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Ink Slings.
—BRYAN never talks without talking
sense and his sense would be dollars and
cents to the masses, if they would only
read the lesson it points out.
—The English have released the Ameri-
can flour they recently seized in Delagoa
bay, as contraband of war. CHOATE seems
to have been the yeast that made them rise
to the seriousness of the offense.
—Thanks to our new policy of annex-
ation we have finally come into possession
of the bubonic plague. Washington is
reaching out to all quarters of the earth for
good things, now let it take this malady—
worse than leprosy—in welcome.
—JAcoB QUIGGLE killed a three foot
snake along the roadside, near Pine, on
Tuesday. The reptile showed fight when
he got after it. It is a rare thing to kill a
gnake in January, but we have heard of
people who see them just as readily in the
dead of winter as in mid-summer.
-——1If the British meet with another de-
cisive reverse in South Africa you need not
be surprised to see our own government
step in and offer its service as mediator be-
tween the Britons and Boers. Such a de-
nouement would be almost tantamount to
an acknowledgement of defeat by JOHN
BuLL.
—Three things in Pennsylvania are be-
ing peppered unmercifully these days.
QUAY, the Philadelphia ballot-box stuffers
and Potter county ‘‘pig’s ears.”” They are
all evils arising from bad legislation in the
Commonwealth and should be wiped out
as relies of a period of governmental inde-
cency never to be known in the State
again.
—The deeper the probe of the State
Medical Examination hoard will go into
the scandals surrounding the examination
of students last December, before which
copies of the questions to be asked were
surreptitiously obtained and auctioned off
among the candidates for certificates, the
more certain it will become that Pennsyl-
vania is authorizing a lot of bad medicine
men to practice upon the public.
CLARENCE WOOLENER, of Wells-
boro, has just proven to the world that it
holds one mother-in-law who must have
been far more attractive than the average.
Some time ago he married a Miss LINDSAY,
whose mother, Mrs. MARY A. LINDSAY,
went to live with them. Later young
Mrs. WooLENER grew tired of her husband
and ran away to live with another man,
then WOOLENER laid siege to his mother-
in-law’s heart and won her out. They
were married last week.
—The Pennsylvania farmer surely gets
less out of government than any other class
of men. With the price of his products’
gone down, the price of everything he uses
has gone up. Of the $46,000,000 of taxes,
collected for all purposes in the State, he
has to pay $32,000,000; leaving only $14,-
000,000 to be paid by the wealthy bankers
and bond holders of the cities and towns,
whose personal property far exceeds in value
the real estate of the farmers, yet they are
not required to pay half as much in taxes,
-—It might be well for the public to bear
in’ mind that Governor STONE’S adminis-
tration is very boastful just now because
new corporations were added to the Penn-
sylvania charter list last year in such great
numbers as to insure an increased tax in-
come, from that source alone, of over $2,-
000,000 annually. That is Governor
STONE'S people say there will be such an
increased income. Saying so and collect-
ing corporation taxes are very different
things, however. And we urge you to
bear this boast in mind so that you can
confront him with it should he decline to
restore that million and a half cut he made
in the school appropriations last year.
—JoHN WANAMAKER’S Philadelphia
North American actually said, in an eulogy
of Gen. LAWTON : ‘‘The entire Philippines
are not worth the life of one such a brave
patriot, and yet the administration has
caused the country to pay for them thous-
ands of lives and at least.a hundred million
of treasure. Blood and money have been
poured out like water to perpetuate a polit-
ical blunder.” It is quite evident from
this that the only expansion JOHN believes
in is in putting top stories to that bit of
property bounded on the north by Market
street, on the south by Chestnut, on the
east by Twelfth and on the West by Juni-
per streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
U. 8S. A.
—1In the report of the rescue of Lt. GIL-
MORE, of U. 8S. S. ‘“‘Yorktown”’ and those
of his men who were captured and held
prisoners by the Filipinos at Baler, last
April, a Manila writer says that the
thoroughly weakened outfit limped into
the Hotel Oriente, where ‘‘American of-
ficers and ladies were waltzing through the
halls to the tune of ‘AGUINALDO’S March’.”’
It is easy seen that that correspondent has
paid more attention to the gods of war,
their plans and capers, than to TERPSICH-
ORE, else he would have had the ‘‘Amer-
ican officers and ladies” doing the deux
temp to ‘‘AGUINALDO’S March.” But
then when we come to reflect, the
American officers have probably learned al-
most every variety of step from AGGIES
march by this time and it is not so much to
be wondered at that they can waltz to it,
while others would probably have to two-
step.
Allatchman
Looks as if It Would Prove a Failure.
At this distance from where the work is
being done it looks very much as if the in-
vestigation, now being made by order of
the Democratic State committee, to ascer-
tain the cause of the diminished Democratic
vote in Philadelphia, would prove a com-
plete failure. So far it has developed
nothing that Democrats, conversant with
the condition of affairs in that city, have
not known for years. It hassimply shown
that there are two bitterly contending
factions there, and that to injure or cast
discredit upon the other, either one of them
would betray the party and then have the
gall to swear that it was the other fellows
who did it.
And this is about as near the bottom of
the dirty business, or as close to positive
evidence of the guilt of any particular indi-
vidual or party, as the committee will get.
It may continue its sittings and witness the
washing of the dirty linen of political fac-
tionists, jealous bosses and ‘‘diwision’’
heelers, until new seats are needed in the
pantaloons of those comprising the commit-
tee, and it will discover only how little
dependence can be placed in either faction,
and how badly the party is in need of an
organization and leaders that will inspire
confidence and insure honest effort.
It is not likely that men who be-
tray the party are going to admit it.
To do so would be to sacrifice their useful-
ness, in the future, to those who pay them
for the dirty work they do, as well as to
destroy their power of continuing in posi-
tions that enable them to use the party
organization for their own selfish ends.
Neither is it possible for the honest Demo-
crats of that city to give testimony as to
who the guilty men are, for the reason that
they have been neglecting their duties and
remaining away from the polls so long that
they know nothing about what has been
done or who has been doing it.
So that this effort, like many others that
have been made before it, to purify,
strengthen and better the Democratic or-
ganization, is destined to prove a failure,
except so far as it gives the political free-
booters of both factions an opportunity to
charge to others what they have been
guilty of doing themselves.
There is a way, however, that. Philadel-
phia Democracy can be regenerated, re-
vived and placed in condition to command
respect and deserve confidence. It is not
by crimination and re-crimination—charges
and counter-charges—doubts and distrusts
—but by the decent, honest, well-meaning
men of the party getting together and re-
solving to take a hand in helping along the
work that is to be done and seeing that it
is done properly. There are more honest
Democrats in Philadelphia than dishonest
ones. The party rules and party usages
give to the majority the power of naming
tickets, selecting delegates, chosing mem-
bers of the city, ward and district organiza-
tions and, in fact, having things just as
that majority says they shall be.
The reason the party has fallen into dis-
repute is because the majority of the Dem-
crates have allowed a few men, professing to
be Democrats, to dictate tickets; name
those who are to act for the organization,
handle and use such money as is contribu-
ted; shape the policy of the party; select
such; men as they can use as delegates and
to act for, and represent, the organization as
if it was their individual property. This
is what has gotten Philadelphia Democrats
into the trouble they are now in.
To get away from this condition of affairs
let ex-Gov. PATTISON, CONRAD B. DAY,
CHAS. J. INGERSOLL, DWIGHT M. LOWRY,
DAvID W. SELLERS, or other Democrats of
the same character and standing, get togeth-
er and request one, or two or more good,
responsible Democrats from every ward, or
district within the city, to meet with them
and talk the situation over. Let a com-
mittee of fifty, or seventy-five, or a hundred,
or what ever number is deemed necessary
and can be secured, be formed that will
represent every section, and every division
of the city, and let them go to work and see
that the Democratic voters are aroused to
the necessity of nominating their own can-
didates for local offices, selecting their own
delegates to state and other conventions,
and of naming their own men for watchers
at the polls and for members of ward, city
and district committees.
When this is done there will be no furth-
er need for general investigation. The
power to sell out will be abridged, for no
man or set of men will own or control the
party organization, nor will its members
be under obligations to, or at the mercy of,
any faction, or power, except that of the
voters back of them.
In this way the Democracy of Philadel-
phia can be made a power for good.
Will the gentlemen we have named
think this over and act ?
——The precinct committeemen for 1900
have been announced by chairman JOHN-
STON and thus early he is inaugurating the
campaign for next fall. There is wisdom
in this plan, for it gives all parties an early
opportunity to get together and begin the
work, which is so much more easily and
effectively done, now than when the people
are in the heat of a party contest.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
For What Purpose Are We Warring.
Ask an ordinary, honest citizen of the
country, who knows anything, what the
war on the Filipinos is to accomplish, and
he’ll answer you frankly that he does not
know. :
Ask one of the know-alls, or one of Mr.
McKINLEY’S mouth pieces, and he will
tell you it is to develop the Philippine is-
lands; to secure coaling stations there; to
place usin touch with the trade of the far
East; to enlighten and christianize its
heathens and savages.
You will know no more about Mr. Mec-
KINLEY'’S real purpose when you get these
answers, than you did when the honest
citizen answered you honestly that he did
not know; for thesimple reason that the
know-alls and the mouth pieces are no wis-
er than others.
If it is for either of the reasons given by
those pretending to know, or by those pro-
fessing to speak for the administration,then
Mr. McKINLEY’S conduct of public affairs
is inexcusably extravagant and heartlessly
cruel.
He is spending millions of dollars a
month and sacrificing the lives, the health
and the comfort of thousands of brave men
recklessly and most needlessly. Every ob-
ject that it is said this war is being carried
on for, could have been accomplished with-
out the firing of a gun; without the expen-
diture of a single dollar; without the loss
or maiming of a single soldier.
Statesmanship could have secured as
many coaling stations from the Filipinos
as we wanted at a less cost than Mr. Me-
KINLEY pays yearly to the polygamous
sultan of Sulu for floating the American flag
over his harem.
American push would have insured us a
full share of the trade of the far East.
American enterprise would have develop-
ed the Philippine islands, for conditions
were favorableand their people were wait-
ing to welcome those who had liberated
them from Spanish rule.
American missionaries and American
philanthropy would have enlightened and
christianized their illiterate and savage
heathens faster than does the rifle and can-
non and the devilish cruelties of war.
Why then the cost and sacrifice that the
country must suffer to attain these pur-
poses ?
The $75,000,000 that bave been expended
in a war on a weak and defenseless people
for the purposes alleged and that could have
been accomplished without the expenditure
of a dollar would bea God-send,if distribut-
ed as charity to those in need in this coun-
try. The lives that have been needlessly sac-
rificed would have been spared; the maim-
ed and disease stricken, who will return to
live out a miserable existance on a paltry
pension would be hale, happy, citizens;
darkness would not brood on the hearth-
stones, nor crepe be hanging from the doors
of so many of our homes; the bitterness that
has been engendered and must continue to
exist in the minds of the Filipinos, as long
as the recollection of their ruined towns
and desolated country remains, would be
unknown.
Surely there must be some other over-
powering reason for war than the purposes
named.
Surely Mr. McKINLEY must have other
purposes in view or other ends to ac-
complish.
What are they ?
The Same Old Scare.
It seems that the public never will grow
tired of becoming excited over perfectly
groundless rumors and those that attain
most frequent publicity are the shop-worn
stories. of the robbery of the graves of dis-
tinguished men, who have died, or of those
of some notorious character whose life and
manner of death have been such as to place
him, for the time being, before the public
eye.
Bringing it as near home as possible, it
was only a few years ago that ANDREWS,
the murderer of CLARA PRICE, was hanged
in this county. The manner of perpetra-
tion of his crime and the strong chain of
circumstantial evidence that was forged
about him brought the murderer wide
spread newspaper notoriety. No sooner had
he been hanged and his body hauled out to
‘the Divide,”” where it was buried, than
scores of people came breathless to town to
tell of the robbery of ANDREWS’ grave.
They had seen lights moving mysteriously
along the mountain the night before and
some of the curious had ventured near
enough to hear subdued voices, others had
remembered seeing three strange looking
men in the community and the climax was
finally capped by some one’s reporting that
he had seen a peculiarly shaped trunk put
on a Bald Eagle valley train next morning
by the three strangers. This all led to the
conviction that ANDREWS’ body was well
on its way to some dissecting table, but it
is lying undisturbed along the side of the
Alleghenies today, just where it was placed
the day he was hanged.
When the departed BILL ETTLINGER de-
fied all of the officers of Centre county and
made the little village of Woodward notor-
"BELLEFONTE, PA.,
ious from the Atlantic to the Pacific, final-
ly dying by his own band, all manner of
stories were told about the disappearance of
his body. With morbid curiosity the pub-
lic read, days afterward, of the mid-night
rumble of a cab that sped up through the
Buffalo-valley from Lewisburg and how its
occupants had spirited the body of the out-
law away. But his remains are lying in
peace near his former home.
Already the old story has been started
concerning the body of CRESSINGER, the
young murderer who was hanged in the
Sunbury jail last week. After the execu-
tion his body was taken home to his fath-
er’s farm and buried, where it probably
can be found to-day, but space writers are
not content with what they have already
made by dealing out the details of his
crime, trial and hanging to an omnivorous
reading public, so they must start a weird
story of how ghouls bave robbed the grave
and carried the body off.
There is rarely anything of interest in
any stories of this sort, but they are pub-
lished and read and the public persists in
being hum-bugged with them.
Its Just Beginning,
There is a diminution in the Republican
vote of Pennsylvania since the beginning
of the New Year. There is dismay and
distress in the ranks of the faithful in con-
sequence.
The Honorable SAMUEL SALTER, a Re-
publican law-maker for the people of the
State and an official representative of the
truely good citizens of Republican Phila-
delphia, is off to parts unknown, to escape
the consequence of ‘ stuffing the ballot box.
EMANUEL HERSHEY, another equally
reputable Republican office holder—repu-
table as Republicanism goes these days—is
off to the same unknown destination, to
evade the penalty forsquandering, oristeal-
ing, $65,000 from the Lancaster county
treasury.
Three of Mr. McKINLEY’S official house-
hold—CLARENCE MEESER, of the congres-
sional library; WILLIAM H. COOKE, of the
mail equipment shop; and HARRY Me-
CABE, of the geological survey staff—are,
like SALTER and HERSHEY, seeking a coun-
4@y. that knows them not.
Five other Republican brethren—JoSEPH
G. RoDGERS, JoHN C. SHEEHAN, JOHN
SILVERMAN, JOHN SCULLEN aud JOHN
HANNA— all shining lights along the path
way of past Republican success, are travel-
ing on the same mission, and Pennsylvania
registration lists and Pennsylvania election
booths will likely know them no more for
ever.
And still there’s more to follow.
We don’t wonder that Republicans are
dismayed. It is notstrange thatthere is
disquietude, discouragement and despond-
ency among them. It is not surprising
that fear marks their actions; that timidity
muzzles their boasting and that terror col-
ors their imaginations.
There is cause for all this. This little
gang of fleeing Republican criminals, whose
boast it was that they were good for full
three hundred votes, are but the forerun-
ners of others who are soon to follow.
Honest people are beginning to understand
how Republican majorities have been man-
ufactured. Decent men are opening their
eyes to the kind of company they have been
keeping. The law is reaching out for those
who have violated its provisions and defied
its power. Justice is awakening to the
necessity of action.
Is it to be wondered at that in the face
of the threatening judgment that now is
scattering the thieves, and repeaters, and
ballot box stuffers, and false counters and
other Republican rascals, that there is con-
sternation in the Republican camp ? Every
absconding scoundrel is to them notice of a
reduced majority. When they all go, woe
to Republican hopes! Woe to Republican
success !
Looks Like Continued Cheap Wheat.
A telegram from London, under date of
January 6th, says :—‘‘The promise of au-
tumn sown wheat is excellent, not only in
Great Britain but in France, Germany,
Russia, Italy and Spain.’
This may prove great news for the hun-
gry and the many who must buy their flour
or bread and who have little to pay for it
with, but it won’t be such glorious infor-
mation for the farmer whose prosperity de-
pends almost wholly upon the price he re-
ceives for his wheat.
With over half of last year’s crops still
in the granaries of the country; with prices
varying from but 60 to 70 cents per bushel,
and but small demand at that price; with
the promise of a full crop next season, not
only in this but throughout every country
of the Old World in which wheat is grown,
the prospects for increased prices are ex-
ceedingly slim. In fact it looks more like
50 cent than $1.00 wheat for the next
year, and with it abundant opportunities
for explanating why Mr. MeKINLEY’S
prosperity has failed to reach the overtax-
ed, overworked and underpaid agricultural
interests.
In 1898, when a failure of the crop in Eu-
JAN. 12. 1900.
_No.2.
rope and the manipulations of a stock
gambler in Chicago, run the price of wheat
up to $1.25 per bushel, there was not a
Republican paper in the country but was
quick to give credit to this rise in the price
to Mr. McKINLEY. For about one month,
and at a time when there was but little in
the hand of the farmers, this price prevail-
ed. It has never been that since. From
appearances it will not be that, or near it
again during the term the present adminis-
tration controls affairs and it might be in
order for those papers, and politicians, and
people, who professed to believe that to Mr.
McKINLEY was due the credit of this ad-
vance, to explain why the farmer receives
no hetter price now than he does, and why
the out-look for any increase is so gloomy.
How the Expanding Has Been Done.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The Philadelphia Record has made the
landing on the McKinley platform of ex-
pansion and imperialism. The two go to-
gether with colonialism and militarism.
They are all chips off the same block. It
prints the annexed table as an argument
sustaining KcKinley expansion:
2a Square Miles.
In 1798, Mississippi tract
In 1803, Louisiana tract...
In 1821, Florida tract......
In 1815, Texas tract.......cccceees ceeeiieneersnsannes 265,780
In 1848, California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona
9,630
and New Mexico tractS......ccvvreereeneascrass 58
In 1853, Gadsden purchase. oe
In 1867, Alaska tract....
In 1899, Hawaii territor; .6,740
In 1899, Puerto Rico. 3,600
In 1899, Philippines.... 143,000
In 1299, Sulu and GOAN... .. ica icctventarssscsns 50
Tolal eXpansion.......c.ccrssisssrsrasesssesnniss 2,977,875
And on this showing the Record makes
comments, stealing the livery of the Jeffer-
sonian-Monroe-Polk policy of annexing
adjacent territory to serve the devil of Mec-
Kinley expansion and empire at the other
end of the globe. Says the Record:
“Of the accretion of our territory 2,293,-
975 square miles wereadded by Democratic
administrations, in spite of the active pro-
tests of opposition parties. The remaining
673,900 square miles were acquired with-
out the active dissent of the Democratic
party, though under Republican auspices.
It is rather late in the day for the Democ-
racy, under the lead of Bryan, to run
counter to a policy established by Jeffer-
son, and so acted upon by his Democratic
successors as to have trebeled the original
area of the Republic before the purchase of
Alaska in 1867. 7’
It requires all the gall of a Demoeratic
convert to McKinley imperialism t6° com-
pare it with the annexation of 2,300,000
square miles of compact and contiguous
territory; joined to the United States by an
imaginary line, to say nothing of the differ-
ences in climate, population and adapta-
bility to sustain people of our own race
and political training. The champions of
McKinley expansion do not refer to that,
or to the fact that his policy of acquisition
has involved the country in a needless and
cruel war. McKinley’s Philippine policy
holds the same relation to the Jeffersonian
policy of expansion that highway robbery
does to honest and square dealing. One
strengthened the original Union, and has
added to it 20 States and Territories, with a
homogeneous population. The other is to-
day and will remain a source of national
weakness and a monument of national
dishonor. It has set aside the great and
beneficial principles of national policy
laid down by Washington and Jefferson
and set forth in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the constitution of the
United States. In its place it has given us
a bastard imperialism, a bloody war, and
no end of debt and taxation.
And all for what? No one in authority
has yet answered the question. What do
we want with the Philippines? What
does their conquest promote in the interest
of civilization, christianity or American-
ism ?
The Spring Elections.
The spring elections, at which borough
and township officers will be voted for,
will occur on Tuesday, Feb. 20. From the
state election laws are taken the following
regulations governing the election:
Last day to file the certificates of nomi-
nation with the Secretary of the Common-
wealth, 45 days before the election; to file
nomination papers with the same, 35 days
before election; certificates of nomination
for county offices with the. County Com-
missioners, 21 days before; last day to file
certificates for township and borough
officers, Feb. 2; nomination papers for the
same, Feb. 5; objections to papers filed with
the Secretary of the Commonwealth, 21
days before; to county officers, Feb. 8. Time
to withdraw from all tickets, except the
township and borough offices, fifteen days
before; township and borough officers Feb.
8th. ’
Additional Taxes on Notes.
The commissioner at Washington has de-
cided that ordinary judgment notes will
hereafter be considered as the same as
bonds and taxed fifty cents each under the
war revenue law, and if a power of attor-
ney is embodied in the note it must bear
the added stamp worth twenty-five
cents. The universal practice among busi-
ness men and internal revenue collectors
has hitherto been to consider a judgment
note as an ordinary promissory note, carry-
ing as tax a stamp worth two cents for
every $100 of face value. :
The County’s Popular Sheriff,
From the Philipsburg Ledger.
Cyrus Brungart, who was inducted
into the sheriff's office on New Year's day,
arrived here this evening on a business
trip, returning home this morning. The
sheriff’s popularity is evidenced from the
fact that he had the greatest majority of
any man elected to office in this county at
the November election. We predict that
he will make one of the best sheriffs Cen-
ter coun ty has ever had.
——Sucribe for the WATCHMAN.
Chestnut Hill, near Columbia, was kicked in
the face by.a mule Wednesday morning. ‘His
jaw and both cheek bones were broken and
he is terribly cut and bruised.
—J. G. Spangler, proprietor of a law and
collecting agency in Altoona, was convicted
in Blair County court Tuesday of acting as a
lawyer when he was not a member of the
profession. He was fined $10 and costs.
—Orrin Krebs of Sinnemahoming, aged
about 52 years submitted to an operation in
Williamsport hospital a few days ago. A
piece of the skull which had been depressed
from boyhood, owing to an accident, was
raised. Mr. Krebs is improving.
—The borough of Jersey Shore Friday
afternoon paid Mrs. Rebecca Fowler the
$1,500 awarded her by the court recently as
damages for injuries sustained by falling on
a defective sidewalk. The costs amounting
to $77, were also paid by the borough.
—The executive committee of the Penn-
sylvania State Teachers association has com-
menced making arrangements for the big
state convention to be held in Williamsport
on, July 3, 4, 5 and 6, 1900. Between 800 and
1,000 teachers will be present, as will speak-
ers of national reputation.
—Judge Albright, of Lehigh county, last
week handed down a decision relating to the
rights of fishermen and owners of streams.
He rules that a fisherman is guilty of tres-
pass who enters a stream and fishes without
the consent of the land owner, although he
wades the stream and does not touch dry
land, and the fact that the state has stocked
the stream with fish does not make of it a
public stream.
—Commissioner Wilson, of the internal
revenue bureau, has decided that a physician
who prescribes and sells to his patients
whisky, brandy, wine or any other alcoholic
liquor that is not compounded by the mixture
of any drug or medical ingredient therewith,
is required to pay a special tax as a retail
liquor dealer, even though the alcoholic
liquor thus furnished be prescribed as a med
icine only so used.
—Walter L. Main’s circus will not go on the
road next season. So says a telegram from
Geneva, O., winter quarters of the aggre-
gation. The health of Mr. Main is poor and,
as he is independently rich, the physicians
have advised him to give up business for a
year. Main’s circus will always be remem-
bered in Bellefonte and vicinity on account
of being in the big wreck near Tyrone sev-
eral years ago,
—Kneeling against a tree in an attitude of
prayer, the frozen body of Lewis E. Wirts, a
prominent engineer on the Huntingdon and
Broad Top railroad was found yesterday near
his home, with a bullet hole in the right
temple. A 38-calibre revolver with one cart-
ridge exploded, was lying at his side. Brood-
ing over the death of his favorite daughter
was the cause of suicide. He leaves a widow
and eight children.
—Recently, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schofield,
of Union township, Clearfield county, cele-
brated the 62nd anniversary of their marriage
Sixty years of married life, the diamond
wedding are considered very rare, but this
old couple now lived two years beyond that.
Mr. Schofield is now 87 years of age and Mrs.’
Schofield is 85. Both are in the enjoyment
of good health. There were present on this
occasion four of their children, five grand-
children and ten great grandchildren.
—Saturday three Jersey Shore boys were
rescued from watery graves. While skating
on the river, Charles Messner broke through
the ice, opposite the pump station, and was
going down the second time before his com-
panions could throw him a stick and pull him
out. Jacob Johnson broke through near the
same place, but was taken out by Arthur Al-
len, who jumped into the water and assisted
Johnson out on the ice. Henry Miller fell in
and was taken out by his companions, who
shoved a boat over the ice to where he was
floundering in the water.
—There is a dearth of boarding houses in
Braddock and vicinity. Since the four hun-
dred men have been imported by the Car-
negie company to work on the new furnaces
about to be erected in the vicinity of the old
cinder dump the local lodging and eating
houses, of cheaper variety, have been flooded.
From an authorative source it was learned
that the Carnegie people provided transpor-
tation for the men and have assured all the
lodging house keepers and the others, on
whom the strangers must be dependent for a
time, of pay for whatever pains they go to in
behalf of the emigrants.
—Altoona has at least one kid who be-
lieves in promptness in others at least. The
youngster isa boy about a dozen years old.
He has a sister. The other night on account
of illness in the family the girl was obliged to
sleep on a lounge down stairs, Early in the
morning the boy arose and going down stairs
demanded that the sister get up and prepare
breakfast. Playfully the girl refused to obey
the mandate of the kid whereupon he struck a
match and sticking it under the lounge the
excelsior was ignited. A blaze immediately
followed, the girl got up, and a hurried
pitching ofthe burning lounge from he
house prevented a conflagration. It all hap-
pened at the home of Samuel Holiday at
Eleventh avenue and Twentieth street.
—W. H. Schnars, of Westport, who has
charge of the stage line between Westport
and Hammersley’s Forks, lost his horses last
Friday. He was making his usual trip.
Upon reaching the Arnold residence, he
stopped his team and went into the house to
attend to some business leaving his horses
standing on the road untied. The team was
a gentle one and Mr. Schnars states he never
thought it necessary to fasten them. While
he was in the house the horses started out
and walked up the road until they reached a
point called Werts’ Narrows, when the back
end of the sled slipped over the bank. This
frightened the horses and they started on a
run up the road. After going about twenty
rods, at a narrow point in the road, the
horses and sled went over the embankment,
which at that place is about 150 feet high,
killing both the animals instantly. The one
horse in its descent crashed into a stump and
broke its neck and the other in some manner
caught in the harness and choked to death.
The sled was heavily loaded with hay, chop.
bran, mail, ete. These articles were scattered
along the mountain side and the sled was al-
most entirely demolished. Mr. Schnars’ loss
is an extremely heavy one, the team being
valued at $250. He hired Mr. McCoy's horse
and sleigh and returned to Westport.
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