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Terms, 82.60 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. II, 1898.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Epiror.
Democratic County Committee for 1898.
Huen 8. TayLor, Chairman,
Boyp A. MUSSER, J. W. KEPLER,
J. K. Jonxsrox, Wx. D Zersy,
Secretaries. Ass’t Secretaries.
Precinet. Name. P. 0. Address.
Beilefonte N. W. Jno. Trafford Bellefonte
# S. W. Ed. Brown, Jr. #
* W. W. Geo. R. Meek, $
Centre Hall Boro J. Dauberman, Centre Hall
Howard se Abe Weber, Howard
Milesburg * Geo. W. Campbell, Milesburg
Millheim 4% Sam’l Weiser, Jr., Millheim
Unionville L. P. Brisbin, Fleming
Philipsburg 1st W. J. W. Lukens Philipsburg
2nd W. Ira Howe,
is srd W. Howard Hysong fe
State College Boro Dr. W. S. Glenn, State College
S. Philipsburg * Henry S. Wilcox, Philipsburg
Benner Twp. N. P. L. C. Rearick, Bellefonte
3 S. P. John Ishler, ei
Boggs Twp. N. P. Henry Heaton, Milesbur,
E. P. John Kelley, Rolan
* W. P. D.F. Poorman, Runville
Burnside Twp. Wm. Hipple, Sr. Pine Glenn
College b» L. W. Musser, State College
Curtin se N. J. McCloskey, Romola
Ferguson ‘“ E.P. W. H. Frye, Pine Grove Mills
£€ ‘“ W. P. Sam Harpster, Jr., Gatesburg
Gregg Twp. N. P. Geo. Weaver, Penns Cave
of E. P. Jas. C. Condo, Penn Hall
££ W. P. Jno. Smith, Spring Mills
Haines Twp. W. P., Geo. W. Keister, Asronfhuie
fe E.P. R. E. Stover, _Woodwar
Half Moon Twp. Emory McAfee, Stormstown
Harris Jas. A. Swabb, Linden Hall
Howard ee Geo. D. Johnston, Mt. Eagle
Huston 4 Henry Hale, Julian
Liberty £€ 0. J. Stover, Blanchard
Marion ce J. W. Orr, Walker
Tr,
Miles Twp. E. P. Dan’l W. Harter, Rebersburg
4 W. P. Edward Miller, Centre Mills
£¢ M. P. C.J. Crouse, Rebersburg
Patton Twp. D. L. Meek, Waddle
Penn £6 A. P. Zerby, Sober
Potter * 8. P. Jas. B. Spangler, Tusseyville
5 * N P. G.H. Emerick, Centre Hall
Rush “ 'N.P. Wm, Frank, Philipsburg
$6 ¢“ 8. P. Michael Dempsey, Powelton
Snow Shoe Twp. E.P Lawrence Reding Snow Shoe
e ‘“ W. P John Confer, Moshannon
Spring Twp. N.P. Wm. ag Bellefonte
£ S. P. W. H. Noll, Jr., Pleasant Gap
4 W. P. P.F. Garbrick, Bellefonte
Taylor Twp. A. P. Hoover, Hannah
Union ** Chas. G. Hall, Fleming
Walker Twp. E. P. Sol Peck, Nittany
. M. P. Harry McCauly, Hublersburg
£ Ww. P. Wm. A. Royer, :
Worth « A. J. Johnston, Port Matilda
Boyp A. Musser, HUGH 8S. TAYLOR,
—Democrats remember that you can
do much at the election, next Tuesday, to
make a victory in the county next fall.
Let both your votes and your actions
conserve to harmony, for a harmonious
party is a victorious party.
Mr. Bryan on the Ratio of 16 to 1.
The answer of WILLIAM J. BRYAN to
those few hypocritical parties who object
to his close adherence to the ratio of 16 to
1, is one of the most remarkable deliver-
ances that has emanated from the mind of
that most remarkable man. In compari-
son with its clearness of statement and
forceful presentation of its argument the
polished prattle of the New York Journal
writer, who has condemned his fidelity to
the ratio demanded by the Chicago plat-
form, appears absurdly trifling.
Mr. BRYAN easily brushes his assailants
out of his way not only by the clearness
with which he shows that nothing has
since occurred that requires or would war-
rant the substitution of a different ratio
from that which the Chicago platform pre-
scribed as necessary for a correct monetary
system, but also by the force with which
he demonstrates the fact that 16 to 1 is
not only the ratio between the two metals
that was fixed by the coinage law under
which there was free coinage until the
fatal act of 1873, and still exists between
the gold and silver coins in circulation,
but it is moreover the ratio that would
naturally prevail in the relation between
the two metals if fictitious conditions were
not produced by monetary policies intend-
ed to depreciate the relative value of sil-
ver.
The free silver leader of the Democracy
not only most forcibly vindicates his adher-
ence to the ratio of value between the two
metals for which the Democratic platform
declared in 1896, bus he clearly shows that
it would be bad policy to abandon or
change it. He very sensibly and truthful-
ly says:
“The ratio of 16 to 1 has been adopted
by the Democratic party in a convention
which, more than any recent convention,
* received its authority direct from the peo-
ple. The rank and file of the party, in-
stead of leaving the ratio to the leaders,
expressed their own opinion upon the sub-
ject, and that opinion has not changed
since the convention. The ratio has also
been indorsed by the Populist party, the
National Silver party and the Silver Re-
publicans. To abandon the ratio would
be wrong in itself, and as impolitic as it
would be wrong.”
——Mr. CARTER HARRISON is a young
Democrat who has heen commendably
lively in politics and has won distinction
for a man of his years hy being elected
mayor of Chicago. He has gained a posi-
tion in which he can make himself useful.
It may even serveas a stepping stone to
the Governorship of Illinois, but too am-
bitious a program is being cut out for him
by some of his injudicious friends who pro-
pose to elevate him from the mayoralty to
the Governorship, preparatory to bringing
him out as an opponent of Wm. J. BRYAN
for the Democratic nomination for Presi-
dent. Presidential candidates are not
. developed by such processes. Something
more than that is required to produce them
of a quality warranted to be suitable. The
Democracy have a recollection of a presi-
dential nominee who went through the
previous grades of mayor and Governor,
and after serving two presidential terms
allowed himself in the end to be caught in
the Wall street gold trap. Mr. CARTER
HARRISON might not permit himself to be
caught in that way, but he is still young
and can well wait until after Wi. J.
BRYAN shall have served his country in
the presidential office.
A Humbug Substitution.
Nothing could be more ridiculous than
the affectation displayed in the intention
to use water for the christening of the new
battleship Kentucky instead of the liquor
which it has been the custom to use for
such a purpose.
The original intention of performing the
ceremony with a bottle of fine old 40-year
Bourbon whiskey was a suggestion worthy
of the true Kentucky spirit ; but since the
Republican Governor of that State has
managed to ring in his daughter as the
performer of the ceremony instead of the
young lady who had a prior claim to that
distinction, it has been concluded to do
the christening with water- from a spring
from which ABRAHAM LINCOLN drank
when he was a boy, an intention prompted
about equally by temperance crankiness
and sham reverence for a great man who if
he were living to-day would be ashamed to
belong to the McHANNA party.
There is no sense in departing from the
old custom of giving the new ships of the
navy a send off with something stronger
than water, as the use of wine in christen-
ing ships is traditionally associated with
that ceremony, and is a custom cherished
by old sailors whose preference should be
considered of some account in such a mat-
ter.
——The venerable Philadelphia Ledger is
of the opinion that the union of the Demo-
crats, Populists and silver Republicans
against gold monometallism is a dangerous
combination. That isindeed so. There is
danger <n it, but it is dangerous only to
the MORGANS, DREXELS, and those other
money changers who have effected a grip
on the finances of the country and have
brought the government under subjection
to Wall street; dangerous to the ROCKER-
FELLERS, VANDERBILTS, CARNEGIES,
HANNAS and that class of millionaires in
whose interest tariffs are laid to promote
and protect their monopolies ; dangerous
to the aspiring plutocrats whose vast and
rapidly increasing accumulations, en-
couraging their desire to establish a titled
aristocracy of wealth in this country. The
combination deplored by the Ledger is in-
deed dangerous to these abnormal excres-
cences on free institutions and popular gov-
ernment, but it is full of hope for the peo-
ple to whom it will ensure protection from
influences and agencies that threaten to
destroy the Republic.
——No member of a presidential cabinet
could be in a more absurd position than is
occupied by secretary GAGE, the Chicago
banker whom President McKINLEY
brought into his administration to reform
the currency by putting it on a more solid
and thorough gold basis, and to bring the
finances of the country under the control
of the national banks. The secretary finds
his scheme blocked at the very start by the
Senate resolving that the bonds are option-
ally payable in silver. He can’t get even
a Republican House of Representatives to
touch his hill for the retirement of the
greenbacks, and the probability of a cur-
rency bill being reported to this Congress
is assuming the definite form of an impos-
sibility. While he is in this plight the
secretary can find nothing else to do but
to eulogize the gold standard and cur-
rency reform on the goldbug plan in ad-
dresses delivered at sumptuous dinners
given by millionaire bankers and monopo-
lists.
—Tbe people of Pennsylvania are
struck with the comicality of the idea of
erecting a marble palace for the accom-
modation of the kind of lawmakers that
are sent to Harrisburg to do the legislating
for the State. There would be something
laughable in it if it wasn’t made so serious
a matter by the prospect of its costing them
millions of dollars. People are notin a
laughing mood when they expect to have
an extravagant bill presented to them for
payment, and the aggravation in this case
is made the greater by the suspicion that
the old capitol was burned down with the
object of enabling a ring of politicians and
contractors to make fortunes out of the job
of building a new one whose cost will he
made to run into the millions.
—ADOLPH LEUTGERT, the Chicago sau-
sage maker who is said to have dissolved
his wife in a lye vat, has just been con-
victed of murder and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life. If he did get away with
the woman in the manner he is said to
have done it he will have a long time to
think over the foolishness of trying to
make sausage out of women.
re i—s
Barrios Assassinated.
The President of Guatemala Pays the Usual Pen-
alty.
‘WASHINGTON, February 9.—Senor Lazo
Arriga, the Guatemalan minister to the
United States, this afternoon received an
official cablegram from the minister of for-
eign affairs of Guatemala announcing the
assassination of President Barrios and
succession to the Presidency of first vice
President Manuel Estrade Cabrera. No
details whatever were given.
The dispatch came from Gautemala City,
the capital, where President Barrios has
lived and the governments are carried on.
It added that entire calm prevails. This
last assurance, coupled with the immediate
succession of the first vice President, in ac-
cordance with the constitutional methods
of the country, is a special service of grati-
fication to the officials of the Gutemalan
legation here, and to some extent alleviates
the shock with which they received the
news of the tragedy.
President Barrios wus a man of wide at-,
tainments and marked executive ability.
He was only 42 years old. The six years
term of service for which he was elected
terminated March 15th next, but the nation-
al congressional assembly already had ex-
tended his term for a further four years.
The new President, Mr. Cabrera, is a
man of prominence in Gautemala and is
one of two chosen by the congress to fill
the Presidency in case of a vacancy.
The Deputies Trial.
Judge Woodward Takes Occasion to Rebuke Sen-
sationalism,— Premeditation Testified to. — One
Witness Swears That Deputy Dodson Declared
He Would ‘Shoot Strikers at a Cent a Head”—
A Blundering Slavonian Witness.
WILKESBARRE, Pa. Feb. 8. — When
court opened yesterday in the trial of Sher-
iff Martin and his deputies judge Wood-
ward vigorously rebuked the attorneys who
had engaged in wordy warfare on Saturday
after adjournment, and threatened them
with punishment for contempt if the of-
fense was repeated. He also severely de-
nounced newspaper sensationalism, saying
that some newspapers were ‘‘endeavoring
to prevent justice by an exaggeration of
facts,” and declared that ‘‘if the astound-
ing falsehoods and misrepresentations con-
tinue the representatives of the papers will
find the door of the court closed to them.”
Silas Jones, justice of the peace at West
Hazleton, was the first witness of the day.
His evidence, which added nothing new to
the case, was ruled out after a long argu-
ment by opposing counsel. This is re-
garded asan important gain by the defense.
Before the noon adjournment the court
accepted bail for all the accused deputies
and the sheriff in the amount of $6,000 in
each case, making a total of $402,000 in all.
Bail was furnished by a Philadelphia
surety company. : :
George Yeager, a Slavonian who required
an interpreter, followed Jones on the
witness stand. He saw the shooting at
Lattimer, and pointed out as among those
whom he had seen fire at the strikers depu-
ties John Zeirdt, Harry Zeirdt, Schuyler
and Thomas Hall. He pointed out several
other deputies whom he had seen with
guns in their hands, and when John Hamp-
ton, chief of the coal and iron police, was
called before him he positively identified
Hampton as one of those he had seen
among the deputies, illustrating how
Hampton had held his rifle. The defense
will prove that Hampton was not on the
scene at all, but was in Hazleton at the
time. .
Thomas Hall, clerk of the Valley hotel,
in Hazleton, testified to a conversation he
had heard on Sunday following the shoot-
ing from the lips of deputy John Turner,
during which Turner said : *‘I shot nine of
them and killed five.”” On cross examina-
tion Hall said he did not know whether
Turner was ‘‘blowing’’ or making a state-
ment of fact.
The next witness was Christopher Bre-
hen, a miner of Cranberry. Brehen said he
was at West Hazleton when the strikers ar-
rived, and that he talked with Bornheiser,
one of the deputies, who wanted him to
join the deputies. Bornheiser said :
‘‘Every one of these——strikers ought to
be shot.”’ :
“They have as good a right to strike as
anybody,”” the witness replied, ‘and I
would not stop them.” :
‘You area— coward, ’’ Bornheiser said,
‘“‘or else you would get a gun and go out
with us to shoot them.’ .
“If you want to shoot them, all right,”
the witness said, and then Bornheiser went
away. : .
A few days before the shooting the wit-
ness had a talk with a deputy named Dod-
son, who said : ‘We ought to get so
much a head for shooting down these strik-
ers. I would doit for a cent a head, and
make money at it.’
On cross examination the witness ad-
mitted that he had been in jail once for a
week on the charge of burglary, but that
he had been bailed out and acquitted. His
original story was not altered by the ex-
amination.
The last witness was John Costello, who
said he was helping a wounded man when
Deputy A. E. Hess approached him. He
was about to detail the conversation which
ensued, and by which the commonwealth
hoped to prove malice on the part of the
deputy, when the defense objected. There
was a long argument, and at its conclusion
the court adjourned, decision being re-
served.
Another Sensation Was Sprung in the
Martin Trial.
WILKESBARRE, Feb. 8.—Another sensa-
tion was sprung on the auditors of the
Martin trial to-day, when Judge Wood-
ward annourced that he had received an
anonymous letter threatening him with
harm unless certain things were done.
The judge said :
“The man who wrote this will probably
hear what I have to say, and I want to teil
‘him he is a scoundrel and a coward, and that
no such dishonorable means will in any way
affect my judgement. Cowardice and per-
sonal fear are not a characteristic of the race
from which I come.”
Before the hearing of evidence was re-
sumed, the judge sustained the defense and
ruled out that part of the testimony of
John Costello relating to his conversation
with deputy Hess, in which the latter
threatened to shoot him because he pro-
tested against the shooting of the strikers.
This evidence was given yesterday after-
noon and a lengthy argument followed on
the question of its admissibility.
COSTELLO RECALLED.
Costello was recalled this morning and
said he had seen three dead and eight
wounded men lying along the road from
Farley’s hotel to Lattimer. He said he did
what he could for the wounded and found
no weapons on any of them.
Evan Jones, chief of police of West
Hazleton, testified that the strikers reached
West Hazleton on the afternoon and there
met the sheriff and the deputies. They
carried a flag and talked loud, but they
had no arms and made no disturbance of
any kind. The sheriff told them they
could not march to Lattimer and that
they must go home, whereupon he (Jones)
induced them to go back and showed them
how they could march by a side street.
John Lynch testified that he was at
West Hazleton when the strikers arrived
and that they were unarmed and orderly.
The sheriff told some of the spectators they
had better get out of the way, as there was
liable to be trouble if the strikers did not
disperse.
DEPUTIES POINTED OUT.
The witness pointed out the following
deputies as being among those whom he
had seen at West Hazleton : Houck, Ridg-
way, Young, Salem, Harry and Frank
Zeirdt, Platt, Cook, Dodson, Ferry, Barton,
Sobers, Clark, Jones and the sheriff.
The witness said that deputy Manley
had struck him with a gun 4s he was mov-
ing off the street, and that another man
had also been struck. He heard several
threats against the strikers. One deputy
pointed his gun at a striker and said : T
could get a bead on that fellow.”’ Another
said : “Ill get even with the devils when
we get to Lattimer.”” Deputy Terry told
a man who was sympathizing with a strik-
er whose head was bleeding that, if he did
not shut up, he would blow his head off.
Witness denied, on cross-examination,
that he had a black jack and tried to hit a
deputy with it, or that he had tried to
break through the line of deputies.
. Herman Pottinger, of Hazleton, said,
that, while he was at West Hazleton
on the day of the shooting, Deputy Henry
Dihl threatened to ‘‘blow my brains out if
I did not get off the road.”
The witness pointed out Barton, Hall,
Beisel, Manley and Moile as deputies
whom he saw at West Hazleton. :
STATEMENTS BY DEPUTIES.
He heard Hall say : “I’d like to get a
pop at them. Another deputy said: “I
bet I'll drop six of them when I ge’ over
there.’
The cross-examination was severe, but it
did not affect Pottinger’s story.
CHIEF OF POLICE TORE FLAG.
He said that chief of the coal and iron
police Hampton was the man who tore the
flag at West Hazleton.
Simon Kowalski said that when the
sheriff stopped the strikers at Lattimer he
asked where we were going. “To Lat-
mer to see our fellow workmen,” he re-
plied. ‘“‘Then he grabbed a man by the
collar, pulled him out of line and pushed
his revolver against his throat. The next
moment there was a shot and I ran as fast
as I could. When I came back Mr. Dod-
son, a deputy, cane over as I was helping
a wounded man and said : ‘““You run away
or I'll shoot you, too.”
The cross-examination lasted some time
but the witness’ story was not shaken.
He said he was not one of the leaders and
only walked in the front ranks because it
was hot and dusty.
Waldo Pekerski told how the deputies
had struck one of the strikers at West
Hazleton with a gun, cutting his head
badly. The man, hesaid, was doing noth-
ing. He could not point out the deputy.
At West Hazleton the sheriff was pointing
his revolver at everybody near him.
STRIKERS UNARMED AND PEACEABLE.
None of the strikers had any weapons
and all were peaceable.
Attorney Palmer, for the defense, claim-
ed that Attorney Martin was merely taking
up time in asking each witness if the
strikers were armed. ‘‘Will you admit
it?’’ asked Martin.
“No, sir ; we admit nothing. ”’
‘‘Then we will go ahead and prove it.”
“Go on,” said Palmer. “‘It will take
you seven years.’’
“At Lattimer,’’ said the witness, ‘‘the
sheriff stopped us and said nobody can go
to Lattimer. Then some of the men
pushed forward, and the sheriff pulled a
man to the side of the road and pointed his
revolver. The man pushed the revolver
away and ran. The sheriff snapped his re-
volver twice. The third time it exploded.
I cannot say whether or not he shot any-
body. As soon as he shot the deputies
commenced shooting and everybody ran.
I was among the last, and the deputies
fired at us while we were running. The
firing lasted about five minutes.’’
The witness could not point out any of
the deputies who fired after the men ran,
saying he was too busy running to look at
all. In the cross-examination the witness
denied emphatically that any of the strik-
ers resisted the deputies or that the sheriff
was thrown to the ground.
REMEMBERED BUT ONE DEPUTY.
The only deputy the witness could re-
member seeing at Lattimer was Cook,
whom he pointed out.
Andrew F. Adams, a traveling man,
from Glens’ Falls, N. Y., said he saw the
strikers twice on the day of the shooting.
Once, as he was going from Milnesville to
Lattimer, they were then marching in an
orderly manner, and again when he was
returning from Lattimer. At this point it
was just when they were meeting the
sheriff. He did not see the meeting, the
car being about 600 feet away, but he
heard the firing, saw the smoke and saw
the strikers running. There were a few
scattered shots, then a volley, followed by
a number of scattered shots. This ended
the testimony for the day and court ad-
journed.
JUDGE WOODWARD INSTRUCTS THE JURY
AS TO ANONYMOUS LETTERS.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 9.—Before the
taking of evidence was resumed in the Mar-
tin trial to-day, judge Woodward told the
jurors that should they receive any letters
bearing on the case, whether anonymous
or signed, they should hand them over to
the district attorney, and not allow them
to make any impression on their minds,
The first witness to-day was John Your-
shekowicz, one of the Harwood strikers.
He said that on September 9th the strikers
held a meeting at Harwood, and they un-
derstood that if they could get the Lat-
timer men to join them they would win
the strike. They decided not to carry any-
thing having the semblance of weapons and
to behave quietly and peaceably. At West
Hazleton, he said, they met the sheriff and
the deputies, who pushed them around
with guns and hit several of them. One
man, and the witness at this juncture
pointed out deputy Ario P. Platt, tore
down the flag.
At Lattimer the sheriff stopped them, hit
two men in the front rank and tried to
shoot his revolver. It snapped twice and
then exploded. Right away there was a
volley of shots from the deputies and many
of the strikers fell.
*‘A bullet passed through my hat,”’ the
witness continued, ‘‘and then I fell and
lay down until there was no more shoot-
ing ; then I ran away. I ran all the way
to Hazleton because I was afraid of being
shot. I did not go back.”
On cross-examination witness said that
at West Hazleton the sheriff got hold of
his coat and pushed his revolver in his
face, saying : “I am the sheriff of Lu-
zerne county and you cannot go to Latti-
mer. Idid nothing. I was frightened.’
The witness also said the Harwood men
decided to send a committee over to Latti-
mer, and that the committee was composed
of all of them, ahout 400 or 500, because if
they sent only three men or a small num-
ber, Pardee & Co. would discharge them 3
that is, they would have no chance of oet-
ting back their positions after the strike.
Steve Jusko, the man whose arm was
broken and head cut by blows of a rifle in
the hands of a deputy at West Hazleton,
testified that at the time of the assault he
was behaving in an orderly manner and
saying nothing. Afterwards, he said, the
deputies put him in the lockup for two
days, and then he was taken to the hos-
pital. He was laid up for two months.
The evidence of Michael Popsos was cor-
roborative of what has already been heard
about the shooting at Lattimer.
He was put through a strong cross-ex-
amination by counsel for the defense and
the only feature of any importance which
developed was the fact that after the sheriff
had told the strikers to disperse they con-
tinued on their way to Lattimer.
Only three witnesses were heard at this
afternoon’s session and only one gave evi-
dence which was at all new. Louis Kitzski
told how on arriving at West Hazleton
with the strikers two deputies seized him
by the coat, hustled and pushed him around
and tore his shirt. He said a number of
the men were so frightened by the action
of the deputies in threatening them with
their guns that they ran home and did not
march to Lattimer. At Lattimer, the wit-
ness said the sheriff asked for the commit-
tee and while a man was looking for the
three committeemen the sheriff pulled two
fellows out of the line and tried to fire his
revolver. I started to run at once and
dropped down behind a little stone about
thirty yards away. There was a volley
and then a lot of separate shots, and they
came so thick around where I lay that I
ran further and got into a shanty, but the
deputies fired on the shanty, and a bullet
went through my hat. Witness did not
have the hat in court and was told to write
for it. On cross-examination he admitted
that the sheriff had told the strikers to go
home, and that they disobeyed and march-
ed on to Lattimer.
Ellery Bonin, an undertaker, of Hazle-
ton, who buried thirteen of the victims,
gave their names and described their
wounds, saying all were shot in the back
$Soome one, who had a bullet in his fore-
John Andreaski told the story as many
others about the meeting on the night be-
fore the shooting ; the march to West
Hazleton, what occurred there and the
march on to Lattimer. He said as soon as
I heard the shooting, I fell down near the
railroad tracks and about thirty yards from
the deputies, they fired a volley and then a
lot of separate shots, and the sheriff and
two men ran out of the line of deputies
and upon the railroad track crying out :
‘Come back, you —-———_ and we’ll fix
you,’" to the fleeing strikers, at the same
time shooting two or three times, The
witness pointed out Frank Clark as one of
the two deputies with the sheriff, he could
not identify the other. 5
Court adjourned at this point and the
cross-examination will be heard in the
morning. The Commonwealth has about
a hundred more witnesses.
EE ——
Ruiz Courted Death.
General Lee's Report of the Spanish Officer Exe-
cuted.—Did not Use a Flag of Truce, But Went
out to Meet Aranguren in His Private Character,
to Urge Autonomy.—General Lee's Futile Ef-
forts to Save Ruiz’s Life,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The President
yesterday transmitted to the House the re-
ports from Consul General Lee relative to
the execution of Colonel Ruiz which the
House called for by resolution. “As a
matter of public interest ’’ says General
Lee, “I have the honor to inform the de-
partment that on Monday, Dec. 1st, Lieu-
tenant Colonel Don Joaquin Ruiz, of the
Spanish corps of engineers and aid-de-camp
of the Captain General, an officer fav-
orably known in the city, visited Colonel
Aranguren, an active and enterprising in-
surgent chief, with whom he had been
formerly well acquainted. In company
with two guides, a white man and a negro,
he rode on horseback in the direction of
Aranguren’s camp. After he had proceed-
ed two leagues he was met by Aranguren,
who was mounted and he had an escort of
14 cavalry.”
‘‘Colonel Ruiz, after the exchange of salu-
tations, began a speech to Aranguren and
his party, setting forth the prospective
glories of autonomic rule, and, I am ad-
vised, made offers upon the part of the au-
thorities here for the surrender of his com-
mand, whereupon Aranguren, acting under
the instructions of his general-in-chief,
Maximo Gomez, had colonel Ruiz and his
two men executed.’’
“It will be remembered that in Novem-
ber last Gomez issued a proclamation or-
dering his officers to put to death any per-
son or persons that should approach them
with the effort to make them traitors to
their comrades or cause or to induce them
to accept autonomy under Spanish rule.”
‘In accordance with a request made to
me by the Russian consul and other friends
of Colonel Ruiz, and with the knowledge,
consent and approval of General Blanco, I
made the attempt to save the life of the
Spanish officer by sending to him Mr. .Er-
nesto Tosca, as my representative here,
with a note requesting Colonel Aranguren,
as a special favor to me, to release Ruiz. I
regret to say that my representative did
not reach the insurgent camp in time to
deliver said note before Colonel Ruiz’s exe-
cution, which had taken place on the day
of Ruiz’s arrival.”’
*‘The note to Aranguren was not deliver-
‘ed, because when my representative reached
his camp this insurgent chief was tempo-
rarily absent therefrom, but the next rank-
ing officer, then in command, gave to Mr.
Tosca a statement detailing the execution
of Ruiz.”
“It now appears that Colonel Ruiz visit-
ed the insurgent camp in his private or un-
official capacity, and that, with the excep-
tion of one or two of the authorities of the
palace, and possibly a few others, no one
knew of his errand or departure. It would
seem, therefore, that he went into the in-
surgent camp in an unofficial or private
character, and not under flag of truce or
other official protection in war, a procedure
always hazardous to the life of anyone who
attempts it.”’
Outbreak of the Moors.
Capture a British Steamer and Demolish Many
Villages.—England Loses on the Coast.
TANGIER, Feb. 8.—The British steamer
Tourmalin, while attempting to land arms
and stores on the coast of Morocco, was in-
tercepted by the Sherifian steamer Hassani,
whereupon she opened fire. The Hassani
reciprocated, and captured one of the ship’s
boat’s, with three Englishmen.
The Moorish troops then demolished the
villages favorable to foreigners, killing
numbers of the inhabitants.
BERLIN, Feb. 8.—A dispatch from Tan-
gier to the Cologne Gazette says the govern-
ment of Morocco has arrested five members
of the Globe Venture syndicate on a charge
of unlawful trading.
LoNDON, Feb. 8—A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Mogador, Morocco, says
that an expedition having occupied Erkzes
(presumably on the Sus coast), with the
assistance of rebel tribesmen, the Sultan’s
troops attacked and defeated it after severe
fighting, capturing four Englishmen.
Thermometer Reaches 160.
Heat So Intense in Australia as to Cause Fires and
Many Deaths.
VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 8. — The
steamer Warrimo, from Australia, brings
news of appalling climatic conditions. In
many instances work is out of the question,
and sleep impossible, on account of the
heat.
The thermometer averages about 124° in
the shade, and in a long list of towns the
lowest figure was 110°. In the sun it is
160°. The heat has caused numerous fires
from spontaneous combustion, and news
comes from all parts of Australia of des-
traction by flames. It would appear from
the press reports that the total damage will
amount to millions of pounds. In Victoria
colony, 100,000 acres have been swept
clear.
In a sewer at Melbourne many lives were
lost, the men being overcome by gas.
It Was Time Long Ago.
From the Westmoreland Democrat.
It is announced in a dispatch from Mad-
rid that ‘‘the cost of the Cuban war from
February, 1895, to the end of 1897, is
officially estimated at $240,000,000, be-
sides the arrears due from the Cuban treas-
ury, amounting to $40,000,000.” From
the above figures it will he observed that
the cost to Spain, in money, of attempting
to suppress the insurrection in Cuba is over
$700,000 a month. Most, if not all, of the
quarter of a billion dollars already ex-
pended by the Madrid government repre-
sents capital borrowed from European
sources. It is understood that Americans
have filed claims for damages suffered in
Cuba, since the insurrection was inaugu-
rated, of from $75,000,000 to $100,000, 000.
As Uncle Sam is expected to guard the in-
terests of his citizens, it looks as if it was
about time for the American government to
foreclose on Cuba.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The Adelphi club dance will be
given at the Inn, State College, on Monday
evening, Feb. 14th. Mrs. Jno. M. Dale
and Mrs. John N. Lane, of this place, are
among the patronesses. The committee is
composed of Clay Sprecher, J. M. Curtin,
J. N. Gray, J.S. Albert, A. O. Hiester and
H. S. Davis.
Po
MANY ANSWERS TO THE WATCHMAN
PROBLEMS.—As was ‘expected the two
questions published in the WATCHMAN is-
sue of January 28th, excited considerable
interest among our mathematically in-
clined readers and no less than one hun-
dred solutions have been received up to
this time. It has heen surprising, how-
! ever, how few have been correct.
The first problem propounded was as fol-
lows :
A certain farmer came to Bellefonte with a
horse and buggy. he traveled at the rate of &
miles an hour. He was 22} minutes in town,
and in that time sold his buggy and horse,
and then walked home at the rate of 3 and
1-5 miles an hour; he was 6 hours and 30
minutes gone from the time he left home un-
til he returned. How far did this farmer
live from Bellefonte.
The proper solution to this problem is
this :
When the farmer traveled at the rate of S
miles an hour it equaled 1 mile in every 7%
minutes. When he walked home at the rate
of 3and 1-5 miles an hour it equaled 1 mile
in 18% minutes. Thus it will be seen that his
total time for covering a mile was 26} min-
utes. Now he was gone 6 hours and thirty
minutes or 390 minutes, but spent 2} of them
in town, so they must be deducted from the
total time gone, leaving 3673 minutes as his
total time on the road. Now if it required
26} minutes to complete one mile he must
have lived as many miles distant from Belle-
fonte as 261 is contained in 3673 or 14.
The correct answers received for this
problem were those of W. A. Kerlin, Rudd,
Iowa ; Maurice Runkle, John Love, Philip
Mersinger and Lawrence Runkle, Tussey-
ville; C. G. Spicher, Centre Hall ; Wm.
J. Howley, Bellefonte ; Jacob L. Murray,
Lemont ; John L. Bathurst, Mt. Eagle.
J. H. Eskridge, of Philipsburg, thinks
the farmer lives 34} miles and 264 ft. and
.2112528 from Bellefonte.
Mr. Spicher and Mr. Murray were the
only two persons who got the correct ans-
wer for the silk problem. It was this :
If a merchant in your town was selling
silk at $1 55per yard, how much would you
have to spend to purchase 10 yards of the
silk ?
The answer is as follows :
1 divided by .001=$1000.
$1000 plus 1=$1001
$1001 multiplied by—$10,010 or cost of
10 yards. -
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THE NEW CHURCH AT MOSHANNON.—
The M. E. church, at Moshannon, Pa., was
dedicated on last Sabbath, and it was cer-
tainly a day to be remembered by the peo-
ple of that community, especially those
who were interested and took part in the
services. Rev. W. W. Cadle preached to a
large congregation on Saturday evening,
and the services for the Sabbath day were
begun with love feast at 9 o'clock ; fol-
lowed by a sermon by Rev. Thos. Wilcox,
of Shamokin, Pa., after which a subserip-
tion was taken which was responded: to
nicely, amounting to over five hundred dol-
lars.
A meeting was held for the children at
3 o’clock p. m. at which some sixty dollars
were raised. And in the evening the peo-
ple were treated to a very able and eloquent
sermon by Dr. Monroe, presiding elder of
the Altoona district, at which time the col-
lection was continued and resulted in se-
curing the full amount asked for, be-
tween 750.00 and 775.00 dollars, and so
through arrangements made by the hoard
of trustees the church could be dedicated
to the worship of the Lord.
A large congregation was present at each
service, friends from Snow Shoe and Pine
Glen helping to swell the number. The
finances were handled by Rev. Thos. A.
Wilcox, who is certainly a good hand at
this work.
The church is a frame building, the main
audience room is 32 by 45 feet, seated with
circular seating and the lecture room is 15
by 25, seated with chairs and so arranged
with glass partition that it can be opened
into one room. The entrance is through
a vestibule in the tower, which is 10 x 10 ft.
; The church, is heated by a furnace and
lighted with 2 chandeliers with Rochester
burners. * The pulpit is especially fine
and has been pronounced to be as neat
as the neatest ; being entirely a new de-
sign and having a communion table at-
tached with appropriate wording on it.
It was made by the carpenter who built
the church, H. L. Barger, and presented by
him.
All who have rendered assistance have the
sincere thanks of our people. The collec-
tors who so faithfully performed their duty
on Sabbath as also the board of trustees were
as follows : Collectors, Revs. W, W. Cadle,
C. W. Rishel ; Bros. Alfred Thompson,
Oscar Harm, Frank Zimmerman, J. B.
Martin, Jacob Beightol. Miss Ella Rankin
presided at the organ. James Williamson
and John F. Lucas were ushers. The
board of trustees who presented the church
for dedication was as follows: Geo. E.
French, J. B. Martin, John Smoke, Wm.
Lucas, Edward Shannon, Simon Haggard,
Elmer Shangrans and J. T. Lucas. *