Democeaiic Watcyman
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—To-morrow-—— What then ?
—Though the man with false teeth is not
eligible to military service he usually is
able to do his share of the chewin’ when it’
comes to shootin’ off his mouth.
—The only difference between WANA-
MAKER and other reformers is that he is out
for reform, but isn’t sure just how he
would like to Lave it nor how the people
can get it.
—President McKINLEY has been as slow
in letting the world hear the boom of
American cannon in battle for an enslaved
people as he has been in bringing the pros-
perity boom to depressed American labor.
—The failure of the government’s rein-
deer expedition to Alaska has been an-
nounced. The trouble seems to have been
that there was nothing for the reindeer to
eat. That was the trouble with the peo-
ple up there that brought about the ex-
pedition. There was nothing for them to
eat either.
—JOoHN WANAMAKER didn’t tell the
people anything new because everyone
knew long ago that for rascality nothing
can exceed the Republican party. There
was absolutely nothing new in JOHN’S
speech, but it sounded amusing to those
who remembered that at one time he was
considered one of the party leaders.
—ALAN B. ROURKE, of Philadelphia,
has been awarded the contract for build-
ing the new capitol building at Harris-
burg. The price is fixed at $325,000 and
the building is to be ready for the next
session of the Legislature. It might be
well to add that Mr. ROURKE is a prom-
inent Republican politician in Philadel-
phia.
—Anointed with the sweet scented unc-
tion of reform and tickled as a boy with a
new sled J. A. AIKENS presided at the
WANAMAKER meeting with a plethora of
big words, elaborate bows and risings up
and sittings down. He was the prettiest
corpse we have ever seen, but that was be-
cause he didn’t know, poor soul, that he is
a ‘‘dead one.” The future will tell him
that.
—Why should Democrats support Dr.
SwALLOW ? He is just as much of a Re-
publican to-day as he ever was, and the
Lord knows he has been one of the bitter-
est partisans. In his letter accepting the
nomination of the reformers he says : ‘“The
rank and file of the grand old party is as
honest as when it followed the leadership
of LINCOLN, SUMNER, SEWARD and PHIL-
IPs.”
—If it has actually come to war we are
no longer Democrats, Republicans, Pro-
hibitionists, Populists, Silverites or Gold-
ites, but citizens of the United States, with
one country to defend and one purpose in
view. The President must have the sup-
port of every individual, since the coun-
trv’s cause is a common cause and it is
fighting, not criticism, that is necessary
NOW.
—When JouN WANAMAKER advertised
‘‘Parisian ideas in ladies’ underwear’ he
started the purchasing public of Pennsyl-
vania to guessing, but when he begins talk-
ing of the rottenness in the Republican or-
ganization of Pennsylvania no one puzzles.
Republican methods in the Keystone State
have been a stench in the nostrils of the
country so long that every one has grown
accustomed to it.
—The government mule promises to fig-
ure in our history again. It has been de-
cided that in the event that it becomes
necessary to land forces in Cuba our heavy
army wagon trains will not be transported,
but pack mules will be used instead. Let
us hope that after the looked for hostilities
are over there will be no carpet baggers
from the States to run over to Cuba and
buy the ignorant population of the island
with forty dollars and a government mule.
We had enough of that one time. Enough
to do for all time.
—Though the out-come of the meeting
of the state central committee at Harris-
burg, on Wednesday, was not such as all
Democrats of the State might have desired
the duty of all is just as plain, whether
satisfactory results were obtained or not.
Chairman GARMAN has been re-elected
and every Democrat in the State should co-
operate with him in the great hattle we
have on for the fall. The Democracy has
a chance to win, but the chance will go a
glimmering if the rank and file of the party
don’t march at the command of their
leader. It isencumbent, too, on the lefder
to give no commands that might be calcu-
lated to cause insubordination.
——In admitting the Ministers of Euro-
pean powers to appear before him in a
body to meddle with the question of war
between this country and Spain President
McKINLEY allowed a precedent to be set
which there is reason to believe no other
President would have permitted. There
should have been no recognition of the
right of European governments to interfere
with the action of the United States in a
matter connected with this continent. The
reception they received from McKINLEY
will encourage them to meddle with ques-
tions in which the IfoNROE doctrine may
be involved. If it had been ANDREW
JACKSON into whose presence these Euro-
pean diplomats intruded themselves he
would have forcibly told them to confine
their attention to matters on the other side
of the ocean.
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BELLER
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
ONTE, PA., APRIL 22, 1898.
NO. 16.
The Present Duty of American Citizens.
WiLLiAM McKINLEY, President of the
United States, representing the power and
dignity of this great Republic, has signed
the resolution emanating from Congress
that will produce the fateful result of war.
When the President acts in this high ca-
pacity the plain and only duty of the peo-
ple is to give him earnest and loyal sup-
port.
Though there has been much vacilla-
tion, though indecision of action has har-
assed the patience of a patriotic people,
and appearances created the suspicion
that the honor of the nation was being
subordinated to base interests, the act of
the President, in compliance with a reso-
lution of Congress, which at last brings the
nation face to face with a foreign foe,
should obliterate sinister impressions and
excite a patriotic determination among all
the people, irrespective of partisan consid-
erations, to loyally sustain the measures
which the national defense may require,
and which it will be the constitutional
duty of the President to direct.
If his direction shall be earnest, wise and
creditable in its object, having no other
purpose than the achievement of results
that will be honorable and beneficial to the
nation, the people will have reason to feel
justified in having sustained him in the
performance of his duty ; but if mercenary
and sordid interests are to he benefited and
promoted as the outcome of intervention
in Cuba, the responsibility will be with
those who will thus betray the confidence
of the American people. But the present
duty of true Americans is to stand by the
flag and the President as the constitutional
standard bearer when the nation is con-
fronted by a foreign foe, reserving, how-
ever, the right of honest and well-intended
criticism.
Obnoxious to Democratic Sentiment.
Much credit is due the Democrats in
Congress for their opposition to McKiIN-
LEY’S design to treat the Cuban patriots
as if their years of heroic strife and suffer-
ing for the liberty of their country were of
no account in the final settlement of the
kind of government it should have. The
spirit of Democracy revolted at the project
of sacrificing a blood-bought republic on
the altar of plutocratic greed, and forcing
upon the Cuban people an arrangement
intended for the advantage of bondholders.
It was in opposition to so shameful a
scheme that the Democrats of the House
arrayed themselves solidly against the ma-
jority resolutions, and were subjected to
the gag employed to suppress their right of
free speech by the tyrannical ruffian who
presides over the House and has so often
exerted his power in the interest of Spain.
The Democrats in the Senate as well as
in the House of Representatives resisted
the stab aimed at the republic to which
the Cubans have won their title by
even a more determined struggle than
that ef the American colonists with their
British oppressors. To a true Democrat
the proposition to compel the patriotic in-
surgents of Cuba to abandon the govern-
ment they have fought for, and accept such
an arrangement as American intervention
may provide for them, appears to be as un-
reasonable and unjust as would have been
the conduct of the French if in their inter-
vention against the English during our
revolutionary war they had demanded the
right to fix the kind of government which
WASHINGTON and his compatriots would
have had to accept. The comparison is
made the more odius by the fact that the
McKINLEY scheme of government for Cuba
is instigated by the Shylocks of the money
market.
No Scheme Could Be Baser.
Intervention in Cuba without the recog-
nition of Cuban independence, as is pro-
posed by McKINLEY’S scheme, would
amount to holding the island in trust for
Spanish bondholders in whose interest the
United States would enforce the payment
of those securities as a condition upon
which the Cubans would be allowed to
have control of their own country for
whose freedom they have fought so long
and suffered so much.
It is said that ELKINS suggested this
scheme, and it was inserted in McKINLEY'’S
message just previous to that document be-
ing sent to Congress. Even the sacred
question of human liberty cannot be pro-
tected from the taint of the bondholder’s
greed, and that which should appeal to the
honor of our government and the gen-
erosity of our people, must be prostituted
to the gainful interest of the money lend-
ers. But is not this in line with the pluto-
cratic principles that predominated in the
election of McKINLEY.
Why the Cuban Republic is Ignored.
On Monday the two houses of Congress
agreed on the resolution directing the Pres-
ident to intervene for the expulsion of the
Spaniards from Cuba. Both houses had
passed resolutions in which there was a
material difference in the directions given
the President. The lower house, receiv-
ing its inspiration from McKINLEY, and
acting under the lash of its master in the
speaker’s chair, omitted from its resolu-
tion the recognition of the Cuban revolu-
tionary government. The Democratic res-
olution in the House recognized the men
who have been fighting the Spaniards for
the last three years, but its recognition of
the government they have established was
overborne by REED’S despotic ruling. The
Senate resolution as passed by that body,
was in substance the same as the Demo-
cratic expression that failed in the House.
This difference between the two bodies re-
sulted in a conference from which resulted
a resolution which directs the President to
intervene, but does not recognize a free
and independent government in Cuba in
whose behalf there should be intervention.
The object of this plan of procedure, con-
cocted by parties and interests that control
the occupant of the White House, is not
hard to understand. It has an eye to
future advantages which may be gained by
not recognizing the existence of a govern-
ment in Cuba. After the Spaniards have
been driven out, and the Cuban republic
ignored, the probable intention is that the
island shall be furnished with a govern-
ment made for it in Washington.
There will be millions in such an ar-
rangement for certain parties. Cuba is the
greatest sugar producing country in the
world. Wealth immeasurably beyond its
past dreams of avarice would accrue to the
sugar trust from a Cuban monopoly. In
setting up a form of government on the
island the trust could reasonably expect
that McKINLEY would not overlook its
interests.
Then there are other interests to be
served. The payment of $400,000,000
Spanish bonds might be setttled upon
Cuba if the ‘‘right kind’? of a government
could be fixed up. This is a consideration
that appeals strongly to a President who is
so much under the stock-jobbing and bond-
holding influence.
There is but one way to explain the de-
termination with which McKINLEY has
insisted upon ignoring the Cuban govern-
ment. He is far from being a resolute
man by nature, but the parties who put
their money into his election, and conse-
quently control him, have forced his com-
pliance with a scheme that promises incal-
culable profits. No gains that the sugar
trust has ever made would begin to equal
the profits it would secure from the control
of the Cuban sugar product. No deal that
was ever made in Wall street could furnish
a parallel to the harvest of wealth that
would be reaped from the Spanish bonds, if
their payment could be made one of the
conditions of Cuban nationality.
The permanence of the Cuban republic
would stand in the way of such schemes.
They could not be carried out if the gov-
erning power should remain with the men
who have fought to establish a government
of their own. But this conspiracy of greed
may be successful if the money-making
gang who own this administration are al-
lowed to fasten upon Cuba the kind of gov-
ernment that will put money into their
pockets.
Something to Think About.
There is a fact connected with the pub-
lic revenues of Great Britain that should
furnish Americans food for thought.
The British government annually raises
by taxation about as much as the revenues
of the United States amount to. Of this
sum she receives $75,000,000 from inherit-
ance taxes ; $38,000,000 from stamps, and
$86,000,000 from income tax. It will be
observed that this great sum of $199,000,-
000 is derived from sources directly or in-
directly connected with wealth.
In this respect there is a decided contrast
with the United States. In this republic,
where the government is supposed to be
closely connected with the interest of the
common people, not a cent of federal tax
is drawn from wealth. All is derived from
the taxation of things that enter into the
daily living of the people. Monarchical
Britain looks to her rich classes for the
greater part of her revenue ; the United
States, under Republican tax laws, places
this load upon its poorer class of people.
It is well to speak of this matter at this
time when the expenses of the impending
war will necessitate an increase of taxes.
Will wealth continue to be exempted from
bearing its share of the burden ?
—There is nothing to indicate that DE-
LANEY, the superintendent of public
grounds and buildings at Harrisburg, was
going it on tick when be bought that $1,-
924.55 clock.
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BE ———— A. tA A
Is It Not Humiliating ?
Americans have reason to be humiliated
by the fact that those citizens of the United
States who have remained in Cuba after the
withdrawal of our consuls are safer than
when our flag floated over the American
consulates presumably affording them pro-
tection. The reason why greater safety is
now assured them is because they have
been taken under the protection of the Eng-
lish flag, the Spaniards having a wholesome
dread of molesting or injuring anything
that is under its shelter.
This fact is illustrated by a dispatch last
week from Havana, to the effect that an
American citizen named JOAQUIN BETAN-
COURT was arrested, charged with bring-
ing correspondence from a rebel camp,
which was considered a most grievous of-
fense and would have been punished ac-
cordingly by the Spaniards had not Mr.
GALLON, the British consul, notified them
that American persons and interests in
Cuba had been put under his protection,
and demanded the release of the prisoner,
which was promptly complied with.
Why the Spaniards have more fear of the
English than of the Americans is because
they know that England’s power is not to
be trifled with. Englishmen could not have
been treated in Cuba as the Americans have
been without invoking the thunder of
British cannon. Such a nuisance as Spain
has maintained for more than three years
almost within sight of our shores would
have been cleaned out in short order by
England if its locality had been as near to
the English coast as Cuba is to ours.
The Americans who remain in Havana
are safer since they have been taken under
Brittania’s wing than when our flag as-
sumed to protect-them for the reason that
the Spaniards fear England more than they
fear the United States. They know our
naval weakness, and feel strong enough
to defy us. Under the long continued bad
government that has squandered millions
of American money while our national de-
fences have been neglected, even a poor old
broken down thing like Spain could despise
our power. It is entirely owing to our
naval weakness that Spanish contempt for
the United States has brought the situation
to its present straight. But though the
neglect of Republican administrations dur-
ing the past thirty years has allowed our
navy to remain even weaker than that of
Spain, while millions have been profligately
wasted on other objects, we are neverthe-
less confident that the courage of American
sailors will vanquish the Spaniards, wher-
ever they may meet them on the ocean.
This much may be trusted to American
valor.
An Infamy Projected in the Bond-Hold-
ing Interest.
There is something repugnant to the
American sense of justice in McKINLEY’S
proposition to enforce intervention in Cuba
without recognizing the patriots who have
been fighting for more than three years for
the liberty of their country. In adjusting
the situation in Cuba he wants to exert an
authority that will ignore the republic
which has been maintained with such un-
exampled ‘courage against the power of
Spain.
A design so manifestly unjust and wrong
must have an origin in some sinister mo-
tive. There must surely be back of it
something that is base. It is evident that
McKINLEY was inspired in his project of
‘intervention without recognition’”’ by
some sordid influence, and when it is
known that such foul agents of the money
“power as~ILEsNS FAIRBANKS, SPOONER
and HANNA were in conference with him
before the formulation of the House resolu-
tion that directed him to establish a ‘‘per-
manent’ government in Cuba, the project
at once becomes stamped with more than
a suspicion that its design was to benefit a
bond-holding interest.
Spanish hond-holders look to Cuba as the
source from which bonds to thé amount of
$400,000,000 are to be paid. If the Cuban
republic should be recognized and estab-
lished not one cent could he wrung from
Cuba for the payment of the bonds. They
would be annulled by the right of revolu-
tion. But if McKINLEY should be al-
lowed to set up a government on the island,
it could be arranged to impose this indebt-
edness upon the Cuban people, mortgaging
the resources of the island for its payment.
These Spanish bonds are held in all the
leading money centres of the world. Wall
street holds large amounts of them. Those
held in Europe would be gathered in at a
discount by the MORGANS and that class of
money sharks who would handle them at
an immense profit if Cuba should be com-
pelled to pay them.
This is the real object of the outrageous
design to turn down the republic of Cuba,
as required by the House resolution that
came direct from the hands of McKINLEY
after conference with the money grabbing
gang of which ELKINS and HANNA are the
chief representatives ; nor ‘is it incredible
that such an infamy should be projected
by a President over whom the bank syndi-
cates and the general plutocratic interests
exert complete control.
Spanish Inhumanity.
The remarkably graphic account of a
Spanish bull-fight, given by major HAasr-
INGS in last week’s WATCHMAN, from per-
sonal observation in Madrid, conveyed a
correct impression of the natural brutality
of the Spaniards. No people except such
as have a strong trace of savagery in their
nature could take delight in such cruel
performances, and when it is considered
that these revoltingly barbarous exhibi-
tions furnish the Spanish people their most
enjoyable diversion, constituting the favor-
ite national sport from which all classes
derive an exhilaration that is positively
fiendish in its character, there is supplied
an explanation of the many atrocities that
have darkened the pages of Spanish history
from its earliest stages to the present time.
These inhuman traits differentiate Span-
ish nature from ordinary human nature,
making them a people characterized by pe-
culiar inhumanity. Their extermination
of theMOORS was among the earlier manifes-
tations of their ferocity. The discovery of
the new world gave them a wider field for
their practices. The treatment to which
they subjected the aboriginal Americans
could have been devised by devils only.
Even their religion increased the ferocity
of their nature as was shown by the un-
speakable cruelty of their religions perse-
cutions. The outrages they inflicted upon
the people of the Netherlands in the longest
and most relentless war that was ever
‘waged against a people struggling for their
natural right of self-government and relig-
ious liberty, left an indelible stain upon
the civilization of the sixteenth century.
That the humanizing effect of modern civ-
ilization and nineteenth century enlighten-
ment has not changed their brutish in-
stinets and moderated the inhumanity of
their disposition is proven by the atrocities
that have made their war in Cuba a pro-
tracted horror. No other evidence than the
deliberate starving of 300,000 reconcentra-
dos, and the treacherous murder of the sail-
ors of the Maine, is needed to prove that
the Spaniards of to-day have inherited the
savagery that saturated the soil of Granada
with the blood of the Moors and for forty
years maintained a hell in Holland.
Should there be any doubt or hesitation
on the part of the American people about
expelling these brutes from the American
continent ?
——That the Spanish statesmen have
been playing with the diplomatists of the
administration at Washington is painfully
evident to the American people. Spanish
skill in diplomacy has fooled our state de-
partment, securing the delay needed for the
advantage of the Spaniards. This is not
surprising when the ostensible head of the
state department is a man who is affected
by the senility of old age and who was
put in the cabinet in order to vacate a seat
in the Senate for MARK HANNA, and when,
moreover, the second officer in the depart-
ment, who has charge of the diplomatic
branch of the government, is ex-judge DAY,
whose abilities capacitate him for no
higher business than that of a country law-
yer. Equipped with such talent our state
department has hardly furnished ordinary
amusement for Spanish diplomacy.
The Meeting of the Democratic State
Central Committee.
HARRISBURG, April 20.—The next state
Democratic convention will be held at Al-
toona, June 29th. This was settled at a
meeting in this city to-day of the state
Democratic committee. John M. Garman,
of Nanticoke, was re-elected chairman
without opposition and promptly an-
nounced the reappointment of Matt Savage,
of Clearfield.
The meeting was held behind closed
doors and lasted nearly four hours. The
Philadelphia contest was referred to a sub-
committee after a lively parliamentary
skirmish. The committee of five reported
unanimously in favor of the Gordon-Dela-
hunty committee as against the friends of
city chairman Thomas J. Ryan, and the re-
port was adopted by a vote of 58 to 12.
The Ryan people gave notice that they will
carry the contest into the Philadelphia
courts. The Union county contest was de-
cided in favor of B. O. Brown, whose seat
was contested by Thomas C. Barber.
Resolutions were adopted reaffirming the
principles of the Chicago and Reading plat-
forms ; congratulating Bryan for his ‘‘mas-
terly leadership’’ in support of the prinei-
ples of a ‘glorious cause ;”’ ratifying the
action of the Reading convention in elect-
ing Colonel James M. Guffey, of Pittsburg,
on the national Democratic committee, in
place of William F. Harrity, of Philadel-
phia, and urging the national committee to
recognize Colonel Guffey at once ; express-
ing sorrow at the death of the heroes of the
Maine disaster ; criticising the national ad-
ministration for ‘‘peace-at-any-price’’ vac-
illation, and for failure to make demand
for reparation for loss sustained by reason
of the destruction of the battleship ; en-
dorsing the action of the Democratic Sena-
tors and Congressmen in their efforts to ob-
tain the recognition of the republic of Cuba;
deploring President McKinley’s delay in
executing the decrees of Congress in the
Spanish-American controversy ; demanding
a vigorous prosecution of the war, if Spain
refuses to evacuate the island of Cuba ;
condemning the existing corruption and ex-
travagance, and urging all citizens, regard-
less of politics, to aid in driving from pub-
lic service those who have degraded and
corrupted it.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Several Clearfield teachers, it is said, will
attend the Paris exposition in 1900.
—Aged John Cameron was killed by a lo-
comotive at Coal Glenn, Jefferson county.
—Sixty additional men were Monday put
to work double tracking the Little Schuyl-
kill railway.
—A new Catholic church, to cost $12,000,
will be erected at Patton the coming sum-
mer.
—A horse belonging to Edmund D. Tice,
of Lebanon, was disemboweled by running
into a post.
—VWilliam Jennings Bryan visited Easton
on Tuesday as the guest of ex-congressman
Howard Mutchler.
—For stealing flowers from graves at Allen-
town, David Reidnauer was fined $100 and
sent to jail for 30 days.
—From a wound on the head, inflicted by
anunknown party, Michael Connell is dying
in the Hazleton hospital.
—As the result of competition between
rival telephone companies at DuBois, the
rate for service has been cut to $1.50 a month.
—Altoona has a man who last week re-
turned his pension certificate to the depart-
ment. alleging that he had regained his
health.
—The Carbon county commissioners have
appointed W. B. Anthony, of Lehighton, and
Bernard McGinley, of Mauch Chunk, fire
wardens.
—Convict Charles Flower, in the Western
penitentiary, Pittsburg, cut keeper MecIl-
waine with a clasp knife and was wounded
three times by the keeper’s revolver shots be-
fore he was overpowered.
—Robbers broke into the house of butcher
Richard Schantz, at Altoona, Friday morn-
ing, chloroformed the occupants, Richard
Schantz and John Lehle, and took $247 in
cash, two gold watches and other valuables.
—The midyear meeting of the Central
Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, will be held in Jersey
Shore in October next. The sessions will
last four days and upwards of 300 ministers
will be present.
—The “First Defenders,” consisting of live
veteran companies from Allentown, Reading,
Pottsville and Lewistown Monday, at Or-
wigsburg, celebrated the thirty-seventh anni-
versary of their response to Lincoln’s call for
troops.
—DMercury is the evening star during April.
Venus is also an evening star. Jupiter rising
Just before sunset, is in its glory. Fall moon
was on the 6th, last quarter on the 13th, and
new moon on the 20th. A fine meteoric
shower is announced for the 20th. Watch
for it.
—H. A. Howell, of Beavertown, Snyder
county, was badly injured on the Black
Forest railroad, near Cammal, Monday and
will probably be a helpless invalid for life.
He was engaged in car coupling, when he
slipped and fell between the bumpers. The
bones of his hip were broken.
—Lloyd Brewer, a well-known contractor
of Mercersburg, Franklin county, died on
Sunday at Atlanta, Ga., from terrible in-
juries received Saturday. He fell from the
tenth story of a building, the erection of
which he was superintending, and was hor-
ribly mangled. The remains were brought
home for interment.
—Recently some wanton person cut the
ears off a fine pair of sorrel horses owned by
contractor Linet, and used on the improve-
ments at Kittanning Point. Last week the
team appeared at work ornamented with
artificial ears made out of calfskin and sewed
to the bridles in such a manner as to require
close scrutiny to discover that the ears are
not natural.
—One day last week George Essig, residing
a few miles west of Liberty, Lycoming coun-
ty, went to the barn and attempted to com-
mit suicide by gashing himself on the head
with a hatchet. After inflicting several ugly
wounds with that tool, he cuta gash five
inches long in his throat. He was discover-
ed and a physician was summoned who at-
tended to the wounds. Eighteen stitches
were necessary to close the gash in the neck
and six stiches were necessary for the wounds
in the head. Essig will recover.
—The great limited trains of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad now rush at full speed over
the new tracks and through the new tunnel
at Radebaugh, near there is a descending
grade for west-bound trains, which enables
them to make wonderful speed. The four
tracks are yoked into two in the tunnel, but
the most absolute safety is guaranteed by
positive and electric signals and the regular
blocks. The old tunnel and winding tracks
through the deep cuts will be left for use in
case of emergencies arising from a blockade
of the new tracks. Now that the old Rade-
baugh tunnel is eliminated, wider and higher
private cars can be handled over the Pitts-
burg division.
—A Shamokin dispatch says : Nearly one
hundred miners of this place and Mount
Carmel left on Monday for New York to sail
for their native places in the old world, to
escape being pressed into the United
States army should this country goto war
with Spain. During the past month 300
non-English speaking miners have left the
Northumberland, Schuylkill and Hazleton
regions. Most of them sailed for Europe,
saying they do not want to go into the army,
and that even if war does not occur work at
the mines is toopoor. Miners who have be-
come citizens by adoption say they will fight
for the stars and stripes if their services are
required. They are generally well drilled,
having seen service in various European
armies.
—Tuesday afternoon, while constable
Schwank, of Bellwood, was conducting a
constable’s sale at the residence of B. F.
Stoner, in that town, a package containing
twenty-five counterfeit nickels burst open.
The constable immediately went to Altoona
and notified United States commissioner A.
P. McLeod, who issued a warrant for Stoner’s
arrest. Deputy United States marshal John
L. Roe was dispatched to Bellwood and he
searched Stoner’s house finding some babbit
metal, plaster of paris, chip cork, white sand,
charcoal and other counterfeiters’ pa ra-
phernalia. Stoner was arrested and taken be-
fore commissioner McLeod, who, in default
of $500 bail, committed him to jail for a hear-
ing next Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock. D.
B. Heiner, United States district attorney,
of Pittsburg, will conduct the prosecution,