‘Deworrali atc BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —1It is one thing very sure, That the people must endure A term of Jomxxy Erkixs,as Poo-bah of the State. Or they must be up and doin’ Every scheme and trick pursuin’ That'll lick the gang of bosses, who have put him on their slate. —They havea few pledge signers in Pittsburg too and their names are not THOMPSON either. - —And now the wasp has parasites. We are glad to know that there is something that can hang onto this insect without fear of its hot business end. —They’ve got the cholera in the Philip- pines and they have a thousand or more of our soldier boys over there. Let us hope that they don’t get together. —Had the Cincinnati hotel waiter who assaulted the actor RICHARD MANSFIELD used a ham hone instead of a pork chop there might not have been so much ado about it. —CECIL RHODES is all right about the peace of the world, but his practice of tak- ing as large a piece of it as he could get is likely to counteract the provisions of his will for many years to come. —There is to be a ten per cent cut in the salary list of most of the city officials in New York. It remains to be seen whether there is enough real reform in this regime to prevent a ‘‘holler,”” when it comes to touching their pocket books. —Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is re- ported to have applied to the librarian of Congress to have her name copyrighted. If she succeeds and should wants to marry again there might be serious legal compli- cations for the man who attempts to change that lady’s name. —The New York woman who is suing ber divorced husband for a receipt for horse liniment, in lieu of five dollars per week alimony, which he has defaulted in the payment of, must be determined to make the ware go, even if she can’t get money enough to do it with. —It is strange that Governor STONE should think the prompt signing of the death warrant of the murderer LANE should not be done with unseemly haste when the mind of man still carries a mem- ory of the dispatch with which he hustled through certain franchise and ripper legis- lation not long ago. Tend —Scientists are very much exorcised over a tale, just published by one of their authorities, showing that at the presen rate of increase the entire population of the world will be insane within one hundred years. And judging from election returns in. Pennsylvania since 1890 there is a mighty small percentage of inhabitants of this State who can lay claim to sanity even now. —Governor Hou, of Texas, declared at a banquet in London a few nights ago that he wouldn’t ‘‘swap two hours under the shade of a dogwood bush catching sunfish for all the show of royalty in the world.” In other words royalty on the Thames ain’t in it with ‘‘Royalty on the Mississip- pi.” For we infer that Governor HoGa's time is spent in Texas very like ‘the kind MARK TWAIN writes of. —The declination of Senator O. B. CARTWRIGHT, of Waterloo, Ia.,to he a candidate for Cougress against speaker HENDERSON of the House has plucked the last ‘bubble that his party had inflated with the hope that he could be gotten rid of. They ate tired of him and had’ looked up- on his probable defeat for renomination as a means of release, but it is not to he so and the gentlemen who made the bed will have to lie in it until some other. means of getting 1id of it turns up. —The Philadelphia North American com- ments on the mayor ASHBRIDGE’S declara- tion that the consumption of water in that city has decreased twenty-million gallons a day since 1899. While the mayor intend- ed his statement as an evidence of the economic operation of the water burean the North American ascribes the cause to the fact that the water is fit only for pur- poses of fertilization. Such being the case it is little wonder that such mammoth breweries have been built up in the Quaa- ker city. —The Altoona 7ribune censuies mayor HOYER of that city for removing the chief «of the fire department, but its censure is negatived by its admission that the tame mayor was the man who signed the paid fire department bill and appointed the officer who is now removed. The Tribune praises the department, which is to say it praises mayor HOYER, for he appears to be the man who has had most to do with it and it is only reasonable to infer that he knows more about what he is doing now than his censor. ——The staff correspondent of the Buffa- Ao Courier exhibits ‘‘neck,’’ indeed worthy of a buffalo, when he intimates that the trade excursion, recently sent out from the Pan-American city, expected receptions at the various points visited. And what for, pray ? If they expected the merchants of towns in their route to hand up their trade on a silver tray, have bands of music to ; drown the rattle of the trays and cases of champagne to wash it all down with they had better do what the other Buffaloes did. Buffalo is a good city, hustling and active, but if her merchants want trade they must go after it and not expect other ‘places to throw conniption fits just because they are . from Buffalo and traveling in three straight backs with a diner. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 11, 1902. NO. 15. Not Altogether a Fairy Tale. It is not so certain, after all, that the story which Captain CHRISTMAS told con- cerning bribery and corruption in connec- tion with the purchase of the Danish West India islands recently was altogether a fai- ry tale. There was an atmosphere of im- probability, not to say absurdity, about the story when it was first made public. But as the taking of testimony progresses, there are incidents coming forward that at least give it the color of probability. For ex- ample it has been proved that CHRISTMAS was in communication with ABNER Me- KINLEY at the time and now Secretary of State HAY admits that he gave a letter of introduction to CHRISTMAS, presenting him to HENRY WHITE, Secretary of Legation at London, and that WHITE and CHRIST- MAS met at Copenhagen and conducted the negotiations. Where there is much smoke there is necessarily some fire and this carious story of intrigue and bribery is enveloped. Every- body knows that during the administra- tion of his brother, ABNER McKINLEY was in every job that disgraced the capitol. When KEENE and other bears of Wall street had acquired a corner on the market on a memorable occasion, it was ABNER who went to Washington and secured what was called relief from the treasury. What he secured was a vast quantity of money out of the treasury by the medicm of the purchase at a high premiam of immatur- ed bonds which enabled the bulls to renew their fight and break. the corner, almost bankrupting the bears by the operation. What ABNER McKINLEY'S share of the profits was has never been revealed but if is known that within four years he was raised from poverty to the influence of a multi-millionaire. The story which HAY tells is likewise circumstantial but corroborative evidence. CHRISTMAS came to him, he says, a stranger, but told so plausible a story that he in- vited him to a full revelation of his scheme. After that he gave him the letter of in- troduction to WHITE and arranged for the meeting. of the two men at Copenhagen ‘‘where Captain CHRISTMAS had arranged for an interview between Mr. WHITE and a member of the Danish government.” CHRISTMAS g0t nothing for these import- ant services, according to the records, and HAY protests that’ he promised him noth- ing. But the fact remains that the gov- ernment of the United States paid $5,000, 000 for the property, when Denmark only asked $4,000,000, and the difference is pre- cisely the amount that CHRISTMAS states was used as bribe money. Elkin Has the Foreign Papers. ELKIN has a corner on the foreign press, according to an esteemed Philadelphia con- temporary. That is to say for the consid- eration of about $200 a piece the Attorney General probably has purchased the sup- port of every Polish, Scandinavian, Rus- sian and all the other foreign newspapers. These papers, which are numerous in the coal regions, have no settled political con- victions. As a matter of fact they make no pretense of indulgigh in the luxury of principles at all. They publish a few col- ums of news, mainly of the country which they pretend to represent, aud in the lan- guage of that country and are said to exer- cise considerable influence on the minds of the people who read them. This year, however, they are all politic- al and whatever their . nationality are enamored of JOHN P. ELKIN. The reason of this is that he has bought them up. Heretofore the publication of political mat- ter in one of each kind of foreign newspapers has been common where a candidate was able to afford a considerable expense. But ELKIN evidently hasn’t stopped at that. He has apparently not only pur- chased space for himself in all of them but made it a condition that - nothing shall be published for the other side at any price. A two column portrait of him appears in each every week and the same interesting matter is repeated in every issue. Liberal- ly translated it is this : ‘This picture rep- resents JOHN P. ELKIN, who is one of the great men of the State of Pennsylvania. He is now candidate for Governor of the State. Mr. JouaN ELKIN, the son of a poor farmer, has won his position by hard labor. He comes from the poor people, and every time is the friend of those in the factories and helps the laboring people. His candi- dacy for this great office looks very good.” Thus an emissary of the trusts and the obedient servant of the corporations im- poses on the ignorance and credulity of the foreign element in the coal regions. The Huns, Slavs, Scandinavians, Poles, Ital- ians, huddled together in squalor and filth about the coal pits, are deluded by the price paid to their mercenary leaders, the pub- lishers of their papers, into voting for a man’ who would join in a’ movement to crush them. It is shameful that a man who as- pires to the great office of Chief Magistrate of Pennsylvania should resort to such des- picable methods of getting votes. We shall watch the resalt of this investment of machine money with much interest. 1 ers notwithstanding, +» Ought to Teach a Lesson. The enthusiasm with which President ROOSEVELT has been received in the South during his trip to the Charleston exposi- tion ought to serve as a stinging rebuke to those irreconcilables of the North who are endeavoring to reopen the wounds of sec- tionalism through the passage of uncon- stitutional legislation curtailing the repre- sentation of that section in Congress. Everywhere that he went the President witnessed evidences of the complete oblit- eration of sectional lines. But if the wavers of the bloody shirt succeed in get- ting the Crumpacker legislation in shape they will re-appear promptly. 3 When the North and the South joined hands and with equal promptness marched against a foreign foe, four years ago, right minded men of both sections imagined that sectionalism has disappeared forever and gratefully thanked Heaven that such was the case. But when partisan exigencies re- quired it there were men in the North so lost to every principle of justice and patriot- ism that they were willing to resurrect the horrid ghost of blood and carnage and use it to inflame the passions of men to the murderous frenzy that existed fora few years after the close of the civil war. It was a traitorous impulse. It is to be hoped that the visit of Presi- dent ROOSEVELT to Charleston and the many evidences of fraternity which greet- ed him en route to and back from his desti- nation will have the effect of checking the evil impulses which have influenced those wen to their dangerous experiment. ~The manifest purpose is to restore the political divisions which made the solid South on one side, the solid North on the other and hatred and bitterness on both. Such con- ditions would guarantee the continuance of the Republican party in power for a few years longer but at a cost so great that the world would be appalled. / More Ripping in Pittsburg. There is to be another ‘‘ripping up’’ of the government of Pittsburg, according to current reports. Recorder J. O. BROWN, who succeeded Recorder A. M. BROWN, when the last ripping operation was per- formed, is now to be ripped out and a Mr. RoGERS, who is theauthor of the bill, is to be put in his place. Meantime the Repub- licau party of the city has been ripped into fragments and the proposed ripping is for the purpose of trying to get. the tatters to- gether tc save the party of the State from oomplete annihilation. We can well believe this last report of “an impending ripping operation for J. O. BROWN has certainly been a clown in the office. Almost from theday of his inangn- ration he bas had the community in a state of terror. Running from pillar to post, begging first this man and then that to save him from the deluge of popular indigna- tion he basn’t been in his office more than two days at a time since he first entered upon his duties. But all his dallying has been inadequate to save him. He can’t rec- oncile the public to his absurd pretensions of governing the second city in the State, and muss give way at last in disgrace. When the Republican managers of the Legislature trampled down the constitu- tion in order to change the government by revolutionary processes they sowed to the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. It was a desperate and unpatriotic move- ment and has fitly brought disaster. After the death of Senator MAGEE, FLINN’S pow- er would have been taken away by legiti- mate means if the machine hadn’t been so impatient to share in the plunder. Bus they couldu’t wait and have brought upon themselves a succession of political mis- fortunes and the end is not yes. Their Opposition Don’t Count. Evidently the Grangers and the manipu- lators of the Republican machine are not of the same way of thinking when it comes to picking state candidates. A recens poll of the local Granges shows that out of 440 of them, 420 favored the nomination of WATRES for Governor, while but four ex- pressed a preference for ELKINS for tbat position. Since the preference of the Grangers was shown on this subject, the Republican primaries have been held in 17 of the 66 counties of the State, and but two of these have voted for WATRES’ delegates, three of them have left their delegates un- instracted, and the other twelve have gone for ELKINS, showing that the sentiment of machine Republicans is just about as over whelming for as that of the Grangers is against him. The bosses of the job, who purpose making the present Attorney Gen- eral the next Republican candidate for Governor, don’t seem to care a holhee what the farmer element of the State may think about it. Avd we don’t wonder. As a usual thing the Republican farmer forgets the wrongs the state machine is doing him and turns in for whoever the hosses may declare for, and these same bosses expect this to be done again. Possibly it will. Under any circumstances ELKINS is to be the nominee, the opposition of the Grang- The Olivers and Quay. The announcement in an authoritative way that HARRY OLIVER is not a candi- date for United States Senator puts a new phase on the political conditions in the State. Ever since GEORGE OLIVER with- drew from the contest for Congressman-at- Large, four years ago, there has been an un- derstanding that HARRY was to go to the Senate at the earliest convenient season. Of course there was no intention to bowl QUAY out and probably it was understood that PENROSE was to have his second term. But QUAY couldn't ask for another elec- tion and Mr. OLIVER had a right to expect to be his successor. In fact it may be assumed that QUAY was willing to have it that way and the positive announcement of Mr. OLIVER the other day that he weunld not beeandidate is, therefore, the more sur- prising. One theory upon which the change in his purposes may be accounted for is that Mr. OLIVER has lost faith in the ability of QUAY to keep his bargain. That is to say he understands that Governor STONE is a candidate for Senator and will be sup- ported, in the nature of things, by ELKIN and DURHAM. Recent incidents indicate that ELKIN and DURHAM can wheedle QUAY whenever they are so disposed and even if QUAY were inclined to keep faith with OLIVER the others would control the machine and defeat his purpose. Under such circumstances the promise of the Senatoiship at some foture time is very much inthe nature of a barren ideality. In other words the expectation is likely to be disappointed, not because QUAY is dis- posed to disregard his pledge but for the reason that he can’t ‘‘make good.” The result of Mr. OLIVER'S determina- tion to drive out of his mind any ambitions to be Senator which he might have enter- tained is easy of conjecture. It leaves the OLIVERS, with all their newspaper and per- sonal influence, free to fight the machine at the general election nex fall. They were a part of the reform movement which rev- olutionized the politics of Pittsburg at the February elvetion and if they would bend their energies in the same direction next fall the entire legislative and local tickets of the fusion party would be successful in that city. In that event the machine might be compelled. to take OLIVER for Senator, not four years hence when QUAY’S term’ expires hut next winter when the successor to PENROSE is to be elected. There are all sorts of possibilities in the revolt. Roosevelt and the Senate. President ROOSEVELT is gradually lead- ing himself up to an encounter with the Senate which will test his nerve more than anything which has thus far happened since his accidental elevation to the office in which he is cutting so strange a figure. Some days ago he nominated Captain WIL- LIAM CROZIER to be chief of ordnance in the army with the rank of Brigadier Gen- eral; jumping him over the heads of all the Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels and Majors in the service, every one of whom was will- ing to accept the promotion with the social and pecuniary advantages thereunto apper- taining. The only reason he has given for his action is that Captain CROZIER is an expert on ordnance and was especially fit for the place. If that is true there can be no doubt of the wisd om of his choice. But the Senators object to the action of the President for the reason that it breaks all precedents and disappoints the friends of Senators who are in the ranks -of the Colonels and Majors. That of course would not he a valid objection of itself, but it is added that the President is not in- fluenced by the high impulses to which he refers. In other words it is alleged that the ordnance manufacturers made the se- lection of CROZIER in return for favors re- ‘ceived from him in the past and that their choice was supported so forcefully by polit- ical influences that the President was un- able to resist it. If that be true the Senate has not only the right but it is its bonnden duty to reject the nomination. The con- firmation of the nominee under such ecir- cumstances would be a crime against the country. Captain CROZIER is an expert on ord- nance and has written much that is regarded as valuable on the subject. But that is not sufficient, of itself, to justify his promotion from the rank of Captain to that of Briga- dier General over the heads and to the prejudice of all the Colonels and Majors in the service, Admiral CROWINSHIELD has been an authority on naval tactics for many years and has written volumes of matter which bas commanded the admira- tion of the whole world. But daring the Spanish war as head of the strategy board he made a nuisance of himself and every fighting man iu the service held him in ter- ror for the reason that he tied them up and rendered them useless. If CROZIER is like him the service will be the better i¥ he be kept in a subordinate place. ——There are more than a few clouds. storm of the winter. . . gathering on the local political horizon. Take the Tariff Off Meats. From the New York Herald. In view of the rise in the price of meat as fixed by the Chicago Packers’ Trust, Con- gress should repeal the tariff tax of two cents a pound imposed by the Dingley law on beef, pork and mutton. This country, as everybody knows, is an exporter of breadstuffs and meats on an enormous scale, and this tariff of two cents a pound, like the 25 per cent. ad valorem duty on wheat, was put on merely to fool the American farmer—make him think that he was sharing in the blessings of ‘‘Protec- tion’’ and reconcile him to an increase of nearly one half in the price of bis clothing and manufactured articles. Now that the meat industry is in the grasp of the Chicago packers’ combination, which makes its own price to the farmer or ranchman for his ox and at the same time makes its own terms with the consumer, that fool tariff 6f two cents a pound has be- come mischievous. Itshould be repealed, so that cattle and meats may be brought in from Canada or elsewhere to cheapen the cost of this necessary of life. If, as is claimed, the rise is due to searci- ty of feed and diminished number of cattle in the country there is all the more reason for a prompt repeal of this ridiculous tariff, which is of no use to the farmer and simply helps the Chicago combine to squeeze the people. Two Men. Professor Felix Adler's View of Cecil Rhodes and Booker Washington. He was big, large, vast, but not great. Greatness depends upon quality and nos upon quantity. His startling and remark- abie will following his vast ideas of uniting all the English-speaking races deserves the attention of all. On the other hand, the scheme for the union of all English-speak- ing people for world domination is as im- moral as impossible, and a delusion. In the mind of Cecil Rhodes, as I see it, there was too close connection between civili- zation and commercialism. Civilization, with him meant increased trade. He has taught them no dream of con- quest, no theory of perfect equality with the whites. He found the two chief faults of his race to be a desire for social equality and indolence. He has taught them that recognition would come if they deserved it, and bas shown them how to deserve it. To my own knowledge, he declined an engage- ment to lecture fifty nights at $1,000 a night because he could not spare the time from his work. And his work is the wel- fare of his race. After Many Years. From the Johnstown Tribune. The Pittsburg Gazette this morning an ‘nounces for the second time, aftér wii- terval of over a year that Henry W. Oliver, the principal owner of that paper, is not a candidate for election to the United States Senate, and never will be. He admits he once had such aspirations, but says he has put them aside, and that the effect was more like laying down a burden than mak- ing a sacrifice. He doesn’t propose to re- tire from polities, however, and we gather from the tone of his renunciation of his chanc® for the senatorial toga that he hopes to cut a considerable figure in the municipal affairs of the Smoky city. Subsidy not Needed. From the Pittsburg Post. The shipyards of New England have not waited for subsidies to make them busy places. Last year Maine turned out 106 vessels and Massachusetts 85. Connecticut yards were correspondingly active. This year Maine’s out-put is fifty-three large and many small vessels. In that section there are under construction 175 vessels, aggregating a tonnage of 105,000. In ad- dition to these the New England builders have contracts amounting to $17,000,000. The lack of a subsidy will not reduce the shipyards to idleness. And It’s Still Going On. From the Pennsboro, W. Va., News. Leaving aside the matter of ‘manifest destiny’? the Philippine fiasco has cost us $300,000,000 already and by the end of this year another hundred millions. will have been added This is more than one- third of the sum that the napoleonic wars cost France in thirteen years and is about one-tenth the cost of the civil war. Stone May Bargain With His Critics. HARRISBURG, April 8.—It is reported here to-day that Governor Stone is ready to remove Recorder .Brown, of Pittsburg, and appoint a man to be selected by the Oliver- Bigelow interests as his successor, if the latter will agree to support Attorney Gen- eral Elkin, after he is nominated for Gov- ernor, This, it is said, is one of the prop- ositions made by Senator Quay to the Oliver brothers at Washington on Saturday ast. Governor Stone is understood to have the approval of Senator Flinn and Recorder Brown to the making of such a deal, all three being of the opinion that they have nothing to lose by such a move, hut hold- ing that it will place the Oliver-Bigelow interests ontside the hreastworks of the in- dependent army in Allegheny and leave them with no better political standing than Stone, Flinn and Brown. It is further stated that the Governor and Recorder Brown are most anxious to have their Pittsburg critics putin the posi- tion of accepting favors from Governor Stone. pacify the Oliver-Bigelow interests Gov- ernor Stone can remove his successor after the November eiection and re-appoint Brown to run Pittshurg until the next February election, at which a Recorder will be elected for a full term. This Accounts for Tuesday’s Storm. PLAINFIELD, Wis., April 7.—A terrific April blizzard prevails fariously over Cen- tral Wisconsin. Snow has been falling nearly all day and a high wind is prevail- ing and it is very cold. It is the werst aig If Recorder Brown is removed new to | Spawls from the Keystone. —The Democratic standing committee of Lycoming county recently instructed their eight delegates to vote for Robert E. Pattison. —The Presbyterian committee on creed re- vision assembled in Washington Wednesday. Its final report may not be made for a week. —The M. E. revival at Grampian, Clear- field ‘county, still continues with amazing success. All day meetings were held Sunday with ten seekers at the altar. All told the professed conversions number 294, —At Rock Run, on the Beech Creek road, Saturday,a rear end collision between freights occurred. One engine was damaged and a caboose and one car were burned. Traffic was delayed three hours. No one was injured. —A seven year old son of G. W. Bell, in Greenwood (ownship, Clearfield county, caught with a hook and line, on Saturday last, a sucker that measured 22 inches in length and girthed 11 inches. It exhausted the boy in getting it from the stream. —Worrying over debts which he incurred by bailing other parties, Clinton G. Hughes, a prominent business man of Watsontown, committed suicide in his home Saturday by shooting himself in the head. He was 60 years old and is survived by his wife and daughter. —Andrew Carnegie, the steel king, has remembered another former railroad man who was under his direction when he was superintendent of the Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania railroad, and this time the lucky man is a Johnstowner, named Jacob Frankhouser, who will get $20 a month the remainder of his life. —At Cross Forks Saturday night John O'Hara became involved in a quarrel with two drunken companions, during which O’Hara was knocked down and kicked be- hind the ear. He died soon after, his skull having been fractured at the base of the brain. O’Hara’s home was near Binghampton, N.Y. His companions fled after the fight, but bave not been found. —After bequeathing to his wife $50,000 and their beautiful home in Clearfield, the will of the late Captain David McGaughey provides that 32,000 be given to each of the Clearfield Presbyterian, Methodist and Lutheran churches, and the Osceola Presbyterian church; also $2,000 apiece to the ‘Clearfield school district and the Clearfield cemetery association. In addition to this, sums rang- ing in amounts from $500 to $2,000 are given to certain nieces, nephews and other relatives. —About 8 o'clock Tuesday morning Pearl Morgan, the step daughter of = William Smith, who lives near Vail, was crossing a track. in the Tyrone yard near the scales when the pilot of an engine caught and drag- ged her a distance of about 160 feet. Engi- neer Bing saw her umbrella projecting from the front of his engine and stopping the iron horse discovered the young lady in her help- less condition. Her injuries consist of con- tusion of the right hip and left leg. She is aged about 16 years. 1 —J. Carl Grafius, who is the son of Martin Grafius, of Martinsburg, ex-treasurer of Blair county, and one of the candidates for com- missioner at the recent Republican primary election, some time ago enlisted in the Eng- lish army for British Columbia and joined the active forces in South Africa. Newspaper accounts of the battle on the 3st of March at the Doombalt farm, states that young Grafius was dangerously wounded in the fight. The young man had been a resident of British Columbia for.several years. —William Koley Gilbert, the 17 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gilbert, of Johns- town, was suddenly striken with blindness shortly after noon Monday. After dinner the young man laid down on a couch to take a nap, and when called by a member of the family an hour or so later he was unable to open his eyelids, and when the lids were opened he was unable to see. A doctor was summoned and found the young man suffer- ering from hemmorrhage of the hrain, which affected the eyes. It is believed his afflictio may yield to treatment in time. : —Three members of the famous “Train: gang,” so named because of its counection with the audacious robbery of Pennsylvania railroad freight trains between Altoona and. Three Culverts, two miles west of that city, on January 25th, when a car was broken open in broad daylight, while the train was at full speed, the merchandise being: tossed off and secured by confederates, was run to earth Monday. Those arrested are William Plowden, Emma Plowden and Laura Crane, all colored. They were found living in a dilapidated old planing mill building in the northern part of Altoona. A quantity of the stolen goods including linen, hats and trousers were found concealed in the mill. —Jacob Smithover, of Altoona, who is aged 60 years, has been missing from his home for mole than two weeks. On March 18th his wife died. On his way to notify his son Jacob, who resides on a farm belonging to the father in Antis township, the elder man was bitten in the hand by a vicious dog which gave him a very sore hand and arm. More recently the father went to the home of his son Jacob again, and it is said a quarrel en- sued, when the old man handed his'daughter in-law $35, and remarked : *‘I can’t stand this no longer ; I am going away and you won’t see me again.”’ He has not been seen since. Agent McGraw is conducting an in- vestigation and endeavoring to locate the ‘missing man. —James McNerney, of Lock Haven, made a narrow escape from being burned alive Fri- day night in the Central hotel, Lock Haven. After he had retired, Alex Agar. an attache of the hotel, went upstairs about 12 o’clock. Smelling smoke he proceeded to the room oe- cupied by McNerney and going in he saw the mattress in a blaze. The flames were leap- ing towards the ceiling and McNerney was sound asleep. Agar grabbed McNerney and pulled him out, which movement awakened the sleeping man. Agar without makingany noise or giving an alarm, grabbed the burn- ing mattress and flung it out: of the window into the gutter on Grove street. He after- wards flung the bed clothing out and ran down and extinguished the flames with water Had Agar not made the discovery when he did, McNerney would undoubtedly have met his death and the flames would probably have gained such headway as to have destroyed the building. . It. is believed the wmattress caught fire from a cigar which McNerney had ’ ‘been smoking.
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