BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Many a man is poor by imagination
rather than by fact. :
—More are after the sound of money,
than care for its soundness.
—PLATT’S figures have all turned out to
have been purely those of speech.
—The fact that a woman named JoLLy
lived to be 100 years old should be an in-
centive to those who would be long lived
to be jolly also.
—The Republicans are proving their ut-
ter unfitness to dominate in Maryland and
putting that State in a way to be everlast-
ingly Democratic.
-—From the number of times cyclones
have given the West the shake one would
think there should come an end of them
some day. *
—The tandem bicycle would be a nice
thing to take one’s girl riding on if there
were only some chance of catching up to
her once or twice during the trip.
—Captain General WEYLER’S order pro-
hibiting the further exportation of tobacco
from Cuba is certainly not calculated to
make Uncle SAM smoke the pipe of peace.
—Lieutenant PEARY, the Arctic explor-
er, is going north this summer. From the
condition of the atmosphere just now there
must be some one up there kicking up a
fuss now. 3
—“BILLY’’ MCGLENN, who was caught
stealing time, in Tyrone, on Saturday, will
be found doing time at, Hollidaysburg, af-
ter the next term of Blair county quarter
sessions. 2
—Canton, Ohio, High school girls have
declared war on cigarette smokers, Under
the guise of saving the boys from prema-
ture death they are possibly trying to do
away with the taint it gives the lips.
—There is no occasion to make such a
fuss over Prof. LANGLEY and the flying
machine he has lately constructed. Why
there are plenty of men, right here in
Bellefonte, who have heen flying high for
years.
—ToM PLATY thought he was getting off
something that would “queer” MCKINLEY
forever when he called him ‘a Dolly Var-
den candidate.” From the way things
look the “Dolly Varden’ seems just the
thing the people want.
—MCKINLEY must be a crack advance
age Being already - ahead of the great
prosperity circus and grand protection hip-
podrome and humbug he is also booking
the A. P. A. dark lantern exhibition which
will show on November 3rd.
—Governor MORTON, of New York, hav-
ing celebrated his 72nd year on Saturday
the Republicans did well in not having
taken him into serious consideration as a
presidential candidate. MoRrToN is a very
nice old gentleman but he couldn’t stand
the rigors of a presidential contest.
—The decision to hold the olympic
games quadrennially, hereafter, at Athens
seems to be a super-fluous bit of business,
The idea of reviving such games and not
holding them in the stadium at Athens
would be very like Quay’s candidacy for
presidential honors, a colossal fake.
—Since QUAY can’t be the Republican
Presidential nominee he would like to drive
the band wagon in the capacity of chair-
man. ‘Under the circumstances he would’nt
be a very good fellow for that job, since
his eye sight is not good enough to keep
him out of the political chuck holes.
—And now they have it going that Quay
will visit- McKINLEY and urge on him to
accept HASTINGS as a running mate. The
plan is said to be for QUAY to shove HAsT-
INGS onto the ticket and thus get him out
of CAMERON'S road for the Senate, but few
people will be led to believe that the Gov-
ernor is in any-body’s road now-a-days.
—What a week this has been. On Tues-
day the central Pennsylvania homeopathists
met here to talk sugar pills and sich.
Next day the Centre county Sunday school
association came along to talk over eclectic
remedies for spiritual weaknesses and yes-
terday evangelists WEAVER’S preat taber-
nacle dispensary of allopathic Yoses was
dedicated. : |
—The Pittshurg Times is of the opinion
that Governor HASTINGS will accept the
report of brigadiers SCHALL and Gopiy
and Col. NORTH against the mustering
. into the N. G. P. of any more colored com-
panies. The grey invincibles, of Philadel-
phia, were anxious for the admission of
enough colored troops to make a battalion.
Colored soldiers are not as much in favor
with the Governor as colored voters once
were.
—Rev. Dr. RoBERT FoRrBEs, of Duluth,
said, in the Methodist general conference,
at Cleveland, on Tuesday, that he thinks
people are getting converted too fast. Ac-
cording to his idea ‘salvation will soon be
on sale by telephone and telegraph,’’ but
that is nothing new. When TALMAGE
preached in Brooklyn there were plenty of
phones into his church so that people
could sit at home and listen“to his ser-
mons.
—It is proved that they intrinsic value of
the metal has nothing to do with the value
of the money which might be coined out of
it. The other day lightning struck the
wood-shed of an old farmer, who lives down
the country, and a keg of silver doHars he
had hidden therein was converted into pig
silver. When the old man put the silver
dollars in they were worth one hundred
cents each, but after the lightning struck
them they were worth only the_price of
pig silver.
VOL. 41
2
STATE RIGHTS AND FE
DERAL UNION.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—An annual pass is the prize offered by the
Pennsylvania railroad to the farmer on its
route who is most successful in beautifying
his grounds adjoining the line, ?
—The meeting of the National Scotch-
Irish society, to be held in Harrisburg June
“4, 5 and 6, promises to be the most largely at-
tended in the history of the society.
. —F. T. Gallagher, the senic artist, who
fell unconscious at Jersey Shore last Thurs-
day, while running a race, has-recovered.
He was unconscious nearly fourteen hours.
—The work on the new water house and
troughs in Lewistown narrows on the middle:
division is progressing rapidly, and Bixler's
A Danger to the Republic.
- Abuses that within recent years have de-
veloped in American politics, and after
growing to formidable proportions are still
on the increase, make the thoughtful citizen
tremble for the stability of our popular in-
stitutions and the future of the Republic.
The tendency to political abuses that
have become so dangerous, assumed its
present threatening trend when eight years |
ago the managers of the Republican party,
with the object of regaining control of the
government, offered, to shape its fiscal
policy to the advantage of a certain class in
consideration of that class furnishing
enough money to carry the presidential
election. There was always more or less
corruption in their political management,
but a bargain on so extensive a scale in-
troduced a corrupting factor into the
politics of the country that has exerted a
most demoralizing effect not only upon the
political, but also upon the financial and
business conditions. In order that the
corrupt bargain should be carried out the
making of the tariff schedules was handed
over to those who were intended to be the
beneficiaries of them, they having paid for
them by campaign contributions, and were
allowed to throng the committee room and
dictate their wishes while the bill was in
the process of formulation.
Such corrupt and mercenary proceedings
could not fail to produce a measure which
by its promoting the interest of a limited
class was necessarily injurious to the mass
of the people and helped to bring on a
situation that culminated in business pros-.
tration and financial panic. This was the
natural consequence of a fiscal measure
which owed its existence to a corrupt abuse
practiced in the presidential election of
1884, and which was designed to promote
the interest of a class at the expense of the
generality of the people.
But this natural and necessary conse-
quence manifested itself at a time and
under circumstances that have enabled the
Republican managers to ingeniously im-
press the minds of the unintelligent, and
the unthinking, with the belief that the
resultant business trouble and financial de-
pression were caused by a Democratic ad-
ministration coming into power. But the
worst feature of this deception is that it is
intended to be associated in this campaign
with a repetition of the corrupt use of
money which has grown to be so dangerous
a political abuse, and which as an agency
employed by Republican politicians has he-
come the greatest danger that threatens our
free institutions.
The man that has distanced all com-
petitors for the Republican presidential
nomination is the man whose name is most
conspicuously identified with the tariff that
owed its existence to corrupt means em-
ployed in the election, and who in the con-
test for delegates has had the advantage of
money contributed by expectant tariff
beneficiaries. In the event of his nomina-
tion, which appears to be the next thing to
a positive certainty, the fearful abuse of
employing money as a controlling factor in
American politics will manifest the alarm-
ing extent to which it has been developed.
The rebellion of the southern confeder-
ates, whose object was to destroy the Union,
was an open demonstration which bore its
object upon its face and could be met and
successfully resisted. The corrupt political
methods of the Republican party, which
are bringing elections and legislation under
the control of money and converting pub-
lic politics into purchasable commodities,
are sapping the foundation of our popular
government with a political dry rot in-
sidious in its character, and which in its
ultimate demoralization is more dangerous
than a rebellion that is in the open and can
be grappled with and suppressed.
In the Republican party, as now con-
stituted and managed, consists the danger
that makes the perpetuity of the Republic
problematical.
Belligerency for a Campaign Purpose.
The speech which Senator MoRGAN
made in the Senate, last Saturday, favoring
the passage of a joint resolution to recog-
nize the belligerency of Cuba, comes too
late in the session to be of any practical
use. The purpose of such a resolution
would be to compel the President to either
agree with its object by issuing a proclama-
tion of recognition, or to veto it. i
This would be a more manly proceeding
than the sneaking design of the resolution
that was passed some weeks ago, which
left the act of recognition to the option of
the President with the object of throwing
all the responsibility upon his shoulders.
If Congress wants the Cubans to be rec-
ognized as belligerents let it pass such a
resolution as will make it share the respon-
sibility equally with the President. Let it
make such a declaration as will render it
obligatory for Mr. CLEVELAND to take a
step that may involve the country in war.
The belligerency resolutions are intend-
ed chiefly for a political purpose and to
have a campaign effect. But if they are
passed in a proper shape, and with an
equal division of the responsibility, the
President can he depended ®n to carry
them out.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 22, 1896.
The A. P. A. Force.
The farce that was attempted to be play-
ed between MCKINLEY and the A. P. A.
is about being terminated by that secret
organization taking the major off its black
list.
The pretense was made some months ago
that MCKINLEY had rendered himself ob-
noxious to the A. P. A. by refusing to
answer interrogatories made by that order
or give pledges. It was represenfed that
all the other Republican presidential as-
pirants had appeared before its committee,
either in person or by representatives, and
answered its questions, but the ‘fearless
and independent’ McKINLEY would not
recognize its demands.
This was suspected at the time as being
a game that the dark lantern order and the
Ohio candidate were playing to disguise
the fact that the A. P. A. were pledged to
MCKINLEY as the candidate that best suit-
ed their purpose and was most congenial to
their principles. It was policy to keep
this under cover, as the knowledge of it
would turn a large class of voters, particu-
larly the Catholics, against him, and with
this object the farce of a disagreement be-
tween them was put on © h rds.
But it is now annouMced that the execu-
tive committee of the A. P. A. have agreed
to take the boycott %ff McKINLEY and
let the members of the ‘grder vote for him
if they wish to. The “whole proceeding
“was intended to create the impression that
the organization was not pleased with him,
but there is every reason to believe that
there was an understanding between them,
while this farce was in progress Judge
JACKSON, supreme vice president of the
A. P. A, declared that the alleged fight of
the order against MCKINLEY ‘Ys all
humbug,’’ and that “over ninety per cent.
of us are with him.”
It requires some smart practice to have
the dark-lantern support and at the same
time not repell the Catholic vote.
A Fraudulent Expense,
It will be an imposition upon the people
of Pennsylvania if the money to pay the
expenses of the so-called Philadelphia
“LEXOW”’ committee be taken from the
state treasury. It was promised that the
expense would «be borne by the Philadel-
phia municipal reform league, but it is
now intimated that the next State Legisla-
ture will be asked to appropriate money
for that purpose.
That investigation = committee was a
fraud from its first inception to the final
petering out of its deceptive purpose. It
was never intended to do anything that
would be of interest or benefit to the State.
In fact, it was never intended to do any-
thing at all except to serve boss QUAY’S
object of scaring the other faction in Phila-
delphia by threatening to expose the cor-
ruption of their methods and the rotten-
ness of their rule; but which he had no
intention of doing, as a thorough investiga-
tion would involve his own rascally ring of
henchmen,
The committee made a show of investiga-
tion, but was always careful to suspend its
inquiry whenever the subejet it was hand-
ling gave indications of furnishing damaging
developments. The whole business was
intended entirely to serve QUAY’S purpose
and it would be an outrage to make the
taxpayers of the State stand the expense.
But there can be scarcely a doubt that the.
miserable tools who will compose the ma-
jority of the next State Legislature will ap-
propriate money to pay the charges in-
curred by their boss’s sham “Lexow”’
committee.
Te ———
Spanish Atrocities.
A letter has been received in Philadel-
phia from a creditable source in Cuba
which gives some details of atrocities prac-
ticed by the Spaniards in their operations
against the Cuban insurgents. This letter
describes the coldsblooded murder of sixty-
four non-combatants, including men, wom-
en and children, near Matanzas, twenty-
seven of whom were shot down by a volley
and the balance burned to death in a cane
field, to which they had fled to escape their
fiendish enemy.
If such an atrocity were ascribed to any
other soldiers than the Spanish it would be
incredible, but the whole history of Spanish
warfare is full of such inhuman incidents,
They are in keeping with the character. of
a people whose favorite diversion is the
cruel bull-fight, and such bloody practices
accord with the proclamations of the
butcher WEYLER which denounce the
Cuban patriots as brigands and outlaws
unentitled to no other treatment than cold-
blooded slaughter.
All that is authentically known of the
Spanish conduct in Cuba substantiates the
ferocious details as given. in the letter
received in Philadelphia. While these
horrors are being perpetrated a cowardly
Congress is afraid to pass such resolutions
as would share with the President {he
responsibility of interfering with such
devilish proceedings. It shirks its duty in
order that it may have an excuse to blame
“members had voted themselves an increase
the President for not doing his.
«ke
Tom Reed Becomes Sarcastic.
Speaker REED is a political personage
who just at this time is greatly in need of
sympathy. He is by all odds the ablest of
the men who are aspiring for the Republi-
can presidential nomination, but in being
so thoroughly distanced by the one who in
point of ability and force of character is the
scrubbiest one of the lot, he certainly is
subjected to a humiliation that should
excite thé sympathy of even his enemies.
REED started out in his -presidential
aspirations with good reason to believe
that he was entitled to the preference of
his party. It was to secure that prefer-
ence that he ran the 51st Congress, as its
speaker, on despotic principles. It was to
please his party that he brow-beat the
Democrats of the House and kept them
under his despotic heel. It was to secure
the affection of the Republicans that he
used the lash in running their pet measure,
the monopoly tariff, through the House
and did more than all the others in secur-
ing its passage. It was to maintain his
hold on the party that he has run the pres-
ent House on the do-nothing plan in order
that it should pass no measures that might
help to improve the times, and thereby
give the G. 0. P. a chance to blame the
Democrats for the continuance of the de-
pression.
After having done all this to entitle him
to the nomination he suffers a double
humiliation in being run out of sight by
the measliest one of all his competitors, a
man who derives his only distinction from
the accident of his name being attached to
a tariff bill, and whose strength springs
entirely from the crazy notion that the
restoration of the tariff that bears his name
will flood the country with prosperity.
No wonder that under such ecircum-
stances the Czar becomes sarcastic in his
remarks about the “advance agent of pros-
perity’’ trying to ride two horses at once
on the currency question. In one of his
humorous allusions to MCKINLEY'S “‘strad-
dlebug”’ performance on that issue he re-
marked to a reporter the other day :
“When I was aboy the advance agent of the
circus would go through the country and cover
the sides of the barns and fences with the most
gorgeous posters of what the circus would be.”
Then he pictured the procession of knights in
armir and ladies in silk attire, mounted on Ara-
bian steeds, and followed by elephants, lions,
tigers, and other wild beasts in a high state of
natural fury. When the cirens actually came it
usually consisted of a few persons riding horse-
back in the usual country style, one drowsy
elephant, and a few weather-stained boxes, moun-
ted on wheels, and supposed to contain wild ani-
mals, “It never came up to the show bills,” he
added, “but there was always at least one first-
class acrobat who could ride two horses at once.’
The Czar’s sarcasm has given a good pict-
ure of the person who is not only the ad-
vance agent of the Republican circus, but
furnishes the chief attraction by riding the
gold and the silver horse at the same time.
Profligate Emoluments.
It wasn’t so many years ago that the peo-
ple became highly indignant over what
was called a congressional salary grab. The
of pay, and this act of enlarging their own
official emoluments was so universally con-
demned that those who shared in the grab
so keenly. felt the popular rebuke that they
hastened to return their swag to the treas-
ury.
But a grent change has taken place in
public sentiment concerning such acts of
legislative profligacy and extravagance,
showing that a demoralization has in this
respect overtaken the public mind. An
increase of the pay of legislators by their
own act hardly excites comment. It is
te. .en as a matter of course. Both the Sen-
ators and the members of Congress are now
getting bigger pay than was intended to he
secured by the grab, that some years ago
excited such public indignation ; and when
at this session the most extravagant provis-
ions were also made to supply them with
clerical help, which they really did not
need, it excited but little if any condemna-
tion on the part of the press. ; ;
Besides the large pay which the United
States Senators have voted themselves, each.
one is provided with a secretary ; and
additional clerical help was voted at this
session, to be continued in the future, that
more than doubles the expense of running
that body.
For some years past the members of the
House have each had a secretary during the
session, but some weeks ago they conclud-
ed that this clerical service should extend
between sessions, and they, accordingly,
voted themselves clerical assistance for the
whole year at an additional cost of $216,-
000 to the government, and now a Con-
gressman can have the use of this clerk at
home in his private business, if he wants
it, and the government will pay the ex-
expense. If he doesn’t need such a clerk
between sessions for his private use he can
nevertheless draw pay for him.
Does it not show a great demoralization
of public sentiment that this profligacy has
ceased to excite surprise or condemnation ?
And tono source can this profligacy be
more directly attributed than to the “grand
old party” of protended morality and intel-
ligénce.
water station will soon be a®hing of the past.
—The barn of Gideon Shelly, near Good-
ville, Delaware township, Juniata county,
was destroyed by fire a few days ago, togeth-
er with all its contents. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
McKinley's Election Would Stop this
Destructive (3) Business.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The contract of the Carnegie company for
10,000 tons of steel rails for Japan, taken
at lower rates than their English and Ger-
man competitors cared to meet, has been
noticed in these columns. We have more
of the same sort. The Bay View mills of
the Illinois steel company, near Milwaukee,
are loading steel rails at their docks for the
land of the Mikado. They will be taken
to Buffalo by lake, and there transshipped
to New York, where they will be loaded
for Japan. The Illinois steel company has
made several prior shipments of steel rails
to Japan, but this. is the first shipment by
lake and rail, and is looked on in. the na-
ture of an experiment. The shipment was
of 500 tons. Not much, to be sure, but if
a profit is possible on 500 tons it will be
equally a good thing on 50,000 tons.
“A noble shipment,” said the Cleveland
Leader a few days ago, ‘“‘was made from
Cleveland yesterday. At the docks at the
foot of Case avenue 600,000 pounds of nails
were loaded on the fleet of the Cleveland
steel canal boat company. The nails are
consigned to Yokohama, Japan.” Tt is ex-
plained that the competition of German
nail manufacturers was overcome by the
company which made this shipment.
This deserves more than a passing notice.
Protected by tariff duties, which the emer-
gency tariff bill that lately passed the house
increased to the extent of 20 per cent, the
nail pool had advanced the price of nails to
American consumers from 85 cents a year
ago to $2.25 a keg at this time, which is
the quoted card rate. The same combina.
tion sells nails to foreign buyers for $1 less
a keg than to American purchasers. Owing
to this discrimination in favor of the fore.
igner, nails have recently been shipped to
Germany and brought back and sold in
New York ata good profit for less than the
ring’s domestic price. The steel rails sold
by the Carnegie company to go to Japan,
it is stated on good authority, were sold
for $21.26 a ton, while the price of the
combine to American purchasers is $28 a
ton.
Neither the steel rail nor the nail pool
combine needs any protection whatever.
This is proved by “their trade operations.
But they are all for McKinley for Presi-
dent, with other well-known combines, in
the expectation that the tariff will be so
doctored as to enable them to continue
their extortion of American consumers by
customs rates that force Americans to pay
much more for American-manufactured
goods than the foreigners are privileged to
pay for the same identical articles. In
other words, the people of this country are
taxed to enable industrial combines to sell
their products abroad cheaper than a e.
This is “protection” with a ve: 2.
Se —————
—John Adair, one of Tyrone’s oldest cit-
izens, died suddenly of paralysis at his home
on Friday morning, in the 76th year of his
age. He had been employed at the Tyrone
freight depot for eighteen years,
—Ebensburg is in darkness, as far as the
electric lights are concerned, the town coun-
cil having refused to renew the agreement
with E. B. Cresswell for another three years
on account of the poor service.
—Deputy secretary of agriculture John
Hamilton, of State College, states that dur-
ing the®past winter the 139 farmers’ insti-
tutes held throughout the State ‘cost only
$6,500, as against $9,500 for the 143 of the
previous year.
—An examination was made recently of
the ore find on the Henry Dornblaser farm,
but at the spot where the diggers went down
there was none of the metal found, It is be-
lieved, however, that there is ore on other
parts of the farm, but the absence of the me-
tal at the point selected has had a discourag-
ing effect.
—The saw mill of Hall, Kaul & Co., at St.
Mary's, Elk county, will, it is said, be the
largest in the state. The building will be of
brick, 251 feet long by 85 feet wide, and will
require 365,000 brick, 65,000 being fire brick.
It will contain six steam boilers and six
ovens, and will have two immense smoke
stacks.
—On Thursday evening last there was a
very severe storm in Karthaus which was
followed by hail that fell in balls as large as
pheasant eggs and in the gutters huge piles
of hail were formed that looked like ice
formations. Everybody in Karthaus made
ice cream the day following, and there was
plenty left for the next day.
—At DuBois Monday morning fire broke
out in the residence of William Ralston, on
North Brady street; and with that dwelling
burned the central opera house and several
houses on that side of the street. The flames
then leaped across the street and burned
several buildings on the other side. At noon
the fire was under control.
—Lieutenant William Richardson, assist-
ant keeper of the arsenal, was at Lewistown
Friday arranging for the division encamp-
ment of the National Guard next July. He
has secured a force of men to put the grounds
in proper condition for the encampment.
Lieutenant Richardson says it is the finest
place for an encampment in the State,
The Strength of Republican Possibili-
ties.
From the Pittsburg Post.
There have been elected 918 delegates to
the Republican national convention, but
four in Arizona, four in New Mexico and
four in Oklahoma must depend on the ac-
tion of the convention as to their admis-
sion, the official call authorizing these terri-
tories to elect only two delegates, whereas
they have each six claimants for seats.
The Philadelphia Press and New York
Tribune in their careful reports of the stand-
ing of the elected delegates, reach a sub-
stantial agreement. They are both Mec-
Kinley papers, but are also newspapers,
and their statements are doubtless a fair
presentation. The Tribune figures are as
follows :
—Reuben Thompson, of Clearfield, is a
heavy loser by forest fires. Three years ago
he purchased 3,000 acres of fine timber land
in Cooper township from Orin Schoonover,
and erected on it a good mill and dams.
There were 200,000 feet of sawed lumber at
the mill and over 1,000,000 feet of logs in the
dam. All these and the logsand bark laying
on the tract were destroyed. Mr. Thomp-
son’s loss will amount to $15,000 or over.
—It is said that Rev. Lambert, who is to
have charge of the Newton Hamilton
camp meeting, in pursuance of his
policy to have a special attraction every
MeKiney.............. 557 Bradley a Ye 16 | day of camp, already has the posi-
feed. = 3 cali. = 4 | tive assurance that Chaplain {McCabe will
Quay. 56! Doubtful "65 | be there at least one day, and the partial as-
“90s | SuTance of the great evangelist Moody to be
in attendance. Everything points to one of
the greatest camps ever held on the Juniata
grounds.
The Press figures include 918 delegates,
and give McKinley 531 votes, or 26 less’
than the Tribune. Otherwise they very
nearly agree. The anti-McKinley papers
and rs do not concede the correct-
ness of these figures, but their statements
are decidedly vague. Sis
To sum up, it is perfectly apparent that
unless some unforeseen conditions should
arise, whereby a large body of delegates
may be diverted from McKinley prior to
June 16, he will be nominated on the first
ballot. No wonder Senator Quay talks
of going to Massilon.
Josh Foulk Should be There.
From the New York Sun.
It is mighty fine for the supporters of the
Hon. William Boyd Allison to arrange to
have 2,000 cots at St. Louis during the Cone
vention, but how is a body to win any sleep
while the town is crowded with nojses?
Why, even if the McKinley boomers could
be struck asdumb as their candidate is, the
Tippecanoe Drum Corps of Indianapolis, the
most active wielders of the stick in the
Hoosier domain, would be sufficient to
murder all the sleep in St. Louis. Forty
drummers welting away for dear life—-ah’
what a swoon of sound that will be!
Very happy will the small boy be in St.
Louis, but some hundreds of thousands of
grown folks may have somewhat less amuse
ment and be a trifle fagged out when morn
ing comes. Still, ’twill be a glorious vie-
tory. for somebody.
an outline in the river at Williamsport,
a drowned man. The coroner was notified
and an inquest held on the body. It was
found that the neck was broken and the left
shoulder dislocated. The remains were
identified as those of W. W. Witter of Leb-
anon county, and evidence was given indi-
cating that the man had either fallen or
jumped from the Market street bridge.
—Wise brothers, who have 25,000,000 feet
of C. Blanchard, of Philadelphia, at Winter-
burn ; three miles west of Penfield, and built
a railroad from the mill to their timber.
While Wise’s laborers were at dinner, Blan-
chard, who is operating a coal mine at Win-
terburn, sent a force of men and tore up a
section of the railroad track between the mill
and the woods. Blanchard claims that Wise
‘Brothers have failed to fulfill their contract
‘with him.
—Harty A. Gardner, the defaulting
cashier of the First National Bank of Al-
toona, has, after a chase of nearly a year,
been located in South America, it is reported,
and the United States secret officers say they
will land him on United States soil within 30
days. Gardner was first traced to Ashville,
‘N. C., but left there just as arrangements had
The Masses Are Running Things.
From the Selinsgrove Times.
Politicians do not seem to be running
politics in this year of our Lord. The peo-
ple appear to be having their say on va-
rious matters. The politicians” may con-
clude that it is their off year.
sively to Georgia, New Orleans, Mexico and
Brazil, and is now said to be a stenographer
in the office of a South American railroad
company.
—On the night of January 20th last, Antis
Ellis’ dwelling and its contents and a stable
and other outbuildings in the rear of the lot,
at Alexandria. Huntingdon county, were
burned to the ground. Not three months be-
fore that time he hag been insured by the G.
C. Waite insurance agency of Tyrone, and
the companies carrying the policies instituted
criminal proceedings against Ellis, claiming
that he had set fire to his own property, and
: Th ; he was tried in the’ Huntingdon court last
who makes up his mind, before-hand, to week, Judge Jeremiah Lyon of the Juniata.
accept and acquiesce in whatever course Perry district, presiding. The jury rendered
a majority of his party’s representatives pg verdict Saturday evening of not guilty but
may decide to take on any question. defendent pay half the costs.
Small Comfort for a Would-be Presi-
dent.
From the Philadelphia Press,
The greatest evidence of the popularity
of Hon. T. B. Reed is the unanimity with
which\the Republican party is accepting
the mention of his name for the vice-presi-
dency.
——He is the right kind of a Democrat
—Friday afternoon a man who was’ lifting -
of lumber on Anderson Creek, leased the mill -
been made to capture him. He went succes- .
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