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
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