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BY P. GRAY. MEEK.
SB ——— ” ————
Ink Slings.
—When a man has not hair enough to
cover his head it isa sign that it has all
gone to fertilize his brain.
—The country is safe. ALGER has de-
cided to remain in the cabinet until the
present administration expires.
—With ALGER and PINGREE tied to-
gether up in Michigan the country wants
, to look out for a corner in the Philippine
potato market.
—The great army of American hobos will
look with disgust on. HENRY M. STANLEY
for having accepted’ the insignia of the
grand cross of the Bath.
—The Howard township woman who
captured her swarming bees in a churn was
evidently trying to produce something
original in the way of buttermilk.
—The new yacht ‘‘Columbia,’’ that is to
be our cup defender in the coming race
with the English boat, Has been developing
such rare sailing qualities that she bids
fair to become a real '‘‘gem of the ocean.’
—Since that girl baby came to the palace
of the Czar of all the Russias that mighty
potentate is likely to fall in with the plan
of general disarmament. He will have
plenty to keep him up nights now, with-
out bothering about war propositions.
—QUAY is in the hands of his friends
and unless he escapes them pretty soon the
old man will be dragged to destruction.
He knows better than his advisers what
ought to be done, but they insist on get-
ting the offices for the. spoilsand therein
the old man will fall. .
—They say that a man is excused for
getting drunk on the glorious Fourth. Let
us give you a friendly tip that if you don’t
want your red paint of the Fourth turned
into a nasty, remorseful brown on the morn-
ing of the fifth don’t take advantage of the
excuse that custom has made.
—When President McKINLEY gets tired
playing with American lives in the Philip-
pines, when he realizes that he can only
mount an Emperor’s throne over the dead
corpses of American soldier boys, then we
hope he will be convulsed with remorse for
the blindness of his course and untold sor-
row he is causing throughout the land.,
—They say that the flies are becoming
pestiferously bad/in the north ward. While
casting about for a probable cause for such
an influx of musca domestica no one seems
to have struck the real one. It is our
opinion that most of them are attracted in
from the rural districts by the horses that
are pulling the stream of country politicians
in these nights to get their orders from the
manse on the hilli. :
—Where do you suppose brothers AL
and CLEM are going to land in this fight?
In view of the fact that when the latter as
the HASTINGS candidate was beaten for
Congress in this connty ‘hy Mr. ARNOLD
the administration’ people were mean
enough to say that Mr. DALE had been the
mill-stone about their favorite’s neck it is
not likely that he ‘will ‘undertake to be
their scape goat again.
—Judging from the scene that they are
reported to have created in justice BoOK-
STAVER'S court, in New York, on Tues-
day, in the litigation as' to which lot
of women has the right to use the title
‘Colonial Dames’’ the public will be able
to arrive at but one conclusion and that is
while they may all call themselves Colonial
Dames they have shown themselves to be
made out of exactly the same mud that
every other fighting woman is.
--The sentence of fourteen years im-
prisonment for kidnaper BARROW and
twelve years. for his wife for being an ac-
complice might appear'at first thought to
be very severe, but it is well that the court
has given them just'such a salty dose. The
law is only enforced to make men fearful
of committing crime and if, when after the
crime is committed, public sympathy is to
be worked upon for the amelioration of the
sentence that should be imposed, what is
the use of having a law and what the
effect? Bl
—There is one thing gratifying about the
fight that is now on between the factions
in the local Republican organization.
Former Governor HASTINGS’ identification
with it is complete. It is well to know
this positively now, for in the event of his
being licked the Philadelphia "Press and
other friendly. organs will either set up the
cry that the former Governor bad nothing
te do with the contest or that he was only
defeated because of some other fellow, as
was the case when he made a scape goat of
poor CLEM DALE: .
—The Philadelphia Tnguirer is making
a great ado over the fact that the death rate
at Havana and Santiago are far below what
they were one year ago. It might stop
long enough in its blind efforts to white-
wash the present inefficient War Depart-
ment to see what an ass it is making of
itself. What is there in this that should
be crowed over? It would be strange in-
deed if after a year of peace either city
would not be in a better sanitary condition
than during a period of siege. The Ju-
quirer might find another comparison nearer
home. Let us direct your attention to
Chicamauga. Look at the death rate there
a year ago and to-day, yet it was then
under the control of the same War Depart-
ment that is supposed to have done such
great things at Santiago and Havana. Why
wasn’t some of the good work done at
Chicamauga before those Spanish cities fell
into our hands?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
‘BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE 30. 1899.
NO. 26.
Quay’s Fool Friends.
Ex-Senator QUAY is having all sorts of
trouble. His subordinates refuse to obey
him. He wants to be good and they won’
allow him to do so. He has an olive branch
in his hand and they insist on substituting
a black flag. It is a lamentable state of
affairs, but oneapparently without remedy.
Poor QUAY is ‘‘hoist upon his own petard.’’
It is not altogether surprising but it is pit-
iable. He knows better than those who
are forcing him, the consequences of their
folly. In the fall he will get the jolt. In
the reckoning he will be obliged to pay
the penalty. But while he realizes the
danger, and sees the precipice which he is
approaching he is without the power to
stop. He is in the position of the leader
in a herd of cattle on a stampede. Those
behind are pushing him on so blindly and
with such force that there is no avoiding
the plunge.
QUAY’S followers have become intoxicat-
ed with success. He has drunk too but is
only exhilerated. Likedrunken men they
are blind, while he like one sober but
stimulated sees clearly. Through modera-
tion the temporary triumph which has
been secured in the election of delegates to
the state convention might be converted
intoan enduring victory. The opponents
of the *‘old man’’ are influenced by no
principle. All they want is a share of the
spoils. Such a concession to them now
wonld silence them probably forever. QUAY
understands that there is nothing to be lost
by making the concession. The offices to
be filled this year are of no political value.
If he were himself State Treasurer for the
coming term he couldn’t use a dollar of the
public money for speculation. Recent
events have made such a thing impossible
for a time at least. That being the case,
what is the use of * fighting over the nomi-
nation? Anybody ought to see the situation
as QUAY sees it. But his subordinates ap-
pear to be daft. They are set on a policy
that means destruction and thes are fore-
ing QUAY to the sacrifice.
QUAY’s interest this year is not in the
ticket, but in the platform. His opponents,
witha vision as short as itis narrow, care
only for the salaries. That being the case
it would he an: easy. matter to trade the
ticket,” whicls may’ never be «elected, for a
platform that would make QUAY’S return
to the Senate, not in two year’s but in two
months, practically certain. Suppose, for
example, a QUAY convention should nomi-
nate an anti-QUAY ticket and endorse
QUAY for Senator. Two months later the
Legislature would assemble in extra ses-
sion to elect a Senator. With the endorse-
ment of the convention QUAY’S name would
be presented and the candidates for the
state offices would be compelled to urge
his election in the interest of harmony and
as an essential to success in the impend-
ing election. What political proposition
could be plainer?
Can it be possible that QUAY's friends
are so stupid that they fail to discern his
opportunity and theirs in the situation?
Of course the others don’t see it. They
can’t see anything but dollars and cents.
They wouldn’t know a political principle
from a torchlight procession. But they
know the salary of every public official in
the State. Under the circumstances why
don’t QUAY’s friends be reasonable? To
be sure the judicial offices to fill are of long
tenure. But they are not political except
in remote circumstances and the offices of
State Treasurer is hardly worth looking
after this year. Maybe it will be different
the next time. People forget soon and
there may be lots of good stealing in that
office after whilé. But if QUAY is elected
Senator his friends can get the Treasurer-
ship whenever it is worth having and they
are foolish now for standing in his way.
How Long Will it Endure?
As the operations of the army in the
Philippines proceed the resemblance to the
| similar operations there and in Cuba under
the directions of the government of Spain
multiplies. Thus far there have been no
| such atrocities as were committed by Gov-
ernor-General WEYLER in Cuba, but those
were individual acts, conceived by a de-
praved mind and executed by a cruel heart.
But the reports of victories, the sappres-
sion of facts through the medium of a press
censorship, and the recurring disappoint-
iments of hope that the end was near are
coming now just as they came then. Be-
cause of them the people of the United
States justified a declaration of war against
Spain. How long will it be until because
of them some other nation will conceive it
to be a duty, in the interest of civilization,
to declare war against the United States ?
This is a question of increasing interest and
relevancy.
As a matter of fact there was niuch less
reason for interference with Spain by the
United States on account of her colonial
policy than there is now for any other pow-
er to interfere in behalf of the Filipinos.
Nobody of rational mind ever disputed the
sovereignty of Spain over Cuba, for exam-
ple. It was acquired “in the most legiti-
mate manner, by discovery, hundreds of
years ago. The right to protest against
atrocities existed without doubt, and on |
account of our position among the nations
on the Western hemisphere, it was probab-
ly a Christian duty to remonstrate against
inhumanity almost within the shadow of
our capital. More than that it may be
justly claimed that having failed to regard
our admonitions Spain was properly amen-
able to our chastisement. But there was
no reason in anything that Spain did either
to the Cubans or Filipinos that gave the
government of the United States sovereignty
over the people and territory of ‘those colé-
nies without their consent, and the failure
of other nations to interfere isan indul-
gence to us rather than a recognition of
right.
The people of the Philippine Islands owe
no allegiance to the government of the
United States. They have never, directly
or indirectly, recognized the sovereignty of
this country over their persons or property.
That being the case they are committing no
crime against the laws of God or man in
resisting the attempt to force them into
obedierce to alien laws and usurping offici-
als. The citizens of Harrisburg or Lock
Haven or Altoona have as much right to
invade this town and at the point of the
bayonet demand our property and obe-
dience,zs the army of the United States has
to go to the Philippines and do the same
thing. It is an outrage upon civilization—
a blot. upon the Christianity of the nine-
teenth century. That it is permitted is
the surprise of the day and generation. It
can be accounted for only on the hypothe-
sis that exempts Turkey from punishment
for her atrocities in Armenia.
Otis Stands Self-Acenscd.
General OTIS with more courage than
wisdom takes upon himself the bulk of the
blunders that have been made in the Philip-
pines. That is to say by repeating in de-
tail what he has intimated in fragmentary
form before, namely that but for the in-
direct interference of the enemies of the ad-
ministration at home the policy of the ad-
ministration in the Philippines would have
been successful before this, he assumes re-
sponsibility for the failures.’ No doubt he
expects to win the confidence of the ad-
ministration by thus taking its burdens on’,
“his ‘own shoulders." If that- be’ the case he
doesn’t know the administration. In
Washington the rule is ‘‘every fellow for
himself and the devil take the hindmos.’’
In his dispatch of Monday General OTIS
has put himself down as the hindmosf and
the “‘old Harry” will soon be reaching for
him.
General OTIS is rather ambiguous in his
dispatch so far as giving the public or the
administration information concerning the
probability of ending the war. He says in
substance that his own troops are well-dis-
posed and that the insurgent forces are
scattered but he doesn’t say a ward about
the number of men necessary to follow the
enemy into their retreats and dislodge
them from their entrenchments. Instead
of that he tells the President that the ihsnr-
gents are encouraged by the belief that
another presidential election will soon be
held at which McKINLEY will be defeated.
Why that story should encourage them he
doesn’t ‘venture to state. They haven't
acted like idiots thus far and that cock-
and-bull story although it may please Mec-
KINLEY would plainly indicate that they
are daft. If anybody else than McKINLEY
were President somebody else than Ors
would be in command and’ that would be
bad for them. :
The reason that the Filipino insurgents
bave not been conquered is that the force
sent against them is inadequate in the first
place and it has been wretchedly managed
in the second. Heretofore the blame for
both these inexcusable blunders was put
upon the administration for the reason that
it was thought that no man wearing the!
shoulder-straps of a General in the United!
States army could possibly be stupid
| enough to commit them. But new the
truth is revealed. There is such an ass in
the army ard his name is OTIS and the
quicker MoKINLEY brings him home and
puts him on the retired list the better for
‘hiniself and the country. The people do
not want the army to be sacrificed to the
‘incompetence of a sycophant who does not
hesitate to invent absurd stories’ in order
to throw the responsibility of his own
blunders onto the shoulders of others.
—From the attitude of the Philipsburg
papers the recent action of the school board
in that place in reducing salaries of teach-
ers and cutting off the special music teacher
entirely the move conldn’t have been a
very popular one. Of course circumstances
have entire control of such things and if re-
ports be true about the depreciating busi-
ness interests of that town the board felt
itself justified in doing as it did in order to
make ‘the’ tax burden as easy as possible.
While it is to be regretted that the effi-
ciency of the splendid public schools that
Philipshurg has been known to have must
be curtailed it is none the less the duty of
those in control to’ resort to such an ex-
tremity if the means do not justify the end.
Teaching False Doctrines.
The war with Spain developed some
curious results but none stranger than the
absence of moral structure where it was
supposed to exist'in strongest form. For
example in his Decoration day speech in
Boston, General JosEPH WHEELER quoted
approvingly the doubtful utterance of some
doubtful person who said in mock solemnity
and bogus patriotism, ‘My country; may
she always be right—bhut my country, right
or wrong.” A more reprehensible prin-
ciple could hardly be instilled into the
minds of the youth of this or any other
-country, and yet Gen. WHEELER especial-
ly commended it as a lesson that ought to
be taught to the youth. .
In his address to the Rough Riders at
Las Vegas, New Mexico, the other day,
Gov. ROOSEVELT, of New York, began his
concluding peroration with this sentence:
*“Where our flag has been raised it shall
not be hauled down.” That proposition
may be a trifle less immoral than that of
Gen. WHEELER, but it is more cowardly.
That is it reveals the lack of that moral
courage and manhood which would correct
a wrong. If Gov. ROOSEVELT had said
where our flag has been justly or properly
raised it shall never be hauled down, he
would have had reason to support him.
But in the broad proposition which he
asserted he simply recommended the resist-
ance of brute strength against right, and
that is neither creditable nor courageous.
Ouly a few weeks ago the flag of Great
Britain was hauled down after it had been
planted, though there would have been no
immediate penalty for keeping it up. But
the authorities of Great Britain are too
confident in their strength and too strong
in their pride to do an unjust thing as they
understand ‘it. Can it be that the people
of ‘the United States are less firmly en-
trenched in integrity? The average citizen
will not consent to Iet such an impression
80 abroad though that will be the logical
and proper result of preaching such doc-
tripe as that uttered by ROOSEVELT and
WHEELER. It is the man strong and
concious of his strength who can be just,
and it is the coward and poltroon who
holds on to an advantage, however im-
properly acquired.
~ Givie pride 2 1e patriotism shoald
be ‘instilled into'the minds of the youth of
the country, but it would be as well to
teach the art of picking pockets in the
schools as to teach the doctrines uttered by
Gen. WHEELER at Boston. It is the moral:
element in the man which creates patriot-
ism. There might be such a thing as teach-
ing the youth that his country could not
be wrong, and thus by stunting his in-
tellect command his allegiance at all times.
But to teach him to support a wrong under
any circumstances is to draw from his mind
every vestige of morality and leave him a
wreck too pitiable to be useful in any
phase of life.
An Unholy Alliance.
“‘Politics make strange bed-fellows,’’ we
are told and the combination just formed
in Michigan proves the truth of the adage.
It appears that Governor PINGREE and Sec-
retary of War ALGER have formed them-
selves into ‘a political alliance and that
hereafter these curious specimens of states-
manship will pull together in their strug-
gles for party power. The wide chasm
that has separated them heretofore has
been bridged. The differences have been
adjusted and henceforth, for weal or woe,
they go up and down the by-ways of polit-
ical ambition hand in hand, so to speak.
It is a pretty spectacle this combination
will present to the Michigan view as they:
pass. Bat, after all, why shouldn’t they
pool their issues? Theiraims are alike and
it is fit that their ends should be the
same. : ;
PINGREE is a sort of an ulcer on the
body politic which was tolerated as prefer-
able to a cancer in the form of ALGER.
They are maladies in the same family but
different type. That is to say PINGREE
represents that form of demagogy which
assumes to despise wealth and is the enemy
of vested rights. ALGER, on the other
hand, is no less a demagogue, but he caters
to the corporations and holds out to them
that their interests are in jeopardy from
men of the PINGREE class. They are both -
and about alike. wrong, but they both
make profit out of theinsibek in trade. In
the pursuit of their purposes they have
been obliged, hitherto, to pretend ‘a bitter
antagonism toward each other and PINGREE
has not hesitated to accuse ALGER of par-
ticipation in every crime in the calendar
while ALGER charged PINGREE with every
vice known to exist. But when their com-
mon interests require them to get together
they experience no trouble in accomplish-
ing it. Each knows that the other was
dishonest in his enmity and the security
that the bargain for friendship will be ful-
filled is in the ‘‘cohesive force of public
plunder.”
But the people of Michigan are to be
pitied in view of this strange and unholy
alliance. - If it means anything it means
that they are to be plundered mercilessly.
roms mn sewn
very simple, American way.
Those political highwaymen will hesitate
at nothing to achieve their ends and now
that one will not accuse the other every
just interest in the State will suffer at
their hands. Maybe their plans will fail.
“Vaulting ambition may o’er-reach itself,”
in this case as in many times before.
But there is peril to public interests as
there is danger to public morals when such
combinations are formed for the manifest
purpose of plundering. ‘‘Forewarned is
forearmed,’’ however, and the people of
Michigan may escape the evil consequences
of this partnership by vigilance and energy.
They should join together to this end.
The Governor's Elevator.
From the North American, (Rep.)
Statewide interest is evinced- in the ad-
ded grandeur with which Pennsylvania's
Governor has planned to surround himself
in the already sumptuous Executive Man-
sion, at a cost to the people of between
$25,000 and $30,000. The new carpets,
the new bath-tubs, the new pictures, the
new marble busts, the new elevator—es-
pecially the new elevator—excite the won-
der of editors in rural districts, to whose
pastoral minds the Governor’s home as it is
seems a vision of all but Oriental luxury.
They and their plough-following readers,
who find it hard to pay their taxes and at
the same time have anything left at the
end of the year—for ready money is always
a scarce article with farmers—ask if it
wouldn’t have been wise, not to say de-
cent, in the Governor to have waited for
more gorgeousness until we have a Treas-
ury without a deficit.
Criticism of the elevator, however, will
die down when The North American's ex-
planation of its purpose has been more
generally diffused. The &levatoris wanted
in order that Governor Stone may ride up
and down in it and think—not as has heen
suggested, to lift his record up to the gar-
ret every night for safe keeping.
‘When the Governor gets his elevator and
begins to think, it may break on him that
he should not usurp legislative functions
denied him by the Constitution. Then we
should have no more cutting of school ap-
propriations, no more closing of the trades
schools for want of the cost of a picture or
two. When the Governor begins to think
it may occur to him that it is his duty, as
the chief magistrate of one of the richest
and most populous States in the Union, to
use his influence to abolish a system of
taxation under which enormously wealthy
corporations escape, the burden which
should be on their shoulders being shifted
to the backs of people much less abla to
bear the weight.
the farmer’s dollar and: only five mills from
the dollar of the railroads—and more fre-
quently nothing at all.
ing should make him ashamed of this
cheating scheme of taxation which, while
plundering the poorand favoring the opu-
lent, moves him to refuse to y
widow a small, honest debt due her for
work done for the State by her husband;
to refuse the shingles needed for the roofs
of asylums and hospitals; to refuse proper
care to the indigent insane, who are now
inhumanly crowded, and for want of civil-
ized accommodations are bedded down in
stone corridors like tramps during a starva-
tion winter.
If the elevator is necessary to set Govern-
or Stone’s mind going, a better invest-
ment than the coin it would cost could not
be made by the people. It should be a
closed elevator however, for if ever the
Governor does begin to think, he will want
to be where his blushes cannot be visible to’
the casual citizen visiting the Executive
Mausion.
In This Case Ignorance is Not Bliss.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The report made by General Otis to the
Adjutant General at Washington would be
entirely satisfactory if it were not so much
at variance with all information given out
by officers and soldiers recently returned
home from Manila, With this contradic-
tion existing there will remain a doubt in
the public mind which representation is
the more accurate. A medical officer who
arrived from the Philippines about ten
days ago painted the situation in ugly col-
ors, particularly in regard to the health of
the troops, and gave the opinion that 100,-
000 soldiers would be necessary to complete
the conquest. A general officer, arrived
since then, described the conditions simi-
larly and estimated 65,000 men necessary.
‘General Otis, on the other hand, reports
conditions satisfactory, and, while admit-
ting a heavy increase in climatic diseases,
adds that it is $‘nothing serious.’
Coincidentally a letter has been printed,
purporting to come from a soldier, which
declares that a number of Americans have
deserted to the native forces. Other re-
ports are current which represent the sitna-
tion as being desperate. One member of
the Tenth regiment, who reached home
last week, charges the whole trouble to
. General Otis.
In this confusion of statements the pub-
lio does not know what to believe. It is
«disposed to ‘accept official reports under
ordinary circumstances, but when even the
official testimony is conflicting there is
room for doubt. General Otis’ reports have
been so uniformly optimistic about the
‘improving situation’ and his predictions
‘have'go often proved erroneous that the
ground for doubting the accuracy of his
view is made terable. But there is one
way to set all doubts at rest, and it is a
That is to
abandon the strategic movements of army
and navy. This rule worked admir-
ably during the war with Spain. It
will work equally well now, and
when the American people are fully
acquainted with all the facts they will not
be found wanting in loyalty or in resources
to assist our soldiers at the front. What.
every American most desires in this matter
is to shield our gallant fighters from disas-
ter in the field or by disease, and the peo-
ple are ready to support any measures to
| that end without regard to their opinions
upon the policy of permanent occupation
or territorial expansion. ;
When the Governor be-!
gins to think, he ought to: e the in-
Aquity of the State taking wen x ills of
Likewise, think- |
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Spawls from the Keystone.
—In the Ellen Gowan colliery, Schuylkill
county, Peter Zuko was killed by falling
coal.
—A new girls’ dormitory, at the Shippens-
burg state Normal school will be opened in
the fall.
—The Merwarth metallic casket company
has been organized in Bethlehem with a cap-
ital stock of $50,000.
—PFalling rock in the Mount Lookout col-
liery, near Wilkesbarre, killed Thomas Hes-
lop and Frank Knopski. >
—A charter was issued Monday by the
State Departmentat Harrisburg, to the Tunk-
ahannock ice company, of Easton, with a
capital of $63,000.
—Wahile fishing in the Susquehanna river
at Newberry, Lycoming county, early Tues-
day morning, I. Monroe Reeder fell out of a
boat and was drowned.
—Wayne Klinger and William Kendrick,
released from prison at Trenton, N. J., were
re-arrested for robbing the post office at Mil-
lersville, Schuylkill county.
—Itis now authoritatively stated that but
two cases of smallpox remain in Altoona,
one at the contagious disease hospital just out
of town and the other in the city.
—Mrs. Catharine Conway died at Renovo
Saturday afternoon of the infirmities of age
and her funeral took place Tuesday morn-
ing. She was 84 years old and is survived
by six children.
—During the storm Saturday afternoon
three cows and a bull took refuge under a
tree on the farm of Perry McGuire, below
McElhattan. Lightning struck the tree,
killing the bull and two of the cows. The
third cow was not injured.
—The establishment of a glass works in-
dustry in Altoona is now assured, the hoard
of trade having reccived subscriptions for
over $25,000 worth of stock, the amount
necessary to guarantee forsuccessful venture.
Work on the new plant is expected to begin
in a few weeks.
—The firemen of the Pennsylvania R. R.,
running between Pittsburg and Altoona,have
been allowed a small advance in wages.
Formerly they received $1.80 for the trip
and they asked for $2, but a compromise was
effected and they are now getting $1.90. Al-
though this is a small raise it is appreciated
by the men.
—The state Prohibition convention will be
held in Philadelphia on July 21st. Dele-
gates and their friends should make it a
point to get there in time to enjoy the Pro-
hibition picnic at Woodside park, on Thurs-
day the 20th. Oliver W. Stuart, who pre-
sided over the last national convention in
Pittsburg will be present.
—Fred Knap, of near Wellsboro, died
Tuesday from the effects of a bite from a big
mosquito. While working in the bark woods
he was bitten on the temple. Later, while
wrestling with a companion, he bumped his
head, after which the swelling increased at
an alarming rate and Knap died in great
agony. ;
—The barn near Liberty that was struck
by lightning Saturday afternoon was on the
estate of A. W. Ferguson. The flames made
short work of the barn and tobacco sheds.
The horses and cows were taken out in safe-
ty. Oue calf, 500 bushels of wheat, forty
‘tons of hay, and ‘a lot of implements were
burned. The loss is estimated at between
$4,000 and $5,000.
—Mirs. Gertrude Wissinger, a bride of two
months, died of strychnine poisoning at Al-
a | toona Monday. She playfully told her hus-
band she was going to kill herself, and swal-
‘lowed what she thought were harmless pills.
The medicine proved to be strychnine. She
lived but half an hour after swallowing the
fatal dose. Mrs. Wissinger was a beautiful
and accomplished woman of 18 years.
—The postoffice department at Washington
has granted an additional carrier to the Ty-
rone office, making the whole number six.
by that time Postmaster McCamant hopes
to have authority for mounting one of the
carriers, which would provide for delivering
the mail to neighboring villages now receiv-
ing their mail at the Tyrone office.
—At Falls Creek Monday the dinkey en-
gine used on Pat MecDonald’s lumber job
above that place, flew down the P. R. R.
tracks, and bumped into other cars with such
force as to throw the engine off the track.
Before the collision engineer Samuel Murray
was seen standing in the cab, but was mak-
ing no effort to stop the dinkey. When the
man was picked up, he was unconscious and
had a deep gash in his head.
—PFiremen thwarted Mrs. M. Ellen White
in a desperate attempt to commit suicide at
Williamsport Monday evening. While in-
toxicated the woman set a feather bed on fire
then deliberately laid herself upon the blaz-
ing bed. The smoke pouring from the house
attracted the attention of passers-by and the
firemen were summoned. They rescued the
woman in an unconscious condition. She is
a partial paralytic.
—An immense bear, weighing fully 600
pounds, stoppod a freight train on the Penn-
sylvania railroad, east of Gallitzin Monday
by obstinately seating himself on the track
ahead of the locomotive. The firemen and
several brakemen descended from the train
and tried to scare the animal away, but they
fled when he showed fight. Bruin then
leisurely examined the locomotive and mad e
his way with dignity down the mountain.
—Reunbeén Jones was shot and killed at
Kittanning, late Friday night by James
Patterson during a dispute over 35 cents,
which the murderer claimed his victim
owed him. Both belonged to the negro col-
ony camping at the west end of the Alle-
gheny and Western railroad tunnel, near
Middlesex. The other negroes made no at-
tempt to arrest Patterson, and he is still at
large. The coroner’s jury rendered a ver-
dict that Jones had been murdered by Pat-
terson. :
—The new tunnel for the P. R. R. at
Spruce Creek is fast becoming a reality.
About 300 men have been employed on the
work during the last month, and already a
great hole has been bored into the hill by the
big steam drill. The tunnel will be bored
entirely through before the work of brick-
laying is begun. It will be about 2,500 feet
in length—something less than the old one.
Two tracks will be run through it. The
tunnel will be ready for service by January
1st, 1900.
The town will be redistricted later on and