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GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
I've got a monstrous pumpkin,
T'would be a winner at the fair,
But since it serves me as a head
It’s something I can’t well spare.
-~The ice trust gang in New York ought
to have been well jollied by Senator HAN-
NA’s declaration that there are no trusts
in this country.
—Governor ROOSEVELT'S experience ab
Cripple Creek on Wednesday, where he was
mobbed by a gang of toughs, ought to
bring him to his senses. A man who is a
candidate for Vice President should have
more sense than to run around over the
country calling good citizens cowards.
— The Republicans of this, the 28th
congressional district, have nominated Col.
A. A. CLEARWATER, of Elk county.
Everybody knew that Hon. J. K. P. HALL
would have plain sailing in the contest,
but it was hardly to be expected that our Re-
publican friends would add to the delight
of the Democratic victor’s race by making
it over CLEARWATER.
— Judge LovE’s chances for elevation to
the Supreme Court went a glimmering on
Monday when Gov. STONE appointed his
law partner, WILLIAM P. POTTER, of Pitts-
burg, to the vacancy caused by ‘the death
of Chief Justice GREEN, of Easton. It is
probable that Governor STONE heard of
the ¢‘gold-brick’’ business and didn’t want
such an ‘‘easy thing’ in the Supreme
Court.
—The idea of perpetuating the DEWEY
arch in New York has heen abandoned.
Out of the $500,000 necessary to complete
the work $181,000 was all that could be
raised, so the project has been abandoned.
There will be no DEWEY arch. Nothing
to perpetuate the memory of the gallant
Admiral. Now that he is married, how-
ever, he can look after that part of it him-
self.
—QoM PAUL is to leave the Transvaal
on a Dutch ship. He says he is going to
the Netherlands for his health. How
nicely he puts it. This classes the old Pres-
ident of the South African Republic
among the humorists of the day. He had
demonstrated his ability as a fighter and a
statesman and now he takes rank among
the wags by stating that he is only leaving
for the benefit of his health.
—One of the cleverest little fairy-tales
we have heard for some time comes from
Tyrone. It is said a man laid down along’
the river bank up there on Sunday and fell
asleep. When he woke up a female
figure was seen noiselessly gliding away
from him. The first thing he put his
hand on was his pocket, from which he dis-
covered $1.25 had flown, Now the ques-
tion is : Was he ‘‘touched.”’ or
—The people from Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland and Cincinnati, who telegraphed
Gover STONE, urging him to use his good
offices in settling the trouble between the
anthracite miners and their employers, ev-
idently don’t know our Governor very
well. He is not the kind of an arbiter the
striking miners would have much faith in.
He is entirely too much of a corporation
man to do much for the laboring man.
. —MARK HANNA has decided that the
coal strike in Pennsylvania must be called
off. He says it is making votes for BRYAN
every day it continmes. It is a case of
chickens coming home to roost. The
wealthy Pennsylvania corporations are
held up by the Republican National Com-
"mittee for enormous campaign subserip-
tions and the money must be squeezed
from some source, even if it is from the
poor winers.
—MARK HANNA'S speech at Cooper
Union, New York, Tuesday night, was
very similar to his recent Chicago attempt.
All braggadocio, bluster and untruths,
which goes to prove that MARK is far more
uneasy about the outcome of this campaign
than he was four years ago. At that time
he sat quietly in headquarters pulling the
strings. Now he is running about over
the country like a wild man, and, like the
dying mule, is kicking in all directions.
— Some one has said that when AN-
DREW CARNEGIE realized that the rail-
roads over which the products were ship-
ped to and from his mills at Pittsburg were
making more than he did himself—and they
would not lower their rates—he went out
and built a railroad for himself. The trouble
is all men are not CARNEGIES and all men
can’t build railroads, so they have to go on
paying just whatever trusts and other
great corporations demand.
—In 19 Howard, 393-447, will be found
the following decision of the Snpreme
Court of the United States: there is no pow-
er given by the constitution fo establish or
maintain colonies, bordering on the United
States or at a distance, to be ruled and gov-
erened at its own pleasure. It would
seem that Mr. MeKINLEY’S action is seiz-
ing Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines has no justification in the con-
stitution, unless MARK HANNA has writ-
ten another one to displace the work of
- THOMAS JEFFERSON.
—Senator CAFFREY’S declination to be-
come the candidate of the new National
party for President is a tribute to his good
sense. He says the “Nationalists cannot
hope to win”’ and thinks that all men
should be able to reconcile their beliefs to
one or the other of the great parties. There
may be some things in the Democratic
latform that are objectionable to some,
ut when the many great and glorious
planks are considered it ought to be far
easier to accept them than to be running off
after new and uncertain ideals.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 45 _
Against a Power of Their @wn Making.
It is not an easy thing that the miners
of the anthracite coal regions are up
against at this time. There was a day
when the differences between the laborer
and his employer was left to be settled by
themselves. That was when the welfare
of the people, whether rich or poor, was as
much an object of protection by the State,
as was the property of the few or the suc-
cess of corporations.
But things are different now. Under
the fostering care of the Republican party
the cause of corporations has become the
cause of the Commonwealth. Their wel-
fare is its chief concern and their protec-
tion its principal purpose. If they are
content the State is at peace. If they are
harrassed or in trouble the Commonwealth
is called upon to bear the burden of the
expense and be saddled with the obloany
of their actions. .
And there is reason for this condition of
things. The Republican party adminis-
ters the affairs of the State. It is from
corporations that it derives the corruption
funds that keep it in power. To these
combinations of capital it is under obliga-
tions, not only for the money with which
it corrupts elections, but for the influence
they exert and work they do to maintain
its control. When they geb into trouble
what is more natural than that they
should call on those they have helped, or
that those who have profited by their con-
tributions and aid, should eome to their
assistance ?
It is this fact that emboldens the anthra-
cite operators, who are but the representa-
tion of great corporations, to demand the
protection of the militia before an illegal
step is taken or a threat made. It is this
fact that makes of our state militia a mere
police force for the use of corporate monop-
olies to awe workingmen into submission
to such terms as they may dictate. It is
this fact that accounts for the presence of
armed troops in every section of the an-
thracite coal region, and it is this joint in-
terest between the Republican party and
the mammoth monopolies that it
depends upon for its financial needs,
that is chargeable with the spectacle
of a great Co
with its armed forces, to aid in stifling
the demands of labor when that labor only
asks that those for whom it toils will con-
cede sufficient to insure it a meagre living.
It is not an enviable position for a State
like Pennsylvania to be placed in. But it
is there and the blot is upon it. And for
the fact that miners of the anthracite re-
gions have not only the bossesand the mo-
nopolies back of them, but the state mi-
litia and the power of the state adminis- |
tration, to contend with in this battle for
bread, is due largely to themselves and the
actions of their brother workingmen
throughout the State.
Were it not for the Republican party the
State Guard would not be doing police
duty for any corporate or selfish interests,
and the people he paying the costs for that
kind of work.
Were it not for the votes of the working-
men of the State the Republican party
would not be in power to lend its aid and
send its militia to the support of those
who refuse to heed their appeals for
wages sufficient to buy bread, and who
treat their requests for the arbitration of
such differences as may arise between em-
ployee and employer with scornful silence.
If in their effort to better their condi-
tion the miners of the anthracite regions
find themselves np against, not only the
corporations that they labor for, but the
state militia as well—as they are now ex-
periencing—they can blame the Republi-
can state administration for it.
For that administration they can blame
themselves and their brother workingmen
in other parts of the State.
——The people who are going to spend
money and time searching for the pithe-
canthropus, just because it is thought to
be the missing link between man and the
lower order of animals, would be wonder-
fully surprised if, on finding it, it should
look like Mr. MARCUS AURIFEROUS HAN-
NA.
—1If there is any indication of the way
the political wind is blowing in the bets
that are now offered, when compared with
the way the betting started out, it is cer-
tainly not against the Democracy. When
BRYAN was nominated as high as four to
one was offered that McKINLEY would:
win. After a very short time but three to
one could be goiten, then the odds drop-
ped to two and a-half to one and within
the past week they have fallen to two to
one. We don’t believe that betting men
know any more how ‘matters political are
going than othef people, but the way Mr.
McKINLEY’S hppes seem to be falling
among those who have money to risk on
his election, a good way towards in-
ducing a Democrat to put on a very con-
tented smile and look upon the prospects
as decidedly promising.
onwealth rushing; |
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
A Sample of Governmental Honor Un-
der the McKinley Administration.
It has been the clamorous and constant
claim of the present administration that
its efforts are all dirzcted towards main-
‘taining the “honor, the credit and the
glory’’ of this government. To listen to
HANNA or ROOSEVELT, or make up one’s
mind from the pretensions of Republican
papers, it would look as if no one had any
care for the ‘‘honor’’ of the government,
other than the few fellows who own and
run the McKINLEY administration.
If this were so God have pity on the lit-
tle ‘‘houor’’ this great, big, government
would have to boast of.
An idea of what ‘‘governmental honor”
is in the estimation of the gang who are
carrying on svars and taxing the people to
“maintain” it, is illustrated in the forced
exchange of the little money the helpless
and impoverished Porto Ricans may have
for American money.
The only money in circulation on that
island at the time it became a possession
of the United States was Spanish silver
coin. Our government, the ‘honor’ of
which seems sc dear in the estimation of
the Republican administration, ordered
that it be taken up and American money
substituted for it. It fixed the rate it
would allow for the money of that coan-
try at 60 cents per peso, or fractional part
thereof. :
A Spanish or Porto Rican peso contains -
398.06 grains of standard, or 358.26 grains
of fine silver.
The American dollar contains 412.50
grains standard or 371.25 of fine silver.
The American half-dollar contains 192.09
grains standard or 173.61 fine silver.
Now, watch where the ‘‘honor,’”’ the
‘‘credit and the honesty’’ of the govern-
ment comes in. ;
We require a Porto Rican who ma
happen to have a little money to hand
over what he has. Say, it is 28 pesos. We
pay him for them at the rate of 60 cents
per peso or $16.80 in all. We bring that
home, send it to the mint and lo, and be-
hold, it turns out in American money,
$27.02. If we recoin it into our hall-
dollar we have $28.50 for our invest-
ment i a i
Thus, for what we allowed him §16.80,
we force him to accept as $27.02, simply
because we are able, bave the power and
are in the position to do it.
A clean cut robbery of over THIRTY-
THREE per cent. in the single transaction
of substituting our money for theirs !
We are a big, strong, prosperous and
wealthy people. They are poor, weak,
helpless and poverty stricken.
And the administration that is doing
this kind of business prates about ‘‘main-
taining the honor of the government.”
Will Do One Thing Certain.
It is to be hoped, now that fusion has
been effected in Philadelphia, that those
highly respectable gentlemen of Republi-
can antecedents and faith who have been
parading as the Business Men’s League,
the Municipal League, Independents, anti-
QuaAvy-ites, and the good Lord alone knows
under how many other names, will show
that they amount to more than mere talk-
ing machines. For years they have blath-
ered about reform, talked ahout what
should be done, denounced the men they
had voted for and with at previous elec-
tions, and raised ‘‘the devil’”’ generally—
in their own minds—and then lamb-like
allowed themselves to be led to the polls
to vote the same old rotten and corrupt
Republican ticket.
They have promised this year to do bet-
ter, now that the Democrats have prac-
tically allowed them to name the different
tickets that will be voted in that city, and
it is earnestly hoped that they will prove
as good as their word. How many votes
they will muster it will be difficult to tell,
for in the mixed up condition of Philadel-
phia politics there is little certainty of
anything, except that universal corruption
taints everything of a political nature in
that city. It is probable, however, that of
the eighty thousand Democrats, within the
limits of Philadelphia, sixty-five thousand
will qualify and vote the fusion ticket, so
that whatever number of votes, over this
amount, are cast for the fusion candidate
they can fairly be attributed to the efforts
of members of the various leagues and or-
ganizations joining in the movement.
Fusion may not result in all thatit is
hoped it may. It may fall short of ex-
pectations. It may fail in securing the
reforms so much needed in that city. It
may even be unable to make a respectable
showing, but it will do one thing and it
will do that effectually. It will show the
earnestness, the honesty and the influence,
of a whole lot of Republicans who are
eternally talking about what others should
do but have never yet“buckled down to
‘the work of doing anything themselves.
This it will do and it will do it well,
Whatever else may come out of it we can
only wait and see. :
——Subsoribe for the WATUHMAN.
| NOW.
Mr. Hanna on Trusts.
If Mr. MARK HANNA is not the Repu
lican party he is, at least, its recogniz
4, its acknowledged leader, its admitted
Pe
his dictation it moves. He says to its
representative men ‘go and they goeth,””
to others ‘‘come and they cometh.’”” What
he desires they do and what he demands.
becomes the shibboleth of his party.
Last fall Mr. HANNA became great!
terested in the success of his candidate
Gayernor in Ohio--Mr. Nasu. He wor
ed, he hurrahed and he spoke for ‘his
question of trusts became one of in-
3
portance in the campaign and here is how
Mr. HANNA met that issue. The extracts
are taken from speeches at different times,
and'show exactly where Mr. HANNA, the
leader, dictator and spokesman, of the Re-
publican party stands on this question :
“Trusts are good things.”
“There is not a trustin the United States.”
“What harm can these trusts do the people of
this®ountry ?" :
“It may be that the trusts will do the peopl
har If they do, the Republican party will take
car that.”
“say there are no trusts. If there are, prove
ite :
“Phe trusts have the best men in the country
at their head.”’
“Tbelieve in their organization.” - f
“Fhe formation of trusts is a step forward.”
“The combination of corporations is simply the
evoliition of business.” .
There was no dodging or equivocating
by Mr. HANNA when he met this question
in Ohio. He looked upon trusts as a ‘‘good
thing,”” he ‘believed in their organiza-
tion’ that their formation is a “‘step for-
ward,’’ and that ‘‘combination of corpora-
tions is simply the evolution of business.”
Possibly you, Mr. Reader, believe the
same thing. If you do, you are right in
supporting Mr. HANNA and his candidate,
Mr. MeKINLEY. That is exactly what
every believer in and defender of trusts
should do. If they are successful the coun-
try will get all of trusts that it can want.
It has'a fairly successful scourge of them
It will have more of them when Mr.
HANNA gets the endorsement of the peo-
ple for his open and undisguised advocacy
of them. :
Wethink we have high prices now for
such articles as the trusts control. We do,
but wait until they get firmly fastened
upon us, and know that they have
friends like Mr. HANNA and Mr. McKIN-
LEY in control of the administration for
the next four years. Then present prices,
for what the people must have, will be
give-away rates compared to what they
will be, under a new lease of power to those
who advocate and defend them.
If you are for the trusts go ahead and
vote as Mr. HANNA desires you to. Its
the way youn will get all you want of them.
The way you will find out what ‘‘good
things’ they are, and what a glorious thing
it is to try to do business and live in a
country where the ‘‘combination of cor-
porations’’ is ‘looked upon simply as the
‘‘evolution of business.” v
Will Be Representatives of the People.
You won’t be going amiss when you cast
your vote for WETZEL and KEPLER for the
Legislature. In voting for them you know
exactly what you are doing and what you
can expect from them as Representatives.
Unlike their opponents they are not the
political property of any man, or will their
actions depend upon the whims of any
boss. When elected they will be the Repre-
sentatives of the people. They will be the
creatures of no man, or no clique, or no
faction. Seeking the support of the peo-
ple they are not afraid to tell them what
they will do.
They will vote against the reduction of
the school appropriation.
They will vote for honest election laws.
They will vote .for the equalization of
taxation. ‘ ;
They will vote against junketing com-
mittees. :
They will vote for constitutional appor-
tionments. : ¢ rds
' They will vote against all ring measures,
and the extravagant expenditure of public
money. sii
They will vote against the re-elestion of
MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY for United
States Sepator.
If you have any doubt about where they
stand on any question in which you are
interested, ask them and they will tell you
honestly and frankly.
How about their opponents. Messrs.
ArvrisoN and THOMPSON ?
How will they vote?
This you will only find out when you
ascertain how DANIEL HARTMAN HasT-
INGS feels on legislative questions. Ashe
tells them their ballots will be cast. They
are his, and they dare not or will not tell
you what they will do.
——Candidate J. W KEPLER was in
town on Monday morning on his way to
the northern end of the county on a cam-
paigning tour.
‘
SEP. 28, 1900.
rol) |
NO. 88.
The Ballot Thief or the Law.
om the Philadelphia Press (Rep.,) Sept. 15th.
"The assessors’ lists of this city are now
dded with not less than 75,000 names
| which have ne lawful right to be there. In
mouth piece. Through him it speaks. - Af
wards in the centre ofjthe city, which have
‘been decreasing in population for twenty
‘or thirty years, as the census returns show,
‘the assessors have padded the lists so that
: Shere appear to be more voters than ever
§ re. }
‘Wards like the Seventh, Eighth, Tenth,
fteenth and Twentieth, notoriously cor-
pt, have less population than ten ¥
ily
0, and some of them have been st
ing for thirty years, but that fact bas
not prevented the ballot thief from in-
‘greasing the el:ction figures, so that ap-
parently more voters are registered and
more votes are cast now than when the
population was larger. Such a result. ean
obtained only by fraud. It is due to
crimes similar in character to those com-
mitted at the recent primaries by means of
which a larger vote was returned in some
districts than it has been possible to cast
at general elections, and the fraudulent
character of that vote is not disputed by
any one who cares to be honest with him-
self or any one else.
These conditions, relating to both the
assessors’ lists and the recent primaries,
give renewed emphasis to the demand. for
legislation that will afford some protection
against the crimes of the ballot thief." It
‘needs to extend to primary, as well
as general elections. When a criminally
directed police force can drive honest men
from the polls, protect repeaters and thugs
and terrorize business men it is time some-
thing were done to protect citizens from
the outrages and crimes of the police.
When primary election officers and Ma-
chine bullies can drive out of the polling
places citizens who have a right to be there,
when they can return votes that were never
cast and withhold certificates from regalar-
ly chosen delegates, sometimes more than
talk is necessary.
It must be plain enough to every thought-
ful citizen that the exposures of ballot-box
crimes made immediately after the elec-
tion last November. and on account of
which Salter and others are now fugitives
from justice, has not served to alarm those
who have for years made ballot-box frauds
a part of their political machine. Exposure
does not trouble them. As long as they
can take advantage of the looseness of ex-
isting laws and only the hired tools are in
danger of being caught the crimes will be
continued. Salter was a member of the
Seventh ward. The Machine, by Salter’s
methods, has selected a number of can
ter than Salter, and who, if. elected, will
do their utmost to defeat honest legislation
for honest elections. ;
The election of these men would be a
disgrace and humiliation to Philadelphia.
It would amount to the encouragement of
the ballot thief, for by those who have sup-
ported the ballot thief it would be con-
strued as an approval of their course and a
commission to continue their crimes. What
do the people expect to do?
What a Country Editor Can Do.
From the Sunbury Daily.
With nerves completely unstrung, with
remorse savagely tearing at the brain, with
a picture of his crime searing itself on the
wakeful mind of the assassin, Winter-
steen, who murdered Fisher, at Danville,
Wednesday, seems ready to snap the feeble
thread that yet holds sanity to its anchor
and float out upon the simoon-swept sea of
irresponsibility. Happier would it bave
been for him a thousand fold had he put
his scheme of suicide into execution, for
now he walks in a living hell, wringing
tortures of conscience, futilely moaning his
desire to recall the hour that set him apart
from his fellows and painted his soul red
with the gushing blood of the inoffensive
man whom his murderous hand swept over
the boundary between what there is and
what there is to be. Out from behind the
veil that shrouds the mystery from our
living eyes has reached the hand filled
with the potentiality of punishment, and
before man can pronounce his physical
punishment an awfol mental doom has
settled down upon the unhappy wretch
who ursurped,in his blind rage, the prerog-
ative of the Creator.
May as Well Retire.
From the York Gazettee.
The famous North Carolina hen which laid
an egg baring the initials W. J. B. has been
completely outdone by aspideroutin Was-
Washington, Ind. Ina grape arbor in that
town isa large spider web across the center,
woven by the spider, appear the names of
“McKINLEY and ROOSEVELT.” Of course
both of these statements are true, and, such
being the case, Chairman Jones might as
well close up national headquarters. The
spider has plainly outdone thehen. What
are initials alongside the full name of the
duty and destiny firm? Our watchful and
Suspicions enemies will now assert that
“W.J B.”” may stand for any person,
whereas every-body knows that ‘‘McKIN-
LEY and RoosEVELT'’ stand for imperial-
.| ism and the trusts.
——Mr. CHARLES EMORY SMITH is ab
the head of the list of Republican speakers
now stumping West Virginia. After
reading a description of the kind of dirty
Republicanism he wallows around in in-
his home city, an acconnt of which is tak-
en from his own paper and appears in this
issue of the WATCHMAN, decent men will
conclude that there is a loud call for him
in Philadelphia to fumigate his own party,
before attempting. to teach others wha
they should do. y ; ¢
——Do you appreciate the fact that if
your taxes are not paid thirty days before
the. that yon may lose your vote.
It is getting dangerously close to that time
now. The election is on the 6th of Novem-
ber, a little over five weeks away, and if
this matter is not attended to very prompt-
ly it may be forgotten. Better attend to it
now. 1 ; :
Legislature only a few months ‘before he |
stuffed the ballot-box in his division of the |
| county this fall. : Hw
by taiamen, on the mountings...
his hands helplessly under the inexpressible |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Erie Transit Company has opened
its new trolley line from Erie to Cambridge
Springs, a distance of 28 miles.
—Because of the low condition of Antietam
Creek, from which Waynesboro gets its water
supply, there is an epidemic of typhoid fever
there.
—A coal famine has struck the town of
Bangor and the Bangor Southern Slate Com-
pany was unable to run its quarry and works,
owing to the lack of fuel.
—Peaches are selling in York county at
ten cents a bushel on the trees, or twenty-five
cents per bushel picked. The apple crop in
that county is estimated at 500,000 bushels
—Owing to the lack of business caused by,
the anthracite coal strike, the yard crew of
Bloomsburg switching engine has been laid
off. During the past week over 26 crews
have been laid off.
—On account of the numerous sheep losses
in Cumberland county this year the county
commissioners have exhausted the dog tax
fund and will pay no more such losses until
the fund is replenished.
—Ex-State Treasurer 8. M. Jackson, of
Apollo, and Pittsburg capitalists will erect
mammoth sheet mills in Sharon, the capac-
ity of which, it is said, will be greater than
any of their kind in the world.
—The following charters were issued by
the State Department Monday. Luntz-Mc-
Ivaine Wall Paper Company, Philadelphia;
capital, $200,000. The Northampton Slate
Company, Bangor; capital, $30,000.
—Kane is to have a curfew, by which chil-
dren will be kept off the streets after 8 o’clock
in winter and 9 o'clock in summer. A bell
will announce the hour at which all under a
given age will be required to be at home.
—The continued and extreme drought at
Shippensburg is becoming very serious. On
Monday the water superintendent requested
the railroads entering the town not to take
water for their engines from the city mains.
—After six hours’ deliberation the jury in
the trial of James Lenhart for the murder of
Newton Motz rendered a verdict of man-
slaughter at Lewisburg. Judge McClure
sentenced Lenhart to fifteen years’ imprison-
ment. - :
—All records in movement of freight over
the Middle division of the Pennsylvania
railroad were smashed by Saturday’s run of
115 trains, hauling 7,029 cars,composed of 647
loaded and 3391 empty west bound;3,070 load-
ed and 21 empty east bound.
—The water famine that has existed at
Pen-Argyl, Northampton county, for more
than a month has become so serious that the
borough's electrié light plant is run but two
hours a night and the thoroughfares are in
darkness after nine o'clock. :
—The trouble in the coal regions will
throw over 1,000 train men in the Schuylkill
Valley from Philadelphia to Pottsville tem-
porarily out of employment. The Reading
Company has issued orders to change engines
burning anthracite so that they can use bitu-
minous.
—Curwensville Review says black bears
seem to be rather plentiful in this end of the
Several huge fellows have
been seen b
between here and Bloom’s Run, one on An=
derson creek hill and ome or two in the
neighborhood of Bilger’s saw mill.
——Owing to the lack of water the coke
plant at Cokeville, near Blairsville, had to
shut down last Friday morning. Since then
certain arrangements have been made where-
by a sufficient supply of water to permit of
working every other day has been secured.
—The State of Pennsylvania, according to
the census of 1900, still retains its record as
the State with the second largest population.
Pennsylvania’s population in 1890 was 5,258,-
014, a gain of 975,123 over that of 1830. The
returns from cities which have thus far come
to hand show a large increase, and experts
say that the increase will reach a million.
This will bring the population to more than
6,250,000. .
—To a 10 year old girl’s presence of mind
Clara Reily owes her life. ' Miss Reily, who
is a domestic, was engaged in boiling apple
butter at Williamsport. when her clothing:
caught fire. Her screams summoned Mary
Stiltz,who grasped an old piece of carpet, and
rushing to the’ burning woman, threw it
around her. Then pickiug up a bucket fill-
ed with water she emptied the contents over
Miss Reily and put out the flames.
—The employees of the Reading Iron
Works, at Danville, refused to go to work on
Monday. They claim that they will not ac-
cept the tkree dollar rate until the same cub
is made by other eastern mills. The Morning
News says the closing of the mills is not what
may be called a strike. The operators re-
duced the wages and the men quit working.
The News didn’t explain just what it was,
but people who don’t know any better will
think itis a strike, inasmuch as it has so
many of the features of one. :
—Mrs. Nathan Dorey, of Lock Haven, was
severely bruised and sustained a bad nervous’
shock from being knocked down by a bicy-
chist, in Market square, Williamsport, Satur-
day afternoon. When the accident occurred
men carried the woman into Kline's bhard-
ware store and later she was taken to the
rooms of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Funston, Hotel
Crawford. Doctor Miller attended her and
says it will be at least ten days before she re-
covers from the shock and is up out of bed.
—The water famine in Chester Hill, near
Philipsburg, has grown to formidable propor-
tions, and unless there is rain soon good:
{ sanitary conditions will be impossible—a
state of affairs which would greatly aid in
spreading the fever, which seems to have
gotten hold of that borough. There is not
enough of even tolerably fair water now for
cooking and drinking purposes, and many
families will have to haul water wash day or
go with dirty linen until the long hoped for
rain comes.
—The river and its tributaries are all at as
low stage of water now as ever was known.
A careful estimate of the volume of water in
the river below the dam at Lock Haven has
been made and it is thought that all the wa-
ter would pass througha three foot pipe. In
the valleys the streams tributary to the Bald
Eagle creek are very low and some of the
smaller streams are entirely dry. Farmers
at some places are compelled to drive their
stock from two to three miles to water. In
some of the up-river districts small creeks
that had been stocked with trout are dry and
thousands of young trout have died.