BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Tt isn’t for a horseless carriage .
That the housewife longs today ; ~
It isn’t a divorceless marriage,
As some of the goo-goos say ;
It isn’t pianos or golf sticks ,
Or wash tubs or for wringers;
But house cleaning time is in its prime,.
And she wants a handful of
hammerless fingers.
—The farmers of Centre county have sur-
vived the harrowing time they had with
their corn ground.
—There is no royal road to success, they
say, but what of the gambler who makes a
specialty of a royal flush.
—The news from South Africa seems to
show that the Boers are in retreat, but it is
not so precipitate that any of them are be-
ing shot in the back.
—Well, well, well! WELLS has resigned
already. This will certainly be well for
the welfare of the dairy and food branch of
the Agricultural Department.
—The seventeen year locusts are adver-
tised for this season, but the Centre county
farmers are not to be scared with this bug-
aboo. Few of them bave enough grain to
make even a light lunch for a seventeen
year locust.
—The Populists now require two nation-
al conventions in order to express them-
selves. Their party has split and the
“Middle of the Roaders’’ are switched
away off on a side track, so the other wing
of the Pops believes.
—On Monday the State Treasury passed
into the control of Col. JAMES E. BARNETT
and it was reported that the balance on
hand was $3,500,000. That might have
been the balance, but were the funds on
hand or had they all heen farmed out to
machine banks?
—They accused State Treasurer JAMES
E. BARNETT, of having gotten ‘‘cold feet’
when he was Lt. Col. of the Tenth and
that gallant regiment was in action. Let
us hope that he won’t get the same com-
plaint and walk off when he has the most
in the treasury pile at Harrisburg.
—With Joe NoBre’s death the ma-
chine’s chances for making false election
returns in the dago districts of Philadel-
phia are seriously crippled. He was a wily
Italian and was a power among the foreign
element in the lower end of that city. His
affiliation with the QUAY faction was suffi-
cient to condemn his political methods.
—The engagement of ALFRED VANDER-
BILT to Miss ELSIE FRENCH has been an-
nounced and when those two interesting
youngsters get ‘‘hitched’’ there will be a
union that will be a gilded one ‘‘for fair.”
He is worth thirty-six million and she will
have ten more to give him. How would
you like to have the job keeping the wolf
from their door?
--The Philadelphia North American has
started after the state hospitals for the in-
sane with the same sharp stick that stirred
up such a nauseating smell in the Agri-
cultural Department. If it keeps on the
atmosphere about the latter will become so
unwholesome as to probably make the
heads of some of the Agricultural Depart-
ments fit subjects for the insane hospitals.
-—With IcNATIUS DONNELLY, of Min-
nesota, on their ticket for President,
and WHARTON BARKER, of Philadel-
phia, for Vice President, the Pops
would have a hard team to handle. We
fear IeaNATIUS would take the bit in his
mouth and run clear away from PFEFFER,
JERRY SIMPSON, MARY ELLEN LEASE and
all the other tallow-dips that furnish lu-
mincsity and guiding light to the populistic
propaganda.
—The mischievous youngster who filled
a companion full of compressed air at
CrAMP’S ship yards in Philadelphia, on
Wednesday, thereby causing his death, un-
wittingly revealed to the world a great fact.
“ Under the light of this singular fatality it
is apparent that some men are ‘‘hlowing
off’’ all the time as a matter of self preser-
vation. It is probably not (?) because
they like to blow so much as on account of
the instinctive knowledge they have that
they would meet the fate of this poor lad
were they to keep their mouths shut.
—The American navy officer who has in-
vented a shell that will easily pierce a 14
inch Harveyized armor plate has made a
fortune for himself, not to mention the cost
of new armor for all battle ships. The 14
inch Harveyized plate was the best known,
but now it is as weak as the worst, because
it is penetrable by the new projectile.
What a lovely thing it would be if some
one would only invent some kind of a shell
that would send bullets of public indigna-
tion through the HANNAized brass plate
that surrounds the present administration.
—With the helpless human beings dying
like flies in India and brave soldiers being
mowed down like grass before the cycle in
South Africa England had better throw a
few spasms of commiseration in those di-
rections, instead of tearing her great big (?)
heart asunder over the Ottawa fire. In the
latter disaster six people were killed, a
thousand or more rendered homeless and
quite a considerable sum of money lost.
But what is that in comparison to the mil-
lions who are starving in India and the
thousands of widows and orphans this at-
tempt to kill a struggling Republic in
South Africa has made? If your sympa-
thy goes out at all JoHN BULL, let it go
where it is needed most. Don’t let your
eyes become so blinded with tears for Ot-
tawa that you can’t see India or the Vaal.
“VOL. 45 ; /
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Ly PA,
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An Opportunity to Show Its Honesty.
Now that the delinquencies of the Re-
publican state adininistration, in failing to
enforce the anti-oleomargarine laws, have
been exposed by the North American, the
organ of that administration—the Phila-
|| delphia Inquirer—comes to the front in
great style demanding the prosecution of
those who have been caught in violating
the law. In its estimation there can be no
courts too swift in the prosecution or no
punishment too severe for the frauds that
have been uncovered.
Unfortunately for the Inquirei’s preten-
ded abhorrence for the crimes committed, it
has failed to discern that the real culprits
in this dirty work of palming off cotton-
seed grease as pure butter are the agents of
the Republican state administration. It is
either blind to this fact or over-locks it
entirely, and until it has the honesty
of purpese to demand their removal and
punishment the public can have but little
confidence in its professed indignation or
demands for justice.
This work of cheating the people, and at
the same time robbing the farmers through
fraudulent competition, has been going on
a long time. There are a score or more of
Republican officials who are paid good
salaries to protect and prevent just such
violations of law. It is what the pure food
bureau of the Agricultural Department was
organized and paid for doing. It is what
Secretary HAMILTON and those under him
are expected, and paid, to prevent. But
much as these Republican officials are paid,
and great as their expenses have been to
the State, in not a single instance have they
detected any wrong and at no time has any
one ever heard of them attempting to pre-
vent any of the violations of law that are
now shown to have heen as plentiful as are
Republican promises of reform before elec-
tions. In every instance these flaunters of
the Quay flag and drawers of unearned
salaries have proven themselves either base-
ly corrupt or ignorantly inefficient.
It is to these men, and the necessity of
dealing with them as worthless or corrupt
officials sheuld be dealt with, that the In-
quirer should turn its attention. The
courts will ‘take care of the other fellows.
They are in tlie hands now of the powers
that are constituted to punish for the mis-
deeds they have committed, and it won't
take outside influence or exertion to have
that punishment inflicted. But there is
some influence and honesty needed in rid-
ding the State of a lot of worthless, over-
paid ring officials, who, if not in actual
conspiracy with the oleomargarine syndi-
cate, are either too dumb to know what
they are hired for or too negligent to re-
port a wrong if some one was to call their
attention to it. :
In getting rid of these men and in saving
the State the disgrace their incompetency
is fastening upon it, as well as the salaries
they are drawing, this organ of the QUAY
administration can do great work. Its ad-
vise to Governor STONE will go much farch-
er than will its demands on the courts. If
it is in earnest in this matter it will sug-
gest in the most positive manner that every
one of the parties connected with this de-
partment, and who are in anyway responsi-
ble for the crookedness that has been going
on or the inefficiency that has been mani-
fested, be given a ticket of leave at once.
This would be taking the public teat
out of the mouth of many a QUAY squealer,
but it would do more to stay the stench
this oleomargarine exposition has made
than all the howling that can be dons about
the duty of the courts or all the punish-
ment that can be meted out to the dealers
in cotton-seed butter.
The Right Time to Blow.
Republican papers are making great ado
about the big balance they now report as
being in the State Treasury. $6,000,000,
we believe, is the amount they claim to have
on hand. Possibly if they will take into
consideration the income the State has to
fall back upon, the excessive taxation that
is imposed on everything taxable for state
purposes, and then remember how they
have robbed the school fund; starved the
public charities; crippled and crowded the
state asylums; closed public hospitals and
left uncompleted the disgraceful looking
barracks that is called the State Capitol,
they will not feel like crowing so loudly
over the accummulations in the Treasury.
The truth is that the State has been at no
expense for the past year except the beg-
garly amounts paid out to charities, and
the salaries and expenditures of its ring
officials. The fight in the last Legis-
lature among the Republican theives
prevented either gang getting away
with the State’s money, and the re-
sult is the Treasury now promises
the richest kind of stealings for those
who can handle and control its accumula-
tions. It is well, however, that whatever
blow is to be made about the amount of
money on hand be done now. A new Legis-
lature will soon convene. The chances are
great that it will be Republican, If it is,
the whole big sum now get-at-able will
vanish, as does a stack of fodder before a
Kansas cyclone.
Plainer Than Day-Light.
It is a very black eye that Judge LocH-
REN’S decision, in the ORTIZ habeas corpus
case, gave to Mr. McKINLEY’S doctrine of
governmental authority outside of the con-
stitution. In rendering it that eminent
jurist said he
* % % * “Considered Porto Rico territory of
the United States and subject to the constitution
the minute it came under the control of this gov-
ernment. Unless the constitution extended to Porto
Rico in advance of action by Congress, Congress
would have no power to legislate for the island at all,
because it has no authority to legislate for any except
territory to which the constitution has extended.”
Just how Mr. McKINLEY, or his adve-
cates, will meet a decision of this kind and
show that Congress has a right to legislate
for territory outside of that to which our
constitution extends, is a matter for him or
them to explain.
How any man can believe that a Presi-
dent has a right to use the power of the
constitution to raise armies, appropriate
money and carry on a war, to acquire terri-
tory and then claim that the government
of that territory is not subject to the re-
strictions, or entitled to the privileges, pro-
vided by that constitution, is a matter that
we cannot understand.
But it is easy to know why Mr. McKIN-
LEY and the syndicates that are backing
him want to govern Porto Rico, and other
territories acquired by the war with Spain,
outside of the constitution. In that in-
strument there are restrictions as to patron-
age and prohibitions as to the grants of
power. It is to evade these that they
would have different governments for dif-
ferent territories belonging to the United
States.
Outside of the constitution they can
make the patronage what they please. It
is this that Mr. HANNA'S President is af-
ter. With patronage unlimited he can
feed, at public expense the, party heelers
whose fealty follows the party flesh-pots,
and whose services are only to be had when
there are prospects of pay ahead. Mr. Me-
KINLEY needs these heelers. It is to make
places for them, in order to secure their
services to retain him in power, that the
out-lying dependencies that have been sad-
dled upon the United States, are to be gov-
erned outside of the constitution.
And then outside of the constitution
there are no restrictions as to franchises or
no limits as to privileges that can be grant-
ed. McKINLEY wants the patronage to
continue his power. HANA wants the
franchises and the opportunities they offer,
that he may organize syndicates and benefit
by the extraordinary privileges they can
enjoy. It is to rob the people, do the busi-
ness of the country and pocket the profits
that Mr. HANNA is after, and outside the
constitution this can be done much more
effectively and safely than under it.
Its easy for a blind man to see what Mr.
McKINLEY and his man behind the throne
are after.
How the Political Wind Blows.
The local elections which were held in
Indiana on Wednesday of last week don’t
present that hopeful promise to Republi-
cans that causes them to rejoice. In fact
they are regular wet blankets on the burn-
ing enthusiasm of the followers of HANNA,
imperialism and trusts. :
In nearly every city in which partisan
contests were made returns showed uni-
versal Democratic gains and, in some, sur-
prisingly large ones. Anderson, the home
of the present Republican candidate for
Governor, ranged itself on the side of the
Democracy for the first time since it be-
came a city. Many other important places
did the same. The labor vote was cast al-
most solid for the Democrats, and among
the farmers the sentiment and voting was
decidedly against the Republicans.
There is no question as to which way the
wind is Flowing out in the Hoosier State,
and if it keeps on increasing as it has been
doing the last few months, November will
see such a cyclone that there will be noth-
ing left of the Republican party but the
recollection of its rottenness and the heri-
tage of its efforts to establish imperialism
and benefit trusts.
A Real Business Boomer (2)
Business may, as it is asserted, ‘‘follow
the flag’’ but in some instances, it evident-
ly goes, like the legless soldier, on crutches.
At least this is the way it seems to he fol-
lowing “‘old glory’’ out in the Philippines.
In April all our revenues from every source
in that far away land amounted to $831,-
255.50. This seems like a big sum and as
if a rattling business was rushing after the
flag out there. And soit is if we consider
the business that must be done to keep this
flag following business going. To collect
the $831,255.50 of revenue stated it cost us
"just $30,000,000.00 or when we come to fig-
ureup results we find we are out just $29 ,-
"168,744.60 in this transaction.
At this rate ‘‘following the flag’ is a
business boomer at both ends. If it fails to
make business that has profit in it for the
people, it at least gives promise of furnish-
ing a flourishing and long continued pros-
perity to both tax collector and sheriff.
MAY 11. 1900.
Should Make Judas Envious.
How poor old JupAs would curse the
fates that he lived at a time when treach-
ery rated at only thirty pieces of silver, if
he knew what work of that kind brings
in these days of Republican trials and
tribulations. One would scarcely give
credence to it, but itis given out as a posi-
tive fact that the failure of ex-Senator
QUAY to secure his seat in the Senate was
not in consequence of the unconstiutional-
ity of his appointment, or senatorial prec-
edents in such cases, but because of the
amount of cold cash promised the McKiN-
LEY campaign fund in case of his rejec-
tion.
$250,000 is the sum said to have been
pledged.
This fully accounts for Mr. HANNA'S ac-
tion. When it comes toa question between
cash and manliness or friendship every one
knows on which side to look for HANNA.
It is the ‘‘real thing’’ that he is after all
the time, and as $250,000 will go farther
towards re-electing McKINLEY than the
seating of QuAY would have done, it is
easy now to understand some actions that
were considerable of a mystery a few
weeks ago.
For the *‘old man’’ this knowledge that
his party had been trafficking in his hopes
and expectations—has sold his opportuni-
ties and official position for a price—must
be a pretty bitter dose. After what he
has done for, the risks he has taken, and
the extent he has gone to secure Repub-
lican success to waken up now and discov-
er that the controllers of that party, and
those reaping the rewards his efforts have
made possible, have sold him out for the
cash to continue themselves in office, must
be a bitterness compared to which gall
weuld be sweet.
Mr. QUAY may not be worth what $250,-
000 will be to the McKINLEY out-fit in the
coming campaign, but a word from him to
the “faithful” in Pennsylvania would re-
quire Mr. HANNA, who sold him out, to
expend every cent he got for his treachery
to hold this Srate in line for his protector
of trusts and his grabber for imperialistic
power.
"There was a hanging after JUDAS com-
pleted his job.
Will there be a political hanging as a
result of this betrayal-?
Farmers on Whom Sympathy is Wasted.
It is only a few months since Governor
STONE was speaking out boldly in favor of
trusts. Of late he has heen turning his at-
tention to the protection of dealers of oleo-
margarine. He must be a thick headed
farmer, indeed, who cannot see the way he
is being robbed by exorbitant prices he is
compelled to pay for everything that trusts
manufacture; and only a man with a head
like a pumpkin would be unable to
understand and appreciate the great wrong
that the sale of oleomargarine as butter
does to the butter makers of the country.
And yet the farmers of the State, to a
very large extent,go on voting the Republi-
can ticket while Republican leaders and
Republican office holders go on advocating
the interests of monopolies, and the prot ec-
tion of syndicates, organized especially to
rob them with high prices for the necessar-
ies they have to purchase and by forcing
down the prices, by unfair competition, of
such products as they have for sale.
If there is any set of men on GocG’s green
earth upon whom sympathy is wasted it is
the fool farmer, who, knowing he is fleeced
| and who is fleecing him, sticks to his Re-
publican politics, notwithstanding the fact
that Republican laws and Republican offi-
cials are the guilty powers, and the forces
whose influences and efforts are with those
who are dead against him.
That they are against him has been ex-
emplified so often that it is like repeating
an old song to refer to this fact. The bold-
ness ° whi... Governor STONE defends
trusts and the manner in which his Secre-
tary of Agriculture, Mr. HAMILTON, allow-
ed full swing to the illegal work of the
oleomargarine syndicate only emphasizes
their efforts in this line, and leaves the
farmer no excuse for sticking to the party
of his enemies.
——The fact that the Philadelphia Press
of Sunday last claims thirty seven of the
sixty nine Republicans already nominated
for the Legislature, as independents or he-
longing to the anti-QUAvYites,don’t make 1t
80, by a long slide. Nor does the editorial
course of that paper in belittling the an-
thority of a party caucus go to show that it
has faith in its own figures. If there was
any hope of the anti-QUAY portion of the
Republican party nominating and electing
a majority of the Republican members of the
next Legislature every mother’s son of them
would be advocating caucus rule, and the
fellow who expressed any doubt about its
binding authority would be denounced by
them just as they are being denounced now
by those who wear the boss’ collar. In
opposing QUAY the Press is right, but in
doing so it might as well show a little con-
sistency between its statements and its
general political policy.
NO. 19.
A Lesson for Riphbtiean & Farmers.
For many years, or,in fact, ever since the
protective system was devised to feed and
fatten one class of citizens at the expense of
another, Republicans have insisted that it
was the seller and not the buyer who paid
the tariff. Their contention has been that
it was the foreigner whose goods were im-
ported that paid the duties imposed, and
that it was out of his pocket that this tax
came.
Tens of thousands of Republicans, and
particularly Republican farmers, believed
this falacy, and still believe it. Because
they do is reason for them now to see the
great injustice that the Republican tariff
for Porto Rico does them. They are
in the same position towards Porto
Rico that European manufacturers are
towards us. If it is the seller, and not
the buyer, who pays the tariff then, under
Mr. McKINLEY’S new hill, the farmers of
this country will have to pay 2} cents on
every bushel of corn; 3 cents on every
bushel of corn meal ; 2} cents on every
bushel of oats; 10 cents on every bushel of
beans; 1} mills on each pound of oat meal ;
3 mills on each pound of dried apples ; 1}
mills on each pound of candles; 3 mills on
each pound of lard ; 6 mills on each pound
of butter and 3 mills on each pound of
soap, shipped from the United States to
Porto Rico.
It will be seen that there is not much
that the farmer raises or has to sell that he
will not have to pay a tax on before he can
dispose of it in the new market that this
new possession was to open up for us, if
this Republican doctrine is correct.
That it is correct, of course Republicans
will insist, and if it is, it is for them to ex-
plain the injustice to American farmers
that Mr. McKINLEY’s Porto Rican tariff
bill imposes.
——The Honorable Court and the editor
of the Gazette are friends again;at least they
went out fishing in the same carriage on
Friday. Who saw them kiss and make up?
A Five Thousand Salary and a Pen=-
sion Beside.
From the Genius of Liberty.
Here and there a particulary rabid Re-}
publican editor now and then points out
that one of the awful dangers to follow
national Democratic supremacy in the pen-
sioning of Confederate officers and privates.
Now, Tow and behold you, Senator Gal-
linger, of New Hampshire, Republican, has
introduced a bill to pension at $50 a
month General Longstreet, who was one of
the Confederacy’s ablest captains. Service
in the Mexican war is given as the ground
for the pension, but that does not alter the
fact that Longstreet was a rebel. Jeff
Davis could have gotten a pension on the
same ground. We fail to see, at present
anyhow, that Longstreet is in any need of
a pension. As a railway commissioner he
is drawing a salary of $5,000 a year from
his country, and has been doing so for
some time. The Republicans have al-
ways taken good care of him since the
war.
Terror Now Reigns in the Philippines.
Former Vice Consul Wildman Contradicts Otis’
Statement That War is Over.
NEw York, May 6.—Edwin Wildman,
former Vice Consul at Hong Kong, contrib-
utes ‘an article on ““A Reign of Terror in
the Philippines’ to ILeslie’s Weekly, of
which the following is an abstract :
‘Although General Otis would bave us
believe that the war in the Philippines is
over, I learn from private sources of infor-
mation of the highest authority that there
exists a veritable reign of terror in most
parts of the archipelago within a gunshot
from our army posts. Either General Otis
is blind to the situation or is keeping the
real facts from the American people.
Aguinaldo’s forces have scattered into
marauding bands and, leaguing them-
selves with the mountain Tulisanes and
Ladrones, terrorize the country and effect-
ually check the cultivation of cropsand the
sale of marketable products.
TREASURY REPLENISHED.
“The few ports that have been opened
have shipped away what little supply they
contained, and the tons upon tons of hemp
sugar and rice that are stored in the interi-
or are beyond the reach of buyers. The
money paid for the thousands of bales of
hemp shipped from garrisoned ports has
found its way into the insurgents coffers,
and the revolutionary juntas at Hong
Kong and Singapore are making extensive
purchases of arms, preparatory to a renew-
ed season of filibustering and general hos-
tilities as soon as the rainy season is over.
Our army are busy protecting their posts,
while the insurgents carry on their opera-
tions in the interior and paralyze agricul-
ture and trade.
“Scattered bands of armed insurgents
wage war against all who hesitate to support
the Aguinaldo government, and the inhabi-
tants are in a state of terror that prevents
honest industry or open alliance with
American sovereignty. The American
troops makeshort work of these robbers,
but our garrisons are so far apart and so
few in numbers that they invariably are
obliged to fall hack to a seaport town
where they can get supplies from Manila,
for the insurgents have so.thoroughl y ravag-
ed the country that it is impossible to
supply even a small battalion with native
products.
‘If we ever hope to put an end to this
Indian warfare we must send additional
forces to the islands. Our present corps is
totally inadequate to cope with the situa-
tion and bring the war to a close. The
islands, commercially or otherwise, will
be utterly useless until life and property
are made safe.”
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Newport Ledger ‘says shad fishing
continues with good catches. There have been
upwards of 600 caught at the several fisheries
already this season. Very few roe fish have
been caught.
—A. B. Wright shot a fine specimen of
eagle along Loyalsock creek, several miles
above Montoursville. The bird measures six
feet from tip to tip of wings. It was bought
by a Williamsport gentleman who will have
it mounted.
—A 14-year old daughter of James Young,
of Clearfield, was severely burned Thursday
afternoon while burning brush in the back
yard. Her screams brought assistance, and
when the fire was smothered out of her
clothing it was found that she was severely
burned. She has since lain ina precarious
condition, and it is not thought she will re-
cover.
—PForest fires completely consumed the
fences surrounding St. Mary’s Slavish and
St. Joseph’s Lithuanian cemeteries Tuesday,
despite the cfforts of several men to prevent
it. The fences once away the flames leaped
across the yard from grave to grave destroy-
ing headboards, crosses and other emblems
erected over the dead. Many granite stones
were also badly damaged.
—The barn owned by Wm. App, near
Muncy, was destroyed by an incendiary fire
Thursday night. Just before the blaze was
discovered a man was detected running
away from the structure. A horse, 100
chickens, thirteen hogs and several cows
perished. Several dwelling houses in the
vicinity were saved with great difficulty, as
a high wind was blowing.
—A destructive fire occurred at Acme,
Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland
county, Friday night, by which the large
steam flouring mill of J. C. Brown & Co.,
was burned to the ground, entailing a loss of
$10,000 or $12,000, upon which there is said
to have been $8,000 insurance. A frame
blacksmith and machine shop owned by the
Acme Coal company, situated nearby, was
also consumed.
—Eric Nelson, a disreputable Swede, was
shot and instantly killed near Dubois on
Thursday, while entering the farm house of
John K. Siple. Mr. Siple was away from
home and Mrs. Siple, hearing the noise
made by Nelson in forcing an entrance, call-
ed to her brother-in-law, Albert Siple, who
rushed down stairs and shot the intruder
through the heart. The coroner’s jury com-
pletely exonerated Siple.
—Haneyville and vicinity had an old
fashioned snow storm Friday afternoon—
May 4th. It began snowing about 3 o'clock
and continued steadily until after 7. The
snow melted as fast as it struck the ground.
The flakes were very large and during the
prevalence of the storm it was very dark.
Passengers who came east on the Beech
Creek road Saturday state that there were
snow squalls at different places in Clearfield
county.
——The opinion prevails that Sheets and
Walker, who recently escaped from the
Somerset jail, are thousands of miles away
by this time, and many people who are op-
posed to capital punishment, and others who
have been shocked at the morbid curiosity
manifested by thousands upon the occasion
of the execution of the Nicely boys, the
Roddy boys, and Meyers, express the hope
that they will never be captured. Up to
this time the commissioners have not offered
a reward for the capture of Sheets.
—A reunion of the Schell family was held
at Schellsburg, Bedford county, Tuesday of
last week, in the old log church, built in
1806 by John Schell, who settled there in
1800. The reunion was in charge of ex-Au-
ditor General Wim. P. Schell, aud many de-
scendants from a distance were present.
The Schell family is prominent in the his-
tory of Bedford county, members of it hav-
ing held many state and county offices, as
well as important positions in the Mexican
and civil was.
—At Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, ‘ast
Thursday, Charles, the 2-year-old son of L.
A. Stonebraker, followed his mother to the
rear of the lot, where several hogs were kept
The child reached in through the siats to
pat the pigs. One vicious hog grabbed the
child’s hand between its jaws and began
chewing it. The boy's screams hurried the
mother to the pen. She was compelled to
beat the hog before it would release the
child’s hand. The little fellow’s hand and
wrist were frightfully lacerated. The
wounds were cauterized by a physician.
—Rev. Dr. Hunter, a minister of Williams-
port, was one of the passengers on the train
that collided with a freight near Viaduct on
the Beech Creek road. The reverend gen-
tleman was thrown violently against a seat in
front when the crash came, striking his neck
and since then he has been so hoarse at
times as to be unable to speak above a whis-
per. He is otherwise injured and bruised,
and is suffering from nervous prostration.
The doctor is somewhat uneasy over his con-
dition, fearing that the injury to his vocal
organs may be permanent, and that he will
never recover his voice.
—While Sophie Elsasser, aged 6 years, was
watching the erection of the tents for the
Forepaugh and Sells circus at Williamsport,
Friday morning, a gust of wind blew over
several of the big poles supporting the side
show banners, and one of them struck the
child on the head. With an agonizing
shriek the child sank to the ground under
the heavy weight. She was picked up and
carried into a tent. An examination reveal-
ed that her skull was fractured and that her
chest was crushed in. Afterwards she was
taken to a residence where she died about 2
hours later. The circus people voluntarily
gave her parents $500.
—OQliver L. Stewart, who was recently de-
clared the choice of the Huntingdon county
Republicans for Senator in the Thirty-third
district, met with an accident Thursday
afternoon which resulted in his almost in-
stant death. Besides being a leading clothi-
er of Huntingdon, Mr. Stewart had large
interests in the Malleable Iron Works, and
it was in the plant of the latter concern that
he met death. While watching the opera-
tiops of a new emery wheel, eighteen inches
in diameter, the wheel suddenly burst into
three parts, and one of the pieces struck Mr.
Stewart squarely in the breast. An artery
leading from the heart was severed, and Mr.
Stewart, after a step or two, fell and died
surrounded by shopmen.
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