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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Oon, OoM PAUL,
Is a husky old Boer,
Who reigns in South Africky;
He points his ‘Long Tom?’
At poor Ladysmith,
And hits Doctor JAMESON’S knee.
—Tt looks as though Ladysmith would
fall into the arms of the Dutch after all.
—1In the light of recent events ab Frank-
fort the Republicans intend holding Ken-
tucky with bullets, if they can’t do it with
ballots.
— General BULLER’S great ‘‘turning
movement’ was much like a new leaf
turning at New Year's. It didn’t stay
turned long.
— When the friends of Governor STONE
in the North ward turn out to vote for Jus-’
tice it will probably be seen that they are
not all dead yet.
—This is ground hog day in South Afri-
ca, butsigns can’t be expected to hold good
down there. It would take more than a
shadow to frighten a Boer into his laager.
—Spring township primary elections
seem to be developing ballot box stuffers.
In one precinct they had six more votes
polled at the primaries on Saturday than
they have voters. ?
—1If reports be true as to the number of
armed men in Kentucky one might imag-
ine the Blue Grass shooters to be preparing
to take a fall out of England after the
Boers get through with her.
—Gen BULLER’S consoling telegram that
there would ‘‘be no turning back’ was of
but momentary consolation to the British.
He didn’t turn until he reached Spion Kop,
but there the Boers changed his mind and
he hasn’t stopped running yet.
—GOEBEL has taken the oath of office as
Governor of Kentucky and further blood-
shed seems imzminent. It is a great calam-
ity when the partisan animosity of people
leads them to commit murder in order to
hold the reigns of government.
—The Czar of Russia, having tied the
Shah of Persia up in a mortgage that will
hold that peninsula under Russian domina-
tion for seventy-five years, can now tell
Queen VICTORIA to add another to the long
list of bitter doses she has had to take re-
cently.
—Every time a Boer gun goes off some
English security takes a tumble. JOHN
BULL has discovered that OoM PAUL is not
only a Boer but is about the worst bear
that ever struck terror to English stock
gamblers. Being a Boer in the eyes of na-
tions,and a bear in stock exchange parlance
OoM PAUL doubtless takes a step further
and becomes a lion in Pretoria social cir-
cles.
—The sugar trust controls the output of
the Hawiian islands and it is admitted to
this country free of duty. Poor, half
starved, hurricane devasted Porto Rico is
the island that came to us with open
arms, but the Republican tariff mongers
say her little production of sugar must be
tarrified. Porto Rican sugar is controlled
by individuals, Hawaiian sugar is con-
trolled by a trust, that is the difference.
— BOURKE COCHRAN, the New York
leader who deserted the Democracy in 1896
to lend his matchless oratory to the election
of McKINLEY, has just made the (?) start-
ling discovery that his course was a mis-
take. It is the old case of hind sight being
better than fore sight and BOURKE does
not hesitate to admit it. He has been dis-
appointed in the President he abandoned
his life long friends tc help to elect and
now says his Philippine usurpation ‘‘threat-
ens to effect a divorce between our flag and
our constitution by unfurling the one over
countries where the other cannot exist.’’
—Btatistics are always cold and some-
times they are very unpleasant facts to
contemplate. For instance, last week was
published a statement of the number of
bachelors and spinsters in the comntry.
The figures showed that there are more
than two million eligible bachelors in the
country in excess of the eligible spinsters.
Side by side with this table was the annual
report of warden E. S. Wright, warden of
the western penitentiary, which shows that
the number of male convicts in that insti-
tution has decreased a third within a year
or 80. Now if a logician were to take up
this work of the statistician he would proba-:
bly trace the shrinkage in convicts tothe
fact that fewer men are getting married
these days. They are not running such
desperate risk, nowadays, and fewer of them
are going to the pen.
——The young colored men of the town
have organized ga social club that intends
to make itself fe}t at the coming election.
While the objec: pf the club is not politic-
al, yet the foxy organizers hope to raise a
few month’s rent in that way and the
“good long green,” alone, will be the key
that will turn ther shouting either for
WALKER or BLANCRARD. They passed very
strict resolutions agaipst taking liquor. in
bottles or any other vessel than the natural
one into the club, but they voted down
LEANDER GREEN’S proposition to open all
meetings with prayer. Their failure co
adopt LEANDER'S resolution wasn’t so
much to deprive him of a chance to give vent
to his spiritual feelings as it war because of
the fact that they haven’t decide ( yet whom
to pray for, as neither one of the nominees
for burgess has ‘‘come down with the
dough.”
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 2, 1900.
NO. 5.
Striking the Business Bowlder of Expan-
sion.
The way to such glory as Mr. McKINLEY
sought, through imperialism and expan-
sion, he now finds strewn with business
bowlders and blockaded with commercial
troubles. Accustomed to determine no
graver questions of state-craft than those
required to satisfy a constituency that
clamored for office and could be appeased
with garden seeds, and with a knowledge
of practical business that extended no furth-
er than the demands of the mortgages
MARK HANNA still holds over him, he
went into the presidential chair knowing
as little of the demands that would be
made upon him, or how to meet and
properly dispose of them, as anyone who
ever warmed a cushion in the White
House.
He imagined that if .he could glorify
himself that the country would be satisfied.
That to do this it was only necessary to an-
nex something and extend his power.
That annexation would make offices, that
this would satisfy his friends, and that oth-
ers would be content to wave the flag and
cheer for the new CESAR.
To this idea he has clung as persistently as
does a burdock-burr to a colly’s tail. No
matter what annoyance or disgrace, or
cost or suffering it brought to the country
and the people, Mr. McKINLEY believed
it was necessary to his ‘‘greatness’’ and
that it would add to his glory to govern
more lands and more people than others
who have occupied the same position have
done, and he has worked continuously to
that end.
- In his efforts and ambitions he has for-
gotten, or possibly did not know, that an-
nexation would bring serious and trouble-
some questions that, no matter how settled,
would dim the ‘‘glory’”’ of expansion in
the eyes of some. He is only now be-
ginning to realize it.
He has gathered in Hawaii, with itssugar
plantations, its leprosy, its plagues and its
pestilences. He has grabbed Porto Rico,
with its tobacco growers and paupers, its
sugar cane and debts. And out of these
two have already sprung troubles that he
thought not of, and questions that to de-
termine in any way, can bring but divis-
ion and disaster to his supposed popular-
ity.
These (uestions are as to the positions
these two acquisitions now occupy. Both
Hawaiians and Porto Ricans contend that
they belong to and are part of the United
States; that annexation makes them such
and that being part of this government
they are entitled to such privileges and
benefits as other parts enjoy. And this
contention seems just. But it disturbs
Mr. McKINLEY’S peace of mind and clouds
his hopes of re-election.
If annexation annexes and the constitu-
tion means anything, then these islands
are entitled to free trade with the United
States. Any protectionist, and Mr. Me-
KINLEY is one of them, can tell you what
“free trade’’ with either of the islands he
is grabbing for, means to the tobacco grow-
ers and the sugar beet and cane pro-
ducers of this country.
It is this question of commercial inter-
course with our own possessions that is
the thorn in the crown of our new CESAR.
It is the first business bowlder that seems
to block the way to the greatness and
glory that Mr. McKINLEY aspired to.
How he will surmount it remains to be
seen.
We who are not with him, who have no
care for his ambitions, or no faith in his
professions, can afford to wait and see.
Where Bosscs Wait Their Turn.
It is beginning to have the appearance of
a long—possibly a very long—wait for Mr.
QUAY before he again occupies a seat in the
United States Senate. Other matters,
which in the eyes of Senators are of more
importance to the country, demand their
attention and the Pennsylvania boss is to
be left, tramp like, knocking at the door
until it suits their convenience to deter-
mine the legality of the credentials he pre-
sents. It is possibly the first time in the
political eareer of this dictator of Republi-
can action that he has been compelled to
await the pleasure of any politician or the
demands of any business. And this shows
that if Mr. QUAY is omnipotent in Penn-
sylvania he is not elsewhere, and that there
are men who believe that public questions
are just as deserving of attention as is Mr.
QUAY’s itch for official place.
It is refreshing to know that such is the
case. It elevates one’s opinion of manhood
to understand that there are Republicans,
somewhere, who cannot be bossed. It in-
creases your admiration for men who have
minds of their own. It enables you to
think of a United States Senator with some
degree of respect. It shows that there are
a few men wearing the ear marks of Re-
publicanism whose necks are not sore from
the collar of the boss.
For this much we should be t hankful.
-——Subsecribe for the WATCHMAN.
The Returning Prodigals.
We don’t wonder that Democrats who
went off after false gods four years ago and
assisted in the election of McKINLEY are
showing signs of repentance and an anxiety
to assist in undoing the wrongs they bave
helped to commit. Itis not strange that
they should. Say or think what we please
of the gold Democrats, most of them were
at least honest in their views. They actually
believed that a financial policy that can be
changed whenever a Congress and a Presi-
dent so wills, was a vital principle fixed
and stable, and that the welfare and success
of all business and of all our people de-
pended upon perpetuating their view of it.
There never was a more egregious error
committed, nor did ever so falacious a be-
lief take such hold on otherwise sensible
men.
Time has shown many of them the folly
of going wrong over an idea——the idiocy
of losing their heads over a policy. It
has demonstrated how little of principle
there was in the money question, and how
much of principle they overlooked in try-
ing to make it the grave question they un-
dertook to believe it was.
Events have shown of how little im-
portance it was tothe people what their
money standard should be when compared
with the vital questions that an imperial-
istic President has forced upon the coun-
try.
To Mr. McKINLEY’S success can be at-
tributed the effects of imperialism that we
are forced to combat; the costs and cruelties
of a wicked war to secure enforced expan-
sion; the great hold that grasping trusts have
secured npon the business of the country;
the hopes of subsidy beggars for govern-
mental assistance in grinding the life out
of legitimate trade and their prospects of
crushing all competition; and the thou-
sand other wrongs that have sprung from
his administration, any one of which far
over shadows, in evils they inflict upon the
honor, the hopes or the welfare of the
country, any determination that might
have been made of the money question.
To these Democrats can be attributed the
success of the evils that now surround us,
and the dangers that confront us. Is
it to be wondered then that they shrink
from the results of their own work and are
anxious to repair the wrongs they have
done, so far as it is within their power to
repair them ?
It is to be hoped that their work of re-
pentance will be as earnest and effective
as was their effort in the cause of those who
have committed the wrongs the country
has to complain of.
The Goebel Shooting in Kentucky.
Based upon the illogical assumption that
two wrongs make a right most of the papers
of Pennsylvania are apologizing for the
murderous assault upon Senator GOEBEL,
at Frankfort, Kentucky, on Tuesday after-
noon, and reading between their lines even
the most obtuse can observe that they are
the glad of shooting and hope that he will
die.
As to whether Senator GOEBEL has really
been the fire-brand in Kentucky politics
that his traducers would have the public
believe him to be, no one not personally
acquainted with the situation in that State
is competent to say. It is certain, however,
that a great railroad corporation made a
desperate effort to defeat Senator GOEBEL
for Governor, using its far reaching in-
fluence against him. This resulted in the
bitterest political fight in years and when
TAYLOR was declared successful all manner
of charges of fraud were made by both
sides. The Legislature was in the act of
investigating; with new discoveries daily
adding to GOEBEL’S claim to the seat, when
the frightful climax came and he was fired
upon by an assassin concealed in one of the
capitol buildings.
It is a most deplorable denouement.
And the man or party of men who have
thought to bolster up their political chican-
ery by murdering an opponent have diverg-
ed so greatly from the honorable path as to
martyrize GOEBEL and cement his friends
into an organization that will control Ken-
tucky for years to come.
GOEBEL may have been a dangerous ele-
ment in politics in the Blue Grass State,
but was he any more so than those who
fought him and have not hesitated to con-
vince the world of their guilt against the
ballot by atiempting murder in support of
it?
——Who will say that we have no re-
turns from the Philippines? Who will cry
that war there has been without results?
Who will allege that the sowing of Mr.
McKINLEY’S ambition has borne no fruit?
The transports that a few months ago were
crowded carrying brave boys to a cruel and
needless war, in those far away islands, are
now returning with their gruesome loads
of victims. On the 29th ult., the city of
Pekin brought back to San Francisco 155
bodies. Each returning transport, it is
said, will carry an equal, if not greater,
number of stark, cold, forms back to the
stricken ones at home.
And still the anti-imperialists ory that
the war is a failure.
An Appropriation to Maintain Polyg-
amy.
It will now be in order for Congress, that
has devoted four weeks of its time to the
investigation and expulsion of one of its
regularly elected members, charged with
the offense of being a polygamist, to pro-
ceed to vote an appropriation to pay the
Sultan of Sulu a salary sufficient to keep
his one hundred and fifty wives and the
cost of protecting him and his polygamous
outfit, as contracted to be done by Mr.
McKINLEY.
Tt is a terrible thing in the eyes of some
people for an American constituency to
elect, as its representative, a man with
three wives. But to the same eyes it ap-
pears to be no offense against either de-
cency or morals for the President of the
United States to pay the clout-clothed Sul-
tan of Sulu, whose only glory consists in
the fact that he owns one hundred and fifty
wives, twelve hundred and fifty (dollars a
year for flying the American flag over his
dirty harem.
If you’ll keep your eye on Congress
you'll see that the very fellows who
talked the loudest about the ‘‘purity of
our homes’’ and the protection of ‘‘publio
morals,’”” while the ROBERTS case was on,
will be the very first to answer ‘aye’
when McKINLEY'S appropriation to main-
tain and protect polygamy in the Sulu
islands is asked.
Watch this matter and see how {incon-
sistent some people are, and when] it’s all
over you’ll know much more about the
hollowness of public professions than you
do now.
A Statement That Belittles The Man.
A few weeks since Prof. HAMILTON, who
is now at the head of the Agricultural De-
partment of the State, surprised the farm-
ers, and particularly those who knew his
views upon the subject of taxation prior to
his appointment to office, with the state-
ment that corporations now pay the bulk of
taxation in Pennsylvania. On making
this staternent Mr. HAMILTON simply al-
lows himself to be used as the mouth-piece
of the ring that gives him position. He
knows better. He has shown the falsity of
the figures, he now bases his argument up-
on, a thousand times, both in private and in
public. If it wasn’t for the office he holds,
and the fact that he couldn’t hold it ten
minutes if he did not do what the ring he
represents requires of him, you wouldn’t
hear any such blather out of him.
Mr. HAMILTON knows just as well as
does any one else that the total amount of
taxation collected for all purposes in the
State amounts to $46,000,000 a year. He
knows, also, that of thisjamount corporations
pay but $14,000,000. He knows that cor-
porations pay no county, road,school, poor,
street, borough or other local taxes, and
yet with a full knowledge of these figures
and facts, and in the face of almost a life
time preaching just the reverse, he now
comes to the front in his official capacity
and attempts to deceive farmers and others
with a jugglery of figures and a familiarity
with false statements that would do credit
to the veriest tool the ring has its clutches
upon.
People who have known Professor HAM-
1LTON had a different opinion of his manli-
ness and his desire to be at least consider-
ed honest in his professions and beliefs,
They know better now. His last utterance
shows him to be no more truthful than the
gang he represents, and no more honest
than the other creatures who are willing to
wear the collar of the boss for the sake of
the paltry salary it yields.
——A fact that some people should get
into their noggins and keep there when
the fishing season opens is that they can-
not fish upon anybody’s land, or in any
stream that 'is the private property of any
person, firm or corporation, without be-
coming trespassers, unless granted the
privilege of doing so by the owners. It
bas been believed that in a stream, stock-
ed by the State, or whether stocked by it
or not, if the fisherman waded and did not
trespass upon the lands adjoining it, he
had a right to fish at any time. This is
not correct. Judge ALBRIGHT, of Lehigh
county, has just handed down a decision
relating to the rights of fishermen and own-
ers of streams. He rules that a fisherman
is guilty of trespass who enters a stream
and fishes without the consent of the land
owners, although he wades the stream and
does not touch dry land; and the fact that
the State has stocked the stream does not
make of it a public stream. This decision
is a good thing to remember, if those who
have heretofore thought otherwise want to
save themselves trouble.
— Over in Clearfield county both
Representatives HARRIS and ALEXANDER
want to go back to Harrisburg. The former
is an avowed QUAY man and the latter an
anti; bus what Clearfield needs more than
this Republican ’alf and ’alf is real Demo-
cratic bourbon in her legislative decoction.
——Congressman J. K. P. HALL voted
to exclude ROBERTS, the Mormon.
Lawyers and Judges are the Same the
World Over.
From the Scottdale Independent.
The Greensburg Bar Association has
passed resolutions strongly in favor of a
new court house. A litigant was heard re-
mark the other day that the Bar Association
should pass strong? resolutions requesting
more energy in expediting the business of
the courts. It was said a decision in a case
in the argument court argued early in Jan-
uary, 1899, has never been rendered yet.
Such delay should not he. With two
judges on the bench the public business
should not be delayed beyond from one
court to the next term.
England’s Troubles are mot All in
South Africa.
From the York Gazette.
The horrible famine in India, which af-
fects 22,000,000 persons in British terri-
tory and 27,000,000 in native states, ought
to arouse the sympathy of the world.
“While in 1897 the world shared India’s
sorrow and contributed hundreds of thou-
sands of pounds toward the relief funds,”
the Viceroy points out, ‘‘India now will
have to struggle alone, for the thought of
every Englishman in the world are center-
ed on South Africa. It will be the duty
of the government to pursue the task of
saving millions of lives, and it will spend
its last rupee, if necessary todo so.”’
Nobody doubts but that the Indian gov-
ernment will do all it says, but as yet if
has been able to reach less than 4,000,000
with relief. And the utter hopelessness of
the situation becomes apparent . when we
learn that the revenues by which the fam-
ine must be fought are raised in India and
in large part right in the famine districts.
What We are Annexing?
The startling statement made public
by Major W. H. Daly, who was chief sur-
geon of the staff of General Miles during
the recent war, and the man whose report
on embalmed beef used by our troops dur
the war caused such general comment, in
response to a question as to his opinion re-
garding the annexation of the Philippines
should put thoughtful men to thinking.
He says:
“IT am of the opinion that we are certain-
ly annexing leprosy, pestilence, the pla-
gue and possibly other evils that may
cause Sorrow, vexation, expense and com-
plications, for which we as a nation will
have ‘an uncertain compensation in any
possible commercial or territorial advan-
tage.’’
“The islands to my mind have very lit-
tle commercial value, while American la-
bor can never compete with labor there.
In regard to Cuba, Porto:Rico and the
other islands of the West *Indies group,
I think it is the duty of the United States
to give them a stable government at once
and live up to the promises made in. be-
half of the people of these islands, and the
purposes for which the Spanish-American
war was fought.
WE HAVE ENOUGH AT HOME.
‘We have in our own great country suf-
ficient undeveloped land to take care of
without annexing other against the will of
its rightful owners. The island of Cuba is
rich in its natural resources and taken by
itself would be of value to us, but Porto
Rico is practically valueless. Having been
all through the country, 1 know whereof I
speak.
“I agree thoroughly with Andrew Car-
negie in his recent speech before the Lotus
club in New York, where he says: ‘‘To be
popular is easy. To be right, when right
is unpopular,is difficult.’”” With him I re-
pudiate the immoral doctrine, ‘my country
right or wrong.’ While the Congress of
the United States is discussing dead issues
burning questions which should receive
most earnest attention are relegated to the
rear.
“As Mr. Carnegie further said: ‘The un-
thinking people of this country may be
termed the nation’s drift, who are without
individual volition and are carried into the
common current. The American people
are capable of thinking, but they do not
stop in their hurried career of private occu-
pation to do more than get their cue from
those interested from personal motives.”’
SOBER THOUGHT ELBOWED ASIDE.
‘As a consequence sober thought is el-
bowed aside by volatile impulses and the
nation’s drift has no definite idea as to
what shore it will eventually reach, in its
aimless journey, or whether it shall ever
find a resting place beyond the distant and
uncertain seas, to which course it is appar-
ently moving.”
“It is seldom that I am go impressed by
tbe logic and wisdom of any man as I have
bee by these words of Andrew Carnegie.
To hink that a man of such great wealth,
who could, if he desired, turn everything
to his own gain, should voice such senti-
ments, is a commentary on his greatness.”
The Irish Joan of Arc Arrives.
NEw YORK, January 29.—Miss Maud
Gonue, the Irish Joan of Aro, arrived to-
day on the steamer La Normandie from
Havre. Miss Gonne could say but little
about her future movements in this country
beyond the fact that she would stay a
month and then hurry back to Ireland, as
her time was fully engaged there. She
will address several meetings in the inter-
est of the Boers. .
Wants Cuba Evacuated on July 4.
WASHINGTON, Jandary 26.—Mr. Clay-
ton, of Alabama, to-day introduced a res-
olution providing that on July 4, 1900,
the military and naval forces of the United
States be withdrawn from the island of
Cuba, and that the government thereof be
left to the Cuban people.
——There are ten applicants for the po-
sition of postmaster of Altoona and Con-
gressman THROPP now has a beautiful
chance to even up with some of his Blair
county friends (?) and it is quite likely
that he won't waste much time heaping
coals of fire on any of their heads.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The limestone quarries of Grafton, Hunt-
ingdon county, are to be opened out next
April under the supervision of the Saxtom
furnace. .
—Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, of Wash-
ington, D. C., has presented to Mercersburg
Academy a portrait of ex-President James
Buchanan, her uncle.
—Rev. J. C. F. Rupp, pastor of the Luth-
eran church of Scottdale, recently tendered
his resignation to the council of the con-
gregation which was accepted.
—M. P. Shoemaker, one of Hempfield
township’s (Westmoreland county) most
progressive farmers on Tuesday butchered
two thoroughbred Chester white hogs, one
of which dressed 592% and the other 708
pounds.
—Professor James Alvan Eldon, a member
of the normal school faculty, died at 3:30
o'clock Thursday morning at the Lock Hav-
ven hospital. Professor Eldon’s age was 31
years, and his death was dueto a disease of
the brain.
—At Williamsport, Wednesday afternoon
a Lodge of Perfection, Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rites Masons, was instituted. Hon.
James H. Codding, thirty-third degree sover-
eign grand inspector general, of Towanda,
the officer in charge.
—Edward Kyles, of Sand Hill, was struck
and killed by astreet car at Montoursville
Thursday night at midnight. His skull was
crushed and his body terribly mangled.
Among the passengers in the car was a niece
of the man who was killed.
—A gift of $150,000 has just been made to
Susquehanna university, at Selinsgrove, for
the purpose of building a ladies’ dormitory,
gymnasium and an addition to the pre-
paratory building. The name of the donor
is being withheld for the present.
—The Clearfield Game Protective associa-
tion brought suit last week against Christ
Weber and Aaron Reiter of Troutville, for
killing a deer last June at the headwaters
of Curry run. The young men promptly
paid the costs and the fine of $100.
—William Zeigler and George Keller while
cutting saw logs on the lands of Charles
Williams, in Napier township, Bedford coun-
ty, last week cut a tree that they got 180
pounds of honey out of. They got one comb
of honey out without a break that was six
feet long.
—When Henry Pasons McKee, of Watson-
town, awoke Monday morning, he found
that his wife, who had retired in good health,
was dead. Mrs. McKee was the daughter of
the late Robert Buck, supervisor on the P.
and E. road. She is survived by ber hus-
band and several children.
—Judge John I Mitchell, of the superior
court, who suffered a1 attack of paralysis on
Thursday, at Wellsboro, was able to walk
about yesterday. Dr. Bacon, the attending
physician, says that unless some unforeseen
complication arises the judge will have com-
pletely recovered in a few days.
—The buildings at the Altoona Driving
park. two miles south of Altoona, including
the grand stand, stables and fences, caught
fire at 8 o'clock Friday evening and were
totally destroyed. It is supposed that tramps
were taking shelter in one of the stables and
set fire to the straw. The destruction of the
buildings is a total loss to the association.
—The Watsontown car works has been
purchased by a party of manufacturers from
Camden, who will take possession in a few
days and convey the plant into a modern
plant for the manufacture of brass novelties
and dynamos. They have bought all the
land between the foundry proper and the
railroad, and contemplate extensive addi-
tions and improvements.
—The case of Charles, 10-year-old son of
Edward Delong, of Winterburne, puzzles all
doctors and hospital authorities who have
seen or treated it. A year ago the boy was
attacked with askin disease, then pronounced
eczema. Recently the disease has grown so
malignant that the sufferer’s fingers have
rotted and fallen off. In hope of saving his
life the boy’s left arm has been amputated
above the elbow. Some opinions have pro-
nounced the disease leprosy.
—TIt will be of some interest to our readers
to learn that at Altoona Monday, for the
thirty-third time in fourteen years, Nick
DeBella and his wife, Rolles, before an alder-
man, entered into an agreement to separate,
and papers were drawn up to fit the conclu-
sions they had arrived at, the same being
duly signed, and now each is traveling up
and down the wild thoroughfares of a cold
and unsympathetic world alone and destitute
of the comforts and bliss of home and do-
mestic felicity.
—During the five weeks that Grant Miller,
aged 33 years, of near Milton, has been an
inmate of the Williamsport hospital he has
lost an even hundred pounds, buv is not by
any means a skeleton now, as he tips the
beam at 266 pounds. Miller was taken
to the hospital to have his legs treated. They
had refused to carry his avoirdupois and
after a consultation the doctors decided
that they would never be equal to the task,
so they began dieting him with the result
stated. Miller feels much better and is glad
he is getting thinner.
—Authur and Luther Callahan Saturday
killed a bear in an unusual way, near Cam-
mal. They were working in the Black For-
est near a lumber camp Friday afternoon,
when bruin was sighted. They secured a
gun and wounded the beast, but darkness
compelled them to give up the chase. Early
Saturday morning they tracked the bear to
his den. Bruin showed fight immediately
and Authur, in his haste to shoot, missed the
bear, but the bullet striking a tree, glanced
off and hit the bear, which fell dead in its
tracks. It weighed nearly 200 pounds.
—George R. Taylor, aged 73 years, was
killed by the west bound passenger train on
the Beech Creek railroad at the foot of West
street in Williamsport Thursday morning.
The old man was picking coal along the
tracks when he was struck by t1ain.
body was rolled under the cow catcher and
dragged about two rods before the train came
to a stand still. He was alive when taken
out from under the engine, but died before
the train could be backed to the depot. His
hody was terribly mangled. He was a veteran
of the civil war and one of his sons is now
with the United States army in Cuba. His
wife, tw