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BY P. GRAY MEEK,
—A monument is to be erected at Fran k-
lin to Colonel Drake, who put down the first
oil well.
—Governor Stone has appointed John Ful-
ton, of Johnstown, a member of the Sta te
Forestry Reservation Conrmission.
—Just as he quit work with the intention
of attending the funeral of a friend, Michael
McMahon, of Renovo, fell over dead.
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Ink Slings.
—If they keep on giving ‘‘smokers’’ for
Admiral DEWEY, the naval hero will begin
to know what it feels like to bea dried
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—While walking among the mines at Crys-
herring.
—The PULLMAN palace car company has
absorbed the WAGNER car company and
now the porters of the corporations will
combine to absorb the public. :
—BARNETT’s band of singers are about
as much of a fake asthe ‘‘wild man from
Manila’ who was exhibited at county fairs
in Pennsylvania this fall proved to be.
—There has been enough shooting al-
ready down in the Transvaal to give old
KRUGER and his liberty loving subjects a
very fair idea of a real, old fashioned
American Fourth of July.
—The Altoona wheelman who rode into
a pole-cat a few days ago and didn’t know
what it was was skunked when he tried to
gather a crowd about him to explain that
he had run down a coon.
—It is now announced that the Presi-
dent’s political future is in the hands of
Gen’l. Otis. If the latter whips the Fili-
pinos McKINLEY will be re-elected Presi-
dent and if he doesn’t do it pretty quick—
Well that will be another matter.
——As JonN I. MITCHELL is one of the
statesmen who assisted in the defeat of
Governor BEAVER in 1882, it is a fair pre-
sumption that our fellow townsman’s po-
litical sympathies will not be hopelessly
hurt if Centre county Republicans should
fail to share their appreciation of such party
2 treachery by refusing to vote for him now.
—With wheat at 60cts a bushel and not
more than a third of a crop in Centre coun-
ty our farmers will scarcely feel able to
vote for the continuation of a state ad minis-
tration that increases their taxes by cutting
$1,000,000 from the public school appro-
priation, or for county commissioners who
unjustly levy unlawful taxes upon their
dogs and give county work to personal fav-
orites at extravagant prices.
--The New York Sun apologizes to the
contestants in a recent poetical scheme it
encouraged, for the delay in selecting the
winner, by stating that ‘‘one of the judges
is out of town and another is sick.” It is
altogether likely that several more of them
will be sick and the sick one sicker before
they get through with the more than a
thousand spasms on ‘‘The Man Without a
Hoe’’ that are said to have been written.
—GROVER CLEVELAND was the name of
one of the five Carlisle Indian school stu-
dents who recently enlisted for service in
the Philippines. When the son of the for-
est gets over onto those baked sand patches
of McKINLEY’S he will conclude, with that
statesman who has been carefully laid
away with the archives at Princeton, that
it is ‘‘a condition, not a theory that con-
fronts him.”” And a d——d bad condition
» at that.
—Secretary of War Root has his first re-
port now in the hands of the printer.
While its contents are not all known it is
understood that the report carries a recom-
mendation of a standing army of one hun-
dred thousand men. Everything is drift-
ing towards imperialism and a military
government. Shade of GEORGE WASHING-
TON rise up and rebuke these people who
would destroy your government of the peo-
ple.
—BARNETT could scarcely have been
more of a ‘‘dodger’’ on the battle fields of
_ the Philippines than he has been in the
campaign for State Treasurer of Pennsyl-
vania. Asa soldier he is accused of having
concealed himself behind rice dykes, while
his men were baring their breasts to the
Filipino bullets. Asa leader of the QUAY
forces he hides behind the flag every time
the guns of the inquisitor are trained on
QUAY’s conduct of the State Treasury.
——Now that ADAMS has been kicked
off the QUAY state ticket because he could
not refute the terrible charges made against
his integrity the people are turning their
attention to Col. BARNETT, whose record
with the Tenth, they say, will not bear the
+ search light of inspection. The soldiers of
that gallant regiment are beginning to talk
about the man who was second in com-
mand over them and what they have to say
is anything but complimentary to the QUAY
nominee for State Treasurer.
— During his inaugural address president
HADLEY, of Yale, found occasion to refer
to the increased cost of securing an educa-
tion today at the great University, over
that of one, two or three decades ago. Now
the average is $605 per year, against $352
in 1869; $430, in 1879 and $525, in 1889.
. Instead of going up, the washing bills have
decreased $10 per year during the last ten
' years, which seems to prove one of two
contentions : Either the Yale men are not
as natty as they once were or they are fall-
ing back on ‘‘celluloid dickies."
—There seems to be considerable discus-
sion of the question just now as to how to
make a good girl, out of a bad girl, and
most of those who have taken the matter
up have utterly failed in every attempt to
furnish a solution of this important moral
problem. The truth is that it is beyond
the range of possibility to make a good girl
out of a bad girl unless the unfortunate
creature has had the seeds of purity and
goodness sown by good home training.
They may have been scattered on barren
soil, but if they are there they will germi-
nate at some time. Otherwise you might
just as well try to make a silk purse out of
a sow’s ear.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 44
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 27, 1899.
Forced from the Ticket.
The prompt retirement of Josian R.
ADAMS from the QUAY ticket for Superior
court judge is the most emphatic admission,
on his part, that the terrible charges made
against him, by the independent Republi-
can and Democratic newspapers of the State,
are true. No one but a guilty man could
have afforded to leave such accusations as
were published against ADAMS go un-
challenged and his prompt retirement from
the ticket shows that because he could not
meet the charges he dared not meet the
people.
While we have been insisting all along
that QUAY named men for his ticket, whose
only recommendation is their servility to
him, few have realized to what extent the
boss has carried this practice. But now
since the ADAMS episode the public ought to
be ready to accept most any statement, for
no similar disgrace has ever been inflicted
on our State. The very impudence of
attempting to hoist a man to a seat on the
Superior court bench whose life has been a
perfect series of business dishonesty.
ADAMS’ running under fire wasn’t much
worse than the action of Lt. Col. BARNETT
in the Philippines. The soldiers of the
Tenth now say that the present candidate
for State Treasurer is only shining by the
little light he was able to absorb from the
gallant HAWKINS. They assert that he
hid in the rice dykes when his regiment
was under fire and while the men were ex-
posing themselves to the Filipino bullets he
was hugging the sand as close as a bunch of
Buffalo grass. To add to the revulsion the
fighting men of Pennsylvania’s fighting
regiment feel for the man who would as-
sume their loved Colonel’s rank would
seem impossible, but when he takes an old
vaudeville singer and a barkeeper and puts
the uniform of the Tenth on them and gets
them onto the platform beside himself to
sing the songs that the boys sung about
Manila, the indignation of the real soldiers
knows no bounds.
Just as BARNETT is deceiving the public
with these fake singers from the Tenth he
can be expected to deceive the public with
promises of reforming the Treasury, if heis
elected. He should retire from the ticket,
as did ApAMs, but he doesn’t even seem to
have the virtue of wanting to keep his
skeleton in the closet as did the Philadel-
phia lawyer, who, at least, showed some
respect for public sentiment.
——BRUNGARD will be the man for
sheriff because the people recognize, ever-
where he goes, that there is nothing hid-
den with him. He is stalwart, open CYRUS
BRUNGARD under all conditions and at all
times. He has nothing to sneak around
the back streets for and has a horror of
alleys, because he does not do anything
that could not be shown up to self respect-
ing men. Mr. BRUNGARD is a christian
gentleman, who seeks the office of sheriff
in an honorable way and honorable men
will vote for him.
Rev. Rhoads and Jake Herman.
While we have no desire to cast reflec-
tion on the integrity of Rev. W. W.
RHOADS, pastor of the Lemont Evangelical
church, we have no doubt, after reading
his letter, published in the Republican yes-
terday, in which he vouches for the good
moral standing of JAKE HERMAN, that
there is another good man gone wrong.
Just what business Rev. RHOADS has to
mix himself up in a political contest is be-
yond the comprehension of those who have
been taught to hold the ministry as a sacred
calling and one removed from the belittling
influences of the world.
It is quite evident that Rev. RHOADS
doesn’t know any more about the true
work of a minister of the gospel than he
does about JAKE HERMAN’S moral char-
acter. While the certificate he has pub-
lished will do Mr. HERMAN no good in the
districts where he is known better than
Rev. RHOADS seems to know him, it is un-
fortunate that a minister should have re-
flected such discredit upon himself.
——No one can give you a single good
reason why you should not vote for Mr.
ARCHEY for register. He is a clean, in-
telligent gentleman who has devoted his
entire life to honest toil and now comes be-
fore the voters of the county for the first
time, asking to be made register because
he is competent to fill the office satisfac-
torily. Mr. ARCHEY has not been so well
served with county office as some others,
nor does he desire to be. He is asking for
your vote for the first time and ought not
to be ashamed to make the request because
he is an honest man and because he will
serve you faithfully, if chosen.
——1If you want to continue paying ten
dollars and fifty cents a day, for every day
of the year, to have your county affairs
managed as they now are, you will be sure
to vote for RIDDLE and FISHER. They be-
lieve in making you pay them for every
day, when all they have to'do could be
well done in two days of each week.
NO. 42.
The Way the Trusts Reach Out.
The manner of the business procedure of
the trusts and great combinations of capital
is not without interest to the masses,
though it be of that awe-inspiring kind
that affects one as he is drawn to watch the
lightning’s play; not knowing at what
moment it might strike him dead. To the
people of some communities the word trust
doubtless conveys only a very vague un-
derstanding of what these organizations of
concentrated capital accomplish in the way
of controlling the out-put and prices of
commodities. They know that the cost of
some one or more of the articles they con-
sume has taken a sudden and unexpected
advance; wholly incommensurate with its
actual value, but they never realize to the
fullest extent just how and in what ways
the trusts operate to bring about such con-
ditions.
Here in Bellefonte we have had several
recent opportunities of studying the trusts
and their effects upon the people. First,
the MANN axe works, a small though busy,
thrifty little operation was bought by the
American axe and tool company because it
stood in the way of certain ends desired ‘0
be reached by that trust. The plant was
dismantled and the men who had heen em-
ployed there for years; having, by their
toil, been able to build themselves com-
fortable little homes, were forced to look
elsewhere for work, and, in many cases, to
sacrifice the properties they had spent al-
most a life time in paying for. Today
MANN’S axe works is like GOLDSMITH’S
“Deserted Village’’ so far as the trip of the
hammer, the incessant grinding of the
polishing stones and the glow of the forge
fires are concerned. And a trust has been
the sole cause of it.
Several years ago, when the nail market
took an unexpected jump and manufactur-
ers were looking about through Pennsyl-
vania for plants that only wanted the
quickening impulse of capital to stir them
into activity again it was found that the
idle nail mills had all been leased by the
trust, so that that gigantic corporation
could glut itself with the advanced prices
that it saw fit to demand for its product.
The Bellefonte nail mill, once a hive of
industry, where several hundred men earned
fair wages, was among the plants that were
locked up and rendered useless, so far as
helping anyone but a trust was concerned.
These two examples of the way the trusts
operate have not only been felt, but
seen by tbe people of this section. Now
another plan of their pernicious workings
is coming to light and this time the farm-
ers, and not the machanics and laboring
people, are to feel the tentacles of a great
octopus as they twine about them in their
endeavor to squeeze out the last farthing.
The National Harrow Co., is a combina-
tion of nine of the leading manufactories of
harrows and other small farm implements,
in the United States, that was doubtless
formed to control the price of those com-
modities. This concern has adopted a new
and decidedly novel manner of preserving
to itself .the exclusive trade of the con-
sumer. In fact it is the first case of the
sort that has ever come to our notice. The
National Harrow Co., first tries to in-
timidate small dealers in implements by
repeatedly sending them circulars in which
they are warned against handling any im-
plements that are an infringement on any
of the patents controlled by said corpora-
tion. And if such circulars were to be ac-
cepted as they read every implement would
come under the class upon which this trust
places the threatening ban. It must have
been because the little dealers were not as
green as they were imagined to be that a
futher and, we infer, still more adroit
scheme has been adopted. Now the Na-
tional Harrow Co., attorneys are writing
to all dealers, urging them to send, so far
as they know, the names of every farmer
who buys implements in their section.
They state that their desire to have such a
list of consumers is one prompted solely by
a philanthropic motive to keep them out of
the law’s meshes by warning them against
the purchase of any machinery with in-
fringements. In reality itisa scheme to
scare the farmer out of the purchase of
any machinery not controlled and priced
by the National Harrow Co.
The farmers have been caught on so
many Bohemian oats, lightning rod and
other swindles that they will doubtless be
eager and thankful for just such information
as this trust proposes to give them, but
they will waken up, sooner or later, to
realize how they have been duped by anoth-
er one of the trade creatures that Republi-
can laws and Republican officials bring into
existence and foster for the campaign fat
th at can be fried from them.
——If FISHER really did give away the
information that RIDDLE’S account was
overdrawn it is little wonder that RIDDLE’S
friends have decided to knife the Union
township candidate for commissioner.
There has been bad blood between the two
for some time, so ’tis said; they only speak
to each other when it is absolutely neces-
sary and neither has a favor to ask of the
other, nor one to grant.
A Coward For a Candidate!
HOW RICE-DYKE BARNETT STANDS AT HOME.
The Testimony of Neighbors Who Know Him and of Soldiers Who
Served Under Him—Unfeeling Toward His Sick Commander—Cruel to
the Men Under Him, and Afraid to Face the Enemy.
If you want to ascertain who and what a man is, go to his own home. His
neighbors know him, and if he is in any respect deserving they will say so. It
is to Western Pennsylvania you should go to discover the kind of a man Lieut.
Col. BARNETT is:—Out among his neighbors, and the soldiers who were under
him. And if you go there you will come home with the conviction that he is
not the kind of a man you want to honor or trust.
Last week Republican state chairman REEDER had a meeting of the county
chairmen of south western Pennsylvania. Nine of the ten chairmen present
told him plainly that where BARNETT was best known he was the weakest.
They all protested against him being sent into any of the counties from which
soldiers had been recruited for the Tenth Regiment.
REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY AS TO HIS UNPOPULARITY.
Chairman UNDERWOOD, of Washington county, BARNETT’s home, said :
“We don’t want BARNETT on the stump in our county. He would seriously
damage the party’s cause. Our workers do not recall that he ever spoke in the
county for a Republican ticket. They complain that about the only thing he
ever did was to work against Republican nominees.’’
Chairman WHITTIER, of Westmoreland, a county from which many of the
Tenth Regiment boys were recruited, said : ‘‘The Tenth regiment boys gen-
erally in Greensburg and vicinity, privately expressed bitter opposition to BAR-
NETT. Many of them accused him of an overfondness for rice-dyke protection,
far in the rear of his fellow-members of the Tenth, during engagements with
the Filipinos. Nearly every spot where you find a Tenth Regiment boy you
find trouble for BARNETT. Many of them are not only talking among their
neighbors against him, but working against his election.’”’
Chairman Crow, of Fayette, another county from which many of the fight-
ing Tenth boys went, said : ‘‘The unpopularity of BARNETT among the Tenth
regiment soldiers cannot be denied. A host of reputable witnesses, professional
and business men, would arise against him if necessary. Two-thirds of the
regiment are Republicans, and it is believed by our people, in the different
counties referred to that a large majority of the Republican soldiers will vote
against BARNETT.”
TRYING TO STEAL THE BEST ROOMS FROM HIS SICK COLONEL.
Much of the bitter criticism against him is in consequence of his alleged cow-
ardice, when he was found hiding behind a rice-dyke in the rear of his regi-
ment while it was in action ; his tyrannical treatment of the men after Col.
HAWKINS became too ill to care for them, and his lack of sympathy or care for
Colonel HAWKINS when he was stricken with his fatal illness.
It is stated by second lieutenant WILLIAM B. RITCHIE, of the Tenth, and
others that young HAWKINS, son of the lamented Colonel, at Cavite, just be-
fore the sailing of the transport Senator, with the regiment for home, made in-
dignant demonstration of his feelings toward BARNETT. The story is that
BARNETT caused his personal effects to be put in the best stateroom of the Sena-
tor, the only room with the good ventilation which was so much needed for the
ailing Colonel HAWKINS, who was in the hospital at Corregidor Island. ‘‘After
Lieutenant HAWKINS had made inquiry about this,”’ says Lieutenant RITCHIE,
a leading business man in Washington, Pa., ‘‘he decided that the rank of his
father, even if the latter were a well man, entitled him to this room. He did
ngt then think that Colonel HAWKINS was to die when two days out from Yo-
kohama. Young HAWKINS promptly caused all of BARNETT’S traps to be put
out on deck, and the room was reserved for the Colonel.”’
SICK COMMANDER NEGLECTED.
It is testified by private WILLIAM T. HAYES, a Waynesburg young man of
excellent repute : ‘‘I was detailed to the hospital service, and was continually
in Colonel HAWKINS’ room on the Senator during the stay at Nagasaki, and
until the Colonel’s death. I was the only member of the Tenth present when
he died. Lieutenant Colonel BARNETT’S room was next door but one to the
Colonel’s, on the Senator, but BARNETT was not in the commander’s room even
once, and on only one occasion do I know that BARNETT inquired how the
Colonel was.”’
A SKULKER IN BATTLE.
One of the many battlefield incidents that had caused this feeling against
BARNETT is related by a Company H private, JOHN E. CLARK, of Washington,
Pa. ‘“When we were crossing the railroad bridge at Guiguninto,’’ he says, ‘‘the
Filipinos opened fire on us from the woods, hundreds of yards ahead. Our fel-
lows on the line of scouts up there dropped to earth. Major BIERER, of the
Tenth, was the first officer I saw at the front, but very soon Colonel HAWKINS
was there forming the line. Our company got into the line, and when LEWIS
of Company C, was shot in the leg, I, with the litter, helped to carry him to
the rear. Ihad not seen BARNETT, whom Company I men said they had seen
him, crouching in a place like a buffalo wallow or part of a rice dyke fringed
with bushes, back toward the bridge, after all of the Tenth had crossed.
‘After carrying off a second wounded man of Company C, I returned to the
firing line and put on the litter GEORGE TAYLOR, of this town, who lived only
three days afterward. We took him back to a sort of scooped-out, swampy
place among the rice dykes, which at that moment was 40 or 50 yards back of
the firing line. It was only about 100 yards from the bridge. To the left of
me, only about 15 or 20 feet, I saw, well protected behind a mound, Lieuten-
ant Colonel BARNETT. Though evening, it was still light as day, and I could
see plainly a much longer distance.
“BARNETT had his little officer’s gun, but was not using it. He was doing
nothing but lying low. HAWKINS and BIERER were at the front doing every-
thing. The fight was at its hottest when BARNETT lay behind that mound,
which was five or six feet in diameter and perhaps four feet high. I think it
was simply a part of a rice dyke where the earth was thrown up higher than
elsewhere. The rice dyke protection to our hoys at the front was not over
eight or nine inches high.
‘After returning from poor TAYLOR to the front the fight was pretty well
over, and Colonel HAWKINS asked why the boys over there, were still shooting.
I went to the Colonel’sson about this, and he caused the firing to cease.
‘“When it came to the soldier business at Cavite, after the fighting, BARNETT
was exacting enough with the worn-out men, nearly half of whom were sick.
He then persisted in unnecessary drilling in the hot sun. But real business
had always demanded HAWKINS. Just before we made the charge at De La
Loma Church HAWKINS was right with his men, and he remained so to the
end of that rapid advance; but I didn’t see BARNETT, whom members of the
regiment say they saw behind a rice dyke on that occasion.”
HIDING BEHIND RICE DYKES.
Greensburg members of the Tenth, all prominent in business or professional
life, join in the indorsement of the following story told by a fellow townsman,
a prominent young lawyer, who was a member of Company I :
‘At the battle of Guiguinto, one of the hardest fights we had, on March 28th,
we men of Company I, from Greensburg and vicinity, were the last of the
Pennsylvanians to cross the railroad bridge. When we were on the other side
we saw BARNETT crouching under shelter, in a muddy little hollow like a buf-
falo wallow. It might have been a half-dried-up little stream bed along one of
the rice dykes, numerous thereabouts. The rice dykes are little embankments
to hold the water for the rice. :
“Company I were performing their duty of supporting the rear of the regi-
ment. There being awful heavy firing ahead, we pushed on and asked BAR-
NETT to tell us where to go. He waved his hand in the direction of the firing.
The nearest danger to him was 200 yards in advance just then, and afterward
much further. We moved on and left him there. ‘We had known him fram the
De La Loma Church fight and other occasions to be ‘cold-footed.” The worst
name you could call a man in our regiment was ‘cold-foot.’
Other narratives from men of the Tenth, in corroboration of the alleged ‘cold-
footedness’ at Gmiguinto and elsewhere are forthcoming, with the names of the
eye-witnesses. The arrival in the Philippines of newspapers containing a let-
ter from BARNETT to his law partner, RICHARD B. SCANDRETT, of Pittsburg,
expressing desire to possess a long-ranged gun, was among the incidents prompt-
ing the introduction of a song into the regiment, with these stanzas :
“0, here’s to Jimmy of rice-dyke fame!
With long-range gun take steady aim ;
When bullet whistle, jump into a drain,
And hide with Jimmy of rice-dyke fame.
Our long-range Jim, so deep in the ground,
When called by the Colonel, could not be found.
0, rice-dyke Jim was safe and sound
In the rear, low lying, behind a mound.
tal Ridge, Luzerne county, Michael Cavick
fell 90 feet down a shaft and was killed.
—Andrew S. Stover, deputy treasurer of
Franklin county, died at his home in Cham -
bersburg, Friday night, aged 58 years.
—The home of John Bohring, in Pine
township, Indiana county, was destroyed a
few days ago by fire, originating in a de-
fective flue.
—Falling from a train at Jeanette, Louis
Smith, a member of the Sixteenth Pennsyl-
vania Regiment, who served in Puerto Rico,
was killed.
—J. J. Eagan, and Cornelius W. Shew, the
Susquehanna county murderers, have been
given a fourth respite, from October 26th to
November 23rd.
—Andrew Carnegie offers $50,000 for a free
library at Tyrone, providing that the town
gives a site and raises $3000 annually to
maintain the institution.
—Thomas Costello, who has just returned
to Hazleton from the Philippines, was robbed
of $80 on Monday. The amount represents
several months’ hard-earned wages.
—Bears are plenty in the mountains north
of Renovo. Some teamsters in the Drury’s
Run region say they saw two big black bears
bathing in the new reservoir and having a
general good time to themselves.
—William Henry Rosensteel Sr., a native
of Baltimore, the original manufacturer of
Dell leather, on which he won a World's
Fair premium at Vienna, died at Johnstown
on Tuesday at the age of eighty-three.
—Thirty-five hands employed at the cigar
factory of F. H. Young & Bro., at Farrands-
ville, Clinton county, struck for an advance
in wages. The matter will probably be sat-
isfactorily arranged, and the men resume
work.
—The Dr. Petit block, one of the largest
in New Wilmington, Mercer county, was
destroyed by fire Sunday night, together
with other buildings. The new town has no
fire protection, and the business portion was
only saved after a hard fight. The loss is
about $10,000.
—While playing around a bonfire of
leaves, at Williamsport, Tuesday, Charles
Hecknauer, aged 3 years, fell into the blaz-
ing pile. His screamsattracted the attention
of his mother, who ran from the house and
pulled the child from the blazing mass. He
was terribly burned and may die.
—Mrs. Wm. A. Bagley died at the home of
her son-in-law, P. E. Dillen, who resides
near Hastings, Monday, October 16th. She
fell down a flight of stairs the previous Tues-
day, breaking her hip, which accident was
the cause of her death. She was aged 77
years and a native of Cambria county.
—The tannery that burned at Curwensville
two months ago, and which many thought
would be rebuilt at Clearfield, will be erected
again at the former place, just across the
creek from where it stood before, and on a
much larger scale. The people of Curwens-
ville naturally feel good over the matter.
“Zeke” Hoover, a teamster living in Clear-
field, met with a serious accident recently.
In an effort to stop his horses he was thrown
down and one of the front wheels of the wag-
on passed over him. Three ribs on his left
side were broken loose from the backbone
and one over his heart was fractured.
—TLeonard Minor, an employe of the Key-
stone Lime and Stone company, at Pember-
ton, a short distance from Tyrone, was over-
powered by two negroes at Spruce Creek Sun-
day and robbed of $247 in cash and a watch.
Minor had expected to be married on Christ-
mas day, but says he will now have to wait
until some other Christmas day.
—On Wednesday at 11 o’clock a. m., An-
drew C. Allison, editor of the Juniata Herald
and postmaster of Mifflintown, was united
in marriage to Mary E., daughter of B. F.
Schweier, editor of the Sentinel and Republi-
can, of the same place. The ceremony was
performed by A. N. Raven in the presence of
a large number of relatives and friends of
the contracting parties.
—The saw mill in Snake hollow, Clinton
county, owned by C. H. Rich, of Woolrich,
of the same county, was destroyed by fire
Friday morning. With the mill about 20,-
000 feet of lumber were destroyed. The mill
was well equipped and its destruction will
throw a number of men out of employment
for the time being. The loss is estimated at
$2,000. No insurance. A saw mill belong-
ing to George Breon, near Penfield, was also
destroyed Wednesday.
—Mrs. Mary Hampton, of Shamokin,
seven months ago fell and sprained her
ankle so badly that she became a cripple.
Monday night she prayed with Mrs. M. E.
Whittemore, a New York evangelist, to have
the use of her limb restored. Tuesday
morning Mrs. Hampton was able to walk,
and Tuesday afternoon she went to the
Presbyterian church to give public thanks to
God for the marvelous recovery of the use of
her limb.
— Butler claims to have been the first in
Pennsylvania to have utilized prisoners at
outdoor labor. For more than a year, says
the Butler Times, under orders and instruc-
tions of Judge Greer, the jail inmates who
have been serving sentences in the Butler
jail have earned their “board and keep’ by
working about the various buildings. Now,
empowered by the recently enacted law,
other counties are falling in line to make
prisoners toil just as they ought to do.
—Official dispatches received by District
President Wilson, of the United States Mine
Workers of America, states that there is no
truth in the statement sent out from DuBois
that the strike in the Toby Valley has been
declared off. On the contrary at meetings
held on Saturday and Sunday, the miners of
Dagus and Crenshaw unanimously declared
to stand by the Tioga miners. Out of a total
of eighteen hundred Erie miners, less than
one hundred are now at work, No Erie
miners are at work at Arnot or Landrus.