Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-05-19


IHE SIX powers of Europe want +,
handle the finance for Greece whe,
She settles with Turkey.
The moral affect of Europe's fail
ure to support Greece will be felt b,
ahd by more than at this tins.
1T is estimated that frost in Franc,
last week, entails q loss of over 4 mil
lion dollars on vegetable and fru;
growers.
TURKEY demands fiftv million dol
lars and the State of Tbessaiy fro,
Hreeee as the terms upon which sh,
will settle the war question.
South AUSTRALIA was so badlx
shaken " an earth quake last weak
that people left the towns aud lived
IN IL Ids under tents ma ie of whatso
ever could be used as Covering.
LAST Thursday, Nay 13, Professo,
barnard, made another II miles trir
IN his air ship at Nashville, Teunes.
see De can steer the ship right or l4f,
III a light wind and he sailed direct
Iy Ioto or against wind that blow
at the rate of eight miles an honr.
The Legislature passed the inher.
itapce tax law, placing a tax of two
per cent. on personal estate of heirs.
All personal estate inheritance under
hve thousand dollars is EXEMPT. It is
estimated that tie lew law will raise
nos less than million dollars wear.
iHERz Is big financial scheme he.
ing planned in New York With Can
1tal cf one bundred million dollars
with the privilege Of doing two
oiIllon dollar business to be based on
Government control to loan money
to farmers in tho west and south at a
low rate Of interest.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY on Monday
sent special message to Congress,
asking an appropriation of fifty thou.
sand dollars for the relief of six 10
eight hundred American citizens on
the island of Cuba, who are in desti.
tute and suffering circumstances cr
account OF the Cuban insurrection.
IHE unveiling of the Washin g.on
monument in Paramount Park, Phil
adeiphia, was an event that produced
grsst parade and @ holiday crowd
on Saturday. The monument is a
git to the city by the Society OF
Cincinnati, society made up of des.
csndants of people, who took part in
the revolution of 1776.
HE name Of the new Democratic
United States Senator from Florida.
is Stephen r Mallory. His election
makes the Republican opposition in
the Senate 45 votes to AZ Republican
votes, aad that is doubtfu, signal for
the passage of Republican tariff laws
to tska the place of the Cleveland
tariff laws under which ,hs business
has been wrecked.
The United States Senate flies the
danger signal to the passage Of r.
publican tariff law. The times can
not get better to any great deeree
with the Cleveland Wilson tariff la.
IN operation as At now is in opern lior.
AS the Senate now stands witt, a.!
the opposition united the Republi-
cans have A votes and the opposi
ton have As votes Unless some of
the opposition come over to the Re
publican side, the tariff revision alopr
Republican lines must prove q fail |
ure
DEMOCRATS at Washington are di- |
vided on the Cleveland tariff law es
embodied in the Wilson tariff act. Il
is clear that the Wilson act has not
brought IN enough revenne to run
the Government Every leading
Democrat knows that fact, and that
fact is turning the leaders from the
Cleveland Wilson low tariff law. The |
Cleveland tariff laws are still in op-
Grafton and until they are repealod. |
times cannot improve, and after they
have been repealed, it will be months
before the country can recover Itself
from the depressed condition in
which it now founders.