-ed in honor of the adoption of the Stars
fe
— June days are so long that the half-
holiday will appear almost like a whole
one.
—There is, indeed, urgent occasion to
examine the bank examiner who
wouldn’t examine.
—The way the Indiana Republican
leaders are whetting their knives would
seem to indicate a design on BENJAMIN
HARRISON'S scalp.
—The chief result of the Itata affair
is a deficiency in the coal bill of the
navy department. Chili should be com-
pelled to make it up.
—J. K. EMMET, the popular actor, is
dead. Alas, poor FRITZ; we knew him
well! He was a fellow of infinite jest,
particularly in the German character.
—American women are noted for
their courage, but what must be thought
of the desperate daring of the American
girl who married GorDON-CUMMING ?
—These are the rare days of June
when the rose, the grape-blossom and
the woodbine freight the atmosphere
with the delightful burden of their fra-
grance. .
—The recent earthquake in Italy
may have been only the vibration caus-
ed by so weighty a character as Czar
REED moving over the surface of the
peninsula.
—If it be true, as the Auditor Gener-
al estimates, that the Boyer tax bill will
increase the State revenue $1,200,000,
that amount will about cover BARDS-
LEY’S stealings.
—The proposition to translate IN-
GALLS from his Karsas potato patch to
the chancellorship of the Washington
University is a dream iridescent enough
to shame the colors of the rainbow.
—1It is gratifying to the people of
Pennsylvania to see that the high office
of Attorney General of the State is filled
by a man who thoroughly understands
the law and is determined to enforce it
in both its statutory and organic char-
acter.
—The Penn Trust Company of Phil-
adelphia was so complete a swindle that
it is doubtful whether the depositors will
get 6 per cent of their money. But
why did they call the swindling concern
after the man who wouldn't cheat even
the Indians ?
—Col. McCLURE, in an address to the
students of a Virginia college last week,
indulged in optimistic sentiments, rep-
resenting that the present time is better
than the old times. This may be so,
but only for the reason that the old
times were so very bad.
—During the tremendous thunder-
storm on Tuesday there was enough
electricity discharged to have supplied
all the dynamos in Pennsylvania for six
months, Can’t the electrical genius of
Episox devise some way to prevent such
waste of the raw material ?
—Personal malice is the secret of the
New York Sun’s hostility to GROVER
CLEVELAND. Are we to attribute to
personal disappointment the Harrisburg
Patriot's hostility to Ropurr E. Parrr-
sox ? Opposition springing from such
sources never enlists the sympathy of the
people,
-—Last Monday was Flag Day, observ~
and Stripes. Hven with the thermo-
meter at ninety in the shade not a feath-
er of the American Eagle drooped on
that glorious anniversary. Theold bird i
has had hotter experience than that in
his connection with the old flag.
—Dr. DEMS, of New York, declared
in a recent sermon that man and beast
can do more work in six days than in
seven. This, no doubt, is true; but it
wouldn't do to carry the good Doctor's |
theory too far, otherwise we should be
brought to the eorclusion that the most |
work can be done by not working at all,
my
—The ennui incident to unemployed
rovalty is being relieved in the Prince
of Wales's case by sume lively episodes.
He has scarcely gotten through with the
Tranby Croft scandal before there looms
up a divorce case bronght about by pre- |
liminaries in which be is suspected of |
having played a game more interesting
thau baccarat.
—The People’s Party being devoid
of funis, proprses to suppiy the defioi-
ency by coining medals and selling them.
A: paternalism is one of its principles, |
why shouldn't if ask & liberal and indul-
gent government to furnish it with the |
required campaign boodle ? 1t has as!
good a right as the Republican party
has to such a favor.
—Harrrer Brucuer Stowe was 80
years of age last Bunday, and, in tbe or-
der of nature, will soon piss away; but
UxcrLe Tou, the creation of her brain,
will live forever. Generations yet un- |
born will weep over the pathetic story i
of the saintly colored man and the angel-
ic Eva, as represented on the stage; will
laugh at the pranks of Topsy, and gaze
with lively interest on the blood hounds |
and the donkey as they are led through
the streets, fullowed by crowds of small |
boys, preparatory to the show. |
| appears to have
| structive of life in China, and greatly
Qe
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 19, 1891.
NO. 24.
Philadelphia Badly Rattled.
When Biot, Tweep's rascalities in
New York were exposed, Democratic
Governor TiLpeN cleaned out the Boss
and his dishonest gang in the most
summary and complete manner. No
mercy was shown the scamps,and their
overthrow was thorough and final.
Philadelphia has for years been suffer-
ing from the same kind of rascality in
its municipal management, but un-
fortunately for the welfare and reputa-
tion of the city it has had no TiLDEN to
take hold of its city thieves and expose
and punish them. It has suffered
more than New York did from the
ravages of Tweep and his pals, for
BiLL was a magnificent thief who scat-
tered much ot his plunder among the
poor and on improvements which, al-
though extravagant in their cost, were
of some use to the public. But the
Philadelphia municipal thief has no
other object than private gain. The
millions which have disappeared in
the Bardsley embezzlement have gone
to satisfy secret and personal greed.
In this vast steal the lavish liberality
of Twrep is pot seen. Some of the
money, no doubt, went to help the par-
ty, but the bulk of it was converted in-
to private swag, and what individuals
shared in its distribution may be found
out 1f BaArpsLEY can be induced to tell
the tale.
The embezzlement of the detected
city Treasurer grows in extent az the
developments progress. The State and
city funds spirited away, inclading the
liquor licenses for more than a year,
overran a million. Now it appears
that the school fund paid by the State
to the city,amounting to half a million,
and which came into his hands as City
Treasurer, has also disappeared, His
total shortage amounts to about $1,000.
000 taken from the State, and $1,200.
000 from the city, or $2,200,000 in all,
It is likely that the city will be held
responsible for the whole amount of
the embezzled State funds. Attorney
General HenseL takes this position
and will make an effort to have the
State reimbursed, but it is a question
that will have to be decided by the
courts.
State Treasurer Boyer is severely
criticised for paying over to BARDSLEY
halt a million of school money when
he was nearly a million dollars in ar-
rears to the State Treasury on account
of State taxes. It certainly was not
ignorance on the part of Mr. BoYER,
for his books were before him, showing
this arrearage. Ignorance, however,
is na excuse for the short-coming of a
public officer. In a case as
this it amounts to a positive malfeas-
ance. The Auditor General is also
censurable for allowing the shortage in
the payment of State taxes dae from
BarpsLey to exist for more than a
year under circumstances that clearly
indicated a suspicious condition of af-
. Is the conduct of both these
hizh State officers in this case to be
attributed to stupidity ?
Pihiladelpina, has certainly
thoroughly shaken up by this startling
episode in the long annals of its muni-
such
fairs
been
cipal misgovernment aud political cor-
ruption. The denouement was bound
to come, [t is but the corollary of
the slavish subservency of its people
to the control of a party that:could al-
ways depend upon securing their votes
by appealing to their partisan spirit or
representing that the tariff was in dan-
| ger.
Sam ———
~——The grip, which has been such a
scourge in this conntry and 1a Europe,
been peculiarly de-
puzzied the doctors of the Flowery
Kingdom. The Chinese thought that
an evil spirit was at work and beat
drums and gongs in the streets of the
As
subsided they uo doubt
cites to drive it off. the disease
eventually
{ thought that that the drum and gong
| treatment had been attended with effi-
cacious effects, Atter ali, they know as
much about the disease as we do here,
it being, as yet, an enizma to our doc-
tors.
—
——President HHArRrISON wants the
use of the Pennsylvania delegation in
the next Republican nominating cou-
vention, and with this object he had an
interview at the White Iouse a few
days agowith M.S. Quay, at which
it is said some huckstering was done
between those two distinguished Re-
publicans.
! ed that he has been found in the per-
The Supreme Court Sustains the Gov-
ernor.
Governor Parrisox has achieved a
decided triumph in being sustained by
the Supreme Court in his appointment
of a Treasurer for Philadelphia in
place of Joux BarpsLey. Immediate
ly atter the defaulting Treasurer re-
signed it became necessary to fill the
office by appointment, and there arose
a conflict as to the authority in which
the right to appoint was vested. The
city commissioners and councils as-
sumed to select Mr. W. R. OELLERS to
fill the vacancy, and they turned the
office over to him. The Govertfor was
convinced that this authority belonged
to him, being sustained in this opinion
by both law and precedent, and he
accordingly appointed Mr. W. R.
WriGHT.
The Governor had a correct uader-
standing of his constitutional power
and acted up to it, but,as the appointee
of the city authorities was in posses-
sion of the office, the question was tak-
en to the Supreme Court for decision.
Last Friday this high tribunal sustain-
ed the Governor's right and duty to ap-
point a city treasurer for Philadelphia
under the circumstances that existed
when BanpsLey went out of office.
Chief Justice Paxson and Justices
SrerrErt, CLarx ‘and McCorroym de-
cided with the Governor, and Justices
GreeNE, WiLLiams and Mireur dis-
sented.
or's side two were Republicans and two
Democrats, and the three dissenters
were Republicans. The result shows
that Governor ParrizoN was ably ad-
vised in this matter,and Attorney Gen-
eral Huvsun isto be congratulated on
Of the Judzes on the Govern-
such a triumph of his leral acumen.
—— The late Lezislature having
passed a law creating a State banking
deparaneut, the daty of appointing the
Superintendent of Banking required by
the law devolves upon Governor Parri-
soN. This officer will hold his posi-
tion for four years at an annual salary
of $4000, and should be selected solely
because of his fitness for the place.
We believe that the Governor will
keep this in view in making his selec-
tion. The object of this department
is to closely scrutinize the condition of
the State banks, and it is to be hoped
that it may do this more thorcughly
than has done in recent
stances by the general government with
been in-
respect to national banks.
Cr. Tr —————
Canadian Politics.
Since the death of Sir Jou~x McDox-
arp the Canadian government has had
some difficulty in getting an officer
capable of taking the place of the de-
ceased statesman and conducting af-
fairs with a show of success. What 18
wanted i8 a leader who may be able to
carry out Sir Joux's policy of antag-
onism Uaited States. One of
his trusted coadjutors would be best
suited to the position, and it is believ-
totha
{othe
son of Hon. Jorn J.C, ABsott, of Que-
bee, an eminent lawyer, who has been
called on to form a ministry and to
act as Premier. Pre-
mier exercises all the our
President, and he can do this so long
as he is backed by a parliamentary
The Dominion
power of
majority, on the same principle as that
on which the English Premiers have
plain sailing in managing affairs so
long as Parliament is on their side.
In the case of Premier Assorr he |
will find a parliamentary majority of
but 26 supporting his government,
and in the mixed condition of Canadian
polities this is very likely to disappear
in the face of sharp conilict. Sir
Jonx'a policy of hostility to the United
States, notwithstanding his great abil-
ity
maintained only on so close a margin
as this in the Parliament, and it is al
together probable that this emall ma-
jority will disappear under a less able
and influeatial leader. Canadian pol-
itics will more than ever hinge upon |
and commanding influence, was
the great question of annexation to the |
United states, with the annexationists
every year increasing in strength.
Trade generally is far from be-
ing in a prosperous condition. Indus-
try lags, and two or three assignments: |
reported daily in business circles give
the lie tothe Republican claim of in- |
creased prosperity under the McKiuley
tariff, i
|
! tical parey.’
A Difference of View.
The Philadelphia papers are unani-
mous in applauding Joy WANAMAKER
for the satisfactory statement he made
concerning his connection with the
collapsed Keystone National Bank.
He had business dealings with that in-
stitution which, without an explana-
tion, cast a shade of suspicion on the
saintly merchant and Postmaster-Gen-
eral ; but he came forward with a care-
fully prepared statement which set him
forth in so favorable a light that the
Philadelphia journals were unanimous
in pronouncing it a clear vindication.
But papers in New York are not so
well satisfied with it. Oue of them,the
Times,in speaking of Mr. Wanamaker’s
statement, says :
It is plain from Mr. WaNaMaKER'S own testi
mony that he was on most intimate terms with
Lucas, theswindling president of the Keystone
bank,who stole neariy a million of dollars from
it, and with his successor, Marsu, who deceit.
fully concealed the fact. Mr. WANAMAKER was
engaged in a stock-jobbing operation with
Lucas, and received to protect himself some
2,515 shares of ths bank stock, and refused to
surrender them after he had been told that
they were frandulently issued, and also tried
after being thus informed, to sell them. That
is not a satisfactory record for any business
man. It is also plain that he and his firm re-
ceived loans from the bank largely in excess
of the amount the bank could legally grant,
and he received intimations as to the condi-
tion of the bank which enabled him to get his
money out without loss, but that he took no
steps to protect poorer depositors. It is per-
fectly true that he was not bound in law either
to lose his own tnomey or to save the money of
others, bur, considering his intimate relations
with the officers of the bank, whom he had
learned to be scoundrels, we should say that
he should not like the situation in which thig
statement leaves him. But, seemingly, he
does like it,and wonders that any one should
snppose it compromising.
This is a view of Mr. WANAMAKER'S
connection with the Keystone Bank
quite different from that taken by the
Philadelphia papers. Is it possible
that the views of the latter in regard to
this matter are influenced by the large
amount of advertising of which the big
store at 13th and Market is the source ?
Opposed to His Renomination.
It is a circnmstance worthy of making
The Ohio Republicans.
With the thermometer up in the
nineties, the Ohio Republicans had a
hot time with their State Couvention,
which met at Columbus on Tuesday.
The weather was hot and so were the
feelings of the Foraker followers who
came breathing vengeance against Jorx
SuerMAN. They gained control of the
committee on organization by an im-
mense majority, and easily put one of
their men in the chair of the presiding
officer. There was some friction in
the committee on resolutions. Dave
Harpster,the wocl king of Wyandotte
county, looking after the interest of his
sheep,entered a vigorous protest against
any endorsement of BLAINE'S recipro-
city policy. That policy would have
the [ree trade effect of admitting foreign
wool into the country unincumbered
by a tariff tax, and this woualdn’t suit
the interest of the monopolistic shep-
herds of Ohio, among whom Harpstr
is prominent. A snag was also struck
on the money question, some of the
committee favoring SHERMAN’s . bi-
metallic views, while others were dis-
posed to throw in a mild free coinage
plank in defference to the demand of
the grangers.
Major McKiNLey, of high tariff
fame, and ex-Governor FORAKER, were
the personages who dominated the
convention, which seemed to have been
gotten together for the especial pur-
pose of nominating McKiNLeY for Gov-
ernor and exalting Foraker over
SHERMAN as the leader of the party in
Ohio.
On Wednesday McKINLEY was nomi-
nated for Governor by a large and en-
thusiastic majority, and all the iniqui-
ties of his monopolity tariff Scheme
were fully endorsed.
@orcible and to the Point.
The Altoona Zribune having said
. that the people of the State do not
a note of that the first organized move- |
ment to prevent the renomination of
President Harrison by the Republi-
can party has been made in his own ven Democrat, who says :
State of Indiana, where he is best
known, and where, if he has any re-
commending qualities, they should be
most appreciated. On the llth
a conference of Harrison opponents met
at Indianapolis, including some of the
leading Republicans of the State, the
Greshem men being largely represented
the object being to balk the object of
Mr. HagrrisoN's ambition. Nearly every
county in Indiana was represented and
prominent Republicans were there from
Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan.
Gen. ALGER was represented by three
Michigan Republicans who proposed
to combine with the Greshem element
and send solid Greshem delegations to
the next national convention. Repre-
sentative Congrr, of Ohio, assured the
conference that there would be no in-.
opporinne letter of declination this
time from BraiNg, as there was in
1888.
This movement is no doubt 1n a great
measure due to the animosity of party
leaders who did not get as much re-
cognition from the Harrison adminis
tration as they thoucht they were en-
titled to, but, whatever cause may pro.
duce it, there can be no further doubt
that the enemies of the President in his
own party will be active and potential
in opposing his renomination.
* .
The national executive commit-
tee of the newly formed People’s party
held 2 meeting in St. Louis on Satar-
day and took measures to perfect the
orgzanization in States where it is need-
ful. It was determined to make a
lively fizht in Kentucky and Oaio this
year, which the Kentucky Democrats
can stand up under better than the
Ohio Republicans. The committee al:
80 declared that it was “uualterably
| opposed to fusion with any other poli-
? for
As to the best issue
1892 the commitiee unofficially gave
expression to the view that the princi-
pal question the People's party would
go to the people on would be the
sub-treasury plan, opposition to na-
tional banks. and government control
r owuership of railroads and tele-
0
graphs.
——Fine job work of ever discription
at the WarcaMAN Office.
want a constitutional convention be-
cause they sent no petitions to the
Legislature asking for one, and that
the revenues of the State should not be
expended thus unnecessarily, its petty
cavil on so important a subject is well
| answered by Furey of the Lock Ha
“As to che expense, a party whose
| state officials were so careless as to
give a rascal like “honest JouN Barps-
inst. |
LEY” a chance to speculate with and
lose $1,000,000 of the State's money,
should have very little to say through
| its journals against a proposition to
| hold an hovest convention for an honest
purpose. Better pay out every cent in
the treasury for a convention than give
| any more of those thieves a chance to
fill their pockets and build up a pirati-
cal aristocracy in the future. We be-
lieve it to be the duty of the people to
voie in favor of holding this conven-
tion, at the polls next November.”
Too Many Judges.
The proposition to increase the num-
ber of judges in this State by nine ad-
ditional ones, strikes some people as an
attempt to make a superfluity still
more superfluous. Oo thissubject Hon.
WiLriam A. Warnacg, of Clearfield,
thinks that such an increase would be
a gross wrong on the people and the
treasury of the State. We have too
many judges now. Not balf of them
have enough work to do, and they
would be better judges if they had
much more work. The provision
of the constitution of 1874 making
40,000 population the basis for a dis-
trict was and has proved to bea great
If population is to be the basis
it should be nearly double the number
fixed by the constitution. Business is
the true test, not population. It is not
right to pay-one half of the judges of
the state for working ten weeks in the
error.
year the same salary that is paid the
other halt who work nearly twice as
long. Fewer districts and fewer judges
ought to be the rule.
from Washington
MUTCHLER,
—--A dispatch
states that Congressman
in a recent interview, sail the Demo-
cratic delegation from Pennsylvania
would do all in their power to elect
ex-Congressman Kerr Chief Clerk of
the next House. The election of Mr.
Kerr would be a graceful compliment
as well as an acknowledgement of his
valuable service in last fall's campaign.
No one would make a better Chief
Clerk or fill the position with more
credit. .
.
spawls from the Keystone,
—A funeral took place at midnight recently
at Coplay.
—Reading banks won't observe the Satur-
day half holiday.
—The Berks county Grand Jury acted on
165 bills last week.
—Nearly every man in Connelsville belongs
to a labor organization.
—A Bradford woman, worth nearly $500,620,
1s going on the variety stage.
—Copenhagen is onelof the recognized diver=
sions of Lehigh county church excursions.
—Mrs. Andrew Gieringer dropped dead of
heart disease in a Reading millinery store.
—Harry Shaffer, of Williamsport, had four
fia gers cut off by a circular saw in Tinsman’s
mill.
—Two men who were stealing a ride on a
freight train fell off at Ashland and both were
killed.
—A girl attending a. picnic on Calypso Is
land on Saturday fell into the Lehigh and was
drowned.
—A burglar arrested at Pittsburg was dis
guised as a laborer, and had his tools in a din-
ner-pail.
—For an unknown reason Lawyer Christo=
pher Little, of Pottsville, blew out his brains
on Tuesday night.
—Lansford baggage-room burglars got two
trunks, one of whieh contained a Hun’s wed=
ding suit and $50.
—A Reading boy while picking cherries. fell
to the ground, a distance ot thirty feet, and
was injured inter nally.
—An Italian brutally assaulted and slmost
killed Mrs, Henry Feldon, near Walnutville,
Lehigh county, and escaped.
—Mrs. William James, a paralytic, of Shen-
andoah, died during a quarrel between a
drunken husband and son.
—Alfred Dunkle, a Reading Mennonite
Church Trustee, in jail, charged with embez-
zling $45 from the church funds.
—John Krupp, a miner, was severely beaten
and robbed of his month’s pay by a gang of
toughs at Hazelton on Monday night.
—Owen Hayes, a lad aged eleven years, who
left his home in Montgomery some days ago,
was found in Lock Haven in a box car.
—Uncle Jerry Rusk won $I00 by getting
through Pittsburg without being interviewed.
He promises to divide with the reporters,
—A 60 year-old man has been arrested at.
Reading on a serious charge, made by the 20-
year-old domestic formerly employed by him.
—A Hungarian wedding at Siegfried’s
Bridge, Lehigh county, was. celebrated on
Tuesday with eight kegs of beer and a general
fight.
—Two indictmants have been found at Eas-
ton against Lawyer Preston M. Gernet for em-
bezzling funds of an estate intrusted to his
care.
—One hundred Englishmen were discharg-
ed in a batch at Connelsville because they fav-
ored a check weighman. who was a labor agi-
tator.
—A Pittsburg congregation disagreed over
the location of a proposed new church, so the
money was divided and two churches will be
built.
—Dr. John Cunningham, who is in his 100th
year, is assisting his son-ih-law at Allegheny
He remembers the city when it had but two.
houses. A
—Mrs. Henry Packersgill, a belle of Alles
gheny many years ago, who married an octo-
ruon and passed a life of misery, died on Sat
urday.
—Howard & Co's glass factory at Pittsburg
was damage by fire toan extent of §2,500.
Joseph Wilkins was killed by by a fall frou
building.
—Some of the farmars of Washington coun-
ty have just commenced to plow Zthe ground
for corn. They say the soil has been too hard.
heretofore.
—Losing his balance at the top ofa high
precipice at Danielsville slate quarry, Robert
0. Pritchard, aged 50, fell over to instant death
on Monday.
—George E. Whiston and Daniel Shaffer,
Reading boys, tell out of cherry trees on Sun=
day. The former may die; the latter has a
broken leg.
—William Pepsin, of Walnutport, had im=
bibed somuch more than pepsinjthat he walks
ed on the Bound Brook Railroad. A train left
little of him to identify.
—Several rare relics have been found in an
old log eabin now in process of demolition at
Myerstown, which was builtin 1765, as a refuge
from the Indians.
—Easton’s First Presbyterian Church sues
for $10,000 from Sewer Contractors Smith and
Minnehan, because a sewer caved in front
of the church in January.
—Having been acquitted of the jembezzle-
ment alleged against him by James Hartman ,
Alderman Fraderick Printz, off Reading, has
sued for $20,000: for false arrest.
—Ephraim Rohrer, a} preacher §at the old
Mennonite churen, near,jLancaster, dropped
dead while preaching Sunday morning, He
was over seventy years of age.
—On Sunday two horses were hired to dif-
ferent persons by Moses Bitnar, of Lebanon,
and both were driven [to death. Mr. Bitner
will take legalaction in both cases:
—Xutztown is the only town in Berks in
which ground rents are paid by owners of
dwellings, and Mrs. Annie Weidner is now the
recipient of all the ground rerts paid in the
place. 7
—Little 11-year-o'd Frank Soarfoss was shot
dead accidenfally near Riegeisville with a
charge of buckshot. Theentire load went in
at one side and came out on the otherside of
the lad’s body. :
—Detective Simons had a hard stragglein
the Delaware River, near Baston, with John
Reese, an alleged thief, who plungedin and
tried to swim to the opposite shore, but was
followed and forced to surrenderand return.
—Kalk-ne-kak, aged ten months, daughter of
Little Crow Chief, of the Pawnee Bill Wild
West show,died on the show grounds at Pobts-
town. The body was embalmed prepara tory
to sending it back to the reservation in Wis
consin.
—Dr. William BE. Reifsoyder’s horse took
fright at a bone wagon near Ephrata, ran up
the embankment at the side of the road, tipped
the doctor and Saunuel M. Ross out of the car-
riage and dragged the former so far that he
was almost killed. Both gentlemen reside at
Reading.
—On Sanday morning between three and
four o'clock a thief enterad the bedroom of
Hon. Ernst Nakel, at Catasauqua, and stole a
tin cash box containing $250 in cash, one gold
and two silver watches, a heavy gold ring, a
gold bracelet and a collection of old coins val-
ued at $260. A life insurance policy and a
mortgage in Mr.Nakel’s name were also stolen