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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
THE ADVANCE IN IRON.
A Strong Feeling That the End Has Not
Been Reached.

A Strong Feeling That the End Has Not
Been Reached.
The Iron Age" says: There has been a
little lees excitement during the past week,
and there are indications that there may 90 a
temporary iu,,. whe.s.Sss whe.s.Sss sasGy urge ia; there
be no further advance In prices, there IL q
strong feeling In the trade that the end is not
yet In some directions labor 10 growing
res,ive again. and IL may be deemed prudent
TO avert any stoppage OF work by granting
advances In wages, In the hope that the con-
sumer may be made TO pay Tor II. This is
particularly true OF Connellsville coke, which
will probably witness "a rise in wages, with
corresponding advance In prices which fur.
nHces will be asked to pay. In the central
West. Bessemer pig and steel bilets have
been rather quiet, although somewhat mys-
terious intimatiOns have been thrown out
that very large deal in Bessemer pig is
under negotiations. There have been further
sales OF basic pig. In the West tee Carnegie
Steel Company has taken 10000 tons add.
uOnAl, making 80 900 tons: the Illinois 20 600
tons IN all the Neideringhaus interests at ST.
Louis 1000. and two other concerns ~ 900
together, 20 that the Tennessee Company has
now sold about $1,000 tons outside OF sales to
Eastern producers. The steel rail makers
have decided to make the advance fore
shadowed by the steady rise in raw material,
although IL may appear at the first blush that
"a iaton is pretty large Jump. The highest
point has been reached in pig iron produc-
uon in the history Of the industry, On Sep
tember there was IN blast 2l5 furnaces,
making weekly l94, ,O2g gross tons OF pig iron.
Since the beginning Of the month additional
furnaces have started and others are getting
ready SO that II looks as though the 200 900
ton mark would be reached before the end OF
the current year
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

Statistics recently compiled show
that in the United States the colorei
race has $40 colleges and schools of
higher education, in which GIG teach.
ers out 1175 are colorcd; %, sec
teachers and ,iGO,l77 students in the
common schools; 20G newspapers and
forty seven magazines; go lawyers
and nearly that number OF physicians !;
an aggregate wealth estimated at
s2G3, 100000, and a degree of ability
and industry is possessed sufficient to
have produced last year 100000
pounds of cotton and $50, 900, 600
worth Of cereals.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
CIVIL SERVICE RULING.
Members of Boards Must Not Indulge in
Partisan Activity.

Replying TO a recent communication charg-
ing that member Of a local civil service
board of examiners for the internal revenue
service was guilty Of improper partisan net
ivity in connection with recent political con-
vention, the civil service commission asked
the accused for such reply to the charges as
the facts may warrant and in its letter TO him
added;
"Whie attendance at political convention
as a delegate is not In itself u violation OF the
civil service rules the commission holds that
partisan activity sufficient 10 impair useful
ness as "A representative OF the civil service
commission is sufficient cause for removal
from membership ia any Of its boards OF ex-
amineEs'
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

The Pilgrim Society of Plymouth,
Mass, has ordered bronze tablet
cast, which will be sent to Scrooby,
England. 1t will bear the following
inscription: "This tablet is erected
by the Pilgrim Society, of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, United States of
America, to mark the site of the
a-e..-, = yrr house where lived
William Brewster, from 1888 to ZOOS,
where he organized the Pilgrim
Church, of which he became ruling
elder, and with which in 1G0s he
moved to Amsterdam; in 1909 he
moved to Leyden, and in 1920 to Ply
mouth, where he died April l6,
lGi4"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
AS A LIVING TORCH.
Train Load of Oil Explodes and On,
Is Burned TO Death.

The Chicago, burlington Il Quincy "a.
had peculiarly bad wreck ju., cas-. o.,
toona, Ills. \ west bound train lro.ei.
and as the front part slowed up q, ,ae u
tank the rear part ran into the front. ca.
car Of napiha 10 ignite. There vs-
cars Of naphtha and petroleum 30 tss
and all were soon ignited. Tho flames
hundreds Of feet high. Three cars eypl
with terrific force. The house u It,
Craver. near by, was set on fire and l-.,
ed. and Mr.. and Mrs. Craver bafe.y es
with their lives. Samuel Welsh. 20 r5l,
tant. a village fireman, was covered
burning oil ana burned to death. O,Ae
men were badly but not fatally burned
The loss TO the railway companyis ;ll
Houses quarter Of mile away were .,l
ed by the burning oil. c. o. Carlson. & +.
motive fireman was thrown from tank
injured about the head. Oh cars
strewn along for half mile. The tad
twisted, telegraph poles pulled d5vs.
burned, trees blasted and the whole N.
one Of ruin.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
Trnin Rlown To Piecea.

Passengers arriving by the steamer Mas
eotte at Key West, Fla, report tnat big bat
tie has been fought near Camaguey between
the insurgents under Maxine Gomez and the
Spainards under Gen. Melo. The battle is
said TO have last As hours and the Spaniards
were repulsed with heavy loss, leaving over
90 killed and wounded on the field.
Kolon's band has been active during the
last week, having blown up a troop train by
dynamite near Santiago de Cuba at bridge
near Sagua The Spaniards admit that the
train was blown up, but claim that only 1--WE
men were killed. Advices received here
state that nearly 100 soldiers were mangled
by the explosion.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
VALLEY RAILROAD SOLD.
Baltimore and Ohio Buys the Line at q
Good Price.

The Valley railroad was sold nj Cleveland
al public auction under an order issued by
United States Judge Boks. There was only
one bidder, the Baltimore q Ohio railroad
company, and the price realized was s9. O7O..
600, being 900 900 more than the minimum
figures set 10y the court.
II is stated the road will be Immediately
Incorporated under the laws OF Ohio with o
capital stock OF about $1,000 900 The only
company interested In the sale, aside from
the Baltimore 4 Ono, is the Wheeling and
Lake Erie. which has an agreement under
the reorganization plan whereby II gets traf
hc facilities which Will enable 1t TO bring
large part OF its lake business 10 Cleveland.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
RAILR0ADERS KILLED.

Five Trainmen Met Death in Collision
in Minnesota.
Five persons were killed and - were in
iured by a head-on collision between passen-
ger train on the Great Northern railroad near
MeIby, Minn. The dead are; Engineer j. X.
Emerson, Fireman Jas. s. Thiebodo. Express
Messenger W. H. Kersersaw and Mail Clerk
+. I. Johnsoni Of the east bound train, aud
Engineer Ira 5. Haines. OF the westbouud
train all residents OF st. Paul. The west
bound train had passed its meeting point at
Melby Several OF the wounded NAV die.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

Employees OF the Illinois steel company
threaten TO strike II they are designated by
numbers instead Of names.
The II. NJ. Myers shovel company, Of Bea.
yer Falls states that the year Just closing
has been enc OF the most prosperous the
company has ever enjoyed. According 10
the promise given the men about this time
last season, II Is expected there will be an
advance in wages October OF 10 per cent.
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad Ia
having an extraordinary rush Of freight
traffic The press has been so exclusive that
the officials were compelled TO borrow ~
locomotives from other roads entering Pitts.
burgh Within week more than 100 new
men for freight traias have been employed.
Representatives. OF the Cambria iron com
psny, OF Jobustown, Pa, were III Holidays
burg, Pa, inspecting the Gaysport furnace
with view 10 an immediate resumption Of
operations there. This furnace was aban
doned five years ago, and its renewal is due
10 the general activity In the pig metal in
dustry A large force Of men will be em
ployed.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
Coke Strike Ordered.

The miners delegate convention nt Scott.
dale, Pa, passed the following resolutions,
which declare IA general strike.
Resolved, That this convention indorse
the action OF the convention held AZ Connells-
vile. Sept. 3. 1895, and call on all men to
cease work Intil such time as the demands
Of the convention are granted.
"Bosolvrd, That the foregoing resolutions
dnte from to-day, Sept. 10.
Whereas IL has been the policy OF the
men Of this region to have all men receive
the advance before any be allowed to work,
therefore be IL
Resolved, That any company granting
the demands for all their works be allowed &c
run at said advance.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
ON ITS MISSION OF PEACE
Columbia Liberty Bell Started %
Tour Around the World.

The Chicago Columbia liberty bel
started on It's tour of the globe. Thsgs
train pulled out Of the Van Burer srSil
tion, Chicago. Saturday. consis\ \hs Il
bell-car, specially constructed by n IA
Central railroad, ana the engink hss
car and sleeper. The present lielHa
OF the bell Is Atlanta, Co.. but or 'ihe 4
stops will be made at all tho prineilA !
on the line TO give the people an opPcns
TO see and hear IL.
At Atlanta the bell will be received I
civic ceremonies. will be installed 10 /
OF the exposition. and will remain lbal
close as one OF the principal attractions
the close Of the Cotton States eXpJ'iioi
bell will be carried through Florida 30!
other gulf states 10 Mexico, where It Wll
welcomed by President Dias and a,'islI
place Of honor in the Mexican eHp)ai
The bell and Its escort will then ere.
Atlantic 10 England, where II will Be h
at Runnymede, in celebration o.! the 20
OF Magma Charta; and 1t will then be iaAs
the continent and on around the wotl
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
Canada and Norway are the only two

Canada and Norway are the only two
countries on earth where tho passen-
ger rate per mile is Ms low as in the
United States per mile. The
average here is 2.3l cents per mile. In
Great Britain it is 81 cents for first.
class and 3.2 cents for sccond-class
passengers. In France the charge is
q and cents respectively for the two
classes. In Turkey the rates are j.S
and 5.2 cents respectively. Norway Is
the lowest, with rates Of 1.G and /
cent, respectively.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
MRS. PIETZEL TESTIFIES
She Came Before an Indiana o
Jury:

She Came Before an Indiana VI
Jury:
Mrs. Carrie A. Piet2el, the wife and M
OF ii. ii. Holmes victims, was before
oner Castor, Of indianapolis, and the "a
grand jury Tuesday, with her dsss
Bessie.
She told the story Of Holmes movs-i
particularly IN leading her over the NJ.
while he was making way with her c1ll
She identifled her son Howards c9il
was prostrated 10y grief. Mrs. pleiia.
described the garment as she packed
September last.
She also described the garment ac'ln
II was then shown 70 her She tl"
lamentations and said; at Is poor Hon
coat. oh. must see him.
Mrs. Pietzel was so distracted tha'h'
vestiga,ion was suspended. In an lnal
with her Mrs. Pie,Zel said she would ~
take Holmes by the throat, "Notto EI1
Tor | could not commit murder, but ~
see him punished.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
Have Secured a Big Contract.

The Union iron and steel company OF
youngstown, Ohio. has obtained q contract
TO supply the standard oil company and a few
other firms in combination with 65, 900 tons
OF hoop iron. The iron will be nine-sixteen,
% gauge. The rate IL :2S Il ton. This con
tract will go far toward keeping the mills
busy the next two years at the end Of which
time the contract must be iilled.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

Says the Boston Post The iron in
dustry lies so near the foundation of
commercial prosperity that great sig
niticance attaches TO the rapid and
steady increase OF activity in that
business at the great producing CEN
tres. This increase is most notable.
For the first time in many years the
mills Mt Pittsburg are running through
the hot season; the manufacturers
cannot afford to stop. During the past
fortnight mills that have been idle for
two years have been leased and will
be put in operation. And il is esti-
mated that there are more men at
work in the steel, iron and tin trades
than at any time since the panic, earn
ing larger wages and assured OF steady
employment into next year. All this
is made possible by the increase in the
price OF steel billets, on which wages
and business are based. And this in.
crease is caused by the larger demand
for iron in its structural and CONNER.
cial forms for use in other industries.
The country is building more, is manu-
featuring more, is extending old en-.
terprises and undertaking new ones I;
and the flush times in the iron bust.
ness only reflect the prosperity grow.
ing up all over the land.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
Gave a sl,ooo,Ooo MOrtgags

A million dollar mortgage was hls'
the auditor at Tacoma, Washlng'an
given by the Tacoma Land Compaa!
Tacoma property, which Is valued y
$4,000, 600, the Proyidept Life ADV
Company Of Philadelphia, 10 secure
Sl,000.000. The proceeds are Delng
the construction of a 2.00O-ton whsN
house, the purchase and filling IN ol y
Of the Tacoma tide flats and die's1
waterways.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

A French electrician, VI. ID. Arson.
val, has succeeded accurately in
measuring the electric energy of the
torpedo fish, and the result is astound-
ing. A fish sixteen inches across
gives an electric current of two to ten
amperes, with difference of potential
energy Of fifteen TO twenty volts,
capable Of lighting an incandescent
lamp OF ten candles. If the fish be
teased it betrays its feelings so
violently that the carbon filament
flies of into vapor. 1t is mere fish's
play for the torpedo TO illume a
Geissler tube or fire dynamite cart
ridge. NJ, Arsonval is of the opinion
that the torpedoes have special
muscle which instinctively or de-
liberntely gives electrical instead of
mechanical energy, another instance
Of the equivalence of all forms Of
energy
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
KEYSTONE STATE CUILINGS
PICKP0GKETS In LUCK.
They Strike A Rich Field at the Union.
town Fair

Pickpocke,s reaped rich harvest at the
state and county fair a, uniontown. From
reports received at the police headquarters
oyer $4,000 was taken one day. J. J. Barnhart,
treasurer OF Dunbar school board. was robbed
u $1,000 In notes and checks and consider
able money. while on n train bound for the
fair ID. H. Ramsey. who was with him, was
relieved OF si00 In cash. ID. l.. Gibson had
sl0O taken out Of his pocket while purchas-
ing "a ticket at the box Office. Numerous
smaller robberies are reported,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
Fleeing From Quito.

The remnant OF the Eueadorean =,
ment is fleeing from Quito toward las
AIRY OF Columbia There, II Is Tep'l.,
agents OF the late government are "a
men TO take the field against fiss.
faro. The latter, fearing that w
reaction might be fomen,ed by tue" Il
has dispatched an envoy 20 Colon 70 n
measures be taken TO prevent the ~
tion OF armed forces hostile TO bin
public.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
Death In Wree k.

Passenger trains Nos. 2 and on 'ie
Northern bad head-end collision II
Minnesota. Wednesday morning. I,'l
RAINING at high rate o speed and lA'
gether with terrible force. The lely.
James Thibiiau. fireman OF No. !nl
engineer Of No. 3. and both bas-,se- j.
OF whom is thougntto be John llhNAha
Five were Injured, including lliv
clerks, one brakeman and one pase-.'
No. 3. WreckinG crews were luu'ei
scene from GAINESVILLE and ~ t'9ll
doctors from St. Cloud, Fergus i''
Alexandria.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

a prominent electrical engineer
claims that twenty to thirty miles is
about the limit for electrical trans
mission to obtain economical and sat-
isiactory results. The same engineer
also states that Notwithstanding the
fact that electricity is comparatively
new, it is moro advanced than any
other branch of engineering.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
They Want an Advance.

At Dubois, Pa, Six hundred Bell. Lewis
Il Yates miners held mass meeting
and decided to demand uniform scale
now, and an advance Of cent ton. be.
ginning October /, with proportionate ad-
vance for machine mining. A committee
presented the demands TO S. X. Elliott, gen.
eral manager OF the company. and returned
With. The report that tbsra would he DO es
vance under the present conditions.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
China Is De hant.

The Chinese refuse 10 execute single muir
derer implicated in the massacre OF mission
aries. They are assured that with the exe-
cution OF the men accused all other demands
shall cease. The work OF H." D. sh and
American joint commission is ~ -,re stop
ped Without the presence OF n .v.v!rn 1eet
no punishment for the massacra is probable.
The Vegetarans are relying on Official SYM
pathy to begin again seizng aud torturing
Christians
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

During heavy storm Thursday Mrs.
benjamin leager. OF near Altoona, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed. A Metho-
dist church was also struck and badly wreck.
ei. Buttermilk Falls, on the Conemaugh
river, east OF Johnstown. went wild
again, as 1t did during the great food OF 1889
and made an ugly washout OF the Pennsyl.
yania railroad tracks, causing trains to be de.
layed several hours.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

The utilization of ;he phonograph
to give the complete burial service OF
the Episcopal Church, including the
hymns, in the absence Oft clergyman.
marked the forethought and enter
prise of New York Coroner a day or
two ago.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19

There is no room for complaint concerning
lack Of employment in the Wheeling district
But few workmen are getting as much for
their labor as they were three years ago. but
wages are picking up slowly as the demand
for labor increases. and there IL reason TO
hope that by the first Of the year nearly all
lines. especially iron, steel and glass. will he
paying almost the old rate However. the
increase in wages Is coming from higher
selling prices. and wages do not reach the
rates which would have been paid with com
nodties selling at the same rate Ne three
years ago.
The call for iron and steel workers has
never been greater than OF present. Every
mill furnace and steel plant in Middle Ohio
Valley Ia fully employed. and many Of them
are arranging for increasing their produc.
tion at an early date The Bessemer workers
are getting the cream Of the business, and
the furnace men are following second.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK
CANNOT FIX w AGES.
Power of the Government Concerning
Corporations and Labor.

In the course Of an address In 81. Paul
United States Labor Commissioner Carroll
ID. Wright referred to the decision Of the In
terstate commerce commission in regard to
the justness Of freight rates, and said; THE
adjustment Of difficulties arising between the
employees Of railroads and corporations mus,
rest upon precisely the same principles
yet IL must b. emphatically understood that
the government has no right and no power io
lx the rate Of wages. Ii cannot. under any
circumstances. fix the price Of commodities. y
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
rnr arN1nns VIM Krrr OIL

At the opening OF Pennsylvania state COL
lege at Bellefonte. the junior class was re-
fused admission. Tho students and faculty
are firm IN the stand they have taken. but
President Athcrton expressed the hope that
a settlement would soon DO reached. but did
not advance an opinion how 1t would be
done.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
cHiLn nfrnorr nnA1Ns-

The remains Of a most peculiarly deformed
child were buried In Fairview. cemetery Nc
keesport. The child was born on Monday 20
Mr.. and Mrs. L. VI. Chaplin, OF Union avenue
The body was perfectly formed. even 10 the
face md ears, but the child mad no skull nor
brains. The infant lived three hours
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
NidHeburr Pa, september i, 1895. O.

Berlin is short 100, 900 people OF
what she was supposed to have. A
just completed census gives her l..
ClG.3S1
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-19
uunoru0rA cArsEp MN prArn.

Maud, the syenr-oll daughter Of George
shirk, died at Waynesburgh. from hydro
phoDia. after three days terrible suffering.
lhe child was bitten July 26 by shepherd
dog. which 1t was suspected had rabies ana
was killed. This is the second death from
hydrophobia In the county within month.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-12-12
ROSGr'S and Its Bound Be Good,

the regularity Of all proceedings and
casting upon the party who attacks
such deed the burden Of showing the
defect In it. From October 81, 1858
up to March II, 1893, the date upon
which this Douglass redemption law
took effect, the laws of Kansas provid
ed as follows;
The deed shall be sufficient evidence
Of the legality Of such sale, and the
proceedings therein, until the contra
~ be proved, and shall vest In the
purchaser as good and as perfect an
estate IN the premises therein men
TONED, as was vested In the party at,
or after, the time when such lands
and tenements became liable to the
satisfaction OF the judgment.
This is portion OF Paragraph Asst
Of the Laws Of 1889 and refers to sher.
IFS deeds. This redemption law Of
1893 expressly repeals this entire Sec
tion. The consequence is that since
its enactment, before a sheriff's deed
can be admitted in evidence to show
title under it, proof must be offered
showing that all the proceedings upon
which it is based are legal and Iegu.
lar. This fact will cut very import
ant figure in such litigation as may
arise in consequence of this decision,