Demortalic Walon
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Ill-luck for the thing we most want,
The seale works, won't stay in Bellefonte,
That's all there is to it
They simply won't do it,
Because raise them the money we caw n't.
In vain do we argue and coax,
And tell them how all of our folks
Are anxious to keep them,
How nice we will treat them,
And that this is not one of our jokes.
And now we may look for old soaks
In the towns that believe us slow pokes,
To point with derision
To Bellefonte’s decision,
And make us the butt of their jokes.
—Judging from the Republican national
platform there is no such island as
Porto Rico on the globe. Why this si-
lence on such an important matter ?
— Admiral DEWEY announces his retire-
ment from politics. His engagement in
this class of battles was as short and
even more decisive than the one he had in
Manila bay.
—The question goes up from all coun-
tries: Who are the boxers ? There seems to
be very little known of them, but that lit-
tle is enough to demonstrate that they are
an exceedingly dangerous element in the
Orient and not to be monkeyed with.
—From Sugar run, Clinton county,
comes the story that a farmer caught a
skunk robbing one of his hen’s nests. Not
knowing what the animal was he jabbed a
pitch fork into it and then the skunk got
even by perfuming the farmer’s beard un-
til, for odor, it is only out-classed by that
of his neighbor’s billy goat.
—The Altoona Zimes says that former
“Governor HASTINGS is so busy making
money off his Cambria county coal fields
that he isn’t heard of in politics any more,
except when he goes gunning for Judge
LovE.”” And he only is heard of then
through articles in the Philadelphia Press
that he pays for having written.
—Mrs. HETTY GREEN’S admonition to
girls not to marry until they are old enough
to know what they are doing will have
little effect on Dan Cupid’s business. This
is not to say that HETTY’S suggestion is
not a wise one, but the trouble is there are
so many girls who only get old enough to
know what they have done, after they are
married.
—Though he is no longer Senator QUAY
has by no means heen eliminated from Penn-
sylvania politics. When it comes to such
a condition that prominent Philadelphians
say that Pennsylvania’s choice for vice
President will be ‘‘any one QUAY might
name’’ there is enough of QUAY potency
left to make every citizen of the State
blush for shame.
--—A Tyrone youngster fell off an apple
tree on Monday and bruised his leg. Of
course he was lucky that the tumble didn’t
result more seriously, but as it was un-
doubtedly a green apple tree the pity is that
he couldn’t stick on it long enough to get.
a right good dose of that ache that warns
all childhood that the fruit that caused
ApAM’s downfall is not to be monkeyed
with when it is green.
—Poor old HANNA. With all his mil-
lions and ownership of a President the
owners of Governors in New York and
Pennsylvania bumped the fat Ohio boss
clear out of it at Philadelphia. He was
dead set against ROOSEVELT, but QUAY and
PLATT taught the old trust manipulator a
few things about politics that he hasn’t had
time to find out during his busy life as a
builder up of great capitalistic enterprises
to crush labor.
—Senator WOLCOTT gave President Mec-
KINLEY credit for everything of prosperi-
ty that has smiled on the country during
the past three years; even down to the
big crops in Nebraska. He forgot, how-
ever, to mention the putrid beef of the
EGAN regime, the post-office scandals in
Cuba, the unAmerican tariff bill with
Porto Rico and the fact that our volunteer
soldiers in the Philippines are writing
home for medicines that the army hospi-
tals fail to supply them with there. Tellit
all, Senator, the next time you start to
blowing off like you did in Philadelphia
on Tuesday.
—The Republican platform declares for
the gold standard that makes money dear-
er for all classes; it declares for a tariff
that fosters trusts and oppresses labor, it
declares for independence and self govern-
ment for Cuba and at the same time de-
clares that the man who appointed the
men who robbed ite postal system of hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars is all right, it
declares for civil service and says the ad-
ministration acted wisely in appointing
such officials as ALGER, EGAN and NEELY,
it declares that President McKINLEY has
been responsible for everything good that
has smiled upon our people for the last
three years and there are plenty of gillies
who will believe this declaration.
—What ever else may be said of the
French-construction and imposition of law
they must be commended for the sensible
ruling of Premier WALDECK ROSSEAU on
the labor question. He recently handed
down an opinion to the effect that a labor-
er who wants to work is entitled to as
much protection as one who does not and
ordered that two men be given an escort of
twenty police to and from their places in a
factory where all other hands were on a
strike. According to our idea, this is law
in its truest conception. No matter what
the sentiment in the cause, or popularity
for or against it, those in the minority
should be protected at all times in the pur-
suit of their desires, as long as they are
legitimate.
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VOL. 45
Unanimity at Kansas City.
If it could be supposed that any opposi-
tion to WILLIAM J. BRYAN might be de-
veloped in the Kansas City convention, the
futility of such opposition is demonstrated
in advance by the fact that more delegates
have been already instructed for him than
will be needed to secure his nomination.
There may be Democratic leaders who sin-
cerely believe that the selection of Mr.
BRYAN for the leadership of the party in
the coming contest would not be the most
judicious, but their number is compara-
tively small, and while their opinion is
entitled to respect, if honestly entertained,
it will be found to have so small a repre-
sentation in the convention that it will
have no perceptible effect upon the una-
nimity of its action.
The political history of the country fur-
nishes no parallel to the confidence and
enthusiasm with which the leadership of
Mr. BRYAN is accepted by his party.
There has been no change of feeling to-
ward him since the time when he led the
Democracy in the fight which it made four
years ago, under great disadvantages,
against the capitalistic power that exerted
the corrupting influence of money in the
election, and affected the public mind by
false representations on the money ques-
tion. Events have vindicated the position
of the Democracy in’ that contest, and in-
creased their confidence in the leader who
has not abandoned a single one of the prin-
ciples for which his party made the great-
est fight that is recorded in its history,
polling the largest vote that was ever cast
in support of the doctrines of Democracy,
and grappling, though unsuccessfully, with
an enemy whose policies, as they are now
being enforced, is now bringing the govern-
ment under the control of capitalistic syn-
dicates, and is threatening the Republic
with the danger of imperialism.
With such dangerous conditions exciting
the alarm of the people, the posture which
WILLIAM J. BRYAN has maintained dur-
ing the past four years has increased the
confidence of the Democratic people in the
quality of his leadership. In all that time
he has not done an act nor uttered a word
that was calculated to impair that confi-
dence, but his entire demeanor and all of his
utterances have heen of a character that
has led the popular instinct to accept him
as an instrument of his country’s deliver-
ance from a political domination that
threatens to change a free government into
a capitalistic and military oligarchy.
It is tlds popular feeling, instinctively
comprehending the impending danger, that
will compel the unanimous choice of WiL-
LIAM J. BRYAN at Kansas City as the peo-
ples’ leader in the momentous conflict that
is at hand. A feeling springing from the
peoples’ desire for the preservation of their
free government will demand and insure
this unanimity in the Democratic conven-
tion. It will be an influence different
from that which operated at Philadelphia
this week, where the interests of the capi-
talists, the power of the moneyed syndi-
cates, the avarice of the trusts, the com-
mercialism that requires colonial expan-
sion for speculative profit, and those agen-
cies that would substitute imperialism for
the popular government of the founders,
demanded and secured the unanimous re-
nomination of McKINLEY.
Not Very Encouraging.
The situation in the Philippines gives
but little promise of an early termination
of hostilities beween the American troops
and the native guerilla bands. Under the
McKINLEY mismanagement the war that
was started two years ago to rescue the
Cubans from Spanish oppression has been
shifted to the other side of the world, ten
thousand miles from our shores, where our
army is engaged in conquering a resisting
people, the number of whom that have
been killed by American soldiers exceeding
the number of Cubans who lost their lives
at the hands of the Spaniards. General
McARTHUR officially reports the Filipinos
known to have been slain in engagements
with our troops as amounting to over 10,-
000 by actual count, besides the many that
were uncounted, and the large number of
wounded.
With proper management, after the
Philippines ceased to belong te Spain,such
relations might have been established with
the natives as would have peacefully
brought the islands under American influ-
ence, instead of a guerilla war that may
last for years, requiring an army of not
more than 60,000 troops, with a lamentable
loss of life and an incalculable expenditure
of money.
Little did the American people think
that their noble design to free the people
of Cuba would be given such a miserable
conclusion by parties bent upon carrying
out an imperial scheme.
——DMr. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, Eng-
land’s Secretary for the Colonies, in a speech
before the Women’s Liberal Unionist As-
sociation, on Tuesday, said that England
has the sympathy and approval of the
United States in her war to crush the South
African Republics. If his assertion was
founded on facts here is another adminis-
tration cat out of the bag that the coun-
try won’t have much pleasure at knowing.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 22, 1900.
The Danger of the Cuban Situation.
It would be well if the parties at the
head of our government. who are design-
ing to subject Cuba to the exploitation of
syndicates and speculators, should take a
hint from the result of the Cuban elections
that came off last week. The great ma-
jorities that were given the Nationalist
candidates clearly indicated that a military
government directed from headquarters at
Washington, with the prospect of carpet-
bag rule being eventually imposed upon
them, is not favorably regarded by the peo-
ple of the island, who by their votes have
expressed their desire to he their own
rulers. The Nationalist candidates repre-
sented the popular sentiment that claims
the government of Cuba for the Cubans.
It is becoming every day more evident
that the managers at Washington are
availing themselves of every excuse for not
fulfilling the pledge of Congress that self-
government should be granted to the Cu-
ban people. There is no indication of an
intention to relieve the island of the mili-
tary government that bas been imposed
upon it, which is claimed to be necessary
until the people shall be capable of self
government. As their competency in this
respect is to be determined by authorities
who have a pecuniary interest in convert-
ing Cuba into a colony that will furnish
plunder and profit to capitalistic syndi-
cates, it is to be expected that their ability
to govern themselves will not be conceded
to the Cubans, if it can be possibly avoided.
The situation in Cuba is such as should
excite the distrust of every thoughtful and
honest American citizen. The intention
to include the island in the expansion poli-
cy of McKINLEYISM is becoming obvious.
It offers so tempting a prize to carpetbag
adventurers, and to that class of capital-
istic speculators whose interests are of the
first consideration to our Republican rulers,
that there will be but little regard for the
Cubans’ right of self-government on the
part of an administration that would in-
clude the island in the imperial system
which it designs to extend over colonies
controlled by military power. When this
shall become evident to the Cuban people
an insurrection similar to that which is
costing us blood and treasure in the Phil-
ippines will be the inevitable consequence.
——The death of JAMES A. ISRAEL, the
young Pittsburg journalist, is a matter of
more than passing moment to the profes-
sion, as well as to the many warm person-
al friends he had made outside the ranks
of busy writers. Mr. ISRAEL was only 38
years old, but had already earned the repu-
tation of being one of the keenest and best
informed political writers in Pennsylvania.
His death, which occurred at his home in
Pittsburg last Friday morning from pneu-
monia, was indeed lamentable and there
are many acquaintances in Bellefonte to
sympathize with the wife and child who
are left.
The Law to Be Invoked Against Labor.
There could not be a more startling prop-
osition than that made by N. F. THoMP-
SON in an examination before the Indus-
trial Commission on the subject of strikes,
which, in substance, consisted of the broad
declaration that labor had no right to or-
ganize. The person who would put the
working people under so intolerable a ban
is a ‘high authority’ among the industrial
leaders who believe that all the advantage
should belong to the employing class, and
that those who are employed have no rights
which need be respected by those who put
their money in business. This is the im-
pression that prevails among the capitalists
that are at the head of the trusts, and reap
the benefit of tariff duties that prevent
their monopolies from being interfered with
by competition.
Admitting that some of the practices of
labor unions are calculated to produce
disturbances in the industries, and that
strikes, particularly those of a sympathetic
character, are often unreasonable, and usu.
ally more injurious than beneficial to those
who engage in them, does that fact justify
the proposition that the working people
should be denied the right to act in concert
for the protection of their interests? Is it
not grossly offensive to the dignity of labor
and an outrage upon the natural rights of
workingmen to propose, as this man
THOMPSON does, that labor unions should
be prohibited by law? Such a propositon
is particularly offensive at this time, when
capitalistic interests are being given un-
limited privilege in the formation of com-
binations aginst which labor finds a reason
to be united for its defense.
There is something astounding in the
baldness with which an agent of combined
capital declares that the law should be em-
ployed to prevent the combinations which
the workers find necessary to enter into for
the protection of their rights, that other-
wise would be defenseless. But when capi-
tal finds itself favored and sustained in
every way by existing governmental poli-
cies, and is made the especial beneficiary
of the party that controls the government,
is it surprising that it should become bold
enough to demand that the law should he
teks for the suppression of the rights of
abor ?
Politics in the Agricultural Department.
The farmers and dairymen of this State,
whose interests have been injured by the
manner in which the Agricultural Depart-
ment at Harrisburg bas been managed, can
expect no relief from the appointment of
Governor STONE'S old chum, JEssE K.
CoPE, of Chester county, in place of LEVI
WELLS, whose general inefficiency, and
unfaithfulness, particularly in regard to
oleomargarine, justiy excited hostility in
agricultural circles that forced his removal
from the office of dairy and food commis-
sioner.
This office under the state government
could be of great service to the agricul-
tural interests, as well as to the general
class of consumers in protecting them from
the imposition and injury of food adultera-
tions, but this benefit can be expected to
result from the administration of that of-
fice only when the object for which it was
designed is efficiently and faithfully car-
ried out. If treated as a place in which a
party worker or political henchman may
be put as a reward for party service, but
little regard will be paid to the real inter-
ests of the farmers and dairymen by such
an incumbent, the chief object of whose
service is more likely to be of a political
than an agricultural character, with the
additional probability that those inter-
ested in the production of oleomargarine
will be encouraged at the expense of the
pure butter producers.
Governor STONE’S treatment of the ag-
ricultural branch of his administration has
been entirely of a political character. In
filling the offices of that department the
advantage of the political machine has
been kept more closely in view than any
benefit that the farmers might derive from
it. This policy has kept HAMILTON at
the head of the Agricultural Department
in defiance of the sentiment of the agri-
culturists, who know his deficiency and
have felt the injury of his mal-administra-
tion, and this same partisan policy made
WELLS the dairy and food commissioner,
and kept him in that position until the
oleomargai ine scandals demanded and com-
pelled his removal, reluctantly conceded
by the Governor.
But in the appointment of WELLS’ suc-
cessor Governor STONE continues to allow
politics to be the ruling factor, with every
appearance that the agricultural interest
and the wish of the farmers and dairymen
were but secondary considerations in his
action. There was practically a unanimous
demand on the part of the Granges and
Dairy Associations for the appointment of
JASON SEXTON, who would be sure to con-
duct the office more for the benefit of the
men on the farms and in the creameries
than for the advantage of the political ma-
chine, but this preference was disregarded
by the Governor in his selection of JESSE
K. CopE, who, though a farmer, was com-
mended to the consideration of the exec-
utive more by the fact that he was a
partisan, and was prominent among those
who in the State Convention had supported
Governor STONE'S nomination. From these
circumstances and indications the farmers
and dairymen will have but little reason
to expect that there will he much, if any,
change in’ the machine administration of
the office of dairy and food commissioner.
Bad Treatment of the Colored Brethven.
The real feeling of the Republican lead-
ers for the colored brethren who furnish so
large a percentage of the party vote was
displayed by an incident connected with
the Philadelphia convention. Two of the
prominent city Republican leaders were
put on a committee that was appointed by
the managers for the reception and enter-
tainment of the negro delegates from
Southern States, but they were so highly
offended by their being selected to perform
such a service that they promptly pub-
lished a repudiation of the appointment in
terms that expressed their indignation.
The African Republicans from the South,
who had been delegates to help renominate
WiLLiaM McKINLEY had to put up with
such a reception and entertainment as
could be furnished them by the darkies of
Lombard and South streets.
It was a natural feeling that impelled
the two white committeemen to kick
against being assigred the duty of enter-
taining negroes, but the party that is so
largely depending upon the colored people
for the votes that keep it in power, should
be ready to receive it with open arms and
provide first-class entertainment for the
gentlemen of color who are sent as dele-
gates to its National Conventions.
When it is considered that there are 1,-
200,000 negro voters, and that McKINLEY’S
majority was about 600,000, it isn’t diffi-
cult to see what his chance of election
would have been if the African vote had
not been a factor in the last presidential
election.
——The taxpayers of the county will
heartily approve of the action of the County
Commissioners in appropriating $1,000 to
the Centennial celebration fund. It is
purely a county affair and by this appro-
priation every taxpayer is directly con-
nected with its success.
NO. 25.
How McKinley Prosperity Is Prospering.
From Dunn’s Review, June 9th.
Failures in May were not only the larg-
est ever known in that month, since such
records were made, but of eighty months
covered by these returns only six have
shown as large liabilities. * * *
The impression grows, also, that no ex-
tensive changes in business are now proba-
ble until after the presidential election,
and the possibility of trouble in China has
at least as definite an influence on Ameri-
can affairs as any change in South Africa.
The unsettled condition of labor contro-
versies, moreover, operates strongly for the
time to limit expansion of domestic busi-
ness.
_ Itis but a few days since an eminent
ironmaster overwhelmed doubts and
quessious by the positive declaration that
any decline, whatever, in the price of iron
this year was simply impossible. Yet an-
thracite No. 1 has declined $4.25 per ton,
and this week the Bessemer Association
has reduced its price at Pittsburg $4.90 per
ton, and the southern makers $2 per ton.
The minor metals and coke are weaker.
Petroleum has again been reduced to 7.85
cts., against 9.90 April 4th, and rubber to
86 cts., against $1.04 in March. Silk and
hemp are both lower. Wool has not de-
clined further, but is weak and in small
demand, many of the mills having inade-
quate orders for goods. Still more import-
ant is the fall in cotton to 8.81 cts., against
9.87 a month ago, which is also due in part
to restricted demand for goods at the ad-
vanced prices asked. The statement often
made that all the textile mills are running
full time does not appear accurate; the
production is heavy, but by no means fall.
Hides have declined further, both packer
hides at Chicago and dry hides here, and
the decline in this important material has
heen over 20 per cent., while in leather it
has not averaged 8 per cent. The boot
and shoe manufacturers maintain that they
cannot accept lower prices and the closing
of many works indicates that the embar-
rassment is serious. Shipments of boots
and shoes in June thus far have heen
smaller than in any other year of the past
nine; ccmpared with 1895, the decrease is
nearly a quarter, and compared with last
year is over one-seventh.
No Wonder the Scandal Grows.
From the New York World.
The Cuban scandal grows. The Secre-
tary of War’s official statement to Congress
of the public receipts and expenditures of
the island during last year shows that out
of a total revenue of $14,000,000 over $4,-
000,000 was disbursed for salaries and $1,-
377,000 more on the ‘‘Iabor pay-roll.”’
This enormous dishursement of more
than $5,377,000 was entirely for civilian
employes and laborers, and doesmot eover
the pay of the army officers in Cuba.” And
it is to he remembered that our government
in Cuba has been in theory at least a mili-
tary government. A mass of items footing
up a total of nearly $500,000 are charged as
‘‘extraordinary 2xpenses ordered by the
military governor,” but just what they
were incurred for is not stated.
Behind these figures many secrets are
concealed. Among them are Estes G. Rath-
bone’s gorgeous life in one of Havana’s fin-
est mansions, conducted on a scale of $20,-
000 a year; Charles F. Neely’s sudden rise
from poverty in Indiana to affluence and
grandeur in Cuba, and, more splendid, still
the career of the North American ‘I'rust
Co., the government’s ‘‘fiscal agent for
Cuba,” with Fletcher S. Heath, brother of
assistant postmaster General Heath, as one
of its directors.
No wonder Senators at Washington are
amazed at the size and plain significance of
these figures. No wonder there isa de-
mand for a thorough and rigid investiga-
tion.
The looting of Cuba is the scandalous
climax of an administration that has been
most prolific in scandals.
How a Republican National Commit=
teeman Sees it.
From ihe speech of Hon. H. C. Payne, of Wis.
I find men who were great factors in
polling the large vote for McKinley in
1896 are not with us now. There is a con-
dition of affairs in Mr. Kernes’ city of St.
Louis which is liable to turn it Democrat-
ic, and in my own city of Milwaukee there
is a dissatisfied element that is liable to
turn the 10,000 majority for William Mec-
Kinley to 10,000 majority for William
Jennings Bryan in 1900. .
We should look the matter squarely in
the face. You in this great Republican
city and State look around and t1y to help
your neighbors. I tell you I would rather
go through forty campaigns like that of
1896 than the one we are to go throuxh
now. The campaign of 1896 was a picnic
compared to what the campaign of 1900
will be. There are new issues to meet,
new couditions to overcome, and we can-
not afford to be over-confident, but on the
contrary, we should never cease working
for the success of the party nominees.
What We Are After.
From the Venango Spectator.
Since his arrival home a few days ago,
Gen. Otis goes on with his parrot-like state-
ment that the ‘‘war is over’’ in the Philip-
pines. In the teeth of his assertions come
advices that the long rainy season is on,
and the insurrection more active and an-
noying than ever. Our troops killed over
200 Filipinos in sorties and skirmishes last
week. Gen. McArthur’s death list, sent
on Tuesday, contained the names of 23
United States officers and men. Yet, un-
der McKinley’s policy, we are to go on
wasting and expending an indefinite num-
ber of lives and $130,000,000 a year in this
miserable scheme of the conquest of a coun-
try and people of no value to us. A square,
honest word to the Filipinos would stop it
all. But such a word doesn’t suit the pur-
pose of the grabber. It isr’t pirate ethics.
We're out for the stuff.
——From every section of the country
comes tales of enormous peach crops. This
will probably be the peach year which will
break the record, and will make up for the
#’. ost total absence of that fruit from the
markets last year.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Falling 60 feet to the bottom of a quarry,
at Bainbridge, Alexander McGallagher, of
Lancaster, was killed.
—True bills have been found in the Blair
county court against six Altoona merchants,
charged with illegally selling oleomargarine.
—Judge W. F. Bay-Stewart is at the head
of a York company, with a capital of $300,-
000, which will mine gypsum in New York
State.
—Falling from a freight train at Reading,
John W. Beber, of that city, a veteran of the
Spanish-American war, sustained injuries
from which he died.
—Hundreds of men have been laid off work
in the Cambria Steel company plant at
Johnstown and hundreds more are promised
a season of idleness before many days.
—The new St. Vincent’s hospital, of Erie,
was opened Friday. The building is built
of gray stone and brick. It contains 130
rooms and will accommodate 250 patients.
—On Thursday last the new Presbyterian
church at Rehoboth, Rostraver township,
Westmoreland county, was dedicated. It
has a seating capacity of 350 and cost $16,000.
—Samuel Matter and John Cooper, of
Loganton, Clinton county, were in the Black
forest a few days ago, fishing. They sighted
a bear which they shot. The animal weigh-
ed 325 pounds. :
—Saturday, June 9th, was reunion day for
the various camps of the Junior Order United
American Mechanics of Perry county. It
was held at New Bloomfield and was very
largely attended.
—While stooping over a cannon and ex-
amining an apparently extinguished fuse at
Mahanoy City on Thursday, the weapon ex-
ploded, blowing off the top of the head of
Charles Anchey, aged 16.
—Contracts for the erection of the new
pulp mill and other buildings at Austin will
be let next week. It is expected that the
buildings for the manufacture of pulp and
paper will be completed early next year.
—While looking over the garden patch at
his old home at Cornprobst Mill on Sunday
last Oliver Moore, of Huntingdon, found a
gold ring lost by his mother, Harriett Moore,
some 28 years ago. The ring wasin a fair
state of preservation.
—Postmaster Hall has been notified that
three of the clerks in the Lock Haven post-
office have had their salaries raised. Cap’t.
George T. Michaels receives an increase of
$200 per year, George Hall and James Crow-
ley each an increase of $100.
—Solomon C. Ritchey, of Bedford, is the
proud possessor of a freak—a three legged
duckling. It is 10 days old, hearty and
happy. The third leg seems to be more
ornamental than useful, but perhaps it serves
as a rudder when the bird takes to the water.
—While N. W. Hess, of Mixtown, was
driving to Sabinsville, Tioga county, Sat-
urday, his horse was frightened by a dog
and ran away. Mr. Hess was thrown from
the buggy and received injuries which re-
sulted in his death.
—Recently William Swan, of Neelyton,
Huntingdon county, while working on his
father’s farm, found a turtle with John J.
Swan’s name and date of 1841 carved on the
under part of the shell. Itis supposed the
turtle has resided on the farm during the
fifty-nine years since the name was carved.
—In thirty seven of these United States a
married mother has no right to her children.
In sixteen States a wife has no legal right
to her own earnings outside of the home. In
eight States a woman has no right to her own
property after marriage. In seven States
there is no law compelling a man to support
his own family.
—Juniata county commissioners have de-
cided that after the 20th of the present
month they would pay no: bounties for fox,
mink, wildcat or other scalps, for the reason
that the last scalp law passed by the Legis-
lature has been held to be unconstitutional
by some of the courts of the State, because of
the defective title to the act.
—\William Burns, night watchman at the
Aschman steel works, at Sharon, was held
up on the rear platform of a passenger train
on the Erie railroad Tuesday night by four
men and robbed of $25 and a gold watch.
They then beat him unmercifully and threw
him off the train, which was running 25
miles an hour. Burns came here a few weeks
ago from Pittshurg.
—William Cook lost a fine gold watch
while plowing at his farm near Hyndman in
the spring of 1899. This spring the land
was plowed again but the watch remained
hidden. On Sunday, when walking across
the field, Mr. Cook noticed something shin-
ing in the grass and on investigating found it
to be his watch. With the exception of a
rusted mainspring, the watch was none the
worse for its year’s rest in the ground.
—Mrs. Mary E. Green, of Renovo, attend-
ed a festival given in Kane's theatre Friday
night, and while eating ice cream was
stricken with paralysis. She was able to
walk about a square towards her home, when
she became helpless. She was carried to her
room, where during the night she became
unconscious, and expired Saturday morning
about 6:15 o'clock. She was the wife of the
late John P. Green, foreman of the black-
smith shop. 3
—A town of 1,000 or more population will
spring up at Conemaugh furhace, near Johns-
town, in less than a month. Houses are
rapidly being constructed and a big incline
railway reaching from the valley to the top
of the mountain will soon be completed.
One of the biggest stone quarries in the
country is being opened there by Drake &
Stratton and Kerbaugh for the Conemaugh
Stone company. Five hundred men are to
be employed at once.
—During the prevalence of a storm about
8:30 o'clock Friday night a bolt of lightning
struck the house occupied by Thos. Heller's
family on Coal Hill. The building was
more or less damaged and one of the chil-
dren who was sound asieep in a bed on the
first floor was rendered unconscious for possi-
bly fifteen minutes. Another of the chil-
dren, a lad about 10 years of age, was stand-
ing just outside the door in his bare feet. A
dog lying a few feet away from him was kill-
ed by the electric shock, and the youngster's
left leg was burned from the knee to the end
of his little toe. +The burn looked as though
it might have been done by a hot poker.