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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
Washington correspondent of t!

A Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican, in speaking of
the silver question says:
If the silver frenzy finally sweeps the
country and makes possible the plunge
to silver basis, with the scaling of obi
CATIONS which this will imply, the people
and the politicians of the Northeast will
have themselves largely to blame. That
there is something wrong with the ex-
isting economic system, which impov-
erishes the south and west for the bene-
fit OF special classes, few will deny who
have travelled through those sections or
come in contact with their people. The
demand for free coinage of silver is but
the cropping of blinded and imprisoned
giant who is seeking some means of
freeing his limbs with the purpose of
using them in caring for and protecting
his own. The vast extent of country,
the conflict of interest between the sec
tions, the incompetence and dishonesty
of politicians, and the predominance OF
| n o al over economic issues after the
| moral issues have been decided, have
ground the south and west between the
upper and neither millstones of a high
| tariff above and a wretched currency
| system beneath until the victim is max
ing a last effort for freedom which
threatens to pull down the entire fabric
of our social and financial system.
| Whatever may be said for the protec
tive system in developing ulg indus
tries and in raising wages under tempo
hardly a subject of dispute that it ha
continuously taken money from tn,
pockets of the farmers of the west in til,
enhanced price of their agricultural i'm
plements, their wooden clothing, thei
implements of iron and steel and ever
the tin utensils of the kitchen. What
ever may have happened in recent year
as the results of that violent competi
ton which high protection engender
within the protective wall, it was tn
avowed purpose and result of the pro
tective system in the beginning to .rais
the prices OF manufactured goods III
who denies it denies the purpose and ben
etits of the system. This being the case,
becomes easy to make rough hcalculatio
of the toll levied by protection upon tn
10000 farmers of the south an
west.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

The Southern delegates to the Reput-
ican national convention, who with the
exception of two or three leaders are
colored men, can find no shelter in the
Republican city of St Louis, not even
food, unless they resort to the low ne
gro dives. They cannot obtain tempo
rary lodging in the pullman palace cara,
into which no colored man can enter
except as an attendant or waiter. In
this kind of treatment Republican or
gans may find a reason why the masses
of the Southern negroes vote the Demo
cratic ticket. Since the enfranchise-
ment of the colored people the Republi
can politicians have treated them merely
as ''voting cattle" Democratic politi
clans may not hold them in higher es
TEEN, but they have more respect for tn,
rights of the imam and brother unde
the constitution and the laws.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

The american Manufacturer in last
week s issue says concerning the iron and
steel trade: 1.-THE last week seems to
have been unusually quiet in the local
iron and steel market. General mac
tivity has been the status of the trade
for numerous weeks past, but the last
week has been decidedly monotonous
In all branches the waiting policy seems
to be general. Nobody is buying any
thing they can do withoutjust now, con-
sequently the volume of business is
small. To further delay the expected
improvement, troubles over the wage
question are farel. According t.
present indications, there will be diff
Guilty in arrang gii G 'e,ms for the coming
year in some departments of mill work
However there seems to be the same
faith In the future and the same belief
that big improvement is not far off -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses were is
sued by the Clerk of the Orphans Court
for the week ending Thursday, June 11Ih
1896:
Frank w Jones, Ebensburg, and Alma
Roland, Blackiick township.
Samuel Weakland, Patton, and EliZabe h
A Buck. Carrolitown.
Ralph w. jackson and Lizzie Dawson,
DuEiO.
Charles Warner, Morrellville, and Bertha
i. Stork. RoSedale.
Robert Myers, Snow Shoe, Centre coun-
ty, Pa. and Nav Igow, Glasgow.
}. A. Breth, Grant, and Clara Hammond,
NicktOwn.
John Lundy and Mary Lee. jamestown.
Martin koovics and Susanna Sarog.
Johnstowu.
Cornelius Bum, Dunlo, and Lizzie s.
Farren. Lilly.
Walter j. Weakland, Patton, and Ida
j. Schettig, Cambria township.
Paul Lenggal and Katalin Petro, Vim
tondale.
William j. Hettle and Teresa Ann
Smith, Summerhill.
THE aggregate of this years maple
sugar crop of Somerset county. which
stands second in the list of maple sugar
producing counties in the United Sta ties
is 2.OOO, 900 pounds. the value of which is
sl30,OO0. The maple syrup crop is 5000,
gallons.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
by Wind and CIOudburst.

Loup City, Neb., June 6-The worst
hail and wind storm and cloudburst ever
experienced in Sherman county struck
this place at 7:45 last evening. The
daughter of Joseph Mccoy was drowned
in the flood. The Catholic church was
blown to pieces. The Baptist church
was moved 40 feet off Its foundation.
The barns and outbuildings of L. L..
Pilger and Mrs. Bower are strung out for
40 rods. A 60 foot bridge across Dead
Horse creek was carried over 200 feet,
At st. Paul the Loup river rose 10 feet
In few moments, flooding houses, but
doing no great damage otherwise. The
country districts suffered the worst,
many families in the lowlands being
forced to flee to higher ground to save
their lives Much live stock was drowned
near Ord, and dispatch from that place
says there are fears of loss of human
life. The roads are impossible, too, and
1t is impossible to investigate.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

Pennington, n. j., June Harry
Scudder, a well-known farmer, living at
Nevius' Mills, Hunterdon county, was
crossing field near his home, where a
bull was grazing. The beast attacked
him and tossed him about in frightful
manner and then held him upon the
ground between his horns. Scudder's
cries were heard by his wife. She grab.
bed a piece of red calico and ran out to
the field. She waved the calico franti-
cally over the fence, and the animal then
left his victim and tried in vain 10
break the fence down to reach Mrs.
Scudder. Scudder succeeded in escap-
ing. He was severely cut and bruised,
but not dangerously hurt.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

VERY many citizens. says the Fhlia-
delphia Times, though lessly advocate
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
believing that thereby the volume Oh
money in the country would be greatly
enlarged, when in point of fact Just the
reverse would be the result.
We have now iu round numhers ABOUT
81 600, ,0O0. 900 of money IN circulation.
over 5000, 600, 600 of which are gold the
remainder being nearly equally divided
between silver and paper.
IL this government were to adopt the
free and unlimited coinage of silver, 1t
would at once bring the United States TO
the silver standard of value along with
the other free silver countries of the
world, such as China, Japan, Mexico,
India, etc, and gold would cease to
circulate as money and would be simply
an article of commerce.
Thus by adopting the silver standard
over $500, 900, 900 of our present circu-
Iating medium would be at once retired,
and remain out of circulation as long as
the silver standard wasl maintained
by the government.
The remaining 81 900, ,000,0 900 of our
circulating medium would be at once
reduced to lust one half its present value.
| and it would require - of our silver
standard money, 10th paper and coin,
| to buy the amount of any commodity or
necessary of life that can now be bought
for one dollar that is maintiined on the
| gold standard.
Thus the silver standard would lessen
our money circulation over 5000, ,OOO, ,OOo
of gold, the only absolutely sound mon
| ey now circulating among the people,
| to half that amount of money at oul
present gold standard of value.
In short, free silver would retire Over
S6OO, 900, 900 of gold from our present
circulating medium, and would reduce
the other 81 200, zoo, 900 to $500, 600.
600 of actual value: and instead of 81,
60O, 200, of money, free silver woulC
leave our people with only $500, 900, ,OOt
of paper and silver money, estimating /
at its purchasing value.
Instead of having over 81 600, 900, OO'
as we have now, free silver would re
duce the circulating medium of thi
country, in its purchasing power, to bu
$500, 900, 900, and the more silver mon
ey we issued, and the more paper mon
ey we issued on the basis of silver, tn
cheaper our money would become.
Thus free silver, instead of increasing
the volume of our circulating medium
as many thoughtlessly assume, woul
not only absolutely deprive us of NOR
than one-third of our present money
and the best part of it, but would rednc
the value of our remaining silver an
paper just one half in its purchasin
power.
The free silver advocate who urges fire
coinage to increase the circulating mt
dunn, must be either fool or knave, q
the facts are as clear as the uncloude
sun of MONDAY.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
A COnviei's Revenge.

Jefferson City, Mo-, June 6.-Ofiicer
Zera Raybur of the Missouri peniteu-
tiary, was shot and badly wounded yes
terday by F. a Norvill, convict who
was releasedsfrom the peni entiary the
day before. For some infraction of the
prison rules Rayburn had Norvill pun
ished on Thursday morning by being
tied to post. At noon he was released
from the penitentiary. He Immediately
bought shot gun, loaded it and hid
himself near the house of Rayburn. AT
about O'Clock yesterday morning, as
the officer stepped through his gate to
the sidewalk, Norvill fired at him. He
was about sixty yards distant and the
shot was scattered, striking him in the
head, breast and abdomen. Norvill
was chased ten miles by hounds and
captured.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
THE purchase of eighteen acres of land

THE purchase of eighteen acres of land
at Congress Heigh for summer home
for the President of the United States
and for other purposes, says the Wash
ington Post, is provided for in bill in
troduced by Representative Denny. The
amount of the appropriation designated
is 81 zoo, 900, and the land specified is a
portion of Wilson Park, which overlooks
Washington, Maryland and Virginia
The plan of the bill is to protect the tim
ber growth there so that it shall
be adjacent to the proposed summer
home.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
Pennsylvania Heroes.

Gettysburg, June-5 "A large number
of veterans of the late war and others
assembled on toe battlefield TO day to
witness the unveiling of the equestrian
statues erected by the state in honor of
Generals Meade and Hancock, Pennsyl-
vania's most prominent soldiers in the
army.
The ceremonies began with the u :
yelling of the Meade memorial By
George Gordon Meade, grandson of the
dead hero, at 1890 AS the drapery fell,
a salute was fired by Light Battery C..
United States army. This was followed
by dedicatory services by grand Army
officials
At 2 this afternoon the statue of Han
cock was unveiled in much the same
manner General Goblin transferred the
statutes to the state and Governor Hast
ings received them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
several Figure Ina Family Tragedy

jamestown, n. Y, June A fam
lily tragedy occurred at Cherry Creek Sat
urday and Sunday. Some weeks ago
Mrs. Wallace Persons, of that village,
accused her husband of undue familiar
ity with woman who lived near by.
Persons ass ,ulted his wife and was sent
to Jail for three months. Saturday
night Mrs. Persons observed her son, y
young man, in company with the same
woman and went home and took an
overdose of arsenic. The son, when he
heard of this, was filled with remorse anC
took a dose of strychnine The mother
died Sunday and the son is in critica
condition.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
Man and Woman Drowned.

Pittsburg, June Yesterday four
men and three women, residents of
South Pittsburg, visited the Mccoy fish
ing camp at West Run, on the Monon-
gahela river. The day was spent in
drinking, and at a late hour last night
the party, very much under the influ-
ence of liquor, started up the river in an
old flat bottom boat. They were run
down by the packet James G. Blaine
and one man and one woman were
drowned. The other five were rescued
by the crew of the tow boat James
Crown. They refused to give either their
own names or the names of the people
whose lives were lost. This morning the
bodies of the man and woman drowned
were recovered and the coroner notified
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

Is the individual who persistently negiects his
health and the means OF preserving aad restor-
Inv 1t. Many persons who are not constitutional
idiots do this They are genuine objects of COM
passion well censure. a failure o. apt etite
loss OF sleep and flesh. impaired digestion an
uncertain condition OF the bowels and symptoms
of billiousness are so many warnings OF the ap
proach of disease. To disregard them is abIect
iol,y which offended nature In due time pun ish, 9
severely. If not fatally. That genuine and
thoroughly reliable preventive OF bodily mis-
chief In the Fhape of chronic disease Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, will. II resorted to in time
avert those disorders. to the removal of which 4,
Is also FULLY adequate. Among these are chronic
Indigestion, liver complaint. kidney troubles
constipation, nervousness, rheumatism and ma
laria.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
THE FESTIVAL OF song
Many People Turned Away
From the Concerts.
A CHILDREN's CHORUS OF $1,000
1t Was q Great Triumph - Great Pro.
gram In the Evening Hig Parade
Takes Place Tomorrow-Nsny Pr"nni-
pent Singers Take Fart.

PlTTSRuRG, June I0.-The second day
of the Sacngerfest was a grand success,
and was only magrcd 10y enc incident,
namely. that thousands of people were
turned away from the hall last night
unable to gain admittance owing To the
crowded condition of the hall This,
i'm the face of bad weather. is Il remark
able record The doors Were closed
promptly Mt 30. and fully 900 people
were standing outside seeking admit
tance. many of whom held season
tickets Musicaily the festival X pro
nounced by competent Judges mag
nificent success.
The children's part of the program In
the afternoon was carried out with
nicely and precision. and gave great
satisfaction This feature of the Saen
gerfcst had only been tried once before.
At Milwaukee about 1000 children sang
a selection of an opera with all the shi,d
ing in tones This event is considered
the greatest attempt to train "a achlldren' :
chorus ever attempted in America
The most popular and attractive feat
urc, which brought hundreds to the con
cert. WAS the singing by the children
chorus of 5000 voices They completely
captivated the audience. and when thu
chorus of ''Our Fair Land Forever WA:
sung amid the rythmic waving OF 3,Oo'
United States flags
The musical feature of the Afternoon
concert for many was the quartet fIon
"RIgolette'' by Verdi, the quartet o
singers including Miss Lillian Blauvelt
Miss Gertrude May Stein, A. L. Guill
and Emil Senger.
Fran Katherine Dohse- Klafsky's ap
pearance was the loadstonc of the even
ing. She sang the aria from ''Oberon.
by Carl NJ Won Weber. Ocean. Tho
Mighty Monster" Though in this 80
lection the singer sang with grea
power and excellence. it was not unit
she appeared i'm Tristan and Isolde.
in the most acceptable role in her al
tire repertoire, that of isolde. tina
she showed the greatness of her super
voice for Wagnerian roles
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
Chicago's SkiIIiuI Criminals.

Chicago, June Il. T. Klein's dry
goods store, at the corner of Halsteod
and Fourteenth streets, was robbed last
night bv highwaymen who entered the
store while it was open and well lighted,
and forced the cashier to give up money
estimated at $500, a tthe point of re-
volver. Klein's is one of the largest
dry goods stores in she city, and at the
time the robbery was committed the
building was not onlv brilliantly lighted
but filled with customers.
The robbery is supposed to have been
done by the three men who killed Mar
shall, proprietor of tho Golden Rule
store, several weeks ago, and who have
robbed nine stores since. The men have
used the same methods in every case,
and have so far managed to escape with
out their indentity becoming known.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
Dashed Down a Mountain.

Parkersburg, w. Va, June S.-A car
on the Harwood Lumber COMPANIES
reilroad on Big Run, Webster county,
suddenly started down from the top of
the mountain with five men Saturday.
James Moffett was found still further
down terribly cut and fatally hut. ia
cob Holcome was picked up 400 yards
from the starting point, also fatally hurt.
and Cal. Long was found unconscious
and horribly injured nearly quarter of
q mile from the top of the mountain.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

JoaN HOGAN, of Bucks county, was
was last week sentenced to 40 years IN
in the Eastern penitentiary for burning
barns. Judge Yerkes, in sentencing
him. said he did not wish to have the
people of Bucks county ANNOYED with
Hogan, and it is not likely that they
will be, for he is now As years old and
by the time he serves out his sentence he
will be less liable to burn barns. He
burned four and received 10 years for
each. making 40 years.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

BUTTER making in one minute, with
economy and with many valuable safe
guards from disease as compared with
the old-fashioned churning system, is
something that United States Consul
O'Neil, at Stockholm, tells of in report
to the state department. This is done
ator invented by a Swedish engineer and
described and illustrated by the consul.
1t makes the butter directly from steril-
lied milk
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

AUSTIN C ,RBIN. the millionaire bar ker
and railroader, was killed at his forest
and game preserve at Newport, n. H.,
on Thursday of last week by his team
running away, throwing him out and
injuring him so that he died. The
coachman who WIS with him was also
killed, and two persons who were in the
party were injured, but not seriously.
Mr.. Corbin was well known as the pres
ident of the Philadelphia Il Reading
railroad. He had great success as a
banker during his lifetime.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

At Adrian, Mimi, 100 head of stock
and one man, E. w. Hunter, were
drowned in the storm. The st. Kilian
mail carrier tried tn cross the lake north
of the town, and was submerged in the
rising tide. He climbed tree for safety.
AT Baldwin, Wis, the greatest down
pour of rain in the history of the town
occurred. a great number of families
were compelled to move out of their
houses. The railroad tracks are washed
out for about 200 feet. There are sever
al other bad washouts between Knapp
and Roberts. The damage to crops and
bridges in the country is very large.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

The Fourteenth regiment, Ohio ma
tional guard, on last Sunday decorated
the graves of the 2,6S8 confederate sol
diers who died in prison at Columbus
during the war, and are buried on the
site of Camp Chase. This is the first
time it has been done, and it is the re-
suit of the cordial reception given the
regiment, while in camp on the Chica.
mauga battlefield last fall by the south.
ern people, and particularly the ex-con.
federate soldiers.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
KECK SENTENCED.
The Cincinnati Diamond Man Get. One
YeaI aud 5000 Fine.

The Cincinnati Diamond Man Get. One
YeaI aud 5000 Fine.
PHILADELPHIA. June 10. - Herman
Keck. a member of the CoetrrnIan
kcck Diamond Cutting company of
Cincinnati. who was convicted III the
u = district court of attempting TO
smugglc diamonds into tins county.
has been sentenced hy Judge Butler to
one years lmpTisoumrut and a fIno OF
500 Keck's prosecution WAS brought
about 10y the Diamond Importers union
of New York. and his c"nvIction WAS
due mainly to the evidence of Captain
housewife of the steamer Rhynlind. J..
who testified to having received IL pack
age containing $1,000 worth at dla
monds from Kcck in restaurant IN
Antwerp which was To he given Ia +
Won Rrith. also of Cincinnati
Kcck subsequently sailed for New
York ON the steamer Her and w.is
rested 10y u = treasury officials ON the
description given by Captain Luose
WITT
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12
Big storm Ont West.

Sioux City, Ia. June Residents
here were driven to their tornado caves
by high wind from the southwest about
z O'Clock last evening. shade trees and
chimneys all over the city were blown
down and few small frame buildings
suffered. The local telephone conpan-
les were heavy losers. AT Hastings,
Minn., the storm was the greatest of the
year, tearing up streets, washing out cul-
verts, and doing great damage to crops
All trains east and west were sidetracked
there.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

THE adoption of universal standard
thread for screws and bolts is one of the
D Dssibilities of the near future An IN
ternational conference is about to b@
held In Europe, having for its object the
adoption of a uniform system. This
will be in line with the proposed adop-
ton of the metric system of weights and
measures
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

No MAN in his senses, says the Chica-
go sTmes- Herald, can deny that the
countries in which wages are lowest and
the social conditions of labor the most
degraded are the countries having silver
as the monetary measure of value The
most conspicuous of these countries are
Japan, China and Mexico. The little
new squirt of activity in Japan means
nothing yet for labor. 1t is but bub-
BILE In sea long dead. AS rapidly as
the country advances there will be the
inevitable drift to the gold standard, ac-
companied with rise in wages, which
will have the effect. in due time. of so
increasing the cost of manufactures in
Japan as to lessen the possibility of ever
becoming rival with the Western eoun.
tries possessing in their soil in unlimited
quantities the raw materials that are the
basis of the reatindustries of the world,
the metallic and the textile, in which.
therefore, Japan, even when it shall
reach the gold standard, can have no
hope of competing with the United
States anywhere, nor with Great Britain
except in Asia.
The second most obvious fact in the
progress of nations, and in their condi-
ton to day, is that the greatest prosperi.
ty is coincident with the gold standard
and that the country which was the frs
to adopt it exclusively and has main
tanned it longest without vacilIatior
presents the highest example of nationa
progress, excepting the United States
whose most remarkable progress is alss
associated with the gold standard.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-06-12

one of the greatest inventions ever ad-
ded to the granite business is being Civ
en- test in Montpelier, VT. The ma
chine is for saving granite, and if 1t
proves satisfact ry it will go down In his
tory with the cotton gin. The machine
contains 81 ZOO worth of diamonds, and
the ItlI construction costs in the neigh
borhood of $40 900.