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BY .P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Even the little fish wagged their tails
for joy when they saw the immersion on
Sunday morning.
—Statisticians declare that a person can
travel on rail-roads for 181 years without
getting killed. Now how do they know
that ? Who has ever done it ?
—It is rumored now that all of the Re-
publican possibilities will combine on
HARrRIsoN to down McKINLEY whose
growing strength is alarming the bosses.
—The Methodist women .have talked
themselves into the general conference of
that church. What talk won’t do is hard
to tell, especially when a woman does it.
—Of the 910 delegates in the Chicago
convention it is estimated that 399 will be
gold men, 329 silver men, and 182 doubtful.
What part of the whole number will be
PATTISON men ?
—If some of the so-called ‘‘sound money’’
advocates would define exactly what they
mean by that term they would not find it
such a hard matter converting the masses
to their way of thinking.
—DAVE HILL has declared that he will
stand on the Chicago platform be it what it
may. That is the kind of a Democrat he is.
He®is one very much like the boy who
stood on the burning deck.
—The Shah of Persia was assassinated
last week, but there doesn’t seem to be
much sorrow manifested over his demise.
Butchery was his pastime, so there is little
sympathy expressed for him.
—MORTON, REED, ALLISON, et al, had
better be petitioning the Republican nation-
al convention to at least recognize them as
belligerents, or MCKINLEY won’t even let
them get their names before that body.
—Murderer HOLMES was hanged yester-
day morning, at 10 o'clock, in the county
prison, at Philadelphia. His wretched life
will hardly atone for the many innocent
ones he snuffed out, but such an one is bet-
ter dead than alive.
—The widow of Admiral TiNG of the
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VOL. 41
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‘Ihe Democratic State Platform.
The state platform adopted at Allentown
is replete with sound Democratic doctrine.
Its chief characteristic, and one which rec-
ommends it to the confidence of the peo-
ple, is the straight-forward and honest
manner in which it sets forth the principles
of the party. "There is not a shuffling
phrase, an insincere word, nor an evasive
expression in it.
It sounds a clear note in reasserting the
allegiance of the party to the obligations of
the constitution. That, of course, is al-
ways the key note of a Democratic declara- |
tion, and is always impressive because it
always means what it says.
It declares the continuance of Democrat-
ic hostility to the system of taxation that
bears unequally upon individuals, and
tends to increase the profits of the few at
the expense of the many. It renews
the assertion of Democratic hostility to |
every scheme of tariff robbery by which the
rich are made richer and the poor poorer.
It arraigns the Republican party for hav-
ing brought upon the country financial re-
vulsion and business prostration by a long
continued system of financial and fiscal leg-
islation by which the currency was derang-
ed and debased, the public credit impaired,
and the treasury depleted, and it holds that
party directly responsible for the financial
and industrial disorders which have. recent-
ly overtaken the country and from which |
it is slowly recovering under Democratic
legislation and administration.
It holds up to the deprecation of all de-
cent and conscientious citizens the profli-
Chinese navy commemorated her husband’s
death by committing suicide. It will be
remembered that he suicided after the sur- | 555 legislative body, gave itself over to
render of his flag ship at Weihaiwei. Her | schemes of extravagance and plunder, and
action will be regarded as quite a proper seemed to have no other object than to in-
one by the Chinese. What a foolish TING. | crease the state expenses and to bring dis-
—The friends of women delegates to the | grace upon the Commonwealth, the state
general conference worked heroically to | executive being included in this arraign-
have women admitted at Cleveland, and ment as being accessary to the misdeeds of
nearly failed. The men fought a grand fight | the Legislature.
to get them in, but that was nothing In its declaration regarding the currency
compared to the fight they will have to | there is no indirection or evasion in the
put up to get them out after they are | tone of the platform, but its language is un-
in. | mistakably in support of the gold standard-
—The Democrats caaght the Republicans | differing in that respect from the money
in a hole, on Monday, in the Senate and | Plank in the Republican state platform,
forced them to set a time for the considera- | Which wabbles between the single standard
tion of the DUPONT contest from Delaware. | and bi-metallism, with the evident ob-
It was the intention of the rascally party to | ject of misleading the public understanding.
hold it over until the next séssion, when it | A Proper tribute is paid to the excellent
felt certain of winning, but the little trick, | administration of GROVER CLEVELAND,
on Monday, settled that business for them. | Which is so heroically struggling to main-
—The increase of the salary of county tain the public credit as against the effects
: : | as the vicious currency legislation which
superintendent of instruction, on Tuesday, | ye
gate character of the Republican state Leg-
islature, which, sacrificing its self-respect
has stirred up quite a fuss over in ‘‘the | the present Republican Congress will neith-
|
valley.” Tax payers are reported to be er wnond nor repenl.
mad and the school teachers are afraid their
own salaries will be reduced to make up
the $300 for Mr. GRAMLEY. No danger of
the latter, but the tax-payers will get the
dose.
—The California Republicans have de-
clared for MCKINLEY and free silver. At
first thought this might seem a strange
combination, the idea of associating the
Ohio tariff robber with anything free, but |
he is for free silver and no better illustra- | -
tion can be found than the way MARK
HANNA, his manager, has passed it around
in the purchase of votes.
—The compulsory school law for Penn-
sylvania went into effect on Monday. The
kid catchers will now see that all young-
sters, between the ages of eight and thirteen
years, put in at least eighty days a year in
school. Parents and guardians can he
fined $2 for the first and $5 for each in-
fraction of the law, thereafter, for not
sending their children to school.
—The WATCHMAN has never believed
the tabernacle scheme an advisable one for
Bellefonte, but when it turns out that peo-
ple in various sections of the town are ob-
jecting to its location near them, hecause of
its being a nuisance, the wonder is what
these people will do when they get to
heaven, where there will be nothing but
songs of praise and shouts of thanksgiving.
—The Democrats of South Carolina
know how to do things when they have
unruly people in the party. Now it ap-
pears that BENJ. TILLMAN wants to go as
& delegate and the people down there
don’t intend to let him go unless he
pledges himself to abide by the nomina-
tion made there. It is a good planjto bri-
dle him in some way for should he break
- loose in Chicago like he did in the Senate,
not long ago, there is no telling what
would come of it.
—It is quite apparent that Governor
HASTINGS does'nt have a very clear idea as
to the importance of delegates in any nom-
inating convention, In Pittsburg, on
Wednesday, he remarked that he thought
QUAYS chances as good as anybody else’s
at the St. Louis convention. Now as it
will be altogether a matter of delegates and
Mr. QuAY don’t even have a solid delega-
tion from his own State we will leave you
to draw your own deduction. The Govein-
or has been in the habit of over-looking
the matter of delegates. He did it, you
will remember, last fall when he was so
cock-sure of his Combine winning over
QUAY at Harrisburg. - !
And, lastly, the declaration of the conven-
Democracy, as a candidate for President,
ROBERT E. PATTISON, a man whom they
know to be ‘honest, able, unassuming,
fearless ; a consistent Democrat, and i
harmony with the highest principles of his
party,”
Playing a Bold Game.
DAVE MARTIN proposes to play a bold
game for the federal patronage of this
State. Counting upon the election of a
Republican President, which the Republi-
cans have worked themselves into believ-
ing to be a sure thing, he is going to throw
his political fortune in with McKINLEY
and will go to St. Louis asan opponent of
of the Quay boom. :
Taking such a position in defiance of the
| state boss, which will make his champion- |
ship of the Ohio candidate conspicuous and
appreciable, he will have a claim to the
handling of the federal patronage in this
State, if so unfortunate a thing to the coun-
try as the election of MCKINLEY should
occur. DAVE would then find himself -in
clover, while there would be no pasture of
any account for QUAY and those who obey-
ed his orders at St. Louis.
There is shrewdness as well as boldness
in the tactics which MARTIN has adopted.
If he had knocked under to the boss, as
HASTINGS has done, he would be nothing
but one of the henchmen whom QuAY will
take along with him wo swell his force at
St. Louis and to share in the defeat which
McKINLEY will be pretty sure to inflict
upon them.
DAVE will be one of the victors at St.
Louis, and if his man should be elected he
would have a good deal to do in sharing
out the spoils. Poor HASTINGS will reap
nothing from it but the empty honor of
making QUAY’S presentation speech.
But let us trust that the whole crowd
will be defeated in November and that all
of them will be disappointed in their
scramble for the spoils.
Why Do They Oppose Him.
The combined bosses and favorite sons,
who are opposed to the nomination of the
tariff NAPOLEON at St. Louis, find that
something desperate must be done to prevent
that consummation. Up until the past week
they relied upon their calculations by
which they were able to figure out a ma-
jority for the field against him, but since
ures to be unreliable, and the Ohio man
has snatched up Vermont from under the
very nose of Tom REED, and carried off
Illinois before the face of its favorite son,
they have determined to make a concerted
attack all along the line againsy MCKIN-
LEY, and with this object QUAY, PLATT,
CLARKSON, MANLEY and other anti-Mc-
KINLEY managers, have been revising their
tactics, and may rally around HARRISON
as the only man with whom they may be
able to defeat the tariff major.
To those who are unacquainted with the
| secret springs of Republican politics and
the personal animosities of the leaders, it
appears strange that there should be all
this working and conspiring to defeat the
nomination of the man who is really the
most typical representative of the party.
To no other hands could be more fittingly
{ entrusted the black flag of tariff robbery.
| His name is identified with the spoliatory
system that is the pet measure of the par-
ty. As regards the currency his position
is in accord with the general Republican
straddle on that subject. In every respect
the Ohio tariff spoliator and currency
straddler is a fitting candidate for the Re-
publicans, and why should there be such
conspiring among the leaders to prevent
his Demitation ?
Bad Smelling Legislatures.
The Philadelphia Record, speaking of
that disreputable legislative body, the New
York Legislature, says ‘‘it has made a rec-
ord which will bea stench in the nostrils
of the people for years to come.’
There is no denying the truth of this as-
sertion. The New York Legislature is cer-
tainly an unsavory collection of Republican
pimps and parasites, who have no other
purpose than to obey the commands of their
party boss, but with all its stench it is im-
possible for it to outstink the last Pennsyl-
vania Legislature. The malodorous char-
acter of QUAY’S collection of lawmakers is
not surpassed by the bad-smelling hody
that is controlled at Albany by boss PLATT.
In the comparison of legislative stenches
the Harrisburg stink really outranked the
bad odor that is emitted from the capitol
at Albany.
Never, anywhere, was so worthless a body
| collected for a legislative object as the last
Pennsylvania Legislature is admitted to
have been. It was deficient in every qual-
ification that should belong to law-makers.
The mental equipment of its Republican
! majority was of the lowest order. Its moral
| deficiency was displayed in the passage of
| laws whose chief object was to plunder the
state treasury and to serve the interest of
| monopolist] rations. In the creation
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| of new offices, the increase of salaries, and
it showed its disposition to squander the
! state funds, while its eagerness to cater to
| the corporations was manifested in its legis-
| lation for the benefit of the Standard oil
nh company and the street railway monopo-
jis.
' There may be separate and colossal
stenches connected with the New York
Legislature that give it an extremely bad
smell, such as the passage of the RAINES
bill and the constitutional amendment per-
petuating the Republican gerrymander, but
for a general all-ground stink, produced by
thorough rottenness, the smell of the New
York body is fragrant in comparison with
the odor of the last Pennsylania Legisla-
ture.
Unfortunately for the people of Pennsyl-
vania most of the good-for-nothing Repub-
lican Representatives are up for re-election,
| and from the way the party machinery is
managed it is probable that there will be a
continuation of the bad’ smell at Harris-
burg.
The Democrats Can Meet It.
It looks as if both national conventions
will declare for the gold standard. In that
event the money question will be elimi-
nated from the campaign and the fight will
be again fought on the tariff issue.
MCKINLEY’S candidacy would: force this
issue into the contest, and the Democrats
ought to be able to beat their enemies on
the question of tariff robbery. Thatsystem
of spoliation was condemned by an immense
popular majority in 1890, within three
months after the MCKINLEY bill had been
passed. It was again condemned in 1892
by an equally large majority after it had
been in operation for two years. N othing
has transpired since then to convince the
people that a system which robs the many
for the benefit of the few is worthy of their
endorsement.
If this issue is to be again pushed for-
ward as the leading one the Democrats will
be at no disadvantage in meeting it. They
have reason to believe that the people can
be convinced of the injurious consequences
of again handing the country over to the
tariff robbers. The triumph of MCKINLEY- |
ISM would be attended with the business
disturbance that would accompany the re-
vival of tariff legislation and the agitation
of such a disturbing question in and out of
Congress.
The Democrats should be able to win on
the issue of industrial peace and business
yA A)
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL TNToN
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accomplished facts are proving their fig- |
tranquility. |
Pattison For President.
In endorsing ROBERT E. PATTISON for
President the state convention at Allen-
town displayed its deference to the Demo-
cratic sentiment of Pennsylvania. The ac-
tion of the convention was a reflex of the
people’s preference, and the expression of
that preference was made with such em-
phasis and unanimity as to leave no doubt
that the Democrats of the State earnestly
desire to see their distinguished ex-Gover-
nor advanced to the higher dignity of the
presidential office. In putting him for-
ward they are fully conscious that they are
offering to the party a candidate who is in
every respect fitted for that position.
When the convention presented him to
the national Democracy as a presidential
candidate it could do it with entire assur-
ance that he eould be matched with any
that were named for that high office with-
out his being disparaged by the comparison.
It had reason to know that his presenta-
State. It was aware that his nominatifn as
the standard bearer in the campaign $vould
furnish the party with an exceptionally
strong candidate, and that if he should be
called to the presidential chair he would
perform the duties of that exalted station
with ability and an earnest design to give
the country a good administration.
These were the features in the action of
that convention which gave it an earnest
and impressive character, How strongly
in that respect it contrasted with the QUAY
convention at Harrisburg. That was a col-
lection of henchmen called together to en-
dorse a political trick of their boss. There
was scarcely one of them who believed that
their master’s candidacy was intended for
any other than a trading purpose, or re-
garded their action as anything more than
something that was required to enable
QUAY to make a dicker at the nominating
convention. The endorsement of his can-
didacy was a sham, it being so regarded
by most of the servile tools who made it,
and so intended by the putative candidate
! who would really be afraid to subject his
political reputation to the rasping it would
receive in a presidential campaign.
In contrast to such a fraudulent proceed-
ing the action of the Democratic conven-
tion stood for what it honestly and earnest-
ty intended to be the endorsement and pres-
entation o a candidate for President in
whose ability and integrity ‘it had the full-
est confidence, whose nomination it sin-
cerely desired, and who it knew would
make as strong a leader as could be en-
trusted with the Democratip banner in a
presidential campaign.
Poorl y Compensated.
Our Growing Prosperity.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The largely increased exports ‘of Ameri-
can manufactures tell the story of the pros-
perity and progress of our industries under
the Wilson tariff law. True, it is asubject
the protectionist organs avoid, just as so
many Pennsylvania manufacturers keep on
‘‘the dead quiet’’ about the demand for
and export of our manufactures, but the
striking facts remain, and are in evidence.
The bureau of statics in its late report
shows that during March last the value of
our manufactured exports reached the un-
per cent of the gross exports. The phenom-
enal increase of manufactured exports
began in 1895, and during last year they
exceeded $200,000,000. In March the
flood of such exports was at the rate of
nearly $230,000,000 a year.
This striking increase, which began with
the Wilson tariff in 1895, has not been
spasmodic, but has steadily augmented.
The bureau of statistics reports that for
nine months ending with March last the
mapoired exports amounted to $163,-
,926,-and were 24.57 per cent of our
| Gross exports, :
The great significance of these figures
can best be ns noting that in no year
before 1895, when the Wilson tariff went
fully into effect, had the exports of our
manufactures reached a total of $184,000, -
000. In the fiscal year 1881 the exports of
domestic manufactures were only $168, 927,-
315, or 19.37 per cent of all exports of mer-
chandise ; in 1892 they were only $158,
510,937, or 15.61 per cent, and in 1893
$183,718.484, or 21.24 per cent.
In the fiscal year 1891-92, denominated
theglcrack year” of the McKinley law, our
exprts of American manufactures amount-
ed th only 15.61 per cent of the gross ex-
ports. In the first nine months of the fis-
precedented total of $19,125,785, or 25.85 |
. Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Pottsville public schools are greatly
| overcrowded. :
| —Citizens of Macadoo, Schuylkill county,
| want to be incorporated into a borough.
| —Rev. C. L. Cooder, of Pottstown, has re-
| fused a call to Trinity Episcopal church, at
! Trenton, N. J.
{ —The case of attorney W. H. Shoemaker,
i of Philadelphia, who defended murderer
| —William H. Hamilton, of Philadelphia,
| will represent the state medical society at the
{ Dover (Del.) convention.
|
—For alleged slander Mrs. Richard Cromp-
ton has sued Lawyer R. C. Kemp for $10,000
{ damages in Mercer county.
{Pittsburg police are still looking for the
| thieves who stole $7000 worth of diamonds
from M. S. Cohen’s store several days ago.
|. —Hamilton Disston, the great saw manu-
| facturer, of Philadelphia, whose death oc-
F cir Friday, carried over $1,050,000 life
insurance.
i —In an opinion at Stroudsburg J udge Craig
{ decided thata pensioner cannot purchase real
estate with pension money and hold it against
! creditors.
I rhe 180 chickens on the farm of Henry
Myers in Warriorsmark valley produced 144
| eggs on Tuesday. It was just an ordinary
day for eggs, too.
| —While playing with a revolver at Altoona
| which he thought was not loaded, Wil-
| liam Arbie shot his cousin, G. A. McCans, in
| the side, causing a critical wound.
—TIt is said that Dick Hess, a fugitive from
Mercer county, died at San Joaquin, Cal., af-
| ter confessing that he was a leader of a gang
| of horse thieves numbering 100 men.
i —The Renovo News says that a few days
| ago two cubs were captured on one of the
| branches of Big run on the south side moun-
| tains by William Snyder and John Byers.
—The Archdeaconry, of Reading, of which
i Rev. James F. Powers, of Pottsville, is presi-
dent, opened its sessions at Easton last night
with a sermon by Rev. Dr. Elwood Worces-
| ter, of Bethlehem.
~—The Keating house at Keating, owned by
Wallace Gakel, was slightly damaged by fire
Tuesday afternoon. The roof of the kitchen
| caught fire, but the flames were extinguished
by the application of a few pails of water.
—Henry Felpel, employed at the Lancas-
cal year 1895-96, being part of the first | oyed ]
fiscal year under the Wilson law, our ex- | ter caramel factory, was instantly killed
ports of American manufactures reached |
the unprecedented proportion of 24.57 per
cent of our total exports.
Men Must Boost Themselves
days.
From Texas Siftings.
To be a success in these times we must
own a horn and toot it continually. To
get a front seat we must walk in, push our
way past slower men, and take the seat 3
as if we not only owned it, but had a mort-
gage on all the private boxes, and could
occupy any one of them if we so desired.
The man who wants to succeed must strug-
gle for a front seat, even if has to jostle the
real owner and put his umbrella down on
his soft corn. Once in a while he may be
set back where he belongs, but he will get
in front oftener than if he should wait to be
invited forward.
Now-a-
\
acter, weigh merit and to decide as to the
relative ability of men.
hurrying, rushing world of ours, and it is
man puts on himself. If he says : “Iam a
great orator, or a noted scientist,” the
he says :
HASTINGS has hardly been compensated | 100k like it ; get out of the way.
for his humiliation by the compliment !
which QUAY’S convention paid his. admin- |
When that collection of hench- |
istration.
men commend him for his ‘‘wise discrimi-
nation in keeping expenses within their
proper limits,”” it is such a laughable
burlesque on the executive who, encouraged
and signed every act passed by a most prof-
ligate Legislature, that even HASTINGS
should be able so see how such a commen-
dation will strike the people of Pennsyl-
vania.
QUAY’S Harrisburg platform was intend-
ed to humbug and deceive, but that part of
it will deceive nobody. The people have.
too good a reason to know that HASTINGS’
administration is prodigal and profligate
beyond measure. They see how, in the
creation of new offices and increase of sal-
aries, it has wasted public money. In
expenditures fof the executive, legislative
and judicial departments it has exceeded
the expe of the more efficient PATTI-
SON administration by more than a million
dollars yearly. The Governor has taken a
personal interest in encouraging and pro-
moting this extravagance for the - benefit of
his political friends, who had to be reward-
ed with offices and increased salaries.
These facts being known to the people,
the commendation of his economy by
QUAY’S convention poorly compensates the
Governor for the dirt he has eaten in de-
meaning himself to the boss. :
A Badly Used City.
Poor old Philadelphia is again being
shabbily used by a Republican Congress.
The appropriation for the League island
navy yard, for which she had a right to
expect a liberal allowance, has been cut
down to a few thousands, while the provis- |
ion of $500,000 in the River and Harbor
bill for the improvement of the Delaware
river navigation, has dwindled down to
half the amount originally proposed, while
in the meantime amounts ranging into the
millions are allowed for the improvement
of the harbors of New York and Boston.
This is heartless treatment of the cham-
pion Republican city by a champion Re-
publican Congress. The Philadelphia bour-
bons are blaming their Congressmen for in-
efficiency in not getting their appropria-
tibns through but the fact is that it is so
well known that the Republicans of Phila-
delphia will vote the whole party ticket
under any and all circumstances, ,whether
they get kicks or favors, that Republican
Congressmen don’t think it worth while to
waste any favors on them. :
Poor Logic.
From the York Gazette.
production of gold its people are beginning
ests to be Silverites, and so we find a strong
gold sentiment growing there, and as a
result Senator Wolcott, of that State, has
sound money man. When this takes place
it will be an object lesson the effect of
which will be felt in every State in the
Union.
it cannot last very long.
One of the Last.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
~ Ex-Senator William A. Wallace, of Penn-
sylvania, who has long been ill in New
The world has not time to analyze char- |
This is a fast, |
very much influenced by the value that a
world is apt to take it for granted that he |
is, rather than go to the trouble of holding |
a civil service examination of his merits. If |
“I am but a poor, weak worm of i
{the dust,” the world will say : ‘You |
Since Colorado is increasing so rapidly its |
to realize that it is no longer to their inter-
been noticed laying grounds, in a quiet |
way, for a flop. No one will be surprised |!
to see him before long an “out and out’’ |
Take the silver mine owners and !
their influence out of the free silver move- :
ment, and there is nothing left but fanata- |
cism of the Greenback type, and unaided |
York, is reported nearing his end. He is |
Wednesday by being caught in a belting and
{ drawn between ‘a pulley and brick wall, a
| space of about four inches. The shafting
| was removed to release his body. =
{ —tast Saturday a week ago three Italians
| were stabbed and badly beaten at DuBois by
three men who had been refused tobacco by
the Italians. Yesterday Victor Coretti, one
of the wounded men, died from his stabs.
| The other two are lying in a. serious condi-
| tion.
|!" —During a fire in Williamsport on Satur-
| day morning, Mrs. W. B. Rockey narrowly
| escaped death from suffocation. She is an in-
i valid and only after the greatest difficulty
| was she carried from the building, which
{ was damaged to the extent of $500 by the
i flames and water.
—Lizzie Mitchell, a prisoner in the Wil-
' liamsport jail, Wednesday night set fire to
old clothes and paper on the floor of her cell,
| in a spirit of revenge for punishment inflicted
by reason of obstreperousness. The girl got
i more than she wanted, for she nearly choked
| to death with the smoke and had to be assist-
| ed to the corridor bythe sheriff. The flames on
i the floor were easily extinguished.
—Farmers in the vicinity of Franklin say
that there is a noticeable scarcity of song
birds in the rural districts, as compared with
‘a few years ago. They also say that the
State is paying the penalty for the destruc-
{ tion of the birds, which being insectivorous,
_ were the farmer's friend. The ravages of in-
sects among the grain and other crops are
largely on the increase.
i —The statement having gone out that Sec-
, retary Edge had decided that “French vege-
. tables,” which are colored with mineral or
other injurious matter, must be labeled ‘“‘Ar-
tificially Colored,” the Secretary states that
{ his decision applies to all canned vegetables
! so colored, no matter where they have been
| put up, aud that any person offering or sell-
ing vegetables thus colored, and not labeled
“Artificially Colored” will be liable to the
full penalties of the law.
—Miss Bertha MacConnell, the young
woman who attempted to kill Harry Thomp-
| son at the Keystone House, Lancaster, Pa.,
;-on the morning of March 21, and later in the
| day shot herself at the home of her father,
| John MacConnell, in Coatesville, is now at
| St. Joseph’s hospital, Lancaster, in custody
| —
ranked among the most distinguished men | of an officer, awaiting the time for a hearing
of our State, and has been honored, in before alderman Cummings. Harry Thomp-
many ways, with public confidence. As | son still has the ball in his head, but his con-
Legislator, State Senator and member of the | dition is favorable for recovery.
United States Senate, he play ed a CON- | _Another surprise was created in Jersey
spicuous part, discharging the duties with { Shore Friday when charges of conspiracy to
signal ability and fidelity. When he had |
a seat in the upper House of the federal | defraud that borough out of money aggregat-
Legislature no member commanded a higher | ing more than $1,000 Wore preferred by the
measure of respect. Mr. Wallace is the last | 1aw and order society against council
of Pennsylvania’s public men of the past | man William Selts, Asher Bennet, J. T.
generation who was prominent in public | Clark, W. E. Stutzman and R. McCullough
affairs. | attempted to cheat and defraud the borough
| of $1,000 while the second sets forth a similar
| accusation against Clark, Bennet, Selts and
| ¥rom the York Gazetic, | Stutzman, naming the amount in default at
There was a time, not many months | $5. This action is the outcome of alleged
back, when even the Democrats themselves | crooked work in borough council relating to
felt that the campaign this year would be | the matter of certain stone contracts for street
utterly hopeless. But since the McKinley | paving, ete., printing contracts and the un-
oie has Devoioned (8 roped i has | Jawful abatement of taxes levied on the
ere is an unmis e tone of hope in | i o
Democratic talk, and a note of A Divparsy Btw Doosh Crocs mais oom
in the Republican bluster. The McKinley | P*"Y, :
boom has scared the Republicans. There —There is said to be a movement on foot in
is no use of denying it. We think that the | Clearfield looking to the removal of the
Democratic chances are improving every | Beech Creek shops from Jersey Shore to that
day. . E | town. It is known that the Beech Creek
| company contemplate enlarging the shops to
! double their present capacity, and the Clear-
| field people, learning of this improvement,
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Mr. Woodman, i have made an offer that if the company re-
Democrat, of Illinois, introduced in the | move the works to their town, that they will
House to-day a resolution requesting the | bear the expense of removal and in addition
! Of Course They Are.
Wants Cuba’s Belligerency Acknowl-
edged.
President to immediately issue a proclama-
tion recognizing the Cuban revolutionists
as belligerents.
the situation in the unhappy island of Cu-
ba is becoming a stench in the nostrils of
Christendom ; the murders, the outrages,
the barbarities and horrors by the Spanish
in Cuba are so notorious. that civilization
itself stands appalled.
A preamble to the resolution says that |
{ will furnish the ground for the same. In
| view of the fact the railroad would get a long
| haul to the north and east, it is believed that
| the removal to Clearfield would be advanta-
| geous. This movement on the part of Clear.
| field will not be pleasant news to Mill Hall
| residents, as it is known that they have been
| making overtures to the company for the
| shops.