BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—TAMMANY’S tiger is all right if it is
striped. The stripe is the Democratic
kind and that is all the better.
—BRYAN is talking in the South now.
His receptions are even more enthusiastic
than they were on his great trip from Ne-
braska to New York.
——The eternal fitness of things is seen
in the fact that Dr. HUGGINS is an astrono-
mer. Stars, moons and huggins’ are usu-
ally associated in the minds of those who
know anything about them.
—Did you hear the news from Maine,
old man, did you hear the news from
Maine ? It was too early in the season to
bring snow next day, but it did the best it
could and brought rain.
—KEISTER and HESS are going to be the
next auditors of Centre county because
they are both intelligent, honorable gen-
tlemen. The position of auditor, you
might think, is unimportant but it is a
very important matter that the right men
should be selected to go over the county
business.
—Ex-Senator LEwIs M. EMERY, of
Bradford, has come out for BRYAN and
SEWALL. He has been a life long Repub-
lican, but says he can no longer support
that party because'it is entirely within the
control of corporate interests. Here is one
man to offset the multitude (?) flocking
to Mr. SINGERLY’S lonesome man’s party.
—BARNUM, the great showman, once
made a pile of money on a fake woolly
horse. JOHN HAMILTON tried to make a
pile of argument on a fake tariff horse, at
Grange park, on Wednesday, but there
was’nt enough wool on his animal to cover
up the people’s eyes. They're onto this tar-
iff sidetrack that the gold men are continu-
ally switching off onto.
—Of all the nonsense that has ever been
committed in a political campaign this ex-
cursion business to Canton is the most mon-
umental. HANNA won’t let MCKINLEY
leave home, so everyone is offered cheap
rides to see him. Cheap rides and a cheap
candidate go well together. He cost HAN-
NA several hundred thousand dollars only,
but what is that if the Cleveland labor op-
pressor should become the owner of a Pres-
ident by the purchase.
—MEYER and HECKMAN are winners.
Both men are farmers and in sympathy
with every movement to keep taxes down
and save money for the county. They are
among the class that is oppressed too much
already and, of course, would not counte-
nance any increase of the burden. Let us
tell you, right here, that if a Republican
board of commissioners were to be elected
the first expense we would have would be
for a new court house.
—MARK HANNA'S money methods were
vindicated in Maine, on Monday. Funny,
too, that the next day MCKINLEY should
have been talking wool to a horde of visit-
ors at Canton. He would like todivert at-
tention from the corruption that is being
worked to bring about his election. The
gold papers all howled about his buying
colored delegates to the St. Louis conven-
tion, from the South, but they see the pur-
chase of white voters in the North in a ‘‘God
save the country’ kind of a way.
—Poor QUAY! Poor HASTINGS! It will
cost the State $100,000, that fake investiga-
tion of the boss’, in Philadelphia, and still
DAVE MARTIN licked him. DAVE scoop-
ed 27 of the 37 wards in the city at the
primaries, Wednesday night, and is as
completely master of the situation as it is
possible for one man to be. The Governor
will begin to realize, ere long, that he
stuck his tail onto the wrong kite when he
ran away from those who had stood by him
and laid down to the man who had whip-
ped him.
— According the canvass reported by the
Republican state-chairman of Indiana that
State showed a majority of 65,000 for Mc-
KINLEY, the week prior to his nomination
at St. Louis. Last week another canvass was
made and now the same chairman claims
the State by only 40,000. If MCKINLEY
lost 45,000 adherents in Indiana in seven
weeks, how many will he lose in the six
weeks that must giepse before the election.
According to thé” Republican chairman’s
own figuring Indiana ought to give a ma-
jority of 18,568 for BRYAN.
——The taxpayers of Centre county who
are in favor of adding to the burdens of
the people $100,000 to pay for the wines
and dinners, and expenses of QUAY’s fake
reform investigating committee, will cast
their vote for CURTIN and WOMELSDORF,
to represent them at Harrisburg. Both of
these candidates will vote for an appropri-
ation to pay this bill, and if the people
want to be saved from this additional ex-
pense and additional taxation they will
cast their ballots for FOSTER and ScHo-
FIELD.
—After patting the farmers on the back,
at Grange park, on Wednesday, and telling
them that ‘‘it was the mass of the farmers
that made that victory for the government of
the United States,’’ when the great rebel-
lion shook the country from sea to sea, the
Hon. STUART PATTERSON began to espouse
the very same cause that is paying high
prices to cartoonist for picturing the farm-
ers as fools and holding them up to pub-
lic ridicule. The great centres of popula-
tion, where the goldites are in control, love
to laugh at and jibe the farmers, yet this
apostle of their golden creed tried to cad-
jole the farmers at Centre Hall, while his
partners in the plutocratic cause are fur-
nishing caricatures to ridicule them in the
illustrated papers.
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Democratic An
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 41
_ BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 18, 1896.
The Republican Record in Pennsylva-
nia.
A pamphlet produced by Hon. JEROME
B. NiLEs, and circulated as a Republican
campaign dodfiment, has come into our
hands, and has interested us as a specimen
of the cool assurance with which the claim
is made that ‘‘the prosperity of the farmer
and the wage-earner depends wholly upon
Republican success.”’
From the tenor of this document it
would appear that 1f it were not for the
Republican party the American people
would be in a very bad way, as they are
WHOLLY indebted to that party for what-
ever degree of prosperify they enjoy. If
this campaign pamphlet is to be credited,
this country only began to be prosperous
and to develop its resouraces after the Re-
publican party took charge of it, and that
as an aggregate of human beings we would
still be in the half civilized and imperfect-
ly developed condition we were in before
that organization began to promote our
prosperity with tariff legislation that pro-
duced trusts and monopolies, and with a
currency system that has brought the mon-
ey of the country under the convenient
control of the Wall street operators.
But the particular object of this NILES
document is to show that Republican rule
in Pennsylvania has greatly benefited the
State and been of incalculable advantage to
her people, and he submits the proposition
“that the Republican party in Pennsylva-
nia has a record of which any party has a
right to be proud, and with which it can
confidently go before the million of intelli-
gent voters of the Commonwealth and ask
for their continued confidence and sup-
port.”
This is a bold and unblushing claim,
made in the face of the fact that the Re-
publican record in this State is a history of
the most shameless jobhery perpetrated by
a combination of machine politicians, and
most abject subservience to a bossism that
has been as rapacious in its misuse of the
public funds as it has been incompetent
in all the qualities of statesmenship.
In presenting this claim great credit is
assumed for the reduction of state taxation,
it being alleged that in consequence of Re-
publican . legislation taxes for state pur-
poses havebeen removed from real estate
and imposed upon corporations, but with
all the opportunity for levying just taxa-
tion upon corporations that have been en-
dowed with such unlimited privileges by
the Republican party, has it the face to
claim any special credit for having imposed
upon those corporate organizations a tax
in lieu of that which had been imposed up-
on real estate ? Many of those corporations
have been empowered by Republican Leg-
islatures to exercise their privileges at the
expense of the people, and does it become
that party to claim it as a great merit that
in addition to other favors granted them, it
did not also exempt them from state taxes
and allow the tax burden to remain on far-
mers and other realty ?
But the charge can be justly brought
against the Republican party of Pennsyl-
uania that in its adjustment of State taxa-
tion, for which it claims such great credit,
it has not given the people adequate com-
pensation for all it has made them bear for
the benefit of corporate interests. It has
not protected them against railroad dis-
criminations which, though forbidden in
the constitution, are not interfered with by
Republican Legislatures, although they
have been frequently and urgently called
upon to pass laws that would enforce that
inhibition of the constitution. There is
not a businessman and scarcely a farmer in
the state who does not annually lose more
on account of discriminating railroad
freights than the state tax on his real estate
used to amount to.
Furthermore, the advantage claimed to
have been given the people by the removal
of state taxation from real estate to the
corporations is nullified by other corporate
abuses which Republican Legislatures. fail
to correct, a single example of which is pre-
sented in the formation of the coal trust
that operates the anthracite industry of
this State, consisting of eleven parties,
chiefly corporations that have been charter-
ed under Republican state laws. By a
monopolistic control of the anthracite prod-
uct it fixes the price to suit its corporate
greed, and although there is a provision in
the constitution intended to prevent carry-
ing-companies from taking part in such a
monopoly, Republican Legislatures have
persistently refused to enforce it, and in
the item of increased coal bills the people
in many instances pay more than the state
tax on their real estate used to be.
In considering this matter of the removal
of the state tax from real estate, for which
the Republican party claims the gratitude
of the people, we find that the corporations
upon which that tax has been imposed, are
allowed to reimburse their tax expense by
despoiling the public. A further example
of this fact is furnished in the case of the
Standard oil company, to which Republi-
can Legislatures have given the right and
power to deprive the State of the advan-
tage of her petroleum product, which a few
immensely wealthy parties, living outside
of her limits, have been allowed to absorb,
leaving but a fraction of its profits to the
people of the State.
When a general view is taken of all these
concessions to corporate interests, and the
immense gains of the limited class that
have been benefited by them, there may-be
formed a conception of how inadequately
the removal of state taxation from their
real estates has compensated the people for
the advantages which the Republican party
has conferred upon corporations at the pub-
lic expense ; and yet the leaders of that
party claim to have put the people under
everlasting obligations by relieving them
of state taxation at the expense of the
corporations.
The impudence of this claim in regard to
the state tax is equalled only by the boast,
made in the NILES pamphlet, about the
payment of the state debt under Republi-
can administration, besides the liberal pro-
visions for the promotion of education and
the support of charitable institutions. Is
it to be supposed that with all the vast tax
resources of the State which its growing
wealth places at the disposal of the
state government, there should not
have been a gradual reduction of the state
debt, and appropriations made for school
and charitable purposes ? Do the machine
managers of the Republican party in Penn-
sylvania think that their not having
squandered or stolen all the revenues of
the State is so creditable to them that they
are entitled to the thanks of the people and
a continuance of public confidence for such
a restraint upon their natural inclination ?
We have said this - much in response to,
Hon. GEROME B. NILES’ boast that ‘‘the
Republican party in Pennsylvania has a
record of which any party has a right to be
proud.” In a subsequent article we may
more particularly treat of the moral aspect
of that record.
The State Convention.
The action of the Democratic state con-
vention at Harrisburg last week was the
demonstration of an honest purpose to put
the Democratic party of the State in line
with the advanced position of the national
Democracy on the question of the currency.
Adverse comment is made upon its adopt-
from those expressed at its meeting, in Al-
lentown, in April, but in that it merely fol-
lowed the Democratic rule of conforming
to the will of the majority. The supreme
council of the party at Chicago had fixed
the line to be pursued on a question of
monetary policy, about which Democrats
had a right to differ until snpreme au-
thority had voiced the opinion of the ma-
jority to which the rules of every well reg-
ulated party require the minority to sub-
mit. There was a case similar to this in
1844, when the Pennsylvania Democratic
state convention pronounced, most emphat-
ically, for a high tariff policy, but the party
in the State submitted to the declaration
of the national convention for a low tariff,
and carried the electoral vote of the State
for the Democratic President under whose
auspices the low tariff of 1846 was adopted.
A currency question like a tariff question
is a mere matter of economic policy, and
does not constitute a fundamental party
principle.
There would have been no re-assembling
of the state convention this year, as the
party in the State would have readily con-
formed to the authority of the national
convention, but an attempt was made to
effect a disorganization in the gold-bug in-
terest, and the convention got together to
counteract the scheme of the disorganizers
and to put the Democracy of the State
squarely in line with the policy of the par-
ty as enunciated by its highest authority.
The state convention did its duty, and
every Democrat applauds it for doing it so
well.
Strong Because He is Popular.
There is no shutting your eyes to the
fact that one of the best workers on the
Democratic ticket and one of the most
popular candidates before the people of the
county, this fall, is Mr. J. C. HARPER,
who will be our next recorder. While
prothonotary of the county Mr. HARPER
fulfilled the duties of that position so well,
was such an obliging, willing and popular
official, and went to so much trouble to at-
tend to matters for people from the country
who had business about the court house,
that he quit the office with the reputation
of having been the most obliging, as well
as the most efficient, official that ever filled
that position. He will prove the same as
recorder, the people know this and know
that he is just the kind of a man they want
in that office. On every hand we hear of
Republicans who are joining with the
Democrats to roll up an old time majority
for him.
——The reason pickpockets make so lit-
tle noise as they go about is because they
are continually getting onto ‘‘velvet.’”’
——Read the WATCHMAN during the
campaign. It is cheap, it is fearless, itis
fair.
ing different views on the money question,
Why Money is Scarce.
Have you even thought of how this coun-
try is being drained of its money and how
little comes back to take its place ?
In round figures the estimate of Ameri-
can money spent in Europe and other parts
of the world, by American travelers, and
the rich people of this country who pass the
greater portion of their time at the fashion-
able resorts of the old world is one hun-
dred million per year.
Then there is the interest, that the gov-
ernment, the corporations, the municipali-
ties and private individuals pay, on bonds
that are held in Europe, amounting to over
one hundred and fifty millions, annually.
Then there are the millions upon millions
that are sent away by the churches for mis-
sionary purposes, and the millions upon
millions more that are given to impecunious
and rotten aristocrats of the old world who
come to this country to marry American
heiresses.
Put all these millions together and re-
member that there is nothing comes back
in return for this money, and you'll soon
discover why money is scarce and times
hard in this country. ~
But some one will say money is plenty
here. It can’t be with such a drain going
on all the time and none being made to
take its place.
If it is plenty please tell us why every
enterprise started in this country for the
last ten years has had to go to Europe for
money to complete it. If it is plenty here
why are large commercial houses forced to
ign, with assets doubling their liabili-
ies and stacks of commercial paper that
would be safe investments for any man’s
money ?
Give a moment’s thought to these points,
and you’ll readily understand why we need
more money.
The Maine Election.
Ifthe result of the Maine election indi-
cates anything, it shows that the gold in-
terests felt the importance of making an im-
pression by a large majority, and applied
its unlimited resources to produce that ef-
fect. It certainly had money enough to
effect its purpose when its millions could
be concentrated upon a single State and an
State was necessary to give an appearance
of strength to the gold-bug cause.
When the perfection of the Republican
machinery in the State of Maine, is consid-
ered, together with the money which the
Republicans are able to command, and the
lavish use they made of it in Maine, as well
asin Vermont, with a view to the effect
upon the presidential election, and when
it is also considered that the Democrats
wasted no means or efforts in States whose
majorities the Republicans were determin-
ed to increase at any cost, it is rather sur-
prising that Maine and Vermont did not
give even larger majorities in the gold-bug
interest.
It should be remembered that the Presi-
dent is to be made this year in the West
and the South, which are too big to be con-
trolled by the money powers, and whose
people have suffered too severely from the
effects of the crime of demonetization to be
turned from their Larpose to correct the
abuse of the currency. The next Presi-
dency is a question for the South and the
West to determine, and the Democratic
party is expending but little effort and
means in the strongholds of plutocracy.
A Strong Candidate.
The Democrats of Centre county never
had a better candidate for Sheriff, or one
who would make a more competent, oblig-
ing and honest official than W. M. CroNIs-
TER will. There is no one he meets but is
impressed with his manly, straightforward-
ness and no one who knows him but ad-
mires him for his rugged honesty and his
high character. By his perseverance, en-
ergy, integrity and ability he has made
himself what he is. He has earned a repu-
tation for honest worth that any man
might envy. His election will secure for
the people a public official who will faith-
fully perform the duties of his office, and
at the same time perform them in a way
that will neither be heartless nor unfeeling
towards the unfortunates who have busi-
ness with the sheriff. Of their candidate
for sheriff every Democrat in the county
has reason to feel proud.
Will Make a Good Treasurer.
The manner in which Mr. C. A. WEAV-
ER has performed the arduous and at
times unpleasant duties of deputy sheriff,
show to the people of the county how care-
ful, conservative and conscientious a man
he is. Every body with whom he has had
business to transact has found him to be
prompt, obliging and. considerate. He
will be just the same in the treasurer’s
office. There need be no fear that the peo-
ple’s money will not be properly guarded
and the interests of the taxpayers vigilant-
ly watched. His large acquaintance with
the people of the county, and his knowl-
edge of the work of the treasurer’s office,
fit him exactly for the place, and every in-
dication points to his election by an old
time Democratic majority.
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increased majority, in ToM REED’S own |
A Williamsport Minister Tells of the
West, as He Saw It.
From the Williamsport Times.
. Rev. Dr. Woods, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church, last night gave an eloquent
and instructive talk on his tour through
the West, embracing all the main’ features
of the country from Denver to Portland
and thence through the Sacramento valley,
by Mt. Shasta, to Cripple Creek. He
stated that he found the people there all
for silver. Though he himself wore a Me-
Kinley badge all his journey, he saw but
few others in all that vast area. He did
not blame the people who dared every vicis-
situde and braved every danger of that
grand mountain region for wanting silver
or something. He described the financial
condition of the churches as something dis-
heartening. They had built edifices and
almost paid for them, then came the gold
gripe and swept away their properties and
eft them in debt besides. He said that
the misunderstanding between the East and
West was unfortunate. But he hoped good
would come out of it all. His lecture was
indeed an eye-opener to many, as his jour-
ney through the far West was to him.
Why Gold is Being Imported.
In the Philadelphia Record, of Saturday
last, there appeared the following extracts
from two of the leading English papers :
LoNDON, Sept. Bith.—The Times says, edi-
torially : ‘“There is good reason to think that
the rise in the Bank of England’s discount
rate could not have been much longer de-
layed without a certain amount of risk. The
resolution of the New York bankersto obtain
gold artificially in certain contingencies was
wise and patriotic. Fortunately, there was
no need of an artificial importation. We are
satisfied that the present bullion movement
is a natural one in obedience to the normal
play of economic forces.”
The St. James Gazette this afternoon, com:
menting on the rise in the bank rate and the
causes of the outflow of gold, says: ‘At any
rate, it is the American who dominates the
financial situation, and he is likely to con-
tinue to do so until the election in November
and afterwards. As regards the prospects of
the election, most Englishmen assume confi-
dently that McKinley will be elected, and he
probably will be, though it seems to us unde-
sirable to speculate too freely on the elections
in a country where public opinion is so easily
irritated by anything in the nature of Eng-
lish patronage or criticism. If McKin-
ley is supposed to have won with
the help of English gold and influ-
ence, the reaction will be all the more in-
tense when Bryan comes in, ag is not im-
probable in 1900, even though beaten in No-
vember. The object of all Englishmen is to
be good friends with the people of the United
States, if the pestilential activity of the poli-
ticians who misrepresent that le will on-
allow it, and this end is not Pre to be fa-
cilitated by too violent partisanship.”
Just why Mr. SINGERLY should have
permitted such excerpts to wind up an-arti-
cle in which one of his gold writers had
tried to show that we are getting all the
gold we need, from abroad, we are at a loss
to know. The St. James Gazette explains
the importation only too plainly, when it
says : ‘at any rate it is the American who
dominates the financial situation, and he is
likely to do so until after the election in
November.” :
Here is the reason in a nut shell. The
‘‘American’® referred to by the Gazette is
the banking and brokerage classes. They
have a purpese in having gold come into
this country now. Just the same as they
had when, a few months ago, they patriot-
ically (?) rushed to the government’s as-
sistance and deposited gold with it in order
to prevent another bond issue. They
knew that if the government was forced to
ask another loan from them before the elec-
tion the result would be disastrous, so they
took greenbacks for enough gold to main-
tain the $100,000,000 reserve and will con-
tinue doing it until after the election.
But then, what? They will simply force
the government to return the gold for their
greenbacks, thus depleting the reserve and
necessitating another bond issue from
which they will profit, but dare not do so
until the election is over, for fear of its ef-
fect.
It is exactly this reason that now
prompts the “ ‘American’ to have foreign
gold come into this country. The Gazette
hints that it is being done for political effect
and the Record publishes the story, think-
ing that Sts readers will not be smart
enough to read between the lines.
For the Interest of the Tax-Payers.
Of all the offices to be filled this fall,
there is none that has closer connection
with or is of more importance to the taxpay-
ers than that of county commissioner. To
fill these places will require men of good
judgment, of intelligence and of indepen-
dence. Men who know the value of prop-
erty, who understand the necessity of
careful and economical arrangement, and
who will not allow any ring or clique of
people to dictate their course or control
their action. Such men the Democrats
have hamed for this position. In Messrs
MEYER and HECKMAN, the taxpayers
have two conservative, sensible, indepen-
dent representatives, who know the needs
of economy in public matters, and whose
sympathies and feelings and interests are
with the people. They would not be the
tools of a clique of Bellefonte tax-eaters, as
was the only Republican board of commis-
sioners this county has had in twenty
years. That experience should last the
people of the county a long while, and if
they don’t want a repetition of it they
will go to the polls and vote for both
PHILIP MEYER and DANIEL HECKMAN.
——Read the WATCHMAN.
.ond story prison.
—When being hoisted up in the Easton Ex-
press newspaper office a typesetting machine
worth 83000 fell 40 feet and was badly dam-
aged.
—Charged with robbing the residence of
Mrs. Sarah A. Rutter, at Liberty Square,
Lancaster, Samuel Smith, Edward Jones and
John Maloney were seized at Port Deposit,
Md. ’
—Constables and justices of the'peace in
Schuylkill county met Monday at Pottsville,
and decided to ask assembly candidates to
advocate a law providing for the payment of
fees to those officers.
—Last evening shortly after 8 o'clock
Nathaniel Winterstone, was struck by a
freight train on the Philadelphia and Read-
ing railroad near Fairfield, Lycoming coun-
ty, and instantly killed. He was about 60
years old.
—There are over 100 cases of typhoid
malaria in Shamokin at present and it is
feared that unless the disease is gotten under
control it will become epidemic, One physi-
cian stated that within the past week he
alone has treated twenty persons suffering
from that disease.
—Robert B. Brown, formerly of Lamar,
well-known in this county. died Saturday at
the home of his son-in-law, Charles T. Wil-
son, Altoona. Death was due to the infirm-
ities of age. Deceased was born at Cedar
Springs, September 17th, 1811, which would
make his age nearly 85 years.
—The great growth of ‘‘rag weed’’ in the
fields throughout the country revives the old
saying that the blanket of snow that will
cover mother earth this winter will be as
deep as the weeds high. The average height
of the weeds ranges from two to three feet
and we may accordingly look for snow as
deep.
—Dix school house near Fowler was onc
day last week considerably mutilated, the
door knob being shot from its place in the
door and many of the windows shot out by
several Tyrone roughs who were in that vi-
cinity hunting. The school authorities of
that district are making strenuous efforts to
find out who were in the mischievous party,
and all people who believe in law and order
will hope that they may be caught.
—One of the horses of a valuable team be-
longing to Paul Ktaiss; of Tioga, was drown-
ed in a peculiar manner a few days ago. Two
sons of Mr. Kraiss were working with the
team on his farm, through which Crooked
creek passes in what is generally known as
the ‘“dead waters.” In driving too close to
the edge the bank caved and threw the whole
outfit into the water, which was only about
four feet deep, but one horse held the other
down in such a manner as to drown him.
The other was taken out on the opposite side
of the stream.
—Recently Mrs. Campbell, wife of Rev.
Henry Campbell, pastor of the Epworth M.
E. church, Jersey Shore, scattered poison
through the house to rid the premises of rats.
By mistake some of the poison was thrown
into buckwheat flour. Wednesday morning
Mrs. Campbell baked the poisoned floar into
cakes, and she, her husband, and a Miss
Ferguson, of Canton, Pa., ate heartily of the
cakes. Shertly after all became seriously ill,
the two ladies going into hysterics. A physi-
cian was summoned who quickly adminis-
tered the necessary antidotes, and the afflicted
women became somewhat improved.
—Charles Johnson made a unique escape
from the county jail at Wellsboro, but his
venture ended in failure. The lockup is in
the cellar of the court house. Tuesday even-
ing Johnson was arrested for disorderly con-
duct. A curious sound was heard up the big
draft chimney that runs from the cellar to
the roof of the court house. Sheriff Cham-
paign investigated the matter and found that
the sounds were made by Johnson, who was
crawling up the chimney. The sheriff waited
calmly, saw Johnsone merge from the chim-
ney on the roof, and when the prisoner
reached the court house corridor, after craw-
ling down the clock tower, he fell into the
arms of an officer.
—Charles Echard, registered number 1,792,
of the Huntingdon reformatory, was paroled
about two months ago to Chas. W. Beck, of
near Mackeyville. Wednesday while his em-
ployer was absent he helped himself to a horse
and rode to a neighboring town, where in
exchange for a gold watch and chain, he im-
bibed of the ruby cup till this world seemed
one grand round of pleasure. Before ‘‘old
sol’”” had quite reached the horizon he turned
his heels to the setting sun. Mr. Beck com-
ing home and finding man and horse both
gone became apprehensive of trouble concern-
ing his horse, and learning that the animal
had been taken in the direction of Mill Hall
started in pursuit of the same. He found
the horse tied in the woods near Masden’s
toll gate, but the man was gone.
—Miss Amanda Bussler, an insane woman,
who has been kept in a room at her father’s
house in Nippenose Valley for several years,
escaped Thursday by jumping from her sec-
She got possession of a
butcher knife and then ran three miles to the
home of a family on Antes Creek, where she
put all the inmates to flight by brandishing
her keen edged weapon. A young woman
had just driven to the house to make a call
when the maniac ran from the front door and
frightened the caller so badly that she whip-
ped up her horse and drove down the road at
a rapid rate, the mad woman in pursuit. The
unfortunate woman was finally subdued.
She went insane two years ago because of a
love affair.
—A distressing accident occurred at the
Tyrone depot of the Pennsylvania railroad at
about half-past twelve o’clock Sunday morn-
ing. Porter Wilson McPherran, an old rail-
roader, who was conductor of a middle divi-
sion extra freight, engine 1567 and cabin
90134, lost his life. C. N. Ross was engineer
and D. G. Stewart fireman. The train was
in charge of Mr. McPherran and stopped at
the telegraph tower east of the Tyrone depot
for orders, upon the receipt of which the
train started. As conductor McPherran
boarded the engine at a point where the
fence of the depot yard commences, possibly
not noticing the fence, and while yet on the
engine step in a stooping position, he struck
the fence post with his head and was thrown
under the engine wheels and crushed before
the train could he stopped.