Memaoeaic alco
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—JoxaruaN has a little ram,
Its name is Kat-ah-din ;
It runs upon the waters blue
And will make the Spaniards skin.
It is a funny little ram
And has no fleece of wool,
It is a butter, so they say,
Like the one that went to school.
—There will be no Spanish DELILAH
for our modern SAMPSON.
—Spain is just beginning to find out the
obstreperosity of the ‘‘Yankee pigs.”
—If we decide to take the Canaries the
next thing will be to build cages for them.
—With water selling at 10 cents a bottle
in Key West there can be little doubt of
its being better and cheaper to drink beer.
—Fi1rZz and CORBETT have at last made
their bellowings heard above the din of
war and say they want to fight—not Span-
jards at $13 a month. but each other for
$25,000 a side.
—They say that Spain is talking of
throwing up the sponge. She had better
do it pretty quick or we will make her so
sick that she will have to throw up Cuba,
Puerto Rico and the Canaries.
—If Mr. STONE really wants to know
why he should be made ‘‘the scape-goat
of the Republican party’’ in Pennsylvania
we can set his mind at rest by answering
that it is probably because he is a Billy.
—TISAACSTEIN TO COHEN : ‘‘How vas it
dot your store vas on fire vonce?’’ COHEN
to ISAACSTEIN : ‘‘It vas de blumber, vot
did idt.”” ISAACSTEIN, soliloquizing, ‘I
guess I embloys dot blumber in de future.”
—The announcement that Gen. FRANK
REEDER is to be a Republican candidate
for Governor will start the people guessing
again. If anyone imagines that he will
expect the support of the present Governor
of Pennsylvania they have another guess.
—AL DALE had his moustache waxed
up so tight last night that he might easily
have passed for a French dancing master—
that is if nothing but the moustache were
in view. He wants to be postmaster and
is determined to make points wherever he
can.
—As a prominent Republican remarked
last night ‘CHAMBERS and the DALES are
running it,’’ it is quite probable that there
are ten post office hunters in Bellefonte
who are not so fond of Mr. CHAMBERS now
as they were before the STONE--ARNOLD
meeting.
—The loss of five men of the cruiser
““Winslow’’ yesterday, off Cardenas, is a
misfortune, but is one of the natural out-
comes of war. The fatality will teach our
blockading fleet, however, that the Span-
ish gunners are likely to hit the mark some
times and it would be prudent for them to
keep the mark out of unnecessary danger.
—The STONE meeting here last night
was quite different from the WANAMAKER
affair of several weeks ago. At the former
SAM DIEHL was the only Republican post-
master applicant who had the sand to at-
tend, while last night the balance of the
would-like-to-bes bustled around like bees
after a honey barrel and were lavish in
their attentions to Mr. STONE and his
supernumeraries.
—JoE LEITER has made $3,500,000 on a
wheat speculation and it is a question
whether everybody else wouldn’t have
done the same thing if they could, but the
poor man whose wages have not been raised
one cent is the unfortunate who will have
to make up this big pile for LEITER. An
advance of fifty cents on a sack of flour
means something, when there is no cor-
responding advance in wages.
——The Philadelphia Press of Monday,
announced in double column type the fact
that Commodore DEWEY is a Republican.
This is important information. Interest-
ingly and vitally important. Were it not
for the fact that he is a Republican we pre-
sume the victory in the Philippine islands
would be called off, Manila turned over to
the Spanish, and broad and humiliating
apologies made to the Queen Regent for
the unwarranted impudence of a Democratic
commander.
——The announcement that JAMES
MITCHELL, of Clearfield, will be an aspir-
ant for senatorial honors in this district,
promises to prove a thorn in the flesh of
the QuAyites. As Mr. MITCHELL is an
avowed WANAMAKER supporter and was
popular enough to be elected treasurer of
Clearfield county in 1887, when it was safe-
ly Democratic under ordinary circum-
stances, it will be evident that he can’t be
shoved into the back-ground as some of
them would like to do with him. The
ARNOLD-McQUOWN dispensers of political
favors in that portion of the 34th will have
to keep an eye on Mr. MITCHELL, else he
will jump to the helm and doa little polit-
ical engineering himself with the charts
that a Harrisburg job furnish. Thus far
only three candidates have appeared. Hon.
PHILIP-sburg WOMELSDORF, of Centre,
and Mr. FREDERICKS, of Clinton. If loca-
tion goes for anything the latter will be
the man who holds the long end of the
string, but location doesn’t cut much fig-
ure in a contest such as the Republicans
will have in their senatorial conference.
And they are likely to have an interesting
factional fight before they get through.
The district being ordinarily Democratic
and with the additional advantage that
such a fight in the opposition should give
it is almost a certainty that the next Sena-
tor from the 34th will be a Democrat.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 13, 1898.
The Most Equitable War Tax.
While there is no reason why incomes
should not be taxed in time of peace, we
claim that considerations of fairness and
justice require the imposition of an income
tax as a most fitting means of raising mon-
ey for war purposes. There is no interest
that is so anxious for protection from the
threatening attack of a foreign enemy as
the wealthy interest. No class would suf-
fer more than the rich from the ravage of
an invading foe. The material injury that
would be inflicted by a bombardment of
New York or any of our great commercial
cities would fall most heavily on the
wealthy owners of the property that would
be destroyed, who, therefore, are most inter-
ested in a successful defence against such
hostile demonstrations. Simple justice
would demand that this class, which is so
greatly in need of protection in time of
war, should do its share, proportionate to
its ability, in furnishing the funds needed
for the public defence ; but instead of this
being the case, it has secured a decision of
the supreme court that exempts it from
rendering, according to its means, this
just service to the country which protects
it. The millionaire, whose income annual-
ly amounts to a fortune, pays no more war
tax under existing tax laws than the poor
man who not only helps to pay the tax but
does the fighting.
The evident unfairness of such an ar-
rangement strengthens the popular demand
for legislation that will place an income
tax beyond the question of constitutionali-
ty. The plutocratic influence that governs
the Republicau party has managed to ex-
empt wealth from federal taxation, and
has secured revenue laws that have imposed
the tax burden chiefly upon the class who
make up in numbers what they lack in
means. It is the poor many that are made
to pay for the exemption of the rich few.
Republican statutes and judicial decisions
have effected this unjust inequality, but it is
to be hoped that exigencies of the present
war may lead to its correction.
This is at least the purpose of the Demo-
crats in Congress who are asserting the
righteousness of a tax that will draw from
the abundant incomes of the wealthy at
least a part of the revenue needed for the
defence of the country in which that class
is, in a material sense, more interested
than any other.
What We Should Do With the Philip~-
pines.
Already the desire is being expressed
that the United States should retain pos-
session of the Philippine Islands. In all
probability the Spaniards will be expelled
by our naval and military force, and the
islands will be ours by right of conquest.
So rich a prize will be a strong temptation,
and it is having its effect on the sentiment
of those who are indifferent to the difficul-
ties and dangers that would be connected
with such remote territorial possessions.
In the present stage of the conflict with
Spain it is proper that our operations
against the enemy should be pushed wher-
ever a blow may be aimed at them. To
insure complete success in the hostilities
that are being waged the Spaniards must
be attacked in the Philippines, as well as
in Cuba, but while it may be necessary to
extend our conquest to those far East India
Islands, it would not be wise for our gov-
ernment to retain permanent ownership of
them. The extension of our dominion
to remote quarters of the globe would be
contrary to both the principles and the
traditions of the Republic.
It would involve us in complications
with other countries. It would hring more
trouble and expense than profit or material
advantage. Colonial empire conflicts with
the design of those who founded our nation,
and would bring in question the principles
of the MONROE doctrine. We could not,
with any reason, demand that European
nations should keep hands off this continent
when we should be seen encroaching upon
the other continent by territorial conquest.
There are most substantial reasons why
we should not retain possession of the
Philippine Islands. They will be ours by
right of conquest, but we would do better
by selling them, than by holding them as
conquered territory. :
Lift the Blockade or Take Cuba.
Condueting a blockade on peace princi-
ples is proving to be a slow method of cap-
turing Havana, and extending the relief we
promised to the starving reconcentrados of
Cuba.
It was in the name of mercy that we in-
augurated this war. What mercy is there
in the delay that prevents food and neces-
saries being sent to the thousands who are
dying of starvation in a country that our
navy has closed to the world and to all
supplies.
Either lift the blockade at Havana and
let their people have bread, or be manly
and take the island and feed the starving
women and children, until nature repairs
the desolation that Spanish cruelty has
inflicted upon that fair country.
Raising Money for the War.
There is no element in Congress that is
opposed to furnishing the government all
the money needed for carrying on the war.
The difference in opinion is in regard to
the manner in which the money shall be
furnished. The Republicans want to raise
it by means of loans, a method that in-
creases the public indebtedness and in-
volves expenses that could be avoided.
The Democrats want the money to be se-
cured in a different way. Their conten-
tion is that the wealth of the country,
which has succeeded in evading its due
share of government taxation, should con-
tribute more liberally in furnishing the
means of carring on the war, and for this
reason they favor such measures as an in-
come tax, the taxation of corporations, and
other methods of raising revenue that
would throw more of the tax burden upon
wealth ; and as a further means of avoid-
ing a loan they urge the coinage of more
silver, and an additional issue of govern-
ment legal tender notes.
In these opposite methods consists the
difference in Congress on the question of
raising money for the war. The Republi-
cans want to secure it by a plan that will
give the money dealers a chance to make
profits in handling the government bonds,
and will increase the public indebtedness
upon which interest will have to be paid.
The Democrats are opposed to favoring the
interest of the bank syndicates by the is-
suing of a loan which would be sure to
come under their management. Secretary
GAGE has already expressed his opposition
to making it a popular loan, it being the
evident intention to allow it to be managed
by Wall street operators.
The Democratic plan of raising the war
revenue would avoid the scandals that have
attended government bond sales. It would
save to the people the exorbitant profits
that have been enjoyed by MORGAN syndi-
cates. It would prevent a heavy interest
expense in the future. It would compel
wealth to pay its share of the cost of war.
It would put to use a large portion of the
uncoined silver that is lying idle in the
government vaults, and it would give the
people the advantage of an additional issue
of government legal tenders, the best and
safest paper money that was ever circu-
lated.
By comparing the two methods offered
in Congress for supplying the war funds
the people can judge for themselves which
is designed to be most conducive to their
inferest, and which is intended to serve
the interest of wealth and promote the
profits of the bond dealers.
Too Serious to Be Trifled With.
The honest, well meaning men of this
State, to whatever party they belong,
should have a proper conception of the
duty that is imposed upon them by the
urgent necessity for governmental reform
in this Commonwealth.
The majority are no doubt fully aware
of the fact that a most vicious condition of
public affairs exists in the State, and are
sufficiently impressed by that knowledge,
but it is to be feared that though they de-
sire the betterment of these conditions
there will not be such concerted action as
is necessary to overcome the strongly en-
trenched machine that is responsible for
our State being so badly governed. Its
overthrow can be effected only by a union
of the forces moving for reform.
A diversion that would carry off from
the main purpose many thousand voters,
as was the case last year, could have no
other effect than the side-tracking of that
many votes to the advantage of the poli-
ticians whose defeat is necessary for the
reform of the state government. The lead-
ers of such side movements may delude
themselves with the belief that they are
operating for reform, but they are in effect
the most helpful allies of the corruptionists,
being in a great measure responsible for
the defeat of the object which they loudly
profess to support.
This campaign presents to the people of
the State too serious an issue to be trifled
with. The government of the Common-
wealth is in the hands of political thugs.
The chief object of its managers is tosecure
the advantage of organized spoilsmen. Its
Legislators sacrifice the public interest in
their base service of a corrupt boss. The
entire body politic of the State reeks with
the rottenness that is the natural conse-
quence of machine politics and boss rule.
No intelligent citizen can blind himself to
the existence of such vicious public con-
ditions in jis State, and their correction is
the duty which is presented to the voters
in the approaching state campaign.
——The disadvantage of a navy too
small for the duty it has to perform is ex-
hibited in the embarrassing situation of
the Key West fleet. It must suspend its
movement against Havana until it may be
known whether the Spanish fleet that is
coming across the ocean is steering for
Porto Rico or for some point of attack on
our Atlantic coast. The millions of money
squandered by Republican billion dollar
Congresses could have built a navy large
enough to meet Spanish fleets at all points.
A Fatuous Movement.
An organization of well meaning but
misguided people, who claim that their
purpose is to introduce the ten command-
ments into state politics, have set to work
to boom the election of Rev. S. C. SWAL-
LOW to the Governorship of this State.
With this object they are sending letters to
clergymen throughout the State asking
them to unite with the movement.
The men who are engaged in this project
are no doubt excellent people. They are
unquestionably desirous of having the
state government conducted on the princi-
ples of the decalogue, but practical com-
mon sense is compelled to regard their
movement as calculated to prolong the
government of the State on the principles
of boss management and machine rule.
These good people ought to know that to
overthrow the corrupt domination of a
power as strongly entrenched as the QUAY
machine will require the united efforts of
all who are opposed to the rule of the cor-
ruptionists. How this good object can be
promoted by Rev. SWALLOW drawing off a
portion of the force that should be united
for its attainment, is beyond ordinary com-
prehension.
The experience of last year should teach
these persons the folly of moving against an
enemy with a divided force. If the large
vote which was polled for Dr. SWALLOW
had been combined with the independent
Republican and Democratic votes the QUAY
state ticket would have been defeated last
year, and the preliminary victory gained
over the corruptionists.
Appreciating the assistance rendered him
in last year’s election no one is more in-
terested in Dr. SWALLOW’S gubernatorial
candidacy than boss QUAY, aud there is no
question that he would be willing to con-
tribute liberally if the doctor should be in
want of funds to carry on his campaign.
The introduction of the ten command-
ments into politics is certainly desirable,
but the employment of common sense in a
campaign will do a good deal more in se-
curing success for a good cause.
The Benefit of a Democratic Majority.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger is a Re-
publican journal that severely denounces
the machine politicians who have corrupted
the politics of the State and debased its
government. The misrale that prevails in
our state affairs it ascribes to an over-
whelming and unbridied majority, which
is always conducive to political abuses. It
was because the corrupt leaders, whatever
their misconduct might be, could rely up-
on such great majorities, that there has
been such flagrant disregard of public inter-
ests in recent Legislatures, such marked
contempt of public opinion, such brazen
repudiation of solemn pledges of reform.
The Ledger declares that these abuses
would not be practiced if there existed a
stronger minority that would keep the li-
centiousness of the machine leaders in
check. This view of the situation must be
taken by every intelligent and conscien-
tious citizen who wants to see the State
delivered from the gang who are so shame-
fully abusing its government. The Demo-
crats are the minority, and the deliverance
of the State can be effected only by making
the Democratic party the majority, which
can be done by honest citizens of other
parties joining with it for the overthrow
of the corrupt machine. Independent
movements are ineffective for that object.
They only distract the effort and divide
the force by which the main object of the
State’s redemption may be accomplished.
The old Democratic organization fur-
nishes the basis for a united and successful
movement for better state government. It
has proved its capacity for honest adminis-
tration in the remote and the more recent
past. If the Democrats go into the state
contest with no other issue than clean
and honest state government, it will
receive a support that will assure the
overthrow of the corrupt politicians who
have so long been abusing the governing
power in this State.
Not a Popular Loan.
‘When the House committee reported the
war loan bill it was proposed to make it a
popular loan. The people, it is said,
would be allowed to subseribe and invest
their money in the bonds. Secretary
GAGE, however, was before the Senate
committee and gave counsel as to the loan.
He stated that only a limited proportion
would be taken by popular subscription,
and declared that ‘‘he believed that the
banks would take any amount of bonds
which might be required for carrying on
the war.’ Of course the bank syndicates
are ready to gobble up this loan, and it
would be something unusual if a Republi-
can administration would not allow some
Wall street gang to monopolize the bond
purchase and make millions out of it.
The truth is there is no necessity for a
‘loan”’ and any loan that may be decided
upon should and will prove anything but
“popular.”
—~—Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
Radically Corrupt.
Th ere is scarcely a political iniquity or a
governmental abuse that JOHN WANAMAK™
ER does not charge against the dissolute
ring of politicians who control the Republi-
can organization in this State and use it as
an instrument of misgovernment. Mr.
WANAMAKER not only charges them with
general misrule, but he is also specific in
his charges and is able to prove them.
The campaign he is conducting should
have its effect upon the conscience of Penn-
sylvania Republicanism. It should appeal
to the intelligence as well as to the integ-
rity of the party. Why should any Re-
publican be willing to have these abuses
continued ? In what way is he interested
in perpetuating a corrupt and debased
power that is an injury as well asa scan-
dal to the State? Its support can be to
him no longer a matter of party pride, for
it is something rather to be ashamed than
proud of. Leaders whom a man of JoHN
WANAMAKER’S standing in the party can
truthfully charge as being no better than
public thieves can claim no honest and re-
spectable following. Decent Republicans,
entertaining a proper respect for their State
and for themselves, must prefer the defeat
of their party rather than its success under
such leaders.
The great defect with the Republican or-
ganization in this State is that it is radical-
ly corrupt. The organization is rotten at
the core. It has grown to be such not-
withstanding that the majority of the mem-
bership are honest and well meaning.
They have been made the victims of a gang
of political pirates in whom they have had
confidence, but who have betrayed that
confidence by the political and official mis-
demeanors which JOHN WANAMAKER
so forcibly portrays in his speeches. The
WANAMAKER movement is not sufficient
to effect the purification of such corruption.
But it is having a good effect in convine-
ing the people that better government for
the State can be secured only by turning
that party out of power. Its disease is too
deep seated to be cured by merely chang-
ing the leaders.
Demoeratic Amendment to Loan
‘BiIl. ho
The work which Congress is engaged in
for securing the necessary war funds is not
yet completed and there is an encouraging
indication that the Republicans will be
headed off in their purpose to saddle the
country with a heavy loan for the benefit
of Wall street.
The prospect is that the Senate will not
agree to the loan project, the anti-gold ma-
jority in that body being favorable to a
plan for raising war revenue that will be
less profitable to the bank syndicates and
more to the advantage of the people. The
Democratic amendment to the bill provides
for a tax on corporations, and the issue of
$150,000,000 non-interest hearing treasury
notes, together with the coinage of the sil-
ver seigniorage in the treasury amounting
to some $65,000,000, upon which silver
notes to that amount may be issued. By
these means the money for the immediate
expenses of the war could be secured.
There appears to be one of a majority in
the Senate by which these measures may
be passed.
There would be reason to congratulate
the country if the Republican scheme of in-
creasing the bonded and interest-bearing
indebtedness of the country should be pre-
vented. And there would be further cause
for congratulations in so large an increase
of the circulation of government notes as
$150,000,000, and the addition of $65,000,-
000 to the silver currency. These would
be legitimate and efficient means of provid-s
ing money for war expenses, and if the Re-
publican House should reject them it would
have to shoulder the responsibility of re-
fusing to concur in measures for the rais-
ing of war revenue because the interest of
bankers and bond dealers was not served.
The “Glory” is Not for Him.
In one of candidate WANAMAKER'S
speeches this week the hot shot he fires in-
to the QUAY ranks was interluded with
commendations of President McKINLEY.
Alluding to Commodore DEWEY'S victory
in the Philippines he claimed that the man
in the White House was entitled to a share
of the glory. The people, however, know
how much praise is due McKINLEY for
any glory that may come of this war. If
he and HANNA could have had their way
they would still be adhering to the policy
of ‘‘peace at any price’’ even to the extent
of refusing to recognize the Cuban beliger-
ents, fearing the effect it might have on
‘stocks. McKINLEY’S delay in recogniz-
ing the righteousness of some effort to end
Spanish cruelty in Cuba will never be for-
gotten. The war would never have been
but for his refusal to allow assistance to be
furnished the struggling patriots, when
such assistance was offered and would have
secured them independence, and it is too
late a day now for his adherents to appro-
pnate any ‘‘glory,’”’ that may grow out of
it, to him.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—From injuries received by falling over a
stool, Mrs. Frank Zimmerman died at
Tamaqua.
—The Carbon county game and fish protec-
tive association appointed Conrad Lauth
game warden.
—Ex-city treasurer Frank F. Bell ban-
queted a large number of his friends at the
Red Lion hotel, Bristol.
—John Welch, who lived near Uniontown,
during a family feud on Saturday night, was
killed by his nephew.
—Tramps found begging in Hellertown
will be compelled to work on the reservoir
being constructed there.
—Copper ore has been found at Guava,
Columbia county, and a mining company
will soon begin operations there.
—The Fifth Massachusetts regiment vet-
erans’ association will hold a reunion at
Gettysburg on June 5th and 6th.
—One hundred recruits leaving William
sport for Mount Gretna pledged themselves
to abstain from spiritous drink.
—Attempting to board a freight train at
Shamokin, James Burns, aged 15 years, fell
under the wheels and was killed.
—William Jones, while hunting near Bris-
tol, shot an American eagle, which measured
six feet from tip to tip of its wings.
—The First national bank, of Ford City,
Armstrong county, has been authorized to
begin business, with a capital of $50,000.
—Seventeen young women took the white
veil at Mallinckrodt convent, Wilkesbarre,
Tuesday, and eleven took the final vows.
—After dressing in his best clothes, Wm.
Gruver went to the barn on his farm, near
Allentown, and hanged himself from a rafter.
—Herbert Griffith, engineer of the steel
mills, of Bristol, scaled the big smoke-stack,
130 feet high, and flung to the breeze an
Ameriean flag.
—The German society, Allemania verein,
of Bristol, will raise a 100-foot flag pole, with
appropriate ceremonies, over their club house
in a few days.
—At Bloomsburg the Danville district
women’s foreign missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church is holding a two-
days session.
—In the Luzerne county court, Anthony
Bendrift, of Plymouth, was acquitted of
embezzling the funds of miners, for whom he
acted as banker.
—The grand commandery of the Knights
of Malta are in session at York four days
this week, winding up the conclave with a
trip to Gettysburg.
—For killing William Mack in a quarrel,
James Mack was on Saturday sentenced, at
Shamokin toseven years’ imprisonment, and
to pay a fine of $1,000.
—Ten new mines are being opened in the
anthracite region, in spite of the fact that
most of the old collieries are only worked
ten days a month.
—General Roy Stone, commander of the
famous Bucktail regiment in the civil war,
accompanied by Col. Bircle Bey, of Cario,
Egypt is touring Gettysburg battlefield.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, who was shot by
her son-in-law, Albert Daub, on April 27th,
at Lebanon, died Sunday, and the wife of
Daub, who was also wounded, is not expected
to live.
—Judge Woodward has decided against the
payment of an expense bill of $129, presented
by John O’Brien, county detective, of
Luzerne, for hunting a man wanted for
homicide.
—Straying from her home at Bear Creek,
Luzerne county, Wednesday evening, Mrs.
William Blakslee, aged 80 years, has not
since been seen, and thirty men are hunting
her in the woods.
—Patriotic citizens of Monocacy, Berks
county,erected two 100-foot poles and Wednes-
day night ran up a large flag. A company of
volunteers which has been formed by Caleb
Bland paraded the village street.
—At Kennett Square Saturday evening a
flag pole was raised on the borough hall
building and a fine flag flung to the breeze.
The town band was out and there was a
speech by Rev. George Alcorn. A long flag
pole has also been raised at the Yorklyn
Snuff Mills.
—The shortest regular term of court ever
held in Perry county was that of the April
court, 1898. Court convened at 10 a. m. and
adjourned at 2:30 p. m. the same day. Not a
traverse jury was empancled. All cases
were non-suited or continued. The costs
amounted to $473.40.
—The first reserve of Company H, Six-
teenth regiment, National Guards of Penn-
sylvania, left Ridgway, Sunday night under
command of Lieutenant Anderson. Twenty-
six men were taken to Mount Gretna. The
entire reserve of the Sixteenth passed through
Ridgway Sunday.
—At Williamsport Saturday a tramp gave
8 year old Nettie Barr a torpedo cap and told
her to open it. The inexperienced child
struck the cap with a stone, and the explosion
that followed blew two of the child’s fingers
off the hand. If the tramp could have been
found, he would have suffered severely for
his fiendish advice.
—Francis F. Fetterhoff and Howard L.
Mitten have purchased the Huntingdon Lo-
cal News plant and will continue the paper as
a semi-weekly. The former gentleman has
been connected with the paper for many
years, and will be no new hand at the busi-
ness. Both are fine young men, and we hopa
they may meet with great success.
—TFire at Muncy Saturday damaged several
houses and for a time threatened the destruc-
tion of the upper end of town. The flames
broke out in the bicycle shop of W. O. Hess.
That building was entirely destroyed. The
barn, slaughter house and ice house of James
Farenbach were also burned. Other build-
ings were on fire but were saved. The losses
will aggregate $2,000 ; partially insured.
—Charles Glise, the little six-year-old son
of Oscar Glise, of Island, near Lock Haven,
was playing along the river bank Mon-
day morning when a saw log, which had
been lodged high on the bank by the late
flood, became loosened in some way or other
and rolled down upon him. The little fel-
low was squeezed between two logs. He was
severely injured, and was in an unconscious
condition when picked up.