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By P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—If you don’t have any ideas of your
own subs¢ribe for a good newspaper and
get some.
—There is now a direct heir to the CAR-
NEGIE millions. ANDY is the daddy of a
darling baby girl.
—The rumor is abroad that the Spanish
have taken RIVERTA, who is MACEO’S suc-
cessor, and now the Cubans are without a
leader. It took two hundred thousand
Spanish to take him.
—The DINGLEY tariff bill has been pass-
ed hy the House and now wool will be pro-
tected again. The American lamb will wag
its tail for joy, but the same old shears will
clip its wool when the warm May days
come.
—The first battle between the Greeks
and the Turks is actually on record and
the Turks have been vanquished. It looks
now as if they would really get down to
war and not confine their fighting to news-
paper stories.
—Though past his eighty-eighth birth-
day Mr. GLADSTONE, England’s ‘‘grand
old man,” has taken t6 bicycling. He
seems to have mastered the wheel with
about as much ease as he has the greatest
questions of society.
—The man who invented false teeth, W.
W. RILEY, is dying at his home, in Crom-
well, Conn. Though he never posed as a
fomenter of dissension there is no one under
the sun who has been the cause of quite as
much ‘‘chewing’’ as he has been.
—The fact that it is reported to have cost
twice as much to get Grace church, at
Harrisburg, ready for the Legislature to
meet in as the building originally cost is
enough to set people to thinking that there
might be something wrong at Harrisburg.
—There were plenty of April fools yes-
terday, but none of them were half so bad-
ly bitten as the fellows who voted for Mc-
KINLEY, last fall, with the hope of getting
plenty of work and pockets full of those
good, honest dollars they talked so much
about.
—They say it is refreshing to live in the
West. So far as we are concerned the re-
freshments served over counters in the East
are a deal more to our taste than the kind
that drop from the clouds out there and
send humanity scampering into gopher
holes for protection.
—QUAY is mad because his opponents at
Harrisburg mustered enough strength, last
week, to knock the political assessments
bill in the head. The old man has given
orders, all along the line, that the people
will have to brace up and that the civil
service bill must be forced through.
-——Put the pluck and ambitions of the
Greeks on board England’s battle ships
and Turkey’s little rival would fairly eat
up all the powers of the earth combined.
Greece has courage, if nothing else, and
every human heing with a spark of senti-
ment will wish that right will be might
with her.
—The hide of the panther that attacked
Senator QUAY, in Florida, a few days ago,
will soon be doing duty in a pair of
shoes for the Pennsylvania boss. After he
gets them on he will be very apt to try
them on the necks of that business men’s
league that is pushing WANAMAKER for
state treasurer.
—A calf was born at Mesopotamia, Ohio,
last week that has five legs. Like the Mt.
Carmel dog with two tails MCKINLEY con-
fidence might be assigned as the cause of
this super-abundance of members but if
such be the case it,is unfortunate that that
confidence is knocking. the props out from
under the industrial world and giving them
to the animal.
—Last year, under the WILSON bill, our
exports exceeded our .imports in value by
$345,000,000. It remains to be seen what
the DINGLEY measure. will do for this
country. We are producers and must have
a market for our products, but prohibitive
tariffs won’t give it and if there is no
market for the products there can be ‘no
work for the producers.
—Harrisburg would like to have a nata-
torium, that is, a place where people can
go swimming in all kinds of weather.
Such resorts are not to be patronized very
liberally by the small boy, however. He
would sooner stand and shiver in nature’s
rippling streams until he gets all blue
around the gills, while his back is being
artistically burned by the spring sun, than
- have access to the finest indoor pool ever |
constructed.
—The appointment of CHARLEMAGNE
TOWER to the Austro-Hungary mission is
enough to give Pennsylvania working Re-
publicans a good sized pain. The new
Ambassador is thoroughly competent,
there is no gainsaying that, but then he
has never been known to do any work for
his party, aside from a good sized sub-
scription that his is reputed to have made
to the campaign fund last fall.
—-The new Congress must be admired
for one thing if for nothing more.
convened and pushed a tariff bill through
without that bickering and display of per-
sonal jealousies that made an abortion of
the WiLsoN bill and went far towards the
defeat of the Democratic party. President
MCKINLEY called Congress together to
. pass a tariff bill and it has been done in
less than a month. Democrats will real-
ize that with Republicanism party is first
and not self.
Bema.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE,
PA, APRIL 2, 1897, *-.
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NO. 13.
An Exposition of the Dingley Bill.
The Democratic minority of the Ways
and Means committee were not allowed
time to prepare a substitute for the ex-
tortionate measure presented by the ma-
jority as the DINGLEY tariff bill, but they
did present a report which, though
brief, was one of the most trenchant and
convincing expositions of the humbuggery
of “‘protection’’ that was ever given to the
American people. It showed up the fallacy
of the Republican claim that revenue was
the purpose of a tariff that would be al-
most prohibitive in its restriction upon im-
portations. It showed that instead of put-
ting revenue into the treasury, it would
take money from the pockets of the people
and distribute it among a favored class that
will be specially protected ; that it will in-
crease prices without giving the generality
of consumers any advantage that will ena-
ble them to meet the increase in the cost
of their living, and that the chief bene-
ficiaries will be the trusts and trade com-
binations growing out of the restriction of
competition which this tanff is designed to
produce.
The injurious consequences of this tariff
bill were so clearly and cogently set forth
in the minority report as to carry convic-
tion to all minds except those that are
purposely or stupidly blind "to the iniqui-
ties of tariff spoliation. It was, however,
not expected by the minority that their
exposition would put the least restraint
upon this scheme of robbery, nor do the
Democratic Members of the House, who
have so thoroughly exposed the pernicious
character of the bill, expect to defeat a
measure which the trusts and corporations
are determined to have enacted, they hav-
ing paid their money for it in their lavish
contributions to the Republican campaign
fund. But, nevertheless, the Democrats in
Congress had their fun in making the
tariff-managers squirm by the merciless
prodding inflicted upon them.
Upon no point in the discussion have the
tariff spoilsmen been made to appear more
ridiculous than in their idiotic claim that
the burden of tariff taxation does not fall
upon American but upon foreign shoulders.
Representative PAYNE, of New York, for
example, with a remarkable mixture of
rashness apd stupidity, rushed into the
arena of debate swith what he considered a
convincing confirmation of the claim that
the foreigner pays the tariff tax, using the
alleged experience of two farmers, one a
resident of his district, and the other a
resident of Canada, across the river, as an
illustration of the point he proposed to
make : Hesaid : ‘‘My constituent took
100 tons of hay to Buffalo, and sold it for
$1,000, which he brought back and put in
his home hank. The Canadian farmer also
took 100 tous of hay to Buffalo and sold it
for $1,000. But he had to leave $400 with
Uncle Sam as duty (it was under the Mc-
KINLEY law), and he took home with him
but $600.”
Of course this was a fancy sketch in-
tended to impress the farmers with the ad-
vantage of having a duty on hay, which
under the McKINLEY law was 40 per
cent., but a 40 per cent duty on any article
of importation enables 40 per cent to be
added to its price in the home market,
which isn’t paid by the foreigner, but
comes out of the pocket of the American
consumer. The farmer who was repre-
sented to have done so well in that Buffalo
hay transaction has to reach into his own
pocket and pay the increased price of every
commodity affected by tariff duties. “The
mythical foreigner doesn’t come to his re-
lief. When he buys a quantity of clothing
or any other commodity thathas a duty of
40 per cent on it, it will take $100 to pay
for what would cost him $60 without the
duty. The laughter of the House was
brought down’ on representative PAYNE by
Mr. TERRY blunting the point of his ar-
gument by showing that he had entirely
overlooked the effect of that 40 per cent
duty on the market price.
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Objection to the Cost.
1t has been decided that the Pennsylva-
nia state Guard ghall not go to New York,
at the State’s expense, to participate in the
Grant monument parade, on’ the 27th of
this month. A good reason forsuch an ex-
pense could hardly be given in the present
conditio.. of the state finances. If the Gov-
ernor can manage to have the Pennsylva-
nia militia carried to New York and back,
on that occasion, without taking any mon-
ey out of the state treasury, which it is
said he will be able to do by an arrange-
ment with the rail-road companies, nobody
will object, and everybody will be pleased
| to see the boys have a good time and make
| a creditable display.
It cannot be denied that the custom of
making the entire body of a state militia
participants in public demonstration, re-
| quiring expensive transportation, is liable
[ 10 run into abuse. The presence of so large
a body of soldiers at a presidential inaugura-
tions is out of place on such occasions
where the predominant features should not
be of so warlike a character, and it was
sensible that the Pennsylvania Guard were
omitted from the MCKINLEY inaugural
parade. As to the monument parade in
New York, some of the papers of that city
express the hope that our militia won’t
mar the appearance of the procession by
the monotony of their uniforms. Such a
hint that they would not be welcome, in
addition to the expense, should be a suf-
ficient reason for their staying at home.
But if the cost is to prevent the Pennsyl-
vania soldiers from going to New York as
participants in the monumental ceremonies,
what right has the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture to go there as a body, with their ex-
penses paid out of the state treasury?
Both Houses have passed a joint resolution
authorizing such a junket, causing an ex-
pense which the State can ill afford at a
time when on account of the depleted con-
dition of the treasury a special tax will
have to be laid for the building of a new
capitol.
Why Mr. Bryan Is Honored.
In speaking of the banquet to be given in
Vashington by the National Association of
Democratic clubs, on JEFFERSON'S birth-
day, at which WM. J. BRYAN will be the
guest of honor, the New York Sun protests
against such a tribute to ‘‘the dangerous
demagogue who drove thousands upon
thousands of Democrats into voting the
Republican ticket at the last presidential
election,’’ and asks whether ‘‘BRYANism is
to be allowed to continue to masquerade
in the guise of Democracy ?’’
It doesn’t become the treacherous Sun to
concern itself about what Democrats should
or should not do, and when it complains of
there being ‘‘too much BRYAN’’ we can-as-
sure it that there is likely to be a good deal
more of BRYAN by the time the next presi-
dential election shall come along.
The Democratic party holds Mr. BRYAN
in high esteem because he proved himself a
valliant leader in the last presidential
‘contest, their attachment to him being
made the stronger for the reason that after
he had received the party nomination fairly
from a majority of a convention that was
of a most representative character, and on
a platform that was pre-eminently Demo-
cratic in its principles, both the candidate
and the platform were made the objects
of the basest misrepresentation and the
most shameless abuse. When he, as the
chosen leader of the party, together with
the more than six millions of voters who
supported a constitutional monetary d¥s-
tem and the purely Democratic doctrines of
the Chicago platform, were denounced as
repudiators and anarchists by the hirelings
of the money changers and monopolists
among whom the blackguard of Fhe Siu
was the vilest of the mud-slingers, it is'not
surprising that the Democrats should think
very highly of the young standard-bearer
who led them so gallantly through that
campaign of misrepresentationfand abuse.
i Mr. BRYAN may be the presidential can-
didate of the Democracy at the next elec-
tion, but there is no telling what the exi-
gencies of the situation may require three
years hence. If he should be again chosen
as the party’s standard-bearer itis quite
certain that he would again display his ex-
cellent qualities as a man and a leader, and
thereby earn the ‘abuse of the vile and vi-
cious New York Sun.
Industrial and Monetary Restriction.
The discussion of the DINGLEY tariff
bill has brought out the usual absurdities
and imbecilities in support of a project to
make the country prosperous by a system
of spoliatary taxation. The high tariff ad-
vocates in: Congress are even repeating the
foolish argument that ‘‘the foreigners pay
the tax,”’ and one of them, named WALKER,
representing a Massachusetts district, act-
tually -advanced the claim’ that trusts,
which are the offspring of high-tariff duties,
exert a beneficial influence upon the busi-
ness of the country and are an advantage
to the country. :
"It should not be astonishing that a
statesman who entains such economic
views should be equally. in error on the
money question, it being entirely natural
that WALKER, who favors combinations
for the restriction of trade, should also
favor measures that would contract the
currency. He is 8 2n simultaneously sup-
porting a trust-breeding tariff and intro-
ducing a bill for the retirement and
cancelling of the treasuary notes, silver cer-
tificates and every form of government
paper money, with the object of confining
the paper circulation entirely to the issue
of the national banks. ‘
Representative WALKER is thoroughly
consistent in his tariff and currency views.
If it is admissible that there should be a
restraint of trade by industrial and com-
mercial trusts, why should there not be a
contraction of the currency, by a’ mone-
tary trust, doing business on a gold basis,
with its headquarters in Wall street, the
object of both being the advantage of a
class to the disadvantage of the mass ?
But there is but slight probability that
even the present Congress will veriture upon
such a scheme of contraction as the can-
cellation of the government paper money.
No party would commit such suicide that
would be involved in the retirement of the
greenbacks. We do not believe that Pres-
ident MCKINLEY would allow the consum-
mation of such a scheme, however much it
might be demanded by the gold interest
that exerted so great an influence in put-
ting him into office. r
The Legislative Junket to State College.
About forty-five Members of the Legis-
lature spent last Friday visiting State Col-
lege. It was not an official visitation, nor
were the Members attracted by any other
motive than that of friendliness to that in-
stitution. The fact, however, that several
very important measures, affecting the
youth of the State and The Pennsylvania
State College jointly, are before the Leg-
islature led some of the Members{to thus
acquaint themselves better with the work-
ing of the College.
Some of the leaders of the House were in
the party and it was surmised that a few
had gone harboring that unnatural feeling
of hostility that has reflected so much dis-
dredit on our state law makers in the past.
Whatever might have been the case it is
certainly the fact that not one man left the
College without a full knowledge of the
great work that is being done there and
without a thorough conception of the needs
that still bar the way to the high plane it
should hold aniong the educational institu-
tions of the world.
The day was spent inspecting the various
departments of study and, everywhere, it
was a matter of comment that there was
absolutely no reserve and access to all
quarters was so cheerfully given and the
closest inspection of the methods of work
so earnestly courted that the deepest inter-
est was at once aroused.
It has always been the aim of The Penn-
sylvania State College to teach the practic-
al with the theoretical, but some of the
visitors had no idea to what practical ex-
tremes this method is carried until the en-
gineering building was visited and the
young draftsmen, forgemern, machinists,
wood-workers and testers were seen work-
ing just as effectively as if they had been
actually employed in some great indus-
trial enterprise.
The same thing was found in the physic-
al, chemical and botanical laboratories
ahd at the Experiment Station, where half
an hundred young men were making butter
and carrying on various milk, feed, and fat-
tening tests on the fine herd of cattle in the
stables. This is one of the new depart-
ments at the institution and has become so
popular that the quarters are entirely too
small and cramped for effective work. The
over crowding, that was so apparent to all,
is the result of two short courses, ohe in
agriculture, the other in dairying, that
have lately been added to the College cur-
riculum.
For the purpose of physical development
military tactics and training is compulsory
at the institution. The battalion, num-
bering nearly three hundred men, was as-
sembled in the armory and executed various
evolutions with a precision that fwould
easily give the student soldiers rank with
those of the regular army. This same de-
gree of perfection seemed to be in evidence
at every turn and impressed itself most
forcibly upon the attention of the visitors.
While none of the Members were in a po-
sition to make definite statements it is
gratifying to know that every one of them
was pleased and left convinced that The
Pennsylvania State College is truly an in-
Stution of which this great Commonwealth
can be proud and merits the fostering care
which has so long been with-held.
Higher Prices and the Means of Paying
; Them.
In the last presidential campaign it was
a favorite argument of the Republican
spellbinders against free silver that by
cheapening the dollar of the. workingman
it would raise the price of everything he
would have to buy. Ignoring the fact that
by making dollars cheaper everybody would
be enabled to get more off them in conse- |
quence of the stimulus which cheaper
money would give to business, and that a
dollar of the highest value is of but little
account to the man who can’t get it, they
kept stuffing the minds of the gullible
with the belief that free silver would be in-
jurious to the working people, in conse-
quence of its increasing the cost of their
living.
But it is now found that these same
parties, who “denounced free silver for the
alleged reason that it would increase prices,
are pushing the passage of a tariff that will
add greatly to the cost of the working-
man’s living. That it will not increase
his wages, or give him more employment;
was sufficiently demonstrated by the re-
ductions, strikes, lock-outs and labor troub-
les while the MCKINLEY tariff was in |
operation.
Under the MCKINLEY policy there is an
increase of prices. without an increase of
means to pay them. With free silver, al-
though prices may go up, livelier business
conditions and a more plentiful supply of |
money, on accouut of its being cheaper,
would make it relatively easier for the
working people to pay those higher prices.
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John Hamilton Explains is Road Law.
From the Huntingdon News.
“Under our present law supervisors are
expected to personally oversee the working
of the tax by the citizens of the district.
This effectually precludes busy men from
undertaking this office, because they can-
not afford to spend their time away from
their business for the compensation that a
supervisor receives. The new law propos-
es to relieve the supervisor of this duty, and
place it upon a road master, who is not
elected by those who work under him, but
is appointed by the road supervisors, and
who can, therefore, insist that a day’s
work shall be performed by each person re-
porting him-self for such services on the
public roads. The effect of this system
will be to make it possible for the best men
in each community to accept the office
of supervisor and give to the management
of our roads the best intelligence that each
community possesses, and will insure that
the roads are in charge of a competent work-
man, who will see that all necessary repairs
are made promptly and in a workmanlike
manner.
The new law also provides for a treasur-
er of the hoard of supervisors. This indi-
vidual is expected to perform the duties of
a clerk, to make out the duplicates, keep
the records, collect the money and do such
other things as may be necessary in order
that the work of the board may be made
effective. This individual is not to be a
member of the board, but may be any one
outside. The supervisor may select the
township clerk or township treasurer or
any other person who is- competent to per-
form the duties of this office. The purpose
is: First, to relieve the members of the
board from clerical work ; and second, to
insure that the duties of the office will be
promptly and efficiently performed.
In no case can the expense of the hoard
exceed $54 per year for their salaries, thus
removing the office from competitors who
wish the position for the money that is in
it.
Under the present system the roads are
liable to be neglected at seasons of the year
when they most need attention. The new
law proposes to district the townships into
sections, not exceeding twenty miles of
road to each section, and places on that sec-
tion a good common day laborer, who is
to keep the road in repair and supervise
the laborer who reports to him, and see
that every thing is done in accordance
with the directions that he receives from
time to time from the board of directors.
A ¢“Tolerably Honest Dollar.”
From the New York Journal. ;
The monometallic newspaper organs have
with one accord picked up W. J. Bryan's
statement that ‘he did not iu#ht upon
an absolutely honest dollar,’ and are all
trying to deduce from it the conclusion
that he and the other bimetallists are not
‘‘absolutely honest.’”” It will have been
noticed, however, that Mr. Bryan proceed-
ed immediately tosay that ‘‘if we could get
a tolerably honest dollar, it would be
much better than the dollar we now have.”
There is consequently little danger that
anybody will be deceived by the tactics of
the monometallists.
By this time everybody knows that there
can be no such thing as an absolutely hon-
est measure of value ;’ that is, a dollar
which will purchase precisely thé same
quantity of commodities to-day and to-
morrow and twenty years from now. The
best that mankind can do is to estab-
lish a unit that will keep comparatively
values. We have not such a unit, but bi-
metallism would provide it, and though
it would not be absolutely, but only toler-
ably honest, it would not be absolutely,
dishonest as the present dollar is.
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A Great Engine of Destruction.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
It was expected that the big battleship
Iowa would sail to~day from Cramps’ ship-
yards, Philadelphia, for Boston, to make
her. government trial trip in about two
weeks. The Iowa is the last government
ship on which a bonus for speed will be
paid, as the government now considers
that the experimental stage in ship-build-
ing is past, The United States ship-build-
ers can now turn out as fine vessels as any
shipyard in the world.
The Iowa. wil be the first ship of her
class in the United States navy. She has
been built to keep the sea and make long
voyages, differing in this respect from ships
of the Massachusetts class. The Iowa is
not intended for coast guard duty, as most
battle ships are. She will be the most
powerful war vessel in the navy, and naval
experts claim that she is the most formid-
able battleship in the world.
A Sure Thing for the English.
From the Pittsburg Post. :
The English manufacturers are not con-
cerning themselves very much about the
Dingley bill. The reason is that they have
been studying the wonderful progress in
the exportation of American manufactures
under the Wilson bill. They rely upon
the proposed new edition of McKinleyism
| to check this, and have a reasonably sure
| thing that it will do so.
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i The Real Cause of the Deficit.
| From the Cambria Freeman.
| In the year 1860 the cost of running the
| national government amounted to $1.91
| percapita. That was about right. This
| year the cost for each man, woman and
child will average $7 16. Do you under-
stand now why more revenue is wanted ?
Carnegie a Father.
PITTSBURG, March 30.—Private tele-
| grams received in this city this evening
| Sate that the much-talked-of heir to the
Carnegie name and fortune was born at the
home of Andrew Carnegie in West Fifty-
| first street, New York, during the after-
inoon. It isa girl, and according to the
| information received here both mother and
| child are well.
| The couple have been married ten years,
i and this is their first child.
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even pace with the average of all other
Spawls from the Kcystone.
—Young Lorin Nessle was frightfully
scalded by falling into a tub of boiling water
at Shamokin.
i —Francis Roland, Sr., a well-known ex-
| poor director at Reading, has been striclen
with paralysis and may die.
—Sixteen horses were killed and a carload
of crockery smashed ina “Pennsy”’ freight
wreck near Mount Joy Monday.
—While George Hoffman’s family were at
church in Ashland burglars stole from their
home jewelry and silverware worth $300.
—The Allentown hospital association has
purchased three acres of land for $540.
Hospital buildings will shortly be erected.
—DMiss Margaret Movinger fell down an
embankment at Millersburg and was so ser-
iously injured that one leg was amputated.
—Puddlers at Spang, Chalfant & Co’s. mills
Pittsburg, have accepted a reduction from
$4.50 to $1 a ton rather than have no work.
—Westmoreland county has adopted plans
for a $340,000 court house at Greensburg,
William Kauffman, of Pittsburg, is the archi-
tect.
—Alarmed by the death of Bennie Bevan,
the other eleven Scranton boys bitten
by a mad dog will be sent to the Pasteur in-
stitute.
—During a riot at Minersville between a
half dozen Italians and Americans John
Leckie, of Pottsville, received three stab
wounds.
—Despite the vigilance of a watchman and
a policeman, burglars broke into Louis
Mann’s store, at Shenandoah, and got goods
worth $200.
—Norway furnace at Bechtelsville will be
dismantled and its blowing engine trans-
ferred to the Reading iron company’s Key-
stone furnace.
—Interested parties at Pittsburg deny that
they offered $250,000 for the Marsh plate
glass patent, the basis of an independent
plate glass factory.
—Murs. P. H. Nellis, convicted at Erie of
attempting to poison her husband, was sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for a year and to
pay a fine of $200.
—Court at Pottsville awarded W. L. Tor-
bert $16,000 damages for seven acres of land
and water rights wanted by Shenandoah for
its water plant. .
—Several appeals from corporate taxes on
loans were yesterday decided by Judge Me-
Pherson at Harrisburg in favor of the Manor
gas coal company. ;
—Harry O’Nell and Joseph Marker, of
Fayette Citv, were fatally asphyxiated asa
result of blowing out the gas in their room in
a Pittsburg hotel.
—Mrs. Hattie Serfass was robbed of $525,
which she kept in her trunk, at South Beth-
lehem, and simultaneously John Brandt, a
butcher who boarded with her, disappeared.
—The coroner's inquest at Lebanon Sun-
day developed that Thomas Miller fell over
a 20-foot bankment while bewildered and
was killed, thus disposing of the murder the-
ory.
—Alfred Newman and William Henderson,
of Harrisburg, drank some pure alcohol,
which they purloined from a drug store cel-
lar. Newman is dead and Henderson will
hardly recover.
—Licenses were granted at Easton to al
the old .applicants (including the Pacific
house, at South Bethlehem), excepting three.
Two new ones were also granted, making
a total of 210.
—Michael J. O'Brien, formerly of Wil-
liamsport, but for the last nine years a resi-
dent of Chicago, was the other day sentenced
to prison for life for brutally killing his wife
on November 19th, 1895. The attorneys for
O’Brien offered insanity as a plea, but the
court refused to accept it.
| —A fire broke out at Spangler Monday,
| causing a loss of about $5,000. E.M. Bind-
| er's hardware store, residence, stable and a
number of outbuildings were burned. The
postoffice was also gutted, but all registered
matter was saved. A stock of powder carried
| by Binder made it perilous for the firemen to
. do effective work.
| — The fortieth anniversary of the Presbyte-
| rian church of Tyrone, will be celebrated by
appropriate exercises at the church on Sun-
day. A unique and no less antique choir
will occupy the choir loft. In other words
the music will be furnished by a choir made
up of people who led the music of the church
way back in its early history.
—(Clarence Wolf, aged 12;and Harry Lynch
aged 13, both of DuBois, climbed into an
empty box car in that place and while play.
ing inside the door was fastened by some one
and the car was started on a journey to Brad-
the boys succeeded in being released, and af-
ter telling their story were sent back home,
much to the relief of their parents, who were
dlmost distracted by their disappearance. -
—The miners at a mass meeting held near
Philipsburg on Sunday adopted resolutions
protesting against any reduction in wages
below the scale now paid, and urging the
men who are working at a rate below the
scale to cease work at once. The opera-
tors claim that a reduction is necessary in
order to meet the present competition, and
that if the miners resist, they will be
forced to close their mines until there is an
advance in the price of coal.
—The Beech Creek railroad station at
Kerrmoor was entered by some unknown
person on Saturday night. An entrance was
| effected through the window next the track.
The wire screen was torn off and the sash
forced in. The office was thorougly ran-
sacked, boxes and drawers broken into but
only 19 cents was taken, that being all the
cash on hand. The ticket case was opened
but no tickets were taken. There is no clue
to the robbers.
—The Philadelphia Times of recent date
says that the Berwind-White coal mining
company have recently closed a contract with
the Mexican Central railroad for 100,000 tons
of coal. This quantity of coal is to be moved
within a year, beginning with April Ist.
The Munson Steam-ship cempany, it is
understood, have arranged with the coal
company to freight the above contract
from Philadelphia to Tampico. Parties
competent to judge value, place this con-
tract at upwards of $300,000.
ford. Upon their arrival at the latter place _
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