BY P. GRAY MEEK.
: nk Slings.
—1Is this winter or do we only imagine
that it is? :
—QuUAY is still boss of Pennsylvania
Republicanism and the Philadelphia In-
quirer is the big winner in a fight that it,
alone among metropolitan dailies, espous-
ed. ’
—Kidnapers have appeared in Wil-
liamsport but their first attempt didn’t
prove any more successful than was the at-
tempt of our own Col. REEDER to carry off
JoHNNY THOMPSON from his home in
Philipsburg a few nights ago.
— THOMPSON preferred the QUAY special
train to the one that HASTINGS sent to
carry him to Harrisburg, but the young
Legislator thereby cut himself out of
any future chance of riding to political
success on a HASTINGS band wagon.
—A negro was burned at the stake near
Leavenworth, Kansas, on Tuesday, for
having assaulted and killed a white girl.
While his fate was none too horrible for
him Republican papers won’t have nearly
so much to say abont it, since it occurred
in Republican Kansas as they would have
had the burning been done in Democratic
Texas.
— MCALLISTER, KERR, CAMPBELL and
DEATH, the four Patterson, N. J., sports
who gave JENNIE BOSSCHIETER; the pretty
mill girl, knock-out drops, and then at-
tempted to assault her while she lay dying
in their arms are likely to meet their
knock-out at the hands of Jersey justice.
The drops will come later, when the sheriff
pulls the bolts under the scaffold.
—Whether, it is ‘‘barbarous,’’ ‘ ‘brutal’
or ‘“‘cruel’? the hazing at West Point ought
to be stopped. That’ Academy is support
ed by the government for the purpose ‘of
making soldiers and no part of the, make-
up of valiant, chivalrous soldiers depends
upon such ‘atrocious’ hazing as throws
young men into convulsions from ‘the pain
they are called upon to endure.
ZLOt ‘course we have no idea of excusing
THOMPSON but it looks as if it is a case of
“the kettle calling the pot black’ when a
HASTINGS man rears up because THOMPSON
broke his pledge to them. ‘What occasion
had ‘they to éxtort a'pledge from him at all
intended standing true to the |
Te 2 the difficulties that the Legislature must
‘I méet in any effort it’ may make to secure
pledges they had made to the QUAY people
when; they. made the ‘harmony deal.”
{’—Thé Duchess of Marlborough, -
CONSUELA VANDERBILT, was thrown foot
her horse while hunting on Tuesday. In
taking afence the hunter ‘fell and rolled
clear over ‘the Duchess, who escaped un-
bart. | This i is merely an incident in the |
life of : the: American .multi- millionairess
but it o show that it takes-more than
the ‘tf ing matter ‘of a ‘horse. rolling" ‘on
her : to injure, a woman who is so well
weighted: with ‘rocks.’
—The Democratic Legislators who voted’
with the QUAY‘ Republicans to’ organize |
the House and elect QUAY to the United
States Senate were formally read out of
the ‘party by their ‘more honorable col
leagues on Wednesday. Kicked out by
Democrats whom they = betrayed and
spurned ‘by’ Republicans to ‘whom they
sold all ‘of honor and manhood. Surely
vengeance is swift in overhanling such
traducers of public morality. gk
——The defeat of Senator CHANDLER, of
New Hampshire, for re-election to the
United States Senate i is likely to hurt no
one quite as much as the Senator, himself,
As an example of narrow. partisanship he
was almost unrivaled and was of too small
a calibre for the office he held, CHANDLER
it was who instituted the proceedings that
made HAYES President, after TILDEN had
been elected by the people, ‘and CHANDLER
it was who made as poor a Secretary of the
Navy as the country ever had. : ;
—A honor to Senator PETTIGREW for
his courage in’ calling a halt to the confirm-
ation of the appointment of JAMES S.
HARLAN, ason of Justice HARLAN of the
United States Supreme court, to be Attor-
ney General for Porto Rico. The appoint-
ment is in extremely “bad taste at this
time because the case of Porto Rico’s status
under the constitution is now pending in
the court in which Justice HARLAN sits.
The appointment looks. almost in the na-
ture of a bribe, though we trust that our
‘highest tribunal is above such influences.
+All this fuss and precipitate baste in
getting QUAY elected to represent the
people of Pennsylvania ‘in the United
States Senate seems to have been without
warrant, either of any desire on the part
of the ‘‘old man’’ to serve his constituents
or the need of auy service hy his constitu-
ents. He was elected Tuezday afternoon,
he got his credentials and started for
Washington on Wednesday, Thursday he
was sworn into the Senate and to-day he
starts for 8t. Lucie, Florida, to catch tarpon
and——to the health of his constituents.
——The Daily News is becoming noted
for its humor. On Tuesday it announced
that Hon. War. M. ALLISON had departed’
that morning on a regular train for Harris-
burg. Of course if the News says so it is
80, but no matter if he did go on a regular
train he voted with the Insurgents all the
same. Then in thesame issue our spright- |
ly little contemporary intimates that ex-
Congressman ARNOLD honswaggled Col.
CLEARWATER into contesting Congressman
“HALL’S seat so that he, ARNOLD, could
*‘cotton onto’ the $2,000 fees allowed by
‘Congress in such cases. Now this might
be intended to jar ARNOLD and CLEAR-
WATER, how about it Mr. HARRIS ?
Yo pny
| he-ean correctly
STATE FIGATS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
A Simple Ballot that Will Not Disfran-
chise.
In changing and amending the election
laws—a matter that is one of the duties
expected of the present Legislature—it
should be kept in mind that the rights to
be exercised under the laws are not for any
particular few, but for the many, for the
illiterate as well as the educated ; for
the man who fails to read and think as
well as for him who informs himself on all
questions. The methods adopted should be
as simple, as practical and as easily under-
stood as it is possible to make them.
Under the constitution every citizen of
the State of the age of twenty-one who
pays a state or county tax and has re-
sided in the district in, which he attempts
to vote, for 60 days, has the right to cast a
ballot. No law can disfranchise him ; and
if the methods adopted, under the laws
regulating elections are so complicated
that there are any questions as to the cor-
rect way of making or depositing a ballot
correctly he has, and in all justice should
continue to have, the right to demand
and be allowed assistance.
And right here is where the first trouble
is met ; to allow that assistance is to con-
tinue opportunities for the greatest wrongs
perpetrated under our present system ; to
deny it is, to practically disfranchise the
voter. : This latter we cannot do. For,
gag as we please as this’ idea, there ie no
more right to disfranchise an individual,
who has qualified as an elector, by adopt-
ing methods of voting that he cannot un-
derstand and at the same time denying
him such assistance as will enable him to
exercise that right, than there is to pass a
plain: statu te abolishing this = consti-
tutional privilege.
i It is this condition of affairs that creates
better election laws.
Neither the one we now have, nor the
one, proposed by the Ballot Reforin Associa:
tion, is so simple that the erdinary citizen,
who gives but little! thought and has but
few opportunities to study and understand
their requirements, can exercise the right
of suffrage. without a doubt as to whether
agile. nis’ ballot! or ‘not.
Both aré’ ‘complicated. Both require the
marking of ballots | in a way that only men
‘| of intelligence and experience can under-
stand.’
“To persist i YHiie system and’ to change
it 80 as to do away with political columns
and distinctions and require the hunting
out from among all the names upon a tick-
et those which the voter desires to support
and. placing a mark. opposite each, is only
to continue an excuse for assistance, and so
Tong as this is needed ‘and furnished in the
privacy of the booth, just so long will
bribers find a way to get in their nefar-
ious work, and intimidators to carry out
their disgraceful and bull-dozing methods.
What i is ‘needed is’ the simplest method
that can be devised. A method that the
most ignorant voter can understand, and
that will leave no excuse for anyone to en-
ter a booth to mark’ another’s ticket, ex-
cept in cases where physical ‘disabilities of
a voter : prevent. him doing it" for him-
self.
Could not this’ be ‘accomplished by pla.
ing an emblem, such as could be readily
recognized, at the head of each political
ticket, with a place for a single mark un-
derneath it, and that mark to count for the
entire ticket, and then prohibit any assist-
ance in the booth yexceph for visible Physical
disability.
The man who cuts his ticket, who usual-
ly thinks he is wiser than his party and is
sure he knows better than the political or-
ganization to which he professes to belong,
who would make. good officials, should
know enough to vote any kind of a ticket.
He should be able vote his way whether the
ticket ie in groups headed by the names of
the offices to be filled or whether it is
made up under its proper political head-
ing, with an emblem showing its distinct
political character. He is not the fellow
who needs to be bothered about. It is the
other chap, who wants to vote according as
his principles dictate and wants to do it
in the easiest and safest manner imagin-
able, whose demands should be heeded.
Reform in A Philadelphia,
The Manufacturers’ Cl Club. of Philadelphia
held a meeting Saturday evening for the
purpose of considering the question of
joining with the Municipal League of that
city in its proposed crusade for the sup-
“pression of political crimes.
~There were a number of gentlemen pres-
ent and, as usual, they talked unectiously
about the duty of citizenship in such
crises as those now impending in that city.
They discnssed the obvious venality of the
municipal administration aud deprecated
the debasing influence of such ‘things on
- public morals. They even went so far as
‘to declare that it is the bounden duty of
good citizens to antagonize sach things.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 18. 1901.
Bat it is safe to sy that the Philadel-
phia Manufacturers’ club will not give
any material assistance to the reformers
in Philadelphia. = The members realize, no
doubt, that there wouldn’t be much danger
to party interests in such a step, for asa
matter of fact the greatest “peril to the Re-
publican party of Philadelphia to-day is in
the atrocious venality of the present mu-
nicipal admjnistration, and they know
that a body is always better after a cancer
has been cut away. But the Manufactur-
er’s club will leave the surgical work to
somebody else.
offending Mr. QUAY'S friend Mr. AsH-
BRIDGE by curtailing his opportunities to
build ap a machine.
It will take no chances of | a
2 Election of Quay.
By the vote of the General Assembly
in separate bodies on Tuesday Colonel
MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY, as his admir-
ers Tike to hear him called, was elected as
Senator in Congress for the term which
expires on March 4th, 1905, the labor of
the joint session on Wednesday having
ely erfunctory, or to speak more
erely declaratory. No joint
er the Senatorship this
There is ove call, however, to" which | i
every member of the Manufacturers’ club |.
will respond sith ‘promptuess and dis- |
patch. That is, they will answer as a unit 1
to an alarm of danger to the tariff. If a |;
tariff reform candidate is nominated for |
Congress in any district in this broad land
and the chairman ¢ of the Republican con-
gressional committee appeals to them f
money to buy votes in order to defeat ir
they will hasten forward with their checks.
The Union League and the Manufacturers’
club furnished the money. §6 organize the
corrupt machine which enables the polling
in the city of Philadelphia alone, of 80,000
fraudulent votes every year, and in joining
a crusade in behalf of political virtue it
would simply be overturning “its own
work.
The River and Harbor Bill.
During the debate onthe River and
Harbor bill in the House of Representa-
tives at Washington the other day a west-
ern Member declared that the measure
provided a considerable appropriation for
the improvement of a stream in Ohio
which couldn’t be found on the maps.
Well, - what do the western gentlemen ex-
pect with respect to Ohio? That State is
favored by government in. every possible
way. It not only gets vastly more than
its proportion of the offices, but it gets ap-
propriations for public buildings, contracts
and waterways in much greater proportion
than other States.
Besides the utility of a public improve-
ment isnot to be considered when Ohio is
‘considered. As amatter of fact that is{
true of all Jocalitiesin connection with the
River and Harbor bill, and it has alway.
been so. The River and Harbor bill isa
sort of vehicle for conveying consolation to
the disappointed.
Department he is reconciled by liberal
treatment in the River and Harbor “bill, if
there be any rivers and harbors in his dis-
trict. If there doesn’t happen to be such
a thing as a river within the radius he gets
an appropriation smaller, of course. but
satisfying, nevertheless, for some imaginary
stream.
The River and Harbor bill this year is
bigger than usual but that is easily ac-
counted for. There were more disappoint-
ments than common and it takes money in
proportion to the number of payments to
make. Bat paying Ohio men by appro-
priations to imaginary streams is a just
cause of complaint for the reason that com-
paratively speaking that State has few-
er disappointments and, besides, as some
| Members no doubt reason,-MARK HANNA
ought to settle with Ohio claimants ‘‘out:
side of court’’ so to speak.” He is striking
for a vast subsidy himself and in consider- |’
ation of help for that he ought to take care
of all Ohio beggars.
——The Mennonites and Adventists
have been setting dates for it frequently
during the last ten years ; Lieut. TOTTEN,
of Yale, has announced its imminence on
several occasions and some time ago a big
comet that was zigzagging around among
the planets in the peaceful pursuit of their
nebular orbits was supposed to be coming
so close to old Earth that it would squeeze
the atmosphere down on us to smothera-
tion. All these symptoms of the millen-
nium have been heralded abroad, frighten-
ing the credulous and sending the wicked
to their Knees, only to leave the world
laughing at such false prophets, but there's
something awful going to happen soon
now. You can mark that down. Wheth-
er the millennium is going to come, wheth-
er QUAY is going to go fishing or whether |
Spring creek is going to flow, bank-full of
MATTHEW VOLK’S lager beer, we can’t
tell, but something’s going to happen, all
right, all right. You ask, why? We an-
swer : Because the signs are up. Why
last week a lot of people presented a
Penns-valley editor ‘with one thousand
dollars in cash withont asking for as much
as a mortgage on his shiny coat-tails and
scarcely had the earth stopped thrilling
with excitement over that incident when a
gentleman brought a box of ten cent cigars
into this office and left them. There were
days, in the good old times, when the big-
| gest pumpkins, apples and cabbages, the
tallest corn and best of everything was fit
only for the editor, but those days are
long since departed and when such breaks
occur in the narrow sphere of selfish-
ness the world is moving in to-day, as
were those of last week, we can come to
but one conclusion, and that iz that the
world is either coming to an end or some-
thing else very wonderful is going to bap-
pen.
If a Member fails to|
get what he would like in the Executive
been laid bare and he] escaped convietion
lof a grave'efimé only by pleading the stat-
ute of limitations. One after another of
his abuses of public trust and ‘betrayals of
popular confidence has been laid bare
within recent years and the enormity of
his offenses revolted decent public opinion
from one end of the State to another.
But in the face of these facts he has been
elected to represent the State of Pennsylva-
nia in the United States Senate. Not-
withstanding these humiliating truths he
has been selected out of the more than
700,000 Republican voters of Pennsylvania
for the highest honor in the gift of the
party and the shame of it must be shared
by the more than 6,000,000 ‘people of the
Grand old ‘Keystone Commonwealth. ' It
is a matter of pride ‘to the: WATCHMAN, as
it must. be to all ‘the Democrats of the
State, that our: party isin no way. responsi-
ble for the dis ounor that is implied.. Of the
entire list of Members and Senators of that
faith there was revealed by the vote ome
miserable Judas, GALVIN, of Schuylkill,
and it he will complete the parallel by
himself to 4 suivide’s g
course, but thank Heaven he wasn’
Democrat.
McKinley's Attempt at Bribery.’
The most flagrant attempt to influence
official action ‘by ‘the “use of ‘political
patronage ever revealed inthe history of
this country has just been made by Presi-
dent McKINLEY. Within a week he has
appointed to important and lucrative
offices in the colonial service of the gov-
ernment the sons of two of the Justices of
the Supreme court. At the time the appoint-
ments were made the question of the val-
idity ‘of the colonial establishments \ was be-
ing argued before the court of which the
fathers of the ‘young ‘men are ‘members.
‘Upon the decision of the court depends the
‘tenure of ‘the offices to which the young
men were appointed and: thus the Judges
tT a
in the decision they are called on to make.
Can any body i imagine a greater measure
of political and moral turpitude than is in-
volved i in ‘this attempt to influence the de-
cision of a'court. Both by statutory and
‘common law the bribery of af official, with
the view of influencing his’ ‘action, 'is a
crime... Under the ‘fundamental law of
Pennsylvania, and morally, the giving or
promising to give an office .toYinfluence a
citizen or official in his political or official
action is corrupt solicitation. What other
interpretation. can be put. on this audacious
decision of the Supreme court ‘on an im-
decision contrary to ‘the law. That ‘was
‘plainly the ‘intent of the President (and
the success or failure of the scheme: de-
pends upon the integrity of the judges in-
terested.
defeated the moral degradation of the per-
petrator of the crime is the same. It may
be that Justice MCKENNA will not sell his
ter for a position for his son, however lu-
crative, and we hope and believe that Jus-
tice HARLAX will not yield his ‘conscience
and. conviction at so.low. a price either.
They are boli fairly good Judges and HAR-
LAN isa lawyer of profound ability. But
they are human and susceptible to the in-
fluence of humanity.
appointed one of them, manifestly estima-
ted that tue bribe would have the effect
desired to be accomplished and the public
will not know how acourately he judged
the cases now pending before a tribunal of
which these two Judges are mem bers.
~The Philadelphia Tnguirer lias read the
Insurgents out of the Republicau party in
Pennsylvania, but they will ‘probably con-
tinue to play tar-bucket for the Quay
wagon, on which they will not be permitted
10 have a decent seat at all.
ii ve we | know
‘pan forgive him. WASHBURN, “of Craw: + night,
ford, betrayed those who elected’ him, of
who will; pass, upon, the question are. made |
ito have a personal and pecuniary interest | tr
attempt of the President to influence the
portant pending question, other ‘than that
it was an attempt to ‘bribe the coart toa
But whether the purpose is fulfilled or |.
honor and barter away his judicial charac-
McKINLEY, who
until the court has rendered its decision on
Repicsentative Thompson Senn By
His First Pledge. :
The Star Performer Among ( Centre County Legista-
tive Celebrities Arises from a Sick Bed and Speeds
to Quay in a Pullman Car.
Some men are born" great, some achieve
greatness and others have greatness thrust
upon them. In this latter class may be in-
cluded Representative John K: Thompson,
of Philipsburg, who was born in Half-moon
township, became popular as a ‘traveling
salesman, had his tide to fortune tenyporari-
ly stemmed when William T. Speer de-
feated him for County Treasurer, on Nov.
7th, 1899, by a majority of 425 votes, but
rolled onto fame and was elected to the
Legislature on Nov. 6th, 1900, by a major-
ity of 77 votes. :
There was a glorious futire spread out be-
fore a young man, but the words *‘‘Mar-
shall” "and “‘Koontz"’ proved ‘the shib-bo-
leth that has ‘revealed him to the worl
and shattered his future beyond ‘the ken
of man. - For he was unable to say either
and shirked his duty at the’ opening of the
session.
Mr. Thompson was elected through the suc
cessful workings of : the notorious “*harmo-
ny” deal between the two Republican
factions of Centre county. It would bea
matter of supererogation to recount the
many phases of that incident ‘at this time.
As to whether it was fair and square the
leaders who carried it into execution alone
know. However, while the’ Hastings
ple felt certain, beyond the peradventure
of a doubt, that’ Mr. ailisonj:Stic ‘their: choice
for one’ ‘opndidate; would stick’ hough
hide ‘and thin,’ recent devel
t to light the fact that they ee
they hE given the Love wing of the party
a ‘gold hetck in‘Mr. Thompson, who: was
ik as the’ ‘Yeptesentative ot ‘the: Hatter
on. $ Ma Pi
"Both were leleoted: and; tio: matter what
private ‘understandings ‘may have been;
the ‘campaign ‘was carried "on for them on
Ste aes pion that o ana. would: vote
with ‘the Insurgents HY
with the Stalwarts. Toupee
I When the Legislature was" abut £0 con-
vene the process of counting noses began
for the” purpose of ‘ascertaining whether
Quay’s man, Pipe-line Marshall, would he
elected speaker of the House or whether
Gen. Koontz would: be ‘the successful’ as-
pirant’ and ‘carry with’ him:all the ‘power |
and prestige of that im rolices “As
the opening of the session drew nigh both:
sides ‘claimed Thompson; but
was/nowhere to be found. Inqu dis
covered him to be at home sick with lum-
bago. * Whether ‘he contracted it from
natural causes or whether it resulted—as a
alta omé Sha was 'facetionsly remarked--
nce: of a strain sustained in the!
ftort toieary Shien ion both: a
pole Borseof the’ Hastings ot; went
flying to Philipsbarg on as 1 ‘trainto
carry Representative i to Harriss
burgto be present at. the opening of: the
House. ‘What followed is’ ‘well’ known.
Thompson ‘declined to'go and there was’ a
small riot! in his honie where'the Hastings
people were importuning and the Stalwarts
pumping hot-air into everyobe in sight i in
pat middle of the night. ©
‘That special ‘returned empty. It might
kave been because it was only a combination
and r coach, it might have
been because Mr. Thompson was too sick
to go and: it niight have ‘been’ because the
wrong people were after’ him. However;
as to’'the latter reason, they must have had
some assurance that he would act as: they
wished else they would: not “have made
sueli‘a' mad-cap dash’ for him or had the
audacity to publish the following pledge,
which ‘ap ay An the 'Philadelplii: Poem
the next dat
if
Pais Po. Des! 15th, 100
a the o onder ed member: of ‘the next Son)
i vino! i ind emma Gress vote fo
oS any Cj
ator, nor il 1 citer ay Sik
3 nor will I.evade,
con-
led n of} the next Assembly, aud pl BE
If to vote against A ay an cand dagen in
izing the same: nor for
Speaker. |, (, .. ,., JOHNK, HOM PION
The publication of this pledge was
brought about, 20! the Press says, by the
action of W. E. Gray; who is said to have
appeared. in ‘the Republican caucus to
personate Thompson ‘and when he was un-
masked by. Joha Sh Short, a Pittsburg. Dis-
patch staff correspondent, he made the
assertion that he would vouch: for p-
son’s voting for Quay when the time came.
{If this is true: Mr. Thompson mush have
given the Quay people a pledge. In: fact |
Mr. Gray has repeatedly asserted that he
had done so and has even gone so far as to
offer—mark you, we only use the word
offer beeause: most of you know Mr. Gray
—+=t0 bet $500" shat Thampsed wonld | fos, ie e against him at Clearfield. “He
for Quay. | :/ {es
He has done: 80.
elected and the big lighte will shoot up
brighter than; ever on
Representative Thompson. . He finally did
get to Harrisburg, but it wasn’t in. a com-
mon, ordinary straight back combination
coach. No, indeed. Tt was in the **Ramb-
ler;!’ the very same Pullman that has mol
ed many on statesman al Why
brought Gen. Miles to Bellefonte and: |
hauled presidential candidates and Presi-
dents. It was a Quay car when Thompson
rode in it and hereis the way the Philadel-
phia Inquirer gloats over the victory that
carried Centre county’s Representative to
Harrishurg just one week after the Hast-
ings combination car bad failed. ~~
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 14.—~When it ‘was
reported on Friday last that Representative
John Fi. Thompson, of Centre county, was
still regarded to be too ill to be present to
vote on the United States Senatorship The
Thiludelphia In Inquirer determined to do
everything possible to see that Representa-
tive Thompson would be on hand when
the ballot on the United States Senatorship
was taken’ to-morrow. It was decided to
send a: special train to his home at
‘Philipsburg, = Centre county, so that
if his condition would permit of his removal
to Harrisburg he would travel with every
possible comfort and convenience. Repre-
‘sentative Horace J. Thompson, a member of
the House from Indiana county, and a rela-
tive of the Centre county member, went ahead
and called pon the sick man and found
him quite willing to come to Harrisburg,if his
condition would 0 justitify his removal.
Concluded on page 4.
| and: Australia; He |
The Hold, maT de
Mars. | Bat what of
refer py fromthe Kepmoner—
TAL oe hme gor men fo
an memory of Col.’ A, I.. Hawkins pi “the
dead soldiers of the Tenth Pennsylvania
Regiment: - ony ans
—Guests ‘were arriving at. the home of T.
S. Gussler to celebrate his birthday an-
niversary Tuesday at Sunbury, when he
snddenly dropped dead from a hemorrhage
of the lungs. Gussler was 71 years old.
—The general store of the Medix Run
Lumber company was destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning. Cause, defective flue.
Loss, $10,000. The family of Roy Harrison,
who resided in the building, made narrow
cscapes. :
—Harry Longert, aged 16 years, while
driving-two horses across the Northern Cen-
tral tracks at Canton Monday, was struck by
a freight train. Both horses were killed, the
buggy was demolished and Longert was
hurled 100 feet into the air. His skull was
fractured and he was terribly bruised about
the body. He has been taken to the hospi-
tal at Williamsport, where he lies uncon-
scious. :
—Matthew Pletcher, of Coalport, com-
mitted suicide a few night ago by jumping
into a well on the property of a neighbor.
The well was about 25 feet deep and con-
tained ten feet of water. He was in the well.
about half an hour when the body was dis-
covered by some one who went to the well
for water. The deceased had been ill for a
long time and was suffering from mental
trouble. He was aged | 50 years. i
—At the abattoirs of William Burk &
Brother, Philadelphia, on Thursday, was
| slaughtered a steer that was said to be the
largest in the world. The steer was bought
at the Pittsburg live stock show, and was
awarded the official blue ribbon, $50 in cash
and a silver cup, given by the Hotel Shenley,
of Pittsburg. Alec, the steer, weighed 2,780
pounds. The dressed beef that came from
him was 1, 971 pounds in weight. The animal
was raised at Marietta, Lancaster county.’
—Considerable speculation i is being. indulg-
‘ed in: as to. whether the National: Guard, of
' Pennsylvania (will go to the inauguration.
There has been no official information given
ott, amd’ all stories as ‘to who ‘will go, or
whether any of the guard will go'is based on
‘the fact that the adjutant general was in
Washington last week looking around to see
what sort of accommodations could be secur-
ed for the boys if it:should finally be deter-
mined that the guard or any ‘part of it shall
attend ‘the ‘inauguration. :
“Norman Davis, a 15-year-old son of 0. J.
Davis, of Buffington, was killed by the acci-
dental’ discharge of a toy: gun of his own
making. The lad was fond. of werking. with
and planning machinery. From a piece of
bicycle tubing he made a gun or ‘pistol. “It
was made to explode ‘by the force of 4 strong
spring striking a match head laced in a fire-
pan. The weapon was loaded with powder,
peor buckshot and. slugs. When. handling it the
| whole load was discharged into, his stomach,
| killing him: instantly. a
ho. odin chap-
j Spanish war
haplain
aland
Rev. Francis Sev y
lain of | the Fifth ment in he
service, after, the resignation of C
Hartman, sailed recently for New.
Americans continent as one of tie most Popa
lar men in the temperance field. It is) his
sympathy and’ ‘warmth of heart which have
_ hik success. “I go,” said Mr. Murphy,
“to. pr mulgate ‘the ‘principles ‘ ‘of Tove and
good Ww 1 smog, men, hoping thus to redeem”
them from the: curse of intemperance. The
worl: I shall carry on -isone of peace and
persuasion, not of radical method; I do not
believe the temperance canse can be success-
fully carried out by the enactment of drastic
prohibitive laws. Every man must be’ alaw
unto himself. He must. frame the principles
of his life upon the word of. God, The holy
messages of the, Scriptures | ‘must not. be
brought to him. with the violence of argu-
mentative combat. They must come;in the
spitit of love | and quiet,’ persuasive reason.
The new ‘age is to be one of Jeason « and: ‘per-
suasion.” 1 ¥ Stan
LA fter amit woy yéare: of . Ed-
ward Viard was arrested | at Ashtola; Somer-
2 oun furday night’ ‘by Detective
Charles es Helberg, “of Clogs. Viard ‘broke
jail at Clearfield. April 4th, 189. He was
confined there -on a charge of bigamy, it is
said, and on one or. two. other. charges. It
was during the term of sheriff | iD. D. Ging-
ery ‘that he ‘escaped fromthe: ‘jail and Mr.
Gingery, | whose term of office has now expir-
ed, ‘went to Johnstown’ on Monday’ to take
Viard back. to Clearfield, ‘arriving with Him
there on. , Tuesday. The. warrant for. the | ar-
rest of Viard was issued by Daniel ! Connelly,
a justice of the: peace at Clearfield. Viard
will: have to face his old charges now that he
isc once ‘more at Clearfield.’ Viard said that
on working for the Babcock Lum-
pay at Ashtola almost a year, but
declined to state where he had been in the
interval between that time and the date he
broke jail. He had alsoapparently: forgotten
said that ‘he was: working on night turn ,at
'Ashtola, when he was arrested. He isa
shrewd looking man of over 0. !
07 —Half crazed with rum, penniless. de-
spondent and friendless, an unknown man.
giving his’ name as John McCormick, deliber-
ately hurled’ ‘a brickbat throtigh a’large plate
glass window | n the front’ of the post office
building at ‘Hollidaysburg : about 9 o'clock on
Saturday night. Hehad previously visited
the jail and wanted entertainment for the
night, which, of course, was refused. He de-
clared that he would ‘do something that
would bring about his admittance. - He also
went to Squire Lowery’s office and asked to
be committed to jail. ‘He visited Snyder's
drug | store. and threatened to break a window
in some store, so that he might be arrested.
He departed from there and a few minutes
afterwards carried out his threats as above
indicated and then walked into the office at
the American ‘House, ‘seated himself in an
‘arm chair and calmly ‘awaited the arrival of
Officer ‘McGraw, . who sco ted him to jail.
He said be desired to be, | carcerated until
next spring and for that reason made the at-
tack on the post office so that he would be
tried in the United States court. The glass
was valued at $50, but the upper part can be
Saved, the lower part only being shattered.
registered at the bastiie in the name of
8 n MoCormick. On his person, however,
plete found
Sail heuring the name of
J. C. Roe, of Dhilipsbure suri oy
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