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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The smart man isn’t always successful
because he often loses much time in the
unprofitable work of telling people what he
knows.
—Lord ROSEBERRY is said to possess a
collection of twenty-two snuff boxes that
are valued at $175,000. Now wouldn't
that make yon sneeze.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer is support-
ing the ship subsidy scheme, as might have
been expected. The Inquirer is usually on
the side that is looking for a rake-off.
—The corn crop is reported as being the
lowest on record in this country, but as
long as the rye and barley holds out there
won’t be much complaint from some
sources, ab least.
—Mr. BRODERICK, the British war sec-
retary, says that England will see the fight
with the Boers to a finish. If she does she
will be needing glasses for near-sightedness
long before the finish is seen.
—A Boston judge bas decided that a man
is not drunk until he is ‘‘overcome, stape-
fied or frenzied by alcoholic liquors.’ This
definition is probably all right, but it will
hardly comprehend what is known as a
‘‘comfortable little jag.”
—The State College man who drove his
horse so fast, in pursuit of a bear on Wed-
nesday, that it dropped dead in the road,
probably had little thought of having a
killing before he got within sight of his
game, which turned out to be a black
stump,
- —The Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT is
starting off to put himself in very much the
same relation to the Republican party that
the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND did to the
Democracy that elected him for the second
term. And it is still a matter of memory
as to what happened to the Democracy be-
cause GROVER grew so grand.
—The Newburgh, N. Y. woman who re-
cently filed the statement of the expenses
of her campaign for membership on the
school board, did it as follows : “‘No talk,
no money, no promises, no solicitation, no
intimidation, no bribery, no cigars, no
schooners.”” As JAMES G. BLAINE would
have said, it would have been a work of
supererogation had she added : No elec-
tion.
—Trinity Reformed Episcopal church of
Philadelphia is blazing the way in abolish-
ing all societies organized to make money
for the church. And thisis as it should be.
When CHRIST drove the money changers
from the temple he surely set an example
that is not at all in harmony with the mod-
ern church supper, grab-bag, wheel of for-
tune idea of keeping things going.
—Chairman' JoHN €. MILLER, of the
Union party, declares that he is going right
along with his organization, even if JOHN
HAMILTON does think he is crazy. The
two JOHNS are quite interesting characters
in Centre county politics just now, but the
State College brother is likely to be sub-
merged with other dead ducks in the
great political puddle leng before the Belle-
fonte hopeful has been sent to Danville.
—Turkey has a great way of settling her
complications with the other powers. The
porte offends all the laws of international
comity, plunders and pillages when he
pleases until a foreign war ship appears off
the coast and, after making what is known
as a ‘‘demonstration,’”’ demands a specific
indemuity. The Sultan apologizes, agrees
to pay, and the warship sails away. But
not with the indemnity; only the promise.
The offended power gets the indemnity —
when it gets it.
—A recent bulletin sent out by the
Pennsylvania State College experiment sta-
tion warns residents in various counties of
the State to be on the lookout for the
peri odical cicada, or seventeen year locusts,
that are said to be due next year. While
the seventeen year locusts may appear and
do much damage to trees of all kinds the
people of Pennsylvania will be more inter-
ested in the movement of the new Union
fly that has just appeared. It is peculiar in
its tastes, since it attacks nothing but plum
treee and by next year it'is predicted that
, it will kill the old QUAY variety in Penn-
sylvania entirely.
—The York Gazette, in a most friendly
way, takes exception to the WATCHMAN’S
saying : ‘‘Its over now. Forget it.””. And
had the meaning our esteemed contempor-
ary has taken from the expression been in-
tended we grant that its ground for a point
of order would be well taken. But in this
case the WATCHMAN had no intention or
‘desire to advise the honest voters to forget
the great and vital principles they strug-
gled to make dominant on the 5th. It
merely intended that neighbors who differ-
ed in opinion and said unkind things on
that day should forget and forgive, for what
is the use of carrying political differences
into the family or church.
—Many of the party leaders in the State
are in favor of contesting the election of
HARRIS and POTTER on the ground of
fraudulent voting in Philadelphia and Pitts-
burg. The Hon. ROBERT E. PATTISON,
who might not be far off when the guaber-
natorial lightning strikes next fall, isin
favor of it provided the funds necessary to
carry it into execution can be raised. It is
true, as many assert, that if no effort is
made to unearth the fraud now it will cer-
tainly be repeated again next year, when
the Union movement will be better organ-
ized and more hopeful of victory if there is
even an appearauce of honesty in the two
great cities of the State.
Ea
A emacratic
Contest in Philadelphia.
The promise comes from Philadelphia
that the election frauds perpetrated there at
the recent election are to be investigated.
That is tosay at a meeting of the local
commiitee of the Union party held on Mon-
day afternoon it was decided to collect such
evidence of fraud as is available outside of
the courts with the view of instituting con-
tests. It is stated that the object of the
action is less to disturb the titles of those
declared eleeted than to punish those re-
sponsible for the crimes and deter others
from committing similar offences against
the law in the future. If, however, all
these results should follow there would be
no objection.
It is to be hoped that this purpose will
not be abandoned: We all know that con-
testing elections in the courts is both a
thankless and difficult undertaking, especi-
ally when the trial judges are of the party
adversely affected by the operation. But
it is equally certain that such undertakings
are frequently successful and where the
evidence isso clear and abundant as ap-
pears to be the case in Philadelphia at pres-
ent the chances of success are more equal.
That being the case the incentive to pro-
ceed is very strong. It would not only de-
feat the purpose of the frand by unseating
the men in whose behalf it was perpetrat-
ed, but it would probably prevent future
frauds until legislation in pursuance of the
new coustitutional amendments would
make fraud practically impossible,
. Besides the indications are that the court
would be friendly, rather than otherwise, to
a movement calculated to purify the elec-
tions in Philadelphia for the future and re-
move a stain from the reputation of the
city for the present. It is known that the
three judges, all Republicans, who directed
the counting of the votes were disgusted
with the evidence of fraud: On the first
day they sent for the District Attorney and
called his attention to the facts with the
view, probably, of instituting proceedings
and on Monday last they declared that the
ballot box in one of the divisions of the
Third ward should be opened, - It is sel:
dom that Judges take such radical action
and it may be certain that there was abun-
dant reason for it. In any event there are
even greater reasons for a thorough and
searching investigation and it is to be hop-
ed that the determination to contest will
not be given up.
Flinn’s Second Gold Brick.
It appears, after all, that the gossip cur-
rent among the politicians and common in
the columns of the newspapers of the State,
to the effect that in pursuance of an agree-
ment with Senator FLINN, of Pittsburg,
the Governor will remove Recorder BROWN
of that city in the near future, is rubbish.
1n other words the indications are that the
Govervor has been handing the Pittshurg
Senator another bogus gold brick of the
cheapest variety. This is not altogether
surprising, for since the death of Senator
MAGEE his former political partner has be-
come exceedingly ‘‘easy,’’ and the Govern-
or has nothing in the form of conscience
to restrain his impulse to cheat his custom-
ers. ;
That he has cheated Senator FLINN most
unmercifully is revealed in a statement hy
Recorder BRowN ‘the other day. The
gossip that he was to be removed having
reached his ears he concluded to stifle it
at once and issued a statement in which he
emphatically declared that Senator QUAY
had personally guaranteed him that he is
to serve out his full term. ‘‘The Senator
calied to see me when he was in Pittsburg
recently,”’ remarked the candid Recorder,
“and assured me that Governor STONE will
not remove me.” Nobody who knows the
political conditions in this State can mis-
understand that. QUAY owns the Govern-
or and regulates the appointments and re-
movals quite as completely. as if the com-
mission wis made out in his own name.
This indicates a rather cruel treatment
of Senator FLINN, but nobody will grieve
much over his discomfiture. FLINN want-
ed control of the municipal government in
order that he might rob the people in the
future as he has robbed them in the past.
With that object in view he entered into a
corrupt bargain with Governor STONE to
stuff ballot boxes and in’ other ways de-
bauch the elections in Pittsburg and Alle-
gheny county so as to secure the election of
the machine ticket unless there was an ex-
traordinary land slide the other way. He
kept his agreement, but it was a dishonest
bargain at best and the people will gen-
erally rejoice with Recorder BROWN that
FLINN has been cheated.
——LEvidently the other people of Lu-
zerne county didn’t look upon the fusion
movement with the same view that their
distinguished neighbor, the Hon. JNo. M,
GARMAN did. A majonty of almost 14,-
000 for the fusion ticket is an awful com-
mentary on the influence of the ex-chair-
‘man over those who lave reason Po know
him best. :
~~ Suboribe for the WATCHMAN.
_ BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA., NOVEMBER 15. 1901.
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NO. 45.
Senator Lodge for Commercial Free~
dom.
Senator LODGE, of Massachusetts, who
during the last session of Congress stood as
an immovable barrier against reciproc-
ity promises to champion the other side of
the question during the coming session.
That is to say in a speech delivered in Bos-
ton on Saturday evening the intimate friend
of President RooSEVELT declared not only
in favor of a more liberal commercial policy
with the outside world, but added that the
subject of reciprocity, not the circum-
scribed variety supported by the tariff
mongers, but the broad kind referred to by
President MCKINLEY in his Buffalo speech
which will embrace all the nations of the
earth, will receive ‘anxious consideration’
by President Roosev ELT and Congress.
That statement is susceptible of but one
interpretation. It means if it has any sig-
nificance at all, that the President and his
friend in Congress will nrge during the
coming session a com mercial policy which
will result in ‘‘selling wherever we can
and buying wherever the buying will in-
crease our sales.” There is but one way
to achieve that result. Reciprocity treas-
ies with small governments won't serve the
purpose. Even trade agreements ‘with
France, Germany and Russia would fail,
for the reason that those countries are not
the greatest consumers of the goods which
we produce. We can’t make a trade treaty
with Great Britain predicated en reciprocal
tariff reductions for Great Britain has no
tariff taxation. Therefore there is nothing
in the proposition other than such legisla-
tion as will cut down the tariff schedule to
a level which will make mutual trade ope-
rasions possible.
Iu his Buffalo speech President MeKIN-
LEY spoke of reciproclty, but he meant
tariff revision. In his Boston speech Sena-
tor LODGE, who is the recognized spokes-
man of the President in the Senate, goes a
step farther. “Whether it will be deemed
best to put this policy into execution by
means of some general legislation,’”’ he
states, ‘ ‘equivalent to a reciprocal arrange-
ment with all the nations of the earth, or
by a series of separate treaties, it is as yet,
too early to say.” Bat he knows that the
general legislation is the only medium of
achieving the result, for he understands
that it. will be impossible to get the two-
thirds majority necessary to the ratification
of treaties and that even if such ratification
were possible with countries which main-
tain tariffs it would leave us in a commer-
cial quarrel with our best customer.
——TUnless there is aslip in chairman
CREASY’S calculations future campaigns in
Pennsylvania will not be confined to the
election of a chairman in April; the nom-
ination of a ticket in July; and the pab-
lication of a weekly interview during the
latter part of September and October, tell-
ing the people what is going to be done.
A Disgracetul Spectacle.
There was one feature in the campaign
which has just closed which will make an
everlasting impression on the minds of
thoughtful people. It was the shameful
spectacle presented by the Governor of the
Commonwealth as he went about from
place to place making demagogic speeches
and denouncing the newspapers because
they protested against his malfeasance in
office. In the history of the State no such
thing has ever happened before. Other
Governors have spoken in dignified periods
and on rare cccasions when grave questions
were under consideration. Bat this Gov-
ernor has made a laughing stock of his
office.
On leaving his office on Monday evening
to go to Pittsburg to vote Governor STONE
said to a newspaper reporter ‘‘this has
been the easiest campaign I ever engaged
in for the reason that the common enemy
had no organization, and there was no fight
in them.”’ On Saturday evening previously
the ‘‘common enemy,’’ to which he refer-
red, held a meeting in the academy of
music in Philadelphia in an environment
of ruffianism, operating under police pro-
tection, which would have been disgracetal
in a western mining camp. A. policeman
even struck a fire alarm in the hope of
creating a panic in the vast audience and if
he had succeeded it might have caused the
death of a thousand. ®
Governor STONE has disgraced the office
to which he ought never to have heen called,
in various ways. In his inaugural address
be misrepresented the accounts of the State
in order to lay the foundations of a false pre-
tence that he had subsequently rescued the
treasury from bankruptey. Since that he
has violated the constitution which he
‘swore to ‘‘support, obey and defend,’ in
dozens of ways. But the full measure of
depravity was only reached when, after the
manner of a quarter sessions lawyer, he
took the stump to defend the Legislature
that the man of his own party next in rank
to himself has denounced as the sum of all
infamy.
—Many a man who thinke he has found
| the key to success gets so drunk over his
achievement that he atjerly tails to find a
key hole. ;
Exercise Care n he, Situation.
Not the least important of the results of
the election was the adoption of the con-
stitutional amendments and if proper use is
made of the opportunities which they afford
it will be the most important incident of
the vote. These amendments male such
legislation possible as will guarantee hon-
est elections in the future. It is practically
confessed that within the last ten years
there has not been a fair election in this
State. It may be doubted if within that
time a state official who has obtained the
commission and exercised the duties of the
office was duly elected. It is certain that
the present Governor hasn’t an honest title
to she office.
If the legislation giving force and effect
to the amendments to the constitution
adopted the other day is framed in the inter-
est of honest elections, it may safely be
predicted that pollution of the ballot is a
thing of the past in this State, or will be
when the legislation is enacted. But the
amendments may be perverted so as fo en-
trench fraud, rather than prevent it in the
future. This is to say if framed for the
purpose of shielding ballot box stuffers the
legislation made possible by the wew
amendments may be used to ‘such a pur-
pose that fraud will be encouraged ‘rather
than prevented. .
For this reason citizens of the Common-
wealth should exercise the greatest care in
selecting candidates for the Legislature at
the next election. Only men grounded in
integrity shonld be chosen. In the first
place, the fact that the QUAY machine is
against an honest ballot law should not be
lost sight of for a moment. Republicans
who favor honest elections, and ‘we be-
lieve there are many such,shonld avoid ad-
herents of the machine as they would a
pestilence. Democrats shonld exercise the
greatest care that only faithful and honest
men are chosen. = It was venal ‘Democ rats
who gave the organization of the last Legis-
lature to the mach ine. Traitors must not
"be allowed to betray the party again.
A Splendid Achieve ment."
A careful analysis of the returns of the
election gives no canse for Democrats to
despair. The expectations of the more
Siguine were probably not fulfilled as the
rehensions of the most pessimistic. were | -
HN realized. The party made large gains:
in all parts of the State with the single ex- |
ception of Pittsburg, where Senator FLINN
adopted Philadelphia methods to prove his
own turpitude. Outside of the two great
cities, the fusion ticket polled a safe ma-
jority. Within those two cities, the fraud-
ulent vote aggregated more than the total
majority of the machine candidates, and
they will enter upon the duties of the of-
fices, if their election is undisputed, with
the taint of fraud on their titles.
Two years ago the Republican candidate
for State Treasurer received a‘ majority of
110,000. This majority has been reduced
to less than 45,000, and 60,000 majority
was given him in Philadelphia and Alle-
gheny county. The frauds revealed in
Philadelphia in the counting of the vote
and those obvious to even the cursory ob-
server in Pittsburg and Allegheny city
show that on a fair count the fusion candi-
dates were probably elected. But even if
the machine carried the State by a meagre
majority, the victory was on the other side.
The cutting down of the majority to the ex-
tent of 65,000 in a single year after a cam-
paign in which all the advautages were on
the other side, was a triumph of glorious
proportions and a result which should en-
courage every Democrat in the State.
Chairman CREASY has wisely determin-
ed to begin now on the campaign for next
year. Daring the canvass just closed he
hardly had time to collect the names of the
Democratic workers in the State. Two
weeks before the election the ticket was in-
complete. The emissaries of the machine
were still in the courts contesting the right
of the Democratic party to make its own
ticket according to its own rules. It may
be said, therefore, that the campaign. so
far as the Democratic organization was con-
cerned, continued for less than two weeks.
But in that brief time, with every discour-
agement which treachery could interpose,
a magnificent force responded to the call of
Democracy and east their ballots for better
government. 16 was a splendid achieve-
ment.
——Inasmuch as there has been some
comment as to why the WATCHMAN made
no mention of the Y. M. C.-A. reception
and reopening services, the'crowning fea-
ture of which was’ the masterful sermon of
Rev. Horace Lincoln . 4 acohs, we take this
opportunity to explain. . In the last issue
the demand on our space, on account of the
election retnrns, was so great’ that a num-
ber of items of local iuterest had to be lifs-
ed out of the forms.
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———For the past two nights astronomers
all cver the world have been interested in
the phenomena of shooting stars, cansed by
the earth’s crossing the Leonid orbit and
scattering the Leonid group. It is the first
transit of the sort in thirty three years and
as tonight will be the last opportunity to
see the phenomena you might be repaid for
watching the heavens, if it is not cloudy.
mets ———————
On the Right Track.
It is to be hoped that “hat the interylew sent
out as coming from Mr. CREASY, and in
which he is reported as declaring it his pur-
pose to go right ahead and effect a thorough
and complete organization of the party in
the State, is correct. : If, in the politics, of
Pennsylvania, there is any one thing need-
ed more than another it is the building np
and perfecting of the organization of which
Mr. CREASY is now the head. For years
the WATCHMAN has attempted to impress
this necessity upon the leaders of the party,
but without avail. Years have followed
years and the same neglect, of everything
practical in the way of building up an or-
ganization that could battle with the ma-
chine, has been shown until all faith in the
professions of those at the head of the party
affairs bas been lost and the people left to
wonder if there is ever a time coming
when an honest and determined effort to
right things in Penusyivauia: will be
made. i
If Mr. CREASY i8 reported ‘correctly, that
time bas come. The preparations for next
year’s campaign will be made when they
should be.
shape before the fight begins, and we will
The party will be gotten into
not be. expected to undo and overtarn, in
‘the! conple of months that uve usually
beén allotted to campaign work all hat |
machine has accomplished in. a
months that its representatives are > work:
ing politics.
That Mr. CREASY: wil find an abituance
of work to do, goes without saying, but in
his efforts he will have the good wishes of
every good citizen of the Commonwealth
‘and should have the active and sincere sup-
port of every earnest Democrat.
John C. Miller's Idea as to How it Hii
pened.
From an Unknown Exchange.
“They’ re holding meetings everywhere,’
Said the ‘‘Heeler!’ to the. ‘Boss’;
“In every alley, lane and square,
That you may come across;
They say they're going to ‘clean us out,'—
They're going to ‘smash the ring,'—
And now they swarm to shout ‘Reform r
1 And all that sort of thing.”
The Boss” he winked at the ‘‘Heeler,”
And the “Heeler” chuckled sweet;
And the “Boss said, ‘Yes? Well, then, I guess,
We'll have to let’em meet,” ;
~
“They've got the good folks on their list,”
“Said the “Heeler” to the **Boss” Ea }
“The great and kind philanthropist 5
Who speaks of gold as ‘dross,’
The clergymen, the orators,
The pure of every walk,
And all the time they rail at crime,
And talk, and talk, and talk.”
The ‘‘Boss”, he winked at the ‘‘Heeler,”’
And the ‘‘Heeler” smiled a smile;
And the “Boss” said, “Stuff! Talk’s well enough
But work is more our style.” }
“They have a big procession out,”
Said the ‘‘Heeler” to the ‘‘Boss’’;
‘And musie rings and children shout,
And banners wave and toss;
And in each crowded church and hall
Great speakers cheer their souls,
As oft they tell how quick and well
They'll thrash us at the polls.”
The “Boss” he winked at the “Heeler,”
And the “Heeler” grinned a grin;
And the “Boss” said, “So? But do they know
Just where to spend their ‘tin?’
“The last returns have just been read*
Said the “Heeler” to the “Boss;
“And we're some ‘fifteen thou ahead,
And their's will be the loss,
The ‘moral party’ spent it’s breath,
We spent the ‘long, green notes’;
They talked and shirked, we simply worked,
And now we've got the votes.” :
The “Boss” he winked at the “Heeler,”
And the ‘‘Heeler” roared a roar;
“It seems to me,” said the ‘Boss’, ‘that we
Have done this thing before.”
A Factional Judge Was Not Wanted.
From the Altoona Times.
One of the most pronounced surprises of
the election last Tuesday was the victory
won’ by Francis J. O’Connor. When he
accepted the Democratic nomination for
the judgeship of Cambria county there did
not seem much hope of his winning. Last
year Cambria’s plurality for McKinley was
over 3,300. Last week, however, the Re-
publican state ticket in Cambria county
had about 200 plurality aud O'Connor got
71 more than Judge Baker. When the
Democrats were looking for a candidate for
the judgeship, no one wanted to run for the
office. Ex-Mayor Rose, of Johnstown,
could have Nal the Democracy’s nomina-
tion if he would accept it.but he emphatic-
ally refused to take it. ‘Finally Francis J.
O*Connor was persuaded to accept the can-
didacy for the Tp: but it was with a
somewhat hopeless feeling that he did so.
The canvase bad not been in progress Tong,
however, before it hecame evident that
Barker’s chances of being re- -elected were
not so rosy as they might be.
His defeat is attributed to the fact that
he persistently engaged in factional poli-
tics. At least, he was blamed by the peo-
ple for being too active in such matters. If
he had the reputation of confining himself
to the discharge of judicial daties and had
not hecome distinguished. as a factional
politician, the result of the election Bight
have been quite different in hiscase,
re §
And His Union Party Won a Big
Victory An the County the Bay:
Before. § i
From the, Tyrone Herald,
Jesse Stewart has heen: beaten by. thie
pounds, by a young man of Bellefonte,
named Hard P. Harris, who while ous
bunting Wednesday afternoon shot a wild
turkey that weighed 19 pounds. The bird
was a beauty and perhaps the finest spec-
imen bagged by any local nimred this sea-
son.
Spawls from the the Keystone.
—Congressman Rufus K. Polk has bought
the Dayille Daily News and the Danville
the editor.
—J. Ross Springman, of Williamsport, who
had his foot and leg burned in the valve
works by moiien metal afew weeks ago, is
dead from loek jaw.
—Brakeman Leonard O. Attig, employed
on the Pittsburg division and boarding in
Altoona, was almost instantly killed at the
east end of tWe old Portage tunnel Gallitzin,
at 2 o’clock Sunday morning.
—Last Wednesday 4,607 cars passed over
the Pennsylvania division of the N. Y. C.,
and Friday proved a record breaker—4,715
cars were handled on this divison. Sunday
Creek district.
—The state convention of the Young Men’s
Christian Association, will be held at Warren,
Pa., Feb. 20th, 24th, 1902. G. Campbell
Morgan, the noted English divine, who suec-
ceeds Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, has been
secured as the Bible teacher.
—Mrs. Mary Hinds, who died in Lycom-
ing township, near Williamsport, a few days
agoat the age of 84 years, had never ridden
on a steam railway or an electric car. Her
friends had endeavored. to influénce her to
take a ride but she was so afraid of the cars
-that she refused. :
—W. O. Downing, a brakeman on the
Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, was instantly killed at Wall station
Sunday morning. Downing was aged;about
23 years and his home is near Mt. Etna,Blair
county, to which point the jremains were
taken for interment. ;
—There is an epidemic of diphtheria af
McKeesport. In that city there are almost
one hundred cases, and during the last two
weeks the undertakers report sixtéen deaths
in McKeesport and vicinity from the dis-
ease. Three deaths from the "disease oc-
‘curred Saturday.
—Miss Louise Dawson Black, daughter of
‘the Hon. Chauncey Forward Black, died at
her father’s residence, ‘‘Brockie,” York, Pa.,
Sunday morning, aged thirty-five years. She
had been sick for several years. Miss Black
was the first Regent of the Yorktown Chap-
ter, Danghters of the American Revolgtion,
.—Eli Hurd, residing near LaJose, Clear-
field county, was recently attacked by a mad
bull, and had it not been that thelibull, in
“his second charge on his victim tossed him
behind a fanning mill where he was con-
cealed from the ferocious animal. Hurd
would evidently have been killed. ‘As it
was he was seriously hurt.
— Mrs. George C. Overdorf, of ‘Blacklick
township, Indiana county, was probably
fatally injured last Friday afternoon, the
left sleeve of her dress haying been caught
in the wheels of a feed cutter which: was in
operation, the result being that the arm was
crushed into a pulp, while her head and
breast’ were also mangled. She is only 21
years old.
—There is. an apple tree on the farm of
Samuel Fleegle, one mile north of Stoyes-
town, Somerset county, hich was planted
by Mrs. Fleegle's great-grandmother about
the year 1790. The tree stands ina grove of
maple trees on the site of one of the first
‘cabins built by the pioneers of that section.
It is about eighteen inches in diameter; ap-
parently as thrifty as a young tree, and rare-
ly fails to bear fruit.
—John, the 13-year-old son of F. X. Leh-
man, of Patton, left his home last Tuesday
and his parents are much concerned about
him.* Following is a description furnished :
Slender build, four feet six inches tall, gray
eyes, dark complexion, dark brown hair;
wore a blue sweater with red stripes, a well-
worn brown coat, light blue kneé pants,
black stockings and shoes, and a blue winter
cap, round in shape. :
~—Arthur M. Beamphin, a civil engineer
on the railroad work above Lock Haven,
was hunting pheasants between Richie and
H yner Saturday, when he killed a young
buck. The young man was not looking for
deer, and only had No. 5 bird shot in his
gun, but when the buck came in sight, the
nimrod up with his gun, just for fun, and
was surprised to see the deer, which was 150
feet away, drop. He hurried to the animal
and found that one of tiie small shot bad
gone through the heart.
—Monday morning about 4 o'clock John
Hayes and Michael Rooney saw Mrs. Mary
Wood, an aged lady of Renovo; in the river
at Drury’s run, about fifty feet from the
shore. ‘She had taken her shoes and stock-
ings off and had a heavy shawl wrapped
arotnd her. The men carried her to a néigh-
boring house, where she was resuscitated.
She did not give any reason for her attempt
at suicide. She had been seen Sunday even-
ing walking along the riverat Renovo, and
it is believed that she was out all night.
—Passengers on the north bound express
on the New. York Central railroad were giv-
en a scare Monday by the women’s coach
catching fire and burning for nearly ten
miles. The flames were first noticed near
Ansonia in the top of the car near the tran-
som. An effort was made to extinguish it
with ‘a pail of ‘water, but failed. It was de-
cided that the only thing to do was to make
a quick run to Leech’s water tank, over nine
miles distant, and there turn a hose on the
blaze. The run was made in the quickest
possible time and the fire extinguished.
- —A flock of ducks ‘belonging to ‘Simon
Geisel wandered in front of the Coal Ex-
change hotel, at Hooversdale, a few days
ago, and a practical joker enticed them in-
side the barroom by scattering around
crumbled pretzelssoaked in brandy. In ten
minutes half the flock was moving about un-
steadily. Ten minutes later there was a free
for-all fight, in which wings and bills were
used unmercifully. Finally a drake rolled
over upon his back and turned his web feet
toward the ceiling and died. Soon a couple
of lady ducks had followed him to the bright
shores of the big duck pond. . Then it began
to dawn upon the jokersthat perhaps t
prank would turn out to be costly. Bromo-
seltzer and other jag easers known te the
profession were procured, but the drunken
ducks refused to return to sobriety. It was
decided that fresh air was what the ducks
needed, and the remnant of the flock were
hustled ont of the Place, Two more of them
died on the way home. When Mr. Geisel
learned of the affair he handed in a bill at
‘the rate of & dollar per dead duck, and the
‘claim was pad without dispute.
Intelligencer, and D. T.. Sallenberger becomes
over 900 empties were hauled up the Beech
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