Demorraiic Watchman, BY P. GRAY MEEK. I Ink Slings. —During the last few days most anyone would like to have been the iceman. —SousaA and his band are making quite a hit in Paris. We presume they are doing a good hit of blowing about it too. —TIt is indeed the irony of fate that often forces the fellow who is loudest in his con- demnation of trusts to ask for it most. : —The summer girl now dazzles her friends with the startling exhibits of how she has succeeded in getting a gown out of nothing. — The ‘‘eastern politicians’’ who are “talking about nominating CLEVELAND and DEWEY” at the Kansas city conven- tion had * better arrange it so that the cart won’t be before the horse. —The job of a Methodist Bishop must be a good one; judging from the number of candidates there are for the two positions that are to be filled by the Conference now in session in Chicago. —New York ‘‘sassiety’’ is becoming so effete that we are alarmed for its fature. The *‘apper crust’ will find, when its too late, that the edict against the babies as unfashionable is too much shortening for it. —CORBETT is out with an interrogatory to the public to ascertain why he ‘‘might not run for Congress as well as any other man.”’ All right, JIMMY, let er go. They say you're the fleetest thing afoot in a prize ring and you ought to make a good run- ner. —KELLY was the shooting star in the Pop convention at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He thought he was running the whole thing until the other delegates threatened to throw him out, and then he realized that he was running it, like KELLY was. —Senator CLARK, of Montana, seems to be after all the advertising he can get. On Tuesday he resigned his seat in the Senate, but the echo of his doleful departing words had scarcely died out in the galleries ere the tick of the telegraph instrument begun to announce that the Governor of Moncana had reappointed him to the Senate. —A large consignment of Delaware shad eggs were shipped to Ireland on the Ocean- ic yesterday. They are to be planted in the Irish river. Itis purely an experiment. It remains to be seen whether the roe that rode over in a boat that wasn’t rowed will ever be caught riding in an Irish fish mon- ger’s cart on the rocky road to Dublin. —J13 CORBETT had been known among sporting men as a ‘‘dead one’’ up to the go he had with the world’s champion bruiser J1M JEFFRIES last week. But like a terra- pin that is being cooked alive ‘‘Pompa- dour,” ‘Gentleman,’ ‘Actor’ JIM wig- gled and danced about the ring for twenty three rounds before he finally succumbed to the new chef of fistina. —The Lycoming jailers who are making an aciobat out of murderer HUMMEL, un- der the pretext of building him up physic- ally for his execution on June 5th, might do something that would be of greater future use to the unrepentent wretch if they would carry these circus specialties a bit further and teach him to eat fire and jump the blazing rope. —Reports are conflicting as to whether Mafeking has fallen. The English say BADEN-POWELL is still holding out, while the Boers say they have captured the gar- rison. At all events the English soldiers who have been starving there for months won’t be very fat picking for the Dutch. The last we heard of them they were din- ing on saddle of old mule and curry of locusts. —The up the State girl who wouldn’t marry her bow-legged lover until he had undergone the painful operation of having the crooked limbs broken and reset, so that they were straight when well again, had an eye for convenience. She didn’t want to have to runaround with a table leaf or some other contrivance to keep her from falling through every time she felt like sit- ting on his lap. —It may well be asked what have the Cubans gained by cutting loose from Spain and throwing themselves on the mercy of the United States. According to the Cuban officials, themselves, no such a mis- appropriation of funds ever occurred under the most extravagant of Spanish officials as has been discovered in the postal regu- lations of the island under Director Gen- eral of Posts RATHBONE, one of McKIN- LEY’S favorites. —Talking about high priced pieces that statue of MAUD ADAMS that was shipped to the Paris Exposition on Tuesday was ahout the costliest we have heard of for some time. It was of solid gold and car- icatured MAUDE as the ideal American girl. ‘While all are not as beautiful as she, or so much of an artist in their lines, yet the girls of America are quite good enough to be symbolized in a golden statue, for they are gilt edged indeed. —The Boer women and children are be- ing lauded to the skies because they are running the farms, while their husbands and fathers are fighting for their liberty. They are indeed to be praised, but what of the thousands of American women who have been’ running everything, since the day they were married, so that their hus- bands can sit on a store-box and whittle or loaf on a street corner and talk about the poor, down trodden laboring man? \ Temaeralic TRO il STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 45 BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 18. 1900. NO. 20. A Few Plain Facts for the Farmer. What makes prosperity for the farmer is good crops, a fair price for them and rea- sonable rates for the implements he is com- pelled to have and for other articles he has to purchase. With the growing of good crops no ad- ministration has anything to do. But with making the price, or rather with creating a demand that secures a fair price, govern- mental policies can go a great way,although the scarcity or fullness of European crops has always to be considered in this con- nection. With the rates the farmer has to pay for such implements, machinery and necessaries as he must have the govern- ment he lives under has much to do. Remembering these basic facts, farmers must wonder at the gall of those who are continuously prating about the prosperity under the present Republican administra- tion. During the month of May, 1896, under Democratic administration wheat was sell- ing at 70 cents; rye at 40; corn at 37; oats at 20; barley at 30; buckwheat at 40 and clover seed, according to quality, from $4.00 to $6.00 per bushel. At this time there were neither short crops nor famine in any part of Europe, nor was there war in any country to add to the ordinary demand for our cereals. Now we have all of these. A famine, such as has never decimated any land ex- tending over the greater part of India from which source much of the bread-stuffs of European countries were formerly pro- cured; an almost total failure of crops throughout other sections of the Old World; a prospect of short crops here at home; war in the Philippines and war in South Africa, all adding to the demand for that which our farmers have for sale, and each adding addition reasons why our wheat and other grain should command a better price than they do. And yet with all these reasons why farmers should be getting more now, for the products of the farm under a Repub- lican administration, than they did for the same products during the last year of Mr. CLEVELAND'S control they are getting less for some and hut little more for oth- ers. At present wheat is bringing 70 cents; rye 40; corn 46; oats 28; barley 40; buck- wheat 25, and cloverseed from $4.00 to $6.00 per bushel. A less average than was paid for farm products in 1896, when there was neither famine nor a shortage of crops in Europe to create a demand or wars to lessen produc- tion and turn men from being producers into consumers. In these figures and in the opportunities conditions in Europe have given him it can easily be seen what Mr. McKINLEY and his administration has done in the way of making the American farmer prosperous by aiding him to secure good prices. On the other hand, under this adminis- tration that has failed to add a penny to the value of any product a farmer has for sale if he has to purchase a reaper, a mower, a plow, a harrow, a cultivator, a fork, a shovel or any of the multitudinous im- plements he is required to have he is com- pelled to pay from one dollar and a-half to two dollars and a-half for what each dol- lar would have bought in 1896. If new shoes are needed on his horses he must pay forty per cent. more for them than he did then. If wire is needed for fencing it costs him one hundred and twenty-seven per cent. more than it did in 1896. If he needs a stove, a skillet or an iron pan, it will cost him forty per cent. more than then. If his wagon needs new tires he must pay a hundred and sixteen per cent advance. If he needs bolts or burs or rails they cost him one hundred and fifty per cent. more now than then, and so on through the long list of all his needs. For everything he needs to till his soil, gather, house and market his crops, as well as for everything he and his family uses and that he must purchase, he must now pay almost double, and, in some instances, more than double what he paid in 1896. It is in thisincrease in the prices of those things he has to buy that governmental in- fluences and governmental action are ap- parent. Nine tenths of the implements or articles he has to purchase are the products of trusts. These monopolies, the administration of Mr. McKiNLEY has given birth to as rapidly as a rabbit increases her young. His policy has built them up by scores in every State and has placed al- most every industry in the country under their selfish control. The Republican tariff —Lknown better as the DINGLEY bill—was created specially to protect their interests and to prevent competition in the articles they manufacture. Without competition and with protection they can charge what they please and the farmer must pay it. He may think the price very high; he may swear a little and growl much but he must pay what they demand, because he must have what he needs, and he can find it nowhere else, for these trusts have crushed competition and Mr. McKINLEY’S policy has been to protect the trusts. With the same prices paid in 1896 for such products as he has for sale, and with doubled prices for everything that trusts manufacture and place on the market, he must be a fool farmer, indeed, who cannot see what interests the McKINLEY admin- istration has made prosperous. The Beginning. The fruits of Mr. McKINLEY’S colonial policy are beginning to ripen. There will be a regular harvest of them to gather, later on, when all the fields are properly tilled, and the crop is ready for the garner. The first ripening is down in Cuba. Last week one of the colonial officials, a fellow by name of NEELY, whom Mr. Me- KINLEY had planted down there to grow a good salary and take charge of postal matters in and about Havana, was found with his pockets bulging out with public money, and he has since left that country to enjoy the fruits of his thieving. This week they have, by accident, discov- vered a shortage in the accounts of another of Mr. McKINLEY’S appointees—EUSTIS G. RATHBONE—who was made high muck-a- muck of all post office matters under the title of Director of Posts. He hasn’t been in the position long, but the little while he has been *‘Director’’, he has directed things in such a way that Cuba is now fuller of post offices, examiners, inspectors, auditors overseers, detectives, ete, than Philadelphia is of Republican ballot hox stuffers and re- peaters. The salaries of all of them have been increased, time and again, until the expenses of running the Department have become enormous. RATHBONE lived high, as colonial officials are given to living. He had a salary of $6,500 a year. The government furnished him a house free. His horses eat out of the public crib ; the wear and tear of his carriages were made good at public ex- pense. His dinners and receptions, his flowers and wines were paid for out of public moneys, and his own and his fami- ly’s clothes were settled for out of the funds of the Post Office Department. This is a fine illustration of the oppor- tunities of the colonial system. And it is but one of the many that Mr. McKINLEY has planted. When the crop ripens properly, in all the different departments of the many colonial fields they are now working, there will be no calculating the harvest that they will gather in. But it is a system we have adopted un- der the blessed rule of Mr. HANNA'S man, and when Porto Rico, Havana, Hawaii, the Sulus, Philippines and other islands that have been seized, in order to make places for Republican officials, send in their re- turns we will begin to realize what a crop of rascals we have, and how we can dis- count Spain, among other countries on the globe, in robbing the people through public officers. Another Opportunity for Expansion. Here's another chance for expansion and the power to plant a colonial government. Palmerstien island is a small speck of land midway between the islands of Tahiti and Samoa. It is seldom visited, except by traders from Baratouga, and as its trade amounts to but little they den’t go there often. Last week a vessel that had gotten out of its way passed close enough to see signs of distress and, upon making inquiry, discovered that what little population was left was starving. The drouth of last sea- son killed the cocoanut trees and shriveled up everything else. The owner, EBHER WILLIAMS, died of starvation, and the few people left are in a condition to conquer or annex without much trouble. Mr. McKINLEY should have this new found land—should expand to take it in—which could be accomplished al- most without exertion. It might not be much when he would get it but it would furnish an excuse for another commission to examine and report upon it; for the es- tablishment of another colonial govern- ment, for offices by the score and in the end for stealings that might prove at least fair- ly profitable. This is an opportunity that Mr. HANNA should not allow to be over-looked. A Judge With a Job on Hand. The days of strikes are here again and with them the days of government by in- junction. The latest movement in this line was the effort of a New York Judge, named FREEDMAN, to prohibit; laboring men from contributing to the support of those who were striking. This he tried to do by injunction, but his injunction doesn’t seem to have injuncted. Since he granted it the Cigar-Makers Union paid out $10,000 openly and ostentatiously to those of their members who are on a strike, and dares Justice FREEDMAN to show that he has eith er authority or courage to enforce it. It is now up to this tool of corporate influence to prove that the law clothes him with any such authority as he assumed, or to admit that he attempted to usurp a power not conferred upon him as a Judge. To do the one will be a big job, to acknowledge the other will be a most unpleasant one. ——THEODORE P. RYNDER, formerly of Milesburg, but now of Erie, was one of the men placed in nomination for vice- President by the Pops at their Sioux Falls convention last week. Are We Not Worse Than England? There are some who would assert that nine tenths of the American people sympa- pathize with the Boers. Others might con- tend that four-fifths would be nearer the right proportion, but whether it is one or the other of these fractions either one goes to show how great the preponderance of American sentiment is for those whom they believe to be fighting for the right of self gov ernment in far away South Africa. Notwithstanding our views and our sympathies in this case, the English peo- ple believe, and we believe they believe honestly, that they have just grounds for carrying on the war: They assert that they have tens of thousands of citizens, residents of that country, who are denied rights to which they should be entitled ; that these people have interests that are endangered ; that they are taxed but given no voice in the government ; that millions of English capital invested in mines, and manufactures, in agriculture and business, are threatened. To these are added scores of other reasons, intended to justify the wickedness and cover up the purposes of the war. We believe and feel that these are but miserable excuses for an unjustifiable and an unholy effort to deny to the Boers the right of self government and to extend the power and authority of the British Empire. We look upon it asan attempt to seize that to which the English government has neither claim nor moral right, and to as- sume an authority and claim possession through the power of brute force. This we, as Americans, believe and no reasoning that can be produced will cause us as a people to change such belief It is born in us ; its a part of us and no conditions that may arise will lessen our sympathies or change the sentiment in this connection. But how about ourselves and the war we are waging? You will answer immediate- ly that is another question. So itis. But it is one in conditions and purposes won- derfully ] ke unto the one England is wa- ging. But England furnishes us an excuse for her war, that she has tens of thousands of pitizens whose interests and rights are at stake ; that she has millions of investments to care for ; and that she has interests in the prosperity of the country and the wel- fare of her people who are making it their home. But what excuse have we? Where, even, have we the miserable, selfish plea to make that we have either investments to protect or commercial interests that are endangered. When the war with Spain ceased it is doubtful if there was a score of American citizens residing or doing business in the Philippines. There was no American capi- tal invested there. There were no rights denied any one, nor did any of our people claim that they had in any way been wronged. We owned nothing then, nor had we claim upon anything over which the Philippine government had authority and control. Having no rights to be de- prived of ; no property to protect or no in- terests endangered. How or for what rea- son can we make even the miserable ex- cuse that England does for her efforts to blot out Republican government in South Africa ? Then, if England is wrong, and we all believe she is, in what position are we? If our sympathies go out to the Boers, and we know they do and feel that they should, what should they be towards the Filipinos. They are a weak, helpless people who for many, many years have been struggling for self-government. They have done us no wrong. They have deprived us of no rights. They threaten us no harm. They owe us nothing. We have no claim to their homes, their prospects or their gov- ernment. ‘What excuse have we then for our war? England is wrong—that we feel and be- lieve. What are we? ——By the time Mr. McKINLEY’S trusts get through and Governor STONE'S oleomar- garine syndicate satisfies its greed, in fleec- ing the farmers, some of them who have always voted the Republican ticket may discover the glories of Republican admin- istration, both federal and state. Many of them, by that time, may not bave much to show for the hard work they have done to get a little ahead for declining years, but they’ll have an experience which, if it don’t fill the stomach or help cover the back, will, at least, furnish, food for honest reflection over how easily they were gulled and how blind their partisan prejudices made them. ——ScHLEY’S declining to permit the use of his name as a vice presidential ‘can- didate is in strong contrast with DEWEY’S presidential aspiration. The hero of San- tiago is not ready to make a trade upon his well earned laurels at sea for the job of a land lubber who is usually laid on the shelf the moment his term expires. Carl Schurz’s Reasons for Supporting Bryan. From the Rockford, Ill., Star. Carl Schurz will support Bryan. This he declared the other day in Milwaukee, He admires Bryan’s ‘‘insistency. consis- tency and honesty,” and avers he ‘‘is the one great American whose hand he world like to shake.” Mr. Schurz says Bryan sticks to silver because he is not a changeling. He is the same yesterday, to-day and to-morrow, and no murmur from the passing crowd can change him, if he thinks he is right. Silver, in the opinion of Mr. Schurz, if made an issue, will not drive anti-imperial- ists from Bryan. He regards the currency question as settled for six years at least, and hence, in the event of his election, Bryan could not disturb existing condi- tions. He believes there is more danger in imperialism than in silver. Monarchies, he holds, are stronger than ever, and in all Europe there is not to-day the slightest ef- fort being made in favor of Republicanism. Even in Canada the old sentiment for in- dependence has died out, and the Domin- ion is clinging more contentedly than ever to the British crown. At such a time Mr. Schurz declares those who believe in liberal institutions should assert themselves. He sees danger in the trend of the times. A quarter of a century ago the people would have risen in their might and crushed the party which declared the Constitution a back number and the Declaration of In- dependence a mere sentiment. But to-day the head of a great party insists that the Constitution does not follow the flag, that only some of the people are born free and equal, and that governments do not derive their just powers from the governed; and a great party supports this contention. Mr. Schurz maintains that colonial possessions, a large standing army and the new idea that we can conquer people and deny them the rights of citizenship means eventually a strong government in which the military feature will predominate. Tor these reasons Mr. Schurz will sup- port Bryan. Mr. Schurz is a great fastor in politics. The Germans look to him as their leader. He led them to McKinley in 1896 and may lead them to Bryan in 1900. The Harvest We Are Reaping. From the New York Journal. Two years ago Spain declared that a state of war existed between that kingdom and the United States. Two years ago with no dreams of imperialism and united as in the days of Washington, we had taken up arms not only to free a strug- gling people from tyranny, but to vindi- cate our honor asa nation. What have these two years brought forth. Victory and mourning—the retnrn of great heroes and the dishanding of arm- ies, but not the content that should fol- low peace. On opposite sides of the world we have acquired islands and coaling stations and the care of brown peoples. On these is- lands we have seen our flags welcomed, our soldiers hailed as deliverers and our country blessed as a protector. We have seen the patience of these peo- ples and their faith in our honesty gradu- ally worn beyond endurance by the de- generacy of the party in power. We have seen them—already naked and starving— burdened with additional taxes. We have established in the islands we assume to own a system of tyranny and injustice such as Spain never dreamed of. We have seen the dawn of imperial- ism—the dream of government by the few and for the few—the lust of colonies— over-riding of pledges, and a financial rapa- city on the part of the administration such as would do credit to the old Cartha- genian kings. Was the war worth all thls? Should it not have left something nobler in its wake than chicanery, injustice and legalized rob- bery? These are questions for the people to answer at the polls. A Sign of the Times. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. So here is ‘‘Potato Patch’’ Pingree de- claring that the hope of the people is in the Democratic party this fall, and smooth- ing his scramble to the safe side of the political fence by protesting that he has not been heard to say anything against Democrats for some time. : This is interesting as a sign of the times, and important as the deliverance of an as- tute and forceful politician who has fig- cured so prominently as to earn denun- iation, both as an adventurous demagogue and an original and radical reformer, while controling a numerous and enthusiastic following. Whatever may be thought of the man, and whatever is said of the mo- tives actuating him in his present course. it must be regarded as a hopeful omen, and may warrant the ranking of Michigan with Kentucky, as a State no longer doubt- ful. There has long been an impression that a sense of shame for Algerism made this highly probable, but the action of that lively Pingree indicates that otlier forces, akin to those that operate through- out the country, are agitating the Michi- ganders. The success of Governor Pingree has heen largely due to his keen and correct reading of the popular pulse, and his bold and quick action in accordance therewith ; and he is not now mistaken. McKinley- ism is doomed because the people are sure to see that their hope is not in the auto- cratic party of Hanna and the trusts, but in the Democratic party of ancient days and honest ways, unburdened by imperial renown. All Signs Blowing Bryanward. From the Pittsburg Post. The Chicago Chronicle, which was and has remained an ardent gold standard paper, supporting Palmer and Buckner in 1896 with decided ability, now predicts that Bryan will retain every Populist vote given him in 1896, and besides secure a million Democratic votes which were not given to him then. In that case Bryan would be elected. The Chronicle will sup- port Mr. Bryan as the nominee of the Kansas City convention. Spawls from the Keystone. —The Pennsylvania Railroad company has decided to give acetylene gas a trial in the lighting of their station buildings, and have contracted with C. K. Sober and Porter for an outfit of fifty-one lights for the Montandon station building. —DMiss Sophie S. Spangler has brought suit in Lancaster for $200 damages against Mrs. Cora Seiverling. The parties live in Ephrata borough, and the plaintiff claims that Mrs. Seiverling made statements to the effect that she stole, and was a witch and had bewitched her. —The carpenters of Chester, who demand- ed $2.75 for nine hour’s work, have been conceded it by most of the boss carpenters, and there will be no strike. The plumbers have been conceded nine hour days, and there will be no strike in that department of the building trade. —The stable of George Hawk, at Lewis- town, was destroyed by fire shortly after 2 o'clock Saturday morning. A horse and possibly some chickens were burned. The fire is supposed to have been incendiary. A couple of outbuildings were also burned. Mr Hawk had $100 insurance on the stable. —A man named William Fleming on his way from Blairsville to Philadelphia to work for the Pencoyd Bridge Company, jumped from a freight train at Lewistown Junction Friday evening immediately in front of mail train east and was struck and killed. Deceased was a single man, aged about 33 years. —About 30,000,000 feet of logs have reach- ed the Williamsport boon this spring and of that number, probably one-half have been rafted out. There are about 75,000,000 feet yet back, and it is stated that nearly two- ‘thirds of that number would come in on a five-foot flood. —About thirty prominent independent Republicans of Bradford, McKean county, have formed an organization to further the candidacy of Lewis Emery, Jr., for Congress in the Twenty-seventh district. Conferees have been appointed to meet with conferees of the other three counties at Warren within the next ten days, when it is expected Em- ery will be placed in nomination. —Mrs. Allen Barger’s suit against B. J Bower, superintendent of the Chester Hill schools near Philipsburg, for assault and bat- tery was decided in the defendant’s favor at Clearfield Thursday. The suit grew out of Mrs. Barger’s attack on the principal who had punished her son and detained him after school. Mrs. Barger will pay the costs in the case. —Wilfred Strunk, of Beech Creek, was gig- ging in the Bald Eagle dam at Toward a few nights agoand captured two fish larger than any fresh fish ever seen in that town. One was a German carp which weighed fourteen pounds and 6 ounces; the other a leather carp which weighed fourteen pounds. In all he had eight carp, the total weight of which was ninety pounds. —Judge Gordon on Tuesday sentenced J. C. Harmon, of Pennfield, to eight months in the county jail for manslaughter. Harmon, it will be remembered, killed Ezekiel Hewitt by striking him with a weight, in a quarrel the two men had over the failure of Harmon who is a merchant, to deliver a bill of goods Hewitt had bought and paid for and ordered delivered at a certain time. The murdered man was the father of Earl Hewitt, the State College athlete. —The storm of Tuesday of last week struck the barn of Thomas J. Hazlett, in Granville township, Mifflin county, with - such force that about two-thirds of one side of the roof was blown off. The roof was a substantial one of shaved shingles, indicat- ing that the wind blew with remarkable vio- lence. The roof was blown down on the hog-pen, crushing in the side, but the shoats therein fortunately escaped injury. —Joseph Lundy, a butcher of Slabtown, near Williamsport, was driving up Hoagland’s branch Thursday, when he saw a bear with four cubs step out of the bushes. The moth- er bear swam the creek, but the cubs not lik- ing the water, climbed a tree instead. Mr. Lundy called a boy to watch, while he went after a farmer named Warburton. The two men felled the tree and threw the cubs in Mr. Lundy’s wagon. Both men were considera- bly scratched by the cubs. The mother bear sat on the opposite side of the creek making a peculiar noise, but made no move to pre- vent the capture of her young. —George Porter, tenant on the farm own- ed by Wilson Strohm, in Southampton township, Franklin county, is confined to bed with five broken ribs and severe bruises as a result of being run over by a 900 pound field roller Tuesday of last week. His little son was driving the horses hitched to the roller when a flash of lightning frightened the animals and they started to run. Mr. Porter tried to catch them and was thrown to the ground. The roller pushed him along for a distance of ten feet and then ran over him, breaking five ribson the left side and bruising him seriously. —When Professor McDade ascended in his balloon at the circus at Pottsville on Satur- day night young Walter Cartwright,who had helped hold down the baltoon but unwitting. ly failed to loosen his hold on the guy rope was hauled rapidly up into the air. ‘‘Wrap the rope around you!’ yelled the excited aeronaut to the dangling fellow below, and Cartwright, a muscular fellow of 20, was able to obey. Then, when the balloon had reach- ed a height of about 400 feet, it collapsed, and both the professor and his unwilling passenger descended unceremoniously togeth- er to terra firma. Marvelously, both escaped with slight injuries. The weight of the two was too much for the parachute. —Charles Robinson, the telegraph operator who killed John O’ Neil by shooting at Spruce Creek last January, was acquitted at Hunt- ingdon Friday evening of the charge of mur- der. The jury took ouly two ballots. Robin- son had unsuspectedly surprised his wife and O'Neil in their preparations for an elope- ment, which they were making at his home, and, knowing of O’Neil’s intimacy with MiSs. Robinson, at once shot O'Neil, sending seven bullets into his body. The defense set up the plea of emotional insanity, which was sustained by expert testimony, and on this alone the jury found their verdict. Not- withstanding his counsel’s motion for his immediate discharge, Robinson was sent back to jail by Judge Bailey until Saturday. ——
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