Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-09-26

WHEN Mr.. Cleveland was President
he vetoed $50 pension bills. Republi.
can Presidents never vetoed pension
bill. Mr. Cieveiand's post Office de-
partElent was instructed to see to it
that the post-masters should send in a
list of names of pensioners VINO in their
opinion should be dropped from the
pension roll. There were pensioners in
Juniata county dropped from the PEN
sion roll and that WAS the way it was
brought about. The post-m asters were
also instructed to report a list of pea
siOner5 whose peasioI 5ho aid be rejuc-
ed and Juniata county pensioners know
how ponsion drops and pension reduc-
tiOus were plainly visible throughout
the county. The Cleveland pension
deplrtm dropped 6i23 nam,s from
the pension rolls aud they reduced the
pensions Of ),S53 veterans. The pen
sion reductions am )unted to SIG ,Sl9,9Il-
81, which ia more money than the state
goya.lm eDt OF Pennsylvania receives
and pays out in one year. If Bryan
SSt' iitO Eo"Ci WIN Sol-
gress, the same thing will happen to
the pensioner on an enlarged scale. If
you want to cut the pensioners, vote for
Heading for Congress and Keller for
StatsiSenate. Keller if elected to the
Senate will vote for Democratic
United States Senator and that will be
in the direction of cat on the PEN
sions. BY voting for Mahon for Con-
gress aud McKes for State Senator. you
run no risks.
A fire in the town school house
on. last Thursday afternoon created
a stampede among the pupils. The
announcement that the school
house had taken fire Immediately
gave rise to remarks on the street
that the fire was Intentional and
for the purpose of getting rid of the
present school building as a pre-
paratory step to the erection of
new school house. Just what
grounds of suspicion there were for
such remarks has not been partic-
ulariy inquired into. If there is
ground for suspicion that someone
wants to barn the school house for
the purpose of having another
house built, it was mistake to say
that the fire on Thursday was
move in that direction. The fire
on Thursday came from the heater.
The )rning was cool and the jan
ltor =tS iastr ucted to put fire in
the heaters. He did as he was in
structai. About 4 O'Clock in the
afternoon the teacher of school
No. , ald her pupils at one and
the same time noticed smoke com
ing from around the edges of the
register in that room in the heater
chimney. The heater chimney is
Of brick with tin lining and it
see NJ strange that smoke should
come oat at such place. But
there WAS nc mistake the fire was
there rai dy to burst into a blaze in
the vain scoting that had been con-
strhcte1 too close to the outlet of
the hel5 er fiue into the reom. A
buc&ea o f water in the room was
bro Ig1t and the fire was put out.
Rom No. 3 is an upstairs room on
the s)uth side of the building, and
the fire there was caused by the
wain'; oting igniting. The wains
cotin, when it was constructed by
the CT r2enters was placed to close
to the heater fiue. The edge of
the w inscoting around the heater
f1ua " as allowed by the carpenters
to b. almost even with inside edge
of tn, flue. With the register to
cove the nearness of the wainscot
ing = the fiue no one would sus-
pee he nearness of ;aaamable
pine N a. terial to the mouth of the
due il the room. The heat COM
Ing frD IN the furnace in the cellar
up ~. inst the edge of the pine
coting was enough to set it
Oh fir1, and the wonder is that the
builiing has escaped conflagration.
Tlece sh Ould not be another fire
kin l. Ell in the heaters till all the
regis; ers in the building are taken
off 4 an examination made as to
the 4 eirness of wainescoting and
other wood work to the heater
fues