ERE TS
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—If you should see a fellow man with trou-
ble’s flag unfurled, ;
And looking like he didn’t have a friend
in all the world, :
You're sure to know that he is one, ail-
though he does not say,
Who feels and knows that he is but a
tool a
0
big,
boss
QUAY.
—It’s Cadiz to-day. When we get
through with it it will be Cad-was.
—TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S advertising de-
partment must be on its summer vacation.
—As a boss of a free lunch counter
SHAFTER is proving himself a bloomin’ suc-
cess.
—In trying to make a great hit SYLVES-
TER SCOVEL seems to have only struck
himself out.
—State printer BuscH’s bill is proof that
a bird in a book is worth about a thousand
of them elsewhere.
—All Br'er WANAMAKER seems to be a
doin’ is lyin’ exceedin’ low an’ glancin’
suspicious like out ’er one eye.
—At this stage of the campaign it is be-
ginning to look as if Mr. WANAMAKER’S
fight for reform was only to give exercise
to his type writer.
—A cut of from 5 to 20 per cent. in the
wages of wire nail workers is the latest
evidence that McKINLEY’S prosperity is
still on the march.
—It might be well for some of the fel-
lows who are advising the government
what to do with the Philippines to keep
their advice until the government gets the
islands. Z
—Dr. WARREN should have known
when he attempted to put his pole-cat pic-
tures into the State College report that no
matter where you put that animal it is
sure to make a stink.
—When we come to understand that
during the fight at Santiago the insurgents
were swinging in the hammocks of our
soldiers we don’t wonder that there was a
“‘falling-out’’ among them.
—The editor of the Daily News talks of
wrestling with his brain. My, oh my,
what a stiff bout it must be when such an
energetic man tries to ‘‘take a fall out’’ of
such a colossal brain.
—The discomforts of soldier life won’t
worry Col. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of the 3rd Nebraska infantry. His exper-
ience in the campaign of 1896 was enough
to inure him to most anything.
Newsie—‘ ‘Evening Evening
papers !”’
Gentleman—"Here boy, what evening
papers have you got?’
Newsie—‘‘This evening’s papers, sir.”’
papers !
—The Philipsburg woman who went to
a picnic out there last week and left her
false teeth on the grounds is not likely to
‘‘chew the rag’ much about her forgetful-
ness until after she recovers her grinders.
—If Mr. McKINLEY’S administration
has proven tardy in equipping and trans-
porting the army and navy, it has at least
shown unquestioned promptness in getting
65 cent wheat and war taxes to the front.
—Bellefonte has an ass that brays so
Ioud every morning and evening that it
can be heard from one end of town to the
other. “Whois it?’ ‘No, Maud, dear,
it is a genuine ass, not a two legger, as
your question would imply.”’
—The grip Governor HASTINGS has on
the tail end of the Bellefonte post office,
while very vice like, must be awfully ag-
gravating. If he holds on it doesn’t put
his man in the place, and if he leaves go
the other fellow gets it.
—Old glory’’ has been made to cover
many a disreputable corpse—but it has
been left for Republican ringsters to at-
tempt to put it to the basest use,—that of
hiding the rottenness and corruption of
Republican misrule in Pennsylvania.
—If it wasn’t for the condition of the
Republican party in Pennsylvania Sa-
GASTA might be alone in his prayers for
peace. As it is, there are others than the
Spanish premier, earnestly beseeching the
powers to intervene and save them an ever-
lasting licking.
—CoxXEY and FORAKER are two Ohio
statesmen, who, current events would in-
dicate, have gone out of business together.
At least the density of the quiet that sur-
rounds them creates the belief that the
supression that supresses them is most pow-
erful in its effectiveness.
—So the European nations have agreed
that the United States shall not he permit-
ted to annex the Philippine islands, have
they? In the language of ‘fighting Bob’?
Evans, the European nations be damned.
If we want the Philippines we don’t have
to ask their permission, DEwEy ?
—In the next Republican congressional
conference in this district, Mr. ArNoLD
will have Clearfield and Clarion counties -
Mr. CooKE will have Forest and Elk, and
Mr. DALE,—if the sand box don’t run
empty—will have Centre. What a season-
able situation it will present to COOKE Mr.
ARNOLD’S goose.
—The Democracy of Pennsylvania needs
no other platform than the sturdy, intrepid
character of GEORGE A. JENKS. He is a
platform in himself and with the one
word, ‘‘Reform,’’ as the slogan the intelli-
gence and honesty of the voters of the Com-
monwealth will incriminate themselves if
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
rere
Working a ‘Confidence” Game.
Fearful of the resu’t of the gubernatorial
contest in this State, in the fall, the Repub-
lican ring that has ruled and ruined so
many years has already begun to whip the
voters of that party into line.
The old time pledges of reform have
worked out and new schemes are being de-
vised to curry the support of the decent
people of the party, whose sense of integrity
has been outraged by such plundering of
the public as has been done under the ken
of recent Republican administrations.
The old ‘“‘confidence’’ game is being re-
sorted to now as the last hope of the politi-
cal sharps who have been working gold
bricks onto Pennsylvania intelligence for
years. Within the past few days the party
organs have taken up the cry of ‘‘give
President McKINLEY a vote of confidence
in November.’”” ‘‘Strengthen his hands so
that he can better impress our foreign op-
ponents with the weight of his presentations
and demands.”” ‘‘There are no overpower-
ing home questions this year.” ‘‘Confi-
dence’’ indeed, the fellows who want it for
President McKINLEY have half a dozen
chestnuts in the fire to his one. The
‘overpowering home questions’’ are the
very ones that must be settled this fall.
President McKINLEY needs no vote of
‘‘confidence’’ from Pennsylvania. The fact
that she was the first State to respond to
his call for volunteers and sent the finest
organization of any of her sister States, is
enough to insure him that the Keystone is
always ready to sustain the arch, even if it
be at the price of the blood of her sons.
When the President sees Pennsylvania's
men mustered into his service ; when he
sees her business people at home making
the next to the largest contribution to his
war tax fund ; when he sees her daughters
engaged in the loving, merciful work of
making clothes and comforts for the sick
and wounded at the front, he will under-
stand that the State is earnestly supporting
him and can have no reason for expecting
any further evidence of ‘‘confidence.”’
What is an empty vote of ‘‘confidence’’
in comparison to the sacrifices that Penn-
sylvania has already made to attest her
loyalty to the President? What he needs
is men, money and supplies and he is get-
ting those as fast as they are called for.
This vote of ‘confidence’ is all a snare
with which the bunco men behind STONE
hope to entrap the intelligence of Pennsyl-
~vania again. They think that by diverting
attention from the real needs at home to
imaginary ones at Washington they will be
able to play the game of patriotic im-
pulse upon the people of the State, and
have themselves voted into power again
for another carnival of plunder, such as
would not be equalled even had General
SHAFTER allowed the Cuban insurgents to
sack Santiago.
The Republican organs say that ‘‘there
are no overpowering home questions.”
None, indeed! What of the burnt capitol,
the poultry book scandal, the unpaid pub-
lic school appropriations, the suppliant
Legislators and attachees who sacrifice
their constituents at the beck of a boss?
These are but the beginning of an appar-
ently endless list of ‘‘overpowering
home questions”’ that must occupy the at-
tention of the voters this fall. This very
fact is what led the Democracy, at Al-
toona, to drop all else in the endeavor
to name a strong man and encourage a
great army to fight for these ‘‘overpower-
ing home questions,’’ which the Republi-
can sharpers do well not to see, while they
try to draw off public attention with the
cry of : “Give the President a vote of con-
fidence.”
—After San Juan, Manila and Havana
have fallen will come the siege of Harris-
burg. The great reform army, led by Gen.
JENKS, will besiege the city where corrup-
tionis concealed and the people of the
Commonwealth continually plundered.
Let us hope that its fall will be as com-
plete as was that of Santiago.
Ohio Must Have the Preference.
We last week alluded to the intention
of making that played-out old Ohio Repub-
lican hack, G. WARREN KEIFER, military
governor of Santiago. But it seems that
for some reason the design of putting that
broken down politician in the important
military position has been changed, as it is
announced that Colonel Woop, the figure
head of ROOSEVELT’S regiment of Rough
Riders, is to succeed, or probably more
correctly speaking, is to supplant that vet-
eran Pennsylvania soldier, General Mec-
KIBBIN, as the Governor of the captured
city. WooD was formerly an Ohio physi-
cian, who was made Colonel of the Rough
Riders through political influence, and his
claim to fitness for the Santiago governor-
ship is based on the fact of his having done
McKINLEY’S family doctoring in Canton.
It doesn’t take much of an excuse to con-
fer preferments in the army upon Ohio
claimants who have a pull on this admin-
istration, or are in personal favor with the
President. KEIFER was kept from dis-
gracing the service at Santiago only because
another Ohio hanger-on will be found to
Mr. JENKS is not elected.
fill the governorship of that place.
ELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 29, 1898.
A Disgusted Republican Journal.
It is a little too much for even the Re-
publican Philadelphia Bulletin, which,
with an evident appearance of disgust, de-
clares that ‘‘it is about time that a halt
was called on the Republican machine
managers who are shouting that the war
against Spain will not be properly sus-
tained if the people do not uphold them at
the polls.”
The object of such an appeal is plain to
be seen. Large numbers of Republi-
cans being dissatisfied with the rule of the
machine and in revolt against the corrupt
practices of its managers, the design is to
impress the party members with the belief
that such of them as will not stand up for
the machine state ticket, and the whole
ticket, hide, hoof, horns and tail, while the
country is at war with Spain, are not pa-
triots.
The most profligate members of recent
Legislatures, and the fellows who have had
their hands the deepest in the State treas-
ury are the loudest in their exhortations to
“rally round the flag” against the Spanish
enemy, and in declaring that Republicans
who decline to fall in with the QUAY pro-
cession, and refuse to prolong the booty of
the machine spoilsmen, compromise their
patriotism and forfeit their claim to being
loyal citizens. The scamps who can’t ex-
plain their record in the Legislature, and
the jobbers who are trying to make the
new capitol cost the State many millions of
dollars, drape themselves in the stars and
stripes, and, shaking their fists at Spain,
are the loudest in bellowing that the war
is the only issue that should engage the
attention of loyal citizens in this State
campaign.
The Bulletin, denouncing the machine
leaders of its party for presenting a false
issue in this election, truly and forcibly
says: ‘“This is an American war—a war in
which the people of all parties are united;
it is in no sense a party war; and the only
reason for appealing to Pennsylvania to re-
gard it as a Republican war is to benefit a
lot of Republican rogues, who are as much
enemies of the State as the Spaniards are of
the nation.’
—Those who talk so persistently about
most of our sailof's being aliens had better
inform themselves before displaying such
ignorance at a time like this. For instance,
Mr. C. GRAHAM, an English naval expert,
said that DEWEY’S gunners were English-
men, decoyed from the Chinese squadron
by promises of $500 a month. Now it
wouldn’t be very elegant to call Mr. GRA-
HAM a liar, but in the face of the fact that
no such salaries are paid gunners on U. S.
boats and that out of the 1,445 men in
DEWEY’S squadron all but 47 are Ameri-
can citizens, and only 8 out of the 47 are
Englishmen and none of the eight are gun-
ners, it is hardly possible to call him any-
thing else.
—The ‘‘well authenticated’”’ reports
about the mildness of the yellow fever, the
harmlessness of dysentery, the delights of
dog-days and the condition of the army at
Santiago, would leave the impression that
it is a veritable health resort.
Trying to Raise a False Issue.
At a time when the honest people of this
State have risen in opposition to the job-
bery and robbery of the politicians, who
rule Pennsylvania through the power of
their corrupt machine, it won’t do for
those rascals to wrap themselves in the
American flag and call on the voters to
support the government in the war with
Spain by keeping them in office.
Such is the impudent assumption of
these ringsters when they claim that the
war with Spain is the paramount issue in
the pending state election, and that the
patriotic duty of the people requires them
to keep the state government under the
control of the QUAY machine.
That this is the line upon which these
spoilsmen propose to conduct the campaign
for the retention of their predatory power is
indicated by expressions made at the meet-
ing of the Republican standing committee
last week, at which Colonel STONE, the
machine candidate for Governor, declared
that ‘‘the war, the tariff and sound mon-
ey’’ were the only issues of the state cam-
paign, and that the people were not think-
ing much of anything else than the war.
Here is where these misrulers of the State
make their mistake. The people of this
misgoverened and plundered Common-
wealth are thinking of some other things
besides the war. The condition of affairs
connected with the State is having much
of their thought. They are thinking of
the corruption that prevails in every de-
partment of the state government as the
result of profligate and licentious adminis-
tration, and from a matter of such serious
import to them their thoughts cannot be
turned by the corruptionists flaunting the
American flag and crying ‘“‘to hell with
Spain.”’
It is admissible to consign the enemies of
our country to hades, figuratively speak-
ing, but the people of Pennsylvania are in
a mood to send QUAY and his machine in
the same direction.
The Example of the Gold Democrats.
Nothing could be more encouraging to
the friends of governmental reform in this
State than the sensible view and manly
action of the gold Democrats, whose state
committee met in conference last week to
consider their duty in the pending state
election.
In approaching this question they dis-
played a sincere intention to secure a cor-
rect comprehension of the interests involv-
ed in the contest by divesting it of such
issues as were foreign to it. It was their
purpose to clear the political atmosphere
of the fog that would obscure it if an incor-
rect view of what was involved in it were
to be taken. :
With this singleness and honesty of pur-
pose in their deliberations, as became the
momentous subject of state reform, they
bad no difficulty in seeing that ‘‘the su-
preme issue in the approaching state cam-
paign is the redemption of the Common-
wealth from Republican misrule.” This
being unquestionably obvious there could
be no question as to the duty imposed,
which was, that “‘all friends of honest gov-
ernment should unite’ in correcting this
obvious evil.
The committee could see no obstacle to
such a union of the reform elements since
the regular Democratic convention had re-
moved every issue from the contest except
such as related to state government, thus
furnishing common standing ground for all
the opponents of machine misrule in the
state administration, and had nominated for
Governor “‘a man of integrity, thoroughly
equipped to serve the people,’’ and excep-
tionally qualified for the work of reform-
ing governmental abuses.
In accepting the issues put forth by the
Democratic state convention, as the real
and only issues of this contest for state re-
form, and recognizing the gubernatorial
nominee of that convention as the personal
embodiment of the principles expressed in
those issues, the gold Democrats have set
an example to all honest citizens of the
State, irrespective of party, who believe
that ‘‘the time has come when good cit-
izenship requires the ignoring of past dif-
ferences that do not enter into the ques-
tions about to be submitted to the voters of
Pensyivania.”’
—Uncle SAM is looked upon as a new-
comer in the councils of nations, but the
flag that he carries is the oldest of any of
the great powers. The stars and stripes
were designed and made our governmental
emblem twenty-three years before the
present flags of Great Britain, seventeen
years before the French tri-color, nearly a
hundred years before the present flags of
Germany or Italy, and eight years before
the flag of Spain.
—
All for Cheap Labor.
When the laboring men come to under-
stand that the cheapest labor in all the
world is to be found among the half-breeds
of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil-
ippines—that these islands are over-run
with a population that work for from 12 to
15 cents a day, and is satisfied with that
amount—they will begin to appreciate
what Republican ‘‘annexation’’ means to
them. It is because this labor is to be-
come a part and parcel of the government
of the United States, and it is to be placed in
a position that no laws can prevent its com-
ing in competition with our own working
men, that Mr. MARK HANNA and others
like him have hecome reconciled to the
war. They were opposed to war when it
was started to feed the ‘‘reconcentrados’’ of
Cuba, and secure to the people of that
island some kind of a stable and humane
government. They are for it now when it
is a war of conquest and annexation, be-
cause they know that no laws preventing
the immigration of the pauper laborer from
these new possessions of the United States
can be passed, and that while the Huns,
and Slavs, and Chinese and Italians may
be prevented coming here to compete with
American workingmen, that the labor mar-
kets of the half-civilized island will be
open to draw from whenever the necessities
of corporations need it.
Conquest and annexation in the end
means the cheapest labor on the globe for
the United States.
It is for this that the Republican admin-
istration, under the direction of MARK
HANNA, is now fighting.
——The York Gazette is puzzled to know
why the national guardsmen of Pennsyl-
vania, the most magnificent organization
of men mustered into the United States
service and the first to respond to the Pres-
ident’s call for volunteers, are for the most
part still held to fritter their time away in
the training camps. The Gazette, being
able to see no other reason for it, wonders if
someone high in authority has desired the
boys held at home because there has been
no money provided for taking a poll of
their vote at the front when election day
comes along. There is some reason for
their being held back. Surely it can’t be
such an outrageous one as is here sug-
gested.
. Cuban republic.
Who Would be Responsible 2
Doctor SWALLOW and Mr. JoHN WAN A-
MAKER were in conference last week at
Philadelphia and no doubt the motive that
brought them together was their mutual
hostility to QUAY’s debasing political su-
premacy. Both of these gentlemen are
thoroughly convinced of the utter depravity
of the QUAY machine. The doctor has
borne testimony against it in a manner
that was creditable for its fearlessness, and
barely escaped the extreme penalty of a
prosecution for having made its general in-
iquity the subject of publication. Mr.
WANAMAKER has denounced the rotten-
ness of the machine and the vicious char-
acter of QUAY-ism in almost every county
of the State.
Being intelligent and reputable men,
with a full knowledge of the political im-
morality and public harm that bave re-
sulted from machine rule, and with a sense
of their moral obligation and duty as good
citizens to aid in correcting these depraved
public conditions, it should appear to them
that they can perform this duty more ef-
fectually by uniting with the party that
can bring the strongest force against the
combination of spoilsmen who have so long
ruled and robbed the State.
It isn’t possible that Rev. SwALLow
and Mr. WANAMARER can not see that the
only hope of the machine corruptionists is
that those who desire to terminate their
foul supremacy, and restore clean and hon-
est state government, may he so divided as
to enable them to retain their power. Fer
such a calamitous division of the reform
forces, which would be successsful if united,
who would be responsible ?
Only to Get Votes.
The Philadelphia Press cannot restrain
having its fling at candidate STONE'S get-
ting under the American flag and exhort-
ing the voters to “stand by the war policy
of the administration.” by which he means
that voting QUAY’S machine state ticket is
sustaining the war. The Press does not
consider STONE consistent in his exhortation
to support McKINLEY’S war policy, since,
as a member of Congress, he was found vot-
ing with QUAY in opposition to the Presi-
dent on the question of recognizing the
Consistency, however, is
of no account with the machine candidate
for Governor, whose only object in waving
the flag and upholding the war is to get
votes.
—————
Deals and Buncombe.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch, (Rep.)
Aside from the business of nominating a
a candidate for judge of the superior court,
the Republican state committee meeting
was made the occasion for oratory and reso-
lutions bearing upon the campaign. Chair-
man Elkin’s appeal for harmony ; for at
least temporary forgetfulness that there are
combine or anti-combine factions, coupled
with the broad intimation that the nomi-
nation to be made might assist in healing a
breach, was significant.
No doubt there has been some under-
standing reached between the state ma-
chine and the combine of municipal ma-
chines ; some deal or dicker for their mu-
tual advantage. This was as well illus-
trated at the Allegheny county Republican
committee meeting on Monday as at the
State committee meeting yesterday. But
the healing of the breaches between the
machines does not allay the dissatisfaction
of the people. On the contrary, it creates
a situation where the independent voter
has an opportunity to be free from all ma®
chine affiliation by opposing the combina-
tion.
The time to have forgotten that there
were any factions—Quay Republicans,
Wanamaker Republicans and other sub-di-
visions—was in the primary campaign be-
fore the nominations were made. But
nothing would do then but Quay Republi-
cans. Now the spirit of compromise and
conciliation suggests concessions on the
part of the state machine, and the prospect
of vigorous independent city campaigns
next February renders the municipal ma-
chines rather willing to be conciliated. So
much for the practical politics in the pro-
ceedings.
Beyond the ratification of the dicker the
oratory took the course of the convention,
to get away from state issues and drag into
discussion a batch of national matters with
which the state campaign has nothing to
do. The intelligence of the Republican
voter is impugned by the intimation that
he is unable to distinguish between candi-
dates for state offices where state business
is attended to and candidates for Congress,
who deal properly with national affairs.
Possible this insult is deserved—time will
tell. Possibly worse than that can be said
of the voters if they are capable of forget-
ting or ignoring the monstrous iniquities
of the Legislature of 1897 and the decep-
tions practiced in connection with the plat-
forms of 1895-96.
Right You Are, Old Boy.
From the Connellsville Courier.
“‘A rascally sugar job’ is the language
in which the recent annexation of Hawaii
has been described, and the description
seems to be very accurate. Large sums of
money were spent to bring about this re-
sult in Congress. Hawaii was not an-
nexed by the influence of patriots solicit-
ous for the safety of the nation and believ-
ing in the imperative necessity of a coaling
station in the Pacific, but by the sugar
trust who wants a free market for their
Hawaii sugar, and the holders of $5,000,-
000 Hawaiian bonds bought in this country
at about thirty cents on the dollar and
about to be guaranteed by this government.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The stacks, three in number, for the new
Mill Iall brick works were completed on
Monday. The two highest are 82ft.
—With a view to securing a share of the
$60,000,000 Spang estate, J. L. Kalbach, a
Reading confectioner, will make a trip to
Germany.
—John Swope, of Alexandria, Huntingdon
county, caught three wild cats within the
past two weeks, making nine caught this
year, and killed over sixty-five raccoonssince
the first day of the year.
—Peter Herdic, of Williamsport, is daily
expected home from the Klondike. He ar-
rived-at San Francisco early the past week,
and telegraphed to his wife that he would
soon be home. He said he had good luck.
—The Altoona ‘‘Gazette’” has added to its
equipment a Hoe perfecting press and, cele-
brating the event with a new outfit of type,
is able to present an enviable appearance
among the newspapers of the smaller Ameri-
can cities.
—Merrill Riddell, a 7-year-old boy of New-
berry, attempted to jump on a moving swing
at Montoursville park, Friday. He missed
his footing, fell underneath, and was pinned
fast. The swing was taken down in order to
release the boy. He was severely injured.
—The soap factory of Eaglehardt Buechele,
at Altoona, was entirely destroyed by fire
last night, entailing a loss of several thou-
sand dollars. It was outside the fire limit,
and there being no water plugs or streams in
the vicinity, the fire department was unable
to render assistance.
—Of the pharmaceutical class of 103 ex-
amined at Williamsport, thirty-nine made
high enough marks to secure them the de-
sired certificates. Nineteen of these were
granted diplomas as registered druggists and
the remaining twenty were given the
diplomas of qualified assistants.
—Harrison Hummel, of Tamaqua, a flag-
man on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad,
had both feet cut off near Muncy Sunday
night. Hummel had been sent back to flag
a train that was following his and it is sup-
posed that he sat down near the track and
fell asleep, his feet getting over the rail.
—The drawing of warrants on the state
treasury for. the payments of the school ap-
propriations will be commenced August 1st.
Payments of the money allowed annually to
the schools should have begun in June, but
the large expense incident to calling out the
national guard has caused the delay.
—At Milton, Monday, Henry Sassaman, an
aged pattern makerin the car works, was
crossing the P. and E. railroad on his way
home just as two cars were switched on to the
main track. The cars struck the man, break-
ing an arm and cutting both legs off. He
lived fifteen minutes afterward. A son and
daughter survive him. His age was 76 years.
—Judge McClure, of Lewisburg, and three
companions, Penrose Perkins, F. J. Geiger
and E. D. Taries, of Philadelphia, floated
into the pool of the dam at Lock Haven on
Tuesday morning and took dinner at the
Fallon house. The four gentlemen were
making a trip on the river in canoes. They
left Clearfield a few days ago and had a de-
lightful trip.
—A few days ago Frank Miller, aged 28,
was sitting on the stump of a tree near his
home at Bodines, Lycoming county, when a
snake came out of a hole and bit the young
man on the leg below the knee. Miller
started for his home, about two miles dis-
tant, but fainted by the roadside and laid in
an unconscious condition for two hours be-
fore help arrived.
—James Kearns, one of the prominent
young musicians of DuBois and a member of
the famous Volunteer band, has organized a
juvenile band. The players range in age
from 13 to 17 years and all of them have
some knowledge of band music. Two prac-
tices have already been held and Mr. Kearns
is greatly pleased with the proficiency shown
by his boys. The band numbers twelve
players.
—At Williamsport 8-year-old James Frisby,
colored, was stealing a ride on the rear steps
of a loaded ice wagon. As the vehicle moved
on to a crossing, a cake of ice weighing over
100 pounds was dislodged and struck the
boy. The child was knocked off the wagon,
and the cake of ice fell on his stomach.
When picked up, the boy was bleeding at the
mouth and nose. He died shortly after,
having been internally injured.
—Increasing business requires additional
improvements to be made at the Philipsburg
fire brick works. Just now there is being
built a new shed 125 feet in length, to be
used for storing brick and as a shipping shed.
It has also been necessary to lengthen the
siding to nearly double its former length,
and new kilns are also being built. The
firm has sale for all the brick they can make,
and as fast as they can manufacture it.
—General Young, who was in command of
the United States troops which united with
the Rough Riders in the fight at Baiquiri and
was wounded in that engagement, is in
Ebensburg, recuperating while his wound
shall heal. He is the guest of Major G. G.
Phillips, who has a cottage at Ebensburg.
Major Phillips is from Pittsburg, from which
place General Young enlisted in the service
of Uncle Sam for the civil war, going into the
regular army at its close.
—It is said that when the Bloomsburg
assessors were at work enumerating the
school children the parents of many of them
made false returns as to age, etec., to enable
them to keep their children at work in fac-
tories. The return was 200 short of the
actual number. Now the school board dis-
covers that the state appropriation, which is
apportioned upon the number of children of
school age, has been cut $800. An extra half
mill has been added to the levy in order to
keep the schools open.
—The Fifth regiment, Pennsylvania vol-
unteers, has just received a mascot in the
shape of a rabbit’s foot, forwarded to Camp
Thomas by a young lady of Saxton, Bedford
county, to a relative, who is a member of
Company A, of Huntingdon. It is said the
rabbit was killed by a well-known citizen of
Saxton in the graveyard at that place at mid-
night during the dark of the moon, as these
conditions are necessary to preserve the hyp-
notic effects of the foot, and that it is a token
of good luck that will preserve the members
of the Fifth from misfortune which might
otherwise overtake them,
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