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BY P. GRAY MEER.
Ink Slings.
—Those who mistake that Methodist
SwarLLow for a ‘‘gilli-loo’” bird are not
close students of ornithology.
—Governor HASTINGS has vetoed the
resolution requiring the employment of
none but Pennsylvanians on the building
of the new capitol.
—The next thing WEYLER will be after
theL. A. W. to help him wear the road
smooth between Havana and the territory
occupied by the Cuban patriots.
—About the most creditable thing the
state Legislature has done, this session,
was to sit down on such a fool measure as
the prevention of foot ball in the State.
—1Tt is a pity that Greece isn’t powerful
enough to lick every power that is inter-
fering in Turkey’s behalf. If she were,
howefer, the unspeakable Turk would
ave few friends.
—The Cretan situation remains unchang-
ed. Greece still defies the powers and they
talk war with far greater ferocity and less
intention to fight than CORBETT and FITZ-
SIMMONS ever did.
—It is generally supposed to be rich
living that gave ex-President CLEVELAND
the gout, but itis a well established fact
that poor living is what gave the party he
represented the go(o)ut.
—T. P. RYNDER’S Erie Echo is just now
busying itself with a movement to divide
Pennsylvania into two States. It is very
likely that the Echo will be the only thing
that is busied much in such a movement.
—And now they want to cram SMULL’S
Hand Book into the heads of hygienic,
calisthenic, industrial art beridden public
school children. Why not include the
Legislative Record and kill them off in an
easier manner.
— With only a boundary line between
the States 70,000 persons are starvinggin
Chicago while corn can’t be sold at 9 cents
a bushel in Iowa. Prosperity, well dost
thou hide thy head in the face of economic
conditions that can make such a result pos-
sible.
— Philadelphians are still crazed with
the notion that the capitol ought to be
moved to their city. There is one thing
that would be corrected if such a move
were made : English papers that insist in
asserting that Pennsylvania is in Philadel- |
phia would not be guilty of making such |
blundering geographical mistakes longer, |
for the State would then surely be swallow-
ed up in that city.
—When the whistles began blowing
and the bells began ringing to celebrate
McKINLEY’S oath of office taking, at noon,
yesterday, lots of Bellefonte Republicans
tumbled pell-mell into the streets not
knowing the cause and thinking a fire was |
burning the town down.
Well, there was a tire,
But it was out:
It was GROVER,
And it was a ease of fire out.
—The fellow who flagged the McKINLEY
special, as it was speeding through West-
moreland county, Monday night, says he
thought it was the Greensburg accommoda- |
tion, known to travelers as the ‘‘bummer.”’
A fine coincidence, indeed. That promised
McKINLEY train
|
flagged, somewhere, for four months now
i : |
and it is signiflcant that the train hauling |
its engineer should have been mistaken for
the ‘‘bummer.”’
query as to whom he thought would he the
next Democratic presidential nominee,
present conditions prevailing, MATT SAv-
AGE, secretary of the Democratic State
Central committee, concluded his belief
that BRYAN would be the man by saying :
“The people are thinking. but not work- |
What oceans of truth there are in |
ing.’
that trite sentence and their mighty waves
will sweep McKINLEYism out of existence
four years hence.
—If the news of to-day were hurried
back into the musty depths of mythology
old DAN TUrCKER would doubtless sadly |
shake his head as he read the news of the
forming of a corn-stalk trust. In DAN’S
days there was but one use to which the
corn stalk was put and that was in mak-
ing fiddles that he was wont to scrape with
a shoe-string bow. Now a company has
been formed, with a capital of $50,000,000,
to extract a pitch from them that will be
used as a sheathing for war vessels.
—If Legislators would busy themselves
seeing that the laws that have already been
enacted are enforced, instead of trying to
gain notoriety by the introduction of fool
measures, they would serve the people bet-
ter and disprove the growing belief that
most of them are birds of the long-eared,
rope-tail variety. The idea of passing laws
making it a crime to publish accounts of
prize fights, pictures of unwilling subjects,
ete. Why they might just as well pass a
law prohibiting the publication of news-
papers at all then the poor editors would
have time to run for the Legislature too.
—One of the last official acts of Presi-
dent CLEVELAND was to veto the immi-
gration bill. He did that on Tuesday after-
noon hecause he thought the provisions of
the measure too harsh. According to his
idea the conditions that made the settle-
ment of America an asylum for all peoples
still obtain and they should be just as wel-
come to-day as they were when the Ply-
mouth colonist landed. The President
does not seem to have deemed the crowded
condition of that asylum as sufficient cause
for relieving it by restricted immigration.
of prosperity has been |
Teme
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VOL. 42
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 9.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 5, 1897.
McKinley’s Cuban Policy.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY is now President
of the United States. It is quite clearly
understood what will be his economic
policy. The name MCKINLEY is the syn-
onym of tariff, and there is not the slight-
est probability of his going back on his
protection record. As to his monetary
policy t here is not the same certainty. He
had a strong leaning towardssilver, previous
to his nomination, but it is not likely that
the influences which had so much to do
with his election will allow his administra-
tion to desert the interest of the goldbugs.
But what will claim his immediate atten-
tion is the Cuban question, which has been
handed over to him by his predecessor in a
very unsatisfactory condition, and the man-
ner in which he will treat it is a matter of
great interest to the people.
We have the authority of the New York
Journal, which, however, is not the best
authority as to what are President Mc-
KINLEY’S intentions, that he has com-
municated to a representative of that paper
what his Cuban policy will be. From this
source the public is given to understand
that the MCKINLEY administration will not
interfere with the Spanish operations, nor
meddle with the insurrection, but will fur-
nish adequate and absolute protection to
American citizens in Cuba. If there shall
be any outrages perpetrated upon any citi-
zen of the United States in Cuba it will be
promptly redressed, even if it shall require
hostile action to do it.
If President McKINLEY will do this it
will be all that treaty obligations and in-
ternational law will allow him to do, but
if he should do less, he would come short
of doing his duty. Moreover, if the Con-
gress of the United States should, by delib-
erate resolution, recommend the recogni-
tion of the belligerent rights or the inde-
pendence of the insurgent people of Cuba
President McKINLEY would be remiss in
his duty if he should not do his part in
carrying such resolution into effect.
In political and economic questions we
| ara not likely to agree with the new Presi-
| dent, but we would be greatly pleased to
'see him adopt a manly and courageous,
but fair policy in regard to Cuba.
The Fight is Not Done.
Contrary to the fatuous belief of the gold-
ites after the election that the cause of free
i silver had been crushed by the result of the
ey of the constitution still goes on. There
is no abatement of the efforts nor weaken-
ing of determiniation of those whose pur-
| currency from which it was deposed by the
| . . .
| crime of demonetization.
| an address he made in New York last week,
| said, “‘I want to say to those who have
fought for free silver that the fight is not
done,” hecemployed an almost needless
expression. The very nature of the con-
|
cannot stop until a great wrong shall have
satisfied. It is not out of place for the gal-
lant leader of the free silver cause in the
recent contest, to declare that ‘‘the fight is
supporter of that cause who, after the de-
ed that the fight had just begun.
Nothing could have been more stolid
{ than the belief of the goldbugs that the
| purchased result of the presidential election
| —a verdict that had been secured by the
| corrupt expenditure of millions of dollars—
| had put an end to the contention for the |
‘money of the constitution. There was
never anything so foolish as the belief of
the bank syndicates, money lenders, and
bond dealers, that the conviction of six
millions and a half of voters, as expressed
at the ballot box, would be abandoned
after having been outvoted through such
corrupt agencies.
are in revolt against the iniquitous oppres-
sion and financial injury of the gold stand-
ard are more determined than ever. The
gold contractionists are beginning to dis-
cover that this is the fact, and they will
make the further discovery that as time
advances and continues its development
monetary policy, the strength of the free
silver force will correspondingly increase
until the wrong of silver demonetization
shall be righted by the ballots of the peo-
ple. =.
——A hill has been introduced in the
Minnesota state Legislature providing for
the suppression of female fools, such as the
ones who send flowers, angel-cake and
plush bound volumes of KEATS to con-
demned wife beaters and murderers, unless
they be near relatives. Now if some broth-
er Legislator would introduce a bill in the
Minnesota Legislature for the suppression
of fool Legislators the people of that State
and many others would be spared the
ignominy of finding themselves represented
by men of such light calibre. The fools
who pamper depraved convicts are to be
pitied, not legislated against unless it be
by creating asylums where their mild forms
of insanity might he treated.
‘presidential contest, the fight for the mon- |
: s : . |
pose is to restore silver to its place in the |
When WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, in|
tention will not admit of its cessation. It |
Tn answer to the New York World's been righted and a great public necessity |
not done,’” but there is not an intellicent |
oS
feat of last November, was not fully assur- |
|
The fact is that the spirit of those who |
of the disastrous effects of their constrictive
Defective Cuban Policy.
There has been an unfortunate, if not
culpable, weakness on the part of the au-
thorities at Washington in their protection
of American citizens in Cuba against Span-
ish outrages. Evidence is abundantly at
hand to prove that Americans have been
subjected by the Spaniards to ill treatment
of the most brutal character. Spanish ill
will towards every thing American has
not been confined to personal insult, but
it has, in numerous cases, assumed the more
outrageous form of imprisonment and capi-
tal punishment.
Consul General LEE has been a witness
of these indignities and injuries to Amer-
ican citizens at the hands of the Spanish
authorities. He has protested against
them, and given his own government no-
tice of their perpetration. In this he has
done his duty, but while his protests ap-
pear to have been indifferently treated by
the Spaniards, the information he has
given the authorities at Washington has
not been followed by that prompt and de-
cisive action which should be looked for
when American citizenship has been out-
raged by a foreign power.
There has been an evident absence of
that support which Consul General LEE
had a right to expect in his treatment of
the Ruiz case. He urged immediate and
vigorous action. He demanded an incisive
investigation that would go right to the
bottom of the horrible circumstances of
Ru1z’s death, which bore so strongly the
appearanee of his having been driven to
death, in his lonely prison cell, by brutal
means. He required of the Spanish au-
thorities the exhuming and examination of
the body so that it might be determined by
what means his death had heen produced.
The Spaniards shuffled with this demand
and evaded it by claiming that Ruiz had
committed suicide, but the Washington
authorities should have given the Consul
General the most vigorous backing in his
efforts to get at the bottom of this dark
case. This, however, they do not seem to
have been done, as would appear from Gen.
LEE’S dissatisfaction with the support he
has received from his superiors. There
must have been some remissness at head-
quarters when an officer of Consul General
LEE’s fidelity and honor found himself
placed in a situation that almost induced
him to abandon his post.
We are regretfully forced to the conclu-
sion that in some most essential respects
| the course which ex-President CLEVELAND
| pursued in his Cuban policy was lament-
ably weak and far from being creditable.
He may have found in the rules of inter-
| national comity and in the obligations of
| treaties with Spain ample justification for
not interfering in the contention between
.Spain and her revolting Cuban subjects,
but surely neither the law of nations nor
| the restraint of treaties required him to he
Lindifferent and inactive when American
{citizens were being subjected to outrages
by the brutal minions of the Spanish gov-
ernment.
It looks very much as if the late Presi-
| dent was as unfortunate in his Cuban as in
his monetary policy.
This Is Financiering for You.
The report of the Bellefonte borough
| treasurer discloses a condition of affairs in
| the borough finances that is anything but
a credit to the Finance committee of coun-
cil. According to his statement the bor-
ough sinking fund has been drawn upon
and, even now, is depleted more than half
of its amount in payment of running ex-
penses. When the sinking fund was cre-
ated it was designed to be set apart entire-
| ly from use until the time for redeeming
| the borough bonds shall come. Instead
| the amount has been repeatedly encroached
| upon until now not half of it remains in
| the treasurer's hands, while a debt burdened
| borough is the horrower.
Why council should have authorized the
i use of sinking fund money is a (uestion
that will appeal to everyone who knows
the purpose for which it was created. If
the taxes are insufficient to maintain the
borough expenses levy larger ones, but do
not set aside a stipulated sum every year
then turn around and use it up again.
When it becomes necessary to make up
| this deficiency in the sinking fund what
will have to he done? A higher millage
will have to be assessed or expenses cut
down and for doing that future councilmen
will be censured for the short sightedness
that seems to have ruled the last body.
One can readily imagine how fast the
sinking fund will grow when money is tak-
en out of it for current expenses, then the
interest, due it on such loans, is taken out
of it to be paid back and we would not he
surprised if the money for the last appro-
priation of $2,000 to the fund is taken from
it also.
If we are to have a sinking fund let it
remain a sinking fund, undisturbed, and
when the borough’s receipts do not meet
expenditures curtail the latter or levy more
taxes.
-—=Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
The State Administration Stirred Up.
Preacher SWALLOW, editor of the Penn-
sylvania Methodist, has stirred up the official
menagerie at Harrisburg with along pole
and set the animals to lashing their tails and
howling ferociously. This he has done by
setting forth, categorically and circumstan-
tially, a long array of charges against the
state officials, including executive, legisla-
tive and departmental functionaries, which
charges, if true, would render them amen-
able for maladministration, malfeasance,
and almost every other form of offense
which public officials could be guilty of.
If the reverend accuser wassure of his
proof, and hadn’t it ready to hand, he cer-
tainly started out in a hazardous adven-
ture when he made such direct and sweep-
ing accusations. It is certainly no light
matter to publicly assert, through the me-
dium of the press, that money has been paid
out of the state treasury to parties who
rendered the State no service; that re-
ceipts have been required to be signed for
two, three and even four times as much
money as the parties signing them received
for service rendergd the State; that the
State has been robbed in the furnishing: of
the public buildings at Harrisburg and in
the supplies for the Soldiers’ Orphans’
schools ; that in the purchases of material
and labor for making additions to the capi-
tol building, Governor's mansion, and
work done on the capitol grounds, even in-
cluding the alterations in Grace church
now used by the Legislature, the cost to
the State has been two, three, four and
even eight times as much as it should have
heen. the excessive profits having been di-
vided aniong certain officials ; and lastly
that the burning of the capitol was not en-
tirely an accident.
These are very bold charges and Rev.
SWALLOW must have the courage of his
convictions in making them. The entire
state government appears to be included
in his bill of indictment.
To say that the implicated parties are
howling mad would be using a term that
would inadequately describe their feelings.
They propose to crush the offending preach-
er from the word go, and therefore he was
promptly brought before the investigating
committee that is working on QUAY's
great - >form job, and after recciving a se-
vere overhauling, was informed of the pen-
alty he might expeet for libelling the Re-
publican managers of the state government.
This treatment was supplemented by prose-
cutions brought against him for defama-
tion of official character by members of the
state administration, from Governor HAsT-
INGS down to custodian DELANEY. This
may be an ebullition of virtuous indigna-
tion, or it may be mere bluff. Time will
tell.
If Rev. SwALLOW is sure of his charges
and can prove them he will do the people of
the State a great service. If he has made
his charges at random, basing them merely
upon the general belief that the state gov-
ernment is a rotten affair, and fails to sub-
stantiate them hy proof, he may have got-
ten himself into a serious scrape. The im-
plicated parties will show him.no mercy.
Let us hope that the right side in this issue
will win.
Convicted by Thelr Reputation.
It seems almost incredible that there are
American journals that act as apologists for
the atrocious conduct of the Spandiards in
Cuba, in their treatment of American pris-
oners, but there are publications that en-
deavor to make it appear that the reports
of such outrages are gross exaggerations,
and in most cases are the inventions of in-
terested Cuban partisans and sensational
newspapers. The fact that the indignant
protests of Consul General LEE have been
excited hy these atrocities, and that he has
called for vigorous measures to check, if
not to redress them, has no weight with
the apologists as evidence of the truth of
what is charged against the Spanish ruffians
in Cuba.
A Philadelphia paper, belonging to this
apologetic class, is not willing to credit the
reports of Spanish illtreatment of Ameri-
cans for the reason that it cannot be-
lieve that so brave and chivalrous and nec-
essarily humane a people, as it makes out
the Spaniard’s to be, could be guilty of the
atrocities which they are charged with prac-
ticing upon the American prisoners.
Such talk as this is merely glossing the
Spandiards’ true character. The Don may
be to outward appearance a well mannered
and chivalric personage but history has
given repeated proof that he is capable of
almost any cruelty and is restrained by no
considerations of humanity when religious
intolerance, political tyranny, or personal
jealousy and suspicion prompts him to
the commission of dark and bloody deeds.
The fact is that the charges that have been
brought against the Spandiards, in regard to
their treatment of prisoners, whegher
American or Cuban, find their strongest
corroborations in the historic cruelty of
the Spanish nature.
——If they do pass a law prohibiting
spitting in public places what is a fellow
going to do when he bites into” a” wormy
chestnut, swallow it?
“Our” Jim’s Reply to D. E. Democrat.
In a recent issue we took the opportuni-
ty of calling the attention of his Centre
county constituency to the honors that were
being bestowed upon Hon. JAMES ScHo-
FIELD during this session of the state
Legislature. There was nothing more than
what might have been expected for such an
agreeable gentleman, yet a correspondent
in the Bituminous Record made the refer-
ence an excuse for flinging insinuations of
a dishonorable nature at Mr. SCHOFIELD.
The WATCHMAN did not deem such an
attack worthy of notice, in fact there hav-
ing been nothing in Mr. SCHOFIELD'S
course at Harrisburg to warrant it we in-
tended to leave the matter drop, until the
following communication was received. It
will explain to the Philipsburg inquirer
that Mr. SCHOFIELD needs no one to
champion his cause and is only too anxious
to have the public know any position he
might take. whiie a Representative at Har-
risburg :
Editor WATCHMAN :—In a recent issue of 3
reputed newspaper, called the Bituminous
Record, published at Philipsburg, the writer
notices an uncalled for and slanderous at-
tack on me in my official capacity, endeavor-
ing to cast reflection on my political standing.
In the first place, and to make a long story
short, if the author of the attack on me in
the Bituminous Record will do himself the
honor to sign his actual name to any articles
for publication or in a personal letter of in-
quiry I will be only too glad to furnish him
with all the information he or any of his as-
sociates may desire. But so long as the above
stated individual sails under a false and ficti-.
cious cognomen, just so long it will be impos-
sible for me to answer his inquiries.
Come out from behind the bush, give us
your name and open your warfare in the
broad daylight of publicity, after which it
will be possible for me to reply, but not be-
fore. I never engage in a controversy or
political warfare except in open public for
the inspection and decision of all those con-
cerned. In the mean time I am only too
anxious to fully explain my political position.
Yours truly, -
JAS. SCHOFIELD.
Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 23th, '97.
The Way Prosperity is Advancing.
One of the folly lessons of the last. presi-
dential campaign is just being learned hy
the employees of the American Ax and TT: *
company, at Mill Hall. Tast fall they
were told that the only way to insure per-
manent employment for themselves at
good wages was to support the McKINLEY
party. They did it, but are possibly be-
ginning to suffer twinges of remorse al-
ready, as the following communication
will show.
“A few days before the last presidential
election the American Ax and Tool Co., at
their factory, at Mill Hall, Pa., issued the
following circular and gave one, in an en-
velope, to each employee.
“FELLOW CITIZENS:
Employees of the American Ax and Tool
Co., at Mill Hall, Pa. I congratulate you
that notwithstanding the stagnation of busi-
ness brought on our country by the Wilson
tariff bill of the present administration, you
have had steady employment, promptly paid
for in money as good as gold and that there
never has been a time since the manufacture
of axes in Mill Hall, forty-five years ago,
when a days’ labor would buy more of the
necessaries and comforts of life than it will
to-day.
While you have been fortunate in having
plenty of work up to the present time the
prospects for the future are extremely dis-
couraging. The orders of the American Axe
and Tool Co., here, as elsewhere, are cancell-
ed or withheld, so that there is no more work
in sight awaiting the results of the coming
clection.
The platform of the Bryan party, boldly
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A Towanda jail commission has reported
an allowance of 31 cents a day to the sheriff’
for feeding prisoners, a reduction of 14 cents.
—Rev. J. M. Page, was insta!led Sunday
morning by Bishop N. C. on, of the
. oN .
diocese of Central Pennsylvania, as rector of
St. Luke's Episcopal church. Lebanon.
—A special sermon was reached Sunday
evening in St. Mark’s Reformed church,
Lebanon, by Rev. I. Calvin Fisher, to Speed-
well council, No. 920, Junior Order of Amer-
ican Mechanics.
—The furnishing committee at the Normal
school Lock Haven Friday afternoon award-
ed the contract for furnishing the new rooms
at the Normal with oak bedsteads, mat-
tresses, bolsters and springs to P. P. Rittman.
The new rooms are in the recently built ad-
dition and number sixty. The contract
must be filled by March 25th.
—A young man recently bargained with
a Meadville merchant for a suit of clothes,
and was permitted to take the suit home to
try it on. He sent the clothes back the next
day with a note stating that they did not fit,
and about a week later the merchant dis-
covered that the enterprising young man had
simply borrowed the clothes to get mar-
ried in.
—Mrs. Margaret Cornealy, widow of the
late John Cornealy, Spruce Creek, received
word, Wednesday, that a pension of $8 per
month has been granted her, and $2 per
month also for a minor child. She will get
$30.13 to start with. Mrs.. Cornealy has
much need of the cash, and the news is there-
fore very gratifying to her.
—A pine tree was recently cut at a lumber
job near Brockwayville which was a veri-
table giant of the forest. The tree which
was forked, was 18 feet in circumference at
the butt, and nearly six feet in diameter.
Twenty-four good sawlogs were cut which
scaled 5,846 feet board measure. At $15 a
thousand, the market rate for log run pine,
the tree will yield $87.66 worth of timber.
—Joseph Flynn, a dyer in the woolen mill
at Reynoldsville met with a shocking ac-
cident while at work Friday morning. He
was working around a tank of boiling water
which is used for dying the raw wool, etc.,
and while thus engaged fell head first into
the scalding liquid. He fortunately had the
presence of mind to pull himself out, but as
soon as he was exposed to the air his agony
was heart-rending.
—A serious accident befell Mr. Barner the
tenant who resides on the farm of Newton
Fredericks in Bald Eagle township, Clinton
county. Mr. Barner was hauling logs, and
was cither thrown off the wagon or was
struck by one of the logs. His leg below the
knee sustained a compound fracture, the bone
protruding through the flesh. Dr. Ball was
summoned. It is feared that amputation of
the leg may be necessary. Mr. Barner is
about 65 years old and has a family.
—Frank Lergenmiller, who is employed in
the liquor room at the Tyrone paper mill,
received a pretty severe scalding Tuesday
afternoon. A tank containing hot liquor
sprung a leak and the fluid gushed against
Lergenmiller’s breast and face. His left arm
between the elbow and wrist is the most
severely burned, but other parts of his body,
face and neck are pretty badly scalded. He
will probably be able to work in a week or
two.
—There is a bill before the Legislature
which provides that each of the thirteen
Normal schools in the state shall receive 315,-
000. They now get $510,000 and in former
years they received large special appropria-
tions. This year the principals of these in-
stitutions, the Palriot says, have agreed that
if they are assured an annual appropriation
of #5000 they will not ask for special
amounts. Two years ago over 31,000,000 was
asked for and not allowed.
—On Saturday morning a fire broke out in
the business centre of Patton, doing con-
siderable damage before it was extinguished.
The fire was caused by the explosion of a
lamp dropped by John Boice, and destroyed
the building occupied by Boice & Anderson,
E. J. Severn and Fisher's pool room. MH.
Robinowitz's building, occupied by Mrs.
Rook, dressmaking, and a number of tenants,
and Adams & Stratafl”s building, occupied by
the American Clothing company, with «a
lodge room upstairs. The total loss 1s about
$10,000, partly insured.
—James B. Denworth, the convicted at-
torney, who is serving sentence of three
months on the charge of defrauding a widow
of pension money, and who walked out of
the Williamsport jail Saturday, surprised the
sheriff by walking in again yesterday morn-
antagonistic to the polices of the nation, ad- |
ministered by the Republican and Demo- |
cratic parties, is presented for your suffrage !
with the delusive promise of its orators that |
they have a plan of giving you money that |
you never earned. Do not be deceived by |
these sophistries, they will surely lead you to |
ruin, the only possible way of bettering your
condition will be on the rising tide of pros-
perity that will follow the clection of Wm.
McKinley to the Presidency of the United
States backed by a working majority in Con-
gress. Yours truly,
ROBERT MANN. |
Mill Hall, Pa., Oct. 30, 96. :
Now, on the first of March, three days be-
fore MCKINLEY’S inauguration, they passed
a notice of a reduction in the wages of their
employees running from 8} per cent. to 20
per cent. affecting nearly the whole force
of workmen.
ONE oF THEM.
Why Not Make it Thirteen and Include
Mary Ellen Lease?
| Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,
| The New York Sun, asked to name ten
| American women who will live longest in
history gives this answer : ‘‘Martha Wash-
ington, Rebecca Rolfe, (Pocahontas), Mol-
ly Pitcher, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Priscilla Alden, Eliza Goose
( Mother Goose), Maria Mitchell, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott.”” The num-
ber ought to have been twelve so that Su-
san B. Anthony and Theodosia Burr might
be added. Americans will never cease to
speculate upon the fate of Aaron Burr's
beautiful and accomplished daughter.
——If you have any wires that can be
pulled pull them to have the new peniten-
tiary located at or near Bellefonte. The
board of trade wants this done. Possibly
some of the members will feel so guilty
after having done something in this line
for Bellefonte that they will have them-
selves incarcerated, for conscience sake,
when they get the ‘‘Pen.” in Centre
county.
ing. Mr. Denworth gave as his excuse for
not returning the fact that he had gone home
to see a sick child, and, lying down on a bed,
fell aslecp. He left the jail in custody of a
deputy, to answer a subpena, and was per-
mitted to go home with his son. When the
officers called at the house there was no
answer to their rings, and the impression
grew that Denworth intended to thwart the
law.
" —Augustine Medunty, a prisoner at the rc-
formatory, was stabbed with a bread knife by
a fellow prisoner at noon on Friday. Me-
dunty was standing at the doorway, and as
his companion approached him he kicked at
him in play and ‘received the blow of the
knife on his right leg. An artery was sever-
ed, and the blood gushed out freely. The
wound was closed and the blood stopped but
not until he had lost so much blood that his
life could not be saved. He died Sunday
evening. Wilworth, the young man who
did the cutting, is greatly distressed. Coroner
Greenberg made an investigation that cleared
Wilworth as it was proven that the boys were
in play and that the stabbing was accidental.
—On Monday night two Hungarians and
an Italian became involved in an altercation
while drinking at Root’s hotel in Beccaria
near Houtzdale. They were all more or less
under the influence of liquor and during the
progress of the brawl the Italian drew a re-
volver and began shooting. Both Hun-
garians fell, one shot in the leg and the other
in the hip. The wounds however are not
serious. Tuesday morning the Italian was
captured near Beccaria and taken to Madera
to await the arrival of the afternoon train
going to Clearfield. While the officer was at
the window procuring tickets, his prisoner
made a hasty exit to the woods nearby where
he disappeared. His capture is not at all
probable and tho county is thereby saved
another large bill of costs. *