Demonic Wap
BY PP. GRAY MEER.
Ink Slings.
—There is only one way of succeeding.
That way is to do right at all times.
—Mr. BRYAN received 895,300 votes
more that Mr. CLEVELAND did in 1892.
—QUAY has declared for PENROSE for
the United States Senate, has he? Well
what does our DANIEL think of this ?
—THOMAS BRACKETT REED, of Maine,
is slated for speaker of the next Republi-
ean House of Congress. Here is trouble
fer MCKINLEY already.
—QuAY was in Harrisburg, yesterday,
ealling on the Governor. It is more than
likely that AL. DALE told ‘‘the old man’
what course to pursue with DANIEL.
— About the only place the ‘‘advance
agent of prosperity’’ is showing up his
work is in the columns of newspapers with
vivid editorial imaginations back of them.
—Congress will reconvene next Monday.
How happy you should all be. The Amer-
iean newspapers will then have to drop the
Cuban war for a while and pay a little at-
tention to things at home.
—The wire nail trust has busted. If
eouldn’t stem the tide ’till MCKINLEY,
the friend of the trusts, gets in and went
to pieces, on Wednesday. Low prices will
prevail again and the individual plants
will run on their merits.
—The United States post-office author-
ities have shut down on smoking among
employees. If this business of restriction
i8 continued it will not be long until de-
partment employees will be ready to be-
gin work as evangelists as soon as they are
freed from office.
—The Rubi hills are likely to take, on a
ruby hue if MACEO and WEYLER meet
there. The latter will not be a party to
to any blood bespattering process, however,
if there is any way for him to scamper
back to Havana the moment he catches
sight of a rebel.
—While we would like very much to see
Rev. MILES O. NOLL realize his ambition
to be chaplain of the next House of Repre-
sentatives it will be a plain case of casting
pearls before swine, that of trying to instill
christianity and honesty into the Repub-
licanism that will dominate that body.
—Christmas time is coming on and be-
fore you know it someone will be expect-
ing a present you don’t have for them.
Remember that it is more blessed to give
than receive and be sure that no one is dis-
appointed, particularly if it be a child,
who has a right to anticipate your remem-
brance.
—The President is reported to have given
Spain ninety days in which to prove that
she can suppress the rebellion in Cuba. It
is hardly likely that she will accomplish in
that time what she has failed to do in
previous years, so that if the report means
anything it means that CLEVELAND is to
do something for the patriots before he
retires.
—41.1 Hun CHANG,’ the great Chinese
interrogatory having been advertised to ap-
pear at an entertainment, in Philipsburg,
last evening, Little PHIL. might have got-
ten his friends (?), Messrs. HEWITT and
JAMES, near enough to have had the great
pig tailed questioner ascertain whether
there is more money in the cutlery than
in the dirl Dusiness.
—An unfortunate tramp gets killed on
the railroad. Not a thing is found on his
person but a crust of bread and an old to-
mato can.
die, however, who has something about
him that proclaims cash in a bank some-
where, or property, as is often the case,
and relatives rise up in every part of the
land until their name is almost legion.
—This talk of increasing the size of the
standing army in the United States is like-
ly to end in talk. We are a peaceful peo-
ple and it is distasteful to our very form of
government to have a large force of armed
men continually in the land. When an
extremity presents itself there will be plenty
of defenders, without resorting to the
scheme of increasing the standing army
increase the burden of taxes. a
—WANAMAKER will soon begin to think
that there is. nothing in being pious and
running a Sunday school. They call him
just as bad names as they do anyoue else
and blame him for worse political methods
than most fellows have. Since QUAY is
against him it is beginning to look as if
JoHN will have to say, with the boy who
attends his great Sunday school and was
told to quote some scriptural passage as
he dropped his money into the collection
‘box, ‘a fool and his money are soon
parted.”
—The Republican press, in urging Mr.
MCKINLEY to select at least two of his cah-
inet officers from States south of the Poto-
mac and Ohio, insist that it would be good
business and good politics to try to heal up
the spirit of sectionalism that that party
has always appealed to in the past. This
seems to sound the knell of the ‘‘bloody-
shirt’’ as a campaign agency. That incen-
diary ery having been worked out'by the
Republicans they now imagine the South
foolish enough to lay down before them the
moment they find no more strength in hos-
tility towards it.
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VOL, 41
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE,
896.
NO. 48.
An Offense That Should Be Punished.
Au example should be made of those
agencies which in the last three presi-
dential campaigns have been using money
to corruptly influence the elections. This
demoralizing practice has been introduced
and conducted on a large scale by the Re-
publican party until it has made the elec-
tion of Presidents largely a matter of pur-
chase. It has grown alarmingly since
JoHN WANAMAKER, eight years ago, step-
ped into the political arena with a boodle
fund of $400,000 to secure the election of
HARRISON in the way in which election
results are produced by means of money.
This corruption has been enlarged to such
an extent that the money expended in mak-
ing McKINLEY President of the United
States amounted to millions of dollars.
It is a fearful thing for the patriotic citi-
zen to contemplate the injurious effect of
such an evil upon the popular institutions
of his country. Itis the greatest danger
that menaces the Republic and calls aloud
for some means of correction. The sources
of this corrupting influence are usually
concealed, but in the past campaign there
was an instance in Philadelphia in which
the parties who gave their share of the
boodle that was used in electing MCKIN-
LEY openly avowed the nefarious contri-
bution, making it a matter of publication.
We refer to the case of the Philadelphia
Savings Fund, whose directors contributed
to MARK HANNA'S election fund $25,000
belonging to the depositors of that institu-
tion.
This was a clear perversion of their trust,
It was a misuse of funds committed to
their charge. The fact that it was given
for a political purpose does not rid it of
the character of embezzlement. The fact
rather increases the offense, for in addition
to the misuse of the money by applying it
to a purpose foreign to the object of the
institution, its being used for election pur-
poses was promotive of political corruption.
The responsibility of the directors for mis-
using the money of the bank is not reliev-
ed by their claim that this large amount
was given to protect their depositors from
loss. How were they invested with the
right to determine whether the result of an
election would be a loss or a profit to the
depositors? What business had they, as
trustees of other people’s money, to take
such a question inte consideration at all?
If this is admissible the money belonging
to the patrons of banks may be given to
one political party or to another as election
contributions, according to the political
bias of their directors.
delphia Savings Fund has been misused by
those to whose care it was committed and
| we trust that there are depositors with a
sufficient sense of the wrong that has been
done them to make the directors replace
the money they gave to the Republican
boodle fund, or to prosecute them for em-
bezzlement if it shall not be refunded. It
is proper that this should be done, not only
as an cxample that may prevent similar
misuse of bank funds, but may also assist
in checking the corrupt use of money in
our elections by which the Republican
party is endangering the perpetuity of our
popular government.
There is not a soul in the |
world cares what becomes of him. Let one |
Untaxed Wealth,
It is declared with a great flourish by
the New York Mail and Express that this
is still a billion dollar country, which can
not afford to do business in a picayune
basis, and that it needs revenue and needs
it right'away. For this reason that organ
of the trusts and moneyed interests looks
to the restoration of the Republican system
of tariff taxation as the proper source from
which the deficiency of revenue may he
supplied.
Admitting that there is not enough reve-
ment, such an admission presents in a
has been accorded to wealth by exempting
it from contributing its due share to the
public revenues which are found to be
deficient.” If venal statesmen and a mer-
cenary court had not succeeded in nulli-
fying the income tax law, the resources of
the government would now be ample to
meet all the expenses of government. If
the immense fortunes, which are enabling
our millionaries to assume the airs of a
nobility, were made to bear a due propor-
tion of the public burden, instead of being
entirely relieved of it, which was done
when the income tax was struck down,
there would be no need for the tariff tinker-
ing by which the Republicans propose to
remedy the deficiency of revenue by in-
creased taxation on the necessaries of the
common people. It was to continue their
exemption from a most just tax that the
millionaires contributed so liberally to the
election fund that exerted its corrupting
influence in securing the election of Mc-
KINLEY, and of those who rejoiced over
that result, none were more exultant than
the American plutocrats who are spending
their untaxed wealth among the nobility
of Europe.
The fact is that this money of the Phila- |
nue to meet the various wants of govern-
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more reprehensible light the favoritism that |
German Unfriendliness.
The authorities of the German empire
have for some time past been showing an
unfriendly disposition towards the United
States, no doubt receiving their inspira-
tion from the imperial freak at the head
of their government, who entertains no
love for republics. *
The first evidence of German disfavor
‘appeared in ‘discrimination against certain
articles of American importation. Ameri-
can meats, for example, were subjected to
the frivolous charge of being unwholesome,
there evidently being no other reason for it
than to furnish an excuse for their exclu-
sion. This unfair treatment has been fol-
lowed by the condemnatiqn of other Ameri-
can products for a similar reason, even in-
cluding so superb a production as the
American apple.
Ill will displayed in this way is suffi-
ciently. offensive, without being attended
with other evidences of unfriendliness,
such as is being displayed by the ill treat-
ment of naturalized German American citi-
zens while sojourning in Germany. The
latest manifestation of this disfavor is an
order issued by the Berlin authorities to
the effect that German Americans visiting
their native land shall be granted but a
limited sojourn and be subjected to strict
surveillance while remaining in the Ger-
man empire. If it can be made to appear
that they emigrated to avoid military ser-
vice they may be immediately expelled
from the country, and if their sojourn shall
be extended to two years they may be
drafted into the army notwithstanding
their American naturalization.
Illiberal as it may be, Germany may
have a right to adopt an economic policy
that discriminates against American prod-
ucts. We have our remedy in retaliation,
and besides the Americans who have been
so strongly disposed to tariff the imports of
other nations have but little reason to com-
plain if they are served with their own
sauce. The German treatment of our im-
portations is chiefly a commercial question,
but the’ manner in which the German
Americans are treated, when they visit the
fatherland, showing a disposition to be of-
fensive to the American government
through such conduct, is quite a different
matter, demanding a prompt and vigorous
remonstrance. It is the disposition” of the
American people to be on the most friendly
terms with Germany, but they will stand
by their government in any action that
may be necessary to compel the imperial
authorities to accord better treatment to
naturalized American citizens.
——The report that the ‘‘sound money’
Democrats will be the recipients of official
favors from the MCKINLEY administration
is not likely to materialize in anything of
a lucrative character. MARK HANNA
used them only for campaign purposes,
and would be astonished if he were asked
to allow MCKINLEY to hand any of the
offices out to applicants who professed to be
actuated in the campaign solely by their
zeal for ‘‘honest money.”’
An Expectation that Should Not be Dia=
appointed.
It is clearly evident that the English
have become convinced of Spain’s inability
to suppress the Cuban insurrection. The
tone of the English papers give no en-
couragement to the efforts that are being
made to restore the Spanish dominion over
the revolted island. as is shown by their
unfavorable comments upon the attempt of
the government of Spain to raise another
loan for war purposes. The London Times,
which may be regarded as the leading
organ of English sentiment, is quite plain,
in its declaration that in consequence of
the incapacity of her generals, and the ex-
haustion of her resources it is impossible
for Spain to regain her supremacy in the
island. Taking this view of the situation,
which comports with the cold, calculating
character of English public opinion, the
Times is constrained to say that ‘‘the
probability of intervention by the United
States can not be excluded.’
Such expressions, which are made with-
out any adverse feeling in the matter,
would seem to indicate that if the United
States were to intervene in the Cuban ques-
tion, and demand the cessation of Spain’s
endeavor to enforce the subjection of a
people who are struggling to free them-
selves from her hated dominion, England
would offer no opposition to such inter-
ference on the part of this government. It
is much more likely that Great Britain
would sympathize with a movement by
the United States that would bring a bar-
barous war to a conclusion, and restore the
island to a condition of prosperity that
would be commercially beneficial to Eng-
land as well as generally advantageous to
the commercial interests of the world.
England evidently expects the inter-
vention of the United States in this Cuban
difficulty ; she would not be unfriendly to
it ; other European nations, in: all proba-
bility, expect it, and our government should
not disappoint so reasonable and general
an expectation.
PA., DEC. 4. 1
2
A Satisfactory Report.
The report of the Secretary of War shows
that the military branch of the government
has been well managed by the present ad-
ministration and while it furnishes evi-
dence of the efficient conditionsof the regu-
lar army, it also shows that the manage-
ment which has produced such satisfactory
results has been done with remarkable
economy, as it appears from the report that
with an appropriation of $52,000,000 for
the expenses of the past year an unexpend-
ed balance of $2,000,000 has been returned
to the Treasury.
Secretary LAMONT favors the proposition
of General MILES that the enlisted strength
of the army be increased by an addition of
5,000 to the rank and file, which is asked
for with a view to rendering practicable
certain changes in battalion formation
which will increase the efficiency of the
military arm of the public defence. If in-
tended for that evidently desirable purpose
so small an increase of the regular military
force would hardly justify the apprehen-
sion of those who fear the danger to popu-
lar institutions. But, in truth, the free
institutions of this country stand in greater
danger from corrupt political practices
than from any influence that need be ap-
prehended from a military source. A cor-
rupt gang of politicians debauching the
elections is more dangerous to the republic
than astanding army.
The report of the Secretary gives a good
account of the progress that has been made
in the development of the state militia
upon which so much dependence must be
placed in time of war. This important
auxiliary force consists of 111,887 citizen
soldiers, well organized but deficient in
artillery which would be serviceable as an
adjunct to the new system of coast de-
fenses.
The most satisfactory item of information
imparted by Secretary LLAMONT’S report re-
lates to the work that has been done in
putting our sea coast in a condition of de-
fense against the attack of naval enemies.
Fortifications of a very formidable char-
acter have been furnished or are in proec-
ess of completion at every important At-
lantic port, which are being mounted with
guns of the most improved construction
and heaviest calibre. In view of these
facts the Secretary is able to declare that
“by the end of the fiscal year 1898 the na-
tion will be fairly safe from foreign inva-
sion,’’ with the certain prospect that by
1900, at farthest, the sea coasts of the re-
public will be absolutely gvulnerable.
Prosperity Postponed.
It is the hoe of every good citizen that
prosperity will again come to our land.
Every body would hail its return, and wel-
come back the prosperous condition which
has been gradually vanishing under high
tariffs and a contracted currency.
The election is over and we ought to sce
the approach of the better times promised,
which were to burst upon us immediately
after the free silver ‘‘anarchists’’ had been
defeated at the polls ; but the reduction of
wages that have taken place in many of the
industries since the election does not look
much like the dawn of prosperity.
Since the election of the candidate who
was represented as prosperity’s advance
agent, the Ohio miners have had their pay
reduced from 65 to 45 cents. If this re-
duction had been made before, instead of
after, the election it would have been cal-
culated to reduce MCKINLEY’S vote in his
own State? How much would it have in-
creased the Republican majority in Phila-
delphia if the reduction of wages at the
BALDWIN locomotive works had been made
on the Saturday before instead of the
Saturday after the election? This is cer
tainly not the kind .of prosperity that was
promised the workingmen with the object
of getting their votes.
There has also been a reduction of wages
in the leather industry since the election,
and another incident that does not com-
port with prospective prosperity is the cut
of 60 cents a ton in wages at the Birdsboro
iron works that was made a week after the
‘‘advance agent’’ was elected. Still anoth-
er discouraging incident is the fact that
after Lancaster county gave an unusually
heavy majority for MCKINLEY and better
times, a reduction of wages of §1 and $1.50
was made in Lancaster city.
Nothing could give the American people
greater delight than the return of that
prosperity which prevailed before MCKIN-
LEYISM had imposed its monopoly tariff
and the Wall street influence had succeeded
in contracting the currency by the demonet-
iza tion of silver ; but as MCKINLEYISM
and Wall street have been given control of
the situation the hope of prosperous condi-
tions will have to be deferred for at least
four years.
——The trade conspiracies known as
trusts have reached out and secured within
their deadly grasp almost every branch of
productive industry, bpt when the sand-
stone quarrymen form a trust, which they
are reported to have done, it may be said
that the bedrock of monopoly has been
reached.
We Have One in Bellefonte Too.
From the Easton Sentinel.
It was to be hoped that when the elec-
tion would be passed that political preach-
ers who had made themselves offensive to
members of their flocks by public har-
angues about ‘‘honest money,” ‘‘public
honor,” etc., should remember that they
are chosen to serve the Lord and not
Mammon. But some of these men are too
deeply steeped in political prejudice to
recognize that there are members of their
congregations who differ with them on
matters political and who have as good a
right to their opinions as their preacher.
An Easton preacher was among those who
could not curb his political feelings, and is
said to have insulted his Democratic hear-
ers by saying that we should be especially
thankful this year because the country had
escaped the danger of dishonesty and repu-
diation. By this assertion he reasserted
the statement that all who voted for Bryan
were dishonest and repudiators. When
men who voted as their consciences ap-
proved, and not as the preacher desired,
can sit quietly and listen to such an im-
peachment of their motives we can only
wonder what stuff they are made of. It
is no less an insult tobe called dishonest
from the pulpit by a preacher one helps to
Poy, Han to be slandered on the public
street.
They Were ‘Anarchists’ Before the Elec
tion.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
By all means President McKinley should
take at least two cabinet officers from south
of the Potomac and Ohio. It will be the
privilege and duty of the next national
executive to do all that he can to obliterate
the spirit of sectionalism and to promote
the growth of true Republicanism and pro-
gressive ideas throughout the Southern
States. This course would be wise from
the standpoint of business, as well as
politics.
After a Draw-Baeck.
From the New York Journal.
That enterprising Canadian who has
brought suit for $25,000 on account of a
cold contracted in one of Mr. Pullman’s
cars is to be admired for his courage. Asa
rule the patrons of Mr. Pullman are ex-
pected to pay liberally for everythity they
secure in his cars.
” Why They Cried.
From Truth.
Rowley, powley, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
But, entre nous, that legend of yore
Only tells half. They cried for more !
Hon. John Scott Dead.
Passed Away at His Home in Philadelphia Sunday
Night. Sh
Hon John Scott, ex-United States Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania formerly general
solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad com-
pany, died at his residence in Philadelphia
Sunday night after a brief illness.
He did much good during life, and those
who knew him years ago have most pleas-
ant memories of his correct life—he was a
Presbyterian. in faith, but his denomina-
tional stand was that all people were good
until they were proven otherwise, and
even then there was hope. The young
people who attended the Presbyterian
Sunday school in Huntingdon during the
’60’s, where the deceased was superintend-
ent in the old building now torn down and
the space occupied by J. C. Blair, station-
er, will remember his kindly demeanor,
his welcoming smile, his advice for good.
He was not narrow-minded, but on the re-
verse was broad. His memory will he
kept fragrant by the many loving deeds
done by him.
John Scott was born in Alexandria,
Huntingdon county, July 14, 1824, and
was of Scotch-Irish parentage. After hav-
ing received such education which the
schools in that part of the country afford-
ed, he was instructed by private tutors in
Latin and Greek. In 1842 he became a
student in the law office of Alexander
Thompson, in Chambersburg, and at the
end of the usual course of study was admit-
ted to practice. In 1846 he opened a law
office in Huntingdon and was afterward
appointed deputy attorney general. These
duties he discharged with fidelity, but his
health failing he went to Europe in 1853.
Much benefitted by his trip he returned in
1861 and, although a Democrat, was elect-
ed to the Legislature from Huntingdon
county which was then, as now, Republi-
can. He was a war Democrat, however,
and advocated the re-election of both Presi-
dent Lincoln and Governor Curtin. Then
in 1868 he took an active part in the cam-
paign in the Republican cause and in.
March 1869, took his place as a member of
the United States Senate and served his
term of six years. Appointed general
solicitor of the Pennsylvania railroad soon
after the expiration of his term as Senator
he served in that position until February
1, 1895, when he retired. His memory is
a fragrance to those who know him best.
Unobtrusive yet positive he found « his
way through life in a gentle manner and
when death came could not do otherwise
than lie down to pleasant dreams.
Cleveland Will Not be Dean.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 30.—President Cleve-
land’s purchase of a residence at Princeton,
N. J., gave rise to a rnmor that he would
become dean of the Princeton law school.
President Patton, of the university, who is
in Baltimore, authoratively denies the ru-
mor. He said there is absolutely no foun-
dation for the report.
A Blizzard in Texas.
St. Louis, Dec. 1.—Reports received
from Texas state that a severe blizzard has
been raging in portions of that State dur-
ing the past forty-eight hours. At Hous-
ton, Victoria, and Eagle Pass the heaviest
snow storm of recent years is raging. It is
not thought that cattle will suffer very
much.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Garber house, at Carlisle, has been
sold to William Hillier, a hotel man of Me-
chanicsburg, for $7500.
—Revival services were held in the court
house at Media Sunday, at which the pastors
of the different churches participated.
—The first National bank of Hanover has
sold 34,000 acres of land to Chicago (Ill)
capitalists for $50,000. The land bears cy-
press and cedar.
—Dr. George Hill, the oldest practicing phy-
sician in this section of the State, died at his
home in Hughesville at 1 o'clock yesterday
morning of heart disease. He was born Jan-
uary 17th, 1816.
—The Northumberland county tcachers’
institute will be held in Sunbury December
14th to 18th. State superintendent of pub-
lic instruction Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer will
be one of the instructors.
—A special meeting was held by the Bris-
tol borough council on Tuesday cvening, te
take action in regard to constructing the
Philadelphia, Bristol & Trenton trolley com-
pany through the streets of Bristol.
—One of seven.pigs buta few weeks old
belonging to Robert McKague, at Youngsdale,
disappeared last February. In making re-
pairs this week Mr. McKague found the
missing pig, which will weigh 200 pounds,
under the pen. .
—While a number of boys were playing
ball at Curwensville last week, the bat
slipped from the hands of one of the lads,
and struck William Danver, aged 10, on the
temple, inflicting such injury as to cause his
death a few days later.
—Tuesday in the wilds of Clinton county
near the 8. and C. railroad a large buck deer
leaped over a precipice sixty feet high and
alighting among rocks broke its neck. Sev-
eral trainmen possessed the animal, and af-
ter dressing it, sent the carcass to Philadel-
phia where they got a price for it. It
weighed 185 pounds when dressed.
—Williamsport’s board of trade has issued,
its annual report of the industries in that -
city. It shows thatthe number of males em-
ployed is 6317; females, 1412; a total of 7729.
The average wages of males is given as $11.28
and of femalesat $5.67. The annual value of
the product of mills, shops and factories
makes a grand total of $13,244,682.14.
—A scrap of history is recalled by an-
nouncement of the fact that the first survey
of the West Branch was made in 1790 by
Samuel Maclay, Timothy Matlack and Johm
Adium to discover, if possible, a route for a
road or canal to connect the Allegheny with
the West Branch and Schuylkill. This re-
sulted in the building of the West Branch ca-
nal forty years later.
—The work of grading the new extension
of the Beech Creek company’s line in Cam-
bria county is nearly completed. It is said
that this is the first well defined move of the
Beech Creck company to get to Pittsburg,
and it is expected that another contract for
an additional extension will be given as soon
as the Cambria county road is completed.
—Charles Clark, of Williamsport, was on
Friday riddled with shot while out gunning.
He sat down to rest with his head against a
stump, and had on an old gray hat, which,
from a distance, resembled the color of a
squirrel of a squirrel of that species. Will-
iam Crawford, with another party, mistook
Clark’s hat for a squirrel and shot at it.
Clark was not killed but he is badly injured.
_—In an opinion handed down Saturday
afternoon at Harrisburg Judge McPherson
sustains the Hummelstown school board,
which excluded from the public schools of
that town 155 pupils whose parents refuse to
comply with the order of the board as to vac-
cination. The court holds that while the
vaccination law is in conflict with the com-
pulsory attendance act, the vaccination law
was passed last and takes precedence of the
other.
—The champion hunter and trapper of
central Pennsylvania is John P. Swoope, of
Alexandria, Huntingdon county, who de-
votes his entire time to the exciting sport.
And well he may, for if reports are true, he
makes quite a nice thing out of it at the
county’s expense, as for instance: During
the ten and one half months of the present
year of noxious animals alone Mr. Swoope
has killed 939 foxes, 13 wildeats and 1,290
minks, on which he received a bounty of $1,-
087.50. :
—A trial lasting five days was concluded
last week in the Potter county court, which
gave Mrs. Sarah (. Costello a verdict in the
proceeding for divorce that her husband in-
stituted against her five years ago. John
H. Costello, the plaintiff, is a millionaire lum-
berman, of Potter, and for nearly a year had
a woman detective follow his wife in order to
obtain incriminating evidence in the divorce
case, which was based on alleged infidelity.
Mrs. Costello was victorious and had her hus-
band and Miss Helen Embody, the detective,
arrested on a charge of conspiracy.
—Monday morning Pacific express west
struck and killed Rose McNally, a thirteen-
year-old child, at Portage. Almost every
bone in her body was broken. A companion
about the same age made a narrow escape
from being killed also. On her way to school
every morning she had been in the habit of
delivering a bucket of milk to a hotel on the
opposite side of the railroad from that where
her parents lived. The two children had
passed the rear of a fright train which was
standing on the east bound track, a « Rose
stepped immediately in front of the rapidly
moving express.
—The number of guests who were poisoned
at the silver wedding anniversary banquet
at the hcme of A. B. Stewart in Frankstown
township, in Blair county, Saturday, has
been increased from forty to sixty. The
Stewart residence was converted into a hos-
pital Saturday night for 32 guests who were
too ill to be removed to their own homes.
Yesterday the victims were reported to be
slowly recovering. Among the sufferers are
Dr. D. H. Barron, pastor of the First Presby-
terian church ; Editor Frank J. Over, F. H.
Goodfellow and E. Mentzer. Many farmers
in the township have sent for medical aid for
their families. The report that the whole-
sale poisoning wagseww€ed by trichinse in-
fected ham sandwiches is now disproved.
The presence of arsenical substance in the
chicken salad has been detected and a portion
of the salad has been sent to Dr. C. B. Dud-
ley, president of the American Chemical so-
city, for analysis.