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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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manne
—The men behind the guns did it, but
how about the grub behind the men?
—We pay $20,000,000 for the Philippines,
then fight ’til we get them. That’s buy-
ing a pig in a poke for sure.
—Good roads bills in the Pennsylvania
Legislature are like the good boys in the
Sunday school books: They all die young.
—1It can™ be denied that every girl who
is following the fad of wearing her hair
pompadour is afflicted with rats in her
garret.
--This proposition to divide up China
will be very apt to reveal a streak of yel-
low, somewhere. And it might be in Li
HuNG CHANG’S jacket.
—The fear of being called a billion dol-
lar Congress had no terror for the Fifty-
fifth. It went a half better in its extrava-
gance and made it 1,566, 000,000.
—OIld Sol mage it so hot for our troops
in Manila, on Wednesday, that they had
to retire to their tents for the day. It was
something more than the Spanish or AGUIN-
ALDO have been able to do.
—We have no use for even the tiniest bit
of China. Uncle SAM has all the territorial
bric-a-brac he can take care of now and if
any other powers want to divide up the
celestial empire let them do it in welcome.
—It is reported now that Genl. OTIS is
going to knock the stuffin out of the Fili-
pinos within a fort night. What if he does,
stuffin ain’t a bit better than live Filipinos.
Neither are worth a continental damn.
—The search light is being turned on at
Harrisburg and the bribe givers and bribe
takers are flying for cover. Its glaring rays
have caught a few, but if the light had the
power of penetration it ought to have their
name would be legion.
—The whole police force and ToMMY
SHAUGHENESSY are after the insurgents in
the Bellefonte council. They know that
they must be captured within two weeks
or there will be new policemen and a new
street commissioner.
—MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY is no longer
a United States Senator. His term ex-
pired on Saturday and Pennsylvania has as
yet failed to re-elect him. So much to the
credit of the Commonwealth. An empty
house is better than a bad tenant.
—The Scranton man who filed a volun-
tary petition in bankruptcy on Monday,
placing his debts at $68,373.14 and his only
assets as three gold studs must have *‘put
up”’ about everything he owned before he
came to the conclusion that he couldn’t
liquidate.
—The conclusion of the United States
Senators, who, before leaving Washington,
met in caucus and concluded that ‘‘party
interests demand the retirement of ALGER?’
has demonstrated that for once in the his-
tory of its organization Republican inter-
ests coincide with public interests.
—The German admiral von DIEDRICHS
who got so gay at Manila last summer that
it was feared his indiscretions would pre-
cipitate a clash with Germany has been re-
lieved of his command and Prince HENRY,
of Prussia, a brother of the Emperor, who
is popular in the United States, has been
given command of the Asiatic squadron.
This apparent expression of friendship on
the part of the German government is de-
cidedly reassuring.
—A fool and his money have always
supposed to be soon parted, but there is a
penurious old jehu up at East Stroudsburg
who has exploded the theory entirely. The
other day he lost $300, which was later
picked up by a little girl and immediately
returned to him upon hearing of his loss.
He rewarded her honesty by giving her a
penny. Such miserly specimens of hu-
manity had better be crushed and sold for
alum, for all the good they are to any com-
munity.
—The pledge of the ninety QUAY men in
the Legislature to stick to the ‘‘old man?’
to the bitter end makes it look very much
as if this session will result in no choice
for United States Senator: QUAY has gone
to Florida for his health. It is not stated
whether it is physical or political rein-
vigoration he needs. He will probably
fish a little down there, too, because he
stands a better chance of having luck with
the tarpon than he has had at catching suck-
ers about Harrisburg.
~ —The New York spinster who wants to
have the ‘reprehensible and promiscuous
practice of kissing’’ stopped had better
suggest some other means than that of post-
ing notices of warning in club rooms and
on street corners. The direful effects she
has discovered in the practice are such as
to make the curious American man and
women more curious than ever and it
might not be a surprise if they start in at
once to find out whether this old spinster
knows what she is talking about.
—The typhoid octopus has Philadelphia
in its deadly grip. All previous mortality
records have been surpassed and itis esti-
mated that the number of deaths for the
week ending March 11th, will reach the
appalling total of 475. Ordinarily Phil-
adelphia is a healthful city, barring the
impurity of its water service, and there
would be little trouble eradicating this in-
evitable germinater of the typhoid bacillus
if only a part of the money that is stolen
from the tax-payers down there could
be diverted to the business of providing a
purer water supply. :
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VOL. 44
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
MARCH 10. 1899.
10.
Bribery at Harrisburg.
The developments thus far in the inves-
tigation of the charges of corrupt solicita-
tion in relation to the consideration of the
McCARRELL bill in the Legislature at
Harrisburg, justify the grave suspicions
which have been current throughout the
State for some weeks. Two reputable
Members of the House cf Representatives
testified at the hearing before the commit-
tee on Tuesday evening that they had been
corruptly solicited to aid the measure and
gave names, dates, and circumstances with
such particularity that there can be no
doubt left in the mind of any reasonable
man that they were truthful in the
matter. One of these victims of de-
praved impudence is a farmer and it
was no doubt hoped that his inexperience
would aid in the work of whetting his
cupidity. But there is not even this ex-
cuse for the criminal temerity shown in
the other instance. It was simply a case
of folly blinded by evil passions and has
properly led to self-exposure.
It has been well-known for years that
corrupt solicitation of the Legislators has
become a regular, though disreputable busi-
ness at Harrisburg. Usually, as in the
present case, those engaged in it are len
who have served in the House or Senate
and have thus acquired what is by cour-
tesy called ‘‘the privilege of the floor.”
That is to say having themselves been
Members once they are forever afterward
allowed to go upon the floor during ses-
sions and converse with Members and oth-
ers there. This is a distinction which is
altogether proper where it is deserved.
Men who have honored the State by faith-
ful and honest service in the Legislature
are entitled to this mark of consideration
on their periodical returns to the scene of
their past labors. But men who are capa-
ble of perverting the courtesy into an ave-
nue for the perpetration of crime are wor-
thy of no favors, aud it is this class that
invariably brings disgrace upon the body
by such actions of those in question.
The first real session of the committee of
investigation removed all doubts of the
culpability of certain lobbyists whose
names have been freely used in connection
with this scandal from the beginning. The
proceedings in the committee on that occa-
sion, moreover, leave little room for doubt
as to whose interests the crimes were in-
tended to promote. No one has said, and
probably no one will say, that Senator
QUAY had either knowledge of or sympa-
thy in these operations. But the fact re-
mains that his friends in the Legislature
first ineffectually tried to smother the in-
quiry and failing in that interposed every
available expedient to embarrass it. At
the meeting on Tuesday evening Messrs.
VoorRHEES and KREPS, the out-and-out
QUAY members of the committee, put
themselves in the attitude of attorneys for
the accused and that they were unable to
accomplish much in the role was only be-
cause their case was hopelessly bad from
the beginning.
The Matter of Ballot Reform.
There are three ballot bills pending in
the Legislature, each one of which aims to
promote honesty in elections. The best of
the three, and unhappily the one least like-
ly to be adopted, is that one introduced by
Mr. Fow, of Philadeiphia and the worst
that of Senator MARTIN, of Philadelphia.
These two measures run along the same lines
and. as has been suggested, might be merged
with the effect that a fairly good law
would result. But there can be no sub-
stantial reform without personal registra-
tion and under the present constitution of
the State it is difficult to secure that.
The Fow bill provides for personal reg-
istration and to make that possible under
the constitution it requires the registering
officers to sit at the polls on election day
in order to accommodate those who have
neglected to personally register previously.
It may be said that thisis a doubtful if not
devious expedient, but it is the best one
possible. It is true, for example, that a
personator at the polls might deceive the
registering officers as well as election of-
ficers, but it is equally certain that there is
greater risk in the operation because of the
multiplication of officers to be deceived
and fewer rogues will he ready to take the
chances of escaping the penalty.
The KEATER bill is superior to the MAR-
TIN bill in that it requires persons who ask
for assistance in preparing their ballots to
swear to their inability to perform the serv-
ice for themselves. The greatest source
of corruption in the elections under the ex-
isting law is that provision which permits
the briber to accompany the bribed into
the booth to fix his ballot. The MARTIN
law continues this evil and that fact of its-
self makes it unavailable. It would be wise,
therefore, for the friends of ballot reform in
the Legislature, if they arein the majority,
to cast aside all others and unite upon and
pass the Fow bill.
Council voted $2,000 into the sinking
fund. Where is the sinking fund?
‘Where are the $2,000 ?
A Plan For a Public Improvement
Fund.
There could be no more opportune time
than the present to discuss means for rais-
ing a public improvement fund for Belle-
fonte. Just now, when the hoard of trade
has been aroused to action and the citizens
are beginning to co-operate with it the
need of working capital, a fund ready for
any emergency, ought to be seen by every-
body. The question is, can Bellefonte
have such a fund ? If so, how can it be se-
cured ?
So long as it will be necessary to solicit
by subscription such sums as might be de-
manded in subsidies by manufacturing
plants looking for a location, just so long
will Bellefonte be retarded in the forward
march which it is hoped has at last begun.
It invariably happens that the burden of
such work devolves upon a few and the
contributors represent a very small per-
centage of the beneficiaries. The result of
such a course must ultimately end in
working the willing horses to death. And
when done the purpose is seldom accom-
plished. For a manufacturing plant that
desires to locate in Bellefonte and offers to
do so, contingent upon the guarantee of a
certain bonus, often will not wait until the
town has been canvassed to ascertain
whether the sum can be raised. Other
places jump in between us and with the
sums ready at hand divert the attention of
the prospective manufacturers and secure
the industry, while Bellefonte is still at
work on the subscription papers.
A feature more objectionable than the
slowness of this process is the burden it
carries for the few. Whenever there is a
sum of money to be raised for the public
good it is taken for granted that a half
dozen of the wealthy men of the place will
contribute all that is needed. The people
who are really able and should contribute
something, however small the amount,
never realize their personal obligation to
such a movement, but when others fail to
do it they expend all their energy in clag-
ing. :
It has been proposed that a tax levy be
laid for the purpose of raising and main-
taining a public improvement fund. And
what more equitable, easy or speedy way
of doing it could be thought of. Take a
levy of 2 mills and add it to the regular
tax of 243 that is now being Jaid and it
would only increase the amount 3 a mill
over the levy for 1897, yet it would yield
$3,173 annually to a fund for improvement
purposes. It would be an equitable ar-
rangement because all would have a share
in raising it, especially so the property
holders who would be most benefitted by
such an enhancement of values as a live
manufacturing town always experiences.
Of course the proposition to lay such a mil-
lage is illegal, but with the consent of the
voters of the borough it could be done and
there should be no trouble in securing such
consent.
In a few years such a fund would have
accumulated as would put Bellefonte in
the position of snapping up, on a moment’s
notice, any good proposition that could be
made. A committee of council, or busi-
ness men could be appointed custodians of
the fund, with power to receive, investi-
gate and act upon all offers. By sucha
plan there could be no delay and everyone
would have a share in it. If by any
chance the fund would grow too large it
could revert to the borough treasury and
be used to wipe out some of the bonds that
are now drawing interest.
‘What do you think of such a plan, tax-
payers of Bellefonte? Talk about it, con-
sult one with another about it and if it is
your opinion, as it is ours, that it is a good
thing, put it in operation and in less than
ten years Bellefonte will be a veritable
hive of industry and no one will feel the
effect of the increased millage of whatever
amount is laid.
Arnold’s Fine Sarcasm.
The thought to which former Congress-
man W. C. ARNOLD, of the Twenty-eighth
Pennsylvania district, gave utterance when
he said: ‘‘Thank God, I am once more a
private citizen,”” might probably have the
effect of leading some who don’t know the
Congressman to the belief that his service
has been a sort of martyrdom to the wishes
of a people, eager for him as a Representa-
tive. But it doesn’t correspond with his
speeches here last fall in the least., Then
he was assuring the people that he was
coming out of DuBois with a majority of
five hundred and was going to he re-elected,
as certain as fate.
On the stump he was praying to be kept
from relegation to the private citizenship
from the solitude of which he now ‘thanks
God.”
A pretty sarcasm, indeed. He has evi-
dently recognized that the voice of the peo-
ple, proclaiming his moral and political
obliquities last fall, was the voice of God.
——The many vacancies in the United
States Senate are not so much due to a
dearth of possible Senators as to the fact that
there aren’t holes enough for the pegs that
want to be fitted in them.
A Measure that Should be Passed.
The bill to increase the minimum length
of time for public school sessions in Penn-
sylvania to seven months is again before
the Legislature and has passed the House.
It is probable, however, that the pressure
from the country districts, where five
months of school are deemed sufficient, will
be strong enough to kill it before becoming
a law, as has been the case at every session
for the past ten years. It is hard to see
the logic that prompts the residents of the
rural districts to object to a longer school
term, when there is scarcely a precinct in
which a well attended summer school does
not flourish. In Centre county, for in-
stance, there are at least a dozen of such
private schools already advertised to begin
almost immediately upon the expiration of
the present term of free school. They will
draw scholars from all quarters of the
county who will have to pay boarding and
tuition for studying under the same in-
structors, in many cases, who have taught
during the winter in the public schools.
Experience has been such as to warrant
little hope that the country districts are
changing on the school question. The
main desire seems to be to keep taxes to a
minimum and educational facilities at the
same point. When the appropriation for
public schools was increased, several years
ago, neither the length of the school term
nor the salaries of the teachers were increas-
ed, as was hoped would be the case. Near-
ly every school district took the State's
money and reduced the local taxes. This
is one way of saving, but it is of the penny
wise pound foolish order.
If seven months of school were held in
the country districts and salaries sufficient
to encourage men or women to make teach-
ing a profession were paid there would be
no necessity for the summer schools and a
much superior intelligence abroad. It will
be a surprise, but it is none the less true,
that the average of intelligence in Pennsyl-
vania is much below that in some of the
newer and undeveloped States of the North-
west. There is no trouble in tracing the
cause to our public schools. They are good
enough in the towns and cities, but hardly
answer the purpose in the country.
.—=The United ‘States government is
about to pay the French spoliation claims,
At least a‘'clause in the omnibus bill in-
cluded them. They are of more than an
hundred years standing and will never
reach the original claimants, hut it is cer-
tain that plenty of heirs and assignees will
appear to relieve the treasury of the sums
they carry. The claims are just and have
been repeatedly recommended by Con-
gresses, but were never paid. They were
established through the injury done to
American shipping in French ports during
the latter part of the last century, when
France was retaliating on our government
for not helping her out in her war with
England, after the help she had rendered
the thirteen colonies in their struggle for
independence.
A Hopeful Sign.
One of the newspaper correspondents at
Harrisburg, telegraphs his paper that ‘‘in
their desperation the QUAY shouters have
revived their early battle ery: ‘‘QuAy or
a Democrat.”’ But this is nosign of despera-
tion. It is rather an evidence of lucidity,
and reason. They might adopt an infinite-
ly more dangerous battle cry. That cry
would indicate progression in the right
direction. If they have gone that far al-
ready they may conclude, after while, to
drop the QUAY part of it.
It is certainly much better for these mis-
guided men in the Legislature to cry “Quay
or a Democrat’’ than to demand QUAY or
some other Republican. QUAY’s public
record is atrocious, to be sure, but after all
the stream as a rule is neither purer nor
fouler than its source and QUAY, being a
Republican, who will dare say that he is
better or worse than other Republicans? If,
therefore, QUAY is bad the safest way to get
a Senator who is not bad is to elect one
who is not a Republican.
Under these circumstances we are inclin-
ed to encourage rather than deprecate the
battle cry of the QUAY shouters, if this cor-
respondent has correctly represented it.
The election of a Democrat to the office is a
guarantee of improvement in the service
and elevation in the morals of the Senate
and if the shouters will go on until they
learn to drop QUAY from the cry they will
be performing a useful service to their
State, and an invaluable work for this
country.
—THOMAS DONALDSON, the champion
high diver, who plunged from the roof of
Madison Square Garden, in New York, on
Wednesday afternoon, into an eight-foot
tank, sixty-five feet below him, has taken
his last dive. He cracked his skull and
physicians say he can’t live. It would
hardly be right to call him a fool, just as
he isabout to enter the other world; but if
he wasn’t a fool then we are ready to
apologize.
quate national defense.
rE T—
_ NO.
Come and See Us.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The London Spectator in a recent issue,
prints another letter, of which there have
been so many in the last twenty-five years,
pointing out the ‘‘defenseless condition’
of American seaports.
This was once true. It is true no
longer. The war, among all else of good
it did, has left our coasts protected as they
never have been before in thirty years, or
since the scheme for coast defense proposed
after the Mexican War was completed—in
a measure—toward the end of the civil
war. Con gress was long deaf to the needs
of coast defense. In the twelve years from
1884 to 1896 Congress appropriated $24,-
730,000 in the annual acts for fortifica-
tions. This was an average of $2,060,000
a year.
This expenditure has been nearly doub-
led in the current three years. The
amount devoted to fortifications in the
three years ending next June has been as
follows: —
Appropriation, fiscal year, 1897......
Appropriation, fiscal year, 1898..
Appropriation, fiscal year, 1899..
National defense El Niven:
... $7,377,888
. 9,517,141
War deficiencies...............ccouecceesniecs enon : 8.674.898
POtRL rin ssi ia sites $17,813,161
The past three years have been twice the
appropriations for fortifications of the pre-
vious twelve years, and considerably more
than the entire appropriations for this pur-
pose in thirty-one years from 1866 to 1896.
The prolonged neglect of a generation has
at length been made good. Not a military
expert, not a student of military affairs
and not a foreign visitor but has been
aghast at the condition in which our coast
defenses have been permitted to sink.
Five years ago a foreign fleet could have
entered any American harbor practically
without opposition. A fleet no larger than
Chile had ten years ago could have levied
on San Francisco.
The expenditure of the past three years
has changed all this. Of the entire arma-
ment proposed for our leading ports about
one-half will be actually installed by the
end of the year. Before five years are out,
if Congress continues the work already be-
gun, all the guns will be in place.
With all the constant fire of criticism
made upon the size of aggregate appropria-
tions, it is well to remember that the
country is getting in return a defended
coast. Still, most of the people who at-
tack the size of the appropriations now are
the same people who five years ago were
denouncing Congress for refusing to appro-
priate money enough to provide this coun-
try with seaboard defenses. The next need
is trained artillerists. The guns in place
call for 19,500 men. Artillerists cannot be
extemporized. Objection to the increased
size of the army is really objection to ade-
when completed will require. 39,000 men,
and unless this force is ready when war
comes the guns will be useless.
Quay Seventeen Short.
In the Ballot for United States Senator That ‘Was
Taken on Wednesday.
HARRISBURG, March 8.--Congressman-
at-large Galusha A. Grow gained two votes
on to-day’s joint ballot for Uuited States
Senator. Mr. Grow made a short address
to the House prior to the joint assembly
and was among the spectators during the
balloting. Representative Martin, of Mer-
cer, changed from Colonel Irvin to Grow,
and Representative Snyder, of Luzerne,
from Alvin Markle to Grow. The vote fol-
lows:
Quay, 105; Jenks, 81; Dalzell, 17; Stew-
art, 8; Irvin, 5; Huff, 9; Stone, 4; Rice, 2;
Tubbs, 2; Widener, 3; Riter, 2; Grow, 3;
Smith, 1; total, 242; necessary to a choice,
122; paired or not voting, 11; no election.
Every Senator and Member of the House
who has been voting for Senator Quay this
morning received a telegram from the Sena-
tor, announcing that he was about to start
for Florida for the benefit of his health and
will be back in ten days. He returned
thanks to his faithful friends for their loy-
alty to him, and said he hoped to be elect-
ed. A copy of the telegram follows:
*‘I leave for the South to-day for a rest of
ten days. Upon my return I will join my
friends at Harrisburg, remaining in close
touch with them until the end of the senator-
ial contest, which, I believe, will terminate
successfully. Before leaving I cannot re-
frain from thanking you and your col-
leagues for the magnificent support I have
received for the past two months.
[Signed] “M. S. Quay.”
Mr. Bare, of Huntingdon, who has been
voting for Senator Quay, rose in his place
when his name was called and created
some excitement when he said, in a loud
voice: “I believe it to be my duty to my
constituents and to my party to cast my
vote to-day as I have done during this
long contest. Bat, sir, I protest, that it is
the duty of the leaders of all Republican
factions to make an honest effort to stop
the farce that has been enacted here for
the past two months. It were better to
sacrifice our principles and friends now,
than to sacrifice principles and friends and
party in the future. Let us elect a Repub-
lican by Republican votes.
Then Mr. Bare added, in a lower voice:
“I vote to-day for M. S. Quay,’’ and a
roar of laughter followed.
Representative Spatz, Democrat, of Berks,
said, when his name was called: ‘‘It has
been anticipated for some time that I
would change my vote from Mr. Jenks,
but I will continue to fool the public and
will cast my vote for Jenks to-day.’
Mr. Grow was escorted to the speaker’s
stand by Representatives Robb and Mar-
shall, of Allegheny, amid great applause.
He thanked the House for its kind ex-
pression. He said the Spanish-American
war marks a new era in the history of the
world and no more will Spanish colonies
send up the cry of despair. No prophet
to-day can foretell the future of America.
The United States is the first nation in the
world that instituted a war for humanity
and the result of that war has imposed new
responsibilities on the country.
——1If you want fine work done of every
description the WATCHMAN is the place
to have it done.
To man our fora
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Moses Leisenring died at Jersey Shore
Saturday, aged 77 years. His funeral took
place Tuesday morning. He is survived by
several children. y
—John D. Kelley, of Williamsport, in-
tends razing the wooden buildings he owns
on Erie avenue, Renova. and will erect on
the site a large hotel building.
—James Fitzpatrick & Co., of New York,
are making preparations to erect a forty
eight blower glass factory at Falls Creek. It
will have capacity for employing 300
hands.
—At Hepburnia, near Grampian, a few days
ago, 12 year old Earnest Rowles was killed
by a small truck, on which he was playing,
running off the end of a trestle work and fall-
ing upon him.
—The property of the Tri-County and Ag-
ricultural and Driving Park association at
Johnstown was offered for sale, Saturday, by
the sheriff. The highest bid was $1,800.
There are mortgages aggregating $28,000
against it.
—At Montoursville Saturday, the 18
months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Barrett, pulled over on itself a pan of boiling
water. The child was frightfully scalded
and died from the effects of its burns on
Monday.
—It is said that the Northern Central rail-
road company will fill up the old canal at
Halifax and use it for a road bed. This
would take the road practically out of the
town. Civil Engineers of the company were
surveying in that vicinity last week.
—Dr. 8S. H. Gump, of Bedford, disposed of
the balance of his apple crop of 1898 last
week, receiving $1 per bushel for the same.
He has a fine young orchard of some 50
acres near Napier, which in the past two
years has netted him about $3,000 over all
expenses.
—Several days ago Abram W. Brown, of
Lewisburg, fell froma tree on a fence. A se-
vere gash was cut in his nose. Little atten-
tion was paid to the injury at the time, but a
few days later his jaw began to get stiff.
Lockjaw developed and he expired. He was
57 years old.
—Miss Annie Nolte, of Lewistown, was
severely scalded last week in a peculiar man-
ner. She had been ill abed, and her mother
put a hot water sack in her bed, which un-
fortunately bursted, the boiling water flying
over her person and badly scalding her
shoulder, side and limb.
—Eighty of the local milk dealers of Wil-
liamsport and vicinity have signed a pledge
to fight the milk trust that has been organized
in that city. The local dealers also state that
they will refuse to go out of the business and
are asking their patrons to support them in
their fight against the trust.
Two car loads of walnut lumber were ship-
ped Thursday from Mill Hall. The lumber
was consigned to Liverpool, England, and
from that city will be sent to Germany. The
lumber was purchased in Bald Eagle and
Nittany valleys. Three car loads of plank
walnut timber will be sent to the same coun-
try.
—A telegram from Harrisburg Tuesday
evening says: The suit of ex-Congressman
Josiah D. Hicks, of Altoona, against Rev.
Dr. Silas C. Swallow, of Altoona, claim-
ing $50,000 for criminal libel, has been
discontinued. Word has been received by
his family at Altoona that Mr. Hicks is ill at
his hotel in Washington.
—The safe in the post office at Hyndman,
Bedford county, was cracked by burglars at
an early hour Friday morning, the door be-
ing blown clear across the room. The
thieves secured $400 in stamps and about $200
in cash. There is no clue. It issupposed to
have been the work of tramps who have been
numerous about the town lately.
—A coal train running from Windsor to
South Fork was wrecked near Salix Monday
night. Several cars were demolished, one
man instantly killed and two others badly
hurt. The dead man’s name was Edward
B. Meyers. He was unmarried and lived at
South Fork. The wreck resulted from fail-
ure of brakes to work on a heavy grade.
—William, the 13 year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Cunningham, of Renova, attempt-
ed to jump a freight train in the yards at
that place Saturday morning. He missed
his hold, fell on the track and the wheels
passing over his leg crushed the bone at the
ankle. The foot was amputated by Drs.
Olds, Fulmer and Heimbach. It is believed
that the boy will recover.
—Miss Mary H. Smiley, of New Bloom-
field, met with a painful accident recently.
While walking on the pavement in front of
her home she slipped, and in attempting to
prevent a fall she grasped with her right
hand a barb on the fence. Unfortunately
the barb entered her hand and tore its way
out between the second and third fingers, in-
fleting a most painful wound, which required
a surgeon’s care.
—A special to the Bradford Era says that
mayor Rolland, of Franklin, has appointed a
committee of councilmen to confer with a
syndicate of New York and Erie capitalists,
who have under consideration the construc-
tion of a railroad between Erie and Falls
Creek, including Franklin, Clarion and
Brookville, and will connect with the Beech
Creek railroad, passing through lands rich in
oil, coal and lumber.
—James Champaign, a log driver, while
working on Morgan’s drive near Lloyd.
Tioga county,Sunday afternoon was drowned.
He was endeavoring to loosen a log jam, and
when the break was made, he was caught
and hurled underneath. His body was swept
down the stream a half mile, before it was
recovered. Champaign was 22 years old.
His mother resides at Cedar Run, Lycoming
county.
—OQver two months ago Gregory Dejario,
who conducted a fruit store in Tyrone, was
arrested on the charge of attempting to es-
cape paying a bill of $2,500 for goods which
he had purchased from a Philadelphia firm.
Dejario secured bail and then skipped out.
Tuesday he was arrested at Chicago. When
the officers attempted to take him, Dejario
resisted desperately, he. using a revolver,
stiletto and a razor. He was finally knocked
senseless by the officers. He will be brought
to Blair county for trial.