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BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Tke infant tin industry is likely to
die in borning.
—The people didn’t agree with Jay
GoULD’s opinion that one suit of clothes
is enough.
—The report of the firing of the Illi
nois CANNON was sweet music in the
ears of decent citizens.
—It may begin to dawn upon chair-
man BRowN that as a party leader he is
not a howling success.
—We shall soon have with us Gov-
ernor BEAVER as a distinguished but
very private citizen.
— With all the county offices occupied
by Democrats the Court House will soon
be in its normal condition.
—It isn’t an “iridescent dream’ this
time, Mr. INGALLS. To you it must
appear positively hideous,
~The farmers of the West seemed
to have devoted last election day to the
strengthening of their fences.
—“The cause is looking up,” said a
tariff organ. Yes, very much asa fel-
low looks up who is on his back.
—~Governor ParrisoN will certainly
remind the Republican Legislature that
their party promised ballot reform.
—dJudging from the way his party
went down it must have been the Me-
Ginty tune that Mr. BAINE was
whistling,
—Democrats and other patriotic eiti-
zens are unanimous in the opinion that
in no former year was there such an oc-
casion for Thanksgiving.
—The interference of a Democratic
Judge in Clinton county against a Dem-
ocratic candidate for congress
injudicious, to say the least of it.
was
—Secretary NoBLE boasts of the early
completion of the census. It would be
better if he could brag of its being
thoroughly and correctly done.
—Although DELAMATER wasn't able
to grasp the governorship he holds on
with a firm grip to the State funds un-
lawfully deposited in his bank.
—There are indications of an insur-
rection in the Republican party against
the re-election of CAMERON to the U. S.
Senate. After all, DoN may have wast-
ed that $100,000.
—Since the Independents have found
it so easy to unhorse QUAY, it wouldn’t
be surprising if they should be encour-
aged to tackle CAMERON next.
—It wasn’t thankfulness for the result
of the election that inspired Mr. HARRI-
soN’s Thanksgiving proclamation. But
all the same, the people have great rea-
son to be thankful.
—BLAINE can have the Republican
nomination for President is 1892 if he
wants it. Bat it is probable that such a
train of circumstances will transpire in
the meantime that he will not want it.
—The Democratic rooster has proved
himself to be such a tough old bird that
no one would think of using him for
Thanksgiving purposes, although his
crow is calculated to inspire thankful-
ness.
—The Republican newspapers should
not trouble themselves about the person-
nel of Governor PATTISON’S cabinet.
They can be assured that an honest Gov-
ernor will have none but honest men
around him.
—The teaching of politics has been
introduced into the New Jersey com-
mon schools. This year Pennsylvania
was a big political school in which the
bosses learned something that they never
knew before.
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—After the glorious political victory
the people cared very little as to how the
fight between the Wall street buils and
bears should terminate. If those ani-
mals should exterminate each other it
would be a good riddance of obnoxious
beasts.
—An exchange remarks: “With a
Democratic Governor and a Republican
Legislature some very good laws ought
to get on the statute books at the coming
session.” But they would be much
better if both Governor and Legislature
were Democratic.
—While'most of the Republican con-
gressmen who rendered themselves ob-
noxious by their revolutionary methods
were subjected to slaughter, the author
of the Force bill managed to Loner on
the breastworks. It is to be regretted
that he didn’t fall outside of them.
“In re-electing Mr. BRECKENRIDGE
to ‘the seat in the present congress from
which he was outrageously ejected, and
«also to the next congress, his constituents
doubly vindicated him. There was no
feature of the recent glorious election
more gratifying than this.
—Since QUAY and the other Republi-
can bosses have been so emphatically
bounced the dazed journals of that par-
ty begin to show a. reviving interest in
politics by commenting upon the
bouncing of McMULLIN and MONROE
by the Philadelphia Democratic com-
mittee. Bul thereis no similarity in
these two kinds of bouncings.
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Mr. Blaine Again.
In their dire distress the Republican
papers are turning to JAMES G. BLAINE
as a leader for 1892, probably on a plat-
form to reform the McKinley law.
James G. no doubt would be equal to
that bit of political gymnastics. The
Pittsburgh Gazette says it could cheer-
fully support Mr. BLaINg in 1892, but
feels sure he will not be a candidate.
Bat it should not be so sure of that.
But speaking of Mr, BraiNe Senator
BrackBurNy of Kentucky has at last
opened his lips as to that memorable
interview between BraiNg and the Sen-
ate finance committee on the McKin-
ley bill, of which an inkling got out
during the fate canvass. The Senator
would not unburden himself until the
returns were ail in, as he did not care
to embarrass Mr. BraINe's efforts on
the stump by disclosing anything tak-
ing plece in the committee room. This
showed a nice sense of honor, but now
he tells the whole story.
It appears that Messrs. BLACKBURN,
Hark of Maine, and ALLisoN of Iowa,
the two latter Mr. BraINe's Republi-
can co-workers, being in consultation
in commitcee just after the McKinley
bill passed the house, Mr. BLAINE
dropped in on them on department
business, A casual mention of the
McKinley bill had the effect that a
spark has on gunpowder. Mr. BLAINE
exploded with tremendous violence.
Turning on his two party associates, he
thundered :
This bill is an infamy and an outrage. It is
civilized people. Go on with it and it will car-
ry our party to perdition.
Senator BLackBurNy was interested,
of course, an{ in spite ol the shock, he
managed to get in a leading question,
which caused a second explosion, more
violent than the first. He thus de-
scribes what followed :
: “I wish you were in the Senate,” I said, “to
announce.yourself in such terms.”
Lai w were,” he answered. “If so, I
would stamp it under my feet and spit upon
it,” and then, advancing toward Senators Alli-
son and Hale, he snapped his finger in the face
of each alternately and with rising inflection
said: “Go on with your drivelling idiocy and
see to what destruction it will lead the Repub-
lican party. Pass this bill, and in ’92 there
will not be a man in all the party so beggared
as to accept your nomination for the presi
dency.”
This was followed by a pitiless analy-
sis of the bill, which Mr BLACKBURN
finally interrupted by reminding him
that a bounty of two cents a pound was
to be paid *‘to protect the American in-
dustry of boring a hole in a maple tree
and boiling the sap.” This followed,
as Senator BLACKBURN tells it :
This was the first he had heard of it and he
seemed hardly able to credit what I told.
“It isn’t true,” he said.
Allison and Hale confirmed me.
“I suppose this was done at the solicitation
of Morrill and Edmunds?” he inquired. Mr.
Allison replied in the affirmative. “It is a
good sample of the breadth of their statesman-
ship,” said the secretary. :
Mr. BraiNg’s new silk hat was on
the table before him, and as he reach-
ed this point he rose to the full gravity
flat with a tremendous blow of his
clenched fist he seized the wreck thus
produced and dashed it against the
wall of the committee room, from which
it rebounded in a condition comparable
to nothing unless it be the present con-
dition of the Republican party.
Is it the revelation of this incident
that is turning the attention of the Re-
publican party to Mr. Brain as a life
preserver, who knows all about casting
anchors to the windward ?
Severe but Just Criticism.
The regrettable circumstance of the
defeat of Hon. Mortimer Erviorr is
deprecated by the Philadelphia Record
in the following severe paragraph :
“The Democrats lose the Congress-
man in the Sixteenth district through
the disgraceful treachery of the Demo-
racy of Clinton county. Clinton gave
Mr. Hopkins a majority of over 300,
when 1t should have given Mr. Erriorr
over 600. This recreancy is made
! more glaring by the fact that Clinton
| county was the first to indorse Mr.
| Buuiorr, as. well as the first to strike
him down at a time when the tide
‘throughout ‘the country was ranning
strongly in favor of Democracy. Brrr
ort was beyond all compare the abler
and the better man. He would have
given the Sixteenth district honor in
the Federal legislature, His defeat is
one of the shameful episodes of the late
contest. It was a blow under the fifth
rib from an unexpected hand.”
a wd 0
the most shameful measure ever proposed toa:
of the situation, and smashing the hat ,
® CATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Reasons for Believing That the Census
Was Doctored.
It has been announced by a census
bulletin that the population of the
United States, as shown by Porter's
count, is 62,480,540. The population
in 1880 was 50,155,783, so that it ap-
pears that the increase in the ten years
intervening between that time and 1890
has been 12,324,757, the percentage of
increase being 25.57. In 1870 the pop-
ulation was 38,558,371, the increase be-
tween that time and 1880 having been
11,697,412, or a percentage of 30.08.
Previous to 1860 the decennial in-
crease had ranged between 32.67 per
-| cent. and 36.39 per cent., a degree of
uniformity that was rather remarkable.
During the ten years from 1860 to
1870, however on account of the war
during that decade the rate of increase
tell to 22.63 per cent, or less than two-
thirds of the rate during the previous
decade.
If the rate of increase before the war
had been maintained since 1860 the
population of the United States would
have been about 42,000,000 in 1870,
56,000,000 in 1880, and 74,500,000 in
1890,
If the Porter census is correct it
show a decided decline from the per-
centage of increase that had previous.
ly prevailed with remarkable uniformi-
ty from the beginning of the govern-
ment. This has occurred notwith-
standing an unusually large immigra-
tion. It is more likely that Porter is
not correct and that this apparent de-
clive comes from defective enumeration.
That able Republican paper the
Pittsburg Dispatch, finds it difficult to
divest itself of the impress that the cen-
sus has been doctored for political effect.
It believes that there are certain fea
tures of the census ‘hat bear their own
conclusion on their face. The percen-
tage of growth as now stated, of 24.57,
is admitted by Mr. Porter to be dis p-
pointing ; but be excuses it on the
ground of the inaccuracies in the cen- |
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sus of 1870, which he alleges “was
grossly deficient” and makes compari-
sons valueless. This excuse of Mr.
PorreR’s calls for two comments. In
the first place, it does not make com
parison valueless; but it only requires
us to exclude the census of 1870 as a
basis for the comparisons. Thus, the
population by the census of 1860 was
31,443,321; and by that of 1880 it
was 50,155,783. Here we have an in-
crease of 56 per cent in two decades,
one-fifth of which period was occupied
by a war which not only checked the
natural and acquired growth of popu-
lation, but actually increased the de-
truction of life ; and yet in contrast to
this we are called upon to contemplate
an increase of _but 24 per cent in the
most prosperous and productive decade
the country has ever known.
Not only does Mr. PortER’s remark?
on the census of 1870 fail to prohibit
comparisons, but it actually makes
them the more telling. If, as Mr. Pox-
TER alleges, that census was grossly de-
ficient, then the ratios of increase for
the proceding decade must be too small.
The ratio of total increase in the 60's
as given hy the official figures, is 22.63,
while the ratio of natural increase is
13 per cent. on Mr. Porter's allegation
that the inaccuracies make compari
son impossible it is natural to suppose
that the real ratio of total growth
would be 26 or 27 per cent ; while the
ratio of natural increase or excess of
births over deaths would be 17 or 18,
the percentage of immigration being
fixed by the statistics of the immigra-
tion officers. But see where this
leads! Mr. PorTer's own statement
would have us believe not only that
the ratio of growth of this country
was less than in a decade of which
four years were occupied by a deso-
lating war; but that in a decade
in which prosperty and developement
were the rule, and immigration was
greater than ever before, the natural
increase has been less than in a decade
during four years of which increase of
population was checked by civil war,
It is certainly much easier to be-
lieve from what has been before raid
that the census was negligently and
inadequately taken, than that the or
der of nature has been changed in this
way. But in view of the curious al-
terations which have taken place at
various stages of the census proceed:
ings and the accusation of political
juggling, sorne peculiar things aj pear.
Thus, in view of the fame which has
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growing sections of the country, show
BELLEFONTE. PA., NOVEMBER 14, 1890. NO. 45.
been given to the development of the |
iron and coal regions of Alabama, Ten- |
nessee and Georgia, it is somewhat |
stunning to find that the ratios of |
growth for those States are but 19.45, !
14.35 and 18.95 respectively, or less |
than in Massachusetts and Connecticut, |
where it was supposed that no especial |
increase was taking place in manufac. |
tures, while agriculture has been retro- |
ading. Texas, which has been re- |
jorted time and again to be one of the
@ ratio of increase of 40 per cent, while
the ratios for the Dakotas, Colcrado,
Idaho and Washington, which occupy
a somewhat similar position, ran from
111 to 365 per cent. It is a pecnliar
feature of this census that Democratic
and doubtful States increase at a less
ratio than was expected ; while strong-
ly Republican States, with few excep-
tions, exceed expectations.
——The Democrats have the hanor
of sending to congress the first full
blooded Greek that was ever in that
body. LroNmas M. MiLLer, the
Democratic congressman-elect from
Oshkosh, Wis., is a full-blooded Greek.
Miller is not a Hellenic name, and
Mr. Miter does not know his pa-
tronymic, neither does he speak the
language of his ancestors. He was a
waif picked up upon the battlefield of
Misislonghi in 1824, and takes hie
name from his preserver and benefac-
tor, Colonel J. P. MILLER, of Vermont.
An Extra Session.
It seems to be the general opinion at
Washington that the President,as soon
as he returns from Indiana, will call
congress to meet in extraordinary ses-
sion. Ever since the regular session
closed rumors to this effect have been
flying, but it was thought that the
President had givent up the idea on
account of the opposition to it of the
prominent members of the Republican
The only object of the extra session,
if there shall be one called, will be to
pass the infamous force bill. The Presi-
dent is very anxious to have this meas.
ure become a law and he is afraid
that at the regular session there will be
no time for the force bill, as considera-
ble time will probaly be taken up by
the consideration of an apportionment
bill based upon Porter's incorrect cen-
sus.
However valuable the force bill may
be to the Republican party the Presi-
dent will find it beyond his ability to
induce the people to believe that the
passage of this act is such an extraor-
dinary matter as to require the calling,
together of congress in extra session. If
Mr. Harrison persists in his intention
to call an extra session the people will
hold him strictly accountable for such
action, but in all likelihood Mr. Hag-
RISON has learned something from the
late election that will prevent him
from being rash in the matter of an
extra session.
Properly Put.
“Many people think newspaper men
are persistent dunners,says an exchange.
By the way of comparison, let us sup-
pose that a farmer raises, 1,000 bush-
els of wheat a year, and sells it out to
one thousand persons in all parts of
the country, a great portion of them
saying; 'I will hand you the dollar in
a short time.” The farmer doesn’t want
to be small and says, ‘All right.” Soon
the 1,000 bushels are gone, but he has
nothing to show for it and he then
realizes that he has fritterec. away his
whole crop, and that its value to him
is due in a thousand driblets; conse-
quently he is seriously injured in his
business because his debtors, each ow-
ing him a dollar, treat it as a small
matter and think it would not help
him much. Continuing this kind of
business year in and year out, as the
publisher does, how long would he
stand 1t? A moment's thought would
convince any man that a publisher has
cause for persistent dunning.”
A scheme is now on foot in var-
ious parts of the State for naming the
country roads and numbering the farm
houses as are houses in the city,putting
up sign boards at the corners, and,
in fact, making it very easy to find a
given point in the rural districts. This
will be very convenient for those who
An Important License Decision.
The following opinion filed by Chief
Justice Paxson in the case of GEORGE
E- Sparrow vs. Mercer county will be
interesting reading to liquor dealers
and temperance people:
This was a writ of alternative mandamus di-
rected to the president judge, S. S. Mehone,
of the court of quarter sessions of Mercer
county, requiring him to show cause why he
should not grant a license to sell liquors at re-
tail to George E. Sparrow.
To this writ the court made a full returning,
giving reasons for refusing the license.
The court says: It would have been suffi-
cient for the learned judge to have returned
that he has considered the petitions and re-
monstrance and that in the exercise of his dis-
cretion he has refused to license. His return
is very full and he has placed upon the record
all the facts bearing upon the application.
We have decided repeatedly, in language
too plain to be misunderstood, that the grant-
ing of a license to sell by retait resis in the
sound discretion of the court below. This dis-
cretion, however, is a legal discretion, to be
exercised wisely and not arbitrarily. A judge
who refuses all applications for license, unless
for canse shown, errs as widely as the judge
who grants all applieations.
To refuse a license because in the mind of
the judge there isa belief that license should
not be granted at all as a matter of policy,is to
make law, not to administer it. In the case at
hand the learned judge undoubtedly attached
great weight to the remonstrances.
The most that can be said is that they were
of sufficient weight to convince him that the
license was not a matter of public necessity.
In the view we take of the law this was not an
abuse of discretion. We are not called upon
to say whether it was exercised wisely.
The mandamus is refused.
The views above expressed by Chief
Justice Paxsovare in harmony with
previous ones of our highest court, that
the granting of licenses is a matter
resting upon the discretion of the court
as to whether they are of public neces-
sity.
Some over-zealous Democratic
journals are already bringing RoBerT
E. ParrisoN out for the Presidency.
They are entirely too hasty and incon-
siderate. Mr. Parison has been elect-
ed the Democratic Governor of Penn-
sylvania, but unfortunately Warngs,
Republican, has been elected Lieuten-
ant Governor. The nomination of the
Democratic Governor for = President
would mean the surrender ot the gov-
ernor’s office to the Republican faction
that was. so emphatically repudiated
by the people at the polls. This
wouldn't be keeping good faith: with
the people who want four years of hon-
est administration under a Democratic
Governor.
The Right Kind of a Congressman.
One of the best and cleanest men
who will go to the next congress as a
new Democratic representative from
Obio, is Hon. Micnagr D. HARTER.
Although a manufacturer he has been
opposed to the system of tarift taxation
not only because it is unjust, bat also
because he believes it to be injurious
to employers as well as to the men. they
employ. Hundreds of voters work in
his establishment, and during his re-
cent candidacy he addressed them in
the followin® circular, which showed
his honorable and liberal character :
While it would be very gratifying to me to
have your unanimous vote, I wish now, when
Iam a candidate for office, to denounce the
practice so often pursued of using intimida-
tion or undue influence, by saying to you that
no man’s wages or employment imany estab-
lishment in sehich I have any voice or control
shall depend upon how he votes.
That is the proper talk. In the
same circular Mr. Harter did not dis
guise his opinions on the tariff ques-
tion. He frankly declared :
1 think your wages would have been larger,
your employment more regularand your liv-
ing expenses smaller during the past twenty-
two years,the time of the company’s exisience,
had the Government limited ‘its tariff taxes to
its needs for pensions, interest and current
expenses.
When men of such views and senti-
meats are sent to congress there is rea-
son to look for wiser and more bene-
ficent tariff regulations.
~——1In regard to the State Legisla-
ture, one hundred and thirty-six new
members have been elected, 115 to the
House and 21 to the Senate. But 4 of
the old 25 even year Senators have
been returned. The Republican’s ma-
jority of 112 has been reduced to 50,
and there are in consequence many
surprises in store when the two houses
get down to business next January.
—The Democratic committee of Phil-
adelphia has commenced the work of
weeding the political traitors of that city
out of the party. The trouble with this
job is, that if fairly and honestly prose-
cuted, there will be neither committee
nor party left in Philadelphia when the
want to visit their rural friends.
work is completed.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Chester county election expenses were
$1443.30.
—The Reading post office handled 586,186
letters last month.
—A ghost at Stanton,near Wilkesbarre, stalks
forth by daylight.
—Pottstown’s new water basin has a eapacity
of 5,000,600 gallons.
—Allegheny Republicans had a Salt River
parade on Friday night.
—Republican defeat drove Frank Kraft, of
| Mount Olivet, to suicide.
—Scholars at the West Chester Normal
School have been robbed.
—Mrs. Mary Walters of Easton, has celebrat-
ed her 100th birth day.
—There are 553 scholars attending the West
Chester Normal School.
—A 13-year-old boy has been sent to prison
for idleness in Norristown.
—Delaware county farmers are holding their
potatoes for a ruise in price.
—Dr. King, of Lancaster, walked: out of the
window in a somnambulistie fit.
—Two men in Washington county killed
ninety-four squirrels in two days.
—Over 3000 men areemployed at the Altoona
shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
—General Alger will attend the eharity en-
tertainment of McLean Post, of Reading,
—The Randall Club of Pittsburg has already
decided to attend Pattison’s inauguration.
—Striking salesmen at Pittsburg have com-
pelled employers to accede to their requests.
—The plumbago mines at Byers, Chester
county, are the most important in the country.
—Pork is cheap in West Chester. A sow
and fifteen little pigs sold for $11 on Saturday.
—A spark frony an electric light is supposed
to have caused a:fire in a’ Lancaster elothing
house.
—West Chester pioneers will shorly visit
Congressman Jack Robinson at Media in a
body.
—Dr. Leyda, of Rittsburg refused to answer
a summons because he was not paid in ad-
vance.
—Sheriff Miller, of Lehigh county, on: Satur-
day sold six farms: and one slate quarry under
execution.
—Daniel Eberhard, of Lower Milford,
Lehigh county, died just as he was about to
sign his will.
—Rev. J. C. Kunzman, of a Greensburg
Luthern church, has been desposed for “offen-
sive paatisanship.”
—Valentine Epler, of Reading, whose neck
was broken by a train, lived for several hours
after the accident,
—Frangott Wiedman, an old citizen of
Aloona, committed suicide on Wednesday by
blowlng out his brains. :
—Mrs. Mary Walter, whose husband was at
Valley Forge with Washington in 1777,.is one
of Easton's livest residents.
—George Lindsay, a brakeman of the Penn-
sylvania Railroed, fell :rom his train at Wit-
mer’s on Saturday and was killed.
—Emanuel Shaffer, Commander of Robert
Oldham Post, No. 527. G. A. R., of South Beth
lehem, died, yesterday aged 47 years.
—dJohn R. Schell's 10-year-old son Francis
has mysterisusly disappeared from his home
in Washington township,Berks county.
—In a contest at Bristol tie other day a
Bucks countain raade a hogshead of souere
kraut in two hours and seven minutes.
—The father of General McKitben, who
died recently in Washington, still lives in
Chambersburg, 94 years of age, and hale and
hearty.
—James Hess, 17 years old, was sentenced to
one year in the Lehigh county jail for felon
iously assaulting Beuiah Peters, a 12. year old
girl.
—Sciota, Monroe county, whose citizens de-
pend on the tanneries for a living, will soon be
deserted for a more eligible peint in Elk
county.
—The congregntion of the, eld. Menonite
Church at Weaverland, Lancaster. county, is
divided on the subject of having a pulpitin
the church.
—Typhoid fever has been epidemic in Eli«
zabethtown, Lancaster county, and. vicinity
the past month. Several people have died
from the disease.
—The thirty-nighth annual Teachers’ In-
stitute was opened at Lancaster on Monday
afternoon, with.an. enrollment of 603 teachers
and 134 ex-teachers..
—Charlas Sudor, of Altoona, was. found dead
on Sunday near the city. Several stabs in the
neck indicate that he was either murdered or
committed suicide..
—A ballot was cast at the election in Chester
county upon. which every pame had been
scratched except that of Mr. Michener, Prohi-
bition candidate for Commissioner.
—Emploxes of the Hamburg Rolling Miil,
operated by the Pottswille Iron and Steel
Company, have struck becanse of the refusal
to pay for a.bar of iron. which was overweight.
—Dr. J. Hunter Freas, who while demented
wandered. away trom: his father’s home at
Coventryville, was found wandering through
the fields and has been sent to the asylum.
—Church bells were rang on Sunday to sum-~
mon farmers to fight the fire in the timber on
Mount Penn, near Reading, and it was late in
the night before the course of the flames was
ura ed.
—At Port Royal on Monday a stock train
erashed through and wrecked the signal
tower. The operator eseaped by jumping, but
the fireman of the train, George Longacre, was.
killed.
—The Pottsville Chronicle says that Mr.
MeLeod’s election order was not heeded by
some Reading Road bosses, who were openly
compelling employes to vote the Delamater
ticket.
—A West Chester colored man became so
much interested in a political discussion on
Wednesday that he walked away without his
crutches, that had been his constant ecompan-
ions for years,
—The post office at West Grove, Chester
county, is worth $2500 per year, and a vote
will be taken in the borough hall next Tues-
day evening to ascertain the popular choice
between the respectrve, candidates,
—Baby Bessie Grace, of Thurlow, taddled,
after her father Jast night when he left home
"and got on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad. A freight train struck
her and cut offa leg and an arm. She died
soon after the accident. .
—While prospecting for rabbits in a field on
the Middletown road, near the Chester Rual
Cemetery, on Thursday, Calvert, a son of
Robert Cardwell, of Chester, was caught by the
blades of a mowing machine and terribly cut
about both ankles,