Beworeaic Wat
BY P. GRAY MEEK,
Ink Slings.
—S. S. stands for STONE and SWALLOW
and it stands for sinking ship, too.
—The closer we get to the election the
closer the SWALLOW vote crowds the fig-
ure 0.
—When Quay takes the stump the
world knows that that is all there is left of
the old plum tree.
—The latest yellow book issued by the
French government threatens to give
England the yellow fever.
—Philadelphia will never be in a position
to genuinely celebrate a peace jubilee until
she gets rid of that public building com-
mission.
—DMaine ain’t the only Commonwealth
on the coast. She calls herself the Pine
Tree State, but what is the matter with
the plum tree State.
—It isn’t so much the STONE that is
about his neck that threatens to drown
QUAY this fall as it is the dust that he has
been trying to throw in the public eye.
—The emperor of China is said to be
suffering with albuminuria, incipient phth-
isis and great debility and his condition is
reported to be serious. Is it any wonder ?
—The war investigating probe is not
likely to go deep enough into the diseased
parts of our army organization to bring out
any of the information that the people
really ought to have.
—Chairman ELKIN is beginning to find
out that it is going to take something more
than glory to win the fight in Pennsylvania
this fall. At least the kind of glory that
the war department has to parade under.
—If real honest, intelligent work, and
the most undoubted gualifications amount
to anything with the voters of Centre
county MITCH GARDNER ought to have
1,000 majority when the returns are all in.
—Its beginning to look as if HALL would
be elected by every county in the district.
Even little Forest, that has never been
particular how noisome a dose was pre-
scribed for it, is holding its nose when it is
told it must stick to ARNOLD.
—With horse doctors as heads of the
hospitals at Chicamauga, drunken mule
drivers as nurses for the patients and sick
men lying out in the rain without as much
as a tent fly for a covering the war in-
vestigation board will have a pretty hard
time white washing some one.
—“‘I seen my duty and I done it”’ might
have been remarked by the editor of the
Philadelphia Zimes, after he wrote that
leader on ‘‘The Doubtful State Battle’’ for
Wednesday's issue of that paper, but it is
not likely that the Zimes was wakened up
by a sense of duty at all, it was more of
an effort to get in ous of the wet.
—When you cast your vote for J. K. P.
HALL, you will have the satisfaction of
knowing that you have voted to have your
district represented by one of its most hon-
orable and successful business men ; by
one of its largest and most humane em-
ployers of labor; by one who will not
shame you by any act or deed of his and
by a man who will intelligently and faith-
fully guard its every interest, under any
and all circumstances.
—Just now the fellows who are after
boodle are changing their candidates every
time they meet any one who will listen to
them. If Republican and with Republi-
cans they are against ARNOLD : If Demo-
crats they can see objections to HALL that
inspires them to oppose him—and when
you get to the bottom of their purpose, it
is simply to bleed some one, to sell their
vote. And yet we talk of the manhood
and principle of American voters.
—People are coming to the conclusion
that JOHN DALEY and ELI TOWNSEND do
not know enough to know that the voters
of the county have a right to be informed
as to what may be expected of their Repre-
sentatives at Harrisburg. And the con-
clusion is about right. In fact we have
never heard of either of them being ac-
cused of knowing much, if anything, about
the right of anybody, but there is a chance
of their knowing more than they do now
on the morning after the election.
—When some fellow who is expecting
to be fixed with ARNOLD’S money, tells
you that JIM HALL, or any one connected
with him in business, ‘runs a pluck-me-
store,’’ tell him politely, if he can under-
stand polite language, that he is mistaken.
He may not know enough to know what
that means and you may have to tell him,
that it is notso. There is no such establish-
ment, or skin shops allowed about any of
his many enterprises and the fact that his
own twelve hundred employees are the most
enthusiastic and earnest supporters that he
has gives the lie to this dirty attempt to
prejudice the laboring men against him, in
a way that any decent man should be
ashamed to repeat it.
—The election of a Governor has noth-
ing, whatever, to do with the money ques-
tion, the tariff, or the endorsement of a
national administration. We are fighting,
this fall, for Pennsylvania’s honor and it
remains to be seen whether the State is to
continue as a stench in the nostrils of the
sisterhood or to be redeemed and elevated
to her rightful place. The money question
can be settled when the time comes, so can
the tariff, but Pennsylvania’s honor must
be restored now while it is possible to
dethrone the boss who has betrayed it. If
QUAY is to triumph this fall it will be his
last battle. He will be too old to fight
again in six years and Pennsylvania must
now free herself, or go down in history
with the author of her shame unrebuked.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
OCTOBER 28, 1898.
__NO. 42.
Bright Democratic Prospects.
As the day for electoral expression draws |
nearer the prospect of the election of GEo.
A. JENKS and the entire Democratic state
ticket grows brighter. What at the be-
ginning of the campaign could be regarded
as a bare possibility has now assumed the
appearance of a reasonable probability.
There is everything to encourage this
hopeful view of an election in which is
involved so much that is vitally important
to our State. The intelligence and con-
science of the responsible citizenship are at
last aroused against the continuance of con-
ditions in the state government that are as
barmful to public interests as they are de-
grading to public morals. The deliverance
of the State from the protracted rule of
self-serving corruptionists and political
criminals appears to be at hand.
That the State is about to have better
.| government will be due not to the sole
agency of one political party, but it will
result from the better sentiment of all
parties uniting for the overthrow of a dom-
ination that made the entire citizenship of
the State the victims of a band of political
thieves. The Republicans who had to
share this injury with the members of
other parties have suffered additionally
from the odium of thieves being the
leaders of their organization. It is this
that puts thousands of them in the fore
front of the referm movement, and a large
percentage of these thousands will support
the candidacy of GEORGE A. JENKS, as giv-
ing the best appearance of reform.
As regards his own party there is now no
longer a doubt of its being solidly loyal to
its state candidates. Its nominee for Gov-
ernor is in himself the embodiment of the
honest principles and civic virtues indis-
pensable to good government. There may
have been Democrats whose doubt as to
the success of their candidates inclined
them to vote outside of their party as the
course most likely to enable them to deal a
blow at the corrupt machine, but this
doubt has been dispelled by the manifested
strength of their state ticket and the re-
markably developed popular confidence in
their gubernatorial candidate.
The Democracy is for GEORGE A. JENKS
and the full state ticket, and with the aid
of the large reform element outside of the
party there is reasonable ‘assurance of the
election of the Democratic state candidates
and the overthrow of the QUAY machine.
An Insulting Claim on the Soldiers.
That the QUAY spell binders are trying
to use the recent war to bolster their cor-
rupt machine is offensively shown in the
kind of representation they are making to
the people. Though the war is over and
the Spaniards have been whipped, the can-
didate of the boss is claiming that the fruits
of the victory would be lost if he should
not be elected Governor and the machine
allowed to continue its corrupt govern-
ment.
Another plan of operation they have
adopted with the object of turning the war
to political account, is to claim the grati-
tude of the soldiers who were out in the
service, basing the claim on alleged favors
done them. For example, at a STONE
meeting at Bradford, on Wednesday even-
ing of last week, after QUAY’s candidate
had concluded his harangue, W. J.
SCHEFFER, of Chester county, who was
with him as an assistant spellbinder, refer-
red to the candidancy of General GOBIN, in
his speech, saying: ‘‘We want you people
to take care of General GOBIN in this cam-
paign as we have taken care of your Six-
teenth Pennsylvania regiment.’*
From this it was to be inferred that favors
were done the Sixteenth regiment for
which there should he a political return.
No other construction could be put upon
this proposition than that politics had
something to do, with the treatment of the
soldiers, for upon what else could be based
a claim for votes in such a connection. It
was a demand on the gratitude of the Six-
teenth regiment and its friends, to be re-
paid with votes, for the exertion of a polit-
ical pull by which its discharge from ser-
vice in Porto Rico, and its return home,
were secured. If this was not the con-
struction that was intended to be put upon
it, how else could it be claimed that those
soldiers were under obligations to a politic-
al party ?
This appeal to soldiers to vote the Quay
ticket on account of an alleged favor was
so indecent that the speaker: had scarcely
made it before it was greeted with a storm
of hisses and other indications of distrust.
The indignation of his hearers was excited
by the intimation that the discharge of the
gallant Sixteenth was a political favor for
which they were required to make repay-
ment in votes. :
But this circumstance of the Sixteenth
regiment being asked to vote the Quay
ticket as the price of their being ordered
home and relieved from service, was in
keeping with the kind of army manage-
ment in which everything was made to
respond to political pulls. But the Six-
teenth deserved its discharge, and it is not
willing to thank the Republican politicians
for it.
Why They Fight Him.
If HENRY WETZEL was a different kind
of a man ; if he was an individual who
could be influenced, fooled or bought to
do any wrong thing, the opposition of the
Republicans would not be half as bitter
towards him as it is. The leaders of that
party in this county, who are working in
the interest of their boss, know the kind of
a man he is, and know how little would
come of their efforts to have him betray
any trust, and because they know that his
every effort and vote would be for the best
interests of the people, and which would
necessarily be against the interest and
wishes of the State robbers, they are using
every means in their power to accomplish
his defeat. There is nothing that they can
stoop to do, that they are not willing to
try, to get votes against him. And this is
all because of his sterling honesty and his
admitted integrity. If he was a weak,
irresolute, or easily influenced person, or
careless, doless and unambitious, it would
be different.
And it is just because of the qualities he
has that he should be elected. He is in-
telligent, broad-minded and conservative,
and is imbued with such moral principles
that no power under the sun would induce
him to do what he thought or knew to be
wrong. He would cast no vote for thiev-
ery or oppressive legislation. He would
give no support to measures that would
rob one class of people for the benefit of an-
other. His voice and his vote would be at
all times against every steal, no matter in
what form it was presented, or who it was
intended to fleece.
We have had many good and reputable
Representatives from this county in the
state Legislature but it has been many,
many years since we have had one who was
a better one than Mr. WETZEL will prove
to be. He knows the needs of our people.
He understands the efforts and purposes to
make them ‘‘hewers of wood and drawers of
water’’ for interests that come in conflict
with the best interest of Centre county
farmers and Centre county workingmen,
and he has the will and the courage to de-
fend and standby the welfare of those he
will be chosen to represent. No boss will
crack his lash over his shoulder, nor will
any ring dictate his actions.
that the Republicans don’t like.
It is because of this that Democrats
should and will elect him by an over-
whelming majority.
—A cleaner, better, more capable
ticket has never been placed in nomination
by the convention of any party than is the
Democratic county ticket this year.
The Injunction Usurpation.
The public mind has reason to be alarmed
by the encroachments upon the civil rights
of the people which are being made by
some of the United States judges who are
committing usurpations which justify the
position of the Democratic party against
government by injunction.
" Take for example the recent action of
judge E. S. HAMMOND, of the United
States circuit court at Cleveland, in grant-
ing an injunction in the interest of the
wire trust against the wire drawers who
were engaged in a strike concerning wages.
His decision denied to these men certain
rights that are clearly guaranteed to the
people by the constitution, and inalien-
ably belong to every American citizen.
A judge may justifiably exercise his au-
thority for the prevention of unlawful
violence, but in this case judge HAMMOND
usurped the authority to interdict peace-
able action on the part of the workingmen.
He assumed to exert his judicial power,
not merely in prohibiting the strikers from
resorting to force for the attainment of
their object, but his injunction was also
directed against their using peaceable per-
suasion and orderly representation in in-
fluencing their fellow workmen to adopt a
course that might make their strike suc-
cessful. No Legislature would have the
constitutional right to pass a law that
would thus abridge the liberty of the citi-
zen, yet here is a judge who takes it upon
himself to enforce such unconstitutional
authority. ?
What makes this judicial usurpation the
more dangerous and odious is its being ex-
erted in the interest of so unlawful an or-
ganization as a trust.
There was a time when such an en-
croachment upon the rights of the citizens
would have excited a public ferment, but
that was at a period when Democratic
principles prevailed, and before the public
mind had become familiarized with such
outgrowths of Republican politicians as
plundering trusts, and judges had not been
encouraged to sustain such monopolies by
suppressing the rights of the working peo-
ple.
—If you want a good penman, a re-
liable accountant and a courteous gentle-
man to keep the records in the prothono-
tary’s office you will have to vote for M. I.
| GARDNER.
It is (this independenee rand manheod.
Claiming Credit for What He Did Not
Do.
Congressman ARNOLD'S friends are
claiming great credit for him for the num-
ber of pensions that have been granted to
persons in this district since he was elected
to represent it in Washington. It is well
there is some one thing they can claim
credit for him for attending to, but it
would have been better if they bad picked
out some duty that required the attention
of the Congressman, rather than one that
did not.
The fact is a Congressman, under the
present pension laws, has as little to do
with securing pensions as the organ blown
in a church has to do with the salvation of
souls. Under the pension laws now, and
which laws had just gone into effect when
Mr. ARNOLD was first elected to Congress,
it requires only proof of service in the army
for ninety days and of an honorable dis-
charge, together with the physician’s cer-
tificate of disability, to fix the status of the
pensioner and insure his name being placed
upon the rolls. With either of these re-
quirements the Congressman has nothing
at all todo, nor did Mr. ARNOLD have. He
might, if at any time he was sober enough,
have fooled around, wrote letters and pre-
tended that he was just killing himself
with work and worry in the interest of the
old soldier, but whether he had been liv-
ing or dead, or whether he was drunk or
sober, made not a particle of difference in
the disposition of the case.
No man who has received a pension dur-
ing the past six years is under any obliga-
tion to him or to any other Congressman.
They got their pensions by virtue of their
service in behalf of their country, and up-
on the certificate of the board of medical
examiners as to their disabilities, and any
-effort to have them or the public believe
that it was not soldierly service, but con-
gressional influence, that secured them the
pension, is a reflection upon the service
they rendered and an insult to the pen-
sioner.
If the pension was earned why should
the Congressman’ hold you under obliga-
tions for securing what your own valor and
risk and hardship entitled you to?
..——We have often charged that even
the highest offices in thie land ave held for
barter, just as so much political merchan-
dise, but we never expected that a Repub-
lican United States Senator would admit
such a deplorable condition. In his speech
in Philadelphia, last Friday night, Senator
PENROSE said : “JOHN WANAMAKER is a
disappointed candidate for office, now pa-
rading through the State with malignant
falsehood and venomous spite to help tear
down and destroy the great Republican
organization from which he ONCE EXACTED
AT A PRICE the high position of a cabinet
officer.”’
Contemptible and Offensive.
Could anything be more contemptible
than the kind of argument which the sup-
porters of the QUAY machine find them-
selves compelled to resort to in support of
the state ticket which the boss has put
in the field ?
When the people are demanding that
corrupt governmental management in the
State shall be reformed, what could be
more offensive to their intelligence than to
be told that they had better dispense with
such reform as the result of an election that
would bring it about would interfere with
the policies of McKINLEY’S administra-
tion ?
When party managers have to resort to
such arguments it is a sign that they are
on their last political legs, and that is just
what is indicated by QUAY’S candidate
for Governor insulting the voters of the
State by such an expression as the fol-
lowing in one of his stump speeches :
“Don’t you know that if this State and
other States go Democratic this fall the
President will be compelled to modify his
policy and plans toward Spain? Don’t you
know that Spain is waiting to hear from our
November elections, hoping that she will re-
ceive comfort and support by them? Don’t
you know that if the country goes Demo-
cratic this fall Spain will increase her de-
mands?’
Such an assertion as this is an outrage
upon the common sense of the people, and
is in keeping with the low estimate of the
popular intelligence shown by Republican
leaders and organs in the kind of bugaboos
they employ to influence the public mind.
Here is the nominated representative of the
rottenest state government that ever exist-
ed, telling the people who suffer from its
abuses that if they adopt measures through
the ballot box for the reform of such cor-
ruption it will have a bad effect on the
Spaniards in the peace negotiations.
If this were not so confoundedly insult-
ing to the intelligence of the people its ab-
surdity might furnish occasion for laugh-
ter.
—If brother HARTER really intends vot-
ing part of the Democratic ticket, as is
rumored he does, he will not be near as
lonely as some people may imagine. There
are scores of better Republicans than he
ever could be, going to do the same thing.
The Grand Army Endorses Hall.
There is no class of voters in this con-
gressional district among whom the mat-
ter of a Congressman is more talked about
than the veterans of the late war. There
are people who would have you believe
that ARNOLD is the only friend the old
soldier ever had, but if you care to look in-
to the real status of affairs you will realize
that he has never done anything more for
them than any other man would have done
under the same circumstances, and possi-
bly, not as much, for you all know his
weakness and it is not unreasonable to sup-
pose that many an opportunity to help a
deserving soldier was neglected by him be-
cause he was not in a condition to attend
to it.
J. K. P. HALL is not making a parade
of his services to the veterans, for he is one
of those plain, modest men who does what
he thinks is right without any ostentatious
show. Yet his past consideration for the
boys in blue has been such as to be a guar-
antee that if elected to Congress he will do
even more for them.
The following resolution, voluntarily
adopted by the Grand Army post at St.
Mary’s, will show what Mr. HALL’S feel-
ings for the veterans are :
HEADQUARTERS OF THE
Lieut. M. W. LucorE Post, No. 216, |
GRAND ARMY oF THE REPUBLIC.
DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA. J
ST. MARY'S, Pa., October 24th, 1898.
It having come to our notice that a report
was in [circulation that Hon. James K. P.
Hall, Democratic candidate for Congress in
this district, is and has been unfriendly to
the old soldiers, with the intention,undoubt-
edly,of injuring his prospects for the election,
we feel that, while we do not desire to bring
the organization into political controversy,
it is our duty to correct so false and erroneous
an impression, and desire to say that, on the
contrary he has never been asked for a dona-
tion for our benefit to which he has refused to
respond liberally ; that he has always stood
ready to assist, and has assisted many of our
comrades in innumerable ways, preparing pen-
sion papers, etc., without any compensation
whatever.
Further that, this Post has occupied his
building for the last fifteen years without re-
munerating him in any manner.
If this is unfriendliness to the old soldier
we wish there were more of them.
W. B. HARTMAN, M. D.
Post Commander.
L. H. GARNER, Post Adjt.
SEAL.
S——
Think of it, not charging any rent for
his building for a period of fifteen years.
Does that look as if he was not friendly to’
the soldiers. Wouldn't you rather believe
that such a man is a truer friend than is
the fellow who is continually prating
about what he has done for you, when he
has actually done nothing more than the
functions of the office to which youn twice
elected him require.
Coming Over to Jenks.
One of the most notable indications of
the tarn of public sentiment in favor of the
Democratic candidate for Governor is pre-
sented in the change of the Pittshurg
Leader from its long-standing position as a
QUAY organ to that of a strenuous op-
ponent of the machine and an ardent sup-
porter of GEORGE A. JENKS.
The Leader is one of the most influential
Republican journals in the western part of
the State, but as the evidences of machine
rascality became each day more apparent,
it began to balk in the QUAY barness, and
last week it dumped the whole QUAY cara-
van over board, and came out squarely and
earnestly for the Democratic state ticket.
After declaring that it ‘washes its hands
of the whole sneaking, jobbing, wire-pull-
ing, law-twisting Republican outfit in this
State,’ the Leader declares that it turns to
GEORGE A. JENKS with a sense of relief.
It says:
“The platform on which Mr. Jenks stands
is a substantial and a timely one. It is con-
fined to state issues—legislative corruption,
misuse of public moneys, demoralization of
public offices and other crying evils too well
known to require detailed mention here, and
the principles which it embodies appeal to
all honest voters without distinction of party.
In behalf of this platform and of the emi-
nently worthy candidate nominated thereon,
the Leader from now until election day pro-
poses using its best efforts, and we feel that
they are enlisted in a cause the merit of which
no citizen of Pennsylvania with an ounce of
wit and a corresponding modicum of frank-
ness can afford to challenge.’”’
The reasons that have brought this Re-
publican organ to the support of the Demo-
cratic state ticket are effecting thousands of
honest Republicans in the same way.
——The Philipsburg Ledger says that
when candidate SWALLOW stepped off a
morning train during a wait in that place,
one day last week, his presence didn’t even
cause a ripple among the crowd ordinarily
gathered about the station. The preacher
candidate is finding out that the people
have come to realize that voting for him is
not going to bring about the desired end
of state reform. Dr. SWALLOW deserves
credit for his courageous fight, but he can
never be elected Governor of Pennsylvania
on a Prohibition ticket.
——The election of a reform Governor
in Pennsylvania will be a great thing for
the State, but it will be a good work only
half done if a reform Legislature is not
elected with him. Vote for FosTER and
WETZEL.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Heating apparatus for the new court
house at York will cost nearly $20,000.
—Reading’s free library was formally
opened Saturday. It contains about 13,000
books.
—A train at Portland, Northampton
county, killed Moses Schug, of Pontiac,
Mich., who was East on a visit.
—The infant child of Emma Johnson, of
Allentown. died in agony, after drinking
from a bottle of carbolic acid, which it found
in its play.
—Howard Buoy, colored, of York, was
found dead, with his neck broken, in the
barn of George W. Yancey, by whom he was
employed at Reading.
—A board flying from a circular saw struck
Daniel Krapf, of Coleraine, Luzerne county,
in the face, knocking out one of his eyes and
otherwise disfiguring him.
—A little daughter of Mrs. Lauver, of New
Buffalo, Perry county, was severely injured
by a stable door falling on her. One of her
legs was broken and her head cut.
—Andrew Schilling had both his arms and
several 1ibs broken by being whirled around
a revolving shaft in which his clothing be-
came entangled, in a colliery at Hazleton.
—After a mysterious absence of more than
six months farmer Samuel Nissley. of Dru-
more township. Lancaster county, yesterday
reappeared at his home, but had nothing to
say of his travels.
—While walking in the streets of Shamo-
kin Friday night, Charles Gilbert became en-
tangled in a broken telephone wire, which
had fallen across a live trolley wire, and he
was terribly burned by the electric current.
—A teamster named O’Neal, of Chaneys-
ville, Bedford county, recently hauled a wal-
nut log to Everett which measured twenty-
five feet in length, forty-eight inches at one
end and thirty-eight inches at the other, and
contained 1,645 feet of lumber.
—The old Farmers’ and Drovers’ hotel, at
Fleetwood, Berks county, has just undergone
a strange metamorphosis. The bar has been
taken from the bar room and a pulpit placed
there. The Menonnites will hereafter use
the old building for a church.
—The shirt manufactory of Meyerhoff,
Son & Co., at Pottstown, will be enlarged
and its capacity greatly increased. The firm
which now employs 200 hands in Pottstown,
will probably remove its cutting and laundry
departments from Philadelphia to Pottstown.
—Within the past two;weeks James Corboy
of Bedford, has shipped forty-five head of
the finest horses that have left that place in
years. They were brought up in Bedford
county, and the prices paid were better than
those prevailing during the spring and sum-
mer.
—By the storm of Friday night and the
succeeding high water George H. Dauler, Jr.
of the Chalybeate Springs, Bedford, lost more
than 1,000 bushels of corn. Other farmers
.| lost heavily. A railroad bridge near Cook’s
Mills, Bedford county, went down with five
cars on it.
—Andrew Mull disappeared on August
20th from his home in Larimer township,
near Meyersdale, Somerset county, and no
trace of his whereabouts can be learned, al-
though searchers have scoured the woods for
‘miles. He started on a hunting expedition,
and it is supposed that the gun was acci-
dentally discharged, killing or wounding
him. '
—Hon. J. W. Smith, of Lock Haven re-
ceived a letter stating that gas was struck in
No. 2 well at Gaines one day last week.
The gas was struck at a depth of 650 feet and
was so strong as to blow all the tools and
stones fifty feet into the air above the sur-
face of the- ground. After the gas had ex-
hausted itself, drilling was begun the next
day.
—While a girl out near;Sanborn was sitting
under a tree last Sunday waiting for her
lover, a big bear came along and apprcach-
ing from behind, began to hug her. She sup-
posed of course that it was Tom, and so just
enjoyed it heartily and murmured,
‘“Tighter,”” and it broke the bear all up, so
he went away and hid in the forest to get
over the shame.
—James Curry & Son, of Johnstown, last
week, closed a deal for the purchase of 1,600
acres of the best timber land{in Scalp Level
district. The price paid was $15,000. The
tract is about four miles fromjWinber and
contains 65,000,0000 feet of lumber. It is
said the Pennsylvania railroad will build a
branch from its Dunlo and Scalp Level ex-
tension to the tract.
—John Landers, of Renovo, has an inter-
esting relic of the Revolutionary War in the
shape of an officer’s sword. It is one of the
~ery finest of the styles then in vogue, and
the date 1776 is plainly stamped; upon the
hilt. The News says Mr. Landers secured
the valuable relic several years ago at Charl-
ton, Lycoming county He has since been
offered but refused $1,000 for it.
—Bears are plenty in the mountains this
fall and stories of big killings are the regular
thing. James and Harry Schofield, two of
the most intrepid hunters of the DuBois re-
gion, up to Wednesday of last week had suc-
ceeded in bagging five bruins. On the 13th
of October they bagged one bear. On the
day after they brought two and on the fol-
lowing Wednesday two more fell before their
rifles, making five inside of a week. They
were all shot on Laurel run. ¢
—A verdict for $29,548.99 was recorded in
the Blair county court yesterday against the
Aetna Mining company on a suit brought by
the banking house of Gardner, Morrow & Co.
to recover on an overdraft bank account 12
years old. The defendant firm, which is
composed of J. K. McLanahan, T. H. Lewis,
John Manning and A. 8. Morrow, attempted
to plead the statute of limitation to the
bank’s claim.
—Elias Corle a well-to-do farmer, of Bed-
ford county, met death in a strange manner
Saturday. Mr. Corle was subject to epilep«
tic fits and while carrying two buudles of
corn fodder across a small stream on his farm
was overcome and fell into the water. The
fodder falling into the stream dammed up
the water until Mr. Corle’s body was sub-
merged, he managing to keep his head above
the water. Though conscious he was power-
less and lay in the chilly water over an hour
before help came. After being taken from
the stream his body became rigid and he soon
lapsed into an unconscious state, remaing in
| that condition until death came a few hours
| later.