Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1900-07-19

tor Walter T. Merrick. of Tioga will be
named to succeed Mr.. Holland as naval
officer. Senator Merrick has been a
consistent stalwart member of the leg
lslature, and he is backed by the lead
ers of the Republican organization of
the state.
PERITY.
Philadelphia is feeling a gratifying
effect of the present Republican admin
istration of the affairs of the country.
She is sharing in the big boom of the
export trade and in this respect has
surpassed some of her less fortunate
sister cities. There was a gain Of
SO 900 900 in the value of the grain ex-
ports over the figures of the preceding
year The increase in exports was
largely represented by corn shipments
These exports amounted to 5,729, ,662,
bushels, as against &c, ,261, ,408 for the
preceding year The increase in the
exports of oats was even more marked.
These figures jumped over 6,000,000 to
$685. bushels.
Philadelphia has a splendid elevator
system, and the activity of her mem
bers of the board of trade in pressing
for business has enabled the Quaker
City to get her full share of the Nc
Kinley prosperity in the grain trade.
Pennsylvania iron and steel indus
tries are thriving under Republican
rule. as was clearly shown in the an
nual report of the Bethlehem Steel
company made public last week, which
gave a net I-come of 81 ,122 GOO, an in
crease of S977, 900 over the earnings Of
the bethlehem Iron company during
the year ending April 80, 1899. The
company out of gross earnings. spent
$685., 900 for improvements, and paid
off S1,000,000 floating debt.
The operations of the year compared
with the earnings of the Bethlehem
Iron company for the year preceding
are as follows: Bethlehem Iron COM
pany, 1899, net income, 81, 900; div
idend 6 per cent; surplus, $695,0O0;
Bethlehem Steel company, 1900, net
income, s2,122, 900: dividend per cent;
Bethlehem Iron company, 450,0 900; sur
plus, S1,672000; income over 1899,
1897 900.
A dividend of 100000 was declared
by the Bethlehem Steel company, and
the profit and loss accounts show
surplus of So ,463, ,351, as compared with
S3,320,0S6 in 1899. The Bethlehem
Steel company was incorporated in
April, 1899, with a capital stock of S15,-
100000 in shares of par value OF $50
each. The company leased the Bethle-
hem Iron company at per cent on the
$7,500,000 capital stock of that corpora
tinn Tho &c od that
the company proposes to bid for the
entire contract for $4,000 tons of armor,
plate required by the navy department
for the new battleships and cruisers.
COOPER AND THE DEMOCRATS.
THE Democratic national convention
has put 16 to l to the fore" says for
mer State Chairman Thomas V. Cooper,
and have reiterated their allegiance to
the old and badly whipped Chicago
platform. Like the Boxers of China,
they refuse to move forward, and are
welded to their idols. There are high
sounding platitudes about the trusts
and imperialism, but these are mani
festly insincere, since Bryan begged his
friends in the United States senate to
ratify the Spanish American treaty
selling to us the Philippines, and since
Tammany, the controlling voice in the
convention, is the head and front of
the ice trust, which doubled the price
to all consumers in defiance of the law.
The one thing in which the party was
in earnest was its desire to obey Bryan,
and he ordered 16 TO l. So it will be to
the end, and the end will be another de-
feat, with the great east solidly for
Mckinley and the great west more
strongly for him than before. If the
platform is seriously considered in Ne
braska, not even state pride can save
that state to Bryan in this prosperous
year"
PENNSYLVANIA MINERS PROS
Porous.
Coal miners in the bituminous fields
west of the Allegheny mountains are
enjoying the most prosperous condi-
tiona which they have ever known.
1,l;A i-rge quantities of coal being ex-
ported to foreign countries, thus being
in successful competition with the
home mined coal of those countries,
the fact remains that American min
ers are earning higher wages under
more favorable conditions than has
ever before been the case in the Uni
ted States. This applies to the miners
Of western Pennsylvania. West Vir-
ginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and else
where
This state of affairs, beneficial di
rectly to 100000 men in the bituminous
field, embraced in the states named, is
entirely the result of good times
throughout the country brought about
by Republican laws designed to make
work plenty and wages good.
AS far as the coal miner is concern
ed his condition today, compared to his
condition at any tims within Is years.
is a complete and stunning answer to
the calamity platform of Bryan.
Garretson For Supreme Court Justice
Trenton, July 17.-Governor Voor-
hees, at his home at Elizabeth yester-
day, rendered to exJudge A. Q. Car
retson, of Jersey City, the position on
the supreme court bench made vacant
by the death of Justice Lippincott.
Judge Garretson indicated his willing
ness to accept the place. The new ap-
pointee, like Justice Lippincott, is a
Democrat. He has served as county
judge and is at present member of
the law firm of Vredenburgh & Garrett
son.
India's Plague Statistics.
London, July 1.-THE governor OF
Bombay lelegraphs that there were
1928 cases of cholera in the famine
districts during the week ending July