Demorrait iat.
GRAY MEEK.
BY P.
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Ink Slings.
—The DINGLEY bill is reported to-
‘have more than enough votes in the Senate
to pass it. >
—The retro-acting feature ot the DING-
LEY tariff bill will be seen when that meas-
ure gets in operation and other countries
begin to discriminate against our meats,
cereals and farm machinery.
—That a big New York umbrella house
should have failed at this season, when
floods and rains are reported from all quar-
ters, seems to indicate that some of the
people must be staying out in the wet.
—Cuban news has dropped out of sight,
not because of a peaceful settlement of the
trouble down there, but because all the
imaginative correspondents for American
papers ran off to Greece to work on the big
war. : 0
—The physicians to his majesty King
GEORGE, of Greece, have advised that he
had better leave the country because of the
fact that the climate does not agree with
him. It must be too hot for this royal
blood over there.
—Our new Secretary of Agriculture, is a
native of Ayrshire, Scotland, and his pa-
ternal grand-daddies were the first men
to introduce the Ayrshire cows and the
Clydesdale horses. This being the case
everyone can soon look up his pedigree.
—The frightful holocaust in Paris has
set the world to wondering at the prone-
ness of humanity to be unreasonable in
times of peril. Had a panic not followed
vue discovery of the fire in the fatal bazaar
there would not have been hundreds of
lives lost. a
—1It invariably happens that whenever a
minister gets corageous, and godly enough
to hew near the line he blazes his own way
out of the pulpit he fills. The church
going people, now<a-days, don’t want any- -
one’s corns trampled upon, even if they be
those of the devil.
—One of Clearfield’s borough officials
distinguished himself, the other day, by
getting drunk and riding around that town
on an old mule that two men were driving
at break-neck speed. Such performances
go to prove that all the asses are not of the
Igng eared variety.
—Governor BLACK has signed the
‘greater New.York bill’ and the Empire
State now has the second largest city in the
world. It has a population of three and
one-half million and we suppose it extends
all the way from Ft. Hamilton to Albany.
Will the Irish police it ?
—The hanging of a ‘‘blue gum’’ negro
that is to take place in Georgia, on the 21s,
is looked upon down there as a great event.
“Blue gum” negroes are scarce as chicken
teeth, but are usually worse than the devil,
himself, and about the only thing that can
be done with them is hanging.
—Col. and Mrs. JoHN HAY have already
been rolled around in the royal carriages
of the court of St. James, though they have
been in England only afew weeks. We
have heard nothing of the todyism which
Republicans ranted so much about when
Ambassador BAYARD was honored ‘with
similar courtesies.
—General MILES sailed for Europe, on
Tuesday, at the government expense, to
study the foreign war situation and get a
few pointers on the way the armies of Eng-
land, France, Germany and Russia are
organized. If he has a goed-time, that is
his business, but we don’t want to have
any need for the information he might
pick up.
—Rev. Dr. HARCOURT, the Baltimore
minister who was called to one of the fash-
ionable Methodist churches in Philadel-
phia, has resigned because his congregation
wouldn’t countenance a crusade that he
contemplated making against the devil in
nine sermons. It might have been all
right had the Doctor not announced that
he was going to knock the devil out of
Quakerdom in just nine rounds, for the
people down there are not used to doing
things so fast.
—Philadelphia has been unable to con-
form her ways to the young Presbyterian
minister who 1ides a bicycle, parts his hair
in the middle and smokes cigarettes, so she
has asked him to retire before the awful
example turns the head of her youth. The
young minister iS not going to be chased
out, however, and it is now reasonably cer-
tain that Philadelphia will soon hecome as
swift a town as Tyrone, whence this young
expounder of blue stocking-foreordination
theories of salvation was popped into
notoriety.
—United States Senator JONES, of
Nevada, just now holds the balance of
power in the matter of tariff legislation in
Congress. The finance committee of the
Senate being made up of an equal number
of Democrats and Republicans his is the
deciding vote i.. its deliberations. Being
a free silverite there is a possibility of his
refusing to agree to allow the DINGLEY
schedules to become a law and in such an
event he will have defeated the means to
the very end the silverites and tariff re-
formers are seeking. Senator JONES ought
to realize that there is only one way of de-
feating the schemes of the jobbers in gold
and monopolies and it is by giving them
unrestricted sway to practice their ex-
tortionate legislation on the masses. Let
the tariff bill pass. Give the people the
surfeit that it will surely bring them and
Senator JONES will find that the Republi-
cans have defeated themselves.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY .7 1897.
Brijfery in State Legislatures.
. Among the other faults of state Legis-
lators, in these later days, the taking of
bribes has become scandalously conspic-
uous. Asa rule that class of lawmakers
are extravagant and unfaithful in the per-
formance of their representative duty, but
as if this wasn’t bad enough, they are al-
lowing their votes to be influenced by
money considerations.
This, no doubt, was always the case in
state Legislatures to a limited degree, for
in bodies of that kind there are likely to
be some venal characters who are for sale.
But never before the present period had
such corrupt practices become an open
scandal. .
Bribery is now being publicly charged
against members of Legislatures in three
different States. It is scarcely necessary to
mention that they are Republican Legisla-
tures, and that all of the charges are in
connection with acts passed for the promo-
tion of corporate interests.
In Illinois warrants have been sworn
out for the arrest of State Senators who are
charged with having been influenced with
money to vote for a fifty years extension of
a street railway franchise in Chicago. The
bill was passed with utter disregard to the
rights of the public, and the senatorial cul-
prits are to be prosecuted for having been
bribed to vote for it.
Chicago people have adopted a more ef-
fectual way of treating this evil than by
having it handed over to a legislative in-
vestigating committee that would be sure
to white-wash it. The latter is the method
usually adopted in the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature. But in Illinois the citizens got
onto the scheme of bribing that was being
worked for the passage of the bill, and
employed detectives to watch the move-
ments of the susr -ted Legislators. By this
means facts were ascertained that will con-
vict them of bribery.
Things certainly have come to a
pretty pass when the public intgrest and
safety shall require the employment of a
corps of detectives at the different state
capitals to expose the corrupt doings of the
lawmakers, but this method will have to
be adopted for the public’s protection if
Republican practices continue to prevail in
state Legislatures.
New York is another State in which
members of the Legislature sold their votes.
Names are openly mentioned in connec-
tion with bribery practiced by the New York
gas trust for the defeat of a bill, and by
corporations interested in the emascula-
tion of the Luxow anti-trust bill. The
charges involve a large number of Senators
and Assemblymen.
In our own state Senate there is a charge
of bribery in connection with insurance
legislation, implicating parties who are
said to have made $50,000 by their corrupt
conduct in the matter. With much diffi-
culty and evident reluctance this case has
been submitted to investigation, but with
very little probability of any earnest en-
deavor to get at the facts.
These cases are the surface indications of
a venal spirit that pervades the Legh
of most of the States. No other abuse in
public affairs compares with this as a
danger to the interests of the people and
the welfare of the State. As law is the
"very basis of government, the bribery of
lawmakers undermines the public safety by
corrupting the law-making power.
This scandalous and dangerous state of
affairs is due to the influence of the money
power to which Republicanism always
panders and which is the favorite object of
its legislation. When monied organiza-
tions like the gas trust, of New York, the
YERKES street railway company, of Chi-
cago, and the Standard oil company which
has had dealings with Pennsylvania’s law-
makers, go into state Legislatures and se-
‘cure the passage of bills that conflict with
the public interest and are not wanted by
the people, there is no other way to explain
how they succeed in doing it except by the
purchase of enough votes to secure what
they want. There can be no doubt that in
such cases they pay their money for the
service rendered.
And it is a circumstance which should
not be overlooked, that this bribery is
going on in law-making bodies that were
put in power by a party which in the re-
cent election claimed to be the guardian of
the financial honor and preserver of the pub-
lic credit, and that this corruption of legisla-
tion is practiced in the interests of corpor-
ations, trusts and syndicates that poured
their millions into the Republican cam-
paign boodle fund to defeat the desires of
‘“repudiators” and ‘‘anarchists’’ by which
the honor of the nation and the public
safety were alleged to have been en-
dangered.
The fact that this legislative corruption
widely exists is evinced by cases ‘of bribery
in various state Legislatures. But what
are the people going to do about it? Will
they continue to allow the law-making
power to remain in the corrupt hands
which now exercise it in most of the States,
and perpetuate the rule of a party that
has converted the legislative service into a
mohey-making arrangement between the
bribe giyersa and the bribe takers?
Interest on State Money.
No abuse connected with the state gov-
ernment is more suggestive of corrupt prac-
tice than the manner in which the state
money has been placed in banking institu-
tions without any interest being paid to
the Commonwealth for the use of it. The
custom for years past has been to have very
large amounts of the public money dispos-
ed of in this“way, sometimes as much as
three er four millions, from which the
State derives no profit at all. But it is
not to be supposed that no one receives a
profit for the use of it. Interest is paid on
it at such a rate as may be determined be-
tween the officials who control it and the
banks that are’ allowed to have the ad-
vantage of it in their business. The in-
crement is a personal gain that is counted
among the official perquisites, or is used
for political purposes.
In whatever light it may be viewed such
a method of financiering exerts a demoral-
izing influence. It is a source of corrupt
gain to treasury officials ; it robs the State
of what belongs to it instead of to its ser-
vants ; it supplies the means of political
corruption, and it is an inducement to state
officials to withhold the payment of money
that is due for State purposes, as it is to
their advantage to retain, as long as possible
money on which they are receiving a bonus
for its use. This is the reason why funds
due from the State for school and charitable
purposes, and other state obligations, are
often so slow in being paid, although there
is known to bea large treasury balance
that should be available for that purpose.
This long continued cheating of the
State out of interest she should have for
the use of her money, calculated to aver-
age over $100,000 every year, has been a
conspicuous scandal in its treasury manage-
ment. There has been frequent demand
that this should be corrected, and when at
this session boss QUAY introduced his fake
reform bills, the opposite faction brought
in a bill requiring banks to pay interest on
deposits of state money. QUAY does not
favor such a measure, as it would close the
source from ‘which the state machine de-
rives much of the money it uses in politics,
It would be too scandalous to openly de-
feat a bill that is demanded by every con-
sideration of official honesty and fairness to
the tax payers, and so an opposition state
interest bill has been introduced with the
design that by their conflicting with each.
other, and in consequence of the conten-
tion over them, both may fail.
An abuse that has heen so productive of
official spoils and election boodle stands
but little chance of being corrected by a
Republican Legislature. Such a reform
measure can be secured, and over a hun-
dred thousand dollars rescued annually
from the official sharks for the benefit of
the tax payers, only by the election of a
different kind of Legislators from those
which the Republican part sends to Har-
risburg.
Tarr Trouble.
The tariff mongers at Washington are
having trouble of their own. After their
bill has gone from the House, where it was
shaped exactly to suit the taste of the trusts
and other interested beneficiaries, it has
been carefully examined by the Senate com-
mittee and found that, as a revenue _meas-
ure, it won't answer. It contains any
amount of protection of the MCKINRKEY
sort, but it will be short in raising the
needed amount of revenue by about $70,-
000,000. \
The reason advanced for ripping “up thei I
WILSON tariff and substit it by a Re-
publican measure was that 1'®was not pro-
ductive of enough revenue to meet the
needs of the government. The figuring of
the Senate committee experts discloses the
startling fact that there will be a greater
shortage under the DINGLEY act, if some-
thing 1s not done to remedy such a defi-
ciency.
“To meet this difficulty they propose to
fall back upon the experiment of increas-
ing the tax on beer about a dollar a barrel,
by which $30,000,000 may be sécured, and
they also have under consideration a tax
on tea and coffee by which some $30,00(,-
000 more may be raised. The beer tax was
proposed by the Democrats in the last
Congress in preference to taxing the neces-
saries of life, but it was rejected by the
Republicans as a free trade proposition.
The defects of DINGLEY’S measure as a
revenue producer will compell the Re-
publicans not only to resort to beer for
revenue, but may also drive them to the
less justifiable expedient of taxing tea and
coffee.
——~Senator M. L. MCQUOWN introduced
a bill in the Senate, the other day, author-
izing the appropriation of $5,000 for the
erection of a monument to the late AN-
DREW G. CURTIN, provided Dellefonte
raises a like sum for that purpose.
he Governor has issued a proola-
mation making Saturday, May 15th, a pub-
lic holiday, and inviting all citizens of the
State to the unveiling of the equestrian
monument to GEORGE WASHINGTON, in
Philadelphia, on that date.
Jones Threatens Obstruction.
The supporters of thé DINGLEY. tariff
bill in Congress are considerably embar-
rassed by the situation into which that
measure has drifted. They find it so sit-
uated that JONES of Nevada may have the
power to determine what shall be done
with it. Whether it shall be a howling
success or a flat failure may depend upon
what he shall say about it.
This embarrassing situation arises from
the fact that JONES, asa member of the
sub-committee of the Senate finance com-
mittee, had the casting vote that controlled
its action. The sub-committee has reported
the bill, and sc it is seen that JONES, who
had the controlling vote, is a very: import-
ant factor in the proceed ings.
It is feared that the Nevada Senator
insisted upon his own terms before he
allowed the bill to proceed on its course.
Ih the game of tariff grab he doesn’t want
the interest of his own constituents to be
overlooked. For example, he believes that
there ought to be a pretty stiff duty on the
cheap wool produced by the sheep of the
Rocky Mountain regions, for the benefit
of the sheep raisers of that section. He al-
so wants a daty on hides for the advantage
of the cattle ranches. They are beginning
to raise some beet sugar out in Nevada and
he believes that it ought to be ‘‘protected’’
by an increase of the sugar duty. There
are other local interests of his section upon
which he wants to confer the benefits of
the protective system, and it is feared that
he may go so far as to demand that some-
thing must be done for the silver miners of
his region as one of the conditions upon
which he will allow the Senate to proceed
with its work on the tariff bill.
That JONES’ demands are likely to give
trouble, is owing to the fact that they con-
flict with the interest of the eastern tariff-
ites. He wants more than they are willing
to allow, but as the tariff game is entirely
a selfish one, each section and interest go-
ing in for all the spoils they can possibly
get, there is no reason why those whom
JONES represents shouldn’t have a right to
grab along with the rest. The cheap wool,
hides, beet sugar, borax, lead ore and sil-
ver of Nevada and the adjoining sections
havsas good a claim to tariff protection as
the products of the factories, mills and
mines owned by the millionaire capitalists
of the East.
If we are to have a tariff, let's have a
real stiff one that will show no partiality
to any special favorites. The beneficiaries
shouldn’t be selected. But it is believed
that JONES will be eased off by some ar-
rangement that will induce him to allow
the Senate to proceed with its tariff job.:
‘Some More of Prosperity’s
Dough
Cake. 2
Some men in the Philipsburg region are
reported to be whistling, just now, with
more than common energy for the pros-
perity that was promised them in the ad-
vent of Mr. MCKINLEY’S election. Not-
withstanding the repeated failure of the
tariff agitators to bring about the benefi-
cent business conditions they prate so much
about, but which no one has ever seen,
men go on voting them into power just as
if all their promises were as readily ful-
filled as made.
In this part of the country no district
has been as greatly affected by such hum-
buggery as Philipsburg, where business en-
terprises are of such a nature that the
slightest depression is felt at once, in al-
most every branchwof trade. The thous-
“ands of miners over there have been told,
and told again, that a tariff is the only
thing that will save them, yet with tariffs
in full bloom they see their wages continu-
ally falling and their condition becoming,
more pitiful every day. When the miners
are not prosperous other business is nec-
essarily affected and none sooner than the
grocers. It is from a firm in this line of
business that a story comes that shows the
dough in the big prosperity cake that was
promised voters who supported McKINLEY
last fall.
It i3 said that PLATT, BARBER & co.,
wholesale grocers at Philipsburg and Du-
Bois, a firm that employs many men and
has done a large business, heretofore, has
just cut down the wages of all men in its
service. . No one denies this firm the right
to conduct its business just as it pleases,
and there is little doubt that the extremi-
ties of the times warrant the cut, but it is
whispered around that last fall members of
the firm let the employees know that it
would be highly the proper thing to vote
for MCKINLEY and that in the event of his
election they need not be surprised to find
business much improved and wages go-
ing up.
McKINLEY was elected and the em-
ployees of PLATT, BARBER & Co., probably
threw their hats higher than the tower on
the public building over there, when they
heard the news and thought of big money
that would soon be theirs. But what are
they doing now? ‘Sawing wood,” we
hope, and waiting for another chance to
vote for the party that is so swift to
promise and so slow to fulfill.
| ed that the increased revenue to be raised
Legislative Demoralization.
It is now generally conceded that state
Legislatures have grown to be the most
worthless and disreputable bodies that
figure in the public affairs of this country.
This deterioration is particularly eonspicu-
ous where the legislative majorities are the
product of Republican predominance.
Bad as it is, the law-making body at
Harrisburg can be matched in general good-
for-nothingness by the Republican Legis-
lature of New York. While Pennsylvania
Senators are charged with having accepted
a bribe of $50,000 for certain insurance
legislation, New York lawmakers are nam-
ed whose votes were bought by the New
York gas trust..
This kind of corruption is the natural
fruit of the Republican policy of catering
to the interest of capitalists and monied
corporations. Legislation for the working
people furnishes no boodle for Legislators
who are ‘‘on the make,’’ and therefore it is
impossible to get the lawmakers at Harris-
burg to give their attention to legislation
favorable to the laboring class ; but when
rich insurance companies, gas trusts, stand-
ard oil monopolies, and other capitalistic
organizations that haye the means of mak-
ing the matter ‘‘interesting,’’ apply to such
bodies as the Pennsylvania and New York
Legislatures for favors, they have no diffi-
culty in getting what they want. Those
who have observed these matters have no-
ticed the difficulties that always baffle the
working people in getting legislation that
would be to their benefit, while every-
thing works as slick as, grease when a cor-
poration like the Standard oil company
comes to Harrisburg and asks for the pas-
sage of bills that give it the control of a prod-
uct that is worth millions of dollars.
It is indeed deplorable that lawmakers
should be controlled by such influences. It
is equally deplorable that, in addition to
conduct that has so much the appearance of
being directed by a corrupt agency, there
is a recklessness in the expenditure of the
state money that has exhausted . the treas-
ury and created the necessity for increased
taxation. This disgraceful state of affairs
in our Legislature and state administra-
tion has grown in proportion to the confi-
dence reposed by the people in the domi-
nant party, the evil, alike shameful and
injurious, increasing with the increased
Republican majorities. But are not the
people largeiy to blame for putting the
Republican leaders and Legislators under
the impression that however badly they
may behave they can count upon the en-
dorsement of an overwhelming majority at
every election ? There could not be a more
effective way of making faithless public
servants more unfaithful, and increasing
the profligacy of those who find their profit
in the misuse of the public money.
Finance Committee Reports That Tariff
Bill.
WASHINGTON, May 4.—The tariff bill
was reported to the Senate to-day, to the
surprise of Senators and the public. When
the Senate finance committee met to-day
the idea prevailed that the bill- would be |
held in committee for two days. All the
members of the committee were present.
The Democrats examined the bill for near-
ly an hour, making ruming comments
upon it. They announced that they were
against the bill as a whole. They soon
understood that Senator Jones, of Nevada,
was going to vote with the Republicans and
realized that there was no possibility of
changing the bill. All the Republicans,
with Senator Jones, of Nevada, voted for
the motion and all the Democrats voted
against it, the vote standing 6 to 5. Later
in the Senate Mr. Aldrich announced that
he would call up the bill on Tuesday, May:
18th.
The Republican members of the commit-
tee say there is no statement -to be made
now as to the effect of the bill, the amount
of revenue to be raised by it, or the reduc-
tions. When the bill is taken up in the
Senate Mr. Aldrich will make such a state-
ment in the opening speech. It is estimat-
from beer would be $13,000,000 and from
tea $10,000,000. Senator Jones of Arkan-
sas, the Democratic tariff leader, said that
he expected there would be about six
weeks’ debate on the bill.
Several sections in the last part of the
Dingley hill, which re-enacted the present
law are stricken out. This will have the
effect of leaving the present law stand and
avoid discussions to a great extent.
The comments of the bill are of course
partisan.
Some features are very much disliked by
even Republicans, but upon the whole the
Republicans commend and the Democrats
condemn it, though members of the com-
mittee say ‘that the sub-committee has in
many places improved upon the Dingley
bill.
The new bill is radically different from
the Dingley bill, practically amounting al-
most to another measure. Many impor-
tant schedules were re-written entirely.
The time for the bill to take effect is
July 1st, 1897, instead of May 1st, as pro-
vided in the House and the words in the first
paragraph ‘‘or withdrawn for consump-
tion’’ are stricken out.
‘Wouldn't Have Anyone
Else’s Wives.
Surely They
From the Bloomsburg Sentinel.
The State editorial association will the
coming summer hold its annual meeting
at Bradford, Pa., and from this point vi-
brate in excursions to various points of in-
terest. An oil well and several editors will
be shot on this oceasion. The time of the
annual occasion is fixed for the week begin-
ning June 21st. The great Kinzua viaduct,
Lake Chautauqua and Niagara Falls are t0
be the objective points. The attendance of
a large number of editors and their own
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Nazareth, Lehigh county, will have a
national bank.
—Lowlands below the Reading have been
flooded by the booming Schuylkill river.
—Many Reading houses are being searched
for plunder secreted by youthful thieves.
—District attorney J. M. Shindel and Miss
Carrie L. Patschke were married at Lebanon
Monday evening.
—Six-year-old Milton Warner's mother
leaped into a mill pond and rescued him
from drowning at Mohrsville.
—A runaway mine car at the Milnesville
colliery, Hazleton, killed miner Ludock and
badly hurt Andrew Tunko.
—A burning cigar stump thrown into the
: Schuylkill river at Reading fired oil upon
its surface but did no damage.
—Seven-year-old Frank Benson was
drowned at Weatherly before playmates
about the creek could rescue him.
—Dallastown United Brethren church cele-
brated its centennial Sunday. Bishop J.
Dickson, of Chambersburg, officiated.
—The telegraph operator, Irwin Sellers,
who was killed by a train at Myerstown, was
a son of Mrs. Lavinia Sellers, of Telford.
—While he was fighting a big Newfound-
land dog that furiously attacked him at My-
erstown, Charles Carver's jaw was broken.
—First Defenders have sent a committee
from Reading to Washington, D. C., to ask
for the medals of honor to which they are en-
titled.
—An engine collided with and wrecked
the carriage in which ex-Representative R.
F. Swartz was driving, near Stroudsburg,
and he was injured and his horse killed.
—Richard Faulck was fatally hurt under a
falling tree that he was chopping near Gow-
en City, and George Zaltus received his death
injuries by a fall of coal at Bear valley.
—I. G. Kase, of Shamokin, and George J.
Barnhart, of Delaware township, have an-
nounced themselves as candidates for the
Democratic nomination of jury commissioner
of Northumberland county.
—At Williamsport Wednesday morning,
Jacob Whiteman, a shoe-maker, fell while
walking on Penn street and in a few minutes
expired. Heart failure was the cause of
his death. He was 65 years old.
—Miss Jennie Miller, of Bradford, on Feb-
ruary 3rd, 1895, fell on Bradford’s ice cover-
ed streets and sustained a broken hip. She
instituted suit for $50,000. A jury has award-
ed her $3,000. Miss Miller will be a cripple
for life.
—General Heckman, president of He Sug-
ar Valley insurance company, says that mis-
leading reports have been circulated about
his company having such heavy losses in the
last few months, He states that an insurance
company must expect some heavy losses, but
the Sugar Valley company hasbeen fortunate
enough as to have only a $2 loss since Janu-
ary 1st 1897, and the losses suffered in 1896
have been paid.
—Monday afternoon while Martin Lee, of
Pine, was driving along the river road near
the Beech Creek railroad bridge he dropped
the lines to adjust his overcoat, when the
horse started, and in his haste to get the
lines he pulled the wrong one, throwing
horse, buggy and occupant over the bank in-
to the river. Young Lee escaped with a
lame leg. The buggy was badly wrecked,
but the horse was not injured.
—Last Friday night a barn belonging to
Thomas Smith, the well known lumberman
on Kettle creek, was destroyed by fire. A
team of horses, a lot of lumberman’s tools
and harness were destroyed. A team of hor-
ses that were in the barn perished in the
flames. Saturday evening while men were
hunting around among the ashes, the charred
remains of a man were found. He had been
one of Mr. Smith’s employes and had evi-
dently been asleep in the barn.
—At Williamsport Wednesday morning,
judge Mayer rendered a decision in the case
of the city of Williamsport vs. the Williams-
port water company. The defendant com-
pany some time ago appealed from the decis-
ion of alderman Batzle, who had imposed a
fine on the company of over $9,000 for exca-
vating the streets in greater distances than
400 fect as provided by the ordinance. Judge
Mayer's decision is against the city as it sus-
tains the appeal.
—The little village of New Millport, lo-
cated along the Beech Creek road, fourteen
miles from Clearfield, was almost destroyed
by fire which broke out Thursday morning
in the store of Peter Erhard. This building,
which contained the post office, was soon
enveloped in flames, which spread to D. W.
Catheart’s hotel, A. J. Smith’s dwelling
house, store room and barn, the Methodist
Episcopal church and a house belonging to
Mrs. Markle, all of which were reduced to
ashes. The loss is estimated at $1,000, with
little insurance. Origin of the fire is un-
known.
—For the first time in the history of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania, when the
entire force turned out on parade, those com-
mands having full dress uniforms will be
permitted to wear them on parade in Phila-
delphia on the 15th inst. Several infantry
regiments throughout the guard have full
dress outfits, all differing from each other in
design. The Philadelphia city troops have
outfits of the United States army pattern.
This variation from the old rule of requiring
all to appear in the fatigue uniform will pro-
vide an opportunity to view the guard in its
dress regalia and fatigue outfit at the same
time, and will probably determine whether
all shall be provided with a dress uniform of
the same pattern to be worn on parade occa-
sions.
—David Long, a resident of Bedford county,
living on the Long homestead, about one
mile south of Baker's Summit, committed
suicide Monday morning by hanging himself
to a log in his sheep stable. He was found
about 11 o'clock, dead. The cause of
the rash act was financial loss. It seems
that Long had gone on paper for a friend
living near him. This friend failed about
three months ago and Long was compelled to
make good the amount he bad gone on the
notes for. This will take his farm and the
thought of leaving the home that had been
his for so many years prayed so on -his mind
as to cause his end. The degeased was elder
in the Brethren (Dunkard) church. He
leaves a wife and six children. Conductor
King, who was killed last year at the time of
the semi-centennial was a nephew of the de-
cease
wives is already assured.
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