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ink Slings.
-—Pittsburg is just a trifle too slow to
catch anything but storms and cy-
clones.
— Tt seems to take a great deal of
work to properly FosTER the SHERMAN
boom in Ohio,
— On Wednesday the turkey tribe did
most of the gobbleing, but when Thurs-
day came humanity did it ail.
— Were you thankful for what you
had yesterday or did you think more of
things that you were’nt blessed with ?
—-Because circus people all have their
canvas-back in winter quarters is no
evidence that they are living on duck.
—The man whose wife presented him
with triplets yesterday, must certainly
have been thankful that it wasn’t a
brace of twins.
—With all the protection it was able
to give it in the McKinley bill, the re-
publican party couldn’t keep castor oil
from going down.
—With all its political, financial and
other crookedness, there 1s still some re-
deeming features about Philadelphia.
Her streets at least are straight.
—Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the
Gatling gun, insists that his invention is
a peace maker. We have no doubt of
it all if he spells ‘piece’ this way.
—Itis not much wonder that after
keeping the FAssETT open during the
entire campaign, New York should go
dry immediately after the election.
—People who place confidence in the
story that untold wealth is hidden on
one of the islands of the Delaware, need
not be surprised to learn that some one
is K1pp-ing them.
It is highly probable that mother
nature is retaliating on humanity for
stealing her ice making, rain making,
and electricity making jobs, by taking
from us so many of our stars.
From the fuss the English are mak-
ing over the illness of the young Prince
GEORGE, it looks as though they don’t
want “collars and cuffs” to reign after
the Prince of Wales is through.
..-When St. LUKE wrote the story of
the typical liar of his time, he knew
nothing of the Brazilian newspaper
correspondent. If he had, ANANIAS
would never have been heard of.
—The Yuma Indians put to death
their medicine men who fail to fulfill
their promises. What a falling off in
republican majorities there would be,
if the same practice prevailed in politics.
—A Philadelphia woman eats soap
with a relish. How many youngsters
in this broad land have eaten it with-
out any other trimmings than those a
fond mamma can give when she bears
her darling say naughty words?
— Investigation as to the condition
and whereabouts of FORAKER proves
that the wind storm that swept eastward
over this State on. Monday was not
caused by his bursting. He is still
whole and as badly inflated as ever.
—The friends of FoRAKER have a
paper out to raise money to erect &
bronze statue of him. If they’ll wait
till he drops out and be satisfied with a
brass ome, there need be no expense
about it. The corps will answer every
purpose. re
—Williamsport had’nt enough re-
frigerators and side-boards to bid for the
Republican national convention in '92,
20 she’s trying to get the Prohibitionists
to go there and drink up the over stock
of “pop” which she has been keeping
cool since the Christian Endeavor
Convention last summer.
—Natural Gas companies have dis-
covered a new way of warming up the
people of Pittsburg this winter. They
decrease the pressure and increase the
price to consumers. It works like a
charm and every fellow who pays a gas
bill gets red hot every time he thinks
about it.
—The ome particular person who
was not particularly thankful yesterday
was WILLIAM L1vsEY. When he
considered how much 1v had cost him
to live in Canada and remembered that
he would have been perfectly safe in the
hands of his party in Pennsylvania, it
knocked thanksgiving all to thunder
with him.
—Philadelphia may be very slow and
exceedingly quiet, but it is not going to
be behind inthe ‘neck tie’ business.
The one it has ordered for the statue of
PeNN on the public building, will
weigh 500 pounds, but with all its heft
it will not cost as much, as did those
paid for by the State, for the statue ot
its Auditor General.
—Speaking of the late Alliance meet-
ing, one of our exchanges assures its
readers that the ¢farmers are losing |
ground.” No doubt of it. Under the :
benign rule of the Republican party
and its protective tariff ideas, they have
lost about everything else loseable, ex-
cept their ground, and what is to pre-
vent it following the rest, is something
tino fellah” has yet found out.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 46.
A Wrong Reason.
The Pittsburg Dispatch of {Saturday
last’ prints what preports to be aa in-
terview with Hon. Wa. A. WALLACE,
in which that gentleman is made to
say in substance, that he has but one
political ambition, and that is to be
sent by his county as a representative
to the House at Harrisburg,j for the
purpose of securing such reforms in
the ballot laws of the state as will pre-
vent from voting, foreigners and {others
too illiterate to read. While these are
not the exact words as given by the
Dispatch, they convey the full mean-
ing of those published, as they seem
to have been understood by ail who
read them.
The Philadelphia Press, Herald,
Harrisburg Patriot and other jpapers
take up the matter and congratulate
the country onjthe prospect of Mr. War-
LACE'S return to Harrisburg, and jcor-
rectly assume that such an occurrence
will have the effect of bringing to the
front for legislative honors, Jan entirely
different and higher class of men, than
the majority of those who jof late years
have been chosen as law makers.
That Mr. WaLLAcE would accept a
legislative nomination, is a matter that
we feel confident would be gratifying
news to the people, not only of hisjown
county but of the entire State. That
his election to the House would bring
to it an ability and influence, that has
not been known or felt within the halls
of the Legislature, since Jonny Hick-
MAN, Judge Jenks, McDowELL, SHARP,
and other men of that class left it years
ago, is equally certain. And that his
acceptance of a position now generally
refused by the abler and stronger men
of both parties, would have a tendency
to induce other men of high standing to
accept a like nomination, and other
districts to secure as high class repre-
sentatives as possible, is altogether
probable, and would be the strongest
kind of reasons for persons of all
shades of political opinions, hoping
that the alleged interview is correct,
and truthfully represents Mr. WALLACE
as having a desire to return to Harris
burg.
What makes us doubtful of the re-
liability of the interview, is the reason
said to be given by Mr. WarLLace for
his willingness to accept the position
named :—“that he may help frame a re-
form ballot law and secure such legis
lation as will prevent from voting, the ig-
norant and illiterate foreigners.’
Wu. WALLACE, under existing con-
dition of affairs, would never give such
a reason for wishing to go to the Leg:
islature. He does not deal in clap-
trap, nor does he attempt to deceive
those with whom he has business or
other relations. If their is any trait
for which he is known, more marked
than an other, it is his courage and
disposition to say plainly what he
means, and to ay it in a way that any
one who hears or reads may under-
stand. And just here is where the
purported interview, shows its lame-
ness or incorrectness—in the reasons
it quotes him as giving.
Karly in the campaign last fall, Mr.
WALLACE was published as vigorously
opposing a Constitutional Convention.
He was among the first of the promi-
nent lawyers of the State to give his
reasons to the public, why there should
be no changing of, or tinkering with,
the present Constitution. If it was
wrong and unnecessary to alter or
amend that instrument last fall, it
would be equally wrong and unneces-
sary, next fall. Aud yet, without a
change in the Constitution, Mr. WaL-
LACE, as does every intelligent citizen,
knows, that no restriction on the right
of suffrage can be had. That so long
as we have the present Constitution,
just so long can every male citizen
twenty-one years of age, who has
been a citizen of the United States one
month, a resident of the state a year,
lived within his district sixty days,and
paid a state or county tax, vote, no
matter it he is so ignorant that he
can't tell a letter B from a bulls foot, or
is 0 dumb that he don’t know enough
to go into the dry when it rains.
Senator WALLACE, may honestly fav-
or the idea of a restricted ballot, but
he is not going round trying to make
believe that he would like to go to the
Legislature to pass laws to that effect
—under the present Constitution.
The Dispatch will have to look for
some other reason,or leave grave doubts
as to the correctness of its statement.
Practically Blotted Out.
There is weeping, wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth among the republican lead-
ers of New York. They could stand
the election off a Democratic governor
and the piling up of a Democratic ma-
jority of 45,000, but when it was an-
nounced in Albany on Tuesday last,
that both the Senate and House would
be in the control of the Democrats, it
was too much for one time, and the
despair that settled down upon ther is
said to be past realization. If ever
any set of men were knocked complete-
ly out, it is the New York republican
leaders. For years they have maiu-
tained power through the operations of
a most iniqiuitous apportionment of
the state, both Congressional and Leg-
islative. With a clear Democratic ma-
jority in the state of at least 25,000,
they could elect nineteen of the thirty-
four congressmen ; and an overwhelm-
ing majority of both the House and
Senate, Secure in these, they could
prevent a fair apportionment being
made as well as dictate most of the ap-
pointments of the governor, by refus-
ing to confirm those that did not suit
them.
They realize that the loss of the
two branches of the Legislature, as
well as the governor, means a new ap-
portionment that will give them only
what they are entittled to,—represen-
tation, 1n Congressional, Senatorial and
Legislative districts in proportion to
their vote, and that this means that
they will have neither Senate or House
for years to come ; and with this state
of affairs comes the political annihila-
tion of those who have led the republi-
can party for years and profited by as
villianous a gerrymander as that which
disgraces our own state. A new ap
portionment in New York means a
majority of Democratic congressmen
from that State, a Democratic Senate
and a Democratic House in 1892, and
a Democratic United States Senator to
succeed Hiscock.
Is itany wonder that the political
tribulation that has fallen upon them
seems greater than they can bear?
The Greatt Horse Show.
The horse show at New York last
week was a great success, both in
point of entries and dollars. Never
before in America has there been such
a gathering of beauty and blood, and
never before has a horse show netted
its managers a cool $100,000. Horses
and chrysanthemums,seem to be the fad
of the fashionable world at present,and
indeed it is a very peculiar man that
don’t admire a good horse when he
gees it, although very few are fortu-
nate enough to own one that would at-
tract attention among the one thou-
sand exhibited at Madison Sqaure Gar-
den. Horseflesh, like everything else
in America,is progressing and when
milhonaires like TLeLaAND STAN-
rorD, A.J. Cassarr, the late Av-
aust BeLMoNT and WiLLiaM L. Scott
take the subject in hand, it will not be
long until we are exporting instead of
importing finely bred horses. Arabs
and Normans, Clydesdales and Trotters
were all there; but the hackneys
which many consider the most useful
of all breeds, and a comparatively
new favorite, shared with the hunter
and jumper, the honors of the show.
Taese TELL THE TALE.—-The smoke-
less stack of the Bellefonte Furnace
Company, the noiseless machinery
down at the Nail Works and the fire-
less furnaces at the Glass factory, are
every day reminders to the people of
this place of the efficacy of the McKix-
Ley tariff bill. Before its enactment,
all these enterprises were in full blast ;
none of them in operation tc-day, and
no man knows when, if ever, either
of them will be. So much for protec:
tion.
A call for a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the National
Democratic committee has been issued.
It will be held in Washington on Tues-
day, December 8, at which time will
be fixed the date and place of meeting
of the National Committee to deter-
mine when and where the general
Democratic Convention of 1892 will be
held. As that convention will name
the next President of the United States,
anything pertaining to its place of
meeting or work, will be looked for-
ward to with the greatest of interest.
PA., NOVEMBER 27, 91.
Looking Ahead.
Since the last Presidential election,
the number of electors who will cast
the votes of the different states for
Presidentiand Vice-President, has been
increased from 401, to 444. Thus has
been done by an increase in congres-
sional representation amounting to 23,
and by the admission of new States
with an aggregate representation of 20
votes,
with a list of the States, with the num-
ber of votes cast by each in the elec-
toral college of 1888, and also a list of
those that will vote,;and the number
each is entitled to cast, at the next
election of President :
Vote of 1838. Vote for 1892.
Alabama.. ... 10{Alabama 11
Arkansas. 7/Arkansa «8
California’ 8|Californi : 9
Colorado* ... 3|Colorado®. lid
Connecticut 6/Connecticut. 6
Delaware... 3| Delaware. 3
Florida. Florida . 4
Georgia. 2|Georgia. 13
Illinois* 2| laaho*,. 3
Indiana [llinois.. 24
Towa# 3|Indiana. 15
Kansas Lowa.. 13
Kentucky Kansas! 10
Louisiana Kentucky .13
Maine®* 5| Louisiana. . 8
Maryland Maine*..... v0
Massachu Maryland.... . 8
Michigan 3| Massachuse 15
Minnesota *, Michigan .... . 14
Mississippi. .. 9{Minnesota*. 9
Missouri.. 16| Mississippi 9
Nebraska 5|Missouri.. 17
Nevada®. .... 3{ Montana .. v3
New Hampshi Nebraska® 8
New Jersey... 3
New York#.... . 4
North Carolina. 10
Ohio*..... . 36.
Oregon#,. . 11
Pennsylvania*..
Rhode Island®..
South Carolina
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DO WB GO We
Tennessee. 3
Texas.....
Vermont*
Virginia. 12|South Dakota 4
West Virg Tennessee 12
Wisconsin® 15
4
Virginia.. 12
Washing 3 4
West Virgini 6
Wisconsin 12
Wyoming?®. 3
Total ... wned01 Total...... 444
The asterisk (¥) shows the states
that voted the Republican ticket in
1888, and also those that voted it at
| the recent election. It will be noticed
| that not a single state that cast its vote
| for €1EvELAND in 1888, has gone over
to the Republican column, {while of
“those that were for Harrison : Mas-
| sachusetts, Rhode Island, New York,
Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana
and Illinois, have voted since with the
Democrats.
Conceding to the republicans all the
New states, even Montana, which is,
and has voted Democratic, and{ giving
them back Rhode Island, which has
consistently voted Democratic since the
amendments to their constitution abol-
ishing a property qualification, along
with Illinois and Wisconsin, both of
which under existing circumstances are
at least doubtfulion the Tariff question,
the next electoral college would stand
as follows :
Democratic.
Republican.
California....ceeeenees
Colorado
Arkansas.
Connecticu
Delaware..
Maryland.
Massachus
perl aBoresoonad Rome
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We know that all this kind of figur-
ing 18 mere speculation, but we leave it
to the cool, calm judgment of the read-
er, to determine for himself, if under
the circumstances, it does not look
very much as ifthe next President
would be a Democrat and that indica-
tions at this time point strongly to the
overwhelming defeat of Republicanisra
and its high tariff, monopolistic doc-
trines.
——Asall the other newspapers of the
country are all biddingadieu to Fongs-
ca and his briet Brazilian reign, the
WATcHMAN too, feels like extending its
hand in an everlasting farewell to the
usurper. In doing so, it would kindly
remind him of the fact, that he at least,
has one sympathizer in this country,
who from personal experience knows
how it works to ursurp authority not
belonging to him, and how it feels to
get kicked into the dust very suddenly
for doing so. It is the Hon. Tos. B.
REED, late republican speaker of the
House of Congress. As misery loves
company, Foxesca and Reep should
seek each others acquaintance.
We give in connection here- |
7 At
A Gerrymander at Home.
{ From the Pittsburg Post.
| The Philadelphia Press condemns
(the proposed gerrymander of Ohio
1 again, and says: “The Repnblicans
! have now an opportunity to show how
tairly and equitably that State can be
divided into districts, and in this way
| intrench themselves in popular favor.
| It will pay better for them to adopt
{ this course than to take revenge for
| past outrages perpetrated by the Dem-
locrats.” But the Republicans will
| follow their own precedents in Ohio
; and supersede a Democratic gerryman-
‘der by one of their own invention.
| Talking of gerrymanders, why does
| not the Press pay some attention to
| the Republican gerrymanders in Penn-
sylvania, and especially the main-
tenance of the Senate apportionment
on the basis of the 20-year-old census
of 18702? The constitutioa requires a
Senate apportionment “immediately
after each decennial census,” yet none
has been made in this State under the
census of 1880 or 1890. Its party ad-
heres to the apportionment under the
census of 1870 because its rascality
could not be improved upon.
‘Will it Be the Millenium ?
From the Louisville Courier= Journal.
“A Tariff for Revenue Only” will
adorn the transparencies of every
Democratic procession from ocean to
ocean in 1892. The doetrine is em:
braced by the Democracy everywhere.
There is no diversion of sentiment any
where, And when that doctrine is es-
tablished by the law of the land, alk
other econmic reforms must and will
come as matters of course. Stealing,
in the form of subsidy, will cease. Ag-
rarianism, under the mantle of patriot-
ism, will cease. The spoliation of ag-
riculture will cease. The intimidation
and oppression of the operatives and
wage-earners will cease. The country
will be restored to heaithy and normal
conditions ; sectionalism, with its pre-
scriptive spirit and its narrow aims,
its Force bills and its pension jobs,
will be finally sent to the bone yard,
along with the other debris of the war;
and a great, happy, prosperous and
united people will take up the march
of progress, to distance all the nations.
and to lead the world.
Republican Slave Divers..
From the Pittsburg Post.
Things are getting sort of changed
around when free negroes are brought
up from the Democratic South and
made slaves in Republican Allegheny
county. The disclosures by the Times.
concerning the treatment ot tha colored
men who work in one of the Mononga-
hela river mines are rather startling.
Oh, if this had only been in the South
how the Gazette would have rolled: it
as a sweet morsel under its bloody shirt
tongue! But itis not in the South.
It is right here in Allegheny county,
with its Republican majority of 20,000
the boasted home-of protection to labor.
Protection, indeed! These ignorant
negroes were brought from. Virginia to
displace local labor because they would
work cheaper, and are reported sub-
jected to a system of espionage and op-
pression hardly surpassed if at all by
the contract convict labor system of
Tennessee, against which. the miners
there recently broke out in open shot-
gun and guapowder rebellion.
Gone to. the Political. Bone Yand..
From the Atiinson (Kan. }\Patriot.. ,
There is a political graveyard where
parties are buried which has many
suggestive head stoves: “Sacred to |
the memory of the anti-Masonic Par-
ty,” “Sacred to the memory of the par-
ty of Wirt and Weed,” “Sacred to the
memory of the Federal Party,” “Sa-
cred to the memory of the Free Soil
Party,” “Sacred to the memory of the
Know-nothing Party,” “Sacred tothe
memory of the Liberal Republican
Party,” “Sacred to the memory of the
Whig Party,” “Sacred to the memory
of the Greenback Party,” “Sacred to
the memory of the Granger Party,”
“Sacred to the memory of the Prohibi-
tion,” party “Sacred to the memory of
the People’s Party.” All of these parties
lived their little day, died and were car-
ried out to the graveyard by ihe one
party that was born when the morning
stars of the Republic sang together,
and will live till the sun has set for-
ever,
The Real Question.
From the Meadvilie Messenger.
Cries of “free trade” and ‘‘ruining
American industries” will not obscure
the real que:tion at issue. The people
are being rapidly educated on this sab- }
ject and understand that Democratic |
success means legislation in the interest
of the masses—while Republican vie-
tory means legislation in the interest of
the classes. It is the Jeffersonian doc- |
trine of the common people against the
money aristocracy ; a tariff for the bene-
fit of all instead of protection fora few
monopolists and millionaires.
The Kind they Like,
From the Philadelphia Times.
Senator Vest is growing gray. Well,
a gray Vest is a comfortable garment,
and the Missouri people seem content to
Spawls from the Keystone,
—An ossified negro is rattling his bones for
dimes at Bath.
—MeKean and Potter county hunters get
$24 apiece for deer.
—Hog disease has prostrated many of Berks
county's big porkers.
—The Mennonite faith-cure service opened
operations at Reading, Wednesday.
—sGreen goods” circulars are again flooding
susceptible citizens of Lancaster.
—Marraied sixty-one years, Mrs. Elizabeth J.
Pennell died in Chester on Sunday.
—Frost is crumbling Johnstown’s new
fire brick pavements like blocks of sand.
—Twelve year old John Rownan, of Lancas-
ter, was shot in the abdomen, by aistale,
Sunday.
—The largest Teachers’ Ins#iute ever
held in York county is now in session atthe
county seat. :
—Engineer C.C. Ray, injured near Jersey
Shore last week, is dead aud was buried from
Sunbury.
—An escaped maniac, James Gastly, gave
six men a lively chase at Northumberland on
Monday.
—Many new ore banks are being opened in
Southern Pennsylvania on the Reading's Get-
tysburg Line. -
—Catehing the convention eraze, Williams®
port ix bidding for the Prohibition aggre
gation in May.
—Brave Engineer C.C. Ray, who stuck to
his locomotive in the wreck near Sunbury
died on Sunday night.
—The trial of William Keck, alleged mur-
derer of the Nipches,at Ironton, Lehigh coun-
ty, will occur in January.
—The body of a well-dressed stranger per-
haps 35 years old, was found on the railroad
track at Bethlehem Tuesday.
__Friends of Hon. Charles Hunsieker, Nor.
ristown, are urging Lim for successor of the
late Supreme Justice Clark.
—Chief Engineer Greenburg, ofthe Hunt-
ingdon Fire Department, had to put out a fire
in his own pocket in Harrisburg.
—A bullet in bis thigh was the result of an
attempt by George McCafferty, Linwood, to
load it into a rusty pistol barrel.
——Hanover, York county, is full of marriag-
eable young women and sends out this‘adver-
tisement: “Male Help Wanted.”
—Without noise or leaving track a robber
stole a cash box with $50 from G. ;B. Wilson’s
drug store, Chester, on Sunday night.
—The Moravian Seminary’s elaim for §50,000
tor damages to.its property by opening Bridge
avenue, Bethlehem, is on trial this week.
—Twelve-year old Elizabeth Barre has a suit
for $25,000 against the City Passenger Railway
Company, of Reading, for the loss of a leg.
— Enormous quantities of Lancaster county
tobacco have recently been taken from the
poles and.put through the stripping process.
—Playing in front of a stove while his mother
was in the yard, a 6-year-old son of John W-
Tilgnman, of South Chester, was burned to
death.
—The Cumbexland Valley Railroad Com-
pany is ordered by ajury to pay Samuel M.
Shutt $5147. for the loss of his legon the
track.
—A duplex boiler exploded at the Lochiek
Iron Works, near Harrisburg, Monday and:
created a panic. Jacob Rettinger was in
jured.
— The Reading Railroad people at Reading
removed obstructions, and the Pennsylvania:
finished their siding to Orr, Painter ‘& Co’s.,
works.
_A Norristown father dug the grave and
buried his own infant child in the Catholic
Cemetery, to save the expense of paying the
sexton.
—A gulf sixty feet wide showed on the
surface of the ground at Girardville; where a
great cave-in occurred, and frightesed the
inhabitanss,
—A band of gypsies was raided on Henry C_
Fritz's farm. near Chester, when the men fled
but the dusky woman repelled the invaders
with stones.
—The revolt of Class B in the Reading
Boys’ High School is attributed by the boys
to the principal’s partiality for a banker's son
among them.
—Charged with forgeries that aggregate.
8300, Jonathan H. Gerhart, a cattle dealer of
Sossamantville, Montgomery county, has been.
locked in jail.
—Mrs. W. F. Carpenter, a Johnstown woman,
has been arrested for weilding a. baseball bat.
on the head of M. J. McKinzie, who was try-
ing to collect a bill.
Struck by a train that shatte ed his buggy
and tossed him a rod or two. headforemost, 78+
year-old George Byerly, of Jeannette, got.up
and walked away for a dootor..
—An onder for 3500. new box. cars. has.
been given by the Lehigh Valley Railroad tor
McKee & Fuller, Fullerton, Lehigh county—
a two years job for the works.
—While smoking his pipe on Sunday night
Hugh Gallagher, Allentown, fell asleep, and,
the house was set on. fire by a spark and dess
troyed. He narrowly escaped death.
—Among those mentioned to succeed Jus.
tice Claris are Hon, Levi B. Adigks, of the
twelfth Distrist ; Judge Woodward, of Luzerne
and Hon. Hugh Ms North, of Columbia,
—A boltin a rapidly revolving wheel tore
the shirt off William Montgomery, 8 workmen,
ni Roach’s shipyard, Chester, snd only his
great strength.saved him from. being whirled
to death.
—The will. of Mrs. Anna Eyerman, one oft
Easton's nichest ladies, begpeathes an estate.
valued at over $150,000 to. her grandson, John
Eyerman. Rev, H. M. Kieffer, D. D., of Eas«
ton, gets $1000.
—For adefect inthe nead that caused the
lynchypin in their wagon to break and the,
wagon. to fall over an embankment with
Rudolph H. Kauffman and wife, killing the
latter, Mr. Kauffman is now suing Mano®
Township, at Lancaster.
— Calvin M. Dechant, superintendent of the
Mount Penn Gravity Railroad, was arrested at
Reading, on the charge of manslaughter. The
arrest was made by direction of the District
Attorney and the Coroner's jury, which charg-
od hi guilty of criminal negligence in cons
nection with she recent accident.
— Thomas Cooch, a widower, aged 87 Years,
one of the best known pioneers of the Schuyl-
kill County coal region, was shot by his broth
er Richard, aged 80, because. 88 Richard says,
Thomas had alienated his 40-year-old wife
from him and induced her to join in system-
atically maltreating him. Mrs. Richard Cooch
was wounded, but her husband says he did
not intend to hurt her, as he blamed only
wear i% They know it to be well lined.
his brother.
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