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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—For making home runs CAMARA'S
score still stands unexampled.
—Mr. WANAMAKER’S campaign for re-
form seems to have reached the innocuous
desuetude state. :
—No war! No flags! What in the
name of a curious public will candidate
STONE rally around now ?
—In addition to her cathedrals, her
castles and her bull fights, Spain will
hereafter have a ‘‘lost cause,’’ as a relic.
—The acceptance of our peace terms by
Spain, threatens to bust candidate STONE’S
campaign of flags and war issues all to
pieces.
—The minute there was a sign of peace
CORBETT jumped into the vortex and con-
tinued the hub-bub by challenging FIrz-
SIMMONS.
—The Pittsburg Post intimates that
Congressman ARNOLD is accused of hucks-
tering post-offices in this district. Who ac-
cuses him? Does AL do it, or is it brother
CLEM?
--Col. REEDER says he is honest in his
aspirations for the State Senate, and he
might be telling the truth, but it looks
very much like a HASTINGS scheme to dis-
cipline little PHIL.
—It will be an armistice that candidate
STONE will need until he finds out exactly
where he is at, since his campaign ammuni-
tion has been so badly damaged by the
reign of peace.
— ‘Silence is golden,’’ so it has been said,
but Senor SAGASTA and his Spanish advis-
ors will find that it has a sharp smack of
lead about it if they don’t speak quick
and end the war.
—The most encouraging sign of Demo-
cratic success this fall is furnished in the
fact that the Philadelphia Zimes predicts
its defeat. As a prophet that never hits
it the Zimes has never been known to fail.
—If candidate STONE determines to
stand on the war as his platform he might
as well take on the dollar and a half wheat
plank and explain to the people why Presi-
dent McKINLEY can’t keep the price up,
when young JOE LEITER could run it up
to one eighty-five.
—Mr. AGUINALDO has appeared on the
scenes since the war with Spain began. He
was first heralded as a great statesman,
now he is a treacherous rebel and after
while he will be a statesman without a
State if he keeps on monkeying with DEW-
EY and MERRITT.
—We sympathize with candidate STONE.
Just when he was getting his war issues to
the front peace is declared and he is left, as
it were, with his partisan pants down and
his political astuteness exposed in a way
that must be as embarrassing to him as it
is amusing to the vulgar and unsympa-
thetic public.
—Additional evidence that Mr. Mec-
KINLEY’S ‘‘prosperity,’”’ is still on the
march presented itself in Cleveland on
Tuesday, when the wages of fifteen hun-
dred wire nail workers were reduced 33
per cent. Great is Republican prosperity,
but greater still is the gullibility of the
greenies who believe in it !
—Peru has a notion to get gay now and
make a demonstration along our, Pacific
coast line in order to compel us to give
better terms for a settlement of the little
difference we have had since 1885. All
Peru needs to have her gayety turned to
sorrow is to get gay once and she’ll be the
saddest bunch of holly hocks that ever laid
on the brush heap.
—From the way the residents of Santiago
have begun, already, to put in claims
against the United States, for the losses
they have sustained at the hands of the
Cubans during the past three years, it is
beginning to look as if the ‘‘border raids
claims’ will have to take a back seat in
Congress in the future, while newer and
more modern ones are being brought to the
front.
—An exchange wants to know if flies
think. Of course they do, and they think
most perniciously, pestiferously, or why
would they insist on lighting on the edi-
tor’s bald head these humid days and
sinking all their hooks therein when
there is a fat paste pot and plenty of
sticky fly paper as counter attractions on
the very desk over which this besieged
head hangs?
—~Chairman JONES of the Democratic
national committee has risen to remark
that he is opposed to the acquisition of
any foreign territory, as an outcome of this
war. Though they will hardly have their
individual opinions aired in a newspaper
there are millions of other Democrats who
are of the same belief. The very princi-
ples of our own government oppose an im-
perialistic policy. When we believe so im-
plicitly in the right of the people to govern
themselves what right have we to try to
set up governments for others ?
—The Governor and his friends have be-
come so used to changing their political
bedfellows that they won’t be one bit dis-
concerted when they waken up some of
these days and find brothers AL and CLEM
both in under the covers. It might be a
little embarrassing to find something to
talk about at first, but we feel certain that
the brothers will launch off on how they
heiped DANIEL when he was running for
Governor, and when he was running GILK-
ESON for state chairman, and then he will
tell them how he helped them both when
they wanted to be district attorney and go
to the Legislature.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
, AUGUST 5, 1898.
The usually fair Philadelphia Ledger
does itself no credit by the manner in
which it treats the subject of the pending
state election.
No Republican paper was more open and
decided in denouncing the corrupt admin-
istration of the state government by the
controlling Republican politicians. It
spared no words in condemning the corrup-
tionists, who maintain their rule through
the power of the QUAY machine, and there
was no mistaking its identification of QUAY
as the chief of the spoilsmen.
The Ledger was free to say all this be-
fore the campaign was on, but now, as if to
show how firmly an otherwise reputable
paper may be held in the party leash, it
has nothing hut words of admiration for
the great political ability of Senator QuAy
and his masterful power as a party leader.
After such praise for the boss, it goes on to
say that if the Democrats had made the
proper nomination for Governor they
might have elected their candidate, but
since their failure to put up a man of
“high character” for Governor the election
of QUAY’s candidates is ‘‘a foregone con-
clusion.”
There is double stultification in the
Ledger's present praise of the corruptable
politician whom it but recently denounced
as a machine boss, and in its misrepre-
sentation of the Democratic candidate,
GEORGE A. JENKS. By denying his
high qualities and thorough fitness for any
state position the Ledger shames its own
intelligence and discredits its reputation for
fairness and honesty.
If there is anything that journal is
thoroughly aware of it is the fact that
GEORGE A. JENKS is not only one of the
ablest of Pennsylvania’s public men, but
one of the purest. It knows full well that
the chief reason for his selection as the
Democratic candidate for Governor was
his pre-eminent fitness as the leader of a
popular effort to redeem the State from the
deplorably corrupted condition of its public
affairs, which the Ledger has so often ad-
verted to and condemned as the product of
machine misrule.
It speaks but little for the Ledger's sense
of duty to the public that knowing the
character of GEORGE A. JENKS, and being
fully conscious of the abasement of QUAY’S
political rule, it allows its partisan inter-
est to line it up in support of the machine
candidate whose defeat by the Democratic
nominee, it knows, would relieve the State
from long continued misrule and spoila-
tion.
——Did you ever stop to think about
how strange it is that a woman is taken to |
symbolize everything but time. For in-
stance, her form is used to represent art,
music, literature, science, commerce, his-
tory and most everything one can think of,
but when something was wanted to signify
time they had to get a man. There is one
thing certain, if there had been an ‘‘old
mother time’’ instead of ‘‘old father time’
to record the passing of years, the cycles
wouldn’t be rolling around so rapidly.
At least we wouldn’t know so much about
it as we do and there would never have
been a ‘‘tempus fugit.”
Platitudes of a Machine Candidate.
The speech in which candidate STONE
showed his determination to dodge reform,
was embellished with expressions that
won’t satisfy people who are looking for
honest state government. Of this char-
acter was his assertion that ‘‘political
parties are not dishonest ; they pass no
resolutions to loot treasuries; dishonesty,
if there be any, emanates from the en-
cumbent of the office.’
These are platitudes that will not
strengthen the position of a candidate who
was selected by a party boss and who is
necessarily intended to be his instrument.
Political parties, as to their general com-
position, are not dishonest, but a political
party, as in the case of the Republicans in
this State, may allow itself to be brought
under the control of dishonest managers
who make it the instrumentality by which
they carry out their corrupt and injurious
policies.
As a matter of course political parties
‘pass no resolutions to loot treasuries.”
On the contrary some of boss QUAY’S re-
cent state conventions passed resolutions
that overflowed with promises of reform,
which were followed by the machine cor-
ruptionists making heavier raids on the
treasury and practicing greater profligacy
both in legislation and administration.
Nothing could be truer than STONE'S
remark that ‘dishonesty, if there be any,
emanates from the incumbent of the of-
fice,” and nothing can be expected with
greater certainty, by the people, than that
such encumbents as are put in office by a
corrupt political machine will not prove to
be the kind to give the State honest gov-
ernment.
—— Indications are strong that our next
job will be. to lick the insurgents who we
| licked Spain for trying to lick.
A Political Dodger.
QUAY’s candidate for Governor intends
to dodge the state issues. He is correct in
believing that the less said about them the
better for the political machine that is
open to attack on every point connected
with state matters.
STONE wants to run his campaign on
issues that are in no way connected with a
state contest. That he prefers this dodg-
ing policy is shown by his speech at Allen-
town last week, in which he said : “The
Democratic party has seen fit to ignore the
great issues, tariff and honest money, and
the endorsement of the administration in
the prosecution of the war with Spain, and
asks us to go into a campaign of individu-
als.”
It is natural that the machine candidate
does not want to go into what he calls ‘‘a
campaign of individuals.”” He prefers
raising a hullabaloo about the tariff, the
money question and the war with Spain,
which have not the slightest connection
with the reforming of a very bad condition
of state affairs. With good reason he ob-
jects to a ‘‘campaign of individuals’ that
will bring out in full view the practices of
the corrupt political individuals who run
the QUAY machine.
Such dodging cannot deceive the people
as to the character of the pending state con-
test and the issues involved. They might
give such a verdict at the polls as would
be claimed as an overwhelming endorse-
ment of ‘‘the tariff’”’, ‘sound money’’ and
the administration’s war policy, and yet it
would not and could not have the slightest
bearing upon those matters, while the ras-
cals who have been misruling the State
and looting its treasury would have a
right to regard it an indorsement of their
dishonest rule.
Tardy Prosperity.
The people have been giving so much pa-
triotic attention to the war that they hard-
ly have time to observe that McKINLEY’S
prosperity still lingers on the way. We
are well on in the second year of his admin-
istration and the good times he promised
should be putting in an appearance if they
are coming at all. There has been some
improvement in the condition of the farm-
ers on account of their having favorable
crops last year with which to take advan-
tage of an unusual scarcity in Europe, but
wheat is falling back to its old price, and
those who have to depend upon daily labor
for their living have not yet seen enough
of the McKINLEY prosperity to encourage
the belief that it is going to be of any ac-
count.
Look After the Legislature.
The interests involved in the election of
Legislators this year are of the highest im-
portance, as the work of reforming the bad
condition of the state government cannot
be accomplished without supplying the
Legislature with an improved character of
lawmakers. An improvement of the exec-
utive is not enough for this momentous
object. The greatest injury to the State
has been sustained through defective and
vicious legislation.
In this matter the Democratic party
must take the lead, as upon it has chiefly
devolved the duty of bringing about a bet-
ter condition of public affairs in the State.
But it should have the assistance of all the
reform elements, and with their aid a re-
generation of the Legislature may be ef-
fected.
To make the work of legislative reform the
more certain, and effective, some particu-
lar object should be kept before the voters
as especially required for the improvement
of vicious public conditions. Nothing has
been more harmful in its effects than the
prostitution of the election laws to the
purposes of the machine politicians. In
the choice of members of the Legislature it
should be the object of honest voters to
elect such as may be depended upon for the
restoration of the ballot law to its original
purpose of securing honest elections.
The improvement or repeal of obsolete
and ineffective labor laws should be an-
other object to which the reform vote
should be directed in the legislative elec-
tions. The laboring class have been hum-
bugged and defrauded in such legislation
by machine lawmakers acting for an in-
terest hostile to labor, and there can be no
rectification of this wrong until the Legis-
lature is composed of a different kind of
law makers, who are not trading politi-
cians, nor under the control of a boss whose
machine is run in the interest of corpora-
tions and capitalists.
——Governor BLACK, of New York, is
trying to have a nice little Force bill all of
his own and TAMMANY means to upset his
plans. An active campaign is being made
in Gotham on the issue and the organiza-
tion, that seems the only one capable of
giving New York the kind of government
she wants, has adapted Col. Woon’s famous
command to his Rough Riders: “Don’t
swear, but shoot’’ and addressed it to the
voters over there in this way : ‘‘Don’t
swear, but vote.’
Both Foolish and Dishonest.
The person whom the machine boss has
put at the head of his state ticket pro-
claims himself as either a fool or a knave
in making the declaration that ‘‘there are
no issues outside of the great national
questions that confront the citizens of our
State.’
Folly and dishonesty both appear in the
assumption that the people of this State
are not confronted by conditions that are
of the most serious character, more closely
affecting their interests than any national
issue, when they find their state govern-
ment corruptly managed in every depart-
ment, its public affairs conducted by a
ring of political spoilsmen, and its politics
so arbitrarily dominated by a party boss
that he dictates the choice of its state
officers and controls the action of its Legis-
lature. .
This condition of affairs, shamefully ob-
vious to every intelligent citizen of the
State, and so repulsive that a large portion
of the Republicans denounce it and rebel
against it, is not regarded by QUAY’s gu-
bernatorial candidate as a matter of any
consequence in comparison with what he
calls ‘‘the great national questions,’’ which
could not be affected in the least by any
turn our state election might take.
It is not difficult to see why STONE has
such a decided preference for national
questions that would not bring to the
front the political rascalities of the boss
who has put him forward as a candidate,
,and the general corruptions of the machine.
He may not be as foolish in preferring
such issues in his state campaign as in be-
lieving that the people can be fooled by
them.
The Alabama Election.
A little over a month ago, when the re-
turns of the election in Oregon were re-
ceived, it took the largest type in the of-
fices of eastern Republican papers to herald
the result. That State had gone Republi-
can. It had never gone any other way in
the last dozen of years, and yet we were
told by Republican organs and their pre-
tended independent allies that its action
indicated unusual Republican victories,
and increased Republican strength over the
entire country.
Alabama is the second State to hold her
election. Her people voted on Monday
last. You may hunt these same Republi-
can papers over and you’ll not see a head-
line larger than a nonpareil hold face an-
nouncing the result. In many of them
you'll fail to find anything at all and in
the few that do refer to it, you'll get the
‘most meager details and not a word of
comment.
Alabama went Democratic. Much larger
Democratic than usual, and this notwith-
standing the fact that the Republicans and
Populists combined and voted the same
ticket.
The majority for Governor J ohnston, the
Democratic nominee, is over 70,000 ; the
Senate will be solidly Democratic with the
exception of two votes ; and the House,
with one hundred members, will have but
ten Republicans and Populist represen-
tatives.
So much for the second state election in
1898!
So much for the onward march of Mr.
McKINLEY’S prosperity, and his sixty-
cent wheat !
All hail Alabama !
Deplorably Situated.
The situation in the anthracite coal re-
gion in this State was never as deplorable as
it is at this time, with respect to the condi-
tion of the mine laborers. A large per-
centage of them are out of employment,
and the wages of those who are at work
are the lowest that were ever allowed them
by the employing operators. The wolf is
at every door annoying the habitations of
these ill paid people, and gaunt misery
prevails in every town in the anthracite
districts.
They are far from being prosperous con-
ditions, and it might seem as if those dis-
tricts had been overlooked, when McKIN-
LEY dispensed his promised prosperity, if it
did not appear that other industries are not
in better condition.
But the particularly wretched plight of
the mine workers is the result of corporate
greed. Though it would look as if it were
impossible to make it worse, corporate
greed proposes to make the situation still
more unbearable for these poor people.
Last week the presidents of the corpora-
tions that operate the anthracite mines
met in New York and agreed to raise the
price of coal to the consumers and lessen
the amount of work for the miners. By
thus diminishing the production coal will
be made dearer to those who have to use it
and the miner's means of subsistence
brought still nearer to the point of starva-
tion.
These are the corporations for whose
benefit tariff laws are passed, and which
have always been able to command the
service of the machine Governors and Leg-
islators of this State.
Our Terms by Which Spain Can Live
With Us.
A Plain Forward Statement—No Pecuniary Indemity
Is Asked For by Uncle Sam.—A General Surrender
to be Made—Cuba Must Be Surrendered, Porto
Rico and Other West Indian Islands Must Be Ours
As Well As One of the Ladrones.—What We will
Do with the Philippine Islands.
WASHINGTON, August 2.—The follow-
ing is an official statement given out by
authority of the President to-day, as to the
terms of peace offered by the United States:
_ In order to remove any misapprehension
in regard to the negotiations as to peace
between the United States and Spain, itis
deemed proper to say that terms offered by
the United States to Spain in the note
handed to the French ambassador on Satur-
day last are in substance as follows :
The President does not now put forward
any claim for pecuniary indemnity, but re-
quires the relingnishment of all claim of
sovereignty over or title to the island of
Cuba, as well as the immediate evaenation
by Spain of the island ; the cession to the
United States and immediate evacuation of
Porto Rico and other islands under Spanish
sovereignty in the West Indies, and the
like cession of an island in the Ladrones.
The United States will occupy and hold
the city, bay and harbor of Manila, pend-
ing tke conclusion of a treaty of peace
which shall determine the control, disposi-
tion and government of the Philippines.
If these te-ms are accepted by Spain in
their entirety, it is stated that commission-
ers will be named by the United States to
meet commissioners on the part of Spain
for the purpose of concluding a treaty of
peace on the basis above indicated. The
cabinet was in session one hour and ten min-
utes. Itis positively stated no word in
any form has come from Spain, nor were
there dispatches of any significance from
the front. There was no important action
taken so far as could be learned, but it was
decided to make public a statement of our
terms of peace.
SEMI-OFFICIAL NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, August 2.—Although this
was the third day since the President de-
livered to M. Cambon the terms offered by
the United States to Spain asa basis of
peace, no answer came from Madrid, and
in fact, was scarcely expected. The press
reports of the long cabinet meetings held in
the Spahish cabinet was unprepared at
least to accept the terms offered at once and
without appearing to attempt to secure
some modification in the interest of Spain.
It is felt that such a course is absolutely
imposed upon the Sagasta ministry by the
existing conditions in Madrid. Neverthe-
less it is not to be seen hat the president
cherishes the slightest intention of consent-
ing to any essential modification ofthe con-
ditions, and the slight delay that. has oc-
curred in making answer is not believed to
be discouraging nor to be taken as a sign
of the purpose of the Spanish cabinet ulti-
mately to reject the proposition.
WHY FEAR THE INSURGENTS ?
The officials here make no concealment
of their apprehension of serious trouble to
follow the execution of our programme in
regard to the Philippines. The reports of
the military and naval commanders of late
have contained warnings of expected con-
flicts with the insurgents and no surprise
will be felt at the receipt of news of an out-
break at almost any moment. The United
States government feels that it has assum-
ed a moral obligation towards not only the
foreign residents at Manila, but towards
the unprotected classes of the Spanish ecom-
munity, women, children, nuns and priests.
HELPLESS PEOPLE THREATENED.
Therefore, when intimation came that
the insurgents were threatening the lives
of some helpless monks orders were sent to
the American military commander to look
into the matter and to act in the interest
of civilization and humanity. As, accord-
ing to the report, the insurgents have
shown particular hostility towards the
monks it is a reasonable expectation that
before long a collision will have occurred
between themselves and the American
troops if the latter undertake to interfere
in the execution of the vengeance of the
insurgents.
OUR TROOPS’ HEALTH.
General Shafter’s health reports to-day
state that he is now caring for over 4,000
sick people, including Spanish soldiers,
many of whom were found to be very ill.
The task is a formidable one, and the at-
tempt to care for all hands probably ex-
plains in a measure the lack of adequate
preparation of the transports employed in
bringing home some of the wounded and
sick. The conditions on these boats were
found to beso shocking as to demand an
official investigation, which was begun to-
day, and some court martials may be look-
ed for in high places, unless it can be shown
clearly that the lack of preparations was
unavoidable.
FRESH FROM THE FRONT.
Major General Young called at the war
department to-day fresh from the front,
where his health broke down under the
severe exertions imposed by the campaign.
He spent some time with secretary Alger,
as did Major Gen. Wade, who has not been
able to perfect arrangements for his ex-
pedition to Porto Rico. For the trans-
portation thereof the war department is
making an effort to secure the two Ameri-
can liners, Harvard and Yale, late the
New York and Paris, now in the charter
of the navy department, and it is believed
that the effort has succeeded. As to the
others liners, St. Paul and St. Louis, the
navy department has not yet reached a
decision, though in view of the President's
desire to curtail war expenditures wherever
possible, it is expected that they, too, will
be surrendered by the navy department in
the course of a few days. In this case four
of the naval captains would be left with-
out commands, namely, Sigsbee, of the St.
Paul ; Wise, of the Yale ; Goodrich, of the
St. Louis, and Colton, of the Harvard, for.
even if the vessels were used asarmy trans-
ports the law would not permit naval of-
ficers to command them.
FIRE PROOF WOOD.
Fire proof wood is again in full favor in
Concluded on page 4.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Mormeon missionaries are very busy at
Meshoppen, Wyoming ceunty.
—A rich vein of building stone along the
Weygandt mountain promises to give Easton
one of the best quarries in the State.
—York councilmen have voted $50,000 for
a new city hall, arranged for a sewer system
to cost $180,000 and appropriated £5,000 for
park improvement.
—The will of Michael Horn, late of Me-
Keesport, a vietim of La Bourgogne’s dis-
aster, has been probated at Pittsburg. It
leaves $40,000 to relatives.
—Work in the Pennsylvania railroad shops
at Altoona, which has been suspended dur-
ing the past week, resumed Monday, all de-
partments working ordinary summer hours.
—The fourth death from typhoid fever in
the Twelfth regiment at Camp Alger occur-
red Saturday when Private Henry R.
Fulkrod, of Company G, Williamsport, died.
He was 25 years old. His remains have been
brought home for burial.
—At Punxsutawney last Friday a barn, in
which six boys had taken refuge during a
storm, was struck by lightning, One of the
boys, Elmer Pierce, was killed and another
named McFarland was rendered uncon-
scious. All the others were more or less af-
fected by the stroke.
—Private Henry R. Fulkrod, who died of
typhoid fever at Camp Alger, and whose re-
mains were brought to his home at Jersey
Shore, was interred in the cemetery near
that place Sunday afternoon. The military
organizations attended the funeral and all
flags were at half mast.
—A few days ago Alex DeHass, of West-
port, attempted to lead his horse into the
barn, but the animal refused to enter. Mr.
DeHass noticing that the animal saw some-
thing not to his liking made an investigation
and saw a big rattle snake coiled in a corner.
Mr. DeHass killed his snakeship with a
pitchfork.
—On Thursday evening of last week Geo.
C. Hawkins Sr., of Bedford, went up into
the belfry of the court house to ring the bell
for the meeting of the old soldiers. He
made a misstep and fell off the platform on
to the rafters beneath, breaking a bone in his
left leg just above the ankle. Mr. Hawkins
managed to reach the library, where, about
an hour later, he was discovered.
—Two thousand coal cars, in the Pittsburg
mining district, have been condemned as not
fit for use and will have to be replaced by
new style cars ; this will fall heavy on the
operators. The new locomotives, it is said
are too powerful to admit of the old style
wooden car making part of the trains they
carry, the pressure of a reversed engine or
the sudden application of an air brake being
liable to crush them to atoms.
—The Fayette county commissioners have
decided to quit paying premiums on fox,
mink and wildeat scalps, pending a decision
of the Supreme court on the law, which is
now being tested before that tribunal. Since
the law went into effect about $700 has been
paid as premiums. Some of the ears pre-
sented are very small, indicating that the
animals are quite young, It is also claimed
that some of the animals are caught in West
Virginia.
—The Pennsylvania railroad has laid a
short section of track in the yard at Altoona
with metal ties, and the results of this inno-
vation are being watched with interest.
Several of the big trunk line managers have
been investigating the merits of steel and
metal ties of new design recently, and 1t is
stated that the days of the expensive wooden
ties are about past. When the railroads be-
gin to replace their wooden ties with metal
sleepers the iron and steel business will en-
joy an unprecedented boom.
—A corn-cob pipe factory is among the list
of industries shortly to be added to Tyrone.
James C. Watts, of New York, has made the
citizens of that place an offer, the only con-
cession asked being that the rent of a suitable
building for the plant be paid for one year,
which has been accepted. It is purposed to
start the factory with machinery capable of
turning out 10,000 a day, but the output will
be limited to just half that amount at the
beginning. Employment will be given to
about 20 hands.
—Two weeks ago the 7 year old son of
Grant Tompkins, of Austin, Potter county,
was terribly burned while playing about the
stove, his clothes catching fire. The burns
were so extensive that they failed to heal,
and Thursday the expedient of skin grafting
was resorted to. The father of the boy sub-
mitted to the operation of having a piece of
cuticle as large as a man’s hand cut from his
back in order to graft on to his boy’s body.
Dr. Webster, one of the attending physicians,
also had a piece of cuticle removed from his
arm for the same purpose.
—The Pennsylvania railroad will ship 10,-
000 tons of ice from Cove, Pa., on the Juniata
river, to East Liberty, at the rate of eight
cars per day until the order is completed.
This ice will be used for various purposes
about the stations and for the stock yards.
The ice question is one that is assuming great
importance in railroad affairs, and it may
not be very long until all the big railroads
have mammoth artificial ice plants of their
own, which may be built adjacent to the
shops so that the regular steam plants can be
utilized.
—New Bloomfield ZTimes: On Tuesday
morning sheriff Johnston was disgusted and
astonished to find that three of his boarders
had taken leave. The missing men are Wm.
and Charles Beaver and Thomas Barton,
who were awaiting trial for burglaries com-
mitted at Marysville last week. Escape was
made by reaching through the hole in the
cell door and loosening the nut on the lock.
The door to the yard was then forced open
and from the yard the wall was scaled by the
use of boards from the pump platform and a
rope from their hed clothes.
—E. A. Tennis, the well-known railroad
contractor of Thompsontown, has within the
past few days signed a contract to build
thirty miles of railroad, extending from
Muscatine, Ia., to Elrick, a point on the Iowa
Central railrood. The contract carries with
it not only the grading of the road and lay-
ing of the rails, but the building of stations
and the equipment of the road. An ex-
penditure of $450.000 is involved. The con-
tract was secured by Mr. Tennis under a
guarantee bonus of $100,000 to have the line
completed by January 1st, 1899. Ground for
the new line has been broken,