i § i : B ¥ £ £ ¥ g i GRAY MEEK. BY Pu. na —. SS Ink Slings. rrr. Refore the Legislature met Urele Day would most have bet, That this session would see MATTHEW STANLEY Quay go. But then he didn’t think That Mr. Thom pson’s rinky-dink Would be worked off as a case of the lumbago. —Good morning ! How do you like the twentieth century ? —I¢ don’t matter much now which way THOMPSON turns a political buzz saw is sure to meet him. ~~ATLISON did just as every body ex- pected he would. He went to Harrisburg and voted against QUAY. ~The last heat in the chinning match in Washington began on Thursday. ' Time will be called on the third of March. —The frosty man 'is like the frosty weather. He finds few who really enjoy remaining with him long at a time. “Tt is a difficult matter to tell the dif- ference between a twentieth century jag, and a hold over nineteenth century one. “Many New Year’s resolutions that were supposed to be good for all time on Tuesday are already too weak to sit up and take nourishment. —There is still plenty to filterest the pol- iticians at Harrisburg, even though QUAY has drawn the first blood hy having his speakers elected in the Honse and Senate. —Some people had hopes that twen- tieth century Republicanism would be a betterment of the nineteenth century kind. We observe no appreciable difference in the two. : —Was your dinner pail full and your cup of happiness running over on New Year’s morning. If it wasn’t yon must hold Mark HANNA responsible: for it, be- catise that is what he promised you. —The, Stalwarts have organized the House of Representatives by electing Pipe- line MARSHALL speaker, so now they ‘will get all the committee positions and there will be more chance than ever of electing QUAY. —TIt looks as if LEBO, WAGONSELLER and MANEAR will be given a rest. = There are others who seem willing to take the places they have so long held, as the rep- resentatives of an infamy for the past half century. —New York is fussing about Tammany rule again and the tiger will no sooner he chased out of his lair than the Brouxites will be sorry and be after baiting him back again. It was ever thus in New York. —There are a great many Republicans in Centre county who felt like going out behind the barn and kicking themselves. In the election of THOMPSON they thought || they were selling some one else out, and find it was themselves who were the vic- tims. —Kidnapping is to be made a capital punishmint. crime in Nebraska where rich parents are scared nearly out of their wits since that CUDAHY boy wasstolen. There is some consolation in being poor after all, for. there is not so much danger of being stolen. .—The Kentucky farmer who found a sweet little baby at his back door a few mornings ago, with $1,000 in money pinned "to its dress, is in'luck. Asa usual thing babies are not so easily gotten and when they do come they are rarely prepared to pay their own way. _ —ARMOUR, the Chicago millionaire meat packer, will doubtless take a little of the freshness out of the salt trust through his order for twenty-five thousand tons of salt just placed with a firm in Lisbon, Portu- gal. He says that the trust has run prices up so high that he is forced to go out of the country for his product now. —Reverned Senator WASHBURN may not be able to pray with the same unction that he could this time last’ year, but he wont. need tobe so deeply interested in the passing of the hat. The price of his treachery will make church ‘contributions hereafter appear to him’ financially, asa fly speck would to the addition of a mountain. Field Marshall RouERTS of - English army bas arrived in ‘England from the seat, of war in South Africa, and puts anything but a rosy color on his ‘descriptions of the trouble. The Queen is heart sick ‘with grief over her fast falling soldiers, but she is not so heart sick as to cali them home and tell the poor Dutch to live in peace in the little Republie. they have tried to build up. 3 ip Reoont of principals ev ent that’ have happened in 1900 is published almost complete in this issue of the WATCHMAN, but great and wonderful as some of them are, they are scarcely markers for Col. REEDER’S flying special, from Harrisburg to Philipsburg on which he didn’t take THOMPSON to his seat in the Legislature, which rumbled over the, Pennsylvania on the dawn of the new century. ~Poor General MILES is ‘threatened with persecution again, simply because RussiL A. ALGER has managed to geta letter through from the political oblivion into which he sunk. ALGER now says that MILs knew of the rotten beef, but thats nothing new. Every body knows that MILES was the only officer who had the « courage to call the War Deparment to account, for furnishing the soldiers such. food. ' He has been persecuted in every way possible since then, but the people are with him and he bas nothing to fear, = iy on STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Xo Begging for Philadelphia Already. A committee styling itself the *‘Joint Executive Committee’ on the Improve- ment of the Harbor of Philadelphia is on hand already with its appeal to the Legis- Jature for an appropriation from the State, to deepen and widen the channels of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers up to that city. It is to be hoped that the presenta- tion of this appeal is as far as it will get. For years the business interests of Phila- delphia have been begging that the people of the State be required to furnish means to put the Delaware river in navigable condition. Until these interests show en- terprise enough to do something for them- selves, their appeals should be allowed to go unheeded. So far as the general inter- ests of the State are concerned, it matters little whether the Delaware is navigable for large vessels or not. of vital importance and the first steps to- wards securing the needed improvements should be taken by those most interested. If, in addition to the sum the general government is donating yearly for this pur- pose, it will cost, say $10,000,000, Phila- delphia should put up $9,000,000 of this amount, and then its people could consis- tently ask the tax payers: of the State to. Ib is: about in this proportion that’ business in-: furnish ‘the remaining $1,000,000. terests in Philadelphia and business inter- este outside of that city will be benefited. It can not he because the Quaker City is unable to furnish the money necessary ‘to make this needed improvement that aid is asked of the State every time the Legisla- ture meets! It is because its business in: terests desire to hold their surplus capital for other purposes. During the past three Presidential elec- tions, these interests have furnished more money to corrupt voters and debauch elec- tions than would have paid one half of all that it will cost to. both deepen and straighten the channel of the Delaware from the breakwater up to Cramp’s ship yard. It was the boast of Philadelphia papers and Philadelphia politicians only last October that it took ‘Mr. HANNA but twenty minutes to secure a pledge that $600,000 would be furnished his campaign fund by the business interests of that city. Whether that ledge was, fulfilled we.do not “know! h ‘presume it was. At the two precedii.g elections, an amonnt equal- ing that sum was contributed to each by the same interests. Surely the business’ people of ‘that city who can come to the front with $600,000 for a single campaign should beamply able. to open business high-ways to their own doors. There is no justice in their de- mands that the people of distant portions of the State, and who are already over- burdened by local and general taxation, be compelled to contribute towards shoveling the mud out of the Delaware for their benefit. The Legislator, outside of that city, who votes for an appropriation for the purpose asked, simply votes to reb hisown constituents for the advantage of the inter-’ ests that are located in and about Phila- delphis; Senator Washburus Pernidy. The perfidious ‘desertion of his party by. Senator WASHBURN, of Crawford county, is the startling incident of the senatorial con- test thus far revealed. Mr. WASHBURN, was elected two years ago as the result of a fusion of Democrats, Populists and Prohi- bitionists. He was himself a Populist but, professed so strong an antipathy to monop- oly and every form of special privileges, that the Democrats gave him a most earn- est, and it turned out, a successful support. During the session two years ago he was the most vociferous opponent of QUAY in the General Assembly. His cotversion now appears to be not without suspicion. This disgraceful incident calls to mind the fact that it is one of the. nataral results of the political ‘methods for which the QuAY machine in this State stands. The machine is not the. creation , of Colonel QUAY himself. It isan inheritance from the political dynasty to ‘which he succeed- | ed a score of years ‘or 80 ago. te first triumph in politics. was achieved by pre- cisely the same methods as worked the sud- den conversion of Senator WASHBURN the other day. LEB0, WAGONSELLER and MANEAR, of infamous memory are the monuments of the beginning of its odious | methods as WASHBURN will serve the pur- pose of keeping its end in mind, It is a singular fact that the traitors of 1847 have never been forgotten by the peo- ple cof Pennsylvania. Men whose lives made radiant pagesin the history of the Commonwealth have gone out of memory | but the names LEBo, WAGONSELLER and MANEAR are ever present when political dishonor is under consideration, They serve ‘to admonish the weak and restrain the evil impulses of the venal.. To their names will now be added that of O. R. Wasn- BURN, of Crawford county. The political ‘rogue’s gallery is expanding slowly. but rapidly enough nevertheless. “It is to be hoped that it will be a long time before an- other is found fit for the company. ANS A —_—_— To Philadelphia it is. BELLEFONTE, PA, JAN. 4, 196% 2 New Political Judases. The Legislature organized on Tuesday by the election of Hon. WILLIZM P. SNY- DER, of Chester county, as president pro tem. of the Senate and Hon, WiLriAm T. MARSHALL, of Pittsburg, as Speaker, of the House. Both these gentlemen were select- ed by ‘Colonel QUAY ‘for the ‘positions to which they have been chosen, and they represent him essentially. The vast pat- ronage of these offices are made, by their election, assets in his political estate, and committee chairmanships and other favors at their disposal will be promptly placed on his hargain counter. In fact it is no exaggeration to say that the chair in each branch of the Legislature has been prosti- tuted by the votes of the Senators and Rep- resentatives on Tuesday, to any base use which MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY chooses to put them. This shameful result has been accom- plished by the perfidy of alleged Demacrats. O. R. WASHBURN, of Crawford district in the Senate, and L.S. FAKE, JoHN B. KAIN and HARRY B. SuUTT, of York, WILLIAM J. GALVIN, of Schuylkill; and MADISON A. G ARVIN, of Adams, in the House, voted for the QUAY candidates and in so far as it was possible for:them betrayed the party and principles which they professed and the people they were chosen to represent. But much as they desired to take the place of BENEDICT ARNOLD in. this battle for political liberty they could not have alone achieved the defeat of the Democracy in the House if SAMUEL H. ROTHROCK, of Mifflin, had not contributed a mite to the treachery. That Judas, probably to: more firmly entrench his brother in an office under the Governor, left his seat during the balloting and allowed. the victory to go to the machine. The atrocious influences wiih guided these political perverts to the base course they pursued will probably never be ad- mitted nor the exact price of their treach- ery he known. But the stamp of infamy has been indellibly impressed om their faces and so long as time lasts,sand they ‘live, they will be pointed at- asthe sum and substance of political perfidy. They have done what they could, for such considera- willing to bestow on them, to put dishou- its candidates. But they have only. parti- ally succeeded. They have uot secured the election of ‘QUAY though they have contributed much toward that result and if in the end, the hand of the ‘boss’? is to be kept upon the politics of this State’ and ‘his power continued, to the action of these disgraced and dishonorable men, can be attributed that result. . It is a strange coincidence, that the ta that furnished a LEBO and a MANEAR, in 1857, to betray the Democracy, turned up on Tuesday last with like cattle as their Representatives. Can it’ be possible that! that the people of those counties are of the stripe their Representatives would indicate they are? LEBo, WaAGONSELLER ‘and MANEAR, ‘| may be forgotten now. Their treachery has been a stench in the nostrils of all de- cent people, and a disgrace to the counties that produced them, almost half a century. There are later Judases now to point to. _ Subsidizing the Steamships. : The information comes from Washington | that the atrocious ship subsidy bill will be side tracked in a day or two. after the re- assembling of Congress and ‘will be held over until the new Congress comes in ‘with an increased Republican ‘majority in both houses. Of course this is only a temporary | postponement of an evil, but on the: princi- ple that ““where there is life there is hope,” J? it is gratifying. Something may happen between this time and the opening of the | new Congress. which will give it another ‘set hack, and finally its quietus. The steamship subsidy bill is so bold a robbery of the treasury that even Senator HANNA was ‘unable’ ‘to force it’ upon his colleagues. He pretended that it was nec- essary to subsidize American steamships because they cost more than those of foreign make. But it was shown that steel, wood and all the other materials which enter in- to the manufacture of ships are cheaper bere than there and that the difference against usin the wages of labor is more than ‘made up by the ‘greater productive power of American mechanics and efficiency of American machinery. Defeated on that point. Senator HANNA next proposed that the greater expense of operating ships under American auspices, as compared with those of other ‘countries justified the subsidy. ‘But it was shown that that also'was' ‘a false pretense. We ship coal to Europe and, therefore the cost for fuel can’t he less there than ‘here and as we supply Europe with ‘wheat, corn and meat, it is absurd to say that our products can be furnished cheaper at Liverpool or South Hampton than in’ New York. 7 aamaeh | Li Suberibe for the WATCIMAN, tion as a corrupt political machine was; or on the Democratic | party and defeat on | counties in the State, York and Schuylkill, Bold bat Unwise Alger. Ex-Secretary of War RUSSEL A. ALGER publishes in the current number of the North American Review a most interesting article on the question of ‘embalmed beef and the average reader will estimate bis conrage as far beyond his discretion. The manifest purpose of the ex-Secretary was three-fold. This is to say he wanted to say a good word for General EGAN, a bad word for General MiLus. and incidentally remind the public that he is, himself, still alive. He has probably succeeded in each of these purposes, but whether to the ad- vantage of the parties in interest, remains to he seen. i General ALGER protests that General MiLEs falsely accused the War Department of supplying the troops in’ Cuba during the progress of the Santiago campaign with rot ten meat rations. In that he is inaccurate. Vice President-elect ROOSEVELT made the charge in a Round Robin signed by all the officers in’ ‘the ‘command except General WHEELER,and MILES simply gave the rot: ten beef a name. In other words Colonel ROOSEVELT, having charged that the troops in Cuba were supplied with rotted: beef, General Mites, in his testimony before the’ court of inquiry packed, for the purpose o of, shielding the'War Department and white: washing the beef ‘trust, declared ‘that the: beef was preserved with embalming fluid and that it was therefore embalmed beef. General ALGER was fortunate in, thus, challenging General Miles to a controversy: on the question of embalmed beef. MILES is about the only officer of high rank in ‘the army who came out of the recent encounter wise about the only one who has not suffered in official standing. EGAN was condemned and suspended from office and ALGER was ran out of public life under circumstances which should influence him to modesty as long as he lives. Besides the memory of the embalmed beef isn’t pleasant for the average citizen to contemplate and it isa wonder that (ieneral ALGER would bring it up. i Scheme of the Land Grabbers, The story that Germany is negotiating again for the purchase of the Danish West, Indig Islands 1 may safely be interpreted as a masked statement that the United States’ government is again preparing public sen- timent for another outrage in the name of expansion. In other words, it may be set down as certain that some of the jobbers in colonies about Washington have deter- mined to revive the scheme of purchasing the Danish West India Islands, and mean to justify it by the cock-and-bull story that it is necessary in order to keep Ger- many from increasing her possessions, ter- ritorial, on the Western Hemisphere. That is all rubbish and only the most credulous will be deceived by it. There is no danger of Germany acquiring, or even trying to acquire any more territory in the Western Hemisphere. Some seventy-six years ‘ago President JAMES MONROE served notice on Germany and all other outsiders “that there could be no further extension of 'European territory and institutions in this hemisphere, ‘and they all understood {it to be an earnest declaration. Ever since that time, with a single exception, European powers have ‘‘kept off the grass,” so to ‘speak, and it is safe to say they will keep off. The single exception was when during the war Napoleon III of France undertook to set an Austrian Prince named Maximil- ian up in business as King in Mexico. The deluded Prince paid the penalty of his temerity withhis life and Napoleon only escaped a deserved castigation by abandon- ‘ing his protege. and pledging ‘himself to be- have better in the future. In the face of such a ‘record KAISER ‘WILLIAM is not likely to run his head into n noose ' ‘that ig ready to slip at a moment’s notice. It the jobbers in Islands in ‘Washington want to buy property in the West Indies with public money, ‘they will ‘have to invent a more plausible sooty shan this little Dutch joke. rE a, ie and Amerienn Papers: s Mr. ALFRED HARMS WORTH, editor of the London Daily News, is on a visit to this country, and with characteristic “‘London assurance,’’ he has undertaken to teach all the American newspaper editors and pro- prietors how to edit newspapers. With that purpose in mind he borrowed from his friend JosepH PULITZER of the New York World, the plant ‘and franchises of that fairly enterprising newspaper for a day in order to carry out his notion. At this writing the result of his enterprise. bas not been placed before the public but. before this issue of the WATCHMAN reaches! its readers, it will be a matter of’ history: Hp an Mr. HARMSWORTH is of the opini th American newspaper men don’t know how to make newspapers, and maybe he is right: we waste too much ‘space in sensational headlines, he alleges, and nos of us wil tandaily newspaper is concerned, 5 he isabso- | lutely ‘oorrect. Take the New Yorg papers; Salis 8s with improved reputation and he is like-’ “NO. T= for example, and with one or wo excep- tions the news is 80 obscured ‘with headlines: and illustrations that it isa severé task to follow the lines on the sheet. result is'that the. news is either excluded ing of the subject of which it treats. Of course Mr. unable to correct ‘this fault in American journalism in a single day. ' He will no doubt point the way which will ultimate- ly lead to the result, and even if he only; does that he ‘will have served both the newspaper makers and the public well. The headlines and hideous caricatures. which comprise so large a part, of the average daily newspaper of this eountry cost vastly and come to nothing practically: speaking. But they absorb. the revenues of the newspaper establishment and to a considerable extent deprive the business of the . pecuniary returns which Mr. HARMSWORTH says compromises one: of the vast differences between newspapers of England and America. {ary A Good Thing To Try. Froth the Philadelphia Tim Times. The young' Democrats of pp oi Pennsylvania ‘should’ take heat ue ample from the Young Men’s 1ocr: Ad a of West Chester, yin bie couraged’ by' défeat, maintains tao “organ- ization and adds to its numbers “between elections.’ play, and if the young’ ‘Democrats of Ches- ter county, who are cuthumbered by their Republican bothers nearly’ three to one, have the ‘courage ‘to’ ‘maintain ‘an’ ‘orgati- ization yéar in and year out, surely those 5 ih in re oi of ‘other counties should pluck up’ ‘heart to do the same. A good part of thie great Repu. lican pre- ponderance in Pennsylvania’ is due to’ the fact that the Republicans have fostered and promoted Republican clabs and associations everywhere, while the Démocrats have'per- mitted existing clubs to’ die out and have failed to establish and maintain new ones. The social instinet is very strong'in young men, and if young Democrats have to visit Republican clubs to find fellowship it is not surprising that they drift away from the political faith of their fathers’ A Democratic club, with open doorsall the vear round in ‘every county town or! 'vil- lage, would not oniy held the young men of Deinocratic parentage to the Democratic: ‘i faith, but would attract to it numbers of voung men of Republican antecdents, who, disgusted with Republican subserviency to imperialism and the trusts, political affiliations which stand for ‘cause of popular government. fe Tn'the Democratic’ party alone lies the hope of the perpetuation of the principles enunciated in the Declaration of Inde- pendence. and Pennsylvania ofall States in the Union needs an aggressive, well- organized Democratic party. The young men constitute ‘the positive fighting force of any political party, and if the young Democrats of every county will follow the example of their Chester county brethren there will soon he more Democratic coun- ties in Pennsylvania and a greatly improv- ed chance of rescuing the State Hom Re- publican misrule. Life a Century Ago. From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. One handred years ago a man could not take a ride on a steamboat. He could not go from Washington to New York in afew hours. He had never seen ‘an’ electric light or dreamed of ‘an electric car. He could not send a telegram. "He could not talk through the telephone, and he bad never heard of the hello girl. He could not ride a bicyele. ‘He could not call in a stenographer and dictate a letter. - He had never heard of the germ theory or worried over bacilli and bacteria. “He never looked = pleasant : before a pho- tographer or had his picture taken. He never heard a phonograph talk orsaw a kinetoscope turn: out a prize fight: He never saw through a Webster's Una- bridge Dictionary with the aid of a Roent- gen ray. ~ He had never taken a ride in an elevator; | © He had never imagined. such a thing as a typesetting machine or a, typewriter. ‘He had never used anything fat a wood: en plow. He had never seen his wite using a a sew- ing machine. He had never struck a ‘match on his pants or. anything else. He conldn’t take an anesthetic and have his leg cut off without feeling it. + ‘He had never purchased a 10-cent maga- zine which would have been regarded ‘as a miracle of art. : He could not buy a paper tor a cent and I) . | learn everything that bad happened the day before all over the world. ‘He bad never seen a McCormick reaper ora sit -binding harvester, . never.crossed an iron bridge. ey In go there were several things that he could not do and several things he did not know. : Progressing B Backwards, From the Delaware County Democrat. How we are ‘progressing backwards’ in the Philippines is shown with painful clearness by the report of the Secretary of War, which gives the number of American soldiers regulars and volunteers in the islands October 1st; of this year, as 71,528. A year ago, before the official announce- ment was made that the insurrection - was about over, there were: only 19,414 ol our soldier there. Sipisy i mr ——— Singing Another Tane, ) io From the Delaware County unty Demoorat.ioi 1160 ot © Tt was with high glee thas the employees of the Highland Worsted Mills in North Camden, N..J., voted for McKinley and the full dinver pail, but it was with sad hearts that ‘within two weeks after the election they found. the d oors of themill docked in:their faces. Thus the Healt fim ner/pail; vision Ranishe: Peat $50 ii 1 i : for or so. perverted by one means or anothet, that it: fails to convey an intelligent understand-" ; ge erst d .| of the National Steel company, at Sharon, HARMSWORTH will be: This is the proper spirit'to'dis-’ are looking for | The amount paid to 03 vets from n the Keystone. —AT re blast Me Monday badly Jacer- ated the hand of Wm. Gruver, near Ship- pensburg. : —Deaf and dumb. George Dann, of Con-. shohocken, was killed by a train at Lafay- ette Monday. —Ex-Prothonotary John C. Westbrook and wife, of Stroudsburg, Monday celebrated : their golden wedding. ~~His clothing catching fire at an open. grate, the 2-year-old son of Warren Russell, of Orangeville, was burned to death. —Five members of the family of Henry Ames, of Erie, narrowly escaped asphpxia- i tion by escaping coal gas Monday. —Mine Inspector Brennan, of the Seventh anthracite district, reports four fatal and eight non-fatal accidents for December. —Thirty-two marriage licenses were granted at Wilkesbarre Monday, breaking the record by 15 for a single day’s business. . —Blooming and finishing mill employes have accepted a wage reduction of 10 per cent. © —Governor Stone Monday appointed Geo. A. Walker, of Emporium, Associate Judge of Cameron county, vice J. C. Bonham re- signed. : —Charles D. Becker, of Huntingdon, an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad com- pany, slipped on the track in front of an ap- proaching fast passenger train and was in- stantly killed. 2 —Robert Robinson, of DuBois, boarded an Allegheny Valley passenger train Saturday morning at DuBois, of which place he was a resident. Before he reached Reynoldsville he was a corpse, heart failure being the cause of his death. —Edward Hamberger, of Flemington, Clinton county; was found: dead: banging in his barn Christmas evening. Despondency over ill health and the fear. that a half sister would get: the greater: portion’ of ‘his, dead father’s estate was the cause. He was 41, years old: ta ol “Silo are ‘aflont that thio! New York Central intends to run the Beech Creek “as'a separate division with A. G. Palmer as 'sup- erintendent ; also that G, R. Brown was re, wich he held: sion the Fall; Brook, but;, that le had Teasons for not' accepting. 1 1 oily, In pursuance of its plan’ to re equip! its: : road, the Philadelphia, &. ‘Reading Railway’! company; bas let contracts which dn, "the. : ag-’ gregate: amonnt. to over $2,500,000. Two, thousand and thirty new: cars: have beens or” dered, ‘a’ large proportion of: them: jof ithe. pressed’ steel class that! has Tately ome. into use. : ~The Petershurg cut. off, the : new ‘ex ) sion of the Pennsylvania railroad from Wil- liamsport to Petersburg, is rapidly nearing completion. All that remains to be done: is the construction ‘of the bridge, the work on it having been delayed by the difficulty in’ getting structural steel. The ‘road will like 1y be put in operation about January, 15th. It passes through and will likely; open up, one of the greatest limestone: fields, in, thal section of the State. =~ ge uring ‘Professor John Dimyer 5! dae lass at Johnstown, Saturday. night, the. ‘gayeties were suddenly ended by. a tragic death in the ball room. Miss Mary Bod- erick, one of the gayest- dancers of the evens ing, wagsuddenly noticed to grow faint and reel. Medical aid was called but the young lady died almost instantly in the ‘hands ‘of several of her friends. Heart disease, sup erinduced by over-exertion, is given as the cause. Miss Broderick was 25 years old. —The body of W. Irvin Shaw, Esq., the recently appointed Consul General to’ Singa- pore, who committed suicide in Philadelphia on Christmas morning, was interred in Clearfield Friday afternoon from the resi- dence of the sister of the deceased, and was conducted by the Clearfield Bar Association, of which Mr. Shaw was a member. «His wife and two little sons were boarding at State College at the time of his death. They were to remain there while he returned to Baranquilo to settle up his affairs pr epara: tory to take charge at Singapore. + ~Coroner William Goehrig's’ investigh tion into the’ death of Miss ‘Anna Mariah Lynn, ‘who was found dead ‘on ‘the floor of her little home, in South Williamsport Sat- urday. evening, disclosed a pathetic story. Miss Lynn, who sas 72 years of age, doubt less died of a broken heart: because her cons dition changed from one. ‘of comparative wealth to one dependent upon the poor an: thorities. A year ‘ago through bad invest: mens she lost $10,000 which'she had inherit ‘She soon became dependent on charity, and a sister who found her dead Saturday evening testified that the ol Woman ned died of. a broken: heart, | i 4a : —State Secretary of parr yond Hamilton has. given out some, interesting figures concerning tuberculosis among cattle in Pennsylvania. During the past year,ac- cording to’ the ‘report of State Veterinary eonard Pearson, which’ ‘he is'about to make public, the number of cattle tested for the disease was 9,274 of Wh ‘were rs of the infec ed animals was $28,339.50; ae an average of $23, 10 a head.. Secretary: Hamilton SAYS | ‘that when the presentidaw went into; effect: four ars ago, twenty-five of the herds examined were found to be more or less infected, while now not ten per cent. of the herds examined have the disease, The law provides that not more than $25, a head can be paid | for ordinary cattle and not more then 0 a head for registered stock. } 4 —On the 2st of November last a ont neatly folded was found along the mill race at Union Furnace, but as no. one identified the garment as belonging to anyone, neo further account was taken of it. Saturday one of the wheels ‘that’ furnish’ power for the powder’ establishments there, became clogged and the race was drawn off, which developed that, a stick had gotten ir wheel and prevented it from ; moving. 3 But the drawing of the water from the channel left thie bottom visible, and a ‘short distance from the mouth of ‘the race’ the dead body of a min was discovered ‘nearly buried in the mud. It is supposed the dead man is George Lelly, a as. book taining that name was found in the of the coat, and contain- ing also the information that he was a mem- ber of the cigar maker's union of Virginia, ah $i 190d CR ti
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