BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
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—Yes, Congress had better adjourn and
go home. It has done about all the bad it
can do and adjournment would certainly
be making the most of a bad job.
—The Mifflin county farmer who possesses
a pig with three fully developed ears, must
have adopted the Potter county breed.
That is the only section we know of where
“pig’s ears’’ are sO prolific.
— DEWEY’s defeat of MoNTEJO'S fleet
was very disastrous to Spain, but develop-
ments of late have proven that he isn’t near
the diplomat on land that he is on sea.
His own knockout of himself is the most
disastrous thing he has ever done.
——If the last fight in Centre county did
nothing else it lined up former county
chairman W. E. Gray. He had been do-
ing the political elquilibristic act, with a
pail on each shoulder, for some time, but
they caught him on Friday before the con-
vention and WILLIE'S water began to spill
so rapidly that he slid in out of the wet
and is now an avowed QUAYite.
Better be something, and be it right,
Than a shifting coward, in any fight.
—The papers were’nt full of the frocks
and hats worn by GROVER’S babies during
the annual egg rolling fete on the White
House lawn this year. GROVER is living
in retirement at Princeton now, where the
quiet life is evidently not much to his lik-
ing, for ever and anon he throws up dis-
tress signals calling for a political life boat
to come and take him off.
—1It is not to the credit of the United
States Senate to have unseated CLARK, of
Montana, and permitted HANNA, of Ohio,
to remain. Both bought their elections by
bribing Legislators and they should have
suffered alike, but it is probable that the
millionaire Senators had an extra grudge
against the red headed Croesus because he
has more money than any of them.
— While the President is in New York
attending the ecumenical conference on
Foreign Missions tomorrow afternoon he
might tell his Methedist brethren, gather-
ed there from all parts of the world, that,
according to his imperialistic notions, the
best way to christianize is to benevolently
assimilate with bullets and bayonets.
—Governor TAYLOR, of Kentucky, call-
ed on the President at the White House on
Tuesday. He was probably there to get a
few pointers on ‘‘plain duty’ and ‘‘benev-
olent assimilation.’”” By the way,wouldn’t
TAYLOR make agoocd running mate for Mc-
KiNLEY? There would certainly be no
clash of ideas between them, as both he-
lieve in holding power at the point of the
bayonet.
—Every political contest in Centre coun-
ty develops the fact that there are more
men who can be ‘‘seen.’’ A new lot is
heard of after every contest and if the lots
keep on growing with the rapidity of the
past few years the time will soon be at
hand when such a thing as an election on
the question of the respective merits of the
candidates will be out of the question. It
will be a sad spectacle that will confront a
county like Centre, but it will be none the
less true.
—The Sultan of Turkey is acting in bad
faith with us. After promising to pay
$90,000 indemnity for the destruction of
American colleges during the Armenian
massacre in 1895, and permit their rebuild-
ing, he has done neither. The result is
that diplomatic relations are strained and
it is not altogether beyond the range of
possibilities that DEWEY may be sent
over there to knock a little of the stuffing
out of Turkey; at least $90,000 worth.
—A Lycoming county sportsman club is
all wrought up over the fact that among a
recent consignment of trout fry they re-
ceived was one fish with two perfectly de-
veloped heads. That’snothing. From the
way the writer's bait disappeared on Mon-
day, when fingers were too cold to put on
new worms, we are willing to bet there are
thousands of trout in Spring creek that
have a half a dozen heads each, and
stomachs, too, for that matter.
—1It was little wonder that the soprancs
in one of the local church choirs ‘shrieked
“Mercy !”? ‘Mercy I’ on Sunday night,
when ghe tenors and altos were shouting
something about God appointing a day.
The “Mercy!” ‘Mercy!’ was in the
libretto all right enough, but the discord
was so horrible that the sopranos would
probably have resorted to just such worded
shrieks, even if they had not been there.
Why they say that the jarring of the wave
motions of sound withered the Easter lillies
that decorated the choir box.
—Bad butter usually raises more of a
stink than anything else and that is the
reason Secretary of Agriculture JoHN HAM-
1LTON hurried off to Philadelphia on Tues-
day to investigate the charges of crookedness
in one of his departments, that of dairy and
food, made by the North American. It ap-
pears that Secretary HAMILTON'S deputies
in Philadelphia have been in collusion with
the wholesale dealers of oleomargerine
down there. The deal was that the whole-
salers were to sell oleo to the retailers at
an advance of one cent a pound, the ad-
vance of one cent being turned over to the
food inspectors as hush money. The net
is likely to scoop in a great many rascals
and when the whole thing becomes public
our good Presbyterian elder will have re-
vealed the kind of fellows he got himself in
with when he jnmped out of the HASTINGS
bed and got under the covers with QUAY
and his gang.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 45
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 20, 1900.
The Making of a New King.
Did you ask why does not the constity-
tion go hand in hand with the flag into
our new possessions? Are you anxious to
know why the liberties and rights and op-
portunities, guaranteed by our organic law,
are not secured to all the people who are
under the protection of the stars and stripes?
Simply because personal ambition and
greed for political patronage wills it other-
wise. Mr. McKINLEY rejoices in the pow-
er that has been conferred upon him as
President of the United States. Unforiu-
nately for his greed that power is limited
by constitutional restrictions. Outside of
that constitution there is neither proscribed
bounds for itching ambition, nor inhibited
restraints upon the creation and control of
public patronage.
Under the constitution Mr. McKINLEY
could not be King, or Emperor, or dictator
of Porto Rico. Outside of it he can, in fact
is. Under the bill to form a civil govern-
ment for the unfortunate residents of that
island he will have more power than bad
the Queen of Spain, from whose autocratic
authority we thought we were rescuing a
helpless and oppressed people. The new
bill, dictated by him and enacted into law
by those professing to be his friends and
followers, gives him as ahsolute and dicta-
torial power over all the affairs of that
island as has the Czar of Russia over the
empire that he rules and speaks for.
Through its provisions he appoints its gov-
ernor, the executive council, the judges
and the officers who select the persons to
fill every appointive office. He vetoes such
legislation as his appointees may enact that
does not suit his purposes. Through these
appointees he grants or refuses such fran-
chises as he pleases. Through these he en-
forces such edicts and collects such taxesas
he may see proper.
The people there are absolotely helpless.
They have neither voice nor part in their
government. They must pay taxes, but
have no representation ; submit to laws the
enactment of which they were even not
consulted about, and obey edicts promul-
gated without their advice or consent.
As were our forefathers under King
George III, during the oppressive years
that preceded” $he revolution, so are the
people of Porto Rico now, under King
WILLIAM I
In addition to the power that his bill
gives him, the patronage that it enables
him to distribute at the expense of the peo-
ple is as unlimited in amount as itis lib-
eral in salaries. .
It empowers him to appoint
A governor at $8,000 a year.
A secretary of the council at $4,000 a year.
An attorney general at $4,000 a year.
An insular treasurer at $5,000 a year.
An auditor at $4,500 a year.
A commissioner of the interior at $4,000 a
ear.
y A commissioner of education at $3,000 a
year.
A chief justice of the supreme court at
$5,000 a year.
Four associate justices of the supreme
court at $4,500 a year each.
A marshall of the supreme court at $3,000
a year.
‘A United States district judge at $5,000 a
year.
A United States district attorney at $4,000
a year.
A United States district marshal at $3,500
a year.
Three members of a commission to codify
the laws of the island at $5,000 a year each.
Five members of the executive council,
whose salaries are to be fixed by the Porto
Rican Legislature.
To those he can, and will, add as his
necessities require and as he can find ex-
cuse. And the necessities of the Republi-
can party for patronage know no bounds.
‘What positions HANNA needs to retain pow-
er for McKINLEY will be created, and fill-
ed, if, like the locusts of Egypt, the hoards
of Republican officials eat every green and
growing thing on that ill fated island.
_ The American people may love justice.
If they do there will be little of power or
glory left for McKINLEY when they pass
judgment on his attempt to govern Porto
Rico outside the bounds of constitutional
authority.
Proving Its Efficacy.
Four years ago when the Democrats were
contending for more money Republican
speakers and papers denounced them as
repudiationists and cheap money cranks.
Then we had a per capita circulation, or an
ayerage amount for each individual, of
$21.53. Now we have $26.12. This in-
crease has been hrought about by the coin-
age and use of silver that had been stored
in the treasury vaults and by the increas-
ed out-put of gold. If there is more pros-
perity in the country to-day than there was
in April, 1896, it is due more to the fact of
an increased volume of circulating medi-
um than to any other single condition.
And if this ie so, does it not affirm the
Democratic position of four years ago ? An
increase of $492,645,043, in the total money
circulation, in four years and the much
vaunted prosperity that Republicans are
given to boasting about, coming with that
increase, has a tendency, if nothing more,
to prove the correctness of those who’ con-
tended for more money for the people and
should prove a squelcher for the single
standard or scarce money advocates of the
country.
Barkis is Willin’.
D. Loxg, of Massachusetts, has expressed
himself as willing to accept the nomination
for Vice-President on the ticket with Me-
KINLEY. Senators HANNA and PLATT
have been looking for some time for a can-
_lidate for that office, but had been unable
to find a suitable one. There isn’t much
in the office to attract men of capacity, and
the custom has been to select some fellow
with a Bar’l and little brains. But by
some error of judgment or accident of cir-
cumstances the St. Louis Convention named
GARRET A. HOBART four years ago, who
was a man of brains and character, and the
consequence is that the party is now em-
barrassed. In order to make the work
easy the President some weeks ago made
some new rules with the respect to the so-
cial status of the incumbent of the office.
The manifest purpose was to excite the
ambition of some wealthy nobody who
would pay the expenses of the campaign
and ask no questions. But none such re-
sponded to the call and the announcement
of Secretary LonaG’s willingness to take
the place causes embarrassment, rather than
satisfaction.
Ms. LONG is not a bad man and under
the old rules of party arrangement would
not have been a bad candidate. He served
with some measure of credit in Congress
and has not heen an altogether bad Secte-
tary of the Navy. The fact that DAVID
A. WELLS filled that position during the
war of the rebellion is evidence, however,
that it doesn’t require a high order of tal-
ent to cut a respectable figure in that of-
fice. In fact any ordinary clerk will do as
things go, and LoNG got on fairly well
until the dispute between Admirals SAMP-
SON and SCHLEY arose. Then he lost his
balance, but not unnaturally. The Presi-
dent was determined not to let any Demo-
crat attain the character of a hero in the
Spanish-American war. SCHLEY, who is a
Democrat, threatened to reach the standard
and the President set about to humiliate
bim. He made Mr. LoNG take side with
SAMPSON and, between them, they were
able to give the credit of one of the greatest
achievements in the history of the Ameri-
ean navy to a man who hadn’t earned it.
But he prevented the real hero of that
fight from becoming a candidate for Presi-
dent against McKINLEY.
In view of such services to the President,
Mr. LoNG has a right to ask to be nominat-
ed for Vice President. As above indicated
he wasn’t wanted, and if any one of the
men who were desired comes forward and
expresses a willingness to take the compli-
ment, LONG will be shelved. But in the
event that no other candidate comes for-
ward nobody will dispute the proposition
that he will be a fit candidate for the office.
He has already declared himself in favor of
imperialism. He is willing to take upon
himself any burdens which a more con-
scientious and manly man would reject un-
der any and all circumstances, and he is
ready to perform any menial service which
his Imperial Majesty, ‘the Major,’’ imposes.
He may not have as much money as MARK
HANNA expected the candidate for that of-
fice to give up to the committee, but he
will do in a pinch and if the party intends
to take that kind of a candidate, we can
see no way that anything better could be
done than nominate Secretary of the Navy,
Hon. JouN D. LoxG. He is willing to
take the place and few men knowing as
much about the affair as he does would go
that far.
A McKinley Method of Robbing the Peo-
ple.
The people of this county have a right to
consider that $63,000 is a pretty large sum
to pay, annually, for county expenditures.
These expenditures cover the cost of main-
taining the courts, making assessments,
building bridges, holding elections, keep-
ing in repair the public preperty, main-
taining the insane and criminals, managing
county affairs, and, in fact, all the expenses
incident to, and necessary for, the proper
control and maintenance of county govern-
ment.
When they think of the multiplicity of pur-
poses for which this $63,000 is considered
an ample, if not extravagant expenditure,
they can the better realize the profligacy of
Mr. McKINLEY’S methods in connection
with his formation of a government for the
Philippine islands.
Less than a year ago he appointed a com-
mission of three persons, with one secretary,
to proceed to the Philippines, examine into
their condition, ascertain their needs, and
report what they discovered, for the Presi-
dent’s satisfaction. It went to Manila. It
lived fat. It returned and the country, to-
day, knows no more about the actual con-
dition or what is required for the better-
ment of the people of those islands than if
that commission had never been heard of.
The other day some curious Senator in-
troduced a resolution requesting an itemiz-
ed statement of the expense of that com-
mission. It was furnished on Monday and
shows up the pretty total of $117,185, or an
average of $29,269 for each one of the four
connected with it.
Here is almost double the amount of the
The Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Jonx | entire yearly expenses of Centre county,
paid to four individuals for a single trip to
and a few months stay in those islands.
They were no part of the army or govern-
mental force sent out to establish a gov-
ernment, such as Mr. McKINLEY thinks
proper for the Filipinos. They were simply
visitors, without authority, without in-
structions or without use. And yet those
four men cost the people of the United
States, for a few months junket, $117,185.
And the Republican who growls the
loudest about his local taxes and next fall
will be blathering about Democratic man-
agement will step up and vote to endorse
McKINLEY, and hisjgovernment by com-
mission, just as if it was not the barest-
faced robbery of the people, and a simple
and sure way of furnishing a Republican
President with official patronage and Re-
publican office seekers places from which
to draw fat salaries.
The Impending Struggle.
The parallel between the political and
industrial conditions of 1892, as compared
withthe present time, has not been com-
pleted yet, but unfortunately the signs
point that way. In 1892, as was stated, the
strikes began at New Bethlehem in Febru-
ary and culminated in the Homestead riots
and slaughter of July following. This year
they began nearly a month later, but the
progress has been more rapid and the trou-
bles have extended with marvelous rapidity
inall directions. As we said last week
there has been no blood shed yet, happily,
but there is no telling what the future has
in store. As a matter of fact the clouds are
already perceptible and unless the signs are
misleading the worst will be here before
the midsummer season has arrived.
At Croton Dam, New York, on Monday
morning 600 troops were mustered to con-
front a body of strikers and force them in-
to submission. In Chicago the militia are
resting on their arms ready at the word of
command to pounce upon workingmen who
are indulgir ¢ in the mistaken notion that
they are entitled to the right to strike
against what they esteem to be wrongs per-
petrated by their employers. At Cleveland,
Ohio,men employed by companies in which
MARK HANNA is the controlling influence
are held in restraint by the bayonets of mil-
itiamen and in a dozen other places which
a week ago were quiet and orderly, the
“pomp and circumstance of war’’ is now
the only power that maintains even the ap-
pearance of peace in the communities.
We still hope and confidently believe
that there will be no repetition of the ever-
lasting blight which at Homestead stained
the record of civilization in 1892. But it
will not be for the reason that there is no
just cause for resistance against the atroci-
ties of the subsidized trusts and the protect-
ed tariff barons. They are oppressing the
labor interests and robbing the producers
of the country now as they were then and
it is only a question of the forbearance of
of the people under the severest provoca-
tion. We hope there will be no effusion of
blood. We confidently pray that the suf-
ferers under the injustice will be patient.
But we call public attention to the perfect
parallel between then and now and ask for
justice for the men, if the worst comes to
tke worst.
Clouds on the Business Sky.
To those who keep tab on such things
the signs of the times are not nearly so
promising as they were one year ago. With
stocks anywhere from twenty to one hun-
dred per cent less than they were in April
1899; with strikes either threatened or in
operation in nearly every working district
in the country; with orders falling off in
every line of business, and with a general
slump in both hopes and prospects, the
triumphal march of a prosperity, of which
we have seen so much on paper and felt so
little of it in our pockets, seems to be com-
ing to a premature close.
Even so optimistic a representative of
the business interests of the country as
DUNN'S REPORT says : ‘‘the failures of the
first quarter of 1900 seem large. In fact
are large compared with last year and 1898
% % % ¥ while Massachusetts and New Eng-
land failures have been larger than in the
first quarter of any other year since 1894.”
It is not a pleasant condition of affairs
either to contemplate or confront, but the
people will be none the worse off for know-
ing and realizing the out look.
Some of us may think there is great pros-
perity in the country. We only wish every
one had reason to feel that such is to be
the case Unfortunately facts do not war-
rant any such a belief and unfortunately
even the seeming prosperity of which we
have heard so much and realized so little,
has promise of but short life.
That it could be otherwise with trusts
multiplying and individual energies throt-
tled is not to be expected. And he who looks
for a different and better condition of af-
fairs while HANNAism permeates the gov-
ernment, and the power of the adminis-
tration is put forth to build up and pro-
teot monopolies, at the expense of the in-
dividual, is looking for what he will never
see and hoping for that which he will
| never realize.
tion and deadlock the convention.
A Comparison that Compares.
Champ Clark on New England Methods.
Congressman Champ Clark got a splen-
did chance the other day to get back at
the fellows who have been attacking the
south because of the alleged unjust treat-
ment of negroes in the matter of voting.
It was in the debate of the Hawaiian bill
which brought up the principle of taxation
without representation. Mr. Clark said :
‘The other day the chairman of the
Democratic National committee ordered
me to go to Rhode Island and make a
couple of speeches. While I was up there
I learned a good deal; and among other
things I learned this: That the city of
Providence, Rhode Island, has nearly half
the population of the State ; and it has on-
ly one state Senator out of thirty-seven.
(Laughter.) No southern State ever did
as badly as that. The city of Providence
has twelve representatives in the Legisla-
ture out of seventy-two ; and one little
town that has only 267 votes elects a state
Senator.
‘“In that State they have property quali-
fication. If a man owns $134 worth of real
estate he can vote ; if he pays taxes on
$134 worth of personal property he can
vote. In the city of Woodsocket 400 men
tried to compel the tax assessor to put them
on the tax list ; they have been ready to
swear that they had the necessary amount
of property ; they had heen ready to prove
this ; but they were Democrats the assessor
was a Republican, and he would not put
them on. They undertook to mandamus
him, and the judge decided that it was too
late. The next time they turned round,
and while the assessor was making up the
tax list, they tried to mandamus him ; and
the Republican judge decided that they
could not tell but what he was going to
put them on the list the next day, and
they were too early.’’
And in view of such a situation he
wanted to know what right they had to
talk about ‘‘disfranchisement.” He des-
scribed it as gall, and the Republican
leaders need not think they can cover up
injustice to Porto Rico by hurling epithets
at the South. The pickpocket is no less
guilty because he yells ‘‘stop thief !"’ at
some one else to distract attention.
Looking for the Lost.
From the Portland Oregonian (Rep.)
(The Oregonian, is one of the leading Re-
publican papers of the Pacific coast. It is
so wrought up about the actions of ‘‘Mr.
Facing Everywhichway’’ that it bursts in-
to this poetic effusion :)
We’ve been huntin’ you, McKinley, but we
don’t know where you air ;
When we clap our fingers on you, why we
find you’re never there.
When we hunted through the tariff, in the
place you’d ought to be,
Why you wasn’t ‘round there nowhere, least
as far as we could see. .
In this Porto Rico thingumbob we thought
we'd find you sure ;
When we got there you’d been trekking, like
the smooth and wily Boer ;
So we asked the gold supporters if they
thought we'd find you there,
And they said they guessed so, some place,
but they didn’t know just where.
Alger said he hadn’t seen you, and he shed
a bitter tear
When he said you’d gone an’ left him like a
sinking ship last year.
When we visited Mark Hanna, who was busy
countin’ pelf, y
Why, he said he couldn’t tell us, for he
didn’t know hisself,
So we've just kep’ or a-huntin’ till we're
nearly petered out,
And, although we thought we had you, now
we find we're still in doubt.
If these lines should ever reach you, and
you’d write us where you be,
You’d confer a good-sized favor on your
friends, the G. O. P.
A National Scandal.
From the Clinton Democrat.
Delegations representing the country
poor arrive at the palace in San Juan, Porto
Rico, almost daily. They tell the usual
story of starvation and want, and they ask
for food and work. Two important dele-
gations have put in an appearance this
week, the latest being from Aguas Buenos,
consisting of one hundred men and fifty
women in procession, headed by two 10
year old girls,carrying black flags to signify
that they were mourning for existing con-
ditions.
Porto Rico has been in our hands more
than a year and a half. Yet thanks to
that pious ‘‘benevolent assimilator’”’ who
occupies the executive chair, we are obliged
to witness these harrowing spectacles to
our humiliation and shame. And even
when he was wakened up to ‘‘our plain
duty’ he backs down at the first political
opposition hie meets.
Porto Rico is a national scandal. The
political party responsible for the disgrace,
cannot continue to command public con-
fidence.
The War Has Not Begun,
From the Rochester, Pa., Commoner.
The bravery, skill and persistence of the
Boers in their struggle to maintain their
independence, continues to excite the ad-
miration and sympathy of the civilized
world. They have been recouping their
losses lately to a wonderful degree and
have halted Lord Roberts in what he and
his British admirers had fondly hoped
would be a triumphal tour of the Trans-
vaal. The Boers are fighting for liberty.
They are defending their altars and their
homes. They are cheered on by their
wives and children. They are fighting for
all that is worth having in human life, with-
out which man’s life is but a brute existence.
In such a cause, in their own country they
can scarcely be conquered. The war has
but begun.
Dewey Not Likely to be a Stumbling
Block.
From the Fulton Mo., Telegraph.
There are 930 votes in the Democratic
national convention. To nominate 620 are
necessary, but 311 can prevent a nomina-
The
highest possible calculation, allowed to
Dewey all the possible states in the last de-
gree doubtful, gives him only about 250
votes, not even enough todelay the action
of the convention.
Spawls from the ¥Kr-ystone.
—i
—Indicati 1s of oil have becu found at
Baumstown, Berks county.
—A premature blast at the Alaska shaft,
near Mount Carmel, blinded John Hinkle,
who has a wife and 11 children.
—M7rs. Catharine Leibner, of Pottsville,
has received word that a wealthy uncle in
Salt Lake City recently died leaving her a
fortune of $60,000.
—Word has reached her home at York
Springs, Adams County. of the death from
fever of Miss Annie M. Gardner, at Ponce,
Puerto Rico, whither she went to teach in
the government schools.
—The Carnegie Stcel company has been
awarded the contract for structural iron and
steel for the rapid transit tunnel. The
amount of the bid was not published.
—There are almost two hundred rafts ly-
ing along the streams of Clearfield county,
ready to be taken to the lower markets as
soon as the water rises sufficiently.
—John Kauffman, residing on the Willis
farm near Granville bridge, has a curiosity
in the shape of a pig with three fully devel-
oped ears, the third growing out of the base
of one of the others.
—Miss Anna M. Himsworth, of 129 Church
street, Chester, kneeled by her bedside to
say her prayers before retiring Saturday
night, and was found lifeless in the same at-
titude the next morning by her sister.
—The Allegheny county Democratic com-
mittee presided over by the new chairman,
Thomas B. Alcorn, held a harmonious meet-
ing on Saturday last and selected George S.
Fleming and Frank P. Iames as members of
of the State central committee.
—When the April term of Civil Court was
called at Doylestown yesterday morning,
six cases of the thirteen on the trial list had
been settled, and all but two of the balance
were either settled or continued when Judge
Yerkes called over the list.
—The largest remaining tract of drift coal
in the Pittsburg district has just been pur-
chased by the Midland Coal company, and
the property will be developed extensively
at once in the interest of the recently or-
ganized American Sheet Steel company.
—The work of erecting the mammoth
steel plant for the Sharon Steel company was
commenced yesterday. About $4,000,000 is
to be invested in the plant, and it will fur-
nish employment for 3,500 hands. A big
machine shop will be erected first and the
open-hearth steel plant will follow.
—An old Ebensburger, on hearing com-
plaints of the late spring, thus expressed him-
self the other evening: ‘‘People who think
this is a backward spring should turn back
to 1881, when on April 9th the Ebensburg
Branch railroad was blockaded with snow
and the workmen on the court house, just
being completed, had to be hauled from
Cresson in sleds.
—The farm house of W. H. Strohecker,
between Booneville and Greenburr, Clinton
county, occupied by Perry O. Sheats, was
burned Saturday morning about 1 o’clock.
The contents, except a few articles, were also
destroyed. It is believed that the fire was
caused by the explosion of a lamp. The loss
on the house is $1,200, with $500 insurance.
—The Susquehanna boom at Williamsport
contains about 15,000,000 feet of logs, and
rafting out began Monday morning, so that
the mills can start up for the season. The
back logs are strung all along the creeks up
the river, and only a rise is needed to bring
in millions of feet of timber.
—There is considerable excitement in Bed-
ford county over the discovery of iron ore 60
per cent. pure. Leases for twenty years
have been obtained on the land. The Colo-
nial Iron company, of Riddlesburg, will build
a road to connect with the mines and will
use the Pennsylvania raw material rather
than the Michigan.
—Both Republican factions in Blair county,
it is said, are opposing the application of
Samuel MeCamant, of Tyrone, for re-
appointment as a member of the board of
managers of the Huntingdon reformatory.
MecCamant is accused of playing fast and lose
with both factions, and as a result he is in
danger of losing his place at the expiration
of his term on May 15th.
—Workmen began on Monday morning
tearing down the machinery and building of
the old Columbia iron and steel works at
Uniontown. The project which was to have
made that place an industrial centre cost its
backers several fortunes. The enterprise
was started in 1885 with a capital of $450,000.
Uniontown donated $60,000 and a site worth
$25,000. Pittsburg banks contributed also.
Bad management caused the crash which
came in 1892 with the appointment of a re-
ceiver.
— Mrs. Simon Cramer, the wife of a mill
worker Monday at Hazleton, gave her life
to save her 5 year old son. With a babe in
arms and the boy at her side, she was walk-
ing near the railway, when the child ran in
front of an approaching train. He became
fascinated by the speeding engine and did not
hear his mother call. Putting down her
baby the mother ran to the boy and threw
him to one side. She slipped and fell in
front of the locomotive which killed the
brave woman instantly.
—Some time during the night unknown
vandals forced an entrance to the Salvation
Army barracks at Reading,burned the Bibles
and other religious books, tore the American
flag to shreds and further desecrated the
place. When Captain Gleter arrived at the
barracks he was horrified to find the large
Bible which usually graced the pulpit lying
on the floor almost totally consumed by fire,
while hymn books and other religious books
partially burned were strewn about the floor.
It is said the police have a clue as to who the
miscreants are and arrests will shortly fol
low.
—William Hammel the quadruple mur.
derer, was informed at Williamsport last
week that Governor Stone had fixed June
5th as the date for his execution. He almost
broke down, and for the first time since his
arrest for the terrible crime he showed emo-
tion. As he realized he had less than two
months to live, tears came to his eyes, the
first anyone had seen him shed ; his limbs
shook as if with ague, and in a voice he said,
“T guess it's all up with me now—that’s the
way it looks.” He soon recovered his com-
posure, however, and lighting a cigar began
pacing to and fro in his cell. Hummel re-
quested that no visitors be allowed to see
him. .