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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Our friend, up town, the editor of the
Jazette, must have gotten a portion of his
“two columns of hot stuff’”’ into his eyes,
or else the white paint on those two ‘‘new
porches and a balcony’’ must have turned
his head a trifle, for after a vain effort to
justify the extravagance of the commis-
sioner’s during the past year he winds up
by abusing poor JIM CORNELLY, who is in
jail and has no bearing on the case, what-
ever.
—The Philipsburg Republicans never
miss an opportunity of showing their love
for ARNOLD and QUAY. Mr. TURNBACH,
of that place, was a delegate to the anti-
QUAY meeting at the Bourse, in Philadel-
phia, two weeks ago. Mr. TURNBACH, was
a candidate for school director in Philips-
burg, on Tuesday. Mr. TURNBACH was
defeated in a Republican town, but it is a
QUAY town and that accounts for his de-
feat.
—When we read the head lines of the
leaders in the Gazette last week we imagin-
ed that the editor of that paper was going
to make it so hot for us that we could have
eaten blocks of ice and hawked up boiling
water, but upon investigation we found
that it was all head and nothing more.
Gas and worn-out homilies are the Gazette's
stock in trade, so that no one pays much
attention to what it says.
—The destruction of the battleship
Maine, in Havana harbor, has complicated
the Cuban situation seriously and tended
to widen the breach between the United
States and Spain. Of course the Cubans
will take advantage of the great disaster to
further their cause, by suggestions of all
manner of Spanish plots for the demolition
of our great battleship. Whatever may
have been the cause it is evident that our
floating bulwarks have as much to fear
from the inside as from the out. If it was
the Maine’s magazine that exploded then
negligence of some sort is responsible for
the several hundred lives that were lost
and the destruction of a $5,000,000 boat.
Why not call this war. It has cost the
United States almost as many lives as have
been lost in battle since the Spaniards and
Cubans flew to arms.
—The circumstance that LEITER, the
Napoleonic plunger in the wheat market,
holds 17,000,000 bushels of a most neces-
sary article of food for speculative purposes,
is not a pleasant thing for the American
people to contemplate. This is too large
an amount for a legitimate object of trade.
Its possession is not intended to meet the
current demands of the market; but it is
held as a restriction upon trade, simply
cornered and kept out of the market until
LEITER may be able to realize some mil-
lions of dollars out of it. The millers are
complaining that the best qualities of wheat
are being withheld by this speculator; the
farmers whose toil produced the grain are
not benefited a cent by his operation. The
profit will all go to this greedy representa-
tive of a class whose monopolistic gains
constitute the ‘“business interests’’ which
Republican policies are intended to pro-
mote. :
——The evidence in the trial of sheriff
MARTIN and his brigade of deputies clear-
ly demonstrates the fact that the situation
at Lattimer didn’t require the rifle practice
that caused the death of twenty-one miners
and the wounding of half a hundred more.
To check violent demonstrations and pro-
tect property from threatened destruction,
which is alleged to have been the mission
of the sheriff and his posse, hardly requir-
ed a volley of rifle shots into the backs of
men who were running away. It has be-
come quite evident from facts when MAR-
TIN and his men went to Lattimer they
had their rifles loaded for miners and were
anxious to shoot the game they were gun-
ning for.
——Senator THURSTON, in his Lincoln
day speech, got off a lot of clap-trap among
which may be included his remark that
*‘every mother who bore her son on Ameri-
can soil can fondly hope that he will one
day become President.’”” At a former per-
iod in our history every American mother
could indulge in that kind of a hope, but
public affairs have been brought to such a
condition that the Presidency can be reach-
ed only through the influence of the money
power. Its attainment is to be accomplish-
ed, not hy the exertion of honest ambition,
but through the corrupting agency of vast
campaign funds contributed by corporations
trusts and bank syndicates to carry presi-
dential elections. About as mach as the
average American mother may hope for is
that the greedy monopolies will allow her
son to have a chance to make a living.
—It is rather late for the administra-
tion to become indignant at the offensive
expression of the Spanish Minister. He
shoyld long ago bave been regarded as per-
sona non grata at Washington for his un-
disguised contempt, not only for the Ameri-
can government bus for the American peo-
ple as well. While he was known to en-
tertain such feelings, and took but little
pains to conceal them, there was no pro-
test against Spain’s maintaining at our
capital a Minister of so offensive a disposi-
tion. Some years ago he wrote a book in
which insulting language was applied to
the American people, and particularly to
American women. A government having
a proper regard for its people would have
objected to his diplomatic presence at
Washington on that account, without
waiting for him to complete his offense by
insulting the President.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. -
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEB. 18. 1898.
XO. 1.
16 to1 An Honest Ratio.
WILLIAM J. BRYAN, in support of the
ratio of 16 to 1, declares that ‘‘the friends
of the gold standard know that the debtor,
whether a public debtor or a private debtor,
meets all the requirements of the law, mor-
al as well as statutory, when he discharges
his obligation according to the terms of the
contract.” The Philadelphia Record is
neither ingenuous nor felicitous when in
replying to this proposition it says: ‘‘The
friends of the gold standard and the friends
of honest dealing know that it would be a
dishonest proceeding to take advantage of
the fall in silver to pay debts with it at the
ratio of 16 to 1 when the true ratio is 32 to
1.”
If the ratio is 32 to 1 the opponents of
the gold standard know that that is not
the true and honest ratio that would exist
if it had not been made so by methods that
purposely depressed the value of silver and
correspondingly appreciated the value of
gold. They believe, and have reasonable
justification for their belief, that if the
cause of the depression of the value of sil-
ver were removed by restoring it to all the
uses that can give it value, chief of which
is its unrestricted coinage and use as mon-
ey, it would speedily return to the ratio of
16 to 1 which was maintained for centuries
before the gold monopolists succeeded in
reducing its value by demonetization.
The supporters of free silver coinage do
not want to take advantage of the fall in
silver to pay their debts with it at a de-
preciated value. They want to retrieve it
from a fall in value that has been factitious-
ly produced, and they propose to do this
by fully restoring its monetary function.
‘When debts, public as well as private, are
again made fully payable in silver, as MR.
BRYAN contends they should be, that is
about all that will be required to bring the
ratio back to 16 to 1.
The money monopolists, whose selfish
interests are promoted by the appreciation
of gold, have caused the depreciation of
silver by their manipulation of the stand-
ards, and the scamps take advantage of
their own wrong by decrying the monetary
quality of a metal whose value they have
managed to depreciate, to the detriment of
general interests, but to the advantage of
their own.
In Trouble of Her Own Creating,
Poor old party-ridden and ring-ruled
Philadelphia is suffering the penalty that
is due her for her partisan stupidity and
folly. She has so constantly rolled up big
Republican majorities and put the machin-
ery of the party so completely in the con-
trol of such political characters as those
that compose the combine, that she now
finds it impossible to get out of their thiev-
ish clutches.
They have stolen her gas works after
having so destroyed its value as to make it
questionable whether it was worth keeping.
‘With the object of securing more plunder
they have imposed an immense loan upon
her in spite of the majority who voted
against it and found themselves counted
out. They are compelling her citizens to
drink water that is dirty enough to turn
the stomachs of pigs and so full of disease
germs that a glass of it is sufficient to pro-
dnce a case of typhoid fever, their purpose
being to so disgust the population with the
water that is supplied them that they will
be willing to hand over for a nominal sum
a highly valuable water franchise to the
ring of city plunderers who are in the
scheme.
The Quaker city, through her fanatical
party spirit, has put herself in the clutches
of these political bandits who have so ar-
ranged their machine that she finds it im-
possible to effect her release.
Discreditable Appointments.
No other administration ever made ap-
itable in their character as some which Me-
KINLEY is turningout. In many instances
official fitness is entirely disregarded, while
in cases, such as that of DEMAS, of Louisi-
ana, where the office is given in payment
of service rendered in nominating McKIx-
LEY, as per contract with MARK HANNA,
decency is ignored.
The disgraceful character of many of
these appointments is due to their being
given to parties to whom the President is
indebted for dirty work. Unfitness in
point of qualification, where the appointee
is not personally disreputable, is in many
instances chargeable to Republican Senators
and Congressmen who want the places for
henchman, and are entirely indifferent as
to whether they are competent to perform
the duties or not.
A disgraceful case of this kind is present-
ed in the appointment of GEORGE M. Bow-
ERS, of West Virginia, to the responsible
and important office of United States fish
commissioner. For an office of this kind
the incumbent should have some scientific
knowledge of fishes, but Senator ELKINS
wanted BOWERS appointed in return for
political service, and so President McKix-
LEY sent his name to the Senate for fish
commissioner, although what he knows
about fish scarcely enables him to tell the
i difference between a fresh shad and a salt
| mackerel.
pointments in the civil service as discred- |
The Capitol Scheme of Plunder.
The decision of judge SIMONTON, of the
Dauphin county court, that the capitol
building commission can not be prevent-
ed by injunction from going on with the
structure according to the plan they have
adopted may prepare the people of the
State to expect an expense to he saddled
on them in the construction of a building
that will run into the millions. The
scheme which the action of the commission
has developed is to extend the appropriated
$550,000 on a structure that will require
additions and be adapted to infinite exten-
sions.
The suspicious delay in beginning the
work that has consumed more than a year
appears to have been required for the per-
fecting of the scheme by which the inten-
tion of a reasonably expensive building
may be defeated, and a job worth millions
to a ring of public plunderers be forced
upon the tax-payers of the State.
If the Governor was really sincere in his
desire to limit the cost of the building to
$550,000, he finds that his intention has
been circumvented by parties who are in-
terested in a more extravagant outlay in
this work, and if there was sincerity in the
injunction by which he has sought to re-
strain their scheme of plunder, his move-
ment is found to be unavailing. There is
no doubt that judge SIMONTON rendered a
proper decision under the circumstances, as
it may be believed that the schemers who
employed a whole year in maturing their
plan devised it with a skill that would put
it beyond the interference of the courts.
How such immunity from legal restraint
may be secured could be learned from the
example of the Philadelphia city hall
building commission which has gone on,
year after year, squandering the city’s mon-
ey on that structure despite the efforts to
restrain them in the courts and by legisla-
tive action.
The programme of protracted pillage in
this capitol job is now developing itself.
The plans are designed for the expenditure
of an unlimited amount of money after the
originally appropriated $550,000 shall have
been exhausted on the initial building that
will be merely the nucleus of an indefinite-
ly extended and extravagantly expensive
pile.
tol had visions of spoils that would ‘be
continued for at least a quarter of a cen-
tury and which nothing short of millions
would satisfy. To what extent the incen-
diaries who directly applied the torch will
profit from the destruction of the old capi-
tol will never be known. They probably
had no more than an indefinite intention
of making a job that would be profitable
to such Republican party workers as could
manage to get a hand in it. Success in
carrying out such a scheme to the full
limit of its design will depend on the com-
pliance of future Legislators in making ap-
propriations that will prolong the job ; but
there will be no difficulty in getting all
the money needed for this scheme of spoli-
ation if the people shall continue sending
to Harrisburg the kind of Legislators
upon whom Republican majorities for
some years past have conferred the law-
making power.
De Lome’s Offense.
The letter of Minister DE L.oME, which
has created such a deplomatic flurry, pre-
sented a phase of the Cuban question of
which the American people have but little
reason to be proud. The weak, vacillating
and really contemptible line of policy in
regard to Cuba which this administration
has pursued, encouraged if it did not justi-
fy the insulting language which the Span-
ish Minister applied to the head of that ad-
ministration and the President of the Unit-
ed States, in the letter that has caused so
great a commotion.
When the agent of the Spanish govern-
ment at our capital witnessed the servility
of the Washington authorities in serving
the interests of Spain, and observed how
the power of this government was employ-
ed in the Spanish interest, how the least
sign of friendly feeling for the Cuban
patriots was withheld through fear that it
might offend the Spaniards, and how easi-
ly the President allowed himself to be de-
ceived by the promise of autonomous re-
forms which the Spanish government never
intended to fulfill and could not perform
even if it were disposed—when he has had
this evidence of weakness and incapacity
under his observation ever since the begin-
ing of the present administration it was
not astonishing that the Spanish Minister
should have contracted a contemptuous
opinion of President MCKINLEY.
But this offense consisted in the expres-
sion of this opinion. It is undiplomatic
for the Minister of another nation to allude
offensively to the head of the government
to which he is accredited even in a private
letter. It is an insult to a nation to have
its chief officer called ‘‘a weak and low
politician’’ by the representative of anoth-
er power, though there may be some truth
in the assertion. National dignity requir-
ed that such an offense should be resent-
ed and that DE LoME should he reproved
by instant dismissal for having been too free
in writing his opinion of our President.
Tom Cooper Offers to be the Repubii-
can Moses.
The fight that is going on among the
Pennsylvania Republican factionists on the
question of the gubernatorial nomination
threatens to disrupt the party and sepa-
rate it into hostile divisions. The feud
aprings from an irreconcilable opposition to
QUAY’S supremacy which will not be satis-
fied with anything short of an overthrow
of his power as the party boss. That
either faction will back down to the other
is improbable, the situation being one that
portends a party split.
Any politician less hopeful than THOM-
As V. CooPER would be discouraged with
the situation into which factional differ-
ences have brought the old party in this
State. But be has confidence in his own
ability to get it out of the difficulty that
has sprung up on the Governor question.
All that the party has to do to get out of
the toils of factional dissension and assure
its accustomed victory in the state election
is to nominate him for Governor on an an-
ti-trust platform, pledging opposition to
monopolistic combines and enmity to the
money power that has corrupted public
affairs and by its influence over the Repub-
lican party has greatly impaired the peo-
ple’s confidence in that organization.
With him as the candidate for Governor,
and with such principles embodied in the
platform, the red-headed hopefulness of
Mr. COOPER sees a way by which the boss-
ridden and factionally disturbed old party
may get out of its present difficulty and re-
tain control of the state government.
Mr. COOPER'S proposition shows that he
is still of the same sanguine temperament
that characterized him when, as the CAM-
ERON chairman of the Republican state
committee, he stood higher in the manage-
mens of Pennsylvania politics than he has
for some years past. But he is likely to
find decided opposition to his scheme.
The leaders of both factions are so wedded
fo the monopolistic interests, and regard
he money power necessary as to. the
existence of the so Republican party,
that their consent to discard so impor-
tant a factor is not in the least pro-
bable. Neither QUAY, nor WANAMAK-
ER, nor the state administration, nor
the Philadelphia combine will be wil-
The rascals who set fire to the old capiggp!ing to harmonize in Mr. COOPER'S plan of
making him the candidate for Governor on
a platform that would eliminate from state
politics the money influence and the various
agencies of corruption upon which the Re-
publican party depends for its existence.
But the old state chairman, who in other
days directed the party movements, does
some service to public interests by ac-
knowledging that what ails the Republi-
can party is that it has fallen completely
under the control of capitalistic and corpor-
ate influences that have substituted money
as the ruling power in the government in-
stead of the will of the people. This evil
must be corrected if our popular institu-
tions are to continue to exist. But is it
sensible to look for their correction to the
party that is responsible, for them, even
with THOMAS V. COOPER promising to
work such a miracle if he should be chosen
as the gubernatorial MOSES of his party to
lead it out of its wilderness of abuses?
They are more likely to be corrected by
turning that party out of power and put-
ting in its place one that is opposed to such
abuses on principle. -
A Guest Who Should Have Been Omitted.
The Scotch-Irish of this country are a
race that has just reason to be proud of its
extraction. It comes from a good stock
and therefore when the Pennsylvania
Scotch-Irish society give an entertainment,
as they did at the Belleview hotel in Phil-
adelphia last week, they should be a little
more particular in inviting their guests.
The race is a patriotic one. They would
not do anything willing to injure the pop-
ular government under which they live,
and therefore the Pennsylvania society
acted inconsistently in having boodler
HANNA at their entertainment, as an hon-
ored guest.
This man has been guilty of a crime
against the Republic in applying a
vast corruption fund to the purchase of the
presidential office. There could not be a
greater injury to the popular government
and republican institutions than that
which he inflicted through the debauching
appliance of the money by which the elec-
tion of McKINLEY was secured through
his agency. His nature may be too coarse
and his moral instincts too blunt to com-
prehend the evil consequences of the cor-
rupting of elections, but this does not les-
sen the culpability of his boodle methods.
Those methods have also secured for him
a seat in the United States Senate. The
charge that he gained the Senatorship by
bribery—an offence that rather entitles
him to a cell in the penitentiary than a
seat in the Senate—stands charged against
him and he evades it by refusing to an-
swer. He may find immunity from pun-
ishment in the indifference with which a
demoralized public sentiment regards cor-
rupt practices in politics, but the safety
with which HANNA can practice his cor-
ruptions involves a fearful danger to the |
Republic.
A Mighty Agency for Good.
From the Altoona Times.
A warm welcome was accorded to the
aged commander-in-chief of the Salvation
Army at Pittsburg recently. General
Booth is one of the most distinguished
men of his time and the work that he has
done has heen one of the most conspicuous
features of this generation. He had labor-
ed hard and zealously for the uplifting of
humanity and what he has done has nos
been without beneficial results. He is
styled ‘‘general,’’ but his character is far
from being of a warlike nature. His ways
have always been those of peace and in
that line he has won distinguished victo-
ries. There is certainly a difference of
opinion as to the advisability of the way
that the Salvation Army does its work,
but there can be no two opinions as to the
kindly manner in which it aims at what it
considers the benefiting of humanity.
General Booth has met with many obsta-
cles in his work. * His labors and those of
his disciples have met with much opposi-
tion, bust they have not become discouraged
thereby, but are still pushing onward in
spite of all obstructions.
Their determination is invincible, and
the methods which they take to surmount
opposition to them are of a very effective
character. What they have accomplished
has made the fact evident that peaceful
means are sometimes the best to accomplish
a purpose, let it be what it may. It isan
interesting work which General Booth has
been engaged in now for many years. He
has believed in calling not the just but the
vilest sinners to repentance, and has acted
accordingly.
One Corporation Allowed to Go $6,500,000
Short on a Debt to the Gov~
ernment.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The administration’s dealing with the
Kansas Pacific, having agreed to settle a
thirteen million debt for half that sum, is
regarded as a great victory for the jobbers
and the corporation. At the last moment,
after having stood out for full payment,
the attorney general telegraphed from
Washington to accept the half-pay proposi-
tion. The effect of this is seen in the ad-
vance of Kansas Pacific bonds from below
par in ten days to 115. There is prospect
of an interesting talk over this in Con-
gress during the week. The close al-
liance of McKinley with the corporation
interest is seen in almost everything that
he does in which government financial in-
terests are involved against those of the
great corporations that elected him. Grat-
itude is certainly one of the major’s virtues,
but the people suffer. There has never
been a President in our history who has
made such a bold dash for a renomination
by favoring certain great financial interests.
He believes in protection of that kind.
¥
Will We Have to Do Away with Our
Cigars Some Day.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
In New York, there is already talk of
not permitting steam locomotives to come
within metropolitan limits, and, that in
two or three years, trains will be brought
in by electric motors. This change would
do away with noise, smoke and dirt, great
annoyance to the inhabitants about the
stations where they stop in the city. Ele-
vated roads will also be run by electric
motors. Who can guess at the fature of
electricity !
Prosperity is Striking Them Hard.
From the Cambria Freeman.
In the first new year since Mr. McKin-
ley’s election a wave of Republican ‘‘pros-
perity’’ has struck New England—struck
it such a blow that the industries of that
section will do well if they ever recover
from the terrible results. The blow has
not fallen on the cotton mill operatives
alone, but on nearly every productive in-
dustry in that section.
Death Blow to Striking.
BosTOoN, Mass.,, Feb. 15.—The great
strike of nearly 150,000 cotton mill opera-
tives throughout New Eugland, as recom-
mended by the federation of labor, cannot
materialize. If it did, it might, and un-
doubtedly would, result in the great New
England cotton manufacturing plants being
removed to Georgia, where wages are lower
and profits higher. Besides, many of the
local unions won’t agree to make so great a
sacrifice, mainly in order to aid New Bed-
ford’s 9,000 strikers.
The reason of the mill proprietors for re-
ducing the wages of nearly all New Eng-
land cotton manufacturing operatives were
brought out in bold relief yesterday at the
annual meeting of the Massachusetts cot-
ton mills, of Lowell, and the annual meet-
ing of the Massachusetts mills, of Georgia.
Reports on the year's business of the two
mills were presented to the stockholdors,
and these showed the disparity between
northern and southern wages and the de-
pressed condition cf the trade.
The mills’ stockholders, therefore unan-
imously decided, yesterday, to consider the
possibility of an extension of their business
in Georgia.
Treaty for Aunexing Hawall is Dead.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The Hawaiian
annexation treaty is dead and will shortly
be buried, while the annexationists will
press a bill or resolution of annexation in
its place which they expect eventually to
get through both Houses, President Me-
Kinley’s approval being assured in ad-
vance. If it were not for President Mec-
Kinley the bill would be dead asthe treaty,
for nothing but the influence of the admin-
istration would get it through the House,
where Speaker Reed stands across its path.
Speaker Reed is giving the annexation-
ists more concern than all the rest of the
opposition put together, for without at
least some relaxation of his opposition the
legislation they desire cannot be gotten
through the House. They are depending
on the influence of the administration to
affect the speaker’s attitude sufficiently to
make him willing to let the bill go through
rather than break openly with President
McKinley.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—New Hope, Bucks county, is to havea
daily paper.
—Over 300,000 tons of ice have been stored
at Tobyhanna this winter.
—7¥ rank O'Donnell, aged 14, was run over
by two mine cars, at Du Bois, Wednesday.
—Rev. Edmund Butz and wife on Tuesday
celebrated their golden wedding at Allen-
town.
i —Prison warden-elect, Wenrich, at Read-
ing, has named warden Isaac G. Kintzer as
his deputy.
—A 4-year-old daughter of Jacob Smith, of
Mgyerstown, was fatally burned by falling
against a stove.
—Jonathan Wolfe, 87 years old, of Hoffen-
ville, Montgomery county, is cutting a new
set of teeth.
—The Portland lumber company is to erect
a fifty-press kindling wood factory at their
Elk county mills.
—The Lehigh Valley railroad station at
Catasauqua wasentered on Sunday by a thiet,
who stole $34,71.
—Postmaster Harry G. Walter, of Lebanon,
has appointed his son, William W. Walter,
assistant postmaster.
—The Bucks county fishermen’s pro-
tective association has elected Lewis H.
Clemens president.
—George Bauer, of Mauch Chunk, aged
18, had a leg mangled by cars at Catasauqua,
necessitating amputation.
-—The clothing store of D. A. Bingamen, at
Jersey Shore. was robbed of $500 worth of
merchandise on Sunday.
—The New York car works company, of
Buffalo, N. Y., will build a plant at New
Castle, to employ 3500 men.
—Avondale’s town council has decided
to tax telegraph, electric light and telephone
poles 50 cents each per year.
—Dr. Alexander Allison, the recently
elected pastor of Bristol Presbyterian church,
entered upon his duties Sunday.
—Marriages are brisk at Bristol. It is said
that 400 valentines—not all comic—have
passed through the Bristol postoffice.
—George Olosksha was killed and George
Haycucha and Anthony B. Lasjok fatally in-
jured by cars at Wyoming yesterday.
—Pupils of the Reading schools are to be
drilled preparatory to taking part in that
city’s sesqui-centennial parade, in June.
—Daisey Carter, a veteran of the one hun-
dred and fourth Pennsylvania regiment,
died at the Bucks county hospital on Friday.
—Thieves looted the Andenreid school
building at Hazleton, on Saturday, and turn-
ed on the water, flooding the building. Loss,
$1500.
—1It has been found that the man killed on
the Pennsylvania railroad, at Butzback’s
Landing, Luzerne county, was Evan Evans,
of Plainsville.
—Patrick Healey, who was burned by the
explosion in the Dodson mine, at Plymouth,
died Monday from his injuries making the
second victim.
—Allentown has received $13,459.28 from
state treasurer Haywood, the amount of
appropriation.
—Card-playing tramps, near Dillerville,
Lancaster county, stoned a passenger train
Sunday, and one of ‘the stones narrowly
missed killing a passenger.
—Seven steam-fitters made a narrow escape
from death Wednesday night at the Penn.
bolt and nut works, at Lebanon, by the blow-
ing out of a joint of a boiler.
—Burglars on Tuesday night blew open
the safe of the Reading railroad company and
United States express company, at Lebanon,
securing money and valuables.
—A runaway engine on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad, collided
with another locomotive Wednesday at Alle-
gheny, and both were wrecked.
—Former State Senator H. D. Saylor, re-
cently appointed consul to Matanzas, Cuba,
has returned to his home in Pottstown
after an unoflicial visit to Matanzas.
—Albert W. Duy, a Quay leader of Colum-
bia county, was admitted to the bar on Sat-
urday. He is a son of the late ex-Judge
George C. Duy, of Indianapolis, Ind.
—Rev. J. L. Liboll, of Philadelphia, par-
ticipated in the exercises incident to the re-
opening of the Lutheran church at Shire-
manstown, near Carlisle, on Sunday,
—Senator Flinn, of Pittsburg, has lost a
partner, James J. Booth, who has resigned
from his contracting firm, and the Senator’s
son has taken his place. Magee is in it.
—Gowan post, Grand Army of the Re-
public, of Pottsville, has taken action oppos-
ing Senator Penrose's bill for placing unen-
listed male hospital nurses on the pension
roll.
—C. R. Yost’s grain warehouse, George
Martin’s jewelry store and Jerome Emerick’s
smokehouse, at Meyerstown, were looted
Tuesday night by burglars, who secured
much booty.
—John McGrann, 21 years old, has been
arrested, charged with setting fire to the
club house on Seventh street, near Washing-
ton, Reading, on Saturday night. The fire
loss was $2,000. .
—The funeral of Mrs. Ernestine, Weiss, of
Dingman’s Ferry, was suddenly postponed
during the services on Sunday, daughters of
the woman averring that they believed she
was in a trance.
—Burglars broke into Bingaman's gents
furnishing and tobacco store at Jersey Shore
Sunday. All the silk handkerchiefs, a lot of
underwear and clothing and several hats
were taken. Meerchaum pipes to the value
of seventy-five dollars wera stolen, and $100
worth of jewelry is missing. The aggregate
thefts will amount to over $300. There is no
clue to the robbers. Entrance to the store
was effected through a rear window.
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—At Carlin, fifteen miles south of Holli-
daysburg, Sunday, a solid lime stone hill,
175 feet high, 100 feet long and 125 feet deep,
moved from its base and went crashing into
the valley below. There were 152,000 tons
of loose rock in the avalanche, and the thun-
derous noise was heard for many miles. The
Hungarians who work in the quarries there
were away on a Sunday excursion, or there
would have been wholesale slaughter.
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