Demorvaic: Waidyuan
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The Klondyke would be a popular
field for the colonization of tramps. There
are only three months in a year when they
can risk a bath up there.
—It will be in order for undertakers to
set up a howl because the new tariff has
made it possible for the trust to push the
price of cigarettes up a few cents on a pack.
—An edict has emanated from imperial
sources in Morocco prohibiting the use of
bicycles in that country. Old Sol evi-
dently has a cinch on the scorching over
there.
—As it is said to be suicidal to attempt
to reach the Klondyke, via the Chilkoot
pass, now those who do get through may
be said to have taken the gold cure for
their yellow fever.
—Government by injunction has begun
in Pennsylvania. The liberty of the min-
ers has been taken from them and this
great and glorious free country has taken
one more hop, skip and jump towards a
moneyed plutocracy.
—Talk about the possibility of war be-
tween Spain and the United States. Why
it has taken WEYLER two years to demon-
strate to his government that he is a fail-
ure, while the veriest school hoy in the
United States saw it long ago.
—1In the Sunday edition of a Philadel-
phia newspaper, there was published, re-
cently, a long list of inventions to prevent
absent-mindedness. Singularly enough
the virtue in getting married was not even
suggested to the bachelors troubled in this
way.
——The Harrisburg News, the bright
daily that has grown so rapidly as the
representative of the union printers of the
capitol city, was two years old on the 12th
inst. The second anniversary was cele-
brated by an issue of a forty-eight page
industrial edition.
—The business of supplying human
dummies to London stores has become
quite a remunerative one for agencies on
the other side. It is no job to find them
over there, you know. All that don’t get
American heiresses are necessarily open for
any kind of an engagement.
—The fact that the mind of the coming
Democratic state convention is already
practically made up on the advisability of
re-iterating the Chicago platform is evi-
dence that the Democrats of Pennsylvania
are not ready to eschew a single utterance
that they fought for last fall.
—TERRENEE V. POWDERLY has been
made commissioner of immigration and
the organized labor of the United States
has received a rebuff at the hands of the
administration. It will be serving a dual
purpose to wish that TERRY will have
nothing, or at least very little, to do dur-
ing his term. The fewer immigrants the
better.
—This thing of cities like New York,
Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia baiting
country merchants for the purpose of sell-
ing them goods seems to be very popular
and will undoubtedly continue so until
the merchants wake up to the fact that for
every cent in entertainment they receive
they pay just that much extra for the goods
they purchase. It is the old flim-flam in a
new way.
—So Mr. JAMES ISRAEL is of the opinion
that ‘‘Governor HASTINGS is too smart to
enter the lists with QUAY for a seat in the
United States Senate’’ and he puts his
plaster further into the gubernatorial eye
by asserting that such a contest could only
end in the defeat of both the great (?)
bosses. It is strange that Jim didn’t dis-
cover some of this smartness when the
Governor tried to down QUAY in ’95.
—The duel between the Count of TURIN
and Prince HENRI of Orleans resulted rather
disastrously to the latter. The two
youngsters went to cutting one another
with swords all because the Orleanist
made a truthful, though slightly uncom-
plimentary remark about the Italian army
officers. Duelling has become almost a
lost art, yet there are a few who still ape
the semi-civilized customs of antique royal-
ty.
—The Governor must be imagined to
possess all the versatility of the noted
Italian artist who astounded American
theatre goers last season by impersonating
all the characters in a well presented drama.
The latest turn the newspapers would have
him do is be a candidate for Congress in this
district. It appears like quite a drop from
a ‘‘go” at the United States Senatorship,
and as there is no danger of his getting
either the Pittsburg Dispatch traduces (?)
the ambition of a great (?) statesman by
even intimating such a thing.
—The action of the English press in try-
ing to besmirch TEN EYCK, the Worcester,
Mass., boy who won the Diamond sculls
at the Henley regatta, is being roundly
censured by sportsmen all over the world.
“The English spirit of fair play’’ seems to
exist only in mythology, as they have
given so many illustrations of baby-tactics
of late. Because TEN EYCK is the honor-
able son of a professional oarsman the
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_VOL.42
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
AUG. 20, 1897.
NO. 32.
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How We Can Have Harmony. |
It is neither necessary to indite long edi-
torials nor to submit to lengthy inter-
views, to prove to any one the necessity
for or the advantage of Democratic har-
mony in the State, if there would be Demo-
cratic hope. To secure complete Demo-
cratic harmony should be a very easy mat-
ter. Simply let men who pretend to be
Democrats Je Democrats and harmony is
secured.
Our late enemies, the ‘‘gold Democrats,’
who at this time profess the greatest desire
for harmony and who so lately have be-
come impressed with its benefits and its
advantages, have a perfect right to elect to
the coming state convention all the dele-
gates they can. In that convention the
delegates elected by them will be accorded
the right to the fullest expression of opin-
ion ; to advocate any line of policy they
deem proper and to secure the adoption of
any platform of principles that a majority
of that convention may believe to be right
and timely. If they succeed in impressing
their views and their line of policy upon
the party, every Democrat within the limits
of the State will acquiesce in his action
and will give earnest and hearty support
to the ticket nominated. Harmony will
thus be secured because the minority will
bow to the will of the majority.
On the other hand, if the ‘‘gold Demo-
crats’’ go to Reading with a desire for
harmony, determined to act as Democrats,
and willing to do just what they would
expect others to do in case their ideas of a
platform and policy were adopted, they will
submit to such action as the convention
may see proper to take, and will give
honest support to the ticket named, and
thus harmony will be secured.
So that, after all, the power to insure
harmony is in the hands of those now so
seemingly anxious for it. They have only
to be Democrats, recognizing the basic prin-
ciples of Democracy—the right of the ma-
Jority to rule, and they will have just what
they now profess to want so anxiously.
Relative Price of Wheat and Silver.
Much talk is being heard from the gold-
ites just now about the rise in the price of
wheat and the decline in that of silver.
They speak of it as if it proved something
that militates with the claim of the silver
advocates that the low price of wheat had
an association with the low price to which
silver had been brought by demonetization.
For example, our gold-bug contemporary,
the Philadelphia’ Times, gloats over the
fact that ‘‘the price of wheat continues to
advance steadily until it is rapidly ap-
proaching the dollar mark,” and that
while this is going on, ‘‘the price of silver
continues to decline steadily until it has
nearly reached the point of making our
standard silver dollar worth 40 cents.”
This separation in the price of wheat and
silver, one going up while the other is
going down, the Times thinks should con-
found the ‘‘blatant demagogues’”’ who
have made the farmers believe that the
price of wheat was low in consequence of
the depreciation in the value of silver,
thereby ignoring, as the Zimes claims, ‘‘the
inexorable law of supply and demand,
which teaches that silver, wheat and other
products will be cheap when abundant and
dear when scarce.”
In fumbling around for something ex-
planatory of this separation in the price of
wheat and silver, whereby to confute the
contention of the silver advocates that the
prices of farm products and silver keep
company, our gold-bug contemporary gets
hold of the law of supply and demand,
which, in this case, answers excellently
as an explanation, without, however,
strengthening the goldite argument.
At this time there is a shortage of wheat
in the foreign markets. The farmers of
this country are called on to supply this
deficiency, and this demand, together with
the assistance rendered in bullying the
price by the speculators, has given wheat a
market value. much ahove what it has
regularly been for some years past. But
is it going to keep at that price perma-
nently after this unusual foreign demand
has ceased ? When this exceptional defi-
ciency abroad has been supplied, and the
gamblers have stopped wrestling with each
other in the Chicago wheat pit, will not
this cereal be seen sinking down again to
its price in the market which has heen so
long maintained relatively to the value of
silyer ?
There can scarcely be a doubt that this
will be the case. It will not be long be-
fore the Times will see wheat down again
to figures which are its inevitable price,
together with low prices for all other farm
products, as a consequence of the depre-
ciation of silver caused by its demonetiza-
‘“‘upper-crust,”” who are accustomed to | tion.
|
meet at Henley every year to measure
their skill on the water, have made a great
——1It is quite probable that by the time
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adoo of having been compromised by a | the striking coal miners get through with
contest with such a democratic character. | the injunctions the Republican courts have
The young American is an amateur, pure
and simple, he defeated them all in a fair
and square race and it is to his credit if he
made the English ‘‘upper-crust’’ as soggy
as the under crust of a three day old huckle-
berry pie.
issued, to restrain them from exercising
their constitutional rights, they will real-
ize the efforts made by the Democrats last
fall to prevent just such outrages when
they declared, through the Chicago plat-
he, and others similarly ‘affected, can dis:
form, against ‘government by injunction.”
Our Goldite Brethren.
We sympathize with those so-called
sound money Democrats who followed Mr.
CLEVELAND in his bolt from the Demo-
cratic ranks, and now want to get back
again, but won’t come except on their own
terms. Notwithstanding ‘their escapade
we still have a fraternal feeling for them,
just as we would for brethren who had left
the family roof-tree and, having made fools
of themselves by going away, would like
to return to the old homestead.
There is room in the old party and a
hearty welcome for those who strayed
away, if they come back in the right spirit,
but the glad hand can’t be extended to
JEFFERSONIANS like BENJAMIN C. POTTS,
of Delaware county, who, in speaking of
the Democrats that stood by the party can-
didates and party principle in the last
presidential campaign, scornfully terms
them ‘‘the heterogeneous elements that en-
dorsed the monstrous perversion of Demo-
cratic faith put forth by the Chicago plat-
form.”’
Mr. Ports’ language shows the effects of
his being in bad company. Had he not
allowed Mr. CLEVELAND to lead him off
among the goldbugs of Wall street and the
bankers who have grown rich and arrogant
from the profits of gold loans, he would
not call that plank in the Chicago plat-
form which declared for the money of the
constitution and the currency of JEEFER-
soN and JACKSON, ‘‘a perversion of Demo-
cratic faith.”” It must be from his bad
association that he contracted the idea that
the platform declaration in defence of local
self government and in condemnation of
‘‘government by injunction,’’ was not in
strict conformity with the Democratic
faith as enunciated and maintained by the
fathers of the party. Maybe it is the
clause in the platform which denounced |
public spoliation by monopoly tariffs that
excites Mr. PorTs’ condemnation, for it
would not be surprising if his association
with gold bugs should make him friendly
to the trusts and other monopolies that
profit from tariff taxation.
It is evident that something that has
affected Mr. PorTs’ views has greatly warp-
ed his Democratic principles. But still if
card these erroneous notions, and get back
on solid Democratic ground, they may
again train with the party that was so
heroically led by WILLIAM J. BRYAN in
the last campaign, and is bound to be vic-
torious on the principles of the Chicago
platform.
Government by Injunction.
If there is any plank in the last Demo-
cratic national platform that more than
any other calls for re-iteration, and should
be made more emphatic, it is the plank
that denounces government by injunction.
That declaration of the Democracy at
Chicago was called forth by encroachment
upon the constitutional rights of the peo-
ple. The constitution guarantees to every
citizen the right of being tried by a jury in
all cases in which the charge may effect
his life, liberty or property. This right
had been violated in one of the courts of
the land, which set a precedent under
which the citizen may be subjected to an
unconstitutional process that sets aside the
trial by jury and authorizes his imprison-
ment upon the mere injunction of a judi-
cial officer.
The dangerous precedent set in the
DxBss case, when that person was denied a
jury trial and condemned to imprisonment
by an order issued from the bench, has
borne its fruit in the arbitrary action of a
court in West Virginia against the poor
half-starved miners who are asking for an
increase of wages.
Those strikers had not disturbed the
peace ; they had committed no act of vio-
lence ; they were doing nothing which they
could be lawfully prohibited from doing,
when the influence of their wealthy and
more powerful employers induced judge
JACKSON to issue an injunction that was
intended to make criminals of them for ex-
ercising a right that constitutionally be-
longed to them.
When it is observed that this is a grow-
ing evil which threatens to destroy the
right of trial by jury and this abuse of
legal power is designed chiefly for the op-
pression of the poorer and more defence-
less class, who are thereby made easier
victims of predatory wealth, the Demo-
crats should repeat their declaration against
“government by injunction’ with increas-
ed emphasis.
——One of the strongest reasons the ad-
vocates of the endorsement of the Chicago
platform by the Reading convention will
have to present, is the fact that it con-
demns ‘‘government by injunction.” Just
now the party that would fail to record its
condemnation of such usurpation of power
by the courts as is to be seen every day
throughout the districts affected by the
coal miners strike, would meet with about
the same kind of a public statement that
the apologists for the acts of the PINKER-
TON detectives during the Homestead |
strikes of 1892 did. |
The ‘Jeffersonian’ Prodigals,
There appears to be extraordinary anxie-
ty on the part of the gold Democrats, or
so called JEFFERSONIANS, concerning the
principles that will be set forth as the
basis of the Democratic state campaign.
They express it as their conviction that
silver should be entirely dropped, and as
little as possible said in endorsement of
the Chicago platform. If this is done they
will he willing to give the party their val-
uable assistance in chastising the Republi-
cans for their corrupt state administration
and profligate legislation, and for the roh-
bery which they have allowed the trusts
and other monopolies to practice upon the
American people.
Giving these gold Democrats credit for
their good intentions in this matter, we
are, nevertheless, constrained to question
their modesty. Isn’t it rather cheeky for
a few thousand bolters to ask nearly a balf
million of Democrats to discard their prin-
ciples as the only condition upon which
they (the bolters) will be willing to come
back to the party fold ?
Among the most prominent of these
principles is that relating to silver. It is
eminently Democratic, as it is based on
the constitution and is in accord with the
monetary doctrines and practices of JEF-
FERSON and JACKSON, hoth of whom fav-
ored a currency consisting equally of silver
and gold. Besides nothing has occurred
since last year to show that the Democratic
contention for free silver in the BRYAN
campaign was fallacious. The business
of the country continues depressed under
the effects of gold monometallism, and
even a Republican President has sent com-
missioners abroad to ask European govern-
ments to allow us to take advantage of bi-
metallism.
In addition to the absence of any reason
why the Democrats of Pennsylvania should
renounce free silver to placate the ‘JEFFER-
SONIANS,’’ isn’t it a little too much for the
handfull of Democratic goldites to demand
that the great body of the party, by dis-
carding the Chicago platform, should admit
that they were the repudiators, anarchists
and enemies of the national credit and
honor that they were represented to be both
by the followers: of Mr. CLEVELAND and’
the hirelings of MARK HANNA.
It is desirable, or at least not objectional,
to haye the ‘‘JEFFERSONTANS’’ back in the
Democratic fold, but they should not ex-
pect to get back on the terms they propose.
Wouldn't it be more becoming for them to
come back as repentant prodigal, without
expecting much veal to be offered them
on their return ?
A Strong Indicator.
The recent special election in the con-
gressional district in Indiana that was
represented by the deceased judge HOLMAN,
teaches a lesson which should make the
Democrats stand firmly to the principles
they maintained in last year’s contest.
With free silver as the issue last year
HoLMAN was elected by a majority of
about 800. With the same issue this year
GRIFFITH, as the Democratic candidate in
the district, is elected by a majority of
1,152. The fight was made on the same
lines that divided the parties a year ago.
The doctrines of the Chicago platform were
directly involved. So great a desire was
entertained by the Republicans to defeat
the Democratic candidate on the silver
question that some of the ablest gold
champions of that section were brought
in to stump the district. The result has
been a decided gain in the majority for
free silver and the principles of the Chicago
platform.
It was scarcely necessary to have such a
confirmation of the fact that the doctrines
upon which the Democrats made their
fight last year have lost none of the sup-
port which they then received. There are
strong reasons why they should have gained
in the confidence and support of the peo-
ple, these reasons being so obvious that
there should be no hesitation in putting
those doctrines forward in the state con-
tests this year.
——The New York Zribune’s literary
epicure has turned up his nose at ‘““The
Christian,’’ the latest chef-d’cuvre in fiction
by HALL CAINE, and insists thatit isa
mere magic lantern show of the veracities |
of life and that the leading characters are
aught but puppets, not akin to nature and
not calculated to arrest cultured attention.
Like his ‘‘Manxman’ and ‘‘Deemster,’’
‘The Christian’’ might be called a peculiar
work. Simple in the manner of telling an
intensely interesting and sad story of the
hypocrisy of life in a great city like Lon-
don it easily appeals to the most intelligent
class of readers. And so faras the Zvi-
bune’s allusion to the ‘‘depressing nature’’
of the humorous passages is concerned we
are quite convinced that no more genuine,
nor purer wit has appeared for a long while
than the letters of GLORY QUAYLE teem
with.
-——~NSubscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Gold and Silver.
A. E. Kitson in the
Guardian.
Sir,—Lieutenant Colonel Dolphin’s let-
ter in yesterday’s *‘Guardian’’ wisely calls
the attention of the public to the bimetal-
lic question, which undoubtedly requires
prompt action and the united support of
all who are interested in the growth and
development of trade.
Surely, manufacturers whose profits year
by year ave declining ; landlords whose
lands are mortgaged at excessive rates of
interest and who find it difficult to collect
rents ; farmers who have to sell at falling
vrices all their products and are unable to
lay anything by after paying rent and
taxes ; the working classes, dependent upon
manufacturers and employers generally ior
a livelihood, who long to see better days
when they can obtain higher wages, free
from strikes and lockouts, live in better
houses, give to their families some of the
luxuries of this world, and leave behind
them a sufficiency for widow and orphans ;
the unemployed, who have a commodity
(labour, the most perishable but the most
valuable of all commodities) which if not
instantly disposed of or utilized is lost and
gone forever ; the investor and capitalist
whose funds are tied up in securities and
investments that are adversely affected by
every movement of gold from one capital
to another, and by every war scare, as well
as every fluctuation in trade—surely all
these will join heartily in a movement to
rehabilitate silver, and thereby retard the
absorption and the monopoly of the money
of the realm by the bankers and money-
lenders, who toil not and produce nothing
better than bankrupts and paupers, who
wield a mightier influence than a Ciesar,
who defy Goverments and enforce submis-
sion to their will.:
Thomas Jefferson said ‘he believed bank-
ing institutions to be more dangerous to
the liberties of the people than standing
armies.”’ Probably no greater question
ever came before the public ; the longer it
is neglected the more difficult its solution
becomes. It therefore behoves its support-
ers to speak out in unmistakable language,
for we find arrayed against us not only the
money lords but also the London press,
which seems to be a mere apologist for the
single gold standard. Will the people for
ever submit to the protection of one com-
modity to the detriment of all others? And
will they allow themselves to he misled by
such catch phrases as ‘‘honest money,”
‘sound money,’ &e., as frequently used
by the gold monopolists, who oppose every-
thing that tends to cheapen their commodi-
ty or to open the people’s eyes to its gross
injustice ? Let the people see to it that at
the next elections no man. ic el Weed to
Parliament, be he Liberal, Radical, Tory,
or Unionist, unless he is heartily in sym-
pathy with the remonetization of silver.
Then we may see the idle hands employed
at remunerative wages constantly, the
standard of living, together with the whole
social fabric, raised to a higher plane, and
the complete overthrow of the world’s
greatest tyrant—gold monometallism,—
which has chained India down to a pro-
longed state of barbarism and retarded the
advancement of civilization and Christian-
ity for a quarter of a century throughout
the world.
Manchester, England,
Rather Hard on the Soldiers.
From the Bellefonte Patron.
When Gov. D. H. Hastings and his
financial advisers were anxiously casting
about to ascertain where appropriations
might be scaled down with the least detri-
ment to the common interest of the State,
it is a marvel they did not think of the
munificent amount set apart, annually, for
the N. G. P. It occurs to us that it would
have stood a handsome cut without any
serious loss to the morals or integrity of
the State. None but the fellows that fol-
low up the encampments and furnish the
beer and whiskey, would have complained.
Bryan to Stump Ohio.
He and Others Will Speak for the Cause of Silver.
CorLuMBUS, Aug. 16.—It is now definite-
ly settled that Wm. Jennings Bryan will
make a series of speeches in behalf of the
Ohio Democratic state and legislative
tickets. Senators Jones, of Nevada, and
Jones, of Arkansas; Congressman H. F.
Bartine, Charles A. Towne, national sec-
retary of the silver forces; John R.
Sovereign and other labor leaders have
also accepted invitations, and will stump
the state for McLean and Chapman.
The Democrats believe that a victory
for silver in Ohio this year would be of
great significance, and would be construed
by the nation as a rebuke on the part of
the people of McKinley’s own state of the
policy of his administration. As Allen
O. Myers stated in the letter which he
sent out to the country editors, asking
them to accept his campaign literature, the
campaign on the part of the Democrats is
to be conducted on the still-hunt plan
until the speech-making campaign is open-
ed, about the middle of September, and
then an aggressive campaign is to be made.
It is said that Governor Bushnell is to
be forced to either accept or decline an
invitation to meet the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in joint debate.
Lycoming County Democrats.
By Resolution They Call on William Harrity to Re-
sign.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Aug. 17.—At the
Democratic county convention to-day Na-
than Bryon was nominated for jury com-
missioner. The freesilver wing ruled the
convention, and among the resolutions was
the following :
‘We call upon William F. Harrity to re-
sign the position which he now holds as
Democratic national chairman from Penn-
sylvania. He has declared his antagonism
to the principals of onr prrty; he is no long-
er in sympathy with our organization, and
he should no longer be permitted to par-
ticipate in our counsels. We therefore in-
struct our delegates to the state convention
to vote in favor of any resolution which
may be offered, which shall provide for fill-
ing the position of national committeeman
| by a sincere and loyal! Democrat.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—S. A. Baer has been elected prineipal of
the Harrisburg high school.
—The Mt. Gretna agricultural society
opens its eighth annual exhibition to day.
—The famous Bucktail regiment will hold
a reunion at Smethport, August 19th, and
20th.
—The residence of John Shiertrum, at Ta-
maqua, was struck by lightning and badly
damaged.
—Struck by a Lehigh valley express train
at Mauch Chunk, Peter Behan was instantly
killed.
—While picking coal at Mahanoy plane,
Schuylkill county, Mrs. Joseph Kane had
her head cut off by a train.
—The Bethlehem iron company has been
awarded a government contract for five big
gun cartridges at $28,560 each.
—At Pittsburg, August 24th, the national
council of the Daughters of Liberty will
meet for a three days’ session.
—The old No. 3 Hazleton breaker of the
Lehigh Valley coal company, which for some
time has heen abandoned, is to be reopened.
—A verdict of murder in the second degree
has been rendered against John Waltz, who
killed Jacob Lemon, in Forest City, Susque-
hanna county.
—The one hundred and seventieth aunni-
versary of the founding of the Moravian
church at Bethlehem was celebrated Sunday
with impressive services.
There are 380 defendants, a larger number
than ever before, on the trial list for the
Lancaster county criminal court, which
opened its August term Monday.
—Clinton Bossard, charged with the theft
of a bicycle, fell into the hands of officers at
Stroudsburg, Monroe county, just as he
jumped through a window to escape arrest.
—Mabel Lambert, 17 year old daughter of
Edward Lambert, of Hellertown, died of pa-
ralysis of the heart, last Friday night, from
over exertion while learning to ride a
bicycle.
—Thomas Binner, while watching a fight
at Kleinfeltersville, Lebanon county, was ac-
cidentally wounded in the breast by one of
the combatants, named Leininger, who
aimed at his antagonist.
—While temporarily insane, David Brad-
ley, of Austin, Potter county, slashed his
throat with a razor and died shortly after-
wards. He was 70 years old and was a well
known shoemaker of that place.
—On their way home from a dance hall on
the Diamond addition, near Hazleton, Con-
stable Tague Gallagher and Tony Matz were
fired upon and slightly wounded by a for-
eigner, who is now under arrest.
—Mary Gormon, 17-year-old daughter of
William Gorman, of Philadelphia, fell from
her bicycle while riding down a hill at Dela-
ware Water Gap and suffered concussion of
the brain, which, it is feared, will cause her
death.
—Harry Beach, of Jersey Shore, was jailed
Saturday, charged with making threats and
attempting to kill Charles Kissell, of Pine
Creek township. On the night of August
11th, Beach is accused of throwing an axe
through the window in the bedroom occu-
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Kissell.
—A horse valued at $200, belonging to Ir-
vin Gleason, was killed at Gleasonton
Wednesday evening. The crank of a wind-
lass was suddenly released, and flew back
striking the animal a terrific blow on the
shoulder, breaking the bones and lacerating
the flesh. To end its sufferings the animal
was shot.
—Back pension money to the amount of
$1,344, allowed the late Mrs. Emeline Nickel,
of Montgomery, has been retained by the
government on account of her death. She
had been dropped from the pension rolls, but
had made application again. Notice of the
allowance was received at Montgomery about
two weeks after her death.
Last week, while A. Maynard, of Williams-
port, was visiting friends at Big Run, a grey
eagle swooped down and settled in the lawn
of William Irwin. A neighbor hastily pro-
cured a gun and shot the large bird. It
measured flve feet, two inches and a half
from tip to tip. The eagle is now being
stuffed. It will be mounted and will be kept
as a trophy.
—The Blair county Democratic convention
met in Altoona on Saturday afternoon and
nominated this ticket: For sheriff, Frank
McCloskey, of Hollidaysburg ; prothonotary,
Thomas V. Taylor, of Altoona ; poor direc-
tor, Daniel McCann, of Newry; jury com-
missioner, Charles B. Adams, of Altoona;
Delegates to the state convention, A. V.
Dively, Wm C. Fletcher, James Hartford and
James Condrin, all of Altoona, and John
Watson, Tyrone. For county chairman, R.
A. Henderson, of Altoona, was chosen. The
Chicago platform was endorsed, and Leader
Harrity was denounced.
— About 400 grangers from the country dis-
tricts of Blair county picniced at Lakemont
park last Thursday. In the forenoon Prof.
John Hamilton, deputy secretary of agricul-
ture and author of the Hamilton road bill,
spoke to the grangersat a meeting in the
theatre on "The Hard Times and Who is to
Blame?’ at 2 o'clock there was more speech-
making in the theatre. Lt. T. M. Fleck, of
Sinking Valley, presided. The speakers
were Attorney Geo. W. Plummer, of Chica-
go; R. S. Seeds, of Hundred Springs, and
Col. James F. Weaver, editor and proprietor
of The Patron, published at Milesburg, Centre
county. Professor Hamilton again made an
address in the afternoon.
—Surgeon General Weyman has tele-
graphed the Pennsylvania Board of Health
for particulars regarding the death of cattle
and persons reported to have resulted from
anthrax germs brought in hides from China
to a tannery at DuBois, Pa. The creek
which runs by the tannery is said to have be-
come infected by the germs. Surgeon Gen-
eral Weyman says that a similar case was
reported two years ago from Bosbury, Pa.,
but it was discovered that the death both of
men and animals had resulted from fly bites.
The flies fed upon the decaying flesh on the
hides and communicated the poison to the
men and beasts which they bit. The sur-
geon general thinks it probable that the
deaths at DuBois may be placed to similar
causes.