PARALLEL.

Not until late on Sunday was it that
any one was able to reach the spot where
Johnstown had stood Then as the first
men crossed the river the story of death
and ruin was told without words, for of
all the thriving city Of 30 600 Inhabitants
not half dozen buildings rer aimed
standing. while the bodies OF the dead
lay on every side, left by the recediug
waters. AS village after village in the
track of the flood was reached the story
was unfolded in all it's sickening details
and the utter devastation of the once
thriving valley was seen to be complete.
Thousands Of people whose homes. rela-
tives and friends had been lost in the
Hood were roaming upon the mountains
without food, shelter or sufficient cloth
ing, and there was the most urgent need
Of the relie' which could not be furnished
until after days of painful waiting.
Bridge after bridge along the railroads
on either side of the valley of death had
been destroyed and miles of track washed
away, so that communication with the
outer world could not be restored until
after days of toll by hundreds of work
men
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
THE RELENTLESS FLOOD SWEEPS ON.

Below Johnstown the smaller towns OF
Ninevrh, New Florence and Bolivar es-
capped utJer annihilatiop, but to their in
habitapts fell the sad lot of looking help
lessly upon the people who were swept
past, dead and aiivc in the raging flood.
By hundreds they counted The unfortu
mates, but were poweress to render aid,
except to a few who came within easy
reach. At Sang Hollow, six miles below
Johnstown, the operator in the Pennsyl-
vauia Railroad signal tower counted the
bodies as they fioated past, and it was he
that sent over the wires the first definite
confirmation of the reports of the dread
calamity in the valley.
All along the river banks lay the bodies
of the dead, swept ashore and half buried
in the mud or caught by the bushes
through which the high waters flowed,
aud the mute story of disaster thus told
was all that could be learned for two
days.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

HENRY r. TORBERT, EDITOR
c. r. hINcHuFFE, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
SAD PROCESSION OF THE DEAD.

When at last the trains began to creep
slowly up the valley the work of remov
ing the dead and caring for the injured
was begun, and the story of woe and
misery was swelled to terrible length.
To add to the horrors of the situation
hordes of homeless, Huugarians swarmed
down from the mountains and robbed the
dead bodies of jewels and valuables. As
quickly as troops could be brought to the
spot the entire region was put under
n artial law, and the human fiends were
summarily disposed f.and the work of
relief and rescue was begun.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
1HHa. 1898,
EFRINE.

SHOES. Our shoe depart
ment is overlooking with all
the latest designs and at the
right prices.
HATS. Latest styles from
Phila. and Baltimore markets,
Derbys and Crushes. The
price starts at soc. for good
substantial soft hat.
DRESS GOODS in abundance
at the lowest possible prices.
MATTINGs, white and fame,
new goods IL 4 C. to $50. per
yard.
GROCERIES. California and
Delaware evaporated Peaches
Apples, Nectarines, Apricots,
Silver skin Plums, Prunes,
Canned Goods at low prices.
Tomatoes, Corn, Peas, Beans,
Peaches, Pears, Roast Beef,
Clipped Beef, Pickles, Sauces
and Catsup.
F. p. PRICE,
ELKTON. MD.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08

The oo,ss, OF ats proprietor Oe,ng to make
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
Hananhhbr'S.


his Statements, lelllllS Oh his
wares and their prices when
ever you care to ask.
That is the illustrated Gen
eral Catalogue.
1t only takes a postal card
request to bring it. Write your
name and address plainly.
The book tells fully of over
forty stocks of goods, and
wherever it can be done gives
pictures to show exactly what
the article is. Forty stores
right in your own home! Think
of it. And you can buy goods
from any one of them and have
delivered to you without leav
ing the house. No railroad
fares. No tIresome shopping
that is all done for you.
Suppose when you come to
Philadelphia you had some wise
friend-wise in shopping, in
goods and their qualities, in
where to buy-to go with you
to aid you in making your Sc
lections. Wouldn't you gladly
accept that service? And you
would lean a good deal on that
judgment, wouldn't you? That
is just what happens when you
write to US for goods. A skilled
shopper, who knows goods and
their values, takes your letter
and goes from counter to coun-
ter and from department to
department, selecting, match
ing, choosing, with you all the
time in her mind, and referring
constantly to your written in
structions to find whether you
approve.
So, you see, if you write
plainly what you want, it is
much as if you were here. The
prices are just the same as if
you bought in person. There
is but one price here-and
that must needs be as low as
anybody's or lower, or the
store wouldn't grow.
You can a7zke for what you
want.
But you need the Catalogue.
Send the postal card.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
THE HORROR CULMINATEs.

Many who foated upon roots and tim
bers went to i death more horrible than
that of those who were swallowed up in
the flood. The stone railroad bridge
wthstood tie flood, but the embark
ment at its western end was washed
away. The huge pile of wrecked dwell
iigs and broken timbers that lay against
tie stone viaduct caught fire from over
turned stove, and lamps. and the vast
pile became the funeral p>re of hundreds
of unfortunate creatures imprisoned
there. By fire and food Adjutant Gen
eral Hastings estimates that from IS 600
to Is, 100 people in the Conemaugh valley
lost their lives within the few brief hours
that the work of destruction continued.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
Hew advertisements.

Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets,
and City-hail square
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-08
wREcKING A PASSENGER TRAIN.

Upon the tracks at Johnstown two sec
tions of the Pennsylvania Railroads day
express we're standing, and the resistless
torrent hurled cars and locomotives down
the river and rolled them into the mass
of tangled debris at the bridge. The
rcund-house. with ITS iorty locomotives,
the Cambria Iron Works, with their mas
sive machinery, all were swept like
c. umbs from a table into the seething
flood aud heaped upon the vast pile OF
reckage. Some OF the passengers on
he trains flei up the mountain side in
time 10 escape the floou; others were
swept way with the cars, while few in
frenzy of despair cast themselves into
the raging waters and were drowned
o. every hand the people Of Johnstown
were battling for life in the flood, aud
cries for aid fell only upon the ears of
those who we're powerless 30 help them.
In The whirling wreckage the victims
" ere crushed and torn and forced out of
sight beneath the waters.