Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-06-07
SENTINEL &REPUBLICAN &
MIFFLINTOWN. Pa.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 2, 1899.
B. F. SCHWEIER,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

OPAIN O0S EOiO tue OhIOilDe ASlduus
to Germany. A good thing to do
The islands were costing her more
than she received. They were of no
good except as place for naval Of
fees.
AT the late Republican primary
election held in Chester county, the
election boards refused to take the
votes Of such Republicans as voted
the fusion ticket last fall. The kick
ers have employed lawyers to sue
election officers for not taking their
votes.
TIE action Il the democratic couI-
ty committee last Saturday. in the fix
ing of the near time for ;:ne no.1i1g o1
. uf tne primary election on the 18th
inst, has called all the democratic
candidates 70 "boots and saddles in
hot haste to chase up and down the
county for enough votes to secure the
nomination.
BRADsrREET's journal of trade
of June 3, among other things
said: Illinois is now producing only
holt as much wheat as twenty years
ago, and Indians has decreased its
production. Kansas, on the other
hand, has trebled lis yield, and Neb
raska more than doubled its crop,
while Texas and Oklahoma are now
raising much geod wheat against
nothing twenty years ago.
SOME Bellefonie, Pa, people inaug-
urated movement to secure Sun
day railroad train for Bellefonte, and
now the town is in state ofagitation
over the question. An indignation
meeting was held in the Presbyter-
ian church on Monday evening
Among the speakers against the Sun
day railroad train were preachers
Laurie and Holloway and politicians
Beaver and Hastings. A copy of the
proceedings of the meeting have been
sent to head officials OF the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company.
IL nearly all the counties of the
state where Republics primary cleo
tions have been held. they have been
easily carried in favor of those who
represented the organization of the
Republican party. The elections
for delegates to the State Conven-
ton have nearly all resulted in large
majoritIes for the men who stood up
vigorously for the regular nominees
of the party, whether for state, na-
ton or country office The majority
rule is American and revolution by
minority disorganizs!ion is Mexican
practice.
Congressman Mahon made what is
considered bv Franklin county peo-
pie, paraow escape from death by
bolt of lightning He had gone from
his farm. a short distance from Cham
hersburg. While there storm
came. He delayed going till the
storm wss near. Then he started.
he proceeded short distance and
stopped under o tree, but the second
thought came to his relief and sug
gssted that be had better move on.
He left the tree and had scarcely
done SO till bolt Of lightning struck
the tree and knocked it into splin-
ters. If Mahon had remained un.
-" '~ee. he would have been
uer luS
killed,
There are Over two huh-lred mil
Ion dollars gold in the United States
Treasury. When Cleveland YVES
President the gold reserve ran 50
low in the Treasury, that it gave rise
70 the plea before the people that
there is not enough gold to float the
promises to pay, therefore silver
shall be raade legal tender for all
of the promises to pay of the gov
arrment, bonds and all other prom
;ses to pay. Now under Mckinley
the apprehension has disappeared.
The belief is gaining ground that
there is enough gold to float the in
debteduess, ard the gold that was
hidden IS being brought O 1t and put
into circulation. There is great
difference between the Cleveland and
McKinley administration on the coin
question.
FRANK THOMSON, President of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company,
died at his home near Philadelphia
at 7.20 On the evening of June 8,
1895, aged So years. He died from
the effects of bilious attack on the
20;h of May.
''Frauk Thomson was born in
Chambersburg. Pa, July S, 1S41.
He came Of Scotch ancestry, his
grandfather having been Alexander
Thomson, who in 177i sailed from
sSca..and and settled in the Cumber
lsad Valley Among the cbi;dren Of
Alexander Thomson was a son also
named Alexander, who won great
honors at the bar of the STATE, and
afterwards represented bis distlicr
in Congress from 1924 to 1926. He
then became Judge of the Sixteenth
Judicial District, and subsequently
Professor of law at Marshall College.
Frank Thomson was the son OF
this latter. He was educated at the
Chambersburg Academy, and, be.
traying no taste fo,s the profession OF
law, at the age of II entered the Al
'oona shops of the Pennsylvania rail
.oad, to be instructed in the great
work of a railroad. For four years
he worked in this school and wss
graduated a mechanical engineer
He could build locomotive through
every stage of its progress, from the
crude iron to the finished On the rails
He was also qualified to operate, as
eugineer, such engines" Mr.. Thorn