Demonic
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
li ada
Ink Sling.
—The blind chaplain of Congress seemed |
to be able to see enough to get his foot in- |
to his mouth.
—NERo fiddled while Rome was burn-
ing. Might it be possible that he played:
“¢“There’s a hot time in the old town to-
on
night ?
—We notice no rise in the list price of
life preservers, yet there are those who say
a mighty wave of prosperity is rolling
upon us.
—If starvation does stare the Klondyk-
ers in the face it will be the first instance
in which piles of gold and want of food
have gone hand in hand.
—The tag end of the old Pennsylvania
Democracy is on top now. Let us see that
the majorities get down to the forty thou-
sand mark they prated so much about
when under-dogs in the political mix-up.
——Man grows happy at the fleeting days
of the ice cream sign, but his happiness is
short lived for that summer night-mare is
invariably chased off the track by a tempt-
ing offer to dispense oysters to your best
girl.
—The quintessence of laziness developed
itself yesterday morning, on west High
street, when one of Bellefonte’s young
business men found a fine excuse for not
going to work in the fact that his brother
had taken his ‘‘ambrella and it looked as
if it might rain.”’
—The gold-Democrats met in Philadel-
phia yesterday, but no one is very deeply
concerned as to what they did. JOHN
M. BLANCHARD represented the notorious
ninety-three of Centre county and we sup-
pose looked as wise as the rest of the nood-
les who met at the Walton.
— When a youngster we often used to
slide down the hills ‘‘belly-bumpers’’ on
our sled, but, for the life of us, we never
saw the trick introduced into any other
sport until Republican county chairman
GRAY undertook to play ball by the same
manceuvring on Tuesday.
—The St. Paul man who contemplates
sending a cargo of ‘‘nice eighteen or twen-
ty year old girls’ to the Klondyke to be
auctioned off as wives for the miners has a
great head for business but very little prac-
ticability. He ought to know that no girl
gets to be more than sixteen years old.
—If the ruffians who went to Reading,
under the guise of Democrats, to fight and
disgrace the party had been arrested before
they left their homes the convention would
not have been disturbed and the Democrat-
ic party would not now be smarting under
a disgrace it will never be able to live
down.
—The citizen’s Union of greater New
York has nominated SETH Low, president
of Columbia college and twice mayor of
Brooklyn, for the office of mayor of the great
municipality. There is no doubting Mr.
Low’s fitness for the office but TAM-
MANY will elect the next mayor of
New York.
—In referring to the possible retention
of United States attorney HARRY ALVAN
HALL in office because he supported Mc-
KINLEY last fall, our esteemed contempo-
rary, the Pittsburg Post, says ‘‘virtue has
its own reward.” Whence cometh the
virtue in such a case? Surely it must be
of the ‘‘stampeded’’ sort.
—If the Democratic convention at Read-
ing had left the question of the representa-
tive on the national committee to that
committee for adjudication, instead of
fighting: over it itself, there would
have been no trouble to disorganize the
party on the very eve of an important
campaign. It is a very easy matter
to make a fight, but a much more diffi-
cult one to end it.
—A piece of the famous blarney stone
from Blarney Castle, Ireland, that had
been on exhibition at Atlantic City, N.
J., has been stolen and the whole of the
New Jersey coast is in an uproar about it.
It is fortunate for MARK HANNA that he
hasn’t been there lately, else the public
might have had their suspicions as to its
being taken for use in the coming Ohio
campaign.
—When Republicans and gold Demo-
crats have nothing else to carp at they
manufacture some lie about Mr. BRYAN.
The latest is to the effect that he refused to
speak at a great Democratic camp-meeting
at Springfield, Ohio, without being paid
$1,500. The Minneapolis Times went to
the trouble of asking him as to the truth-
fulness of the charge and, of course, learn-
ed that it was a lie.
— When our ‘‘fatherly looking old gen-
tleman’’ friend with ‘‘gray whisk:rs,”” the
redoubtable Col. SHORTLIDGE, tried to
“honswaggle’’ the Republican convention
into endorsing the HASTINGS' administra-
tion for its veto of all grab bills he dis-
played a simplicity that was amazing in
one who has cut the caper in Bellefonte
councilmanic fights that he has. The Col-
onel is in training for the Legislature, you
know, and that probably explains the dou-
ble somersault feature of his resolutions
that were never heard of after they were
referred to the committee. They condemn-
ed everyone but the Colonel, himself, for
riding on railroad passes and patted HAST-
INGS on the back for his ‘‘economic’’ ad-
ministration, but did not include an in-
quiry as to what has become of the $6,000,-
000, surplus PATTISON left in the state |
treasury for him.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL unto,
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 3, 1897.
‘NO. 34.
The Democracy at Reading.
There was never a Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic state convention in which the Demo-
cratic spirit was more manfully displayed
and Democratic principles more fully vin-
dicated than in the convention that met in
Reading last Tuesday.
If it had been a Republican convention,
there would have been that quiet submis-
sion to the control of the machine which
grows out of long continued machine man-
agement. No dissent from the orders of
the boss would have raised a disturb-
ance. The proceedings would have been
attended with the harmony that pre-
vails when a party accepts without quest-
ion the candidates slated by its managers
and there would have been that lack of in-
dependent spirit, which becomes extinct
when political manhood has been de-
stroyed by the dry-rot of corrupt bossism.
Fortunately the Democratic party is not
in that condition. If there was disturb-
ance at Reading it was but the manifesta-
tion of that Democratic spirit which al-
ways insists that the will of the majority
shall govern, and will fight for it if that
cardinal principle of Democracy can be
maintained in no other way. The turbu-
lence which for a while prevailed in the
convention sprang from a Democratic de-
termination that the faith of the party
should not be betrayed nor its principles
misrepresented. Better for such turbu-
lence for such an object than the slavish
harmony of a boss-ridden convention, rep-
resenting a corrupted and emasculated
party.
The representatives of Pennsylvania’s
Democracy who assembled at Reading were
not in a mood to accept the proposition
that they should renounce the principles
for which they honestly and intelligently
contended in last year’s presidential cam-
paign, under the gallant leadership of
BRYAN, and on account of which they
were subjected to the vilest vituperation.
Having been stigmatized as anarchists, re-
pudiators and enemies of the nation’s hon-
or for supporting a monetary system that
had its origin in the constitution, could
it be expected that they would admit the
vile charges of their traducers by discard-
ing the monetary principles of the Chicago
platform which they believe to be the only
basis of an honest and equitable currency ?
The Democracy of Pennsylvania re-affirm
and ve-iterate the doctrines of that platform
again setting it forth as the most thor-
oughly Democratic document that ever
emanated from the party. In addition to
that basis of their political action in this
campaign they present an arraignment of
the corrupt and profligate Republican state
government.
While it proposes to maintain every inch
of ground it has assumed in the money
question, and to uphold the principles of
Democracy as enunciated at Chicago, it
will not be the fault of the Democratic
party of this State if the long suffering peo-
ple of other parties will not, for their own
interest, unite with it in overthrowing the
terribly corrupt Bn domination.
Dollar Wheat Wensciuve,
A goldbug contemporary attempts to be
sarcastic in remarking that ‘‘when wheat
passes the dollar mark itis time for Mr.
BRYAN to move to Mexico.”
The accidental rise of the price of wheat
to a dollar is responsible for a great deal of
nonsense in the columns of the goldite
press. Why should Mr. BRYAN go to
Mexico because wheat has reached that
price in consequence of the failure of the
crops in foreign countries? What has
Mexico got to do with the matter, and if
he should go there on that account how
long would he stay before wheat would
drop again to its old price under the gold
standard and allow him to return ?
Mr. BRYAN has no occasion to go to
Mexico for any reason connected with the
price of wheat, but if he should visit that
country he would find the Mexicans get-
ting on quite comfortably with their silver
currency. They are making satisfactory
progress in industrial and commercial de-
velopment, and considering the low plane
from which the Mexican laboring popula-
tion have been compelled to work up, they
have in the last ten years made a compara-
tively greater advance in the improvement
of their condition than has heen made in
the same time by the working people of
this country, whose monetary system is
based on gold.
One of the dispatches from Mexico this
week is to the effect that ‘‘general business
is active, but importations are generally
greatly checked.” Isn’t it the purpose of
the Republicans to produce this very effect
by means of their tariffs? The Mexicans,
however, have effected it without resorting
to tariff taxation. The silver standard in
their case has acted like a protective tariff
under which their manufactures are devel-
oping without a system of protection that
encourages monopoly, and they can sell
their agricultural exportations at a better
advantage than if they sold them at gold
prices.
Mr. BRYAN has no occasion to go to
Mexico unless to congratulate the people
down there on their good sense in retaining
the advantage of a bimetallic currency.
The Republican State. Convention.
The Republican convention met in Har-
risburg last week and made its nomina-
tions and passed its resolutions in strict
conformity with the directions it had re-
ceived from the authority that controls the
party in the State. Independent action is
a right that no longer belongs to Pennsyl-
vania Republicans. The eandidates nomi-
nated were on QUAY's slate months before
the convention met to ratify the selection |
If the two persons nomina- |
he had made.
ted for state treasurer and auditor general
shall be elected, the interest of the boss
and the machine will be attended to in
preference to the interest of the State.
Nothing could have more shamefully ex-
hibited the depths to which Pennsylvania
Republicanism has sunk than the endorse-
ment which the recent disreputable Legis-
lature received from this convention. It
actually commended the corrupt legisla-
tive gang, most of whose actions were so
vicious that even a Republican Governor
was forced to veto them. The proceedings
of the session were chiefly designed to steal
money from the state treasury, a thievish
purpose that displayed itseli in the
trumped-up charges of sham investigating
committees, yet the party convention was
s0 lost to the sense of shame and so disre-
gardful of decent public sentiment as to
make such legislative conduct the subject
of commendation.
It might have been thought that shame-
lessness could go no farther than this, but
it went still farther, in charging that the
Democratic minority in the Legislature,
numbering less than fifty in all, and out-
numbered more than five to one in both
Houses by the Republicans, were responsi-
ble for the failure of the reforms which the
lying bosses had promised.
No wonder that members of this conven-
tion were forced to laugh when they heard
the resolutions commending the general
action of that profligate Legislature.
Nothing could be more plainly shown by
such resolutions than that their authors en-
tertain a contempt for the intelligence of
the people, and confidently believe that
the public demoralization is such that the
corruptions and abuses of Republican rule
in this State will be sustained by the usual
majority.
The honor of the State, as well as its in-
terest forbid that this shameful expectation
should be realized this year after it has
been so repeatedly shown that Republican
administration is thoroughly corrupt and
incapable of reform.
What Caused the Delay,
There has been trouble in the selection
of the design for the new structure that is
to take the place of the old capitol building
that went up in smoke last winter, leaving
nothing behind but historic memories and
some ugly suspicions. A number of plans
for the new edifice have been submitted,
and pictures of what it will look like have
been published, but there has been hesi-
tation and delay in making a choice that
will suit interests that have to be con-
sidered.
The building must he kept within the
limitation of the appropriation, which has
been made too small to meet the specula-
tive designs of parties who would construct
a public building as they would work a
gold mine. The Philadelphia city hall il-
lustrates the possibilities of wealth that
are in such a job.
With the limitation of expenditure fixed
at balf a million the difficulty that present-
ed itself to the capitol commission was
how to devise a way by which a much
larger amount would be required for the
subsequent enlargement and embellish-
ment of the building. The architect
whose plan would be best adapted to such
a requirement was most likely to secure
a preference for his design.
It is not at all improbable that this was
the problem that caused the delay in select-
ing the plan for the new Capitol. There
are parties to whom it has been a great dis-
appointment that but half a million dol-
lars are to be spent on a structure which
with expert management and a more lib-
eral appropriation could be made to furn-
ish a profit of some millions to those fa-
vored with the job. If there is to be no
more made out of it than appears at pres-
ent, it was hardly worth while to burn
down the old building.
——Former county commissioner HEN-
RY C. CAMPBELL, of Ferguson township,
struck the nail on the head when he said :
‘We are not indebted to the DINGLEY tar-
iff or any other human invention for the
advance in the price of our cereals, but owe
it alone to an over-ruling Providence, who
cut short the supply of other nations.’
Mr. CAMPBELL was prominent in Republi-
can councils before he espoused the silver
cause, but he saw that tariff humbuggery
was a hindrance, rather than a benefit, to
the farmer and struck out for a system that
would be to his advantage as an agricul-
turist.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
A Mistaken Goldite.
We fail to see the logic of a goldbug con-
temporary which remarks that “Mr. BrRY-
AN ought to realize, by this time, that he
pushed his so-called logic too far. The
condition now is different from what it was
a year ago. Yet we have the same finan-
{cial system. It is fair to say that the
farmer can prosper in the future, as he is
now prospering and as he was prospering
in the past, under the gold standard.”
The present condition and that which
existed a yearago are different only in con-
sequence of the accidental circumstance
that the wheat crop has failed in every
part of the world except in the United
States, where it has been abundant. It is
only because of this accident, which can at
most be but temporary in its effect, that
an unusual demand for American wheat has
raised its price above what it was a year
ago, and during most of the time since the
gold standard prevailed.
Can any sensible person see in this cir-
cumstance a failure of Mr. BRYAN’s logic ?
Granted that we have now the same finan-
cial system that we had a year ago; but
was not the price of agricultural products
seen to decline to its lowest figure under
that system, gradually sinking after the
adoption of gold monometallism, and does
the present sudden advance in the price of
wheat, owing entirely to phenomenal con-
ditions, disprove the logic of Mr. BRYAN'S
assumption that the low price of farm
products was in consequence of the demon-
etization of silver ?
In their exultation over the probability
that a high price for wheat will produce,
to some extent, the prosperity promised by
McKINLEY, the Republican goldites lose
sight of the fact that if it had not been for
the failure of the harvests everywhere but
in this country our farmers would to-day
be getting the beggarly price for their
wheat which they had been getting for the
last ten years under the gold standard, and
they ignore the certainty of wheat again
sinking to that low figure after the extraor-
dinary demand has been supplied, an
eventuation that will be sure to transpire
as an inseparable consequence of the depre-
| ciating effect of gold monometallism upon
tthe value of farm products.
Time to Call a Halt on It.
Concerning the reported retirement of
JOHN SHERMAN from the state department
a Washington dispatch says ‘it is evident
that the change in the secretaryship of
state will not take place until after Mr.
HANNA is elected to the Senate.’
What is most notable in this announce-
ment is that it regards HANNA’S election
as a sure thing ; showing how confidently
money is relied on as a means of carrying
elections. HANNA can have no other
strength in a political election than the
corrupt means he can bring to bear upon
it, and the size of his boodle fund being
known to be the largest that was ever put
into a state election with the object of cor-
rupting it, doubt as to his effecting his
purpose is not admissible.
Does not this present American politics
in a most deplorable light ? The inference
that HANNA is going to succeed in de-
bauching Ohio is to be drawn from his
success last year in electing MCKINLEY by
the same means he is now employing to
secure his own election to the Senate.
The Republican party has familiarized
the American people with such practices.
The public sensibility has been blunted by
being made accustomed to political cor-
ruption, and what would have shocked the
people but a few years ago as an assault
upon popular institutions and a menace to
the republic, has become familiar to them
through the employment of vast campaign
funds by the corrupt use of which Repub-
lican Presidents have been elected.
But it may turn out this year that the
people of Ohio may not be willing to be
bought by MARK HANNA’S money. It
can scarcely be possible that the American
people are incapable of seeing what this
political debauching must eventually end
in, and it may be hoped that when it is
being done with such openness and in so
shameless a manner as MARK HANNA dis-
plays in his practices, their honesty, good
sense and patriotism will call a halt on it.
Every patriotic citizen should devoutly
pray that this will happen in Ohio this
year.
——The everlasting greed for gain seems
to be the dominant characteristic in human
nature nowadays. Even the agencies of
christian worship have been converted into
money making enterprises. One of the
most glaring evidences of this growing ten-
dency to traffic in such ways has come to
our attention from the Bilger campmeeting.
It is located in Clearfield county and last
Sunday two boys were arrested for selling
fruit, cigars, ete., on the grounds. They
were not arrested, as you might suppose,
for desecrating the Sabbath day, but be-
cause they did not have a permit from the
management, siowing that they had paid
| a fee for the privilege of such desecration.
| col. McClure’s Views of the Reading
Convention.
From the Philadelphia Times,
The regular Republican state convention,
held at Harrishurg recently, did little to
enlarge respect for Republican rule in the
State, and did much to prejudice it in the
minds of intelligent citizens. The so-call-
ed Democratic convention at Reading yes-
terday did almost everything within the
range of political effort to hinder Demo-
cratic unity and to make Democratic suc-
cess beyond the pale of possibility. In
short, the Reading convention could not
have been a more effective annex to Re-
publican leadership had Senator Quay ap-
pointed its leaders, conceived its policy,
shaped its methods and directed its actions
and deliverances.
Never before in the history of modern
politics was there such a grotesque exhibi-
tion of political suicide as was given at
Reading. When the freesilver fanaticism
is fading out even in free silver countries,
and dollar wheat and eight cent cotton are
reaching farmers that the free silver craze
is wholly the conception of either knave or
fool, a lot of awkward political apprentices
who have been whirled to the surface by
the political convulsions of the last year,
seem to have resolved that there shall be
no Democratic party in the future that can
assure self respect to its own people or com-
mand the respect of others.
The state committee, under the pictur-
esquely idiotic leadership of chairman Gar-
man, went out of its way to force an issue
that is unknown and unfelt in the present
contest, to glut factional revenge against
the Democratic leader whose political record
is inseparably interwoven with every Dem-
ocratic victory of modern times in city or
State. By a vote of two to one the com-
mittee declared that freedom of conviction
and integrity of purpose shall have no part
in Democratic policy. Had the state com-
mittee received instructions from the Re-
publican leaders as to how best to decimate
the Democratic party, they could not have
devised more effective methods to bring
Democracy into public contempt and ex-
pose it to irretrievable defeat.
The Republican state convention made
many thousands of votes for Dr. Swallow,
the pyrotechnic Prohibition candidate for
state treasurer and the so-called Democrat-
ic state convention at Reading has made
other thousands of votes for the same can-
didate. While it is not probable, it is cer-
tainly even possible that the Democratic
candidate for state treasurer will not com-
mand a larger vote than Dr. Swallow, who
happens to be in a position to receive the
votes of both Democrats and Republicans
who want to make emphatic protest against
distrusted political mastery in, their own
organizations. The = Reading ‘convention
did a great work for the Republicans of
Pennsylvania, and it did mere to thin the
ranks of the Democracy of the State than
has ever yet been done by any leadership
of the past. Those who sow the wind
must reap the whirlwind.
Figuring for Effect.
From the Pittsburg Post.
One of the administration’s wind instru-
ments, assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Bingman, declares that the farmers will
gain $500,000,000 this year over last year
“‘on wheat alone.’”’ The average of wheat
last year was 55 cents. If this year it
should average 80 cents to the bushel there
would be a gain of 25 cents on the bushel,
which in a crop of 500,000,000 bushels
would amount to $125,000,000, or only
$375,000,000 less than this arithmetician
figures out. But this does not take into
account that the American working men,
whose wages are and have been on the
down grade, are paying at this time 50 per
cent more for their flour than they were
paying a few months ago, before scant
crops abroad started prices upward in this
country.
An Inconsiderate Practice.
From Rev. H. L. Jacobs’ Tyrone Report.
It is no longer a ‘‘mark of respect’’ for
the people to adjourn at the close of the
funeral services to the outside of the house
or church and gaze at the mourners mutil
the last carriage is filled.
Dr. Swallow Makes a Call.
HARRISBURG, August 30.—Dr. S. C.
Swallow, the prohibition candidate for
state treasurer, to-day called at the state
treasury and requested State Treasur Hay-
wood to permit him to see the alleged in-
demnity bond, which, it is said, was given
Mr. Haywood to indemnify him for any
money paid out to alleged legislative em-
ployes who were carried on the rolls
without being elected or appointed. Mr.
Haywood said that he would not say weth-
er or not such a bond was in existence and
that when he retired from the office there
would be no bonds, notes or bills left against
him, and his balance sheet would be
clean. He intimated that the request came
from political factions. Dr. Swallow con-
structed this to mean that the state trea-
surer refused to show him the bond and
said he supposed. he would have to wait
until the expiration of Haywood’s term to
see the bond. The meeting was cordial in
every respect.
Want Bryan in 1900.
Northumberiand Democrats Like Him and Mr.
Swallow.
SUNBURY, Pa., Aug. 30.—The Demo-
cratic county convention was held here
to-day and was largely attended. Samuel
D. Artman, of Milton, was nominated for
recorder, and Charles O'Conner, of Trevor-
ton, for jury commissioner.
Resolutions were adopted declaring for
free silver; indorsing William J. Bryan
for president in 1900; denouncing “the
State and National administration, and
commending Rev. Dr. Swallow for his ex-
position of alleged misdoings by the State
officials.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The new double track culvert on the P.
& E. railroad at Sugar Run, above Lock
Haven, is completed.
—Surveyors are laying out a bicycle path
between Scranton and Honesdale, a distance
of 18 miles.
—William C. Lawson, of Milton, the oldest
member of the Northumberland county bar,
and a trustee of Lafayette college, is lying at
the point of death.
—At the laying of the cornerstone for a
United Evangelical church, at Lebanon, ser-
vices were conducted by Rev. C. Newton
Dubs and Rev. E. H. Romig.
—Fully 7000 people attended the anni-
versary celebration yesterday of the Beth-
any Orphans’ house of the Reformed church,
at Womelsdorf, Berks county.
—The Allentown hardware works failed
Wednesday afternoon on an execution in fav-
or of the Lehigh Trust and Safe Deposit cam-
pany for $16,000, and A. Reninger, trustee,
for $13,000.
—Empty pocket-books, one containing
broken rings, were dropped in W. G. Foehl's
cafe, at Lancaster, by a stranger whose de-
scription tallies with that of a well-known
pickpocket.
—A deep well is being drilled in Wil-
liamsport with the hope of striking a flowing
stream. It is expected that a flow with sev-
eral hundred pounds pressure will be struck
before many days.
—Jumping from a Pennsylvania railroad
train, near Lancaster, John Patterson, a
track hand, dropped through a bridge and
was paralyzed in the lower part of his body
by injuries to his spine.
—Three masked men attacked Daniel
Kennedy, of Sandy Run, Luzerne county, as
he was walking along a road near his home,
but he put up such a good flight that they
took to their heels.
—At Hummelstown, Dauphin county,
David Baker was driving across the Reading
railroad tracks, when his carriage was struck
by a locomotive. He was hurled 30 feet inte
an adjoining field, but miraculously escaped
with only a few bruises.
—Clinton Houck, aged 21, a young farmer,
of Ruscomb Manor township, Berks county,
was found dying Wednesday afternoon. He
had been terribly injured by a bull in the
same field and died soon after. He had
gone out to look after the cows.
+ —One day last week Daniel, the 8-year-old
son of B. M. Stewart, of Clearfield, had his
right leg broken in two places above the
knee. He was riding on the Karthaus stage
and in attempting to get off got his leg caught
in the wheel with the above result. The
boy is very badly injured and may be crip-
pled for life.
—The Shaver’s Creek and Juniata tele-
phone company has its line about completed
from Petersburg to McAlevys Fort. There
have been ‘phones placed at Petersburg,
Porter’s Mills, Cottage, Neft’s Mills, Moores-
ville, Manor Hill, Saulsburg, Ennisville and
McAlevy’s Fort, and they are in complete
working order.
—Albert Houck, a young man employed
at Morris’ saw mill, Curwensville, was killed
the first day he worked there. He and a
fellow workman were taking logs from the
log pile when a log lying crossways on the
pile shot down, struck Houck and knocked
him twenty feet into the water. The other
man hastened to the rescue but the poor fel-
low was brought to life only long enough to
speak a few words before breathing his last.
—Potter county enjoys a distinction that is
probably not granted to any other county in
the United States, in that its surface is in
three of the great slopes. The Allegheny
rising in the central part, winds its ways
westward to the gulf system : the (Genessee
river has its source in the northeast part of
the county, from which its waters are dis-
charged into the St. Lawrence basin, while
the numerous branches of the Susquehanna
river afford an outlet into the Atlantic slope.
—All of the injunction cases against the
Montoursville passenger railway company
have been settled, and nothing now remains
to prevent the completion of the road and
running of trolley cars between Williamsport
and Montoursville. The road is, in fact,
practically completed with the exception of
a space of about 150 feet. It is expected to
have cars running between Williamsport and
Loyalsock creek within two weeks. The
bridge crossing the creek will hardly be
completed before October 1st.
—The Dauphin county Democrats met in
convention in the court house Wednesday
afternoon and adopted resolutions endorsing
the Reading ticket and platform. The party
recently returned to the delegate system af-
ter having used the Crawford county system.
This was the first convention of a decade and
was well attended. The following ticket
was nominated : Jury commissioner, James
M. Zeigler, Steelton ; prothonotary, Captain
A. C. Landis, Harrisburg ; coroner, John
John Keller, Harrisburg ; director of the
poor, G. W. Benders, Fisherville.
— Albert Conway, of near Gallagher town-
ship, Clinton county, is suffering from a very
painful accident. One day last week he was
engaged in skidding logs. While running
along with the horses he stumbled and fell.
The hook attached to the chain that was be-
ing dragged by the horses, caught the pros-
trate man on the leg underneath the knee,
and as the horses could not be stopped, the
flesh was torn clear to the bone. The hook
itself went through the bone at the knee.
Dr. Carson, of Charlton, dressed the injury.
He thinks that the leg will not need to be
amputated, but he is afraid that it will be
stiffened for life.
—Charles Kayser, of Sunbury, a brake-
man on the Linden branch of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, went into a corn field below
Nisbet Sunday night about 9o’clock. While
in the act of helping himself to ears of corn
he was shot by E. O’Lander, the owner of
the field. Kayser came to this city where
his wounds were dressed. Three No. 2 shot
were taken from his scalp. One shot went
through the lobe of the ear and another
pierced his wrist. Kayser left for his home
in Sunbury on the late train last night. It
seems that the crew that Kayser was with
had received orders to return to Renovo.
Having exhausted his food supply Kayser
went into the field for the Purpose of pro-
curing corn.