BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings. -
—The politicians of Clearfield must be
pretty astute fellows, when they come
clear over into Centre county to help make
our post-masters.
—1It has often heen a cause of wonder-
ment to us as to whether DEMOSTHENES
picked up ‘“‘the only pebble on the beach,”
when he went to seek a cure for stuttering.
—They say that there were 73,068,000
people in these United States on August
1st. Based on that estimate the per capita
circulation would be $22.53. Nota very
large sum, yet we are one of a large army
who, we'll bet, would like to have their
share just now.
—1If labor organizations could only man-
age to get along without leaders how much
more of influence they would have. Of
course it is an impossibility, but it seems
too bad that labor should almost invaria-
bly be discredited by the asinine conduct
of the men it selects to represent it.
—MARK HANNA’S campaign of boodle,
to purchase his way back to the United
States Senate by way of the Ohio Legisla-
ture, promises to dump considerable gold
into the Buckeye State. Again the coun-
try reflects on that Urbana lynching and
the possibility of HANNA'S buying up the
Legislators for the whole State a very ex-
alted opinion of the native heath of our
President will hardly be formed.
—A woman out in Sakuache, Col., re-
cently gave birth to triplets and the evi-
dence of prosperity was received in such
high glee by the community that the com-
missioners of the county met and awarded
her $25. It is queer that no fuss was made
over the husband. He is the fellow who
ought to have received the reward. Any
one who is so unfortunate as to get them
three at a time needs all the substantial
sympathy he can gather in.
—Altoona has appeared with the latest
“‘gold-brick’ enterprise. A great story of
a gold strike in the Tussey mountains,
twenty-five miles south of that place, has
just been perpetrated on a gullible public.
It might be possible that gold has been
found in that region, but the fact of there
being quartz that assays from $529 to $625
per ton is a little more than the largest of
the suckers is willing to risk his digestive
apparatus on.
—The murder of Senor CANOVAS DEL
CASTILLO, the Spanish premier, on Sun-
day, will prove a serious misfortune to
Spain at this time. Not only because of
his intimate knowledge of her foreign af-
fairs, that have been so critical of late, but
the assassination will have a tendency to
lend fuel to the flamé of disordér and revo-
lutionary tendency that has been spread-
ing over that country since she has become
practically bankrupt through her Cuban
imbroglio.
—Republican county chairman W. E.
GRAY was slightly off his base when he
told the delegates, on Tuesday, that ‘‘one
vote would elect’’ their nominee for jury
commissioner this fall. Inasmuch as the
Prohibitionists polled 251 votes in the
county last fall it is almost certain that a
Republican candidate for jury commission-
er, who wakens up on the morning of the
third of next November and finds himself
with only one vote, will know that he has
come out at the little end of the horn, Mr.
GRAY’S optimistic views to the contrary
notwithstanding.
—Of the 110 appointments made to
consular positions since the incoming of
the present administration, six are credited
to Pennsylvania, and of the six not a single
one of them is known in politics, in busi-
ness, professionally, or otherwise outside
of the immediate vicinity in which he has
happened to live. Never before in the
history of the country has such a body of
utterly unknown and untried men been
selected to represent the business and other
interests of our people abroad.
—Rev. HARVEY GRAEME FURBAY, the
young Presbyterian divine, who left Ty-
rone to fill the pulpit in the Oxford Pres-
byterian church, in Philadelphia, has got-
ten into hotter water than he was when his
new congregation attacked his evident dis-
regard for clerical dignity, as evidenced in
such frivolous deportment as smoking cigar-
ettes, parting his hair in the middle and
riding a bicycle. He distinguished him-
self at Old Orchard, Mass., the other day,
by choking one of the members of his con-
gregation and is now under bail for assault.
The case promises to prove rich, rare and
racy and is likely to dampen the ardor of
those good Tyrone elders who are so prone
to pat themselves on the back and say that
FURBAY was once their pastor.
—Notwithstanding the most systematic
schemes of the monometallists to discredit
silver and pound its value down to such a
point that they might laugh at any one
who even suggested it as a money metal it
is keeping before the public with a persist-
ence that is significant. The experiences
of the last five months have been such as
to start people to thinking with far more
reason than they did, last fall, when six
and one half million of them thought the
single standard was not only a monopoly
for Wall street, but a distressful system
for the country at large. Every day some
county or state convention is reaffirming
its allegiance to the Chicago platform and
thus we see that the cause of silver, the
cause of the common people, has not been
forced down by the bloated money sharks
who have been trying to accomplish that
end.
A Contrast That Should Teach a Lesson.
One of the CRAMP brothers, of the great
shipbuilding firm of Philadelphia, visited
England during the Qaeen’s jubilee an‘,
although his observations were directed
chiefly to matters in his line of business,
his notice included the general business
condition of that country.
Mr. CRAMP has returned home and he
declares that the English are the most pros-
perous and contented people in the world.
He is led to this conclusion after having
closely observed the operations of its bus-
ness classes and the general condition of its
working people.
If the theories of our protectionists are
correct the Philadelphia shipbuilder should
not have found such a condition of affairs
in England. That country has been prac-
ticing free trade for the last half century.
Our tarriffites associate free trade with
pauperism, and it is to protect the Ameri-
can workingman against the alleged pauper
labor of England that high tariffs are said
to be necessary for this country.
The facts, as found by Mr. CRAMP. under
English free trade, compared with facts as
they are presented in this highly tariffed
country, do not sustain the theory of the
protectionists.
England has heen steadily prospering
without protective duties until her people
have reached a condition which compels
this American observer to recognize it as
one of unparalleled prosperity. He ob-
serves that not merely one class, but all
classes are prosperous and contented. He
fails to see the English pauper labor which
is so great a buga-boo to our tariffites, and
against which American workmen must
have the defence of a tariff wall.
In comparing this English condition, un-
der free trade, as observed by Mr. CRAMP,
with the situation in this country for some
years past, under the highest protective
tariff, a decided difference is presented.
The larger portion of our people are found
to be neither prosperous nor contented.
There is a class that each year is becoming
poorer. Prosperity that should he gen-
eral is confined to the managers of trusts
and monopolistic syndicates.
If free trade is the ruinous system that
it is represented to be by the protectionists,
and high tariffs are conducive to prosperity,
the comparative conditions of the two
countries ‘would be reversed. But Eng-
land is found to be flourishing in all her
industries without a tariff, while in these
United States, with duties that have been
carried to the extreme of protection, noth-
ing flourishes but the trusts.
This should be an object lesson to the
American people, but instead of profiting
by it they are going to have an enlarged
installment of monopolistic protection.
Hanna’s Ohio Campaign.
Even so staunch a Republican paper as
the Philadelphia Ledger objects to the
boodle campaign which MARK HANNA has
started in Ohio with the object of retaining
his seat in the United States Senate. That
paper says, ‘‘it is estimated that it will
cost $2,000,000,” and it adds that ‘such a
costly struggle for such an office can
scarcely be to the henefit of the commu-
nity.”’
The fact could be more forcibly stated by
saying that the expenditure of such a vast
amount of money for any office, or in any
political contest, exerts a corrupting influ-
ence, injurious to our popular institutions,
and that the employment of such means in
determining the result of elections must
eventually destroy the government of the
people.
It is really astounding to see with what
coolness this man HANNA sets about carry-
ing the Ohio election with money. There
is no attempt to conceal the design of secur-
ing his object by means of a scandalously
large amount of campaign boodle. He
goes at it as openly and deliberately as
if he were engaging in a legitimate trans-
action instead of undermining the basis of
free government by the corrupt use of
money in carrying elections.
It is alarming that the political situation
has become so demoralized and public sen-
timent so debauched, by Republican prac-
tices, that such methods as HANNA is em-
ploying in Ohio can be resorted to without
exciting general reprobation ; but the suc-
cess of his hoodle campaign last year, in
which the millions contributed by the
trusts and bankers secured MCKINLEY’S
election, has encouraged him to attempt to
carry Ohio this year in his own interest by
the same corrupt means.
Should not the people become aroused to
the danger of their government being en-
tirely subjected to the power of money in
politics, a calamity threatened by the
methods which MARK HANNA so boldly
resorts to for the control of elections? Is
this power to be confirmed by Ohio allow-
ing its politics to be corrupted by a $2,000,-
000 boodle fund for no other purpose than
to enable a millionaire monopolist to retain
his seat in the United States Senate ?
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
was misled by his own ignorance while he |
! was misleading others, for he is now seen, |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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“Prosperity” in the Coal Regions. {
When it is considered that the new tariff
has increased the duty on bituminous coal
27 per cent., and the mine workers, who
are on a strike, ask for an advance in their
wages of only 9 per cent., it must be ad-
mitted that their claim is very moderate.
With the advantage of such an enlargement
of protection to their product the operators
ought to be able to accord so small a bene-
fit to those who labor in their mines.
But instead of such fair treatment of |
their working people, which could be rea-
sonably expected of them since they have
secured the protective measure for which
they paid their money into the Republi-
can campaign fund last year, we find the
lords of the mines so determined not to
share the benefits of the new tariff with
the mine-workers that they would rather
risk the danger of a strike, with all the
attending disturbance, than to make the
slightest increase in the wages of the men
who dig the coal.
It is on account of this illiberality on
the part of those whom the DINGLEY tariff
makers have so greatly favored, that we
find the bituminous coal regions in dis-
order, and operations interrupted by a
strike just at the time when the return of
prosperity is being heralded by the Repub-
lican organs. Instead of prosperity a situ-
ation is presented in which thousands of
laborers stop work because their wages
scarcely afford them subsistence while their
scanty earnings are made still more meagre
by their being robbed of ‘‘the fifth ton’’
and plundered in the pluck-me store.
These are far from being an indication of
the return of the better times that have
been promised, and when to this unpro-
pitious situation of the mine workers is
added the probability of their getting the
military down on them, and being subjected
to ‘‘government by injunction,’’ it is made
quite evident that prosperity hasn’t just
yet struck the bituminous coal regions.
Lower Wages Follow Higher Duties.
The president of amalgamated association
of iron and steel workers must be a humor-
ous sort of an individual. He must have
been joking when in the presidential cam-
paign last year he told the iron and steel
workers from the stump that their wages
would be increased and their condition gen-
erally improved by the election of«Mc-
KINLEY, as their interest demanded the
superseding of the WiILsoN tariff by a
higher meusure of protection.
This must have been intended for a
joke. The person who made this declara-
tion could not have been serious in his as-
sertion. ‘We must either come to that con-
clusion or else regard him as one who did-
not know what he was talking about, and
as president of the iron and steel workers
associations, putting his hand and seal to
the wage scale for the coming year which |
in almost every item makes a reduction
from the rates that prevailed under the
WiLsoN tariff. !
This new scale was made within a week
of the DINGLEY tariff going into operation.
It was made when there was full assurance
that the iron and steel barons were going to
be favored with the highest tariff that ever
increased the profits of protected benefi-
ciaries. Yet in the face of that fact the
president of the iron and steel workers as-
sociation had to officially announce to the
members of that organization that undege
such a tariff there would be a reduction of
wages.
If the workers in that line of industry
regard this reduced scale as only a tempo-
rary arrangement that will eventually be
followed by an advanee in wages, the
recollection of the Homestead incident un-
der the McKINLEY tanff should dispel
that hope.
— — JAMES P. FAREWELL, notary pub-
lic for Grampian, Clearfield county, imag-
ined that he enjoyed the same exalted pre-
rogatives, as notary as he had during his
ten years service as a justice of the peace,
to which postion of dignity the people of
that place failed to re-elect him at the last
election. With this serene conception of
his official functions he continued tying
matrimonial knots, a business he had been
popular at while a justice. The court offi-
cials at Clearfield refused to accept his re-
turns of marriages and wrote the authori-
ties at Harrisburg for an opinion on the
matter. Attorney general MCCORMICK
promptly returned an opinion that a nota- |
ry public has no authority to perform the
marriage ceremony. Well, you can easily
imagine what a commotion such iuforma-
tion has had on recent brides and grooms
turned out by the versatile FAREWELL.
None of them are legally married and
women are frantic lest they be deserted by
their husbands, while the latter are kick-
ing because they will have to put up anoth-
er fee to get married.
—The post-mastership at State College
having been settled AL' DALE has taken
another leap toward the pinnacle of Re-
publican boss-ship in Centre county.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 13. 1897.
As Bradstreet Views It.
While no one would hail the return of
prosperity with greater satisfaction than
we would or more gratefully accept the
benefits of improved business conditions,
vet we must confess that we do not see
the evidences of the industrial revival
which Republican organs profess to see
following closely on the heels of the DING-
LEY tariff.
As a matter of course there will be some
improvement, for a country with such im-
mense natural resources can not be kept in
a condition of absolute prostration even by
Republican monetary and fiscal measures,
but the improvement will be in spite of
such policies, instead of being promoted by
them. :
BRADSTREET, one of the most reliable of
observers, has been looking over the bus-
iness situation and thinks he sees signs of
a revival, but when those signs are ana-
lyzed it is found they are not due to the
new tariff. In BRADSTREET’S views there
are eight indications that a new prosperity
is actually beginning.
1. That the crops are good.
That this will have an improving effect
can not be denied, but how is the new tar-
iff entitled to any credit for it?
2. The great advance in the price of
wheat and cotton is pouring an increased
amount of money into the pockets of our
farmers.
Are any thanks due to DINGLEY for this
improvement? His tariff has not furnished
a market for an additional bushel of wheat
or pound of cotton, nor added a cent to their
market value.
4. The short crops in Europe, India and
Argentina assure a continuance of these
high prices for the balance of the season.
Is this situation abroad, so favorable to
our farmers, attributable in anyway to Re-
publican tariff legislation ?
4. There is everywhere among the farm-
ers a feeling of hopefulnesss which has not
existed for a number of years past.
Does this hopefulness spring from any
benefit which the DINGLEY tariff has af-
forded them ?
_ 5. Railway earnings, everywhere, show
improvement.
Is not this almost entirely due to inereas-
&d freight caused by the foreign demand
for our grain ?
6. Our exports for the last year have
been so enormously in excess of our im-
ports as to make us very heavily a creditor
nation.
But as these excessive exports were made
under the WILSON tariff, how is DINGLEY
entitled to credit for this as one of the
causes of returning prosperity ?
Thus it is seen that of these six indica-
tions of a business revival, as presenting
themselves to BRADSTREET, not one of
them owes its origin to any effect which the
new tariff may have produced.
Two more indications of reviving busi-
ness are catalogued, namely : ‘‘Merchants
are everywhere replenishing their stocks of
goods as they have not done for several
| years past, and manufacturers are begin-
ning to anticipate the new demand for
goods.”’
These last two signs are rather the re-
sult of an expectation that the new tariff is
going to be a benefit than a realization of
any good it has done.
But on the whole itis seen that every
substantial indication of business improve-
ment is in lines of production and industry
with which the DINGLEY tariff has no con-
nection, and can have none except as a
hindrance, and that the revival indicated
by them would have come, with a better as-
surance of remaining permanently, if
DINGLEY and the trusts had not jammed a
monopoly tariff through Congress.
Falling Into Line.
The Democrats, who so courageously
stood up for the maintenance of Demo-
cratic principles in the last presidential
contest, and battled for the system of cur-
rency which the framers of the constitution
engrafted into the provisions of the organic
law, can look back upon their defeat with-
out shame or self-reproach, and forward to
the future with encouragement.
The correctness of their position on the
money question is being vindicated by the
continued evidences that the monometal-
lism of the goldbugs is devrescing the
prosperity of the masses, There is con-
tinued and cumulative proof that while it
increases the wealth of a class it injures the
general condition of the people.
As the evidence of this fact becomes
more convincing to the public understand-
ing, the Democratic party is strengthened
in the position it has taken in support of
silver as co-ordinate with gold in all mone-
tary functions. Itis seen that many of the
Democrats, who separated from the party
last year on this issue, are now accepting
the constitutional doctrine in regard to sil-
ver enunciated in its last national platform.
For example, the gold Democracy of
Georgia are returning to the Democratic
fold, prominent among whom is Mr. F. G.
DuBIGNON, who was a leader of the gold
bolters last year and ran as such against
ex-speaker CRISP for the United States
Senate. He now says that there is but one
Democratic party in the United States, and
that to continue as a so-called ‘‘JEFFER-
SONIAN”’ Democrat is merely rendering dis-
creditable service to the party of trusts,
protected monopolies and pampered mil-
lionaires.
This conviction is bringing the gold
Democrats back into the party that de-
mands a currency of gold and silver ; as
prescribed by the constitution.
A FRAGMENT.
T. B. BRUBAKER.
Roll in, O restless sea,
As into life there flows,
That destiny for you and me,
Which out of action grows.
Roll out, belated tide ;
Tis ours to touch and sever ;
Then on eternal waters glide
Forever and forever.
Roll on majestic waves,
As tine relentless flies ;
Life finds not that it craves,
Nor thou, for all thy sighs.
————
The Tail Still Trying to Wag the Dog.
From the Altoona Times.
Mr. William B. Given, of Lancaster
county, chairman-of the Jeffersonian party
in Pennsylvania, evidently is not suffering
with an over-plus of the virtue of modesty.
He had himself interviewed last Friday, of
which fact the readers of Saturday’s Times
are aware. Mr. Given talks as if he were
the leader of a powerful party. If we were
not as familiar as we are with recent elec-
tion statistics we might suppose that the
Jeffersonian party in Pennsylvania had at
least 200,000 or 300,000 voters in its mem-
bership. Judging from his remarks we
would be led to suppose that it holds the
balance: of power in our state’s politics.
Putting aside the discussion of that ques-
tion for the time being we call attention to
the fact that, by virtue of a call issued by
Mr. Given, the Jeffersonian state commit-
tee will meet at the hotel Walton, in
Philadelphia, on the 2nd day of next
month. This will be just two days after
the meeting of the Democratic convention
at Reading, an event which was probably
considered in fixing the time for the com-
mittee’s session.
‘We have not, however, any intention of
trying to dissuade Mr. Given and his com-
mitteemen from holding their meeting at
Philadelphia next month. Let them go
ahead and make what they can out of their
movement. We are not trying to keep
this interesting meeting in obscurity. We
would not think of trying to interfere with
the legitimate amusements of Mr. Given
and his followers.
there are very few: men in Pennsylvania
who care to follow the distinguished chair-
man of the Jeffersonians. Last year Pal-
mer and Buckner polled about 11,000 votes
in this State. How many of them are
willing to maintain their diminutive or-
ganization? If they want the gold stand-
ard they will go over tothe Republican
party. and if they wish to be Democrats
they will join with the regular Democracy.
Whatever may have been the prospects of
the Jeffersonians engrafting their views on
the Democratic organization there is no
hope now of any such event coming to
pass. The Democracy is more enthusiastic
to-day in its advocacy of bimetallism than
it was six months ago and attempts to turn
the hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania
Democrats from the principles of the Chi-
cago platform have no other effect than to
exasperate them and make them more de-
termined than ever to support the policies
laid down in that document.
There is but a handful, it may be said,
of Jeffersonians in this State and there is
no use of them maintaining a separate or-
ganization. The best thing that they can
do is to join the regular Democracy, the
only custodian of Democratic principles, to
which they will be heartily welcomed. Of
course, it is understood that if they join
the Democratic party they will accept its
declarations on the currency and every
other question. The decisions given at the
Chicago convention are not to be consider-
ed as worthless by new recruits of the Dem-
ocracy or any of its old members. It is
understood, therefore, that Jeffersonians
are not wanted in the Democratic party if
they intend to produce factional dissen-
sions. That will not be allowed and most
of the Jeffersonians have sense enough to
know it.
Where Delinguents Will Be Found.
From an Unknown Exchange.
An editor died and slowly wended his
way down to the place where he supposed
a warm welcome awaited him. The devil
met him and said : ‘‘Formany years thou
hast been blamed for the bad spelling
the printer has gotten into the paper. The
paper has gone out for one dollar, and, alas!
the money has failed to come in. The
printer has bedriven thee for wages when
thou hast not a darn farthing to thy name.
People have taken thy paper without pay-
ing for it and cursed thee for not having a
better sheet. Thou hast heen called a
dead beat by the railroad conductors when
thou hast shown an annual pass to their en-
vious gaze. All these wrongs thou hast
born in silence. ‘‘Thou shalt not enter
here.’” And as the devil turned to go
away, he muttered: ‘‘Heaven is his
home, and besides if I had let him enter he
would have been dunning his delinquent
subscribers and thus creating discord in my
kingdom.”’
A Useless Outlay.
From the Clearfield Republican,
Philip E. Womelsdorff, of Philipsburg,
announces, in the Philipsburg Ledger of this
week, that he is a candidate for the Repub-
lican senatorial nomination in the Thirty-
fourth district to succeed M. L. MeQuown.
‘Little Phil’’ was in the Legislature dur-
ing the session of 1895-96 and made some-
what of a record for himself as a general
all-around anti-Hastings kicker. He was
strong enough to get his party nomination
for re-election in 1896 but was downed at
the election right in the town of Bellefonte.
Phil is an honest little cuss, but a Demo-
crat will succeed Senator McQuown and
he may just as well save his wind and wad.
Still, we think~ that,
Spawls from the Keystone.
—PF'ree haths are to be established in Pitts-
burg.
—An extensive system of dikes is proposed
to protect the city of Williamsport from
floods.
—John Healy, a boy driver in No. 10
mines, at Pittston, was run overand killed
by a car.
—Dr. McKnight, president of Gettysburg
college, is seriously ill with congestion of the
brain.
—Grant Alexander, a well-known char-
acter of DuBois, was fatally shot in a drunk-
en carnival.
—DMembers of the Smith family will, on
August 19th, hold a reunion at Lakemont
park, Blair county.
—The Queen city shirt manufacturing
company has located in Allentown and will
employ over 50 hands.
—Employes of the Sherdon axle works, at
Wilkesbarre, have been notified of acut in
their wages.
—The Patriotic Order Sons of America will
hold its semi-centennial celebration at Read-
ing from August 23rd to 27th.
—A fall from the seat of a high wagon is
likely to prove fatal for Samuel Kline, of
Marietta, Lancaster county.
—Injuries sustained in the collapse of a
wagon shed caused the death of David Sites,
a Chambersburg carpenter.
—In attempting to board a moving train
Harry Pierson, of Pottstown, fell under the
wheels and lost an arm.
—As the result of injuries received in a
friendly scufiling bout, Charles Burhard died
at Honesdale, Wayne county.
—The union lathers of Scranton struck,
Monday, for higher wages, according to an
agreement made Friday night.
—Bridge builder James Sullivan fell from
a railroad trestle near Ringtown, Schuylkill
county, and died soon afterwards.
—Over 3000 people witnessed the baptism
by immersion of a dozen converts to the
Christian Holiness faith, at Hazleton.
—~Grant Alexander, shot in a fight at Du-
Bois, on Friday night, died Sunday without
being able to tell who inflicted his wound.
—A new silk mill has been started at
Alburtis, Lehigh county, with 25 hands, and
later in the season 100 will be employed.
—William Kerrigan, a miner, fell’300 feet
down the Von Storch shaft, near Scranton,
and his body was terribly crushed.
—On account of ill health Max Schwiebst
has tendered his resignation as postmaster at
East Mauch Chunk, Carbon county.
—Charged with pocket-book snatching
from Mrs. Edwin Cassell, at Lebanon, Daniel
Cochran has been lodged in jail.
—Several tramps attacked Trueman Sheetz,
a York cigarmaker, at Lebanon, and, after
taking all his money, made their escape.
—Many people were present Sunday when
Rev. C. Newton Dubs, of Harrisburg, laid the
corner stone for the First United Evangelical
church, at Lebanon.
—Simon Dissinger, a Lebanon truck driver,
tried to pass in front of a Cornwall and
Lebanon passenger train and was badly hurt
in the smash-up.
—Growing dizzy on a merry-go-round, at
Lakeside, Susquehanna county, Mrs. John
Griffiths fell off and sustained injuries that
may prove fatal.
—Dr. Kirby Smith, professor of Latin at
Johns Hopkins University, had his collar-
bone broken by a fall from a bicycle, at
Milford, Pike county.
—One of the oldest fishermen along the
Susquehanna river, John Tarbert, of Col-
umbia, Lancaster county, has been stricken
with paralysis and will probably die.
—The people of Macungie, Lehigh county,
refused to receive a car load of fresh air chil-
dren from New York because they believed
the waifs to be unclean and unmannerly.
—Several freight cars broke loose on the
Western Maryland railroad, near Alten-
wald, Franklin county, and, running back,
wrecked a train following.
—Three thousand descendants of George
Bortner, who settled in Codorus township,
York county, over 150 years ago, held a re-
union Sunday at the old homestead.
-—Wallace Flaig, of Lock Haven, aged 18
years, was instantly killed Saturday after-
noon by the wheel of a loaded wagon passing
over his head. His father and brother saw
him killed.
—Near Johnsonburg, Friday, Mrs. Samuel
Johnson, in handling a revolver, accidentally
discharged it. The ball passed through the
child’s head, who was standing at her knee,
killing it instantly.
—W. L. Betts, of Clearfield, has secured
the contract for furnishing stone for the
abutments of the state bridge at Catawissa.
Senator White hasthe contract for the bridge
at $81,000.
—John Kunkle, of Altoona, an employe
of the upper wheel foundry, died at 100’clock
Friday night from cramps, brought on from
drinking ice water while over-heated. Kun-
kle was seized with sickness shortly after
drinking two tin cups of ice water Thursday
afternoon. When he went home he was
seemingly well again, but was seized with
cramps that night. On Friday night the
cramps returned. The attending physician
says the ice water caused his death.
—Hamilton Smith, a farmer who lived
near Ligonier and his daughter Georgie, a
milliner, of Derry, were instantly killed at
the latter place, on Saturday evening. They
were driving over the railway bridge, when
the horse took fright and plunged over the
bridge with the vehicle. Father, daughter
and horse were killed by the fall to the
tracks, forty feet below.
—Professor John Hamilton, the deputy
secretary of agriculture, in making his ap-
portionment of institutes for each county has
made such arrangements that the depart-
ment will furnish at least two lecturers to
each county for institute work during the
season on the basis of two days of institute
to every county having not over 1,000 farms;
three days to each county having more than
1,000 and not over 1,500 ; afterward, one day
each for 1,500 farms or fraction thereof ad-
ditional. This insures department aid to
each county in proportion to its agricultural
interests.