Democeaic Waldman
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The ground hog ought to be ashamed
of itself, trying to palm such weather as
this off on us as ‘‘six weeks of winter.”
—The shad season will soon be on. Is
there not some one to start the story
that there will be a short catch this sea-
son ?
—$160,000,000 a year for pensions is
made doubly grievous to the United States
when the defenceless condition of her coast
cities is considered.
—They say that whiskey mixed with
glue will keep it soft and ready for use for
years. Most people prefer to save the
whiskey by using water.
—The third act of a comic opera that
amateur’s produced in New Orleans re-
cently was laid in hell. The report does
not say anything as to the clothes worn by
the spirits.
—It was too bad that the county com-
missioners thought of those new steel cells’
for the jail at the eleventh hour. There
might have been enough saved out of
JosHUA FOLK’S salary to have paid for
them.
—Inasmuch as the DINGLEY tariff bill
and gold monometallism, neither one of
them, show any sign of relieving the hard
times, all there is left for us to do is to
quit talking about it and perhaps we will
be able to forget that business conditions
were ever any better.
' —The woman who sent a bullet "clear
through her body, at the Cottage hospital,
‘in Philipsburg, last week still remains
mysterious as to what drove her to such a
rash act, butjit is evident from the manner
of her shooting that she intended that they
should see through her after she was gone.
—ZoLA’s trial threatens to turn Paris
upside down and if it does the world will
get a peep under the robes of French jus-
tice, ZoLA will go to prison to suffer with
the innocent man he had defended and the
French soldiers’ honor will have been
saved in the eyes of France, but nowhere
else.
—The European astronomer who has
just announced that two moons are to be
visible in the sky on the night of July
30th, is delightfully frank in telling the
world just what day he proposes to get
full. There are lots of fellows who have
seen a dozen moons in the sky, but they
never tell of it.
—WANAMAKER isn’t the ‘‘dead easy
thing’? that the business men’s league
thought he was going to be. JOHN wants
a few days in which to decide whether he
will put up his money and run for Gover-
nor against QUAY’S man. ‘‘He who hesi-
tates is lost,”’ but we suppose the Philadel-
phia merchant would sooner be lost than
licked.
—GROVER CLEVELAND COLEMAN, of
Bloomsburg, just thirteen years old, has
been sent to the house of refuge for ditch-
ing a train just to see what a wreck looked
like. This youth has tried to follow in
the footsteps of the man for whom he was
named, except that he ditched a train and
was sent to prison and the latter tried to
ditch his party and has been sent to polit-
ical oblivion.
—That somebody has been lying is
proven by a perusal of the bill of the PER-
KINS detective agency rendered to the
county. Notwithstanding the fact that
CORNELLY was placed in jail on June 3rd
that agency has charged the county with
‘‘incidentals with CORNELLY’’ on June
7th. If GILLESPIE made this charge it is
not much of a surprise, for very few people
here believed any of his testimony.
—Whatever may be the outcome of the
trouble between Governor HASTINGS and
the capitol building commission every
one knows that the $550,000 appropriated
for a new capitol is not enough to build a
creditable one for Pennsylvania. Governor
HaAsTINGS would do the State a great ser-
vice if he would secure an injunction re-
straining the building of a capitol at all
until another Legislature has convened and
appropriated enough money to do it right.
Senor DUuPUY DE LOME offers the
latest illustration of indiscretion in mat-
ters of state. He was the Spanish minis-
ter to this country and in writing to a
friend he called President McKINLEY ‘‘a
low politician catering to the rabble’’ for
popularity, so ’tis said, and like Lord SACK-
VILLE WEST, the English ambassador
(whom CLEVELAND bounced, Mr. DurPUY
DE LoME will have to run home. In fact
his resignation has already been accepted
by the Spanish cabinet. When it comes
to calling our President names we reserve
that right for ourselves.
—Our esteemed friend, the editor of the
Gazette, is growing more sagacious every
day and we’re most afraid to pick up his
paper lately, for fear of the terrible bombs
he has been throwing into the Democratic
camp. It is simply amazing, the ponder-
osity of his last week’s article on borough
politics. With a master stroke he pro-
claims to the world that the WATCHMAN
hates STEELE HUNTER, the Republican
nominee for overseer, as the devil hates
holy water. No, dear friend, the WATCH-
MAN has hatred for no one, but it will
have a bunch of flowers for poor old
STEELE HUNTER, next Wednesday morn-
mg. He can’t be elected, so there is an
end of it. What's the use of fighting a
battle that was won the minute the Repub-
licans turned down MILLER and took up
HUNTER.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 11. 1898.
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The Republican Factional Collision.
The factional split that is disturbing the
harmony of the Republican organization
in this State and separating ‘it into two
conflicting divisions is the natural outcome
of conditions that have been approaching
an outbreak for several years past. There
is no principle involved, it being of no
higher character than a disturbance growing
out of the clashing interests of the party
leaders.
That there should be a revolt against the
personal rule of boss QUAY was to be ex-
pected. It so completely absorbs all au-
thority and power in the organization, and
reduces the party membership to such a
thorough condition of servitude, that it
would be attributing too slavish a spirit to
the average class of Republicans in the
State to imagine that it could continue
much longer. The revolt appears to have
come at last, headed by leaders who are
chafed by the QUAY harness, but it is not
an uprising against the principles which
QUAY-ism represents, but against the
power which QUAY exercises. If the lead-
ers of this rebellion shall succeed in over-
throwing him they will not be found de-
viating a hair’s breadth from his corrupt
political practices.
The most prominent figure in this anti-
QuAY movement is Mr. JOHN WANA-
MAKER, the Philadelphia merchant, politi-
cian and compaign boodle purveyor. He
is backed by the state administration of
which HASTINGS is the head and DAVE
MARTIN the most conspicuous figure. In
this alliance is the aggregation of munici-
pal plunderers known as the Philadelphia
combine, which has the bad distinction of
having DAVE MARTIN as its leader. A po-
tential influence in this anti-QUAY rebel-
lion is exerted by the so called business-
men’s league that has supported every cor-
rupt and oppressive policy of the Republi-
can party.
Such an array of enemies may overthrow
the party boss, but it is not of a kind to re-
form the party practices. What honest
government could be expected of WANA-
MAKER who by his $400,000 contribution
to the HARRISON campaign fund initiated
the political crime of carrying presidential
elections by corrupt means? What im-
provement in the QUAY methods could be
expected of parties connected with the
state administration and the Philadelphia
combine ? :
The anti-QUuAY rebellion is assuming a
definite form. There is a gratifying proba-
bility that 'WANAMAKER, as a candidate
for Governor, will be put in a position of
antagonism to the boss that will admit of
no compromise. As the fight will be for
party mastery it will be conducted with a
factional animosity that is likely to array
two state tickets against each other. This
stormy outlook can be changed only hy
QUAY’S backing down and surrendering
his sceptre to his enemies, but any one
may bet that he will sooner split the party
than to make such a surrender.
The situation is one that is full of prom-
ise to the Democrats and replete with the
hope of better government for this long suf-
fering old Commonwealth.
Fusion for the Rescue of the Republic.
The forces hostile to the gold trust are
getting themselves in solid line for the
coming and final conflict with that mone-
tary monopoly. Last week a caucus at
which every silver Republican and Popu-
list in Congress, including Senators and
Representatives, was present, took formal
action on a silver fusion. The sentiment
was unanimously in favor of fusing with
the Democrats in local elections this year,
looking to a general fusion in the presiden-
tial election of 1900. There was not a sin-
gle dissent to this programme and the
sense of every silver Republican and Popu-
list present was that WILLIAM J. BRYAN |'
was the logical presidential candidate.
In this early movement for a united ac-
tion of all the elements opposed to the
monetary despotism of the gold standard
is afforded the most encouraging hope that
the Republic will be rescued from the plu-
tocratic oligarchy that has gained control
of it. In this great struggle involving the
very life of our free institutions, Demo-
crats, free silver Republicans and Populists
will be found united, a mass composed of
millions of free, intelligent and patriotic
citizens whom the minions of the money
power will have the effrontery to stigma-
tize as anarchists, repudiators and enemies
of social order.
In this crucial contest the kind of money
we shall have is not so much the issue as
the kind of government we shal! leave to
those who shall come after us. The strug-
gle is not merely against an unjust and op-
pressive standard of value, but its general
and higher object is for the correction and
suppression of the manifold abuses, corrup-
tions and usurpations in public affairs
which McKINLEY-ism and HANNA-ism
stand for, and which, if not arrested, will
change a free government into a money
despotism,
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
A Pending Tarif War,
A tariff war between this country and
Germany is a difficulty that we may soon
have on our hands. The German au-
thorities have for some time past made
American pork products an object of ad-
verse discrimination. They have more re-
cently put a fiscal interdiction on our ap-
ples and other fruits, and now tuey have
concluded to exclude American horses from
the German market. There has been a
gradual increase in the number of Amer-
ican commodities against which exclusion
is being enforced, rendering it probable
that it will eventually include all kinds of
provisions exported from this country.
These measures adopted by the German
government are producing excitement and
causing indignation among the statesmen
who have the management of affairs at
Washington. Notice of these has been
taken in Congress as a wrong which will
force this government to resort to measures
of retaliation, and it is said that President
McKINLEY has instructed the American
ambassador at Berlin to notify the German
government that this exclusion of Amer-
ican products must stop or there will be
trouble.
But is not this position both unreason-
able and preposterous? Are the Germans
doing anything more than retaliating on
the Americans for the high tariff by which
they have excluded German products from
their market ? Germany isin a position
to tell McKINLEY, DINGLEY, REED and
that high tariff crowd that they ought to
be ashamed to make a fuss about her fol-
lowing the example which they have set
with their DINGLEY bill. If it is right to
secure ‘‘a home market’’ for our producers
by keeping foreign products out by high
tariffs, is it not equally right for the Ger-
man farmers to have their home market
secured to them by the exclusion of Amer-
ican agricultural products ?
It is the American tariff makers that,
have provoked retaliation, and it will he
their fault if their policy shall result in a
tariff war that will in a large measure ex-
clude the farm products of the United
States from foreign markets.
Swell-headed Journalism.
Nothing could be more amusing in the
journalism of the day than the New York
Journal’s assuming to determine whether
WM. J. BRYAN should continue to be en-
trusted with the leadership of the Demo-
cratic party. This is a question which the
people are not willing to have settled for
them by sensational newspapers, and when
Mr. McEWEN, the brilliant young man
who does the editorializing for the Journal,
says that he is getting tired of BRYAN the
people have reason to become very tired of
McEWEN, notwithstanding his brilliancy.
There is quite a space of time between this
year and 1,900, and there is no telling what
changes may take place in the political
situation during that period, but if the
people in the meanwhile alter their opinion
of Mr. BRYAN’s suitability for leadership
the change will not be due to the influence
of any particular newspaper, however im-
portant it may assume to be.
The Journal, by the way, should be care-
ful to avoid getting a swelled head. It is
a very dangerous ailment for a political
organ to be troubled with and is usunally
produced by too high an opinion of its im-
portance. The New York World's big-
headedness resulted in its ceasing to be re-
garded as a Democratic paper, and the
Sun’s swelled head had such a disastrous
effect in detracting from its popular sup-
port that it had to sell itself to the trusts
going. The Journal has started well but
it should be careful to avoid an enlarge-
ment of its head.
——
Czar Reed Flunked.
The overbearing autocrat of the House at
Washington showed the white feather the
other day and took to his heels. He
has never flinched in any despotic act
needed to suppress resolutions favorable to
Cuban freedom, or in jamming measures
through the House unfavorable to constitu-
tional currency, but one day last week he
flunked in the exercise of hissovereign will.
There is a bill before Congress designed
to protect the interest of the government
in the sale of the Kansas-Pacific railroad.
It has been reported favorably, but it is
opposed by a ring that wants to cheat the
government out of its claim. That the
speaker favors this ring of government rob-
bers is pretty clearly indicated by the per-
sistence with which he prevents this bill
from being brought before the House.
Representative FLEMING, of Georgia, a
member of the committee that has the hill
in charge got out of patience with the
speaker’s tactics, and was about to openly
assail him for his hostility to a measure
designed to protect the government’s inter-
est when the great Czar dodged the attack
by leaving the chair and slinking out of
the House. His intention to aid the Pa-
cific railroad thieves was too evident for
him to put a bold face on it.
to secure the patronage needed to keep it |
Frightened Into the Republican Party.
Senator THURSTON, who is a Republican
of such prominence as to have presided
over no less than two national conventions
of that party, besides being one of its pil-
lars in the Senate, addressed the union
league of Baltimore last week and in the
course of his remarks warned the Republi-
cans of the danger of forcing gold resolu-
tions through Congress. He regards an ul-
tra gold policy as calculated to lead to Re-
publican defeat, believing it to be a dan-
gerous basis for the party to stand on for
the reason that ‘‘the allied fusion forces of
free silver, socialism, lawlessness and an-
archy are endeavoring to so falsely state
the premises and frame the issues as to ar-
ray every man without a dollar against
every man with a dollar.’’
This is the language employed by this
Republican Senator in speaking of the
more than six millions of citizens who are
opposed to a limited class having most of
the dollars, and are of so anarchistic a dis-
position as to object to being robbed by the
monopolistic combinations that are con-
trolling the products of the country and
absorbing the profits of its industries. It
is through fear of this evil minded and
lawless class defeating the Republican
party by falsely representing the benevo-
lent intentions of the goldbugs and the
trusts that he warns the Republicans of
the risk they would run in jamming meas-
ures through Congress favorable to the
monied interests.
Senator THURSTON’S explanation why
all the money sharks and monopolies are
in the Republican party, where he says
they do not belong, is ingenious although
it may not be entirely convincing. He
told his Baltimore audience that those ‘‘fi-
nancial jugglers and manipulators and the
great trusts and combines’ were actually
scared into seeking refuge under the wing
of the Republican party by the lawless con-
duct of the mob that demanded the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. It
was in defence of ‘‘honest money,’ and for
the preservation of ‘‘the nation's honor?’
that the monopolists and money changers
were forced into the Republican party and
were found contributing the large amounts
of campaign hoodle that were required to
Prevent the government from falling into
the hands of the free silver anarchists.
In thus explaining why these ‘‘danger-
ous devil-fishes of the financial world,”’ as
Senator THURSTON calls the trusts and
combines, are found with the Republicans
he pays a poor compliment to the party in
representing that such interests went to it
for protection. While we question the
Senator’s judgment in giving such a reason
for the trust managers and money jobbers
having crowded .into the Republican party,
we agree with his opinion that his party is
running a great risk in pushing their inter-
ests, including gold monometallism, to the
front.
The Gist of the Wilkesbarre Trial.
The eyes of the whole country have heen
focussed for the past week on the trial in
the Luzerne county court which is to deter-
mine whether the shooting of common
workingmen is to be counted as a crime.
The American people are acquainted
with the circumstances which led to this
trial. They have read how more than a
score of humble miners were killed out-
right and nearly three times that number
dangerously wounded by a sheriff and a
force of deputies who adopted that violent
means of preventing those men from mov-
ing on the highway from one colliery to
another to induce other miners to join in a
strike.
The country is intensely interested in
legal proceedings which will determine
whether working people, who move along
the highway, unarmed and devoid of tur-
bulence, can be shot down without making
those who did the shooting guilty of a
crime which the law must recognize and
punish.
The issue involved in this trial is of in-
tense interest to the American people as it
hinges upon the question whether the law
is intended to shield the poor and humble,
or whether its only purpose is to protect
the persons and property of a higher class ?
——Ex-ambassador BAYARD’S logic on
the money question, which is of CLEVE-
LAND order, is rather faulty in its applica-
tion when he says it is impious and ab-
surd to attempt to ‘‘create values’ as has
been tried by those who have endeavored
‘‘to advance the commercial value of silver
for the past twenty years by congressional
legislation, in the face of which it has
steadily declined.”” Has there not been
more impiety in the legislation that has
destroyed values by beating down the com-
mercial value of silver, the act of 1873 for
example? Remove all the restrictions and
adverse regulations that have excluded sil:
ver from its legitimate use, and would not
its commercial value speedily mount up to
the natural ratio of 16 to 1, from which it
scarcely deviated for centuries before the
gold interest began to demonetize it.
sm casos
THE CANDIDATE.
Oh, he's comin’ ‘round to see yer, fur its nearin’
'lection time.
An’ he'll never see no doorbell, but three flights
of stairs he’ll climb ;
His face is bright and smilin’ an’ his glad hands
open wide,
An’ he'll think yer wife’s yer daughter or a
last year’s bloomin’ bride—
He's a liar, an’ he knows it, an’ he knows you
know it, too;
But yer always glad to see him just
Before
Election's
Due.
He will jolly yer whole family an’ he’ll have ‘em
swellin’ up ;
He'll give yer son a nickle an’ admire his mangy
PUP;
He'll wish that he was single so he could court the
girls,
Their eyes is allers handsome an’ their teeth is
mostly pearls—
He’s a liar, an’ he knows it, an’ he knows you
know it, too ;
But yer always glad to see him just
Before
Election's
Due.
An’ the baby’s just the cutest, sweetest ducklin’
ever knowed ;
It kin talk as plain as he can, an’ it’s marv’lons
how it’s growed ;
It will soon be a votin’, an’ he knows it will
accord
With the party of its popper, who's the best man
in the ward—
He's a liar, an’ he knows it, an’ he knows you
know it, too;
But yer always glad to see him just
Before
Election's
Due.
An’ he'll tell you confidential that he knows he
can depend
On yer votin’ fer him this time as the workin’
man’s true friend ;
An’ he’ll promise you a city job with nothin’ much
to do,
An’ he swears if he’s elected that he’ll stick to
yeu like glue—
He’s a liar, an’ he knows it, an’ he knows you
know it, too;
But yer always glad to see him, just
Before
Election's
Due. E xchange.
The “Good Fellow” in Office.
From the Philadelphia Times.
A shortage more than $8,000 in the ac-
counts of the city treasurer of Reading has
led to the removal of that officer, and al-
though the shortage has been covered by
his bondsmen, the exposure he . caused a
sensation. While it is not the first deficit
in the finances of the city of Reading; a
former treasurer having been short in his
accounts to the amount of $17,000, the
standing and character of the recent in-
cumbent of the office have been of the
highest, and the publication of the dis-
covery of the shortage through the investi-
gations of the city controller has given the
community a shock. People are asking
themselves who can be trusted in a fiduciary
capacity where large sums of money are
involved.
The suspended city treasurer is described
as one of the best-natured of men, without
a particle of dishonesty in his nature. He
is acquitted by all who know him of hav-
ing profited by the defalcation in the small-
est degree. It is charged that he was sim-
ply too good-natured to say no to his busi-
ness and political friends who were per-
sistent in their application for loans, and
that he loaned the city’s money to horrow-
ers of the class who fail to pay and cannot
be compelled to pay. If thischargeis true,
the city treasurer of Reading became a de-
faulter through his amiable disposition and
not in consequence of his own dishonesty.
He is simply one of the many good fellows
who have been elected to office because
they were general favorites and who have
proved very bad officials because they were
the best of good fellows.
The Reading defalcation is exly one of
many illustrations of a truth that should
long ago have become as plain as the noon-
day sun on a clear day to every thoughtful
citizen, and that is that the good fellow,
the hail fellow well met, the man that is
everybody’s friend, is almost certain to
make the worst possible official. The
sworn duty of the public official is to pro-
tect the public interest, and the man who
cannot protect himself against the im-
portunities of political heelers and personal
acquaintances of the impecunious class can
hardly be expected to successfully play the
watchdog in defense of the public funds or
other public interests.
The Reading defalcation, unfortunately,
is not the last example that will be needed
to convince the voting public that of all
men the good fellow is the worst fellow
that can be selected to fill an office of trust
or profit. The lesson will be forgotten in
a week and the good fellow will continue
to get elected to office indefinitely and con-
tine asin the past to shock a confiding
community by turning up short in his ac-
counts when the final auditing takes place.
Martial Law for Alaska.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
‘While the Populists, Anarchists, and the
various odds and ends of other political
and social organizations, are clamoring for
larger liberty. the people of Alaska are
asking for less. The inhabitants of that
Territory have petitioned the war depart-
ment asking for 800 troops to be sent there
at once, and the martial law be declared
for the protection of persons and property.
The petitioners say as many as 300 -passen-
gers are landed at Dyea daily, on an aver-
age, and that many criminals are included
among them ; so many, in fact, that some
stronger government than they have at
present is needed for protection. They
ask martial law to be declared in all parts
of the Territory. A strong appeal is made
to the Washington authorities to meet the
emergency, and as Alaska is practically
without government we hardly see how
Congress can fail to listen to them.
-—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Schuylkill county clergymen organized
at Pottsville Monday and indorsed the Cur-
few law.
—Alexander Humes was killed in a log
slide near Driftwood, Lycoming county, on
Saturday.
—Car inspector Charles Beltz, aged 60, was
run over by the cars at Lansford and in-
stantly killed.
—The commissioners of Franklin county
have fixed the tax rate at four mills, an in-
crease of one mill.
—The men of the congregation of the
Salem Lutheran church, at Lebanon, have
voted to allow women to vote.
—John Reedy is in the Lebanon county
jail for stealing a horse from liveryman Dan-
iel Laudermilch, of Lebanon.
—Contracts have been closed for the erec-
tion of a furniture manufactory at Johns-
town, by the Defrehn company.
—John Bernis, of Mahanoy city, has been
held in $500 bail for beating Charles Robusky
about the head with a beer bottle.
—William Lasch, engineer at Kreider's
flour mill, at Annville, was fatally injured
Monday while attempting to adjust a belt.
—Alderman Donohue, of -Wilkesbarre,
fined stable boss Alexander Dunbar $2 and
costs because his daughter Lizzie did not at-
tend school.
—A Lewisburg lad, Harry Schock, while
coasting on the University grounds, was
dashed against a class stone, and died soon
afterward.
—Playing about a stove during the moth-
er’s absence, a 2-year-old son of Mrs. Harry
Snyder, of Carlisle, was burned to death
Monday.
—A piece of beef lodged in the throat of
Jonathan Hallenger, of Warwick township,
Lancaster county, on Saturday, and choked
him to death.
—Annie Morrison, aged 17, was injured in
a coasting accident at DuBois Monday, and
an amputation of her foot was necessary to
save her life.
—A bull that William Kitner was leading
across the railroad near Carlisle Monday was
killed by a train, and Kitner narrowly es-
caped a like fate.
—Charles Marshall intended to crawl out-of
the Lancaster jail Monday, but during the
day the hole that he had dug through the
wall was discovered.
St. John’s English Lutheran church, of
Wilkesbarre, has extended a call to Rev. W.
L. Hunton, of the Eagle street Lutheran
church, of Buffalo, N. Y.
—The Pennsylvania oil company has se-
cured options on 200 acres of land about 15
miles from Johnstown, and will drill a well
in a search for oil and gas.
—Rev. J. B. Keller was elected pastor of
the English Lutheran church, Minersville,
to succeed Rev. M. L. Tate, who has accept-
ed a charge in Philadelphia.
—Work en the Catawissa railroad bridge
near Bloomsburg, has been suspended until
April 1st, the superstructure having been
destroyed in the recent storm.
—Stephen Spellman was placed on trial at
Du Bois Wednesday for the murder of Mich-
ael Raker on December 22nd, and will be
defended on the plea of insanity.
—On Friday last the little four-year-old
son of S. W, Craig, of Huntingdon. fell from
a stool—a distance of but eight inches—and
broke one of its limbs in two places.
—Rev. H. D. Newcomer, ot York has been
offered the pastorate of St. Matthew’s Luth-
eran church, at Allentown, made vacant by
the resignation of Rev. Dr. C. E. Hay.
—Verdella Frick, aged 22 years, a daughter
of Ephriam Frick, a farmer, wandered from
home during a fit of melancholia, and was
found frezen to death in a public road near
Reading on Friday.
—Postmaster Griest, of Lancaster, has ap-
pointed as his assistant James H. Marshall,
who has been connected with the post office
during every Republican administration
since the war.
—Wahile in the act of lighting a cigarette
Monday Emma Dailey, aged 14, of Strouds-
burg, set fire to her father’s house and Wm.
Goucher was painfully burned in extinguish-
ing the blaze.
—Elizabeth Flanders and Fannie Eagle-
born, Indian girls, who tried to burn the
girls’ building at the Indian school at Car-
lisle pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
one year and six months. They said they
were homesick and wanted Captain Pratt to
send them home.
—John Lehman met with a painful acci-
dent at Marsh Run, Perry county. He was
splitting wood with a double bitted ax, and
while making a stroke it caught in a wire
clothes line, which threw it back in his face,
cutting a deep gash from the middle of his
forehead down to near the end of his nose.
—Last year it cost Tioga county $5,709.65
to maintain its poor house with its average of
100 inmates. There was $320.35 worth of
produce sold, making the net cost of the in-
stitution for the year $5,389.40 which is but a
few cents over $1 a week for the mainten-
ance of each of the county’s wards in the
poor house.
—Walter Goodwin, the Tioga county man
who was convicted at Wellsboro of having
murdered his wife, will be hung the last day
of March. The governor on Monday an-
nounced the dates of four murderers as fol-
lows: Frederick C. Rockwell, Erie, April
26th ; John R. Lamb, Allegheny, April 21st ;
Patrick Banya, Elk, April 26th ; Walter E.
Goodwin, March 31st.
—Justice of the Peace Henry Berth, of
Mahaffey, Clearfield county, is now con-
sidered a proper subject for a pension
from the United States Government.
Mr. Breth has just become the father of his
twenty-first child. He isa character of con-
siderable note in the community, having
been married three times. The last time
only a few years ago at the age of 70 years.
—A passing train on Friday set fire to the
roof of JC tower just west of Mill Creek.
The operator in charge notified the operator
in the office in Huntingdon and in a few
minutes one of the shifting engines was
speeding eastward with a force of men and
fire extinguishing apparatus. The fire was
subdued in a few minutes after their arrival,
but not before the roof and dome had been
destroyed.