TATE wr Democratic, atcha, By P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —E're the frost is on the pumpkin And the fodder is in shock |, . Your uncle Dudley will be humpin To get his raglan out 0’ *‘heeck.” —ROOSEVELT has the brains and nerve to make a great President. May he show no indiscreet use of either. —The Democrats had better put a strong lock on the stable door e’re the Republi- cans steal out a free trade donkey and call it a reciprocity elephant. —Monuments are begun with splendid enthusiasm and if they could only be build- “ed by it the completion of so many would not become so laggard and indifferent. —We sincerely trust that ‘Terrible Teddy’’ wont meet with the same fate on the Ship of State that befell ‘‘the terrible Turk’’ on the Burgoyne some time ago. —Buffalo justice promises to make a speedy end of the assassin CZOLGOSZ. Neither do we feel like a barbarian when we deplore the fact that he will be executed in the most humane way known to law. —TFor the good of all let us hope that President ROOSEVELT will regard the great responsibilities that have so unexpectedly fallen upon him far more seriously “than anyone would have believed him capable when PLATT forced him on the Republican party. —The members of 125th Pa. Vols, in reunion at Huntingdon on Tuesday, pub- licly condemned Governor STONE, but will their condemnation go far enough to record itself in votes against POTTER and HAR- RIS, two men who will prove just as ob- noxious as he is in office ? —1If there ever had heen any question about President McKINLEY’S christianity his death-bed scene would have removed all doubt. None but a thoroughly christ- ian man could have died as he died—sus- tained and soothed, even to his last fleeting breath, by the knowledge that he was saved. It is certainly beautiful to die in the Lord. —1If we are to hedge our Presidents about with bristling bayonets and drawn swords we will he wiping out one of the fun- damental democratic features of our gov- ernment. Better, far, try to remove con- ditions that make anarchy and fanaticism and not clamor for the President to expose himself on any and all occasions. —HENRY HERBERT PIGGOT, the one time Philadelphia lawyer who ran off from a wife and family in that city to marry Miss CHARLOTTE BYRAM in Colorado, has discovered that the Centennial State doesn’t propose affording an asylum for fellows who want to “pig it’ in the matrimonial market. Whatever may have been the incentive and however their relations may have ap-- peared to some in the heat of political con- flict there is no one so hard at heart or so devoid of sentiment as to fail to respect the deep sorrow that afflicts Senator HANNA in the passing of his friend ‘WILLIAM McKINLEY. —The latest creations in riding habits for women of the smart sets are nothing more nor less than plain, every-day, manly pants and, right here let it be known, that if the women continue usurping our prerog- atives in the matter of ‘‘wearing the pants’’ we men will have to scurry to the folds of the mother hubbard to hide our blushes. —If the corrupt machine that has dom- inated Pennsylvania ever since there has been a CAMERON or a QUAY in politics in the State is to be continued you must vote for the leaky Justice POTTER and for ‘‘Can- be-seen’”’ HARRIS. They are the pair the Stalwarts are holding up and in this game you can expect dealing from the bottom as well as from the top of the deck. —Rear Admiral HowIsON’S removal from the naval board of inquiry into the SAMP- SON-SCHLEY controversy isa tacit acknowl- edgment that public sentiment is right, sometimes, at least. The public thought it would be unfair for him to sit in judg- ment of a man whom he had criticised ad- versely, so did Admirals DEWEY and BEN- HAM and he was removed. —General KITCHENER'S latest manifesto that preclaims the Boers out-laws and bandits, instead of belligerents, is not likely to change the actual status of DEWET’S forces. * While the English have laid down a new official regulation for exterminating the sturdy Dutch who think they bave a right to fight for their own homes, they bave ‘also given license to a resistance that the rules of civilized warfare can no longer govern. —F. H. THOMAS, GEORGE L. POTTER, HARD P. HARRIS and JoHN C. MILLER will represent Centre county Insurgent Republicans at the Union party convention in Philadelphia next week. While we have no desire to bring misfortune of any sort on the gentlemen there is little doubt that they have written their own political epitaphs in accepting the honor of such a mission. —While there can be no doubt as to the genuine sorrow of the American people at the death of President MCKINLEY its ex- pression is in such marked contrast with that of our English cousins, so recently manifest over the death of their beloved Queen, that it can not escape the notice of the entire world. While we stop but a moment to drop a passionate tear of sorrow on the bier of our dead President, all of England and ‘her colonies don sombre gar- ments and observe a period of genuine mourning that lasts for a year. VOL. 46 Lynch Law Ineffectual. That anarchy must be stamped out of this country is so obvious a proposition as to require no argument to support it. But there can be no greater folly than attempt- ing to stamp out anarchy by lawless meth- ods. In other words, lynching an anarchist, however atrocious a crime he may have committed, is encouraging rather than re- pressing anarchy. When a well meaning man recommends violence as a punishment except such as is provided by law, he is wanting in intelligence or unjust to him- self. When passions are let loose there is no telling where or when they will be brought under restraint again. The guilty wretch who shot President McKINLEY at Buffalo two weeks ago de- serves the severest punishment which is known to thelaw. But lynching wouldn’t have fulfilled these conditions. Pounding the life out of him would have caused no more bodily pain than hanging or electro- cating him. After the first few moments he would probably have been insensible to physical suffering. In that event he would have escaped the mental anguish which must attend a judicial trial and legal exe- caution and the odium which follows such a proceeding. It may be said that men of his type are incapable of that form of men- tal suffering. But that is probably an er- ror. No man can be exempt from such feeling unless he is irresponsible, mentally, and in that event any kind of punishment is inhuman and improper. Besides there is always a chance that a judicial inquiry intoa crime will reveal the confederates of the culprit and it is certain that such a chance is lost in the event of lynching. No criminal will reveal the im- pulses which influenced him on the mo- ment. ‘He must be persuaded to that course and persuasion requires time. If Czorogsz had been killed hy the crowd there would have been no opportunity to even question him regarding confederates. It wouldn't have been known that he was an admirer of EMMA GOLDMAN. May be the information will be of no use, but it will certainly be no harm and may ulti- mately help in the work of Bprogting an- archism in this country. ‘Moreover the experience in the present case proves that there is no risk in trusting to the operations of ‘the law. The crime | was committed’ two weeks ago today, and the death of the victim occurred less than a week ago and the criminal has already been arraigned and a speedy trial and just punishment is certain. All things consid- ered, therefore, the wisdom of patience and the advantage of law and order in the punishment of criminals is vindicated. ——At a time of this sort politics is not thought of. The President of the United States has been murdered and a blow has been struck at every man who has any concern for the government. There is a vast difference hetween criticising the executor of one party’s policies and taking the life of the head of the great American Republic and that difference is what makes all parties oue at a time of this sort. A Cause for Congratulation The country is to be congratulated on the defeat of General D. E. SICKLES, of New York, for the office of commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at Cleveland, O., last week. SICKLES was a good enough soldier, no doubt. His courage has never been questicned and the crutches that he carries would be sufficient refutation of the charge it he was accused of cowardice. But his candidacy for the office this year represented something that ought not to be endorsed. It stood for the looting of the treasury by pension sharks and polluting of the pension list by putting on it unworthy persons. General SICKLES’ candidacy for the office of commander-in-chief of the Grand Army voiced opposition of Pension Commissioner H. CLaY EVANS for no other reason than that he has properly guarded the treasury. There are in Washington a lot of pension lawyers who will swear to the requisite conditions, whether they are existing or not. Commissioner EVANS has stood out against these sharks manfully since the day | he entered npon the duties of the office. This has interfered with the incomes of the pension sharks and they have been fighting him ever since. The defeat of SICKLES will probably end the fight. Every right thinking man in the coun- try favors liberal pensions for the deserving veterans of the civil war. Those who are entitled to pensions at all ought to get more than most of them receive. But bounty jumpers and camp followers are not entitled to pensions and every real sol- dier ought to set his face against putting their names on the list which should and does represent the roll of honor. Commis- sioner EVANS has simply done that and the sharks bave got it in for him. They were using General SICKLES to promote their schemes and the fact that they failed iri their purpose is creditable to the organi- 7ation. stalwart Republicans smile. did this professed civil service reformer. |. “Until he is tried as President it might be ‘we presume, to parade as a rel ormer- and show himself a different official as chief ex- STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, Wait and Be Wiser. It is not always best to jump at con- clusions. People who make up their minds in haste usually have the opportuni- ty of repenting at leisure. Just at this time these who believe that the beginning and the end, the prosperity and glory of all governmental affairs, are regulated by civil service reform are telling us what a stickler for this principle President ROOSE- VELT will be, now that he is in position to prove its full effectiveness. It is true that Hr. ROOSEVELT began his public career as a member of the Civil Serv- ice Commission. It is also true that while a member of that commission he kept it and its purposes as thoroughly advertised as he did his own doings while command- ing the Rough Riders or his more recent exploits of hunting jack rabbits on the plains of Colorado. But 1t is not always the man who advertises most persistently who proves to be the most reliable. Since being a member of the Civil Serv- ice Commission and preaching civil service reform for all it was worth, Mr. ROOSEVELT has filled the positions of Police Commis- sioner of New York city and that of Govern- or of the State of New York. In neither of these places did be show any more dis- position to enforce his doctrine of civil service reform than did those who preced- ed him or those who have followed him. He left the office of Police Commissioner with as little to his credit and with as dis- credited a department as anyone who had ever filled that office. He stuffed its places with broken down politicians and political heelers and devoted his own time to deliv- ering political harangues throughout the country. Civil service was neither preach- ed nor practiced by him while filling this official position. As Governor of New York, it was the same. Democrats were ousted from posi. tions with an alacrity that made the most It mattered not how fit they were for the place nor how long and faithfully they had performed their duties, if their politics was wrong, all was wrong and out they had to go. No chief executive of the great State of New York, during a single term, made more changes for purely political reasons than well for those expecting so much in this line to limit their expectations and with- hold the glory they would scatter in such profuseness ; until he has shown that he is more of a civil service reformer than he has ever yet proven himself to be it will be well for the country not to bank too heavi- ly upon any good that might come from an honest enforcement of this doctrine. Mr. ROOSEVELT may prove all that the people hope for him. It is the prayer of this pa- per that he will, but if he does he will ecutive than he did as Governor of New York or boss of the police force of the chief city of this country. It Means Freer Trade. The efforts of some of the ultra protec- tionists to accommodate themselves to the newly declared policy of the Republican party are amusing, if nothing else. Here is Mr. THEODORE JUSTICE, of Philadelphia, for example. He tells us thit the reciproc- ity indicated in the late President McKIN- LEY’S speech ‘‘is the Republican answer to the Democratic cry of tariff revision or freer trade.’’ If it is that it is a humbug, pure and simple. If it is that it is neces- sarily a subterfuge to deceive the people, for it is a response to the demand of the people for tariff revision, so emphatic and insistent that it couldn’t longer be ignored. But it may be confidently asserted that President McKINLEY had no such idea in mind when he made his great Buf- falo speech. We must not deceive our- selves, he said in substance, by the delu- give idea that can sell everything forever and buy nothing. We must sell wherever we can, he added, and buy wherever buy- ing will enlarge our markets. There is no bogus reciprocity in that proposition. That means an exchange of commodities on terms of commercial equality which not only involves tariff revision but freer trade. Our best present foreign customer is Great Britain and there is no other market the buying in which will enlarge our sales as surely as that. Mr. THEODORE JUSTICE may deceive him self by such sophistries as are embodied in his declaration that the reciprocity spoken of by McKINLEY is a Republican answer to the Democratic demand for tariff revision. It is simply a yielding to that demand and a fulfillment of the inevitable. President McKINLEY understood that and the leaders of his party realize it. His suc- cessor in office has already indicated a per- fect understanding of it by accepting the policy as his own and adding emphasis to the original declaration. The time for sub- terfuges and deceptions has gone by. You can’t fool all the people all the time. —— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 20. ToL. Tired of His Own Work. Lieutenant Governor Gen’l J. P. 8. GOBIN has announced to the public that he has grown tired of politics and disgusted with ring rule. We do not know anyone in this broad Commonwealth who has more reason to be tired of the kind of poli- ties that he has always stuck to than this same Gen’l GoBIN. From the time that the memory of ordinary mortals runneth not to the contrary, he has devoted his time to holding office and playing polities. He has worked his mouth, as no other cit- izen in the Commonwealth has, in advocat- ing and defending every iniquity that the machine desired and every outrage that it fastened upon the peqple of the State. In its long list of followers it has bad no more subservient tool or a more willing de- fender. While professing to favor reforms and pretending to great independence of thought he has never failed to turn up on the side of such measures as the ring has forced upon the Commonwealth nor to stultify his professed independence by the advocacy of the most infamous legislation the machine desired. " He served in the State Senate for over a decade and during that time he failed to cast a single vote against such measures as the machine demanded or such thefts as have brought its rule into general centempt. His voice and his vote were ever at its service and we do not wonder that he has grown tired of the kind of politics he has practiced, particularly since he failed in securing the major-generalship of the militia of Pennsylvania. This seemed to he his great ambition. But one, MILLER, who, if he:had less mind « than GoOBIN, had more money, was thought by the machine to be entitled to this distinction and GoBIN was left. It is not that he has reformed or is any better or purer than when he served QUAY as Senator that has disgusted him with the machine rule in Pennsylvania ; it is the fact that he did not get another office. Of- fice holding has been his chief aim in life. The loss of one office almost within his grasp was too ‘much for him to bear and hat one has ‘actually eluded: him he hoes politics, ‘toms his nose up'at the | ¢ ‘befouled - nd to teach the public, which he has helped* the machine to“fleece for so ‘many years, the benefits of honest administration and the blessings of correct rule. It is not much stock that those who know GOBIN will take in GOBIN’S refor- mation. ——1It seems to us entirely needless to make any comment on the thoroughness and accuracy with which the Pittsburg Post covers the news field of the entire world, though it may be supererrogation we cannot but congratulate that journal on its signal success in handling all the in- cidents to the tragic assault and the sad death of the President at Buffalo. The Post's stories were most complete in every particular and proved to be singularly ac- curate in detail. Up to Frank Harris. Now that the excitement attending the tragic death of the late President issubsid- ing the people will have a better opportu- nity to estimate the statement recently made by Lieutenant Governor GOBIN with respect to the prevalence of venality in the Legislature during the last session. In oth- er words the great grief of the nation hav- ing past with the faueral of * the victim of .the assassin, the people will have time to consider other questions that deeply con- cern them and sucha declaration as that made hy General GOBIN,in his recent Pitts- brug interview, must concern all. Even if the Republican State convention bad not, with a full understanding of the facts, given its unqualified endorsement to the Legislature and its work, the fact that corruption ran unrebuked through all its proceedings would have caused the blush of shame to mantle the cheek of every hon- est citizen of the State. But when it is remembered that the resolutions of that convention, written by a trusted leader of the Republican party, approved that cor- ruption, the people have no option but to believe that the trinmph of that party in the coming election will be interpreted to mean a license to eontinge the looting pro- cesses. The charge comes from no irresponsible source. It is not the assertion of any ob- scure, ambiguous or prejudiced person. It came from the mouth of the Lieutenant Governor of the State and in a form that implies the ability and readiness to support it with ample evidence. In view of these facts the failure to resent or the neglect to deny it implies a confession of guilt. FRANK G. HARRIS, the Republican nomi- nee for State Treasurer, was a part and par- cel of the Legislatare which the Lieuten- ant Governor accuses and unless he proves that he has been slandered he pleads guilty to the charges. 4 and for NO. 37. The Unequal Distribution of Wealth. From Political Science. **Ninety-one per cent of the 12,690,152 families of the country own no more than 29 per cent of the wealth, and 9 per cent of the families own about Eo per cent of the wealth.” ‘‘Among the 1,096,265 families in which 71 per cent of the wealth of the country is concentrated, there is still a farther con- centration which may be indicated by tak- ing account of the wealth of the very rich. The New York Tribune's list of 4,047 mil- lionaires affords the best basis "tor this. Without going into details, the conclusion adopted in this article is that the 4,047 millionaires are worth not less than $10,- 000,000,000 or more than $15,000,000,000 —say $12,000,000,000—or about one-fifth of the nation’s wealth. We are now pre- pared to characterize the concentration of wealth in the United States by stating that 20 per cent of it is owned by three-hun- dredthe of 1' per cent of the families; 51 per cent by 9 per cent of the families (not including millionaires); 71 per cent by 9 per cent of the families (including mil- lionaires), and 29 per cent by 91 per cent of the families.” An Official in the Dark. From the Commoner, Attorney General Knox declares with well developed symptoms of anger that he is not officially aware of the existence of a steel trust. Of course a high official with a place in a presidential cabinet would not deny anything without being honest about it. The existence of the steel trust may be an official secret to Mr. Knox, but its existence certainly is known to the ex-att- orney of the Carnegie corporation, who is now Attorney General in the McKinley cabinet. Perhaps Mr. Knox is like the South Carolina father who had so many children he found himself unable to provide names for all of them. After the twelfth was born he had recourse to numbers, and gave each child anumber. When asked how many children he had the proud father replied: ‘‘Iaint no good at figures. When I done run out o’ names I begin numberin’ ‘em from 1 up. IfI knew how many of ’em had names I might add up and tell yer.” It is possible that Mr. Knox has been con- nected with so many trusts that he has had recourse to numbering, and the steel trust, being among the latest, may he without a name in his mind. The Troublesome Tariff. From the N. Yu ‘Evening Po Post. 4 One result of the benefactions of the millionaires is rather curious, but perfect- | ly plain and reasonable. Mr. Sel Ey dor. iafanes, Jolsses the -nobie band ped of oy 3 the ans and tens of Uo ta : Carnegie is still far ahead in the size and frequency of his bestowals. Other gen- tlemen connected with the steel trust do not mind the number of naughts they place upon their checks. It is a demonstration of generosity without precedent in history. Naturally it follows that money so freely given must come from extraordinary op- portunities, and thus the public is learn- ing a fact which the steel magnates are proving by their own action; that they are enjoying golden privileges under the tariff legislation of the United States. The mat- ter is further clinched by the United States steel manufacturers who sell steel, after paying the large sums in freight, to Eng- lish customers for less than they will sell it in the home market. Out of these con- ditions something interesting should cer- tainly come, Tribute From Bryan. Eulogizes McKinley as a Citizen and Demands Ade. quate Vengeance to Protect Future Presidents. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 17.—A tribute from William Jennings Bryan to the dead President was given to The Associated Press today. Quoting the words of Major McKinley, ‘‘God’s will, not ours be done.” Mr. Bryan recalled the pathetic scenes at the deathbed and continued : ‘The terrible deed at Buffalo, rudely breaking the ties of family and friendship and horrifying every patriotic citizen, crowns a most extraordinary life with a halo that cannot but exalt its vietim’s place in history, while his bravery during the try- ing ordeal, his forgiving spirit, and his for- titude in the final hours, give glimpses of his ioner life, which nothing less tragic could have revealed. ‘But inexpressibly sad as is the death of McKinley, the illustrious citizen, it is the damnable murder of McKinley, the Presi- dent, that melts 75,000,000 hearts into one, and brings a hush to the farm, the factory, and the forum. The death, even when produced by natural causes, of a public servant charged with the tremendous re- spousibilities which press upon the Presi- dent, shocks the entire country, and is in- finitely multiplied when the circumstances attending constitute an attack upon the Government itself. “No one can estimate the far reaching effect of such an act as that which now casts a gloom over our land. It shames America in the eye of the world, it im Mpains her moral prestige and gives enemies of free government a chance to mock at her, and it excites an indignation, which, while right- eous in itself, may lead to acts which will partake of the spirit of lawlessness. ‘“As the President’s death overwhelms all in a common sorrow, so it imposes a common responsibility, namely to soavenge the wrong done to the President, his fami- ly, and the country as to make the execu- tive life secure without abridgement of freedom of speech or freedom of the press.”’ Pronounce It ‘“Shollgosch.” Written according to its sound, ' the name of Czolgosz or its nearest equivalent, is ‘‘Tchollgoseh,’’ or more broadly speak- ing, “Shollgosoh. 7 Cz’ is represented in the Russian alphabet by a character which is pronounced sch, the same as though one were suppressing a sneeze--‘‘tch.’’ The |. next two letters, ‘‘ol,’’ are pronounced in combination as though written ‘‘oll,”’ and’ the remaining letters of the name, “gosz, have the sound of ‘‘gosch’’. Spawls from the Keystone. —Harry M. Rose, of Johnstown, was killed while attempting to board a Pennsylvania railroad train Friday night to return to his work. —While using kerosene to kindle a fire Saturday night Mrs. John Settle, of North - ampton, was so badly burned that she died Sunday morning. —Stewart Hall, a 7-year-old boy residing in Williamsport, is dying from 200 stings from bees. The lad’s body is almost covered with swellings. —George Edmundson, of Johnstown, aged 11, died Saturday of hydrophobia. He A was bitten in the face by a dog six weeks ago, but the malady did not appear until last Thurs- day. —Miss Barbara Brown an aged lady of Jersey Shore, while walking in the garden was stricken with paralysis. In falling a sharp pointed stick, which she was using as a cane, ran into her eye, gorging the ball out. —Richard Allen, the veteran engineer who ran the first passenger engine over the Penn - sylvania railroad between Altoona and Pitts- burg is dead at his home on ‘Penn aven ue in Pittsburg. He was in the! 84th: year of his age at death. —On Saturday morning 6 year-old Clara Bell Grove, of Sheridan station, Cambria county, was accidentally shot by her 16 year- old brother, Harry, who was engaged in cleaning a breech loading gun and did not know it was loaded. The child died 12 hours after the accident occurred. —W hile excavations for the new pipe mill were being made on the flat at South Sha ron a large silver coffin plate, together with a number of human bones, was unearthed. The plate was engraved with the Masonic emblem. Prominent local Masons are mak- ing an effort to clear up the mystery. —After several delays, the Chatham fire brick plant at McElhattan will begin making brick Wednesday. Mr. Chatham has an order to furnish 300,000 brick for the Oak Grove buildings, and has made an offer to make the 8,000,000 bricks that will be wanted at that place during the next three years. —Miss Eva Derr, daughter of Mr. Wilson Derr, of near California, Montour county, was seized with a hemorrhage while shopping at Lewisson’s store, at Milton, Friday after- noon, at 2:30 o’clock, and expired almost in - stantly. She was about 29 years of age and had been afflicted with lung trouble for some time. —The 63rd session of the Allegheny Con- ference of the U. B. church in Christ will meet in annual session at Coalport, Septem- ber 18th to 22nd. This: conference is com- posed of 86 charges, 2 presiding elders, 100 ministers and 86 lay delegates. The mem- bership of the conference is nearly 16,000. Bishop J. 8. Mills, D.D. Ph. D., will preside . —Horace Eveland, of Rohrsburg, was rear: rested at his home, Friday night charged with having criminally conspired with Mrs. Alice McHenry to secure the indictment and conviction of Jacob Evans, of Rohrshurg, for the murder of Mrs. McHenry’s husband, ‘Thos. W. McHenry, the .Rohrshurg farmer, on February 3rd. Eveland was placed in nil to await » hearing. five head of cattle have been found dead in the herd that have been pasturing near Pen- field. Fully 1,500 head are in the herd. The owners attribute the mortality to the cattle eating a worm that infects the sassafras leaf, but they are contemplating asking the State Agricultural Department to investigate the disease. The dead cattle are piled up and burned. —Jacob W. Metlar, of Coraopolis, claims that while he was at the entrance of the Temple of Music at Buffalo that fatal Fri- day,a woman approached him and said that a man had been shot in the temple. It was then 4:10 o'clock. He says the President was shot three minutes later, and it is his opinion that his informant was an accomplice of the Pres- ident’s assassin. He has sent a description of the woman to Superintendent of Police Bull at Buffalo. —At a consultation of the doctors on last Friday it was decided to amputate Adjutant Gen. Thomas A. Stewart's leg in order to save his life. The accident in which it was broken occurred a month ago and the frac- tured ends of the bone have not yet united. An attempt was made to join the fractured ends by asilver clamp but failed. If the operation takes place the amputation will be made at the knee although there is grave doubts that the General is not able to stand the shock of the operation. ‘ —At an early hour Sunday morning rob- bers entered the clothing store of Lloyd P. Pannebaker, at Cresson, and carried away a large quantity of clothing, shoes and furnish- ing goods. Mr. Pannebaker lives in Ebens- burg, where he has a clothing store, and, after closing on Saturday night, went home, - leaving the robbers without danger of cap- ture. The post office and the store of Charles: Perry, of Chest Springs, was robbed on Sat- nrday night of fifty-two boxes of shoes, fand’a lot of clothing and groceries. —On Saturday morning at Mount Dallas, "Bedford county, an attack with attempt to Tob was made on bookkeeper William Soud- er, of the iron works at Riddlesburg. Soud- er had $6,000 in his possession to pay the em- ployes when two en entered the car in which he sat facing the door and fired a shot at him. Quicker than it can be told Souder drew his revolver and shot the man dead. He was a colored man named William Fry. The other man who was white jumped from the car and has not yet been caught. —Tuesday afternoon, Reba, the 4 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols, of Trumptown, was instantly killed. The mother and child were visiting relatives for the day at Stavertown, near Jersey Shore Junction. The child was playing with a kitten and followed it to a tie pile. The kitten ran up the pile with the child after it. One of the ties, rolled, threw the child and struck it'on the head. The child remained motionless. A neighbor woman saw the ac- cident and called to the child’s mother. Mrs. Nicholas ran to the tie and lifted it off the child’s head. The startling discovery was made that the child was dead, its neck having been broken. ‘A physician was sent ‘for, but he stated that death had been in- staneous. PRE he ST to ae TWA vy
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