BY P. GRAY MEzK.
Ink Slings.
—We wonder what the shade of poor
old DANA did when it saw that Sun edi-
torial advocating the retirement of the
national bank notes.
—The formation of a trust to control the
out put of wood working machinery in
this country is not likely to effect the price
of saws, so that the domestic wood-pile can
be made just as seductive to tramps as ever,
without a cent more cost.
—Next President BRYAN was at Colum-
bia University, Missouri, on Tuesday, and
while there he was induced to make the
kick-off in a foot-ball game. In doing so
he sent the ball sailing forty yards down
the field. He’ll do worse than that to the
golden ball in 1900.
—The special election in the Sixth Illi-
nois congressional district, held on Tues-
day, was another poser for the Republicans.
A Republican majority of 6,000 was re-
duced to 840 and still some people are
silly enough as to imagine that BRY ANISM
is being repudiated.
—The rapidity and certainty with which
Jersey justice overtakes its victims was
given a new pace maker right up here in
Elk county last week. They had three
murder trials in four days and decided to
hang two of the fellows and send a third
one to the penitentiary for ten years.
—It is probably because Mr. PETER A.
B. WIDENER was once a mutton butcher
that he thought to pull the wool over the
eyes of the voters of Pennsylvania by giv-
ing his handsome home in Philadelphia as
a free library building for that city. You
know PETER would like to be Governor.
—The friendliness of the Spaniards for
the United States is seen in the enthusias-
tic receptions they have been giving
WEYLER, the butcher, ever since he re-
turned to Spain. It is not likely that if,
in their hearts, they regretted his record
of blood-shed that they would fete him
thus. .
—Yesterday was Thanksgiving day, pro-
claimed so by a Republican President and
passed along the line by a Republican Gov-
ernor. To neither one of these, nor to the
principles they espouse have we one thing
to be thankful for, but to an almighty, all-
wise, all-loving Father, the christian peo-
ple of the United States might well have
bowed the head in prayerful thanksgiving
for bounteous crops, good health and a
peaceful government.
—Governor AHUMADA, of Chihuahua,
Mexico, has seen the American fire engine
and is so pleased with it that he has recom-
mended its use to his native city. We
might suggest to the Governor that as they
will have little use for the engines at
fires down there the Chihuahuahs might
very profitably adopt a weekly wash day,
when the hose would be turned on the
entire population, with the hope of get-
ting them half clean at least.
—The expected happened and Dickinson
defeated The Pennsylvania State College
foot-ball team, at Sunbury, yesterday, by
the score of 6 to 0. It was not because she
had a right to or is the superior team, but
because State’s ambition seems to rise no
higher than a victorv over Bucknell. If
the State College athletes are .content to
remin in the class with the little colleges,
and it looks as if they were, then yester-
day’s defeat will cause them no chagrin.
—Mr. PETER A. B. WIDENER’S bid
for Governor and his debut in the cam-
paign of 1898 was made, the fore part of
this week, when he signified his intention
of making Philadelphia a present of his
magnificent North Broad street home, to
be used as a public library. PETER’S
generosity seems to be getting the upper
hand of him and maybe he’ll reduce street
car fares too, in the hope of doing some-
thing for the working people of that city.
Just maybe.
—The foot-ball season among the big
colleges has ended and while a comparison
of scores would indicate the supremacy of
of the University of Pennsylvania eleven
this cannot be accepted as positive proof of
it. After last Saturday’s surprise in the
Yale-Princeton game and past uncertain-
ties of foot ball the University could only
claim championship after playing Yale and
as no contest is on between them the real
status will not be known. It is not such
bad judgment that still thinks Princeton
the strongest team of them all.
—Mr. DAVID MARTIN'S attempt to have
his brother-in-law re-elected receiver of
taxes for the city of Philadelphia has pre-
cipitated another fight in the municipal
politics’ down there. Of course both the
city and state administrations are with
RoNEY, but as Senators QUAY and PEX-
ROSE are likely to last longer than either
HASTINGS, MARTIN or WARWICK it is
quite likely that Mr. Newt will give the
combiners about the hardest run they have
had since QUAY beat them for the state
chairmanship.
—Secretary GAGE is following in CAR-
LISLE’S tracks by running off to New York
to make speeches on the currency question,
80 as to please the fattening gold leeches of
Wall street. He was over there, on Tues-
day night, and spoke at the one hundred
and twenty-ninth annual banquet of the
chamber of commerce. About all he said
was to point to ‘‘a happy reaction in en-
terprise now witnessed,” but if the secre-
tary has witnessed such a reaction he has
certainly seen something that no man in
the American husiness world has yet be-
held. ‘
YOL. 4&2 ©
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDE
ELLEFONTE, PA.
, NOV. 26, 1897.
Republican Silverites.
There is an element developing in the
Republican party that threatens to dispute
the supremacy which the goldites have se-
cured in the control of that organization.
This element is becoming more outspoken
as the evidences of the injurious effects of
gold monometallism on the business of the
country more distinctly and unmistakably
present themselves. Its dissatisfaction is
excited by the evident intention of the
administration to disregard the pledge fa-
vorable to bimetallism that was made in
the party platform.
Foremost among Republican leaders who
deprecate the surrender of the party to the
goldbugs is Senator CHANDLER, of New
Hampshire. He is not of that class of Re-
publican Senators who, like TELLER, Du-
-B01S, WALCOTT, and others from the West,
may be said to be influenced by the local
interests of the silver States, or by the
western antagonism to the money power of
the East. CHANDLER represents an east-
ern State that is not affected by such in-
fluences, but his sentiments in favor of sil-
verspring from the conviction that his par-
ty is wrong in adopting the exclusive gold
policy, and that itis unfaithful to its
pledge of bimetallism by which it gained
many votes in the last presidential election.
Writing on this subject under the head of
‘The Next Duty of Republican Bimetal-
lists,’’ he begins his observations with an
allusion to the lesson of the recent elec-
tions, and says :
‘‘As to the elections, they prove with rea-
sonable clearness that if the Republican par-
ty permanently acquiesces in ‘‘the existing
gold standard’’ and gives up the struggle for
bimetallism, that party will be defeated in
the congressional elections of 1898 and in the
presidential election of 1900. The silver mon-
ometallists will then take possession of all
branches of ;the national government, and a
free coinage bill, with silver made the tender
for all debts, public and private, domestic
and foreign, will pass both houses of Con-
gress and be signed by President BRYAN.”
Such a remark as this shows that the
New Hampshire Senator entertains a far
more correct view of the popular sentiment
on the money question than is entertained
by those who are directing the policy of
the administration. That he is able to
foresee that the people will not submit to
the domination of the goldbug plutocracy,
and will discard a monetary system that
is subjected to the contracting influences of
the gold standard; is proven by his asser-
tion that
‘An intelligent people, with their votes free-
ly cast and honestly counted, will never
adopt or submit to the permanent demoneti-
zation of silver and the fixed ascendency of
tke single gold standard prescribed by Eng-
land. So the pathway of safety is only in
one direction. Mr. McKINLEY was elected
only because his platform and his previous
utterances promised efforts to secure bimet-
allism.”
But can Senator CHANDLER, or any oth-
er Republican who is averse to the gold
standard ‘‘preseribed by England,’’ expect
to see President McKINLEY adopt the
‘‘only pathway of safety’ in this question?
It will be impossible for this administra-
tion to shake off the influence of the gold-
bug millionaires and Wall street money
lords which is exercised as the inevitable
consequence of pecuniary assistance render-
ed in its election. The Republican party,
as an organization, will be compelled to
adhere to the gold policy of the New York
money changers and London bankers, leav-
ing to the American people the only means
of relief through the election of a free sil-
ver Democratic Congress, with a President
to match, who in all probability will be
WILLIAM J. BRYAN. .
Electoral Fraud.
If there could have been a motive which
more than any other should have moved
the voters of Pennsylvania to take the state
government out of the hands of the present
governing party it should have been the
desire to rescue the ballot system from the
debased and corrupted condition to which
it has been brought by Republican manage-
ment.
How the ballot law has been perverted
from its intended object of protecting the
secrecy and purity of the elective franchise,
and made the instrument of electoral fraud
and corruption, is a well known and shame-
ful fact. It was done avowedly for the
purpose of securing a party advantage, and
there was not shame enough in the perpe-
trators to conceal their object. The dec-
laration was openly made in the state f.eg-
islature that the Republican party could
not afford to have an honest ballot.
But as if there was notadvantage enough
in perverting the Australian system from
its intended object, Republican election
officers in Philadelphia, at the last election,
made false returns from a number of dis-
tricts, resorting to such rascally means of
swelling the party vote. A number of
them were arrested and gave judges ARr-
NoLD, GORDON and SULTZBERGER the
opportunity of making an example of them,
but this method of keeping the Bepublican
party in power can not be stopped until
the election laws are thoroughly overhaul-
ed and reformed. his
-—~3ubscribe for the WATCHMAN.
An Evil and Its Cause.
The question has been raised by a con-
temporary as to the extent to which the
demoralization of American politics is due
to the foreign vote. There is a class of pol-
iticians who attribute most of the political
evils from which the country is suffering to
that source, and can see no other remedy
than the disfranchisement of all who have
not been born in this country. This was
the view taken of the matter by old time
know-nothingism, and the more modern A.
P. As are inspired by the same sentiment.
A recent writer on this subject, referring
to the general class of foreign voters, says
‘‘they become naturalized for political pur-
poses and are led to the polls for the price
of a glass of beer, to cast a ballot which
will neutralize the intelligent vote of the
best citizen of a community.”
The truth of this applies but to a certain
class of naturalized voters. A large portion
of the foreign element in our citizenship is
composed of excellent material, and even
if there could be any possible harm in their
suffrage it is so divided between parties as
to be self-neutralizing. But there is a large
percentage of naturalized foreigners whose
exercise of the right of suffrage is injurious
for the reason that it can he controlled hy
purchase, and the party that has the money
to buy it can vote it solidly.
There is no question that this class, con-
sisting chiefly of the ignorant Huns and
Italian immigrants, purchased in the bulk,
and united with the solid mass of negro
voters, overcame the vast majority of in-
telligent native born white American citi-
zens who voted for Mr. BRYAN last year,
and in that way a victory was secured for
the money power.
To that extent the foreign born voters
exert an injurious effect in our politics, but
the cause for it is to be looked for in those
native-born politicians who exercise the
corrupting influence that is the source 4of
the political degeneracy that menaces our
country. If there were no vast boodle
funds there would not be hordes of ignorant
Slavs, Huns and Dagos, bought up at
wholesale, to vote for ‘protection to Amer-
ican industry,” and for ‘‘the maintenance
of the nation’s credit and honor.’
Sacrifice of a Great National Interest.
Mr. C. A. GRiscoM, president of the
international navigation company, had an
interview last week with the President on
an interesting and very important subject.
He called Mr. McKINLEY’S attention to
the prostrated condition of our merchant
marine with the object of inducing him to
recommend in his message such measures
as would lead to the improvement of our
ocean commerce which has dwindled to
insignificant proportions.
The subject which Mr. GRIscoM has
pressed upon the President’s attention is
of a most momentous character, involving
the very highest national interests, which
have most singularly and culpably been,
neglected in recent years by our govern-
mental authorities. The decline of our
ocean trade is chargeable to defects in our
fiscal and navigation laws which, based on
the principle of misdirected protection,
have sacrificed every other interest for the
advantage of special beneficiaries.
In addition to the material injury in-
volved, it is simply disgraceful that a
nation which forty years ago, under more
liberal and enlightened fiscal and com-
mercial policies, was rapidly gaining the
leadership in ocean commerce, has become
80 insignificant among maritime nations
that the appearance of an American ship in
a foreign port has become so rare as to be
regarded as a curiosity. Nothing presents
this disgrace in a more glaring light than
the fact that of the many thousands of
trading vessels of various nationalities
passing annually through the Suez canal
there bas not, during the past two years,
been one bearing the American flag. :
When this is contrasted with the ac-
tivity of American maritime enterprise
under the WALKER Democratic low tariff
previous to the war, a period in which the
English were yielding their commercial
supremacy to the rapidly expanding com-
merce of the United States, a picture is
presented that lamentably shows the de-
cline of our merchant marine and the de-
cadence of this country asa commercial
nation under Republican tariff and naviga-
tion laws.
Productive of a Deficit.
The DINGLEY tariff has already shown
its inability to raise the wages of working-
men. The profits of the manufacturers
have been increased by the advance in
prices along the whole line of their pro-
tected productions,- but the employees get
no more pay for their work.
Asa measure beneficial to the working
class this tariff has proved a failure, and
when it is viewed as a producer of revenue
it is found to be equally deficient. One of
the reasons. given for this new tariff was
that the WILSON enactment did not pro-
duce enough revenue, and that Republican
tariff legislation was necessary to remedy a
deficit and bring into the treasury enough
revenue to meet the expenses of govern-
ment.
Let us see how this requirement is being
met by the DINGLEY acts. The treasury
deficit for the month of October is officiall y
reported as $9,322,653, and for the four
months of the fiscal year ending on the 23d
of last month, at about $40, 000,000, in round
numbers.
The whole deficiency under the WiLsoNx
tariff during the last fiscal year was $18,-
000,000 while in the first four months of
the current fiscal year, more than two of
which were under the DINGLEY act, . the
deficiency in the revenue necessary to meet
expenses amounts to $40,000,000. This is
the way this new measure that favors the
trusts and monopolies acts as a revenue
producer.
Since it has failed so completely, both in
raising wages and in raising revenue, must
it be considered a complete failure ? By no
means. In that particular in which its pro-
moters intended it to he a success it has
been entirely successful. It has enabled
the trusts to practice their extortions upon
the people with renewed rapacity, and has
enlarged the opportunities of the million-
aire monopolists to increase their wealth.
Misinformed as to Which City.
It would appear that colonial secretary.
CHAMBERLIN, a member of the English
ministry, is among those Europeans upon
whom has been made a false impression as
to the effect of the Democrats carrying the
New York city election. That he has been
made to believe by the false representa-
tions of the Republican press that the suc-
cess of TAMMANY means the plundering of
the municipality is evidenced by his re-
mark, in a recent speech at Glasgow, that
“in New York the government of three
millions of people had been handed over to
a party whose object is avowedly to get the
greatest amount of spoil.”’
The English secretary was misinformed
as to the city in whose government spoils
is the special object, and which is sys-
tematical robbed by the politicians who
manage its municipal affairs. That city is
not New York but Philadelphia, and it is
not a Democratic city but is a stronghold
of Republicanism. The party whose organs
hypocritically denounce TAMMANY for cor-
rapt government in New York, has never
lost a chance to loot Philadelphia’s city
treasury.
At this very time legal proceedings have
been instituted ‘against the Philadelphia
Republican managers to prevent them from
stealing the city gas works and giving pub-
lic property worth millions to a ring of
politicians and speculators. At the last
election the better portion of the city’s
population voted against entrusting the
proceeds of a twelve million loan to the
political gang who will have the handling
of it, and who, there is reason to fear, will
absorb a large portion of it for their own
personal profit.
TAMMANY has always given New York
city something in return for the money it
spent, while the chief object of the ring
that rules Philadelphia is to enrich its
members. : :
Dissatisfied Working People.
The woolen spinners and weavers in
Philadelphia are not in a contented frame
of mind. They have recently been hearing
a great deal about the return of prosperity
and the send off which the industries have
received since the DINGLEY tariff, but
nothing has as yet materialized to their
advantage. They are working for the same
wages which were said to be so low on ac-
count of the WILSON tariff having deprived
them of protection.
The operatives in some of the largest
Philadelphia woolen mills have been on
the point of striking for some weeks past.
The case of the woolen workers is attended
with peculiar aggravation. No class of
manufacturers have had their interest more
carefully attended to hy the DINGLEY tar-
iff makers than have those who run the
woolen mills. They have assisted 1n lobby-
ing through Congress a tariff bill which
gives them extraordinary advantage in
practicing extortion upon the consumers of
their products, while they have secured a
great gain in importing wool, free of duty,
which will be converted into goods for
which the highest tariff prices will be
charged. Yet notwithstanding these ad-
vantages from a tariff which was said to be
for the benefit of the working people, noth-
ing is being said or done about raising the
wages of the operatives. Some of the men
in the Philadelphia mills who have large
families are getting no more than six dol-
lars and a half a week. No wonder they
are getting restless on the subject of wages
and are preparing to strike. ~ In fact some
have already struck, although there has, as
yet, been no general movement.
We do not know how these men voted at
the recently state election. Probably the
most of them allowed themselves to be
humbugged again with deceptive promises,
but within less than a year they will be so
thoroughly assured that the benefits of the
DINGLEY tariff were not intended for them
that there will be strikes all along the line.
Suits Suddenly Suspended.
There has been evident reluctance on the
part of the leaders of both. Republican fac-
tions in this State to stir up the party
stench that would have attended those
libel and bribery prosecutions if they had
been continued to a finish in the courts.
The smell of the old party is bad enough
without a further exposition, of the rotten
ness of the carcass, and this may he assigned
as the reason why the suits in which Quay
and his gang, on the one side, and WANA-
MAKER and his backers, on the other, figure
as the parties, are being allowed to vanish
from the court calendar.
The public is disappointed by this sud-
den cessation of the prosecutions. It is
true that the proceedings would not have
been very edifying to the moral sense of
the public, nor very elevating to the polit-
ical reputation of the State, but the dis-
closures might have had a good effect in
exposing the turpitude of Republican
leadership.
The whole dirty business, which the
parties have prudently concluded not to
ventilate in the courts, sprang out of the
fight for the United States Senate in which
JOHN WANAMAKER, the sanctified manipu-
lator of political wires, antagonized the
ungodly boss and the unregenerate gang
who wear the QUAY collar. In such a
collision there would necessarily be damag-
ing criminations and recrimination, among
which was the charge that brother WAN A-
MAKER had resorted to so unholy an ex-
pedient as bribery to secure the honor of
wearing the senatorial toga. Detectives
employed in working up the case were put
on the track of E. A. VAN VALKENBURG
to fasten upon him the charge that he was
engaged in such political unrighteousness
as trying to bribe members of the Legis-
lature to vote for WANAMAKER for United
States Senator.
No less a dignitary than Gen. FRANK
REEDER, ex-secretary of the Common-
wealth, became mixed up in the matter,
besides several Republican Legislators, who
were involved in the suits that followed,
some for bribery and some for libel. It
was a complication that would have re-
quired a Philadelphia lawyer to unravel.
A prosecution against VAN VALKENBURG
for bribery, and another against Gen.
REEDER for libel, each contributed to the
flavoring of the mess, and the ing was
getting decidedly interesting when the
proceedings were suddenly brought to a
close by a settlement of the VAN VAL-
KENBURG suit that consigned the charges
and counter charges to oblivion by remov-
ing the case from the court dockets.
In the settlement of the bribery prosecu-
tion the QUAY managers are out $1,516.12
in costs. What court charges the other
party incurred is not known. The suit
broke down, it is said, for the reason that it
could not be sustained against the de-
fendant who was alleged to have approach-
ed a member of the Legislature in WANA-
MAKER'S senatorial interest. If the in-
wardness of the matter were known it is
probable that the contending Republican
factions became alarmed by the appear-
ance of the vote in November and con-
cluded that they had better stop fighting
:| among themselves and try to save the old
party from irretrievable defeat in the State
election next year.
Make Charity Beneficiaries Work for
Their Living. ;
Rev. J. Mueller in the Altoona Times,
‘Mx. EprTror—Looking over your valu-
able paper yesterday morning my eye
caught an item containing ‘‘a suggestion?’
on the part of a sympathetic enthusiast.
It strikes me in all solemness that it surely
is bad enough to be asked, year by year, to
train a class of paupers who are simply
waiting for ‘‘the season’’ to make their
pitiful appeals at the office of the Quick
Charity society in order to move the kind-
hearted superintendent to provide for them
with the desired substance, from a ton of
coal to a young lady’s pair of shoes. But
now the climax is to be capped by a great
idea. Collection boxes are to be placed on
the Twelfth’ street bridge. Oh, sancta,
simplicitas ! to meet the heart of an un-
suspecting public.
The suggestion, if earried out, would be |
an excellent method of training thieves,
who would soon become first class experts
in opening and pilfering these charity tills,
unless the sympathetic gentleman proposes
to be employed as a watchman at a stated
salary. I would respectfully suggest that
the majority of so-called charity cases in
Altoona be employed and taught to earn
an honest living, instead of indulging them
by yearly alms-giving, which only en-
courages professional panperism. Altoona
needs a work house for such persons who
will not work when work is to be had, and
who during ‘‘the season’’ use the conse-
quent unfortunate condition of their wives
and children to gain an existence through
the easier channels of charity. Altoona
needs a wood yard, where persons should
be employed who cannot find any work
during ‘‘the season,’’ and where they would
be taught to earn a living. This institu-
tion could be made to pay both ways.
Altoona needs an employment bureau for
female help under the control of an agent
who would be responsible to the employers
of domestic help, as well as to those ‘look-
ing for work. These suggestions, if carried
out by our public spirited ladies and gen-
tlemen, would serye the purpose better
than charity tills on Twelfth street bridge
and reduce the work of the Charity society
toa minimum. Some suggestions to the
Altoona churches would not be amiss, but
I refrain.”
A
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Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Punxsutawney iron furnace employs
153 men, including the day and night force.
—A rich vein of iron ore has been discov-
ered on the Peter Deysher farm, in Berks
county. w— .
—The 195 teachers of Adams county at-
tended the opening of the institute at Gettys-
burg Monday.
—dJames Horan, of Duryea, was assaulted
by footpads, badly beaten and robbed - of his
months’s pay.
—Eleven cows were killed in a wreck of
freight cars at Birdsboro,on the Reading rail-
way, Tuesday.
—State superintendent N. C. Schaeffer
opened the York county teachers’ institute
Monday afternoon.
—By the bursting of his gun, John Quest,
of Lebanon, was badly disfigured Monday
and may lose his sight.
—Labor leaders are organizing the anthra-
cite miners with a view to ordering a gener-
al strike next year.
—While gunning near Upper Lehigh,
Thomas Wilkinson fell 50 feet over a precipice
and was seriously hurt.
—The addition to the Schuylkill county
almshouse, recently completed, has been con-
demned by the grand jury.
—For practicing medicine in violation of
the act of Assembly of 1897 Dr. Seely has
been held in bail at Lebanon.
—DMonsignor Schroeder is assisting at the
forty hours devotion in St. Joseph’s Catho-
lic church, South Easton.
—In anticipation of a slack coal trade the
Reading company has notified its coal work-
ers to practice strict economy.
—The American steel casting company’s
plant, near Sharon, is to be completely mod-
ernized at a a cost of $200,000.
—The Bethlehem iron company Tuesday
made a big shipment of armor plate, for the
Kearsage, to Newport News, Va.
—1It is expected in Pittsburg that the work
on the new Pennsylvania railroad depot
there will be begun by New Year's.
—David Walters, residing at Tamarack,
a few days ago shot a deer within a few rods
of his house that weighed 238 pounds.
—Kerosene dripping from a lamp to a stove
ignited the clothing of Sallie Patten, at
Mount Carmel, and she was fatally burned.
—The Reading company has issued orders
to close down all work at the Monitor col-
liery, at Locust Gap, Pa., affecting 125 hands.
—A horse and buggy stolen a week ago
from Jerome Buskirk, a Pen Argyl livery-
man, by Charles Heckman, was recovered in
Easton.
~The other day when Charles Raup, of Jer-
sey Shore, struck a parlor match a portion
of the head flew on to his eye lid burning a
hole through the skin.
—An explosion of natural gas damaged the
American gas company’s plant, near Bakers-
town, Allegheny county, and killed thé engi-
neer, Joseph Thomas. :
—In trying to rescue his son, who fell into
the canal at Easton Monday Abraham Shirey
became exhausted, and father and son were
dragged out nearly drowned.
—The school directors of Mahanony town-
ship, Schuylkill county are on trial for com-
pensating themselves for their election ex-
penses out of school funds. :
—The New Castle trades union has decid-
ed a boycott against all meat dealers in the
city who handle meat sold by wholesale
houses employing non-union men.
—A mail train on the Philadelphia. & Erie
railroad ran into the rear of a freight train
in a fog Sunday morning, at Nesbit; damag-
ing the locomotive and three cars.
—Artbur Allen, a 12 year old boy, has ar-
rived at Jersey Shore on a visit te his grand-
mother. Arthur's father is the owner: of a
cattle ranch in Idaho, and tlie lad’ ‘came
from that State to Jersey Shore aloe."
—Near Milton Tuesday, Elmer Smith, a
young farmer, was threshing corn with. a
steam machine, when his arm caught in the
gearing in some manner, and was torn from
the socket. He is in a critical condition. ih
—The Jefferson and Clearfield coal and
iron company is building a new tipple at
Hamilton, and is putting a new hanlage
system in the Big Soldier mine; which. will
increase the pit’s capacity 8,000 tons daily.
—At DuBois Sunday afternoon Wood May-
nard, aged 15 years, in attempting to board a
moving freight train fell under the cars di-
rectly on the rail. By a quick movement he
succeeded in getting his body from under the
car, but the wheel caught his foot, crushing
it. 3
—On Saturday while hunting 1n the vicin-
ity of Ferney Run, at a point known as
Lannigan hollow, John E. Fogarty and E.
M. Mulhern succeeded in killing three bear.
The largest weighed nearly 300 pounds and
the two smaller ones weighed 100 pounds
each,
—George S. Good & Co., of Lock Haven,
have secured the contract for constructing
the White Oaks railroad. This road will be
165 miles long, and will run from El Paso,
| Texas, into New Mexico, with headquarters
at El Paso. Work will be started at once and
pushed as rapidly as possible to an early
completion. '
—At South Williamsport Tuesday a trol-
ly car struck the rear end of a wagon -on
which was seated William Bohartz. The
wagon and horses were thrown off the track,
but the animals kept on going. Bohartz fell
on the tongue and then dropped to the street.
The wheels of the wagon struck his forehead,
cutting ugly gashes and severely bruising
him. :
—Near Ridgway a few days ago, Mrs. Au-
gust Hagg left the house to attend to her
work at the barn. During her absence her 2
year old child, Mamie. while playing with
the hot coalsin the stove, set fire to her dress.
Her mother ran to the house in response to
the child’s screams. The little one was
burned so badly that she died in a few hours.
The child was a sister to the boy who had
his arm amputated by a freight train re-
cently.
—A few nights ago night yardmaster Hull,
at Tyrone, received a message that a passen-
ger on St. Louis express had lost a pocket-
book containing $118 between Union Furnace
and ube wns Bl Mr. Hull, with the mem-
bers of the shifting crew, immediately went
on a voyage of discovery and succeeded in
finding every cent of the lost -money, which
consisted of bills, scattered promiscuously
along the tracks..