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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—It may seem paradoxical, but is
nevertheless the case, that the more
soap the Republicans have used the
dirtier their politics has become.
—The promptness with which Jack-
sox of West Virginia was ejected from
his seat shows the kind of work ReEp’s
“mailed hand” is intended to do.
—The Republican who thinks Boss
Quay is not taking a hand in the DEr-
AMATER-HAsTINGS contest is like the
grainfields hereabouts—decidedly green.
—It was all along thought that the
Republicans had rope enough to hang
themselves, but it looks as if REEp
wants to supply them with a little more.
—It may be that Tox REeep looks
like SHAKESPEARE, but the English-
man he acts like would have to be
looked for in the star-chamber of the
STUARTS.
—A Jerseyman has made $40,000
out of an invention for lasting shoes.
Evidently dealers hereabouts have not
caught on to it. There is no last to
the shoes they sell.
—The Standard Oil Company will
furnish the “fat” needed to assist Dira-
MATER in slipping into the Governor's
office. It offers boundless resources for
lubricating purposes.
—His shadow wasn’t visible to the
ground hog’s prophetic eye last Sunday.
But the ground hog can’t be counted
as a factor in the weather prophecy of
this extraordinary season.
—There isn’t politics enough in the
World's Fair for one class of New York-
ers, and too much for another class.
Between the two the Fair is likely to
go West, if it goes anywhere.
—In saying that the Republican
party in the House has been “united,
vitalized and solidified,” the Phiadel-
phia Press uniquely defines the arbi
trary lawlessness that dominates the
popular branch of Congress,
—The public reception which the
citizens of Johnstown have tendered to
General Hastings may be appreciable
as a personal compliment, but it won't
make up for the delegates from Cam-
bria county which DzrLAMATER got
away with.
—Clams from this country are to be
planted along the English coast; but
there is a variety of American clam, the
high-tariff economists, which the pro-
gressive English, who are gathering in
the trade of the world, would have no
use for it.
—Kzirer behaved a good deal like
Reep when an inscrutable Providence
put him for a brief reason in the Speak-
er’s chair. Everybody knows what
befell Ke1rER, and REER’S arbicrary ca-
pering is pretty sure to be followed by
the same fate.
—The Philadelphia Press attempts
to justify Speaker REED’s antics by pre-
cedents set by the Speaker of the Eng-
lish House of Commons. After awhile
it will be citing the conduct of George
the Third in vindication of HARRI
soN’s misdeeds.
—~Concerning the lawlessness now
dominating the House, it may be true
that “the country is standing on the
very brink of a volcano,” as Hon. J.
G. BLAINE once said of a similar situa-
tion. The eruption of the volcano
will take place next fall when the peo-
ple vote. :
—The revolutionists in the House
resort to their lawless tactics for the
purpose of increasing their majority
by seating all their contestants, entirely
oblivious of the danger of a complete
obliteration of their majority in the
next House, after the people have pass-
ed upon their conduct.
—We acknowledge the receipt of a
copy of the latest edition of the Con-
gressional Directory, for which we have
Deputy Sixth Auditor RANKIN to thank.
A glance at its pages confirms our un-
derstanding of Congress—that Speaker
Riep is but one member of that bedy
and not the whole thing himself.
—We can’t believe the report that
Mrs. Harrison is supplying the cabi-
net families with butter from the White
House iarder, weighed by her own
hands, at an advance ot two cents a
pound on the original cost. It is hard
to abandon the trust we entertain that
at least in the lady of the White House
this administration has something con"
nected with 1t that isn’t infinitesimally
small.
~The Philadelphia Inquirer speaks
of the “successful fight” led by Con-
gressman DALzELL to seat Smith, the
West Virginia Republican contestant.
Nonsense! There wasn’t any fight.
The Republicans, who had the brute
force to do it, put him in his seat re-
gardless of the right of his opponent,
and that was all ther: was of it, And
they intend to seat all the others in
the same way.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 35.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 7, 1890.
Glib Misrepresentation.
“Scratch an opponent of bailot reform
and find a Democrat,” says the Phila-
delphia Press. There could not be a
more gratuitous misrepresentation than
this, but it is in keeping with the asser-
tions of a paper which glibly rattles off
the reiterated falsehood that free trade
is the object of tariff reform.
The fact with regard to ballot reform
is that the stupendens and alarming
corruptions practiced by the Republi-
can leaders in electing HaRrRrIsoN arous-
ed the public from its indifference to
the practices of election boodlers and
arrested its attention by the conviction
that it something were not done to
check such a threatening evil we should
soon be forced to bid good-by to our
republican form of government and our
free institutions.
It was the open and unblushing pur-
chase of the Presidency with the mon-
ey of the WaNamaxers through the
agency of the Quays that precipitated
the movement for ballot reform among
thoughtful and patriotic men, among
whom were alike included Democrats
and men of independent political affili-
ation. But those who are speaking
the loudest and working the hardest
for a more honest ballot system are to
he found amo: g the Democracy.
From the very nature of the case the
Republican leaders and managers are
opposed to ballot reform. Could it be
expected of thieves that they should
interest themselves in perfecting meas-
ures for the better detection and preven-
tion of theft? That Mar Quay, who
directs the movements and inspires the
policy of Republican political methods,
is opposed to reforming the ballot sys-
tem needs no other proof than the char-
acter of the man; but if proof were
needed it is abundantly furnished by
the fact that when a ballot reform bill
was brought before the State Legisla-
ture which he owns and controls, of the
eighty-nine witvs which killed that bill
last winter eighty-eight were Republi-
cans. Yet in the face of such a fact
the Philadelphia Press seems to think
there is no disgrace in making this
matter the subject of misrepresenta-
tion by saying that it is the Demo-
crats that are opposing ballot reform.
Comer e—
Preparing for Dirty Work.
When we consider the character of the
work which the Republican Congress |
proposes to do,we need not be surprised |
at the arbitrary and revolutionary
means by which they intend to do it.
It is necessary to set up the rule of the
tyrant to accomplish the various dirty
jobs they have oa hand. In the first
place it is their purpose to determine
every contested seat in favor of the
Republican contestant. This is an
undertaking that could not easily be
done unless the power of the minority
to interpose obstacles to the nefarious
design be broken, and to attain this
object the Speakerresorts to the exercise
of tyranical rule. :
In addition to this there is much to
be done in behalf ofthe monopolies and
the protected moneyed class. This in-
terest invested largely in the election of
Harrison; applied its means to securing
a Republican majority in Congress, and
its demands upon the service of those
it put in power cannot be denied. It
is on this account that the tariff bene-
ficiaries axe invited to throng the room
of the committee of Ways and Means
to give their reasons and advance their
claims for a continuance ofthe tariff
under which they have grown rich at the
expense of the general class of consu-
mers. There is a deal of work to be done
for the benefit of those who contributed
the “fat” needed in the last campaign,
and Democratic opposition to it must be
throttled even if in doing it the Speaker
finds it necessary to trample upon the
rights of the minority that have been
guaranteed by long precedence, and
which are of constitutional origin.
———————
Will There Be a Republican Revolt?
Itis a foregone conclusion evident
to even the superficial observer of the
trend of our state politics, that the next
i Republican nominee for Governor will
: be the man whom Boss Quay names,
"and that the one he is going to name
is DeELayater. The way things were
fixed in Cambria county makes it snf-
ficiently clear that Hastings is a mere
pawn on the political chess-board that
will be given away at the point in the
game when it will best suit the Boss's
convenience and advantage. The of.
fice-holders and subordinate machine
men in Cambria had their directions
from the controlling head, and made
short and direct work in fixing the
county delegates for Drnamater. So
it will go throughout the State. The
machinery is so completely under the
control of Quay that the party couldn’s
avoid accepting the choice of the Boss
even if it were disposed to do otherwise;
but it has become so debased by long
servitude,and so enfeebled by the canker
of corrupt tutelage—has so completely
lost the sense of self-ownership—that it
will with cheerful submission accept the
candidate that Quay shall select for it.
As a rule there will be unquestioning
asquiescence among the rank and file
whose political independence has been
thoroughly emasculated. But among
the class less base than these, constitut-
ing but a small fraction of the party,
there are threatening indications of re-
volt against the domination of the Boss,
like the one that confronted Cameronian
bossism in 1882 by the defeat of BEAVER.
Mr. WaARTON BAR&ER, who was one of
the bolters in that memorable year, was
heard to say, the other day: “Any
‘ eandidate for Governor of Pennsylva-
“nia who may be nominated by Mr.
“ Quay or his adherents will meet with
+‘ organized Independent Republican
¢* opposition.” That Mr. Barker believes
that the conting:ncy upon which the
revolt will ensue is going to occur, is
sufficiently indicated by the following
in last week's issue of his paper :
To the ordinary observer of politics it might
appear that the process of nominating and elec-
ting the Governor was several months distant.
On the contrary, a part of the delegates to the
Republican Convention of 1890 have already
been elected, and they are generally, if not en-
tirely, in the control of Mr. Quay, to be used in
the nomination of hismen. * * # Ofcourse
the procedure by which the State Convention
is partly chosen a year ahead of time is a
breach in substance of the reform arrange-
ment adopted in 1882, and intended to prevent
the repetition of such scandals as had brought
the party to the verge of complete disruption.
It was the understan ding of the party then
that the abuse should cease of choosing the
delegates a year in advance under eircum-
stances which only the political manipulators
had a elew to, and where the issues were not
presented to the people. But it is a conve-
nient adjunct of the spoils’ system,and helps to
make it more easy for Mr. Quay to name the
Governor of the State, and reform has had a
set back in Pennsylvania since Mr. Harrison
entered the White House, so that the good re-
solutions of the party in 1882 and 1883 are
cheaply held now by the dominant leaders.
Whether the manhood of even the
best men of the party in the State has
or has not been so reduced by the long
continuance of vassalage to boss rule
as to render it too nerveless for any-
thing like a revolt, 1s a question which
only time can answer. We doubt
whether there is either backbone or
conscience enough for a vigorous resis-
tance to the domination of Quay.
——————————————
A Demoralized Public Sentiment.
The Philadelphia Record alludes to
the circumstance that the unusual and
unconstitutional method employed by
‘the partisan Speaker of the House to
invest his party with absolute and arbi-
trary power in that body, does not ex-
cite the public feeling which should be
aroused by such an exhibition of law-
less tyranny, and it argues that such
apathy indicates‘‘a decay of public opin-
ion.” Forty years ago such conduct in
the popular branch of Congress would
have excited a roar of indignation from
one end of the land to the other,but now
it is regarded with indifference by a
large majority of the people, while the
debauched party from which this law-
lessness emanates, give it a hearty
approval.
But it should occur to our intelli-
gent contemporary that much has
happened within the last forty
years to demoralize public senti-
ment, most of which can be traced
to the gangrene of Republican rule.
The constitution has been repeatedly
made to give way for the securing of
partisan advantage. The people have
by degrees been taught to believe that
the promotion of wealth through tariffs
and such forms of subsidies, should be
the chief end of legislation ; paternal
ism has been advanced as a fanction of
government, and the state has been
gradually subordinated to the central
power. Political morals have been
weakened by the condoning of a theft
of the Presidency, and finally an elec-
tion involving the general government
was made the subject of purchase by
the Quays and WaNAMAKERS without
any apparent revulsion of the pubic
conscience or any visible shock to the
public sense of decency. Surely there
has been such a decay of public opin’
ion that an outrage like that which is
now being enacted in the House does
not excite the popular indignation it
would have excited in the better days
of the Republic.
NO. 6.
The Rule of the Tyrant in the House.
The arbitrary course adopted by
Speaker Rep and supported by the
| majority back of him, whereby, with-
out an established rule, but by sheer
brute force, he insists that less than a
majority of the House shall constitute
a quorum to do business, is unprecedent-
ed and revolutionary in its character.
It is an- injustice that was never at-
tempted to be practiced upon the Re-
publican minority that existed in the
Houseso long previous to their gaining
control of the present Congress,
In 1880, when the Democrats were
in the ascendency in that body, a Demo-
cratic member introduced a resolution
to adopt a rule to do exactly what the
Republicans are now doing with no
other rule than the arbitrary direction
of the Speaker. The proposition prop-
erly met with the indignant opposition
of the Republican members. They de-
nounced it as an unprecedented piece of
tyranny by which the House would be
governed by the one man power.
Janes A. GARFIELD made an unanswer-
able argument against it in whieh he
said :
This House has been the theatre of all sorts
of political storms and tempests. We have
lived through the times of great wars,of a great
civil war, when there were excitements hardly
paralleled in the history of parliamentary an-
nals; yet during all these years no man before,
so farasI know, no party before, has ever
thought it necessary to introduce a rule that
gives the power of declaring the presence of
members by the single voice of one person, a
power that will enable him to bring from his
sick bed a dying man and put him down in the
hall so that the Speaker shall count him and
make his presence against his will, and, per-
haps, in his delirium, count in order to make a
quorum, se that some partisan measure may
be carried out over the body of that dying man.
Sir, the moment you get over the line, the mo-
ment you cross the boundary of names, the
moment you ieap over the iron fence of the
roll, that moment you are out in the vague, and
all sorts of disorders may come in.
Another opponent ¢f this arbitrary
design was this same man Remp who
now attempts to lord it over the House
wh such tyrannical sway. Indignant
at the proposition to do what he now
insists upon doing, he said :
If it was my purpose to reply to the gentle-
man who has just taken his seat, it seems to
me that it would be a suitable and proper reply
to say to him that the constitutional idea of a
quorum is not the presence of a majority of the
members present ard participating] in the
business of the House. It is not the visible
presence of members, but their judgments and
their votes that the Constitution calls for.
A stronger argument or more forei-
ble protest against the course which he
now sees fit to adopt for a partisan
purpose, could not have been advanced.
And no less a Republican authority
than James G. BraiNe had previously
protested against the revolutionary con-
sequences of holdir g that less than a
majority of the House shall constitut:
a quorum to do business, when he said
“you stand on the very brink of a
volcano the moment you clothe your
Speaker with power to go behind your
roll call and assume there is a quorum
in the hall.”
This is the very thing that REEp now
is doing, backed by the brute force of a
majority. But the Democrats in 1880
did not favor the resolution that pro-
posed to so arbitrarily regulate what
should constitute a quorum. They re-
jected it, notwithstanding they had the
power to do otherwise, and allowed to
the minority of the Honse the right it
had enjoyed since the establishment of
the government, and which has been
invaded for the first time by a Repub-
can Speaker.
————
Recently a few industrial com-
panies have given their employees an
increase of wages, and in consequence
the entire coterie of high-tariffjournalis-
tic howlers have set up a yelp over
this tangible evidence of the blessings
of protection, But the character of
their pet system must not be judged by
its exceptions. - If it is the great boon
that it is claimed to be, an increase of
wages should not be confined to a few
isolated cases. It should be general.
In fact there should have been no de-
crease of wages whatever.
——Severe comment is attempted by
a Republican paper on the alleged as-
sertion by Senator WartHALL of Mis-
sissippi that the suppression of the ne-
gro vote in the South is “a human ne-
cessity.”” There can not be a doubt in
reflecting minds that the negro vote in
| the South, called into existence to se-
| cure. a partisan advantage, is
“a human calamity” from which not
only that section is suffering, but which
will eventually involve the whole coun-
try in its direful consequences.
A Bereaved Administration.
Truly great misfortunes are befalling
the personnel of this administration of
the government. It is scarcely more
than two weeks ago chat a sad bereave-
ment overtook the Secretary of State
in the death of his oldest and favorite
son for whom he had every reason to
entertain feelings of pride and affection.
This sad stroke has more recently been
followed by the death of Mr. BLaINE's
oldest daughter. While the public
is being called apon to sympathize
with the Secretary of State in his be.
reavement, the startling intelligence is
received of a great calamity that has
befallen the family oi Mr. Tracy,
Secretary ot the Navy. A fire that in-
sidiously broke out in their residence
on the morning of the 2nd inst., while
the members of the household were
asleep, resulted in the death of Mrs.
and Miss Tracey, and serious injury
to others of the family, the Secretary
having been rescued in an almost life-
less condition.
These are sad occurrences, envelop-
ing in gloom high public personages
who less than a year ago went to their
exalted places in the government ani-
mated by the prospect which success
unfolds to those who have won desir
able prizs. But vain are the
triumps of our mortal existence, and
particularly vain are political triumps,
——
Carlisle on Reed’s Usurpation.
Nothing more was required to show
the outrageously irregular, unprece-
dented and tyranical character ot Speak-
er REED's position on the question of a
quorum sufficient to do business, than
the statement which ex-Speaker Car-
LISLE has issued to the country touch-
ing the merits of the points in issue.
Portraying the high-handed nature of
REED’s conduct Mr. CARLISLE says :
This is the first time in our history that a
legislative assembly or even a public meeting
has attempted to transact business for any con-
siderable period without a regular code of
rules prescribing the order of its proceedings,
and the inconvenience and injustice resulting
from such an attempt has been forcibly illus-
trated in the present instance. The Speaker
has repeatedly during these extraordinary pro-
ceedings refused to entertain parliamentary
motions that have been recognized as legiti-
mate ever since the government was establish-
ed, and when attempts have been made to ap-
peal from his decisions he refused to submit
the question to the House. By his arbitrary
rulings, sustained in some instances by less
than a quorum, he has subverted nearly every
principle of constitutional and parliamentary
law heretofore recognized in the House. This
personal and partisan domination of the House
was submitted to, though not without repeated
protests, until we became convinced that it
was the deliberate purpose of the Speaker and
his supporters to proceed without the rules to
oust the Demceratic members whose seats are
contested, and admit their Republican op-
ponents whether elected or not.
After going on to show that Speaker
REED’s course is in violation of the un-
varying practice of the House for more
than a century, and that he attempts to |
reverse the precedents set in this mat
ter by every preceding Spea er of the
House and the Senate, Mr. CARLISLE
tarns upon the usurper his own testi-
mony as well as that of other leading
Republicans on this very subject, in
these words:
Speaker Reed himself, when in the minority
on the floor of the House, stated the true
meaning and the true philosophy of the consti-
tution when he said : “The constitutional idea
of a quorum is not the presence of a majority
of all the members of the House, but a majori-
ty of the members present and participating in
the business of the House.” It is not the visi-
ble presence but their judgment and votes
which the constitution calls for. General Gar-
field, Mr. Blaine, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Conger, Mr.
Robeson and other eminent Republicans, have
taken the same position, and the arguments
have never been answered. If any legal or
political question can be settled in this country
by long acquiescence of jurists and statesmen
of all parties, certainly this question has pass
ed beyond the domain of discussion. When,
therefore, the present Speaker repudiated this
settled construction of the constitution
and decided that wbken the official
record which the constitution requires the
House to keep, shows on a call of the yeas and
nays that a quorum has not voted, he can
count the members present and not voting,and
thus by his own act outside of the recorded
vote determine that a measure has passed, we
consider it our duty as part of the representa.
tives of the people to enter our protests in
every form available to us under the circum-
stances.
Thanks are due Mr. CARLISLE for
bringing this question of such serious
import to the test of the public intelli-
gence and couscience. But the pur-
pose of the Republican usurpation will
nct He stayed.
force supplied by the power of a ma-
jority, they will relentlessly pursue
their lawless and arbitrary course for
the accomplishment of their partisan
ends.
Relying upon the brute |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—At a Slatington cocking main a few nights
ago $1000 was won on one bird.
—At Bangor Dr. D. H. Keller recently made
106 professianal visits in a single day.
—Two highway laborers at West Chester
unearthad a den of forty-seven snakes,
—For the first tims in eight years an Allen-
town man received a letter a few days ago.
—Vodalia Convey, of Pittsburg, hanged him-
self to the bed in which his wife was sleeping.
—Thirty-eight feet of tapeworm was taken
from 4 year-old Harrison Skean, of Pottstown,
—Lyda and Lena Cassell, aged sisters, of
Lancaster, died within an hour of each other
recently.
—Wirt Prat, of Mansfield, was choked to
death by his clothing being caught in mill
machinery.
—Strong objection is manifested in Somer-
set caunty to the proposed pardoning of the
Nicely Brothers.
—Falling on a tin awning a broken wire at
York caused a stampede among a lot of horses
in the immediate vicinity,
—Johnstown policemen will sue the city to
secure pay for their services during the two
months following the flood.
—A big turkey broke out of its cage at York
and tried to fly through a $100 plate glass win-
dow which was smashed to bits.
—There are no longer fears of an ice famine
near Wilkesbarre. Ice formed on Bare Lake
five inches thick on Saturday.
; —In a quarrel at Columbia on Friday even.
ing, John Payne dangerously stabbed Frank
Klein in the back. Both are boys.
; —Augustus Gerbert, of Williamsport, ma-
liciously cut a great gash in the big mastiff
dog owned by Professor Roscoe Hoff,
—Lock Haven lumberman are fearing that
they will be unable to get their logs to the
water because of the absence of snow,
—Major L. G. McCauley, of West Chester,
has been presented with a lead pencil three-
fourths of an inch thick and a yard long.
—Deputy State Superintendent Henry
Hauk, of Lebanon, while on his educational
travels last year covered about 26,000 miles.
. —Out of 120 tramps in the Carlisle jail 61 of
them were found to be stout, able bodied fel-
lows, who could work if they were made to.
—Patrick Sheehan,a cok
nellsville, says that abou
be builtin the region du
€-oven builder of Con-
£1000 new ovens will
ring the present year.
—The fixtures in the Wa,
x ynesburg post office
are advertised for sale by the Tr to satis-
fy a claim agai
a : against the Post-master, who owns
—Applications have been made for licnses
for two hotels in Kennet Square, which has
aroused the temperance eople
1 people to the utmost
—The posters advertising the lectures of
the Women’s Christian Temperance{Union af
|
Newton are regularly torn down by malicious
persons,
: —Two children aged 8 and 10 years respect-
tively, at York, were held to bail for setting
fire to the Property of a woman who lived next
door.
= The feast at an Amish wedding near Mor-
gantown a few days ago comprised an ox, ten
turkeys, twelve chickens and fourteen home-
made cakes,
A Chester tailor some time ago closed up
his place and put up a sign ; “Will be back in
an hour.” The next heard from him he was
in Tacoma, Washington.
—The Nicely brothers, under sentence of
death at Somerset for the murder ef Farmer-
Omberger, about a year ago, have made an ap-
Plication for a pardon.
—Charles Rowlands, a young husband of
Sharon, attempted suicide because his neigh-
bors pestered him on account of his alledged
cruel treatment of his wife,
—Suit hasbeen brought against Highland
township, Chester county, for the recovery of
$125, the value of a horse, the death of which
was caused by the imperfect roads.
—Students of Bethlehem College surrounded
the carriage of an operatic favorite who visited
the city a few days ago and accompanied her
to the hotel, cheering all the way.
—At Philadelphia, the jury in the case of
James, alias “Reddy” Barry, announced its
Inability tofix the guilt of the murder and robe
bery of the aged Kelly sisters on him.
—Catarrh pneumonia has developed among:
a herd of cattle at Eden, Lancaster county, Pa.
andseveral of the animals have already died.
The State officers have been notified.
—The new locomotive shops of the Pennsyl-
vania Company at Altoona are completed, all
but the necessary machinery, They will em-
ploy 1000 men, and turn out 150 locomotives a
year.
—The will of Adam Forepaugh, Sr., the vet
eran showman, gives half of his estate to his
widow and half to his son, after providing for
his father for life. The estate is valued at
about $1,000,000.
—A mustang and a milk wagon held a little
private discussion at Bristol recently, the re-
sult of which was thatthe remainder of the
wagon rested upside down and the mustang
was captured about four miles out of town.
—A colored minstrel troupe arranged for a
performance atthe West Grove (Chesger coun-
ty) hall recently,but when the proprietor
learned that a clog dance was ineluded in the
performance he refused to open the doors.
—The infant child of Charles.Small, of Red
Hill, set its clothing on fire several days ago
while left alone for a few mirntes, and hardly
a spot on the child’s body was. left: untouched
by the flames. That the child,has survived is
remarkable.
—Henry Jackson, colored; of Williamsport,"a
convict in the Harrisburg j ail, who was await-
ing transfer to the Eastern Penitentiary for
three years and three months! committed
suicide on Saturday morning by cutting his
throat with an old knife.
—A lot of children’s toys and a bottle of ear-
bolic acid were kept in the same closet by J.
H. Reese, of Williamsport, and his 3-year-old
boy found the the bottle while looking for the
toys. The child attempted to drink the con-
tents and was badly burned.
—Henry Stine, of Mauch Chunk, a brakeman
on the cannonball freight train on the Jer-
sey Central Railroad, was killed at White
| House, N. J., on Friday morning by his head
, coming in contact with a water-pipe that had
heen left projecting over the track from the
! tank.
. ==Rev, Dr. Cruikshank, rector of St. Mark's
Episcopal Church, Lewisburg, whose mind
had for some time been affected through
threatened less of eyesight and financial re-
verses, has been removed to an asylum for
treatment of his malady, which has recently
assumed a violent form,