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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Some are born poets, some cultivate
the muse and others only get real bad in
the spring.
—Where is ‘‘bloody bridles’’ WAITE and
sister MARY ELLEN LEASE while all this
trouble is going on ?
—If Col. PRUNER builds anything for
Tyrone it ought to be a morgue in which
they can keep the ‘‘stiffs’’ up there who
don’t know a good thing when they see it.
——About two-thirds of that fifty mil-
lion emergency fund has already been ex-
pended, which simply goes to show that
when the right fellows get at it dollars can
be made fly faster than bullets.
——1If this willy-nilly business keeps up
in Washington about the next thing that
will be looked for will be a message urging
Congress to appropriate enough money to
feed the Spanish soldiers in Cuba.
—At last some definite move is to be
made to bring Spain to account. She is to
be given until to-day to answer our ultima-
tum and if she don’t do it, then war is sup-
posed to be the next step our government
will take toward freeing Cuba.
——Spain’s impudence is simply incom-
prehensible. She has decided to permit
our government to succor her starving ones
in Cuba and says she will help distribute
the alms. Uncle SAM should respond to
such shamelessness by taking Cuba clear
out of reach of such a protector.
——“The Mosquito Fleet'’ is the latest
adjunct to the navy of the United States
and it seems quite in order to remark that
if it proves as pestiferous to Spain, in the
event of war, as the coast mosquitoes do to
the seaside habitue Uncle SAM will not be
long in breaking the bonds that bind Cuba.
—That vulgar BARRISON girl, the most
vulgar of the five sisters, has been expelled
from Germany. Good work, you people
who want to preserve whatever of refine-
ment and decency is left to the stage. In
Holland they arrest people who expose un-
derwear to public view on wash lines. In
Germany they are beginning to get rid of
those who expose it in the theatres.
——BoB INGERSOL expressed the right
American sentiment when in an interview
at Williamsport the other day he declared
that a nation as cruel and treacherous as
Spain had no business to exist. In the
treatment of those whom she could rob and
oppress she always acted the part of the
hyena among lambs. Such a nation should
be driven from the American continent
which she has too long blighted with her
presence. So BOB says, and so say we.
——Why do we pay a state banking
commissioner a salary of $6,000 a year?
The office, or the officer, one of the two, is
not worth it. The banking commissioner
never seems to know anything until a
financial institution busts and its deposi-
tors lose all they have, then the $6,000 a
year commissioner steps up and wisely in-
forms them how it happened. In such af-
fairs it is the fore knowledge, not the hind
sight that is worth having.
——The state capitol building commis-
sion has reconstructed its plans and will
readvertise for bids for the building on a
less elaborate scale. The tax payers will
be happy to know that a building is to be
built within the appropriation made for
this purpose and that the channels for jch-
bery are to be cut off, but when done there
will be general regret that more money
was not appropriated so that the state capi-
tol building could be made something
more than a severe, unornamental structure
that will call for apologies rather than
arouse pride.
* —The astronomical world is trying to he
heard because it claims to have discovered
another moon. Nothing but a war on the
serene old orb that has been doing duty at
the same stand since the beginning of things
will detract from the present interest in
Spanish affairs. Counter attractions such
as the Klondyke, ANDREE’S balloon, base
ball and the approaching end of GLAD-
STONE must be content with being sand-
wiched in among the advertising now that
we are dealing with “Flying Squadrons’
‘Mosquito Fleets’’ and other fuss making
agencies at home.
——The so-called ‘‘business interests’
is the power behind the throne that is
impelling this administration to the policy
of peace. Wall street would sell the honor
of the country to prevent a fall in the price
of stocks. The stock jobbing fraternity
would be willing to allow a dozen Maines
to be blown up and a hundred thousand
Cuban reconcentrados to be starved to
death rather than there should he a disturb-
ance of ‘‘values’’ in the stock market. It
is these sordid, mercenary and unpatriotic
influences that have the strongest pull on
the McKINLEY administration.
——The tone of foreign papers bespeaks
the leaning of foreign powers in the Span-
ish—-American embroglio. England is
clearly in sympathy with the United
States, while France and Germany are
with Spain. The reason for the latter is
evident, since most of the Spanish securi-
ties are held in those two countries. The
Spanish papers are as insolent and imper-
ious as ever. They say ‘‘if the United
States wants war, let her say so frankly
and not seek charitable or humanitarian ex-
cuses.”” And then in a magnanimous
spirit they add that if we want to succor
the suffering Cubans we can do so under
‘‘the mission of the Spanish Red Cross’’
and that they will send over more Span-
iards to distribute our gifts if there are not
enough in Cuba now.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA, APRIL 1, 1898.
NO. 13.
Is McKinley White Livered 3
Unfortunately at a most serious emer-
gency, involving the fame and honor of
this nation, its chief executive office is oc-
cupied by a weak-kneed incumbent.
President MCKINLEY is proving himself
to be the pusilianimous character that might
have been expected of the choice of MARK
HANNA and the Wall street bankers for
the presidential office. His course on the
momentous Cuban issue promises to be
what could have been looked for in a sec-
ond-rate Ohio politician, who is mortgaged
to the trusts and money syndicates.
McKINLEY’S course on the Cuban ques-
tion, ever since he has been in the Presi-
dency, has lacked the courage and decision
that should characterize a truly American
policy. He failed from the start to place
this government in the right position in re-
gard to Cuba, conciliating Spanish senti-
ment and truckling to Spanish power, un-
til the treachery of the Spaniards arrested
his pusillanimous course by the terrible
tragedy in Havana harbor.
When so great a national outrage was
committed as the biowing up of our warship
and the murder of our sailors, it could then
have been expected that President McKIN-
LEY’S action would reflect the indignation
that was aroused in the hearts of all true
Americans by so dastardly an act, but this
unparalleled outrage appears to have in-
creased his disposition to truckle to. the
Spaniards. The finding of the court of in-
quiry, which points irresistibly to Spanish
complicity in the destruction of our battle-
ship and murder of our sailors, excites no
expression of horror or indignation in the
message which he sends to Congress. In-
stead of demanding full reparation for the
wrong, all that he has to say about it is
that he had communicated the finding of
the court of inquiry to the government of
her majesty, the Queen Regent of Spain,
and hoped ‘‘that the sense of justice of the
Spanish nation will dictate a course of ac-
tion suggested by honor and the friendly
relations of the two nations.”
Is there not something exasperating in
this man’s talking about the sense of jus-
tice of the Spanish nation that has prac-
ticed unparalleled barbarity in Cuba.
starving its people and converting the land
into a desert, and about ‘‘friendly rela-
tions”’ with a nation that is implicated in
the crime of the Maine explosion by the
very document which he says he has sent
to the Spanish Queen Regent. What occa-
sion was there for sending that document
to that quarter? There are Spanish sub-
jects who know more about the cause of
that explosion than any American commis-
gion will ever he able to find out, and they
rejoice in their guilty knowledge of how a
gallant American ship was destroyed and
256 brave American sailors were murdered.
McKINLEY may be turned from his
weak and cowardly position in the pending
trouble with Spain by outraged American
sentiment ; but if he shall continue his
subservience to the Spaniards the Ameri-
can people will be forced to the conclusion
that the man at the head of their govern-
ment is either a white livered poltroon or
an abject tool of the Wall street stock job-
bers.
We still hope that our country will be
saved from such a misfortune and disgrace.
Philadelphia’s Bribed Cofincilmen.
Members of the Philadelphia city coun-
cils are charged with bribery in connection
with that malodorous piece of municipal
rascality, the Schuylkill Valley water com-
pany’s bill, that was intended to give a
private corporation the control and owner-
ship of the city’s water supply. There was
never a bolder attempt to steal a great
public franchise, and it was to be done by
buying the councilmen who should be the
guardians of the city’s interest. Of the
number who are known to have been cor-
rupted in this matter, one is arraigned in
court and the punishment of others may
follow.
Such an exposition of the corruption in
the municipal affairs of Philadelphia was
scarcely needed to stamp the character of a
city government which for years has been
managed by a gang of thieving politicians.
The public understands the general charac-
ter of their dishonest practices, but the ex-
posure of the parties who have been guilty
of bribery in connection with this water
scheme puts the rascality in tangible shape
by pointing out the culprits.
The council whose members are implica-
ted was ready to white-wash the offence by
the appointment of a committee that would
have done it neatly, but the case was taken
out of its hands by bringing the offenders
into court, where so unusual a thing as pun-
ishing Philadelphia’s municipal rascals may
be one of the surprises of the period, though
such a thing may happen as a failure of
justice in the trial of the culprits, brought
about by machine influence. When jury-
fixing is possible conviction can not be
counted on with certainty, however guilty
the offenders may be.
——The biggest surprise in Heaven will
be when you waken up and find yourself
there.
Pernicious Effects of Political Banking.
The failure of the People’s bank of Phila-
delphia, with so tragic an incident as the
suicide of its cashier, in connection with
the collapse of the Guarantors’ bank, and
following the failure of the Chestnut street
National bank, constitutes a succession of
sensations in Philadelphia’s financial circles
which is peculiarly noteworthy on account
of its connection with rotten politics.
All these wrecked institutions were
known as political banks. They derived
their reputation from the fact that they were
organized by politicians and intended more
to serve their political ends than to respond
to the financial wants of the community.
Their founders and controlling managers
were men who figured more prominently
as politicians than as business men, and
whose politics was of the shadiest character.
These banks were always allowed a
most liberal share of the state funds which
favored institutions were permitted to use
without paying interest. The aggregate
amount of state money which the Chestnut
street Nationa! and the People’s bank had
the use of when they bursted was $700,000.
They were given the advantage of this
state money, without interest, hecause
they were an important part of the political
machine that runs the politics of the State
of Pennsylvania as well as of the city of
Philadelphia.
That this kind of banking should be pro-
ductive of pernicious results was inevitable.
WiLLiAM M. SINGERLY’S financial asso-
ciations with the Chestnut street bank
were largely of a political character. It
involved him in ruin, and to-day he is a
dead man. With all his assumption of
‘‘sound money’’ principles he was at the
head of a bank that was anything but
sound. As a politician’s bank, mixed up
with the schemes of rings and machines,
soundness was the last thing that could
have been expected of it.
But the People’s bank was the politicians’
bank, par excellence. It was marked by
the trail of the political serpent more dis-
tinctly than was the Chestnut street insti-
tution. BiLL KEMBLE, notorious for an
act of crookedness of a public character,
that nearly landed him in the penitentiary,
was the founder of the People’s bank.
McMANES, of gas trust notoriety, is presi-
dent and chief stockholder. Boss QUAY
had large financial interests in it, and close
political relations with it. Much of the
pecuniary ammunition required for his
campaigns came from that source. Its
cashier, HOPKINS, was QUAY’S financial
agent in Philadelphia. But the bank is
now broke, and a bullet through his brains
has sent poor HOPKIN’S to his last account.
The tool of men who had more guile than
he had, he fell a victim to a vicious system
of banking that had politics for its chief
object.
The other institution that went by the
board from the same malign influence, is
the Guarantors’ finance company. Its
president is that red-headed and hopeful
statesman and veteran politician, THOMAS
V. CooPER, whose attempt to combine
politics with banking has been attended
with disastrous consequences, and rather
unfavorably prepares him for his proposed
campaign as a reform candidate for Gov-
ernor.
The country wonld be benefited if the
failure of the crooked political banks should
be attended with the retirement of the
crooked politicians.
by:
Thurston’s Terrible Picture.
The Senate of the. United States never
witnessed such a scene as that which was
presented in that body when Senator
THURSTON pictured the woes of Cuba which
he had personally witnessed.
His purpose was not to excite the feel-
ings of his brother Senators by jingo meth-
ods, but to give them a plain, unvarnished
statement of the horrors which have con-
verted Cuba into a perfect hell as a conse-
quence of Spanish cruelty. He had seen
for himself the condition of a country in
which a population of hundreds of thou-
sands have been starved to death and the
survivors reduced to living skeletons, by a
brutal policy deliberately adopted to bring
the island under subjection to Spanish
tyranny. So harrowing a picture, which
Senator THURSTON could present from his
own observation, and corroborated by other
witnesses, should convince the American
Congress that it will not have performed
its full duty until it shall have decreed the
expulsion of the Spanish barbarians from
the island of Cuba.
——Mr. JOHN G. PLATT, of Philipsburg,
has announced himself as a candidate for
delegate from Centre county to the coming
Republican state convention, but as Mr.
PLATT is an avowed WANAMAKER man
the statesmen who want the Bellefonte
post-office will be very apt to look after his
case. JOHN M. DALE Esq., of Bellefonte,
and GEO. E. CHANDLER, of Philipsburg,
are the other aspirants. Centre county has
two delegates and the state convention will
meet on June 2nd.
A Disgracefal Naval Deficiency.
Nothing could be more humiliating to a
great and naturally powerful nation like
the United States than the fact that when
confronted by threatening hostilities with
& nation as weak as Spain it finds itself at
a disadvantage on account of a deficiency
of offensive and defensive naval appliances.
The anxiety that evidently prevails
among the authorities at Washington, and
the indecision that characterizes their move-
ments, may be ascribed to the painful dis-
covery that Spain is better prepared than is
the United States for naval warfare. While
a moderate number ‘ of battle-ships and
cruisers have been grudgingly allowed by
Congress that has been profligately extrav-
agant in other expenditures, there has been
most culpable neglect in providing torpedo
boats which, in modern naval operations
are positively indispensable, and without
which, as an auxilliary force, our battle-
ships and cruisers can be blown out of
water. ;
As a consequence of such gross negligence
the approach of a flotilla of Spanish torpedo
boats and destroyers almost produces a
panic among the officials to whom the
people of the United States have committed
the defence of the nation.
A correspondent of the New York Sun,
“who appears to have more than an ordi-
narily intelligent knowledge of the opera-
tions of the navy department, gives a de-
tailed account of the hurried and anxious
movements of the naval authorities to
remedy this dangerous and disgraceful de-
ficiency, which the superior Spanish torpedo
service makes of such grave account.
Agents have been speedily dispatched to
Europe to secure torpedo boats that may
protect our warships from the threatening
torpedo demonstration of poor old Spain
that with all her poverty has supplied her-
self with naval appliances which our navy
is so shamefully and perilously in want of.
But our purchasing agents have been en-
tirely unable to secure those greatly needed
boats in Europe. The Italian government,
which, in addition to a large force of these
crafts, has just completed a splendid torpedo
destroyer at her shipyard near Genoa, de-
clines to sell it to the United States. The
] "Thorny-crott shipbuilding firm in England
have a number of these boats completed,
but they can not be disposed of on account
of the refusal of the British government
to allow them to be sold to either
the United States or Spain. France has
torpedo boats which she might part with,
but she would sooner sell to Spain than to
our government.
This is the dangerous and humiliating
naval situation in which our nation is found
when a much weaker power is threatening
it with a demonstration which it is not pre-
pared to meet, and nothing could be more
exasperating to American patriotism than
that such a situation is the result of the
deliberate neglect of those who should have
better provided for our naval defence. As
late as the present session of Congress, when
the probability of our drifting into a diffi-
culty with Spain should have been obvious
to even the most short-sighted statesman-
ship, moderate provisions for increasing
the strength of the navy were discouraged.
A bill for the addition of sosmall a number
as 1300 able-bodied seamen to our naval
force was absolutely sat down on by speak-
er REED. Ifatany time during the present
session, previous to the treacherous de-
struction of the Maine, a bill had been of-
fered for the building of a dozen torpedo
boats and destroyers, it would have been
jumped on and defeated by the REEDS, the
HALES, the BOUTELLES, and other Repub-
lican leaders, who are responsible for the
disgraceful fact that when our country is
brought to the verge of war by the blowing
up of the Maine, we are unprepared to meet
the navy of the comparatively weak power
that is responsible for that treacherous act.
In the better days of the Roman republic
men at the head of the government who
would thus have neglected the national de-
fence would have been hurled from the
Tarpeian rock.
——It is on account of the past neglect
of Republican administrations in naval
matters that we must suffer the humilia-
tion of being laughed at by the pimps of
the Spanish press in Havana. For exam-
ple, the El! Correo, of that city, chuck-
lingly beasts that as soon as the Spanish
torpedo flotilla gets across the Atlantic it
will blow the American navy out of water,
‘if that navy does not blow up spontane-
ously as the Maine did, before the flotilla
arrives.”’ Theimpudent part of this bragga-
docio consist in the Spaniards claiming
that an explosion which they caused was
spontaneous. There shouldn’t be much
longer delay in running those impudent
rascals out of Cuba.
—The most economical bit of government
work that has come to public notice in years
is the saving in words in the report of the
Maine board of inquiry. Though abso-
lutely free from bias its very brevity shows
that the tried old seamen who investigated
the wreck were conscious that Spanish
treachery did it and that there was no use
in wasting words over it.
The Reported Currency Bill,
In the excitement attending our difficul-
ty with Spain the measures that are in-
tended to ‘‘reform” our currency, and
which it was to be the duty of this Con-
gress to confer upon the country as a great
benefaction, have been almost lost sight of.
However, the House committee on hank-
ing and currency has bobbed serenely
above the turmoil of battle and presented
a currency reform bill, which may be re-
garded as something of a mongrel scheme
composed of shreds and patches of the dif-
ferent plans of reforming the . currency
proposed by Secretary GAGE, the Indian-
apolis gold standard supporters, and the
associated banking interests of Wall street.
The object of the bill is based on the
gold bug hostility to the greenbacks.
GAGE’S original plan was to retire this
useful and popular form of paper money
by direct and immediate redemption with
gold obtained by the sale of bonds. The
bill is a sort of compromise on that plan by
providing that the greenback retirement
shall be effected through the agency of the
national banks. This is to be done by
authorizing the banks to circulate what
are to be called ‘‘national reserve notes,”
which notes are to be issued by the gov-
ernment to the banks, dollar for dollar in
exchange for legai tender notes, to be de-
posited by the banks in ‘the treasury. In
other words the national banks will gather
up the greenbacks and get them out of cir-
culation by depositing them in the treasury
and receiving in exchange for them nation-
al bank currency to be circulated as ‘‘na-
tional reserve notes.”’” In return for this
the banks are to assume to redeem the re-
serve notes in gold.
This is not even as commendable a
scheme as GAGE’s which propesed to retire
the greenbacks by direct gold redemption,
while the bill proposes, in effect, to redeem
them with national bank notes, and get
out of circulation the safest currency the
country ever had by substituting a form of
paper money whose reliabilty is on an .aver-
age with the reliability of the banks as
compared with that of the government.
It is true that the bill proposes that the
national banks shall redeem these ‘‘reserve
notes’’ in gold, but what is the assirance
of their ability to do it? A. contemporary,
that very ably criticises this scheme, says :
“It is very doubtful whether the banks
would be able to find gold for the redemp-
tion of these notes. They have depositors
to pay, as well as note holders and four
times within eleven years they have de-
faulted in their obligations to their deposi-
tors. Nor will any "restriction of circula-
tion which they can produce draw gold to
this country. That result can be effected
only by a contraction of discounts, and it
may be judged whether such a contraction
following a withdrawal of gold from the
banks would or would not expose the
country to the alarm and convulsions
which have attended the gold exports of
the last five years. It is more likely that
the banks would in case of a run on them,
suspend payment in gold, as they have
heretofore suspended payment in legal
tenders. ”’
The bill in question is in line with the
scheme to bring the currency within the
control of a powerful money trust. Popu-
lar interest is opposed to such a monopoly
of the paper circulation as would be effect-
ed by an entire substitution of the green-
backs by a national bank issue, and for
this reason there is but little prospect of
the passage of this bill.
First Score for the Boss.
The first gun in the WANAMAKER cam-
paign was fired in Lancaster county, where
two enthusiastic anti-QUAY meetings were
addressed by the Philadelphia opponent of
the oss previous to the county primaries,
which were held on the 19th ult.
“The Philadelphia reformer’’ poured hot:
shot into the machine, indulging in severi-
ty of language such as his Democratic
enemies have seldom applied to QUAY, and
Republican audiences applauded his scath-
ing denunciation, but when it came to
voting at the primaries the wires were
worked so skillfully by the QUAY mana-
gers, and the old boss exerted such com.
plete control over the party machinery in
that Republican stronghold, that an easy
victory was scored in electing Quay dele-
gates to the state convention. WANAMAK-
ER has an advantage over his opponent in
being able to make speeches, in which he
has been made quite proficient by the
practice he has had in addressing the Beth-
any Sunday School, but wire pulling is
what counts in getting delegates to a state
convention, and in that art he is but a nov-
ice in comparison with the Beaver states-
man.
——The Harrisburg Patriof exhibits most
arrogant presumption in attempting to dic-
tate the policy of the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania. For its own selfish reasons
the Patriot is insisting that ‘‘the party has
not been so harmonious in this State ina
long time as at this moment,’”’ but the
Democrats know only too well that what-
ever of harmony is left remains only because
such organs as the Patriot have been unable
to turn it into internal dissension. The
Patriot needs to go and study a little true
Democracy, of the kind that will make it
Democratic whether its counsels are sought |
or not, before it undertakes to advise others.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Over 112,000 tons of coal passed over the
Beech Creek railroad for the week ending
March 21st. This is an increase over the
same time last year of 40,000 tons.
—At Altoona Sunday night James W.
Buchanan was struck by an engine, while
crossing the track. The man’s head was
severed, his arms and chest were crushed
and one leg was mangled. Deceased was a
grand nephew of ex-President James
Buchanan.
—Samuel Pfoutz, of near Osceola, is the
owner of a pure white duck that lays black
eggs, having laid five or six so far this sea-
son. The duck has in mind that Easter will
soen be here and that colored eggs will be in
demand, and thus has started in to lay her
eggs black and save the coloring of them.
—Fire bugs are operating in Williams-
port. Tuesday three incendiary fires were
started in the East end. One was at Daniel
Edler’s barn, another at Stuempfley’s coal
shed and a third was started in a box car on a
siding near the oil refinery. Fortunately all
were discovered in time to prevent much
damage being done.
—Judge Martin Bell, in the Blair county
court, Monday decided that the alien tax act
of June 15th, 1897, imposing a tax on all
foreign born laborers, is unconstitutional and
in conflict with the fourteenth amendment,
providing for equal taxation. The court
held that the act puts a premium on idleness,
and taxes the class of industrious persons.
—At Chipmunk, Bradford county, Monday
night Patrick Shay turned on the gas and
went to bed. A few hours after the house
was discovered on fire, and although futile
efforts were made to rescue the sleeping man,
he was burned to death. Shay wasan em-
ploye of the South Penn Oil company, and
was 27 years old. His wife and child were
calling at a neighbor's house during the
evening.
—A few days ago Edward Martin, William
Mulliner and ‘Gum’ Shaw, of Jersey Shore,
gathered together a lot of driftwood in Pine
creek, strung it together as a raft and started
for their homes on it. As the raft entered
the river, the swift current caught it and the
men lost control of it. They were being car-
ried past Jersey Shore at a rapid rate, when
they yelled for help. Albert Poust heard
them and went out in a boat and pulled the
raft to shore.
—John L. Brown, a supervisor of Cambria
county, has refused an offer of $150 per month
to travel with a show in Europe. Mr. Brown
is 43 years old, weighs 424 pounds, measures
64} inches around the waist, and stands 5
feet, 8% inches in height. His wife died a
year ago, leaving him with twelve children,
with whom he prefers to remain, and there-
fore refuses to go abroad. He hasbeen elected
supervisor for the sixth time, and he handles
his massive frame with remarkable agility
and grace.
—Jennie Fessler, of Mount Carmel,
went to the Ashland hospital last week to
have a number of needles taken from her
body. The physicians removed thirty-five.
During the past year fully one hundred were
removed. She has punctured herself from
head to feet. The girl developed a mania
last year for thrusting needles into her per-
son, seemingly deriving great pleasure.
Physicians are greatly puzzled over the case.
They say that if she does not stop death will
be the final outcome. Miss Fessler is 17
years old.
—Adam Swersha, who pleaded guilty to
robbing the man of $375 at the Lewisburg
bridge last September was on Saturday
sentenced by Judge Bell who said : So far as
you are concerned, if you had made any ef-
fort to restore part of the money you stole,
your sentence would have been much lighter.
However, as you submitted, I will not give
you the full extent of the law. You are sen-
tenced to pay $100 fine and costs of prosecu-
tion and serve four years and six months in
the penitentiary.
—Andrew McClure, who many yesars ago
was an engineer on the Tyrone and Clear-
field railroad, died at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
Monday, after an illness of a year or more
from dropsy and a general breakdown of the
system. He was the son of Joseph McClure.
His father died in Tyrone and his mother at
Fort Wayne. They were both buried in the
Tyrone cemetery. The deceased enlisted in
the war from Tyrone, and at the close of
hostilities was first sergeant of a company in
the Twelfth Penna. cavalry. He had been
blind for more than a dozen years prior. to
death.
—At Jersey Shore a few days ago, Mrs.
Milton Overdorf left her 2-year-old son,
Harold, sleeping and went out of the house a
few minutes. When she returned she saw
that the child had arisen during her absence
and swallowed half the contents of a bottle
filled with laudanum. The mother at once
forced a quantity of strong hot coffee down
the little one’s throat, which caused the child
to vomit the drug. In obedience to a physi-
cian’s advice the child was then taken into
the air. After several hours stupor on the
part of the child, he gradually overcame the
effects of the drug.
—Because William Howard, a well-known
young farmer of Birmingham, Chester coun-
ty, is alleged to have been unable to resist
the temptation to kiss comely Mrs. Annie
Carson, he was arrested and held in $400 bail
to answer at quarter session court. At the
hearing before Magistrate Rupert, Mrs. Car-
son alleged that Howard had gone to her
home on business, and, finding her husband
absent, embraced and kissed her. Notwith-
standing the fact that she threatened to ‘‘tell
his wife,” she alleges that he kissed her the
second time, which made her angry. and
caused her to bring this prosecution.
—Dr. E. A. Gilks, of Quitman, Ga., wasa
surgeon in the rebel army, and when passing
from Wrightsville to Gettysburg in 1863 with
Gordon's division of Lee’s army, the doctor
bought a horse from a man named Jacob
Rudy, for which he paid $200 in confederate
money and promised if the money proved
valueless he would make the amount good.
Jacob Rudy is now dead. His son, Samuel
Rudy and executor of his estate and the doc-
tor recently had some correspondence, which
resulted in the doctor paying $125 in good
money t> Samuel Rudy with the understand-
ing that the $200 in confederate money shall
be returned to the Georgia doctor.