Demon
ic fea.
BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Stings.
For the rain raineth not in the night time,
And the sun shineth hot through the day,
And the good farmer sweats,
And the other onc swears,
While housing his harvest of hay.
— There was no Klondike atmosphere
| about the Altoona convention.
—The Altoona convention played ‘‘high
, JENKs?’ with the GORDON boom.
— The Democratic forces have evacuated
© Altoona, and peace again reigns in the
Mountain city.
—There will be no insurgents to harass
and annoy the Democratic forces in this
fall’s campaign.
——School boys of the next century will
say that Uncle Sad discovered Cuba and
Porto Rico.
—Now that the Altoona skirmish is over
Mr. WANAMAKER’S cables may be in
working order again in a few days.
—The best thing that the Hon. JAMES
KERR and his friends can do now is to for-
get GORDON and remeinber JENKS.
—After all their grappling the QUAY
forces seem to have failed in locating the
severed cables of the insurgent Republicans.
—The fellows who don’t know just
“where they are at’’ are the fellows who
are out with QUAY and not in yet with
JENKS.
—The Altoona convention remembered
BRYAN but wisely decided to fight the
campaign of '9= on the issues that are in-
volved in it.
——The question is not so much one of
where to get the stamps to put on one’s
checks as it is where to get the stamps to
draw checks on.
—The night-key that the gold Demo-
crats have been looking for was furnished
them at Altcona, and it is confidently ex-
pected that they will all be back home in
a short time.
—And now comes the startling rumor
_ that Dr. SWALLOW has planted his politic-
| al mines all about the barbor of Harris-
-t burg.
Well, we always supposed that his
| chief effort was to blow somebody up.
—In their brush with the American cow
boys last week the Spaniards evidently
discovered that there is a very material
difference between our cow-boys and the
boy-cows with which they have been ac-
customed to fighting for amusement.
—An exchange asks ‘‘have you ever no-
ticed the promptness with which MARK
HANNA meets all situations.”” We have.
Every time a Republican convention en-
dorses the administration, he is the first
man to chasse out to the foot-lights and bow
his acknowledgments.
—The American people to-day are nore
interested in the ‘‘before and after effects’’
than ever in their lives. Gen. SHAFTER
has twenty-three thousand men before
Santiago, but the dear hearts at home are
sad at the thought that he cannot have so
many after.
—We are not naturally pessimistic, but
the situation compels us to warn our peo-
ple that there is no telling how many of
our brave boys, now at Chicamauga, may
fall long before reaching the Spanish out-
posts. The Georgia water-melon patch
is right in the way of their march.
—Our contemporary, the Philadelphia
Inquirer, with its usual ambition in mat-
ters Republican, tried to make its last Sun-
day readers believe that all of the candi-
dates on the Republican state ticket were
warriors of old. It did succeed in doing it
fairly well, but when it got down to poor
old GALUSH Grow all that could be said
of him was that he was speaker of the
House in "61.
—The fact that Germany has seven war
ships in Manila bay is leading many to be-
lieve that Emperor WILLIAM intends grab-
bing some of the Philippines when the par-
tition is made. The German government
stoutly denies any such intentions and
well she may, for while Uncle SAM has
his hand in he might not stop until there
would be frankforters and wienerwurst
flying skyward along with the dried Span-
ish beef that will soon be blowing up.
—The United Brethren missionary who,
with his wife and four children, was held
up by the nativesabout Sierra Leone, West
Africa, for a ransom, has been turned over
for £118 sterling which was paid by the
church missionary society. While the
WILBERFORCES are doubtless very happy
to get out of the clutches of those bad
Africans, yet they cannot be very greatly
consoled at the thought that they were
only worth £118 in the eyes of the natives.
It is no wonder they were run in as mis-
sionaries and held up as soup hones.
—The people who thought that a Demo-
cratic state convention could not be run
without rowdyism had reason to change
their minds after seeing the Altoona con-
vention on Wednesday. The fight for
Governor was sharp, but it was fair and
not an untoward movement was made hy
any set of men. Factions and bosses were
lost sight of in the preponderating trend of
reform and a ticket was nominated that
should receive the support of every Penn-
sylvanian who is desirous of seeing the
state government wrested from the blight-
ing effects of QUAY’S touch.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA, | JULY 1, 1898.
Democratic Support of the War.
There is no mistaking the position of the
Democratic party in regard to the present
war. The Democrats of the present gen-
eration imitate the example of their patri-
otic predecessors in heartily supporting all
war measures when their country is in con-
flict with a foreign “enemy. In fact all
past wars with foreign countries since the
establishment of our government were con-
ducted by Democratic administrations, and
hence it is a Democratic instinct to strike
the enemies of the republic.
It there has been any fault-finding by
Democrats with the present war it has been
{ on account of a deficiency of vigor in its
prosecution, and the perversion of its pur-
pose to others than those for which it was
declared If there has been occasion for
Democratic censure it had its cause in
the delay, indecision and bad management
that have been advantageous to the enemy.
In their willingness to supply all the mon-
ev necessary for the war, the Democrats
were justified in requiring that the meas-
ures adopted for the raising of revenue for
the national defence should not be special-
ly adjusted to the advantage of the hank-
ers.
Nothing could he more natural to the
Democrats than to stand by the flag in a
conflict with a foreign enemy, and this spir-
it that has always animated the party now
finds expression in the deliverances of
Democratic State conventions. The plat-
form of the Michigan Democrats recom-
mends a most liberal appropriation of mon-
ey to pay the expenses of the war; it de-
mands a vigorous and effective prosecution
of hostilities, and that economy of treasure
and life should be protected so far as is
consistent with the means by which vieto-
ry is to he secured ; that the best food sup-
plies and arms shall be provided for the
soldiers and that ‘‘there shall be no cessa-
tion of effort until every righteous purpose |
of the war shall be accomplished.
With equal patriotism the Indiana Demo-
cratic platform demands ‘‘the most vigor-
ous prosecution of the war until it shall
have ended in vindication of the National
honor, the absolute relinquishment by
Spain of possession or control of any part
of the western hemisphere, and the formal
acknowledgment by that kingdom of the | a i
| The troops sent down from Michigan two months |
independence of the Cuban republic.”
We write this article in advance of the
meeting of the Pennsylvania Democratic
State convention, hut we are confident that |
its platform will express the old Demo-
cratic spirit that was the main stay of the
government in every war with a foreign
enemy.
Perverting the Object of the War.
It should be a satisfaction to those citi-
zens who are opposed to McKINLEY'S im-
perial designs that some of the ablest of the
Republican leaders do not approve of his
Hawaiian scheme, and are decidedly oppos-
ed to his intention of seizing those islands,
by forcible and irregular means, if they can
not he acquired by the process of annexa-
tion prescribed by our laws.
Senator MORRILL, of Vermont, who rep-
resents the most conservative and intelli-
gent element of Republicanism, has raised
his voice in the Senate against this con-
templated land piracy, which is intended
to be an imitation of the grasping policies
of European monarchies in the acquisition
of colonial territories. Even speaker REED,
who stops at nothing in pushing the inter-
ests of the Republican party in its meas-
ures relating to the internal government of
would call a halt on the
the country,
scheme of imperial expansion upon which
this administration has insanely embarked,
and of which the seizure of Hawaii would
be an initial incident.
There can be no necessity growing out of |
the present war that would require the pos-
session of these iskands, or justify it as war
measure. Our nation justly entered into
hostilities with Spain to redress the wrongs
of an oppressed people and to. relieve the |
fair island of/Cuba from a tyranny that not |
only outraged humanity but injured our
material interests. This justifiable object |
will be grossly perverted by allowing that |
war to drift into foreign conquests that will
rival the monarchies of Europe in the seiz-
ure of distant territories by force of arms,
and establishing a system of colonial de-
pendencies.
The Steme of Imperialism.
Thoughtful men who see the tendency of
the government to drift from its original |
constitutional moorings, are
alarmed at the rapidly developing designs
of politicians whose purpose is to convert
the republic into an imperial domain.
After the civil war a change was brought
about in our governmental policies, which
were adapted to the promotion of wealth,
and the building up of a wealthy class for
whose benefit special measures of govern- |
ment have been devised. We now have |
another war, righteously commenced for a
becoming |
We are to have East India possessions ; is-
where naval and military forces may be
stationed ; Cuba, Porto Rico, and even the
pansive program, and the imperial schemes
are anticipating a condition of labor in
al establishment will require.
Among the wise and patriotic public men
who see the danger of imperialism in such
schemes as the annexation of Hawaii,
retention of the Philippines, and the event-
who, in his address at the opening of the
Omaha exposition, after he was fully un- |
der way, said :
“History will vindicate the position taken by the
| United States in the war with Spain. In saying
voked in the inauguration of the war will be "ob-
served in its p ssecution and conclusion. If a
contest undertaken for the sake of humanity de-
generates into a war of conquest we shall find it
difficult to meet the charge of having added hy-
pocrisy to greed. Is our National character so
weak that we cannot withstand $e temptation to
appropriate the first piece of land that comes
within our reach ?”’
This is the expression of a patriot and a
statesman who has set his face against the
design to substitute imperialism for a re-
publican government which our fathers
placed upon a constitutional basis.
What is Wrong With the Troops?
At the beginning of this week there were
in Camp Thomas, at Chickamauga, 47,000
troops, with about 1,000 new recruits add-
ed every day. Why,
of soldiers mustered into the
and pay of the government, General Shaft-
er’s army had to sail for Santiago with an |
insufficient number of men to meet a su-
perior force of the enemy, may be explained
by what Gov. PINGREE, of Michigan, re-
ports as being the situation at the camps,
as he saw them.
amauga and Tampa, to ohserve the condi-
ed to make the following sarcastically in-
dignant declaration :
“This is a fine Government.
ment all around.
Good manage-
The soldiers were sent down
cot. TL thermometer was ahove-90 every
Gaye
ago just got their guns while I was there. 1don’t
know what's the matter.
ernment has lots of arms but somehow or other
they did not give thiem to the trcops.
This condition of affairs exists in the
camp because the work of organization has,
in a large measure, heen put in the hands
of incompetent parties who were selected,
not with the object of having a most im- |
portant work performed with efficiency and
dispatch, hut to furnish places and
shoulder-straps for the sons of influential |
| have a pull on the administration. If
i these incompetent and unworthy military
appointees had been generally appreciated
as they were by Gen. FITZHUGH LEE, who
put some of them to sorting potatoes, the
injury that was likely to result from their
incapacity, would be limited, but shen
they are assigned to so important a duty as
feeding, equipping and organizing the
troops, a service with which they are en-
tirely unacquainted, it is no wonder that
the camps are thronged with troops that
are not in condition for field duty, while
operations against the enemy are delayed
| by the want of a sufficiently equipped and
organized force.
Abundance of Fighting Material.
| In one respect this war is heing carried
| on with an advantage which this country
never had before when it called its citizens
to arms. There was never a time when
soldiers were so plentiful and could be so
| easily recruited. The quotas of the States
| can be filled many times over, and this can
be done after taking the pick of the very
best men.
Why is it that the number of men ready
| and anxious to enlist is so extremely large ?
| Why is it that the recruiting stations, par-
ticularly in the cities, are almost mobbed
| with crowds that want to go into the
military service? Tell it not in these days
| of McKINLEY prosperity, but the fact is
that this abundance of military material
{is on account of the great multitude of
| men who are out of employment. Thou-
| sands who were deceived by the promise
| of ‘the advance agent of prosperity,” can
| find nothing to do, and are eager to take
| the job which uncle SAM offers them in his
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army at $15 a month in addition to ra-
tions.
The condition of labor is these ‘‘prosper-
ous’ McKINLEY times is indeed favorable
to the recruiting of a large army. The |
| fighting material having heen made plenti-
| ful as an effect of Republican economic
policies, the plutocrats who have heen
benefited by those policies ought to be
| liberal in furnishing the money to pay the
expense of the fighting ; but it was seen
| that when it was proposed to tax their in- |
lands of the sea are to be seized as points |
Canary Islands, will be included in the ex- |
ual absorption of Cuba, with other land- |
grabbing later on, is WILLIAM J. BRYAN, | tained hy testimony that compelled a Re-
tion of the Michigan troops, was constrain- -
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be available for supplying the large mili- |
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The Governor having gone both to Chick- |
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Twin Pictures of Corruption.
Two contemporary circumstances power-
fully assist each other in showing the po-
litical demoralization that has been brought
about hy the supremacy of the Republican |
party. One of these illustrations of de-
generate politics is presented in the State
of Ohio, where the supreme control of the |
governing party has been surrendered to a
notorious corruptionist who has been prov-
en hy a competent legislative committee to
have been guilty of bribery in securing his | |
election to the United States Senate.
This charge against this political scoun-
drel, involving an offense punishable by im-
prisonment in the penitentiary, was sus-
publican investigating committee to find
him guilty. The facts disclosed did not
| leave a particle of doubt that HANNA
| bought his senatorial election. The public
mind is convinced beyond question that
| the villainous agent of corruption who se-
cured the election of McKINLEY by the
expenditure of a vast campaign hoodle
fund, employed similar means in securing
for himself a seat in the United States
Senate.
The political debasement and public de-
moralization indicated by such a state of
facts assume a still more ominous import
| when such crimes against popular govern-
ment as HANNA has been guilty of are not
only regarded with indifference and allowed
to go unpunished, but the criminal is ex-
alted on account of them into the position
of the political boss of his State.
{Pennsylvania presents a companion pic-
{ ture which in point of political disgrace
| and public shame equals the Ohio infamy.
| The leader of the majority party uses
| that organization as a machine by which
| he controls the politics of the State and
manages its government for his own selfish
ends and for the benefit of a predatory gang
| of political dependents.
| Asin the case of Ohio, political suprem-
lacy in Pennsylvania is surrendered to a
party boss who has corrupted its politics
and debauched its government. Such de-
based and demoralized public conditions
are particularly conspicuous in Ohio and
Pennsylvania as an accompaniment to Re-
ublican rule, hut they are making their
fiinous appearance in all parts of the Re-
public, constituting a danger that menaces
thesintegrity of our popular government,
and awill eventuate in its ruin if the people
do not soon come to the rescue of their im-
periled institutions.
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It Should Not Complain.
The New York World employs severe
terms in condemning President McKINLEY
for the mismanagement of the war, but
while its strictures are, in a large measure,
| deserved, they hardly become a newspaper
that deserted the party to which it avow-
edly belonged, and under the pretense that
the honor of the nation and the public cred-
it required the election of a goldbug Presi-
dent, gave its support to the man whom it
now charges with prolonging the war and
sacrificing the lives of the soldiers in the
interest of the politicians and plutocrats.
A journal that advocated the election of
a candidate for President who was put for-
ward as the representative of the money
power, and was backed by the monopolies
and ‘capitalistic syndicates, should have
the grace to stand by him when his man-
agement is of a kind that could be expect-
ed of a chief executive elected by such in-
fluences.
If at the beginning of this conflict Presi-
dent McKINLEY held back and dilly-dal-
lied when the nation’s honor and safety re-
quired prompt and vigorous action, and
has since pursued a course that compelled
the chief expedition to Santiago to start
with but half its complement of men on
account of the incompetent management of
political appointees to the quartermaster
aud commissary departments, to whom
were entrusted the equipment and prepa-
ration of the troops for service in the field,
it doesn’t look well for the World to make
a fussabout it.
How to Reform the Legislature.
If Pennsylvania is to be redeemed from
the misrule of the machine politicians the
legislative as well as the executive depart-
ment of its government must be reformed.
The worst evils that prevail in the public
affairs of the State spring from the absolute
control of its Legislatures which a corrupt
hoss has. been able to exert. A machine
Gav ernor would he unable to seriously in-
jure the interests of the State if the Legis-
lative body did not also render obedience
to the party boss.
It is for this reason that those who are
striving for better government in our State
must make as great an effort to prevent
the election of QUAY’s candidates for the
Legislature as to defeat the candidate for
Governor whom the Republican autocrat
has selected to obey his orders and main-
tain the power of the machine.
It was evidently in line with this indis-
humane object and the maintenance of the | comes, inheritances, corporation stocks and | pensable purpose, in the interest, of state re-
nation’s honor, hut there is an evident de- |
sign to pervert it to the object of territorial
aggrandizement and colonial expansion
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capitalistic investments for war PE pores
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{ form, that the Democrats of Lawrence
county postponed their legislative nomina-
kind of a kick in| tions with the object of effecting a union
vith the anti-machine Republicans i in elect-
{ ing members who will oppose QUAY’S re-
election to the United States Senate and
assist in passing the measures of reform in
the Legislature demanded hy the people of
the State.
This is an example that could be wisely
followed by the Democrats of other coun-
ties, where the local situation is similar to
| that in Lawrence. There is abundant evi-
| dence of a disposition on the part of the
anti-machine Republicans to assist in a
combined movement for the purification of
| the Legislature. A majority in the Assem-
bly hostile to the Quay power would be a
| big step in the reformation of the state
government. It can not he effected hy the
Democrats single handed and alone, but it
may be accomplished by a union with in-
dependent and anti-ring Republicans in
close or doubtful districts.
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To be Hasti] y Prepared.
Entire First Corps, Including Pennsylvania's Fifth
Regiment, is to Leave Camp Thomas.
CHICKAMAUGA NATIONAL MILITARY
PARK, Ga., June 23.—The order issued
Sunday to equip and prepare immediately
fifteen regiments of the First corps, to form
an expeditionary force, was revoked hy
Major General Brooke to-day. This does
not change the plan to prepare for an ex-
pedition, “however, since the revoking or-
der effects more especially the transfers
that were named in the former order. It
provides further that, instead of fifteen
regiments being equipped and prepared.
the entire First ¢ corps of twenty-seven regi-
ments is to be hastily prepared for active
field service, and the natural inference pre-
vails among the best posted army officers
at the park that the entire force will be off
for Tampa or other sea ports within a week
or ten days, or as rapidly as troops can be
provided.
The regiments included are: Ninth
Pennsylvania, Second Missin, First New
Hampshire, Twelfth New York, Twenty-
seventh Kansas, Seventh Massachusetts,
First South Carolina, Twelfth Minnesota,
Fifth Pennsylvania, Fourteeth Minnesota,
First Pennsylvania, Second Ohio. Sixth
Ohio, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Indi-
ana, First West Virginia, One Hundred
and Sixtieth Indiana, First Georgia, Thirty-
first Michigan, Sixteenth Pennsylv. ania,
Second Wisconsin, Third Kentucky, Fourth
Pennsylvania, Third Illinois, Fourth Ohio,
First Kentucky, Third Wisconsin and
Fifth Illinois.
Major General Brooke was appointed by
the President to command the corps.
Major General Wade will be left in com-
mand at Camp Thomas. The change made
by to-day’s order appears to have been in
accordance with General Brooke's desire not
to go to the front without sufficient men
for any emergency that might rise.
The work of equipping the corps is pro-
ceeding with all possible speed and the
quartermasters and the ordnance depart-
ments are veing taxed to their utmost ca-
pacity.
It is likely that the regiments all will be
paid before any of them are ordered out.
| Major Otto Becker and Major Seymour
Howell were the only government pay-
masters arriving to-day, although twenty-
five were expected, Major Becker stated
that the corps would begin paying the
army at once. The privates will be paid
at the rate of $15.60 per month and officers
from $18 to $291.67 per month. Major
to be paid out will not be less than $2,000,-
000 and probably will run even higher.
George W. Homan, Company H, Fifth
regiment, died to-day at division head-
quarters and the body was shipped to his
former home at Gaysport, Pa., for inter-
ment.
Merritt off for DManila.
Wili Hurry ‘to Honolulu and Proceed to
As Soon as Possible.
Manila
Major General Merritt has abandoned
his headquarters at the Phelan building in
San Francisco and Tuesday formally turn-
ed over the offices to Major General Otis.
Major General Merritt went on board the
steamer Newport at 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning and issued orders to sail before 10
c’clock.
It was intimated at headquarters before
his leaving that General Merritt’s plan is
not to wait for troops, but to hurry to
Honolulu, get coal and proceed on to Ma-
nila, as soon as possible.
With the advantage of a faster boat,
tion. Six gatling guns mounted on car-
riages were fixed on the upper deck of the
Newport and the guns of the Astor battery
and the Third United States artillery are
close at hand.
The Astor battery and Third regiment
marched on hoard Tuesday. They were
accorded an enthusiastic ovation as they
marched tarough the streets on the way to
the water front. All through the night
and to-day a large force of men worked to
prepare the troop steamer Valencia for sea.
It was nearly 5 o’clock Tuesday evening
when orders were given to ‘‘cast off’”’ and,
with a mighty cheer from the crowds on
the shore and the 700 Dakotans gathered
on her deck, the vessel swung into the
stream. The Valencia is not a slow boat
and, although very heavily loaded, expects
to reach Honolulu only a few hours after
the four vessels which left this port yes-
terday.
Will Go to Philippines.
PHILADELPHIA. June 28.—One hundred
and twenty-two sailors and machinists left
here to-day over the Pennsylvania railroad
for San Francisco, where they will join the
cruiser Philadelphia, which is being fitted
out here for her voyage to the Philippine
islands. They are in command of Lieut.
Commander Thomas H. Stevens, of the
Norfolk’ navy yard. The men arrived at
the depot in three detachments. One de-
tachment of eighty-four sailors came from
ten machinists from the Norfolk navy yard
“and the third was compdsed of twenty-eight
seamen from the League isiand navy yard.
special train.
Mansfield, O.,
picked up.
A stop was made at
where 150 recruits were
General Merritt will probably reach Mani- |
la a week in advance of the third expedi- |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Five hundred and sixty-nine inmates are
now confined in the Huntingdon reforma-
| tory.
i the Citizens’
the
the
victim of
died
—John Morrell, a second
Park Place boiler explosion,
Miners’ hospital, at Ashland.
—In a row between John Booth and his
wife, at Lancaster, the man was struck on
the neck with a bottle, and may die from the
effects of the blow.
mn
—Police quelled a riot between line men of
and Lycoming Electric com-
panies, of Williamsport, at war over the right
to string wires.
—Jesse McClain, of Carbon township, Hunt-
ingdou county, has had 16 head of sheep
killed recently by dogs, and he thinks it is
time to call a halt on the canines.
—Susie Hill, the young woman, who swal-
lowed poison for being arrested on the charge
of pilfering at Williamsport over a week ago,
died in the hospital in that city Saturday.
—A few days ago the daughter of J. C.
Frank, of Newport, found a good sized house
snake in the bath room on the second story.
The reptile showed fight but was soon dis-
patched.
—Pat McDonald, of Falls Creek, is peeling
15,000,000 feet of logs this season. Although
200 men are employed on the job, more will
be needed in order to get through before the
close of the season.
—A terrible gale passed over Pittsburg
shortly after noon Saturday, doing much
damage. Preston Johnson, a negro, was kill-
ed by flying debris. The velocity of the gale
was 48 miles an hour.
—The jury in the case of James A. Clem-
mer, on trial at Norristown for the murder of
Mrs. Emma P. Kaiser, returned a verdict of
murder in the first degree. The jury was
out less than an hour.
—Two firemen were killed and about eight
others injured by a fire which broke out in
the works of Thomas Potter's Sons & Co.,
manufacturers of oileloth and linoleum,
Second and Venango streets Philadelphia on
Saturday.
—The Carpenter steel works of Reading,
on Monday made one of the largest shipments
of projectiles and shells for many weeks.
They numbered over 500, and after being
filled at the arsenal will be consigned to At-
lantic coast defences and war vessels now in
Cuban waters.
—Enoch Bush received a letter from his
son, Bert, a member of Company K. Tenth
regiment, P. V., enclosing a postal money
order for $20. Bert explained in the letter
that the $20 was to hire a harvest hand to
assist his father in harvesting.
—Fire on Saturday last destroyed the
double business property of Thomas Newell,
at Huntingdon, occupied by J. B. Port, no-
tions ; Eby & Spooneybarger, bicycles, and
G. W. Chambers, clothing. Loss £10,000.
The Port family narrowly escaped burning
by jumping from the second story windows.
—During the heavy wind and rain storm
on Saturday, the main building of the J.
Mahler Glass company’s plant at DuBois,
was blown down and set on fire. The glass-
blowers were quitting work at the time and
only one man was slightly injured. The
entire plant except the office ai 1G the pack-
ing house was consumed. Loss $15,000, fully
insured.
—The Chambersburg Register has two hen
eggs, on the small end of each of which are
the figures 7 and 8, respectively, The figures
are raised, are about one-fourth of an inch in
length and are perfectly formed. These
eggs were laid by a hen owned by George
Shultz, at Clayhill, Franklin county, and
have been pronounced a great curiosity by
all who have seen them.
—The national relief commission has ship-
: | ped from Philadelphia by fast freight to Camp
Becker roughly estimates that the amount |
Thontas at Chickamauga a guantity of sup-
plies of various kinds, weighing upwards of
6,000 pounds, valued at about $2,000. These
supplies are for hospital purposes. The com-
mission has also arranged to keep the hospi-
tal at Camp Thomas supplied with ice and
fresh milk for the benefit of the sick soldiers.
—Miss K. Kieffer, of Lewisburg, while ar-
ranging things about the house Thursday
threw a small package that she found lying
in a closet into the kitchen stove. Instantly
there was a great explosion, and Miss Kieffer
was so severely burned that her condition is
serious. All that saved her eyesight was the
faet that she wore eye glasses. It was as-
certained later that the package contained
gunpowder.
—Allen Dunbar, of East Mauch Chunk,
received awful treatment at the hands of
tramps near Walnutport, Carbon county, on
Saturday. He was beaten about the head
with clubs until he wasa mass of bruises and
his nose was mashed. They then rifled his
pockets of valuables and decamped, leaving
their vietim for dead upon the ground. He
was unconscious several ‘hours, but will re-
cover.
—One of Bradford’s recent brides is said to
have worn 14 garters besides her own when
she was married. When the bride had been
safely seated in the railroad train which was
to take her and her husband on their wed-
ding trip, she threw the garters on the depot
platform, where 14 girls made a scramble for
them. The saying goes that the girl who
can pick up her own garter on such an oc-
casion will be a bride herself within six
months.
—The Pennsylvania railroad company has
ordered the construction of 1,500 box cars of
80,000 pounds carrying compacity each. Of
this number 500 will’ be built at the com-
pany’s shops at Altoona, 600 by Murray,
Dugan & Co., of Milton and 400 by the Jack-
son & Woodin Manufacturing company, of
Berwick, Pa. These cars will be the largest
box cars built for the company. The
maximum capacity of such cars has here-
tofore heen 60,000 pounds.
—Thomas Quinn, of Titusville, while
climbing into a box car was shot twiee
through the head by some one inside the car.
He was taken to the hospital, where it was
found his wounds would prove fatal. Eight
months ago his brother Stephen was thrown
| upon a bonfire by tramps witkin a few feet of
Boston, the s secBnd detachment consisted of |
the same spot and burned so badly that he
died at the hospital. A description of the
| party who did the shooting was secured by
The men are traveling to the coast on a |
Quinn’s companion and the police are mak-
ing every effort to run him down. Quinn's
mother and three sisters were burned to
death in the Titusville fire some years ago.