Bemoreaic; Wald, |
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—December, 1899, made her first touch-
down this morning.
—1It has not been learned yet whether
the President dined on stuffed Filipino yes-
terday or not.
—Governor-elect NAsH, of Ohio, is a
widower. Do you hear me, MARY ELLEN
LEASE?
—The fellow who is continually on the
hunt for trouble usually needs just one fel-
low about as drunk as he is himself to help
him find if.
—What isneeded in the Philippines now
are sprinters, not warriors. The whole
trouble is that AGUINALDO is a trifle too
fleet for our fellows.
—Itis queer with what equal facility
the Republican press of Pennsylvania con-
demns election frauds in Kentucky and
condones them in Philadelphia.
—By the time the next regular session of
the Legislature convenes ‘‘the old man’?
will find that he has more anties than he
ever dreamed of having before.
—The centre of attraction seems to be
transferred from Philadelphia, as a ballot
box stuffing Mecca, to Clearfield, where
Jury wheel stuffing seems to be in vogue.
—The latest trust to be formed is that of
the electric fan manufactories of the coun-
try. And it is only reasonable that those
who want to raise the wind should pay for
it.
—The FRANKLIN syndicate was a;great
thing for the fellows who were in on the
ground floor, but the upper storied inves-
tors got the usual high altitude dividend
—pure air.
Rev. Dr. GILLESPIE, an eminent Pitts-
burg divine, says that ‘‘the devil is in Pitts-
burg.”’ Injust what portion of the Smoky
city his santanic majesty has been located
is not given out, but we’ll bet there will be
a good many guesses for Second avenue.
—The Tunneltown wench who carried
her revolver in her stocking until it went
_ off, last Saturday night, at a dance and shot
her in the leg will probably realize that it
is bad business to deviate] from the tradi-
tional ‘‘culled’”’ practice of carrying a razor
in the shoe.
—If what some of the preachers and
women say is true BRIGHAM ROBERTS, the
mormon Congressman from Utah, need only
get the signatures of all of his wives to a
petition in his favor to offset the longest
one that the anti-polygamy people have
filed against him.
—The silver wing of the Republican
party heing ready to support BRYAN, on
any platform he might run on, there seems
to be a daily increasing certainty that
CROKER’S prediction, that the Nebraska
leader will be at the head of our party
phalanx again in 1900, is to be borne out by
the fact.
—GEORGE DEWEY wouldn’t need to
travel incog to escape unpleasant notoriety
at Princeton, N. J., these days.
sons of old Nassu’s eyes young ARTHUR
Por’s feat of kicking afield goal and win-
ning the foot ball game from Yale, when
only a minute remained in which to play,
makes our great naval hero look like thirty
cents.
—QUuAY’s latest plan to have PENROSE
made national chairman of the Republican
organization, to succeed MARCUS AURK-
1L1US HANNA, is about as foxy a move as
he has made for some time. With PEN-
ROSE as national chairman QUAY would be
the logical boss of his party and then he
would simply demand his being seated in
the U. S. Senate.
—People can laugh and ridicule ‘‘book
farming’? as much as they please, but if
the fellows who do everything by the ‘‘up
and down signs of the moon”’ would get a
few of the book ideas mixed up in their
gray matter there would be a great many
more successful men on the farms. All of
one or the other is equally dangerous,
while a little of both is undoubtedly a good
combination.
—They are making a great fuss now be-
cause five men sit in Chicago and make the
price that shall be paid for wheat each day.
While it does seem wrong that industrial
conditions should have come to such a pass
that five brokers can fix the price of the
principal product of all the farms in the
United States, yet when you get right down
to buttons and brass tacks we’ll bet there's
not a single farmer in the country who
wouldn’t be one of the five, if he could.
—~THOMAS JEFFERSON paid $15,000,000
only for the whole Louisiana territory in
1803 and now the little mining camp at
Cripple Creek, Colorado, is reported to he
worth that much. President McKINLEY
paid $20,000,000 for the Philippines and
there is nothing there but sand, consump-
tive monkeys and worthless niggers and all
we are certain of out of this undesirable
bunch is AGUINALDO’S two year old kid,
which one of our armies captured a few
days ago.
—1It is bad enough to have our good men
shot and boloed to death inthe Philip-
pines, but itis all wrong to send them over
there in unseaworthy ships that they have
to man themselves and work night and
day at baling water to keep from going to
the bottom of the sea. This was the pre-
dicament of the three companies of the
Thirty-first who were shipped on the
‘‘Manauenz,’”’ a boat so dangerous that
most of its crew deserted during the stop
at Honolulu.
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Demacratic Wald
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 44
NO. 47.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 1, 1899.
A Few Practical Thoughts for Tmprac-
tical Men.
It is stange how very impractical some
very practical men can be. Inthe matter
of business there are no more practical
men anywhere than those connected with
the Business Men’s League of Philadelphia.
And yet in the matter of politics they show
no more sign of having a practical idea,
about the accomplishment of such results
as they are working for, than a Klondyke
winter does of knowing how to grow June
roses.
For years they have kept up an organi-
zation for the purpose of trying to better
both state and local governments, and to
secure honest and fair elections within the
Commonwealth. They have used, unstint-
edly, both their time and money to accom-
plish these purposes and to-day they find
the condition of affairs worse in ever way
than when they undertook the job of better-
ing them.
And why?
Simply because they ignore the practical
methods of the politician and rely upon
the theoretical plans proposed by visionary
and sentimental dreamers.
It has possibly never occurred to these
gentlemen that the basis of all power in
the political management of States and mu-
nicipalities is in the primaries.
These given over to the tools of a
boss or the creatures of a ring ends all
hope of any results except, such as suit the
needs of the ring or the demands of the
boss.
It is the control of the primaries that
controls all. It is at these that the crop
of election frauds is planted. It is here
that wrong gets its foothold and right its
back-set. Thisis the foundation on which
either official rectitude, or debasing de-
bauchery is built. And it is this most
vitally important point,in all political and
official results, that is most neglected by
the people.
To give over the primaries to the will of
the few and those few the heelers of a
political boss, or creatures who can be
bought to do his bidding, is to give over
the elections and all that springs from them
to the same power. It is at the primaries
that the candidates are named and no mat-
ter how objectionable these may be, how
much the creature of a hoss they are, they
must be elected. And there’s just where
and how the corrupt men of both parties,
particularly in the larger cities, get in their
work. They attend the primaries and dic-
tate the ticket. When this is done it is
then only a question with them whose
rascal wins. The fight against honesty
and decency and right is already won.
They know that others may kick
and scold about the class of men who
have heen placed upon the ticket, but
that they aie there to stay and that no
matter how the election goes men of their
choosing, and who will heed their demands,
are sure to be elected.
Does any one suppose that if the better
class of people, of both parties, took an in-
terest in naming who should be placed up-
on their tickets, at the primaries, that the
class of creatures who have been padding
the registry lists, stuffing the ballot boxes,
making false returns, ete., would be placed
in positions to do this dirty and damnable
work ?
And it is in this that the impracticability
or the Business Men’s League shows itself.
It proposes purifying the ballot by chang-
ing the Constitution and the laws—a job
that will take years to accomplish and may
then not succeed, while it has it in its
power, provided there are more honest men
in Philadelphia than rascals, to accomplish
the same result by simply getting the decent
voters of that city to attend the primaries
and place upon the several tickets honest,
upright men. There will be no necessity,
then, of trusting to constitutional changes
or legislative enactments for pure elections
and honest returns. These will be insured
by making proper nominations, and all the
long waits and doubtful results that are
sure to follow their theoretical way of
mending results will be avoided.
Let them be practical and they will be
successful.
—— Congressman ROBERTS, against
whose admission to Congress, because of a
multiplicity of wives, such strenuous efforts
are being put forth by the churches, is not
the only Mormon who has the distinction
of being a public official. According to
Senator RAWLINS, of Utah, President Mc-
KINLEY has appointed, and the Senate has
confirmed, a number of Polygamists as
federal officers in that State, some of
whom have held office ever since McKINLEY
went to Washington. Under the circam-
stances it might be well for these goody-
goody people who are so terribly outraged
at the thought of a man with two wives
sitting in Congress, to consider the recog-
nition Mormon practices receive through
their President’s appointments. Possibly
it will not look so horrible to them when it
has the McKINLEY endorsement.
—~Subseribe for the WATCHMAN,
How Different the Two Purchases.
It is a hard job the advocates of imperial-
ism and expansion have in inducing the
people to believe that because THOMAS
JEFFERSON was right in his purchase of
Louisiana, WILLIAM MCKINLEY is right
in his attempt to acquire the Philippines.
Between these two purchases no com-
parison can be made.
The Louisiana purchase secured absolute
and undisputed title to territory now com-
prising one half or more of the United
States. It was a part of the same country,
and the ownership of the land, with the
exception of a small portion lying along
the mouth of the Mississippi, and which
was owned by individuals, became vested
solely in the government. What few in-
habitants were included in the territory,
welcomed the new government of which
they became a part. They were people of
the same race, same language, same re-
ligion, same customs and same hopes and
expectations. That purchase cost us $15,-
000,000, and gave to us the absolute owner-
ship of over eight hundred millions of acres
of land, that has since fusnished homes for
over 30,000,000 of our people. All this, in
addition to the right to govern and control
this vast and valuable territory.
The purchase of the Philippines cost us
one fourth more than did that of Louisi-
ana. Itgive us title to not a single thing
but two old Spanish fortifications, one at
Manila, the other at Cavite. It did notse-
cure us an acre of soil, or the fealty and
support of any of its people. For the right
to govern a territory in which we do not
possess a foot of land we are carrying on a
war that is costing over one million of dol-
lars every week. When that war is over,
and we have won all we bought and all we
fought for, the government, that paid $20,-
000,000 for Spain’s title to what that coun-
try owned on those islands, and then ex-
pended a $100,000,000 more, to enforce
our right to govern them, will not ,be the
possessor of a foot of territory, outside of
the two fortifications mentioned. It will
not have land enough to sell to make a
home for a single American. For the mil-
lions upon millions expended, the lives
sacrificed and the sufferings and sorrows
and taxations that war has brought, it will
have absolutely nothing but the right to
govern and that only by reason of its
power to do so.
The Louisiana purchase secured us title
to land which at two dollars per acre—the
price charged by the government to settlers
for it—amounts to over one and a half
billions of dollars. The Philippine pur-
chase secures no territory that can be sold
for homes, for every foot of soil on those
islands is now owned and occupied by in-
dividuals whose title thereto must remain
undisputed, no matter what form of gov-
ernment they may be compelled to submit
to.
In what way then can these two purchases
be compared ?
By the purchase of Louisiana are secured
property rights from which billions of dol-
lars have since been realized and through
which millions of people secured homes,
while by the Philippine purchase we se-
cure absolutely nothing of the kind.
JEFFERSON’S expansion enlarged our
country, enriched and strengthened the
government, and increased our population
by adding to it people of our own race, our
own religion, our own customs and our own
beliefs.
McKINLEY’S expansion adds nothing; to
our country in the way of homes or wealth,
but taxes our peoble to buy and carry on a
war for the purpose of governing alien
races, and becoming the sponsors for and
protectors of Cannibalism on one island,
heathenism on others; polygamy through-
out most of them, and Mohammedanism
and its sensual rites and customs generally.
What It Is Costing.
For over one year and a half we have
been waging war in the Philippine islands.
During every week of that time, over one
million of dollars have gone out to help
pay the expense of keeping up that war.
In addition to this we paid $20,000,000 to
Spain for the sites of two old fortifications
she owned on those islands, making in all
up to this time over one hundred million
in gold that the Philippines have cost us,
and to-day we control and have authority
over not a foot of territory except that
which is occupied by our soldiers.
In addition to this cost in cold cash, we
have already sacrificed the lives of 1188
brave men, and had 1899 others maimed
for life. Five thousand additional are
stricken with disease and are now in the
hospitals of that far away land, and the
good Lord only knows how many more are
to be offered up as a sacrifice to the Moloch
of Imperialism that we are now worshiping,
and the ideas of expansion that have taken
hold on us.
When we come to remember that already
the Philippines have cost us three times as
much in money, as did the Lousiana,
Mexican, Texas and Gadsden, purchases, or
annexations, altogether, and which repre-
sent twenty States and territories of our
government, we can have an idea of the
kind of statesmanship we had at one time
and the kind we have now.
The Beginning of a Big Job.
Mr. QUAY, it is now stated by his friends,
will go for the insurgents from this on in
a style that they will find out what it
means to cross lines with the boss. He has,
through others, had suit brought against
Senator FLINN for the purpose of trying to
show that the Pittsburg leader is no better
than others, and that he has been using the
city money for his own private purposes.
If he can do this it will materially lessen
the Senator’s influence and thus lessen the
difficulties in the way of the boss.
When he gets through with FLINN his
next step, it is alleged, will be an effort to
have CHARLES EMORY SMITH removed from
the position of Postmaster General, on the
grounds that his opposition to the ring is
assisting insurrection in the party in the
State and that anything that incites opposi-
tion to the boss’ methods and purposes,
endangers the unanimity with which it is
hoped to give the State to McKINLEY.
After he has ‘settled the political hash?’
of Mr. SMITH his attention will be given to
the aspirations of ex-Governor HASTINGS,
which are to be exposed to the public and
then rolled out and sat upon by the state
boss, until the Governor and his closest
friends will neither recognize nor own them.
This job, we are told, is to be done up so
completely and so fully that the ex-Gover-
nor’s place forever after will be on the low-
er rung of the political ladder.
There will be others then to settle with,
but it is asserted that there is to be no let-
up on the part of Mr. QUAY until the
whole ‘“kit-an-caboodle,’’ who have ques-
tioned his authority to dictate the policy
and dominate the patronage of his party in
the State are relegated to the rear and the
last of the insurgents are driven into line,
or forced to sever their connection with
their party.
It may prove a big undertaking and
develop into a big job, but conditions are
such that either Mr. QUAY or some other
people must “‘lay down’ pretty soon in
Pennsylvania, and we presume that the big
boss has concluded that it will not be him,
if he can help it.
What the New Financial Policy is.
Th¥aew financial policy that-the.admin-
istration. will urge Congress to adopt is
in short as follows :
First.—To declare for the single gold
standard. - This will allow the few syndi-
cates whocan control the money market, to
demand what price they please from the
business and other interests of the country
that need and must have money.
Second —To make all obligations of the
government payable in gold. This will
give to the bond holder, whether he be a
banker or otherwise, gold for that for which
he paid in greenbacks, and as the value of
gold will be enhanced by making it the
only standard, the bond holder will be
benefited just to the amount of that increas-
ed value.
Third.—To retire the greenback currency
as it is redeemed. This will contract the
supply of money to just the extent that re-
demption is made, and will, by making
money scarcer, make the rates of interest
higher and the value of all commodities
that are exchanged for gold lower.
Fourth.—To allow national banks to is-
sue notes to the full extent of the bond
security given, and to he established on as
low a basis as $25,000. This will lessen
the security of national banks just one
tenth, as the entire amount of their bonds,
will be held as security for their circula-
tion, and will place in their hands the issue
of all the paper money of the country.
If you think this policy will suit your
interests, you are likely to get just what
you want. It is destined, in the end, to
make money scarce, and scarce money
makes tight times and you know how
tight times squeeze you, as well as the rest
of us.
——The sentence given to the members
of the Republican state ring—INGHAM and
NEWITT—who were convicted of bribery
and conspiring to protect counterfeiters,
has brought the public to the belief that
the judge before whom they were tried is
saving his justice to meet out to some poor
fellow who don’t have a political pull be
hind him. One dollar of a fine and two
years imprisonment looks as if there was
scarcely enough justice to reach round, and
is a pretty plain intimation to otlier rascals,
of the same kind, of a shortage in the supply
of punishment. Such sentences may do
for a QUAY court but they won’t do much
towards increasing the confidence of the
people in either their honesty or their de-
sire to meet out justice to the culprits
brought before them.
——Editor JOHN B. CoULSTON, of the
Potter Democrat, published up at Couder-
sport would probably fall over dead if. he
should happen to see a real good theatrical
entertainment. At least we arrive at such
a conclusion after reading what he had to
say about Cox’s comedians.
——The next Representatives from Cen-
tre county, it is safe to say, will be anti-
QUAY men.
The New Treasurer Talks in Verse.
(An Adaptation from the Denver Evening Post.)
Well, the election’s over wife, we've played the
ballot game.
An’ your ol’ man’s a roostin’ on the pinnacle of
fame !
An honored office 0’ law upon my shoulders fell,
An’ proud are the emotions that within my bosom
swell !
In spite of all the fightin’, with it hopes, its fears,
its pleasure,
The loyal folks have voted me the Centre county
Treasur’
An’ I will don the duty as becomes a noted man,
An’ try to scatter money just the very best I can.
It was a hard-fought battle, wife; their forces was
arrayed
In what they call a solid an’ invincible brigade,
An’ every measly scheme was worked to throw me
off the track,
An’ with the knife o’ calumny torip me up the
back.
They hinted at me stealin’ sheep in down Frank-
lin county,
Said I had served a term in jail for jumpin’ o’ the
bounty,
An’ had half a dozen wives before I married you—
I was a high-grade devil from them fellers’ point
0’ view !
The husky Howard Hustler come a sort o’ sneaky
way
An’ tried to jack me up as an oneducated jay,
A man not fitted fur the place, an ignorant ol’
fool,
That didn’t know enough to shun the wrong end
of a mule.
I owe that lyin’ editor a dollar, I'll admit,
An’ that’s what throwed him into such an SgoBine
in’ fit,
But spite of all his scholar talk, to run me up a
tree,
I got four thousand honest votes, an Thompson
only three.
It was a glorious vict'ry, wife, an overwhelmin’
scoop,
An’ treated Johnny Thompson to a plunge bath in
the soup!
The people spoke in clarion tones, an’ showed us
by their votes
They knowed how to discriminate ’twixt sheep
an’ billy goats.
It cost me lots 0’ honest cash fur cider an’ seegars
But I didn’t spend $2 across the cussed bars,
But what is filthy lucre, even squandered to ex-
tremes,
Beside the star of honor that upon my chaplet
gleams,
I hope you fully realize in its exalted sense
The height to which I've h’isted you on the offi-
cial fence.
Your’e now the wife of one who has winned out in
a dash,
A dignified, respectible dispenser of the cash.
Conduct yourself in queenly way, your station try
to fill,
An’ though when we are all alone you yit may call
me Bill,
‘When company is present from your dignity don’t
fall
For it must be Treasurer, or nothing, that's all.
The Probable Lines of the Campaign.
From the Pittsburg Post.
In a voyage of discovery as to the proba-
ble position the Democratic party will
take next year on national questions
Harper’s Weekly sent out inquiries to
all the States addressed to leading Demo-
crats, members of Congress and of the na-
tional committee. It finds that in twenty
States, according to the reports made, and
they are the States where the bulk of the
Democratic strength lies, the party will
commit itself against imperialism and mili-
tarism, for radical anti-trust legislation
and to bimetallism by free coinage. The
‘Weekly’ comments that both the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties, with much
greater accuracy than usual, are committed
to candidates and platforms a full half
year in advance of the meeting of the na-
tional conventions. The Republicans will
countenance trusts, champion imperialism
and a big standing army and oppose bi-
metallism. The Democrats will take the
opposite position. All of which is very
probable.
Where the Responsibility Lies.
From the Wellsboro Gazette.
The Washington Star of last week de-
clares that Admiral Dewey made this state-
ment when asked as to whether the con-
flict with the Filipinos could have been
avoided. Said the admiral :
“If Leonard Wood—that is, General
Wood in command at Santiago—had been
in command of the forces at Manila there
would have heen no war, or if there had
been, it would not have lasted more than
six weeks. You are the twenty-sixth man
I have said this to. Iam going to say it
to the twenty-seventh. The twenty-seventh
will be the President.’
That is explicit enough. The conviec-
tion is universal that if Dewey had been
intrusted with the sole command of the
army and navy at Manila there would have
been no war. On whom does the respon-
sibility rest for the 3,000 Americans killed
in battle or died of wounds or disease? Is
it not pretty close to President McKinley ?
An Ante Election Version of the Twenty-
Third Psalm.
From the Houtzdale Citizen.
‘The politician is my sheperd;I shall
not want any good thing during the cam-
paign. He leadeth me in the saloon for
my vote’s sake; he filleth my pocket with
good cigars; my glass of beer runneth over.
He prepareth my ticket for me in the
presence of my better judgment. Yea,
though I walk through the mud and rain
for him and shout myself horse when he is
elected, when I meet him in his office, he
knoweth me not. Surely the wool bas
been pulled over my eyes all the days of
my life, and I will kick myself forever.”’
Break the Chain.
From the Clarion Democrat.
An endless chain has been started by
Miss Edna McClellan, of New York City,
with the object of buying a home for Ad-
miral Schley in Washington. It is to be
hoped that he will not accept such a pres-
ent and thus exhibit to the people the fact
that he is not the grasping, mercenary of-
ficial they seem to take him to he.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Chest Creek Land and Improvement
company will mine and ship 1,000,000 tons of
coal from their mines at Patton during the
present year.
—Marie, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Maloney, of Ebensburg, was
badly scalded a few days ago by falling into
a kettle of hot water that had been left
standing oa the floor.
—The Twenty-eighth regiment has ar-
rived safely at Manila. Major King, form-
erly of the Twelfth regiment, N. G. P., is a
captain in the Twenty-eighth. The regi-
ment upon its arrival was immediately sent
to the front.
—MTrs. Harry Quarry, who lives near Sal-
tillo, in Mifflin county, killed a wild turkey
recently which we believe no other woman
has yet done. It was scared from the mount-
ain by hunters and flew into an open field.
She shot its head off with a 22 calibre re-
volver.
—Saturday the Cambria company at
Johnstown began the preliminary work on
the new five-story office building to be
erected on the site of the works order office
and its completion will mark one of the best
of the many improvements the Cambria com-
pany has been making in the interest of
its employes.
—Mr. W. S. Gordon, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
was in Everett last week buying and ship-
ping apples to Cincinnati and Dayton. He
made his headquarters at W. W. McDaniel’s
Racket store, where the apples were put in
barrels for shipment. Mr. Gordon has pur-
chased almost 7,000 bushels already. The
prices paid range from 75 to $1.05 per barrel
of three bushels.
—P. F. Custer, of Vinco, was in Johnstown
recently exhibiting some freaks in corn that
were of very curious interest. One of these
showed eleven ears grown together, another
showed nine and a third, five. A fourth ear
was in the shape of a human hand. The
The corn is of the gourd-seed variety and
Mr. Custer’s crop yielded 120 bushels to the
acre.
—Rev. A. R. Lambert, pastor of the Ridge
Ave. M. E. church, Harrisburg, has finally
been appointed to the pastorate of the Fowler
Methodist church, Minneapolis, Minn., by
Bishop Fowler. Mr. Lambert is a son-in-law
to J. W. Heath, of Powelton, and received
his first recommendation for ministerial
license by the Philipsburg quarterly confer-
ence.
—Thomas W. Powell, high constable of
Clearfield borough was struck by the Beech
Creek passenger train in the yard near Clear-
field on Saturday morning. His body was
frightfully mutilated. The victim was an
old soldier and for many years held the posi-
tion of high constable for the borough of
Clearfield. He is aged about 60 years and is
survived by a family.
—John Guyer, aged 21 years, and his
brother, George, of Dudley, Huntingdon
county, went gunning Thursday and during
the day they became separated. John’s fail-
ure to return led to a search for him Friday,
when his body was found in the woods. A
bullet had pierced him through the abdo-
men. He had been *‘calling’’ wild turkeys
and it is believed he was shot by mistake by
some unknown hunter.
—Judge Olmstead, of Potter county, has
ordered that all men convicted of illegal
liquor selling shall be compelled to work out
the $500 fine at cracking stone at $1 per day.
There are twelve now in Potter county jail
for illegal liquor selling, and on Saturday,
Sheriff Farnsworth started to put the court’s
order into effect. Four of them refused to -
go to work, declaring that they had never
done any work and didn’t propose to begin.
The judge, therefore, ordered them placed on
a bread and water diet until they changed
their minds about working.
—John Warzneck, the trackwalker at
Parker’s Glen, had a singular experience
with a deer. He was walking along the rail-
road near the station when he heard a com-
motion overhead and looking up saw a large
doe on the edge of the precipice which is
more than 100 feet high. The deer jumped
and landed a few yards ahead of him ou the
ground. Its only apparent injury was a
broken leg. Warzneck grappled with the
animal as it struck the ground and a fierce
battle ensued for half an hour before Warz-
neck succeed in cutting its throat. He was
severely injured.
—The Reedsville Water company, to sup-
ply water to the towns of Reedsville, Yeag-
ertown, Milroy and Burnham, will get its
charter. Secretary of the Commonwealth .
Griest gave a hearing recently to the appli-
cants and the protestants, the latter repre-
k senting those who have applied for separate
charters for each of the three townships ad-
jacent to Reedsville in which these towns are
located. It was the contention of the protes-
tants that a corporation of this kind could
not be authorized to supply water to more
than one township. Secretary Griest de-
cided in favor of the Reedsville company
and against the others.
—The distribution of students in State
College by counties, for the present year, is
an interesting showing. Fifty-three coun-
ties are now represented : Centre leads with
fifty-two men, and Allegheny follows with
thirty-one. Blair county stands third, with
fifteen men, and Lancaster fourth, with
twelve, followed by Schuylkill, with eleven.
The present Freshman and Sub-Freshman
classes, alone, are distributed over forty-
eight counties. Outside of Pennsylvania
six States and one territory are represented:
Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Maryland and Virginia and Okla-
homa Territory.
—Mrs. Mattie Pryor, a colored woman liv-
ing at Tunneltown, near Spruce Creek, was
out at a dance Saturday night, and on the
way home when nearing her place of habita-
tion she tripped in some way and fell to the
ground. She happened to have a revolver
secreted in the stocking on her right leg, and
when she fell a load from the weapon was
discharged. The ball entered the outside of
| her leg about three inches above the knee
and passed downward into the calf. Dr. L.
F. Crawford was summoned, who probed for
the ball past the knee joint but failed to lo-
cate it. The wound will doubtless heal and
the woman will not be any worse on account
of her war experience. She is the widow of
the man Pryor who died at Tunneltown and
was buried at Tyrone some months since.