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.
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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
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