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GRAY MEEK.
BY F.
Ink Slings.
—SAMUEL MILLER had great reason to
be thankful yesterday.
—There are many ways for a good man
to go to the bad, but only one for a bad
man to get to the good.
—Men may have more money to spend
than they had a few years ago, but it takes
it, for it costs more to live now than it did
then.
-—You had many things to be thankful
for yesterday and not the least of them was
that you still have life and time to prepare
for the hereafter.
—Were you duly thankful for every-
thing yesterday. Oft-times the blessings
we value the least are the ones most es-
sential to our welfare.
—The census reports show there are but
269,308 Indians left. And most people are
of the opinion that the country would be
none the worse off if these left also.
—The election being over there are
many of the fellows who spent their money
for whiskey who will wish they bad. it
now to buy christmas things with.
—The fellows who are so much exercised
just now as to who is, or ought to be, the
leader of the great Democratic party would
do well to realize that a few privates are
needed.
—General URIBE—URIBE’S recent fail-
ure may have somewhat abbreviated his
military glory but it don’t seem to have
sh ortened his hyphen to any appreci-
able extent.
—1It looks like a premature precaution
for owners of unseated lands to]lock them
up at night already. ISAAC B. BROWN
will not be sworn into office for several
months yet.
—If Republican explanations of Apostle
SMo0T’s Mormonism are to be relied upon
he is evidently of that class of saints who
suffer an awfal hankerin’ but feel that
politically he ‘‘dassent.”
—The rooters may be with Mr. ROOSE-
VELT in his game with the trusts, but we
have serious doubt if he will make a touch
down until his rush-line isstrengthened and
he puts more ginger into his tacklet.
—Mr. ROOSEVELT may be shaking his
head and pawing up the ground in great
shape, but we don’t see any more signs of
his charging on the red flags that the trusts
are flaunting all about him than there were
six months ago.
—Philadelphia, after all, has a little
shame left. At the exhibition of its pub-
lic school conditions last week, it kept in
the back ground its school- boards that are
charg ed with mulchting teachers for places
given them. This much to its credit.
—The tribute paid to the memory of
Herr KRuPP by the German Emperor will
go a long way toward putting the seal of
condemnation on the kind of public utter-
ances that are supposed to have contribat-
ed largely to the great gun maker’s death.
—Human life in Centre county can’t he’
held at a very bigh estimate. With BECK-
Ww ITH getting off with a lighter sentence
than a horse thief and MILLER convicted in
a second degree it begins to look as if cold-
blooded murder isnot such a bad crime
after all.
—Though Col. THOMAS OCHILTREE,
who has just passed away at Hot Springs,
Va., was one of the biggest liars ever known
it is hardly likely that St. PETER will deny
him a golden lyre, for the kind of lies the
Colonel told were harmless and purely for
the amusement of his fellows.
—The announcement that the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company is to raise its freight
rates after January 1st, 1903, explains to
the public who will pay the advance of
wages granted the employees of that cor-
porati on—with such a blare of trumpets—
only a week or more ago.
—The anthracite coal operators are mak-
ing about the same fuss over settling their
troub les that a baby does cver taking a
dose of nas ty medicine. They realize that
they have to settle but they are determined
to make the public pay for as much of a
sugar coating as is possible to get onto the
bitter dose.
—So Col. WILBUR FISKE REEDER has
taken to dealing in gold bricks, has he?
It might be possible that those Pleasant
Gap people will shy a few of the ones he
worked off on them in the appointment of
the post-master out there back at him
about the time he rans for county chair-
man again.
—There is another marker in the cemetery
calling attention to the folly of christian
science healing. Miss Louise HoGE, of
Evanston, Ill., went to Washington several
weeks ago to be a brides-maid for a girl
school mate and while there was stricken
with typhcid fever. She refused to be
treated by any but christian seienne healers
and the result of her folly is that she is
probably trying to fix 16 up with good St.
PETER now for having contributed to the
taking of her own life.
———Christmas is coming on. The WATCH-
MAN costs only $1.00 a year. For $1.65 you
can get it and the 77ri- Weekly World for a
year. For $2.25 you can get it and the
Youth’s Companion for a year. Wouldn't
any one of these offers make a nice Christ-
mas present for some friend of yours? Of
course they would. Then why spend more
for some worthless foible when you can
gend a present that will be a weekly re-
minder of your friendship, as well as a
blessing to whatever household it enters.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_ VOL. 47
Roosevelt Crab-fishing.
The friends of President ROOSEVELT are
trying to extricate him from a deep and
dirty hole in connection with his recently
formed political partnership with the noto-
rious hoodler, GAS ADDICKS, of Delaware.
For example, in double-leaded editorial
leader, the Philadelphia Press said the oth-
er day : ‘‘There has heen a wide misap-
prehension of the spirit and purpose of
President ROOSEVELT in reappointing WIL-
LIAM M. BYRNE, of Delaware, as United
States District Attorney. Fortunately it
can now be corrected. Mr. BYRNE held
the office by appointment of President Mec-
KINLEY. He determined to accept the
candidacy of the ADDICKS faction for Con-
gress. President ROOSEVELT thereupon re-
quired him to resign, pending the canvass,
because he felt that, while running for one
office under the circamstances, Mr. BYRNE
ought not to hold the other. After he fail-
ed of election the President re-appointed
him, and a misconception arose which was
left uncorrected at the time the President
was away on his Mississippi trip.”
Having thus paved the way fora colossal
falsehood. the Press proceeds: ‘‘The Press
is now able to state that Mr. BYRNE was
re-appointed without the slightest reference
to the ADDICKS or the anti-ADDICKS issue.
If he had been the anti-ADDICKS candidate
for Congress, he would have beenfappoint-
ed just the same. He was named neither
to help nor to hurt anybody. The Presi-
dent appointed him on personal grounds,
which in his judgment, harmonized with
sound public groiinds.’”” But the facts are
both against the theory and the statement.
The regular Republicans of Delaware had
nominated a candidate for Congress who was
particularly obnoxious to ADDICKS. He
tried every conceivable plan to get a can-
didate in opposition, but failed until he
made a bargain with BYRNE, who was ‘ap-
pointed to office by McKINLEY as an anti-
ADDICKS man, but was subsequently won
over by that mysterious force which ELK-
IN said carried the Republican convention
for PENNYPACKER. The campaign was
notoriously corrupt and venal,and resulted
in the defeat of both Republican candidates
and the election of the Democratic nomi-
nee.
After the result had been announced that
ADDICKS’ “candidate had polled nearly
twice as many votes as the regular candi-
date, ADDICKS went to Washington to ask
for the reappointment of BYRNE. The con-
ference lasted the greater part of an after-
noon, and at its conclusion Mr. ADDICKS
announced that his man would be re-ap-
pointed immediately, that he would have
the distribution of all the federal patronage
for that State, that the State would
elect two United States Senators and he
would be one of them and finally that the
State is for ROOSEVELT for President in
1904. Next day the announcement was
confirmed by an order from the White
House appointing BYRNE, whereupon the
moral sentiment of the community protest-
ed in most emphatic phrases and frighten-
ed the life out of the parties to the corrupt
and demoralizing compact. ROOSEVELT,
who was never constant to friendship or
contract, may have since repented, but he
made the bargain all right and would stick
to it if it promised the promotion of his
political interests.
No Ballot Reform.
Some of our esteemed contemporaries still
pretend to entertain a hope that ballot
reform legislation will be enacted during
the coming session of the Legislature and
go on talking about the kind of law
needed, just as if there were even the shad-
ow of a chance for the reform. Forexample,
the Huntingdon Journal says: ‘‘The Re-
publican party controls the next Legisla-
ture by an overwhelming majority and
stands pledged to the passage of a ballot
reform bill. If there is any one thing that
the people of this State demand it is the
fulfillment of that pledge. There must be
no evasion or compromise.’’
Two years ago the Republican party was
pledged to the passage of a ballot reform
bill and Senator QUAY supplemented the
pledge by a personal promise, supported by
his word of honor that it would be fulfilled,
but no attempt was made to fulfill the
promise, though the Democrats and Inde-
pendent Republicans urged it every day of
the session. Why was the pledge disre-
garded ? Because QUAY knew that if it
had been carried out his party would have
been defeated at the recent election and
most of its leaders would now be on the
high road to state prison. Fraud at the
elections is essential to Republican success
and go long as that is true there will be no
ballot reform legislation with QuaY’s con-
sent.
Our Huntingdon contemporary may as
well abandon its hope, therefore. So long
as the Republican party controls the Legis-
lature by an overwhelming majority, or
even by a narrow margin, QUAY will be
able to prevent ballot reform legislation
and he will prevent it in order to save not
only his political life but his personal liber-
ty. An honest glection would he the worst
thing for QUAY that could possibly happen
to him. It would not only put all his
friends out of political life but withdraw
from them the protection which now guar-
antees them inmmunity from just punish-
ment for crimes committed.
Ignorance or Stupidity.
In his Philadelphia speech of last Satur-
day evening, President ROOSEVELT said:
“It is idle to tell the people that we have
not the power to solve such a problem as
that of exercising adequate supervision
over the great industrial zombitations of
to-day. We have the power and we shall
find out the way.” To which the New
York Sun pertinently asks ‘‘Now who has
been so idle and illinformed as to snggest
to the minds of the people that the govern-
ment has not already the power to legislate
for the excercise of adequate federal super-
vision over thegreat ind ustrial combinations
of to-day ? And answers by quoting ROOSE-
VELT.
In his annual message to Congross nearly
a year ago President ROOSEVELT declared:
“If the judgment of Congress is that it
lacks the constitutional power to pass such
anact, then a constitutional amendment
should be submitted to confer the power.’
In his speech at Providence on August 23rd
he said: ‘‘Some governmental sovereign
must be given full power over these artifi-
cial and very powerful corporate beings.”
Two days later, at Boston, he said: ‘‘No
matter what our reverence for the past our
daty to the present and the future will
force us to see that some power is conferred
upon the national government and when
that power has been conferred it will rest
with the government to exercise it.”” On
September 6th, at Wheeling, West Va., he
said. ‘I firmly believe that in the end
power must be given, probably through a
constitntional amendment, to the national
government to excercise in full supervision
and regulation of these great enterprises.’”’
At Cincinnati,on September 20th, he repeat-
ed, practically, the same opinion.
Thus it will be seen that ROOSEVELT
himself idly or ignorantly told the people
of the country ‘‘that we have not the pow-
er to solve such a problem as that of exer-
cising adequate supervision over the great
industrial combinations of to-day and we
are indebted to our stalwart Republican
contemporary, the New York Sun, for prov-
ing the fact so completely. We refer to it
now simply to show what a consnmmate
ass RoosevELT is. He goes plunging
through the country like an ignorant maniac
chattering of this thing and that, without
knowledge or understanding aid contra-
dicting himself every time he opens his
mouth.
Quay And Penrose Home.
Senators QUAY and PENROSE are home
from Florida where they have been since
the day after election. DURHAM, McNICH-
OLL, VARE and the other convivial pil-
grims in the Southern retreat got back last
week, but the chief and his senatorial col-
league tarried a while and arrived on Mon-
day. They were both in excellent spirits
on their arrival. QUAY stopped in Wash-
ington to warn ROOSEVELT against any-
thing like ‘‘monkeying’’ with the tariff
but resumed his journey a day later and
held a conference with PENNYPACKER on
Tuesday. As a result of that we may ex-
pect to see an announcement of the coming
cabinet in the near future.
Senator PENROSE was in a serene frame
of mind on his return, the public will be
glad to know. He was asked whether he
would be a candidate for Mayor of Phila-
delphia and ‘‘ridiculed’’ the idea, it is said.
But he announced that he is a candidate
for re-election to the Senate, and added
that he has the pledge of their sapport from
practically all the Republican Senators and
members elect in the Legislature. In other
words he has his re-election ‘‘cinched’’ and
that without buying a vote or promising a
favor. It’s small wonder that he is in a
good humor with himself and feels kindly
toward the world. Things are coming his
way in large lots.
The lauguage of the Senator is signifi-
cant, moreover, for another reason. It in-
dicates that Attorney General ELKIN after
having justified QUAY’S published estimate
that he is too corrupt to become a candi-
date of his party for Governor by support-
ing the candidate for whom the nomination
was bought over his head, is cravin enough
to support for Senator the man who in-
fluenced QUAY to thus morally murder
him. In other words it reveals ELKIN in
the light of a self-confessed boodler licking
the hands that put the mark of Cain on his
head and servilely crawling at the feet of
those who have condemned him asa crimin-
al. It is almost inconceivable but actu-
ally true.
——The day of the lightning rod agent
is fast coming to a close. Modern builders
have thought so little of BENJ. FRANK-
LIN’S invention that they are so rarely
used that only one firm in the United
States is making them to-day. The pass-
ing of the lightning rod agent takes from
the field of expert swindlers one of the
most expert classes and will have the ten-
dency of making bucolic life less liable to
disaster. With the Bohemian oats man
and the patent creamer sharps gone to join
the lightning rod agent the life of the gul-
lible farmer would be as happy as a big
sun-flower.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 28, 1902.
The Wickedest City. ~
General BooTH, the Salvation army chief-
tain, has expressed the opinion that New
York is the wickedest city in the world.
General BooTH, who is a man of great age
and wide experience in what is called ‘‘slum
work,”’ onght he know a good deal about
the subject to which he refers. He has
traveled extensively and visited all cities
of Europe, if not those of Asia and Africa,
and his time in each has been spens in the
immoral sections where he has labored with
zeal, assiduity and intelligence to better
the conditions of the people. But his esti-
a woeful want of information, not to say
understanding.
New York is bad enough, no doubt, and
in the tough sections presents a heart-break-
ing aspect. Bat the history of the worst
periods of that city there was sufficient,
civic pride and christian spirit to maintain
at least the pretense of public decency.
There has never been in the office of : chief
magistrate of the city a common boodler.
There has never been an actual alliance be-
tween the Mayor of the city and the dens
of vice. In a circumscribed way immoral-
ity may have been protected in parts of
New York by arrangement with a police
captain, but the Mayor, the courts and
other high municipal officers have never
been associated with dens of iniquity nor
engaged in a partnership with organized
crime. : :
This distinotion belongs exclusively to
Philadelphia where during the past four
years the Mayor has been regularly levying
and collecting blackmail, according to com-
mon reports and newspaper statements, on
the hasest forms of crime and protecting it
in its iniquities. It would probably be
unfair to say that the courts of the city
acquiesce in these infamies, but it is cer-
tain that they close their eyes to them and
that they do excuse all forms of political
crimes and encourage men to perpetrate
them in order to prolong the tenure of pow-
er of the machine. In view of these facts
General BooTH is anjust to New York in
his statement that it is the wickedest city.
That distinction belongs to Philadelphia. .
Secretary Hitcheock’s Trouble.
Sespstary of the Interior HITCHCOCK, in
his aunual report made public the other
day, which by the way is a document of
great length and some value, complains
ahout the operations of a certain class of
speculators and swindlers in the West, who
give him much trouble and annoyance,
They want all sorts of favors, grants and
gratuities and because he doesn’t consent
to the spoliation they threaten him in one
way and another and make his official life
a burden. One could think that a public
official would have little or no trouble in
protecting himself against such swindlers
but those who dismiss the subject in that
way don’t know much about the facts.
For example, about a year ago Secretary
HITCHCOCK was annoyed beyond measure
by a very powerful politician who wanted
a patent for the mineralsin a certain Indian
reservation in the Northwest. The land
belonged to the Indians and the govern-
ment, exercising the rights of a guardian-
ship, bad no authority to make such a
grant which would be practically robbing
the wards of the Nation. While the con-
troversy was in progress Postmaster General
CHARLES EMORY SMITH resigned his office
and the powerful politician who was try-
ing to rob the Indians was named in his
place. Finally the Secretary of the Inter-
ior complained to the President and after a
brief examination of the matter was order-
ed to issue the patent.
The powerful politician was the present
Postmaster General, HENRY C. PAYNE,
and the dispute very nearly cost Secretary
HiTcHCOCK his official head. In fact he
was practically notified to either give of-
ficial sanction to the rebbery of the Indians
of resign and for some reason that has never
been explained he committed the crime and
continued in office. His open protest
against similar importunities now may
cause his dismissal,for the chances are more
than even that the pirates who are pester-
ing him now are friends of the President
who want to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity which his acsidental occupancy of
the office affords them to enrich themselves
at the expense of the public.
——The demonstration made at old
“‘Strychnine Corner’’ Saturday night by the
worthless, doless niggers of Bellefonte, sug-
gests that they need a little more of the
medicine that officer HARRY MILLER gave
some of them shortly after he was put on
the force. Fining them or putting them in
jail is not punishment, but if we had one
of those Delaware whipping posts up here
there would be a very different state of af-
fairs. The honest, upright, courteous col-
ored people of the town, of whom there are
many, feel the disgrace that this gang of
drunken scamps brings upon the commu-
niby quite as keenly as do the whites, and
have used every means at their command to
break it up.
mate of New York in that respect indicates
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NO. 47.
Teachers of Tyranny.
From Goldwin Smith, in the Toronto Sun.
This coal strike is the most terrible and
destructive battle ever fought in the disas-
trous and ominous war between capital and
labor. Outrage and interference by intim-
idation with the action of men, who are
willing to work ought, of course, at once to
be put down. But can we, looking to the
prevailing temper of the commercial world,
be much scandalized at the excesses of the
Miners’ Union ? Is the Union more selfish
and tyrannical than the Trust? Is not cap-
ital allowing itself in its rapacity to turn
commerce into a general war ? Has not its
habitual language become that of hostile
and aggressive combination ? What has it
been doing in South Africa, in China,in the
Philippines? Has it not been enlisting the
most destructive passions in the service of
its greed and filling the commercial air with
violence? If the unions. are monopolists,
may they not point to a protectionist tariff,
supported by a group of monopolist inter-
ests.as their pattern and justifization ?
Mnlti-millionaireism is also probably an-
swerable in part for the present trouble.
The workingman hears of a multi-million-
aire selling out for three hundred millions,
after drawing an enormous income for a
series of years, and he naturally thinks
that he is not getting his share, and to get
it muss go on strike. He does not see that
the pile of a multi-millionaire is exception-
al, and largely the product of protectionist
tariffs, for which be has very likely himself
been deluded enough to vote. The income
of the middle class, the farmer the profes-
sional man, the storekeeper, the clerk, have
not been increased like that of a master ofa
trust, nor can they afford to pay much
more for their coal than they have been do-
ing. Many of them, in fact, are the last
people on whom the screw can he reason-
ably put.
How Expansion is Progressing in the
East.
From the N. Y. World.
The war as war may be over in the Phil-
ippines, but the chronic trouble we bought
from Spain is not cured, and there is no
evidence that it ever will be.
Guerilla bands are active in several
provinces. In Luzon, the largest island,
they are committing outrages near Manila.
In Bilirn they have just heheaded the may-
or of a town, murdered his wife and abduot-
ed his children; his offense was friendship
with the ‘‘Americanos.”” In Samar religous
fanaticism urges a ‘‘holy war’’ against the
intruders. A superintendent of schools
and six ‘teachers have been killed by
natives.
tion. Cholera attacks thousands daily in
thrifty and industrious Chinese. Signifi-
cant facts testify to official recognition of
the gravity of the situation. Weare huild-
ing in Japan five gunboats for quick action
in the Philippines; the course of studies in
the naval academy has just been shortened
from four years to three years because of
the recent need of naval officers.
There is, then, no expectation—there is
not even hope—that the pacification of the
islands will endure. We cannot change
Malay nature. We cannot extinguish the
love of liberty and independence in these
people.
The Country’s Full of Jim Scroggins.
From the Commoner.
Jim Scroggins never thought nor read,
but went where party bosses led; and
whooped it up both day and night for tariff
tax with all his might. On high protection
he went daft and helped the trusts hold to
their graft. And just because they jollied
him they got their canthooks into him.
They robbed him on his flour and meat,
and other things he had to eat;they robbed
him on his clothes and shoes; yea, on his
purse they put the screws. But still Jim
Scroggins would not see the trusts controll-
ed the g. 0. p., and still remained an easy
mark for ev’ry corporation shark.
“I’ve got enough to eat and wear,”’ said
Jim, and so he didn’t care, but helped the
trusts perfect their cinch until at last he
felt their pinch. Then Jim discovered with
dismay he couldn’t live upon his pay; but
ev'ry month he'd surely find himself a
little more behind. |
"Twas then he said, ‘‘It seems to me I'm
short on this prosperity.’”’ But when he
sought a better wage his trust employers
whooped with rage. Jim got it—please
observe the facts—just where the chicken
got the ax; and Jim now loudly doth be-
wail the hot air in his dinner pail.
MORAL.
The stomach, let it here be said,
Is not to think with. Try your head.
Corn That Grew to Heaven,
From the Centre Hall Reporter.
John Puff disproved a rank story emin-
ating from the west. In a recent letter
from some of his relatives they landed their
seotion of country from an agricultural
standpoint, by describing how a little boy
got astride a corn stalk and was unable to
dismount on account of the rapid growth
of the plant. Men were summoned with
axes to cut down the stalk, but one stroke
was ail that could be given in one spot, be-
cause when the second stroke was made
the first cut had grown skyward and out of
reach. The effort to secure the boy was
given up. The letter concluded by saying
that it was hoped by this time the boy bad
reached heaven.
Mr. Paff has a strain of wit running
through him, and replied that the story
must be untrue; utterly false, as nothing
had been seen in Centre Hall of either the
boy or the top of the corn stalk.
Down to Tolls on Christmus Presents,
From the Wellsboro Gazette.
Is will doubtless prove a source of dis-
appointment to many families to learn that
the administration, at the hehest of the
protected interests in the Philippines, bas
decided that Christmas boxes for the sol-
dier boys in the Islands will be subject to
the same tariff duties as other merchandise.
There will be no duty free Christmas pres-
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Lycoming county gunners claim to have
shot a six prong buck weighing over 300 lbs.
and a perfectly white deer in the neighbor-
hood of Saladaysburg last week.
—Rev. Father Hussie, of St. Gabriel's
church, Hazleton, will marry free those of
his flock too poor to pay the fee. The coal
strike has made a dearth of marriages.
—Septimus Winner, composer of ‘‘The
Mocking Bird”’ and hundreds of other popu-
lar songs, died suddenly at his home in Phil-
adelphia on Sunday. He was 76 years of
age.
—Charles Welshans, of Nippenose valley,
has 19 apple trees of the winter variety.
From these he sold 576 bushels, buried 48
and has 29 bushels in the cellar, thus making
653 bushels.
—While Lawrence Ball, of Clearfield, was
handling a revolver on Sunday, he acciden-
tally shot and killed his brother, Victor.
Lawrence’s age is 18 years, and Victor's 15.
Both had just returned from church.
—Maude Kramer, 13-years-old, of South
Williamsport, Sunday found a cartridge, and
pounded it on the stove. It exploded. The
first and second fingers and the thumb of the
left hand were blown off and the hand was
shattered. The wounds were dressed.
—C. B. Witmer Esq., attorney for Mrs.
John Horley and Mrs. Fred Glass, whose
husbands were killed in the Lycoming creek
bridge disaster on the Pennsyl—ania railroad
near Williamsport last December, has entered
suit against the company for $25,000 damages
in each case.
—Allen Drawbaugh, principal of the Foth-
ergill school, Steelton, claims to have
more nationalites represented in his
school than any other public school in ‘the
State. He has 53 pupils, 48 of whom are
foreigners and five Americans, one of the
latter being a negro.
—While carrying a long-handled skimming
iron across the moulding department of the
Shamokin Iron work Tuesday evening, Cal-
vin Berger, aged 18-years, was instantly kill-
ed by the skimmer forming a circuit witha
live arc light wire, causing 2000 volts of elec-
tricity to course through him.
—Archie Davis, a 10-year-old: lad, has ar-
rived home, having made the journey alone
from Wenatchie, in the State of Washington,
to Harrisburg. He bore a tag, containing
the following : “Mr. Conductor, please pass
me along, for I am a little boy going home to
my mamma at Harrisburg, Pa.”
—When Senator Quay was a visitor at
Lebanon for the first and only time, two
years ago, he was given a banquet, which,
it now appears, has not been paid for. Jones
brothers, the Reading caterers who served
the feast, on Tuesday brought suit to recover
the amount of their bill, $54, with two years’
interest.
—In what is known as ‘‘Huckleberry Hol-
low,” near Leesburg, Cumberland Co., Geo.
Severs and David Bailey engaged in a quarrel
on Monday. Both were intoxicated. Bailey
struck Severs in the back of the neck with a
pair of brass knuckles, breaking his neck.
Severs died in fifteen minutes. Bailey es-
caped on a freight train and has not yet been
arrested.
—A young man named Alabrand, of Hora-
tio, Jefferson county, according to a dispatch
from Karthaus, has terribly injuries as the
result of a hunting accident and may die.
His comrades missed him and hearing a
shot went to see what he brought down.
They found him with the side of his head
blown off by the accidental discharge of his
gun,
—The slander trial of Thomas Robinson,of
Butler,against John Wanamaker of Philadel-
phia will be tried at Beaver Thursday, Dec.
4th. Mr. Robinson charges Mr. Wanamaker
with slandering him in a political speech
made in Norristown in Oct. 1893, in connec-
tion with the printing of the ‘Pennsylvania
Bird Book.” Mr. Robinson being at the
time Superintendent of Printing.
—1It has been discovered that the heart of
Barney Rupert, of Beech Creek, Clinton
county, is on the right side instead of his
left. The discovery was made while ex-
amining the young man for a life insurance
policy. The heart, lungs and liver are be-
lieved to be very close together. Notwith-
standing ; this peculiarity he enjoys good
health and works every day at the Pennsyl-
.vania fire brick works. Very few cases of this
kind have been reported.
—Henry Borrell, a Berks county, supervis-
orjof Alsace township,a widower 60 years old,
is the defendant in a suit for $5000 damages
brought by Jennie L. Keller, aged 19 years.
She alleges that Borrell caught her on her
mother’s porch one day last summer and
tried to kiss her. She became frightened
and in the struggle to free herself she fell on
top of a picket fence, sustaining internal in
juries which confined her to bed for three
months.
—While returning home Saturday evening
three Italian hunters found a 3-month’s old
baby hidden on the Harleigh mountains,
near Hazleton. The deserted infant was
suffering from cold and hunger. A bottle
half filled with milk lay on the ground
nearby. The hunters were attracted by the
cries of the child. The infant was taken to
Hazleton and placed in the home of deten-
tion. Fully a hundred mothers called to see
the babe, in order to establish its identity if
possible, but the authorities gained no clew
from this source.
—QCoke production in the Connellsville
region took another slump last week because
the railroad companies were unable to supply
the cars and metive power to move the pro-
duction and stock from the congested yards.
The H. C. Frick Co. last week was compelled
to lay off 10 of their plants five days. Many
of the smaller operators shut down two days,
and not a few of them ran only five. The
plants that are credited with six days’ run
did not produce as much coke in some in-
stances as they would with a regular five
days’ run and plenty of cars.
—Judges Stowe and Collier, of Pittsburg, on
Tuesday handed down a decision regarding
the compulsory education law of 1901 that is
of interest to all school boards. These judges
declare that the provisions of that act do not
apply to boys over 13 years of age who are
employed at home, and base their derision
on that section of the law which reads as
follows : “This act shall not apply to any
child between the ages of 13 and 16 years
who can read and write the English language
intelligently, and is regularly eng ged in
ents for the soldier boys this year.
any useful employment or service,
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