BY Beworeali ata, BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. , —JOHN DuBBs is of the opinion that “there are still a few of us left.” Who they are no one seems to know. —The Republican campaign managers - will not be likely to say much about the “fall dinner pail” in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania. —They say it costs money to be in poli- tics, and so it might, bat this fall’s manip- ulations certainly haven’t cost DANIEL very much, up to this writing. We wouldn’t be mean enough to blame the Galveston horror on TEDDY ROOSE- vELT. He is windy enough for all pur- poses, but really that Galveston blow was a little beyond his capacity. —As the wretched Pennsylvania miners shrivel under the short rations of a strike period the great, sleek bodies of the trusts keep on fattening on the increment | which is wrongfully wrested from labor. __The President got the first kiss from the bride, after her husband, at his niece’s wedding on Wednesday and the wonder is that HANNA wasn’t there to take anything he could get his hooks on. — To-morrow the HASTINGS’ harmonies will be held and good old Republicans will march out to put in a vote for DAN, because, if he can show himself to be even a more arbitrary boss than QUAY; they're for him. —Now is the time to begin to talk pol- itics. Look into the question, fair and square, and make up your mind whether it will be BRYAN or McKINLEY. Don’t wait to be bartered with on election day as if you were so much putty. — LILLIAN RUSSELL,the prima donna, has just declared her belief in the faith- cure idea, so far as it affects physical ills. ‘We are real glad to learn that the fair LILLIAN has faith in something, for judg- ing from the number of husbands she has tried out we imagined she had lost all faith n humanity. —The trans-Atlantic steamship record has been lowered to five days and now, since boats can cross the pond as rapidly as trains can cross the continent, it begins to look as if the railroad companies will have to begin to hustling along or great tank lines ‘will be laid on land to compete * with the great trunk lines. —Mr. BERKELBACH showed Mr. DAVID MARTIN that there are still a few QUAY- ites left in Philadelphia. anyhow. At the senatorial primaries there on Tuesday night he defeated WALTON, the Insurgent. aspirant, by 130 to 55. It is quite evident that the QUAY people down there don’t need any of the HasriNes’ harmony bricks just yet. —Qo0M PAUL isn’t heard of very much these days, but he is a very greatly sought after man, all the same. The English army, to the number of about one hundred and forty thousand men, is still hunting for the crafty old Dutchman, but from present indications they don’t seem to be much nearer catching him than when Eng- land first determined to blot out that little Republic in South Africa. —The great strike in the anthracite coal regions is on and there may be months of idleness and privations for the thousands of poor miners. They are forced to quit work hecause they can’t get living wages under these glorious (?) McKINLEY pros- perity times. When the news of this great labor disturbance goes out over the country Republican Pennsylvania will be called upon to make a few. explanations as to why, with its great, protected iron, oil, and coal interests, the men in one: of the - greatest of them are forced to strike in or- der to get enough to subsist on. ——Mr. McKINLEY has given to the public his letter of acceptance. as lueid as it is long, it might be read) _ As it is,covering thirteen columns in small . type and mostly given to the presentation . of what he has done, to self glorification ' and an effort to evade frankness and the . vital questions of the campaign, it would be poor advice to ask any one to read it. * That would be simply a waste of time. It “ will convince none but those who want an * excuse for being convinced, and who would. - have « * letter of any kind. It will make no votes.’ ~ Ib will create no enthusiasm. , no way aid or strengthen Mr. HANNA'S supported bis policy , without a efforts. As a campaign document: it will “prove a failure and asa vote maker as _ barren of results as an Arizona sand fiat is of vegetation. 4 —It seems impossible that ei doula be specimens of humanity so slightly re- moved from the beast as to be capable of © such vandalism as is reported from strick- ‘en Galveston. Forty-three negroes were "caught with their pockets bulging out with fingers and ears that bad been cut from the bodies of the wreck victims - in ' their fiendish lust for the valuable trink- | ets that were found on’ them. -Of course they were everyone shot. to death by the soldiers. ‘This summary ‘punishment of the wretches recalls that almost the ‘first thing that had to be done after the calami- ty at Johnstown in ’89 was to shoot two, hang two and push a fifth Hungarian into the river for this same crime of mutilating | "bodies. ~ Boxers. of China and the treacherous Tagals of the Philippines. Their crimes are not ‘Talk about the blood-thirsty to be compared with those that were committed at Johnstown and Galveston, | two wrecked cities in Christian, enlighten-| : ed America. If it were It will in|. hd STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 45 A Fight for More Than Doubtful Dis- tricts. The Pennsylvania Democrat who imag- ines that because the State is considered overwhelmingly Republican it is useless for him to go to the polls, or make any particular effort to change political condi- tions, cannot appreciate the great oppor- tunities now open to the party to secure honest elections, and, through these, the benefits that must arise from them. It is true that neither the Democratic presidential electors nor the state ticket can expect to receive a majority of the votes that will be cast, but there are other matters of greater importance than any that have been injected intoa Pennsylvania campaign for years, the success of which largely depends upon a poll of the full Democratic vote of the State. We refer to the proposed constitutional amendments which have been submitted for the approval or rejection of the peo- ple. To the voters of Pennsylvania, and par- ticularly to those who hope to see the State relieved from the incubus and disgrace of ring rule, these are of decidedly -more im- portance than the individual success of any candidate. Upon their acceptance hinges every hope of future good government for the State. Without their adoption no change in election laws, that will prevent the wrongs now perpetrated i in the larger cities in the interest of the state ring, can be hoped for. Without correction of these wrongs where is there any possibility that the adminis- istration of the government of the State will ever be placed in the hands of others than creatures of the ring that has so long and so disgracefully controlled it? It is of the very greatest importance that every effort be put forth to save every close, and to win every doubtful, Congressional distriet for the Demoeracy ; for upon the work in these will depend the political complexion of the next Congress. It is ‘equally important that in each and every Senatorial and Legislative district in which there is a chance of success, the most thor- ough organization should be affected, and the most active work be done ; for upon results in these may depend the power of the people to_prevent the enactment of more vicious legislation, the wrongful ap- propriation of state funds, and a repetition of the disgraceful and debauching rule that has long characterized the work of the state ring. But important as doubtful districts may be it is ful- ly as important to the Democracy that approval be given to the proposed constitutional amendments. = In their sue- cess is the hope of the future regeneration of Pennsylvania. Without these there ean be no hope that this great State will be re- lieved from the grip of the ring. Without these elections will continue to: be a farce and all efforts to protect the interests of the people a failure. Without these there will be no end to the political rottenness that bas so long disgraced the commonwealth, or prospect for redress fora robbed and over taxed people. Without these every species. of wrong that has characterized the rule of the ring, and every method of robbery that its bosses and their followers have resorted to, will continue. Without these unequal taxation, {favoritism to corporate interests, protection to bribed and bribers, wreckless appropriation of public moneys, junketing trips and all the wrongs, outrages and dis- graces that the Btate has been subjected to and is now feeling, will be the rale for years and years to come. It is to check and prevent these that the success in these constitutional amendments have been pro- | ‘posed. And in securing the approval of these amendments, a vote in Lancaster, or Delaware, or Allegheny, will be just as ef- fective as will be a vote in any district that ‘can be ‘considered ‘donbtfal. - With sd fair elections i the future, every Demo- cratic vote in the State, no matter where located, is needed and needed badly atthe (tie ox-Governor has found it n xv 5 polls: ro Ubder other circumstances! conditions might’ ‘be different, but with the constitu- tional amendments pending, : and ‘the ring ‘against them, this should . be no campaign | come in spots. | cratic vote should be as wide as the Com- ‘monwealth and as earnest ad, sffective as it is yusible to make} it] i it SEE iT that there was more truth . poetry in. the announcement made’ by the Republican’ several weeks ago to the effect that he Legislature, | under any: conditions. The Colonel resent- | ; ed being shelved in such a peremptory i "the an ‘would not be a candidate for fashion at the time and challen; Republican’s right to lift him out of politics, but it did, all the ‘eame and, like SAM DIEHL, he simply has ‘nothing ef to do but grin and bearit. | Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. The/work to: poll ‘every Demo- an Lal, Tors A. Patty ili Homer \E declined to | oept ; preferring to be of servioe to the ‘State in its great hoar of peril to assuming BELLEFONTE, PA., SEP. 14, 1900. A Missing Monarch and a Waiting Harem There is more trouble in the camp of the imperialists. It bas now a harem on its hands without an owner, and it is $20,000 short in blood money. In the $20,000,000 purchase of the Philippines, was includ- ed the island of Sule with its Sultan, his harem, polygamy and Mohammedanism. Imperial statecraft, for the sum of $12,000 a year, secured the loyalty of the Sultan, with the promise that the American flag should wave permanently over his barem and that he should be protected in the right to his wives, his worship and his modes of living. what he had always been, a lecherous eld heathen, and we were to pay him $12,000 a year and protect him, in return for the glory of having him under our flag. We wanted a Sultan and a harem and we got both. Under the customs of that island, and which we are pledged to recognize, the same protection must be given to the Sultan’s household that is given him. But there is no Sultan now. The one that we had and that we gloried so greatly in, got hold of a lot of government money, and like other Republican statesmen, left home, kin and country to enjoy it himself. Twenty thousand dollars and the mor- monistic monarch vanished in a night. He didn’t take his harem, or his flag, or any of the customs of his people, that we are bound to observe, with him. These are left for our glory and our care. The $12,- 000 a year must be paid to maintain the harem, as we are pledged to do, but the trouble now with the McKINLEY outfit is as to who it shall designate to take the missing monarch’s place. Fitness for this position has all to do with maintaining the flag where it has been placed. ‘A failure to satisfy the harem endangers old glory. To have it ‘‘hauled down’’ from where it has triumphantly floated for the past fifteen months is not to be thought of. To keep it there the government must furnish for its harem a monarch equal in all emergen- cies to the missing one. Where is the Republican statesman that sizes up to the situation ? This is the question that is now troub- ling those who have to meet it. who bought a harem and are now called upon to satisfy its requirements. John P’s Little Joke. Shortly after the famous HASTINGS- LoVE peace treaty was signed one of the prominent old stalwarts of the county, who still insists that DAN sold him out when he ran for the Legislature, met Mr. JOHN P. HARRIS on the street and addressed him as follows: ‘“Well, Jou, it'looks as if the lion and the lamb have laid down together. 2 ‘Oh, no,”’ said JomN, ‘‘that’s wrong, the lion just ate the lamb.’ How it Looks to Them. “Harmony, ” suchas as Governor HASTINGS offers to ‘the ‘Republicans of the county, don’t seem to take out in the Philipsburg end. Af least ‘not ‘with the grip that was anticipated, or the promise of holding on’ that twas hoped for. In fact it is laughed ‘at by the party workers there i as an effort only intended to serve the purposes of the ex-Governor, and a very little of it seems to be wanted in that section. The Philips- burg Ledger, the organ of the regulars or straight-outs, ‘talks as if this—H A 8. T- IN GS and harmony—is about the look the movement has and speaks as follows about it: He Teleglapie dispatches. sent ont. from Belle- fonte pnday announce that at last har- mony reigns in the Republican ranks in Cen- tre county. Unless our memory fails us the same cry went out last spring from that quar- ter, and still the split is not healed. In the political primer compiled by the Dictator : for the instruction and guidance of the party in’ bbed Centre, the time honored ortho- ii is decreed obsolete and harmony, a potent Jactor in successful party manage- ment, - is’ spelled Pan ehme ‘Not a few tongues find it difficult to learn this lesson, to call to his assistance a t of servitors to administer the ou treatments ca calculated to overcome the difficulty. Panty success’ ‘dnd “business reasons” are two the most powerful correctives used, and they are so miracylons ini Shir ¢ effect as jo have, pres. 1 Ted almost hey The tim mols. short Tn lh GH the p ri: th aries Tuing 1 da : ao ‘the party who al or BY u he +3 ‘were expected to.’ In fact'the € ups the y ; ducemebts: held out to enter this: school have been. Tefused by some, them she, La sho ether the ok Sho th o rebellions ones who refuse ne,” to materially mar ‘the, grand ‘citative Prepa tion, is not ce ‘notes, a Bot cor A 2 is’ in ‘training, Sil fu tits timid Republican souls who haven't the ¢ to speak out, and / £ the entertainment, oJ, id vil i] Pras Yameport. a membet of the, | tate. Senate, ‘was tendered the Congressional nomination ‘by the Dertogratic conferees of the Sixteen- ‘th district on To | higher honors in legislative circles. In fact he was just to continue | It is the |: vexation that barrows the souls of those | hififi’¥ Te- for coun conten: ; or the co ey issondnt RAN, of Wil. The Dinner Pail as an Issue. MARK HANNA has sounded his slogan. He bas given forth his campaign cry, and if be can have his way; if he can dominate the mind of the American people, all other issues will give way to that of the ‘‘full dinner pail,”’ and Mr. McKINLEY’S success will be made to depend upon the number of workingmen who are receiving wages sufficient to satisfy all their wants, and who find plenty and contentment in these times of tariff, protected trusts and imper- ial taxation. We are glad that Mr. HANNA has gotten down to even a superficial thought of the welfare of the workingman. He has lived and grown fat on what should have kept full dinner pails for the workingmen out of,whose earnings he has grown rich, but has never before troubled himself about their interests, their wants or their neces- sities. He has never given a thought to the wrongs they suffer, to the little that comes to them in the way of home com- forts, ner has he worried over their long hours of labor, and the aching bones, and the blistered hands that are always theirs. It is well that he has wakened up to the fact that workingmen have needs, and that even a cold sandwich and a piece of soggy pie is a welcome bite to the men who pro- duce the wealth of the country. A little investigation into this subject may show for is not embraced within the confines of arusty dinner pail, He has a home with- out comforts, children without clothes, or schooling, a wife who shivers through the winter in thin underclothing and roleless shoes, a cupboard that is bare of dishes and bare often of even the coarsest food. That it is such conditions, more than the con- tents of the dinner bucket he carries, that worries him, and that until they are bet- tered there will be neither peace of mind nor content and happiness for the laborer. Mr. HANNA may further find, if he goes deeper into the ‘‘dinner pail’’ issue, that uider the benign reign of Mr. McKINLEY and his tari protected trusts, that by the time the dinner pail is full there is noth- ing left but the same skimp living for the en family. He will discover the little he has in his pail is costing hirsy per cent more, ‘while his wages have increased but 10 per cent, and in all. Mr. HANNA may attempt to make his ‘dinner pail”’ issue theslogan of the cam- paign but he cavnot make it loud enough to drown the ery of distress that comes from every labor centre in the United States, except those in which the manufac- ture of iron is the chief industry. If he will watch the crowds of gaunt-eyed, hol- low-stomached workmen about the coal mines of Pennsylvania, who are forced to live and keep their families on wages that average them but $4.50 a week; if he will visit the carpet or cotton factories of New | England and the silk mills of New Jersey, where operatives make average wages of less than 40 cents per day; if he will count the number of workingmen who are now out on strikes all over the country because ‘prices and proclaimed prosperity, he will wonder at his audacity in mentioning the condition of the ‘workingman ’s dinner pail. These are the i issues that : are boomerangs to those who raise them. The father and protector of trusts, who is now at the head of the Republican party, may find his ‘“‘din- ner pail” dodge. one of them. wa They Feel E Proud of It? The Republican county convention, when brick ticket and announce a platform of principles, will present a striking display of the!collar it will be forced to wear and dependence and vanished ‘manhood. , It will not dare endorse the adminishs: tion of the party it pretends to represent ! sohool appropriations or. the. wrongs was 80 forward in pointing out but a year ago tH ‘| It will not ‘dare’ pledge its nominees ito toll go into a Republican sangns and | act as Re- publican members ! o¥0 Grong: It will: not dare instruct hem to ite ?| Harkidbui to defeat! It wil | not dare endorse, the. work of ite it opposes on any of the questions i in which LE rer iias i © Tt will be a lock-jawed, Songahied,, collar-choked crow . opinion jis hp matters. that; nost concern | it, and ‘satisfied to sserves; fglis: boss Shat glory of Republicanism. Such is the condition of the Republican | party in Centre conaty under She; Tend and lash of “‘our Dan?! ) 4 Wait and see'it it is ot “0? CE him that all that a workingman contends. many instances have not been raised at of inadequate pay in these times of ‘high it meets next Tuesday to ratify the gold- | false by Mother achieved ¢ | ment is too. absnr against the man‘ it will try to send" iho to | own state organization; nor iwill it have the ‘manhood to tell ‘what it favors or what t the Republican voters, of the, State and | 2 county bave the greatest interest to-day !|' | doniinates ig 0c 0 It will dawn. | the eitooints, and. then its: delegates. will, ‘go home and, have the. gall to talk of American’ manhood ni the’ NO. 36. A Grave Yard Effort. Turn and twist and explain as they may for the purpose of getting comfort out of the elections in' Vermont and Maine, the cold, bare facts stare the Republicans in the face that similar losses to them, and equal gains to the Democracy in other States will leave McKINLEY with less than one-third the electoral vote, and over a million in the minority on the popular verdict. A loss of 12 per cent on the Re- publican vote and a gain of 23 per cent in the Democratic poll—and that is what the result in Maine shows—would add Mary- land, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and North Dakota to the Demo- cratic columns by majorities varying from 2,268 in North Dakota to 124,434 in Ohio, And this leaves out New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, all of which would be overwhelmingly Democratic on a vote, the losses and gains of which would be in proportion to that shown in the two States over which the sickly crow of the Repub- licans is heard. You have heard of fellows whistling in a grave yard to keep their courage up. That is what the Republican press is do- ing when it speaks of the Vermont and Maine elections. How Rep ome Affects the Anthracite Coal Miners. Julian Hawthorne in the North American (Rep.) I sat in a little bedroom, fifteen feet square, in the back of an inn, in Shamokin and listened to the talk- of three or four men. They sat. on cane-bottomed chairs or perched themselves on the edge of the bed. On the table were books and news- papers and documents ; on the floor a big slop jar, which we used as a spittoon. The men were very plainly elad ; their faces showed strong features, full of character and individuality. One of them was suf- fering from an acute attack of rheumatism in his back. It had caught him as he was shoveling coal in the mine that morning. They spoke in low voices, without excite- ment, but with immense point and em- phasis. it was hard with facts. They were miners with coal dust washed off their hands and faces and with their upper air clothes on, and their topic was the situation as between the men and the operators and the likelihood of a strike. I wanted to know whether there was genuine distress among the minérs or, whether they were simply discontented ‘because in the general alleged. pr ‘of which we hear ting less than they thought they were en- titled to. The distress is genuine and not fictitious. The average miner gets about a dollara day, but as there is no work for him on Sundays and holidays, he can count on but $26 dollars a month, though as one of my informants remarked, he has to go on living the odd four or five days just the same. I was shown vouchers for a week’s work, confirming this statement, $7 for eight days’ work, and so on, and hundreds like them can be "produced in this'imme- diate neighborhood at any time. A farmer’s family averages five persons, and a careful analysis of necessary ex- penditures shows that a dollar a day leaves two and a half cents as all that can be spent for the three daily meals that the five persons eat. A Hindu in India can live well on this, but would any of us like to try the experiment of living on it in free and profuse America, in this era of unexampled prosperity? Let us concede that the people who have to do it are not unreasonable in regarding it as short ra- tions. But, of course, no one wants the operators to ruin themselves. Can they give the miners better wages and yet re- tain a living profit for themselves? As to this, there is evidence to burn in the affirm- ative. The price of provisions has risen, while wages are unchanged. The dockage system, with no checkweighman to pro- tect the miners, leaves them to the mercy and favoritism of the bosses, who win favor from their ‘employers’ according to the amount of money they are able to save, a better word even than convey, and. infi-. nitely superior to steal, in this way. | ———— Mother Mary Jones Fixes the Blame for the Strike. i Froman Unknown Exchange. The Republicans, frightened at the dread icinior of a general strike in these givea pitiable exhibition of departed in- | prosperous’ times, bave been charging e Toononihility for the agita- -| tion in the anthracite coal fields to the Democrats. This charge is denounced as ry. BE rs ‘who has onsiderab le Grominenos by the ‘attitude she has assumed toward _ the min- ers, Mrs. Jones at Hazleton, under. date of September 11, gives expression to. the owing “The, talk that 3x, Bryan and the Dem- ocratio party are behind the strike move- to discuss, It certainly’ came from Republican source. The > ga tling i that ave shot down the s, have the money power. ink that fla en or o not’ would Sone ce of any kind, because I think he ike ona the untold. suferng that a hi nar one who is, fa- mil ring would certainly of 1 : sori in Fay a; n ugh. the homes ofp okt of Lave beso thee and I bowie street strike is necessary. ‘Che commonest needs of life are missing f from these poor little | ‘| homes. STE “The appearance of the wives ands ow proves, ton, too, the suffering. The beip ve been’ at many of the mee pu” Ee wa gi : eve ; erly ‘set of men in my life a hese ahtbeadite. workers: / “The talk of iiss ‘and dross is absolutely untra voth- ¢ will Their talk: was not Imaginative ; $i ty | 80 much they a | brokers in the coast cities. | and only one or two in 4 ‘The men em loyed hi e ‘and there has been an absence of the rioting Spawly from the the Keystone. —There are. marly 8 800 patients in the Wernersville insane asylum. —His horse running away, Elias Mayers, of Littléestown, was killed Wednesday. —The Rochester, N. Y., glass bottle and vial company will move its plant to Allen- town. —The Schuylkill 2ounty jail contains 180 prisoners, among whom? are twelve women and four babies. —Caught in a wire cable winding about a drum at the Altoona silk mills, Henry Banm was crushed to death Saturday. —Governor Stone appointed Uriah W. Rogers, of Brockport, associate judge of Elk county, vice Michael Cashman, deceased. —Lieutenant W. E, Stover, of the Scot- land soldiers’ orphans’ school, will be mili- tary instructor at the Michigan military Academy. —Superintendent of public instruction Schaeffer has appointed E. C. Shields, of Du - Bois, superintendent of the schools of Clear- field county, vice George W. Weaver, de- ceased. —Wayneshoro’s council has ordered the Cumberland valley telephone company to place six fire telephones for borough use in that town, according to a franchise agree - ment. —The Ancient Order of Hibernian mem - + bership, which heretofore has been confined to the United States and Canada, will proba - bly be extended so as to take in Argentine Republic and Mexico. —This is the greatest fruit year York coun - ty has ever known. Peaches are being ‘sold for 10 cents per bushel on the trees or 25 cents picked. The apple crop is also im - mense, the yield being estimated at 500,000 bushels. —The employes of the mills at Austin, Potter county, have been on a strike for a week. The men want ten hours a'day and pay every two weeks. Heretofore the men worked eleven hours and were paid once a month. —The North American tannery, owned by Calvin Greene, of Lewistown, was entire- ly destroyed by fire Monday afternoon. When engines came it was necessary for them to go a quarter of a mile away from the fire to obtain water on account of short- age of supply, due to the dry weather. Loss, $100,000; fullly insured. —Leroy Woods, a fourteen-year-old boy of Allegheny, was amusing himself Wednesday evening by throwing stones at birds on the Glenwood bridge of the Union Traction Co. when he was run down by a street car and instantly killed. The boy had been ordered by his father to go to school in the morning, but instead the lad played truant, with the sad result stated. —-Jonathan Boynton, of Clearfield, who for years was the president of the Philipsburg Banking Co., on Sunday celebrated his 90th birthday by spending the day with Miss, A. Patton, at Curwensville. He and his wife, who herselfis 83 years of age, reside with their son, Al Boynton, in Clearfield, contented and happy in the full retention of a clear intellect. '—W. Irvin Shaw, United States consul at Barranquilla. Columbia, whose death at that place was erroneously reported a few weeks ago, is on leave of absence in this country, and Tuesday morning he and his family were guests ‘at the Ward house in Tyrone while on the way to their home at Houtz- dale. Mr. Shaw has sixty days’ vacation from the consular service. —Franklin county’s peach crop is so large that peaches can scarcely be given away. Although the fruit is selling in the cities at a good price, the returns made to shippers by the commission merchants is hdrdly enough to pay the freight. In fact one ship- per sent a car load to a western city and when he received his check it was’ less than the freight and baskets had cost him, —A big deal i is on at Greensburg for a tract of about 25,000 acres of coal land on the Alle- gheny valley railroad between Parnassus and Apollo. The prospective buyers are a syndicate of Englishmen whose object is the development of ‘the coal for the English market. Heretofore most deals of this sort with foreigners have been transacted through The purchase will be the initial movement in an inveést- ment of nearly $4,000,000. —TForty good engines have been demolish ed in wrecks occurring on the Pennsylvania division of the New York Central since. the first of this year, at an average cost of $3,000 each, a total of $320,000. Worse than this, twelve men from Jersey Shore have been killed on the road within the same time. This is a gruesome record and is not calcu- lated to foster confidence in the road. The monied losses the present management have -| met with since succeeding the Beech Creek is something tremendous. The freight busi- ness done on this road is entirely too heavy tobe carried on on anything but a double track line, which it is being converted into. —Details of the horrible massacre of ‘the American missionaries at Pao Ting Fu, China, have reached Shanghai. The dead ‘include Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Hodge, of Phil- "adelphia, and the Rev. ‘Frank Simcox, wife and three children, of Oil City. Mrs. Sim- cox died a ‘heroine. She was cut down while standing, gun in hand, firing at the Chinese ‘murderers over, her dead husband’s body. ‘Her three children were run through by ‘Chinese bayonets before her: eyes. Troops have left Pekin to avenge the murders. Rev. and Mrs. Sumeox were formerly resi- dents of Clearfield and ‘were. quite well known throughout ‘Central Penna. ‘They were supported as missionaries in China by the Methodist congregation of Clearfield. “~The Drake and Stratton company com- menced laying the new track on the portion of ‘the Penna. R. R., that has been changed ‘west of Huntingdon this week. They will | complete their - work in about six. weeks. Thus far, owing to the constant care of superin- tendent Bowes and his assistants, notwith- standing the ‘exceptionally dangerons char- ‘acter of the work on which they have been ‘| engaged, there has been no fatal accident, any degree serious. well behaved and murder that characterized work recent- 1y. done at 8 age, ig me Sy on now oy work on the Panna Ro railron Bib CR
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