® § ST SR Ink Slings. —Most anyone ean have blue blood now- a-days, and goose-flesh too for that matter. —If the Rt. Hon. CHoEY CHAMBERLAIN keeps on he will have the whole earth un- der his hypnotic spell. —Cold waves are following so hard upon the heels of one another that there seems to be no chance for slush at all. —The fellow with the stack of chips that he can’t see over isn’t the only duffer with cold feet this kind of weather.” —The message was long enough, but its | entire length could not have ‘impressed it- | self on the public mind, for no one seems to have heard of it since last week. —It is too bad that Genl. GARCIA had to die just at the time when his mind would have been of greatest use to the peo- ple for whom he had fought so long. ——Spain could possibly settle her dis- putes about who was responsible for her troubles with this country by charging them up to Columbus. He discovered us and he can’t kick. —This cold weather seems to be on the side of contraction. How they can talk | expansion at Washingten when nature, herself, is setting an example just the re- verse is hard to figure out. —The Hawaiian promoters are getting ready to spring that bunch of islands onto the people as a State. The only statehood that their half civilized blacks are eligible to enter is the state of chaotic internal troubles. —Ephraim Keigwain, the “marrying squire of Jeffersonville, Indiana,” is dead but the nine thousand couples he married in his life time will stand as a conglom- erate monument to his memory until their seed shall peter out. —While Senator Vest says he would die rather than be an expansionist it is not likely that MARK HANNA and President McKINLEY will change their imperialistic policy to save the State of Missouri the ex- pense of a public funeral. —QUAY ought to get a change of venue and have his case tried before that Omaha judge who has just ruled that pok- er isn’t a gambling game. He would be very apt to hand down a decree that shak- ing a plum isn’t evidence that the shaker is after plums. —About one more certiorari and Mr. QUAY will be the deadest political duck that ever floated on the top of the filthy Republican puddie. All a leader needs to do is to show the white feather once and a thousand of his band are ready, in a min- ute, to grab his sealping knife and he big injun themselves. ~—This thing of the women petitioning Congress to have Utah's new Senator, SR1GHAM H. ROBERTS, unseated because he has three wives is a very inconsiderate bit of business. In the first place, see what he has done to relieve the congested ranks of the independent order of sitting sisters and, secondly, with three of them on his hands, he has troubles enough of his own. | —I¢6 is estimated that it will cost us| $799,000,000 to get our new empire started and then after it is started it will require $200,000,000 worth of grease every year to keep it slipping along without any friction. Mr. Quay is doubtless thinking that own- ing a State is pretty dear business, but | with such figures staring them in the face | what will the American people think of | owning an empire. —The killing of a French citizen in Ha- vafia, Sunday night, during a shooting contest between Cubans and Spanish of- ficers, because the former wanted to close the Tacon theatre out of respect to Gen. (YARCIA’S death, will hardly result in in- ternational complications with France, Inasmuch as the evacuation commission has not finished its work at Havana, the United States cannot he held sponsor for doings there. —Young JoE LEITER, who undertook to corner the wheat market last spring and did succeed in cornering himself, is about to go into a new speculation. He is going to organize a great company for the intro- duction of compressed air motor carriages in English cities. Inasmuch as Jor has been keeping very quiet since he got his wings clipped in that wheat deal we sup- pose he has heen compressing the air for the new motors. ~The story is in circulation that Jomuy WANAMAKER has a desire to he President ? What is there so remarkable in such a de- sire? Ambition is a good thing, when di- rected along the right lines. Now HANNA was ambitious to own a President and QUAY was ambitious to own a Governor. Ambitions of this latter sort are not praise- worthy, but the trouble is the people didn’t see it that way until after they had been gratified. —The editors who are trying to ridicule WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN because he has resigned from the army will make about as much headway as the fool who undertook to lift himself by his boot straps. Mr. BRYAN enlisted to fight for his country and was at the front, ready and willing. It was not his fault that his regi- ment did not see active service, suffice it that his Nebraska soldiers were there anx- ious for it. The war is closed and Mr. SRYAN rightly prefers returning to his peaceful civil pursuits to playing police- man for a horde of aboriginal blacks. "VOL. 43 Worth Investigating. Last week the WATCHMAN referred to the effort now being made to awaken the people to the necessity of needed changes in our election laws. It gave its opinion of how far those changes should go, and what weaknesses, faults and wrongs, they should be expected to correct, but neither intimated how they could be made effective nor attempted to point out in what manner they could be improved so that the pur- poses desired would be accomplished: These purposes are: First—registration laws that wili pre- vent false registration and padded registra- tion lists. Second—tax-laws that will prevent po- litical parties or politicians from bribing voters by the payment of their taxes. Third—election laws that will prevent the bribe giver, or hisagent, going into the booth to see that the fellow he has bribed votes as he has agreed to. Fourth—laws that will insure an honest count and correct return of the vote as cast. Unless effective changes can be secured it would be better to make none at all. Our people have hecome accustomed to present methods of voting, and but few, except those who have a purpose in view, have any excuse for not fully under- standing how to cast their ballots prop- erly. Itis true that as long as we are to continue voting under any system that gives an excuse to the voter for asking as- sistance in making his ballot, just so long will bribery flourish and corruption prove triumphant at the ballot box. It is also true that just so long as hallots are to be counted, and the people neglect to choose honest and incorruptible election officers, just so long will false counting and fraudu- lent certification be resorted to by those who have grown to be adepts at this busi- ness. We can correct the false registration of voters by making personal registration a necessity. We can stop the purchase of voters, accomplished through the payment of taxes, by requiring every man to pay his own taxes. But we cannot prevent the bribery of voters as long as we have a sys- tem that gives an excuse for voters to ask for aid, in" marking their tickets can we refuse that aid if the ticket is such that nor there is any question about the proper manner of marking it. Neither can we stop false counting and fraudulent returns | : xa | affair occurred in Washington on Sunday | when General CALIXTO GARCIA laid down | being made, so long as election boards have a chance to handle the ballots and an op- portunity to manipulate the returns, un- scarcely possible to do in the larger citi of the Commonwealth. i ted his own guilt. | In New York the system of voting by | machinery has been tested in many of the districts in the western part of the State, and in every instance it has proven a sue- cess. The machine used there is a simple ‘push the button” arrangement, that re- quires no ballots, but records the vote in figures, and when the voting is done shows the number of votes cast for each candidate plainly set forth in figures, and in a way that there can be no alteration of results, or any opportunity given for fraudulent returns. The machine is so constructed that while the voter is recording his vote 10 one else can be in the booth with him, and is so simple that a blind man can vote a straight ticket withoutassistance. Wher- ever it has been tried it has been demon- strated that with it double the number of votes can be cast, in a given time, that can be cast under the ballot marking Sys- ter, thus reducing the necessity for so many election-boards, which would lessen . the expense of helding elections and at the same time secure to the people honest elec- tions and an honest return of the result Would not this New York system bear looking into? To be sure a constitutional amendment would be necessary before any system of voting, other than by ballot, could be adopted in this State. But this should not deter us from having the best that is known, if it can be ascertained what that is, and where it can be found. A thorough investigation of this New York system could be made by the coming Legislature, and if found practicable and adequate, an amendment to the constitution, striking out the requirement that “all voting shall be by ballot,” could he proposed hy that bedy and submitted to the people, and if ratified by them, could be passed finally by the Legislature of 1900 and the State would be placed at the beginning of the new century in a position to adopt any method of voting that would prevent the evils and frauds of our present system. In the mean time, such alterations in our election laws as will prevent, or make more difficult of accomplishment, such wrongs as the present law allows and en- courages, could be made; and both registra- tion and tax-laws so amended that personal registration and personal tax-paying would be required of all voters. ~—1f you want fine work done of every description the WATCHMAN office is the place to come. [ the less we can secure absolutely honest elec- | 1 : a. 0 tion boards—a thing not probable, and | cader Is singularly unfortunate at this STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Fears a Trial. BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBE 1 f When Senator QUAY and his son RicH- ! ARD were arrested for conspiring to use the State’s money, for their own private gain, their friends and their attorneys all pro- tested most vehemently how untrue and malicious the charges were, and how great was their anxiety for the earliest opportu- nity too show them such. They alleged themselves ready and willing to meet the charges any day. In fact the public was given to understand that the prosecution could not be too quick in presenting its evidence, and that in defense of their own characters the accused demanded a prompt and public trial, without delay, and in any court before which it suited to produce the testimony. The efforts that have been made by Sena- tor QUaY’s lawyers to delay action, and their last resort of appealing to the Supreme court, for the issue of a rule which, if suc- cessful, will result in preventing a trial, places the matter in a very different light now. They show, not only, that the pre- tense of demanding a speedy trial was the | baldest kind of a bluff, but that if trial can be avoided Senator QUAY is willing to rest under the suspicions of the guilt a technical ending of the case would leave hanging over him, rather than run the risk of conviction. that he feels would be the re- sult of a fair and impartial trial. There is now no doubting the position Senator QUAY has placed himself in, by this last move to avoid trial, nor will there be a question in the mind of any reason- able citizen as to the truth of the charges preferred. Senator QUAY’S action settles that. If they were not true he would be only too glad to have the earliest opportuni- to to show their falsity; but as his course shows that his efforts are not to vindicate his good name or the honorable position he holds, but through technicalities of the law, to prevent conviction for the erime charged, what other opinion can the public have than that he is guilty > If he is not, | there could be no fear of conviction—no reason to try to avoid the fullest, the most public and the earlist trial that could be had. In Senator QUAY’s action he has admit- In his efforts to avoid a trial he shows his fear of conviction. or teens semper a Cuba's Best Leader Gone. One of the saddest features of the Coban his life, a victim of the vigorous climate of North. The death of the valiant old time, both to the United States and Cuba. For of all her representative men he was the one Dest fitted to undertake the mak- ing of a government for the island. Having given & life time to her struggles for freedom CGieneral GARCIA was called from the scene just when the hepe that in- spired him through years of carnage was beginning to light up the future of his be- loved land. Perhaps of all of Cuba’s leaders he was best fitted, hoth by mental propen- sity and faithful service, to take the initia- tive in the difficult procedure of organizing a government. In fact he was the only one | of the prominent Cubans whose intelligence and conservatism was such as to inspire the belief that a new Republic could be es- lablished and given into hands competent to govern it. With GARCIA gone it is not so well with Cuba. The confidence of the United States in the sincerity of most of her leaders has been so severely shaken that it will be difficult for the people who now have freedom within their grasp to present a representative about whom there will be no suspicion of the adventurer or soldier of fortune. GArciA had spent his entire life fighting for his people. His motives were never questioned, because he was ambitious for nothing beyond lib- erty, There is one thing very certain and that is, that if a fusion of the Members of the next Legislature, who are in favor of reform legislation and against the vicious and thieving measures of the State ring, is to fail it will not be the fault of the Demo- cratic Members. The sentiment, as express- ed by those who met at Harrisburg on Wednesday, and the assurances of others who were unable to attend, settles that matter. Of the twenty-four Democratic Members-clect, every one is in favor of fusion, and it only remains for the inde- pendent, or anti-QUAY, element of the Re- publican party, to produce its thirty Rep- resentatives who are for honest legislation, to secure such an organization of the House and its committees as will effectually pre- vent a repetition of the wrongs and the hu- miliation the State has suffered from pre- vious Legislatures, It is right that the Democrats are acting just as they are. If fusion is a failure and the State is again robbed and disgraced, as it has been, the fault must be placed at other doors than those of the Democracy. ——The indications are that a senatorial air-brake will be needed if there are to he any stops in the debate on the expansion question. How quickly some people can forget. : How soon others can change their minds. | It is but a year and a half since we were in | the midst of an exciting presidential elec- tion. The Chicago platform arraigned the courts for their presumptious interference with the rights of the citizens, by process of injunction. For that arraignment, if one could have believed the criticisms and denunciation of the opposition, our whole governmental system was endangered, and the dignity, integrity and usefulness of the courts threatened. No words were strong enough to express, or no lamentations loud enough to voice, the condemnation of that platform expression, by those who upheld the judicial outrages that it denounced. At that time a temperate criticism, of the usurpation of power by the courts, was an attack upon our entire judicary system—an attempt to discredit its actions and to les- sen the respect the people entertained for the acts of those upon the bench. In fact it was “anarchy.” It is somewhat different now, particular- ly with the contending Republican factions in this State. One set, the QUAY gang, cannot say harsh enough things, or make cruel enough insinuations about the influ- ences that induced judge FINLETTER to | refuse to quash the QUAY indictments. And the other fellows cannot find language severe enough to express their condemna- tion of the action of Supreme court judges, GREEN and WiLLians, for interfering in the matter and trying to save Quay, by granting a rule which is intended to take the case out of the lower court and end it without a hearing. On the one hand the one judge is charg- ed with acting from purely personal and vindictive motives, while on the other, the two Supreme court judges, are alleged to bé actuated by the most subservient politic- al reasons. Neither of these fjudges, rep- resenting the two highest courts in the Commonwealth, are spared either criticism or denunci tion, now that some one else's toes are trodden upon; and the inpression is left that when the interest of politicians are at stake the courts can be arraigned to the fullest extent, withont detriment to their future usefulness. It was very dif- ferent, however, when United States judges attempted to make precedents that would have set aside the constitutional right of every citizen to a trial by jury. In this connection, it is of but little dif- ference which of these sides is right, or which wrong. Tt is only a matter of how quick, the opponents of the Chicago plat- form, who used the plank criticising the judiciary, as an argument showing that those who favored it were endorsing anar- chy, and the destruction of our courts, can forget the position they then took, and how “‘anarchistic’’ and ‘revolutionary’ they can become, themselves, when judicial opin- ious, and acts, are not just what they ap- prove of. So far, we have not heard a single ‘“‘gold standard’ advocate —they were the fellows who found ‘anarchy’ written all over the Chicago platform because of its eriticicm of the courts—open his mouth to protest against the suspicions that ave heing arroused as to, and the doubts. that ave being cast upon, the honor, the integrity and the purity of the judiciary here in our own Common- wealth. Won't some of them come to the front and call a halt to this work that is breed- ing revolution and anarchy, by teaching the people to believe that there is some- thing rotten in our courts, that all our judges are not pure as angels, and that oth- er motives, than the general good of socie- ty, sometimes actuates those who wear the judicial ermine? It is high time that those who believe in the infallibility of the judiciary get into line again. “‘Anarchy’’ seems to be run- ning wild, if honest criticism of the courts is anarchy. And such they say it was in 1896. ——If Massachusetts democrats could only doas well at the general elections as they do at the local ones, there would he some hope that the political cloud, that has long hung over New England. is showing sigus of rising. On Tuesday of last week the city and town elections in that State were held. Towns there correspond with townships in Pennsylvania. In nearly every instance large Democratic gains were shown and in many places everwhelmning Democratic victories were won. A dozen or more cities that have submitted to Repub- lican rule for many years, selected Demo- cratic mayors, and Democratic boards of councilmen and aldermen, and the few that were formerly Democratic emphasized their faith in Democratic principles by doubling their majorities. In not a single instance did the Republicans show any gains, or even hold their own. Capers from that section say that the re- sult means a very loud protest against the kind of prosperity this HANNA-ized admin- istration has given the eastern portion of this country. R16, 1898. I How “Anarchy” is Progressing. NO. 49. The Black Sheep and the White. | From the Lancaster Intelligencer, If our judges do not look out we may find some day that the larger part of the honest men in the community are in the penitentiaries. We all know that the num- ber of men whe ought to be there, in the general opinion, is very great; and that there has long been a prevalent impression that a good many are there more by mis- fortune than by fault, since their fault is hy no means greater than may be safely laid against the average man. | { ler, is particularly calculated to give ground for this statement. There is nothing doubtful about this case. The exact de. gree of this man’s wrong doing is clearly understood. He was the official of the bank upon whom it fell to make the returns of its condition called for by the law. ‘He made returns, which were not correct, un- der the direction of his superior officer, the president of the bank, who had Lorrowed more money from the bank than the law allowed one man to borrow. Yet the loans made to him were believed to be entirely secure. Furthermore, the national authori- ty, to whom the bank made its returns un- der the law, was fully acquainted with these excessive loans to the president of the bank; and the cashier’s official report did not deceive him. No one was deceived about anything, save as to the wealth of the president of the bank. The president of the banlk escaped the court by death. The cashier, who present- ed the highest testimonials of good charac- ter, is convicted. And yet everyone under- stands that he is guilty of doing nothing that the generality of honest cashiers would not have done in his place. In truth we doubt whether many men in his place would have done differently, in view of the manifest fact that his technically false re- port of the condition of the bank was not really a false report to the government of- ficials, who year after year had accepted it, knowing wherein it was incorrect. Judge Butler says that this knowledge made no difference in the cashier's guilt, since the statute declared his duty; and his superior officers were not empowered by the law to modify or change it. No doubt that is true. Probably the comptroller of the currency had no right to knowingly ac- cept an incorrect report from the bank cashier; hut yet it seems clear to the ordi- nary mind that a cashier who makes a re- turn called for by the law {o the comptrol- ler, stating therein what he knows the comptroller knows to he incorrect; and who is permitted hy the comptroller to do this for years; aud who does it without guilty purpose, by direction of the bank's president; and without suspicitii that the bank will suffer by it, is not guilty of any moral crime; and if he is sent to prison for it, will go there with a clear conscience and a white soul so far as this crime is concern- ed. Wherefore we are moved to say that if some of our judges do not take care in con- struing the laws, the white souled citizens may all be in jail some day; and if other judges do not take like care, the variegated Quays will occupy the world alone. Cost of Our New Empire. It Will Be Nearly $800,000,000 Per Year More, WasniNGToN, D. C., December 11.-—~It is, of course, far too early to estimate with the accuracy of a budget what the total cost of an empire will be. But there are sever- al items that are now in full view. Some of these are obviously necessary in the im- mediate future. Others are in the form of plans in the various departments ready to submit to Congress. Gthers have heen sug- gested by the President in messages to Con- gress. Still, others, and these constitute the longest part of the items in sight, are actually before Congress in the form of bills regarded with favor by the majority. Here is a table which includes those, matters that are for the immediate future: For the Philippines, N 1 Cans Alger Cuban 1s 3 Puerto Rican railway........... Caban and Puerto "Ri $20,000,000 130,000,000 20,000,000 3,000,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 10,000,000 steamship lines to our dependencies : Sudsidies for Pacific lines.. Subsidies under the President's plan for a general revival of merchant 10,000,600 10,000,000 25,000,000 t West Indies... Expansion of navy (next five ov. ixpansion of army under Alger plan 2,500,000 13,000,000 4X : (next five years)................ Sanitation, sewers, ete., in cities... Fortificat , dry docks, barrack - senals, ete., at Pearl Harbor, Pago Pago, Manila, Subig Bay, Havin: Santiago, San Juan Total... Sires ediinh seri nnanings $799,000,000 Care has been taken to understimate the large items. Provision has not been made for an empire on an imperial scale, - but with the idea that Congress will only do’ what is absolutely necessary and pressing, and will see that it is done without a dol- lar being wasted or stolen. Such items as the $20,000,000 annual in- crease of pensions, the increased cost of all the civil departments, the improvements, coast defenses, ete., ete., here at home have all been omitted. After the empire is well under way its annual cost may be reduced to Senator Hale's figures—$200,000,000 a year, in ad- dition to our present expenditures. But before that time can come the empire must be put in order. And it is this ‘‘setting up housekeeping’ that will necessarily fall upon the United States and their home peo- ple in the next ten years. 200,000,060 23,000,000 < 125,660,000 Be Careful About Conferr! ng Statehood. From the New York Press. The ultimate purpose of the commission is to start the Sandwich islands on a swift run up the road to statehood. Having re- solved citizenship into them, they will be entitled to have full representation in the Senate and the House of Representatives; and somebody, a sugar corporation or some other commercial political institution, will have two votes in the United Statet Senate to offset New York’s votes, or Pennsylva- nia’s, or Massachusetts’. | | The conviction of the cashier of the Chest. | nut street bank, by direction of Judge But- | Spawls from the Keystone. —Gas exploding in a sewer at Ashland wrecked the house of George Dush. —Agnes W. Wallace was Tuesday appoint- ed fourth-class postmaster at Dorranceton. —1In the mimes at Harwood, Luzerne coun- ty, Jacob Fleticlek was crushed under a mass of coal. i —Fatal injuries were sustained by Mrs. | Mary Andrews, of Beaver Meadow, Carbon | county, by a fall down stairs. | —Twomasked men at Jeanesville. Luzerne { county, held up James O'Donnell and ro. { lieved him of his watch and 315, | —In a runaway accident near Espey, Coi- | umbia county, Nevin McKemay was fatally injured and two companions were hurs, ! —An effort will be made ab the coming ses- i sion of the Legislature for the repeal of tho prohibitory-liquor law in Potter county. —W. R. Longstreet, of Mansfield, was ap- pointed superintendent of the Tioga county schools, to fill the unexpired term of H. LE. Raesley, resigned. —A fire broke out Tuesday in the Pennsyl- vania coal company’s No. mine, at Tuker- man, Luzerne county, and the workings may have to be floeded. —Edward Moran, who stabbed his brother- in-law. Thomas Gilligan, at Scranton, last September, causing his almost instant death, was put on trial Monday, judge Yerkes, of Jucks, sitting on the bench. —Robert Mcillhenny, John Wright, John Moore, Thomas McCann and Samuel Stewart were killed in a powder explosion at Dupont’s powder mill. near Philadelphia. —Counsel for Ralph W, Wireback, con- victed of the murder of bank president David B. Landis, at Lancaster, Tuesday ap- pealed his case to the Supreme court. —A verdict of manslaughter was returned in Court at Scranton Monday, in the case of Joseph Keller, who shot Peter Mayer, in a fight over some pigeons at Dunmore. —Joseph Balone, who assaulted the daugh- ter of Frank Artol, at Tresckow, Carbon county, had to be hurried to the Mauch Chunk jail to prevent a mob from lynching him. —The Presbytery of Carlisle Tuesday even- ing celghrated the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination to the ministry of Rev. James F. Kennedy, the blind preacher and author, of Chambersburg —Allen N. Taylor, who in the fortics was manager of the stage routes between Wil- liamsport and Tyrone, and Williamsport and Harrisburg, died in Williamsport last Thurs- day in his 82d year. —DMrs. Amanda Kridler, of Farrandsville, plucked from her orange tree Saturday morn- ing an orange. The tree blossomed in March last and the sample taken off that morning was as large as a small sized apple. The tree is four years old. —Mrs. Hain, of near Montgomery, hic- coughed incessantly for nine months. She was taken to the Williamsport hospital last week. Although very near death's door, it is believed her life ean be saved. —Save your 1893 calendars. They will answer four years 1916. 1921, 1927, 1939, 1949, 1955 and 1966, as the days of the week will fall on the same days of the month and the holi- days will fall on the same days as this year. —The latest swindle going the rounds is a fellow with a supply of lima beans saturated with oil of cinnamon, which he sells at ten cents each, with the story that his brother brought a quantity from Manila and that they are a sure protection against moths. i —W. LE. Parsons, a huckster of near Wat- sontown, while driving to Williamsport Sat- urday, was struck by News Express east of that city. The wagon was demolished and the dead hody of Mr. Parsons was carried a short distance on the pilot. His head was crushed. His wife and child survives, He was 33 years old. The remains were after- wards sent home. Mr, 3 C8. caped injury. —Jennie Mitler, of Bradford, has had her left leg amputated at the hip. It is about five years since she fell on a slippery side- walk in that city and became a cripple for life. She was taken to the hospital, end after many weeks of suffering, was able to leave that institution. Since that time she walked very slowly with the aid of crutches. Suit was instituted against the city for damages. A jury awarded her $3,000. The case was appealed and a short time ago the supreme court affirmed the decision of the lower court, Parson’s horse —At Roulette, Potter county, Thursday, i Fred Razey, angered over his sister's refusal to discard the attention of Isaac Lyman, at- tempted to shoot her. Finding his sister in a room by herself, Razey discharged a gun at her, but she knocked the weapon aside, and the bullet sped wide of its mark. Mrs. Razey, the mother, then interfered and the young man chased both women from the house, firing another ineffective shot. Shortly after- ward he appeared upon the street, armed with a gun. Unexpectedly he met Lyman, his sister's lover. Without the slightest warning he aimed the gun at him, but the weapon missed fire. The men grappled and a desperate struggie ensued. A constable and a party of citizens interfered and over- powered Razey and tied his hands and feet with cords. -—A ruflian named Henry Smith, of Johns- town, Tuesday attacked and threatened to kill Mrs. Emma Dill, cashier of an Altoona restaurant. He had ordered and eaten his breakfast, but when the cashier demanded pay for the meal Smith grabbed her and threw her down on a table, scattering the dishes over the floor. Mrs. Dill screamed and her daughter hurried down from up- stairs. Addressing the girl, “If you holler, I'll shoot you, too,” shouted Smith, as she rushed into the room, reaching for a revolver in his hip pocket. The woman broke loose from the brute’s grasp, gave the alarm and officers soon appeared and arrested Smith, In default of payment of fifteen dollars fine imposed by the mayor for disturbing the peace of Altoona, Smith is now in jail at Hollidaysburg., Mrs. Dill will likely make a commonwealth charge against him. A smart young fellow named George Mackey attempted to interfere in behalf of Smith, and an officer caught him by the collar and very properly give him a good shaking, then marched him off to the lockup along with Smith. Mackey went to jail also because he failed to produce fifteen dollars fine. RI SS Rm. | 1 i aL
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