Deworrai alc
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—There will be no holes in the stockings
that will be hung up Sunday night.
—1In the language of the streets the best
shop lifter certainly is a ‘‘jimmy.”
—The new financial bill went through
with a rush and it left a crash in its wake.
—Don’t make your good resolutions too
early or you might have them broken he-
fore New Years.
—QUAY is still on the outside and évery
day the chances for his staying there are
growing stronger.
— Philadelphia is about the only city
that Republican politicians can see on the
map these days.
—Yesterday was the shortest day of the
year of 1899, but it was quite long enough
to be remembered as one of September's
best productions dropped at the wane of
December.
—Hadn’t KIPLING better pass around
the hat again. The list of ‘‘absent minded
beggars’’ in South Africa is growing so
large that their wants will keep several
hats moving all the time.
—That Burlington, Vermont, Bishop
who died recently; leaving the public to
discover that his supposed $2,000,000 for-
tune really amounted to only $2.12, must
have had all the fun of having a million-
aire’s deference without the annoyance of
taking care of such a vast fortune.
—Republican apologists are now saying
that the terrible slump in the values of
stocks on Monday was due to a money
scarcity. O ho! So they admit that money
is too scarce, with the very same breath
that they approve the passage of a financial
bill that is calculated to make it still
scarcer.
—Mirs. Roy DEVEREUX, the London
woman who is a correspondent for the Post
of that city, is in America and says that
while in the Transvaal, a year ago, she
learned that ‘‘the best people down there
consider KRUGER a fanatic and an ignorant
person.”” What if he is. Such ‘“‘ignorance’’
only goes to emphasize JOHN BULL'S
stupidity.
——Representative HALL has been placed
upon the committee of Mines and Mining
and expeditures in the Post Office Depart-
ment. We venture the assertion that there
is not another member on either of these
committees who will perform the duties de-
volving upon him more faithfully and intel-
ligently than will the member from this dis-
trict. What Ji HALL undertakes or is ex-
pected to do, he does thoroughly and does
well.
——The Republicans have fixed Phila-
delphia as the place, and the 17th of June
as the time, for holding their convention to
re-nominate MCKINLEY and to endorse
imperialism, trusts and expansion. It is
probable that the Democrats will hold their
convention a few weeks earlier. They will
nominate the candidate who will be the
next President of the United States, and
this, without doubt, if the trustsand the
new currency bill get in their work prop-
erly.
—The passing of the new Republican
financial bill that went through the House
on Monday, with every Republican vote
and those of a few fool Democrats, had its
echo on Wall street where one hundred
million dollars were lost in stocks. Sec-
retary of the Treasury GAGE had to go to
the rescue of his banking and brokering
friends, in order to hold up their heads
under this first blow that Republican—ex-
pansion in land, contraction in money—
policy has given the business of the coun-
try.
—The killing of Gen. LAWTON, the
bravest and most intrepid of our command-
ers in the Philippines, within fifteen miles
of Manila, seems to indicate that the war
isn’t as near over as the expansionists
would have us believe. They realize that
things must be made look very rosy, if Mr.
McKINLEY is to be re-elected and have
been doing their best to shed the brighest
rays on the situation possible, but the
death of Gen. LAWTON, so near to Manila
and when ‘‘the war is practically over,”’
will cast a shadow of awful portend on
their hopes.
——The press censors in Manila are cer-
tainly not being watched close enough by
the administration. Just when the Mec-
KINLEYists had about deceived the people
into believing that the Filipino war is over
here comes the shocking announcement of
Gen. LAWTON’S being killed within fifteen
miles of Manila, and the news of an almost
successful attempt the rebels had made to
capture our new navy yard and arsenal at
Cavite. Surely there is something wrong.
The administration censor will be de-
capitated for leaving such bits of informa-
tion of the true situation in the Philip-
pines leak-out.
——Every man who was elected to Con-
gress last fall,by the Democrats of Pennsyl-
vania, voted solidly against the Republican
bill to contract the currency of the country.
For this action they deserve the thanks
and are entitled to the respect of every man
who is interested in the welfare of his coun-
try. They did all in their power to stay a
money panic and to prevent a scarcity of
currency that will bring ruin to many and
distress to all, but they were out-voted and
the consequence that will follow legislation
that is designed purposely to benefit a few,
must fall solely upon the heads of Republi-
can Representatives. Every Republican
Congressman from this State, MCALEER in-
cluded, voted for the bill.
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The Statesmanship (3) of Expansionists.
Two weeks ago the WATCHMAN present-
ed figures showing that up to that time
our efforts to subjugate the Filipinos, and
take control of the Philippine Islands, had
cost us over one hundred millions of dol-
lars. How much more, in cold cash, they
will cost before we become their possessor
and controller, and how much the after-
math of this effort at expansion will add to
these figures no one can estimate. Actual
war may be over in a few months, or it may
continue for years. At the present rate of
expenses, it is adding to that already made,
a little over one million of dollars each
week, and each week that amount is in-
creasing.
And after we own and control them—
what then? The expenses of a large
standing army to keep these new-made
Americans in subjugation will have to he
met. Hundreds of officers to oversee and
govern them will have to be paid. Native
rulers to assist those we send will have to
be provided for, and an everlasting and in-
creasing pension roll will have to be met,
so that the expenses of this effort at expan-
sion will not cease, even with the end of
the war of subjugation.
To many these amounts, when put to-
gether, will seem a pretty large sum, for
the control of a lot of islands, every foot of
the territory of which is owned by indi-
viduals and not an acre of which will be-
long to the government.
In other acquisitions we secured land.
Those lands were sold to our people for
homes, thus returning to the government
more than their original cost. But in the
Philippines we will have nothing to sell,
to get our money back.
A sample of the financial astuteness that
governs the craze for expansion, now upon
the administration, is shown in the treaty
that secured us the Sulu islands and that
makes us sponsors for the do-less savages,
and the Malay pirates who use them as
their hiding places. These islands on the
ordinary maps are but mere fly specks.
Their influence on trade or their value as
strategical points amount to less than fly
specks. They are inhabited by races of
untamed and unclothed savages. They do
not know what trade is, nor have they any,
nor will they ever have any.
They are a people who use no imple-
ments, for they make or grow nothing that
requires implements. They use no furni-
ture, for they have no homes to put it in.
They will buy no clothes, for a full dress
with them consists of a breech-clout.
They will take none of our shoes, for they
wear none. They will require no books,
for they cannot read. They will want no
iron, for they build nothing. They will
make no demand for wheat, for they live on
roots, nuts and froit and a missionary
roast when they can catch one to cook.
And as it is with food and clothing, iron
and machinery, so it will be with every-
thing else we have to sell. Sulu islanders
will not want it, because they don’t know
what it is for, don’t need it, don’t use it
and could not pay for it if they did, for the
simple reason that they have no money,
nor do they produce anything with which
they could pay for if.
. In fact, the trade of the tramps of this
country, or that of the impecunious inmates
of our pauper houses, would be a bonanza
in comparison with that of the Sulu
island.
And yet for the glory of governing these
people, without a return of any kind, except
the promise that the United States flag
shall be allowed to float over the Sultan’s
harem and the wooden gods his heathen
subjects worship, Mr. McKINLEY has har-
gained to pay the sum of $13,920 yearly
and to ‘‘respect and defend the rights, dig-
nities and customs of the Sultan and his
Dalos.”” And these ‘‘rights’’ are to have
as many wives astheir beastly passions de-
sire ; their ‘‘dignities’’ consist of wearing a
breech-clout as a full dress and their ‘‘cus-
toms’’ cover all manner of privileges, from
owning and holding slaves to roasting and
eating missionaries.
And this treaty is called statesmanship.
It is of the same kind that has spent a
hundred million of dollars and sacrificed
thousands upon thousands of precious lives
to subjugate and control the Filipino peo-
ple.
——There is nothing like an eclipse to
make people look up.
——Always ahead of all the rest the
Philadelphia Record Almanac has come to
our desk, teeming with its weight of salient
information. The Record Almanac’s value
is not to be measured by the number of
pages it contains, for its conciseness and
rare adaptability to everyday wants make
the 134 pages in it as useful as some cum-
bersome books of the same sort that con-
tain a thousand or more. The Almanac,
like the Record, speaks of new life and new
energy in its management.
—— The teachers might at least have ex-
plained why they voted down the school
children’s offering to the Curtin monument
fund.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Amendments Won’t Accomplish the par-
pose.
The Philadelphia Ballot Reform Associa-
tion has just given to the public a lengthy
manifesto telling about the needs of re-
form, the great work it has done in that di-
rection, and pointing out how, with a few
amendments, the present election law can
be made to work the wonders, it would
have accomplished, in the matter of securing
honest elections. In its address it covers
itself all over with glory for the ideas it
advanced and the success it met with in
securing the change from our former simple
and comparatively honest system of voting,
to the present cumbersome, inefficient and
corrupt one.
If it were not for the fact that we know
that the men belonging to this Association
are thoroughly honest, not only in their
desire for reform, but in their belief that
they know exactly how they can secure it,
we would take it that they are poking fun
at themselves or ironically referring to the
miserable failure that has so far met their
efforts in this line.
It is possible for men to be honest and
to be deceived. And we take it that if there
are any such in this Commonwealth they
are the men who claim to be the Ballot Re-
form Association,and who imagine that the
present system of voting is a better and
more honest one than the one it succeeded.
Surely, no other sane men think so. Nor
would these men, if they would acquaint
themselves with its practical workings, or
open their eyes to the many opportunites it
offers for the perpetration of frauds at elec-
tions and wrongs upon the people.
In fact, if they would get down from the
visionary greatness, that their imaginations
clothe them in, and take a practical lesson
or two from some ordinary politician, who
knows the means that are used and the
methods that are resorted to to accomplish
results at elections, he would show them,
in less time than it required to write their
last circular, that the present law, which
is a creation of their imaginative minds, is
the weakest and worst measure of the kind
that disgraces the statute books of any
State.
It would be a waste of time to refer, even
as we have done in this short space, to the
action of these reformers were it not for the
fact that their address is but the hegin-
ning of an effort, they intend putting
forth, to continue the present rotten sys-
tem of voting by making a few minor
amendments to the law now in force.
And such purpose ought to be called down at
once. It might tosome extent secure some
improvement on the present system, be-
cause any change would be an improve-
ment on that, but it would not insure what
the people of the State want or what is
needed to guarantee honest elections.
To make certain of this, our whole rotten
system must be ahandoned and radical
changes made in election methods from
the registry of voters to the certifying of
returns. These changes should be such as
will require the personal registration of
every voter ; that will take from the courts
the power to revise or change a ticket, for
technical reasons, after it has been named
at the primaries ; that will make bribery
in the booths impossible ; that will simpli-
fy voting so that every citizen can cast his
ballot correctly without assistance ; that
will insure the secrecy of the ballot and
finally, that will guarantee a correct and
prompt return of the vote.
These are the changes we need, and they
are changes that can never be secured by
any amendment to our present system of
voting.
That the men who constitute the Ballot
Reform Association deserve credit for their
intentions no one will deny, but after the
experience we have had under the law they
formulated and forced upon us in 1893, the
people may well pray to be spared the in-
fliction of other election laws emanating
from the same source.
——That annual newspaper black-mailer,
known as ROWELL’S American Newspaper
Directory, is sending out its demands again
for information as to the business of each
individual publisher throughout the coun-
try. For years this firm of advertising
leeches, that puts out this publication, has
been holding the press of the country up
threatening that if affidavits as to the cir-
culation of each paper are not furnished
them, they will fix and publish it at such
figures as they see proper. The circulation
of any publication is the private property
of its publisher, and Messrs. ROWELL & Co.
have no more business to publish any-
thing about it—unless they are its recog-
nized representatives—than we have to at-
tempt to tell the public the amount of their
bank account. And this demand on their
part, to know the circulation of news-
papers that do not want their business,
is a bit of impudence that is equaled
only by the audacity shown in their attempt
to pass upon advertisers their publication,
as a reliable directory of the circulation of
the different newspapers of the United
States. Of all the publications of the kind
issued it is the most unreliable and unfair
to both advertisers and publishers.
_ BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 22. 1899.
May Prove An Eye Opener,
It is now currently reported and is get-
ting to be very generally believed that ex-
Senator QUAY, finding it impossible to se-
cure aseat in the United States Senate
through the appointment by his Governor,
will withdraw his papers from Washington
and request the re-convening of the Legis-
lature, to try his luck again before that
body. There will be no question about
this being done if Mr. QUAY desires it.
He can recall the certificate of appoint-
ment that was sent to Washington, when-
ever he wishes to, and he owns the Governor
of Pennsylvania as absolutely as he does
the shirt that covers his back. What he
wants in this matter will be done, whether
it accords with the will of the people or is
in the interest of the State or not. In
Governor STONE'S estimation it is no mat-
ter what the people of Pennsylvania want,
so that Mr. QUAY’S interests are cared for
and Mr. QUAY’S desires complied with.
And these will control his action in the re-
convening of the Legislature, whether it
costs the taxpayers fifty or five hundred
thousand dollars, or even more.
Such is the condition of Pennsylvania
politics and such the extent of the political
subservienoy of the people that whatever
the boss’ demands are—no matter how
outrageous or oppressive they may be—they
go, and that is the end of it.
Last week, in order to escape the expense
of counsel to argue his claim before the
Senate committee, he had Attorney General
ELKIN appear as the representative of
the State, in his behalf, thus saddling upon
the taxpayers of the Commonwealth his in-
dividual expenses, in a case in which the
representatives of these same taxpayers
turned him down. By the time the peo-
ple get through paying the costs of courts
in trying him for violations of the law, in
defraying the traveling expensesand board
of attorneys to represent him in Washing-
ton, and the cost of an extra session of the
Legislature in order that his desires may
be gratified and his political interests be
cared for, they will, at least, be a little
wiser if not quite so well off.
What seems strangest to us, in this con-
nection, is that men who claim to have the
intelligence and independence that the tax-
payers of Pennsylvaniaare usually credited
with, zo on year after year blindly and
bigotedly voting for a party that robs, and
imposes upon, them as Mr. QUAY’s Repub-
lican party does.
Hit the Right Spot First.
New York brokers have been the loudest
yelpers in the country for the single gold
standard and the withdrawal of the
green back currency from circulation. On
Monday the Republicans in Congress passed
their currency bill, which includes these
two features, and Wall street securities and
speculative stocks shrunk, in listed value,
over one hundred millions of dollars in less
time than it took Congress to pass the bill.
Brokers offered as high as 115 per cent. for
money to tide them over the panic, but
could not secure it and to-day many men
who were in comfortable circumstances on
Monday morning, and who thought the
gold standard a great thing, are financial
wrecks. While the effects of ‘‘single
standard’’ legislation struck the right spot
first, and the country has little reason to
mourn over Wall street’s losses, it is sure
to settle down, sooner or later, in the same
effective manner, upon every interest,every
industry and every enterprise in the coun-
try, except that of speculators in money.
They are the ones who will benefit by the
contraction of the currency. The people
are the ones who will suffer.
When to Begin.
It is a great fight that is on in this State
between the Independent Republicans and
Mr. QUAY as to who will control the next
Legislature—great because of the bitterness
there is in it and great because of the blow-
ing there is about it. What will be the
result no one can foretell as no one knows
what practical efforts the Independents
will put forth, and without systemized,
practical work, all their labor will be in
vain.
If they begin at the bottom, where they
should, and see that honest election officers
are chosen in Philadelphia and Pittsburg,
at the February elections, so that an honest
count of the vote will be insured in Novem-
ber, they will hold the key to the situa-
tion. If they fail to do this they may as
well “hang their harps on the willow”’
and prepare to mourn over lost hopes, and
wasted opportunities for the next five
years.
There is a time for all things, and the
time for the Independents to lay the founda-
tion for success is when the election boards,
that control the voting and makea return of
the vote, are chosen.
Are they wise enough to realize this
fact?
It was a solar-plexus blow that the
gold standard gave the money sharks of
Wall street on its first appearance in the
ring on Monday last.
NO. 50.
The Institute of the Public
Teachers of Centre County.
School
The Teachers are Having a Successful Week.—All but
Six of Them Enrolled.—Good Instructors and
Good Entertainments Combine to Make Amusing
and Instructive Sessions.
The fifty-third annual session of the
public school teachers of Centre county
convened in the court house in Bellefonte,
on Monday morning, and the week started
off auspiciously with a fair December day
and a good attendance. Tuesday was a
little disappointing in the weather line but
Wednesday the clerk of that department
righted things and once again the fair
pedagogues were able to go abroad, between
sessions, in all the splendour of new gowns;
leaving their rainy day skirts to rest peace-
fully in their trunks. 7
There was no regular session in the
morning, all the time being taken up with
enrollment and organization but at 1:30
in the afternoon county superintendent
Gramley called his corps to order and they
settled down at once to work.
The exercises were opened by singing
led by Prof. Philip H. Meyer, of Boals-
burg, the well known musical instructor
who has very satisfactorily conducted that
department for several years. He was as-
sisted in his efforts to instruct by Miss
Helen Bartholomew, of Centre Hall, who
presides at the piano, accompanied by W.
A. Brown, of Spring Mills, on the cornet.
Dr. H. C. Holloway, pastor of the Luth-
eran church of Bellefonte, was introduced.
He read a Scripture lesson, after which he
offered an earnest prayer.
The officers and committees for this ses-
sion of institute were then announced as
follows :
President.—C. L. Gramley, county su-
perintendent.
Vice presidents.—Miss Bella Rankin,
W. P. Hosterman.
Recording secretary.—S. W. Butler.
Assistant secretary.—R. D. Foreman.
Enrolling secretaries.—A. C. Thompson,
T. A. Auman.
Committees : Elections.—T. L. Crust,
W. W. Keller, Thos. L. Moore.
Resolutions.—G. W. Andrew, W. H.
Limbert, Annie G. Healy, John D. Meyer,
K. B. Moomaw.
Auditing accounts.—M. E. Heberling,
A. L. Duck, F. M. Emerick, 8. T. Will-
iams, L. H. Yocum.
Legislation.—D. M. Wolf, G. W. An-
drews, D. O. Etters, H. C. Rothrock, F.
A. Foreman, C. E. Hower.
Ushers.—H. E. Yearick, Randall Musser,
J. M. Garbrick, Homer Gentzel, W. C.
Thompson, C. V. Woodward, George Loy,
Robert Herman, J. R. Williams, Willis
Eves, M. C. Stover, Charles Reese.
Door-keepers.—H. A. Detwiler. J. F.
Garthoff. =
The first instructor announced was Prof.
George P. Bible, principal of the East
Stroudsburg Normal school. Mr. Bible is
an old Centre county boy and was given a
warm welcome on taking the platform.
His subject was ‘‘School Management’’
which he handled in an able manner. At
other times during the sessions Prof. Bible
has talked on various topics pertaining to
school room regulations and best methods
‘of imparting and impressing knowledge on
the part of teachers.
Dr. M. G. Benedict, formerly of State
College, but now of New Britain, Conn.,
was then introduced. His subject was an
interesting one, ‘Man Hidden in the
Heart.”” Dr. Benedict is one of the ablest
men who have ever talked to Centre coun-
ty teachers and his talks during the week
on psychology and philosophy have been
well worth the attention they received.
But they are naturally along such deep
lines that only the more mature minds
have the proper conception of their mean-
ing.
TUESDAY’S SESSIONS.
At the Tuesday sessions Prof. Bible, Dr.
Benedict and Prof. A. W. Hawks, of Balti-
more, again took up the threads of their
thoughts of the preceding day. A portion
of Prof. Bible's talk is so pertinent to the
matter of low pay for teachers in Centre
county primary schools that it is worthy
serious thought.
He showed the advance made in all lines
of science, trade, invention ete., and argued
that education was not and should not be
behind the rest. There are some methods
used in the schools which should not be
discarded. Mental arithmetic has been
thrown out which he believed to be a mis-
take. He spoke of the mistake made by
directors in paying highest salaries to
teachers in the High schools where they
had the fewest pupils, and paying the low-
est prices to teachers of primary grades
where they have the most pupils. No
teacher can teach 80 pupils at $30.00 per
month and accomplish much. He advo-
cated more teachers and extended the hope
that there would be an Executive some
day who would not cut down the school
appropriation. He closed by advocating
te back hand or vertical style of penman-
ship.
The committees on elections then report-
ed the following nominations for officers
for the ensuing year.
Vice presidents—H. C. Rothrock, of
Millheim ; G.{W. Andrews, Philipsburg ;
Sarah E. Bechdel, Howard ; Alice K. Dor-
worth, College Boro.
Recording secretary—DM. 'E. Heberling,
Pine Grove Mills; S. T. Brooks, Spring
township.
Assistant secretary—Harry Crain, Rush
fownship ; D. K. Keller, of Potter town-
ship.
Tuesday evening Prof. Hawks entertain-
ed a large audience with his lecture on
‘People I Have met.’” It fairly sparkled
with wit, down under which a good lesson
in character was to be learned by those who
followed him deeper into it than the
laughable veneer he gave to his theme.
WEDNESDAY.
The Wednesday sessions were a continua-
tion of the work of the preceding ones.
Two new instructors were introduced in
Miss Lelia Patridge, of Philadelphia, and
Dr. C. W. Heisler, president of the
Susquehanna University, whose en-
tertaining talks on pedagogy, child study,
and spelling methods were highly benefi-
cial. Miss Patridge was a favorite here
Concluded on page 4.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—While Reuben Belias, of Orangeville, Co-
lumbia county, was engaged in changing the
shafts on a buggy he suddenly droppe dead.
—Anna, a young daughter of William
Hartzel, was suddenly stricken with blind-
ness while at work im the silk mill at Blooms-
burg,
— Ex-Governor Beaver delivered an ad”
dress on ‘‘Washington as a private citizen”
before the students at Girard College last
Thursday evening.
—Governor Stone has reappointed C. K.
Sober game commissioner. Mr, Sober was
appointed for the three year term by Govern-
or Hasting, and he is the proper person for
the position.
—Judge Mayer has handed down an opin-
ion in the excessive fee case of Lycoming
county vs ex-prothonotary Hopkins. The
decision awards Hopkins $1,060. The award
is received with satisfaction by Mr. Hopkins.
—John C. Miller, 83 years old, of Cherry
Springs, near Coudersport, is dying of blood
poisoning. While using a jack to remove his
boots, one of them slipped and a nail in its
heel scratched a toe on the other foot.
—Nellie Wolf, a dining room girl at the
Gamble house, Jersey Shore, who had been
in a cataleptic slumber from Sunday night
December 3rd, until Saturday evening, Dec.
9th, awoke then and is now as wide awake as
anybody.
—Fire of supposed incendiary. origin totally
destroyed the large saw and bone mills locat-
ed on the Conewago Creek, near New Oxford
York county, and owned by Captain A. W.
Eichelberger, of Hanover. The loss is esti-
mated at $3,000.
—Mayor Nichols, of Wilksbarre, has notifi-
ed his policemen that he would discharge the
whole force if they did not euforce the law
against violators of the liquor law, who, he
said, comprised three-fourths of those engag-
ed in the traffic in that city.
—Atthe December term of the Pike county
courts, County Surveyor Westbrook, who was
elected prothonotary, resigned the former
office and Judge Purdy appointed Frank
Schorr, secretary of the Democratic county
committee, to fill the vacancy.
—The Harter brothers, lumberman, have
purchased of Joel Baily, of Philadelphia, a
tract of 4016 acres of timber land in Little
Sugar Valley, Centre county, for $10,000.
The purchasers will at once begin lumbering
operations on the tract.
—At Jersey Shore Monday while Jennie
Bower, a domestic, was working in the wood-
shed near the house,a bullet struck her inthe
right arm. The wound is not a serious one.
The bullet came from a Flobert rifle in the
hands of Fred Lentz, who was practicing in a
lot near by.
—William Kearon, of Harwood, an ex-gun-
ner in the United States navy, is organizing
a company of volunteers te go to South Afri-
ca and fight with the Boers. He says he has
been commissioned to form a force 300 strong
and has already secured seventeen men in
Harwood alone.
damaged by fire Sunday afternoon, and the
occupants of the building, M. L. Staver, in-
surance agent, and P. O. Buck, merchant
tailor, both suffered considerable loss from
flames and water.
—The new Catholic church at Spangler was
dedicated with imposing ceremonies Sunday.
The services were in charge of Right Rev.
Leander Schneer, O. S. B., archabbott of St.
Vincent, assisted by numerous visiting priests.
The sermon was preached by Rev. P. Edward
0. 8S. B., St. Vincent college.
—Michael Bonnell, of Waterville, Lycom -
ing county, was found dead in bed Monday
morning, death being due to apoplexy. He
was a veteran of the Civil war, having serv-
ed three years and participated in twenty-
three engagements. He served as postmaster
for twenty years, his first appointment being
made by President Grant.
—Isaac Birrillo, who was convicted at the
November term of court for the murder of
his wife at Blossburg on July 5th. by setting
fire to her clothes and holding her hands
while she burned, was brought into court at
Wellsboro Friday for sentence. Before Judge
Mitchell pronounced his doom Birrillo pro-
tested his innocence. He received his sen-
tence of death with composure.
—At Renovo Monday morning Harry, the
8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Brown, with several companions climbed up
the steepest part of the mountain opposite
Fifteenth street. Suddenly Harry stumbled
and he tumbled head over heels to the bot-
tom, a distance of over 200 feet. His skull
was fractured. When picked up he was un-
conscious. His recovery is doubtful.
—Sheriff Farnsworth and deputy Sheriff
Stevens returned Friday night with Roy
Deziel and James McCormick, who escaped
from the county jail at Coudersport Thurs-
day night. The men were recaptured, after
a desperate fight, in a *‘pig’s ear’’ near Cos-
tello, and in the struggle McCormick’s face
and head were badly braised. The officers
were guided in the pursuit by tracks in the
Snow.
—Herbert Wilson, a justice of the peace
and school teacher, of Barree township, Hunt -
ingdon county, has left for parts unknown.
He was a collector of the delinquent county
tax in his township certified out by the coun -
ty treasurer, in which he is a defaulter to the
amount of $600 to $800. The county commis-
sioners promptly notified his bondsmen of
the fact that they would be expected to make
good the deficit, and they took charge of
his unfinished collections.
—The Philadelphia and Reading railway
is experimenting with a device for ridding
smoking cars of smoke. The idea isin the
shape of a fan. There are three of them and
they are similiar to electric fans. They have
two blades and are worked by an air wheel
which is stationed on the roof of the car.
The faster the car moves the greater the
speed of the fan, and a continuous circulation
is kept up which forces the smoke out
through the ventilators or rear windows of
the car. These fans are now being experi-
mented with on some of the through cars be-
tween Philadelphia and Pottsville, and re-
sults have been very satisfactory.
—The brick block of Mrs. Carrie Sypher, :
{on Main street, Jersey Shore, was badly