: —The bloomer girl and the shirt waist man
Are likely birds of a feather,
But no one that we have heard about
_ Has eaught them flocking together.
There will be a few less ancestor wor-
shipers in China by the time the allied
"forces reach Pekin.
—With regard to the troubles in China
the duty is plain enough; but the doing of
it is a little too hilly.
There are many towns in England
where thunder has never been heard and
the timid may live in peace, that is so long
as they prohibit the introduction of such
substitutes as TEDDY ROOSEVELT.
—The last contingent of German soldiers
left Bremerhaven for the Orient on Satur-
day evening, but, strange to say, the Em-
peror did not makea speech. Can it be
that he has run out of either wind or sand?
—The Philippines send us a weekly re-
minder that the war is not as near over as
the imperialists would have us believe.
Officers and privates are being killed right
along, but they are the digestive ‘pellets we
have to take to carry out this idea of
t‘henevolent assimilation.’’
—Out of ten thousand bicycles in Scran-
ton only two thousand were returned by
the assessors for taxation under the new
side-path law. The only natural conclu-
sion is that there are just eight thousand
liars who own bicycles in Scranton. Let
us see, what is that other story ahout
Scranton ?
—1It is rumored that Capt. JOHN A.
DALEY doesn’t propose to have the Repub-
lican relegate him to the rear asa. legisla-
tive possibility. But what is he going to
do about it? The Republican is the official
party organ in the county and if it says he
isa ‘‘dead one’ they might just as well
have a funeral oat in Curtin township.
— Major ARMES, the retired United
States army officer, who won unenviable |:
‘otoriety for himself by pulling General
BEAVER’S nose when the latter was Gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania, is the victim of a
pulling episode himself now. Miss ELLA
‘M., PLATT, an artist in Washington, has
instituted a breach of promise suit against
the pyrotechnical old Major and threatens
to “‘pull his leg’ for $50,000
-—Former Speaker of the House, the
Hon. THOMAS BRACKET REED, has de-
clared that he will take no part in the com-
ing campaign and the Pittsburg Dispatch
observes that it makes little difference
since he is not the issue. That is probably
‘the very cause of his indifference. ‘When
THOMAS was in the House he was the
‘whole thing and now that imperialism | has
"become paramount lie is loath to fall in
with it when there is no longer a chance of
‘being the Czar.
It is little wonder that the people of
Porto Rico hissed and were unresponsive
when the few Americans on that island
tried toget up a demonstration for the
Fourth of July. They could scarcely have
been expected to cheer much over the en-
thusiasm of those who were celebrating
their freedom, especially when these same
liberty enthusiasts have proven almost as
tyrannical to Porto Rico as were the Span-
iards. They welcomed our advancing
army; thinking that we would bring them
territorial government, the constitution
and relief from Spanish oppression. Presi
dent McKINLEY has given them pothiog—
not even the relief. i
—It isn’t a very great step, in pointet cul-
pability, between the murdering of Ameri-
can missionaries by the “Heathen Chinee’’.
and the mobbing of the missionaries of the
church of Zion by the Christian people of |
Mansfield, Ohio. In fact it hardly seems
possible that the semi-civilized Chinaman
will be held to the same accountability that
“the enlightened Mansfielders will for hav-
_ ing stoned the Zion ‘missionaries, stripped
‘them and painted them with blue paint.
No matter how distasteful ‘the Zionist faith
‘might have been to them the people of
Mansfield placed themselves. “about on the
same level with the Chinaman when they
‘acted as they did.
| —The reception that was given Lt. Gen.
MILES at Mt. Gretna, on. ‘Monday, was
‘enough to assure any one that if McKINLEY
“and Roor are afraid to let him go to China
there are thousands who are “glad to have
_bim at home. Mt Gretna had sunshine for
“the great soldier, while Bellefonte showered
“rain on him all day ‘jong, but either
of such _ conditions were probably welcom-
edas a pleasant exchange for the .an-
just frost’ ‘he gets from
tion in Washington. MILES is a soldier
“and for that reason they have no use for |
“him in his proper place at the head of the |
army. Contract ‘manipulators and promo-
ters of favorite sons of wealthy ‘nobodies
“are useful in the army these “days and
JHANNAS sees. that they are there. tee
Re Milwaukee trolley. car. motorman
hag ‘just been the vietim of an accident
"similar to the one that befell the girl whose
celluloid hair comb caught fi fire at a funeral
in Nittany valley some time ago and near-
ly burned her head off. The Milwaukee
“warning is to wearers of celluloid collars.
H passenger standing behind the motor-
man accidentally touched his collar with a
bs cigar. There was a puff, a flash
fh the ‘motorman’s neck was encircled
th fame. ‘Tt was a frightful, thongh
It a predicament, and was Sufficient
to cause an order to be issued by a Chicago
So we corporation prohibiting employes
from ‘wearing celluloid collars. ~~ They
"are neither comfortable, vor pretty, nor
* clean and it is a questionable economy that
“the administra ji
STATE RIGHTS AND
FEDERAL UNION.
‘Fresh Encouragement” and Its Comse-
quences.
“It is not that there is any danger that Mr. Bryax,
if elected, would nndertake to tamper with the gold
standard law. That is. a mere cry of partisan
calamity howlers. But there is no question that
the election of Mr Bry AN would give fresh en-
couragement, not merely to the champions of the
dying cause of free silver, but to all the lingering
believers in Greenbackery and other devices of
irredeemable currency.— Philadelphia Record.
For the sake of saving words and the
time that would be lost in an effort to con-
vince those who have set their heads against
conviction, we will admit that the above,
in its fullest significance, is true. And
admitting that itis, how thin, how very
thin, must be the excuses made by those
who pretend to be Democratic on all other
questions, for opposing the election of
BRYAN, because of the money question.
The Record is one that lias taken this
position, It acknowledges that his elec-
tion would not ‘‘endanger, the gold stand-
ard; it would only give ‘fresh encourage-
ment’’ to the “dying cause of free silver.”
And suppose it would, how would that
weigh against the ‘encouragement’ Mo-
KINLEY’S election would give to the press-
ing, dangerous, living issues, that threaten
us to-day? 5
With McKINLEY successful would not
“‘fresh encouragement’’ he extended to im-
perialism to go on in its fight for'one man-
power—for its standing armies and even
increasing taxation—for the abridgment
of constitutional requirements and the
destruction of constitutional rights ?
Would not ‘‘fresh encouragement’ be
given to militarism in its demands for
greater powers; the rule of the army; its
right of conscription; and its complete
supremacy over civil authority ?
Would not ‘fresh encouragement,” for
the imposition and continuation of tariff
taxation with its special benefits for the
few and its increased burdens for the many,
be given by his success ?
Would it not be ‘‘fresh encouragement’’
to the trusts, we are now cursed with, and
inspire new combinations of capital to
assist in orgshing individual enterprises
and personal endeavor?
Would not embalmed beef contractors;
stale medicine supplyers; shoddy goods
manufacturers; spesulators in rotten trans-
ports; postal’ e EcANS, the
army of governmental highwaymen, politic-
al black-legs and publie robbers, that have
‘been bred and fostered under the rule of
HANNA and by the grace of McKINLEY, be
given new hope and * ‘fresh encouragement’’
to continue their outrages upon those at
the mercy of their departments and their
pillage of a treasury placed at their dis-
posal ?
How about “fresh enconragements 2’! to
these ?
Is a “dying cause” or fear of interference
importance than the preservation of Re-
publican government !
The continuation of constitutional au-
thority !
‘The promotion and defense of individual
effort !
The rights of the people and the per-
_petuity of the principle upon which the
Republic was builded ?
He must be a mercenary indeed who, to
save an imaginary war upon the value of
his dollars, would give fresh. encourage-
ment fo a cause that seeks and threatens
the destruction of all that has made his
government, good, great or glorious. :
And yet: this is: the position that the
Hooord, and its lonesome following of gold
‘standard Democrats, must occupy it we
understand aright. its “fresh _encounrage-
ment theory. sp
J —
Looking Fors New Liars.
Whether or not the the report i is correct that
chairman HANNA has offerded WEE
CHENG, the Shanghai liar, a desk in his
campaign literary bureau, and with a
salary that would exceed any sum the
Emperor of China could pay him, we do |
probably turn out to be such. {
There i is one thing | that is true in “this
line, and that is, that if the. past and pres-
ent policy of that bureau is to be continued
some new liars are needed. The old ones
seem completely worn out.
Jdabored so persistently and so. long that
everything they send out now gives evi-
dence of a mental incapacity and a pbysic-
al weakness, t that overwork always brings.
Their productions are worn thread-bare
and’ when not that are either idiotic or
musty. ‘This Mr. HANNA knows as well
as do the people generally. “And he knows
t00, that unless he can get new life. and a
little originality into that department his
campaign “will prove'a flat failure. ~~
Ibis Republican necessities that demand
a lot of new liars to back their efforts and
CHENG, if not a new one in his own coun-
try, would be a new and original one here.
With his abilities his services would be
invaluable and we don’t ‘wonder that out
of the millions Mr. HANNA has -as a cam-
n fand, he is willing to pay liberally
to Pig ANANIAS who can give his tottering
prompts people to wear them.
cause a hope of success.
RATHBONES, the NEELYS—and the whole | *2
| It is because they know and have felt what
with the intrinsic value of a dollar of more |
not know. It is given as true and may §
They have |
Why the German Vote Revolts Against
Republicanism.
It is not to be wondered at that Repub-
licans are uneasy and uncertain about the
German vote, nor is it strange that this,
with them, should be the particnlarly
doubtful quantity to be considered in the
pending campaign.
For many years the bulk of that vote, |
believing that the Republican party was
the advocate and representative of Repub-
lican principles, has been as solid for that
party as is the colored vote of the south.
It has given to it all the majorities it bas
had to boast of in Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota for the past
ten years.
But it looks as if it would be so no long-
er.
They see under the asses’ skin that cov-
ers Republicanism the form,
and claws of the imperial lion.
Nine tenths of the Germans who bave
emigrated to and become citizens of this
country, broke up home ties and left rela-
tives and friends in the old world to escape
the merciless conscription and the unbear-
able tax burdens that an imperial govern-
ment requires. They know what imperial-
ism means. They bave seen their young
boys dragged from their homes and schools
and forced into service through a conscrip-
tion that heeds nothing but the necessities
of the army and the orders of the Emperor.
They have seen homes broken up, decrepid
parents left in want, helpless sisters rob-
bed of suppors and wives and little chil-
dren turned into public paupers that able
bodied men might be had for military serv-
ice. They have felt the crushing weight
of ‘taxation that it has taken to maintain
that army and enforce the imperial policy
that stood back of it.
They know it all. They have expe-
rienced its workings. They understand its
purposes and have seen its results. To
them it is as a terrible nightmare and the
closer they get to it again the more horri-
ble it appears.
Under the plausible pretext of ‘‘expan-
sion’ and ‘‘following the flag’ we are ap-
proaching these same conditions. None
know or see this more plainly than do the
German voters. None understand or ap-
preciate. its fearful meaning better than
they.
imperalism is; because they see and under-
stand how rapidly we are nearing its home
destroying conscription and its: poverty
entailing taxation, that makes them first
hesitate, then protest and finally revolt
against a party and a policy that is work-
to this end.
Under the circumstances it is not strange
that the German vote is leaving the Re-
poblican party and now threatens its com-
plete overthrow.
He must be a dolt indeed, who imagines
that intelligent men would flee their ba-
tive country to escape the results of im-
perialism and then vote to inflict its bur-
dens and its horrors upon the country of
their adoption.
——These terribly hot, humid, hadez
suggesting days are not the only reminders
that Sirius is ascendant and that dog days
are on. There are numerous other little
incidents that recall the popular idea that
now is the time to get hives, iteh and all
those kindred skin pleasantries: that the
dog star showers on us.’ For instance, out
on Linn street on Monday, one of the most
popular. canines, and certainly the boss
bully of the street, started in. to have his
‘day and licked up something less than a
gallon of fly poison that was sitting about
the house in sundry saucers. Of course
the entire household was thrown into a
furore of excitement, but the dog soon re-
gretted the dose and it issaid that the only
thing that kept him from turning clear in-
side out was the presence of mind that had
suggested tying a knot in his tail.
| The Democratic Cake is Not all Dough.
' The Philadelphia Press, in one of its
spells of political liberality, generously
concedes to the Democrats the ‘election of
one Congressman from this State—the
nominee of the Berks-Lehigh district. This
is altogether unexpected. From the per-
sistent assertions made by that paper about
| the wonderful growth (2) of the ‘‘Inde-
pendente, and the opposition to Democracy,
we had come to fear that old Berks even
bad become a wobbler, and was liable to
be found in the doubtful column. We are
glad to know that it is not. Pleased to
pieces to ‘understand that the Denioeracy
has one county conceded it and one To-
cality in which it has an acknowledged
foot-hold. Thanks to the Press—a thou-
sand thanks for this enconragement and
consolation.
And now that it bas the Democratic
party of the State corralled in a single
connty and has QUAY beaten out of his
boots, as well as’ ‘his bossism, won’t this
enlightened and ‘liberal purveyor of polit-
ical facts give wus a short’line on the Cuban
postal scandals of which its editor in chief
ought to know much. It may possibl y be
as well informed on this as itis upon the
subject of congressional elections.
features |
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 10, 1900.
Revealing their Own Shame. =
If the Republican party is the party of
intelligence, learning and enlightenment,
as it has always so pretentiously boasted,
what is the use, or where the consistency,
in the fuss it is now making about apply-
ing the educational test to voters, as is be-
ing done in the South? ,
Surely a law that will disfranchise the
oramus who can neither read nor write,
who refuses all opportunities to better
s conditien in such respects, should not
t the right to vote of any member of
that organization. Such a thought would
be out of the question. Republican voters,
according to Republican boasts and Re-
publican pretenses, are the intelligent, edu-
cated, learned men of the country. Igpo-
rance to them is a stranger and illiteracy a
crime. 2
Why then should they trouble if Lonis-
ania and North Carolina have enacted. and
other ‘Southern States purpose enacting,
laws that prohibit the ballot to the un-
lettered dolt who can’t tell a B from a
bull's foot, or does not known the difference
between a pot-hook and the autograph of
the President ?
Such a law certainly would not apply to
those who have heen voting the Republican
ticket (?) If their contentions have been
correct its strict enforcement would only
increase the chances of their carrying some
of these States, and enable them to get a
foot-hold upon territory that the infamy
of their carpet-bag rule long since made
untenable for the party responsible for it.
Did any one ever hear of the Republican
party or its press kick against anything
that promised to benefit it?
Not that we have ever heard of.
To-day it is kicking like an army mule
and scolding at a rate that would out-do a
fish-woman, because illiteracy is to be pro-
hibited the ballot, and ignorance banished
from the polls.
Don’t this, thoughtful and unprejudiced
reader, strike you as a queer position for
this party of boasted intelligence—this self-
advertised head-light in’ the procession of
progressiveness—to occupy ?
Or does it simply prove the falsity of the
claim it bas so pretentiously made, and
‘emphasize the truth that when yon strike
at illiteracy and ignorance you afe ‘certain
to hit Republican voters.
——Hon. W. C. LINGLE, of Patton, bas
been renominated for Assembly by the
Democrats of Cambria county. Mr. LIN-
GLE'S election two years ago in the face of
an ordinary Republican majority in the
county was an attest of his popularity and
he will have the additional advantage in
this fall’s campaign of having made an ex- |.
ceptionally satisfactory record in Harris-
burg.
Who?
A week ago LI-HUNG CHANG, the old
time friend of the American people, and of
American interests in China, assured the
authorities at Washington of the safety of
the Representatives of this goverment: in
Pekin.
At the same time he warned them that
the advance of the allied forces of which
that portion of the American troops now
in China are a part, would increase - the
gravity of the situation and possibly re
sult in the extermination of all foreigners
in the imperial city.
We refused to enter into negotiations for
their safety. ' We charged Chinamen, with-
out exception, with acting in bad faith.
| We demanded that we be put in direct
‘communication with our representatives,
and threatened the direst consequences if
that was not done. Our demand was com-
plied with. ‘And then without’ any attempt
to save the lives of those who
ed ns through diplomacy,’ in Gi face
of the fact that war has not heen declared
against China, our troops were ordered
to advance with fire and sword to the
resoune of those threatened § in the besieged
sity. ih
* Diplomacy right have ved. them. Tt :
was not tried.’
Former friendship and assurances of
good faith were spurned —tact a and state.
craft were cast to the’ winds and the sword
and bayonet, invasion and Noam upon.
War has been begun.
If those we are attempting to save. perish
through the means we have adopted to res-
cue and protect them, who will be to blame ?
Who? I iiitnr Sat In Hot
31 flyin
——The most effective campaign docu-
hens the’ Democrats ‘seen to ‘have gotten
old of up to this time is ROOSEVELT'S St.
— speech. It is referred to on all hands
as a specimen of political asininity, ecer-
tain to ‘convince even his’ warmest friends
that the acquaintance who remarked just
after his nomination was announced, *‘that
the Republicans had secured ‘a candidate.
who could make more: kinds of a d——d
fool of himeelf than any man living” hada |
very intimate knowledge of his capacity in |
that line. It is not to he wondered at that
Mr. HANNA is iusisting on giving his
mouth a rest.
I a i aad
ARE
‘of emperor or to"
exploiting a phantom.
from the. Wilmington, : Hal;
From the Baltimore Sun (Gold Dem.) .
This year 1900 is the centennial anniver-
sary year of the first election ol
Jefferson to the Presidency, a
ter coincidence itis the first
year in which the paramounif
whether the American people sha
radical departure from the prineip
Declaration of Independence afi
Constitution framed - by the fathers
Republic. Our children or ougehi
children will rejoice or lament
this decision. If we elect Me
country will he irrevoeably comm
the principles of imperialisin, and no man
living will be wise enough to say in what
part of Asia, Africa or Europe the rising
generation of Americans may not be sum-
moned by the tens of thousands to fight
and die for the flag which Wash and
the fathers of the Republic d ted to
peace and ‘‘friendship with all nations and
entangling alliances’ with none.” It is for
the American voter of today to count the
cost. - It will be useless for their children
when they come of age to do so. Colonial
empire will invite a combination of foreign
powers to open fire on us when their inter-
ests are involved. Our conscripts of that
day will have to fight the battlesin our dis-
tant possessions.
think it all over between now and Novem-
ber, and think of their little boys—the
coming men of 1915 and 1920. What sort
of country are they going to leave for their
sons if they vote to imperialize it? Are
they going to so use their votes this year
that 15 years hence the new generation of
voters will say with bitter, but vain,
regret : ‘“‘Our fathers ate of the sour
grapes of military glory and colonial empire
building and their children’s teeth are set
on edge. n
Building an Empire
From the York Gazette.
The New York Journal hints that sonie-
body has been copying Machiavelli ‘with-
out giving due credit. It quotes from
“The Prince,” a work of this famous
diplomat :
“The greatest emergencies,” says Machiavelli,
“‘confront despots while they are laying the
foundation of their power.. To enslave a free
people a ruler must turn the general, atention
away from domestic concerns. Let him seek
foreign complications and distant wars. Strug-
gles for dominion abroad distract attention from
m what goes on at home. The most adroit
policy for him who would become an absolute
despot is to tell the people that he is making
them prosperous. He must dazzle the popular
mind with the expectation of riches. But as it is
manifest that all will not attain riches, he must
take care that some favored few h up enor-
mous wealth. These favored few wil thus be
detached from the people and become wholly
devoted to himself.”
No one is: so'silly as to assert or believe
that McKinley aspires het fal title
‘anythi ‘nomi-
nally than President. ¢ ro. even
among his admirers, doubts that he enjoys
the fact that he is practically dictator ‘of
the Philippines.
He has ‘exercised and is now exercising
all the power that an emperor could have,
and he is exercising it ina way such as
Machiavelli suggests. He is abling a favor-
ed few to heap up enormous wealth, and
in order to keep himself and his friends in
power he is distracting the attention of the
people from domestic concerns and ig’ daz-
gling the popular mind with expectation
of riches. Emperor McKinley has no
court. He can give no titles of nobility.
There are no frills. But the imperial power
‘and the imperial opportunity are there.
Used Only as a Searv-Crow. 5
From the Boston Globe. 33 2] a
The managers of Mr. McKinley’s canvass
for a second term apparently are planning
‘‘a business scare’’ as the most convenient
‘means to the end which. they have in view.
In other words, they are doing their utmost
‘to make the country helieve that the free
coinage of silver is involved in the resnlt
of the election i in November, and are em-
ploying premises and conclusions, ‘which
are equally fictitious, There is not the
shadow of a chance of any. financial _legis-
Jation inimical to the existing system dur-
ing the next presidential administration.
The enactment of a. free-coinage law in
that period will be a sheer impossibility,
no Lat who is Chief Executive. -
et
: Frightened by, a Ghost.
‘From the ‘Washington Post, Ind. |
‘We are sure that: prosperity will: nob be |
promoted by trying to frighten the souls of
fearful capitalists with awful apprehen-
sions of danger from the ghost of 16 to 1,
which Mr. Bryan; with the able assistance
of Prince David. shoved into the Kansas
City platform. Better shout the prosperity
chorus and stop fooling ‘with that grave;
better stick to solid materiality and stop
There. is no more
danger of the 50-cent dollar of Mr. Bryan
Par of the no-cent, fiat dollar of Wharton
rker.
mei
A Question for “Gold” Democrats.
| ant ©
From the Buffalo Cotrier—Giold Dem. id
‘Why should gold Derourate | d Mr.
McKinley to a second election’ and perpet-
uate new policies fraught with danger?
By so doing gold Democrats will also sever
the ties that bind them to the historic
Democracy, and will create the beiief that
their political attitude is not so muc. dic-
tated hy principle as by an unreasonable
autinathy for one. particular sandidate,
Our dur Plain Duty.
(Dem)
The Philippine Iilands Meloni: to the
people: who ‘inhabit them, and no ' course
will vight the wrongs that have been ‘done
them or make die reparation for ‘the in-
justice and oppression’ they have ‘suffered
at the hands of this country but the turn-
‘ing over to them of their rightful power
‘and anthority.
Na subterfuge, no make-
shift of anv Rind; with stand. in the Place
of! a platy duty.
The Paramount Issue.
From the Toledo Bee,
it was in 1800—the preservation of a Dem-
ocratic Republic from the insidions en-
croachmeuts of class rule.
“Let our: 55h ous aun ;
.one finger missing from the other.
‘train passed under,
bind the bargain.
Every Evening. i
[dizziness and possibly ‘fainting spells.
| pite his grievous hurts Editor Begley is rot
The paramount issue of to-day is “what | depressed about himself. His woe is bound
Spavis from the the Heystons,,
{John Vocus, of White deer, et ‘with a
painful accident on Thursday. While chop-
ping in the woods his axe glanced from the
tree he was cutting and striking him in the
face almost severed his nose.
—An accident occurred near Glasgow, Cam-
bria county, Monday a week, in which Stew -
art Ulery, 14 years old, discharged a shot-
gun, injuring a Hungarian named Albert.
It is reported the hoy 3 was shooting at mark.
Albert will recover.
—Tkte barn on the fara of Samuel Bierly
two miles from Tylersville, Sugar Valley,
Clinton county, was destroyed by fire early
Friday morning. The crops stored in the
barn were consumed, but it is stated that the
live stock was saved.
—James, the 11-year-old son of Frank
Walls, store manager of the Webster store
company at Ehrenfeld, was run over by a
train of cars about 10:30 o'clock Saturday
morning and died at noon from the terrible
injuries received.
—Wm. Coffroth, brother of General A. H.
Coffroth, the well known Somerset county
lawyer and Democratic politician died Sum-
day morning at 6:30 o’clock at his home in
Somerset. He was aged 85 years. He is sur-
vived by a widow and severdl children.
—Fred Huffman, of Windfall, Lycoming
county, was riding a heifer, when he slipped
off its back. His foot caught on a hook in
the harness and the bey was dragged head
| downward. Finally the hook was torn from
his flesh, when the lad fell to the ground.
He was badly bruised.
—The Johnstown Democrat having heard
that Dr. Geo. R. Glass, of South Fork, is be-
ing urged by his friends to accept a senator-
ial nomination on a fusion ticket, says: ‘Dr.
Glass™is a radical Republican. He weighs
about 300 pounds, and for that reason we
will not say anything against him.
—Abont six o'clock. Friday evening. the
residenee of C. A. Thompson, of Irwin, was
entered by thieves who ‘ransacked the house
and carried away a purse belonging to Mrs.
Thompson, containing $50 and some valuable
papers. The house is in the central part of
the town. The thief made good his escape,
leaving no clue.
—One of the boldest acts of vandalism on
record in Blair county, occurred recently.
One night Howard Estep, of Antis township,
had a calf killed in his barnyard by an un-
known party. The calf’s body was taken
and the hide and head were left hanging on
the fence. There is no clae fo the perpetra-
tor or perpetrators. :
..—The large boarding %ouse’ at Munson’s
station was demolished by # wreck on the
Beech Creek railroad. An. eastbound ‘train
sideswiped a west bound freight, which con-
tact threw twenty-six cars of the track. The
cars rolled down the embankment at that
point and crashed into the building. No one
was injured. The wreck occurred Saturday
night.
—A deserter from the United States regu-
lar army, named Haman, was arrested,
Thursday afternoon, at Osceola by a constable
of that place, and was taken to the Clearfield
Jail. to await the arrival of a detailed soldier
who will'vettrn ‘him ‘66 an army ‘post for
trial. It is Haman’s second offense, and with
two '' 'desertions to his credit the trial is
likely to go hard with him.
=If a child born to Mr. and Mrs. Detrich ,
who lives near Fort London, lives until Sun-
day'it will be six weeks old. The child,
‘which is as healthy as month-old babies usu -
ally are, was born without nose or mouth,
with three fingers missing from one hand and
At ‘the
place where the nose ought to be there is an
opening leading into the palate.
. —Professor Silas Wright, ex-county super -
intendent of Perry county, and at present
county surveyor, was dangerously, and it
may be fatally injured,'at Millerstown sta-
tion Wednesday morning. He was driving
across the overhead bridge when a freight
His horse frightened
and ran away, throwing the professor out on
his head.. He was picked up unconscious
and taken to the N: tional ‘botel | in Millers
town. loin
i —Charles Hallo a an. oe of the
Good Coal company at Pine: Hall, Somerset
county, was beheaded about 2:30 o'clock Fri-
‘day afternoon while going to tarn a switch
on the Berlin branch of the Baltimore and
‘Ohio railroad. Hoffman was riding on the
pilot of the branch shifter with two railroad-
ers, and when the engine was approaching
the switch he jumped off sideways and was
thrown back under the wheels of the moving
locomotive, which passed: over his neck.
3 —Dr, Henry. L. ‘Donnelly, one of Lavrobe's
pioneer vhysicians,died Friday morning from
‘Bright's disease. ' Dr. Donnelly was born
nedr Derry, ‘Westmoreland | ‘county, in 1829.
‘He spent his entire professional life at La-
trobe and was ‘considered ' ‘an authority on
surgery. At the outhreak ‘of the civil war he
enlisted in company K,, Eleventh Pennsylya-
nia volunteers. In 1862 he was promoted to
the captaincy of company G, One. Hundred
and Thirty-fifth regiment, - SeTviAy to the
close of the war. 3H
pan suit bofore ‘Squire Tenahan. ‘of Cen-
tralia, Thursday, for the recovery of $10
‘brought out the fact that one Fralk Cassoco-
ski, a ‘resident of Midvalley, had sold ‘bis
daughter to Anthony Muscavich, of the
same place for $150, the $10 ‘being. paid to
When the girl of 18 years
arrived at Midvalley from Russia, Anthony
was not pleased with her appearance, hence
the suit for the recovery: of the money: The
‘sum was returned and Friday father and
daughter returned te Russia together.
For the first time since he and his wife
were struck and maimed by the freight
“train at the Pennsylvania railroad depot in
Johnstown on Wednesday, July 18th, «nd
their little son. killed, Editor J. C. Begley
Monday read, an account of the dreadful
Lakemont excursion, catastrophe. He is fast
~improving in his condition. In the morn-
ings and evenings he experiences no incon-
‘vehiente, but in the'lieat of thie day be has
to stay in dours and avoid the sun,to preven t
Des-
up, not in his own injuries, but in the death
‘of his baby boy and the loss ofa limb inflicted
upon his helpmate.