Dewsroic, Watdman
BY P. ORAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Is GROVER bidding for another presi-
dential nomination ?
—These nights in- Bellefonte remind
pedestrians of the dark ages, that is so far
as their knowledge of them goes.
—The New York state Legislature has
been passing bills at the rate of two a min- |-
utes all this session. These are laws, not
circus posters.
—SCHRODER the healer was here all
week and did a good business in touching
people. If he didn’t do them good it was
his own fault.
—When the navy authorities ordered the
Philadelphia to Hawaiian ports no time was
set for the boat to reach her destination.
‘What a good thing.
—Apropos of the fad that so many peo-
ple seem to have for getting out of this
world by drinking carbolic acid, none of
them live to regret it.
~—New York had a right to make a great
fuss over the unveiling of the GRANT mon-
ument. It took her long enough to get it
it condition to be unveiled.
—The annual frosting of the peach crop
has been announced, the first organ grinder
has appeared, ‘‘dot leedle German band’’ is
abroad and spring must surely be here to
stay.
—After all is said and done Turkish
army officers have not heen as cruel in
their conduct of war as have been the
butchers, whorh Spain has sent to put out
the spark of liberty that still flickers in
Cuba.
—During the time that New York was
building the GRANT monument Chicago
took the World’s fair from her, carried it
- through and placed it in history as the
greatest achievement of its sort of the age.
Chicago has stopped talking about that,
but New York will blow on forever.
—The ups and downs of Greek fortunes
in war were readily traced in the fluctua-
@Qtions in the American grain market last
week. One day they had dollar wheat in
Chicago, and the very next it was down to
sixty-nine cents.
—President MCKINLEY is beginning to
have trouble -with his official family al-
ready. CORNELIUS N. BLISS, the new sec-
retary of interior, is sick of his job. Possi-
bly he is not as sick as he is afraid of pub-
lic condemnation for the kite he is attach-
ed to.
—The latest news from Greece is to the
effect that four hundred of the poor Hel-
lenes have been slaughtered while retreat-
ing from the victorious invasion of the
Turks. It was ever thus, a big Turk will
" make a pair of bloomers fly every time.
—It was certainly not. with a very
wholesome respect for the fitness of things
that the solemn ceremonies over. the dedi-
cation of the GRANT monument, in New
York, should be wound up with a grand
ball. We Americans are nothing if not
original, but such originality smacks
dangerously of sacrilege.
—Dr. SWALLOW’S latest kick is on the
amount of state monev that is spent for
towels and soap for the departments at
Harrisburg. No one would have any ob-
jection to them using twice as much as
they do if, by so doing, it would keep their
legislative as well as their anatomical be-
ings clean.
—It was only last fall that CLEVELAND
was praising MCKINLEY and SINGERLY
was praising CLEVELAND and WATTERSON
was concurring with SINGERLY. Now
WATTERSON and SINGERLY are concur-
ring again but this time they Jare dam-
ning CLEVELAND and CLEVELAND is pass-
ing it on to MCKINLEY. It will be no-
ticed that there is no such dissatisfaction
among the Democrats.
—The HAMILTON road bill has passed
the Senate and second reading in the
House. Its fate is still problematical, how-
ever, and we can’t understand why, when
everyone recognizes the need for some leg-
islation along this line, that this bill is not
passed as an experiment, if for no other
purpose. It doesn’t involve any burden-
some features and is certainly the product
df a practical man.
—The grand jury at the last session of
court would have done the county great
service had it ignored more bills than it
did. There are far too many petty little
cases dragged here to’occupy the time of
the court and if the justices will encourage
such catch-penny litigation, the grand jury
should sit down on them effectually.
-—The senatorial deadlock in Kentucky,
that had lasted through two sessions of the
Legislature of that. State, was broken, on
Wednesday, by the election of DEBOE.
During the great contest in which BLACK-
BURN figured so prominently one hundred
and twelve ballots were taken and the
State lost $100,000. It is doubtful wheth-
er the new U. S. Senator will be worth one
cent to the Commonwealth that had such
trouble in electing him.
—The rather discouraging treatment
that AL DALE and JIM MCCLURE met at
the hands of the grand jury ought to make
them good friends again. Misery loves
company and it will certainly be misery
for them to pay costs. Verily, JIM’S bread,
that he cast on the political waters of
Bellefonte just prior to that last go he
made for overseer, seems to have forgotten
all about him, for none of it has come back
yet.
r country, so repugnant to Democratic senti-
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDE
RAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 30, 1897.
_NO. 17.
VOL. 42
Mr. Cleveland's Wrong Position.
Those who still retain some respect for
ex-President CLEVELAND as a political
character must regret to see him emerge
from his retirement to attack the party
which conferred its favor upon him in so
unstinted a manner, and publicly reassert
those financial and monetary policies which
in his endeavor to put into practice while
he was President were so injurious to the
ment, and so disastrous to his own reputa-
tion as a statemen and leader of the Dem-
ocracy.
The disfavor with which the ex-Presi-
dent is regarded by the great majority of
Democrats on account of his course on the
money question, and his attitude in the
last presidential election, is not calculated
to be allayed by the part he took at a ban-
quet given in New York, last Saturday, by
parties interested in gold monometallism
and monetary contraction. The address
he made on that occasion could have no
other interpretation than that the great
party which twice elected him President,
is false to its principles and inimical to the
credit and honor of the country, because it
has not accepted the monetary policy which
he, as President, endeavored to enforce in
the interest of eastern capitalists and for
the profit of the Wall street bankers.
The great mistake that Mr. CLEVELAND
has made was in believing, or, at least,
acting as if he believed, that the gold
standard involved the duty and demanded
the support of the Democratic party, and
that therefore when the convention of that
party rejected that standard and declared
for silver, it departed from Democratic
principles, and assumed a revolutionary
attitude so menacing to the good order and
wellfare of the country as to require him
and his immediate followers to antogonize,
its platform and oppose its candidates.
It should have occurred to Mr. CLEVE-
LAND in the contest of last year that the
Democratic national convention was the
representative body of the party, and that
when its majority declared against gold
monometallism and for a more liberal
monetary policy, its declaration was en-
titled to the respect and acquiescence which
true Democracy always accords, to the will
of the majority. It should have occurred
to him that in making that declaration on
the money question the convention vio-
lated no principles, doctrine or obligation
of the party, that in all its past history the
Democracy was never committed to the
gold standard of value as against a double
standard of the two monetary metals ; that
it was never one of its tenets that the pub-
lic faith, the credit of the government and
the national honor were violated by an ad-
herence to the double system of currency
authorized by the constitution, with silver
maintaining its position at its relative
value with gold ; in short, that the de-
monetization of silver was purely a Repub-
lican measure, the support of which placed
no obligations upon the Democratic party,
and that therefore its national convention
committed no fault in declaring for a money
policy conforming with the ancient doc-
trines and traditions of the party and di-
rectly opposite to a system of currency
which Republicanism had established for
the advantage of millionaire capitalists and
Wall street banking interests.
It would have been well if Mr. CLEVE-
LAND had borne these facts in mind last
year, instead of allowing his inordinate
self-consciousness to come to the conclusion
that because the convention did not as-
sume the same position on the money ques-
tion to which his plutocratic preference had
led him, it was therefore unDemocratic in
its action and anarchistic in its design.
How much better it would have been for
his reputation if he could have overcome
his conceit sufficiently to have submitted
to the will of the majority, rather than to
have pursued the course he did in putting
himself at the head of asmall faction that
attempted to disrupt the ranks of the
Democracy, joining in villification that
basely represented the Democratic party as
designing to destroy the public credit,
violate the national honor, and involve the
country in commercial anarchy and finan-
ical ruin.
The course which Mr. CLEVELAND has
taken in his relation to the party which
twice elected him President has placed
him in a position grossly wrong and great-
ly to his discredit. That he adheres to it
with characteristic stubbornness is shown
by his address at the New York gold-bug
banquet in: which, with his usual turgidity
of expression, he charges the great Demo-
cratic organization in last year’s campaign
with having “made an attack upon those
national safe guards which party as well
as patriotism should at all times defend.”
What a pity that Mr. CLEVELAND can
see no other safe guards worth defending
than those that protect the interest of Wall
street and the multi-millionaire plutocracy.
——Next week the WATCHMAN will
publish another of Major HASTINGS’ inter-
esting letters of travel. The next journey
will be from Athens to Jerusalem.
Watch for it as it will be particularly inter-
esting.
The Oppression of the Coal Miners.
The committee which the state Legisla-
ture has sent out to inquire into the condi-
tion of the coal miners in this State has dis-
covered a situation which makes it quite
evident that the class of workers who do
the coal digging have not been benefited
by the advent of ‘‘the advance agent of
prosperity.” It is presumed to be the
purpose of this legislative committee to
discover the facts which may serve as a
basis for legislation that may improve the
condition of that class of workers ; but
while little, if any, benefit to the miners
is to be expected of a law making body
that heretofore has shown more of a dispo-
sition to legislate for corporations and
capitalists than for their employees. Yet
even a committee sent out by such a Leg-
islature is forced to report the miners, par-
ticularly in the bituminous region, to be
in a lamentable condition. Their situation
as laborers is reported to be not much bet-
ter than slaves, although they labor in an
dustry that has always had the full-
est advantage of protective tariffs, and
which in addition to the past favors shown
its operators by the tariff makers, had its
agents before the DINGLEY committee de-
manding absolutely prohibitive duties on
bituminous coal. .
The workmen in the mines have been
denied any advantage conferred upon the
operating interest by this protection, their
wages being of the scantiest amount, but
the greatest wrong they have to endure is
the robbery they are subjected to hy the
‘‘company stores,”’ filching from them the
larger part of their meager earnings.
It is unnecessary for us to describe to our
readers the method by which this ‘‘pluck-
me-store’’ method of spoliation is practiced,
as most people in this section know how it
is done, bat the fact which is of the most
interest at this time, when ‘‘the advance
agent of prosperity’’ has been on the road
for some time, is the discovery of the legis-
lative committee that the ‘company stores’’
are doing business in the bituminous
region with more than their usual rapacity,
and the poor slaves of the mine are allowed
of their scant earnings scarcely enough to
afford them subsistence. This committee,
if it had looked a little farther into the
matter, wonld have discovered that this
robbery of the poor workmen is practiced
with the greatest rapacity by those who are
Joudest in yelping for ‘‘Protection to Amer-
ican Industry,” and weregthe most persist-
ent in demanding from the DINGLEY tariff
committee higher duties on coal.
But to what purpose and with what
avail will this investigating committee
learn the deplorable condition of the mine
workers ? That they are poorly paid and
scandalously robbed by the company store
system is a well and long known fact.
This has been within the knowledge of
Pennsylvania Legislature for years past,
but the ingenuity of Legislators, who work
in the capitalistic employ, has always
managed to pass laws for the benefit of the
miners that could be easily evaded. This
is the reason why the ‘‘pluck-me” stores
are in full blast and the miners are paid
with such truck and at such times as may
suit their employers. This will continue
to be so as long as the party that is in the
pay of the capitalists and corporations is
allowed to make the laws.
A Scheme that Causes Kicking.
The manufacturers who are engaged in
industries that have thriven under the ad-
vantage Jf free raw materials are now great-
ly exorcised in consequence of the inten-
tion of the DINGLEY tariff mongers to put
a heavy duty on those materials. Protests
are being vigorously made by such parties
against a policy that would have an in-
jurious effect upon their business, and
greatly hamper an important industry.
Among these protesters is Republican
sheriff Crow, of Philadelphia, who is
largely interested in the manufacture of
carpets, who declares that the proposed
imposition of ~ duty on carpet wool would
be an uncalled for and wanton action of
taxation, as that kind of wool is not raised
in the United States and no interests in thi
country would be protected by such a
duty. The woolen manufacturers, gen-
erally, who for the past year have exper-
ienced the benefit of untariffed wool, pro-
test against that material being restored to
the dutiable list for the benefit of a limited
number of western wool raisers whose ad-
vantage from such a duty would be ques-
tionable. '
But the biggest kick against the abolish-
ment of the free list is being made by the
leather and shoe manufacturers, who, since
1877, have had the advantage of untariffed
hides, with the consequent result of un-
precedented development and prosperity in
their line of industry. This advantage is
to be stricken down by the DINGLEY hill
for the benefit of the Chicago syndicate
that controls the hide product and which
must be compensated for the contribution
it made to the MCKINLEY election fund.
But what right have these woolen and
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leather manufacturers to object to pro-
visions of the newtariff by which their in-
terests are affected ? Their approval is
freely given to those schedules of the bill
that affect other products, and if it is right
to tariff woolen clothes and manufactured
leather, by which the woolen and leather
manufacturers are given an advantage over
consumers, how can they he justified in
objecting to those features of this general
scheme of spoliation that don’t suit their
interests ? They expose their selfishness
by kicking against one part of it, while
they display their. greed in favoring the
other. 2
An Unreasonable Complaint.
The gold Democrats, who banqueted at
the WALDORF, in New York, the other night,
at $12 a plate, and assumed to speak for the
Democratic party, were unreasonable in
their complaint that MCKINLEY and the
Republican Congress have ignored the main
issue of last year’s campaign and gone back
on the money policy for which the Demo-
cratic goldites deserted their party and
helped to elect the Republican candidate.
The leaders who were instrumental in
getting up the Indianapolis ticket in op-
position to the nominees of the regular
Democratic convention, should have heen
intelligent enough to know that the chief
object of MCKINLEY’S candidacy was to
restore the MCKINLEY tariff. They could
not possibly have deceived themselves into
the belief that the millions which MARK
HANNA raised from among the trusts and
expectant tariff beneficiaries were intended
for any other purpose than to revive the
system of tariff spoliation which furnishes
monopoly with its profits, and would re-
turn the campaign contributions, ten-fold,
to those who had given their money to se-
cure the election of the champion of pro-
tection.
Every speaker at the WALDORF dinner,
including the ex-President and ex-Secretary
of the Treasury, who reviled the present
administration for pushing its tariff scheme
to the exclusion of gold-bug legislation, or,
as Mr. CLEVELAND put it, ‘‘returning to
their tariff wallow,” instead of ‘‘reform-
ing” the currency, was well aware, during
the campaign, that McKINLEY’S election
ogitld mean nothing else than ‘‘tariff wal-
dow,” and that, in fact, candidate Mc-
KINLEY never gave the public to under-
stand that it would mean anything else.
It does not now become the gold-bug
Democratic leaders to denounce the course
taken by the MCKINLEY administration
and Republican Congress, as that course is
but the natural result of a monopoly tariff
victory, which they helped to bring about
with their eyes open ; nor does it become
them, a mere handful of deserters from the
Democratic ranks, to presume to direct the
action and take control of the more than
six million Democrats who made so glorious’
a fight for the party’s principles and can-
dida tes.
Impending Gold Raids.
“To look back to the closing period of Mr.
CLEVELAND'S administration, when raids
on the government’s gold reserve gave oc-
casion for the sale of bonds to raise more
gold, is not a pleasant retrospect. .As a
consequence of those raids, and of the im-
pression in the treasury department that
payment in gold was the only way to meet
them, loans were resorted to for the pur-
pose of maintaining the reserve, until the:
bonded indebtedness of the government was
increased about - $250,000,000, and the
wealth of J. PIERPONT MORGAN and other
Wall street gold dealers was enlarged many
millions.
By such loans the government's stock of
gold was raised above what was considered
the danger point, where it has since re-
mained awaiting the contingencies that
may start another succession of raids,
threatening the depletion of the reserve
and causing an uneasiness in business that
may speedily run into a panic. :
The gold sharks have restrained them-
selves since the election of MCKINLEY,
probably f° the reason that they don’t
want to creatc a financial disturbance by
raiding the gold reserve until after Mc-
KINLEY shall have completed his tariff
‘scheme, there being a sort of fraternal feel-
ing between the gold jobbers and the tariff
robbers, the former being willing to wait
until the latter shall get through with
their work in Congress.
But there are already indications that
the raiders are preparing to swoop down on
government’s gold. This week a million
dollars of it was taken by agents of the
Austrian government, to be shipped abroad
to supply a deficiency in Austria’s stock of
the precious metal. This is merely a
starter, and no one need be surprised if
before the ead of the first year of the Mc-
KINLEY administration there will be ab-
stracted from the gold reserve enough to
occasion its replenishment by another loan,
if secretary GAGE shall adhere to the no-
tion that gold payment is the only way of
redeeming the legal tenders and other ob-
“| ligations of the government...
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A Later Day Hero.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Another man who did his duty in face of
deadly peril is Charles Fay, keeper of
the Wynadotte county jail, at Kansas City,
Kansas. Yesterday two desperate crimi-
nals, armed with revolvers which they seem
to have had concealed about their persons,
made a determined attempt to overpower
jailer Fay and escape from the jail. They
shot him down, inflicting a dangerous, per-
haps a fatal wound. But the brave jailer,
who had locked himself in with the prison-
ers, managed to get close to a window,
whereupon he threw his keys qut. That
kept the prisoners in and in due time he
was rescued. Itis right and proper that
the names of such heroes of the closing
days of the nineteenth century should be
kept prominently before the country.
Before and After.
From the Mercer Western Press.
Shortly before November 3rd, 1896, the
members of the Waltham watch company
called its 2,000 employes together and
showed an immense number of orders
received contingent upon the election of
Major McKinley. ‘If McKinley is elect-
ed,” said the managers, ‘‘these orders will
be filled and that means plenty of work.
If Bryan is elected the orders are can-
celled.” It was a great object lesson and
Waltham went heavily for McKinley. A
few days ago fifty finishers were laid off by
the factory managers, the works are to be
shut down fora time ‘for repairs,” and
several hundred workmen have been offici-
ally notified that their places are to be fill-
ed by girls.
: Another Job for Hanna.
From-the-York-Gazette:
Chairman Mark Hanna should not let
slip the golden opportunity presented by
the war in the east to carry the next con-
gressional elections. All he has got to do
18 to arrange to keep the scrap going until
well into the fall of 98. That will keep
wheat jumping and the job is done. A
man who can buy a general election in a
big country like this ought to be equal to a
simple task like that.
Read the Answer in the Returns.
From the Bedford Gazette.
Is Bryan a ‘‘back number?” Seek the
reply in the grand victory won by one of
the most ardent supporters the eloquent
Nebraska statesman has, or note the trend
toward free silver which was manifested in
the other splendid successes scored by the
Democrats last week.
The Eplgrammatical Bryan.
From the Pittsburg Post. ~
Mr. Bryan is happy in his -epigrams.
For instance, when discoursing of the great
pretensions of the gold Democrats, he says
they ‘‘reach their maximums at a banquet
and their minimums at the polls,” that
they ‘‘are long on platitudes ahd short on
performance. ’’
In the Front Ranks.
From the Philipsburg Daily Journal.
The Easter edition of the Bellefonte
WATCHMAN was very pretty, The
WATCHMAN may be old in years, but it is
young in spirit, and marches along in the
front ranks of the modern enterprising
journals.
Pension News.
A new United States pension law has
been enacted hearing date March 6th, 1895,
which reads as follows :
“That whenever a claim for pension under
the act of June 27th, 1890, has been, or shall
hereafter be, rejected,’ suspended, or dis-
missed, and a “new application shall have
been, or shall hereafter be, filed, and a pen-
sion has been, or shall hereafter be, al-
lowed in such claim, such pension shall date
from the time of filing the first application,
provided the evidence in the case shall show
a pensionable disability to have existed, or to
tion, anything in any law or ruling of the
Jopapbment to the contrary notwithstand-
Bg, :
™ This law will be found of interest to
every pensioner whose pension was not al-
lowed from the date of the filing of the first
application. Where such first application
was ‘‘rejected, suspended, or dismissed,”’
and subsequently a new application was
filed, and pensions dated only from the new
that the PENSION SHALL DATE FROM
THE TIME OF FILING THE FIRST AP-
PLICATION, provided the evidence in the
case shall show a pensionable disability to
have existed, or to exist, at the time of
filing such first application. This fact may
be ascertained by carefully reading the law
given above in this article.
I desire to say, further, that if any ex-
soldier, after reading this article, finds this
new law fits fiis case and is desirous of ap-
plying for the money which this law al-
Tows him after proving his right to it, I
will undertake to prosecute the claim with
promptness and carefulness. The applica-
tion fot this ‘‘back pay’’ is made in the
same way as for ‘increase of pensions, ete.’’
I have a full supply of blanks of this kind
and I will take pleasure in mailing them
to all desiring to push such claims. I also
have a full supply of blanks for ‘‘widow’s
pension’s,’’ ‘applications for increase’’ and
*‘original pensions” and will cheerfully
send those to persons needing them. I
will push all claims promptly and to the
best of my ability. Would refer to scores
of ex-soldiers in Clearfield county for
whom I have worked. Have the blanks
filled out before a justice of the peace or
notary public, as the blanks themselves in-
struct and mail them to
MATT SAVAGE, Pension Att'y,
Clearfield, Pa.
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exist, at the time of filing such first applica-:
application, this law distinctly provides
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Charles Vantassell, of Milford, fell from
his wagon and was killed.
—Lancaster county Democrats have chosen
William R. Brinton as their new chairman.
—Lehighton will vote to increase its debt
by $1,800 to erect a new borough electric
plant.
—Jeannette Strickler, the convicted actress
bigamist, was sent to Lebanon jail for three
months.
—Pittsburgers are already arranging to en-
tertain the King of Siam when he visits their
city in September. !
—The temperature fell about 20 degrees at
Bloomsburg Monday, and nearly 30 degrees
at Stroudsburg.
—Charged with theft from a jewelry store,
well-known young William Stubbins was ar-
rested at Lebanon.
—Dr. E. M. Gingrich, of the Fourth ward
of Lebanon, was elected health officer by the
board of health.
—The Presbyterian women’s foreign mis-
sionary society of the United States convened
at Altoona Tuesday.
—Nearly a score of young men gambling
at the roadside near Reading were raided by
county detective Banknecht.
—A heavy rain early Monday morning
checked the forest fires raging on the Blue
mountains near Stroudsburg.
—Several buildings were wrecked in the
Ligonier valley by Sunday night's storm,
but the rain stopped forest fires.
—In a fit of melancholy Henry Hefferman,
of Jugjata, a ‘‘Pennsy’’ track foreman, com-
mitte®suicide with laudanum.
—For attempting to drown her newly-born
babe, which was rescued alive, Jennie Lein-
bach was arrested at Lancaster.
—Mayor Weidel, of Altoona, has publicly
approved the purposes of the local Christian
Endeavorers’ good citizenship committee.
—Merchant J. J. Gassert, of Ohio, near
Lebanon, discovered a man trying to rob his
store. His revolver hung fire and the man
escaped.
—While riding on a freight train near Port
Clinton Bernard Winoski, of Mahanoy city,
was fatally injured, his head having struck a
low bridge.
—A correspondent says work in and about
Lloydsville is very slack, some of the colliers
making less than $2 and none of them over
$6 per week.
—Lawyer James T. Woodring was only a
minute too late to save alive his drowning 3
year-old son John from a trout stream, near
his home at Hellertown.
—James Bigley, a fugitive highway rob-
ber from the McKean county jail, was re-
captured while under an assumed name and
in a drunken condition, at DuBois.
—The Fourth Pennsylvania regiment of
the military branch of the Golden Eagles will
be largely represented at the State demon-
stration in Harrisburg on May 11.
—Arrangements were made at Clearfield
Monday for the transportation and attend-
ance of the Central district firemen at the
district convention at Houtzdale in August.
—For holding a public church funeral over
Mrs. Leonard Simpson, a diphtheria victim,
undertaker Frank Burger, of Edwardsville,
and Mr. Simpson, the woman’s husband, have
been served with warrants of arrest.
—Engineers are surveying the balance of
the electric road route between Pottsville and
Schuylkill Haven. The company’s litiga-
tion has been disposed of, and itis expected
that this road will be in operation by early
fall.
—The Berwind-White coal company, which
has purchased several thousand acres of coal
lands in the vicinity of Scalp Level, has given
a contract for twenty double houses, to be
erected on its land there for the accommo-
dation of its miners.
—At Williamsport Saturday during a game
of base ball, Mitchell Hooven, a student at
Dickinson seminary, was struck on the back
of the head with a ball. He fell unconscious
suffering from concussion of the brain. He
is in a critical condition.
—Theannual report of the secretary of in-
ternal affairs shows that 50,273,656 tons of
bituminous coal were produced in this state
last year, a decrease of 1,539,456 tons over
the year before. There were 170 fatal acci-
dents during the year.
—At Jersey Shore Monday evening as J.
W. Maguire, a clerk in the Beech Creek
shops, was going home on his bicycle, a dog
sprang in front of the wheel and threw the
rider. The man was rendered unconscious
and a cut over the eye was inflicted. The
dog was killed.
—Some public spirited citizens of near
Johnstown will form a co-operative associa-
tion for the employment of idle workmen.
The persons leading the movement have
mineral and timber lands, but no capital, and
will share up with those who help to devel-
op and operate these lands the proceeds de-
rived from the same. The idea is to give un-
employed men work.
—James Carey, a Newberry lad aged 16
years, left his bed while asleep Saturday
night and was found in South Williamsport,
a distance of two miles. He was clothed in
his shirt, shoes and stockings, and had no
recollection of how he had reached that place.
The rest of his clothing was found in a plow-
ed field, where he had evidently taken them
while walking in his sleep.
—Summit lodge, No. 312, Free and Accept- ,
ed Masons, of Ebensburg, occupied their new
room in the Barker building last week for
the first time, the occasion being a reception,
at which a handsome Bible was presented to
the lodge by the wives and daughters of the
members. Hon. A. A. Barker made the pres-
entation speech, which was responded to by
Alvin Evans Esa.
—Julia Burke, a young girl who went to
Johnstown recently from Indiana county, be-
came the mother of a child one night last
week. The infant was found dead a few
hours later. The circumstances aroused sus-
picion, but an investigation exonerated the
unfortunate woman. ‘1t is thought the child
died from neglect, and the helpless mother,
‘| alone in a bare room without fira or food, was
unable to save it.