Bemoratic Waldo
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Twenty-thousand Knights in succes-
sion couldn’t even darken Pittsburg on
Tuesday.
—The Spanish want us to accept their
Cuban debts. We might just as well ac-
cept Spain.
—The rubber trust unfortunately will
not be able to gather the rubber-necks
under its blighting control.
—Again the people of Pennsylvania get
through with him QUAY’s plum tree will
have the black-knot, so far as bearing any
more fruit for him is concerned.
—Republicans hereabouts have come to
the conclusion that ARNOLD’S first name
should have been BENEDICT. As a be-
trayer of friends he can beat his original
namesake all hollow.
—If the administration can get its gov-
ernmental schemes to work in Cuba, it will
be entitled to congratulations. Nothing
has ever been known to work down there
but mosquitoes and fever.
—Reformer WANAMAKER will open fire
on the enemy’s lines this, Friday /evening
from his intrenchments in: the 'Philadel-
phia Academy of Music. It is expected
that the firing will be both hot and effective.
—The idea, that they sayis Gen. WooD’s,
to give each discharged Cuban soldier $25
in cash and $25 worth of agricultural im-
plements, sounds more like a joint idea of
the money lenders and the implement
manufacturers.
—No, Miss Maud, the great Peace Jubilee
to be celebrated in Philadelphia on
the 26th and 27th is not to be a love
feast between WANAMAKER and PENROSE.
Get that notion out of your noodle, if you
had suchan onein it.
—When GEORGE WASHINGTON whacked
that little cherry tree he told his pap what
he had done. Now therein lies the dif-
ference between GEORGE and MATT QUAY.
The latter shook the State’s plum tree and
didn’t tell the people a thing.
—There are no signs of a protocdl yet be-
tween the contending Republican forces in
the State. As a consequence, ‘‘honest
government’’ winks one eye suspiciously
and watches the warming war with a new
hope and expanding expectations.
—New York is catching on to the Penn-
sylvania political methods at a fairly rapid
rate. Here the Republicans elect tax-
stealers ; up there they are trying to elect
a tax-dodger. There might be somewhat
of a difference, but its all on the same line.
—It might not be amiss for Republican
management in this State to be preparing
hospital accommodations for its disabled
politicians. From present indications that
war that’s now on among them, will leave
crippled characters and ruined reputations
to be cared for hereafter.
—The stories told by home coming Porto
Rican soldiers will be muffled before they
reach that war investigation board in ses-
sion in Washington. Tales of suffering so
horrible as the one told by RALpH HAR-
WICK, of DuBois, on Tuesday, are not the
kind that would add gloss to the white-
wash that it seems will have to be applied
to ALGER.
—We haven’t seen anything of county
chairman GRAY’s flag. ELKINS has evi:
dently sent it, but as yet they haven’t
hoisted it high on Republican headquarters
here. When it is to be carried Gen. SAM
MILLER or pension agent OLLIGER will be
selected to divide the honors of carrying it.
It is supposed to have a genuine plum tree
handle and Met. fliers.
—The Indian war on the shores of Leech
lake only confirms the old time belief that
the only good Indian is the dead Indian.
It was hard to lose good soldiers at the
hands of the Spanish, but far harder to
have them killed by a lot of drunken red-
skins, who have been petted and pampered
until they are a constant menace to the set-
tlers on the borders of their reservations.
—Since the naval battles at Manila and
Santiago foreign governments have been
trying to find out how our gunners are
trained to shoot with the marvelous ac-
curacy that was displayed in those engage-
ments. The government has always fur-
nished any of this information very cheer-
fully in the past, but as its courtesy has
never been reciprocated it has been decided
to make more of a secret of our methods.
Itis a good stand to take, for to what
" profit are we to have brains and genius in
our navy and army if their fruits are to be
as free to foreign powers as to our own.
However, with all the science there is in it
the men behind the guns are the real agency
of our superiority and such no other nation
will ever have.
—That most pious political statesman,
JoHN WANAMAKER, is mad because Sen-
ator PENROSE is reported to have accused
him of unlawful meddling in the affairs of
the defunct Keystone bank. He dares
PENROSE to put his accusations in writing,
with the threat that he will ‘‘arrest him
for libel as speedily as a warrant be ob-
tained and served.”’ If they should happen
to get into a suit over JOHN'S relations to
the defunct institution the news might
come out as to whether he really did get
that $400,000 from the bank to help carry
New York for HARRISON. WANAMAKER
has never denied the charge and so long as
he refuses to do it the people will be in-
clined to think that he has been guilty of
trying to debauch the ballot with boodle,
even though it might not be true.
LY
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 43
A United Democratic Vote Will Elect
Jenks.
It has now become almost a positive cer-
tainty that if the members of the Demo-
cratic party in the State vote for GEo. A.
JENKS he will be elected. The Republican
vote that will fall away from the machine
candidate will be enough to make his vote
less than the vote that will be polled for
JENKS if all the Democrats will stick to
him. This would ensure his election by a
plurality.
That many Republicans will vote for the
Democratic candidate is absolutely sure,
but this gain would be neutralized if any
considerable number of Democrats should
be misled into voting for SWALLOW by the
mistaken notion that he is a stronger can-
didate than JENKS and therefore more able
toserve their purpose of defeating the QUAY
machine. As absurd as this notion must
appear to every reflecting citizen, it is
nevertheless being worked up by the ma-
chine leaders and stool pigeons for the pur-
pose of reducing the Democratic vote that
rightfully belongs to the Democratic
nominee.
As SwALLow must be regarded in this
contest as of no other account than asa
factor that may be of service to the ma-
chine, no sensible voter can believe that he
stands any chance of being elected. When
the claim that he is going to have a vote
sufficient to elect him is subjected to logical
examination it is found to have no basis.
A correct conception of the relative strength
of SWALLOW and JENKS may be reached
by supposing a case in which a candidate
has thirty thousand voters back of him,
and another is backed by five hundred
thousand. In such a case which is likely
to be the stronger at the polls? The basis
of SWALLOW’S strength is the Prohibition
vote amounting at most to 30,000. The
basis of JENKS strength is the 500,000
votes that constitute the Democratic or-
ganization in the State. Phenomenal
circumstances may run the Prohibition
candidate’s vote above the normal strength
of his party, but is there a possibility of
its having such an increase as to run it
above the vote which a candidate with a
500,000 organization back of him is likely
to get ?
In this connection SwALLOW is of im-
portance not on account of any chanee he.
has of lieing elected, but for the reason that
the ballots of Democrats that might mis-
takingly be cast for him would so reduce
the bulk of the Democratic vote as to ensure
the election of QUAY’S machine candidate.
To secure an intelligent view of the
pending State contest it must be borne in
mind that SwALLOW’S candidacy is of
consequence only in the effect it may have
in assisting to elect the nominee of the
machine.
Two of a Kind.
Nothing could be more encouraging to
the friends of good government in the State
than the fact that ex-Governor ROBERT E.
PATTISON is working along with GEORGE
A. JENKS in this campaign against the
profligate politicians who have been mis-
governing the State and defrauding its tax-
payers.
The ex-Governor addressed a public
meeting along with the Democratic candi-
date for Governor, at Media, Delaware
county, last Saturday, and the sight of two
such representatives of true Democracy and
honest government on the platform at the
same time, delivering sturdy blows at the
QUAY machine, and supporting the cause of
honesty in public affairs, aroused the en-
thusiasm of the audience, Republicans as
swell as Democrats, and filled them with
the hope of a change in the old Common-
wealth that will deliver it from the clutches
of political thieves.
ROBERT E. PATTISON’S administration
of the state government is a tower of
strength to the Pennsylvania Democracy.
They can refer to it as proof of what a
Democratie administration can do for the
State. It enables them to confidently call
upon the people to put another Democrat
in the Governor’s office if they want im-
provement in the management of the State’s
affairs, and the ex-Governor appears upon
the platform, in company with the nomi-
nee for Governor, and proclaims that
GEORGE A. JENKS is the man to perform
that mission by restoring honest Demo-
cratic government to the long abused and
plundered State of Pennsylvama.
There could not be a more auspicious
and encouraging sign of better things
ahead for our old State than PATTISON and
JENKS together on the stump fighting the
QUAY machine and putting their should-
ers to the wheel for State reform.
——If you are opposed to squandering
the public moneys in drunken junketing
trips, such as disgraced the last Legislature,
you will vote for FOSTER and WETZEL.
Both DALEY and TOWNSEND will doas the
machine for which they are running de-
mands, and it will demand just the same
kind of legislation and the same profligate
appropriations that disgraced the State
and robbed the tax-payers two years ago.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
Kalsomining the War Department.
The investigating of ALGER’S army man-
agement has now been in progress for
about two weeks and nothing has heen de-
veloped that tends to remove the public
conviction that it has no other object than
to exonerate ALGER and to shield the ad-
ministration from censure calculated to in-
jure it politically.
The very first movement in the proceed-
ings, which required the sessions to be held
with closed doors, filled the public mind
with suspicion that it was intended to be a
kalsomining job. That publicity was not
desired was indicated by the announcement
that the committee-room would be too
small to admit newspaper reporters.
Though the proceedings would naturally
be of the most intense interest to thou-
sands of citizens whose sons lost their lives,
or had their health ruined by the unhealth-
fulness of the camps, the poor quality of
the provisions, and incompetent medical
treatnient, ghe government is made to ap-
pear too poor to provide a room large
enough to accommodate the press that
would give the developments of the inves-
tigation to the public.
These are circumstances that would
throw suspicion on the good faith of the
administration in this matter, if there were
not other reasons for the people to believe
that the chief object of the investigation is
to mislead the public mind as to the facts
connected with the management of the
army and the general treatment of the sol-
diers. The witnesses called are not the
kind from whom could be obtained the in-
formation necessary for a true exposition
of the facts. The higher grade of officers.
who gave the condition of the soldiers but
little if any notice, and who never al-
lowed their attention to be closely drawn
to the treatment which the soldiers re-
ceived, are summoned as the chief witness-
es. When called upon for testimony this
class of witnesses can be questioned in a
manner that may make them appear to tes-
tify that there was nothing wrong, and all
the questions put to them so far, as would
appear from the meagre reports, have been
of a character calculated to produce this ef-
fect.
The committee evidently do not want to
get at the facts or they would call to the
stand witnesses who personally suffered:
from the management that prostrated so
large a percentage of the army with sick-
ness and sent so many home as broken
down invalids. This is a class of witnesses
who could testify whether they were sub-
jected to the abuse and neglect with which
ALGER’S army management is charged.
Would not the committee be likely to ob-
tain from the common soldiers information
with which the generals and other higher
officers would be unacquainted, and which
ALGER’S appointees in the commissary,
quartermaster and medical departments are
interested in concealing ?
The investigation has proceeded far
enough to confirm the public impression
that it is not the purpose of the adminis-
tration to allow any facts to be disclosed
in connection with the management of the
army during the recent war that would re-
flect unfavorably upon ALGER and do a
political injury to the Republican party.
Vote for the Right Man.
The prothonotary’s office is one of the
most important offices in the county. It is
the filing place of nearly all the court
records ; the receptacle of all its official
papers ; the custodian of every rule and
order and action of the court. The minutes
of the court are recorded and kept by the
prothonotary and its findings and decrees
are parts of the official record of his office.
It is in this office that all judgments are
recorded, and to this office that all citizens
who have business before the courts are
compelled to go. The advantage of having
a quick, bright and accommodating person
to fill the place must be apparent to all.
The absolute necessity of having it filled
by a competent, reliable and orderly of-
ficial will be recognized by every voter. A
negligent, incompetent man in the position
would create any amount of trouble in the
county and unending expense to the tax-
payers.
Why take any risk in this matter? MM.
I. GARDNER, who is the candidate upon
the Democratic ticket, is acknowledged,
even by his personal enemies to be in every
way fitted for the position. An excellent
penman, a trained bookkeeper, a careful
‘business man, an orderly, systematic worker
—thorough in every detail and pleasant and
accommodating under all circumstances,
he would make a worthy successor to the
long line of good prothonotarys who have
filled the position.
His opponent may be a worthy, deserving
individual, but there is no evidence any-
where or from any one, that he hasa single
qualification for the place. Why then take
any risk about this office? It is of the
most vital importance to the whole people
that it be filled well. This will be in-
sured by the election of M. I. GARDNER,
and every man interested in having the of-
fice properly conducted and by one of the
most deserving young men in the county
will have no hesitancy in giving him their
votes. :
OCTOBER 14, 1898.
Attorney General McCormick’s
mony.
Testi~
The people of Pennsylvania will but half
finish the great task of reforming their state
government unless they elect a majority of
the Legislature that will operate with the
chief executive officer of the State in put-
ting an end to machine misrule. The in-
juries which public interests have sustained
in consequence of bad state government
have had their origin chiefly in the profli-
gacy of machine Legislatures. It was the
power which a corrupt boss has been able
to exert over the legislative branch that
has maintained the vicious practices by
which the money of the people has been
squandered in extravagant publiclexpenses
and turned to the personal and political
advantage of licentious party leadership.
Therefore when the people apply them-
selves to the work of reform they should
bear in mind that it will be but half done
if the Legislature shall not be made to
watch the reform Governor which we he-
lieve it is their intention to elect. GEo.
A. JENKS, who in all probability will be
that Governor, shows his appreciation of
such a Legislature to co-operate with him
by urging all the elements of reform, in
both parties, to unite for the election of
Legislators who will not be the servants of
a party boss and the instruments of a cor-
rupt political machine, and advising Dem-
ocrats in Republican districts to combine
with Independent Republicans in electing
Republican Representatives who are op-
posed to the continuance of QUAY’s vicious
domination. In this district, both as to
the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, the normal majority being Demo-
cratic, the ends of legislative reform will
be served hy the reform elements uniting
upon the Democratic nominee for the State
Senate, WM. C. HEINLE, Esq., and the
Democratic nominees for the Assembly,
Messrs. ROBERT M. FosTER and J. H.
WETZEL.
That the Republicans, both in respect to
the State Senator and the Assemblymen,
are equally obligated with the Democrats
to give these candidates their support
should be impressed upon them by such
reputable authority as Hon. H. C. Me-
CORMICK, the Republican Attorney General
of the State, who testifies as follows to the
dBaracter of the Legislature which the
QUAY machine would retain as the law-
making body in this State :
“I myself have witnessed the humiliating
spectacle of the Legislature waiting for
days to be told what was the will of their
masters”” He knew that he owned them.
They were his property, and why should
they not take orders ? And what a Legis-
lature it was! It can scarcely be thought
of without nausea. Its first business was
to elect a United States Senator. The
members of the General Assembly of 1897,
misrepresenting their constituents and
obeying the boss instead of the people,
elected the man they were ordered to by
their master, and defeated the man whom
the people wanted. The reckless extrav-
agance of the last Legislature has become
a byword throughout the Commonwealth.
It was the legitimate result of the debauch-
ery of its members by the persons in con-
trol.
This is not an overdrawn picture of
legislative depravity and degradation which
the election of Messrs. HEINLE, FOSTER
and WETZEL would assist in eradicating.
—— “No Democrat, whoever he may be,
can bring the 28th Congressional district
into more disrepute than it now is,”’ says
the Ridgway Evening Star, the only Re-
publican paper in Elk county. Vote for
HALL.
He Didn't Shake the Plum Tree.
The United States lost one of its purest
public characters in the recent death of
ex-Senator BAYARD, of Delaware. In all
the high positions he occupied in the gov-
ernment his services were performed with
as much integrity as ability. That he did
not helong to the class of statesmen who
regard public office as a private snap was
proven by the fact that although he held
high official stations from his early man-
hood almost to the day of his death he left
an estate that did not amount to more than
the modest sum of $75,000.
Sach a fortune would be regarded with
contempt by statesmen of the QUAY and
PLATT order who have become millionaires
by improving their political opportunities.
But Mr. BAYARD would have scorned to
turn his official service to pecuniary profit,
or to avail himself of a dollar of public
money that did not belong to him, and
therefore the estate he left did not amount
to more than some statesmen, who are in
public life for the money they can make
out of it, manage to secure out of sugar
trust deals when a tariff bill is pending, or
from the profits of a gold loan.
If we had more public men of Mr. BAY-
ARD’S high character, and fewer of the
kind who become rich by ‘‘shaking the
plum tree,”’ there would not be the cor-
ruption that is seen to prevail in all the
departments of government.
shai
NO. 40.
Is Swallow for Quay?
From the Williamsport Times.
It is generally supposed in certain quar-
ters that Dr. Swallow has a distinct under-
standing with Senator Quay as to his can-
didacy. For several years past it has been
apparent that a revolt was soon to come
against Senator Quay and his methods, and
that unless some radical step should be
taken it has seemed pretty certain that he
would be overthrown.
The independent sentiment has been
growing gradually, and the natural place
for it to drift was to the Democratic candi-
dates. If there should be a concentration
of the elements opposed to machine meth-
ods in the Democratic ticket it is a very
evident fact that their chances of winning
would be considerably enhanced. This re-
sult has overtaken the Republicans in the
two occasions when Governor Pattison was
elected Governor. Quay is astute enough
to place some obstacle in the way in order
to head off the movement.
Last year the revulsion of feeling against
the machine methods was so great as to
give promise of overturning the machine
and of electing a Democratic state treasurer
and auditor general. Dr. Swallow’s can-
didacy was given enough encouragement
to make it appear formidable, and under
the delusion that he might win thousands
of voters who were really opposed to exist-
ing conditions voted for him.
Had these same persons cast their votes
for the Democratic ticket the state treas-
urer would have been elected by over 4,000
majority. Dr. Swallow polled less than
one-half as many votes as the Democratic
nominees. He, however, served Senator
Quay’s purpose admirably. He diverted
enough votes to accomplish Senator Quay’s
desires. This year the same state of affairs
is presented again. The plan as conceived
has developed, and Swallow may take
enough of the independent elements to ac-
complish Quay’s plan. He and some. of
his friends are doing whatever they can on
the side to concentrate the dissatisfied vote
on the doctor. Every vote cast for him
only takes one vote from Quay ; whereas
if it were cast directly for the Democratic
candidate it would in reality make a differ-
ence of two votes. This theory of the real
purpose of Dr. Swallow’s candidacy is
borne out by such influence as the Phila-
delphia Times, an organ that is perhaps
closer to Quay than any other in the State.
Its support of Dr. Swallow can only be ac-
counted for in this way : Colonel McClure
knows very well that Swallow stands no
earthly chance of election, and that the
only one who could win is Mr. Jenks. Of
course, Republican newspapers could not
be expected to take an open position, but
such journals as the Zimes, which claims
to be independent, can. Voters who are
sincere in their desire to see Quayism over-
thrown should not permit themselves to
‘be deluded with the suggestions that Swal-
low can win. A firm idea of these possi-
bilities can he gained from this locality,
where it is readily seen by any one who
comes to inquire that he has lost rather
than gaineu strength.
Will It Be a Cyclone?
From the Pittsburg Post.
Recent developments connected with the
treasury expose and the holding of Quay
and others of his machine to bail on a crim-
inal charge for the misappropriation of-pub-
lic moneys may work a revolution in state
politics. It is probable that to a greater
or less extent it will. It may turn out a
cyclone. Stone, the Quay candidate for
Governor, stand for precisely the financial
wrongs and outrages on the people uncov-
ered at the hearing before the Philadelphia
magistrate. He is the standard-bearer of
the treasury ring. His loose ideas of pub-
lic morality are best illustrated by his ex-
tortionate fee, through a friendly auditor
general, of $10,000 for nominal services in
defending a claim against the State of
$3,500. This was Quayism. It was not
much. It is meagre compared with the
hundred thousand dollar operations, plun-
dering the State, disclosed in the Philadel-
phia hearing ; but it was imbued with the
same spirit of jobbery and fraud that has
run rampant in the state administration
under the profligate rule of Quayism, which
is simply a principle of public plunder.
To Workingmen.
Workingmen of Pennsylvania, you who
cannot clothe your wives and children de-
cently, you who cannot give them suf-
ficient nourishing food, you who cannot
earn enough to pay rent or taxes hecause of
monopoly rule and extravagant legislators
and peculating state officials, what think
you of this :—The state with money ex-
ploited from your hard labor pays for the
picture of a skunk to illustrate one of its
reports the sum of $707.00; for the
the picture of a blue bird, $757.25 ; for the
picture of an old crow, $609.98 ; for the
picture of a sparrowhawk, $791.92 ; for the
picture of a flicker, $741.98. The state
also paid $3,500 for pictures advertising
the private business of a brownstone com-
pany. All this useless outlay to embellish
‘a book you will neversee. Are you so lost to
your rights, to your sense of manhood, to
the duty you owe to your wives and chil-
dren that you will not resent this robbery ?
Remember that this extravagance was or-
dered by the minions of Quay 1n the Legis-
lature and that more and worse is promised
if you elect Quay’s man—William A.
Stone, who is pledged to do Quay’s bid-
ding.—Dem. Press Bureau.
Every year it is $5,500,000 for the
common schools, but the schools do not
get the money. It is withheld by Repub-
lican officials to the damage of our schools
and for the private gain of corrupt poli-
ticians. The common schools, the glory of
the people, must be saved from the Repub-
lican machine despoilers. George A. Jenks
will protect the schools and the people if
the voters but do their duty.
——%J. K. P. HALL is a winner and a
man who will put an end to the disgraee-
ful misrepresentation that the district has
labored under for the past two years,” says
the only Republican paper in Elk county.
Vote for HALL.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Twenty-foursick soldiers were received
at the Lancaster hospitals from camp Meade
on Monday.
—Painter Michael Smith fell 60 feet from
] a scaffolding at Shamokin, sustaining fatal
injuries.
—Forcing his way through a barred win-
dow, Michael Castellano escaped from the
insane department of the Schuylkill county
almshouse.
—Thirteen-year-old John Newton, of Up-
per Strasburg, Franklin county, tramped on
a thorn, which penetrated his foot, causing
lockjaw and death.
—A large number of additional hands have
been put to work in the Segal tissue paper
mills, at Raubsville, Northampton county, to
meet a rush of orders.
—Judge Albright Monday approved the
recommendation of the grand jury for the
erection of a soldiers’ monument at Allen-
town, and a $20,000 shaft will be put up.
—Private Joseph Rigenary, of the Twenty-
first United States infantry, a Shamokin
man, who enlisted last July, died from ty-
phoid fever Monday at Plattsburg, N.Y.
—Father Matthew’s day was celebrated in
Wilkesbarre by a monster parade, in which
5000 men and boys belonging to Catholic
temperance societies in the Scranton district
participated.
—Saturday eighteen cars of a freight train
were piled up on the Linden branch of the
P. and E. caused by a broken rail. Nobody
was injured. The tracks were blocked only
a few hours.
—The Houtzdale Journal says that the pet-
rified Indian unearthed by workmen on the
line of the new railroad from Clearfield to
Belsena, has proven to be nothing but a long
sulphur rock.
—A¢t Nisbet Sunday, as a freight train was
backing into the siding, the engine of another
freight ran into the side of it. The engine
was derailed and three cars of the freight
were wrecked. No one was injured.
—Station Agent Croyle, at Mosgrove,” Arm -
strong county, was held up by three negroes,
who, at the point of their revolvers, compell-
ed him to open the safe Saturday evening.
They secured $300 and escaped, after locking
the agent in a rear room.
—During the past week there died in Ty-
rone and its suburbs, four aged citizens who
had been long residents of that community.
Their combined ages aggregated 318 years
and 4 months, an average of almost 80 years.
Three of the four were born in Germany.
—Rev. J. H. Pershing, formerly of Tyrone,
who has served two terms as presiding elder
in the Altoona district, and who was at the
recent conference of the United Brethren
church appointed to the Madison charge,
has resigned on account of failing health.
—Word has been received that Rudolph
Goodman, of Shamokin, who joined an artil-
lery company during the summer, was mur-
dered by a crowd of cowboys, in a saloon near
Galveston, Tex. They drew the soldier into
an argument, and when he offered to fight
they shot him.
—The establishing of silk mills in the state
appears to offer great allurements to capital-
ists. In 1880 there were only 49 of these
mills in Pennsylvania, 71 in 1890 and probably
100 by this time, with Allentown as the head
center, with its seven silk mills. In all there
were 472 such industries in the United States
in 1890.
-—Mrs. Samuel Swartwood, wife of a rail-
road brakeman, residing at Mountain Top,
Luzerne county, gave birth to her twenty
fifth child Thursday night. Of the large
number of children born, only two sets were
twins. Three of the children died. The
rest are in good health. The father says he
is the happiest man on earth with his large
family.
—Daisy Smith, aged 16 years, a daughter
of Henry Smith, a wealthy farmer of Boiles
Run, Snyder county, was found murdered on
Monday, in a field near her home. Her
body was riddled with shot, and there was a
gaping knife wound in her throat. The af-
fair is mysterious, and althongh it is said the
authorities have suspicions as to the identity
of the murderer, no arrests have yet been
made.
—The frame dwelling of George Stott,
situated on the hill abeve Cuba mines, on
the road leading to Hudson, in Clearfield
county, was totally destroyed by fire Sunday
‘evening about 9 o’clock. Mr. Stott, who is a
partner with Jacob Swires in operating Ophir
mines, had moved his family out of the
house only a few days before. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but presumed to be the
work of an incendiary.
—A search after a lost nickel resulted in
the horrible death of Bessie Garman, a 14-
year-old girl, at Mont Alto Junction, Frank-
lin county, Saturday evening. Miss Gar-
man while playing with the infant dropped a
five-cent piece, which rolled under a table.
Miss Garman began a hunt under the table,
overturning it, and dragged down a parlor
lamp upon her head. In a moment the
young woman was a mass of flames and so
badly burned that she died Sunday morning.
—A coal oil stove exploded in a bed room
at the home of William J. Sellars, Hollidays-
burg, last Saturday morning. Mrs. Sellars
was ill in the room at the time and became
so frightened that she jumped out of bed and
threw her 1-day-old baby out of the window.
Mrs. Milton McGraw, who had been attracted
to the house by the screams of the inmates,
caught the baby in her dress. Mrs. Sellars
was taken out of the window on a ladder.
The stove exploded near the door of the
room, thus preventing egress. Mother and
baby seem to have withstood the shock with-
out danger of ill effect.
—Albert Welton, while intoxicated, was
arrested at Williamsport Saturday and lodged
in the lockup. The prisoner is a resident of
Dansville, N. Y., where he has a wife and
family. He is about 64 years of age, and was
supposed to have long since given up love
affairs outside of that for his own family, but
subsequent events proved the supposition in-
correct. A pretty lass of about 18 years hap-
pened by one day. Welton admired her and
finally made her acquaintance, and it slowly
grew into a love affair of a serious nature.
Just. how long the couple kept their affairs
in Dansville a secret is not known, but
Woinic. month ago they left their Dansville
homes and went to Williamsport.