Reverend Sly's
salary will be increased from two thousand five hundred to five thousand
dollars per annum through the change, which once more brings up the
question as to whether the Lord was ever known to call a pastor to a new
field at a lower salary."
"Buffalo, N. Y.: A case brought up in court here today shows to what
extent the extortionate loan sharks will go in their greed for money. It
was proved that two years ago O. U. Curr loaned Mrs. Kate Poor, a
washer-woman with three small children, the sum of fifty dollars on
household furniture. A contract was entered into, whereby the widow was
to pay interest at the rate of twenty per cent per month until the
principal had been paid. Mrs. Poor stated under oath that she has
already paid Curr, in monthly installments, over three hundred dollars
and that she is still indebted to him for the original loan of fifty
dollars."
"Scranton, Pa.: Trades Unionism is receiving a great deal of public
censure at present in this city, owing to the recent disclosure made
against Judas Pilate, a union agent, who has been blackmailing different
contractors for several years past, by making them pay him large sums of
money, under threats of ordering union men to strike. It has been proved
that Pilate has secured over fifty thousand dollars by this method. His
followers, however, still remain loyal to him, notwithstanding he sold
them out many times and brought disrepute upon Trades Unionism."
"Harrisburg, Pa.: The various manufacturers of cigarettes in this state
have banded together to defeat the Anti-Cigarette League in its efforts
to have laws passed forbidding the sale of cigarettes to children.
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