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The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

Said Somerset manufacturer few
DAYS ago, when asked when lhee WAS
going To be "A break in these prilous
business times there can be no irnrove-
ment until Congress gets through with
the tariff issue Then it will be likely to
be better. it cannot we'll be IVORY If
Congress fails to enact the proposed
ta-iff measure and the Mckinley Ry re-
mains in force grand advance vi be
made all along the line. CONFERENCE.-THE
be restored aud business revive, Dor
will be fully employed and trade POS.
perous. There never was IA tariff in his
OF any other country as the Mckinley
tariff and none under which all lines of
business were so signally prosperous,md
progressive, and we will never have feil
aud abiding prosperity until substal-
tally the same tariff is in effect. 1t 5
the law now of course, but the dangF
of its repeal is imminent and this is wh&
destroys business and disheartens mani
facturers and producers.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
Hearals and Diplomacy.

Sir Edmund Monsoon was the posses
sor of the finest and Longest beard i'll
the diplomatic service, but he has just
sacrificed it in Difference to The friend
ly advice of the Prince of Wales, who
is standing authority upon all mat
ters of personal appearance, uniform
and etiquette. His royal highness was
of the opinion that patriarchal heard
would not be considered becoming in
Vienna, and her majesty S ambassador at
the imperial court is now almost clean
shaven. Not one i'll IA hundred OF his
old friends can recognize him. and the
hall porter at St. James club will Ger
tainly require some proof of his identity
when next he comes to London. The
unexpected change sorely puzzled Prince
Henry of Battcnberg and those who met
Sir Edmund at Gratz. Vienna Letter.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

The Wilson tariff bill is IA menace til
agriculture. The California State
Grange sees what Maine farmers long
ago discovered-that the enactment Of
Wilson's industry destroyer would be q
blow from the front and rear to the
farmer-a direct attack ON farm prod.
ucts and an Indirect attack by reducing
the purcha,e-power of the wage earning
and of the manufacturing classes.
Office-holders, democratic editors and
importers of foreign goods now eonsti-
tute the chief defence of the democratic
tariff reform bill, very truthfully says
the Lewiston journal.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
OF Shut Down.

Solon, Me, jan. ;, ls9.
Edjtor Somerset Reportcr.
Dear Strive noticed in your
last issue statement To the effect that
we had shut down our mills nj Solon.
Permit us to assure you your Informal
tion was incorrect. We have run full
mill. flll time ever since we started
except of course for necessary repairs
from time to time. We shall continue
to run our mill to its utmost capacity
on orders. hard times or no hard times.
MooSEIIEAp PlLr 4 PN'ER q.
BY Stnntnn DIV. Irrns
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

1t is reported that an attempt was
made to poison the Gar at the dinner
given on the l24th anniversary of the
Imperial Order of St. George. The
Car, as the head of the Order, was pres
ent and partook of the banquet. The
first course was but half consumed when
the Gar ordered that what WAS left be
sent to the Nicholas orphan asylum
where the children also ate of the food
Later in the evening the Gar, guests at
the banquet and orphans were all taken
sick and an investigation revealed that
the tish had been poisoned.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

1t is a dull dty when Kansas does not
furnish a sensational item. Yesterday
the grasshopper State supplied two, the
first being Mrs. Leases moye to com
mence quo "dtrdHtO proceedings against
Governor Lewellng for removing her
from the State board of charities. aud
the other panacea for hard times offer
Ell by the secretary of state, Osborn by
name. Mr. Osborn's idea is that over
production. due to labor saving machin-
cry, Is the cause of the trouble. and that
the remedy is to make laws establishing
TWO hours as the length of a days work
thereby giving employment to ;he idlr
millions. Mr.. Osborn is Il long distance
III advance of the times. Within the
memory of living men, the average
length OF the working day, in many in
oustries, has been reduced from eleven
or twelve to eight. The tendency is
downward, but to clip off IS per cent at
stroke is too sudden. Perhaps by the
year 1894, the world will get down to
the two-hour day, but isn't possible now.
Kansas is an agricultural State. Sup
pose Mr.. Osborn should ask some of his
friends, the Populist farmers, how they
would like the two-hour day in their
business. The reply would probably be
that 1t would be ruinous to farmers
PoHtand 1drcWiser.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
Foreign News.

Gladstone WAS 81 years old Friday.
The premier i ENJOYING the best of
health and Is receiving congratulations
from all over the world.
\ dispatch from Cape Town states
that native runners nave arrived at Fort
salisbury, bringing confirmat ion of the
reports of anuihilation by Nlatables of
Capt. Wilson and the force commanded
by him. The runners state that Capt
Wilson was surrounded by the Matabeles
on Dee. s and that not Il single man of
the British force escaped with his life.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

The following Il
pension Office at "
Members of the
forbidden to have
on preparatory to
fore 4 o'clock. \
rule will Inc charl
Is minutes.
1t is perhaps II
ness, but we shou
rather unconforta
the medical divis
without any clothil
une.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

Referring to the tramp question,
County Commissioner Webber says that
in some respects an old and condemned
Jail has its advantages. Mr., Webber
states that there has been barely one
tramp on an average in the eounty's
stone hostclry at Norridgewock during
the past year
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

IiANEdJllL. Mas. Jan .
Grath, linemep. wa- rep
upon 4o-foot pol, when h'
footing and fell hradloG" 10,
He was picked up for dead
" orkmen. He soon after
consciousness, and II WAS
had broken his eoliar Dor
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

We publish elsewhere the annual pro
spectus of the Bangor Daily Wing and
Courier. 1t list staunch Republican
daily and newspaper in every sense of
the word. The publishers, Boutelle
power to make it what it is a reliable,
progressive daily.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

GLOUCESTER. Mass. Jan B \ stabbing
case. with probable fatal results. occurred
here last night. Frank Perry and Manuel
Simon got intoa alteration with Manuel
Silvas over IA woman it was claimed SilVas
had illtreated. During the row Perry
stabbed Sivas in the neck with IA knife
and inflicted "A dangerous wound. The
slssailauts have been arrested
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
Three Norkmcn Killed

BosroN, Jan 3.-Careless handling Of
dynamite sent three souls into eternity
yesterday aud caused injuries to a fourth
workman which may cause his death.
The accident occurred at the ledge at the
corner of Townsend and Washington
streets Those killed are: Thomas Harde-
man. aged 30: Thomas Black, 81; Patrick
Hughes, 81 The injured are: Cornelius
l.eary, ..,ci y, soah4y fatally; Angus
Mcdonald. is. James Gately. Thomas
Black was torn to pieces where he stood.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

A prominent democrat, a leader in his
party in another Maine city, who WAS in
Portland, Saturday, is reported by the
Portland Express to have remarked that
under present conditions he hoped the
Wilson bill " i'll be defeated. lie thought
the principle is right but the time to
change inauspicious.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

Mckane has been indicted on eleven
charges by the Brooklyn grand jury:
but experience has shown that, under
the laws of New y ork, there's many a
slip between Indictment and punishment,
particularly when the accused is a rich
person or has political pull.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

Venus is the brilliant gem of the even
ing sky, and reaches n height of her
glory on the 10Th. Heb most powerful
rivals in brightness. Jupiter and Sirius,
adorn the eastern sky. put she far sur.
passes them both in spltfdor. 1t is not
difficult to see the planet IN full daylight
without a telescope, if the sky is clear
and if one knows exactly where to look
On the afternoon of the 10Th, the moon
will be very near the planet, and will
therefore indicate the direction. Venus
will then be 5 north of the moon, which
is about the distance between the point
ers' of the familiar Dipper. In the even
ing of the same day the brilliant planet
and the crescent moon will make beau
tifui picture, and the telescope will
show the planet to be crescent OF near
ly the same shape.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

The Daily kennebec Journal on the
morning of Jan'y =. appeared as an
eight page paper. The change will
doubtless be appreciated by the Jour
nails many readers. This is the third
time the present publishers have en-
laIged the Daily Journal. They are to
be congratulated upon their success.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

The prospect of Il good year in ship
building at Bath makes the people of
that city happy. Six ~chooners and
bark are to b. built there for the coast
wise trMlle
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
MURDERoUsLY. ASSAULTED,
Two brothers Attacked by Italians Who
We're Celebrating New Years.

Roberts, brothers We're attacked at Natich
by four Italians who had been celebrating
New Years ls,tdore was slashed with "A
razor, Two fingers being cut off and he
was stabbed over the heart II is thought
he will not recover.
His brother Lewis went to his assist
anee, WAS Stabbed twice knocked down,
and kicked into insensibilty. He will
recover The town officers We're all at Sc
cret society meetings at the time and the
assaiants escaped.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

ELLSWORTH. Nj.
tllc Union River 1.ll9
i.--ucIation MIS- Ia
protest a9liu.i tlle g.
Nilsson bill llleetin=
Many of the larg, IT,
represented and VIZ
were made asalu-t
stands.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
suicide Followed Theft.

HARTFORD, Jan 3 Charles Hamilton.
aged ~, clerk employed by Grocer
Sloane of his city, committed suicide by
shooting on the southbound New York
limited express last evening. Hamilton
had embezzled S?ono from his employer
He was arrested in Tewksbury, Mass.
yesterday He shot himself while in the
water closet white under charge of Officer
Smith. md died IN The Hart ford depot.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
Novel Read Estate Soon.

A curious boom in land was recently
raised in Burnah by cute native ~
lying ON his fellow counrYmru' su-
perstition. He coated an old image of
Ruddha with luminous paint and set II
up ON hih property. announcing far aud
wide the marrels of the shining Image.
Pilgrims flocl,sd 10 thespal, welcslutek
with wonder a paeoda was huilt.fuu-es
sprang up, aud the land owner made
his fortune. Exchange.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

Over $4,000 in back taxes remain I'M
collected in Augusta.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

Mr. and Mrs W. u. Mitchell were
called 10 Lisbon. Me. last week by the
death of Mrs. Mitchell'S mother, Mrs.
Dcsdamona farrar.
Among the Christmas entertainments
in town were a Christmas tree party at
Scldcn parkman'S and a Christmas din
nrr party At Willie Wvmans. Al the
latter place there were twenty-thrce i'll
vitcd guests. mostly from PittSticld.
\ lyceum club has been formed at The
Gale school house and interesting
lyceums are held every Tuesday evening
The question lIi- week i: .Eesolved
that country life is preferable Ia CITY
life. Frank Robinson of .Aroo>lOnk
county furnished some very excellent
music last Tuesday evening by pla,'
upon Il small harp and the organ
same time. The harp WAS at
wire frame which won't ~
in such ii manner tha'
move hi- mouth to-
leaving his hands
parts upon The
Rev. Mr..
some int
school !
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

The largest coast hight in the
United States can only be seen p
miles in clear weather
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04
The Somerset Reporter,
A Weekly Republican Newspaper,

J. O. SMITH. E. ENcNFRIrr'
10. SMITH & CO., Publishers,
lao WATER STREET, SKoWHBiAN, ME.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-01-04

sua.cn1prtos RArEs;-one year sl.50; SIX
months, rs cts; three months, 81 ts, when
paid in advance. -, H.
e175 will be charged il not PAID. Until the
nd of year.
uurrnrn As SECOND GLASS NAIL MkrER.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

California.
Ever been there?
1t is an ocean Of ozcne for in
valids.
"A sea of sunshine for strangers
"A world of wealth for workers,
The Mid-Winter fair Worlds
Fair Jr,) ought to attract you to San
Francisco in 1891
Those who marveled at the dis
plays in the California building
Jackson Park, should investigate
further, by taking trip to the Pa
cifc Coast"
1t will be found that the half has
not been told; the reality exceeds the
promise.
You can go quickly, cheaply and
comfortably over the Santa Fe Route.
A solid train all the way, running
south of snow blockades, through
picturesque New Mexico and Arizona.
Personally conducted parties
every week, in tourist sleepers on fast
express trains. Thousands have pat
ronized them.
Very low round-trip rates now
effective, good any day and on any
train.
-Ifyou write to Jas, e. Watson
P. & T. a, A. 4. & S. f. r. r., Atchi-
son, Kansas, he will mail, free of
charge. an entertaining book, ITO
California and Back" profusely il
Illustrated.
1t will inevitably confirm the Ia
tert desire to see California face to
face
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
$3.50 IN ADVANCE
The Oloven Foot.

Recent Washington kilograms are
very suggestive Of danger TO the
cause Of true free coinage, the claim
of whose friends is that silver shall
be restored at its old ratio of 16 to l
MS compared with gold. The sudden
interest which the administration has
taken in the question of bimetallism,
since the converting of the London
conference, and the fact that John
Sherman and other anti silver sena-
tors had united in a telegram to the
conference have been matters OF won
der to free coinage men.
The meaning of all this has been as
suddenly explained, and the alarm
sounded by the Ne0s some weeks ago
of the pending danger of change of
ratio by an international agreement
is now fully verified. My own opln-
ion is" says John Sherman, that it
is better to reorganize at once as u
fact that ia apparent that on account
of the vast increase Of the production
of silver the ratio should be based
upon the present relative market
value Of silver and gold" This sim
gle sentence explains the whole BUSH
ness, and makes plain the extraordi-
nary interest which the enemies OF
free coinage have so suddenly dis
played in the London conference.
This means an absolute submission
to the gold power and the admission
of all its claims. Having reduced the
value of silver by taking from 1t it's
coinage demand or money function,
and having enhanced gold by increas-
ing the demand for 1t as money
metal, the enemies of silver now an
nounce their willingness to coin it
again at the present and unnatural
and enforced ratio. This would mean
IA ratio of about to 80 and would fix
irreyocably the existing low scale Of
of the prices Of all staple products.
1t would also fix forever the present
enhanced purchasing power Of gold.
Such a scheme Of villainy cannot
be too bitterly opposed. Better that
silver remain demonetlzed, where ITS
friends can fight for its restoration,
than that it be again accorded mint
age rights on any such ruinous and
disastrous ratio. Western senators
cannot too quickly inform the London
conference that the silver men Of the
United States will submit to no such
agreement. Their motto is 16 to l,
first, last and all the time. Rocky
Mountain NelUs,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
Kansas's Credit Good.

The credit Of Kansas can be no
better illustrated than was shown in a
letter recently received by the state
treasurer from the Citizens Saving
bank of New York, which holds $780,
900 of state bonds, and letters from
other holders Of state bonds soon
coming due, the aggregate being
S250,0O0.
The state treasurer had written
them asking il they wanted their
money or new bonds at a lower rate
of interest, The replies were all
alike. They did not desire the
money, but would be willing to accept
refunding bonds bearing A per cent.
interest. The present rate is 7 per
cent. These bonds will come due in
1886 The legislature next winter
will decide what shall be done.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
The Worst of Disasters.

THE greatest peril bimetallism now
is international" bimetallism.
International bimetallIsm IS a
settlement that John Sherman, Grover
Cleveland, Wall street and the Shy
locks of Lombard street are looking
forward to.
What humiliating spectacle it is
for the United States, France and
other powerful countries to beg
Great Britain to send representatives
to an international monetary confer
ence and to declare that they will
not and dare not adopt an admitted
necessary financial reform unless it
will unite with them for it?
Its end was, through the destruc-
ton of one-half the metal money
silver of the world, to double the
cost of the other half (gold) and
thereby double the cost of all forms
of credit money; which, under the
new system 1t created, must be re-
deemable in gold when presented.
They have accomplished their OBJ
ject, Silver, solely through adverse
Legislation, has been deprecated one
half, and with it all other property,
except bonds and other interest bear
ing securities. These with gold have
nearly doubled in value as measured
by the commodities of labor.
The outcome is SO tragiCal; the con-
spiracy has wrought such universal
ruin; the debtors and property own
ers all over the world with the wage
earneIs in every calling have been
overtaken with such unexampled dis
aster, that universal attention is ar
vested by the vast extent of the
harm and has turned to ascertain the
cause.
The truth is gradually but unerrlng-
ly forcing itself into the minds Of the
people. They can no longer be turn
ed aside from the pursuit by false
scents and alluring signals. In the
closing of the minis to silver, in the
annihilatlon Of silver as money of re-
demption, in the substitution of gold
alone lor the work heretofore imposed
by the business world upon gold and
silver united, they recognize the
cause of all their woes, and all
over the are demanding with con-
stantly increasing earnestness that
the crime be undone and the double
standard Of money be restored.
There are sounds in the political and
business world omnibus of revolution
social, political and governmental
unless relgnlng governments yield TO
the demands of the people.
The conspirators now find that
they have gone far enough. They
hesitate to face all the dangers that
may flow from yet lower prices and
deeper distress. They indicate that
they may be willing to stop-but not
to release sirgle point they have
gained.
How may they stop and hold fast to
the fortunes robbed from the people
through their infamous legislatlon9
An international monetary confer
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
Forced to the Wal.

WHEN Congressman Culbertson got
Carlisle before his committee, be de-
manded to know if there ever was a
gold reserve of $1OO,OO0,OOO in the
treasury. Mr.. Carlisle was forced to
make the following admission:
"As matter of fact there is not
and never has been an actual segrega
ton of 1,O0OOO0,0OO dollars of gold or
any other sum from the other funds
Of the treasury. There is no law on
the subject requiring the secretary to
maintain gold reserve. 1t is mere
fiction, a bookkeeper's device. 1t is
based upon an assumption. "-Tera8
Advance.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
Texas Republicans Will Join the
PopulIsts,

DENIsoN, Texas, April 19.-Hon. j.
NJ Mccormick, leading republican,
says the democratic reunion will
drive the bulk of Texas republicans
over to the populists. He says the
popuIists will gain about 100000 this
year in Texas. They will get 10000
from the republicans and 10000 from
the Hogg ranks. This will give
them more than 100000 votes, plenty
to make it reasonably warm for the
democrats. Globe Democrat (Rep.).
What has become Of the Kansas
who says the peoples
party is democratic scheme7
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10

The Dass for said representation ID TWO ueie'
gates at large for each county and one additional
delegate for each $50 votes major fraction there
Of, cast for X. s. Osborn for secretary OF state,
determined by adding the votes cast for him In
1890 and in 1892 and dividing The resultby2. Del
gates to said convention will DO elected by
regularly called county convention OF the party
and it is recommended that conventions for the
election of delegates to this convention be held In
all counties IN the state on the gath day Of May,
1894, and that the primaries for eectlng delegates
to said county convention be held on Tuesday,
the I'D day OF May at such places as may be
designated by the call for county convention II
is also recommended that at the county CONVICTIONS
held for the purpose Of eecting delegates to these
conventions, the county central committee for
campaign Of 1894 be selected and that sud com
mittee meet Immediately after the adjournment
of said conventions for the purpose Of organizing;
that the selection of the county committee be
made the first order Of business in said cOnyen.
tlon after permanent organization. The secre'
tory OF said county convention will forward to the
state chairman list Of the delegates and alter.
mates together with list Of the county central
committee as selected Immediately after the i'd
journment OF suid convention II Is recommend
cd that in the selection Of delegates to said state
convention, the several conventions refrain fro n
electing any s.ate officer or state employee II IL
further recommended that oil persons. rreepcc
tive Of former party affiliations, who believe In
the free aud unlimited coinage Of silver ut the
ratio Of IL tO who believe in more money and
less taxes; who believe in st7ict economy in gov
erument affairs; who believe In graduated In
come tax who believe in government ownership
of railroads who believe in the promises made by
the government TO the soldier when he enlisted
be strictly fulfilled; who believe that freight and
passenger rates in Kansas should be based on the
actual cost Of construction and legitimate cost OF
operating the railroads, and that such rates
should be reduced to correspond with the reduc'
ed prices Of products Of labor who believe that
the wages due railroad employees should be
first lien on all property Of che road lyable be.
fore any other claims, whether the road IL 0perat.
ed by the company or by receivers, and that no
officer or stakeholder Of any railroad should be ap.
pointed receiver thereof and who believe that the
legislation Outlinad herein will restore prosperity
to the country and enable thousands who are now
tramplng the country in enforced dleness TO 80.
cure profitable employment and enjoy the fruits
thereof be invited to participate in the primaries
and conventions
by order Of Committee
JonN W BREmEETHAL, Chairman.
CHARLES S DAVIS, Secretary
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-05-10
PeopIee Perty COUNTY Convention

The popuists Of Phillips county will hold a
delegate convention in tho city Of Phillpsburg
May "a, 1891, commencing at II O'Clock a m, for
the purpose Of electirg six delegates and six al
ternates to represent said county in the congress
sional convention to be held at Colby on June 8,
1894; and also for the purpose OF electng six
delegates and six alternates to represent said
county 10 the state convention to be held at To
peka, June IL, 1894, The several townships will
be entitled to representation as follows; One
delegate AZ large and one delegate for each IS
votes or maj r fraction thereof cast for J. F.
Arnold for county clerk in 1893, making the rep
resentatlon for each township as follows: