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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— Because Jones went a fishing
And fell into the creek;
There were some people swore that
He was “tighter'n a brick.”
—The poor, dear Inquirer. It must feel
so bad.
—The plum tree ’11 soon be full of fruit,
now that there’s no one there to shake it.
— Well, after DAN had paid the piper
GRAY and WOMELSDORF got to do all the
dancing.
—Mr. HANNA says he is “still a very
warm personal friend of Mr. QUAY.” Yes,
like Kelly is.
—G ALUSHA wasn’t too old to knock out
the youngsters who wanted his job as Con-
gressman at Large.
—They say that the output of gold in
the Klondike last year was $16,000,000,
but they can’t prove it by us.
——Talk about the plum tree shaking, why
QuAY’s legs on Tuesday made it look like
a Centre county spring zephyr up against a
Kansas cyclone.
—Keep your eyes open and watch how
the desertions from the QUAY ranks will
increase mow that the ‘‘old man’’ has no
plum tree to shake.
—QuAY knocked on the door of the
Senate just a little too long. The result
was that the country got to ‘‘knocking’
on him and he was knocked out.
—TUnder the light of recent discoveries
in the Agricultural Department Secretary
JorN HAMILTON ought to be ashamed to
look an honest old Centre county cow in
the eye.
— And now they say that when Senator
VEST heard of what JNo. C. MILLER had
done by way of holding principle above all
else, even he could not see his way clear to
vote for QUAY.
— Just as we expected the last haul of
that carefully laid net of the British was a
water haul, indeed. They dragged it in at
W epener on Tuesday, but the Boer’s had
slipped out and all of England is sore again.
— RICHARD CROKER cables from England
that he hasn’t croaked yet. Some of the
fellows in New York started the story that
he was ‘‘a dead one,”” but it it didn’t take
the Tammany chieftain long to prove an
alibi.
—When Quay heard about DAN, LEW
Burrock, Jim WATT, HOWARD Horz-
WORTH, Tommy MITCHELL and JOHN C.
MILLER be laid down and was like to
die before Tuesday’s blow killed him
clean dead.
— That extra red necktie worn by Sena-
tor BURROWS, of Michigan, on Wednesday,
probably had its color heightened by some
of QUAY’S gore. BURROWS was most per-
sistent in his opposition to the Pennsylva-
nia usurper and credits no small por-
tion of his downfall to his efforts.
—It was nice in ‘‘the old man’’ to write
his will and have it executed before he
died, because if he had left it until after
Tuesday it might have been broken and
then NED CHAMBERS wouldn’t have got-
ten his plum and lots of postmasters in
Centre county would have been without
theirs.
—The Republican State Convention
didn’t have much to ginger up over. With
QUAY’s political corpse in the baggage
coach ahead the trains in and out of Har-
risburg that day, it is not to be wondered
at that the doeful news of the ‘‘old man’s’
downfall, gave it more of a funeral aspect
than that of a real live convention.
—Lord ROBERTS made a great ado about
the net he was throwing out for the Boers
in South Africa, but after he had the net
so carefully spread he found that there
were no Boers about to get into it. The
plan of catching birds by putting salt on
their tails only works when one can get
close enough to get the salt on, and then
there is no use for if.
—The Ebensburg lover who has sued
his sweet heart for $500 damages for breach
of promise because she left him at the
last moment with a lot of useless presents
and furniture on his hands, that he bad
gotten in anticipation of their marriage, is
very moderate indeed in his claim, but
again he gets through with the lawyers in
his case he will have come to the conclu-
sion that it would have been cheaper to
have hunted up another sweet heart.
—Talk about big feet being a blessing,
Bloomsburg has reason to believe it so.
Recently the town wanted to raise money
for a free library and sent out silk stock-
ings to the residents of the place with the
request that they be returned with twice
as many pennies in them as the size of the
sender’s stockings. While the idea of
dropping dough into the stocking is not
exactly a new one, it certainly proved a
winner for Bloomsburg, where the size of
the feet was so great that the pile of pen-
nies amounted to 19,000.
—HANNA is dead against QUAY, that’s
clear. He was paired against him for ad-
mission to the Senate on Tuesday. It is
not a matter of much surprise, however,
that the Ohio boss should wish to see the
downfall of the Pennsylvania dictator.
Though QUAY owns only a Governor and
HANNA owns a President, yet the over-
weening jealousy of the avaricious pluto-
crat who dominates McKINLEY doubtless
prompted him to stab anyone who could
dare to assume power, other than under
him.
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What Kind of Cattle They Are.
Just now a certain class of Republican
papers are troubling themselves to nosmall
extent to belittle and discredit the ex-
posures that are being made of the dirty
work their party has been doing in Ken-
tucky. They donot know how to be bitter
encugh in denunciations of the promise to
pay for theinformation that will lead to
the conviction of the assassins of Governor
GOEBEL, nor zan they find words to express
their abhorrence of the ‘‘purpose,’” as they
put it, ‘‘to bribe men to swear falsely for
the reward offered.”
Judging from what bas already transpir-
ed, and from the political predictions of
those who have come forward to claim the
reward by telling what they know, it
might prove less of an advertisement of the
shame and treachery of their own partisan
followers, if they had less to say of either
existing conditions or future prospects in
Kentucky.
From beginning to end the trouble in
that State and the disgrace that has grown
out of it is the result of Republican trickery,
Republican rascality and Republican con-
spiracy. From the time the actions of ex-
President CLEVELAND and his Secretary
of State, Mr. CARLISLE, culminated in
dividing the Democracy of Kentucky and
gave hope of making it a Republican State,
no scheme that could be devised ; no rascali-
ty that could be conceived of or no atrocity
that could be perpetrated was overlook-
ed as a resort to keep and fasten that
State in the Republican column. So
far did the infamy of these Repub-
lican efforts go that when fairly and
honestly beaten at the poles they conspir-
ed to assassinate the head of the Democrat-
ic ticket, rather than loose the power they
dreamed of holding. :
The brutal and cold blooded murder of
Governor GOEBEL aroused the country and
the offer of $100,000 for the conviction of
the perpetrators of that awful crime is un-
covering the red-handed wretches who were
the instigators of it; who expected to profit
by it and who, it is now shown, are leading,
active Republicans.
To lessen the effect of the exposure and
to create doubt as to the truthfulness of
the confessions that have heen made the
Republican press of the country has set up
the cry that this testimony is not to be be-
lieved because it is given in the hope of ob-
taining pait of the reward; that it is hired
evidence, unworthy of credence and im-
peaciable because of the character of those
testifying and the motives actuating them.
Even granting that this is true how will
it either help Republicanism in Kentucky,
Jessen the heinousness of their offence, or
condone the crime they have been guilty of
in the eyes of an incensed and decent
public. :
Every man connected with this cowardly
conspiracy was a Republican.
Every man who expected or hoped to prof-
it by it was a Republican.
Every influence that tried to shield its
perpetrators was Republican.
Every voice raised to condone the crime
is Republican.
And now when the prospects of a reward,
either for telling the truth or concocting a
lie, are held out every individual who opens
his mouth to obtain what he can of it isa
Republican.
Whether the confessions already made he
true or false, they are the stories of Repub-
cans only. No Democrat has anything to
say or tell that could entitle him to any
part of the reward. Consequently, if per-
jury is committed it will be Republicans
who commit it. If the lives of innocent
men are sworn away for a price, it will be
Republicans who will be guilty of that
despicable crime.
And if these are the kind of cattle that
Republicanism breeds in Kentucky it
would seem more in place for decent jour-
nalism to denounce them, than to cry out
against the methods that uncover their in-
famy or the rewards that expose their
treachery.
Intelligence as a Qualification.
A most telling commentary on the
character and intelligence of the mass of
Republican voters throughout the South is
furnished by the returns of the late election
in Louisiana. Heretofore that State, while
giving Democratic majorities, has been
claimed as doubtful by Republicans, and
at times has come close to electing the
Republican ticket. Recently its constitu -
tion was changed so as to make an educa-
tional qualification necessary and all per-
sons, whether white or black, who could
not read, were denied the right to vote.
The first election, where intelligence was
made the test of voting, was held on the
17th inst. and the total number of Repub-
licans who were able to vote under the new
requirements was but 17,208. In not a
single district, senatorial or legislative, did
this party of ignorance and illiteracy elect
a single representative. The Senate is
unanimously Democratic, the House is the
same and the Democratic state ticket bad
a majority more than doubling that ever
given before.
So much for practical results in poli-
tics where intelligence is made the qualifi-
cation of the voter.
A Commission That Knows What Its
For.
It is a great opportunity to be placed at
the head of one of Mr. McKINLEY’S com-
missions. Its a ‘“‘fat’’ thing for the fellow
who is after ‘‘fat,”’ and when you get down
to the bottom of all the efforts made, osten-
sibly for the welfare, the glory and the
greatness of the country, you will be pretty
sure to find that that is what the fellow
who is making the most fuss about his
patriotism is after. This has been shown
by the cost and expenditures of every
commission that Mr. McKINLEY has created
and he has made more of them than all the
Presidents who preceded him, and with-
out a single exception the amount of the
cost they have been to the country is out of
all proportion to the work they have done
or benefit they have been.
An exemplification of this is given in the
report of his Commissioner General to the
Paris Exposition. This commission is
headed by a Mr. FERDINAND PECK, of
Chicago, and its members and attachees are
known mostly as ‘‘sons of their fathers.”
They are neither business men nor states-
men, nor are they of the common people,
but all the same, they must be having a
riotously good time if the way they are
getting away with the people’s money
means anything. It was created in No-
vember, 1898, but has been pretending to
be on duty only since January, ’99. It
was required to make report of its ex-
penditures annually and on the 17th of
last November, one year after its creation,
it filed its first statement. For some reason
or other this was kept hidden from the
public until a demand from Congress drew
it out of the President’s pocket a few days
ago. From it we find that $36,245 has
been expended for buildings and furnish-
ings, and $204,388 for salaries and mis-
cellaneous things for the commission.
Using six dollars out of the seven,
that have been appropriated for public
purposes, in salaries and personal ex-
penses is a pretty fair per cent. of
cost for the performance of a public
trust. To expend $204,388 overseeing
the erection and furnishing of a $36,000
house is a reasonably expensive manage-
ment. But it is one of the ways Mr. Me
KINLEY’S commissions have of doing things
—one of the opportunities his favorites are
given to ‘‘fry fat’’ out of the people—and
we presume will continue so long as: the
power is given him to ‘‘govern by com-
mission.”’
Possibly there are people who will think
this kind of profligacy and extravagance is
right. If there are, they know how to con-
tinue it. A continuation of McKINLEY
and HANNA means a continuation of these
kind of opportunites for the few, and just
that much less for everybody else.
——At DuBois last Friday the Republi-
can conferees of the 28th Congressional dis-
trict met and elected Hon. M. L. McQUOWN,
of Clearfield, and Hon. C. A. RANDALL, of
Forest county, as delegates to the National
Convention in Philadelphia. JoHN M.
DALE Esq., of this place was named as one
of the alternates. Strong resolutions in
favor of W. C. ARNOLD for Congressman-at-
Large were passed.
A Little Light Needed on a Doubtfal
Subject.
Strikes continue to be the order of the
day. From every corner of the country,
from near and from far, comes the same
news of inadequately paid and discontented
labor seeking to better its condition by
refusing to work at prices offered. The
latest men to demand better wages and
quit work because of a refusal to get them
were the miners at Congressman CONNELL’S
colliery at Scranton and the moulders at
the Reading stove works, on Tuesday.
These, with the other eight thousand iron
workers who were thrown out of employ-
ment on Monday last by the closing down
of twelve of the furnaces belonging to the
American Steel and Wire Trust, adds al-
most ten thousand more to the great army
of the unemployed. We doubt if ever in
the history of this country there were so
many men striking for living wages as
there are at the present time and yet, in
the face of the struggling starving thous-
ands, we are told that the country is pros-
perous and that labor is in demand.
Surely there is something wrong some-
where. Work is not as plentiful as is rep-
resented, wages are not what they should
be, or working men do not know when
they are well off. It is bardly the latter,
for no one knows the needs and de-
mands of laboring men as they do them-
themselves, and it is not in the nature of
man to accept the hardships and depriva-
tions that strikes are sure to bring in the
face of conditions that promise them a
passable living, at least.
Is our pretended prosperity a sham ? Is
labor being robbed that trusts and monop-
olies may flonrish? Or why the innumerable
and prolonged strikes? Won’t some
one who believes McKINLEYism is a pana-
cea for all our ills explain this matter.
A Tree and Its Fruit.
Te say, as many carelessly do, that there
is no possible chance to defeat the Repub-
lican party of this State this year, is to
cast an aspersion on the integrity of the
people of Pennsylvania. It is true that in
the election of two years ago Governor
STONE had a plurality of nearly 120,000
and the plurality of State Treasurer-elect
BARNETT last fall was not much less.
But STONE had no majority at all and the
majority for BARNETT was less than the
fraudulent vote cast in the city of Phila-
delphia alone. If there had been an hon-
est vote cast and counted fairly in 1898
STONE would not have heen declared elect-
ed and it is doubtful if BARNETT could
have succeeded, under the same circum-
stances.
But there was nothing then but opposi-
tion to Republican principles to influence
men against the Republican candidates.
That 1s to say last year and in most pre-
vious years an honest man ight vote the
Republican ticket without prejudice to his
reputation for honesty. In other words an
honest Republican had as much right to
believe that the candidate of his party
represented honesty of purpose as the mem-
ber of any other party. But revelations
which have since occurred have changed
these conditions entirely. It has been
proved by judicial investigation that the
Republican party of Philadelphia, Pitts-
burg and probably some other cities has
been trained to political corruption to such
an extent that no candidate of the party
has been honestly elected within recent
years.
Under these circumstances a vote for the
Republican ticket this year means a decla-
ration of endorsement of the ballot frauds
and all the other forms of corruption which
have been fostered under Republican ad-
ministration. These crimes are no longer
a matter of conjecture. It cannot be said
that the accusations are campaign lies.
On the contrary the charges are based on
the court records of convictions in some
cases and the confessions implied by be-
coming fugitives from justice in others.
A tree is judged by its fruit and a man by
the company he keeps. A man who votes
for the Republican party is no better than
the record of that party.
1t Is Governor Stone’s Move.
Now that there is unmistakably a vacancy
in the Senate of the United States the peo-
ple will watch with curious interest the
steps Governor STONE will take to meet the
exigency. The fundamental law of the
State says in Article 2, section 4, ‘‘In case
of a vacancy in the office of United States
Senator from this Commonwealth, in a
recess between sessions, the Governor shall
convene the two Houses by proclamation
on notice not exceeding sixty days to fill
the same.” There is nothing equivocal or
uncertain about that. The day after the
adjournment of the Legislature, a year ago,
the Governor appointed QUAY to the office
and pretended to deceive himself into the
belief that there was thereafter, no vacancy.
But he deceived no one else.
The vote of the Senate Wednesday brush-
ed all the cobwebs away from the question
and revealed the fact that there is a vacan-
cy, and the question is ‘‘What will the
Governor do about i6?’’ Tt will be noticed
that the language of the constitution leaves
no option for the Governor. It does not
say ‘‘he may’ convene the two Houses. It
is in the mandatory form and says ‘‘he
shall’? convene them. Failurelto comply
with that plain mandate of the organic law
is a violation, not only, of the provisions of
that instrument, hut of his oath of office.
There is no escape from that proposition.
If he violates the constitution he is guilty
of misfeasance, and subject to impeach-
ment. Which horn of the dilemma will
Governor STONE impale himself on ?
Article VII, section 1, of the constitution
reads as follows: ‘‘Senators and Repre-
sentatives and all judicial, state and coun-
ty officers shall, before entering upon the
duties of their respective offices, take and
subscribe the following oath of affirmation :
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
support, obey and defend the constitution
of the United States and the constitution
of the Commonwealth, and that I will dis-
charge the duties of my office with fidelity.”
If he fails to convene the two Houses in
accordance with the provision of the con-
stitution above quoted he will not be sup-
porting, obeying and defending the con-
stitution. It is up to Governor STONE and
the people are watching.
The Passing of Quay.
The vote of the Senate Tuesday may he
said to have put ex-Senator QUAY out of
the game of politics. He will resist this
plain logic of events, to be sure, but un-
availingly. If he were twenty years
younger. or even if he had the advantage
of the recuperative power which the remov-
al of ten years from his burden of time
would afford, he might be able, bf the
force of audacity and his facility in the
use of devious methods, to restore himself
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to power. But in the absence of those
conditions, denuded as he is of power and
patronage, his future life in politics will
be as precarious as that cf a tramp.
If QuAY’s long service in publie life had
left a single mark of merit, men might
contemplate with something like regret
his sudden but none the less certain exit
from the stage of politics. He began hold-
ing office nearly half a century ago, and
has been “‘on the pay roll” with scarcely
an interruption since. But now that he is
ont he can point to nothing he has achieved
that has directly or indirectly promoted
the interests or conserved the welfare of
his fellow men. His career has been one
of selfishness and treachery. He betrayed
CURTIN in the interest of CAMERON and
sacrificed CAMERON, when further service
for him promised no personal advantage.
But these were not his gravest faults and
when the accounts are balanced, as they
will be now, there will be other charges
that will stand against him in indellible
letters. He has promoted fraud and en-
couraged crime in politics. He has led his
victims on from one excess to another until,
no longer of service to him, he has abandon-
ed them into the jaws of prisons or the in-
hospitable mouths of suicides’ graves.
Hundreds of lives he has ruined and he
has wrecked as many homes. This record
of vice and evil is the return he has given
to the people of his native State for the
honor and emoluments they have bestowed
on him.
Suppression That Don’t Seem to Sup-
press.
From the Press Bulletin.
The Republicans of the State of New
York, in convention assembled last week,
adopted a platform, one feature of which
was the declaration that the insurrection
in the Philippines had been suppressed and
that organized resistance to the authority
of the United States no longer existed.
The newspapers which reported the action
of this convention contained also this news:
Twelve hundred Tagals attacked Case's
battalion headquarters of the Fortieth regi-
ment at Cagayan, Island of Mindanao, on
the 7th. The Americans had fifteen casu-
alties, while of the attacking force fifty were
killed and thirty wounded or taken prison-
ers. Theenemy, numbering 150 riflemen,
the remainder being bolomen, swooped down
in a howling mass at daylight, surprising
and killing three of the sentries. They
swarmed the streets in small parties, some
wearing scaling ladders, by means of which
they attempted to enter the houses.
insurrection appears to be rather'a, curious
one. It is an expensive one, as well, for
only a day or two before the New. York
Republicans, with the aid of the strenuous
Roosevelt, had suppressed the insurrec-
tion, the Adjutant-General of the army is-
sued a statement saying that the troops
now in the Philippines numbered 63,585,
an increase since March 1 of 308. Trans-
ports bearing some 3,000 men are now on
the way thither. These figures do not in-
clude, of course, the navy forces in the
islands. If a suppressed insurrection re-
quires the active service of so many sol-
diers, we may well contemplate with some
apprehension the size of the army which
would be necessitated should the insur-
rection really gain in force. Up to date
and since the happy establishment of
‘‘peace’’ the American casualties in the
Philippines, as reported from Washington,
are as follows, the last report being dated
April 18:
THER. icccisiiciinirurssionsrensiamisaininsticinneecit
Died of wounds, disease and accidents..
73
1,205
Total deaths..........condiiie ceiacsiidiinnnmees y
WONNACH..ccerieirsresserivssssisssresinnsimsioisssininnessases
Total 1088....cv icon inisiiinnivnnsrinnserceiiis ns ditsereinedyt T0
Twin infamies.
From the Rochester (Pa.) Commoner.
This Congress will go down into history
as the most infamous in all history. Two
bills passed by them will be enough to for-
ever discredit them and make them despis-
ed by all Americans. The one is the cur-
rency bill by which Congress surrendered
all control over the currency to the national
banks the other is the Porto Rican bill by
which Congress laid special taxes on Porto
Ricans whose country they annexed and to
whom they promised the liberties which
citizens of the United States enjoy. This
law laying a tariff on Porto Rican products
is in violation of plighted faith and is un-
just and unconstitutional. This Congress
has basely surrendered all considerations of
humanity, of justice and of constitutional
limitations to the money oligarchy of the
country whose spokesman and attorney is
Senator Hanna, William McKinley’s Uriah
Heep.
16 to 1 Shelved as an Issue.
From the Wellsboro Gazette.
The signing of the currency bill hy
President McKinley last week probably
removes the financial question from the
field of active politics for years to come.
It is estimated that the result of the elec-
tions in 1900 and 1902 cannot possibly af-
fect the overwhelming Republican majority
in the United States Senate and that, con-
sequently, no matter which party may be
successful in the elections of these two
years there is no probability of the silver
question being prominent before the presi-
dential election of 1904, if then. The na-
tional campaign of 1900 will be fought out
on other issues.
A Way to Skin Our Own People.
From the Venango Spectator.
Our tariff is for the ‘‘protection’’ of for-
eign consumers, the fleecing of American
consumers, and the benefit of the home
trust grabbers. Just look at it. You can
buy American sewing machines for less
money in London than. in Pittsburg.
American lead sells in London for $3.60
per ewt.; in Pittsburg, it sells for $4.70
per cwb.—yet we keep up a tariff on lead.
We export copper and undersell the world
on copper, yet we put a tariff on it in
order to skin Americans who have to use
it.
The Republican idea of a" suppréssed-
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Shippensburg town council has passed an
ordinance taxing poles in that borough 50
cents each.
—The safes in Taylor's grist mill and
Plankenhorn’s store, at Muncy, Lycoming
county, were blown open and robbed.
—Italians in large numbers have left
Hazleton within the last ten days; at least
five hundred have gone to the bituminous
coal regions of the State. A large batch left
Monday.
—Arrangements have been made for the
pupils of the Soldiers’ Orphan’s Industrial
school, at Scotland, Franklin county, to at-
tend the Grand Army Department encamp-
ment at Gettysburg on June 6th.
—The mystery of the disappearance from
Johnstown of Vincent Moschgat last week
was explained when his body was found on
Monday on a hill above Dale with a bullet
hole in the head and a revolver beside him.
—The McElhattan fishing club, which was
recently drganized, has leased and improved
all the streams on about 1,500 acres of land
at the headwaters of the McElhattan creek.
The club will propagate brook trout and will
_enjoy outings along the streams.
—The special collection for relief of famine
sufferers in India, taken in the First Pres-
byterian Sunday school in Tyrone on Sun-
day amounted to over $100. The money will
be sent direct to Rev. Mr. Goheen to be used
by him, but will not be sent for two or three
days.
—The large sale of oleomargarine, coupled
with the high price of milk cows and of
food, is having such a heavy effect on makers
of genuine butter at Pottstown that they can-
not compete with the oleo manufacturers.
Some of the largest dairymen will discontinue
the business. .
—According to figures furnished by E. W.
Parker, statistician of the United States
Goological Survey, the production of bitumi-
nous coal in Pennsylvania in 1899 was 75,59%,-
554 short tons, against 65,165,133 in 1898. The
production of anthracite in 1899 was 60,320-,
395 short tons, against 53,332,644 in 1898.
—A 5-year-old son of Alexander Meyers,
of Pine Creek, drank a quantity of strong
lye in mistake for cider Saturday and itis
feared that he will die. The child obtained
the cup containing the fiery liquid during
the temporary absence of the mother. Its
throat, tongue and mouth are frightfully
burned, and his sufferings are intense.
—Rev. D. H. Shields, who died at the
Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia Mon-
day, was formerly pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church, at Hazleton. He was until
recently a member of the Central Pennsyl-
vania conference which, at its last annual
session held here in March, dismissed him
because of charges against him as chaplain of
the United States army.
—Carrie Ritter was arrested in Williams-
port Saturday for complicity in the recent
robbery at the residence of J. V. Brown,
president of the Williamsport Water com-
pany. It is claimed the accused woman was
detected wearing a sealskin coat which had
been stolen from the house. The authorities
are in possession of information that will re-
snlt in the arrest of the gang of out of town
crooks. The burglary at the Brown mansion
occurred on the night of February 25th, and
silverware valued at $1,000, and furs worth
$500, were carried away. Mr. Brown has
offered a reward of $600 for the arrest of the
burglars.
—Mrs. John Gallagher, residing in Porter
township, Lycoming county, was nearly kill-
ed during a plucky fight with a fractious
horse Saturday. The woman was holding
an unharnessed horse in front of her home.
Suddenly the animal became frightened. and
began to plunge about the road. Mrs. Galla-
gher clung to the halter strap while the horse
attempted to trample her under its hoofs.
Finally the horse reared and Mrs. Gallagher
was hurled with great violence against a
tree, and fell unconscious. Her arm is brok-
en, and it is feared that she is injured in-
ternally. She sustained many bruises and
cuts about the body.
—A man named R. H. C. Hill, of Balti-
more, was sleeping restlessly in the smoking
car of western express about 2 o'clock Thurs-
day morning at Ryde when he suddenly
arose and walked out on the platform. One
of his fellow passengers noticed that his eyes
were closed and, believing he was walking
in his sleep, hurried after him, bot was too
late. Before the rescuer reached the door
Hill had stepped off the platform. An instant
later a freight train run him down killing
him instantly. Hill’s body was picked up
by a freight crew, taken to Huntingdon and
delivered to the authorities there. He rep-
resented the Dun mercantile agency and
was on his way to Meadville to testify in an
important railroad case.
—Bernard J. McNello, the section foreman
of Renovo, who disappeared last Friday
evening, is still among the missing. It is
now believed that McNello has gone for
good. Last Friday evening be suggested to
his wife that she spend a few hours with
friends. She went to a neighbor's. During
her absence McNello gathered up some clothes
and a few other personal belongings, which
be took with him on his journey. Mr. Mec-
Nello’s family consists of his wife and two
children, who are left absolutely penniless
and dependent upon the charity of the com-
munity. Mr. McNello was section foreman
for about ten years, and received a salary of
$60 per month. He was transferred to Renovo
from the Philadelphia division and was con-
sidered an excellent foreman. He had many
friends in Renovo and was a nominee for
council in the West ward at the recent elec-
tio 1.
—George A. Bender, of Gallitzin, has en-
tered suit against Miss Mary F. Noffsker, for
breach of promise. George says Mary prom-
ised to marry him on the 6th of January,
and he at once proceeded to stick a ring on
her finger to seal the bargain and showered
numerous other presents upon her. On the
24th of March before an alderman the pair
entered into the necessary papers to secure a
license, which came all right then he pur-
chased a lot of household goods, and was all
ready for real business in the matrimonial
line when Mary determined to break the
contract,which she did in very positive terms.
George estimates the damage to his purse and
heart at $500 clean cash, and that is the
amount he sued for. Now if it had been the
woman doing the prosecuting the rent in her
heart alone would have been worth at least.
$5,000. George is real moderate in his
charges,