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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—His honor judge Love didn’t make
the address of welcome at the HASTINGS
reception. Strange?
—SeTH Low made no bones about de-
claring the ALGER management of the war
department as bungling and absolutely
unfriendly to the efficiency of the army.
—The fighters are still in the ring at
Harrisburg. Neither side shows any sign
of disfigurement and the battle will proba-
bly go on for many rounds yet.
—The fight between the Democratic or-
gans of Clearfield reminds us of the preach-
er who stands in his pulpit and fires at
every other denomination, instead of keep-
ing his guns trained on the devil.
—When JEFFERSON said ‘‘examine your
conscience’’ as the proper guide in exercis-
ing the election franchise, he didn’t antici-
pate a day when fifty cents or a half pint of
whiskey would take the place of a man’s
conscience.
—As long as the French statesmen vent
their spleen in such a harmless way as
merely shouting ‘‘spit’’ on one or the other
they are not nearly as apt to get their
mouths slapped as they would;be if they
actually did the ‘‘conspuez’’ act.
—The President was very prompt to see
that DEWEY got a full measure of praise
after the great achievement at Manila, but
we haven’t heard of McKINLEY’S chapeau
being very high in the air on account of the
proposal to make the gallant admiral a
presidential candidate.
—Gen’l MILES and Dr. DALY appear to
be a little too warm for the embalmed beef
conspirators. They are telling the truth,
the truth hurts and the frequent adjourn-
ments of the inquiry court are evidence
that the other fellows have to be given
time to get their breath.
—The ground-hog kept a stiff upper lip
and held out his frosty sway for two
weeks, but the pace was too stiff for the
hairy, hibernating exponent of prophecy
and he gave up his job last Friday. It is
* quite probable, however, that nobody will
soon forget the work he did for two weeks.
-—SCHLEY’S answer to his calumniators
was exactly what might have been expect-
ed from a hero. Dignified, dispassionate,
indisputable were the words he sent to
Congress in his message and to-day he is
the more revered because of the jealousies
that have endeavored to disparage him.
—Well, well, well, Philadelphia wants
the State of Pennsylvania to appropriate
$50,000 to investigate its water supply.
Was ever such monumental, brass mount-
ed, double-distilled gall heard of. “No
other Pennsylvanians drink water when
they are in Philadelphia, so let the Quak-
ers look after it themselves.
—The absence of so many of the Repub-
lican sachems from the HASTINGS recep-
tion, last Saturday night, was not because
they are excluded from the category of
“friends and neighbors.” Oh no, that
isn’t it at all. It was Saturday night and
everyone knows that Gen’l BEAVER, Judge
LoVE, revenue collector CHAMBERS, receiver
of the Penna. B. and L. A. JouN M. DALE
and t be other dignitaries had to do their
Sunday shopping.
—Williamsport women have been ris-
ing in righteous indignation against the
seating of the mormonistic Congressman
ROBERTS, of Utah. They heldj a mass
meeting yesterday and prepared a memor-
ial to their Congressman urging him to vote
against ROBERTS’ admission. It strikes us
that there are a few mormonistically in-
clined old coons in the Lumber city who
need looking after about as much as
ROBERTS does—and that’s no joke.
—PFrance isin an embroglio as a conse-
quence of the death of President FAURE
and the election of M. LoUBET, the presi-
dent of the Senate, as his successor. In
France, as in no other country in the
world, administrative changes create crises
that look portentious at the time, but are
really nothing more than the ebullition of
jealousies. The Bonapartists are threaten-
ing to strike and the Derouledists are
shouting ‘‘spit on LOUBET.” It is proba-
ble that in a few days everyone will settle
down to the new order of things and the
effervescent French will have forgotten
that they were at all disturbed.
—The judge’s retirement bill that is now
before the Legislature is one of the meas-
ures that should be knocked higher than
GILDEROY’S kite. The very idea of it
must be insulting to the judiciary of Penn-
sylvania. Might just as well include pub-
lic school teachers and state employees in
the bill and fasten them onto the public
for life. This is a government of the peo-
ple, for the people and by the people, all
right enough, but the father of this bill is
evidently laboring under the impression
that the judges are THE people.
—~Senator MASON, of Illinois, is of the
opinion that the Philippines will have
their LAFAYETTE. While the Senator’s
sentiment is one that a great many people
will agree in, yet it is not possible for any
deliverer to do for those islands what the
French patriot did for the United States. In
the first place the same conditions do not ob-
tain and in the second it is useless to think
that such a half civilized people could be
as formadible opponents to us as we were
to England in 1776. However that may be
there are few who would not be only too
happy to have those unprofitable sand
patches slip away from us.
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STATE RIGHTS AND
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FF
FEDERAL UNION.
EBRUARY 24. 1899.
How Part of the Deficiency Can be
Saved.
The Members of the Legislature w ho im-
agine they have a mountain of trouble on
their hands in the election of a United
States Senator will find this one of the
small troubles compared to others they will
meet before getting through with the du-
ties they were chosen to perform. There
are others, that have scarcely caused them a
thought as yet, that will far outweigh,
both in importance and in the difficulty of
accomplishing them to the satisfaction of the
people, any trouble they have, or will en-
counter, in the election of a Senator.
One, and chief among them, will he the
question as to the source from which addi-
tional revenue is to be derived to meet the
ordinary and necessary expenditures for
state purposes and the more than three mil-
lions of dollars deficiency that is annually
piling up against the Commonwealth. Todo
this there can be but two ways:—One by
increasing taxation, the other by decreas-
ing expenditures. Possibly a little or may
be a good deal of both will have to be re-
sorted to, and just here is where the troub-
les of the Legislator will begin. Every de-
partment, every institution, every interest
and every individual that looks to the
state treasury as a source of its supplies,
will kick most vigorously against any re-
ductions in the usual appropriations. On
the other hand any effort to add additional
taxations to those already borne by the peo-
ple, or corporations, will meet with the
bitterest and most stubborn opposition
from them. And no one will wonder that
it does.
Although it is but the reaping of the
harvest of Republican rascality; the gath-
ering of the fruits of the wrongs, profligacy
and extravagance of that party, the situa-
tion must be met, and met frankly and
honestly. Pay day has come and the peo-
ple who have danced to the piping of the
state ring must pay for the music, whether
they were of those who encouraged and en-
joyed it or of those who protested and
prayed to be protected from it.
To devise ways and means to meet these
increased expenditures and accumulating
deficits is one of the most serious problems
the ‘present Legislature will have to solve.
The WATCHMAN, offers a suggestion as to
how a small portion of the total needed can
be saved.
Although the State is already judge rid-
den and the expense of the judiciary yearly
becoming greater, the work of the judges
is at the same time being lessened, by in-
creasing their number, and at every session
of the Legislature new districts are de-
manded. The gentlemen who are honored
with positions on the bench are not willing,
as their work is lessened, to accept small-
er salaries or to re-district the State so that
a smaller number of judges will be required.
While they are clamoring for additional
help upon the bench we can name a dozen
districts in which there are not two months
of actual work during the year for a judge
in any one of them, and another dozen dis-
tricts in any one of which the judicial du-
ties do not occupy four months of the year.
But you say how can you save in this
line? It is true, salaries cannot he re-
duced; it is equally evident that the num-
ber of judges will never be lessened, how
then can judicial expenditures be lessened?
Simply by applying the constitution as
to the salaries of our judges as it is applied
to everybody else. Pay them salaries and
nothing more. The constitution expressly
states that the compensation of judges shall
be ‘fixed by law and paid by the State’
and that ‘‘they shall receive no other com-
pensation, fees or perquisites of office for
their services from any source.’’ :
The salary fixed by law for Supreme
court judge is $8,000 per year; for Superior
court judge, $7,000; for judge of the differ-
ent courts of Philadelphia, $7,000; for
those of Allegheny county, $6,000; and for
others throughout the State, $4,000.
Although the constitution is positive in
the declaration that no other compensation,
fees or perquisites shall be allowed, the
Supreme court judges, each draw from the
treasury annually for clerk hire, amounts
ranging from $300 to $1,250, in addition to
their salaries, and other judges ‘‘for mile-
age and compensation for holding courts in
districts other than their own," sums vary-
ing anywhere from forty to over two thou-
sand dollars per year. Thus, while the
State is paying each common pleas and
other lower court judges yearly salaries,
at the rate of $12.77, and upwards, for each
secular day in the year, it is also compelled
to pay them $12.00 per day additional if
for any reason they occupy the bench of a
neighboring judge and mileage in addition
to this, although not a single one of them
in the State pays a penny of railroad fare
on any road over which they may travel.
Ifany one can give a reason why a judge
who is paid by the State $4,000 a year for
judicial services and is absolutely prohib-
ited by the constitution from receiving any
other ‘‘compensation, fees or perquisites,’
should be paid out of the state treasury
$12.00 per day additional for such judicial
jobs as he can pick up outside of his ‘own
district, we should like to hear what it is.
From the report of the Auditor General
for 1896—the last publication that has been
made by that department—we take the fol-
lowing figures showing how much over and
above their salaries was drawn by the
judges of this Commonwealth for that year.
As to what it has been since, we do not
know, but are told that this judicial job-
bery, or trading of courts for the purpose
of increasing their incomes, is on the in-
crease.
EXTRAS FOR SUPREME COURT JUDGES.
James P. Sterrett............ Clerk hire......... $1,050.00
Henry Green.... 4 <6 . 1,240.00
Henry Williams £6 $e . 1,093.00
J. B. McCollum. a ** 800.00
Jas. T. Mitchell & te 960.00
John Dean..... 6 $e 1,250.00
D. Newlin Fell.. casi $8 desire ¥
EXTRAS FOR COMMON PLEAS JUDGES.
W. W. Schuyler..... .......Northampton.... 272.00
E. 1H. Stowe......... Pittsburg........... 24.00
Jacob F. Slagle. & - ve
John M. Kennedy
Samuel A. McClun
Frank Gunnison
Herman Jerkes
C. R. Savage..
Edwin R Biddle..
Lucian W. Doty....
... Westmoreland...
John Lynde............. Luzerne. .......... 192.00
John W. Simonton......... Dauphin... . 130.80
£5 ‘for clerk id : 118.00
John B, McPherson........ 467.00
ot st for c 252.05
S. LL Mestrezat..... 226.00
W. B. Waddell...... 176,40
Joseph Hemphill.. 25,20
J. H. Longnecker....
H. C. McClure.......
S. Heath Clark.
John M. Baile
McKnight Wi
Geo L. Purdy...
Jas. M. Ermantr
Gustave A. Endlick..
Martin Bell...........
Chas. A. Moyer..
Elijah R. Ikeler
Jd. I}, 'Taylor...........
Geo. S. Crisswell...
bY Washington.....
Venango .. “
L
Joan J. Metger.
John J, Henders
Edwin Albright..
Calvin Rayburn
Daniel W. Searle...
Samuel H. Miller..
...Susquehannah..
~Mercer...........
J. 8S. Wilson ....... ...Beaver.. 212.20
M. F. Mecklin... Hore 110.00
Chas. A. Noyes... Warren.. 258.80
John Stewart. Franklin 60.00
Harry White . Indiana 427.90
Jeremiah Lyo Juniatta 773.00
Benj. M. Peck Bradford 265.20
Allen Craig.... arbon ..... « 1,355.60
E. M. Durham.... Wyoming......... 1,354.40
R. W. Archibald.... ...Lackawana....... 1,871.20
Fred W. Gunster.. oe ates 73.60
Harry M. Edward Lackawana... 128.00
Cyrus Gordon. Clearfield 809.80
A. V. Barker Cambria. 1,490.20
Thos. A. Morri M 395.00
A. G. Olmstead ..
John G. Love. 552.80
267.60
98.40
720.00
940.00
258.00
$36,344.35
This leak of thirty-six thousand dol-
lars annually should be stopped.
Samuel M. Swope..
Allen W. Ehrgcod.
W. D. Wallace
Our Trade Relations With Germany.
The visit of Hon. ROBERT P. PORTER to
Berlin in the interest of more friendly and
mutually beneficent trade relations with
Germany is one in which considerable in-
terest centers, though it is really an useless
one. Since the Hispano-American war it
has been noticed that a number of foreign
countries have evidenced an intention to
discriminate against American products.
To what extremes they will go in such un-
toward relations is not known, but Mr.
PORTER'S mission is to try to effect a fa-
vorable understanding with Germany, at
least.
There have been times when Germany
has made a show of discrimination by plac-
ing a temporary ban on American pork or
beef but, on the whole, she has been keen
enough to place no serious obstacle in the
way of trade that has been as profitable to
her as ours has been. In 1897 her imports
into the United States amoanted to £12,-
000,000 and last year over one-half of our
imports into Germany were of raw material
that furnished employment for German la-
bor and was then carried back to us in Ger-
man ships and sold in American markets.
It is not likely that the Germans will
permit anything of their own doing to in-
terfere with trade relations that are so
evidently favorable to them already. They
may make a show of discrimination against
the United States, but it will only be a
show. So long as they can carry away our
cotton and make it into fabrics which they
later sell to us, so long as they can carry
away our tobacco and afford the German
cigarmaker employment and so long as
they can take our copper abroad to manu-
facture it for the markets that we should
be supplying ourselves, they will hardly
commit the suicidal act of shutting out the
paltry proportion of manufactured goods
we send them.
Germany produces very little raw mater-
ial, consequently she must look to other
lands in which to find that with which to
furnish employment for her vast popula-
tion. She is one of the last countries on
the globe that could successfully carry out
a policy of discrimination, particularly
against us, and Mr. PORTER’S mission is of
a necessity accomplished before it is begun,
for the Germans are not as dumb as they
would appear to be.
——The manner in which WiLLiam
HENRY HARRISON WALKER galloped
away with the West ward was enough to
transport him to the happy elysium of the
opium smoker, but when the returns came
in from the North he woke up aud found
that his pipe was out.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Another Proposed Change in the Election
" Laws.
The hopelessness of ever heing able to
carry on fair elections in Pennsylvania
under the present system of qualifying
voters and receiving their ballots has been
80 apparent to everyone that already this
session two bills have been introduced in the
Legislature, ostensibly for the purpose of
correcting the evils of the BAKER ballot.
We say ostensibly because the one is de-
signed to deceive the people into believing
there has been a reform made and thereby
to continue the operation of the present
dishonest system, when the fact would be,
if it were to become a law, that not a single
one of the many avenues for dishonesty in
the BAKER law had yet been choked.
The measure referred to is the one intro-
duced by former Secretary of the Common-
wealth DAVID MARTIN, who is now repre-
senting the Eighth senatorial district in
the Legislature. No man who occupies a
seat in that body knows better the need of
election reforms ‘in Pennsylvania than does
Mr. MARTIN, nor is there one there who
realizes to a fuller extent the service the
present loose system renders to the Repub-
lican party, particularly in Philadelphia,
his home. Knowing these things as he
does Mr. MARTIN has framed and intro-
duced an election reform bill which would
reform nothing that needs reforming, yet it
would serve the purpose of leading the
people to believe that something had heen’
done to correct the evil when, in reality, it
would continue as bad as it is at present.
The three most obnoxious features of the
BAKER law and the loop-holes through
which most of the corruption is injected
into our elections are the complex and
doubtful manner of certifying nominations,
giving the courts power to refuse a place on
the ticket, for purely technical reasons, to
those whom the people want to be there; the
complicated ballot that gives excuse for a
purchasable voter to ask aid and thereby
show his briber that the goods are being
delivered, and the refusal to permit the
opening of hallot boxes to show that fraud
has been conmitted. These are the three
features of the BAKER law that make it
merely a mockery of an honest system and
none of them would be elided by, Mr.
MARTIN'S proposition. .
There has been another bill presented,
however, by Representative Fow, of Phila-
delphia, which comes far nearer being what
the people want and what the State needs.
It is on the line of suggestions made by the
WATCHMAN, in its issue of February 3rd,
and contemplates a personal registration of
voters. :
The bill, in the first place, provides a reg-
istration board in every election district.
Citizens must appear, personally, before
this board and register, receiving a certifi-
cate, which constitutes a prima facie right
to vote. It is presented to the judge of
elections, who perforates it and hands the
voter his ballot. There are ample pro-
visions against fraud and for requiring
proof of the applicant’s right to register as
a voter. One copy of the registration must
be filed with the county commissioners
from which to prepare check lists and all
other election papers. The hoard also
keeps a copy to be used by them on elec-
tion day. The bill, while guarding against
illegal registration or voting, secures to
everyone qualified the right to vote. No
tax receipt can be purchased unless a regis-
tration certificate issued by the board is
produced, and it is not to he used by any-
one else except accompanied by a power of
attorney.
The system that Mr. Fow proposes is
like unto that of New York as far as is pos-
sible under our constitution. The one
clause in which personal registration is
made compulsory recommends it as a most
desirable change, for it affords a relief from
the abominable and unpreverted practice
of repeating that flourishes in the large
cities and makes qualified voters out of pug
dogs, pet cats and everything else unscrup-
ulous politicians care to have entered upon
the registration list.
While Mr. Fow’s bill will hardly satisfy
every want of those who favor honest
elections in the State it is that much more
to be desired than the MARTIN bill, because
it strikes at the greatest evil of the present
system, while the other makes merely a
pretense of reform.
——1It required stamps to the amount of
$11,762.54 for the promissory notes which
the Central Pacific railroad company has
just given the United States in payment
of that company’s. property indebtedness
to the government. It was the largest
stamp tax ever paid on a single transaction
of that sort and is likely never to be
equalled in amount.
——M. LoUBET, the new President of
France, is an aggressive bi-metallist and
has always manifested a lively interest in
the free coinage of silver. His idea of it is
at a ratio of 15} to 1, instead of 16 to 1.
He believes in effecting it by international
agreement, but it is supposed that he
would not be averse to co-operating with
the United States with the hope of forcing
England to adepting bi-metallism, :
——According to the Zrade Review, pub-
lished by R. G. DUN & Co. for last week,
“business is expanding.” This assertion,
of course, is based on the view of men who
are practiced in business and financial ob-
servations. The far sighted sort, you
know. Now to the ordinary conception
there doesn’t seem to be any expansion
anywhere, except in President McKIN-
LEY’S territorial policy. If the Duy trade
prophets merely intend that business was
expanding during the week ending Feb.
18th, as compared with that of the pre-
vious week, then their assertion will prob-
ably be accepted, but that is not: what the
people want. They are looking for the
time when it will expand to such prosper-
ous proportions as it assumed under the
WILSON bill and the benign effects of
Democratic legislation.
Out With Such Disreputable Business.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Correspondence from Washington reveals
the fact that the bill to create a Major Gen-
eral’s place for the express benefit of Adju-
tant General Corbin is to be pushed
through the Hcuse in the rush of the last
days of Congress. It was slipped through
the Senate in the closing hours of the last
session and has been awaiting its chance
ever since, It is one of the most undis-
guised jobs of Algerism, but is probably a
good part of'Corbin’s share of the plunder.
The services of General Corbin during
the past year have consisted of lung power
in the interests of what is known in Wash-
ington as ‘‘the Michigan push,’ activity in
plots and misstatements to injure every
officer misguided enough to serve the
country instead of the Alger regime, and
unwearied fidelity in guarding the records
of a certain court-martial in which H. C.
Corbin was defendant, and which has been
carefully omitted from the government re-
ports. He has touched nothing but to
muddle it. He is next to the Secretary of
War himself, the most eminent exponent
of the Alger system, and represents the
class of the men and the methods that are
disgracing and demoralizing this army.
If the bill is got through the House after
the public warning that bas been given of
its character, it will be because the fore-
es of jobhery are stronger than the forces of
public service.
Judge Love on the Duties of Assignees.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Speaking of Judge Love, that able jurist
has just passed judgment in an ipteresting
case that he heard on the Cambris county
bench. The decision is especially com-
mended to the consideration of lawyers and
persons who may become assignees.
The estate at issue was assigned in 1893
and appraised at $24,000. Only $11,000,
however, was realized for the beneficiaries,
and the Court found that there had been
mismanagement and carelessness on the
part of the assignee. His fees and those of
the attorney in the settlement were there-
fore cut down $350 each, in addition to a
surcharge of $598 for inefficient conduct of
the trust. Altogether this gave the credit-
ors $1,323, or about 30 percent. more than
was originally found for them.
Judge Love delivered an opinion that as-
signees and their counsel should realize
that assigned estates for the benefit of cred-
itors are made in trust for the creditors and
assignor. Where the estate is largely in-
solvent, as is this one, it is especially in
trust for the creditors, and is not to be un-
necessarily prolonged in settlement and
minimized for the benefit of the assignee
and counsel concerned. The assignee is a
trustee, and snbject to good faith and re-
sponsibilities as such.
tT
Oh, There’s a Slight Difference.
From the York Gazette.
The first Republican President, and the
greatest, Abraham Lincoln, held to the
opinion that it was the President’s duty to
execute the will of the people as expressed
through Congress. The last Republican
President informs the leaders of Congress
that he ‘‘will accept no compromises from
that body,’ and cracks the threat of an ex-
tra session over their heads when they talk
about dropping, for this season, his bill to
increase the size of the army. And yet
around election time the leather lunged
descendants of Ananias sent out by the Re-
publican campaign committee tell us that
it is the same Republican party now that it
was in Lincoln’s time.
The Evolution of Monopoly.
From the Cambria Freeman.
When an excessive duty is placed upon
some article of manufacture, the first effect
is to stimulate the home industry, and if
the article happens to be one of large de-
mand its manufacture becomes immensely
profitable. The next steps are over stimu-
lation, over-capitalization, over-produc-
tion, glutted markets and falling prices.
Finally and inevitably come the forma-
tion of trusts, the combination of big con-
cerns and the freezing out of small ones,
the limitation of output and the control of
prices—in short, a gigantic and tyrannical
monopoly.
It Depends Largely on Whose Ox is
Gored.
Irom the Clearfield Public Spirit.
It is a fact that among the newspaper
publishers who assembled in Washington
for the purpose of telling Congress how
necessary it is to repeal the tariff on white
paper and wood pulp, there were more who
publish protection newspapers than pub-
lishers of free-trade papers. Funny, isn't
it, how easily a protectionist is converted
into a free trader when the protective poli-
cy effects his own pocket.
——1If you are in need of fine printing,
which has no equal, the WATCHMAN is the
place to get it. Satisfaction is guaranteed
on everything. a
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Johnson’s shingle mill, near Medix run,
was destroyed by fire a few nights ago.
—Chambersburg Methodists contributed
$1090.24 the past year for missionary purposes.
—A new township, named in honor of
Senator Magee, is to be organized in Alle-
gheny county.
—Fifty-three recruits for the regular army
were sent to the front by Lieutenant Moses
from Pottsville.
—Sleighing on the Delaware between Bris-
tol and Burlington has come to an end, the
ice being unsafe.
—Anthony Rhoads, aged 85, a flagman at
Bethayres, west of Yardley, was struck by
an east bound train and killed.
—Mrs. Lorinda Hedaline, a Hazleton wom-
an was fatally scalded, and four hours after
the accident gave birth to a son.
—A finely executed snow statue of George
Washington, 12 feet high, standing on the
main street in Ashland, attracted crowds of
sightseers.
—The engagement of attorney B. W. Cum-
ming, of Pottsville to Miss Wolverton, daugh-
ter of ex-Congressman Wolverton, of Sun-
bury, is announced.
—In a fit of jealousy Harry P. Kichline, of
Bath, Northampton county, said good-bye to
his wife, kissed their baby boy and then sent
a bullet through his brain.
-—Seventy-three of the eight members of
the Schuylkill county bar have petitioned
Governor Stone to appoint judge Archibald,
of Lackawanna, to the Supreme bench.
—President McKinley has intimated to
Congressman Hicks that he will sign the bill
providing for a public building at Altoona.
The matter has now been favorably con-
sidered at every state up to the White House
action.
—In the Clearfield county court Monday
afternoon, Michael Hart, convicted of the
murder of Victor Corietta, was called before
Judge Gordon and sentenced to 15 years im-
prisonment in the Western penitentiary at
Allegheny.
—Saturday Maurice Graham crawled into
the boiler in the Luppert furniture factory
at South Williamsport to make repairs. He
removed the section of a pipe, when escaping
steam blew over his body. He was taken
out badly scalded.
—One of the children of James Thomas,
residing in Spring township, Perry county,
kicked the covers off, while in bed asleep
one cold night last week, and its feet were
so badly frozen that it is feared the child's
toes will come off.
—At Montgomery Tuesday a boy named
Myers pointed a didn’t know it was loaded
air gun at William Mincemoyer. The weapon
was discharged and the ball entered Mince-
moyer’s face. The ball was probed for, but
could not be found.
—Burglars entered the store of the Ber-
wind-White company, at Windber, Sunday,
expecting to secure $25,000, which was to be
paid out in wages. The money was still in a
Johnstown bank, and the burglars left after
releasing the watchman, who had been hound
and gagged.
—C. W. Thomas, who formerly residedat
Jersey Shore, was taking a sleigh ride a few
days ago at Mifflinburg. He had an attack of
heart disease, when he fell out of the sleigh
and alighted on his head. Heis now suffering
from concussion of the brain, and his re-
covery is doubtful.
—A visitor to the jail at Sunbury Thurs-
day left the key sticking in the inside of the
door. James Dressler and Oliver Bittinger,
who are serving eighteen and sixteen months,
respectively, were in the corridor at the
time. They opened the door and made their
escape to the Snyder county hills.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hill, of Catawissa,
accompanied a sleighing party which left
that place for Mainville, six miles distant,
Saturday night. They took with them their
9-months’ old child, well wrapped up to pro-
tect it from the sleet which was falling at the
time. When Mainville was reached it was
found that the infant had been smothered to
death.
—The $16,000 necessary to start the worst-
ed mill in Sunbury has been raised and the
mill willlocate at that place. Mr. Leach will
have the management of the mill and it will
be located on Front street in the old school
building. The work of putting the build-
ing in order will be commenced at once. The
machinery will be ordered, part of it being
made in England, as none is built in this
country.
—The pay of the Cambria Steel company
Saturday at Johnstown amounted to over
$150,000, which is the largest by some $2,000
of the present winter, and $10,000 more than
was paid out January 28th. This increase,
"however, has nothing to do with the recent
rise in wages, as the present pay is for labor
done before that went into effect. About
$25.000 was also paid out to the employes of
the Berwind-White coal company at Windber.
—Drs. Lowrie and Crawford and health
officer Wands, who went to Sinking Valley
Huntingdon county, on Saturday afternoon,
reported that at the McClain home they
found that Miss Mary McClain had suf-
fered an attack of varioloid some weeks ago,
but she is now entirely well and all danger
of contagion 1s past. At the Burnshire home
no indication of smallpox was discovered,
the only illness that had been in the family
or now prevailing there being bad colds or
grip.
—Mary Wilson, who is the leader of the
Junior Epworth league at Punxsutawney,
gave the members of that organization a
sleighing party to Big Run Saturday, and on
the way home, while passing near a precipice,
the coupling pin in the big sled which car-
ried Miss Wilson and twenty children, rang-
ing from 7 to 15 years, broke, and caused the
sled to precipitate its load down a fifty foot
embankment, seriously injuring Miss Wil-
son and slightly hurting a dozen of the chil-
dren.
—Judge Cyrus Gordon at Clearfield Mon-
day granted the rule prayed for by John F.
Short and George E. Owens, publishers of the
Clearfield Republican, on the county commis-
sioners to show cause why a mandamus
should not be issued compelling them to allow
the petitioners access to the public records of
‘that office for the purpose of publishing week-
ly the list of orders drawn on the county
treasurer and also the minutes of the busi-
ness transacted daily. The rule is return-
able the second Monday of March.