Mount Pleasant journal (June 11, 1889)

              MT. PLEASANT JOURNAL.
X VOL. 17 MT. PLEASANT, WESTMORELAND CO., PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11,188!). NO. 7
The Humber of Yictims Swallowed up in
the Johnstov/n Disaster
WILL HOT FALL MUCH BELOW 5.000,
While the Frightful Damage to Property of Every
Description Will Foot up a G-rancl Total
of Many, Many Millions of Dollars.
THE RELIEF COMMITTEE’S NOBLE WORK,
But It Finds the Gigantic Task Far Beyond Its Powers.-
Governor Forced to the Scene and
-The
FINANCIAL AID FROM THE STATE IS NOW ASSURI
Ipreserving tho peace, for on Tuesday lie ; and one tender was found up in Stony
ordered the Fourteenth Regiment of the
National Guard to report to him at
Johnstown. This was done and the
regiment, numbering some 300 men or
more, went by speeial train ttiat after-noon
and were at once given police duty
to do.
This placed the city in the hands of
the militia and deputy sheriffs, and it is
sale to say Johnstown never before had
more protectors within her borders.
Then Sheriff J. P.Steinman issued this
proclamation : “The hand of Providence
lias fallen heavily upon the citizens of
Johnstown and vicinity. The survivors
of thedisnster are in need of food, shel-ter
and clothing. There is a disorderly
element, of foreigners seeking opportunity
to commit acis of vandalism. Now,
therefore,
I, the High .Sheriff of Cambria coun-ty,
do issue this, my proclamation, call
ing upon all good citizens of the county
to assist in preserving the peace and al-leviating
ttie wants of the Buffering sur-vivors.
After nightfall all citizens will
keep off ttie streets of Johnstown and
neighboring boroughs. I have called on
the Governor to send troops here to as
sist in preserving peace if necessary.”
The deputy sheriffs and tho police
o/Hcers of the town were given orders
not to allow any one to pass through the
lines of the city proper unless carrying a
pass from the proper authorities. The
deputies were armed with guns, and the
men given to understand that no mercy
was to be shown pillagers, by whom the
city was oyarrun. The deputies stated
that they would shoot anybody on sight
who was found in the houses of the
drowned people. This had the effect of
making Johnstown a very quiet place
Scenes anti Incidents of What has Proved to be the Greatest Calamity
that Ever Befell tiie English-Speaking People.— Weeks of Time
and More Thousands of Men Needed to Clear Away tlie
Debris.—Grave Fears that a Pestilence will Follow
in the Flood’s wake.
f IVRULY has it been said that the
Johnstown disaster lias proved
-L the greatest calamity that ever
befell tiie English-speaking people. First
reports,that placed the drowned at 1,500,
were thought to be exaggerated; now
no one would be surprised in the number
would reach 10 000.
During the past week tiie work of re-covering
tiie bodies of tiie victims and
relieving tiie sufferings of the survivors
lias been reduced to some sort of system,
thanks to Dictator Scott and Ids corps of
efficient assistants, who have charge on
tiie ground under tiie direction of tiie
General Relief Committee, whose head-quarters
are in Pittsburg. Mr. Flynn,
the Pittsburg contractor, lias some 3,000
men at work clearing away tiie debris
and taking out and burying the dead;
the Pennsylvania road about the same
number on repairing; while tiie Cambria
Iron Company lias as many more of its
employes engaged at getting the big
mills in running order once more. These
forces have done wonders as none was
interfered witli by the curiosity hunter,
whom Adjutant General Hastings and
his Fomiteenth regiment boys made a
scarce article about Johnstown,
But while tiie Relief Committee has
done nobly, there is a limit to its powers
which will be reached long before the
wreck wrought by the Conemaugh’s
waters has been cleared away, and that,
'too, despite tiie fact that provisions,
■ clothing and money still continue to
pour in from all quarters of the globe.
'To prove that tills Is true one only has to
'consider that the committee’s daily ex-penses,
in taking care of 30,000 people
and paying cadi workman $'1 a day, are
■something like $30,000, ami as each day
passes by it only makes more apparent
tiie great need there is for aid from the
«tate, if, indeed, not from tiie national
government.
PRESIDENTIAL SYMPATHY,
It Takes Substantial Foim Willi That of
Other Capital People.
A public meeting of Washington, I). C.
citizens was held, Tuesday, to devise
means for aiding the flood sufferers in
Pennsylvania. President Harrison pre-sided
and upon taking tiie chair said :
“Every one here to day is distressingly
conscious of tiie circumstances which
have convened tins meeting. It would
be impossible to state more impressively
than the newspapers have already done
the distressing incidents attending the
calamity which lias fallen upon tiie city
of lohnstownand tiie neighboring ham-lets,
and upon a large section of Penn-sylvania
situated upon tiie Susquehanna
river. The grim pencil of Dore would
he inadequate to portray tiie horrors of
this visitation, in such meetings as we
have here in tiie National Capital and
and otiier like gatherings that are taking
place in all (lie cities of this land we
have the only rays of hope and light in
tiie general gloom, * * * Need I
say, in conclusion, that, as a temporary
citizen of Washington, it would give me
great satisfaction if the National Capital
should so generously respond to this
call of our distressed fellow citizens as
to be tiie most conspicuous among tiie
cities of our land. [Applause.] I feel
that as I am now calling for contribu-tions
I should say that on Saturday,
when first apprised of the disaster atr
Johnstown, I telegraphed a subscription
to the Mayor of that city. I do not like
to speak of anything so personal as this,
but I felt it due to myself and to you
that I should say so much as this.”
Over $10,000 were raised right in tiie
ball.
BEAVER HEARD FROM.
Creek. Tiie other seven locomotives are
gone; not a trace of them to be seen. It
supposed thatsome of them are in the
aereB of debriB above tiie bridge at Johns-town.
All the locomotives that remain
anywhere within sight of tiie round-house,
all except those attached to tiie
trains, are thrown about in every direc-tion,
every side up, smashed, broken
and useless but for old iron Thetenders
are all gone. Being lighter than tiie lo-comotives,
they floated more easily and
were quickly torn off and carried away.
Tiie engines themselves were apparently
rolled over and over in whichever direc-tion
ran tiie current which had hold of
them, and occasionally were picked up
bodily and slammed down again, wheels
up, or whichever way chanced to be most
convenient to the flood. Most of them
lie in (ive feet of sand and gravel, with
only a part showing above tiie surface;
some are out in the bed of tiie river
1HK LOST TRAINS,
Of (lie Second Section of the Day Etprni
Plrc Completed the IleMtruetlon Not
Wrought lly Water—Q,uecr
Freaks of the Flood.
SYSTEMATIC WORK.
Begnn by Making James B. Scotty of
Pittsburg, Dictator of Affutrs.
Substantial Presidential
Sympathy.
The city, or what is left of it, was at
last under systematic rule Tuesday. Be-fore
that time there had been collisions
between the various factions who had
assumed authority—nothing serious, but
merely a hitch in the proper carrying
out of the details. That afternoon a
meeting was called of all in authority at
Chairman Moxham’s office, the head-quarters
of the citizens’ committee.
There were represented the state author-ities
in the persons of Adjt.-Gen. Hast-ings
and Dr. Lee, of the State Board of
Health, the local authorities in the per-sons
of Sheriff Dick, Chief of Police Hart,
Mr. Moxham and others, and outsiders
who had been called in to assume au-thority
in certain departments m the
persons of Chief J. O. Brown. Chief
Evans, Superintendent Baker, of Pitts-burg
city departments, and Evan Jones,
representing Booth & Flynn, Captain
Jones, of Braddock, and J. B. Scott, of
Pittsburg.
Chairman Moxham spoke of the ne
cessity of some one being at the head,
some one, in fact who would be dictator
of the Conemaugh Valley who could be
looked to for orders. The result was the
selection of James B. Scott, of Pittsburg,
awho at once entered upon his duties by
(establishing tiie following committees:
| Information and Transfer, Employment
of Messengers and Teams, Care and
Burial of the Dead, Search for the Miss-ing.
Besides these are the Bureaus of
■Commissary Stores, Labor and Health.
Ail these are under the direction of Mr.
■Scott.
lie Order. Poll,non. anil Sanitary Step.
Already Taken In till. Connly.
The earnest and untiring workers of
tiie Pittsburg Relief Committee met at
the Chamber ol Commerce, Tuesday,
and at once proceeded to business.
Chairman McCreery sent a dispatch to
Governor Beaver, urging him to press
upon the national authorities the imme-diate
need of at least 2,500 feet of pontoon
bridges and the sanitary force. The fol-lowing
telegram was received from the
Governor in reply:
“I have issued a requisition for pon-toon
bridges and urged immediate ship
ment. Will endeavor to organize a san-itary
commission in Westmoreland coun-ty
to clean the Conemaugh. Have your
committee co-operate and I will pay ex
penses. There should be no delay.’’
The same day Governor Beaver tele-grrphed
Col. George F. Huff, of Greens-burg:
“Great danger of pestilence along
the Conemaugh and Kiskiminetas. Can
you not organize a strong force under
competent foreman to clear the banka of'
the river? I will pay necessary expenses.
The people along the route are thor-oughly
aroused to the danger of delay in
this matter. Pittsburg is at work on the
Allegheny, and at Johnstown. Can you
get your people to turn in heartily for
work between those points ?”
The Colonel’s reply shows that the
steps recommended had already been
taken, as his message to the Governor in
reply was: “Your telegram received.
Our people fully appreciate the danger
of the situation, and thank you for your
kind offices. Our County Commission-ers
and Sheriff have lmd a large force of
men out since Saturday, dredging the
streams and burying the dead. We are
well organized and can, we think, thor-oughly
perform the work within our
county along the Conemaugh and Kis-kiminetas,
and on the Allegheny river
down to Parnassus.”
THE NINEVEH CEMETERY,
Ing it 80 feet deep, and afterward the
dam was made higher.”
Frank Lawn testified : “Colonel Unger
told me to repair tiie dam whenever the
dam overflowed oil the top. He told me
to make a ditch five feet wide and three
feet deep. Ttie dam broke at 2 o'clock
in tiie afternoon on Friday. The widtli
of the top of the dam was 20 feet by 152
feet long, I have been here for two
months. Worked on Friday about, four
hours and had 20 men. Colonel Unger
Bent Mr.Parke to South Fork,to telegraph
to Johnstown and notify all tiie towns
the dam was about to break.”
Dr. Hammer said lie was very much
displeased when lie saw in one the Pitts-burg
papers that the jury had rendered
a decision, and assessed the damages,
giving the amount of money. No de-cision
had then been rendered, nor was
it until Friday at Greensburg the ver-dict
was readied. In substance it is:
“We tiie jury find that tiie deceased
came to their deaths by violence due to
the flood caused by the breaking of
fhe dam of tiie South Fork reservoir.”
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
Strict Orders Issued by the Sheriff to
Preserve the Peace.
After sending Battery B back to Pitts-burg
the day before, Adjutant General
Hastings seems to have changed his
mind about the necessity of having sol-diers
to guard the ruins and assist in
The temporary passage for trains across
tiie embankment washed out by tiie
flood at tiie east end of the stone bridge
was completed early last week, by which
provisions and other supplies were car
ried direct to the Johnstown station, and
tiie work of clearing away the debris
above this point, along tiie Conemaugh,
was pushed forward. Many wonderful
freaks played by tiie floods with passen-ger
and freight trains, enginesand tracks
were to be seen, some so strange as to
pass belief unless one saw them for one
self.
Every one has seen the ligtit iron
beam shafts and rods in a factory lying
in twisted, broken and eriss cross shape
alter a lire lias destroyed tiie factory. In
tiie gap above Johnstown ttie water has
picked up a four-track railroad covered
with trains, freight and passengers, and
with machine shops, a roundhouse and
other heavy buildings with heavy con-tents,
and it lias torn tiie track to pieces
twisted, turned and crossed it as fire
never could; It has tossed huge freight
locomotives about like barrels, and cars
like packing boxes, torn them to pieces
and scattered them over miles ot terri-tory.
It lias in one place put a stream of
water, a city block wide, between the
railroad and the bluff and in another
place it has changed the Course of the
river as far in tiie other direction and
left a hundred yards inland, on which
are tiie tracks that formerly skirted the
bank.
RMIIIH of the Day ElprfM.
It was at a point near Woodvale that
the second section of the Day Express
was caught by the flood. The little plain
into which the gap widens here, and in
which stood the bulk of the town, is
wiped out. The river has changed its
course from one side of tiie valley to the
other. There is not the slightest indi
cation that tiie central part of the plain
was ever anything but a flood-washed
gulch in some mountain region. At the
upper end of the plain, surrounded by
desert of mud and rocks, stands a fantas
tic collection of ruined railroad equip
ments. Three trains stood there when
tiie flood swept down the valley. On the
outside was a local passenger, with three
cars and a locomotive. It stands there
yet, tiie cars tilted by the washing of the
track, but comparatively uninjured.
Some-how a couple more locomotives
have been run into the sand bank in
front. A freight train stood on the track
whereon a large collection of smashed
cars lias its place now. It was broken
all to pieces.
Inside of all was tiie Day Express,with
its baggage and express cars, and at the
end three vestibule cars. It was from
this train that a number of passengers,
15 certainly, and no one knows how many
more, were lost. When tiie alarm came
most of the passengers fled for the high
ground; many reached it,others hesitated
on tiie way, tried to run back to the cars
and were lost. Others stayed on the cars,
and after the first rush of the flood were
rescued alive. Some of the freight cars
were loaded with lime, and this leaped
over tiie vestibule cars, and, set on fire
by the water, quickly had the cars blaz
ing. All three of tiie vestibule cars were
burned down to the trucks. Tnese and
the peculiar-shaped iron frames of the
vestibules are all that show where the
cars stood.
LoconiolIvcH Rolled Away Like Balia.
Tiie reason the flood, that twisted
heavy steel rails like twigB just below,
did not wipe out these three trains en-tirely
is supposed to be that just in front
of them and between them and the flood
was the roundhouse tilled with engines.
It was a large building, and probably 40
feet high to the tops ofthe ventilators in
the roof. The rush of water, eye-wit-nesses
say, was so. high that these venti
l.ators were beneath it. The roundhouse
was swept away to its very foundation,
and the flood played jackstraws with the
locomotives lodged in it, but it split the
torrent and a part of it went down each
side of the three trains, saving them
from the worst of its force.
Thirty-three locomotives were in and
about the roundhouse and the repair
shops near. Of these, 20 have been found
or at least traced, part of them being
found scattered down into Johnstown.
Our Commlftfllonent I’lirclinnr Ground to
Bury (lie Dead Rrrovcrrd There.
Four long trendies 100 feet long, 7
feet wide and 3 feet deep form tiie graves
for 275 victims of tiie flood whose bodies
have been recovered at Nineveh, 10
miles below Johnstown, up until Tues-day.
Across tiie river at Old Nineveh
35 bodies were taken out of the debris
and mud that day. This was tiie first
opening of the narrow valley through
which the Conemaugh dashes like a mill
race. From tiie fields of mod many
bodies have been taken. Tiie searcliers
found many of tiie bodies by means of a
hand or a piece of clothing sticking up
through tiie mud. They carried long
sticks with which they prodded tiie soil.
One of tiie most ghastly finds was that
of a baby which was hanging in a tree.
Its foot had caught in a fork and by this
means it was suspended. One of tiie
men readied it with a pole to pull down
what lie believed to lie a piece of cloth-ing,
when tho body fell.
Tiie Westmoreland county commis-sioners
purchased an acre of ground on
the side of tiie mountain and converted
it into a cemetery. A gang of laborers
were at work all that dav digging tiie
trendies, A rough pine hoard was placed
at the head of each coffin in tiie trench.
Tiie name of the victim was written on
the board with a lead pencil. Tim scenes
at tiie cemetery during tiie night were
depressing and pathetic. The tordies
of the laborers looked from across the
fields like, so many jack-o'-lanterns lur-ing
their victims on to destruction. Two
hundred victims were found at this
point, Tuesday, and 15 across tiie river.
A few were identified. Tiie Westmore-land
county corps are taking care of all
bodies found in the county. They are
having them shipped to Nineveh and
will bury them in their plot of ground.
R. B. Hammer, coroner of Westmore-land
county, was at that point and did
excellent work. He hud a large corps of
helpers. His jury was organized on Sat-urday,
and then heard plenty of testi-mony.
The jurymen were F.Weibie, H.
M.Guy, It.I!.Rodgers,W. H.Work, James
McCarthy and A. L. Bethune.
The testimony consists of descriptions
of tiie flood by those who escaped and des-criptions
of tiie lake by those wtio had
been at it. Two men refused to testify
before ttie jury. Sheriff Ben. F Byers,
who was on the ground, had a talk with
them and they finally decided tiie best,
thing to do would be to testify. The
conclusion of tiie inquest was held in
Greensburg.
FIXING THE BLAME.
THE BHOKEN DAM.
Coroner Ihmmer ami Jury Make Some
Investigation!!, But Find Few Wit-nesses
Who Speak Favorably.
Tiie Verdict.
Tiie Westmoreland county jury, under
Coroner hammer, pushed through to tiie
broken South Fork dam, Wednesday,
and oil their return the Coroner stated
that lie only found one man in South
Fork or along tiie road who spoke in
favor of tiie dam. Some of the men said
that it did not take them long to discover
that the man was interested. He fur-nished
the people at the reservoir with
provisions, and they supposed lie did not
want to say anything to injure his busi
ness.
The jury was anxious to see Colonel
Unger, hut the latter was gone. The
Huns working there said tiie Colonel
had left soon after the accidentoccurred.
He is tiie President of tiie South Fork
Club. The Huns had not been paid, and
they were looking for tiie Colonel. The
jury wouldn't express any opinions, as
they should not, but they were perfectly
willing to give all the information pos-sible.
Among the men sworn was Frank M.
Buchanan, ot Johnstown. His testimony
is as follows: “The dam broke once
before. The people in Johnstown and
througli the Conemaugh Valley have al-ways
been afraid. Tiie dam was repaired'
but was pronounced unsafe by engineers.
The reservoir burst. Sheriff Stetnman
pronounced the dam unsafe, and called
a consultation of the Cambria Iron Com-pany.
He heard by telephone the dam
had hurst.”
C. B. Moore, who lives at Johnstown,
was called and testified: “Tiie flood
came at 4 o’clock. The water caine from
the direction of the reservoir. The
bursting of tiie dam was the cause of tiie
flood. The Pennsylvania Railroad did
not tell the to refuse to testify against
them. Tiie people have always been
afraid. Posters were put out warning
persons of the approaching disaster.”
Henry Moore lives at South Fork. His
testimony was this: “I tiave known of
the dam for 30 years. It has broken
three times already. They used hay and
straw to stop the leaks. People were
always afraid when the gate was raised,
but they were notified three times of the
unsafe condition of [he dam. I do not
know what engineers examined it from
time to time.”
L. D. Stull said : “From tiie founda-tion
stones to the eaves of the roof over
j the flood gate was 90 feet. The water
icame to within 10 feet of the roof, mak-
The Iron Company, Railroad and Fish-ing
Club Come In for Shares—The
Cain hi In County Coro,
tier’s Inquest.
Thomas Jacobs, of Morrellville, is one
of tiie oldest inhabitants of the Cone-maugh
valley. He says that tiie water
of tiie river was much higher in 1837 than
on tiie fatal Friday, even after the dam
had broken. “The whole trouble about
this deplorable affair,” lie continued
“results from tiie narrowing of the chan
nel of tiie river and tiie deflection of its
natural course. I remember well when
the channel ran down where the mill
below tiie bridge now stands. The chan
nel has been narrowed along its entire
course through the town by tiie dumping
of relnse along tiie banks during low
water. Tiie Conemaugh lias always
been a shallow stream. After heavy
rainfalls it rises rapidly, as all mountain
streams do. Its watershed is large and
tiie hillsides so constituted that tiie water
runs down rapidly, causing q lick rises
and turbulent currents.
“Primarily I hold that tiie Cambria
Iron Company is responsible for narrow-ing
tiie channel,secondly the South Fork
Club for not having made the dam secure
beyond all possibility of a break, espe-cially
when they caused the dam to be
enlarged by raising the breast, and third
ly, the Pennsylvania railroad for having
constructed tiie viaduct with such low
arches and with ribs calculated to catcli
pieces of driftwood if they happen to
strike diagonally on the piers. The dim
made by (lie gorge at tiie bridge is what
engulfed tiie town.”
( ain1,, In County Coroner at Work.
On 'Thursday forenoon Dr. D. W.
Evans, the Coroner of Cambria county,
began his inquest. The body selected
was tiiat of Mrs. Laura Hite, which had
just been found in a huge mass of rub-bish
on the South Side. It lay at the
undertaking headquarters at the comer
or Napoleon and South streets. Tiie cor
oner summoned and swore as his jurors
H. P. Blair, Abram Ferner, John Coho,
John A. VVissinger, Frank Cohick, and
John H. Devine. Ttie testimony of
three witnesses was taken, who swore to
tiie identity of tiie body, tiie place where
it was found, the date of finding, the
place of residence and the last time they
had seen tiie deceased.
The inquest was then adjourned toen"
abie tiie coroner to secure further evi-dence.
He desires to make the inquest
a thorough one, and to secure tiie testi
mony of persons who saw Mrs. Hitealive
and well a few moments before the flood,
who saw iier struggling in tiie water,
who saw tiie flood up the valley, and who
saw the reservoir hurst, Tiie reservoir
will probably lie visited, and Dr. Evans
thinks tiiat a verdict will not be reached
until tiie latter part of this week.
day, by Charles McKee, Esq., and L.
H. Williams, of Pittsburg. They were
viewing the ruins in the central part of
the city when they came to the residence
of the late General Campbell, a friend of
Mr. McKee. The latter jokingly remark
ed that he would make a call and, climb
ing over the rubbish, niled against the
house, walked into the second-story
window and left his card on a center-table.
He was walking away when an object
on the roof attracted his attention. He
glanced at it a second time and saw it
was the body of a woman. Summoning
some ot tiie workmen nearby tho body
was lowered and found to be a Mrs.
Moore, a lady 85 years of age, alive, but
terribly exhausted. She was placed in a
litter and carried to a friend’s house in
Kernville. Her daughter,who had been
looking for her, was nearly beside her-self
with joy on finding tiie old lady
alive and walked close to tiie litter all
the way, while on the other side walked
Capt. Jones, to whom tiie old iady told
her experience. Her own house had
been swept from its foundation and was
floating down the stream when it struck
Gen. Campbell’s house, and in some
manner, she could never tell how, she
landed on the roof of the latter building.
This was Friday afternoon, and from
tiiat time until rescued Tuesday after-noon
she had been without food or drink
She lias been an invalid forscveral years,
and it is doubtful if she can recover from
the exposure,
A PAUL REVERE.
The Heroic Payton Who Ro«le to lit*
Death to Herald the Unheeded Warn-ing.—
The Wonderful Rescue
of an Old Lady.
Tiie body of Daniel Peyton, the Paul
Revere of (lie Conemaugh Valley and
tiie first man to go down at the call of
tiie demon of deatli on Black Friday,was
found beneath a mass of broken trees at
the base of tiie hill west of Johnstown,
Tuesday afternoon. It was horribly
disfigured, and the features of the man
who sacrificed his life that thousands of
his fellow beings might live were almost
beyond recognition. Daniel Peyton’s
name will go down to history as among
the greatest of modern heroes. He it
was to whom the message sent from
South Fork by John G. Park to the
effect tiiat the dam was about to burst
was conveyed. Heedless of his own safe-ty
young Peyton jumped upon a horse
and started on his journey of warning
through Johnstown. Up one street and
down another he rode like mad, yelling
at tiie top of his voice for people to flee
to the hills. Some took his advice, but
others thought him a maniac and paid
no attention to his wild note of alarm.
Finally the dam gave way, and the
waters came rushing down the ravine
and into tiie city. Like an assassin in
pursuit of his victim, the angry waters
kept gaining on Peyton at every turn.
Ou and on lie rode, and nearer and near-er
came tiie deluge of death. At last it
was within 100 feet of him, and coming
like the wind. Finally the bank hove
in sight—a heaven of security was at
hand. Before the brave lad reached it,
however, the message of death had call-ed
him from his steed, and horse and
rider, overtaken by the water, were
swept away into the great beyond.
When found young Peyton was lying
face upward beneath the remnants of
massive oaks, while hard by lay tiie gal-lant
horse that had so nobly done all in
his power for humanity before he started
to seek a place of safety for himself-
Peyton was the son of John W. Peyton,
one of Johnstown’s wealthiest citizens.
An Old Lady Rescued Alive.
One of the most remarkable incidents
of tiie flood was brought to light, Thurs-
AID FROMM STATE
Governor Braver Visit* the Scene and
Arranges for a $1,000,000 Loan
to Clear Up the Wreck.
Flood Notes.
Governor Beaver at last came to Johns-town,
Sunday morning, over ttie Balti
more & Ohio road, whose vice president
Thomas M. King, accompanied him.
The Governor explained his absence
thus: “While I was not here and have
been doing all in my power to more sub
stantially aid those in distress, I feel that
money must be forthcoming and that in
very large Bums, and under tiie circum-stances
I felt that I was doing tiie very
best I could for my suffering fellow-citi-zens
in attending to this part of my offi-cial
duty in the matter. I desire to say
here that I leel yery proud and yery
grateful to my countrymen for their con
trihutions and for their substantial ex
pressions of sympathy in tiie dark lion
of our state’s troubles. Johnstown and
Conemaugh were not the only two pla
ces tiiat suffered from the storm. The
valley of tiie Susquehanna lost botli In
life and property and it, too, had to be
looked after. The people of tiiat part
of the State, however, will take good
care of themselves, and, on the whole
attention may be turned toward the im
mediate relief of Johnstown and vicinity,
1 shall not call an extra session of tiie
Legislature for several reasons. One is
the members could not be reached within
a convenient time and the cost of tiie
convention would be very large, and bet
ter plans will be devised that will coin
pass what is wanted and will be attended
with no cost to the state. One thing
certain, I have been at work for the
whole state.”
Railing a Million Dollars.
After tiie Governor had made a tour
of the ruins on horseback, a conference
was held at Adjutant General Has
tings’ headquarters, at which were
present, besides the state author
lies, Director Scott, Contractor Flynn
Col. Schoonmaker, H. C. Frick and
other prominent Pittsburgers. It was
pro| osed that the Btate furnish$1,000,000
to General Beaver for immediate use in
clearing up and restoring Johnstown. I
order to make the 6titte whole, 200 citi
Zens of Pittsburg, Philadelphia and other
portions of it will become individually
responsible until the Legislature meets
and makes appropriations that will re-lieve
them. This plan was unanimously
agreed to. It was also agreed that on
tomorrow morning General Hastings,
acting for Governor Beaver, should take
charge of the work, not only of policing
the valley, but also of cleaning it up, in-cluding
Johnstown and the surrounding
boroughs. Governor Beaver left at 7
o’clock the same evening, with Thomas
M. King, for Philadelphia.
The total amount of money sent Gov-ernor
Beaver from points outside of tiie
state now almost readies $500,000, and
in speaking of the disposition to be made
of it lie said before leaving Johnstown :
“Tiie funds which have come into my
hands In such large amounts and from
so many quarters outside of the state and
which have been imposed upon me as a
sacred trust will he spent wholly and
absolutely for the benefit of individual
sufferers. No part of It will be expended
in work which is legitimately the domain
of the state under its police powers. This
I wish to emphasize,so tiiat all contribu
tors to the fund may feel assured tiiat
their money will be judiciously and
economically expended for the benefit of
suffering humanity, and not to the work
which should and will be undertaken by
the state or municipal authorities.”
Cast Up by the Flood.
Everything that is possible to do from a
sanitary point of view is being done un
der the direction of the State Board of
Health.
Private William Young, Company C,
Fourteenth Regiment, N. G. P., com-mitted
suicide, Sunday afternoon, by
shooting himselt in the head with a ritle.
Tiie government corps ot engineers
lias done good work in placing pontoon
bridges at different points along both
tiie Conemaugh and Stony Creek.
So far about 2,500 bodies in all have
been recovered, while the appalling list
is being added to eaeli day. Probably
the fairest estimate of those lost is that
given by ex-Mayor Dick, who joined his
wife and family here Saturday. Mr.
Dick while at the JOURNAL office yester-day
said : “In the entire destroyed dis
trict from the South Fork down there
was a population of not less than 18,000
people. I think you would be sate in
saying tiiat at least one in every three
was lost, or a total of from five to six
thousand dead. I don’t believe it will
fall below 5,000.”
HOME HAPPENINGS.
Brief Mention of Event* Hint Occurred
DnrliiK (lie Pant Week*
he Southwest company is fixing up all
its coke ovens this week.
James H, Pershing, Esq., of Pittsburg,
is at the National Hotel.
Dan \V. Keister, of Omaha, Neb., is
hero on a visit to his parents.
Miss Mattie Reymer, of Pittsburg, is
the guest of Miss Bessie McAdams.
II. Goldstone, tho well known photog-rapher,
has opened a gallery on tho Dia-mond.
Miss Maggie Wilson, of Greensburg, is
tho guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Brinker,
of this place.
Boards, having thereon names of bor-ough
streets and alloys; have at last been
placed at all corners.
The tine pipe organ for the new Re-formed
church is on exhibition at D. B.
Keister’s music store.
A flying horse is now in full swing
under a tent erected on tho site of the
burnt Diamond Hotel.
Mrs, Carrie Shupe and son, Carroll,
and Mrs. L. B. Shupe spent part of last
week with Pleasant Unity friends.
The eloquent Col. Bain made a fine
temperance address in School Hall,
Thursday evening, to a large audience.
The number of tickets for tho Institute
dinner tomorrow has been limited to 125,
which cm he li td at Stevenson’s news
stand.
The Mt. Pleasant friends of Johnny
Overholt have learned that he escaped
from the Johnstown flood and is now at
Edgewood.
John Cochran, of Stauffer’s, while at
Johnstown last week with the Scottdale
relief committee, was robbed of his gold
watch valued at$125.
THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL.
COMNENCEMENT AT ! MT. PLEASANT
C. AND S. INSTITUTE.
A very light vote was polled at Satur
day’s Democratic primary election In
the borough. The polls ill tho first ward
were not opened at all,
Among tlm many needed articles sent
from Mt. Pleasant tn Johnstown last
week were some forty coffins given by
Messrs. John Husband & Bro.
The ladies of tho Mt. Pleasant (Middle)
Presbyterian church will hold an ice
cream and strawberry) festival in their
church, Friday evening next, June 14th.
Rev. Mr. Reynolds, pastor ofthe Bap-tist
flock, announces with no little pride
that he dined on Saturday last on now
poas and potatoes from ills own garden.
Township Constable Gant intends re-signing
as ho says wliat business is his
by right goes into Detective Anderson’s
hands. Mr. Gant has made a good officer
Henry Thompson and his wifo, of the
East End, are desirous of obtaining a boy
and girl from among tiie Johnstown sur-vivors
to raise, tlieir children lioing all
dead.
An excursion to Ohio Pyle will be run
from Mt. Pleasant over tho B. A O. road,
next Sunday, June 10. Tiie train will
leave the East End station at 9 a.m. The
price of tickets is $1.00.
Tiie benefit given in the Grand Opera
House.Wednesdav evening,by the Agnes
Cody company for the Johnstown suffer-ers
netted the fund some $22 alter paying
the company’s expenses.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A, Keister, of Cleve-land,
O., arrived here Friday on a visit to
tiie former’s parents. Mr. Keister re-turned
home yesterday, but his wife will
remain here for some time.
There will bn ail lee cream and straw-berry
festival held ill the Bridgeport
Hall,Friday and Saturdayevenings next,
June 14th and 15th, for tiie benefit of tiie
Evangelical Association church.
Last Sabbatli was Children's Day at
tiie Methodist church, which was, as
usual, beautifully decorated for the occa-sion.
The day was similarly observed at
the Middle Presbyterian church.
Mrs. C. L. Dick and family,who barely
made their escape from the Johnstown
disaster, are here now with friends. Mrs.
Dick’s parents and sisters were drowned.
Generous Mt. Pleasant friends compelled
her to accept a neat purse.
It is said tiiat Lewis Stock, the man
who lately swindled so many Mt. Pleas-ant
people in collecting subscriptions
for a labor paper that never came, was
seen here at Robinson’s show, Saturday,
selling pocket handkerchiefs.
A Mt. Pleasant physician jokingly re-marked
the other day that the profession
here had good grounds to bring a suit for
damages against the Mt. Pleasant Water
Company. He attributes the alarmingly
healthy condition of this place and the
neighboring coke villagos to tiie use ol
that company's water.
Thomas Cunningham, of tiie East End,
has taken one of tiie little Johnstown
sufferers to raise, a boy named Dixon
whosefothel- was drowned, leaving the
wile witli five children, Tho little fellow
is bright, although lie has not yet recov-ered
from tiiat evening of terror. He
has started up in his sleep several times,
crying, “There’s a house in the river!”
Mt, Pleasant seems satisfied tiiat her
two car loads of provisions and clothing
were promptly forwarded to tiie Johns-town
sufferers, caring not at all for news-paper
credit In her quiet way she lias
also started two subscription papers, oi e
at the First National bank and the other
at the East End Counting rooms of
Messrs. Morrison & Bro,
Among the Mt. Pleasant workers at
Johnstown l»Bt week were Chief of Police
Wolfendale, Fire Marshall Hay, Captain
Loar, Lieutenant Critchfield, Rev. Done-hoo,
Elmer Strickler and Supt. Crocker
and Robert Andrew, of the Southwest
Natural Gas Company. All are now at
home except Captain Loar. whose men
said they would quit if he did.
The Vine ■ Rounding Up ot the Year’s
Work, with flit- Icii 11 Programs of
Hie Different Entertainments.
The exorcises attendant upon the six-teenth
annual commencement of tho Mt.
Pleasant Classical and Scientific Insti-tute
began with the musical soiree, given
in the Grand Opera House, Friday even-ing,
by the pupils in the musical depart-ment,
over which Miss Kate Mather so
ably presides. There was a large audi-ence
present and one that fully apprecia-ted
the efforts put forth by the pretty
performers. The programme in full was :
Demernr Mazurka Muller
Misses Boole, Ramsay and Ferguson.
CommencementMarcl* Bartlett
Ladles’ Chorus.
Rondo Haydn
Miss MinnieMeMillin.
Polka Beelit
Miss Annie McElwoe.
Sing, Sweet Bird Ganz
Miss Jennie Wakefield,
Phantoms’Galop Morn
Miss Birdo Felgar.
Bird of Paradise Smith
Misses Colvin and Andorson.
Owl and Pussy Cat ingrahm
Misses Stephens, Worcester, Brockblll Ken-dall
and Marklc.
The Poet’s.Harp Mendelssohn
Miss Ola Brownfield.
By the Brookside Geordeler
Miss Della G. Clark.
Good Bye Tost!
Miss Margaret Dice.
Lustsplel Overture Bela
Miss Luela Worcester.
May Blossoms, Torry
Miss Mather.
Octave Study Kullak
Miss Ada Brow ifield.
Waltz Rondo, Cheerfulness Gumbert •
Misses Brownfield, Staufi’er Dice, Anderson,
Ramsay,
MIDDLE VEAR ENTERTAINMENT.
The Middle Year, or Prize Contest,
entertainment was held in the opera
house, Saturday evening, and despite
the presence In town of other attractions
which included a circus, a large assem-blage
of the town’s elite was present and
enjoyed to the utmost the exceedingly
well rendered program. The judges
were R. M. Luther, D. I)., of Philadel-phia,
and Messrs. James II. Pershing
and C. C. Law, of Pittsburg. Although
by their decision the first prize,$10, went
to Miss Anna Belle Yothers, and the
second, $5, to Adam Martin Wyant,
they had no easy task In so deciding for
each performer did himself or herself
proud. As a whole the performance
was a moenjoyable one. The even-ing’s
program was:
Overture, “Bas Bleu” Pettce
Star Band,
Prayer Rev. Dr. Luther
Oration “The English Language”
Raymond H. Coll.
Oration ...“The Progress of the Y. M. C. A.”
Edwin Justin Prescott.
Waltz, “Garnett” . Ripley
Star Band.
Essay . “The Eventful Quarter”
Ola M.Overholt.
Oration “The Peril of the Hour.”
William Herbert Hanna.
Cornet Solo, “Class of ’00 Polka,” . . .Wade,
(Strang and Miss Brownfield
C. E. Wmlc & Band.
Oration, “The American Mormon Despotism”
Adam Martin Wyant.
Essay “Woman in Politics”
Anna Belle Yothers.
Selection 5
Star Band.
Class Prophecy -
Oils Howard George.
Quickstep, “Pomposo” Petteo
star Band.
Benediction.
ANNUAL SERMON AND LECTURE.
On Siibbiith afternoon at 3:30 in tiie
Grand Opera House, R. M.Luther,D.D.,
of Philadelphia, preached the baccalau-reate
sermon, and nearly every seat in
the building was occupied. The speaker
took tiie divine words as found in I John
3-16, “Hereby perceive we the love ofGoil
because He laid down His [life for us;
and we ought to lay down our lives for
the brethren;” and used them for the
foundation ot his discourse on “Sclf-sacritice
tiie only road to success.” For
almost two hours lie held the closest at-tention
of liiB hearers. It waB truly a
line effort full of tiiat logic and pathos
that denote tiie powerful speaker. Tiie
Doctor wears on his breast tiie emblem
of the Red Cross Society, presrnted to
him for his relief work at Johnstown by
Miss Clara Barton.
The lecture before the Philorerfan So-ciety
of the Institute was delivered in
School Hall, last evening, by Wayland
Hoyt, D. D., of/Philadelphia,whose sub-ject
was “Arnold of Rugby.” It was,
indeed, a fitting tribute that he paid to
tiie memory of that famous teacher and
historian who “changed the face of edu-cation
all through the public schools ot
England.”
ALUMNI REUNION.
The examinations closed at noon to-day
and this eycning in tho opera house
the reunion of the Alumni Association
will take place, for which tho following
is the program:
Overture. . “Northwestern Band Carnival."
Star Hand. [Southwell.
Prayer • • , ■ •
Quintette “On Life’s Journey.”
Misses Alice Warden, Martha Warden,
AnnaOverholt, Messrs. B. M. Loar, J. L.
Ruth.
Oration “Outlets for Wealth.”
diaries B. Franks, ’87.
Vocal Solo “Meditation.”
Miss Martha K.Reymer, ’&>.
Essay Veneering
Mrs. S. C. Stevenson, 78.
Schottlsclie, .“Kentucky Jubilee .Singers.’’
Star Band. [Carnes,
Poem .
Prof. 11 W. King,’77.
Vocal Solo, “Palm Branches,” Faurc.
D. W. Keister.
Paper
Ii. M. Loar, '88.
Selection
star Baud.
Benediction.
COMMENCEMENT DAY’S PROGRAM.
To-morrow at 10:30 a. m. the com-mencement
exercises proper will begiu
in Hie opera house, when tiie program
as arranged will be:
Overture, “Rival” Pettec.
Star Band.
Quietly Wedded.
Last evening at 8 o’clock, at tho Catho-lic
parsonage,Itev. Father May joined in
the matrimonial bonds Mr. Jos.P.Kellar,
late shipping clerk for the H. C. Frick
Coke Company at its Standard works,
and Miss Emma, daughter of Mrs. Sarah
Sliupe.of South Church street. Mr. Kel-lar
will leave to-day for Pittsburg,w here
he will be connected with Parke Bros, &
Co., limited, proprietors of the Black
Diamond Steel Works.and where he will
be joined by his bonnie bride in the
course of soyeral weeks. THE JOURNAL
Prayer
Salutatory
Roy Hltchman Spencer.
Oration “Civil Service Reform.”
William Alfred Marsh.
Oration, “Whero Law Ends Tyranny Begins”
Frank Morgan Slorer.
Waltz, “Helena.” Pcttee.
Star Band.
Essay “Beauty in Utility.”
Cora Lee Lowe.
Oration “International Arbitration.”
Edward 13. Marsh.
Cornet Solo, “Arbucklcniftn,”. .Hartman.
Gluts, E. Wade and Band.
Oration “Finis Coronat Opns.’’
James Bonbright Tlnstman.
Essay “Weights and Pendulums.”
Margaret Adcle Dice.
Polonaise, “Royal Decree,” Swift.
Star Band.
Oration “America’s Debt to Poland.”
Roy Hltchman Spencer
Valedictory
William Alfred Marsh.
Selection... —
Star Baud.
Presentation of Diplomas.
Benediction.
Following at the close of these exer-cises
will come the annual dinner at the
Institute, for which this year only 125
tickets will he sold. Then 111 tiie eve-ning
will come the President’s reception
1 ns a fitting close to tho week’s success, v . _
extends its best wishes for long years of [and the class of’89 will go out into and
I ht appy wedded life. Ido battle with tho world.
I!
TH2
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TUESDAY, - JUNE 11.
THE GREAT PUBLIC HEART.
ITow quickly was the heart of this bis,
bustling world touched and made to
bleed at tlie news of the Johnstown dis-aster!
Hardly had the electric current
borne the direful intelligence across both
continents until measures were being tn
ken to rescue the perishing, recover the
dead, and relieve the suffering.
How quick and bow generous was the
response to this cry for aid that came up
from that black valley ol death ! The
sun had not set a second time on (lie des-olate
scene before relief was at hand and
whole train loads ot provisions and doth
ing were pushed to the very center of
tlie disaster, manned by kindly hands
eager to supply the wants of the needy.
Surely the world is growing better and
will be drawn still closer together by a
great calamity like this.
But bow slow seems the action taken
for relief by our own state’s Chief Exec-utive
when compared with the almost
instant response made by Governor For
aker, of Ohio, whose gift of tents was
not only just in place, but showed
that tne giver wasaliye to the importance
of doing something and that something
at once, showing not the least hesitancy
because those whom lie would succor
were beyond the borders of his own
state. Yet probably Governor Beaver
on account of the washouts of railroads
and the damage done to telegraph lines
cast of Johnstown, was not able to learn
of the full extent of the desolation
wrought, or, again, if lie did learn ot it
perhaps he was unable to grasp the re
sppnsibllity resting upon him. However
that may be, we believe his heart is nil
fight, and as this, of all others, is the
time to take a charitable view of every-thing,
let that feeling keep us from form
ing what may prove a too hasty opinion
of Governor Beaver’s actions in the mat-ter.
Let us rather keep our attention fixed
on the survivors that they come not
again to want, and, besides this, it is well
to remember that it will require vast
sums of money to clear away the wreck-age
and, by so doing, prevent the out-break
oi a pestilence, Mt. Pleasant was
prompt to giye of her provisions and
clothing; let her not now withhold ot
what is most needed: money. Put a
silver lining to the black clouds which
encompass those whose lives have been
saved to face desolation and sorrow.
thought of as laetors in popular move
ments or moral reforms. The law, there-fore,
leaving women entirely out ol the
question, says (tint when a person is ac-cused
ot violating the statule by appear-ing
at tlie polls, “he shall, on conviction,
forfeit and pay,” etc.
In point of fact and of law, I here Is no
penalty against a woman appearing at
tlie polls in Pennsylvania “for tlie pur-pose
of issuing tickets or Influencing tlie
citizens qualified to vote,” and any honest
and enlightened judge would so decide.
The law, by Its own distinct expression,
applies only to men; for only persons of
tlie male gender can come under the law
Unit declares only that “he shall, on con-viction,”
he punished, etc. It does not
apply to women, dogs, mules or any
other of tlie possible surroundings
of an election, and there is no law,
either statutory or fundamental, that
provides for tlie punishment of women
for any eflort to influence voters that
would be lawful In any man. They are
foi bidden by tlie law to do so, as it for-bids
“any person” from influencing
voters but legal voters and their sons,
but tlie law distinctly provides for tlie
punishment only of men.
There is, therefore, no penalty that can
be Inflicted upon women who want to
appear at tlie | oils on the 18th of June
or at any other popular election. Mo
judge would strain the law to punish a
woman for exercising tlie right of citizen
ship at tlie polls to the extent of advising
voters. On the contrary, every judge
would want tlie clearest and most posi-tive
statute to compel him to fine and
imprison a woman for offering a ticket
or advice to voters at an election. Tlie
law was clearly Intended lostop rounders
and corruptionists and not to tine and
imprison women for what neither law
nor reason could call an offense.
Women would not go to tlie polls with
clubs, nor witli corruption money, nor
with whisky jugs, nor with brawling
speech to disturb the good order of elec
tlons. They would go with tract, with
song, with supplication and with all of
woman’s lovely attributes, and who
would drive them away ? or who would
think of a violent or next to Impossible
construction of law to line and imprison
them for offering tickets or advice to
voters at any election? The women of
Pennsylvania can go to the polls when-ever
they wish to do so, and no line will
barrass them nor will any prison yawn
for them.—Philadelphia Time*.
EXCHANGE ETCHINGS.
One KfTrrl of (he Olimler.
Steubenville Herald.
Tlie deluge from Conemaugli lake will
put a Anal quietus on the scheme of sup
Plying tlie Ohio river with artificial res
ervoirs located in tlie Allegheny moun-tains
which was ardently advocated II
few years ago.
No Need for Our Solon*.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
There is no necessity for convening tlie
Legislature in extra session to look alter
tlie interests of tlie Johnstown sufferers
Individual effort Is doing all that is nee
cssary to be done. As to tlie public
health, the State Board having Dial mat-ter
in charge ahoithl lie able to get along
without an extra session. It would have
been to Die credit of the Legislature,
however, it it had made a more liberal
appropriation for sanitary purposes and
squandered less on junketing and in
other ways. Goy. Beaver should turn a
deaf ear to every request, to cull an extra
session at this Juncture.
w.
‘ FOR GOD AND HOME AND NATIVE
LAND.”
Future Snft-guui<la.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
It will be remembered, as to most of
Die survivors ot Die dreadful catastrophe,
that anything they have in worldly pos
sessions is bound up in tlie ruins. A w ild
as the associations must long be to Diem,
it is still at Johnstown that Die sites of
their homes arc, and with one another
and tlie people of Die siirrmiiHling countv
their most intimate acquaintance lies.
IVe may be sure, however, that in Die
rebuilding of the town,which will follow
the rebuilding of the Cambria works, Die
treachery of Die elements and the dan-gerous
experimental encroachments by
men upon Die track and ^outlet of the
waters w ill be tlie tilings first and most
Vigilantly guarded against.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
I. O. O. E.
Moss Itoae I .nil No. :1S0, I. O. O. K., meats
every Thursday evening to Gild KCIIOWN'
Hull. JOHN A. (STEVENSON, See’y.
Tills column la conducted by Die Woman's
Christian Temperance Union ol Mt. Pleasant,
Begular meetings Ac., at 2:30, p. m.
on tlie 1st and 3d Thursdays of each
month in their room in die Strlckler
Block. The Y. W. ’1’, U. meets in Die
same place on Die 1st and 3d Fridays of
each mouth at 7 p. in.
KNIGHT,SOF HONOR.
Mt. Pleasant Lodge No. 2280, K. ol II.,
meets nltermite Monday eveulugs In Odd
Fellows' Hall. JAS. 8. liltADDUCK, ltep.
CHURCH DIRECTORY. PROFESSIONAL CARDS RAILROAD SCHEDULES.
: HIGH CLAIMS OF HIGH LICHNFK.
KOYAL AKOANUM.
K. A. Lodge No. 692 meets Alternate Mon-day
evenings In udd Fellows’ Hall.
J. A. LOAIt, See’y.
A. O. K. ol M. 0.
Mt. Pleasant Castle No. 90, Ancient Order
Knights of Mystic chain, meets alterant*
HaturUay evenings in Udd Fellows’ Hull
U. \V. WILSON, It. H.
THE QUESTION OF CREMATION.
The resort to cremation as the best
disposition to make of the bodies of the
dexJ y growing in favor among the most
intelligent classes. It is favored as pref-erable
to bui-ia’. on sentimental as well
as sanitary ground., and tlie societies
for tlie propagation of cremation now
number on their rolls of membership
many of tlie best-known men and women
of the country. Women especially are
in fayor of it, literary women in particu-lar,
and in' New York, Brooklyn and
Boston especially there are a great many
women who have made fame for them-selves
who are enrolled among tlie ere-maDonists,
while tlie movement is en
dorsed by a still larger number who have
not taken tlie pains to become members,
While it is an established fact that
women are tlie most earnest advocates of
cremation, it is equally true that the
strongest opposition to it comes from tlie
same sex, and both are governed more
by sentiment than by reason in making
up their minds on tlie question. One
holds that, as the inevitable fate of
everything human is to return to its
original dust, it would he better to burn
the body at once and prevent tlie genera-tion
of poisonous gases deleterious to
humanity, than to await the slow process-es
of nature. The others who oppose
cremation say it is in violation of the
laws of nature to thus dispose of the dead
in addition to the fact that it must be
liarrowing to tlie souls of tlie surviving
relatives.
An exchange sensibly remarks that
without taking sides witli either in this
general discussion, there are few, we
think, who will deny that it would have
been better, if such a tiling nad been
possible, to cremate the victims of the
Johnstown disaster than to permit them
to decay and pollute the water of the
streams which must be oonsumed by the
living.
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.
The act prohibiting all butlegul voters
and their sons from appearing at tlie
polls to influence voters, and providing
for a punishment oi both fine and im-prisonment
for tlie offense, was passed
just half a century ago, when women,
even in enlightened Pennsylvania, had
few rights under tlie law that a man was
bound to respect. It was before the day
that women were accorded rights over
their own property, and women were not
A STRICKEN AND DESOLATED CITY.
Johnstown inis always held an honored
place in tlie Industrial development of
Pennsylvania and been in close business
relations with Pittsburg. We cannot but
hope Die terrible calamity tlmt lias be-fallen
it, ns In tlie eases of most American
cities desolated by tire and flood, will
eventually open a highway to a greater
prosperity than that of the past. In 1809
tlie working of iron ores was begun in
its vicinity, and tlie early iron manufac-turers
rightly foresaw a great future for
the industry at that point, with coal, ore
and limestone iu close contiguity. In
tlie old system of Slate improvements it
was relatively as impartanta pointas the
terminus of the western division of the
canal as it has since become a railroad
and manufacturing center. It was at
Johnstown canal passengers took the old
Portage road, with its inclined planes,
across tlie mountains, and tlie scelion
freight boats were put on trucks for the
same mountain journey. A busy place
was Johnstown at that day, measured by
development elsewhere. Then came the
Pennsylvania Railroad m 1852, and witli
it rapid progress in tlie manuiacture of
iron and steel. It was there in 1857-’58
the late William Kelley, of Louisville,
made tlie best experiments in this coun-try
in Die manufacture of pneumatic
steel, and there is no doubt he preceded
Sir Henry Bessemer in Die diseoyery.
This was in tlie infancy of the (Jambrl
ron Company, which has since then
grown to a plant employing about 7,500
people, witli a product only exceeded by
one or two other mills in tlie world.
The population ot Johnstown and the
contiguous boroughs, which very likely
would soon have been consolidated in
one municipality, was not less than 30,-
000. A large proportion were of German,
Irish, Welsh anu English birth and ex-traction.
Strikes were of rare occurrence,
as the iron company pursued a liberal
policy; it owned about 700 houses rented
to its employes, and encouraged its work-men
to become owners of their houses.
The flood of last week lias not impaired
tlie natural advantages and resources of
production. The great body of its skilled
mechanics are still there. It railroad
facilities will soon be as great as ever.
Capital, as in the past, will find its best
investment there. Let tlie afflicted peo-ple
take heart, for they have the sympa-thies
and will have generous and liberal
support from the whole country in tiding
over tlieir dire misfortunes to a brighter
future.—Pittsbunj Past.
U oul^of t'litrr*
PittHbiirg Pont,
Those who despair of the future of tlie
Conemaugli Valley in and about Johns
town may well take hope and courage
from to-day’s prosperous condition of
the South. What has been done at Die
South to repair Die ravages of war will
he done there to build up on Die desola
tion left by the flood. Before many days
tlie railroads will he opened up. The
great mamil'iicuirlng interests announce
their purpose to restore their plants, and
in a few weeks tlie valley will he alive
with Die hum of renewed industry. Iis
admirable geographical location, its min
oral resources, its organized capital and
labor, its avenues of communication, will
remain as before tlie flood, and these are
tlie essential elemeuls of prosperity and
progress.
Ohlo'it Popular Chief Executive.
Pittsburg Press.
Foraker is the man, after nil. As soon
as lie heard of tlie disaster Ids soldierly
promptitude and quick understanding of
Die need of tlie minute was shown by
his ordering 1,000 tenl6 lo be sent to
Johnstown at once. How excellent was
tlie thought we all know now. Witli
wind and rain doing their best to drive
out the little life left in those that out-lived
the main stroke, Die tents were
tlie most welcome provision that could
be made. Foraker lias shown that lie is
tlie emergency man, and il lie is not Die
idol of Pennsylvania as well as Ohio
when tlie good deeds of men iu connec-tion
witli tlie Johnstown horror are
calmly reviewed, then there is no appre-ciation
of merit in tlie country.
An EHI-IJT Crlllcl.in.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Governor Beaver is laying himself
open lo unfriendly criticism by his hesi-tancy
in adopting promptly measures
for the relidf of tlie sufferers in Die Cone-raaugh
and Kiskimlnetas valleys. One
of tlie first and highest requisites of a
leader, whether in statesmanship or in
battle, is quickness of perception and
promptitede of action. As tlie official
head of Die great Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, tie should have been
among tlie first to set alloat measures of
relief, hut ns yet lie lias done little il any-thing,
and tlie burden lias all fallen upon
Pittsburg and tlie Pennsylvania Railroad
officials. It is true the .State Capital was
temporarily cut off from communication
with Die scene of disaster, hut even now
Unit this difficulty lias been overcome lie
hesitates.
CROPS IN THE NORTHWEST
Reports from the Northwest, the great
wheat and corn section, are quite favora-ble.
The cold weather has somewhat
retarded the growth of the grain, but
there have been rains in nearly all sec-tions,
North Dakota excepted. In the
winter wheat states a fair average crop
i6 expected. In Kaneas, Missouri and
Southern Illinois, there lias been an ex-cess
of rain and many fields have been
submerged. Corn has made no progress
since tlie cold set in, but when the heat
comes it will make up for lost time. Oats
are looking well, while grass promises a
heavy yield.
There may he conditions which will
change tlie aspect of things before liar-vest,
hut tlie probabilities now favor a
fair average yield of the principal crops
of the West and Northwest. Should the
present cold be succeeded by warm weath-er,
which generally prevails in June, the
crops will make a very rapid advance-ment.
Tlie ground is now thoroughly
saturated witli moisture, and all that is
required is tlie warm rays of tlie sun to
give strength to the stalk and maturity
and plumpness to the grain.
God Only Permuted It.
Rev. T. DeWItt Talmage.
Why is it multitudes arecrying? Why
is It that all tills lias come upoll those
beautiful valleys, and Diat these multi-tudes
are so awlully slain ? Let no one
say it was a judgment of God upon the
people as so often it is said in regard to
such disasters. No. There are no better
people under the sun than those slain
last Friday at Johnstown. I have been
in their homes and I know them well.
Besides that, there are hundredsof towns
and cities by then- iniquities Inviting tlie
Divine judgment who were never struck
with lightning or washed under inexora-ble
waves. If Brooklyn and New York
Bad been punished for all their sins tlie
Hudson and East rivers would now stand
higher than tlie piers of tlie East river
bridge and tlie blue fish would beholding
high carniyal in our dining hulls and
pantries. Be careful how you try to
handle the thunderbolts of tlie Almighty.
God preserve our homes, our cities, our
nations, from repetition of such horrors.
The Lesson of the Floods.
Philadelphia Times.
The appalling floods in tlie Interior of
tlie state teach an impressive lesson to
tlie people of Pennsylvania of the perils
resulting from tlie destruction of the
forests. * * * But what can we do?
Not much for the benefit of tlie present
generation, hut something for those that
are to come after. Our fathers chopped
down tlie trees without a thought of re-placing
them, and we are reaping the re-sults
of their carelessness. And now we
are increasing Die legacy of evil to trans-mit
it to our children. This is where we
can learn a lesson from what is past
Tiie destruction of tlie remaining forests
of Pennsylvania must he cheeked and
regulated and some provision must he
made for forest cultivation. Trees are of
slow growth, but they do grow, and It is
entirely feasible, in the course of years,
to cover again some of our denuded
mountains, valueless for any other pur-pose,
with fresh verdure It not with use-ful
timber. This is a work that can only
be done under the authority and super-vision
of the state, and Die subject is one
of the most important tliatcan command
[ the attention of the Legislature.
KEY, II KllHH'K JOHNSON.
It is claimed tlmt high licniiso will
lessen the her of saloons. This looks
fair on Its face; hut let us see how It
stands Iuvrsi(gallon. Ordinarily, a less
her of men will pay $500 or $1.000
for a thing Ilian will pay $50 I'orll. This
makes plausible Die claim that high li
cense will shut ups silicons. Hi t il
the saloon can he made prolhable witli
$1,000 license, how many saloon keeper
are likely to go out of Die business? By
further and worse devices ol cheap drugs
and gamiiling most saloons can he made
profitable. A few will doubDcss refuse
to lake nut licenses under Dm high tee
Bui what is to hinder their selling witli
out, license? Not conscience; for con-eiire
lias no voice in this business
Not public opinion; for public opinion
lets hundreds and thousands of saloons
run now without license anil there is
nothing in high license to change public
opinion. Not pnliie, for police are in
the same boat with public opinion.
“But Die saloon keepers will do II
themselves,” say the advocates of liigl
license. “The men who pay $1,000 for
privilege of opening and running a drink
shop will prosecute the men who paj
nothing.” Not by any means. Saloon
keepers will not turn prohibitionists.
Saloon keepers will not throw stones a(
their own kith and kin. They limy pro
test, hut they will not prosecute. They
live in glass houses.
This is tlie logic. What are tlie facts?
First, are there unlicensed saloons under
liigii license? Alas! plenty of them
Look at Bloomington, III., where high
license lias prevailed for something like
ten years; long enough, surely, to justify
a pretty decided judgment. There the
unlicensed places ate declared to out-number
tlie licensed. Tlierean alderman
rises in Ids official seat and argues for
tlie reduction of license as a matter of
justice, on tlie ground that there are
thirty or fourty places in his ward alone
where liquor is sold without license.
And Uapt,. Reibsame, of that city, tlie
owner of one of its gin palaces, rivalling
Clileago’s best guilded haunts, first pres-ident
of tlie State Liquor Dealers’ Asso-ciation,
a republican and a delegate lo
the late state convention at Peoria, said
recently iu Die Bloomington Leader, over
oyer his own signature, “We liquor deal
era who pay our license of $000 per year
could afford to pay $1,000 a year it we
were protected against infringements ol
our business by unlicensed parties.” Yet
Bloomington is cited as a sample of Die
beauties of high license.
Another claim of high license is that
it makes tlie business more respectable
and decent. Outwardly, yes. It gives
the saloon tints licensed a certain im-portance,
a broader seal ot legitimacy
But It is gilded corruption after all; “i
goodly apple, rotten at tlie heart.” A1
most without exception these high li
censed saloons sell to minors, sell to
drunkards, sell on Sunday, and are link
ed with gambling—often with harlotry.
It is these gilded haunts of vice, not Die
low doggeries, that the mothers chiefly
dread as tlie first tempters of tlieir hoys.
Tlie respectability is only in glitter and
tinsel and sham show of decency, wlill
within are “dead men’s hones and all
uncleanness.”
Another claim of high license is tlmt it
will increase tlie revenue. Without a
doubt it will. Tlie claim is true. But
its truth involves a vicious circle in
which crime and lust and pauperism and
orphanage are made tlieir own inevitable
successors. Here is Die Inescapable log
ieal process—let tlie words be repealed
until they get burned Into the public
conscience iu letters of tire: Grogshops
confessedly make criminals, produce
street broils, violences, thefts, murders.
These necessitate increased police. Police
cost money. High license makes tin-grog
shops pay the money. Iu other
words, high license says to Die saloon
keeper, “Messrs. Saloon keepers, we give
it up. Your saloons are Die open sluice
ways through which monstrous iniqui-ties
flood society; but we can’t shut them.
Go on, therefore, perpetuating crime and
manufacturing criminals, but pay tor it.”
That is tlie dreadful maelstrom going
round, and in the ceaseless whirl and
swirl of which are wasted lives, ruined
homes, broken hearts, wrecked fortunes,
widowhood and orphanage, idiocy and
madness, bitterness and curses, discuses
and death, going down at last in a wall
of anguish and or dark despair. Yes,
high license will Increase tlie revenue.
But is this enlightened Christian legisla-tion?
It is the very Imbecility of states
manshlp, and a confession of utter luipo
tency. Citizens of intelligence and
morality, you surely arc not prepared to
admit that this Is tlie best legislation Die
Christian judgment and conscience of
tills nineteenth century lias for so in-famous
a business.
1 bus tlie high claims of high license
go down one by one—one by one except
tlie last, viz., that it increases tlie reve-nue.
And rather than that should stand
as a sole commendation of tlie policy to
the disgrace of intelligence and the re-proach
of conscience, it were better that
high license hud never been born.
Men of Mt. Pleasant who advocate
high license for the revenue it bring,
keep in your mind’s eye Rev. Johnson’s
statistics—$825 in tlie treasury against
$27,000 to pay for crime committed by
liquor.
Workingmen, on the 18th of June.vote
out a business that keeps comforts and
luxuries out of your homes and away
from your wives and children, to give
them to tlie saloon keeper whose main
object in life is to make himself rich on
your earnings: when your money is done
be sure he is done with you.
U. A. II.
Itnliort Warden Post No. toll G. A. R..J. A.
Btnveiwou, Adjutant, meets In Odd Fellows’
liall every third Friday of each month
J. O. U. A. M.
Logan (.'mi licit. No. 115, Junior Order Untied
American .Mechanics, meets every i uceduv
evening,at7 o,clock, In odd Fellows’ Hull
OAN’I. LULLING Kit, Councilor,
A. (). U. W.
Lodge or Ancient Order United Workmen
meets In odd Fellows' Hall every alternate
frrlday ot tlie mouth,
A. N. STAUFFER, Hec’y.
HI. Peter’s Reformed Church-Services at.
,**» m. and 7:30 |I. in. Sunday school at
thud a. m» (:. R. Kerner, Pustor.
Uiilloil Presbyterian Church—Services Sab-bath
morning and evening at tlie usual hours.
Sunday School nt tcrUI a. m.
Howard H. Wilson, Pastor.
I'reshyIerlnn ('hltrch.—Services every Sun-day
morning id, 111:30, and every Sunday
vonln g I, 7l80, Sunday school atthSO a. lo.
H. 10. KIMot, Pastor.
Trinity Lutheran Church.—Services every
alternate Sunday id 3:iiti p. in. Sunday school
every Sunday at 2:00 p in .1. Sarvor, Pastor.
I tut led HI I I liren In I ,'hrlsi —Services at 10:30
I*, in-and 7:30 p m. I :inss meeting at (1:30 a
m. Monday school at 2 p. in. Young people's
meeting at 11:30p, 1,1. .1 I. I,. Roster, Pastor,
First Ihiptlst Uhurali.—Services at 10:30 a,
m and 7:30 li. m, Monday school at 0 a.m.
I leaching ill Alice mines Tuesday at 7:80 p
in; Bessemer, Thursday, 7:30 p in; West
Ovcrlon, Friday,7:30p in. Mission Sunday
school al K.asl End, Murewood. Alice, Hesse
mer and West Overton at 2:30 i
N. I •'
F L. MARSH, M. 1).,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
(.mice ami residence, West Main .Street.
Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
10:80 a
9 a. in.
K of 1*.
Ilyins Lodge No 171, Knights or Pythias,
meets every Wednesday evening In K. off
Dali. c A. HIIKIUUCK. K.ofU. and S.
Reynolds, Pastor.
Mat hod 1st EplHeopal Church.—Services at
in. mid 7:80 p in. Sunday school at
\ filing people's meeting at 0:80 n. m.
T. F. Pershing, Pastor.
A At E Z. Church.—Services on Sunday
at 10:80 a. in and 7:80 p in. Sunday school
Jit2 p. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday even-ing
ul 8:00. (L W. Lewis, Pastor
< 'htireli of God Services at 10:80 a. in. and
7 p. in. e\ory Hnbbalh. Also services at Bun-lu
r Hill the second and fourth Sabbuths of
each month at8:80 p. m. Sabbath school 9:16
a. in. al Bethel and 2:80 p. in. at Bunker Hill
every Sunday. AH Invited.
Kev. C. H. Grove, Pastor. mPLANTS'
Mt- Pleasant Nurseries-
Apple Standard Peitr, Dwarf Pear,
Plum, Cherry, Peach, Quince,
Grape Vines, Strawberry Plants
Raspberry Plants,
j Evergreens, Shrubbery,
Shade and Ornamental Trees
In great, variety at reasonable prices.
ESPECIAL BARGAINS in Pear, Pluin,
and Cherry uy the dozen or hundred.
i AR.S, HIDE,
1
' VETERINARY SURGEON.
Office 215 Main street, Mt. Pleasant,
F* M. M( CONA UGH Y, M. I).,
• , PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
will he found at the old oflice vacated by
J. A R. McConanghy, to attend to pro-fessional
calls promptly at all'hours,
C C. KELLEY
O. ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office—-Hitchinan Block,Church street
one door south of’Squire Stauffer’s or-ifice,
Mt. Pleasant, Pa. Collections a
specialty. Special attention given to tlie
preparation of legal papers of all kinds.
Real estate and pension agent. -I-12-tf
JOSEPH A. Mi CURDY,
” ATTORNEY AT LAW.
GHERNSIIPRO, PA.
Ol'I’ICE*—No. 135 North Main street,
four doors alarm Court House.
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• PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,
Office.corner Church and Main streets,
Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
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BOOTS AND SFIOBS DRESSKD WITH
Wolff’s ackisig
NEVER GET HARD AND STIFF,
Always look noat. Eqinllv Rood for Men's.Women's
or Child’s Shoes. No blacking brush required, nnd
the polishing is (lone in three minuteswithout labor
WATERPROOFand warranted to preserve
lentbor, and keeps it soft and durable.
Sold by Shoe Stores, Grocers, Druggists Ac.
Tvff it on your Harness.
WOLFF & RANDOLPH. PHILADELPHIA.
Real Estate!
J. T) McCaleb A Go., office on corner of
Church and .Main streets, will give attention
to the purchase, sale and renting of Real Ks-ftte
and all other business in Mils line.
Something New !
In connection with our Nursery and Green-louae
business we have opeued out,on Church
itreet, a
Seed and florist’s Store.
where we are prepared to furnish the old re-liable
Landreth’s Garden and Field Seeds in
large or small quantities, and Peter Mender
son’s Flower Seeds. Also all articles of mer-chandise
usually found in Horticultural and
Florists’ stores, such as
Plain and Fancy Flower Pot,
Hanging Baskets, Window Boxes,
Bracket Pots, Lawn Vases and
Garden Tools, Lawn Seeds,
and Lawn Feitilizers,
Flowering Bulbs and
Roots, Grape
Vines,
Shrubbery and Itimly Roses in season for
-, Plum Cherry and other
WS. ri.OTNER, M. D.
. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office opposite National Hotel, Mt.
Pleasant., Pa.
U M.< ROSBY,M.D .
O. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Office, 1015 Mum street, Mt. Pleasant,
Pa.
/"•URTIS II. GREGG,
A TTORNEY AT LAW.
Office with Sloan A Duty, Greensburg
Pa.
pGORGE TA YLOR. c. E.,
vJ Mining Engineer and Surveyor.
Auctioneer.
Apply, Morewood Road, Mt. Pleasant.
I®. J. A. L0AR,
Teeth Extracted Without Pain,
Fine Filling.With Gold, Silver, &o.
A Specialty.
ARTIFICIAL TEETH
at the lowest prices, mounted on
any hind of plate you may wish.
Vitalized Air Administered
All work guaranteed. Office three
doors East of U. B. Church.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
OF MT. PLEASANT, PA.
CAPITAL STOCK $100,000.
OFFICERS:'
H. W. STONKK. HENRY JORDAN,
President Cashier.
W. J. HITOHMAN, G. W. STONER,
Vice President. Assis’tCashier.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY JORDAN, W. J. HITOHMAN,
H. W. STONER, WM. B. NEEL,
J. C. OROWNOVER, JOS. R. STAUFFER,
SAM’L WARDEN, DR. J. H.CLARK.
W.D. MFUIN
Particular attention given to collections, and
proceeds promptly settled
THT IT. PLEASANT, BANK
Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland C-o., Pa.
W. J. HITOHMAN - Cashier
J. G, SHOPE, - Ass’t Cashier
Receives Current and Time Deposits.
Discounts Paper.
Collections made throughout the United
States
Drafts issued on England, Ireland, France,
Germany, etc., and a GENERAL BANKING
BUSINESS transacted.
planting.
Fruit tre
FLOWER
Also Pear,
ees. A great variety of
DESIGNS
for Festive or Funeral occasions will be piu
up on short notice at reasonable rates. Or-ders
for Bouquets or baskets of flowers will
receive prompt attention. Special care will
be given to this part ol the business.
All desirable kinds ofGreenhouse, Bedding
and Border plants will be kept on hands or
supplied from our Greenhouses at the nur-sery
on Hand Hill Avenue.
Canary Birds and Bird Cages,
Gold Fish, Fish Globes and Acquarlums.
Will be pleased to have you call either at
tne nursery or at No. 819 Church street.
JOHN McADAMS,
Nurseryman, Seedsman and Florist.
N. H. Downs’ Vegetable Balsamic Elixir
Is a positive cure for Coughs, ColiTs, Croup, Whooping-Cough, Catarrh, Hoarse-ness,
Influenza, Spitting Blood, Bronchitis, Asthma, Lung Fever, Pleurisy, and
all diseases of tlie Throat, Chest and Lungs. As an Expectorant it lias no equal.
Consumption lias been cured times without number by its timely use. It heals
tlie ulcerated surfaces, and cures when all other remedies fail. Fifty-six years of
constant use lias proven its virtues. Every family should keep it in tlie house.
Sold everywhere. Henry, Johnson & Lord, Proprietors, Burlington, Vt.
Dr. Henry Baxters Mandrake Bitters are
a sure cure for Costiveness, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Diseases of the
Kidneys, Torpid Liver, Rheumatism, Dizziness, Sick Headache, Loss of Appetite,
Jaundice, Apoplexy, Palpitations, Eruptions and Skin Diseases. Keep tlie Stom-ach,
Bowels, and Digestive Organs in good working order, and perfect health will
be tlie result. Ladies and others subject to Sick Headache will find relief and
permanent cure by the use of these Bitters. Being tonic and mildly purgative
tliey purify tlie blood. Price 23 i ts. per Lottie. For sale by all dealers in medi-cine.
Henry, Johnson & Lord, Proprietors, Burlington, Vt.
Henry, Johnson <J- Lord, Proprietors of
Arnica and Oi! Liniment for Man and Beast. Tho
host external remedy for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramps, Sprains, Bruises,
Burns and Scalds, Sciatica, Backache, Frosted Feet and Fairs, and all other Pains
and Aches. It is a safe, sure, and effectual Remedy for Galls, Strains, Scratches,
Sores, &c,., on Horses. One trial will prove its merits. It effects are in most
cases instantaneous. Every bottle warrante d to givo satisfaction. Price 23 cts.
and 50 cts. per bottle. Sold everywhere.
For Sle by J. P, WERK1MN, Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
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6 16 1107 f3 50 Nlnevah
6 8S 10 56 8-ti Florence
lb.St fib 51 f8 8(1 Laoolie
6 29 10 44 3 31 Lockpr’t
6 21 10 38 8 28 Bolivar
0 18 10 21 8 18 Inters’cu
6 0S flo 16 Gray’s
6 08 10 09 f8 09 Hillside
6 00 10 08 1806 Millwood
5 66 9 58 8 01, Derry
5 5tj 9 51 t'2 51! Bradenvllle 7 41
15 47if 9 18 fi 51 Loyalh’a /7 43
5 42 9 18 2 47 Lftt robe I 7 47
o 851 9 31 f2 41 Beatty’s '7 51
§6 20
6 27
I 6 17
6 54
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7 07
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f7 23
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10 02 5 44
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no 14 5 59
10 2-1 6 10
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10 43
no 49
f2 37
P2 32
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5 16 8 88
5 00,f 8 32
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4 69 , 8 24 02 (Mi
4 55 8,19 f*2 01
fi 53 f 8 16
fl 5! f 8 14
119 Ml 154
4 45 8 06 n 49
14 42: f 8 02
(ftrney’s 17 58
George's fS 01
Ureensburg 816
Rftdeb’gbs |>i .58
Grapeville I 8 57
I’enn
Manor
Biddle
shat'ton
Irwin
Larimer
^ rdara
27
6 32
6 38
16 41
6 15
6 53
58
fll 15 r7 Oft
11 24 7 15
10 56
11
4 36j 7 55 fl 41 Stewart’s
$3 40| $0 55 ||100 Plttsbv?
PM* AM' P M|.„ n..A,
Flag Station.
fll 85!....
, - 01 f1l 40
9 05 fll 44:....
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9 19 ;
9 25 n2 02.:;.
nOIJTHWKST. FFNN. RAILWAY —On ,.n,
O after N ovember 18th, 1887, thsni*>si>fi>a*7
Bonger trains will ne as follows: ‘ !
SOUTHWARD,
a
P M P M' A M
NOSTHWAD
AM P MI P M
10 04
$4 25 ui no
2 22
O33 2 35
<>•* I 2 43
15 40 f 2 45
f.>43 f2 17,
a 46 f 2 50
6 o3j 2 55;
f 5 50 f 2 58! fl()07
f 6 01 f ;o)8 flO 12
6 05 % 00 10 1
I 6 07|f 309 flO 19
! 6 J2| 3 12: 10 22
f 6 14 f 3 10 no 27
6 21 320 10 31
6 24! 3 23 10 34
f6 27if 3 20! flO .’{7
f 6 31 f3 30' no n
r 6 36 r 3 35 no 46
f 6 41 If 3.10! flo 51
6 45 344 10 56
f 6 491 f3 49 flO 59
$ 8 35 Pittsburg. ^ 9 15
9 10 Oreensburg. 8 44
9 46 E. Greensb’g 8 40
9 50 Huff 8 35
f 9 52,( o’ty 11 onie. 8 33
f 9 54 .Fostervilie., re 30
9 57 Youngwood. 8 27
f 6 52 j f3 52
f 6 55 f3 55
6 66 3 58
f 7 02lf 4 02
f 7 08 f 4 03
f 7 05 f 4 05
f 7 08 f4(»8
f 7 10 f4 10
(7 11 f 4 n
f 714 f 4 14
f7 19 f 4 19
7 22 422
f 7 24 f 4 24
f 7 28 f 4 28
J730f430
f 7 33J4 33
7:381 4 38
fll 05
fll 05
11 08
111 15
til 13
til 15
fll 18
'alnterville 18 19
... Hunker....j re 16
...BeUmny...1 re 11
Tarrs 8 08
...Leuffrr.... 18 05
Stonervillo..i 8 02
..JTs!wkeye...i 17 58
...Hcottdale...
. FiVerson ...
Valley w’ks
.Pennsville.
. Moyer
Davidson .
Connellsv’e.
New Haven.
.Wheeler
Watt
.Dunbar.
Ferguson
Beeson..
. .Gist ...
P’rost
754
7 51
17 48
17 45
17 40
f7 35
7 32
17 28
af
7 22
720
17 17
17 16
f7 14
17 11 fll 20 Stainbaugh a 10
fll 21 LemontFur. 17 08
fll 24 ..Evans. i 17 06
111 29 .Red S June. 17 01
11 32 Uniontown. 6 58
11134 Leith 10 56
fll 38 Hutchinson. f6 52
111 40 Brownfield. 10 50
11143 011 pliant 6 47
11 48 .Fairchance. $0 42
PM PM AM
3
12 45 26 15
11 15 5 02
11 08 4 58
11102,f*-: r
110 59 ft -
10 57 4 ( ,
110 52 ft 4d
tio in n -w
nu 11 (4 -'•«
in 11 1 -iu
Mu 18 11 59
10:45 '
110 31
10 27
10 24
no 21
no 17
no 12
floor
10 03
19 69
TIT .56
f 9 53
950
f 9 46
f 9 44
f 9 42
f 9 40
f 9 38
f 9 37
f 9 34
f 9 29
926
f9 24
f 9 19
9 17
9 13 $9 08
W. J. HITOHMAN,
W. B. NEEL,
J. C. CROWNOVER.
J. P. Werkman,
Ccr. Main and Church Sts ,
ESTABLISHED
DEALER
GROCERIES
AND
FI E CONFECTIONS,
GALLEY&MECHLING,
—Manufacturers of—
Carriages,
Buggies
Phaetons,
Surreys,
GROCERY AND BUCKWAGONS.
Repairing Promptly and Neatly Done
WEST MAIN ST., MT. PLEASANT.
J. R. ZUCK
DEALER IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
FRUIT
None but A1 Fruit,
VEGETABLES
ICE CREAM and LEMONADE
in season.
“Millions for homes, factories and
schools, but not one cent for saloons.”
“No compromise for the Keystone
State.”
School Books, Hats and Caps,
Bibles & Testaments, Boots & Shoes,
Pens & Pencils,
Blank Books,
School Books,
Paper & Envelopes,
Inks and Fluids, Albums,
5c Sheet Husic, School Books-
CHEAP FOR CASH-Opposite
Postofflce, - - Mt. Pleasant.
HEW LIVERY I
litas! Nti Vsiitlfis!
J. E. Gibbs desires to announce to the
citizens of Mt. Pieasantand| vicinity that he
has opened new
LIVERY AND EXCHANGE STABLES,
In the rear ol the Gibbs House, West Main
street, where they will be pleased to see any-body
desiring livery service. Moderate rates
and first-class accommodations, stables open
at all hours. 10 17 88 ly
I. E. GIBBS.
I he Greensburg Accommodation South
ward leaves Greensbuig at g6:45 a. rn„ arri-ving
af East Greensburg at 6:49, Hiiff0:53|
County Home 16:55, Fosteiville 10:58, Young-wood
7:01, Painterville f7:06, Hunker 17:($.
Bethany f7:14 Tarrs 7:17, Leuffer 17:21, Htoner-.
ville 7:24, Hawkeye 17:29, Hcottdale 7:34, Ever-1
son 7.37, Valley Works 17:41, Pennsville 17:45,1
Moyer <7:80, Davidson r7: vj, ( 'onnellsvilleTJinJ
New Haven 8:08, Wheeler 8:06, Watt 8:09J
Dunbar 8:11, Ferguson 18:15, Beeson f8:10J
Gist fX: 19, Frost 18:22, Stain baugh 18:23, Le-T
mont Furnace 18:25, Evans 18:1&, RedstonJ
Junction W:33, Uniontown 8:36, Leith 18:38,'.
Hutchinson 18:43, Brownfield 18:45, Oliphantl
48:49 Fairchance 8:54 a.m. P I
Going North It leaves Fairchance at §6:00l
). ni., arriving at Ollphant at 5:05, Brown-leld,
15:08, Hutchinson 15:lu, Leith 45:14,
Uniontown 5:16, Redstone Junction 45,19,
Evans 45:24, Lcmont Furnace 15:27, Htam*
baugh 15:28, Frost 15.30,Gist 15:32, Beeson 45:34,
Ferguson 15:30, Dunbar 5:40, Watt 46:43,
Wheeler 5:46, New Haven 45:49, Connclls-vil!
eo:53, Davidson 15:57, Moyer 10:02, Penns-ville
f0:O7, Valiev Works 10:11, Everson 6:14,
Sciittdale 6:17, Hawkeye 10:21,StonervllleH:25,
Leuffer 10:28,Tarrs 0:31, Bethany f0:34, Hunker
46.39, Painterville, 40:42, Youngwood 40:47,
Fostervllle 46:49, County Home 40:52, Huff
0:54, East Greensburg 6:58, Greensburg 7:05,
Pittsburg 8:15.
I-Daily
I—Week days.
pITTSBURG & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD,
i LESSEE P . McK. & Y. R. It
On and after FEBRUARY 24th, 1889 trains
wil. arrive and depart as follows, CENTRAL
STANDARD TIME:
NORTHBOUND TRAINS*
BUFFALO EXPRESS, leaves New Haven 7.20
a.m., Broad Ford 7:23, Dickerson Run. 7:38
West Newton, 8:25, Buena Vista. 8:41. McKee-sport,
9.10, Braddoek, 9:27, arriving at Piits-burg
at. 10 (to a in., Beaver, 11:34, New Castle,
5:42 p. in., Youngstown, 1:15 p. m.
CHICAGO MAIL, leaves New Haven 2:20^-
|). m , Broad Ford 2:28, Dickerson Hun, 2:40
West Newton 3:28, Buena Vista, 3:44, McKee-sport,
1:12. Braddoek, 1:30, arriving at Pitts-burg
ut 5:05 p. in.. Beaver, 10:28, New Castle
11:32, Cleveland, 7:35, p. m.
CHICAGO MAIL, leaves Cleveland at 10:50
. . m , Beaver, 1:15a. in., Pittsburg5:30, Brad-dock,
0:02, McKeesport., 0:17, Buena Vista,
0:55, West Newton, 7:Jo Dickerson Run, 8:10
Broad Ford, 8:23, arriving at New Haven at
8:30 a m.
FAST FLYER, leaves Cleveland 8:30 am,
New Castle, 11:18. Beaver, 12:14 p. in, arriving
at Pittsburg 1 :oo p m. Leaves Pittsburg, 3:30
p. m., Braddoek. 4:05. McKeesport,, 4:20, Bue-na
Vista, 1:54, West Newton, 5:12, Dickerson
Run, 5;55, Broad Ford, 0:05, arriving at New
Haven, 6:15 p. in.
All trains run daily and make connection
at McKeesport for Elizabeth and points on
the McKeesport and Bellevernon Railroad
E. HOLDROOK. General {Superintendent,
A. E CLARK, General Passenger Agent,
J B YOIIE, Chief Train Dispatche r
MAIL ARRANGEMENT.
The time for the arrival
Mails from the Post Office, Mt. Pleasant, PaJ
are as follows:
ARRIVE.
Way mail from Pittsburg and West 11 a.mr
do Greensburg and East.. 11 a.m
do Jones' Mills li a.m
do Mendon, Tarrs, etc 2p.m
do Broadford, etc 2 p.m
do Uniontown, etc 7 p.m
Through mall from Pittsourg and West 7 p.m
CLOSE.
Through mail—Plttsbugh and West... 7.15 a.m
Way—Stoner, Hcottdale to Unlont’n.. 7.15 a.m
Jones’Mills, etc 12.30p.m
Tarrs, Mendon, West Newton. 8.00 p.m
Pittsburg and West 3.15 p.n
Greensburg and Eust 3.15 p.n
Through—Stauffer, W. Overton, etc... 4.30 p.n
John D. McCaleb, P, M.
*YROV£ON SUMPTIVt
V"1 PARKER’S CINCER TONIC, "itl
A riu'M medicinal cunijxjund that cut es when
Hascured tho worst, cases ofCough,Weak Lu 11iflgk
Indigestion, Inward Fains. Exhaustion. Invaialilo _
Itheuiiiatism, Female Weakness, and all poina and dls> 1
orders of tho Stomach and Bowels. GOo. at Druggist*. ’
HINDERCORNS.
Tlie liefest, surest, and best cure forComa,Bunions.£0.
Ptoi>s all pain. Ensures comfort to the feet. Never lalii
to cure. 16 ceata at Dnuarista, liucox & Co,, N. Y,
FATAL SOUTH FORK DAM
WHOSE BROKEN BREAST WROUGHT
DEATH AND DESOLATTION.
A Drttillril Statement From it RMldent
Knglnorr Wlio Sow the Brink mill
(jure Three Hour*’ Warning.
The (lam nt South Fork Ima been reach-ed
and found broken at the breast, jusi
as was expected, although tliere were
those who bold that the basin would be
found Intact, believing that the destruc-tion
In the valley of the Coneinangh Imd
been caused by a water spout and not, as
it has now been proven, by the breaking
of the dam.
The only practicable way to reach
South Fork dam Is by a circuitous route
over the bills, but at times one can see
the river valley. And what a sight it is!
Where before was a pretty mountain
stream, whose banks were tutted with
thickets and shaded by groves of beech
and maple, there is now a bare trough
about a quarter of a mile wide, in the
center of which a muddy stream leaps
and plunges. Trees and underbrush
along the course of the great rush ol the
escaped lake are quite gone; even the
soil is scoured away and the bare laces ot
rock strata are exposed. The villages ot
Woodvale, Conemaugh, Mineral 1’omt
and South Fork have been literally wiped
off the face of the earth.
THE SOUTH FOKK CI.U11 (IUOUNP8.
Jfo harm was done to the club-house
and cottages of the South 1* ork Club, but
the transformation worked by the Hood
is even more striking there than any-where
else. The houses formerly stood
by the shores of a beautiful lake, whose
little bays laved a verdant expanse of
country. Now the cottages arc on a
bluff above a wide ravine, seventy-live
feet deep, at the bottom of which rolls a
muddy stream. The picturesque beauty
ot the place VVHB extracted when the wa-ters
rushed out of that curiousJ in the
great embankment that forme™ pent In
its waters. When one examines the
breach In the dam the feeling is one of
great surprise. There is none or the la-ceration
of the edges that one would ex-pect
from a rending force, but, on the
contrary, the aperture lias a symmetry
that suggests art rather titan accident.
The middle of the dam has been neatly
scooped out for about two-thirds of its
height; the lower portion of this is again
scooped out, and this latter excavation
extends to the bottom of the dam, mak-ing
ample space fur the stream now run-ning
through it.
A NEAT .ton.
The edges of the gap have been smooth-ed
off by the rush of the waters so that
there Is nothing jagged in the outlines.
The dam itself is nothing but a great em
bankment of earth faced on both sides
with loose stone in the style called by
engineers “i ill-railing.” It is still intact
lor about 1500 feet on eaelt side of the gap.
On the east end elose to the shore the
dam is grooved by a wier over seventy-five
feet wide and about ten feet deep,
which was the outlet by which the stream
below WSF fed from tiie lake. The bridge
oeross this wier is intact. The road to
the club bouse crossed this bridge and
went along the top of the dam to lhe
west side. The house is about three-quarters
of a mile above (lie dam. On
the west end of t tie dam is now a sluice-
_\no»y about twenty feet wide and three
feet deep. Tins was hastily dug on Fri-day
to reliove the pressure on the dam,
but failed to save It.
RESIDENT ENGINEER PARKE’g STORY
It so happened that ut the time of the
flood there was a civil engineer present
charge of t lie construction of a sewer and
water works on the club grounds. This
gentleman, Mr. John G. Parke, Jr., saw
tiie catastrophe from first to last. Here
is his account of it, taken from itis own
lips:
“On Thursday night tiie dam was in
perfect condition, and the water was not
within seven feet of the top. At that
stage the lake is nearly three miles long.
It rained very hard Thursday night, I
am told, for I slept too soundly myself
to hear it, but when I got up Friday
'morning 1 could see there was a flood,
tfor the water was over the drlye tn front
•of the club house, and the level of the
water in tiie lake had risen until It was
■only four feet below the top of the dam.
1 rode up to the head of the lake and saw
that the woods were boiling full of water.
South Fork and Muddy Run, which
•emptied into the lnkc, were fetching
-down trees, logs, cut timber, and stuff
from a saw-mill that was up in Hie woods
in that direction. This was about 7:30
o’clock. When I returned Col. Unger,
the President of tiie club, hired twenty-
1 wo Italians and a number of farmers
joined in to work on the dam. Altogether
thirty men were, at work. A plow was
run along tiie top of the dam and earth
was thrown In tiie face of tiie dam to
strengthen it. At tiie same time a chan-nel
was dug on tiie west end of the dam
to mnk a sluice-way tliere. There was
about three leet of shale rock through
which it was possible to cut, but then we
struck bed rock that It was impossible to
;get into without-blasting. When we got
the channel opened the water soon seonr-ied
down to the bed rock, and a stream
.twenty feet wide and three deep rushed
out on that end of tiie dam while the
wier was letting an enormous quantity
out on tiie other end. Notwithstanding
these outlets the water kept rising at tiie
rate of about ten inches an hour.
SENDING OUT WARNING.
“By 11:30 I had made up my ntind
that it was impossible to save tiie dam
and getting on my horse I galloped down
•the road to Soutli Fork to warn tiie peo
pie of their danger. Tiie telegraph
tower is a mile from the town, and 1
sent two men tliere to have messRgee
• sent to Johnstown and other points be
low. I heard that the lady operator
Tainted when she had sent off the news
and had to be carried off. Tiie people at
South Fork had ample time to get to
high grounds and they were able to move
their furniture, too. In fact only one
person was drowned at South Fork and
he while attempting to fish something
from the flood as it rolled by. It wns
just twelve o’clock when the telegraph
messages were sent out, so that the peo-ple
at Johnstown had over three hours’
warning.
“As I rode back to the dam I expected
almost every minute to meet the lake
coining down on me, but the dam was
still intact, although the water had
reached the top. At about 1 o’clock I
walked over the dam ; at that time the
water was three inches deep on it and
-was gradually eating away the earth ou
the outer face. As tlio stream rolled
down the outer taee it kept wearing
down the edge of the embankment and 1
siuv It was merely a question of time. I
then went up to the club-house and got
dinner, and when I returned 1 saw that
a good deal more of the outer edge of the
dam had crumbled away. The dam did
not give way. At a rough guess 1 should
say that there were sixty million tons ot
water in that lake and the pressure ol
that mass of water was increased by
Hoods from two streams pouring into It,
but tlie dam would have stood It could
the level of the lake have been kept be-low
tiie top of tiie dam. But tiie friction
of tiie water pouring over the dam grad
unlly wore it away from the outer face
until the top became so thin that it gave
way.
THE BREAK COMES.
“The break took place at 3 o’clock. It
was about ten leet wide at first and shal-low,
but now that the flood had made a
gap, It grew wider with increasing ra
pidily, and the lake went roaring down
tiie valley. That three miles of water
was drained out in forty-live minutes
The downfall of those millions of tons
was simply irresistible. Stones from the
dam and bowlders In the river bed were
carried for miles. Trees went down like
you might cut a mulien stalk ..w ith a
swish of your cane. It was a terrible
sigiit to see that avalanche of water go
down that valley already choked with
floods. Col. Unger was completely pros-trated
by it and was laid up at llie club
house sick from his experiences.”
WESTERN TRALELERS.
Some Fact* for Them 10 ltt-nicmhrr About
tile Northern I*uclfle Kail run<l.
If you tire going west bear in mind tlir fol-low
imi facts: The Northern Pnclfic Hail road
owns and operates 1)87 miles, or 57 pjr cent, of
the entiie railroad mileage of Montana; spans
the Territory with its main line from east to
west; is the shortest line to Helena; the only
Pullman and dining car line to Huttc, and is
tin* only line that reaches Miles City, billings,
Bozeman, Missoula, the Yellowstone Nation-al
rai k and, in fact, nine-tenths of the cities
nml points of interest in the territory
The Northern Pacific owns and operates021
miles, or 56 per cent of the railroad mileage
of Washington, its main line extending from
the Idaho line via Spokane Kails, Cheney,
spnigue, Yakima ana Fllensburg, through
the center of the Territory to Tacoma and
Seattle, and from Tacoma to Portland. No
other trans-continentul through rail line
reaches any portion of Washington Territory.
Ten days stop over privileges are given on
Northern Pacific second class tickets at Spo-kai*
e Falls and all points west thus affording
Intending settlers an excellent opportunity
to see tiie entire Territory without incurring
tiie expense of paying local fares from point
to point.
The Northern Pacific is the shortest, route
from St Paul to Tacoma by 207 miles; to
Seattle by 177 miles, and to Portland by 324
miles—time correspondingly shorter, varying
from one to two days, according to destina-tion.
No other line from St. Paul or Minne-apolis
runs through passenger cars of any
kind into Idaho,Oregon or Washington
in addition to being tiie only rail line to
Spokane Falls, Tacoma and Seattle, tiie
Northern Pacific reaches all the principal
points In Northern Minnesota and Dakota,
Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Bear in mind that the Northern Pacific and
Shasta lint* is the famous scenic route to all
points in California.
Send for illustrated pamphlets, maps and
books giving you valuable information in
reference to the country traversed by this
great lint* from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and Ashland to Portland, Oregon, and Taco-ma
and Seattle. Washington Territory, and
enclose stamps for the new 1389 Hand McNal-ly
County Map of Washington Territory,
pi inted in colors.
Address your nearest ticket agent, or Chas.
S. Fee, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent, St. Paul. Minn.
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Shattered nerves, tired
brain. Impure blood,
debilitated system, all
are the natural out-come
lu the Spring. A
medicine must be used,
and nothing equals
Paine’s Celery Com-pound.
We lot others
praise us—you cannot
help believing a disin-terested
party.
Brigadier-General W. L. Greenleaf, Burling-ton.
vt., writes: “I have used Paines Celery
Compound on several occasions, and always
with benefit. Lost spring, being very much run
down and debilitated, I commenced taking It.
Two bottles made me feel like a new man. As
a general tonic and spring medicine I do not
know of its equal.”
Qjlor Anything any Color.
Simple., Rumble, Economical.
1 have used two bottles ot your Damn's
Celery Compound, and it has given entire sat-ttwssrffea.
Paine’s
Celery Compound
Is prescribed by ptr Biclans recommended by
druggists, endowed by ministers, pr.dseil by
users, and guaranteed hr the iMinuracturers,
as a spring medicine which will do all that is
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quickly It tones you up.
Purifies the Blood.
Full accounts of wonderful cures made by
Paine’s oelerv Compound after other medicines
and the best physicians had failed, sent free.
There's nothing like It..
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i Colors,
IT IS EASY TO DYE WITH DIAMOND DYES •rntf each.
TIEEIE lEITTIB.
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TIIE : HIST: HOODS: FOR : THE: LEAST: MOMS’.
Has just opened a large and complete stock ot
Notions, Furnishing Goods
Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Yarns. Yarns, Stationeiy, School Supplies
Working Shirts and Overalls.
Jals, Caps, Boots, Sljoes& Rubbers,
Tinware, House Furnishing Goods, Pocket Cutlery, etc.
REMEMBER THE PLACE,
The Hub, 40<J Church St,
Mouiit Pleasant, Penn’a-
A Reliable Port Wine.
Mr. A. Speer, ol New Jersey, whose
Port Grape wine has such a wide repu-tation,
and which physicians prescribe
so generally, was the first in this coun-try
to import Port Wine Grape vines
from the banks of the River Doura, in
Portugal, where the finest old time ports
were made, and to plant vineyards of
them in New* Jersey. His Port, Bur-gundy
and Claret, which are now the
best wines to be had, have became
great favorite among the fashionable
New York, Philadelphia and Washing-ton
society. Druggists sell it.
V cold of unusual seventy which I
took last autumn developed into a diffi-culty
decidedly catarrhal m all its char
acteristics, threatening a return of my
old chronic malady, catarrh. One bottle
of Ely's Cream Balm completely eradi-cated
every symptom of that painful and
prevailing disorder.—E. W. Warner, 105
Hudson street, Rochester, N, Y.
CVarrh.—For twenty years I was a
sufferer from catarrh of the head and
throat. By a few applications of Ely’s
Cream Balm I received decided benefit
was cured by one boltlo—Charlotte Par-ker,
Waverly, N. Y.
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As well as the handsomest, and oth i
are invited to call on any druggist and
get free a trial bottle of Kemp’s Balsam
for the throat and lungs, a remedy that
is selling entirely upon its merits and is
guaranteed to relieve and cure all chron
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and consumption. Large bottles 50c. and
$1-00. 2 19 89 ly
on’t Experiment'
You cannot afford to waste time in ex-perimenting
when your lungs are in dan
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only a cold. Douotpeimit any dealer
to impose upon you with some cheap
imitation of Dr. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption, coughs and colds, but
be sure you get the genuine. Because he
he can make more profit he may tell you
he has something just as good, or lust the
same. Don’t be deceived, but insist up-on
getting Dr.' King's New Discovery
which is guaranteed to give relief in all
throat, lung and chest affections. Trial
bottle free at McElwee’s drug store; large
bottles $1. _____
Some Foollali People.
Allow a cough to run until it gels be
yond the reach of medicine. They often
say, “Oh, will wear away,” but in most
cases it wears them away. Could they
be induced to try the successful medicine
called Kemp’s Balsam, which is sold on
a positive guarantee to cure, they would
immediately see the excellent effect alter
taking the first dose. Price 50c and SI
Trial size free. At all druggists, 2 19 ly
Ksq., County
“Have used
Elgin, Waltham,
Springfield,
Columbus,Hampden, H. C. Morrison,
THE JEWELER,
Successor to Morrison & Bro.,
lias opened a new Jewelry Store in the old
room on Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, Pa
and lias just received a line stock of
Cheshire and
Waterbury Watches.
WATCHES,
&
CLOCKS
|. A. STEVENSON & CO
Corner Main and Eagle Sts. * It T. PLEASANT, PA.
DEALERS IN
SOMETHING NEW,
The Patent 5/A Clipper Fly Net
has meshed bottoms which can-not
tangle and lashes at the top
which won’t catch in the harness.
5/A Lap Dusters 100 Btsutifal Pattern!.
5/A Ironsides Sheet8B8B,mrt
Fllea from Horn!
In Stable.
» ForFarmer!and
Teamster*.
5 Ball the Coat.
5/A Clipper Fly Nets1
Equal To Leather at
100 other styles of 5/A Ilorse fiheetB anil
Fly Nets, at prices to suit everybody. For
Bale by all dealers. Ifyou can’t get them,
write us.
5/A
*ORSt
BLANKETS
ARE THE STRONGEST.
NONE GENUINEWITHOUTTHE BIA LABEL
Manurd bv Wu. AYKES & RON^. Phllaoa., who
make the famous Horse Bro* - Blanket**
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Or more than shown by all other Pittsburgh stores combined, com-prising
all the best and most popular styles of Suits, light Over-o
V coats, Pants, hot weather garments, &c., must be sold forth-
2 £ ^Xwith. Prices no object, as we must have the money
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EXCELSIOR XXX
_A_T COSiT!
BAKERY
IS TURNING OUT BETTER
BREAD
CAKES
& PIES
Than ever. A large stock of fresh cakes and pies always on hand, to-gether
with a full line of
Foreign &DomeaticFrtiits.
T-C.E f”C*R*E>A*M
-AIJ. OF OUR-IMMENSE
ST
-OF-DRY
GOODS.
THE BEST IN TOWN.
Festivals, Picnics, Parties, &c., furnished at very reasonable rates.
CHAS A. GRAUL,
CH URCH ST.. MT. PLEASANT. PA.
Spectacles of All Kinds. WHICH ARE THE REST M AKES?
BStfS- FINE- REPAIRING - A - SPECIALTY.
Morrison’s Old Stand, - - Main Street.
FLQUB, GOBI? MEAL, MILL FEED of ALL GRADES,
CORN, OATS,
GARDEN AND VEGETABLE SEED?',
(Grass Seeds and Seed Wheat.
A full line of
We offer these liberal inducements in
older to reduce our sock. We have
a heavy stock ot Seasonable Goods an
you can depend on getting them at
less rates than they arc sold elsewhere.
Blankets, Comforts, Flannels,
YARNS,
LADIES:
UNDERWEAR,
WRAP
Lap Robes. Ladies’ Cloths, Cashmer^French
Novelties and about all hinds of
DRESS GOODS
from 4c. per yard up to the best. Consider
your own interest and yive as a call.
Respectfully
J.J. HURST & CO.
—ANSWERED
FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS, NAILS AND IRON AND WOOD PUMPS.
We also sell the
WIERD CHILEED PLOWS
which ca 1’ ot ,.e excelled for lightness of draft and durability,
ine the goods - d 1M, i n prices before purchasing elsewhere.
Call atidxm-
A Sound Legal Opinion,
E. Bainbridge Muuday, Es<
Att’y., Clay Co., Tex., says:
Electric Bitters with most happy results
My brother al«o was very low with ma
larial fever and jaundic, but was cured
by timely use of this medicine. Am sat-isfied
Electric Bitters saved his life.”
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Ky., adds a like testimony, saying: He
positively believes he would have died
had it uot been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward otf, as
well as cure, all malaria diseases, and
for all kidney, liver and stomach disor-ders
stands unequaled. Price 50c and
$1 at McElwee’s.
D. B. KEISTER’S MUSIC STORE.
Elegant NEW STVI.E OBQm tPLAS/WUI! S&olVnd
SSfflaaanywhere at Ac
Violins, Gnltare, Banjos, InatructonL (Strlngaand rrimnnngs, M whistle to a
S,rad,rSnpTaSoUorVnlan: i’eeand heaffor you/seh a*nd make an intelligent pur-chase,
at the Music Store In the . __
National H-'tel Block - Mt.Pleasant, .a.
;Bucklen’« Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rhenm, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-tively
cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-tion,
ormoney refunded. Price 25 cts.
per box. For sale by E, J, McElweo. ly
Kaptare care guaranteed. Ease aionce. No op-eration
or business dolay. Thousands cured. For
circular, Dr. J. B. Mayer, 831 Aroh St., Phila. At
K«yatoneHotel* Reading, Pa. 3d Sat. ofeach month.
J.W. SWARTZ- C-W-SWARTZ-J.
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PRACTICAL
Painters & Decorators,
PAINTING,
GRAINING,
PAPER HANGING, &c.
Main street, Mt. Pleasant
Selling & Collecting Agt.
FORiTHE
High Arm Singer
“Best in theWorld.’
South Diamond St-,
Mt Plaint Pa
ELYS CATARRH
Cream:: Balm.
Cleanses the|
Nasal Passages,
allays pain and
inflammati o n,!
Heals the sores,
Restores the|
Senses of Taste;
and Smell.
Try the OurFEVER
A particle la applied Into each nostril and
is agreeable, price 60 centa at druKgiata; by
maPl, reglatered. 60 eta. ELY BUOTHElW,
66 Warren atroat, New York,
GO TO
J. W. Swartz
—FOR—
WALL PAPER,
WINDOW SHADES,
Floor and Tble Oil Cloths,
Carpet and Lining Paper,
Window and Picture Glass,
White, Red anil Black Lead,
All kinds of Oils, Paints of all
kinds, Varnishes and llurd Oil.
Finish Brushes of all kinds, Artists
Materials, full line Kaleemine Ma-terials,
Picture Nails, Shade Rolls,
etc., Gold Leaf and Gold Paint,
Wagon & Buggy Grease.
HARNESS SOAP and OIL,
Many other things too numerous to
mention.
Paper Hanging, Painting and
Decorating
Done on short notice.
J. W. SWARTZ
Mail Slreel. MT. PLEASANT Pa
PERFECT FITS!
Because my Cutter is an
Experienced Workmen
and that is the reason why, when
the goods have been made up by
tine tailors, my suits have that
nobby look that always character-izes
them.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
My line of Suitings consists of
the finest Foreign and Domestic
Woolens.
A Trial Will Prove This Claim.
T. D. EICHER,
619 Main Street,
MT. PLEASANT, PA.
CHURCH STREET. MT. PLEASANT
6. 6 PYEIJ
PLUMBER.
Licensed by Mt. Pleasant Water Co.
Special Attention Given to Sanitary
Drainage-
N. B. Orders left at shop, 1,000
East Main Street, or at residence,
541 College avenue, will receive
prompt attention.
G. W. LBMMON. D. O. LBMMOK.
LEMMON BROS,
Livery i Sale Stables,
Opposite Diamond Hotel,
Diamond Street, Mt, Pleasant, Pa.
We keep on band a number of stylish rig*
and good driving horses, and will he pleased
to accommodate all at reaaonahle rate* ana
•at all hours;
uneral Carriages Furnished on Short Notica
AT SPECIAL. BATES.
A. B. ABATICCHIO'S
BATH AND SHAVING SALOON
SUFFERINGWOMENS
Whan troubled with thos® annoying Irregularities so
frequently following* cold or nponn, orJrornt Con-stitutional
Weaknesses so peculiar to their sex, should
Use DR. DuOHOINE’8 Oelebrated
FEMALE REGULATING PILLS.
azjssaes!:
Under Mt. Pleasant Bank. City Accom-modations.
Hot and Cold Water Baths
at all times. Best workmen
HAIR
DRESSING
A Specialty. Shaving and Hai-curti,,- at
POPULAR PRICES
We are prepared to suit all, and solicit a
liberal share of patronage from the traveling
public. All kinds of
Horses Bought and Sold.
Lemmon Bros,
If You Want
Driving or Riding Horses,
Single or Double Teams,
Carriages, Buggies & Light Wagona
Nothing but first-class and perfectly safe
animals kept Careful and
COMPETENT
furnished when desired.
funeralH.
Stables in reai ofT. C. Patterson’s,
all reasonable hours.
DRIVERS
Speoial rates to
Open
M. S. BRINKER.
— = , ■ ■ - - - —
•STERN JUSTICE
DEALT OUT IN THE UMBERGER MUR-DER
CASE.
A Verdict In the Flint Degree Helnrneil as
the .ToryWu UnanlmoiMlji In
Favorof Conviction.
The Umberger murder trial closed,
Friday evening last, in the Somerset
county court, and It was without doubt
the most celebrated In the history of that
bar. There were oyer forty witnesses
called by the prosecution, and the bloody
trail of David and Joseph Nicely was
followed from almost the time they left
their I.igonler Valley homo until they
returned to it again after having slain
old Herman Umberger,near Jenncrtown,
and robbed the dying man of a large
sum of money.
As was shown by Tim JOURNAL before
the trial the defendants were Been going
across the mountain towards Jennertown
on the evening of the murder, again at
the foot of the eastern slope ot Laurel
Hill and again on their return after the
deed was done. The evidence of the
servant girls was most positive In their
Identification of the prisoners as the two
men who came to Umberger’s professing
to be officers and who, seeing the pocket-book
which the old man took from the
drawer and placed in his pocket, shot
him in order to get it. Besides all this
men of unimpeachable character testified
that the pockctbook recovered from l tie
prisoners’ father was the one the mur-dered
man used.
Many witnesses were called for the de-fense,
who tried in vain to prove an alibi.
The accused were placed on the stand
and related a smooth tale. Mrs. Nicely,
mother ot the accused, testified that
her son Joseph eat supper with her be-tween
C and 7 o’clock on the evening of
the tragedy, which took place 12 miles
away. The whereabouts of David, her
older son, had not been satisfactorily ac-counted
for, but witnesses testified that
Ills physical condition was such that he
could not have made the trip afoot across
the mountains.
The trial ended, Friday evening, after
lasting eight days, with Judge Baer’s
charge to the jury, whose members re-tired.
The first ballot showed that the
twelve men were unanimous for convic-tion
of murder in the first degree, but
the verdict to that effect was not return-ed
until Saturday morning when court
convened.
AROUND AND ABOUT.
Short Notes From Wentniorelniul mill the
CountlcN Adjoining.
John ICrissinger, of the vicinity of
Pleasant Unity, while hiyingascap of
bees on Wednesday, fell and broke one of
his legs.
Senator J. C. Newmyer, of Pittsburg,
the lately appointed protbonotary of the
western district, is an old Westmore-lander.
The Westmoreland Agricultural and
Industrial Association will hold a fair on
the old fair grounds on October 8th, 9th,
10th and lltb,
Mrs. Sadie Beacom’s West Newton
store was robbed the other night. The
thieves gained an entrance by breaking
the glass of a front window.
The person whose face wras cut by a
thrown glass at Everson on Decoration
Day was Jacob Kromor and not Nick
Kromer as stated last week.
The Fayette jury in the caso of John
Henry Williams, charged with complic-ity
in the McClellandtown robberies,
failed to agree and bad to be discharged
by the court.
Theold nut and bolt works at Union-town,
occupied by the Uniontown Ma-chine
Company, was burned to the
ground Monday evening last. Loss
about ?12,000. Insurance, ¥7,700.
James Staley, a steamboat engineer,
while fixing the displaced lightning rod
on the MoClellandtown barn of Riley
Christopher, Tuesday, slipped and jump-ed
to the ground, breaking both his legs.
Frank Cooley was on Saturday found
guilty at Uniontown of being one Of the
three masked burglars who burned, and
otherwise tortured and robbed, Miss
Mary Ross, near Smithficld last Decem-ber.
Samuel Preston Beatty, son of Joseph
Beattv, editor ot the Uniontown Demo-crat,
died Wednesday of stomach trou-bles.
He was 25 years old, and bad been
engaged with his father in the publication
oftheir paper.
James Farley, of Irwin, and Charles
Loughuor.of Ludwick,were both caught,
Saturday, while attempting to board
moying trains. The former lost a leg
and the lutter an arm, and both will
probably die.
The result of the Democratic primary
election in Fayette county, June 1, was:
Sheriff, G. A. McCormick; District At-torney,
L. H. Frasber; Poor House Di-rector,
C. W. Keefer; Coroner, Dr. J. F.
Holbert; County Surveyor, S. M. Foust.
Jeannette has been .incorporated as a
borough, the court haying granted the
petition of the citizens. The judge is J.
G. Eweu and the inspectors Dr. J. R.
Marrow and John H. Hartzell. The first
election for borough officers will take
place on June 18.
During a row In a saloon at Suterville
the other night John White, a colored
man, shot at Barney Hammond and the
ball took effect in the back of John Ba-ker.
It is thought the man is fatally
hurt. White was brought to jail at
Greensburg to await the result.
An Elrgnnt Wedding,
Tile marriage of Mr. J. B. F. Smith,
manager of the Alice store of the Sterling
Supply Co., and Miss Alice, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. F, Miller, of near New
Stanton, on May 28th, was a most olegant
affair. Following the ceremony, which
was performed at high noon, and con-gratulations
of the scores of guests pres-ent
came the dinner that was just as it
should have been. The presents were as
numerous as elegant, embracing almost
everything in the silverware, glassware
and house-furnishing lines. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith left the same evenlug on a
visit to western friends, from which they
are expected to return to-day.
A Baby’s Terrible Injury.
The 3-year-old son of Cyrus Freed,
who lives near the Fairyiew churob, in
Fayette county, met with a terrible acci-dent
on Sunday morning last. He toddled
out into the field and was kicked on the
forehead by a colt. The skull was crush-ed
until some of the brain oozed out.
Still the doctors do not despair of saving
the little fellow’s life.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
List ofCanos Disposed or During llie Post
Week.
Iu the case of J.C. Spaith vs.H.Sellers
McKee et al. the jury returned a verdict
in favor of the plaintiff for $402.77
The verdict in the suit which Daniel
Rumbaugh brought against the II. U.
Frick Coke Co. waB that the defendant
company pay no Interest from the matu-rity
of the bond.
In the case of Angellne Young vs. Jos.
W. Young was submitted to the jury
without argument and a verdict returned
in favor of tlie plaintiff for the undivided
7-10 of the land described,with 0*4 cents
damages and costs.
When the case of Wolfgang vs. Iler-bank
was called a nonsuit was entered as
the prosecutor failed to appear.
The following eases were settled; J.
W. Allshoiise vs. A. S. Allsliouse; same
vs. same and Elias S. Haines vs. lsaaa
Small.
Scottdale Again Ilend* the League.
The Scottdale ball club played two ex-hibition
games with the McKeesports
last week, Monday and Wednesday, win-ning
both. Miibee pitcher! the (list
day when the score was 12 to 0, and Man-afee
the second 11 to 3. The victors then
returned home and,with Milbeepitching,
on Saturday, laid the Uniontown boys
out to the tune of 7 to 3. The vanquished
were on their way home from Latrobe
where they had met defeat the day before,
Latrobe giving them but one run and
taking seven. This again puts our fav-orites
in first place in the Western Penn-sylvania
League as the following table
ibowii '
Won.
Scottdale,
Latrobe,
Uniontown,
Johnstown,
Greensburg.
Played.
0
8
8
Lost.
1
13
55
Per cent.
.833
.800
.625
.280
.250
Meeting of Connell.
The regular monthly meeting of Coun-cil
was held last evening with Mayor
Lemmon in the chair. Several points in
town were ordered to be cleared up, and
it was also decided to hire Mr. Taylor,
the West End engineer, to establish grade
lines in the East End. Besides granting
orders for May work it was ordered to
release conditionally Messrs. Bennett <ft
Talbott, the water works contractors.
Citizens knowing of broken water tables
or streets, caused during the progress ot
the laying of the mains,will please notify
Mayor Lemmon.
Democratic Primary.
The returns from Saturday’s Demo-cratic
primary election show that com-paratively
a light vote was polled. For
Judge, as was expected, Doty had a walk-over,
he haying 4,388 votes to Latta’s
1,141. For Sheriff Clawson had 2,660 to
Keenan’s 1,769 and Heed’s 960. The three
successful candidates for Directors of the
Poor are Bell,Tarr and Welsh,their votes
being respectively 2,647, 2,644 and 2,310.
Ot the other aspirants for this office Gail-braith
had 2,290; Hayden, 1,727; Porter,
1,177; Brisbine, 1,383; Freeman, 1,376.
For District Attorney Lauffer had no
opposition.
Chnrcll Dedication.
The program for tbe dedicatory ser-vices
of the new Reformed church here,
on Sabbath, June 23d, Is: 10 a.m., ser-mon
by Rev. S. B. Mase, of Greensburg;
3 p.m., addresses by neighboring pastors
and laymen, and at 7:30 p. in., Rey. A. E,
Truxal, of Manor, will preach.
Aline Accident.
John Thompson, a German driver in
the Standard mines, had his foot terribly
lacerated, yesterday, by the brake bar
catching him against a coal rib. The bar
ran through the foot from tbe toe to the
to the heel. Dr. Myers has charge of tbe
case.
Pine Stallion Service.
The fine Clydesdale stallions “Young
Baronet”and “Candahar”,will stand this
season at the stables of the owner, Cyrus
Brinker, one-half mile north of Mt.
Pleasant. These magnificent animals
are too well known to need either de-scription
or pedigree.
Cheap Rate. Only foi a Time.
The low prices at the New York gallery
will only be for a short time as an in-ducement;
improve the opportunity.
Instantly Taken.
Babies are photographed by the in-stantaneous
process at tbe New York
gallery.
Always Reliable.
I now announce to ray customers and
friends, that I am ready to supply tbem
with Spring and Summer Goods. I also
have a full line of novel and late style
Corduroy Samples. Please call and see
goods. A beautiful line of samples just
received. Thankful for past favors.
COLLEGE AVE. JOHN ADAIR, Tailor.
Only $2 per Dozen#
This iu all you will have to pay for
twelve excellent cabinet-size pictures at
the New York gallery.
Cheap but Elegant Photos.
The finest kinds of photographs at
greatly reduced rates at the New York
gallery on the Diamond.
Pictures at Reduced Rates.
H. Goldstoue, the proprietor of the
New York gallery on the Diamond, is
taking fine cabinet photographs iu dif-ferent
styles at $2 per dozen; larger sizes
at proportionately reduced prices.
Home Grown Strawberrlei.
New potatoes, new cabbage, new cu-cumbers.
lemons, oranges, bananas, sour
pickles, honey. Fresh groceries all at
rock bottom cash prices. FREE DELIV-ERY.
STAUFFER’S GROCERY,
Church street, Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 2t.
A First Clan. Slower.
Any person being in need of a first
class mowerwill find itto their advantage
to see the Wm. Anson, Wood & Co. ma-chine,
which will compare with any iu
the market. Low in price, see this mow-er
in grass. H. B. PERSHING.
A meudment Speakers.
Towns In this vicinity can secure
speakers in favor of the Amendment
from Mt. Pleasant at any time between
this and June 18th, free of any expense,
by writing toS. C. Kelly, Esq.
\\ bere to Get Your Plauta,
At A. W. Fox’s West End greenhouses
you can get the nicest plants of all kinds
at most reasonable prices. Be convinced
of this fact by examining bis stock for
yourself, 4 30 tf
Three Fresh Cow. for Sale.
Q. L. Rumbaugh, of Mt, Pleasant
township, has three fresh cows which
he offers for sale. 3t,
All Good, at Coat.
Remember that R. Boyd, the shoe man
has sold his store and is selliug all his
goods at cost.
— . •
t* U ID I l, lOOH.
Money Saved is Better than Money Earned.
We beg leave to call the attention oi (hose who are looking for something bright and cool lor summer wearto our line of Dress Gin-hams fast
colors, at 10c. Bazoo Zephyrs, fast colors Lawns C^c. Oliallies, Organdies, Indian Dimity, Silks, Henriettas, Fancy Dress Goods French
Plaids, Mohairs. A first-class 40—inch Cashmere at only 50c per yard.
IN WHITE GOODS
We have everything conceivable from 6|c per yard to the very latest novelties. Wo have a full line of 22, 27 and 45-inch Hamblin? and Swiss
Flouncings to which we especially call your attention, as thiy are special drives. 1 s 1 8
CARPETS. CURTAINS, ETC,
Our trade in this line has been unusually good, which is accounted for by the fact that we have the largest line of carpets in town from hemp
to velvets, including Cottage, Cotton Ingrain, Wool Ingrain, Super and Extra-Super Tapestry Brussels, Body Brussels and Velvets In I his
department is to he found all kinds of Draperyand Curtain Goods. Serins at 8 l-8c per yard. Lace Curtains i'ram 50c to $10 per pair A first -
class wood trimmed curtain pole at 25o. Brass trimmed 35c. Window Blinds in Plain and Dado. A good Holland blind Hpriire fixtures at 35c
MILLINERY. MILLINERY.'
Millinery comes to the front in these blue-skied sunny days. The summer Hats and Bonnets are literal bowers of beauty and what men call
one of t he vanities of womankind, is really humanizing and softening in its influence. We have everythin-' that, is new and beautiful Lace
Brimmed Hats, Net Hats and Bonnets, New Flowers, all Ihe new summer shades in Ribbons. New Tips and Nets Silk Lisle and Taffeta G1
Silk Mitts, Kid Gloves, Silk and Lawn Ties, Ladies' Collari and Cuffs, Muslin Underwear, etc. A full line of Fancy Work Material Art Ore
Embroidery Silk, Wash Silk,etc. '
loves
Art Crewels,
We Have Not Forgotten the Babies.
We have a full line of Lace Caps from 15c to the very best, Muslin and lawn slips and dresses, long and short, Cloaks, all stvles and price8.
Sailor hats 15c. . J F
All we ask is for you to call and inspect our stocK and got our prices, we feel sure we can please you.
Yours anxious to please,
603 MAIN STREET, BRADD0CK & KING.
MT. PLEASANT, PA
Mountain Water Ice.
Get your ice from A. C. Cochran’s
wagon, which makes daily delivery.
This ice is tire best in tbe market, care-fully
harvested from pure mountain
water, and will be left at your door every
day of the week except Sunday at the
following rates: 35 cents per 100 pounds
when 60 pounds or more are taken daily;
in less than 50 pound quantities, 50 cents
per 100 pounds. Orders left at the JOUR-NAL
office will receive prompt attemion.
A. C COCHRAN
I learned my trade with tlie celebrated Dr
Schmitt, of Rochester. N. Y , whose reputa-tion
as a practical norse-shoer is almost
world wide. I have had fourteen years ex-perience
and, therefore, claim that I am com-petent
to shoe “Interfere^,’ “Knee knock-ers,”
“Forgers,” and to cure, as far as it is
possible by careful work In my line, all the
defects to which horses are subject
In my work I use for the hind feet only the
Phoenix Steel Shoe, and all steel corks; also
hand-made shoes
All I ask is a chance to prove my claim.
Respectfully,
ALBEET LANE,
Mt
Shop, opposite Galley Bros.’ Coach Factory,
‘. Pleasant, Pa.
NEW LIVERY STABLE
H. R, BRINKER, Proprietor.
Main Street., Near Rail roads,Mt. Pleasant,Pa.
New Buggies, Carriages
AND LIGHT WAGONS.
Finest Horses in the Business.
Terms Reasonable, Special rates for funerals
and commercial men. All kinds of hauling
done on short notice. Will pay all messen-gers
sent to stable with order for rigs.
GET THE BEST
The cheapest, the most endurable and the
most convenient farm gate In use. Samples
on exhibition at tbe livery stables of Lem-mon
Bro’8. made and sold by E. Prescott,
agent for Dayton Hedge Co. Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
4 2 ly
WATCHES CLOCKS
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© The
OPPOSITE MDLLIM’S BLOCK,
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GO
GO Fine Repair Work
Done by us in a systematic and me-chanical
manner and satisfaction
guaranteed.
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DIAMONDS
MAIN STREET.
SILVERWARE
MT. PLEASANT, PA.
Your Last Chance!
For the next sixty (lays everything in the Shoe line will be sold
for Cost. On the first of August all stock on hand will be turned over
to my successor. You cannot afford to miss the opportunity of securing
all the shoes you want for a year at WHOLESALE PRICES.
LADIES’ GOODS.
Kid Butt. $1.00. former price $1.25 Peb. 44
Dongola“ 1.40 “
“ 1.60
“Reynold’s 2.00
“ Zeigler’s 2.40
Kid Oxford 1.00
“ Slippers 40
1.25.
1.75 F. Kid 3.00
2 00 Best overshoes 25c
2.50 Overshoes 20c
3.00 Rubber bools $1.25
1.25 Op. Slippers 80
.60
1.50
3.75
.40
.30
1.75
LOO
MEN’S_C00DS.
Fine Buff. Bal. & Cong $1.00. Former price, $125
1 35
“ 1.60
“ 1.75
“ Dongola • 2.00
“ Calf, Latrobe 2.35
“ Kangaroo welt 3.25 1
« « -i 2 75 <
“ Calf, hand sewed 4.00 1
Best Brogan 1.00
“ “ Hob 1.25 1
“ “ “ 1.00 ‘
Strap Ties 1.00 ‘
Latrobe Brogans 1,00 4
Best pure Rubber Boots, 2,50 4
“ Wainsocket 44 2.00 4
44 Self-acting overs. 45 4
All goods Cash. Shoes exchanged if not suited.
1.75
2.00
2.25
2 75
3.00
400
3.75
500
1.25
1.50
1.35
3.25
1.35
3 50
2.75
65
R. EOYD,
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK,
Main St. MT. PLEASANT, Pa.
AT THE BEE HIVE STORE,
In the old First Nati