BY P. GRAY MEEK.
ei Ink Slings.
—It'is all right tosend money to the
suffering Americans in Cuba, but it is
all wrong to advertise such a scheme for
producing sufferers.
—A decided slump is reported jin; the
price of seats for the Quebn’s jubilee in
London. And this reminds us that ALBERT
EDWARD would give most anything for
the one that his aged mamma now sits on.
—Imaginary detectives have been chas-
ing imaginary fire-bugs about Bellefonte
for months and the idle gossiping people
are fairly consumed with imaginary clues.
But gossips will gossip while wise men are
dumb.
—The auditor general of the State has
been figuring and estimates that on Novem-
ber 30th, 1897, there will be a deficit of
$3,664,954.18 in the state treasury,fyet
the plan to give the ANDREWS investiga-
tion steal $65,000 still goes on.
—It smacks of the cunning of “the old
man’ to call his new leaders to conference
by thesea. He feared some of them were
getting a little too fresh, no doubt, and
wanted them down at Brigantine? Beach,
so that they could be salted, just a little.
— Now that the United States has voted
$50,000 for the relief of her very poor in
Cuba all the Cuban poor _afée hunting up
claims to Americal izenship and the
first thing Spain knows she won’t have any
Cuban subjects to oppress, they will all be,
ipso facto, citizens of the United States.
—And still the deluge of expense in-
curred by the present rascally Legislature
pours onto the over burdened tax-payers of
the State. The latest evidence of robbery
appears in the announcement that it has
cost $56,590.30 to remodel Grace church
for the use of the Legislature.
—A legislative crisis is said to be at
hand in the Pennsylvania Legislature and
it is probable that a recess of several weeks
or months will be taken to allow time for
the troubles that have been brewing to blow
over. What a God-send if they would take
a recess and forget to reassemble.
—Statistics show that it costs the Amer-'
ican boys and girls just $30,000,000 a year
to get married and then the next year they
pay their share of the $25,000,000, annual-
ly, that it costs for the kids of America to
be born, then the disconsolate daddies get
drunk at an annual cost of $900,000,000
and the undertakers of the United States
do the rest for $75,000,000 a year.
—C. B. GouLD, the editor of the Cameron
County Press died at his home in Emporium,
on Tuesday morning, with heart disease.
He had been identified with the Press from
its founding, in 1866, and his direction of
that journal had much effect.upon the
development of Cameron county. Mr.
GouLD was 70 years old and was known
among newspaper men all over the State.
—The question of controlling Greek
finances is talked of as being made an in-
ternational matter and the question at once
arises in the mind of the Americans who
followed the last political campaign in this
country : Why not let the gold-boltocrats
manage it? They are regular peaches as
financiers. The condition of the United
States, to-day, explains what we mean.
—The supreme court of the United
“States has ruled that it is in the power of
the President to remove any federal em-
ployee, no matter whether the four years
term of office to which they have been ap-
pointed has expired or not. This ruling
will doubtless cause tremors to creep up
and down the backs of many Democrats
whose terms have not expired.
—The Senate has passed the bill appro-
priating $65,000 for the payment of the ex-
penses of the QUAY-ANDREWS fake inves-
tigation committee. At the time the com-
mittee was appointed it was promised that
it would not cost the Statg a cent, but
some men are liars and of they want
$485.75 for each hour of the fifty-seven
sessions that were held. A good, round
price to pay for a good time that a lot of
those political roosters had while sojourn-
ing in Philadelphia.
—Williamsport has a PINGREE potato
patch and the newspapers of that city are
all puffed up because very few poor people
have made application for ground. They
are congratulating themselves that it is an
indication that they have few poor people
down there. ‘‘What fools these mortals
be.”? Why it is no more an indication
that they have few poor down there be-
cause only few are willing to raise potatoes
on free land than it would be an indication
that tomcats are going to be hatched out of
chicken eggs if one were heard making
love to his maria on the hennery roof.
—The ANDREW'S investigation commit-
tee expense bill is about the boldest bit of
robbery that has ever been attempted upon
the state treasury and it will only be
through the prompt action of people of the
State that this scheme to appropriate pub-
lic funds for the payment of private obli-
gations wiil be checked. It has been an-
nounced that Quay will go to Harrisburg
to line up his men in favor of the bill and
even if the Governor should veto it it will
be passed over his head. The taxpayers
of the Commonwealth should arouse them-
selves to defeat such plundering of their
money. No matter who the Legislator or
what servile tool he may be of the ‘‘old
man’’ his constituents will have failed in
their duty to themselves if they do not
force him to realize that his position on
this steal will be at the price of his seat in
the House.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 42
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National Honor and Public Credit.
In no State in the Union were the voters
at the last presidential election more earn-
estly exhorted to ‘‘maintain the national
honor’’ and “preserve the nation’s credit’
hy voting the Republican ticket, than they
were in Illinois. That these ‘‘patriotic’’
appeals, backed by MARK HANNA'S cam-
paign boodle, had their effect in that State
was shown in the large majority given for
MCKINLEY and in the election of a Re-
publican Governor and Legislature.
Illinois was thus rescued from the hands
of the ‘‘anarchists’”’ and ‘‘repudiators,’’
and enrolled in the’ list of States which
were arrayed under HANNA’s leadership
on the side of ‘‘honest money’’ and the ‘‘na-
tion’s honor.”’ ”
As every great achievement produces
corresponding results the state of affairs
existing in the present Illinois Legislature
may be be regarded as one of the glorious con-
sequences resulting from the Republicans
gaining control of- the state government.
During the present session of that body it
is observed that people from all parts of the
State are on the road traveling to Spring-
field for the purpose of protesting against
the various rascally schemes that are being
concocted in the interest of corporations
and the monied syndicates that are able
to prey on legisation. The Chicago people
have heen compelled to employ detectives
to watch the scamps who are ready to sell
corporate franchises that would sacrifice the
interest of the city, and a number of ‘these
huckstering lawmakers have been arrested
and are under bail for having been ‘bribed
by a Chicago street railroad company, the
evidence against them having been secured
through the agency of the detectives.
It may strike the Illinois voters that
they made a few errors in their political
calculations last year, but may they not
be unreasonable in objecting to the pro-
ceedings of the Republican Legislature and
state administration ?
What they see going on at the state cap-
itol may be the Republic:n method of pre-
serving the honor of the nation. Taking
this view of the matter, it doesnot become
those who put put that party into power in
the State tobe making a fuss about the
way things are being done at Springfield.
The same way of keeping the national
honor and the public credit up to a high
pitch is in force at all the state capitols
where Republican Legislatures are doing
business. This high toned work is in full
swing at Harrisburg, where a committee
is preparing to whitewash a case of bribery
involving the snug amount of $50,000
and at Albany, it manifests itself in a
dieker with a gas trast, and other legisla-
tive transactions of a character calculated to
vindicate the claim of the Republican party
that the honor of the nation, and the pub-
lic credit, both state and national, are in
its special keeping.
Drains Upon the Gold Reserve.
It is refreshing to see an able writer like
WILLIAM J. BRYAN take hold of and dis-
prove the fallacious claim of chairman
DINGLEY that the gold bonds were issued
on account of a deficit in the revenues, and
that the drain on the gold reserve will
cease when the revenue produced hy his
tariff shall remove everything like a
deficit.
Mr. BRYAN shows that the run on the
stock of gold in the treasury began before
there was a deficiency of revenue, and it
stopped when the deficit was the greatest.
There could not be better proof that the
raids on the reserve had no connection with
the low condition of the general fund.
The fact is that when the government
pursues a monetary policy that requires a
reserve of gold for the redemption of a
large paper circulation, a run on that re-
serve is likely to occur at any time, wheth-
er the revenues of the government are at
a high or a low ebb.. Then it is seen that
at this very time, when the condition of
the revenue is such that there is no longer
a deficiency, large amounts of gold are
withdrawn from the reserve for the purpose
of exportation.
These gold raids may arise from various
causes. They may be made by gold specu-
lators. The gold may also be withdrawn
for legitimate business purposes. A deple-
tion of the revenue may be effected by
bank syndicates with the object of compel-
ling the government to make more gold
loans by which they may profit. Or for-
eign governments in want of gold may find
our reserve a handy source from which they
may supply their own deficiency.
It is quite clear that as long as gold is
exclusively required to redeem the paper
obligations of the government the reserve
is liable to depletion, whether there is a
surplus ora deficit of revenue. Gold loans
will have to be resorted to for the main-
tenance of snch a system, with all the ex-
pense, disturbance and inconvenience they
involve. This could be easily, safely and
lawfully avoided by the treasury authori-
ties using their legal discretion in redeem-
ing the paper of the government with either
silver or gold.
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Senator Gobin’s Indiscretion.
State Senator GOBIN has learned, to his
cost, that it is not safe for a Republican
politician to interfere with crooked schemes
that may be going on in the state Legisla-
ture, with the object of preventing or expos-
ing them. It is seldom that there issuch in-
terference from a Republican source, but
the Senator tried it in the case of the in-
surance scandal and received more kicks
than thanks for meddling with a matter
which the average lawmaker gt Harrisburg
thinks should be kept as quiet as possible,
He moved for the appointment of a com-
mitteee to investigate the charge that $50,-
000 had heen corruptly used to influence
the action of,Senators in regard to certain
insurance legislation. Rumors were afloat
that such an amount of boodle had been
used for that purpose, but he should have
known better than to busy himself with a
matter of that kind, thereby making him-
self obnoxious by his interference when
brother Senators had struck so soft a
snap.
That he didn’t make any friends by it
was proven when the commmittee was ap-
pointed. It is the custom that the mover
for the appointment of a committee is
made its chairman. But his fellow com-
mittee-men evidently didn’t approve of his
conduct. They wouldn’t have him for
chairman, but turned him down and se-
lected another party for that position whose
idea of investigation in such cases consists
in a liberal use of white wash.
The Senator has had trouble with the
committee ever since it was formed. It
has completely soured on him, and he is
so thoroughly convinced that its mem-
bership was selected to defeat the object of
its appointment that he has withdrawn
from it and will have nothing more to do
with it.
~ Senator GoBIN has been long enough
connected with Republican politics to have
been more prudent. We might have known
that he would make trouble for himself and
get his associates down on him by such an
indiscreet act as his asking to have a case
of bribery investigated. By such indiscre-.
tion he may lose the nomination for audi-
tor general for which he is an aspirant.
The Conrse That Will Insure Success.
The New York Journal has sought the
opinion of leading Democrats as to the
course which the party should pursue in
order to secure success in the elections this
year, and the general response is that there
should be no receding from the ground
taken last year.
There is much practical wisdom in the
expression of Governor JOHNSTON, of Ala-
bama, who advises the widest latitude in
the councils of the party but after the
majority shall have decided upon the
policies to be pursued there should be
prompt acquiescence in the decision, and
hearty co-operation by all carrying out the
expressed 4vill of the majority.
Such a course would not only be Demo-
cratic in principle, but. it would be in ac-
cordance with Democratic practice. The
will of the majority is the motive power of
Democracy, and obedience to®hat will con-
stitutes its most essential principle. The
great mistake of Mr. CLEVELAND and his
followers last year was that they were no
willing to submit to the majority. They
set up a monetary docrine that allied them
with the money power and the bank syn-
dicategain opposition to the Democratic
doct that silver as well as gold is the
money of the constitution. Because the
majority would not yield to them Mr.
CLEVELAND and his small band of follow-
ers antagonized the Democratic nomination
and platform.
Among other expressions of Gov. TAy-
LOR, of Tennessee, advising that the party
should present a united front to the enemy,
he says that there is only one common
ground for Democrats, and that is ‘‘eter-
nal war upon the high protective tariff, the
combines, the civil service fraud, the Re-
publican party in general and the devil in
particular.”
This is, in itself, an excellent and com-
prehensive platform for the party to stand
on and we may remark, in this connection,
that when the Democracy fights the Repub-
lican party and the devil it contends with
the same enemy, as there is no perceptible
difference between them.
——=Senator QUAY'S having recommend-
ed a woman to be postmistress of Stouchs-
burg, Pa., seems to put a differenf, phase on
‘his supposed estimation of the value of
women as public servants. It was only a
few years ago that his son RICHARD dis-
tinguished himself by having a number of
department women about Washington dis-
charged and his papa backed him up in it
too. .
——Governor HASTINGS has signed the
bill requiring Smull’s Hand-book to be
kept in every school in the State. As a
reference book for matrers pertaining to
state government nothing more complete
or reliable is published and as it is in-
tended merely for reference purposes in the
schools the plan to have it there is a good
one.
The Crowning Disgrace.
The defeat of the ballot reform bill was
the worst act that has been committed by
our worthless state Legislature. Its gen-
eral conduct hds been bad, but when it
deliberately preserves the vicious features
of the ballot law for the advantage of its
party, maintaining the defects that enable
bribery and intimidation to be .practiced
in the elections, it shows its utter loss of
shame, and exibits the full extent. of its
debasement. The deliberation displayed
in such wrong-doing is almost incredible.
The election law of this State, enacted
on the Australian plan, was intended to
secure the purity of the ballot by securing
its secrecy and shielding it against corrupt-
ing and intimidating influences. The Aus-
tralian ballot bill was originally drawn to
secure this purpose, which is absolutely in-
dispensable to good government ; but there
were political interests, identified with
Republican supremacy.in the State, which
prompted such changes in the bill that when
it was passed it was found to have been
shorn of those features that were intended
to secure uncorrupted ‘and uncoerced suf-
frage.
This election law, emasculated in such a
way ‘as to destroy secrecy and facilitate
bribery and intimidation in the interest of
the Republican party, has been in opera-
tion for some years, with such effect that
the voter is confused by the arrangement of
the ballot sheets, and restrained in his
choice by the way the party tickets are
grouped, and the great objects of preventing
the briber andg bull-dozer from exerting
their influence is defeated by a privilege
that enables them to do their work more
effectually than under the old law. The
arrangement that allows voters to be
“‘assisted’’ is a device that has actually in-
creased corruption and coercion in our elec-
tions.
These abuses have been apparent to
every intelligent and honest citizen of the
State, ever since the present vitiated elec-
tion law has been in operation, and the de-
mand for their correction has been general
among those who want our elections to be
fairly and honestly conducted. To effect
this good purpose the reform ballot bill
was introduced in the present Legislature.
It is hardly conceivable that there should
be a lawmaking body so utterly lost to the
sense of shame and so thoroughly base as
to defeat such a measure demanded by
every consideration of honest politics and
good government. But this worthless Leg-
islature was capable of doing so disgrace-
ful an act. One of the republican Repre-
sentatives, LEYTLE, of Huntingdon, actu-
ally declared on the floor of the House that
the Republican party of this State could not
afford to dispense with the advantage which
it derived from the electoral abuses of the
present law.
Actuated by so shameful a motive this
Republican Legislature filled the measure of
its infamy to overflowing by maintaining
an election law that confuses the voter by
a complicated ballot, restrains the freedom
of his electoral choice, and increases the
facility with which the elections may be
corrupted.
Did the Philadelphia Office Seekers Dog
the President
It is an unsettled question whether the
office-seekers did or did not greatly annoy
President McKINLEY while he was in
Philadelphia attending the unveiling of
WASHINGTON monument.
After his return to Washington it was
published that hungry applicants for fed-
eral appointments dogged him from the
time he entered the Quaker city until his
special train carried him back to Wash-
ington. Then this disgraceful announce-
ment was made, the Philadelphia papers,
and those who had the President in charge
while he was in the city, appreciating the
shameful light in which it placed Phila-
|Jelphia hospitality, came out with flat de-
nials of the truth of such a representation,
declaring that while the President was
their guest he was not beset by office-
seekers.
~ Which story is to believed ? Consider-
ing the boldness and pertinacity of the
hungry horde of spoilsmen, was it physical-
ly possible to keep them from dogging the
dispenser of the offices while he was in
Philadelphia? Besides, a cabinet officer
who was along with the President is re-
ported as saying’: ‘‘It mattered not wheth-
er the President was at his hotel, in a club,
or even on the grandstand where the exer-
cises of unveiling the monument took
place, someone was sure to be on hand to
proffer claims for official preferment.
With assertion on one side and denial
on the other, the question is an open one.
But whether the place-hunters did or
did not worry the President in Philadel-
phia, it would not have been much out of
place if the thousands of workingmen of
that city who are out of employment would
have called on him and given him a polite
hint that they are getting very tired wait-
ing for the prosperity he promised them.
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Only Waiting. ~
From the Louisville Dispatch.
We are waiting—only waiting—
For the promised days to come—
For they said when birds yere mating
We would hear the busy hum
Of machinery put in motion,
"And the shuttle and the loom
Would dispel all doubtful notion
Of McKinley's business boom.
An Answer.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. ®
'Tis true we now are waiting
For the promised days to come ;
"Tis true, as you are stating,
That in business there's no hum;
But in answer to your cackle
We reiterate our guess,
That prosperity you'll tackle
In a twelvemonth more or less—
By the way, who mixed this mess?
Hush Your Bizness.
From the Philadelphia Times.
There are buds that long for blooming,
Yet whose leaves fail to expand ;
There are ships love sends a sailing,
That oft never reach the land ;
O’er the songs sweet hope sings to us
Come the minor tones of woe—
And I guess or play the prophet
Is not wise unléss you know.
Urged Hastings to Sign.
HARRISBURG, May 24.—To-day a dele-
gation of 150 representatives of labor unions
appeared before the Governor to request
him to sign the Weiler bill, permitting em-
ployes of corporations to form and join
labor unions without fear of dismissal.
There were representatives from the broth-
erhood of locomotive engineers, railroad
trainmen, order of, conductors, order of
telegraphers, brotherhodd of brakemen,
typographical union, molders’ union and
other organizations, men coming from
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Allegheny, Read-
ing, Columbia, Lancaster, Erie and other
cities, as well as from Harrisburg, to urge
favorable action by the chief executive.
They were headed by Senator Kauffman,
of Lancaster, who took an active part in
securing the passage of the bill in the sen-
ate ; Representative Weiler, of Carbon, the
author of the bill ; President Chance, of the
labor league, and William Beck, of Colum-
bia, a railroad engineer. All of these
made speeches to the Governor in the large
reception room, which was crowded.
The Governor gave the men a cordial re-
ception, and, after hearing their arguments,
told them that he had not yet had the bill
in his possession, but he would give it care-
ful consideration. ‘‘If,’’ said the Gover-
nor, “I find that this bill is for the good
of labor i State and for the best in-
terests of the Commonwealth, I shall h
no hesitancy in signing it, but if Land that |
it is going to work an injury and that it
will not be beneficial to the workingmen
of the State, I shall not hesitate to veto it,
I want you to understand it now. You
may remember that in my inaugural ad-
dress I said that I favored organized labor
just as capital should, for through organi-
zation ho, 3 good may be accomplished.”
P estdent Has Power
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WASHINGTON, May 24th—In the United
States supreme court to-day justice Peck-
ham handed ddwg the opinion of the court
in the case of L. 8, late district
attorney for the Northern district of Alaba-
ma, appealed from the court of claims.
The decision was adverse to Parson’s claim
that he was entitled, under section 769 of
the revise statutes, to hold his office for
four y ears, notwithstanding the President’s
order of removal.
Justice Peckham said that, while the ap-
pointment was for four years, it might be
terminated earlier,.at the discretion of the
President. - The judgement of the court of
claims was affirmed. "$
The determination of this case has been
looked forward to with interest hecause of
its possible effect upon the removal of the
office holders incident to the change of ad-
ministration. Parsons was removed from
the office of United States district attorney
of Alabama in 1893, having been appointed
in 1890. He wrotea letter to the President,
refusing to surrender the place on the
ground that ashe had been appointed for a
term of four years the President had no
right to remove him before the expiration
of that term. He has fought the case
through the various federal courts on this
theory, losing in the lower courts; as he
did to-day in the supreme court. "Parsons
has, however, not been in posession of the
office during the contest. On the day that
he was removed, Emmet O'Neil was ap-
pointed to succeed him and to him Parsons
surrendered the office after an order was
issued by the circuit court to do so. He
prosecuted the case on another basis from
that time.
An Enormous Deficit.
HARRISBURG, May 26th—Auditor-gen-
eral Mylin has made an official statement
of the state revenues, and according to his
estimates there will be a deficit on Novem-
ber 30th, 1897, of $3,664,954.18. The es-
timated receipts for the fiscal year are $9,-
724,929 ; balance in the banks May 26th,
ter ending May 31st, 1887, $1,000,000 ;
payments due for six months to November
30th, 1897, $9,937,182 ; leaving a deficit of
$3,664,954.18. In this computation the
money to be derived from the direct in-
heritance tax is not included.
The figures which ‘make up the amounts
that are supposed to be paid between June
1st and November 3rd, 1897, are interest-
ing. They include these : Cost of Legisla-
ture, present session, $600,000 ; legislative
record, $36,000; judiciary, $334,000 ;
national guard, $175,000; public schools,
$5,680,063 ; Grace church, for Legislature, |
$56,000 ; repairs to house of representa-
tives, burned $15,000. New capitol build-
ing, $250,000, half of the entire cost.
To-night Governor Hastings, the state
treasurer, the auditor-general and chair-
man Marshall, of the house appropriations
A held another conference on the
Spawls, from the Keystone.
—Wilkesbarre will have a fine new opera
house, to cost $45,000.
_ —Pittsburg’s filtration commission has ap-
proved plans for a pure water filter.
—The State Board of Health began its an-
nual meeting at Johnstown Monday night.
—Harrishurg shoe merchants say they,
—Robbers broke into Abramson’s store, at
St. Clair, and stole $100 worth of boots and
shoes.
—A formidable independent organization
—the Bronze club—has been organized at
Allentown.
—Insane Adam Elby was arrested while
desecrating graves in a cemetery at Wilkes-
barre.
—Burglars got $34 and other valuables from
the Chestnut avenue hotel, Altoona, and $10
from a cigar store near by.
—By his will banker George K. Reed, of
Lancaster, left $20,000 to be divided in small
sums between various charities.
—A charter has been granted to the Argyle
slate company, of Bangor, Northampton
county, with $50,000 capital.
—While fixing a gun asa trap to kill game
in the woods, George Herr was himself killed
by it at Trout Run, Lycoming county.
—~Coal dirt has choked the channel of Blue
Mountain dam, north of Hamberg, and boat-
ing on the Schuylkill canal is at a standstill.
—Ferdinand Moersch, aged 78, of Pitts-
burg, fell from a window a year ago, and has
since had suicidal mania. Saturday he shot
‘himself dead.
—DMiss Elizabeth A. Behney, of Half Way,
near Lebanon, was married Saturday to Geo.
Donges Coover, publisher of the Myerstown
Enterprise.
—Baptists have raised $200,000 of the $250,-
000 to meet John D. Rockefeller’'s quarter of
a million-dollar gift to missions, as announced
at the Pittsburg meetings.
—Having forgotten to turn off the gas in
his room, Charles R. Higgs, a well known
young man, was found dead in bed in Wilkes-
barre. .
—Bidders for the work of removing the
burned capitol ruins at Harrisburg have been
busy measuring and examining’ the spot for
several days.
—Earl Whitman, representative from the
Fourth legislative district, Schuylkill county,
fell from his ice house at his home at Ams-
dale and fractured his arm.
—President D. B. Purinton, of Denison
University, Granville, O., was knocked
down by a fire engine in Pittsburg, his nose
broken and otherwise badly bruised.
—John Baum. of Palmyra, was perhaps
fatally hurt near Annville by his horse dash-
ing over a 40-foot embankment into a stone
quarry during a heavy storm at night.
—St. Paul's Evangelical church was ded-
icated Sunday at Annville, presidinig elder
T. L. Hentz, Rev. . H. Williams and Rev.
C. K. Fehr conducted the dedicatory ser-
vices.
—Colonel W. J. Harvey, president of
other citizens had their pockets picked on a
“crowded street car returning from a ball
game in that city Saturday.
n —On the ground that no plans were sub-
mitted, and the specifications were changed,
the new steel bridge across the Schuylkill, at
Bern, Berks county, has been rejected by the
county viewers.
—Nora Kissell, an alleged accomplice, has
informed federal officials that for many years,
at a point near Bradford, she aided Daniel
Wilder in making bogus dollars and other
coins. Wilder is under arrest.
—J. M. Howe, of Patton, is the possessor
of a queer freak of nature in the form of a
canary bird that was hatched with only one
wing and one foot. It is over three weeks
old and is as lively as the restof its nest
mates.
—Governor Hastings Monday evening
tendered a reception at the executive man-
sion, Harrisburg, to General John R. Brooke,
of the United States army, whom the Presi-
dent appointed major general on Tuesday.
—Richard Burns, but 15 years old, has
again been committed to prison by a Shenan-
doah justice, charged with breaking into a
colliery carpenter shop and getting tools with
which he entered and robbed a barber shop.
—At Curwensville, Saturday, Otto Froyd
while sitting on his bed in his room fired a
shot into his head. His brother ran towards
him and found the suicide dying with the
revolver in his. hand. He expired shortly
after.
— Latimer Biberg is the name of the Muncy
boy who was accidentally shot over a week
ago. Difficulty was experienced in probing
for the ball, so on Saturday the X-rays was
applied when the bullet was located near the
bone a few inches below the point where it
entered the leg. The ball was removed.
— Near Galeton, Potter gounty, last week
a young son of Mr. Blakesly picked up a
stone about the size of a hen’s egg. Bright
yellow specks appearing in the stone, the
quartz was sent to Binghamton, N. Y. When
assayed thirty cents worth of gold was found
in the stone.
—At Ridgway a little boy named James
Hanscom, while fishing, tumbled into Hyde's
dam. He caught hold of a log as he came up
the first time, but it turned and the boy
went down again. A dog, an English spaniel,
then jumped into the water, caught hold of
the boy’s clothing and kept him afloat until
help arrived.
—At Easton last week the case of William
White, of Glendon, who brought suit against
the Lehigh valley railroad company to re-
cover $10,000 damages for the death of his
wife near the Lucy Furnace station, in Nov-
ember, 1892, was tried. The facts are that
Mrs. White had been in Easton on a shop-
ping excursion, and in the evening had
started for her home, near Lucy Furnace,
with her purchases, on a Lehigh valley pas-
senger train. The body of his wife was dis-
covered on tae tr acks by Mr. White, who
had gone to meet her. A coroner's inquest
was held, the jury censuring the railroad
company for not keeping a watchman at the
crossing. The jury after deliberating four
hours rendered a verdict in favor of Mr.
question of raising revenue.
White for $2,000.
have good evidence of a revival of business, *
Wilkesbarre's city council, and a number of