Benoa fata
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The Clearfield county Democrats nomi-
nated a particularly strong ticket on Tues-
day.
—Spain dis preparing to send another
hundred thousand martyrs into her Cuban
death trap.
—When ever the rule of a majority ceases
to be the law of society then there is noth-
Ing of civil liberty in it.
—HANNA would be a very cross MARK
if, perchance, there should not be enough
X marks to carry his man through in
November. :
—Spain is hard after ships in which to
transport her new army to Cuba. The
Centre county Republicans will join in the
search about November 4th.
—Spring township must be a great dis-.
trict in the eyes of Republicanism. Practic-
ally three candidates for it and not a smell
for the side of the mountain that gave
HASTINGS 1073 votes in 1894.
—It isn’t a very elegant expression but
,it is wonderfully to the point, the way
NED BLANCHARD knocked the slop out of
the remnants of the ‘‘hog combine,’’ in the
North ward, on Saturday night.
—The Republican papers are all busy
telling the Democrats what to do at Chica-
go. Advice has never been needed from
such a source in the past and it is hardly
probable that any will be needed at this
time.
—The Philadelphia Record need have
little fear of the contradiction of its asser-
tion that ‘no one has ever seen a Quaker
beggar.”’ — Strange too, when nearly every
bum on the road has a particular affinity
for spirits.
—Consul. General LEE bids fair to gain
greater notoriety than the author of the
‘Letter that Never Came.” We would
like to hear what his opinion of Cuba is.
If any man is capable of judging whether
or not a state of war exists he is.
—MARK HANNA'S election to the chair-
manship of the Republican national com-
mittee is the reward he expected for his serv-
ices to MCKINLEY. From that position, in
the eventof the major’s election, he will
dispense patronage to those who have been
faithful.
—There are a great many intervening
ifs, but if JAcoB HARMAN, of College
township, had been nominated for the
sheriffalty by the Republicans, then if he
could have been elected, it is rumored that
Mr. FREDERIC DALE, of Lemont, would
have been his deputy.
—Every utterance of MCKINLEY’S since
his nomination indicates his intent to
dodge the currency question and try to run
the campaign on the tariff issue. The tar-
iff dug the political grave for one Republi-
can presidential possibility and is_capable
of doing another job of the same sort.
—Ex-secretary WHITNEY’S assertion
that he would notserve as President, even
if elected, sounds very much as if he is
really in earnest but we fancy that Mr.
WHITNEY would not try to save himself
from being carried off bodily to Washing-
ton in event he should be put astride the
Democratic donkey.
—We trust that the Chicago convention,
which is now only two weeks off, will
recognize in ROBERT E. PATTISON a man
eminently fit and safe to be the standard
bearer of our party in November. On any
platform Mr. PATTISON could be entrusted
with the administration of the affairs of
this government.
—If HORACE BoIES, of Iowa, is not to
be endorsed for President, by that State,
because he stood for law and order as
against mob violence during the great rail-
road strike in Chicago, then he is a far
greater man as plain HORACE BoIES than
he could be, even as President of these
United States.
—Female street car conductors are an
innovation at Norristown, Pa. The change
_ is merely experimental, but is likely to re-
sult in the permanent establishment of
women on the street car lines. They are
not supposed to be adepts at ‘‘knocking
down”, but women have never failed to
promptly catch on toany thing man can do.
—=Spring township gave HASTINGS 337
votes in 1894, while Penns valley gave him
1073. Yet the Republican county conven-
tion practically gave Spring township
three nominations, while Pennsvalley was
ignored. If our Republican friends intended
giving their brethren on ‘‘the other side’’ a
hint that they are not needed they might
at least, not have made it so broad.
—Superstition is said to be a sign of
ignorance, yet there were lots of Republi-
cans who sat in the court house, on Tues-
day afternoon, with blanched faces, as they
watched that swallow sweep gravely over
their heads. It is an old saying that a
bird’s flying into a house is a sure sign of
death, and what could have been a more
disturbing omen to our Republican friends
than that their convention should fall under
the spell.
—Barring the fact that McKINLEY was
nominated on the anniversary of the de-
feat of NAPOLEON, whom he apes; Ho-
BART, his running mate, is enough to make
a JONAH out of the Republican ticket.
The latter is the third man who has aspir-
ed to be Vice President from New Jersey.
FRELINGHUYSEN, who ran with CLAY in
1844, was the first. DAYTON, who ran
with FREMONT, in 1856, was the second ;
and hoth got licked. Now for HOBART
and his NAPoLEON’S Waterloo.
VOL. 41
CILAcrd
STATE RIGHTS AND
Sm ——
BELLEFONTE, PA., J
———
m———
FEDERAL UNION.
UNE 26, 1896.
Their Weakness.
One of the principal weaknesses of the
position of the gold standard advocates is
their failure, or inability to indicate to the
public how they would supply the people
with an adequate amount of money with
which to do business.
In this country, according to the reports
of the comptroller of the currency, and the
director of the mints, there was, all told,
‘on the 1st of January, 1895, but $600,000,-
000 in gold, including bars and minted
money. Since that date the government
has been compelled to gather up and fur-
nish for shipment to Europe $200,000,000,
reducing the total amount to $400,000,000.
To this is to be added the gpnual output,
which, according to official reports, amounts
to $42,000,000 yearly, making us at the
present time, the possessor of $463,000,000
in gold.
Of this amount, $100,000,000 is required
to be held as a reserve in the U.S. treas-
ury, leaving for the requirement of the
banks and the needs of the people $363,-
000,000. In round figures, ahout five dol-
lars per capita, or less than one-half the
money that any country on the face of the
globe pretends to do business with, and less,
by three-fourths the amount that we are
now struggling to get along with.
How we are to prosper if money is to be
made scarcer or how the amount necessary
for the needs of business is to be furnished,
is what the advocates of the gold standard
fail to explain.
To issue paper money over and above the
actnal amount of gold held ready to re-
deem it, is simply to put upon the country
that much fiat money of the cheapest and
most baseless kind.
What the people ask of the gold standard
advocates is, not abuse of ‘‘populists,’’
‘‘anarchists,”” ‘‘free silver cranks” and
every one else who doesn’t agree with
them but a plain, honest and understanda-
ble, explanation of how they will furnish a
sufficient amount of money, for the trans-
action of the business of the country and
keep the government and the people from
being at' the mercy of the few who own
and control the little gold we have.
Will they, or can they make it ?
Old and New Bugaboos.
It has been truly remarked by a con-
temporary that the Republican party could
not successfully run a presidential cam-
paign without a bugaboo. :
Within our recollection they have had a
number of large sized and able-bodied
bugaboos in their political service, which
they regularly brought out to .scare the
timid and fool the ignorant whenever there
was a President to be elected. Who does
not remember the choice selection of alarm
creators and fear inspirers which they had
in use for at least twenty years after the
war? Once every four years there was a
fearful warning of the Democratic inten-
tion to pay the ‘‘rebel’”’ debt and to pen-
sion the ‘‘rebel” soldiers, and the Union
veterans were notified that the Democrats
were conspiring to deprive them of their
pensions. These alarms were always ac-
companied with a vigorous waving of the
bloody shirt. There were other bugahboos,
such as that the most cherished object of
the Democratic heart was the destruction
of American industries, and that the “‘free
traders” were receiving large amounts of
British gold to help them effect that ob-
ject.
These various bugaboos having been
worked for all they were worth in many |
campaigns have become thread-bare and
fail to produce the old effects, and there-
fore it is necessary to get a new lot. With
this object BoB PORTER, the Republican
Englishman whe was given the job of
working the last census in the interest of a
Republican tariff, was sent over to Japan
and he returns with dreadful accounts of
how the Japanese are preparing to flood
this country with goods that will be sold
so cheaply that all our mills and factories
will have to stop work. He represents the.
Japs as being able to almost live on air,
and that a month’s wages of a Japanese
workman would scarcely buy a breakfast
for an American laborer.
In view of this danger the working peo-
ple of this country will be called upon to
rally for MCKINLEY and protection in the
coming campaign, and thus prevent them-
selves from being thrown out of employ-
ment by cheap goods imported from Japan.
It is scarcely probable that this bugaboo,
although brought all the way from Asia,
will frighten the American people into
Lo the trusts and monopolies another
chance to rob them by the revival of Mc-
KINLEY protection.
——The invitation of the St. Louis con-
vention to the women of the country to
help the Republican party redeem the land
from Democracy will not win them over to
protection and high prices. The influence
of the petticoat element was felt in 1892,
when it arrayed itself with the Democrats,
and the women are intelligent enough to
know that they got what they wanted in
better bargains in everything.
It Must be Avoided.
There was much good sense accompanied
by sound advice in an address delivered by
ex-Gov. CAMPBELL some days ago to the
Democratic inter-state association at Wash-
ington, the chief burden of which was the
folly of allowing the Democratic party to
be split on a question of monetary policy
when an occurrence so calamitous to the
best interests of the country can be avoid-
ed by reasonable concession and the exer-
cise of a conciliatory spirit.
There is every incentive to harmony
when the immense value of the stake in-
volved is considered, for the disruption of
the Democratic party would sacrifice inter-
ests-that are interwoven into the very text-
ure of our free institutions. Why, there-
fore, should such a sacrifice be made when
there is no constitutional principle in-
volved in the difference of opinion that
divides the party? Itis a mere question
of economy and expediency, such as Demo-
crats have differed on before without think-
ing of dividing themselves into hostile and
opposing factions. :
The great duty of upholding constitu-
tional principles, of preserving the tradi-
tions of a.purer era of politics, of guarding
the treasury against the raids of thieves
and the exhaustion of extravagant outlays,
and of protecting the people against the
goths and vandals of monopoly and corrup-
tion, has devolved upon the Democratic
party, and it would be a national calamity
if its high service and incalculable useful-
ness should be impaired by internal dis-
sension that raay end in disruption.
This must not happen on a inere ques-
tion of policy.
McKinley as the Gold Standard Bearer.
What a queer figure BILL McKINLEY
cuts on a gold standard platform. There
could not be a more unique and incon-
gruous position for a man whose acts and
expressions on the monetary question were
generally on the side of silver. It is true
that the major was never capable of enter-
taining profound views in regard to finance
and on so abstruse a question as that of the
currency, but such views as he was com-
petent to entertain on questions of public
policy, outside of the barbarism of tari
taxation, were usually expressed in behalf
of the white metal as a monetary medium.
This probably did not.come from a settled
conviction as to its merits, but being nat-
urally a trimmer, he adapted his views to
what he believed to be the prevailing
partiality of the western people for silver.
Therefor he has been found on all former
occasions voting and speaking for that
metal, even going so far as to say that ‘‘the
Democratic party struck silver down.”
In view of such indications of his senti-
ments on the silver question, wasn’t there
something almost comical in Senator LODGE,
ToM PLATT and the other ‘‘gold-bug”
magnates at St. Louis forcing the major
onto a gold platform ? Both he and his
manager HANNA were anxious to straddle
the monetary issue, but against his own
will and in direct conflict with his previous
acts and expressions in favor of silver, he
is made to pose on a gold platform as the
standard bearer of the gold interest and the
champion of ‘‘honest money’’ and a sound
currency.
There is no questioning McKINLEY’S
sincerity as the apostle of tariff spoliation,
but he is forced into an insincere and
farcical position when he is made the bearer
ote gold standard.
Preposterous Gush.
It strikes us that the Philadelphia Zimes
gushes too much in its praise of the Re-
publican national platform. In declaring
that it ‘‘deserves the confidence of patriotic
citizens of every political faith for its heroic
stand for honest money,’ does it not over-
look the fact that the currency plank of
that platform was inserted after great hesi-
tation as to the expediency of a straddle,
and in opposition to the wish of both the
nominee and his manager ? Wouldn’t it
deserve more confidence as a gold platform
if there had not been put on it a candidate
who has been a free silver supporter in all
his public acts and expressions ?
The Times indulges in more gush and
very foolish gush, at that, when it says :
‘MCKINLEY is now presented to the Amer-
ican people as a candidate for President on
the distinct issue of maintaining the gold
standard of honest money.’” The truth is
that MCKINLEY has been put ona plat-
form which does not suit his views on the
currency, if he really has any fixed views
on that subject, and the only distinct issue
he represents is tariff spoliation. He. used
all his influence to make the money issue
a subordinate one in the platform ; he
would have preferred to straddle it, and it
is his earnest desire, to make the revival of
his monopoly tariff the leading issue of the
campaign;
This is so evidently the case, and so ap-
parent to all intelligent observers, that it
gives quite a comical appearance to the
declaration of the Zimes that if no other
candidate is presented on a platform as
distinctly for honest money, it will support
MCKINLEY for President and rejoice in his
election.
Slim Results for the Boss.
It can’t be said that the Republican boss-
esand ‘“favorite sons’ have come out of
the skrimmage for the presidential nomina-
tion with much glory or any improvement
of their political prestige. Their attempt
to corner the nomination has resulted in a
failure that has given bossism a black eye.
No other one of the syndicate has de-
rived less profit from their unsuccessful
operation in the political stock market
than boss QuAy. His servile henchmen
made a great parade of his candidacy, and
the state machine was worked to the full-
est extent of its power to give him a dele-
gation that would be practically a unit in
his favor, but at no time previous to the
meeting of the convention was anybody of
even ordinary discernment fooled into the
idea that QUAY’s candidacy was anything
else than a fake. Nothing was more evi-
dent than that his visit to Canton, before
the convention, was to ascertain the terms
upon which he would be allowed to get in-
to the MCKINLEY band wagon, and while
his henchmen were hurrahing for him at
St. Louis, and HASTINGS was ventilating
his bladdery rhetoric in the ‘auditorium,
extolling the presidential qualities of the
Pennsylvania boss, QUAY’s chief solici-
tude was to effect a dicker by which he
might secure a share of the prospective
spoils in the event of MCKINLEY’S elec-
tion ; nor does it appear that the situation,
with so overwhelming a majority for the
Ohio candidate, was favorable'to his mak-
ing a deal.
Boss PLATT, of New York, won some
distinction and gained prestige by helping
to force MCKINLEY to abandon his intend-
ed straddle of the silver question, and put-
ting him on a gold platform against his
will ; but the Pennsylvania boss gained
nothing but the empty honor of his state
delegation voting for him, and even this,
small as it was, lacked the distinction of
being unanimous, as the MAGEE and MAR-
TIN faction voted for MCKINLEY.
Putting all the results together, and tak-
ing them as the sum total—of what le has
madé out of his candidacy for President,
QUAY does not appear to have increased
his prestige or strengthened his position as
a party boss. As to the spoils, if there are
any to be divided, it doesn’t look as if he
has secured a cinch on them.
Dalzell’s Bad Break.
Republican orators and organs are liable
to make bad breaks in sounding the praise
of MCKINLEY-ism. For example Hon.
JOHN DALZELL was rather unfortunate in
his allusion when he declared, in a recent
speech, that MCKINLEY’S ‘‘name is connect-
ed with a time when the whole heaven was
aflame with the light of our furnaces, in a
land where idleness was a stranger, and in-
dustry, contentment and thrift furnished
the surest guarantee of social order.”’
This is the kind of stuff that the Repub-
lican spouters are going to din into the
ears of the peoplé this summer, as if it
were not a positive and admitted fact that
there were more strikes, lockouts, wage re-
ductions and labor troubles under the Mc-
KINLEY tariff than during any equal per-
iod of time in the history of this country.
In the section of the State where DALZELL
lives and where he had the brazen effront-
ery to speak such praise of MCKINLEY-ism,
there was a constant conflict on the subject
of wages. The coal miners and coke burn-
ers engaged in repeated strikes, .and the
situation in those industries was a
constant fight between the workmen and
the operators who were reaping the advant-
age of MCKINLEY protection while they
were beating down the wages of their em-
ployees. That the workmen in the iron
and steel mills had the same difficulty is a
notorious fact, the trouble usually break-
ing out in strikes and in the Homestead
case almost amounting to civil war.
. Was this the ‘‘industry, contentment and
thrift’’ under the MCKINLEY tariff to
which Congressman DALZELL refers?
Was this ‘‘the guarantee of social order”
of which he boasts as the fruit of McKIN-
LEY-ism, with strikes and labor riots all
over the land, requiring troops to be called
out in ten States, and 8,000 Pennsylvania
soldiers in the field to force ‘contentment’,
upon dissatisfied workmen at the point of
the bayonet ? .
These are the true facts of industrial his-
tory, as recorded during the period of the
McKINLEY tariff, and yet we may expect
the whole country overrun this summer
with lying blatherskites working McKIN-
LEY’S tariff campaign, and uttering such
stuff as that with which the Honorable (?)
JOHN DALZELL has already started out.
——It takes a wife to make a man look
up. IRV. WALKER, the Boggs township
politician, thought his light ought to be
given a chance to shine among the coal
oil Legislators at Harrisburg, but the con-
vention said ‘‘nit.”’
—The Emperor of Germany is beginning
the stiidy of the money question because
he is conscious of a growing need for bi-
metallism in his country.
This is Nothing New, Our Dan Knew it
Long Ago. :
From the New York Sun.
It seems that these two glorious leaders
of the hog combine, the Hon. Christopher
Magee, of Pittsburg and the Hon. David
Martin, of Philadelphia, are still alive and
kicking, and that they have .succeeded in
returning from St. Louis to Pennsylvania,
where they are.once more raising the war
cry against thes Hon. Matthew Stanley
Quay, who gave them so artistic and finely
executed a licking a little while ago. But
some men are hard to satisfy, and of those
some are these two. They howl for more
combat with Mr. Quay. They depend
upon the Hon. Marcus Atreus Hanna to
boost them forward in the ranks of war.
That chief of the western preserve is prob-
ably aware that he has a considerable job
on hand already without accepting any
proposals for new labors. . Mr. Martin and
Mr. Magee are liable to continue to squirm
under the iron heel and toe of the Sage of
Beaver unless they make peace with him
and become his more or less trusty hench-
men. He is an irritating man to fight.
‘Wholesale Depopulation.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
The Japanese disaster tends to become
more and more serious. From the very
sparing accounts at hand it would seem to
be, in point of fatality at least, the most
frightful natural catastrophe which the
world has known in modern time. Even
in a land where they are said to have some
500 earthquakes every year such loss of
human life is very extraordinary. The
first reports placed the mortality at 10,000,
but an official dispatch just received from
Tokio through diplomatic channels men-
tions 30,000 as the more likely figure. It
is somewhat astonishing that the human
race has been able to make such progress
in a land Where the crust of the earth is so
unstable. This great tidal wave which
swept the Japanese coast towns was caused
of course by a sudden change in the
earth’s level. Either the land subsided or
the bed of the ocean near-by was raised so
that water was forced in shore. In either
case there would be a great overflow, and
if the land was thickly inhabited it is easy
to see that the loss of life would be tre-
mendous.
Not Exactly.
From the York Gazette. bo
The American people do not ykt realize
the danger that confronts them. Mark
Hanna, millionaire monopolist, has suc-
ceeded in getting the Republican party to
nominate the very champion of monopoly
and special privilege, and he has been put
in charge of the campaign. Does anyone
doubt where the money will coms from to
run the campaign, and does anyone: doubt
that if Hanna is successful he will give
monopoly and special privilege full hance
‘to devour what is left of the prospefity of
this poor tax-ridden country ?
Is there any workingman such a fool as
to believe that Mark Hanna is doing all
this for him ?
McKinley and the Trusts.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The nail trust has put itself in a position
to help the McKinley exchequer in this
campaign, as it has arranged with all possi-
ble competitors and ‘‘guaranteed’’ its prices
until the first of August. This is a trifle
hard on consumers of nails—on everybody
who wants to build a house or patch up a
fence—especially as the nail pool has ad-
vanced prices since May of last year 228 per
cent on cut nails and 200 per cent on wire
nails. But it sells nails to foreigners at a
much less price—about a dollar a keg—
than it does to American consumers. The
nail trust is one of the institutions that
will be able to spare much ‘‘fat’’ in: the
frying of this year. oo
Majority Rule Always.
From the Lansford Record:
Our esteemed and venerable friend, Capt.
Rauch, of the Mauch Chunk Democrat, is
displeased because the Record contends that
the minority should submit to the majority
in the coming national convention on the
financial question. If the Democrat ad-
heres to its gold doctrine on the ‘‘Pike’s
Peak or bust’’ principle, it should pull in
its party flag. Between a silver candidate
on the Democratic ticket, and the McKin-
ley straddler on the Republican ticket,
Friend Rauch will likely take water or
take to the woods.
The Country Readers are the Best Read~
o ETS.
F. H. Roberts in the Braymer Bee.
The country newspaper of good standing,
clean columns and fair circulation is the
best advertising medium on earth. Its
readers, as a rule, have time to read and do
read what the business man who gets a
daily and ‘skims’ it never thinks of read-
ing viz : the advertisements. I have had
farmers tell me that on rainy or stormy
days they had read everything in the paper,
from the date line to the last ad on the last
page.
Always the Way.
From the Mifflintown Democrat and Register.
It is: irony of fate. The Republicans
made Utah a state for the express purpose
of having it give them two Senators, one
Representative “and three electoral votes.
Yet in the first Republican Convention in
which Utah ever participated as a State one
of her Senators, her single Representative
and half her delegation have abandoned
the party, repudiated its platform and join-
ed in a bolt.
A Job Ready for Him.
From the Washington Post. :
Now that the Czar has been officially fit-
ted up and is prepared to do business let
him begin the good work of depopulating
Siberia. i
——All Kinds of stocks have dropped
since the Republicans ‘have declared for
McKINLEY. and gold. Why this thus-
ness ? ;
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A train at Tyrone fatally injured John
Matta.
—On July 2nd the West Chester state nor-
mal school will celebrate its quarto-centen-
nial.
—While felling a tree near Allen’s Mills,
Clearfield county, George Moore was struck
on the head and killed.
—Minks have been killing the young
chickens at Auburn, and a war of extermina-
tion has been inaugurated.
—John Haviland ,of Sunbury, a Pennsyl-
vania railroad brakeman, was killed by a fall
from a box car at Lewisburg.
—A high trestle on the Reading & Colum-
bia railroad near Montello was discovered on
fire, but a train crew saved it from ruin.
—A fall of slag in the stack of the Car-
negie steel works, at Braddock, instantly
killed Albert Petersen and seriously injured
three others.
—An Altoona detective arrested John
Scott and Alexander Johnson, two colored
men, who assaulted Peter Aiken, at Kittan-
ning Point.
—The Republicans of Schuylkill county
will hold a ratification meeting tonight at
Pottsville, over the nomination of McKinley
and Hobart.
—Before any other members of his family
were up, Charles Alcott, of Altoona, father of
Alderman Alcott, hung himself with a piece
of clothesline.
—Dayvid Frazer, George Irvin and his sis-
ter Cora arrested in Williamsport, are want-
ed for check swindling in Potter county and
also in Washington, D. C.
—A chartar has been granted to the John
H. Taggart publishing company, of Philadel-
phia. The incorporators are William H.
Taggart, George W. Sigler, Samuel H. Han-
dy, Harry C. Taggart and Sarah C. Taggart.
—The expenses of the Blair county semi-
centennial exceed the receipts by about $1,-
000. About $6.000 was subscribed but only
$5,000 could be collected. The cost of pro-
viding meals for so many strangers and mon-
ey lost on the souvenir, is said to be the cause
of the deficit. .
—The Goodyear lumber company is build-
ing at Gilden, Potter county, one of the larg-
est sawmills in that section. The mill will
have three circular, two gangs and two band
saws. Connected with the mill will be a
large planing mill. It is thought that they
will start on the first of September.
—According to the statement given by an
official of the Williamsport boom company,
there are still over 80,000,000 feet of logs ly-
ing between Williamsport and Clearfield.
The greater number of the logs are in the
river while a few million feet are in the trib-
utary streams. A flood to float these logs
in is anxiously awaited. -
—Nelson Byers, of Williamsport, and his
son-in- law, L. H. Allen, of Buffalo, have in-
stituted two suits for damages against the
Williamsport passenger railroad company for
the killing of Mrs. Byers and her 3 year old
grandson, by a car of that company in that
city on June 15, 1895. The amount of dam-
ages is not stated. The action is brought on
the ground that the company did not have
its car equipped with a fender.
- —The maiden name of the wife of William
McKinley, Jr., the Republican candi-
date for the presidency was Saxton.
She is a great grand-daughter of James Sax-
ton, one of the early residents of the borough
of Huntingdon. James Saxton’s son, John, .
(Mrs. McKinley's grandfather) learned the
printing business in the office of the Hunt-
ingdon Gazette, then conducted by John
McCahan. He removed to Canton Ohio, and
established the Ohio Repository, a paper of
wide circulation. :
—Some time about 5 o'clock Saturday
morning, Miss Myrtle Ickes,: daugh-
ter of Squire Ickes, of Lewistown,
arose in her sleep, found her way to the:
room of Mrs. Barley, with whom she
boards in Roaring Spring, where she has
recently been employed in the blank book
factory, opened a window and stepped out of
it, falling twenty feet to the ground. She
was awakened by the fall, and cried for help.
Mrs. Barley was soon at the girl’s side, Miss
Ickes fractured one arm and leg, and possibly
sustained some internal injuries: =
—Charles Swenson, a Swede, employed in
the shops at Renovo, committed suicide by
hanging Saturday aftérnoon, supposably from
worriment over straitened financial matters.
He procured several pieces of light rope and
twisting them together wi to the water
closet, where he committed the act. He was
found by a member of his household, whose
screams brought to the closet ’Squire Kerr.
Mr. Kerr cut the man down. Death was
caused by strangulation as the man’s feet
were resting on the floor. An inquest was
held and a verdict of suicide was rendered.
Mr. Swenson was about 35 years old and is
survived by his wife and six children.
—A few days ago Jacob Stiger ; a Beech
Creek railroad employe, residing at Monu-
ment, went to a chest which stands in the
mountain stream near his home and in which
the meats and other articles of food used by
the family are kept cool by the water from
the brook which runs through one end and
comes out the other. He opened the lid and
was startled to see'a yellow rattle snake coil-
ed on the slate in.the chest ready to send its
poisonous fangs into any one who would
molest it. Mr. Stiger quickly stepped back
and picking up a club went for the reptile
and killed it. The snake measured nearly
five feet and had thirteen rattles and a but-
ton on the end of its tail.
—The Beech Creek tailroad’s corps of en-
gineers, under the supervision of Chief Engi-
neer J. R. McIntyre, is making a protracted
survey in Cambria county, in the vicinity of
Coryville, about seven miles from Patton, the
terminus of the Beech Creek railroad’s oper-
ations. The officials of the road will not
state for what purpose the surveys are being
made, but it is believed that a vast field is
being opened tor running operations. It is
rumored that the Vanderbilts, who control
the Beech Creek, have secured options on
large tracts of B vein coal lands in Cambria
county, and that the present survey is for the
purpose of building an extension of sixteen
miles of railroad, which will tap these rich
coal fields. The proposed road will extend
from Patton, through Corryville, to a point
not yet decided upon. These new coal oper-
ations will greatly increase the tonnage on
the Beech Creek road. The coal thus mined
will be used for New York Central engine
supply coal.
“N