| - Demorrali atria BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —1It is time to shake the moth balls out of your sealskin pajamas. —1It is oratory, not votes that will prob- ably decide the gubernatorial contest in Kentucky. —The Boers are drawing closer to Lady- smith every day and with her it is close up for keeps now. —1It is singular that no syndicate was formed to control the crop of foot-ball hair that was cut after Thanksgiving. —There is scarcely a time in the history of the ‘blind pool’’ speculator that he doesn’t get sight enough to look justice in the face. —Poor ROBERTS. He was a brave man to undertake the management of those women, but it is quite evident that Con- gress is afraid of him. —Do you think that Senator CHAND- LER'S bill to prohibit Senators and Con- gressmen from receiving free railroad passes will ever become a law? If you do, you hav e another think coming. —The Ohio Senator who said that RoB- ERTS ‘‘is a morally pure man’’ must have had his judgment warped by association with such fellows as HANNA, FORAKER and those other specimens of prominence in the Buckeye State. —The latest reports from the Philippines are to the effect that AGUINALDO is ready to surrender. But what if he is. He is not the only Filipino on those islands and as long as there is one of them left there is going to be trouble for Uncle SAM. —The evident desire of consul MACRUM to give up his job at Pretoria, South Africa, is very unRepublican. He ought to be read out of his party. Such a thing as a Republican giving up a government job puts him in line for about $300 a week as a museum freak. —Secretary GAGE has sent his message to Congress recommending the expenditure of $631,081,994 for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1904. It is an increase of $38,- 033,616 over the estimates for the present year. This seems to indicate that the .. stamp-licking method of ‘‘Remember the Maine’? will be continued indefinitely. —1If the Philadelphia Inquirer is so cer- tain that the Congress that convened on Monday will ‘never sanction the hauling down of the American flag’ it must have gotten a tip that Congress intends forcing the President to plant the emblem again in the Samoan territory from which he has had it hauled down. How about it? —There are unmistakable signs of the millennium in the West. Many great cor- porations are threatening to move out of Illinois and locate in New York because of the hostile attitude that the Legislatures and courts of the former State are assuming towards great combinations of capital. We are waiting to hear the opposition blame this on ATGELD. —The county commissioners, of Clear- field county, have offered a reward of $500 for the apprehension of jury commissioner MILLARD F. JOHNSON, who recently fled to escape arrest for tampering with the jury wheel. Judging from the good round price they are ready to pay in order to get him back Democrats must be comin’ high over in Clearfield. —If OoM PAUL had as much of a reserve force to fall back on as England has Her Majesty would be licked clear out of her petticoats by this time. With the Boers , and the English it is a plain case of Dutch science against English numbers, and while science has been triumphant up to this time numbers are bound to win in the end. —The goose bone prognosticator is out with the theory that we will have an un- usually mild winter ; with only one severe- ly cold spell to come in February. The white goose bone says so. But what of the rag weed and the cater-pillar nest? Both of these infallible signs are numerous and flourishing enough looking to suggest all the winter we can buy coal for. —Judging from the way the news has been coming in about that Modder river battle with the Boers the British must he running yet. The first telegrams announc- ed a great victory for them, then the news came that they had merely held their own; later, that they were in retreat; still later, that they were running ;and since then no word has come. Could anything be more apparent. They must be running yet. —*‘Golden Rule’’ JONES says if his recent campaign in Ohio contributed anything to- ward the defeat of the imperialistic policy of this administration he is perfectly satis- “Hed with the time and trouble he went to ~in making a canvass. Viewed from the light of a man who was defeated for Gover- nor through JoNES’ round about slap at imperialism, Mr. McLEAN doubtless thinks the “Golden Rule’’ exponent of the ‘‘antis’’ might have stayed out until he had some- thing. . —— The latest information from Wash- ington is to the effect that QUAY is certain of being seated in the Senate. What if he is? Pennsylvania really has no tenable ground for opposition. Wasn't the issue made, fairly and squarely, in the fall on the endorsement or rebuke of QUAY? If was a QUAY ticket, pure and simple, and it won. Now by what right have the peo- ple of Pennsylvania to protest after they have said, with their ballots, that they trust QUAY at home with their State Treas- ary. & z= 207 RO emaric STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 44 BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 8, 1899. The Inconsistency of Imperialism. The inconsistencies of inconsistent peo- ple are many and strange. Usually like sympathizes and sustains like. Good en- courages and defends good. Evil aids and protects evil. Christianity at home sup- ports christianity everywhere. Members of a profession stand by that profession no matter where it is practiced or what oppo- sition it meets with. So it is with all be- liefs, all doctrines, all teachings and all in- dividuals except the American imperialist and expansionist. He is a professed believer in one doctrine for himself; an opponent of the same doctrine when applied to others. The principles of government that are best suited to him and his needs at home are, according to his actions, entirely unsuited to the welfare and happiness of people of other countries. He professes great admi- ration for Republican forms of government, yet opposes their adoption whenever that adoption is attempted. He assisted to start the war, to secure to Cuba the blessings of home rule and now insists that home rule there would be a failure. He held out the inducements of independence to the Filipinos, until the Spanish were driven from those islands, and is now fighting against the very inde- pendence that he asserts is the natural right of all men. He sees the struggling republics of South Africa in the throes of an unequal and almost hopeless contest for existence, and his sympathies, and his sup- port, wherever they can be given go out to the powers that would crush them. Verily there are but few who can believe that an American imperialist is an honest believer in the doctrines or principles un- derlying his own form of government. He may make professions of loyalty to those principles but the more he professes the more apparent the hypocrisy of the effort be- comes. If the christian church would assist to throttle christianity, wherever it attempted to gain a foothold, outside of christianized nations, how long would people continue to believe in its doctrines and professions ? And what must the subjects of European powers think of the Republican govern- ment whose people, after securing its sup- posed blessings for themselves, deny that it is suitable or beat:for -others struggling for the same end. Is is not time to stop and think of how it belittles and belies the advantage and benefits of free government for those who are enjoving them, to attempt to deny them to others. Will we ever waken to the enormity of the offense that Mr. McKINLEY and his supporters are committing against the prin- ciples of Republican government, in their efforts to expand their powers and to force the people of other countries to submit to the rule of this? Won't Influence Their Action. The Philadelphia Z%mes, whose sympa- thies for the QUAY ring has made it the chief apologist of the registry padders and ballot box stuffers, is now coming to the front with its advice to Democrats, as to the proper way of ascertaining what is wrong with the Democratic vote of that city. As could be expected it suggests everything except that which would uncov- er the traitors who have been posing as Democrats for the purpose of assisting the Republican state ring, or the exposure of the methods by which the creatures of that ring use the vote cast by Democrats to mag- nify Republican majorities. A newspaper, pretending to independence and greatness, that has no woyd of condemnation for crimes such as have been committed against the purity of the election in its own city—crimes that would disgrace any com- munity, and which besmirch not only the fair name but the citizenship of Philadel- phia, is not exactly the source from which honest investigators will seek counsel. If its advice is to be followed, every imagin- able reason, except the right one, will be given for the seeming falling off of the Democratic vote, and the QUAY heelers, who bray about their Democracy and an- nually sell out the party, or join with the ring in making the work of repeaters, bal- lot box stuffers and false counters, appear as the voice of the people of that city, will be reported as loyal Democrats whose ac- tions are not to be suspicioned and whose work should receive the party endorsement. The Times may he a great paper—in its own estimation it doubtless is—but it is not great enough to recognize that the bunco business has a limit and when that limit is passed it is the ‘‘steerer,’’ not the public, who is deceived. , —Hon. J. K. P. HALL, Congressman from this district, was quite fortunate in drawing for a seat in the House on Mon- day. His name came out early in the drawing and he selected a desk in the second section of the Democratic side, four rows from the rear. ——If you want fine job printing of every description the WATCHMAN office is the place to have it done. How Appropriations Have Grown. We have always boasted of the fertility of our soil, of the salubrity of our climate, and of the conditions that secure for us the prolific growth of almost anything planted. But we'll have to let up on this. Nature is good to us, but man can outdo it. Compared to its work, that of the Mec- KINLEY administration can heat it ten fold in the rapidity of the increase, and the enormity of the size to which those things over which it has charge can be made to grow. We refer to the public ap- propriations. Compared to these JONAH’S gourd grew at a snail’s pace, and JACK’S bean stalk would have wilted in pure des- pair at its inability to make a better show- ing. ‘‘In the Heavens above, in the earth beneath or in the waters that are under the earth,’’ there is nothing known to man that grows like these do. They spring up as if fertilized and hoed, plastered and cul- tivated, watered and coaxed in a manner that no other crop in this country, or else- where, knows anything of. We thought that it was doing pretty well, in the way of getting rid of public moneys, when, in 1897, we were told that it would require $311,000,000 to bear the ex- penses of the first year of Mr. McKINLEY’S administration. We found that much better was expected of him, during his second year,in this line, when the estimates for the amounts needed were placed at over $500,000,000. With the Cuban war ended, we were somewhat surprised to be told that our imperial President could get along with no less than $596,000,000, dur- ing the third year of his rule, but that surprise blossoms into astonishment now when his financial representatives announce to the country that for the last year of the term, for which he was elected, he asks and must have $631,000,000. Do you know of anything that has grown faster than this? The more than doubling of governmental expenditures in a single presidential term! Get down to the cold realities and think of it awhile. When Mr. McKINLEY went into office and demanded three hundred and eleven million dollars to bear the ex- penses of his administration from June, 1897, to June, 1898, you thought it was an exorbitant sum. If it had been a Democrat who required this amount you would have denounced him for extravagance, and many of you would have called it a thiev- ing administration that could get away with so much money. But you paid your share—four dollars a piece for every man woman and child in the country—ne- groes, Indians, Chinese and all—without grumbling, in the hope that better things could be looked for in the future. That future is now here. You taxes are exactly doubled and Mr. McKINLEY'S last year as your imperial dictator will cost just eight dollars for every inhabitant of this glorious, growing, boastful country. Six hundred and thirty-one million a year for government expenses, and what is there to show for such statesmanship ? We have the same old flag that waved over us when, under Democratic adminis- trations, these expenditures were less than one hundred million a year. We have the same privileges, so far as governmental rights go, that was guaranteed us then, but not another thing in the way of blessings, benefits, opportunities or glories. Noth- ing additional but wasteful war; the gathering in of pauper dependencies ; the multiplication of useless officials ; trusts, tariff taxation and stamp taxes. These are the roots from which this won- derful growth of appropriations bave sprung. ——Most any kind of political gossip that you care to listen to can be heard around the retreats of the politicians these days. They have the story going that former Governor HASTINGS wants to be the national delegate from this district and while there is not likely to be much opposi- tion to it in Centre county, the other coun- ties in the district will attend to his case. Then they say that former Deputy Attor- ney General REEDER has expressed a de- sire to go to the State Senate and will be a candidate before the next senatorial confer- ence. As to whether the Bellefonter could get the endorsement of Centre county, that is a matter between him and WOMELSDORT, of Philipsburg, who bas by no means given up hope of a seat in the upper branch of the state Legislature. As we will not elect a Senator until 1902 this talk of Col. REEDER’S aspirations seems to be based on the assumption that he does not intend to run for judicial honors in 1904. What- ever disposition the gossips make of his case it is altogether likely that Col. REED- ER will control the tide, no matter which way it flows. He has the organization now and will hold it just as long as he needs it. Already the men with QUAY affiliations are either being dropped from the committee list or gently hinted at to get down and out. ——Speaker HENDERSON will not be a REED, but there will be about as much to read about him as there was about REED. The Message. The longest, dullest and least interesting document that was ever sent out of the White House, was the message prepared by President McKINLEY and presented to Congress on Tuesday. Usually these docu- ments are dull enough, but in lack of in- terest, and in the failure to create interest by recommendations and suggestions, this exceeds anything that has ever gone before it. It occupies over nineteen columns of ordinary newspaper measure, and would fill over three full pages of the WATCH- MAN. It is a paper of platitudes and prolixity. In the entire document, and with the many, many questions arising out of the annexations we are making and the new conditions that confront wus, await- ing settlement, there are not a half dozen straightforward, manly, recommen- dations made. As to the most import- ant—the government of our new possessions —there are none. Its author seems satis- fied to talk a great deal and to suggest but little. He who wades through the long, dry document will know no more about the condition of affairs at home, and but little more as to the President’s views as to the settlement of the question we are now compelled to meet abroad, than he should have known before wasting bis time read- ing it. On the money question the President is fairly frank. He recommends legislation that will fasten the single gold standard upon us ; declares for the contraction of the currency by withdrawing the greenback circulation, and favors the continued issue of interest bearing bonds. The other questions on which he has positive opinions are, that subsidies should be voted to the merchant marine ; that the war in the Philippines should be continued without any peace proposals being made to the Filipinos; that the standing army should be enlarged; that the navy should be increased, and that Puerto Rico should have ‘‘free trade.”” These with his mone- tary recommendations, are the only posi- tive suggestions made in all the wilderness of words he resorts to in order to hide his purposes and mystify the people. About trusts, he is not certain whether they are right or wrong—beneficial or oth- erwise, and upon this question takes refuge under the same cover that other apologists for these evils do, by asserting that our laws can reach them and that such laws ought to be enforced. As to the policy that should guide us in our treatment of the Cuban, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian and Philippine questions,—the kind of government that should be guaran- teed the former and given the latter of these islands, be is neither certain, explicit nor frank. On these questions, as on all the others broached, there isa ‘‘beating about the bush’ and a platitudinous effort to appear fair without committing himself to any fixed policy, that is neither open nor manly in one occupying the position he does, and particularly in one who has had so much todo in creating the very conditions that confront us in connection with these new possessions, All told the message isa failureas a document that was expected to sound the key-note of the next presidential campaign, and is remarkable only for its paucity of opinions and its profusion of words. Bargains that Mast be Kept. In another colu.an of this paper will be found a short article, taken from Harper’s Weekly, showing how justice is meted out in the Sulu Islands. When we come to remember that it is the Sultan of these sanre islands that Mr. McKINLEY has con- tracted to pay $12,000 a year to keep the American flag flying over his harem and that we have obligated ourselves not to interfere with the justice, customs or rites of his people, and then come to understand what that justice is and what those rites and customs are, we will begin to realize the enormity of the offense of making such a bargain. To make ouiselves responsible, as we now are, for slavery in its worst form ; for heathenism and idolatry as they exist there ; for polygamy as it is practiced by these new made Americans, or for the cruelty of the chiefs that is called justice, is a shameful reproach to our civilization and a blistering blot upon the christianity we boast of. Yet these are bargains that McKINLEY’S expansions have made neces- sary, and we suppose will have to be kept in order that the plighted faith of the gov- ernment will not be violated. -——1It was a queer position Congress put itself in on Monday. It declared ROBERTS guilty and arranged to give him a trial afterwards. If he was guilty of the charges preferred, as the House vote decid- ed he was, what need for further hearing in the case? If necessary to hear further evidence to prove that guilt, what a stulti- fication it was for members to vote as they did before that evidence was properly pre- sented. Deciding a man guilty and trying him afterwards is a new way of meting out justice. It is like hanging a man and then calling a jury to decide whether he committed the erime. Sulu Customs We Are Pledged to Protect. From Harper's Weekly, The social system among the Moros is much more primitive than it is among the greater part of the other Philippine races. A chief, or dato, controls a district; he has his own particular followers and his slaves. Besides these he may command all the men. of his own district in time of war. He ai- so has the right of life and death over his subjects. For instance, a few weeks before we arrived in Jolo, Dato Jokanine had oc- casion to execute one of his followers. The man had been intrusted with money be- longing to thedato. The first time he came to his chief and said : ‘Oh, great and benevolent dato, I have gambled away thy money; forgive me.’’ ‘Very well,” said the dato. ‘‘See that it does not happen again.’ Once more the retainer came, saying : “Oh, great and benevolent dato, again have I gambled away thy money, and again I beg thee, in thy great mercy, to forgive me. 3 “This is the second time I have forgiven thee,’’ said Jokanine; ‘‘but the third timeT warn thee, thou shalt die.”’ : Yet again the unfortunate man returned Yithont the money he had collected for the ato. ‘Oh, dato,’ he cried, throwing himself at the feet of his chief. ‘‘I have sinned again and taken thy money; Mercy ! Mer- cy! ‘Cat him down,’’ said the dato to one of his men-at-arms. The man offered no resistance, and was out to pieces with one of the great knives of the natives. Another story which shows well the au- thority of the dato over his people is worth the telling. It seems that a blacksmith had been making love in a quiet way to a mem- ber of the harem of Dato Jokanine. Jokan- ine knew of this, and came tothe man’s smithy one day. The smith was just finish- ing off a large barong. ‘Let me see that knife,’’ said Jokanine. Then running his finger along the edge be added, ‘It seems sharp; may I try it ?”’ “Certainly, dato,’’ said the unsuspecting smith. Without a moment’s hesitation, Jokanine raised the knife and split the smith to the chin. The right a master has to kill a slave is therefore no stronger right than that exercised by all the datos and the Sultan over the life of every man in Sulu. The Trusts Make You Pay Their Toll. From the York Gazette. Some time ago the sales agents of the wholesale houses of Columbus, Ohio, met and drew up resolutions condemning trusts, and the Republican party as the mother of them. In their resolutions they incorporated a table of prices showing the increase under trust influence in one year. This table is an interesting study.” ¥&4 teaches a valuable lesson which he “who runs may read : 1898. 1899. Articles. Price. Price. Clothes baskets, dozen.....ouueereesss $6 10 $9 00 BOOMS i sieirssiereecnsiseserons eee 1 12 2 85 One gallon galvanized oi OZER «.ouiiiiviv iocnns 185 Canned peaches, doze 145 Sardines, case.. = 4 00 Salmon, dozen 135 180 Canned beans, dozen.. 75 135 Canned corn, dozen... 80 1 05 Canned peas, dozen... 5 100 Canned kraut, dozen.. 70 100 Carpet tacks, gross 1 50 27 Cheese, pound.. . 09 13% Wire clotheslines, +f 00 17% Rolled oats, barrel... +325 4 60 Matches case........ccuee. . 450 7 50 Galvanized buckets, dozen P10 2 20 Lead pencils, gross...... it OD 135 Pickels, barrel.......... “325 6 00 Pocket knives, dozen... . 8 125 Salt barrel........... vo ND 110 Laundry soap, bo . 235 28 Starch, pound.. . 0234 0434 Syrup, gallon... 17 apioca, pound.. 03 07 Tapioca, pound..... 32 42 Stogies, thousand.. 7 50 10 50 Tubs, dozen.........ccerssrverisrssssnasaas 4 50 6 75 Washboards, dozen... Spices, pound........ Canned beef, dozen Will Lumber Ever be Cheap Again? From the Cleveland Leader. It is already a fair question whether or not lumber will ever be cheap, as values were rated less than one year ago. No sound judge of economic and industrial conditions can doubt that many staples will lose much of the advance made in the past ten months. It is inevitable, in the nature of things. With timber and all its products the case is different. The darken- ing shadow of inadequate or very expen- sive supplies lies over the trade in merchéin- dise which comes from the forests. It will not be permanently lifted by any known agency. With population and production of all kinds fast increasing and the country grad- ually filling up the demand for timber and wood of all kinds will naturally increase. That means heavier drafts upon the forests, and the best possible care of our remaining sources of supply can hardly make lumber cheap and plentiful, in the old sense. There may be temporary depression in the market, but reactions from too sudden and violent advances in the price level will scarcely last long. Under such conditions it is the impera- tive duty of all governmental and educa- tional authorities to do what they can to guard against the threatened lack of tim- ber in the United States. There is no plainer responsibility. When Thieves Fall Out. From the Butler Herald. Ex-Postmaster General John Wanamaker went among the wealthy manufacturers of Philadel- phia and raised a large sum of money to assist Colonel Quay to tight the Tammany tiger in New York city and thus secure the election of Presi- dent Harrison. When Harrison was elected he claimed and received his reward. Having se- cured a generous recognition at the hands of his party and a position of vantage from which to seek higher honors, he sought the United States Senate, but in his ambition he failed. Murder will out. . We all remember with what righteous indignation the charge was repelled that the pious Wanamaker had succeeded in raising a corruption fund of $400,000 with which to elect Harrison and thus buy himself a cabinet position. ‘‘He claimed and received his reward,” thus setting the pace for the appalling ocor- ruptions of to-day. {When thieves fall out,’’ ete. -— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Spawls from the Keystone. —Rev. J. J. Gormley celebrated mass in the Catholic church in Renovo Thursday in observance of the twenty-fourth anniversary of his ordination to the priest hood. —Solomon Bechtol an old and highly re- spected citizen of Lock Haven was found dead in bed Saturday morning. He was 71 years old and was born in Centre county. —The Pittsburg and Western reports gross earnings for September of $295,729, a decrease of $3,175; operating expenses, $203,625, an increase of $1,408; net earnings, $92,094, a falling off of $5,583. —At Stroudsburg justice Robert Gruver Monday fined Reigel Ott, L. P. Jones, and Thomas Lockard $118.40 for catching five rabbits with a ferret on Thanksgiving day. Each man was fined $25 and costs, making a total of $29.60 for each defendent. —An incendiary fire at an early hour on Wednesday morning destroyed the large barn of John Sipe, in Frankford township, Cumberland county. All the farming im- plements, wagons, 200 bushels of wheat, a large amount of hay, 5 horses, 2 cows and 2 calves were burned. Loss, $3,000; insurance, $1,200. —After wandering around Patrick O’Brien, a woodsman, went to sleep under a freight train standing in the railroad yard at Renovo Sunday morning. The train was moved shortly afterwards and O’Brien was crushed so badly that he died four hours later. He was 35 years of age. His aged mother lives in Ireland. —Miss Nellie Wolf, of Jersey Shore, has been asleep for the past 72 hours, and it is impossible to arouse her from slumber. The girl went to bed about 9 o’clock on Saturday night, and has only been partially aroused once since, at which time she murmured ‘‘water.”” The girl's condition is pronounced by physicians to be due to epileptic coma. She is 19 years old. —The telephone and telegraph syndicate recently organized in Philadelphia and New York has bought the Phenixitelephone com- pany, of Altoona, which owns a competing line with the Bell company, operated all over this section. The price paid was near- ly $300,000. a handsome increase over the par valuation. The Central Commercial company connects with the Phenix near Tyrone. —The 250 car builders employed by the American car and foundry company, at Ber- wick, who went on a strike Saturday last, on account of the adoption of a new system, by which the men’s wages were reduced, return- ed to work on Tuesday. At a conference held an agreement mutually satisfactory to all parties was reached. In the future the men will work by the day, instead of piece work, as heretofore. —Harris Pressler, who served in Company A, Fifth regiment, during the Spanish-Amer- ican war, and who on being mustered out was enlisted by Dr. A. S. Stayer for the regular army hospital corps and sent to Cuba and later transferred to the signal corps and sent to Manila, is dead. His death was caused by typhoid fever. He was taken sick with the disease while in the field, and was sent to the army hospital in Manila. —Christian Weidler, of Rauchtown, has been robbed of five hundred and some odd “@ollars; says the Nippenose News. Mr. Weid- ler kept the money concealed in his room at his resi lence. Some weeks ago he fancied he noticed a ‘‘contraction of currency,” but formed no suspicions because he was doubtful whether he had correctly counted his money. But the last haul, which was made two weeks ago, was a clean theft of $500. Mr. Weidler now has suspicions. NO action has been taken. '—The newspapers are now building a rail- road through the Scootac regions, connecting with the Pennsylvania railroad at Queen’s Run. The new road it is said will open up a territory covered with timber and a district rich with coal and fire clay. The many de- serted villages which now remain to mark the one-time prosperity in the Scootac region will be again restored, and that district now frequented by hunters, trout fishermen and cattle herders for the summer will witness a business activity the equal of any in Central Pennsylvania. —A. C. Lansberry hasa crew of men at work cutting spars on the tract of timber on Lick Run, Lawrence township, Clinton Co., recently purchased from Samuel and Archer Read. Of twenty trees now cut, thirteen of them made spars 100 feet long, and none of them were shorter than seventy feet. He will cut 200 spars this winter, the shortest of which will be sixty-five feet long. Mr. Lans- berry says the timber is much better than he expected, and is much pleased with his pur- chase. Hon. John Patchin and John N. Ake are associated with him. These spars will be taken to Camden, N. J., to be used in ship building. —Mrs. Edgar, of Graham station, returned from Altoona Saturday, getting off the 4:23 afternoon train at Philipsburg. She remain- ed in town an hour or so, and then started to walk to Graham. When near her own home she was struck on the head witha club in the hands of some unknown person. Her screams attracted the attention of her son, who was returning with his gun from a hunting trip. He saw a man running in the open field, and surmising what had happen - ed, fired three times at the fleeing figure. Mrs. Edgar was rendered unconscious by the blow on her head, and had been lying on the ground probably twenty minutes before the son happened along. —Robert McGonigal, who was sent to the western penitentiary from Blair county on October 14th, for robbery, died in that in- stitution last week. While a mere boy he committed an offense and was sent to the Huntingdon reformatory. He was released from that institution at the expiration of three years. Shortly afterwards he was ar- rested in Blair county for breaking into rail- road cars. He was convicted, but the court suspended sentence. Later he was again ar- rested for a similar offense in Cambria coun- ty and was sent to the penitentiary for two years, Soon after his release he was again arrested for breaking into cars in Cambria county, but before his trial the railroad at- torney got after him and had him taken to Blair county, where he was sentenced for two years on the old charge on which sen- tence had been suspended. He was 22 years old and unmarried. The father of the young man is now in jail at Ebensburg on the charge of larceny. eX.
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