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BY P. GRAY ME:=K. |
Ink Slings.
—The hay-day of the Centre county |
farmer is now. :
—Poor Yale! Poor EL! He did'nt get
there this time. !
—There are lots of fellows getting in out
of the wet these days.
—The silver people were afraid to trust
HILL, notwithstanding his oft repeated |
declaration : “I am a Democrat.” |
—Free silver will be the issue and on
such a question every farmer in Centre
county will know what way to vote.
—The storm broke at Chicago, on Tuess
¢ day, the cloud had a silver lining and the
next President of the United States will be
a Democrat.
—A silver pill will be the remedy that
will fix poor old Uncle SAM up. He doesn’t
need any more of that enervating tariff
business of BILL MCKINLEY'S.
—Give us a candidate, no matter whom.
Any good man to lead Democracy’s boom.
We'll take either PATTISON, BLAND or
BOISE, they're 16 to 1 shots who'd make
lots of noise.
—The chairman of the Clinton county
Republican committee is certainly an
original fellow. According to Cap’t. W.
* ¢. Kress’ version he spells possible:
“posable.”
—The banking autocrats of New York
have owned the United States long enough.
The Democratic party has opened a way
for the common people to procure freedom
and they’ll do it.
—We are sorry that PATTISON cannot be
nominated, but with him an impossibility
give us BLAND, who is the logical candi-
date of a Democracy aiming at the re-
monetization of silver.
—The New York stock broker who want-
ed to bet $100 that Virginia, Tennessee and
Alabama would go for MCKINLEY is a fool
and that is no doubt the reason that no one
offered to take his wager.
—No one has offered as a possible expla-
nation of the balloon’s failure to go up, at
Hecla, on Saturday, that the presence of the
original Undine left the country short of
wind enough to inflate it.
—Yale made a creditable showing in her
race with Leander, at Henley on the
Thames, on Tuesday, but creditable show-
ings don’t win races, so Yale won’t bring
the royal challenge cup home.
—When the committee notified McCKIN-
LEY of his nomination, last week, it didn’t
go about the work as if the news was ex-
pected to take BILL’S breath away Oh no,
- BiLL had heard that all before.
—The bloomer craze has run itself out—
great credit to womankind. No one gain-
says her right to wear whatever she pleases,
but that modesty which man loves in her
must be preserved if his esteem would be
courted.
—The GOULD son-in-law recently gave a
$100,000 lawn fete in a rain storm and from
the cestivity of the affair it is judged that
dame nature was’nt the only person that
soaked him. If poor old JAY could only
come back wouldn’t he fuss about the way
his money is being spent.
—The eastern gold papers, when they
found their pet hobbies knocked from un-
der them, went to inventing lies about the
bitterness between the eastern and western
delegations in the Chicago convention.
The stories are lies from the whole cloth.
_ Geel feeling prevails and there will not
even he a bol; as was the case at St. Louis.
ofa Republican walk-over in
oes on, but it has a very dif-
pow from that of afew
nly walk-over that party
[ill wil be the journey over
Qr 16 to 1 shot will
fiectunlly that they
’ hey they are at.
> to depend on the
} fim for his election
t even gets place in the No-
e. Yet they say he was nom-
e ““irresistibp demand of the
mon people.” The delegates
m Democratic States, which he
hope to carry, are the fellows
ted this incemgetent aspirant
so high.
Ww a
of omer |
¥ ' EAI
—WiLLiaM I. Swoork Esy., of Clear-
© fig, ex-practitioner at the Centrfh county
b4r, has mo doubt gone out, of ‘the Business
of} aot ng on ‘‘the needs of th hour.”
und out what the gieatest ones
he went before the recent Re-
.gonvention in Clearfield to be
* for the Assembly. What he
s votes and as he did’nt:get them
ye business is busted. RE
ws Bis “needs of the hour!’ without
pay mg to hear him tell of them.
4 ~The fundamental principle of govein-
“ments that the majority should rule at all
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JULY 10. 1896.
Pro)."sed Partisan Liquor Law.
The gang of reckless politicians who con-
trol the public affairs of Pennsylvania are
capable of concocting almost any sort of
rascally scheme, and therefore it is not sur-
prising that QUAY should propose to change
the liquor laws of the State with a view to
gaining a political ad vantage.
There is every reason to believe that there
is truth in the report that it is intended to
have the next Legislature pass a liquor law
similar to the RAINES’ law in New York,
which takes the power of granting from the
courts and lodges it in the hands of a parti-
san commission that may turn to the ad-
vantage of the party in power the immense
influence that can be exerted through the
liguor influence.
By this means the method of licensing as
now provided by the Brooks’ law will be
completely revolutionized. That power
will be invested in a partisan hoard of com-
missioners appointed by a Republican Gov-
ernor, and controlled by a Republican hess.
Such a State’ liquor machine, under such
control, operating upon those who are in-
terested in the liquor traffic, would be a
powerful political agency, not only in in-
fluencing thousands of votes, but also in se-
curing large contributions of money for
political use. :
Some may doubt whether such a ne-
farious scheme could be forced through the
Legislature, but when it is remembered
what kind of Legislators the Republicans
send to Harrisburg there can be no ques-
tion as to its willingness to pass any meas-
ure which the party hosses may demand.
The better element of our people, how-
ever, should endeavor, by their votes at the
next election, to reduce the profligate Re-
publican majority in a legislative body
that has been accustomed to obey the or-
ders of corrupt party managers. Centre
county can do its part in helping to dimin-
ish the injury and disgrace of such an in-
cubus upon the interest and honor of the
State.
Gradual Increase of Revenue.
The fiscal year closed on the 30th of June
and the accounting of the government's
receipts and expenditures shows a deficit
of about $30,000,000. This was better
than the year previous in which there was
a deficit of $42,000,000, and much better
than the year ending June 30th, 1894, the
last year of the’ MCKINLEY tariff, when
the deficit was $69,000,000.
This shows a gradual improvement in
revenue under the WILsoN tariff law. It
shows that in the second year under the
Democratic tariff there is -a deficiency of
less than half as much as in the last year of
the MCKINLEY measure. This fact is
rather a scathing rebuke to the reckless
claim made by McKINLEY in his speech to
the committee that notified him of his
nomination, that all that was necessary to
increase the revenues was to restore his tar-
iff policy, and with the increase of revenue
it would produce the difficulty. about the
currency would be settled.
In formulating the present tariff, which
was intended to produce no more money
than could be economically expended, pro-
vision was made for all the money that
would be required by passing an income
tax bill as a supplemental revenue meas-
ure. This tax was calculated to produce
$40,000,000, annually, and if it had not
been annulled by the monied influ-
ence brought to bear upon the supreme
court, there would have been a surplus of
about $10,000,000 at the end of the past fis-
cal year instead of a deficit of $30,000,000.
But even with that equitable tax removed
the Republican Congress had a chance to
make up the deficiency by a tax on beer,
but it preferred to have a shortage while it
piled up the most extravagant expenses by
iS appropriations.
The Major Talks Absurdly.
Major McKINLEY’S knowledge of the
monetary question must be very limited,
judging from the reticence he maintains on
that subject, and his acquaintance with his
| pet hobby, the tariff, must be equally cir-
cumseribed, if we may judge from some of
his expressions in regard to it. For ex-
ample, in his address to the notifying com-
mittee he made the absurd remark, in sup-
port of the tariff ‘policy, that ‘‘our foreign
trade, so precipitately cut off by adverse
legislation, (meaning the WILSON tariff
bill) must be reopened for our surplus ag-
ricultural and manufacturing products.”
It is characteristic of tariff advocates
that they blather away without the least
regard to facts. The major indulged in
this remark in the face of the fact that “his
tariff was an impediment to the exporta-
' timet. Upon this premise no man can be
a Denocrat who refuses to accept the en-
actméexts of the Chicago convention. If
BLANY should be the party’s nominee for
Presidint an honest, pure man will have
been Dunied for the highest honor within
our people and a man whose ex-
ith the currency question has
ad as to fit him most peculiarly
i 8aties of President, during a period
le currency will he the vital ques-
pislative consideration.
tion of American manufactures to foreign
markets ; that while it was in operation
‘puch exportation was reduced toa mini-
mum, and that since the WiLsoXN tariff law
8 been in force the export of our manu-
fag'tures abroad has undergone a most re-
majikable development. It is natural that
it shuld be so, for liberality of trade on
the ox'® side begets liberality on the other.
‘ major made an unfortunate allusion
whe spoke of his tariff policy as a pro-
moter 3.1 the export of American products.
Noo gist
New York’s Factional Republicanism.
It cannot be said that Republican poli-
tics in New York State are in the most en-
couragiug condition for. the party. Har-
mony has not been insured by the action
of the St. Louis convention, which has
rather increased the desire of the factions
to get at each others’ throats. The fight
between the PLATT men and the followers
of WARNER MILLER has been made more
bitter by thé way things turned out at St.
Louis, and threatens to involve points of
controversy that may affegs the national
ticket.
It was believed by the MILLER faction
that boss PLATT had received a backset in
the selection of the delegation to the na-
tional convention, and there was much re-
joicing among them over the idea that
PLATT was entirely excluded from the
band-wagon and would have to. go to St.
Louis on a hand-car while MILLER and his
faction would occupy a palatial train in
making their triumphal journey to the con-
vention. But things turned out quite dif-
ferently from what they expected. Boss
PLATT turned up at St. Louis as the real
governing power on that occasion. He
snubbed HANNA’S intention to straddle
the silver question, and brought candidate
McKINLEY down with a dull’ thud onto
the platform which the goldbugs had pre-
pared for him, much against his inclina-
tion.
In consequence there is not the hest feel-
ing towards PLATT on the part of McKiIN-
LEY and HANNA, and this animosity is be-
ing worked by MILLER and his faction to
the detriment of the boss whom they wish
to overthrow. The contest is on the nomi-
nation of a candidate for Governor to suc-
ceed MORTON, and this bone of contention,
together with the animosity engendered at
St. Louis, has raised a factional fight that
is progressing right merrily, which togeth-
er with the general dissatisfaction created
by the RAINES’ bill, and other causes, will
assist the Democrats in carrying the Em-
pire State at the next: election. :
Fighting About a Loan.
A new subject of contention has set the
hostile Republican factions of Philadelphia
again by the ears and increased the bitter-
ness of the chronic misunderstanding that
exists between them. Of course this new
dispute involves the question of municipal
spoils. The ‘‘grand old party’ always
fights the liveliest when the contention re- 1
lates to official pickings and stealings.
It appears that the anti-QUAY faction,
which controls the city government, pro-
poses to pass an ordinance for an $8,000,000
loan to be used for alleged -city improve-
ments. The handling of so much money is
a very desirable thing in the eyes of polit-
ical spoilsmen, and in this case it excites
the jealousy of the QUAY-ites, who want
to deprive their opponents of such an ad-
vantage and are said to be endeavoring P
defeat the loan.
This is a matter well calculated to excite
factional animosity. The city machine—
otherwise known as the hog combine—are
fighting to secure the handling of so large
an amount of money, and the QUAY-ites
are not going to let the combiners manage
so much boodle if they can prevent it. The
organ of the city machine, fearing that
QUAY might succeed in defeating the loan,
calls in the workingmen and labor organi-
zations to array themselves against the
state boss who is charged with trying to
prevent the loan of money the expenditure
of which would provide plenty of work and
good wages.
As a matter of course the public interest
is in no way considered by these contending
spoilsmen. The one party is fighting for
the handling of a large sum of money which
would furnish desirable stealing. The
other party is fighting to prevent their ene-
mies from having the benefit of so much
swag. That is about all the principle that
is involved in this battle of the Philadel-
phia Republican factions.
Labor's Hatred for Hanna.
"MCKINLEY got the right man to push
him to the head of the Republican ticket
when MARK HANNA took hold of him and:
secured the nomination for him by means
of the money furnished by the expectant
tariff beneficiaries, but what he gained in
this respect he will lose through the oppo-
sition of organized labor which has no
liking for either HANNA or his methods.
General master workman SOVEREIGN
takes that view of MK INLEY’S case, ex-
pressing his belief th the Republican can-
didate’s connection with HANNA ‘‘has
gained the bitter opposition of organized
labor in every State in the Union.”
He goes on to say further : ‘HANNA has
always been a vindictive foe to organized
labor. He is an industrious cannibal. He
has crushed union after union among his
thousands of employees and taken delight
in doing so. He is worse than Carnegie.
In case of MCKINIEY’S election HANNA
would be the real President.’’ :
Thus the clouds of opposition are arising
darkly around McKINLEY’S head. The
labor of the country has been injured by
his policy, and now itis insulted by the
political methods of MARK HANNA whom
it recognizes as a ‘‘canhibal’’ who delighted
in trampling it under his feet whenever he
had a chance. : :
If the Democratic party sticks close to-
gether and adopts a reasonable and liberal
policy on the currency question the fool
confidence of the Republican party will he
turned to disastrous defeat in November.
False and Shallow.
In response to the notification that he
had heen nominated for President, McKIN-
LEY made a characteristically shallow and
untruthful speech to the notifying com-
mittee. In regard to the money plank of
the platform on which he had heen placed,
he professed that it had his ‘‘unqualified
approval.” He may have heen sincere in
this profession, but as his previous public
acts and expressions were directly contrary
to the doctrine of the platform in regard to
the currency, the major’s conversion from a
free silver advocate to a supporter of the
gold standard must appear to have been
very sudden.
It may, however, be accounted for by the
fact that he found himself obliged to accept
principles which he did not want to have
inserted in the platform, and the sincerity
of his acceptance, under such circumstances,
may be questioned.
It is evident from the tone of his speech
that he wants to treat the money uestion
as of minor importance, and prefers to push
the tariff to the front. With an air of great
solemnity he told his hearers that if his
tariff was re-established there would be
enough revenue in the treasury and ‘‘gold
would come to us and not go from us in the
settlement of trade balances.”’
It required great effrontery for him to
make a statement of that kind in view. of
the fact that its deficiency as a revenue pro-
ducer was one of the characteristics of his
tariff. It was not intended to be a revenue
measure, and in conformity with its inten-
tion it cut down the revenues nearly $90,-
000,000 in_the few years:during which it
was in operation. It produced an actual
deficiency during the last three months of
HARRISON’S administration, which would
have required a loan if that administration
had not concluded to shove this deficiency
onto its successor, and during that last Re-
publican administration there was a net
loss to the country of over $120,000,000 in
gold. : .
These are the actual facts with which
McKINLEY may be supposed to be ac-
quainted, and in view of them his claim
that if his tariff were restored there would
‘be plenty of revenues and gold would come
to us instead of going from us, is a rare
specimen of campaign falsehood.
Journalistic. Candidates.
Journalists who may be inspired by po-
litical ambition did not receive much en-
couragement from the manner in which
WHITELAW REID was treated when he was
put up as a candidate for Vice President
The whaling he got was enough to discour-
age any newspaper man from entertaining
such aspirations, yet we observe that sev-
eal gentlemen of the press are being
boomed for Vice President despite the
. warning that should be given them by the
sad case of WHITELAW REID.
The journalists mentioned in connection
with the vice presidential nomination are
AMos CUMMINGS, a newspaper man of ex-
cellent ability and an able and influential
member of Congress from New York city,
and also JOHN R. MCLEAN, the noted ‘edi-
tor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. These are
Democratic editors, and as they would run
as Democratic candidates they would prob-
ably do better than the unfortunate editor
of the New York 7ribune when he was the
running mate of BENJAMIN HARRISON
and took his thrashing along with the dis-
tinguished wearer of ‘‘grandfather’s hat.”
In connection with viee presidential hon-
ors why should not the name of Col. SING-
ERLY, of the Record, be mentioned ? A
nomination of that kind would be very be-
coming to so distinguished an editor, but
it is probable that the Colonel would be so
mighty particular about its being of the
gold brand that he would refuse an ordi-
nary silver nomination.
Shutting Down for Political Effect.
A Pittsburg correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Ledger informs that paper of a re-
ported design of the iron and steel manu-
facturers of that region to shut down their
works this summer, and adds that it is un-
derstood that there will he a general stop-
page of manufactories throughout the coun-
try at the same time. :
It is not stated that this is to be done on
account of an unusual dullness of trade,
but intimates that its object is to affect the
election. : The men who will be thrown
out of eniployment will be made to under-
stand that it is in consequence of the WiL-
SON tariff, and will thus be given an object
lesson of the necessity for the restoration of
McKINLEYISM. ~ With all the iron and
steel mills closed they can be pointed to by
the calamity howlers as an illustration of
the ruinous effect of a Democratic tariff.
It is not at all improbable that such a
villainous sefieme will be resorted to by
the parties who want to regain the spoils
afforded by MCKINLEY protection. When
we see them taking control of the Repub-
lican campaign, putting their creature on
“the ficket at’ a heavy cost of money, they
could not be expected to hesitate in’ shut-
ting down their mills and prostrating busi-
ness for three or four months in order to af-
fect the election, calculating to get their re-
turn through the spoliation of the MCKIN-
LEY tariff. .
NO. 27.
The Heathen Age.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
It is easy for the Philadelphia Times to
throw off the Democratic garb to which it
was not born and into which it fell because
its old clothes were no longer comfottable.
Col. McClure has had an extended experi-
ence in changing his political association,
and it is not surprising that he proposes
‘te do the trick once more.
Nor is it surprising that he finds that it
is not he but the Democratic party that is
changing ; because this is the conviction of
all those who change their party associa-
tion. In the last great exodus from the
Democratic party, another prominent Phila-
delphia editor went over to the enemy with
his newspaper ; which stays there yet, but
the Democratic party moved right along ;
and, of course, no one will have any doubt
as to whether it left the editor or the edi-
tor left it. The Philadelphia Press did not
long undertake to maintain that it was the
old and original Democratic party, after
Colonel Forney took it into the enemy’s:
camp.
And the colonel was an original Demo-
crat, who got his inspiration in this old
town and upon this old journal, which now
inspires us, by its record of over a hundred
years, along with the sound Democracy of
our own lineage, that has heen Democratic
since Democracy was born, to maintain the
honor and integrity of the Democratic flag.
It must have gone hard with Colonel
Forney with his Democratic history and
work behind him and its inspiration upon
him, to leave the grand old party, great as
was his personal provocation. It cannot
go very hard with Colonel McClure; who
was riot born or wed a Democrat and who
_proclaims that he has never edited a Demo-
cratic journal. .
It is not odd, as we have said, but very
natural indeed, that he finds that the in-
consistency and variableness is not his but
the party’s ; but it is as clear that he is not
naturally adapted to interpret the party
creed as it is that he is not able now to do
it. He sees Democracy in gold monomet-
allism where it cannot possibly exist. Such
a soil would not nourish itand in such a
soil it has never grown. Democracy calls
for sound money, louder than he can call ;
but gold and silver money have always
been the Democratic hard money. It was
the money that Jackson fought for when
he tore down the United States bank and
established the independent treasury that
dealt in gold and silver and issued no |
paper money. There are men yet living
who went through the political campaigns
in. which the Democratic cry for hard
money was heard which ca ptured the pop-
ular heart.
But the war of the rebellion came, with
its great cost, and gold and silver went and
_fiat paper money came ; and a Republican
supreme court was induced, under the
party necessity, or its belief in the-Secessi-
ty, to declare that this paper money issue
of the government was a legal tender for
the payment of all debts. .
Colonel McClure was among the men
who applauded this decision, we will war-
rant ; and it hardly becomes him now to
denounce as robbers those who offer silver
for debt, even though they do not, as the
Democracy undertakes to do, keep it at a
parity with gold.
The cry of the gold monometallists
against the honest bimetallism that is to
be baptized a new as Democratic doctrine
at Chicago, is but the frantic wail of the
defeated spoiler, who would rob the people
of their inheritance. Some of these rabid
talkers, no doubt, are honest, and rail at
bimetallism because of their ignorance ;
but there is plenty of malice in the railing
of others.
No honest editor, for instance, however
devoted to gold he may be, will undertake
to say, as the class of Journals edited by
Colonel McClure say, that bimetallists are
dishonest and that silver and gold at a
parity will not make sound money. They
will concede that the only issue between
Democrats at their convention will be as
to the practicability of keeping gold and
silver at a parity by the power of thiscoun-
try alone.
Those editors who think they interpret
Democracy better than Democrats, know
well that all Democrats are bimetallists,
and that gold monometallism was never
found in the Democratic charter.
The frantic declarations made by rabid
editors who see no light, except of their
own lanterns, unfits them for service in the
Democratic line ; and their absence from it
will be welcome and wholesome.
Those Brave Spaniards.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
It was expected that the rainy season
would put a stop to the operations of the
Spanish troops in Cuba, but current resorts
show that the valor of the gallant
Castillians is not to he dampened even by
the heaviest downpour that tropical temp-
ests can produce. Here is that noble hero,
Colonel Hernandez Velasco, going on an-
other expedition against the rebels in the
Pinar del Rio province, and capturing one
of the camps with a resistless clan that
nothing can withstand. The defenders of
the camp were put to flight, and the whole
gang of rebels were made prisoners It is,
perhaps, unnecessary to observe that the
camp was a “ospital camp, defended by
nurses and convalescents—a point that may
be taken for granted—as the hospital camps
of the rebels are just the places most fre-
quently attacked by the brave Spaniards.
What Colonel Velasco did with the sick
and wounded prisoners he captured, is not
stated.
The Devastated Forests.
From the New York Sun.
All the railroads leading into Chicago are
congested with freight trains full of silver-,
mounted gavels. Nobody knows what be-
comes of all the gavels, but it is clear what
becomes of all the trees. They are cut
down and made into gavels, and before
long they will have disapeared, and there
will be no more rain in the United States
except perhaps, on the Fourth of July.
Keeping Arbor Day as an empty ceremon-
ial, consisting of arboricultural excitement,
but to that it must come at last.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—About 200 lawyers are at Bedford to at-
tend the state bar association convention.
—When bathing in a Norristown nata-
torium Miss Hobensack barely escaped drown-
ing.
—While visiting at Pottsville, Henry
Brown, of Wayne township, suddenly ex-
pired.
—Missing the rat, at which he aimed.
Henry F. Reilly, of Reading, shot his wife in
the knee.
The homeopathic board of state medical
examiners failed to pass seven out of 65 ap-
plicants. :
—Mrs. Jennie Levy and her son Samuel,
of Newark, N. J., were jailed at Easton for
shoplifting.
—A Williamsport policeman chased a nude _
bather through the streets for a mile, the
latter having been surprised on the river
bank.
—Leon W. Washburn’s great aliied shows
and big three ring circus is heading this way.
It will exhibit in Harrisburg on Thursday,
July 9th. :
—Centre county will this year receive $47,-
410.62. The school department at Harris-
burg commenced paying out the school ap-
propriations on Tuesday.
—Independent oil producers of Pennsyl-
vania are happy over the decision in New
Jersey which will permit the pipe line to be
laid ander the railroad tracks at Belvidere.
—Peter J. McDonald, one of the best
known passenger engineers on the middle di-
vision of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad,
died at his home in Renovo, Saturday after-
noon, at eleven minutes after 4 o'clock.
—John Spleen, a farmer residing near
Ridgway, was found dead in his house Sun-
day, From the position he was lying in, it
is believed that he fell backwards down
stairs. His neck was broken. He was about
45 years old.
—An Allentown man will shortly start on
a tour around the world in a wagon. He
will go to San Francisco, from there to China,
thence through other Asiatic counties and
expect to reach Paris by 1900 to witness the
Exposition in that city.
—The Danville and Ashland clubs of the
Central Penn’a league have disbanded
which will necessitate the re-arrangement of
the schedule. President Spence is growing
gray in his efforts to keep the league agoing
with nothing but dismal failure staring him
in the face three-fourths of the time.
—The Clearfield postoffice was made a sec-
ond-class office last week and the salary of
the postmaster increased an extra $100. This
is pretty good cvidence that Clearfield is not
going backward. The same cannot be said
of Philipsburg, as $100 was lopped off the
“‘city’’ of Centre, showing that she is running
behind.
—Monday the new company of the Fifth
Regiment. which will take the place of com-
pany I, recently disbanded, was organized at
Clearfield by Colonel Theo. Burchfield. It
consists of sixty men and three officers. The
election resulted : Captain, John E. Harder ;
first lieutenant, William P. Kelly ; second
lieutenant, Americus H. McDowell.
—Mrs. Dave Zimmerman, of Sugar valley,
killed a pair of black snakes four feet long.
Mrs. J. W. Carroll killed a six foot black
snake which lay stretched across the road.
Still another six foot black snake was killed
by Mrs. Henry Mertz, a sister of Mrs. Wm.
Bower, of Rauchtown. The huge snake was
found in the house by her little son who was
in search of his hat. These daughter's of
Eve bruised the serpents’ heads all right
enough, but they used clubs for the purpose.
—A few days ago William Hamilton, who
has a wooden leg, was committed to the jail
at Cumberland for being drunk. On Mon-
day afternoon the jailor heard sawing going
on in a cell, when it was discovered that the
floor in one of the cells had been sawed out
and with a little tunneling a jail delivery
would have taken place. It turned out that
the man had six saws concealed in his wooden
leg when incarcerated. It is thought that
the man’s object was to release Simon Hom-
mer of Somerset county, who is under sen-
tence of death there.
—Never since Blair county was organized
have there been so many prisoners in the
jailat Hollidaysburg charged with the high _
crime of murder. Frank Wilson and James
Farrell have been convicted of murder in the
first degree for killing Henry Bonnecka.
Sigmond Shope awaits trial for the killing of
conductor John King of the Logan Valley
Electric railway, and Albert Johnson and
John Scott, two colored men are in jail await-
ing the result of injuries they inflicted upon
a man at Kittanning Point. Minnie Swanger
is there also, and there are thirty-three other
crinfinals within the walls of the Blair:
county jail.
—The Eaglesmere Chautauqua, of which
Judge James A. Beaver is president, seems to
be growing in popularity. Eaglesmere is
located in Sullivan county and is pretty and
picturesque. The program for each day
during the summer season is completed and
includes such speakers as Dr. Atherton, Rev.
Harvey Graome Furbay, Miss Puella Dorn-
blazer and Hon. S. R. Peale, besides cele-
brated concert companies, vocalists, readers,
etc. The summer school has Prof. Lose as
principal and Hon. Henry Houck as one of
the lecturers. Tuesday, August 25, will be
devoted to politics, at which time Gen. John
G. Woolley, ex-President Harrison, candidate
McKinley, ex-Governor Pattison and ex-
Governor David B. Hill may be present.
—Harry D’Alma, or Harry Wilson, son of
John and Lottie D*Alma died on June 5th at
Guatemala City, Central America, while
travgling with the Circo Escoces, a circus
company. Harry was quite well-known in
Clearfield, having been born here, and at the
time of his death was 24 years and 10 months
old. Harry’s father, John Wilson, and later
know by his show name, D’Alma, wrote to
his wife's folks here last week apprising
them of the death of his son. Harry wasa
fine class circus performer and had traveled
withthe following shows: Rogers’, Main &
Sargent’s, William Main’s, Washburn’s, Burk
& Franklin’s, Walter L. Main’s, John Robin-
son’s, Gregory & D’Alma’s, Hall & Mec-
Flynn's, Sells Bros’, Ringling Bros.’, and
others. He was very popular among the
circus people and his death removes one of
the stars among the younger class of all-
round circus performers. The D’Alma fam-,
ily have often appeard in Bellefonte.
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