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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The devil is making hay while the
preacher is dabbling in politics.
—Georgia and Florida knew what to do
and did it right. One hears very little of
Maine and Vermont nowadays.
—Bank robbers have taken to bicycles.
Not to stealing them, but to using them to
escape on after committing a robbery.
—From the way SHARKEY is talking he
must contemplate going on the road with
a theatrical enterprise this winter.
—WEYLER is reported to be feeding Cu-
ban patriot prisoners to the sharks in
Havana harbor. This is not the first in-
stance of men feeding the fishes.
-—All that free silver needs now is votes.
The sentiment of the people is with the
cause and if you are honestly and sincerely
convicted that it is right you ought to vote
for every political aspirant who favors free
silver.
—BRYAN has conquered Indiana, so
they say. Already he has talked to more
than enough voters out there to carry the
State for bim. Of course it is not a dead
certainty, but then it isa very consoling
thought to have.
—A fellow by name of BIBB has been
named by the scarce money Democrats as
their candidate for Governor in Nebraska.
A very appropriate name for one who is to
be used as a political nose-rag by MARK
HANNA'S crowd.
—Tom WATSON has talked his throat
out of joint and has gone to his home, a
very sick man. To) isan interesting feat-
ure of the campaign that the public will
be sorry to see eliminated, but it might
just as well be now as after while.
—If burglaries continue growing so pop-
ular in Bellefonte we would advise those
who have the pockets in their pants
to hang that bit of apparel on the door
knob, so that there will be no occasion for
burglars to enter and frighten people to
death.
—The result of the election in both
Georgia and Florida was a surprise to the
advocates of free silver. While the issues
were strictly of a state nature the pulse of
the people is invariably felt in this way.
The Republican bug-a-boo that free silver
is dying has come to be anything but a
bugaboo.
—When the Republican managers of
Illinois find it necessary to send out a train |
loaded with one hundred orators and a
twenty pound cannon it is pretty safe to
conclude that honest goldites place that
State in the doubtful column. It is a sign
of collapse when it becomes necessary to
haul a cannon around to boom any cause.
—The greatest morstrosity of the cam-
paign is the Kentucky chicken hen that
laid an egg with a big ‘‘B’’ on one side and
the figures ‘16 to 1’’ on the other. She
must have been eating silver bugs to have
dropped such a curio. One thing is cer-
tain there can be no cloud over her paren-
tage. She is the daughter of some good
Democratic Kentucky rooster.
—How things do change in these politic-
al contests. Only a few years ago the
"Republicans were shouting for higher
wages for labor and protection to the
American workingman. Now their tune is
turned. They try to teach the laborer that
he had better have lower wages, so long as
prices are so low as they will be kept by a
continuation of the gold standard.
—MCcKINLEY’S bill was the ruling
measure when COXEY and his army march-
ed on to Washington. McKINLEY'S bill
was the ruling measure when the Home-
stead strikes occurred. MCKINLEY’s bill
was the ruling measure when bloody
strikes involved the Pennsylvania and
Ohio coal fields and now it is MCKINLEY’S
bill that makes HANNA the autocrat of the
Republican party.
—It wasn’t the rain, that fell in torrents
during the entire day that the New York
delegation spent in Canton, that prompted
Mr. McKINLEY to talk to them of ship-
ping. Tis true that shipping without
water would be like bicycling without a
bicycle, but the Republican candidate
knows that HANNA won’t allow him to
talk silver, so he blows off in whatever
other line presents itself to his troubled
mind.
—MILES has withdrawn from the
shrievalty contest in Philadelphia but
ALEXANDER CROW Jr. refuses to. get
off. MILES was asked to withdraw
at the same time the request was
made of Mr. CROW, so that a new man
could be nominated. Now that MARTIN'S
man has hauled off it is likely that a new
convention will be called, a new MARTIN
man named, after which DAVE can go at
Crow on the ground of treachery.
-—Inasmuch as the editor of the National
Democrat imagines himself tobe a theorist
of the most convincing type we have been
looking for something original from that
source, as a solution of the currency ques-
tion. If it comes we can assure you that it
will be decidedly original. There will be
nothing that anyone else has ever thought
of in it —— because no one else is likely to
entertain such foolish thoughts as it will
convey. By the way, you don’t know the
editor, do you ? Well, for some reason or
other he seems ashamed of his work and
doesn’t want his name known, but if you
stand around where men are talking poli-
tics, for a while, you will hear some one use
the word
editor.
but who have kept their mills idle for po-
“misnomer.” He will be the
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
OCT.
9. 1896.
_NO. 40.
His Triumphal Progress.
Candidate BRYAN’S progress through
the country is the most remarkable episode
that ever occurred in the political history
of the country. There was never a move-
ment that went so directly to the hearts of
the plain people and aroused such earnest
feeling in the masses. This is not due to
the magnetic character of the man, al-
though that has had its effect, but it is be-
cause he is the leader of an uprising of the
people against a system of wrong under
which they have long suffered ; it is be-
cause he represents the true principles of
Democracy which demand that the govern-
ment shall be of the people and for the peo-
ple, instead of its being a mere machine
run for the, promotion of wealth and for
the profit of monopolists and money lend-
ers.
This is the reason why there is such an
out-pouring of the people wherever he
passes along. This is the reason why
crowds linger all night, that they may
have a word from him as his train passes
in the morning. This is the reason why
the meetings that assemble to hear him are
vast multitudes, wild with enthusiasm,
but earnest in their purpose. :
The journalistic minions of the money
power, MARK HANNA’S subsidized lick-
spittles, say that these earnest people are
Anarchists, but with what withering sar-
casm Mr. BRYAN met this foul charge
when, in looking upon the many thou-
sands, the innumerable multitude that had
thronged from all parts of the country to
meet and greet him at Nashville, he said :
“My friends, as I look into the faces of
these people, I cannot believe that they are
Anarchists. I do not believe you find
Anarchists out upon the farms and planta-
tions and in the workshops. If you were
to send me out to find Anarchists I would
find them, at the head of these great syndi-
cates and corporations which think they
are greater than the government and re-
fuse to respect the law.”
——1It is the duty of every Democrat to
vote for both HECKMAN and MEYER for
county Commissioners. Don’t get mixed
up with the fight between FISHER and
RIDDLE. Leave them to settle matters as
they deem best and vote for the two hon-
est, practical men who have every claim on
you. The opposition is keeping quiet, but
that means that there is trouble in the
wind. They will have some surprise to
work just before the election and we want
to warn you of it. Be ready for any
scheme, check-mate it at once. :
It Should Be Reproved.
The resumption of work by the woolen
mills at Raritan, N. J., is announced with
a great flourish in the MCKINLEY papers
asthe result of the restoration of confi-
dence in consequence of the Maine and
Vermont elections, and the starting up of
other manufacturing operations is claimed
to be on account of the assurance that Mc-
KINLEY is going to be elected.
This fake method of electioneering is in-
tended to impress the laboring people with
the belief that their employment depends
upon the election of MCKINLEY ; but
there isn’t one of the manufacturers that
are practicing this deception who could not
have started work weeks ago without loss,
litical effect. In fact most of them have
been losing money by it, but they calcu-
late that they can stand some loss in help-
ing to secure the increased duties of an-
other MCKINLEY tariff, by which they
would be amply reimbursed.
This game, that is played by the
mill owners whenever they want to
force or frighten their hands into vot-
ing with the party of high tariffs and
monopoly, is repeated at every election in
which the question of an increase of the
tariff duties is involved. It is actual in-
timidation, and should be resisted by the
men at whose expense it is played. They
suffer loss by the mills being closed for no
other reason than to affect their voting.
This imposition could be stopped by the
men voting directly opposite to the cause
which this suspension of work is intended
to promote. They owe it to their own in-
terest and their own manhood to puta
stop to it by such reproof. 3
Against a Change.
The Republican party, since it has fallen
into the hands of the Wall street and
MARK HANNA’S mony syndicates, pledges
itself, through its platform, to the continu-
ation of the ‘existing standard.”’ That is, it
promises that no change in the present con-
dition of affairs shall be made. We are to
have no more money ; no more work ; no
higher wages; no higher price for that
which we have to sell ; fio better times and
no more prosperity for the;people generally.
The gold standard has brought us to the
condition we are now in. MARK HANNA
and McKINLEY promise, those whom it
has benefited, that it shall be continued.
If you like it—youn know what it means—
vote for it.
| ful coin” of the United States, and the
A Supplementary Crime.
The crime of demonetizing silver, which
has been followed by such disastrous conse-
quences, was committed in 1873. It was
done, as most crimes are done, under cover.
Those who had charge of the bill represent-
ed it to be an entirely innocent measure,
its object being, as they said, merely to
make some trivial change in the coinage
law, and, as such, it was acted upon and
voted for with the slight attention that is
usually given to bills that are thought to
be unimportant. But after its enactment
it was found to have dropped silver entirely
from the coinage system, and dishonored
the money of the constitution. It was a
crime such as would be committed if the
sneak thief and the murderer should act
conjointly in its commission.
‘When Congress discovered how it had
been imposed upon by conspirators working
in the interest of the money dealers, much
indignation was expressed, but still there
was not virtue enough in that body to re-
peal the demonetization act. There was,
however, some effort made to remedy the
harm that had been done, and among them
was the passage of the STANLEY MAT-
THEWS resolution that silver should not be
so debased as to prevent its being used for
the payment of the government’s obliga-
tions, that resolution declaring that it could
be used at the option of the government in
the redemption of its bonds.
Silver thus stood partly vindicated but
not restored to its constitutional position.
It remained in this situation until it re-
ceived another blow during the HARRISON
administration, when the secretary of the
treasury, ‘‘Calico’’ FOSTER, obeyed the im-
perious demands of the gold sharks of Wall
street, and decided to disregard the author-
ity of the MATTHEWS resolution by ruling
that the government bonds and notes
should be paid exclusively in gold. He
had no legal authority for making sueh ade-
cision. Thelaw enjoined payment in‘‘law-
MATTHEWS resolution declared that silver
could lawfully be used for that purpose ;
but the Wall street operators, for their
own advantage, insisted upon the complete
degradation of silver as intended by the
demonetization act, and secretary FOSTER
complied with their demands by rejecting
it entirely as a coin with which the govern-
ment’s obligations could be paid.
Then commenced those raids upon the
gold reserve that constantly threatened its
depletion and kept the business of the
country on the ragged edge of a perpetual
panic and in consequence of which $371,-
000,000 in gold was paid, in four fiscal
years, to the British and American gold
sharks. Then began the series of gold
loans which proved such a rich harvest to
the syndicates of Wall street, New York,
and Lombard street, London, and increased
the bonded debt of the government $262,-
000,000 in time of peace, all of which could
have been saved if the treasury authorities
had followed the injunction of the MAT-
THEWS resolution which directed the op-
tional use of silver in the payment of gov-
ernment notes and bonds.
Secretary FOSTER was clearly responsible
for the adoption of this system of gold pay-
ment, which has been so disastrous to the
interests, both of the public and the gov-
ernment, and so profitable to the syndi-
cates for whose benefit it was adopted.
His act was a crime supplementary to that
of 1873, and yet he has the face to go on
the stump in this campaign in defence of a
cause which he fraudulently claims to be
the cause of ‘‘honest money,’’ and in sup-
port of monetary measures which were so
disgracefully and disastrously exemplified
when he had control of the Treasury:
Every Vote Will be Needed.
It is not a case of crying wolf that
prompts the -WATCHMAN to impress on
those of its Democratic readersin Centre
county the absolute necessity of securing
every vote possible to carry the county
ticket through There are conditions in
this contest that make it imperative that
every man on the ticket should he elected.
This will not be the case if every Democrat
in Cgntre county does not do his duty.
While it is hoped that there will be a
safe majority for all, past experience has
been such as to convince everyone that
there is no time for sitting around with
folded hands imagining things will take
care of themselves. The Democracy of
Centre county must get a move on; a
hustling, determined move that will not
stop until every voter who is out of the
county is brought back and every vote
polled. Then the work can stop and a
great victory will have been recorded for
cheering on the morning of the 4th.
There is no danger for the county ticket
if Democrats get alive to the situation.
There is, if they don’t.
——It is essential that Democratic Audi-
tors be elected so that the people of the
county will have careful officials to look
over the) books and tell them how well
Democratic officers have kept the faith re-
posed in them. Vote for Messrs HEss and
KISTER. &
The Spurt in the Wheat Market.
The recent moderate and evidently tem-
porary advance in the price of wheat is be-
ing taken advantage of by the goldites to
show that the inflation in the value of
money by the gold standard had nothing
to do with the depression of the price of
wheat and other products of the farm.
Since that cereal has gone up a few
points in the European markets they are
greatly jubilating over the idea that the
farmers are receiving an object lesson that
is teaching them that dear money doesn’t
make cheap wheat. The ‘‘hayseeds,’’ who
some months ago were ridiculed by gold-
ite journals for their stupidity in believing
that they were being injured by the gold
standard, are now being flattered with
compliments about their being sagacious
enough to see from the rise in the price of
wheat that the gold standard was not
hurting them in the least, and it is being
nounced, with a great flourish, in the
goldite press that the farmers are deserting
free silver and will vote for the ‘‘honest
money'’ of the goldbugs.
No class have had a better opportunity
of observing the gradual and steady decline
in the price of their products than the
farmers themselves, and they have too
good a reason to be convinced that it is in
consequence of the appreciation of the
value of money. There may be temporary
spurts in the grain market by which the
price may be sent up a few points, but as
these occur from local and temporary
causes such as the failure of the foreign
crops, they indicate no permanent condi-
tion, but are followed by the price falling
back to the low point at which the gold
standard has fixed it, and at which the
general price of farm products will remain
if they do not get lower, until relief is af-
forded by the adoption of the free silver
policy.
Should be Left at Home.
If there is a solitary voter in this county,
or in this congressional district who can
give a single reason why he, orany one else,
should vote to re-elect W. C. ARNOLD to
Congress we would be glad to know what
it is. Two years ago, through the general
demoralization of politics, and the folly of
leadews in this district, he was chosen to
represent it at Washington. He took the
oath of office, he drew his salary and—
what else? Does any one know of him
having done a single thing for the district,
or for any interest within it? Can any
one point to a single act of his that would
entitle him to be returned as a Representa-
tive of a Democratic district.
It is true, that when presént or rather
when in a condition to be in his seat, he
voted strictly, unanimously, and rigorous-
ly for whatever Republican measure was
before the House. He raised no question
as to the right or wrong of the matter, as
to how it would effect the interest of the
country or of the people of his district, he
only asked what the demands of his party
required and he obeyed them, no matter
how unjust, how profligate, or outrageous.
While it is a fact, that during long
periods of time he was absent from his post
of duty, it is also true that while present
he succeeded in showing himself to be as
bitter and as unscrupulous a partisan as dis-
graced the last Congress. His district was
Democratic. He was elected by the votes
of misguided Democrats. He was thus rep-
resenting a district, a majority of whose
people were known to him to be Democrat-
ic, and yet in the face of the known wish-
es of his constituents, of those who had
honored him with their support, he proved
to be,—when in a condition to be any-
thing,—one of the bitterest, pettiest, parti-
sans that ever drew a salary as a public
Representative. There was no Republican
steal too monstrous for him to support.
No Republican outrage too great for him to
aid. He voted to throw out of Congress
every Democrat whose seat was contested
and voted to pass every Republican theft
that was before Congress when—he was in
his seat.
‘What kind of a Democrat is he who will
vote to return such a Representative to
Washington.
It was not only in partisan matters that
Mr. ARNOLD showed his littleness and bit-
terness. So contracted were his ideas and
se expanded his conceit, that he boasted of
the power his position gave him to ignore
the wishes and defeat the desires of the Re-
publicans who had not favored his nomina-
tion. Against these men, most of whom
voted for him, he was as unrelenting as
he was against the Democratic people of
the district ; thus showing that his person-
al, as well as his political, feelings are such
as to entirely unfit him for the high posi-
tion he seeks, and is reason, sufficient,
(without reference to his political record,
or moral weaknesses) why Mr. ARNOLD
should be defeated by the largest vote ever
cast against any candidate in this congres-
sional district.
He has been tried. He has been found a
failure=~a dismul, a disgraceful failure.
He should and he will remain at home.
A Republican Minister's View of Bryan
From the Lutheran Observer.
The political whirl is felt on every hand.
Illinois is the battle ground of the nation,
and the contest is waxing warm. By birth
or present citizenship this state has repre-
sentation on about every ticket in the poli-
tical field. We have Senator Palmer as a
resident of Springfield, as he is the candi-
date for President on the gold Democratic
ticket. The Prohibitionist Vice-presiden-
tial candidate is from Illinois. Young Mr.
Bryan was born a hundred miles south of
Springfield, and educated at Jacksonville,
thirty miles west. I have just secured a
little character sketch of him from Dr.
Rhodes, of St Louis, who was on the train
with him recently between Kansas City
and St. Louis. Dr. Rhodes is not a profes-
sional interviewer, and therefore his esti-
mate may be all the more interesting. He
says :
“Mr. Bryan is not of my way of think-
ing politically: As a man, a gentleman, a
Christian, I was delighted with him. He
is affable without affectation, magnetic,
and I have no doubt thoroughly sincere.
In my conversation with him the point at
issue in the campaign was not alluded to,
therefore I cannot say that I converted
him over to my side ! I sought to impress
upon him the tremendous responsibility
that would rest on the man whom the peo-
ple would elect president at this time. He
recognized the fact, but felt sure that the
only hope for the country lay in the princi-
ples for which he stood, adding. If Mr.
McKinley is elected it only defers our
troubles four years more.’ Mr. Bryan’s
confidence is greatly strengthened in his
opinion that the common people are with
him. Hesaid to me in the course of the
interview. ‘It is a remarkable fact that
all great reforms begin with the common
people.” He was struck with the interest
ministers of the gospel were taking in the
present campaign. Mr. Bryan’s strong
point is not his oratory ; I think that has
been greatly overestimated. It is rather
his simplicity, and the fact that he
is decidedly a man of the people.
Whatever the result may be in
November, it is promising and an
occasion for gratitude and congrat-
ulation that the candidates on both sides
are Christian gentlemen. Although kept
up late on Saturday night, and very much
exhausted, Mr. Bryan was in God’s house
on the Lord’s day. We are approachinga
crisis, but God is guiding this greatest of
Republics as aforetime, and the ship of
state will not go on the rocks at the close
of the 19th century-”’
A Gold Bug’s Bulff Called.
From the Walla Walla, Wash., Statesman.
Some time ago Phil Armour, the million-
aire pork packer advertised that he would
give 50 cents worth of meat and a Mea
dollar in exchange for an American dollar,
and some wag in the east has answered
him very pertinently by circular in which
he addressed the mighty manipulator of
spare-ribs and tripe as ‘‘Dear Phil,” and
says he can do better with his own butcher
who offers him 50 cents worth of meat and
$2 worth of Portugese 3 per cent gold
bonds in exchange for a silver dollar. He
says the butcher informs him the bonds
must be good, as Portugal has been on a
gold standard since 1863, twenty years be-
fore the other enlightened nations of
Europe, and its national debt has only in-
creased 100 per cent since that date.
He notes, too, that the average wages
paid all artisans in Portugal are 17 cents.
" He tells Phil that in his former letter he
said that all we need is a little gold, a few
banking facilities and confidence ; Portu-
gal fills the conditions. It has very little
gold, the world has its improved banking
facilities, and he himself ‘will supply the
confidence ; the bonds must be good. He
further says : ‘‘Ourown butcher guaran-
tees that he will confinue to give 50 cents
worth of meat and the $2 worth of Portu-
gese bonds after Bryan is elected,” and he
asks if Mr. Armour will continue to give
50 cents and a Mexican dollar in exchange
for an American dollar after Bryan is elect-
ed. He signs himself John Fairplay, and
then adds a postscript which says.
“The London Times quotes Mexican
bonds at 944 cents ; Portugese 3 per cent
gold bonds at 26} cents.”
——To what desperate ends the Hepubo)
licans are driven in the scramble for votes
for an unpopular presidential nominee is
seen in the wild promises they are making
here in Centre county. They are: actually
trying to head off the sentiment for silver
by assuring Republicans, inclined to its
support, that Mr. MCKINLEY will have
a silver bill passed if elected. There is no
doubt that Mr. MCKINLEY would like to
have just such a measure passed, but he is
pledged to the party that won’t tolerate
it. The rich made him their candidate for
their own purpose and he dare not jump
the traces. No, don’t vote for Mr. Mec-
KINLEY if you want to see silver restored.
Mr. BRYAN 18 the man who is not afraid to
say where he stands on this question.
——W. M. CRONISTER, of Worth town-
ship, is our candidate for Sheriff. Heisa
man particularly qualified for the office and
has been a life long Democrat. Though
there were many others in the field against
him for nomination, the convention chose
himeand the others should turn to his sup-
port, just as he would have done had the
convention not deemed it best for the party
to make him the nominee. Be fair with
Mr. CRONISTER, he will be an honor to the
party and should receive its undivided sup-
port.
— Mr. CHAUNCEY DEPEW is reported
to be looking to matrimony. Miss EDITH
COLLINS, the young woman whose name
rumor connects with his, denies that there
is any truth in such stories and says he is
merely her ‘‘dear friend.”
It it very like-
ly that he is.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Berks county pigeon and poultry
association will hold its exhibition December
21st to 26th. :
—By the X rays Pittsburg physicians dis-
covered a needle in a woman’s elbow, which
had worked up from her hand.
—The Christian Endeavor union of Bucks
county has been awarded the banner for the
greatest increase in junior members.
—Pretty girls acted as conductors of the
East Stroudsburg street cars, recently as the
receipts went to the Presbyterian church.
—Farnum Lyon, who killed William Pat-
terson, a contractor, while leaving his wife's
bedroom, has been acquitted of murder at
Coudersport.
—Pittsburg police have stopped John P.
Quinn, a reformed gambler, from exposing
gambling methods, alleging that he does
more harm than good.
—Aaron Embrick, of Sugar Valley caught
a large bear in a trap a few nights ago. The
bear was captured at a point on the mountain
known as the fourth gap.
—The one hundred and fiftieth annual
meeting of the Eastern Synod of the Re-
formed church is being held in Christ Re-
formed church, Bethlehem, beginning Wed-
nesday evening.
—ZEditor Bangert, of the Falls Creek Her-
ald is editing his paper from the Ridgway
jail. Verily the path of the editor is one of
ups and downs, but for the good name of the
craft, we trust that Editor Bangert will not
be taken as a fair sample of the country
editor.
—Tuesday afternoon a venturesome pheas-
ant undertook to investigate the sixth ward
in Tyrone, and in its wanderings flew against
a pane of glass in Richard Kellar’s houde.
The glass broke and the pheasant alighted in
the room where Mrs. Kellar captured the
bird and killed it. Hunting is made easy in
Tyrone. . .
—When J. D. Kelley, of 325 Campbell
street, Williamsport, opened his front door
Friday morning he found on the door step a
telescope, in which was lying a 3-weeks-old
baby boy. The little fellow was taken in
and given attention and afterwards turned
over to the authorities. The mother who de-
serted the child is not known.
—Samuel Shope of Altoona, while drunk,
threw a stone during the Blair county semi-
centennial celebration which hit conductor
King of the Logan Valley electric railway
and. inflicted injuries that resulted in death
eight days later, pleaded guilty before the
court yesterday to murder in the second de-
gree. Shope’s council will present evidence
in mitigation of sentence on sentence day.
—An investigation by Coroner Goebrig, of
Williamsport, into the death of 16-months
old Grace Connell, which occurred on Friday
reveals a queer story. Thomas Boone had
the child on his shoulder, when Cornelius
Connell, an uncle of the babe, playfully
kicked at Boone. The latter, to escape Con-
nell’s boot, jumped and fell with the baby
under him. The child was killed.
—George S. Good & Co. has been awarded
the contract for constructing a road between
Patton and Spangler. This road is a portion
of the Cambria county railroad, which branch
is believed to be an extension of the' Beech
Creek in the direction of Pittsburg. The
length of the new branch is nine miles, and
when completed it will make the entire
length of the Beech Creek from Williamsport
to Spangler 158 miles.
—The first game of the season was ex-
hibited in front of Butcher Winner's meat
market in Lock Haven, on Monday morning.
There were two deer and two young bears.
The deer were captured near Eagleton, Scoo-
tac region, by a hunting party consisting of
John Irvin, C. H. Shoemaker, George Hager
and David Wilson. Irvin shot both bucks.
The one weighed 227 pounds and the other
175 pounds.
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—The remains of Elizabeth Stout, the
young woman who committed suicide at
Drury’s run, near Renovo, by shooting her-
self, was interred at the North Bend ceme-
tery Tuesday noon. Services were conducted
in the Presbyterian church, Renovo, before
going to North Bend. The deceased’s age
was 23 years. It now transpires that she at-
tempted taking her life ten days ago by swal-
lowing Paris green, but recovered from its ef-
fects.
—James L. Miles, the Republican nominee
for sheriff, of Philadelphia, Wednesday an-
nounced his withdrawal from the candidacy.
This move is the result of a request to this ef-
fect that was made upon Mr. Miles and Alex
Crow, jr., the McKinley citizens’ and Demo-
cratic nominee for sheriff, by a committee of
‘prominent Republicans, in order that a new
Republican caudidate for the office should
be named. Mr. Crow, however, declines to
withdraw. The Republican sheriff’s conven-
tion will shortly be reconvened for the pur-
pose of selecting a new nominee.
—On Tuesday a bold kidnapping affair
took place at Bingham Centre, near Williams-
port. While Mrs. John Todd was driving
through the village a man rushed out of a store
and grasping her five year old daughter Sadie
started down the street. A buggy stood in
waiting in front.of Howe’s store and was im-
mediately taken possession of by the man,
who drove off. Although a number of spec-
tators gave chase, the bold kidnapper escaped
with the child. Thursday an attempt was
made to steal a deaf brother of the stolen girl
at the fair at Westfield ; but it was frustrated
by the police. It is generally believed that
the kidnapping was prompted by enemies of
Mrs. Todd for the purpose of getting even
for a fancied wrong. :
—Information has been received at Holli-
| daysburg to effect that the action of the Blair
county court in the prosecution against
county commissioner John Hurd for various
misdemeanors in office has been affirmed by
the state supreme court. Many suspected
that the supreme court would decree that
Mr. Hurd should serve out his term, hence
the news was a surprise. The sentence of
the court last December was that Mr. Hurd
should vacate the office of county commis-
sioner of Blair county, pay a fine of $50 and
the costs of prosecution. The other cases
against Mr. Hurd have been quietly slumber-
ing on the court docket, and it is not likely
that the same will be pushed to trial. Un-
der the law, the president judge and the re-
maining two commissioners have the power
to make an appointment to fill the vacancy.
It is probable that Republican candidate
John A. Smith, will be appointed.