Demo
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
T he melancholy days have come,
But not without their cheer;
For Otis is to be called home,
Before the next new year.
— DEWEY arrived in New York two days
ahead of time. What a speedy fellow the
Admiral is.
—When PENROSE and BARNET get on
the stump in Ohio the poor old Buckeye
State will be wind swept from the Ohio
river to lake Erie.
—Should Sir THOMAS LIPTON’S *‘Sham-
rock” win the America’s cup in the yacht
races next week the hardest result of vie-
tory he will have to bear will be the pome
ALFRED AUSTIN will write about it.
—Among other things that candidates
RIDDLE and FISHER ought to tell the.pub-
lic is whether they really do ride on rail-
road passes and, if they do, who got them for
them and in return for what service on
their part ? .
—QUuAY has bought another farm in Lan-
caster county. The ‘‘old man’ seems to
be keen on farms lately. Perhaps he
wants several places in that county where
he can go and get hay on his horns when
things don’t suit him.
—The Reading Telegram is worried lest
there won’t be a Reading day at the Phila-
delphia exposition. Why, bless your dear
heart, the BETZ, SCcHEM and BEGNER and
ENGELS breweries can be relied on to
make every day a Reading day, if you
want it.
—The OTIS censorship of news from
Manila issaid to be in substance as follows:
Let nothing go that will hurt the adminis-
tration. The General's desire to avoid
hurting anybody or thing seems to include
the Filipinos, as well as ‘‘the administra-
tion.”
—Oo0M PAUL can be depended on to he
for war as long as he isin South Africa
and the English soldiers are in England,
but when the transports now en route for
the Transvaal arrive there things will be
different and OoM PAUL won’t want war
at all. ;
—When GEORGE SHOLL sits at home
these nights trying to figure out how he
was flim-flammed out of the nomination
for commissioner we wonder whether he
thinks about the way NELSON RoBB took
Walker township away from him and gave
its delegates to RIDDLE and FISHER.
—The San Francisco millionaire who
was sent to jail for twenty-four hours for
spitting on the floor of a street car, after
having vainly tried to escape serving the
sentence by appeals to all of the state
courts, doubtless realizes by this time that
it isa serious matter to spit in the face of
justice. : :
—“0ld man’’ SPEER, as they - eall him,
is setting the stiffest pace for his young
oppouent that he ever tried to follow. The
‘old man’ is so active and his honesty
and integrity are so apparent that he is
making scores of new friends every day
who say that heis the man for county
treasurer.
—The Spaniards are trying Admiral
MoNTEJO for having surrendered to Ad-
miral DEWEY, which certainly is a pecu-
liar way of bringing an indictment in his
case. As near as we have been able to
learn from the circumstances of the fight
in Manila bay the Spanish Admiral had
nothing left to surrender.
— Paying forty dollars for each Filipino
gun that is turned in to OTIS recalls the
Republican state platform in Pennsylva-
nia in 1894. It promised a circulation of
$40 per capita to the whole country and the
machine came about as near fulfilling the
promise as this scheme of paying $40 each
for Filipino guns will come to ending the
war over there.
—The Columbia Spy wants to know
whether or not politics pay and the wise
man of the Philadelphia Inquirer answers by
saying that ‘‘men who are economical and
saving can make politics pay.”’ The Inquirer
knows that a man who is ‘‘economical and
saving’’ stands about as much chance of
staying in politics long enough to make it
pay as a fellow would have of keeping from
burning in the infernal regions with noth-
ing more to cover him than a cotton round-
about.
—The Maryland Republicans are having
very much the same kind of a kick up in
their organization that the Democrats had
to their sorrow and the loss of the State.
State chairman WELLINGTON has resigned
and accuses Governor LOWNDES of political
duplicity in trying to set up a new machine
with SYDNEY MUDD as one of his leaders.
They say there isn’t much in a name, but
we fear that the whole Republican organi-
zation in Maryland will be mud before
long and boss HANNA won’t be singing
‘‘Maryland, my Maryland’’ very soon again
either.
—The New York woman who committed
suicide because she thought she had enlarge-
ment of the heart, two tumors, a diseased
lung and liver must have felt, when she
wakened up in the other world and found
out that there had been nothing the matter
with her, much like the old Methodist
brother who was telling his experience one
night in meeting, and was praising the
Lord that he had survived a terrible cut on
the leg with an ax. In his enthusiasm he
offered to show the wound to the rest of the
experience meeting attendants, but when
he rolled up his trouser legs to find it, none
was there. Then the old man concluded
that it bad not been_his leg at all that had
been cut. It was hishrother SAM’S.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 44
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 2
9.1899. 2
NO. 38.
Faking the Public.
One of the haldest fakes that has ever
been worked on the people of Pennsylvania
is the one that a party of Harrisburg boys
are hauling about to county fairs and
granger picnics this season. They are
playing on public credulity with ‘‘a wild
man’’ from Manila. The fakirs are all
dressed in the uniform of the Tenth Penn-
sylvania, which regiment only recently re-
turned from the Philippines, and they
stand on their platform shouting out a hair
raising story about the manner in which
they captured the wild man whose ferocity
is only satisfied by great chunks of raw
beef. When the story becomes most thrill-
ing and every one of the bystanders is ready
to break and run the wild man throws a
bunch of straw towards the top of the iron
barred cage, strains at the chains and the
fake soldiers scamper about shooting off
blank cartridges, as if to frighten the un-
ruly creature into subjection. The wild
man is nothing more than a big Harrishurg
nigger, who has hired himself to live in a
cage and eat raw beef so that’ these boys,
who never saw the Philippines, except on a
map, can fake the public.
‘While there will be a great cry of in-
dignation go up in every community that
is duped by these make-believe soldiers
with their Harrisburg ‘‘wild man’ they
are not nearly as deserving of condemnation
as are some other fakirs who are try-
ing to ‘‘work” Pennsylvania with soldier
clothes. With a bhlare of bugles, and a
rattle of drums FRANK REEDER and his
crowd are escorting It. Col. BARNET over
the State as the QUAY candidate for State
Treasurer. The Colonel is honorably en-
titled to wear the uniform of the famous
Tenth Pennsylvania, but the question of
honor is not bothering the QUAY out-fit.
They want the uniform of the Tenth to
fake the people with. They don’t have a
‘‘wild man from Manila’’ to exhibit but
they have a whole flock of treasury vam-
pires to maintain and must gain support
for their cause in some way. Accordingly
they take up the honorable uniform of the
Tenth and go before the people with a
claim that it must be supported, because it
is the Tenth; thus trying to cover up the
faking, thieving band of political robbers
behind it.
The ‘‘wild man from Manila’’ fake that
the Harrisburg '‘hoys are working on the
county fair patrons isn’t ‘a bit worse than
the fake that the QUAY machine is tryifig
to work on Pennsylvanians. The only dif-
ference is that in the one case fake soldiers
are exhibiting a tame black man, while in
the other men blackened in political crimes
and wild through fear of at last being
found out are exhibiting a real soldier with
the hope of roping in the State once more.
A Waste of Efforts.
A telegram from this place to the daily
papers, the early part of the week, tells us
that Governor HASTINu: has returned home
ready to use every energy and all the in-
fluence he possesses and to put up his mon-
ey without stint, to elect the Republican
county ticket. Rumors on the streets on
Wednesday have it that he was attempting
to arrange a trade with some of the sup-
posed leading Demccrats about town,
through which his county ticket was to be
given what Democratic votes could be in-
fluenced by those in the deal in return for
the Republican votes he could influence
against the Republican state ticket.
We have not the least doubt that the ex-
Governor would be glad to make such a
deal, or any other deal possible that would
pull his county ticket through. It is upon
that that he has set his heart, and upon his
success this fall largely depends his power
to control the organization of ‘his party in
the county in the future, and will have
much to do with his future influence in the
politics of the State.
It is for the Democrats to say whether
his efforts in this line shall succeed.
Whether good, reputable and worthy
citizens who have always been true to the
principles of the party, shall be sacrificed
for Governor HASTING’S glory and ambi-
tion. There may be a few who would
enter into this deal for the money it would
bring them and the future favors they
would hope to secure, but the number can
be counted on the fingers of one hand and
the influence they exert will reach but a
short distance in securing help to betray
their party. The rank and file of the
Democracy of the county 18, and will be, as
true to their party principles and to the
ticket that represents them as is the needle
to the pole. Governor HASTINGS may try
to make a trade. He may attempt the
debauchery of voters, as he did at the last
Republican primaries, but he will find that
Democrats know what a trade means, and
when it comes to buying he will discover
that they are not like sheep, to be sold in
flocks, as were the Republicans last August.
We have referred to this only that the
Democrats of the county may be placed
upon their guard.
Neither Governor HASTING'S influence,
his money or his trade is going to win this
fall.
The Return of Admiral Dewey.
The rather unexpected arrival of Admir-
al DEWEY and his gallant ship ‘‘Olympia’’
off Sandy Hook Tuesday morning caused
almost as much consternation in New
York as did the hulls of the American fleet
on the morning of May 1st, 1898, when
they steamed into Manila bay. The ad-
miral had not been expected to arrive un-
til yesterday, even under the most favor-
able circumstances on a voyage from Gib-
raltar, but, DEwWEY-like, he just slipped in
two days ahead of time and dropped anchor
quietly in the harbor to await whatever
disposition the committee of welcome has
to make of him and his crew.
It has been twenty-three months since
DEWEY left the America on whose scroll
his name has been written among the
greatest, and many changes have occurred
in the meantime. Little did he dream of
the future awaiting him when he steamed
out of Hong Kong on April 24th, 1898, be-
cause his boats were violating the neutrali-
ty laws in lying there. On he went in
that triumphal cruise until MONTEJO'S
fleet was at the bottom of Manila bay and
DEwEY held the key to the Philippines.
That single victory crushed Spain’s last
hope of retaining any of her colonial pos-
sessions against our arms and made for an
earlier peace between the countries. While
it had the effect of precipitating the end of
our troubles with Spain it was but the be-
ginning of a trouble with the Philippines,
the end of which no man can tell.
The Admiral’s home coming ought to
throw considerable light on the situation
and if the interviews that have been ac-
credited to him already are to be relied on
there will be noend of the trouble until
General Otis is relieved of his command
and a man put in his place who will know
where hig authority begins and ends.
‘‘One great trouble out there,”’ says
DEWEY, ‘‘has heen that General OTIS has
tried to do too much. I told him so. He
wants to be general, governor, judge and
everything else; to have hold of all the
irons. No man can do this. It is enough
for aman to do one thing and be one
thing, but when a man tries to do every-
thing and be everything itis easy to im-
agine the result.”
Yes it is not hard to imagine the result
and those whose imaginations are not vivid
enough for the situation will probably be
impressed 'into eomprehension -of it'by the
knowledge that the trouble is estimated to
cost us fifty million dollars a year.
But this is not the time to look on the
dark side of the situation. DEWEY is a hero
and deserves a hero’s welcome, let come
what may of the Philippine trouble.
—The last day for paying taxes in
order to secure a vote this year is Oct. 7th.
——A specimen of how the present Re-
publican board of commissioners will dis-
tort facts and juggle with figures is shown
in their attempted explanation of where
the money comes from to make up the dif-
ference between their alleged expenditures
and their known income from taxation.
They say $3,000 of it is from taxes on un-
seated lands and $700 of it from dog tax.
Now as the unseated land valuations con-
stitute part of the total valuations, amount-
ing to $12,292,624, upon which at 3} mills
the gross revenue of $43,424.18 is raised,
there can be no additional $3,000 collected
as taxes upon these lands, so that in this
one item there is a deception of just $3,000.
And the same with the dog tax of $700.
Every cent of that is levied and held to
pay for sheep that are ‘killed and which
have no connection with county expendit-
ures whatever. Here is another deception
of $700. It will take a different showing
than these instances make, to convince the
people that there is not something wrong
in the books or accounts of the commis-
sioners office that on their face show a def-
icit between the county income and outlay
of over $19,000 and still pretend that no
debt is being created. ¢
——=Stir your neighbor up about his
taxes. Don’t let him lose his vote be-
cause of neglect to pay them. Oct. 7th is
the last day this can be done.
——~Congressman J. K. P. HALL of this
district expects to be present at the Demo-
cratic national carnival at Dallas, Texas, on
Oct. 20d and 3rd, at which O. H. P. BEL-
MONT, of New York, will deliver an address.
While it is only natural to expect that the
‘real things’’ in Democracy are to be found
down in the ‘‘Lone Star State’’ there won’t
be a better Democrat or a better man among
them than is the Congressman of the 28th
Pennsy lvania.
——As Congressman JosEPH C. SIBLEY,
of Franklin, has presented the Venango
county bar association with his law library,
it is only natural to infer that JoE is like
some of Bellefonte’s lawyers: He has: the
whole thing in his head and bas no further
use for books.
——You don’t want te miss your vote
and yet you will unless you have paid a
state or county tax before the evening of
Oct. 7th.
The Issue.
The question that seems most discussed
in the Pennsylvania political forum at this
time is not one of the merits of the men
who have been named by the various
parties but rather a controversy as to the
issue upon which they are seeking election.
Strangely enough the one great party is
trying to make it appear that the questions
involved in the campaign that is just open-
ing are not ones that have arisen out of
conditions in this State. The machine
leaders are putting forth every effort to
elect a candidate for State Treasurer, a
candidate for Supreme court and a candi-
date for Superior court of Pennsylvania on
purely national issues. They say that the
voters should look over and above purely
local issues at a time of this kind and vote
to sustain the government that is immersed
in a humane war. They assert that a vote
against the machine ticket in Pennsylvania
this fall will be a knife thrust at the Presi-
dent, a move to tear down the flag from
the soil on which it has been planted at
the cost of American blood.
This is all very pretty, so far as senti-
ment goes, but it will hardly hold water
as an argument in favor of the machine
ticket. We say machine ticket because
the fight in Pennsylvania is not between
Democrats and Republicans for control, as
has been the case in past years. For most
of the honest, well thinking, clean govern-
ment loving members of the Republican
party resent the imputation that BARNETT,
BROWN and ADAMS constitute their ticket.
These men are the nominees of the one
man QUAY who has ruled the Republican
party in the State until he has ruined it
and driven its best men from it with the
hope of purging it of the debauching boss.
Therefore, we feel that the fight this fall
should be designated as one purely between
the machine, which is symbolical of all
that is corrupt and pernicious, and the
Democratic party, which for the sole pur-
pose of giving needed reforms has allied
with it the better element of the Republi-
can organization.
Such being the nature of the fight it
ought’ to he apparent to the most obtuse
that the issue upon which it is based must
‘be purely local.
The tariff can have nothing to do with
this fall’s campaign in. Pennsylvania, be-
cause no one is to be elected who will have
legislation. The mcney question can
have nothing to do with it, because all cur-
rency laws must originate in the lower
house of Congress, and, excepting a suc-
cessor to the late DANIEL ERMENTROUT, of
the 9th district, no Congressman will be
elected in Pennsylvania this fall. The
question of expansion or imperialism can
have nothing to do with, becausea State
‘Treasurer of Pennsylvania or a judge of
any of her several courts would have about
as much effect in settling such momentous
questions as would the braying of a gov-
ernment mule on the deliberations of the
strategic board of the army. The question
of upholding the hand of the President in
a war into which he was plunged for hu-
mane purposes can have nothing to do
with it, because Pennsylvania has already
displayed her loyalty in a far more em-
phatic and undeniable way than is possible
by ballots at an election that has no bear-
ing on the case. The State has been first
to send forth her quota of volunteers; was
first at every call and will be first at
every call to come. On Tuesday the
28th Reg. U. 8. Vols. left Pennsylvania
for San Francisco and within a month the
47th will start. These are the real evi-
dences of the State’s support of the Presi-
dent and only the foolish will be deceived
by the hypercritical protestations of the
machine campaigners.
The issue, then, is purely local. It is
not one of tariff, currency or military sen-
timent. It is whether the people of Penn-
sylvania are to continue to be robbed and
ruined by a plundering band of political
highwaymen or whether they will rise in
their might to wipe out such practices fo. -
ever. If the machine can have its creatures
retained in power it will naturally take it
as an endorsement of its corrupt methods,
on the part of the people of the State.
What a fine commentary on the ma-
chine’s war sentiment feature is it that
Pennsylvania should be sending ber noble
sons to the far off Philippines to give the
ignorant blacks of those islands better gov-
ernment, when this school dotted, highly
civilized State of ours has the most corrupt
and debauched government itself of any
Commonwealth in the land.
——1If your taxes are not paid by Satur-
day, October 7th, you cannot vote.
——The shoe manufacturers of Pennsyl-
vania have organized a trust and advanced
the price on all grades of shoes; thus it is
that the trusts which the Republican party
favors are making the very soles of man
dearer.
——Have yox your state or county taxes
paid. Oct. 7th, is the last day upon which
payment can be made to entitle you to
vote at the coming election.
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a voice in any matters concerning federal"
Labor Pays It All.
From the Easton Sentinel.
Municipal, township, county, state and
national taxes are all paid by labor. We
are told that railroads, banks and other
corporations pay their share—their pro rata
of tax. Let us examine this statement and
see if labor and not capital does not pay
the taxes assessed against a railroad.
The coal baron will tell you that he pays
to the railroad corporation thousands upon
thousands of dollars yearly in freight
charges. The manufacturer says: ‘‘I pay
railroad corporations eight per cent. of my
gross receipts.’”’ The miner tells you that
he pays from twenty to fifty per cent. of
his receipts for freight, and the farmer
pays from twenty-five to seventy-five per
cent., and in some cases, as with fruits and
melons, the entire product goes to the
railroad for freights.
Where does the farmer get the money to
pay his freights? The products of labor
that he ships is held for the freight. Where
does the miner and the manufacturer get
their money to pay their freights and
taxes? It comes from the profits made on
the labor employed. Where does the
money come from that the railroad corpor-
ations pay in dividends and taxes? It
comes from the labor of the farmer, the
mechanic, the merchant, the miner and the
manufacturer. ;
Real estate when rented to a laborer or
other person does not really pay the taxes
levied thereon. The owner has charged
up to the person renting his property the
per cent. of taxes and necessary improve-
ments, which charges are collected in the
rent obtained for the property.
paid by the bank, railroad, manufacturer,
miner, or the gentleman of leisure that
lives on his income, comes out of labor,
and lessens its profits, restricts opportunity
and curtails the blessings that rightfully
belong to the bread winner.
When the bread winners break away
from politicians and vote in their own in-
terests they may lessen their burdens and
they learn that to a great extent they are
their brother’s keeper.
How Kipling Became a Prohibitionist.
From the American Friend.
can concert-hall he saw two girls made
drunk by their companions. Kipling had.
not been ‘a total abstainer, but of that
scene he wrote :
‘‘Then, recanting previous opinions, I
became a Prohibitionist. Better it is that
a man should go without his beer in public
places, and content himself with swearing
at the narrow-mindedness of the majority ;
‘better it is to poison the inside with very
vile temperance drinks, and to buy lager
why the preachers rage against drink. I
have said, ‘there is no harm in it, taken
moderately,’ and yet my own demand for
beer helped directly tosend these two girls
reeling to God alone knows what end. It
is not good that we should let liquor lie
before the eyes of children, and I have been
a fool in writing to the contrary.’’
Mild Weather for the Next Three Months.
From the Tyrone Herald.
The fellows who have put away their
straw hats are fooling themselves, that’s
all. A weather prognosticator from way
back, who knows what he is talking about
to the letter, has posted the Herald, and
we are able to predict mild weather till the
holiday season. The autumnal equinox
occurred last Thursday. What is known
as the equinoctial storm, usually due about
day, and when it cleared up toward even-
ing the wind was coming from the south-
west, which isa sure sign of mild weather
for the three months immediately follow-
mg. So the straw hat may be hauled out
again, and the ice men may count on not
cutting much ice before Christmas. D.
B. Etnier has been secured as special prog-
nosticator for the Herald this winter, and
our readers can count on things being put
down about correct.
Stone in Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 27.—Governor Wil-
liam A. Stone arrived in Pittsburg this
morning on a brief business trip. There
has heen a good deal of talk about an extra
session of the Legislature for the purpose of
electing Quay United States Senator. Ask-
ed if he thought it probable that the Unit-
ed States Senate would seat Quay when
Congress meets, the Governor r:plied :
“T certainly do.”
‘‘What prospect 1s there for an extra ses-
sion of the Legislature ?"’
“There will be no extra session of the
Legislature. There is no present need for
any and I have never intended or even
contemplated calling one. No one has
spoken to me on the subject, one way or
the other, but I have no notion of calling
an extra session.’’
‘I shall not call an extra session for the
purpose of electing a United States Senator.
I shall never call an extra session for any
political purpose whatever. All this talk
about an extra session has heen in the
newspapers only.”’
Gunboat Captured.
MANILA, Sept. 25—4:30 p. m.—It is re-
ported that the insurgents have captured
the United States gunboat Urdaneta, in
the Arani river, on the northwest side of
Manila bay, where she was patroling. One
officer and nine of her crew are missing,
LATER—The United States ‘gunboat
Petrel, sent to investigate the matter, re-
turned and reported that the Urdaneta
beached opposite the town of Orani, on the
Oran (not Arani) river. She was riddled
with bullets and burnt and the following
guns, with their ammunition, were cap-
tured : A one hundred pounder, one Colt
automatic gun and one Nordenfeldt twen-
ty-five millimetre gun. The crew of the
Urdaneta are prisoners or have been kill-
ed. Further details are lacking.
——Your taxes must be paid by Satur-
day, October 7th.
After all, all taxes, whether assessed and |.
increase their holdings, but not until |’
Rudyard Kipling tells how in an Ameri-
furtively at back doors, than to bring temp-
tation to the lips of the young fools suél as’
ithe four, I have ‘seen. . I understand now,
that time, happened this year on the exact’
—
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Ex-Mgper Elliott, of Williamsport, wh
is suffering from paralysis of the muscles of
the right hip, is seriously ill.
italists, the price paid was $120,000.
—Mrs. Frank Houser, residing west of
Everett, dug out of her garden the other day
a beet measuring twenty-six inches in length
and three and one-half inches in diameter.
—Frank Calhoun was found dead at Wat-
sontown, a few nights ago. He was a bac h-
elor and lived in a houseboat. He was about
40 years old. Alcoholism was the cause of
his death.
—While working in the Bloomington
mines at Winburn Wednesday, 12-year-old
Oscar Berlin, a Swede, was instantly killed
by a fall of slate. The boy was working
with his father.
—The small pox quarantine was raised
from the home of the last case of that disease
in Altoona thus far reported to the health
officers, and the city is now free from the
dread disease. Since the 15th of January, 64
cases developed in the city, the largest
number at one time being sixteen.
—A new oil field has been developed at
Stockesdale Junction, a station on the Fall
Brook railroad on the line between New
York and Pennsylvania, 63 miles north of
Jersey Shore. A well was shot at that place
on Saturday afternoon, the oil gushing over
the derrick. The well is good for 20 barrels.
a day.
—While the apple crop throughout Som er-
set county is not as large as in former years,
there will be an abundance of that wholesome
fruit harvested. Trees of certain varieties,
notably the Northern Spy, are almost barren
of fruit, while trees of other equally choice
varieties were never more productive than
this season.
—Greensburg may not have a garbage fur-
nace after all. In order to make it practi-
cable 50 cents a month was to be collected
from citizens for its use. But the major por-
tion of the citizens are apparently willing to
put up with the filth and run the risk of
paying doctor bills, as they have practically.
refused to pay the 50 cents.
—By being kicked by another horse on last
Friday night, Jesse Groninger, of Milford
township, Juniata county, lost a valuable
horse. One of its hind legs was broken at
the thigh. Dr. Robert R. Crozier, of Port
Royal, humanely put it to death with chlo-
roform. Within the past year Mr. Groninger
has lost several horses by death.
—A curious coincidence is reported from
Greensburg. James Farrall was taken for
treatment after being injured by falling from
a freight train at Hillside. In the same hos-
pital is Frank Wilson who is convalescing
from typhoid fever. Farrell and Wilson
‘were both tried for the murder of old Henry
Bonnecke in Blair county and convicted.
—Bedford’s new reservoir, work on which
was begun in April, 1898, was completed
Monday, September 25th, It has a capacity
of 28,000,000 ‘gallons. There will be a con-
stant supply of pure water. ‘THis is the
‘fourth “reservoir that the town has Built.
The new reservoir cost $16,500. The town
has spent $120,000 on its water su pply.
—Bessie, the three year-old-daughter of
Thomas Sheesly, of McGee's Mills, last Mon-
day morning saw a bean Tolling across the
floor which, after the: manner of children,
she picked up and put in her mouth. The
bean slipped back into the windpipe, and
the child in a very little while ‘choked to
death, although every effort was used to re-
store her.
—The team of T. R. Everett, a huxster of
Lairdsville, became frightened while stand-
ing in Williamsport Friday and ran away.
While running on Pine street one of the
horses slipped and fell and was dragged by
his mate until the fallen horse struck the
curb with such force as to break its neck.
The animal died instantly. The other horse
was not injured.
—At Sunbury, Sunday night, 10 year old
Atwood Barnhart attempted to board a
freight train. He missed his hold and fell
beneath the wheels. One of his feet was al-
most completely severed and the other was
badly crushed. The unfortunate lad was
carried vo Sunbury, and taken to the Mary
M. Packer hospital, where both legs were
amputated near the knee.
—TUnion county has the distinction of hav-
ing the September courts suspended by order
of Judge McClure, it appearing that there
are no cases for trial in the court of common
pleas, few returns from justices of the peace
for minor offenses requiring immediate at-
tention, no untried indictments, and the
sheriff was directed to notify the jurymen
summoned to appear that their attendance
was not required.
—About two months ago John Gannon, a
tramp, appeared at the home of Milt Barner,
in Patton, and begged for something to eat.
His request was granted. Gannon secured a
position in the Riley mines after which he
was fed at the Barner home and he managed
to secure boarding with Mr. and Mrs. Barner.
On Labor day, Gannon eloped with Mrs.
Barner, who took with her her husband’s
money, some of his best clothing and their
6-months-old boy. :
—1It is reported that the timber tracts of
both Jacob Thomas and Mr. Buck, compris-
ing over 4,000,000 feet, located near Ecken-
rode Cambria county, have been sold to Os-
born & Shaffer, large lumber manufactures
of Dubois, who are now operating a mill
at Cherrytree. In all probability a large
mill will be placed along the Cresson and
Clearfield branch of the Pennsylvania rail-
road near Eckenrode Mill for the purpose of
manufacturing the same. >
—Deputy sheriff McIlroy, of Huntingdon
county, has some hard cases at times in the
county bastile, and occasionally has to
adopt stringent measures to bring some of
the inmates to a sense of justice. A few
nights ago he was awakened by a call from
one of his boarders, who presented a sweet
appearance. Some of his fellow prisoners
had for a joke spread about a gallon of mo-
lasses between the blankets of this prisoner,
and when he disrobed and crawled in the
bunk the reader can imagine the rest. None
of the prisoners in the ‘joke’ would give the
perpetrator away, and as a result no break-
fast and a meagre supply of bread and water.
with plenty of hard work at the wash tub,
soon brought forth a confession from the cul-
prit.
—The Edison Electric company, of Wil -
liamsport has been sold to Philadelphia cap- ¢