Hit
Terms, 82.00 e Year,in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., April 18, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebprror.
Sons
——A Pheenixville paper says that
over 1000 Huns have settled in that
place and driven American laborers
from the iron mills, and that there isa
bitter feeling against them in conse
quence. The working people of so
highly protected a locality should not
be suffering from such an evil.
The proprietors of the iron works are
having a great benefit from the tariff,
and why should their employees be
afflicted by this Hungarian plague ?
——Defaulting State Treasurer
ARCHER, of Maryland, has been arrest-
ed and will be brought to trial and
punishment for his malfeasance and
misappropriation of the State funds.
The treatment of such cases in Demo-
cratic Maryland is different from what
itis in Republican Pennsylvania. In
the latter state a successful raid on
the treasury secures for the raider the
highest honors “the grand old party”
can bestow.
——————
——The country is amused by the
announcement made by one of his of-
ficial understrappers, that Bessamix
HarrisoN intends to be a candidate for
re-election to the office which through
some absurd freak of fortune he now
occupies and renders ridiculous. Out-
side of BENyAMIN'S immediate relation-
ship there is scarcely a person in the
United States who seriously entertains
the idea of his re-election. It is gener-
ally regarded in the light of a joke.
I—
——The startling discovery has been
made by United States Treasurer Hus-
TON that the treasury vaults containing
$600,000,000 are in such an insecure
condition that an interprising and en-
ergetie burglar would require but a few
minutes to get into them. This is an
astonishing piece of intelligence, but
then, when we come to seriously think
of the matter, would a raid of burglars
on the treasury be much worse than
the raid which is being conducted by
the Republican surplus extinguishers?
TS ———
An Other Effort to Explain Away the
Deficit of 1,565.60.
The Republican of last week devoted
a full column in making an other and
till different explanation of what be-
€ame of the missing $1,565.60 State Tax
money. This makes the third attempt
to cover up the faulty book keeping, or
# hide the jobbery shown by the
county statement to exist in the Com-
missioners’ office, and comes no nearer
satisfying the people than did its form-
«er explanations, both of which the
‘Commissioners’ own statement proved
ito be false.
nits first explanation that paper
alleged that this tax “had not yet been
collected.” This was so palpably un-
trae, as shown by the Auditors’ szttle-
ment, that it dropped the “uncollected”
business in a hurry.
Next it proceeded to fix up a lot of
expenditures, no where shown in the
the county statement, (nor do we be-
lieve they are npon the Commissioners’
books) intending to balance the ac-
eount with these manufactured figures,
but unluckily, it got them too high and
showed that the Commissioners had
paid out as State taxes $411.32 MORE
than the TOTAL State ‘tax levy in the
eounty amounted too.
This was such an apparent fraud in
the way of an explanation, that it
steps to the front again last week with
a new arrangement of figures, which it
they were to be relied upon, simply
transfers the deficiency from the taxes
collected for State purposes to those
collected for county purposes.
In order to get the State tax account
to balance, it adds to the expenditure
items which the county Auditors tailed
to find, as follows :
Abatements ace’t of State Tax $293.64
Commissions for collecting 234.65
Assessors pay 653.00
Exonerations ace’t State Tax . 791.86
—— —
Total 1982.15
and then drops out, as it calls them,
“five miscellaneous items” aggregating
$564.59, which the commissioners had
taken credit for paying,—a way to
balance an account that we confers is
exceedingly easy, but which will doubt-
less leave some suspicion in the minds
of the tax-payers, that an account that
hasto be doctored to this extent to
have it balance, is not to be relied upon
as a correct showing of the county fi-
nances. ;
To show how very different and con-
flicting are the two statements, of the
uses made of the tax levied and colject-
ed for State purposes, the former, the
certified statement of the county com-
missioners, the latter, the statement as
given by the commissioners’ organ, we
give them both in full.
(Commissioners’ Statement.)
State Tax Assessment for 1889............... 9,126.32
Collected for 1889........ ..... 5,748 43
Outstanding for1889...................c.....) 3,387.89
CASH PAID TO SUNDRY PERSONS ON AC-
COUNT OF STATE TAX AND CHARGED 10 THE COM-
MONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Wm. Livsey, State ‘Treas
on ace’t of State Tax.....$3000 60
M. F. Riddle, for copying
- judgm’ts and mortg’s..... 68 00
C. G. Bilger, same............. | 58 00
L. A. Scheffer, reporting
judgements ................ 171 79
Jno. F. Harter, reporting
NOT GATOR. curses sresnsninins
J. B. Strohm, kee 'grec’ds
of judgm’ts and mortg’s 200 00
Cyrus Goss. Treas. Com. 65 24 3607 24
H. C. Demuth, Fish Com-
missioner, fine for ille-
gal fishing.........0.0." '“1yo')
Patron Twp.,in the matter
of Carnegie Bros. & Co's
Taxes, for School, Poor
and Road Taxes refund-
ed to Twp—W, C. Was-
son, Treas., for School
TAX crnrsssernorssseszissesmmesense ASY. Th
Sam’l T. Gray, Poor tax..... 91 83
J. E. Way, Road Tax......... 107 98
L. A. Scheffer, costs......... 227 07 564 59
Total 4171 83
(Republican’s Statement.)
State taxes levied for 1889.................... $9126 32
Uneollected. «$3387 89
Abatements.
Commissions
Assessors pay..
Exonerations........ 791 86
Paid to State Treasurer...... . 3000 00
M. F. Riddle for copying judgments
and mortgages.......... 6S 00
C. G. Bilger, same........ ee D8 00
L. A. Schieffer, reporting judgments... 171 70
John F. Harter, reporting mortgages.... 44 30
J.B. Strohm, keeping record of same... 200 00
Cyrus Goss, Treas. Com er 05128
Balance in Troasury.............ceerersresssrn 149 04
Total $9126 32
The evidence that the Republican's
figures are doctored to suit the neces
sity of the case is furnished by the fig-
ures themselves. Tt would have the
people believe that the exonerations
and abatements for State tax were 20
per cent. of the total amount collected,
when according to the Commissioners’
own showing, elsewhere in the county
statement, the exonerations and abate
ments are estimated af less than THREE
per cent. of the whole. In addition to
this brazen way of manufacturing ex-
penses, it tries to help cover up the
deficit of $1,565.60, by adding to the
expenditures for State purposes, $653.
00 as “Assessors pay.” This change
may be proper enough, but unfortu-
nately for the Commissioners and their-
organ, the general statement shows
that this item was included in the
county expense account and is credited
to the Commissioners, side of the bal-
ance sheet, as against the county tax.
If it is now changed to the State tax
account and deducted from the taxes
collected for State purposes, then there
is a deficit of $653.00 in the statement
of county tax expenditures, and we
don’t'see that it helps the Commission-
ers, or relieves the tax-payers a parti-
cles, to explain that the missing mon-
ey belonged to the county tax fund in
place of the State tax account.
What the tax-payers want to know
is what became of this money, and the
Republican can devote another column
in explaining why the Commissioners
statement failed to show the expendi-
ture it has conjured up? why the ex-
onerations for State taxes are six times
more than for other taxes, and how it
will account for the deficit it now
makes 1n the county tax accounts?
It is evidently an ugly hole that the
Commissioners and their organ have
gotten into, and we imagine there will
be some pretty badly scratched hides
before they get out of it.
A ————
Pooh-Poohs Won't Do.
The charges made by the New York
World against M. S Quay aré too se-
rious and too circumstantially stated
to be treated with “silent contempt’ by
that gentleman. The “silent con-
tempt” game will not answer where of-
ficial corruption and personal rascality
are charged against a public character
with all the points and circumstances
set out in most damaging detail to
strengthen the indictment. - Quay
must proceed against the World or
stand convicted in public opinion of al|
the offenses which that paper charges
him with. Pooh-poohs won't do in
this case
Unsatisfactory.
There is something very fresh in the
suggestion of the Scranton Republican
that such dissatisfied spirits as EMERY,
Lee and others who are kicking against
the disreputable rule of Quay, should
bring their candidate for Governor to
the State convention and do all they
can to nominate them, and then, after
such an effort,they should be willing to
abide by the result, whatever it may be.
That would be good enough advice if it
were not a sure thing that the conven-
tion will be entirely subjected to
Quay’s manipulation. Parties beat-
en in a game in which the cards
were stocked against them can
not reasonably be asked to be satisfied
with the result.
————
A Double Funeral,
Providence Journal.
Secretary Blaine has prepared a sepul-
chre large enough for the new tariff bill
and the presidential aspirations of Major
i William McKinley at one and the same
time.
.above the whole house.
Death of Ex-Speaker Randall.
A Sketch of His Life and Service.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall, who had
beer prostrated by ill health since the
commencement of the present session,
and his death expected for weeks past,
died at his residence in Washington on
Sunday morning at 5 o'clock.
He was born in Philadelphi, October
10, 1828, he being the son of Josiah
Randall, an eminent Philadelphia law-
yer and old line whig. His mother
was the daughter of James Worrell, a
democratic leader in the days of Jeffer-
son. His first position in public life
was as a member of the city council of
Philadelphia, wherein “he showed
marked ability, and was soon transterred
to the senate of his native state. The
beginning of the civil war prompted
Mr. Randall to enter military service in
the Light Horse of Philadelphia. He
received promotion until he became
cornet, a rank equal to that of captain.
In 1863 he was among the troops ad-
vanced to Harrisburg, at the time of
Lee's invasion. During the battle of
Gettysburg his rank was that of provost
marshal of Columbia.
He entered the Thirty-eighth con-
gress in December, 1863, and kept his
seat in the house of representatives ever
since. He has served in the commit-
tees on public buildings and grounds,
banking and currency, retrenchment
and expenditure in the state depart-
ment. He was a ready, concise speaker,
without rhetorical affectations. He was
elected speaker in 1876 and held the
position until the election of G. W.
Keifer. His economic views were in
the direction of a high tariff, that being
the Pennsylvania doctrine, and he un.
fortunatly continued them after it had
become evident that high tariffs were
maintained chiefly for the promotion of
monopoly.
He was succeeded in the Fifty-eichth
congress by Mr. Carlyle for speaker.
Without being a particularly scholarly
man or a finished orator, Mr. Randall
was a most powerful figure in American
politics of the period. There was probab-
ly no other man from whom a few
words had such an influence in the
house in relation to fiscal affairs,and in a
parliamentary struggle he always arose
When deeply
in earnest on any subject he attained the
proportions of a giant, and with heavy
blows dealt on either hand he brushed
the hundred and one small men of the
house out of his path.
As head of the appropriations commit-
tee and possessing wider knowledge of
fiscal affairs than any other man in the
house, he practically controlled the ap-
propriations for the intire government.
Through him the policy of *retrench-
ment and reform’’ became an attribute
of the democratic party, and it was this
battle cry that drew support to the party
and brought it from the obscurity of
defeat in which it groped for years after
the war. Whatever bitterness may have
arisen from the differences of opinion on
the tariff question, the ablest of the tariff
reformers always respected the iron-
nerved giant of Pennsylvania as one ot
the most powerful men in the party.
He has stood for years, extending back
into the time when the party was weak
and disorganized, as the champion of in-
dividual rights, and of honest and econo-
mical administration of the government.
He has not been only the watch dog
of the treasury, but he has been the
guard—at times almost the lone guard
—of the party organization. He was
undoubtedly one of the greatest men in
his party. They have perhaps had no
other man before the public, except
Tilden and Cleveland, of equal strength
of character and determination with
him. He was a practical rather that
a theoretical defender of the constitu-
tion. He resisted all encoachments of
the individual’s rights and was the
enemy of all jobs and schemes to in-
volve the government outside of its
proper functions.
In 1880 Mr. Randall’s name first be-
came prominently considered as a desir-
able democratic candidate for the
presidency of the United States. He
had been the four immediately preced-
ing years close in the council of Samuel
J. Tilden, and believing that the sage
of Greystone was unjustly deprived of
the presidency in 1877, he was an un-
wavering supporter of his claims to
renomination. Occupying that attitude,
he resolutely declined to have his own
name canvassed, and, in the opinion of
many of his friends, carried his loyalty
to Mr. Tilden to the verge of ruthless
self-sacrifice. In June, 1880, he actually
went to the national democratic conven-
tion to lead the advocates of “the
old ticket.” The convention met in
Cincinnati. Mr. Randall's headquarters
were at the St. Nicholas hotel. There
he was waited upon by scores of in-
fluential delegates and other party lead-
ers, who begged that he would drop
Tilden and enter the lists himself.
The overtures were firmly and even
impatiently rejected, but they were re-
newed with fresh force when Mr. Tilden
telegraphed a declination of renomina-
tion. Confusion followed this declina.
tion, and it is probable that Randall
is the only man who could have held
the Tilden phalanx together. An at-
tempt was made to consolidate on Payne,
but it was a failure. Too late, but
even then against his wishes, the name
of Randall was thrown into the con-
vention. Hancock was the nominee,
but Randall, without organization or
serious effort on the part of his friends,
polled over 100 votes.
He was a man of the greatest sim-
plicity in his mode of life, who clung
to his home associations and cared
nothing for display. The extent of
his * possessions is represented in the
very plain home he owned on © street,
near First, on Capitol Hill. It is an
ordinary flat front house with two or
three white marble steps at the front
door, and with plain white copings. It
is one of a row which would rent for
perhaps $35 or $40. It is a neat,
unpretentious home, such as might be
that of a department clerk.
HIS HONESTY.
Mr. Randall was a man of absolutely
uncompromising honesty, but it may be
well to say a word about his view of the
habit that has prevailed of speaking of
him as an honest man. It has passed
along from mouth to mouth that what-
ever else Randall might be he was per-
sonally an honest man. This wasa con-
descending sort of praise which did not
please him. He saw no merit init. To
him honesty was as much an essential
principle of character and as great a
necessity of civilization as breathing is
to existence. He was honest to the very
core of his being, and honesty meant for
him not only the not taking of those
things which he should not take, but it
meant absolute justice and integrity in
man or in bodies of men in their rela-
tions,
HIS POVERTY.
Mr. Randall was not a rich man. On
the contrary, he was rather poor, if
measured by modern standards of mon-
ey getting and money keeping. He was
generous almost to a fault, but he never
paraded his generosity. His house in
Washington, which he bought with
savings from his salary, is a plain, mod-
est house ina healthful but out of the
way and unfashionable quarter of the
city, in a street which was neverim-
proved at great expense through his in-
fluenca. ® The house might sell for $4,-
000 or $5,000 under the hammer, and is
believed to comprise about one-third of
the estate.
A MATTER OF CHOICE.
His poverty was a matter of choice
with him. He had abundant honorable
opportunities to amass a fortune. Busi-
ness propesals of a flattering and of a
worthy kind were often made to him.
With such traits as he possessed he
could not have failed to become conspi-
cuousin the business world. But he re-
mained poor because he chose to stay in
politics. The constancy of his nature
would not permit him to be tempted to
distract his attention from that which
he had set out to do in the cause of the
government and of his party.
HOW HE SAID NO.
A strong point about Randall was his
ability to say no in such a manner as to
leave no doubt that he meant it. A
western member, in talking about it,
said he had a bill for an appropriation
for a public building in his town which
he desired very much to get through.
He had the consent of aid from almost a
majority of the committee, and finally
went to Randall and asked him to help
the bill. Randall looked at him, and
when he had finished Randall merely
uttered one word, “No.” “The way
Randall said ‘no,’ ”” explained the west-
ern man, ‘was a revelation. He open-
ed his mouth and pushed his lower jaw
with such firmness that the little word
‘no’ came out so hard and strong there
was no resisting it. I tell you the way
Rundall says ‘no’ to congressmen has
saved this country millions of dollars.”
———
Little Rhody's Indebtedness to Australia.
Philadelphia Record.
The Democrats of Rhode Island are
convinced that they owe to the Austra-
lian ballot system their gratifying vic-
tory in the late election. ~ As usual, the
Republican boodlers were on hand with
unlimited funds, and bought up votes
by wholesale. But the trouble was in
making delivery. = Voters took the
money from the agents of bribery, put
it in their pockets, and then, under
protection of the secret ballot, voted as
they pleased. Nor was anybody de-
terred from voting by the new system,
since the vote in the by-election on
Saturday was the largest ever polled 1n
the city of Providence. The lesson of
the Rhode Island election is that tha
working masses in the manufacturing
centres of the country are in hearty
sympathy with the Democratic party
and its Tariff Reform programme. It
is not strange that the Republican
leaders should now be engaged in a
desperate attempt to wheedlie the farmers
with a new Corn Law system.
SS —————————————
The Difference.
Lock Haven Democrat.
If, as some people are wicked enough
to assert, there is nothing in the Chris-
tian religion, and itis all humbug, then
there must be a great difference in men,
even in murderers guilty of equally en-
ormous crimes, Witness the way that
Hopkins and Andrews died at Bellefonte
and then look at the manuer in which
Bartholomew died at Easton. The two
Centre county murderers professed re-
pentance, claimed that God had forgiven
their sins for Christ's sake and died in a
decorous and reverent manner. The
Easton murderer raved at religion,
scoffed at all good things, refused to pay
attention to the counsel of the ministers
and died with an oath on his lips, after
wishing that a cyclone would come
along ani blow the jail and all that were
in it to sheol. The blood curdles at such
a spectacle and the mind is appalled
with horror. It is a wretched thing
enough fora man tobe hanged under
any circumstances, but it is much more
preferable to have him go off apparently
at peace with Heaven than to see him
depart without even the possibility of a
hope, sure. of sinking down into an
endless hell. What makes the difference ?
Is it in the men themselves or is it in the
religion of Jesus Christ, who came on
earth and died for just such sinners?
We prefer to believe the latter.
———
A Big Ducking-Bee.
More Than Half a Hundred Women
Thrown Into a Creek in Shamokin.
SHAMOKIN, Pa., April 10.--Between
fifty and sixty Hungarian women were
thrown into the Shamokin Creek Tues-
day evening by the angry miners at
Hickory Ridge and kept there until
thoroughly submerged and exhausted.
Many savage struggles occurred between
the men and women, and while none
were fatally injured dozens will feel the
effects of thestruggle for weeks.
The Hungarians have a peculiar cus-
tom amounting to a religious duty of
throwing water on people for two days
after Easter. They think it bad luck for
the thrower to fail in an attempt to cov-
er the victim with water. If successful
it is thought that both will be lucky.
The custom obtains among the most ig-
norant of Hungarians, with which the
hamlet of Hickory Ridge abounds.
Upon all who passed along the highway
these Hungarians would hurl the water,
and thus, after Easter, the American
miners would invariably be greeted by
buckets of water thrown into their faces
as they emerged from the mines. Nat-
urally fights occurred in consequence, but
heretofore the miners were too chival-
rous to battle with women. Tuesday
tke miners heard of an attempt by the
The Mystery of a Cask.
A Murdered Man's Body Done Up in
Plaster of Paris,
New York, Api 14.—A mystery
of a cask shipped early in January to a
fictitious firm at Racine, Wis,, and
that has puzzled the authorities of the
Appraisers’ stores for some time, was
unearthed to-day by a cable from
Copenhagen. The “cask contamed
the body of a murdered man packed in
plaster of paris. The cable which gave
the clew to solve the mystery stated that
a man had been murdered there January
7th, and the body shipped January 13th
on the steamship Thingvalla to this
city. The cask was shipped ostensibly,
and the charges paid, by a “Mr. Smith.”
The cask was consigned to “Beresford
Brothers, Racine, Wisconsin, U. S. A.”
and Wells, Fargo & Co., were named
as forwarders.
The cask arrived here on February
4, and was sent to the Appraisers’
stores, for examination and appraise-
ment. Tt was there examined by
taking out the head of the cask, scrap-
ing off a pound or so of the contents
(which looked like plaster of Paris) and
then reheaded and set aside until it
should be called for. Duty was fixed
at $2.50, which Wells Fargo paid.
The express company meanwhile wrote
to the Racine firm, and, after several at- |
tempts, learned the name was fictitious. |
Then word was sent to Mr. Smith,
the supposed consignor. The sequel
came when a few days aco a man named
Philipsen was arrested in Hamburg and
made a confession, stating that he had
murdered the messenger of a factory in
Copenhagen, and had
body of his victim to New York in a
cask via the Thingvalla. The murdered
man’s name was Meyer. The Copenha-
gen agents of the Thingvalla Line
cabled the agents here relative to the
matter. A similar cable was also sent
to the Danish Consul. On investigation
the body was found in the cask in a
good state of preservation. The body
was that of a large sized man. The
fact of the finding of the body was at
once cabled to Copenhagen.
EE
Back to Jeffersonianism.
James M. Beck's Vigorous Address Be-
fore Massachusetts Democrats.
Boston, April 14.—The annual dir-
ner of the Young Men’s Democratic
Club, of Massachusetts, in commemor-
ation of the birth of Jefferson, took
place this evening at the Parker House.
There were about 800 guests.
The speakers of the evening were
Congressman Patrick Collins of Massa-
chusetts, and James M, Beck, of
Philadelphia. Referring to the oft-heard
statement that Pennsylvania and Phila-
delphia benefit most by the protective
policy, Mr. Beck urged that “the hand
of the system is not less heavy on our
industries than on yours. Our manu-
facturers need cheaper materials and
wider markets alike with yours; our
labor, alike with yours, feels it strength,
equal to any in the world, unjustly
crippled; our consumer, alike with
yours, feels the burdens of excessive
taxation. The most eloquent advocate
we have for tariff reform is the High
Sheriff of our county, and since the
election of 1888 in this promised era
of good times (God save the mark 1)
over sixty-eight woolenmills have been
closed.”
Mr. Beck then referred to the ahso-
lute necessity for ballot reform of such
a kind as to guarantee the free and
honest expression of the popular will
and the danger in intrusting the Federal
Government with the power to decide
the results of elections. Dwelling on
the Republican party’s outrageous at-
tack on the the sanctity of the ballot,
Mr. Beck praised the course of the
Democratic President in sacrificing
office rather than turn away from a
pressing public reform. The ‘party did
not ‘‘stoop to conquer.” The Repub-
lican party, on the other hand, made ap-
peals to the selfish interests of the
few, secured “fat’’ from them. and then
proceeded openly to buy voters. Call-
ing upon the party to present a united
front, Mr. Beck concluded: ‘Let
small minds condemn Cleveland for
temporarily sacrificing power if they
will. ‘Nothing succeeds like success’
is false in morals, false in politics, and is
the maxim of small minds. Cleveland,
in temporarily sacrificing power, has
raised the Democratic party to more
lofty heights of statemanship, and won
for it the respect and admiration of the
great mass of thinking men.”
——————
Wives Swapped in Nebraska.
St. Louis Republic.
I. H. Fox and I. Schad were neigh-
bors in Colton Precinct, Neb. Schad
taught the district school, was superin-
tendent of the Sunday school, was an
exhorter in the Universalist chruch.
His wife was young and pretty. Fox
was a farmer. He, too, was the possessor
of an attractive wife. The two families
became intimate, and it developed in
time that Mr. Schad and Mrs. Fox
had become enamored with each other,
and that a similar state of affairs existed
between Mr. Fox and Mrs. Schad. The
four became acquainted with each
other’s feelings, and finally the men
struck a bargain and swapped wives.
Schad bade his wife an affectionate
adieu, kissed his little one good-by,
loaded his neighbor's wife into a wagon,
and together they were driven to Crook,
a station on. the Colorado division of
the Union Pacific, and then took pass-
age to Denver. Fox and Mrs. Schad
and the latter’s child remained at Col-
ton.
er ———————
Why They Rejoice.
The Democrats of Ohio are rejoicing
over the remarkable gains which they
have made in the recent elections.
They attribute the result to popular ap-
probation of the Democratic State Ad-
ministration, and to Republican disaf-
fection with the Government at Wash-
ington. Governor Campbell, who knows
his State, says that the steady Republi-
can losses in Ohio are due to the young
men, whom the Republican party un-
der its present management can no long-
er attract to its standard. Youth, in its
energy and enthusiasm, believes in pro-
gress, and the Republican party has be-
come the party of political reaction.
RITE A
TOR
women to duck Holden Chester, Jr.,
and William Reinhart, two of the boss—
es. It was then decided to quit work in
the evening, and if anyone were attack-
ed they would duck ‘every Hungarian
woman in the hamlet.
The whistle sounded “All home’ at 6
o'clock. When the first four men gain-
ed earth’s surface they were almost
drowned with water from the buckets of
a score of women. Theangry American
miners were at once re-inforced, and
while a dozen rushed on the women a.d
dragged them to the creek a body of
men went into every house in the ham-
let in search of Hungarian women. The
ficht that ensued was very exciting and:
the scene a strange one. In a short
time the creek was alive with strug-
| gling women, while the banks were lin--
ed with hundreds of miners and English-
speaking residents. As each woman
shipped the |
climbed the bank a man rushed upon
I' ber, picked her up in his arms and
| threw her back in the swift-running
| stream.
| Great care was taken that none of the
{ women were drowned, although a num-
ber fainted. The Hungarian men were
not strong enough to show fight, and re-
| mained maddened spectators from a dis-
! tance. When the invasion of the ham-
| let occurred three of the women armed
| themselves with weapons and rushed
. from house to house, shrieking for their
sisters to band and drive the men back.
In an interview with one of the min-
{ers hesaid: “We would not intention-
ally hurt the women for the world, but
| the practice must be stopped, and in my
| opinion the ducking will have a good
effect.” The Hungarians are enraged
‘over the affair and threaten vengeance.
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Halo Around His Head.
The following remarkable circum-
stance in reference to a retired elder of
the M. E. church is related in a special
dispatch to the New York Herald, of
4th instant: “There came about his
head a kalo as of fire,” said the wife of
the Rev. Thomas C. MacMasters, an ag-
ed retired elder of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, for the past twenty years a
resident of Glen Falls. Mrs. MacMasters
continuing, stated that her husband
came into the house about 8 o'clock in
the evening feeling quite well, apparent-
ly, and sat down on the bed preparatory
to retiring, when he was stricken with
paralysis. Almost immediately he be-
gau to laugh as if ecstatically happy, and
there came about his head the halo
transfiguring his countenance. Mrs,
MacMasters called to her daughter, Mrs.
Joseph MacMasters, and a nei hbor,
Mrs. Jarvis, living in the same E
whose mother accompanied her into the
room. The women became frightened
at the appearance of the old man and
they started for a doctor. The circum-
stance of the halo 1s corroborated by the
younger Mrs. MacMasters, who further
says that it lasted one hour and a half
and was like a luminous cloud about
the old man’s head, extending above
him a few inches and reaching from
shoulder to shoulder. When asked
what it was like she pointed to a bright
square of sunshine at that moment danc-
ing on the carpet and said it was just
like that, and as the bed room was dark
at the time the glory was plainly visible
—in fact, it illuminated the room with
its radiance. The venerable wife of the
aged minister says the halo had appeared
around the head of the minister before,
that it was not an unusual occurrence
with him, especially after periods of un-
usual spiritual exaltation in prayer or
following meetings where he had preach-
ed with great fervency. Mr. MacMas-
ters is in his eighty-third year and has
lived an upright Christian life. Nojex-
planation of the mystery has been offer-
ed except one. The Rev. Mr. Walford
says that it must have been a message
from God.
HARD TO BEAT.
The Phenomenal Hail Storm in Illinois.
A Pile Two Feet Deep.
Broomingrow, Ill, April 14.—Re-
ports from the section visited by the hail
storm of Sunday show that it prevailed
in all parts of this and adjoining coun-
ties, and was very severe in many
places. It generally did great damage
to wheat and oats and to the almost
blooming fruit buds. Such a fall of
gigantic hailstorm has not been seen
here for years. Farm work has been
delayed from one to two weeks, and the
roads are rendered well-nigh impassable,
to say nothing of the scores of bridges
that were washed away.
Southwest of here the greatest dam-
age by the hail was at Minier, Hoyedale
and Covel, where thousands of panes of
glass were destroyed. It was in eastern
McLean county, however, that the hail
most phenomenal. At Arrowsmith six
inches of hail fell on the level, being
carried on the rushing water from the
unusually heavy rainfall into the
gullies, where it was found this morning
Fi up nearly two feet deep. At
elle Flower the largest hailstones re-
ported fell. They were as large as wal-
nutsand crashed through shingle roofs like
grape shot. The streams about Padua
became torrents that swept away fences,
snapping off fence posts six inches in
diameter. The barn of John Love, of
Leroy, was torn into pieces by the wind
and a number of fine horses in it were
killed.
LincoLw,Neb., 15.—Governor Thayer
is in receipt of trustworthy information
from Cheyenne, Banner and other far
Western Nebraska counties, giving an
account of a disastrous storm. The wind
blew so hard that grain which had been
sown was blown entirely out of the
ground for over thousands of acres. Fur-
mers must commence at the beginning,
and are unable to do so. They have no
funds to buy seed, and the governor wil}
issue a general call for aid for the un-
fortunate people. Wheat and oats for
seed will be especially needed.
——The northern Summer resorts of
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota, not forgetting the famous Ex-
celsior springs of Missouri, are more
attractive during the present season
than ever before
An illustrated Guide Book, descrip-
tive of a hundred or more of the choicest
spots of creation, on the lines of the Chi-
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y, will
be sent free upon application to” A. V.
H. CARPENTER, General Passenger
Agent, Chicago, Ill., or to John R. Polt,
general Passenger Agent, Williamsport,
a,
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