Demon fan BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Possibly it is because Judge LOVE is so tired of the fight that he has quit speak- ing to ex-Governor HASTINGS. —Many a business failure has been made because a large girth has undertaken to run an enterprise that should have been manag- ed by a large head. —All this discussion of the kissing habit seems to have no effect on the Republican belligerents in Centre county. There is no sign that they intend to osculate and make up. -—If the QUAY regulars could only dis- cover where the mines of the insurgents are planted ‘there are them’ who would know more and be happier than they are at this writing. —The renewal of strikes in the coal fields, at Homestead, in Chicago and at many other great labor centers, cannot be very reassuring to President MCKINLEY’S play for a second term. —With four newspapers at their com- mand and a hyprpotic influence that is a wonder to the political scientists of this section the insurgents are still guessing on the probable outcome of the fight in Centre county. —PINGREE does not deny the alliance that is reported to have been made between him and ALGER, so that the latter’s attempt "to make believe that there is nothing in it will be understood as another of those ‘‘lit- tle white lies.” —The discovery has at last been made that Governor STONE has some respect for public sentiment. He realized that the people would sooner have him spend his time walking up and down stairs than in gaining time by riding in an expensive ele- vator. —Governor STONE has unwittingly done the State a good turn in denying himself an elevator in the executive mansion. Every moment extra he loses in running up and down stairs is a moment gained for the people. The less he is at his desk the bet- ter. —Only the ignorant are supposed to be affected with superstition, but there are others who get the ‘‘cold creeps’’ every time they see the figure 13. The sudden death of the Hollidaysburg girl on the eve of her wedding will go a long way to con- firm the belief that it is bad luck to try on a wedding gown. —Senator PENROSE says he has three applicants for the position of census super- visor in Pennsylvania. Only three, surely there must be some mistake ! Such a dearth of Republican office seekers can but lead to # "one of two conclusions: Either the QUAY contingent has all been fixed up or has ceased to be a contingent at all. —It might as well be announced now that the Department of Agriculture pre- dicts that there will scarcely bea two-thirds wheat crop in this country this year. This information ought to be scattered broadcast so that administration clackers can get ready to claim credit for any rise in the price of wheat that might follow. -—At last the truth has developed about the Philippine situation and the adminis- tration now acknowledges that it will take thousands more men to enable OTIS to con- quer the barbarians that we purchased for two dollars a head. If isonly an assurance on its part that the estimated force will be able to accomplish the end desired, but as such it will hardly assure. The experience of the past year has tanght us that the Fili- pinos are a decidedly uncertain quantity and it is quite likely that they will have to be exterminated before they are conquer- ed. —The Pacific Coast States have lately come to consciousness of the fact that ex- pansion isn’t going to be such a great boom for them after all. The first dream of pros- perity through new colonies in the Pacific is over and they have all awakened up to find that their pipes are out. A more lucid study of the situation has discovered to them the fact that the moment our govern- ment begius to meddle in oriental politics just that moment free commercial inter- course with those countries will cease. We can’t be in league with one, without an- tagonizing others. —Has it appeared strange to you that, with a sharp political fight on in his own party in the county, the editor of the Gaz- ette, which pretends to be the official Re- publican organ, should hie himself off on a trip across the continent? He is doubtless enjoying himself while his friends at home are fighting, but his absence in such a crisis . in his party smacks of the Gen’l. FRANK * "REEDER act, when he suddenly discovered that he needed a trip to Europe, just when his superior, former Governor HASTINGS, needed his official family’s support in his fight against Quay. —While CHARLEY MURPHY’S wonder- ful performance of riding a mile on a bicy- cle in fifty-seven and four-fifth seconds, on Long Island, a few days ago, will prove that a man-propelled machine can go faster than the fastest horse on the turf and can make nearly double the time made by an ordinary passenger train, it can hardly be said that a new pace has been set for wheel- men. His feat was accomplished under most extraordinary circumstances and it is not likely that other Lo attempt to break a record _— ble ‘only by the introduction of so great an element of dan- ger as being dragged along a rail road track by the suction of a locomotive. Amar STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, © VOL. 44 BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 14, 1899. NO. 27. Is The Usurpation To Be Submitted To? it looks very much as if it would prove a case of unexplainable forgetfulness, in- excusable indifference or willful and un- pardonable neglect. We refer to the matter of testing the power of the Governor to prevent, by the veto of a joint resolution, the submission to the judgment of the peo- ple proposed amendments to the constitu- tion looking to a change in our system of voting and securing fair elections and an honest return of the same. Of all questions that interest the people of Pennsylvania, and particularly those of Democratic faith, a just registration for the cities and an honest election throughout the State are the most important. For twenty years there has not been a fair election or an honest return of the vote in Pennsylvania. There won't be one so long as the present system of registration is al- lowed, or present methods of voting and making returns submitted to. These will not, or cannot, be changed until the con- stitution is changed. It was to secure this that the Democrats and Independents in the last Legislature joined efforts and passed the resolution submitting to the people the question of changing the con- stitution, and it was to defeat such a change and insure a continuation of the frauds and false returns, that we are now, compelled to submit to, that Governor STONE vetoed it. His action was without precedent or the shadow of authority—an outrage upon the rights of the people and a usurpation of power unprecedented and unbearable. Every lawyer in the Commonwealth who has given a thought to the question, is de- cided in his belief that the Governor’s action is without authority and is void and of no effect; every judge who has been consulted in the matter is of the opinion that his veto was an assumption of power unauthorized by law and unwarranted by precedent. Untested this veto stands, and false reg- istration, fraudulent elections and manip- ulated returns, continue. Tested before the cours it falls and the Secretary of State will be compelled tosubmit the question of amending the constitution to the people for their ratification or rejection. Why is this test not made? ‘Why is no action begun or taken in this most important matter? Even if there were no higher motives to work for than partisan benefits these should induce the Democratic State Committee, or those at the head of the organization, to take immediate steps towards securing a judicial determination as to the power of the Governor to prevent the people making such changes in their organic law as they see proper. The honor of the State, the rights of the people, the hopes of Democracy, all demand that this be done. Where is Mr. RILLING or what is a chairman for if not to come to the front when the people’s rights, the state’s honor and the party’s opportunities are all in the balance? Where is Mr. GUFFEY that he does not prevail on Chairman RILLING to take immediate and peremptory action in this matter? ” It is important to them as well as to the party and the people that this be done. Forgetfulness, indifference or neglect when such a vital question awaits action, will neither be excused nor condoned. Quay’s New Comedy. The political comedy with which ex- Senator QUAY isat the present time divert- ing the public mind of Pennsylvania is meritorious on account of its simplicity. The object, of course, is to delude the peo- ple and while it is a matter of amazement that they can be deceived by so heartless an expedient, the indications are that it is working like a charm. The success of the scheme is especially marked among the so- called insurgents. They are grabbing at the bait with the alacrity of ‘‘suckers’ that have heen starving for some time in a private fish pond. As a matter of fact they are actually sympathizing with QUAY on account of what seems to them the heartless treachery of DURHAM and PENROSE, and ANDREWS, and ELKINS and others ‘‘too numerous to mention,’’ as they say on the advertising bill of a vendue. JOHN WANA- MAKER can’t conceive how these men can be so cruel to dear Mr. QUAY after he has served them so faithfully and all of Mr. WANAMAKER’S followers concur in his views on the subject, as they are obliged to do in everything else in order to get the advertisements and other perquisites of the big store. This is QuAY’s new comedy: The ‘‘old man’’ has had various and sundry kinds of trouble lately and these accumulating hor- rors threatened to put him out of the game of politics altogether. To avert that result he got up an imaginary quarrel between himself and his several lieutenants. In the first place he caused to he published a statement that he favors the nomination of the Hon. J. HAY BROWN, for justice off; the supreme court. Some time previous] yl he had assured Congressman CONNELL, of ackawanna countythat Judge ARCHIBALD would be ‘‘appointed’’ to that position on the ticket and the subsequent announce- ment of a preference for Mr. BROWN was intended to obliterate the brand of QUAY- ism from ARCHIBALD’S judicial brow. Then the other actors in the comedy ap- pear on the stage. ‘‘JiM’’ MITCHELL of Jefferson county prances in, leading Judge HARRY WHITE, of Indiana county, and makes a neat little speech about that gen- tleman’s great services to the country as soldier, jurist, and statesman. ‘‘This good man and true,’’ observes Senator ‘JIM’? in his most persuasive tones, ‘‘not only put down the rebellion and freed four millions of slaves, but after eluding the pursuit of thousands of bloodhounds when he escaped from Libby prison, arrived in Harrisburg just in time to prevent the northern enemies of the country from permanently capturing Pennsylvania and annexing it to the hated Southern confederacy. Hold up your left hind foot, HARRY,’ continued Senator “‘J1y,”’ ‘‘and allow the gentlemen to see the tooth-marks of the bleod-hound which reached you just as you were crawl- ing through the fence that divided the North from the South on that momentous occasion.”’ Of course, HARRY responds prop- erly and he and JIM leave the stage by the right exit, and, in turn, ANDREWS comes on with his little man HENDERSON, SMILEY with his judicial aspirant and others to the number of half a dozen. The supers, there- upon come forward in a body and shout “it is free-for-all, and what a shame that good Mr. QUAY is not allowed to have his way in a little matter of this kind. Itis positively ungrateful and altogether too bad.” Meantime Mr. QUAY goes off to Florida, where the mint is luxuriant and the other ingredients abundant, and the insurgent press renders a lovely chorus, the substance of which is, that QUAY’s friends have abandened him and that poor man deserved kinder treatment. Pompous and ponder- ous Senator GRADY responds to this dem- onstration by assuring the audience that he is still “faithful to his Poll,”’ but GRADY never was convincing and the chorus is not only repeated hut strengthen- ed in volume. Next WANAMAKER sings a solo in which the unwise policy of the McKINLEY administration is condemned in emphatic terms and that brings CHARLES Emory SMITH to the footlights for an oration on’ the beauties of imperialism. ‘“The king can do no wrong’’ pipes Mr. SyiTH ‘‘and therefore we must have a king and who is so like the greatest of all the great emperors as my master WILLIAM McKINLEY.” This unexpected incident, as might have been known, precipitated a row and while that was going on QUAY returned, grabbed up the preperty, judicial nomination, winked the other eye and the curtain fell. Another Shake ot the “Plum Tree.” It was a good day for the ‘‘Plum Tree’ watchers on Monday last. Fruit fell in abundance, but only the few were permit- ted to gather what the bosses were success- ful in shaking down. Nineteen supervisors of census and a dozen or more positions in the army and navy dropped into the out- stretched aprons of the favorites whose tags gave assurance of such subservency to the will and dictation of the ring as its in- terests demand. This was the one and only qualification required. In many cases the census and other public interests will be compe'led to look out for themselves, or sony jr “vie appointees will make a differ- ent record from that which past perfor- mances would indicate. But then, incom- petency in office, or unfaithfulness to public duties is nothing new in Pennsylvania, so long as the receiver of the salary is useful and loyal to the boss. Districts and appointees are as follows: First, Philadelphia city and county—Harry D. Beaston, Philadelphia, Pa. Second, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgom- ery—D. Smith Talbot, West Chester. Third, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton—Harry G. Seip, Easton. Fourth, Lackawanna, Monroe, Pike—John R. Edwards, Scranton, Fifth, Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming—Charles H. Ainey, Montrose. Sixth, Columbia, Luzerne—Charles A. Durrant, Wilkesbarre. Seventh, Berks, Schuylkill—H. Grant Reitzell, Mahanoy City. Eighth, Lancaster, York—A. F. Shenck, Lan- caster, Nineth, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, Perry —Jas. M. Barnett, New Bloomfield. Tenth, Centre, Clearfield, Montour, Northum- berland, Snyder, Union—H. A. Reed, Sunbury. Eleventh, Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tiago—Milford H. Stebbins, Wellsboro. Twelfth, Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Hunting- don, Juniata, Mifflin — Charles Andrew Zerbe, Lewistown. Thirteenth, Bedford Blair, Cambria, Somerset —George R. Scull, Somerset. Fourteenth, Clarion, Elk, Forrest, Jefferson, McKean. Warren—J. L. Allison, Punxsutawney. Fifteenth, Crawford, Erie, Venango—William B. Sterrett, Titusville. Sixteenth, Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland —George W. Youngson, Parnassus. . Seventeenth, Fayette, Greene, Washington— Frank N. Fuller, Uniontown. Eighteenth, Allegheny connty—James M. Ess- ler, Tarentum, Nineteenth, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer —James A, McMillen, Harlanshurg Dewey as a Witness. The Philadelphia North American asks the President to free Admiral DEWEY from all restraints of speech, on his arrival in this country, to the end that he may give the public his candid opinion on the true Philippine situation. The cause of the war? Who is to blame for the failure of General OT1s’ campaign ? What should be the policy of the United States toward the Philippines when the war ends? Are they fit for self- government, or must we hold them as a subject people? These are pertinent ques- tions upon which the people are entitled to every possible information. But how absurd to submit to Admiral DEWEY, even if it were possible to interrogate him under the circumstances proposed. Admiral DEWEY could give accurate in- formation with regard to conditions in the Philippines at the time he left there, but that was before the rainy season set in. He could probably estimate them with considerable accura¢y from his experience there last year, though there was no Ameri- can army there then, no insurrection and ‘no fighting. DEWEY could give a vast amount of information concerning the cause of the war. It was he who prevailed on AGUINALDO to return to the Philippines about a year ago, and he consequently knows what promises were made to the natives and how nearly they have been fulfilled or how grossly violated. He might also give some valuable information as to the cause of the failure of General OTIS’ campaign. But Admiral DEWEY, great as he is as a naval fighter and grand as he may be as a ship commander, could give no adequate or valuable answer to the questions ‘what should be the policy of the United States toward the Filipinos when the war ends?’ or ‘‘are they fit for self-government, ‘or must we hold them asa subject peo- ple?’ These are problems to be solved by statesmen and not by fighters either on land or sea. PHIL. SHERIDAN was a great soldier and a popular man in his time, but he insulted public intelligence and out- raged patriotism by asking the anthority of the President to declare the people of Louisiana bandits because they wouldn’t cheerfully acquiesce in the outrages per- petrated on them by the carpet-baggers. A better witness on the subject, though probably a less candid and honest one, would be JOHN BARRET, late United States minister to Siam. That gentleman who was present when Admiral DEWEY in- duced AGUINALDO to return to the Philip- pines and become the ally of the United States in the war against Spain, states in an article in the current number of the Review of Reviews that the Filipinos are good men and that their leader admired and loved the Americans. He adds that AGUINALDO ‘‘believed that it was not the intention of the United States to hold the islands in actual sovereignity, but that when the Spaniards were conquered the Filipinos would be given freedom and in- dependence at once.”’ If that is true these same savages have been deceived, and the present war against them is an atrocity unequalled in the histery of civilization. ——The QUAY people do not need the vote or support of the two delegates from this county in the state convention. They have now over two-thirds of that body and by the time it meets will have over three- fourths. For what purpose then is the fight here in Centre county? Can it be possible that it is made solely to. humiliate and de- feat ex-Governor HASTINGS? To a fellow on the outside it locks wondrously that way. The State Campaign. The Republicans of this State are deter- mined to fight the coming campaign on national issues. That is they will nominate one of the heroes of the Philippine war for State Treasurer, make a blood-and-thunder platform and insist that the success of the ticket will be essential to the proper sup- port of the McKINLEY administration. This they regard as good politics and they are all great politicians. The Democrats may well welcome such an issue of the Republican convention. It will be a practical confession of the charges made against the administration of the State and the Republicans who are re- sponsible for it. But it does not follow that the Democrats will accept the guage of battle thus thrown down. In the Demc- cratic platform the lines of the battle are laid down and their lines will be fol- lowed. The Democrats might accept battle ‘on the issues proposed by the Republicans, if they were relevant. But the Supreme and Superior court judges and the State Treas- urer to he elected will have nothing to do with the policies of the Federal govern- ment. But they have a great deal to do with the issues in which the people of Pennsylvania are concerned and they will keep to those lines. —It is only a week from next Tuesday people hereabents will be upon them in all its calamitous proportions. that the calamity thas is sure to befall some. Piling Up the Expenses. From the Baltimore Sun. From July 1st, 1898, to June 30th, 1899, the expenditures of the Government, ac- cording to estimates prepared by the Treas- ury Department at Washington, will aggre- gate $600,000,000. The receipts of the Government during this period approxi- mate $500,000,000, leaving a deficit of about $100,000,000. But for the increased inter- nal revenue taxes the deficit would be much larger. The receipts from internal revenue in the preceeding fiscal year were $171,000,- 000. This year, with the war taxes, they will amount to nearly $100,000,000 more. The receipts from all sources for the fiscal year 1898 amounted to $405,000,000, and there was a deficit of $38,000,000. With the increased taxation and the bond issues, we had piled up a deficit in the last two years of $138,000,000, and the end is not yet in sight. Including $20,000,000 paid to Spain for the Philippine Islands, our naval and military operations since July 1st, 1898, have cost us about $230,000,000, or nearly $750,000 for each day in the year, excluding Sundays. This is a fair statistical picture of what our expan- sion policy is costing us. 4 This year we have paid for pensions about $139,000,000. and every day the war in the Philippines is prolonged will add to the pension roil. The increased expense on this account will be due not so much to the killed and wounded, although the num- ber is far too large for a policy of ““henevo- lent assimilation.”’ Thousands of men whe have ecaped wounds will probably suffer with impaired health for the remainder of their lives, and, according to our pension laws, they will be entitled to bounty from the Government, which sent them across | the Pacific to a country in which the cli- mate is more deadly than the enemy’s bul- lets. It is safe to estimate that if the war in Luzon should end immediately, the ex- pense to this Government before the Fili- pines in other islands are completely paci- fied will aggregate $300,000,000. It is mere cant to say that we have: promoted the interests of humanity by expending this immense sum in waging a war of conquest: As to the promised trade extenSion, it has been dearly bought at such a price. Many years must pass before we even get back the interest on the principal invested in the Philippines, and the American people as a body will not share in any of the pro- fits. These will go to the contractors and the war syndicate, while American taxpay- ers will be allowed the privilege of making good the deficits which are unavoidable un- der our new policy. Could Speak of the Don. From the North American. What is the truth about the whole Phil- ippine situation? What caused the war? Who is to blame for the failure of Gen- eral Otis’ campaign? 4 What should be the policy of the United States towards the Filipinos when the war ends? Are they fit for self-govern- ment, or must we hold them as a subject people? There is one man to whom this nation would listen with the profoundest respect were he at liberty to speak fully in an- swer to these questions. His judgment would be taken as decisive by nine-tenths of his fellow countrymen. That man is Admiral Dewey. Were President McKinley to free the Admiral from all the customary official restraints and formally invite him to ad- dress the nation with entire frankness on this subject, about which he knows more than anybody else, the President would do a timely and a very wise thing. The censorship has withheld facts which ought now to be put into the possession of the American people, who must in the end be the judges to pass upon what has heen done and to determine what shall be done hereafter. Let Admiral Dewey speak. A Boom That Looks Like : a Blizzard. From the Pennsylvania Methodist. Booms such as we are now enjoying are usually characterized by the formation of trusts, syndicates and various other combi- nations for the purpose of securing a corner on labor, on the raw material, and at the same time on the helpless consumer. The formation is the signal for the massing of labor and for strikes, culminating in bitter feuds between capital and labor, and in great loss to the community at large. ‘‘During three years of the hardest times we heard little of strikes or strikers, but they are in evidence today in nearly every state in the Union. ‘The booming times so lavishly canon- ized by Dunn and Bradstreet are largely confined to the trusts and syndicates. The average citizen finds just about as much trouble to make ends meet as when the hard times were the hardest. “It may turn out that there is not so very much difference after all between a Cleveland blizzard and a McKinley boom as some people imagine. ‘‘Confidence has been restored.’’ The definition of confi- dence is “Trust.’”” The charters granted in New Jersey every day show that ‘‘confi- dence’ has been restored.’’ A Shame, But It’s the Demands of Im- perialism., From the Lancaster Examiner. ‘‘Nebraska’s regiment now serving in the Philippines wants to come home. Of 1200 men who sailed from San Francisco about 400 are left in shape for duty. The rest are dead or in the hospitals; their colo- nel was slain foremost in a desperate bat- tle, and most of the companies are but phantoms, gathered grimly around the col- ors. That regiment deserves quick passage home, if it really wants it, and deserves all the best that Nebraska and the whole country can award it. Such men are a glory and an honor to any nation, but if they must face bullets in the Philippines why not send enough to end the matter without such slaughter? The present situ- ation in Luzon is strongly reminiscent of the words uttered by a Mohawk chief when Braddock’s men marched to Fort Duquesne and to their graves: ‘‘If they are to fight they are too few, if they are to he killed Spawls from the Keystone. —J. T. Gudykunst, of Renovo, in three —In a house-wagon of his own construe- tion, John Oleson, an Altoona paper-hanger, has started Eastward on a trip around the world. —Gertrude Spicer, a Scottdale miss of the tender age of 17, has been committed to the Greensburg jail, accused of being a common scold. —Postmaster R. N. Roberts’ salary at Renovo has been increased from $1,600 to $1,700 on account of the increased business of the postoffice. —The heaviest man in-the state is believed to be butcher. George Abel, of Allentown. He weighs 453 pounds and adds to his avoirdupois every day. —A site has been chosen for the new gov- ernment building to be erected at Altoona, at the northeast corner of Eleventh street and Chestnut avenue. —The first shipment of silk from the Lock Haven silk mill was made Saturday. There were 5,000 yards in the lot which was con- signed to New York. —Mrs. Jas. Platt, of Union Mills, Indiana county, a young wife of 16 years gave birth to four daughters. Three have since died, but the fourth will probably live. —Judge John Kennedy Ewing has donated a magnificent flve acre tract of land valued at $30,000 in Uniontown as a site for the new library the town is trying to secure. —One hundred Philadelphia,” New York and Pittsburg sportsmen have arranged to buy 5000 acres of woodland at Beaver Dams, in Blair and Huntingdon counties,for a game preserve. —Delos Dolliver and John Nagle, of Ridg- way, have secured a contract for cutting 100,- 000,000 feet of timber near Pinola, N. C. Tbey may possibly secure additional con- tracts, which will last ten years. —On July 5th the factories of the Amer- ican Axe and Tool company at Mill Hall commenced running on double time and: the output was increased to 1,500 axes per day. The number of hands will be increased but the force will not be doubled. —The State Teachers’ association at Gettysburg decided to hold next year’s meet- ing at Williamsport. Col. J. A. M' Passmore, of Philadelphia, was chosen president; Dr. J. R. McCaskey, of Lancaster, secretary, and David S. Keck, of Kutztown, treasurer. —The annual reunion of the Twenty-sec- ond Pennsylvania cavalry will be held this year at Mount Union, Huntingdon county, on the 27th of the present month. There will be three sessions:—morning, afternoon aud evening. A free dinner will be served to all old soldiers present. —The Bloomsburg car manufacturing com- pany is working on an order of steel flat cars for a railway in China. The cars are thirty- four feet long, with 60,000 pounds capacity. The first train of these cars will be hauled to Jersey City July 10th, and will be taken from there by vessel to China. —A. E. Patton, of Curwensville, has the contract of building the branch road from Reynoldsville to Hopkins mill in Jefferson county, a distance of three miles, and work on grading was begun last week. No heavy grading or deep cuts will be required on the work but two bridges will be erected. —John B. Smith, of Vail, while making up a train in the Tyrone yards, Saturday,had his right arm caught between the deadwoods of the two cars and crushed so severely that amputation was necessary. Smith is a mem- ber of the Sheridan Troop and served with his company at Mt. Gretna and Porto Rico. —Philip Nitch, of near Sulphur Spring, Somerset county, accidentally shot himself Saturday evening, injuring himself so badly that he died two hours later. He was drag- ging his shotgun through a fence when the weapon was discharged and a ghastly wound was made in his side. He was 20 years of age. —\While blasting rock for the new Meth- odist Episcopal church at Lewistown, Mon- day afternoon, James Arnold ard James Wike were caught under a fall of stone. Arnold was instantly killed and crushed be- yond recognition, and Wike received frac- tures of the skull and had his legs badly crushed. —Dr.D. J. Reese, of Renovo, removed from the foot of fireman John Dumm, of Sun- bury. a piece of a knife blade that had been in his foot for eighteen years. While fish- ing one day Mr. Dumm threw the knife to the ground, but it struck his foot, and when withdrawn the blade broke off. The foot has given him a great deal of pain. —While Miss Emma Dintler, of Muncy, was descending the cellar steps she slipped and fell to the bottom. It was found she was injured quite badly and surgical aid was summoned. He injuries were quite severe, one ear being nearly torn off, a large gash in the back of the head, her skull was fractured slightly and she had numerous bruises about the body. —At a meeting of the directors of the Key- stone Normal school, at Kutztown, Prof. N. C. Schaeffer, state superintendent of schools, was unanimously elected principal of the school, to take the place of Prof. Geo. B. Hanscher. It is not known whether Professor Schaeffer will accept. He is now in Los Angeles, Cal., attending the Teachers association but it has long been known that he and Governor Stone cannot agree, —Mrs. Catharine Forsythe, of Derry town- ship, Mifflin county, was in Lewistown last Friday on a shopping expedition. She was driving in a buggy and on leaving the town her horse began kicking as the lady leaned forward. She was struck in the face by the’ animal’s hoof with the result that both her eye balls were burst and all the bones of the nose and back of the nose and throat crush- ed. She will not likely recover. —Jesse Butler, the aged farmer of near Braeburn, Westmoreland county, who was fatally injured by a mad bull last Thursday, died Saturday. Mr. Butler was passing through a field in whith the bull was pastur- ing, when the animal attacked him. The old man had a garden Moe in his hand, and he bravely fought the animal until the hoe was broken to pieces. After a desperate struggle the old man fell from exhaustion and the mad brute trampled him until he they are too many.” ¢ became unconscious. day’s fishing at Round Island caught 87 bass.
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