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Demonnali ia
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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—CROKER’S change of front is likely to
give AUGUST BELMONT a pain.
— If BRYAN accomplishes nothing more
by his trip to Kentucky he will certainly
be brevetted a colonel.
—It will be but the matter of a few days
until the ice cream festival will extend the
hand of welcome to the oyster supper and
usher it in as the replenisher of church and
secret society treasuries.
—The ruling of the Philadelphia park
commissioners whereby they prohibit the
use of horseless vehicles in Fairmount park
shows them to be as bad off for horse sense
as the automobile is for a horse itself.
—BRYAN says ‘‘the platform should fit
the party and the candidate should fit the
platform’ and right he is. Let there be
no question as to the Democracy of both
and there will be no trouble about the fit.
—The inconsistency of Pennsylvania
Republicans who elected a state ticket sev-
eral years ago on a platform that demand-
ed a circulation of $40 per capita is seen
when they kick at a policy that proposes
far less.
—The DREYFUS trial seems to be little
more than an official license for men to air
their views on everything under the sun,
except the question at issue. The French
idea as to the relevancy of testimony must
be very comprehensive, to say the least.
—What the new Secretary of War wants
to do more than anything else is to keep
Rooting until he has the last trace of
ALGERism removed from that Department.
The smallest portion of that diseased regime
is enough to contaminate the whole army
organization.
‘If Mr. MARK HANNA or Mr. Presi-
dent McKINLEY would only include a lit-
tle rain in this prosperity deal they are
making Centre county pumpkins might be
saved from looking like Egyptian mummies
and the people have enough water to make
the name of much of this dust mud.
—The tide of political events is begin-
ning to take its way and it looks as if there
would be a united Democracy to fight
against trusts and expansion and a single
gold standard. Most of the old luke-warms
are getting back under the banners that
will be arrayed against McKINLEYism.
— Attempting the assassination of the
lawyers who are defending him will not
help the case against DREYFUS. France
evidently sees that a shameful army
scandal is about to be exposed and prefers
to exterminate the Jew, with all of his
friends, to having such a disgrace brought
home to her.
— Well, the great fight has almost passed
into history already. There are still a few
“jags” floating around that canbe run
back to the bottles of one or the other side,
but, on the whole, things are very quiet
and we have heard it rumored that the
vanquished would be willing to forgive and
forget if they were assured of being placed
on the calling list out at the mansion.
—ToM REED and RICHARD CROKER
came home from Europe on the same boat
and as soon as the Tammany chieftan had
landed he had himself interviewed on
BRYAN; stating that he thinks the fearless
free silver leader to be a great man. The
five day’s association with the Czar of the
Republican party probably brought CROKER
to a realization of the nobility of the prin-
ciples for which BRYAN is fighting.
—Let us see. The Republicans are in
charge at Washington just now and didn’t
the Philadelphia Press of Monday, state
that most of the mob that made up that
Alexandria lynching party was from the
capitol city? Strange, isn’t it? The
wonder is that the Press didn’t try to make
it appear that the lynchers were Texans,
Louisianians, or citizens from some other
one of the Democratic southern States.
—The DREYFUS trial has developed the
fact that the French can fire up over the
milkiest kind of language. Now the
papers were full of the great excitement
that DREYFUS caused when he said to
MERCIER, who was ‘on the stand, ‘‘you
ought to tell the truth.”” Why those very
mild words nearly caused a revolution in
France and the question arises in our mind,
‘ what would have happened if they had
heard SAM MILLER the morning after the
Republican primaries in this county?
—The flood of contributions from the
United States is sweeping over Puerto Rico
in gladsome contrast with the great tidal
wave that carried so much of desolation to
that island only a week ago. Of course the
expansion organs are making a great ado
about this munificence of the new owners of
Puerto Rico, in contrast with what might
have been expected from Spain, but dare
one of them intimate that COLUMBIA would
not have held out the succoring hand of
charity to the distressed, no matter whose
possession Puerto Rico might have been.
—The town council of Bellefonte went
on record as in favor of charging distressed
farmers 15cts. a barrel for water when every
day of the year there are 448,272 barrels
flowing out over the flood gates at the beau-
tiful spring that gave the town its name.
Nature was lavish with Bellefonte. Of the
21,024,000 gallons that the spring pours
out every 24 hours we consume only 1,300,-
000 when our greatest needs are drawing
upon the great spring. The enormous over
flow goes to waste and Bellefonte council-
men have actually gone to such an extreme
as trying to realize 15cts. out of a few bar-
rels of it that are needed by thirsty people
and animals.
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CUTICTAL
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. aA
_VOL. 44 BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 18, 1899. NO. 32.
Would Make an Object Lesson.
It is not probable that the War Depart-
ment will make general distribution of its
new map of Luzon island, at least for some
time yet. That publication, if sent broad-
cast over the country, would knock thunder
out of the claims of the administration that
its war, on the Filipinos, has been a sticcess
and that it is nearing a glorious(?) con-
clusion. The map is four feet square and
shows none of the islands of the Philippine
group except that of Luzon. To appreci-
ably understand what we have secured and
accomplished hy the payment of $20,000,-
000 to Spain and the active and fearless ef-
forts of an army of twenty-five thousand
brave and determined men, in nine months
it is but necessary to place a child’s hand
on this map so that the lower part of the
palm covers the city of Manila when it is
seen that the balance of it covers all the
territory now under our control.
An object lesson of this character ought
to open the eyes of the people, and for the
very reason that it would is the reason why
there need be no expectation of a general
distribution of these maps. It is not infor-
mation that this administration is distrib-
uting to the people. It ‘‘blue pencils”
information, and contents itself with the
belief that they are satisfied with promises,
professions and expectations. To some ex-
tent this maybe true.
But there will be an awakening.
It will come when the people un-
derstand how persistently and determinded-
ly they have been deceived. How infor-
mation has been withheld from them,
and the truth distorted by governmental
censors, until they have been led to be-
lieve that a war that has scarcely begun is
ready to be closed. It will be impressed
upon them when they realize just what the
War Department’s map shows, that it is as
near over as a baby’s hand will cover a
square of five feet; that it is costing them
over $200,000,000 a year, and that when it
is over and everything it brings is gathered
under our flag that all put together—
glory, hemp, naked niggers, chattering
chinese, cannibals, earthquakes, Filipinos
and the wholesunbaked outfit—it won’t be
worth the one. twentieth part of the
money it has cost, to say notaing of the
valuable lives that have been thrown away,
and the inyplidsand, the pensions. that are
to follow. ;
As an object lesson this map would prove.
a blooming success. But the trouble is if
won’t be given circulation. ’
When GEORGE SCHOLL gets to figur-
ing over the vote of the recent Republican
county convention he will discover that he
was actually nominated for county com-
missioner, but had to be turned down at
the order of the boss and that is probably
the reason the clerks disagreed in their
tally.
An Unexplainable Cut in Wages.
On Monday a most startling and what,
at this distance, seems a most unwarranted
cut in the wages paid workers in the beam
yard of the Cambria Steel Company at
Johnstown occurred. The reduction is
said to be from 75 to 80 per cent. and is be-
lieved to be the greatest ever made at one
time at any works of this kind in this
country. Why it was done is not made
public, the management refusing to make
any explanation. That it should be done
just when the iron business is enjoying the
boom it now is, and when those engaged
in it are reaping a harvest of profits such
as has never before been hoped for is what
seems, to those acquainted with the situa-
tion, so exceedingly strange. :
The clear profit on every pound of iron
turned out both from the furnace and the
finishing mill has reached figures that
should satisfy the most gluttonous
of money makers. It is clean, clear profit,
far above the expectation of any investor,
and so promising of continuation that
those who are enjoying it pretend to be
anxious to make additional investments in
the same line that they may enjoy it the
more.
Can there be a cloud on the horizon of
this iron boom that the public can not see,
but that those best informed on matters
pertaining to it discern, and are preparing
to meet ?
Can it he that in the hour of its
prosperity corporate greed is beginning a
policy that is sure to produce strikes,
distress and destruction? Is this a feeler
of the pulse of labor for other great con-
cerns, or what does it mean ?
Surely there must be some other reason
than a greed for greater profits underlying
such action as this iron company has
taken. If there is not, if this reduction is
but to add to the already unparalleled
profits of a mammoth concern; to take from
the mouth of labor the bread the prosperity
of the country should assure it, that cor-
porate greed may be satisfied, then there
should be no protection for that capital
when the day of its tribulation comes.
There are times when reductions in
wages are excusable and must be made.
But these are not that kind of times in the
iron business. :
Sitting Down on the Old Soldier.
It is useless, we know, as a way of con-
vincing the ‘‘old soldier’’ that Republican
promises are not to be relied upon, to point
to instances of comrades being ousted from
place to make positions for able bodied
civilians, but such instances are a good
thing to Have on record and for that reason
we take up the little space this item occu-
pies.
The fact that Governor STONE, who made
such loud profession of friendship for the
boys in blue, has already discharged eleven
of them from positions about the capitol
hill, and filled nine of the places with
men who were never near the army will
possibly not change the mind of any vet-
eran, but it certainly should show the in-
consistency of Governor STONE and the
folly of depending on the promises and
professions of the Republican ring. If it
don’t even do this, it will, at least, open the
eyes of some to see that when the ring
wants a thing it wants it, and when it has
the power and don’t need their votes, it
will take a place from a crippled soldier as
soon as from any one else.
Eleven old soldiers turned out and nine
heelers and howlers put in their places is
not a commendable record for a soldier
Governor who plastered himself over with
flags in order to secure votes. Itisa rec-
ord which, if made by a Democratic officiai,
would furnish issues for a dozen campaigns.
The G. A. R. would be up in arms, its
flags flying and its patriotism boiling from
one end of the State tc the other and there
would be neither rest nor quiet until such
a wrong was righted and such an ‘‘out:
rage’’ duly and effectively redressed.
But we presume it is all right when a
Republican Governor commits a wrong of
this character. At least we don’t see that
those persons who are always taking care
of the ‘‘old soldier,”’ or those papers that
have so much to say about them when they
want votes, are worrying anything about
the eleven old veterans who have been turn-
ed out by Governor STONE. In fact we
have not seen that any Republican has
raised his voice against it or that the G.
A. R, in any part of the State has even
bothered endugh to pass resolutions con-
demning his action. For .this reason we
must be.
——It may be a mistake in vision, or it
may be a wrong conclusion as to situations,
but at this distance every finger board,
along the way the Philadelphia Record
seems determined to travel, appears to
point directly towards the spot where the
McKINLEY camp will be located in 1900.
A Prolific Subject.
The return of RICHARD CROKER to this
country must be a great relief to the Re-
publican press just at this time. In fact,
if we are to judge by results, it is a kind of
a political God-send. The way things are
running with the administration, the chang-
ing and squirming and dodging of policies
and positions has left the horn blowers of
the party in power, so to speak, in a hole.
They don’t know what to say or what to
rant about. They don’t know what to de-
fend or what to denounce. And then the
awakening suspicion that Mr. McKINLEY’S
ways and Mr. McKINLEY’s ideas may not
be the ways.and ideas that will do to pre-
sent to the people in 1900, so encompasses
them about with silence on all subjects
connected with this administration that
these purveyors of news, these diserimina-
tors of ideas, are actually run dry for some-
thing to talk about.
CROKER’S return relieves them. He is a
never failing well in the desert waste of
ideas for them. Out of and through him
they can conjure up columns of stuff for a
gullible public that under a different con-
dition of affairs would neither be thought
of nor tolerated.
For the time the Philippine war, the
financial question, Mr. BRYAN’s actions,
southern lynchings, Mr. McKINLEY’S
morning rides and all such matters will be
allowed to take a rest, for CROKER is
back and the ‘‘crookedness of CROKER’’
and the *‘toughness of Tammany?’ will give
thought and inspiration and new life to the
columns of these journals.
Whenever Republican papers run dry
for a subject and have reason to try to
befog the public mind they invariably fall
back on BRYAN or CROKER and Tammany.
They have had BRYAN all summer.
CROKER is comparatively new and the read-
ing public may know exactly what to ex-
pect for months to come. Look out and
listen for CROKER.
——Mirs. LANGTRY, the English actress
has taken another boy to raise. She has
been married to HUGO GERALD DE BATHE,
a 28 year old, who “‘led”’ the beauty to the
altar. It wasn’t quite necessary for the
telegram to state that she ‘‘was led to the
altar,” for everybody knows LiLy. well
enough to know that she could find it blind
folded, if she were to be set down three
miles distant from a strange church.
take it that both the Republican peopleand [4
‘Republican: soldiers are satisfied and we
The One Question.
What part the Independents propose
taking in the coming campaign seems to be
the one thing that a few of the Democratic
leaders and papers are bothering consider-
ably about just now. What the Democrats
are doing or are going to do is the matter
that should most concern them at this time.
For, after all, if this State is to be saved
from the further disgrace of ring rule; if its
offices are to be run in the interest of the
people; if the collar of the boss is to be tak-
en from the necks of those who administer
its affairs; if we are to have a government
of the people for the people, in place of a
government by QUAY for QUAY and his
henchmen, it must come by and through
the efforts of the Democratic voters.
The Independents may be all right, or
they may be all wrong. If they are right,
it is so much the better. If they are wrong
it is only so much more work for the Dem-
ocracy.
But whether they are right or wrong the
one great vital question is—are the Demo-
crats at work ? Are they organizing? Have
they perfected and adopted a system of or-
ganizations that will reach to the humblest
voter in the State; that will secure his reg-
istration, see that his taxes are paid, have
him cast his vote and not let up until the
vote is properly counted; and on the other
hand will be prepared to prevent fraudu-
lent registration and repeating in the cities
and false counting wherever attempted.
Has anything been done looking to these
ends? This is a much more important
question than any query that can arise
about the Independents.
What good will fifty thousand Independ-
ents do at the polls if a hundred thousand
Democrats are left at home? What use for
Republicans who feel the disgrace that
bossism has brought upon the State spend-
ing their time and money to aid us in
changing this condition of affairs, if we off
set their efforts by failing to poll our own
full strength?
These are the matters our leaders should
be considering. And itis full time that
they are considered. There can be no put-
ting off or evading conditions. The people
are right. Public sentiment is right. Con-
ditions are right. Everything is right for
as he has not had since1890, if our organi-
zation is perfected and in the condition it
should be.
Is it in that condition ?
This is the question for the leaders.
What the Independents will do, will nat-
urally depend very largely on what we do
ourselves.
If we can show them that with their help
we can win, we will doubtless have that
help. If we are not in a situation to do
this, what is the use of bothering about
what they propose doing.
Whats the Use.
Now that Mr. QUAY has gotten his own
mind made up as to who shall be placed
upon his state ticket this fall, it will be in
order for the Republican press and the Re-
publican people to make up their minds
very quickly that the men he has named
are the indentical chaps they have been
aching to support. It took Mr. QUAY a
long time to find out whom he wanted, but
it shouldn’t take the balance of the Repub-
lican party any time to know who it wants.
Its wants are just what Mr. QUAY’S wants
are. He thinks, and acts, ard speaks for
it. In making up his mind he makes up
the mind of the whole kit-air-kaboodle of
them. And this, possibly, is why he and
ANDREWS and ELKINS have been over-
working themselves down by the sea-side
this summer. Thinking for a big party is
a big job and then when that thinking has
to go; when thereis no appeal allowed;
when the party gives up all thought of con-
sidering anything for itself and puts all the
work on the shoulders of one man there is
an excuse for the time put in doing it.
As Mr. QUAY has finished the job there
is no reason why there should be further
work or worrying about it. In truth, we can-
not see the sense or use in bothering about
a convention next week. Mr. BROWN, Mr.
QUAY has announced, is to be the candi-
date for Supreme court judge. Mr. BAR-
NETT, Mr. QUAY Has concluded, shall be
the nominee for State Treasurer. Mr.
ADAMS, Mr. QUAY says, shall go upon the
ticket as candidate for Superior court judge.
What is the use of anything further?
Why a convention of delegates ?
Why the time and expense of meeting?
The work is already done. Mr. QUAY has
so announced, and Mr. QUAY’S announce-
ment always goes. :
Such is the greatness of Mr. QUAY.
Such the vassalage of the Republican
party.
A ————————y
——There will be a hot time in Phila-
delphia next month, but DEWEY won’t be
there.
——You ought’to take the WATCHMAN.
"giving*the-boss sueh-a politieal shaking up-
A Difference of Opinion.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Ex-Governor Beaver is quoted in empha-
tic disapproval of the project for the erec-
tion of a monument to Governor Curtin,
being opposed to perpetuating the memory
of any man in cold bronze or marble, and
rather inclined to favor a memorial of a
character that would benefit somebody; as,
for example, a public library in the war
governor’s beautiful home town of Belle-
fonte.
General Beaver’s position commends it-
self as sensible, and yet he is not fortunate
in his utilitarian plea for a memorial that
will benefit somebody, for how does he
know whether great benefit may not be
conferred by the heroic figures in cold
bronze or marble, which speak eloquently
to the youth of many lands, inciting the
highest aims and the worthiest ambitions ?
As a new nation we have heen deficient in
such memorials, and we have been rather
over anxious to make up the deficiency by
erecting monuments of indifferent artistic
merit to many more or less examplary and
distinguished men, until it is well enough
that there should be a reaction towards
other forms of memorial.
For towns, any that lack a public libra-
ry, there could hardly be a better form of
memorial to a distinguished citizens, but
the graceful and proper way to do the thing
would be to build the library with a niche
in its front for a bronze or marble figure of
Governor Curtin executed by a sculptor of
the highest standing. :
If the funds are lacking, wait for them.
Monuments are for many generations, and
what is to be done should be well done.
Muehlbronner’s Asininity.
From the Pittsburg Post,
Some of the California papers, just re-
ceived, criticise with severity Mr. Charles
A. Muehlbronner for his reception speeches
to the Tenth, in which they say he indulg-
ed ‘in the exuberance of superheated pa-
triotism and confessed to imperialism as
the direct result of the United States hav-
ing planted the Stars and Stripes upon the
Philippines.” This is given as a sample
of Mr. Muehlbronner’s gush :
‘‘We have come not only for the love we,
who have known you in your homes, bear
monwealth of Pennsylvania appreciates
and recognizes your valiant services for the
ARM OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE.”
And this further extract isin the same
line of imperial absurdity :
‘We have come to bid you a welcome to
this great country, whose dominion your
might and your valor has extended across
the seas to another hemisphere and placed
Old Glory so firmly in the Orient that the
benign influence of our Government will
lift and animate a country that skdll yet
be a garden Spot in”the EMPIRE OF
"AMERICA, and palsy the hand that shall
attempt to lower a flag that cost the life of
an American soldier to place there.’’
Considering that the orator was talking
to a regiment not a man of whom but was
as glad to get away from the Philippines as
he was to do his duty while there, the ex-
travagance is apparent. It covers the jump
from the sublime to the silly.
Secretly Pleased by Gallant Col. Hawkins’
Death.
From the Carlisle Volunteer.
It is shocking to think of, but it is true,
for it crops out in all quarters, that the
Republican machine leaders regard the
death of Col. Hawkins as a fortunate event!
They say it ‘simplifies the nomination for
State Treasurer;’’ that is avoids the con-
test between Hawkins and Barnett, and
thus removes the danger of a split between
Quay and some of his followers. So, while
the people in general are sorrowing over the
the death of a gallant officer who was on
his way home to family and friends, after
arduous and dangerous service in the pes-
tilential swamps of the Philippine islands,
the active Quay machine men are rejoicing
over their unexpected escape from a danger-
ous political situation.
Miles and Root Work in Harmony.
The New Secretary of War Has Quietly Put the Com-
manding General in Actual Command of the Army.
‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Without herald-
ing his policy, Secretary of War Root has
already practically placed Major General
Miles in actual command of the army, and
amicable relations now exist between army
headquarters and the War Department.
Official documents, orders, recommenda-
tions and suggestions are daily sent to the
major general commanding and Gen. Miles
responds with cordiality of co-operation in
every official detail. This is a new depart-
ure. For more thana year no official
communication was held between the War
Department and the major ' general com-
manding except when General Miles for-
mally addressed letters of recommendation
to the Secretary of War, solely for the pur-
pose of keeping his military record free
from attack, but General Miles did not ex-
pect to have his recommendations favorably
received or considered.
All thisis changed now. One of the
older army officers said: ‘‘Secretary Root
has nullified Alger’s order of July 31st tak-
ing the official office of inspector general
from the command of the major general
commanding. Secretary Root did this so
delicately that the general public had no
opportunity to appreciate it. Instead of
instantly revoking Alger’s order, Secretary
Root should see fit to promulgate that or-
der. He will never do so, consequently it
is not necessary for him to revoke the order
and thereby publicly rebuke Alger for his
last spiteful attempt to belittle the com-
manding general. The relations existing
now might have always existed, but for the
fact that Alger stooped to so many little
petty deeds for the purpose of annoying
and humiliating our foremost soldier. Sec-
retary Root is making haste slowly, but he
is doing right and that is all that the army
or the people can ask of him.
——1It you want fine work done of every
description the WATCHMAN isthe place
to have it done.
for you, but also because the great Com-
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Alexander Reed, a well known resident
of Clearfield, fell from his haymow Thurs-
day and was killed.
—It is reported that the receipts of Mr.
Bernauer, the gentlemen who leased his
farm near Gaines to oil drillers, are now
$560 a month.
—A stir has been occasioned in National
guard circles by the announcement that Lieut.
Colonel Clement, of Sunbury, has decided to
make a fight for the office of colonel of the
Twelfth regiment, in opposition to Colonel
Coryell, who has commanded the regiment
for ten years. The election occurs on the
17th.
—Reuben Garies, of Pine station, Clinton
county, recently caught three rattle snakes
near his home. One of them is three and a
half feet long and has thirteen rattles; the
other about three feet long and has seven
rattles and the third isabout the same length
and has nine rattles. One of them is shed-
ding its skin.
—Lightning Friday afternoon struck the
Westmoreland coal company’s barn at Shafton
setting it on fire. Many mules were in the
stable, but they were saved. The wagon and
other sheds about the barn also burned and
the loss is estimated at $5,000. The company
carried a small insurance and they will re-
build at once.
—During a heavy thunder storm near
Grampian, Clearfield county, Friday after-
noon, the large barn on the farm of John
Haley was struck by lightning and totally
destroyed, together with all the crops and a
thoroughbred buil. The barn was nearly
new and the loss will probably reach $1,500,
with an insurance of $500.
—James Scarlet, counsel for the trustees of
the state hospital for the insane at Danville,
wants the name of the Commonwealth to
conjure with, in a proceeding to test the
right of courts to continue sending patients
to that already over crowded institution,
which he says, is nothing ‘more than a place
of detention under the present circum-
stances.
—On last Wednesday a fearful storm of
hail, wind, rain and lightning passed over
the northeastern end of Cambria county, do-
ing terrific damage to crops and farms. Itis
said that the hail was frozen together in
chunks so large that a stroke from one of
them would surely have been fatal. Two
cows were killed by lightning on the farm of
Mrs. Johnson, near Lloydsville.
—Director-of-the-census Merriam has fig-
ured out that he will require a force of 2,
150 employes, including messengers, type-
writers and clerks, to do the work of tabu-
‘lating the census returns in his office at
Washington when the job of actually taking
the census has gotten under way.
The places will be apportioned among the
different States according to population.
Pennsylvania will be given the handsome
allowance of 170.
—During Thursday’s storm lightning
struck the tenant house occupied by John
Koch and family, on the farm of Mrs. J. S.
Tombs, near Jersey Shore. It went through
the entire house. Furniture was moved,
pictures knocked off the walls, and the
things were shaken up generally. A steel
butcher knife, which lay on the kitchen
table, was splitin we. Mr. Koch, his wife
"and child, were shocked and stunned “for
some minutes. Fortunately, the house did
not take fire. :
—A¢t Williamsport Saturday morning two
brothers named Reed, oneabout 12 years old,
were on Lycoming creek fishing. They
were in a boat of their own construction. It
went to pieces. Both boys struggled in the
water until the one rescued the other.
Later in the day the two boys were half way
across the river bridge, when they saw the
Niagara express coming. They both jumped
to the end of the ties, but one fell through
into water fifteen feet below. He would
have been drowned had not a man who was
in a boat near by, dragged him out of the
river.
—John McGuire Sr., of Chestnut street,
Conemaugh, who had been employed by the
Pennsylvania railroad company for the past
forty-five years, was killed near C tower in
the Conemaugh yard at 4.30 Saturday morn-
ing. During the past decade he has been
making two nightly trips along the tracks
between the tower at the Stone Bridge Johns-
town, and the place where he was killed.
He was walking on track No. 2 Saturday
morning and was getting out of the way of
the Morrellville shifter, when a train known
among the railroaders as “Pink Eye” struck
him on track No. 1. His death was instan-
taneous.
—Guy Halsey, a young man who resides
with the family of Morris Wallace, in Law-
rence township, Clearfield county, met with
a serious accident while hauling grain on
Tuesday of last week. He had built his load
and was on the way to the barn, but while
descending a hill the load pushed forward
on the team, which became frightened and
started to run. In his effort to get them
stopped he was thrown from the load for-
ward, and found himself between the load
and the frightened team. One leg was
broken and the other sustained a fracture,
but little better than a clear break. It was
miraculous that the boy was not killed.
—Howard S. Mazarie and Thomas C. Mec-
Kee, Pennsylvania railroad planing mill em-
ployes at Altoona, drove out on the mount:
ain north of that city Friday night intending
to pick berries Saturday. About 2:30 o’clock
Saturday morning they were descending a
steep hill in a thick wood near Dysart’s mill,
McKee walking ahead and lighting the way
with a torch, and Mazarie driving, when the
horse made a sudden plunge forward, knock-
ing McKee down and drawing the bugg
over him. When McKee recovered con-
sciousness he looked for his companion and
found him lying on the road thirty yards
further down the hill. He was bleeding
from the nose and had a wound on the side
of his head above the temple, but was con-
scious. McKee took off” his coat and made a
pillow for the injured man who lived but
half an hour. McKee walked back to the
city and reported the accident te the author-
ities and to the family of the deceased.
Mazarie was 52 years old and leaves a widow
and two children. McKee was painfully
bruised by being knocked down by the horse
and run over by the wagon. He was almost
completely exhausted when he reached Al-
toona Saturday morning.’
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