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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
The CommIttee EnIargcd.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-one of the first
steps in the direction of an active propa-
ganda to secure favorable action By Con-
gress on the currency question will be the
enlargement of the executive committee OF
the indianapolis convention, which created
the monetary commission now In session
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

Politicians in Congress Who Have
Been Advocating a Policy OF Inac-
tiOn Now Falling i'm Line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

FRESH AND CURED MEATS.
Our Fresh Meats are we'll known to be
the finest in the city.
Armour's Star Bacon, per pound. 49,. 15c
Armour's Breakfast Bacon, per pound. 1Oc
We are headquarters for Dressed Poultry.
Fresh Oysters received daily.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
Tbe I.avigne-Grifro "MilI.,

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.-The boxing
contest between light weights Lavigne and
Griffo will come off next Wednesday night
in Oakland under the auspices of the Occi-
dental Athletic Club, which was organ
lied yesterday for the stated purpose of
handling fights for which permits could not
be obtained in this city The boxing eXhi-
btion will be held in the exposition build
ing on Twelfth street.
''MysteriOus Billy and ''TOmmy' West
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-"Mysterious" Billy
Smith has signed articles to meet Tommy
West in u twenty-round contest before the
Olympic Club, of Buffalo, on Monday Jan.
10, for purse of 81, ,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS

DEFORMITY APPARATUS. Trusses. Elastic
Hosiery. Largest stock Of ARTIFICIAL EYES
in the State.
WIN. IL. ARMSTRONG Il co.
tNew No. 1sO II S. Illinois ST.. Indianapolis Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
WILL COME IN FORCE
MANY SOUND-MONEY MEN WILL At
TEND THE CONVENTION HERE.
Under Way to Make the
indianapolis Conference n Great
National Gathering.
TO BE STRICTLY NONPARTlSAN

AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
COUNTRY's BUSINESS INTERESTS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
TEXT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
TREAsURY's FINANCIAL SCHEME.
General Bill for Reform of the Cur
rency and National Banking Sys-
TENS Presented to the House.
ITS PROVISIONS EXPLAINED
STATEMENT BY MIR. GAGE TO CHAIR
MAN WALKERS COMMITTEE.

How Ii Is Proposed to Refund the Na-
tiOnaI Debt and Esta b1ish a Division
of Redemption and Issue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17

they are unworthy objects they ought to be
rejected or If the manner of securing them
IL not a wise one as | have outlined II the
manner ought TO be rejected or reformed OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
lYIoGeas4;ss oHAsSH

EIL {. Washington St., Sd Door East OF Penn.
Tel.
And Corner Illinois and Sixteenth Streets
Tel. - SO.
Our MOttOs-High-CIass GROCERIES
nt Low PRICES-MOney refunded if
goods not as represented. Mail Or
ders receive prompt attehtion. Send
for Price List.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-17
Local observations Thursday.
Yesterdays Temperatures.

c. f. r. WAPPENHANS,
Local Forecast Official
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
He Jumped the Track.

Pat. Foley, an engineer on one OF the
A. V. R'y local freight trains between
Reynoldsville and Driftwood, looked
for few days last week as II he had
been indulging in apugilistic encounter
and had gotten the worst OF IL, but he
didn't have fight. Mr.. Foley was
meandering to his domicile in the dark
ness and stepped into a ditch and was
so badly used up that he had to lay off
work day to get himself repaired.
Some person had dug ditch at the
alley back of Mr. Mellinger's residence
and did not hang out danger light and
only laid two boards across the ditch.
1t had been raining and Mr.. Foley could
not see the sidewalk, but had to guess
at it, and he missed the two boards and
plunged into the ditch.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Police Looking for Them.

Last Wednesday two well dressed
chaps stopped at Hotel Belnap and
registered as J. Bacon, of Allegheny, and
f. II. Weeden. Of Pittsburg. These
fellows were selling the county right on
"The Bacon Lever Wringer," Bacon
claiming to be the patentee. The
wringer is the best thing OF the kind
yet put upon the market, and the price
asked for the county right was very
low, so Messrs. Bacon and Weeden had
no trouble in selling three counties,
jefferson, Clearfield and Indiana.
John G. Dillman bought Jefferson and
Indiana counties for $3l 90 and James
Kempsie bought Clearfield county for
$1,000. Messrs. Bacon and Weeden
pocketed the S5l.O0 and intended to
leave on the 1.35 p. M. train, but their
game was exposed in time for Dillman
and Kempsie to get their money back
before the frauds skipped the town.
The Pittsburg Post arrived in Reynolds
vile at 1856 p. M, and contained the
following piece of news:
Letters from all over New York
state have been received by Superin-
tendent OF Police A. H. Leslie, Clerk
of Courts Geo. w. Miller and Attorney
o. S. Richardson from people who pur-
chased the exclusive right to sell q
clothes wringer purported to have been
patented by jerome Bacon and handled
by firm, Fox, Henry & Co., OF 105
Park way. Allegheny. AS yet the po-
lice have been able to locate none OF the
wanted parties.
All that the attorney knows of the
parties Is that they had him act as no.
tary for contract they were making.
No such firm has been found at the ad-
dress given. Bacon is said TO live at
Oshkosh, Wis. From the number of
letters received 1t is inferred that hun
dreds Of persons "bought" the exclusive
right"
There was just one-half hour from
the time the train arrived carrying the
Post that exposed these men until the
train arrived that would carry them
out OF town. Frank Miller was glancing
over the pages Of the Post and discover
ed the item. He had been present
when Dillman and Kempsie bought the
exclusive rights" and he was not long
in calling Dillman's attention to the
item, and he in turn showed the paper
| to Bacon and Weeden and demanded
his money. The money was imme.
diately returned. Some person hunted
up Kempsie and he got to the railroad
just in time to get his money before the
| train started.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Killed on the Railroad.

Michael J. Welsh, fagman on the
Pittsburg & Western Railroad, with
residence at Millvale, near Pittsburg
was struck by passenger train near
Whitmore, on the p. g. W., at $50 p.
NJ, Wednesday, July 2Sth, and instant
ly killed. Welsh had gone out as a
hagman to protect his train and had
been out 40 minutes before the passen-
ger train came upon him with his head
lying on one Of the rails. The engineer
saw him too late to stop the iron horse.
The side OF Welsh's head was crushed.
His head was not cut Off, as stated by
some of the Pittsburg papers. Ten
minutes before the passenger train
struck him a pusher had passed and
Welsh was then performing his duties,
and his friends do not believe he had
gone to sleep as was also stated. His
heart troubled him considerably and
his friends think that he had fallen on
the rail from heart trouble and could
not get up.
The deceased was son of Mrs. Sarah
Welsh, OF O'Donnell, where he was
born and raised. He lived in Reynolds
vile five or six years ago and was a
brakeman on the A. V. R'y. His re.
mains were brought to the home Of his
widowed mother at O'Donnell Friday
evening and brought to Reynoldsville
on the 6.4O A. M. train Saturday. Flu
neral services were held in the Catholic
church at seven o'clock, conducted BY
Father Brady, and the remains were
buried in the Catholic cemetery. =
Cal. Reese. at one time an employees
of the A. v. R'y, now q conductor or
the P. & W., for whom Welsh was flag
man, accompanied the remains to thii
place for burial. Welsh leaves q wife
whose maiden name was McAleer, and
three children to mourn for him.
Thos. McAleer and family, Of Oal
Ridge, James McAleer and family, o
Shannondale, VIM. McAleer and family
Of Fairmount, and Amazia Thomas, o
Summerville, attended the funeral.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Township Teachers Elected.

At the meeting OF the WinslOw town.
ship school board, held at Hotel Matson
last Saturday, the following teachers
were elected for the ensuing term OF
school: Phillippi, Orpha Beer; Best,
Thos. Neff; Rathmel, No. /, ]. G. Morris,
principal; No. 2, Homer Brumbaugh; No.
3, Ethel McCreight; No. 4, May Cor
bett; Dean, No. l, ]. M. HOLDEN, prin-
cipal; No. 2, Katie LydOn; Cross Roads,
No. l, Herbert Frarnpton, principal;
No. 2, Mary Mckee; Sykesville, No. l.
John Wagner, principal; No. 2. ]. w.
Moser; No. 3, Lille Lenkerd; Snyder,
Edith Kuntz; Sandy Valley, Milton L.
Dempsey; Pancoast, Edith Sterrett;
McCreight, Maggie Butler; Steel, Myr-
tie Dean; Kline, Christopher Wyant;
Salt Works, Henry Foltz; Murray,
Netts Coax; Bollinger, Iris Johnstoni
Jenks, Nellie Sutter; Prescottville, w,
J. Smell, principal; primary, Minnie
smeltzer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
OUR STORE

is headquarters for the thrift
ty and the well dressed. The
two things to be avoided are
looking unprosperous and
squandering money in the
effort to dress well. Avoid
both mistakes by making us
your clothiers, hatters and
furnishers. We can give you
a suit, hat, shirt and necktie,
which it will pay and please
you to wear, at a short, crisp,
money.saving price. Don't
spend more money than you
need to for your clothing,
and don't put up with poorer,
smaller value than your
money calls for.
Suits for men at SO, 81, IS,
$6, SO to $15. Suits for boys
at $3.50, SO, "a, IS, So, SS
and $40. Hats for SOC. to
IS. Shirts 25c. to $500.
BELL, the 6lOthl6r.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Church Win be Dedicated.

The M. E. church. at Emerickville
will be dedicated August ID. Services
will be held during the week prior to
that time. August Sth, at 1870 A. M,
the pastor will preach the opening SER
mon. DIR. Conway will preach on Mon
day evening; Rev. ]. p. Hicks on Tues
day evening"; Rev. d. A. Platt, Wednes-
day evening; Rev. G. j. Zetler on Thurs
day evening; Rev. DR.. Beck on Friday
evening; Rev. r. G. Smith, p. E., on
Saturday evening and Sabbath morning
at 1910. Rev. ]. H. Jelbart on Sabbath
evening.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Meeting Of School Board.

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Reynoldsvlle school board was held in
DR.. A. II. Bowser's Office Monday even
ing. II. Alex. Stoke was given the
contract to furnish window shades for
the school building. There were five
applicants Tor the janitorship, the bids
ranging from 10000 to $32I.0O per year.
Thomas Evans being the lowest bidder,
he was given the contract. The course
Of study that was adopted last year,
was re-adopted this year with few
amendments. The board also decided
to have library case large enough to
hold 1000 volumes placed in the library
room
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Il Little Of Everything.
"a chiel's among ye taking notes,
And faith he'll print EN-"


John H. Bell and wife were in Dubois
Sunday.
e. d. Seeley's new barn is being rap
idly built.
Miss Lydia Mellinger is visiting at
Shawmut.
Extra good 500 work shoes at J. E.
Welsh & Co.'S.
School teachers were numerous in
town Saturday.
Harry Schaney, of Penfeld. was in
Reynoldsville Monday.
w. C. Helmhold, of Curwensville, was
in Reynoldsville Thursday.
For neat fitting suit, go to Snyder &
Johns, fashionable tailors
Miles King and George Harding are
in Clarion county this week.
Go to the Reynolds Drug Store for
delicious drink of soda water.
The report of the First National bank
will be found in this issue OF THE STAR.
Mems heavy work shoes, all solid,
buckle or congress, only Sl.00 at Rob-
inson's.
The farmers have been making hay
while the sun shines" the past three or
four days.
H. Alex. Stoke got the contract to
furnish supplies for the West Reynolds
vile schools.
Twice q many bicycles were sold by
Stoke In 1895 ~ all the other dealers In
town. Good stock counts.
The Christian Eudeavor Society of
the Presbyterian church will hereafter
meet At $50 p. M. on Sunday instead Of
GASP. N.
Frank Hays, OF Big Run, who was
ono Of the tannery employees at this
placo for few weeks, returned home
last week.
On account Of the Presbyterian
church being cleaned this week there
Will not Be any prayer meeting held In
that church this evening.
A. G. Milliren, executor Of p. Cox,
decoAsed, will expose 70 public sale al
W ostdts Of said p. Cox on Monday,
Aue. - 1877. - larGe posters.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Will Ask an Advance.

The miners of this place held a mass
meeting at the Fuller watering trough
Thursday afternoon OF last week to
elect delegates to attend convention
to be held in Reynoldsville to-day. The
convention will be composed only Of
representatives from the different works
Iron Company. The delegates of this
place were instructed to ask that ma
chine mining be advanced to 32 cents per
ton and that pick mining be advanced
to 40 cents. The other delegates may
be instructed to ask different prices and
it is hard to tell what the decision OF
the convention will be as to prices to be
asked.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Gone to the Eternal World.

Miriam Harries, who was fourteen
years and seven days old, died Of typhoid
fever at LOO A. NJ, Wednesday, July
2Sth. She had been iii about two weeks.
Miriam was bright girl with sweet
disposition, and will be greatly missed
by her two sisters and brother A
short funeral service was held at the
home on Worth street at 200 p. NJ,
Thursday, conducted by Rev. j. w.
Crawford, pastor Of the M. T.. church,
and the mortal remains of the lovable
girl were taken to the Syphrt cemetery,
In Paradise Settlement, for interment
beside the remains Of the mother, two
sisters and a brother.
Miriam was the fourth member OF
this family that has been carried to the
''silent city" within little over two
years. The mother died about seven
years ago. In April, 1895, Mollie, the
oldest daughter, followed her mother to
the Eternal World. In September, of
the same year, Minnie died with ty-
phoid fever, and in about two months
Port, the Oldest son, who was In the
vigor of young manhood, was brought
to the grave with typhoid fever. Now
Miriam has gone hence.
After Mollie's death the care OF the
household fell upon Miss Lizzie, the
next Oldest daughter, who has been a
fatt al al b., I,n
stood at her post bravely. Under the
circumstances the last sorrow was al
most to much for her to bear. On the
Goth OF June, Mr.. John Harries, the
father, who has had poor health for
several years, left home TO go to Brook
vile to get the agency to sell patent
harness mender. Mr. Harries was a
stone mason by trade, and he took some
tools with him, telling Lizzie that II he
did not get the agency he would get
light work somewhere, but In any event
he would write so they would hear from
him the following Monday. The father
did not return nor did Lizzie hear from
him. Miriam took the fever and Lizzie
was virtually left alone. The worry of
her fathers absence and the serious
illness and death of Miriam, made Liz.
zie's burden and sorrow exceedingly
heavy. Not until the evening Of the
day Miriam died, four weeks from the
time Mr.. Harries left home, did Lizzie
learn that her father, whom she though,
something terrible had befallen, was in
New Mexico, and this information she
received from an uncle in indianapolis.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Overcome With Heat.

Jacob King, father of DR.. j. G. King
and Mrs NJ. G.. Coleman, who Is now
eighty-four years old, was overcome
with the heat Monday afternoon and
was very sick for II few hours. Time
has robbed Mr.. King of the strength he
possessed in the by-gone days, but he is
ambitious and wants to work. Monday
he got scythe and went out in the hot
afternoon sun to do some moving in his
yard. He was soon exhausted and
overcome. Yesterday Mr.. King was
feeling pretty well again.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Fell From a Hay Nov.

will Scott, aged about eighteen years,
son of George Scott Of Prescottville,
had narrow escape from sudden death
or serious injury Monday about 600
p. NJ. by falling out of the hay NOV in
Prescott's barn. Scott was moving
away grain and accidentally fell to the
barn floor, distance Of twenty feet, on
the broad of his back. The young man
was in n semi-unconscious condition for
three hours. Yesterday he did not feel
any the worse for the hard fall only a
little sore.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Baby's Narrow Escape.

Monday afternoon two daughters of
George Bone Of Big Soldier, had taken
their six-month-old brother out in the
baby carriage and were playing under II
large tree. The baby got fretful and
the girls took him out of the carriage.
A few minutes after the baby had been
taken out OF the carriage large limb
of the tree fell upon the carriage and
broke IL into pieces.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Change In Real Estate.

II. Alex. Stoke, the druggist, and
G. M. Rea, the farmer, have made
deal whereby Mr.. Stoke becomes pos
SCISSOR of the Rea block, corner Main
and Fifth streets. The dicker was
made last week.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Connubial Bliss.

"A West Reynoldsville woman, who
has only been married two months, had
her husband arrested Friday for assault
and battery. The hearing will take
place at Squire Neir's tribunal Friday
evening, unless the angel of peace finds
its way into that domicile again.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04

Prices cut In two-s5.0O shoes, tans
and patent leather for >2.6O--at Robin
sons.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04
Dou You Enjoy
a Good Thinq I?

Most people do. Hoifman's
frameless glasses are a good
thing; neat and stylish, just
what you want if you have
to wear glasses. | will test
your eyes free and tell
you whether you should wear
glasses or not.
Hoffman,,
The OpTICIAN.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-08-04

Read Robinson & Mundoril's price list
In another column. Change In prices.
The times., 1897-09-26
THE CAUSE OF REFORM.

It's not that I've become convinced of
the sinfulness OF game. of chance and re-
formed," said the thoughtful looking man.
Nor is it that have lost con nrdence in
my luck, or that I m afraidof arrest None
of these could have given my taste for faro
the Jar that it received last week
Il dropped into a Csark-strect place with
$50 bill that had been paid Use all that
was due me until the end Of the MONTH
Twenty dollars worth of chips that I
bought % start with were gone before I
fully realized what had happened. That
was all had intended to allow myself to
lose, but after standing around and watch
ing for awhile, decided TO give the game
another ran So 1 bought $50 worth more
MY luck turned at once. In a short
time my pile had risen above fifty. When
it reaches ninety 1 thought, IN quit
Having paid out forty, ninety would leave
me a velvet of an even fifty. For quite
while I flnctuated around seventy-five;
finally a couple OF good bets brought me up
to my even ninety"
And you thought you'd try Just one play
more, and ended by losing al you'd won,
l SUPPOSE"
''No; different story this time tore
myself away from the table and cashed
in, receiving a $50 greenback and two
twenties. l left the place promptly and
went to tne bank the next morning to
deposit my fifty.
Hard luck was the teIIer's remark,
as he clicked q little machine ana ;oss ed
my hin back with the word counterfeit
stamped through it.
. For beavens saker l gas3ed, If
that's counterfeit maybe these are, to9r
And before thought pulled out the two
twenties. As l showed them under the
grating l came back to my senses, and
started 70 take them back. But il was
too late. The teller grabbed them, ran
his fingers over them, and returned them
in the same condition as the fifty.
realized That | had $40 to 1--we on during
three weeks"
Couldn't you get any satisfaction from
the people you won from?"
Il thought of that The large man
who banks called another large man with
big hands; The least OF the forms of dis
honest of which he then accused ne was
blackmaf. l accepted his invitation TO
leave before pressure was brought to
bear" Chicago Times Herafl.
The times., 1897-09-26
"Never. slr,''

"Never. sir.''
well, I'm probably mistaken, and you'll
please excuse me-
The wornan was likely to go home
and tell her husband, and the latter would
rush over TO Jones to exclaim:
See here, now, but you'll get your head
knocked Off if you talk to my wife that
way asain''
'.YouI wife, But 1 don't even know
your wife!" the astonished Jones would
reply.
''But she wa just in here after eggs"
WAS that y.ur Wife? WeHi Well,
And all said 10 lrer was to ask If size
liked boiled eggs
As a sGrt of public test OF ones an
sentmindedness lac was told one morning
that five men had been killed at the rail
road depot. He expressed his sympa-
tiles, arI ten minutes later he was told
the same thing over again. This was
continued until he had been told fifteen
times. Then a man dropped in and care
lessly inquired:
''Well, Jones, any new S ""
Not bit, replied Jones.
Wasn't there an accident somewhere
around tow II tiiis IN orning?"
Haven't heard of any"
What was Grisgs telling you half an
hour ago2'
~Griggs? Griggs? Oh, yes, remember;
Griggs, the carpenter. Let's see? Let's see
why, he was saying something about an
earthquake in Japan, believe, but
didn't pay much attention."
few week alter that Jones had 10 90 to
Indianapolis on business. He had his err
rand written down in four different note
books, and there was nope that h. would
accomplish it. At the hotel in Indianapolis
he met widow who was travelling and
had losther money theft Hissympathies
went out at once, ald ia his mental ex-
citement he forgot his past particularly the
fact that he was u married man.
He began TO talk tenderly and kindly,
and within five minutes had offered him
self in marriage The widow sized him
~ for q good man aud accepted him, and
the marriage ceremony took place in the
the hotel parlor next morning An hour
later Jones was recognized By a fellow
townsn:'tn. and Of course he was ia hot
water. Trey tried to make tile widow
understand that he was an abseRt-niHde1
man and meant no wrong, but excuses
didn't go down with her. He had com
mitted bigamy, and she felt 50 wrOnged
and Insulted that she caused his arrest at
once. When Jones was arraigned ali he
could say was:
Dear, dear ME, but I'd clean forgot
that l ever married I'm not sure if
reallg ever did, but If they say 50 1 shall
have to believe It."
The Judge said that matrimony was too
cyed e, be trifIed with in that way, and
Jones WAS sent TO jail until he could get
bail There was A delay Of two or three
weeks and lie caught a heavy cold in
his damp cell. and died of pne umOnia be
fore the case came TO trial. When his
Wife came on 10 see him she upbraided
lin. as was ma tural, and he replied
Pow was l TO remember, when I had
forgotten all about il? You ought to ha we
tied string around my finger or put IL
down in the bCoks.''
If Jones had lived the bigamy case
might have gone hard with him but the
widow couldn't get revenge on dead
man. An hour before he died. and when
they told hin. that death was near he
quietly replied
so I'm going TO die, Ell? 1t sort -
seems as if 1 had died before. but mebbe
net I'll try and remember about il this
time, however,
CHARLES P. LEWIS