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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—CARTER'S or DEWITT’ aren’t in it, as
a universal mover, with April 1st.
—The Boers seem to be still able to set a
trap and the English just as able to walk
into it.
— Well the robins had their snow
Wednesday morning, now isn’t it about
time to do something for the chippies?
—It didn’t take the Boers long to dem-
onstrate that, even if General JOUBERT is
dead and General CRONJE in captivity,
“there are others.”
—If England continues deporting Boers
to St. Helena, the first thing she knows
there will be so many of them there that
they will take the island.
—Now that the south pole has been
found, the Centre County Centennial Com-
mission might get it and grease it and have
some one try to climb it during the cele-
bration.
—The Hon. BILL ANDREWS moved into
Allegheny county to get sent to the Legis-
lature. but the Allegheny countians voted
on the matter Saturday, and the verdict of
their ballots was that BILL might just as
well have staid where he was.
—The Prince of Wales has announced
his intention not to go to the Paris Exposi-
tion. There seems to be nothing left for
usto do but stay at home now, for if AL
isn’t going there will be no one there we
really care to associate with.
—Those who are knocking hardest on
President McKINLEY these days are the
fellows who were hottest for him four years
ago. They will probably forget all their
grievances by the time he is renominated
and march up and vote the same as they
have done all their lives. With a great
many people politics is a game of “‘knock’’
all the time, but they always vote the
same way.
—The Ladies’ Home Journal is of the
opinion that no person can do good brain
work after eating a hearty meal, therefore,
it advises only one hearty meal during the
day, and that one at 6 o'clock p. m. I
sounds logical, doesn’t it? But we’ll bet
dollars to bent pins that .999 per cent. of
all the men in the land prefer three hearty
meals a day to having a reputation for be-
ing able to do brilliant brain work.
—Other States have railed at Pennsylva-
nia because she has permitted a man who
is owned by another, to to be her Governor.
What of all the States in the Union and the
federal government now? Why soon the
grand old Eagle of the Republic will refuse
to subsist on such carrion as we are. Let
us hide our heads in shame while the
world reads the head lines in last Sunday’s
papers, setting forth that HANNA was un-
decided as to whom to pick for Vice-Presi-
dent.
— Philadelphia would doubtless like to
have a little of that Porto Rican tariff idea
to pervade the $100,000 she is trying to
raise to secure the Republican National
Convention. The raising of such an
amount would be very easy if it had that
McKINLEY hand back idea to it, but the
Philadelphians are smart enough to see
that any amount, however great, will be
all consumed and there will be nothing to
hand back when HANNA and his crowd
get at it.
—The hall of fame which some unknown
gentleman has just offered to build for the
University of New York, ata cost of $100,-
000, is to be merely a gorgeous receptacle
for tablets bearing the names of illustrious
Americans. Fifty names are to be selected
in 1900 and thereafter but one each year.
The public is not supposed to know who
would erect such a temple in which success
might find its crown of laurel, but we
wouldn’t be a bit surprised if it might
not be the work of the Honorable TIMOTHY
WOODRUPF, anent the time when he be-
comes Vice-President.
—There seems to be a little gall with the
sweets of this McKINLEY prosperity too.
In New York, Chicago, Orange, Greenwich,
Indianapolis, St. Louis, Pittsburg, Dun-
cannon and Charleston, great strikes of
skilled mechanics and laborers are on and
they threaten to extend to all branches of
trades in those cities. What, with the Porto
Rican outrage, the Philippine blunder,
the ALGER and CORBIN phantoms, more
does the poor President need to drive all
hope of re-election from his mind, than
these beginnings of serious disaffections
among the great wage earning classes.
—A correspondent in the Lewisburg Jour-
nal recently concluded an article explain-
ing why he had abandoned the Republican
party after clinging to it for twenty years
by signing it as ‘‘A Democrat of the New
Democracy.” The party and its principles
are as old as the government itself. It
stands to-day just where it stood one hun-
dred and twenty-four years ago, so far as
its foundation of personal liberty, social
equality and government by the people is
concerned. The attempts of those who
want to lose sight of the fact that ours is
not an aristocratic despotism to make it ap-
pear that Democracy has wandered from its
original tenets may have made some be-
lieve that there is a ‘‘new Democracy,’
but euch is not the case. The same glor-
ious doctrines laid down by JEFFERSON
inspire the organization and even during
the great progress made in all conditions of
politics and society they have not fallen
short of comprehending the truest ideals
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of a Republic.
A Prosperity That is Not for the People.
Evidently there is not that prosperity in
the country that Republican papers would
have the public believe, or, if there is, it is
not the kind that brings plenty and con-
tentment to all classes of our citizens.
Strikes certainly are not an evidence of
prosperity. And to-day there are more
strikes threatened. more strikes in full
operation, and more strikes in the process
of settlement, than have been known in
this country since 1892.
For months past soldiers have been on
duty in the Couer d’ Alene mining district,
trying to settle a strike that has been on
there for almost a year. For over three
months the carpenters and masons, brick-
layers and painters of Chicago, have been
striking for wages that will allow them a
decent living in these times of trust prices
for everything their necessities require. - It
is but a few weeks since one of the longest
and most bitter strikes that ever occurred
in the coal regions of this State came to a
close at Arnot. Only last Friday three
men were shot in a riot, among strikers and
others who were takin, their places, out in
Jefferson county. The same day one thou-
sand miners at Cumberland, Maryland;
eighteen hundred at Beaver Dam, Ken-
tucky; and eight hundred at Carbondale,
this State; decided to quit work until living
wages were paid them. On Tuesday seven-
teen hundred carpenters, stone masons and
other builders mechanics, of Essex county,
New Jersey, joined the great army of dis-
contented workingmen,and since then thou-
sands of others in different parts of the
country have been holding meetings pre-
paratory to doing the same thing. Through
all New England mills are shut down be-
cause of the refusal of labor to accept the
paltry wages offered, under the present
boasted prosperity, and all over the coun-
try, except in the iron manufacturing dis-
tricts, the same threatening condition of
affairs exists.
And as it is with the day laborers and
workingmen, so is it with the farmer.
While Republican newspapers and partisans
are attempting to make helieve that the
country is prosperous they are spending
troublous days and sleepless nights trying
to devise schemes to keep out of the
clutches of the sheriff. Everything they
are compelled to purchase, has, through the
manipulation of Republican trusts, ad-
vanced from twenty-five to one hundied
per cent. while the products of their acres
have either remained stationary or decreas-
ed in price.
With these conditions of affairs existing
among the workingmen and farmers, what
effrontery it is to talk about prosperity to
them. They are not prosperous, or there
would not be the discontent among the
laboring people there now is, or the hard
times for farmers that they have a right to
complain of.
Mr. McKINLEY’S prosperity may be a
good thing for some interests. Trusts and
great corporations are 1iding fast and
furious on the road to wealth that it opens
up to them. Monopolies may be able to
grind out of the populace riches at a more
rapid rate than usual. Special interests
may be swelling their riches under its
operations, but for the people—the great
working, waiting, hoping masses—this
Republican prosperity, so far, is little more
than wind.
The evidence of this isin the wrinkled
bellies, the ragged-backs and the discontent
of the workingmen, and in the empty
pockets and growing store accounts of the
farmer.
——TIt was more than the name FI1TZ-
SIMMONS that made the Democratic State
Convention at Harrisburg yesterday slip
along so smoothly.
A Cowardly Desertion.
Now that “BULL’”’ ANDREWS, who has
been the chief flag waver in the QUAY pro-
cession, and the trusted oil-can carrier for
the QUAY machine, has met an overwhelm-
ing defeat, the whole horde of little QUAY
quackers throughout the State come to the
front with the same cackle :—That it was
not because of his QUAY connections but
in consequence of his own unpopularity
that he went down. Some of them go so
far as to charge that, for years, he has been
a discredited representative of the State
boss and that his posing as the manager of
the state machine was political egotism of
the most insolent character.
Possibly ANDREWS was just what these
people say he was, but if the result of his
contest had turned out differently, what a
different opinion we would have had from
them. Then his success would have been
a QUAY victory from beginning to end, and
ANDREWS the chosen instrument through
which it was secured.
There is nothing measlier in the whole
long list of measly Republican politics,
than a failure to stand by a friend when he
is down, and the effort of the QUAY crowd,
now, to disown the political corpse of one
of its own leaders before it is given decent
burial, is an exemplification of a moral
cowardice that would shame a sneak-thief.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Wasted Efforts.
That complaint should be made, to Mr.
McKINLEY’S Secretary of State, by the
Red Cross Society, that medicine, surgical
supplies, bandages, etc., forwarded from
this country to the sick and wounded
Boers, have been held up by the British is
not surprising. But that he should be ex-
pected to enter the protest of the govern-
ment or in any way show that this admin-
istration disapproves of such acts on the
part of its English allies, is looking for
something that will never be realized.
From the day the British authorities de-
termined to blot the little Republics of
South Africa from the maps of the world,
there has been no more pliant tool or sub-
servient supporter of that power than
President MCKINLEY. The exporters of
this country found that out when their ves-
sels, ladened with American wheat,
were seized by British officials in Delagoa
bay on suspicion that their cargoes were
intended for the Boer markets. It was
verified by the refusal of customs officers,
acting under orders from Washington, to
clear vessels carrying medicine, nurses or
supplies of any kind, for the relief of the
Boers. It was again verified by the en-
couragement extended to the equipment of
the hospital ship Maine, and the rushing
of that vessel, with its scores of nurses and
its ample supplies, to the relief of wounded
Englishmen, at the same time that similar
aid for the suffering Boers was prevented
leaving this country. It was shown again
in the refusal, or fear, of the administra-
tion to require its Secretary of State to de-
mand full and ample apology of the Brit-
ish government for the unwarranted inter-
ference of its underlings with the United
States mails, and the opening and exam-
ination of the official correspondence be-
tween this government and its representa-
tion in distant consulships. It is proven
now, beyond the hope of explanation, by
the resignation of WEBSTER DAvis, Mr.
MCKINLEY’S Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, who gives up his place that he
may be free to tell the wrongs and outrages
that the British government is perpetra-
ting on a people struggling to maintain
self government, and to give to the Ameri-
can public facts as he found them while in
South Africa, which, as an official under
Mr. McKINLEY, he is not allowed to do.
The Red Cross Society will find no
sympathy in the quarter it has appealed
to. It is wasting its time making com-
plaint to Sect. HAY. He, like the Presi-
dent, has neither time nor attention to
give to a subject of this kind. ' Their
sympathies are with the English, in its
efforts to blot out the last vestige of Re-
publican government in South Africa,
and their efforts will be put forth to that
end. It is England’s desire, if not de-
mand, that it shall be so, and what Eng-
land desires ordemands of Mr. MCKINLEY
it will get.
Itis a blistering shame that such is the
case, but the people must bear it, for the
people are responsible for MCKINLEY, as
MCKINLEY is responsible for HAY.
A Pointer for Both Andrews and the
People.
“Bull”? ANDREWS knows now how if
goes to run up against a machine. He may
not be, politically, quite as much cock of
the walk as he was this time last week,
nor may he appear so immaculate and im-
portant to his admirers, but he has reason
to be a much wiser man than he was then.
He knows now what it is to go through the
political thresher, and understands how it
feels to be scratched and ripped and torn,and
broken and generally chawed up in a way
that makes the remains worthless for any-
thing but to enlarge the scrap heap. He
has a much wider knowledge of public
sentiment, and has reason to appreciate the
fact that QUAY-ism is not as potent as it
was or is far from being the talisman
of success that he imagined it to be. In
addition he has learned that crooked meth-
ods and desperate resorts do not always
win and that corruption in politics is a
game that two sides can work at.
We don’t know that the defeat of AN-
DREWS will, for the present, either purify
or better the politics of Allegheny county.
The machine that downed him is but an
off-shoot, and possibly n' better than the
one be managed for the state boss. Both
will resort to any means and profit by any
rascality. Both will corrupt the public in
order to control and rob it. But when two
machines meet in open conflict, one or the
other must be broken and the power of
both lessened. In this is the hope of the
people; in this the brightening of the pros-
pects of future release from the domination
of rings, the corruption of machines, and
the profligacy and extravagance that fol-
lows in their wake.
That Mr. QUAY, with his state machine,
will not be able to control Allegheny coun-
ty, in the next Legislature is now certain.
Mr. ANDREWS disastrous failure forecasts
that. For this, if for no other reason, the
people of the State have reason to rejoice
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BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 6. 1900.
Where the Responsibility Rests.
That the Republican party will resort to
murder for the purpose of maintaining
power and securing the emoluments of
office, is a pretty tough charge to make.
Yet there are facts that go to prove its
truth, and court records, in at least two
States of the Union, that furnish substan-
tiating evidence of the strongest character.
In Kentucky the evidence is undeniable,
and must stand unimpeached, that the
cowardly assassination of the Democratic
Governor-elect, was a cold-blooded, delib-
erate, political murder—committed by Re-
publicans for the sole purpose, and in the
hope, of perpetuating Republican power,
and securing for Republican heelers the
emoluments of official positions. There
was no personal animosity in it ; no neigh-
borhood feud to incite it; no individual
wrong about it ; no intent to protect pub-
lic interesis or save public honor by it. It
was nothing but a deliberately concocted
and cowardly carried out conspiracy to
prevent Republican defeat and to satisfy
Republican greed.
On Thursday of last week the closing
scenes of another act, showing the extent
to which Republican teachings and the ra-
paciousness of Republican desires will
cause men to go, was witnessed at Glen-
dive, Montana. It was the hanging of a
Republican sheriff for the assassination of
his successful Democratic rival, in order
that a vacancy might be created, to which
he hoped to be appointed.
In 1898, a Republican by name of HURST
and a Democrat by name of CAVANAUGH
were the respective party candidates for
the office of sheriff. CAVANAUGH was
successful by a small majority. A few
days after the result was announced his
dead body was found in an alley where he
had been assassinated. The board of
County Commissioners were Republicans
and HURST was at once given the office.
Circumstances connected with the finding
of the body and the indecent haste of the
Republicans to claim the office caused an
investigation to be made, which ended, on
Thursday lass, with the hanging of HURST
as the chief plotter and participant ina
conspiracy to obtain office by resorting to
murder.
It is scarcely right to hold the Republican
party, as a party, responsible for these
erimes. But it has taught that any means
that secure its success are justifiable and
out of such teachings have sprung the har-
vest of criminality and disgrace that it is
now reaping. For these teachings, and the
encouragement it has given to desperate
men to believe that anything is right that
assists in its success, it should be held to a
strict accountability.
——When they undertake to reform mat-
ters down in Berks county they go about
it just as if they meant it. The other day
the county Auditors filed their report and
when the county Treasurer and out-going
board of county Commisiioners got a chance
to look over it they found the modest sum
of over $3,000 sur-charged to them, which
they will be compelled to refund to the coun-
ty. Inaddition, criminal charges have been
preferred against these ex-officialsand in ad-
dition to the disappointment of having to
disgorge the amount of public money illegal-
ly used, the whole party stands a chance of
trying the hospitality and stomach resting
diet of the county jail. We always have
admired the way they do thingsin ‘‘Moth-
er Berks, ’’ and have no reason now to think
differently of the purposes that actuate, or
the process adopted by the people of that
county in making honest officials.
——1It is timely, in view of the approach
of Arbor day, to call attention to an old act
of assembly which provides ‘‘thatany per-
son liable to road tax who shall trans-
plant along public highway on his own
premises any fruit, shade or forest trees of
suitable size shall be allowed by the super-
visor whose roads run through or adjoin-
ing cultivated fields, in abatement of his
road tax, $1 ,or every four trees set out.”
The abatement, however, is limited to one-
fourth of such person’s road tax each year.
Here is an incentive for the observation of
Arbor day in the country.
——Next Friday will be the anniversary
of the birth of THOMAS JEFFERSON the
father of the Declaration of Independence.
Will some one please call at the White
House that morning and tell its inmate
that there was such a statesman as JEF-
FERSON, and that we havesuch an heritage
as a Declaration of Independence.
—-—The Porto Rican bill passed the
Senate on Tuesday by a majority of nine
votes. While this is the end of the bill, so
far as the Senate is concerned, there is like-
ly to be an aftermath of it that will prove
a horrible nightmare to the Republican
party in years to come.
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The Lives That Coal Mining Costs.
From the Huntingdon News.
The forthcoming report of James Roder-
ick, chief of the State Bureau of Mines and
Mining, will contain some interesting data
in regard to the loss of life in mine acci-
dents during the past 30 years. During
the period from 1870 to 1879 the average
yearly loss of life was 215 ; in the period
from 1880 to 1889 the average yearly loss
was 312, while during the past ten years
the average yearly loss has been 430. In
the past thirty years the large number of
9,575 men have lost their lives in the an-
thracite coal mines of this State. In 1870
for every 59,870 tons of coal mined one life
was lost. In 1880, ten years later, the
largest tonnage was produced per life lost,
182,987. The total anthracite coal mined
during the past ten years was 70,242,510
tons, in the production of which 4,305 min-
ers lost their lives. In the opinion of Mr.
Roderick, the anthracite mine law of this
State is the best in the world, and this
great loss of life is not due to any defect in
the law, but principally to neglect on the
part of the employes. The tabulated stape-
ment will show a vast reduction in the
number of lives lost now in comparison
with thirty years ago, when 36,600 men
were employed at the same occupation in
which to-day upwards of 140,509 earn their
daily bread.
Cigarettes and Whisky.
From the Wilkesbarre Union Leader.
To say that cigarette smoking is worse
than whisky drinking might seem a little
harsh, especially to the ears of the cold
water advocates, but that Chief Moore, of
the weather bureau, regards them so is
evidenced by what he says in reference to
his recent order prohibiting the smoking
of cigarettes during office hours. He is
quoted as follows : ‘Men who use cigarettes
seem to become deadened to the fact that
neglect of duty means reproval, suspension
or expulsion. I had rather have in the
service a man who drinks a quart of whisky
every 24 hours than a confirmed cigarette
smoker. The former can be trusted when
the latter cannot. Cigars and pipes are
not barred.’”” This isn’t of much value as
a temperance lecture, but it ought to open
the eyes of the parents of children who are
given to toying with the seductive cig-
arette.
A Congress that Will Do Anything.
From the Washington Star.
The house of representatives recently
gave an illustration of how to complicate
the pension problem. “It constituted it-
self a board of appeals, swept away-the
statutes and the rulings of the. pension bu-
reau, ignored the equities which are sup-
posed to protect the rights of both the pen-
sioners and the government and passed 142
private pension bills, aggregating an in-
crease to the pay rolls of $3,153 % nionth,
or $37,716 a year. It is impossible to
know what percentage of these cases de-
served such a special treatment, but the
fact that they have previously been 'un-
able to pass the scrutiny of the pension
bureau is excellent evidence that they are
in the main unworthy of particular toler-
ance.”’
Forgotten That There Was a Jefferson.
From the Delaware County Democrat.
On April 13th will occur the an-
niversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson,
founder of Democracy and author of the
Declaration of Independence. In view of
the crushing out of liberty among the
Frave Boers in South Africa and the at-
12mpt made to have our country abandon
many of the immortal doctrines of the
Declaration of Independence, by our im-
perialistic President, ‘is not the time op-
portune for unusual demonstrations of
fidelity to those doctrines by the people?
The Porto Rican Tariff and Civil
Government Bill Adopted by the
Senate Tuesday.
‘WASHINGTON, April 3.—This was a no-
table day in the United States Senate. It
brought to a close one of the sharpest and
most prolonged debates upon any measure
since those discussed in the ‘‘memorable
war Congress’’ two years ago. At 4 o'clock
this afternoon the vote was begun upon
the Puerto Rican tariff and civil govern-
ment bill and the pending amendment and
less than an hour later the measure about
which there has been so much contention
in and out of Congress, was passed by a
majority of nine, the final vote being 40 to
31. Only committee amendments were a-
dopted.
It has been evident for some time that
the bill would command a majority in the
Senate, but notwithstanding that fact the
interest in the measure, both of Senators
and of the public, has not flagged anin-
stant. To-day the galleries were crowed-
and hundreds of people filled corridors, un
able even to secure standing room in the
galleries. From 11 o'clock, when the Sen-
ate convened, until the hour when the
voting began, advocates and opponents of
tha bill brilliantly and eloquently main-
tained their convictions and the auditors
were kept in a state of constant excite-
ment. The particularly notable speeches
of the day were delivered by Mr. Mason,
of Illinois, in opposition to the measure,
and by Mr. Forager, of Ohio, who replied
to a brief speech by Mr. Wellington, of
Maryland. It was the Ohio Senator’s de-
sire to clear up any misunderstanding or
misinformation concerning the bill.
Mr. Mason’s speech was argumentative
eloquent and amusing by turns, and, as it
covered the entire range of the country’s
duties and responsibilities to what the Illi-
nois Senator sarcastically termed ‘our in-
su-lar pos-ses-sions,’’ it was very interest
ing to his hearers.
Just before the Senate adjourned, a sen-
atorial episode occurred, in which Mr. Wol-
cott, of Colorado, accused Mr. Lodge, of
Massachusetts, of uttering that which was
“anqualifiedly false.” The difficulty arose
over an effort made by Mr. Lodge to have
the Spooner bill made the unfinished bus-
iness. This involved the displacement of
the Quay case, and the friends of the
former Senator from Pennsylvania made
things lively for half an hour.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Clearfield is to have a new hospital. A
meeting of prominent citizens was held re-
cently and an organization effected.
—In the school district of New Paris, Bed-
ford county, the measles are epidemic, 102
cases being reported and three deaths.
—A few nights ago thieves broke into the
jewelry store of A. G. Rugh at New Alex-
andria, Westmoreland county, and stole
valuables amounting to $200.
—The Patton Clay Brick Manufacturing
company is building an addition to its plant
at Patton. The new building will be of
brick and 12x30 feet in size.
— While George Pearson and ‘‘Pikey’”
Bloom were engaged in a friendly wrestling
bout in Lewistown Friday Pearson fell under
Bloom and the former sustained a fracture of
one of his legs.
—John B. Smith, of Vail. who lost his arm
by an accident in the Tyrone division yard
on the 7th of July last, has been appointed
switch tender at the Summit and assumed
the duties of the place Monday. This will
be the first work he has done since the acei-
dent occurred.
—Mrs. Mary Ferguson, of New Bloom-
field, died recently at the home of her son-
in-law, ex-Senator Charles H. Smiley, in her
93rd year. Until a short time ago Mrs.
Ferguson was in the best of health and re-
tained all her faculties except sight. For sev-
eral years ber eyes were slightly impaired.
—Miss Kate Klema had never seen a gas
jet until she went to work in Jacob Fisher's
house, Johnstown, Wednesday. Members of
the family instructed her in its operation.
During the night she grew curious and evi-
dently opened the valve. She was found
dead in bed next morning.
—Frank Hinkel, employed at the Standard
Steel works, of Lewistown, while working in
the steel furnace department Friday placed
his left hand on the track of one of the elec-
tric cranes, when his hand was caught under
the wheels of the crane, crushing off the
fingers and so crushing the hand that ampu-
tation at the wrist was necessary.
—The Indiana Gazette says that on last
Saturday Bigler Bros., of Clearfield filed for
record in the recorders office in that county
deeds for twelve tracts of coal in Canoe
township, aggregating about 768 acres. The
price paid was $38.70 per acre’ and is the
highest yet paid in Indiana county, as the
coal is said to be the best in the county.
—A fine new Methodist church was dedicat-
ed at Punxsutawney recently, which has a
seating capacity, including the Sunday school
room, of 1,200, It cost $35,000 and could not
be duplicated now for $40,000. Bishop C. C.
McCabe was present and succeeded in raising
the $8,000 needed to pay all bills very easily.
The organ will be furnished by Andrew Car-
negie and will be one of the best.
-—For some months past the Huntingdon
and Broad Top railroad has been experiment-
ing with the system of running its trains by
telephone and General Manager Carl M.
Gage has announced his purpose to adopt the
system permanently. It is claimed for it
that its use largely reduces the possibility of
errors in the transmission of train orders and
reports over the method of the telegraph.
_ —A dispatch from Pittsburg says the first
woman lodger in the McKees Rocks police
station appeared Wednesday night. She was
accompanied by her husband, who gave his
name as William Conroy and his. occupation
as a laborer. They have traveled on foot
and freight trains from Topeka, Kansas,
according to the woman’s statement, and are
bound for Lock Haven. They have been
on the road since last October.
—The proposed Buffalo branch of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad will run through Bradford.
It will start at Wilcox, Pa., and follow a
route across the ridges by the way of Lafay-
ette, McKean county. In that vicinity it
will cross a deep and mountainous gorge with
a steel viaduct nearly five hundred feet high.
The bridge will be over three thousand feet
in length and its construction will be one of
the greatest engineering feats on record. It
will be the highest bridge in the world.
—The work on the electric lighting of the
Gallitzin tunnel has been completed. Two
hundred incandescent lamps, arranged along
either side of the tunnel at a uniform dis-
tance apart, have been putin and they fur-
nish excellent illumination. A private plant
has been established for the lights. It is the
purpose of the Pennsylvania Railroad com-
pany to equip most of the large tunnels along
its lines with electric lights. This has been
done in a majority of cases, but there remain
a few tunnels yet to be equipped.
— David Lansberry, a carpenter in the em.
ploy of Harbison-Walker Co., the well known
fire brick manufacturers at Woodland, is ly-
ing at the poiut of death at his home in the
latter place, the result ofa serious accident
which happened to him on Wednesday after-
un n of last week. While engaged n put-
ting in some new timbers under the *‘tweer”’
machine, he stepped aside just as the eleva-
tor was coming down with a load of brick and
was struck on the shoulder by an extended
bolt which erushed him down, in a backward
position, with the result that his back was
broken. Several physicians have been con-
stantly at his side in the hope of saving his
life, but they say he has only one chance out
of ten. He is a married man, aged about 43
years, and besides his wife has one daughter
and one son.
—The body of George M. Wilson,son of E.S.
Wilson, formerly of Philipsburg was brought
home from the Philippines and buried at Cur-
wensville the other day with military honors.
On December 10th, 1898, he enlisted in Co E,
12th, U. S. Infantry at Clearfield. His regi-
ment was ordered to the Philippines, April
14th, 1899, they landed in Manila and were
immediately assigned to active duty. Young
Wilson with five others were out on a scout-
ing expedition along the Pasig river the lat-
ter part of April. On returning to camp they
were fired upon by the enemy hidden along
the river Lank. It will probably never be
known just how the accident happened, as
every one was anxious to get out of the boat
to cover, but in the scramble young Wilson
was drowned in the river. His body was re-
covered and buried in Manila. His parents
and friends corresponded with the War De=
partment and finally got the body sent home,
arriving at Curwensville last Saturday night |
The deceased was born in Philipsburg in
June, 1881.