BY
iy Fs
P. GRAY MEEK.
‘Ink Slings.
__(CZorGosz is gone. Now let him be
forgotten. =
+ _1f possible see that every Democrat yon
know goes to the polls and votes on Tues-
day.
-_1t is a long lane that has no tui, but
few fellows have the patience to keep plod-
ding on until the turn is rounded.
—The next thing to do is to serve an in-
junction on Mr. MACLAY restraining him
from writing any more political histories.
—See that the vote in your precinct isall
gotten to the polls and. above all things,
see that every man votes for GARDNER and
SPANGLER.
—1If all murderers were as speedily and
decorously made to suffer the law’s last
penalty as was CzoLGosz there would be
far. less work for judge Lynch to do in the
land.
—1If, as the Gazelle says, Mr. McKINLEY
is working in a mill at Mileshurg for $15 a
month, he can’t be a very good miller, or
he could command three or four times that
much any where.
—Emperor WILLIAM is going to smash
things to pieces if certain commercial
treaties are not negotiated by his law mak-
ers. But then the Emperor has talked
#hrough his crown before.
—Don’t forget the constitutional amend-
ments on Tuesday. They are of great im-
portance. There is no polities in them.
They are merely designed to secure honest
elections in Pennsylvania.
— Remember that in voting next Tues-
day the most important thing to do will be
to vote ‘‘yes’’ on the constitational amend-
ments. It is necessary for them to carry if
we ever hope to have honest elections in
Pennsylvania and they won’t carry unless
you vote for thew.
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—1It may be true, as the Gazelle says,
that Mr. McKINLEY has a family of ten
children but when the editor of that paper
tries to hold MITCH GARDNER responsible
for it he is doing something that Mr. Mec-
KINLEY would be perfectly justified in
punching his head for.
— Whatever happens get out and vote on
Tuesday. It is every man’s duty todo it.
Let nothing keep you at home, now that
the great reform army has started to ad-
vance in close order. The battle may not
be won next Tuesday, but it will later, if
the first skirmish results as it is hoped it
will.
—Don’t let yourself become a stay-at-
home. Go to the polls and vote on Tues-
day. Stay-at-homes are as dangerous in
many respects as anarchists. Don’t be an
anarchist. If you are dissatisfied with the
government the primaries and the polls are
the places to have it corrected and itis your
duty to go out like a man and vote. Don’t
sulk at home.
—Is it possible that our government
has come to such a condition of suhservien-
cy to-some power that a man like CROWIN-
SHIELD can not be kicked out of the navy
forthwith ? The ray of hope that dawned
when it was announced that he was to be
relieved as chief of the Bureau of Naviga-
tion has been totally eclipsed by his assign-
ment to command our squadron at the cor-
onation of King Edward.
—The milk in the cocoanut started a
spilling in this section yesterday when the
Quay workers here received orders from
the QUAY headquarters to vote no on the
constitutional amendments. QUAY had
been pretending to favor their passage, but
when he discovered that public sentiment
was largely in favor of them he hastens to
try to accomplish their defeat. They are
designed to secure honest elections in Penn-
sylvania and as honest elections would soon
put an end to QUAYism it is not to be
wondered at that the boss has issued orders
to beat them, if possible.
—HARRIS, the QUAY candidate for State
Treasurer; will be very apt to find out what
the Centre county farmers want next Tues-
day. Ino a reckless speech before the Legis-
lature hesaid ‘‘the farmers don’t seem to
koow what they do want.”’ They knew
well enough that they wanted more equit-
able tax laws and reforms in the dairy and
food laws, but they also knew that there
was a poor chance of getting relief from
such a Legislature as the last one was and
they also know that this same HARRIS was
one of the QUAY leaders in that body. They
also have a suspicion that HARRIS was
made QUAY's candidate for State Treas-
urer because he saw to it that the corpora;
tions and not the farmers were cared for.
Next Tuesday the Centre county farmers
will show Mr. HARRIs that they don’t
want him, at least. ;
— Immediately after the Republican coun-
ty convention in August the State College
Times, the QUAY-HAMILTON organ in the
county, boastfully made the assertion that
the real test of the strength of that body
was made on the nomination for prothono-
tary and as Mr. McKINLEY, a stalwart
QUAY worker, had won over Mr. PHIL. D.
FOSTER, a HASTINGS man, it was evident
that the QUAY people controlled the con-
vention. If they did control that body few
of those present were cognizant of it. How-
ever since they are so hoastfully claiming
that they did and also claiming that Me-
KINLEY is their particular man it is up to
the HASTINGS people to let them elech him,
it they can. They were very outspoken in
saying that they ‘‘wouldn’t do a thing to
Mr. FosTER" if he were nominated, so it is
only natural to expect that Mr. FosTER’S
friends will return the compliment.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Nov
EMBER 1, 1901.
Fighting the Amendments.
That orders have gone from the machine
to defeat the constitutional amendments is
no longer a question of doubt. Until last
week the obvious intention of the QUAY
managers was to defeat them by a trick.
The first and second propositions were
grouped together in violation of the first
section of article XVIII of the fundamental
law. which requires that amendments be
voted for separately. When this scheme
was defeated by the vigilance of active
Democrats and friends of ballot reform, an-
other plan was resorted to. Orders were
issued to oppose the:amendments and at
once the machine controlled organs of the
State began a campaign of falsification to
achieve the result.
For example, late last week the weekly
papers and early this week the daily papers
controlled by the QUAY corporation began
stating that the adoption of the amendments
would put a large expense on the people of
the State. The usual form is that ‘the
county - will be obliged to pay out a large
amount of money for voting machines,
which are not wanted.”” That is a deliber-
ate falsehood. The amendment in ques-
gion authorizes the Legislature to make
provisions for voting machines, but does
not require it. On the contrary the main
purpose of that amendment is to enable the
Legislature to enact a law which will obvi-
ate the necessity of numbering the ballots
and thus make the restoration of the vest
pocket ballot possible.
The first and second propositions, as as-
serted on the ballot as corrected after com-
plaint and with some difficulty, provide for
personal registration of voters in the large
cities without requiring it in the less dense-
ly populated communities in which it is
not necessary to guarantee an honest regis-
tration, a fair vote and a just return.
Where the personal registration is required
the expense of the elections will be increas-
ed a trifle. Officers must be paid to sit and
receive the personal applications for regis-
tration. But in the nature of things that
will be limited to the cities of the first and
second class of which there are only four
in the State, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Alle-
gheny City and Scranton. In those cities,
however, the system will guarantee fair
elections and that will be worth ten times
what it coste.
As a matter of fact the adoption of the
amendments will decrease rather than in-
crease the expenses of the elections in the
State and especially in the rural districts
and smaller cities. The great expense of
the present system is in the blanket ballots
with the various devices to confuse the vot-
ers. The old fashioned vest pocket tickets
cost less than one-tenth of the amount
which is paid annually for the present bal-
lots. Under the old system the parties
paid for the tickets, but even if that ex-
pense is put on the counties the total will
be less than halt that at present, if the
pending amendments are adopted.
——See that GARDNER gets every Demo-
cratic vote and as many Republicans as pos-
gible in your district.
Rats Deserting the Ship.
As the SCHLEY inquiry is drawing to a
close and it becomes certain that the ver-
dict will be a disappointment to the bureau-
crats of the Navy Department, the signs of
a scampering are revealing themselves.
Assistant Secretary HACKET, who tried his
best to pack the court, has already resigned,
Rear Admiral CROWNINSHIELD, who never
smelled powder fired from a hostile gun, is
to be sent to the European station and Sec-
retary LONG is about to resign. These
were the principals in the conspiracy to
destroy Admiral SCHLEY and they proba-
bly hope to escape the consequences by
getting out of reach. { 5
Whether these expectations will be ful-
filled or disappointed remains to be seem,
but in any event it is a fortunate thing for
the Department and the country, that they
are getting out. Ever since the ‘‘mutual
admiration society,”” of which the gentle-
men named have been the conspicuous
members, has been organized the Navy
Department has been deteriorating. BILL
CHANDLER was bad enough as Secretary
bus he did nothing worse than work it oc
casionally for political results. = These
marplots, however, have used it continnous-
ly for their own personal aggrandizemen ¢
and to wreak their vengeance on any officers
whe wouldn’t obey their orders.
When Cap’t. CLARK was racing “around
the Horn’ to get the Oregon within range
of the enemies guns in the West India
seas, he bad to beg the President to keep
the hands of the strategy board off him.
Every officer who won distinction during
the Spanish war from Admiral DEWEY
down to “Fighting Bop’ EVANS has suf-
tered more or less from the malice of these
pampered miscreants and so long as they
are permitted to prostitute the Department
to their selfish purposes the disgraceful and
demoralizing. condition of affairs will con:
tinue. It is gratifying, thecefore, that the
scampering has set iu.
Get votes for GARDNER.
Gardner the Rich (3) Man, McKinley the
Poor.
In the last issue of the Gazette there ap-
peared an attack upon M. J]. GARDNER,
prothonotary of Centre county, that is as
wholly without warrant asit is untruthful.
As to the former the editor of that paper
needs nothing further than the promptings
of his mean, sordid nature, but so far as
the latter is concerned his readers have a
right to expect at least a semblance of
sruth ; though they rarely get it.
Two columns on the first page are de-
voted to pictures of properties owned by
Mr. GARDNER in Bellefonte, as well as
one of the house which Mr. McKINLEY
occupies in Milesburg. This gallery of
half-tones is intended to convince the pub-
lic that Mr. GARDNER is a very rich mao
and that Mr. McKINLEY is very poor.
Now whose fault is it, if such is the case ?
Is Mr. GARDNER responsible for Mr. Mec-
KINLEY'S poverty or did Mr. McKINLEY
help Mr. G ARDNER to get rich? Not ex-
actly. They are men of the same age,
they are both sons of humble parents,
neither one of them had received anything
more from home, when he struck out in-
%o the world than a common school educa-
tion and the training of honest, christian
parents. Both started to work on salaries
and bave been doing so to this day. But
here the similarity in their courses ends.
Mr. GARDNER has been frugal and care-
ful with his earnings. When be was a
book-keeper at the Valentine iron works
he bought the home he now occupies on
Spring street and later purchased the small
Jot on Howard street.on which is located
the old Logan engine house, which was
abandoned because of its dilapidated con-
dition and which the Gazette calls the pub-
lic school building because one room in it
is fixed up sufficiently fora primary school.
‘He was unable to pay for either property
at the time and is still carrying a heavy
building and loan obligation on them.
The entire properties are assessed by the
Republican assessor of the North ward at
$4,100 and as Mr. GARDNER las $3,800 of
building and loan funds on them he does
not seem to be so far ahead as the. Gazelle
would deceive you into believing. The
fact that he has undertaken to buy a home,
however, to pay for it as he can, is evidence
of his good citizenship and should commend
him to all sensible persons. ‘We would
suggest that the editor of the Gazette read
the XXV chapter of ST. MATTHEW before
be makes such an attack again. There he
will find that the servant who doubled his
Master's five talents was praised in these
words: * Well done, thou good aud faithful
servant, thou hast been faithful over a few
things I will make thee ruler over: many
things.”
It has been thus with Mr. GARDNER.
While he is by no means a rich man, and
were his property all clear of debt it would
not amount to as much as a fair farm in
Penusvalley, he has been striving to im-
prove his talents and the [fact that he is
trying to get a home of his own should not
condemn him,
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The Philadelphia Preachers.
The attitude of the Philadelphia clergy-
men in ‘the present campaign may be un-
usual but is in no respect surprising. No
clergyman who respects his vows can well
do anything else than follow their example.
The state government as well as that of
the city in which they live.are nurseries of
vice and crime. The political conditions
which sarround them are destructive of
good morals. That being the case there is
nothing they can do which will more cer-
tainly promote the results to which their
lives are dedicated. It may justly be said
that in engaging in a campaign for a re-
form of government they are blazing the
way for an extension of church work.
Missionary work is a recognized part of
the labor of the clergy. Missionary work
may be done at home as well as abroad and
the closer to home each man operates the
better the results achieved. ‘Therefore in
striving to overthrow a lncal government
which cultivates all the vices against which
the church contends at home and abroad
the clergyman is clearly fulfilling his ohli-
gations. That is what the Philadelphia
clergymen who have joined in a crusade
against the QUAY machine of Pennsyl-
vania are doing. Whether they do it well
or not depends upon the tenacity of pur-
pose and the zealand energy with which
they pursue it. They have started well
and if they have the gift of continuance
will accomplish much good.
The clergy in other portions of the State
ought to follow the example of their Phila-
delphia brethren. The evidences of of-
ficial immorality are not so obvions else-
where as in that city, bat the records of
the last Legislature amply orove the ne-
cessity for a purging in the state govern-
ment. According to the testimony of
Lient. Governor GOBIN every department
of the state government is honey-combed
with venality and so long as the clergymen
close their eves to such iniquities, they
cannot hope to achieve much in the evan-
gelization of their communities. The
Philadelphia preachers have adopted ‘the
right course and those in other parts of the
State should follow their example.
No Reciprocity Foolishness.
When the late President McKINLEY de-
| clared himself in favor of a greater liberal-
ity in commercial relations between this
country and others, in bis great speech at
Buffalo just before his assassination, the
entire country was inspired with hope.
Mr. McKINLEY called the liberalizing to
which he referred reciprocity, but it wasn’t
that. We should sell wherever we can and
buy wherever the buying will increase our
sales, he said in substance. That meant, if
it meant anything, that we should culti-
vate the markets of Great Britain by such
exchanges of commodities as conditions
might recommend. = That is the doctrine of
free trade, pure and simple.
The echo of his voice had scarcely ceased
to sound when all the tariff pensioners be-
gan advocating reciprocity. But they
didn’t mean what he meant. They meant
the negotiation of business agreements be-
tween this country and such others as
maintain high tariffs by which both parties
to the agreement would make mutual con-
cessions on tariff schedules. This is a safe
propesition for the tariff mongers. The
few commercial countries which maintain
high tariffs have little to sell that we care
to buy and desire to buy still less from us.
Besides, it requires a two-thirds vote of the
United States Senate to ratify a treaty and
the protected interests would be certain to
prevent ratification, thus permitting the
present tariff robbery to continue for a few
years longer. . :
But Senator ALDRICH has punched a
hole in the balloon. It was moving along
charmingly and a good many people were
being fooled into the belief that it was a
real air-ship and would accomplish won-
derful results. The Senator for Rhode
Island stated to the President the other
day, however, that he will not participate
in such an absurd enterprise as he held
‘twenty reciprocity treaties in the Senate
committee of Finance during the whole of
the last session, it is plain that his deter-
mination will put an end to the hopes of
delaying ta: iff revision by that process at
this session. It is to be hoped that the re-
sult will be such reciprocity as McKINLEY
contamplated. |
— Fhe State College Times declares
that it is ‘‘the official organ’’ of the Repub-
lican party in Centre county. Why it is
so, we don’t know, unless it is because
JorN HAMILTON says so. But then his
say so doesn’t go auy further than the
Times goes.
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There can be no comparison of their
qualifications. GARDNER is the fit man
for prothonotary and MoKINLEY is not.
Vote for GARDNER.
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The Execution ot Czolgosz.
The orderly execution of CZOLGOSZ in
the Auburn penitentiary on Tuesday morn-
ing, ought to and probably will prove the
end of anarchy in this country. If he had
been lynched or if his execution had been
attended by any spectacular incident the
result might have been different. Anarchy
feeds on notoriety and can no more live
without it than a herring can climb trees.
The arress, trial, conviction and finally the
execution of this assassin was so entirely
free from anything like sensationalism that
the prisoner may have been said to have
simply faded out of existence.
The murder of the President was a sad
calamity but it can be said that the least
possible harm has come from it. If instead
of discouraging anarchy it had been used to
inspire other rattle brains with the notion
that such crimes afforded an easy road to
the gratification of a criminal vanity, the
chances are that CzZoLGosz would have had
imitators within a brief period. But the
lesson of his experience is that in this coun-
try the murderer of the President is simply
sure of au ignominous death, speedy and
certain but anything else than spectacular.
There is nothing in that sort of a taking oft
‘to encourage anarchy.
But there is much in it and in the inci-
dents which preceded it to encourage confi-
dence in the stability and perpetuity of the
government. A week before the assassina-
tion of President McKINLEY no thonght-
fal man would have contemplated with
equanimity the suceession of President
ROOSEVELT $0 the high office which he has
since honored. Bus the bullet which fatal-
ly wounded McKINLEY settled his succes-
sor into a staid, ' courageous and conscien-
tious statesman. Therefore it may be said
that out of adversity the country has grown
strong and maybe after all the incident
which was calamitous may be an instru-
ment of good. iat] !
As the late President said ‘‘God’s will be
done,” and it may be added the ways of
Providence are mysterious. ‘
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— The expected has happened in the
vicious fight that is being made over the
Union county judgeship. ANDREW A.
LEISER, the Union candidate, has sued
Senator B. K. FocHT, editor of the Lewis:
burg News, for slander, and there you are.
——Qet votes for GARDNER.
The Kind of a Man. You are Asked to
Vote For.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is now nearly two weeks since the
Philadelphia Press gave a full and detailed
statement of the shameful telephonic inter-
views between the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania and his partner, Justice. Potter, 1n
reference to private consultations of the
Justices of the Supreme court when the
Pittsburg ‘‘ripper’’ bill was under con-
sideration last spring.
Up to the present time Justice Potter has
taken no action to relieve himself or the
Supreme court of the odium of the Press
disclosures; nor have his associates on the
bench done so. If the highest tribunal of
this Commonwealth is to retain the con-
fidence and respect of the public some ac-
tion will have to be taken. This scandal
has gone all over the country. Every ‘high-
minded business and professional man and
every honest Judge is-disgusted at the im-
putation upon judicial integrity. ‘In any
other State in the Union than Pennsyl-
vania such a situation would have been
met by denial and disproof or steps toward
removal or impeachment.
Suppose (if it be possible to suppose
such a thing) that the President of the
United States had appointed his law part-
ner to the Supreme court of the United
States, and then had received from his
partner not only information as to the
standing of the Court in a case in which he
was specially interested, but had been told
that his informant, as a Justice, had to
“goratch’’ to secure a favorable decision of
a majority of the Court ! The Nation would
not endure such an indignity for one day.
There is no question of politics involved.
The coming election cannot relieve Justice
Potter's fellow-justices on the Supreme
bench from the necessity of taking steps to
remove the stain which hie action has cast
upon that tribunal. No sensible man
questions the veracity of the report of the
conversation between Justice Potter and
Governor Stone published in the Press. It
matters not where or how the evidence of
the conversation was secured. The report
is straightforward and plain, and the si-
lence of Justice Potter is the firmest evi-
dence of its truth.
Why should the reputable Justices of the
Supreme court of Pennsylvania continue
to sit with Justice Potter unless he shall
relieve himself and the Court from the ter-
rible charges now unanswered ? There was
a time when it was an honor to be a mem-
ber of the bar of Pennsylvania, and to be a
Philadelphia lawyer was a badge of dis-
tinction; but if this betrayal by one of the
Associate Justices of the Supreme court of
the methods by which he secured an opin-
jon favorable to his partuer is to. B= ow-
ed to pass unnoticed by Tis assodia ot
the bench, by the bar associations of the
State and by the respectable members of
the bar it may truly be said, as was stated
by a writer in the Atlantic Monthly, that
“‘the people of Pennsylvania are little bet-
ter than degenerates.’’
Should the Supreme court do nothing
the bar associations ought to demand an
investigation; and if the facts set forth by
the Press should be established by evi-
dence Justice Potter ought to be compelled
to retire, or his fellow-justices ought to re-
fuse to sit with him. Moral leprosy is
worse than physical leprosy.
The Chinese Are Not Anarchistical,
At All Events.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The re-enactment of the Chinese exclus-
ion law promises to be one of the interest-
ing issues of the near future. A state con-
vention has been called to meet at San Fran-
cisco on November 21st, next to consider
the re-enactment of the exclusion law.
The energy with which Minister Wu has
advocated the abolition of the anti-Chinese
regulation has evidently aroused Califor-
nians to activity. There is not so much
interest in the question in the East as
formerly ; but there is little doubt that it
will again become prominent should the
attempt be made to open wide the doors to
Chinese immigration, which would be cer-
tain to flood the Pacific and Rocky Moun-
tain States, and overflow to the Eastern
States. It is not desirable immigration,
and is far less so than the great movement
from southern and eastern Europe, which
is creating much uneasiness.
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Who the Anarchists Are.
From the Pittsburg Post.
A small potato lawyer named Cox, of
Homestead, who is after a congressional
nomination from the gang in one of the
districts of this county,in a speech at Brad-
dock ventured on the lying bit of dema-
gogical clap-trap that “‘all anarchists or
nearly all were members of the Democratic
arty.”’. This was received with cries of
‘Rats !"’ ‘Rats!’ from an appreciative
Republican audience. The anarchists have
politics of their own, and are neither
Democrats nor Republicans nor Prohibi-
tionists. The New York World, however,
makes the statement that the assassin of
McKinley voted the Republican ticket at
the presidential election of 1896, and it isa
fact that the assassin of Garfield boasted of
his Republicanism and declared he was ‘a
stalwart of the stalwarts.”’
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Independence in Voting Easy, After the
Ice is Broken.
From the Philadelphia Times.
One of the finest things in the politics of
the present year is the general manifesta-
tion of real independence: ‘In a heavily
Republican city we find Republicans by
the thousand joining with the Democrats
in a movement for reform. In a heavily
Democratic city we find Democrats work-
ing for Republican nominees to the same
end. Sometimes it is hard for the partisan
to cast an independent vote, but it is like
a cold bath. The worst part—the only
disagreeable part—is the first plunge. After
that comes a glow that tepid timidity can
never know. ;
—— Don’t fail to get to thé polls on Taes-
day. GARDNER will need your vote. See
that he gets it.
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—_Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Hon. John T. Hyatt, who was appointed
vice consul at Santiago, Cuba, by President
Cleveland, has been admitted to practice law
in the Lycoming county courts and will -lo-
cate at Jersey Shore. He is a graduate of
Bucknell University and has written several
books.
—James H. Mann, for seven years treas
urer of the American Axe and Tool trust,
who left that organization, opeued an inde-
pendent plant at Manns, near Lewistown
Tuesday. The factory has a capacity of 1,-
500 finished axes per day, and is the largest
independent axe plant in the world.
—Strawberries near the close of October is
something unusual for this section, but J. F.
Sorgen, who resides near Swissdale, brought
several bunches of the fruit from his farm to
market Tuesday morning in Lock Haven.
They wete fully matured and as sweet as
when in season.
—The corner stone of the new Methodis
church at Munson, to take the place of the
one destroyed by fire on July 31st, was laid
on Monday afternoon with appropriate
services. The stone, a beautiful piece of
marble, was the gift of A. T. Shupe, of Phil
ipsburg. It is expected the church will be
ready to dedicate about the holidays.
—Charles Rishel, aged 13 years, who lives
with his uncle, William Rockey, north of
Tylersville, distinguished himself asa suc-
cessful hunter last week by shooting twelve
gray squirrels, nine pheasants and one wild
turkey. The lad is also a bright scholar, a
genius in handling tools and an expert at
playing the fiddle.
—Twenty-three people were killed or
burned to death last Friday morning in one
the fiercest fires Philadelphia has ever. ex-
perienced. The eight story building of
Hunt, Wilkinson & Co., of 1219-21 Market
street, fine furniture dealers, was consumed
like a whirlwind and the victims were
caughtin the flames like rats in a trap.
—A mob at Wichita, Kansas, wrecked the
tent of Hi Ki, a wild man, because he didn't
eat raw liver, as the bills said’ he would do,
and a local police judge upheld the act on
the ground that when people pay out good
money to see a man eat raw liver they have
a right to see him eat raw liver or know the
reason why. 3
—Aaron P. Shoff, of Madera, the expert
lumberman, has taken the job of cutting and
hauling and delivering into Moshannon
creek and the bark on the cars, all the pine,
hemlock and oak on the Stewart lands, lo-
cated four miles from Gillantown, on lands
recently purchased by the Surveyor Rum
Lumber Co. Mr. Shoff will go into camp on
the 6th of November.
—The fact that patrolman Frank Bradley
of the Altoona police force, was found drunk
on duty on Saturday night and was discharg-
ed from the force, has caused an edict to be
sent forth that any policeman found drink-
ing on duty, or who is seen in a hotel or bar-
room while on duty unless called there to
make an arrest, will be fired from the force
bag and baggage.
The section bosses on the L. and T. rail-
road Tuesday were called to Williamsport to
take a tour of inspection from that point to
Renovo. The party consisted of a dozen
bosses among whom were Messrs. J. F.
Sherry, Bellefonte; Wm. Weaver, Lemont;
J. W. Weibly, Linden Hall; J. S. Smetzler,
Centre Hall; J. Osman Spring Mills, Thomas
Kahler, Coburn.
—Dr. John Young, of Belleville, Mifflin
county, Thursday night shot his wife, using
a shotgun. A portion of the shot entered
the woman’s groin and it is thought she can-
not recover. The doctor had disposed of a
hog to a traveling drover and his wife want-
led a portion of the proceeds, which was
denied her. A quarrel ensued and the shoot-
ing followed. Young escaped on a west-
bound train but was arrested in Altoona.
—John Ward, of Grazierville, was a victim
of a fatal accident at the sand bank of the
Burley Heating. Co., near Tyrone Friday
evening. While at work he was caught un-
der a slide of sand and his back and left leg
broken. He was removed from under the
mass of sand and rock and lingered about
one hour, when death ended his sufferings.
He was aged 25 years, and leaves a wife and
one son 2} years old.
—Monday as Lloyd Schreckengost and
Ralph Kunselman, two 16 year-old Brook-
ville boys, were on their way home to their
dinner together a quarrel sprang up between
them and Schreckengost struck Kunselman
on the head with a stone, knocking him
down. He then threw himself astride his
opponent and with a stoue in each hand beat
Lis head in a terrible manner. Kunselman
has been unconscious since and his recovery
is doubtful. Up to this time Schreckengost
has uot been arrested. ‘
— Thomas Shannahan, an employe for the
railroad company at Osceola, died at that
place on Tuesday evening. He was supposed
to be very poor, but after his death money
to the amount of $5,500 was found on his
person, sewed up in the lining of his clothes.
Shannahan has been employed for years as a
track hand at $1 per day, and some of the
bills dated back to 1850 on banks long since
out of existence, shows that he has been
hoarding and carrying the money in that
manner for many years, The money had to
be fumigated refore it was placed in circula-
tion again. 1 iree sisters, one of whom
lives in Osceola, are the only known heirs.
—A party of hunters captured one of the
cub bears—seen on Sunnyside farm the other
day—back of the Bald Eagle school house
five miles from Tyrone, Monday. Anthony
Sherry, of Oil City, was one of the party and
the man who killed the cub. The old moth-
er bear and her two cubs were both seen by
Mr. Sherry. One of the cubs ran playfully
toward him and he shot it. The old bear
and the other cub ran, and escaped. Had
Sherry shot the mother bear instead of the
cub the party would doubtless have captured
the trio, asthe cubs would not have ran away
according to the theory of old hunters.
—The family of Jonathan Walker, in
Clearfield county, is a sorely afflicted family.
On the 27th of May last his oldest son was
suddenly killed while at work in West Vir-
inia. Recently typhoid fever broke out in
is home and all of his childrenswere stricken
with the disease. On Wednesday of last
week Merrill, aged 16 died, and his remains
were conveyed to the cemetery Thursday
afternoon for burial. On the retirn of the
friends to the home they were shocked to
learn that Linn, aged 14 years, had died
during the funeral of his brother. His re;
mains were laid to vest on Saturday after-
noon,