BY P. GRAY MEEK. ee Tuk Slings. With MARcus DALY out of the way the last straw between CLARK and the Senate is removed. —~Four years more of plunder, pillage and persecution in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. “—The spirits in McKINLEY’S new cabi- net will not ave any HAY to rest on. He is going back to hobnob with the nabobs of the coart of St. JAMES, —Some fellows are far more concerned about getting full themselves than they are about the condition of their dinner pails. '—The end of the world is predicted for 1914. Singular, isn’t it, that Republican howlers forgot this in their list of possibil- ities in the event of BRYAN’S election. .—Vicror HuGo said ‘‘Peace is the vir- + tue of ‘civilization ; war is its crime.” And this country is to be plunged into four years more of the baser fruits of civil ization. —FEleven of the Princes of the royal blood of China have been ordered decapi- tated by the allied envoys, but up to this time they show no signs of losing their heads over it. —The potentates of Europe are fairly falling ever one another in their congratu- lations to President McKINLEY. He is evidently as near to their liking as it is possible for the ruler of a Republic to be. —The mythical old stork that bas brought mites of gladness into so many homes is flying toward the palace of the Czar of all the Russias and the Christian people of that land are praying that he bears a son and heir to the throne. —The Paris exposition closed on Mon- day with a record of fitty million visitors. There were twenty-one million at the Chicago Fair in ’93 and we thought we bad done great things, but we weren’t the only people the shrewd Parisians “‘done’’ up. ‘ —The Democratic party needs no reor- ganization. It will bein the fight for the people long after GROVER CLEVELAND, Dox’ DICKINSON, WM. C. WHITNEY and’ those other political renegades are gone and remembered only for their ingratitude to it. —Morocco seems to be turning up her nose at Uncle SAM’S demand for indemnity for the killing of MARCUS ESSAIGN, a nat- uralized American citizen. But there will be some Moroccans turning up their toes if we send the Kentucky over there to back up our consul’s request. —0ld ‘‘BiLL”’ PriTTS, the Fayette coun- ty out-law who was to bave appeared be- fore the United States court in ‘Pittsburg on Monday for sentence, did not show up and it was thought the old fellow had jumped his bail. When officers went after him, however, they found that his home in the mountains was completely drifted in with snow and he couldn’t get out. dow’s this for a November snow in Penn- sylvania ? —Candidate THOMPSON, who was run- ning for Congress out in Wyoming at the reeent election, said that ‘‘the women vote of that State was the easiest thing to get, the easiest thing to keep and the easiest thing to manipulate of any vote.”” The women heard of it and, calling him a ‘‘nasty man,’’ set ont to show him how ‘‘easy’’ it would be for him to get it—in the neck. And they did, for THOMPSON, was snowed under. —On Monday of last week JoHN D. RoCKEFELLER'S holdings of the standard oil stock were worth $195,300,000. By | Tuesday McKINLEY, the trust promoter, was elected. On Wednesday this same stock of ROCKEFELLER’S had increased in value to $217,000,000; a gain of $21,700,000 through nothing more or less than the posi- tive assurance that the trusts wonld have a friend in the executive chair for four vears more. Here is, indeed, a case of ‘greasing the fat hog.” —President McKINLEY has asked all of his old official family to remain with him and they have all tacitly accepted but At- niched pow, when the truth ean no longer torney General GRIGGS, who will probably endanger the grip: of Mr. HANNA and the | resign to go ‘hack to his more lucrative MeR 1% maliciously and cruelly the people were practice as a corporation lawyer. LEY says the endorsement given his ad- ministration at the last election was an en- a bonanza for the Quay postmasters in Centre county. -—When the employees of a large eT mill in Chester opened their last pay en- velopes. before the election “they found therein a slip bearing this “pointed hint : “Vote for McKINLEY and ROOSEVELT.’ This is one form of coercion that should be condemned by liberal minded people everywhere. The operatives of that mill discharge their full duty to their employers when ' they give ‘them : faithful, efficient service for the compensation ‘they receive. Should any of them fall short of this re-’ quirement they would be discharged at once, whether they had voted for McKi1N- LEY and ROOSEVELT or not. Every em- ployer of ‘labor seeks the most efficient labor first. He wringe all that'is possible from it, consequently he has no right ‘to further fatten at its expense by coercing it into voting for his personal advantage. One man’s rights énd ‘where another's be- gin and to vote to his best personal inter- est is as much the inalienable right of the employee as it is-of his employer. l~ “STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA, NOV. 186, 1900. Getting at the Truth in the Philippines. It don’t take long to get down to the truth of some situations, when there are no political conditions that can be effected by it. Less than two weeks ago it was on the tongue, of every Republican speaker in the country and heralded by the Republican press, that it was the hope of the election of BRYAN that was sustaining the Filipinos, and that his defeat was certain to bring about the speedy collapse of their contest for self government. In addition to these assertions the people were assured that the sentiment of the masses throughout the Philippine ‘islands was decidedly adverse to a continuation of the conflict, and that bus for the hope shat was held out of final independence, should the Democrats win, further fighting would cease at once. BRYAN was defeated and Republican authorities now feel safe in letting the truth of the situation in the Philippines be known. At the time that Democrats were being charged with a continuation of the war in those islands, and the anthorities at Wash- ington were encouraging the belief that these charges were true, the Department of War had in its possession the report of Gen. McARTHUR which proves them maliciously false, and shows that if the conquest of the Philippines isto succeed, it will require another army, additional military posts, years of effort and continuous military oc- cupation of every foot of territory that we purpose holding. His report states, in effect, that in place of the war being practically over, as Gen. Orrs months and months ago asserted it was, that it bas only been changed in the manner of its prosecution and is now more dangerous apd formidable than ever. That the natural conditions of the country are such as to make guerilla warfare the safest and most promising kind of a contest for the Filipinos, while ‘it adds: greatly to the dangers of the American soldiers and re- quires an army to be stationed at every lit- tle hamlet. . He further states that where there were but-53 military stations main- tained one year ago, there are now 413, and that with all these is neither peace in any district, nor any sign of submission on the part of the people. ' It Ais his. belief t that the sentiment among the ‘Filipinos i8 as tetermined | versal and di now on securing independence as it: was at the time they assisted us in driving the Spaniards out of those islands. As to the possibility of establishing such a form of government as McKINLEY’S two hundred-thousand-dollars-per-year com- mission is authorized to formulate, Gen. MCARTHUR says: A “In the light of exvisting conditions. itis difficult to realize that there is any possibility of such a future for the islands, especially so at present, and for many years to come the necessity of a large American military and naval force is {oo apparent lo admit of dis- cussion.”’ What it has been costing us in precious lives during the past six months, and cov- ering a period of time that even the admin- istration at Washington has been leaving the impression that the war was practically over, is told in the following extract from that report : “The number of deaths in the army’ Nas rapidly increased, and a diminution of the death rate can scarcely be expected. The number of men shot from ambush by small guerilla bands now exceeds, those killed at, any previous time, and as time progresses. and the men become’ more and more debili- tated by tropical service, the more marked will be the ratio of deaths. For the six months from January 31st to July 31st, 1900, there died 24 officers and 971 enlisted men’ ‘of whom 4 ers and 204 enlisted men were killed in action, and 3 officers and 43 enlisted men died of wounds; the other deaths oc- curred from arious diseases. This is an average of 4.7 ily.” Such are the facts that : are ‘being far- trusts upon the country. They show how lied too about; the situation in the Philip- : 3 A } dorsement of every official connected with. Pies; and hojv infamously alse. Wagrthe it, therefore he proposes no changes. What, charge that it was BRYANism and the pros- pects of Democratic success, that were en- couraging theXilipinos and prolonging the for war. * Possibly dhe are ‘men who ‘oled for McKINLEY on the 6th inst. who will live long enough to understand what block- heads they were to believe what HANNA- ‘ism told them, and to vote for the continu- ation of an administration that would so deliberately and. intentionally . deceive them. Ga —— Writers may consume - quarts of jk ‘and reams of paper in elaborating on ‘‘the first duty of Congress,” but that won't | divert the mind of the average Congress- | man from the notion that it will be his | first duty to draw an advance on his sal | ary. 15 fie ————— oli always struck us a8 funy hat, with the seas as deep and. broad as they are and the fresh water streams as’ placid | and alluring, there should be 20 many 16b- | sters and suckers wandering about on dry | land. x | we have to be thanktal for, ‘Beginning Their Harvest. The trusts don’t propose waiting long for a return of the amounts they furnished the McKINLEY campaign fund. The peo- ple talked about Mr. HANNA'S ‘frying the fat’’ out of them before the election, but the boot is on the other leg now, and they propose getting that fat back out of the people, and getting it very quick. It was but three days after the result of the election was known that the Meat Trust announced that it would add one cent a pound to the price of beef, and the family that buys a steak, a roast or a soup bone, will hereafter be forced to. contribute one cent for every pound used, to pay that Trust’s contribution to the McKINLEY fund and add to its already well filled till. Two days later the Steel Trust gave no- tice that it had fixed the price of billets at $20.00 and of steel rails at $26.00 per ton— an increase of two dollars per ton on each of these products. Ou Tuesday last the National Salt Com- pany, that controls 95 per cent. of the salt output of the country, put up the price of common table salt of a fair quality, from $1.10 to $2.50 per hundred pounds. And so it is likely to go on groceries and clothing and shoes and carpets and implements and everything else. Up, up, up, until every trust that bas a cinch on the article it controls gets back from the people, in increased prices on that which it sells them, the amount it subscribed to continue the political power that stands pledged to aid and protect it. The supporter of Mr. McKINLEY whose ration of beef muss be cut short because of its higher price, and: the seasoning of whose soup must pay increased tribute to trusts,should ask no sympathy or make no complaint. He voted for the conditions that now confront him ; and he voted knowingly and willingly for them. It is probable that before the end of an- |- other week many more increases will be announced, hut the ones that will not be heard of for weeks and months and per- haps years, is that of the wages of the workingmen and the products of the farm. A Sorry Showing of Influence. 2 We ¥ > } £ye open. andi our political ear to the ground, ever since the polls closed on the night of the elec- tion to see or hear of a district in which | that class of political nondeseripts,of which the Philadelphia Record and New York World are shining examples, got in their work. They pretended to be working for a Democratic Congress. They were both opposed to BRYAN, but professed to be- lieve that the country could be saved, and that the only way to save it was, by the defeat of ‘the Democratic candidate for President and the selection of a Democratic majority. to the lower House of Congress. ‘Now when the smoke and dust and noise of the contest has subsided sufficiently to see the result, we find that the country, is not saved, even to ‘the. extent of having a Republican President with a Democratic Congress, to hold him in check; that on ‘the question of congressional representa- ion the party suffers a more overwhelm- ing and disastrous defeat than in the elec- tion of President; that no where in the entire country. is there any evidence given by the vote that any body was fool enough ‘tofollow theadvice of these political bunco steerers, or any figures given that would show that they exercised a particle of in- fluence over any voter. | They may possibly feel proud of. what (others have accomplished, but they’ll have a deal of a time in finding a spot at which their influence was felt or that their efforts ‘left their mark for either side.. Ne Regrets for The Their Departure. Whatever else the 1 Democracy of the country may have to regret, because of coming political changes, there will be no tears shed over the fact that Senators Mo- CAFFREY of Louisiana, and LiNpsay, of Kentucky, will leave the United States . | Senate on the 4th of March to sink back into a political obscurity that will be ‘merciful indeed in bury, ‘beyond res- urrection, the recollection of the political in- gratitude and the commercial subserviency that blackened both their records. They were men whom nature had endowed with abilities that should have made them lead- ‘ers in a great cause—that of the people. They failed, and i in place of standing forth as the representatives of an earnest, Dem- ‘ocracy, they became the sycophantic tools ‘of the powers they ‘were chosen to © pose. On. ‘the side of | the tariff. “taxers an _cor- ‘porate. influences McCAFFREY was always to be found, and with the opponents of his own’ party of all financial ‘qriestions LINDSAY'S voice was ever to be heard. Their departure from. the Senate will cause no regrets, while the States they misrepre- sented, will for the coming six years, have ‘Senators who will voiee the sentiment and care for the interests of the ‘people’ t that have sent them to Washington. So much capital, and to make Revpblican institu inst 1 Still An Open Question. From this time until the meeting of the ogistators in January the people of this ite may expect to see Mr. QUAY elected to fhe Senate many times, aid be assurred f Bis defeat just as frequently, . To this one question of who. shall draw salary of a: United States Senator and ense the public patronage’ to the wait- ‘hordes of hungry aspirants, Republicans have given more thought, more attention, aged more energy, expended more mon- ey, | nd aroused more bitter feelings, than to any or all questions with which the “public bas to do, or in which the people should be interested. They have made it th sole question for decisions at elections nd treated it as if there were nothing else iit which the people should care, or no ¢ interest for them in governmental af- fairs. That the election settled this magnified and over-exploited issue is not at all cer- tain. There are many signs that the ter- mination of the next session of the Legis- lature will leave this matter about where the last one left it, and that for two years longer Pennsylvania Republicans will have but the one issue and that, the success or defeat of Senator Quay. bi true that there are other questions thaf might call for some little attention from the party in power. Questions such as securing a more equitable distribution of taxation; the safe-guarding of the | yj; ballot boxes ; an economical administra- tion of public affairs; the prevention of | such frands as have been exposed in the oleomargarine business ; and other matters | £erT. that go down to the 100t of good govern- ment, but it is doubtful, if, upon any of these, the people of the State could be in- duced to interest themselves to the same extent that they do on the one issue, of | qj who shall wear the senatorial toga. And as to who shall wear it, we are as far from knowing as we were this time two | w. years ago. The QUAY men bluff and blow about having elected sufficient Members to secure control of both Senate and House, while the witi-QUAY forces are equally positive,that with the support of the Dem- ocrats, they will have the power to at least ‘prevent the election of their much hated boss, even though they are unable 0s sue- ‘thie tection of some one else. To us it looks very much like another dead-lock, and a wasted session, so far as any good to the people or the State can come out of it. And if it should be so, if conditions are | such that QUAY can be prevented from re- turning to the Senate, does it not raise a serious question with the Democracy. We take it that under no consideration will any Democratic Senator,or Represent- ative, aid the dominant faction in securing the election of Senator QUAY. To us it seems equally certain that not sufficient Democratic votes can be secured to elect a conservative Republican. What then is to be done? To continue the vacancy for another two years is to take the chances of a Republican compromise on this question when there will be two Senators to elect. This would eliminate the Quay contention from politics in Pennsylvania and leave no hope, whatever, for years and years to come, of any betterment of puBlis admin- istration in the State! As it is, the QUAY question may prove even a bothersome one to the Democracy. With the contention now dividing the Republicans, continued and embittered, there is some hope that the future may see a different state of affairs in Pennsylvania. It is the only hope. The course of action that will most surely continue that is the question that the Democratic. forces in the ‘Legislature must consider and determine— and then pursue it as one man. This is the question that Democrats who have been ‘chosen to represent their party at Harrisburg should be prepared to act on unselfishly and intelligently when they meet, and to do so they should seek the best judgment of those about them, who have the interest of the party and of the people at heart. | —— : Hus the Right View. While all of England. 18 going wild over McKINLEY'S success and the entire British Empire is in ecstasies of delight because an administration that has done its bid- ding, and submitted to its: demands, has been endorsed by the voters of this country, one English newspaper at least, looks at results from a different standpoint, and analyzes the situation in a way that should put the American people to thinking. It is the London Speaker ‘and here is what if SAYS : : “The thing w hich is uppermost is s that man is the slave of the dollar.. That seems tobe te, chiel impression conveyed by the victory McKinley. Tue, Yesiest tyro must | gn ‘that the party Mr. Croker leads in New York must be far aan an’ ideal party. But what is rather absurdly called Biyanisw and: what might better be: called the new | Democracy, does vaguel to raise the American Republic to a better standard of life, to remind the people of the idealism from which the Re ic was born, to curb the dangerots power of organized tutions square with the principles’ ‘and | equality, ‘and what is good in the! okies of | represent an effort ‘I Mr, Bryan will remain. 3 RE —— How Pennsylvania Voted. Following is a table ¢ of the full vote in Pennsylvania by ‘counties for President, with the exception of Armstrong and Bradford; in the latter: of which a close es- timate is given. - The table'is : ; FOR PRESIDENT p McKin- Bryan, Waool- * ley, R. Dem. ley, P. BARI. errs re 3707, S840] 110 Allegheny... ..| 65806) 21548 ..... ATHIBLTONG................ciin) any 6750, 4077 .... 4791) 3444] 101 13999] 19147 rede Blair. .ooun ani dn... 10001, 4614] ©... BEAGIOrG.... orotic). i csgaid iro asrs Fstie soso} 53% bea TH Bucks: 9262] - 7286] © ..... Butler 6304) 4280, 348 Cambria. 10470) 7164] 329 Cameron 971 515 © ..... Carbon 4221 41 134 Centre. 4684 * 215 Chester 15700) 5700; 600 Clarion 3007 ein Clearfield 8189 oiet .. b2l inton........ 3167) 28791" 182 Columbia 2054) 4980} 385 Crawford... T670{ 7000, 624 Cumberland 5521) 5379] 320 Dauphin... 14653) 7381) 767 Delaware 13779] 4302] © 333 EBTI0. fer partoarens cshssnsses sass aians 11841) 7339{ 515 EIk. .... 3255! 3105 575 Fayette 9641) 7480 600 Forest 1309 714 109 Frankl 6460, 4477] 105 Fulton. 1039; 1224 30 Gre@nels, a Ain nL nil 2432] 3673 ire Jiuniingdon... 4526] 1948! 166 Ind 5675) . 1756) .... Soffer. 5050) 3067, 480 Juniata... 1658 1 80 Lackawanna 16152) 14481( ..... LANCHRIOr....... cece ve uri ins sponse 23231 8486( 508 Lawrence 6139! 2856] 883 Lebanon 7093 . 462 Lehigh 9719; 10464] 238 Jaze 16240, 915 Lycoming... 749, 7 869 Kean 6380] 3428] 483 Mercer 6950 4919) 449 ifflin..... 2503) © 1846 149 Monroe... 1164] 3053! 187 Montgomery.. 17147] 11330) © 312 Montour......... 1291) 1881} © 71 “Northampton......... 9912| 11533; 485 Northumberland... 8368) = 8080! 502 yasis. 3400) 2440 78 Philadelp 173657) 57517] 1434 Dike. il iseu dice 695 1237 26 aida srs 3234 2146, 295 Bohr ii 15150, 14216; 261 Snyder... 2617 BLY... Somerset. 6669] . 2151; ..... Sullivan. 1266, 1380) roa Susquehanna 4990| 3518 208 oga........ Lil 7460; 2639] ..... Union..... 2794 1356 lub Venango. soa 4014] 1284 Warren...... 2497] 468 Washington, 9640, 5541 581 RYDE... 000 3220 2048; 432 Westmoreland... 15009; 10085! 264 WIomng 2217) 1875) 150 York. Diss aan nails 12331} 13735 415 Totals... €91924 407657 19774 McKinley over Bryan 981, 267. 8 In the same counties the vote on the State ticket was : AUDITOR GENERAL. Hardenberg (Rep.).. Mack OK (Bete... b pe * Hardenberg over “Meek... ivaeasen 7 CONGRESS-MEN-AT-LARGE. Grow (Rep.)............ 583,089 Foerderer (Rep.).. 506,274 Grim (Dem.) ........ 351,479 I os Yeti iiignivaiins 350,502 231,610 232,497 Congress—Official. ., The following are the official majorities returned from the different counties of this eongressional district. CLE ARWATER Haru. ad 97 tetra ii amare 568. 1111 eg Lia 1385 518 ai. 1629 2250 Hall's Majority Budi niin SAN 621 How They Hnstled, for the Office. From the Philadelphia Tim Times. William J. Bryan and Theodore Roose- velt are the two champion litical hustlers of our national history. During the last campaign they traveled more miles, visited more towns and cities, made more speeches and addressed more people and visited niore States that was ever ‘accomplished. in the same time by any men in all the politic- al conflicts of the past. Roosevelt outstrips Bryan in the measure of his circuit, the number of miles traveled and speeches made, but it must be remem- bered that he started in his campaign long in advance of Bryan. From the time that Bryan began his regular campaign until election day, he surpassed Roosevelt's work in the same period. Roosevelt in nearly double the time that Bryan was actively on the stump, was es- timated to have spoken in 24 States, visited 567 towns and cities.delivered 673 speeches, traveled 21,209 miles and addressed 3,000,- 000 people. Bryan, in little more than half the period of Roosevelt's campaign, spoke in 18 States, visited 493 towns and cities, traveled 18,- 355 miles and addressed 2,500,000 people. Ai comes out of his second great bat- le as leader of leaders in popular camprign- ing, aud is to-day the popular champion of Democracy as James G. Blaine was of Re- publicanism, and Henry Clay was of ‘the Whig party. 'His endurance in the cam- paign has never been equaled in the history of the country. He didn’t miss an ap- pointment, he wasn’t a single day ill, and when he spoke in iiaderbhi only a few days before the election, his voice was as clear as a silver bell and he didn’t exhibit even the sign of fatigne, while Roosevelt was several times compelled to withdraw for rest because of broken voice. “i —=—The Daily News has ‘dug down into statistics and: discovered th at | woman car- ries from forty to sixty miles of hair on her head. It looks as it man will have to take second money ‘in this ‘race at Teast, and some of us won't even ‘get a look in, — Jone K. THOMPSON; soubor elest of the next Assembly, was in town Wed- nesday night and the Honorable Court was hovering around his stopping place, ready to. throw QUAY-grapples into him at every tarn. 351,037 Po 213,109. Spawls from the Keystone. - ~—1In parts of Fayette county the ‘snow. is 20 inches deep. —At a meeting Monday of the ‘Williams- port ministerial association, a movement was begun looking toward the” introduction in that city of a curfew ordinance. —The widow of engineer John W. Foster, who was killed in the Howard wreck a few weeks ago, has received $3,000 from the Royal Arcanum. —The saw mill, boarding house and dwelling belonging to Hall Bros., on Kent's Tun, near gRenovo, were destroyed by fire Saturday morning. Twenty boarders scrambled from their bunks and escaped with difficulty. The loss is $20,000. —Hudson Oaks, of Burnside township, Clearfield county, had a pig killed recently by a bear. The racket attracted the atten- tion of the owner who hastened to the barn- yard just in time to see the bear depart, but life was extinct in the pig and the bear still lives. —A special from Philadelphia says that the Pennsylvania railroad company Tuesday gave out orders for 2,400 freight cars, which makes 5,400 cars contracted for within a week. This ought to very materially relieve the scarcity that has prevailed for some time. —James B. Krause Esq., of Williamsport, has received the distinguished honor of be- ing made a thirty-third degree Mason. The honor was conferred about the middle of October, and Mr. Krause and Judge Orlady are the only Pennsylvania Masons who have received it this year. —Application was made Friday before the board of pardons, by Attorney R. A. Hen- derson, of Altoona, for a pardon for Jerry Croft, of Ore Hill, who was sentenced in June, 1898, to five years in the Western penitentiary for forging a $75 note. The prosecutor and district attorney signed the petition. —After spending the evening at Williams- port, where he went to hear elections re- turns, Joseph T. Trumbower, 30 years old, went to Muncy, undressed, lay down and shot himself through the heart. He was melancholy, and before he retired he told his sister, “Iam going away and you may never see me again.” ~~ —Hearing some one groaning as he was going to work at West Pike, Potter county, Leon Haxton investigated and found Joseph Thompson in the throes of death in the weeds near the road. Thompson was unable to talk, but it is presumed he accidentally shot himself while hunting. IIe was shot through the abdomen. —The hotel Ritter, a two story frame structure near the Philadelphia and Read- ing depot, Muncy, was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Albert Allen, a guest, { jumped through a second story window: and was badly cut. Charles Fry, manager of the hotel, sustained severe burns about the face and hands. Loss, $10,000. —Prof. Coles, the Kingston forecaster, in Storms and Signs for November says: “Watch out for a meteoric shower: and do not be- come frightened if you hear some large metéors passing tHrough ~the air with a ‘whizzing sound; as we have reasons to be- lieve that several will fall to the earth—and woe be the spot were they land.” ' —James H. Bell, a former United States revenue collector, and a government trans- portation officer during the Civil, war, died at Hollidaysburg Monday aged 81 years. The deceased was an Odd Fellow for 55 years, a charter member of Hollidaysburg lodge, and well known in the ranksof the fraternity. A ‘daughter and son survive him. —The Presbytery of Philadelphia on Mon- day voted against a revision of the West- minister faith, and recommended to the Gen- eral Assembly that the whole matter of re- vision of the faith be dismissed. The vote stood 70 against to 65 for revision, divided as follows : Against revision, ministers 48, laymen 22. For revision, ministers 45, lay- men 20. gies —Frank Bennet, a farmer living three miles from Penfield, Clearfield county, held a big shooting match at Penfield on 'Satur- day. Then he took a few drinks and started for home. When half way there and alone he fell'over unconscious and laid in the road until Sunday forenoon. When he recovered he found someone put ‘‘knockout drops’ in the whisky and then followed him. —Benjamin Goldy, a farmer residing on the Bobst mountain road, Lycoming county, Saturday afternoon, fell twenty-five feet from the roof of his barn on to a pile of fence posts. In his descént he turned several | somersaults, but landed on’ his feet, them pitched backward, striking his arm’ against a plow handle, breaking it. Mr. Goldy had a hatchet in his hand when he fell, and it | was imbedded in a fence post not six inches from his knee. © —The old Grahampton grist mill, ‘built perhaps more than a half century ago, but which recently underwent extensive repairs, was destroyed by fire on Thursday morning, together with a lot of grain, ete. The mill was owned by Thos. H. Forcey, of Clearfield, but operated by his sons,Clarence and Harry. The lose will be quite heavy, and on. ‘which there was no insurance. The repairs re- cently made to the mill cost about $9,000. Friday morning a singular wreck oc- curred to Pittsburg Limited express east. The train consisted of engine, three sleepers, one coach and a combination car: When near Bailey, a station on the middle division between Newport and Duncannon, the engine ; from some cause jumped the track, which in a most mysterious way caused the trucks to be jerked from under all the cars behind it. Singular to say, none of the cars were toppled over, but while they were gath- ered together in somewhat of a mass. ‘along the track the boxes all settled to the ‘road- bed i in an upright position. While the floors of two or three of the cars’ were: slightly broken and other damage was done to’ some of them, the breakage was not nearly so great as one would suppose “from the ‘char- acter of the wreck. = ‘The passengers, most of whom were asleep’ in their berths, were all well shaken up, but none were hutt except one or two received stight scratches. iden
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