RE TE EIT
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Their will be lots of CoNKLINGS
and BurcHARDS for "92.
—The bannana works a skin game
on which manypeople drop.
—~-Dark horse talk, at Minneapolis,
keeps Frrp DouGLASS on the qui vive.
—Natural gas did not begin to fail at
Pittsburg until the exodus of her politi-
cians began.
— HARRISON'S bee made enough honey
to keep the White House stocked until
he leaves it.
—As a result of president making we
may look for a new brand of flour from
Minneapolis.
—Next week we will tell you just ex-
actly who will bear the cross of forlorn
hope for the g. 0. p.
—We can’t always just sometimes
tell, still yet’ will be aproposat Min-
neapolis until it is done.
—BrLAINE’s first letter to CLARKSON
acted very much for him like Jonam
did for the whale. Both were their own
antidotes,
—Back numbers at social gatherings,
like back numbers in the library, are
usually well thumbed and slightly turn-
ed down af the corners.
—The orchestra played a selection
from the “brass monkey’’ when INGALLS
strutted down the aisle of the conven-
tion hall, on Tuesday.
—Poor MYERS, of Missouri, couldn’t
stand the pressure. The strain between
the HARRISON and BLAINE elements
was so great that he took a fit.
—Cil City proved to be a sad, but ap-
propriate name for that bustling Venan-
go county centre. God knows of the
sorrow wrought by that sea of flame.
—The water of the Mississippi is
doubtless being damned by the flooded
farmers along its banks, but not with the
dam that would insure greatest safety.
—The man who sits around ‘waiting
til gomething turns up” is wearing such
big warts on his brain that he won't be
able to see his ship when it does come in,
--It must have been quite consoling
for FASSET to occupy the temporary
chairmanship, but we fancy he would
sooner have been weilding the gavel
up at Albany.
— Taking their own estimates for it,
as to the comparative size of the two
wings of the Republican party at Min-
neapolis, we must infe®that it is an ex-
ceedingly lop sided bird.
—~Phenix like the Philadelphia
2imes has risen from ils ashes to re-
sume ifs position in the front van of
representative journals and to leed in
typographical perfection.
—We wonder just how much of each
day BENJAMIN is puiting in at the end
of that “ticker’’ he has in the White
House and we fancy its tick does not
Lid an le to the end of it,
—The rajabh of Persia has a complete
bed-rcom suit, as well as other useful
articles of furniture made of glass and if
"he would send over to some of our ball
teams he could get aman with glass
arms,
—If BLAINE'S cause is not espoused
by the president makers he will be
““deader’'n a door nail,” and he might
just as well follow son Russerr’s ad-
vise and hie himself to some political
shelf.
— Life, unless you live for somebody
else, is said to be not worth living, but
what in the world is a fellow going to
do if the “somebody else,” whom he
imagines he is living for, don’t want
him.
--The action taken by the General
conference of the Methodist church at
Westminster, Md., last week in striking
the word ‘‘obey” from the marriage
ceremony, removes all doubt as to which
member of the household wears the
pants in that State.
—Up to last Saturday BENJAMIN re-
garded the young woman, in whom
cartoonists make a composite picture of
the Republican party, asa gushing, gid-
dy damsel completely wrecked on him.
The same word still expresses his opin-
ion of her, but the accent is now placed
on the penult.
— The antagonistic attitude taken by
the leading factions at Minneapolis pro-
mises very beneficent effects for the
Democracy this fall. BraiNg, Quay
and FORAKER can never bring them-
selves to believe that HARRISON, SHER-
MAN and Duprey should be supreme
and as a result of their dissatisfaction
knifing can be looked for.
-—Poor uncle JERRY Rusk. Think
of all the valuable time he is losing
while fretting about the nomination. H®
has slowly crawled back onto the fence
again, and the result of his mature de-
liberations brings him to confess that
the old fashioned worm structures are
the best after all, for if you crawl on
them you satisfy both parties. Half of
the time on one side, the other Lalf on
the other.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 10, 1899.
NO. 23.
An Unlooked for Situation.
In looking over the field of political
battle for the coming campaign very
few of the most impartial have count.
ed Kansas out of the Republican elec-
toral summary, yet from the combine
that has recently been made, in that
State, between the People’s party and
the Democrats, it looks very much as
though those who imagined Kansas to
be anchored to its Republican love
will be disappointed this fall.
Continued defeat in that State has
weakened the Democratic organization
until it can expect nothing of itself, yet
with the happy pooling of interests
with the People’s Party every office of
importance will be wrested from the
Republican grasp and either turned
against or deadened to its interests.
Kansas has so long been republican
that the downfall of the G. O.P. in
that commonwealth will prove a disas-
ter, which could only be equaled by a
similar occurrence in this State. The
following extract from the Philadel
phia Evening Telegraph, an independ-
ent Republican paper, will give our
readers a fair idea of how the cam-
paign is to be managed in Kansas and
how its electoral vote will be stricken
from the Republican list.
“The Democrats and the People's
party leaders are alleged to have come
to terms in Kansas, The trouble now
will be to enforce the agreement on the
rank and file of the parties, though if
there is any gumption abroad among
them there will be much eagerness to
chime in and take advantage ot this
opportunity which they now have to
beat the Republicans. The contract,
as now agreed to, gives the nominations
in two of the seven Congressional dis-
tricts to the Democrats, also the Con-
gressman-at-large, the Attorney-Gener-
al, and Judge of the Supreme Court.
The People's party takes everything
else, including the Governor and the
Presidential Electors, It would look
as if the farmers had made oft withthe
lion’s share of the booty, and that
must be admitted by each side. The
People’s. party men, however, were in
a position to demand the biggest half
of the loaf. They polled a tremendous
vote in 1890, and the Democrats have
next to nostrength or organization. 1
will be interesting to see just how hap.
pily the old party and the new party
get along together. If they succeed in
harmonizing until November, and if
elected without the help of Kansas.”
Now with Kansas, and her ten votes
in the electoral college gone, aud a con-
dition of things in this State which will
require the bosses to keep all their
“fat” for home consumption there isa
very foreboding outlook for the man
whom the Minneapolis convention will
nominate for President. :
If ever Democrats had hope fora
victory they have it for the result of
the coming campaigp.
A Pointer.
“Exorbitant duties npon imported
products serve to engender a general
spirit of fraud, which is always pre-
judicial to honest commerce, and often
to the revenue itself.” — Alexander
Hamilton. ;
This, from & man of whom DanieL
Wenster eaid : “He smote the rock
of national rescurces and abundant
streams of currency flowed forth, he
touched the dead corpse of public cred-
it and it sprang upon its feet” should
prove a pointer to those who are
still clammoring for the continuance of
the war tax theorists’ power. In the
darkest days our country knew, when a
bale of its money wouldn’t buy a pair
of shoes ora loaf of bread this man,
ALexanper HaMiLtoN, came to the
rescue and following out the sentiment
which we have quoted he accomplish-
eda result which elicited that grand
ecomium from one of our ceuntry's
greatest orators and statesman,
The death of Colonel Jouy H.
Taceart, which occurred at his coun-
try home, at Grubb’s Landing, N, J.,
on last Saturday afternoon, removes
from the journalistic circles of the Key-
stone State one of its oldest and most
forcible writers. Tacocarr's 7imes has
always been a representative Republi:
. can organ of the Quaker city.
the People’s party can poll as many |
votes as in 1890, Harrison, Braixg, or |
some other Republican will have to be |
i blue.
The Signs Point That Way-
All present indications point to the
renomination of ex-President CLEVE
LAND. There is no question that the
sentiment of the great mass of Demo-
crats is in. his favor, and the expres
sions of most of the State Conventions
have accorded with this sentiment.
It is true that many of the State
conventions have shown a reserve as
to instructing their delegations directly
for him, but the resolutions they have
passed, strongly endorsing his conduct
as President and the general policy of
his administration, leave no doubt as
to the drift of Democratic feeling on
the question of the Presidential nomi--
nation.
There may be danger to Mr. CLEVE-
LAND's renomination in the fact of so
many delegations being uninstructed.
Such a thing may happen as the con-
vergence of contingencies that may
bring about a nomination contrary to
public expectation, and the choice may
fall upon the favorite of the party, but
whatever may be the result of the de-
liberations of the convention, we trust
that a candidate will be chosen who
will lead the party to victory.
Still Waving the Bloody Shirt.
The unveiling of the High Water
Mark monument, at Gettysburg, on
last Thursday attracted a great multi
tude to Pennsylvania's historic battle
field. Some who had never been there
before went to satiate their cariosity ;
others who were there have made al-
most annual visits since those thril-
ling July days in '63. Each time to
commemorate some incident which
they have held dear ever since the tide
wag turned from the North back to the
vanquished South.
The monument which was dedicated
on Thursday marks the farthest north-
ern point reached by the confederate
lives and in consequence is of great
histrionic interest to visitors to the bat-
tle field. Everything at the dedicato-
ry services passed off in the most
pleasant manner and but one unfortu-
nate incident marred the beauty of the
occasion,
In the course of a most brilliant
oration Gen. Beaver expressed aslight
tribute to the memory of those brave
souls who had fallen while struggling
for the mistaken cause of the South,
and gave utterance to the hope that
the monuments which dotted the plain
on which he stood would quicken a
responsive feeling in the hearts of the
North for the gray as well as for the
These patriotic sentiments of a sol-
dier, than whom the Union did have a
more fearless one, caused a murmur |
among certain spectators who are ever
on the alert to shake the bloody shirt
and who can see no good in anything
that is Southern. The speaker who
followed Gen. Beaver took up the sub-
ject and displaying his begotted opin-
ions was cheered by those narrow
minded partisans who will never for-
get that the war has been over a quar-
ter of a century and that the North
and the South are one country. That
instead of tearing open the old sores
we should etrive to give them the
balm of fellowship and love.
CURR ITT SCOURS
~The phenomenal rain fall which
has taken place all over this State and
many western ones, during the past
month is calling forth many scientific
theories as to 1ts probable canse. The
destruction wrought by the water
throughout the Mississippi Valley
was harrowing indeed, but we Penn: !
sylvanian’s have a very limited con-
ception as to its awful devastation.
The Johnstown horror made the suf-
ferings of those people whose homes
are almost annually inundated more
appreciable to us and now comes the
appalling scenes at Oil City and Titus-
ville to freshen that sad memory and
bring new sorrow to the heart of the
Keystone.
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that
convention
~——There "is an intimation
the Republican National
will abandon the demand of
Republican party for a Force Bill,
This will be only a political expedient,
intended to make an impression that
may tend to break up the Democratic
solidity in the South, But the dispo-
sition shown by that party to rule the
South with the bayonet has made an
impression in that section that cen nev-
er be effaced.
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Two Circuses at Minneapolis.
Together with the great BarxUM
shows the Republican National Conven-
tion began its week at Minneapolis, on-
Monday, and as yet nothing ot a definite
character has evolved from the chaos
of delegates and bosses who began to
assemble as early as last Thursday.
Thus far the talk has all been
Brave or HARRIsox, but the prodi.
gious boom that started with the pre-
mier’s resignation of his cabinet office,
on Saturday, has been disintegrating
instead of being augmented and the
latest telegraphic reports are not so
hopeful for the cause of the plumed
knight. His workers struck the con-
vention with cyclonic effect, but their
efforts were not lasting against the dis-
ciplined lines of the; HARRISON people.
Since the fury of the first onslaught
has calmed, dark horses are beginning
to loom up with ominous portend for
both of the leaders. Every system of
figuring gives HARRISON a majority,
though it is not impossible that BLAINE
may yet be nominated. The strategic
nature of the latter's workers makes
the whole thing such an uncertainty
that nothing would be surprising,
though the WATcaMAN is of the opin-
ion that BLAINE is out of the race.
The tactics being resorted to to secure
delegates for him savor of the treacher-
ous workings of ward heelers and his
henchmen are loosing confidence rap-
idly. -
Among the dark horse possibilities,
MoKiNLEY is the most likely to receive
the BraiNe delegation, though ArLri-
sox is looked upon as standing a fair
show if HARRISON is not nominated on
the first ballot.
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Vigorous Christians.
The African Methodist Quadrennial
General Conference that closed its tu-
multuous labors in Philadelphia sev-
eral weeks since, was a true represen-
tation of the church militant. The
bosiness that was brought before it
may be said to have been fought
through, there having been scarcely a
subject introduced that didn’t afford
occasion for a “scrap.” There were no
actual blows exchanged, but the pro-
ceedings barely lacked that feature of
animation. The questions that relat-
ed to the exchequer of the church fur-
nished the liveliest topics of discussion,
and wien money matters were up for
congideration the united efforts of three
or four bishops and more than a score
i of presiding elders were required to
| prevent the conference from assumin
| the aspect of a pugilistic arena. Col
{ ored Christians when they get down to
{ business, whether ata conference or a
| revival, are never deficient in fervor.
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——It was in the West that the only
Democratic stand for the free coinage
of silver was made ; but the sentiment
of the party in that section on that
subject appears to be undergoing a
change. In Missouri, for instance, the
i Democratic State convention in 1890
{ declared for an unlimited use of silver
in the coinage of money. This year
| the State convention opposes cheap
| dollars and demands that a silver dol-
i lar shall have the same intrinsic value
i as a gold dollar. There is the same
difference of expression on this subject
lin the Towa Democratic platform of
| 1890 and 1892. After all the silver
| question will not be of much impor-
| tance as a factor in the coming Presi:
| dential contest, which the Democrats
| are going to win on the issue of tariff
| reform.
|
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Getall the campaign news in
the WarcumaN, for 50cts.
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How are They to be Paired.
Creveranp, Parison, Boies, Canme-
| BELL, PALMER and GorMAN are about
| the most available men, yet how are
| they to be paired.—Extract from last
| week's WarcHMAN,
| How are they to be paired, eh?
! Why if you want to win the election
| pair them thas :
| For President Roprrt E. Parison,
of Pennsylvania, wholtwice carried the
| Republican city of Philadelphia for
. controller, and twice carried the Re-
! publican state of Pennsylvania for Gov-
| ernor.
| For Vice President General Joun
! M. Parmer, of Illinois, who carried
the Republican state of Illinois by
{ 30,000 popular majority for United
States Senator.
| The WarcmmaN is too bright a pa-
per to ask such a question, but put
them at your mast-head and the Chi-
cago convention will endorse you, * *
The Stage Coach Going to Pleces.
From the Walla Walla, Wash., Statesman.
The St.Louis Globe-Demoerat, is fear-
ful lest the republicans lose control of
their majority in the United States sen-
ate this year. Itsounds the alarm to
place the party on its guard, The terms
of eighteen republican senators expire
next March and eleven democrats.
There is a republican majority of only
six in the present senate, and with a
change of four democrats would gain
control, providing they re-elected the
successors ' to the eleven whose terms
expire. Those democrats whose terms
expire in 1893 are Bates of Tennessee,
Blodgett of New Jersey, Cockerell of
Missouri, Daniel of Virginia, Faulkner
of West Virginia, George of Mississippi,
Gorman of Maryland, Gray of Dela-
ware, Pasco of Florida, Mills of Texas
and Turpie of Indiana. Of this num-
ber Gorman has already been re-elected,
leaving only ten whose places will have
to be filled. There is hardly a question
as to there being a democrat in every
one of these places, thereby assuring
that the democrats will maintaip their
present strength. The democrats have
a fighting chance in six or seven states
in which vacancies will occur, where
the seats are now fllled by republicans.
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Only So He is a Democrat.
From the Utica Observor.
It is noticed with satisfaction that
no matter what differences of opinion
revail among Democrats of the var-
1ous States in the Union the pledges of
the representatives in conventions are
given to support the nominee of the
Chicago Convention. This is because
there is confidence that the nominee
will truly represent the principles of
Democracy. Tariff reform, honest
money and honest administration of
government will be assured.if the
Democrats win next fall. It is the at-
tainment of these ends that inspires
the Democrats to unite in the great
struggle to overcome the common
enemy. With few exceptions, possibly
one, every State or Congressional
convention has passed resolutions of
fidelity to the Democratic candidate,
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Raum Getting There,
From the Phila. Record.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1891, the expenditures for * pensions
were $124,415,951.40. If Commissioner
Raum’s request for $7,500,000 to cover
a deficiency during the present month
should be acceded to by Congress, the
current fiscal year will witness a pen-
sion expenditure of over $140,000,000
up to June 30 next—an amount consid-
erably in excess of the cost of the stand-
ing army and pension list combined of
either Great Britain or Germany. As
the pension list grows the figures be-
come more portentous. :
Nary a Word, as Yet.
From the Northumberland County Democrat.
The Republican papers of Philadel-
phia now have another chance to berate
the Democratic House at Washington,
-On Friday, among other appropriations
made necessary by the legislation of the
previous Republican House, was $620,-
000 for the new Mint in Philadelphia.
But these papers won’t avail themselves
of the opportunity. This is a bit of ex-
travagance it 1s, that just suits them. If
Philadelphia and Philadelphia politi-
cians could only gobble everything they
would do it-—and allow a rebate of forty
per cent.
The Real Republican Platform.
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
War taxes in time of peace.
Billion Dollar expenditures.
A tariff for monoplies only.
Bounties and subsidies to favor inter-
ests.
A Federal Force law for elections.
Scandalous pension menagement,
The protection of the rascals,
The division of offices as spoils.
Currency inflation with short-dollar
notes.
A blustering diplomacy.
The untaxing of foreigners only.
A Man to be Honored.
From the Wilkesbarre Union Leader:
General Epa Hunton, who has been
appointed by Governor McKinley, of
Virginia, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of John S. Barbour, served in
Congress through the ’70s, and was a
member of the celebrated Electoral Com-
mission in 1877, voting steadily wilh
the seven who believed that Mr. Tilden
was justly elected to the great office of
President.
When Ignerance is Bliss 'Tis Folly
to be Wise.
From the Hollidaysburg Standard :
The Federal Treasury, if we may be-
lieve Secretary Foster and the tariff
organs, is all right, with a comfortable
surplus in hand. Nevertheless persons
who have government money owing to
them find difficulty in getting their
Fay.
Pennsylvanians Would Welcome It.
From the Montrose Democrat
The Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer says :
“Stranger things have happened than
the nomination of Pattison for president.
In fact it looks more probable for that
now, than it did at any previous time.”
Spawls from the Keystone,
— Harrisburg wants a boulevard.
—Reading High school graduated 64 pupils
Wednesday. 3 “ ’ ©
—Many Perry county farmers are obliged to
replant their cornfields, : —
—Burglers rifled the Philadelphia and Read-
ing’s station at Temple.
—The soldiers’ monument at Mahanoy City
will be dedicated on September 25.
—The Letort Car Axle Works will be moved
from Carlisle to Gettysburg Junction.
—Footpads knocked Charles Harper insensi-
ble at Reading and robbed him of $5.
—The 109th annual commen cement of Dick
inson College opened at Carlisle Sunday.
—D. H. Printz and 8. H. Fulmer have
bought the Nickel Plating Works at Reading:
—Scarlet fever and diptheria are prevalent
to an alarming extent in Heckschereville
Valley. ;
—Samuel Gregory, aged 17, was drowned at
Pop Falls, Mesheppen Creek, while in swim-
ming. ;
—A tast express killed 18-year-old Edward
Frantz, who walked on the track near Hoken-
dauqua.
—Mrs. Ambrose O'Donnell, of Columbia fell
into a kettle of boiling soap and was horribly
burned.
—Charged with doing an illegal insurance
business, John L. Evans. of Scranton, was are
rested Friday.
—Muhlenberg College’s quarter centennial
will be celebrated at Allento wn, beginning on
the 22d inst.
—A 4 per cent mortgage of $100,000 was en-
tered against the Lebanon and Annville Elec -
tric Street Railway.
—Whit-Monday was generally observed by
German worshipers in Reading and through-
out Berks county.
—Reading complains because not a penny
of the more than $8,500,000 of State funds is in
a bank in that city.
—Ex-Assistant Postmaster of Allegheny,
confessed on Friday that he had embezzle
money from the office. :
~The Old German Baptists of the United
States are in convention, 10,000 strong, at Mill-
brook, near Chambersb urg.
—The workmen in the Philadelphia and
Reading car shops at Palo Alto will hereafter
work but four days a week.
—The pearly gatesare half ajar to receive
Mrs. Lewis Fritz, who attempted suicide at
Gilbertsville, Berks county.,
—Reading Railroad Brakeman John Galla-
gher, of Sunbury, was kl'led by an overhead
blow at the Mahanoy tunnel.
—While chasing a pigeon from the barn roof,
George Newhard, of Bethlehem, fell to the
ground and was fatally injured.
—Every day in July will witness excursions
from various parts of the State to the Penn-
sylvania Chautauqua, Mt. Gretna.
—A horse kicked a fracture in Harry Daut-
rich’s jaw, while Harry, a Reading pattern-
maker, was picnicking near home.
—Appiication was made to Court Friday for
an inquiry into the sanity of H. J. Murdock, a
wealthy iron broker of Pittsburg.
—General Louis Wagner, of Philadelphia, is
one of the newly-elected directors of the
Gettysburg Battlefield Association.
—The Philadelphia Central High school
club of Lehigh University held its first annual
banquet Friday night at Bethlehem.
—The great coke king, H. C. Frick said at
Pittsburg that experiments had been made in
piping coal with the greatest success.
—A fall of top rock at York Farm Colleges
Schuylkill county, fatally crushed Joseph
Multzer and Michael Paykas, two miners.
—Chief Justice Paxson, of the Supreme
Court, addressed the law graduates in Dickin-
son College commencement at Carlisle Mo n-
day.
—An injunction was granted at Harrisburg
to restrain the City Passenger Railway Com-
pany from putting an electric road on Walnut
street.
—C. B. 3illyman, Jr., who was ass aulted ter-
ribly and stabbed by Josiah Metz, about two
months ago, at Pottsville, has sued for $20,000
damages.
—D. W. Laubach, No. 303 Berks street
Philadelphia, and a North Penn brakeman
was seriously injured at Bethlehem by falling,
from his train.
—The Bishop-Thorpe School bacecalaureate®
sermon was preached at Bethlehem Sunday
to but one graduate—Miss Eleanor V. Davis,
of Germantown.
—The sun was so hot at Reading Monday as
to overcome Thomas Wisner, of Temple, and
topple him headforemost from a load of hay.
He will recover.
—An attempt to break the will of the late
Linn Moyer, whose estate is worth $90,000, is
being made at Reading by four judgment
craditors of an heir.
—When Samuel Reeser, a Hamburg mer-
chant, retorned to his home Friday night, he
was startled to find his wife hanging to a raf-
ter in the attic—stone dead.
—Rev. Dr. Jacobs, of Mount Airy Theolog i-
cal Seminary preached the synodical sermon
yesterday at the 145th annual session of the
Lutheran Ministerium at Reading. Ride
—A loan of §6 made 20 years ago by Tom
Scott, of Bethlehem, to John McGovern, of
Lincoln University, has just been cancelled
by the payment of interest and principal $13.
—Rev. Gilbert H. Sterling, of New York
master of the famous Trinity scheols, has ac-
cepted an invitation of the vestry to become
rector of the Church of the Nativity, Bethle-
hem.
—A mob of 100 men and women surrounded
the house of a married woman at Shoemakers-
ville, who was entertaining a young man, but
four pistol shots from the woman scattered
the crowd. ;
—In a minority report to the Governor, Dr.
Thomas (i. Morton, of the State Board of
Charities, recommends radical reform in the
system of punishment at the Huntingdon Re-
formatory.
—At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of
the Norristown Insane Asylum Friday, Trus-
tee B. D. Evans, of West Chester, urged the
board to purchase 100 acres more of ground
for cultivation.
—Judge Metzger, of Lycoming county, sit-
ting in equity at Gettysburg, granted a pre-
liminary injunction restraining Burgess Mc-
Conaughy irom presiding at the sessions of the
Town Coun cil.
—By aside hook breaking, two wagons of
rock dashed £00 feet down the Hickory Ridge
Slope at Shamokin, barely ‘escaping {:Superin-
tendent Reinhardt, who was with a gang of
men at work there, It caused great [damage,
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