BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink. Slings.
—Not a Democrat in Centre county
should be away from the polls on the 6th.
‘It is only a short ‘time now until the
election. See to it that every vote in your
distriet is out.
—BRYAN’'S trinmphant tour continues
and every day it looks more and more like
BRYAN’S election.
— Thompson is a chronic office hunter.
He will be ont for treasurer again in two
years. Some people want everything in
sight.
—Vote for your independence and man-
hood on the 6h. Vote to show that no
one man dare set himself up as the abso-
lute dictator of thonsands.
—There are deals and rumors, of deals,
and some people even go so far as to say
that THOMPSON has played fast and loose
with HASTINGS—already.
—J. W. KEPLER is a very successful
farmer. He knows what the farmers need
and will be a representative from their
ranks, when he goes to Harrisburg.
— Professor LADD, the famous Yale
psychologist, has came out for BRYAN.
Now watch the Prof. Smarties all over
the country showing where it jars them.
—Poor old KRUGER, he is finding out
that the heads that wear the crowns are
not the only uneasy ones. The Belgium
government has issued orders to the effect
that he dare not tarry long in that coun-
try.
—Whether successful or not this fall
THOMPSON will again be a candidate for
county treasurer in two years. He has
the office itch and wants the Republicans
of the county to be scratching him all the
time.
—MARK HANNA, the great pooh-bah of
the McKINLEY administration said :
“There are no such things as trusts.”
TEDDY ROOSEVELT, the principle horse-
fiddle of MARK'’S outfit, called a man ‘‘a
hood-lum and a hobo’’ for even saying
“down with the trusts.”’
—President McKINLEY did not hesitate
to use part of his secret instructions to the
Paris commissioners in 1899 to further his
own interests in hig letter of acceptance,
yet he refuses to make public any more of
the instructions, when called upon to do
so by those who have every right to
know.
—A¢t the meeting of the Presbyterian
Synod in Harrisburg the good brethren
voted down a proposition petitioning Con-
gress and President McKINLEY to pass an
anti-canteen law and another one asking
members of the church to decline to rent
buildings to liquor sellers or tien their
license applications. po
—There hasn’t been near so och CLEAR-
WATER talk around here since ‘‘the boys’’
found out that the Republican nominee for
Congress hasn’t a ‘‘barl’’ at all. Someone
told them that he was a very rich man and
they all had bung starters ready when he
appeared at the fair here last week, buf
they were of no use.
—THOMPSON seems to be able to get any
thing he wants from the Republican party
of Centre county, while such old war horses
as JOHN A. DALEY, SAMMY DIEHL and
JoEN MURRAY are relegated to the rear to
make room for him, Who is this man
THOMPSON, anyhow ? And how long hat
he lived i in Centre county ?
—Conservative, reliable, straight-for-
ward, conscientious are the expressions we
hear every day about’ HENRY WETZEL,
the Democratic nominee for Legislature.
Yon make no mistake in voting for such a
man. He is not the creature of any per-
son or cliaue and he was not put upon the’
ticket merely because one man said so.
—What do ALLISON or THOMPSON care
about the farmers? The one is a wealthy
mill owner and the other is a traveling
salesman, whom some people call a politic:
al carpet-bagger. If the farmers want
representation at Harrisburg they shonld
vote for a farmer for the Legislature. J.
W. KEPLER is a farmer 28d the only one
on the ticket.
—KEPLER’S hands are horny from the
plow and other farm implements and his
head is keen and bright with a fund of
knowledge that equips him admirably for-
legislative duties. He is young, active,
and alert ; just the kind of a man to send
to. (Harrisburg. Rally to his support,
farmers; if you would have one of your
own class represent you.
—If THOMPSON Rappens to be elebted to
the Legislature he will not be a candidate
for re-election in two years. He intends
running for county treasurer again, so he
could not be a candidate for both offices at
the Same time. JOHN wants everything
in sight and. while waiting for a chance for
the treasureship plum he has pushed him-
self into this campaign, where SAM DIEHL,
JOHN A. DALEY or J¢ OHN E. MURRAY had
more right to be.
——OQur neighbor of the Republican, Mr.
W. F. HARRIS, received this week a very
high compliment from the Philadelphia
Press for the intelligent manner in which
he is conducting his paper,and the politic-'
al vim he is putting. into its columns.”
Under Mr. HARRIS control the Republican
has greatly improved, but we imagine that
it will be a very long time before it, as
the special organ of ex-Governor HAsT-
INGS, ‘will be able to tear Centre county
from its Democratic moorings, as the Press,
hopes'it will.
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Vote for Yourself and Your Own.
When Republicans tell you that the
country is prosperous under the rule of Mc-
KINLEY and for that reason you should
vote to continue him as President just
think of your own condition and you will
understand exactly how prosperous it is.
It is nothing to you if great corporations
and combinations: of capital are making
money hand over fist ; it is nothing to you
if exports exceed imports or if statistics
show that business is booming in this
place or that unless it betters your condi-
tion. It is due to yourself to judge of
the amount of prosperity there is for you,
and vou alone should know better than
any one else how it is.
It has been but a few days since a Republi-
can came into this office to borrow a dollar
to help pay for a suit of clothes for his boy.
The child bad not been able to attend
school because of the shabbiness of his out-
fit, and this effort on the part of the father
was to fit him ont so that he could have
the opportunities other children are enjoy-
ing. In the course of conversation he pro-
ceeded to tell us how prosperous the coun-
try was under McKINLEY and how wages
had been raised from $1.00 to $1.10 per
day for labor. We asked him how much
better off he was to-day than this time four
years ago. He hadn’t thought of measur-
ing his share of prosperity in that way, and
began to think about it. When he called
up the past he remembered that he had
never had to ask neighbors to lend him
money to buy clothes so his children
could go to school ; that never before since
he attempted to have a home of his own
had he been compelled to draw on the
future by borrowing from any one ; that
he had had steady work for the entire year
and that the advance in his wages had
amounted to $31.30 during that time, but
that the increase in the price of his grocer-
ies, his clothing, his shoes, medicine, ete.,
had eaten it all up, and he was in worse
condition than when he was paid less
wages and could procure his necessaries at
less figures. He had been unable to add a
single | comfort to his home, to lay by a
single penny, and frankly admitted, after
measuring his own prosperity in this way,
that no matter what Republican ‘profes-
sions of prosperity might be, it had not
benefited him.
“And it is the same’with nine tenths of
the laboring men, farmers and mechanics
of the country. There is not one in ten of
them, to-day, who, when he looks about
himself, considers the condition of his
home and the deprivations of his family,
can honestly say that he is better off,
or more prosperous, than he was before Mr.
McKINLEY was known as a President, or
MARK HANNA and the trusts became the
power that rules.
It is not so, however, with trusts and
corporations and combined capital. They
are prospering, and because they are mak-
ing money faster than money was ever be-
fore made Mr. HANNA and the Republican
party claim that the country is prosperous
and that the people should he happy.
It is Mr. HANNA’s idea that the few
who own the wealth of the country are en-
titled to all the prosperity that is going.
That when they are satisfied and content,
others should not complain ; that while
the HAVEMEYRS, CARNEGIES, ROCKE-
‘| FELLERS and others of the kind are rolling
in luxury and adding to their already
enormous wealth, millions of dollars
monthly, the¢ great mass of people
should be content with the barest kind of
homes and the commonest kind of living.
In fact a tin pail of cold victuals per day
for the workingman, as against an income
of tens of thousands of dollars and all the
luxuries that money can buy for the head
of a trust, is the Republican’s idea of pros-
perity.
If, after you think about your'e own wel-
fare, you conclude that you are getting
your share, and deserve nothing better for
yourself or family, it will. be the right
thing for you to do to go and vote for a
continuation of the power of trusts and a
| prolongation of the times of high prices.
If, on the other hand, you conclude that
the country’s prosperity should be more
generally enjoyed, and believe you and
your family are entitled to some little of
the good “ things that the few are surfeit-
ing on, you know exactly what to do—
VOTE FOR A CHANGE AND A CHANCE FOR
YOURSELF.
——While MARK HANNA is around
| denying the existence of trusts, the Phila-
delphia - Press is proving him: a liar of the
first water by disclosing the fact that, un-
der the administration of Mr. McKINLEY,
one of the most profitable businesses that is
carried on anywhere is that of a company
over in Delaware whose only function is to
organize and start trusts. Evidently there
is need for a better understanding between
Mr. HANNA and his organs, if they would
keep one lie from tripping up another.
—-~ Subscribe for the WATCHMAN,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 26, 1900.
What Claims ox Qualifications?
If anyone has seen anything in any Re-
publican paper given asa reason why a
vote should be cast for ALLISON or THOMP-
SON, except that they claim to be Republi-
cans, we would be pleased if they would
point it out.
It is not claimed for either one of them
that he has any special qualifications for
the place. :
It is not alleged that either one of them
has ever done anything that entitles him
to public commendation.
It is not asserted that they desire elec-
tion in order to assist in correcting public
abuses, or to prevent vicious legislation.
It is not pretended that they will work
for ballot reform, for constitutional appor-
tionments, for an equalization of taxation,
for retrenchment in public expenditures,
for the defeat of rotten ring measures, or, in
fact, for anything the people of this county:
demand.
The only reason so far given, and that
we have seen ‘in the Republican papers,
why they should be elected, is that ‘‘they are
Republicans."’
Is this a sufficient reason to induce intel-
ligent and well meaning voters to cast their
ballots for them? We rather think not,
and particularly when, as Republicans, they
seek election under a pledge to ex-Gover-
nor HASTINGS, that they will not abide by
the action of a Republican caucus, or sub-
mit their judgment to the will of a majority
of their own party associates.
As REPUBLICANS, under the conditions
that bind them. they can scarcely be called
gilt'edged. Men who are pledged to be
the creatures and puppets of one man have
little right to claim to be representatives
of a party.
Deceiving Some One.
When a man is afraid or ashamed to tell
you what he will do in case of his election,
you can make up your mind very quickly
that somebody is to be deceived or sold
out. When he goes about the county
leaving one man under one impression and
another under a different one you can be
sare that he is unworthy of confidence,and
willing to betray those whom he asks for
support,
And this is what JOHN K. THOMPSON is
doing. Ask him frankly what he purposes
doing in the matter of the election of a |
United States Senator and he will refuse
to tell you. If, however, be knows your
predilections are for QUAY he will attempt:
to leave you under the impression that he
feels exactly as you do, and that you need
have no fear that he will refuse to abide by
what his party caucus does. If you are an
anti-QUAY Republican he will tell you how
much he admires ex-Governor HASTINGS,
how anxious he is to do as he wishes, and
that no one need fear that he will go back
on any understanding they bave. Inno
case will he give you a frank, manly, an-
swer to such questions as you may ask him
as to what he will do, if elected, on matters
in which you are interested.
Is this the kind of a man who is worthy
your support? Is a representative who
goes to Harrisburg bound to deceive a large
class of voters who assist in electing him,
the kind of a candidate you feel like vot-
ing for ?
And this is exactly the kind of a candi-
date you will be voting for in casting your
ballot for JOHN K. THOMPSON.
The Public Owes Him Nothing.
Mr. WILLIAM ALLISON has had oppor-
tunity after opportunity to show that he
was a man fitted to take the lead in public
affairs. = The fair sized fortune that he en-
joys came to him through his father’s es-
tate; helived at a time when his home val-
ley was struggling to secure a railroad: he
was given an opportunity to represent the
people of the county at Harrisburg; there
has been public enterprise after public en-
terprise started in the county, but has any
one heard of BILLY ALLISON doing any-
thing for the public or for the public's good ?
True it is that he isa good citizen, as
good citizenship is measured. He pays his.
taxes, he minds his own business, he does
no one harm. ' But is this all that is to be
expected of a citizen who has had the op-
portunities to be of use to the public, which
Mr. ALLISON has had ?
He was sent to the Legislature once.
Does anyone know of anything noteworthy
he did while there, except to sit and voteas
the Republican state ring &old him? He.
made no attempt to do anything for the peo-
ple he represented. He put forth no effort to
secure honest legislation. He took no part
in any movement intended to better things
about the State Capital. In fact, he did
nothing but ‘draw his salary. And if this
is all that men are to be sent to Harrisburg
for, Mr. ALLISON is one of the last men in
the county who should be selected. He
don’t need the salary, and there are thous-
ands of poor men who have done just as
much for the public ‘as he bas, who do.
For Representatives you want men who
will do something—who will be active and
take an interest in matters that interest the
people of the county; who can be of use to
you, or the ‘county, or the public, as may
be needed.
H¥ou know Mr. ALLISON i is not that man.
How It Goes.
The ordinary day lahorer who,four years
ago, was receiving $1.00 per day, is now
told that he is prosperous because he may
be receiving ‘$1.10 for the same kind and
amount of work.
Say he gets this increase, how does it
sum up for him by the end of the year? If
he is fortunate and able to work every day
the total increase of his income for the year
would be $31.30. If he uses hard coal,and
can get along with five tons a year—the in-
creased cost of this single product of a trust
—will eat up over one third of the increase
he gets in wages.
On the 26th of October, 1896, stove coal
was selling in the eastern markets at $4.75
per ton. For the same coal in the same
market $7.00 per ton is the price paid to-
day,—an increase of $2.25 per ton, or a
total increase on the amount a laborer
would have to buy of $11.25.
Into this goes over one third of his in-
creased pay.
Then his house rent is twenty per cent.
higher than it was then, If he had been
paying $75.00 per year $15.00 more, ont of
the little increase he gets, goes to pay this
difference.
Daring the year he uses 20 sacks of flour.
These, through the manipulation of trusts,
cost him 20 cents a sack more than before
trust prices became the rule. Here are $4.00
more of his increased pay gone.
In these three articles alone $30.25 of his
$31.30 are absorbed and he has left $1.50 to
meet the additional prices he has to pay
for his sugar, and coffee, his meats and
vegetables, his tobacco and matches, his
clothing, shoes, medicines, etc.
You are a working man. You know if
we are right in these figures. If we are,
where is your share of the prosperity that
the Republican party boasts so loudly of ?
Where or how has it bettered your condi-
tion ?
True, if you work every day in the year
you get $31.30 more as wages than you
did before, ut when this is all taken up
in extra prices that go to enrich the great
trusts that fix the rates on everything you
buy, how are you benefited ?
It the country is prosperous is it not
right that you and your family should have
a share of it?
Arggyou! having it? That is the question
for you.
A Record That Stands the Daylight.
It is not always best to be too inquisitive.
At least our Republican friends in this Con-
gressional district have about come to that
conclusion. Some time ago, in order to
have reason for an attack on the official
acts of Congressman HALL they wrote to
‘Washington for a certified copy of his rec-
ord on the important bills considered dur-
ing the time he has served, and here ig the
substance of what they learned :
He voted ‘‘no’’ on the Currency bill—a
measure intended for the benefit of money
sharks and calculated to fasten a single
standard upon us for all time.
He voted ‘“no’’ on the proposition to al-
low trusts unlimited sway and to go on,
uncurbed or unrestrained, until a constitu-
tional amendment could “be adopted regu-.
lating them.
He voted ‘‘no’’ on that most inigunitous
of all measures, the Porto Rican tariff bill.
He voted‘‘yes’’ on the measures to build
a Nicaraguan Canal, independent of ‘English
supervision.
He secured more pensions for old soldiers
and put in more time attending to matters
for the people of his district than any mem-
ber who preceded him,
These are the facts that the Record show
and Republicans who were so anxious
to have some tangible reasons to give why
he should not be voted for,are now kicking
themselves all around because they have
hunted them up. It isa record that nine
tenths of the voters in the district will en-
dorse, and Mr. HALL has reason to than k
the fellows who have gone to the trouble
of ‘hunting it ap. :
Hopeful ul Signs.
If there is any one e thing more than an-
other that should encourage Democrats, it:
is the bad temper shown by both’ MARK
HANNA and TEDDY ROOSEVELT. For the
past ten days they have quit arguing the.
political issues, and have gone to calling
names, abusing everybody and insulting
half the crowd that attends their meetings.
Men don’t get sour and cross when things
are running their way. A little guying
don’t destroy their temper, nor does an o¢-:
casional interruption tempt them to abusive
language. It is when matters begin to
look hopeless and they do not know who.
to blame for it ; when they ' feel that they
are being left’ and know of no means to
save themselves; when the hoped for is van-
ishing and there is no way to retrieve lost
ground, that they loose their tempers and
show their desperation by their denuncia-
tion of everybody and everything.
Both HAXNA and ROOSEVELT are in this
condition now. They see defeat and are
mad because they cannot prevent it. This
is exactly what their ugly, abusive
speeches mean. Their actions are sure
signs of Democratic hope.
years upward, could read and wri
NO. 42.
Great Meeting of Men Who Heretofore Voted the
Republican Ticket, But Who Are Opposed to Mc-
Kinley and Imperialism.
Cooper Union, New York, on Tuesday
night last, furnished an exhibition of the
way the political current is running in this
campaign. It is one of the biggest halls in
the city and it was chuck full of people.
The occasion was a mass meeting and the
auspices of the Irish American Union, an
organization composed largely of Irishmen
who supported McKinley in 1896, but who
are this year earnestly advocating the elec-
tion of William Jennings Bryan.
The big hall was jammed as early as 7:45
o’clock, a half hour before the meeting was
announced to be called to order. Not only
every seat, but all the available standing
room was occupied. For the sake of hun-
dreds who could not be accommodated in
the auditorium, overflow meetings were
held outside.
Enthusiasm fairly ran riot from the open-
ing of the meeting to its close. Every time
the name of Democracy’s standard bearer
was mentioned there were cheers—cheers
that seemed to make the very walls, the
pillars and the chairs vibrate.
Lawyer Samuel F. Cohalan called the in-
door meeting to order. Then he introduc-
ed Patrick Egan, who was this country’s
Minister to Chilli under the Republican
Administration of 1889. Mr. Egan receiv-
ed a rousing reception. He spoke in part
as follows :
‘‘Under the auspices of the Irish Ameri-
can Union we meet here tonight in the dis-
charge of a solemn duty to raise our voices
in protest and to pledge our votes at the
approaching presidential election against
the candidates and the party who have
abandoned the most sacred principles upon
which this Republic was founded; who are
struggling to enslave a people that’ “are
and of right ought to be free and independ-
ent;’’ who have treasonably handed over to
Canada and land that had passed under
United States territory in Alaska,and whom
we know to have surreptitiously involved
this country in an entangling alliance with
America’s hereditary enemy—England.
HANNA WOULD PERPETUATE.
‘‘President McKinley, whom Mark Han-
na wants, to use his own words, to ‘‘perpet-
uate’’ in the White House, has during the
past twenty-one months, carried on, with-
out avy sanction from Congress, a cruel
and bloody war for the purpose, as canting
hypocrits put it, of christianizing and civil-
izing the people of Luzon—a people who
have been good christians for the past four
hundred years, who have their schools,
convents and universities, of whom the sec-
retary of Bishop Doane’s Episcapal Mis-
sionary Society reported a few months ago,
upon his return from the Philippines, that
almost every child among them from ten
they were the most moral people he’ ha
ever encountered, or even read of, and that
| before our’ “civilizing army invaded their
country, there were in Manila less than
half a dozen saloons, while now there are
five hundred.
“We Irish-Americans are determined
that we will not be made parties to the
policy of the subjugation and spoliation of
the weaker people, and the dishonor with
which McKinleyism would tarnish the na-
tion’s flag.
*‘Like a large number of those I see
around me at this great meeting, Ihave al-
ways been a straight Republican, and it has
been my privilege to have held the office of
United States Minister under the Adminis-
tration of President Harrison and Secretary
of State Blaine.
‘‘But the party of Lincoln, of Harrison
'| and of Blaine bas shamefully abandoned
its foundation principles; it has become the
party of all that is typified by Mark Han-
na, clad in Davenport’ s dollar mark suit.
PEOPLE ARE AROUSED.
‘Our people shall not be found wanting:
|| in this struggle. they feel that the perpetn-
‘ation in the White House for even four
years more of MoKinleyism - would mean
the absolute perpetuation of imperialism in
the form of syndicate rule, which would,
in course of time, drive the working masses
of the country into excesses before which
the horrors of the French revolution would
pale.
‘We prefer ballots to bullets, we be-
lieve that, in the words of a countryman of
ours. ‘The way to shun danger is to meet
it half way,’ and ilis we shall do by elect-
ing a genuine typical American—William
Jennings Bryan—the next President of the
United States.’’
Not Afraid that Bryan’s Election Will
Injure Business.
From T: aggart Times,
President Cassatt, of the Ponbayivabia,
and the authorities of the Baltimore and
Ohio and the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
‘| roads, have administered a blow in the
face of the calamity howlers who are pre-
disting all sorts of business disasters and
convulsions of nature in the event of Bry-
an’s election, from which they will be slow
to recover.
The Pennsylvania railroad is a level-
headed institution that is not influenced
hy threats, predictions or dreams. In con-
junction with the great corporations named,
it has placed an order with the Steel Trust
for 240,000 tons of steel rails, being the
largest contract for rails that has ever been
given out in this country. Will the calam-
ity howler please take notice and forever
ter hold his peace.
. Mr, Bryan's Enduring Popularity.
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.)
Notwithstanding that Mr. Bryan has in
the past four years become the most
familiar figure upon the political platform
in America, be is drawing as large crowds,
if not larger ones, on the present tour as
he did in 1896, when popular curiosity in
his personality was at the highest point.
Gov. Roosevelt, comparatively a new
figure, is not proving more of a popular
attraction than the Democratic candidate.
This fact is not mentioned as having any
political significance, yet it is not without
interest in view of the feeling, even in
Democratic quarters before the campaign,
that Mr. Bryan had lost some of his draw-
ing power, on the stump.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Springs Hotel, located at the famous
Sizerville Springs, near Emporium, was
totally destroyed by fire Friday. Loss $4,-
000.
at Clearfield, closed down their night shift
last Saturday, making it necessary to dis-
charge about fifty men.
—Bishop Shanahan, of Harrisburg, will go
to Renovo Sunday, where he will confirm a
class of 150 children and adults in St.
Joseph’s Catholic church.
—Everet Werts’ barn at Cook's Run was
destroyed by fire Friday night. Only the
horses were saved. The remainder of the
live stock and the season’s erops were burned.
—Penn township. Westmoreland ‘county,
in the vicinity of Claridge, is scourged with
diphtheria, and as a consequence two of the,
schools, Level Green and Claridge, are closed.
—While Mrs. Albert Chapman was absent
from her room at her boarding house on
Market street, Williamsport, Friday, a thief
entered and made away with jewelry valued
at! $1,000. .
—On last Saturday a week James Weaver-
ling accidentally fell from the roof of Con-
gressman Thropp’s stable, at Earlston, Bed-
ford county, while engaged in putting up a
stovepipe, and broke his wrist.
—Andrew Rouen, aged 73 years, died in
Renovo Sunday from a complication of dis-
eases. He assisted in erecting the shops in
that place, and has been in the continuous
employ of the company since that time.
—Children playing about the site of old
Fort Augusta, now Sunbury, where many
Indian battles occurred previous to the
Revolution, unearthed recently an opening
to an old powder magazine, the existence of
which was not known.
—The venerable Edward Isett, of Spruce
Creek, who went to the British Columbia
gold fields a couple of months ago, is home
again. He brought back with him a num-
ber of gold nuggets and declares the field to
be rich in deposits of the precious metal.
—Last Thursday John E. Bitting, of Buffa-
lo township, Perry county, was given a hear-
ing before Justice Meminger, charged with
carelessly setting fire to timber land in same
township, last April. He was proven guilty
and directed to pay a fine of $25, : ad costs
which amounted to $20.39. WF
—Barker Brothers, of Ebetisbure, have
just closed a deal whereby they secured
about 3,000 acres of .valuable goal and timber
land, just east of New Florence. The ag-
gregaté purchase price is in the neighbor-
—John,’ the loyesoison ot ory Smith
ley, of near Harrold’s postoffice, Westmore-
land county, died Sunday from the effects of
being bitten by a mad dog five weeks a
little daughter of Frank Seaton, of the same
place. is dying from wounds received at the
time from the same dog. LH
| —John. Thomas, orisinally; from Centre=:
ville, and a wandering musician, ‘met hig
| death on ‘the Reading railroad in ‘the Silfer
cut early Tuesday morning ‘the 19th. He
was evidently sitting on the. ena of a tie
‘near Lewlshiig Ww! l by | the passing
train. He was ag about years. g
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| "Saxton furnaces will be put in in Tas
many months have passed. The Saxton
Herald says the machinery has been put in
first-class condition, one furnace is ready for
operation as soon as the stock is putin, and
brick for repairing the other furnace is on
the ground.
—Mrs. S. March, wife of a prominent mer-
chant of Altoona, was perhaps fatally burn-
ed Friday morning while burning rubbish.
Her dress caught fire and before the flames
could be extinguished, her body was badly
burned. In attempting to save Mrs. March,
her maid, Miss Rosie Zellner, was frightful-
ly burned about the hands and face.
—Surveyors are now at work making
measurements of the bridges and culverts
along the Beech Creek railroad between
Clearfield and Jersey Shore preliminary to
double tracking the line. The surveyors
were at Mill Hall last week measuring the
'{- bridges'in that vicinity. A double track is
something this busy road cannot much longer
do without.
—Clarence Reed, of Powys, Lycoming
county, nearly lost his life Saturday, while
attemping to kill a catamount. He was tak -
ing sight at the animal when he made a mis-
step and went headlong over a fifteen foot
embankment. As he fell the gun was dis-
charged, and the shot tore away a portion of
his coat. The catamount, after nearly kill-
ing one of the dogs, made its escape.
—Frank Johnson was arrested in Altoona
Sunday night for corner loafing, and depos-
ited three dollars for his appearance ata
hearing next day, but he didn’t show up.
The Altoona authorities are after the corner
loafer with the sharpest kind of a stick and
the fellow who does not get out of the way
will get jabbed to the ‘quick. There is blood
in the eyes and business i in the minds of the
police force of the Mountain city and they
are determinded that one prevalent na isance
shall subside.
“In the United States District Court at
Pittsburg, Friday, the jury in the case
against James and Laura Wyncoop, C. W.
Bigler and Verd Wilson, of Clearfield coun-
ty, charged with counterfeiting, came into
court and announced it had agreed on a ver-
diet. The jury found all the defendants
guilty, but recommended Mrs. Laura’ Wyn«
coop to the extreme mercy of the court. The
case went to the jury Thursday noon and
the jury wrestled with it until 9 o’clock that
night before a verdict was rendered. The
trouble was as to the verdict against Mrs.
Wyncoop.
—The old man Rickets who plead guilty’
before Judge Buffington of the United States
court at Pittsburg in June last, to the rob-
bing of the postoffice at Blandsburg, Cambria
county, is now in the Allegheny county
almshouse instead of the penitentiary. After
he entered his plea, and told of having no
home Judge Buffington stated that he would
not send him to prison, as he did not want to
see the old man die in the penitentiary and,
therefore, he sent him to the Allegheny
county almshouse. To top the matter off,
the lawyers at the bar chipped in and bought
the old fellow a suit of clothes, and he was
‘| now is.
then taken to the. almshouse, where: he
—The Harbison.-Walker fire. brick plant, :
hood" of $55,000, ‘most of Whig has already
en