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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Be honest. Thete is no need for mis-
representation in this campaign.
—BRYAN’S triumphal tour across the
continent will be one of the great events in
American history: .
—The county ticket seems to have been
lost sight of in the great BRYAN hub-bub
that has caught every one of late.
—Eighty-one cents a day for labor in the
mine banks of Centre county looks very
much as if there is Joo little money.
—The New York meeting was not a dis-
appointment, but about the greatest gather-
ing of political notables the country has
ever witnessed.
—The best cure for the fellow who goes
in swimming and gets his ears so full of
water that it won’t come out is to get some
brains to fill up the cavity.
—The third ticket idea does not even
make itself heard through the tremendous
out-bursts that have been greeting the
Democratic nominee on his eastern trip.
—The expedition to Norway might have
bad a corner on seeing the sun’s eclipse, on
Sunday, but Bellefonte seemed to have
caught all the rays that were temporarily
shut off in Norway.
—Mr. ECKLES, as comptroller of the
currency, had better extend his comp-
trollership to his own mouth before he
lets out any more trash about what he in-
tends doing in the event of a free silver
victory.
—There is a man in the Lycoming coun-
ty jail who was incarcerated for stealing a
hive of bees. Though he got off unmolested
with his plunder he has found out that
justice is stinging quiteas hard as those
honey bees might have done.
—The issue is fairly set. It is the cur-
rency. If you don’t known anything
about it keep quiet until you learn. There
is nothing that is so much of a hore as a
person who persists in talking when he |
doesn’t know what he is talking about.
—H. T. HARVEY Esq., without the
backing of any of the bosses and being
forced to rely on Democratic papers to
boom his cause, whipped the HOPKINS—
LEONARD congressional combination, in
Clinton county. on Tuesday, to a stand
still.
—HANNA is a great organizer, but in
running the Republican campaign he has a
job on his hands in which he can’t beat
down wages, as he is accustomed to do in
manufacturing circles. Oh, no! Votes
will come high for HANNA'S man, but’ll
he have to have them.
—Notwithstanding Mr. SINGERLY’S dec-
laration that he intended to stick on the
ticket he has changed his mind and crawled
off of it. ‘“The editor of the Record is not
one of the kind of men who go to bed with
one idea and get up in the morning with
another,”” don’t you know.
—Italy is after Uncle SAM again with a
sharp stick because three ‘‘Dagos’” were
lynched in Louisiana the other day. It is
quite a game that she plays on us. Send-
ing her scum over here, she is glad to get
rid of it and only begins to have any heart
for it at all when itis dead and might
serve as a means through which to draw on
our treasury for a few thousand.
—The Miles medicine company, of Elk-
hart, Ind., manufacturing pills, has sent
out a notice to newspapers that its con-
tracts for advertising made after a certain
date will be subject to cancellation in the
event of BRYAN’S election. What a
physicky bluff, but quite in line with the
purging process hy which the goldites have
een draining uncle SAM’S financial sys-
tem.
—Lengressman HIcKs and other Repub-
OE iy talkers can continue to call
Democrats ‘‘moss-backs’’ and President
CLEVELAND ‘‘cloven foot,”” but they’ll
all find out that lack of argument can’t
be concealed by such plasterings of mud.
There is an issue in this campaign, if one
has never been had before, and the speaker
who is honest and will cause men to think
will not have time to call names which no
one believes.
—France, with a circulating medium of
$33.94 per capita sent us 50,460 immigrants
during the period between 1881 and 1890.
In the same time Germany, with a per
capita circulation of $16.86 sent, us 1,355,-
962. Why is it that in nine years Ger-
many lost more than twenty-eight times as
many people to us as France did ? Might
it not be because her common people are
poorer than those of France and with a con-
tracted per capita currency they have less
chance and are more distressed ?
—The way the bankers are working for
gold is doing more for silver than any other
agency that has been employed as yet™
They are even going so far as to offer two
Mexican dollars for an American dollar.
This is to show that the value of Mexican
money is only half of its face because that
country is on a silver basis. They are los-
ing money by such an exchange, since the
Mexican dollar has more merchantable sil-
ver in it than ours has. But the bankers
don’t care for this loss, if they are to gain
the gold standard by the argument. When
your banker friend pokes the two Mexican
dollars at you, lay down a silver dollar and
ask him for a gold ome for it. He won’t
give you that. Why ? Because, as one of
them said right here in Bellefonte the other
day, they expect gold to be at a premium
in the event of MCKINLEY’S election.
& Teeclared for the people’s prosperity.
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VOL. 41
Good-bye, Mr. Wright.
Mr. RoBerT E. WRIGHT, chairman of
the Democratic State committee has ten-
dered his resignation and taken his fare-
well of his former political companions,
and turned his face toward the paths that
lead to the enemy’s camp.
We are sorry for Mr. WRIGHT. We
ought to congratulate the Democratic
party.
Like others whose interests, inclinations,
associations, and business surroundings are
such as to make them the natural enemy of
Democracy, Mr. WRIGHT has hung onto
the party as long as it could be controlled
to the advantage of the selfish interests he
represents, but when it speaks unequivocal-
ly and positively for the prosperity of the
great masses he sets his individual judg-
ment up as against that of an overwhelm-
ing majority of his party and declares that
the organization, from which he has time
and again solicited recognition and ac-
cepted favors, is no longer Democratic or
deserving of his support and approval.
Mr. WRIGHT gives his reasons (?) for
deserting the party at great length. It is
unnecessary for us to repeat them. They
are the same reasons, or more properly
speaking the same excuses, that every other
advocate of corporate influence has given
for his opposition to the Democratic can-
didate and the Democratic platform. Boil-
ed down, skimmed off and cooled, so that
they could be understood intelligently,
they would read : ‘‘the Democratic party has
We our
not for the people. We are for ourselves and
for ourselves only.’’
Mr. WRIGHT is a national banker, a
director of a trust company, a paid at-
torney of numerous corporations and the
salaried solicitor of the Lehigh valley rail-
road company. These facts explain his
actions, more clearly and satisfactorily
than any reasons he may attempt, or could
possibly give.
From his stand point he is probably cor-
rect. Others of us, if bound by the same
chains, if connected with the same selfish
and sordid interests, if serving the same
grasping and greedy masters, might do
likewise. Few of us, however, in taking
our - leave, would attempt to stab the
friend and the organization that had hon-
ored and helped us, in the manner and
with the vicious bitterness that he has
exhibited.
Farewell, Mr. WRIGHT ! May you find
congenial friends and principles suited to
the narrow interests you would recognize
in the camp of those to whom you go.
Exploded Schemes.
There is nothing like taking a philosoph-
ical view of things. The Savannah News
thinks that even if you don’t believe in
free silver it can’t be considered an evil
that is unmixed with a large amount of
gogd. It says that “lots of political fads
are in imminent danger of being lost in the
free silver shuffle that is now in progress ;
for instance, HENRY GEORGE'S single-tax
scheme ; COXEY’S non-interest-bearing-
bond scheme, and WiLLraMm McKINLEY’S
high tariff scheme.’”
If free silver agitation should put these
political and economic freaks out of sight
surely the country would not be the loser
by it. It would do a special benefit if it
should shelve McKINLEY’S scheme of pus-
ting the country in a prosperous condition
by loading the people with tariff taxes.
But isn’t it remarkable that when an ob-
ject so much to be desired as the eradi-
cation of MCKINLEYISM is in process of ac-
complishment by the free silver movement,
our old-time anti-tariff contemporary,
brother SINGERLY, should become rattled
by erroneous views on the money question
to such an extent as to devote his efforts to
the election of MCKINLEY, with all the
‘robbery and jobbery it iaplies.
There are other good men whose minds
have become unsettled by the delusion that
the free coinage of silver would reduce the
value of every silver dollar to about fifty
cents, and such is the strength of their
hallucination that in order to oust this
imaginary depreciation, and its attending
phantom of dishonest money, they are
willing to subject the country again to the
substantial injury of tariff spoliation.
But let us trust that after this free silver
campaign shall have brought about a bet-
ter system of currency, MCKINLEY’S tariff
will be found among the political schemes
which the people have permanently re-
jected.
——With J. PIERPONT MORGAN in con-
trol of the financial end of the MCKINLEY
campaign it requires but a small amount
of penetration to see what interest will be
the chief object of his care. With RoTHs-
CHILD and ICKELBERGER now joined with
him in the arduous duty of maintaining
the cause of ‘‘honest money’’ it could not
be more obvious that the management of
the campaign is for the benefit of the gold-
bug rather than for the good of the farmer,
and intended more to promote the welfare
of the bond broker than the workingman.
The object of the work to be done may be
judged from the character of the agents
employed to do it.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
The Chcap Dollar Lesson.
Some parties, who are injudicious in
their manner of advocating the gold stand-
ard, are getting off what they call an ob-
ject lesson on free silver. It has been
worked by a large dealer in Chicago (AR-
MOUR, the beef monopolist) and now we
observe that it is being tried by fatuous
Bellefonte hankers.
Preparatory to the illustration a quanti-
ty of Mexican dollars, which are said to
contain more silver than the American
dollar, is procured. The way ARMOUR
works it to illustrate the 53 cent dollar ar-
gument, which is being so freely used by
the goldites, is to offer 50 cents worth of
of meat and a Mexican dollar for an Ameri-
can dollar. The purpose is to show that
the Mexican dollar, in the absence of the
gold standard in Mexico, is worth but fifty
cents, to which value the American dol-
lar would be reduced by the free coinage of
silver.
When his customers, for an obvious rea-
son, wefuse this offer, it gives ARMOUR an
opportunity to say that the Mexican dol-
lar contains more silver than a similar coin
of this country, and therefore it should not
be objected to as change for an American
dollar with 50 cents worth of meat thrown
in. And then a further opportunity is
given to enlarge upon the effect of the sil-
ver standard in Mexico that has so reduced
the value of Mexican dollars that, notwith-
standing they contain more silver than our
coin of the same denomination, American
customers refuse to give an American dol-
lar for a Mexican one and fifty cents worth
of meat. This is supposed to give free sil-
ver a knock-down blow. :
But this trick proves nothing as regards
the effect of the gold or silver standard in
raising or depressing the value of the coin.
The American customer refuses the Mexi-
can dollar as change, not because he doubts
the value of the silver in it, but because it
would be troublesome for him to get rid of
it. Although it has more silver in it than
an American dollar, it is unavailable as
currency for the reason that is not legal
tender. Jt has not the stamp of our govern-
ment on it.
This ARMOUR illustration, which is in-
tended to show the depreciating effect of
“the silver standard, fails in its purpose. If
it proves anything at all, it proves that the
value of coin largely depends upon the le-
gal tender quality imparted to it by gov-
ernment. It proves thdt Uncle Sam’s
stamp on the face of a dollar can make it
worth a hundred cents, while the stamp of
the Mexican government, which has less
credit than the United States, imparts less
value to its coin.
Knocks Its Own Intrinsic Value Argu-
ments Out on the First Round.
The Philadelphia Times, in order to give
an ‘‘object lesson,’’ as it calls it, on the
money question, proposes to pay any of its
employees, who will give it 24 hours notice,
$1.90 in Mexican or Japan money for every
American dollar it owes them.
Just what ‘‘object’’ it expects to ‘‘illus-
trate’” by this proposition we are at a loss
to understand.
What the Ziémes owes its employees is
money. That paper might just as well
propose to pay its debts in cast off coffee
pots, tea-spoons, old watch cases or dis-
carded rings, if these articles were made of
silver, as in Mexican or Japan money, as
an illustration of the money question.
Silver in any form, except such as the
government of this country may put its
stamp upon, is not money with us.
Mexican dollars and Japan yens are no
more money than is any other article of
commerce, and are taken just as Canadian
silver coins are for the actual value of the
metal within them.
As the Times admits that the Mexican
dollar contains more silver than the Amer-
ican dollar, (11 grains we believe) and is
“intrinsically more valuable,’”’ the only
object lesson to be learned from its propo-
sition is that the amount of silver in the
coin has nothing to do with its debt pay-
ing or purchasing power.
The Times has been very unfortunate in
this illustration from the fact that it ef-
fectually disproves its “intrinsic value’
assertions—and these constitute the basis
of all opposition to the free coinage of sil-
ver.
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The New State Chairman.
The Democratic state central committee
met at Harrisburg yesterday afternoon, to
accept chairman WRIGHT'S resignation and
elect his successor. A number of men had
been suggested as acceptable persons to
guide the state Democracy this fall and not
the least prominent among those suggested
was Col. J. L. SPANGLER, of Bellefonte.
Of course this at once aroused interest in
his home and there was much speculation
until the news came announcing the selec-
tion of Hon. JOAN M. GARMAN, of Nan-
ticoke. Mr. GARMAN has long been recog-
nized as one of the hardest party workers
in the State. He has been here on several
occasions to speak and is eminently a capa-
ble and satisfactory man. He was chosen
over Hon. JAMES KERR by a vote of 30 to
36.
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~ BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 14, 1896.
Singerly and the McKinleyites.
We really sympathize with brother SIx-
GERLY in the trouble he is having with his
new political allies, the MCKINLEYITES,
who persist in putting the robber tariff to
the front while his sole purpose is to rescue
the country from the evilsof ‘‘dishonest
money” threatened by the free silver ‘‘an-
archists.”’ :
If it wasn’t so distressful an object to
contemplate it would be amusing to wit-
ness his anxiety to impress his MCKINLEY
allies with the propriety of dropping their
scheme of tariff spoliation and turning in
with him and other ‘sound money’’ Demo-
crats with the single and only object of
combating the revolutionary mob of farmers
and working people who have broken out
in ‘“‘anarchistic’’ insurrection against that
beautiful arrangement of the gold standard
that enables a combination of Wall street
operators to control the currency of the
country for their own advantage.
Editor SINGERLY is distressed and em-
barrassed to find that his new political
associates are not disposed to limit their
endeavors to the high and patriotic duty of
defending the interests of the gold-bugs, to
which he has dedicated himself, but persist
in putting the tariff forward as an equally
desirable, if not preferable, method of de-
spoiling the people. But he has so often
depicted in the columns of his paper the
heartless greed and utter selfishness of Mc-
KINLEYISM that he should not be sur-
prised in his present alliance with it that
there is no abatement of its determination
to restore the system of tariff spoliation by
which it has robbed and oppressed the
masses for the benefit of a favored class.
How can he expect that after he may
have assisted in restoring the tariff party to
power, under the delusion that he is work-
ing in the interest of ‘honest money,’ it
will not again bring into pernicious activity,
as measures of the first importance, those
abuses and evils that constitute the con-
centration of political and economic iniquity
known as MCKINLEYISM ?
We have the testimony of editor SIN-
GERLY’S own paper, given day after day
and year after year, in season and out of
season, that most of the troubles that have
afflicted the country, industrially and
politically, have sprung from that system
of greed and oppression of which Mc:
KINLEY is the representative. According
to his own oft repeated interpretation of it
MCKINLEYISM is a generic term compré-
hending various species of evils, prominent
among which is class favoritism that dis-
criminates against the general interests of
the people. It has encouraged monopoly
and given life and protection to the trusts.
It has created a plutocratic aristocracy, the
most contemptible and offensive form of
caste. It has enabled rings and combines
to control the natural resources of the coun-
try. It has converted industrial establish-
ments into political machines that employ
or discharge their hands to suit the require-
ment of elections in which the tariff may
be involved, the closing of factories at the
present time being an illustration of that
method of distressing the working class of
people into voting with the tariff party.
It has sacrificed the interests of the farming
population by tariff exactions which have
provoked European countries into retalia-
tory discrimination against our agricul-
tural products. Jt has stimulated over-
production of manufactures, while its re-
strictive policy has closed foreign markets
‘against the surplus products of our mills
and workshops, thus causing frequent and
protracted periods of industrial suspen-
sion. It has been the prolific source of
strikes, lock-outs and other labor dis-
turbances. It has put presidential cam-
paigns under the management of plutocratic
ruffians of the MARK HANNA stripe, who
have grown immensely wealthy by robbing
the working people and suppressing labor
strikes with a relentless hand. It has
corrupted the ballot, and made the cam-
paign funds contributed by the bene-
ficiaries of this demoralizing system the
chief factor in determining the result of
presidential and congressional elections.
This is a specification of the evil fruits
of MCKINLEYISM, which editor SINGER-
LY’S paper has been unwearied in exposing:
and denouncing. He has heen largely in-
strumental in teaching the Democrats of
Pennsylvania to detest and abhor it.
Justly regarding it, therefore, as a system
of evils that surpasses in its wrongful at-
tributes all other evils in our public affairs,
they are in no way disposed to be-affected
by the panicky scare on the money ques-
tion that has so singularly frightened
SINGERLY into the MCKINLEY camp, and
made him a co-laborer of MARK HANNA
for the restoration of the robber tariff,
which is the purpose and would be the
result of MCKINLEY’S election.
Even if the Democrats of Pennsylvania
questioned the safety of adopting the free
silver policy, there can be no question in
their minds as to the injurious, demoraliz-
ing and generally abominable effects of
McKINLEYISM. They have editor SIN-
GERLY’s oft repeated assurance of that,
and. they have, moreover, their own ex-
perience of it.
Lies About the Spanish Dollar.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A favorite dodge in argument used hy
those who opposed the free coinage of sil-
ver is accomplished by the aid of the
Mexican dollar. That interesting coin
which circulates in many lands as a one-
hundred-cent dollar is brought into com-
parison with gold, and suffers as our own
dollar suffers by that unfair test, and is
not saved, as our dollar is saved, by the
fiat of our law making it a legal tender.
They take this Mexican dollar away from
its proper environment and set it spinning,
and then, while puzzled rustics watch it,
they work their thimble-rigging tricks of
argument and make the truth seem false,
wrong right'and misty error clear as day.
The Mexican dollar contains more silver |
than our dollar, and the gold monometal-
lists say that under free coinage our dollar
will drop to the Mexican level. We are
told that this, our dollar, will now buy
two Mexican dollars, each containing more
silver. Now, why is this? Itis simply
because in the United States we have
doubled the value of our dollars by de-
monetizing silver and juggling with gold,
called a two hundred cent dollar.
Japan is neither unprogressive nor slow,
and yet the Japanese yens bears the same
relation to the American dollar. The
Japanese yen contains the same amount of
silver as the Mexican dollar, and both of
these coins serve the proper fumotion of
money as a measure of value in the coun-
tries where they circulate. It is only
when brought into conflict with the gold
standard that silver dollars, Mexican or
Japanese, show the depreciation which so
pleases the gold advocates. These dollars,
that will now only buy half an American
dollar, will still buy just as many com-
modities and as much merchandise as they
ever bought in the lands where they be-
long. Wherever the gold standard pre-
vails there has been a shrinkage of values,
an increase in the purchasing power of
money. It prevails in effect in the United
States, where the mere coinage of bullion
gives to the silver dollar fifty per cent. of
its value as money, just because it is held
equal in the coinage to a dollar of gold.
In illustration of the fifty-cent dollar
idea the funny man -of the Detroit Free
Press tells a story of a grain company in
Michigan which has issued a circular to
farmers offering to pay one Mexican dollar
per bushel for wheat, and suggesting that
in order that the sellers may realize a dol-
lar a bushel for their grain, it will only be
necessary for them to hold these Mexican
dollars until free coinage is established,
when each one of them will be worth an
American dollar. This is a well contrived
puzzle but it won’t fool many farmers.
They might as well save their t, for it
will also be worth ‘more when have a
well balanced financial system uhder free
coinage. The catch in that little joke is in
the final conclusion which is based upon
the false assumption that under free -coin-
age our dollars will drop to one half their
present value, while the foxy Free Press
writer very well knows that gold will drop
and silver will rise. :
These gold bugs tell us in one breath
that our free coinage is wicked because it
would make a present of fifty cents on the
dollar to the mine owners by increasing
silver to that extent, and in the next breath
they complain that the value of the dollar
will be cut in half. If we are only to have
a fifty-cent dollar where does the profit of
the silver miners come in? If the silver
miners are to make so much money where
is the fifty cent depreciation of the dollar?
Was there ever a more brazen and eompla-
cent exhibition of tomfoolery in argument
than we are now having daily on the gold
side of this controversy ?
The Bankers and Their Game.
From the Greensburg Democrat.
Some of the Illinois gold bug bankers
are playing with fire. They are calling in
small traders who have borrowed money
on short-time payments. The borrowers
are asked if they are silver or gold men.
If gold men, their notes are renewed ; if
in favor of both silver and gold, they are
told that their obligations must be imme-
diately paid. All such banks are being
spotted, and, if the coercion policy is cen-
tinued, bimetallists will withdraw all their
deposits. There are few of the banks that
can stand such a drain without great em-
barrassment, if not actual collapse:
McKinley’s Effacement.
The complete effacement, the sudden and
entire disappearance of WiLLiaM McKIN-
LEY, as a political entity in this campaign,
is attracting attention and is creating a
painful impression.
Some time in June a political conven-
tion in St. Louis nominated him for Presi-
dent. At the same time a political plat-
form was built, upon which he was sup-
posed to be placed, but he has vanished
from public sight as the representative of
the object for which the Republican party
is making his campaign, while MARK
HANNA represents, embodies and stands
for whatever principle or purpose may be
expressed or intended in this struggle of
the trusts, monopolists, money lenders,
bond brokers, bank syndicates, and the
general class of gold-bugs, to maintain
their advantage over the people.
Nobody thinks of MCKINLEY as the
leader of the ‘Republicans in this fight.
| Nobody calls on him, or consults with
him. Even the Sunday schools and dele-
gations of sympathetic ladies have ceased
making him visits. His mouth has been
closed by order of HANNA, and he remains
mum while BRYAN, like a young giant,
goes through the land speaking to and re-
ceiving the greetings’ of the people.
McKINLEY appears to have been wiped
out, and the plutocrats who control the
money bags, and expect to reap the benefits
of a Republican victory, know that HANNA
is the real embodiment of everything that
until we now have what may be fairly |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A cloud burst at Sharon Monday did
much damage.
—The dog poisoner is getting in his work
at Huntingdon. ‘
—The Clearfield Presbyterians are contem-
plating the erection of a new parsonage.
* —Mayor Wagener, of Johnstown, collected
$735.05 in fines during the month of July.
—Talling from bed at his Reading home,
John Sherrick broke his leg.
—The explosion of a gas generator in the
Sunbury bottling works killed James New-
berry.
—A tree fell upon and killed John M.
Entz, a prosperous farmer in Fairfleld, near
Williamsport.
—While driving in a wagon at Pottstown,
Lewis H. Evans was badly shocked by an
electric bolt.
—Charles Hammon, of Allentown, fell from
a passenger train at Lebanon and was serious-
ly injured.
—Little Harry Weible, son of Frank Wei-
ble, was drowned while bathing in a quarry
hole at Lebanon.
—Altoona authorities have cut down all
telegraph and telephone wires strung upon
the city’s poles.
—A horse owned by William Claudius, of
Williamsport, which had been stolen ran
away from thieves and wrecked the wagon.
—Lieutenant Ripardson has completed ar-
rangements at Mt. Gretna for the rifle con-
tests of the State militia, beginning next
Tuesday.
—John G. Douty began suit against Wil-
liamsport to recover $15,000 for injuries re-
ceived by falling through an unprotected cel-
lar door.
—Latimer S. Hoopes, one of the best
known real estate and lumber merchants of
Central Pennsylvania, died in Hollidaysburg,
Tuesday.
—Clearfield has started in to do some more
street paving. The DuBois council has also
ordered more street paving to be done in
that place.
—Eighteen witnesses testified Monday at
Altoona that Albert Boughamer was i2 miles
from the scene of the notorious Boughamer
robbery on July 20.
—A gentleman drove into York from the
Hellam valley and reported the turnpike
covered with thousands of potato bugs, trav-
elling across the highway.
—Masked robbers entered the house of
Andrew Corell, at Gallitzen the other night
and at the point of a revolver demanded his
money. He handed over $75 all he had in
the house.
—Now comes the statement from Beech
Creek that Mrs. Johnson Gardner has a
white Brahama (a silver hen) that deposited
an egg that measured eight and one-fourth
inches lengthwise and six and a half inches /
round. *
—The decomposed body of a man was
found in a field near Hughesville Tuesday
afternoon. An empty bottle labelled opium
was found near the body, giving rise to the
conviction that he suicided. His name is
unknown.
—Scientists have been making some inter-
esting discoveries abont McKees Rocks. In
their excavation there a number of skeletons
of gigantic men have been found which
shows that there were ‘giants in those irre-
claimable days.”
—The fine Patton school building in Cur-
wensville is already too small for the grow-
ing school population ofthe town and so an
addition is to be built at a cost of $5000. It
will harmonize with the main building in
material and architecture.
—John W. Yos of Johnstown, on Thurs-
day night jumpéd from a freight train di-
rectly in front of a ‘passenger train at the
Pennsylvania railroad crossing at Morrell-
ville and was instantly killed. His body
was terribly mangled.
—Daniel Conn, an aged resident of Pleas-
ugeville, was overcome by heat Monday
night. Later during the night he suffered a
paralytic stroke which caused his death. Mr.
Con was over 60 years. He issurvived by a
number of married children.
—William M. Singerly, whose name heads
the list of electors-at-large chosen by the Al-
lentown convention, hds forwarded his resig-
nation to state chairman Robert E. Wright.
The contents of the letter, which was short
and to the point, was made public Thursday
at the meeting of the state committee in Har-
risburg.
—The Republicans of Mifflin county have
made the following nominations : For Con-
gress, T. M. Mahon; State Senator, J. M. —
Woods ; legislature, G. H. Bell; sheriff,
James Collins ; treasurer, Henry Zerbe ; as-
sistant judge, W. S. Settle, commissioner, A.
W. Nale and S. J. Nevinger ; poor director,
Alexander Cumings.
—A probably disastrous disease seems to be
spreading among the cattle in this section.
They first become lame and their legs begin
to swell, which gradually extends over the
whole body and finally results in death.
Several have died in Rush township during
the past week and quite a number are report-
éd to have the disease.
—The barn on the farm of Elias Eck, about
2 miles west of Collomsville, Nippenose val-
ley, was struck by lightening Friday night
and completely destroyed together with all
the farming implements and this season’s
crop of hay, grain, etc. The horses were
saved by the hereism of Mr. Eck’s daughter,
who bravely entered the burning structure
and succeeded in getting the frightened ani-
mals out. Mr. Eck was absent from home at
the time.
—The new reservoir at Kittanning Point
which is to supply Altoona is a complete suc-
cess. The residents of Altoona from this time
forward shall have an ample water supply
for all purposes. There is now in both reser-
voirs over 425,000,000 gallons of water, and at
present there is 2,000,000 gallons passing over
tho spillway of the new reservoir. Itis now
shown that without a single day of rainfall
the water supply at Kittanning Point would
last the city 141 days—almost five months—
allowing the use of 3,000,000 gallons daily.
This is satisfactory news to the residents,
who for years dreaded the heated summer
season with its drought and consequent limit-
ed water supply. Mr. Thos. Collins, of this
place, built the great dam.
is involved in the Republican campaign.