“Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
‘Bellefonte, Pa., May 29, 189I.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - -
EpiTor
Crippled Ballot Reform.
In the closing hours of the Legisla-
ture which adjourned finally at noon
on Thursday, the Baker Ballot Bill,
with amendments vitiating its original
object, was passed. This question has
been made the subject of boss jugglery
since the beginning of the session. The
Republican managers didn’t want any
better election laws than exist at pre-
sent; they were disposed to treat a re-
form ballot bill as a similar one was
‘treated at the last session; but there
was such a strong popular demand tor
-an Australian system that they were
_afraid to set themselves against the
popular current. The scheme they
.eventually adopted was to pass a bill
that would give as little reform as pos-
.sible, and as a result a bill of that kind
was finally passed. There have been
such alterations of the neasure as
originally proposed, some of them very
material in their character, that we are
at present unable to give the exact pro-
visions of the bill. Mr. BAKER, its au-
thor, declares that as amended it does
not meet the object of ballot reform,
"RoBINSON's constitutional convention
bill, relative to the ballot question, has
also been passed. Iuis a strictly par-
tisan design, placing the control of
the convention in the hands of Repub-
lican partisans who do not favor a re-
formed election system.
A Revenue Bill Passed.
The Boyer Tax Bill, as a substitute
for the Granger Bill, was passed finally
on Tuesday, and is now undzr the con-
sideration of the Governor. The Boy-
er substitute does not afford the farm-
ers the relief in the matter of taxation
that was intended by the original bill,
it being frame more in the interest of
those whose possessions consist of mon-
-ey, corporate investments and person-
al property. The Grangers seem to
have been sold out on this question,
Taccart, of Montgomery, who had
control of their bill, having betrayed
them. He attempted to excuse the Re-
publicans for having promised the
farmers one thing and giving them an-
other, but could not hide the fact that
the bosses had put the screws on him
at the eleventh hour. In the Senate
the Senator from this district was the
.only one that veted against substituting
Boyer's Bill for the Granger's Bill.
The State's Interest Involved.
The default of the Keystone Bank at
Philadelphia, from its exteat and the
damaging circumstances connected with
it, is equally the cause of surprise and
consternation in Philadelphia, The
financial interests affected by it are not
merely those of Philadelphia, but also
of the State. According to the report
of the examiner the liabilities of the
bank to depositors amount to about
$1,200,000, and to this must be added
about $930,000 of State funds deposited
in the name of JouN BARDSLEY, city
treasurer. Here is an aggregate loss
of $2,000,000 to be paid out of the mea-
ger assets of a wrecked institution.
There is evidence of a systematic and
long continued looting of the bank,
‘The mutilated and altered books show
that the rascality was deliberate. In-
to a concern of this kind BARDSLEY
put funds belonging to jthe State
amounting to nearly a million of dol-
lars, This money has disappeared
with the others, and as if such a de-
fault could be concealed, BARDSLEY's
account is abstracted from the ledger,
The State's interest in this matter de-
mands a thorough investigation and
imperatively calls for the punishment
of the guilty parties.
Sn EA Se——
——-4Tt is a great pity that Secreta-
ry Braine did not consult Lord Saris
BURY about that reciprocity treaty with
Brazil—that is, a great pity for Eng-
lish manufacturers, but not for Ameri-
cans.”
This remark is made by a Republi-
can journal. There is something fun-
ny in hearing papers advocate a high
tariff for the good it will do our manu-
facturers, and at the same time antici
pate great good to those manufacturers
from the free trade that will be secur-
ed hy reciprocity.
After a contest of unexampled
length, lasting for anumber of months,
Senator Carr, of Florida, on Tuesday
was re-elected by the Legislature ot
that State. A combination of capital-
ists had been formed to beat him, but
his success is a triumph over the mon-
ey interest that is aiming to control the
United States Senate.
a reliable Democrat who has done
good service in his senatorial capacity.
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——Subseribe for the WaronMAN.
The Senator is,
Why They Are Alarmed.
We have no less an authority than
Cuavuncey M. Depew that the farm-
ers’ Alliance made a fatal mistake in
organizing a third party. In Mr, De-
PEW'S opinion they could have secured
their ends more speedily through eith-
er of the old parties, and he does not
hesitate to say that the Alliance is
simply a side-show to the Democratic
circus. But his views are evidently
tinged by his interest in the Republi
can party. He knows very well that
the farmers have failed to secure what
they want from thejparty to which he
belongs. That party has been in pow-
er long enough to have granted all that
the agricultural interest has justly de-
manded, but it has failed to do so, ful-
ly demonstrating that the voice of the
monopolist is the only voice that the
Republican leaders in congres can hear.
The farmers and wage-earners ;have
learned from long years of experience
that they can expect nothing from the
Republican party, and their movement,
which may tend to break the power of
that party, is naturally looked upon
with alarm by such leaders as Mr. De-
pEw. That a large number of Alliance
men will vote the Democratic ticket is
to be expected specially in the South,
as well as that many of the Alliance
men in the north will vote the Repub-
lican ticket. But the more conserva-
tive miuds will readily agree that if the
Alliance shows the strength it claims
it will succeed in frightening the party
in power into granting it some recog-
nition in the legislative halls where
monopolists have controlled legislation
for many years.
——— In view of the astounding finan-
cial revelations in Philadelphia, show-
ing a deplorable state of corruption,
Mr. WaEerryY introduced in the House
on Tuesday a resolution declaring the
unquestionable fact that “late develop-
ments” have shown the business meth-
ods of the Auditor General and State
Treasurer to be “loose, irresponsible
and contrary to law,” and providing
for a thorough investigation of State
finances by a committee to sit during
the recess and report to the Governor.
If there was ever occasion for such an
investigation it is now, yet the Repub-
licans refused even to consider the re-
solution. They rejected it, as if the
corruption which exists in the finan-
cial management of the State is some-
thing that can be concealed.
A Model Republican Official.
In its political and official manage-
ment Philadelphia is, and for years has
been, the most corruptly governed city
on the continent. Another illustration
of its monumental corraption has been
given by the embezzlement of a vast
amount of public money by the officer
to whom the custody of its public mon-
ey was committed. What kind of a
character this custodian is, is portrayed
as follows by the Philadelphia Times :
Unknown to the great majority of the citi-
zens ; absolutely unfelt in any intellectual, so-
cial or legitimate commercial connection, and
unrecognized even as a leader in politics; dis-
tinguished neither for moral courage nor ver-
acity, and with no attractive personal qualities
and no record to command confidence, Joux
BarpsLey has for20 years exerted an influence
in the affairs of Philadelphia that the most
eminent citizen neverattained, and has direct-
ly contributed more than any other one man to
the inefficiency and corruption of our munici-
pal government.
He was given the office because, as a des-
perate and unlucky gambler, he had exhaust-
ed his friends and wearied his masters, and
they had to give him a chance to help himself.
And he has done so. He has administered the
office exactly as others had done and as he was
expected to do; but he has been caught.
That is all there is to it. His present position
is entirely in accordance with his whole public
career, and those who elected him, if they
have not got just the kind of treasurer they
wanted, have got just what they had every
reason to expect.
RR SS RTA SA.
The Backwardnress of the World’s
Fair.
It was thought that when the World's
Fair was given to so hustling a city as
Chicago there would be no delay in
the necessary preparations. In fact
the enterprise and energy of that city
were assigned as qualities that should
give her the preference over her com-
petitors. Bat she isn’t fulfilling the
promise of her pretensions. Ex-May-
or CREGIER, who was one of the fore-
most promoters of the fair, in speaking
of the progress that has been made,
says that he does not see how it can be
ready to be opened on the first of May,
1893, the time specified. He declares
that “there is not a stick on the ground
yet toward erecting the buildings; they
are working away on the site.”” He
believes congress will be asked to ex-
tend the time of opening to August,
1893, or May, 1894, An August open-
ing woun'd be absurd. Chicago has
done excellent work on paper. Its
pictures of the fair buildings are mag-
nificent and artistic, only a little too
much like castles in Spain. They are
in the mind's eye. This, indeed, is a
poor showing for the honors that are
intended to commemorate the great
discovery of CoLuMBUS.
Encouraged Dishonesty .
No doubt by this time all of our
readers have heard something about
the way in which some individuals
were fleeced by sharpers who were
following in the wake of Wallace &
Co’s show, which exhibited here on
May 19th. One man paid $350 for
some valuable experience,/while anoth-
er contributed something over one hun-
dred dollars.
These men both went,into the games
with the idea that they were to double
their money in a very few moments, and
in this action were just as dishonest in
their intentions as were the sharpers
who intended to fleece them. There is
no man living who can lead us to he-
lieve that he could enter any such
scheme, in which so liberal a return
was expected, without dishonest me-
tives. Had these two men doubled
their money, instead of losing it,
would the law have stepped in to help
the sharpers recover their loss? No!
most emphatically, No! The men
who would have lost would have been
“stuck’’ one time at least, and our two
citizens would, no doubt, have chuck-
led to their friends and blowed about
their big hauls, and the same would
have been the case had they won but
five dollars. Why then should our
officers be so anxious to arrest the
show people when the one party was
just as dishonest as the other ? This
thing of encouraging such people
should be stopped.
If a man is to gamble under the pro-
tection of the law how is our law to
be made consistent ?
We have no sympathy with men
who, after being constantly warned,
will persist in doing such things, and
the action of our officials in securing
the return of their money seems ex-
ceedingly arbitrary and aims rather to
encourage that put an end to the vice.
An Important Church Council.
There will be a great meeting of
Methodists in Washington in October
where an Ecumenical Council of the
Church will be held for the discussion
of subjects in which that great ecclesi-
astical establishment is interested. The
most eminent divines and laymen of
the church, from this county and from
Europe, will be there, and the pro-
gramme of the proceedings shows the
great change in the objects which
church gatherings consider as being of
the first importance. Some ycars ago
church dogmas, such as “fixed faith,
free will, and foreknowledge absolute,"
chiefly occupied the attention of church
councils, but according to the pro-
gramme of the Methodists at Wash-
ington the subjects to be discussed will
be popular amusements and the atti-
tude of the Church toward them ; the
responsibility of the preacher, and the
power of the laity in the Church. With
the rapid spread of moral and refining
agencies! the pulpit is beginning to re-
cognize that a knowledge of truths to
live by is more important than a knowl-
edge of dogmas to fight for.
Harmful Immigration,
Immigration is becoming a matter
of vital importance. Comparative
statistics show that for the ten months
up to May lst, of this year, 401,238
foreigners came ‘0 this country in that
time, as against 318,615 for the ten
months up to May 1st, 1890. Of this
number more than one fourth, or 104,-
828, came from Italy and Austro-Hun.
gary,in nearly equal proportions. From
Russia and Poland came 56,350 ; from
England aud Wales, 43,107; Ireland,
34,485; Germany, 86,664, and from
France only 5596. To the social stu-
dent and political economist these fig-
ures are significant, and to the prudent
statesman they call fora wise and care-
fully framed code of laws regulating
immigration, which unfortunately we
do not have. Much of the recent ad-
dition of population from foreign coun-
tries! is intrusion that 18 positively
harmful. That kind of immigration
should be stopped.
——Great political interest attaches
to the meeting of the Farmers’ Union
of Ohio this week at Columbus. The
Union is composed of all the farm so-
cieties in the State, including the
Grange, Farmers’ Alliance and Farm-
ers’ Mutual Benefit Association. The
most important question to be consid-
ered at the meeting is whether the Cin-
cinnati platform is to be approved by
nominating a State ticket. On this
point there is much division of senti-
ment, but it is believed the result will
be a third ticket. If it should have
the support of all these societies it will
make the contest in Ohio extremely
doubtful next fall. The farmers will in
all likelihood hold the balance of pow-
er in the next legislature, in which
event Senator SHERMAN will be retired.
The Democratic county conventions
are declaring for Governor CAMPBELL'S
renomination with much enthusiasm,
but he has strong opposition in Cingin-
nati.
Third parties in this country
have on one or two occasions achieved
important results. Such division elect-
ed Apams over Jackson in 1824, and
LincoL~ in 1860,but the conditions were
very different from what they now are.
The Republican party arose on the
fragments of the ‘Whig and American
parties, attracting great numbers of
Democrats on the slavery issue. Bat
a third party at this time will take the
field against two well disciplined and
formidable organizations, with millions
ot adherents, with a decided control of
the national government, and one or
the other in power in all the States.
This is very different from the disin-
tegration of parties in 1856 and 1860
that gave birth to the Republican
party.
Compulsory Education.
On Tuesday the Compulsory Educa-
tion Bill was passed finally. It requires
that children between the ages of 8
and 12 years shall attend school at
least 16 consecutive weeks each year,
and provides compulsory means to en-
force the requirement.
A
The souvenirs of the Presiden-
tial trip, consisting of presents received
at various points on the route, of more
or less value, are said to number four
hundred- and it is proposed that they
be made one of the exhibits of the
World's Fair. Considering the num-
ber of federal office-holders there are in
the country, who would naturally be
disposed to keep on the right side of
the President, it is surprising that the
number of testimonials did not exceed
four hundred. They should by all
means be exhibited at Chicaga as an
illustration that the American office
holder understands his business.
Although the Chinese object to
having ex-Senator BLAIR sent to them
as Minister from the United States, the
purpose of his appointment, so far as
his pecuniary interest is concerned, is
being carried out by his drawing his
salary of $1000 a month, which he will
continue to do without going to China,
until his appointment is revoked. He
will continue to enjoy this comfortable
stipend until he either resigns or the
President appoints some one else in his
place. For the sake of decency one or
the other should be done speedily.
Platform of the People’s Party.
The following is the declaration of
principles made by the convention at
Cincinnati that last week launched the
“People’s Party of the United States :”
The right to make and issue money is
a sovereign power to be maintained by
the people, for the common benefit;
hence we do demand an abolishment of
the national banks, as banks of issue,
and, as a substitute for national bank
notes, we demand that legal tender
treasury notes be issued in sufficient vol-
ume to transact the business of the coun-
try on a cash basis, without damage or
special advantage to any class or calling;
such notes to be legal tender in payment
of all debts,public and private, and such
notes, when demanded by the people,
shall be loaned to them at not more
than two per cent. per annum upon
non-perishable products, as indicated in
the sub-Treasury plan, and also upon
real estate with proper limitations upon
the quantity of land and amount of
money.
We demand the free and unlim-
ited coinage of silver.
We demand the passage of laws pro-
hibiting alien owrership of land, and
that Congress take prompt action to de-
vise some plan to obtain lands now own-
ed by alien and foreign syndicates, and
that all lands owned by railroads and
other corporations in excess of such as 18
actually used and needed by them, be
claimed by the government and held
for actual scttlers only.
Believing the doctrine of equal righ ts
to all and special privileges to none, we
demand that taxation, national, state or
municipal, shall not be used to build up
one interest or class at the expense of
another. |
‘We demand {hat all revenues, nation-
al, state or country, shall be limited to
the necessary expense of the government
economically and honestly administered.
‘We demand a just and equitable sys-
tem of graduated tax on incomes.
We demand the most rigid, honest
and just national control and supervi-
sion of the means of public communica-
tion and transportation, snd 1f this con-
trol and supervision does not remove
the abuses now existing, we demand
the government ownership of such
means of communication and transpor-
tation. We demand the election of
President and Vice President and Un-
ited States Senators by a direct vcte of
the people.
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Minister Goes Wrong.
CHicAGo, May 25.—Rev. Jeremiah
Holmes, pastor of a Campbellite church
at Duqoine, Ill, was arrested on a
charge of making counterfeit coin, by
Captain Porter, of the United States se-
cret service.
About five years ago a gang of coun-
terfeiters was arrestel at Duqoine.
Four of its members were sent to the
penitentiary. A.P. Adkins, a farmer
with whom Holmes boarded, notified
Capt. Porter last Monday that he had
seen a canvas bag filled with what he
believed to be counterfeit money in
Holmes’ room while he was absent con-
ducting a prayer meeting. There was
about $50 in new dollars and hali dollars
in the bag. Holmes has confessed.
—— When Walt Whitman was asked
to name three or four Americans ef ab-
solute greatness he answered by saying,
“What would yousay to Washington,
Lincoln, Grant and Emerson ?*’
A Deformed Bill.
The Manner in Which the Baker Bal-
lot Reform Measure Has Been
Rejected.
The following address has been issued
by the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform As-
sociation :
To the Votets of Pennsylvania: —The
issue between the supporte:s of ballot
reform in Pennsylvania and its enemies
is clearly defined, and should be thor-
oughly understood by every citizen.
The Baker bill, as reported by Senate
Committee on Elections on May 20, is
but little better than at first reported on
May 7. It does not provide for proper
freedom of nominations, nor for equality
of candidates on the ballot, nor for
secret ; voting, nor for an open count.
It is not a ballot reform measure, and,
if passed, would tend to greatly increase
all the evils of our present system.
Besides many minor points in which
the bill has been injured, the essential
features of ballot reform, as originally
contained in tbe bill, have been de-
stroyed in the following respects :
1. Sections 3, 5 and 33. The number
of signatures required for all nomina-
tions but those of the existing Republi-
can and Democratic party organizations
is based on such high percentage of the
entire vote cast as to make such nomina-
tions practically impossible, except in
the smallest townships and boroughs.
It would be impossible to secure 5,000
signatures for a State nomination, or
6,000 for a Philadelphia nomination, the
genuineness of the signatures and the
qualification of the signers to be sworn
to absolutely by ten persons, sixty days
betore election in the one case and forty
in the other, when the slightest error is
fatal to the validity of the whole paper,
and the signing by persons not strictly
qualified is made a crime. All but the
“regular’’ Democratic and Republican
nominations are barred out by such a
system as this, and the free right to vote
is denied.
2. Sections 14 and 23, The arrange-
ment of names on the ballot in party
groups places all independent candidates,
if there could be any, at a great disad-
vantage, and the provision that a voter
may, which would often mean must,
vote the whole party ticket by making
one single mark, destroys the freedom
and secrecy of the ballot, for the party
watchers would always see whether a
man who was told to make one mark
for the whole ticket did so or not.
3. Sections 23 and 27. The secrecy
of the ballot is made voluntary, and
therefore destroyed, by not requiring
the voter to mark his ballot alone, and
specifically permitting him to take
another man into the voting compart-
ment with him in all cases.
4. Section 29. The secret count of
our present system is retained, but with
greater risk of fraud. The votes are to
be counted by the judge alone, and the
party watchers are allowed to be
present.
5. Sections 16, 17, 21, 26 and 36.
“Sample ballots” are required to be
printed in great numbers, to be given to
any voter at his request, all check on
the destruction of the ballots provided
is removed, and, by the omission of Sec-
tion 36 it is not unlawful for any one to
have ballots in his possession outside the
voting room, although the absolute pre-
vention of such an occurrence is essen-
tial to the secret ballot system.
When the bill, in this worse than
useless shape, was before the Senate on
second reading, on May 22, every at-
tempt to correct these glaring evils was
voted down. If it passes third reading,
it must go to a conference committee,
If that committee do not virtually re-
store the original provisions of the bill
in all the above particulars, or if they
| do this and the Senate refuses to pass the
bill with these restorations, it ought to
be voted down.
Should the bill finally pass both
branches of the Legislature without
change 1n all these points, it would be
the Governor’s duty to veto it, for ifit
became a law it would be a fraud upon
the rights of the voters of Pennsylvania.
In any event, every voter should rec-
ognize that.a genuine, honest, constitu-
tional ballot reform bill was charged by
the Senate Committee into a measure
full of danger to the freedom and purity
of the ballot, and that the majority of
the Senate has so far sustained this
change. ‘Ballot reform” means ‘‘true
ballot reform’ and if this be not now
granted to the voters of Pennsylvania
every Senator who voted with the ma-
jority must be held answerable.
H. E. Foster, Chairman; Edward P.
Allinson, Charles C. Binney, Henr
Budd, George Burnham, Jr., Alfred N.
Chandler, F. Hazen Cope, James G.
Francis, George Peirce, Henry D.
Wireman, R. Francis Wood, Stuart
Wood, Executive Committee.
Philadelphia, May 23, 1891.
* In a Double Grave.
New York, May 25.—When Mar-
garet Mulhaney used to wobble through
the streets everybody stopped and star-
ed at her. She was 55 years old and
weighed 650 pounds. Her husband was
dead and she at one time lived with an
only daughter. She had a falling out
with her child and went to live ‘with a
cousin. Three months ago her flesh
was accumulating at such a pace that
she was unable to move about. Heart
disease set in and on Saturday morning
Mrs. Mulbaney died. The funeral took
place yesterday. A large crowd gather-
ed in the street expecting serious difficul-
ty in getting the body out of the house,
and they were not disappointed.
An ordinary coffin is sixteen inches
wide and thirteen inches high. A plain
cloth covered box, thirty-seven inches
wide and twenty inches high, enclosed
thecorpse. The hallway of the house
being only thirty-five inches wide, the
box had to be carried sidewise, while
twelve brawny men strained every mus-
cle tocarry it through the hallway.
The task lasted thirty minutes. No
hearse was big enough to accommodate
the coffin, and an undertaker’s wagon
carried the body to Calvary cemetery,
followed by five carriages of mourners.
A grave is ordinarily dug twenty-four
inches wide. Ground bad been bought
for two graves, giving the width of for-
ty-eight inches. Sixteen ol the ceme-
tery employes lowered the coffin into
the grave. :
Read the Warcumax for political
and general news.
Maryland [Peaches.
CHESTERTOWN, Md., May 25. —Every
preparation in Kent county is being
made for a heavy peach crop. The
Baltimore and Delaware Bay railroads
will build an extension from Wortcn to
Nicholson’s station, a distance of over
four miles, thus penetrating one of the
finest peach sections of Kent, from one
station, where fourteen cars of fruit were
shipped perday during the great crop
of 1886.
——Daniel Webster's grave is on a
knoll nearly in the center of the little
graveyard at Mansfield, Mass. It is
marked by a simple headstone that bears
only the name ‘Daniel Webster.”
—————
——Millie.—TI don’t mind marrying
you, Clarence, but [ hate the idea of giv-
ing up my $15 a week job at the store.
Clarence.—Then don’t give it up,
dearest. I'll give up mine. [’'m only
getting $10.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Part I of the report for 1890,0f the
Pennsylvania State College, is out
and contains handsome illustra-
tions of the principal State College
buildings.
THE PROGRAMME FoR To-MORROW.
—Gregg Post will commemorate the
death of their brothers in blue to-mor-
row by fitting services. The parade to
the cemetery will include the Post with
drum corps, Company B, the Zion Band
and Logan Steam Engine Co., and the
Undine Hose Company.
Col. Spangler will deliver the memor-
ial oration, and if the weather permits a
platform in the cemetery will be used.
A male octette will furnish music for
the occasion.
All persons are 1equested to send con-
tributions of flowers to the Post rooms in
the morning, so that they can be gotten
ready by afternoon.
MArrIAGE Licexses.—Issued dur-
ing the past week :
Geo. B. Johnston and Lillie M. Aik-
en, both of Bellefonte.
Thos. B. Apple, of Cambria Co., and
Eva S. Ardrey, of Worth township
Geo. H. Gilmer and Minnie A. Stov-
er, both of Boalsburg.
Geo. H. Musser, of Fillmore, and
Maria C. Marshall, of Bellefonte.
James Toner and Clara Tuft, both of
Bellefonte.
John Sopuler and Mary Lgsho, both
of Snow Shoe.
John Knapp and Sevena Thomas,
both of Harris twp.
Diep NEAR SNow SHOE.—On Satnr-
day, May 23rd, there passed from this
earth the spirit of Mrs. Oscar, the wife
of a son of Representative Holt, and a
resident of Burnside township. Mrs.
Holt was a daughter of the late Captain
‘White and was very much esteemed by
all who knew her. Had she lived until
the 23rd of June she would have reach-
ed the 35th mile stone of her life, but
death came to claim her too soon. A
family of four boys and a baby girl are
left to comfort a bereaved father.
For many years Mrs. Holt was a con-
sistent member of the M. E. church in
which she was always active and her
patience, unselfishness and thoughtful-
ness for others, even when dying, were
exemplary. ‘Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord: Even so, saith the
Spirit, for they rest from their labors.”
A Gypsie THIEY.-—On Sunday night
a band of gypsies who had been camp-
ing near Howard, broke camp and left.
On Monday morning Mr. Jonathan
Shank discovered that a buggy, harness
and robe had disappeared from his stable
and concluded that the ‘“gyps” had
taken them along. He accordingly
swore out a warrant for the arrest of the
thief, and constable Neff and Hayes
Shank started after him. He was caught
at Frogtown, a small village near Co-
burn, and the stolen articles recovered.
During the trip across, the fellow, who
gives his name as Lanver, of York, Pa.,
had traded several times, but claimed
that he had purchased the rig for a gold
watch and fifteen dollars. Sheriff Ishler
is entertaining him now.
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Resolutions of Condolence.
: SrormMsTowN Pa., | May 22, 1891.
At a regular meeting of W. R. C, No. 96, held
in their hall at Stormstown, Pa., May 22rd, the
following preamble and resolutions were
adopted :
WaeReAs, We are called upon to do honor
to the memory of one of our beloved sisters,
who has found the gentle end of human sor-
row and labor, and who has passed beyond the
shoals of time into the peaceful seas of eterni-
ty. On the afternoon of May 14th, 1891, it was
whispered beneath the ocean waves, Maggie
died, and all that was mortal of sister Maggie
Loner has passed from earth.
“God's finger touched her and she slept.”
Resolved, That we recognize in this sorrow=
ful bereavement the sovereign will of an all
wise providence, and it fills our hearts with
sadness ; we know that we cannot better hon-
or the spirit of our departed sister than by
reverently saying, thy will, not ours, be done.
Resolved, That her amiable disposition en-
deared her to all who knew her, and com-
mended our admiration andregard for the in-
terest she manifested for the success of the
order of the W. R. C.
Resolved, That we offer our most tender
sympathy to the home circle in which her
loving and noble disposition cast such a glow
of sunshine and happiness, cheering the
hearts of all within, and that we commend the
members of the family to the kind care of him
who alone can ever give consolation for the
broken ties of earth.
Resolved, That we drape our charter for the
space of thirty days in honor of our departed
sister.
Resolved, That the secretary be instructed
to-send a copy of these Resolutions to the
family of the departed sister.
Mary J. Bicrow,
Emiry Devitt, » Com.
Louisa BARR,
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