Bemopraiic ate
GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
BY PP.
—It will take more than plans, Mr. |
MARCUS HANNER.
arrange for is votes.
—It is a great thing, thissilver question.
It has been the means of discovering who
are the real Democrats, and who the shys-
ters.
—It was all right for the Republicans to
fuse with the Populists in Alabama but we
suppose brothers MCCLURE and SINGERLY
will think it all wrong that they did’nt
win. .
—Col. McCLURE has decided that the re-
cent Alabama election can’t be considered
as a straw for the fall’s result in that State.
The Colonel is hard after consolation when
he must delude himself in such manner to
obtain it. J
—The sister of the Empress of Germany
fainted dead away when she suddenly
came on some naked guardsmen who were
bathing in Havel lake, along which she was
driving, the other day. Now there is
modesty for you.
—It was down right heartlessness to
steal chickens from that Port Matilda
preacher. The theft of chickens from a
preacher is a particularly heinous crime,
since there is nothing so dear to the minis-
terial heart as chicken.
—If the people didn’t know the New
York Sun, the Philadelphia Times and Rec-
ord so well there might be more people
willing to go to the sour-bhall party that
CHARLEY DANA, ALEC. MCCLURE and
WILLIE SINGERLY are trying to getup. °
—Young CORNELIUS VANDERBILT mar-
ried the girl he loved, on Monday, despite
his father’s threat that he would be dis-
inherited. In the event that the old gen-
tleman’s wrath holds out the groom will
have laid down $100,000,000 on Cupid’s
altar.
—The article from the Manchester, Eng-
land, Guardian, which appears elsewhere
in this issue, is particularly significant
since, as an English gentleman writes to us
from Rhyl, Wales, ‘‘there is no paper on
that side of the Atlantic so well versed in
bi-metallism.’’
—In Butte, Montana, women in bloom-
ers are charged at races, just the same as
men. The promoters claim that if they
don man’s attire they must do as man has
to do. Since the rule went into effect
there have heen fewer bloomer costumes
seen at the races.
—A better name than holters can be had
for the fellows who have gone over to Mc-
KINLEY and his monopoly fostering prom-
ises. In view of the fact that they are
crying for gold and are altogether the em-
bodiment of such a term, why not call
them yellow dogs?
—That Alabama election has sent HANNA
and his crowd of millionaire tariff spoliators
to hunting up reasons why. And a singu-
lar feature of the case is the fact that none
of them have admitted yet that the Demo-
crats won because there were more of them
than anything else.
What you want to
—The Hon. BOURKE COCHRAN, Con- |
gressman, of New York, has just returned
from England and is blowing ‘‘himself off’
as a holter to the gold cause. Possibly the
Hon. BOURKE hopes, by these means, to
get into some of those swell English clubs
the next time he goes over.
—If what the gold people say is true,
this will be a.government of lunatics, for
lunatics and by lunatics, after November
3rd. They say the country is going crazy
on this silver question. We say, let ’er
go! We're going to stay here and help run
‘er along with the other lunatics.
—Why should we obligate ourselves to
pay the English gold vampire, who leeches
the very best blood of our government, in
a dollar that is different from the one with
which we compensate the labor upon which
the government stands? There are incon-
sistencies and inconsistencies, but verily
this is a glaring one.
—Reductions in wages will now go on
and industries will suspend, but the intel-
ligent laborer has come to see through such
campaign bugaboos and will not be scared
by them any longer. The laboring classes
will vote to pay the Englishman the
same kind of money they receive for their
toil.
—What the Democratic party in Penn-
sylvania needs most is not so much fussing
about whois to lead it. If every Demo-
crat in the State would consider himself a
chairman and act toward others, just as he
thinks a chairman ought to do and be as
much of a hustler for the ticket as he
thinks a chairman ought to he there would
be harmony of the milk and honey spread
and votes innumerable.
—If bishop NEWMAN were to devote his
attention to church matters and stop med-
dling in politics he would be far more es-
teemed by the country at large. Granting
him the right to believe that Mr. BRYAN’S
metaphorical expression about the cross
and crown of thorns was blasphemous he
becomes hypocritical when he takes that as
a pretext on which to found a tirade on a
political party. The pulpit is a place from
which God’s law and love should be pro-
pounded and when its highest agents drag
it into the plane of political discussions or
use it for the calumniation of any indi-
vidual or party they do mote to harm its
power for good than can be accomplished
by any other cause. If bishop NEWMAN
must be a meddler let him remove the
cloak of the clergy hefore he enters the
political arena.
enteral
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 41
A Gigantic Gold Bluff.
The Philadelphia Record is authority for
the statement that when the Senate and
House of Representatives passed the STAN-
LEY MATTHEWS resolution declaring the
right of this government to pay its bonds
in silver, it produced such a panicky effect
upon the financial mind of Europe that no
less than $100,000,000 of American securi-
ties were sent hack for payment hy their
foreign holders. If this really occurred let
us give it a little examination.
The resolution of Congress, which is said
to have had such an alarming effect upon
European capitalists, was to the effect that,
as the United States government gave its
bonds with the express détlaration on the
face of them that they were payable in the
“lawful coin’’ of the United States, they
could be paid in silver without violation of
the contract and without breach of the
public faith.
This was the tenor of the MATTHEWS
resolution. As no one will deny that sil-
ver is lawful coin of the United States, was
there anything in the wording of the bonds
that made it unfair, dishonest, or irregular
to use that kind of coin in their liquida-
tion ? What meaning could be collected
from the face of those obligations that
made their payment in gold imperative ?
If the sending back of $100,000,000
American securities by their foreign hold-
ers had the effect of frightening the Amer-
ican government into departing from the
plain wording and meaning of the law that
allowed silver to be used in the payment of
its bonds, then we must he forced to the
humiliating conclusion that thie goldbugs
of Europe can compel the government of
the United States to put such construction
upon its laws as will best suit their inter-
ests.
It is cur opinion that if the Treasury
authorities had treated the sending back of
the American securities as a mere bluff,
and have lived up to the letter of the hond
law by using their discretion in paying
those bonds in silver, there would have
been a speedy change in the tactics of the
European capitalists who had undertaken
to force gold payment of our government
bonds by returning American securities for
liquidation. Had they found that our
government weuldn’t scare, and they
couldn’t work their game by the process of
intimidation a majority of them would
have recalled the securities and considered
themselves lucky in being able to get them
back.
European capitalists, who in the pleth-
ora of their means are willing to risk
their money in Spanish and Turkish loans,
and other investments of the most doubtful
character, do not hold the value of Ameri-
can securities so lightly that they are anx-
ious to get rid of them, and if our govern-
ment had shown a determination to carry
out the terms of its bond law by using sil-
ver in payment of those obligations there
would have been but little persistence on
the part of European holders of American
securities in demanding liquidation.
It was part of their game to maintain the
gold standard, in order to have the money
of the world more completely under their
control, and unfortunately they bluffed the
United States government into their meas-
ures.
He Can’t Efface His Teaching.
If editor SINGERLY would go out among
the Democratic people of the State, as he
did when he was their candidate for Gov-
ernor, and come in direct contact with them
he would find that he has no warrant for
the statement he makes in his paper, that
it ‘‘is not improbable in the absence of a
third candidate that more Democrats of
this State will cast their votes for MCKIN-
LEY than for BRYAN.”
It would greatly disparage the effect of
his own teaching if this should be the case.
The Record has testified to the injurious
and debasing influence of that system of
public evils and abuses known as McKIN-
LEYISM, which has not only discriminated
against the mass for the special benefit of a
class, but has corrupted the political life of
the country, made the ballot largely a
question of boodle in every presidential
election, and entrenched the plutocratic
power in courts and Legislatures.
Editor SINGERLY, through the medium
of his paper, has impressed these facts so
strongly upon the minds of the Pennsylva-
nia Democrats that they cannot bé effaced,
and it is a most astonishing delusion that
leads him to believe that an erroneous view
in regard to the effects of free silver, which
has thrown him into a panic, could induce
any considerable numberof the Pennsylva-
nia Democracy to go over, with him, to the
support of a man for President who repre-
sents those numerous political and economic
abuses and abominations that are aggrega-
ted in MCKINLEYISM, and whose election
would introduce a saturnalia of corrupt
government, and inaugurate a carnival of
tariff spoliation.
Even if the Pennsylvania Democrats
should have any doubt as to the safety of
free silver coinage, editor SINGERLY’S pa-
per has taught them to have no doubt,
whatever, as to the danger of the McKIN-
LEY policy.
Low Wages in China and India.
The people of China and British India
are pointed to as examples of what the
American wage-earners would be brought
to by a silver currency.
Silver constitutes the circulating medium
of those countries, and labor is poorly paid.
Therefore, according to gold-bug logic, the
working people of the United States would
be reduced to the condition of the heathen
Chinese and Hindoos in regard to wages if
silver were restored to the monetary func-
tion in this country which the constitution
prescribes for it.
" Such an argument as this to illustrate
the alleged injury which free coinage of
silver would do to the wage-earners in this
country, entirely ignores a condition ex-
isting in China and India which does not
exist in the United States. Those two
countries are so densely populated, and
there is such competition in the labor
market, in consequence of their teeming
millions, that low wages are the natural
and necessary result. This meagre com-
pensation of labor is not caused hy the
kind of money in circulation, but is the
result of a population so dense that the
supply of labor is vastly greater than the
supply of employment.
The conditions that produce low wages
in those overpopulated countries are such
as may be imagined as existing in this
country if the immigration of Chinese la-
borers were permitted. No monetary
standard, whether of gold or of silver,
could protect the wages of labor against
the effects of such competition.
In using China and India as illustrations
of how a silver currency reduces wages,
the gold advocates deceptively put out of
sight the real cause of labor being so poor-
ly paid in those coun®@ies.
An ulti Object .
Insulting ject Lesson
The wild-cat republics of Central and
South America are now being used by the
goldites as object lessons of the injurious
effects of asilver currency. They are made
to serve as frightful examples of the condi-
tion in which the American people would
be put by the free coinage of silver.
The employment of such examples dis-
plays but little regard for American in-
telligence. Any party that uses them as
object lessons must do it upon the supposi-
tion that our people have not intelligence
enough to know what is the matter with
those Spanish American countries.
It is true that they are in an unpros-
perous condition, that their industries
languish, and that those of their people
who work receive but scanty wages. But
this condition comes from the ignorant and
degraded character of the majority of the
natives, and from their indolent and
thriftless habits. It is also due to the
turbulent disposition of the people and the
disordered condition of their governments.
Countries that are in chronic state of revo-
lution can not be prosperous, no matter
what their currency may he. Republics
that can’t elect a President without a civil
war couldn’t presper even if their currency
was of the purest gold.
It is straining a parallel to hold them up
as an example of what the condition of the
thrifty, intelligent, energetic and enter-
prising American people would be as a
consequence of the free coinage of silver.
The comparison is senseless and insulting.
Savings Banks and Free Silver.
Those who pretend to see nothing but a
dishonest object and financial dishonor in
the free silver policy express great fears for
the workingmen who have money in sav-
ings banks. They are sure that if the
mints should be set to work coining silver
dollars there would be such a depreciation
of the currency that the value of the de-
posits in savings banks would shrink to
but half their value. They represent that
the honest laborer who had put away a
few hundred dollars in the bank for a rainy
day would find, when he came to draw it
out to meet his necessities, that a ‘‘de-
preciated currency’’ had cut his de-
positin two and left him but half of it.
This alarming picture may serve the pur-
pose of a campaign bugaboo, but those who
can be frightened by it must ‘be endowed
with an unusual amount of gullibility.
Wouldn't the savings bank depositor be
more likely to find that the free coinage of
silver had produced such an easy mone-
tary condition by enlarging the circulation,
and such a general boom in business by
making money plentier, that his labor
would be in greater demand and his wages
correspondingly increased ?
‘With such a probable result of the res-
toration of silver to its old position of con-
stitutional money, the man who should op-
pose its free coinage, through fear of losing
the money he has in a savings banks, would
adopt a course not in the least creditable
to his sense and judgment.
——=1 believe the struggle now going on
in this country, and in other countries,
for a single gold standard would, if suc-
cessful, produce disaster in the end
throughout the commercial world,” —
James G. Blaine.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 7, 1896.
An Uprising Against McKinley.
In this very peculiar campaign in which’
every political party has its divisions and
subdivisions, our Prohibition brethren are
not without a silver wing to their party.
Of those who rally under the cold-water
banner a portion are wedded to the interest
of the gold-bugs, hut a majority are in fa-
vor of the money of the constitution and
hopefully look forward to the time near at
hand when the country shall be relieved
from the grip of the gold brokers and the
bank syndicates, a consummation almost
as devoutly wished for by them as the over-
throw of old King Alcohol himself.
The silver wing of the prohibition party
held a big ratification meeting in Cleve-
"land last week, which was addressed by
their candidate for President, CHARLES F.
BENTLEY, of Nebraska, and by a former
candidate, ex-Governor ST. JOHN, of Kan-
sas. The ex-Governor said that McKIN-
LEY would not carry a State west of Penn-
sylvania or south of the Ohio. In giving
his view of the situation he said : “Sixty
days ago MCKINLEY was the most promi-
nent and popular man in the nation and
would have swept the country likea whirl-
wind but a wonderful change has taken
place. The people have become tired of
that bugaboo, the tariff, and have relegated
it, to be succeeded by an issue as vital as
the constitution of the government. It is
not the man they have turned against, but
his platform.”
This is a fair and true presentation of the
condition of public sentiment, but the ar-
ray of popular feeling against the Republi-
can cause is as much on account of the can-
didate as the platform. McKINLEY has
proven himself to be weak and shuffling in
his principles. His only political idea is
the tariff, and he has handed himself over
to the management of a gold-plated ruffian,
MARK HANNA, who has accumulated his
millions by making labor ‘stand and de-
liver,”’ in the manner of a highwayman,
and who is organizing the McKINLEY
campaign as he would organize an iron
trust, or manage the suppression of a labor
strike.
The putting of this low flung plutocrat,
whose wealth is the spoil of oppressed Ia-
bor, at the head of the Republican cam-
pahyi, is an affront and a challenge to
every laboring man in the country. Noth-
ing has done more to produce the change of
sentiment alluded to by Governor ST.
JOHN than this outrage upon American
workingmen. .
Preparing Gold Literature.
Quite an edifying sight was presented by
a conference of New York hankers who got
together, last Friday, to prepare literature
for the instruction of the people on the sil-
ver question.
It has occurred to the gold bugs that the
money reformers have heen ahead of them
in enlightening the public mind in regard
to the currency, and therefore they con-
cluded to bestir themselves in furnishing
the people with knowledge that would dis-
pel the “free silver heresy.”” At the con-
ference that was held for this purpose each
one of these professional money changers
and gold jobbers brought with him all the
books, pamphlets, speeches and newspaper
clippings, bearing on the money question,
that he could carry, and from this joint
stock of monetary enlightenment they pro-
ceeded to prepare campaign literature
which is intended to dispel the ignorance
of that class of people who don’t under-
stand the beauties of the gold standard,
and don’t appreciate the benefits derived
from a system of currency that enables a
ring of gold speculators and government
hond brokers to corner the money of the
country.
It must have been quite a sight to see
those SHYLOCKS closeted together in the
preparation of literature for the enlighten-
ment of ‘‘ignorant’’ farmers and mechanics
on the money question, and editor SINGER-
LY, whose paper gives an account of their
proceedings, is of the opinion that the
documents they will be instrumental in
circulating will exert a wholesome in-
fluence in the interest of ‘honest money,’’
and the maintenance of the public credit.
The ‘‘instructive’’ reading matter which
these high-minded, liberal and patriotic
money sharks design for the obvious pur-
pose of maintaining the plutocratic power
in this country, will soon be scattered
broadcast among the farmers and laboring
people, but the latter have but to picture
in their minds the eonclave of Wall street
gold-bugs preparing this literature on the
money question, and it will not be difficult
for them to come to a correct conclusion as
to the interest it is intended to serve.
——Our friend BILLY SWOOPE, of Clear- |
field, ex-lawyer of Bellefonte, and quondam
lecture-entertainer of the country at large,
having failed in his ambition to displace
Senator HOAR as propounder of financial
logic for the New York Tribune, has taken
to money talks. He was in Philipshurg
last Friday night and the way a corre-
spondent in the Journal ‘‘does up’’ hisargu-
ment we imagine that BILLY is not going
to startle the world this fall, at least.
Alabama Solid for Democrats.
Johnston Has a Majority of Over 42,000 for Gover-
nor. Populists were Snowed Under. Both Branches
of the Legislature Are Safe With Large @ains.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug., 4th.—There
is no longer any doubt that the Democrats
have won the dayin Alabama. The ma-
jority for Johnston will be from 41,000 to
45,000, according to the hest evidence to-
night, and the Legislature is absolutely
safe in both branches, with probably large
gains. The Populists have lost two strong
leaders in the House,—Rev. Sam. Adams,
of Bibb, former chairman of the State com-
mittee, and J. C. Manning, of Lee, presi-
dent of the National Honest Election
League. The Democrats claim to-night-
with substantial proof, to have carried the
former Populist counties of Blount, Butler,
Chambers, Clay, Coffee, Cullman, Dale,
Dekalb, Etowah, Lee, Limestone, Ran-
dolph, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Winston.
The following former Populist counties are
also claimed : Covington, Colbert, Pike
and Conecuh. The Populists show gains
only in the following counties : Bibb, Cren-
shaw, Choctaw and Macon. In sixty
counties Johnston claims majorities
amounting to 49,921, while he credits
Goodwyn with majorities aggregating 7,168
in the same.
JOHNSTON'S MAJORITY 42,753.
According to these figures, Johnston’s
new majority in sixty counties will be 42, -
753. Six counties remain to be heard from.
Four of theseare claimed by the Democrats,
and two are conceded to the Populists.
The Democrats claim to have carried forty-
five out of the sixty-six counties. in the
State, and lay claim to four more, conced-
ing Goodwin fifteen counties, and probably
two more. The Democrats claim the Leg-
islature by two thirds. They think they
have gained fourteen Representives, which
will give them seventy-eight out of a total
of 100, and they claim eleven out of the
seventeen Senators, which with thirteen
holdovers, will give them twenty-four out
of the total of thirty-three. Populist head-
quarters in this city are receiving very lit-
tle news, and what comes ifis not en-
couraging.
Captain R, F. Kolb, the originator of the
Populists in Alabama, claims wholesale
frauds, and Mr. Goodwin makes the same
assertion. The Populists have practically
given up all hope of seeing Mr. Goodwyn
in office, and are loud in their threats to
support McKinley, but action in this direc-
tion has not yet erystallized. Their losses
in the white counties have greatly -disap-
pointed them. The Legislature would ap-
pear to be silverite even in the Democratic |
caucus, which points to the probability of
Pugh or Congressman Bankhead for the
State Senate.
> Bryan’s Speech Ready.
The Silverites Say it is a Corker and Expect it to
Astonish the Country—Blard to Talk, too.
LINcoLN, Neb., August 4.—When W: J.
Bryan leaves for New York next Friday
evening he will carry with him a draft of
the speech he intends to use before the noti-
fication committee in Madison Square Gar-
den. He has devoted considerable time to it
already, but will add a few finishing touch-
es before it can be declared complete. It
will occupy between an hour and an hour
and a half in delivery, and will discuss the
Chicago platform in detail and give his in-
terpretation thereof.
He becomes very indignant at the charge
that he and those who stand with him on
the Chicago platform are to bé classed as
anarchists or that they aim to break down
any of the country. Mr. Bryan has some-
thing®t® say about the charge in his Omaha
speech at the time of the reception to him
in that city. In his New York speech he
will elaborate the idea and roundly de-
nounce the accusation.
Those who have been taken into his con-
fidence say that this speech of Mr. Bayan’s
will astonish the country, and that it con-
tains a number of new and pleasiing meta-
phors, which “have nothing in common
with ‘‘crowns of thorns” or ‘crosses of
gold.” Itis understood that Richard P.
Bland, who will be in Lincoln at the time
of Mr. Bryan’s departure, will accompany
him to New York, appear with him in
Madison Square, and make a speech. It is
said that Mr. Bryan will make no set
speeches along the route but will
indulge in informal talks to the people
from the platform.
Professions and Republican Practices.
From the N. Y. Herald,
From the Evening I
Telegraph, July 31st., Feb., 26th. 1896.
1896. PHILADELPHIA,
Mr. Wanamaker A., FEB., 25 1896.—
voiced the sentiment suit of the Unit-
of the greatest politi- | ed States against for-
cal organization in | mer Post-Master
the country, and | General, Wanamak-
echoed the demand
of its rank and file as
well as its responsi-
ble leadership, when
he tersely said
‘We must STAND to-
gether FOR undoubt-
ed and untainted
money and decided
PROTECTION FOR
AMERICAN LABOR.
er to recover a penal-
ty of $1.000 for viola-
tion of the contract
labor law ended in a
verdict for the gov-
ernment to-day.
Edward J. Brooks
testified that he resi-
ded in London until
August, 1893, when
he saw an advertise-
ment in a London
Journal for salesmen
in America. He cal-
don and met Mr
Cassell, superinten-
dent of the silk de-
artment in Mr.
Wanamaker’s Phila-
delphia store.
Brooks said he
agreed with Cassell
to work for $14 a
week and was pro-
vided with a ticket
for America. Cassell
met him here and
gave him employ-
ment in Wanamak-
er’s.
Comment on atove is unnecessary.
led at a hotel in Lon |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—George Albert, a Lebanon tailor, fell
down a flight of steps and was impaled on a
fence. -
—The largest grist mill in Bucks couity is
at Bristol, hut it has been idle for seweral
years.
—Congressman Brosius talked on ‘‘plough-
shares and pruning-hooks” at Landisville
campmeeting.
—Eli Long, a wealthy Lafcaster farmer,
was thrown from his carriage and probably
fatally hurt.
—William Arnold, aged 14 years, of Leb-
anon, took a header while coasting on his bi-
cycle and fractured his skull. :
—Filton Ellis, living near Bristol was
stunned by lightning, which passed through
a room in which he was sitting.
—Samuel Bohler, an organ manufacturer
of Reading, died in Harrisburg on Saturday,
from cholera morbus. He was aged 73 years.
—A Wilkesbarre clothing merchant of-
fered to exchange Mexican dollars for fifty-
cent American silver pieces, but found no
takers. ’
—George J. Burkhardt, aged 35, of Cham-
bersburg, committed suicide by taking a dose
of laudanum, shooting himself in the mouth
and by hanging. :
—The members of last year’s school hoard
of Blythe township, Schuylkill county, have
been held each in $1800 bail on charges of
misdemeanors in office.
—Simon C. Henry, of Altoona, one of the
oldest conductors on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, was struck and instantly killed by an
express train on Saturday night.
—Reading has a blind boy street singer
who was robbed of all his earnings during
the firemen’s tournament and who is now at-
tracting large crowds of people.
—The miners employed by the Delaware
& Hudson railroad company will work four
days a week during August. This means an
increase on the pay-roll of £80,000 for the
month.
—Farmers’ institutes are to be held in
Berks county, at Joanna Heights, on August
26th and 27th ; at Fleetwood, January 13th
and 14th, and at Shoemakersville January
15th and 17th.
—The employes of the Delaware, Lacka-
"wanna & Western railroad car shops at
Kingston will work ten hours a day in the
future. Since 1893 they have worked only
eight hours a day.
—The crop bulletin” for Pennsylvania sent
out from Washington, D. C., Tuesday is as
follows : Considerable corn was blown down
and oats tangled ; uninjured crops growing
rapidly ; good tobacco crop.
Guy Kress, son of attorney W. C. Kress of
Lock Haven, has disappeared from .Harris-
burg, where he was serving as page in the
executive department, and none of his rela-
tives know of his whereabouts. It is thought
he has gone to Cuba.
—Miss Minnie Swanger, Altoona’s child
poisoner, in charge of Mrs. Wilson, of the
Children’s Aid society of Altoona, and depu-
ty sheriff William A. Smith, was taken to
Pittsburg yesterday, where she will be placed
in a home for youthful criminals.
—The Sunbury club disbanded Tuesday
owing to lack of patronage. The manage-
ment owes the players $106. The club stood
at the head of the Central league, but owing
to the foregoing reasons was compelled to go
to the wall. The disbanding of the Sunbury
club will end the career of the Central league.
—Wednesday morning three employes of
of the Carnegie Steel company at Braddock,
working in the converting department, were
terribly burned. Peter Conley, aged 40
years, will die; Joseph Ifelt, 30 years of age,
and Robert Frazier, aged 35, were terribly
burned on their backs and may die.
_—The woman who has been imprisoned
with George Irvine, the check forger, in the
Williamsport jail has at last been released
from that institution on bail. Her father
succeeded in having the bail reduced from
$800 to $400 which latter amount he himself
furnished. The woman, with her father, arc
now at their home in Auburn, N. Y.
—W. P. Hall, aged 45, of Williamsport,
was drowned below that city Saturday even-
ing. He and Elias Huffman with a number
of others were camping at Race Ground isl-
and. Saturday on getting out of the boat
from a veturn trip to Williamsport for sup-
plies Hall accidentally fell into the water.
Search was made for the man, but his body
was not found. Qo
—Extra allowances for office rent, clerk
hire, fuel, etc., have been made to Pennsyl-
vania post-offices, as follows: McKeesport,
$3,668; Warran ; 3,200; Washington $2,700;
New Castle, $2,800 ; Oil City $4,300; Norris-
town, $3.100; Bradford, $3,900 ; Sharon, $1,-
500; Tyrone, $2,100; Titusville, $3,700;
Pheenixville, $1,300 ; Butler, $2,200 ; Waynes-
boro, $1,100 ; Huntingdon, $1,800 ; Hazelton,
ton, $2,600.
—On Monday while workmen were en-
gaged in unloading a car of bark at Kistler’s
tannery, in Lock Haven, they came across a
large rattlesnake snugly tucked away in a
large piece of curled bark. His snakeship,
as soon as he found that he was discovered,
showed fight and tried to defend himself
from the onslaught of the workmen. but he
was not successful and finally after a desperate
struggle he died. He measured something
over four feet, and had fourteen rattles.
—Preston Fry, foreman of the Stumpfle
stone quarry, near Williamsport, met with a
horrible death Monday afternoon. He was
ramming a charge of dynamite at a height
level with his breast, when the charge ex-
ploded. Fry’s body and head were terribly
torn. His son John, who was at work close
by, was thrown twenty feet by the concus-
sion, thus escaping the shower of broken
rocks that killed his father. Fry resided:
lwith his wife and several children at the Sul-
phur Springs hotel.
—The following figures, furnished by Colo-
nel Curtin, the division commissary, show
the total amount of rations issued to the
men at eamp Gibbon, Lewistown, during
the National Guard encampment. Fifty-
four thousand, three hundred and seventy-
five pounds of fresh beef. 19,575 pounds of
ham, 52,200 pounds of bread, 13,050 pounds of
hard bread, 6,830 pounds of beans, 10,440
pounds of sugar, 2,610 pounds of rice, 7,000
pounds of coffee, 864 pounds of candles, 2,460
pounds of soap, 2,282 pounds of salt, 147
pounds of pepper, 62,000 pounds of potatoes,
4,615 pounds of onions, 2,784 two pound cans
of corn and three barrels of vinegar.
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