8y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—It is the tailor who has proven prompt-
est in taking proper war measures.
—There is hardly enough of the Spanish
navy left to furnish the material for a
phantom fleet.
—The fact that our army of invasion is
now in the windward passage may account
for the amount of blow there is about it.
—What Commander QUAY and Generals
ELKINS and ANDREWS seem to be short of,
is a proper supply of available ammunition.
—Doctor SWALLOW’s head will be fitted
by a smaller hat after the election when he
finds that his vote has shrunk to the nor-
mal Prohibition size.
—The Quay machine will discover that
to carry the State election something more
than wrapping its candidates in the Ameri-
can flag will be required.
— The good sense of the Democratic par-
ty has settled down to the conviction that
State reform wouldn’t be facilitated by
agitating the money question. :
——The restoration of popular govern-
ment by the overthrow of an autocratic
usurpation is the actual issue in the Penn-
sylvania State campaign.
—The anxiety about making a landing
at Altoona next week is what seems to be
troubling the fellows who think they have
charge of the Democratic forces.
—KAISER WILHELM would maintain
the appearance of neutrality with better
grace if he didn’t carry the chip on his
shoulder quite so conspicuously.
—There need be no change in the color-
ing when it comes to keeping green the
memories of some men now posing as the
leaders of the Pennsylvania Democracy.
—The war which a Democratic adminis-
tration urged against Mexico should teach
the present dilatory war managers how to
conduct hostilities with decision and dis-
patch.
—If we can believe the reports that
come from the common enemy, Gen.
WANAMAKER has been putting in his time
stocking the Democratic magazines with
ammunition.
—It is not that the situation requires
more soldiers, but that there are still a few
great mens sons without commission, that
is proving the necessity for an other call
for volunteers.
—~German insolence in inerfering with
the Philippines might almost justify Uncle
Sam to hold on to those islands, although
it wouldn’t be to his advantage to have
such distant possessions.
—How short our memories. Half our
people and the whole of the administra-
tion seem to have forgotten already that
the war was declared for the purpose of
feeding the starving reconcentrados. .- .;;2.;
—As we have no war department in
Cuba, to interfere, it is confidently believed
that the troops will be able to make a land-
ing there in less time and with less trouble
than they did their embarkation at Key
West.
—If military service consisted entirely
of dress parades the ASTOR battery would
be the most efficient corps of soldiers in the
army, as its millionaire commander has
provided its members with no less than
six changes of uniform.
—With the intention of having the
handle of the machine within easy reach
Boss QUAY has vacated his seat in the Sen-
ate for the balance of the session and will
make his headquarters during the summer
on his Lancaster county farm.
—After the siege Gen. SHAFTER and his
command had with our own war depart-
ment in getting started to work? they
ought to be pretty well seasoned for the
lighter troubles they will experience in
overcoming the Spaniards.
—WIiLLIAM J. BRYAN has heen sub-
jected tomean treatment in his endeavor
to serve his country as a soldier, but if he
is given a chance to fight he will prove his
ablility to contend with the Spaniards as
courageously as he has faced the power of
the plutocrats.
—Who says there is incompetency in the
management of the army ? When the sons
of ex-President HARRISON, Vice President
HoBART and the grand son of Gen. GRANT,
who were commissioned officers for their
father’s sakes, are detailed to sort potatoes,
some one, somewhere, evidently snows his
business.
—If the dynamite hombs of the Vesuvius
tear up as large chunks of Cuban soil as is
stated, and if that vessel keeps firing on for
a while, there will be little of the Island
left for America ‘and Spain to contend
about. This conclusion is without doubt,
if the ifs are to be relied upon.
—1It is bad enough for the national treas-
ury to be bled by the ordinary class of Re-
publican leeches, but one is almost com-
pelled to lose faith in human honesty when
a Methodist Book Concern, like the one at
Nashville, couldn’t see any harm in work-
ing off a fraudulent claim on the govern-
ment.
— ‘Lest we forget’” where the responsi-
bility for the nation’s military deficiency
belongs, it should be borne in mind that
the millions that were squandered in the
profligate projects of Republican billion
dollar congresses would have provided the
country with ample means of defence
against a foreign enemy.
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Demat YR ORY
“VOL. 43
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 24, 1898.
Wate
7 202% d &
NO. 25.
Imperial Designs,
While it is apparent to every intelligent
American citizen that the object of the war
with Spain is perfectly justifiable in so far
as it includes the vindication of the na-
tion’s honor, and the relief of the Cuban
people from inhuman Spanish oppression,
it is to plain that this object is being
lost sight of in the desire for territorial ex-
pansion which is taking possession of the
public mind.
It is difficult to conceive how the -addi-
tion of Hawaii to our territorial domain is
connected with the legitimate object of this
war. Yet we see the administration de-
manding the acquisition of those islands as
a war measure, and threatening to so
transcend its constitutional power as to
seize that Island as a military necessity if
Congress should not assent to its annexation.
This appears to be but a part of the im-
perial program that is to be evolved from a
war which was intended for an entirely
different purpose. A colonial empire in
the East Indies is to be started with the
conquest of the Philippines ; the Ladrone
and Caroline Islands in the Pacific ocean
are to be occupied as naval stations ; Porto
Rico is to be retained as part of the terri-
torial spoils of the war, and it is already
being hinted that Cuba will be too valuable
to be handed over to its own people after
the Spaniards shall have been driven out.
Such projects have so much the character
of imperialism that the other imperial ad-
junets, a powerful military force and a
great navy required to defend those distant
possessions, would be the inevitable se-
quence, with its tendency to impair our
constitutional government and to militate
against republican institutions.
The parties who would thus initiate the
conversion of our republic into an empire
by territorial expansion in distant regions,
attempts to justify their design by the ex-
ample of Mr. JEFFERSON’S acquisition of
Louisiana, but the area gained by the
Louisiana purchase was contiguous to the
territorial limits of the states and easily oc-
cupied by American immigrants; and, more-
over, one of the injunctions of that great
statesman was that this nation should not
acquire territory that would need a great
military and naval force for its defence.
Unfortunate in His Champion. 2
—— od
In having GROSVENOR for his sphies-
man in Congress President McKINLEY is
unfortunate not only for the reason that
GROSVENOR is often indiscreet but in ad-
dition to his indiscretion is frequently
drunk. He must have been in the latter
condition when he wrote the letter that
has excited a good deal of comment recent-
ly, in which he said that the President had
been rushed into war by public clamor
when it could have heen settled by diplo-
macy. He would thus make it appear that
it was not the vindication of the nation’s
honor and the relief of the oppressed people
of Cuba that moved President McKINLEY
to hostilities against the Spaniards, but
that he was driven to war by ‘‘the howl-
ing of the demagogues and self-seeking
politicians.”’
While this is but a poor compliment to
the firmness of the head of the nation that
could be moved to so dread an issue as war
by mere public clamor, it is an offensive
reflection upon the patriotic sentiment of
the nation which is thus stigmatized as
demagogic clamor. *
In the discussion.of the war revenue bill
in the House GROSVENOR applied such
abusive terms to Democrats, who properly
criticised that measure, that the best ex-
cuse that could be made for him was that
he was drunk. That was the answer a
Democratic member made to his abuse, and
the House recognized it as a proper re-
joinder. :
Too Late.
Ex-President CLEVELANIY comes to the
front once more in an address on “Good
Citizenship” in which he greatly depre-
cates the imperialistic tendency towards
the acquisition of distant colonies,”’ that is
evidenced by the demands of the present
administration and the support this anti-
American doctrine is receiving from the
public. In opposing this tendency Mr.
CLEVELAND is clearly right, but a little
late to be effective. During the closing
months of his administration he had it in
his power to have prevented even an ex-
cuse for movements such as are contempla-
ted now, just as Mr. McKINLEY, during
the early months of his, had. But neither
sized up to the situation, and the condi-
tions now confronting the country—the
horrors of war with all its attendant evils—
sufferings, taxes, demoralization—with the
impetus that is given to false ideas of gov-
ernment, are largely chargeable to the hesi-
tancy of these two men. Had either done
his duty, there would have been no need of
war. The recognition of the ‘belligerent
rights’’ of the struggling Cubans, by either
one, would have ended the matter =o far as
this country is concerned. The Cubans
would have attended to the rest. But it
was not done. The evils that may grow
out of results of this hesitancy are un-
known. To attempt to check them is the
duty of every good citizen, and in this Mr.
CLEVELAND is to to be commended. But
we fear he is too late to be effective.
‘pected that it would be framed in the in-
A Played Out Policy.
To the Philadelphia Record’s interroga-
tion, “Is protection played out?’ the old
reliable Republican Public Ledger replies
that it is Dingleyism and not protection
that is played out. It then proceeds to re-
mark that ‘the principle of real protection,
which Dingleyism abuses, misrepresents,
and perverts, is wise, good and provident,
and is not now, and will not be played out
so long as the American people consider
what is best for themselves.”’
In speaking this way the Ledger evident-
ly has in its view the incidental protection
which always attended Democratic revenue
tariffs, Their object was to produce reve-
nue, but, in addition to that purpose, pro-
vision was made for protecting industry to
a reasonable extent. Under this system
there was no chance given the monopolies
to practice their extortions, while the du-
ties were amply sufficient to make up the
difference in the price of labor in this coun-
try and in Europe. ;
An excellent example of such a wise and
beneficent economic policy was the Demo-
cratit tariff of 1846 under which the fonnda-
tion of American industrial prosperity was
laid.
The defect in Republican tariffs is that
they are the result of a compact between
the monopolists and the Republican politi-
cians. When the trusts and other preda-
tory combinations furnish the money to
elect Republican Presidents and Congress-
men, the tariffs that result from such an
alliance will be made to suit the interest of
those who supplied the means of carrying
the elections. The DINGLEY tariff was
bought by the capitalists who furnished the
money that elected McKINLEY, and after
it cost them millions it could not be ex-
terest of lahor.
The War Racket.
With its political iniquities exposed, and
its festering corruptions in state govern-
ment laid bare, by unimpeachable testimony
from its own party, the QUAY machine pro-
poses to divert the attention of the voters
from its disreputable record by “‘working
the war racket.”
Designing to make amends for its rotten
politics by a show of patriotism, and with
the object of converting to the advantage
of profligate ringsters the hostility to a
foreign enemy that excites the public feel-
ing at this time, QUAY’s state convention
filled its platform with high sounding ex-
pressions in support of the war, and the
machine stump speakers will call for the
election of QUAY’S man as Governor ‘‘in
order to support the administration in this
crisis.”
The people understand the object of this
racket, and such political tactics will be of
little avail in a campaign in which the
voters know that the enemy which they
have most to fear and will have to grapple
with in this state contest, are not arrayed
under the Spanish flag, but are mustered
under the banner of a vicious political ma-
chine and obey the orders of a corrupt boss.
The soldiers in the field and the sailors
of the navy will maintain the honor of the
flag on land and sea, and administer proper
punishment to an insolent and inhuman
foe. In the performance of this duty they
are so well backed by the approval and
support of patriotic citizens, of all parties,
that they need not the fake endorsement
of a machine platform whose patriotic ex-
pressions are intended to mask ring ras-
cality.
The contest in Pennsylvania is not with
the Spanish enemy whom our brave soldiers
and sailors are abundantly able to defeat 3
but the fight in this old commonwealth is
between the honest citizens and a combina-
tion of corrupt and profligate politicians
who have converted the power of the ma-
jority into a political machine by means of
which they have misruled and plundered
the state.
A Blow at Quay’s Senatorship.
It is not merely the political tyranny
that QUAY exercises in controlling the
party conventions, and dictating the nomi-
nations, that is exciting the opposition of
disgusted Republican. The hostility that
has been thus aroused will be directed not
only against his candidate for Governor,
but it will be arrayed against his own can-
didacy for re-election to the United States
Senate, and therefore will make itself felt
in the election of members of the Legisla-
ture.
Republicans in all parts of tue State, who
have grown weary of wearing collars them-
selves, or being subjected to others who
wear the QUAY collar, have determined
not only to fight the QUAY State ticket,
but to strike at the root of the boss’s politi-
cal power by defeating the Legislative
candidates upon whose election he depends
for his continuance in the United States
Senate.
This anti-Quay hostility, which aims at
overthrowing his = senatorial power, was
proclaimed by WANAMAKER in his speech
at Oxford, Chester county, two days after
the State convention, when he advised the
re-election of the four anti-Quay members
from that county. In every legislative
district the nomination of QUAY candi-
dates is to be defeated, and where this fails,
the Republican anti-Quayites propose to as-
sist in the defeat of QUAY’s legislative
nominees by whatever combination can be
effected .
If the State is to be relieved from the
corruptions of machine rule it is in the
Legislature that reform is needed as much
as in the executive department, and those
citizens who sincerely desire the regenera-
tion of our State government can do as
much towards it by preventing the elec-
tion of QUAY’S candidates for the Legisla-
ture as by defeating his nominee for Gov-
ernor.
| Gold Democrats and State Issues.
The minority of the Democratic party in
this State which, in favoring the gold
standard, disagrees with the majority on
the monetary issue, does not display the
same divergence of sentiment in regard to
matters that are necessary for State reform.
That this class of Pennsylvania Demo-
crats are as fully convinced as are the
majority that the overthrow of the QUAY
machine is necessary for the political and
governmental regeneration of the State, is
shown by the address which they have is-
sued, in which they ascribe to that vicious
domination the misrule that prevails in
Pennsylvania.
There could not be a more thorough and
truthful arraignment of that debasing pow-
er/than is presented in this address. Every
feature of the prevailing political debase-
ment and governmental debauchery is ful-
ly delineated, but the general evil is pow-
etfully portrayed in the single expression
that corruption pervades every department
of the State government, ‘‘the Legislature
if a scandal and the executive is impotent
for good.”
With equal inecisiveness of expression
it prescribes the remedy when it declares
that “The entire service of the State
“and municipal governments must be so
* vigorously and radically reorganized that
‘“ honesty, capacity and efficiency will take
““ the place of bribery and political villainy
‘in every Department.’
Inviewof the present and paramount
duty of correcting such a condition of af-
fairs, why should difference of views on is-
sues that have no connection with State
matters whatever, keep Democrats apart
or prevent their joint action in securing the
needed remedy ?
When the State is to be rescued from the
rule of political corruptionists, and the pil-
lage of public plunders, why should agree-
ment on the question of monetary stand-
ards be required for unity of action in a
matter that relates solely to the quality of
our State government ?
We are confident that this view of the
requirement of the situation will so effect
the action of the Democratic State conven-
tion that it will do nothing to deter a un-
ion all the reform elements in support of
the Democratie State ticket.
ee ——————
Unsubstantial Prosperity.
Young LEITER'S gigantic wheat corner
ended with a crash. He endeavored to
carry a load that eventually smashed him,
as usually happens to every speculative ad-
venturer that tries to corner the wheat
market on a line of prices beyond their
natural level.
LEITER'S failure was the inevitable con-
sequence of an attempt to take advantage
of abnormal conditions. Short harvests in
the wheat fields of the old world created an
unusually heavy demand for the product of
this country. Here was a situation that
promised unbounded wealth it he could
succeed in controlling the only supply up-
on which the world could depend for its
| bread. He grasped for the immense prize.
To hold it was beyond his strength, and
his failure was as great as every attempted
monopoly of the necessaries of life ought to
be.
Something may be learned from LEITER'S
collapse. When the foreign scarcity of
wheat and the operation of the speculators
sent the price up to the unusual figures
that prevailed when the corner was at its
height, such a forced condition was taken
as an evidence of prosperity consequent up-
on the prevalence of Republican policies.
Dollar wheat was pointed to as proving
that there was no affinity between the
price of wheat and the price of silver.
Wheat at a dollar and upwards was spoken
of as if it was to remain asa permanent ref-
utation of the free silver doctrine, and a
confirmation of the benefit of gold mono-
metallism. The farmers all over the West
were said to have had the 16 to 1 nonsense
knocked out of them by the high price of
wheat.
It should have occurred to the most
superficial reasoners that prosperity based
on an artificially high price of a farm pro-
duct was of an unsubstantial character that
would collapse when the anarket could no
longer he successfully manipulated.
Noble Deeds of Illustrious Sons.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Let the band play and the goddess of
liberty dance with delight ! 5
Major Russell Harrison has inspected
and condemned several hundred barrels of
mouldly potatoes shipped to Florida for
the use of the troops. The major was as-
sisted in this daring enterprise by Major
Hobart, also the son of his father, and by
Lieut. Algernon Sartoris, the grandson of
his grandfather. A dispatch from Jackson-
ville notes this affair as ‘‘an illustration of
the adaptability of American youth to the
conditions of a soldier’s life without regard
to previous surroundings,”’ and observes
that “‘owing to the condition of the pota-
toes the work was disagreeable and arduous,
but the board performed it cheerfully and
to the greatest satisfaction of Gen. Lee and
the health officer of Jacksonville. ’’
Problem : It it takes two of the recently
appointed majors and one of the highly re-
lated lieutenants to inspect one shipment
of spoiled potatoes how many of these
officers will he Decessary to spoil a Span-
iard ?
For the solution of this problem farther
details are desirable. Did Russell and
Algernon and the other chap approach the
scene of action with corks in their noses
and tucks in their trousers, or did they
follow the fashion set by hero Hobson at
the sinking of the Merrimae, and advance
prepared for a swim? There is a modus
operandi, even in the inspection of potatoes,
whereby one may recognize the man of
mark.
——————————
Here's Food for Thought, While the Ad-
ministration is Bothering About
Hawaii.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
*‘The sight made by the Eighteenth as
the men marched to the train would bring
a blush of shame to the cheeks of every
man who holds his nation’s honor dear,
Eight hundred and seventy-three men were
in line, including officers. Of this num-
ber 348 were recruits who had arrived with-
in the past five days. At least 200 other
recruits had been here for a month, and
yet not a rag had they received from the
government. There were 265 guns scat-
tered among the men. Colonel Smith had
a horse, paid for by himself.
“Ragged, unarmed, undisciplined in
part, the shuffling crowd of men would
hardly bear comparison with Coxey’sarmy.
Scores of the boys have kept within their
tents for weeks, restraining from joining in
the soldier sport, because of their lack of
wearing apparel, and words cannot describe
their shame-faced air as they were obliged
at last to parade their nakedness. And all
this is a description of the regiment which
has been here longest, which for seven
weeks has been tantalized by “government
promises of equipments soon to come.’’
e——
Favored Only by Those Who Will Make
Money by It.
From the Danville Intelligencer.
There appears to be a determination of
the present administration to force the an-
nexation of the Hawaii islands into the
Union by hook or crook no matter what
the means. A considerable number of Con-
gress are opposed to such annexation, in-
cluding speaker Reed, but we doubt if they
can defeat the measure under the pressure
brought by the government. The usual
way to annex is by a treaty sent in by the
President and confirmed by the Senate but
it can’t be accomplished this way, hence an
attempt is to be made through'a common
resolution. A big lobby of sugar monopo-
lists is trying to force the measure through.
Not one man out of a hundred throughout
the States hes been asked his opinion
whether he favors the measure, and we
fully believe that a majority oppose it. As
to the natives of the island they have no
voice in the matter. A few carpet baggers
have seized it and are now lobbying to
have the islands annexed to the United
States to enrich themselves regardless of
the interest of this country.
I ———]
And the Country Would Stilt Survive.
From the Pittsburg Post.
There is a great deal of talk about dif-
ferences between General Alger, secretary
of war, and General Miles, who commands
the army, and it is said one or the other of
them may go. It isa give-it-up sort of
conundrum to tell which President Me-
Kinley will find it difficult to make a selec-
tion, and it can’t be put to a vote. Proba-
bly it would be best to let both go.
ee ————
So Say We All.
From the Phila. Evening Telegraph (Rep.)
Let Quay’s candidate for governor he
defeated at the polls. Let his candidates
for the Legislature be defeated at the pri-
maries. Let the fight be kept up until he
and his candidates are alike rebuked and
Quayism is brought to an end. Let the re-
volt extend so wide and so far that this
time the fruits of victory may not turn to
ashes on the lips.
Took Control Himself.
From the Northampton Democrat.
Quay’s convention in 1895 declared
against ‘‘the corporate control of Legisla-
tures.”” The last Legislature lived up to
that idea and its control was placed in the
hands of Senator Quay with the result that
is too well known.
————
Republican Legislation Will Save Them,
From the Wilkesbarre Leader,
While peor men are offering their all on
the altar of their country Mr. Havemeyer
and Mr. Rockefeller, multi-millionaires,
are moving heaven and earth to keep from
payinga war tax they would not feel.
—It looks as if the Senate is going to
show itself to be as badly inoculated with
Hawaiian leprosy at the House was.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Brakeman John McHugh fell under a
team at Hazleton and was cut in two.
—A new Lutheran church, to cost $20,000,
will be erected at Hamburg, Berks county.
—Three miners were killed by an explosion
of gas in the Latrobe mines, near Greens-
burg.
—Bass fishing along the Susquehanna at
the present time is better than it has been
in years.
—While fishing at the dam below Arden-
heim a few days ago, W. M. Graffius caught a
German carp weighing 6} pounds.
—Thirty-five applicants for mine foreman’s
certificates were examined at Pottsville at
the last session of the board of examiners.
—William Silverman and his brother, ped-
dlers, were dumped into the canal near Bris-
tol, with their team, and narrowly escaped
death.
—Col. A. K. McClure, of the Philadelphia
Times, will deliver the oration at the laying
of the corner stone of the state capitol build-
ing some time this month.
—Charged with threatening to extermi-
nate his wife and children with a shotgun,
farmer George Neff, of Upper Strasburg,
Franklin county, has been committed to
jail.
—Andrew Kuben, who shot and killed his
cousin, Andrew Krisen, of Ellwood city, be-
cause he smoked in the parlor, has been
found guilty of second degree murder at
Sharon.
—No settlement of the wage difficulties
between the manufactures of the window
glass and the blowers and gathers was
reached at a two days’ conference just closed
at Pittsburg.
—The body of John Houston was found on
a lonely road near Pittston, Luzerne county,
Monday. A ghastly shot gun wound was
found in his breast. It is believed the man
was murdered.
—Major R. C. McNamara has been ap-
pointed judge advocate of the Fifth Regi-
ment, Pennsylvania volunteers, and, in ad-
dition to his regular duties as a soldier will
try all cases of the Fifth,
—Henry Bowman was found dead in Upper
Lancaster township, near Bird-in-Hand,
with his throat cut from ear to ear Tues-
day morning. The man is supposed to have
committed suicide on account of despond-
ency.
—Lieut. Col. James A. Barnett and Adj.
Crowell, of the Tenth Regiment, detailed to
Greensburg, from San Francisco, to recruit
the Tenth Regiment up to the required num-
ber, have over 1,200 more men on the rolls
than are required.
—Bonds are being subscribed for in Har-
risburg very rapidly under the recent act of
Congress, and the various banks of that
city have orders for them under $500 aggre-
gating about $150,000. Many persons are do-
ing business directly with the United States
government.
—Patrick Huston, of Pittston, was lodged
in jail at Wilkesbarre, on Wednesday, charg-
ed with the murder of his brother, John.
The dead body of the latter, with a bullet
hole in his}head, was found on a lonely road at
Pittston last Sunday morning. The prisoner
claims he is innocent.
—Senator Quay, who is suffering from a
renewed attack of his old enemy, indiges-
tion, left Washington on Friday afternoon
for his farm, in Lancaster county, where his
family has preceeded him, and where he
expects to remain for several weeks unless
called back by complications in the
Senate.
—President Kennedy, of the Cumberland
valley railroad company, denies the state-
ment that his company has bought the Har-
risburg and Mechanicsburg electric street
railway company and that the railroad com-
pany will complete the electric road and then
take off some of its trains between the two
plac:s.
—The state treasurer has been notified
that about $240,000 will be required to pay all
the expenses incident to the ordering out of
the Pennsylvania National guard, which
would make the cost to the State of two calls
the past year $500,000, the Hazleton labor
troubles having involved an expenditure of
about $150,000.
—A recruiting office was opened at the
Fifth Regiment armory, at Holidaysburg, on
Monday, by Maj. J. P. Kennedy, of Blairs-
ville, and Captain J. Swan Taylor, of Johns-
town. There were 160 applicants. Thirty-
one men were accepted. They will leave at
once to join Company C, of the Fifth Regi-
ment, at Chickamauga.
—After arranging a crape from ‘a black
silk veil and tacking it on her front door,
Mrs. John Schweitzer, a widow, aged sixty-
five, took a piece of wash-line and hung her-
self in the garret Monday morning. She at-
tired herself in mourning, too, and left a
note saying that she was tired of living and
wanted to join her husband and only son in
heaven.
—Lieut. Edgar W. Howe, who has been as-
signed by the War department to muster in
the eighteen companies of infantry from
Pennsylvania under the President’s second
call for volunteers, reached Harrisburg on
Monday to confer with Governor Hastings
and adjutant general Stewart. The com-
panies will be recruited largely from the
counties without representation in the volun-
teer army, preference being given to the
large counties.
—The postoffice department has an-
nounced the annual readjustment of presi-
dential postmasters’ salaries for the fiscal
year beginning July 1st. The changes in
Pennsylvania are as follows: Altoona and
Easton advanced from second to first class;
Ambler, Charleroi, Conshohocken, Kane and
Wayne advanced from third to second class.
The increases of nearby offices are as follows:
Jersey Shore, $1,500 to $1,600 ; Austin, $1,400
to $1,500 ; Galeton, $1,300 to $1,400; Hughes-
ville, $1,300 to $1,400 ; Lewisburg, $2,000 to
$2,100; Coudersport, $1,600 to $1,700 ; Kane,
$1,900 to 2,000 ; Wellsboro, $1,800 to $1,900 ;
Philipsburg, $2,100 to $2,200; Northumber-
land, $1,300 to $1,400; Ridgway, $2,000 to
$2,100; Sunbury, $2,100 to $2,200; Watson-
town, $1,400 to $1,500 ; Montoursville, $1,000
to $1,100.
Decrease :
Bellefonte, from $2,200 to
$2,100.