Dewsoraliv ata, BY P. GRAY MEEK. Be ———————e eee] Ink Slings. —Just watch the Love Republicans And the little Hastings guns Git gay and think they own the place And say what feller runs, While doubtful Daniel's o’er the sea A seein’ Eddie crowned But he’ll be back in time to be The only boss around. — What a foolish man SAMMY SALTER was to run away when a Philadelphia jury was waiting the chance to acquit him. —The fair girl graduate had better be a little careful during this kind of weather lest she get her budding hopes frost bitten. —Philadelphia has had so many crown- ing disgraces within recent years that we are at a loss for words to apply to the ac- quittal of SALTER. —The Grand Rapids, Mich., man who left sixty thousand dollars to found ‘‘a home for indignant old women’’ probably had MARY ELLEN LEASE and CARRIE NA- TION in mind. —Judging from the size of the mails re- ceived by that fraudulent Wilkesbarre end- less-chain fountain pen concern there are other places where suckers are propagated Lesides the state fish hatcheries. —1It is a pity there isn’t a Mt. Pelee near Philadelphia to rid it of the SALTER kind. Nature will have to do it as the citizens of shat beslimed and debauched city seem to have no desire to act for themselves. "© _The turn around that has been made in TAMMANY hall within the past week rel- egates the squire of Wantage to a decidedly “np stage’ position. An old MosES, in new raiment, comes down from Wolfort’s Roost to lead the children of TAMMANY out of the wilderness. —The reorganization of the Philadelphia Record might give Pennsylvania another great Democratic daily, beside the Pittsburg Post. But as the new management has already announced that there is to be no change in the policy of that journal the best that can be hoped for is that it will not be Republican. —A very important matter almost es- caped the attention of the Washington correspondents on Mouday. Miss ROOSE- VELT posed for twelve pictures and they worked it for only five hundred words. There should be a shake-up among the news gatherers down there. The country won’t stand for such dereliction. —1It is probably because the German Emperor had ‘‘never heard of PoTTS before and did not know there was such a man’ that the defamer of Admiral SCHLEY was not snubbed upon his arrival in Germany. Lieutenant Ports will realize that he is a very small ‘asset of the American navy, when he discovers that the German Emper- or never even heard of him. —Remember that the primaries ‘will be held to-morrow. It is your duty as a good citizen to attend. Go and vote your pref- erence, then when the convention assembles to make a ticket you will be actuated by a sense of fairness to abide by its result and turn in to the enthusiastic support of the cand idates. Politics is best wherever the best people take an interest. «If it is Mt. Pelee that is causing all the vagaries the weather has been indulging in for some time we hope it will soon settle down to a season of quietude and let the weather man run things himself for awhile. Heis bad enough, but with 98° in the ‘shade one day and frost and snow the next something a great deal worse seems to be running things in the weather bureau. — Now what in the world could. have | made that wealthy widow SILVA, of Lon- don, believe that her dead husband’s spirit came back to earth and entered a fine big rooster? While she lived the fowl was given every consideration and when she died she bequeathed her entire fortune to it. But what do you suppose there was about it to remind her of her departed hubby ? —What luck the Republican party al- ways plays in. With labor strikes in all parts of the country, trusts pushing up the prices of necessities and general dissatisfac- sion concerning the policy in the Philip pines and Cuba it will all be forgotten two years hence, when there is a President to elect. If we elected a President every year there would be some show for the Democracy. ; —1I¢ will be real fun to see how the Re- publicans line up at their coming conven- .tion to choose delegates to their state con- vention. That is, it would ba 'e been fun had not both sides been scared into the compromise that was effected yesterday. GEORGE W. HOOVER, of Philipsburg, will go as an ELKIN delegate, while JoHN P. HARRIS will go down to vote for QUAY'S man PENNYPACKER. Both sides evident- ly regarded half a loaf as surer than no bread at all. —J. D. Hicks Esq., the Blair county leader, told ELKIN in Altoona, on Monday, that an ELKIN club of that county, num- bering three hundred and wearing white hats, would go to Harrisburg to boom him in the Republican state convention. If the “Plow Boy’’ will permit his memory to go back a few years to a time when his party was torn asunder very much as it is now he will recollect that a HASTINGS club, wear- ing white hats, once went to Harrisburg from this place and the result was disas- trous. Now whether it was the club, the white hats or just the good Presbyterian doctrine of ‘it was to be’’ we don’t know, bus in view of such a fact ELKIN can’t take much consolation out of the proposed trip of the Blair county boomers. ar ii D A enaerati =} RO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 47 BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 80, 1902. NO. 22. Senator Hoar’s Speech. The most important contribution to the literature of the war in the Philippines thus far made is the speech of Senator HOAR, of Massachusetts, delivered last Thursday. The Senator began with the statement that we are not at war with the people for the reason that Congress has made no declara- tion of war and the authority to do so is lodged no where else. But he showed that through the usurpation of the President or some one else military operations are being conducted in the archipelago which are barbarously cruel, fiendishly savage and subversive of every principle expressed in the Declaration of Independence, in viola- tion of every provision of the constitution of the United States and obnoxious to every cherished tradition established by the fath- ers of the government. After showing in the clearest light that any attempt to purchase or conquer sover- eignty is forbidden by the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence which asserts that ‘‘just governments rest only on the consent of the governed,’”’ and that there was no violation of that sublime theory in the Louisiana purchase and the acquisition of the territory embraced in that trans- action, the venerable Senator proceeded to a summary of the results of the three years of fighting in the Philippines, as ‘compared with our occupancy of Cuba for the same period. * “For the Philippines,”” he de- clares, ‘‘yon have had to repeal the Declara- tion of Independence. For Cuba you had to reaffirm it and give it new lustre. For the Philippine Islands you have had to convert the MONROE doctrine into a doc- trine of mere selfishness. For Cuba you bave acted on it and vindicated it. In Cuba you have got the eternal gratitude of a free people. In the Philippine Islands you have got the batred and sullen sub- mission of a subjugated people. From Cuba you have brought home nothing but glory. From the Philippines you have brought home nothing of glory.’’ Senator HOAR was uusparing in his denunciation of the oruelties which have been perpetrated on the natives in the war over there. He is not afraid of being ac- cused of abusing the army when he de- nounces outrages which are abhorrent, even to the regulations of war conducted by civilized governments: ‘We are. not talk- ing about or inquiring into acts of vengeance committed in the heat of battle,’ he said. “We are talking about torture, torture— cold-blooded, deliberate. calculated torture; torture to extort information. CLAVER- HOUSE did it to the Scotch Covenanters with the boot and thumbscrew. It has never until now been done by a man who spoke English, except in Ireland.” This is the langosge in which the Republican Senator of Massachusetts arraigned the policies of the administration in the Philip- pines. Every Republican citizen in Centre county ought to write to one of the Senators of Pennsylvania for a copy of the speech and every Democratic citizen should apply to Congressman HALL for a copy. - Trading Charters for Delegates. Av interesting story concerning the elec- tion of delegates to the Republican state convention comes from Uniontown. It is not what you would call a harmonizing narrative or one thas will contribute to Sen- ator QUAY'S 'amiability. But it shows that Attorney General ELKIN is alert asa politician and indicates that Governor STONE is keeping the promise made to his friends, soon after QUAY turned ELKIN down, to the effect that QUAY would hear from the Governor hefore the fight was over. As a matter of fact he will hear from him when he gets the news from Uniontown which he has probably gotten by this time. : According to the story QUAY has always had things his own way in Fayette county and was confident that there would be no had made arrangements with his friends to elect delegates to the convention who would support *‘anybody the old man wants,’ as his very loyal adherents are in the habit of stating it. At first ELKIN was inclined to put up a set of delegates in opposition, but finally determined on a less expensive and more conveniznt way of achieving the same result. That is a nnmber of QUAY’S friends have been trying to operate a water company in Uniontown in opposition to the existing plant but they couldu’t get a char- ter from the State Department. ELKIN concluded to trade the charter for the dele- gates and the bargain has been struck. It is a trifle hard on QUAY to thus turn his own batteries against him and it isa little tough on the constitution and the laws that both are to be violated in order that ELKIN’S chances for election may he promoted. Bat it is the way those fellows while the public can probably stand this new form of political venality when they have uncomplainingly witnessed the pro- motion of men for no other reason than that they have committed similar or at least kindred offences. Such friends of ELKIN as have closed their eyes to his padding the pay rolls will not hesitate to support him on account of a little affair like this. change in conditions this year. In fact he k thi d Quay can hardly kick | wor ngs and Q San arly Rio ‘Senator QUAY has the right to support one Major Waller Must Suffer. The tardy announcement by General CHAFFEE of his disapproval of the verdict of the court martial in the case of Major WALLER may serve to quiet popular indig- nation for a time, bus it will hardly vindi- cate the policy of the administration. Major WALLER was in command of the contingent of the marines which General SMITH sent across the Island of Samar with instructions to kill and burn until the in- terior of the island would resemble a howl- ing wilderness and kill everybody over ten years of age. WALLER fulfilled the orders literally. under great provocation, for the natives harrassed him almost beyond en- durance. For shooting prisoners without trial he wascourt martialed and, though he acknowledged the charge, was acquitted. The verdict has been disapproved by Gen- eral CHAFFEE. The General commanding the depart- ment expresses the opinion that Major WALLER ought not to be convicted of mur- der, bat that he ought to have been pun- ished for some minor offenses that he com- mitted. But he must bave been tried for murder or whatever is the equivalent of that crime in the army in the Philippines. The charge was that he had caused to be shot without trial prisoners of war. That would appear to the average mind as about the most atrocious form of murder. The Major’s defense was that he was acting under orders. His superior officer, General SmITH, had not only told him toshoot and kill but added thas the more killing he did the better he would be liked. Under the circumstances we agree with General CHAFFEE that WALLER is not guilty of murder. But murder was committed and somebody ought to be punished. Maybe General SMITH would be about the right person. In any event it is gratifying to learn that the administration at Washington is waking up to the importance of putting a stop to that kind of campaigning. Itis a master of record that the Secretary of War did all he could to suppress the evidence that such things were going on in the Philippines and even ordered the first in- formant of the facts to be put under arrest. Obviously the purpose was to let the thing go on uatil ‘the occasion. for. it had been re- | ‘moved.. Bus Gemeral MILES let the cab |. out of the bag and ‘since the public has come to understand the facts a great pre- tense to make improvements may be ex- pected. The chances are that WALLER will be sacrificed and maybe SMITH will be obliged to take a dose. prits, who are in Washington, will go scott free unless appearances are misleading. Quay and Elkin. Only a little more than a week remains of the Republican primary campaign and no man can confidently predict the result of what appears to have been an earnest contest for mastery among the ma- chine managers. QUAY declares that ELK- IN will not be nominated and his friends who have been accustomed to his domi- nance reiterate the statement. Bat the facts do not justify the prediction. That is to say the candidacy of Jndge PENNYPACKER has fallen flat and the signs are that QUAY is about to abandon him. This was indicated in a bill introduced by the Sena- tor the other day to retire General BROOKE on the rank and pay of a Lieutenant Gen- eral. He conid have had no other pur- pose in offering such a bill. The convention will meet a week from next Wednesday and ELKIN has only nine- ty votes positively assured. That is only a trifle more than half the number necessa- ry to nominate him and the difference is more than the number that are to be elect- ed outside of Philadelphia. Yet ELKIN protests with vehemenoce that he is certain of the nomination and his friends repeat the assertion with the confidence that a parrot calls for a cracker. If QUAY is against ELKIN he will not get a single vote from Philadelphia and in that event his claims are as baseless as those of QUAY in behalf of PENNYPACKER. If QUAY is for ELKIN he has played a dastardly trick on his cousin and poorly compensated him for his assertion that QUAY is greater than DANIEL WEBSTER was and has gifts equal to those of SHAKESPEARE. Of course a man who would publish such an absuid estimate of Quay is unfit for Governor and no self-respecting citizen will regret that he has been made a laughing stock of. But if QUAY has made a laughing stock of PENNYPACKER, he has also tried to make fools of all the people by pretend- ing that he was opposed to ELKIN and thus deceiving them into the support of that pay roll packer and violator of the consti- tution and the laws. A political leader has no right to thus trifle with the public. man or another for Governor and itis an adage that any man is allowed to deceive his enemy in war. But QUAY has been deceiving friends and foes. + ——Subseribe for the W ATC HMAN. ~ But the real cul-, Acquittal of Salter. As predicted in these columns last week SAMUEL SALTER and those who conspired with him to defraud the elections in Phil- adelphia in 1900 has been acquitted. The evidence against them was positive and overwhelming. One man who had partici- pated with them in the crime, as the agent of afirm of detectives, told in circum- stantial detail the particulars of the event. His statement was corroborated by docu- mentary and other strong oral evidence. The fact that the accused had ‘jumped’ their bail and remained away two years, fugitives from justice, was in itself ample proof of their guilt. But notwithstanding these facts the jury, after deliberating for thirty-seven hours, returned a verdict of not guilty. No greater travesty on justicz was ever perpetrated. Their guilt was never ser- iously denied by themselves or questioned by anybody else. But within a period of a couple of ‘weeks a structure of false evi- dence was created that established a com- plete alibi. Eight witnesses, most of them occupying official positions in the ‘service of the city or State, testified that he was not at the place the crime was committed at the time it was committed. He contra- dicted them himself and swore that he was where they said he was not. But the jury took the statements of the eight as the bas- is of the verdict and held the accused as free from criminality. How they reasoned themselves to that conclusion will proba- bly never be known. This verdict will be interpreted as giv- ing license to the ballot stuffers of Phila- delphia to practice their frauds in the fu- ture to their heart’s content. How it was obtained can only be conjectured. It is in conformity with no principle of law or form [of practice. The district attorney probably went to trial before be was ready and the interests of the State suffered on that account. In fact his first witness dis- appointed him by telling a surprising story which completely exculpated the crim- inals. Sach a thing ought never to have happened and wouldn’t if he had known his case properly. But aside from that blunder he tried the case well and no fault can be found with any of the actions or dighnssions of the Judge. - | ~——The North American has another guess, if it thinks that because doubtful DANIEL is going abroad for a three month’s trip he will take no part in the coming campaign in the State or in Centre county. He will be back long before election day and he has the Centre county convention set up already so that he can be absent for three months without missing any oppor- tunity talpyo politics. Mr. Oliver Stopped Too Quick. Mr. DaviD B. OLIVER, of Pittsburg, gave some inside facts concerning charitable appropriations made by the last Legislature that might be made extremely interesting if properly followed. 'Mr. OLIVER is a brother of HARRY OLIVER who was QuAY’s candidate for United States Sen- ator when Judge MITCHELL was elected by the Legislature in 1881. He is also a brother of GEORGE OLIVER, owner and editor of three or four great Pittsburg papers, all of which are dailies and one print- ed in the German language. The OLIVERS are all rich, conspicuous and philanthropic. They are, likewise, all Republicans and when things go their way are exceedingly stal wars. : Mr. DAVID OLIVER is trustee of one of the local charitable institutions in Pitts- burg which, like all other similar institu- tions, asked the Legislature for an appro- priation during its last session. In a speech made in Pittsburg the other night Mr. OLIVER declared that the institution with’ which he is associated as ‘trustee could have secured an appropriation of $100,000 if he had agreed to pay $10,000 for the fa- vor. He didn’t agree to the proposition and he failed to say whether any part of the appropriation was made. He didn’t even tell who asked for the $10,000 or what it was wanted for. Infact he spoiled his story by leaving it incomplete. In the 1ecent trial of the editor of this paper for libeling a member of that Legis- lature the fact was brought out that he had asked for a fee for getting an appro- | priation for a local charity, and when dis- covered claimed that he was acting in the capacity of an attorney instead of a Legis- lator on the floor. He asked for only $100, whereas the man who talked to Mr. OLIVER wanted $10,000. Now everybody in the neighborhood of Philipsburg, and for that matter everybody in this section of the State, would like to know whether the $10,000 fellow was also acting as an at- torney. But Mr. OLIVER stopped short of giving the information. He ought to re- open the case. —1It is not hecause the change was not marked enough to attract our attention sooner that we failed to note the improve- ment in the typography of the Lock Haven Democrat. It is a great change and the Democrat has reason to feel proud of itself. Death of Ex-Attorney General Henry C. McCormick. Attorney General in Ex-Governor Hasting’s Cabi- net—Backed Hastings in His Famous Vetoes A Fearless Public Official. WILLIAMSPORT, May 28.—The tolling of the bells on the fire engine houses an- nounced to the people of Williamsport that ex-Attorney General Henry C. Mo- Cormick had died at 2:10 Monday after- noon. The whole city is in morning, and the telegrams of condolence are pouring in from all parts of the State. Since Sunday evening he had been un- conscious. Monday morning Dr. Tyson, the Philadelphia specialist, announced that there was no possible chance for sav- ing the distinguished patient's life and de- parted for home. The funeral will take place to-day at 3 p m., at the house, 620 West Fourth street. SEARCH FOR HIS DAUGHTER. On Saturday next Mr. and Mrs. McCor- mick were to bave met their daughter and | son-in-law in London, bus the sudden ill- | ness of the former interfered with the plan. Blood poisoning with Bright's disease, was the cause of Mr. McCormick’s death. His illness was less than a week’s duration, as only last week he was at Senator J. Henry Cochran’s country home in Vir- ginia, and he attended to business after his return. A FEARLESS PUBLIC OFFICIAL. Mr. McCormick was distinguished in the practice of law, in business and in public life. . In politics he was a Republican, al- though his father and brothers were Demo- crats. He was utterly fearless in cham- pioning the right. This trait of his char- acter was illustrated no more forcibly than during his incumbency as Attorney Gener- al, under Governor Hastings, from 1895 to 1899. He saved the State thousands of dollars by his consistent opposition of the Quay machine and its operations. BACKED HASTINGS IN VETOES. As the confidential adviser of Governor Hastings he cast his influence against the | numerons fake expense bills, salary grabs and other vicious legislation of 1897, which the Governor vetoed. ; After he left the office the manager of the machine tried to conciliate him by the offer of a seat on the Supreme court bench, but he spurned it. ; His Republicanism was not of the kind that could tolerate the outrages committed by the Legislature of 1901, the Supreme court scandals and the nomination by the machine of the Potter-Harris ticket. He joined in the fusion movement, and in the Union party State convention at Philadel- | phia last September he made the speech placing Judge Harmon Yerkes in. nomi- pation for -the Supreme court againse.Gova ernor Stone’s former partner and appointee, Judge Potter. i In this speech, referring to the action of the Supreme conrt in sustaining the con- stitutionality of the Pittsburg ripper bill, by a vote of four to three, he declared that the ripper decision had done more to de- stroy the faith of the people in the sanctity of the judiciary than any decision of that court in any previous case. Henry Clay McCormick was born on a farm in Washington township, Lycoming county, June 30th, 1844. He was the elder son of Seth and Ellen McCormick. By teaching school he acquired the means to help him through college, and in 1866 he was admitted to the bar. Later his broth- er Seth T. became associated with him. He served two terms as City Solicitor of Williamsport, and in 1886 was elected to Congress. Two years later he was return- ed to Washington, leading the presidential ticket by 254 votes. In Congress he was an earnest advocate of liberal pensious,and introduced a measnre providing for every soldier who served eight months or more a pension of $8 a month. Largely through his efforts the lumber interests of the coun- try were protected. Many business enterprises were included in his interests. He was one of the found- ers of the Lycoming National bank and the banking firm of Cochran, Payne and Mo- Cormick,and wasalso a partner in Jackson, Hastings & Co., bankers of Bellefonte. In 1875 he was married to Ida, daughter of John W. Hays, of Erie, who, with one son, John, and a daoghter, Mrs. Nellie Cochran, survives him. His daughter was traveling aboard at the time of his death and could not be located until Taesday, when she was reached at Lucerne, Switzerland. She and her hus- band ‘will start for home at once. After the funeral services yesterday afternoon the body of Mr. McCormiek was placed in the receiving vault at Wildwood cemetery until Mrs. Cochran returns. The Young Husband’s Soliloquy. From the Johnstown Tribune. The queerest little dresses | My eyes have ever seen I sometimes catch a glimpse of And wonder what they mean; All folded up so neatly, ! All fashioned out with grace, Lt; With little bows of ribbon And little bits of lace. 1 gaze on these with wonder And in Viola's eyes I try to read the secret, But she is all too wise; And unto all my questions She makes me this Teply, “1f you'll have patience, Peleg, 1’il tell you bye and bye.” But Girls are Not Men. From the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) A poor girl in Philadelphia has been sentenced to jail for six months because she fraudulently obtained possession of a doz- en photographs of herself. Philadelphia is the place where they send men to Con- gress who fraudulently obtained possession of entire streets. As ———————— error err A New- Balance of Trade. From the Freeport, Iil., Bulletin. In one trip to Europe J. Pierpoint Mor- gan brings back more ‘‘stuff’”’ than all the foreign fiddlers and piano players carry over in ten years. . Spawls from the Keystone. —The reports read at the I. O. O. F. grand lodge at Erie, show that there are 1,096 lodges in the state, with a membership of 115,500. The expenses last year were $679,000 —Mrs. Moses Parker, near Coalport, was lodged in the Clearfield county jail the other day charged with an attempt to poison the family of Levi Spangle, who live on a neigh- boring farm by putting arsenic in the sugar bowl. —The P. J. E. & E. railroad company has entered a suit in the Blair county courts against the Altoona and Beech Creek railroad company to recover $60,000, the price of two locomotives and 10 cars wrongfully taken from the plaintiffs and appropriated by the defendant corporation to its own use. —The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad company will put in two first class steel bridges on the Sinnemahoning branch of the road. One will be 135 feet long and will he located at Wharton, near the junction of the line, and the other will be 200 feet long, lo- cated one mile below on the Sinnemahoning branch. | —More than 200 of the hands employed at the Lock Haven silk mill are enjoyingen_ forced idleness. They have been laid off on account of the strike of the dye works em- ployes at Patterson, N. J. On account of the strike it is impossible to obtain enough material to keep the mill running full hand- ed. About 100 looms are in operation. —According to Dunn’s Review the cost of living in this country has reached the high- est point attained during the decade. Novem- ber 1st last the average cost was $97.73 This is an increase of six per cent. as compared with last year. The increase in the average cost of living has been most notable since July 1st, 1897. The figures then were $72.46. —Miles Bartow, sexton of the Greenwood cemetery at Altoona. has been informed that the family of his brother, Bernard, who re- sided on the ruined island of Martinique, consisting of the wife and three young chil- dren were among the unfortunates who per- ished in the awful eruption of Mont Pelee on May 8. Mr. Bartow was visiting friends in Nebraska when news of the terrible calamity reached him. - —Ezxpecting to assume his duties as post master of Renovo about June 1st; A. Y. Jones Saturday tendered to the court his resigna- tion as county commissioner of Clinton conn- ty. A.L. Merrill, of Lock Haven, was ap- pointed to'fill ‘the unexpired term ending Décember 31st, 1902. Mr. Merrill was sworn in and began his duties Monday.. He is a ‘well known Republican and will fill his new position to the best of his ability. —Sidney, the7 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allabach, and other boys, were looking down at a bird’s nest under a trestle at Farrandsville on Sunday, when Sidney overbalanced and fell off the trestle. He fell seventeen feet and alighted on an oak plank. The boy was carried home and Dr. Hill sum- moned. The child remained unconscious un- til Monday, but fortunately had no bones broken. He is getting along nicely. . —Hewitt Boice, a wealthy resident of near Kingston, N.Y., advertised last Friday to pay ten cents for each fruit jar of caterpillars that are infesting hundreds of shade trees in that section. The jars were to be delivered at hisbarn. Up to Monday might he had paid out nearly $100 to 500 persons, ranging from grandfathers to 5 year old children. He says he expected three or four dollars would cover the cost. The caterpillars were de- stroyed as soon as paid for. —The cold snap of the past few days has not made the farmers any too cheerful, as it retards the growth of their farm and garden products. There would have been a heavy frost Wednesday morning had it not been for the clouds and wind. At.7 o'clock thermom- eters registered from forty to forty four de- grees. Overcoats and fires were a necessity Wednesday. Snow fell at Altoona and other places Tuesday. The mercury registered as low as forty degrees in some towns. Warm- er weather is predicted today. -—W. Kent McCarthy, aged 16, of Stevens City, Va., and Charles Skewes, aged 15, of McKeesport, were drowned Friday iu the Youghiogheny river, near McKeesport. The boys were out skiff riding, and were seen to rock the boat from side to side until it turn- ed completely over, precipitating the occu- pants into the river. Both boys were good swimmers, and it is thought the suction pumps of the water works near by drew them under the water and prevented their rise again. Both belonged to prominent, families. —Three prisoners escaped from the Lock Haven jail at an early hour Thursday morn- ing. They are Fred Hurley and J. A. Mous- ley, who were each servinga sentence of six months, and Frederick Mason, who was awaiting trial. The escape was made by fil- ing the rivets that hold the chain across the cell doors. The old fashioned lock on the door at the rear of the jail was easily picked and when the jail yard was reached the pad- lock on the gate at the south side of the yard was also easily opened. —A lumber wagon driver in Altoona saw a little child hanging from a window at Eighth avenue and Fifth street the other morning as he drew near. Slowly the little one was slip- ping off the sill.. The teamster stopped at ‘the house and tried tosummon the mother to the front door, but failed to get a response to his repeated knocks. Meanwhile the baby was just about to fall, at the same time cry. ing a note of warning of its danger to its mother, but she came not. There was noth- ing for the driver to do but stand under the window, which he did, and wait until the child finally dropped from its place into his arms unharmed. —A few days ago the clothing of Paul Hinderling, an employe of the Lock Haven paper mill, was caught by a swiftly revolving shaft and he was whirled around at lightning speed. Two other men of the mill who were in an adjoining room and heard the cries of Hinderling ran in the direction from which the cry came and found the man lying on the floor badly hurt and in a perfectly nude con- dition. ‘Every particle of his clothing had been torn off with the exception of oue shoe. He was taken to his home where a doctor was summoned who found that Hinderling's right arm was broken about five inches below the shoulder joint and between the elbow and wrist. In addition to these injuries he wus badly bruised all over his body. The acei- dent occurred in the leeching room.
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