P. G IS:
BY RAY MEE
Ink Slings. |
—WEYLER’S Cuban tobacco embargo
being lifted a slump in the home cabbage |
market might be looked for.
—Lovise MICHEL, the notorious an- |
archist is to be kept out of the United
States, unless she is able to crawl in under
the bars. !
—M;r. Marcus HANNA has taken the
stump in Ohio. Now is there anything
left in the Buckeye State that does not |
belong to HANNA ?
—LEUTGERT sausage will never be popu-
lar as a fad. It is all right to talk about
eating ground up dog, but the stomach
will rebel at the horrible idea of dissolved
woman. i
—Almost every public school in the
country reports an increased number of
scholars with its opening. Here is one
business that seems to prosper, notwith-
standing tariffs or currency problems.
—A real live German duke was drowned
near Hamburg, on Wednesday. This will
be asad blow to some of the old fools,
known as American mothers, who tote their
daughters abroad to dicker their wealth
for nobility.
—Now that WEYLER has taken the em-
bargo off Cuban tobacco the nice people in
Philadelphia will feel it their duty to
further festoon the lamp posts of the Quak-
er city with little placards, bearing the ad-
monition : ‘Please don’t spit on the
pavements.’
—Spain is hunting friends all over con-
tinental Europe. Since consul general LEE
has been sent back to Cuba and minister
WooDFORD has gone to Spain the patriot
cause has taken a decided jump and the
petered out old monarchy is beginning to
scent trouble over the sea.
—In England whenever a baby is born
to the nobility it is advertised in the pa-
pers. The English nobility is so badly pe-
tered out that such an event is looked upon
as a great thing. They come with such
unceasing regularity in this country that
the only way they excite any interest is
when they are trips or fours.
—The first report we had of the yellow
fever was early last fall when Hogan’s
Alley society went wild over a yellow kid.
New York journals caught the yellow
streak, they struck it up onthe Klondyke
and now they are getting it all through the
South. Indeed the yellow fever is the
dead swell thing just now—with the accent
on the dead.
—This thing of taking gas to relieve
one’s heart ache because a lover has killed
himself ain’t what it seems to be. Miss
WEBB, the pretty New York typewriter,
tried it. She turned on the gas, but her
little light refused to go out and now the |
police are going to make a terrible example |
of the foolish maiden hy punishing her in |
court. |
—The Spanish government is going to |
dredge Havana harbor in order to make it
practicable to use a floating dock there on
which to repair Spanish war ships. The
Spaniards are a little dubious about stir-
ing up such a filthy mess as that bay is
known to be, but all they need to be re-
assured is to send a committee up to take
a look at the Chicago river.
—Japan is slipping soldiers into Hawaii
to have them there, we presume, with
which to head off probable annexation
with America. We don’t want the addi-
tion of the foreign and un-American citizen-
ship that such an acquisition would bring
with it, but if we did all the squint-eyed
soldiers in the Mikado’s realm wouldn’t
keep us from taking it. :
—Congressman THOMAS S. BUTLER, of
Chester county, has made a pretty show of
himself in refusing, as a member of the
county board of examiners, to certify to
Miss ISABEL DARLINGTON’S qualifications
to be admitted to the bar of that county.
She is the first woman to aspire to the
practice of law in Chester county, is his
sister-in-law and studied in his office. A
family disagreement is reported to be the
cause.
—The first step has been taken in mak-
ing sheriff MARTIN and his murderous
deputies realize the position they are in.
All of them have been held under $5,000
bail, each, to answer the charge of murder |
and while it is hardly probable that they
will be made suffer any penalty the charge
and trial will be lessons that they will not
soon forget. Being charged with the mur-
der of twenty-three men is no matter to
take lightly.
—The narrowness, the selfishness, the
lack of christian love in any character is
seen in its most glaring light when such
cases as the Lattimer tragedy and the WiL-
soN murder in Philadelphia are before the
public. Because they were poor ignorant
foreigners who were so pitilessly shot down
in the mining regions we have heard the
cruel apology for the hasty action of the
sheriff's posse in the words : ‘‘Oh they were
only Huns.” Because the Philadelphia
police have not been sharp enough to un-
cover the murderer of WILSON they are |
trying to fasten the crime on his colored
porter, because he is least able to defend
himself. There is an attempt to exten-
uate such an outrage as this seems to be by
saying he is ‘‘only a nigger.”” What if
they are ‘‘only Huns,” what if MARION
STUYVESANDT, is ‘‘only a nigger,” don’t
they have souls that a Creator cherishes
just as fondly as that of any other heing ?
Are they not human ?
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VOL. 42
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO, 37.
Things Well Known to the Public.
It can not be possible that the people of
Pennsylvania can condone the aggregate
rascality and concrete rottenness that stand
exposed in every department of the Repub-
lican state government.
The voters of the State, it is true, have
become habituated to maladministration
of public affairs, their indifference being
largely responsible for it, but the thorough-
ly corrupt manner in which the state busi-
ness has been conducted and the ingrain-
ed dishonesty of the corruptionists who
have run the controlling political machine,
were never before so clearly exposed or ful-
ly understood as they are now. Should
the people conclude to allow the State to
remain under such control it would show
a demoralization of public sentiment and a
reckless indifference to their own interests
that can hardly be conceived.
There is not an intelligent citizen of the
State who is not clearly impressed with the
utter worthlessness of the Legislatures to
which the controlling party has entrusted
the lawmaking power of the State. The last
legislative body was intentionally, shame-
lessly and defiantly untrustworthy. It is
well known to every intelligent citizen that
those unfaithful Legislators were not only
willing tools of a corrupt boss in rejecting
reforms which the people were led to ex-
pect by lying promises, but went further
in their work of infamy by passing laws
that strengthened and confirmed the abuses
which the party had pledged itself to re-
form.
How for six months this disgraceful
body applied itself to legislative jobbery ;
how its acts were designed to conceal and
whitewash the crooked management of the
state money, and Low, in organizing sham
committees that would draw unearned
pay, its action virtually amounted to em-
bezzlement and theft—all these shameful
facts are wel! known to the people.
Such flagrancy of official misdemeanor,
open shameless and defiant, extends be-
yond the legislative branch and includes
the treasury department, where in conse-
quence of a ruction between the two fac-
tions of Republican spoilsmen the head of |
the treasury is shown, by the testimony of
| the Governor and his attorney general, to
have been guilty of taking money from the
public treasury without authority of law,
to be paid to parties not entitled to it.
That this political immorality and official
debasement, as connected with Republican
state rule, is general and hopeless of im-
provement, is confirmed by the party’s
state convention giving an unqualified en-
dorsement to the most worthless Legisla-
ture that ever perverted and disgraced the
legislative function, including in its appro-
val the treasurer, who, upon the word of
the Governor and attorney general, may
be impeached and punished for a misde-
meanor. A further proof of this hopeless
Republican demoralization is the fact that
when Gov. HASTINGS turns out a secreta-
ry for flagrant misconduct he can do no
better in filling the vacancy than by the
appointment of DAVE MARTIN, the most
unscrupulous and discreditable of the
Republican machine politicians.
All the facts connected with Republican
administration in the State are fully known
by the people. With the full knowledge
that the rule of that party is corrupt, dis-
graceful and destructive of the public inter-
est, will the voters prove themselves so in-
different to the welfare of the State and
their own good as to continue to maintain
the majority of such party at the polls ?
The Power of the Working People.
The people of Pennsylvania, and particu-
larly those of her laboring classes who are
being oppressed in the matter of wages,
will profit by taking to heart the excellent
expressions which WILLIAM J. BRYAN de-
livered last week to an audience of 25,000
| people at Sedalia, in Missouri.
Speaking of the disturbance arising from
labor troubles, and the rash conduct of
those who would resort to violence in
righting the wrongs of the class who are
denied living wages for their labor, he
said : “Those who have suggested the
burning of property or the destruction of
life as a means of settling labor disputes
do not understand the genius of our insti-
tutions. The American people are a law-
abiding people. When laws are bad they
will change the laws. LINCOLN was right
when he said that ‘‘no one could better be
entrusted with the enforcement of the laws
than those who toil.”” The toilers will re-
spect the right of property. The people as
a whole will insist that corporations shall
also respect the right of life and liberty.”
The moderation counseled by Mr. Bry-
AN, and the peaceful action through the
remedial agency of the law, which he ad-
vises, is the right policy for the working
people in adopting measures for the pro-
tection of their rights. They are called
upon to meet and correct many abuses and
remedy many wrongs, and they are able to
do it by the orderly invocation of the law,
and by an intelligent and independent use
of their ballots. Violence is an unnecessary
factor in the problem.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 24. 1897.
At the pending state election the
working people will have an opportunity
| of rebuking, with their ballots, a political
party that has converted the state govern-
ment into a regular system of abuses and
wrongs inflicted upon the laboring popula-
tion. In its favoritism to incorporated
capital, and its neglect to protect the in-
terests of labor as against the impositions
of corporations and capitalistic employers,
that party, both in the executive and legis-
lative branches of the state government, is
largely responsible for the conditions that
have brought on the present labor troubles.
If it had been faithful to the interest of the
laboring class it would not have left them
without legal remedy for the many forms
of injury and wrong that reduce their
means of living to actual destitution and
| endanger the safety of their lives and
limbs. It would, for example, have passed
effective laws for the prevention of the
pluck-me store robbery, which constitutes
one of their greatest grievances, and it
would not have failed to protect them in
other rights which can be violated by their
wealthy employers without legal remedy
or redress. The time and attention of this
party has been taken up entirely in passing
laws for the benefit of corporations and
capitalistic interests, when its leaders were
not engaged in devising schemes to plun-
der the treasury and to divide the spoils
with their political henchmen.
The “working people have a remedy for
the wrongs they have sustained at the
hands of the dominant party in this State,
and it is a remedy that does not require
violence, which Mr. BRYAN properly con-
demns. He truly says that ‘“‘the toilers
will respect the right of property,”’ and
when a party that makes the laws and
runs the government of a State neglects to
compel ‘‘the corporations to respect the
right of life and liberty,” it is for the
working people, themselves, to secure their
own protection by turning that party out
of power. To do this they need no more
violent means than the quiet action of
their ballots at the polls.
A Jadicial Tyranny,
Some of the best legal ininds in the
country are becoming alarmed at the en-
croachment upon constitutional govern-
ment that is threatened by the abuse of in-
junction as a coercive legal process. They
see in it an unlawful stretch of power by
the courts that endangers the liberty of
the citizen. The most obnoxious feature
of this abuse is that it is resorted to in the
too frequently occurring endeavors of cor-
porations and capitalistic wealth to en-
croach upon the rights of labor.
In speaking of this legal encroachment
chief justice TULEY, of the appellate
court of Illinois, says: ‘‘when courts un-
dertake tosettle labor disputes by the use
of the writ of injunction they are acting
without jurisdiction.’” The chief justice
holds that to use this writ for the purpose
of dispersing an assemblage of strikers on |
the highways ; or to restrain the action of
parties whose movements are intended to
affect the question of wages, isa usurpa-
tion of power by the courts.
The exercise of this dangerous power is
becoming frequent in this country and no-
where is it more offensively resorted to,
than in Pennsylvania, for the purpose of
keeping the laboring class under restraint
and in subjection to the interest of employ-
ers.
The people of the State should protest
against this legal usurpation. They
should protest against it for the reason, as
judge TULEY puts it, that ‘‘such use of
wiits of injunction by the courts is judi-
cial tyranny which endangers not only the
right of the trial by jury, but all the rights
and liberties of the citizens,’’ and he further
says : “I venture the prediction that un-
less this usurpation of power by the courts
is promptly checked we shall, within a few
years, see elections—and a presiden-
tial one, perhaps—carried by a court’s
writ of injunction, backed by armed
“‘deputies’’ or federal soldiers.”
As this legal abuse is practiced in our
State for the benefit of interests that have
their chief support in the Republican
party, the danger involved in it makes it
an issue in the state election that directly
affects the working people against whom
this legal tyranny is aimed. Their rights
and liberties require the defeat of that
party.
A Swindle That Won't Work in This
County.
The story that a swindler is working
country people in Pennsylvania by calling
at their homes, being sure that the hus-
band is out, and addressing the wife as fol-
lows: ‘‘Good morning, madam! I have
just met your husband and purchased a
calf from him. He could not change this
$20 bill and he told me to call at the house
and get $15 change.” The scheme works
when the man gets his $15 change and de-
parts, leaving a $20 counterfeit and a
promise to come for the calf next day.
Such a swindle as this might work out
in Ohio, where MARK HANNA has flooded
everything with money, but in Centre
county. Lord bless you, few farmers or
anybody else have $15 in their houses to
give anyone.
Tariffs and the Troops.
It is a fact, demonstrated by frequent ex-
perience, that high tariffs are followed by
discontent among laboring people which
brings on trouble that furnishes a reason,
or at least an excuse, for the employment
of the military to keep order. No State
has had more frequent and expensive ex-
perience of this fact than our old State !
of Pennsylvania.
The discontent that is the cause of this
trouble is entirely contrary to the theory
of protection, which claims that protective
tariffs ensure plenty of work, good wages;
a generally prosperous condition of labor,
and contentment among the working class-
es. This theory is disproved by realities
that are directly contrary to it. Reduced
wages, discontent, strikes and wide-
spread labor troubles have attended every
highly protective tariff, and then the
troops have heen called out to suppress the
disturbance.
It has only been since the era of high
duties that the soldiers have been made a
factor in the labor question. The tariff
that existed in 1877 was highly protective.
It had reached a point required by the fa-
vored beneficiaries who had taken advan-
tage of the necessities of the war by enlarg-
ing and perpetuating the duties imposed
as war measures. Yet under that high
tariff, alleged to have been maintained for
‘‘the protection of industry,” there was
discontent and trouble among the working
classes, arising from the inadequacy of
wages, that called out the troops in half a
dozen different States. In our own State,
during the labor difficulties in 1877, the
Pittsburg coal region was occupied by an
armed force, including regulars of the
United States army, and the national
guard was employed in guarding the coal
mines.
When protected wealth required further
favors from the government the tariff du-
ties were increased by the McKINLEY act
of 1890. Itis remembered how the HAR-
RISON tariff campaign, was conducted upon
the plea that American labor needed more
protection. Upon this fraudulent repre-
sentation the MCKINLEY monopoly tariff
bill was passed, and the labor disturbances
which followed; growing out of wage re-
ductions and strikes, culminated in the
Homestead war, in which the largest force
of soldiers that any State ever placed in
hostile array against the working people
was called into action to suppress, by mili-
tary means, an uprising of discontented la-
bor.
These troubles ceased to exist after the
enactment of the lower Democratic WILSON
tariff. In the three years during which
that more equitable fiscal measure was in
operation industrial peace prevailed.
While the great exports of American
manufactures showed that there had been
no cessation of industry during that time,
there were no strikes and no collisions be-
tween employers and einployees to invoke
the military arm for the suppression of
labor troubles ; but as soon as the
provisions of DINGLEY’S tariff act went
into operation the soldiers were again
employed in their accustomed busi-
ness of checking the industrial turmoil
that prevails under monopoly tariffs.
The massacre at Lattimer was the
bloody announcement that the Republican
system of ‘‘protection’’ was again in force,
and the rifle practice of the sheriff’s depu-
ties was followed by a call for the troops.
These are facts and experiences which
should arrest the attention of the people of
Pennsylvania at this time when they are
about to pass judgment at the polls on the
party that has been responsible not only
for a tariff system which confers its advan-
tages on a class of preferred beneficiaries
while it brings labor into collision with
the military, but also for a system of state
government that has sacrificed the public
interest for the benefit of a combination of
corrupt machine politicians.
——GEORGE HUTCHINSON Esq., of War-
riorsmark, has been removed and re-insta-
ted as chief clerk of the pure food commis-
sion. He was removed because he had
helped QuAY in Huntingdon county when
E. O. RoGERs was a candidate for associate
judge, and re-instated because he promised
not to do it again, we suppose. His dis-
missal was more as a ‘‘horrible example”
than anything else, but we imagine that
that is a role GEORGE doesn’t fancy play-
ing in the political farce now on the boards
at Harrisburg.
——Republican county chairman W. I.
SHAW, of Clearfield county, the man
whose claim to political pre-eminence is
based on the fact that his county has lately
recorded Republican majorities, has just
been appointed consul at Baranquilla,
United States of Columbia. The position
carries a salary of $2,500 and fees.
——Sheriff MARTIN and his crowd of
murderers have been arrested. A company
of guardsmen escorted them all to Wilkes-
barre, where they gave bail for appearance
at court.
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From the Pittsburg Post.
It was quite a heroic act in Governor
Hastings refusing to pardon a ballot hox
stuffer of his own party in Philadelphia,
and the assignment of reasons is good.
The Governor says :
He who, eitherus election officer or briber, con-
tributes to the spoliation of the American ballot
should be accursed of men, and the stain which
discolors him should be reflected upon every per-
son, high or low, who profits by his crime, I re-
fuse to concur in the recommendation of the
board of pardons, and I decline to exercise exec-
utive clemency.
All citizens will commend this vigorous
statement, even if their minds linger on
pointed ‘‘Dave’ Martin secretary of the
Commonwealth. The Philadelphia Zimes
knows all about Martin, and says he has
‘done as much as any other living man to
make systematic ballot theft a part of our
political system.” Governor Hastings
knew this as well as Colonel McClure, and
possibly had more detailed information on
the subject. And the worst of itis that
Martin has never repented, but stands
ready to continue the business whenever
called on.
A Power Without Any Rating Licked
Your Bloomin’ England in *76.
From the London Globe, on Arbitration with the
United States.
‘Lord Salisbury has treated the United
States with a kindness they donot deserve,
always wearing the silk glove, until Ameri-
ca has forgotten the existence of the iron
hand beneath it. The idea of our being
afraid of a fourth-rate power like the Unit-
ed States could only have occurred to suf-
ferers from a severe attack of swelled head.
America has lost all sense of proportion
and has forgotten she plays only a minor
role in the affairs of the world. We hope
our relations with America will hereafter
be distinguished by a firmer tone, as the
only way to avert trouble is to make her
plainly understand that we are determined
not to he shouted out of our rights.”
The Free Ride Scheme Did Bear Fruit.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The merchants of this city have secured
such an increase of business through the
cheap excursions that brought thousands
of buyers to their salesroom and ware-
houses that they want some more of the
same sort, and the Trades League is trying
to arrange for two more, one in each of the
months of October and November.
As the railways have no doubt profited
by the increased travel stimulated by these
cheap excursions, they will be quite as
ready to grant the necessary concession as
the merchants are anxious to obtafh Them,
and there is every reason to expect that the
two additional excursions will be arranged
and will be taken advantage of by very
many desirous of replenishing their stocks
by personal selection.
The entire success of the cheap excursion
method of attracting trade to this city
should serve to secure its annual repetition.
Merchants and railways will profit alike
by its adoption and frequent repetition,
and both should be willing to work in
harmony to secure the greatest possible
amount of business. It is far better that
the business interests and the railways of
the city should help each other than that
they should be quarreling.
Convention Postponed.
HARRISBURG, Sept. 21.—The annual
convention of the Democratic societies of
Pennsylvania, to have been held at Wilkes-
barre, Sept. 28th, has been called off, ow-
ing to the disturbed condition of affairs in
that locality. A meeting of the executive
committee of the societies was held this af-
ternoon at state headquarters, in this city,
at which the following resolution was
adopted : ‘It does not, in the judgment of
the executive committee, appear wise or
seemly to convene a purely political assem-
blage in a district so disturbed and har-
rassed as that of which Wilkesbarre is the
centre, where the military forces of the
State are indefinitely stationed. The peo-
ple are mourning their dead anc men of all
parties are anxiously concerned as to local
events of the most serious character.
‘While the necessity for this action is re-
gretted by the committee and may be dis-
appointing to many delegates and others
anticipating an agreeable visit to the hos-
pitable city of Wilkesbarre.’’
James Kerr, of Clearfield ; A. H. Lad-
nan, of Pittsburg, were appointed a com-
mittee to fix the time and place of holding
the convention.
Trip Postponed.
HARRISBURG, Sept. 21.—Owiug to the
outbreak of yellow fever in the South, the
proposed trip of the Pennsylvania Tennes-
see commission to Nashville has been post-
poned. Oct. 2nd had heen fixed for the
dedication of the Pennsylvania monu-
ments at Chickamaugua, and two days lat-
er was to have been Pennsylvania day at
the Nashville exposition. The exercises at
the exposition were called off this after-
noon at a meeting of the executive commit-
tee of the Pennsylvania commission, and
dedication exercises at Chickamaugua.
The exercises have heen postponed without
date, but they will not occur in any event
prior to Oct. 25th.
Secretary W. L. Malin, of the Pennsyl-
vania commission, will go to Nashville to-
night to ascertain if there is danger of an
outbreak of the fever in thut city and ar-
range for the Pennsylvania day exercises.
Adjutant General Stewart has on file over
Assembly from Pennsylvania soldiers for
transportation to attend the dedicatory ex-
ercises at Chickamaugua. He will advise
each of the applicants of the postponement
and later of the time fixed for the exercises.
——After October 1st Tyrone is to have
four mail carriers and two substitutes, in-
stead of three carriers and one substitute.
The routes were too long for the three car-
riers to get over them within the eight
hour day allowed hy law.
the fact that the Governor has just ap- |
ner, of Philadelphia, and William J. Bren- |
this will necessitate a postponement of the |
1,500 applications under the recent act of |
Spawls from the Keystone.
I —Allentown’s fair opened Monday.
—Thestate veterinary medical association
meets at Franklin Tuesday.
—Pittshurg capitalists are in a movement
to erect a $100,000 tin plate mill in Ebens-
burg.
i —Danville has a new daily paper, the
Morning News, a four-page paper, printed in
good style.
—Francis Murphy, the famous temperance
{ worker, will return to Pittsburg to reside
permanently.
—The Wyalusing Roclei complains that the
water supply of that town is insufficient for
fire protection.
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—The building trades ceuncil will prose-
cute Allegheny’s directors for alleged viola-
tion of the eight-hour law.
—The fall meeting of the Presbytery of
Lehigh will be held at the first Presbyterian
church, Pottsville, this week.
—The bursting of a glass tank threw 100
men out of work at McKee brothers’ factory,
Jeannette, Westmoreland county.
—In a collision of train and trolley cars at
Ashland Monday night, John Moran, a well-
known citizen, was seriously injured.
—A falling roof in Burnside mine, near
Tremont, fatally injured Michael Bruner
and seriously hurt Jeremiah Reagan.
{ —While crawling through a fence with a
| gun the weapon was discharged, seriously
| shooting Edward Green, of Christiana, in the
| side.
—Fireman Chris Kazemacher, of Erie, was
killed, and several other railroad men were
injured, in a freight collision near New
Castle.
—By his will the late Bishop Nelson S.
Rulison, of the Episcopal diocese of Peunsyl-
vania, left $200 as a nucleus for mission en-
dowment.
—Stepping upon the electrified iron door
above a cellar in Allegheny City, Kathrina
Rovegno and her daughter were almost fatal-
ly shocked.
—As John Wagner was crawling through a
barbed wire fence near Tower City his gun
was discharged and fatally wounded his
friend, Peter Miller.
—For mailing letters that fraudulently
asked aid in the name of a church charity,
James L. Protzman, of Snowden, Allegheny
county, was arrested.
—At Williamsport on Tuesday the boom
crew began rafting out the last of this season’s
sawing. It isestimated that there are about
20,000,000 teet in the hoom.
—Reading’s school board librarian, Miss
Menzel, heroically refused to permit con-
tractors to deliver paper below the contract
grade at the board’s headquarters.
—~Charles Newcomb, of Conkling, O.,
who was on his way to New York with a car
of poultry, fell under and was beheaded by
the wheels of a train at Scranton.
—Mary Cernohocksky, aged 6 years, of
Allegheny, was rescued from in front of a
train by Harry C. Baker, common council-
man of the Eighth ward, Allegheny.
—Deadly anthrax germs, imported with
foreign hides to a Falls Creek tannery, have
spread to the neighboring borough of
Reynoldsville, where cattle are dying.
—Thomas Padden, of Midvalley, was
beaten and had his skull and shoulder brok-
en for informing on a Centralia gang that
stole a keg of beer from a freight car.
—The Attorney General at Harrisburg
will hear the Philadelphia municipal league's
case for the ousting of Henry Clay, select
councilman from the Sixteenth ward.
—A largeair tank exploded in one of the
Lehigh Valley shops at Wilkesbarre, blow-
ing the roof off the building, but fortunately
all the workmen were out for their dinner
hour.
—A contract has been entered into with
the Scranton Electric Construction Com-
pany, of Scranton, to furnish Tunkhannock
with electric lights. The plant will cost
$18,000.
—A meeting of the executive committee of
the Democratic society of Pennsylvania will
be held Tuesday afternoon, at o'clock, at
the rooms of the state central committee, in
Harrisburg.
—Evan A. Griffiths, a Legislator, had to
give $1000 bail at Pottsville to appear as a
witness at the trial of the libel suit of John
J. Coyle against John J. Joyce, which was
postvoned in Griffiths’ absence Monday.
—At Cresson on Saturday an Italian wom-
an shot her husband in the arm because he
was unfaithful to her. The woman was ar-
rested and may be punished. Instead of be-
ing punished she ought to receive a prize for
taking the short cut on the scalawag.
—The Clarion Republican says: Down at
Bconomy Philip Martin Shannon is firmly
convinced that thirteen is a good enough
{ number for him. His thirteenth well was a
| gusher from Gusherville and its staying
powers make it the best well he has found in
| that section.
—The last Legislature gives us two addi-
i tional holidays. the 1.th of February, or
| Lincoln's birthday, and the third Tuesday
lin Febraary, or election day. The holiday
i list for Pennsylvania now stands as follows :
| New Year’s Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Feb-
ruary Election Day, Washington's Birthday,
| Good Friday, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor
Day, November Election Day, Thanksgiving
Day, Christmas Day, and every Saturday
| after 12 o'clock noon.
HY J-year-old child of Murs. James Cross,
who resides 1m the Beech Creek region, was
bitten by a copperhead snake Sunday while
in its crib. The child began crying and told
its mother that its back was cold. The moth-
er investigated and found that the child was
lying on a snake that had coiled up in the
bottom of the crib. The snake had bitten
the baby on the neck, but home made reme-
dies prevented the poison spreading. The
snake measured over six feet in length.
—The storm which passed over this place
Thursday evening last was most terrific at
Coalport, Clearfield county, killing William
Merriman, aged 22, and injuring Emory
Swope. Merriman was engaged in lighting the
lamps in the United Brethren church, when
a bolt of lightning entered an open window
aud tore all the clothes from his body. Death
was instantaneous. Swope, who was ringing
the church bell, received only a slight shock.
The plastering was knocked from the walls
and the building set on fire. The fire was
extinguished before much damage was done.