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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-26
STEELToN. PA. April % 1S9

STEELToN, PA, April %, 1895.
The works of the Pennsy lvania
Steel Company have not been as
busy this year as they were last
week. The summary shows a good
product in all departments. Tie
yards we're never so crowded with
loaded cars of raw material. 1t is
estimated that over l 100 cars are
now waiting to be unloaded and the
outside laborers are kept as busy at
the work as is possible. On an
average during the past year $780, :
600 have been paid to the employees
every month. The average number
OF employees each month was 5000
giving each employee an average of
$500 per annum. The mills ran 27O
days out of possible 3l3. The
court OF Philadelphia has ordered a
sale OF the Pennsylvania and Mary>
land steel plants on May 18th; this
sale is ordered that the transfer NAV
be legally made from the old to the
new company. Upon the confirma.
ton OF the sale by the courts the
creditors will be paid and the proper.
ty transferred from the receivers to
the new corporation. This sale will
in no wise effect the working of the
plants. The pay roll on Saturday,
footed up $7l $40 for the last two
weeks in March. The prospect
for building this summer is brighten.
ing up; several houses and church
are now under contract. f. This ac-
tivity in business here was not caus..
ed by anything that the late demo-
cratic Congress and President has
done, but by the hope of the great
Republican victory that will be
achieved in 1896. Senator j. d.
Cameron is now rusticating at his
Lorhial farm residence just out side
of this borough. :. Measles have
been the prevailing disease in this
place for the last two months, but is
somewhat abated; there not being
enough to 60 around. :. Your COR
respondent expects to be in your
town during court and Memorial
Day week, on his vacation. The
two electric railroads here are being
very we'll patronized litigation be-
tween the two companies seems to
have entirely ceased. !. Gen. Cox,
Of Wellshoro Tioga county, spent a
week in this place. The Gen. and
your correspondent were old school
mates in ls4l in Lycoming county.
l will close this communication by
extending to the REPUBLICAN my
best wishes for its success and pros
perity in the future. D.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-26
Then and Now.

Under q consistent system OF Pro-
lection the revenue was sufficient
for public needs, our workshops
were tbronged with we'll paid wage
earners, and in our foreigh dealings
we sold more goods than we bought.
Under the present anti-protective
law, general business and industrial
prostraction has prevailed, the reve-
nue. has fallen far below necessary
expenditures, and the governments
income climbs up towards its out go
only as result Of larger imports,
smaller exports, and turning of the
trade balance against us.
This means depression in our
manufacturing enterprises and dis
comfort for workingnen who have
been thrown out OF employment or
had their wages cut down. 1t means
that under the new Tariff we have
not only failed to capture the ''mar-
ktts of the world" but have actually
suffered losses in that direction, as
we'll as surrendered parts of our
great home market. Such is Dem
ocratic Tariff reform up to date.
The record should be kept in mind,
for it may he some time before the
Treasury Department decides to
give out any more figures for the
information of the people on the
ject.-Rochester Democrat.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-26

Ex-Mayor Smith of Philadelphia
arrested Col. Mcclure of the Phila.
Times for libel, recently and the case
was heard in the Phila. courts last
week, when verdict was rendered
in favor of Smith to the tune of
$45 900. This amount, for the dam.
age done, was out of sight, but when
it is considered that Mr.. Mcclure
with his attornies left the court room
and quit the case, because certain
motion made by Mcclure was not
sustained by the court-the YER
dict could not be otherwise.
Another Suit Against the Times.
Ex-Mayor Smith, Friday, began
another action against the "Times'
Publishing Company, Alexander K.
Mcclure and Frank Mclaughlin,
this time in Common Pleas Court
No. 4. At present there is nothing
in the papers filed in the case which
will tell anything except that sums
mons in trespass has been issued,
but it is understood that this is the
beginning of another libel suit
against the paper based on the edi,
torial published the day following
the verdict in favor of ex>Mayor
Smith.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-26
NJ EETlNla OF TIE REPUBLl.
CAN COUNTY COMMITTEES.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE
REPUBLICAN STANDING COMMITTEE
FOR THE COUNTY OF SULLIVAN.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-04-26

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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
FOREIGN NOTES.

Col. CONWAY GORDON, who was re-
Gently drowned by being run down in
fog by a steamer, was one of the first
men to introduce catamarans into Eng
land.
IsINGLAss, NJ. McCalmont's greatra
horse, will command three hundred
guineas, the highest price ever asked
in England. The EST 1884 he won during
his career of four years were made in
only twelve races.
SAN PELAYo is the patron saint of
the village of San Mateo, near Ferrol,
in Spain; his image was to have been
carried about in procession the other
day, but dispute that arose as to who
should carry it caused knives, revolvers
and sticks to be used, so that forty per
sons, including the priests, were wound
ed before order was restored.
An important change in the military
system of Switzerland is soon to be
made through a revision Of the consti-
tuition just decided upon by the Swiss
assembly. Under the present system
the army is divided into two classes,
the troops of the confederation and those
of the eantons. The entire military
administration is TO be transferred to
The confederation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
STURGEON FISHING.

Landing These Monsters of Six Hundred
Pounds Is Work for Abie-Bodied Men.
Few are aware of the methods used
to catch this monster of the waters,
for monster it surely is, often weigh
ing six hundred pounds or more The
sturgeon fisherman is often compelled
to use good judgment to master his
prey when caught, for the fish are
desperate as we'll as powerful The
net is of the same style as an ordinary
fishing seine, the meshes being four
teen inch square, of twenty-seven-
thread Irvine. This threa would not
be sufficient to hold the fish when
caught because of its great strength
and shape, but no sooner is it caught
in the seine than it becomes entangled
in the loose Irvine and the work of
landing him in the fishing boat begins
The fishermen know when the fish is
in the net, for the seine corlxs begin to
sink and dance on the water as though
electrified. The two fishermen in the
boat approach this troubled spot,
gradually haul in what is known as
the cork line, and the monster is
raised till the lantern reveals its posi-
ton. Then the Ratchet is used on its
head with repeated blows, after which
the fish is allowed to remain sub
merged for n time. until life is thought
to be extinct. But the fishermen are
often deceived, for the sturgeon may
have been playing possum, as Mr..
Daniels and Mate Brockway, of Ham
burg. will testify. They recently had
midnight encounter with a four
hundred and fifty pound sturgeon,
which, after being safely landed in the
boat, came to life in good shape and
proceeded to take charge not only
of the boat but of the crew. in such
manner that the frightened fishermen
started their boat for shore and finally
reached it. but neither was able to tell
how, so excited were they. This fish
lived two hours and wasted no time; it
succeeded in breaking two of the
boards and one oar. as well as tearing
the sail which was slowed in the for
ward part of the boat. This fish was
considered one of the most desperate
kind of the sturgeon species, being
known as the bull nose" which does
not often leave salt for fresh water.
In comedy shad fishing days when a
sturgeon got in a seine with shad, it
was always sure to liberate the whole
catch by tearing a large hole in what
is called the blunt" These fish are
always dreaded by the shad fishermen.
Their time for visiting these waters is
from the middle of June to the first of
September, and, like the swallows, all
go, or seem to go, in one day.-Hart-
| ford Conn., COurant.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
ClfppinRs.

A special committee of the Michigan
legislature, after lengthy investiga-
ton of the prison labor question, has
recommended that the prisoners at
Ionia reformatory be employed in rails
ing flowers for market, manufacturing
children's toys, raising such agricul-
tural products and as far as possible
manufacturing all such articles as can
be consumed and used in the various
state institutions
Mr.. Cassel, Pennsylvania German,
has a library composed entirely OF
Bibles. The collection comprises all
of the old and curious editions.
The only country which exceeded
the United States in coal output dur
ing the year 1891 was England.
The United States produced in 1883
over one-fourth of the entire amount
of iron mined on the globe.
Every mineral and metal of value in
the arts or industries is found within
the limits of the United States.
Of phosphates used as fertilizers we
produced in 1891 5s7,9ss long tons,
valued at s3,651,151.
The smallest woman of Europe is be-
lieved to be Mile. Pauline, of Holland,
who is only 81 inches high and weighs
but 1O1% pounds.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
GENERAL NEWS.

Gov. CULBERsoN, of Texas, has is.
sued proclamation prohibiting the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight.
A TRAIN bearing 400 japanese SOL
diers returning from the war pitched
into the sea recently. A gale was pre-
yailing at the time and the heavy
breakers struck the train while on the
track, cutting it in two. Eleven cars
went into the sea and the number
killed was said to be 140 The accident
happened between hiroshima and
Kobe.
REV. EDWARD BEECHER, a brother OF
the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
died in Brooklyn on the 29th, aged o.
years
The Creek council passed a joint
resolution recognizing Edward Bullet
as acting principal chief and n. Il.
Moore, acting treasurer. A committee
waited upon Chief L. c. Perryman and
received from him the nations seal and
effects of his Office. Perryman assured
Che committee that he would not inter
fere with Acting Chief Bullet while
under suspension.
attendance at the w. c. I. U. service
at Lakeside, O., on the Goth, was seized
with an attack of heart failure, and for
time her condition was serious and
grave doubts were expressed as to her
recovery. She rallied, however, and in
the evening attended the services of
the union at the chapel
The story recently telegraphed from
HenDessey, Ok. about battle between
deputy marshals and the Wyatt and
Doolin gang of outlaws, in which
Wyatt was killed, Doolin wornded and
captured, together with six other out
laws turned out to be that a posse of
farmers. whose horses had been stolen,
overlook three men near Sheridan with
stolen animals in their possession, and
killed one and captured the other two.
Neither of the captured men was Bill
Doolin. but the dead man bears slight
resem blance to Zip Wyatt
NEAR Salisbury, Y. c., on the 25th
Whit Ferrand and Anderson Brown,
colored, were publicly executed in the
presence of 5000 people. Ferrand was
hanged for the murder Of Deputy Sker-
If Owen, and Brown for the murder Of
his mistress, Sallie Brown. Both made
full confessions.
The first new corn was marketed at
Guthrie, Ok, on the Goth bringing 30
cents bushel The crop will be the
greatest ever known in the territory,
the acreage being nearly doubled and
the yield will, in many places, reach
100 bushels to the acre, in many fields
stalks being found from 10 to II feet
high.
The situation between the ingram
carpet manufacturers and their strik-
ing weavers at Philadelphia on the
cath had assumed the nature of dead
lock. Both sides were awaiting de-
welopments and overtures from the
other and both were equally confident
of their ability to hold out.
A MAY gave himself up at Santa
Cruz. Cal, as being the perpetrator of
the murders at Emanuel church in San
Francisco, where Minnie Williams and
Blanche Lamont were killed. He made
a statement as to how he committed
the crime and said be did not wish Dur
rant banged The man was thought
TO be Tasare.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
DID MOI TESTIFY.
Contrary to Expectation the Taylor Boys
Were Not Put on the stand.

Were Not Put on the stand.
CARRoLLToy, Mo-, July 30.-An unu-
sual number of women were in the
court room yesterday morning when the
sheriff raped for order at Q o'clock,
they having been attracted by the ru-
NOR that the Taylors would be the
first witnesses put on the stand. They
were, however, doomed to disappoint-
ment for DR.. II. f. Craig, of North
Salem, was the first witness called.
His evidence was immaterial and
before he retired the states
attorneys had him SO badly tangled up
that he proved to be bad witness for
the defense.
Mrs. David Gibson, testified that
George went to Browning in his
fathers wagon on the afternoon
of May 10 to have his wagon wheels
fixed. After supper she went to
Georges house and concluded to stay
all night, as Mrs. Taylor was not feel
ing we'll. A little after o'clock she
went to bed. About 0 o'clock George
returned from Browning, which time
she saw him and again at midnight,
torney Conkling tried to get her to say
what conversation she had with George
and she wanted to tell very badly. but
the court would not allow it. She saw
George on the bed. In the early morn
ing she saw George and talked with
him while he was yet in bed.
Mrs. George Taylor next testified in
her husbands behalf. She came into
the court room with he- baby that has
been born since the murder, and with
the baby in her lap she gave her testi-
mony. She swOre that her husband
was at home at $50 and slept with her
all night. and that he was there in the
morning. Maj. Mullins did not cross-ex-
anime her. and she left the stand to
take seat beside her husband. George
Taylor must be an icicle. for during
the remainder of the afternoon he said
little to his wife and never once did he
notice the baby.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THREE boys were mangled by train
on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks near
Washington on the night of the 27th.
GEN. SCRoFTELD, commanding the
army, returned to Washington on the
26th from his tour of inspection OF
army posts in the west and northwest
and his trip to Alaska. The general
has nothing but words of praise for the
army, which is, he says, higher in tone
and composed of better material than
ever before.
THE seed division of the agricultural
department will be abolished on Octo-
Der 1 and the entire force of employees
dropped from the rolls.
THE treasury department has de-
clined to entertain the protest made
by the vice president of the humane
society against the admission into this
country of bulls and toreadors from
Mexico for a bull fighting exhibition at
the Atlanta (Ga.) exposition. The So
ciety asked that the bulls be excluded
on the ground that they were immoral
instruments and the toreadors that
their admission would violate the con-
tract labor law.
THE secretary of the treasury on the
25th directed that the money paid into
the treasury on account of the income
tax (s77,il1) be refunded upon the fl
ing of claims and action thereon.
THE rumor that Chief of the Secret
Service Hazen would be removed from
office has been denied in Washington.
The preliminary report of Internal
Revenue Commissioner Miller for the
year ended June 30, 1855, was pre-
scented to Secretary Carlisle on the 25th.
Total receipts from all sources were
SI43, 245, 97S. a decrease from the re-
ceipts of 1894 of S3,929, 472. The per
centage of cost of collection, including
the income tax and sugar bounty was
s.. 81; for the previous year, 81. 20.
THE work of the post office inspectors
who have been sporting" the letter
carriers in the free delivery offices
throughout the country, continues to
bear fruit. Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral Jones sent orders to the postmas-
tiers at indianapolis, Toledo and SYRIA
cuse. n. Y, to suspend or discharge a
number of their carriers on charges of
loafing and intemperance.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL HARMON on the
oath appointed J. w. French warden
of the United States penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Mr.. French
has been warden of the northern
Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City.
There were about forty applicants for
the place and the contest has been
very warm.
THE Y. VI. C. 4. building at Wash
ington was destroyed by fire on the
oath, and a grocery stock adjoining
ruined. Loss on the building SOS, OOC
and on the grocery stock $4,000; mod
erately insured.
ACTING SECRETARY WIKE has issued
instructions to all custodians of United
States buildings that the flag of the
United States must be hoisted during
the hours of business and on February
%, May 80 and July 4. from sunrise to
sunset. When either of the last three
days falls on Sunday the flag is to be
displayed on the day that is observed
locally. On May 30 the flag must be
placed at half mast.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE steamer Belle of Memphis. which
was reported sunk in the Mississippi
river between st. Louis and Memphis,
Tenn, and forty lives lost by drown
ing, arrived at her destination at 8
o'clock on the morning of the Goth.
She was delayed by great number of
way landings and everybody was safe.
New regulations governing applica-
tons to the president for the pardon
of persons convicted of offenses against
the federal laws have been promul-
gated by Attorney-GeneralH Harmon.
AT New York Referee Jacobs, in his
report on the suit for divorce brought
by Mrs. Corbett against her husband,
James j. Corbett, the pugilist, finds
Mrs. Corbett entitled to divorce, and
recommends that the agreement en-
tered into by her and her husband at
the time of their separation, by which
he agreed to pay her 500 a week for
life be continued
THE thirteenth annual gathering of
the Mississippi Valley Spiritualists' as
ISOLATION opened at Clinton, Ia, on the
2Sth for four weeks session with 300
members present from seven states.
A New YORK Herald special from
Chicago on the 29th said that Jacob
Schaefer had not only broken his right
arm, but had splintered it, and physi-
clans thought that he would never be
able to handle billiard cue again.
THE last day of the financial debate
between Messrs- Horr and Harvey
closed at Chicago on the Goth.
THE Cunard line steamer Aurania,
which sailed from Liverpool, Eng.
July 20 and was due at New York on
the 2sth, has been reported as being
disabled on the ocean, but the steamer
claimed she did not want assistance.
Her machinery was impaired.
THE lugger Zenith was out on a
pleasure trip from Gladmore to Balti-
more, Ireland, recently, when flames
burst through the hatchway. A panic
followed and a boat was swamped by
the people who clambered into it and
nine persons were drowned. The skip
per of the Zenith then ran her ashore
and the rest were saved.
A CLoUDBURsr did great damage at
Central City, and at Blackhawk Col =,
on the 29th, and the streets were roar
ing torrents. Fumes, wagons, pack
ing boxes and out houses were swept
away, and for 4 mile the Central City
branch of the Union Pacific, Denver &
Gulf railroad was covered with mud,
rock and debris to depth of several
feet. bloc kading all traffic. number
of business houses suffered heavy
loss from flooded cellars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
FROM THE BOOK WORLD.

HENRI ROCHEFoRr has followed the
example of lola and Jules Claretie and
taken to bicycle.
JOHN SHERMAN is said to be writing
book of recollections covering the
period of his public service.
THE Browning society in London held
a special celebration lately for the an
niversary of the poets baptism.
CONAN DOYLE has purchased some
land on top of Scottish mountain, and
will build himself house and do his
literary work there.
LADY JEUNE's articles on the New
Woman" have had an unexpected re-
suit. Her husband, Sir Francis Jeune,
president of the probate and divorce
court, has taken to a bicycle.
PARIS may evolve another Marie
Bashkirtseff fever out of the case of
Motoyosi Savian, a young Japanese
poet who has just died in poverty and
neglect in one of her hospitals.
ALEXANDRA DUMAS, fils, remained
widower very short time. He has just
married Mime. Regnier, widow of the
actor. Sardou and Ernest Legouve were
witnesses to the marriage.
Missouri produces s,424, s2s pounds
of tobacco
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
AN INDIANA LYNCHING.
y MOb's Mysterious Action with Two Muir
derOus Burglars.

derOus Burglars.
JEFFERsoNvILLE, Ind, July 30.-Ad-
vices received by telephone from AL
ton, Crawford county, are to the effect
that two men were arrested with the
aid of bloodhounds yesterday for the
robbery of the residence of John Kemp,
4 wealthy farmer, and then firing it to
conceal their crime, nearly cremating
his entire family. Amob seized the pris-
oners and from the most authentic in
formation they were lynched. The party
returned to the city late in the after
noon, but absolutely refused to give
any information as to the disposition
of the prisoners. The fact that the
officers have not returned with the
prisoners to place them in Jail gives
rise to the belief that they were
lvnched
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
MURDERED HER BABE.
Horrible Crime of Young Mother r.,
ported from McAlister. j. T..

Horrible Crime of n Young Mother Re.
ported from McAlster. ]. T..
SOUTH MCALIsTER, |. T., July 30
Miss Susie Riley, young unmarried
white girl, has just been arrested for
the murder OF her baby, which was
born last Thursday night near
Red Oak, l. I. The girl gave
birth to the child during the
night. For fear of discovery she
got up and cut the infants throat
from ear to ear, after which she buried
its body in a cornfeld. The family
with whom she was living suspected
something was wrong, and tracked her
bloody footsteps to the grave, where
they found the body. The girl claims
the babe was born dead.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-02
Pawnhrnkers, signs.

The sign of 1.-THE three balls" adopt
ed by pawn brokers is borrowed from
that of the Lom lizards, or Italian bank
ers, who first opened loan establish
ments in England, and who gave the
name of Lomb street to the local
ity where they resided. The most cell
ebrated of the Lombard merchants
were the Medici. afterwards princes of
Florence and their arms were three
pills, gilded of course.-Chicago Chron-
icle