GRAY MEEK.
BY P.
Ink Slings.
They say there's lot's 0’ curious things,
You can find them everywhere,
But the gol-darndest curiest one
Is a pumpkinless connty fair.
— The last bell has rung for the straw
hat.
——The great Centre county fair beats
Dyrenforth as a rainmaker.
- —The fastest horse doesn’t always win
the race, but that’s no excuse for its being
slow.
—BooTH, GUITEAU, CzoLGosz. Mur-
derers. Most atrocious of them all CzoL-
GOSZ.
—The accident to the President has put
the quietns on the HANNA and ROOSE-
VELT boomers.
— HANNA and ROOSEVELT had no sooner
left the President’s bedside than he began
to grow better. Strange, wasn’t it?
—The biggest pumpkin at the fair on
Thursday was mounted on top of the fel-
low who said it wounldn’t rain.
—We have had fair weather this week,
of course, but not the kind of fair weather
to please the fair management.
— Lieutenant Governor GOBIN’S notion
that he is done with politics will probably
only hold good until he wants ‘something
else.
--EMMA GOLDMAN, the anarchistic fire
brand, is in jail and, all things considered,
that is about the best place in the world
for her.
—The weather is gradually putting the
flies out of business, but in parting they
are doing their best to leave a lasting im-
pression.
—Boston needs school houses. What |
for, pray? We have been under the im-
pression for a long time that they have
nothing more to learn at the ‘‘hub.”
——Lots of fellows kick so hard at heing
burned in effigy that we are put to, to im-
agine what they will do when they get the
real scorching that awaits them.
—We were divided on the question as to
who should be the President, but we are
one in the prayer to High Heaven $0 pre-
serve him who is the President.
—Lord KITCHENER is beginning to ca-
ble home again about the capture of large
numbers of Boers, but the Boers seem to
be able to recruit from some source, for
they are holding their own all the time. -
—The SCHLEY trial is now on at Wash-
ington. Let us hope that for the honor of
the Navy the bureaucrats will not be per-
brave soldier as the gallant Admiral.
—The Stalwarts in Centre county will
be very apt to remember the three gentle-
men who will attend the Union convention
in Philadelphia next week, as the repre-
sentatives from the county.
—Three Presidents assassinated within
thirty-six years is far too many for a Re-
publican form of government. Mad men,
of course cannot be cured, hut anarchists
could be exterminated. :
—~Since we are on the hunt of trouble
why not buy Iceland and relieve the Danes
of the warming up they are threatened
with by the denizens of their “ice vbound
colony in the Arctics.
—The Royal trust company of Chicago
employs young women as hank tellers and
the inference naturally arises that it must
be a very sound institution. If it were
otherwise its secrets would leak so soon
that it would have to close.
‘—According to the report of the census
bureau, just issued, there are one hundred
and sixty thousand, nine hundred aud six-
ty seven more men than women in Penn-
sylvania, yet you would never guess that
such is the case from the relative at-
tendance at church or prayer meetings.
—The attempted assassination of Presi-
sident McKINLEY has brought universal
sorrow. In an hour of trial like this
everything is forgotten and the whole
country hangs on the bulletins from his
bedside, meanwhile praying that each suc-
ceeding one will bring a more hopeful mes-
sage.
——The anti-QuUAY Republicans who
think they can’t support PALM for State
Treasurer, because they might be in danger
of losing their party standing, are certainly
taking a queer view of the matter. They
have no party in Pennsylvania that they
could care to have any standing in and, be-
sides, they are asking the Democracy to do
exactly what they insist wouldn't be right
for them todo. Pye
——The ‘‘four hundred’’ have a new fad
;now. They are having parties for their
dogs. Of course such little gatherings of
canines wonld be very interesting and
elevating (?) to the vapid upper crust of
New York, if the dogs are good mannered,
bus if any of them should happen to forget
that there is a proper time and place for all
things, what a commotion there would be.
—The Meadville Messenger finds ground
for felicitating with Mr. PALM in the state-
ment made by. the Crawldrd Journal to the
effect that he will be beaten for State
Treasurer. The Messenger says that both
times Mr. PALM ran for: Assemblyman in:
that district the Journal predicted, his de-
feat and, inasmuch as he , was elested both
times, the signs are encouraging for him
{or State Treasurer. -
Demacralic’
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 46
Disability of the President.
The question of what constitutes ‘‘in-
ability to discharge the duties of the said
office” of President of the United States as
contemplated by the constitution has again
arisen and will for a time at least occupy
public attention. In 1881 while President
GARFIELD was suffering from the wound
inflicted by the assassin GUITEAU the sub-
ject was widely and freely discussed. For
some reason the late Mr. BLAINE, then
Secretary of State was anxious that Vice
President ARTHUR should come forward
and assert a claim to the office on the
ground that the wounded President was
physically unable to discharge the duties,
and he had abont prevailed on his associ-
ates in the President’s official house-hold
to join him in urging the Vice President to
do so. But General ARTHUR put his foot
down on the scheme with such weight that
it was abandoned. Now that President
McKINLEY is similarly disqualified from
active work the subject is again relevant.
Probably the present Vice President
would take a different view of the question
than that adopted by the late General
ARTHUR! it were up to him, but there is
not likely to be the same zeal in thus locat-
ing it this time. In other words ROOSE-
VELT’s haste to reach Buffalo after the in-
formation of the attack on the President
reached him indicates a perfect willingness
on his part to enter into the office on the
slightest provocation. But there is nobody
high in authority urging him to enter up-
on the duties of the office whilea vast pro-
portion of the people are hoping tbat he
will never succeed to it,and that being true
he will likely refrain from asserting the
claim himself. Such an act would not only
make him unpopular but in the event of
the President’s recovery would subject him
to impeachment for usurping an office to
which he was mot elected. That would be
not only embatrassing but exceedingly
dangerous.
It may be accepted as a settled fact,
though there has been no legal decision on
the subjeot, that the inability contemplat-
ed by the constitution can never happen in
the way that Presidents GARFIELD and
MoKINLEY were injared. If after a Presi-
dent was ina ted he should develop
mitted to besmirch the record of such aj. © 35 ° BEY P
incurable lunacy there would be justifica-
tion in removing him from office and in-
stalling the Viee President in his place.
Bat it is not clear how the matter would be
proceeded with even if the occasion should
arise. Only the Supreme court is author-
ized to construe the constitution and only
physicians can estimate the character of
diseases. Under the circumstances the
probable course would be for a jury of emi-
nent physicians to examine the patient and
report upon the nature and extent of the
malady and for the Supreme court to de-
termine whether the report brought the
case within the constitutional provision. It
is not likely, however, that such proceed-
ings will be invoked in the present in-
stance.
Cause and Effect.
No good citizen can fail to deprecate the
unfortunate incident’ which occurred in
Buffalo a week ago, but no thoughtfal man
will fail to trace the effect from the cause.
In other words much as we regret the inci-
dent which might have involved the coun-
tryin a panic and added another to the
list of murdered rulers, we cannot escape
from the fact that the example set by the
leaders of the party in power leads logical-
ly to such incidents. We would not be
understood as charging the Republican
leaders with deliberately planning murder.
They are altogether too wise for that. Bat
they do things which make men disregard
the sanctity of human life, and the mur-
ders follow. ;
For example, less than two years ago the
Governor—elect of Kentucky was shot down
in broad day light in the capitol park, as
he was approaching the state house in the
performance of his duty asa Senator in
the Legislature. ‘Not only the acting Gov-
ernor but all the Republican leaders of the
State joined in the effort to prevent the
prosecution and punishment of the criminals
and one of the accused was made the hero
of the national convention at which the
most recent victim of an assassin’e hullet
was nominated for President. If that was
not a deliberate effort to promote crime we
are unable to reason from cause to effect.
All the evidence taken in the trial of
the assassins of Governor GOEBEL, of Ken-
tucky, showed that the plot was devised in
the office of the acting Governor and that
he had guilsy knowledge of the conspiracy
it he did not actually participate in the
execution of the orime. Yet the present
Vice President, of the United States who
was then Governor of New York, refused to
honor a requisition from the authorities of
Kentucky for the extradition of the crim-
inal in order that he might be properly
punished. The Republican’ Governor. of
Indiana did precisely the same thing and
the present Governor of Pennsylvania
would have done'so too, if the requisition
had been drawn. That was sewing to the
wind and the act in Buffalo on Friday was
simply thie harvest of the whirlwind.
A Change of Policy.
That the Republican party is preparing
to shift its policies on economic questions
is now practically admitted. The recent
call of a conference of the members of the
national association of manufacturers
clearly reveals the restlessness of the cam-
paign contributors in consequence of the
obvious fact that the DINGLEY tariff sched-
ules are threatening the export trade in
manufactured products. The speech of
President McKINLEY at Buffalo, on Thurs-
day of last week, shows quite as distinctly
that be has discerned the handwriting on
the wall and is ready to take the lead ina
forward march to more reasonable policies.
The endorsement of his declaration by
“Holland,” the Wall street representative
of the Philadelphia Press, as the ‘‘Keynote’’
of future Republican policies, is, moreover,
full confirmation of the conjucture.
The President was exceedingly candid in
his speech at Buffalo on the subject. He
spoke of reciprocity and no intelligent
reader of his address has been deceived by
the subterfuge. He meant free trade and
be clearly wanted the leaders of his party
to understand him on the point. ‘‘We
should sell everything we can,’’ was his
exact language, and ‘‘buy wherever the
buying will enlarge our sales.”” This
doesn’t imply buying from Belgium,
France, Germany or any of the semi-bar-
barous colonies and dependencies which
consume little and have no money to buy
anything ut maintain tariffs that may be
cut down by reciprocal agreements. It
means to buy from whoever will buy in
return and take our surplus products in’
exchange for their own commodities. The
market he had in mind is Great Britain.
But we cannot sell goods to Great Brit-
ain under a reciprocity agreement to re-
duce our tariff rates. Great Britain has no
tariff rates to reduce. She takes the great-
est proportion of our exports, but, as the
President stated in his Buffalo speech, she
is likely to quit taking unless we take
some of her surplus products. ‘We must
not repose in fancied security that we can
forever sell everything and buy nothing,’’
he declared. There is no suggesting of
tariff reducing reoiprocity in that. It is
free trade, pure and simple,and implies that
free trade will be the policy of the Repub-
lican party hereafter.
are ready to shift and take away the Dem-
ocratic thunder now that it has become
popular. It will be a repetition of past ex-
periences. History repeats itself in every-
thing.
Postponed But Not Defeated.
Sota
The attempted assassination of the Pres-
ident and the precarious condition of his
health in consequence, prevented the con-
vention of the Independent Republicans in
Philadelphia, which was called for yester-
day to nominate candidates for Justice of
the Supreme court and State Treasurer.
If the convention had been held, as was
| contemplated when the call was issued, it
is more than probable that HERMAN YER-
KES would have been nominated for Jus-
tice of the Supreme court and F. W. Co-
RAY, of Luzerne county, for State Treas-
urer.
But the failure of the convention to meet
yesterday will not defeat the purpose of
those who are in sympathy with it. It has
simply heen postponed until next Thurs-
day, September 19th, when the gentlemen
named will be put in nomination. Judge
YERKES is already the Democratic nominee
and as the movement is supported by 100,-
000 Republicans his nomination by the com-
ing convention will practically guarantee his
election. The Republican party never had
a m#tjority of more than 100,000 in the State
on a fair vote. Taking that number from
Justice POTTER and adding them to the
Democratic vote, which = will be cast for
YERKES, will make a change of 200,000 and
his election cert ain. :
This is a most gratifying nope. Judge
YERKES will adorn the bench and the elec-
tion of the Republican candidate to that
office would raise a question as to the in-
tegrity of the court of last resort. POTTER
has already proved his unfitness for the
place. He has already prostituted the
high office and caused a suspicion againsé
the tribunal. It is fortunate, therefore,
that we are practically certain to ‘escape
further humiliation in that direction.
YERKES’ character is a guarantee of fidel-
ity to duty and his election will be an
honor to the State.
A ——
_——Dr, David Barron, who in his pas-
torate of forty years in the Hollidaysburg
Presb yterian church has exceeded in con-
secutive service any living minister in Cen-
tral Pennsylvania, is a native of Centre
county. : Dr. is not old by any means, but
he is one of the very few surviving mem- |
bers of the once well known and prominent
Ferguson township family. Rev. Dr.
Smith, of Baltimore, moderator of the
Presbyterian general assembly assisted at
the anniversary services which wére held
in Dr. Barron’s church on Sunday in com-
memoration of the event. In his pastorate’
of forty years he has officiated at 500 fu- |
nerals, 550 baptisms, 314 marriages and’
there ' have been 850 accessions to the
church membership.
The opportunists {
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BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 13, 1901.
Attempt to Murder the President.
On Friday evening shortly after 4 o'clock
President McKINLEY, who was at the time
holding a reception in the Temple of Music
at the Pan-American exposition, Buffalo,
was shot twice by an anarchist who first
gave his name as NEIMAN and his residence
as Chicago. One of the balls struck him
near the centre of the breast and glanced
off, making only a flesh wound. The oth-
er entered his ahdomen and passed through
his stomach, slightly shattering both walls,
and thoogh not necessarily fatal is a dan-
gerous wound. The perpetrator of the
crime who has been identified as a man
named CzoLGosz whose father and family
reside in Cleveland, Ohio, isin custody.
He says he had no confederates.
Happily the wound did not prove fatal,
for if it had the greatest calamity which
could have befallen this country would
have been the result. The loss of a life is
not so grave a matter of itself and the life
of a President is much like the life of any
other man, but the willful murder of a
man of amiable characteristics who has
done no injury to any one and the deliber-
ate killing of the Chief Magistrate of a
Christian Republic are matters of the great-
est gravity. President McKINLEY was a
man of singularly pure life. More than
most men he was free from such vices as
injure or impress his fellow men and those
facts ought have guaranteed him safety:
from murderous attack.
We sincerely hope that the purposes of
the assassin will be disappointed ‘in the
present instance. We earnestly pray that
in the Providence of God our President may
be restored to health and strength to fulfill
the mission which his fellow citizens ap-
pointed him to perform at the last presi-
dential election. We have not agreed with
his political policies and probably will not
in the future, though in a speech delivered
the day before he was attacked he uttered
economic doctrines for which we have been
contending for years. But the perpetuity
the Republic is jeopardized when the Presi-
dent is muidered and however we differ
from him we would be the first to shield
him from an assassin. :
S———
Still Waiting and “Watching. =~
The people of Pennsylvania are still
watching with unabated interest the polit-
ical developments in Pittsburg. Senator
FLINN’S second gold brick has been reveal-
ed and the question that interests every-
body is ‘‘how long will he stand it?”
QUAY’s sufficient answer to the inquiry is
‘‘It doesn’t matter’’. That is to say the
QUAY organization has conditions so well in
hand in Pittsburg that the veteran leader
can afford to snap his fingers at FLINN
and he is now doing it at his leisure, but
with unerring certainty.
When the thin gilding was torn off the
first gold brick which Governor STONE had
given to the Pittsburg Senator, his indig-
nation was most vehement and it is said
he actually fooled STONE into the belief
that he amounted to something. But he
didn’t fool Quay. That veteran politician
saw the real thing behind the mask at the
first glance and instead of temporizing
with the frand, he simply denounced him
in round térms. It wasn’t that QUAY
dislikes false and. fraudulent pretense. On
the contrary the bluff made him think the
better of the Senator. But he felt that
there is no use in placating an enemy who
is withont power to influence injury.
From the standpoint of practical politics,
moreover, QUAY was right. In order to
have fulfilled the Governor’s promise to
FLINN the Governor would have been com-
pelled to sacrifice his own friends or one of
them. That would simply have been
brutal on one hand and idiotic on the oth-
er. QUAY has no friends in Pittsburg that
‘are not faithful to him. Assuming that
FLINN is equally- valuable in getting votes
there would have been nothing gained by
the transaction. But as a. matter of fact,
FLINN isn’t equally valuable. He is out
of ‘the vote getting business:
A Month With Edison.
Edward MoGarvey, Bellefonte’s yonng
inventor, who has been at work for several
years on an electrical vibratory weighing
machine to weigh railroad, mine and
other cars while in motion and without
being broken in their train," has just re-
turned from East Orange, N. J. He was
there working and studying in the wizard
Edison’s great laboratory for a mnionth,
having been invited by Mr. Edison, who
was attracted to him by an article he pub-,
lished in the Scientific American some tim
ago. :
Edward had several interviews with Mr.
Edison, who pronounced his invention ‘‘all
right,’ hut did not go into details with
him. Later Edward went over to New
Forks ‘where he met Nicola Tesla, the great
érvian scientist. The latter became very
much interested in the invention and was
enthusiastic in his statements that it is not
only pragticable, but that our young inven-
‘gor is on the right road to its accomplish~
mené.
Sui
NO. 36.
An Honest Man and a Would be
Briber. ?
From the Pittsburg Post.
Some good stories are toldof the late
General Ludlow. One illustrates his
physical courage at the battle of El Caney
but the other reveals a different kind of
courage and it must be said, a nobler and
higher kind. Once when General Ludlow,
then a colonel of engineers, was in charge
of some important Government contracts, a
contractor came into his office and slip
into ‘his hand a bill of a large denomination
at the same time spoke of the size of his
bid for certain Government work. Colonel
Ludow at once made the contractor feel at
home by smiling and inviting him to take
chair. Then he handed the contractor
a cigar. The visitor by this time a
was in high feather over the apparent suc-
cess of his attempt at bribery, bu his idea
of Ludlow was suddenly changed. ‘‘Won’t
you havea light, too ?’’ asked the colonel,
and stepping to the fireplace with the bill
he lighted it and politely handed it in a
flame to the contractor's cigar, where he
held it until it was entirely consumed. It
is related that there was a deep silence;
then the contractor went away gloomily
and never returned. General Ludlow’s
physical courage at El Caney makes a good
story, but his moral courage in the'face of
a corrupt contractor makes a better one.
This Advise is Easy to Give Three Days
After the Tragedy.
From the Altoona Tribune.
In the midst of the excitement and in-
dignation and blind rage which swept over’
the American people when they found
themselves compelled to credit the an-
nouncement that the President was wound-
ed well nigh unto death, it is not surpris-
ing that some rash and foolish expressions
leaped to the lips of men. The wonder is
that those who spoke for their, countrymen
retained their sanity as well as they did.
At the moment when a professed anarchist
emphasizes the contempt of his kind for’
law and the wise restraints of society by at-
tempting to take the life of the one who
more fully than any of his countrymen
represents the idea of government accord-
ing to law, every good citizen should guard
his tongue and make moderation and 'ui-
swerving loyalty to law and order she rule
of his life.
it AGain
fon.
From the Philadelphia Record. .
Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina,
still ‘boasts of his Support of the Hanna-
Erye steamship subsidy bill on the ground
that in the operation of the law the expor~
tation of Sonthern cotton would be greatly
promoted. not
They Will Try Next Sess
There does seem to, be
much in the argument, in view of the fact
that enough ships are now afloat to carry
away all the surplus cotton of the South as
well as the wheat of the North. Why,
then, should the American people impose
upon themselves an enormous burden for
subsidy for what has already been accom-
plished? But the steamship bill of the
late session, which Senator McLaurin ad-
vocated, was so obnoxious in many respects
that its passage through the Republican
House was extremely doubtful. For this
reason the bill is now undergoing exten-
sive repairs, with the hope of rendering it
acceptable to the next Congress.
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Czolgosz’'s Teacher.
Some Facts Concerning the Notorious Anarch-
ist Advocate, Emma Goldman.
Emma Goldman, known to the police of
New York as the ‘‘Little Fireband,” and
to whpse inspiration Czolgosz attributes
his desire to kill the President, was last
seen in Chicago about May or June last.
Capt. Titus. says definite information con-
cerning her whereabouts was ‘recently had
from Toledo. ' She is about 35 years old
and the daughter of a Russian tailor. Her
infancy and early youth were passed near
Koosh, Russia, and during that period she
received little or no edumoation' and heard
nothing of anarchism or its kindred theo-
ries. 33 : i Wh
She bas been in this country about sev-
enteen years. She became - Mrs. Gruene-
baum when about 20, and lived ‘in Roch-:
ester, N. Y., fora year and :4' half after
her marriage. Her busband is said to be
there now. She met LonisBernstein there,
a radical anarchist, and became interested
in his theories. "She was elected a member,
of the Pioneers of Liberty, - an anarchistic:
group, twelve years ago.: She . dropped.
her husband’s name and called herself
Goldman, her maiden name. She was the
only woman: member of the . Pioneers of.
Liberty, and startled even Most’s followers:
by the violence of her doctrines. She got
the floor on every occasion and preached
the extreme form of anarchy.
She jumped on a table one night and
ended a long harangue with the remark :
‘‘The day is near, brethren, when: instead’
of cooking coffee for you, your. wives. will.
be cooking dynamite,’”’ The’ Pioneers for
that and similiar utterances expelled Em-
ma Goldman after a three weeks’ ‘mem-|
bership. ; a :
‘Emma Goldman abandoned Bernstein
for Alexander Berkmann, another noted
anarchist, and the two men engaged in a
fist fight ‘about her. Subsequently she
placed herself under the tutelage of John
Most. She had a quarrel with the latter
on the platform of an anarchist meeting,
in December, 1892, and beat him with a
horsewhip. After Berkmann shot Henry
C. Frick she became an ardent anvocate of
the principles of the assassin, and was re.
garded as an idol of the extreme anarchist.
She drank beer and made speeches on every
possible occasion. Though half starved, at
times the woman continued her crusade of
violence and denunciation of capital. Her
appearance on the platform during the
cloakmakers strike, managed by Joseph
Barondess, added to her reputation.
She was sent to jail in 1893 for inciting
riot, and during her incarceration she
rote articles fas hie paper, Die Brand fae-
kel (The Flaming Torch), reaffirming her
devotion to the. cause of violence. She
studied medigine, and upon her. release
continued the study, and was graduated as
a doctor. She speaks English, German
and Russian, bat not correctly.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—There are eight cases of diphtheria at
Falls Creek, Clearfield county, and much
consternation exists.
—The coffin in which William Knorr, a
prominent citizen of Berwick, was buried
Tuesday cost $2,000. It was made of ma-
hogany and lined with copper.
—Sydney A. Rich, aged 20 years, of Scalp
Level, was accidentally shot while in the
woods with. three companions, on Sunday,
and died a few minutes after having been
carried to his home.
—The West Branch road is expected to be
advanced far enough as will permit the run-
ning of trains by March 1st. The amount of
cash paid thus far into the construction of
the road will reach $800,000.
—E. W. Coffin, of Coudersport, claims the
cow milking record. He has kept from
nineteen to forty-two cows for thirty years,
milked 270 days in the year and averaged
ten cows at a milking, or twenty a day. In
all, he has milked 162,000 cows.
- —Jack Mousley was arrested on Saturday
upon the charge of having stolen a watch
from Miss Sadie Gamble, a daughter of sheriff
Gamble, of Lycoming county. The theft is
alleged to have been committed while Mous-
ley was a prisoner in the county jail.
—Yocum’s large creamery, at Kelly X.
Roads, Lycoming county, was completely
destroyed by fire about 9 o'clock Friday
night. The origin of the fire is unknown.
The place was insured. The fire made a big
blaze, and the light was plainly seen at Mil-
ton.
—A powder explosion destroyed a house in
Bull Hill, an Irwin suburb, Saturday morn-
ing. An infant is supposed to have perished
in the flames and the mother and another
child, a little girl, were fatally burned. The
victims were taken to the Westmoreland
hospital, at Greensburg, Saturday afternoon.
—Annie Welsh, the 8-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Mary Welsh, a widow, of Penfield, died
Sunday night from injuries received last
’| Friday by being trampled on by a horse. She
was walking along the road, and a horse
driven by Dr. Jesse E. Beach, of DuBois,
frightened at a bicycle and she was knocked
down. }
—Here is a Perry county snake story:
Thursday last, Edward and Jesse Holmes
while chopping timber on Mahonoy ridge,
killed seven of the largest old copperhead
snakes they say they ever saw in about ten
minutes, and they heard more crawling in
the leaves that they did not get on account
of going down the mountain for dinner.
—The superintendent of the Philipshurg
schools announces that children the age of 6
years before January 1st, 1902, will be ad-
mitted to the schools during the opening two
weeks of the term,but none will be admitted
thereafter. It is scarcely likely, however,
that he would persist if some parent should
invoke the aid of the law, which is miglitier
than the most bumptious school officer.
—Mark Voyce, an aged employe of the
street commissioners’ department, Johns-
town dropped dead while at work about 8;30
o'clock Saturday morning in an alley near
the Lutheran church, on Chandler avenue,
in Morrellville.” He had gone to work that
morning apparently ‘in his usual health,
which was not very robust, and while work-’
ing along with Thomas Ivory dropped over
dead. '
—*Good-bye, mamma; I'm going away
forever; you'll never see me again.”” The
above message, written by Ella Hite, an 18
year old girl of Oakville,a suburb of Latrobe,
and found Saturday at noon by her mother,
Mrs. William Hite, explains in part a dis-
appearance that is puzzling the police officials
at Latrobe. The girl was engaged to be mar-
rfed,and no plausible theory can he advanced
why she should run off. At last accounts
she had not been located.
—The body of Miss Salina Hetler, daugh-
ter of Louis Hetler Sr., of near Farragut,
Lycoming county, was found in Scott's Mill
creek, not far from her home, about 10 o’clock
Sunday forenoon. The young lady had long
been deranged, at one time having been con-
fined in an asylum. She was aged about 28
years. She was subject to epileptic fits, and
it is the opinion of her friends that death:
was not’ due to suicidal intent, but to the’
fact that she was attacked bya fit while
crossing the creek, ?
—Ri:zhard Jennings, foreman at the mines
of the Jefferson and Clearfield coal and iron
company at Big Soldier. and a .prominent
citizen, Mason and Odd Fellow, of Reynolds-
ville, and a Polander named Zimens, were
instantly killed in an accident Tuesday. In
some manner the wheel over which the rope
of the haulage system runs broke and a piece
of it struck Mr. Jennings on the head, crush-
ing his skull. When the ‘wheel broke the
cars that were attached to it were piled up
and the Polander was caught beneath them.
His body was badly mangled. - Shae
—Isaac Groner, a young man about 24
years old who works on. the railroad, and
who boards with the family of Hicks Me-:
Caulley, at Bellwood, did ‘not go to work
Friday morning, saying he was not’ feeling
well. 'About9 o'clock Mrs." McCaulley had
occasion to go to the cellar. Young Groner
followed, knocking her down several times
and badly bruising and cutting her face, at
the same time swearing he would kill her. :
A neighbor lady, ‘who happened in, heard
the screams and called for help. Groner
escaped to the woods nearby, but was caught .
and placed in the lock-up and later taken to
Hollidaysburg jail. He admits his guilt, but
-can assign no reason for doing it. It is said
he temporarily loses his mind. *Mrs. Mec-
Caulley has since been confined to her bed.
—William F. Daly, ex-postmaster of Du-
Bois and a prominent political leader in that ,
section, wasarrested Wednesday night charg-
ed with conspiring with Millard F. Johnson
and others in November, 1899, to draw a
false and fraudulent jury for December
quarter session. Daly gave bail for court.
The warrant for his arrest was sworn out by
Lewis Johnson, a brother of late jury com-
missioner Millard F. Johnson and a cousin of
Daly, Millard Johnson pleaded guilty to the
charge of drawing a fraudulent jury and to
perjury in May, 1900, and was sentenced to
four years in the western penitentiary, where
he died. ' His family claim that Daly and
others set up the fraudulent jury and used
Johnson, who was mentally and
physically, as a tool in the matter for the
purpose of having certain cases decided their ;
way.