Terms, 82.00 a Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., March 21, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, - =.=" Enfroz.
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Lying to Get Out of Another Dirty Job.
Does any one suppose that if Sheriff
Cooke had done his duty as a public
official, honestly and honorably,during
the time HoPkIN'S was incarczrated,
it would have been necessary for him
to'have a public statement made by
the prisoner from the gallows, deny-
ing that he had been permitted to in-
dulge in indecent conduct and immor-
al practices during his imprisonment ?
Or does any one believe that if he
‘had done his duty, or not lied, at the
time of the AxpBEWs trial, it
would be necessary for him to have
this poor wretch give him a certificate
of character through the Gazette of
last week ?
Certain it is, that an official, whose
moral conduct is so debased, and whose
reputationfor truth is so low, that he
must rely upon the statements of con-
demned criminals for vindication, is
not to be envied.
As to the nannerin which he con-
ducted the ‘jail during the imprison-
ment of HopPKINS, it is not our inten-
tion now to speak. It was soshame-
fully outrageous, so out of all decency,
and go notorious, that to refer to it even
is enough to disgust decent citizens.
It is to the statement that he has squeez-
ed out of the degraded wretch now un-
der sentence of death,:and which was
given to the public through the Gazette,
that we refer at this time. In it AN-
prEWS is made to assert that Sheriff
Cooke “at no time before or during
his trial knew of his guilt.” This
story is told by a man now within the
shadow of the gallows, at the request of
the Sheriff, in the hope that it will be,
believed and exonerate him from the
charge that he with held from the
Court and the law officers of the com-
monwealth, information that would
have shortened the trial, lessened the
bills of cost thrown upon the county,
and aided in securing a speedy and
righteous verdict in the case.
The facts is, that ANDREWS may
not know that he is {asserting what is
untrue when he declares that Cooke
“didn’t know of his guilt,” for the
reason that Cook got his information
in a way that no honorable man would
ever hear anything, and in a manner
that all people despise==As AN EAVES-
DROPPER.
Some time Jafter the arrest of AN-
DREWS, one of his attorneys, Mr. CHaM-
BERs,Scalled to see him. THe was ad-
mitted to ANprEw's cell by Sheriff
Cooke himself, who immediately with -
drew, seemingly to. avoid] hearing the
conversation that would occur between
them. In place of getting out of
hearing, he sneaked into the adjoining
cell where he overheard a description
of how he, (ANDREWS,) had committed
the crime, the distance, the poor girl
was from him when" he fired the first
shot, and other facts which, if known
to the prosecuting officers and to the
Court, would have saved days of tine
and hundreds of dollars of expense to
the county. After the trialjhad drag-
ged itself into thesecond week, and a
short time before it was closed, he re-
lated what he had oyerheard
to Commissioner HENDERSON, Ww.
HarTER, Jas. Swan? and others,
by whom it was told around the town.
And now Cooke denies that he heard
this story. We don’t wonder that he
does. He hae possibly heard how the
public censure him for failing to tell
what he knew, when it would have as-
sisted in fastening a most heinous
crime upon the shoulders of the per-
petrator ; and to admit that he knew
these facts would, under the circum-
stance of his obtaining them as he did,
be an acknowledgment that his
information was secured in a way in
which no one but a sneak would learn
anything. Is it any wonder that
Cooke himself now lies, and gets AN-
DREWS to lie unknowingly, in order to
getout of the disgraceful position he
got himself into in this matter ?
Wouldn't the course pursued in the
Crara KuNEs case, of trying to ignore
it by saying nothing about it, have
been the better course to persue in this
instance, Sheriff ?
CHAUNCEY Brack may have had
some particularcandidate in view when
he said in a yecent letter that this is no
time for candidates who think they see
a chance of success, but “who are con-
veniently out of politics, and let the
party stagger along without their val-
uable help when they happen to have
no individual stake in the results.”
Some people may regard the expres-
sion of Mr. Brack as having consider-
erable pertinence in it.
Explanations That Verify Our Charges
and Others That Don’t Fit With
the Figures.
If any one will take the trouble to
read the attempted explanation made
by the Republican, this week, of the
charges that the Commissioners had
suppressed items of indebtedness in the
county statement, in order to make
the ballance in the treasury look larger
than it is, and had failed to account
for over $1,500 of state taxes collected
off the people, he will see at once that
these allegations ARE TRUE, and that
the WarcaMaN asserted the naked
facts in the matter.
The Republican admits that the cost
of erecting the Karthaus and Howard
bridges is not included in the state-
ment, and makes the silly excuse for
this omission, that it is not customary
to include “contracted indebtedness,”
in a county statement. It an exhibit
of the financial condition of the county
does not show the indebtedness ail
ready contracted for, as well as all
other liabilities, then itis not a finan-
cial exhibit at all; it is an official,
financial lie. A certified statement,
such as the commissioners give, that
the asserts of the county amount to so
much, and the liabilities to so much,
when “contracted” indebtedness and
liabilities are left out entirely, and not
refered to, is a certified lie, intended to
deceive the taxpayers and to cover up
jobbery, or something else of the kind.
In February these officials, over their
signature, and attested by their clerk,
certified that the totaliliabilities of the
county amounted to $3,199.69, includ-
Ing commissions for collections yet to
be made, and, exonerations for uncol-
lectable taxes, and that the assets all
told were $26,300.16, showing a bal.
ance in favor of the county of
$23100.47. Within six weeks of the
time when this certified showing of the
county finances go out, one of the
mouth-pieces of this board of Com-
missioners, admits that the indebtedness
created by rebuilding two of its largest
bridges in the county, and which runs
into the thousands of dollars, is not
included in the statement, thus admit-
ting that the financial condition of the
county 18 not as certified to by the
commissioners, and that the balance in
favor;of the tax-payers is less by thous-
ands upon thousands of dollars than the
people were told it was.
As to the Republican's explanation of
the unaccounted for $1,566.60 of state-
taxes that was paid into the treasury,
and is nowhere to be found now, it is
on a par with the commissioners, finan-
cial exhibit—a false showing. This
amount of money is not as stated by
the Republican, “in uncollected taxes,”
nor does the financial exhibit fail to
give the amount of outstanding taxes,
as claimed by our neighbor. The
very first items in that document is the
uncollected or outstanding taxes for
the year referred to.
The total amount assessed as
state taxes for 1889 1s given at $9.126.-
32; of this amount but $3.338.87 re-
mains uncollected, showing that
$5.738.43 was collected, and of this
but $4.171.83 paid out, leaving unac-
counted for $1.566.60.
For this amount of money the peo-
ple have a right to demand some show-
ing. Where is 1t? Who has it?
What has become of it? Was it used
for Republican campaign purposes ?
Has some worthless partisan borrowed
it for political work ? Are the commis-
sioners speculating with it, or what has
become of it ?
Will some one tell us ?
Ought to Be Satisfied.
It is queer that with so many poor,
anxious and willing Republicans, all
over the county, who are just aching
for office, one family should step
in ard occupy two official positions,
while many larger and more deserving
connections can’t get one. Immediate-
ly after the inauguration of Harrison
Mr. Jou DaLeY, of Curtin township,
who, by the way, is a big, broad shoul-
dered, able-bodied fellow, healthy
enough to do a good days work on his
farm when inclined to do so, and to
stay out half the night ranting about
high tariffs, Republicanism and “re-
bels,” and whose name was put upon
the pension rolls some years since for
disabilities that no one knew to dis-
turb or disable him any, went to
Washington and secured a place as
messenger in one of the¢ departments.
Last week his son Jeremiah was ap-
pointed to a clerkship in the Census
Bureau, and has already entered upon
his duties. The family, we are told,
will move to Washington on the first
of April, but whether a good sized pen-
sion and two official positions will sat-
isfy the paternal DALEY, we are net in-
formed. Perhaps after the modest(?)
demands of the Curtin township states-
man are satisfied, if there is any thing
left, some other hungry Republican
may be able to get it.
A Mystery Explained.
Some attention has been attracted by
a series of editorial articles in the
Bellefonte Republican, pitching into
Postmaster General WaNAMAKER gen-
erally, but particularly on account of
his scheme to bring the telegraph lines
of the country under the control ot the
government. One of them was repub-
lished in the New York Sun to show
what a good Pennsylvania Republican
journal thought of Wanamaker. How
these articles got into 1ts columns and
what object inspired them, was a mys-
tery to those who knew the character of
the paper. The general impression here-
abouts is that co far as the sentiments
of its editor are concerned it would
make very little difference to him
whether Wanamaker should succeed
in makingthe telegraph business part
of the post office service, or even
in making the post office depart
ment an annex to his Bethany Sunday
School. Hence the surprise that the
Republican took a position hostile to
any of his measures.
But there is now a strongsuepicion that
these anti-Wanamaker expressions
have emanated from the accomplished
and versatile pen of our friend and
neighbor, James MILLIKEN, Esq., who
is a heavy stock-holder in the Western
Union telegraph company, and who,
although an ardent Republican, would
naturally object to having his interests
gobbled up by even a Republican ad-
ministration. A confirmation of the
belief that it is Mr. MILLIKEN that is
throwing these bombs into the post
office department is furnished by the
circumstance that the last of the
Wanamaker excoriations is about his
wanting to bring the mailsinto competi-
tion with the Adams Express Compa-
ny. What stronger circumstantial
evidence, pointing to the authorship of
these articles, is needed than the fact
that Mr. MILLIKEN is also one of that
company’s heaviest stock-holders ?
When it is considered what an inter-
est he took in bringing this administra-
tion into power, going even to New
York State and supplementing Mar
Quay’s boodle with his eloquence: on
Bismarck’s Resignation.
If Prince Bismarck is in earnest in
resigning the chancellorship of the
German empire, and if it be true that
the young Emperor has accepted the
resignation of the veteran statesman,
the retiring of the great functionary
who may be said to have created the
empire, is a political event of much
significance. The absence of entire
cordiality between the Emperor and
the Prince has been apparent from the
time of the accession of the former to
the throne, and it may be that on ac-
count of a further strain of the rela
tions between the sovereign and his
minister, the latter bas finally deter-
mined to retire from the post in which
he has done so much to place Germa-
ny at the head of European nationali-
ties.
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An Ugly Animal Jumps Out.
Congressman BayNE, of the Alle
gheny district, the other day left a very
ill-favored and repulsive looking cat
out of the bag. Speaking of the new
tariff bill, the metal schedule of which
he prepared, he explained to a Pitts-
burg Republican editor why the duty
on steel rails will be fixed at about $13
per ton. He said :
In a recent trip made to Pittsburg in Mr.
Carnegie’s company he and I talked over the
whole metal schedule, and his opinion, most
emphatically expressed, was that under no
circumstances should the duty on steel rails
be reduced below $10 or $11 a ton, and that it
really should be $13 or $14.
It appears from this that all that is
necessary to fix the determination of a
Republican Ways and Means commit-
tee about the rate of “protection” that
should be maintained, is a hint from
the rich beneficiaries of the protective
system. The opinion ot Mr. CARNEGIE,
“most emphatically expressed,” that
the duty on steel rails i“really should
be $13 or $14,” settled it. The wishes
of ten thousand farmers or wage-earn-
ers,compared with the influence of this
wealthy steel king, would have about as
much effectupon this committee as the
whispering of the idle wind; but then
it should be remembered that they
didn’t contribute to the boodle fund of
the stump,it must foreibly occur to Mr. | the Repuilioan campaign as he did,
MILLIKEN, who sees his interests thus | 8nd haven't the same claim on the par-
endangered, that sharper than a ser-
pent’s tooth it is to have a thankless ad-
administration.
—— It is said that Mexican capital-
ists are going to erect in the city of
Mexico the largest and most complete
hotel in the world, the cost of which
will be millions of dollars. Since the
opening of railroad communication
with the United States, the city of the
Aztecs is getting to be a popular winter
resort with the Americans, no other
tropical region presenting equal-attrac-
tions. The intention of the Mexicans
to supply their American visitors with
the best of hotel accommodations, and
thus maintain and increase the attrac-
tion of their city, is proof that they are
wige in their generation.
The Government-Building Extrava-
gance.
Considerable impatience has pre-
| vailed in Altoona over the delay in the
passage of the bill that is intended to
furnish that town with a government
building. Other towns, of no more im-
tance than the “Mountain City,” are
getting such bills passed in their favor,
which has led the Altoona people to
consider themselves unjustly slighted.
Senator CaMERON, however, has en-
couraged them by the assurance that
he will endeavor to expedite the pas-
sage of their bill by personally speak-
ing to Senator SANDFORD who is chair-
man of the committee which manages
in the Senate the government building
branch of the general raid on the feder-
al treasury.
It is astonishing how public senti-
ment has become demoralized on ihe
subject of government expenditures.
It is not so much the fault of the
representatives that these treasury
raids are going on as it is the fault of
their constituents, who sanction them
—in fact, clamor for them—as a
means of promoting personal or local
advantage. It does not take the repre-
sentative long to discover that the
surest way to make himself “solid”
with those whom he represents is to
secure for their benefit as large a share
as possible in the division of the treas-
ury spoils.
None of the towns that are getting
these expensive public buildings need
them, as none of them are lacking in
private structures capable of furnishing
ample post office accommodations.
But local pride and interest remove all
scruples about the dangerous conse-
quences of such squandering of the
public means, The successful accom-
plishment of such a raid on the treas-
ury is hailed as a great achievement of
of the representative who managed it,
and a great triumph for the communi-'
ty that will be locally benefitted by it.
ty’s gratitude.
Undiscriminating Censure.
The farmers of Kansas have been
reduced to such distress that they have
issued through the Farmers’ Alliance.
an open letter to their members of Con-
gress, representing the danger of their
being utterly ruined by the foreclos-
ure of the mortgages on their farms
and calling upon Congress for legisla-
tion that may relieve them.
While they are to be pitied in their
sad plight,they lay themselvss open to
censure for their disingenuousness in
saying that they have been promised
by each of the political parties that
something would be done for their re-
lief, but that “both parties have been
“tried and both have thus far failed to
‘even attempt any measure contem-
“plating a betterment of the condition
“of the industrial classes.”
This is positively false so far as the
Democratic party is concerned. The
farmers of Kansas never gave that par-
ty an opportunity todo any State leg
istation for them, and during the brief
time in the last quarter of a century in
which the Democrats were in control
of the national government, both the
Democratic House and the Democratic
executive did their utmost to relieve
the western farmers of the burden of
tariff taxation which has had more to
to do with their impoverished
condition than any other cause.
But at the very first opportunity these
blubbering Kansas grangers voted to
restore the party which maintains
war taxation on everything they use in
their business and their living. There
is no doubt abundant reason for their
complaint, but they should put the
blame where it belongs.
The Chapion Mean Man.
The champion meanest man and the
most heartless justice live in Sturgis,
Dakota. The meanest man lost his
pocketbook, containing $250 ; and when
the finder returned it to him after a
month spentin discovering the owner,
he demanded that the finder pay him
interest for the use of the money. Nat-
urally the finder refused this unreason-
able demand, whereupon the meanest
man brought suit for the interest, and
the most heartless justice gave the
meanest man judgment for $1.45 and
costs.
EE rC——Cr—
Three Tracks.
The Pennsylvania railroad is work-
ing hard to have a third track in opera-
tion between Pittsburg and Philadel-
phia. The track is now completed at
all principal stations and there are a
great many miles of siding which will
be utilized when this work is completed.
There are probably 200 miles of this
third track, and the remainder will be
laid as rapidly as possible. After this
work is completed a fourth track will
be started, and eventually the Pennsyl- ;
vania road will have four main tracks
between Pittsburg and Philadelphia.
A Chase Around the World.
A Murderer Pursued Through Europe
and Captured in New York.
PirTsBURG, Pa., March 18.—As the
Western express on the Pennsylvania
Railroad passed through here this morn-
ing, en route to the West, a couple of
the passengers attracted general atten-
tion, partly on account of their appear-
ance and partly because they were fast-
ened together by a pair of steel hand-
cuffs,
The larger of the two wore a badge
bearing the words “United States Mar-
shal.” He was an officer of Silver Cliff,
a little mining town in Colorado, about
fifty miles from Denver. His compan-
ion was a gambler named Martin Cain.
Nearly a year ago, while taking part
in a poker game at Silver Cliff a dispute
arose, hot words followed, weapons were
drawn, and Cain shot and killed a
prominent citizen of the town who was
taking part in the game. Before he
could be caught the murderer had
grabbed the money on the table, nearly
$3000, and made his escape.
Marshal James Hall followed him
through Europe, but was never able to
come up with him. At last he learned
that he had returned to America, Hall
also returned and landed in New York
last week. The day he arrived he met
Cain on Broadway.
The murderer came up to him, and to
the officer’s surprise surrendered himself.
He said his conscience had troubled
him so that he had determined to re-
turn to Silver Cliff and stand the punish-
ment for his crime. The pair are now
en route there, and the officer says the
man is sure to be hanged. The prisoner
says he feels a great deal better since
giving himself up.
The Grangers’ Interstate Exhibition at
Williams’ Grove, August 25, 1890.
’
[Communicated.]
There is not even the shadow of truth
about the statements that have recently
been going the rounds of newspapers
that the Williams’ Grove Grangers’
Picnic is to be moved to MtGretna.
The men who are circulating these re-
ports are not patrons, as they represent
themselves, but are now, as they always
have been, the enemies of the Grange,
and intriguers against the farmer's or-
gnization.
There is no division among the Pat-
rons as to their great annual gather-
ings at William’s Grove. Patrons who
were present at the meetings of the Na-
tional Grange,the State Granges of Penn-
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary-
land, West Virginia and many other
State meetings, know that all these bod-
ies, each by'a practically unanimous
vote, endorsed the Williams’ Grove
meeting and its management, and
that this unanimous action throughout
the United States has practically caused
Williams’ Grove to be the Mecca of the
Order. In view of this fact the Gran-
gers’ Interstate Picnic Exhibition will
continue to convene at Williams’ Grove
from year to year, without regard to
the meetings of any other organiza-
tion until the Patrons of Husbandry
themselves determind otherwise.
The meeting for 1890 will open on
Monday, August 25th, and continue
for six days. Patronsdesiring to occupy
their tents a few days previous to the
opening day—and many did this last
year—wili be so accommodated.
The most perfect railroad arrang-
ments, more satisfactory than those of
any preceding year, have already been
fully: completed with railroad companies
all over the country.
The exhibitors of machinery and farm
implements will not fall short of that
of any previous year. A
The old exhibitors have already ap-
plied for all the space that will be va-
cated by the exhibitors who propose
leaving Williams’ Grove and going to
Mt. Gretna, and new exhibitors are daily
applying for space.
ery important and extensive im-
provements will be commenced at Wil-
liams’ Grove as soon as the Spring
opens, and whatever objectionable feat-
ures or inconveniences there may have
been in the past will be amended. In
short there can be no such thing as
failure, in any paticular, in our Wil-
liams’ Grove meeting, except from
causes such as might occur through ad-
verse elements of nature, which it is not
possible for human agencies to provide
against. Within the past week letters
have been received from Col. J. H.
Brigham, Worthy Master of the Nation-
al Grange, the Worthy Secretary,
Worthy Lecturer and other officers of
the National Grange, and from the
officers of twenty State Granges, com-
mending the management of the Wil-
liams’ Grove meeting, and pledging
their unqualified support in the exertions
being put forth to make the Williams’
Grove meetings greater than ever here-
tofore. G
Age at the Altar.
A Novel Wedding at Wilkesbarre of
Very Old People.
WILKESBARRE, March 12.—A novel
wedding took place atithe Courtright
House this city yesterday. The combined
ages of the bridal party was 269 years, as
follows: Bridegroom, Shabrack Greg-
ory, 81; bride, Mrs. Mary C. Marr,
61; groom’s best man, R. V. Vanhorn,
63; bridesmaid, 64. Justice of the
Peace Colen, of Union township, tied
the knot. The bride was dressed in her
first weddirg trousseau, made 42 years
ago. She was as frisky asa yonng girl
of 17, and the bridegroom climbed three
flights of stairs on a time bet. He per-
formed the task with the agility of a
youth.
Addressing the ’Squire before the
ceremony, he said: “Now, Justice,
don’t imagine that because I am four-
score that I am a fool. I don’t know
how much love there is in this match,
but there is enough to make
Mame and me happy until we are part-
ed in death. There will be no divorce
in our case. I am lonely ; so is the wo-
man, ‘We want to enjoy each other’s
company in our old age, and that is
what we are here for. Proceed with
the ceremony.”
——A New Jersey inventor proposes
to use the dynamo in warfare to make
artificial ie He claims to be able
to produce a flash of lightning which he
can direct against a body of men a mile,
The Decline in Farms.
The Philadelphia Zimes, in continu-
ing its forcible comments on the por-
tentous subject of the decline in the
value of farm property, says :
The decline in the value of farm lands
not only immediately around Philadel-
phia, but generally in the Kastern
States, has become a grave problem for
the consideration of the largest und most
important class of our industrial people.
It is conceded that farms in Delaware,
Chester and Montgomery not specially
appreciated in value by local -improve-
ments, have declined fully one-third in
\ value during the last decade, and there
is no reasonable prospect of any advauce
in the value of purely farm lands in the
future.
Of course, this unpromising outlook
for our farmers is creating very general
unrest among them, and it is evident
that there is a strong “tendency to re-
alize on farms at the reduced prices and
engage in other pursuits or move to
more promising regions in the South or
West.
It must be evident to all intelligent
farmers that the present depression in
purely farm lands in Pennsylvania is
certain to continue and increase as long
as farmers are compelled to bear the
bulk of the oppressive taxes now im-
posed upon the people. They are the
most unjustly taxed people in the coun-
try and they do more to maintain the
crushing taxes upon themselves than all
others combined. There is practically
nothing used on a farm, in home, barn
or field, that is not taxed from one-
third or two-thirds its actual cost, and
the farmer is steadly getting less price
for his products and paying increased
taxes on what he consumes. There has
not been a monopoly combine formed in
the country that did not increase the
farmers taxes, and yet the majority ot
the farmers have steadly voted to sus-
tain the policy that seems to study only
how to tax them to the uttermost
And what have they in return for
these destructive taxes ? They have the
veriest mockery of protection on a very
few things they raise, and nearly all of
these only increase taxes upon them-
selves. They are told that they are pro-
tected in wool, but there is not ga far-
mer in Delaware, Chester or Montgom-
ery county who does not pay double
or treble in taxes on woolens that Re
received on taxed wool, and thus it is
in nearly every instance. It is taxa-
tion, as a rule, from the beginning to °
the end of the chapter, and the farmer is
steadily impoverished and his lands re-
duced in value. (LTE
This oppressive taxation on farmers
and this continued reduction of their
property will be halted just when the
farmers decide to stop it ;. no sooner ;
no later. As long as they will vote to
tax themselves to death, just so long will
they be taxed to the uttermost; and
whenever they decide to disenthral
themselves from party thongs
and demand the ~ abolition of
all needless taxes on the necessaries of
life and industry they will win. They
have the power to rescue themselves
from this wanton oppression whenever
they choose to do so. They are the
mujority of the industrial people of the
land, and they can make and unmake
the tax policy ofthegovernment at will;
but ever since the war when they re-
ceived their share from war taxes $2 per
bushel for wheat and prices for all their
other products in proportion, they have
been the stoutest champions of overtax-
ing themselves. They are now reaping
the logical fruits of their suicidal theo.
ries, and their farms will diminish in
profits and decrease in value just as long
as they insist that everything they use
and wear shall be largely taxed for the
benefit of others, Don’t sacrifice farms;
rather sacrifice the mad policy that has
made farming profitless and farms of
little value.
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A Man Cut to Pieces on the Railroad
Near Huntingdon.
Last Friday night a terrible accident
occurred to a man walking on the
railroad track about three miles west
of Huntingdon, the unfortunate man
being probably Absalom Henry, who
was engaged at one of the numerous
lumber camps in Diamend valley, rear
Barree. The body was observed lying
along the railroad track by a brakeman
on an east bound train, and an engine
was sent up from here at once to recover
the remains. When brough to the com-
pany’s hospital here none of the many
persons who viewed the body could
identify it. An inspection by Coroner
Harmon disclosed the fact that the man
had not been a professional tramp and
that he probably met his death while
walking in a bewildered condition on
the railroad.
The body presented a horrible appear-
ance. The head was dismembered from
the trunk, the right arm cut off close to
the shoulder and the abdomen punctur-
ed so deeply that the entrails protruded.
Both feet were also badly smashed.
The'man was comfortably dressed, wear-
ing a new coat and hat and new under-
clothes, On his person were found seven
dollars in money, a razor, a fife and
other trifling articles. The coroner im-
panei a jury and an inquest on
aturday.
A. M. Shawley, who arrived before
the jury retired, stated that the de-
ceased was one Absalom Henry, a man
who had employed in a lumber camp in
Diamond Valley. Owing to the dis-
membered head it was difficult to com-
pletely identify the body, but Mr.
Shawley gave it as his opinion that it
was the body of Henry. It was stated
that Henry had left Barree this morning
for Tyrone. The body was given over
to the county authorities for burial.
The unforunate man leavesa widow and
three children.
Fatally Caught by a Shaft.
A lsd named Daniel Taylor met a hor-
rible death in a picture frame factory at
Williamsport on Thursday. The boy’s
clothing caught on a shaft which was re-
volving at the rate of 800 revolutions a
minute, and he was whirled around, his
body striking against the timber ebove
until he was almost lifeless. The ma-
chinery was stopped and the boy remov-
ed from the shaft as quickly us possible,
and doctors called to his aid, but his
death resulted one hour later. The
body was terribly mangled and bruised,
the limbs broken in several places, and
the right arm almost torn off. Young
Taylor was about 15 years old.