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-—Spain wants allies now. What, to help |
her whip Cuba ?
—The CLEVELAND administration hasn’t
been blamed with the recent advance in
miner's wages. Strange, isn’t it ?
—There is no doubt about this Congress
being made up of seedlings, but we do
hope it will fail in the reproduction of its
kind.
—Since QUAY is known as ‘‘the silent
man’’ he is relieved of the embarrassment
of explaining how it happened in Alle-
cheny county.
—The same Republican license law that
does away with screens and free lunches in
New York bars legalizes the sale of liquor
to youths of 18 years.
—The followers of Isaac WALTON will
soon be convincing the public that they are
not followers of GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The trout season will open on the 15th.,
you know, and then the liars will have
full sway.
—Prince BISMARCK, ex-chancellor of
Germany, was 81 years old on Wednesday.
Though born on April 1st the German peo-
ple long ago realized that he is not what
might have been expected as an out-come
of all-fool’s day. :
—That Greensburg newspaper man who
is lecturing on ‘‘the philosephy of love,”
“must have a pretty good thing, for if any
one ever has an opportunity to study love
in all of its effervescing forms the news-
paper writer is the man. .
-—The NAPOLEON craze has all died out,
leaving no trace of its popularity except the
files of newspapers and magazines. Mec-
KINLEY seems to have been the only per-
son who has profited by it and he, only by
its having furnished cartoonists a form to
put his head on.
—WILLIAM WANAMAKER, a brother of
JOHN, has joined BALLINGTON BoOTH’S
new Defender’s league. Piety seems to
run in the WANAMAKER family, but we’ll
bet WILL can’t raise as much for his De-
fenders as JouN did, when he got up that
$400,000 for the American protectors.
—Politics and religion ought not to be
mixed, but if we were to tell some of the
schemes that were manipulated by politi-
eians at the recent Methodist conference, at
Williamsport, you would decide that the
governors of the people and the governors
of the church do mix things pretty well
some times.
— Because they threw diamonds at Lote i
FULLER, the charming fire dancer, while |
she was amusing foreign potentates she |
thinks Americans don’t size up as they
should. Now it matters very little to our
people what La LoIk thinks of them, if she
is gilly enough to imagine them throwing
diamonds away.
—The Standard oil company is going to
make an attempt to tow an oil barge across
the Atlantic ocean this spring. Of course |
the success of the venture is problematical, |
but there are those who are inclined to the
belief that Pennsylvania has a Governor
who would make a dandy skipper. He
guided the pipe line all right.
—The Tyrone Herald announces that ‘ ‘all
persons having barrels belonging to the
home mission band of the Presbyterian
church are to leave them at the home of
Miss BARR.” It is singular, but merely
another instance of the everlasting fitness
of things, that christian mission workers
should have barrels that they take to al
BARR,
—General GRANT once said of a Union
general that he was ‘bottled up’’ at a place
in Virginia and now the New York Sun
uses the same word to express general
WEYLER’S predicament in Havana. If it
be the fact that he is ‘bottled up’’ then he
had better get away before the warm
weather begins, else he and his campaign
will both fizzle out.
—Of all the idiocy we have heard of for
some time, the Westfield Republican, exhib-
its the most glaring example when it an-
nounces that an abnormally large hen’s egg
that was left at that office ‘‘will be put un-
der a hen to see what is hatched out of it.”
Now it is to be hoped that there isn’t a
newspaper man in the country who would
expect to see a hippopotamus come out of a
chicken egg. :
—In claiming that the people of Nova
Scotia are more like their ‘‘cousins across
the line’’ than they are like their kindred
beyond the sea, the Halifax Herald enumer-
ates many points of similarity in manners
and customs, social political and ethical,
that exist between Nova Scotians and us.
The Herald does not forget to claim that
their humor is characteristically American.
That is to say they have some humor up
there, for they don’t in England.
—The question of military companies in-
dependent of state or national direction
should never be allowed to become a ques-
tion at all. What does a free and liberty
loving America want, or need, with bands
of armed men organized at the instance of
various civic societies. Such a condition
would encourage dissension and jeopardize
peace, and is really the beginning of so-
cialism. If the American federation of
States is to stand and American institutions
to remain intact there can be no place for
the military, but under the guidance of the
government. A civic organization that
wants to bear arms is a menace and seems
to proclaim an anticipation of a time when
arms will be needed. No, if the extremity
of war should ever confront our people
shere will be no trouble in getting soldiers.
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VOL. 41
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 14.
An Old Offender.
That old political sinner, JOHN SHER-
MAN, is so far advanced in life that he
ought to be fonsidering his latter end, and
preparing for it, instead of increasing the
measure of his iniquity with more political
lying.
No other term than this can be applied
to the statement he made some days ago in
speaking of President CLEVELAND'S finan-
cial management. He said that ‘‘financial-
ly his administration has been very dis-
astrous ; expenses were paid out of receipts
right along till he became President again, |
and expenses have never been met since ;
his fiscal measures have failed more and
more with every opportunity to correct
themselves.”
Now the old hoary-headed Ohio prevari-
cator knew well enough when he uttered
this misstatement that the HARRISON ad-
ministration was able to meet expenses be-
cause the CLEVELAND administration had
left a balance of over a hundred million
dollars in the treasury ; yet notwithstand-
ing this fund to start with, accumulation
of four years of good fiscal management, af-
fairs were so conducted by the HARRISON
administration that at its close there was a
deficiency of $69,923,651.17 in the federal
revenues, as shown by the last annual state-
ment of secretary FOSTER. Of so serious a
nature was this pending deficiency that
that officer had bonds prepared for the -is-
suing of a loan to meet it, but at the last
moment it was concluded that it would be
better politics to unload this difficulty upon
the incoming administration. As good a
balance as possible was shown by resorting
to a system of treasury bookkeeping that
counted $56,000,000 of the bank note re-
serve as an asset instead of a debt. In
this way a loan was staved off.
No person knows hetter than JOHN SHER-
MAN that this miserable fiscal condition
was dumped upon the CLEVELAND admin-
istration, and that in addition to its heing
loaded with this wreck, a Republican Con-
gress has been doing all it can to increase
! its embarrassment.
Speaker Reed in Trouble.
Czar REED is likely to meet with op-
position that will overthrow the despotic
rule with which he has governed the House.
There is threatened to be a combination of
two thirds of the members against his
autocratic determination to scale down ap- |
propriations.
It sounds strange to hear that the Czar
is opposed to large appropriations. He won
his greatest renown as a speaker when he
presided over the billion dollar Congress,
which allowed everything in the shape of
an appropriation to go. No protest was put
in by him against the most lavish expendi-
tures, and in fact his willingness to go as
far as any of them in wasting the public
money was one of the secrets of his popu-
larity with Republican Congressmen.
What is now his object in wanting to
scale down the appropriations, a movement
on his part that is getting his former fol-
lowers down on him? This question is
answered by the fact that he is a candidate
for President, and he wants to make a rec-
ord for economy. For this reason he has
made his rulings in a way that has inter-
fered with appropriations, some of which
are really necessary, and his control of the
committees has enabled him to carry out
this policy greatly to the disgust of many
of the members. They fully understand
that he is acting in this way not from a
sincere disposition to be economical, but
for an electioneering purpose, and it is said
that the revolt will come about the time
when the river and harbor and public build-
ings appropriation bills come up for final
consideration.
Another Rotten-Borongh State.
Preparations are being made for the ha-
mission of another “‘rotten-borough’’ State
into the Union to assist the representation
of the Republican party in Congress. This
time it is Arizona, which in the census of
1890 had but 59,620 inhabitants, including
Mexicans, Indians and half-breeds.
The total is now ‘‘claimed’” to be 80,000,
which, if even it were correct, is about half
the population that is fixed as the ratio for
a representative. It is a population less
than that of Scranton, or of” Reading,
in this - State, but by admitting into
the Union a territory that is so deficient in
the constitutional requisites, two Senators,
a representative and three votes in the efec-
toral college will be gained for the Repub-
lican party. oe :
This would be but one of the outrages on
the right of admission into the Union that
have been perpetrated ior the benefit of
that party. At least half a dozen of the
recently admitted States were unqualified
for admission, but they were run in to
strengthen the hold of the Republican party
on the United States Senate, and it is seen
that this small number of rotten-horough
concerns have more power in that body
than great States like New York and Penn-
sylvania, and can control or block the legis-
lation of Congress.
There is no form of violence to constitu-
tional requirement that the Republican
party is not ready to resort to for political
advantage.
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ban freedom.
An Exhausting Conflict.
Even if the United States government
shall not recognize the belligerency of the
Cuban insurgents it is probable that they
will go on fighting until Spain shall be
compelled to desist through sheer exhaus-
tion. Taking this view of the contest there
can scarcely be a doubt as to the final out
come of the conflict. Spain is at best a
bankrupt power and the knowledge that
she is nearing the end of her resources
greatly encourages the Cuban patriots to
continue the struggle.
The Spanish forces on the island are be-
ing subjected to fearful loss, not so much
by the ravage of battle as through the devas-
tation of disease. The climate is the best
ally of the revolutionists, against whose
deadly effects the Spanish soldiers are de-
fenceless. Diseases incident to the climate
decimates the ranks of the Spanish army.
Spain has lost 40,000 troops since the war
began, a little over a year ago, and more
than 75 per cent of this was due to disease.
When it is considered that a hundred thou-
sand soldiers are required to meet the desul-
tory movements of the rebels, it being
necessary to cover every assailable point on
the island, an idea can be formed of the
victims which this large force furnishes for
the ravages of yellow fever and other tropi-
cal diseases. >
Such a drain upon her fighting material
will soon exhaust the military strength of
the Spanish government. Her financial re-
sources are but limited and have been
drawn largely from Cuba, which is now no
longer a source of revenue to her on ac-
count of its devastated condition. The in-
surgents have adopted the policy of des-
troying the products of the island in order
to deprive their enemy of the advantage of
Cuban revenue, which has been the main-
stay of the Spanish treasury. With this
source of income cut off and climatic dis-
eases destroying more of Spain’s fighting
force than are killed by the bullets of the
enemy, there can be no other result of the
conflict than Spanish exhaustion and Cu-
The A. P. A. and the G. 0. P.
The secret organization known as the A.
P. A., will be a factor in the presidential
contest and will make itself felt in the
councils of the Republican party. Spring-
ing into prominence since the last presiden-
tial election, its proscriptive policy has not
been objectionable to the Republican party,
which has accepted it as a political ally
and been benefited at the polls by its
sneaking oath-bound methods. The recent
sweeping Republican majorities were large-
ly due to the vote contributed by this se-
cret organization, it having the sudden ef-
fect in politics that was produced by the
Know Nothing movement at an earlier pe-
riod of our political history.
It would be morally impossible for such
an organization to be allied with the Dem-
ocratic party, and the advantage it gives to
the opponents of Democracy can be but
temporary. The character of its policy car-
ries with it its own destruction. The A.
P. A.’s will soon attempt to dominate the
Republican party. The St. Louis conven-
tion will be full of them, and they will
make themselves felt in shaping its action.
From a number of the States the dele-
gates to that convention are members of
this clandestine association and sworn to
obey its mandates.” It is entirely natural
that they should be for MCKINLEY, for so
narrow-minded and proscriptive an organi-
zation necessarily sympathizes with the
narrow economic policy that would re-
strict the commercial freedom of this coun-
try. MCKINLEY will have the solid A. P.
A. vote at St. Louis and that oath-bound
fellowship is a power that will have to be
taken into account by the Republican na-
tional convention. The advantage of such
an alliance has its drawbacks which the g.
o. p. will discover before they are through
with it.
Charging Each Other With Corruption.
It isn’t the corruption of the thing that
the opposing Republican managers are ob-
jecting to in regard to the use of money in
securing the presidential nomination, but
they are afraid that in this corrupt business
one candidate may be more successful than
the others. Thus it is seen that Mr.
CHANDLER does not protest against the
McKINLEY debauchery, on account of its
demoralizing nature, but because it gives
him an advantage over the others whose
stock of boadle cannot compete with that of
the tariff champion. - >
To the charge made by his competitors
that MCKINLEY is a boodler the reply is,
“you're another.” The defence consists in
a counter charge.
OR, of Ohio, who is the chief promoter of
the MCKINLEY boom at Washington, was
highly delighted some days ago with the
receipt of the following telegram from
Chattanooga : ‘‘National committeman
GEORGE W. HILL, of Tennessee, left for
Washington this morning to dispose of his
proxy to QUAY. He will accept money.
Watch him.”” He showed this to prove
that other candidates, besides the tariff
Congressman GROSVEN-
major, are using ‘money in the purchase of
delegates.
While this may be evidence that they all
do it, it is only a fuller confirmation of the
general corruption that prevails in the com-
petition for the Republican nomination.
The other candidates, however, can
scarcely hope to compete with the corrup-
tion fund which the wealthy tariff benefi-
ciaries are contributing in the interest of the
champion of protection, and which MARK
HANNA is distributing where it will do the
most good for the MCKINLEY boom.
The Do-Nothing Congress.
Speaker REED, with a political object in
view, started this Congress with a do-noth-
ing policy, but he may find that it will do
a great deal, not only in interfering with
his own nomination, but in bringing about
the defeat of the candidate that may get
the Republican presidential nomination.
When the session opened, REED deliber-
ately announced that but little more than
the passage of the appropriation bills would
be attended to. This announcement was
made, not because there was no work that
could be done with considerable advantage
to:;the country, as was distinctly pointed
out by the President at the beginning of
the session, but the object of the do-nothing
policy was to allow the situation to remain
in the condition in which bad Republican
legislation had put it, in order that it
might be blamed on the Democratic admin-
istration and used for political effect in the
presidential campaign.
The scheme has been worked for all it is
worth. Absolutely nothing has been done.
Three months have passed since the session
opened and not a single act has been brought
to completion. In response tothe Presi-
dent’s request that a bill should be passed,
that would avoid the necessity of frequent
loans to maintain the gold reserve, a worth-
less bond bill was concocted in the House
and allowed to stick in the Senate where it
is intended that it shall become defunct.
Another response to the President’s request
that the public credit should be protected,
was the passage of a fraudulent revenue
bill through the House under the pretense
that it was intended to afford financial re-
lief, when its real purpose was to restore
MCKINLEY taxation upon a number of the
most indispensable necessaries of life. This
libgus revenue measure has also stuck fast
in the Senate, where it will also be allowed
to die. The Republicans purposely arrang-
ed to give the control of the Senate to the
Populists and Silverites, upon whom they
intend to put the blame for the failure of
these measures.
The people are beginning to understand
the object of this do-nothing policy. It has
now continued for three months, and every
hour it is prolonged will increase the popu-
lar disgust with a party that is thus trifling
with the most important public interests
for political effect.
Confederate Disability.
Senator HILL got the old-time Republi-
can bloody-shirt wavers on the hip when
he sprung the confederate disability bill on
them in the Senate in the midst of the
Venezuela excitement. They were venti-
lating their patriotism by defying the British
lion when the Senator introduced the bill
to remove the disabilities which, by a former
statute, passed during the reconstiuction
period, debarred ex-confederates from ser-
vice either in the army or navy of the
United States. As the Republican Senate
were pretending to be spoiling for a fight
with England it would not have looked
well for it to refuse the assistance of such
good fighting material as the ex-confederates
had proven themselves to be, and so they
repealed the foolish law that prohibited a
class of American citizens from fighting for
the old flag. : .
Last week the bill removing this dis-
ability, as passed by the Senate, was brought
up in the House, and as a remarkable proof
of how even this strong Republican Con-
gress has become ashamed of the bloody
shirt, its passage was practically unanimous,
old BOUTELLE, the hard-shell Bourbon
from Maine, being the solitary member
that clung to the discarded and discredited
gory garment. Well might he ask ‘‘where
he was at,”” when he saw his associates,
who had so long maintained their sectional
katred, going back on the bloody shirt.
It would appear from this incident that
the Republican party will not resort in this
ampaign to the sanguinary recollections
do the civil war for its campaign material.
They should have long ago been relegated
fo the forgotten occurrences of the past, but
the fire of sectional animosity was kept burn-
ng for a political purpose. Since it can no
longer be turned to political account it will
10 doubt be allowed to remain extinguished.
The CURTIN monument seems, to
have lapsed into a state of innocuous 'de-
suetude. The project is not dead, by any
means, but is merely biding a time when it
san be pushed forward to an immediate
sompletion. It is to be hoped that Belle-
jonte wi'l not be as derelict in her duty to
§ distin, «ished son as New York has been
in erecting her monument to GRANT. The
broposition to have the G. A. R. take hold
of the work will not be acted upon until
hat body meets at Chambersburg for its
pring encampment.
Misguided Zeal.
From the Walla Walla, Wash., Statesman.
Posted on the telegraph poles and else-
where about the city today is an inflamma-
tory circular regarding the Marquette stat-
ue placed in the capitol at Washington by
the State of Wisconsin.
It is wonderful how easy itis for a large
class of people to excite themselves about
nothing. Itis right and proper that the
early explorers of this country or of any
other country should be honored. There
is just as good reason for objecting to the
statue of Columbus, which may be found
in every city in the country.
Some time in the future, perhaps, the
Congo Free State may honor Livingstone
and Stanley in a similar way. 1
No one would object to a statue of the
hero, Marcus Whitman, being placed in the
capitol at Washington by this State, yet
that great man was a sectarian. Washing-
ton himself was a member of a sect, yet the
man who would object toa statue of the
Father of his Country would be thought
disloyal.
Have You Fondled It!
From the Washington Star.
‘“We have done away with the two-mil-
lion-dollar bundle of mony that we used to
allow the brides who visited the vaults to
handle, ’’ said a Treasury guide, ‘‘and they
do not seem to be pleased with it. Ifany
is the bride to who I have handed the bun-
dle, marked ‘two million dollars,’ with
the remark : ‘Now, you can say yor’: had
two million dollars in your hands.’ It
tickled them wonderfully, and they went
away happy, but ignorant of what they
handled. What was in the bundle? I
don’t remember distinctly, but there was
no money in it. The weight, I known,
was made up of two old census reports. It
served them as well as real money.” &
Not Much Larger Than Centre County.
From the New York World.
The population of Arizona in 1890 was
59,620, including Mexicans, Indians and
half-breeds. The total is now ‘‘claimed’’ to
be 80,000. This is about half the popula-
tion fixed as the ratio for a representative
in Congress. And yet it is proposed to give
this fraction of the congressional ‘ratio two
Senators and a representative in Congress
and three votes in the electoral college. It
is a population less than that of Syracuse,
and about equal to that of New Haven or
Patterson. And yet it is proposed to endow
it with Statehood—the equal in the Senate
of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Illi-
nois. ‘
Their Frequency Looks Very Much Like
Jobbery.
From the Philadelphia Record. ? a
The steamer Paris, of the International
steamship company’s line, ran aground in
New York harbor, yesterday, in the vicinity
of the mud bank on which the steamship
New York, of the same line, grounded a
month ago, and under much the same condi-
tions—a fog prevailing at the time, and the
ship being in charge of a pilot. This latest
mishap is unlikely to be attended with any
damaging results to the vessel, and it may
‘‘blow some good”’ to New York if it shall
result in’an adequate appropriation for the
improvement of her channel, which certain-
ly stands very much in need of betterment.
How They Work.
From the Westmoreland Democrat.
It is charged that McKinley boomers sent
a young lady to Senator Quay to apply for
an open position as assistant to his private
stenographer. The young lady was to act
as a spy and make reports of Quay’s doings
to the McKinleyites. Her purpose was dis-
covered and she was not employed. That
is the substance of a dispatch sent out from’
Washington. It is an open question as to
whether the purpose is to disparage Mc-
Kinley or give Quay’s presidential candi-
dacy an air of importance.
What Do You Expect, a Grand Piano ?
From the Westfield Republican.
Last week we noticed an egg brought
here by Miss Pamelia Kessler that weigh-
ed 4% ounces. That account did not half
express its freakiness:. As the egg had
been cracked, it was thought best to cook
it, and when the outer shell was taken off an
egg of ordinary size was found inside of it.
To all appearances the ‘‘enclosure’’ was a
perfect egg. It can be seen at this office.
An attempt will be made to have a hen sit
on the enclosed egg tosee what will be
hatched from it.
Where Silence Means Something.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
A cablegram, from Havana to the New
York Journal brings the news that insur-
gents attacked the town of Pinar del Rio, a
place of 20,000 inhabitants, on Saturday,
captured and burnt it. It is said the hot-
test of the fighting was done by American
artillerists who worked the Gatling and
Hotchkiss guns. The attacking party num-
bered 9,000 men and the garrison 4,000.
The fact the Spaniards do not claim a vie-
tory or anything like it is evidence success
did not perch on their banners.
He Has Nothing to Regret.
From the Altoona Times.
It is stated that Ambassador Bayard is
tocome home on a visit. He will be in the
country in a short time. ~The Tesidence of
the ambassador in Wilmington has heen
fitted up for his occupancy and will be soon
ready for him. The situation shows con-
clusively, therefore, that the ambassador
will visit his native land, not intimidated
by the censures that the house of represen-
tatives has seen fit to pass upon him, and
he will be welcomed in a joyful manner by
the best portion of his countrymen.
Philadelphians Bottle Theirs and Use it
for Ink.
From the Pittsburg Post
Pittsburg hydrant water can soon be sold
| by the cubic yard.
—A pestiferous letter writer greatly an-
noys Berks county officials.
—Schuylkill’s judicial contest will cost tho
taxpayers many thousand dollars.
—Electricity may be substituted for steam
in the Carnegie steel works, at Braddock.
—There are 184,000 tons of coal at Hones-
dale ready for canal shipment to seaboard.
—A Pittsburg newspaper says the water as
well as the air in the Smoky city is black.
—Darius Schreffler, a Tamaqua grocer,
committed suicide with a gun in an outhouse.
—A fall caused Arthur Decker, a Strouds-
burg boy, to bite off a portion of his tongue.
—The water in the Susquehanna river at
Wilkesbarre is 18 feet above low water mark.
—A Reading newspaper says that muskrats
arc eaten and greatly relished in Berks
county.
—As the result of burns received a week
ago, Mahlone¢ Coller, of Pottstown, expired
Sunday.
—About 200 men and boys employed by
the Eagle coal company, at Sugar Notch,
are on a strike.
—For winning a suit for Lancaster county,
involving $175,000, two lawyers received a
fee of $11,000 each.
—Aged Mrs. Janet James was found dead
in her chair at Towanda, having been asphyx-
iated by coal gas.
—Grip drove George Nusbaum, a Lehigh-
ton insurance agent, insane, and he shot him-
self to death Monday.
—The coroner’s jury decided that an ex-
plosion of gas and mine dust killed the 13
miners at DuBois last week.
—Coal gas from the stove nearly suffocated
Edward Bonsall, his wife and child at
Brandamore, Chester county.
—Charged with robbing the Elk club
rooms at Altoona for a year past, janitor Wil-
liam Burris was arrested on Monday.
—A mad dog created a panic in the streets
of Plymouth Tuesday, but was killed before
it was known to have bitten anybody.
—Work on the fine memorial gateway for
Ario Pardee, at the entrance to the Lafayette
college grounds, Easton, is under way.
—The Williamsport express killed Theo-
dore Deitrich and his horse at Deibler’s cross-
ing, near Shamokin Tuesday afternoon.
—W. H. Faulette is in Allentown jail, ac-
cused of swindling George Seckendorf by
telegraphing in the latter’s name for money.
—Examinations will be held by the State
Pharmaceutical examining board at Pitts-
burg on April 15, and in Harrisburg on April
17.
—City controller George has halted the
paving of West Fourth street, Williamsport,
because there is a deficiency in the appropria-
tion.
—Abraham Eckert, the Luzerne county
murderer, who has been sentenced to be
hanged on May 14, is suffering from append;-
citis.
—Two Bethlehem men fought about a
newspaper worth one cent, and it cost them
nearly $5, before they got out of the justice's
office. :
—The Pittsburg police have been notified
that Frank Hean, a former iron worker of
that place, committed suicide at St. Kild’s
Australia. >
—The board of public property at Harris-
burg Tuesday issued to W. B. Stevens a war-
rant for 40 acres of unclaimed land in Lacka-
wanna county.
—Cyrus E. Sandal was Tuesday taken from
West Chester to Lancaster for trial on charges
of numerous thefts in the vicinity of the
Welsh mountains.
—The premature explosion of a blast at
Maple Hill mine, near Ashland, fatally in-
Jjured Michael Toback and seriously injured
John Runkel.
—Frazer Watson, an 11 year old boy, who
was missing from his home at Easton since
last evening, was drowned in the Lehigh riv-
er at this place.
—Three Catawissa boys—Guy Rahn, Bert
Hollingshead and Arthur Rahn, who started
.on a tour of the world, were captured by the
police in Wilkesbarre.
—Deputy coroner Clemens, of Doylestown,
has gone to Newtown to investigate the sus-
picious death of George Ewen, who the phy-
sicians believe was poisoned.
—Many of the boys from the Carlisle In-
dian school have left for their country homes
for the summer season. The giris will leave
April 2 for various farms throughout the
State.
*—Frank Shaffer, colored, one of the gang
accused of the Mountain Cut Off murder, in
October, 1894, was placed on trial in Wilkes-
barre, the whole day being consumed in the
selection of a jury.
—Governoir Hastings on Tuesday, signed
requisitions on the Governor of Indiana for
Abe Lloyd, wanted for prize fighting in Law-
rence county, and John Webster, for riot and
aggravated assault in Beaver county.
—Blair county Republican newspapers and
leaders, since the recent primaries, advocate
the passage of a law requiring candidates to
publish at the close of every primary and
general election a detailed statement of
moneys expended.
—At Williamsport shortly after midnight
Tuesday, Leo. Frank, of Newberry, a brake-
man on the P. and E. railroad, while assist-
ing in making a flying switch, was knocked
down and run over by about twenty cars.
He was frightfully mangled. Deceased was
22 years old. :
—The largest walnut tree cver hewn in
Pike county was cut down recently near Mil-
ford by William Angle, of Washington, N. J.
for gunstocks for the United States Govern-
ment. The first sixteen feet will make 2000
feet of lumber and will furnish enough gun-
stocks to supply a regiment.
—The First Defenders have completed ar-
rangements at Reading for their journey
over the route which they followed from
Pennsylvania to Washington, April 15-16,
1861, when they were the first troops from
the North to reach Washington under Presi-
dent Lincoln’s call. The Defenders repre-
sented two companies in Pottsville and one
each in Allentown, Lewistown and Reading,
and at the time of their departure for war,
numbered 530. To-day there are 127 surviv-
ors, and it is expected but 75 of these will be
able to make the trip.
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