Pema ian BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The head-gates of the congressional mill will be raised next Monday. —~Mr. HANNA must be working his ship subsidy scheme this fail in his stocking feet. —General Demoralization must be in charge of the Republican forces in and aout Pittsburg. —Possibly if you hadn’t been so thank- -ful yesterday you’d feel more like being thankful today. —Only a little over a week more to wait for that hilarious document known as the ‘‘President’s Message." —Mr. ALEXANDER ParroN, offClear- field, is the last Republican Ajax to defy congressional lightning in this district. — From the quietness that prevails all along the line an armistice must be doing business between the contending forces in the Oleo war. —We don’t see that the Democracy of the State has any kick comin’ for the tangled condition of Republican polities about Pittsburg. —So the President’s forthcoming mes- sage is to contain thirty-thousand words ? ‘TEDDY must have something to say to the people, if such verbosity is necessary. —We presume Thanksgiving is fixed for just before Congress meets to avoid the chances of having nothing to be thankful for after it gets down to business. — Notwithstanding Judge LOVE'S hopes for a Superior court seat there are serious signs that his expectations, in that line, will find a final resting place on the politic- al scrap bile. —The neighbors aver that Judge LOVE bangs his stockings in the chimney every night now and prays earnestly that Santa Claus will drop a Superior Conrt seat into them before morning. —Come {o think about it why couldn’t we hunt up an old Filipino ultimatum and fire it at the Bulgarian brigands. It might not scare them much, but it would at least show to the world we haven’t forgotten - Missionary STONE. —1If Mr. WILLIAM FLINN keeps pegging away right industriously he may yet suc- “ceed in getting his name as high on the list of reformers in the State as Mr. B. ARNOLD did his on the roll of patriots of the coun- try. —1It is given out that the forth-coming message of the President will be the long- . est ever given to the public. We don’t ‘wonder. When it comes to a matter of .. wind Mr. ROOSEVELT is able to hold his own with any of them. ~~ —It the all-knowing dailies were only half as wise as they think they are there would be no use for a Congressional Record for the coming session. They are telling us all that it will do, long hefore that speech factory is put in operation. —If Governor STONE still sticks to it he will vet be able to place the ex-Republican Governors of the State under enduring obli- gations to him. He is making their ad- mistrations appear so everlastingly respect- able when compared with the one he is running. 2 —The Philadelphia Record credits Pitts- burg with 35,000 Democrats. Possibly it may have that many, but if it has, they must be twin brothers to the kind they have in Philadelphia, who don’t go to the election ov when they do, vote the other ticket. —1It is now said that President ROOSE- vELT will sit down heavily on Mr. HAN- NA’S ship subsidy scheme, which tempts us to suggest that our strenuous executive might easily find something that will prove much softer and decidedly more restful to sit upon. —Surely a belt has slipped in some one’s expectation factory. Here's that Filipino war on again as fierce as ever and yet there has been, since November, 1900, no more danger of BRYAN being made ‘President, than there is of the North star becoming the head light for a beer saloon. —Since Mr. Recorder BROWN, of Pitts- burg, has lost his job what would be the ‘matter with him doing the Hello ! business for Telephone POTTER hereafter. Heseem- ed to understand it thoroughly before the election and his acceptance of this work might relieve the supreme court judge of continuing in the sneak business. —The Kansas wheat and corn erops this year are said to foot up in value a hundred million dollars. For their prosperity this season the citizens of that State generally give credit to a Republican administration. But then that is natural for them. They have always been a queer lot and can get on the wrong side of a thing that is right and stick there more pestiferously than any crowd of cranks who get their grub outside of a crazy asylum. —The Clearfield Raftsman’s Journal has launched ALEXANDER E. PATTON, Esq., of Curwensviile, as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in the new 27th district, composed of Centre, Cameron, Clearfield and McKean counties. He is a son of the late Hon. JOHN PATTON, ‘who represented the old 28th district in Congress. While the new district is over- whelmingly Republican such a combina- tion of issues is possible that would make it impossible for certain Republicans to be elected at all. OL. 46 Stone and the Browns. There is no exaggeration in the statement that the removal of Recorder A. M. BROWN, of Pittsburg, by Governor STONE and the appointment of J. O. BROWN ae his suc- cessor, last Thursday evening, was the polit- cal sensation of recent years. Major BROWN was the friend of Senator QUAY, the OLIVERS and the BiGELows. J. O. Brow is a faithful and not too conscien- tious adherent of State Senator I'LINN. Major BROWN was appointed to the office immediately after the Supreme court de- cided the ‘‘ripper’’ law constitutional. The office was first tendered to THOMAS S. BiceELOwW who was the promoter if not the projector of tue same. It is understood that he paid all the vast expense of getting it through the Legislature and his declared purpose was to ‘‘rip’’ the FLINN machine out of office, which was so entrenched hy force and fraud that it was impossible to dethrone it by the ordinary methods. When BiGELOW declined Major BROWN was chos- en. His character for respectability strengthened confidence in the law and jus- tified the Supreme court in declaring it valid in spite of the law and the facts to the contrary. Hisantipathy to FLINN and FrLINNism made him aceeptible to the Gov- erncr who doesn’t usually associate with respectable men. Rumors had been current for some time that the Governor intended to remove Maj. BrowXN aud appoint J. O. BROWN in his place, but nobody believed them. That is to say nobody imagined that STONE would act in opposition to QUAY and QUAY pro- tested that he was opposed to the removal of Major BROWN and the appointment of J. 0. BRowN. The BIGELOWS were un- questionably opposed to such action and QUAY owed one of them much. The OLI- VERS were emphatically opposed to the action and they are very rich and influential. The BIGELOWS and the OLIVERS had prov- en their friendship for QUAY and they de- pended on QUAY to show his appreciation by restraining STONE’S impulse to remove Major BROWN and appoint the other BROWN. But up until the time of the Re- publican state convention the BIGELOWS and the OLIVERS bad heen unable to shake FLINN'S ‘hold on that body and after «ithe: ‘‘round up’’. it was found’ t bat ‘he eontrolled the delegation almost absolutely. Neither : STONE nor FLINN have a particle of honor or honesty. STONE wanted the delegates for his ‘‘lame duck’’ Justice POTTER. FLINN wanted a restora- tion to a position in which he could plan- der the people. FLINN had what STONE wanted and STONE had what FLINN craved for. Neither of them bad either conscience or principle and they came together just as Davip HARUM approached a horse trade. FLINN voted his puppets for STONE'S “lame duck,’’ but when STONE attempted to recompense him according to promise QUAY interfered and by mutual consent the settlement was postponed until after the November election. Both STONE and QUAY assured the BIG- ELOWS and the OLIVERS that A. M. BROWN wonld not be removed. STONE guaranteed FLIXN that he wonld and strangely enough | both sides bad faith. A condition was put on the BiGETows and OLIVERS that they must do their best for the ticket in order to guarantee the retention of Major BROWN. FLINN was required to hnmp himself for the ticket to secure the removal of Major Browxs Both did their best and a satur- nalia of fraud was the result. Fifteen thousand . frandulent votes were polled for the ticket in Allegheny county and STONE was delighted with the result. Bat one or the other of the parties in interest had to be cheated and the Governor set to thinking which would be the most use to him with the idea of cheating the other. It is easy to imagine his process of reasoning under the circumstances. The OLIVERS and BIGELOWS are comparatively decent and therefore could have no permanent re- lations with him. FLINN isa disreputable municipal robber who has already heen brought within the shadow of the peniten- tiary and there was a natural affinity be- tween them. ‘Birds of a feather flock to- gether’ and STONE drifted to FLINN, as water runs down hill. QUAY protested, but unavailingly. Attorney General ELK- IN remonstrated but to no purpose. Two crooks without conscience or character bad come together and were bound by the co- besive power of corrupt natures toa com- mon purpose. One having by one means or another acquired all the money be wants feeds the cupidity of the other that his own inordinate ambition may be gratified. On Thursday evening last Mr. THOMAS S. BIGELOW went to Harrisburg to make a final appeal to STONE to be honest. He found him in a recalcitrant spirit, whereup- on he sent him word by a friend that if he removed Major BROWN the newspapers of Pittsburg would publish the fact that he had demanded $200,000 as compensation for signing the franchise grab bills. Mr. BIGELOW knew all about that matter. He added tbat failing to get the amount he asked, the. Governor accepted $150,000 for the service, and stated that the facts would be published. But STONE couldn’t be frightened. He had nothing to expect from BIGELOW at that stage of the game and he removed Major BROWN,accompany- ing tbe order with a hypocritical and lying apology at which everybody laughed ex- cept those who bowed their beads in shame at the humiliation of the great State of Pennsylvania. STONE denied the allega- tion of bribery but that influenced no man’s mind to the belief that he is innocent. He denied the allegation of his telephone talk with Justice POTTER and it was proved. Teday he stands convicted in popular esti mation as a hribe taker and a liar. He is the first Governor of Pennsylvania who has deserved such epithets. Pray Heaven that he will be the last. Poor Figure in Heroics. In his famous, or 1ather infamous ad- dress ‘‘To the People of Pittsburg,” issu- ed as an ‘‘accompanying document,’’ or apology for the removal of Recorder BrowN last Friday morning, Governor STONE states that at a late hour of the previous night a friend came to him excit- edly and said that BIGELOW had said that he, (STONE, ) had ‘‘demanded $200,000 for signing bills, but finally compromised for $150,000, which sum was paid him.” Thereupon his excellency jumped upon the back of his ‘*high horse’’ and attempted he- roics. “I am neither to be influenced by bribes nor intimidated by threats,”’ remark- ed the indignant WILLIE. ‘‘I have never received a dollar from any person,” he continued, ‘‘improperly.’’ Softly, WILLIE. We understand that it would be practically impossible to prove the accusation, for probably nobody saw the operation, if it actually occurred, except yourself and the person who paid the mon- ey, who would be equally guilty with yourself of corrupt solicitation and punish- able to precisely the same extent. Be- sides if he shonld take the risk in order to punish you he would fail for you could deny under oath as he asserted, and as that would put the oath of one boodler against that of the other and under the law the accused is entitled to the benefit of the doubt, the court would probably be com- petled to order a verdict of acquittal, how- ever confident he felt of gailt. Of coutse it is a trifle strong to intithate that the Governor of the State would swear falsely, even to shield himself from the penalty of the crime. But after all per- jury is only a lie sworn to and a man who violates his oath of office every day during two or three calendar years is not likely to hesitate about making affidavit to a false- hood, especially if he is in the habit of ly- ing, as Governor STONE appears to be. At any rate, he denied the story of his tele- phonic communication with Justice Por- TER which was subsequently proven by di- rect and overwhelming testimony. Besides, self-preservation is the first law of nature and a fellow of STONE’S temperament would be likely to save himself at any hazard. Personal Registration in Citles. GEORGE W. GUTRIE Esq., of Pittsburg, and Hon. CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, of Philadelphia, have already practically com- pleted the draft of a bill to be presented at the next session of the Legislature provid- ing for personal registration in the large cities, agreeable to the amendments to the constitution, recently adopted. They have not made public the text of the measure but enough has leaked out to indicate that it follows closely the lines laid down in the New York law. That is to say it will pro- vide for three registration days, sixty, thir- ty and fifteen days, respectively, before the election. ] As nearly as we can learn the proposed measure will provide for a complete elec- tion organization at.each of the polling places on each of the registration days. The applicants for registry will be subject- ed to examination, must answer under oath all pertinent questions pat to them and having thus established their right to vote will not forfeit it unless they move out of the precinct between the date of registra- tion and that of voting, or have procured the entry of their names on the list by fraud or false representation. The party watchers have all the time between registration and election to investigate the question. We can see no reason that such a law will not achieve excellent results. Itis well known that the most prolific source of electoral frauds is the padding of the reg- istration lists, thus affording bogus names for bogus voters te use. Witha reasonable measure of vigilance every bogus name can be kept off the list or at east made useless encumbrances on it. That is to say if a pame is fraudulently put on the list the watchers of the opposite party have at least fifteen days to gather evidence against him ou election day and that ought to be suffi- cient. The proposed measure ought to be a success. —-Mr. FLINN'S gold brick seems to have had a silver lining. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 29. 1901. _ Juggling With Justice. In an interview given to the public since his removal from office MAJOR A. M. BrowN, late Recorder of Pittsburg, de- clared that Governor STONE tried to bribe him to resign the office he held by offering bim a seat on the Superior court bench by appointment. Major BROWN isa man of high character and unquestioned integrity. His word would be taken by any citizen of Pittsburg or any one else who knows him. It is safe to say that he wouldn’t accuse Governor STONE or any other man of that or any other crime unless he knew he was guilty. Such an offer is a crime under the law, and if STONE made it he only lacks conviction in court to make him a ecrimi- nal. Last summer the first stain that was ever put on the Supreme court of Pennsyl- vania was placed there by Governor STONE. His law partner, having been elevated to that bench by his appointment, was be- guiled by the Governor into revealing the secrets of the court to a litigant. It was the gravest kind of an offense. A justice of the Supreme court of the United States said that if Justice POTTER was guilty, as charged, he ought to be impeached. The enormity of the act outraged everybody. But POTTER was not altogether to blame. He was without experience and had little knowledge. He was misled by the Got- ernor who participated with fhim in the crime and lied as a defense against the charge. Now we find him juggling with the next highest court. Some months ago, accord- ing to reports, Judge JoHN I. MITCHELL, who was elected to a seat on that bench in 1900, sent his resignation to the Governor. Judge MITCHELL never qualified for serv- ice on the bench for the reason that soon alter his election he was stricken with a a disabling and in all probability an incur- able malady. - As an honorable man he felt that he had no right to hold a commission and give no service, so he resigned. But instead of resting on his resignation the Governor hs held it until it might become available I(r trading purposes. Has any Ftate ever been cursed with so venal a Gov- nor? ~———~When the people of the county dis- cover that the grand juries lave appropri- ated $10,000, instead of $5,000 the amount originally asked from the county for the soldiers and sailors monument fund, there will very likely be a digging up to find out how it happened. If the investigation is carried far enough some very smooth prac- tice will be uncovered and it will be seen how easily grand juries may be ‘‘horn- swaggled’’ into appropriating money. Of course it is for a splendid cause, but the intention was to give $5,000 and now that the county has been ‘‘worked’’ for double that amount the blame, if there be any, had better be fixed where it belongs. First Move in the Game. There were some surprising s peeches de- livered at the anniversary banquet of the Philadelphia Union League on Saturday evening last and none more than that of the president of the organization, Mr. Joseph G. Darlington. That gentleman inti- mated that probably in the near future the League would be compelled to take a hand in local politics. Heretofore, he said in substance it has not done that. But he ad- ded, ‘‘I hope the day is far distant when the Union League will stand idly by to see a political wrong hold a triumph either in the councils of the Nation or the State.” This is a most gratifying declaration if it is sincere, far at this moment a political wrong stands triumphant and if the Phila- delphia Union League will give its power- ful influence to the work of correcting that wrong it will not endure. On the 5th day of the present month the wrong was perpe- trated within the shadow of the splendid building in which Mr. DARLINGTON spoke. By organized fraud 50,000 illegal votes were cast in Philadelphia on that day ae the result of which defeated and dishonor- ed candidates of the Republican party will be commissioned to perform importaut of- ficial duties unless they are stopped by such a force as the Union League can easily bring forward. We haven’t much faith in the professions of the Union League of Philadelphia. The DorANs, WIDENERS and ELKINS have so long been using it to snbserve their own selfish and sometimes sordid purposes that it would be unreasonable to put much reli- ance on its professions of reform or pre- tenses of political morality. But there 1s a possibility that Mr. DARLINGTON was earnest in his Saturday night declarations and we take pleasure in pointing out. to him how he may prove his faith by works. If he is unwilling to stand idly by while political wrong holds a trinmph let him move to contest the recent election in Philadelphia. : —-—There is many a girl wearing a rain coat who would look better in a rain bar- rel. a7. NO. Reaping as They Have Sown. From the Philadelphia North American. The plight of Pittsburg in the scrim- mage between the ‘‘ripper’’ factions of the Quay machine is not one to excite pity- ing sympathy. Her city government has been made a foot-ball for the teams with her full knowledge and consent, and her citizens have ‘‘rooted’’ for one gang or the other as the game progressed. When the Bigelows, backed by Stone, Potter, Elkin and the rest of the Quay team, broke through the Flinn line and scored a touch- down Pittsburg applauded the play by giv- ing to Stone’sman, Potter, a rousing majority Now that Stone has kicked the ball into the middle of the field, and Flinn has caught it, Pittsburg’s yells of ‘‘off-side’”’ excite only derisive laughter. Thescore is even, it is Flinn’s ball, and the teams are in a confused scrimmage, a squirming, biting, kicking and slugging mix-up in the niire of squalid polities. = The decent people of Pittsburg had their opportunity to register a protest against this game when Stone’s man, Potter, caught in the act of making the Supreme Court a tool of political cracksmen, was placed upon the State ticket as the repre- sentative of ripperism. They gave to Pot- ter a majority which could be construed only as an endorsement of all that he rep- resented, a ratification of the ripping up of their municipal government and a grant of full power to Governor Stone to carry out any deals he had made, involving control of their affairs. The vote of Pittsburg shows that there was no revolt of decent Republicans against the machine. Only the old-line Democrats made any fight against the combined forces of the plunder- ing factions and their opposition was more partisan than patriotic. There are good citizens in Pittsburg. plenty of them, no doubt, but they failed to indicate at the late election that they give serious thought to the responsibilities of citizenship or even bave an intelligent regard for their own interests. ® * = Cae Pittshurg, least of all the cities of the State, can pretend that there was anything unexpected in the playing of oue local ma- chine against the other in Governor Stone’s ripping game. She had received just what she bargained for, and if she finds the price somewhat staggering, she must re- member that government by the worst al- ways comes high. For That Under All Circumstances. From the Auxvasse (Mo.) Review. The Democratic party stands for free speech. It must not now abandon its his- toric positien. It must not now lose its head. The Republican party once stood for free speech. Of late it has moved away from the position of vantage. Ithas sup- pressed newspapers in Manila ani closed the postoffices in America for” the circula-: tion of documents printed by the govern- ment itself. It has called eriticism high treason and has held that courts by injunc- tion may make law-breakers of citizens peacefully talking to neighbors upon a public highway. The Democratic party cannot afford. to indorse by speech or si- lence the insiduous attacks upon the blood- bought rights of free speech. To do this ‘would be bad politics and worse principle. Alarming Increase In Mormonism. From the Pittsburg Post. : Bishop Fowler asked in the Methodist Missionary Conference yesterday that $10,- 000 be appropriated for the opening of mis- sion schools in Utah, which have been ‘closed as he believes that through such schools alone can Mormonism be at all suc- cessfully combatted. Dr. Buckley said Mormonism is alarmingly on the increase in this country, the land of its birth, and that many of its converts would as quickly die for the faith that is within them as would any member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He said Mormonism will flourish 300 years hence. Education alone will wipe out Mormonism. y Where Prosperity Comes From. From thejPhiladelphia Record. In Kansas this year 91,000,000 bushels of wheat, worth to the farmer at first hand $51,000,000, were harvested. The corn crop of 42,000,000 bushels was worth $22,- 000,000. It is this ont-turn of wealth in Kansas and the similar prosperity of the farmers in other States that keep the wheels turning, keep business active and the bal- ance of trade on the right side of the ledger. A propitious providence and persistent dig- ging are the great factors in the present speculative boom which political theorists prefer to attribute to. Government policies. Careful observers have noted that when the crops fail the politics also fail; but this does not daunt your theorist. Not Many of the Former Left. From the Lexington (N. C.) Dispatch, That particular and strange class of American citizens who see nothing wrong in a law which enables a certain class of men to sell their prodnets®in a foreign mark- et cheaper than. they sell them in the home markets, will perhaps follow the lead of the high tariff teachers, while those who see the patent injustice and the iniquity of such a system will turn their faces the oth- er way. . The Result of Vanished Hope. From the Cadiz (0.) Democrat. 7 It makes a Kepublican sick to hear a sheep bleat. This time last year they were telling us that wool would be 30 and 40 cents per pound this year if the Republican party were kept in power. No wonder they take flight every time they see a sheep. Do You Really Think So? From the Cameron County Press. Mr. Cleveland has voted the Demociatic ticket for the first time in six years. How- ever, he cannot be said to have rejoined the Democratic party because there is really no such thing. on —- Suberibe for the WATCHMAN Spawls from the Keystone. —Fourteen milkmen have been arrested in Williamsport on the charge of skimming and | watering milk and using drugs to preserve | and color “it. —James Gunsaules, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gunsaules, who reside near the wa- ter tank below the Tyrone depot, killed him- self Friday at McKeesport. The young man was about 22 years old. —A. K. Hamilton, an aged and well-known farmer residing near Oak Grove, was struck by a Beech Creek freight train about 11 o’clock Saturday morning, and sustained in- juries from which he died ina short time. He was a veteran of the Civil war. —About twenty-seven seekers have been at the altar during the past week in connec- tion with the revival meetings in progress in the Methodist Episcopal church at Osceola, Clearfield county. Tuesday was one of the greatest days in the history of the church. —Daniel Miller was found dead in a de- serted house at (Genesee, Potter county, Monday morning. Beside him lay Clyde Eaton, a companion, ‘who was conscious and almost dead. A third man who was with the party is missing. All the men had been drinking heavily. —Mrs. Wallace B. Woodruff, of Williams- port, was arrested Saturday morning on a charge of shop lifting. When her home was searched collarcttes, boas, dress goods, hats, feathers, table linen, toweling, napkins, lace, table covers, silk patterns, ribbons and vari- ous other articles were found. —A stranger was found dead at the Patton brick works Wednesday morning. There was nothing about his person to establish his identity. Coroner Miller, of Johnstown, was summoned and held an inquest, at which a verdict was rendered that the unknown man came to his death from causes unknown to the jury. —Williamsport bas had two deaths from lockjaw within a few days. The first was J. Ross Springman, who_had his leg and foot burned by molten metal and which resulted in the dreaded disease. The second was Mrs. Elizabeth Wurster, who stepped upon a small nail. The wound healed, and nothing® was thought of the injury until lockjaw set in. After suffering intensely two days, she ex- pired. —The whereabouts of ex-Councilman Thos, Edwards, of Shamokin, was disclosed Thurs- day, when his wife received a dispatch from Seattle notifying her that he was fatally in- jured by falling from a bridge near Seattle while looking for work to earn money for transportation home: He left Shamokin two years ago for the Klondike region and noth- ing was heard of him until intelligence was received of the accident which befell him. —After being out 15 hours the jury in the Groves murder case at Brookville, in which Earnest R. Groves, 25 years old and a col- lege graduate, was charged with killing his father by pushing: him from the roof of a barn during the latter part of August, re- turned a verdict of voluntary manslaughter. The attorneys for the defenge at once enter- ed a motion for a new trial and the argu- ments on the motion will be heard next Mon- day. The case has been on trial for six days. ~ —Mrs. Sebastian Branstetter, of Cambria City, a suburb of Johnstown, left her home on. Saturday evening to purchase some groceries. She left her two children, Julfug, ©" © aged 3 years, and ‘Francis, less than a year old, alone in the house. The smaller child was not large enough to be out of his ‘baby carriage. In a few minutes the mother re- tuined to find Francis enveloped in flames and the carriage in which he rested burning. The child was fatally burned, dying on Sun- day morning. —Muxs. J. R. Pearshall, of [rewin, Westmore- land county, recovered her $150 diamond through spending several days at detective work. She laid her ring on a kitchen shelf, and did not miss it for an hour, and then, after inquiries, believed a boy knew most about it. She followed him for several even- ings to where he met his. crowd of friends, and after several days saw him exhibiting it to his companions, saying he had found it. She extorted a confession from him and got the ring. —Charles Barner, a well-known merchant of Larimer, Westmoreland county, and’ a companion who were hunting Saturday be- came separated and the latter, raising a rab- bit near some underbrush, fired. Going to the other side of the brush he found Barner writhing in agony. Barner was taken home, and dozens of leaden pellets were found in his body and legs. A surgeon spent several hours picking out the shot, some of them be- ing imbedded quite deep. Barner had ‘a narrow escape from death, for only about fifteen yards separated the men. Said —The little 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Campbell, of Cowans- burg, met with a peculiar and painful ac- cident Thursday evening. The child was standing near an open grate after some green coal had been placed on tke fire. The fuel began cracking and throwing out small embers, when a piece about the size of a pea flew into the child’s ear, causing excruciat- ing pain. The little one was hurriedly taken to a doctor who succeeded in removing it after placing her under an anesthetic. It is thought permanent injury to the ear will result. : —At Sunbury on Saturday night two burglars entered the laundry of a Chinaman named Lam Kee, grabbed him, bound, gagged and beat him. The burglars went up stairs and after ransacking the place they found $35. While up stairs the Chinaman loosened his bonds and rau into the saloon next door, where, by motions, he made known what was going on. Men from the saloon 1ushed into the laundry in time to see burglars come down stairs and rush out the rear door. They hastily piled boxes, etc., in the rear hall so as to obstruct the passageway, and made their escape. ‘ —Undertaker Samuel Ewing, of Newton Hamilton, had quite an expensive accident on Tuesday of last week while conducting the funeral of Miss Heister who was killed on the railroad at Ryde. Mr. Ewing had the casket in his hearse and in going up the hill to the church, which is very steep and no road to amount to anything, the ponies could not hold the hearse and it upset, throw- ing the corpse out and breaking the hearse. The total damage done amounts to $75 or $80 besides the loss of an overcoat and a crip- pled band for Mr. Ewing. The casket, un- broken, was gathered up and the funera ceremony concluded.
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