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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—The man with the hoe can be found in
any back yard these days.
—Doctors QUAY and GUFFEY were un-
able to pull old Bill Ballotreform through
and they were not able to bury their mis-
take, either.
—The Bellefonte business man who is
advertising for a ‘‘well built” wife must
be looking for some one to chop the wood
in the morning and make a living for the
family over a wash tub.
—With all the supposed oil in Texas
there wasn’t even enough to grease the
ways of any of the small craft that were
endeavoring to be launched in the sea of
riches.
—1TIt is too bad that HANNA is not with
the President on that western trip. Bou-
quets are flying so fast that perhaps he
might have ‘‘copped’’ a few from the over-
flow.
—Notwithstanding MATTHEW’S recent
declaration that ‘‘the world grows sad and
lonely’ we haven’t noticed an inclination
on the part of any of his friends to desert
him at the pie counter.
—The old Shamrock has beaten the new
Shamrock over a twenty-mile course and it
is beginning to Jook as if the Constitution
won’t have any kind of a run for her mon-
ey when the new Irish yacht comes over to
try to lift the America’s cup.
—Russia declares she has no ‘‘hostile
sentiment toward China.”’ Oh no, nothing
of the sort. Russia entertains no hostile
feeling, whatever, it is merely one of those
cases of henevolent assimilation like we
have in the Philippines.
—The other day a masseur happened to
press a little too hard on the ear of the
Sultan of Turkey while he was giving him
treatment, when the ‘‘sick man of the
East” grasped a pistol and shot the physi-
cian to death. It is but natural to infer
that there has not been a rush of applicants
for the position made vacant by the irritable
old heathen who rules over the Turks.
—J. P. MorGAN Esq., financier and, in-
cidentally, owner of nearly everything in
the United States, has cabled home from
Paris that his business associates ‘‘are a lot
of idiots and a pack of scoundrels’ for per-
mitting that flurry in stocks last week.
Perhaps they are, but then what’s that to
the poor devils that lost all they had in
the flurry ?
—Will MARK HANNA be called upon to
suppress the rioting at Albany, N. Y.?
Not now. There is no presidential elec-
tion in the balance and MARK doesn’t have
the same vital interests at stake that made
it necessary for him to intercede for the
anthracite coal workers of Pennsylvania
last fall.
—QUuUAY’s latest speech is a remarkable
conglomeration of dry wit, oratory and
phrophesy. After saying ‘‘at three score
years and ten the world grows lonely’”’ he
continues with this remarkable declara-
tion: ‘My political race is run.’”’ So it
might be but the old man’s saying so
doesn’t prove anything. It was only last
fall that he said ‘‘I will support any good
ballot bill the Democrats present.’”” Did
he do it?
—Governor NASH, of Ohio, and Presi-
dent McKINLEY, also of Ohio, ran together,
at’ Los Angeles, Cal., the other day with
their rival celebrity shows and the Presi-
dent did all the business; leaving the poor
Governor to show to deserted stations
everywhere. There came near being an
open jar in Ohio politics right there in
California, until some of NAsH’S party
suggested stealing some of the President's
dates and they slipped off ‘ahead on their
special train.
—At the QUAY banquet in Philadelphia
on Tuesday night five hundred of his fol-
lowers paid $15 each for the satisfaction of
tucking their Trilbies away under the
same table with the ‘‘old man.”” It is in-
cidentally stated that they drank one thou-
sand quarts of champagne and no one got
drunk, all of which goes to prove that the
average QUAY man is just as handy at do-
ing away with Mr. Mum's best product
as he is at getting away with the funds of
Pennsylvania.
—JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE, the Chi-
cago faith “*healer,”’ is skating on very thin
ice just now. The police are after him for
permitting a woman and her little daugh-
ter to die without proper medical treat-
ment and indignant citizens are declaring
they will lynch him the moment they lay
hands on him. The ‘‘laying on of hands’’
seems to be DOWIE’S forte, but so far as
the intention of the would-be lynchers is
concerned they will produce the same result
with a rope that DOWIE has evidently ac-
complished with his hands.
—The christian people of every land
are holding church fairs and seraping up
every nickle and dime possible to keep
missionaries in China ; the world at large
has been called upon to contribute to the
relief of the famine that is now raging in
some parts of that Empire, but that doesn’t
deter the six wealthiest powers of the earth
ip demanding $259,000,000 indemity for
the Boxer uprisings, a sum which China is
not at all able to pay. The powers would
do far better by insisting on the corporal
panishment of the offenders than by extort-
ing what little bit of money they have
from them.
AA CHIOEEIL
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 46
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 17, 1901.
Falsification of the Record.
When a Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives in Harrisburg arose in his place
the other day and declared that he was
recorded as voting on a measure upon
which he had not voted, the Speaker of the
body coolly replied that ‘‘the journal is
the only evidence in the matter and it
showed that he had voted.” Was there
ever in the parliamentary history of the
world as brazen a declaration in favor of
fraud. The gentleman said that he was
not within the chamber when the vote was
taken. Three other gentlemen made
similar declarations with equal emphasis
and subtracting the four fiom the number
of votes recorded for the bill reduced the
number below that required by the con-
stitution to pass a bill. Yet the Speaker
would recognize no evidence except the
falsified record and if a Member had not
interposed a motion to reconsider the vote
by which the bill was alleged to have pass-
ed, it would probably have gone to the
statute books as a law properly enacted.
When a Representative in the Legisla-
ture protested against so infamous a decis-
ion of the chair, the answer . of the Speaker
was that he was fulfilling the rules of the
House. ‘This is a question far beyond
the rules of the House,”' said the properly
indignant Representative in reply, ‘‘it af-
fects the integrity of the constitution, the
fundamental law of the State,’”’ and the
Speaker stood sullen and silent. It was a
machine measure that was in the balance
and the Speaker intended to force it through.
It provided for the legal robbery of the
State of a large and valuable tract of land
on the shore of Lake Erie for the benefit of
alot of ring politicians and the machine
intended that this should be accomplished.
But the motion to reconsider couldn’t be
ignored. Even a member of the minority
has the right to make such a motion and a
Speaker, however arrogant, has no alterna-
tive bat to put it. The motion was put
and carried and the subsequent effort to
pass the bill failed.
In this connection it may be remarked
that persons who have frequented the halls
of the Legislature this year agree that with-
in the knowledge of no living man has
there been such palpable falsification of
the records of votes. On the motion to
postpone the consideration of the capitol
removal biil the other day a ‘‘division”
was demanded and the clerk made the
count. After pretending to make an esti-
mate of the House he reported that forty-
nine had voted in the affirmative and
ninety-five in the negative. The machine
was averse to postponement as the measure
was being used as a whip against some pet
schemes and the motion was deliberately
counted out. Others who made the count
differed as to the result by a few votes, but
agreed that it was close. The official
counters gave a result, however, so ab-
surdly incorrect that everybody laughed
and before the ayes and nays could be de-
manded, the chair had announced the totals
and disposed of the matter.
That has been the rule of the clerks from
the beginning of the session. Various
expedients to remedy the evil have been
invoked but without avail. For a few days
after such an episode as that referred to
some pretence at honesty will be made but
in a short time tuere is a relapse into the
old rut. The machine was wise in the
selection of Speaker and clerks this year, if
its purpose was to pass legislation whether
the body -vas willing or not. Those oc-
cupying ! hose positions will take any
chance te serve the machine and it isa
miracle that they haven’t been impeached
and punished before this. :
——The Philadelphia Zimes, that has
been on the bargain counter since it passed
out of the possession of Col. MCCLURE and
the MCLAUGHLIN estate, has become the
property of ApoLrH S. OcHs Esq., pro-
prietor and publisher of the New York
Times. Mr. GEo. W. OCHS, a brother of
the proprietor will have the general man-
agement of the property and purposes con-
tinuing the Zimesas a ‘‘fundamentally”’
Democratic Journal—whatever that may
mean—divorced from all factional feuds
and independent of partisan conventions,
partisan organization or political leaders.
It will avoid the startling display heads,
pictorial and double-column sensational
features now sn prevalent among the class
of newspapers that mistake display for en-
terprise and imagine unauthorized gossip
to he legitimate news, and will depend up-
on its ability to give ‘‘all the news that is fit
to print,’’ and its general decency as a
newspaper for its recommendation to the
public. That it will succeed on the lines
laid out and again become one of the great
newspapers of the country there can be no
question providing its ‘‘fundamental Dem-
ocracy’’ is of the kind that will retain ‘for
it as patrons the great Democratic masses
who are honest believers in Democratic
principles. Worth brings success and
every indication promises ‘that the Zimes,
under its;new management, will bé worthy
the confidence, the respect and the support
of the public.
Tom Johnson Making History.
ToM JOHNSON, the new and entertaining
Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, declares that he
is making history, and he is. It is not the
heroic variety that Mr. JOHNSON is work-
ing on, and there are no battle scenes or
hairbreadth escapes in the illustrations.
But he is making history tbat stands for
the betterment of the people and contrib-
utes to the comfort of those who need the
kindly word and gracious opportunity. It
is not the kind of history in which MARK
HANNA delights or J. PIERPONT MOR-
GAN would think worth while to give
much thought, but it satisfies Tom JOHN-
soN and a lot of his friends and that is
enough.
For example, the other day ToM took a
stroll out through the park in Cleveland of
which, by virtue of his office, he is one of
the commissioners. Some of the parks at
Cleveland are really beautiful spots adorn-
ed as they are with green grass, radiant
flowers and beautiful shade trees. Tom
enjoyed all these gifts of nature and works
of art to the limit, as CHIMMIE FADDEN
would say, and he strolled about for a con-
siderable time. But there was one thing
in evidence at every turn which marred his
pleasure. The ‘‘Keep off the Grass’’ signs
were an abomination in his eyes, and after
he had finished his inspection he called on
the keeper of the park and ordered the re-
moval of all of them.
Of course the park keeper was amazed at
such an order and naturally concluded that
His Honor the Mayor was suffering from
temporary abberation of the mind. But he
concluded that he would humor the whim
and after saying that the signs would be
removed proceeded to recite the various un-
fortunate things that would happen after
the order had been fulfilled. The grass
will be tramped down, he said and lose all
of its beautiful tints and exquisite fresh-
ness, and as a matter of fact he said before
the summer is half over the park wouldn’t
be fit to be seen. The poor people of the
city, he added will make ita playground,
and their children will romp over the green
from morning till night.
ToM JOHNSON was greatly impressed hy
the remonstrance of the subordinate servant
of the city, but he didn’t change his mind
on the subject of the signs which offended
his eyes. Wouldn’t it be possible, he ask-
ed in his guileless way to keep the grass
green and the parks beautiful even if the
children and others, who have nowhere else
to run, would use them for that purpose,
and after that was reluctantly admitted he
repeated his order to have the signs remov-
ed and added that if the attendants didn’t
perform their duties and keep everything
in order they would be discharged and
more efficient men put in their places.
The Nigger in the Woodpile.
Representative VOORHEES, of Philadel-
phia, makes no concealment of the fact,
now that it is all over, that his capitol re-
moval bill was intended toserve an ulterior
purpose. ‘‘We had no idea of passing it,’’
he remarked to a group of listeners in the
corridor of one of the Harrisburg hotcls a
day or two after its defeat on final passage,
and never dreamed that it would pass sec-
ond reading. But it achieved its purpose
he added, exultingly, unless the signs are
misleading. It frightened those who are
opposed to the removal of the capitol into
agreeing to a bill for the completion of the
capitol at Harrisburg. ‘DURHAM may
not have understood the matter,” con-
tinued Mr, VOORHEES, ‘‘but his brother-in-
law did,and others saw through it clearly.”
That last sentence conceals the ‘‘nigger
in the woodpile.”’ Insurance Commissioner
DURHAM’S brother-in-law is an architect
in Philadelphia and if the present expecta-
tions of the machine are fulfilled he will
be commissioned to make the designs and
saperintend the construction ¢* the work
on the new capital building. In that event,
whether the present building is completed
or torn away to make room for an entirely
new structure, it is safe to predict that a
the pockets of the machine managers.
There has been no hint given out thus far
as to who the commissioners will be in the
event that the Fox bill is concurred in by
the House, but it is certain that they are
known to the bosses for a secretary has al-
ready been chosen.
All together this is a nice feast of plunder
and pillage which the machine is preparing
for those who compose it at the expense of
the people of Pennsylvania. In an inter-
view published in one of the Harrisburg
papers of Monday evening, Senator Fox,
the author of the bill, remarks that the
amendment of the bill by the House com-
mittee requiring the construction of heat-
ing and electric lighting plants without in-
creasing the appropriation is unimportant.
It is estimated that such plants will cost
from half to three-quarters of a million dol-
lars so that if it is unimportant the original
plan of robbery must have been on a large
scale. Under the circumstances it would
be a good plan to cut down the appropria-
tion or insist that a commission be named
that will select someone other than Is.
DurHAM’S brother-in-law” to superintend
the work of construction.
large share of the appropriation will go into
NO. 20.
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To Get Rid ot the Tramps.
The tramp is the fellow the Philadelphia
Inquirer is after, and the fellow it declares
‘“‘must go.”” Much as all of us would be
delighted to see him go, and go to stay,
there are many who doubt if he can ever
be gotten rid of until the conditions that
breed him are changed to others that will
give every man an equal chance.
Prior to the birth of the Republican
party such a creature as a tramp was un-
known in this country. During the early
years of the existence of that party, the
war, and conditions growing out of gov-
ernmental policies that had been establish-
ed by the Democracy, furnished oppor-
tunities to men that prevented excuses for
either indolence or want. As soon, how-
ever, ag the effects of Republican policies
and Republican practices began to be felt,
conditions changed. The country swarmed
with men out of employment, and our
highways were black with those seeking
work and bread. It has been so ever since.
No matter what the situation might be,
whether during the pains and privations of
a panic, or under Mr. McKINLEY’S vaunt-
ed prosperity, it has been the same. And
it will continue so.
Republican policies tend only to extremes
—extremes of wealth or poverty. They are
the foster-father of the centralization of
wealth—the compost heap out of which
cormorant corporations and avaricious
trusts spring. These strangle individual
enterprise, crush personal efforts, lessen
the opportunity for honest labor,
centralize wealth in the hands of the
few, and leave the many with no prospects
but a life time struggle against poverty
and want. There are those who have the
courage to make and continue the fight
against these conditions for at least
a show of living. There are others
who lose hope and courage and manliness—
give up all expectations of better things
and simply fight for an existence. These
become the traveling beggars that every
man’s hand and effort is against.
I6 is not the nature of man to be a tramp.
It is situations and conditions that make
him. Just as it is the footed swamp that
breeds mosquitoes. Change these situations-
remove the conditions that create and
he will disappear just as the draining
and purification of the swamp will ob-
liberate the mosquito.
To check the evil, the cause must be re-
moved. This cause is traceable plainly and
directly to the policies of the Republican
party. In these are the bacilli of the
scolirge now upon the country. It is to
these that the remedy must be applied.
Do away with these. Make the party that
has created and is enforcing them “go.”
When it goes--its polices which are the
breeding beds of trampism—will go ,and
with them will disappear the tramp.
In this lies the remedy the Inquirer
seeks.
The People Want to Know.
The most frequent inquiry heard in rela-
tion to the Legislature at present is why is
the session being prolonged ? Four months
and a-balf have elapsed since the organiza-
tion on New Year’s day and during all the
intervening period the labor has been to
kill time. During the first two weeks less
than five days were spent in session and in
all the first six weeks only the actual legis-
lative time of two weeks was eonsumed in
the transaction of business. Even now the
Senate only sits one or two days a week
and on Friday morning last the House ad-
journed until ‘Wednesday evening of this
week for the ostensible purpose of attend-
| ing a dinner in honor of QUAY in Phila-
delphia on Tuesday evening.
But the time drags on and the Legisla-
ture does nothing. The general appropria-
tion bill has been reported and is on the
calendar of the House, but there is no hurry
to reach it.. A few of the other customary
appropriation bills have been reported and
put in position to be taken up at leisure.
But the small appropriations, those pet
measures of the politicians which are used
to draw money from the State Treasury in
order to bestow it on the county, township
and ward bosses, are still held where they
are under absolute control of the machine.
The managers know that until each Mem-
ber has secured the appropriation for bis
own little hospital he will remain in Har-
risburg if he can’t pay his boarding.
But what is the cause of the delay ? The
machine managers understand that there is
great bazard to the party in power in keep-
ing a legislative body distinguished for
nothing but venality and subserviency in
session. They are aware that the wretch-
ed tools who compose the present body are
liable to break into some orazy freak at
any moment. And still they take all these
chances in order to keep the Legislature
together. And for what? Are they wait-
ing the action of the Supreme court on the
‘‘ripper”’ or is it that QUAY intends to re-
sign and it is important that his successor
shall be chosen at once ? The people would
like to know. :
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—— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
New Element in Speculation.
The Wall street flurry, during the con-
tinuance of which grave men ran wild and
wise men became fools, has developed a
new element in speculative life, which may
have an important influence on future
operation. In other words that marvelous
as well as artful legal dodger, the injunc-
tion has obtruded into the speculative
arena, and if it is able to retain the position
it has usurped the matter of buying or sell-
ing long or short will become a farce of the
most magnified type. In the case in point
it is to be hoped it will fail, however, for
it appears to be the expedient of a broker
During the excitement of last Thursday,
it appears, a broker whose name has not
been divulged sold Northern Pacific short,
and after the fever had subsided he was
unable to fulfill his agreement at the price
fixed or any other figure. Thereupon he
applied to Judge GILDERSLEEVE for an in-
junction against J. P. MORGAN & Co.,
KunN, LoEB & Co., and all others who
might want the shares of that corporation,
to restrain them from enforcing contracts.
The reason he assigned for making such a
request of the court is that the broker who
purchased from him was acting for parties
who held all the stock at the time, and
knew that it was impossible for him to car-
ry out his contract and deliver the stock.
Of course that was a false and fraudulent
pretense and the Judge ought to have
“laughed him out of court.” But he
didn’t do anything of the kind. On the
contrary he issued the restraining order,
and thus showed that he isn’t afraid of the
financial leviathans on one hand or the
‘consequences of taking liberties with the
law on the other. This is probably the
last extremity to which government by in-
junction can possibly be stretched and
most people will be pleased, rather than of-
fended, because its last whack was at those
who went into conniption fits because the
Chicago platform told the truth about it
in 1896.
——SAM Cross, a Philipsburg resident,
put a $10 bill in a cupboard for safe keep-
ing, but a rat found it and carried it off
and already SAM is of the opinion that
that rat has been mixed up with Philips-
burg politics at one time or anetigr ge
Leave Cuba to tiie Cnbans.
From the Philadelphia Times.
An interesting interchange of courtesies
took place at the border station of EI Paso
between the President of the United States
and the President of Mexico. It must have
suggested the idea that a Spanish-
American Republic can exist and pursue
its peaceful way side by side with the
United States, without disadvantage to
either.
To be sure, this peaceful condition was
not worked out without much friction be-
tween the two countries, and the President
will say that in the case of Cuba he has
been trying to provide against a recurrence
of the difficulties that kept the United
States and Mexico so long at odds. Bat if
the history of Texas, recalled by the Presi-
dent’s journey, teaches anything it is that
the best way to promote freedom and in-
‘dependence is to let people work out their
liberties for themselves. The annexation
of Texas came about by natural process
after its independence was secured.
No outside power is now threatening the
independence of Cuba. Our interference
there has accomplished its purpose and we
shall be perfectly safe to let the Cubans
alone. If they should afterward wish to
come into the Union, like Texas, itis for
them to say so; if they should prefer to
keep by themselves, ‘they can do us no
harm. : :
Mexico has remained entirely Mexican;
Texas has become entirely American. The
two civilizations may be observed, side by
side along the border, but one predominates
on either side. The attempt to operate
two differing political systems or ideals in
partnership is never likely to prove suo-
cessful on a large scale. Until Cuba is
Americanized it will be better to leave it
to the Cubans. hy
Circumstances Alter Cases
From the Venango Spectator.
In his sermon last Sunday, Dr. Park:
hurst made this salty and sarcastic com-
ment on the notion which some people
have of prayer and its uses in human af-
fairs : ‘‘A good many members of this con-
gregation have asked that prayer might be
made for themselves or their friends when
about to sail for Europe. But so far as I
remember not a soul ever solicited such
prayerful remembrance when about to start
for San Francisco by the overland route.
Land is more solid than water and many
are filled with the thought that it takes
less God to see a train safely across the con-
tinent than to see a boat safely across the
Atlantic. = People are devout when they
are a little scared, but recover and turn
esthetic when they strike terra firma. The
liveliest prayer meetings ever held were on
the decks of vessels foundering or afire.”’
Catches It Both Ways,
From the Hughesville Mail.
- An international trust protected hy a
tariff of forty to fifty per cent. now controls
the supply of that useful article, sewing
thread to American tailors, sewing women
and households. . The best of the joke, for
all trusts are merely harmless jokes, is that
the trust, called the ‘‘American Thread
Company, ’’ was really organized in England
and is an English concern, which sent over
its agents to appraise the value of all the
American establishments which were taken
in, The trusts now run pretty much every-
thing from a railroad to a spool of cotton,
or your coffee, sugar or the oil in the house-
hold lamp. All pay tribute. That patient
beast, the American consumer, catches it
| coming and going.
Spawls from the Keystone. ;
—Joseph Gainer Jr., a tanner at Falls
Creek, dropped on the street while on his
way home Saturday evening and expired.
He was 27 years old. :
—The dead bedy of a man named Farnham
was found along the P. and E. tracks at
Emporium Monday morning. It is supposed
the man fell asleep on the road and was
struck by a train. He leavesa wife and four
children.
—1In a coal mine near Somerfield, Somerset
county, which has been worked for fifty
years, the discovery has just been made of a
four foot vein under the five foot vein, which
had been worked all these years. The dis-
tance between the two veins is only a few
feet.
—Jacob Brodbeck, a leading citizen of
Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, while in a
field at work Monday was stricken with
paralysis and at once lapsed into unconscious-
ness, in which condition he remained until a
late hour that night, when he died. The
funeral was held at 2 o'clock Wednesday af-
ternoon.
—A carload of orphans passed through Ty-
rone Tuesday morning on St. Louis express
enroute from New York to Missouri, where
homes have been found for them. T here
were 53 of them and they were in charge of
a member of the state board of charities of
New York and several nurses. None of the
children was over 5 years of age.
—The citizens of Williamsport have put up
a $215,000 guaranty fund, and it is expected
to wield great influence in the securing of in-
dustrial concerns for the town. Subscriptions
to the guaranty fund range from $500 to $5,-
000 and the manner of its disposal is placed
in the hands of an executive committee and
a board of trustees.
—Recently a meteor fell near Hyndman,
Bedford county, and exploded when within
200 feet of the ground. Windows in the up-
per part of the town were rattled and the ex-
plosion was heard forseveral miles. It light-
ed up the heavens, and was seen distinetiy
at Hoblitzell, some miles away. The explo-
sion occurred a short distance above the
Close planing mill.
—The Rev. R. P. Miller, who has been pas-
| tor of the First Presbyterian church of Home-
stead for about fourteen years, has tendered
his resignation ‘as pastor there and has ac-
cepted a call to the First Presbyterian church
at Philipsburg, where, he states, on account
of lighter duties and the salubrious climate
in the Alleghenies, he expects to regain his
health, which has been failing of late.
—Friday morning at Mt. Dallas, Bedford
county, the locomotive No. 15, of a fast
freight on the Huntingdon and Broad Top
railroad blew up. Four men being instantly
killed. Their names are A. G. Bergstresser,
engineer; C. A. Hollingshead, conductor; R.
C. Ritchey, brakeman; E. S. Edwards, fire-
man. All of the men were residents of Sax-
ton. They were all single with the exception
of Ritchey, who had been married a few
weeks.
—The fine dwelling of David Johnson, near
Home Camp, Clearfield county, which cost
$5,200 when..it was built, was burned on the
morning of the 4th inst., with its contents.
Mr. Johnston had just come home from Du-
Bois, had hung up a pair of pants with $90 in
one pocket, and this went up in smoke. The
women were baking and ironing and had a
pretty good fire, but just how it caught is not
known. There was but $800 insurance on
the property.
—A Greensburg paper is authority for the
statement that black diphtheria has broken
out among the foreign element at Export,
Westmoreland county, and the people there
are very much alarmed over the matter, hav-
ing taken every possible precaution to
prevent its spread. It is said that two
deaths from the disease have occurred in
one family at Export and that two more cases
have developed.
—The Elder township, Cambria county,
school directors, it is said, propose suing the
Pennsylvania Railroad company for the de-
struction of the Libby school house, near
Hastings, by the fire started by sparks from
a locomotive on the Hasting branch of the
Cambria and Clearfield division on May 3rd.
All the books and records of the school were
burned. The sparks set fire to the woods
near the tracks, the blaze spreading and do-
ing much damage.
—It issaid that Congressman M. E. Olm-
sted, of Harrisburg, had 100 shares of North-
ern Pacific and tried hard to sell them when
the stock was up around the $1,000 mark.
He was unfortunately in Harrishurg with his
stock certificates and as telegraphic orders
were ruled out at the New York stock ex-
change and Mr. Olmsted could not reach the
market in time to unload he lost an opportu-
nity of adding many thousandsto his already
comfortable fortune.
—The Rev. W. Emerson Karns, Methodist
minister at Jersey Shore, who advertised that
he would distribute money to every one at-
tending his church Sunday evening last,
kept his promise. The church was packed
tothe doors. To each person was given an
envelope containing one cent. The clergy-
man preached his sermon from the parable
of talents, and said he expected every per-
son to whom he had given a penny to invest
it and turn in the proceeds on September 1st,
to help pay the church debt.
—William Williams, colored, aged 28 years
who says his home is at Williamsport, Md.,
and who has been working for Contractor
Patton in the construction of the new West
Branch Valley railroad, was arrested at
Philipsburg Monday morning on the arrival
of the 12:10 train by officer Harry Simler on
a warrant sworn Sunday by a Frenchville
justice. He is charged with having on Sat-
urday attempted to murder Grant Gates and
threatened to kill James Rider, one of the
bosses. He was taken to Clearfield jail that
evening.
—Mrs. Louis Null, of Winterset, Cambria
county, was fatally burned Saturday. Mrs.
Null’s apron caught fire, and in her effort to
extinguish the flames her hands were burned
to a crisp and she was unable to remove her
clothing. In terror Mrs. Null ran a quarter
of a mile to a neighbor, who was working in
a field, but as her clothing had nearly all
burned off her, she retreated, going back to
the house. Then she tried to get into the
spring house, but the door was locked. Go-
ing half a mile away to where her husband
was working, Mrs, Null arrived too late to
save her life, ;