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Terms, $2.00a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., November I, 1889.
P. GRAY MEEK, Ebp11or.
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Democratic State Ticket.
FOR TREASURER,
EDMUND A. BIGLER,
OF CLEARFIELD.
Democratic County Ticket.
For Associate Judge—THOS. F. RILEY.
For Prothonotary—L. A. SCHAEFFER.
For District Attorney—J. C. MEYER.
For County Surveyor—GEO. D. JOHNSTON,
For Coronor—Dr. JAMES W. NEFF.
Trying to Utilize Prohibition for Repub-
lican Advantage.
Bellefonte’s Republican ringmasters
are taking a great interest in how the
Prohibitionists of the county should
vote this fall. They think it would be
the proper thing for the Democratic
temperance people to vote the Prohi-
bition county ticket, while the Repub-
lican advocates of the temperance
cause should cast their ballots for the
Republican candidates. For this pur-
pose the chairman of the ring com-
mittee is industriously sending out Pro-
hibition literature to Democrats who
voted for the amendment, encouraging
them to persevere inthe temperance
cause by voting for the Prohibition
nominees. It is hardly possible that
chairman Brow is doing this because
of a deep-seated desire to secure the
triumph of temperance principles.
But while the ringsters are so anxious
to have Democrats vote the Prohibi-
tion ticket they are making the great-
est exertions to induce Republicans of
temperance proclivities to stick to
their party nominations.
This is in keeping with the double
dealing of the Republican leaders in
the entire Prohibition movement. Tg
was through such deception that a
State giving 80,000 Republican major-
ity overwhelmed the amendment by
the largest adverse majority on record.
We trust that Democrats, however
much they may favor true temperance
principles, will not be deceived by the |
deceptive game which the ringsters are
trying to play with the Prohibition
ticket. The trick is too transparent to
be effective. The Democratic tickets,
both State aud county, are composed of
material that suits the ends of morals
and good government and should have
the hearty support of every Democrat.
In fact they deserve the support of all
good citizens irrespective of party af-
filation.
The Boodle System Has Its Drawbacks.
The use of money in political cam-
paigus, besides its bad effects on public
morals, in the long run has a damag-
iug effect upon the party that resorts
to it. It causes dissatisfaction among
those who think they don’t get their
share. Something may be gained by
the votes that are purchased, but a
good deal is lost by the feeling of jeal-
ousy which is sure to spring up when
boodle is known. to be afloat and
doesn’t come around to some as liber-
ally as they think it ought to.
The large sum of money which the
boss of the Bellfeonte ring has put into
the county this fall is likely to have
this effect. It is intended to carry the
county in order that Hastings may
show strength at home that will help
him in his contest for Governor, but
while such a corrupt means of carry-
ng his point is sure to excite the in-
dignation and arouse the opposition of
the honest voters who object to hav-
ing theircounty huckstered off in that
way, the class who are anxious to get
a share of the boodle are never satis
fied with the amount that is allotted
to them. Some of them don’t get any
and are consequently mad.
Boss HasriNas is likely to find that
the boodle campaign he has started
out on has its disadvantages as well as
its advantages. Isn't it high time that
we have the Australian ballot system
to put an end to these corrupt proceed-
‘nos?
ings ?
Three years ago FLemixg form-
ed a very correct estimate of the excel-
lent qualities Scirerrer wowld display
as a county official, and very properly
voted for him. Was Freming mistak-
en in the opinion he entertained of
Scr xrrER’s ability? Not in the least.
The Prothonotary he voted for three
years ago has proved to be one of the
best incumbents that ever occupied that
office. Republicans can as safely vote
for him this year as Fremine did three |
vears ago. They can feel assured that |
by so doing they will help to secure for |
the county the services of a public
functionary who has been tried and not
found wanting. They are just as much
interested in having such an efficient |
officer as are the Democrats, and will
do well to follow the example set by |
Fremixe when he was not himself a
candidate. ;
Shall Centre County be Carried by
Boodle ?
The Republican workers of Belle-
fonte had new life put into them last
week by the arrival of Dawien H.
Hasmines who it was reported was well
supplied with the stuff to make the cam-
paign lively and profitable to the pur-
chasable class of voters. The reports
of his arrival rapidly spread through
the town, accompanied by various
statements of the amount of boodle he
had brought along and was ready to
put into the campaign. The amount,
according to rumor, ranged anywhere
from $5,000 to $10,000, which during
the coming week would be put where
it would do the most good in producing
results that would help HasrINGs in
his ambition of securing the nomina-
tion for Governor.
There appeared to be no question
that the boodle was on hand ready for
use, but considerable curiosity was ex-
pressed as to where it was obtained.
While the theory of some was that it
was part of the Johnstown fund which
had beenfdiverted from its legitimate
object, others believed that it came
from the pile raised by Quay’s $10 cer-
tificates, and another theory was that
it had been furnished by the Treasury
ring that is interested in the clection of
Boyer. Among the conflicting opin-
ions as to the source from which the
boodle was derived, no one seemed to
entertain the belief that it was mon-
ey legitimately belonging to the Boss of
the Bellefonte ring. Figures couldn’t
show how thousands of dollars thrown
into the county campaign, in addition
to heavy personal expenses incident to
palatial improvements, could be got
out of an adjutant general's salary and
a limited professional income. The
fund with which the Boss was alleged
to have made his appearance had to
be explained in some other way, and
the curious accepted either the John-
town calamity or the treasury ring’s
liberality as the explanation.
But one thing is regarded as a cer-
tainty, and that is, that the boodle has
been thrown into the county cam-
paign and isin the hands of the party
workers doing its corrupting work.
Hastines has staked his political for-
tunes on the result in this county and
will not hesitate in using any means to
carry his point. If he can secure a
Republican majority in his own coun-
ty it will give him a prestige that will
set his boom for Governor ahead of all
his competitors. He fully appreciates
the value of the prize and is willing to
pay big money for it, and has managed
to control resources that have supplied
him with the necessary cash,
The question then is whether the
honest people] of Centre county are wil-
ling to let political corruption run riot
in their county and effect its ends in
order that Adjutant General DanieL
H. Hastings may be boosted for Gov-
ernor? Are they willing to have his
ring county ticket elected, and a ma-
jority given to thefTreasury ring’s pet
and wage-earners’ enemy, Henry E.
BovYERr, through the influence of mon-
ey, so that HasrtiNGs may carry the
result as a trophy to the State Conven-
tion and demand the gubernatorial
nomination as his reward? Against
this money influence the good citizens
of the county, of either party, can op-
pose only an honest determination to
check the work of the boodlers. They
have nc money to buy votes. They
have no disposition to corrupt the bal-
lot, but they still enjoy the right of
freemen to cast their votes for good
and honest government in State and
county.
How They Overtax Farmers.
An instance of how the present Re-
publican board of commissioners are
overtaxing the farmers is furnished by
the following fact:
The estate of Rudolph Mulholland
owns a farm near Pleasant Gap, which
is assessed at $2800 by order of the
commissioners. A few days ago it was
put up at public sale and the highest
bid that could be gotten on it was $1,-
600, twelve hundred dollars less than
the commissioners valued it for taxable
purposes.
This is the way they are fleecing the
farmers all over the county. There is
scarcely one of them but is paying double
the amount of tax he should in order
that corporations, favored town proper
ty and money at interest may get off
with less than their share of the coun-
ty burdens.
A vote for the Republican ticket is a
vote in favor of a continuation of this
robbery of thie farmer. 1t is an endorse-
ment of the Republican party that is
doing it.
ST E—————
—Boss MaAnoNE has promised the
Richmond “niggers” $2 each on election
day, and they are not going to forget it.
There aren’t us many colored voters in’
Bellefonte for Boss HAsTINGS to sup-
ply with boodle, but they know he has
the stuff and will not forget to demand
their share of it. We don’t believe they
will be satisfied with $2.
That Seventeen Year Lie.
The only reason that any Republi-
can has yet given why Mr. SCHEFFER | |
the Democratic nominee for Prothono-
tary, should not be elected, is, that he
has already held what they consider
to be his share of public office. They
admit that he is in every way compe- |
tent; that he has made one of the best, |
most courteous and obliging officials
that ever held office; that under his |
charge the records of the Prothonotary’s |
office have been kept in a condition !
that is a credit to the court and county, |
and that in every way, at all times and |
under all circumstances, he has been |
at his post, performing his duties faith- |
fully and to the fullest satisfaction of
all having business to transact in that
office.
Not a single allegation of neglect,
forgetfulness, inattention, unreasonable
charges, discourtesy, or any failure of |
any kind to do promptly and satisfac-
torily the duties of that position, has
been made, nor would any one think
of making them in the face of the ad-
mitted fact that there was never a bet-
ter Prothonotary in that office.
It is the baby plea, “you have had
your share,” that the Republican par-
ty has had to resortto, to find any ex-
cuse whatever for asking voters to give
them control of that office.
They have the four principal offices
in the county now. The tax-payers
know how the Commissioners’ office is
being run by the increased taxation
that has been imposed on them and
the accumulating county debt that will
be left them as a heritage of Republi-
can mismanagement. The unfortunate
people who have had business in the
Sherift’s hands and have been robbed of
double the amount of fees the law al-
lows, know what it is to have a Repub-
lican Sheriff. And yet in the face of
the almost criminal mismanagement
of the Commissioners’ office, and the
disgraceful conduct and open robbery
of litigants by a Republican Sheriff,
that party has the effrontery to ask of
the people to turn over to it the only
remaining important county office not
now in their possession, for the sole
and only reason “that Mr. ScHAEFFER
has already been in office.”
To give a little force to their appeals
for votes for FLEMING and to prejudice
the people against Mr. SCHAEFFER, the
allegation is made that he has already
been in office seventeen years. This,
like other charges made against the
other candidates, is without a sem-
blance of truth.
All told, counting the full term of
office that he is now holding, Mr.
ScHARFFER has been connected with and
filled position in public offices less
than five years.
Before he was of age, and after the
death of Deputy Sheriff Geary, he
clerked a few months for his father in
the Sherift’s office. He was eight
months with Mr. J. C. Harper in the
Prothonotary’s office, for four of which
he received a salary of $20 per month
and the remaining four $40 per month.
For nine months he held the position
of Deputy Prothonotary under Mr.
Bret at a salary of $50 per month,
and for the last three years has beeh
filling the positior of Prothonotary.
These three years as Prothonotary and
seventeen months as clerk, is the sum
total ot Mr. ScHARFFER’S official life or
conne~tion with public office.
Out of this four years and five
months public service the Republicans
manufacture a sevenicen year lie, and
ask Democrats to believe them and
vote against their own ticket and friends
for as bitter a Republican partisan as
ever insulted a Democrat, or denounced
and vilified the Democratic party.
The republican ring refuses to tell
the people what became of the $28,000
of surplus left in the County Treasury
by the last board of Democratic Com-
missioners. Every tax payer in the
County should refuse to vote for the
candidaties of the ring, if for no other
reason than this.
LABOR REFORM.
Wage-earners of Pennsylvania! You
asked Hexry K. Boyer and his Re-
publican legislature last winter to give
you these laws: The Semi-monthly
Pay law; the Dockage Bill ; the Com-
pany Store Bill ; the Australian Ballot
Bill; the law to make election day a
legal holiday, and a number of other
bills.
ER helped to defeat these bills!
Labor Reform Henry K- Boy
Go to
the polls on November 5th and vote
against him.
Every vote cast for the Republi-
can ticket 1s a vote to indorse the ac:
tions of the Bellefonte ring, the incom-
petency of the Commissioners nomina-
ted by that ring, the dirty escapades
and crooked cflicial work of a Republi_
Overtaxed Farmers.
The way to deteat the ring that is
overtaxing you by valuing your prop-
perties higher than they are worth, is
to turn out and vote straight agai nst
its ticket. It is the only way you can
show your disapproval of this act in an
effective way.
———
Why Farming is Not as Profitable as It
Should Be.
We publish in the inside columns of
this week’s Warcaman an address de-
livered at the last Williamsgrove picnic
that should be read by every farmer in
the State. It gives a clear insight into
the causes that have made farming
unprofitable and reduced the value of
the property of every farmer. The
chief cause is shown to have been the
undue imposition of taxation upon
those engaged in agricultural pursuits.
They have been made to bear the
heaviest portion of the tax burden.
While legislation has been so shaped
as to exempt corporations and the mon-
ey interest from a just shareoftaxation,
every effort of the farmers to bring
about an equilization of the burden
has been defeated by men who have
directed legislation for corporate and
monopolistic advantage.
It is alleged that the farmers do not
pay any ofthe State taxes,but the wrong
they suffer is that the various county
and township taxes are thrown chiefly
upon their, shoulders. The object of
the grangers’ tax bill, defeated at the
last session of the Legislature, was to
relieve the farmers of this unequal
burden by making capital and money
investments bear a just share of this
load. The latter have been almost en-
tirely exempted by legislative favorit-
ism, which defeated the granger’s bill
of last session, as it also defeated the
reform tax bill of the session previous.
There were too many Bovers in the
Legislature for the farmers to expect to
have justice done them on the tax ques-
tion.
And as long as this unequal system
of taxation continues, in conjunction
with the exactions of a monopoly tariff,
it must be expected that farming will
remain an unprofitable business.
—
If you want to rebuke a
scheming, corrupt ring of petty politi-
cians, whose head quarters are in Belle-
fonte, and whose chief Mogul is Dax-
EL HarrMan Hastings, vote the
Democratic ticket.
TREASURY REFORM.
Farmers of Pennsylvania! A vote
for Epmunp A. BicLer for State Trea-
surer is a vote for treasury reform, a
step toward equalization of taxation,
and his election will be a decisive vic-
tory in your war against monopoly and
ring rule. Go to the polls on Novem-
ber 5th.
Tax-payers, the party that
squandered or stole $2,797,60 of your
money that was collected off you as
State Tax in 1888, and refused to make
ony explanation of it, is not the party
to entrust with additional offices and
places of trust.
Starving Seamen Resort To Canni-
balism.
BarLriMorg, Oct. 25.—Carl Grave
fireman, and Ludwig Loder, seaman,
two survivors of the crew of steamship
Earnmoor, tell a story, horrible in its
details, of the way they sustained life by
cannibalism, for days.
Loder says: “The only food we had
the first fifteen days in the boat wasa
flying fish and a few raw small seabirds
divided among eleven men. On the
sixteenth day out William Davis, a sea-
man, caught me by the throat and made
a dash at my head with a knife. He
cut me on the right cheek, the scar from
which still remains, as you will see.
He was told to kill me by August
Plagge, a fireman. When Davis began
to cut me some of my companions
caught him, but others shoutad, ‘Kill
him ! Kill him! We want something to
eat. We are starving.” It seems that
Plagge, Davis and others in one end of
the boat had decided that I should die,
as, 1 suppose, being pretty fat, I looked
inviting. Plagge was placed on watch
that night, but was missing next morn-
ing. No one saw him go overboard.
“On the seventeenth day William
Robinson lay down to sleep. When
they tried to call him they found him |
dead. It was determined to eat his
flesh, and William Wright, the cook, |
was ordered to carve the body. The
first thing done was to smash in Robin- |
son’s skull, and irom the fracture each !
one sucked the blood as long it would |
last,which was but a little while. Then |
the cook stripped the flesh from the
ribs. The next day this flesh, in strips,
was placed on top of the water tight
compartments and dried in the sun.
After taking out Robinson's liver, heart |
and other parts which would furnish !
blood to be sucked, they threw his i
mutilated body into the sea. Two days
‘after Robinson's death Third Engineer
Hunt died. His body was also cut up
for food. i
“In about three days,” continued |
Loder “the limbs and feet of all began
to swell, and several have since broken '
out in ugly sores. "We think it is poison
from the human flesh and blood.”
Both Grave and Loder say they have
no recollection of the taste of the human
flesh, so great was their mental angusik
can Sheriff, and to say that we are sat.
isfied with the way things are being
run by these Republican officials, :
at the time. Their only recollection of
taking the food is feeling their own
blood quicken as it coursed through
their veins. y
Cast Away on the Ocean.
Twenty Days Without Food or Water.
The survivors of the ill-fated steamer
Earnmoor were brought to Philadel-
phia last week. The steamer was
foundered at sea Sept. 5, in a cyclone 300
miles off Turk Island, while bound
from Baltimore to Rio Janeiro,
and the sarvivors arrived here on
Monday from New York, whither
they were brought by the steamer San-
tiago from Nashua.
Second Officer Stone gives an interest-
ing account of the wreck. He says:
The Earnmoor struck a terrific gale on
on Sept. 4, which increased in force, and
at 11:30 a.m. on the following day the
vessel gave a lurch and foundered.
Captain Grey ordered the life boat to
begotten in reaainess, and cork jackets
were served out to the crew. As the
steamer sank the port lifeboat floated off
from the ship between the funnel and
{ main mast, and the men clung to the
boat and scrambled in---the second offi-
cer, second and third engineers, four
sailors, three firemen and the cook. An
effort was made to save the rest of the
crew and a drag was made of the painter,
but the boat was blown away and the
oars wrested from the hands of the men
50 thut no more could be saved. Fortu-
{ nately the boat drifted into the gulf
stream and the air was warm, but this
increased the intensity of thirst.
Mate Stone took charge of the boat.
| They were without food, water or a
| compass, and the nearest land was Cape
Hatteras, many miles away. The En-
glish steamship Pirate passed near the
unfortunates soon after, and she was fol-
lowed by eleven sailing vessels, none of
which saw the castaways. Fireman
Plagg jumped overboard ten days after
the wreck, having become delirious from
drinking salt water.
“The horrors of hunger on the second
diy became awful,” said Carl Crane,
one of the survivors, “and it increased as
time wore on. We managed to pick
up sea-weed afloat in the gulf stream,
which gave usa little nutrimert, and
on the third day a flying fish was caught
which was immediately cut up into a
Doran for each man and devoured.
We also captured a sea bat and sucked
its blood and then ate its flesh after it
had dried in thesun. The first man to
die was a seaman named William Robi-
son, of Baltimore, and the second was
the third engineer, Thomas Hunt, of
Philadelphia.
Ludwig Loder, one of the rescued
seamen, says that he was threatened
several times with death to make food
for his friends, and at one time he
thought Plagg, who was very hungry,
would cut his throat with a knife. No
life was sacrificed, however.
On the twentieth day after the wreck,
when the men were so weak from ex-
haustion they could scarcely help them-
selves and when three of their number
sighted, and the unfortunatss were tak-
en into the Bahamas.
Suffering Farmers in Dakota.
Reports from Dakota represent many
of the farmers suffering greatly from the
effects of frosts and drought. The re-
lief committee of the city of St.Paul re-
port as follows :
Ramsey county has a population of
7,000 people. Of these abcut 6,000 are
engaged in farming. The frosts of last
year cut off the crops generally, and the
i farmers were obliged to mortgage their
farms for feed, provisions, clothing,ete.,
to carry them through last winter. This
spring personal property, such as stock,
machinery,ete., was mortgaged for seeds
and funds to putin the crop. There
has been a continual drought through
the entire season and the crops have
been almost a total failure. The bor-
rowed funds are entirely exhausted, as
well as the credit of a large number of
these people, and we find that in Ram-
sey county alone there are from two to
five hundred families, farmers generally, |
who are entively destitute. In Nelson |
and Welsh counties there is also great |
destitution and suffering, and there are
probably in tnis district of North Dako-
ta not less than 1000 families who are
nearly entirely de:titute.
A Big Trade in Chinamen and Opium
Curcaco, Oct. 29.—Mr. Joseph Gabri-
el, British Columbia mine owner from
Victoria, in an interview here said :
“About the largest part of the com-
merce between British Columbia and the
had died, the schooner Mosquito was !
Mistaken for a Wild Turkey and Shot.
The Hollidaysburg correspondent of
the Altoona Tribune writes to that
paper of Monday, as follows :
A very distressing homicide occurred
on Canoe mountain but a short distance
morth of Point View, on Saturday afier-
noon last. The life which was thus sud-
denly and unexpectedly cut off, under
truly horrifying circumstances, was that
of Loyd Harnish, son of Mr. Peter Har-
nish, whose home is a mile or two east
of Yellow Springs, in Catharine town-
ship, and who was between 18 and 20
years of age. The unfortunate slayer of
this young man was Mr. Benjamin O.
Cooper, a well known and highly re-
spected citizen of Williamsburg. The
circumstances attending this horrible
affair are as follows :
Both men were esteemed successful
turkey hunters, for the reason that many
a fat wild gobbler has fallen a prey to
their unerring aim, and they were adepts
1n imitating the call of a turkey Both
were in quest of wild turkeys on Satur-
day, and as the Canoe mountains are
favorite resorts of this favorite game,
these hunters were scouring this fieid.
It is said that young Harnish had no
superior as an imitator,0of a turkey, us-
ing only his mouth, while Mr. Cooper
used a reed or a bone instrument known
as a ‘turkey call.” They were ap-
proaching each other from opposite di-
rections, but all the while keeping their
persons concealed from view and doing
their utmost to allure the turkey with
their incessant calling. - Harnish was
seated on a log and concealed by anoth-
er log near by. He was listening for
the approach of a turkey, which was
none other than Cooper, who attracted
by the call of Harnish, was ciosely
watching his opportunity to bring
down the coverted game.
As the head of Harnish raisec. above
the log Cooper, who was about forty
yards off, felt sure he saw his turkey
and on the instant let go his fire, and
simutuneously the entire head of Har-
nish raised above the log and received a
portion of the charge, which consisted of
three buck shot fired from a shot gun.
The leaden messengers of death entered
his mouth, nose and forehead. The ter-
rible decd was discovered when too late
for remedy. The son of Mr. Cooper,
who was near his father when the fatal
shot was fired, ran hastily down the
mountain to the Pennsylvania ice com-
pany’s telephone and called for one of
Williamsburg’s physicians, but before
he could reach the ground the young
man had expired. The wounds bled
profusely and the bleeding caused his
death which occurred about two hoursg
after the shooting.
Upon discovery of his fatal error Mr.
Cooper came to the wounded man and
spoke to him. Mr. Harnish inquired if
he had mistook him for a turkey and
the answer being in the affirmative, Mr.
Harnish suggested that “he should have
been more carefnl in shooting.” Mr.
Cooper, who is a conscientious and very
senstitive man, on realizing what had
been done, because almost frantic with
grief and remorse. The most intense
sorrow both for Mr. Cooper and the
family of the deceased, manifested it-
self in Williamsburg and in the neigh-
borhood of Yellow Springs. The news
spread rapidly and no event that has
happened’ in this vicinity for a long
time has caused a profounder sansation
than this unfortunate tragedy.
Michigan Farmers in Earnest.
Port Huron, Mich., October 28.—
Not less than 75,000 Michigan farmers
have joined the Patrons of Husbandry
since last May, and the number is in-
creasing every week. They threaten to
become the controlling power in the
politics of the state and then to extend
over tue entire country. The Patrons
claim to have been forced into being by
the monopolies and trusts, and they
propose to organize a combination that
will strike terror to the hearts of their
enemies. At present the Patrons are
devoting themselves exclusively to mer-
chants, and in every town where they
have a foothold they enter into iron-clad
contracts with one dealer in each line of
trade to purchase only from him, exact-
ing a pledge that they shall not be
charged to exceed 12 per cent. advance
on wholesale prices.
The Patrons have lodges in forty-sev-
en counties, Kent leadine with a mem-
bership of more than 5,000. The gener-
al offices are located in this city, and
Rev. F. W. Verbucan, an old time
presbyterian preacher, 1s the supreme
United States is in opium and China-
men. A revenue cutter patrols the i
coast,but is a lazy little tub poorly man- |
ned and while 1t is overhauling one boat- |
load of Chinamen fifty other boat loads |
are eluding it, sneaking up to the
Washington shore, and making for the |
interior. People in the state have often
wondered in my presence at the fact |
that the Chinese are on the increase in |
this country. They would not wonder !
ifthey were to spend a weekin Victoria |
the emigrant ships that used to dump |
the coolies into San Francisco now
land on our coast. Our tax is only $50 |
a head and the American contractors |
and Chinese companies readily pay that, |
afterwards taking it out of wages of the
immigrants. Youean readily imagine
the profit in the traffic when 1 tell you
that I was offered $5,000 for a little
craft that really was not worth $2,000.
The opium smuggling has grown to an !
unparalleled extent. It is brought over!
in the raw to Victoria and there refined |
and then smuggled by the hundred-
weight across the border only a few
miles away.”
Mr. Gabriel declares that the people
up his way are almost unanimous for
annexation to the United States : ;
The recent events in the relations of
the two countries have spurred the de- |
sire,”” he said. “Nobody blamed the |
United States for seizing the seal poach-
ers in Alaskan waters, although they are
mostly Victoria people. The blame is
laid wholly upon. the British Govern-
went,which, after telling us that we had
a right to fish for seal, refused to give us
protection. Anyhow eveu if we were in ,
touch with a government 6,000 miles a- |
way—and we are not in any sense—the
natural relations of our people with the
Americans would demand union. We
need American capital, We have
American blood. The English are a
positive handicap on the attempts of
the young and progressive people to de-
velop the country.
president. In February a state conven-
tion will be held at Flint. The year
following there will be a gathering from
all over the country at Lansing. There
are no rich men among the Patrons, but
many prosperous farmers and a few un-
successful politicians.
Ano ther Dastardly Robbery.
The Johnstown
About 7
Tribune says:
o'clock last Friday evening
{ Mr. John Hauger, one of Sthe oldest re-
sidents of Ligonier, left his house to go
to the postoflice for the mail, leaving his
(aged wife alone, and shortly after he
left an unknown man entered the house,
and without a word caught hold of Mus.
Hauger and choked her until the blood
ran from her nose and mouth in a
stream, and then demanded her to tell
him where their money was concealed,
and in order to save her life she pointed
to a stand, when he released her and
went to the stand and tock from a drawer
$75, after which heslowly walked away.
Mrs. Hauger gave the alarm as soon as
she could, but too late for the neighbors
to overtake the rascal.
Very IMPORTANT—Yes,” said the
salesman, ‘these goods are all wool, fast
color, full width and of the very best
quality.”
“And —er, were the sheep fed on hay
{or turnips ?"’ asked the shopper, a timid
little man ; “and were they all owned
by the same man or did they come from
diflerent folds ?”
“I'm sure I don’t know,” replied the
astonished salesman.
“I'm sorry for that,” said the timid
man, moving away ; “of course I don’t
care,but my wife will be sure to ask
me, and I shouldn't like to tuke it home
unless T could answer all questions.
No, I guess I won’t take it. Let her
come in herself,” —