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BY P.
Ink Slings.
—“BRYAN brings silver and success.”
— Silver and success is an alliteration in
which there is sure to be luck.
— America for Americans. England
shall never dictate a policy for us.
—England is howling for. MCKINLEY
and the gold standard. How about that
Democratic truckling to JOHN BULL now ?
—Free silver will elect WILLIAM JEN-
NINGS BRYAN the next President of the
United States, but free potatoes won't
make HARRISON Kline the next treasurer
of Centre county.
— Men who can leave their party on the
pretext of being dissatisfied with a money
plank incorporated in its platform are in-
deed hard up for an excuse to prove the
selfishness of their hatures.
—This will be another campaign of edu-
cation. It will be a kind of financial
school that every one will go through and
come out with sixteen grains of sense to
every one they had before entering.
—The New York socialists have denoun-
ced the Democratic piatform and BRYAN
and declared for MCKINLEY and gold.
This is given simply to show that all the
bad men are not in the Democratic party
after all.
—The Republicans who have been shout-
ing ‘‘Anarchist ?”’ at every Democrat in-
sight, since the Chicago convention, will
hardly know where they are at now that
HERR MosT, the leader of the anarchists,
has declared for MCKINLEY and gold.
—The New York Sun fought President
CLEVELAND when he ran against BLAINE,
in 1884. It has never said a kind word
about him since that time. . The Sun did
not keep him from being elected, however,
nor will it make anything by its avowed
purpose of trying to defeat BRYAN.
—As our old friend SoL PECK said:
“We licked England twice, when we
had only a few million people, and sent
her red coats off home convinced that we
could take care of ourselves. If we can’t
look after ourselves now, when we have
sixty-seven millions population, then it is
time a guardian is - appointed for Uncle
SAM.” We'll make our own financial
policy.
— Had the Democratic party, at Chicago,
declared for gold there would have been
but three or four States it could have hoped
to carry in the presidential election. Yet
this condition would gladly have been
thrust upon it by the few selfish money
lending classes, that have bolted, not be-
cause Democracy has foresworn one of her
cardinal principles but because she has
championed the cause of the masses as
against that of the classes.
—To the doubting, who are afraid we
would have a fifty four cent dollar in the
event that silver is remonetized, we merely
want to state that in 1873, the time it was
demonetized, the amount of silver that is
now in a dollar was worth 103 cents. When
the government again recognizes silver as
part of the “coin,” it was designed by the
constitution to be, gold will seek its nat-
ural level and there will be no more pre-
miums for the SHYLOCKS, of Wall street.
—Wednesday’s city papers devoted col-
umns of space to the announcement that the
Hon. EZEKIEL T. COOPER, of Dover, Del.,
a delegate to the recent Chicago convention, |
| party has entered upon a most momentous
had flopped to McKINLEY. It is a cold
day for the gold cause when its promoters
have to make such a fuss over ‘ZEKE
COOPER, a man whom- you would have to
know before you could thoroughly appre-
ciate him. His “influential paper’’ is the
Dover Index, a very weekly sheet, that is
not built on a plan to make many converts
to any cause.
find no more dangerous class of holters
If the Republicans can-
than the Hon. “ZEKE” represents there |
will not be much terror struck to the Demo- | of Democratic principles.
cratic heart.
—The Republicans will spit out filthy
slime from now until November about the
anarchistic South and West, all because
those sections have declared for Democratic
doctrines. It is not so long ago, however,
that these same blatant orators were gain-
ing political supremacy in Congress by fu-
sions with the Populists and were only
able to organize the last Senate by dickers
with the silver people. The Republican
party, too, is responsible for the admission
to the Union of most of the States that
have grown these so called ‘‘anarchists.’”
That work was done to secure the control
in the Senate but it is proving an awful
boomerang now. Call them anarchists.
socialists, or whatever you please, they
constitute the major portion of this glorious
Republic and have her interests as deeply
at heart as the monied East.
—To those Republicans of the farming
and laboring classes the WATCHMAN has
this to say : It respects every man for
having a conviction and living up to it. |
It would far rather see a man vote any oth-
er than the Democratic ticket than see him
become so listless and disinterested in his
government as to stay away from the polls
on election day.
believing as it does, yet conditions so pecul-
iar have sprung into existence that it calls
upon men of all parties to unite with it in
| charge that the Democratic national con-
It censures no one for not |
the great fight of the masses against the
classes, that is now on.
whatever party need not he a Demo#rat to
The poor man of |
join with us. Let him be guided by the |
principle that this is a government of the
people and act in the direction whence he
expects the most good for himself. When
wealth is arrayed against the masses can
there be any question as to where your in-
terests lie ? >
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL 41
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
JULY 17, 1896.
NO. 28.
The Democratic Expression at Chicago.
A new leaf in the history of American
politics was turned in Chicago by the
Democratic convention whose proceedings
constituted an episode in the course of po-
litical events that may give new life to
popular institutions, and a new lease to the
Democratic principles upon which this gov-
ernment is based. The characteristics of
that gathering, the spontaneity of its action
and expression, the independence of its de-
liverances, and its entire freedom from the
control of managers and bosses, confer upon
it distinction that can be attached to no
other political convention that was ever
held in this country.
Great effort is being made to stigmatize
it with the charge of populism, socialism,
agrarianism and even anarchism ; but its
greatest offense in the eyes of the pampered
classes and protected interests that have so
long enjoyed the special favors of govern-
ment, is that it represented a popular up-
heaval against the long continued discrim-
inations in behalf of limited interests at the
sacrifice of the general welfare. The meth-
ods of such an indignant protest as that
which was made at Chicago may present
features that appear to be turbulent, and
may embrace some characters that are ob-
jectionable, but the actuating spirit of the
movement, and the principle of popular
rights that inspired and controlled every
action of the convention, represented the
very essense of Democracy. There may
have been a departure from ancient forms,
a departure required by the exigencies of
the crisis, but no departure, whatever, from
the undying principles of Democracy as es-
tablished and enunciated by the great
founders of the Democratic party.
There is not a student of political history
who is not aware of the fact that when the
immortal JEFFERSON announced and en-
forced those principles of popular right that
constitute the basis of Democracy, he was
denounced more bitterly and pictured more
darkly than any of the men who are charged
with giving an anarchistic and communistic
character to the proceedings at Chicago.
He was assailed by the old Federal sup-
porters of aristocratic privilege as being a
JACOBIN, an infidel associate of ToM
PAINE, and a sympathizer with ROBEs-
PIERRE, DANTOX and the other leaders of
the French reigh of terror. What American
citizen has not ‘reason to rejoice that the
great JEFFERSON succeeded in imparting
Democratic principles to our form of gov-
ernment in spite of such detractors ? When
the heroic JACKSON, the other great apostle
of Democracy, broke the money power that
aspired to control the government through
the agency of the United States bank, he
was denounced by the plutocratic potentates
of that period as being as dangerous a char-
acter as ALTGELD is now represented to be,
and more mischievous in his purposes than
TILLMAN.
It cannot be denied that the Democratic
crisis. . Though it may have the appearance
of a new departure, yet as there is no ap-
pearance of the sacrifice of a single Demo-
cratic principle, but rather a reassertion of
true Democracy in the vindication of justice
to the many as against favors to the few,
that which may look like a new departure
will prove to be a new birth of Democracy
if the members of the party remain trugg to
their faith and steadfast in the maint ce
Mischievous Advice.
The height of impudence is reached when
a paper like the New York Sun renders it-
self officious in advising what Democrats
should do in the emergency arising from
difference of opinions in regard to the cur-
rency. That mischievous journal, which
betrayed the Democratic party and sacri-
ficed Democratic candidates whenever ma-
Jicious motives or mercenary interests
prompted it to do so, now brazenly steps
forward, as if it were a reliable Democratic
journal, and offensively presumes to give
advice to Democrats.
As could be expected of so false an organ,
it urges desertion from the regular party
standard, and advises the stultification
which Democrats would be guilty of by ar-
raying themselves under the banner of Mc-
KINLEYISM, which represents all the abus-
es, corruptions and malfeasances that have
impaired the public resources, injured the
public credit, debased the public currency,
and viciated every branch of the public
service.
Democrats are urged to such stultifica-
tion and disgrace by the villainously false
vention has made declarations and nomi-
nated candidates that favor repudiation,
threaten the monetary interests of the
country, and imperil the credit of the gov-
ernment, a charge that is an insult to every
intelligent Democrat.
When the Democratic party wants advice
involving the question of duty to itself and
to the country, it will not go for such coun-
sel toa source that has been treacherous to
it in every emergency.
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——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
Hanna’s Deceptive Hedging.
The great ground swell that is rolling,
in favor of free silver, from the Alleghenies
to the Pacific shore, and from the Lakes to
the Gulf of Mexico, and which found such
extraordinary and overwhelming expres-
sion at Chicago, is giving great uneasiness
to the Republican managers. They see in
it an element of popular strength which
greatly disconcerts the lofty and arrogant
confidence with which they have regarded
the issue of the pending contest.
MARK HANNA is giving evidence of this
uneasiness as was shown last week in an
interview with California Republicans at
Cleveland. The leader who was chiefly in-
strumental in having McKINLEY placed
on the Republican ticket, sees the danger
of a free silver defection that will sweep
thousands of Republicans from their alle-
giance to the party ticket, and in order to
counteract the probability of such a deser-
tion he assured the California Republicans
that “McKINLEY stands for bi-metallism,”’
and ‘‘that he (McKINLEY) will be a bet-
ter friend to the free silver men than all
the out-and-out free silver planks adopted
by the Democratic and Populist conven-
tions.”” He further assured these Califor-
nia silver Republicans that ‘MCKINLEY
recognizes the force of the free silver
arguments,” and that those interested
in the policy of free silver need not be ap-
prehensive that it would suffer detriment
at his hands as President of the United
States. o
It is true that MARK HANNA, previous
to the nomination of McKINLEY, fully
comprehended the strength of the free sil-
ver doctrine and the immense hold it
had upon the favor of the people, and
that he did his utmost to prevent
his candidate from being placed upon an
out-and-out’ gold standard platform, but
since the power and influence of the east-
ern money changers, bank syndicates and
gold speculators framed the Republican
platform and committed the candidate to it,
although much against his will, it is rank
deception and downright dishonesty for
MARK HANNA to assure free silver Repub-
licans that the cause which they have at
heart will not be sacrificed by the election
of MCKINLEY. i
The candidate of the Republicans has
been placed on the platform of the heart-
less money power of Wall street and the
greedy beneficiaries of monopolistic protec-
tion ; he is bound to a policy that has op-
pressed the bulk of the American people
and pauperized a large portion of them, and
it is too late in the day for his manager to
attempt any more straddling of the mo-
mentous issue involved in the pending con-
test.
A Strange but True Doctrine.
One of the best hits in candidate BRY-
AN’s speech that had such a magnetic effect
upon the Chicago convention, was his allu-
sion to the charge that is always made by
the supporters of the Republican tariff and
money policy that those who oppose that
policy disturb the business of the country.
Mr. BRYAN said to those who hold this
view : ‘“When you come before us and tell
us that we shall disturb your business in-
terests, we reply that you have disturbed
our husiness interests by your course.”
In their arrogant view of what consti-
tutes the business interest, the supperters
of MCKINLEYISM see no other business
worth considering than that of the money
dealer and the protected capitalist. If a
policy is proposed that conflicts with Wall
street interests, or that threatens to with-
draw the discrimination that ‘has been
made in favor of a special class, the public
ear is assailed by the clamor that the busi-
ness interes# are being disturbed.
This limited application of the term has
been accepted in ‘all recent public measures
relating to business, whether they have
been connected with fiscal questions or the
currency. The only business men consid-
ered have been those who operate in the
stock exchange, draw bank dividends,
make a monopoly of transportation, ‘‘cor-
ner’’ the natural products of the country,
and grow rich from the monopolistic con-
trol of the prime necessaries of life through
the agency of trusts. No other businessin-
terests than these are contemplated in the
McKINLEY policy, and no other has been
provided for by Republican legislation.
Candidate BRYAN calls a halt on this
one-sided view of business interests and
business men, complacently entertained by
the class whom it favors. He declares that
a policy so decidedly partial in its benefits
has disturbed the interests of such business
men as those who work for wages, and earn
their living, whether in the work shop, on
the farm, before the furnace fire, on the
railroad track, in the factory, or in the
mine.
This may be a doctrine strange and start-
ling to those who have been accustomed to
limit their view of:‘‘business interests’ to
a special and favored class, but it is the
doctrine that inspired the Chicago conven-
tiop, and is represented by WILLIAM JEN-
NINGS BRYAN as the Democratic candidate
for President.
The Cause of the Popular Upheaval.
There_could net he a more Democratic
demand than that made in the Chicago
platform for the imposition of a tax on in-
comes, and nothing could be farther from
the truth than the charge made by such
papers as the New York Sun and Philadel-
phia Record that the demand for such a tax
emanates from a communistic and agrarian
spirit. ;
If the assertions of those papers were to
be believed it would be thought an out-
rageous piece of anarchism to require that
the wealth of the country should bear its
due share of the burden of maintaining the
government, and that the fairest and most
equitable tax that could possibly be desired
was a monstrous scheme of communistic
conspirators, prompted by their hatred for
the thrifty class of people, and designed to
plunder the wealthy. :
Let us examine the utter fallacy and
folly of such an assumption. It is false to
assume that such a taxis intended as a
punishment for being rich, its exaction
emanating from an agrarian hostility to
wealth. Yet this is the cry of those who
are denouncing an income tax as a popu-
listic and communistic measure. May it
not more truly be called a just require-
ment that those who are amply endowed
with means should proportionately pay
their share of taxation?
Was it through populistic, communistic
and agrarian influences that an income tax
has long been one of the principal sources
of revenue to the English government ?
Although a monarchy England taxes the in-
comes of its wealthy classes, making them
do their share in supporting her govern-
ment according to their means, while in
this republican country, which boasts of
having a government of the people and for
the people, the masses are compelled to
bear the burden of government taxation
through the medium of tariffs levied upon
the necessaries of life, while the mere offer
to put a part of the tax exaction upon the
superfluous wealth of the AsTors, VAN-
DERBILTS, GOULDS and others of that class
of plutocrats, is denounced as springing
from an envious and malicious spirit of
populism.
But is this not in keeping with the entire
policy of class favoritism that has grown
up under Republican influence ? Does it
not represent the true spirit of MCKINLEY-
18SM under which taxes upon wealth have
been eliminated from our sources of reve-
nue, tariffs have been levied upon the
necessities of the common people, trusts
and monopolistic combinations have been
fostered by fiscal regulations that are false-
Iy represented to be intended for the pro-
tection of labor, courts and legislatures
have been prostituted to the base service of
powerful corporations and greedy capital-
ists, and the currency is so regulated as to
contribute to the aggrandizement of the
wealthy stock operators and banking
syndicates that control the money market ?
We leave it to any candid and intelligent
American whether this is not the situation
in this country, whose government is sup-
posed to be run in the interest of the peo-
ple, and we ask whether it is surprising
that such a state of affairs has, at last, ex-
cited a feeling that is moving the masses in
all sections of the country ?
Sham Apprehension.
After the nomination of BRYAN at Chi-
cago an incident occurred in Wall street,
New York, that is rather trying to the pa-
tience of sensible people, and disgusting to
the honest sentiment of the country. The
members of the stock exchange, as heart-
less and insatiable a set of gamblers as ever
swindled their victims, worked themselves
into a frantic demonstration of horror over
what they called the triumph of BRYAN
and anarchistic populism in the Democrat-
ic convention, and gave vent to pretended
alarm at the ruin that would be brought
upon the country if the ‘‘dangerous ele-
ments’’ that are supporting free silver
should triumph in the coming presidential
election.
The people thoroughly understand what
are the interests of these gambling opera-
tors in stocks, and manipulators of the
money market for their own advantage,
and they know that when characters of that
kind make such a demonstration against
the Chicago platform and ticket, and or-
ganize themselves into a ‘‘Bankers’ and
Brokers’ MCKINLEY campaign club’’ irre-
spective of party, they are merely acting to
maintain that system of monopoly and
agrandizement which has brought the coun-
try under the control of trusts and combi-
nations that have not only oppressed labor
and robbed consumers, but have been
chiefly responsible for the existing mone-
tary system being converted into an instru-
ment that serves the purpose of their rapac-
ity.
It is these Wall street cormorants, acting
with other agencies of MCKINLEYISM, that
have aroused the spirit of resistance to pro-
tected wrong and oppressions, a spirit
which had its culmination in the action of
the Chicago convention and which these
insatiable rascals are trying to stigmatize
with such opprobrious terms as populism
and anarchism.
The Hon. Chauncey Black, Philospher.
From the York Gazette.
‘‘The House of Want is arrayed againt
the House of Have.”” In these words
Henry George, the greatest of all political
economists, briefly summed up the situation
yesterday. The convention, and through
it the Democratic’ party, was in control of
the representatives of those who have long
felt them selves the victim of injustice and
who, however blindly, had made up their
minds to act.
That this should have come to pass is not
unnatural. Few men can reason, but all
men can see. The mass of men are poor,
and for them life is a mere struggle for ex-
istence. A small minority of men are rich
and growing richer. There is a class that
toils and toils and has not, and there
is a class that toils not but has. It
is plain there is something wrong. Who is
to blame? Are we to marvel that eventu-
ally those who have not rise and say to those
who have : ‘You are responsible ?”’ And is
it strange when those who have, with una-
nimity, say : ‘“We are for gold,”’ that those
who have not should respond ; ‘“Then it is
plain that that is the very thing we ought
not to he for? Is it indeed wonderful that
anything, good or bad, supported by the
House of Have should be opposed by the
House of Want?
Nor could the open rupture be averted.
We may protest that the attack has fallen
at the wrong spot, we may deprecate its al-
most virulent character, but we can no
more deny the justice back of the blind de-
mand for relief that we can ignore the
popular strength of that demand.
Let the House of Have rejoice that the
warring, chaotic and desperate elements
which largely constitute the House of Want
have found a voice and a head in such a
man as William Jennings Bryan, of Ne-
braska’ He is no Tillman, no Altgeld.
Though he is against ‘‘the powers that be,”
no man has a better appreciation than he of
the value and necessity of good government.
But what is good government?" It was not
with words of anarchy or threats of ven-
geance that he won the hearts and minds
of the vast audience that listened to his
matchless zloquence on Thursday after-
noon, but it was the sincerity, the devotion
and the great heart of the man that carried
conviction to the convention and made him
the nominee.
To this man there is more in the issue
now raised than a matter of coinage. To
every Democrat, to every citizen, will come
the question : ‘‘On which side shall I be in
the struggle which has now opened and
which will not end with this year? Shall
I follow the lead of this man and help to
fight the battle of the masses, or shall I
fall in behind McKinley under the banner
of the classes ?”’ We are told that the only
question involved is a financial 6hé, but the
very men who say this, know that, impor-
tant as it is, that issue is but incidental in
the great struggle now just beginning.
There will now be an alignment. The
masses will find who are their real friends.
We do not mean to belittle the financial
issue. It is of such genuineness of the Dem-
ocracy of sound money Democrats will be
put to a fearful test. There are those who
are glad that circumstances have forced the
test.
We are for Bryan.
Abuse that Helps the Silver Men.
From the Pittshurg Post.
Heretofore it has been held by the Re-
publican press, and much capital made
thereof, that any kindly expression of feel-
“ing by the English press as to Cleveland or
any other Democrat, or any question of
Democratic policy, was strong argument
that they should be condemned as anti-Am-
erican and adverse to the best interests of
the American people. We never took much
stock in argument of this sort, but how the
Republicans did glorify over and utilize it.
How is it now ? The abuse of _ the Demo-
cratic national convention at Chicago, of
the Democratic candidates and policy of
the English press, from the great ‘‘Thun-
derer’’ down, eclipses anything they have
ever said in all their impudent inter-
meddling in American affairs. They make
out of the great national convention a con-
vocation of anarchists and socialists, proba-
bly impelled thereto by the very decided
anti-British tone of the speeches and plat-
form. Vanderbilt's chief-of-staff, Chauncey
Depew, is in London to give them pointers
and gather up and indorse their bitter ex-
pressions of hatred toward that great sec-
tion of the American people represented at
the Chicago convention.
This talk of the British press of anarchy
and socialism being the predominating
characteristics of the Chicago convention or
the Democratic party is an infamous slan-
der born of prejudice and ignorance. While
indifferent to what is said abroad, sensible
people think this sort of talk had better
stop at home. It doesn’t scare anybody,
and only inflames hatreds and bitterness.
The time has gone by when a great party
can be stricken down by epithets and vile
names. People of common sense, good
judgment and a reasonable share of intel-
ligence know that there was neither social-
ism nor anarchy at the Chicago convention.
There was a profoundly earnest feeling
moving delegates and spectators, but it had
its origin on American farms and in Amer-
ican workshops, as the voting will amply
demonstrate when the time comes. To set
down vast majorities of the people of States
and sections as anarchists because their
opinions do not agree .with the opinions
held in other sections is not a good way to
convince. It will inflame and anger. Such
palpable injustice and wrong had a great
deal to do with letting loose the free coin-
age tidal wave.” Keep it up and it will
have the same effect on the November
voting. The American people can neither
be tickled by a straw nor frightened by a
bogy man.
RY.
——The Prohibition county convention
will convene here on July 28th. Present
Democratic county auditor and future Pro-
hibition candidate for Assembly, H. Wilbur
Bickle Esq., will be on hand, if the prolific
crops he has on his Marsh creek farm do
not completely exhaust him in their gar-
nering.
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Spawls from the Keystone.
—A train struck Michael Kees, of Reading,
and took off both legs.
—Bitten by a snake some time ago, John
Zerfass, of Kutztown, became violently in-
sane.
—F. W. Klingensmith has been appointed
postmaster at Dime, and Miss A. M. Rodgers
at Demmler.
—The Sheridan troop, of Tyrone, was pre-
sented with a handsome new flag by the Mor-
rison-Cass paper Co.
—A regularly-organized gang of burglars
keep the people of Phoenixville in a contin-
ual state of excitement.
—While on a visit to her sister Mrs. Alice
Stevenson, of Philadelphia, died suddenly in
a Newtown drug store.
—The Rawson steel manufacturing com-
pang, of Philadelphia, with a capital of $50,-
000, has been granted a charter.
—During She funeral of ex-mayor Edraund
H. Turner, 1n Altoona, all business houses
were closed by proclamation of mayor Barr.
—James Hartline, of Columbia, made two
attempts at suicide, by jumping from a bridge
to the ground, and by trying to drown him-
self.
—Workmen are constructing the link be-
tween the North Penn railroad, the Ply-
mouth valley branch and the Reading rail-
rord near Ambler.
—Theé Bucks county Lutheran orphan-
age will be built in one of the following
places: Boyertown, Kutztown, Montello,
Sinking Springs or Topton.
—While whittling a piece of wood with a
butcher knife, the knife slipped, and Charles
I. Gearhart, of Reading, received a wound
from which he bled to death.
—An exchange says a horse shoe suspended
over the door for luck, fell recently and
striking a child on the head caused a doctor
bill which footed up to thirty dollars.
—After a long chase, which included a
long sensational swim across the Delaware,
Detective Wharton, of Bucks county, cap-
tured John Matlack, a negro desperado.
—The Pennsylvania Millers’ state associa-
tion will hold a convention at Williamsport
in the near future. It is understood that the
convention will be patronized by prominent
men from different parts of the country.
—Clearfield lodge of Odd Fellows will be
fifty years old August 17th, and the members
propose celebrating the event by holding a
basket picnic and inviting all the lodges in
the county to participate in the festivities.
—The army worm is creating havoc with
the oat-fields near Penbrook, a few miles
from Harrisburg. Several acres have heen
ging trenches to stop the progress of the
worm.
—The Buffalo and St. Mary’s railroad, run-
ning from Clermont to St. Mary's, is now
complete, the last spike having been driven
a few days ago. This line will connect the
coal fields of Shawmut with the railroads en-
tering Clermont.
—On Monday George Bahl, the lumberman
was found ten or twelve feet from the point
where he was drowned. It will be recalled
that the deceased fell in Lycoming creek on
February 10, while breaking a landing for
Chilson, a woodsman found the body.
—A committee has been appointed by the
survivors of the gallant 8ith Pennsylvania
regiment to secure the erection of a monu-
ment to Col. William G. Murray, which will
be placed at the west front of the court house
at Hollidaysburg, not far from the beautiful
soldiers’ monument dedicated last month.
—The meeting of the Bucktail association,
made up the original Kane Rifles, known as
the Old Bucktails, will be held this year in
Emporium, Cameron county, Wednesday and
Thursday, August 26 and 27, as we are in-
formed by the secretary of association ; Wm.
H. Ranch, 1948 Camac street; Philadelphia.
—At Bloomsburg Joseph Shaffer was found
drowned in the creek by a number of boys
who were fishing. The man had committed
suicide the day before by jumping into the
stream. A large stone was tied to his neck.
He was 30 years old and is survived by a wife
and two children. Family troubles is sup-
posed to have been the cause of the act.
—At South Renovo, Saturday, 5-year-old
Levada Ball, daughter of Edwin M. Ball,
while playing at housekeeping in the yard
attempted to start a fire in an old stove by
lighting a piece of paper. The paper burned
so rapidly that the child dropped itand a
gust of wind blew it against her dress. Her
clothing was ignited and she was terribly
burned. She died that night.
—Friday afternoon Brakeman Kizer and a
friend named Johnson, of Renovo, went to
the mountain on the south side on a short
outing. The Newssays that Mr. Johnson fell
asleep while lying on a blanket and was
awakened by experiencing a smothering sen-
sation. Leaping to his feet he found that a
black-snake had wound itself around his
neck, and was going through wonderful gy-
rations not pleasing to the trainman’s feel-
ings. Mr. Johnson succeeded in releasing
himself from the embrace of the reptile, and
he and his companion lost no time in aband-
oning their ‘‘ideal’, retreat.
—Judge Simonton of Harrisburg, in an
opinion in three cases involving a construc-
tion of the fee bill of 1893, allows constables
5 instead of 10 cents a mile for traveling ex-
penses in serving papers and reduces the fee
for subpeenas from 50 cents to 15 cents. He
allows-a fee for one warrant in criminal cases
for both the alderman and constable, no mat-
ter how many defendants, and a fee for one
commitment in criminal cases for both alder-
man and constable, no matter how many de-
fendants. The fee for an information before
an alderman or justice is cut down from 60
cents to 50 cents.
—Last Friday, William, better known as
“Doc’’ Moore, had a narrow escape from ser-
ious accident, while walking across the rail-
road bridge over the creek near Flemington.
Being defective in hearing, he did not notice
an approaching train, until he was too far
from the one end to make the other side.
He jumped off the bridge to the end of one of
the piers. After the train had passed, he
was so oocupied in his efforts to crawl bk
on the superstructure that he did not sec an-
other train closely following the first. The
the pier. His dog, however, was struck by
one of the trains and was killed.
the Emery lumber company. Charles T. -
second time he was compelled to jump on to .
completely devastated. The farmers are dig- -
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