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, 1891-04-24
HE STOOD HIS GROUND.
A Day of Excitement in the
Coke Regions.
Sheriff Mccormick Holds a Mob
of 400 at Bay.
Detroit Street Car Strikers Tie
Up a Road.

UNIoNTowN, Pa, April 23.-This was
a day of excitement in the coke region.
A serious riot occurred at Monarch this
morning aud another, with seven killed,
was reported late this afternoon. For
tunately, however. the latter report proved
to be without foundation. This morning
Sheriff Mccormick and deputies, who
had a fight at ADELAIDE yesterday, went to
LeisenIing No. 3 to evict ten families of
striking Huns. A company of militia ac-
companied them, but remained some dis
lance away from the houses. When the
writ OF eviction was read to Thomas Tarr
that man declined to get out and seIzinR
an axe de6ed the sheriff. A
crowd of three or four hundred
men and women collected at
once and berated the sheriff and deputies
in the strongest language they could COM
maud. Then Mrs. Andy Blashkee
rushed out with a pistol in her hand and
made a dive for the sheriff. Just as she
was about to fire at his breast he struck
the revolver down with his left hand and
at the same time fred at her. He re-
ceive6 a painful wound in the left ankle,
while the woman was shot in the heshy
part of the leg. Her husband then made
a dash at Mccormick with a club. but
the sheriff. taking deliberate aim. shot
him in the left ankle. Mccormick blood
was now up and with a big revolver in
zach hand he stood with his back against
the house and informed the people that
the first one who moved toward him
would be shot. Martin Scroupka rushed
at the sheriff with a club. but quickly
retreated with a bullet in his mouth
which knocked out several teeth. TAR
then rushed at the sheriff with an axe but
retreated again before the revolvers. Then
the militia came up on the double quick
and tho rioters dispersed. The e~victions
we're soon completed. Work will be re-
sumed tomorrow by the sheriff with every
prospect of more trouble. Martin
Scroupkais in a critical condition, but
the other wounded will recover.
, 1891-04-24

Boston, April ga year and a half
ago a pistol shot was heard in the private
office of OTIS Sargent. a laundry proprietor
in this city. The door was locked. and it
was sometime before it could be opened.
When that was accomplished, Mr.. Sar-
gent was found dying from an ugly bullet
wound in the head. Al the time 1t was
supposed to be an ordinary case of sui
eide, but within a week interest in the
case has been revived by the commence
ment of a suit against the Mutual Re.
serve Life Insurance company by Miss
Millie j. Blaisdell to recover IS, 900, the
amoun of policy in that company, in
which she was a beneficiary. Miss
Blaisdell was Mr.. Sargent's cashier, and
it was known that their relations were
very friendly.
The insurance company refused to pay
the policy on the ground that Mr.. Sar-
gent committed suicide. Miss Blaisdell
denies that theory, and it is claimed that
some startling facts will be made public
when the plaintiff presents her case. If
Mr.. Sargent did not commit suicide he
must have been murdered, and it will be
interesting to know who the guilty person
is. If the beneficiary has evidence to
prove a murder the case will become one
of the most interesting on record. AS
Miss Blaisdell was the only person, ex-
cept Mr.. Sargent, who had a key to the
private office, and as she made no effort
to unlock the door on the morning of the
tragedy, according to the evidence thus
far presented, the police will be able to
ask her some pointed questions, if she
persists in the murder theory. The case
is still on trial.
, 1891-04-24

New YoRK, April 23.-The organized
Italian stone masons today caused a good
deal of trouble in the upper end of the
city. They struck work today on a de-
mand of nine hours time with nine hours
pay. President Gompers of the federated
trades announced to them that they could
easily accomplish their demand. THIS
morning they went to several houses and
induced some -%unionists TO quit work.
Finally, however, they struck a building
on One Hundred and Thirty fifth street
where a large number of Italian non-
union masOns were employed and they
refused to quit. The strikers drew still
ettos and picked uD stones and we're
about to raid the place when the ION
union men drew revolvers. The strikers then
contented themselves with firing volleys
of stones. A dangerous riot was immi-
nent when a force of police came up and
arrested a dozen of the men. Another
small riot was started a few blocks away
and more arrests were made there.
, 1891-04-24

Quinine is not only an expensive mod
icine, it is a harmful one if taken too
freely and too often. OF course the
world insists on taking great quantities
OF it for fever and ague. Some persons
think nothing else will cure fever and
ague. We say positively, and testimonials
back US up, that Braudreth's Pills have
often cured bad cases of fever aud ague
when q%uinine has failed, Brandreth's
Pills break up the worst attack.
Brandreth's Pills are purely vegetable,
absolutely harmless, and safe to take at
any time.
Sold in every drug and medicine store,
either plain or sugar coated.
, 1891-04-24
Corbetr's soIic1rude for Jackson.


SAN Francisco. April 23.-Jim Cor.
bett today rushed into PRINT with a silly
letter attacking Pete Jackson and declar.
ing that the Australian slugger had failed
to put up $500 forfeit and was not train
ing for the approaching fight. His letter
concludes as follows:
when | was East | became sick. and
cancollIng all engagements, | returned to
California as SOC as possible TO get in
condition to train for this match. On the
other hand Mr.. Jackson hurt his foot
three weeks ago and instead Of trying to
get well he has been dissipating in every
way since, which | can prove by several
reputable citizens of Oakland. There Is
considerable talk as to whether the match
will take place or not. 1t certainly looks
as II Mr.. jackson Is not Overanxious to
meet me. 1t is a great source of annoy
ance to me not to be able to know posi-
lively whether the match will come off or
not. This is the first time | have ever
alluded 10 Mr.. JacksOn's ability or cour-
age, aud do 1t in behalf of. my friends
and myself"
that he began punching the bag today,
and unless his ankle should weaken he
will be in trim for the fight. They say it
Is not creditable to suppose that Jackson
wants TO retire from a contest in which he
is confident he will be the winner. As
regards the forfeit, the California club is
pledged TO pay it should Jackson default.
Corbett himself claims to be training
honestly, but it is notorious that he was
out at the races last Saturday full OF l;auor
and Narrowly escaped being shot by a
Spanlard who is a strong hacker OF Jack
son because Corbett abused the colored
p%ugilist.
, 1891-04-24

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Treasury
officials are beginning to discuss ways aud
means to meet the $50, 900, 900 AZ per
cents which fall due September /. The
heavy appropriations of the last congress
and the falling off in customs receipts
leave a very small prospective margiA-
too small for bond paying on any ex-
tended scale. Including the $40, 900 in
minor coin, there was a surplus In the
treasury of about S37. 600. coo on the LIST
of April. That will be considerably re-
duced on the LIST of May. 1t is becoming
apparent that the apprehension OF Secre-
tary Foster that the surplus will not be
sufficient to enable him to provide for the
payment OF the AZ per cents upon maturity
Is well founded. There is no authority of
Law for extending the period of payment,
nor for providing for refunding the
maturing bonds and issuing other bonds
to take the place of those to be redeemed.
But the credit OF the United States can
not be allowed to suffer and its financial
operations go to protest. and, there
fore, something will have to be
done, even if the treasury should
be empty. No act exists authorizing the
secretary to act. 1t is a very serious con-
dition, and not a debatable theory which
confronts the treasury department. Under
somewhat similar circumstances, IN 1881,
Secretary Window arranged with the
holders of a maturing loan to exchange
bonds representing it tor other aud lover
rate bonds, to be exchanged at the option
of the government. There was nothing
else to do, and When congress assembled
the action of the secretary in thus pre-
serving the public credit was promptly
lePalized. 1t looks at this time as if
Secretary Foster will be called upon to
adopt some such extraoIdi binary method in
order to provide for the redemption Of
the loan which will become payable on the
LIST of September.
, 1891-04-24

Louisville-Louisville IL, Cincinnati /.
Boston-Boston 6, Baltimore IL.
Columbus-Columbus 5, st. Louis |.
Washington-Wasbingto 9, Athletic
9. Called at the end of the ninth on ac-
count OF darkness.
, 1891-04-24

NaSSdc and KOhinOF
English breakfast tea ira
pound and hair pound
packages, 30 and so cents
and So and rs cents per
PACKAGE. at HabfS' market.
, 1891-04-24

B. B. David has just received a large
assortment OF ornamental coach and white
demar varnish put up in quart, pint and
halt pint ans ready for use. Just the
thing for retouching old furniture.
, 1891-04-24

Miners, Mechanics, MachIuIst- and
Railroad men will find Arnicatcd Eureka
Cream superior to salve to heal up sore
and cracked hands. 1t stood the test for
years, 25 cent bottles. druggists.
, 1891-04-24
The World Enriched.

The facilities of the present day for tie
production of everything that will con
lace to the material welfare and comfost
of mankind are almost unlimited and
"hen Syrup of Figs was first produced
he world was enriched with the o lily
perfect laxative known, as it is the only
remedy which is truly pleasing and re
freshing to The taste and prompt and
efectual to cleanse the system gently in
she Spring time or, in fact, at any time
and the better il is known inc more pop
ular il becomes.
Neiu rfne Tomatoes at
, 1891-04-24

Wisdom's Robertine Is the only thing
now used by fashionable women to per
petuate a beautiful complexion.
, 1891-04-24

The Ice Trust Knocked Out.
Ellis, Sloan & Shaver will rell ice for
one-half of former rates, and will meet
any cut in price.
, 1891-04-24

Gods blessing to mankind, say thous'
ands who have been cured by Oregon
Kidney Tea.
, 1891-04-24

II you prefer the best Rock Springs
coal, leave orders at Union Mercantile
company aud @. G. c~ompany's store.
Telephone 81. VIM. Murphy, agent.
, 1891-04-24
ARNICATED EUREKA CREAM

Is the finest and most efectual lotion for
chapDed hands, rough and sore skin, es-
~peciallY prepared for this climate and
pleasCs every body. Try it. Twenty five
cent bottles. Druggists.
, 1891-04-24

Shrubs and small fruits of all kinds at
Phil Zehner, Jr. s, corner Nineteenth
and Evans streets,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-17


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QUITE PLAIN.

The simplicity, real or assumed, of our
esteemed capitalistic contemporaries is
truly rural. Some time ago money was
so scarce in Wall street that not dollar
could be had by Luli or bear at any rate
of usury; now the banks have run up
their reserves to $t3,000,000 surplus,
which is seven millions more than year
ago. Hence great wOnderment; and
yet Jay Gould, one month ago, told
them plainly that money would be Il
drug in the market 10y the middle of
January. Was he prophet, an astrol-
oguer? UnquestionabIy. He was the
man who lately locked up the money
when contemplating his Union Pacific
and other railroad combinations. Besides
needing cash for the purchase of those
great properties he was enabled, by thus
creating an artificial scarcity of the
circulating medium, to run down their
stocks, and keep them down while he
was buying them. He made the scarci-
ty and now makes the plenty; all for
his own benefit. He made his con-
tracts and is now paying out. The mat
ter is as simple and clear as our esteem.
ed contemporaries are simple and blind,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-17
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Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-17
THE LESSONS OF BANK
RUPTCY.
light them,

The number Of mercantile failures
reported by BrddStrcetS in the United
States for the calendar year Just ended
was 10, G13, or 1,0lG less than in 1889,
and Sc more than in 1888. The amount
of liabilities, however. was rs million
dollars in 1890, as against ITO millions in
1889, and 12O millions in 1883. In other
words, the average amount Of liabilities
per failure was about SIT, 300 in 1883,
$4,000 in 1889, and SIG, 400 in 1890.
We have had repeated occasions to
observe in these columns that until
lately the tendency was to a greater
number Of failures with a smaller aver
age Of liabilities. In the glarjng light Of
figures this fact was known by every
man who followed with some attention
the course of trade, but we had been
among the tirst-we believe the very
hrst-to point out that it was the newt
able result of manufacturing and COM
mercial concentration. Since 1888, how
ever, the tendency is somewhat in the
contrary direction; that is, with less
or equal number Of failures the average
liabilities are larger and yet it is no.
torous that the process of concentration
was never before carried on to such an
extent.
There is here an apparent conflict be
tween fact and theory, that might readi-
ly be explained away 10y the exceptional
circumstances Of the year 1890 the end
of which proved disastrous to many
large concerns. But we are not disposed
to take this easy method of appearing
correct in our views 10y considering as
exceptional any circumstance or fact
that might otherwise seem to myaidate
them. especially when, as in the pres, mt
instance, the event actually confirms
their soundness
1t Is, indeed, quite evident that the
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-17

hshed its end In this subtle form the |
fleece Of British workers. by the purchase
Of American industries, was converted !
INTO instruments for the fleeing Of
American toiIors
With all its energies fully employed
in the gigantic work of evolving the
monopostic from the competitive oys-
TEN in transpUrtat', n, manufacturing
and commerce, can talism had only
from time TO time cast a hungry glance
at agriculture, which 1t bled neverthe-
less whenever and wherever an Oppor-
tunity offered. 1t had been mostly con.
tent with laying mortgages upon farms,
handling the product of the soil and
selling to the "mudsllls' the products of
the factory; but it had not appropriated
the land to an extent which could in any
way compare with the magnitude of its
appropriations in the manufacturing,
transportation and commercial fields,
| Lately, however, and especially in the
course Of the year under review, the
blood-sucking tentaclcs of the omnivor
Gus octopus were pushed in the direction
Of the land, and from its preliminary
| operations in this field we may already
form an idea Of its future progress
| Here, as elsewhere, the instrument used
is the corporation, through which
"moneyed men" can indiferentIv and
even at the same time become manufac-
! turcrs, transporters, bankers, merch
ants or farmers in any and all parts of
the world without knowing anything of
those respective occupations or leaving
their comfortable seats. The farming
class, although growing constantly
poorer under the exactions of monopoly,
Is still numerous III this country; but its
very existence as such IL plainly threat
ened by the advance Of the corporate
monster upon the land. 1t wriggles
away, stnkrs back desperately, shouts
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
LA BELLE FRANCE.

THE rag pickers OF Paris collect about
500 worth n night.
BEARDs are cut la Russo in Paris,
which is square and ragged.
THE first submarine cable of French
manufacture is now being finished al
Calais.
NJ. ADER, of Paris, after expending
more than 500, 900 on a flying machine,
hasproduced one in which he flew about
100 yards. He says it is propelled by "a
combination of vapors."
THE catacombs of Paris contain the
remains of about 5000, 900 human be-
ings- They were formerly stone quar-
ries- Many of the victims cf the revo-
luton of 1924 are buried there.
A GERMAN correspondent writes that
French women are losing their sl-;'l in
sewing, knitting and mending, and that
these are becoming lost arts, specially
in Paris, on account of machine work
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
GOOD OLD ANGlO-SAxON.
The ViriIc Words Becoming Fashion
Among. Our Young CoIleGians-

The ViriIc Words Becoming Fashion
Among Our Young CoIleGians.
The craze for everything English is
reaching the colleges in the shape of
AnglO-Saxon lunacy. A boy of mine
cast, says a writer in the ST. Louis
Globc-Democrat, and when we were
one day driving together he spoke of
the horse a--sst,rxclx'' - What's bracll?"
/ inquired, for / thought it must be
some new slang word the youngster
had picked up, when, to my enlighten-
ment, he explained that it was Saxon
for active On further inquiry | found
that he was full of such expressions,
having learned them from a teacher
who was an Anglo-SaXon enthusiast.
Supcrannuated was, in his dialect.
''overweary," the horizon was the sky
edge" magnificent was ''highdcedy," a
quarrel was ''brangle," proud man
was ''overmindy," and a street car was
a folk vain" 1 explained to him in
sorrow that he was living in the west
where such profunditv Of wisdom went
unappreciated, and that IL hc should
happen to ask n policeman when the
folk vain" that went by fire ghost"
came along, the guardian of the peace
would never imagine he was inquir-
ing about an electric street car, but
would take charge of him as lunatic.
Folk vain" may be good enough for
Boston, but it will hardly answer west
of the Hudson.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
a QUEER FISH.
Cneatable Itself II Poisons All the Fish
in Its NsEhborhDod-

in Its Ns>Ehborhood.
The anglers and lovers of fish about
Park Rapids, Mimi, are much disguised
and seriously alarmed over the appear
ance of numbers of a peculiar fish IN
the lakes and ponds of that vicinity,
and which fish is said to be highly
poisonous The best naturalists. as
well as the oldest and most experienced
fishermen of the neighborhood, have
declared that they are at Il loss TO name
the strange fish. which are so voracious
that they swallow all bait as soon as
placed in the water and prevent others
from biting, while wholly uneatabie
themselves 1t is also believed that
they are exterminating the other
varieties, as immense quantities of the
latter are found dead every day along
the shores of the lakes and ponds
The unknown member of the finny
tribe is not unlike 4 small trout, very
plump and very tender, with few bones
and those large. 1t is, however, nearly
black in color, except the under parts,
where it is of n metallic gray, mixed
with gold and a few red blotches near
the fins and about the head. 1t presents
a handsome appearance in the water,
about the surface of which il delights
TO linger, making it very easy game
Eaten it has a pleasant flavor, but
will produce violent pains in the stom-
ach, which. if not allayed, precede
death only few hours. How these
fish came into the lakes no one knows,
but they first appeared about two weeks
ago, after a heavy fall of rain, when
many firmly believe they accompanied
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
WIGS A PENAL OFFENsE.
The Ancient Blue laws just Revived in
the Transva7I Rc9apllc.

The Ancient Blue laws just Revived in
the Transvl1l Rcaapllc.
Ladies who have been accustomed to
heighten their charms by the wiles Of
the toilet table had Better keep away
from the TransvaaL They would not
be long in Pretoria before they got into
serious trouble. The second chamber
of the vOlllsraad has passed and sent up
to the fist chamber a masks and dis
guises bill, which win press severely
upon ladies land gentlemen, tool who
are not physically what they seem.
Whoever wears Il wig. for instance, and
is caught in the dreadful act, NAV be
fined ten pounds or sent to prison for a
fortnight.
An exception will perhaps be made in
favor of actors and actresses while
they are on the stage. Presumably il
will also DC an offcnSe to wear mask
or go about on stills; but those are
anusements in which people do not
want TO indulge every day. With all
the details OF this highly moral bin we
are not familiar; but if it prohibits
wigs, it must surely condemn that
artistic heightening of the complexion
To which so many ladies are (perhaps
erroneously) supposed TO owe some
thing. The PurlsIn fathers of the
Ir1fisvaal may as wen do the thing
thoroughly while they are about it.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-10-30
APPEALED TO THE GOVERNOR.
A Lady Asks to Have the Monterey Maze
Torn Tn.

The maze in the Del Monte Gardens
in Monterey. Cal, is so elaborate that
visitors frequently get lost in it. Il
shall not forget" said a tourist to n
New York Tribune reporter, ''the ex-
ASPIRATION of the wife of a prominent
United States senator who determined
to solve the intricacies of the maze. She
is elderly and inclined to be stout, and
was warned that she might find ii a
difficult matter to get out of the maze
She secuted the idea and marched in.
Then there was trouble. She was in
there fully an hour before she could
find the center of it, and, worse still. she
could not find her way out A young
nephew of hers was in the center and
tried to explain to his aunt how to get
in. She finally lost all patience and
exclaimed, with heat: Don't talk to me
any longer. I'll find my way alone.
She was finally escorted out and, look
ing back at the maze, said: When
get east, III tell Mr.. Huntington to
have that nasty thing torn up. They
have no right to put such affairs in a
place intended for pleasure. Gracious
me! shall l ever reach the hotel? 1 am
almost dead And all the way to the
hotel she vowed vengeance against
that maze and longed to have the sym
pathetic ear of the great railway mil
liopa,ra