Suc stn
county duplicates of over $8,000, the
county buildings and all the county
property out of repair, they turned the
Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
county over to Democratic control last
Bellefonte, Pa., Aug. 28, 1891.
P. GRAY MEEK,
Democratic County Committee, 1891
Epitor
January,and before the Commissioners
have time to get the new duplicates in
the hand of -the collectors, Judge
Furst attempts to force them into an
expenditure of money that will ran up
Bellefonte, No W. W. 8. Galbraith | into thousands upon thousands of dol-
& '8.W Joseph Wise In i (
“ W.W John Dunlap | ‘8T8.
Centre Hall Borou
Howard Borough..
Milesburg Boroug|
BR
ipsburg, 1st W.
id 2d W..
dW...
Unionville Borough...
Burnside..............
“*
.. John T. Lee
.. H. A. Moore
. A. M. Butler
.... A.C. Musser
James A. Lukens
.. C. A. Faulkner
.. Frank Hess
ooo Bo M.Griest
.. Eugene Meeker
If there has been, and is such a
pressing necessity for the abatement of
this “nuisance,” why did not Judge
Furst see that it was attended to when
there was money in the treasury to
Benner... . Harvey Benner | pay the expenses? Why wait until
Boges, N. a wee PRID Sve there is neither money or taxes to meet
id Po Wi Holle the necessary outlay? Does the J udge
pe .N. Krumrine | want to carry out his long contemplat-
Ferguson £5 “Dail Drei ed scheme of getting a new Court
€0. . . .
Grose, SB. : = Chas. W. Fisher Nos erected, or 2 his idea io ran up
: oO Oradort | the county expenditures and increase
’y
. W. J. Carlin
8. W. Smith
“Thomas Turbidy
. Geo. B. Shaffer
.... Eilis Lytle
J. W. Keller
. W.T. Leathers
Hepry Hale
Alfred Bitner
ohn J. Shaffer
.. P. A. Sellers
+. J, C. Stover
Tas. B. Spangler
... Jas. Dumbleton
William Hutton
. John D. Brown
the county indebtedness, and then
charge it to the extravagance of a
Democratic board of Commissioners ?
Democratic Leadership.
The Philadelphia Bulletin, a stal-
wart organ of the most pronounced
type, thinks the Republican party has
reached a crisis in this State, and its
Spring, 8. P Jerry Donovan | future may depend on the November
NIP James Carson :
“ E.E.Ardery | result. After an elaborate warning to
Logis rT as its own party, it devotes some attention
Palyer - De A Dietricl | to the effectiveness of the Democratic
rin. 7 \STe, es . . .
° L.A. SCHAEFFER, Chairman. . | organization in Pennsylvania, and talks
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For DELEGATE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
ELLIS L. ORVIS.
Subject to action of district conference.
Jury Commissioner. —~GEORGE BOWER.
What Does It Mean?
In making its report as to the con-
dition of; the county buildings, on
Wednesday last, the grand jury, as has
been the custom of all grand juries
for years past, recommended the re-
moval or change of the water closets
at the Court House, and pronounced
them as they now are an “intolerable
nuisance.” As soon as the report was
read Judge Furst proceeded to read
the jury, the commissioners and almost
every body else, a lecture, and,ordering
the jury back to its room, instructed
the District Attorney to prepare a bill
of indictment against the County Com.
missioners for maintaining a nuisance.
That officer promptly proceeded to
earn the fees allowed for snch work,
and in less time than it takes to write
it the court had docketed for trial the
case of the “Commonwealth vs. the
Commissioners of Centre county’ —the
Court itself and the Commissioner's At-
torney, being the prosecutor and prin-
cipal witness.
To persons unacquainted with the
entire situation, and to those knowing
the condition of the closetsabout which
this case is brought, there may seem
nothing strange in{Judge Furst’s sum-
mary proceedings. Thai the closets
should be changed and rebuilt, all who
see them know, and that they are,and
for ten years have been, an ‘“intoler-
able nuisance,” every body will admit,
but what seems strange to the ordinary
lookers on, is the fact that his Honor
should patiently wait {through three
long years of Republican county rule
without saying a word about the mat-
ter, and before a Democratic board of
Commissioner's have been able to pro:
vide for the county indebtedness, made
by their Republican predecessors,
pounce down upon them and attempt
to force them into an expenditure of
money, the amount of which is far
beyond that anticipated by any mem-
ber of the grand jury who voted to in-
dict them.
Three years ago last January, when
Judge Furst's political friends took
charge of the county affairs, these
closets were in rxactly the same con-
dition they are ia to-day. There wasno
debt upon the county and there was
$28,000 of cash in the treasury. The
time for his honor to have shown
his official authority was then. He
could have compelled a change that
would have put them in proper condi-
tion without {astening a debt upon the
shoulders of the fax-payers, or reguir-
ing the Commissioners to pay interest
to bankers for money to do the work.
He saw proper to remain quiet, how-
ever, and leave thelpublic believe his
board of Commissions were doing their
duty when they were maintaining this
“intolerable nuisance,” and squander-
ing the Democratic surplus in bad
management of the county affairs and
in bridge contracts to favorites.
It took Judge Fursr's party and
friends bat three years to empty the
treasury and fasten a debt of over “ten
thousand doliars upon the county.
With this condition of the finances,
they, for purely political motives, and
hoping to deceive the tax-payers, re:
duced the millage = until
the county.
000 dollars, and a ‘shortage on the
the total |
amount of taxes available were less by
$8,000 thanjthe ordinary expenditure of
With a debt of over $10,
in this strain :
The Demoeratic party in Pennsylvania has
not been led more shrewdly at any time since
the best days of BucuANAN and Brack than it
is to-day. It has ceased to be officered by
senile Bourbons and worn-out hacks. The
reins of party authority have come to be con-
centrated almost entirely in the hands of the
men who compose the gubernatorial adminis-
tration. There are not three cleverer Demo-
cratic partisans in the State than Governor
ParrisoN, Secretary Harrity and Attorney
General Hensrr, and, working together, they
present a combination of uncommon strength.
Therefore the Republicans of this State need
not calculate on Democratic blunders. It will
be much wiser for them now to over-estimate
rather than under-estimate the strength of
the enemy. They will need face in the young
secretary of state an antagonist who has the
craft and skill of a Gorman or a Hrin. They
can no longer afford tolaugh, as they formerly
did, with a certain, good-natured contempt at
the stupid tactics of their opponents year after
year.
The Bulletin omits all reference to
the chief element of Democratic
strength. Our captains are not Quays
or CaMERONS, and our methods of ad-
ministration not those of BARDSLEY,
McCamantT and Boyer. All is true
the Bulletin says of the sagacity of the
young meu at the front in Democratic
leadership, but they are stronger be-
cause of their capacity, aggressive hon-
esty and fidelity in public trusts than
by the “craft and skill’ the Bulletin at-
tributes tothem. The Quayites have
the latter qualities in abundance, but
they lack the others.
——The committee appointed by the
last Legislature to investigate the
management of the State Treasury
commenced its investigations on Tues-
day. In the absence ofthe chairman,
Hon. Georce Handy Smith, who had
not yet returned from Europe, Mr. Fow
took the leading part in the proceed-
ings, It is to be hoped that the com-
mittee may succeed in uncovering
whatever rottenness may exist in the
financial department of the State gov-
ernment.
The Law Should Take Its Course,
The fiend, FRANK ALyMY, who mur-
dered pretty Cristie WarDEN, of Han-
over, N. H., has been captured and is
in the hands of the law. This is a
case where the indignant neighbors of
the murdered girl would have been al-
most justified in appealing to Judge
Lynch, were it not for the bad exam-
ple it would have set: for the future.
As the crime was one of exceptional
cruelty, punishment, of exceptional
swiftness in reaching the murderer,
would seem to have been in order, but
for the reason we have stated. In a
civilized community there is but one
safe way in dealing with crime and
criminals, and that is to let the law
take its course. If any other rule were
adopted, innocent men might be
punished in place of the guilty, and
bare supicion, even, might consign men
to the rope. With the great provoca-
tion the neighbors and friends of the
murdered girl had to take the law into
their own hands, their consent that
the law might take its course reflects
great honor upon them. While such
respect for the law prevails the coun-
{ry is safe.
Great Britain derives the rev-
enue for running her government most:
ly from the duty on liquor and tobac-
co, wisely recognizing that it is better
to tax the vices and luxuries of her
people than the necessaries. Last
{year the revenue’ collected from tobae:
{co exceeded $48,500,000, an increase of
2,500,000 over the year previous,
‘which the English authorities regard
jas indicating increased prosperity
‘among her working ‘people who are
the chief consumers of the weed.
!
An Inconsistent Demagogue.
and Congressman-elect, of Delaware
ceunty, who is fast coming into promi-
nence as a demagogue, and whose am-
bition leads him to aspire to the lead-
ership of the Republican clubs, as:
sumes to be a critic of Governor ParrI-
soN because the latter vetoed the com-
pulsory education bill. At the recent
Republican State convention he read a
resolution condemning the governor
for this veto, yet he is ‘himself on re-
cord as having made a very strong
speech against the enactment of the
compulsory education bill. This
speech may be found in the Legislative
Record, pages 2684 and 2690. Here is
an extract from it: “I would never
vote to introduce any system, no matter
whether all the other States of the
Union have adopted it, that would
desecrate the privacy of a home. Edu-
cation is a good thing, but we do not
want to employ people to go around to
penetrate into the sanctity of a man’s
home and to take his child out and
compel it to be sent to school.”
It didn’t require such an argument
as this from Jack RoBINsoN to sustain
the correctness of Governor ParTisox’s
veto of a bill that would have encroach-
ed upon the personal liberty and pri-
vate rights ot the citizen, and it also
didn’t require RoBiNsoN’s resolution
in the convention to prove that he is
as inconsistent as he is demagogical.
——The Democrats of Huntingdon
county, at their convention on Tues-
day, resolved that “the Democracy of
Huntingdon coanty, with feelings of
pride and satisfaction, congratulate the
people of Pennsylvania on the triumph-
ant re-election of Hon. RoBert E. Par-
risoN as Governor of this Common-
wealth, His administration has been
eminently creditable and well calcu-
lated to promote the best interests of
the people irrespective of party in
every section of the State.”
The Speakership.
The question ofthe speakership of
the next House of Representatives is of
great importance and it gains more of
the attention of Democrats as the
time for the meeting of congress ad-
vances. Congressman SPRINGER’S can-
didacy for speaker is warmly backed
by the Detroit Free Press, which pre-
sents him as the choice of the North-
western Democracy. It has equally
good words for Congressman By~Nuy of
Indiana, What it wants is a distine-
tively Northwestern man. Either
SPRINGER or By~uM, it says, will re-
present the newly aroused Northwest:
It was north and west of the Ohio river
that the Democratic tidal wave of 1890 reached
its highest mark. It is this same Northwest
that jwill be the royal battle ground of 1892. It
is the section which is most promising for the
future of the Democratic party. There is but
a single State in the northwest that hasa Re-
publican legislature. The Northwest is the
fairest and most inviting harvest field of the
Democracy.
In the last congress the Democrats
had 27 members and the Republicans
71 from the 11 Northwestern States.
In the next congress the Democrats
will have 66 representatives from these
states, the Republican 28 and the Alli-
ance 3.
; In his speech opening the cam-
paign in Ohio last week,McKINLEY, in
taking a stand against free silver, en-
deavored to strengthen his position on
that question by referring to Mr.
CLEVELAND'S opposition to the free
silver policy. But the silver question
is a minor one with Grover CLEVE-
LAND, who sees a far greater issue in-
volved in the question of tariff reform.
We would advise the Major to quote
CLEVELAND's anti-monopoly tariff senti-
ments, which are of infinitely more
value to the people at this juncture
than his anti-silver views, but it
wouldn’t do for the Major to preach
tariff reform at this particular time.
Great Britain, the greatest of
Jorn B. RosinsoN, State Sedator')
the world’s commercial powers, has al-
ready interposed to prevent the United
States gaining exclusive privileges
from the countries with which deals
have been made. Canada having com-
plained against our treaty with Spain
concerning trade with Cuba, the Brit
ish colonial office has indorsed the pro- |
test, and notified the Spanish govern: |
ment that all especial trade privileges |
granted to the United States in Cuba |
will be claimed by Canada, and by |
England also. France, Germany and
Italy will take similar action, for all
have commercial treaties with Spain,
and all these treaties contain a “most
favored nation” clause.
|
——Saperintendent PorTER, having
| exhausted the $7,500,000 appropriation
for the taking of the census, will apply
to the next congress for $2,000,000 to
finish his very indifferently performed
| job. He is likely to find, however,
! that the next congress will not be a
billion dollar one.
A Desturbing Factor.
“Wool ie going to be a disturbing fac-
tor in the Ohio election this year. It
is well known that the Ohio shepherds
were promised great results from the
increased duty on wool furnished by
the McKinley bill. It was believed
that the price of their product would
be advanced thereby, but like most of
the doctrines of the protectionists this
proved to be fallacious. Instead of
going up, the price of wool has de-
clined. :
One of the largest wool raisers in
Medina county, Ohio, J, M, Craw-
FORD, says: *‘I just delivered my clip
last week at 27 cents per pound. Last
year I received 32 cents for wool from
the same sheep.” This is, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 5 cents less
per pound than was paid previous to
the passage of the McKinley bill. In
every wool-growing county of Ohio the
Major is getting little booms like this
every day. Ohio produces about 25,
000,000 pounds of wool a year. At a
loss of 5 cents a pound, since the Mec-
Kinley bill passed, the farmers are out
of pocket $1,250,000; but on a great
portion of the clip the decline in prices
will be as much as 8 or 10 cents a
pound.
——The coolest thing that has ap-
peared in a party platform in many a
year is the Republican denunciation of
Governor Partigon’s“unscrupulous par-
tisanship”’ in vetoing the congressional
and other gerrymandering bills. Those
bills were of such a character that
in vetoing them the Governor prevent-
ed the consummation of most outrag-
eous partisanship.
They Were Sat Down On.
At the Franklin county Democratic
convention this week, a few disgruntled
parties, headed by the proprietors of
the Harrisburg Patriot, attempted to
get an expression condemning Govern-
or PartisoN’s administration, Why
there should be such a condemnation
is something that can’t be compre-
hended by Democrats anywhere, and
those of Franklin county could not be
persuaded nor coerced into catering to
the personal spleen of a few disap-
pointed place-hunters by condemning a
wise and honest administration. They
therefore sat downon the discontent-
ed gentlemen of the Patriot by adopting
the following resolution :
Resolved, that the wise, resolute and states-
manlike administration of Governor ParTisoN
commends itself to the people of Pennsylvania
and has attracted the attention and won the
applause of the friends of pure and honest
government throughout the nation. His dis-
approval of measures of needless extravagance
in the General Appropriation bill, his able
convincing vetoes of unfair and partisan ap-
portionment bills and other injurious legisla-
tion ; and the measures institu ted to recover
for the State the moneys stolen by dishonest
Republican officials, furnish abundant cause
for congratulation that the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania is once more reaping the advan-
tages of an honest and faithful Democratic
administration.
People who attempt to cata swath
wider than their ability or importance
will warrant,must expect to meet with
rebuffs of this kind.
Farm profits this year in the
United States, it is estimated, wiil be
$1,000,000,000 greater than usual.
This fact strikes the Indianapolis Sen-
tinel as fortunate, “for the people will
now know how we are going to meet
the expenses of Mr. REED'S congress.”
It is always the case that when the
country is patina hole the farmers
are called upon to do the largest share
in pulling it out.
—-—The Boston Transcript gives
the following graphic picture of what
has resulted from forty years’ prohibi-
tion legislation :
There was an accident on one of the
Maine railroads and some persons
were hurt. There was a call for
liquor as a restorative for the injured,
and immediately “a drummer passed
ont a neat little flask of old bourbon,
another drummer followed his example,
and soon there were hands stretching
forth from all directions with pints and
half pines, round bottles, flat bottles
and square bottles of all dimensions,
from a gill toa quart, and containing
everything from imported brandy to
Portland rum. There enough
there to stars a drugstore, and the only
man in the crowd who didn't have a
bottle ran oft to a farmhouse, and soon
returned with a two-gallon jug of some
mysterious liquor,”
—————
We have before stated that the
Republicans of Ohio have chosen the
eagle as the designating symbol on their
ballots, underthe Australian ballot sys-
tem, while the Democrats have chosen
the rooster. A plow and harrow is the
device selected by the People’s Party,
and the Prohibitionists have chosen the
rose, With all these pictures the Ohio
campaign is going to be guite a pictur:
esque contest.
was
The Ti “not to call—When the
: other fellow Lolds four acea.
——There was never a President
who displayed such a consuming de-
sire to extend his tenure of office as is
displayed by the present incumbent.
Fortunately the people don’t appear to
be equally desirous that Mr. Harri
bgsoN should have a second term.
A Tale of Horror.
Entire Villages Starving in Russia.
Grass and Leaves Their only Food.
Loxpon, August 24.—The Pall Mall
Gazette to-day says that the Prince of
Wales is taking great interest in the
matter of persecution of the Jews in
Russia, and condition of immigrants
of that nationality coming to England.
The prince, the Gazette says, has de-
voted considerable time toa thorough
study of the question. Though he has
not taken any direct measares to assist
the needy Jews, fearing that such ac-
sistance to the Anglo-Jewish commit-
tees. The Princess of Wales, who is a
sister-in-law of the czar, is co operating
with the prince, and is rendering much
valuable aid in his efforts to amelior-
ate the condition of the poverty-stricken
Hebrews.
A clergyman residing at present in
the province of Kazan, Russia, has
written a letter to the Pall Mali
Gazette in which he gives a harrowing
description ofthe sufferings of the un-
fortunate peasants of that province,
brought on by the failure of the crops.
Large numbers of them, he says, are in
au absolute state of starvation. Many
have been unable te obtain bread for
weeks, and in their efforts to sustain
life have been compelled to eat grass
and leaves. :
consisting of 140 houses, the clergyman
visited all the peasants. Here were
found sixteen persons in a terribly em-
aciated condition, and slowly and pain-
fully dying from starvation. Of all
the residents only twenty were found
eating ordinary food in a quantity suf-
ficient to keep them alive. Visits
made to a number of other villages re-
vealed a similar state of destitution and
distress.
In all of them numbers ot persons
were tound either dead or dying from
starvation. There was no immediate
prospect of any betterment in the con-
dition of the peasantry, and it is feared
that, driven on by the pangs of hunger,
they will attempt to gain food by any
means, lawful or unlawful. Strong
men look upon their wives and child-
ren, slowly dying for want of bread,
and it is not to be expected that under
such conditions they will be amenable
to any law save that which dictates to
them the . preservation of the lives of
their families. Thereis much excite-
ment throughout the province among
the poorer classes and an outbreak
may occur at any time.
The War Cloud In Europe.
Preparations Going Forward Looking
to the Armament of the Soldiers.
Loxpon, August 25.—The report
that France and Russia had virtnally
agreed that, in the event of a victory
over Germany, they would have Schles-
wig re-annexed to Denmark, has caused
considerable comment in Berlin, where
the war feeling has been mouating
high for some days past.
This rumor, however, has called to
public attention other rumors of a sim-
iliar nature regarding the triplealliance.
It was stated recently, on high author-
ity at Vienna, that one of the unwrit-
ten agreements of the triple alliance
was, in the event of success in a contin-
ental war, to disable Russia forever by
divesting the empire of Poland, Finland
and the Baltic provinces, and compell-
ing the czar to abandon St. Petersburg
for Moscow. France, at the same
time, to be compelled to give up Nice
and Corsica to Italy. These arrange-
ments are understood to be merely pro-
visional, but the fact that they are
talked of shows the deliberate way in
which European nations are preparing
for the gigantic struggle.
The Russian rifle factories are run-
ning night and day on the new breeeh-
loading repeating rifle, with which it is
proposed to arm all the infanty, both
of the active army and the reserve.
But although the greatest diligence is
shown in the manufacture, it is believ-
ed that at least two years will elapse
before the whole military force of the
empire will be provided with the
weapon. This would not prevent Rus-
sia from going to war in the meantime,
ag not less than 400,000 men will have
th erifle within this year.
Pennsylvania's Population.
Some of the Counties Show a Falling-
Off While Others Have Jumped
Upward.
WasHINGTON, Aug. 25.—A census
the population of Pennsylvaniain 1880
was 4,282,891, and in 1890 the popula-
tion of the state was 5,258,014, an in-
{ug the decade. There are sixty-:aven
counties in the state, of which only
twelve show decreases. In nv case is
the decrease greater than nine per cent.
The counties showing decreases are as
follows: Armstrong, Clarion, Craw-
ford, Fulton, Juniata, Mercer, Monroe,
Perry, Pike, Snyder, Susquehanna and
Wayne.
The counties showing increases of
more than 50. per cent. are as follows:
Allegheny, Cleartield, Elk, Forest, Jef-
ferson, Lackawanna, Luzerne and Pot-
ter. Philadelphia and Allegheny coun-
ties show the largest numerical increases.
Philadelphia county shows an increase
of 199,794, or 23.58 per cent., while Al-
legheny county shows an increase of
195,090, or 55.10 per cent. The largest
parcentage of increase is tound in For-
est county, where there hus been an in-
crense of 93.43 per cent. since 1880.
Milwaukee is said to be more
dirty and healthy than before.
office bulletin issued to-day shows that |
tion might wound the feelings of the |
Russians, he has indirectly given as-|
In one of the villages of the province |
crease of 975,123, ar 22.77 per cent. duar- |
‘the door of the cage for Bridgman,
Game Laws.
Elks and deer, Oct. 1 to Dec. 15; but
owing to an error, it is illegal to have
deer in possession aiter Nov, 30. The
killing of fawns when in spotted coat,
chasing of elks or deer with hounds,
and the killing of deer when in water
prohibited. Squirrels, Sept. 1to Jan.
1. Hares or rabbits, Nov. 1 to Jan. 1.
Hunting or killing of rabbits with fer-
rets prohibited. Wild tarkeys, Oct.
15 to Jan. 1. Plovers, July 15 to
January 1. Woodcocks, July 4 to°
Jan. 1. Quails, Nov. 1tc Dec. 15.
Ruffed and pinnated grouse, commonly
called pheasants, Oct. 1 to Jan, 1.
Rails or reed birds, Sept. 1 to Dec. 1.
Wildfowl, Sept. 1 to May 1. Insec-
tivorous birds protected, except Eng-
lish sparrows. Pigeon nestings pro-
tected against firearms to a radius ef
one-fourth of a mile from roosting or
breeding place, and penalty for disturb-
ance in any manner while nesting, and
snaring or netting for the purpose of
killing during the nesting season pro-
hibited. Snaring, netting or catching
game birds by torchlight prohibited.
Sanday hunting and shooting prohib-
ited. Shooting ot wild fowl limited to
use of shoulder piece only. Sea Sal-
mon, Apr. 1 to July 1. Speckled trout
Apr. 15 to July 15; under five inches
length protected. Lake trout, Jan 1
to Oct. 1. Black, green, yellow, wil-
low, rock, Lake Erie and grass pike,
pickerel, and wall-eyed pike or Susque-
hanna salmon, June 1 to Jan. 1. Bass
less than six inches in length protec-
ted. German carp Sept. 1to May 1.
Artificially stocked streams protected,
forthree years after stocking. Hook
and line fishing only allowed; use of
nets or traps of any kind, poisons, ete.,
prohibited.
Firemen’s Tournament at Atlantic
City, N. J.--Half Rates via Penn-
sylvania Railroad.
The Firemen’s Tournament to be held
al Atlantic City on September 29th,
80th, October 1st and 2d, promises to be
one of the most interesting events of its
kind ever held in this country, Invita-
tions have been sent to ‘all the promi-
nent fire companies of the East to be
present and enter the lists, and the num-
ber of entries already registered assures
a brilliant success. The programme of
events is a most, elaborate one and in-
cludes everything that pertains to the
firemen’s art. Hose races, team races,
steamer trials, prize drills, and other
firemen contests, together with concerts,
torchlight procession, and a grand pa-
rade. Besides this, the arrangements
for the entertainment of the visitors are
very elaborate.
For the better accommodation of visi-
tors and contestants the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell excursion
tickets to Atlantic City from all princi-
pal stations on its system at a single fare
for the round trip: The tickets will be
sold September 25th to October 2d, val-
id for return until October 6th, 1891.
The facilities presented by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad for reaching Atlantic
City quickly and comfortably are too
well known to need comment,
The Oldest Man Dead.
Jacob Steel's First Vote for Jefferson
and Last for Pattison.
PirTsBURG, Pa., August 25.--Jacob
Steel, the oldest man in Pennsylvania,
died at Uniontown last night, aged
108.
Mr. Steel was born October 19, 1783,
in Springhill township, Fayette county,
and bas lived near Masontown nearly
all bis life. - He has always been a Dem-
ocrat. He cast his first ballot for Jeffer-
son and his last ballot for Governor
Pattison.
He will be buried to-morrow in the
Masontown cemetery. Mr. Steel had
always been a church-goer, and for
more than seventy years had been a
member of M. E. Church. His habits
were simple, and he was careful as to
his eating.
He never used tobzeceo, but used
whisky in a moderate degree. He was
an early riser, and was noted for the
evenness of his temper. On the day of
Washington’s second election Steel can
remember that he was gathering hickory
nuts. When Jefferson resigned from
‘Washington's cabinet to lead the new
Democratic party Mr. Steel was a boy
of 10.
A Youthful Bigamist.
Only Eighteen Years of Age and He Has
Three Wives.
BurraLo, N. Y., August 23.—Harry
Thorner, son of Millionaire Dr. Thorner,
is locked up here on a charge of bigamy.
Heis only 18 years old, and issaid to
have three wives in different parts of
the country, one in Buffalo, one in
Philadelphia and one in Boston,
It is said that he and his latest wife
boarded with Dr. Robinson, of Niagara
Falls, for four weeks, and one dark
night they stole away, getting out of a
window, taking their baggage with
them. :
Perhaps the most notable case was his
hasty courtship and marriage with
Maud Westcott, & young aud decidedly
pretty girl in one of the leading dry
goods houses in this city. He wooed
and won her under the alias of Harry
Hamlin, having assumed the name of
i the Delaware millionaire.
Under this name he beat boarding-
house proprietors, and the girl soon
‘found out her mistake, and in three
weeks she had secured a divorce.
At Guoaislake, in Bagland, in
Bridgman’s Circus, Lion Tamer Bridg-
man had made fonr lions march into
another cage, following his whip.
The fifth, an evil-minded beast, crouch-
ed in the corner and refused to move.
Bridgman incautiously turr.ed his head
away and took his eye from the lion,
In a moment he had leaped on him.
The tamer detended himself for some
time. On his cries for help the other
lions came back and attacked the beast
which was tearing him. Unfortunate-
ly, the circus. men beat among them
with iron bars and neglected to open
He
The lion was shot
was torn to pieces.
the same day.