rn backward, O Time in thy
esskvars
“flight,
dive us tne entenoia aging just for one
night
The part that. we want most. then made men
profane .
The ‘ground soaking, splattering, down-pour-
ing rain.
—BRYAN'S speech at Indianapolis was
probably the greatest vote maker that will
be developed during’ this campaign.
—One ‘swallow doesn’t make a summer,
but a few swallows of soda water or ice
cream often wins out a summer girl.
—Tt takes more than the sun has been
able to do around here for the past two
weeks to wilt the starch in some people.
—Monday’s papers announced that the
allied forces were within sight of Pekin.
As they haven’t seen it yet they evidently
figured that it cost too much to go in.
—Mr. HANNA has announced his cam-
paign advisory committee, but a miero-
scopic examination of the list has failed to
discover any name that looked like QUAY.
—England’s declaring the war over in
South Africa dor=+’t make it so when the
Boers are all there yet and have nearly all
of their big guns and millions of stands of
rifles.
_—The Board of Health in Manila has
: reported that there are thirty thousand
lepers in’ the Philippines Think of it,
they cost us $60,000. Tsu’t it about time
to take. another fall out of Spain and get
our money back.
_ —Sthtistios are ‘being used to show. that
the 'valne of bogs has advanced $3 per head
within: the pastsix months. If this is true
HANNA ‘might turn his increased valuation
of, $3 over to the McKINLEY campaign
fund, .
= Bren after the allied forces get up to
Be gi reat wall that surrounds the Chinese
capitol they will have some tall work cuf
out for them. It is fitsy feet high and
broad enough on top for two coaches to
i ve abreast. "It will take very heavy ar-
tillery to make a hole in such a wall, even
large enough to peek into Pekin.
~“LWhen HENRY LABOUCHERE's London
Truth can say ‘nor would - we be surprised
it, in view of their continued prosperity, |
n cousins were to act as our
e fnture, in a good many in-
not time for. us to let our
~understand that it isnot for
the kind of money we will
ur : years ago, we were
world. We had a full
6. among the:
Shat time we have licked
ih be licking war revenue
1 four years more.
g rescue of the Americans in
he settlement of the indemnity
ps should be withdrawn as
. they were sent there. We
id the embroglio that is cer-
cha orto Rico and the Philippines, with
] ing or snatching more trouble in
Pp HUNTINGDON, the rail-
ite who died on Tuesday night
r camp in the Adirondacks was
idred million or more. He
school when he was only
old and began by peddling
straps. He was consid-
but the contact with the
| the sharpening straps
ts effect on him, as his pile
cents a day until be grows
orld will turn an attentive
e while. Because he is
of Chicago University.
and hig live in the slums
and see how much attention
to his Ssonomin] 4 discus;
adignation marched ‘them to
ain about as soon as the Presi-
t¥
morial day trom May 30h to
unday in May was probably in-
‘because of the: growing tend-
ke it a gala day for sportsmen,
period of mourning aud eunlo-
ose who have laid their lives on
ntry’s altar. The great athletic
May. 30th. have come to over-
that of any ather. connections by kin,
by, marriage; rans br !
"all in its latest issue,
_ STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Working for a Bell Wether.
Republican managers evidently believe
the people vote, as sheep run in flocks, af-
ter a ‘‘bell wether.” And this may be so,
even if it is not complimentary to the gen-
eral intelligence and independence. of the
average American citizen.
If it is not the belief of those who con-
trol the management of the Kepublican
campaign, if there is not some basis for
presuming that there is a good deal in hav-
ing a “bell wether’ to induce the balance
of the flock to follow, why the extraordin-
ary efforts now being put forth to keep
the Republican majority in Maine up to its
usual figure.
That Maine is a hide-bound and undisput-
able Republican State, none but a political
idiot would ‘think of denying. = Whether.
1 the majority it gives its state ticket two
months before the general election be ten,
or twenty, or forty thousand should have
no influence upon the voters of other
States.
But Republican politicians think it will
and are laboring to point to Maine as the
weather vane of this presidential contest.
With innumerable local slang-whangers,
who are expected to abuse the Democracy
and glorify McKINLEY at every cross roads,
they have arranged for an army of outside
speakers, such as has never invaded
any State, and carried brass and hewilder-
ment to any people. In the eightecn days
during which it has been decided to run
the Maine campaign, over 700 hundred
speeches are to be delivered by imported
Republican speakers. And this in. addi-
tion to its cross-roads and store-box gather-
ings and’ the $500,000 of a campaign
fund that is to be thrown in to waken
Maine enthusiasm, and prove the stability
of Maine Republicanism.
With such efforts and such expenditures
there should be no question about the ma-
jority they may bave to show.
But why should this influence intelli-
gent people, unless the ‘‘bell wether”
theory i8 Songeen
- Of all the States in the Union the action
of Maine on political matters shonld have
less influence on the geperal public than
a
intercourse are more elosely allied to ‘the.
| British ideas than to those held by the peo-
ple of the other States. Over one half of the
population were taught their political faith
in the provinces of Quebec or of Nova Scotia.
They are anti-American at heart, by educa-
tion and by absorption. In the nature of
things they couldn’t be anything but Re-
pu blicans and Imperialists. A large ma-
jority of the balance of its population have
never been outside of the influence that
this imported balf has exercised over
them and to-day they are as narrow, as
bigoted and as prejudiced against the prin-
ciples of free government as are the Kan-
uncks, from whom they inherit their polit
ical ideas.
With less to boast of of their own forks
with less to point to in the way of states-
manship or political advancement; with
less to show for any industry, enterprise
or intelligence on the part of its people;
with more of bigotry; of crotchety-cranki-
ness and a more general acceptance of un-
natural beliefs and long-named isms, than
| is found in any State of the Union, that it
should be selected as the ‘‘bell wether’’ in
| politics is certainly anything but compli-
| mentary to the general intelligence of the
voters of other States.
‘As a ‘“‘bell wether" Maine may do to
lead Republicanism, as taught and practiced
by McKINLEY. “It will hardly be followed
| by the flock of voters who understand that
the tinkle of the bell is moving towards
the arid ‘wastes of Imperialism -and ‘the
scorched: deserts from which trusts have
absorbed all nourishment, ~~ ©
——
—Word comes from Lancaster, Ky, to
Y | the effect that a deaf mute has recovered |
ber power of speech by the. process of | ¢
| spanking through . which her mother. was
- | putting her on Thursday. HANNA Hemp-
HILL is the girl's name and she was sixteen
, | years old when ber dear old mother pad-
dled her until she broke out bawling so
loud that the whole. ‘neighborhood heard
and was amazed. Maybe she hadn't been
deaf at all.’ She might just have’ bad fall-
ing of the larynx which would naturally
be knocked back to place when her ‘mother |
gave her a few wea jis on: elte “egher
end. : .
——The Republican ee out a a
lenge to judge LOVE, calls Secretary JouN
HAMILTON “Ole” and throws a “look” | be
into the artist who. wrote . the editorial
leader in the. State College Times last week,
made things interesting in the Republican |
camp and when it. sings. there is a con-
tinnally growing crowd
down on the chorus.
— Former U. 8. Senator Jon J, Th
GALLS, one of the most brilliant orators
and astute Legislators of his day, died.
yesterday.
=
BELLEFONTE; P
ET
A Few Changes that Would Make Bryan
President.
Few persons who “have not gone to. the
trouble of looking over the returns of 1896
carefully will realize what a slight change | e
at that time would have made Mr. BRYAN
President of the United States, and proba-
bly saved the country the thousands of:
precious lives and millions of dollars that
have been thrown away up to this time in
the support of the imperialistic idea.
In 1896, when the world resounded with
the gloating triumph of the gold over the
gilver issues, the victory seemed over-
whelming, but in realify it was not so
great. A change of forty-eight votes in the
electoral college would have changed the
victory to the silver side and made Mr.
BRYAN the President, instead of the
creature of the trusts and jobbers who has
placed in the public service men who have
heen found guilty of every crime from that.
of feeding putrid beef to helpless soldiers
down to robbing the post offices of the
poverty stricken Cubans. At that time
the votes of Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland,
California and North Daketa would have
gone to the Democratic nominee on a turn
around of 52,067, and would have given
him a majority in the electoral college and
made him President. = Ohio, Kentucky,
California and Oregon could have been
turned with only 26,957 votes off McKiIN-
LEY and given to BRYAN and they would
have elected the latter.
+ There are numbers of similar combina-
tions of States in which the gold majorities
were so small that the margin by which
President: McKINLEY really was elected is
‘very surprising and exceptionally seo rag?
ing to Democrats.
The money question is settled. It can |
not possibly be taken up for six years to
Fo
Edy
-
Tobe told that we are now paying 57%
oral of the entire revenues of the gov-
ut for military purposes may not be
sews fo Som, but will certainly surprise
othets. The report of the Treasury De-
partment for the year ending July 2nd,
1900'shows this to be a fact and as the Re-
publicans are using the figures given in
the report to magnify their charities to the
old soldier they will have no excuse for
either doubting or denying them.
. The report shows that the total revenue
receipts for the year given amounted to
$568,988,948.
The amount paid out for pensions dur-
ing that period was $138,462,172, or 24 per
cent of the amount of revenue received.
The amount : expended by the War and
Navy Departments for the same time was
$190,743,980. or 33} per cent. of the total
revenues,
- Adding these percentages together we
have 57} per cent, or over one-half the entire
income of the gover nment paid out for such
‘ purposes as are incident to militarism.
And we are only starting on that road.
Militarism in this country bas heretofore
been an unfelt and an unfeared evil.
Prior to ‘MeKINLEYism we knew -noth-
ing of it.
During a single adrsinistrative Adi
with him at the head it has gained such a
foot-hold and. grown to such proportions
that the cost: of maintaining it already
amounts to more than does that of all the
other departments of the government, com-
bingd, including interest on public debts,
. public improvements and all other govern-
mental expenditures.
, AUG. 17.
penditures,
- Think what this means.
‘Russia spends but 26 per cent of her
1900.
‘Astonnding Facts About Military Ex-
before that time.
and issue in the coming campaign.
ago, is settled also
wobbling, - vacillating, .
even cringing. . Time has shown, beyond.
reasonable doubt, that ‘BRYAN y
come, because the political complexion ‘of.
the United States Senate cannot be changed
Therefore it is elided as
The
question as to Mr. BRYAN'S stability,
ich was an important one four years
by his unparalleled
work singe that time, Where he has shown-
the (inflexible, coumrageous spirit of the
great statesman the President has been
subservient and
‘stronger man ol thie two. ‘These being the: ay
two great questions of the campaign of ’96,
-and both settled now, it leaves nothing but
‘the ‘‘paramount issue’’ of imperialism.
total revenues for the maintenance of her
army and the payment of pensions ; Ger-
many 24; and France 22, for the same pur-
poses, and we look upon them as miliny
‘governments. -
‘What in the name of sense are we, witli
our boasted. ideas of a Republic—a govern-
“ment of the people, by the people for the
people—and our expenditures of 57% per
bof ¢ our entire Tevenues for iliary
en we e ound Ressin i in a pg
impose upon our people for military pur-
poses is it not time to consider what we are
Agitist. Imperialism and Mekintey.
From the Philadelphia a Record, Ind.
The great Western States 6f Ohio, In-
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, with not
far from a million voters of German birth,
will be the battle-ground of this cam
against imperialism, as they were in the
campaign of 1896 for sound money. The
German element is an object of dread and
repugnance to the politicians, because ib
cannot be counted upon in a great contest
like the present by the party astil sergeants.
In the new turn of the political Sn Carl
Schurz finds himself once more in harmony
with the great majority of his conntrymen
of German birth on the issne of imperigl-
ism.
Dr. Swallow Prefers Bryan. :
From a recent speech.
Dr. Swallow, candidate of the United
Christain party, says: ‘‘If we must choose
between the two candidates of the two old
parties, I must say that I would support
the man who clings to principle and ad-
than the haan whom the people never knew
where to find on any vital issue, who was.
against the liquor traffic at one time, and
is now for it; who was for free silve
is now for gold: who was for free-trade
with! Porto Rico, and Athen fora Porte Rican
ta
Situation Desperate. g
8ir Claude MacDonald's Description of Affairs in
Pekin. A Massacre is Yet Possible. ‘More Particu-
lars of the Taking of Yang-tsun—Fourteenth United
States Lost Heavily—Were Fired on Through Mis:
take. Our Facilities for for Getting News.
LONDON, August 14.- 14.—3.50. A. M.~—The'
British consul at Canton; says the Daily
Telegraph's correspondent here; has receiv-
ed the following dispateh, August 6, from
Su laude MacDonala; British minister | in,
ekin:
days our food supply will be atan end.
Unless we are relieved a general: massacre
is probable. The Chinese offer to escort us
to Tien Tsin, but, remembering Cawnpore; |
we refuse the offer.. There pd over 200
European women and children in this le-
tion.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Express, wiring yesterday, . says:
** The allies at noon Saturday were with
in twenty miles of Pekin.”’
. As General Chaffee’s report, which is the
only authentic news received here. -
ing the advance, located the Spal
forces about forty miles fi in on
Friday, it seems probably
hai report is optimist. It sh }
“ {likely that the allies conld nee
-miles inias many hours. mew nb
A Yangtsun dispatch, dated August a
giving details regarding the egpture of thas
lace, says: ‘The Russians and French
Birr ———r
Spawls from m the. Heysone: :
heres to what he believes to be right, rather
“Our situation here is desperate. In ten is
The question as to whether we are to con-
tinue as a Republic or eschew republican
doing it for 2
When we more than double Germany in
one of empirical form.
to the honor of a free people.
Arkansas, Colorado, Florida,
ideas and resolve our free government into
This can be the only question of the
coming campaign and.it needs but a look
ahead to see how easily it could be settled
On the
certainty that BRYAN will carry Alabama,
Georgia.
the tax-burdens we load upon the citizens
to maintain our army bave we not reached
a point that calls for a halt?
Weare at that point now. We exceed the
world in military expenses and Mr. Me-
KINLEY and his policy of imperialism
would make us double our efforts in the
eld the left, the British left centre, the
Americans right centre, and the Japanese
the extreme right. The @ British and
Americans advanced on the village at a
rapid rate for 5,000 yards, under a severe
shell and rifle fire. The Russians opened
and the British-American advance became
a race for positions, culminating in a bril-
liant charge, The heaviest loss of the
day was sustained by the Americans, the
Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Carolina, South Carolina, South
“Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia,
Washington and Wyoming he will have
174 votes to start with, without even a
‘contest for them.
Since the outrageous murder of Governor
GOEBEL in Kentucky even Republicans
admit that there is no question ahout where
she will place her thirteen votes. BRYAN
in-hand.
same line.
Imperialism and militatism maroh hand-
They both demand increased
armies, increased expenditures and increas-
ed taxation.
These are what a continuation of Me-
KINLEYism promises.
The Republican has |
ready to 0 bear
will get (Lem and his total will be 187.
Democrats in
stand that Senator WEL
makes that State a
run the BRYAN total up to 195.
that time Mr.
crats hi
Bi dnd the bankers
very city in the le State were w ked.
+> ‘last resource to overcome Torked
a
conditions are. wonderfully Shangedl,
er “because of his secret
ling Boers. i n Sout
are conditions that seem certaix
n to mi
change of 9,091 votes in that State.
electorals and his total will be 210.
to say that California, with
out of lier nine votes; and North Dakota,
with her 5,649 Republican majority an
three electors, can be urned around
with three electorals. Oregon
votes and West Virginia is hy
yond being a | bh
it seems most 1
mentioned could be made th e see
Democratic viotories.. dp
These are ibiljtice, not Beans, in
in the calenlation we have dropped N
York, Illinois and Ohio clear out of ¢
sideration.
to the ' former State, however, as by al
precedent’ it will
candidate for Preside
Tooking over the field in a careful, unbia
few comparatively trifling changes wil
the United States.
The uniting of the warring factions of |
yland, > fouled with fhe
GTON has taken
Democratic certainty.
Of course it will only be. getting back
where it belongs but the eight votes will
Indiana is the next State we can look to
hopefully. Four years ago McKINLEY
carried it by a majority of sly 18,181. At
BRYAN was hissed on the
streets of Indianapolis, the Gold Demo-
‘held their convention in that
and money interests
fo High street most of the day.
will be no gold Sees pre, question to
ish as and his failure to oi |
neon eme,
fog “nese
It
they do BRYAN will have fifteen more
With the victory mark of 224 then only |
14 votes distant it is not esting ops
try
2,797 majority that gave MARINE eight
Delaware will be a BRYAN certainty, ELKINS sage, will be the result a
n’s four votos
would go to at Vii on a change of 1,169
no. eans
ef a porilier” though
ly that the first ey
We do not relinquish’ —
for the Democratic
ent this year, but in
manner we cannot fail to ‘discover’ ‘that &
‘make Mr. BRYAN the next President ‘of
Profane Loafers.
It is not to be wondered at that placards
warning against loafing are becoming so
numerous ahount the fronts of Bellefonte
buildings. On ‘Tuesday the editor of the
Republican was compelled to resort to that
means of trying to rid himself and bis em-
ployees of a nuisance shat. becomes almost
unbearable.
sire rather ‘than. necessity, congregate on
the bridges and available: steps on west
Their con-
‘Tush of the farmers to BRYAN, This io versation is anything but edit, ng to the |
unwilling ears it reaches and for the most
ary the, wien of nst the | Such foul creatures as must show their
iso oy i TAY bas bees t0 India th the puny ‘vocabularies by continued ecourse
/ a sith > demonstration en | to oaths would probably not feel the dis-
any Bile’ Le. Coupled wi | grace of imprisonment, but if afew of them |
- ions 3 he a I00¢ | were to be fined for thelr ge :
Hin Eat all openly sion Me- ‘would p robably be an en : ‘in
decent oss that. offends, :
everywhere. riba 4a
se TR | S———
the steel-clad and truth-proof ri g leaders, |
“the finish, and that in the political
také as to whom they tclong. This, Mr.
out counting anything from districts in
which fusion is resorted to or that are. sei. | Ch
ably Democratic. A sare thing ina case
like this onght to be. a good thing and if
this estiniate is correct, or is not the veriest
risking it all by putting’ the hos on the |
| stump ‘and giving the ple so 1 niuch more
of QUAY than they expect or care for. Too |
1| much of one thing often becomes nanseous,
and ‘i. there is any one thing that has
sickened the political stomachs of the
voters of Pennsylvania it is the persistent
1| and ever-lasting doses of QUAYism they
| have been compelled to take ® Joring. the
past decade.
eC
Crowds of men and hott, idle from de.
part is accentuated ‘by shocking profanity. |
nes min hic prem of Fugland
has issued a statement to the effect ‘that | t
Mr. Quay will be in the senatorial ‘fight | ¢
boll 8, of Senators. and ‘Members the |.
ring will have 162 votes with its ‘brand;burn- ;
Yt ed in them in a way that no one will mis-'
braggadccio, we fail to see the sense in |
Fourteenth infantry having one killed, 62
wounded and several missing. The Bengal
lancers unsuccessfully attempted to ous oft
the Chinese. retreat.”’
Another Yang-tsun special says:
*‘Owing to a mistake, British and Rus-
sian guns shelled the Fourteenth United
States infantry during the night, wound-
ing ten.”’
Commenting upon this. occurrence the
Standard says. ‘It is melancholy to learn
that the losses of the Americans; - who
seem to have born themselves with conspic-
uous gallantry, were increased by a deplor-
able error, in consequence of which one of
their regiments were pounded by Russian
and British cannon- The incident empha-
sizes. the necessity of that: close co-opera-
tion which ie not easily obtained without
a single cammander and a general stafl.’’
‘Official advices from Yokohama dated
yesterday, say that the allies propose to ad ]
vance on Angust 7 to Nan Tei -Tsum, be-
tween Yangtsun and Wau Sing. The
Japanese suffered no casualties at Yangtsun,
but the. official reports. sy thew b bad 300, a
Peitsung. be :
i LR
ent dec | e an as
sealed the tate of
ern huria.
were tak: n nia. Hou S s Wholesale
‘when the battle was or the Cossacks
oo und
rode over SheSeld, killi
with the butt ot th i my
ment to secure Ren an ahead of the fat
| world. “It is to piping vii ie fh iene
Daily Ne Sonat ‘we are
| for ne pint tug he front. That
——Mr. Attorney-General ELKINS, one 3
Sed yi gah iy
7 is oy irs than
.. In some res]
Delsaes Still its su anor
Ee _ It may be observed that
rate fiaell rom she es.” i.
=
ns » oie wifi fhe
a DID ena or, expanding. The drain of
a and nd South 4 i upon En i) 8
‘stores is so grea evi privz e firm
has been ask “help the government
to supoly the Seti and restore the re-
‘serves. which is much below par. All the
tion firms are’ y workitg night
efforts to meet the gov-
government in Porto. Rico,” shouts a Re-
publican orator. And judging ‘from the
politieal stench that comes up from it we
must concede that he kuows what be ‘is
talking about and has Slisesed the Kind of
government the Repubiicans have given |g
‘them down there, the first pop.
TAY
government does of seem fo !
{ed intoan unshapely mass, the result of a
| railway ‘accident Sunday’ evening,
—~Rains wore general a all over the central
patt of the State yesterday. While not near
enough, the fall was Sufficient for temporary
2 relief.
“—John IL. Whelan di died near DuBoistown,
Wednesday, aged 70 years. Mr. Wheeler
was an old riverman and was one of the men
who assisted John E. DuBois to shackle the
first boom at Williamsport.
~Michael Kirsch Sr., who, resides nepr
Spangler, is believed to be the oldest and
best bicycle rider for his age in Cambria
{ county. Mr. Kirsch is about 76 or 78 years
old, but rides a bicycle equal to a youth of
- 120.
—Dr. David W. Conaghy, aged 72 years,
died at Latrobe Friday morning. He wasa
prominent Mason, a leader in medical socie-
ties, and a prominent figure in Latrobe man-
ufacturing enterprises. .Dr. Conaghy issur-
vived by his wife and one sister. So
—Martin, the 5:year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Kirsch, living about a mile from
Nicktown, Cambria county, met with a seri-
ous accident Tuesday of last week, ‘While a
traction engine was passing the house the
child jumped on an empty truck and fell off,
the wheels passing over his breast.
—Miss Anna Miller, of Durward, Juniata
county, is. likely to go blind, the result of
wiping her eye with her. hand, while working
among parsnips. The eye became poisoned,
and for the past couple weeks she had been
confined to a dark room, her suffering being
intense.
—The 1-year-old son of Charles Gehring, of
Greensburg, was the victim of painful burns.
The little tot was playing in the kitchen and
while his mother was absent pulled a kettle
and shoulders. His face and shoulders were
terribly scalded.
+ —D. C. Rannels has brought suit against
and | the Pennsylvania railroad company. to recov-
er damages for the loss of his stock of goods
in the store building which was burned early
pt ‘spring at Port Royal. He claims the
re caused by sparks from a focomative
which had a defective spark arrester. He
claims $2,500 damages.
1 ~—Two! remarkably large bass: bave been
caught within the last week near Clearfield.
According to the Rafstman’s Journal one of fii :
big bass was caught by Cyrus Wilson.
weighed nine pounds and was twenty al
inches in length. Squire Moore, caught a
bass which was nineteen inches. Jong: and
weighed seven pounds.
~The surveying party on the “Hopkiiia
tion, Clinton county, has reached a
oint n the southern boundary of the Par-
i: . One day this week while the
men: Were. in their dining tent they heard a
noise ‘behind them. Looking around they
‘saw inside the tent door a large Tattle-
snake. The reptile was killed by Edwarg
Ball. :
: —~While Mrs. Jacob Thomas, of near Pat-
ton, was standing on a chair to reach the up-
per shelves of the Kitchen cupboard: a few
days ago, the chair in some way tilted,
throwing her to the floor. The lower part
of her spinal colimn and also the hip bones
ely were injured, Latest reports, however, say
‘is getting mlong as. well.as.
about 65 years of age.
er young man of McConnellsburg were driv-
ing'overthe mountain to Mercersburg, last
Sunday evening, at a point a short distance
above the old Hollenshead distillery they
noticed a large snake threshing around in
the dust under the horse's feet. They got
out to investigate and found that the horse
had tramped squarely upon the head of a
rattlesnake nearly four feet long. A singu-
lar fact was that, although the snake was
one of the largest ever killed in that vicinity
it had only two rattles.
—Half an hour after bidding good by to
his home folk, death in a horrible form came
to Brakeman William F. Edmiston, of Altoo-
na, Saturday evening at about 6:15 o'clock.
He fell underneath a draft of steel cars, at
the head of the classification yards and was
almost instantly killed. He gave up lifea
short time after being placed aboard an en-
gine, to be taken to the Altoona ‘hospital.
The injuries inflicted to the dead man con-
sisted of a crushed skull, while many of his
bones were broken, caused by being rolled.
—Hall and Kaul, the lumber operators on
Fishing creek, about ten miles from Empor-
ium, were heavy losers by fire this week.
The flames were started by a spark from a
locomotive. The bark, logs and other prop-
erty destroyed will cause a loss of about $20,-
000. , C. B. Howard & Co., of Emporium, lost
about $2,000 worth of logs. Frank Lockwood
and other jobbers were also losers by the fire.
Fires were also’ raging, on Wednesday, i nthe
direction of Salt run and Cauley run,’ in the
pine and’ hemlock forests operated by F. H.
and C. W. Goodyear.
-—Mrs. Catharine Wertz: was atch oe a
| ‘cow made mad by the intense heat; at her
| home near’ Madison, Westmoreland county,
Thduley, and terribly injured. She.
ter-
ed the pasture field carrying her baby Che:
C | animal, which had been acting strangely for
some time, made a rush for the woman and
knocked her down. The babe was thrown
from the mother’s arms and was badly hurt.
The crazy animal then pounced upon the
‘to | woman, trampling ber and plunging its horns
; into her.
‘Her cries brought to the scene two
‘neighbors, and with great difficulty. the ani-
mal was driven away. The muscles of one
arm were completely torn. away.
.—With the lower part of his Jefe Teg crash.
Oscar
Pratzmann, aged 15 years, of Sunbury, hop-
‘ped on one foot for nearly a square to sum-
mon a hospital ambulance. The boy, with
several companions, was jumping on a freight
train on the Reading road. Pratzmann rode
‘a half asquare and jumped off: When he
‘attempted to get on the second time, his foot
slipped and he fell under. Failing to attract
‘the attention of ¢ anyone by his cries, fhe bound
his leg with bis handkerchief and. with the
| stoicism of a western Indian, traveled unas-
sisted to a grocery store. Culling for the
hospital on the telephone he told of his mis-
hap and ‘asked himself for the ambulance.
Weak from the great loss of blood, the boy
swooned away before the o orgie) attendants
arrived, but soon recove The leg was
mputated two inches Yered: the knee, He
wil récover.
of boiling water from the stove upon his head .
—While Charles E. Goldsmith and SE ?
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