BY P. GRAY MEEK.
EE Es
Ink Slings,
: —Speaking of being | in the swim, ain’t
* that about the place Mr. HANNA'S ship
subsidy bill is expected to get.
— Turkey basn’t paid that indemnity for
the American college destroyed during the
Armenian outrages, but we all had revenge
on Turkey yesterday.
—_After aiding all we could in crushing
the South African Republics it would be
just the thing to blubber out our sympathy
for the crushed and helpless Boers.
— It is not well to count too hopefully
on legislative reforms while the state
ring controls the power that has the last
whack at legislation necessary to accom-
plish it.
—A great many of the fellows who voted
for the ‘‘full dinner pail’ are already find-
ing out that they will have to do a little
work on the side if they expect that Mc-
KINLEY vote to keep their dinner pail
full.
~The GouLDs have been sued by a bric-
a-brac dealer to recover $385,000 owing him
by the Count and Countess Castellane.
Bric-a-brae comes high, but the most cost-
ly piece the GOULDS ever bought was the
Count himself.
—The senatorial weather-vane hag not
been pointing in Mr. QUAY’S direction for
some days past. Like Mr. McKINLEY’S
prosperity his chances are more in the
minds of his friends than in existing condi-
tions.
—HARRY HALL, of Pittsburg, is said to
be the candidate for Speaker of the House
upon whom the Independents and Demo-
orats are most likely to unite. If these
parties pulls together it will not be a heavy
haul they will have to make to get him
there.
—The plan to blow up Lord ROBERTS
whilein church in Johannesburg on Sun-
day morning failed. Even had it been car-
ried to a successful termination the blow-
ing up ‘‘Bohs’’ would have gotten couldn’t
have been any worse than the blowing up
the English people gave BULLER, METHU-
EN and their other Generals who proved
failures in South Africa.
~The President is certainly growing
smooth with words. He apologizes for
trusts and gives them his administrative
endorsement by saying that the recent
election records the unquestioned endorse-
ment of *‘industrial independence.’” Which
means that he understands the people. to
have voted away all rights to object to the
extortions of trusts.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer i is unique in
its field. It gives President McKINLEY
eredit for the recent rafting flood ‘on ‘the
West Branch of the Susquehanna. I, as
the Inquirer intimates, all that was needed
was McKINLEY’S kindly aid to bring about
a flood we imagine the Williamsport lum-
bermen are anything but grateful for a
blessing that might have started up their
idle mills months ago.
—The twenty-second child has been
born to a Bloomsburg couple and in men-
tioning the advent of the ‘last member of
this very numerous family an exchange
says : ‘‘Both mother and child are doing
well.” We are constrained to observe that
the father ought to have been included in
the ‘‘doing well’ part of it. In fact, he
seems to be doing about as well as any fel-
low we have ever heard of.
—Republican newspapers all over the
country are poking fun at the Hon. WEB-
STER DAVIS and Senator WELLINGTON,
who left their party in the past campaign
because. they did not believe its policy to
be an American one. The gentlemen con-
cerned will not be ill at ease over such
badinage, since they both have the courage
of their convictions, which is more than
can be said of some of those who rail at
them,
—District. Attorney-elect W. I. SWOOPE,
of Clearfield, is one of the instructors at
the Snyder county teachers institute this
week and on Tuesday night he lectured on
“How to Kick.” BILLY knows all about
it too. His greatest kick was made when
he was editing the Raftsman’s Journal.
After spending three days on'a two column
leader urging country boys not to leave
the farm the only comment made on it was
made by a little paper up at Falls Creek
that facetiously observed that the editor
of the Journal had ‘‘evidently discovered
his own mistake too late.” BILLY kicked
then and he had a right to.
There seems to have been some
trouble about the President's Thanksgiv-
ing turkey. HORACE Voz, of Westerly,
R. L., purveyor of turkeys to the White
House, was a little.]ate in'shipping his 31
1b. bird and Dr. TREXLER, of Kutztown,
Pa., came to the rescue with a fine Penn-
8 ylvania specimen, which the President ac-
cepted and now that the Rhode Island
turkey is on hand there is said to be much
worriment about the White House. This
is the first case of a real fall dinner pail
that we have heard of since the election.
—— Of course it wasn’t McKINLEY that
closed down the stone quarries in this see-
tion last week so far as the ballast business
is concerned, and threw a’ large number
of laborers out of employment, who had
regular and paying work before the elec:
tion. Oh, no! His administration of af-
fairs bad nothing to do with that. But
wait until next spring, when the ‘railroads
will want more ballast and men will be
put to work to get it out, and see how
quickly their getting jobs ‘will be credited
to Republican prosperity.
“he carries 1.0 Such commission.
"VOL. 45
Republicans Are Frank Now.
In his speech at the Union League
banquet on Saturday evening President
McKINLEY said: ‘We may differ as to
the issues involved, but we are all agreed
as to certain things which it settled. It
records the unquestioned endorsement of
the gold standard, industrial independence,
broader markets, commercial expansion,
reciprocal trade the open door in China,
the inviolability of public faith, the in-
dependence and authority of the judiciary
and peace and beneficent government under
American sovereignty inthe Philippines. On
Friday evening Mr. GEO. R. FLINT, presi-
dent of the rubber trust and an officer in
various other trusts in an address before
the Outlook club at Mont Clair, New
Jersey, declared: ‘‘As constitutional
scientific government has come to supplant
the feudal system, so the ‘consolidation
era’ in business has come to supplant the
old system. And this new ‘consolidation
era’ has come to stay. Let no young man
think otherwise. That fact was settled in
our recent presidential elcetion. The jus-
tice and wisdom of combination in business,
the ‘trust,was as distinct an issue as the single
standard, and it was as emphatically ratified
by the people.
These distinguished gentlemen have
grown frank since the election. Before
that event the President was vehement in
his declarations, which were made with
remarkable frequency,that the Philippine
question was in no respect in issue in the
campaign. The intention is, he said, to
pacify the archipeligo and then give the
people as large a measure of self-govern-
ment as they are capable of exercising.
Now he pipes a different tune, however.
The election has renewed his lease of office
and he frankly expresses his purposes
which is to give the people of the islands,
beneficent government under American
sovereignty. Of course the President will
determine what government. is beneficent,
as he will also decide what measure of
self-government they are capable of ex-
ercising. It is a game of confidence in
any event. Before the election the effort
was to trick the people into a belief in Mc-
KINLEY’S patriotism and sincerity. Now
it is to beguile them into an acquiescence
in his schemes of empire under, the. pre-
tence that he i is authorized to such a course
by the pop vote at the election-~ Bat
The vote
was in favor of commercialism, but not of
empire.
Mr. FLINT is just as wide of the mark in
his statement of the case. The trust ques-
tion was an issue in the campaign but Mr.
FLINT and every other Republican orator
and leader denied the fact at the time,
MARK HANNA, chairman of the Republi-
can National Committee going so far as to
declare there are no trusts in this broad
land. In that way thousands of men who
abhor trusts were induced to vote for Mec-
KINLEY and the claim now that such vot-
ing, under such circumstances is an endorse-
ment of trusts is as immoral as watering
the stocks of corporations to create the
trusts and defraud the public, No man
understands this better than Mr. GEo. R.
FLINT, who is the keenest, as well as the
most rapacious, of all the trust magnates of
the country. If a vote ‘were taken on the
question of endorsing or condemning the
trusts the majority. against the unjust
combinations would be overwhelming in
every section of the Union. They are
agencies for despoiling the people, and no
intelligent men will vote into the hands
of a combination of corporation sharks the
power to rob them. :
A Little Previous.
Our Republican friends who have already
got the congressional, senatorial ‘and repre-
sentative beesin their bonnets, are destined
to waste considerable time before an op-
portunity to realize their hopes occur.
In the first place there will be no eleo-
tion for either of these positions for two
years.. Iu the second place the congres-
sional and. senatorial districts may be
entirely changed, and so far as Senator
goes we may be so fixed by a new appor-
tionment that there. would be no election
for this office until 1904. In the third
place we may have but «. 2 representative
from this connty hereafter, and in the
fourth place the chances are that the peo-
ple will be so tired of Republican rule that
there would be about as much hope of the
election of one of them, as there is of
angel's wings growing out of their backs,
Altogether it looks to us as a waste of
both time and effort, but with all the un-
certainties ahead both CLEM DALE and
Col. REEDER are cultivating their con-
gressional booms; WILL GRAY, JOHN
THOMPSON and HARRY CURTIN are noti-
fying their friends confidentially that they
will be candidates for Senate, while SAM
MILLER, IRV ALKER and a score of oth-
ers: are sure that the county couldn’s do
better than to choose them as its Represen-
tatives.
There may be considerable fun in being
a candidate for some people, but we imagine
that the fellow who starts out two years
ahead of time in this business, will have a
surfeit of it loug before. he knows whether
vision of
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
eg,
Can a Constitutional Senatorial Appeor-
tionment be Made?
The easiest job the Legislature will have
on hand, at its next meeting. will not be
the making of a senatorial apportionment.
Congressional and legislative apportion-
ments can be made, provided factional,
political, and personal interests can be
cared for, but in dividing the State into
senatorial districts, in addition to all the
selfish interests that must be considered,
if a new division is to be made, there are
constitutional requirements and prohibi-
tions which render this legislation extreme-
ly difficult. In fact,under a literal constrac-
tion of the organic law we doubt if a con-
stitutional senatorial apportionment can
be made at all.’ :
In the first place the constitution re-
quires that districts shall be ‘‘of compact
and contiguous territory as nearly equal in
population as may be and that each dis-
trict shall be entitled to elect one Senator.”’
It fixes how the ratio shall be obtained.
It prohibits the division of counties, unless
entitled to two or more Senators, and de-
clares that no county shall form a separate
district unless it'has a population in excess
of one-half of a ratio. And in these two
prohibition is where the trouble comes in.
The ratio upon which the senatorial ap-
portionment must be based will be 126,042.
On this basis Lancaster, Dauphin, Schuyl-
kill and Berks will each be entitled to but
one Senator and neither of these can be
divided. They surround Lebanon county
with a population of but 53,827, or ten
thousand less than one-half of a ratio.
What then is to be done with Lebanon !
To attach it to either of the adjoining
counties would increase the population of
either above the limits required for two
Senators. Under the Constitution no dis-
trict can have two Senators, nor can a
county too small for two Senators be
divided; consequently it cannot be attach-
ed to either for the purpose of making a
double district, nor can a part of either of
them be attached to Lebanon to make a
single district. It is not ‘‘contiguous’’ to
any other county, and it is absolutely pro-
hibited a Senator of its owny because its
population is less than one- -half ratio.
: There are constitutional lawyers in the
State. Possibly they can point away that
would not require avi violation ‘of the pro-.
ture while trying to comply with other
provisions of the same instrument, that
require this work to be done.
If they can they shonld come to the
front at once and explain how this can be
done.. If they cannot, will not this
fact furnish an excellent excuse for
a refusal to make any apportionment,
on the part of those who want an excuse
for such refusal ?
Mark Hanuna’s Colossal Cant.
The cant of that arch hypocrite and
charletan MARK HANNA, was never quite
so clearly revealed as inan interview given
by him to’ the last press Sunday. Asked
what he bas to be thankful for, he replied :
“I am thankful that this country has en-
joyed such wonderful prosperity during
the last four years under the wise and able
administration, of our great President,
WiLLiaM MoKiNLey. I
that we have just come victoriously through
a great campaigr. I am thankful that oar
success in that campaign assures to the
people of this country at least four more
years of unequaled prosperity and I am,
above all else, thankful to the all-seeing
Providence above that pesmitted 1 ue to win
our glorious victory.”
What arrant and disgusting cas that is.
What, for example, had ‘‘the all:seeing
Providence above’’ to do with the election
of McKINLEY. to the Presidency? That
result was achieved by the most nefarious
practices ever known in the history of
politics in this country. By bribery, per-
jury, subornation of perjury, ballot-box
stuffing, ceercion of voters and every other
form of erime that could be employed the
result was compassed, and the ascribing it
to an all-seeing- Providence above, even’ by
so arrant acharletan as MARK HANNA, is
an insult to the intelligence of the people
and an outrage on the Christian spirit of
the country. An all-seeing ' Providence
has no Partnership with such men or in
such a business.
. Senator HANNA has a right to i thank-
ful for the re-election of President Me-
KINLEY because it renews his lease of
power, acquired by bribery, 1 to control the
legislation. of Congress and direct the op-
erations of the Executive Department of the
government for four years. ‘Bat it doesn’t
assure the people of this country ‘“fonr more
years of unequaled prosperity,’ and MARK
HANNA doesn’t care ‘a rap whether: the
people have prosperity or adversity before
them. It assures ‘the trusts four, years
more of uninterrnpted control of the pub-
lic utilities and all sources of supply of the
necessaries'of life, and it guarantees Mr.
HANNA millions of unearned dollars, which
be will secure through the ship subsidy
bill and other legislation of kindred char-
he will’ have the id of getting on a
ticket or not.
acter.
“BELLEFONTE, PA.,
tion by the Iegisla- fin
am thankful
NOV. 30, 1900.
Time to Drop ft.
General DANIEL E. SICKLES, of New
York, and twenty or thirty other veterans
of the Civil war, called on the President
on Monday to congratulate him on his re-
election. The call was by appointment,
according to the press dispatches, and the
gentlemen were received in the library.
Several of the visitors were Democrats, we
are assured on the same authority, and
General SICKLES, who was spokesman of
the occasion, as he usually is, said ‘‘they
were patriots first, as they were in ’61.”
The General continued that. the veterans
asked for nothing but added that they
had ranged themselves on the side of
their old comrade at the polls, and ‘‘an
acknowledgement in some public way of
the services rendered, would be highly ap-
preciated.’’
There could be nothing more appropriate
than this friendly call of the grizzled vet-
erans on the President to congratulate him
on the distinguished honor that had been
bestowed on him by the people, and: no
doubt comrade McKINLEY appreciated it
quite as fully as he professed to. It is
no doubt true, likewise, that all of the
gentlemen in the group during the cam-
paign just closed ‘‘ranged themselves on
the side of their old comrade.” There
were thousands of veterans, just as patriotic,
equally as brave and altogether as unself-
ish who ranged themselves en the opposite
side of the political contest, but naturally
they would not be of the company begging
‘‘an acknowledgement in some public way
of the service rendered.”’
But it onght to occur to General DAN-
1EL E. SICKLES that it is about time for
him to drop that claim which he so unct-
iously rolls under his tongue, that he isa
Democrat. SICKLES may have been a
Democrat once, but it was long ago, abd
it may be doubted if he was a very good
Democrat even then. He was a fairly
courageous but never a very intelligent
soldier, and is entitled to the honor which
belongs to a eteran with an empty trouser
leg, but in politics’ he has been a merce-
nary from the beginning. After the war
be left the Democratle party for the con-
sideration of an office and when the Re-
publican party got tired of baiting him in
that way he came back. Four years ago
| he geturned to the Republican party and
at and the recent campaign out-herod- |
ed Herod in zeal for the ticket. No doubt
he expects | ‘his reward now and he is using
the veterans who were with him on Mon-
day as stool pigeons or stepping stones up-
on which to walk into a snug berth.
An Outrage Imminent,
~The indications are that the steamship
subsidy bill will be the pet measure of the
administration in the coming session of
Congress. The Pacific cable bill, the Nic-
‘aragua canal bill, the River and Harbor
bill and half a dozen other bills which will
be considered, have ‘good stealing’’ in
them, but the steamship subsidy steal
will go almost directly into ‘the pockets of
Senator HANNA, and he claims it as bis
reward for the labors of two campaigns for
McKINLEY. The steel trust has been
recompensed for its contribution to the cor-
ruption fund with the armor plate con-
tract and other trusts are certain of sub-
stantial rewards. But HANNA has had
nothing satisfactory and McKINLEY would
be ungratefnl if he failed to aid him in
forcing his favorite: measure Shrough Con-
gress.
' The steamship sbeilly bill is the most
atrocious measure that has ever been pre-
sented in Congress. It was conceived in
infamy and brought forth in sin. It'pro-
poses to take $270,000,000 out of the treas:
ury and present it to a trust, organized for
the purpose of receiving it. It is pretended
that the purpose is to equalize the cost of
building ships in this conntry and elsewhere
As a matter of fact, however, ships can be
built cheaper here than anywhere else in
the world. This is proved hy the records,
which show that in every competition for
work in war or merchant shipbuilding, open
to the world, American builders have won.
It is'also pretended that there is a differ-
ence in the wages of men employed on
American ships, as compared with those of
other nations. | But they all secure their
help in the same market and ia ain
must, therefore, be false.
There is no excuse for this robbery of
the treasury. If those who. favor it make |
up a purse out of their own, médns to pre-
sent to the steamship trust there will be
no complaint, for they have a right to do
as they, please with their own money,
But they are using other people's, money
in this: muni ficent aot of benevolence ; to
Nes HANNA aud’ that is: a crime under the
Congress i is authorized ‘to appropri-
i Hinds out of the treasury, ‘to pay the
expenses of the government, economically
administered, but for no’ other purpose.
This act proposes to appropriate money to
discharge political obligations and that is
a violation of the constitution as well as
every principle of justice. But the admin:
istration is committed to the outrage, and
is will be perpetrated.
SHE
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% NOL AT.
Deserving of Our Fullest Sympathy.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The pro-British papers in 'this country
attempt to belittle the significance of Pres-
ident Kruoger’s reception in France by al-
leging the Freneh are a‘‘mercurial’ people’
intimating their welcome to Kruger is no
.more to be taken into account than a faror
over a great actor or actress. This is a big
mistake. . The French people may be emo-
tional, but in this case of the Transvaal
President the emotion rests on a solid
basis of appreciating right and wrong—
national virtues and national crimes. If
Kruger should come to this country his
reception by the American people would
far outstrip the French in their demen-
strations of sympathy for the great hero of
the conquered republics. They did so
Kossuth visited the United States after
Russia and Austria united and succeeded
in conquering Hungaria. From the At-
lantic coast to the Mississippi the progress
of Kossuth was one of the grandest ovations
ever witnessed in this country,and recalled
the welcome to Lafayette: on his last visit
to the United States. Pittsburg never ex-
celled in her later receptions to noted vis-
itors the welcome she gave to Kossuth ‘the
winter of 1850. ‘The mass of the people,
and particularly the clergy and the women, |.
were conspicuous in the enthusiastic dem-
onstrations in honor of the Hungarian and
his romantic following. They aleo sub-
scribed money liberally for the Hungarian
cause.
Kruger are even more entitled to sympathy
and honor that those which Kossuth stood
for. The Boer Republics were modeled after
our own institutions, and the war for their
suppression is even more. cruel and atro-
cious than was the astempt of the British
to conquer the colonists in the war of 1776.
It 18 natural there should be great: sympa-
thy for the South Africans, both in the
United States and France, for both are in-
habited by liberty-loving people. - The
sympathy manifested in Europe and Amer-,
ica may bear no practical fruit, but on the
other band it may influence the anti-war |
-Women’s Auxiliary to the labor unions of
feeling that is gaining ground in England,
as the cost is being reckoned, and secure
more humane conditions for the conquered
people. The situation in the Transvaal
and the Orange Free State is simply ter-
rible. A policy of devastation and oppres-|
sion is being pursued. ' Later advices rep-
resent the formation of syndicates to buy
up the desolated forms in the two Repub-
lies, from which the Boers have been driv-
en, and sell them to immigrants on favor-
able terms. The confiscation of private
property, as well as the destruction of pub-
lio rights follows the British flag. The
homesteads of the Boers, prisoners in Cey-
lon and St. Helena, have been burned,
their women and children and old men are
fake bandied ba, Nevlesw used the reconcep-
trados uba, while their vacant and
verted Rms to be made hiect ot in|
dicate speculation. ¥H
S——
It is the Unexpected that Often Happens.
From the New York Tribune.
‘‘Has Mr. Bryan the political fibre—the
staying qualities as a candidate and states-
man—to warrant the belief that he will be
a candidate for President the third time ?”’
This question was addressed to Colonel
Henry Watterson, of Louisville, at Fifth
Avenue Hotel recently. Mr. Watterson
expostulated good-naturedly against being
held up for an interview, but when the
Philistines refused quarter he said :
‘Four years is a generation in American
politics. Two hours before James K. Polk
was nominated for the presidency Lie was a
weak candidate for Vice President. Two
hours before Franklin Pierce was vomi-
nated he was practically unknown to the
‘American people. Twa years before Abra-
ham Lincoln was nominated he had not
had his debates with Douglas, and he had
not been heard of outside of Illinois. Two
vears before Samuel J. Tilden was nom-
inated He was a plain citizen right over
here in Gramercy Park. Two years before
Cleveland was nominated he was Mayor of
Buffalo. When Harrison was nominated
he was supposed to have died politically
two years before, on his retirement from
the United States Senate. With almost
the single exception of General Grant, the
candidates fer the Presidency have been
new men. That is why,” said Colonel
Watterson, as he turned to go, ‘'l say that
four years is a geveration to American
politics. 2
wil: Now Tax the People to Butta up
What They D Destroyed.
From the Philadelphia ia Record. :
With the beginning of the. Republican |
party begau the decline of the merchant |
marine of the United States engaged in in-
ternational trade. In 1860. this nation
stood second in this vast, field of maritime
traffic. To-day the ocean tonnage is only
a little greater. than it wae a hundred
years ago. The thirteen original States
hi 28 oy peo, Jess. Rnb pis, they
in. aving destroyed a great
selt-built industry by restrictive legisla-
tion, the Republican leaders now. propose
to restore it by turning it over, crippled
and pauperized. (a8 it is, to be nursed. into
strength by a system of £ entoreed almsgiv:
ings 0 JH al
xe 1s Different Now Now You Know. -
From. the Clearfield Republican;
When the chief ihe i of a arent
State like Pennsylvania is so subservient
to a corrupt political machine that he offers
common pleas judgeships for Quay votes
in the Legislature, there should not’ be
surprise. anywhere over the fact the
people of the Keystone State have lost
about ‘all the respect they ever’ had for
our judiciary: In the days of Black,
Sharswood, Gibson, Trunkey, the Wood-
‘wards and Burnsides such offers would
have ' been spurned with contempt: and
the power offering then driven from
Place by: an indignant public. f
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May Her Som 1 Never Set
From the Philadelphia Time Times.
Since it is calculated by the end of this
year the American hen will have contrib-
uted 13,000,000,000 eggs to national pros- |
perity. "May her sun never set is only oh
The conditions represented by President :
Spawls yrom the the Reystone,
—=The Benton Argus h has been sold to A.
H, Edgar, of Bloomsburg, and Percy Ben-
nington,. of Benton.
..—Howard.- S. Shade, of Eaneasietr aged
2 years; died from lockjaw, by a new shoe
rubbing his heel.
—The census bureau refuses to permit the
publication of the census returns of Laneaster
county by districts.
—The Window Glass Flatteners’ Associa-
tion will amalgamate with the blowers’
gatherers and cutters’ unions.
—Grand Army men of Pittsburg have start-
ed a movement to have the National En-
campment of 1901 held there.
—By the accidental explosion of a'friend’s
gun while hunting on’ Saturday last Isaac
Dolbler, of Williamsport, lost a foot.
—An effort will be made in the next session
of the Legislature to pass a bill to pension
public school teachers after 20 years’ service.
—Fearing pursuit by ghosts Mrs. Sarah
Toner. jumped from a third story window
near Pittsburg Saturday and suffered Probs-
bly fatal injuries.
—A brick plant will be erected at Drury’s
Run, near ‘Renovo, with a capital stock of
$200,000, and will employ between two and
three hundred men.
—The new county insane asylum, near
Lancaster, erected at a cost of $90,000, will
in a few days be turned over to the Board
of Poor directors by the contractor.
—Two cases of smallpox have been dis-
covered at Steelton in a family which recent-
ly came from Colorado. Strict quarantine
of the premises has been established.
. —The congregation of St. Paul's Lutheran
Church, near Pennsburg, Bucks county, cele-
brated its one hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary with appropriate exercises on Sunday.
—Bears were never known to be so plenti-
ful in the Pine Creek region. No less than
four have been killed within a radius of one
mile of Tiadaghton the last few days. All
‘kinds of game are plentiful. :
—8. C. Wilson, of Tyrone, claims te have
invented an appliance that prevents the
safety pin from withdrawing from the im-
proved car couplers, which ean be put on the
‘couplers at very little expense to manufac-
tures.
—Ariel H. Jackson, of Reading, a veteran
of the Civil War, has an old oak chair which
he claims was owned by Christopher Colum-
‘bus, the discoverer of America. Mr. Jackson
secured the chair while eruising in the West
Indies.
—There is a movement on foot to form a
Reading, which ‘shall include the wives and
‘daughters of the members of the local unions.
“They will not deal with stores discriminating
against union labor.
: —Abobut 15,000 turkeys have been shipped
from Indiana county during the past week.
‘Last Friday alone the shipments amounted
to nearly 10,000. A large number of chick-
‘ens andducks are also being shipped. Most
of the poultry was sent to eastern markets.
—A few days ago Leonidas Smith, of near
Muncy, Lycoming county, entered the kitch-
en from his dining room and saw a wild eat
there. Mr. Smith closed’ the door, and after
a hard battle succeeded in killing the animal
| with a club. How the at got | into Tas kitch-
en is not. known.’
be asked to charter a company which, capi-
talized at $200,000, will engage ona large
scale in the manufacture of firebrick at a
new plant to. be erected at Drury’s Run,
where 1000 acres of raw material have been
leased. The parties interested are mostly
citizens of Lock Haven. s
—Twenty million feet of logs lying between
Lock Haven and Keating will be brought
into the boom on a rise caused by the recent
rains, and the saw mills, which have been
idle all season on account of a lack of logs,
will be kept running until a freeze up oe-
curs. This will make Williamsport the
busiest city in the State for the next two
months.
—Mrs. Rosanna Eston, of Westmoreland
city, has been awarded $3,100 by the Penn-
sylvania Railroad company for injuries re-
ceived while alighting from a train at Lari-
mer. Last June Mrs. Exton boarded a train
at Biddle. In attempting to alight at Lari-
mer she was thrown under the wheels and
maimed for life. Her left leg was ground off
below. the knee and her collar bone and
shoulder blade was fractured.
—The Sharon Boiler Company of Sharon
Mercer county, has received a request from
Leeds, England, for prices on the erection of
three large iron smoke stacks, the smallest
eight feet in diameterand the largest 14 feet
in diameter and 100 feet high, at Buenos
Ayres, South America. The inquiry came
over 3,000 miles for work to be done, and
‘men, material and tools ‘must be transported
6,000 miles.
—Witha view of getting into the anthra-
cite coal region of Pennsylvania the Western
Maryland Railroad has a corp of engineers
making a preliminary survey for a railroad
from Cherry Run, W. Va., through the
southwestern portion of Fulten county, te
Everett, Bedford county. Coal having been
found near the projected line, an opportunity
is thus afforded of cnsummating their plans
in this direction.
—Mrs. Frank A. Garrison, of Williaa
was operated on in that city Friday for ap-
pendicitis. When the appendix was cut open
a badly corroded pin was found therein. It
is supposed that Mrs. Garrison swallowed
the pin a long time ago. It had entered the
appendix at the opening and had started to
work its way out at the other end, when the
point of the pin caused the irritation that
made the operation necessary. : ,
—-A charter has been issued at the state de-
partment ‘at Harrisburg to the Huntingdon
and Clearfield Telephone Company, with a
nominal capital of $1,000. ‘The directors are
C. M. Gage, B. F. Africa, G. Chal Port, W.
H. Henderson, Huntingdon; B. F. Meyers,
‘George B. Stucker, Harrisburg; W. D. Bar-
nard, F. M. Green, Philadelphia; W. H.
Denlinger, Patton; E. F. Kerr, Thomas R.
Eichelberger, Bedford; C. H. Ritchie, Everett;
J. F. Helfenstein, Shamokin; Thomas H.
Murray, Allison; O. Smith, Clearfield. The
company announces its purpose | to build a
telephone line through the counties of Bed-
expression of proper regard.
ford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Blair, Centre,
Clearfield and Cambria
=-The State Department will i in a few digs
Padi big