Beuonalatan
B8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—1It wouldn’t be far wrong to call it the
melon-colic season.
—In GEORGE A. JENKs reform has a
personal embodiment.
—We now know from warm experience
what it is to annex a West Indian climate.
—The higher the SWALLOW vote, the
higher the hopes of the Boss will soar.
— Mr. ELKINS’ explanation of how the
tax-payer pays no taxes is about as clear as
mud.
—The public wrath over the army out-
rages is not a summer breeze that will soon
blow over.
—No, Mr. President; censurable as he is,
the people are not going to put all the
blame on ALGER.
—Mr. ELKINS is discovering that his
political machine is not geared to enter the
race for State reform.
—The stench of Quayism may become
too strong for even McCLURE to defend it
without a deodorizer.
—It’s not only the soldiers who have it.
Even the thermometers and politics show
feverish symptoms at times.
—A great boom for the lime business is
promised. Investigations of the war scan-
dals, it is said, will be begun shortly.
— What Boss QUAY and DAVE MARTIN
most need just now is the service of a peace
commission that understands its business.
—The President’s attempt to keep MILES
and SHAFTER from talking is, after all,
only an effort to ‘‘muzzle the dogs of war.”
—Political weather signs indicate a series
of hot waves, to be followed by a regular
scorcher, for Boss QUAY about the 8th of
October.
—There doesn’t seem to be any sort of
protocol that will settle the hostilities be-
tween the warring Philadelphia Republican
factions.
—It will take more than one branch of
the State government on which to grow
fruit necessary for a healthy condition of
public affairs.
—If ‘“‘ignorance is bliss,”” what a happy
fellow the farmer, who thinks he pays no
State taxes and is not robbed by the Re-
publican machine, must be.
—1In challenging QUAY to a libel suit
Ajax SwALLow is defying lightning that
won’t strike. The Boss never ventures
into the courts to vindicate his character.
— Please excuse us until we get the white-
wash over the jobbery and favoritism that
sacrificed our own soldiers ;—after that the
world will hear from us on the DRYFUS
affair.
—In telegraphing to MILES and SHAFTER
to keep quiet abont the war scandals, Mec-
KINLEY appears to be imitating boss
QUAY’s celebrated ‘‘Dear Beaver don’t
talk.”’
—Somebody is suffering the effects of
the mismanagement of the worthless ‘Sons
of Somebodies,’’ who were put in positions
of military responsibility by personal
favoritism and political pull.
—There is no telling who will be the
Democratic leader two years hence, but the
confirmation of the report that DEWEY is
a Democrat adds to the available stock of
Democratic Presidential timber.
—HANNA has come forward as the apol-
ogist and defender of ALGER. This settles
it. The general conviction that jobbery
was the chief faction that controlled the
management of the army is confirmed.
—QUAY’S machine workers proposed to
run the State campaign on the war issues,
but the issue that is presented in the
shameful treatment of our soldiers is not
calculated to make many Republican votes.
—GEO. A. JENES prescribes the true
remedy for the ills that affect the body
politic of Pennsylvania when he declares
that Quayism must be wiped out. A sore
cannot be expected to heal if the splinter
that caused it is not removed.
—The idiotic representation that Boss
QUAY influenced the nomination of GEo.
A. JENKS has been dropped, not because
there are no organs rascally enough to re-
peat it, but for the reason that the greenest
gudgeons could not be caught by it.
—Commander QUAY has concluded to
abandon his advanced position and fall
back behind the libel lines for protection
from the enemies guns. We commend his
judgment. When the truth is being fired
there is no place as safe for rascals asin the
intrenchments of the libel laws.
—The scene has undergone a startling
transformation when the starved and ema-
ciated forms that once pictured the suffer-
ing of the Cuban reconcentrados now
represent the disease-stricken figures of
American soldiers reduced to skeletons by
ALGER’S jobbing method of caring for
them.
—~Candidate STONE has concluded to put
on a bold face, claiming that the Republi-
cans have reason to be proud of their cor-
rupt Legislature, but as a specimen of cool
impudence such an assumption could only
be equalled by a claim {from ALGER that
his party can point with pride to his rotten
camps.
—We confess to a feeling of commis-
eration for such Republican journals as the
Philadelphia Press, Bulletin and Ledger,
which cannot avoid giving their own party
a blow when they denounce the abomina-
tions of the QUAY machine, and hitting
McKINLEY between the eyes when the ex-
coriate the scandalous officials whom he
put in charge of the war department.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SE
PTEMBER 9, 1898.
Try Again Mr. Elkins.
In trying to excuse the machine's rascality
and its robbery of the people, by its con-
stant raids on the State treasury, chairman
ELKINS of the Republican State committee
says:
“One of the complaints made is that the
taxpayers of the State are overburdened by
reason of the expenses of the State adminis-
tration and the cost of supporting our penal,
eleemosynary and charitable institutions.
This charge is in keeping with others. It is
lacking in every essential element of truth.
The fact is that THE GREAT MASS OF TAX-
PAYERS OF THE STATE DO NOT CONTRIBUTE
A FARTHING IN THE SHAPE OF STATE TAX-
ATION. The State revenues are raised mainly
by the taxation of corporations, collateral
and direct inheritances, the license fees, fees
of office and bonuses on charters. Real estate
has not paid State taxes since 1866.
And from whom, pray, is the money
taken that goes to pay the ‘‘taxes on cor-
porations,’’ but the people who use what
corporations furnish or carry ?
Every man who rides a mile upon a rail-
road ; who has a pound of goods transported
by rail-road, or who has to purchase any-
thing carried by rail-roads, pays a share of
the tax that is levied upon the corporation.
The money goes out of his pocket into
the till of the corporation and out of that
till into the State treasury. It’s but a
short distance between his purse and the
place the Republican thieves find it.
And who pays the ‘collateral and direct
inheritance tax,’”” but the individual or
beneficaries who would recieve the entire
estate if there was no tax required of it?
And who pays the license fees but the
person who takes a meal at a hotel, enjoys
a glass of beer or plays a game of billiards ?
It’s not the landlord. He is only the
tax-gatherer for the State and his patrons
are the payers.
And who pays the ‘ ‘fees of office’’ but the
citizens of the community in which it is
located ? Out of the fees they pay, the State
treasury demands its share, and the larger
the share it demands the larger the fee they
must pay.
It’s a very short cut in the ‘‘fees of of-
fice’” business, between the pockets of the
tax-payers and the treasury into which
their money is dumped.
The people know this, and know that
when the treasury is robbed by exhorbitant
salaries, extravagant appropriations and
profligate management, that it is their
money that is taken.
Mr. ELKINS had: better make some other
excuse for the thiéving of the machine.
His ‘‘no tax ou the people,” is a trifle
thin.
Smoked Ont.
The Republican leaders in the State and
their candidate for Governor have been
smoked out from ‘‘under the flag’ at last,
and made to declare themselves on State
issues, to at least a small extent. They
see there are other issues than those raised
and settled by the war, and they have
found out that the people were not being
fooled a bit by their pretense of patriot-
ism and their huzzas for the flag.
ELKINS, who is chairman of the ring
committee and has charge of the boss’
campaign, settles the whole matter of of-
ficial stealing, profligate administration
and corrupt management in State affairs,
by declaring that the ‘‘people pay no State
taxes,” and consequently cannot be rob-
bed.
This is a very short cut out of a very
unpleasant and dangerous situation, and
if the people believe him it is possibly as
easy a way to cover up the thievery of the
party he represents, as any other.
He don’t deny the stealing. He don’t
deprecate or denounce the corruption that
has made Republican administrations a re-
proach and shame in Pennsylvania, but he
denies that the people are robbed for the
reason, as he says, ‘‘they pay no State
taxes.’ Ha
You know how that is Mr. Farmer and
Mr. Tax-payer. You know if you pay
taxes or not, and you know where the
money comes from to ‘meet the extraordi-
nary expenses that Republican management
entails upon the State government.
If you are foolish enough to think that
you are not being robbed, when your State
treasury is being depleted, to enrich the
boss’ henchmen, we presume you will go
on voting the Republican ticket and doing
as the boss bids. J
Should Be Kept for Reference.
The Middle-of-the-Road Populists are
bound to be ahead, if not at the election,
at least at the start of the presidential race.
They have already placed their ticket, for
1900, in the field and it reads :
For President—Wharton Barker, of Penn-
sylvania.
For Vice President—Ignatius Donnelly, of
Minnesota.
With the start this ticket has, and the
conditions connected with the race it is en-
tered for, there is every possibility of its
running clear out of sight before the final
heat ; and if you are keeping a record, that
will be incomplete without the names of
the candidates of all aspiring parties, it
might be well to cut this item out now
and preserve it. It’s about the last you
will hear of the Middle-of-the-Road ticket.
The Independents Turning to Jenks.
As those Independent Republicans, who
are really impressed with the degraded con-
dition of our State affairs and entertain a
sincere desire for State reform, succeed in
throwing off the trammels of party preju-
dice under the pressure of a great public
necessity, they are found gravitating to
the support of GEORGE A. JENKS, as offer-
ing the only means of relieving the State
from the ruinous and disgraceful rule of
machine politicians.
There is evidence of a strong Republican
support, for the Democratic gubernatorial
candidate, in the sentiment that is rapidly
growing among the anti-QuAY Republi-
cans favorable to co-operation with the
Democrats in ridding the State of its ma-
chine rulers. A large percentage of the
Business Men’s League, the organization
that is directing the Republican rebellion
against QUAY’S autocratic power, is freely
expressing its satisfaction with the position
taken by Mr. JENKS as the leader of the
State reform movement, viewing it as an
auspicious basis for a coalition of all the
anti-QuAY elements.
There is no longer a reason for such Re-
publicans to consider themselves bound to
the support of a corrupt machine and a dis-
reputable leader by the force of party
allegiance. The declarations of GEORGE
A. JENKS has satisfied them that the only
purpose of his candidacy is to relieve the
State of a great evil that is equally injurious
to men of all parties. They know him to
be an honest man. They have the assur-
ance that he is as reliable in his integrity
as in his mental ability and qualification
for public affairs. Having disabused the
public mind of the false impressions that
were artfully designed to represent him as
being affected by the QuAy influence,
GEORGE A. JENKS compels the acceptance
of honest Republicans who cannot avoid
recognizing him as representing no other
issue than that of better State government.
It is for this reason that there is a power-
ful impulse among Independent Republi-
cans to back the Democratic candidate in
his championship of the principles of State
reform, for which they have long been fight-
ing, and which they know cannot be
attained if QUAY shall remain in power.
This feeling is showing itself in such In-
dependent Republican organizations as the
Business Men’s League by such surface
indications as the personal expressions
of its members. As practical and well
intentioned men, who see that strict party
allegiance at this time would compel them
to support a corrupt power that has secured
the control of the party machinery and is
using it to the injury of the State, they can
adopt no other course than that which gives
the only assurance of the redemption of
our old Commonwealth from the too long
continued misrule of QUAY’S combination
of political corruptionists.
Another Fight For Spoils.
Although the fight for the post office in
this place has not been definitely settled
yet, the turmoil and trouble that it is
creating, in the ranks of the party, does
not'seem to deter the hungry fellows, who
are Republicans for what there is in it,
raising another hellabaloo about the little
patronage that is still to be labeled out.
This time the fight is for the deputy col-
lectorship, and the way the patriots are
coming to the front to claim their share of
the spoils, would put to shame the efforts
of tramps at the door of a public soup
house.
This office is supposed to belong to one
of three counties—-Centre, Clinton or Union.
It is worth about $1200 a year, and al-
though under civil service, each county
has a small army of applicants clamoring
for it, not one of whom has passed an ex-
amination, or under the law—if the law
should be respected—could be appointed.
This, however, makes no difference to
them. They are not bothering about civil
service. They know their party leaders
will not allow it to stand between any
favorite they have, and the spoils that they
have fought for, and the scramble for this
place goes on just the same as it would
was there no civil service law or civil ser-
vice regulations.
Clinton has a dozen or more applicants
for the place ; Union can add over half
that many to the lot while Centre can pro-
duce one from every village in the county.
In this town out of about a dozen aspi-
rants, the principal ones are W. L. MALIN,
whose backer is his Excellency, the Gover-
nor ; H. B. PoNTIUS, who has the Snyder
der county statesman, THoMAS HoOLLOW-
HEAD HARTER, on his paper ; and E. R.
CHAMBERS who is after it principally be-
cause he wants the salary, and partly be-
cause Governor Hastings don’t want him
to have it.
We wish them all luck. It’s a nice of-
fice and worth fighting for. It’s an easy
office to flil and the salary is sure. But
before they build too much on what they
have done for their party, or count to cer-
tainly’on the emoluments of the place, it
would be well for each of them to remem-
ber that they belong to a party that is
owned and controlled and governed by a
boss ; that it is kis office to give and not
‘his party’s and that whoever he says shall
have it will get it, worthy or not worthy,
and that will end it.
If they’ll just remember this fact, it
may be easier for them after it is all over,
to figure out what a Republican amounts
to who is not a creature of the man power
that dictates the policy as well as thé ap-
pointments of the party in Pennsylvania.
They will understand what a glorious
thing it is to have views of their own, and
a thorough knowledge of what independ-
ent manhood amounts to in the Republican
party.
—
Parallel Campaigns.
The Democracy of New York, who nev-
er had a brighter prospect of carrying the
State, are conducting their campaign chief-
ly on State issues. They have by no means
discarded the great Democratic principles
of the last Presidential campaign, but the
situation in their State, as in Pennsylvania,
calls for special efforts for the correction of
evils that have attended the rule of a Re-
publican machine.
Foremost among these is the unexampled
profligacy, in alleged canal improvements,
by which the larger part of $9,000,000 ap-
propriated for work on the Erie canal have
been deliberately stolen by the henchmen
of Boss PLATT, part of the plunder being
used for private profit and the balance em-
ployed for political purposes. There are
different means of stealing public money for
party use in this State, where the QUAY
machine secures a large part of its corrup-
tion fund by farming out the State money
among the banks.
In addition to ferretting out and punish-
ing the canal thieves the Democrats of New
York State are pledged to destroy the
trusts and break the rule of monopolies at
Albany where they have entrenched them-
selves behind a Republican Legislature
and State administration. They are also
fighting for the reform of unjust tax laws ;
for the restoration of home rule in the cities,
and for the repeal of the odious RAINES
sumptuary law, and of the Force bill that
strikes at the principles of popular govern-
ment to enable the PLATT machine to re-
tain political control of the State.
It is thus seen that the Democratic cam-
paigis in New York and Pennsylvania are
‘both being run on parallel lines, the ob-
jective point in both being the correction
of political abuses and the restoration of
honest State government.
Hanna’s Indictment of McKinley.
President McKINLEY is beset by many
perplexities, most of which he brought upon
himself, but the one that should give him
the greatest anxiety is MARK HANNA'S as-
sociating him with ALGER in the misman-
agement of the army.
When the Ohio boodler boldly steps for-
ward Jand proclaims that the President
finds no fault with ALGER; that he ap-
proves of his conduct and will allow no in-
vestigation of it, he would make McKIN-
LEY appear as participating in his Secre-
tary’s dereliction. There is virtually an
indictment of the President in HANNA'S
declaration that “he McKINLEY will stand
by Secretary ALGER in the trying time
through which he is passing ; the man who
criticises ALGER criticises the President.”
The defiant brutality with which HANNA
presents the case indicts President McKIN-
LEY along with his subordinate, who is
represented to have acted under the direc-
tion and with the approval of his chief, for
HANNA declares “I was there nearly all
the while and I know that ALGER consult-
ed the President two or three times a day.’’
Under such circumstances tne Buckeye
boodler would appear to be justified in his
assertion that ALGER can’t be criticised
without criticising McKINLEY. Having
‘‘been there nearly all the while,’’ as he
claims, HANNA ought to know, and from
its character it may be judged that he also
participated in the management that prov-
ed so disastrous to the army and disgrace-
ful to the country.
The Doubt There is in It.
Congressman HICKS, with a blare of
trumpets, has sent his check for an un-
stated amount to the Republican State
committee. He might have done it with
less blow, about his right to do so, if it
were possible for him to do anything with-
out blowing about it. No one doubts his
right to contribute ; no one doubts that the
Republican committee needs funds ; or no
one doubts that the emoluments of office
should bear a share of the expense of ob-
taining them ; these are the doubts that
Mr. Hicks created for the purpose of show-
ing how fluently and effectually he could
knock them down.
He has done it, and the only doubt re-
maining, about his contribution, is as to
whom the money he gave, with such a
flourish, really belonged :—whether to
some disappointed applicant for a post-
mastership in his district, who paid for and
was promised the place and then turned
down, or whether it is part of the earn-
ings of the laboring people about Altoona
who were induced to place their savings in
the Pennsylvania Building and Loan Asso-
ciation, with which he had such close con-
nection before it went into the hands of a
receiver.
There is some doubt as to this.
__NO. 85.
Blight of a Great State.
From the Pittsburg Post.
At a judicial hearing in Chester county
a few days ago there werc some strange
disclosures about the operations of the Re-
publican treasury ring. It involved the
affairs of the defunct Chester Guarantee
and Trust company. The president of the
company, Smedley Darlington, told how
the trust company secured a deposit of
$80,000 of State funds. He said that
while he never paid the State treasurer
interest, yet he was required to donate 3
per cent. on the investment to the Re-
publican State committee and to the coun-
ty committee for political purposes. He
testified that he never had any written
agreement with the S treasurer upon
the subject, but there was an implied un-
derstanding as to how’ the interest should
be disposed of. ‘It was cheap money for
the company,” he said, ‘‘for other deposi-
tors received 5 per cent.’
This exposure comes from a prominent
Republican. It is only one of the hund-
reds, possibly thousands, of incidents. In
the first place the treasury balances were
handled in the way indicated by Smedley
Darlington to secure capaign funds. Mil-
lions have been in vogue. As a matter of
fact it was money stolen from the people
by men of the most eminent respectability
—pillars of the church and all that. In
other cases it was used to enrich politicians,
to buy and control conventions and for
the baser purpose of corrupting elections
and bribing legislators. Sometimes as
much as six and seven millions of dollars
were kept in the treasury for the purpose.
Taxes were maintained unnecessarily high
in order to keep the treasury overflowing.
The State was debanched by it. The poi-
son was swallowed from the State capitol
to the large cities and rural communities.
The demoralization was exclusively among
the so-called hetter class. None of the
gains went to the wage worker or the
heelers of politics. It was essentially an
aristocratic and high-toned crime. It had
its romances, and could all the facts he
known, as they have partially cropped out
the last twenty-five years, it would be
found that murder possibly and suicide
have been in its train, that it has exiled
bright men, broken up families and sent
statesmen of repute to their graves blasted
in heart and fortune—some innocent vict-
ims and others guilty conspirators or act-
ual embezzlers. More than anything else
it stands responsible for the degradation of
Pennsylvania politics, stretching through
all departments of government, executive,
legislative, judicial, and knowing no party
in’its deadly blight.
What is Elkin Driving at ?
From the Philadelphia Press, (Rep.)
Chairman Elkin would have wus believe
‘that the prodical and reckless expenditure. |
of the money in the State Treasury gives
the taypayers no reason to complain be-
cause these taxes are realized from corpo-
rations, inheritances, licenses and charters.
What difference does it make from what
source the money comes? Is it .not the
people’s money, and are not the people
robbed, therefore, when the State Treasury
is looted ? ;
This is the thinnest plea we have ever
seen in defense of Treasury raids. Mr.
Elkin apparently regards the State Treas-
ury funds as unclaimed assets, which any
one is free to sieze, at least if he happens
to be inside the ring. Outsiders are not
expected to participate. Certainly they
are not given the same show. Even if we
accept the absurd assumption that taxes
levied on corporations, estates and licenses
are not paid by the people, the dullest can
comprehend that the more money that is
taken wrongfully from the State Treasury
the less there is to distribute among the
counties for schools and other public pur-
poses, and to that extent increases the tax
on farms and other real estate.
Does Chairman Elkin hope to make the
taxpayers of Pennsylvania believe that
robbing the State Treasury is not ‘robbing
them? Does he expect by this means to
make them indifferent to corrupt raids
upon the State funds? If not, what is the
object of his argument that the taxpayers
are not concerned with the fate of the mon-
ey in the State Treasury ? 4
Send the Soldiers Home.
From the New York World.
Not one of our camps is a fit place for
men to live in. '
Not one has an adequate supply of pure
water and proper drainage. :
Not one is properly equipped and sup-
plied with the comforts and the necessaries
that sick and debilitated men should have.
It is not exaggeration to say that most
of them are pest-holes destined to ‘grow
worse every day.
Why are the soldiers kept there? ' Their
presence is not needed for any military
purpose. ne
Their work is done. The war is over.
The men need rest and the reanimating in-
fluences of home. :
Let them go where loving mothers, wives
and sisters may take such care of them as
is not possible in any camp !
Break up the camps! Scatter disinfec-
tants over the soil! Send the soldiers
home !
Pointing Derisive Fingers at Us.
From the Toronto (Canada) Globe.
Those who had to endure the American
army ration in Cuba will read the letter of
a private in the Soudan expedition with
envy. In a letter to his sister he says:
Idraw my meat rations every morning,
and fry some steaks for breakfast, and then
about 1 or 2 o’clock I make a dinner of steak
and onions and tea. The pans are not of the
best, but do the work pretty well. My fry-
ing pan is a square piece of tin, turned up
about an inch at each side. The stew pan is
a bulky beef tin, with a wire handle stuck
on the top of it. I have an oven built, in
which I make an occasional tart.
Further on he tells her that each man
gets one and a half pounds of loaf bread
per day. When the difficulties of reaching
the interior of Africa are compared with
the facilities for reaching the Province of
Santiago it must be said that the way the
American troops were fed was no credit to
the war department.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The public schools at Easton were com-
pelled to close on Monday on account of the
heat.
—Church people at York have attacked
the owners of business places kept open on
Sunday.
—A tramp arrested at Hazleton for sleep-
ing on the sidewalk was found to have $400
in his pockets.
—Two dozen victims of pickpockets in the
Labor day crowd at Williamsport reported
their losses to the police.
—Operations were yesterday resumed at
the tissue paper mills at Raubsville, North-
ampton county, which for some time past
have been closed.
—Army officers have reported the camp-
meeting grounds at Summit Grove, York
county, as a healthful and suitable location
for several thousand soldiers.
—Four hundred employes of the old Ban-
gor Union and Excelsior slate quarries,
Northampton county, struck yesterday be-
cause of a ten per cent. reduction in wages.
—An unknown man, who from papers
found in his pockets appeared to have travel-
ed in Alaska, committed suicide at Harris-
burg by throwing himself in front of a train.
—George Branthaver, from Fulton county,
while attending the reunion of veterans at
McConnelsburg, was lodged in jail, and fire
breaking out in his cell he died of suffoca-
tion.
—William Donnelly, residing in Mount
Holly Springs, while in the South Mountain
near Hunter's Run, came across a den of
snakes and killed 22, 16 of which were rat-
tlers.
—A gang of pickpockets, who reaped a
harvest at the firemen’s convention at Wells-
boro, were hagged by the Williamsport police
when they stepped from the cars at the latter
place.
—While cutting wood with a hatchet,
Freddie Gabel, of Chambersburg, dared his
little sister, Mary, to put her hand on the
block, and then accidentally chopped off
three of her fingers.
—Simon Felix, a private of Company B,
died at Montgomery Saturday of typhoid
fever, making the fourteenth death in the
Twelfth regiment. The young man con-
tracted the disease at Camp Alger.
—During a thunder storm on Sunday af-
ternoon the barn on Theodore Runyan’s
farm, near Hughesville, Lycoming county,
was struck by lightning. The building,
with all the crops, was consumed.
—The peace demonstration held in Wil-
liamsport was a bigsuccess. Excursion trains
were run from almost every town in Central
and Northern Pennsylvania, and itis esti-
mated that 30,000 strangers were there.
—Fifty snapping turtle eggs found on the
Wagon Knecht farm, Bucks county, recent-
ly, were set under an old hen, and in a few
days about half of them hatched out. The
lively little snappers tore all the feathers off’
their foster mother’s breast.
—Rev. J. W. Henson, a colored preacher,
aged 100 years, died at Bloomsburg, on Satur-
day. During the early part of his life he
was a slave, but escaping, he came North.
For many years he has been preaching and
lecturing throughout this State.
' John Rothrock, .of near Lewistown,
undertook to ride his wheel on top of a 20
inch rail on the Newton Hamilton railroad
bridge last Sunday, and only rode a few feet
and lost his balance and fell 60 feet, crushing
himself terribly and died shortly afterwards.
—Duncannon has organized an Improve-
ment Company and will manufacture knit
underwear, corset covers, ladies’ shirt waists
and a general line of textile goods. The
capital stock will be $20,000. About $7,000
of the $10,000 to be raised by the citizens has
been subscribed.
—Three young lads named Wallace, Ricker-
son and Bush, were bathing in a creek near
North Corry, Erie county on Sunday, when
a storm came. They took refuge under a
tree. A terrific flash of lighthing killed
Wallace, his skull being split open. Ricker-
son and Bush were badly burned, but will
recover.
—A¢t Milton on Saturday, a tramp named
Clayton Thomas, attempted to board 2 mov-
ing freight train. He missed his grasp and
was thrown violently on the ballast of the
adjoining track. His neck was broken, and
the scalp and his ears were nearly torn off.
He was 25 years old and his home was at
Mt. Pleasant, Md. :
—The town of Mechanicsburg, Cumber-
land county, is now in darkness at night.
Since the 1st of August the streets have been
in darkness because of a difficulty between
the council and the light company. The
time of lease has expired, and the light com-
pany wants an advance of $400 a year, which
council refuses to grant.
—The Watsontown Boot and Shoe com-
pany are just advised that they have been
awar ‘ed a contract for fifteen thousand pairs
of cavelry boots for the United States gov-
ernment. They must be hand made and
consequently the work means a greatamount
of labor. It was only a week ago that this
same company were given a contract for
twenty-five thousand pairs of shoe, also for
the government. : :
—Jacob Lay was drowned at Danville on
Monday and his remains were shipped to
Williamsport for burial. Owing to a mis-
understanding the grave had not been dug
when the body reached the cemetery. In
fact, the grave diggers had just started their
work. The coffin was placed upon the
ground, and the friends waited patiently
until the last resting place of the unfortunate
man had reached the required depth, and as
the sun wassinking low in the west the in-
terment was made.
—Private Frank Hopfer, of Sonth Wil-
liamsport, a member of the Third Ohio vol-
unteers, died at Fort McPherson, Ga., last
Wednesday. Monday his remains were in-
terred at Wildwood cemetery, Williamsport.
As the carriages were returning home, the
hack containing Mr. and Mrs. William Hop-
fer and their children, was upset ata sharp
bend on Cemetery street. The driver, W. D.
Harman, was rendered unconscious. He
was badly hurt by: being thrown against a
barbed wire fence. A portion of his jaw bone
and a broken tooth had to be removed. Mr.
and Mrs. Hopfer and the children were all
cut on the heads and faces, but none of their
injuries are serious. What caused the hack
to upset is not exactly known. The horses
stood still after the accident.