Deworvatt atch,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
. Ink Slings.
——Well JosIAH, things just don’t seem
to be coming your way up in Blair now, do
they?
—The Easter bonnet did little good for
sore eyes in Bellefonte. It was nowhere in
evidence.
—— Talk about the squalls of a colicky
kid, they’re not a circumstance to the way
the snow squalled on Easter.
—That county jail in Clearfield seems to
be more of a sieve than a place of safety,
for prisoners are continually leaking out of
it.
—Like the bird, AGUINALDO has flown
to the mountains. He has left no message
behind, however, to indicate that he is
weary of sin.
—The first real sensible thing that the
Cubans have ever done, they did on Tues-
day when they decided to disband their
army and dissolve the Assembly.
—Monday, May 1st, 1899, is to be
DEWEY day and all good people of the
State are called upon to observe it in honor
of the hero who sunk the Spanish fleet in
Manila harbor.
—They say that compressed air is to be
the great metor power of the future. My,
what an opportunity it will afford for cam-
paign orators to make money between
seasons on the stump.
——Philipsburg papers complain of the
number of croakers in that place. Why
waste time on them. Leave them alone
and they’ll all hop back to more congenial
atmosphere along with their playmates
among the skunk cabbages and tall grasses
on the banks of the Mosbannon.
——The result of the ballot for Senator
yesterday was QUAY 90, JENKS 71 and
TuBBs 51. The Antis are changing their
candidate every day now, with the hope of
catching a few Democrats, but the Demo-
crats bit in the House organization scheme
and that was enough for them.
—Beattie, Kansas, will be run by women
for the next year. They had candidates of
their own sex in the field for mayor, coun-
cils and city clerk and elected everyone of
them without a struggle; the result will be
that the women will wear the pants in
Beattie for awhile and it is to be expected
that there will be rough sledding for the
men. :
——With strong administration papers
urging him to do it before it is too late it
will not be surprising if President McKI1N-
LEY shifts his position on the meat ques-
tion and falls in with Gen. MILES, who has
the people with him, sure enough..- The
President will want the people with him
in 1900 and it will not be long until he
discovers that if he is to get them he will
have to cut loose from ALGER and EAGAN.
—The Delaware Democratic Assemblyman
who voted for ADDICKS for United States
Senator declines to be read out of his party
or to resign his seat in the Legislature. He
declares that he committed no crime against
the State or his constituents and he can see
no reason for resigning. It is quite likely
that he can’t. Any Democrat who could
be so blinded to duty as to vote for ADDICKS
would hardly be more keen to see a reason
for resigning after having done so.
—~Since February 4th, 1899, up to yester-
day the list of Americans killed in the
Philippines reached 184, and the wounded
976, making a total of 1160 casualties that
have been suffered in the attempt to catch
AGUINALDO and he isn’t caught yet. Nor
"will it avail us much if he does fall into
Otis’ hands. The Filipinos are like the
American Indians, as long as there is one
of them left there will be uprisings on those
islands. Before they will become pacified
they will have to be exterminated and it
remains to be seen whether President Me-
KINLEY’S war away off there is to be one
of humanity or for the extermination of
what human beings there are there.
——The best of evidence that the Presi-
dent’s heart is nat right is to be had in the
fact that notwithstanding the warning
sounded by such administration organs as
the Washington Star, he still retains
~ faith in ALGER and EAGAN. Gen. MILES
has made a bold, noble stand against the
powers that would snatch his knots from
him only too quick, if they dared, and the
, result of the war investigating board has
"been to give more credit to his statements
and less to those of the ALGERians. The
people are with the General and while the
President has, by no overt act, tried to
shield the guilty, yet his failure to express
a determination to lay the whole rotten
business bare shows very plainly that he is
afraid for his friend ALGER’S sake.
—New York went almost beside itself
over the VANDERBILT-FAIR wedding, the
papers devoted columns to describing the
union of millions and gawking people jam-
med the street about the OELRICH’S home,
where the ceremony was performed, with
the hope of seeing the bride and groom. It
is all over now and the young people will
scarcely be heard of again until an heir is
presented to the millions that were settled
on them at their wedding. Then the
whole thing will have to be rehashed. The
golden veneer is what catches the people
now-a-days. While these wealthy young-
sters were being married in. New York,
with all ‘the lavish splendor unlimited
means could secure, who knows but that a
coming President was being married in
some back woods place in the simplest
kind of fashion.
py AYN
“VOL. 44
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 7, 1899.
NO. 14.
Senator Quay’s Trial.
The trial of ex-Senator M. S. QUAY on the
charge of ‘‘conspiracy to commit larceny,”
will begin in the criminal court of Phila-
delphia, on Monday next, unless some un-
forseen circumstance interposes to prevent
it, which is, to say the least, improbable.
This ‘‘celebrated case’ has already been
postponed three times, twice at the in-
stance of Senator QUAY, and once on the
motion of the Commonwealth, under condi-
tions which reflected somewhat on the de-
fence. There are reasons, moreover, to
believe that the defendant approaches the
ordeal of trial even now most reluctantly,
and that if it were possible to secure
another delay, it would be done. But
public patience has already been overtaxed
in the matter, and the chances are that the
case will be called at the time fixed and
disposed of finally.
The misdemeanor charged under the
rather confusing indictment of ‘conspiracy
to commit larceny,’’ is the misuse of the
funds of the State. It is alleged that money
belonging to the State was deposited in
certain banks and used in the shape of
‘‘collateral” to secure loans to Mr. QUAY
and members of his family. The borrow-
ing from banks in possession of the state
funds is not denied, so far as we are able to
ascertain the facts, but it is alleged that it
was not the money of the State that was
used in the transactions. That is to say it
is held that when the money was placed in
possession of the bank it hecame the money
of the bank and the officers of the bank had
a right to do with it what they liked. The
principle upon which this contention is
based is that money deposited in a bank,
loses its identity the moment it comes into
possession of the bank, and that the only
obligation, moral or material, on the bank
is that funds to the amount of the deposit
will be paid on demand. That is true, as
a rule. But in the case in question the
conditions were different. That is to say
it is a matter of record that the State Treas-
urer made the deposit with a specific un-
derstanding in writing that it would not be
disturbed or drawn against under any cir-
cumstances, until after RICHARD QUAY
had repaid an obligation which he was then
negotiating, of one-sixth the amount of the’
deposit. In other words the State Treas-,
urer, presumably at the instance of Mr.
QuAY, had agreed in writing to keep state
funds to the amount of $600,000 in posses-
sion of the bank until RICHARD QUAY
would repay a loan of $100,000, which he
had not yet secured. This was clearly us-
ing the funds of the State for the benefit of
an individual, which is a crime under the
law.
Of course there isa well-defined principle
of law that a man, though accused of crime,
is innocent until proven guilty. But con-
ditions sometimes justify the presumption
of guilt. If this had been the first time that
Mr. QUAY had been accused of improperly
using the funds of the State for his indi-
vidual advantage, there would be reason in
the demand for a charitable interpretation
of the circumstances. But as a matter of
fact he is alleged to have indulged himself
in the luxury of using the State Treasury
for his own convenience before, and the
only defence made against the charge is
that the State never lost any money on ac-
count of it. But the law was violated just
the same, and morally speaking the crime
was as great as if every dollar of the amount
had been lost. The fact that others have
committed the same offense and enjoyed
immunity from punishment affords no
more substantial excuse. If others have
used the State funds unlawfully, and prob-
ably they have, they too ought to have
been prosecuted and punished. That they
were more fortunate is to be regretted, for
their immunity may have promoted the
crime in others. Bui in any event it
is time to put a stop to the evil and there
is no apparent reason why the operation
may not.be inaugurated now as well as at
another time.
If Senator QUAY is innocent; no man
wants him convicted and he has no friend
in the Commonwealth who would welcome
his vindication more cordially than the
WATCHMAN. But in the face of all his
legal rights, which include the presump-
tion of the law in his favor and the burden
of proof on the prosecution, the appearances
are against him and it is just and equita~
ble that he should be brought to trial and,
if guilty, to punishment. :
——Before Tuesday every Republican
paper of any eminence in the country pub-
lished dispatches from Chicago, stating that
the mayoralty contest in that city would
be made an purely local issues. But now
that HARRISON has been elected and ALT-
GELD defeated these same papers are trying
to make their readers believe that the re-
sult is a direct slap at Mr. BRYAN. ©
——The much predicted breaking up
that was to occur in the senatorial contest,
at Harrisburg this week, hasn’t material:;
ized and though Pennsylvania hasn’t been"
committees of the House of Representa-
given a Senator the world still moves.
Mr. Kulp’s Testimony.
The bribery investigation at Harrisburg
continues to develop some surprising in-
cidents and is not without a humorous as-
pect, if we can so far forget the shame and
humiliation it involves as to notice the hu-
morous features. It has already been
shown by the evidence that the standing
tives have been made up by a lobby agent
of one of the candidates for United States
Senator and that every desirable position
on them has been corruptly offered in
trade for votes for QUAY. It has been
proved that the offices in the gift of the
Governor of the State have been doled out
like cabbages in a huckster’s shop in the
same interest, though the constitution and
law of the State is violated by every such
act. Other exposures, equally humiliating,
have been made and the end is not yet.
But now and then an incident crops out
that provokes a smile even under such
grave circumstances.
For example there was something strik-
ingly amusing in the testimony of MONROE
H. Kure, late a member of Congress for
the Northumberland county district. It
will be remembered that last week Repre-
sentative BBOWN, of Union county, testified
that Mr. KuLp had offered him $200 or
$300 if he would absent himself from the
balloting on a certain day. In answer to
this aspersion Mr. KuLP took the witness
stand on Tuesday last. He admitted that
he had asked Mr. BROWN to vote for QUAY
and that he had done practically every-
thing else that Mr. BROWN had accused
him of, including the matter of money re-
ferred to. But he protested that he didn’t
mean to bribe Mr. BROWN with the $200
or $300. Far from it. What he did want
to do was to give Mr. BROWN a chance to
make that much money by buying for him
a couple of work horses, the value of which
would probably be $90 or $100 a piece.
The amount proposed would be a generous
commission on such a business transaction,
but then it would incidentally take Mr.
BROWN out of Harrisburg and remove him
from voting range of the joint session of
General Assembly on an occasion which
Mr. KUuLP correctly estimated to be vital
to the senatorial question.
Of course Mr. KuLp™ never-once thought
of that. _ Gentlemen who pay such liberal
commissions on business transactions of so
small a character, rarely think.deeply or
reason closely, but the incident recalls an
event which some years ago developed into
a matter of national importance. In a cel-
ebrated political contest less than a quarter
of a century ago, the chairman of the na-
tional committee of one of the parties sent
an agent to investigate the condition in In-
diana, the pivotal State in the contest.
While there a telegraphic cypher was used
for communications between the agent and
principal and one day the country was
electrified by the publication of an inter-
cepted dispatch from one to the other
which read: “Buy seventy-five mules.”
To this day nobody knows just what was
meant by the message, though Congress
took the matter up and spent months of
time and thousands of dollars in an effort
to solve the problem. ;
Probably Mr. KuLp, during his recent
congressional service has, while searching
through the archives of the House, come
into possession of the records of that in-
quiry and worried over it until it has
warped his mind, and that when he gives
himself over to the luxury of manufactur-
ing senatorial sentiment, in his purely
harmless way, he unconsciously falls into
the frame of mind which evolved the mule
dispatch of long ago except that he substi-
tutes horses for mules. Anyway there was
something curious, not to say coincidental,
in the matter but we hope that in the future
Mr. KuLp will get all the horses he wants
at a more moderate cost in the matter of
commissions.
2
One-Fourth of All County Taxes Ex-
pended for Handling Them.
‘When the tax-payers of the county come
to understand that there must be a change
in the management of the county affairs or
an increase of taxation, they will possibly
appreciate the necessity of securing as can-
didates for commissioners, men who are
thorough in business and who will do their
best to reduce county expenditures. When
they are told that the assessment, collection,
care and distribution of the county moneys,
alone, costs one-fourth of the total paid in,
they will appreciate the necessity of an im-
mediate change.
The present board of commissioners may
be honest in their intentions and are pos-
sibly doing the very best they can to serve
the people, but they do not seem the com-
prehend the situation or to understand thata
$63,000 expenditure cannot be made out of
a tax levy of $50,000. They attend
close enough to business, in fact they at-
tend so close to it that there are days when
ten cents worth of work costs the county
$10.50. They come here regularly at nine
o’clock Monday mornings, they leave be-
the week during the entire year, whether
there is business to transact or whether
there is not and the tax-payers are com-
pelled to put up $10.50 for each day they
are present. The work they do could be
easily and satisfactorily done in two days of
every week, but this would not bring them
the salary they draw, and salary seems to
be the principal thing they are after. Any
other business in the county that would
cost one-fourth of the gross income for sim-
ply collecting in and paying out, would go
to the Styx in a very few months, yet the
county business is costing tue tax-payers
this amount under the present manage-
ment.
To show that we are not exaggerating
we give the figures, which are taken from
the: commissioners’ own statement of last
| February, as follows:
Total amount of county tax............ $40,615.51
Dog tax 2,570.50
Making total of...........cceerevinns $13,186.01
Paid to assessors...........covvevereeeerens $2,974.47
Paid for collection. 1,205.58
Treasurer's salary........ 2,000.00
Commissioners’ salaries... 2,850.07
Commissioner’s clerk......... vr 800.00
Assess books and duplicates........... 569.05
Making a total of...................... ~ $10,489.17
The above figures are from the commis-
sioners’ statement, with the exception of
the percentage allowed for the collec-
tion of taxes, which is placed at three
per cent.—a very low estimate, They
do not include insurance, light, heat, wear
and tear of public office and public furni-
ture, nor extra clerical hire nor are exonera-
tions taken into consideration. These, if
added to the total, would increase the
amount of the expenditures at least a couple
of thousand dollars, thus making the total
costs of collecting“and distributing coun-
ty moneys amount to OVER one-fourth of
the entire sum handled.
We leave it to the tax-payers to consider
whether a management that is as expensive
as this, is the kind that is best suited to
their interests and the welfare of the coun-
ty. Itis not only in the commissioners’
office that these extravagant methods pre-
vail, but in all the transactions that fall to
the lot of the commissioners to oversee.
Mc n who will not try to save the county
i832 matter of salaries, will make but little
effort to do so in other things, and as, long
as the taxpayers elect, as commissioners,
men whose only business is to make a sal-
ary out of the county, they may expect to
have the same kind of extravagance, if not
careless management, in county affairs.
The Matter of New Courts.
The time-serving politicians of both par-
ties in the two great cities of the Common-
wealth are hammering at the doors of the
Legislature, asking for additional courts.
Philadelphia wants a fifth and Pittshurg a
fourth court and the Republican and
Democratic ‘‘ward-workers’’ of both cities
say to the leaders of both parties in both
Houses that the people and especially the
poor people are safe neither in life nor
property because of the lack of facilities to
administer justice. Men who can hardly
know from their own personal experience
whether one or a dozen courts are needed
in either city are actually neglecting their
business, if they have any, by remaining
in Harrisburg constantly importuning the
Legislature for additional courts.
It is easy to understand why the Repub-
lican politicians of these two cities are anx-
ious for the creation of new courts. With
them would be created a lot of new offices
and that is the ‘‘chief end of man’’ accord-
ing to the catechism which they practice.
But the Democratic politicians haven’t the
same excuse or as good or bad a one. The
managers of the Democratic party in Phila-
delphia, if they are honest and faithful, can
derive no benefit for themselves or their
party by putting in the hands of DAVE
MARTIN or DAVE LANE this additional lot
of party patronage. Yet they are constant-
ly working for the result, little if any less
importunate than the Republican man-
agers themselves. What does it all mean?
There must be ‘‘a niggsr in the wood-
pile.”
1f there was even the suspicion of a need
for the additional courts asked for the
questionable aspect of the matter from a
party view point might be overlooked. But
as a matter of fact there isn’t. In Phil-
adelphia, according to the evidence of the
judges now in commission, there is not
enough work to keep the courts now in
existence employed, and only on Tuesday.
last, judge BIDDLE was obliged to adjourn
his court for two days because there was
nothing for it to do. Judge BREGY is on
record with the same complaint, and if the
Legislature creates new courts in the face
of such facts it will be a crime against the
people.
——President McKINLEY has appointed
the following commissioners to the Czar’s
peace Congress: ANDREW J. WHITE, the
ambassador to Germany; captain WIL-
LIAM CROZIER, representing the army;
captain MAHON, representing the navy;
minister NEWELL, SETH Low and FRED-
ERICK HoLLs, of New York, as secretary.
A peace conference, indeed, why in the
‘tween three and four in the afternoon of
“|'the same” day; they ‘do this every day in
world don’t they stop the killing in the
Philippines before they talk peace.
Written for the Watchman.
BACK TO THE OLD HOME.
I came back, last week, from the far off West,
Back to my boyhood’s home,
To the dear old vallies and hills and streams
That I loved ere I learned to roam.
Unchanged, the mountains look sternly down,
Unchanged, the waters flow
Laughingly over their stony beds,
Just as in the long ago.
But here in the town were I used to play,
With many a laughing mate, {
The hand of time has not lightly lain
And the changes are many and great.
Here, where stood the old covered bridge,
With its long arch, cool and dim,
An iron structure now spans the stream,
Practical, neat and trim.
Further up the creek stood the old saw mill,
Beyond it the log pools lay,
Where, like water rats, we paddled and swam,
Risking our lives each day.
To-day I went down to the old canal,
Where the long rafts used to float,
And the patient, plodding, weary mules
Drew their heavy loaded boat.
The foundry black, and the old boatyard
Are falling to decay
And the busy ones who labored there,
Where are they all to-day?
Then I went up to the old school house,
The brown school house on the hill,
"Twas vacation time, and the empty rooms
Were strangely dim and still.
And sitting down at the master’s desk,
In the silence and the gloom,
Soon the busy forms of long ago-
Filed into the empty room.
John, with his warm tinged olive skin,
Rose, blue-eyed and fair,
George, so studious and grave,
Ida, with her golden hair.
They took their seats at the old time desks,
I missed not a single face,
*Till the janitor opened the window blinds
And they faded away into space.
T'was but an illusion, a waking dream,
But I wished that it might be so
And the boys and girls could come back again
From out of the long ago.
But the boys have grown to sturdy men,
The girls to matrons staid,
And some, whose earthly work is done,
In quiet graves are laid.
So I travel about the dear old town,
And I look for their faces in vain,
With a sense of loss and of being lost
That is harder to bear than pain.
— Will Truekenmiller.
Where 1s Aguinaldo?
From the New York Sun.
Despatches from Manila to Zhe Sun say
that the country from Caloocan up to Mal-
olos, through a distance of perh enty
miles, is dotted with white Rian CF pd
by Filipinos who' took flight ‘as our army
advanced, but have now returned to their
homes. That Aguinaldo’s army is deplet-
ed by desertions the despatches of Gen.
Otis show; yet he maintains his headquar-
ters somewhere, and it becomes an interest-
ing problem to know where he is.
Our Paris despatches represent Agoncillo
as saying that the Filipinos moved their
capital from Malolos to San Fernando, un-
der a plan of enticing us from our base in
order to fall on us in the interior. San
Fernando is, in fact, several miles inland
from Bacolor, which is a railroad point
about as far beyond Calumpit as the latter
is beyond Malolos. Since a recent recon-
noissance showed no enemy two miles south
of Calumpit, there is nothing unlikely in
the news of the long move backward to
San Fernando. :
It has been suggested, however, that the
skirmish of Hall’s brigade with the enemy
near Mariquina, nine miles east of Manila,
might indicate that Aguinaldoe, in aband-
oning Malolos, had made a detour inland
in the region of San Jose or even further
south at Novaliches, so as to reinforce the
part of his command left in Lawton’s front.
This move would suggest trying to force
MacArthur’s retreat from Malolos by
threatening his flank and his line of sup-
We see no ground, however, for this
view, which in any case, would have sup-
posed a march by Aguinaldo’s troops of
perhaps thirty miles or more from Malolos.
Besides, our despatches say that a recent
cavalry reconnoissance under Major, Rucker
disclosed about a thousand insurgents in-
trenched at Quingan, about five miles
northeast of Malolos, with the main body
apparently between Quingan and Palilan.
Quingan is about five miles northeast of
Malolos and seven or eight miles southeast
of Calumpit, and Pulilan about a couple of
miles north of Quingan. It ‘therefore
seems likely that the insurgent leader still
holds his main force well north of Malolos,
and a little inland from the railroad which
he has found such difficulty in defending.
Hall’s brigade, in the Mateo Valley, keeps
a good watch on MacArthur’s right flank,
and occasionally develops the presence of
the enemy.
. Aguinaldo, in short, isstill on the defen-
sive, probably hoping that the rainy season
will make it difficult to follow him, and
yet ready, if pushed, to abandon the rail-
road and take to the hills. Meanwhile his
army is ready to dwindle when the people
under their white flags send word to their
friends that there is nothing to fear from
the rule of the Americans.
We Could All Furnish a Little of the
Motive Power Then.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
A ney factor of population has been un-
der investigation, by scientific and me-
chanical experts, fora considerable time,
which promises great results. Thisis a
compressed air motor for the running of
trolley and other cars. The first applica-
tion of compressed air, for this purpose,
was made in Europe, and cars are operated
by it in both France and Switzerland.
There it has met with complete success.
About the middle of April an experiment
with it will be tried at New York, when
twelve compressed air motor cars will be
operated by the Metropolitan street rail-
way company, and, if it be successful, it is
the intention to operate the entire system
with such motors. It is only a question of
time, when compressed air will be used
everywhere in place of electricity, which
will largely reduce expenses and wit
day’
‘that of his church.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Wilson Gray is having 1,000 peach trees
planted on his farm near Ickesburg, Perry.
county, this spring.
—The frame work of the New Bloomfield
academy is in place and the structure will
be pushed to completion as rapidly as possi-
ble.
—On the railroad, near Greensburg, James
Dristell and John Clark were killed by a
train and John McAllister was fatally in-
jured.
—After being ejected from a ball room at
Shamokin, Barney Adams fired three shots
at officers Zerbe and Jackman and made his
escape.
—The council of Jersey Shore has decided
to build a town hall. A building committee
has been instructed to receive bids for the
same.
—The breaker at the Mahanoy colliery,
operated by the P. & R. C. & I. Co., will be
razed to the ground and a mammoth modern
structure will be erected in its stead.
—Warden Deitrick, of the Northumber-
land county jail, at Sunbury, found a wooden
key to unlock the main corridor door, made
by James Shaney, who is serving a seven
Year sentence.
—In the John Beck oratorical contest, at
the Moravian college, ‘ Bethlehem, honors
were carried off by Eugene A. Heim, of Lan-
caster, and Joshua C. Moore, of Demerara,
South America.
—While some boys were attempting to
wrest a rifle from the hands of John Wertz,
in North Reading, the weapon went off, and
John Rheinwalt was so seriously wounded in
the leg that he may die.
—Sixty school teachers in Scranton’s
schools, who have been in service for over
twelve years, have petitioned the board of
education for a general increase of $10 a
month in their wages.
-—John Trostle, aged about 13 years, and
son of George Trostle, of Blain, Perry county,
tried to ride a cow around the barn yard re-
cently. The animal threw him off, breaking
a bone in his arm near the wrist.
—The upsetting of ‘a coal oil lamp Wednes-
day set fire to a dwelling house and Mrs.
Simon Rapp, of Harrisburg, was so badly
burned that she cannot recover. Her grand-
son, Russell, aged 16 months, was burned to
death.
—While 8. Learn was working in the
woods at Stony Fork, Tioga county, Satur-
day, a log jumped from the slide and struck
the man. His leg was fractured and an
artery broken. He was taken to the
Williamsport hospital, where he died.
—The Altoona authorities are to be con-
gratulated on the passage of an ordinance
prohibiting prize fighting, boxing matches
and sparring exhibitions in that city. Every
city and borough in the state should do like-
wise. The practice is brutal to the core, and
as injurious to society as the Spanish bull
fight. :
—Edward Viard and James Morris, await-
ing trial for larceny, in the Clearfield jail
made their escape from the jail Wed-
nesday by digging through the wall with
a pick and lowering themselves to the ground
by means of a rope made from one of their
blankets, They were not missed until Thurs-
sheriff's posse began a search for them.
—Millard A. Smith, driver of the delivery
wagon of the Enterprise bakery at Altoona,
has small pox. He contracted the disease
while nursing his brother near Hollidays-
burg some weeks ago, but it did not develop
in him until recently; Friday his physician
pronounced it small pox in a mild form.
Smith with his wife and five children, live at
Fairview, a suburb of Altoona.
—Monday afternoon the engine on an east
bound Beech Creek freight train jumped the
track and ran on the ties to within a few feet
of a bridge, near Winburne. Fearing that
the locomotive would plunge off the bridge,
engineer W. M. Boyd jumped from the loco-
motive. His left leg was severely injured,
and his foot was crushed. He was taken to
his homeat Jersey Shore. The engine was
afterwards replaced on the tracks.
—District inspector W. H, Glenn has re-
ceived a report to the effect that there are
three cases of small pox in Logan township
Blair county, one-fourth of a mile north of
Eldorado. The names of the victims are
Mrs. Elizabeth Yon, Grant Yon and Howard
Yon. The lady is aged 65 and the men 26
and 24 years, respectively. Mr. Glenn, who
is district inspector appointed by the state
board of health, is also health officer of
Altoona.
—A cow belonging to John Critchfield, of
Fossilville, Bedford county, was bitten by a
mad dog some time ago and went mad on
Sunday, just forty days after she had been
bitten. The cow was killed by the owner on
Monday. The dog also bit Emanuel Lybar-
ger’s dog the same day that the cow was bit-
ten and a few days afterward Mr. Lybarger’s
dog bit one of his children, making a slight
red mark on the child’s hand. The dog
went mad afterward and had to be killed.
The child has suffered no ill effects from the
injury.
—About 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning
two bold burglars deliberately walked into
the house of Rev. Father J. C. Farran at
Johnstown, with revolvers in their hands,
and meeting the reverend gentleman in the
hall demanded that he surrender a quantity
of money they knew him to have. Father
Farran took in the situation very quickly
and under earnest protest conducted the rob-
bers to his bed room where he delivered to
them $400, partly his own money and partly
After receiving the
money under penalty of death the robbers
cautioned Father Farran not to give any
alarm till morning, then they fled.
—XKinley Packer, of Monseytown, rose
about 3:30 o'clock Saturday morning to
awaken several raftsmen who were at his
house and who were desirous of leaving early.
Shortly after he went to the barn and was
much surprised to see one of his horses
bridled and all ready to be taken out. The
animal the night before had been divested of
all the harness and had been bedded for the
night by Mr. Packer himself. It is very
evident that had Mr. Packer not gone to the
barn so early in the morning, he would have
been robbed of his horse. A few years ago,
when Mr.’ Packer resided up Marsh creek,
one of his horses, harness and buggy were
stolen from his barn at night. After con-
siderable search and trouble he found them
greater safety. . |
down the country several days after.
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