Dewalt Wan, BY PP. GRAY MEEK. ssp— Ink Slings. —All honor to the few American athletes who refused to contest in the world’s ama- teur championship games in Paris on Sun- day. —In swappin’ Jas. H. BECK, of Phila- delphia, for Hon. WEBSTER DAVIS we really ought to have given the Republicans a good bit of boot, ior we certainly did get the long end of that deal. — The annual discussion as to the im- morality of bathing suits is on at the sea- shore. It is well that they have something on at the shore, for it long ago became evi- dent that there wasn’t much bathing suit on. —The human vampires at Washington have pulled away until they have another slat off the public crib. A late decision gives all officials another opening to get their bands in by declaring tips to be a nec- essary expense. —_Horticulturists say this is to be a great fruit year in“Pennsylvania; the peach crop is to be especially long. The good Lord deliver us from any more peaches than a variety of people makes believe there are DOW. —Sirius, the dog star, is in the ascen- dency now and TEDDY is beginning to show unmistakable signs of the rabies. He jumps upon every platform, barrel or box that is in his way and barks at the people until he froths at the mouth. —1If Lt Huxa CHANG had only seen to it that the Chinese army was equipped with wooden guns this time, as he did a number of years ago, the allied powers might have {nterceded to have his yellow jacket and ‘peacock feather restored. — WILLIE WALDORF ASTOR, with the ac- cent on the As, ex-American, now threatens to become an ex-%nglishman. In fact he seems to be a man without a country just now. To be without a country would be a serious matter to some people, but WILLIE hasn’t enough marbles to appreciate what such a condition means. —The situation in China becomes more appalling with each succeeding day’s news. But with all the atrocities that the yellow derils have committed on our helpless citi- zens in their land it - would be proclaiming ourselves as barbarous and - uncivilized as they are were we to permit the injury of a single Chinaman in our land. +A Bellefonte man actually thought that the columns in the Court of Honor in the Diamond were intended to represent the cemetery. Just what led him to think the cemetery ought to figure as the princi- pal ornament in the Centennial demonstra: tion we don’t | know,” bot it is an open se- cret that since the strawberry season ceme~ teries have heen uppermost in his mind. —Renovo has a “thief who was mean enough to steal a contribution box that had heen placed in a hotel there for the benefit of the Lock Haven hospital. It is on such little legacies that the institution exists, but the miserable cuss who stole this: one evidently thought the legacy his and now chief LEGACY, of the Renovo police force, is on his trail and if he is canght judge MAY- ER will probably give him a legacy of nine- ty days. —The ‘arrival of the “iapott ‘‘Han- cock, ” as she slipped in to her dock in San | Francisco on Saturday, was ‘scarcely mo- ticed. There was too much appalling news from China. Yet there were forty dead and two hundred and. twenty-one mainied soldiers on hoard. They have come from the Philippines, where our “be- nevolent assimilation’? still goes on at the | price of good American blood. -~In 1896 there were 6, 502,925 people | who voted for. Dem c. doctrines and | precepts. Yet the Hon. JAMES, M. BECK tells us there is no Democratic party now. Yes he does. It has doubtless become evi- | dent to most everyone who has read Jim's declaration of separation, that what ‘he needs most of all is an ‘offer of an office just one step higher than the one Republicanism | recently bonght bim with. No matter what party it comes from he will be for it.. —TIt is up to the colored voter now and and it remains to be seen what he intends doing. : ROOSEVELT sneered at the brave blacks who saved him and his Rough Rid- ers from being cut to pieces on San Juan hill, the black delegates from the South were openly snubbed at MeKINLEY'S Philadelphia convention and on last Thursday Governor STONE dismissed GRIFFIN TAYLOR, the only colored man he had appointed to office, to make room for one of Senator JIM MITCHELL'S henchmen who wanted the black man’s job as a night watchman in the executive department. It is up: to the colored voter now. What will he do? ——The auditing department of the Treas- ury has just taken action on a matter that is likely to establish a very bad precedent. A contract nurse, havi ing completed a trip from San Francisco to Brooklyn, gave the porter of his car a tip of fifty cents and entered the amount as expenses. The bill was held up for some time, but the department has fi- nally acted, allowing tips as a necessary expense. In the first place it is a great wonder that this particular nurse ever sur- vived the moment he banded that porter fifty cents, after taking a three thousand mile trip with him. Maybe the porter spared him because he was an army nurse. In theseeond, it wasn’t that fifty cents thut will be felt by the government, but the fu- ture millions of dollars that will leak out through this new hole they have made in STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 45 Effect of Militarism. Our progress in the direction of empire and militarism is at a rapid pace these days. We have 100,000 troops now in serv- ice but must have as many more to do the work that is required. It has been gravely announced that the war is over in the Philippines, but General MacARTHUR demands a reinforcement of 50,000 officers and men. It will require 100,000 men to pacify the archipelago, he says, and unless enough are sent to make up that namber those already there will probably be mur- dered or starved. The regiment that was sent to Chind a few weeks ago bas been practically annihilated and it will be nec- essary to send fifteen or twenty thousand more to make our quota of the invading army. Then Porto Rico must be policed with troops, Cuba must be garrisoned to protect the postal thieves and other repre- sentatives of the government on that Island and all in all we must have as vast an army as our neighbors who keep up imperial pretenses. Can anyone imagine the outcome of such a policy? For a century and a quarter the glory of this country lay in the achieve- ments of peace, the advancement of science and the development of our matchless re- sources. To feed the world was the high- est aspirations of our forefathers and to supply it with its needs in manufactures the cherished ambition of those who fol- lowed the founders of the Republic. In the falfillment of these aspirations our pop- ulation increased and wealth multiplied. Others cultivated the arts of war and di- rected their energies to the work of des. traction, but the American people built up and spread out nationally’ until the hopes of the founders and the ambitions of those who followed were about to be realized. Then a strange purpose insinuated - itself into our minds. = We conceived the curious notion that there is greater glory in des- troying than in creating and we have fol- lowed this lead until now the necessity of a great army confronts us. The maihtenance of a_vast army costs enormously and draws from the wealth of the country /in two ways. place it takes from the number of produc- ers and adds to to the consumers who do not produce. bisa ‘principle of economic law and the wealth of a country will increase in proportion as fhe number of producers is greater than the number of consumers who do not produce. :. For example, take a man who has four nonproduncers dependent upon his labor for support. He can’t pos- sibly accumulate as rapidly as one who has only half the number of mouths to feed from the proceeds of his labor. The United ‘States increased in wealth more rapidly than any other country in the world for the reason that we have less non-pro- ducers to feed in proportion to the num-- ber of producers who are earning. But ‘in creating a vast army we are beginning the reversal of this condition, and we not | only increase the force of non-producers to' be fed but decrease the number of produc- ers who must bear the burden of feeding YHem, ; oo, Mr. Hanna’s Notions. Senator MARK HANNA bas assumed a new, ‘role in the political affairs of the country. That is to say he is now doing the “DANIEL comé to’ judgment’ “act, ‘though whether he will ‘acquit himself ‘well or ill remains to be seen. goes about the business in great serious- ness and though most spectators of his per- formance are “laughing in their sleeves,” he goes on gravely as if he were recognized as the principal constituticnal lawyer of his day and generation and the fact were recognized by all others. For example, Senator HANNA was inter- ‘viewed the other day ou the Chinese ques- tion and delivered himself ‘as follows: “The President has fall power to meet all ‘conditions as they may arise. He has a full treasury and is empowered to call on all the troops he may require to meet such | There seems to emergencies as may arise. be no reason why Congress should be called together. make such a step necessary, however.” Hardly under the circumstances, as Mr. HANNA appears to view them. With plenty of money in the treasury and the power to summon all the troops that are needed what possible reason could there he for calling Congress into extra session or any other session? For that matter what is the matter with an imperial ukase? Some other people have been in the hab- it of taking another view of the matter, it is true, but thas reveals their ignorance. For instance there may be an old fogy here and there who still adheres to the consti- tution to the extent of believing that how- ever full the treasury is no money can be taken from it except by appropriation of Congress. Others still think there is vital- ity in the constitutional provision which declares that only Congress can declare war and organize an army. But Mr. HAN- | NA knows’ hetter. He understands the imperial prerogativeand knows that under existing conditions the President can do all these things with one hand tied behind his the public barrel. back. Mr. HANNA is a Jim-dandy. bi In the first | But he Subsequent ‘developments may BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 20, 1900. Quay OuZ of It. The result of the Republican primaries in Lebanon and York counties may be said to have eliminated Col. QUAY from the senatorial contest next year. Of course the result in York county will have no in- fluence on the vote for Senator for the peo- ple of that county will send a solid dele- gation of thorough-going Democrats to the House as usual. But the result in Lebanon county is a net loss of two votes to QUAY, however, and as there is ne perceptible chance to even up elsewhere there can be no possible hope of doing better in the next Legislature than in the last. Under such circumstances he would be foolish to con- tinue in the fight. But while it appears clear that the ex- Senator will not. be in the running next year, it is not as certain who will become his political legatee. In other words while Col. QUAY will not bave sufficient strength to elect himself, he is certain to have fol- lowing enough in the coming Legislature to prevent the election of any Republican who is particularly obnoxious to him. The question then is who of QUAY’s friends in the Republican party can sufficiently com- mand the confidence of the insurgents to get the votes of both factions? It may be confidently said that nobody who was ac- tive in the opposition to QUAY during the last session’ will be able to reconcile him now, and it is equally sure that nobody who wasrecognized as an out-and-out QUAY man then can get the votes of the insurgents next year. The HARRY OLIVER mine was exploded too soon or it might have taken the trick. Mr. OLIVER is a rather clever gentleman, who has taken little interest in' politics since his defeat for Senator in 1881 and might have been smuggled through, though he is a close personal friend of QUAY, if he had’ been held in concealment until near the time. - But his name was sprung at the State Convention and the opposition jump- ed all over him. There is no donbt that Senator FLINN ‘had Senator MAGEE in training for the office during the entire period of the last session and QUAY was not entirely averse to him: But near the close he bolted and to-day is as’ obnoxious to QUAY as WANAMAKER or CHAS. EMORY SMITH. a majority i in the next Legislature it is not easy to see how a Senator will be; elected at all. i ——Tt'don’t prove anything in the Woy of showing McK INLEY'S strength to parade the names of those who supported: him four years ago, as favorable to him now. Of the dozen or more ‘‘gold Democrats’ who have announced themselves as against BRYAN, not a single one of them support- ed him in 1896." McKINLEY had them all. He has possibly one tenth of the pretended | Democratic following be had then, and is just that iach weaker, go far as that class of voters go. Where he holds one ‘‘goldi| Democratic'’ vote, he’ loses | ten, and this loss, alone, is sufficient to change. results. | 4543 No Man Wil Fl} Envy Them. i The man who counts the value of his | dollars as of more importance than the | preservation of his government is certainly too sordid an individual to be classed’ asa good citizen. "And this is the exact posi- tion of that class of men styling themselves ‘gold Demoerats.’’ To preserve the in- | trinsic value of their dollars, they would allow all the evils of imperialism, militar- | ism and trustism. to be fastened permanent- ly upon the country. i ‘Mistakes in money uideters can easily be corrected. At the Tongest they could ex- ‘ist but two years, for. each Congress can ‘change or amend the financial legislation | as it pleases. os Imperialism, if it once gets a foothold, can never be’ up-rooted. Militarism, with its standing armies and taxes to maintain them, is an affliction that no people, once cursed with, bas ever been able to shake ‘off. Trustism, that throttles individual enterprise and closes the avenues of busi- ness to every young man in the country, is as lasting as is the power of money and once fairly established can never be con- trolled or curbed. ! These monstrous menaces to the wilfute of the people, to the good name of the Re- public, to the prospects and hopes of fu- ture generations and to the purpose for which this government was established are ‘as nothing in the eyes of some men, as com-, pared with the value of the dollars they have gathered and now gloat over. When we look the position squarely in the face that the ‘‘gold Demoorat’’ places himself in and know that it is only a ques- tion of greed that makes him look to the value of his dollars when the existence of every principle of free government is at stake, we must pity the man ‘even if we are compelled to despise the mercenary motives that actuate him. In his make- up there is something wrong—Ilacking. 'Someting so venal, so avaricious, and so greedy that all better instincts are smoth- ered, and his life is worth living only for fhe money that can: be counted and cared or EE SS In fact unless the Democrats have NO. 28. ‘Judge Kohlsaat’s Decision, A Federal Judge named KOHLSAAT, who lives in Chicago, has volunteered the judi- cial opinion that the constitution does nct of its own, power apply to territory held by the United States. The question was not properly-before Judge KOHLSAAT, but that didn’t make any difference to him. He believed that the President wanted that kind of a decision and he knew the party needed one very badly and so he supplied it. In Chicago, where he is known the de- cision will be laughed at as he probably knew. But the decision wasn’t for home consumption. It was strickly for export trade—that is to say for vse where KOHL- SAAT will be taken for a real judge, be- cause he is in commission and draws the salary of a judge. When McKINLEY had his little financial troubles a few years ago it will be remem- bered that the hat was passed around in order that 2 fund might be subscribed to discharge the debt. The most generous subscription was that of MARK HANNA and since that the Ohio boss has owned McKINLEY body and soul, subject. of course, to. small mortgages given to the other subscribers. Among other subserib- ers were two other gentlemen of Chicago, Messrs. LYMAN J. GAGE and H. H. KOHL- SAAT, who owned two newspapers and a great number of bakeries and restaurants on the buttermilk plan. When McKIn- LEY was elected President all the sub- scribers gat offices for themselves or friends and hence Judge KOHLSAAT who made the decision id question. Mr. H. H. KOHLSAAT, whose bakeries and restaurants combined and his two pap-. ers made him rich in ready money, didn’t want an ‘office, but he had a brother who had been Judge of the Probate Court. of Chicago for some time. Judge of the Pro- bate Court there is something like Register of Wills here and BAKER" KOHLSAAT con- ceived the notion that ‘having filled that office bis. ‘brother was qualified to adorn the judicial position and he demanded of MeKISLEY a place for him on ‘the District Bench. It was an impudent demand, of course, but the mortgage was there and the appointment was made. It turns out now to hav “been wise, for probably no ‘other hi 1d have given such a decision. ——— ; ——The Clearfield county farmer who, bad his pocket picked of $51 while admir- ing the great human flag, that was the principal feature of the Fourth celebration’ in Clearfield will probably think of the stars and stripes forever, more than will JoHN PHILIP SOUSA, the composer. i Roosevelt and His Qualities. In his speech. notifying Governor ROOSE- VELT of his noniination as the Republican candidate for’ Vice President the other day Senator WOLCOTT said, that gentleman had been chosen for the ‘position hecause of his: | conspicuous’ civic virtues.: “Yon have ; everywhere and ‘at’ all times stood for that | which was clean and uplifting and against | anything. that was sordid and. base,’ said. Mr. WOLCOTT. It that were true there ‘would bé ‘nothing in common between Gov- | ernor ROOSEVELT and. Senator WorcorT, | for he represents everything that is the op- | posite of that to : ‘which he referred. He is what might be called a ‘moral Roagh Rider, | Astor's receptions, requested her: guest, a -| military. gentleman, to go with her. He ‘a man of violence and a roysterer. But what he said of ROOSEVELT is not ‘true and if it had been, some other’ man | would have been ‘chosen for the office. : ROOSEVELT was. ‘nominated because hei is. a ‘man of blood who loves turmoil and disor- der and would be an outlaw if he had been less fortunate in his environment’ daring’ the period. of childhood. Even as it is, though born: ‘with a silver spoon in his mouth; and brought up under the most re- fining fofluendes bis inclinations made him ‘a cowboy and his habits those ofa ruffian. It must not be assumed that he adopted that occupation because he was inclined to’ work. There were plenty of opportunities to work in otheravenues of industry. But he adopted that life because it was congen- ial to his tastes and for the reason that it ‘gave him license to indulge in rowdyism to any extent he desired. : THEODORE ROOSEVELT i is nof the admir- ‘able representative of a chivalrous class that dares peril. ‘He is a lover of violence, an iron man without those qualities which make uneducated men gentle and rough ‘diamonds in human forn: tender. He likes ‘to kill and ride down opposition and blus- ter and bully. ‘Because of these character- istics he was nominated for Vice President. Those who made the nomination bad the mistaken notion that such a man would be popular with the voters in the Western States, where: votes are needed, and his nomination was for that reason and not be- cause of his civic virtues. The truth may as well be told, for it. will come out in the end anyway. ——A Tyrone girl was arrested in Johns- town on Tuesday for street walking and sent to the lock up, There are several in Bellefonte who ought to visit Johnstown. that Bryan lacked of election i in 1896. , -is ‘a boer. if Kind, of Eroggeriey is Stein 1 us ‘Fromm the Look Heven Der Democrat. McKinley and the Flag. President McKINLEY, who, whenever it is possible, indulges in that cheap cant about love for the flag, took a flyer on that line in his speech in reply to the address of Senator LODGE notifying him of his nomi- nation as the Republican candidate for | President, the other day. ‘The Amer- i the financial honor of ‘our A sacred as our flag,’ said the Major,’ ‘88d can be relied on to guard it, with the same sleepless vigilance. ? What egregious rubbish, especially from such a source. In the first place, if the American peopls held the flag as sacred, President McKIN- LEY would be called to account for his vio- lations of the constitution. The flag is simply the outward form of expressing the. principles embodied in the constitution. ‘Whenever the constitution is violated the flag is dishonored and McKINLEY has vio- lated the constitution whenever it has stood in the way of his political plans and busi- ness schemes. When, at the instance of his brother ABNER, he turned the treasury over to the New York speculators for their gain and that of his brother, he violated the constitution and if the American peo- ple had even decent respect for the flag he would have been summoned to the bar of the Senate to answer ‘puoceed ings in im- peachment. Mr. MoKisuey | has violated the con-. stitution in. of instances and .out- raged the flag. ‘oftener than he has fingers and toes. In the Puerto Rican bill he committed the crime knowingly and de- liberately, for he bad previously . asserted the right course to pursue. But the sugar and tobacco trusts forced him to dishonor the flag and violate the’ sacred principles of the Declaration of Independence and: he. did it with as little concern as if the aet did not involve both the dishonor ‘of ‘the | flag and the violation of ‘his oath’ of ofice, : m——— +5 11linois Might 'Be Be For Bryan. . i” From the New York Journal. z "The police mathematicians are ing on the action of the Ceu They are trying to estimate a Go German votes will go to Bryan on the is ge of ‘imperialism than will 0.80 MeKinle, on Jing hinm : 8 H, Let ns give them Adit ei There are other issues than ‘these. For instance, keep an eye on Ilinois. i There is a strike on in Chicago. It. is really a lockout, The contractors demand that their ‘workmen shall. give up their. unions before they will discuss terms, Those contractors i all ‘Kepublicans, at least in spirit. Fifty thousand families of workingmen, in Chicago have been in grinding distress for months. They have had no share in Republican ‘‘prosperity.”’ If ail men are to vote for their pockets, as every Republi- can authority says they, should, every one. of these locked-out workers will: vote the Democratic ticket, A That labor trouble_alone will carry. Illi- | And Illinois has twenty- nois for Bryan. four electoral votes—just half the Ember —— Astor's rs Plight. From the Altoona Tribune. bay} Mr: William Waldorf! Astor, who § some | months ago renonnced his American citi: zenship for various: reasons—some avowed, some upavowed—has | received a very se- rious: set-back in his:aspirations for social: success in: England; as: most of our readers already know. Alady whose husband was unable to accompany het: to one of Mr. | went, but was repulsed by Mr. Astor, who not: only ordered him to leave the house | | but: published an insulting card in’ his pa- per, the Pall. Mall Gazette, although the in- | sulted gentleman took pains to write him a note explaining the eircumstances. Pablic opinion in England, led by the Prince of Wales, is pretty unanimous that Mr. Astor ‘His careeras a: British subject seems to be about ended; Whyt Hot migtate} to Russias, The blast furnace of the Danville’ Bes semer company went out of blast Saturday ‘and there are no hopes of its resuming. Three plants of the Bessemer company are | now closed down and 1,000 men who had work three months ago are out of employ- ment or have left town. Besides ( dull among the merchants.’ a We Don’t Believe, He's a Kicker. From the Philipsburg Le Ledger. J. L. Sp ngler, who would like to repre- sent this district in Congress, in a speech he made recently in Kansas, denpunces the silver plank in bis party’s platform. Mr. Spangler might as well repudiate the entire platform, it he can’t swallow the silver cause. ih dago and his dancing bear. Got drunk one day last week. In atown up in the mountains— A hamlet, so to speak. The dago fell into a doze, The bear struck ont to fight, And soon the frightened villagers— Were chased clean out ¢f sight. Both grown people and children ran A pace so awful fast, That never once could witness tell Which one was front or last. With hair on end they ran and ran, Some say they're running yet, 1f so the whole of Listie town Will wear the sign “To Let.” Er ams which forces ont the for \ =| wheat pierced entirely. through the palm of i -one of his hands, tearing itself out: between > Spawls from the Keystone. ds —A Philadelphia company will establish a plant for the manufacture of lamp black at Ladona, near Coudersport, where an appar- ently inexhaustible supply of natural gas has been struck. —Jobn Robinson, an employe of Welsh Bros. circus, laid down on the track while intoxicated, at Ridgway Saturday night. He was run over by a train and mangled. He was 23 years old and resided at' Columbia. —Partaking freely of ice cream after it had been packed in a freezer. several days, the’ 3 year old child of Frank Hawley, of Baker Creek near Coudersport, died Thursday eve- ning. Another child, a year and a half old, is in a critical condition from the same cause. —A 6-year-old son of Joseph Gahrs, of Dagus mines, Saturday evening struck an axe into a keg of powder stored in his fath- er's barn. The powder exploded and the boy was burned so badly that he died a few hours later. The barn in which the explo- ‘sion occurred was totally destroyed. —The two counterfeiters, Kimball and Austin, who have been in the Coudersport jail for several months, will be tried at Erie this week. The accused men are charged -with turning out five and ten dollar bills in large numbers by a photographic process.’ The paraphernalia was found and seized at Tamarack Swamp. —A buzzard with a bell dangling to its neck, and sounding the gong at every flutter in the air, has been causing some excitement in Potter township, Potter county,during the past week. It is evidently the same bird that did business in Franklin county about three years ago. How the bell became fastened about the buzzard's neck is a mystery. —The County National bank of Clearfield has taken a new departure and enrolled a lady, Miss Emma Worrel, among its emp loy-. es. Thereis no good reason why banking should not offer a good field for the employ- ment of women, who are naturally more im- pressed by responsibility than their brothers’ and are, too, more patient with the ignorance of the public. —R. D. Green, of Ormsby who was ‘'killed” by two newspapers during the terrible forest fires in and around Newton and Ormsby’ some weeks ago, is still alive and happy. He said that when he read the news of his tragic death he thought it a pretty good joke, but he did object strongly to the published story a day or ‘two later that his widow had been sent to the almshouse. —The thirteenth annual Lutheran reunion of Blair and adjacent counties will be held at rangements are being made which promise the largest attendance of; Lutherns ever gath- ered at the park. . Reduced. rates and: special railroad: facilities will be secured, * The pro-i | fgfam’6f -ex exercises ‘at’ the park. auditorium will’ provide for an unusual variety of short’ addresses and 2 an abi “of Fria niusic. i AA A ee P ps oe " —While John Laidig, of near ar Laidig, Ful-, ton county, was in ‘the, harvest field, operat- ing a self-binder, a few daysago, he had some difficulty in adjusting the packer and knot- the two middle fingers: and uiehigd a Yepriie i wound. © H —The Williamsport school board finds that it will take $96,700 to meet running expenses : this fiscal year. It will receive a trifle over” $30,000 from the state, and other sources, and has decided to levy a tax of 5% mills to meet building purposes and three-fonrths for pres- ent and proposed loan, a, total levy of 4. mills. The Board also imposes a poll tax of $1 on every adult male citizen, Yae proceeds to go to the general fund. : J now. running the exterior lines of the lands '| recently purchased for forestry purposes, and which tracts are now known asthe ‘Hopkins ' Reservation.’ The lands ‘are in Clinton, Centre and Cameron counties. : being done under the direction of ‘the State Forestry Reservation | commission. The ter, attempting to correct the’ same v While the : Lakemont park, . Thursday, Aug. 23, Ar-. 3 the difference; ‘then there is one mill for | —\V.'P. Mitchell and a force of men are. ‘The work is starting point last, Monday was at the south : end of the reservation, on what was former ly known, as the Kulp and Wolverton tracts: ‘which traets are on Big Sandy and Panther runs, tributaries to' Beech creek. It will’ res! ‘quire four or five ‘months to ‘complete the survey. —About 7:30 0 clock Sundays morning, J aly : 1, the town of Glasglow, Cambria county, Rollo purchased some dynamite: on Saturday ‘to ‘blast some stumps near his house, and after taking it home instructed his son a other kitchen, some distance from the house, —George Francis Dégenhardt; of Altoona, : ] who was ghot in the left hand with a 38-cal- iber revolver on the night of July 3 died at 7.15 Thursday evening of tetanus which is volver and several blank cartridges on. the evening of July 3. As he neared home he loaded the weapon and, as he reached the side gate, discharged it with the intention of scaring the folks. took effect in his hand but he was unable to. I tell just how the accident happened. The paper wad had penetrated the palm of the hand, near the thumb. Thinking the injury hand and next morning sent him to a physi- cian who dressed the wonnd and it soon healed. Last Tuesday evening Francis com- ‘plained of a strange, numb sensation about his jaws when he “opened his mouth. The physician was summoned and, after etheriz- | ing the lad, he operated onthe hand, extract- ing the wad. He grew rapidly worse, how- ‘ever, and suffered intensely ‘up. to the time -1lof his death. ‘was suddenly’ ‘startled by an explosion at the ‘home of Michael Rollo, near there. Mr. . ‘youth of 10 years,toputit in a safe place. The “boy put the stuff in the oven of the kitchen +} stove by instructions from his grandmother. s | Sunday ‘morning Mr. Rollo, unaware of ‘| where the dynamite had been stored, made: ‘| a fire in the stove. A short time afterwards, “while the family. were eating breakfast in an- | the explosion cecurred, completely destroy- ing the building. No one was injured ex- cept by the shock, which was’ felt for some | distance around. : irs the technical name for lockjaw. He was: about 14 years old. The lad purchased a re- ‘The load but slight, the lad’s mother wrapped up the BA HS
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