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“BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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i Ink SHngs.
* .—Vose for the honor of Pennsylvania.
—Speaker HENDERSON ‘‘seen his duty!
and he done it.”
—KEPLER and WETZEL will represent
Centre county in the next Legislature.
+ —A man isn’t always blue when he puts
on black. Sometimes it is mourning for
_his mother-in-law.
—Why didn’t candidate JAS. B. STROEM
go to Milesburg? Surely there isa rich
field for him to work i in.
— More soldiers have been sent to the
anthracite region and soon there will be a
blue-coat to guard every lump of hard coal
in sight.
—Who will bave ‘‘Cousin SAM” in tow
next Thursday ? ‘| Will it be HASTING'S
and REEDER or LOVE, CHAMBERS and
GRAY 2.
—1Jf Pennsylvania is to be cured of the
ills with which she has been suffering for
years she will have to ‘have a doctor from
some other than the QUAY school.
—The President took a specialist along
‘to look after his throat during his expected
‘western srip,but with the perversity of na-
ture his leg gave out and he had to aban-
don it.
— While the jojury to the President’s
leg is attributed to the Pittsfield, Mass.,
trolley accident he might have caused it
kickin g against the trusts,but few will be-
lieve that such.was the case.
4e—1Ji farmer (?) PENNYPACKER should
EA pen to be elected Governor about the
st thing he would do would be to set out
"3 nice little orchard of plam trees on Cap-
“itol hill for Cousin MATT.
¢1 ——To be a regularly qualified voter
your taxes must have been paid within two
‘years preceding the date yon claim a right
to vote. October 4th will be the last day
on which you can lawfully pay your taxes,
Are yours paid ?
—A grand son of BRIGHAM YOUNG has
appeared in New York in the role of a mur-
derer. His vietim being a woman it is
needless to say that he did not inherit that
tendency from his mormonistic grand-dad,
who would have married rather than mur-
der her.
—W. J. CARLIN, our nominee for Treas-
urer, is making a splendid impression dur-
ing his canvass. In him the people see just
the kind of a careful, conscien tious mature
busi ness man in whose bands the county
funds would be properly cared for.
—It is quite evident that the gentlemen
whom a HASTINGS panegyrist was once
pleased to call ‘‘a mere handful of political
_nobadies’’ have turned out to besomebody,
‘after all, for to please them ‘Cousin Sam”
is to be brought up here for exhibition at
the Centre county fair. .
—Don’t permit such another political
faux pas as was made in Centre county two
years ago in the selection of Representa-
tives in the Legislature. KEPLER and
WETZ EL are the men who can be trusted
to vote every time against machine
men and machine measures.
—Lieut. PEARY has lost nearly all of his
toes and scores of others their lives in the
vain search for the north pole and what are
they going to do with it after they do find
it? ‘“There ain’t no persimmons’ up that
way to be knocked down and we have nev-
er heard of any in these diggins’ that were
too high for somebody’s pole to reach..
—Since it has been decided to put ‘‘Cous-
in SAM’? PENNYPACKER on exhibition on
Thursday at the fair the question naturally
arises as to what olass they will enter him
in. While he would very properly come un-
der the head of Class 11, which includes
pets, we rather think it would be better to
put him among the pies in Class 22,for that
is what he will prove to be for PATTISON.
« —There is a young Englishman who has
M. SANTOS DUMONT beaten to a standstill
“in the dirigible flying machine race. He
_sailed thirty miles over London, a few days
vago, and practically demonstrated the su-
periority of his machine over: anything the
young Brazilian bas yet invented. This
rather successful venture in travel through
air need not encourage the idea that. we will
all be going that way ere long, becanse we
won't. There are some people who have
_ bad the faculty of getting up into the air
- from childhood, but they never stay there
ong.
| _ALEX ARCHEY has made one of
the most obliging officials the county hae
ever had and for that reason he will be re-
elected to the office of Register. | He bas
carried courtesy, promptness and a dis-
position to go out of his way to gerve those
who need his offices into his service and
those are the things that count in the pub-
lic’s estimation of their servants. Mr.
ARCHEY has made hosts of friends since he
has been in the court house and many of
them are men who did not support him be-
fore because they knew not of his sterling
character.
—The Republican would have the: public
believe that its owner,Doubtful DANIEL, is
a great philanthropist, because he enterfain-
ed PENNYPACKER and his party upon the
occasion of their recent visit to this county.
Just how “‘Cousin San’’ would feel after
reading the Republican's blow-off as to what
DAN did and its resulting interrogation as
to ‘‘What other citizen in Bellefonte would
have done as much?’ we are ata loss to
know, but if he has any feeling at all he
would certainly regret having been a
guest of a man who thus permits his own.
mouth-organ to strike up such a tune.
VOL. 47
Pennypacker’'s Two Ills.
Judge PENNYPACKER appears to have
caught up with two ills ‘‘worthy of men-
tion’’ with which Pennsylvania is suffering
and they are peculiar maladies. One of
these is the. ‘‘ripper’’ legislation enacted
during the last session which he stated in
his Pittsburg speech the other day was un-
warranted. The other is the constitution-
al restriction on the General Assembly that
| prohibits special legislation, which he also
thinks unwarranted for, to borrow hisown
language, the ‘‘power of the Legislature
should be as unlimited as that of the Eng-
-lish parliamens.’’ In other words, what was
a crying evil under the old constitution and
with the comparatively honest politicians
of that day in control and would be a per-
.ennial source of corruption and a constant
carnival of crime under the diredtion of the
QUAY machine would be the one thing
needful under existing conditions according
to Cousin SAM’S notions. :
Most. people will agree with Cousin SAM
that the “‘ripper”’ legislation was unwar-
ranted by any consideration which makes
for the public good. But Cousin MATT
needed it in his business and that was
enough for the machine. He had his en-
mities to feed and the late Senator MAGEE
aud ex-Senator FLINN were enjoying too
much favor through the municipal govern-
ment of Pittsburg. Besides there was an-
other great reason, It has been stated that
Senator FLINN paid somebody $500,000 to
have his machine re-instatéd in office after
it had been ripped out and if that is true it
is not improbable that the other machine
paid a censiderable sum to get in when
FLINN’S gang was wiped out. Thus the
“‘ripper’’ may have served a good purpose
for QUAY in a pecuniary way besides the
satisfaction he derived from ripping FLINN
and MAGEE and all their faithful followers
out of snug berths.
But there will be a very general diséent
from ‘‘Cousin SAM’S’’ estimate of the effect
of restricting the power of the Legislature
to enact special laws, through the provis-
ions of the organie law. :Those who Te-
member what a saturnalia of fraad there
was in the special bills for the granting of
divorces, creating corporations, changing
names, transferring titles:
‘the thousand aud o
Ea
couldn’ |
stand the scrutiny of courts or the publie-
ity of the present ‘system of dealing with
them, wiil thank God that the restrictions
which ‘Cousin SAM’’deprecates were put on
the Legislature. The framers of the .copsti-
tution of 1873, JEREMIAH S. BLACK,CHAR-
LES R. BUCKALEW, WILLIAM M. MERE-
DITE and other distinguished men who
could find no satisfaction in looting the
Commonwealth even for the benefit of fa-
vorite cousins knew the value of the re-
strictions and they put them into the fund-
amental law to prevent such men as QUAY
from using them for his own enrichment
‘and bankrupting the honor of Pennsylva-
nia. We are glad that PENNYPACKER has
revealed ‘his opinion on the question. It
is an additional reason against his election
to the office of Governor.
. A Far Fetched Public wm.
Candidate PENNYPACKER commended
himself to Boss QUAY asa candidate for
Governor by his published assertion that
there was nothing wrong in the state gov:
ernment—'‘no public ills that are, worthy
of mention.”’
In his first campaign speeches, delivered
to the farmers of Lehigh and Centre coun-
ties, he took mo notice of ‘notorious public
delinquencies, his remarks being confined
to the milk trade and bis’ experience as an
amateur agriculturist. In his later ad-
(dresses he appears willing to admit that
there are public ills in Penisyl vania. But
he ‘goes as far back in ‘ancient history as
1843 to find an ill worthy: of mention, the
Democrats at that remote period having
repudiated the state debs, according to his
misstatement of the fact in that connec-
tion. © ia
It is unnecessary to look so far back into
state government. If QUAY’S candidate
for Govérnor = were earnestly disposed to
look for public delinquencies he could find
that in every Republican state administra-
tion for the last twenty years the various
from the people more than would have
paid the state debt in 1843.
But the debt of that primitive period was
not repudiated hy the Democrats. They
took measures for its payment, by which it
was gradually reduced, and it was in Gov-
ernor PATTISON'S first administration that
the remaining state debt was liquidated in
full, he having ‘urged its final payment af-
ter it had remained, a charge on the State
during the Republican administrations of
CURTIN, GEARY, HARTRANFT and HoYT.
The machine candidate failed to make a
point’ in misrepresenting such an ancient
incident as a public ill worthy of mention,
when the later history of machine rule fur-
nishes a continuous record of legislative and
administrative evils that demand the pres-
ent attention of the people.
EG
the past to discover anything wrong in the’
methods of machine thievery Lave taken
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Tne Prosperity Argument.
The prosperity alleged to be prevailing
chine orators in support of the QUAY ‘state
tiokes. They ignore the defective condi-
tions that are apparent in the state govern-
ment, and claim that Republican national
policies have made everybody prosperous.
As they present it to the voters, the elect-
ion of the Democratic state candidates
would ‘be a blow to the prosperity that is
claimed to be the result of Republican rule.
That we bave a state government which
perverts the public service to the personal
advantage of dishonest politicians is not to
be regarded as of any account, if it can be
made to appear, as represented by the ma-
chine orators, that Republican rule in the
general ‘government fills the dinner pails.
It would indeed be paying dearly for
prosperity if it could be secured on no other
terms than that the people of Pennsylvania
should consent to allow the public affairs
of their State to remain in their present cor-
rupted and debased condition. ' But there
is no sentible reason why they should pay
such a price. If they determine that a
thievish and disgraceful combination of
politicians should be put out of power it
could not be construed as having any con-
nection with national issues, or any percep-
tible effect upon them. It would be mere-
-ly relieving an intolerable local condition.
Bat whatever the effect might be, itisa
preposterous and impudent assumption to
claim that the overthrow of the QUAY gang
would be injurious to prosperity.
Such a presentation by the machine spell-
binders is falling flat upon the ears of the
people who are becoming convinced that
while the prices of all commodities are in-
creasing far beyond the increase in their
earnings the full dinner pail argament isa
‘humbug and an insult.
The prosperity that is said to be prevail-
ing is not ‘a substantial reality. All the
articles of prime necessity having been
brought under the control of trusts, prices
have been so advanced that to housekeep-
ers whose incomes have not kept pace with
the cost of living the question of subsistence
is becoming embarrassing. The majority
of the working peopleare getting to be'in
this situation, as is being proved by their
present experience.
where is the prosperity which the people of
Pennsylvania are being asked to preserve
by continuing an injurious and disgraceful
misgovernment of their State ?
An Obvious False Pretence.
In the campaign of fraud and false pretence
which the QUAY machine has been con-
ducting in bebalf of QUAY’S cousin, proba-
bly nothing more absurd has been develop-
ed than the statement which appeared in
the Philadelphia Press the other day to the
effect that Mr. PIERPOINT MORGAN had
declared opposition to President ROOSE-
VELT on account of that gentleman’s oppos-
ition to the trusts. The fact is, and unless
Mr. MORGAN is too stupid to be trusted to
feed himself he knows that President ROOSE-
VELT is the best friend of the trusts in the
country. Senator HANNA = overdid the
thing in order to please the trust mongers
by saying that ‘‘we have no trusts’”’ which
-provoked only ridicule, But ROOSEVELT
admits the trusts, some evil and some good,
but says it is not desirable to get rid of
them and that it is ‘‘our duty to adjusé our
social, economic and legislative life to
them.”
* If MORGAN were opposed to ROOSEVELT
that gentleman would have no more chance
of. getting the Republican nomination for
President than any laborer in this town
has of becoming the Czar of Russia within
a week. The Republican party is the par-
ty of trusts. Such corporations. have kept
it in power for the past dozen years and
without the money they contribute to de-
banch the ballot in its behalf that party
wouldn’t have elected a President or se-
cured ‘a majority in Congress since the eleo-
tion of 1884, when CLEVELAND was first
elected. It was CLEVELAND'S message in
-December, 1887, which influenced the big
combinations of capital, for there were no
real trusts then, to buy the election of HAR-
RISON in 1888. Out of that purchase the
trusts have been evolved and with their
money every Republican victory since has
been Bought.
Don’t make any mistake about Mr. MoRg-
GAN'S preference for President. R00SE-
VELT suits him better than he wounld suit
himself, because he wouldn’t have hypoc-
risy to pretend one thing and believe an-
other. Not only that, but it is more than
an even chance that MORGAN suggested the
tour of false pretence which ROOSEVELT
started to make with the view of allaying
the suspicions of the public that the trusts
have designs upon the conutry which they
expect the modern Gypsy king to help them
carry out. If ROOSEVELT'S talk on. the
trusts deceives the antitrust Republicans
into ‘supporting him the trust mongers,
whose interests he is really serving, will
have an easy thing in secaring his nomina-
tion. It will remain for them to buy. his
election but without the deception they
| would be obliged to buy both.
in this country is the argument of the ma- |.
L trol.
When this is unquestionably the case’
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 26, 1902.
Magne Responsibility for the Coal
{8 Strike.
After the present strike of the mine work-
ers had continued so long as to threaten
seribus political consequences, it was inter-
esting to observe the movement of the ma-
chine leaders in trying to appear as being
conterned for the welfare of the miners. It
was reported that QUAY, PENROSE and
STONE were in conference with the coal
magnates for a settlement of the strike, fer
which they would claim the credit, with a
view to the effect it would have on the vot-
ers of the mining population.
After they hegan to fear that the troub-.
le in the coal region would hurt them po-
litically,it was only then that the machine
politicians made it appear as if they were
bestirring themselyes in behalf of the min-
ers, whose interests were invariably neglecs-
ed whenever any measure for their protec-
tion was introduced in the Legislature,over
which the machine exercised complete con-
At every session for some years past
legislation was asked that would bave made
the labor of the miners more profitable and
materially improved their conditions. In
every instance such legislation was with-
held.
It was only at the last session that the
senate committee, at the instance and in
the interest of the coal magnates, pigeon-
holed Bill No. 216 that was intended to pro-
tect the miners by allowing them to have
at each mine a check-weighman "whose
measurement would prevent their being
cheated out of part of tueir earnings. This
bill would have secured full payment for
the coal they had dug and sent to the break-
ers.
It is declared upon good: authority that
if only this one of the many bills introiue-
ed for the miners’ benefit had been passed,
it would have prevented this industrial dis-
turbance.
The attempt of the machine bosses to set-
tle the:ooal strike—for political effect—will
not efface the fact that the betrayal of the
labor interest in every measure brought be-
fore the machine Legislature for the bene-
fit'of the mine workers, is in the largest
measure responsible for the discontent in
tlie anthracite regions that brought on an
indus trial rupture which has not only been
the cadse of loss and distress to a large.)
working population, but has seriously af-'|
fected the interest of the general public.
Good Leaders Make Victories.
There is no place in Pennsylvania in
which the Democratic forces are in better
form for the impending fight than in Ly-
coming county. Every feature of the work
of organization has been completed and all
the preliminaries attended to. The regis-
tration and assessments were made within
the time limit of the law in every election
district and it may be said that there will
he no Democrats on the delinquent tax list
when the day of election arrives. Neither
will there be any drones there ou that day,
for every Democrat is alert and anxious to
vote for the excellent ticket of the party.
This splendid and satisfactory state of
affairs is largely attributable to Senator J.
HENRY COCHRAN, the Democratio nominee
for State Senator,and the excellent organi-
zation that the Lycoming Democracy have |
built up. Mr. CocHRAN will have no
opposition for re-election to the Senate, for
the reasen that the Republicans conld find
no man with courage enough to enter the
field against him. He will, as he deserves,
have a unanimous election. And this will
be but the recognition of his unwavering
fidelity to the interests of the people, while
serving them during the two last sestlons
in the Senate.
Another good thing that is to the. credit
of the Democracy of Lycoming is the en-
dorsement of Mr. JAMES MANSELT for Con-
gress. Mr. MANSELL was the former Pro-
hibition ‘Mayor of the city of Williams:
port, and bears the reputation of being
one of the moss popular men in the West
Branch valley. He is a man particularly
qualified for public place, intelligent,
honest, and true to every principle Jand
promise. He will, beyond question, give
his Republican opponent for congressional:
honors, a much hotter fight than - he antic-
ipated, and the general belief now,is that
he will redeem that district from the grip
of the machine.
The party of the State is fortunate in
having such men to fill the important and
responsible representative positions in the
gift of the people. With less capable and
fit party leaders the party in that county
might have dwindled from a safe majority
into a certain minority as it has in many
others. But they have stood firmly under
the fire of party battle and by their courage
and fidelity have set an example to their
associates which has preserved hot only
high standards of principle but a safe ma-
jority. The people of the county are to be
congratulated on the character of their,
leaders.
——The Republican says EARL C. TUTEN
is the youngest candidate on the ticket.
Just so. He's entirely tdo young.
EC ——— —————
NO. 38.
The First Week's Tour.
The first week of the tour of the Demo-
cratic candidates which ended in Altoona
last Saturday was more than a success.
From beginning to end it was a triumphal |
march through that part of the State cov-
ered during the time.
stated at its close it was more than gratify-
ing to him and immensely profitable to the
party. The third tour of the sort in which
he has participated, it was far apd away
the most satisfactory and successful. His
audiences were not only larger but they
: made a hasty departure from the store and
were earnestly enthusiastic.
This week the party is meeting with the
same marvelous success, vast orowds are
greeting them at every point and not with
a machine—made enthusiasm such as can
be purchased from the slums of any city.
It is a real, spontaneous, earnest enthusi-
asm which comes from the heart and will
be supported by the ballot. At every city
and town large numbers of men who are
not Democrats and declare that they have
no sympathy with that party announce
their determination to vote for the Demo-
cratic candidates for the honor of Pennsyl-
vania.
Another gratifying feature of the tour
has been the development of the latent
oratorical talent of Hon. GEORGE W.
GUTHRIE, the Democratic candidate ‘for
Lieutenant Governor. Everybody knew
of Mr. GUTHRIE'S ability as a lawyer and
his power as a writer. But he has taken
so little part in the greater activities of
politics such as addressing the public from
the hustings that the power and force of
his oratory isa revelation. His ingellectual
resources, moreover, are exceptionally
abundant and available and his tour of
the State has already put him in the front
rank aniong the orators of the day.
—— Since he resigned his position on the
bench PENNYPACKER'’S occupation is farm-
ing and that is what he had better stick to
until he discovers that Pennsylvania bas
some ills worthy of mention.
——Query. How does it bappen that
James B. STRoOHM doesn’t go to Miles
burg?
Pattison’s Warm Words For Heinle
From the Harrisburg Star r Independpnt, . e
In his speech at Centre Hall “on Thurs-
day Governor Pattison
pliment to State Senator
of Bellefonte. ‘‘Iam glad tosay,’’ remark-
ed the ex-Governor, who is a close observer
of legislation and the Legislature, '‘‘that
Senator Heinle, as your representative at
‘Harrisburg, has retained the character he
has had among yourselves.”” The orator
had previously expressed wonder why so
many men changed in habits and nature
after reaching Harrisburg to serve in ‘the
Legislature. Continuing his observations
about Senator Heinle, he concluded with
the remark that ‘‘he has always honorably
represented you in the senate and is emi-
nently deserving of re-election.‘ ' Every
word of that eulogy is literally true. Sen-
ator Heinle during all'the time of his serv-
ice in the senate, stood in the fore front of
the battle for good legislation and against
whatever was bad. ‘He never faltered.
His voice and vote were ever ready and al-
ways effective, He was notable to prevent
iniquities, but he made them plain go that
no one within the sound of his voice could
misunderstand. For that reason he was
more feared by the machine than any other
man on the floor.
‘Because of this record Senator Heinle
ought to be re-elected without opposition.
No man who believes in good government
and integrity in public life can consistently
vote against him. It will not do tosay tha
his opponent is-a man of high character and
good reputation. - “He was enticed into the
contest for the purpose of punishing Heinle
for his integrity and therefore stands now
as an instrument of the Quay machine to
scourge an honest man because he is hon-
est. If Mr. Patton had been just to. him-
self and consistent with his profession of
reform and declaration against the machine,
-he would have said to Quay’s emissaries
when they came to persuade him, ‘‘no,. it
‘is my duty as an” hotest man to sustain
Senator Heinle in bis honest and courage-
ous conrse and so far from running against
him I will support him for re-election.’
That would have been a just tribute to an
integrity which ‘was conspicuous. for its
vigilance and energy. It would have been
overwhelming evidence of the sincerity of
Mr. Patton's professions of opposition to
the machine, That he failed to measure np
to that standard of manhood is to be regres-
ted. ' It indicates that his pretence of re-
form was only a expedient to force the ma-
chine to recognize him.
There is another grave reason why Sena-
tor Heinle ought to be elected by an over-
whelming majority. Mr. Patton is hardly
credulous enough to believe that he is the
choice of the machine whose wretched work
be is trying to perform. If Senator Quay
had had a hope of defeating Heinle. with
anyone of his machine followers in the dis-
trict he never would have permitted Pat-
ton to be the candidate. But he kuew that
three elements were essential in a candidate
of the machine to give hinr even the shad-
ow of a chance. These were a good repu-
tation, plenty of money aud a willingness
to spend itin any way that would promote
success. Because Quay believed that these
essentials were combined in Patton he ac-
cepted him and if his expectations with re-
speot to the expenditures of money are fol-
filled,it will put an end to the ambitions of
all but millionaires in the district to acquire
distinction in public life. It will be equiv
alent to an announcement that public office
goes to the highest bidder hereafter and
noue but men with a full purse need dom:
pete. Young men of the district can’t af-
ford to create such a condition and the de-
feat of Heinle would establish i irrevoo-
ably.
As Mr. PATTISON | +
d a graceful coni- |
Atliam C:Heinle,.
vor 0 un
Spawls from the -¥eystone.
—Mrs. Ellis Bricker, of Webster, near
Greensburg, 33 years old committed suicide
Monday morning by drowning herself in a -
barrel of water. When found her feet were
sticking ont the top of the barrel and she
was cold in death. She had become de-
spondent because of ill health.
—Charles M. Schwab, president of the
| Steel Trust, has started an industrial boom
for Williamsburg, where he spent his boy-
‘hood. He: has secured water rights for a
paper mill to be built at a cost of - $200,000,
which will employ 500 men. Mr. Sehwab
heads the list of stockholders.
—The Pennsylvania railroad has planted
at Newton Hamilton, 83 miles west of Har-
risburg, 15,000 locust trees as an experiment
in growing tie timber. The trees were plant-
ed 10 feet apart and are making, so far, a
fine growth and requiring very little atten-
tion. Iti is estimated that it will require
about 15 years for acquiring suitable size for
tie timber
—A stranger successfully worked the
‘worthless’ check game on “Wolf Freedman,
the clothing dealer of Sunbury on Wednes-
day, and swindled him ont of $11 worth of
goods. The stranger bought a bill of goods
to’ the amount of $18 and fortunately for
Freedman, paid $7 in cash. The stranger
made his escape. ;
—George Heckman, aged 20, son of Mr.
and Mis. J. Heckman, of Reynoldsville, was
seriously injured at Troutville, Jefferson
county, by being shot in the stomach. ‘While
attempting to take a revolver from a younger
brother - the weapon was discharged, *the
bullet passing through Heckman’s body. He
is at the ‘Adrian hospital and is not expected
to recover,
—A man Who had Yooh 2 a wallet containing
$15,000 while coaching near Glen Summit, at
Wilkesbarre is rejoicing over its return at a
cost of $10. He hdd dropped it in the road
two miles from the hotel and it was found
by Nathan Mills, an employee of Posten
Bros., liverymen, who hurried to the hotel
‘with it. The owner commended his honesty
and gave him $10.
—The Altoona postoffice will be moved to
‘the new public building now nearing com-
pletion next Monday night and will be open-
ed up at 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning’ in
the new quarters.. The government em-
ployes of the city will celebrate the opening
of the building by a grand banquet at the
Logan house, to be tendered them next Mon-
day night by postmaster Wilson. It will be
a notable event. :
—Thomas Russell, of Grampian, Clearfield
county, was shot dead Sunday afternoon at
that place by a negro named Moses Taylor.
Taylor escaped, but is being pursued by a
posse of officers and citizens. The colored
mad was having some trouble with a small
boy and was in the act of chastising him
when Russell tried to rescue the boy. Taylor
turned from the boy and pointed a revolver
at Russell and fired two shots. Neither struck
him, bowever,and Russell seized the revolver,
wrenched it from the negro and walked
away. He bad gone but a few yards when
Taylor: drew another revolver from his
pocket and shot Russell through the back.
—Friday night three masked men broke
into the Juniata Shoe company’s office in
Mifflin and, after demanding of Darwin Craw-
"ford,the watchman,at the point of a revolver,
the key to the safe, beat him into insensi-
bility, bound and gagged him, and then
broke open the safe. The robbers secured
about $8 in money and the watchman’s gold
watch. About the same time inthe night
John Kauffman was beaten into insensibility
on the street by thugs and robbed of $60 and
a gold watch. The thieves were believed to
be ‘hangers'on to a circus that exhibited here
‘Saturday, and that morning sheriff Weiser
went to Lewistown after them. Two sus-
pected men were brought to town that even-
ing by the sheriff, and upon one of them
Kauffman’s watch was found,”
—Mrs. Mary Button, who left her son’s
home at Haneyville, Clinton county, on
August 10th, to walk to the home of another
son. several miles away, and who has been
missing since that time, was found Friday.
When discovered by two hunters she was
near Cross Forks, Cameron county, and ‘was
nearly dead from exposure and hunger. She
had lost her way and had been wandering
aimlessly about in the Black Forest for near-
Iy six weeks, She was placed in a blanket
and carried to Cross Forks where physicians
are ‘endeavoring to. save her life. . Mrs. But-
ton was 82 years old. She had frequently
walked the distance from Haneyville to her
‘other son’s home and when she started in
August, nothing was thought of it by her
relatives. She spent the night of August
10th, at the lumber camp of Benjamin Her-
ritt, at the head of the State Run. Then
she continned her journey, only to drop out
of sight for many weeks. Searching parties
have been scouring the mountains daily since
that, but could not find the slightest trace of
her. The relatives who gave up the search
in despair, were overjoyed to hear of the dis-
covery of the hunters. The old woman is
still too weak to talk. During her wander-
ings in the forests she subsided solely on
berries and herbs: . »
—Not many weeks ago a bride and groom
went out from Huntingdon beaming over
with joy and happiness, as brides and grooms
usually do. They had not gotten: very far
on the train, which happened to bea morn-
ing train and some of the passengers were
not awake yet, when a decidedly funny
circumstance took' place. At the local sta-
tion a merry crowd of ‘‘well-wishers” and
friends wishing them God speed had gather-
ed, and as they boarded the train rice and
old shoes figured in the parting salute to
quite a degree. After the train left the sta-
tion, the porter began gathering up the frag-
ments that were left in the car, and threw
them out. Not long after that one of the
passengers, a lady, in a berth, got up and
after skirmishing around for a time to find
her shoes, made inquiry of the porter as to
their whereabouts, the lady was informed
that a bride and groom were aboard the train
and at Huntingdon a lot of old shoes were
thrown into the car and he had gathered up
a few supposedly old pairs and thrown them
out of ,the car window, the lady’s among
them. The lady accosted the bride and said,
“Beg pardon, but are you a bride?” the
bride hesitatingly answered, she * was.
“Well” said the lady, ‘‘the porter has thrown
my shoes out of the window, but fortunately,
‘ve suathep pair in my suit case.”’