By P. GRAY MEEK.
pied nk Slings.
“'_TIt is not always the ‘‘fast” man who
comes out abead in the political race.
# _ Those who Know say that Dr. LOCKE
has Aunt CLEMINTINA beaten already in
the congressional race in this county.
Tt couldn’t be possible that Admiral
CROWNINSHIELD ran his boat aground be-
eause the coronation had to be postponed
and he didn’t get a chance to show himself.
, —Since Governor STONE has expressed
his intention to take the stump for PEN-
NYPACKER the blow pipes of the Repub-
lican machine are not nearly 80 loud and
vigorous as they were. In fact, that an-
nouncement seems to have taken the wind
out of their bladder completely.
— With living expenses increased, thirty
per cent and wages put up ten, whyshouldn’t
the workingman hoorah for the prosperity
that these times of the trusts have brought
him? Just think of the ingratitude of the
man whose ‘earnings are increased ten
cents a day,complaining because his means
of expenses have been boosted thirty cents.
— MAY YOHE, the actress, who d esertd
Lorp FrANcIs HOPE for the American of-
ficer Capt. PUTNAM B. STRONG now finds
herself deserted by the American, for whom
she gave up so much. While MAY says
is was love that caused her to leave the
English nobleman it was her three hundred
thousand dollars worth of jewels that caus-
ed STRONG to leave her. He took them
with him.
With HusTOX as architect, EDWIN E.
ABBEY in charge of the mural decorations
and GEORGE GRAY BARNARD doing the
seulpture, the best American talent has been
employed for the new capitol at Harrisburg.
Now if the commission doesn’t get its
«shooks’” in too deep the pen, brush and
chisel might be able to give Pennsylvania
a building to be proud of.
— Perhaps the young Madisonburg girl,
who lost a finger while splitting kindling
a few days ago, has a father or a brother
whose hearts will bleed in sympathy with
her. ‘Had they done the man’s work, how-
ever, the unfortunate girl would not be in
need of sympathy and her maimed hand
would not be adaily reminder in the future
that some man left for a womair to do some-
thing that is certainly not in her province.
—A cersain Baptist clergyman in New
York is attracting large congregations by the
introduction of such choir specialties as
whistling solos. While we are not ready
to discuss these brass band, open-air assem-
bly innovations ministers are resorting to to
attract the people we would suggest that this
particular one might try a few swimming
exhibitions after his whistling soloist has
ceased to draw any more. It would be right
in line with the Baptist idea too.
—_All honor to the Democrats of Adams
county ! At their convention on Monday
they did everything possible to wipe out
the stain placed upon them by MADISON
A. GARVIY, the man whom they elected to
represent them in the last Legislature. He
had the impudence to ask for a re-nomina-
tion and that was not only denied him, but
he was given the stinging rebuke his treach-
ery merited. The Democrats of Adams
have redeemed themselves, bat GARVIN’S
crime can never be effaced. It will go with
him to the grave.
—_Tt is needless to say that Mrs. BRAGG
will never hear the last of a letter her hus-
band recently wrote to her from Havana,
Cuba. General BRAGG is the Consul Gen-
eral of the United States at that port and
in a letter to his wife he said some uncom-
plimentary things about the Cubans. On
the principle ‘shat ‘‘the King can do no
wrong'’ Mrs. BRAGG revealed the contents
of the letter and now he is to lose his offic-
ial head. He will indeed be unique in the
world of husbands if Mrs. BRAGG is per-
mitted to forget this incident for one day
of the rest of her natural life.
— We pay $2.25 per keg for wire nails
made in our own country. The same nails
are laid down in England and other foreign
countries for $1.30 per keg. The same sew-
ing machine that our wives pay $40 for the
foreign woman gets for $17 and the type
writer that added $100 to the expenses of
our office can be bought in any foreign coun-
try for $55. This is what the tariff does.
It enables unscrupulous American mana-
facturers to make the home consumer pay
‘nearly double the price asked for their prod-
‘ucts. ' If American made wire nails can
‘be sold in London for $1.30 per keg, what
fools we American people be to enact laws
‘$hrough which we can’t get the same article
Tor less than $2.25.
-— Everybody knows LYDIA PINKHAM
and W. L. DOUGLAS, because their pictures
__are lying around thicker than leaves in the
autamn, but there is a new favorite in the
field and these two old prints are likely to
be turned to the wall so that the angelic
expression of Dr. MELLIFULOUS JUVENILE
LOCKE can be seen. He is throwing his pic-
tures around over Centre and Clearfield
counties by the thousand, but what good he
hopes to accomplish by this method of cam-
paigning no one seems to know. He shav-
.ed his whiskers off so be wouldn't look so
much like the twin brother of his opponent,
CLEMENT DALE,and that has revealed such
“an I-wish-I-was-in-Congress expression that
already the people are beginning to say that
!'he is too auxious. It is going to be a pret-
“ty fight in this county next Saturday and
if Aunt CLEMINTINA, the bearded lady,goes
down Dr. MELLIFULOUS JUVENILE will be
_sending out red plush albums with the next
consignment of pictures
Demat
Spawls (rom the Keystone.
—While telling how 2 friend had been
striken with heart disease Lindley Fritz fell
dead at Harrisburg recently.
—John E. DuBois’s big mill at DuBois shut
down Thursday after running ten months.
About 125 men will seek employment else-
where,
—The Philadelphia Ledger has been sold to
| Adolph Ochs, owner of the New York and
the Philadelphia Times for the modest sum of
$2,250,000.
VOL. 47
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 25, 1902.
And There Are Others to Complain
of.
Tt is an easy matter to find fault. It is
quite as easy to see the shortcomings of
others. In fact,since the days of the proph-
ets it has heen a difficult thing to get the
fellow with the “beam” in his own eye to
see anything but the ‘“mote’’ in the eye of
his neighbor.
Knowing that this is the patural instinet
of most people, it is not strange that Dem-
ocratic voters charge almost every body but
ghemselves, with the condition of the party
and the results of elections, when they are
not what they should have been.
It is true, as some complain, that the or-
ganization, in this State particularly, is not
as effective and vigorous or as earnest as it
might be. It is equally true, as others as-
sert, that Democratic leaders do nob give
the time and attention to party matters
that they should. It is the fact, as others
tell you, that corporate influence is permit-
ted to take too active a part against ns,and it
is just as certain,as others argue, that mon-
ey and frand are allowed to play a too im-
portant part in the resul ts of elections in
the State. !
With all these reasons, and there is basis
for all of them, it is not to be wondered at
that the party is in the condition it is, and
that the majority against us in the State
mounts up to the figures shown in the re-
turns,
But who is responsible for this condition
of affairs but the rank and file—the indi-
vidual Democrats of the State ?
"It is they who make the organization. It
is the creature of their own creation, either
directly or indirectly. Without their co-
operation—their work and their efforts, no
amount of energy on the part of the organ-
ization would change conditions. That body
is helpless in itself as an engine without coal
or water. With their assistance it could
and would donbtless accomplish much.
And just here is where the principal
trouble is to be found.
All of us expect some one else to do that
which we should each take a part in doing.
One Democrat has just as much interest and
should take just as much pride in having
decent government and an honest adminis-
tration of public affairs as another. - The
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is not the
property of any individual or any olass of
individuals. One man has no more right
under its constitution than hasanother,and
if each man would look out for his own
rights and his own interests by an active
support of the party that represents and
will protect them . we would have oth-
er conditions in state and party affairs.
The organization of the party, the prospects
of the party, the result of party efforts, would
all be very different.
Neither is it right to expect afew leaders
to bear all the burdens and devote all their
time to party success, while we do nothing
but sit back and complain of the way the
work is being done.. Tney have no more
interest in the welfare of the State orin the
manner in which its laws are made and ad-
ministered than we have. They are usunal-
ly men of means who can live and enjoy
life, io matter what the tax-rate is or how
the State is plundered. For the beneit of
others they do what they do in politics,
while many of ‘the others put in their
time complaining of how some things are
done and how other things are not done.
Even the leaders, if they were to try,
could not attend to the organization and
work of the different school districts, or
townships and wards and boroughs of the
State. Thigis particularly the work of Dem-
ocrats residing within such districts. How
many of them pay any attention to it ? How
many of them are willing to devote aday’s
time to seeing that all Democrats of their
school district ave registered; or to pollingthe
vote of the district; or to reporting the list
of doubtful or wavering voters; or to ascer-
taining where the absent voters are and how
‘they can be gotten home to vote; or to see-
ing that the taxes are paid and arranging
is work that the rank and file must do
if it is done at all; that each locality must
do for itself and that individual Democrats
can do, whether the ‘‘organization’’ or the
leaders are doing their duty or not.
And how can they doit.
This we leave foreach individual Dem-
ocrat to answer for himself.
In writing as we are we do not want to
be considered as excusing the !'organiza-
ion’? or ‘‘leaders’’ or any others, for lack
of energy, of interest,or any practical work.
We understand their short-comings as well
as anyone, but we understand the dif-
ficulties they have to contend with when
the rank and the file of the party fail in
their duty and their efforts for party suc-
cess.
The disaster of party failure, if it comes,
will not be chargeable alone to those who
represent the orgasization,to those who are
recognized as leaders, to corporate opposi-
$ion or to admitted frauds. The individual
Democrat who fails to takeany interest or
hetp along with the party work will be fal-
ly as responsible as the others for such a
result.
means to have every vote at the polls. This:
Present Party Duty.
It has been practically determined that
$he Democratic candidates for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of In-
ternal Affair shall be formally notified of
their nomination in the city of Reading
and about the first week in. September. It
also appears to be generally understood
that that event shall constitute the opening
of the campaign and it shall be followed
by a fastand furious canvas of the Common-
wealth covering all sections. The local
organizgations will determine whether mass
meetings shall be held in the several coun-
ties and wherever they are so recommended
they will be held and supported by the
State organization. We are in for a cam-
paign of extraordinary vigor and it ought
to produce good results. §
Meantime there is a great deal of impor-
tant work to be done which can’t be per-
formed by stump speakers or at public
meetings, and which must be attended to be
fore the close of the first week in Septem-
ber, the time indicated for the notification
meeting. First is the completion of the
school district organization upon which
chairman CREASY has been engaged for
sometime and after that the registration of
the voters, payment of delinquent taxes, the
locating of absent votes, and the care of
doubtful ones. Unless those things are
attended to properly there is not much use
in holding public meetings later to work
up enthusiasm. In other words it is no
advantage to have a man anxious to vote
if he can’t vote and unless the law has
been complied with in respect to regis-
tration and the payment of taxes he can’t
vote.
There are many and potent reasons why
every voter should be anxious to cast his
ballot this year. The manner of the de-
feat of Attorney General ELKIN for the
nomination for Governor is evidence that
the QUAY machine has been perverted
into a personal organization and unless it
is defeated this year the Boss may order
his son DICK to be elected Senator just as
he ordered his cousin SAM to he nominated
for Governor. In any event the robber-
jes begun during the last session will be
continued and enlarged on during the next
unless public indignation is expressed by
the defeat of the ring at the election this
year. Unless rebuke isadministered the
machine will have a right to assume that
its operations have been approved and
after that no complaint will be justified.
But all voters will not qualify to par-
ticipate in this just rebuke of the machine
unless they are urged to do so between
this time and that fixed for the close of
registration and the payment of taxes.
Therefore not only the local candidates
but all their friends should be both vigi-
lant and active between this time and the
first week of September. If the Demo-
crats poll this year ninety per cent of the
vote cast for the presidential ticket in 1900
not only the state ticket will be elected
by an overwhelming majority but the coun-
ty tickets will be successful in two-thirds
of the counties and the Legislature will be
wrenched from the machine. That will
be ample reward for the effort and every
Democrat ought to perform his duty.
— Another murder bas been added to
the list of grave crimes in Centre county.
DAVID MILLER, an aged veteran, will
have to answer for the killing of his son-in-
law. Heseems sorry enough for the trag-
egy, hus sorrow will neither restore the
life he so ruthlessly hurled into eternity
nor militate against the proper punish-
ment that should be meted ont to him.
While he says he did not shoot to kill, but
only to frighten his victim, human life is
far too precious to be subjected to the pas-
sionate whims of an intoxicated man with-
out making of him an example. that will
be a terrible warning to ‘others. A Win-
chester rifle is too deadly a weapon to be
trifled with and while MILLER is to be
pitied for the terrible predicament he bas
placed himself in, nothing should with-
hold ‘the stern hand of the law in ad-
ministering the proper penalty for such a
crime. ad
—The Williamsport Sun has just done
a great service to the fraternity and the
public, as well, by bringing to justice H.
O. SHAFFER, of that city, a young man
who knowingly furnished that journal
with an untruthful statement of a mar-
riage. SHAFFER went to the Sun office
and personally vouched for a marriage
ceremony that he knew had not taken
place and while the item that was publish-
ed really resulted in no greater harm than
the embarrassment of the young lady and
gentleman concerned editor SWEELY acoom-
plished a good work when he arrested the
peddler of untruthful stories. The prosecu-
tion was brought under the act of June
3rd, 1893, and will serve as a warning to
those who imagine they can tell a news-
paper man ‘‘any kind of an old story’
without being made to answer for its trath-
fulness. : :
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
D FEDERAL UNION.
Quay’s Plans Disarranged.
Senator QUAY’s scheme to further com-
plicate the political conditions in Alle-
gheny county has unexpectedly run up
against a snag. It may be said that the
Senator’s scheme contemplated helping
Cousin SAM at the expense of the regular
Republican county ticket and the change
of program was not a voluntary action but
one that was enforced and reluctantly
adopted. - The Senator is a great stickler
for regularity when it benefits himself or
the interest he is promoting. But when it
happens to impair that interest he is per-
fectly willing to let it go to the dogs. In
the case in point he bad things fixed for a
big vote in Allegheny ' county for Cousin
Sad but what would have been done to
the regular county ticket, including can-
didates for the Senate and Representatives
in the Legislature, would have been plenty.
Senator QUAY’S scheme was to have
PENNYPACKER endorsed by the Citizens’
party of Allegheny county. He is already
on the regular ticket, but the OLIVERS and
the BrceLows declare by all that is sacred
that they will not support a man on that
ticket. Among their followers there are a
number of course, who are equally deter-
mined to prove their antipathy to the local
machine but there are also a number whose
desire to he regular would lead them to
support. PENNYPACKER if he were on the
regular ticket and the county ticket of
the regulars with him. But he if were on
both tickets they would support him on
the Citizens ticket and the Citizen’s local
ticket so that under the circumstances the
regular local ticket would stand to lose a
considerable number of Republican votes.
For that reason the managers of the ma-
chine have notified QUAY that if PENNY-
ticket they will cut him off the regular
ticket.
This threat puts QUAY in a serious dil-
emma. If he yields to the machine Cou-
sin SAM is certain to lose a large number
of votes controlled by the OLIVERS and
the BigeLows. If he gives in to the per-
suasions of the OLIVERS and BIGELOWS
and gets PENNYPACKER on the Citizens’
ticket he will lose the support of the regu-
lars, so that he is ‘between the devil and
the deep sen,’? ‘so to speak. His. original
intention was to follow the advice of the
OLIVERS because he believed that the ma-
chine managers would consent to a sacri-
fice for the benefit of his cousin.
But FLINN is not overly friendly to him
or his cousin and will not consent to the
sacrifice of those to whom he is sincerely
attached and the result is that, QUAY will
probably abandon his purpose of catching
votes ‘‘a-comin’ and a-goin’.”’
—————————————————
Quay’s Reasons for the Nomination.
Some of our esteemed contemporaries are
wasting brain power and mental energy in
pursuing an inquiry as to what causes in-
fluenced Senator QUAY to nominate hie
cousin SAM for Governor. It will be re-
membered that the Senator ‘gave ELKIN to
understand that the success of the party
was the only consideration that came into
his mind. . ELKINS record was so rotten,
QUAY said inferentially, that his nomina-
tion would result not only in the election
of the Democratic candidate for Governor,
but in carrying the Legislature by that
party. There can hardly be any doubt of
the accuracy of that estimate but it was
unkind, for whatever of evil attached to
ELKIN’S reputation was the result of his
efforts for QUAY.
"But as a matter of fact that was not even,
in a remote degree, the reason which in-
‘fluenced QUAY to take up his cousin Sad.
The fact of his relationship had something
$0 do with it, and if there had been no
other reasons that would have inclined the
Senator toward his absurdly fulsome pane-
gyrist. Butthe fact that cousin ‘SAM be-
came the panegyrist was the “paramount
cause of his preferment. When he wrote
that QUAY ‘‘fails in no duty and is never
beaten;’ when headded that *‘the capaei-
ty shown by QUAY for the organization
and direction of men in masses in the im-
portant field of state craft,” ‘‘has rarely if
and approaches * genius,’’ Judge PENNY-
PACKER made his nomination sure.
| QUAY has heen ungrateful to many men
who have ‘served -him, He practically
abandoned poor BEN HEY WooD who took
risks of ‘imprisonment in order to serve
him. He was ungrateful to the late Sena-
tor MAGEE who, with DoN CAMERON, put
up the vast sum necessary to save him from
imprisonment in 1880. He was ungrate-
ful to ELKIN who assumed the odium of
machine infamies in order to help QUAY to
retain control of the party that he might
plunder the State. But neither of those
men had flattered his vanity as PENNY-
PACKER did when he said that QUAY was
a greater statesman than DANIEL WEB-
sTER and had gifts of intellect :equal to
those of SHAKESPEARE. That was the
greatess service ever performed for him and
ab a great sacrifice, for no ratiocal man
can since regard PENNYPACKER as any-
thing other than a driviling political syco-
phant and the inflated relic of a scrubby
ascestry.
PACKER’S name is punt on the Citizens’ |
ever been equaled in ‘American: politics, |
NO. 29.
After While.
From an Unknown Exchange.
We're going to be just to our wards o'er
sea,
After while.
But we're going ts exploit them upon
"All the while.
And till we have gobbled their lands, every
oot,
You can bet your last dollar the flag will
stay put,
And the Tight of our actions we’ll prove by
oot,
After while.
I'll shackle. the trusts with a strenuous
hand,
© After while.
I'll strangle the throats of the robber trust
and,
After while.
T’ve got my own method, and got it down
vat,
And by the broad brim of my battered
a :
We've got to go slow till we're done frying
at—
! After while, '
We've got to have money to makea cam-
paign,
After while.
And I'm hoping that Marcus will fry
again,
After while.
So I’ve got to be’ careful and not alienate
The * big corporations : that pay all:
: freight,
So a trust-burdened people must patiently
wait—
For a while.
Mr. Knox is preparing the shackles with
care,
Now don’t smile.
He knows all the trusts—he was usually
there—
All the while.
He'll shackle them all in the sweet
ana by,
But not until Marcus has fried ‘em
: dry,
Then Knox will get busy, with a wink .of
his eye,
After while.
I'm going to get ready to tackle the job,
After ‘while.
And shackle the combines that ceaselessly
ob
All the while.
But now I must ponder and perspire and
pore
Over schemes to connect me with nineteen
naught four,
And meanwhile I'll strenuously rip, rant
and roar
All'the while.
A Campaign Expedient.
From the Commoner, Lincoln, Neb. n
As soon ‘as President Roosevelt returned
home from his sojourn in Pittsburg the
pers announced with a great flonrish of
trumpets that he had decided’ to make a
vigorous attack upon the trusts.
Now ? :
No, after the election.
It will occur to the student of political
history that it is much easier for the
publican party to attack the trusts after a
while than it is to attack them now. The
President has been in office about nine
months, and during that time Congress
been in session for about six months. Dur-
ing all this time the trusts have flourished.
They have grown, spread, declared divide:
and fattened off of the people.
dent and his Attorney General.
ulating millions by extortion, while
President hob-nobbed with its stockholders
and directors, his Attorney General having
been the private attorney of those who
ercise the largest influence in the manage-
ment of the steel trust.
If the present law is sufficient to destroy
the trusts, why doesn’t the President enforce
the present law and destroy them ?
If a new law is necessary, why has
President failed to suggest such a law ?
Every day between the opening of Con-
gress and its adjournment, afforded him an
opportunity to recommend a specific law
for dealing with the trusts, but he recom-
mended none. His party was in power
both House and Senate and every day pre-
sented an opportunity for the party to
troduce and pass a hill dealing effectively
with the trusts,but nothing was done.
To remedy, their failure the President,
fresh from his visit to Mr. Frick, of Pifts-
burg, fresh from his eulogy of Mr. Kn
0X
the greatest trust attorney in the United
States,now Attorney General by demand of
the trusts,causes it to be announced that he
is going to take the subject up “just as soon
as Congress copvenes’’ and do something—
no one knows what. :
The voters will be credulous, ‘indeed
they accept a campaign
inactivity when action was possible, n
even imperative. :
If the Republicans make gains in
congressional campaign this fall, the trusts
Everybody
knows of their existence—except the Presi-
The steel
trust has stalked abroad, suppressing com-
petition, preying upon industry and acoum-
; promise of futu. .
activity as an atonement for six months of
—South Sharon lodges of the Amalgamated
Association has refused to accept the 25 per
cent. reduction of wages proposed by the
American Tinplate company.
—While Mrs. Morgan was holding the in-
fant of Mrs. S. J. Goldsworthy, at Seek, two
miles from Tamaqua lightning struck the
dwelling, killing the infant and merely stun-
ning Mrs. Morgan.
the
th :
o —Luther Addison the fourteen months old
son of Alexander and Alice Miller, at their
home in the Friday settlement near Tyrone,
on Sunday fell into a tub containing only
three or four inches of water, but falling face
downward the child was drowned before his
mother could reach him.
—A cyclone sweeping over Lewis and Cas-
cade townships, Lycoming county, did great
damage. In the tract of 75,000 acres, from
which the Union Tanning Company had cut
all but the hard wood, nearly every tree was
uprooted and the work of lumbering is great-
ly handicapped on that account.
felt
—Sitting upright, attired in a black derby
hat, gray, clothes and tan shoes, the body of
an unknown man was found under a tree in
a field on Newry Ridge near Hollidaysburg,
on Tuesday morning. The dead man is sup-
posed to be Peter L. Gardner, of Troy, N. Y.,
fat | who disappeared from Duncansville three
weeks ago.
—Jones & Laughlins, the largest steel com-
pany outside the United States Steel Corpor-
ation, was re-organized at a meeting held in
(Pittsburg on Wednesday. The capital stock
will be increased from $20,000,000 to $50,000, -
000 and improvements and extensions are
contemplated. There will be no change in
the officers.
the
. —An item of particular interest to railway
by mail clerks has been incorporated in the post-
al appropriation bill by the senate postoffice
all | committee. It authorizes the payment of $1,
000 to the families of railway clerks who are
killed in the line of duty. Provision is
made for the payment of the sum immediate-
ly after such casualties occur.
—Operations were resumed on Monday
morning at the Penn Iron worksin Lancas-
ter, which has been idle for eleven weeks
owing to a strike. The men gained their
point of an increase from $4.25 to $4.50 per
ton for puddlers and proportionate increases
in ether departments. There was a loss of
$50,000 in wages during the period of idle-
ness.
—Six persons escaped from the Clearfield
county jail Thursday night and five of them
are still at large. The sixth, an Italian, fell
from the rope used in reaching the ground
and broke a leg. They gained their freedom
by crawling through the same hole in the
wall of the jail made three mouths ago by’
two prisoners who had secured possession of
a steel crowbar.
pa-
— Five persons are down with small pox at
Rockton, Clearfield county. Scott Luce and
wife, John Peoples and wife and Martin La-
borde who boards with the Peoples family.
On account of the outbreak all employes of
the mills at Lawshe, who reside there have
been laid off, the usual services at the
churches were abandoned and there is great
fear of a general spread of the disease among
the residents of the village.
Re-
has
nds
—A heavy storm passed over Oak Grove
Friday morning. When the storm came up,
the bricklayers on machine shop walls went
into another building and while there a bolt
of lightning entered the building and struck
seven men, rendering them all unconscious.
Three soon recovered, but four of the men
were carried to their boarding house. All
those stricken were more or less burned and
_blistered. Charles Lenbart’s shoe was cut as
though a knife blade had run through. Both
his shoe and foot were burned.
the
ex-
the
—By leaping from the Maynard street
bridge into the river at Williamsport a dis-
tance of 35 feet, Fred Sortman; of Dubois-
town, heroically rescued 7-year old Dellar
‘Knight from drowning. The latter with
several companions had been playing on some
logs when he fell into the water. Sortman
was crossing the bridge on his bicycle. See-
ing the boy struggling in the water he jump-
ed from his wheel and made the thrilling
leap from the bridge. He caught the drown-
ing boy as he was sinking for the last time.
—C. L. Cowles, of Bradford, went to In-
stanter Saturday and shot his 19 year old
i “wife in the left breast. Cowles was unreason-
2 _oly jealous of his wife, because he alleged
she received the attentions of other men.
They quarreled, Cowles was put under bonds
to keep the peace, and not having supported
his wife, she had left him and goue to In-
stanter, where she was employed as a domes-
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ay,
the
will point to it as an endorsement of them, | ¢;: in the home of Mrs. McCauley. Cowles
and will scare the Republicans into inac-
If, on the contrary, the Demo-
crats make gains in the coming election, the
Republicans may be frightened into doing
something. If the Republicans who want
tion again.
the trusts destroyed, will quietly vote
Democratic ticket this fall and make
country show decided Democratic gains, the
Republicans will be so frightened that they
may pass a law before the next campaign.
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York Loan Goes to Court.
' YORK, July 21.—The refusal of
county commissioners to pay the temporary
loans, aggregating $135,000, which fell due
last week, was the cause of the instituting
of legal proceedings in the Common Pleas
cours today before Judge Stewart by
torneys representing the Farmers’ National
bank and the York county National ba
Two writs of mandamus were issued
against commissioners Ziegler, Altland and
Hildebrand, commanding them to show
cause on Tuesday, July 29th, why they
shall not draw warrants for the amount
due the banks, each of which holds $25,-
000 of the loan. Of the remainder of
loan $60,000 is held by the Security, Title
& Trust company and $25,000 by the First
No formal action has been
taken as yet by these banks in the matter.
National bank.
followed her to Instanter, and walking unan-
nounced into the house, discharged the re-
volver. The physician said that the wound
would prove fatal, and under his direction
the | Cowles took his wife vo Bradford, where she
the | is in a dymg condition. Cowles has been
lodged in jail at Ridgway. ;
‘—Millerstown is to have a new bridge in
place of the old one recently destroyed by
fire. It will be built by the state and cost
about $92,000. The bridge as determined by
the viewers is to be Pratt pattern steel bridge
with driveway twenty-two feet wide and
footway on the upper side eight feet wide. It
will be of three spans with a total length of
706 foot between abutments. The material is
to be of open hearth steel with an ultimat
resistance of 60,000 pounds to the square inch,
and is to carry a rolling load of thirty tons
on a seven foot centre to centre wheel base.
The abutments and piers will of course have
to be new, as the bridge will cross the river
diagonally and the abutment next to Millers
town will be ten feet nearer the shore. By
crossing the river in this way the new bridge
and the one over the railroad will be nearly
in line and the turn on the bridge between
the railroad and river bridge will be avoided.
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