DeworadiG ata. BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The thermometer seems determined to out-strip other things in the upward tendency. —After next Tuesday there may not be so many candidates but there’ll be none the less Democrats within the county. —Those of us who earn our bread by the sweat of our brow should be able to lay in a pretty good supply while the thermom- eter maintains its present altitude. —They are probably having soup in the military prison in Paris these days, —clam soup, if you please. Col. DU PATY DE CLAM was put in there last Thursday. —It is easily understood now that the Cubans are not Republicans. If they were the U. S. pay car would find no difficulty in buying both their guns and manhood for the $75. —Now that the rheumatism has joined forces with the Democrats in their efforts to curtail the devilment of MARK HANNA, there is every indication that money will not be such a potent factor in the general result. —The French had one of their character- istically good times on Sunday and even an assault on President LOUBET was not too much for their pyrotechnical spirits. The Nationalists tried to inflame the crowds at the Anteuil races and incite them to violence against the President, who was there as a spectator, but the police were there in numbers and made numerous ar- rests. —It seems to us that we have about enough trouble on our hands in the Philip- pines without baving a clash between Gen. Oris and the peace commissioners who were sent there to straighten matters out. Of course it will be announced at Washing- ton that there is nothing serious in the sit- uation, but it has just been serious enough to necessitate a special cabinet meeting at mid-night Sunday and that looks dubious, to say the least. —The Toledo, Ohio, couple who married each other a few days ago by taking a vow that they pledged themselves as the other’s husband or wife ‘so long and only so long as love shall bind our hearts” must have been looking ahead to saving divorce court expenses. They called it ‘‘the marriage obligations of the future,” but we are of the opinion that the average woman will trust nothing so untenable in law when she once gets her hooks on the right man. —The finding of baby MARION CLARK ends what otherwise might have become as famous a case as that of the lost CHARLEY Ross. The CLARK baby had been kidnap- ed and was being held for ransom, when the country people up in the Berkshire hills discovered the likeness between the newspaper pictures of the stolen child and a little stranger that had been brought into their midst by a mysterious woman. An investigation followed, the baby was re- covered and the kidnapers arrested. —We have seen people roll a rare quid of gossip around their tongues and try to excite our curiosity by remarking, ‘‘I know a story that you would drop dead, if you could hear it, ”’but we have never yet heard the story that has come up to its ad- vertisements. There is one, though, going the rounds up in Binghamton, N. Y., for on Tuesday it was told to one of Wallace’s circus ticket agents and he laughed him- self to death over it. Knowing what we do about the circus, we wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the story told that ticket seller hadn't been that HENRY QUIGLEY, of Bellefonte, had just tambled to the way he was worked for a sixty cent ticket to a fifty cent show. —The commercial travelers of America, when they next meet in annual convention at Albany, N. Y., this season, are going to announce their slogan as ‘Death to the Trusts’’. They represent an army of three hundred and fifty thousand, fifty thousand of whom are out of employment because the trusts have so contracted business as to leave no place or need for their services. These men are a potential factor in all political campaigns because they travel to every city and hamlet it the land and are well informed, convincing talkers. When they commence to talk ‘‘Death to the Trusts’’ they will sound the death knell to the party that has prostituted itself to the selfish, grinding greed of corporate combina- tions. The Republican party will then have met its greatest enemy. —In the light of existing circumstances we will have to swallow some of our past expressions about the ignorance of those Filipinos. They were just tooslick for the smart American Generals, on Tuesday, and we’ll have to confess it. For weeks the press dispatches had been advising us how slowly but surely the whole Filipino army was being rounded up at Morong and all that remained to he done was to unite the several columns moving on that place and every Filipino would be corralled, much as the jack-rabbits are captured in the an- nual hunts in the West. Well, the soldiers all did their work valiantly and we were waiting for the news of the final extin- guishment of the last flickering torch of re- bellion when we were struck with admira- tion at the cunning of those $2 a head black-skins. When they found that they were trapped they changed their clothes, threw away their arms, giving themselves the appearance of ‘‘Pacificos’’ and, under flags of truce, walked right back into the mountains, unharmed by our soldiers who thought them to be friendly natives. & of Cem enracritlic THRO ® & == Wa STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. “VOL. 44 BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 9. 18 ). NO. 23. An Egregious Blunder. At this distance it would seem that Ex- Senator JoHN J, COYLE, who is charged with corrupt solicitation in connection with ‘the consideration of the McCarroll bill dur- ing the last session of the Legislature and is about to be arraigned in the Dauphin county court to answer to the accusation, has made a grave mistake in prosecuting Hon. JoHN ENGLER, of Lycoming county, on the charge of perjury. ENGLER testified before the legislative investigating com- mittee that COYLE had offered him a sum of money as a consideration if he would vote for the bill. Presumably he will be a witness in the trial of the charge in the court in a week or two, or whenever it is called. COYLE's purpose in entering a cross suit, therefore, is manifestly to dis- credit ENGLER in public estimation and thereby impair his credibility as a witness. But it is doubtful if the purpose will be achieved. JoHN ENGLER has lived many years in the community which he represents in the Legislature. He has been in all the years of his residence there a respected citi- zen. By honest industry and proper thrift he has acquired a large estate and has used his means liberally and judiciously in the development of the resources of his neigh- borhood. He is a progressive, benevolent and useful citizen. His life has been with- out reproach. The spiteful attack of an adventurer, whose reputation has long been doubtful, will hardly avail to upset the character structure that JOEN ENGLER has built. That being the case this prosecu- tion is likely to recoil with great force and when the rebound comes it will carry des- truction with it. Under the circumstances it would seem that Mr. COYLE has made a mistake. Moreover the time has passed when legal tricks are available as cloaks for crime. Long ago when intelligence was less widely diffused and before the public schools had instilled into the minds of most men the fundamental principles of law, namely good common sense, such suhterfuges as cross- suits served the purpose of confusing the popular mind, but that is so no longer. The standard of intelligence is comparative- ly speaking very high now and it is only the great politicians whose minds are so much occupied by their. own affairs that can be deceived by gold bricks, or inveigled into the shell game. Mr. COYLE may bave worked Senator QUAY to the Queen’s taste during the senatorial contest, as everybody else who wanted to seems to have done, but he can’t do it with the public. As they say in the song, those things don’t go anymore and all things considered it looks as if Ex-Senator CoYLE had made an egre- gious ass of himself in prosecuting JOHN ENGLER for perjury. ——1It begins to look as if nothing but death could prevent DAVID B. HENDER- SON, of Iowa, from being chosen Speaker of the next Congress. He has pledges of sup- port from more than a caucus majority now and claims that he has not made a promise of any sort to secure the support he has gotten. The Dreyfuss Case. The decision of the French court of cassation to reopen the case of captain DREYFUSS and give him another and pre- sumably a fair trial on the charges upon which he was unjustly condemned five years ago, will meet with universal appro- bation among fair-minded men. Captain DREYFUSS was sacrificed to save some one else from punishment for a grave crime. His conviction was procured by a con- spiracy in which all the elements of evil were joined together. Forgery, perjury and subornation of perjury were necessary to accomplish the end and they would have failed even then if race and religious prej- udices had not been brought into the play. But at last partial justice has been done. That is to say a new trial has been allowed and with one of the conspirators in a suicide’s grave, another in a felon’s prison and still another a fugitive from justice, there are reasons to hope that the coming trial will be a fair and just one. But this is only a hope. There is no certainty of it. The real criminal bas not been identified yet. The tribunal before which the perse- cuted man is to appear is a military court and the miscreant who committed the crime may be among his judges. That being the case his friends should be vigilant and exercise every care in his behalf. In the public mind captain DREYFUSS has long stood acquitted. But that vindi- cation didn’t serve to shield him from a cruel punishment. Colonel HENRY,.who swore falsely against him before, is now in a dishonored grave, but there may be anoth- er ready to take his place. Comte DUPATY DE CLAM, who forged the principal evidence against him before is now in prison, but it is possible that there will be someone else to do the dastard work. That being the case no stone should be left unturned to prevent false evidence and secure real evi- dence in the new trial. The corrupt mili- tary cabal which accomplished the injustice once will attempt it again. A National Shame. While leisurely traveling in the vicinity of Boston, on Monday morning, RUSSEL A. ALGER, Secretary of War, was asked about the plans of the administration with regard to the call for volunteers to strengthen the army in the Philippines. ‘‘The President has not come to any determination on that point yet,’ replied the War Minister, ‘“That matter will not be settled for three or four weeks yet.”’ In other wordsa mat- ter of such trifling importance to his Im- perial Majesty, the President, and his puissant flunkey, the Secretary of War, as reinforcing the soldiers on the firing line in front of a hostile and well-equipped enemy, must wait for determination until it will be convenient for them to withdraw their minds for a time from the political intrigues that are absorbing their present attention. It is a matter of vast importance to the soldiers in the Philippine trenches. It may be a matter of considerable moment to their wives and children, their fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers at home. But it isa trivial matter to Mec- KINLEY and ALGER and must go over until they have nothing better to do than look after it. -In all the history of popular government there has never been so utter a disregard of the rights and interests of the people as is shown by the present administration of the national government. The organic law of the land, the obligations of the oath of of- fice, the interests of the people, are all alike treated with utter indifference andabsolute contempt by those political adventurers whom the people have recklessly voted in- to power. The destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila bay on the first day of May, 1898, seems to have awakened in the breast of the President an unholy and absurd am- bition for conquest, and since that event he has been oblivious of all the traditions of the country, and unmindful of every public duty. Like a beggar on horseback this country lawyer has been strutting around with imperial airs as careless of the lives of the troops in the trenches as he is reckless of the future prosperity of the peo- ple. Putting himself on parade at this re- sort and feeding his vanity at that, he is making of himself and the country a laugh- ing stock for the civilized world. Because he is thus occupied the American citizens in tropical trenches thousands of miles away must suffer or maybe perish until he gets ‘good and ready to determine what may be done toward relieving them. For weeks and even months it has been known to every intelligent observer of events in the country that the force in the Philippines is inadequate to perform the duties that devolve on it, namely the sub- jugation of the native population. But McKINLEY’S ambitious plans could he pro- moted by concealing the fact that more soldiers were needed and the officers in command were advancing their own inter- ests by keeping up the false pretense. It didn’t matter to McKINLEY that the de- ception was costing lives of good soldiers. What are the lives of hundreds or even thousands of soldiers to him compared with his own ambition? But the people will learn the truth in time and with that knowl- edge will come a reckoning that will trans- mit the name of this President and the traders in patriotism with whom he has surrounded himself down to posterity as infamous beyond parallel. Gen. OTIS has said that 30,000 troops are needed in the Philippines. That is nearly 15,000 more than would remain if the volunteers whose time expired months ago were sent home, and yet while McKINLEY and ALGER are touring around they haven’t time to con- sider the question of sending the needed re- inforcements? What a shame ! ——Should HowARD GouLD follow up his present inclination and purchase the Lakes of Killarney he would make himself very popular with the Irish, but it would be a very sickly smile he would get from the Prince of Wales. The Probable Speaker. The politicians of the country have been making history with great rapidity since this time last week Then the chances for the Speakership of the next House of Rep- resentatives at Washington seemed to be about equal between ALBERT J. HOPKINS, of Illinois, and JAMES S. SHERMAN, of New York. Now there seems to be little doubt that both those gentlemen have been bowled out of the running and that DAVID B. HENDERSON, of Iowa, is practically agreed on. Of course the election is six months off and when it was possible to make so vast a change in conditions in so short a time there is no telling what may occur between now and the first of Decem- ber. In any event, however, the present sentiment of the Republicans of the coun- try isin favor of HENDERSON and it is a mat- ter of congratulation that he is a man of large experience in legislation, of high character for integrity and of sturdy pa- triotism. The office of Speaker is important mainly because of the opportunities it af- fords for doing good or evil. Speaker nr evil of it in his hands was in the bad - ample set in the centralization of power; he made of the power which he usurped and arrogated to himself. In the hands of a daring and ambitious man, the power which Mr. REED assumed would have been fatal to the liberty of the people. For that reason it is to be hoped that it will never be conceded to another. The good use to which he turned it was in holding in check the inordinate ambition of the ad- ministration. If it had not been for REED, or if he had exercised less power or had used it with less determination, it-is not certain that we would have had a republic to-day. The imperial bee was buzzing in McKINLEY’s bonnet as loudly as the guns of a battleship boom in a broadside, but Speaker REED held them in leash. HENDERSON is, comparatively speaking, an unknown quantity so far as the vital political issues of the future are concerned. During the last Congress he set his face manfully against imperialism and protested against the tendencies in the direction of militarism. But whether he has yielded to the demands of the administration in order to avoid the opposition of the Presi- dent in his ambition to be Speaker, can only be conjectured. HOPKINS, of Illinois, refused to do that and the fact that he was among the first to move toward HENDER- SON, justifies the hope that there has been no concession to the imperialists. If this hope is justified by the facts, the country will have cause to rejoice that HENDERSON is likely to be chosen, for it is certain that SHERMAN was ready to stoop to any demand which the President might make upon ‘him. But there is no means of getting at the facts, and the public can only wait and hope. ——Now that the Clearfield Spirit and Republican have stopped fighting each other let us hope that they will again train their misdirected guns on the com- mon enemy and try to regain their strong- hold in Clearfield county. The Governor and the Janitor. The Governor of Pennsylvania and the late janitor of one of the public buildings at the state capitol are just now engaged in an interesting controversy upon the is- sue of which depends the reputation of one or both of the controversialists for truth and veracity. The janitor, or to speak more accurately, the late janitor, declares that the Governor, through a mutual friend, ordered him (the janitor) to go into Tioga county, his former home, and do some dirty party work in the interest of the QUAY machine. The Governor denies this “soft impeachment,’”’ and challenges the janitor to name the person who delivered the order, and the janitor goanters by reaf- firming his statement and adding that he can name the man and will do so if the Governor in the light of present conditions asks him to do so. At presect both the combatants in this ‘“‘war of words’’ at long range, are resting on their arms, and while thus situated the public may have an opportunity to examine the lines as well as the warriors with the view of estimating which has sustained the most damage by the encounter. Naturally an impartial observer would be predisposed to think that under the circumstances the Governor’s statement would be the more entitled to respect, and other things being equal that would be the correct view of the question. But that theory will hardly bear close scrutiny. A man is known by the company he keeps and when men volun- tarily engage in a squabble the presump- tion is that one of them is about as good as the other. That being admitted there re- mains only to determine which has the pre- ponderance of evidence in his favor. In this aspect of the case it must be ad- mitted that the janitor is a trifle in the lead. In so far as his accusations are ca- pable of proof he has proved them, and that is a very material point in his tavor. For example, he says that the Governor has prostituted his office to the service not only of partisan but of factional politics, which is absolutely true. He has asserted that the Governor has violated his oath of office and trampled up- ‘on the constitution, which is unquestion- ably a fact. In addition to that he has shown his faith by resigning what was to him a good office, and it must be admitted that no Republican would do that unless he had some powerful reason for his action. Respect for the dignity of the office of Governor would lead us to much prefer to believe the Governor in the case, but un- happily the evidence is so overwhelmingly on the other side that we are compelled, reluctantly, to not only believe that STONE has done all the things charged against him but that he has lied about it into the bar- gain. ——No political organization can afford to permit a precedent or location to blind it to the necessity of presenting only clean men for public suffrage. REED used it unsparingly for hoth. «5 e the good in the conservative and wise use Filipinos Sacrifices and Results. From the N. Y., Daily News. _ The rainy season has begun in the Phil- ippines and the insurgents have not yet surrendered to the American forces. For the next four months military operations will have to be practically suspended, which means that our troops must be con- centrated in Manila and a few other im- portant points within reach of the war ships. as it did not do to let them remain scatter- ed in the interior, at the mercy of the un- healthful climate and of the seasoned ene- my. Thousands of the Filipinos have been killed during the past few months and hundreds of our men have perished, while many more have contracted constitution- breaking diseases;and all that we will have to show for the slaughter and the sacrifices are stretches of burned and ruined villages. We have not conquered the country, and we never will until we have exterminated the natives or granted them what they are fighting for—the right of self government. Our generals out there are calling for a much larger army than they possess, and it is becoming quite clear that those who predicted that at least one hundred thous- and men would have to be sent over if any impression was to be made on the Filipinos were not far out of the way, if they were at all. About one out of every twenty of the sol- diers who have already landed is dead, and nearly one half of those that are left alive either are or have heen in the hospitals with diseases, the effect of which will cling to most of them for the rest of their days. The cost in human lives and in human suffering of the imperial expansion policy of McKinley and Hanna is already enor- mous, but it is as nothing compared with what is before us if a halt is not called on the brutal work. As for the money that has been, and continues to be, wasted in this effort to subjugate the Filipinos, it would, if expended at home, in ways that it should be, make thousands of homes happy and convince the world that there are better and nobler things for a nation to be engaged in than that of hiring or forcing its young men to swagger around and shoot down those who refuse to accept them as their rulers. The Originators of Trusts. From the N. Y. Journal o. Commerce. Trusts are still springing into existence like mushrooms after aspringshower. ‘If merely legitimate trade developments were the purpose of these huge combinations it would seem to be a necessary feature of them that their organizers and managers should be chiefly, if not solely, men skilled in the particular trade affected—men who had been trained and brought up in the business. It would seem, moreosery equal- ly natural and logical to expect $hatsuch organizations, if intended simply. for the development of trade according to modern ideas on strictly economical lines, should be perfected in their offices and factories and not in the resorts of speculators and stock manipulators. The promoter of the combines, trusts and syndicates of recent growth is almost invariably an expert Wall street operator and nothing more, utterly ignorant of the practical operations of any trade, save that of stock manipulation, and with as little consideration for the future of the industry which he undertakes to organize as for the interests of the con- sumers of its products. It is primarily, if not exclusively, his business to enrich him- self and those associated with him at the public expense. The preposterous over- capitalization of most of these enterprises reveals the kind of intelligence that pre- sides over their formation and the quarter from which profit is expected to come to the organizers.”’ The Way to Heaven as Laid Out by a Base Ball Player. From the Sermon of a Base Ballist Evangelist. A ‘baseball evangelist’’ who preached in Kansas City on Sunday said that faith is first base, the church second base, per- sonal work third base, and home, heaven. The ball is sin. Morality, a good player, takes the hat of good deeds, makes a hit and starts for first base, ‘faith; but shortstop Unbelief catches the ball, and Morality never reaches ‘‘first.”” Another runner gets to second, ‘the church,” and stays there. When a player can reach third (personal work,) said Mr. Markell, or;is interested enough to take up personal work, he feels pretty -safe, for there he comes under the care of the coacher, which is the Holy Spirit. When a player reaches this point, he is reasonably sure of the home plate, heaven. ‘‘I didn’t make the mistake,”” said a volunteer speaker who followed him, ‘‘trying to play the game all by myself, but I made a mistake just as bad. I went at it all right and got to second, the church, all right. But I thought I could cut third and get home without doing personal work. There was where I made my mistake, and I see it now. Iam watching third mighty sharp, and I trust to score when the time comes.”’ “I got as far as third,’’ said another, ‘‘and for a long time I thought I would die there. But I have started for home, and I don’t believe I will be nailed at the plate.” Organized for Work. CINCINNATI, June 7.—A¢t the convention of the Bimetallic League of the Ohio valley in Louisville last week a committee was appointed to confer with the National Democratic committee at its meeting in Chicago July 20. The membeis of this committee, James P. Tarvin, Covington; John T. Altgeld, Chicago; George Fred Williams, Boston; E. B. Finley, Bucyrus, Ohio; John Overmeyer, North Vernon, Ind.; W. G. Femonin, Louisville; Allen W. Clark, Greensburg, Ind., met in Cov- ington, Wednesday, and organized with Judge Tarvin as chairman and Allen W. Clark as secretary. A majority of the members of the com- mittee were present and the others voted by telegraph. This is also the committee of the league on organization and secretary Clark was directed to proceed with his work in organizing clubs and to prepare such data as the committee may be able to present to the National committee at the joint conference in Chicago next month. Spawls from the Keystone. ~The Clearfield gas and electriclight com- panies have consolidated and will have things all their own way now. —Mrs. William Brothers, of Duncannon, fell on a bad pavement in that place recently and broke the bones in her right arm near the wrist. —Thomas McCloskey, of Renovo, while loading logs near that place recently, had one of his legs, above the ankle, broken by a log rolling against him. —The corner stone of the new Methodist Episcopal church at Milroy was laid Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The services were in charge of Rev. G. W. Stevens of Lewistown. —The standing of the second, the highest class at Annapolis Naval academy, and the coming sea class, has been announced. James C. Kress, of Lock Haven, ranks thirteenth. —Abram Merifield, son of Edward Meri- field, of Woodward township, Clearfield county, had a leg broken and an arm knock- ed out of place by a blast in the Wigton mine on Thursday of last week. —At Johnsonburg, Friday morning, the body of Patrick Dolan, an employe of the Clarion mills, was found below the trestle work at that place, he having been struck by a train some time during the night. He was about 55 years old. —The business men of Glen Campbell, Indiana county, have decided to form a stock company for the purpose of properly and gloriously celebrating the Fourth of July. The members of the company are expected to contribute $5 each to make the thing go. —Three farmers in the vicinity of Patton sold their coal right last week to the Patton coal company, and a number of others re- fused good offers from the same concern. The price was from $50 to $100 per acre. The latter figure was refused for the Strittmatter tract. —It is expected that within two years every passenger car on the Pennsylvania lines east and west will be uniform in build and finish. The standard Pennsylvania coaches cost $5,500, and when vestibuled and the nontelescoping devices are installed, $1,000 is added to this cost. —The Saturday’s pay of the Cambria Steel company at Johnstown is said to have been the largest on record for the company. The amount paid out was $191,000. This, with other money paid out to local workmen by other companies Saturday, went considerably past the $200,000 mark. —A terrific storm passed over Indiana county about 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. Heavy hail did damage to corn and fruits, and many fields wer. badly washed. The barn of William Ray, near Indiana, was struck by lightning and burned. A large barn near Decker’s Point was burned and a number of horses perished. —A sheriff's sale bargain hunter had more than the ordinary luck at a sale held near Sellersville, Somerset county, last week. In the purchase of a lot of old iron and other rubbish he found $70 in gold and silver. The money was stored in two tin cans and rolled out when the cans were thrown on a wagon to be hauled away. —Carrolltown is to have a new Elgin but- ter factory. A company has been organized with $4000 capital and the plant is expected to be in operation in a few weeks, the com- pany having secured from Mr. Benjamin Wirtner a suitable location with an excellent supply of water, and commenced the erec- tion of the necessary building. —1It is estimated that the foreign miners in the Houtzdale region send no less than $50,- 000 a year to their native country through agents. This class of miners, it is gleaned from very good authority, do not spend one- third of theirearnings in this country. A family of them consisting of a half dozen members do not spend over six dollars per month at the stores for provisions, etc. —The auditors of Lackawanna county have surcharged the county commissioners $8,000. There is considerable excitement in political circles over the affair, the commis- sioners turned in a bill for $12,000 for decorat- ing the superior court room in the court house. An expert from New York was call- ed to Scranton, and after inspecting the work, said it could be done for $4,500. —While Walter Main’s show was giving an exhibition at Westmoreland county, Thursday night the seats on which were seated about 300 people gave way, dropping the occupants to the ground. seriously and perhaps fatally injuring Mrs. David Good- man, whose leg was crushed and she was hurt internally. Several other ladies had their ankles badly sprained and were con- siderably bruised. —At Williamsport Monday, P. D. Sayles, while chopping wood, had swung his axe preparatory to delivering a telling blow on a hard stick of wood. While the axe was descending Mr. Sayles’ 3 years old son ran towards his father and caught the blow of the implement on the forehead. A gash two inches long was inflicted and the child was felled to the ground. He was taken to a physician, who stitched the wound. —A few days ago a man was shooting muskrats in Sandy Lick creek near Rey- noldsville. Two young ladies stood on an embankment on the opposite side of the creek watching the man shoot when one of them was struck on the leg near the knee by a bullet, the ball of twenty-two calibre hav- ing struck a stone and glanced upwards. The young woman walked home and a physician was called who probed for the bullet but could not locate it. During a heavy storm near DuBois Thursday afternoon, Thomas Keene, a well- known lumberman, while sitting in his house, was struck by lightning. Mr. Keene's left leg was torn and the boot and stocking burned. His foot was mutilated and he was rendered unconscious. Frederick Hoover, a 10-year-old boy, residing at Rockton, was also struck. The flesh of the left leg was badly torn and burned from the entire leg and the right foot was badly mutilated and burned. —Tuesday morning Jacob Olmstead, of near Linden, Lycoming county, saw one of Daniel Miller's cows pasturing in the old canal bed below Jersey Shore. In attempt- ing to catch the cow he caught hold of her tail. The animal started to run when the man ‘‘snubbed”’ her around the trees. The last time he attempted to snub the tail around a barbed wire fence, the appendage came out by the roots. Olmstead was ar- rested and confessed the deed. He claims that he was drunk at the time.
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