Altoona Tribune from Altoona, Pennsylvania • Page 6

MOltrNG TiUBUJSE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1898. The Sura La Grippe Cure. There is no use sufferine from this 28onmtflttihmc. and Cuba for some years uuiBt be considered a grand military cantonment. The moment the invaders have to shoot insurgents in the interests of order, Washington will perceive the truth, and, after its fashion, invent a legal basis for a necessary innovation.

It did not leave Utah free until Utah submitted to American ideas. McLanahan stone, Gaysport Foundry, HOEUDAYSflTJim, PA. General Foundhy and Machine Wore Mining aohlnory, Shafting, Pulloys and (iear.ng Architectural and Hulldorj' Castings, Iron and Hrass Castings forJallPurposes, Holts and Forglnga, Full Stock of Iron Pipe, Valvos and Fitting Pelting, Packing, Etc. Having liurehased all the vn. it is now impossible to tell.

The death of Judge Ikeler has wholly changed the situatiou. It 1b not certain, of course, that Mr. Little will be made the democratic nominee, but as the primaries in both counties have shown him to be the choice of a majority of the democratic votes cast it would be the natural conclusion. The republicans of Montour have presented James Scarlett, who has high intellectual capacity and acknowledged fitness for the The republicans of Columbia have not yet acted, but as the district is naturally democratic, and there is now little prospect of a democratic deadlock, the republican nomination cannot be regarded as bo valuable as it might have been. The vacancy caused by Judge Ikeler'e death, extending to January 1 next, will be filled by appointment by Governor Hastings.

He will naturally select a republican, and in view of the fact that the nomination of a candidate cannot be long deferred he will doubtless wait and commission the party the windows. They succeoded in carrying away a quantity of articles, among them being shoes, cigars, tobacco and cauned goods. Leaving there, they went to the store owned by Pheasant and Wagner and attempted to effect an entrance through the back door. Hearing a noise, the watchman employed by the gentlemen, proceeded to investigate matters. On opening the door, he discovered two men, oue of whom drew back his hand as if to strike the watchmau, who however, was too quick for him, and closed the door, the blow intended for the watchman tanking the door, making a large dent.

The instrument used was afterwards found to be a coupling pin. The men then ran toward the alley, the watchman tiring after them, but without any result. They were afterward seen going toward the Red bridge. There is no clue as to who they are, from whence they came, or whither they went. The board of health met on Tuesday evening and elected Mr.

Jacob Arble as health otlicer. dreadful malady, if you will only get the right remedy. You are having pain all through your body, your liver is out of order, have no appetite, no life or ambition, have a bad cold, in fact are completely used up. Electric. Bitters is the only remedy that will give you prompt and sure renei.

ihey act directly on your Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, toue up the whole system and make you feel like a now being. They are guaranteed to cure or price refunded. For sale at Turner Kantner's drug store, 130S Eleventh avenue. Only o0 cents per bottle, Vav MnU limit. FOR SALE OR RENT-Properties.

Apply to E. S. tOHNKY. Heal Estate. Limn iiml Insurance Audit.

No. 1204 Kiuhth avonuo, Altooua. yr JfOR RENT Furnished rooms. Cen-? trally located. All conveniences.

Uoixl hoarding houses on crihur siilu. Call at 1015 Chestnut avonuo. JulyS-tf I TOR RENT. Photograph gallery with I lute improvements: situated at Seventh ave nue nil Twelfth st root. Inquire" of E.S.

Forney, 1204 Eighth avonuo. Je27-tf FOR SALE One Herring-IIall-Marvin Co. sate, wulirlilnir 3 tons: irood as now. For further particulars call at ollice of VV. H.

AN-LEV, Oluiesbuihllng, Altoona, Pa. mar24-tf SALE. Choice full-blooded barred Plymouth Kwk eifirs Sl.no per set ting. Young cockerels and pullots after September 1. F.

11. 11 AO F.HTY, Arch Spring, Pa. uno 2-iiiy-eoitiswmyuuo8 RENT. House containing eleven rooms, with all rnoilorn conveniences, includ ing hot wat or heat. Situated at loo Chestnut avenue.

Applv at loll Chestnut avenue. W.H. it l. c. Wolfe.

Jy7-tf 1011 SALE Meat market in Bell wood. 1 Fixtures tirst class and only in uso a few months. Huildinu can be leaded at vnrv rea- Miitihlorato. For further particulars Imiillreof MATTEKN kTAYLOH, Hollldnyshurg. aUBi-ot RENT Best lodge or club room I in the city.

Corner room; brick building. Green avenue and Eleventh street, opposite opera house. Also otlli'o. same huildinu. Inquire H.

P. 1LSON, Post OlIliH). jo21-tf RENT Butcher nhop and fix- Jl tares, Eleventhavcnuo hot ween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. Also rive-room dwelling, up stairs In same building. Inquire of 1).

E. Sl'liANKLE, corner Eleventh aveuuo and Sixteenth street, jytj-tf TiiOR SALE OR RENT. Several very good properties at fair prices and hut a small amount of cash down. Also desirable houses for rent. Apply to ANHKEW H.

block, cornor Eleventh ave-nue and Fourtcouth street, Altoona, inartt-tf FOR SALE OR RENT. The beautiful residonco 1125 Twelfth Avenue, formerly occupied by 1. Onnsrmin is now forsulo or rent. lmiuiro or cit atmpkin r4 or J. HLUBI ENTH A tobacconist, Klovonth avenue near Ninth street.

jUiiuu-tf SALE. Lot ot ground 62Jxl20, I. and building thorcon orectcd, on Elevonth avenue borwecn Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, known as First Presbyterian church. Applv for terms and Information to EH Eli Si M1LLEK, agonts, 1121 Eleventh avonuo. myls-tf FOR RENT.

A 9-roomed house on A L. A. at A. all modern improvements; also a "-roomed house on riueentu avenuauo iiguiconm siroot.wnn all modern Improvements; also a 4-roomcd houso at Sixth avenue and Ninth street. Inquire of )r.

M. L. MeCAKTHY, Eighth avenue and Fourteenth street. J'2-tf JpOR SALE-DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE. A number of desirable lots for sale, fronting on Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth avenues, west of rweuty-tourrii stroet.

Also a numnor or lors in other parts of tho city. Terms easy. Apply to H. C. DEHN or J.

O. DAVIS, at Altoona Hank. myl4-tf SALE Farm in Sinking Valley, Jj known as Kamey farm, hut now belonging to the Charles Houch estate Contains 348 acres, more or less, has a good nino-roonioil dwelling house and outbuildings, exeopt barn, which was burned. Possession given April 1, Will be sold on reasonable terms. For further particulars call on or tlEOKUE SCHUOHMAN, Agent lor Mrs.

Anna Hench, 124 Seventh Avenue, Altoona. jy27-8t-eoditwkly-2t WANTED Students in bookkeeping, shorthand. typewriting and English branches. Individual instruction. Please call oraldressW.

F. ElSENBEliCJ, 1410 Eleventh avenue. apr26 tf WfANTED Every young young lady who attended Or man and vounir adv who attended uraimnar or Hlirh choof lust term to visit tho ANDEKSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Matcer Building, some day or evening this week. Positions secured for all pupils Catalogue free. my20-tf WANTED Ladies, try Cream of Hoses, an instantaneous beiutlfier for the complexion.

Removes freckles and sunburn. Parisian Hair liegenerator restores gray hair to its original color in 14 days. A full line of hair poods wigs, switches and bangs. Mas. Jean Vauohan, 1318 Eleventh avenue.

Next door to (Jable's. aug5-tf WANTED. Bv Altoona Carpet log Works. Carpets cleaned by Dry Process. Wiltons, Axmlnisters, moriuettcs, velvets and Smvrnas, 3o per running yd.

Tapestries, brussels ingrains, rag and cocoa matting, 2c per running Mall orders directed to works, lith ave. and 27th or by telephone, will receive prompt attention. Bell 124; Pluenlx 16. Branch olllcos, 1510 11th 601 6th ave. Terms cash on delivery.

Carpets c.illei for and delivered free. Feathers renovated. The Enterprise, works have been consolidated witli the Altoona. apr27-tf "VTOTICE. All persons are hereby no-Ll tlfiod not to trespass upon property under my charge.

Persons having advertisements thereon will be prosecuted unUss they are promptly removed. S. C. BAKER. jy9 3tnos XECUTOR'S the es- I1LIUUI "'11VTT, 1 I UliD township, Blair county, deceased.

Notice Tnltn Haa is hercny given mat letters testamentary upon the estate of said decedent have been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to mako payment, and those having claims or demands against the same will make them known without delav to MATTHEW M. MOKKOW, jy7-6t-thura Executor, Altoona, Pa. Bucknell University JOHN HOWARD HARRIS, President. Comprises a Collcgo with four courses; Acad-mv for voung men and boys! Ladies' Insti tute, a re tined boarding school: School of Music with graduating courses.

For catalogue aoarass Wm.C.Gretzitiger, Ueglstrar, Lewisbura, Pa. jyi3-)8t It Wasn't Advertising Did It For 26 years Dr. Kessler's Cough Medicine has been on the market. The first year it was mixed in a five gallon jug and the sales were but a few gross, now it requires a three hun dred gallon tankforthe mixing and car loads or Domes to sup ply the demand. There must be a reason for ft.

mam-tf ALTOONA, AUGUST 4, 1808. Stftitorinl -Department, MOSE JANGLING VOICES. Among the more or less interesting mutter published by the evening newspapers yesterday was an "open letter" addressed to the editor of the Trusink, purporting to have been written by A. Henderson and W. C.

Fletcher, attorneys for defendants," and making the amazing declaration that the aforesaid editor had "on a number of occasions during the pendency of the Wilson and Farrell trials, broadly intimated that the lawyers for the defense have indulged in 'unscrupulous and conscienceless' praotices to delay or defeat the ends of justice." The editor has also charged "the friends of Wilson" with engaging in "unscrupulous methods." Messrs. Henderson and Fletcher write to inquire whether the editor has any facts back of his alleged charges. If he has they want him to publish them in the very nest issue of the Tribi-xk, with an explicit bill of particulars. They are kind enough to Bnggest that he lay bare the facts in his possession, and omit "inferences and deductions." That is the substance of their letter, a copy of which reached the editor just as he had written thus far. The readers of the Tribi-xe to whom the names of R.

A. Henderson and W. C. Fletcher may not be familiar, may be interested in learning that they are residents of this city, members of the Blair county bar, and attorneys for Wilson and Farrell, both of whom have been convicted of murder and the former of whom has been granted a new trial. The Tribcxk has had occasion at various times to exprees its convictions concerning a certain sort of lawyer that is found in almost every community, and these gentlemen appear to have appropriated some general reflections to their personal discomfort.

We cannot be held responsible for that. If they publicly cry out in the face of the whole world that they have been hurt it may be embarrassing for them, but it is a very unreasonable man who will hold the Tribcxe responsible. It wasn't the fault of the engine that the bull failed to butt it from the track. The Tribcxe has ever had a most exalted conception of the dignity of the law and of the honor that attaches to a true lawyer. Because of that it finds it difficult to tolerate the shyeter or the unscrupulous pettifogger whose constant purpose is to cheat justice by means of the forms of law.

The Tribcxe has said that the lawyer who forgets the solemn vow he has taken as an officer of the court, who devises methods whereby the professional criminal may be screened, to the detiiment of justice, who solicits the patronage of criminals or encourages litigation, who betrays the confidence of his professional brethren and robs his client, is no better than the criminal whom he serves. But the Tribi-xe has at no time undertaken to go into particulars, and the gentlemen who assume that we have thus stigmatized them are as unjust to us as "they are unkind to themselves. As to the conduct of the friends of Mr. Wilson, it is not our business to betray the secrets of the district attorney's office. In due time, we doubt not, District Attorney Hammond will inform the court concerning the peculiar methods of these people.

There is one circumstance, however, within the knowledge of Attorney Henderson to which it can do no harm to refer. On the evening of the day that word came to this city that Wilson had been granted a new trial Mr, Henderson called at the Tribuxe office and in an agitated manner requested the editor to defer comment until the next day, promising to have a complete copy of the court's opinion in the Tribuxe office the next day by 6 o'clock p. m. He deprecated newspaper discussion of the affair, and while little was Baid to him beyond the ise to await the production of the opinion, the Tribuxe determined to avoid discussing the merits of the case until the end of the second trial, and intimated the next morning that under the circumstances it would be wise to relegate the whole matter to the care of the court and jury. Mr.

Henderson never turned up with his on the contrary it was printed in the Mirror accompanied by a one-sided partisan plea for the defendant. It seems that while Mr. Henderson deprecates newspaper articlee that are adverse to his client he is not averse to using the press to aid his plans, and somewhat forgetful about redeeming his promises. The Tribune's solitary desire is that justice may be done. It repeats that it has no feeling whatever against the men who have once been convicted of the murder of a poor old man.

It would not have referred to Wilson and his approaching trial had it not been for the studied efforts of somebody to create sentiment in his favor by means of newspaper articles. As for Messrs. Henderson and Fletcher, it regrets its present inability to be more definite, but suggests that they will be happier and more widely esteemed if they cease to draw "inferences or deductions" injurious to themselves and scarcely war ranted by the facts. FROM JUNIATA BOBOUGH. Bobbers at Work Again A Health Officer Elected A little before 12 o'clock on Tuesday night a gang of four men broke into the Co-operative store at this place, gaining entrance by breaking the glaes of one of A Wrinkle for Embezzlers and Their Employers.

From tho 1'nll Wall Un untie. Charles Francois, a former chief clerk in the treasury office of the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean railway, appeared today before the Assize court of the Seine on the charge of having embezzled over (WW, 000) from his employers. Francois took advantage of the fact that the coupons had not been paid for many years ou a number of bonds whioh had been lost or destroyed, and it was his habit to purchase a bond through a stockholder and then to enter 500 instead of one on the books of the company, with the numbers corresponding to the shaes which for years past had been classified as lost. When he had embezzled a sura of he left the service of the company and went to fcpain with ins mistress, subsequently returning to Bordeaux, where he purchased a business and a handsomo estate in the country. lie was unaware, however, of the fact that the books upon which are entered the lost or destroyed bonds are audited every ten years by the company in view of the claims for years of interest which continually crop up, and this operation was carried out a few days alter his de parture.

The colossal swindle was thus discovered, and its perpetrator shortly afterward arrested. Pensions for Pennsylvamans. Washixgton, August 3. Pension cer- ficates, issue of July "5: Original Ludwick Iveefer, 1'ittsburg, $12. Increase William Crone, Altoona, $8 to $17; John Jackson, Williamsport, $8 to $10; Lawrence Whitman, Slate Run, Lycoming, to $8.

Reissue Charles L. Lowrey, Fassetts, Bradford, $30; Gibboney F. Horp, Phil- ipsburg, Centre, $25. KeiSHiie and Increase Albert niara, Herrainie, Westmoreland, $8 to $10. Original Widows, Etc.

Elizabeth 11. Carothers, Pittsburg, Catharine A. Barber, Bennett, Allegheny, $3. Ready to Pay the Award. 3.

The coneress of the Republic of Colombia, it is announced in a dispatch from Bogota, the capital, has unanimously resolved to deposit a sum eonal to ($300,000) as se curity for the amount due the heirs of Signor Cerruti, the Italian subject whose cluims against the government of Colombia were decided in his favor bv President Cleveland as arbi trator. The resolution, it is added, be-ni-impa lnw in bit rlavs. It is further ex plained that Italy's 'demand for a settle ment, which was oacKea up oy me presence of some Italian warships at OnrthacMin. had not hitherto reached the Colombian government in official form. One of the Greatest Statesmen.

From the India ruipols Journal. Bismarck will take rank as one of the world's greatest statesmen. There have been more brilliant men and those who have had a broader vision and who have commanded more extensive viBtas, but in actual accomplishment and in the statecraft of his day Bismarck bad no contemporary who was his superior. Letters Improperly Addressed. Thomas Kelly, 1023 Eleventh avenue; M.

G. Fulkmau, 1007 Sixth avenue; David Noll, 1016 Lexington avenue; Mrs. Tear! Weight, S19J Second avenue; Mies Ella Cannon, 1435 Twelfth avenue; Mrs. E. Boland, 114 Sixteenth street, Mrs.

Mary E. McCarthy, 700 Second avenue; Miss Jennie Johnston, 1207 Thirteenth avenue; Miss Rosa Johnston, W. II. Hammond. Went by the Gas Route.

Laxcaster, August 3. James Bel-field, a loom fixer who works in Columbia, but whose home is in Paterson, N. committed suicide at Columbia last night by inhaling illuminating gas. Speoial Nine-Day Excursion to Ooean Grove, Asbury Park, or Long Branoh via Pennsylvania Railroad. For the benefit of those desiring to visit the great Ocean Grove camp meeting, the Pennsylvania Railroad company will, on August 24, sell excursion tickets to Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, or Long Branch from stations named below at the very low rates quoted.

These tickets will be good for passage to Philadelphia on train on regular trains leaving Broad Street station at 3.30 and 4.08 p. m. that day to destination. Train Leaves. Kate.

Altoona 7.15 a. in, $100 KeHwood 7.30 7 75 Tyrone 7.48 7 35 Spruce Creek 8.05 7 35 Petersburg 8.17 7 25 Huntingdon afc 8 30 7 10 Mill Creek 8.41 7 00 Mapleton 8.47 7 00 Mt. V'nliin 8.53 6 75 Nowton Hamilton 8.58 6 50 McVcytown 9.15 8 25 Lewistown Junction B.35 8 00 Mifflin 9.55 5 Ho Port Koyal 9.5H 5 50 Thompson town 10.14 5 2-5 Mlllerstown 5 25 Newport 10.32 6 00 Duiicannon 10 64 4.60 Marysville u.07 4 50 Harrishurg Arrive 11.25 Harrlsburg Leave II 40 jou Philadelphia Arrive 3.00 p. Tickets will be good for return passage on regular trains until September 1, inclusive, and will permit of Btop-off at Philadelphia within limit. aug4-3t thur Buoklen'i Arnioa Salve.

The best Balve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblaine, corns, add all Bkin eruptions, and positively curesi piles, or no payment required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Turner Kantner, 1308 Eleventh avenue. Cost.

LOST. Mrs. O. Gibson, of Huntingdon, lost pass book containing two annual passes, July 20, on Eleventh avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Altoona. Finder will please return It to Mr.

bheppaid's office. aug2-3i OauKOsandTomplatosor the Altocua Foundry and Machine Co. and the A. Ureen Engine we are propared to furnish Duplloates and Ke' pairs for all work mado by' tho Altoona Company. Telephones Hell Long instance No.

111. Puootilx No. a. myas-lyr QD0RLES8 EXCAVATING CO. Guaranteed GO Gallons in a Barrel In Homovlng Contents of Privy Vaults.

Call al M. H. McO BATH'S COAL OFFICE, OK 1028 CHESTNUT ALTOONA, PA. PHCEN1X TELEPHONE, 10TK-Correspoudonce promptly answered marlO-tf COLEMAN KKO rat. icKiTii, of Philadelphia, Ear, Nose and Throat EXCLUSIVELY.

Permanently located (WILSON WILKINO) Cor. Elevonth Ave. and Eloventh Altoona, Pa. oarafully and refracted, masses furnished. Office hours from9 a.

to 8 p. m. oct8-tf DR .1. GEO. PRICE.

EYE, EAR, NOSE AND TIIROA.T SPECIALIST. Uosldcuco and Office: 1303 Seventh Avenue, Altoona, Pa. All Inflammatory and surgical diseases of tho oyo, ear, nose and throat skilfully treated. Errors of refraction accurately corrected and glasses furnished. Guarantee to give satisfaction.

OFFICE HOt'HS-T to .1 a. 12.30 to 2.30 and 6 to p. rn. Sunday Hours 8 to lo a. Consultation frco.

maytt-om jg B. LYSINGEK, ATTOKNEY-AT-LAVf AMD JUSTICE OF THE PJBAC Offloe on AlleKheuy street, opposite Ot Mmiusbtirg, Pa. Collections speedily r.ti and promptly paid over. JJ E. CRUM BAKER, D.

D. DENTAL ROOMS Cor. Sixth Avenue and Twelfth Street. 3-fold Filling a Specialty. Nitro-Oxldo Uas administered.

Office open at all hours. i 1 tl. BRUMBAUGH, JUSTICE OP THE PEACH, HAHVK AKIJ KEAL ESTATE AO Soaring Spring, Blair Pa. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ALTOOXA, PA. United States Depository.

Capital $150,000. Surplus $82,500 Safe Deposit Vaults Storage SAFES. Accessible from 9 a. m. to 3 p.

rn. STORAGE. Returnable on Demand- Department. Safes in vault for rent from $5 a year upward. The larger the safe the higher the price.

Security is the same in all. Packages may be placed in our vaults for safe keeping at from i a year upward, according to size. For a Good Slate Roof OO OK WHITE TO HERMAN PFANNENSCHMIDT, PRACTICAL SLATE ROOFER 2C01 NINTH AVENUE, and dealer in Hoofing Slate, Felt and Nails, who will give the best Satisfaction and all information. OLD SHINflLE ROOFS TAKEN OFF ATS'i) KEKOOFKD WITH SLATE ON SHOKT NOTICE. Also a choice corner lot for sale at Westmont suitable for store.

DONT FOKOET THE KK1HT PLACE. II. PFANNEJi SCHMIDT, 2G01 Ninth Avenne, Altoona, Pa. may23-6m ALTOONA BANK. (UN1NOOKPOBATEU) niKEOTORS J.

B. Wbstlet, J. p. Laffertt, HAKtBL LaOUHXAV, Wx. W.

MCBBAT. W.S.idB, J. 0. DAVI8. H.O.DEHJS, President J.

Q. DAVIS, Cashier. Interest allowed on time deposit. Special at tantlon paid to bank correspondence. THB OSBORNE.

The Osborne, Arkansas and Pacific avenue, Atlantlo City, N. elevator, one square to Heading depot and beach, bns to all trains, SI 60 to $2.50 per day, t8 to 14 weekly. jT2Mm WHS. K. J.

OSBOKNE. NEWRY N0IE8, Appointment of School Teachers A Number of Other Item. The numerous rain showers have again begun to make the meadows and vegetation shoot up anew. Miss Bertha Stultz and Master George Baker attended the Odd Fellows' picnic at Idlewildon Wednesday. Quite a number of our people were in attendance at the Sunday school picnic held at Claysburg last Saturday.

Frofessor J. Whittaker, a member of the faculty at Lock Haven Normal, tarried over Sunday at the Catfish hotel. Frofessor J. II. Likens, of Huntingdon, attended the township examination held bv Prof essor Wert at Cattish school house on Wednesday.

Mr. E. Brown, of Lillv, oue of Cambria county's school teachers, and now a student of the Indiana State Normal, was lately a guest of Mr. frank Llatte. At an adjourned meeting of theNewry borough scliool board held ou Tuesday evening the following teachers were elected: W.

S. Dietrich, grammar; Miss Junie Dugan, primary. The following teachers were elected by the Blair township school board on Wednesday afternoon: Cathsb, B. A. Baker; Reservoir, D.

G. Dodson; Rhodes, D. E. Byers; Mountain, Samuel Strover. The schools will open October 3.

A SEVERE STORM. Electricity Does Great Damage in PhiladelphiaOne Life Lost. PiiiLADBLriiiA, August 3. The excessive heat of the last three weeks or more, culminated to-day in one of the most terrific electrical storms that has ever visited this city. The rainfall was the heaviest in the history of the loQ.il weather bureau.

In one hour and three quarters, live and four-tenth inches of rain fell. The heaviest previous rainfall was five and one-fifth inches in twenty-four hours, about twelve years ago. There was an almost continuous flash of lightning and many flag poles and buildings in nearly every section of the city were struck, causing several small fires and doing great damage. Telegraph and telephone service throughout the city was practically at a standstill for several hours. The cellars and first floors of hundreds of business houses and dwellings were flooded.

In the basements of the city hall and postotfice the water rose to such a depth that the fires under the boilers were extinguished. The basements of Gimbel Brothers and Wanamaker's, two of the largest department stores in the city, were flooded and heavy damage was done. The street car Bervice was practically at a standstill. Many of the streets were flooded to the depth of two and three feet. At Thirteenth and Morris streets the water was four feet deep.

The steam road in this vicinity also suffered severely, and nearly all trains up to 2 o'clock were behind their schedule. Peter Schell, aged 28 years, was drowned in the cellar of his home at Twenty-third and Christian Btreets. He was working in the cellar removing some of his property, when he was caught by a sudden rise in the water. Before he could reach the stairway the water had risen to the first floor and he was drowned. One of the large oil tanks of the Atlantic Refining company at Gibson's Point, in the lower end of tne city, was Btruck by lightning and entirely destroyed by fire.

The loss is estimated at A Dumber of firemen were overcome by the heat while fighting the fire, but thev were soon revived. The Columbia-Montour Distriot. From the Philadelphia Press. The death of Judge Ikeler, of Columbia county, will probably have the effect of breaking up what would have been a deadlock of conferrees on the Democratic nomination in the Columbia-Montour judicial district. Judge Ike-ler's term would have expired this year, and he was a candidate for renomina-tion.

In the contest Judge Ikeler had opposition, Robert R. Little, of his own county, being a most formidable candidate. The primaries in Montour county were first held, and notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Little carried a majority of the popular vote it was so distributed that Judge Ikeler secured the majority of the delegates to the county convention, thus defeating the popular will through the machinery that comes between the people and their nomination. Judge Ikeler was given the privilege of appointing the conferees from Montour by the action of the county convention, and although they had not been named they certainly would have been in favor of his nomination from first to last.

When the democratic primaries were held in Columbia county some time later Judge Ikeler was badly beaten, though it was his home county. The candidacy of Mr. Little was received with more favor there, and he not only carried the popular vote by a good majority, as he had in Montour, but he got the convention as well. This gave Mr. Little the conferrees from Columbia as an offset to those secured by Judge Ikeler in Mon tour and made a deadlock inevitable.

In this situation various suggestions were made by democrats not particularly interested in either candidacy. It" was proposed in influential quarters to bestow the nomination npon some one not a resident ot the district, that coarse hav ing been pursued for many years previous to the nomination of Judge Ikeler ten years ago, and with very great satiB- taction. Whether this would have worked oat Our Duties as Masters of Cuba. From the Baltimore Sun. It is a very intelligent hypothesis that the petition sent to President McKinley by Cuban patriots near Santiago is the composition of ollice seekers who have not yet shouldered a gun in freedom's cause.

No one is so patriotic, or bo often mouths the vocabulary of liberty, as the would-be beneficiary of a new deal. The Cuban Bchemers who secured our interference in Cuba in the sacred name of humanity had the simple idea that the triumph of our arms meant their appointment to lucrative otfices. They were to get the fat places filled hitherto by titled that without much regard for their fitness to discharge honestlv, justly or efficiently the duties of admin istrators ot Cuba anairs. it naturany shocks these patriots to see Santiago governed by an American, not a Cuban, olhcer, and the entire administration oi the city left in the hands of Spaniards or Cubans loyal to Spain. If the patriots were not to be allowed to loot tne iiomes and public buildings, they ought at least, they think, to be allowed to hold the offices and thus consume the pro ceeds of taxation.

The feeling of the Cuban patriots is very hot against the Americans, and, according to the advices of the New York Herald, they have almost reached the point of being willing to turn their guns upon us, their supposed allies and deliverers. "We Cubans." they say, "have been treated shamefully. Our leaders have been ignored, our protests have not been considered and no regard has been had for our wishes or feelings. We believe in the honesty and good faith of the people of the United States, and in their desire, without ulterior motives, to liberate Cuba, but what are we to think of the army of liberators entering into possession of the ceded territory like a rough-shod conqueror, and treating their allies the people they came to free with less consideration than the enemy? If it is necessary to exclude the Cuban army from Santiago for the present, let it be understood that it is done from motives of policy, and do not issue orders which superior force alone compels us to obey." It is only our "superior that prevented the Cubans from entering Santiago after its capture and repeating there the murder and pillage practiced at other places. An officer at the front explains that our "superior force" is now required to protect the Spanish troops who have surrendered.

"We have," he says, "a large number of prisoners on hand, many of whom are on parole. We are bound in faith and honor to protect these unarmed men, to see that the terms of surrender are carried out, and that their safe conduct to Spain is assured. What would be the result of admitting Garcia's ill-timed levies? We would be compelled to withdraw the troops now guarding the prisoners, to act as patrols, in preventing Cuban outbreaks and acts of retaliation and revenge. Merchants and private invid-uals, having a stake in the town, although Cuban sympathizers, have implored us not to allow the Cuban troops to enter." It is our duty to consider also what is to become of the numerous other towns and cities of Cuba, after the Spanish troops are withdrawn from them. At present they are protected from the assaults of the patriots by the arms of the Spanish.

There are some 40,000 loyal Cuban guerrillas, citizens of the various towns, against whom the rebels feel very bitterly. As respect these, the war is a civil war aid has produced the usual crop of animosities. Each side remembers against the other many brutal murders and cruel burnings of homes and losses, bo that it will not do to place any part of Cuba, now held by General Blanco, at the mercy of the native warriors. It follows that we shall need to occupy with our troops all the towns of Cuba 88 fast as they are evacuated by the Spanish, in order to safeguard the population for which we shall have become responsible. A single massacre in a remote part of Cuba, after we have expelled the Spanish, would rest upon our natural conscience and discredit our humanity.

The occupation by us of the whole of Cuba might not need to be long continued, since the Cuban patriots who want control may subside quietly when they see we "mean business," but this cannot be known in advance. We Bhall need to keep at least 50,000 men there for a time to do the work which Spain now does badly with three times that number. Should the Cubans fight us if we should finally refuse to recognize Cuba Libre as they promised to do last April a much larger force might need to be kept in Cuba. Cubans Mast Be Governed. From the London Spectator.

The Creole peasantry of Cuba, who have suffered martyrdom, are just Spanish-Americans, no better and no worse; not fit to govern themselves yet, but im provable. The actual insurgents are mostly half-castes, brave enough for their own way of fighting, but impatient ot discipline and labor, and greatly deter iorated by ten years of savage fighting and privation in the bush. To give them power would be madness, and it may be necessary to disarm them. Cuba can be governed easily enough by steady justice strongly enforced, but it must for many years be administered from above. The Ameri cans, in fact, must govern, whether they fee it or not, on tne principles ot an English crown colony.

Their argument that Buch a course ia opposed to republi can principles is only conventionally true. Republican principles do not prevent republics from administering terri tory in the occupation of their armies,.