Bec lm BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Murdered miners will be the Shibbo- leth in the next national campaign. —1It is beginning to look very much as if QUAY will burn his fingers if he monkeys too much with that ‘‘fiery cross.” —Yes, its true! Col. SHORTLIDGE is go- ing to be a candidate for legislative honors. He has commenced to write letters and as he has a good stenographer and plenty of that stuff that fills space there is no telling when it will end. —Those circles around the sun and moon, yesterday, were enough to make the hard- ened old fakirs at Grange park begin to get the ‘‘left one’’ into close quarters and pray for luck, when they thought good old ST. PETER was comin’ to get in the game for keeps. —The Governor's first great yellow dog act was when he deserted DAVE MARTIN and his friends to play foot-stool for ‘‘the old man.”’” Itdid his second act, last week, when he crawled back to DAVE and made him his secretary of the commonwealth. The Lord only knows where and what the finale will be. —Indeed it was in the nature of a coin- cidence that at the time when a Republi- can sheriff was shooting down poor laboring men, in cold blood, in Pennsylvania, Mr. BRYAN was untiringly succoring the wounded in that horrible Santa Fe rail- road wreck in Iowa, through which he had passed safely himself. —Some New York crank has written to the Sun decrying the whistling in which men and boys indulge on Wall street. He styles ita nuisance and infringement on the rights of people. Wall street is the last place in the world that ought to object to so harmless a manner of raising wind. Most of the business on that street is done on it. —Two new postmasters were appointed within this county the past week, viz: BosTON VIEHDORFER, at Moshannon, and E. E. HEVERLY, at Mountain Eagle. Like all the rest who have received appoint- ments, we presume these two proved title to being original anti-HASTINGS workers, and have pledged their personal and politi- cal influence to the QUAY end of the Re- publican party hereabouts. —BERNHARDT, the famous French artist who has bamboozled American audiences so often by announcing her farewell tour to the American stage, came pretty near mak- ing her farewell tour to an empty house on the coast of France the other day. She started to climb down a cliff when the loose rocks rolled under her and precipitat- ed her into the sea. Fortunately for SARA a boatman saw and reseued her. —It must be a little galling to the finer feeling of that class of Republicans who, at least, believe themselves to be honest and reputable, to follow the lead of one who so disgraced his official position that an ad- ministration, such as Governor HASTINGS has given the State, could not stand it. Surely an official who is so tough, political- ly, that the present state administration is ashamed of his acts, must be run down at the heel morally and otherwise to an ex- tent almost beyond conception. And yet such is the condition of the head of the Republican state organization. —While the WATCHMAN has no sym- pathy with the mob methods of asserting the rights of labor and it believes that the majesty of the law should be supreme, there are circumstances attending the shooting of those foreigners at Latimer, a few days ago, that cannot but be lamented. “Ignorance of the law excuseth no man,’’ yet those poor, helpless foreigners were not to be so mercilessly treated, because they had been slow to obey an order from sheriff MARTIN that probably none of them understood. The wounds in their hacks will prove horrible night-maresin the after years of those impulsive deputies who thought so little of the lives they were destroying. —The same Mr. JoHN T. ELKIN, who admits that, while assistant attorney gén- eral of the State, he signed a bond indem- nifying the treasurer for robbing the state treasury of $31,434.00, to benefit political heelers, is the same Mr. ELKIN who, as the official head of the Republican party in the State, is waving his political flag and calling upon the people, whom he at- tempted to rob, to fall in and follow his lead. The robbed travelver who after be- ing ‘‘held up’’ would, of his own accord, follow the highwayman into parts where the little he had left could he taken, would exhibit no greater degree of idiocy than will the tax-payers who join the proces- sion headed by this acknowledged political free-hooter. —And now it is rumored that the rea- son the majority of the state capitol com- mission went back on its own work and concluded to ask for new bids was that, just prior to the meeting of the commis- sion, it leaked out that one of the plans, thrown aside by the experts for irregu- larity, was furnished by an adherent of Senators QUAY and PENROSE. The adop- tion of the discarded plan, it is alleged, would have given to ALLAN B. ROURKE, of | Philadelphia, another QUAY follower, some inside advantages when the lettings would take place, so that the QUAY mem- bers of the commission stood unanimously for another chance at a job, that before it is through with, will fatten somebody’s pocket book and furnish no small ‘‘divy”’ to the Republican faction that captures it. aE Ad enocra \ 7 TRO STATE RI ®»e “ <. g 2Y GHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. . BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 17. 1897. NO. 36. The Modern Colossus of Pennsylvania. MARTIN LUTHER once said that ‘‘hu- man reason is like a drunken man on horseback ; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.” It is sin- gular that we should have entertained such a thought after reading Col. McCLURE’S Philadelphia Times on Sunday and Monday. The Times is a would-be powerful organ and the editor who directs its policy a mighty rear-end prophet. He sits on the the editorial tripod in Philadelphia and, Corossus like, bestrides the State. One leg lands in Beaver county, the other at Harrisburg, and after he has had both of the Republican political buffoons clamber- ing onto his knee, and off again, he does the old, old ‘‘split’’ act, himself, and once more sets the Times to correcting the morals of men and the mal-administrations of poli- ticians. For years he has been telling us of the reforms that Senator QUAY contemplates securing for the good of Pennsylvania, and for almost the some number of years he has been parading the HASTINGS’ administra- tion as the beginning, if not the end, of good government for the Commonwealth. Cheek by jowl with these two heads of the Republican party he has attempted to bun- co the people into believing that all they did was right and that all they purposed was purely and disinterestedly for the peo- ple. Now a change has come over the situa- tion—a split has developed that is certain to show up the weak, the corrupt and the false past, and the prophet of the Times is to the front threatening that he knows all and that robberies and corruptions and wrongs that have gone on for years, must cease :—that the ‘‘Zimes will battle against the debauchery of money in politics’’ and that the Zimes will be ‘‘one of fifty to con- tribute $1,000 each to make such a fund as will assure the thorough and fearless prose- cution of every guilty person, regardless of his party faith.”’ No one disputes the right nor questions the might of the Zimes. A great metropol- itan organ that could truckle to the great- est political knave the country has ever known, under the suspicion of shaking off the payment of a $45,000 libel fine, must certainly have facility for juggling with the intelligence of its readers. Thissame great paper that could inflate the Governor of this Commonwealth until he might have done good service as aballoon for ANDRE, the Arctic explorer, and all for the sake of palavering him into vetoing a mercantile tax hill that might have affected its largest advertisers, who saw nothing unjust in taxing every other interest, now eschews its words and feeds its readers more flap- doodle by calling him a bold, bad man and drawing off the wind it pumped into him only a few months ago. When the Times tickled QUAY it worked for itself. When the Times praised HAs- TINGS it poured water on its own mill. Col. ALEXANDER MCCLURE has grown too good to longer perform the old country circus straddle act of riding two horses at one time and now sweeps Penn- sylvania with the mighty-blast of his mighty organ and says : I will be the new reformer. Every one has forgotten what the departed SAM JOSEPHS said of me when I attacked him as a candidate for council in the 19th ward, shortly after he moved up into that then aristocratic portion of the city. I am the big injun who exclaims : Alec. not lost! The State is lost ! Alec. here. When corruption is halted and the re- forms that the Times intends bringing do come the people of Pennsylvania will fall at the feet of the modern reformer and pro- claim him blessed, but until that time shall have come the lingering suspicion that there is an ax to be ground, away down in the carpet bag of this new reform traveler, will linger in the minds of those who know him, and remember the re- forms he has so often promised. The Delayed New Capitol. A bad impression is being made by the delay of the state capitol building commis- sion in selecting a plan for the new struc- ture. It is the business of this commission to make a choice from the various designs offered by competing architects, and its dilatory action in this matter is inclining the people to believe that there is a sinis- ter purpose back of it. It was announced that the intention was to have the new structure ready for the next session of the Legislature, but if the building is to be ready for occupancy by that time the work should now he in prog- ress. Instead of that being the case it is seen that those to whom this work has been entrusted are unable to agree on a plan of construction. The unfortunate old capitol building was consigned to the flames more than six months ago. There has been ample time for all the arrangements needed for its re- building. If there had been earnestness in the work the plans would have been ready to begin operations on it early in the spring in order to secure its completion in time for the next meeting of the Legisla- ture. This would have been the course pursued by a commission that was desirous of carrying out the object of its appoint- ment, but the end of the summer sees the commissioners unable to agree upon any one of the designs offered by the architects, and last week their prolonged deliberations were suspended by what looked like a rup- ture between the Governor and the other members of the commission. While such dilatory tactics are being pursued, the ruins of the old capitol re- main as silent reminders of the destruction that has been wrought, whether acci- dentally may never be known ; but it is quite evident that there is no earnestness in replacing it with a new structure in time for the accommodation of the next Legislature. When such a state of facts presents it- self to the attention of the people may they not be justified in believing that every days’ delay in going ahead with the work means that much more time in which to arrange jobs, assist friends and to cover tracks leading to the plunder that is ex- pected to be gathered from the erection and furnishing of the new Capitol ? Lawlessness of Trusts. One of the articles of production upon which DINGLEY put a largely increased duty was window glass, and within the last two weeks the window glass trust was reorganized. Its first act was to increase the price of its product 5 per cent. to which the jobbers, with equal promptness, added 2 per cent. more, making a total increase of seven per cent., as the result of trust methods. There has been, however, no corresponding increase in the wages of the glass workers. This sort of proceeding is what the American people have to expect in all the lines of protected production. The in- creased duties furnish the monopolies with the opportunity of practicing extortion up- on the public and as a consequence the number of trusts will he multiplied. These combinations are clearly unlaw- ful, as they are intended to restrain trade, which is forbidden both by federal and’ state enactments. The deliberation with which they are formed, in utter defiance and contempt for the law, is one of the indi- cations of the lawlessness into which the American people are drifting. We are indeed getting to be a nation in which legal restraints are but little regard- ed. The frequent lynching cases in which the mob takes the law into its own hands are held to be the most striking evidences of this increasing lawlessness, but there is as much of it in the action of monopolists, who form combinations that are clearly contrary to law, as there is in the violent demonstrations of a mob of lynchers. In fact the latter is not as dangerous and rep- rehensible as the law-breaking that is prac- ticed by the trusts, as it is not done with as much deliberation. “Honor to the Luzerne County Sheriff.” The New York Sun has become a full fledged Republican organ, and though it was despicable enough when it hung on the skirts of Democracy to betray its can- didates and falsify its principles, it is now a still meaner sheet as the avowed defender of the trusts and the outspoken advocate of the monopolistic and oppressive meth- ods that constitute Republican policy. In its groveling subservience to the in- terests of plutocracy its gets down lower into the dirt than any of the older Repub- lican organs. None of them is so lost to the sense of shame and regard for humanity as to express delight over the slaughter of the striking miners in the Hazleton coal region, although they refrain from speak- ing of that horror in proper terms of re- proof ; but the vile Sun actually gloats over the massacre of those poor working people, using an expression of enthusiastic approval when in commenting upon that bloody crime it exclaims : ‘‘Honor to the sheriff of Luzerne county.”’ The act for which this organ of the trusts and champion of the gold standard and the DINGLEY tariff wants this sher’ff honored involved the cold-blooded and cowardly killing of twenty-one workingmen and the wounding of forty-two others, most of the victims having helpless families de- pending for subsistence on their scanty earnings. Honor is to he accorded to this officer who recklessly stretched his aun- thority to the point of wholesale murder, and produced a scene of blood equal to that of a battle field. But what do these victims amount to in the estimation of an organ that has be- come besotted in the service of privileged and protected wealth? They were, in the view of the Sun, nothing but a pestilent breed of laborers who dared to be dissat- isfied with the starvation wages allowed them by the coal barons, and deserved to be shot down for showing their dissatis- faction. The sheriff of Luzerne county adopted a way of treating them for which that sheet would accord him honor. Probably the fact that he isa Republi- can sheriff adds to the Sun’s high apprecia- tion of his murderous act. Itis not often that the Republicans elect a sheriff in Luzerne county, but when they get one he proves his ability to shoot miners when they become too troublesome in their de- mand for living wages. Prosperity in Luzerne County. A rather singular sort of prosperity has struck Luzerne county. The miners of that region have not been in a flourishing condition for some years past. Between low wages, pluck-me stores and false weighing of the coal they dig, they have had a hard fight with the wolf at the door. But the Republican party has undertaken to make them prosperous, along with other classes of working people, and it is seen that this is being done by shooting pros- perity into them with Winchester rifles. For a prosperous scene, the one that pre- sented itself at the Lattimer mines, after the sheriff's deputies had poured a volley of rifle balls into the crowd of striking miners, was indeed a singular one. More than a score of laborers, mortally effected by that blast of ‘‘prosperity,’’ were seen stretched in death on the ground, while more than forty were not so prosperous as to be killed outright, but were among the wounded. Terror overcame those who es- caped the deathly shower. of bullets, and a mad rush was made by the survivors to get out of the reach of that kind of pros- perity. This bloody transaction in the Luzerne coal regions, that is rather typical of wrong and oppression than of prosperous condi- tions, was a disgrace to American civiliza- tion. The victims of the misdirected and overstrained official authority that was dis- played on that occasion, were poor, igno- rant slaves of the mines, brought into the country to secure cheap labor in mine operations, and thereby increase the profit of millionaire mine owners and wealthy corporations. The object of their importation was to beat down wages, and in order to more completely effect this policy the influx of this pauper labor element was made to overstock the coal regions so that the over- supply of laborers would conduce to low wages as a necessary consequence of there being more hands than could be supplied with steady work. This was the system of employment deliberately adopted and long practiced in one of the highly protect- ed lines of production—protected not only by tariff duties but by monopolistic com- binations that kept the price of coal up to the highest figure ; and when this degrad- ed class of laborers, employed at starvation wages, and additionally oppressed by the extortion of the ‘‘company stores,’’ at last yield to the instinct of self preservation and demand wages that will enable them to live a little better than brutes, they are shot down in the public highway at the command of an officer who is prompted to the bloody work by the apprehension that the property of some coal baron is about to be trespassed upon by strikers. This is the kind of prosperity that has overtaken the Luzerne coal miners, and the sheriff of the county who has been its ‘‘advance agent’’ in so bloody a manner, owes his election to the Republican party. We do not say that his being a Republican inclines him to that kind of work, but it may be remarked, in this connection, that in a county like Luzerne his election re- quired the votes of many of these miners who last year were ‘‘assisted’’ in voting the Republican ticket for the ‘‘protection of industry’’ and the vindication of the ‘‘na- tional honor. It Was Only a Republican Custom. Both ex-secretary of state REEDER and ex- assistant attorney general ELKIN in try ing to palliate the offence of signing a bond to protect the state treasurer for the illegal payment of salaries to a lot of political heel- ers whose names had been placed upon the Legislative pay-rolls without warrant of law alleges that ‘‘it has been the custom ‘‘since the passing of the act of 1874, limit- ‘‘ing the number of employees of the House ‘‘and Senate, to add a number of employ- ‘‘ees to the roll at each session and provide ‘‘for their compensation by items in the ‘‘general appropriation bill.” This may have been the custom when the Republicans controlled both branches of the Legislature and had the Governor, but it was not the case when the Demo- crats organized the House, in 1883, nor during any year that Governor PATTISON was expected tosign the appropriation bill. Itis a well known fact that during the long session of 1883, the Democrats who controlled the House, refused to name ap- pointees for all the places fixed by law, and were soundly abused by aspirants for positions because of the refusal. It won’t do for Mr. REEDER or Mr. EL- KIN to try to mitigate the wrong they at- tempted to do the people of the State by such broad declarations as they have made as to the custom prevailing since 1874, because no such custom prevailed under Democratic rule, nor was there need of any such custom. The records at Harrisburg will show that during the years the Demo- crats had charge of any one branch of the government that no such robbery was per- mitted. It was only when Republicans had complete control that the tax-payers were mulched by padded pay-rolls for the benefit of political heelers. The custom they refer to is purely and strictly a Republican custom. . Rough Experience for the Old State. The mine operators of the coal regions have made money by supplying their operations with imported vauper laborers and keeping them down to starvation wa- ges, but the disturbance which this kind of oppression has produced has been far from profitable to the State. The tax-pay- ers will feel the effect of it at a time when the funds in the state treasury are too low to meet necessary public expenses, with- out the additional cost of the troops called out to keep order in the coal regions. The soldiers that are now in Luzerne county to the number of nearly 3,000, run in there under the supposition that their presence is necessary to preserve the peace and protect the property, will cost the State $10,000 per day at the least, with the probability that it will be considered nec- essary to keep them there for a protracted period ; it may be for three or four weeks, or probably longer. This expense, added to the cost of their transportation on the railroads, and other charges, will make a nice bill for the tax-payers, as a conse- quence of the coal barons filling the region with cheap foreign laborers and keeping them in a condition of destitution that has driven them to disorderly demonstrations. This is not the only injury that the State sustains asa result of such a state of affairs. The orderly administration of the law in the disturbed region is violated by the ar- bitrary methods of military rule. As soon as the commanding general makes his ap- pearance, with his cohorts at the scene of disturbance, he orders the suspension of premacy of martial law. The right of pub- lic assemblage is forbidden ; orders are giv- en as to the manner in which the victims of the sheriff’s massacre shall be buried ; even so arrogant a power as prohibiting the service of writs on parties amenable to the law, is assumed by the commanding officer. In this respect a greater harm is done the State than is inflicted upon it by the expense of these military operations. The old Commonwealth is having some pretty rough experiences at this juncture. In her western districts ‘goverment by in- junction” is the method employed to sup- press the dissatisfaction working people, while in the eastéri coal region ‘‘government by the military” is the agency by which they are kept in sub- jection. —How about the hair on those caterpil- lars, you old weather-wise fanatic? We want to know whether a cold or mild winter is to be looked for and you are the fellow to look it up. All signs go. Tammany Will Win. From the York Gazette. The Democrats of Greater New York can win the coming election with ease provid- ing they put up a good candidate. The Republican party is split. The Citizen’s Union, composed of Republicans antago- nistic to the Republican machine, have nominated Seth Low, president of Colum- bia university. Platt and other Republi- can leaders announce that they will not accept Low as their candidate, and in order to show their power may be foolish enough to nomiuate a machine man. The Democrats nominally have a major- ity of over 100,000. The danger is that Croker and the Tammany leaders will think victory so certain that they can risk a candidate identified with the Tammany machine. Should they do so the result will be very uncertain. It is of importance to the Democratic party of the nation that the party in New York should win this year. Itisto be hoped the local leaders there will not throw away the chance they have to help the cause. . Old Man Dana Right for Once in His Life. From the New York Sun. The Hon. William Jennings Bryan has no reason to complain of the size of the au- diences that assemble to hear him talk free silver or, as he calls it, ‘‘bimetallism.”’ At Burlingame, Kan., one day last week, he spoke to 15,000 persons, and ‘his recep- tion was most enthusiastic.” At Iola, in the same State, the next day, he addressed from 10,000 to 12,000 persons on ‘‘bimetal- lism.” ‘“‘People came fifty miles to hear him”? We quote from Republican ac- counts. People who think that the back of the free silver movement is broken are deluding themselves. Wherever the Bry- anites were strong in 1896, they are strong to-day ; and wherever they are strong, the belief in and the demand for the free coin- age of silver have not been diminished a particle. Republican Prosperity of Cowurse. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. The situation in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania is now far more critical than it has been in the soft coal regions at any time this summer. In fact, it may be doubted whether we have ever had to confront a situation more threaten- ing to law and order save during the actu- al process of riot. The prospect of a strike of ten thousand men in the Lehigh valley alone is not a prospect to be surveyed without the gravest concern, when a mo- bilization of a large part of the National Guard of the State and the intense excite- ment over the Hazleton trouble are con- sidered. And, by the way, is all this riot and striking one of the evidences of prosperity ? ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. the civil functions and declares the su-- of poorly paid | Spawls from the Keystone. —DMiss Elmira Weary and Grace Kell, of Middlesex, Franklin county, were badly in- jured by a down-hill runaway. —Ofsixty-nine properties advertised for sale by the sheriff of Blair county on October 1st only two are Tyrone properties. —Henry M. Dechert, of Philadelphia, was elected president of the board of trustees of the Wernersville state insane asylum. —The Synod of the Presbyterian church of Pennsylvania will meet in the Falling Spring church, Chambersburg, on October 21st— 25th. —Falling down a mine airhole near Sha- mokin, 7 year-old Stella Kiefa had to remain there all night until miners rescued her in the morning. —In court at Erie Monday, Lewin De- wit Heidler, charged with murdering his father-in-law, Levi Kreider, on May 1st, 1896, in Fairview township, was placed on trial. —There is an unsafe bridge in Barr town- ship, Cambria county, and the following no- tice has been posted : “The suporviser will not be reliable for axidents happens on the briddg.”’ —The different bituminous collieries of Pat- ton and the one located on the Cambria coun- ty railroad, near Spangler, shipped 3,500 cars of coal over the Beech Creek railroad during the month of August, —The President has appointed David B. Heiner, of Pennsylvania, United States Dis- trict Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, to succeed Harry Alvan Hall. M. Heiner was formerly a member of Congress. —At Lancaster Jack Richardson was ar- rested for almost fatally beating George Murr, and Harry Zeigler and George Ander- son were put in jail for similar violence, Zeig- ler having since having been transferred to an insane asylum. —A dymanite explosion in the camp of the Ferguson contracting company, for B. R. & P. railway, about 5 miles from Falls Creek, demolished the building and inflicted such injuries to two colored men that one will die and the other will lose his one eye. —By a vote of 78 to 67 the Republican county convention of Huntingdon. nominated W. H. Benson over E. O. Rogers for associate judge. Judge Rogers was recently appointed associate judge to fill the unexpired term of the late judge Geissinger. —Thomas J. Dasher, of Wrightsville, was obliged to give up his position recently through his eyesight becoming impaired, and last evening he cut his throat with a knife. After a physician dressed the wound he stab- bed himself near the heart. He will be sent to an asylum. —Sixty-five years ago this month the Pennsylvania canal was completed on the eastern division to Huntingdon, and on the western division as far as Blairsville. Major S. 8S. Barr drove the first wagon that was loaded with goods at the Huntingdon wharf for transportation to Blairsville. —Early Saturday morning the large barn on the farm of Squire Gingrich, residing near Mt. Pleasant, Lebanon county, was de- stroyed by fire. The barn was one of the finest in the county, and over 1,500 bushels of wheat were burned. . The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. The loss, including the wheat, is estimated to be be- tween $2,000 and $3,000. —Isaac Koble of Milton, was shot in the body during the third day of the battle of Gettysburg, July 3rd 1863. The surgeons failed to locate the ball, but in the course of time the wound healed. Several weeks ago a large carbuncle appeared on his back and when it was lanced the other day the bullet, which had been received more than thirty- four years ago, worked out. —Within a month a remarkable bill of claims against the government will be filed in the United States court of claims by John Woomer, Sr., of East Tyrone, Mrs. Re- beeca Poole, of Green Castle, and John and Willis Woomer, of Jersey Shore, The claim relates to property of fabulous value in the heart of Washington, on which are located the Washington monument, the national museum and the United States treas- ury building. —Arrests have followed the alleged kid- naping of the 5-year-old son of Rev. Julius Herold, of West Philadelphia. The minister swore out warrants against his two sisters, charging them with kid-naping and alienat- ing the affections!of his son. The sisters gave bail in the sum of $1.000. It is said that he tried tc induce his sisters to give up his son, but that they refused. The sisters came into possession of the child about three months ago in Williamsport. —Samuel Skinner, a porter at the Auld house, Washington, Pa., committed suicide Saturday by drinking carbolic acid. Skinner went upstairs, saying he was going to take a dose of medicine and a few minutes later was found in terri- ble agony in the laundry. He died in a few minutes. Skinner once before attempted to take his life by jumping from a third-story window, and has been lame since. —The alleged suicide of Mrs. Benjamin Stewart, of York Haven, is being inves- tigated by the authorities, who believe she was murdered by tramps. There were evi- dences of a struggle on the banks of the pond where the woman was found drowned. Mrs. Stewart was about thirty years of age. She was quite pretty, but her fondness for drink caused her husband to leave her and take his two children from her. Two tramps now in the York jail are suspected of drown- ing the woman. —Hon. James Kerr of Clearfield, is the pos- sessor of a historical relic in the shape of a cannon supposed to be one hundred years old, which was captured from the British when they evacuated Washington, D. C., in 1814, after the partial destruction of the Na- tion’s capitol. It is rather an ancient look- ing gun and weighs 1,600 pounds. He is hav- ing it mounted for the purpose of placing it on a lawn near his residence in Clearfield. The cannon was unearthed in Alexandri., Va., where workmen were excavating for the foundation of a factory for the Virginia beef extract company, of which Mr. Kerr is president.
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