Bewortabic Watdpan
BY FP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—After all, it may yet be known as the
war of the winds.
—One would scarcely believe it. but the
Deweyest jokes are now usually the dryest.
—1In the vernacular of the base ball field,
Mr. CERVERA has evidently been placed
in the position of short stop.
—ScHLEY—Well, when you come to
think about it, it seems a very appropriate
name for the business he is expected to do.
—By the way, we haven’t heard a word
about the stability of Republican prosperity
since the fall in the price of wheat on Tues-
day.
—Somehow some one always has to do
the advertising. If the man who has the
goods for sale don’t do it, the sheriff usual-
ly does.
—The Philadelphia congregation that
boasts a three hundred pound minister can
hardly be credited with following the light
divine.
—It is generally believed that the WAN-
AMAKER forces will insist on occupying the
wind-ward passage throughout the entire
campaign.
—Indications indicate that ex-Senator
HiLL has his political night shirt on
and don’t care how soon Tammany pulls
the counterpane off.
—A drop of 50cts. a bushel in wheat, in
a single day, shows how suddenly and
effectually ‘‘Republican prosperity,’”’ can
halt and reverse its march.
—After the war poor old Buffalo BILL
will have to take a back seat. TEDDY
RoosSEVELT and his congress of rough riders
will hold the boards then.
—Mr. McKINLEY seems determined to
fight for everything, except that for which
war was declared, and at every place,
except when he can find the enemy.
—May, 1898, did not round out her
allotted days without showing us that she
had not forgotten what constitutes our ideal
of a May-day. The 31st wassurely a dream
in nature.
—The condition of the Spanish treasury
is not nearly so important to the people of
Pennsylvania as the condition of their own
State treasury is. This is a fact that will
bear remembrance.
—A number of administration workers,
from this county, who went down to Har-
rishurg swelled almost to bursting, came
back able to buckle in their belts a full
half-a-dozen holes.
—Either the last Republican county con-
vention was a fraud and a cheat, or a good-
ly number of Republican politicians, whom
we wot of, are proving themselves more
than average liars.
Two months of war. $207,000,000
expenses. Not a flag planted on Spanish
territory. Not a mouthful of food to a
starving reconcentrado. And yet we boast
of our success! What a blow!
—We would modestly suggest that if the
government has to go into the bottling
business in order to end the war, that
“‘corking CERVERA up,’ may not prove as
effective as ‘‘giving it to him in the neck.”
—If ScHLEY really has CERVERA bot-
tled up in Santiago harbor it might be well
to keep a sharp look-out all the time, for
the wily old Spaniard is likely to get sour
in there and soured things, when bottled
up, usually do bad work.
—The Republicans of the thirteenth
Massachusetts district have nominated W.
S. GREEN as their candidate for Congress.
That’s one New England district, that
makes no pretence of sending ripe men to
Washington.
—And now we are told that it is the
prospect of a good crop, that knocked fifty
cents a bushel off the value of wheat on
Tuesday. Strange. We've been told all
along that it was ‘Republican prosperity’’
that was fixing the price of wheat.
—PoOPE said that ‘‘an honest man is the
noblest work of God.”” While no one will
question the great English writer's asser-
tion the paucity of honest men would in-
dicate that the good Lord is running out of
material with which to shape his noblest
creatures.
—Possibly we over-looked them, hut for
the life of us we can’t remember of seeing a
single: flower, on Decoration day, strewn
o'er the remains of the QUAY followers
who fell in the fight with the administra-
tion forces at the late Republican county
convention.
——And now it is said that Mr. McKIN-
LEY proposes forcing the annexation of
Hawaii, whether Congress agrees or not.
This we suppose will take the wrinkles out
of the bellies of the starving reconcentrados
and end the war with a rush. Great is the
statesmanship inspired by MARK HANNA !
—If W. C. ARNOLD succeeds in getting
the Republican nomination for Congress-
man-at-Large it will leave a hole for a good
sized Republican peg right in this district.
Col. Ep. IRVIN, of Curwensville, is spoken
of as a possibility, but really there seems
to be no one in particular setting out for
congressional honors. Here is a chance for
some of those shrewd QUAY leaders who
were in evidence here during the recent
Republican county convention. Congress
is just the place for such statesmen. The
helpless condition of our navy and coast
defenses at the breaking out of the war is
evidence that Congress has been made up
mostly of smarties, who don’t know a good
thing when they have it.
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Swallow’s Assistance to Quayism.
The Philadelphia Ledger considers Dr.
SwALLOW’S candidacy entirely illogical so
far as its opposition to Quayism is con-
cerned. There is logical consistency in his
running as a Prohibition candidate on a
platform which denounces the liquor traffic,
but there is no sense in his claiming to
antagonize the QUAY machine when his
candidacy can have no other effect than to
divide the opposition to machine misrule
and thereby help to perpetuate it.
That is the way the Ledger looks at
the SWALLOW movement, and it is certain-
ly the correct view of it. Nothing could
be more helpful in maintaining the bad
government which its platform denounces.
To accomplish the overthrow of QUAY’S
vicious supremacy all the elements of polit-
ical reform in the State should be united
against the candidates that will be present-
ed as the Republican state ticket. As the
Ledger truly says: ‘“Quayism can not be
defeated by the Independent Republicans
having their own candidates for governor
and members of the Legislature, by the
Prohibitionists having their separate candi-
dates and by the Democrats having theirs
also. If the forces of good government, of
government of, for and by the people, in-
stead of, for and by Senator QUAY and his
henchmen, are to be successful, the former
must get together and in lieu of three dis-
tinct tickets for Governor and Legislature
they must have one ticket only. With the
forces of political reform divided their de-
feat and QUAY’s triumph will be a fore-
gone conclusion.”’
Such a union of the reform elements is
the only practical plan by which the rescue
of the state from the misrule of corrupt
politicians can be effected. Upon what
basis can they be united with the greatest
probability of effective results? The Pro-
hibition party is not of sufficient strength
to furnish a basis for such a union. An
Independent Republican movement would
be equally insufficient for a nucleus around
which the reform elements could unite
with any chance of success. The organized
Democracy of the state presents the solid
foundation upon which the superstructure
of reform in the state government may be
based, and with which all other elements
aspiring to reform can unite with reason-
able assurance of undoing the bad system
of government that prevails in the State.
The Ledger very logically places on Dr.
SwALLow’s shoulders a large share of the
responsibility involved in the pending con-
test. It requires no great amount of dis-
cernment to see that his candidacy will be
helpful to the QUAY machine, and there-
fore our Philadelphia contemporary forcibly
urges that ‘‘Dr. SWALLOW should not
stand in the way of those public spirited
citizens of the State who, like himself,
desire political reform, the very head and
front of which is the elimination from our
politics of QUAY and Quayism. Dr. SWAL-
Low’s candidacy, if persisted in and sup-
ported by the Populists and Prohibitionists,
will not make for political reform ; it will
be a strong prop and stay for Quayism.’’
——TIt was an up-hill job for politics to
break into the newspapers again but after
buckling down to business it broke down
the ramparts on Wednesday, and now holds
the fort even against the war bulletin.
Slow Progress of the War Revenue Bill.
Congressional action on the measures
necessary to raise revenue for the war is
about as dilatory as the strategy that is
directing the operations of the army and
navy. The war revenue bill has heen un-
der consideration for more than a month,
but its progress is not marked by the
promptness of design and earnestness of
purpose that the exigencies of war require.
It is to be feared that there are parties in
Congress who are unwilling to furnish the
government with money for the war unless
certain capitalists are given a profit in sup-
plying it through the medium of loans.
Such a design of favoring the money
lenders developed itself in the House bill,
which provided for the securing of war
funds almost exclusively by the sale of
bonds, and ignoring the various legitimate
objects of taxation from which could be
drawn ample revenue without increasing the
bonded indebtedness of the government.
The Democratic amendments to the bill
in the Senate have been designed to draw
a large proportion of this revenue from
wealthy success that has heen exempted
from doing its share in the payment of
government taxes. It is the Republican
opposition to this just exaction that has
delayed the progress of the bill, and pre-
vented the prompt passage of the measures,
for supplying the money needed for our
purposes.
The only progress made on the bill last
week was in the wrong direction, the Re-
publicans having succeeded in defeating
the tax on corporations. It looks as if they
would prefer. that the government should
have no money for carrying on the war
rather than that such corporations as the
sugar trust, the Standard oil company and
other monopolistic combines should be
made to contribute their share of it.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 3, 1898.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Predatory Profit.
It is asserted that in the monopolistic
wheat deals by which LEITER cornered the
market, and thereby secured control of the
world’s supply of that necessary of life,
his profits amounted to $7.50 per minute.
This imperial income, surpassing, while it
lasted, ROCKEFELLER’S standard oil plun-
der, was gained in a large measure, at the
expense of the people who with difficulty
obtain their daily bread. To the illpaid
laborer, the destitute widow, and the half-
starved victim of the sweat-shop, it is made
harder to buy the needed loaf in order that
LEITER may be able to put himself in the
front rank of the millionaires.
Commercial sophistry cannot hide the
moral guilt of such a business as is done by
this Chicago wheat speculator. It has its
apologists and defenders who contend that
it is legitimate trade, there being no dif-
ference, in their view, between his opera-
tions and those of any other trader who
buys in the market and holds the purchased
commodity for a rise in price.
But there is a difference in that LEITER
and such as do his kind of business pro-
duce an artificial condition of the market
by which they are enabled to exact abnor-
mal prices. The fact that a state of the
market is brought about by the manage-
ment of the men who profit by it, consti-
tutes the criminality of the proceeding.
The poor man whose bread is made dearer.
by such a process is as much the victim of
robbing as if his scanty means were stolen
from his pocket.
When the constitution of the United
States was framed no one thought it possible
that men like LEITER and his confederates
could control the price of every bushel of
wheat in the country. If sucha possibility
of robbing the public, in its chief article of
subsistence, could have been forseen it is
probable that the wise men who laid the
basis of our popular institutions would have
provided a constitutional defence against
such a wrong; but unfortunately they,
were unable to conceive that a time would
come when legislatures and courts would
fail to protect the people from the preda-
tory practices of men who should grow
rich by increasing the cost of the necessaries
of life.
-—A warning to the soldiers who are ly-
ing in the great concentration camps is
sounded in the report of the commissioner
of insurance for Wisconsin who has figured
that out of the 2,320,272 men who enlisted
during the three years of the civil war, only
15.6 per cent per thousand were killed in
battle, while 32.2 per cent died from dis-
ease. This remarkable report shows that
it is not bullets that the soldiers have to
fear most, but the dread diseases that lurk
in the camps where thousands of them are
crowded together, with poor sanitary and
cominissary regulations.
Relief Within the Reach of the People.
The people of Pennsylvania have long
been sufferers from the evil effects of a
viciously administered State government.
They would really be in a pitiable plight
if there was no relief from the rule of the
bosses and ringsters who run the political
governmental machine in the State, but
they have the power to smash this ma-
chine, and it is their own faults that they
are the victims of its misrule.
Upon two occasions since the present
majority party has been ruling the State
have there been successful revolts against
the Republican predominance, and in both
cases clean, honest and efficient executive
administration was the result. In the
long succession of Republican Governors,
who have been but mere tools of the boss
and the machine, two Democratic adminis-
trations have intervened as bright ex-
amples of faithful and conscientious execu-
tive service. In the eight years during
which a Democratic Governor had the ex-
ecutive position the pillage of the spoils-
men was checked to the extent of his ability
to prevent it, and vicious legislation was
held in obeyance by the obstacle of his
veto. Such were the fruits of two tempo-
rary interruptions of Republican rule in
this State for the last thirty-eight years.
The misfortune was that the movements
that produced such fruits were only spurts
of reform, and not permanent in their
character.
The brief episodes of two honest and
beneficent administrations that temporar-
ily relieved the State from the protracted
duration of Republican misrule, should
serve as an object lesson, teaching the peo-
ple that relief from the evils of corrupt
government may be secured by placing the
state administration again in Democratic
hands.
—The Philadelphia Peace Union became
so anxious to smooth Spain down and keep
her from licking (?) Uncle SAM that the
society actually wrote letters of an un-
patriotic nature to Spain. The result has
been a first class scrap between the Peace
Union and the custodians of the old State
House, in Philadelphia, in which historic
building the Union was allowed to meet.
But it won't be so any longer, for the
peace-makers have been fired.
United Effort for State Reform.
Men of all parties are equally interested
in having the State honestly and decently
governed. They have an equal interest in
the passage of good laws and in the proper
exercise of the executive functions. There-
fore the citizens, irrespective of party, are
equally bound to do what they can to se-
cure and maintain good government, and
they will fail in their duty to the State if
they neglect to assist in correcting the pub-
lic evils that afflict it.
For years past the citizens belonging to
the Republican party have been chiefly re-
sponsible for the kind of government we
have had in this State.
The fact of their being in the majority
imposed this obligation upon them. For
more than thirty years they have been
almost entirely responsible for the kind of
Governors and Legislatures we have had.
If the State Legislature has become a mere
instrument of bad government, and the
executive office a prize awarded to obedient
servants of the party boss, it is because the
Republicans, whose great majority could
have it otherwise, have allowed this to be
S0.
This has been the case not because Re-
publicans have a preference for profligate
Legislatures, and for Governors whose chief
duty is to obey the party boss. They are
as much injured as are the members of
other parties by the kind of State govern-
ment that is furnished by such Legislatures
and Governors. But they have been neg-
lectful as to the character of the men that
have been allowed to secure control of their
party. While the party members thought
they were maintaining principles that were
for the public good, the bosses took charge
of the party organization, converting it
into a powerful machine which has heen
run for their own benefit, such characters
having betrayed the confidence of the party
that entrusted it with the State govern-
ment.
That the honest element in the Republi-
can party of Pennsylvania has become
conscious of this betrayal has heen made
evident by the revolt that has broken out
against the debased and degrading domina-
tion of the QUAY machine.
Republican sentiment of the better kind
has been awakened and aroused to a con-
flict with a corrupt power that can be over-
thrown by nothing short of a revolution.
It is a movement promising better govern-
ment for this old commonwealth, which
can be secured by Republicans throwing
party trammels aside and loosening them-
selves from the grip of this machine, unit-
ing with the Democrats in a contest con-
ducted on State issues for State reform.
Patriotism vs Fashions.
In our war with Spain we are not receiv-
ing from the French the kind of treatment
we had a right to expect from a people
whom we have always treated as our oldest
friends. The tone of the French press to-
wards the American side of the conflict is
offensively partial to the Spaniards and in-
sulting to their old allies of the revolution-
ary period. The American women are the
most offended by this conduct, as they
regard it as an ungrateful return for all the
French goods they have bought, and they
propose to resent it by boycotting the Pa-
risian milliners and dressmakers. It is to
be feared, however, that their patriotism
will not hold out long against the attraction
of French gowns and bonnets.
Plenty of That Kind of Patriots.
It sounds like old times to hear of con-
tractors furnishing 20,000 mules for the
army. It brings up recollections of the
civil war when Republican patriots were
rewarded with horse and mule contracts,
and displayed their devotion to the old flag
by working off unsound animals on the
government at big prices. The old party
can no doubt furnish the same kind of pa-
triots at this time, who are ready to serve
their country as army contractors, in sup-
plying the service with horses and mules,
or selling to the government any old thing
in the shape of a ship at double its value.
Ought to Be Enough.
The course of those who want to restore
honest and decent government to Pennsyl-
vania is a plain one. The larger part of
the citizens who are so disposed are Demo-
crats, but in addition to these there are
others. A Democratic platform, confining
the contest to State issues, should furnish a
sufficient basis upon which all the citizens
opposed to machine misrule could unite.
‘What more could be needed to secure the
united action of Pennsylvanians who de-
sire the political redemption of their State ?
——1It is only within a day or so that
the war bulletin maker, has discovered
that if the bank of Spain fails, the war will
end prematurely. What a pity this dis-
covery was not made sooner. How often
we would have busted that institution,
and how many times we would have licked
them in doing so. O, lost opportunities !
What glories you have denied us!
NO. 22.
With Our Soldier Boys at Chickamauga.
The Men Have All Been Paid Off, But the Fifth Kicks
Because a Day is Deducted from Their Time.— Were
Allowed Thirteen Day's Pay and Say They Are En-
titled to Fourteen.
May 29.—The Fourth, Fifth and Ninth
Pennsylvania regiments were paid off yes-
terday and the boys were made happy. It
entailed considerable work to distribute
the money, and it was not completed until
taps were sounded. Colonel Burchfield, of
the Fifth, and Colonel Dougherty, of the
Ninth Pennsylvania, received checks early
in the morning for nearly $20,000. Ac-
companied by their line officers, they lost
no time in going to Chattanooga and get-
ting them cashed. The other i
regiments and batteries are now wandering
when their money will arrive.
There was any amount of disappointment
among the boys in the Fifth because they.
were allowed but thirteen days’ pay, when
they say they are really entitled to fourteen
They claim that the time they were on
their way to Mount Gretna has been de-
ducted for no good reason. Some sharp
communications are being prepared for the
officials of the Keystone state in regard to
the difference. The boys of the Fifth and
Ninth have joined in with the Fourth, and
say they mean to take decisive action to-
wards getting the money they claim isdue.
Orders were received for recruiting up
the Fifth and Ninth Pennsylvania regi-
ments to the full war strength of 1,200
men. This means the addition of four
more companies from Pennsylvania, which
are all ready to join the Fifth regiment.
They will come from Altoona, Indiana,
Bellefonte and Milton. Their captains are
W. C. Westfall, D. W. Simpson, H. C.
Quigley and W. T. Hertzler. Colonel
Dougherty, of the Ninth Pennsylvania,
has also received word that four companies
are ready to join him. These are to come
out of the last state quota of volunteers.
The commanding officers are greatly
pleased over the increase in the numbers of
their regiments. The Fifth regiment of
Pennsylvania is in the best of condition
and health. There was not a solitary new
case of sickness reported yesterday, and
but one convalescent in the hospital. The
boys are going through a daily round of
six to eight hours’ work and thoroughly
enjoy it. The regiment passed in review
last evening before the staff officers in com-
mand of Sergeant Major .J. H. Butler.
Major Shiba, the representative of the
Japanese government sent here to study
the United States army, was the guest of
the Fifth Pennsylvania officers yesterday.
He is a thorough military man and an-
nounced himself as greatly impressed with
the efficiency of the Fifth.
Drum major H. C. Potter, of ‘the regi-
ment has received orders to add a bugle
corps to his martial band, and also received
new instruments for his men. Hiscorps is
a very good one and infuses plenty of spirit
into the men back of them. Oncein a great
while some of these musicians get into
trouble, and two who were apprehended
had the pleasure of digging graves for a
team of mules which died. Their colonel
meted this work ous to then: in the way of
punishment.
Southern hospitality is being showered
on the Fifth Pennsylvania. “Its officers
were visited yesterday by Mrs. Llewelyn
and Mrs. Pahl, of Chattanooga. The
women carried letters of introduction from
attorney H. Price Graffius, of Altoona, and
offered to furnish delicacies for the sick and
reading matter for the boys. Their offer
was gratefully accepted.
Meetings were held in both the Fifth and
Sixteenth regiments, and congratulatory
resolutions were adopted, which will be
forwarded to their former commander, Brig-
adier General Wiley, just appointed by the
President.
Examinations of the officers preliminary
to the coming of Inspector General Breck-
enridge will be held on Monday by Colonel
Burchfield.
Imprisoned in Santiago Harbor.
Spain’s Flying Squadron There.—That Fact Known at
Key West for Three Days.—What is Now to be
Done ?7—Will the Spaniards Be Blochaded, or will
the Forts at Santiago Be Reduced and the Spanish
Vessels Be Compelled to Fight ?—It Would Be
Foolhardiness on the Part of Admiral Cervera to
Offer Battle.
KEY WEST, Fla., May 30.—(5:50 p.'m. )
—Everybody knows now that Spain’s fly-
ing squadron, four splendid cruisers and
two torpedo boat destroyers, is imprisoned
in Santiago harbor. The fact has been
known here for forty-eight hours, and the
speculation was over the probable dispo-
sition of the Spaniards—whether they will
be blockaded or the forts reduced and the
vessels be compelled to fight.
In the latter case there can be but one
result, for Commodore Schley has some of
the finest ships in the world and could, in
a few days be reinforced by other powerful
warships. It would be foolhardiness on the
part of Cervera to offer battle.
An interesting story remains to be told
of the reasons which led Cervera to Santiago
and the way in which he was hemmed in.
On touching at Curacoa for news his plans
were upset by the receipt of dispatches tell-
ing him that Rear Admiral Sampson had
bombarded the San Juan fortifications and
was still in the neighborhood of Porto Rico.
Thereupon Cervera sailed for the south
coast of Cuba. Why he entered Santiago
harbor instead of the harbor of Cienfugos is
not known, but the American commanders
were inclined to think the Spaniards would
go to the latter port.
It is certain that Cervera could not have
escaped from Santiago without heing dis-
covered, for the American scouts had been
about the port for ten days, and other
scouts had not been far away. Practically
Santiago has been blockaded for that length
of time. Cervera’s coal ship, which fol-
lowed him from Curacoa to Santiago, was
captured last Wednesday, and at the very
moment when the queen regent was cabling
her congratulations, the coils were tighten-
ing about him.
The belief here is that all other move-
ments in the West Indies are in abeyance
until the Spanish squadron is disposed of.
In case Santiago is attacked the news of
the battle will be sent from Mole St. Nich-
olas, Kingston, and the wounded will be
sent to Key West.
CAMP THOMAS, CHICKAMAUGA PARK,
blood and he bandaged it.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A baby elephant was born on a circus
car traveling from Shamokin to Pottsville.
—A vicious horse kicked hotel keeper
John Pitzer, of Gettysburg, on the mouth,
breaking his jaw in two places.
—Farmer S. H. Hoffman, living near Shoe-
makersville, Berks county, has discovered
what he thinks is petroleum in his well.
—By the accidental discharge of his gun,
as he was climbing into a wagon, Benjamin
Williams was dangerously wounded at
Girardville, Schuylkill county.
—The striking employes of the Bird Cole-
man furnaces, Cornwall, Lebanon county,
went back to work yesterday, increased
wages having been promised them.
—The Pearce Woolen mill, at Greenville.
Mercer county, has received an order from
the United States government for 5,000
blankets and other goods for the army.
—In a quarrel at Willow Grove near Nor-
ristown, Charles Johnson struck Jacob Storm
on the jaw, knocking him on his back and
causing his death. Johnson gave himself up
and is in jail.
—A dreadful casualty occurred Friday at
the Kaska William colliery, a few miles east
of Pottsville, in which six men were drowned
by a body of water breaking in upon them
from an old working.
—Hon. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia,
will be the commencement orator at Moun-
tain seminary, Birmingham. He will ad-
dress the class in the Presbyterian church
Wednesday, June 8th, at 9.30 a. m.
—Theo. Huff, of Lock Haven, while fish-
ing along the M-Elhatten, Saturday,
killed two black snakes -about twenty feet
apart. The one was seven and a half feet
long and the other about six feet long.
—Jonathan Oliver, Jr., an 8-year-old son of
a Pittsburg contractor, was killed in a runa-
way on Monday morning. Mr. Oliver was
driving with the boy when the horse became
frightened at the dumping of a load of
brick. The buggy was upset.
—Samuel H. Tucker, of Altoona, was ar-
rested Tuesday morning charged by the di-
rectors of the Juniata Building and Loan As-
sociation, of which he was secretary, of em-
bezzling $12,000. At a preliminary hearing
he was held in the sum of $10,000 bail, which
has not yet been furnished.
—The coroner’s jury in the case of James
Eckman, who was drowned at Vandergrift,
near Freeport, May 10th, rendered a verdict
that he came to his death ‘by drowning, be-
ing driven in the river by a shotgun held in
the hands of James Lukis, assisted by his
brothers, John and Daniel.” The three
brothers are in jail at Greensburg.
—Cyrus Towle, aged 62 years, was found
ina dying condition in a lumber yard in
Williamsport on Saturday. He had left
home early in the morning to look for em-
ployment. He was apparently overcome by
heat while walking through the yard and
had lain there for several hours before being
found. He died soon after being taken
home.
—Frank Galbraith, an engineer on the
East Broad Top railroad, while wiping the
moisture off a cab window a few days ago,
was thrown against the glass, and received
an ugly cut on the arm, severing an artery.
The accident occurred near Cook’s Mill, and
by the time Saltillo was reached and the
wound dressed he was nearly dead from loss
of blood. He is now improving.
—Arthur Labar, 14 years of age, who re-
sides near Westfield, while out in the
woods the other day had a lively experience.
The dog discovered three racoons eating
wintergreen berries and at once gave them
battle. The three ’coons made a vicious at-
tack upon the dog, and young Labar, dislik-
ing to see his dog chewed up in this manner,
seized a club and killed all three.
—Edward Dickson, who stole the gold
watch and money at a Glen Union boarding
house last week, at his own request waived
the formalities of a trial and was sentenced
by Judge Mayer yesterday. The sentence
imposed was two months and three yearsin
the western penitentiary. Dickson was
landed in the penitentiary Tuesday morning
just a week after the robbery was committed.
—Mr. Samuel Grable, of Saxon, a few
nights ago upon retiring to bed stumped one
of his large toes against the bedpost. In the
the morning he noticed it was covered with
A few days later
the injury began to pain him, and the pain
extended to his right foot and leg. He is un-
able to leave his bed on account of the in-
jury, and it is feared gangrene has set in.
—Recently the poultry of S. W. Bern-
heisel, of Madison township, Perry county,
have been killed until upwards of 100 chick-
ens have been destroyed. Charles W. Bern-
heisel a few nights ago set a steel trap and.
caught a huge horned owl—the depredator.
The owl made a wicked fight for life but was
finally clubbed to death. The bird measured
5 feet 6 inches from tip to tip of wings—the
largest caught in that section for years.
—The large bank barn of McClelland Dull,
in Milford township, Somerset county, was
shivered by a bolt of lightning during the
storm that prevailed throughout the country
on Sunday afternoon. The magnetic bolt
ignited the hay on the barn loft and in a
short time the entire building was in flames.
Mr. Dull and the members of his family were
absent from home at the time and the barn
and all its contents, including a valuable
horse, were burned.
—On Tuesday last one of the spigots at the
Clearfield brewery refused to give forth any
water, and as it was an important one an in-
vestigation was made, and when the spigot
was taken off the head of an eel was found
protruding from the pipe so tightly wedged
in that it required a pair of pincers to pull it
out. It was fourteen inches long. Later in
the day another pipe was found choked and
another eel was taken from that pipe, and
now the water works all right.
—Robert E. Parry, an electrician, with
Westinghouse, aged 25 years, was rocked to
death in the waves of a steamer on the Alle-
gheny river Monday. While his father was
decorating graves in a cemetery young Parry
and three companions went rowing, and fol-
the common practice of guiding the boat into
the swells left by a stern wheeler, the boat
was overturned. Parry’s companions were
rescued by a naphtha launch, which darted
out from the shore.