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.
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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.