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GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The hand that shakes the pium tree
And bears the flaming cross,
Is the hand of the dictator—
Pennsylvania’s chief boss.
—Is THOMPSON for HASTINGS or is
THoMPSON for QUAY? Ask THOMPSON.
—They say that politics and religion
won’t mix, but polities and everything else
seem to go right well together.
—There is not a single reason why every
person in Centre county could not con-
sistently vote for WETZEL and KEPLER.
—There can be little doubt in the minds
of those who saw that keg of brewer’s yeast
explode on an Ohio Valley express train, a
few days ago, that it was rising.
—The sun has held on amazingly well
this fall. 90° weather for October, with a
thunder storm on the side, took part of the
sting from the hard coal famine last week.
—A vote for WETZEL aud KEPLER isa
vote to show that you are a man and not
a marionette, to be worked by afew self-
constituted Republican hosses in Belle-
fonte.
—§Since Mark HANNA'S full dinner pail
has proven such a miserable failure as a
vote getter there might be some chance of
interesting him in the West ward’s ‘‘blind
horse.”’
—A great deal is heard about scarcity of
water in various parts of the country, but
we have yet to hear a complaint about there
not being enough liquor everywhere.
—As to the dinner pail’s being full there
are plenty of fellows who will be far more
concerned as to whether they will be able
to get full enough themselves, when elec-
tion day comes.
—KEPLER is a brainy young man who
will be active as a public servant at Har-
risburg and he can be depended upon to
be a Legislator who will represent his con-
stituents in every way.
—WETZEL is a plain, every-day, always
to be trusted, christian gentleman. He
has made an enviable record at Harris-
burg, at a time when it tried a man’s
courage, and he should be sent back.
‘~-~Rather than starve the Reading Iron
Company's puddlers went to work on Mon-
day at a reduction of $1 per ton. Here
are a few hundred more dinner pails that
MARK HANNA had better see to keeping
full. ;
—If the anthracite coal strike keeps up
much longer the black diamonds will be
growing so precious that CrciL. RHODES
will be tempted to leave the poor, perse-
cuted Boers and come over here to try to
“‘cop’’ some of our mines.
—It will cost the State $150,000 to pay
for the three regiments of infantry, the
troop of cavalry and battery that were sent
to the anthracite regions to help wealthy
coal operators frighten their employees
into accepting wages upon which it is im-
possible for them to live. Thus the poor
people will be taxed to pay for police for
wealthy coal operators.
—The most certain sign that Repub-
licans fear the loss of New York is fur-
nished in their hue and cry about Demo-
cratic colonization in that city. Whenever
vou hear a fellow talk about the way his
opponent is going to cheat or defraud him
vou can bet your bottom dollar that he
sees defeat coming and is preparing for the
excuse he will make for it. «=
—That United States. Senators are not
above sharp political practice is seen. in.
Senator’ LODGE’S having GEORGE VON IL.
MEYER, of Boston, made Ambassador to
Italy, in place of Mr. DRAPER, resigned.
Senator LODGES son-in-law, Cap’t. A. P.
GARDNER, wants to try for Congress in
1902 and as Mr. MEYER intended con-
testing with him for the honor the wily
old Senator fixes it. up’ for his. son-in-law
by having MeKiNLey its MEYrR out of
the contest. :
—Mr. Wu, the Chinese minister at Wash-
ington, has conceived a wonderful'idea. He
thinks it ‘would be just the thing if Ax-
DREW CARNEGIE would found a great free
library at Pekin, where the heathen could
go, read and become ‘enlightened. Tt
would be nice, wouldn't it? But there are
afew heathen up at Tyrone who would
have license to kick it ANDY goes clear
over to China with his library building be-
fore the ‘one he fale woitg 3 ‘build for
them is completed. x Gi
1b matters Tittle Hi hit Tout
JoNES or BILL SMITH have to say. about
the election. The matter that should con-
cern you most is what is best for you,’
yourself. If you think trusts area good
thing, that large standing armies are the
ideals of Republics, that (paying more for
everything you eat, wear and vse and get-
ting no more for the labor you have togive
are what you want, then pay no attention
to what 'JoHN and Bir have to say, but
march right up and vote for MARK HANNA
per WILLIAM McKINLEY. y
BY P.
—The last of the militia is to be: with} ®
drawn from the bard coal regions this week.
The plutocratic operators were quick to
call for the soldiers, with the hope of cow-
ing the miners into’ accepting the paltry
pittance ‘they were offered for the work. |
But the strikers hate, been “law abiding |
and have furnished no excuse for: having
soldiers, paid by the State, to guard cor-
. poration property, 80 they are to be with-
drawn. The fact that the strikers have
i been peaceable only emphasizes their earn- |
_ estness ‘and the people’ of the country
~ sympathize with them in their Straggle
‘seated sixty days until notices were posted,
| fitting tool for the party that believes all
| prepared to furnish $600,000 to the cam-
6,000 children, within its corporate limits,
are without accommodations in'its public |
it affords the children of its poor to obtain !
| a common school education. |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 5
“VOL. 45
_ BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 12, 19062
A Fitting Spokesman for McKinley and
Monopolies.
That MARK HANNA should have been
chosen by the anthracite coal trust as its
advisory agent in the settlement of the
great strike now on hand is not strange.
In addition to his desire to keep all labor
disturbances and the condition of the
workingmen of the country in the back-
ground, until after the election, be is not
without knowledge of what strikes can be
made to accomplish, nor experience in
dealing with them. He has made and un-
made them. He bas profited by them.
And if there is one man in this wide, wile,
country who knows how to utilize strikes,
80 as to squeeze the life ont of labor, it is
Mr. MeKINLEY’S boss, MARCUS A. HAN:
NA.
He began this work away back in the
eighties, when, to destroy the labor unions
to which the employees, on his vessels that
carried freights over the great lakes belong-
ed, he cut their wages from $2.25 per day
to $1.00 at a single stroke, and when they
struck filled their places with non-union
workingmen at $1.00 per day.
He was the organizer and head of the
bituminous coal conspiracy of 1893, that
rushed mining at the low rates that was
then paid until over 2,000,000 tons above
the ordinary market supply was at his
command, and then cut wages to starvation
point to produce a strike and cause a coal
fawine. The strike came, the famine
ensued, and Mr. HANNA'S two million
tons of reserve coal netted him two dollars
per ton more than it was worth at the time
of mining.
It didn’t matter to Mr. HANNA how
great was the suffering among the men
whose wages he cut in order to force a condi-
tion of affairs that he could corner the coal
market. He had no care how many of them
died from starvation, or what misery and
destitution their families experienced in
consequence of the strike. His $4,000.000
profits recompensed bim for all, and labor
could take care of itself.
Again, in 1896, to induce the laboring
men to vote the Republican ticket, he prom-
ised everything that man could conceive of
in the way of blessings to labor, if McKIN-
LEY succeeded. Workingmen listened to
his professions and many of them voted as
he desised, His president had. not been
at every wining operation in which HAN-
NA was interested, of a reduction in prices
of from GO to 54 cents per ton, the lowest
rate that had ever been paid, in that 1egion
for mining.
Under the shadow of the American flag
there is no one who has had more expe-
rience or been more successful in crushing
labor organizations, starving labor or op-
pressing workingmen than MARCUS HAN-
NA. He isthe one man in the country
who has neither conscience nor qualms
when it comes to cheating labor. He isa
that labor deserves or desires is a tin pail
of cold victuals. He is exactly the man to
represent the McKINLEY administration
and the anthracite and other monopolies.
They are close together. They all exist
by renson of the support they give each
other. If one fails the other must fall. If
one succeeds the other is sure of support
and encouragement.
It is this unity of feeling between
trusts and’ the administration, that Mr.
HANNA represents, coupled with his ex-
perience in fomenting or crushing strikes
and in deceiving labor, that makes him so
valuable an agent to the anthracite coal
trust.
His influence with and over them only
shows how close the connection is between
them and the party he speaks for. It
stands as a warning to all voters who would
cast their ballots against the continued pro-
tection of the great monopolies of the coun-
try, that to do so, these votes must be
against the candidate represented and sap-
ported by Magcus HANNA.
Not Bragging Ato About As Schools.
Philadelphia. boasts asts of its ability to roll
up a Republican majority of 100,000 and
has advertised itself as being’ willing and
paign corruption fund of that party.
The chairman of ‘the committee on prop-
erty of the Board of ‘Education of that city
—PAuL KAVANAGH—in a recent state-
ment, gave, out the figures showing that
schools, becanse of a , lack of funds to erect;
and farnish buildings. ;
Philadelphia may imagine that it has’
reason to boast of its Republicanism. bs
Tt don’t seem to bave much room, how-
ever. for, self-glorification over the facilities
~—Have you noticed that not a Repub-
lican paper in the county has denied’ ‘that
ALLISON and THOMPSON, if plected, will
~ for enongh to live on;
Hs
Pa a
| vote just as ex-Governor HASTINGS. says, 2
Eales
The Same Old Seare=-Crow.
Bluffing and bullying don’t make votes.
When these have to be resorted to it only
shows the desperation of the cause they are
expected to assist.
It is to this extreme that the advocates
of imperialism and the supporters of trusts
have gotten. They have quit arguing.
They have ceased boasting, and now im-
pudently and brutishly threaten the husi-
of the country with dire disasters if the
people see proper to elect Mr. BRYAN to
the Presidency. .
The first effort at thiz political bull-doz-
ing came from a Baltimore Trust company.
Its president gave out, a few days ago, that
a business enterprise amounting to $11,-
000,000, and which his company had agreed
to finance, would be abandoned if BRYAN
is successful.
This threat fell flat, for the reason that
the public understood why it had been
made. It was also understood that the
trust concern that made it was on the verge
of financial failure, and that this pretense
of handling millions of dollars was to leave
people, who had business with it, under the
impression that it controlled unlimited
means.
Following this attempt to frighten the
public,a Republican syndicate in New Jer-
sey was announced as having contracted to
build a number of miles of railroad, but
that the persons for whom it was to be
completed had made a proviso that in case
of McKINLEY’S defeat the contract should
be void. A few days later another case
was given the pablic of a party of capital-
ists in northern New York who had bar-
gained for the erection of a large paper
mill, with the understanding that the en-
terprise was to be abandoned if BRYAN
was elected.
Such is the fool stuff that Mr. HANNA
and his gang of business cut throats have
been forced to resort to. It is nota new
idea—the same scare crow has been flopped
in the face of the people many times be-
fore.
In this county it was used four years ago
in connection with the Valentine Iron
works. It was then said that if BRYAN
was elected the works would close down at
once, but if McKINLEY was successful Tey
would be run to their full capacity all the |*
time. Notwithstanding the fact that Me- Jy
KINLEY was successful they were closed |
down shortly after the election and have
remained closed most of the time since.
They are as silent to-day as a graveyard.
Idiots may be influenced by this kind of
stuff—but to sensible people it only shows
the desperation and hoplessness of the par-
ty that resorts to it.
Another Denial that There are Trusts.
United ‘States Senator WiLLiaM J.
SEWALL is the latest Republican states-
man to have effrontery enough to deny
that trusts exist within the United States.
And BEWALL is from New Jersey too; the
mother of trusts, the promoter of trusts,
the beneficiary of trusts.
In the State from which he hails, and
which he is privileged to misrepresent in.
the Senate of the United States, within the
past year, two thousand charters were
granted for corporations of this kind. The
aggregate capitalization of these corporate
combinations was $3,500,000,000. Into
the treasury of that State was paid $1,000,-
000 as bonuses for the privileges these
charters granted.
And yet Mr. SEWALL knows nothing of
them. Like Mr. HANNA, he stands up
bare-faced and brazenly denies their ex-
istence.
Well, io the estimation of this leading
light of Republicanism—this mouth-piece
of the McKINLEY administration—there
may be no such ‘‘a thing as a trust,” and
it there is not it would be folly to legislate
against or attempt to control their power.
And there is just where we will “‘find
ourselves at,” if this party that denies the
existence of trusts is continued in power,
$4 ’| When legislation is demanded tostay their
| wrongs and to curtail their evils we will
be told there are no’ 'wrongs—that there
can be no evils—for there are no trasts,
We can point to crushed industries; to
ruined firms; to unemployed or underpaid
workingmen; to discharged commercial
travelers; to increased | prices for everything
‘| prodneed or controlled by these combina-
tions of capital, but that will not prove
their existence to those who have created
and fostered them, and who propose that
they shall become fixed and permanent in-
stitutions of this country.
Republicanism has set itself against any
effort to curb or control these combinations
that have already proven; toe Suse of the
| country.
What is the honest voter who is so des:
ly. interested in this matter going to. do
about it ?
——ALLISON and THOMPSON. may both
be good citizens, but that don’t deny the
fact that they are afraid to let the Repub-
licans of the county know whether they |
will ‘vote as their party caucus indicates,
or as ex-Governor HasTINGS tells them to.
What Yo. Owe Yourself.
It may seem a selfish view, but the right
way for a man to make up his mind as to
how he should vote is from the measure of
his own prosperity. How others may be
getting along; what booms way be here,
or prosperity reported there, are of but lit-
tle consequence when compared to the con-
dition the voter finds himself in. It is
for his own and his family’s interest that
be is supposed to vote, and if he is blind
enough to allow the opinions, the eondi-
tions, or the welfare of others, to guide his
actions he can have no reason to complain
if ill-fortune attends him afterwards.
It is through elections that judgment is
passed on’ the kind of administration we
have. If it suits us we approve it hy vot-
ing for the continuation in power of those
who make it. If it does not we should
vote against them.
To know if we should approve it is only
necessary to feel and understand our own
individual condition under it.
In a government, such as was intended
for the people of this country, ail honest
labor, all individual efforts, all business
enterprise should expect the same measure
of benefit and the same mead of prosperity.
How is it with you, brother working-
man ?
Are yon getting along as well as you
ought to, in times that are claimed to he
prosperous, and when opportunities are
offered to the few to amass fortunes in a
day? Are you receiving all you deserve,
and all that your family are entitled to in
the way of comforts, schooling, oppor-
tunities and the good things that others
enjoy? You are entitled to just as much,
if you are industrious and temperate, as
the most prosperous citizen in the coun-
try ? Do conditions enable you to get it?
Are yon able to earn sufficient to furnish
all your needs and all that the wants and
happiness of your family requires? Are
you content and satisfied that there could
be no better times for you?
If you are. it would be foolish for you to
vote for a change, but if you are not, then
the duty yon owe to yourself and your
family is to both vote and work for a dif:
foren condition of affairs.
. Because politicians say you are prosper-
§™W0es not make it so. You should
know if you are and without being told.
It is you who are the judge in this matter.
And then you should remember that
there are degrees in prosperity just as there
are in everything else. You may be earn-
ing a bare living. The efforts of yourself
and family may be securing you sufficient
food to keep soul and body together and
enough of clothes to cover your nakedness.
But of the many good things this earth
affords, are you not entitled to more than
this? Are not your efforts to be crowned
with more than a slave’s life?
This is for you to say. If yom are con-
tent, then you want to vote to keep the
people who are keeping you in this posi-
tion, just where they are. If yon are
satisfied, then you should vote for .a con-
tinuation of the kind of times that are en-
riching the few, while your labor: brings
you but a mere living.
If you are not content, then you should
vote for a change, and if that change don’t
better things for you keep on voting for
changes until you get what you ‘want
and what you deserve.
It will come that way if you but'do your
duty.
Have Yom Thought of This?
Suppose you are a father with a family
of boys growing up. - You have ‘a pride in
them.’ You desire to see them become
more than clerks or employees of others.
You have the means to start each one
modestly in business. - In what line could
anyone of them engage, with the few thous-
ands of dollars you might be able to give
him, that he would not run up against the
millions of some trust concern doing busi-
ness in the same line?
Your five, or ten, or fifty thousand dollars
would be nothing in competition with the
millions of combined capital that the trnsts
control in any business in which they are
engaged. And what business have they
nof entered ?
Have you ever thought of this? Have
you considered how completely your boys
are shut out by our system of trusts from
being anything in the business line, ex-
cept clerks for others, or the slaves of the
great concerns, kuown as trusts, that we
are building ap?
If you have not it is time sou ‘were cou-
sidering the legacy you are leaving to your:
own children by your support of a party
that encourages and protects these monopo-
lies.
Do you haves some one who i 18 away
from home at work, in school or on busi-
ness? If you bave it is about time you
are making arrangements to’ get’ ‘him
back to vote. If you put this off ala a
er date you may delay to lor
er matters may prevent. Joug, and
Dee to do things in time and. x5 is one oot
the matters that should not be over-looked.
NO. 40.
Hanna and Croker, as Scen by James
Creelman.
From the Philadelphia North Ameriean, Ind. Rep
I have been spending a few days among
the politicians in New York, and have 1e-
corded the result below, describing things
just as they appeared to me, and reporting
the words of the dramatis personae as pre-
cisely as I could. I may have léft out
things a man said, but I am not aware that
I have put into anyone's mouth sentiments
or opinions which he did not utter.
I have not "always treated the heroes of
my stories seriously. There are men who
for one or another reason, stand “high in
the councils of their party, and who,
render it effective service who, as human
beings, do not arouse the onlooker’s respect
or good will. Others not so well known,
perhaps, are more liable as men, and seem
to deserve greater consideration. Not be-
ing in politics myself, I may possibly have
been able to see persons more nearly divest-
ed of the anreoles or disfigurements which
glorify or damn them in the eyes of their
friends or enemies than would one who was
in the swim with them.
Senator Hanna, for example, is a man of
the highest political standing in his’ party
but that did not prevent him from appear-
ing to meas an absurd old gentleman,
without dignity or candor, and on the verge
of nervous collapse.
Croker, again, is often described as a
saturnine and brutal Mephistopheles, with
no ideas but base and selfish ones. ' I speak
of him as I found him, and though he
treated me with bare courtesy, I felt in
him a strength and simplicity of nature
which no imperial man could help liking,
and a spontaneous common sense which I
admired. No one can detest a boss more
than I do, but I think that Croker reached
his present position, not by the political
chapter of accidents so much as hy the in-
nate power and genius for leadership that
are in him.
In looking over these interviews, I no-
tice that the Democrats appear to rather
better advantage than the Republicans, np-
on the whole. This is not the resulf of any
previous intention on my part. 2
There must be some reason for the reti-
cence or disingenuousness of some of the
Republican representatives. I have heard
two explanations of it. One is that men
of responsibility, like Hanna or Platt, are
unwilling to be quoted as doubtful of suc-
cess, lest the rank and file of their party be:
discovered, and are not less reluctant to
claim everything i in sight as a foregone con-
clusion (like Mr. Gibbs), lest possible de-
feat discredit their prophetie repute.
The other explanation is that funds have
not flowed into the Republican exchequer
as copiously as had been hoped, and were
the leaders to. declare themselves sure of
victory the influx might become slower
et. I give the su s fo
go worth. The" on rahe
crats are different, and therelore they feel
freer to talk.
Has a Different Look.’
From the Minneapolis Journal—Ind. Rep.
It begins to look as if the race between
McKinley and Bryan would be very much
closer in 1900 than it was in 1896. This
state of affairs is so different from what was
thought probable at the time when the na-
tional conventions were held that it will
come as a surprise to many who. believed
McKinley sure of a triumphant re-eiection.
Conditions are by no meaus as favorable as
they were in what are recoguized as the
pivotal States.
Compulsory Ar} Arbitration.
From the Scranton, Pa., Trut Truth.
That New Zealand, the only country
having compulsory arbitration, should have
no strikes in the past four years and yet he
quoted ‘‘as the most prosperous country in
the world,”’ is sufficient proof of the prac-
tical and satisfactory working of this
wholesome and desirable system. ‘ How
can we have such a system in Pennsylva-
nia for the Prevention of ruinous indus-
trial conflicts
"Better Under Any Circumstance.
From the Louisville Courier: -Journal—Gold Dem.
Mr. Bryan is four years older than he
was tour years ago. He must have learned
much during his interval of growing and
his many migrations. At his worst he is
better than any representative of the
Mark Hanna combine. At his best he
may turn out to be another Lincoln. Who
shall say ? And so it is that the Courier-
Journal supports Mr. Bryan and opposes
Mr. McKinley,
An Uitey millenia Candidate. 0 i .
From the Baltimore Sum.
One of the most attractive aspects of Mr.
Bryan’s candidacy is the personal freedom
and independence with which, if the peo
ple should elect him, he would euter: he
White House. He has given the comutry:
positive assurance that no boss or: associa-
tion of bosses holds his political promissory
notes, payable on demand after h i8 inabg,
uration. . And the whole character of
man makes this assurance sare.
br emer nd
, The ‘Why of It. I
From the Charleston 5 S.C. ‘News and Contier
—Gold Dem.
1 The public press is: practically united: in
support for Bryan, not hecause it accepts
his financial theories, but because it
that the issue of imperialism. is the para:
| mount issue and that the preservation of.
the Republic is of far greater and more last-
shun consequence than the safety of any par<
ticular system of banking or finance. i
ed 5
The Jig is Up.
From the Philipsburg Le Ledger. biz
Tt all the insurgents who are invited to
the big wedding at Bellefonte vote the
straight county ticket the Democrats will
be routed, neck and Yieels) in this county.
ANY ‘There 3 Tredent’ MeKintey.
Co §
From the Philadelphia North American, Rep. i
‘The war may be id in Luzon, Jus a
gas the aie
at
has just been, sepiured
Filipinos.: |
the |
: . Thursday Mrs. Laura Wynkoop was arrested
Spawls from the Keystone.
~W. K. Vanderbilt and other high officials
of the New York Central system mace anin-
spection trip over the Beech Creek road
Thursday. .
—Max Mitchell, a rabid Quayite of Wil-
liamsport, has the strongest endorsement for
the judgeship to succeed Judge Metzger. It
is reported that he will soon be appointed.
—The coal traffic on the Beech Creek rail-
road has largely increased since the strike
begun in the anthracite region. The daily
eastward movement of coal on the Beech
Creek is over 1,200 cars.
—Mrs. Mary Kuntz, died at her home in
Hooversville, Somerset county, Sunday, aged
81 years. She was the mother of eleven
children, had eighty-two grand children and
eighteen great grandchildren.
—Sherif¥ Rumberger, of Huntingdon
county, in the performance of his official
duty, has had twenty-one fish dams in the
Raystown branch and twelve in the Juniata
river torn out. Deputy Sheriff McElroy and
a corps of assistauts did the work.
—Peale, Peacock & Kerr, who bid $27,700
on the Acme and Slope coal operations near
Philipsburg at administrators’ sale of O. P.
Jones, estate, have since purchased the two
mines and the store in Philipsburg for
ahout $35,000.
—According to the returns just made to the
auditor general of the States the taxes raised
in Centre county amount to $243,692, divided
as follows : For the support of the poor, $41,-
886; for roads, $65,603; for schools and
school houses, $63,400; for all other pur-
poses, $70,803.
—Sunday afternoon a twelve-year-old lad,
who makes his home with the family of Mr.
and Mrs. John Saylor, one mile south of
Somerset, and a companion of about the
same age, were monkeying with a loaded re-
volver, when it exploded, the bullet enter-
ing the right hip of the Saylor boy.
—Walter Johnson and Charles Buchannan,
two striking miners from Shamokin, were
killed at’ Lilly Monday night by a Pennsyl-
vania railroad engine. They were walking
along the track when they were run down.
The men were in search of work. Thirteen
dollars and a silver watch were found en
their persons.
—The remodeled edifice of the First’
Lutheran congregation at Chambersburg was
rededicated in 1855 and has never been
changed. Under the present pastor, Rev.
E. H. Leisenring, the membership has
greatly increased, and more room and better:
accommodations became necessary. The
alterations cost $6,000.
—G, L. Stahluecker, an employe of the
Pennsylvania repair shops, at Williamsport,
was found dead with his neck broken in a
gondola car loaded with lumber. While he
was ‘endeavoring to move some flooring from
the car a heavy yellow pine stringer rolled
down and pinioned his head against the side
of the car, killing him instantly.
—The Methodist State convention to be
held at Grace church; Harrisburg, from Oct."
22nd to 24th inclusive, promises to be one of
the most important that this ‘great religious
body has ever held in the State. The idea
of this conyention originated in the mind of
Presiding Elder Smyser, of this district. It
includes; a Tepresentative of every Methodist in
Episcopal church in the State. =
—Joseph F. Harlin, aged 35 years, and
single, was instantly killed in the Altoona
yard Sunday morning. He was repairing an
electric switch near the depot, when the en-
gine scheduled to haul the Southwestern ex-
press over the Pittsburg division, backed
down to the station and struck him. He was
rolled along the track for a distance of 50
feet, and was picked up dead.
—During a local shower that passed over
LalJose, recently, lightningstruck and killed
a horse and a dog belonging to G. W. Jose of
that town. A crew of nine men, a team and
the dog took shelter in the small shed when
the storm came up and were all in the shed .
when the lightning struck the dog and
horse, but strange to say none of the men
were injured beyond a slight shock. One of
the men was holding the horse by the bridle
when it was killed. .
—A frame dwelling house belonging to Geo.
W. Davis, near Kantner’s station, Somerset,
was totally destroyed by fire about 9o ‘clock
Wednesday night. The building was occu-
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cooper, who
were absent at the time of the fire. All of
their household property was destroyed. A
young man named Landis, who started to,
drive from the public square to the: scene of
the fire, came to a sudden halt when his
horse fell into an ‘open manhole at the inter-
section of Main Cross and Sanner streets, in
Somerset. The animal was extracated after
two or three hours of hard work on the part i
of a score of men. :
—Another alleged counlekoiter Lins been
added to the list of those to bo ‘tried for this’
offense at the term of the United States dis-~
trict court which convenes at Pittsburg next
week. Tuesday morning W.J. Flynn, the sec-
ret. service officer, returned from the.
hearing of the seven alleged counterfeiters.
arrested last week in Clearfield ‘county, and,
of the seven arrested, all but one. J. N. Wil-.
son, were held for court. ‘The ‘names of
those held for court are Verd' ‘Wilson, Chas.
Bilger, James Wynkoop, Marcos riedman,
Jobn B. Bennett and Diland Hyde. Anoth-,
arrest was made while Flinn was in Elk
county where the. hearings were had, On.
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at her home near Penfield, ‘Clearfield
county. She waived a hearing and ‘gave
| bail for court.
—The Canieniial, paride at lntowt :
| Saturday was’ ‘a great success. It was over 5
miles in length, and it is estimated that 7,-
000 men’ were inline. Civic, military, fra-
ternal and social organizations were repre-
sented, together with the_entire Johnstown
fire department, a battalion of the Fifth reg- ,
a iment, National Guard of Peneylvants, and
| ten bands from towns and cities of Western
Pennsylvania. ‘Theline of floats illustrative
of the’ past ‘and the present prosperity of the
Conemaiigh valley was nearly a mile in
length. Some of the displays were ny
able. Tt is estimated that thirty thot sand
display, and. there. wasa perfect. jam. every- ;
where. Sunday the religious exercises of the:
célebrition took place.’ Nearly all of the
churches held appropriate services. In the.
afternoon a big religious mass ‘meeting took
:| place on Market square. yale