BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
* —The inauguration of the rural mail de-
livery sounds the death knell of the cross
roads store-box philosopher.
— When Mr. WU goes home to stay it is
really hard to imagine what we will do in
this country fer an orator, extraordinary.
—The Altoona Tribune, in order to throw
dust in its own eyes, talks about the hope-
‘Jessness of the eastern Democracy. It is
hard for the Tribune to become reconciled
to ELKIN’s downfall.
— Happy was Camp Meade when there was
peace there between Governor STONE, and
Generals MILLER and GOBIN. It wasn’t
long enough, however, for there will soon
be three pieces again.
— This talk of legislating against the
¢rusts sounds so much like the coward-
ly braggart who is always looking for
some one to lick when he knows that some-
one can’t be found.
— When Gov. STONE'S nose is close to the
political trail, anyone can guess where the
“‘graft’’ is. After his declaration for PEN-
NYPACKER there is no questioning as to
what a PENNYPACKER administration will
mean.
— That disaster in Johnstown is a fright-
ful reminder that the men who work in the
mines are in constant jeopardy. Lives that
are being so regularly snuffed out are poor-
ly paid for, even at the present high rate of
sixty cents a ton for mining.
Mr. QUAY’S boast that ‘‘cousin SAM-
UEL'S’ majority for Governor will be 200,-
000 and his offer to bet $10,000 on an even
election, only shows the amount of infla-
tion there isin the wind work of the old
—JonN W. GATES may be a ‘curb brok-
er,’ as some of the more high-falootin New
York gamblers call him, but he makes the
boys settle right along, his latest turn be-
ing the tramping of four million dollars
out of their corns.
I is a condition and not a theory that
still confronts the anthracite coal opera-
tors. Just as soon as they make conditions
more endurable for their miners they can
theorize all they have a mind to about the
relations between capital and labor.
—The verdict of only twenty-nine thou-
sand dollars for ‘Dr. BROWNING, when he
wanted three hundred and forty thousard
* for professional services to the late C. L.
MAGEE looks as if there is a wide diverg-
ence of opinion between Philadelphia and
Pittsburg folks as to what doctors are
worth. ;
‘Pennsylvania has no ills to complain
of” is cousin SAMUEL'S opinion of condi-
tions under machine rale. It the tax-pay-
* ers and other decent people of the State had
“the same idea the chances for election of
boss QUAY’'s relatives would not be hang-
ing on the ‘‘ragged edge’’ as they now ap-
pear to be.
—The Democrats who were said to be
defaming the American army because they
had the courage to condemn soldiers who
were inhuman have been backed up by
President RoosEVELT and the Republicans
who were hopeful of making much cam-
paign thunder out of it now find that gun
effectually spiked.
—Council should get meters for the noz-
zles of the hose used by the Bellefonte fire
department, for hereafter some one will
have to be found who will pay for the wa-
ter that is squirted away when thereis a
fire. If everybody isto pay for exactly
what he uses, no more or no less, there is
bound to be a loss when we have a fire un-
less the poor unfortunate; who is being
burned or flooded out steps up to the Cap-
tain’s office.
— Admiral CROWNINSHIELD has a beauti-
ful chance now to show who was the real
hero of Santiago. If he takes thej blame
of having run the battleship™ Illinois
aground in Christiana harbor then SAMP-
SON won the battle of Santiago, but if he
says the captain of the boat was responsi-
ble for the misfortune then SCHLEY is the
man who should have the glory. It is not
probable, however, that the Department
pet will say or do anything that might in
any way reflect on himself as commanding
a squadron, the flagship of which has just
run aground.
—The retirement of Gen.} JAKE SMITH
from the United States army because of
his famous ‘kill and burn’’ order came a
little late to reflect any credit on the War
Department. It tried to shield the officers
who brought disgrace upon the army, but
being no longer able to do so only yielded
“$0 popular indignation and acquiesced in
his retirement by the President. It is
probable now that if Gen. SMITH]fgets to
talking the public will also discover who
was making the bullets for him to shoot.
‘There has been a strong suspicion that
they were made in Washington.
—The magnanimity of the English, in
their settlement with the Boers, becomes
more of a farce the more publicity it ob-
tains. The great, powerful wealthy Eng-
lish government has robbed two little Re-
publics of their independence, taken their
richest treasure in the Rand gold field and
now prates about its goodness to them he-
cause it is restoring their farms and herds
that were so ruthlessly destroyed hy the
English army of conquest. When England
signed the Hague convention she pledged
her solemn honor to all the powers partici-
pating in it that she would make such res-
sitntion as this in any case, consequently
she is only doing for the Boers what every
other civilized nation is expected to do for
.a vanquished foe. ; ;
Demacra
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 47
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 18, 1902.
NO. 28.
“Where Did He Get It.”
Speaking of Senator QUAY’S offer to bet
$10,000 on the election of Judge PENNY-
PACKER to the office of Governor of Penn-
sylvania, the Harrisburg Star-Independent
pertinently asks, ‘Where Did He Get It?”
Less than a quarter of a century ago the
friends of the Senator in Philadelphia were
soliciting contributions to pay the rent of
the house in which he lived while acting
as Recorder of that city. The office had
been a disappointment to him. It bad
been ‘made over’’ purposely to give him a
lucrative place and failed to yield the ex-
pected revenues. For that reason he re-
signed and needed help to discharge his
pecuniary obligations before leaving the
city. He has been in no legitimate busi-
ness since and still he lives like a prince
and has money to indulge his passion for
betting to the full measure of his inclina-
tions.
Senator QUAY had resigned the office of
Secretary of the Commonwealth in order to
accept that of Recorder of Philadelphia.
After his disappointment there he was re-
appointed - Secretary of the Commou-
wealth by Governor HoyT. While in that
office, according to common reports through-
out the State shortly afterward, he and two
others, all ex-officio commissioners of the
sinking fund, took a large sum of money
out of that fund and used it in speculations
in Wall street. Subsequently while he
was in the office of State Treasurer he is
said to have again taken a large amount
out of the Treasury which was used for
the purchase of shares in YERKES’ Chicago
street car enterprises. Since he has been
in the United States Senate he has ad-
mitted under oath that he speculated in
property, the value of which was effected
by legislation.
In that record of infamy the question of
our Harrisburg contemporary is answered.
The senior Senator for Pennsylvania has
passed from poverty to vast wealth by pro-
cesses, if the disputed stories current then
and since are true, which involved the most
serious crimes against the laws of the Com-
monwealth of which he has been continuous-
ly a high official,and which he wassworn to
ohey. Because of this ill-gotten wealth he
is enabled to insuli the public by openly
violating another law of the State which
forbids wagering on theresult of the elee-
tion for the ‘obvious purpose of enticing
others, by his example, to violate the same
law and thus increase their interest in the
election to such an extent as will make
them ready for any conspiracy to debauch
the ballot which will promise victory.
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A Piece of Brazen 1lmpudence.
Senator DuBo1s, of Idaho, discussing
President Rooscvernr's Fourth of July
speech at Pittsburg the other day, called
attention to the fact that the very remedy
which the ‘‘bronco buster’’ proposes to ap-
ply to the trusts was voted down during
the recent session of the Senate by the
unanimous voice of the Republicans in that
body. ‘‘During the discussion of the cen-
sus bill,” said the Senator for Idaho, ‘it
may be recalied I offered an amendment
which covered exactly what the President
now asks for and it was promptly killed by
a strict party vote.” The amendment in
question comprehended publicity of the
methods of trusts. That incident occurred
in February last, and consequently at ‘a
time when every Republican Senator was
expectant of favors.
In the face of this record what folly it is
for the President to say in the presence of
an intelligent. audience that he intends to
make war on the trusts and destroy them
by legislation compelling publicity of their
methods and affairs? He could certainly
claim no greater measure of coutrol of the
actions .of Congress on July 4th than he,
was able to exercise on July 1st. Yet on
July 1st Congress was in session and the
President 2ould have held it in session or
reagsembled it at once in extraordinary ses-
sion until the measure desired was passed.
But on July 1st, he was as silent as the
grave concerning trust legislation of the
kind talked about in Pittsburg, and on’
July 4th he talked as if he could procure
any kind of legislation on that or any oth-
er subject for the asking. aw
This was simply brazen impudence or in-
excusable bragadocia. If there ever was a
time that the President had power over
Congress it was at the beginning of the last
session. In his annnal message at that
time he urged legislation for publicity of
the affairs of trusts. Every Senator and
Representative in Congress expected changes
in the public offices and was ready to go as
far as he ever would go to win the Presi-
dent’s favor and, incidentally, the patron-
age. But with such inducements to follow
his suggestions, the Senators of his party
unanimously voted against the proposition
which he now promises. During the next
session there will be no expectation of pat-
ronage and the Senate will laugh at his
fight on the trusts. They are the prize pets
of his party. : '
S——g—
——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN .
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| more certain that he will be the Republi-
Penrose Will be Unloaded.
There is an able-bodied suspicion through-
out the State that Senator QUAY intends
to treat Senator PENROSE in January very
much as he treated Attorney General ELK-
IN in June. That is to say a considerable
number of observant citizens imagine that
they detect signs of a disposition on the
part of QUAY to unload his senatorial col-
league in the interest of his cousin and pan-
egyrist precisely as he unloaded ELKIN in
the same interest when the gubernatorial
nomination was on. When he determined
to dump ELKIN he made PENROSE believe
that it was in his interest and that if ELK-
IN was nominated the Republican majority
in the Legislature would be jeopardized.
Now that he wants to throw PENROSE
overboard his pretense is that the state tick-
et is in danger of defeat.
Opinions differ as to which of the various
eligible aspirants for the senatorial toga
Quay will favor in the event that he car-
ries out his present purpose of throwing
PENROSE down. In the Philadelphia Led-
ger of last Monday the opinion was confi-
dently expressed that ex-Senator CAMER-
oN would inherit the succession and in the
Philadelphia Zimes of Tuesday it was as-
serted with equal emphasis, that ex-Lieu-
tenant Governor WATRES would be the
man, Reports from Pittsburg are to the ef-
fect that a tender of the commission was
made to HARRY OLIVER and rumors come
from the oil regions that JOE SIBLEY bas a
mortgage on the place. In any event it is
certain that there will be disappointments
and heartaches and they are altogether like
ly to develope before the vote in Novem-
ber. :
These stories are very interesting, but a
close friend of Senator QUAY is authority
for the statement that none of the gentle-
men named has any show of selection.
Quay would like to favor CAMERON for the
reason that he is under deep obligations to
the ex-Senator and besides he needs a‘‘bar-
rel.” It is recalled that away back in the
time that QUAY was plunging in Wall
street with money taken out of the
sinking fund Senator CAMERON made
up a deficiency of $100,000 charged to
the then Secretary of the Commonwealth,
and thus saved him from a term in pris-
on or, what is worse, a swuicide’s grave.
But CAMERON doesn’t want £0 he. Senator
and as QUAY doesn’t want PENROSE his
alternative is to elect his own son RICHARD,
but he is keeping quiet for the present.
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A Signal of Grave Danger.
In accepting a nomination as the Dem-
ocratic candidate for'Congress in the district
composed of Erie and Crawford counties,
the other day ALBERT B OsBORNE, Esq.,
of Erie, said tbat ‘‘the buying of votes
and selling of offices is treated as a jest
rather than a crime. It is accepted,” he
adds, ‘‘as past hope of change that this dis-
trict cannot be carried without money, and
that men can he neither nominated by the
dominant party nor elected, without the
purchased permission of the machine lead-
ers.’ In this statement of fact MR. OSBORNE
has sounded a note of warning of the great-
est importance to the people of the coun-
try. He points out the fact that the favor
of office holding is limited net only to the
wealthy but to the corrupt of that class. -
It was the pride of the founders of this
Republic that the opportunities of life were
equal to the rich ard poor. In this land
of liberty and equality, they used to say,
in pardonable ecstasy, there is no distinc-
tion in the distribution of honors among
men. The only distinction is that
of worth. But it is not so now.
A poor man has ten times the chance
of preferment in Great Britain or Ger-
many that he has here for there the
Monarch, or the Premier, or Chancellor,
is secure in his tenure and can afford to be
just to himself and hiz country by giving
preference to merit. But here offices are
bought and honors made the subject of
barter and trade. There is no respect paid
to character or conscience. Boodle is the
key that unlocks the doors to favor. :
If ABRAHAM LINCOLN were living to
day he would have no more chance - of be-
coming President of the United States than |
any hobo begging his. way from place to
place on the highways. The Republican
nomination for Governor of this State cost
the friends of the successful candidate half
a million dollars. His competitors for the
place expended nearly as much and the
probahilities are that the supporters of the
successful candidate will be compelled to
reimburse those who were defeated in or-
der to get their support at the election.
What is the result of this?’ If PENNY-
PACKER is eleoted be will be under obli-
gations to the corporations which furnished
the money for these wholesale iniquities
and they can be “discharged in no other
way than by using the office for their ben-
efit: tio aa seis :
id HD ——
_ —As days roll by the feeble opposition
to ROOSEVELT disappears and it becomes
can nominee for President in 1903.
Resignation of Lord Salisbury.
The most cunning act of Lord SALIS-
BURY’s long life of official trickery was
expressed in bis resignation. Ever since
the death of Queen VICTORIA there has been
talk of his retirement and no doubt during
most of the time he has been willing to lay
down the cares and labors of office. But
he was determined to put that long enter-
tained purpose into practice only when he
could do so on terms satisfactory to him-
seif. Beside his nephew, Mr. BALFOUR,
who succeeds him, he bas a son and son-
in-law in office and he wanted to fix things
before he resigned that they would remain
on the generous pay roll after he had with-
drawn.
The very dangerous illness of the King
materially promoted his plans but didn’t
make their success certain. In other
words the sickness of his majesty made
him an easy victim of the persuasive ton-
gue of the old premier, but there was dan-
ger at any moment that the enterprising
and ambitions Colonial Secretary, JOSEPH
CHAMBERLAIN, would break in and spoil
any scheme of SALISBURY before it was con-
summated. Bat the other day CHAMBER-
LAIN met with an accident which sent him
helpless to the hospital and made his in-
terference in any arrangements between
SALISBURY and the King impossible. Tak-
ing advantage of this incident SALISBURY
managed to get himself out and his nephew
in without a hitch in the proceedings.
SALISBURY has served ia the office of
premier longer than any of his predeces-
gors in recent years and he has served with
considerable distinction. He entered the
cabinet when LORD BEACONSFIELD was ab
its head and while thus situated helped to
organize the party which finally threw
BEACONSFIELD out. His principal agent
in this affair was BALFOUR who has since
been his most active and capable lieuten-
ant and now succeeds him in the position
which in Great Britain is ‘‘the power be-
hind the throne, greater than the throne
itself.” BALFOUR has proven himself not
only a superb politician but a statesman
of ability and it may be said that the affairs
of the empire are in safe hands.
Democracy Again Vindicated.
A few weeks ago when the Democratic
press of the country and the represensa-
tives of the party in the House and Senate
were denouncing the outrageous cruelties
perpetrated upon the Filipinos they were
met with the howl that they were defam-
ing the army and blackening the record of
the boys who were risking their lives in
defense of the flag. This ery was taken
up by Republican state conventions and
made part of their platform. It was used
in every way possible to prejudice those
who had friends or relatives in the service
in the Philippines against the Democracy
and up to this timeis the principal stock
in trade of every whipper-snapper in the
Republican party. : :
Only on Wednesday of the present week
President ROOSEVELT found it necessary,
for the ‘‘honor of the American people,’’
to dismiss old ‘‘make-it-a-howling-wilder-
ness’”’ SMITH from the army, to repri-
mand Major WALLER and to severely
criticise others in authority for the com-
mission of the very outrages the Demo-
crats referred too.
Do the Democratic papers and the
Democratic people who had the courage to
expose and denounce these wrongs need
any other vindication than this action of a
Republican President ?
Possibly there is a howling-jingo some-
where who is smart enough to show an in-
telligent public wherein the Democracy
was wrong in its condemnation of the
cruelties practised in the Philippines and
the President right in recognizing that
such cruelties were committed and punish-
ing those who committed them.
Blockading Our Streets.
Better judgment on the part of the town
council would have caused it to widen the
gutters along west High street above the
rail-road crossing, thus saving the flooding
of pavements and cellars along that high-
way every time it rains, in place of giving
up the street to the Bell telephone company
in which to plant its poles. To allow the
narrowest and most used street in town to
be blockaded with telephone poles, to the
detriment of every business man in town,
by a corporation that does not pay a cent
of street tax, is an outrage that any one
but a town councilman can see.
When down town it would be “well for
those who must use our streets, and who
pay heavy taxes for their use to look and
see how their facilities for getting to and
from the freight depot are being curtailed
to suit the convenience of the telephone
company. Four feet of a public high-way
is a little too much for one corporation to
ocoupy for its own exclusive use. That is
the space the poles just planted takes.
—— Rev. Dr. Shriner of the Methodist
church is endeavoring to persuade the
ladies of his congregation that it would be
a matter of greater comfort to themselves,
less ‘obstruction to others and an evidence
of truest reverence if they would: take their
hats off while in church. a ’
on RRR
Low Prices for Foreigners Only.
From the New York World.
An advertisement now appearing in news-
papers in different parts of the country reads
as follows :
“One hundred dollars will be paid for
the special discount sheet (any amount in
1902) to accompany Henry W. Peabody’s
Export Price list; $25 will be paid for simi-
lar sheet of other leading export houses;
foreign correspendence solicited ; answers
will be considered strictly confidential.
The Democratic Congressional Committee
wishes these sheets to demonstrate the very
great difference between the home market
and export prices charged by our protected
manufacturers. Address Literary Bureau,
Democratic Congressional Committee, Bliss
Building, Washington, D. C.
It has been freely alleged and generally
believed for many years past that the tariff
made Trusts have two prices for their goods
—a higher price for the home market, a
lower price for the foreign market—and
that the price charged to American consum-
ers equals the lower price charged in the
foreign market plus the amount of tariff
duty and ocean freight. As to some of the
commodities this fact has been at different
times well established. For example, The
World on January 9 last, made this editor-
ial statement, based on figures obtained di-
rect from trustworthy sources :
It (the Steel Trust) is now selling rails
in England at $22.50 per ton, after paying
railroad and ocean freights. The ocean
freight alone is $5.11 per ton. So that
American steel rails are really being sold in
England at $17 per ton.
The American price is $28 per ton —§11
higher than the English price.
Now, there is good reason to believe that
in many other lines of American manufac-
tured goods this same rule prevails—high
prices for Americans, low prices for foreign-
ers. The plain purpose of the advertise-
ment quoted above is to put this general be-
lief to the test of proof.
Yet Mr. J. R. Bradlee, of the firm of
Henry W. Peabody, in an interview on the
subject, says he cannot understand what
the advertisement’s object is. We ‘‘should
have thought that the Democratic Literary
Bureau in Washington would have come to
us for any information they wanted’’ in-
stead of advertising. But when Mr. Brad-
Jee was asked if he would give one of the
flrm’s export price lists to the Democratic
Literary Bureau if asked to do so he naive-
ly replied :
“I doubt if we should. I would not feel
that we were at liberty to do so.”
That reply fully justifies the advertise-
ment. The export price-list is a secret
document. The fact that its makers are
not willing to let the public see it raises a
strong presumption that it will prove what
has been long charged—that the protected
Trusts are beating the foreign manufactur-
ers in their own markets, and incidentally
beating the American people much worse.
The Unfaithful Should be Dropped.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The Republican in criticism of the Erie
platform declared that while denouncing
Republican boodlers in the late T.egislature
it was silent as to their Democratic allies.
All Democratic representatives who figured
.| in this way have been defeated for renomi-
nation, and as to the sevators the Phila-
delphia ‘‘Record’’ puts the situation in
this way:
Of the five Democratic senators who were
unfaithful to the trust reposed in them—
’ Haines, of York, has not registered as a candi.
date for renomination;
Stiles, of Lehigh, has not registered;
Neely, of Cameron, Elk, Clarion and Forest,
has to take a back seat;
Higgins, of Schuylkill, is hardly mentioned as
a candidate for renomination;
Boyd, of Fayette and Green, has Fayette
county, but the study Democrats of Green are
sure to floor him.
The “two Browns" on the State ticket and the
rank and rotten machine selections for Senators
and representatives that have so far been made’
in this city and through-ont the State sufficiently
indicate the drift of the Quay campaign. The
veneer of a decent candidate for the governor-
ship and a new-made pledge for ballot reform
will not serve to cover out of sight the desperate
intention of the politcal plunderers who control
the State to maintain their hold upon it,
And this leads us to declare again that
no Democratic senator or representative
who consorted with the Stone-Quay gang
in the last Legislature should be renomi-
nated; and if nominated should be defeat-
ed. A Republican boodler is to be pre-
ferred to a Democratic ally of the organ-
ized machine of boodlers. The Erie con-
vention laid down the general principles of
the party on this matter, leaving no doubt
of the position of the Democratic party of
the State. The details were left to the
senatorial and representative conventions,
and they are making a clear record. If
they do not the Democratic voters will ad-
minister the proper remedy “by defeating
the allies of the machine who steal the
name of Democrats to serve the devil
with. 4
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Tired of Quay.
From the Pittsburg Leader (Rep.)
The people are heartily tired of Mr. Quay
and his perpetual demands for sympathy.
They are nauseated with the odor of ‘the
Stone administration, and a house cleaning
is in order. It therefore behoves Senator
Quay to keep’ on the move if he desires to
save not only his state ticket but His col-
league. Oue element he must yet placate,
however, is the people of Pennsylvania.
Visiting Stone or holding frequent pow-
wows with the crestfallen fingsters of Alle-
gheny will not accomplish this. He must
listen to the angry voices of the plain peo-
ple. Their demands are well known to Mr.
Quay, and he will find before election day
that they are not to be ignored.
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For a Fair Count in Some Other State.
From the Paducah (Ky.) News-Demoerat.
The Pennsylvania Republicans declared
for an ‘‘honest ballot and a fair count.”
‘They did not say where, but it is evident
they meant tosay in the Southern States.
They certainly did not mean in Philadel-
‘phia, or any other part of Boss Quay’s bail-
iwick.
— A cdke-walk isto be the principal
attraction’ at a festival which the United
Evangelical Sunday school at Aaronshurg
will hold on Saturday night. thls
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Seranton is threatened with another
street car strike.
—The Eastern Steel Company on Tuesday
began the construction of a mammoth’ steel
mill at Pottsville.
—An effort made on Monday to resume
work at the Wilkesbarre lace mills, where a
strike is on, proved futile.
—The list of voters for the November élec-
tion, as compiled by the assessors of York
county, gives a total of 31,756.
—Because her parents would not permit a
young man to pay attention to her Miss
Lavinia May, of Sunbury, swallowed poison,
but will recover. ”
—Geologist Henry C. Demming, of Har-
risburg, believes the mine disaster at Johns-
town was indirectly due to recent seismic
disturbances in the West Indies.
—A young cow belonging to Mrs. Howard
Wertz. at Mapleton, was shot on Sunday.
owing to its having shown all the symptoms
of a fully developed case of the rabies.
—During a thunder storm near Smethport
a few days ago, lightning struck a herd of
twenty-six cattle that had taken refuge un-
der a tree and killed eighteen. They be-
longed to D. C. Young.
—Mrs. Charles Hayes, of New Castle cap-
tured a burglar red handed in her home,
seized him by the hair and held him until
assistance arrived. A terrible struggle ensued
until her screams for help brought several
men.
—Six masked burglars entered the home
of James Stunkard, a wealthy farmer, near
Punxsutawney, bound him hand and foot,
and burned him with matches until he re-
vealed the hiding-place of $80. They es-
caped with the booty.
—While James Purcell was employed in
the iron works at Punxsutawney, he was in-
stantly killed by an oar bucket falling on
him, which crushed his head and broke his
neck and back. He was 35 years old, and
leaves a wife and several children.
—Nora Turner, a 16-year-old colored girl
of Williamsport, disappeared from her home
Saturday night. Her. friends searched all
night for her, and Sunday they found her
asleep beside a cow in a field near the city.
She gave no reason for her strange action.
—A party of fourteen local capitalists of
Kutztown, have just formed a company to
erect, equip and operate a condensed milk
plant with a capital stock of $50,000. The
plant is to be equipped with a butter factory,
an ice machine, an ice cream factory and
cold storage.
—Anthracite delegates to the miners’ na-
tional convention, it is said, will ask the con-
vention to raise a large fund to support the
strikers who are now out rather than to
order a general strike, Friends of Johus-
town miners believe that there are still many
bodies in the mine in which the explosion
occurred.
—Hugh Chester and family, of Wyoming,
Luzerne county, had a narrow escape.
fro cremation and owe their lives
to the frantic neighing of one of their
horses. When awakened their home, on
Tuesday morning, grocery, warehouse and
barn were ablaze, and the family had barely
time to escape in their night clothes. The
buildings were entirely consumed.
—Thomas Frisbee, colored, who shot and
killed Samuel Young, colored, near Deer
Creek tunnel, on the West Branch railroad,
‘on May 17th, was lodged in jail at Clearfield
Thursday by Arthur Fee, constable of the
thirty-sixth ward of Pittsburg. At the time
of the murder Frisbee escaped. The prisoner
admits to the killing but says it was done in
self defense.
—Michael Hennessey, a railroad brake-
man and a victim of the Sheridan disaster,
has beeu practically skinned alive at the
Homeopathic hospital in Pittsburg to fur-
nish material for a skin-grafting operation
that is being performed on-the left leg of an
8-year-old boy, also a victim of the disaster. .
Hennessey has so far contributed 106 large
pieces of cuticle to the boy, who, it is be-
lieved, will recover. »
—(Qivil engineers will begin this week to
lay out the site of the big steel works that
are to be erected at Clearfield. Irom, stone,
brick and other materials to be used in the
construction of the big plant are being con-
tracted for and the work of erecting the
buildings will be pushed with all possible
speed. The plant will employ 2,500 men and
give Clearfield a great boom.
—The barn on the farm.of Samuel Norton,
situated near Newton Hamilton, was de-
stroyed by fire recently. The fire originated
in the hay mow, caused by damp hay There
were men deluging the hay with water when
a man below called to them to get off the
bay mow, which they did just in time to
save their lives, as it “caved in and ignited,
and soon the flames reached the roof. James
S. Norton, who lives there, lost his meat,
and what wheat was stored in the barn: was
burned. : :
—An old bachelor farmer living in the
vicinity of McCartney is suffering from a
broken leg, and the story of the accident is a
peculiar one. About the Fou rth of July a
violent storm occurred up there, during
which the old gentleman's barn was struck
and a horse badly hurt by the electric fluid.
Hearing the animal’s cries of pain his owner
went to the rescue: The, animal bad ‘fallen
against the barn door and it was necessary to
break the door down to getin In its strug-
gle the horse kicked the old gentleman,
breaking his leg, and he is now laid up for
repairs and the horse is dead, living a couple
of days after it was struck. aft
—David Lafayette Kephart, the youngest
son of David A. Kephart, of near Penn Run,
Indiana county, was instantly killed by
lightning on Wednesday, July 9th, at about
2 o'clock in the afternoon. The sky was al-
most clear and the sun shining, but a heavy
rain was passing north. A flash seemed to
leave the@éloud in the distance and penetrate
the air until it reached the tree’ where the
boy and his youngest sister ‘were playing: in.
a wheel fastened to a stick that’ was running
up and down the tree and the little girl was
sitting on a siall stool. close’ by him. She
was rendered unconscious ‘for several mm in-
‘utes but is well'again, with the exception of
| a few bruises'on her fuce and limbs. + =»
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