gy ‘PP. GRAY MEEK.
59 Ink Slings.
'__As the price of coal goes higher,
There will haye to be less fire
‘Notwithstanding it is getting awful cold ;
And its nat'ral to inquire,
For the optimistic liar
Who said the miners’ Union wouldn't hold. |
Has candidate STROEM found out just
what he intends to represent’ in his cam-
paign ? ;
—The tomato trust ie busted and the
rosy lycopersicum esculentum is no longer to
be hampered in its way down the public
throat.
—Governor STONE might try some of
his ripper measures on the coal strike.
They worked so barmoniously in Pitts
burg, you know.
The President is ‘going to hunting big
game in Colorado again. He seems to bave
better nerve for the Rocky mountain lion
than be has for the trust octopus.
Tt has heen revealed that even needles
know their place, Twenty years ago a
Connecticut woman ran one into her knee
and on Tuesday it was discovered pro-
trading from the point of her tongue.
"And now the ’Squire of Wantage de-
clares that American horses can’t win on
the English turf, because they are so heavi-
ly handicapped. It will be interesting to
watch the effect on the squire’s residence
abroad. :
—_The great epidemics of typhoid fever
in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington
suggest the idea that the Temperance
movement ‘must have been very active
lately in those cities with impure water
supplies. :
—The fellow who finds a little comfort
in €he thought that perhaps there might be
a coal strike in the hereafter will find that
his satanic majesty will always have enough
fuel on hand to keep the fires hot enough
for roasting purposes.
—The reduced Republican majority in
the Maine elections on Tuesday is not in-
dicative of any great enthusiasin for
strenuous TEDDY, especially since they fol-
Jowed so closely upon the heels of his
recent visit to that State.
— Emperor WILLIAM would like to visit
the United States during the St. Louis ex-
position, but his dear subjects object (?)
to his leaving the father-land for so long a
trip. Now wouldn’t that take the powder
out of an anarchist bomb !
__Mounts Peleeand Soufrere having made
about all the trouble possible on this side
the Atlantic old Vesuvius is showing signs
of getting back into action in a way that
might make our little volcanoes appear
like mere juveniles at the business of ex-
termination.
HENRY LOWERY has wisely determin-
ed to waste neither time nor money in the
contest for sheriff. He bas already discov-
ered that the people want Capt. TAYLOR
and don’t propose to waste any of his sub-
stance in the hopeless’ task of convincing
them otherwise.
“Tnele’ RUSSELL SAGE became very ill
in his office in New York, on Wednesday.
His ailment was not made public, but it is
very probable that JOHN W. GATES, or
some of the other ‘‘curb’”’ dealers whom
“uncle RUSSELL’ loves (?) so well, got in-
to him for a few of his plunkers.
—The Republicans suffered a loss of
eleven per cent at their election in Maine
on Tuesday. It will take more than an
eleven per cent loss in Pennsylvania this
fall for the Democrats to win, but then
there is more reason why the Republicans
should suffera much greater falling off in
their vote.
Mr. HuMPTON, one of the Democratic
nominees for Commissioner, has started his
canvass of the county and already reports
of the good impression he is making have
begun to come in. Heisa practical, sensi-
ble man who talks to the people in a way
that convinces them of his intelligence and
his competence to fill the office of county
commissioner.
—The order has gone out tbat FOSTER
must be elected treasurer because the coun-
ty funde are wanted in the HASTINGS
bank. Just what view the tax-payers will
take of this impudent claim remains for
Novem ber to disclose,but we feel very cer-
tain that they don’t propose to have the
county treasury run for the benefit of any
particular bank and for that reason they
will not entrust their funds to the keeping
of a man who is more for HASTINGS than
he is for himself.
—¢Qleo’” BROWN will scarcely have the
effrontery to stand up before the farmers at
Centre Hall next week and ask them for
their support. He has fought them every
time an opportunity presented itself and
that he should have the temerity to come
up into the heart of such an agricultural
valley as Penns’ is such an exhibition of
brazen impudence that there can be no re-
maining doubt of his fitness for a place on
the ticket with the man who says ‘‘QUAY
is a greater man than either CLAY or WEB.
STER.”
—If labor unions were to go more oare-
fully into the personnel of wen, before they
are admitted to membership, both as to
character and proficiency as artisans, they
would have less trouble in maintaining the
dignity and usefulness of their organiza-
tions. If a Union card were made the guar-
antee of a sober, intelligent, capable work-
man Union men would be ai a premium in
every branch of employment and the con-
sistent worker would not so frequently be
forced into the position of having to protect
an irresponsible member of his Union.
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VOL. 47
Shirking the Real Issues.
The spellbinders who will do the spout-
ing for the Quay machine in the pending
campaign have been instructed to be shy of
the issues that concern the direct interests
of the State,but to expend their oratory on
questions of national policy that are in no
way counected with a state contest. Their
campaign program has been furnished them
by the machine managers, who are afraid
of discussions that would expose the vari-
ous rascalities in administration and legis-
Jation that have been practiced in their
long continued misrule, from which they
would like to divert the attention of the
people by the intrusion of national issues.
Should the voters be made to believe that
financial ruin and business « prostration
would overtake them if their interests were
not protected by Republican ‘policies, they
may be led to overlook and condone the in-
iquitous methods of the political gang that
misgoverns and plunders the Common-
wealth. :
Candidate PENNYPACKER, in his first
campaign address, delivered to the farmers
of Lehigh county, obeyed the instructions
of his managers by making no reference
whatever to the real issues of the state cam-
paign. He claimed to be a farmer, and
am ong his other agricultural experiences
he made an impressive allusion to the in-
creased profit-on the milk he was getting
from his cows, mentioning it as an incident
of Republican prosperity; but he has noth-
ing to say about the corrupt politicians who
with their hands in the Treasury,are milk-
ing the tax-payers of the State. The farm-
ers of Lehigh, who could easily have dis-
pensed with Cousin SAM’S bucolic informa-
tion, would have been more interested if
h is discourse had related to state matters,
in which they were concerned as citizens,
and which they knew to be injuriously af-
fected by corrupt political practices; but
they c ould hardly bave expected that he
would refer to ‘‘ills’’ which he regarded as
‘not worthy of mention.”
In the discussions at the Williams’Grove
G rangeis’ picnic the machine spelibinders
gave further evidence of their determination
to avoid state issues. Ex-Governor PATTI-
SON, in his address on that ocaasion, properly
commented on the evils existing in the pub-
lic affairs of this Commonwealth, especial-
ly referring t@ the corruption ofthe ballot.
These were matters in which his hearers,as
citizens of the State, had a legitimate inter-
est. An exposure of malpractices in gov-
ernment is a benefit to the people, as it
may lead to the adoption of measures for
the correction of such publicills. But what
bad the machine spellbinders to say on a
su bject so vital to state interests? Con-
gressman OLMSTEAD was one of them, and
his only reply to the ex-Governor’s charge
of electoral pollution was his assertion that
the crops of the farmers under the Repub-
lican administration were yielding a larger
return in money than in CLEVELAND'S
last term. :
But in what way are the farmers’ crops
connected with the question of correcting
abuses in State government? In what way
are they to be credited with their crops?
In such a political contest as is about to be
waged in this State, the crop of fraudulent
votes gathered at every election in Phila
delphia, Pittsburg and other populous cen-
tres, by which the QUAY machine overbal-
ances the honest vote of the farming dis-
triots, ie the crop that is most to be taken
into account as calling for corrective treat-
ment. :
Congressman OLMSTEAD did not deny
that the ballot was shamefully perverted in
the interest of the Republican machine.
He had not the face to either defend or
excuse the manifold iniquities that have
d eveloped in the state government under
machine misrnle. He simply ignored these
“lis,” believing that by presenting an
exaggerated picture of farm profits, and
ext olling the Republican policies that are
alleged to have made the country prosper-
ous, the in may be blinded to the
political conditions in their State that have
corrupted its elections, debased its govern-
ment, prostituted its Legislatures, robbed
its Treasury, and dishonored its name.
——The fags that former Governor RoB-
gRT E. PATTISON, Hon. GEORGE W. GUTH-
RIE, .JAMES NoLAN Esq. aod other promi-
vent Democrats will be at Grange park,
Cen tre Hall, next Thursday, should [be an
attr action sufficient to draw. many Demo-
crats and others interested in the better
government movement from all parts of
the county to the rally that is proposed for
that day. There wiil be other opportuni-
ties of seeing) and hearing the candidates
this fall,bus the citizen who is alive to the
crying need in Pennsylvania will avail
himself of every opportunity to hear the is-
sues discussed so that he may talk intelli-
gently and convincingly to the neighbor
who might be laboring under PENN YPACK-
ER’S ridiculous impression that ‘‘Pennsyl-
vania has no ills worthy of mention.”’
A ————
——The PATTISON meeting at Grange
park, Centre Hall, next Thursday, will be
fraught with much of interest to every tax
payer.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 12, 190%, % NO. 36.
A Disingenuous Candidate.
The reverend gentleman who heads the
Prohibition state ticket as a candidate
for Governor has become a familiar fignre
in the political arena of the State, and in
his case there is a risk that familiarity may
breed contempt. He is again a guberna-
torial candidate at a time when, if it were
possible for him to poll a considerable vote,
his candidacy might prove an impediment
to the reform which is absolutely necessary
for the political regeneration of the State,
and for the restoration of personal honesty
and civic morality in its official life.
The honor and welfare of the State re-
quire that every honest vote within its
boundaries should be cast against the can-
didates whom QUAY has selected as the
state ticket of his vicious political ma-
chine. The very limited electorate that
will support the reverend Prohibition can-
didate for Governor is of a ‘character that
would be likely to join in the movement
to oust the corruptionists from power if it
were not misled in the exercise of the
franchise by a mistaken sense of duty on
the liquor question. = Candidate SWALLOW
is falsely leading it. No one knows better
than he that he will not be able to poll
more than the usual meagre Prohibition
vote, and that if it were not bound to his
candidacy by misguided motives of mor-
ality, it would, from the impulse of its
moral disposition, go with the party that
stands the only chance of rescuing the State
from its present political degradation.
Fortunately candidate SWALLOWS fol-
lowing will prove to be but an incousider-
ble fraction of the vote he secured four
years ago for Governor, when he materially
assisted in defeating GEO. A. JENKS and
incurred the responsibility of helping tu
bring about the carnival of political crime
that has characterized =the unspeakable
StoxE/administration.
The reverend candidate displays a dis-
ingenuousness unworthy of his clerical
character in representing, as he bas recent-
ly done on the platform, that the Demo-
orats are no better than the machine poli-
ticians for the reason that some miscreant
Democratic Representatives participated in
the scoundrelly schemes of the QUAY gang
at the last legislative session. Would the
reverend gentleman hold the eleven apostles
responsible for the treachery of J ndas ? The
Democratic Judases were so severely con-
demned, repudiated and scouted by the
party they had betrayed, and so merciless:
ly held up to public scorn by every citizen,
that they would have hanged themselves if
they would have had half the conscience
that impelled Judas to commit suicide.
No one is better acquainted with these
facts than the Prohibition candidate for
Governor, and his attempt to implicate the
Democratic party in the treachery of a few
traitors, whom it promptly cast out of its
membership, is a style of disingenuounsness’
that borders closely on dishonesty.
Sd ————————
bcs
Roosevelt’s Bad Blunders.
In accepting the very graceful compli-
ment conferred on him by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, the other day, President ROOSE-
VELT committed a blunder which frequent-
ly characterizes his oratory. That is he
measured the merits of the members of the
fraternity as he measures the merits of all
men by the military standard. Railroad
men, he said substantially would make a
good soldier because their life of hazard
has made them brave. General SHERMAN
once said, the President continued, thas if
there were another war and he bad a com-
mand he would get as many railroad men as
possible and finally he declared that he had
some railroaders in the Rough Riders.
The trouble about such talk is that it
makes the military life the highest stand-
ard of American manhood, as NAPOLEON
made it the only standard of manhood worth
considering. Asa matter of fact the Presi-
dent is gravely mistaken in his estimate.
The American soldier has been and is an
honor to the country. He has proved him-
sell equal to every emergency, wherever
duty called, at home or abroad, and has
never faltered. But the great glory of the
American Republic has not been acquired
by the army or the navy. Her achieve-
ments in the arts of peace, her triumphs in
science, her accomplishments in inventions,
in fact her progressin the development of
industry and commerce have done more to-
ward placing her in the first rank among
the powers of the world than anything
which has been done by the army and navy.
Even RoosEVELT himself has earned more
distinction by his labors in the field of liter-
ature than by his achievements in war.
His books have been read by millions and
with pleasure and advantage. His efforts
as civil service commissioner in Washing:
ton and police commissioner in New York
are a better and more enduring monument
than his operation on San Juan hill,though
his habit of canonizing the brutal work of
war and deprecating the civilizing influ-
ences of literature have perverted his mind
on the subject. But he has no right to help
in the degeneration of others. As the Chief
Magistrate of this nation of industry and
commerce it is his duty to be just in his
estimate of our achievements in those fields
which the Savior commended.
Roosevelt’s Curious Speeches.
The President’s speeches and interviews
continue to both amuse and amaze the pub-
lic. After escaping death hy the narrow-
est margin in a trolley accident at Pitts
field last week he plunged into another
junket in another section and thus kept
his jaws in motion. . In New England he
talked on two or three sides of the trust
question ‘and finally settled down to the
proposition that it would be inexpedient to
attack trusts too strongly for the reason
that the good in them might be injured.
That was a safe theory in that section
where the millions of surplus money, the
accumulation of years of usury and greed,
are largely invested in trusts. But it
wounldn’t do at all in the industrial section
of the South where he spent the lass of last
week and the first of this.
In Charleston, West Virginia, for example,
the President attacked the trusts with the
same vigor which characterized his action
at Pittsburg on the Fourth of July, except
he didn’t promise immediate results or in-
stant operation for that matter. He declar-
ed that the trusts are a great evil and must
be curtailed in their power for harm.
Bat the only available plan to achieve the
result, he added,is through a constitutional
amendment which will authorize the Presi-
dent, he said the government, but meant
himself, to tackle the trusts in away that will
compell them to be good. Now let us anal-
yze that proposition. It has already been
shown that the present Congress won’t do
anything to hurt trusts. The vext Con:
gress won’t meet until December, 1903.
Even if that body: should agiee to the
amendment it wouldn’t get through un-
til after some of the biennial Legislatures
which meet in the odd numbered years had
adjourned. They wouldn’t get a chance
at ratifying, under such circumstances,
until 1905 and the ratification of the nec-
essary three-fourths of the Legislatures
might not be obtained before 1907.
Thus it will be perfectly safe for the
President to advocate constitutional amend-
ment which will enable him to squeeze
all that is bad out of the trusts and leave
them able to do business in a decent, re-
spectable way with all that is good to guide
them in the right direction. Even if he
should be elected for a full term in 1904
hé*will be in the last year of his second
term before the opportunity to strangle the
octupi will come to him and he hopes
if people are foolish enough to accept bis
promises, that he will be elected to succeed
bimself. In that event he may conclude to
save the people the trouble of selecting his
successor and after the fashion of Na-
poleon appoint himself to the place.
Can’t Shift the Responsibility.
The Union party state convention which
was held in Philadelphia on Wednesday of
last week was raided by a party of ruffianly
thogs, friends of State Senator ‘‘DAVE”
MARTIN, and driven out of the hall in
which the body was in session. The thugs
under command of a blackguard named
KNIGHT applied for admission on irregular
tickets and were refused. Therenpon they
broke down the door and hy the use of
blackjacks and bludgeons forced the nomi-
nation of Judge PENNYPACKER. ‘‘DAVE”
MARTIN had an interview with Senator
PENROSE on Monday. PENROSE had a
conference with QUAY and PENNYPACKER
on Tuesday. The atrocity was perpetrated
on Wednesday. It was MARTIN'S scheme,
approved by PENROSE and acquiesced in
by PENNYPACKER and QUAY. -
Now Senator QUAY repudiates the af-
fair. It was ‘‘bad politics,”’ he says. In
other words the universal expression of
popular indignation at an unparalleled out-
rage has frightened QUAY and he wants to
shift the responsibility.
are made up and can’t be changed. The
responsibility is fixed and can’t be shifted.
QUAY had sent emissaries out all over the
State instructed to buy votes for PENNY-
PACKER in the Union party convention.
He offered ‘political patronage, money and
railroad passes but couldn’t get the votes.
Then ‘DAVE!’ MARTIN came to him with
the plan which was adopted. It was brutal
and dangerous but it was MARTIN'S style
and QUAY knew that in Philadelphia it
was safe. He had the parfnership of the
police in the enterprise.
But having had the game Senator QUAY
must not accept the blame of the affair be-
cause he was responsible for it. It hasdis-
gusted thousands of decent Republicans
and driven many who intended to vote for
PENNYPACKER into the ranks of PATTI-
SON’S supporters. But QUAY ought to have
anticipated that result. If he had been a
sagacious politician he would have correctly
estimated it. But he appears to have lost
his cunning. His power of discernment
has forsaken him. He no longer under-
stauds the impulses which govern men. As
he was unable to remove his foot from a
boiling bath a few weeks ago, so he is now
withont the power to control bis mental
faculties. But PENNYPACKER still thinks
he is great. His infatuated cousin, who
will suffer most from his imbegility, cansee
no faults in his weakness.
But the records:
Mr. Blankenburg’s Letter
Mr. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG, of Phila-
delphia, has: made an interesting contribu:
tion to the literature of the campaign.
Senator QUAY, chairman of the Repub-
lican state committee, had written him a
letter asking him. for a contribution in
money to the campaign fund. Instead of
complying with that request he wrote a
characteristic letter declining and giving
reasons for his action. = Among the reasons
are some that are exceedingly ‘spicy.
“*Your attempt to cozen or dupe the public
with a mongrel state tickes is so, transpar-
ent,”’ he writes, ‘‘that you will deceive
only those too blind to see.’”’ That was a
fair start and Mr. BLANKENBURG warmed
up as he proceeded. ‘‘Whenever the wa-
chine is in danger,’’ he adds ‘‘it is seized
with a fit of virtue and attempts to eloak
its hideous skeleton with a garb of allur-
ing colors, so constructed, however, that
the machine survives to continue its shame-
less career of plunder and vice.” i
' ‘We might quote to the end withont ever
striking a dull sentence or a stale thought,
The veteran merchant is epigrammatic, in
cisive and pungent. But unlike some of
his previous screeds, in this heart-to-heart
talk on paper with QUAY he doesn’t appear
to the galleries. . He addresses: himself to
the conscience and self-respect of the peo:
pleot the State. . He applies no epithets to
PENNYPACKER though he observes that his
name ‘fat the head of the machine ticket is
as'absard a proposition ‘as ‘would be an or-
thodox minister at the head of a congre-
gation of avowed infidels or a band of
thieves with ‘Thou Shalt not. Steel’ as their
motto,’* OF the character’ of QUAY’S ean-
didate hie speaks kindly but of QUAY and
of the machine he speaks the truth plainly
and unequivocally, and, necessarily, that is
severe and condemnatory. No man guided
by conscience and gifted with understand-
ing can do otherwise.
It was Mr. BLANKENBURG’S duty to
write as he has. In his long experience in
the public life of Philadelphia he bas come
to know precisely the meaning of this new
trick of QUAY’S. The nomination of PEN-
NYPACKER doesn’t mean literally a reward
for his absurd eulogy of his cousin MATT,
thongh that bad something to do. with it,
He wasn’c chosen entirely on account of
his curious infatuation for QUAY, ‘t¥ough
that had a considerable influence. Butthe
real reason for this nomination was that the
machine was in danger and QUAY was
obliged to pretend reform in order to escape
the defeat and destruction which was im-
pending. Under such circumstances he
took PENNYPACKER because his infatua-
tion would make him comparatively safe
and his” panegyric entitled him to some
consideration. The inexorable law of self-
preservation was the moving cause, how-
ever, and the others were only contribu-
tory.
Ballot Frauds Everywhere.
There are signs of a systematic effort to
debauch the ballot in every section of the
State this year. Heretofore the machine
managers have felt able to poll enough
fraudulent votes in Philadelphia and Pitts-
burg to carry the State, bat this year they
are not so certain. The narrow margin of
majority for State Treasurer last fall, the
overwhelming defeat in the municipal elec-
tion in Pittsburg in the spring and the
signe of an honest effort to prevent fraud in
Philadelphia this year have admonished
t hem of danger. The result is that they
have padded the registry lists in all the
cities and large boroughs in which they
have control of the machinery.
In Harrisburg, for example, the number
of registered voters is 802 more this year
than last. That would indicate an increase
of population to the extent of upwards of
4,000. The increase of population in that
city during the past ten years has averaged
less than 1,000. During the ten years be-
tween 1880 and 1890 the average increase a
year was about 800. There is nothing in
the business of the city to cause so vast a
jump upward in the population as indicat-
ed in the increased registration. The in-
ference is plain that the purpose is to em-
ploy repeaters to vote on the fictitions
names and if the same ratio of expansion
has been obtained in every other city of
e qual population a vast number of frandu-
lent votes can be cast.
It is an easy thing to stuff ballot boxes
in t hat way where there is no suspicion of
the purpose. The average election board
makes little inquiry concerning a claimant
for a vote, it he is registered. In some
places a tax receipt is required from a vot-
er who is not personally known, whether he
is registered or not. But,as a rule the reg-
istered voter is asked no questions and he
puts in his vote, whether he is entitled to
the franchise or not. Under such circum-
stances getting a name on the registry is
almost equivalent to getting his vote into
the box. In towns where the registry has
been padded, however, the watcher of the
Democratic party should challenge every
voter unknown, whether registered or not.
——Suabseribe for the WATCHMAN.
has been isolated in Clear
having petted that beh S
—J. J. Waltz, of Lycoming ¢
ed from six ‘acres of ground 398
an average of 66} bushels per acre of
—The Susquehanna University,
grove, is to have a gymnasium to cost no.
than $6,000. Ground was hroken for the
building recently. Hig
~The Baptist congregation at Eagleville
are making extensive repairs to their cosy
little church at that place. A new steeple | :
being erected and the interior is being Te-
papered and re-painted. : ;
—Clarence A. Waite, of Huntingdon, in-
dicted upon a charge of burning a stable, was
acquitted at his trial last week. Landis Steel
and Harry Miller had been indicted for the
same offense, but were acquitted at the May
term of court. f i
: —By the lamp falling from the board on
which she was ironing, and exploding, Mrs.
James Bogle, of near DuBois, was so badly
burned Saturday night that she died Sun-
day. She was 22 years old and had been
married only four weeks.
—The “trial of Tom Trisbie. the colored
man held on the charge of murder, commit-
ted at Deer Creek, closed at Clearfield on
Saturday, and resulted in hisacquittal. The
prisoner and two. other colored witnesses,
held in jail for several months, were allowed
to go free.
“—A mortgage for $10,000,000, made by the
Bethlebem Steel Company of Pennsylvania,
was filed with the County Register of Hud-
son County, N. J. Itis in favor of the Colo-
nial Trust Company, of New York, and is to
secure an issue’of $10,000,000 of twenty year
5 per cent gold bonds. i . t
—Colonel William Jack. the oldest resident
of Hollidaysburg, died at his honie near Dell
Delight park Sunday evening, at 6:30, of in-
firmities due to old age: ‘Mr. Jack was orig-
inally from Westmoreland ‘county, and was
aged 92 years. In early years he edited a
newspaper at Washington, Pa.’ }
—One hundred and twenty men, who vol-
unteered their. service without pay, made a
House to house canvass in as many election
precincts in Philadelphia, Sunday, collecting
money for the striking miners. About $1,-
500 was collected. Thr, canvass will be con-
tinued each Sunday until all of the 1,100 pre-
.cinets have been visited.
The Pennsylvania double track work be-
tween Nisbet and Jersey Shore is being rapid-
ly pushed to completion. The grading is
nearly all done, and ties have been distribut-
ed between the tower and Big Run.. There
will be. three tracks for a, distance of two
miles west of Nisbet tower and two tracks
from Big Run to Jersey Shore. 2
—The Pennsy has completed plans for the
practical reconstruction of the J uniata loco-
motive shops east of Altoona, which will
mean an increase in their capacity of some-
thing like fifty per cent. All of the depart-
ments of the plant are being added to, and
by the beginning of the comingyear at least
five hundred men will find employment
with the present force.
—Secretary Kalbfus, of the Pennsylvania
state game commission, on his return to Har-
risburg from a tour to Lycoming, Clinton and
Sullivan counties, where he has been inspect -
ing the game conditions said : “Game is more
plentiful this season than it has been for
years.” He attributes the large quantity of
game this season to the protection which has
resulted from the efforts of the game wardens
throughout the State, and the men interest-
ed in the preservation of game
—Oliver W., the great racing ostrich, the
driving of which: became a fad among the
“four hundred’ at Saratoga this summer,
choked to death on the race track at the Ly-
coming fair Thursday afternoon just as it was
about to start out on an exhibition half mile
to beat its record of 1.04. The bird first got
one of the reins around its neck. Then the
rein became entangled in its foot, and in its
struggles Oliver W. was choked to death
Oliver's owners were offered $10,000 for him
at Saratoga. He was booked for engagements
which would have netted his owners thou-
sands of dollars. £
—George Hoskins, of Norristown, an em-
ploye of Walter I. Main’s show, is in the Al-
toona hospital suffering with a compound
fracture of the left leg and a laceration of the
scalp. Hesays on Friday night, while the
ghow was on the way from Huntingdon to
Everett, over $200 worth of stuff was taken
from the cars. Saturday night, at Everett,
he obtained permission from the manager to
ride on the flat cars, and in company with
Monroe Everett, to see if they could not ap-
prehend the thieves. Accordingly they went
on flat cars when the train left Everett to re-
turn to Huntiegdon, and, while the train was
in motion, some person or persons stole up on
the two men, struck them over the head and
then threw the men from the moving train
and down over an ~mbankment. Hoskins
fell in about twelve inches of water, and. as
he lay there, called to his companion, but
could get no answer, and from the way he
fell believes Everett was killed. Hoskins
did not remember Tuesday night how he was
picked up,but some one found him and he was
taken to Huntingdon, where Dr. Brumbaugh
dressed his injuries, which were as above
mentioned, and he was then sent to the hos-
pital.
"An awful struggle occurred between two
tramps and a pair of bloodhounds late Satur:
day evening in the public square of New Bed-
ford, Mercer county. . The dogs rushed upon
the men from behind and bore them to the
ground before the hobos realized what was
occurring. The cries of the men and the
savage yells of the dogs soon brought a crowd
about the struggling mass. The canines were
finally beaten off, but not before a blacksmith
brought red hot irons into play to make them
release their hold. The tramps were covered
with blood and badly injured. The blood-
hounds had broken away from deputy sheriff
Joseph Smith, of Mahoning county, 0., who
was using them to trail a party of gypsies that
had d through Youngstown a few hours
previously and were supposed to have kid-
napped a small boy. The officer kept a leash
on the animals, but they had broken the
thongs as they neared the tramps and attack-
ed them before the deputy was aware of their
intentions. The tramps were the unfortu-
nate victims of a mistake, They had met the
gy psy band and had traveled with them for
some distance before separating. When the
trails divided the dogs had become mixed and
followed the tramps afoot instead of the gyp+
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bushels, or
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sies in wagons.