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The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27
Pennsylvania
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Mrs. Jacob Willet, of Hanover,
dropped a lighted lamp and was
burned to death.
Huge s~nowdrifts have caused serious
blocks on the railroads in the slate re-
gions of northampton County.
Thieves broke into the Central
Theatre, Bethlehem, but were put to
flight by q band Of Indians showing
there. .
DR.. B. II. Warren, the State Eco
nomic Zoologist, finds that the white
grub worm has been doing much harm
to potatoes. German potash is recon-
mended as a remedy.
While assisting TO remove scrap iron
from q car at the Lebanon Bolt and
Nut Works, Jacob Elchberger had his
skull fractured by the cable breaking
and the bar hitting him in the head. 8
Pottsville's debt is 1922, 449 aud the
tax valuation is Sc. 0S3.0 47.
While insane. John Rentschler
hanged himself at South Scranton.
Falling rock killed Joseph Boden at
the Peerless Colliery, shamokin.
A train at Ranch Station struck aud
killed H. F. Eisenhuth. of 0rwlgsburg.
In a gas explosion at Glen Lyon
mine Wodisiaw Koderwicz was dan
gerously burned.
Philip Blass will erect an overallt
factory at GIrardville which will en-
ploy 100 hands.
The strike of ship carpenters along
the Monongahela River for an increase
of wages ended in failure.
Potlsville uses 3,oo0.O 900 gallons o.
water daily.
Governor Hastings appointed H. B.
Huff an Alderman at Altoona.
st. Kasimer Church at Plymouth
was damaged by a mine cavern.
There are 90 divorce cases In the
current term Of Lancaster Court.
Falling from a porch at night Frank
Draheskim had his neck broken.
A train struck his wagon near Sha'
mokin, injaring JACOB Ritzman ant
both his horsee. 5
Charged with keeping a speak-eas,
in his furniture store, John B. John
son was sent to Norristown Jail.
When detected burglsriEing a vii
' Transport bar-room, Benjamin Taylor
fought himself free with a club, bu
was later captured. /
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27

Chief Engineer William A. Allen, of
tn. Maine Central Railroad, fell from
the platform Of a train while crossing
the bridge over the Androscoggin
river, at L%ewistown, Maine, and went
down TO his death over the Lewistownr
Falls.
8 B. keogh, Chief Engineer OF the
drowned at Key West Florida.
A south. bound elevated railroad ex-
press and a light engine were IN col.
lisiou on the big curve at One hundred
and-tenth street and Columbus avenue,
New York. Three trainmen were in
jured, one possibly fat ally.
A despatch from st. Johns, New
foundlaud, says that 60 families living
in and around Brigus are reported to
be IN a destitute condition and on the
verge of starvation.
Frost in Florida did considerable
damage to early corn, cucumbere,
strawberries and Irish potatoes, but no
damage to young orange shoots. The
damage extended as far south as Or
lando, though there was frost az far
as Tampa. III Nothern Florida, where
few vegetables grow, thin ice formed.
A mob of thirty men took William
Murphy from the Scott county jail, at
Huntsville, Tenn, at midnight, by
stratagem, and hung him, pleading
and praying, to a tree in the public
square. The victim was In prison
awaiting trial for shooting Bill Bowlin,
a miner at Tioneer three weeks ago.
The Circuit Court was being held, but
Murpby's case had not been reached.
Henry Thompson, aged SO years, a
sewing machine agent, was shot and
fatally injured in a Lancaster, Penns.,
hotel, by Miss BERTHE Mcdonnell,
aged 20 years, of Coatesville, Penna.,
with whom he had been living. The
woman escaped from the hotel, boarded
a train and, going to her home, at
tempted to kill herself. She may re.
cover.
Mrs. John Holzinger and her mother,
Mrs. Kate Miller, were shot and in
SANITY killed IN Milwaukee, by John
Holzinger, who became angered at his
! wife because she had begun action
for divorce, alleging cruelty as the
cause.
Mrs. Rosalind Vida, aged 40 years,
was shot and killed at her home in
Buffalo, by Giacomo Constantine. alias
Jack Bio. who lived in tho adjoining
house. 1t is said that Bio intended to
| shoot a Mrs. Guggino, and that the
| other was killed in a mistake.
During a riot in Indianapolis between
the non-union employees at the Taylor
and Chandler foundry and the
striking ex-employes, three men were
shot-Walker Davis probably fatally.
At Mantle, 10 miles west of Decatur,
Ill.,, safe blowers wrecked the safe in
the Bank of Wree, Pritchett & Go. and
stole $4,000.
A severe shock of earthquake was
felt at Calais, Me.
General George H.. N~ettleton, presi-
dent of the Kansas City, Fort &c 1T
and Memphis Railroad, lie critically i'll
at Kansas City.
Celtic Wolf, when arrested in New
York, was found to have a large lot OF
fine lace and ribbons hanging on little
hooks on her garters.
A daughter of George A. Ward, OF
Omaha, swallowed carbolic acid by
mistake. Her father AM for a doctor,
and on his return dropped dead.
An explosion at Corey's torpedo
works at Petroles, Ont, is believed to
have killed John Owens and William
Huggard, who are missing.
The $40, 900 estate of Charles W.
Henry. the murdered Brooklyn miser,
was divided among the heirs, the bad
son getting his share.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27
News in Brief.

A French inventor has de vlsed an
electrical microphone which. placed
over a bapy's cradle at night. will ring
a distant bell and wake the nurse II
cries.
The chemist of a Wisconsin
woodruff company hss, it is sald,
discovered @ process by which sulphite
fibre wood pulp may be made fire.
proof.
As speaking tubes are found not to
work on the English warships owing
10 the rattling of the machinery, the
Admiralty has determined to try tele-
phones.
Tho lights Of O picture are created
by the shades; the highest pleasure
which nature has indulged to sensitive
perception is that of rest after
fatigue.
About 500 names ara included in
skew Bulletins" list of the new gas
| den plants OF 1894. The list en-
nybrids as well as species and botanical
varieties.
There are 1900 different species OF
snakes in the world. Out OF all that
vast number England only has four
| species, and only n OF those Is pol
sonous.
1t is said on semi. official authority
that the Pennsylvania Railroad will
utilize electricity on the Springfield
branch, known as tho ''Little Manu.
extending for a distance OF twenty-five
miles.
"A new railroad headlight IS called
the strabismlc, or c~ross'eyed. Two
lamps are used, set at an angle toward
each other, 30 that on curves either
the one or other will always light the
track ahead.
Professor Theophilus Robarts, o
Perry county, Ind, PROCESSES to nave
discovered a method of trlsectlng the
angle in simple plane geometry, and
saws that ne will soon mako the DEM
oneiration public.
The Chicago board OF health is
warning the people to boil their water
before drinking; as their is a great
deal OF typhoid fever in the city.
"A sextuplet cycle has been seen
TN the streets of Paris. 1t was built
for track use. 1t weighs $50 pounds
and is Fix and one half yards in length
You may depend upon it that he
IA q good mar whose intimate friends
are all good and whose enemies are
characters decidedly bad.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27

Bicycle Rider a Poor Risk. ~
The accident insurance underwriters
have come to the conclusion that the
present premium rates on bicycle rid.
ers are too low.
The mutual underwriters are now
holding a convention with the repre-
sentativeg Of other accident companies.
They hope to advance the rate Of In
surance on this particular line Of risks.
They have learned that when the cy-
clist buys his first wheel he gets an
accident policy at the same time. The
wheel 10 bought on the instaIlment
plan, but the accident policy is paid for
outright.
The next thing the novice does lie to
mount his wheel and begin to learn.
Many are injured. and the insurance
company generally pays for the wheel.
as the injured man gets the full bene-
At of the total inability clause of his
policy.
Statistics Of last year show that
about IS per cent. Of the accidents
which were paid for by the accident
GoulpAhAc8 WGkS %0t11 Va a4cIEtS Atu-
ers.
The risks are classified. a book
keeper. who IL for the greater part
OF the time indoors and il less liable
to accident, has always paid a smaller
premium than q collector, who 10 re-
quired to be constantly moving about
and more liable to mishaps. Now.
however, the book-keeper has q bicycle
and runs 3 greater risk Of injury.
The insurance men desire to pay on
all risks only 80 per cent OF the amount
for the bicycle rider. II q GUINNESS
man 10 insured against accident for
5000 and ID injured In any way other
than by . bicycle he gets fun value
Of his claim. But should he be hurt
whiie riding q wheel he seainquishes
DO per cent. Of his claim against q COM
psnx. An advance Of 100 par can't. on
senia@s fer efaEess ladsEs Z sise
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27
Btrdad,a sreteh.Ride.

There once lived In Vermont a young
man who was not much more than half
witted, but who, like many other peo-
pie who are lacking In intelligence, al
ways wanted to do just as other and
more gifted people do. In the town
where he ran his ambitious career,
"Bildad's sleigh-ride' Is still a synonym
for an enterprise that depends largely
on the Of others.
One winter when the sleighing was
good, and all the young SWANS Of the
town were taking thelr young lady
friends to ride, Bildad was impressed
with the desirability Of organizing an
expedition Of this sort on his W ac-
count. But he had no '.rig," and no
money to hire one with.
Nevertheless he came one afternoon
to a worthy young lady Of his neighbor-
hood and asked her to 60 sleigh-riding
that evening.
But, Bildad." she said. '.you haven't
| got any horse
"John Miles. he's promised to lend
me his'n."
"Why, John hasn't got any harness"
pete Coriiss' goin' to let me take
his'n.S
4whas are you going to do for a
sleighY'
"Mrs. Beals. she said I could take
her'n.p
you can't 60 slsighins without .
string Of bells"
Nathan Pages goin' to let me take
his string"
you've got to have a buffalo robe"
John Currier, he said he'd Jest al
lives I'd have his old one; and by CORY.
I en- cut a whip myseifFs
The young lady said that under the
circumstances she guessed he would
have to borrow some other girl. Never
theless, he persisted In his search for q
partner until he actually found one,
and went on the sleigh-ride In fns
style.
Some years after this occurrence BIZ
dad came late to an engagement to do
a job Of work. and was asked the rea'
son for his hardness.
"HuhF' he answered, with q smirk.
"T've bean gettin' merried this morn
! in,r"
married. you. Bildadl why you
can't support ~yourselfw
"Well." said Bildad, II en- purity near
support myself, and I think she ought
| to help somer'
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27
J. Man is never too old to love or commit

Man is never too old to love or commit
nonsense.
Some things, after all, ONE TO the
poor that can't get IN AT the doors of
the rich, whose money somehow blocks
up the entrance way.
do We unto others as We youl
that hey should do to you was tn
original ancestor of the Monroe doc
trine.
The two powers which in my opinion
constitute a wise man, are those OF
| bearing ard ~forbearing.
Luck eyens itself up in the long
san.
The right kind of q man FLyays
earns something worth knowing from
mista Ike.
Man rs the only animal that lies
standing up.
People in love believe everybody
else can't zee.
Love and musk soon betray them.
selves.
When the curions man inds out Q
| thing he don't value it, b cause the
curiosity is all taken out OF 1t.
A great many men who haven't !
second suit Of clothes have q financia
theory.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27
U S PICK BY HAND.


A Law That HuckieberFies Must Not BE
Picked Mechanically.
The House OF Assembly Of the New Jersey
Legislature, in session at Trenton, has Just
passed a bill which prohibits the use OF ma
chinery In the harvesting OF the luscious
whortleberry, known more popularity as the
huckleberry. The bog men have within late
years greatly cheapened the price of the
berry, which In Philadelphia Is esteemed al
most as great q luxury as ''scrapple," by
using q sort of scoop in stripping the
bushes.
The same apparatus Is also used In the
gathering Of cranberries, q considerable in
dustry In the State. The berries suffer great
ly by this process, md the bogmen are all
anxious to return to the old system OF hand
picking, but each fears the violation by an
other Of any Manipulating agreement that
may be entered into; hence the appeal to the
Legislature by the associated bogmen. The
la deciars it a misdemeanor. punishable BY
fine and imprisonment. TO pursue the huck-
leberry, or the cranberry In Its native bog
by the aid of any mechanical device whatso'
aver.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27

Aprize Of s2cO for a method Of inoculatins
squirrels with some contagious fatal disease
Is offered by the Commercial Association OF
Pendleton, Oregon, and 1t Is believed the
county authorities and various farmers
organizations will add to the sum offered.
The farmers Of that region are at their wits
end as to how to mitigate the plague OF squir-
reis. Tons Of strychnine have been used in
the effort to exterminate the squirrels BY
poisoning them, but little relief Is had from
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27
IN HONOR OF FRANKLIN.
Memorial Tablet Unveiled in Franc to th
Author of "Poor Richard"

Memorial Tablet Unveiled in rance 70 the
Author of Poor Richard"
Several hundred persons from Paris At
tended the unwilling Of q memorial tablet
that has been erected on the site Of the villa
at Passy. France, occupied by Benjamin
Franklin from 1777 to 1873. It was at this
conductor.
The dramatist, N. Manuel, President Of
the Passy Historical Society, presented the
tablet. M. Fayey, a member Of the French
Academy. spoke Of Frsnklin's scientific TO
searches.
The Hon. J. B. Eustis. the American AM
bassador, acknowledged the tablet. u.
Roubley, director OF the Society OF Fine Arts;
M%oncure Conway, Henry Bacon, the artist
Meredith Read and many ladies were present
at the ceremony.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-27

The Cocopah volcanoes, seyen.y-five miles
southwest ofYuma, Arizona, were In violent
eruption a week or SO since. The larger ones
were emitting great volumes of smoke and
some flames, and the smaller ones were
throwing out quantities Of water, stones and
mud. TIL roar OF the eruptions could be
heard twenty miles or more.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-09-24
R>!a!,!l! q! Fs%assz RFskaaRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

the result of our commercial agree
mcnts, issued i'm response to senate
resolution June %, 1892, during the
first twelve months of thereciprocity
arrangement-Apri l, 1891, to March
81, 1S92-the exports OF domestic mer-
from the United States
were $l4, $50 1853. an increase of : ,052,-
573 over the previous twelve months
and of $3,307 $40 over the cores
ponding period ending March 81, 1880.
The loss to the merchant millers of
this country occasioned by the re-
peal of the reciprocity treaties is esti-
mated at $l6, 5000, 900 a year, or 1000
900 barrels of flour, to produce which
would require the continual opera
tion OF 133 flour mills with N acapacity
of 100 barrels per day for each year.
Mr.. Mckinley is presenting elemen-
tary principles i'm plan and forceful
language. His utterances appeal to
the common people. His speeches
breathe confidence and reinsurance.
PLANT the factory by the farm"
said ''Old Hickory" Free silver
will not increase the demand for
wheat or make a single new con-
sumer." says Major Mckinley.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-09-24
What Are Our Sins?

Backward. turn backward, o Time If you will;
Give us Mckinley and give us his bill:
Kindle the fires in the furnace again,
Furnish more work to our laboring men.
We are weary of Cleveland and Hoke.
weary of smokestacks emitting no smoke.
Weary of spindles that nobody spins.
what are our sins. mister.-what are our sinsr
Backward, roll backward. o scroll of the fates.
Show us why Cleveland once carried the states I:
Bring US to the men who in Cleveland believed
Tell us how they were caught and deceived
What in the nature of popular wrong,
What have we done to be punished so long?
Always the way when Democracy wins.
what are our sins, mster,-what are our sins!
Every so often new converts are made.
Voters who howl for free silver and trade;
Don't give darn for future expense,
Howl without reason and vote without sense
That was the case only four years ago;
Cleveland elected and four years of woe.
Those who were for him are crying 'cnoughr'
Isn't it tough mister,-is'nt it tough?
Eureka Springs (Ark.l Fountain.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-09-24

Americans who cannot get work at
any price, and God only knows how
great the pauper record is. But Eng
land If i'm a prosperous state, her
factories running full time and all
her workingmen fully employed.
The largest procession of working
men that ever paraded i'm Sheffield,
Englai d, was on Wednesday night
after the election of Grover Cleveland.
They seemed tn understand what
that election meant better than we,
the American workingmen, did, for
we elected Cleveland, and today
they have got work and are much
better off than we are.
Eleven hundred factories were
built during the Harrison, admins
tration. How many i'm Cleveland's?
None.
A Republican vote means opening
our factories, with steady work at
American wages payable in 1O0-cent
dollar !. A vote for Bryan means
the WI -st bankruptcy and pauperism
far lie, can wage-earners that we
or any other people eversaw. Bryan
is the strongest Free Trader ever
nominated by the Democrats, and
four years more of their rule would
practically make us all paupers.
When making up our votes let us
not forget the promise made to us
by Grover Cleveland and the Demo-
cratic papers-a promise OF steady
work, increased wages and the mar
kets of the world. Instead of this
the world has got our markets, and
every dollars worth of goods inn
ported takes a dollars work of work
from us.
Vote to protect our wages and
homes, keep out pauper-made goods
and the paupers that make them.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-09-24
1T WAS A CLEAN SWEEP.
The Republicans Carried Every County In
rlaine and Just Swamped the Democrats.

CANTON, o., Sept. 15.-Maj. McKin-
ley received the following telegram
from Augusta. Me, this morning:
"Offer you many hearty cOngratu-
lations. This il your triumph. The
Republican party has achieved the
most sweeping and magnificent vic
tory ever accorded any party in the
history of Maine. We carried every
county i'm the state, electing every
state senator and Mt least l40 out Of
l.j5 members of the house of represen-
tatives and secured every county
official. We have given each men,
Der of our magnificent delegation to
the national house of representatives
the largest majority ever recorded;
elected our candidates for governor
by the greatest majority ever given
a candidate for that high Office; en-
dorsed the st. Louis platform and
declared for Mckinley and Hobart
by $4,000 plurality. The voteexceeds
by several thousand the largest Re
publican vote heretofore given and
the vote for Democratic ccondidatefor
governor is the smallest ever east
with but one exception, the vote OF
1894, which was only 5000 less. We
have kept pace with Vermont and
proven to the country that the DEM
ocratic platform adopted at Chicago
will not prevail when'met by argu-
Inent and reason. We have been
aided i'm this great contest by many
Democrats who placed country
above party and believe you cannot
divide the people into parties on
question of simple morals and com.
mon honesty. They share our vic.
tory with MS. What more could Maine
have done for the cause Of good
government, honest money and pro-
lection? (Signed) a..
j. HI. MANLEY.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-09-24
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Explanation OF the Amendment Which VIII be
Voted Upon This Fall.

Few persons have yet given con
sideration to the provisions Of the
amendment to the constitution W hich
will be submitted to the electors of
state this fall. The Anaconda
STANDARD explains this amendment
as follows:
The pmrt of the constitution to- he
amended is Section =, of Article ., en-
titled Rights Of suffrage aud quail
fications to hold office"
The section reads as follows:
EVERY male person of the age of II
years or over possessing the follow
ing qualifications shall bc entitled to
vote at all general elections and for
all officers that now are or hereafter
may be elective by the people and
upon all questions which may be
submitted to the vote of the people:
First, he shall he a citizen of the
United States; second. he shall have
resided i'm this state one year rimmedi-
ately preceding the election at which
he offers to vote and the town,
county or precinct such time as may
be prescribed by law; provided, first,
that no person convicted of felony
shall have the right to vote unless
he has been pardoned; provided,
second, that nothing herein con-
tanned shall he construed to deprive
any person of the right to vote who
had such right at the time of the
adoption of this constitution; pro-
vided, that after the expiration of
five years from the time of the adop-
tion of this constitution no person
except citizens of the United shall
have the right to vote"
Under the above section aforeigner
if he had been a resident of the state
for one year, could take out his citi-
zenship papers the day before cleo
tion and then east a vote, but under
the proposed amendment, which
reads as follows, he will have to be a
citizen of the United States at least
citizen of the age of q year VIII"
shall have been a citizen OF IT,
United States for 80 days, an inhab
tant of this state one year next pre-
ceding an election, and for the last
80 days a resident of the county, and
who shall have resided in the pre-
cinct in which he may offer to vote
such time as may be prescribed by
law, shall be entitled to vote at such
election i'm the election district of
which he shall at the time be a resi-
dent, and not elsewhere, for all Off
GERS that now are or hereafter may
be elected by the people; provided,
that no person convicted of felony
shall have the right to vote unless he
has been pardoned."
| The amendment also differs from
the original section Of the constitu-
ton i'm that it requires a residence
of 30 days in the county and a resi-
dence In the precinct for such period
as may be prescibed by the legisla-
ture, but for which, at present, there
is no stated time fixed. The pro-
posed amendment will do away with
the practice of making citizens for
voting purposes during the few
weeks OF days preceding the cleo
tiOn