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COURTS WILL SETTLE IT.
Two Boards Of Public Works In Existence
at Des Moines, Ia.


DEs MONIES, April 20 Nearly the en-
tire administration of Des Moines was In
court Monday on account of the trial OF
the case between the two boards OF public
works. When the new administration
went into office three weeks ago the may
or announced the appointment of new
board--C. ID. Boardman and 4. W. Crel-
lin. The city had one already-John
sherman and George G. Sims-who
claimed they had two years to serve.
The mayor proceeded to eject them and
the council confirmed the new appoint
ments. The old board then got an In ,
junction to prevent the new one from
taking possession of the Office, Conse-
ouently there Is no supervision OF public
improvements in progress, and much em.
barrassmcnt Is caused. A stipulation OF
facts was agreed to and the case
argued before the court. The argument
lasted all day and will take two or three
days more. An early decision Is expected
on which an appeal will be taken by the
defeated side. IL has been agreed that the
side which wins in the lower court Will
take charge of tho Office pending the de-
cision of the appeal.
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Once Held High Offices.

FoyD DU LAC. Wis, April 29.-Charles
Blanchard, who confessed to having burg
larized hardware store here and who Is
now i'm Jail awaiting sentence carries
bearing the signatures of the
presidents of the United States appoint
ing him to high places. He was assistant
postmaster Of the city of New York at one
time. He fell from grace some years ago
and has since been a wandered on the face
Of tho Garth
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Rock ISLAND Ills, April s9.-buiaio,
,,,olve miles from here, was the scene OF
a murder Sunday night Joseph uoou,
moss Jacob Mounts Barney Mounts ana
Clint Powell spent Sunday carousing on
an island i'm the Mississippi between but,
S,io and Andalusia Barney Mounts ana
Goodness had "a quarrel, during which the
Iatter struck at Mounts, whereupon Ja
cab Mounts seized an oar and brought !.
AVN ON Goodness head. The victim
sanls unconscious, and Monday morning
Sied Goodness was "a years OF age ana
leaves a family in destitute circumstances
Nounts Is under arrest.
The copper country evening news., 1896-04-29
Asa Matter of Comfy.

WASHINGTON, April ~ United states
minister Pierce Young has telegraphcd
the state department. the Guatemalan
government as a matter Of comfy. there
being no extradition treaty, last week
surrendcrod to the agent of the state OF
Pennsylvania J IL. Cowan, wanted in
Pittsburg for forgery and that the officer
and his prisoner sailed last Thursday
from Port Baretios for tho United States
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r,,,o., Convlcts Escape,

NASHVILLE Tenn, April s5-some time
,tondov night fifteen convicts escaped
So, tho stookadc at the new penitentiary
n-nn,ds a,Y nine white, six colorod, and no
an,nros s. have been made. They we're
- : number who are engaged In the con-
o..,o,,on =. |" Of a new prison and by mo ms
=, tools they had secreted, opened the
p,ors and fed. Vigilant search has been
.',ado nil day for them without results.
,rhe ,,ight was not discovered until htor
..,nrninn
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.ru.n.as Compromlse BlII.

wAsHINGToN, April 29.-rhe Arkansas
compromise bill to settle claims be tween
the general government and the state OF
Arkansas was finished Tuesday by the
house committee ON public lands when
has been working ON u. The amendment
proposed by Mokicjohn OF Nebraska TO
ronfirm the titles of settlers In the dis
nnted swnmp ]. nls was adopted.
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t.trc nj pittsburC.

prrrsBuRa, April y9.-Tho large ware
bou,e of the Atlantic Refining company
ON Fifty.seventh street, together with
two settling tanks and numnfr Oh re-
cciying tanks, containing on Were ue
stroyed by fire, abcuss o'clock iussuas
morning, cntailing a loss OF aoouV sio''.
Oco. The fire is believed To nave poch u
inccndiary origin
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wAsHIEGToN, April 29-The house
committee on judiciary Friday decided
60 report adversely the Terry cigarette
bin which would have subjected cigar
ettos transported into state TO the laws
in force there and waived the exemption
applying to original packages.
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rrigbtfui Pail to Death.

CHICAGO, April ~. While washing a
window on the fifteen floor of the Old
Colony building Tuesday Louis Larson
lost his footing, staggered backward,
wavercd for a moment, and then shot
downward ut terrific speed TO be liter
ally dashed to pieces on the stone pave
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LONDON, April 29-The trial of Dr.
Jameson, the Transvaal raider, and his
associates in that undertaking, was re-
sumed at the Bow street police court
Tuesday. The court was crowded,
among those present being Ladies Foley,
Methucn, Chesterfield, and Sheppard, and
Mrs. Bayard, wife of the United States
ambassador
After immaterial evidence had been
prescnted the trial was again adjourned
until June IL, in order to permit the ar
rival Of important witnesses from South
A frica
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prouert,es Ordered sold.

CINCINNATI, o., April 20. "A decree and
order for the sale of cordage plants at
Xenia, Miamisburg, and Middletown,
O.. has been filed in the United States
conrt United States Marshal Devanney
Was appointed master to sell the proper
Ties. The sale Is ordered to satisfy the
81 800. 900 mortgage which the United
states Trust company holds against the
limited States Cordage company, which
oo,,,roi theao plants
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p,..,.r Pension Bii Passed.

WASHINGTON, April s9.-Undcr tho spe'
cial order adopted the vote ON tho passage
of the Picklcr pension bill was taken In
Tho house Tuesday Immediately after the
reading Of the Journal The bill was
passed-ls7 to 6i.
The senate Tuesday resumed considora-
,,on of the naval appropriation bill after
come routine business had been disposed
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nuru,.rs ,n a Church.

DECATUR, Ills, April 80 burglars en-
tered Sc. Johns Episcopal church Monday
and stole the silver communion service
patcn and wafer box. The communion
bowl was made of gold and silver. con-
tributed years ago by members oil the
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Report OF n Big Battle.

LONDON, April 29.-The Mashonaland
(south Africa) agency here has received
the following dispatch from Buluwayo,
dated April %:
big engagement this morning. Three
Impis surrounded us. Defeated ana
routed them with great loss"
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,.,r,od nv a Blow from the Fist.

PITrsBuRe, April 29-John Stahl,
furnace helper employed at the Pittsburg
wire works a. Btaddock, was almost in
stantly killed by blow from the dst OF
Charles Edwards, colored man, Mon
day The men quarreled over charging
the furnace Edwards handles billets OF
steel weighing 100 pounds each as they
were blocks OF wood. He cried like u
child when Stahl died
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Many Children Injured.

MILWAUKEE, April GA runaway
attached to hack dashed into a crowd
of children who were emerging from ~.
Anthony's church school shor ly aftcF
noon Tuesday Twenty five OF the little
ones were prostraed, seven were badly
Injured two Of whom will probably die.
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CHSASo, April 90 John santry was
held 20 the grand jury Tuesday by Judge
Baker for alleged completely in the muir
der of Gus Coliander. which took place
at polling place on East Chicago avenue
about n yoar ago.
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u.rmnda sail. fnr Cnba.

JAcKsoSvILLE, Fla, April S-fhe
steamer Bermuda which has been load
ing here with arms and ammunition, to-
eether with seventy five men which she
took aboard, sailed Monday for CUBA
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Republican Women Meet.

The Illinois Women Republican league
met in delegate convention in the senate
chambers at the state house Tuesday
About $50 delegates were present. Mrs.
Alice Asbury Abbott of Chicago, chair
man of the state central committee, called
the convention TO order and Mrs. George
w. Plummer Of Chicago read the call.
The object Of the convention was ID Sc
lect a representative Republican woman
to present to tho state convention as
candidate for trustee of the state uni
versity at Champaign. Mrs. ii. +. Car
riell OF Jacksonville was chosen tempo
rary chairman and Mrs. Mary II. Hay
worth of Macon county, Mrs. Hadley ana
Mrs nemnseY Of Cook secretaries.
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r,r. ina Toledo Foundry.

TOLEDO. April ss.-rho Toledo InDe ,'s
works and the smcad foundry were ua'n =,
w.. oana nv fire last night to the extent oi
sss 900, with s3l. ooO insurance
The copper country evening news., 1896-04-29
SENTENCED TO DEATH
Five Leaders of the Reform Com
mittee at johannesburg.
HAMMOND, THE AMERICAN, is ONE.

Joseph ChsmberIsin Announces the News
In the House OF Commons and Also That
He Had Cabled tn the Governor OF Cape
Colony That the English Government
Expected n Communication of the Death
sentehce-Trial of DIR. Jameson.
LONDON, April 80 The secretary of state
for the colononies, Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, announced in the house OF commons
Tuesday that the five leaders of the re-
form committee of johannesburg 81. IL.
Hammond, Francis Rhodes, George Far
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THE DEATH RECORD.

Ex. State Senator CONRAD SEcREsT, at
Watseka. Ills.
J,uN RuEII, pioneer Iowa citizen, at
Clinton, IL
Il CHuRcsILL wealtly resident Of
But.lngt0n, Ia
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E,pect. Communication of Sentence.

Cape colony, Slr Hercules hopihsoh' :"
communicate the following to President
Kruger:
Expects Communication of Sentence.
The government have just learned
that the sentences of death has been passed
upon the five leaders of the reform COM
mittee They can feel no doubt that your
honor will commute the sentence and
have assured parliament Of their convic.
tion thnt this is your honor's Intention"
Mr. John Hays Hammond, ono OF tho
members of the reform committee con-
domncd tn death, is an American.
Mr.. w. j. Galloway, Conservative mem
her for southwest Manchester, asked
whether the law under which the lead
ers of the johannesburg reform commit
tee were tried, does not provide for the
conflscation of their property in the event
of conviction, and not for the imposing
of tho death penalty. Mr.. Chamberlain
said he was unable to answer the ques'
ton.
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IauN HAYS HAMMOND.
Hammond, Fra

rar, Lionel Phillips and Charles Leonard)
have been condemned to death Mr..
Chamberlain added that upon hearing
the news he cablcd to the governor OF
Cape Colony Sir Hercules Robinson, to
communicate the following to President
krugar.
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the Race to Stay.

He is in the race to stay, he says, ana
If he can by any fair means get the In
dorsement of the state convention he Will
do So Nearly all the delegates to The con-
vention are here now, and If compro-
mise between the Mckinley and anti-Mc-
Kinley men is effected IL will probably be
done very soon. The machine leaders have
been arranging for a meeting. AT TINS
meeting, should it be held, there VIII be
one delegate from each ward in Chicago
and one from each county in the state at
large. At this meeting will be decided
the programme To be carried out. Nearly
all the candidates for nomination on tho
state ticket are opposed to selecting dele
gates at large to the national convention
until all other nominations have been at
tended to- The Mckinley men say they
will not agree to this, as 1t is only a
scheme of the machine TO turn their fa'
yorite down.
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|CLOUDS STILL HOVER
About the Illinois State Repub-
Iican Convention.
STORY OF COMPROMISE is DENIED.

Statement Made by the Mckinley Men
Concerning Instructions TO the Delegates
at Large Which Is Denied by Senator
CulIom and His Foilowers-rhe Senator
SAYS He Is In the Race to Stay and VIII
Agree TO No Compromise.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23
enough to elect HIM

In this calculation Mr.. Bryan could
lose % electors and still win. He could
lose both Kentucky and Indiana, or he
could lose both his own state coupled
with either Wisconsin or Michigan and
still come off victorious.
OF the states not named in the above
calculation Bryan is more than likely to
WIN several, among them Iowa, Mary
land, Minnesota, Montana, New York,
Ohio. Oregon Washington, West Virgin
ia and perhaps Wyoming. New York
has alternated for years, one time going
r publican and the next time Democrat
ic, 10 presidential years, and this is the
time for it to go Republican if she keeps
up her usual tactics Mr.. Bryan can
win without her, but her SO electors
count up very nicely in presidential
race. Ohio, too, is one of the doubtful
states, and although Bryan can win
without it there is strong feeling for
free silver n Dngthe b Buckeyes.
The vote is considered by all as likely
to be a close one, with the chances in
favor of Bryan.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23
Legislatures Dividing Line.

Pittsburg, Pa, October Is Congress
man William A. Stone in speaking to-
day of the probable successor to United
States Senator Cameron said: 81 think
if there are enough members in the leg
isla:ure to pass the reform legislation in
which Quay is interested, there will be
enough votes to elect United States
Senator friendly to Mr.. Quay. Who
that man will he | cannot say. / am
confident, however, that the members
of the next house and senate wi divide
upon the United States Senatorship in
just the same way that they will vote on
the reform legislation
Colonel Stone said he presumed tha.
Senator Quay intended going to Harris
burg at the opening of the session, and
remaining there until the reform legis-
lation was passed or defeated.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23
Our Republican friends, says the Har-

OUR Republican friends, says the Har-
risburg Patriot, deny the soft charge that
h cir party is controlled by combinations
and trusts and insist that any Demo
cratic contention that it is so controlled
is made for the sole purpose of obtain
ing votes.
But let US look into the matter little.
Unit the Mckinley aw was introduced
into congress there was more or less be
lief that the Republican party was moved
by high and patriotic purposes. When
that bill was under consideration that
belief was shattered into the smallest
fragments and the party was shattered
with it. To Washington trooped the
representatives of all the combinations
and trusts in the country to have inject
ed into the tariff bill the schedules they
wanted, the tariff rates for which they
had voted and worked and bribed and
-coerced and which they had thus bought
and paid for. There was never more
disreputable piece of legislation nor a
more scandalous exhibition of the own-
ership of a party and the servility of a
congress.
The evidence of this ownership is also
found in the facts that many of the
schedules which were carried in the bill
when it became law were placed the re
in the same shape they bore when fresh
from the pen of the representative of the
trust or combination writing them and
that one or two Republicans with some
claim to self-respect threatened to 'give
the whole thing away" And this very
day those very same combinations and
trusts are pouring their money into the
the Republican campaign purse to pur-
chase the election of man who can be
controlled by them. In this state the
party is owned, BODY, soul and breeches,
by combinations and trusts. The man
or organ that would deny this denies
well known truths.
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A Fatal Fight.

Chambersburg, Pa, October Is A
fight occurred last night at Pondtown,
a small mining village near here, in
which David Pearl was shot and killed
by Harman Calaman and Jack Beidel-
man seriously wounded by the same per-
son. Calaman is in jail ard Beidelman
was brought here for treatment The
two men had been fighting with
Ohio Calaman because he refused to
grant them admission to his house.
They then proceeded to Harman' s
house, and the latter, fearing that they
would attack him, opened fire on them
with an old musket: The men are all
desperate characters
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23
A Plucky Captains Daughter.

Boston, Mass, October 17.-Captain
A. P. Smith, his 10 year-old daughter
Edith and six members of the crew of
the wrecked schooner Ledia Smith, who
were rescued by the Steamer Gate City,
arrived here to-day. The little schooner
was overtaken by the hurricane off Fire
Island last Sunday and the waves made
clean sweeps over her, the cabin being
flooded and all the provisions destroyed.
Il lashed my daughter to the quarter
rail-" said Captain Smith, ''she being
clad only in thin skirt, the weather be-
ing bitterly cold and the waves drench-
ing her repeatedly. The crew and |
lashed ourselves to the rail, and for the
next tnirty-six hours, without food or
water we expected the vessel to capsize
at any moment. The succor at last ar
rived in the steamer Gate City,"
The captains daughter stood the Or
deal nobly and by her brave example
kept up the spirits of the men throug gh-
out the long vigil.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23

IT is now conceded by all parties that
the states most likely to elect Mr.. Bryan
or Mr.. Mckinley are the Middle West
ern States, namely North Dakota, South
Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, Wiscon
Sin, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky. OF
these Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Ne
braska and Sounh Dakota went Repub-
lican in 1892. This year Mr.. Bryan
will get the Populist vote in Minnesota,
which is over $4,000, enough to give
him the 9 electors. Michigan has 2O,-
600 Populists,, enough to overbalar ce
the Republicanmajo rity in 1S9; Ne
braska has almost as many Populists as
Republicans and these voting with the
Democrats will no doubt put Nebraska
in the free silver column, while South
Dakota, with her Populists and Demo
Gratis, combined, will overbalance the
Republican vote of four years ago.
North Dakota has more Populists and
Democrats than Republicans; Wiscon-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23

Chicago. Cctobe 19 The following
appeal and warning, addressed 10 the
American eople" was given to the
United As, ociated Pre- sses tonight py
Chairman Jones, on behalf OF the Dem
ocratic national committee:
In view of the fact that the great cor
porations, with scarcely an exception,
aud many of the lagge employers OF Ia
Dor in the United States, are engaged lh
a concerted effort to coerce their en-
ployes into voting at the approaching
elections against their own convictions,
| deem it my duty to call upon all those
who believe in the supremacy OF the law
and the untrammeed freedom OF the
individual in the right of exercising the
ballot. to use their utmost effort to pre-
vent the success of this most hagrant
act of lawlessness, for, if this conspiracy
succeeds, government by corporations
will have succeeded government by the
people.
The corporations which thus appeal
to force and fraud strike at the very
foundation of Republican government,
and the lovers of free institutions must
arouse themselves to save the country
from its great peril. Especially should
the workingmen assert their manhood
rights If they vote their convictions
and in accordance with their interests,
the Democratic ticket is certain of cleo
tiur, and in that case the employing
C )rpurations will have no desire to en-
bark upon a policy of punishment.
In the contest that is raging the sal
v4tion of the workingman lies in as
sertion at the polls of his rights as free
and independent American citizen.
The preparation of this attempted
outrage upon free suffrage will work Its
own cure An dgnant people, jeal-
Gus of their rights, will demand that
the legislatures state and national, shall
proceed at once by rigorous measures to
prevent the possibility of repetition OF
such attempts hereafter.
The national committee, backed by
the full power of the Democratic organi-
zation in every state in the Union,
pledges itsel that every scoundrel
whether public officer or private citizen,
who is detected in any violation of the
law shall be vigorously prosecuted anc
sent to the penitentiary if possible.
Signed ykAEs X JONES,
Chairman Democratic National Com
mlttee.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23

THOMAS JEFFERSON TELL, who is a
candidate for Assembly on the Demo
popic ticket. has for long time been
an apostle and advocate of the Henry
George single tax theory, which holds
that all taxes should be raised from un-
improved land. Do the farmers of Cam
bria county want to send man with
this doctrine in his head to Harrisburg
to make laws for them?-GOsling.
In the first place it is not the single
tax doctrine to tax unimprovSd land
alone, but let us grant, for the sake of
argument; that such is the doctrine
which the Gosiing says Mr.. Itell advo-
Gates. Farming land, in all improved
land, and to put all taxes on
unimproved land would be to leave
the farmer without any tax to pay.
II that is to the farmers disadvantage
the Goshng has scored point, if it is
not, the offspring of goose has again
proved his own paternity.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23

WASHINGTON, Oct ALI ,an be
stated on good authority that there has
been no change in the der Jared ponCy
of the government with respect IT,
Cuba, nor Is any contemp hted AS Is
well known the sympaue. Of the ad
minlstratlon. as individuals, in a large
measure, are with the insurgents, bnj
If they gain their Independence, II Will
he without any Intervention other than
amicahle ON the part of Nh Cleveland
From the inception of the present
difficnlnes III Cuba, the administration
has used al! reasonable diligence in pre-
venting the fitting out ia this country
of hostile expeditions against the Span
ish authority III Cuha aud tins vigilance
viii Toe continued 10 the end The gov.
ernn.cnt has taken this con1sc for the
purpose, of showing to the world that
International law Is held .fcred Ia the
United States, and also fOI> the purpnSi.
NJ making 1t impossible for SpaIn snc-
cessfnlly to prosecute any claims
against the United States fnl damages
growing ont OF fIllhustoTing expeditions.
aS might bo the cast were the officials
less alert in preventing SnCh "Xp"di
tInns and in prosecuting offenders,
IL can be Stated also that the sending
of tine Tovenne cutter Window Ia sca
with scaled orders has no sI,crIh sip
nihcunce whatever. beyond the Eur
pose of the treasury department OH
cIals to keep secret from Cnhan agents
the movements of the rovCnue. fi-,.t
Hitherto insurgcnt agents iu this conn
try through Gnbhu sYntpathlZrTS ha"'
matnred to secnTcd all necessary IA
formation regarding any contemplated
movement even III advance of our own
officers and as n result the purposes al
the government have bccn anf.==ss:.tt'
This has nCcurred sn often that rh'.
officials have determined to pui st"T.
to IL, as far as possible, hy 'sSuIn-
sealed orders TO the captains "f r@vrnu"
cutters, which orders are not to 10
OPENED until well at Sea