EL AN
GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
“You can talk about the Sousa’s
And the Cappa’s of the land,
But none of them are in it with
Mister Johnny Fagan’s band.
It was on the streets the other night.
And such music you haven't heard
Since that past master of such things,
Old Orpheus, was interred.
It marched about with horns and dram
And played a stirring strain,
A toot toot toot and bum bum bum,
That racked Bellefonte with——joy.
—What we are going to claim from
China and what we are going to get will
‘probably be very varying quantities.
— The reason that the Republicans don’t
take the Hon. TiMOTHY WOODRUFF as
their candidate for Governor in New York
is probably because party precedent has
made it necessary to nominate a man, not
a peacock, for the office.
—1I¢ is little wonder that Boss HANNA
is reported to be short of funds already.
He has recently bought up three big west-
ern papers that were feared to be leaning
toward BRYAN. Such things come high
but MARK must have them.
— The latest campaign humbug sent fly-
ing from the HANNA headquarters is that
civil law is to take the place of military
authority iu the Philippines after Septem-
ber 1st. Be that as it may the demand for
hospitals, undertakers and coffins for
American soldiers is still going on at the
same rapid rate. ;
— Interest in local politics took a decided
jump during the fore part of the week.
“Our DAN?’ took a flying trip to Penns-
valley and another one to Philipsburg and
the stirring around now is something won-
derful to behold. There is nothing like a
boss and ‘‘the real thing to make Republi-
cans get a move on. :
—There will probably never be any-
thing said about hauling down the flag
from the Chinese wall. The lond-monthed
braggarts who insisted that not one foot of
soil won by the bravery of American sol-
diers should ever be given up will keep
quiet enough now that we have the powers
of the world to contend with, instead of
poor, petered out Spain. :
—Now that the American flag has been
planted on the walls of the Chinese capital,
at the cost of good American blood, we are
waiting to hear some of the Republican
haranguers repeat the declaration that ‘‘it
shall never be hauled down,” that they
have been so fond of making about Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine points over
which old glory has waved.
—Among whom ROOSEVELT has branded
as cowards shrinking from duty there are
thousands who bared their breasts in de-
fense of their country in far more troublons
times than were those in which he stuck
his light head into the lion’s jaws. And
it would have been there yet had it not
been for the colored regulars who have
since been spurned by his party.
—Lock Haven dairyman are talking
about increasing the price of milk and
cream after September 1st. It is not a libel
on the dispensers of the lacteal fluid to re-
mark thas the price is going up because of
the continued drouth. Short rain fall,
makes short grass, short grass makes short
milk yields and short milk yields make
longer prices. :
—The English thought they had the
back bone of the Boer war broken when
poor General CRONJE was crushed in the
bed of Modder river and then deported to
St. Helena. But General DEWET was left
and it has remained for him and his seven
thousand brave followers to elude eighty
thousand British, capture regiment after
regiment of them, keep their communica-
tions broken up and to make monkeys of
the English soldiers so that even the home
government is becoming disgusted with
it.
—The Chicago enthusiast who started
off from that city, with a message from
Gen. JoE WHEELER to Gen. MILES, to
make an antomobile run to Washington,
with the hope of demonstrating that the
new vehicle would prove just the thing for
a gun carriage in the time of war, has sub-
sided. The mobility of his auto was only
two and one half miles per day and after
getting thirty miles away from Chicago in
fitteen days it stuck in the mud for keeps
and the driver abandoned the auto. And
so he ought to. :
—In speaking of the Republicans who
attended the Liberty Congress at Indian-
apolis and declared for BRYAN, the Chica-
go Times-Herald says they were in ‘‘a
temporary frenzy which they will regret in
becoming the tools of men whose political
heresies they abhor.” After all a great
many things depend on whose ox is gored.
The Times-Herald wouldn’t have said such
a thing about the Gold Democrats who
met at Indianapolis four years ago and
practically endorsed McKINLEY by putting
up that stool pigeon ticket, PALMER and
BUCKNER.
—The story goes that former Congress-
‘man W. C. ARNOLD has deserted QUAY
and henceforth will be a political free
lance or tie up with insurgents. Conld
this possibly mean that he is preening
himself for congressional honors again, but
‘has decided to trust his Tuck to the other
crowd. Inasmuch as Mr. CLEMENT DALE
would like to be the Republican nominee
also, and made himself a tail to the insur-
gent kite to years ago in the vain hunt for
the honor, it will be interesting to ob-
‘serve how he and ARNOLD will make out,
The aight of these two old QUAY leaders
‘marching in the rear rank of the HASTINGS
procession is a sad one indeed.
VOL. 45
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 24, 1900.
A Good Sign for New York Democrats.
Before our Republican friends get their
hopes of carrying New York too high, be-
cause of division among the Democrats of
that State, we would advise them to think
back a little. If they have good memories
past facts will deter them from boasting
too loudly about having New York, until
they really win it. It is a peculiar State,
has peculiar ways, and in political matters
is particularly peculiar.
In most States harmony among the
leaders of a party means that its organiza-
tion is in good condition; that the senti-
ment among its members is united; that
all are satisfied with existing conditions
and will work together for one end. In
New York it seems to be otherwise. Har-
mony is indicative of indifference, and the
failure to have factional feuds is a sure
forerunner of defeat.
Going back to 1876, when SAM'L J. TIL-
DEN was the Democratic nominee for Pres-
ident, there never was a more bitter or
deeper seated fight among party managers
that then. He had uncovered the TWEED
ring and had forced into exile or imprison-
ed every prominent man connected with
it. Their friends, their money and their
influence were against him. The divisions
in the party as to the propriety of his nom-
ination were open and violent. Many of
the prominent men of the country believed
it would be suicidal to name him, because
of the factional fights in his State and in
which he was one of the leaders. But
TILDEN was nominated. The Democratic
vote of the State was aroused, by its local
contests, and the State went Democratic,
and TILDEN was elected.
Again in 1884, factional feuds raged in
New York, and TAMMANY, headed by
JorN KELLY, went to Chicago determined
to defeat the nomination of CLEVELAND.
In spite of their bitter opposition and
threats of defeat the convention made him
the party nominee. The TAMMANY fol-
lowers bolted the convention and declared
that BLAINE would carry New York by
50,000. He didn’t, however. In the face
of that factional fight CLEVELAND carried
the State and was the next President.
It was the same in 1892. The bitterest
feuds among the leaders of the Democracy
of that State that were ever known, were.
showing themselves at the beginning of the
campaign. HILL was brought out as a
cand idate against CLEVELAND and New
York's delegation went to Chicago ‘‘dead
set’’ against the nomination of the latter.
Its members presented a written protest in
which they declared it was impossible for
him to carry his own State. The conven-
tion disregarded their protest and threats
and nominated CLEVELAND. That fall,
with factional fights much more intense
than at present the State went stronger
Democratic on the presidential question
than it had ever done before.
In 1888, when CLEVELAND ran the sec-
ond time for President, New York Demo-
crats were harmonious to a degree never
before known. Everyone of them was for
‘him for the nomination and the organiza-
tion was as peaceful and united as a body
of brothers could be, yet he failed to carry
the State and the Democracy lost the Pres-
ident. It has been the same in all their
gubernatorial contests for the past quarter
of a century. Whenever they vere par-
ticularly harmonious a short vote could be
expected and defeat the result.
It is a queer way of looking at things,
we admit, but judging froin the past and
from what we know of the Democracy of
the Empire State, we would bet more on
their success when they get to fighting
among themselves as to who is to lead
them than we would when they seem to be
harmonious and no one caring who is at
the front. ;
At this distance it looks very much as if
the New York leaders really believed there |.
is something worth fighting for and that
each side is anxious to have the glory of
winning it. :
If there was no hope of carrying New
York then there would be neither excuse
for, nor sense in, the contests the wrang-
ling factions up there are making to con-
trol the organization and direct party
management. Defeat would mean the po-
litical burial of those who would lose or
waste present opportunities, through mis-
management or carelessness, and neither |
one of these factions are working because
they want to be the corpse.
It will be well for Republicans to re-
member these things and probably th
will not boast so londly, and may possibly
have less reason to regret that they did not
gee in the wrangles of wonld-be-leaders in
New York, the evidence of an awakened, a
determined and a hopeful Democracy.
———————.
——1If you are not registered attend to
having it done at once.
EE —
‘Tt is delightful to note that the
Clearfield papers have settled down to the
real work of legitimate journalism and
their columns are no longer filled with
vicionis personal flings at each other. This
augurs well for the Democracy in Clear-
field county.
Spreading the Doctrine of Christianity.
Ministers of the gospel who have en-
dorsed Mr. McKINLEY’s imperialistic ef-
forts because they profess to believe their
success would spread the doctrines of
christianity among the heathen Filipinos;
humantarians who have helped the admin-
istration along in its war of conquest under
the impression that it would bring liberty
and enlightenment to an oppressed and
benighted people; and well intentioned
citizens who have hurrahed for everything
that looks to a continuation of this inex-
cusable and inhuman effort to rob a people
of their birthright because of the glory
they imagine there is in it for us and the
good it will prove as a world ecivilizer,
should read the following:
‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—In a letter from
Thomas J. Jones, private in Troop G, Elev-
enth Cavalry, writing from Santa Cruz,
Philippine Islands, to his brother here, a
massacre of Filipinos, in which he took part,
on June 25th, is described. Sixty members
of his regiment were ordered to kill or cap-
ture a Filipino general who was known to
be living in the neighborhood. :
The General’s house was found and the
Americans crawled through the underbrush
until they secured positions only a few yards
from the house. Then they discovered that
they had unwittingly chanced upon a wed-
ding. The Americans were ordered to fire a
volley from ambush and then charge, which
they did with terrible results.
‘‘The scene that resulted was horrible,”
writes private Jones. ‘On the ground near
the house lay the bride, whose brains had
been blown out: The bridegroom, who had
received a bullet in the stomach, was lying
nearby in a dying condition. Twelve of the
Filipinos had been killed and about the
same number wounded. An elderly woman
was shot through the leg, and a little child
had her arm shot off.”
Possibly the presentation of such facts,
may open the eyes of some people to the
way the ‘‘civilizing process’’ they are en-
dorsing works, as well as show them how
effectually we are spreading the kind of
christianity that is implanted with the
sword amid the horrors of war.
Great is the glory that must grow out of
such acts and convincing the christianity
that is taught by such methods!
Who wouldn’¢ shout, ‘On with the
war?’’
——Ex-Governor Mosgs is in trouble
again. This time for the larceny of $5.00.
Since he helped Republicans reconstruct
South Carolina,away back in war-times, he
“has served terms on both Blackwells Island
‘and in the Charlestowne prison of Massa-
chusetts for swindling operations.
Some
fellows never can forget their early train-
ing, and as MOSES got his from the Repub-
lican rascals who originated and carried
out the reconstruction theories of that
party, it is not probable that he will ever
be anything else than what he is, a teacher
of Republicanism and an unblushing
thief.
The Right Thing In the Right Place.
Mr. HANNA opened his campaign for
McKINLEY, at Asbury Park, New Jersey,
on Tuesday last. It was an opening by
the proper party, and in the proper place.
Altogether it was a recognition of the pro-
prieties, seldom seen in Republican efforts.
If there is any one class more than an-
other that Republicanism, as advocated and
represented by the HANNA-McKINLEY,
combination that controls that party, is
working to benefit, it is trusts. Mr. Mec-
KINLEY is the mortgaged tool of them.
Mr. HANNA is their faithful and never
flinching friend. The place he chose to
open his campaign in their interest and for
their candidate, is at the home of the moth-
er of trusts.
Of all the States of the Union, New Jer-
sey is the one that glories in being known
as the hatchery of these robber combina-
tions. Under its Republican laws they
are given a legal standing and under their
protective care they are nurtured and sent
forth to crush competition, stifle individual,
effort and paralyze legitimate business.
How appropriate then for Mr. HANNA,
the beneficiary and representative of
trusts, to open his campaign for the can-
didate of trusts at the place of their birth
and amid the surroundings that have nur-
tured and sent them forth.
Verily in this opening he has recognized
the proprieties, and given an exhibition of
consistent courage that it might be well if
Mr. McKINLEY would try to emulate.
Which 2
Judge LovE asserts that the State does
not pay mileage in addition to the extra
salary of $12 per day for holding courts in
districts outside of that in which they are
elected to preside. Will his honor explain
why such an entry as the following should
appear in the Auditor General’s Report, if
there is no mileage allowed him.
Joux G. Love, President Judge,
salary from Aug. 31st, 1897,
to AUG. B18t, 1888. .icuuivirvin tiinnisss nina $1,000.00
Compensation AND MILEAGE for
holding Courts in other
districts per Aet of May
2nd, i871, and per Act of
, March 2ith, 1887........ccce0een $112.40—$14,412.40
Is the Auditor General guilty of the
crime of cheating the people, or would the
Judge of the Courts of this county delib-
erately attempt to deceive the public for
the purpose of covering up the fact that he
rides on a pass and charges up to the State
that for which he does not pay a penny?
No Hope of Such Good Luck.
Notwithstanding the fact that Judge
Love's application for appointment to the
Supreme Court is backed by the endorse-
ment of the entire bar of the county, with
the exception of a very few names, we
rather imagine it will find a rocky road
to travel before it lands him on the bench
| of the highest court of the State.
Judge LOVE ought to be politician enough
to know that only those who can be of use
politically to the State ring, that he serves,
has a ghost of a show for this appointment.
He would be its tool if on the benca, it is
true, but it doesn’t need him there, and for
that reason he must be able to be of service
to it somewhere else. If any one knows
where Judge LOVE can turn over anything
to the ring in return for its backing, he
knows more than the people who know
him best and live nearest to him. In the
contest that is now on hand and in which
the boss of the ring has everything at stake,
Judge LOVE can be of no more assistance
to those whose assistance will be necessary
to secure the position he is after, than the
‘hobo’? ‘who is homeless, friendless and
voteless. :
Here at home he is without political
power, without personal influence and
helpless to do anything for a friend. Such
efforts as he may make to secure the nomi-
nation of candidates for the Legislature, who
if elected would vote for QUAY, will meet
with the most overwhelming defeat. So
little does his political influence, in the
county, amount to at this time that we
doubt if he will be able to carry a half doz-
en of the fifty-two election divisions in the
county for candidate of his choosings at the
goming primaries of his own party. In
fact we doubt if his own knowledge of his
weakness and unpopularity won’t deter
him from making any effort to nominate
candidates who could be depended upon by
the ring he serves. Others might do more,
but he as a leader cannot. ;
This is his condition and being helpless
to give anything in return it is the most
unbounded presumption to even hope that
his name will be seriously considered when
that appointment is taken up. We are sor-
ry that such is the'case. We are sorry for
putgly local and selfish reasons. We know
the place. We appreciate the fact that he
has never done anything that would entitle
him to be considered as an available or de-
serving nominee. We fully understand the
bitterness of his partisan prejudice and the
depths of his personal animosity, but with
all these the WATCHMAN wishes him suc-
cess. It does it in the same spirit and for
the same purpose that nine tenths of the
citizens of the county do the same thing—
for his personal benefit and that an oppor-
tunity may be given the people of the
county to choose an unbiased, unprejundi-
ced, non-partisan and reputable Judge.
In fact Judge LOVE’s neighbors will vote
a chromo to Mr. QUAY and his ring if he
will give him this or any other position,
that will create a vacancy in the judicial
chair in Centre county.
We are sorry now that Judge LovE does
not have some political influence in the
county just at this time. It might enable
him to furnish a quid pro quo, for this ap-
pointment.
What a relief and blessing it would be
to the people of the county,even if it would
be a little rough on those of other parts of
the State could his appointment be secured ?
——1It iz now said that his excellency,
Governor HASTINGS, has determined to
show the people what he is made of in the
way of influence in his own party here at
home and will make an open contest for
the nomination of candidates for Legisla-
ture who will pledge themselves against
QUAY under any and all circumstances.
This he will do, no matter what effect it
may have on the aspirations and expecta-
tions of his honor, Judge LovE. He don’t
care who it takes the ‘‘hair off.”” QUAY-
ISM is not going to be ailowed to hoast
‘| that it controls the Republicans of the po
litical bailiwick in which the ex-Governor
resides, nor are they to be used to further
the aspirations of our local candidate for
Supreme Court honors.
Altogether there is a good deal of politic-
al fun ahead, and we are of the opinion
that Judge LOVE is one of the fellows who
will not laugh very loud when the time to
laugh comes.
is
—It is a colossal kind of a job that
chairman REEDER and his Republican
State Committee
their effort to discipline the independent
Republican vote of the State.
‘ing more or less than to read out of that
‘party every man who refuses to believe in
QUA YISM or to support the work and wishes
of the state ring. Possibly they may sue-
ceed but if they do, they will find them-
selves the most lonesome set of politicians,
after the election is over, that ever aspired
to party leadership in this country.
~——Suheribe for the WATOBMAN.
‘Democrats or Republicans.
t he has not a single qualification for | 16 _ such | territorial “exp: “as
gives to this country proper material for
bas undertaken in|
Roosevelt Includes More in His Class of
Cowards.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Governor Theodore Roosevelt, running
mate of William McKinley in the present
campaign, has, after a long period of silence,
spoken. He makes reply to the severe
strictures placed on his St. Paul speech, in
which he said of Democrats: *“They stand
for lawlessness and disorder, for dishonesty
and dishonor, for license and disaster at
home, and cowardly shrinking from duty
abroad.” 3
He complains that he was misquoted,
and then in the same breath declares:
T'ended by saying: “Study the Kansas
City platform and you cannot help realiz-
ing that their policy (the policy of its
makers and sponsers) is a policy of infamy,
that their triumph would mean misery so
widespread that it is almost unthinkable
and a disgrace so lasting that more than a
generation would have to pass before it
could be wiped out. They stand for law-
lessness and disorder, for dishonesty and
dishonor, for license and ‘disaster at home
wad cowardly shrinking from duty
a j2) :
If there is any difference that distinguish-
es ‘‘betwixt’’ from ‘‘between’’ surely
Roosevelt is the man to explain it. In
conclusion the Governor says:
You will see that here I most explicitly
drew the line between the men who sup-
port and ask support for the Kansas City
platform and all other citizens, “whether
n I hold ‘up the
policy advocated in the Kansas City plat-
form as a hase and cowardly policy, to em-
phasize our right to appeal to the count-
less thousands of high-minded Democrats
who abhor baseness and cowardice and are
quick to Jeeand disown them. Hey
ou will notice by this ‘last paragraph
that Roosevelt has ‘made a clean out Hiri
sion, placing all American voters wh 'sup-
port the Kansas City platform in the cate-
gory of knaves and, by natural implica-
tion, all who support the McKinley ticket
among the saints. He has, if anything,
made matters worse, and whereas, in his
first reported address he insulted Demo-
crats he now widens his circle of abuse by
taking in all who support W. J. Bryan.
What is this Kansas City platform which
Mr. Roosevelt so vilifies? Here ‘are its
salient features : HLS
It stands by the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and the constitution of the United
States. ' : ;
It opposes a half-repatilie spnd® a Half-
empire.
It demands honest treatment for Porto |’
Ricans and Cubans. i
It denounces as un-American the Pres) t
Philippine policy and demands’ independ-
ence for the Filipinos. 5
It favors such territorial expansion as
citizenship and such nearby lands as‘may
be incorporated into the Union,
It opposes militarism, which is simply
another word for ‘‘conquest abroad.”’
It opposes trusts and private monopolies,
and pledges itself to regulate and curb
them.
It demands a currency system in which
silver is not regulated in the rear.
Look over these points carefully, then
consider the injustice and audacity of
Roosevelt’s latest statements.
Substantial Thoughts for Strong Men.
From the Baltimore Sun. (Gold Dem.)
"The Indianapolis speech abundantly
justifies the contention of Mr. Bryan’s
friends that during the past four years he
has matured and broadened in his views
and his intellectual grasp. While character-
ized by his usual facility and felicity of ex-
pression it is notably free from any strain-
ing after mere rhetorical effect, but, on the
the contrary, is full of solid meat—meat
for grown men as well as babies. From its
simple and modest exordium to its splen-
did peroration it is throughout argumen-
tative and unanswerable. The Democrats
will have po better literature to circulate
than this initial speech in the campaign of
their eloquent leader.
Arguments That Abuses Will Not An-
swer. +
From the Boston Transeript. (Rep.) X
The Republican papers show a regrettable
tendency to underestimate the strength of
Mr. Bryan’s arguments, brushing them
lightly asideas mere rhetorical fustian.
Instead of debating the issue of “imperial-
ism”’ with Mr. Bryan, as he challenges
them to do, they ridicule his style and ig-
nore his arguments. The speech does not
merit the contemptuous treatment which it
has received from many of the ultra-im-
perialistic organs. As we stated yesterday,
it is the strongest public utterance which
Mr. Bryan has yet made and cannot be dis-
missed with abusive personalities.
Why We Are Trying to Steal the Phil-
f ippines. /
From the York Dispatch.
General Otis has lef the cat ont of the
bag. In Leslie's Weekly he writes of the
Philippines and tells why we ought to re-
tain them. Hesays: ‘If we ask. a reason
for their retention we have only to refer to
the great richness of the island.” The
Chicago Public comments on this by telling
an anecdote. ‘If you didn’t mean to steal
the gold you took,’’ asked the judge of an
unfortunate, ‘‘why did youn keep it ?’’ The
prisoner replied, , ‘‘Because, sir, gold is
valnable.”’ Is further comment necessary ?
A Most Able Presentation.
‘From the Chicago News. (Ind.)
It is noth- |
Viewed as a declaration from the anti-
imperialist-expansion point of view, Mr.
Bryan’s Indianapolis speech is by far the
most able and eloquent presentation of the
subject that has yet heen made. The doc-
trines enunciated on this policy are in ac-
cordance with American bistory and the
traditions of a freedom-loving people. In
discussing the varions phases of the matter
Mr. Bryan expressed some of these beliefs
and traditions of the American people in
striking and expressive form.
——Suhsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone
—1In the Republican primaries in Juniata,
Mifflin and Perry counties Saturday the
Quayites suffered disastrous defeats. The
anti-Quayites were victorious in all the coun-
ties.
—Thursday morning a 3-year-old child of
David Daubert, of Lewistown, got hold of
some corrosive sublimate and drank sufficient
to be so seriously poisoned that it was feared
at first it would die, but it will recover.
—The people of Deckertown and Black-
hole valley are raising a fund for the pur-
chase of headstones for Mrs. Wm. Hummel
and her three children, the murdered vic-
tims of William Hummel. Quite a sum has
already been raised.
—W. P. Mitchell and his surveying party,
who are running the boundary lines of the
state forestry reservation, have killed 22
rattlesnakes since they began their work.
The surveyors are now on Big Run, a tribu-
tary of Beech Creek.
—W. R. Dum, of Elliottsburg, was thrown
from a spring wagon in, Bloomfield Tuesday
morning of last week and sustained a com-
pound comminuted fracture of both bones of
his right leg at the ankle, and was badly
bruised about the head.
—Benjamin Delozier, of Hastings, met
with a painful accident some days ago.
While out with a load of beer two of the
kegs on which he was sitting started to roll.
He was thrown to the ground and a keg fell
upon his thigh, breaking it. The broken
bone protruded through the flesh.
—On Wednesday morning as Mrs. Job
Shinne, of Hollar Extension, Everett, was
entering her kitchen, she spied a snake
wriggling under the sink. It only took her
a remarkably short time to kill his snake-
ship. The reptile measured about two feet
and was of the garter specie.
—The W. T. Geddes Lumber company is
building fifty new company houses in East
Windber for the Wilmore Coal and Coke
company. The value of these houses is esti-
mated at $25,000. They are also building
‘forty-seven large double houses for the Ber-
wind-White company at No. 35 mine, at a
cost of $50,000. §
—With a ‘knife A, B. Callahan, of Cam-
mal, cut a ‘piece. of flesh from his hand in
order to save his life Saturday. While pick-
ing berries Callahan was bitten by a’ rattle-
snake. He coolly opened a knife and gouged
out a chunk of flesh at _ the affected part be-
fore the poison had a chance to permeate his
system. + :
—While James McDonald, of Renovo, was
picking berries along Boggs Run Friday, he
found a cub-bear in a clump of bushes, and
picking up the animal, started home. He
had gone but a short distance when he heard
the mother bear in pursuit. Quickly drop-
ping the cub, McDonald made for the near-
est, tree, where he was kept prisoner for half
an hour before the old bear started off with
her offspring. :
—The taxpayers of Mifflin and Hunt-
ingdon counties are counting up ‘the cost ‘of
a nseless'litigation, just ended. Some years
ago a dispute arose over the boundary line
| between the, two counties. Commissions
were appointed, including lawyers and sur-
veyors. The local courts buffeted’ with the
question for a long time,and now thesuperior
court decides that the boundary line is where
it has always been. To learn all this the
two counties expended about $20,000.
—Of two appointments to positions in the
railway mail service from Pennsylvania, an-
nounced from Washington Friday. Walter
Brooks, of Tyrone, has been fortunate in
securing one. The young man, who is a
clerk in the Tyrone postoffice, made applica-
tion for route clerk about a year ago. He
has not yet received official notification of
his appointment, but will doubtless hear
from the department in a day or two. He
will probably be assigned to a route shortly.
—A curious wreck happened on the Penn-
sylvania railroad at Grapeville near Jean-
nette, the other evening. An eastbound
freight engine had pulled up toa watering
plug and had cut loose from the cars. The
brakes were not set tight enough to hold the
train and it started backward toward Jean-
nette. Before it had gone very. far the
caboose of the runaway train collided with
the engine of a train following and ran up
on the cowcatcher, landing directly on tov
of the engine. The next car was telescoped.
—Joseph Miller, of Penfield, Clearfield
county, owns a portable saw mill and the
operating crew is unique in that itis com-
posed entirely of the Miller family, consist-
ing of Mr. Miller, his wife and their three
children. Mr. Miller handles thelever. His
wife feeds the fuel into the boiler furnace.
Jane, the 12-year-old girl, sits on the car-
riage. Maggie, the 10 year old daughter,
and Joseph Jr., the 6-year-old son, ‘‘off-
bear” as much as their strength will stand,
the mother helping when necessary. The
mill cuts 5,000 feet per day at $2 per 1,000,
and the family income is quite comfortable.
—The clock on the Philadelphia city hall
is the highest in the world. If the dials
were out of the way and tracks were laid,
through the holes. The glass in the four
faces is fastened by a ton of cement. The
glass, if laid on the ground, would make a
walk a square long and ten feet wide. The
minute hand will finish each year’s journey
by completing a 110 mile trip. It is expected
that this minute hand will travel 110 miles
annually for years to come. The clock is
strong, and the minute hand is phosphor
bronze and weighs 250 pounds.
—Thursday while Albert Evans, of near
Iannastown, Westmoreland county, was go-
ing to his dinner he noticed that the hogs
were in the potatoe patch and went to drive
them out. While passing through the ad-
_jacent field in which were some cattle,among
which was a bull, the latter animal became
infuriated at his presence and made at him.
He started to run for the fence and when
about to mount it the maddened bull struck -
him, and at the same time struck the fence,
completely leveling it to the ground. Mr.
Evans was rendered unconscious, in which
condition he was carried fo the house and
Dr. Cole summoned, who dressed his injuries,
and at last accounts he was resting comfort-
ably. The animal was promptly shot and
will not further annoy any one.
two trains could pass each other running