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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The man who got the Democratic con-
gressional endorsement at York on Tues-
day has the significant name of GITT.
Perhaps that it the reason he got it.
—The allies are marching to Pekin, they
are due there in just eight days; the land
of the celestial they’re sweepin,’ no matter
whether he blasphemes or prays.
© —BLAINE had his BURCHARD and Mec-
_KINLEY has his ROOSEVELT. If they
don’t get the latter's mouth shut soon
there will be the sorriest mess of the Re-
publican campaign that was ever wit-
nessed.
—In Williamsport there is a great kick
because the price of ice has gone up 50 per
cent. and butter, milk and sugar are all
winging away with it. The Lumber City
should be happy that beer and whiskey are
still going down.
—The Centennial is over. Now let us
settle down to politics. Remember that
two Democratic Representatives have to be
elected from Centre county in order that
QuAY’s downfall will be a certainty in the
next Legislature.
—The five thousand Boers who were re-
ported as having surrendered their arms at
Fouriesburg on Monday must have failed
to lay down their legs too, for when the
English got through counting them all had
skedaddled but nine hundred.
—The foreign ministers at Pekin ap-
pear to be really safe now, but their ex-
perience has been such that those having
power to make such appointments won’t
be pestered much with applicants for mis-
sions to China for some time to come.
— Automatic couplers and air brakes were
the cause of the Delaware and Hudson R.
R. Co. discharging three hundred and
fitty brakemen on August 1st. Thus itis
that necessity, being the mother of inven-
tion, thereby becomes the foster ‘father of
poverty. :
—BREssI, the Italian who murdered
good King HUMBERT of Italy, said, when
first placed in his cell, that he ‘‘did not de-
sire to kill a man, buta principle.”” There
should be no question about what Italian
justice should kill when it gets around to
Mr. BRESSI’S case.
—Senator WELLINGTON, of Maryland,
has come out in emphatic language and
says ‘Iam unalterably and forever op-
posed to imperialism.” This means. that
he will fight President McKINLEY and
with WELLINGTON against him the Presi-
dent will not have the faintest chance of
carrying Maryland in the fall.
—After while the great army of the un-
employed, the ranks of which are being!
filled daily by suspensions in iron works
and other branches of industry, will be
told that it is only out of work because of
the uncertainty about the election. The
idle thousands will believe it and march
up to vote for an economic policy that has
given them scarcely one yeat’s steady
work in four.
—When the Republican devotes an en-
tire page to a decision of the Supreme
court that reversed Judge LOVE, in his rul-
ing on a Union county water case he sat on
recently, it looks as if HAsTINGS bad no
intention of burying the hatchet. Judge
LOVE makes mistakes. So does every-
body else, but we don’t think it ought to
have taken an entire page in the Republi-
can to tell the people about:one of them.
—The hot beds of anarchy in America,
such as the one at Patterson, N. J., from
which BrEssI, the Italian assassin sprung,
should be torn from the land and their
places sown with salt. A free government
like ours will lose caste among the nations
of the earth and ultimately fall, itself, if
1ts freedom is to form a recruiting ground
for breeders of civil strife and murderers
of those who must guide the destinies of
governments. : ;
—The first case on record of a goat's
having undertaken to eat the wrong thing
was reported from Hazleton Tuesday night.
There Mrs; McGLORY’S Billy ‘got tired of
andgempty cans and started in to eat up a
piece of dynamite. He started in, we said,
‘but he didn’t finish because his finish came
so promptly that not even a lock of his
whiskers was left to Mrs. MoGLORY.
—A New York theatrical critic accounts
for the failures of many English women on
the American stage in these words: ‘Every
season the legs of the women who come
here from the London stage seem to grow
shorter, while their heads grow larger.”’
We have often heard that the real under-
standings have had much to do with the
success of some women on the stage,but we
never did think that critics would admit
that good legs were more necessary than
good heads for good acting.
—Lycoming county has really had more
than its share of sensations within the past
‘week. What, with suicides, elopements,
business wrecks and railroad catastrophes,
more was needed to conclude a chapter of
horrifying and exciting accidents than a
mad bull to run three men up a tree at the
same time. Under ordinary circumstances
the latter case is not an unusual one, for
right here in Centre county ‘we have had
‘mini sters of the gospel take to the trees
that one of this trio of Lycoming climbers
had his nose broken by
beat that if you can. 3
had his nose broken ‘being butted by |
the bull, while climbing the tree. Now, |.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
A Glorious Declaration of Principles.
The American citizen who has good rea-
son to fear the tendency of Republican pol-
icies, which are progressing with an alarm-
ing pace toward a system of government
in which the millionaires and the military
would exercise supreme control, finds him-
self confronted by other evils, which,
though not of equal magnitude, bave had
their growth in Republican management of
public affairs, and tend to impair the
character of a government that should be
administered solely for the benefit of the
people.
In addition to being right on the mo-
mentous issues of imperialism and trusts,
the two most formidable and threatening
issues that confront us and to which we
have already referred, the Democratic
platform directly and impressively speoi-
fies other evils that must be corrected and
pledges the efforts of the Democracy to
bring about their correction.
The most injurious of these, in its effect
upon the material interest of the people,
is the financial policy of MeKINLEYISM
that designs to make the monetary system
conform to the advantage of capitalistic
syndicates and to transfer the control of
the currency to the banks. This is an un-
disguisable plan to create a money trust,
which would be effected by withdrawing
from the government the right to issue
paper money and denying to the people the
use of silver as a monetary material to the
extent guaranteed to them by financial
laws authorized by the constitution.
Against such a money monopoly the Dem-
ocratic platform protests and invokes the
people’s opposition.
With the object of maintaining and en-
larging the popular authority and power
in the management of the government, the
platform favors direct legislation wherever
practicable. It is certain that with a more
direct relation between the people and the
law making authority,the money question,
which has remained so long unsettled,
would have been determined before this
time by the popular vote.
Another reformatory demand of the plat-
form is the election of United States Sen-
ators hy the votes of the people, as the only
means of preventing the upper chamber of
Congress from becbiing a stronghold of
the money power and a millionaire club-
house. :
It re-iterates the Democratic denunciation
of government by injunction as an insid-
jous plan to impart a star chamber charac-
ter to judicial processes.
It denounces the Republican proposition
that the United States should expend mil-
lions in the construction of the Isthmian
canal, which it would not have the right to
defend against an enemy in time of war,
while British fleets conld command it at
both ends. i
The platform, moreover, exposes to just
scorn the truckling of the McKINLEY ad-
ministration to English power, not only
‘subjecting itself to the suspicion that by a
secret understanding it is aiding England’s
interests in Asia, but displaying its sub-
servience to Britain by declining to show
the least sympathy for the Boer patriots
whose liberty is being trodden in the earth
by England’s military power.
"One of the best features of this Demo-
cratic declaration is the clause which de-
mands the protection of the working peo-
ple against the blacklisting outrage; favors
the settlement of labor disputes by impar-
tial arbitration, and asks that the general
interests of the workers should be guarded
by a department of labor, attached to the
government with a cabinet officer whose
functions should be especially devoted to
‘matters pertaining to labor interests. =
These are the minor points ‘in the decla-
ration of principles issued by the Demo-
cratic National Convention as a claim to
the support of American, voters. = The
question of Republic against Empire, and
of commercial freedom against the despot-
ism of the trusts, is the leading issue in the
‘Democratic appeas to the people, but all
the points included in the platform involve
questions that not only affect the citizen's
‘material interest, but go to the very basis
| of popular government.
Er ——————
~The ‘‘paramount’’ issue may be im-
perialism, but evidently Mr. McKINLEY’S
“paramount’’ effort is to get the least
value for the greatest amount of money he
can give. This, his last proposition to pay
Spain another $100,000 for two additional
islands in the Philippine group, overrun
with yellow bellies and malaria, proves.
Expansion may be a very ticklesome thing
to some people, but it is liable to prove an |
‘unlimited and everlasting tax reminder to
others. i,
——1If the managers of the Republican
machine in this congressional district have
‘any desire to save themselves the humilia-
‘tion of an overwhelming defeat, they can
trees | avoid it by following the advice of sensible
ahead of flying bulls, but the story has it
‘placing a Republican ‘congressional ticket
Centre county Republicans who are against |
Hauling Down the Flag.
For thirty three years, or ever since the
transfer of Alaska from the sovereignty of
Russia to that of the United States, the
American flag has floated over and protect-
ed the Porcupine mining district of that
country.
It is a strip of territory as large as the
State of Rhode Island and within it bave
lately been developed the richest gold
placer mines in the world.
It has been undisputed American terri-
tory since 1867.
Up tothe time of the discovery of its
rich gold deposits no claim or pretense of
British authority over it was ever made.
American soldiers occupied it, the Ameri-
can flag was its recognized emblem and
American authority was accepted and re-
spected by all.
Two years ago two thousand American
miners had located claims upon it, the out-
put from which annually amounted to §3,-
000,000 The American flag protected
them and under American authority their
disputes were settled.
England bad occtpied it for a short
time under lease from Russia, before our
purchase of it,and on ascertaining its wealth
—a wealth developed by American enter-
prise —made claim for it. That demand
was rejected and that act of Mr. McKiIN-
LEY’S administration was heralded as a
“complete victory of the United States
over the encroachments of England.”
That was oniy two years ago.
But it was before Lord PAUNCEFOTE and
Mr. McKINLEY’s Secretary of State, Mr.
HAY went into the treaty making business.
It was before imperialism had taken root
and begun to grow rank. It was prior to
the time of the making of the secret alliance
now existing between the Republican ad-
ministration at Washington and the gov-
ernment of Great Britain.
The Porcupine country was American
territory then and the American flag waved
over and protected it.
It is not so now. The American flag has
been hauled down! American officials
have been withdrawn; the country and all
its wealth has been given to England with-
out protest, and American miners are left
to pay taxes to British tax gatherers and
look to English authority for such rights as
they can obtain and such protection as it is
willing to give them.
01d Glory no longer waves over the Por-
cupine mining district of Alaska.
It would be a crime in the eyes of Repub-
licans to suggest that we haul down the
flag in the Philippines and allow its people,
who for two hundred years have been strug-
gling for independence, to have what is
their own, and to enjoy a government of
their own making.
In their estimation it is no crime, how-
ever, to haul down the flag at the dictation
of Great Britain and give them possession
of the richest gold bearing district the
United States could boast. :
Such is the consistency of Republicanism.
Such the cowardice and flunkeyism of the
out-growth of imperialism. Such the re-
sult of secret alliances with our old time
enemies and oppressors, and such the dis-
graceful act of the MeKINLEY-HAY--HAN-
NA--PAUNCEFOTE outfit.
Let us hear no mere from the mouth of
any Republican about the cowardice of
hauling down the American flag.
It will be done by McKINLEY whenever
England demands it. . It was done in the
Isthmian canal case. Ithas just been done
in the Porcupine mining case.
——Mr. Quay, whose Republicanism
has never been doubted, and our goo d
friend Ex-Lieut. Governor BLACK, whose
Democracy cannot be questioned, both pro-
fess to believe that the proper way to in-
sure better election laws is through a con-
stitutional convention.
however, don’t prevent the people believ-
ing that the quickest way to this desired
end is the best. As constitutional amend-
ments are the easier and more certain
method of securing what is needed in this
line, the voters of the State will very like-
ly go ahead and adopt them whether Mr.
ing so or not.
—— Bishop FOWLER of the M. E. church
may be both the bitter partisan and the
blatant demagogue his recent utterances
would seem to make him, but we cannot
imagine that he has reached that state of
imbecilty that would induce him to classi-
fy ‘‘the firing on Fort Sumpter’ and the
“blowing up of the Maine” as two cvents
in missionary work, equaled only by the
crucifixion of Christ and the conversion of
‘8t. Paul. If he has, and newspaper re-
‘ports ‘of a speech lately made by him
would indicate such to be the case, it is
high time for the fool-killer to.be on duty,
‘or for some orazy asylam to'add another to
its list of inmates.
| ———It has just been discovered that all
the rain on Wednesday was to make Com-
modore A. J: "GRAHAM of Philipsburg feel
in his element. oi: sit sdipinten
| able for.
others, but our soldiers stand by without |
Their beliefs,
QuAY and Mr. BLACK agree to them do-|
“BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUG. 8, 1900.
Will We Be Partners in this Alliance.
Conditions and the actions of the admin-
istration at Washington have made us one
of the allied powers now at war with
China. That we will bave reason to be
proud of this fact, after the trouble is over
«ds exceedingly doubtful.
Under a pretext of protecting our own
people, residents of that far-away country,
we have joined with others in invading a
land upon which we have no claims. We
became allies of Russia, Germany and
England, all of which have declared for a
war of revenge. We are partners in a
fight with Germany whose troops go for-
ward with instructions to spare none—to
give no quarter; we are tied to Russia,
whose forces show no mercy and whose
acts of barbarism are commended by the
authority that sends them to the field; we
are united with England, whose armed men,
upon the first occasion of success, showed
their christianity and civilization by loot-
ing everything they could lay hands upon
and shooting down in cold blood those
who resisted.
‘We are one of the allies, and what one;
of the powers do all must stand’ acconunt-
We may be more merciful than
protest, while others sack and burn villages,
loot stores, destroy homes, and make war
upon helpless women and children.
A Japanese correspondent who is at the
front writes that ‘‘the world outside of
China has no conception of the appalling
barbarity practiced by the allied forces.
The soldiers kill peaceful citizens without
provocation, slaughter women and chil-
dren, pillage shops and massacre their own-
ers. Wherever they have power they des-
troy; wherever they find life in any form
they take it.” ‘“The Peiho River,’’he con-
tinues, ‘‘is full of corpses of women and
children. At one place the bodies of 300
were burned on a single junk. Around
Tien-Tsen the callous destruction of human
life was simply awful—none were spared—
women, children, the decrepid, aged and
helpless coolies, all fell victims to the fu-
rious lust for blood that seems to have seiz-
ed upon the soldiers of the invading
forces.”
And we are one of them. How our
christianity, that makes mercy its corner
‘stone, will shine in the eyes of the ‘‘heath-
en Chinee,”’ when he wakens up to find
what that mercy means, and understands
the humanity that underlies the civiliza-
tion we offer him! :
i pA Sl.
What Republican Militarism is Doing
For This Country.
In 1896, the last year of the late Demo-
cratic administration, the war budget, as
the appropriation by Congress for all mili-
tary purposes is called, amounted to $23,-
252,608. - This included subsistence and
pay for the army, repairs to and mainte-
nance of fortifications, the cost of the Mili-
tary Academy and all expenditures con-
nected with the army. It was less than
thirty three cents of taxation for every man,
woman and child within the country.
France, for the same purpose, at that
time, was taxing her people at the rate of
$3.20 per capita; Germany, $2.70; Austria-
Hungary, $2.05; Russia, $1.15; Turkey,
$0.59; Italy, $1.52; and England $2.32.
This is what the tax ridden people of the
old world were paying for the glory of hav-
ing a standing army, when the American
citizens were each paying but thirty three
cents for the same purpose.
At that time we were not cursed with
militarism,nor did imperialism threaten its
ever increasing taxation and its continuous
curtailment of the liberties of the people.
Under the benign rule of MCKINLEY-
ism we have started on new paths. We
have discovered new duties, and are in the
_pursuit of new destinies.
For the same purposes now that an ex-
penditure of $23,252,608 was amply suffi-
cient to meet in 1896, we pay $122,-
957,313.12. This sum is divided in the
congressional appropriation bill as follows:
I $114,220,005.55
: 7,383,628.00
ry we big
Potaliianiiiidiada be ddivinatein 122,257,313.22
When we add to this the $145,245,230.00
that was appropriated for pensions we have
‘a grand total of $267,502,543.22 making a
greater tax upon the: American people for
the maintenance ‘of its'army, than is im-
posed upon the people of any government
in the world for the same purpose.
So much for militarism in the United
States. A jump from 33 cents to $3.57 per
capita, in four years, is making strides in
the increase of taxation that over tops all
‘the governments that ever existed. © .
Possibly it might be well for thinking |
people to consider what militarism means |
to them and their descendants. Tt has
‘been: beguir- under McKINLEY, and At is
the MoKINLEY--HAXNA idea to make and |
continie it a permanent poliey of the gov-
ernment for all time to come.
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—If they actually need “heavier guns’
at Taku why in the world don’t McKIxN-.
LEY send TEDDY ROOSEVELT over. |
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“BELLE FONT
For the WarcumaN,
A copious founte of beauty rare,
So gurgled, gurgled up,
Within a shady valley, where
"Twas so inclosed, that nature there,
Seemed formed in one huge cup.
"T'was thus a wand'rer first had seen
It: gurgling brightly up;
And nothing in preportions, mean, —
He saw its glories had not been,
As down he knelt to sup.
When quenched his thirst, he "rose to gaze
Upon this cool retreat;
Shut in by hills, the woods, a maze,
It seemed as if no end of days
Could make ’it a village seat.
For thus it was, his thoughts would take
A quite ansbitious stand; §
‘‘A spot so grand, oh! who'd forsake,
Although it all his genius wake
To clear and till the land!”
But thwarted not by such a doubt,
He first began to think,
“I'll workmen bring, this pool scoop out,
And put a wall of stone about,
And put a cup to drink.”
“And soon the world will learn its fame,
And some will come and stay;
And by degrees ’twill get a name
When nature wild turns nature tame,
And then, a town, we'll say.”
“The iron rail will pierce yon hill,
And science find us out,
Where deep the vale, there’ll be a will
To bridge it so that trade may still,
Ccme in, and stir us bout.”
“Thus, I forsee a town will rise,
Around this lovely spot,
And, it will grow to wondrous size,
And when this generation dies,
This scene there’s naught can blot.”
Thus queried he; the dream seemed wild
1t grew to be a taunt; :
» He acted as the dream had styled,
And proved at last 'twas very mild,
He called that town BELLEFONTE.
—By Rev. W. A, C.
Trade and the Flag.
From the New York World. he
The official statement of the exports from
the Philippines during the calendar year
1899, made public, gives the total at $19,-
256,091. :
Of this the hemp exports were valued at
nearly $8,000,000 and raw sugar about the
same—only one tenth of which came to the
United States. The remainder was made
up of copra, leaf tobacco and cigars. The
exports by countries, including gold and
silver. show: To China, $6,910,498; the
United States, $4,040,255; Ex
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701,363; Japan, $1,983,896, and Spain, $1,-
170,231.
So that China, which has no ‘‘flag”’ in
the Philippines, got nearly $3,000,000
more of the small ‘trade than we did, and
England almost as much. We receive at
this port on a single steamer day more im-
ports from Europe than come to ue ina
whole year from our wonderful new pos-
sessions. The entire value of the commerce
for a year does not equal the cost of the oc-
cupation and war for a week.
The Mouthings of a Mountebank.
From the Springfield Republican—Ind.
It is a singular fact that Mr. Bryan, the
alleged apostle of anarchy, should be so
much more moderate in his use of language
when characterizing his political opponents
than the child of Fifth avenue and Harvard,
Gov. Roosevelt. The Rough Rider’s de-
nunciation has a wide range and no quali-
fying adjectives or adverbs. When he
speaks of at least 6,000,000 voters in the
United States he says ‘‘they stand for law-
lessness and disorder. for dishonesty and
dishonor, for license and disaster at home
and cowardly shrinking from duty abroad.’
The Chicago Journal is tempted to remon-
strate ‘with the cultured Colonel for so
sweeping condemnation of nearly half of
his voting countrymen, but its remon-
strances will be wasted. Before November
comes the Colonel will probably class all
Bryanites with savages or burst.a blood-
-
vessel in restraining himself.
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"The One Great Issue.
From an Interview by Ex-Representative HU.
Johnson, (Rep.) 52
Imperialism is the overshadowing issue
of the campaign. Compared with it every
other question sinks into insignificance. It
is not the declaration of the Kansas City
Convention declaring it to be :paramount
which makes it so. This declaration sim-
ply records a self-evident fact. It would
be strange indeed if the issue which in-
volves their very system of government,
and which is pregnant with vital and far-
reaching consequences both . to themselves
and to alien races, did not occupy the first
place in the minds of the American peo-
PlR. run ein t aud
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The Cowboy Method,
From the Indianapolis Sentinel. 5
Mr. Roosevelt has reached the stage
whete he not only announces his faith in
“‘expansion’’ hut also denounces anyone
who disagrees with him as a “‘copperhead.”’
This is the regular cow-boy method.
When a cowboy has views he gets out in
the middle of the saloon and ‘‘declares
himself.”’ hd »
Grabbing Trouble.
From the Chicago Chronicle (Dem.)
» ‘In the shocking events of the last few
weeks in China we may learn how much
better it is to respect the independence and
the rights of other peoples, ‘‘derelict’”’
though they may be, than it if to go
prowling or swaggering about filching or
wrestling territory fiom them. HH
Vill Take No Risks. =
From the Washington Star—Ind. Rep. Lal
‘The failure of the Gold Democrats to
nominate a ticket may, be regarded by Mr.
| publicans so.scared that they do not desire.
Bryan as an assurance that he has the Re- |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Parts of the clothing of Mrs. Frank
Keller, of Frugality, who disappeared three
weeks ago, have been found in the moun-
tains, and she is believed to be dead. ;
—The Pennsylvania Fish commission has
decided that hereafter no applications for
brook trout will be received after April 15th.
D. P. Corwin, of Pittsburg, was elected sec-
retary.
—James Mannock’s son John, 7 years old,
fell from a hay stack near, his home in Bed-
ford Tuesday afternoon disloeating the elbow
of his right arm and breaking the arm above
the elbow.
The house and nearly all its contents, of
Mrs. Mary Amick, near Point, Bedford coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday.
Cause of fire unknown. Loss about $1,000.
Insurance $700.
—The residence of D. D. Wagerman, near
Speelman, Bedford county, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning of last week. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The house
was unoccupied. Loss about $2,000. In-
surance $800.
—Charles Schnars, the oldest citizen of
Karthaus, died on Friday night last aged 83
years. He was the first school teacher who
ever taughtin that section of the county.
For a number of years he was postmaster at
Karthaus.
—Seymour Ross, of Clearfield, while going
home Friday night last, stepped in a hole
just above the Second street bridge, and fall-
ing heavily to the ground dislocated his
ankle and broke both bones in his leg above
the ankle joint.
—By the returns of the assessors for 1900
it is shown that there are in Cambria coun-
ty 27,692 persons between the ages of 6 and
20 years who are entitled to attend the pub-
lic schools. Of this number 8,655 belong to
the city of Johnstown.
—Tuesday evening of last week, while the
lightning was playing pranks in that neigh-
borhood, it struck a locust tree on the farm
of George W. Davis, in Cambria township,
Cambria county, and killed fourteen half-
grown turkeys which had sought its friend-
ly shelter during the storm.
—Lloyd C. Washburn, of Bluestone, Ly-
coming county, returned home from a dance
early Sunday morning, but afterwards went
out of the house and sat on the Fall Brook
tracks to wait for a companion, who had
gone home with a lady friend. Washburn
fell asleep and was run over by a freight
train. The top of his head was cut off and
his left arm was fractured. He was 21 years
old.
--While playing with a young dog recently
at Yellow Creek, Bedford county, George S.
Steele was accidentally bitten in the hand.
The wound was so slight that nothing was
thought of it at the time, but the following
day the hand began to swell and blood
poisoning set in. The hand and arm became
very much swollen and very painful, and it
is feared that amputation may yet be nec-
essary to save the man’s life.
—John E. Bell, one of Bellwood’s most
prominent citizens, who was widely known
throughout the county and State, died at his
home in that town Thursday evening. He
was afflicted with Bright's disease and was
ill a number of years. Thursday evening
Mr. Bell was sitting on a porch at his resi-
dence. He was conversing with two friends
of his family and without any warning, he
fell off his chair and ina few moments he
had breathed his last.
—Edward From, aged about 12 years, was
instantly killed near Bixler, Friday morn-
ing, by being hit by seashore express east.
He was assisting his father in tearing down
the Italian shanties vacated by C. A. Swain’s
laborers, and had started across the tracks to
procure some water, and on account of a
passing westbound freight train stopped on
the eastbound track until it was by. He did
not see the passenger train approaching until
too late to get out of its way.
—Dr. H. R. Brightbill, of Saxton, Bedford
county, met with what might have been a
very serious accident on last Thursday after-
noon. On his way, in a buggy, from Broad
Top City to Saxton, lightning struck a tree
a few yards from him. It completely
paralyzed him and his horse for the time
being. It is not known how long he re-
mained in ‘a dazed condition, but when he
recovered, his horse was seemingly yet in an
ubeonsecious condition. After ‘much effort
he got the horse to move. 4
—While 0. W. Good, W.A. Benton and
John C. Good, of Williamsport, were walk-
ing over a timber tract in Gamble township,
Lycoming county, Monday, they were charg-
ed upon by an angry bull. The men started
to run, but Messrs. Benton and O. W. Good
were struck by the animal. They flew into
the air and landed in a clump of bushes sev-
eral feet away. The bull started for the men
again, but ‘had his attention diverted from
them by J. C. Good, who ‘having taken re-
fuge behind a tree, yelled at the animal. Mr.
Good succeeded in driving the bull away. O.
W. Good’s hip was badly sprained by the bull
butting him and Mr. Benton's nose was brok-
en. : oy
' Herbert Tubbs, of Osceola, a traveling
salesman for a Philadelphia publishing
house, while in Williamsport: Baturday, at-
tempted suicide, by lowering himself through
the ties on the Market street bridge. He
was insane and was yelling at the time,
which caused several men to run to him.
They caught him before he dropved into the
river and took him to the lockup. He
imagined that God and the world was against
him. He was given something to quiet his
nerves. During the night, however, he
made a second attempt to kill himself by
butting his head against the iron door of his
cell. With his head bleeding and torn, he
was conveyed to jail. A close watch is kept
on the man. §
—A gang of pickpockets bas reaped a rich
harvest from the passengers on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad between Harrisburg and Wil-
liamsport during the past week. It is esti-
ma that the thieves have pocketed at least
81,500. The robberies have been committed
on hoard the excursion trains from the south
to Niagara Falls. John Wood, of Williams-
ort, - was robbed on Friday of a ticket to
Buffalo ‘and a well-filled purse. A prominent
Wilkesbarre physician was relieved at Sun-
bury of four tickets and $300 in money. A
well-known railroad official, of Nanticoke,
was also robbed of a dozen passes and a roll
‘of money. About a week ago a Mrs. Reeder,
‘of Baltimore, was robbed of $400 while the
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