BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Get out the vote.
—Governor HASTINGS is stumping In-
diana for the Republican ticket.
—England and Russia are making a
show of fighting over their respective rights
in China.
—The past tense of git there will not be
got there so far as ELI is concerned on
next Wednesday.
—TEDDY ROOSEVELT is finding out that
it is very rough riding ; this thing of try-
ing to ride to Albany on a PLATT horse.
—The French can hate England all they
have a mind to, but as to fighting her—
well they would rather retire from
Fashoda.
—Dr. SwaALLow is fast drifting into a
habit of falsifying and that is one of the
surest indications that he realizes his wan-
ing popularity.
—The question is not nearly so serious
as to whether the Philippines are to be
ours as is the question, whether Penn-
sylvania is to be QUAY’s or the people’s.
—If you want to end QUAY-ism in Penn-
sylvania forever vote for WETZEL and Fos-
TER, and if there are enough such men
elected the plum tree boss will never be
heard of again.
—Doctor SWALLOW must be ‘hitting
the pipe.”
ine almost anything. His latest is that
GARMAN has tried to sell the Democracy
out to QUAY.
—Brothers AL and CLEMENT DALE are
likely to show Congressman ARNOLD that
they are not the insignificant quantities in
Centre county politics that he must have
imagined them to he when he cut the
string.
—Democrats, vote your ticket straight.
Thousands of honest, self-respecting Re-
publicans are going to help you to carry
through the reform nominees and if you
don’t take advantage of their co-operation
there can be no hope of winning.
—New York is going to elect a Demo-
cratic Governor next Tuesday. TEDDY
ROOSEVELT’s chances have gone a glimmer-
ing before the dishonor of his hending to
the PLATT yoke, after having posed as an
enemy of the New York boss.
—When Republican state chairman
ELKIN permits so low an estimate as 100,-
000 plurality for STONE to be given out it
is the surest indication that the political
horizon does not have a very rosy hue, as
seen from the Philadelphia headquarters.
—JOHN A. DALEY lost his tongue early
in the campaign. The old political cat
took it and the Curtin township lawyer—
politician can’t be expected to tell where
he is at. Since he can’t answer for him-
self we will do it for him. He will vote
for Quay.
—Don’t brand yourself as one of the
SWALLOW fanatics. The masses have dis-
covered that Dr. SWALLOW isn’t inspired
so much with the idea of reform as he is
with the desire to he Governor, and having
caught onto his real motives, his ranks are
fast thinning out.
—The latest political sensation that has
been sprung is to the effect that the HAsT-
INGS people are going to unite on TowN-
SEND and endeavor to elect him, leaving
DALEY to slide the splintered plank to de-
feat. Of course DALEY’S friends are sup-
posed to accept it with good grace.
—ARNOLD voted to put a duty on hides.
It did not help the farmers, but it has had
the effect of closing over one hundred tan-
neries in the East and South. The Clear-
field tannery is closed because hides are too
dear and hundreds of men are out of work
in ARNOLD’S own county, because he vot-
ed as he did.
—There hasn’t been much hurrah about
this campaign, but it has been none the
less interesting. It has heen an earnest,
conscientious revolution against profligacy
and if it doesn’t win it will keep on in the
fight until it does. Party lines, personal
bias, and petty fights have all been lost
sight of in the grand struggle for reform.
It will win, if all Democrats support their
ticket.
—Spain threatens to get gay again if our
peace commissioners insist upon wanting
so much of her territory. Our commis-
sioners will likely take everything they
want, because the matter of Spain’s getting
gay would have about as much effect on
the United States now as would the at-
tempted. bombardment of one of oar coast
towns by the helpless, battered up Maria
Teressa. x
—DMake no trades or last bargains with
anyone. The man who attempts to trade
his fellow nominees is not worthy the place
he holds on the ticket. Vote straight,
Democrats, that is what honest Republi-
cans want you todo. They are going to
help you to elect your ticket because they
are just as anxious to rescue the State
from QUAY-ism as you can be.
—The speech of the venerable Senator
HOAR, delivered at Worcester, Mass.,
Wednesday night, must have sent the
chills shooting up and down the back-
bones of the imperialists. Senator Hoar
has joined ranks with Senators HALE and
CHANDLER to fight the idea of paying
Spain $40,000,000 for the Philippines.
When three such Republican statesmen go
to work against McKINLEY’S policy of im-
perialism there is evidence that some of
the people think we have about all the ter-
ritory we need.
He seems to be able to imag- |
| pear to have affected
VOL. 43
His
The Boss Flunks from Promised
Defence.
Some weeks ago it was announced that
Senator QUAY was preparing a speech in
which he would defend himself publicly
against the numerous charges involving
his official and personal integrity which
his opponents were strenuously making
against him. Such a defence was called
for not only by the fact that QUAY-ism was
designated as the chief cause of the cor-
ruption prevailing in our state politics,
but also for the reason that he was being
personally arraigned for alleged crooked
connection with certain bank defaults.
The Senator appears to have been es-
pecially impelled to prepare a defensive
speech by the scandal connected with the
People’s bank developments, and by the
construction which the public was putting
upon his famous telegram to cashier Hop-
KINS about shaking the plum tree. He is
usually not very sensitive as to public
charges against him, but those plums ap-
his callous sensi-
bility.
It was reported that among other points
upon which the Senator intended to de-
fend himself in this promised speech, he
| proposed to show that the shaking of the
plum tree had reference to political plums
which may be legitimately distributed by
those who have control of official patron-
age, and had no allusion, whatever, to
financial arrangements to use the state
money in the People’s bank for his own
and his son DICK’s private speculations.
Such a public disclaimer by Senator
QUAY as this speech was intended to make,
would have been a most interesting feature
of the campaign, and the people were
ready to accord him a hearing, but in the
midst of the interest that it excited chair-
man ELKIN announces that the Senator
has concluded that it was inexpedient to
deliver his speech, although ‘‘he had com-
piled ample material to meet such an oc-
casion did the emergency arise.’
In the name of all that is sensible and
decent, what does Senator QUAY regard as
an emergency that would justify his speak-
ing in his own deferce? With half his
party in open rebellion against the cor-
ruptions of his machine, and charges open-
ly made that involve him in a criminal use
of state money in stock speculations, he
authorizes his chairman to announce that
he does not consider the situation as suffi-
ciently emergent to require a defence on
his part.
What else can the people conclude than
that the boss of the corrupt machine can
not make a defence against the political
and personal charges which he is called
upon to confront ?
——Get out the vote and have reason to
rejoice, Democrats ?
Visibly Declining.
Doctor SWALLOW’S candidacy is show-
ing such a decided decline that he is being
advised to withdraw from the contest if he
has really at heart the defeat of the corrup-
tionists whom he professes to antagonize.
It is not probable, however, that he will
follow such counsel, as he has in fact de-
clared that he will continue in the course
until the end of the campaign. In the
mean time his supporters are leaving him
in large numbers and declaring for JENKS,
they being moved to this course by the as-
surance that the Democratic candidate of-
fers the only chance of putting an end to
the supremacy of QUAY-ism .in the state
government.
This conviction is making the drift of
the Independents towards GEORGE A.
JENKS more pronounced each day as the
campaign draws to a close, while the Demo-
crats have become practically solidified in
support of their state ticket.
As an earnest enemy of the corruption of
QUAY-ism, it would appear more cousist-
ent on the part of Doctor SWALLOW if he
should advise such of his followers as still
adhere to him to give their support to the
Democratic candidate and thus make the
rebuke ‘of the machine the more pro-
nounced. But though this can hardly be
expected of the doctor, it cannot be denied
that he deserves credit for his original in-
tention of antagonizing the corrupt rascals
who have made their control of the State
a political disgrace and a public affliction.
The doctor’s crusade reached a class of vot-
ers who could not he moved by the long
continued Democratic exposure of machine
misrule.
In this respect he has done some good,
and the benefit of his movement will be
complete if the Independent Republicans
whom he has in a measure been instrumen-
tal in arousing against the machine thieves
shall not throw away their votes on the
doctor’s impossible candidacy. There is
now every indication that most of them
are becoming convinced that if they want
to give practical effect to their hostility to
the machine which doctor SWALLOW
helped to excite, they must vote for
GEORGE A. JENKS who has the only rea-
| sonable prospect of defeating the machine
i candidate.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
A Foiled Decoy.
That there are decided indications of
GEORGE A. JENKS’ success at the coming
election, discernible even to those who do
not wish it, may be inferred from the
Philadelphia Times’ hedging on the unfav-
orable opinion of his chance of becoming
Governor which it expressed earlier in the
campaign.
Its evident purpose to act the decoy duck
for the QUAY machine induced it to adopt
a line of representation in regard to the
Democratic candidate that might give him
the appearance of being a mere tool of the
party bosses, and impress Democrats, anx-
ious for the eradication of the QUAY cor-
ruptions, with the belief that the only
chance of overthrowing the vicious power
of the machine was in voting for SWALLOW.
If this scheme could have been made to
work it would have been of assistance to
QUAY’S candidate by drawing Democratic
support from the Democratic nominee and
wasting it on a gubernatorial aspirant
who had no show of being elected.
But though intended to exert the de-
ceptive influence of a decoy it had not
even the merit of being smart in
view of the positive certainty that
the people would understand the trick
when attempted to be played off on a can-
didate whose eminent abilities and unim-
peachable character would be unerringly
comprehended and appreciated by the pop-
ular intelligence and conscience.
Its decoy scheme has proven a failure
that compromises the Zimes’ reputation for
political sagacity, and would injure its re-
pute for political honesty if it had any. Tt
now sees itself confronted by the strongest
indications of the destruction of the QUAY
machine, with the election of GEORGE A.
JENKs as administering the destroying
blow. In this dilemma it tries to get out
of its decoy duck position as gracefully as
it can by acknowledging the situation to
be quite different from what it had tried to
make it by its deceptive representation of
the Democratic candidate. It now says:
“Jenks has steadily gained by the hearty
co-operation finally accomplished of all the
sound money Democratic leaders of the State
and he has attracted independent Republican
support, especially in the west, where his
ability and character are well known, while
Stoneis weaker to-day than at any time in
the contest, with little prospect of improve-
ment before election day. * # # # The
Democrats have obviously been united on
Jenks within the last month to a degree that
was not regarded as possible, and the active
support given to him by all the sound money
Democrats of the State, with Jenks’ positive
declaration as to the meaning of his election,
have made him develop within the last few
weeks as a most formidable candidate for
Governor, and he must to-day be accepted as
certain to be first or second in the race,
Whether SWALLOW or STONE shall be in the
rear.’
The turn that the campaign has taken is
equally surprising and incomprehensible to
the Zimes by reason of its inability to take
into account an aroused public conscience
and the assertion of political manhood by
the people as factors in the problem pre-
sented for their solution in this contest.
It deceived itself by believing that the
gang of political thieves could be kept in
power by a bugaboo presentation of disas-
ters that would he the consequence of the
Democrats carrying the State election.
——We don’t want to have a man like
ARNOLD misrepresenting this congressional
district any longer. Vote for Jim HALL,
the friend of labor, the friend of the old
soldier and a sober, intelligent man.
No Recommendation for That Place.
One of the Republican papers of the
county says that WILLIAMS, the Republi-
can candidate for prothonotary, is one of
the best school teachers in this section.
That may be. - He may be at the top notch
in that profession, although we have never
before heard of him figuring even asa third
rate teacher, but taking it for granted that
he is a good teacher and all in that line
that is claimed for him, that neither proves
nor convinces that he has a single qualifica-
tion for the office to which he aspires.
Many a good school teacher is totally unfit
for any other calling in life, and unfortu-
nately for Mr. WILLIAMS he seems to be
one of the many.
In the prothonotary’s office, it requires
entirely different qualifications from those
that are needed in the school room. In
the former one is the servant of the people
and must be prompt, careful, methodical
and obliging under all circumstances. In
the latter, he isthe master ; he enforces his
commands, he treats those under him as
he sees proper, and. grows to be an auto-
crat in his own domain. For this, if for
no other reason, the simple fact that Mr.
WILLIAMS is a school teacher and has
made that profession his life business, is
evidence of his lack of proper qualification.
It is an important office and the people
want to make no mistake in the kind of a
man they put in it. We have shown time
and again that Mr. GARDNER'S qualifica-
tions, experience, disposition and all, fit
him particularly for the position. No one
will gainsay this, and this fact alone
should secure him the vote of every man
who wants to see county offices filled with
obliging, competent and trusty officials.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 4, 1898.
More of that Republican Prosperity ?
On Saturday last the eighty-five working-
men who have been earning a living, mining
ore, up at Scotia were notified that from that
time on their services would no longer be
needed, as the banks were to be closed
down, the personal property disposed of
and the works abandoned.
Two years ago these same workingmen
paraded the streets of Bellefonte with brass
band, and hanners calling upon the people
to vote for “McKINLEY and prosperity,’
declaring that ‘‘Republican success meant
continuous work and good wages,” and
demanding the overthrow of the Democracy,
under the rule of which every industry in
Centre county was running and prospering.
Without notice of the close down, or in-
timation that work would cease, and in the
face of ‘‘good times®’ they were promised,
they are, just as winter sets in, thrown out
of employment and left without either hope
of place, or the means to earn a living for
themselves or families. And as it is now
with them, so has it heen with over five
hundred other workingmen in Centre coun-
ty since they voted for ‘McKINLEY and
prosperity.”’ In place of the prosperity
that was promised, and the “good times’
and the good wages that were anticipated,
they have had just the reverse and to-day
in Centre county there are fewer lahorers
employed, and less prosperity among the
people, than has been known for the past
forty vears.
Under the prosperity that was promised
nearly every industry within this county
has closed down, and over six hundred
laborers who, under a Democratic ad minis-
tration, were receiving fair wages and at
least making a living, have been thrown
out of employment and left to do the best
they can in a community whose industries
have been crushed out and the conditions
of which denies the power to offer either
work or wages to anyone.
How long will these workingmen allow
themselves to be made the tools of monopo-
lies and designing politicians ?
When will they have the manliness to go
to the polls and vote for their own interests
and welfare ?
They have seen what Republican promises
amount to, and are now experiencing the
results of the blindness that led them to
Vote for the very condition of affairs that
is now upon them.
Do they want more of MeKINLEY’S
prosperity (?) If they do let them vote for
it next Tuesday, by voting the Republican
ticket.
If not, let them try a change ; and cer-
tainly a change could make it no worse for
them than it now is.
i nm
—Don’t be fooled into trading for any
one. It only helps the enemy.
——VFor fifteen years post 216, G. A. R.
has occupied rooms in J. K. P. HALLS
building, in St. Mary’s, and the old sol-
diers have never been asked to pay a cent
of rent for them. What do you think of
such friendship for the veterans? Jin
HALL’S whole life has been made up of
just such considerate acts. Vote for him
for Congress.
Vote Early.
One of the surest ways to make Demo-
cratic success certain is for Democrats to
vote early. When you show that you are
interested and in earnest by going to the
polls early in the morning, it stiffens up
the wavering, it encourages the doubting
and it helps much more than you may
imagine to get others interested and at
work. There is nothing that wakens up
the feeling of hopefulness, that creates
enthusiasm, and turns otherwise indif-
ferent voters into active workers for the
party like early voting. It shows that
you are in earnest. It proves that the party
is awake. It discourages the opposition,
and it starts the political current running
in your favor. As it don’t take a moment
longer to vote in the morning than it does
in the evening, every Democrat who can
possibly do so should arrange to have his
vote in the ballot box before nine o'clock.
If this is done, four-fifths of the doubtful
vote will be cast the same way and this is
certain to insure success.
Try it once, Democrats, and see how easy
it is to have your full vote polled. A
district in which work is begun early in
the morning is always sure to give a good
report of itself.
——Those who throw their votes away
on SWALLOW might just as well vote for
STONE. QUAY is anxious that SWALLOW
should get a large vote. Why? Because
he knows that every vote polled for the
preacher candidate is one off JENKS and he
hopes, by dividing the reform vote be-
tween JENKS and SWALLOW, to squeeze
his man STONE through.
——JOoHN DALEY may not know where
he stands to-day. Wednesday morning
his position will be made clear to him.
—Spurn the man who makes you an
offer to trade, Democrats.
Swallow Springs a Campaign Canard.
The Prohibition candidate, who claims
to be a representative of purity in polities,
and professes to base his candidacy on one
of the ten commandments, proves himself
to be not too honest to resort to the stale
old trick of springing a campaign lie on the
voters just before the election.
The doctor, in his political verdancy,
however, may be the victim of machine
tricksters who are using him as the medium
for the circulation of an extremely foolish
and very transparent political falsehood.
But if he is not being made a tool for this
purpose, acting from his own design, the
guilt and shame of having originated this
deception with the object of misleading
the voters at the close of the campaign
must rest upon his reverened shoulders.
The story that doctor SWALLOW sprung
on the public at Williamsport last Satur-
day, involving as he claims, corrupt deal-
ings between the Democratic chairman and
the machine boss, is almost idiotically fool-
ish as a fabrication designed to deceive the
voters.
He produced the affidavit of a person
named MILLER who represented that he
met on a railroad train traveling between
Wilkesbarre and Philadelphia, another
person named KECK, a Republican lawyer
of Wilkesbarre, who told him that he was
on a mission from chairman GARMAN, of
the Democratic state committee, with a
proposition which, if accepted by Quay,
would positively assure the election of
STONE. The proposition was ‘that if cer-
tain legislation and favors in certain coun-
ties are given to GARMAN he will insure
those counties for STONE, and he will offer
positive evidence that he can deliver the
goods.”” MILLER further said in his afii-
davit that upon arriving at Philadelphia he
went along with KECK to the Republican
headquarters, where secretary ANDREWS
told him that QUAY was at Atlantic City.
KECK then started for Atlantic City, and
upon his return MILLER says that he again
met him and was told that he had seen the
old man (QUAY) on the business he had
in charge for GARMAN, and that it was all
right. Afterwards KEck showed MILLER
what purported to be a telegram from New
York city, which was worded : ‘Can be
there at 6. Will that do? Answer quick.”
Signed J. M. GARMAN. i
This was substantially all that was in
this story which doctor SWALLOW produced
as evidence of a corrupt design on the part
of chairman GARMAN to sell out the Demo-
cratic state ticket. Even if it could be
conceived that a man of the chairman’s
position and repute could be foolish enough
to believe that he could hand Democratic
counties over to the machine boss at his
will, it should be supposed that he would
have sense enough to send on such a mis-
sion a man who would not he likely to
blab the matter on railroad trains and
in hotels.
There could not have been a more clumsy
device than this scheme by which KECK,
an evident agent of the machine, managed
to impress this man MILLER with the be-
lief that he was acting as chairman GaR-
MAN’S agent in a corrupt deal with Quay,
giving him occasion to make an affidavit
to certain’actions that proved nothing at
all. Nor is it improbable that MILLER
was a conscious party in the trick, he being
able to swear to these proceedings of
KEck’s, without perjury, as matters which
he heard and saw.
It is trying to one’s patience to have to
comment upon so flimsy a campaign decep-
tion which can be seen through by any
voter whose head is not made of wood.
But a resort to such a device shows the
desperation of the machine leaders, and its
being used by doctor SwaLLow displays
him as being either dishonest, or if he has
allowed himself to be deceived by this
trick, shows him to have too shallow a
mind for the Governorship of this great
State.
A $60,000 Steal.
One of the particular reasons why Quay |
and ANDREWS are making such desperate
efforts to secure a majority in the next
Legislature is that they have a bill of $60, -
000 for the expenses of their “Lexow’’
committee that they expect to pass. They
tried it at the last session and it failed, be-
cause of the Governor's opposition. That
opposition will not be there next year, if
STONE should happen to be elected, and all
they will then need to saddle this
debt, contracted for wine and high living
about the Walton hotel in Philadelphia,
upon the tax-payers, will be a majority. in
the House of Representatives.
Both DALEY and TOWNSEND have been
asked if they would oppose this steal when
presented in the House. 7%ey have BoTH
positively refused to answer. Both, if elect-
ed, will vote for it. Both will .do the bid-
ding of the boss, and ‘as the boss’ friends
are responsible for the debt, he will order,
as he did last session, that it be paid out of
the public treasury.
Are the tax-payers of Centre county
ready to saddle this $60,000 dollar wine and
whiskey bill upon their.own shoulders. If
they are they should vote for JOUN DALEY
and Ent Towxsexp, who will vote to
make them pay it.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Ninth Pennsylvania volunteer regi-
ment was formally mustered out of service at
Wilkesbarre Saturday.
—Joseph McDowell, justice of the peace at
Botisville, Pa., was acquitted of the charge
of illegal liquor selling preferred by Sherman
Brant.
—John Logan, of Clearfield, while at Du-
Bois Saturday evening, was sand-bagged by
unknown parties and robbed of thirty-six
dollars.
—David Kauffman, of Lamar. Lycoming
— | county, raised a sweet pumpkin on his
premises that weighed 107 pounds. It was
six feet in circumference.
| —The Union church at Beechtree, Clear-
| field county, was burned Sunday evening,
| defective furnaces originated the fire. The
building was erected in 1896 at a cost of
$2,200. Partially insured.
—During a drunken fight among Hungar-
ians at Sharon, Saturday night, Michael
Mackie was clubbed over the head until he
became unconscious. His condition is critic-
al and he ean hardly recover.
—At Ridgway a few days ago, Clyde Gil-
land, aged 8 years, attempted to jump on
moving cars, when he slipped and fell under
the wheels. Both legs were severed, and he
was dragged a short distance. He died short-
ly after.
—Ground was broken Friday for the
erection of a new factory for the American
specialty company, in Johnstown. The firm
proposes to invest $50,000 in the plant for the
manufacture of earthenware. About 100
men will be employed.
—A big black bear that has been feasting
nightly for some time past in the corn field
of Wm. Fable, in Lycoming county, was shot
and killed Saturday morning by a young
hunter named Edward Bobst. The bear
when dressed weighed 250 pounds.
—George Wagner, aged 14 years, is lying
at the point of death at his home in Dale,
near Johnstown, from a bullet wound in his
back, inflicted with a gun in the hands of a
companion. It was another case of an “‘un-
loaded’” gun. Wagner cannot recover.
—William Harvey and Miss Agnes Hart,
of DuBois, eloped from that place Monday,
for Olean, N. Y., where it is supposed they
were married. The bride is only 16 years
old. The parents of the girl opposed the
match and the young pair decided to take
the affair in their own hands.
—Edward Walborn, a hostler at a hotel at
Millersburg, was stabbed in the thigh in a
dispute Monday, night and bled to death.
George Merrick, colored, was brought to jail
here to-day on the charge of committing the
crime. Merrick is 23 years of age and has a
wife in York. A knife, covered with blood,
was taken from him.
—The Philadelphia and Erie fire brigade,
of Renovo, will not hold their annual ball
this year, as is their usual custom. The
reason given is that the men who attend
these annual dances have been making low
wages all this year, and the firemen have
thoughtfully concluded not to impose any
additional burden on their patrons.
—Charles B, Bingaman, chairman of the
finance committee of the Philadelphia pro-
hibition committee, died suddenly Tuesday
at his home, 2519 North Thiriy-third street.
Mr. Bingaman was 28 years old and had a
wide circle of acquaintances. His wife was
a neice of Dr. and Mrs. Silas C. Swallow and
was a member of their household in Harris-
burg.
—Jacob Swartz, aged 97 years, noted fcr
his eccentricity, died at North Penn, near
Tamaqua, on Thursday. He claimed the
distinction of never ridden on a conveyance
of any kind, always preferring to walk. He
was well preserved, despite his advanced age,
and several months ago walked to Barners-
ville, a distance of nine miles, to visit rela-
tives.
—Ira T. Clement, a well known lumber-
man of Sunbury, died at that place Saturday
after a short illness. He was 85 years old.
He embarked in the lumber business in 1847
and erected the first saw mill in that section.
At the time of his death he was considered
the lumber king of the West Branch valley.
He was also owner of a large number of
steam boats plying between Sunbury, Shamo-
kin Dam and Northumberland.
—While the family of Col. B. Frank
Eshleman, of Lancaster, was at dinner on
Sunday, the house was entered by a robber
who climbed to a second-story window by a
balcony post. Gold watches, silver watch
and jewelry valued at several thousand dol-
lars were stolen. A domestic surprised the
burglar while he was in the midst of his
operation, but he made his escape by leaping
from the balcony. He left no clue behind.
—The court house auditorium was scarcely
sufficient to contain the crowd that was at-
tracted to Huntingdon on Monday afternoon
to hear the state Democratic!) candidates,
Messrs. Jenks and Sowden on the issues of
the campaign. Delegates were present from
all sections of the county and considerable
enthusiasm was shown. An informal recep-
tion was held at the hotel where the Demo-
cratic leaders met hundreds of the county’s
citizens.
—Owing to a dense fog two trolley cars
collided on the Third street line at William-
sport Saturday and motorman Ben Davis was
frightfully mangled. Both his legs were
broken in several places and it was necessary
to amputate the left one below the knee.
Both cars were wrecked and the escape of
the passengers was miraculous, as one of the
cars was crowded with girls and women go-
in, to their work: at the silk mill. The
blame for the accident is laid upon Davis.
He was ordered to wait on a turnout for two
special cars to pass, but started after the first
had gone by.
-—One of the busiest of Williamsport’s in-
dustries is the Demorest manufacturing
plant, and tbe name of the Lumber City is
attaining world-wide proportions. Since the
first of September the Demorest company has
received large orders from England, Scot=
land, Africa, Argentine Republic, Holland,
Belgium France, Norway and Sweden, Japan
and Australia. Monday a carload of bicycles
were loaded, destined for Australia, and
next week 96 bicycles will be shipped to
Japan. The last order is to be followed Ly
monthly shipments; also 125 wheels will be
sent every ten days to Scandinavia until the
end of the year. The Demorest company
| expect to double their output next year on
| bicycles and sewing machines.