Benn
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
s——
Ink Slings.
—There seems to have been several DzLI-
LAHS in the Ohio senatorial fight and Mr.
MARCUS AURELIUS HANNA seems to have
been the man who sharpened their scissors.
—— It must be asurprise to HANNA that
after he elected a President by the boodle
method there should be interference with
his electing himself by the same process.
——From the developmenis of bribery
in the Ohio Senatorial contest it would
seem that MARK HANNA is more entitled
to a place in the penitentiary than in the
United States Senate.
—The women of the country will cer-
tainly be disgusted with the part their sis-
ters played in the Ohio senatorial fight.
The conduct of the two women who figured
so prominently in that great struggle will
necessarily prove a decided set back for
women suffragists.
—The increase of $4,483,098 in the
amount of stamped paper issued by the
government during 1897 can probably be
accounted for in the statement that mat-
rimonial agencies are stirring up corre-
spondence amazing fast.
—They say a fool and his money are
soon parted, but therein is no sequence
that would lead us to believe that HANNA
is a fool. He's a dandy, that’s what he is.
It was worth all he paid for it, if for noth-
ing else than the satisfaction of knowing
that he had won.
—A man never has so much murder in
his heart as when he has just struggled
through a long dance, with a girl who is as
hard to move asa MARVIN safe without
rollers, and finds everybody else applaud
ing vociferously with the hope of flattering
the orchestra into an encore.
—The fellow who endorsed the quieting
effects of PAYNE'S celery compound on the
nervous system by writing that before re-
sorting to that remedy his wife was so ner-
vous that he couldn’t sleep with her, but
‘since taking two bottles of it anybody
can sleep with her’” had better linger by
his own fireside and lock her up securely
when business calls him from his home.
——The Dallas, Texas, News says that
‘‘Governor HASTINGS, of Pennsylvania, is
a veteran of the war and declares in favor
of printing the pension lists.”” Those
southern papers are exceedingly well in-
formed on some matters, but so far as mak-
ing our Governor a veteran of anything
else than the Pittsburg riots and the Johns-
town flood they’ll have to publish a special
history of their own for the purpose. The
News evidently has the civil war and
Johnstown tangled, but the Johnstown
pensioners are not on a list.
—Louisiana has carried the call for a con-
stitutional convention to place an educa-
tional qualification on the negro vote of
that State by 35,000 majority. The Re-
publicans and Democrats joined for the pur-
pose and that State has taken a critical
step. There can be no gain-saying the ex-
pediency of such a qualification, but it is
unfortunate for the people of Louisiana for
the partisans of the North will begin, at
once, to rant on sectional issues and charge
those who would conserve their public in-
stitutions with an outrage upon the blacks.
—The failure of the Philadelphia Demo-
crats to observe JACKSON’S day with a
banquet, as had been their custom for
years past, is evidence of the ruptured con-
dition of the party in that city. The
Democracy of Philadelphia has had the
take-off for some time and based upon a
comparison of the vote for the state treasur-
er last fall, when BROWN received only
37,047, with that for President in 1894,
when CLEVELAND received 54,069, it is
not unreasonable to infer that there are not
enough Democrats left in the Quaker city
now to have a banquet.
——The first act in the Ohio house of
Representatives that convened on Monday
was the offering of a resolution for the
amendment of the constitution making
United States Senators elective by a direct
vote of the people. The situation in Co-
lumbus at the time the resolution was of-
fered, presenting the spectacle of two op-
posing and almost riotous factions striving
to influence the Legislature by intimidation
and corruption in the election of a United
States Senator, which was to be the prize
of the faction that could bull-doze or buy
the largest number of legislative votes, was
a sufficiently strong argument for a consti-
tutional amendment that would put an end
to a method of election that is simply po-
litical debauchery.
-~—Secretary GAGE treats quite airil y
BRYAN’S criticism of his goldbug scheme
of monetary reform. When asked by a
World reporter what he had to say in reply
to the strictures on his scheme that were
made by the free silver leader in his speech
at the Chicago JACKsoN banquet, he replied
that he thought it wasn’t necessary to no-
tice it and that he was satisfied if it afford-
ed Mr. BRYAN any pleasure. ‘The great
silver leader has had his inning,” said the
secretary, ‘‘and it may be that I will have
mine some of these days.” But the secre-
tary was mistaken. Mr. BRYAN will no
have the inning which the people want
him to have until they run him into the
Presidency. Secretary GAGE can not have
his inning until the money of the country
is put under the control of a gold trust,
which the people will never allow. As to
the innings of these two gentlemen, Mr.
BRYAN is pretty certain to have his, while
there is but a slim chance for Mr. GAGE’S.
Temacrat
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VOL. 43
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 14. 1898.
__NO. 2.
Withholding the Helping Hand.
The present Cuban uprising against
Spanish oppression broke out on February
24th, 1895. It has therefore been in prog-
ress nearly three years and Spain is no
nearer the suppression of this patriotic re-
sistance to her tyranny than when it first
began.
The history of her operations for the res-
toration of her supremacy over the island
has been a history of almost unexampled
inhumanity. She has put in practice every
barbarous method of warfare. Not only
have the lives of the people been sacrificed
but the country has been ravaged and much
of it has been converted into a desert. Un-
civilized hostility has been waged against
the rebels in arms, while starvation has been
inflicted upon the non-resisting inhabitants.
While these wrongs have been in prog-
ress, and these cruelties have been per-
petrated upon a people entitled to their
freedom, the attitude of our government
in regard to them has been anything but
creditable to it as a republic based upon
the principles of human rights and civil
liberty. It has displayed unnecessary
alertness in serving the interest of Spain,
and an indifference to the cause of Cuban
patriotism which its international obliga-
sions to Spain have not required of it as a
friendly power. While its duty as a neu-
tral was greatly strained in Spain’s behalf
by President CLEVELAND, the present ad-
ministration makes a still greater display
of national abasement in serving the Span-
ish cause.
But notwithstanding the censurable at-
titude of their government the American
people rejoice that the patriotic Cubans are
able to maintain their heroic resistance to
a most hateful and cruel tyranny, and that
the Spanish oppressor is farther than ever
from accomplishing their subjugation. In-
stead of the offer of autonomy being a suc-
cessful deception to lure them back to the
Spanish yoke it is defiantly rejected by a
people who have learned too well what re-
liance can be placed upon the promises of
Spain.
The autonomy fraud may serve its pur-
pose in deceiving President McKINLEY in-
tp further tolerance of outrages practiced
upon the Cuban people. But while he al-
lows himself to be thus deceived the only
return for it is the abuse and contumely
heaped upon this country by the conceited
and boastful Spaniards whose only inter-
pretation of the attitude of our government
is that it quails before the Spanish power.
This humiliation to the American people,
however, is in some degree relieved by in-
dications. which every day are assuming a
more certain appearance, that a heroic peo-
ple, resisting one of the most odious des-
potisms of modern times, will gain their
liberty, though, the helping hand from the
great American Republic may be withheld
by an administration that misrepresents
American feeling.
Objectionable Features of the Hawaiian
Scheme.
The project of annexing Hawaii is not
meeting with the enthusiastic support in
Congress that could be expected for a meas-
ure that is so unmistakably favored by
the administration. There are features
connected with it that render it the less
commendable the more it is considered.
The project is demanded by no public in-
terest. The possession of the islands would
entail an expense without returning a bene-
fit. While they would add nothing to the
defence of the country they would require
a large and expensive naval and military
force to protect them from the attack of
an enemy. Their mongre! population
would be of no desirable addition to Ameri-
can citizenship, being of a character to fur-
nish cheap service to the sugar planters
who, as members of the sugar trust, are
at the bottom of the scheme to annex the
islands. The sugar monopoly is the only
interest that would be benefited by Hawaii-
an annexation, outside of the few political
adventurers who would get the government
offices in the event of Hawaii becoming a
part of the United States.
One of the most serious objections to
such a consummation may be urged on
political grounds. The United States Las
no need of any more rotten borough States.
Enough injury has come from that source
without admitting another State whose
representatives in Congress would be the
mere tools of the sugar trust, and whose
presidential electors could be counted for
the party that favors such interests. It is
being recognized among the better think-
ing men at Washington that annexation of
Hawaii would be an unprofitable and in all
respects an undesirable acquisition.
——GROSVENOR can’t succeed in his
project to repeal the civil service law with-
out the aid of Democratic votes, and as
Democratic Congressmen are not anxious
for Democratic incumbents to be turned
out in order to enable Republican spoils
hunters to be turned in, it is hardly proba-
ble that the Ohio civil service ripper will
make a success of his scheme to throw the
law overboard along with a lot of Demo-
cratic officials.
An Imitation of Washington’s Example.
More recent and fuller revelations justify
the execution of the Spanish emissary Ruiz,
which so greatly shocked the American
sympathizers with Spanish oppression, and
over which the Spaniard’s professed to have
been horrified.
In the unalterable determination of the
Cuban patriots to accept no terms from the
Spaniards except such as would grant them
their freedom they gave notice that no of-
fer of autonomy would be received by them,
and to make this resolution the more im-
pressive they announced that anyone bring-
ing such an offer from their enemy would
do it at the risk of his life. He would be
regarded as a spy and be treated as such.
There could be no misunderstanding this
declaration. It was made in the interest
of their cause, which the patriots proposed
to guard against the allurements of Spanish
emissaries. If the Spaniards misunderstood
it, it was their own fault that Ruiz, an
agent sent in defiance of the netice to keep
off, met the fate which was inevitable if the
Cubans intended that their warning should
be something more than an empty threat.
Later particulars in regard to the Ruiz
case fully sustain the action of the Cubans.
His character as a dangerous emissary was
established by the finding of letters from
the Spanish captain general on his person,
authorizing him to offer to the Cuban gen-
eral with whom he proposed to negotiate
$100,000 in money and a high office under
the Spaniards for his father. This incident
of Ru1z’s mission made it similar to that
of Major ANDRE ih the American revolu-
tion, and in executing the Spanish spies
the Cubans have imitated the example set
by WASHINGTON in hanging ANDRE.
A Coming Bank Trust.
Some one has truly remarked that the
interest of the national banks is opposed to
the monetary consolidation by which it is
proposed to form a bank trust dominated
by Standard oil and sugar interests.
A danger to true banking institutions
exists in the tendency to concentrate the
money power, and to bring the financial
interests under the control of a few money
kings. There is an evident purpose to es-
tablish a monetary oligarchy. Capital suf-
ficient to effect such a domination has ac-
cumulated in a few hands. The methods
of acquirement adopted by J. PIERPONT
MORGAN have put him in condition to take
the lead in a combination of plutocrats who
could bring the whole financial system of
the country as completely under its control
as the petroleum product is under the con-
trol of the Standard oil company and the
vast interest of the sugar trade is ruled by
the sugar trust.
The combined capital of MORGAN, the
ROCKEFELLERS, HAVEMEYER, HUNTING-
TON and a half a dozen more money kings,
whose fortunes run into the hundreds of
millions, constitutes so vast a money power
that they can use it in making the bank
interest as much of a monopoly under their
exclusive control as other lines of business
have been brought under the rule of trusts.
No greater power could exist than that
which would be exercised by such a monop-
oly, and there is not a banking institu-
tion in the country that is safe from the
danger of being brought under the control
of a gigantic bank trust to whose domina-
tion it would have to submit or go out of
business. The process by which this can
be effected is exemplified in the methods of
the Standard oil and sugar trusts.
Plainly But Truly Spoken.
At a meeting of Cuban sympathizers
in Philadelphia last week to condemn
Spain’s deceptive offer of autonomy, Col.
A. K. McCLURE came so near the truth as
to express it exactly in regard to that
matter when he said that the au-
tonomy which Spain would give the
Cubans is ‘‘a fraud in nearly every feat-
ure.” This is true for the reason that
this Spanish scheme does not include a
single feature of true home rule, and even
if it were not objectionable on that account
so little reliance can be placed in the sin-
cerity of Spanish promises that the Cubans
can justifiably reject the offer of terms
which they know will not be kept. And
in another respect Col. McCLURE made no
mistake when he condemned the course
which our government has pursued, and
continues to pursue, in not requiring that
Spain shall observe the usages of civilized
warfare in the hostility she is waging
against a people who are exercising the
same right to rebel against oppression as was
claimed by our forefathers when they re-
volted against British tyranny.
——Because the rapacious powers of Eu-
rope are going to effect an unjustifiable
landgrab in China Republican statesmen
think we should annex some thousands of
Hawaiian lepers and half-breeds inhabi-
tanting islands in the Pacific ocean as a
set-off to the territorial acquisition of Eu-
ropean land-pirates on the Asiatic coast.
They argue that the Hawaiian islands are
necessary to protect our interests in China
when the only object is to benefit a party
of sugar operators.
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Publish the Pension List.
Publishing the list of pensioners would
have some effect in correcting the abuses
associated with the pension system. Under
the light of publicity there would be a
chance to weed out the frauds who are un-
worthily receiving the bounty of the gov-
ernment. In every neighborhood there
are bummers who are fraudulently on what
should be a roll of honor. Their un-
worthiness would be exposed if the pen-
sion lists were published and subjected to
public inspection.
From all parts of the country comes the
demand that this should be done. It
comes from the mass of people who are
convinced that the government is being
outrageously defrauded in the pension busi-
ness. It comes from citizens who are taxed
indirectly at the rate of $10 for every voter,
or at the rate of $2 for every man, woman
and child in the United States, to furnish
the government with the means of meeting
the enormous annual pension charge. The
immense sum of $150,000,000 required
every year for this purpose comes out of
the pockets of the people, and that they
pay it through indirect taxes makes it none
the less burdensome and expensive to them.
It is on this account that a demand is
heard for a publication of the pension list
that the people who are footing this as-
tennding bill may know who are worthily
and who are unworthily receiving the
bounty that is causing such an enormous
public expense.
And those who are most interested’ in
having the list published and the bummers
weeded out are the honest pensioners who
have reason to be pfbud of being on the
list and therefore opposed to its being
loaded with names that are a disgrgee to it.
Is It Prophesy or Is It Pretense ?
Some time ago the Philadelphia Ledger,
in giving its objections to the appointment
of Senator SAYLOR, of Montgomery coun-
ty, to a consular position, said :
“In view of the facts of this case the Presi-
dent cannot, with respect to his own dignity,
to the dignity of his great office and to the
dignity of the country, appoint Senator Say-
lor Consul at Matanzas or elsewhere, as de-
manded by Mr. Quay. Such an appointment
would be a gross wrong to the country, to
Pennsylvania and an insult to Spain, to
whony it is proposed he shall be accredited.
Further, if, regardless of the earnest protests
against his appointment, he should be ap-
pointed, there will be a smaller Republican
vote in Pennsylvania next year than there
was this year.”
Inasmuch as President McKINLEY,
whom the Ledger almost ‘‘busted its belly-
band,” in its efforts to elect, has seen
proper to name SAYLOR as Consul at Ma-
tanzas, Cuba, notwithstanding the protest
of that journal, the opposition of the Busi-
ness Men’s league, the remonstrances of
the Republican voters of Montgomery coun-
ty and the corrupt and disgraceful record
he made as Senator,—it will be in order
for those who pin their faith to the honesty
and independence of the Ledger, to note
how very soon it will try to forget its pre-
diction, that this appointment would be the
cause of ‘‘a smaller Republican vote in Penn-
sylvania next year than there was this year’
or to congratulate it on its efforts to try to
make its prophesy more than a mere pre-
tence of reform.
The Spirit of Andrew Jackson.
Unusual interest was taken this year in
the observance of JACKSON'S day, the
glorious anniversary of that Democratic
hero’s victory over the invaders of his coun-
try. There were celebrations of the day in
most of the cities, but more notably in
Chicago and New York.
The memory of JACKSON is cherished by
every true Democrat, and particularly at
this time is there occasion for every patriotic
citizen to recall the precepts and example
of the great Democratic leader. and en-
deavor to restore the principles of civil
government which he left as a heritage to
the American people, but which have been
overborne by the venality, greed and cor-
ruption that have secured control of public
affairs and are converting a government of
the people into a maneyed oligarchy.
It is indeed high time to invoke the
spirit of JACKSON to the relief of our en-
dangered popular institutions when the
high positions of government are gained by
money, and laws are made and interpreted
in the interest of wealth.
——1If three good men of Excelsior have
not sworn to a lie the state hospital at
Fountain Springs, near Shamokin, is to be
credited with having boxed up a man who
was not dead and shipped him to his home.
The man was a well-to-do miner named
Lucas HoMIAK who was taken to the hos-
pital to have his leg and arm amputated,
but he had appavently died before he was
operated on. His body was placed in an
ice box and shipped to his home. Not-
withstanding he was in the box three hours
and the ice was all melted when it was
opened at his home. his body was warm
and three competent men made affidavit
to the fact that he was breathing when
they took the lid oft the box. HoMIAK
had apparently been unconsicious for he
had not moved. -
- with McKisson for the long term.
Hanna Elected U. §. Senator for Seven
Years by a Majority of
One Vote.
Talk of Impeaching Him.—Senators Vote to In-
vestigate the Otis Bribery Charges, and They
May Be Sifted by the U. 8. Senate.
* CoLUMBUS, Jan. 12.—Hanna is elected
United States Senator for both the long and
short terms. His vote was 73 on joint bal-
lot. Voight, Lane, Droste, Manuel and
Griffith, claimed by the opposition, all
voted for Hanna. Lane and Droste were
elected specifically as anti-Hanna.
In the House just before the joint vote
on the senatorship was taken Representa-
tive Otis, of Cincinnati, arose to a question
of privilege and again reaffirmed his charge
that he had been offered a bribe of $10,000
to vote for Hanna, and demanded an imme-
diate investigation. ‘‘Either I am unfit for
a seat in this Hounse’’ said he, ‘‘or Hanna
is unfit for a seat in the U. S. Senate. It
concerns the dignity and purity of this
body to discover the truth. I therefore
demand an immediate inquiry.” By 56
votes, the strict Hanna strength in the
House, an investigation was refused and
and the moyth of inquiry was stifled.
Since the desperate vote of yesterday the
Hanna opposition has conducted itself with
vacillation. It lacked leadership, was ruled
by impulse and appeared to make a special-
ty of inconsistency. It would decide on a
program and then abandoned it. It was in
‘this fusion that the plan of passing a reso-
lution in the Senate refusing to meet in
joint session with the house was laid aside.
The opposition was in fact, utterly dis-
organized by the events of yesterday, and
practically speaking, it went into the joint
session to-day somewhat like a routed army
going into a battle it could not avoid. On
the other hand the Hanna line was firm
and carried victory before it.
Garfield, the son of the late President,
nominated Senator Hanna in a sophomoric
speech. He went over to his colleague
from Cuyahoga, Bramley, an anti-Hanna-
ite. ‘“This is not politics,” said he in
tones of severe respectability, ‘‘but the
trust company, Mr. Bramley, of which I
am attorney as well as director, has asked
me to notify you that it was about to with-
draw its name from your bonds.” Bram-
ley is a contractor, and his credit was to be
crippled because of his anti-Hanna senti-
ments. Bramley, however, stood unap-
palled in the presence of this threat, and
even had the temerity to remark in reply :
‘You go to h—.”” Cramer the ‘‘sick’’
Democrat to day, as yesterday, did not
vote.
Hanna won out, but his seat is to be con-
tested before the United States Senate on
the Otis charges of bribery. The merry
war is to be continued in Washington.
The anti-Hannaites are speaking spite-
fully of Foraker for not bravely. .éading
the war. They say he skulked, and there
is much to show that he did.
This is Hanna's last battle. A year ago
he swept the decks of his enemies. To-
day he wins by only a single vote, and that
one painfully purchased at the cost of much
blood and treasure. Within a year to
come, if the present multiplication of his
enemies continue he will not be strong
enough to win a ward skirmish, let alone
a State fight. Hanna is elected, but it is the
last of Hanna.
It is understood that a summons for Sen-
ator Hanna has already been placed in the
hands of the sergeant-at-arms, and it will
be served on him before he leaves for
Cleveland in the morning.
TUESDAY'S VOTE UNCHANGED.
CoLuMBUS, Jan. 12.—Marcus A. Hanna
was to-day elected to represent Ohio in the
Senate for seven years and two months.
If McKinley should be re-elected Hanna
would still be there at the end of the Pres-
dent’s second term. Including hoth the
short and the long term, Hanna's time as
Senator will expire in March 1905. Less
than two years ago Senator Hanna entered
politics by advocating Willliam McKinley’s
candidacy for the presidency. He was
successful as leader of the McKinley forces
at the St. Louis convention, and afterward
as chairman of the National Republican
committee. For almost a year he has been
the successor of John Sherman, who left
the Senate to accept the portfolio of secre-
tary of State.
During his short service in public life
Senator Hanna has participated in some
hard fighting, but never before had he won
so signal a victory as that of to-day. Faction-
al fighting has waged among Ohio Repub--
for years. Others had been fighting under
cover. Senator Hanna came out openly at
the state covention in Toledo last June
and defeated for the chairmanship of the
state committee Charles I. Kurtz, the close
friend of Senator Foraker and Governor
Bushnell. Kurtz had been a member of
of the State committee for many years, and
was its chairman in 1895 and 1896. In
the latter year Senator Hanna as manager
of the presidential campaign, was not satis-
fied with the work in Ohio, and did not
again want Kurtz in that position, so he
defeated him, and has had a factional war
on his hands ever since.
OPPOSITION STILL FIGHTING.
Although Mr. Hanna was duiy declared
Senator at noon to-day for both the long
and short terms, yet the opposition contin-
ued its fight in the afternoon, and is still
fighting to-night. Just previous to the
separate balloting yesterday the opposition
was disappointed by the withdrawal of
Jeptha Garrard, silver Republican candi-
date for Senator, who, it was thought,
would get the votes of Representatives
Droste and Lane, who voted for Hanna.
Garrard’s friends say he ‘withdrew because
he was being used as a means for creating
a deadlock for the benefit of others.
Previous to the joint ballot to-day the
opposition offered to support Senator
Dodge, of Cleveland, for the short term,
Sena-
tor Dodge is a neighbor of Senator Hanna
in Cleveland and was nominated and elect-
ed on pledges for Hanna, and indignantly
rejected the proposition. The proposition
was also made to Mrs. Dedge, who was
equally indignant. While there have been
many negotiations with the wives and other
members of the families of Senators and
Representatives during the past week or
Concluded on page 4.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Democratic city convention in York
will be held next Monday evening.
—Edgar V. Snyder has been appointed a
fourth-class postmaster at Pine Ridge.
—Patrick Larkin was instantly killed by
a fall of coal in a mine near Tamaqua Tues-
day.
—There were 69 fatal accidents and 269
casualties in the Fourth anthracite district
in 1897.
—The Lebanon rolling mill company has
re-opened their forge department after a
long idleness.
—The Lebanon county medical society on
Monday elected Dr. S. P, Heilman, of Heil-
mandale, president.
—Seven coal cars were wrecked and 100
yards of track torn up at Lancaster as the
result of a broken journal.
—Falling on an icy pavement, Valentine
Albert, aged 79, of Stroudsburg, sustained
injuries that caused his death.
—The enforcement of the compulsory edu-
cation law in Reading will necessitate the
erection of several school buildings.
—John Henstill, aged 23, of Miners’ Mills,
was run over by a train near Penn Haven
Junction, Tuesday and instantly killed.
—Israel Maier, of Bloomsburg, has been
selected by the secretary of state to secure
aid in Columbia county for suffering Cubans.
—For stealing his neighbor's horse and
carriage, Frederick Finn was sentenced at
Easton Tuesday to eight years imprisonment.
—It is believed that the man who was
found suffocated on the culm bank at Ply-
mouth was Charles Stately, of East Mauch
Chunk.
—The trial of the Schuylkill commis-
sioners for misdemeanor in office is still on at
Pottsville, with thousands of persons in at-
tendance,
—Elmer E. Haner has been elected cashier
of the People’s national bank of Lebanon, as
the successor of ex-Congressman E. M. Woom-
er, deceased.
—Mahanoy City will vote at the February
election on a proposition to increase the
borough’s indebtedness $80,000, the funds to
be used for street paving.
—Howard Morris, of Philadelphia, a Cen-
tral railroad brakeman, died at Easton from
injuries received by being dragged by a train
from which he had fallen.
—Fourteen Reading railway crews will be
removed from Gordon to Tamaqua to expe-
dite the transfer of traffic from the Erie rail-
road at Newberry Junction.
—Adam E. Patterson was sentenced at
York to 18 months imprisonment and a fine
of $500 for assault and battery with intent to
kill his son-in-law, William L. Miller.
—Ex-Senator Peale, of Lock Haven, left
Monday for a four months’ trip to Cuba,
Mexico, Hawaii and other points, in the in-
terest of the coal company of which heis a
member.
—Cruel treatment of a crow cost George
Silvey of Hollidaysburg, $10.50. Silvey was
arrested at the instance of the Humane so-
ciety recently, and Friday night the edict
went forth from alderman Stephens, of Al-
toona, which provides a fine as above stated.
—At a meeting of the stocklivlders of the
Tyrone Mining and Manufacturing company
held in their office Wednesday these officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, A. G. Morris ; secretary and treasurer,
S. C. Stewart; directors, George W. Lyon,
Dr. William L. Lowrie, John L. Porter.
—An exchange says an editor in a negh-
boring town sarcastically remarks that he
wants to buy a sack of flour, a pair of shoes
and a felt hat, and he is ready to receive the
lowest bids for the same. He says that some
of his own town people treat him that way
when they want printing to the amount of
$2 or $3 done.
—Hugh McCullough, receiver of the de-
funct bank of DuBois, has declared a dividend
of $26,000, which was ready for payment to
creditors on Monday. The bank closed its
doors March 4th, 1895, with liabilities
amounting to about $126,000. Since that
time the receiver has returned to the de-
positors 70 per cent. of their money.
—The spring election comes on February
15th, 1898, that being the third Tuesday of
February. The Baker ballot law requires
the nomination certificates to be flled in the
commissioners’ office eighteen days before
the day of election. This year the certifi-
cates of nomination must be filed with the
county commissioners on or before the 26th
of January.
—James L. Leavy, the Clearfield lumber-
man who was recently stricken with paraly-
sis, but who is now recovering, was married,
Friday evening last, at his own residence by
Very Rev. P. J. Sherdian. The bride was
Miss Jennie Mitchell. The courtship had
lasted about thirty years and like most af-
fairs which have been expected a long time
the marriage was a surprise.
—Bishop Thomas McGovern, who has been
suffering for some time with rheumatism
and a complication of diseases, will leave
Harrisburg in a few days for an extended
trip to Florida. He will be accompanied by
Rev. Germanius Kohl. The bishop’s health
has failed rapidly during the last few months
and his friends are becoming alarmed at his
condition. If his health improves, the trip
may be extended to Mexico.
—Mrs. Hattie R. Huffman, of Williams-
port, swallowed by mistake a large mouth-
ful of aconite, instead of a cough syrup,
which she desired to take for a cold. As
soon as she learned her mistake she drank
several glasses of salt water and swallowed
the albumen of eggs. She also sent for
physicians. By swallowing the emetics im-
mediately after taking the poison she saved
her life. She has fully recovered.
—The Pennsylvania railroad company has
placed an order for 100,000 tons of steel rails
with five different companies, as follows :
Pennsylvania steel company and Cambria
iron company 25,000 tons each; Carnegie
steel company, 30,000 tons; Lackawanna
iron company, 5,000 tons, and the Illinois
steel company, 15,000 tons. The rails will
be of the 100 pound standard size, and will
be used in building new lines and replacing
old rails. The size of the order is gratifying
to the steel industry, as the company’s cor-
responding order of last year was only for
40,000 tons.