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Bellefonte, Pa., June 18, 1897.
P. GRAY MEEK, - Epiror.
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The Concentration of Wealth.
Senator MILLS, of Texas, in the debate on
the tariff bill, speaking for the Democratic
party, and in the interest of the working
class and plain people, gave a picture of the
concentration of the wealth of the country
in the hands of a limited plutocracy, and
the power which that exerts in controlling
the government, a portrayal which sheuld
awaken the public mind to so alarming a
danger.
He gave statistical proof of the astound-
ing fact that out of a populaticn of 70,000-
000 the comparatively small number of 25,-
000 owned $31,500,000,000, or more than
half of the country’s wealth..
He showed that this concentration of
wealth in the hands of the very few has
taken place within the last generation.
He demonstrated beyond question that
the causes which were making millionaires
of the few and paupers of the many, were
such as were seen operating in the policies
of the Republican party, of which this mo-
nopoly tariff is a flagrant example.
Before 1860 the number of millionaires
in the country could be easily counted.
Not that there was no wealth at that time
but it was more evenly and fairly divided.
Republican measures have since then
been at work fostering the trusts, fattening
the monopolies and multiplying the mil-
lionaires.
This it has done by favoritism in legisla-
tion ; by prostituting the lawmaking power
to the interest of grasping combinations ;
by discriminations in the burden of taxa-
tion ; by differential gorotection to favored
beneficiaries, and by giving one class su-
perior chances of accumulation.
It is in this way that the bulk of the
country’s wealth is falling into the almost
exclusive possession of a limited plutoc-
racy.
The worst feature of this situation is that
this concentrated wealth aims at running
the government. It has the Republican
Congress completely under its control.
The United States Senate is but an instra-
ment of the sugar trust. Plutocracy even
ventures to dictate the decisions of the
supreme court of the United States on
points affecting its interest.
Growing out of this situation is a pluto-
cratic class that is assuming the airs of
nobility. If they have not yet reached
that point at which they will be recognized
as a noble caste, they are at least antici-
pating it, as Senator MILLS declares, by
sending their daughters, like fatted heifers,
into the European market to be traded off
for titles of nobility.
Relief for the Mine Workers.
The legislative investigating committee
that has gone ‘through the mining regions
of the State examining the condition of the
mine laborers, has discovered facts which,
if its travels are to be anything more than
a junketing tour, should result in legisla-
tion which way afford some relief to those
suffering people.
Their condition is found to be a disgrace
not only to this‘Commonwealth, but to
American humanity. The wrongs that
have been systematically practiced upon
_ them are having their brutalizing effect. re-
4 ducing them toa degree of degradation
really worse than that which the pauper la-
hor of Europe is represented to be in. The
miners of Great Britain are a fortunate peo-
ple in comparison, if the reports concern-
ing the condition of some of the laborers in
the Pennsylvania mining regions are to be
believed. { 7
When so much has been done, both in
state and pational legislation, for the pro-
tection of the interest of the mine proprie- |.
tor, there should be at least some attention
paid by the state Legislature to the welfare
of the poor mine laborers who are being
doubly pauperized by being paid the very | the best possible carpenter.
lowest wages upon which they may keep
soul and body together, while even the
meagre value of those payments is mini-
mized by store orders, and they are fre-
quently cheated by the false weighing of
the coal they dig.
Is it possible that these outrages are go-
ing on while the coal barons are receiving
increased protection from a Republican
Congress which is claimed to be for the
benefit of the labor employed in mining ?
The wrongs of the mine workers: have
been abundantly proven by the investiga-
tion of the committee. It is said that
there is not enough of the session left for
the passage of a bill for their relief, but af-
ter all the time that has been idled away
at Harrisburg, since January, a few more
days would be excusably spent in legisla-
tion that would afford some relief to these
oppressed people.
The Alien Tax Bill a Law Now.
Governor Hastings has signed the Mitch-
ell bill to provide for the payment of taxes
by aliens. The act requires that all cor-
porations, associations, companies, firms
or individuals employing persons. who are
not citizens of the United States, shall, up-
on the receipt of a written notice from the
tax collector of the district, deduct from the
wages of such employes a sum sufficient
to pay the respective amounts of taxes as-
sessed against each and pay it to the collec-
tors of the districts in which said aliens
are employed within sixty days after no-
tice.
The Governor also signed the amended
dog tax bill, the act amending the school
law to allow use of school books in vaca-
tion and providing for the ascertainment
of damages for streets taken for opening.
Baccalaureate Sermon to the Class of '97
of The Pennsylvania State College.
BY THE REV. L. M. COLFELT, D. D. .
“So he'sent his prethren away and they
departed : and he said unto them ‘‘see that
ye fall not out by the way.”
Joseph having provided his brothers with
wagons, provisions, changes of raiment,
three hundred pieces of silver sends them
away on their great journey homeward
with the kind bus cautionary advice ‘‘see
that ye fall not out by the way.”
So young men of the class of '97 your
Alma Mater, having equipped . you as gen-
erously as in her power, with all the aca-
demic essentials to the great journey of life,
it only remains for the preacher of the hour
i to offer you a bit of final brotherly advice.
First of all permit the word of warning
that you must not overestimate yourselves.
“Modesty,” says Hafiz the Persian poet,’’
“is the finest jewel that can be clasped to
the neck of a young man.’ It isa jewel
“that is not much worn by young America.
“Do you wish to be great’’ said St. Augus-
tine, ‘‘then begin by being little.” Better
begin than end with the humbling experi-
ence that we are not so clever nor so su-
perior to everybody else as we had fancied.
Let us not flatter ourselves at the outset
that we are great geniuses and wonder-
ful fellows and bound to perform prodigies
and flash as stars, and compel the world to
proffer us the highest positions right off.
The rather let us say we have all a work
to doand we are very little fit to do it.
We are weak, foolish, ignorant ; worse, we
are vain and conceited. ‘‘Seest thou a
man wise in his own conceit there is more
hope of a fool than of him.”’ :
At the same time be encouraged not to
underestimate yourselves. Some men are
charged with five talents some with but
one. What then? Is the one talented
man less beloved of God for this—Iless an
immortal ? Some boys go home from col-
lege with a pocket full of prizes—others not
able to look: their parents in the face for a
kind of wordless shame. Yet many such
a one having the stuff in him has risen in
due time to massive strength. An ungain-
ly horse, with white bandage tied around
his foreleg, thus publicly confessing his un-
soundness, has galloped by the winning
post at Derby at the rate of fifty miles an
hour and borne off the blue ribbon of the
turf from a score of noble looking thorough-
breds. James Watt was frightfully handi-
capped physically and mentally. With
tearing headaches, a sunken chest, the
least muscular limbs, the most melancholy
temperament, he yet did not only his hum-
drum work well but one of the grandest
things that ever was done by man and was
laid to rest in Westminster Abbey among
the ‘‘best benefactors” of the race. So the
lame horse by skillful management may
even win the Derby. Let us accept our
natures whatever their limitations finally,
humbly, bravely.
Argue not against heaven’s hand or will,
Nor bate one jot of heart or hope !
But still bear up and steer right onward” :
It is the privilege of elacat2d m:n nos
merely to take opportunities but fo create
them.
turn up’’ and take what is offered.
college-bred men should turn things up
themselves make positions rather than fill
them. A man whom God has given an
education is avaricious. who asks besides
patronage or capital, or an established busi-
ness in order to succeed in life. It looks
as if he wanted the earth. What capital
does a well trained man need who has in-
herited all the wisdom and skill of the
ages. What patronage when the whole in-
dustrial world has a peculiar friendship
for and delight in youth, with its ardor,
originality, strength. Established busi-
ness! Why you have tens of thousands of
them waiting for you, organized on a tre-
mendous scale on every door of which is
the standing advertisement ‘‘young men
wanted who will work—who can work.”
Do you murmur about the fierce and re-
lentless competition ? Was it worth while
for God to bring you into the world and he
at such pains to educate you to make a
whimperer out of you? Do you say a
young man has a hard road to travel in
this age! Nonsense! Your fathers hewed
a path through the wilderness. You know
not the meaning of hardship. Be a man!
The world was never so glad to see a man !
Honesty is especially requisite for a suc-
cessful career. It is the nerve of all public
and private confidence. It gives a man re-
spect for himself and the respect of others
and with these two possessions he can
breast any fortune. A man may have the
best training in the world, capital, an es-
tablished business hut without integrity it
is a house withcat foundations. Above
all then be a man who cannot be bought,
directly or ‘indirectly. Say there is one
thing that is not in the market. I will.
not sell myself, no, not for mountains of
gold nor acres of diamonds.
Painstaking labor is a condition of all
superior fortune. Socrates explained how
excellent a thing it was that every one
should resolve on perfection in his own
line, so that if he be a carpenter he will be
Such a car-
penter, said Socrates, will win the wreath
of carpentering though it be only a wreath
of shavings. In America we have the best
workmen in the world for quickness—for
quantity of work ; buy in patience, in
thoroughness, in painstaking they are defi-
ci_nt. If this be not so why this summer
hegira to Europe. Why are millions ex-
pended by Americans in the shops of
Europe for the finer cottons, woolens,
linens, rugs, earthenware, silks, satins,
jewels? It is becauee these things which
demand that a man should be something
more than a workman—should be an arti-
zan are not produced ‘in America. We
need-the injection of the artistic idea into
all labor. The old Greek idea that the
product -of our workmanship shail be a
poem. On the lower levels of production
America is overcrowded with her own pop-
ulation and her immigrants from every
shore. But at the top where perfection
lies there is more room than in any land.
Who ever would advance speedily-rise rap-
idly let him put his heart as well as his
hand into the most disagreeable work until
| as Cahucer says it is done ‘‘parfaitely.”’
Do the meanest task in a grand man-
ner. This is the whole law and gospel for
the industrial world.
Cheerfulness was never at a greater pre-
mium than now. America has shown the
world in the last four years an astonishing
wailing has rarely been condensed in so
short a period. Industrial literature has
been a perpetual Jeremiad. Business has
been bad and the man who has insisted
that it was growing worse and worse has
been listened to with rapt attention.-
Growling and grumbling never drove a
more thriving trade. But for the bravery
of the newspaper press, that to its honor:
has done its best to polish up the dark side
of things, we had no doubt sunk. into a
state of chronic, national melanchoty.
Pessimism never made a business revive
and thrive for a community ~ an individ-
Let the poorly equipped, the badly |
trained, the unskilled ‘‘wait for things to
But |
capacity for cheerlessness and gloom. Such |
an amount of commercial weeping and
ual. - “Give us, Oh give us,”’ says. Car-
lyle, ‘‘the man who sings at his work.
Optimism conserves our energies and in-
creases our productive capacity. Cheerful-
ness will help us to do better work and per-
severe longer. Men go to the battle with
more courage and a firmer step who march
to music !
Moral principle must not be omitted
from the conditions of a successful career.
This is the secret of all England’s greatness
on land and sea. This is the secret of the
German Renaissance—not her military dis-
cipline—nor even her technological schools
—but the principal of moral fidelity she
has wrought into the fibre of her national
‘life. And this isthe only hope and salva-
tion for our land. For what is the mean- |
ing of the ‘bad times’’ through which we
are passing—the long nightmare—the bank-
ruptcies, the destruction of confidence, the |
horribly slow convalescence of the commer- |
cial world. Plainly it is a moral disease |
through which we have been passing. We |
have been unconsciously discarding the |
eternal moral virtues—taking short cuts to |
fortune, accursing ourselves with careless |
work. turning dur backs on all the ways |
that are wearisofile and long. And now it |
is said to frame a sound tariff and establish |
a sound currency will cure all. They will |
powerfully contribute, but after that we |
shall have to achieve a sound national con-
science. Yes! if we are not to come to |
grief as a nation—if we are to prosper ma- |
terially—win the world’s markets, restore |
our commerce to the seas, there must be a i
restoration of confidence not simply in our- |
selves and in our fellow-citizens, but in |
that Eternal Power not ourselves which |
| makes for righteousness and in those moral |
verities which are at the basis of all human
relations.
The best education in the world will end
in nothing if it does not result in moral
principle—without which the cleverest man
is sure to be a fool—the noblest reforms
-come to an impotent conclusion and the
greatest nation becomes corrupt. God may
send rich harvests—our cities may resound
‘with the din of ind ustry—bhut if the salt of
life be wanting, if luxury shall spoil the
rich and envy devour the poor—if class be
set against class—if the moral sense of the
nation becomes obtuse, then all that lifted us
up will drag us down—then our harvests,
cities, shops, railroads, science, art will go
bodily over to the camp of our enemies and
all of which we wanted ourselves will but
precipitate and render our destruction
sure. :
Gentlemen of the class of '97, go forth to
take your places in this, great republic and
make a worthy conttibution to the Com-
monwealth. Cherish especially patriotic
| impulse. Help your neighborhood, your
| city, your land evermore to a higher life.
Be public spirited, generous, large-minced
—Ilarge hearted. Study peace. Pity the
suffering. Be chivalrous to the weak
Take Christ as your comrade, and wha
time the way be great and wearv—and you
are disappointed and heartsick and body
sick never give up hope in God. We are
saved by hope.
No Agreement Reached.
\ Jury in- Wintersteen Case Failed to Reach a Vei-
dict and was Discharged.
BLOOMSBURG, June 13th—The jury ia
trial of Lloyd S. Wintersteen, charged
with attempting to blow up the house of
Levi E. Waller on the night of Sept 10th,
1896, has been unable to agree and at 10.55
last night was called into the court roon
and discharged by Judge Ermentrout. 4s
the twelve men filed into the room eagh,
one’s face bore a careworn expression and
they appeared to feel much relief that the
long ordeal is over... W. L. Demaree, the
foreman announced that they had no ver-
dict to render, and then each individual
answered to the disagreement. They had
been out thiry-four hours and the ballot
every half hour was either eight for acquit-
tal and four for conviction or nine for ac-
quital and three for conviction.
The defense claim that anything short
of conviction is to be interpreted as a vic-
tory for their client, since the-Hurden of
proof must be with the prosecution.
Neither Wintersteen nor any of his attor-
neys would consent to talk for publica- |
tion.
The case will mow have to be retired
within the next two terms of court or it
will go by default.
At twenty minutes past 10 o'clock Sat-
"urday morning word was sent to Jud
Ermentrout that Levi Weaver was sick and
wanted medical attention. Drs. McKelvy
and Redeker were sent for and, having been
sworn to confine their conversation with
the juror to the matter of his physical con-
dition and not to discuss anything per-
taining to the case under consideration
they were allowed to examine their patient
in the room, and his trouble ascribed to
indigestion, and their perscripfion, having
been examined by the judge was ordered
filled and the medicine delivered by the
tipstaff.
Later a message came that the jury
wished to speak with the court, and they
having been brought into the jury box in
the court room shortly after 11 o'clock, W.
Demaree announced that he had heén se-
lected to say that they could not agree.
Judge Ermentrout refused to discharge
them, however, and calmly review the
case and endeavored to satisfy their differ-
had lasted three weeks and had heen a |
cause of great expense to Columbia county,
and should not be repeated unless absol ute-
ly necessary.
When they learned that they were not
to be excused, complaint was entered on
account of breakfast having not been served
until 9 o'clock yesterday morning, after
they had been up all night, and more reg-
ular service and more sleeping sccomoda-
tion was asked. ' These were promised by
the court, and ghe tipstaff was directed to
furnish Enos Bangs with tobacco, as he had
requested. At half past 5 o'clock Satur-
day afternoon the physicians were again
i summoned, and having examined W. L.
Demaree and Enos Bangs, reperted their
trouble to the court as Tervous frostration,
and recommended a change of food and
better quarters Upon this reecommenda-
tion the jury was removed to the grand
jury box on the opposite side of the corri-
| dor, where they had more roomand a more
{ plentiful supply of fresh air. Supper was
i served them at 6 o'clock. !
| Mr. Bryan at Washington.
WASHINGTQN, June 13.—William J.
Bryan paid a hurried visit to, Washington
to-day, arriving here from New York this
morning and leaving in the evening for
Norfolk, Va. There were many callers at
the hotel where Mr. Bryan stopped. He
attended service at the New York avenue
Presbyterian church and later in the day
dined with senator Jones, the chairman of
the national Democratic committee. Hon.
Arthur Sewall, the late Democratic vice
presidential candidate, also dined with
senator Jones.
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| A Seheme to Annex the Hawaiian Islands
° Was Submitted Yesterday by Mr. Mc-
Kinley,
The Ratification of the Treaty Will be Strenuously
Opposed—Senators White and Pettigrew Say they
Will Stay in Washington atl Summer Before’ they
will Permit it to be Ratified—McKinley's Mgssage
not Very Long.
WASHINGTON, June 16.—The treaty for
the annexation of the Hawaiian islands
reached the Senate chamber at5 o'clock
to-day. The Senate at once went into
executive session and, -as soon as the doors
were closed, the message of President Mec-
Kinley accompanying the treaty and the
treaty itself were read to the Senate. They
were attentively listened to. In one part
of the chamber there was a group of Sena-
tors who will bitterly oppose the ratifica-
tion of the treaty. ' Among them were
Senators Gray, Mills, Pascoe, White,
Caffery, Pettigrew and McEnery.
As soon as the reading of the document
was completed Senator Davis, chairman of
the committee on foreign relations, moved
that the message and treaty he made pub-
lie. Senator Quay objected to the motion
and. under the rules, a single objection
carried the motion over until to-morrow.
Senator Davis gave notice that at the next
executive session he would press the mo-
tion for publication, as all the essential
facts and an almost verbatim copy of the
treaty had been published in the press of
the country.
There was some discussion as to when
the treaty might be considered, and Sena-
tor White asked if it was the intention to
push it at this session, and, upon reply be-
ing made that it was possible, the Califor-
| nia Senator said ; ‘I desire to announce
here that I am prepared to stay here all
summer to prevent the ratification of the
treaty, which I consider a very bad propo-
sition.”’
“I'll join you,’ said Senator Pettigrew,
of South Dakota. :
The message of the President was not a
very long document. It dealt with his-
torical facts concerning the islands and
showed that the United States and Ha-
waii yearly grew more closely bound to
each other. This was not really. annex-
ation, he said, but a continuation of exist-
ing relations, with closer bonds between
the people closely related by blood and
kindred. Since 1820, said the President,
the predominance of the United States had
been known. The sending of the first en-
voy there brought the islands in close rela-
tions with the United States, and those re-
lations had grown more firm by suc “ceding
events. At the same time the tripartite
agreement was made for the government of
Samoa, he said, Great Britain and Ger-
many wanted to include Hawaii in the
group over which a protedtorate was estab-
lished, but the suggestion was rejected by
the United States, because this government
held that there already existed relations
between Hawaii and the United States
which placed the islands under the special
care of this country, and that this country
could not allow any other country to inter-
fere in the affairs of Hawaii. The anncxa-
tion of the islands, said the President, and
making them a part of the United States
was in accordance with the established
policy of this country.
The treaty proved to be a'simple docu-
ment of six articles, based in its essential
details upon the treaty negotiated by Hon.
John W. Foster during the administration
of President Harrison. The islands are
ceded practically without conditions, leav-
ing the United States to pursue its own
course with reference to their management.
Barney Barnato a Suicide.
The South African Diamond King Leaps from a
Steamer into the Ocean.
LoxDoN, June 14.—A special dispatch
from Funchal, Island of Madeira, says that
on the arrival there to-day of the British
steamship Scot, which left Table Bay (Cape
| Town) on June 2nd for Southampton, it
was announced that Barney Barnato, the
South African ‘‘ Diamond King,”’ who was
among the passengers, had committed sui-
cide by leaping over-board. His body was
recovered.
Barnato’s real name was Barnett Isaacs.
He began his life in Africa by exhibiting
a trick donkey 25 years ago, when he was
20 years old. He was born in London and
when he went ‘to Africa the Kimberley
diamond mines were beginning to be pro-
ductive. ‘
In 1895, when his good fortune was at
its zenith, he was estimated to be worth
between §$100,000,000 and $150,000,000.
When the tremendous increase in his min-
ing interests called for the establishment of
a London branch this took the form of the
Barnato bank. It was capitalized at $15,-
000,000, and in a few months its stock rose
in value to $45,000,000. From that date he/
spent most of his time in London, living
at first in Earl Spencer’s town residence,
but moving finally into a magnificent man-
sion overlooking Hyde park.
The center of the speculation two years
ago in Kaffirs, the shares of the Transvaal
gold mines, was Barnato. At that time he
was virtually the dictator of the London
money market. The shares went to un-
heard-of figures and fortunes were made in
a day.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Wallace’s show that exhibited in
Tyrone, last Saturday, is reported to have
been one of the largest and ‘best ever seen
in that place.
— ete —
——The salary of the postmaster at Ty-
rone has been increased from $2,400 to
2,600 per annum. Postmaster Walton,
of Philipsburg, gets a raise from $2,000 to
$2,100 after July 1st. The increases have
been based on the rate of business done.
— te
THE ARGUMENT ENDED.—The argu-
ment in the Philipsburg water company in-
junction case was concluded yesterday, at
court, and it now only remains for the
judge’s ruling to decide whether the new
company will he permitted to go ahead.
It is a case in equity and is of more than
usual interest. The plaintiff company has
been supplying the citizens of Philipshurg
with water since sometime in the sixties
from Cold Stream, having their dam lo-
cated near the borough of Philipsburg.
Sometime last year, 1896, the defendant
company was organized and chartered and
proposes to take water from the same
source, about four miles up stream from
where the plaintiffs’ dam is located. The
plaintiff company resists this, and is seek-
ing to have the defendant company enjoin-
ed from taking water from this stream, al-
leging that it would be injurious to their
plant by reducing their supply of water
and, in dry seasons, make it difficult for
them to supply their patrons. It is the
opinion here that the court will rule in
favor of the defendants. ‘r
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— From Renovo comes the report that
times are brightening up very materially
up there.
Ee
——Lock Haven has concluded to have
a hospital in that city by raising enough
money to secure it. The old Meyers home-
stead at the lower end of the city will be
used. : :
ee
——The second annual summer conven-
tion of the Pennsylvania christian and
‘missionary alliance will he held at Valla-
mont park, near Williamsport, from July
10th to the 18th. Many good speakers and
earnest workers will be present, and Valla-
mont is a very pleasant place to spend a
«few days for recreation and help.
=
——DMrs. Rebecca Ann Decker, wife of
Roland G. Decker, of Gregg township, died
last Sunday morning after an illness of only
two weeks. Deceased was just 36 years
old and was a daughter of J. B. Heckman.
A husband and two children survive.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday
and the cortege that followed her remains
to the grave was one of the largest ever
seen in that vicinity.
WY
MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week. ?
John K. Sprankle, of Tyrone, and Laura
F. Eckart, of Wingate.
Andrew F. Rote, of Penns Cave, and
Agnes S. Snavely, of Centre Hall.
>
——The Pathfinder, a national news re-
view, published at Washington, wants to
know ‘‘what has become of acetylene,
which was to give us illuminating gas at
15 cents a thousand feet? Gone the way
of other slick stock company bubbles.”
Not so, dear contemporary, you should
come up to Bellefonte and see the site of
the fine plant that is to be built here for its
manufacture and there are no ‘‘slick stock
company’’ promoters in it either. They
are sound business men, who have made
‘money through their practical judgment.
POG —
——We are sorry to announce that Mrs.
Harry Johnson, of Altoona, who is at the
home of her father, Mr. Henry Walkey, on
Logan street, in this place, with the hope
of recuperating her impaired health is lit-
tle if any improved.
called here, on Tuesday morning, on ac-
count of her alarming condition and’ in or-
der to make better time he rode his wheel.
The anxiety about his wife led him to
overdo himself and after reaching here he
became seriously ill as a result of his extra-
ordinary exertion.
he
——Aaron W. Patchin, a prominent and
well know citizen of Clearfield county,
died at his home, in Burnside township, on
Friday last. Mr. Patchen was engaged ex-
tensively in lumbering and had large inter-
ests in Camden, N.J. ‘He was born in
Hague, Warren county, N. J., in 1822, and
located with his father on the West Branch
of the Susquehanna in 1847. A widow and
several children survive him, one of whom
is Hon. John H. Patchin, a Representative
of the last Legislature from that county.
Through his wife he was related to the
Weavers, of this county. :
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——A Bellefonte nine has at last suc-
ceeded in defeating a nine at the College.
The Academy nine went to that place, on
Saturday last, and through their terrific
batting succeeded in winning from the Col-
lege town team by a score of 14-4. The
game was played on thé State College
grounds in the presence of a large number
of students. The Academy boys played a
fane game as the score indicated. ‘‘Pat’’
Rhine did the twirling for the Academy as
Barger, their regular pitcher, was unable to
play, and he did superior work after the
first inning. The Academy nine played in
the following positions : Catcher, Camp-
bell ; pitcher, Rhine ; 1st base, Cummings;
2nd base, Smith ; 3rd base,” John Curtin
(Capt.) ; S. S., Otto; L. F., Hamilton ;
| C. F., Mehaffey ; R. F., Brew.
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Ex-postmaster George K. Landers,
of Newberry, has been sentenced to two
years imprisonment in the eastern peniten-
tiary for the murderous assault he made on
S. T. Foresman, in Williamsport, last Jan-
uary. When sentence was pronounced,
Landers fell to the floor and his mother
fainted. Both were assisted to their feet
and taken out of the room. The attorneys,
with citizens, had signed a petition, asking
the court for clemency. The judge rebuked
the petitioners by stating that courts were
for the purpose of meting out justice and
not mercy. The board of pardons, he stat-
ed, was the tribunal to ask for mercy ina
case of this kind. Before pronouncing sen-
tence on Landers, the judge administered
a severe reprimand to the prisoner.
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THE MISSIONARY CONVENTION.—The
fifteenth annual convention of the
Women’s Foreign Missionary society,
of the Altoona conference, which
convened in the Methodist church, on
Tuesday afternoon. was rather a disap-
pointment to all who attended. Only a few
of the many delegates expected were pres-
ent and they were surprised at the shame-
fully small attendance from the congrega-
tion. So many who had promised papers or
addresses were detained at home by sick-
ness that the program was not followed at
all. The meeting adjourned on Wednesday
afternoon instead of evening as advertised.
The society has been able to accomplish
great good and while Miss McCord, the
couraged, Mrs. W. T. Twitmire, secretary,
and Miss Mary Owen, president, of the
home auxiliary, who had worked so hard
to make the convention a success, were
somewhat disappointed at the lack of in-
terest shown. Cy
Mr. Johnston was |.
conference secretary, was in no way dis- |
CoRNELLY HELD, IN. $6,000 BAIL.—On
a writ of habeas corpus James Cornelly was
taken before the court, yesterday morning,
in order that cause should be shown for de-
taining him longer on the charge of incen-
diaryism. A numb of witnesses were
called by the prosecuvion and their testi-
mony was substantially as follows :
Frank Williams, Supt. testified as to the
character of fire at electric light station.
Joseph Lose testified similarly. Thomas
Faxon, engineer, similarly.
Mrs. Alfred Chandler, who lives oppo-
site station, testified that on the night of
fire she was attracted by light. Saw smoke
coming out of a hole in lower part of win-
dow'instock room.
| Miss Mary Butts, at home of Mrs. Jona-
than Harper at a party. About midnight,
she with a number of others, were on the
back porch. Saw the first smoke, the re-
flection of light, heard the alarm. Also
saw a man in middle of the road. He did
not remain long, but went up Lamb street
toward Spring street, going in a hurry. Be-
lieved to be Jimmy Cornelly. On cross ex-
amination said it was after alarm was given
that man was seen.
Jennie Harper testified similarly to
above. Also saw the man on Lamb street.
He was running and it looked like Cor-
nelly.
Jerome Harper was at home when fire
occurred between 12 and ¥ Was attracted
by blowing of whistle. Was just going to
bed. Ran to window and saw building
while whistle was blowing. The fire was
already quite bright. Saw a man in the
street but did not recognize him.
At this juncture attorneys for prosecu-
tion wanted prisoner held on evidence sub-
mitted, but judge Furst objected, and
judge Love ruled for further evidence.
Daniel Cowher called. Cowher is fire-
man at steam heat works located one block
east of electric light station. Testified
that Cornelly was in heat plant about
eleven o'clock and remained there until
about ten minutes of fire at electric light
works. When whistle blew ran out and
located fire. Ran down and came back
soon after meeting Cornelly on crossing at
Spring street. (Attempt was made by de-
fense attorneys to show that Cowher was
the man seen by ladies, but he was dressed
in overalls, shirt sleeves and cap. )
W.-F. Reynolds called, testified regard-
ing attempt to burn armory. On examina-
tion found window had been broken in.
Also found some oily waste.
A. W. Gillespie (who went as Alfred
Stewart) testified that on the night of at-
tempt to burn armory, he was on Lamb
street, near the old gas house in which
Cornelly rooms. Saw Cornelly come out
and go down to corner of armory in shad-
ow of electric light pole. He was down
but a brief time until he returned and sat
down on pavement. It was Cornelly.
Wore cap and sack coat. Sat there five
minutes then went up close to armory.
Next thing I heard wasa smash of glass
breaking. Shortly after saw a flash of
light, then saw Cornelly come away from
armory and disappear where he came from.
I then went down to armory, saw the fire
and gave the alarm at electric station.
The fireman ran up with a bucket of water
and put same out.
Cross-examined by Furst. I was arrest-
ed on suspicion. Was discharged yester-
day." Born at Rochester. Came to Belle-
fonte, April 17th. First met Cornelly
April 18th. Have associated with him
some since. Am a witness in this case.
Watched Cornelly’s house every night since
I had been in town. (Witness adhered
close to original story.) Testif>d that he
was not intoxicated, had not been drink-
ing. Had no business to either inform the
officers of Bellefonte or to arrest Cornelly
myself. I have been in the detective busi-
ness since April 1st, 1896. In conversa-
tion Cornelly said : ‘The ‘electric light
works would hardly be built up until they
would be burned down again.”” And asto
the court house he said it was only ‘‘a
d——n old shackle anyway, and would be
burned down some day.” Also, said:
“If I would stay in the town long enough
I would see a big blaze.” I did not try to
get him drunk in order to pump him.
(Gillespie’s main evidence not shaken. on
cross-examination. )
At conclusion judge Love said it was not
necessary to hear anything further, and
made an order holding Cornelly for court
in the sum of $6,000 bail.
In default of amount Cornelly was re-
manded to jail. ‘
OPO ror eeyeernieaes .
MR. FosTER—HIS WEATHER TALK.—
My last bulletin gave forecasts of the
storm wave to cross the continent from
19th to 23rd and the next will reach the Pa-
cific coast about the 24th, cross the west of
the Rockies country by the close of the
25th, great central valleys 26th to 28th and
eastern States 29th. A warm wave will
cross the! west of Rockies country about
the 24th, great central valleys 26th, and
eastern States 28th. A cool wave will
cross the west of the Rockies country about
the 27th, great central valleys the 29th and
eastern States July 1. The temperature of
the week ending June 19th will average
about normal in the great central valleys
and the gulf States, above normal in New
England States and below normal in the
South Atlantic States. The rainfall of the
week will be generally below normal and
in the southern States, middle Mississippi
valley, lower Ohio valley and the Missouri
valley dry weather will cause fears of dam-
ages to crops by drouth.
*Po ees
——Thieves up in Blair county must be
| industrious kind of fellows. The other
| night they robbed the tool house of A. G.
| Morris, and got away with enough of im-
| plements to accommodate a dozen ordinary
men,
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