Demonic alan BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. There ain’t no use 0’ kickin’ For there’s sure to be cold pickin’ In some houses in this town for many-a-day. There's scraps of meat and chicken, Bits of pies and cakes a stickin’ In the cupboard—since the preachers went away. —Not every fool holds off until April 1st to be discovered. —Congress will probably adjourn early in June. There’s a bright day for the future. —Many a reformer who starts out to put this old world on the square finds out that it is entirely too round for him. —Ret urns from Chicago seem to indicate that Mr. ‘Batra HousE JoHN’’ COUGHLIN is still decidedly in the politics of that city. : —Whatever may have been the conclu- sion as to how March came in there was no trouble in discerning the lion in her man- ner of going out. —The net earnings of the United States steel trust last year were only onefhundred and seven million dollars and a few cents. Ain’t ic a shame that they weren’t more. --General MILES is now being’made to realize that the pen in the hands of a jnve- nile department head is mightier than the sword that his valiant deeds in forty years service made illustrious. —The Philadelphia girls who took a plunge in the chilly smif at Atlantic City on Easter Sunday probably had natural graces that looked far more charming on Easter parade than the dreamiest creations of a Madame NASH modiste. — If Philadelphia would do to the negro murderer, LANE, what we'll wager ninety per cent of her citizens, who have read of the horrible tragedy, have said ought to be done, Philadelphia would have a lynching and the South would bave an inning. —Though a great inconvenience the resi- dents of the south-west section of town who use the Water street board-walk would much rather do without a walk for some time if, thereby, they could help council to make a good one, that will be a permanent improvement, when it is done. —If J. PIERPOINT MORGAN'S statement that he made forty-two million dollars last year is correct it would be a matter of economy for Uncle SAM to hire that ple- thoric money maker for a mint. He seems to be able to coin more than the expensive establishments the government is maintain- ing in Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Orleans. —=All honor to REGINALD VANDER- BiLT ! Here is one millionaire, at least, who is willing to pay his share of the taxes. Instead of moving to Newport or running off to England he has informed the asses- sors of New York that he should pay $250,- 000 taxes, when they had levied on him for only $10,000. Can it be that REG- INALD is making a bid for Congress? —The Doylestown Democrat says that ‘‘the voting away of the people’s money on subsidies and other grabs is assuming alarming proportions ‘‘and that the time has come to call on a halt.”” We [ear that calling, ‘Halt!’ would have much the same effect as the cry of ‘stop thief!” in some communities. It would only start the subsidy mongers to grabbing all the more. — The Philadelphia Inquirer very much mistakes the real reason for *‘the insurgent worry over Mr. ELKIN.”” It isnot concern lest he he nominated, but fear that at the last moment something might turn up to defeat his nomination, that concerns them most. They realize that the machine can be smashed much more effectually by smashing its makers than by compromising with them and for that reason they are lin- ing up to sweep the gang back of Mr. ELK- IN clear off the political map of Pennsylva- nia vext fall. ——MAXx O'ReLL, the French writer who became very much alarmed, a few years ago, because Americans showed no inclination to be hanging onto the limbs of their genealogical trees, has discovered that we are leaders in commercial greatness be- cause of our business colleges. Thus it will be seen that while other nations are digging down into the misty past to find a little ancestral light to radiate the Ameri- can is studying his way to individual lu- minosity. ; The Philadelphia Press comments on the issuance of eighty-two marriage licenses in that city the first day after Easter as an evidence that Dan Cupid doesn’t keep Lent. Of course he doesn’t. Would you have people die of ennui during the lenten pe- riod ? What, with the theatre, card par- ties, candy eating and other pleasures of the average young people cut out, is there left for them to do during Lent but sit in the dimly lighted parlor? And you know what that usually terminates in. — Whatever may be the real spirit ani- mating the Rev. Dr. SWALLOW there is no denying the fact that there was a great- undercurrent of sympathy with him daring his trial before the recent Central Pennsyl- vania Methodist Conference and, right or wrong, it will continue with him. Had the Conference recognized this great un- voiced sentiment that will encourage and abet the preacher-politician it would have conducted his trial with open doors and in- vited the public to hear every charge that was made. As it was done—in the secrecy of a trial committee—there will al- ways be a lurking suspicion that he was not given fair play and such a suspicion, attached soa great church organization, ean not but be harmful. | district, [1 emacratt RO =] ) 2, 2%, i Altman STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 4, 1902. NO. 14. The Miles Incident. The correspondence between Lieutenant General MILES and the Secretary of War submitted to the Senate in obedience to a resolution of that hody on Saturday last, reveals the malice of the bureaucrats in Washington quite as clearly against the fighting General as it had previously been shown against the fighting Admiral in the person of WINFIELD ScoTT SCHLEY. The miserable martinets who know ncthing about war except what they have read in book sand papers can’t tolerate the prosper- ity of men of more heroic nature and better mettle and poor MILES must bow his head to the rebuke of a rather cheap lawyer be- cause there was a possibilitythat he might become the rival of a ‘‘broncho buster” whom accident put in higher position. The fault of General MILES was that he wanted to end the war in the Philippines with the least possible cost to the country in blood and treasure. There are two class- es of men in every country who delight in war. They are the wretches who coin the anguish of bereaved mothers and the tears of distressed widows into profit on army supplies of one kind or another. and the equally despicable knaves who fatten on the calamities of the conntry through the mediam of public office. The friends of both those detestable elements in the life of our country have been assiduous ever since the call to arms four years ago in their wicked pursuits of the fighters in the army and navy for the reason that being familiar with the horrors of war they are anxious to avoid them. Naturally, under the circumstances, Gen- eral MILES’ suggestion of a course in the Philippines which would minimize the sacrifice of life and diminish the profits of army contracts provoked the resentment of those above him whose expectations are predicated on the opposite conditions. No doubt we will soon hear through the me- dium of a hombastic proclamation that the incident ie closed and that there must be no m ore discussion of it in official circles. Bat so gross and grave an outrage on the grizzled veteran of a hundred battles will not he submitted to without earnest and prolonged protest by the justice loving people of this country who permit nothing to be settled until it is settled on absolute- ly just lives. y D: feat of Senator Jones. The defeat of Senator JAMES K. JONES, chairman of the Democratic National com- mittee for re-nomination as the candidate of his party for United States Senator, will be a positive loss to the Senate and the country. Senator JONES will have served eighteen years in the Senate at the expira- tion of his present term next fourth of March and during at least half that time he has been recognized as among the leaders of the body in ability and experience. He acquired no prominence on account of his constituency for Arkansas is not a con- spicuous member of the sisterhood of States. Whatever success he has achieved. there- fore, is attributable to his own qualities and his position at the head of the Demo- cratic pational committee is proof of sub- stantial success. When Senator JONES took his seat in the Senate seventeen years ago, he had the ad- vantage of six years’ experience in the House, where he had made some reputation as an orator and parliamentarian. Bat ig was as a hard-headed, earnest and aggres- sive party leader that he commanded atten- tion and won distinction. He was always ready to defend the principles of his party against any comer and he was as shifty in disputation as he was courageous and re- sourceful in attack. Probably the defeat of his ambition for re-election is the conse- quence of his recognized position of leader- ship in the Senate because it required him to give so much of his time to the concerns of other constituencies that he was unable to devote sufficient to his home affairs. The Senator was a trifle over confident of his position, moreover, in his State and suf- fered because of that fact. That is to say before be had come to realize that he was in danger of defeat so much of the work to compass the result had been done, that he was unable to recover his lost ground. His successful competitor, ex-Governor JAMES P. CLARK, is also a gentleman of high char- acter and splendid ability and though he will be deficient in experience at the outset of his senatorial career he will correct that fault in the course of time and will proba- bly make one of the most useful members of the hody. Nevertheless there will be widespread regret at the loss of Senator JONES from the public life of the country. Looks as Though He Would Stand for Governor. From the Huntingdon Monitor. Representative Henry D. Green, of Read- ing, has bien selected as the Pennsylvania member of the Democratic congressional campaign committee to succeed Represen- tative J. K. P. Hall, of the Twenty-eighth It is said that Mr. Hall does not expect to be a candidate for re-election to Congress this year. An Object Lesson. The tobacco war now in progress in Eog- land reveals in a clearer light than any that has previously been presented the great advantage which a trust that is pro- tected by tariff legislation enjoys over one not so favored. The protectionist papers have been in the habit of pointing to the fact that combinations of capital have ex- isted in Great Britain, where there is no pro- tective tariff laws as well as in this country where there are, in refutation of the theory asserted by the president of the sugar trust that the tariff is the mother of trusts. But the incident in question proves con- clusively that the essential element of the trust, monopoly, is absent when tariff tax- ation is absent. For example the Imperial Tobacco com- pany of London wanted to exclude from coinpetition its American rival and offered a substantial bonus to dealers who would boycott the product of the American con- cern. But the American company, Ogden’s Limited, baving access to the markets by the payment of a small tax,simply met the proposition by a counter offer, omitting the unpopular boycott feature. That situation simply presented a case of sharp rivalry with advantage only to the concern which offered the bigger bonus. As the Ameri- cau company did that the attempt at monop- oly was defeated at ouce and the tobacco dealer got the advantage of the bonus. The only complaint which will lie against the operation is that the bonus ought to have goue to the consumers instead of to the dealers. In this country, however, such a compe- tition would have had an entirely different result. The American company wounldn’t bave gone to the trouble of offering a bo- nus. In that event neither the dealer nor the consumer would have derived any ad- vantage for the reason that the trust would have taken everything. An enforcement of the practically prohibitive tariff tax law would have kept the foreign corporation out of the market and bonus or no bonus the home trust would have been ‘‘monarch of all itsurveyed.’”” Asa matter of fact this iyei- dent presents a perfect object lesson of the evils of tariff taxation and the opportunity it gives for fostering trusts. Grosvenor’s Neglect of Duty. What's the matter with our usually gar- rulous friend GROSVENER, of Ohio. He acts like a man that is tongued tied, if not actually dumb. There are times when silence is golden and it were better to be dead than loquacions. But the singular thing is at such times GROSVENOR talks like a house afire. There are other times when to speak eloquently and to the point is to dispense pearls among the peo- ple. At such times, it appears, GROSVENOR is dumb. Now is the time he ought to speak, but he is silent. He is letting his opportunity to protect the wool growers from the adulteration of fleece slip by un- employed. No better form of legislation has ever been brought to the attention of Congress than that embodied in Mr. GROSVENOR'S bill to prevent the adulteration of wool. No one seriously objects to the manufac- ture of shoddy, if it is sold for what it is. The dairymen don’t, as a rule, demand that the mannfacture of oleomargarine he pro- hibited. All they ask is that it be sold as oleomargarine and not imposed on pur- chasers as butter. The same principle is expressed in GENERAL GROSVENOR'S bill to prohibit the adulteration of wool and imposing the product of the shoddy facto- ries on innocent purchasers as fabrics made of pure wool. But GROSVENOR won't get his pure wool bill through Congress unless he says something. Early in the session he jabber- ed about it until most people got tired. Then it would have been better to hive said less. Now, however, every opportu- nity to picture the dishonesty of imposing shoddy on the public as fleece of Ohio sheer should be taken advantage of, morn- ing noon and night,and Genéral GROSVEN- or should never weary in the good work. But maybe the bosses: have put a padlock on his mouth. . The bill knocks the fibre out of the tariff structure and it is not im- probable that GROSVENOR has been called off. Dr. Reed Escapes Trial. On Wednesday evening Hon. A. O. Furst, of this place, received a telegram from Dr. REED, against whom serious ‘charges had been preferred by Dr. SWAL- Low, before the Methodist Conference in session here and which bad been forwarded to the Eastern N.Y. Conference, of which Dr. REED is a member, that this latter hody had unanimously voted to refuse to enter- tain them. As the New York Conference met in Torrington, Connecticut, on Wed- nesday, while Dr. SWALLOW was wrestling with his accusers in this place, it is quite evident that the body to which his charges were referred either cared very little about the truth or falsity of them, or think it no offense for a president of one of their col- leges and a minister of the gospel to de- liberately and willfully violate a solemn oath that he has taken. Other people than a machine disciple and appointee would be considered guilty of a very serious crime, did they knowingly disregard the solemn obligation of an oath they had taken. Dr. REED this seems to be no offense in the stitute the East New York Conference. Other people have a right $o.and will en- tertain a different opinion, however. In estimation of his saintly brethren who oon- Quay is for Elkin. We are informed by the public prints of the State that Colonel QUAY has at last declared for Attorney General ELKIN for Governor. We have carefully read the in- terview in which the declaration is alleged to have been made, and bave not heen able to find anything like it in the language employed by the distinguished statesman. But we are not unmindful of the fact that according to another illustrious politician ‘‘language was invented to conceal thonghts rather than to express them,’’ and the pos- sibilities are that Senator QUAY must be interpreted thus inversely in order to get the real significance of his remarks. The interview in question was one ex- tracted from Senator QUAY in a moment of sadness. He bad come up from his delight- ful home in Florida at an inauspicious moment, atmospheric conditions consider- ed, to harmonize the distracted factions of bis party in Pittsburg. He had spent sev- eral hours with a gentleman who has al- ways been reputed to have more money than brains without succeeding in convine- ing him that ELKIN is the most available candidate for Governor. Bowed down in grief on account of those things he was asked to say something that would comfort his depressed followers, and if we remem- bered the circumstances accurately that the ELKIN boom had gone up too high to be pricked by a barnyard thistle. Those who know QUAY well wonld nat- arally jump to the conclusion that his statement was equivalent to a declaration in favor of ELKIN’S nomination for Gover- nor. As a matter of fact those who know him best understand that bis silence would mean the same thing and that if he hadn’s opened his mouth he would still be for the Attorney General with all his strength and energy. He is for the Attorney General because he wants him and because the other members of the machine have decided to nominate him. The ‘‘old man’’ realizes thas things are going in the way he wants them to and he has taken the position of a silent partoer in the firm which comprises the political machine. Clarion County in the Legislature. The information comes from Clarion county that Senator NEELY is a candidate: for re-election with hopes of success on ac- count of the custom of the distriot of giv- ing the: Senator two terms, but that Hoy aud BROWN, the recreant Representatives in the Legislature from that county are cer- tain to be defeated. Every Democrat in the State ought to be gratified to learn that Hoy and BROWN are not to he returned. They supported almost every mischievous bill and voted for nearly every legislative job that found its way into the body. But Senator NEELY was no better. For that reason every one of the three ought to be defeated by large majorities at the next election. In fact the Democrats ought not to send a single Senator or. Rep- resentative to the next Legislature who is not beyond the reach of corruption in any form. Republicaus in the place of NEELY, Hoy and BROWN wouldn’t have done half as much harm during the last session as they did. Their votes would probably have heen on the same side of every ques- tion and their inflaence in the same direc- tion. But the Democratic party wouldn’t have been responsible for them and the odium of their action would have heen on the other side. Senators and Representatives in the Leg- islature who are dishonest cast aspersions on the character of those whom they repre- sent. The average man assumes that a Rep- resentative who is dishonest has a dishon- est constituency, or else he wouldn’t have been commissioned. In the case of Clarion county that is not true, but in order to vindicate themselves the people of that county must elect men of irreproachable character to the next Legislature. Justly or unjustly NEELY, Hoy and BROWN were accused by common consent during the last House and if men of the same type are elected again the people will be blamed and properly, too. : Inconsistent. Consistency is a jewel that don’t seem to be much in evidence ina congregation of Methodist ministers. On Wednesday last, at the Methodist Conference in this place, a resolution deciaring it ths duty of those teaching divine truths to vote the temper- ance ticket and of newspapers published in the interest of the church to support tem- perance candidates was promptly voted down. Not, however, hy an overwhelming majority, but by a sufficiently decided vote to show that the bulk of the ministers pres- ent believed in preaching one thing and voting another, if their inclinations and partisan bias so dictate. . To.some this may seem right. It may look like the proper thing for the pulpits to roar out against the whisky traffic, the sins and brutality it breeds, the expense that it entails and all the wrongs and misery that springs from it, while the men who fill them and keep telling us of these evils, go to the polls and vote for those who perpetuate and protect them. To these bias- ed Republican preachers, and we are sorry to think that a large majority of the Meth- odist ministers are of this stripe, it seems easy to talk one way in the pulpit and vote another way at the polls. To them and to those who believe shey are right it may look like independence. = To others it looks more like hypocrisy. : T’dore’s Soliloquy. To send, or not to send—that is the ques- tion. Whether it is best to put off the junket That I have all framed up for Edward Seven, : Or tell the common scrubs to get them hence, Or by opposing end them—aber nit— But Will they do it, or do me, and by their votes . Confound me ? But Edward Rex ; he bids us come, { And wear court dress—that is a consumma- tion Devoutly to be-wished. To bow, kow tow, In knickers, too: —Aye, that’s the stuff; But in that royal splurge defeat may come When we line up’ in nineteen hundred four And call a halt. That's where I fear Calamity may swat me in the neck ; For who wenld stand the snub of honest votes, The people’s wrath that he who has op- prest Gets all my love and all of Hay’s delays ; Poor strenuous me, I'm in a fix; I want to treat his Highness right, But fear me folks will my quietus make, With clouds of votes upon election day. I grunt and sweat beneath the strenuous life, And have a fear I'll be done up for fair, And sent up Salt Creek—from whese bourne No Anglomaniac returns—poor me, I have a host of other ills to bear, Bat this one, Whitelaw, takes the cake ; I’m skeered—I'm up a blawsted stump, And e¢’en my boasted hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry And make ‘me hesitate. *With proper apologies to—butl Shakespeare and Bacon can settle that between themselves, The Paper Soldier and the Real Warrior. From the Philadelphia North American. When General Miles wrote to the Secre- tary of War proposing to supersede all mil- itary and civil authorities in the Philip- pines and settle with one deft turn of his wrist the problem that is vexing if not baffling the statesmanship of the country, he armed his" enemies with-a wey his own undoing. They were lying low for just such an opportunity, and the avid- ity with which Root seized the club offer- ed to him and proceeded to batter the of- ficial head of the letter writer confirms the general belief that all the recent humilia- tions put upon Miles were designed to ex- asperate him to the point. of retiring or do- ing something foolish. He refused to re- tire, but did something so foolish that the President is obliged to approve the Secre- tary’s rebuke of his interference in state affairs. In turning down what he calls the ‘‘gpectacular and sensational’’ plan of paci- fication, the Secretary is betrayed by his | eagerness to discredit Miles into writing as unwisely as did the General, lugging in a mass of irrelevant matter and arguing more like a pettifogging attorney than is seemly in a Cabinet officer. He scolded the Gen- eral for assuming the truth of allegations in advance of investigation, yet himself passed judgment on the same matter and declared the allegations untrue. It appears fiom the ill-tempered remarks of the Secretary that the General Com- manding the Army of the United States has had the presumption to imagine that he is fit for his place and competent to ex- ercise authority over his subordinates. He actually had the audacity to ask permis- sion of a civilian Secretary to take ocom- mand of American troops in time of war. Not once but several times, the Comman- der of the Army has sought an opportunity to lead it and has shown marked repug- pacoee to remaining in the station in which an Alger or a Root was pleased to place him—that of a mere figurehead, a dummy for the display of bullion lace and military haberdashery. The General bas even dared to have opinions on military matters and the impudence to express them. General Miles is in the way of men who have the power to humiliate him. do nothing right and say nothing wise. Whenever he opens his mouth he invites angry rebuke. He has spent more than forty years in acquiring military expe- rience, but a lawyer in office knows more of war in a minute than he ever hoped to learn. Knowing that he was persona non grata to the people temporarily superior to him in authority, and that no opportunity to insult and humiliate him would be over: looked, General Miles either should have accepted the situation and renounced all hope of being anything but a figurehead for the term of service remaining to him or should have exercised his right to retire with dignity and the good opinion of fel- low citizens who have not forgotten his honorable and distinguished record as a soldier. Bat his evil genius inspired him to write a letter, and he is in the hands of his enemies. Yes, Where is Our Twenty Million. From the Venango Spectator. It is said that young Alfonso’s assamp- tion of the Kingship of Spain will be of a quiet nature, as Spain is now bard up and can’t afford the expense of a big blow-out. What in the world has Spain done with that $20,000,000 that she got from us’ for Philippine real estate that she didn’t own and that the native ‘‘rebels’’ wouldn’t per- mit her to hold ? : — If the label on your paper isn’t dat: ed ahead you are losing a halt dollar. When you can get it for $1 a year why pay more. a LAY ovr dasboadung | “1is investigating. He can | Spawis from the Keystone. —S8everal horse agents of the British gov ernment are; in - Altoona, and are buying horses and mules throughout Blair, Cambria, Bedford, Huntingdon and Clearfield coun- ties. —Last Saturday the Beech Creek railroad broke all records for handling cars for one day. On that day 4,783 cars passed over the Beech Creek division, being the largest movement of cars in one day in the history of the railroad. —The Oak Grove Town association sold over $3,000 worth of lots Tuesday. - Capital- ists of Cambria and Clearfield counties bought a number of high priced lots and will erect several large buildings. One of the buildings is intended for an opera hpuse. —A childof Mr. and Mrs. John Lane, of swallowed two of the smaller ones. The ring to which the keys were fastened stuck in the little one’s throat and was held there until a neighbor pulled it out. The child is 9 months old. —David Ross, of Penfield, a coachman em ployed by Dr. 8. E. Hayes, was joking Wed - nesday night with the doctor’s young daugh- ter, Marguerite, about death. He said : “All I need to do to die is to turn on my left side.” Saturday morning he was found dead in bed, lying on his left side. —The Christ Reformed church, of Altoona, awarded a contract Monday nightat a con- gregational meeting for the erection of a new church and parsonage. The buildings will be brown stone, and cost about $30,000. The work will commence at once, and the struct- ures are expected to be completed by fall. —The smallest school in the State is the Barnes school, just above Milton. The school house is modern and convenient, the teacher capable and the play ground good. With all these advantages a big attendance at this school in winter is sixteen. During the spring months the tota! attendance is three, two boys and one girl. —An organization has been effected at DuBois called the Citizens’ alliance, which offers a reward of $50 for the conviction of any person for advancing a boycott or in any way interfering with any person who goes peacefully about a legitimate business oec- cupation, or is guilty of exercising intimida- tion over those engaged in any lawful pur- suits. —The very remarkable meeting in the M. E. church at Grampian still continues, with the interest still at high tide. Sunday was another memorable day, three inspiring services being held in addition to the Sabbath school and Epworth League meeting. The altar, as usnal, was pretty well filled with seekers at the service, making about 275 to date, with many others under conviction. —Charles Wagner, of Brisbin, was shot and killed by an Italian named Dominico Jericho, at Windber, Saturday night. « The shooting took place along the railroad in the outskirts of that place, where two Hungarians had been held up and robbed about an hour be- fore. The Italian claims that Wagner {ried to hold him up and rob him and that he shot in self defense. One bullet struck Wagner in the head and another in the abdomen. The Italian has been arrested and the coroner —Each landlord in the city of Altoona re- ceiving license had to pay $550, each oue in a borough $200, and each one in a towaship $100. All the license fees received at Holli- daysburg Monday amounted to $30,950 : divided as follows : State of Pennsylvania, $6,325 ; Blair county, $4,925; Altoona city. $17,600 ; Tyrone borough, $840 ; Hollidays- burg borough, $600; Gaysport borough, $240 ; Duncansville borough, $240 ; Martins- burg borough, $120; Logan township, $60. Of the amount received by the state $3,250 comes from breweries ; no part of the brewery license remains in the county. —A few days ago at Coudersport, Lucy Mitchell, aged 5 and her sister, aged 4, were playing along Mill creek, when Lucy fell in. It was some time before the younger sister informed her mother, but as soon as she was told, Rozelle King and William Snyder started down along the stream. Taking a short cut they came within sight of the Goodell’s dam, which was a half a mile away from the child’s home. They saw the form of the girl, and when it was within a few rods of the dam King jumped into the water and rescued her. The child, to all appear- ances, was dead, but after applying the usual remedies for over an hour, she was restored. She was delirious for several hours, but the next day was fully recovered. —A herd of twelve elk arrived in Lock Haven recently and are now in the grounds of the Otzinachson rod and gun club at the head waters of Rattlesnake run. The car containing the elk was run to Wetham sta- tion and from there the animals were taken to the park in wagons. Mr. Peterson, the guide and ranchman who accompanied the elk on their long journey of upwards of 3,000 miles, states that he started with four- teen but two of the animals died while mak- ing the trip, the last one dying at Tyrone. The elk were captured when calves and are from two to five years old. In order to reach t he point where the animals could be loaded on the car it was necessary to transport the elk in sleds and wagons nearly 200 miles. Mr. Peterson was thirteen days making the jour- ney, and yet within five minutes after the elk were given their liberty they were feed- ing apparently as well contented as if they were in their native haunts. : —The strike in the Panxsutawney field of District No. 2,. United Mine Workers of America, was inaugurated Tuesday morning and 10,000 miners in the employ of the Roch- ester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron company laid down their tools and walked out of the mines. The strike is inaugurated for the reason that the manager of the company, Lucian W. Robinson, has refused to sign the Altoona scale. The tie-up includes every mine under the control of the company, which is really a part of the Buffalo, Roch- ester and Pittsburg railroad, and there are 10,000 mine workers and their attendant laborers involved in the affair. There are 10,000 men now out and their idleness will affect 10,000 more men in the operating de- partment of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- burg railroad, which depends largely on the mines of the Rochester and Pittsburg com- pany for its tonnage. Tuesday the effects of the strike were already felt and as each’ day i Renovo, while playing with a bunch of keys, - ‘passes the loss in tonnage will be greator until | all the coal'that has been ‘mined has been "| placed vn the market, ~~ - Ey ppm
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