The Daily News from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Mt DAILY NEWS. Boom Hard Coal! PER VOL. 6--NO. 269. MOUNT CARMEL, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1898.

PRICE ONE CENT LATEST WAR NEWS BY TELEGRAPH RELIABLY REPORTED DAILY SPANISH POLITICS Causes Delay in Yielding to Our Demands. NO INTENTION TO RESIST, But Sagasta Must Make a Show of of Resistance. GENERAL WADE'S EXPEDITION. Preparations Go On Steadily as Though Peace Proposals Were Never Thought Of. Navy Department Officials Insist That the Watson Squadron Will Go to Europe, Regardless of the Termination of the War--The Removal of Shafter's Troops.

Washington, Aug. was an expectation at the state department that perhaps towards the colse of yesterday afternoon some word might be received from Spain through the French ambassador in reply to the president's deliverance of Wednesday upon the subject of peace conditions. This expectation was based upon the fact that the terms themselves had not been modified in any essential point, so that there was little occasion for prolonged discussion by the Spanish cabinet, which was presumed to have thoroughly considered this matter before rendering the first reply. However, it was perceived from the news dispatches that the Madrid cabinet meeting had been inconclusive, so it was then presumed nothing definite could be expected before today at the earliest. There 1s a confident belief among the administration officials that the Spanish government will accept the terms laid down by the president, and that the delay of a day or two in recognizing the inevitable is to be a0- counted for by reasons of Spanish internal politics, which would not countenance an unresisting submission without at least a display of a purpose to improve the terms.

This, however, cannot be accomplished, and the French ambassador, who is well aware of that fact, unquestionably has so informed the Spanish government, though that government has preserved its record in good form to meet the criticism of its political opponents by submitting the counter proposition submitted by M. Cambon to the president. Meanwhile preparations for the Wade expedition gO on steadily, a number of general officers being yesterday ordered to attach themselves thereto, among them General Randall, who was assigned only Wednesday to command the new artillery camp at Montauk Point. Navy department officials also insist that no change has been made in the orders to the Watson squadron. Indeed, there seems to be now evident a purpose to dispatch this fine squadron to European waters regardless of the termination of the war, the idea being that the splendid display which will be made by the American ships will have a beneficial effect in Inspiring respect for our naval strength.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of the Rough Riders, has succeeded in hurrying the movements of the war department in fetching Shafter's army away from Santiago, though in his disregard of the conventionalities he das drawn his head a rather sharp rebuke upon from the secretary of war, who evidently regards the course pursued by Colonel Roosevelt as being calculated to injure discipline, though inspired by the most worthy motives. It is only fair to state that the war department for some time has been intent removing these troops, and it is upon not more than a week ago that General Shafter was instructed by a special cablegram to cheer up the soldiers by publicly informing them of this determination. It was rather a question of ways and means than of lack of intention to redeem this promise that caused delay. As far as the question of removing the troops back into the mountains was concerned (the question which seems to have precipitated an indignation meeting among the American commanders at Santiago) it is learned that the medical department made no such recommendation. All that it had to say on the subject was that if the troops must remain near Santiago an effort should be made to remove them at once to some healthier camping ground.

Surgeon General Sternberg agrees thoroughly with the opinion expressed by the signers of the "round robin" at Santiago, that men who have suffered from the severe malarial fevers of the south Cuban coast, so far from being immune against attacks of yellow fever, as has been asserted in some quarters, are actually in very much greater danger than those who have escaped the malaria. Malarial fever, it is stated, is no more protection against a subsequent attack of yellow fever than would be a case of measles against smallpox, while the fearful debility resulting from malarial fever would certainly tend to make the victim an especial mark for yellow jack. The department yesterday gave out a statement of its resources in the way of transports at Santiago and, also, as an incident. directed attention to the fact that the troops cannot be withdrawn as a whole until the Spanish prisoners are disposed of. Otherwise there is no certainty that, finding themselves able to do so, the Spaniards would overpower their captors, repossess themselves of Santiago and thus lose to the American army the small foothold in Cuba which it has cost so much blood and to secure.

It is, however, the expectation that all of the American troops will have been removed from Santiago to the United States by the end of this month, and that is probably the very best that can be done under the cireumstances. ROOSEVELT REBUKED. Secretary Alger Declines to Endorse His Laudation of the Rough Riders at the Expense of the' Volunteers. Washington, Aug. following correspondence has passed between Colonel Roosevelt and Secretary Alger.

Roosevelt writes from Santiago under date of July 23, as follows: "We earnestly hope that you will send the cavalry division, including the most of the regulars, and at any rate Rough Riders, who are as good as any regulars, and three times as good as any state troops, to Porto Rico. There are 1,800 effective men in this division. If those who are left behind were joined to them we could land at Porto Rico, in this cavalry division, close to 4,000 who would be worth easily any 10,000 national guards armed with black powder Springfields or other archaic weapons." The following reply was cabled to Colonel Roosevelt: "The regular army, the volunteer army and the Rough Riders have done well, but I suggest that unless you want to spoil the effects and glory of your victory you make no invidious comparisons. The Rough Riders are no better than other volunteers. They had an advantage in their arms, for which they ought to be very grateful." The Battle of Manzanillo.

Washington, Aug. navy department has received full reports of the naval operations against Manzanillo on July 18. They show that much more danage was done than is generally understood. The reports specify no less than ten Spanish vessels burned, sunk or destroyed. The list as given is as follows: Gun vessels Maria Ponton, Delgado Perado, Jose Garcia and Cuba Espanol, burned; transport Gloria and merchant steamer Purissima Conceptione, sunk; Estrella, Guantanamo, Guardian and Sentinel Delgado, destroyed.

The American ships engaged in this operation were the Wilmington, Helena, Scorpion, Hist, Hornet, Wampatuck and Osceola. No damage was done the American ships, and there were no casualties. Helen Gould Active in Relief Work. New York, Aug. -Lieutenant Colonel J.

Morris Brown, the head of the medical supply depot here, received today a communication from Miss Helen Gould, saying that Ira E. Belnet, of San Diego, had telegraphed to her offering her a carload of lemons for distribution among the army hospitals. Colonel Brown promptly replied that the gift would be most acceptable. Miss Gould, who represents the Woman's National Relief War association, says the association will furnish four electrical ward kitchens for the hospital ship Missouri. Troops For Honolulu.

San Francisco, Aug. troops to go to Honolulu tomorrow on the transport Charles Nelson have been designated. They are the following companies of First New York Volunteers: 'Captain McIntyre; Captain Sague; Captain Shelden, and M. Captain Tompkins, composing Major Charles's, Major battalion, Emmett's and battalion. Captain The total number of officers and men, 656.

The Third battalion of the Second regiment of volunteers will sail on the Lakme, which vessel will carry 325 men. Admiral Cervera on a Jaunt. Baltimore, Aug. Cervera. accompanied by his son, Lieutenant Cervera, who have been prisoners of war at the Naval academy, Annapolis, for several weeks, passed through Baltimore yesterday en route for Fort Monroe, Norfolk and Newport News.

The admiral received special permission from the navy department to go to Fort Monroe to visit Spanish officers who are under medical treatment there. He may extend his visit to New York. Return of Spanish Wives and Children Santiago de Cuba, Aug. steamer San Juan, in charge of Lieutenant Noble, of General Shafter's staff, left yesterday afternoon for Manzanillo, under a flag of truce, to embark there the wives and children of the officers of the Spanish forces which arrived here from Manzanillo to reinforce General Linares during the siege. They will return to Spain with their husbands and fathers.

The Spanish Prisoners at Portsmonth Portsmouth, Aug. health of the Spanish prisoners continues excellent. Lieutenant Don Francisco Tierrily, of the Spanish army in Cuba, was released from Camp Long yesterday and furnished with transportation for New York, where he will board the Yale to return Spanish to army Cuba. officers He was captured one of at the destruction of Cervera's fleet. His ultimate destination is Spain.

To Make Santiago Clean. Santiago de Cuba, Aug. Wood, the military governor, has apMajor George M. Barbour as pointed and street commissioner. The health will he divided into 16 districts, city the supervision of non-commissioned officers responsible for the street their respective localities.

cleaning in thousand men will beimmediately Four work cleaning the thoroughfares. but to The terms have no doubt been peace by Spain, but she doesn't want accepted too anxious about it. to appear SANTIAGO TROOPS ON THE WAY NORTH Washington, August first transport containing soldiers from General Shafter's army at Santiago, left for Montank Point, Long Island, this morning. General Shafter reports 449 new cases of fever and nine deaths on August 3. A FLORIDA HURRICANE.

One Man on a Beacon Forty Hours Without Nourishment. Jacksonville, Aug. to the' Times-Union and Citizen indicate that a hurricane of unusual severity swept the Gulf coast of Florida Wednesday. The storm had all the characteristics of a general West Indian cyclone. It was first reported at Tampa on Tuesday, where it grazed the coast, but caused sufficient wind to detain steamers in port.

A wrecking barge in charge of C. E. Hardesty was sent adrift, and Mr. Hardesty, 20 miles out in the bay, deserted the barge and took refuge upon a beacon, where he remained for 40 hours without food or water. At Apalichicola the velocity of the wind reached as high 80 miles an hour.

Four tugs and many small craft were sunk. Houses were unroofed and almost every tree in the town leveled. At Chipley a negro church and several other buildings were blown down, and thousands of acres of turpentine forest leveled. At Tallahassee, St. Teresa, Mariana and Coreyxille considerable damage was done to houses, fences and trees, as well as to corn and cotton.

A deluge of rain fell. Telegraph wires are all down in west Florida and details are meager, but so far as learned there were no casualties. Evacuating Camp Alger. Washington, Aug. regiments have left camp for the new rendezvous at Manassas, some of which already have arrived there.

The remainder will get away from their present quarters by Tuesday next. The ambulance wagons have had a busy time bringing back to the division hospitals at Camp Alger the men who were prostrated by the heat during their long march. Seventeen typhoid fever patients were taken to the general hospital at Fort Myer. A general field hospital also will be established somewhere in the vicinity of Manassas for the treatment of the more severe cases of ill- ness. Grosvenor Says "'No London, Aug.

Daily News publishes this morning an interview with General Charles Grosvenor, member of the house of representatives from Ohio, who is now in London, in the course of which General Grosvenor is represented as having said: "I do not believe that the United States is prepared to enter upon a permanent alliance with any European power. Neither would America accept any European dictation. We have grown 'that big' already." General Grosvenor will return to the United States by the Trave next Wednesday. Pennsylvanians For Porto Rico. Newport News, Aug.

part of General Grant's brigade is on the way to Porto Rico. The transport Hudson sailed at daybreak yesterday morning with the third battalion and half of the Second battalion of the First Kentucky regiment. The only troops that embarked yesterday were Batteries A and Pennsylvania artillery, and the Governor's and Sheridan troops. Pennsylvania cavalry, which went aboard the Manitoba. It is un-1 derstood that this vessel will not leave port until tomorrow.

Wales Favors an International Race. London. Aug. Daily News says it understands news has reached the house of commons that the Prince of Wales is taking a great interest in the Lipton challenge. His royal highness thinks tdat the unfortunate disputes over the last race will not be unkindly remembered in America.

Indeed, on the contrary, he believes that a contest well fought to the end would "greatly strengthen the friendly feelings so rapidly growing up between the two nations." Indiana's Republican Ticket. Indianapolis, Aug. Republican state convention yesterday nominated the following ticket: For secretary of state, Union B. Hunt; auditor, William H. Hart; treasurer, Leopold Levy; attorney general, William L.

Taylor; clerk of supreme court, Robert A. Brown; superintendent of public instruction, F. L. Jones; state statistician, John B. Connor; state geologist, Willis S.

Blatheley; supreme court judges, Robert Dowling, J. V. Hadley and Francis E. Baker. Bank Thieves Got $10.000.

Sedalia, Aug. board of directors of the Bank of Commerce issued statement to the publiclast night in which they announce that the robbers who sneaked into the bank's vault Monday last secured $10.000 in currency. This statement was issued to quiet reports intimating that the amount of the robbery was much greater. The directors, the state the stockholders loss will if the be stolen made money cannot be recovered. Military Governor of Cuba.

Washington, Aug. The war deis mating ments for partment in Craa and the providing disnest ton cf the troops in the field. Mator M. C. But.er polited m.ilitary JOT CA Cuba.

SHAMOKIN MAN COMMITS SUICIDE I. N. Morganroth, of Shamokin, committed suicide this morning by the use of a 42-calibre revolver. The cause 1 is said to have been financial trouble which had been preying upon his mind for some time. At an early hour this morning he arose and went into an outhouse attached to his residence and a short time afterward Mrs.

Morganroth heard reports of pistol shots. Becoming fearful that something had happened she called the attention of neighbors and upon an investigation her husband was found lying upon the floor of outbuilding with a bullet wound then his right temple and another in his mouth. He was dead when discovered. The fatal wounds were self inflicted, the deadly weapon with two of the barrels empty lying his side. The suicide caused the greatest excitement as the deceased was wellknown and highly esteemed and no one suspected that he would end his days in the manner he did.

Mr. Morganroth was 55 years of age. Some years ago he lost considerable in the failure of a Pottsville bank and it preyed upon his mind to some extent. Since then he engeged in the mercantile commission business, and at the time of his death was a traveling salesman. The time of the funeral has not yet been decided.

PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND. It Will be Distributed by State Treasurer Within Next Thirty Days. The distribution of the public school fund for the current year will be commenced by State Treasurer Beacom within the next thirty days. The appropriation for the year became available on June 1, and can be paid at any time in the year. Payment, however, up to this time has been delayed owing to the changes made in the method of ustribution by the last Legislature.

Under the new system the smaller districts will receive an increase over what they have heretofore received. and the larger cities, like Philadelphia, Pittsburg, will have their shares cut down to some extent. Superintendent of Public Instruction Schaeffer, in view of the increase in of the districts, has requested school directors to make provision for a longer school term, which he believes should not be less than seven months in any school district. He says it is the duty of the directors to respond more generously to the liberality of the state, and to supplement the state appropriation for schools by local taxation in order to increase the school term and pay more liberal salaries. He is disposed to believe that if the districts fail to do their part toward increasing the efficiency of the schools the Legislature may be disposed to repeal the law under which the distribution will be made this year and to cut down the sum appropriated.

He haseless warned the directors against extravagance In the purchase of maps, globes, mathematical blocks, and pay more attention to the length of the term. Little Will be the Candidate. Judge Ikeler's death in the Columbia-Montour district will simplify the judicial question in those counties very much. Judge Ikeler had carried Montour county and Robert R. Little had carried Columbia county.

What promised to be a split in the party will now result in Mr. Little's nomination. His opponent on the Republican ticket will likely be James Scarlet, of Danville, who may be appointed by Gov. Hastings to fill the vacancy. Infant Daughter Dead.

A seven daughter of Mr. and Richard Bowen, of Maple street, died yesterday afternoon. The little one had been ill but a short time. Four Days Next Week. The Union collieries will work four full days next week-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

NEWS NEAR HOME. Hereafter all public dances in Ashland will be regulated by law. James McPherson was held up in Locust Valley by two men and robbed of $2. The flag raising at Mahanoy City by the P. O.

S. of has been postponed until Tuesday, August 8. But three accidents occurred in the Fifth Anthracite Mining District durJuly, the least number in a single month the year. The latest in regard to the closing of the Weatherly shops is that the matter is to be definitely decided on the 15th inst. Mrs.

Mary Creary, of Ashland, died yesterday. The remains will be taken Monday to McIntyre churchyard near Catawissa for interment. She lived in Ashland since 1865. James Donnelly, of Easton, superintendent of the Easton and Lehigh divisions of the Lehigh Valley Railroad has tendered his resignation, to take effect September 1. Several of the men employed in the Lehigh Valley boiler shops at Hazleton were suspended yesterday.

Work is very slack and just how long the suspensions will last no one is able to tell. A new daily paper, the Truth, made its appearance at Williamsport. It is small in size but expects to grow even in that already well-sown field of newspaperdom. According to the returns of the registry assessors for the various districts Schuylkill county there have been 2,484 births, and 1,020 deaths for the six months, ending July 15, 1898. Reports from the same officers show 50,329 children between the ages of 6 and 21 years.

An attempt was made to murder Miss Lizzie Edwards, a highly respectable young lady of Watsontown, shortly after midnight yesterday. Her room was entered from a window but she managed to escape the descending knife of the assassin, which cut into the pillow of the bed, and he then fled. Charles Long, of Shamokin, an exschool director, was robbed of $70. He is an engineer on the Reading road and the money in a pocket in a coat which he had hung on a rack at Tamaqua. A fellow boarder, who has fled, is suspected.

STARVING ANTHRACITE MINERS. Butcher Weyler Was Never More Brutal Than Coal Trust Managers. Away out in Chicago, where to enjoy the benefits and pleasures of hard coal one must be a banker or a millionaire, they have heard of the suffering of the miners in this region. Here what the Chicago Chronicle has to say: Coal miners in the anthracite district of Pennsylvania are starving. Consumers of anthracite coal are required to pay an increased price for the products of the Pennsylvania mines.

These two facts appear to be contradictory. If the price of coal is raised surely the men who mine the coal ought to receive some benefit. But such is not the case. The coal trust is in business to make money for the managers of coal roads and the owners of coal mines. It is far from the trust's designs to benefit the consumer or to save the miners from the pangs of starvation.

Presidents of coal lines have met in New York and have resolved to raise the price of coal and to reduce the days, of labor for the miners. At present the men who delve in the mines have but two days' work in a week; now they will have only one. Much sympathy has been extended to the reconcentrados of Cuba by the people of the United States, but Butcher Weyler never more brutal, more cruel, more inhuman than are the highly refined, richly clad, elegant gentlemen who receive princely salaries as presidents of railroads and who rob the starving miners of the necessities of life and the purchasing public of its money by reducing the days of labor for the one and raising the price of coal for the other. It is well to pity the Cubans, but there are starving men and women and children in the United States who demand a deeper and closer sympathy. How long shall robbery and murder be considered "good business" in this country?" Five Thousand Present.

The eighth annual reunion of the Lutheran church of Central Pennsylvania at Island park yesterday, was attended by 5000 people. Addresses were made by W. E. Fischer, of Shamokin; Rev. F.

E. Peschau, of ureensburg; Rex. G. W. Wellington, Enders, of of York, Cumberland, and Hon.

Md. The singing was of a high order and was rendered by the Trinity Lutheran church choir, of Selinsgrove, assisted by Lutheran choir of Freeburg, with Dr. W. O. Perkins, of Boston, as musical director.

The severe rainstorm marred the pleasure of the afternoon. Shoes Worn by Soldiers. The shoes worn some of the young soldiers who come home from the camps on furloughs make their friends laugh. Old soldiers, however, do not laugh and yesterday one said: "When I was in the army, in the civil war, we used to call our shoes gunboats. I never exactly understood why shoes should be described in that manner, but what we used to call them generally, describing them sometimes, however, as mudscows.

'Wait till I get on my was not unusual remark, but gunboat the term more was" commonly used." The Rumor is Denied. Several of those connected with the United Mine Workers deny the rumor that a strike is contemplated in September, and assert that the operators have been misinformed. It is hoped that is true, and that miners and operators will meet each other half way and adjust any differences that may exist. Notwithstanding the above a coal company's official says that the operators expect a strike and that it is common talk among many of the men employed in the mines. Organized a Board of Trade.

Centralia organized board of trade with Andrew Roney, H. Kelly, R. M. Lashelle, Thomas Curry, George H. Davis.

H. C. Michaels, O. B. Millard, A.

K. Mensch, P. F. Omlor, and Patrick Curry, present. H.

Kelly was chosen president, and Edward T. Flynn, secretary. The object of the organization is to act as an auxiliary to the Anthracite Association, and also to promote the welfare of Centralia. The board will meet monthly. Killed at Watsontown.

Dennis Hibler, unmarried, aged about 50 years and residing with his sister, Mrs. Andrew Young, in Mast's addition to Watsontown, was killed by an east bound locomotive near the car shops in that place. The unfortunate man was coming down to town from his residence when the accident occurred. He lived less than an hour after he was hit. but was unconscious from the first.

BOROUGH BRIEFS. How things have grown the past week. Camping parties continue in much favor. The price of wheat has taken another tumble of five cents during the past week. The Prohibitionists have nominated J.

M. Caldwell, of Milton, for Congress from this Seventeenth District. The Lehigh Valley railroad will sell excursion tickets to Buffalo at the time of the Corbett-McCoy fight. This is the month to destroy obnoxious weeds and brush, such as Canada thistle, locust, willow, hazle, plantain leaf, etc. The local physicians report that many children are suffering from bowel ailments peculiar to children at this season of the year.

Lt. Siviter will be at Shamokin tomorrow to recruit some men. He needs 20 and 10 have already signed the list of applicants. Many farmers, as well as farmers' wives, in the summer adopt the eighthour system. They work eight hours before dinner and eight hours after dinner.

A game of base ball will be played to-morrow at National park between the Eurekas and Midvalley teams. The game will start at 3 o'clock. About dozen Lutherans. mostly women, attended the re-union at Island park yesterday. They returned badly drenched having been caught in the storm.

The Philadelphia Record of yesterday, which has taken a deep interest in the movement to boom anthracite coal. had another excellent article showing why it should be used in the ships of the navy. Whittmore Gilt Edge Shoe Dressing. Regular price 25 cents, our price 15 cents. Cash Shoe Store.

Buyers BOLICH THE TRACK or THE STORM The cloud burst of yesterday afternoon which deluged this section, mention of which was made in last evening's Daily was followed later by various electrical displays and downpours which subsequently settled into a general rain which continued during the greater portion of the night. Reports received to-day show that considerable damage resulted from the lightning and also the wind and rain, though with no loss of life in this immediate neighborhood. In the agricultural districts roads were washed out and trees torn asunder and but for the brief duration of the storm railroads would have met with great damage. Little injury is reported in the telephone or telegraph offices as most of the instruments had been cut out or the circuits grounded. At Midvalley colliery No.

2, two miles east of No. 1, the storm came with great force. The roof of the partially constructed new breaker was lifted up with the greatest ease and carried a distance of over four hundred yards, while portions of trestle work was demolished. At the time the storm broke loose there were only a few of the employees in the breaker, the majority being on the outside, and though there were many narrow escapes no one was injured in the least. The rain fell with such density that no one could see a few feet ahead.

The breaker was about half completed. During the prevalence of the storm the remains of the child of Jacob Bordell, of West Third street, in charge of the grief stricken parents and friends, were being conveyed to Shamokin on a trolley car. The flashes of lightning were almost blinding and the peals of thunder deafening. One of the bolts struck the electric wire, entered the car and bursted the connecting plug to the lamp over the head of Mrs. Bordell.

Pieces of the hot composition fell upon her, burning holes in her veil and blistering her hands and neck. Several others were showered with the hot particles and the occupants of the car were for a time in a panic. A large fine tree in the rear of the new brewery received a visit from the lightning and was badly shattered. three miles above Northumberland, was The barn of James, Heckert, about struck by lightning and totally destroyed, together with winter crops stored in it. The stock and machinery were saved.

The loss is a about $2,000. Lightning struck the barn of James Hoffman, a well-known farmer residing near Enders, Dauphin county, and in a few minutes the structure was in flames. Fortunately no live stock was in the barn. The building and contents of machinery, hay and grain were com: pletely destroyed. There is no insurance.

This farm is under litigation and in September the courts will be called upon to decide as to its ownership. The heavy rains caused a great deal of trouble at the different collieries. At several of them the pumps are barely able to hold their own with the inflow. Lightning killed two cows belonging to Monroe Moyer, at Moyer's Station, on the S. S.

Railroad. A landslide was reported on the L. T. branch of the P. R.

railroad and an early train was unable to get through. The big barn of Peter Paul, in the Schwova Creek Valley, was struck and set on fire and Mr. Paul barely succeded in rescuing his live stock. All of his crops of the present season were consumed. Lightning struck the telegraph office of the National Transit Oil Company, at Latshaw Station, and burned out all of the instruments, but the two big tanks nearby filled with oil escaped destruction, An expensive electrical signal at West Milton was also struck and destroyed.

Weather officials say that storms have almost exhausted themselves and cooler and pleasanter weather will now prevail. Hurt at the Monitor. Enoch Fadrofski was brought to his home on South Locust street at noon to-day with a badly injured right foot. He was engaged out coal at the heavy lump fell and caught memMonitor colliery at Locust Cap, when a ber, badly cutting some of the tendons. injury was dressed by Dr.

Williams. The man will be unable to work for some time. Centralia's New Colliery. The machinery at the new colliery is ning several hours each day the being daily tested, tnd has begot runpast week or two. There has been an addition of 45 men made to the working force inside at the Logan, and all the gangways are put on double time at both places in order to have the inside workings on the same as the outside are now.

This indeed looks bright for work soon. MERRIAM NOTES. Alex Scott, of Mt. Carmel, was seen driving through here yesterday. Mrs.

Thomas McMannion, of South Hickory street, Mt. Carmel, is visiting her mother James Weldon. Nicholas Brecker, of Shamokin, was noticed among friends in this little town. Mother Columbia and Miss Mary McDonald, both of Locust Gap, were Merriam callers this week. James Debo, who was injured July 21 at the Meriram colliery, is about agin, and on a fair way to recovery.

An infant daughter of Dominick O'Donnell died at 4:45 Wednesday, after a short illness. William Higgins, of Mt. Carmel, will conduct the funeral. There is a wedding reported for the near future. Is it true? Travellers who pass the trough near the Merriam generally stop and drink at the spout that runs water into the drinking trough for the horses.

Don't drink it, for it is, impure. Go to the spring to slacken your thirst. Mrs. William Weldon, of Locust Gap. accompanied by her sister, Mrs.

Wm. Ruffing, called on her mother-in-law. Mrs. James Weldon, and spent a few delightful hours with the old lady. Last little Edward Houck fell into a week, below the railroad and he would have been drowned but for the timely arival and rescue by Edward Pennepacker, a brave little fellow from and Lavelle, who, jumping in, clothes all, dragged the child safely to the land.

The dam is still there, and being of no use should be removed..