— Dower apn {I BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. Hastings may have the organs, With which to rear and brag, But the plums will fall, all the same, In the Quay mens’ open bag. — Now that former Governor HASTINGS controls hoth of the Republican papers in Centre county he can do the MICAWBER act and lie back to ‘wait for something to turn up.”’ —Republican domination of Baltimore didn’t last long. The Democrats are again in control of the city and that means that Maryland will swing back into line with the *‘solid South.” — When they get Gen. GREGG nomi- nated for State Treasurer the anti-QUAY people will waken up to find that he is a QUAY man, just as they found out that their man FARR was QUAY’S man. —Tt is all up to the President and it is to be expected that Gen. MILES will be re- lieved of his command and Gen. MERRITT raised to his place. Shame on such dis- graceful acts of our President, our Secre- tary of War and the members of the DODGE court. —The QUAY people in Centre county are in a bad way now. The other faction con- trols both of the Republican papers in the county, and all that is left for the ‘old man’s ”’ friends to do is to employ some good dispenser of news—Gen. IRV WALK- ER would do—and start him with a budget every week. —Gecretary ALGER, it is said, would like to go to the Senate to represent Michigan. Senator McMILLAN, the present encumbent from that State, will be doing the country a glorious service if he holds onto his job, thereby saving the highest branch of Con- gress clean from the character who has dis- graced the President and his cabinet. —No sooner had ‘Quay and DAVE MARTIN each laid the hand of preferment for the state treasurership nomination on DAV- ID MeMURTRIE GREGG than he began to have faintingspells. The ‘‘oldman’s’” hand is a terrible blight. The shades of BLAKE WALTERS, Col. Noyes and BEN HAY- " WooD rise up to warn you, Gen’l GREGG. —The Philadelphia Press cackles away, with the persistence of a pullet proclaiming the dropping of its first egg, about not ‘wanting any more boss owned State Treas- urers. What has the Press and its friends done to elect any independent officer in ‘Pennsylvania and what will it do if QUAY controls the next state convention that will nominate a candidate? Why, it will do as : Republicans always do. Swallow the dose and cackle about it afterwards. — While the decree prohibiting the im- portation of fire arms into Cuba could nok ‘but have aroused some sentimentalists to] the cry that it savors of the Spanish, there can be no doubting La Lucha’s conclusion that ‘‘it is an eminently proper measure.’’ “It is plows not rifles’’ the Cubans need and the sooner they get to using the peace im- plement instead of the war weapon the sooner will come the time when they will be given their freedom by the United States. —Of course no man with any political perspicacity would believe that the passing of the Republican into the control of Mr. WILBUR F. HARRIS means that former Governor HASTINGS intends to stuff his ideas of the way things should be run down the necks of Centre county Republi- cans (?) The once-upon-a-time Governor is not bellicose enough for that, oh no. He merely wants to civilize and christian- ize the QUAY people in the county, like we are civilizing and christianizing the Fili- pinos. —The idea of GROVER CLEVELAND'S be- ing appointed to fill the chair of American politics, which he recently endowed for $100,000 at Princeton, looks very much as though the trustees of that institution don’t care to have too much politics pro- pounded. GROVER is no politician, nor does he know much politics, else he would to-day be the recognized leader of a great political organization instead of being com- pelled to try to create a job for himself in which there will at least be dignity, if nothing more. —There will be a lot of census enumer- ators to be appointed for Centre county soon. The county is in the tenth Penn- sylvania district with Union, Snyder, Mon- tour, Northumberland and Columbia counties and we have a peculiar little idea of our own that there won’t be an enumer- ator appointed who doesn’t swear fealty to “the old man.” This will make the LovE- DALE-CHAMBERS combine quite as power- ful in Centre county without an organ as the other fellows are with two. For, after all, it is jobs not newspapers that ‘‘the boys’’ are after. —In 1864 Gen. WESLEY MERRITT rec- ommended ALGER’S dishonorable discharge from the army because he had absented himself from his command, without leave, just at the time it was going into battle. A few days ago this same Gen- eral MERRITT said that this same ALGER ‘ig the best Secretary of War the world has ever seen.” Too bad, that a man like MERRITT should become tainted with the awful foulness that has been no- ticeable about the War Department ever since ALGER has been in charge. MiLks must be disgraced because he dared to speak for the improperly fed, improperly ‘nursed boys in the army and his brother- in-arms is ready to praise, even ALGER, for the position that can 'be secured only by such self abasément. Is it not a sorry Nuyg / | Demat \ 6 he YS VOL AL STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. MAY 5, 1899. Gregg and the Treasurership. It may be taken for granted that Gen. GREGG, of Reading, will become the Re- publican candidate for State Treasurer. Mr. QUAY, through his Sub-boss for Berks county, postmaster A. M. HIGH, has graciously tendered him the compliment and now the so-called insurgents are hasten- ing to assure him that he is likewise the apple of their eye and the hope of their political souls. Reformer ‘DAVE’ MAR- TIN is especially enthusiastic in the matter. ““The public scandals of the last twelve or fifteen years in connection with the State Treasury, culminating in the wide-spread dissatisfaction over the delay in paying out spectacle of sycophancy? the school funds and appropriations to char- itable institutions have aroused the peo- ple,’ as Senator MARTIN remarks, and, he adds, “I ‘believe Gen. GREGG is just the man for the occasion. No one dare ques- tion his honesty, and if he is nominated the people will elect him, confident that they will come by their own through him.”’ This is all very nice and clearly forecasts his nomination. QUAY will have control of the convention and have the power to name anyone he likes, but heis far too shrewd a politician to discard his own can- didate because others with whom he is not on friendly terms are willing to accept him. It was in that way that he secured a subservient tool as speaker of the last House of Representatives. After selecting Mr. FARR for the office, he allowed Senator MARTIN the privilege of approving his choice and helping ‘to secure the com- mission. If he had done anything else somebody as objectionable to one as the other might have been elected and thus both would have cut off their noses to spite their faces, to paraphrase a homely saying. But Quay didn’t do it then and he wont now. Gen. GREGG is as honest as MAR- TIN estimates him to be, but he will not be nominated on that account. He will be made State Treasurer, if he is thus honored at all, because his selection is necessary to prevent a more radical change in the affairs of the offige and for the reason that Senator QuAY has no fear that he will do harm to the machine while in office. In 1891, as an esteemed Philadelphia con- temporary peints out, he was nominated for the réaseir that the BARDSLEY defalca- tion had thrown: the Republicans of {both city and State into a panic, the arraign- ment of the State Treasurer and Auditor General for trial before the Senate widened and deepened Republican demoralization, and the Republican leaders pulled them- selves together and saved their power and party by nominating him. But what great reforms - did bie achieve in the office? It was expected that as accounting officer of the State he would break up the treasury ring, which had been despoiling the people for a number of years previously. But asa matter of fact he didn’t even make the participants in that nefarious business even cautious. They quietly pursued the tenor of their lawless way, just as if no such person or such office existed. Gen. GREGG was personally honest, to be sure, but he wasn’t bothering about other peo- ple’s practices or disturbing other men’s plans. He was too loyal to the Republican party and its ring for that. If Gen. GREGG is elected State Treasurer, history will repeat itself. The Philadel- phia Zimes says in reference to his nomina- tion for Auditor General *‘the leadersididn’t want him.”? | That is true, but they took him, and he ‘saved the party, saved the machine and served the purpose for which he was taken, without in the least impair- ing the opportunities of Mr. QUAY and his associates of the treasury ring to pluuder the State. = They don’t want him now, but they will accept him for the same reason, and with the same result, unless the rank and file of the insurgents are more sincere than their leaders, and refuse to adopt QUAY'’S choice. ——0I1d Senator HOAR, of Massachusetts, was hewing close to the line when he said: “I cannot understand the difference—per- haps somebody else may explain it—between lynching a Southern negro postmaster be- cause hé thinks all men are created equal, and has read it in the Constitution of the United States—that he is one of the men who were created equal—and lynching a people because they think that government derives its just power from the consent of the gov- erned, and have heard of it directly or in- directly from our Declaration of Independ- ence. There is no difference, whatever. Both are wrong, but the one is no more to be de- plored than the other and the eminent Republican has the courage to say so, een against the policy of his party. ——What impudence on the part of Senator CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW to say that he favors the continuance of MARCUS AU- RELIUS HANNA as chairman of the Re- publican national committee. Favor or’ no favor, MARCUS AURELIUS will be chair- man if he wants to and, since he owns the whole shebang, he will doubtless consider it presumption on anyone’s part to express an opinion, pro or con. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. a Some Silly Stories. Some of the so-called metropolitan news- papers of the State say some very silly things. Whether they believe them or not is another thing, but they print them with a confidence that is surprising if not admir- able. For example, some of these news- papers are assuming that after the trial and acquittal of the men charged with corrupt solicitation in connection with the consid- eration of the McCARROLL bill it will be easier to bribe Democratic Members of the Legislature to vote for Mr. QUAY, and that then an extra session of the Legislature will be called. Only one Democratic Member of the Leg- islature stands accused of crime under the report of the legislative committee which investigated the matter, and even if he should be acquitted and ‘‘made bold,” his vote would not compass the election of Mr. QUAY. The evidence shows that a num- ber of Democratic Members of the Legisla- ture were corruptly approached but they { didn’t yield to the tempter or even parley with the crime. They were faithful to their party obligations then and will be again and such aspersions are direct, if not willful, insults to the gentlemen in ques- tion and the entire membership of the Dem- ocratic party. : The truth is that there never was a time during the late session of the Legislature that it was possible for QUAY to bribe Democratic Members of the Legislature to elect him Senator. His friends laboriously originated rumors that he had such an understanding with certain Democrats and inveighed the ‘‘insurgents’ into circulat- ing them with the idea that they would in- cite enmities between the anti-QUAY allies. But the stories were plain and ‘palpable lies, for not a single Democrat in either House would have voted for QUAY under any circumstance that could possibly have arisen. And what was true then is true now and will be true in the future. Mr. QUAY will never be elected to the United States Senate by the votes of Democrats. There may be an extra session of the Legislature and it is possible, though not probable, that QUAY may be elected Sena- tor, but it will mot be by Democratic votes or through Democratie treachery. - It he is elected it will- be: by -the: votes ‘of the so-called insurgents, gained through parti san intrigue at their homes. The QUAY agents are working on that plan now, but no man with an ounce of brain in QUAY’S camp or any other believes that Democrats will vote for him. Quay’s Absurd Claims. The QUAY press agents at Washington are overworking themselves. They are continually asserting that the Senator will be admitted to membership of the body on the appointment of Governor STONE. One day it is that Senator ELKINS, of West Vir- ginia, will favor such a motion and an- other that Senator HANNA, of Ohio, or Senator CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, or Senator WoLcort, of Colorado, will vote to admit Mr. QUAY. But they are not accomplishing their purpose by these as- sertions. They are neither creating public sentiment in favor of it nor deceiving any- body other than the most credulous with regard to it. Senators HANNA, WoLcoTT, ELKINS, FAIRBANKS, ALDRICH, SPOONER and others named by these QUAY press agents are favorable to the admission of Senator QUAY, but every one of them voted for the admission of Judge CORBETT on the ap- pointment made by the Governor of Oregon. But there were only twenty-eight of them, all told, voting and paired, out of a total vote of eighty-seven, and not one of the fity-nine who voted on the opposite side then, except Senator PENROSE, of Penn- sylvania, has signified a change of heart on the subject. Even if every Senator who supported CORBETIT’S claim votes the same way in the QUAY case and every new Sen- ator joins with them there will still be less than enough to seat him. As a matter of fact the talk of seating him is all rubbish. What is the matter with Senator QUAY anyway? He is not in his usual form when he employs press agents to misrepresent the facts in subsidized or deluded newspapers. During the senatorial contest at the state capitol there was scarcely a day that some absurd claim of an impending victory was not published. Regularly every Tuesday and Thursday was fixed for his election. but when the time arrived the promises failed and the frand was kept up until the public became disgusted. It looks as if the same foolish plan of campaign is now being pursued at Washington. But it will not win there any more than it did in Har- risburg. Senator QUAY will not be seated on the appointment of the Governor. The appointment was made for another pur- pose. : ——The fact that QUAY and DAVE MARTIN have both “said ‘that’ Gen. DAVID McMURTRIE GREGG would be just the sort of a man for the Republican -nomination for State Treasurer suggests the thought Gen. Otis and the Filipinos. Gen. OrrIs, commander of the American troops in the Philippines, declined the other day to declare an armistice of three weeks, "or any other time, at the solicitation of the insurgents. Gen. OTIS took the position that he couldn’t recognize the insurgents as representing a government, or compris- ing a body of combatants with whom he might negotiate. All he could do under the circumstances was to guarantee them amnesty in the event of an unconditional surrender. In other words he can only treat them as outlaws, and as such they are entitled to no consideration other than such as belongs to outlaws. This is the military interpretation of the law and estimate of conditions, and as we are drifting into militarism we may as well get used to it one time as another. The plan of the insurgents might have culminated in peace, without the loss of an- other precious American life, but it would have involved the principle enunciated in the declaration of American Independence, that ‘‘government derives all just powers from the consent of the governed,’’ and that is an old fogy notion that is intoler- able to our President that is, and Emperor that may be; and couldn’t be thought of. It isnt the way Her Majesty did when she was Queen of England, and if she had pur- sued that course she might never have be- come Empress of India. Then why should his excellency adopt it as President of the United States when it might interfere with his chances of becoming Emperor of the Philippines. May be Gen. OTIS was right, according to military ethics, in refusing to grant an armistice to the Filipinos in order that their Congress might be assembled to con- sider problems of peace, and if it is our purpose to assist the rights of conquest over the archipelago he was undoubtedly wise. But the people of the United States didn’t understand that the war with Spain was one of conquest, and the Pennsylvania families who have fathers and sons in the trenches out there, would welcome a cessa- tion of hostilities won on such terms. The peace that is forced at the point of the bayonet is not only expensive, but tran- -scient, and tranquility that would come ‘through a negotiation and. be just to both. sides would be more nearly. in accord with the American idea as exemplified in the past history of the country. ——The Clearfield Raftsman’s Journal, former Senator McQUOWN’S paper, is out for ToM CooPER for Republican state chair- man. Senator COOPER shouts ‘let factional differences end” and straightway the Journal thinks he would be just the fellow for chairman. Of course he would, because he would be just the fellow for QUAY. The Army Beef Scandal. The report of the court of inquiry on the matter of diseased meat furnished to the army in Cuba and Puerto Rico will be dis- appointing to the public. According to the best evidence attainable the report excul- pates the Secretary of War, the Commissary General, the meat packers and contractors and everybody except Gens. MILES and BRECKENRIDGE from blame, and censures those gentlemen for not making an earlier report of the poor quality of the rations. This is, to say the least, an insult to the in- telligence and conscience of the country. The evidence of the witnesses heard in the course of the inquiry made several things absolutely clear. These are that the canned beef supplied to the government was inferior, that the roast beef had been treated with chemicals to preserve it, just as dead hodies are treated to preserve them after burial, and that the Secretary of War compelled the purchasing agents of the government to buy the stuff from packers and contractors who were aware that the roast beef had been doctored and the can- ned beef was inferior for the reason that all that was good had previously been boiled out of it to make beef extract. With such information in possession of the commission it had only one course to pursue. That was to find according to the evidence and condemn those who were plainly responsi- ble. But for some reason the opposite course was followed. In other words, the servile slaves of the administration who comprised the commission have added the crime of perjury to their other short comings, for they were sworn to find according to the evidence, by reporting an award of vindica- tion to the culpable and condemnation to those who fulfilled their duties to the sol- diers and to humanity by reporting the outrage that had been perpetrated. It isal- most inexplicable that men decorated with the insignia of rank as officers of the army could so prostitute themselves at the feet of power. But correctly or otherwise they estimate the President as a man who ex- pects such manifest injustice and will re- ward it. ——The Lancaster county farmer who committed suicide because of ‘love’ evi- dently wasn’t a believer in the theory that that there is a ‘‘nigger in the wood pile.” it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. sisi __NO. 18. QUO VADIS, UNCLE SAM. Written for the Warcumax. To buy of that now wretched robber, Spain, His blood-stained rag of pseudo-sovereignty Over a people that have righteously Battled to drive him out from their domain; That Spanish rag a God-sent trust to feign And tack it to your “banner of the free;” To spurn the struggling Filipinos’ plea; To kill them off and hold their lands for gain;— Is this indeed your doing, this your aim, Oh rebel once, now sovereign Unele Sam? . Then liberty to you is but a name; Then your benevolence is but a sham; Then your “assimilation” is a shame And your new policy not worth a damn. —C. C. Zeigler. Captain Coghlan’s Indiscretion. From the Philadelphia Times. The tendency recently developed amon, officers of the army and navy to ‘‘talk wit their niouths’’ has given a great deal of coneern to those who hold to the old tradi- tions of professional dignity. What with public receptions, newspaper interviews and commissions from the magazines, the temptations to personal advertisement have been very great; yet it has been observed that the men who hold the highest measure of esteem in the service are those who have had least to say outside of their official communications. Captain Coghlan, of the Raleigh, is the first whose indiscretions of speech have not only discredited the dignity of the navy but have seriously embarrassed his govern- ment. Of course there are many allow- ances to be made for a man who returns from long exile at sea and from many ex- citing adventures and for the first time finds himself called upon to talk to a sympathetic and convivial company. He told them, no doubt, what it pleased them to ‘hear, and probably he told them only what was true; but if it was to be told, it was the business of his superiors to tell it and not his. It may be easy to imagine a condition that would account for Captain Coghlan’s loquacity but none that would justify it. He is an officer of his government, bound absolutely by the rules of diplomatic as well as of military courtesy and discretion and not less clearly by the rulss of respect- ful subordination. To give away secrets which his commander had not made public and which kis government certainly conld not wish to have blurted out at this time, was a mistake that no amount of enthu- siasm can condone. . ; “The German government could not do otherwise than enter its objection to Cap’t. Coghlan’s insulting language, and the gov- ernment of the United States must nec- essarily disavow it and apologize for it and call Captain Coghlan to account. If any German naval officer, at a public dinner at Berlin, had spoken of Admiral Dewey as Captain Coghlan spoke of Admiral Died-’ richs, and had quoted a ribald song about the President, we should have expected very prompt official action, without stop- ping to inquire into the details of the case. Whether Captain Coghlan expected his speech to be reported, whether the:club where he was dining ought not to have pro- tected him, whether his story and his song were truthful or appropriate or agreeable to popular sentiment—these and other questions may affect individual judgment, but they cannot enter into the official con- sideration of the case. which it is simply impossible for the government to overlook. We do not suppose that Captain Cogh- lan’s bad break will injure his personal popularity. We all have been doing too much of late to encourage naval officers in the idea that their business is not only to fight but to talk. It is a dangerous idea for them to entertain and it has done the navy a good deal of injury. Courage on shipboard is one thing, but bravado ashore is a different thing altogether, and it is quite time that some sharp measures were taken to discourage it. for the honor of the navy and of the country. In this connection it might be well to add that Cap’t. Coghlan’s offense against international comity was his frankness in talking of the German admiral, while at a banquet in New York, last week. The very next night he followed it up by recit- ing the following rather sacrilegious rhyme, doubtless some sailor’s parody ' on the bumptious young war lord of Germany. While few will fail to enjoy it or recog- nize the truth in its ribaldry, yet some things that are perfectly safe to say among ship mates are very improper utterances for public use. : Der Kaiser of dis Fatherland Und Gott on high all dings command, Ve two—ach! Don’t you understand? Myself—und Gott. Vile some men sing der power divine, Mine soldiers sing “Der Wacht am Rhine” Und drink der health in Rhenish wine Of Me—und Gott. , Der’s France, she swaggers all aroundt She’s ausgespield, of no account, To much we think she don’t amount; . Myself—und Gott! She vill not dare to fight again, But if she shouldt, I'll show her blain Dot Elsassund (in French) Lorraine Are mein—by Gott! Dere’s grandma dink’s she nicht small beer, Mit Boers und such she interfere; She’ll learn none owns dis hemisphere But Me—und Gott? She dinks, good frau, fine ships she’s got Und soldiers mit der scarlet goat Ach! We could knock them! Pouf! Like that, Myself—mit Gott! In dimes of peace; brebare for wars, I bear the spear and helm of Mars, Und care not for a thousand Czars, Myself—mit Gott! In fact, I humor efery whim, With aspect dark and visage grim; Gott pulls mit Me, und I mit him, Myself—und Gott! —Now watch the administration har- monyites trying to catch the QUAY birds in Centre county by throwing salt on their tails. 83 ie Spawls from the K N Senge —Heat killed hundreds of Hogs dad sheep Monday in the stock yards at Pittsburg. —Five-year-old Helen Hetrick, of Sha- mokin, playing with matches, ignited her dress, and was burned to death. # —Tombstones valued at $1000, in the mar- ble works of James Wenz, Centreport, Berks county, were ruined by vandals. ——Only the stove was left by thieves who broke into widow Tomaney’s confectionery and cigar shop in South Bethlehem. —Cracking the post office safe at Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland county, burglars secured $327 in stamps and money. —Philip, Julius and George Kolo, mer- chants of Tamaqua, convicted of selling oleomargarine contrary to law were Monday sentenced to pay fines of $50 each and costs. —Justice of the peace Hughes, of Carlisle, gave judgment against the commissioners of Cumberland county in a number of suits brought by constables to recover fees in dis- missed cases. —Eight-year-old Stanley Henshue, of Beth- lehem, was dug out of a 40 foot sink hole, into which he had fallen while in an epileptic fit, and it was found that a broken nose was his only injury. —The school directors of Jefferson, York : county, having exceeded the legal borough indebtedness, Judge Stewart Tuesday issued an order restraining the collector from gath- ering the high school tax. —The case against E. F. Bogert, former postmaster at Wilkesbarre, was: continued Tuesday by the United States district court until September, when the court will meet in Williamsport. The continuance was made because of the illness of W. H. Bates, a material witness for Bogert. —The new and elegant Catholic church at Patton dedicated with imposing ceremonies last Sunday, the services being in charge of Right Rev. Richard Phelan, bishop of Pitts- burg, and other eminent clergy, is built of white brick, with red brick, and stone trim- mings, and costs about $18,000. —On Saturday a week ago, David Wright, an aged resident of Everett, was found dead in a chair in Top Weimer’s meat market. His death was due to heart failure. He was 70 years of age. Eleven years ago Mrs. Wright dropped dead in church, her death being due to heart trouble. —Nervia Berger, a 4 year old child, was run down and killed at Montgomery by an engine on the Pennsylvania railroad Friday. Her body was frightfully mangled. The tot wandered away from her home upon the railroad track a short distance away. The -trainmen did not see the child until the en- gine was within twenty-five feet of her. —Josiah Harmon, an aged resident of Rosecrans, Clinton county, met with a singu- lar burning accident Friday. Some rubbish was being burned about the premises, and Mr. Harmon, who was assisting in the work, was taken with a fit of some kind and fell into the flames. His long whiskers were burned off and he was burned about the head and face. ’ 3 —The Cambria Iron company has decided to erect at Johnntown the largest furnaces ever built in the United States., Three fur- naces will be constructed, two on.a mammoth scale and the third smaller. The capacity of the large plants will be 500 tons a day each, while the smaller one will produce about 100 tons less. Work will be begun during’ the coming summer. 3 : ; —Dr. Henry H. Fessler, of Williamsport, died suddenly Saturday, aged 64 years. He was stricken with apoplexy and died three hours later. He was educated at Dickinson seminary and afterwards graduated from the Jefferson Medical college. For years he was censor of the Lycoming County Medical so- ciety. He served many terms on the poor board of the county. —Mrs. Anna Heffren, a widow of Spangler, will bring suit against Spangler borough for at least $300 damages unless a settlement is made shortly by the borough council. Mrs. Heffern alleges that, while on her way to church Easter Sunday, she was thrown by ‘a loose plank in a defective sidewalk and re- ceived injuries that confined her to bed for a week and has not yet fully recovered from the effects of the fall. : —The Buffalo woolen mills, owned by Graff brothers, was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. The mills are located at Worthington, six ;miles west of Kittanning About 50 employes were at work when the fire broke out, but all escaped injury except- ing Norman Claypoel, aged 15 years, who was badly burned about the face and hands. The loss is estimated at from $60,000 to $100,- 000; well insured. The Buffalo woolen mills are well known to Pittsburg dry goods ‘men. —Wm. Gething, an employe of the Augus- tus Maus flouring mill, at Frosty Valley, was struck and seriously injured Tuesday morn- ing by a heavy piece of timber which caught in the revolving machinery. He drove to Danville, a distance of six miles, when an examination revealed the fact that five ribs were broken and his side shockingly bruised, The injured man showed remarkable nerve and after receiving medical attention insist- ed on driving to his home, where he lies in a critical condition. —Officer Frank McClure, of Lindsey, Jef- ferson county, was fatally shot Tuesday night by a colored man at Patton, on the ex- tension of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- burg railway, three miles from Punxsutaw- ney. The colored man was charged with having stolen goods from a store at Lindsey. McClure had a warrant and attempted to ar- ‘| rest him. After the shooting the assassin fled. The police of Punxsutawney were notified by telephone of the shooting, and in company with a large posse of citizens armed with Winchesters started in pursuit. —The Bedford County Oil and Mineral Prospecting company, an organization form- ed to prospect for oil and minerals in the | northern section of Bedford county, recently struck a stream of pure sulphur water at a depth of 850 feet below the surface. The strike was made while drilling for oil in a valley a few miles north of Osterburg. The sulphur stream flows at the rate of 125 bar- rels per day. The stockholders are now con- sidering a project for building a sanitarium in the vicinity and giving up further search for what they originally started out to find, believing that the new scheme would be the more profitable. ’ wii annie Giitlnis iia
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