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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Cousin MATT will be the joiner who
will put “Cousin SAM’s’’ cabinet together.
—There will be httle Christmas cheer in
the country unless the price of coal comes
down.
—The man who thinks he can do noth-
ing for nothing invariably lives to discover
his mistake.
—It must bave taken a pretty large paper
weight to hold that message down on the
President’s desk while he was preparing it.
—There is nothing strenuous inj the
message, unless the startling (?) announce-
ment that we have an ocean on each side
of us may be regarded as such.
—The President’s message is not a dis-
appointment to any one because he had
threshed over the same ground so often be-
fore that nothing new was expected.
—Since the Mormon Elder SM0OT has de-
cided to vote with the Republicans one
hears very little of the clamor of that great
moral wave that swept poor BRIGHAM
ROBERTS out of the last Congress, because he
owned up to having three wives.
—Germany has fallen away back in the
industrial procession, yet they say she has
the finest protective tariff of any country
in the world. The same people say that it
is a protective tariff that is making the
United States so prosperous. Strange,
isn't it?
+ —The shock that the people of the up-
per end of the county mistook for an earth-
quake on Sunday night was only the warn-
ing rumbling that comes before the terri-
ble upheaval that will occur when the
name of the new deputy revenue collector
in this district is announced.
— Professional foos-ball will not be very
popular next season. The teams lost mon-
ey this fall and, in some instances, failed
to pay. salaries, which will prove a very
serious obstacle in the way of professional
managers when they try toinduce amateur
players to enter the ranks of professionalism
next fall.
— Congress will scarcely throw down the
bars to the vest-poeket States in the south-
west that are clamoring for admission into
the Union and Senator QUAY will discover
that thongh his Legislators in Pennsylvania
have butchered the fence law until there
is nothing left of it Congress still has one
that will be, at least, *‘Bull’’ strong.
—The residents of upper Bald Eagle are
convinced that they felt an earth quake
shock on Sunday evening and have been
comparing notes on their sensations ever
since. They vow that there was some-
thing seismic doing and JOHN Q. MILES
says he believes it, for he thinks the Bald
Eagle needs a little warning of this sort.
“ —QUKY: has been ‘playing a deep game
with his Statehood bill. In order to get
Arizona and New Mexico admitted to the
Union he has been trying Pennsylvania
trickery on Congress, but the old fox was
caught up on Wednesday, with the result
that it tarned both friend and foe against
his scheme.
—TEDDY’S declaration that we are
“‘descendants of pioneers’ i3 very grati-
fying to our vanity. Since MAX ORIEL,
the French writer, informed us that we
don’t know who our own grandfathers
were, it was a happy thought in TEDDY’S
telling us in his message that they were
“‘pioneers.”’
—Since Bellefonte is to have a public
hospital and there is so little effort being
put forth to complete the soldiers and sail-
ors monument what better use could the
money for the latter be put to than to
build a fine hospital as a memorial to the
soldiers and sailors of the county? That
would be the true ideal of a memorial.
—Horse thieves in Columbia county were
sentenced to seventeen and ten years, re-
spectively, this week ; a man who killed
another in a fight in New Jersey got twen-
ty years in the pen, but up here in ancient,
enlightened Centre county men who kill
women in cold blood aud shoot down their
own sobs with deliberateness get only
eight.
—The resignation of Dr. MILBURN, the
blind chaplain of Congress, which was ten-
dered at the opening session on Monday,
takes a noted man back to private life,
after being prominent in the public eye
for sixty years. Dr. MILBURN’S place will
be hard to fill and it is altogether likely
that had he been able to see as others have
seen during many of the sessions of Con-
gress his place would “have been to fill
long ere this.
—Congressman CONNELL is not taking
his defeat with the grace that such an old
politician might be expected to show after
being knocked out by a Democrat in a
strongly Republican district. Ie is pre-
paring to contest the election, but it will
goarcely avail him anything, for all of the
election precincts were in the control of
CONNELL Republicans and it is not likely
that they would have permitted dishonesty
on the part of his Democratic opponent.
—Lord CURZON, the vice-roy of India,
who will soon be coronated at Durbar. is
said to be in search of the throne of King
Solomon, so that it may be used at the
function. He wants all the splendor pos-
sible and inasmuch as he has already a
King Solomon’s mines in that Chicago
father-in-law there is likely to be doings at
- Durbar that will outrival the most gor-
geous spectacle of the ancient potentate of
the Israelites. Unless ‘‘She who Must he
Obeyed’’ steps in and saves a little for the
LEITER pockes$-book.
Catan
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_ VOL. 47
BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 5, 1902.
NO. 48.
Encouraging the Ballot-box Stuffers.
Elsewhere in this issue, under the head-
ing—Turning Loose the Criminals—will be
found an account of the manner in which
four hundred and thirty election officials,
under indictment for the perpetration of
election frauds, werereleased by the Phila-
delphia courts without an effort to convict
ora word of censure or of warning. It
shculd be read by every citizen of the Com-
monwealth; not that the reading of these
proceedings will make any change in the
opinion of the people of Pennsylvania ; for
there is little hope of that; but to show
them, whether they want to believe it or
not, that as to between the courts and the
criminals of Philadelphia, itis ‘‘nip and
tuck’’ as to which violates the law, tramp-
les on justice and outrages public decency
with the greatest impunity.
The accused in these cases]had been
charged with violating the election laws in
various ways. Election officers admitted
the votes of men who were challenged
without swearing them aud others as re-
quired by law. Repeaters were thus aided
in their work by the election officers and
the election officers are shielded by the
court which was created by the last Legis-
lature by fraud for the purpose of perpe-
trating frand. It isa case of a degenerate
public opinion sustained by a debauched
judiciary.
The reason given by Judge MARTIN for
dismissing all these accused ballot box
stuffers is that there was not enough evi-
dence to convict them. But the evidence
could have been secured without trouble.
The law says election officers must take the
proofs required by law where the claimant
is not registered or is challenged, and the
penalty for failure is $500 fine and impris-
onment for one year. The law requires
that the affidavits to those proofs be enclos-
ed in the ballot boxes and sealed. If the
boxes had been opened the proof that the
laws had been violated in that way: could
have been obtained. But the Judge refus-
ed to permit the opening of the boxes.
Citizens of Pennsylvania who reside out-
side of Philadelphia are aiding and abetting
these electoral frauds by voting the Repub-
lican ticket. When an attempt is made at
the next session of the Legislature to enact
y | an election law which. will prevent such
things every Republican Senator and Rep-
‘resentative Ti the'General Assembly will’
vote "to. prevent such a consummation.
Therefore, every citizen of the State who
voted for Republican candidates for Sena-
tor and Representatives in the Legislature
voted to perpetuate the reign of QUAYism
and election frauds. ' As long as the pres-
ent election law prevails the QUAY machine
is secure and it will prevail until the Re-
publican majority in the Legislature is
overcome.
Secretary Root’s Pet Scheme.
Secretary of War RooT makes another
earnest effort to influence Congress in favor
of his ‘‘General Staff’’ project in his annual
report. submitted the other day. This is
Mr. Roor’s pet enterprise. Its purpose is
to promote bureauocracy in the Depart-
ment. Its result would be to reward fav-
orites and patronize sycophants. It was
the invention of Napoleon 111, ang is the
ideal of the German. Kaiser. Napoleon's
purpose was to make officers of the army
dependent on himself and the Kaiser uses
it for the same purpose. It cost France the
overwhelming defeat in the war of 1870
and the Dreyfass scandal: It has cost
‘Germany nothing thus far becanse that
Empire has had no war since it was adopt-
ed. ¢
Secretary ROOT says, in his report, ‘‘our
system makes no adequate “provision for
the directing brain which every army must
have to work successfully,’’ and adds ‘‘com-
mon experience has shown that this cannot
be furnished by any single man without
assistants and that it requires a body of
officers working together under the direc-
tion of a chief and entirely separate from
and independent of the administrative staff
of the army.”” He doesn’t reveal what
common experience he has in mind. Tt
can’t be that he meaus the experience with
GRANT daring the closing period of the
War of the Rebellion. He certainly ful-
filled expectations and we 1ecall no failure
of General MILES in the Spanish war.
As a matter of fact, however, Secretary
Root hasn’t heen candid with Congress and
the country. He wants to establish a sort
of kitchen cabinet in the War Department
at Washington in which the merits of men
will be measured by the degree of their
snbgerviency to the ‘‘carpet knight’s”’ in
the main office. He remembers what a
baleyon time the navy had during the
Spanish war with its ‘‘strategy board’
which became a terror to every fighting
man in the service. DEWEY cut the cable
at Manila to escape from it, Captain CLARK
of the Oregon begged that it be kept off
him during his perilous voyage from San
Francisco to the theatre of war and it con-
demned SCHLEY for his Splendseg victory
off the Cuban coast.
The country wants no more farces of that
kind and if Congress is wise it will throw
Roor’s recommendation out of the window.
Teddy's Curious Message
The President’s annnal message, which
was presented in both branches of Congress
on Tuesday, is a novelty among state pa-
pers. Nothing like it has ever been seen.
Like his Sunday dinner of roast bear paws,
eaten off a tin plate, it is something the
like of which no other President ever dream-
ed of. It takes you by surprise like the
langes, of a bucking bronco. It perplexes
you, likewise and like the parrot in the
Punch and Judy show, you wonder what
he is going to say next. Youdon’t have to
wait long, however, and that is lucky.
There is ‘‘something doing’’ all the time
in that message.
In the outset the President declares that
‘“‘we will continue in astate of unbounded
prosperity.’’ The prosperity, he adds, is
not a creature of law, but law creates if,
and can destroy it. Then he hedges. ‘There
will be periods of depression,’’ he suggests
and ‘‘the wave will recede and the tide will
advance.”’ Of course he means that these
things will happen alternately, though he
doesn’t say so. He grows positive in the
next sentence, however. ‘“This nation is
seated on a continent flanked by two great
oceans.”’ That is lovely and greatly flat-
ters our vanity. Bat he doesn’t stop at that.
He ventures to add that it ‘‘is’composed of
men, the descendants of pioneers.” Come
to think of that closely everybody who has
ever lived in this world except Adam and
Eve could say the same. That is one on
the onstodians of the garden of Eden.
Mr. ROOSEVELT is of the opinion that we
have had a large past. He probably means
that some of our past is a long way off,
which may be interpreted asa compliment.
Otherwise onr past would be a slow coach,
especially that part of it which happened in
the first quarter. Bat the fusure will have
no trouble of that kind. With Roosy’s help
it will be swift enough. As he says ‘‘such
a nation, so placed, will wrest success from
fortune.”” He might have added that ex-
cept for the calamity of the assassination
of his predecessor he never would have been
President and unless in the event of a sim-
ilar accident, such a man never again
fill the office. :
The document, taken as
ter disappointment to those v
the state paper and expected the F
to point the way to: policies that would
strengtlien’ his’ hold ‘upon ‘the American |
people and brighten his prospects for a con-
tinuation in the position in which he has
proven himself such a miserable mis-iit.
-— The President’s message is but par-
tially given in this paper becanse of its
length and the fact that tbe portions omit:
ted are not worth to the reader, either as'a
matter of interest or enlightenment the time
it would require to peruse them. Taken
as a whole the document has proven a flat-
failure. Presumably for the reason that it
gives no evidence in any part of courage of
conviction, and is crowded from beginning
to end with evidence of the trimmer’s
cowardice. Of all Mr. ROOSEVELT’S efforts
this is the weakest, a fact that can proper-
ly be charged to his itching for a re-elec-
tion.
The Question Settled.
It may be assumed that the validity of
the restrictions upon the suffrage in certain
of the Southern States which has caused so
much adverse criticism in the irreconcila-
ble Republican papers in the North, has
been finally settled. Chief Justice FUL-
LER, of the United States Supreme Cour
and United States District Judge WAD-
DELL, sitting at a circuit court at Rich-
mond, Va., passed upon the question and:
decided on Saturday that federal courts
have no jarisdiction. The suit was
brought in the name of some colored voters
who felt that they have been aggrieved by
the conditions created by an educational
qualification for voters.
Chief. Justice FULLER said that the
question had already been settled by the
Supreme court but an appeal was taken,
nevertheless, and the Supreme court will
be asked to make another decision on the
subject. That court does reverse itself
sometimes and in the insular cases disclos-
ed a willingness to be influenced hy polit-
ical considerations. But if is not easy to
see how another decision than that affirm-
ing the validity of the provisions could be
reached. There is only one thing to con-
sider aud that is has the State or the people
the right to determine the qualifications of
voters? ‘There can hardly be two opinions
on that guestion.
The tax qualification in Pennsylvania
would deprive more colored voters of the
franchise if it were strictly enforced than
the educational qualification will in Virgin-
ia. This fact calls to mind, moreover,
that the people of the South have no dread
of intelligent or educated negroes either in
political or social life. Itis the ignorant
members of the race who are influenced by
prejudices and swayed by passions that the
restrictive measures are directed at and
BookER T. WASHINGTON, himself, has giv-
en endorsement to the educational qualifica-
tion for voters. It is only the. malicious
in the North who are objecting.
A Lively Time Certain,
There is a reasonable promise of an in-
teresting session of Congress. There prob-
ably won’t be much legislation enacted or
much good for the country achieved, for
the session will be short and the leaders of
the G. O. P. are more than likely to work
ab cross purposes. But there is a vast sur-
plus in the treasury, $610,000,000 in round
numbers, and such an incentive to profli-
gacy will make the lobby a lively place dur-
ing the period from this until the fourth of
March. Every scheme will be backed by
boodle, and so long as there isa dollar in
The members and the lobbyists will share
the plunder with the departments and all
will have plenty.
The most interesting feature of the ses-
sion, however, will not be the appropria-
tion bills. The consideration of them will
appeal to the cupidity of the. boodlers, but
there is likely to be anothermatter of great-
er importance. That is to say on his ar-
rival in Washington last Saturday Senator
HANNA remarked, confidently, that. the
party will ‘‘stand pat’’ during the session.
What he meant by that is that there will
be neither anti-tariff, anti-trust nor recip-
rocity legislation. As the President has set
his face for a little of all these things the
chances are that there will be a battle of
Titans. ROOSEVELT will have the patron-
age behind him and HANNA the treasuries
of the trusts.
A guess as to which of these forces will
win would be hazardous. Everybody knows
that the power of patronage is potent and
it is equally well understood that a vast
bundle of boodle is persuasive. To these
influences can be added that of a deep seat-
ed antipathy between the leaders of the
strike. Senator HANN A hates ROOSEVELT
with an intensity which is only matched
by RoosEVELT’s dislike of HANNA. Both
are aspirants for the presidential nomina-
tion of the Republican party in 1904 and
they know that upon the result of the bat-
tle into which they are about to plunge,de-
pends victory or defeat of their aspirations,
not only for the present, but forever.
There will be something doing sure.
: mf the Anthracite coal strike was a
Ig to everybody else the arbitrators of
"rouble don’t propose to be catalogued
‘ There are but seven of them and they have
been at work for about fifteen days, all
told. Already they have a bill before Con-
gress providing $50,000 as pay for the time
they have put in. Seven thousand, one
hundred and fifty-two dollars, for fifteen
days’ service for each arbitrator, is a pretty
liberal sum to demand, but as it is the fad
to swear that everything that ROOSEVELT
does is just the right thing, we presume it
would be next to treason in the minds of
many to question the amount this commit-
tee of his is to have for accomplishing noth-
ing. But so it goes. We pay our taxes
under mental protest and then thank the
Lord long and loud that we live in a coun-
try where trusts flourish, where strenuous
Presidents do as they please and where the
people, at least, are both moral and politic-
al cowards.
The Efforts of a Political Scoundrel.
The public will learn with unconcealed
disgust that Congressman CONNELL, of
Scranton, proposes to contest the election of
his sunccessful antagonist, Mr. HOWELL.
CONNELL invoked every expedient known
to political venality to compass his election.
He procured his nomination in his own
party, according to current rumors at the
time, by the most open bribery of voters.
Subsequently, by the same pernicious meth-
ods, he tried to secure the nomination of the
Democratic convention and only failed be-
cause of the earnest and energetic action of
a group of honest Democrats. He did, by
appealing to the Dauphin county court, suc-
ceed in having the Democratic nomination
of Mr. HOWELL declared invalid.
Mr. CONNELL has contributed more than
most men toward debauching the politics
of this State. Out of his vast wealth he
has fed an abnormal and absurd ambition
by corrupting the voters. At first only
those in actual want could be debauched.
Later the ignorant and illiterate yielded to
the temptation, Next the venal found it
profitable to sell their votes likea huckster
disposes of his cabbage and in the end near-
ly half the voters of the country have been
taught to make merchandise out of their
manhood. 1t was a great crime which has
heen perpetrated on the people of the State.
Loug after CONNELL’S memory has faded
out of the community the effect of his
actions will be felt.
He hopes now to get the seat for which
he was fairly and justly defeated by appeal-
ing to the partisan prejudices of the ma-
jority in the House, The Republican ma-
jority in the hody is perilously close and
men willing to perform any political out-
rage may be needed. CONNELL is willing
to put himself under any obligation to
secure the place. He is ready to mortgage
his vote during the full term for the. cer-
tificate and it is possible that he may get
it. But it will be a badge of shame. It
will be stealing in at the back door after
having been kicked out through the sky-
light. It will be acknowledging failure to
win in a district in which his party -had a
vast majority.
sight there will be schemes to absorb it.
along with others as losers in. the fight. os
The Fellow With mo Kick Coming.
From the Commoner.
John Husker on election day,said “‘I don’t
think that it will pay to leave the field, for
goodness knows corn should be shucked be-
fore it snows, and, anyhow, I rather guess
to stop to vote is foolishness. I'll make a
dollar by my work, so public duty I will
shirk.?’
So saying Husker took a chew, and on |
his team the harness threw; then to his
field of waiting corn, he hastened in the
early morn. He shucked away with all
his might as long as there was any Tight,
then in the dark he homeward went and
with the world felt well zontent.
But while John Husker worked that
day the corporations joined the fray,and by
a shrewd use of the ‘‘rocks’’ they captured
every ballot box. They won the fight and
thereupon began to pile the tax on John,
and squeezed him till he had to pay for
working on election day.
They hammered down the price of grain
and thus did heavy profits gain. They ad-
ded to John’s bitter fate by boosting up the
rate of freight, and baving Husker’s hands
well tied they robbed him clean on every
side. ‘Alas!’ said John, “I'll never stay
at home again on election "day ! m
Moral.
No kick is coming, friend, your way
If you don’t vote election day.
Where Trusts Do Not Flourish.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
The high Protectionists and Truss de-
fenders in this country are very fond of
flinging into the face of the tariff revision-
ists the assertion that Trusts exist in “‘free
trade England.”” ‘‘The Philadelphia Re
cord’ admits that this is the case, but says
that the English Trusts are either compara-
tively harmless or else fall for want of
Government favoritism, and therein, it
points out, is the substantial differences be-
tween the Trusts in the same countries.
The sounduess of our contemporary’s
tention is illustrated by the failure on he
English wool combers’ Trust, for whieh a’
receiver has been appointed. - This
bination was subject to competition from
the whole world. Woolen maonfacturers|
in the United States are almost completely
sheltered from outside rivalry by average
duties of nearly 100 per cent, on woolen
fabrics. The smaller woolen interests at
home as well as those of the outside world
had a fair chance to fight the English
rust.
Only a Play for the: Galleries.
From the Clarion Democrat.
That investigation, started by the Presi-
dent, inquiring into Quay’s circalars col- |
leoting compaign assessments from govern-
ment officials was nothing more tl
another case of the playin
public:applause as he has been : doing in
regard to the trusts. It is a singular fact |
that since the President began to talk so
boisterously about trusts that the big beef
merger with capital fixed at $500,000,000
has been completed and will go into effect
Jan. 1st next. Instead of insinuations in
regard to a special session of congress soon
after March 4, next, to consider the trusts
and the tariff revision the President should
prosecute some of the trusts under the laws
we have. What is the use of enacting
more trust lawe if those we have are not
put in execution.
Right on this Issue at Least. .
From Bryan's Commoner.
The Democratic party does not need
leaders fo much as it needs voters. The
masses do not need one to think for them;
they think for themselves, and they will
have no difficulty in selecting fit persons
to act for them when the time for action
arrives. They do not need the services of
a self-appointed committeee on nomina-
tions, and they will not award the position
of standard-bearer to the highest bidder.
They are glad to hear all that can be said
for and against each presidential possibili-
ty, but they are not apt to ‘be influenced
hy advisers who think more of a candi-
date’s availibility during a campaign than
shey do of his reliability in the office. *
The Breeding Places of Republican
Fraud.
From the Clearfield Republican.
One of the very noticeable features in
connection with the recent raids upon dens |
of iniquity in Philadelphia where young
girls are kept as prisoners for immoral pur-
poses, is the fact that from 10 to 40 voters
are registered as living at every one of them,
and every name is voted by the gang. too.
This is one of the tributes the local machine
exaots from the syndicate controlling these
brothels. Itis by such means the Quay
machine is enabled to roll up its big ma-
jorities in the Quaker City.
A People Who Have No Voice In
4 Chosing. ¥ '
From the Wilkesbarre Record (Ind. Rep.)
All in good season the political bosses of
Philadelphia will announce the candidate
for Mayor for whom the alleged freemen |
of that city will be permitted to vote next
February. The electors of the Quaker
City do not have any voice in selecting the
candidate, and consequently are only cur-
ious to know what manner of man the
bosses will seleet this time. After Ash-
bridge the city can stand anything.
Tasting the Fruits of Tmpiciation,
From the Philadelphia Reo Record.
The news from Manila of the death of
sixteen United States soldiers from cholera
is more discouraging than would be the
announcement of fresh revoits., Our Gen-
erals know how to deal with enemies afield.
but the pestilence that walketh in dark-
ness they cannot hope to cope with.
Johnny Would Rather be Recorder.
From the Philipsburg “Ledger.
Steam heat has been advanced 0 per
cent at Bellefonte, and a raise of 25 per
cent is promised on the price of electric
light. Johnny Rowe will wish he had let
Hewitt go to Bellefonte, ' when be hae to
set up the price. ~ ©
Spawls from the Keystone.
—For failing to send his children to school
James Sicher, of Salisbury, was on Tuesday
sent to jail for five days.
—The ninth internal revenue district,
with headquarters at Lancaster, collected
$263,896 last month, $213,496 of it on cigars.
—Alderman Edward A. Meriz, of Allen-
town, has in two months imposed 900 fines
under the pure food law, and has turned the
money over to the State.
—A boulder falling in Rush tunnel, near
Karthaus, on the New York Central’s river
line, fell on engine 2615 and badly disabled
it. Engineer Lamont had a close call.
—The Pittsburg Dispatch has published a
special cable from Rome to the effect that
Bishop Eugene A. Garvey, of Altoona, may
be made coadjutor to Bishop Phelan, with
right of succession.
—Rev. J. J. Gormley Thursday celebrated
the twenty-seventh auniversary of his or-
dination to the priesthood,at Renovo. Ameng
those present were Rev. J. N. Codori and
Rev. Louis Maucher, of Lock Haven.
—The Kuhn building at Watsontown was
damaged by fire Monday afternoon. The
fire started in the apartments occupied by
Mrs. Simmons, who with her child made a
narrow escape. The loss is §1,000; fully
covered by insurance.
—An apple butter machine has been in
successful operation at Deer Run, near
Doylestown. By the use of the machine
apple butter is made in about three hours,
and the grade is far superior to that made
by the old method.
—D. W. Bryington was found at his fath-
er’s home, near Trout Run Tuesday morn-
ing, dead of grief for a brother, who was
killed under a log train the day before
Thanksgiving. The brothers had been in-
separable companions.
—William Carstetter, of Nittany valley,
while assisting Harvey Moore in the east
end Wednesday morning, was bitten by a
vicious hog on the leg above the knee. The
laceration is a painful one. It required sev-
eral shots to kill the hog.
—The Sunbury school board have been
compelled, owing to the scarcity of coal, to
extend their Christmas vacation until Jan.
5th. The coal dealers have informed the
school directors that 900 orders were in
ahead of those sent in by them. :
.. —Miss Lena Collins, formerly of Lock
Haven, but for some time a resident of Wil-
lidmsport, has gone to St. Louis, Mo., where
‘she +' will pose for a picture for the fair.
| Miss Collinsis pretty and well developed.
A | She was chosen from ‘a large class of ap-
plicants.
' —Elias Hartz, the goosebone weather
prophet, of Reading, predicts'an unusually
severe winter. A drop in temperature will
‘occur about the middle of December, after
which there will be cold weather. There
will be plenty of snow, he says, about the
middle of the winter.
—At Williamsport Tuesday John J. Col.
lins, of Mahanoy city, was about to board
the front step of a locomotive to ride to his
work at Newberry Junction when he slipped
jand the eylinder struck and rolled him along
fifty feet. Seeing Collins’ peril Roland
} | Thompson seized him by the leg 2 aud dren
a him to safeby cua ov
~The ‘passenger train slip Hor Friday
night on the Tyrone division, which was
about two hours late, struck a horse and
buggy at the crossing just this side of Cuar-
wensville, killing the horse and completely
demolishing the buggy. Fortunately the
two men in the buggy, named Lewis and
Reed, escaped with only slight bruises.
—At the Clearfield county court on Mon-
day Irene Wiser, Clara Davis and Lillian
Franklin, charged with selling liquor illegal -
ly, to minors and on Sunday and with con-
ducting houses of ill fame in DuBois, entered
pleas of guilty. Judge Gordon placed the
costs in the case upon the women, but sus-
pended further sentence on coudition that
they leave the county. :
—A verdict of $2,800 has just been given
against the borough of Pottsville in « dam-
age suit caused by a defective pavement.
The plaintiff was a woman who sustained
injuries by a fall, and at the last weeting of
council the city attorney was ordered to in-
stitute a suit ‘against the owner of the prop-
erty on whose sidewalk the injury occurred,
to recover the judgment, costs and expenses.
—An attempt to murder the family of
James Wilbur, residing near Mills, Potter
county, was made a few nights ago. Sev-
eral sticks 6f dynamite were placed under
their dwelling, a frame structure, and ex-
ploded. The members of the family, who
were asleep at the time, were thrown from
their beds, but escaped unhurt. The build-
ing was partially demolished. Two men
were arrested on suspicion of being mmplicat-
ed in the outrage.
—George Markert, the robber shot by the
Rev. Shellenberger, the Dunkard preacher,
on Sunday morning, was taken to the Mid-
dleburg jail Sunday. Over a hundred
people gathered at the depot. + Three strange
men were Monday night discovered in
Shellenberger’s back yard, where .they had
evidently gathered for the purpose of réscu
ing the injured robber. On occasion of this
incident it was decided to place the prisoner
in safer quarters.
—The Presbyterian church of the Cove-
nant case Williamsport, bad its inception in
1899, and has been pending ever since in the
ecclesiastical and civil courts. The Presby-
tery Monday took action which the adher-
ents of the old session claim is unconstitu-
tional, and Wednesday Judge McClure, in
the matter of the old appeal for an injuction
to get possession of the property, decides
that part of the new and part of the old ses-
sion is legal. Both sides may appeal.
~The Dauphin county judges Friday
ordered the release from the State hospital
at Warren of John Lawser. a Harrisburg
man, who has been confined in that iustitu-
tion since 1882. The man had been made
insane by the death of his wife and was con-
sidered as mildly afflicted. One day he saw
a horse killed and coming to the city from
the local "hospital, secured a revolver, and
shot dead the guard, Ahaziah Livingston, as
he was riding back to the hospital with him.
It was thought that the sight of blood from
the horse had frenzied Lawser and caused
him to commit the murder. He was seut to
Warren soon after. i
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