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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Siings.
AT THE GRANGER'S PICNIC.
Now doth the busy farmer boy
Improve each shining minute ;
By hunting up the fakir’s trap,
And straightway falling “in it.”
—Chol-e-ra-Bac-il-lae.
—-Reciprocity seems to be governing
the distribution of cholera.
— With Dr. JENKINS, it is damned if
you do and damned 1f you don’t.
—Senator HILL is going to get mar-
ried, You know what that means.
—Look in your mirror when you
want to get face to face with your-
self.
--SULLIVAN knows what itis to be
under dog now and he is ‘‘chewing the
rag’ in good style.
—This man PECK, of New York, is
not the corner grccer who had the bad
son, is he ?
—An ounce of preventive is worth
a pound of cure, says the hunter, as he
drains his bottle before a snake is seen.
—We haven’t heard of any congratu-
latory messages passing between chair-
man MANLY, of Maine, and Mr. HARRI-
SON.
—HARRISON must have hoped to
give people Republican reading from
now until election time with his 8000
word acceptance.
—The returns from Arkansas, Ver-
mont and Maine {are veritable ‘hand
writing on the wall” of protection’s
party. Ithas been tried and isjfound
wanting. ;
—Aesthetic Boston people have con-
cluded that the town of San Francisco
needs some recognition. Prize fighting
was a little vulgar for their great JoHN
L. anyway.
—The Grand Old Party counted on
three Northern states being sure. After
the experience in Vermont, and
Maine, Pennsylvania is almost ques-
tionable ground.
— Lieutenant PEARY didn’t find the
North Pole, but he thinks he discovered
the place where HARRISON took on that
coolness which is gradually freezing off
all of his henchmen.
—There is one thing certain Jim
BrLAINE’S vote will not help BEN HAR-
RISON to carry Maine, for the Ex-Secre-
tary of State forgot to get registered and
is disfranchised for a year. |
—If weare to have another dose of
Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay President HARRI-
SON might have endeared himself in the
hearts of his countrymen if he had put
a permanent quarantine on LoTTIE
CoLLINs.
—The grasshoppers are skipping over
the stubble fields in countless numbers,
utterly unconcious of the boon they are
conferring upon the human family, by
their contribution to the savoriness of
the Thanksgiving turkey.
—Mrs. HARRISON'S dangerous illness
will save her husband the trouble of
telling so many lies about the glories of
protection, but it can’t rescue the people
from the awful possibilities of another
eight thousand word letter.
—Itis rumored that BLAINE is to
winter in California, whereupon the
Montesano, Washington, Economist
ventures the assertion that ‘“he will not
escape the Republican freeze out by
coming to the Pacific coast.”
— White girls are wedding colored
fellows down in Montgomery county
and the white boys are getting mad.
Such girls are not worth getting angry
at and we venture to say that they’ll
make poor wives for colored men,
—If, as McKINLEY says, the for-
eigner pays the duty, why does presi-
dent HARRISON make such a blunder, in
his letter of acceptance, as to say that
the repeal of the duty on sugar has sav"
ed a great amount to the American
consumer.
—Gov. FLowER thinks New York
farmers could manufacture the eight or
nine million pounds of cheese which we
annually import. ‘We are sure Harlem
could furnish the goats and Tammany
. Hall enough savory transactions for
them to feed upon, but their diet of tin
cans would soon run Mr. McKINLEY'S
tin plants dry.
--Seventy-five cents a bushel for the
farmers’ wheat. No work for thousands
of laborers and a hard winter approach-
ing. Youare cordially invited to put
yourself out of all misery by voting for
more protection. It has put you where
you are and it will continue to harrass
you until the great tidal waye of Re-
form has swept over the land.
—Are you going to vote for HARRI-
SON and a war tariff this fall? Are you
going to vote money out of the laborer’s
pocket into the till of the protected
monopolist ? Are you going to vote a
market away from the farmer and make
him pay a duty on every implement he
uses 7 Are you going to exercise your
franchise against every interest which
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 16, 1892.
NO. 36.
Where the Load Falls Heaviest.
It is upon the shoulders of the farm-
er and the workingmen, that the bulk
of the taxation, of which we all com-
plain, rests.
Others of us, who are in different
lines of trade and business, have oppor-
tunities of squaring up for any unjust
loads that may be piled upon us, but
the tiller of the soil and he who sells
his labor have none.
When the manufacturer pays the
tariff tax upon the raw material that
enters :nto the article he produces, he
gets it back in the increased price he
puts upon that article. When the
merchant finds that the original cost
price of his goods has advanced, be-
cause of tariff taxation, he adds that
addition to their selling price, and gets
it back in that way, When the build-
er discovers that the price of lumber
and nails and building material has
gone up, because of the tariff, he gets
it back by adding to the cost of the
structure. And so on through every
trade or profession, until it comes to
the farmer and the workingman who
are left to pay the full increased}icost
of everything they; haye to;lpurchase,
without any way of getting it back, or
any hope of escaping the onerous |load
that it lays upon them.
It is not the farmer or the tariff that
fixes the selling price of wheat, and
corn, and potatoes, and pork. It isthe
condition of crops and the demand
Europe may make after using the} pro.
ducts of its own farms, that regulates
these.
Itis not the tariff or the laborer
either in the mines, the factory, the
mill or elsewhere, that dictates the
price his services shall bring. It is the
employer who says how much he will
pay, and if his rates are not accepted,
lock-outs are resorted too, jand Italy
and Hungary are scoured for men who
will accept the offered price.
Thus it is that no matter how much
the tariff may add to the costof such
articles as the farmer and workingman
must buy, neither of them can relieve
themselves ofjthe additional burden, as
others can, by adding to that which
they have to sell.
So long as they are willing to siand
this system of robbery, for robbery it
is so far as they are concerned, just so
long will they have tojstand it.
It is their votes that gives the Re-
publican party power to enforce this
doctrine, and so long as they vote for
the Republican party, they have neith-
er right to complain of, or demand
sympathy for, the kind of times they
are constantly denouncing, or for that
system of goverment that is intended
only to benefit the few at the expense
of the many,
They are the many. If they have
the courage, they can have just such
legislation as they desire. It is the
courage necessary to give up ftheir
political prejudices, and to vote out of
power, the party that favors this iniqui-
tous and, oppressive tariff taxation.
—— Just such a “victory” as the Re-
puclicans won in Vermont, recorded
for Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island and Connecticut woald
make these four New England States
golidly Democratic, and would put Ohio
80 close to the border land of Democra-
cy that Foreakgr couldn’ tell his na-
tive heath from a blue grass patch in
Kentucky, It is the kind of a victory
that Democrats have a right to rejoice
over.
The Republican papers are hav-
ing a great deal of sport, as they think,
over the “rainbow” politics of the
Democratic Committee. This is right.
They should not be curtailed in their
fun. Its about the only bright streaks
they'll see in this campaign, and after
the November election they will sigh
in vain, for the smallest kind of a rain-
bow to lighten the somber blue that
will settle about them.
——The Pittsburg Post celebrated
its fiftieth year on Sunday by incept-
ing the first Sunday newspaper which
has ever been cried on Pittsburg streets.
A twenty page edition marked the first
appearance of the new enterprise and
its reception guarantees the success of
the Sunday Post. A long felt want
has been filled in the Smoky City and
the country demands ? If so cast your | we are glad to see that such a sterling
ballot against CLEVELAND and STEv- i Democratic paper has had the “go” to
ENBON,
do it.
The Money Cost of the Force Bill.
The “election bill,” as president Har-
R1soN delicately calls the infamous
Force bill,that the Republican platform
endorses and the Republican party pro-
poses enacting into a law, in case it is
successful in November, would be in
addition, to the personal outrage it
would be upon the rights of our people,
a rather expensive piece of political
machinery for the tax-payers to main-
tain.
In the first place, it requires the ap-
pointment, by a United States Judge,
of two registrars who shall be named
at least six weeks prior to the election
and be paid $2.00 each per day for each
day’s service, making for registrars
$168. Then there are two inspectors
and two deputy inspectors, appointed
by the same power, #ho receive each
$3. per day for election day,making $12.
more. Then the marshall of the dis-
trict is required to appoint a deputy or
deputies for each voting precinct, and
say but one is appointed, it adds $3.00
more to the expense, making for regis-
tration and election officers alone, a
cost of $183.00 for every voting precinct
in the United States.
In this county there are fifty-one of
these precincts, and the lowest possible
expense this Force bill would entail upon
the people of Centre county for the elec-
tion, these United States officials would
conduct and control, would be $9,457,
or more than one third of the amount
the total expenses of the county now
are.
This is but the pay of officials for reg
istration and election day. It don’t in.
clude the cost of tickets, election pa-
pers, return sheets, or any of the ex-
penses connected with making the re-
turns,
And it 1s the lowest possible figure
that elections could be held at. What
they could and would be made to cost,
in addition, there is no computing.
Every election board could demand of
pointment of additional deputies to an
unlimited number,—a demand that he
is required to comply with, and in
tisan workers at every voting place.
Under the guise of appointing deputies
to prevent violence or disorder, every
corrupt scamp in the district could be
bought to vote as these government of-
ficials desired, for the pay attaching to
the position. Twenty deputies, would
mean twenty votes for the party con-
troling the polls, and an additional
cost to the tax-payers of $60.00.
Thus the public mowey could be us-
ed for official bribery, and public office
become the cloak to cover the crime
of polluting the ballot box and debauch-
ing the voters.
And this is the law president Hag-
RISON recommends and the Republican
party proposes to enact and enforce.
Are the tax-payers ready for such
outrageous legislation ?
Maine Follows Vermont.
The Ice wagon campaign seems {o
be getting in its cooling work in good
style. Down south as far as elections
show, it has frozen out the Republican
party entirely, In Vermont it chilled
the ardor of the Green Mountain Re-
publicans to that extent that over 9,000
of them failed to warm up sufficiently
to get to the polls, and now the news
from Maine, which held its election on
Monday, shows that the same death-
like chill pervaded the Republican for-
ces of that State, and in place of fur-
nishing a protection victory of over
18,000 as it has always done, preyious
to presidential elections, it furnishes less
than 10,000 majority for Republican
politicians to wonder over.
This portentious decrease in the Re-
publican majority, is not due to any
neglect on the part of that organization
to keep its vote up to old time figures,
but is the result, after the most vigor-
ous efforts to swell that majority had
been made. There was no local quar-
rels to divide and distract the party :
no weak or unpopular candidates to
disgust the voters; no lack of speakers
or no want of money to charge it too,
and the rough, rugged truth, stares the
Republican party in the face, that the
verdict in Maine,as in Vermont,means
no more or no less than that the mass-
es of the people have grown tired of’
Republican rule and Republican times
9 are willing and anxious for a
change.
In these elections the people can see
hope. In them the Republican party,
; and the monopolists at its back, can
read the beginning of their end.
the United States Marshall, the ap- |
Another State In Jeopardy.
Are the tribulations of the Republi.
can party never to end ? Nearly every
week since the campaign dpened, we
haye had the news of troubles that
threatened their hold on States, until it
seemed doubtful if there was anything
certain for them outside of Vermont,
Maine, Pennsylvania and the Dakotas.
And now comes the report that in
North Dakota, a fusion of Democrats
and Populists has been effected, that
promises to carry that State against
Harrisow, or at least so change the
situation, as to make his party bend
every effort to ‘save its electoral vote.
Two years ago the Republicans polled
18,000 votes; the Democrats 13,000
and the Independents 5,000. Republi.
can managers admit that since then
the political current has been against
them, and that while the Democrats
have about held their former strength,
the Independents have almost doubled,
absorbing fully the entire increase in
the vote in the state, so that if fusion
fuses and the total vote of both parties,
opposed to protective tariffs and force
bills, can be polled for the compromise
electoral ticket, a majority of whom
are Populists, the prospects are that
Harrison will fall short of carrying
the state by from 2,000 to 5,000 votes.
This is the way it looks. Its the way
the political calculators on both sides
have it down ; and the only question
is whether the Republicans can pull
enough of their votes, who have joined
the Populists, back, to save them the
state. Verily the way of the political
tranegressor is hard!
———
Honoring the Editors.
Democratic editors seem to be in de-
mand this year when congressional
nominees are wanted. Hon, GEORGE
F. Kriss of this district, who has been
re-nominated and will be re-elected by
an overwuelming majority, began his
political life as editor of the Claricn
Democrat. Mr. Frep K. WricHT, the
nominee in the sixteenth district, and
who, it is expected, will largely reduce,
if not entirely wipe out, the Republi-
this way secure pay for scores of par- |
can majority his competitor counts oa
| receiving, is the editor of the Wells
| boro Gazette. Mr. W. W. Trout who
has been named to down the Republi:
can nominee in the eighteenth district,
is editor of the Lewistown Free Press.
Mr. L. D. Wooprurr who has been
honored with the nomination in the
twentieth district, has edited the Johns-
town Democrat for years, and Mr. W.
M. BresruiN, who was named as the
nominee in the fourteenth district, has
been editor of the Lebanon Advertiser
since before the war.
Evidently the Democracy knows
where good, clear-cut and deserving,
congressional candidates are to be
found.
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$10,000,000 for Foreign Workmen. :
—— i
“Loxpon, Sept, 11.—Several Welsh tin plate
manufacturies closed their works on Saturday.
Sixty works are now closed, and 10,000 hands
are idle. Many sailed on Saturday to find em-
ployment in America.”
The above we get from a Republican
paper that insists that itis a “knock
down’ argument in favor of the Me.
KiNuey tariff. Possibly it is, had its
originators not forgotten to take the
tail oft of it. “Many sailed on Saturday
to find employment in America.” This
tells the story. We boast that our tar-
iff legislation closes the tin plate facto-
ries of the old world, and at the same
time admit that their workmen come
here to follow up their trade ; that is, we
refuse cheap Welsh tin, and tax our
selves ten millions of dollars per year to
furnish employment to cheap Welsh
workmen ?
When one hears this kind of stuff
used as an argument in favor of a pro-
tective tariff, he is compelled to con-
clude that the fool killer must be dead
or is intentionally neglecting his du-
ties.
Pe ————
——It is not much consistency that
any one expects from the Republican
party, consequently there is no sur-
prise that its Philadelphia organs
should be found supporiing a ‘free
trader” for congress, in the third dis-
trict, at the same time they are howl-
ing about the necessity of maintaining
a high tariff. It is this kind of double
faced work that assists the public in
getting its eyes open, not only to the
folly of the “free trade bug-a-boo,"” but
to the deception and hypocrisy of the
Republican party as well.
Wages Abroad.
From the New York World.
A persistent inquirer has finally in-
duced an amateur Protection journal to
publish a statement of the wages paid
in various industries in England,
France, Germany, Italy and Austria.
Thisis the only fair comparison to
make—between countries of the 012
World having similar conditions as to
density of population, demand for labor
productiveness, cost of living and other
factors that everywhere control wages.
To compare Old World wages with
those of the New World is to ignore
differences which are as obvious as they
are vital.
From the figures given it appears, as
the World has frequently pointed out
and as every intelligent workingman
knows, that wages in free trade Eng-
land are from 30 to more than 100 per
cent. higher than in protectionist
France, Germany or Italy,
Blacksmiths for instance, receive $9.-
62 a week in England, $4 in Germany
and $5.81 in France. There is substan-
tially the same difference in the pay of
carpenters , masons, painters, machin-
ists, shoemakers and other trades.
Common laborers receive $5.29 per
week in England, $3.11 in Germany
and $5.93 in France.
If the tariff makes wages high in the
United States, why does it not have the
same effect in Germany and the other
protectionists countries of Europe ? No
protectionist has ventured to answer
that question and none will.
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Finding Out Their Friends.
From the Rome, Ga. Tribune.
There are signs of considerable robust-
ness in the colored citizens of this coun-
ty. They are beginning to think for
themselves, and a healthy protest
against the old herding ‘process is
heard.
The negroes have been voting with
their republican bosses for twenty-five
years and they have got about as much
benefit from it as the prodigal son got
by feeding the swine which belonged to
the man ‘ina far country.” . In the
meantime their democratic white neigh-
bors have been killing a fatted calf for
them every vear in the shape of a liberal
school fund, taken almost wholly from
the pockets of white democratic tax-
payers. The colored brother begings to
ask himself why he should eat husks
any longer in service of the republican
party. They voted with their white
neighbors in Alabama and they are
going to do it in Georgia.
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A Political Cold Wave.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The verdict in Vermont is that New
England is neither united nor enthu-
siastic in the support of Harrison’s re-
election ; and it means that Connecticut
and Rhode Island may be classed in the
Cleveland electoral column, with Mass-
achusetts and New Hampshire fairly
doubtful. Maine is now likely to fol-
low Vermont on Monday next by giv-
ing a largely reduced Republican ma-
jority, and, if so, the Harrison chill will
be felt from the eastern to the western
sea and from the lakes to the gulf.
Need a Search Light for the Job.
From the Albany Argus. :
In Utica, too, they are looking with-
out success for the man whose wages
have been increased by McKinleyism.
Utica was a good sized city of 50,000
inhabitants, and the Observer, a keen,
industrious and intelligent Democratic
newspaper, has searched the town for
several days in vain to find him. The
Utica Herald, the Republican newspa-
per, claims that wages are increased,
but it won’t tell whose.
———
Abuse of Republican Power.
From the Chicago Globe.
‘What's the use of making a fuss be-
cause Attorney-General Miller has fol-
lowed a long line of Republican pre-
cedents and had his son put on Uncle
Sam’s pay-roll by a brother member of
the Cabinet in order that he might draw
$2,000 a year whilestudying law ? Such
things will be common as long as the
Republicans are continued in power.
Wanamaker at the Bargain Counter.
From the Albany Argns.
This year Jobn Wanamaker sub-
scribes only $25,000 to the Harrison
corruption fund. Mr. Wanamaker
knows a good gain from a risky one,
and he does not invest $200,000, as four
years ago, on a Cabinet future. Cabi-
net porfolios have gone down with that
reduction of prices effected by the Me-
Kinley tariff.
The Cost of Government.
From the Scranton Times.
The so-called economical administra-
tion of Benjamin Harrison has been the
most costly the country has ever had. It
has cost the people of this country $7
per head annually while the annual
cost during Mr: Cleveland's term was
only $6.12, and the Garfield-Arthur ad-
ministration, which preceded it, cost per,
capita $6,43
At Their Old Tricks.
From the Napolson (0)., Northwest.
The Republicans regularly break up
the solid South once in every four years
on paper, but the electoral votes of the
states south of Mason and Dixon’s line
contimue to be cast for the Democratic
ticket, and there is is no reason to ex-
pect any change in the programme for
this year,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Easton wants the electric railway wires
put under ground.
—Councils of Reading will appropriate $500
to aisinfect thejtown.
—A train at Schuykill Haven cut off Curwin
Kiine’s foot and he died.
* —Wilson Kinney was killed by falling from
a bridge near Selinsgrove.
—Allentown bicyclists have been shoved off
the sidewalks by Councils.
—Agricultural societies report a big apple
crop throughout the State.
—Gunners are killing hundreds of ; gray
squirrels in Chester County.
—Columbia is to have a rew silk mill that
will employ 500 men or women.
—An electric car was wrecked Monday ab
Annville, injuring Miss Mary Witmer.
—George Steevers, of Plymouth, was assanlte
ed by Hungarians, and robbed of $500.
—Diphtheria is cutting down many children
at West Newton, Westmoreland county.
—Governor Pattison left Monday for Saranag
Lake on a fishing and gunning expedition.
—Falling down the manway of a] Shamokin
colliery, Charles Brown was crushed to death.
—Joseph Conosky was buried alive under
doah.
—Berks County farmers will sow ‘wheat two
weeks later than usual this year as an’ experi=
ment,
—“Our company will make 400 sleeping cara
before May 1, 1893,” said George M. Pullman
in Pittsburg,
—William T. Holland, a ward Tax Collector
in Williamsport, is $1200 short in his accounts
and is missing.
—The Criminal Court of Berks county open=
ed Monday, with 200 cases to be! laid before
the Grand Jury.
—With the impressive ceremonies Rey.
Henry K. Miller was ordained missionary to
Jepan at Reading.
—The Cumberland Valley Sabbath Associa®
tion is trying to stop camp-meetings and Suns
day newspapers.
—The handsomest soldiers’ monument in
Lycoming county will be unveiled October 8th
at Montgomery.
—Cumberland county lawyers, in a bobys
will demand the removal of coal stoves from
the Court House.
—A water famine is threatening Shenandoah
and vicinity, and orders have been issued to
enforce economy.
—Joseph Kacezmartzik, awaiting trial in
Berks county for killing ‘Andy Norvartarski,
will plead insanity.
—For stealing a diamond ring from Charles
M. Evans, of Reading, William Lerch was sent
to prison for two years.
—Richard Ward, a farmer, who lived near
Honesdale, put a gun to his heart and pulled
the trigger with his toe.
—The Lutheran Synod has voted against the
removal of Pennsylvania College from Gettys,_
burg to Washington, D. C,
—The coal crushers at a Wilkesbarre collies
ry caught a young Polander ;in their spiked
embrace, grinding him to pulp.
Brown, of Shamokin, 20 feet to the pavement
below. His skull was cracked.
—Mrs. Benjamin Middleton, of Village
Green, Chester county, was struck by a train at
Rockdale, Monday, and will die.
—While fooling with a gun Roger Williams,
of Windsor Castle, fired 100 grains of shot into
A. F. Baver’s baby, but it will live.
—The son of Mis. Sylvester Brascious did
detective work and sent his own mother and
her lover, John Stankawish, to jail.
—In his hurry to get to the fair, George Boy.
er, of Reading, choked on a piece of |beefstealk
and was unconseious for two hours.
—Montreal’s Sherift surrendered Rosenweig
and Bland, the murderers of Jacob Marks to
Sheriff Knapp, of Wyoming county.
—About 20,000 people were in at the death
when the Berks County Fair closed, to see the
distribution of $5000 in premiums.
—Charged with embezzling $30,000 from the
Order of Solon, Supreme Treasurer R. S. God-
frey was held for Court in Pittsburg.
~—Thirty cigar makers employed by S. R.
Moss, of Lancaster, struck Monday because of
the employment of a non-union man.
—A cable on the Lancaster Electrict, Rail~
way broke, tearing off Frank Musser’s arm,
and he has sued for $25,000 damages.
—A discussion as to their relative merits as
boxers led to the fatal stabbing of James Mec-
Cann by Eddie Donnelly in Pittsburg.
Rev. H. H. Moore was hauled over the coals
by the Methodist Conference at Warren as a
result of charges make by Mrs. Davison.
—An electric light wire crossed a telegraph
wire, burning out the $1000 switch board in the
Philadelphia and Reading's station, at Reads
ing. :
—Diphtheria is making such frightful ray”
ages in the Youghiogheny Valley that the
State Board of Health has been called upon for
assistance.
—Dullness in the iron trade has caused the
Thomas Iron Company to discharge many
men at Hokendauqua and a furnace will be
blown out.
—Pending suits, at Pittsburg, for alleged em~
bezzlement, Treasurer Godfery and other ag”
cused officials of the Solons have been ousted
from office.
—The free text-book system went into oper
ation to-day at Reading, upon the opening of
the public schools. There were 23,000 books
distributed.
—Saloonkeeper Emil Schmidt, of Scranton,
refused to give Michael Gibbons and Park Con.
nery a drink and they nearly killed him with
beer bottles. :
—Discharged from the Lebanon Rolling
Mill, Charles V. Finch, formerly of Berwick,
swallowed morphine and sank into the never.
ending sleep.
—While helping her husband haul tobacco
from the field Mrs. Peter Houser, or Drumore
township, Lancaster county, was thrown under
the wagon wheels and killed.
—Recorder J. J. McGinty, who was defeated
by Senator Hines for the Democratic nomina-
tion for Congress in Luzerne County, Pa., talks
about being an independent candidate.
—A Passenger on a Philadelphia and Read-
ing train threw a bottle from the car window
and it struck Section Boss Klingen, of New
Ringgold, on the leg, breaking both bones.
—Lastyear “Billy” West, the minstrel sprang
a gag on Arthur Frothingham, of Scranton.
who caused the former's arrest for slander
West now enters suit for $5000 for false impris
onment.
tons of rocks at Turkey Run Colliery, Shenan-
—A tree limb broke, dropping little Frank °
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