Altoona Tribune from Altoona, Pennsylvania • Page 2

MORNING TB1BUKS, MONDAY, DEC EMBER (, 1897. GERMANS OR CZECHS, It is a Great Comfort hi ii, Cinderella iTighi I pi i In I healing stoves, lor house- ilaced upon tiie market. All the is are Ini orporated Into its con feature to promote durability, onom) has been well planned men. With all their long authority and boasted intellectual and political superiority, the Germans have not a single leader of more than local repute or influence, certainly not one fit for a moment to be compared with any one of a score of Hungarian statesmen. They have created a chaos out of which it is seemingly hopeless to expect any figure of power or dignity to emerge.

Thus far not a word comes of any disaffection in the army, but when that is the solitary asset the country can show on the side of order anarchy is not far off. Manifestly tlie problem of how long Kaiser Wilham can keep his lingers out of this inviting pie assumes a primary importance. As things are drifting now, Germany must in time have intervention thrust upon her as a duty. Austrian-Germans talk openly of this now as the necessary outcome of the situation. They have been quickest of all to note that Kmperor William in Tuesday's speech at the opening of the reichstag said not a word about the triple alliance, and only mentioned casually his visit to the allied sovereigns.

Upon this they build the hope that he is holding himself free to come to their aid. Similarly they find now a new reading of their own emperor's recent fervent allusions to Russia's friendship, and suspect that a bargain has been made by which the Romanoff will maintain the Il on his throne, and force the Austrian-Hermans into subjection to the Poles and Czechs in return for free hand in the Balkansand on the Black sea. The logical outcome of such a bargain would be a great war between Germany and Russia, waged on Austrian soil, which would of necessity drag in the rest of Europe. To-day such an event is practically unthinkable. Who can say what it may be to-morrow? Produces the Greatest Heat from the least Fuel.

air is drawn from the floor, and discharged the sides ami top, thoroughly heated. PREVENTS COLD FLOORS The jlJOfPHM Will hAmfi W. S. Aaron, vsa -I cold ugh heep Whitehead's head was cut open and his chest crushed. Had it not been for the stout construction of the cars, both of which were new, it is doubtful whether any of their occupants would have escaped alive.

As it was, nearly all of the fourteen passengers in the southbound car suffered some injury. Some of the injured were taken to farm houses, others brought to city hospitals. The oflicials are investigating the responsibility for the disaster, and a coroner's jury iias already been impaneled. The Detroit, Birmingham and Pontiac road is a separate suburban enterprise. Its cars enter the city over the Woodward Avenue Street Car line.

Bicyoles and Street Railways. A chapter on street railways of Pennsylvania, which will form a part of the annual report of the secretary of internal affairs, contains some interesting data. I'pon a total capitalization of dividends and interest to the amount of or at the rate of a trifle more than 3 per cent upon the total capitalization, were paid during the year covered by this report. As the outstanding bonds of the various companies commanded from 4 to (i per cent it is evident that the average rate of dividends to the stockholders was very small. As a matter of fact the largest traction companies paid no dividends at all.

The report shows that in comparison with former years the receipts of many of the street railways have fallen off, and the increased use of the bicycle is offered as the chief reason for this shrinkage. An example of the effect of bicycle riding upon street car patronage is furnished from a test made in Harrisburg during two days in "October last, during which 0,078 persons passed a given point on bicycles while only 1,002 passed the same point on popular street car line. While the Harrisburg example is doubtless an extreme one, there can be no question that the bicycle has made great inroads into the receipts of the street car corporations in all cities with fairly creditable streets. Kspeci ill is this true of Philadelphia, with its hundreds of miles of asphalt-surfaced streets upon which thousands of people ride wheels to and from work or pleasure who formerly employed the street cars. It is evident from the statistics contained in this report that the streetcar service of the state, while greatly improved as to speed of travel and the comfort of riders by the substitution of electricity for horses, will prove far less profitable to stockholders and investors "than formerly.

The railway companies can doubtless carry passengers at a cheaper rate per passenger than ever before, but there are so many former riders who don't want to ride any more that the total receipts from this source have been seriouslv reduced, and the prospect is that there will be more rather than fejpr bicycle riders in the future. A VILLAGE OF AGED PEOPLE. Twenty Persons Who Are Over 90 Years of Age and Five Who Have Passed 100. BlNQHAMTON, December 4. In the small village of Friendsville, about 'sixteen miles from this city, and just over L.

Z. Replogle, The Largest Clothier and Gents' Furnisher in Central Pennsylvania. TWENTY PER CENT. BELOW ALL OTHERS I ire Events four Don Double Heater 1428 nth Ave. 1309 ELEVENTH AVENUE, 811 TWELFTH STREET.

1 Christmas is fast approach I why not make yourself, hus pair of warm, comfortable! They'll do the work. 50O 5Qc, AND UP. 50CJ REPLOGLE'S, Two Large Stores, Please We Ice Up To the (dtl that who are expected to be forty-third annual insti-8 also over 400 directors, are also expected to at- tenii in' oi tne institute. The Pennsylvania railroad engineers who have been making a survey of the Bedford division have completed their work between State Line and Mt. Dallas, and are now making a survey of the Dun-ning's Creek branch.

The bursting of the main water pipe of the Williamsport Water company at 5 o'clock Friday morning flooded Market square and deluged the basements of several stores. The firm of Muir Scott uttered heavily. Their loss is placed at $500. Fire started in the store of Stineman Brothers, at South Fork, Friday night from a defective flue, it is supposed, and had gained considerable headway before bring discovered. The lire force of South Fork was called out and extinguished the Haines, but damage to the extent of several hundred dollars had been done.

Thomas McCoy, one of the best known and oldest citizens of East St. Clair township, Bedford county, died on Monday of last week, aged 83 years, 11 months and 5 days. He was a blacksmith by trade and followed that occupation from lSlil to 1851, when he engaged in fanning and tilled the soil for many years. Between 7 and 8 o'clock Thursday evening Conrad Kunkle's barn in Richland township, Cambria county, not far from the Walsall postoffice, "was destroyed by fire, the origin of which is unknown." It is thought bv the owner and others to have been set on lire. The blaze was discovered by Mr.

Kunkle.who succeeded in rescuing the live stock before the building collapsed. KLONDIKE TREASURE. Deputy Attorney General Reeder Has a Sample, Beu.ki-ontk, December 5. During his attendance at court here last week Deputy Attorney General W. F.

Reeder proudly displayed a small buckskin bag which contained nearly ten ounces of Klondike gold that he was carrying around as a pocket piece. The precious metal was made up of one large nugget, weighing over four ounces aud valued at $88, and the balance of the purse was dnst, as miners call it, though to an inexperienced person it looked more like a lot of little yellow pebbles, the smallest of the number containing almost $1 worth of gold. In color the Klondyke gold very much resembles that mined in California, a deep yellow, and not the saffron yellow of the Colorado vein. Mr. Reeder received his purse of gold fresh from Alaska last week, it being given him by hi-i cousin, W.

H. Hile, of DnBois, who landed in this state on Wednesday. He brought with bun a goodly portion of gold nuggets and gold dust. W. H.

Hile went to Alaska three years ago and invested in a number of claims in various parts of the country. This wa? before the great gold discoveries. However, he was fairly successful from the first and found gold enough to warrant him in settling as a resident in that cold region. He wa6 one of the first settlers in what is now known as Juneau, and at present owns one of the best residences in that town. He and his family are among the comfortably situated ones.

Mr. Hile owns claims in the Klondike region which yielded good returns last summer. He also has claims in the Kettle Creek basin and some in American territory. He is now east on a business trip and Will spend the winter in Pennsylvania, returning home next spring, when he will proceed once to the development of all his clainiB. Mr.

Hile says the pen-pictures of misery, suffering and death that have been drawn of that section are in the main correct, made so mostly by the over-rush of people to the Klondike during the past six months, and most of whom went there in no way prepared to withstand the extremities of the winter season. Winter has already set in there in earnest, and all who have thus far failed to come back will have to remain, and the hope of braving the bitter cold without sufficient food or clothing, is a forlorn one, indeed. It is a terrible prediction, but a true one, that there is danger of more people being frozen to death in Alaska this winter than the number who will survive to mine gold next summer. TROLLEYS KILL IN DETROIT. Three Persons Dead and a Score Injured in Collision.

Detroit, December 4. Two suburban cars, carrying some twenty passengers and both running at a speed of twenty-live miles an hour, collided on the Detroit and Oakland. electric railroad at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The result was that three men were instantly killed and a score of persons injured, ten of them seriously. The dead are John Savage, superintendent of the road; Charles M.

Whitehead, motorman, and John Kelly, of Detroit, book agent. The exact cause of the accident is as yet in doubt. President Hendrie of the Detroit and Oklahoma railroad said this evening that the responsibility for the disaster had not been fixed. According to the schedule a car leaves each end, Detroit and Pontine, every hour, and there are three sidings along the road. To-day the care were behind time.

The one bound southward for Detroit had passed an outbound carat the switch two miles from Pontiac, the crew appar ently mat another outbound car was approaching them less than two miles distant, although it is claimed that they should have known it from orders sent from Birmingham. The weather was foggy and the rails slippery from the sleet which had been falling. lie collision came near a (travel flit abont midway between fontiM and Bir- ngfiam, at the loot ot two stei'P grades, down which the cars ran at fail speed. The impact was terrific. The cars were driven half through each oth-er ad crushed to pieces.

Superintendent Savage was in the mo torman vestibule' operating the otii bound car. Both his lees wPrn nnt off uu uia uuuy was irigntmily man ned. Motorman McHugh, who stood behind Savage, narrowly escaped a similar fate. John Kelly was evidently the only pas-Benger who saw the north bound car approaching. He rushed from the vestibule door, and he and Motorman Whitehead were struggling together to sret, out, of the door when the crash came.

Both nmr killoH k'olU'o ders were jammed out of the vestibule window, and his neck was broken. I 700 teachers, present at tl tute. There many of who Which Shall Predominate In the Rule of Austria-Hungary? RUSSIA AND GERMANY IN THE MIX English Public Opinion Has Wholly Veered Around and Is At Present Decidedly Hostile to the German Agitators. PREM1ERGAUTSCH ONLY A STOP-GAP Harold Frederic In the New London, December 4. All at once people liave lost (aitli in the familiar "say so" of old.

It has almost become an ad age that the Austrian empire would last as long as the present emperor does. Only a few months ago Franz JoBef was busy aud pleased with plans for the celebration of his jubilee next December. Suddenly It has become doubtful if there will be anything left by that' time to celebrate over. This has been marked by the violent overthrow of the ministry after a demonstration so savage in spirit that the fallen premier, Badeni, had to escape from Vienna in a closed cab. He drove through the back streets of the city, and took a train at a little way station ten miles from town, in order to elude the mob that was waiting to kill him.

Uproarious disorder and bloody riots have prevailed throughout the northern half of the empire. Next week something still more ominous may happen, for the Hungarian parliament will, on Monday, pass the measure for maintaining the status quo as regards its relations with Austria, but doing it as an independent monarchy. Once this step has been taken, as it must be, unless a miracle is wrought at Vienna over Sunday, it will be impossible ever to get the machinery of the dual kingdom back again into its original working order. Of course, a compromise of some sort may still be found, as so many other occasions, but the crisis is really so much worse than anything in the recent past that nobody is able to suggest anything hopeful. It is worth Rioting that within the past few months English opinion has wholly veered around on the subject of Austria's internal difficulties.

Up to that time nobody sympathized with the Czechs and other'sia'yonic disturbers of the good emperor's peace. They were universally regarded as a lot of impracticable and bad-mannered nuisances, much as the Irish home rulers were regarded fifteen years ago. Now all that has changed, and nobody has a good ord for the Austrian Germans. Something of this is due, very likely, to the profound antagonism which the English feel toward the Germans proper. Much more is, however, traceable to the fact that the Austrian Germans have not played their parliamentary game with any decent sense of fairness.

Although always in a numerical minority in the country, they have for years been able secure a majority in the parliament, and in all that time, so far from doing anything to pacify racial animosities, they have ridden rough-shod over.aU other nationalities, grinding them remorselessly in the mud. However, the moment thsee. other races secure a parliamentary majority and try to use it to do something for themselves, the Germans break up the parliament and refuse to recognize any of the consti-tional obligations resting on the minority, and even declare they will pin the German empire before they will submit to the Slavonic majority. This may be magnificent, but it is not the parliamentary game. That Prague should answer the anti-Czech riots at Saaz, and the rejoicings and illuminations of Vienna, Innsbruck, Gratz, Kger, Mai bin and other (ierman towns by a furious popular upris xpe ed.

in tha hat the minority has used its power most offensively during its long period of mastery. Rebel Cork itself does not hate an Englishman one-hundredth part as fiercely as the Bohemian capital hates the Germans. Even Americans and Englishmen, trying to make themselves understood in (ierman, have long been exposed to discourtesy from the people of Prague, who hold the mere sound of the detested language an insult to them. The unhappy Jews suffer from this same fault of speaking German, for while Vienna persecutes them because they are anti-tier-man in sympathy, Prague hunts them down and burns and sacks their shops because they are not linguists. This flame of vindictive loathing for all things German reddens now the whole Bohemian sky and reflects its sinister glow throughout Galicia, Moravia, Camiola and southern Styria.

From the frenzy already exhibited one might al-moBt be prepared for a wholesale massacre of Germans. The proclamation of "Standrecht," a sort of martial law, in Prague, has for the moment quieted the trouble. This pitiless process, with its tribunal of civil jus tises with military powers, and its permanent accessories of priest, physician aim uaiigiiiiiu 10 carry out lis death -ei tences within two hours, is well know in Prague, and strikes a chill to even even the bravest stomach. Besides, troops have been concentrated to nacK up tne stanarecnt, but Slavdom in Austria is essentially scattered and rural in character, and the soldiers can do little to protect tne German traders in the isolated parts, even if matters had not come to cms grave issue. it is plain that these two passionately embittered combatants cannot be broiie-hf.

to- gether peaceably under one roof for a long time to come. It seems easier to believe that a rupture of the political bond holding them will come sooner. Indeed matters have progressed so far in a revolutionary direction that no common device avails to check the momen-tum-of agitation. Though tne new premier, Baron Gautsch, is a German and an anti-Czech politician, the German party curls its lips at him. The Contempt with which he is regarded by the very men who have triumphed by his appointment recalls the implacable sneers of revolted Paris at the quasi-patriotic ministers with whom poor Louis XVI.

strove to avert their wrath. Nobody pretends to think that Gautsch is morethana smirking, oily-tongued stop-gap who will efface himself the moment a real man is ready to take his place. I nhappily, Austria fiels the painful dearth of real ing. Cold, wintry and blustery nights will i soon be here; band and children appreciate the comforts of FIRE ALARMS. Those Which Have Been Turned in During Eleven Months.

The Altoona Are department during the past eleven months has responded to lL'l alarms, a grand total of since the organization of the paid system. These figures may be of interest: MmiL' the eleven nioiii hs above men tioned companies have responded as foi- low- to alarms: No 1 engine to No. I hose i many to 48; truck A to 01; No. 2 engine to No. 2 hose to Hi; No.

engine to 2 -No. hose to IV No. 4 hose to II; No. hose to 2S. This latter company was organized AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Some Information Concerning Past Coin- ing Attractions. "Madeleine, or the Magic Kiss," was most acceptably presented at the opera house Saturday evening by a company which included Frank Deshon, Hilda Hollen and other meritorious artists. Satisfaction was given throughout. The scenery was pleasing, the costumes flue. A queer combination of the quaint and curious sights of every-day life will be seen in the farce comedy, "McFadden's Row of Flats," to be produced at the Eleventh Avenue opera house to-morrow evening, The theme of the piay is taken from the caricatures of the celebrated artist, 11.

F. Outcalt, and the dramatization made by that able journalist, E. W. Towtiseiitl. v.

idelv own a--tin creator of the world tamed "Ohimmle Fadden," whose doings and sayings have been one of the great attractions of the press of New York for the past few years. "Faust," an adaptation of Goethe's immortal tioem, will he produced at the opera house Wednesday afternoon and evening. The version given by the company is the one uramat i.e.t by Pavle Bernard, of London. The scenery, all of which is carried on special cars, is very extensive. The public square of Nuremburg, Marguerite's garden and the square of the fountains being not only historically correct but most beaut ilnllv painted.

However, the climax in scenic effects is reached in the loiirtn act, when th-' imp- and goblins hold high carnival on night. on the summit of the Brockeu, in the 1 1 art mountain. Hart's Big City Comedy company, which was booked for this week at the New Mountain City theatre, disbanded i in l'i on- Kama a few tlavs ago, and as fl consequence the new theatre have no snow tins week. Beginning Mmrkv. December 13.

A. T. Scam mon's merry play, "The American Girl," will be at the New Mountain City theatre for three nights and Tuesday matinee. During the remainder of the week the same company will produce, a.niBuri gieai uomeuy ine name ct which will be announced later. "The Real Widow Brown" will no doubt testify to the excellence of Mr.

Scammon's attrac- IN OTHER COUNTIES. Items of Interest Clipped or Condensed from Our Exchanges. There are 432 teacher Amnlnveri in t.ui Clearfield county schools. John Thomoson. one nf Ciirwpna.

ville's most highly esteemed young business men.died on Thursday from pareBis, aged 33 years. Two aged citizens of Shirlev township, Huntingdon county, died recently: Mrs. John (dock, aeed about, 7(1 and Ir.l Swayne, aged about 62 years. Bellefonte's $4,000 borontrh hnlMim in complete. The structure is built of brick and is two stories in height.

It contains rouun loruie Dtirgess, council and hogan Westmoreland county has army of I ai.mims, still Mux. raise. ai I-', 'h'' 7 April 7 6 Muy 4 5 1 0 fi Novo cr ii 1 lusur- Ins'ur Simon. Eleventh Avenue. here twenty persons age, and five win bury mark.

Mm over 90 5 passed Mar Mrs. Ellen Goelen have recently reached the age of 100 years. They have all raised large families, and have great-great-grandchildren. All of these old people are hale and hearty, and do some work about their tarms. Old Mr.

Seelev, who is 102, is particularly smart for ids age. Last summer, with he belli of one man. he built a rail fence around a five-acre plot. Mr. Seelev has cut all th needed in the household thus far this winter.

By Wagon from Kansas. SnrjTB SALEM, N. December prairie schooner, drawn bv horses, ith two led horses in the rear, and occupied bv a solitary man, drf in this little village last night just a people were gathering for church ices. The man said that he was Th Averv. a farmer from Kansas.

01 way to join his wife and children, who hail pn ci ii- '1 him to ms native place, Westerly, He went st twenty ii'-s ago, hut bad been unsiir-cessfii started from Kansas on August 25 and has been on the road ever since. As he had no map of the states through which be fur. i be inanv miles his way and had been much longer on the road than would otherwise have been necessary. He expects to reach his old Dome in another week. Resolutions of Tnanks.

At the final meeting of the committee ving charge the placing ol the mortars aud at the court In. use, Nolle daysburg, held on the 3d inst. at the rooms of post 39, the following resolution was unanimously agreed to: Unsolved, Thai the thank uf I his committee Kev. I lev" IiiirohlieM, company Filth reaimeii fiintrv, Grand Arinv ln.rts, Hov-' Brigade all others who so kindly aided the committc thoir labors. H.

A. MttLIB, Cliairmu T. H. NieKwoNuiai, Secretary. Closed with Special Services.

Hazi.kton, December 5. The sixth di-trict convention of the Voting Men's Christian association secretaries, representing the associations of Luzerne, Carbon, Northumberland, Schuylkill. Montour, iierks, Columbia and Lycoming counties, closed here to-night with special services in all the local churches. A irraiul rallv was held this afternoon in the opera house, State Secretary Bard oeuig the speaker, A Strike Declared Off. Bku.atKE, December 5.

The strike at ttie bellaire steel works, which has been waeeil bv the Amalgamated Associ ation of Iron "and Steel Workers for the past two months, has ended in a defeat for the men. Seeing that they could not wid. the strike is declared to be off, and the old men will take whatever jobs they can Secure until they are reinsU'ed. Kicked Herself to Dsatb. SiiKi.ismi.il-:.

f'ecember 4. Mrs. Var- vey Mitchell and Mrsa Lena Pitcher engaged in a kicking contest to-day. They were at the home of the former and were kicking at a mark on the wall, when Mrs. Mitchell, after one of her kicks, fell to the floor unconscious.

She cannot home? Try a house slippers. Women's Slippers, Men's Slippers, Children's Slippers, THE PRESIDENT IN WASHINGTON. He Will Return to Canton Again This Evening. Washington, December 5. President McKinlev, accompanied by Assistant Secretary Day, arrived in Washington over the Pennsylvania railroad at 7.45 o'clock this morning.

He was met at the station by Secretary Alger, Secretary Bliss and Secretary Porter, and driven to the white house. The pieBident had received twotelegrams en route to Washington from Canton icporting the condition ot his mother, but he was anxious for later news, so Secretary Porter stopped at the telegraph office on the way from the station to inquire for dispatches that might be waiting. There was no news, however, so the party proceeded to the white house where breakfast was had. In the middle of the forenoon a message was received from Abner McKinley at Canton saying that the president's mother was resting in about the same condition as when he left Canton sleeping and unconscious; she might last through the day, or even one or two days longer, but was liable to die at any moment. Arrangements have been made for the return trip to Canton to-morrow evening.

The president, Mrs. McKinley and a uarty of half a dozen close friends and relatives will leave Washington at 7.20 o'clock, ocenpving a special car attached to the regular Pennsylvania railroad train, and arriving in Canton about 10 o'clock Tuesday morning The Hazleton Riot Recalled. ffAZiJNttr, Pa- December 4. -An at-. madp last nieht to blow un the residence of A.

P. Piatt, one of Slier- iff Marna foand on the steps of the house this morning. The explosive was carried to police headquarters, and it was found that the piece had been broken rneWed and Mr. Piatt have probably been killed. There no cine to the identity of the guilty part.es Mr.

Piatt is manager of the A. Pardee store Gus 1400 Committed Suicide. fumes. After igniting the charcoal the diank a hint ol absinthe and then lay down upon her bed, tniuing her arms, and it was in tins position that her body was found. A little blind pet dog had been the only companion of the aged woman since she had sunk into poverty.

Sentenced to Prison for Life Vinton, December 5. The motion for a new trial in the case of Frank A. Xovak, convicted of murder in the sec ond degree, was overruled and ihe court passed -entence that lie be e.onnnea 10 hard labor in the nenitentiarv at Anamo- sa for the period of his natural life. The prisoner showed little emotion on the passing ol the sentence aim ueciareu tiiat he was innocent. Blood Humors mother Itchlnc, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, pimply er Mi ii iy, whether Simple, speedily cured warm Paths wiili i ka Soap, gentle t-inenn, the skin cure, and nnld 'le-es.

cf CirnouKA Kf.solvkkt, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures. Cpcura bioU throughout worid. PorriR Deoo iudChih. FACE HUMORS.