a AAT. em lI.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Of a fair ground on the meadow,
At a temperance meet in town,
A youth was wildly talking,
When an imbecile called him down.
There's elders, deacons and vestrymen,
He said, mixed in this gambling(?)scheme,
But his story was sour as butter-milk
While Warren's was rich as cream.
—The greatest mystery of the close of
the nineteenth century will be: How in the
world did Philadelphia police ever get
wide enough awake to catch Prof. Roy
WHITE'S murderers as quickly as they
did ?
—RoBERTS has crossed the Vaal river
and the English say the war is practically
over in South Africa. You remember,
they said the same thing when BULLER
crossed the Tugela, but BULLER crossed
back again.
—Dispatches from Mafeking state that
there was one cheer and ‘plenty of whisky’’
there the evening the relief column
broke up the seven months’ siege of that
beleaguered city. ‘‘Pleuty of whisky,” but
no mention of a prayer of thanksgiving.
— Fair Luna must have taken a little of
the fire out of old Sol on Monday when she
put him out of business for a few hours.
It took him two days to warm up again
and he has been as cool ever since as if he
had no further ambition to shine with his
old time lustre.
—If the League of American Wheelmen
really intends to carry the war for good
roads into national politics it had better
not begin with a ride from Massillon to
Washington. Coxry was the last good
roads performer, but his ‘“‘stunt’’ did not
hold the crowd long.
—England’s policy is exemplified in the
dispatch with which Lord ROBERTS ex-
punged the word ‘‘free’’ from the Orange
Free State on the South African map.
Henceforth it will be known as the Orange
River State. Nothing with free in if suits
the English imperial idea.
—CHEARLES WOODWARD, the cleverest
thief in the world, has been arrested in
Leipsic, Germany, for diamond stealing.
WooDWARD has been in the habit of
swallowing the gems to avoid conviction
by having them found on his person, but,
we suppose, the X ray got onto his stomach-
ful of glittering generalities.
—Mr. “Skin the Goat'’ FITZHARRIS and
JosEpH MULLET, the Irish invincibles who
were pardoned after seventeen years service
of a life term, for Phoenix park murders,
and struck right for America, will be very
apt to strike right back again. The board
of inquiry of the immigration bureau
looked into their case and ordered them
deported, as was highly the proper course
to pursue.
—As might have been expected the Sen-
ate committee on privileges and elections
has reported adversely on the House bill
providing for the election of United States
Senators by a direct vote of the people.
The plutocrats of that House of Congress
are entirely too fond of the places they can
now purchase to place them beyond the
corrupting influence of money by taking
them out of the Legislatures and making
them offices to be filled by popular vote.
— Will this iconoclastic practice of shat-
tering our idols ever cease? Now there
are those who are denying that poor old
BARBARA FRITCHIE waved the flag in
Fredericktown, on that clear September
morn when the rebels come marching down.
What does it matter whether BARBARA
waved the flag or was actually bending her
back over a wash-tub? The story is a pret-
ty one, but rob it of its truthfulness and
you discredit it as a school-boy declama-
tion for ever.
—The cost of governing in the island of
Cuba is running along now at the rate of
about $11,000,000 a year. Of these ten
States, Georgia, Missouri, Massachusetts,
Indiana, Arkansas, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Michigan, all
have much more perfect forms of govern-
ment, all have larger populations than
Cuba, yet the most expensively governed
one, Minnesota, spends only $4,650,000
per year and Arkansas only $560,000. By
comparison it is quite evident that some of
the fellows have good jobs in Cuba.
—The Chinese ‘‘Boxers’”’ are on the
rampage again in the orient and Christian
residents of China are in daily danger of
being murdered and robbed. The ‘‘Box-
ers’’ practice the most atrocious outrages
and their uprising has thrown the whole
country into a panic of fright. The cruiser
“Newark"’ has arrived at Taku to protect
American interests. Here would be a
splendid opportunity to make use of JIM
J EFFRIES, SHARKEY, FITZSIMMONS, COR-
BETT, TERRY MCGOVERN, et al. Why not
send the whole outfit to China against the
‘Boxers’ of that realm and then pray that
it be a case of ‘‘dog eat dog.”’
—YWhat the Methodist general confer-
ence lately in session in Chicago needs most
just now is a little of the Holy Spirit ob-
tained through a good, old-fashioned
Methodist revival. The spectacle the
members made hefore the world was
anything but creditable to a great christian
agent like the Methodist church. With
one day calling each other liars on the floor
of the Conference, and the next overwhelm-
ing voting down the majority committee’s
report criticising the President for making
liquor sellers out of soldiers who have en-
listed to hold up the flag, would it be any
wonder if the finger of infidelity points
with scorn at such weak-kneed christian
courage?
TD emacralic
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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To Be Expreted.
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That an effert to have the people believe |
the war in the Philippines is about over is
being made is not strange. That systemat-
ie work in that line will be done from this
time until the election is to be expected.
For the success of the Republican party in
the coming campaign it is necessary that
such a belief should be created; and it goes
without saying that whatever is necessary
to secure that success will be done, if it isin
the power of men or money to accom-
plish it.
When the first troops were sent to those
islands, over two years ago, we were told
that a few months, at the longest, would
complete the job of conquering their peo-
ple. When one half of the first season, in
which war-fare could be carried on active-
ly, had gone by, it was announced that with
more men hurried to the front the war
could be ended before the rainy season set
in. When that time came on and opera-
tions had to cease the public was assured
that with its termination, and such a force
as would then be on band, that peace would
be secured at once. In fact, this time last
year we had every assurance, from those in
control, that mid-summer would see the
end of all trouble, and that before another
wet season set in peace would reign
throughout those islands and the authority
of this government would be recognized
and respected on every haud.
That time is upon us and in place of see-
ing our soldiers returning home, our war
taxes lessened, recruiting abandoned and
our flag protecting a peaceful and satisfied
people, the facts are that we are in worse
conditions, so far as prosecuting a war is
concerned and seemingly as far from the
end of hostilities as we were one year ago.
Within the past six weeks our losses in
open battle have been greater than during
all the rest of the time we have been at
war and at present our forces, that are able
to do duty, are menaced wherever they are,
in a manner never before experienced. Of
the fourteen hundred islands comprising
the Philippine group not a single one of
them is in the peaceable control of this gov-
ernment, nor is its civil authority able to
enforce and protect itself in a single munic-
ipality outside ofithe city of Manila.
The army that is;now attempting to do
the, bidding of thoseat Washington, in-
creased as it has heen during the past
twelve months, is less effective and less fit-
ted for duty than it was one yearago. Serv-
ice in theswampsand trenches, disease and
climate, have gotten in their work and, to-
day, with a credited force of 70,000 men in
the field there is not sufficient force in con-
dition to do duty to properly garrison and
hold the few towns already occupied.
This is the condition now, scarcely five
months preceding a presidential election,
and at a time when peace was positively
promised. Mr. McKINLEY’S managers
know and appreciate the failure he has met
with in this Philippine question. They
are in hopes that the people do not under-
stand or realize it. They know that the suc-
cess of imperialism depends upon their sue-
cess in having the people believe that they
are succeeding in their efforts to control
those islands; that without that belief in-
stilled into the voter that Mr. McKINLEY
must fail of re-election; that his failure is
the end of imperialism and with its failure
vanishes their hopes of the fat places and
political opportunities it is designed to give
them.
With these at stake need we wonder at
the effort that is being put forth to deceive
the people and leave the country under the
impression that the war is virtually over.
Need we think strange that in the face of
daily attacks upon beleaguered . garrisons,
and insolated forces; in spite of the length-
ening death lists and of increased losses,
we are told that success is crowning our ef-
forts, and that the end is now in sight.
When people reflect over what is at stake
for Mr. McKINLEY they can readily under-
stand why such strenuous efforts are put
forth to have them believe that which is
not true.
Until they see our soldiers returning and
our taxes lowered, our recruiting stations
closed and our vessels, now hurrying sup.
plies and arms to the forces in the field,
turned into peaceful channels, they will
know that war in the Philippines goes on,
and that assertions to the contrary are
for the purpose of deceiving them in order
that McKINLEY may succeed and imperial-
ism continue.
——The Oregon state election will be
held next Monday. If it goes Republican,
as usual, we will learn in glaring big let-
ters, from the papers of that party, that it
is a sure indication of McKINLEY’S success
in the fall. If it should happen to go
Democratic the head-lines will not be so
large, but double-leaded editorials, in the
same journals, will attempt to prove that
the result can have no bearing whatever on
the presidential election.
——With Johannesburg and Pretoria
both fallen the Boers are at last at the end
of their string and England’s conquest of
a puny Republic is complete.
Thankfal for Mr. Wanamaker.
We are glad that JOHN WANANAKER
lives; gratified at the independence he ex-
hibits and pleased, beyond the power of
expression, that his good name is as near
and dear to the shad-bellied populace of
the Quaker City as existing conditions in-
dicate it is.
For years and years, even back to a time
when the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary, that city has failed to see the
wickedness that emanated from it, the cor-
ruption that its pretentions covered or the
villainies its professions protected. It has
refused to recognize what others have
known for years, that its own government
was the rottennest that disgraced any mu-
nicipality in the country, and has slept on
without twinge of conscience or awakened
shame, while corruption rankled in every
department and crime rioted at the very
doors of its courts. It has refused to
awaken when false counters tampered with
its election returns, and has kept its eyes
closed while repeaters and ballot-box
stuffers added to the majority its political
bosses demanded. It dreamed on while
thieves filled their pockets out of its public
office, and public highwaymen grew and
flourished as do smart weeds along the
drain-ways of a manure pile.
Through all this evil and disgrace, this nau-
seous stench and measureless contumely,
it has slept as if there was no conscience in
it to be awakened, or no sense of justice
that could be aroused.
It might still be sleeping but for the
fool act of an empty-headed official who
threatened to scandalize that city by the
exposure of the private life of its leading
citizen, the Hon. JOHN WANAMAKER. It
could stand all the disgrace that has been
fastened upon it; all the crime that has
characterized its frauds upon the ballot; all
the corruption that has gathered to a
breaking fullness in its every public de-
partient; all the short-comings and mal-
feasances in office of its city officials, but
it couldn’t stand this.
To begin the uncovering business was
going too far. The great moral element of
Philadelphia could not submit to any such
work. It was a threat at its privacy. Its
acts.and life were liable, some day, to ex-’
posure, if such a business was once begun.
It awakened to the danger and is awake
to-day as it has never been before.
For the condition that brought about
this stirring among the dry-bones and moss
covered morals of the Quaker City we have
to thank Mr. WANAMAKER. It was his
efforts and work that gave cause for the
fool threat, and it was that fool threat that
has seemingly aroused and opened the
eyes of the sleeping populace of that boss-
ridden municipality.
Possibly, while in this condition it will
be able to see some of the many other
wrongs that it has heretofore failed to ob-
serve. Possibly it may get a scent of the
political stench that goes out from it, or
may now get its high head lowered enough
to see a little of the rottenness in which it
has been walking these many, many,
years. :
If it does, this awakening must prove of
some benefit. For it we must thank the
fact that Hon. JOHN WANAMAKER lived
and was threatened. :
——The people are beginning to move.
The effects of trusts are becoming visible
and sensible citizens are throwing their
partisan feelings to the dog’s and arraying
themselves against these giant crushers of
individual effort and individual enterprise.
The latest Republican to announce his op-
position to trusts, and the Republican
party in its effort to sustain them, is JOAN
C. LowER, of Adams county—a present
member of the Republican State Commit-
tee and one of the most active and in-
fluential citizens of that section. He not
only announces his opposition to the policy
of his party, that has bred and fostered
trusts, but comes out boldly, and con-
scientiously, for BRYAN as the only hope
of relief and safety for the people. Mr.
LOWER is but one of the great army of
business men who are arraying themselves
against MARK HANNA'S syndicates, and a
political policy, which, if successful, will
place the business of the country in the
hands of the few, and leave for the many
nothing but bankruptcy and beggary.
—It may be so that to ex-Senator
QUAY and his methods should be charged
the corruption, extravagance, wrongs and
crimes of the administration of public af-
fairs in this State, but who is responsible
for Quay? Back of an individual who
commands the influence and asserts the au-
thority that he does, must be a power to
sustain him. Does anyone know of any
power he has outside or independent, of
the Republican party? It is that organiza-
tion that made him—that backs him, that
approves and endorses him, and in revolt:
ing against QUAY, they are simply attempt-
ing to overthrow the instrument, the tool,
the agent. If they would rid the State of
its vicious, profligate, constitution—defying
administrations, they must rid it of Repub-
licanism. That is the power responsible
for all the people have to complain of.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
JUNE 1. 1900.
A Chance for The People.
After all the people of the State are to
have ‘the opportunity to amend their Con-
stitution so as to secure registration and
election laws that will insure fair elections
and honest returns. The decision of the
Supreme court, on Tuesday last, setting
aside Governor STONE'S veto of the joint-
resolutions proposing amendments to this
effect,settles this. It will require now hut
the mandate of the court ordering the pub-
lication of the proposed amendments when
the whole matter will be before the people
for their approval or dissent.
In this decision the Supreme court has
set down very effectually on Governor
STONE'S presumptions interpretation of the
constitutional powers belonging to his
position. It virtually and plainly tells
him that his attempted veto was a usurpa-
tion of power, unwarranted and inexcusable
It writes his chief law-adviser down as a
legal ass; and makes his Secretary of State
liable to impeachment for refusing to obey
a plain mandate of the Constitution. It
places the whole Republican party of the
Commonwealth since its endorsement by
resolution of Governor STONE'S actions and
administration, in the position of having
supported unjustifiable and unconstitution-
al acts in order to maintain partisan ad-
vantages, and of encouraging the perpetra-
tion of frauds by seeking to defeat efforts
designed to prevent them.
This, however, may not worry the or-
dinary Republican conscience very much.
It is how they will get around the issue this
decision forces that will bother them the
most. The question now will be one of hon-
est registration and fair elections. He who
is for these will support the proposed amend-
ments. He who is for continuing the op-
portunities that protects ballot box stuffers,
bribers and false counters, as existing
laws do, will be against them. To appear
to favor the former, while working to pro-
tect the latter, is where the trouble and
worry of the Republican party will come
in.
A Showing That Brings Shame.
It isa brilliant elucidation of what ‘ ‘good
government’? consists of that McKINLEY’S
appointees are giving to the people of Cuba
—a regular kinder-garten illustration of
the honesty and methods of an administra-
tion that interfered to protect them from
the robbery and oppression of Spanish.-rule.
His civil government has been establish-
ed a little over six months on that island.
It has been doing business on its ‘‘own
hook?’ for a less time than that, but already
every department, and there are scores of
them, that has been gotten into working
order, shows signs of being honey-combed
with rottenness. From each of them, from
the cleaning of streets to the distribution of
the mails, corruption is oozing as does pus
from a broken boil.
It has taken but four months for one of
his official family to steal out-right of Cu-
ban postal funds over $40,000. Later re-
ports show that the same trusted represen-
tative has sold and distributed over $400,-
000 of fraudulent postage stamps, since his
appointment as financial agent of Mr. Me-
KINLEY’s post office department down
there. A half dozen others, in the same
branch of public service, are charged with
stealing about everything that passed
through their hands while the ‘‘Director of
Posts’, a new official position created pur-
posely to increase Republican patronage, has
proven himself no better than his subor-
dinates, and has added to his private pecu-
lation such public extravagance as was never
before known. In fact, in the postal serv-
ice alone, there has been more open and
inexcusable robbery of the people of Cuba,
by the appointees of the administration at
Washington, in the few months they have
had control of affairs there, than there was
during the same number of years under the
hated and despised rule of the Spanish au-
tocrat, WEYLER.
In the custom service and other départ-
ments, while the corruption and scandals are
not as open and outrageous as in the postal
service, there are plenty in all to make the
honest American blush, and to cause the
Cuban people to wonder if they have not
gotten out of the frying pan into the fire
in getting out of the clutches of Spain into
the grip of Mr. McKINLEY’S appointees
and Mr. HANNA'S syndicate of robbers.
To the people of Cuba, who are looking
to us for the establishment of good govern-
ment, and who are expecting examples of
economical administration and honest rule
from the officials we have sent there, the
showing we have already made must be
anything but encouraging. Certainly it is
not calculated to create confidence in the
good intent and purity of motives actuat-
ing our government, nor will it inspire
respect for, or faith in, the honor or honesty
of American officials.
——-The two things now promising to be
the most everlastingly everlasting are the
Philippine war and war taxes. They are
the kind of subjects that would promise to
a life policy = continual and eternal in-
come.
‘seventy-five years ago.
NO. 22.
How Women are Effected by Trusts.
From Harper's Bazar.
In trusts $719,000,000 throttles are do-
mestic economy of the housewife. For the
lump of sugar she drops into her baby’s
glass of milk she is dependent on the terms
of the American Sugar Refining company,
that is capitalized at $125,000,000. Dur-
ing the morning she gives a sick child a
cup of tea, and pays tribute to the power-
ful Dressed Beef and Packing combine
whose strength is measured by $100,000,-
000. The fruit she buys she gets by sup-
porting the United States Fruit company,
that influences the markets with the force
of $20,000,000.
For dinner she feeds her family on cel-
ery soup that savors of the celery trust's
$1,000,000; bread that is tainted with the
American Flour Manufacturing company’s
$150,000,000; butter that smacks of the
evil the Farm and Dairy Product company
may do with $15,000,000; ice cream that
represents the horrors possible to be
wrought with $60,000,000 the American
ice trust’s capital, $15,000,000, the milk
trust's and the sugar trusts, $125,000,000
—a total of $200,000,000. Then a biscuit
with some cheese and a demi-tasse means
giving trusts a further hold on the family
vitals to the extent of another $130,000,-
000—the combined wealth of coffee, cheese
and biscuit trusts. Of every dollar spent
on food for the family it is estimated there
is a net profit of 25 cents to trusts. The
trust promblem is a woman’s problem. It
figures up in her market bills, and may
disorder the digestion of her children.
What of a woman’s war on trusts? The
housewife has a tremenduous power in the
boycott.
But All the Filth is Not on Judge Love's
Judicial Ermine.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The Supreme court of the State, in a case
taken up from Centre county, has given
Judge Love—the Quay boss who occupies
the bench in that district—a scoring which
is as wholesome as it is just. The case con-
cerned a banking house in which ex-Gov-
ernor Hastings is interested, and ex-Gover-
nor Hastings is the man who has defeated
the Quay outfit under Judge Love's leader-
ship in Centre county at all recent primary
elections. Judge Love’s opinion in the
banking house case, if sustained, would
have ruined a perfectly solvent business.
There are few intelligent people in Centre
county who do not believe the action was
due to politics. The Supreme court in re-
versing Judge Love declared that his decree
‘does not rest on either reason ci author-
ity;’ that there ‘‘is no evidence worthy
the name to sustain the finding,’”’ and that
the law controlling the issue was laid dawn
S ‘No Common Pleas
judge ever received a more staggeriug re-
buke or one more deserved. But such
must be the fate of the political judge. No
man who undertakes to boss politics from
the bench is fit for judicial service, and no
one on the bench or off ever went deeper
into the mire of politics than Judge Love.
It’s What We Hold Them For.
From the Venango Spectator.
The serious proposition of Senator Tel-
ler to appropriate $200,000 to the people of
Cuba, to refund amounts stolen from them
by McKinley’s officials in the postal serv-
ice, isa cutting satire on our process of
‘‘benevolent suffocation’ in the new ac-
quisitions. The stealings of one man, Nee-
ley, from the sale of fraudulent stamps in
Cuba, cut the legitimate receipts $15,000
weekly. If such villainy as this is prac-
ticable in Cuba, it becomes a question as
to what is going on in the remote Philip-
pines, where the natives have no say or re-
dress. N. E.Gyot, of Denver, Rev. Peter
McQueen, and others who have personal
knowledge charge that bribe-taking, spec-
ulation and other crookedness are rife
among our officials in those islands. If
this be so, we deserve the hatred and con-
tempt of the people on whom we force our
self-appointed trusteeship, while denying
to them the self-government by which they
might relieve themselves from corruption
and rapacity.
Fixing the Price.
From an Unknown Exchange.
The story is told of a boy who took eggs
to market. He was instructed to get eigh-
teen cents a dozen for them if he could,and
if not to take as low as fifteen cents a doz-
en. On arriving at market a purchaser
asked what he wanted for eggs and the boy
said : ‘‘Pap told me to get eighteen cents a
dozen for them if I could, and if not take
fifteen cents for them.’’ The buyer got the
eggs for fifteen cents, of course. This story
is brought to mind by the action of the U.
S. Senate on the purchase of armor plate.
The Senate in passing the naval appropria-
tion bill provided that the Secretary should
buy armor plate for $445 per ton, but if he
couldn’t get it for that then he was author-
ized to pay $545 per ton. No armor plate
maker in the universe would sell armor
plate to the United States for a cent less
than $545 per ton;and if he did he would
be foolish for doing.
Makes Hell Rejoice.
From the Blossburg Advertiser.
According to modern ethics, starving
millions of God’s people in one part of the
world, while slaughtering thousands in
other parts for the crime of trying to secure
or maintain political independence is
christianity, humanity, civilization, progress
and God’s will.
IT MADE OUR EYEs SORE.— Tuesday
morning a bunch of fishermen gathered
along the board walk, opposite our window.
The water in Spring creek was still a little
bit riled by the rain of the previous even-
ing and the little trout were biting good.
All of a sudden the big fellows began to
bite and within Lalf an hour, right in full
view of all who stood on the High street
bridge, Willis Shuey, ‘‘Beany’’ Meisse,
Line. Miller and Billy Green landed five
trout, that aggregated 64% inches in length.
And then just to put the finishing
touches to it Jim Delige hauled in an-
other one that measured 14in.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Harry Singer, of Walnut Grove, while
in the act of boarding a moving freight train
at the Pennsylvania railroad station at Johns-
town, Saturday morning, fell under the
wheels and had his right foot cut off.
—One of the biggest deals that ever took
place in Irwin was consummated recently,
when the Irwin Light and Power company’s
plant with its allied interests passed into the
hands of Greensburg capitalists, prominent
among them being Hon. E. E. Robbins, Mor-
ris L.. Painter and Messrs. Bair & Lane. The
consideration was about $175,000.
—Several Indiana county farmers have
learned recently that they own considerably
more land than they were aware of. The
new surveys of land purchased by different
coal companies reveal the fact that the old
measurements were very much at fault. One
tract of 600 acres purchased by the Lack-
awanna Iron and Steel company proved to
contain more than 700 acres.
—John Campbell, of Burrell township,
Indiana county, lost a valuable team of
horses in a peculiar manner the other day.
He was farming in a field above the high
embankment along the railroad, just below
Blacklick, and, driving too near the edge of
the embankment, the ground gave away,
allowing both horses to go over. They fell
about forty feet and both were killed.
—J. H. Arnor, of Belmont, aged 65 years,
was killed in the Clarion Mills at Johnson-
burg a few days ago. While at work on a
lathe, one of the knives broke and flew up to
the ceiling and in its decent struck the un-
fortunate man in the neck, severing the ju-
gular vein. He bled to death. He is surviv-
ed by an aged wife and has no other rela-
tives in this country.
—On Sunday last Henry W. Fox Sr., of
near Carrolltown, underwent an operation in
a hospital at Philadelphia in which he had
his leg removed. Last winter Mr. Fox went
to Philadelphia to visit a son-in-law and
while there it is supposed he froze his leg. It
constantly grew worse, and at last gangrene
set in and the operation on Sunday was nee-
essary to save his life. Some time ago he
underwent an operation in Altoona and had
one of his legs taken off, and now in losing
the other he is doubly unfortunate.
—The interest of the Frugality Coal and
Coke company has been sold to a syndicate,
of which J. Henry Cochran, of William-
sport is president. Involved in the sale is
the town of Frugality, Cambria county,
with a population of 800,150 houses, three
schools, and two churches, which are turned
over outright to the new syndicate The
new corporation announces it will extend
its present holdings in coal land 10,000 acres
and build a number of new tipples along its
territory.
—Charles Wilson, colored, the alleged
slayer of three men, has been lodged in jail
at ITuntingdon, charged with the murder of
Sim Gilchrist, also colored, at Spruce Creek,
in April. He was arrested in Finleyville,
Washington county, last week on the charge
of shooting, with intent to kill, and subse-
quently identified as the man wanted in
Huntingdon county for murder. Officer
,Addleman, who went to Washington county
| ard returned with the prisoner Sunday
night, learned that Wilson had killed two-
men in Fayette county, in one instance
throwing his victim down a mine shaft.
—Seth Nelson, probably the oldest hunter
and trapper in Pennsylvania, lives at
Round Island. He is 91 years of age and mn
the very best of health, having not been
sick for seventy years. He still is exceed-
ingly active and still enjoysa chase after’
game. This remarkable man for some years
has kept a ‘record of the game he killed
since 1827, the summary being: Elk, 22;
deer, 428; bears, 41 ; panthers, 12; wolves,:
5. His wife is still living, active and hap-
py, at the age of 86. They have six daugh-
ters, whose names are Julia Ann, Sallie Ann,
Lizzie Aun, Mary Ann, Rose Ann and Lucy
Ann.
—A couple of weeks ago a miner from
Morrisdale named Alexander Davis was
taken to the Cottage hospital in Philipsburg,
suffering from injuries received from a
kicking mule. The frontal bone of the
skull was crushed in over the eyes and it
was found necessary to perform the difficult
operation of trephining to relieve pressure
on the brain. A small hole was sawed in
the bone on the right side of the forehead,
a slightly semicircular flap was cut out ex-
tending over the eyes, and lifted up some
small fragments of broken bone were re-
moved, the opening closed up, and it has
been doing finely ever since. The success of
the cperation, which is a difficult one, re-
flects great credit upon the hospital.
—Judge Buffington, in the United States
district court at Pittsburg. Friday, pro-
nounced sentence upon Samuel Bennett,
Joseph McCauley, and Patrick McCormick,
the Blairsville counterfeiters. Bennett,
found guilty of making moulds for counter-
feiting United States coins, was given fifteen
months in the western penitentiary; Me-
Cauley, who turned state's evidence against
Bennett and confessed to having aided him
in his operation as well as having passed
some of the spurious coin, was sentenced to
twelve months and one day in the same in-
stitution, and McCormick, convicted of hav-
ing i ‘terfered with a revenue officer while
engaged in the performance of his duty, was
sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and costs.
— William Hummel, who is to be hanged
in Williamsport on June 5th for the murder
of his wife and three children is the remark-
able prisoner who has learned boxing, per-
forming on the bars, turning handsprings
and calisthenics in order to keep him alive
for the gallows. And now, strangest of all,
he is practicing hanging in the rope that he
can cheat the hangman’s noose. ‘I'll tell
you my secret if you keep it quiet” whisper-
ed Hummel I've got a rope under my bed
and I’ve been practicing hanging on the
dead quiet. I fasten the rope to that bar up
ther: and then jump off the bed. Say, do
you know I can jump two feet now and not
get hurt a bit. You see, by exercising the
muscles of my neck I've got it so that I can
hold out all right. Just before jumping off
I throw my head back as far as I can, and
the rope slips up against my jawbone and the
back of my head. IfI don't tire out before
the third time I think I can pull through all
right,” Hummel has become impressed
with the idea that it is illegal to hang a man
more than three times, and he hopes to hold
out that long.