Demovral atc.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—How’d you like to be the watchman,
How'd you like to be the watchman,
How'd you like to be the watchman,
While “Bill” is in town.
— Things have been looking pretty blue
in Philadelphia the past few days.
—The failure of the corn crop in Centre
county is not likely to affect the business
of the local chiropodists.
— While a September hot spell can only
be of temporary duration for humanity the
poor oyster has to suffer it all winter long.
— DEWEY will sail on Sunday, on his
last run for home, and won’t they have a
—— of a time, when they make Bronx
howl like Rome.
—There were nine thousand people in
the push at Hecla park on Thursday. No-
body complained about not being able to
get into it. The trouble was in getting
out.
—MARK HANNA is coming home from
abroad and you can bet your bottom dol-
lar he won’t think, as REED and CROKER
did when they arrived, that imperialism
isn’t a good policy.
—They say that DEWEY’S one dread in
coming home is that he will be called upon
to make speeches. No, no, Admiral. In
your case actions have spoken louder than
anything you need say.
~The New York World announces that
silver has been forced to the front in Ohio,
and is now on the firing line. There is
one thing very certain if it is, and that is
that it will not run under fire much quick-
er than gold.
—The chestnut crop is reported to be
good, but as yet we have been unable to
discover whether the estimates have been
based on the real thing or those adminis-
tration stories that the war in the Philip-
pines will soon be over.
—OQoM PAurn and Mr. CHAMBERLAIN
are making business good for the stenog-
raphers in England and the Transvaal.
Their correspondence is about as volum-
inous as were Mr. QUAY’s speeches in the
Senate when he was playing obstructionist
in that body.
—1It is very certain that Sir THOMAS
LirToN has none of the DUNRAVEKN blood
in him. He is a gentleman, every inch,
and if his Shamrock outruuns our good Col-
umbia it won’t be doing a thing more than
his native Irish good sense and cordiality
is trying to do to the hospitality he has re-
ceived since landing on this side.
—The atrocious crime of SHARP and
CLINT WRIGHT, the Clearfield county out-
laws, in having burned an old woman’s
feet until she told them where her money
was concealed served its purpose in procur-
ing the booty to them, but. it. made justice
so hot-a-foot too that they are both in jail
now, after three years of evading arrest.
—The national association of bankers in
session at Cleveland on Wednesday en-
dorsed the gold standard. Such a course
was but natural. The bankers are likely
to continue to endorse a policy that has
the most in it for themselves. They do
not pose as philanthropists, never have
done so, nor never will. What they want
is the dearest, scarcist money possible, for
with it they can control the market that
much easier and fix higher rates of interest.
—The extreme selfishness and cold
hearted insinuation of W. D. BARBOUR,
15 Wall street, New York, was displayed
nicely on Wednesday when he said:
“Thanks! I'll do as much for you some
day” to TiMoTHY COMAN, an advertise-
ing solicitor, who had picked up his check
for $20,000 on the street and returned it to
him. As it is not likely that an advertise-
ing agent will ever have enough funds to
draw such a check on the selfish BARBOUR
stands in very little danger of ever being
able to carry out his promise.
—Boss JOHN Y. McK ANE, the man whose
political manipulations of Coney Island
really made the balance of power in New
York State, died at his home on Tuesday
evening. He had only been released from
Sing Sing a short time ago, where he had
served a term for ballot box stuffing. If
McKANE was fit for the heavenly realm
and he should happen to run across the
spirit of Maine’s Plumed Knight up there,
there will likely be trouble among the an-
gelic hosts should he own up to having
been the cause of BLAINE’s defeat, in 1884,
as has been so frequently charged.
-—JULES VERNE’s latest novel is called
the ‘‘Last Will of an Eccentric.”’ It deals
with the States and Territories of the Unit-
ed States which the French author says he
is just as competent to write on as any of
the other subjects he has taken up. As
VERNE has never ventured anything pre-
tentious that has been nearer than the
moon, the centre of the earth or a thousand
leagues under the sea it will be interesting
to see what he intends making of our coun-
try, about which he probably knows as lit-
tle as he does of the other scenes taken for
his stories.
—If the farmers of the State would turn
in and put their fellow husbandman W. 71.
CREASY into the State Treasurer’s office
they would be taking the first step towards
showing that they are conscious of their
over taxed condition. It would be a step
so unmistakable and so demonstrative to
‘the party in power that the evil would be
corrected at once. I,et us hope that they
will do it, instead of voting for the same
old regime, then complaining about misfor-
tune after they have done all they can to
continue it.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Reasons that Should Actuate the
Grangers.
Whether it is the fact or not, the impres-
sion seems to be growing that the Grangers
will,as a body,cast their vote for candidate
CREASY for State Treasurer. There are but
few members of that organization, that one
can speak to on that subject, who do not
express positive opinions as to the necessity
of a change in State Treasury manage-
ment and many of them openiy and frankly
avow their purpose of voting for such a
change.
And why should it not be so? The
treatment they, and other farmers, have re-
céived at the hands of the state ring
should, if they are honest with themselves
and loyal to their own interests, drive
everyone of them into opposition to that
ring or those it would elect to do its bid-
ding.
They are the tax-payers of the State;
the one class of citizens who can neither
escape nor evade the payment of taxes.
Their property is such that it cannot be
hidden from the assessor, as can bonds and
other personal holdings. It is visible to
all and its value is fixed by the same kind
of property that joins it. It goes upon
the tax list and is kept there under any
and all circumstances. It forms the basis
of state valuations and upon it the burdens
of all local taxation fall.
It is an acknowledged fact that the tax-
laws of the State are unfair to the farm-
ers and other real estate owners. For years
the Grangers and farmers generally have
been asking the Legislatures to change and
amend these laws so that the burdens of
taxation would rest equally upon property
of all kinds, and be just to all citizens.
They have gone to no little trouble and no
small expense to prepare and present bills
looking to this end. They have urged and
demanded their passage and have been
promised and have had reason to expect
their enactment into law. But the state
ring controlled the Legislature and corpo-
rate power controlled the state ring.
It was to the interest of the latter that
the laws be left as they are, and the state
ring gave the order that there should be no
change and its Legislature obeyed. No
changes have been made nor will any be
made in the interest of the farmers, as long.
as the ring controls. This they are begin-
ning to realize.
To add to the injustice that the farmers
have been suffering for years, last winter,
when it became necessary to make up for
the profligacy and extravagance of state
management under ring rule, rather than
make corporations and beer brewers pay a
proportion of the additional taxation
needed, the public school appropriation
was reduced one million of dollars, thus
saddling this additional amount upon the
shoulders of the farmers and working men
of the State. It is they who pay the
school tax and any reduction of that fund
is just that much additional for them to
make up.
In this county, where the bulk of taxa-
tion is paid hy the farmers, they must
raise $8,471.62 more than heretofore, be-
cause the ring needed and took that much
of their public school fund to replenish a
treasury it had looted.
Is it to be wondered at that Grangers and
other farmers are getting their eyes open to
the necessity of some change? The won-
der is that political bias has blinded them
so long, and that partisan bigotry has pre-
vented them striking at the ring that has
been robbing them for years, long before
this.
—— When it comes down to a QUAY or-
gan the State College Times is certainly the
real thing. It challenges the Bellefonte
Republican’s right to call itself the ‘official
organ of the party in Centre county’’ and
‘then proceeds to show that the Republican
is not a Republican organ at all. Of course
the question as to which is the ‘‘official’’
representative of the party -will be mooted
as long as there is a contention as to who
owns that organization. As the former
Governor came about as near buying it out,
wholesale, as any body could well do the
title must be vested in him and his organ
be given the distinction of being the “offi-
cial’”’ mouth-piece until such a time as his
ownership can be successfully contested.
——Col. BARNETT, who, by the grace of
Mr. QUAY'’S convention, is the ring’s candi-
date for State Treasurer, has announced
his intention of stumping the State and his
determination to make only national issues
the subject of his talk. Col. BARNETT'S
determination may be cut and dried and a
very determined kind of determination;
but if it beats the determination of the peo-
ple, to know all about the management of
the State Treasury, and to understand ex-
actly how the man who is to run it for the
next two years intends conducting it, it
will need a back-bone without joints and
an effrontery that has neither respect for
the demands of the taxpayers or deference
forthe opinion of the voters.
Does It Well.
General GOBINX is a politician well known
to most of the people of Pennsylvania.
Known to them not for anything good, or
reasonably good, or commendable, that he
has done, but for his everlasting hunting
after office; his eternal hankering after the
fat of official positions, and the amount of
wind he can waste without saying any-
thing. He is one of the stump speakers of
the Republican party who can always be
heard at the front when noise is. relied
upon to offset arguments and bluster has
to be made pass for explanation. He is
the mouth piece the ring has chosen to
speak for it. He will do it well, for when
there is nothing to say GOBIN can say it
more profusely than anyone else. It is to
him that the treasury looters have com-
mitted the task of meeting candidate
CREASY’S charges of malfeasance in the
management of state money. They have
nothing to say and want nothing said, about
these wrongs to the taxpayers, but at the
same time they cannot evade making some
pretense of answering the charges of the
Democratic nominee. They know GOBIN’S
ability to fulfill these requirements, and
have started him out to defend their ad-
ministration. He is doing it to the best of
his ability.
Last week he opened up at the Granger’s
picnic at William’s Grove. He announced
that he was not afraid of state issues and
that he came purposely to answer the asper-
sions of candidate CREASY. When he
got through the farmers had learned that
CREASY had “‘conspired’’ with the Republi-
can insurgents last winter to defeat the re-
election of Senator QUAY; that he had ‘‘as-
sisted in organizing’’ the joint convention of
the House and Senate, when GOBIN ran
away from his duties as chairman of that
body; that he had voted against tax-bills
that the state ring demanded, and that as
a Legislator he had generally acted just as
the people desired he should.
There wasn’t a word about a depleted
treasury; not a word about the failure to
tax corporations and beer brewers; not a
word about junketing bills, or capitol con-
tracts; no reference to crowded clerkships
and padded pay-rolls; no explanation of
the looting of the public school fund, or
no information for the taxpayers on, any
question bearing upon the matters he was
there to talk about.
It was a GOBIN speech all through—
‘sound and fury signifying nothing.” —It
was the kind the ring wanted. It is the
kind and the only kind it can afford to
have made on ‘‘state issues,’’ and it’s the
kind the people may expect, wherever and
whenever they are talked to by Republi-
cans on state treasury questions. GOBIN
is to do that talking and be can talk more
and say less than any wind-bag that gets
on the stump.
—General COXEY having at last struck it
rich in a lead mine in Missouri it is likely
that he will hold onto such a ‘lead pipe
cinch” with far more determination than
he did his white stallion and that army of
hobos he headed toward Washington a few
years ago.
Danger and Disgrace Threatened.
The owner of the mortage on the admin-
istration at Washington—MARCUS AURE-
Lits HANNA—bhaving cleaned himself up
personally in the "baths of Germany, and
purified his physical condition with the lax-
ative waters of European springs, is hurry-
ing back to the United States to take charge
of the Republican forces in Ohio in the cam-
paign for the continuation of McKINLEY-
1sM. If Mr. HANNA had washed the spots
off of his political anatomy, stirred up his
moral liver, or attempted the purgation of
his partisan bowels, there might have been
hope for a better condition of affairs than is
to be expected during the political fight
now on in our neighboring State. As it is
the worst that dirty politics can show is to
be looked for. With HANNA rejuvenated
physically, with the Republican barrel and
official patronage back of him and the hopes
of imperialism in the balance, there is noth- |
ing that deviltry can conceive of, corruption
encompass, or necessity demand, that will
not be resorted too.
In the face of all this, however, Ohio
promises to go Democratic. If it does it
will be a victory of greater importance than
a simple one of correct principle over false
theories and fraudulent professions. It
will be the success of the people over the
debasing attractions of official patronage,as
well as the triumph of honesty and manli-
ness over the cankering corruption and
manhood destroying influence of the briber
and the boss.
Every good citizen should pray for the
deliverance of the people of Ohio, from the
dangers and disgrace that threatens them
throngh HANNA'S return.
——Your taxes must be paid by Oct.
7th. That will be the last day on which
you can pay them, if you want to vote.
See to it that you are not disfranchised hy
unpaid taxes.
pay. FEARON MANN, or any of the workmen
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 8, 1899.
An Honest Bui Indiscreet Confession.
Governor STONE can hereafter be credit-
ed with being honest in the expression of
his belief on some subjects, if he is not
as discreet as other members of his party,
whose views on the same subject coincide
with his. In a letter to the New York
World he admits that ‘‘the Republican
party must take the responsibility for the
organization and protection of trusts,’’ and
frankly asserts that he does ‘‘not see any
cause for alarm in the increase’ of these
monopolies.
It is not, so much what Governor STONE
may say of trusts, or what he may think of
their origin, growth and purposes, that
will attract public attention but thé ad-
mission he makes that holds his own party
responsible for their formation, as well as
for what they are, what they will be and
for what they are intended. It isthe frank-
ness of the man that is to be commended
and it is that same frankness, which, if
practiced by his party generally, would de-
serve for it at least the credit of being con-
sistent, as well as of having the courage to
daddy its own progeny.
Governor STONE may be entirely honest
in his view that ‘‘trusts don’t hurt’’ and
that they are ‘‘simply business organiza-
tions with which politics has nothing to
do,” as he expresses it. If he lived up in
this country he .would see in the dis-
mantled works of the Mann axe factory
just how they hurt some people. Nine
years ago these works were in operation
and were giving employment to from fifty
to sixty skilled workmen. The business
was prosperous and the men were all re-
ceiving good wages. Most of them owned
their own homes and were so situated that
-other laboring men envied them their posi-
tions and the constant and remunerative
employment they had.
The works went into the trust with the
promise of big dividends on the stock that
was given for them. In less than six months
they were dismantled and the ndachinery
removed ard not a day’s work at the same
business has any of all that force of labor-
ers had since.
‘The earnings they had saved have long
since been wasted in the vain effort to find
similar employment elsewhere; the homes
of many of them are broken up, their fami-
lies scattered and they to-day are mostly
day laborers at such work as they can find
and at such wages as the common labor of
the country commands.
As to the stock that was given for the
works, it has been kept practically worth.
1¢ess by those controlling the trust and will
be kept so until it can be purchased: by
them at such figures as they see proper to
who earned an honest and a good living at
the MANNaxe factory, could give Gover-
nor STONE several pointers on how trusts
“‘do hurt" some people. The woodsmen,
and other users of edged tools, will be able
to furnish the same information, when this
monopoly gets its grip solidly on the axe
busin ess all over the country.
Gov. STONE may be excusable for not
knowing how trusts hurt, but he cannot
plead want of knowledge of their connection
with politics. He knows and admits that
it is to the Repu blican party that they are
indebted for their existence and their pro-
tection. He knows, just as well, that it is
to them, and other moneyed syndicates,
that feed and fatten at the expense of indi-
vidual business and honest labor, that the
Republican'party looks for its financial sup-
port. It is from them that it demands and
gets the money that bribes Legislators,
debauches voters, purchases power and con-
tinues its own existence. They are the
power ‘‘behind the throne’’ from which
Republican laws emanate and Republican
policies are proclaimed. They are the in-
spiration of its most vicious theories and the
greedy recipients of its greatest favors.
Republicanism of today and the trusts it has
created, are bound by ties closer than were
the Siamese twins. When they are separa-
ted both will cease to exist.
——Some people’s memories are conven-
iently short. Imperialistic expansion ists,
who are urging on a war of conquest in the
Philippine islands, in the interest of gov-
ernment contractors and corporate syndi-
cates are vociferously declaring for the main- !
teinance of the ‘‘pledged faith of the na-
tion.”” These ‘‘pledge maintainers’’ seem
to have a deep forgetfulness of the resolu-
tions of the Senate and the promises of the
President at the beginning of the war, that
‘the United States hereby disclaim any dispo-
sition or intention to exercise sovereignty, juris-
diction or control over,’’ such territory as war
may be waged in for the purpose of securing
to the people thereof free and independent
government.
Is it not about time that the fellows who
talk so much about ‘‘old glory’ and the
“‘honor of the nation,” waken their recol-
lections and remember what it was the
‘nation pledged’’ itself to when it declared
war with Spain.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Drifting Toward the Death of Republics.
From the Bedford Gazette.
Oswald Ollendorfer, of the New York
Staats Zeitung, who has recently returned
from a visit to Europe, in telling how Mec-
Kinley’s imperialistic policy is regarded
‘‘across the pond,’’ says:
‘“The Liberals are filled with regret at
the spectacle of a nation to which they had
always pointed as the most successful ex-
ample of their ideal form of government
changing its course and following in the
wake of the imperial government of Europe,
who at least have a semblance of reason in
their colonial policy, in that they desire to
lead the overflow of their population into
channels of their own possessions.
The conservatives, on the other hand,
are rejoicing at what they consider the be-
ginning of the end of Republican govern-
ment in this country. They are elated
that the United States government has by"
its own actions deprived the liberal parties
of one of their most effective arguments.
‘“The belief seemed to be generally estab-
lished in Germany that this country had
entered on a path which must lead in time
to a government by oligarchy or by dicta-
torship.”’
Mr. Ollendorfer is of the opinion that the
next presidential election will turn on the
question of imperialism and he believes
that the Germans in this country are
strongly opposed to McKinley's notorious
policy of ‘‘benevolent assimilation.”
Hawaii Wants Statehood.
From the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser.
The Hawaiian territorial baby is 1 year
old. She is fat and strong, and like all
babies, rather imperious at times. The
food that best develops her muscle and size
is Mellin’s (Asiatic) food, of which she has
taken large portions, and would like more.
Her teeth are appearing, and she has just
dispatched an eminent attorney to ask the
Supreme court of the United States to in-
sert its fingers into her mouth, and find out
how sharp they are. She stoutly refuses
to be put into any colonial cradle, or colon-
ial baby wagon, but properly insists upon
riding in the national stage coach, with no
dead-head limitations. President McKin-
ley’s policy of treating her as all territorial
babies have been treated since the Union
was made, gives her the colic sometimes,
and she screams dreadfully and kicks be-
cause she is quite too young to understand
that the President is a careful and honest
nurse, and knows the proper treatment of
territorial babies and will give her the food
and clothing best suited to the station in
life which Providence bas assigned to her.
The Blair County Democrats Name a
Ticket.
The meeting of the Democratic county
committee for Blair county met'at’ Altona’
on Saturday was an unusually lively one
and more largely attended than any similiar
meeting for a number of years. James C.
Hughes, of Altoona, was named to take the
place on the Democratic ticket for county
commissioner made vacant by the death of
James Funk, then B. J. Murphy, the can-
didate, resigned, and John A. Dunkle, of
Tyrone was named to take his place. The
only other important item of business was
the adoption of a resolution to appoint a
committee to prepare a complete new set
of rules to govern the Democratic party in
Blair county. The committee consists of
the committee chairman and secretaries and
these gentlemen: E. M. Beale, Theodore
Crawford, W. F. Conrad, Thomas Lawley,
A. V. Dively, Alexander Cornmesser, G.
W. Rhine, T. H. Greevy, A. S. Garman,
T. J. Burke, J. B. Skyles and Charles J.
Wehrle.
A Great Trust to Control Trusts.
From the Easton Argus.
A western newspaper man has conceived
the idea of a combination of all the hig
trusts of the day and has gone so far as to
secure a charter for his central company.
His idea seems to be a gigantic one and
there are serious doubts as to his ability to
carry out the same. Still he seems to be
right in line with the trust principle and
stands at a point towards which many con-
ditions appear to be tending at the present
time. It may yet prove that he is only a
little in advance of the times. With all
the great combinations of later days, a cen-
tral trust does not seem to be so very far
off.
The Veterans Kicking at Evans.
From the Butler Herald.
Over 8,000 Republican veterans of Ohio
have written Mark Hanpa that the price of
their support of McKinley next year is
the removal of Pension Commissioner
Evans. We don’t believe in ‘‘hounding’’
a man out of office. Let them give the
public good reasons for his removal. There
never were more able and upright men in
that position than Commissioners Black
and Hoke Smith, yet the very life was
‘‘hounded”’ out of them by the thieving
pension shark agents. The fact that the
editor of the National Tribune is after
Evans should make friends for the latter.
The Octopus Must be Fed.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The soft coal combination in Western
Pennsylvania was no sooner organized than
it advanced prices. There is no scarcity of
bituminous coal. Scarcity is impossible
unless artificially produced, for the hills
are full of coal. There has been no in-
crease in wages to justify the advance. It
seems to be an instance of organized plun-
dering. :
He Ought to Bounce His Chief.
From the Mercer Press.
Vice President Hobart is now known as
the ‘“‘official bouncer’’ since the resignation
of Alger, for it will be remembered that it
was after his visit to Hobart that Alger
concluded to resign. The office of vice
President is developing into a highly im-
portant and useful one.
—If you want fine job printing of
every description the WATCHMAN office is
the place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—At Newberry, Lycoming county, on Sun-
day, a new Methodist Episcopal church was
dedicated. The dedicatory sermon was de-
livered by Rev. Dr. E. J. Gray, president of
Dickinson seminary.
—Her horses running away, Mrs. W. P.
Campbell, of Delmar, Tioga county, was
thrown out and badly used up. She was just
recovericg from an accident in which her
hip was fractured.
—Marion, the 16 months old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Foulk, of Danville,
while playing near a bucket of hot water,
fell backwards intoit and received injuries
from which she died in great agony.
—It is likely that Everett will shortly
number a canning factory among her in-
dustries. A gentleman who owns a suitable
location near the town is looking for a man
who understands the business to form a
partnership.
—The New York Central railroad company
is constructing a long stretch of track along
the Beech Creek railroad. The siding will
be 2,344 feet long and will extend from the
crossing west of Mill Hall to the straight
line east of the Mill Hall brick works. A
large force of men are at work.
—Samuel Orr, a woodsman, living near
Ralston, was jailed at Williamsport Tuesday.
Orr is said to have stolen a shot gun. Con-
stable Custy found him at Blossburg. Some
one opened up and in the shooting that fol-
lowed Orr fell with a bullet in his thigh.
Squire Miller sent him to jail for court.
—West Chester is makin g extensive prep-
arations for celebrating its centennial as a
borough on October 11th, 12th and 13th. The
first day will be set apart for literary exer-
cises, the second day will ke devoted to a
grand parade of civic, industrial and military
organizations, and the third will be firemen’s
day.
—After continuous work night and day for
over a year, during which time eleven hun-
dred feet of old gangway had been opened,
the operators of Greenwood colliery, Tama-
qua, struck the mammoth vein Monday ata
thickness of forty feet, which gives the
colliery a new lease of life for many years to
come. .
—The big Cresson house at the summit of
the Alleghenies has been put under a new
roof. One hundred and eighty thousand
shingles were required to cover the struct-
ure. A gang of painters is" also engaged in
brightening up the cottages. “™'e improve -
ments are being made for the protection of
the property.
—It is interesting to note that of the fifteen
colonéls of the state guard who lined their
regiments up for the last inspection about a
year ago eight are now missing from their
commands. Colonels Hawkins and Magee
have died; Smith, Washabaugh, Coryell and
Courson have been retired and Porter and
Case have entered the United States service.
—Deputy coroner Salter, of Philadelphia,
held an inquest on Saturday in the case of
Charles W. Cleaver, 32 years old, of Bedford,
who died on Thursday at 128 North
Twelfth street, in Philadelphia. At first it
was thought Cleaver had committed suicide,
but the autopsy showed that death was caus-
ed by dropsy. A verdict of death to that
effect was given'by the jury. = fides
—George Barrick, an old and well known
resident of Newport, Perry county, was
stricken with paralysis Saturday afternoon
while walking along the streets and died
Sunday morning. He was past 88 years of
age. He was one of the old familiar char-
acters about Newport. Everybody knew
him and he bad hosts of friends. He was a
canal boatsman for many years.
" —MTrs. Louis Uebing, of New Kensington,
Westmoreland county, who deserted her
husband and a small babe some three years
ago, went to the home of her husband’s pa-
rents on Monday, during their absence, and
kidnaped the child, taking it toa hotel where
she was employed. The child’s father fol-
lowed her and took possession of the child,
who preferred to stay with its grandparents.
—The postal authorities have run against a
small sized snag in their effort to establish a
free delivery at Lewistown. The present
quarters occupied by the postoffice have been
condemned as unsuitable, but so far the ef-
forts to secure a better and more suitable
recom have come to naught. The unfortunate
part about it is that until more commodious
quarters are secured, the operations of the
free delivery cannot be put in service.
—Newton S. Overdorf narrowly escaped
being killed in a peculiar manner Tuesday
afternoon, while at work on Geo. Fiddler's
saw mill near Loganton. He was caught by
the line shaft and whirled around it with
lightning like rapidity until every particle
of clothing, except his shoes, was torn from
him. Aside from being, somewhat bewilder-
ed he was not injured the least bit. It was
a thrilling experience which he doubtless
will never forget as long as he lives.
—The first county fair in Huntingdon for
over twenty years was held last week and
was a decided success,so much so,in fact, that
the management will, in all probability,
make it a regular annual event. The at-
tendance throughout the three days was very
good, the attractions were of a superior order
and the exhibit particularly fine. The bal-
loon ascensions, horse races, ball games,
bicycle races and all the sporting events were
well contested and the winners received
valuable prizes.
—A dog belonging to William R. ITughes,
of Carroll township, Cambria county, went
mad some days ago and bit some of the stock,
of which three cats, one hog and two head
of cattle have since died with unmistakable
symptoms of the rabies. The dog made no
attempt to bite the members of the family
and the stock had been bitten before Mr.
Hughes wasaware that the dog had hydropho-
bia. A dog belonging to Hugh Evans also
went mad, but was immediately shot.
—A. C. Floto, of Berlin, purchased from
farmers and others in his vicinity during the
month of July 12,240 buckets of huckle-
berries, each bucket containing ten quarts.
Mr. Floto paid an average of seven cents a
quart for the berries delivered at his store
and then shipped them to the Pittsburg
market, thus putting about $8,568 in circula-
tion in Berlin and vicinity on the huckle-
berry trade. Besides Mr. Floto’s shipments,
it is said that Fred Groff and several others
shipped almost an equal amount each.