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The Sipraie’d court art has sprung. a leak, #
Since SroxE. appointed Porte,
His moral strength is very weak,
‘He tells things he hadn't oughter.
: He is the ‘creature of the ring,
? And wants to be elected :
=A ¥ vote . for Ga ¥
-a' good; clean official w
port. gad to
. —SETH Low bas sixteen nominations for
“mayor of New York, but it will take only
Jone defeat to pat an end to them all.
3 | _SPANGLER will be re-elected District
“Attorney without a ‘contest. He has no
“opposition, nor should GARDNER have
any. Both are good men “and you should
rally. to their support.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer’s ‘yellow
“journalism’’ slogan makes many a reader
think of the story of the slick rascal who
joined the throng yelling ‘stop thief’ in
“order to escape arrest for his own pilfering.
- =—Col, HENRY WATTERSON, of the Louis -
ville Courier Journal, is said to have his
‘eye on the Preidency, but if it is one of the
lamps of that ‘star eyed goddess’ of his
he had better be content with the Gover-
‘morship of Kentucky.
~The announcement that RIcH ARD MoL-
.INEAUX, the young New York club man,
‘is to have a new trial. after being convicted
“of causing the death of Mrs. ADAMS by
“poisoning, is almost equivalent to signing
a warrant for him to go free.
—N. B. SPANGLER has no opposition for
re-election to the District Attorney’s office.
GARDNER has very little for Prothonotary.
‘Why not wipe it all out and encourage
‘good men for serving you as he has done
during the past three years.
-~Why bother about a model city as one
‘ of the chief features of the world’s fair at
St. Louis in 1904? The fusionists will
bave Philadelphia fixed up by that time
and then a photograph of WILLIAM PENN'S
‘own will fill all requirements.
—The Harrisburg Telegraph says COLUM-
BUS discovered America. What rot ! Admir-
al SAMPSON, United States Navy, did that
_job and if the Telegraph makes any more
such funny breaks about that fellow CoL-
-UMBUS having had anything to do with it
we will have a court of inquiry at once.
—G overnor STONE has appointed GAR-
VIN, a member of the Gettysburg memor-
ial commission, and a pretty appointment
it is. The thought of such a Judas passing
‘apon what would be a fitting memorial to
those who laid down their honorable lives
at Gettysburg is almost as repulsive as that
“of having the devil leading the singing in
heaven. :
—The Union Republicans started to
swing their new head-quarters’ banner to
the breeze yesterday afternoon, but as
neither SAM MILLER, NED CHAMBERS nor
BILLY GRAY was on hand to help with
the work HARD HARRIS and JoHN C.
MILLER postponed it until this morning,
when they hope that their Stalwart friends
will walk down and look at it, at least.
—Justice POTTER, whom the Republi-
cans have named for election to the Su-
preme court bench, has been publicly ac-
cused of betraying court secrets. He has
not dared to defend himself and unless he
takes some action in the matter soon the
public will be compelled to conclude that
he is entirely too disreputable for such an
eminently honorable position.
—All the good people of the county
ought to take an interest in helping to
make Mr. GARDNER'S majority. as large as
possible. He represents all that is honor-
able and straizhsforward in manhood and
has been a most efficient Prothonotary.
He is entitled to another term in the office
and it would be a pretty compliment to
send him back with a rousing vote.
—The Sultan. of Sulu, the lecherous old
libertine whom we are paying $12,000 a
year for floating our flag over the harem in
which he keeps his black beauties, refused
to receive the Congressmen who are in the
Philippines now on a governmental junket.
‘While he gave no reason it is not improba-
ble that he heard of ROBERTS, the Utah
Mormon, and classed all the Congressmen
with him. Of course under such circum-
stances the Sulu potentate couldn’t be
blamed.
- —1It is not saying much for either the
respectability or the standing [of southern
Republicans when a Republican President
is unable to find, in the entire State of Al-
‘abama, one with sufficient intelligence,
honesty and ability to fill the position of
U. 8S. District Judge. It is to the credit
of the President that he went to the Demo-
cratic party for an official to fill this place,
but the fact that he was compelled to in
order to find a fit official for the position
must prove a humiliating truth to Repub-
licans generally.
—While there will be considerable hard-
ship for Altoona workmen whose wages
have been attached for debt by a West Vir-
ginia collection agency the men who are
being pressed to pay others what they owe
will learn a much needed lesson. Most
men are honest and intend to pay all the
bills they contract, bub with credit many
of them form the habit of living beyond
their means or in anticipation of their in-
come, so that when work stops they are
either in debt or without a penny saved.
It is no injustice to force a man—especial-
ly a young man-to pay a debt that he seems
to be indifferent to, for it is a lesson that
sometimes results in doing him a world of
: Tn
good.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
3 The Scandal Revived. :
The revival of the judicial scandal which
developed last spring while the validity of
the ‘‘ripper’’ legislation was under consid-
eration in the Supreme courtis justified
because the delinquent in the matter has
been forced upon one of the great parties
.of the State as a candidate for the office he
had disgraced. Ordinarily such incidents
in the public life of the Commonwealth
ought to be kept in concealment after the
-first burst of indignation bas spent itself.
Discussion of such'events inspires contempt,
both for the law and the agencies of jus-
tice. But when a man who has outraged
public deceney during a brief tenure of of-
fice attempts to obtain a commission for a
long term, it is not only right but neces-
sary that his faults be exposed.
Justice POTTER, serving on the Supreme
bench of the State under appointment by
the Governor to fill a vacancy. communi-
cated the secrets of the court to promote
the partisan machine to which he acknowl-
edged allegiance. It was a grave offence.
A justice of the Supreme court of “the
United States declared at the time that he
ought to be impeached, and he was right.
A justice who would do that would, under
similar circumstances, reveal the opinion of
his associates on the bench on any question
in litigation before the court. Such a
thing puts the interests of all litigants in
jeopardy. If one of the parties concerned
is kept informed of the sentiments of the
bench on the case at bar he can bring un-
due influences to bear to promote his
cause.
That Justice POTTER committed this
grave offence is beyond question. Both
he’and the Governor denied it at the time
of the first exposure, but that was only
adding falsehood to the other crime. Sub-
sequently a law was enacted by the Legis-
lature at the instance of those concerned
making the exposure of telephone com-
munications a misdemeanor punishable by
fine or imprisonment. If there had been
no culpability there wonld have been no
such resentment. That there was culpa-
bility is a reason why every lawyer and
clean minded layman in the State should
vote against the man who perpetrated the
offence if he had the temerity to ask a con-
tinuance in the office which he had dis-
graced. .fustice POTTER is unfit’ for the
office he uspires to occupy and ought to be
beaten.
—— There is no politics in the proposed
amendments to the constitution. Their
adoption will add no expense to the tax-
payers of the State. They are intended
only to widen the authority of the Legisla-
ture in the enactment of registration and
election laws. In fact, their purpose is to
authorize the passage of laws that will
throw such safe-guards about the elections
that the business of the repeaters, ballot
box stuffers and false counters will be
brought to an end. No matter how much
you may he interested in candidates, don’t
forget that these constitutional amend-
ments are the most important questions
you have to settle at the polls.
Governor Stone’s Idea.
During his speech in Philadelphia on
Saturday evening Governor STONE made
the remarkable declaration that a District
Attorney is simply a prosecuting officer
who controls criminal prosecutions and
‘can push them to trial or put them on his
political line to dry,” according to his
fancy. That was indeed a strange state-
ment to come from the mouth of the Chief
Magistrate of a great Commonwealth. It
reveals not only a lax idea of official duty,
but an exceedingly loose code of political
morals. It is about the construction which
a scurvy politician would put on the term.
The office of District Attorney as under-
stood by capable lawyers is something more
than a public prosecutor. As interpreted
by jurists of character and ability it is as
much the duty of the District Attorney to
shield the prisoner from injustice as it is
to protect the State in its rights. When a
guilty man is brought before the courts it
is the duty of the District Attorney to
prosecute him. If an innocent man is ar-
raigned on a false accusation it is the duty
of the District Attorney to interpose in his
behalf. The office is quasi-judicial. It is
a part of the judicial machinery created
and maintained to conserve the law.
But even if the Governor was right in
his notion of the character of the office he
would be wrong in his conception that the
District Attorney may ‘‘push cases to trial
or hang them on his political clothes line
todry.”” That would imply that he may
use the courts justly or unjustly to punish
hig enemies or reward his friends. In oth-
er words, according to the Governor's no-
tion, the District Attorney may try crimin-
als or let them go free according to his own
inclinations. There never was a more
atrocious doctrine asserted. No abarchist
has ever pronounced a greater heresy. It
shows that Governor STONE is at heart a
criminal.
—— Suoberibe for the WATCHMAN,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Subsidy Momngers Disappointed.
The subsidy mongers appear to be get-
ting the worst of it on all hands this year.
They had two pet schemes to push through
the next Congress, but the present indica-
tions are that they will be disappointed
with respect to both of them. One of these
was the ship subsidy bill and the other
the Pacific cable. If the national
tragey, had not made a change in the office
of President, the chances are that both
would have gone through and together
they would have afforded rich pickings.
‘But the new President, while he may not
declare opposition to the ship subsidy is
practically certain to refrain from giving it
active support and without executive help
it is without a chance of getting through.
The cable bill will be defeated because
JOHN W. MACKEY offers to lay the line as
a private enterprise.
The backers of the shipping bill will
have the measure all ready for presentation
to Congress and no doubt Senator FRYE
will offer it early in the session. It issaid
that all the objectionable features have
been eliminated, but that is not true. If
proposes to pay unearned bounties to the
aggregate of $270,000,000 to the steamship
trust out of the the money collected from
the people to pay the expenses of the gov-
ernment, and that is objectionable. In
fact it may he predicted that if all the ob-
jectionable features were eliminated the
subsidy mongers would not want it at all.
The principle upon which all such legisla-
tion is predicated is objectionable because
it is subversive of just government. Tak-
ing money from one man to bestow it on
another is unjust and therefore objection-
able. That is what the bill aims to do.
The situation with respect to the Pacific
cable job is both absurd and amusing. For
years the subsidy mongers have been pres-
sing it on Congress. It is a necessity, they
have been saying ever since the acquisition
of territory in Asia, and impossible to ob-
tain it through individual or corporate ef-
fort. It will entail so much loss for a
number of years, they have been adding,
that no individual or corporation would
undertake it and for that reason they have
been urging the government to appropriate
a large sum of money for the work. But
when Mr. MACKEY, who has ample means
to finish the scheme, offers to do all that
was asked, they protest that he is not will-
ing to do enough and therefore he shonldn’s
be allowed to do anything. They want a
cable to Egypt as well as to Manila, they
say, and they protest against giving
MACKEY shore privileges to operate the
enterprise, and that is all he asks. Bnt
they want the government to appropriate
hundreds of millions of dollars to do the
work under conditions which would give
them a rake-off. They are a queer lot and
amazingly inconsistent.
——There might be something in the con-
tention of ex-state chairman GARMAN as
to the regularity of the substitution of Mr.
CORAY for Mr. PALM, on the Democratic
ticket, by the state committee if the votes
of the appointed members from Philadel-
phia had decided that action. Unfortunate-
ly for Mr. GARMAN’S side it did not re-
quire the votes of the doubtful members
from Philadelphia. The regularly elected
members of the committee did the work
and would have done it had there not been
a representative from Philadelphia at the
meeting.
de ted aiid
Support the Amendments.
The election will be due in a little less
than three weeks and thus far no opposi-
tion has developed to the pending consti-
tutional amendments. But the friends of
honest elections should not allow their in-
terest in the important question involved
to abate on that account. Itis not cer-
tain that the opposition will not reveal it-
self yet. The QUAY machine will hardly
give up the advantage which th2 present
loose system of registering voters affords
them. Impersonal registration is worth
any where from 100,000 to 125,000 fraud-
ulent votes to them every year.
With personal registration as an essential
requisite to the exercise of the franchise
in the large cities ballot box stuffing
would be made exceedingly difficult, if not
actually impossible. The first step in
fraudulent voting isa padded registry.
There must be a name on the registry list
for every vote that is put into the box or
an affidavit that registration was neglected.
Under the present system one man can
register a hundred names, real or fictitious.
The registration effected it is an easy mat-
ter to get men to offer to vote onithe names
for if the name is registered there is little
question of the right to vote.
But with personal registration it will he
difficult. At the time of the registration
every voter will be compelled to appear
and undergo a strict scrutiny. If there is
any doubt or uncertainty as to identity an
investigation can be iustituted and when
the person claiming the right to vote ap-
pears at the election, if he has obtained a
place on the registry by fraud, he can be
exposed and punished. This will guaran-
tee honest elections or nearly so and every
advocate of honest elections should sup-
port the amendments.
Hanna and the President. nis}
We learn from current reports in the
newspapers that there is a wide diversity
of views between Senator HANNA, of Ohio,
and. President ROOSEVELT and that in
consequence of this fact Senator HANNA
intends to resign the chairmanship of the
Republican National Committee in the near
future. The ostensible point of difference,
according to the current stories, is south-
ern politics. The President is said to have
stated on a recent occasion that he wonld
appoint Democrats to office in the South in
the event that worthy Republicans were
not presented for the places and Senator
HANNA is greatly outraged by the state-
ment.
Senator HANNA learned through his
experience in political management that
Southern Republicans are a tough lot. His
own methods in politics were calculated to
give him that impression. He has never
been accustomed to waste time in reason-
ing. with men who differed with him on
corrent questions. He goes to conventions
like huxters go to market.. That is to say
he takes with him money enough to buy
‘what he wants and what he can’t buy he
doesn’t get. In the St. Louis convention
at which Senator HANNA made his initial
bow in the arena of politics, he bought all
the delegates from the South to vote for
his candidate. Bat he prefers that kind of
Republicans to any kind of Democrats and
because President ROOSEVELT . disagrees
with him, fellowship between them is to
be discontinued.
But that is only a part of the reason
why HANNA and ROOSEVELT can’t con-
tinue in fellowship, and a small part at
that. The real reason for HANNA'S deter-
mination to hold himself aloof from the
President is that the President will not
permit HANNA to run things as his prede-
cessor did and his senatorial nose is out of
joint. The pretense about southern pol-
itics is a subterfuge. If ROOSEVELT would
consent to allow HANNA to dictate the
northern appointments he would ‘‘pipe as
meekly as « sucking dove,’’ with respect
toappointuients in the South. HANNA is
a bigot politically and otherwise but he
wants to be a boss.
SME Two of a Kind.
A Republican exchange comes to the
front with the opinion that SETH Low and
as reformers and friends of the taxpayer.
Come to think about it, this is about so.
Both of these gentlemen have been very
loud in their professions of reform, neither
of them have ever reformed anything. Both
have sought office and showed a willingness
to accept it under any conditions, whether
as the candidate of people who were fight-
ing for reform or the candidate of the ring
and politicians which need to be reformed.
In this matter of reform they are exactly
alike.
On the tax question there seems to be a
singular similarity between them. It is
but a few years since President ROOSEVELT
was temporarily residing in Washington.
terests in New York. He was at the time
State for Governor and yet when asked for
the taxes due on his New York property—
his home, his household effects, his real
estate, his horses and carriages and other
valuables—in order to evade the payment
of these taxes he deliberately swore that he
was not a resident of New York and not
entitled to pay taxes therein.
Only a few weeks ago SETH Low, who
is one of the wealthiest men in the city of
Brooklyn and the present candidate for
Mayor of New York, bad his tax bill pre-
sented him. In place of paying them, as a
reputable reformer should he set up some
technical objection and is now relying up-
on the shrewdness of his lawyer to help
him escape his share of the burdens that
-the local government entails. As mouth
reformers and tax shirkers Low and RooSE-
VELT are strikingly alike.
Undertaking too Much.
From the way matters look to one living
at a little distance it would seem that
Philadelphia reformers and reform papers
have about as much as they will be able to
get through with this fall in rescuing their
own city from the clutches of the machine,
without attempting to purify and fix up
the government of New York. If they can
make Philadelphia half as clean and cor-
rect in its municipal government as Tam-
many ball has made New York they de-
serve a credit that is very likely to be lack-
ing. Should they continue their efforts to
carry New York for Low at the same time
that they are supposed to be fighting AsH-
BRIDGE and his gang. Scattered shots sel-
dom hit the mark and an effort to ac-
complish too much usually fails in ac-
complishing anything.
Philadelphians should remember that it
is their first duty to ‘get out of the mud
themselves before attempting to rescue
others from a less dangerous and corrupt
condition.
an TEAR SRI
OCTOBER ee 1901.
President ROOSEVELT are very much alike’
He had bis home, his property and his in- |
the candidate of the Republicans of that |
' Som ettmes” it 1s’ in: Bary © Forget.
From the Philadelphia Time Times, Lr 5
The most distinct conclusion thatican be
drawn from the Schley inquiry upto the
present concerns the .untrust
the average human memory. ' This ‘is not
a novel conclusion, nor one that needed a
court of inquiry to establish it. If any
dozen readess of this paper were asked to
of May and the beginning of June, 1898,
they wonld doubtless vary as widely as
have the witnesses before the Court, un-
less they acknowledged at once that ‘they
did not remember anything abous it.
Many of these officers think they remem-
ber, but one says the nights were dark and
rainy, another recalls the moonlight, and
still others give all the variations between
clearness and obscurity. Their recollect-
ions of the state of the sea during the voy-
age is equally varied. They place the
blockading fleet anywhere from three to
eight miles from shore, some thinking it
moved in at night and some that it moved
out, and when it comes to the relative pos-
itions of the vessels in action they are all
at sea.
This is not at all wonderful. It is, how-
ever, somewhat surprising to find thata
similar divergence existed within a few
weeks of the engagement at Santiago, so
that the navigating officers of the fleet were
unable to agree upon the essential features
of the action, and they now agree only on
one point, that the chart which they drew
up and signed was not correct.
The plan of the Judge Advocate of pre-
senting what he calle cumulative testi-
mony concerning the Brooklyn by calling
everybody in the Navy who was not on or
near the Brooklyn and examining him
about what he does not remember, does
not greatly impress the impartial student
of the proceedings. Beyond discrediting
generally the official records, but little pre-
cise information has been obtained. We
shall probably get more of the facts when
it comes the turn of the actual partic-
ipants.
—————————
There is Danger in Haste,
From the Elizabethtown, Ky., News.
Anarchy should he suppressed, but in
our extreme haste to get rid of these red-
nmcuthed scoundrels, we are liable to go to
an extreme and pass laws that in the fu-
ture may be used to abridge the freedom of
the press and the freedom of speech. Any
abridgement of the rights guaranteed to our
citizens in the Declaration of Independence
and the constitution is dangerous to the
life of the republic. Suppress anarchy if
possible. by law, although it has never
been done in the monarchies with ‘the
most stringent regulations and statutes,
but guard the right of the citizen to advo-
cate reforms of any kind and the
criticise aud condemn the public acts of
our officials both in the forum, upon the
stump and the press.
There is a Difference.
From the Commoner.
Some gentlemen calling themselves
Democrats who denounced the fusion of
Democrats and Populists in Nebraska are
working fusion between Democrats and
anti-machine Republicans in Philadelphia.
Mention is made of it at this time for the
purpose of calling attention to the truth of
the old adage that ‘‘it makes a difference
whose ox is gored.”’
Metallurgical.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
About the smallest thing we could do
would be to dicker with the brigands
over Miss Stone’s ranson. It should be
paid in full, with either gold or lead.
Anarchist Most Gets a Year.
Sentenced for Publishing an Alleged Seditious Ar-
ticle the Day After McKinley Was Shot.
New York, Oct. 14.—Johann Most,
the Anarchist was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary to-day in the Court of
Special Sessions, for publishing in his paper
the “‘Freiheit’’ an alleged seditious article
on the day following the shooting of the
late President McKinley.
The article was entitled ‘‘Murder Against
Murder.’”’ In his defense Most claimed that
the paper containing the article was
printed and ready for distribution before
the President was shot. Also that it was
a quotation from an article published fifty
years ago and republished by him fifteen
years ago. After imposing the sentence
Justice Hinsdale read the opinion of the
Court in which be said: —
“It is no answer to the evil and crim-
inal nature of this article to claim that it
was written for the purpose of destroying
crowned heads. It inculcates and enforces
the idea that murder is the proper remedy
to be applied against rulers. The fact that
it was published fifty years ago and again
republished about fifteen years ago, only
emphasizes and gives added point to the
criminality of republishing it at any time.
It shows a deliberate intent to inculcate and
promulgate the doctrines of the article.
This we hold to be a criminal act.
“It is not necessary to trace any con-
nection in this article with the assassination
of the late President. The offence here in
the eyes of the law, is precisely the same
as if the bloodly event had never occured.
The murder of the President serves only to
illustrate and illuminate the enormity of
the crime of the defendant in teaching his
diabolical doctrine.
‘Such articles aud doctrines have no
proper place in this free country. They
stimulate the worst possible political ideas
and passions, and, carried to their logical
conclusion, would destroy the Government.
"It was held by a distinguished Judge
in the celebrated Somerset slave case, that
‘no slave can breathe the free air of Eng-
land.’
“It would be well if the laws of this
country were such that it could be said
with truthfulness that no Anarchist can
breathe the free air of America.’ ”’
Most’s lawyers attempted to gain from
the bench a certificate of reasonable doubt
as a stay against the excution of the sen-
tence, and failing in this, expressed their
determination to appeal tothe Supreme
| Court.
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describe the weather during the last week |
right to:
Spawls from the Keystone, or
-,—Renovo has had several fatal cases of
diphtheria recently.
—David Evans, of Pittsburg; was Killed by
| a train at Potéstown. Saturday. iat
—His wagon was destroyed by a team at
Lancaster, but A. 8. “Rohrer, who was. driving
2
| escaped injury.
—The « ter. cou isued'a precept
to the jury ¢ mmissigp:. i select 1800 men
for jury duty in 190 ? :
—They say that Ql 7 « 68 law and order
society has stopped ‘the erymen of that
town ‘hiring rigs on Sundfy. ©
—Frank Jones, of Scranton, arrested at
‘Bloomsburg Friday, on suspicion of being a
pickpocket, was discharged Saturday.
—His family, at Muncy, has been notified
of the capture; by Filipinos, of Private David
Smith, of Company B, First Infantry.
—Two hundred ‘members of the American
‘Street Railway association, in session in New
York, visited the Bethlehem Steel Co's.
plant Saturday.
Lancaster county railway and light company
the price being $65,000.
—Two supervisors in Indiana county have
been sued because they failed to comply with
the law requiring loose stone tobe removed
from the public highway.
—Rachel, the 14-year-old daughter of S. H.
Bernheisel, of New Bloomfield, died sudden-
ly one day last week from diphtheria, and
another daughter is ill with the same disease.
—The board of education at Shamokin
have decided that all pupils making 85 per
cent or above in their school work during
the year, shall be exempt from the annual
examinations.
—The hotel at Irvona kept by Jerry
O'Neill was burned to the ground on Tues-
day morning of last week, only a portion of
the contents being saved. The fire was caus-
ed by a defective flue.
—Accidentally falling against a meat hook,
Jacob Lilley, a butcher, of Muncy, was hung
up as if he were so much meat, the hook
penetrating the lower and upper lids of the
right eye, the sight of which he will lose.
—The other day the engineer of a New
York Central freight train which stopped at
the water tank at Beech Creek found a
pheasant fluttering on the ground under the
telegraph wires, against which it flew and
broke its hill.
—Solomon Dayton and Hulda Wells, of
Blairsville, were married one day last week.
The remarkable thing about this event was
that the woman was granted a divorce from
her former hushand on the day of her second
wedding.
—An Italian, working on F. A. Blackwell's
lumber job, Youngwoman’s Creek was killed
Friday by a tree falling upon him. He was
38 years old and leaves a wife and child in
Italy. His remains were interred Saturday
at Drury’s Run.
—At Hollidaysburg Saturday, Oscar Man-
speaker, an Altoona youth, who refused to
go toschool, was taken before the court by
truant officer T. F. Vaughn and, after a hear-
ing, his honor directed that the lad be placed
in the house of refuge at Philadelphia.
—Annie Probst, the 3-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Probst, of Lock Haven,
was badly scalded on Sunday by the acci-
dental upsetting of a cooking utensil contain-
ing boiling hot soup. The child was scalded
on the right arm and shoulder and on the
body.
—Glen Scofield and Frederick Hewitt, of
Penfield, have captured another good sized
bear, the second in five days. The animal
bad been caught in a trap in a bear pen, and
had gone some distance, dragging the incum-
brance, when the boys overtook and killed
him.
—A Jersey Shore young man wrote to the
Superintendent of the Beech Creek railroad
recently and asked if he could get a job
“running on hisroad.” The reply came that
the company had no objections to his run-
ning on the road, providing that he kept out
of the way of the trains.
—The official ballot for the November elec-
tion will be larger than usual in off years by
reason of the movement against the Quay
organization. The uniform size throughout
the state will be ten columns except in
Lackawanna, Union and Snyder counties,
each of which is entitled to an additional
column.
—At the reunion of the members of the
One Hundred and Forty ninth Pennsylvania
volunteers and the Bucktail brigade at
Gettysburg Captain Charles Barclay and
Major J. W. Nesbit were elected president
and vice president respectively. Captain J.
G. Battoff, Lebanon; Captain D. P. Neely,
Washington; Michael P. Smyser, Harrisburg;
F. C. Dorrington and Captain D. M. Dabfish,
Pittsburg.
—Oscar Lindig, of Lewisburg, while gig-
ging in the river at that place a few nights
ago, captured what is believed to be the larg-
est carp ever taken from the Susquehanna.
It was thirty seven inches long, and measur-
ed twenty inches around. It weighed thirty
pounds. The head alone was over five pounds
in weight. The fish was discovered partly
out of water and was struck with a club and
stunned.
—After the coffin containing the remains
of the 7 months’ old child of Mr. and Mrs.
George Habenstock had been placed in the
hearse at White Deer Sunday, the driver
turned around too sharply. The hearse was
overturned. The rear door was broken off,
and the coffin rolled out on the road. Fort-
unately the lid not come off. The hearse
was so badly damaged that the coffin was
conveyed to the cemetery in a carriage.
—The construction of the Rockville bridge
by the contractors. Drake & Stratton and H.,
8. Kerbaugh, has been carried out with ex-
ceptionally few fatalities or accidents. At
other points where these contractors have
had large gangs of work ingmen employed,
the reverse of this case has been the rule,
especially at Spruce Creek tunnel only seven
miles east of Tyrone, where there were eight
men killed and about forty injured in one
year. Most the fatalities were the result
of fights among the men, and the women had
a heavy hand in the brawls very often. In
one short year Tunneltown, the temporary
village at the mouth of the tunnel, became
notorious for its desperate characters and
blood curdling rackets. Only one man was
murdered at the Rockville bridge and there
were but three serious accidents.
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