BY P. GRAY MEEK. EE ————————————————————————— Ink Slings. The preacher men are working hard, To run the town just right, They're looking now for po-lice-men ‘Who won't be out sight Everytime they're needed for a Gamblin’ raid or fight. They’d like to get a mayor, too, Who'd help along a mite. We reckon there ain’t many _left— The kind they’re lookin’ for This ain’t the sile they vegetate, They're all gone “on before,” So if our preachers really want Good men, and nothing more, We think they’ll have to look them up Upon that golden shore. —Special train episodes are not to be a feature of this session. —The effort of the ARMOURS to corner the butter market we hope will not lead to a variety of embalmed butter. —1Ik is not to be wondered at that most people look hopeless now-a-days. Both Congress and the Legislature are in session. —If Mr. ROOSEVELT desires to give the country relief, we would suggest that,he allow his press bureau a reasonable vaca- tion. —The new county officials are all settled down to their work now and the next thing to be done will be for the county to settle up. —OIld Omnibus Bill is setting out a grove of plum trees for QUAY in the three new territories he is carrying to State- hood. —From the way General GREENE is turning the police department of New York upside down we are constrained to re- mark that there isn’t so much in a name after all. —CARNEGIE wants to send up another kite in Philadelphia, but that city is ex- pected to supply the usnal handsome tail that ANDREW alway insists upon being tacked onto his gratuities. —MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY will be re- sponsible for the work of the present ses- sion of the Legislature and the Republican party of Pennsylvania is responsible for MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY. : —With Congress and the Pennsylvania Legislature in session both at the same time it is little wonder that prophet COLES reads such direful things in the horoscope for the first few months of 1903. ——The recent election in Honduras re- sulted in the polling of 30,000 more votes than the entire population of that State. Evidently its politicians have been taking lessons in Philadelphia methods. --The nice little steals have begun al- ready at Harrisburg. The first thing they did was to rush a bill through that will squander several hundred thousand dollars every session for something that is abso- lutely useless. —Gen. MILES, the head of the United States army, is a great figure abroad, hut he will no sooner get home than the ‘‘carpet knights’’ about the War Department will get at their old job of trying to make him look like a plugged two cent piece. —There is a young woman at Centralia, Ill., who has been asleep for one bundred days and bids fair to out do Rip VAN WINKLE. A lovers’ quarrel issaid to have been the cause of her peculiar trance, but the usnal ‘‘kiss and make up’’ outcome of such affairs has utterly failed to arouse her. —Governor STONE'S message is notable only for its length. The time for him to have done something was while in office. Parting advice and suggestions come with bad grace from the famous ‘‘post-script’’ artist who has been holding down the gu- bernatoial chair in Harrisburg for four years. —A young farmer in Lancaster county expired the other day from joy because he had unexpectedly obtained a ton of coal. And now everyone thinks it is a frightful thing that a country that is built on coal should come to such a pass. But stop and think for a moment. Suppose he hadn’t found the coal. He would have frozen to death anyway. —Of course it was not to be expected that an effort to ourb trusts could be made without creating a lot of new offices with which to buy support for the President for renomination. He and Attorney General KNoXx have decided that trusts can be curbed but a special court, with a lot of high salaried judges and over paid acces- sories will be needed to sit on cases arising under the proposed anti-trust law. —T he real horrors of the recent great mine strike in Pennsylvania are just begin- ning to coze out through the great mass of other evidence that has been presented to the arbitration commission. With families without food for days and the homes of workers shattered with dynamite while wives and babies were asleep therein there is ground for question as to where our individual rights and personal liberties do come in anyway. ——County chairman CYRUS BRUNGART has made public his district committee- men for 1903, a list of whom will be found in another column of this issue. Now is the time to commence to perfect the organ- ization and every member of this commis- tee should begin to get his precinct so thoroughly worked up that when a cam- paign approaches it will be an active, ef- ficient machine; ready to support the party ticket. If a good preliminary organization is made now that work will not have to be done at a time when there are .s0 many other things to look after. Demacralic R% © 5 allman STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 48 BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 9, 1903. NO. 2. Criticising Presidents. Whatever others may say or think, the President himself and those who worship him have no just right to complain of criti- ciems of Mr. ROOSEVELT. In other words President ROOSEVELT has been a severe crit- ic of the Presidents and in some of his com- plaints against his predecessors in of- fice he has not even taken the trouble to be just. For example in his biography of THOMAS H. BENTON, one of the most am- bitious literary efforts of his life, he de- scribes President MONROE as ‘‘a gentleman of no especial ability but well fitted to act as a presidential figure head.”” He de- nounced ANDREW JACKSON as ‘‘ignorant and headstrong.’”” MARTIN VAN BUREN, he declared, ‘‘never would have been heard of if he had governed his actions by a high moral standard, ‘‘ and he referred to President TYLER as * a politician of mon- umental littleness.”’ They were some of the great Presidents of United States. They are among the cher- ished idols of the American people. Presi- dent MONROE promulgated the doctrine which made the American Republic a ‘‘world power’’ without an army or navy. He conceived a policy which without war or sacrifices of any kind checked the ad- vance of the ‘‘holy alliance,’’ composed then of the three most powerful nations of Europe in a contemplated invasion of South America. Yet ROOSEVELT dismiss- ed him cavalierly as ‘‘a gentleman of no especial ability,’’ acting simply as ‘‘a pres- idential figure head.” JACKSON preserved the nation when it was invaded by an overwhelming foe by his genius as a mili- tary commander at the battle of New Or- leans, and subsequently won a peacefnl victory of even greater significauce, by stifling nullification and enforcing the laws throughout the land. But ROOSEVELT denounces bim as ‘‘ignorant and head- strong.” How much farther could temer- ity go? Newspapers denounced ROOSEVELT as a gypsy when he siept in a blanket on the bank of a lake and cooked his own break- fast in the morning and later dined on bears’ paws in a wilderness off of tin plates and without knives and forks. But wasn’t the criticism just? Are such things becoming to the dignity of Presidents? Newspapers denounce him as a clown when he rides through the country dressed like Buffalo Bill and howling like a Der- vish for something to kill. Do such per- formances comport with the dignity of the great office to which he succeeded by a crime, which attained the proportions of a calamity. It might be said that it is giving him a dose of his own medicine which is nauseous, but that is hardly true, for he maligned great men and against him only the truth has been told. An Exc.llemt Beginning. The Democrats in the Legislature began well and if they will adbere until the end of the session to the policy expressed in the character of the gentlemen upon whom the complimentary honors were bestowed they will reflect credit on their party and honor ou the State. The nomination for United States Senator was fitly conferred on Col- onel J. M. GUFFEY at a caucus held on Tuesday evening, and the organization of- fices had been equally well dispensed by cau- cusses held on Monday night. That is the complimentary nomination for president protempore of the Senate was given to Sen- ator HERBST of Berks; that of speaker of the House on Representative CASTNER, of Lycoming, and that of chairman of the House caucus on Representative IKELER. These gentlemen represent the best im- pulses of the party and the best hopes of the public. - Cononel GUFFEY is so well known to the Democrats .of Centre county, that enlogizing him is a work of superero- gation. For years he has been an nasel- fish but assiduous leader of the party and in weal or woe has been ready to give time and money to the promotion of Democratic principles and interests. Two years ago he was similarly honored and with equal unanimity and we hope that he will al- ways be held in the highest esteem by the Democratic people. Mr. CASTNER is serv- ing his third term and though passing through the ordeal of the iniquitous ses- sions of 1899 and 1901, the finger of suspic- ion has never been pointed toward him. Mr. IKELER is eqnally deserving of the favor of his colleagues in the House of Rep- resentatives. He begun his Legislative career with the last session and during the sessions of that body he was the one man who was feared by the atrocious Speaker MARSHALL. A lawyer of excellent ability and an orator of surpassing force he had the courage as well as the integrity to as- sail every iniquity which was offered dur- ing the session. A ready debater and a man of wide and varied information he was ever ready to strike with vigor and accur- acy and however much the bosses tried to create confusion while he was on the floor, the Members listened to him. In the character of the men favored the best as- pirations of the Democratic party was ex- pressed. Too Credulous Contemporaries. Some of our esteemed Philadelphia con- temporaries, like the Municipal League of that town, are too credulous hy far. For example they have accepted the most col- ossal political trick of Insurance Commis- sioner DURHAM’S devious public life asa concession to political morals and a step in the direction of decent government. We refer to the selection of District Attorney JOHN WEAVER as the Republican candi- date for Mayor of Philadelphia, which our too simple minded contemporaries have in- terpreted as a sign of unexpected political virtue. But as a matter of fact it is noth- ing of the kind. It issimply another proof of the complete dominion which Mr. DUR- HAM exercises over the people of Philadel- phia and their absolute helplessness in his grasp. ‘What bas JOHN WEAVER done to justify the prediction that his election to the office of Mayor of Philadelphia will give the peo- ple of that city honest or just government ? When he entered upon the duties of Dis- trict Attorney SAMUEL SALTER and his as- sociate ballot box stuffers were fugitives from justice. But as soon as possible after that event they returned and he allowed them to be acquitted by default, though evidence that was overwhelming was ac- cessible against them. Later three or four hundred other ballot box stuffers were dis- ‘charged from custody on his own motion, though his predecessor in office bad them so completely involved in a web of adverse testimony that they didn’t dare go to trial. Are these evidences of fidelity to duty or a disposition to justice in administration ? Hardly. One contemporary refers to the fact that not long before he was chosen as a machine candidate for Mayor he refused toallow the cases of some political favorites go to trial before a fixed jury. If that had been fol- wed by putting them on trial before a jury that wasn’t fixed there would have been some reason for the claim. There was another criminal court in session at the time the jury in which had not heen tamp- ered with and it was his right to call the cases in question then and there and the conviction of them would have been inevi- table. Did he do that, however ? Certain- ly not. He allowed the cases to go over until counsel for the accused would have ample time to fix the jury in the other court, and as a matter of fact they have not been tried yet. Infact fewer political criminals have been convicted and punished under the administiation.of JOAN WEAVER, as Dis- trict Attorney, than under that of any prosecuting attorney that Philadelphia has had in the past twenty years. No, the selection of JOHN WEAVER as the Republican candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia by Insurance Commissioner DURHAM was not for the purpose of giving the people good government. It was ob- viously for the purpose of perpetuating the power of the machine over the city by fool- ing the public. JOHN WEAVER as Dis- trict Attorney has served the machine so well that Mr. DURHAM has come to the conclusion that he is entitled to promotion and with the view of thus rewarding him he was chosen as the candiate for Mayor. Organization of the Legisiature, The QUAY machine failed in none of its expectations in the organization of the Leg- islature on Tuesday. There wasn’t a vote against the slated candidate for Speaker in the cancus and the nomination of Senator PENROSE for re-election was unanimous. The insurgents all turned in and took QUAY’S orders with equal alacrity if not with the same relish as the machine servi- tors. No protest was made against any- thing that was said or done by those who represented the authority of the boss in the direction of affairs. QUAY’S control is more absolute thau it ever was before in the history of the politics of Pennsylvania. Not much can be said against the person- al character of Speaker WALTON. Bat the manner of his nomination was an insult to the intelligence as well as the manhood of the Representatives in the Legislature. He was the choice of no considerable number of his associates on the floor. Immediate- ly after the election Philadelphia Represen- tatives canvassed the State in search of a Speaker in order to head WALTON off. Country members freely asserted that the big city already had more than its share of the party favors and they wanted to vote for a candidate for Speaker from the inter- ior. But when Quay declared that WAL- TON was to be the candidate all opposition was instantly withdrawn and Mr. WALTON was unauimously nominated. The rest of the work of organization was left to the ‘‘slate committee.”” That is to say the selection of the several clerks and other officers was committed to a group of picked men who will name obedient ser- vants of the machine for each of the vari- ous places and if thereare not enough to go around a few extras will be appointed and their comfortable salaries will be paid ont of the sinking fund, unless, as in 1897, an indemnilying bond can be worked on the State Treasury. . The situation presents an interesting prospect and the public will await developments with curious concern. An Improbable Notion. The Philadelphia Ledger expresses the belief that Governor-elect PENNYPACKER will appoint HAMPTON L. CARSON, of Philadelphia, to the office of Attorney Gen- eral, the opposition of the machine to the contrary notwithstanding. It may be said, bowever, that the wish is father to the thought and that our contemporary’s state- ment ought to be put in the shape of a hope rather than a belief. We have no doubt that the Goyvernor-elect would like to appoint Mr. CARSON. He is an excel- lent lawyer, a charming gentleman who ‘‘bas a taste for books,’”’ and would be a congenial companion to the amiable Gover- nor-elect during his residence in Harris- burg. But we have grave doubts ahout his ability, or rather his courage, to gratify his inclinations. Governor-elect PENNYPACKER will not break with QUAY at the beginning of his administration. If he were thirty years younger he might do that, for we are pre- pared to believe that the society of the average machine politician is distasteful to him. But he knows. that a quarrel. with QUAY now would condemn him to a life of wretohedness which would be simply in- tolerable during the entire term of his ad- ministration, and he won’t take such chances. QUAY would hardly prevent the confirmation of his appointees for that would bring the party into ridicule and re- proach. But he would nag him at every point, annoy him at every turn and force even those whom he had appointed to turn against him and sting him with the cruel ‘‘Javelin’’ of ingratitude. And QUAY has reasons for objecting to the appointment of Mr. CARSON. That gentleman bas never concealed his abhor- rence of the methods of the machine and probably within a dozen years he has not voted the machine ticket once until last fall, when he turned in and supported PEN- NYPACKER under the belief, which now de- ceives the esteemed Ledger, that the amia- ble old man would have the courage and strength to do just such a thing. Besides, Mr. CARSON made the argument which in- fluenced the United States Senate to refuse QUAY a seat in that body under the ap- pointment of Governor STONE. We should very much like to believe with our contem- porary that PENNYPACKER will appoint CARSON but if is improbable. QUAY went to Philadelphia the moment he heard there was danger of such a calamity for the ma- chine. ——Among the Pennsylvania corpora- tions that have enjoyed prosperous times and are not too selfish in the enjoyment thereof to give their employees a share is the firm of Raine & Raine, lumber manufacturers, of Empire, Elk Co. On Christmasday they sent each one of their sixty workmen a notice that after January let, their wages would be increased 5 per cent. A Bit of Legislative Piracy. Within an hour of the ‘‘eall to order’ of the General Assembly on Tuesday a neat little job was sneaked through both Houses which will cost the taxpayers anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000 a year and give not one farthing’s value in return. The measure was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Fox, of Dauphin county, the gentle- man who wanted to appropriate $6,000,000 for the construction of a $4,000,000 capital building two years ago. Senator HERBST, of Berks attempted to stop it, but the chair turned a deaf ear to his demand for the floor for the purpose of making an in- quiry into the purport of the little snake. After it had been passed, the Senator for Berks was recognized, but it was too late. The measure in question was in the shape of a concurrent resolution. It pro- vides that all public documents, such as the Governor’s messages, reports of depart- ments, special reports of committees, re- ports of public institutions, and similar state papers shall be published in the Leg- islative Record, a sort of journal of the pro- ceedings of the Legislature published in the form of a newspaper and supposed to be issued daily. As a matter of fact, how- ever, it isn’t issued with any degree of regularity or with any regard for accuracy. It is usually from a week to ten days be- hind time and the debates are so badly re- ported that no man can tell his own speech from that of some one else. These public documents are published in pamphlet form in great numbers ‘for the use of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives.” There was no more use for publishing them in the Legislative Record than there is putting an artificial tail on a worthless dog. But the contract for pring- ing the Legislative Record has fallen into the hands of a party favorite and it was necessary to provide him with extras in order to ewell his profits at the expense of the tax payers. The scheme was about as neat a little piece of legislative piracy as has been perpetrated in recent years. If it is a sample of what is to be done by the Legislature the record of the last session for venality will be broken. Citizens Movement on Foot. Ministers Issue Call for Public Meeting of Voters— Cleaner Administration of Boro Affairs Desired. Resolved, by the Ministers of Bellefonte, that we favor the calling of a public meet- ing of the voters of our town, without re- spect «0 political party, but who favor a clean moral as well as economic and busi- ness like administration of our borough af- fairs, for the purpose of determining the advisability of nominating a Citizen’s ticket for all the borough offices to be elected next month, men whose qualifications shall be, business capacity, good common sense and high moral conviction and courage. And that, in order to give form to this movement, we hereby take the initiative and issue a call for such a meeting to be beld in the court house on next Monday evening at 8 o’clock for the aforesaid pur- pose, and that we earnestly urge ail our citizens who favor the purpose of this call $0 be present. WILFORD P. SHRINER, ‘Methodist Episcopal church, P. McARDLE, Catholie church. H. C. HoLLowAY, Lutheran church. i GEORGE ISRAEL BROWN, St. John’s Protestant Episcopal church, T. W. PERKS. U. B. church. Wx. H. BROWN, United Evangelical church. T. J. ASKEW, A. M. E. church. AMBROSE M.' SCHMIDT, Reformed church.- R. CRITTENDEN, Missioner. L. B. HINDMAN, General Secretary Y. M, C. A. Rather Indefinite Country. Lady is in this From the Honesdale Citizen. The female teachers of Chicago are no longer to be rated as ladies; the school management committee having decided to change their official! designation from ‘‘ladies’’ to ‘‘women.’’ This is to he com- mended. In most European countries, the words ‘‘gentieman,’’ ‘‘lady,”’ and ‘‘gentle- woman’’ have a fixed and definite mean- ing, while in this country they have none that is generally recognized, and every one is at liberty to fix a standard by which $0 test the claimants to these designations. ‘‘May I ask, sir,”” inquired the hero of one of Dumas’s novels, of a stranger, ‘‘if you are a gentleman ?’’—an inquiry per- fectly proper and natural in France. Bat fancy one American asking this question of another! An affirmative reply, at the time and place of the inquniry,bad a clearly | defined meaning. In this country, at the present day, at leass, it. wonld have whe. This Man is Talking Sense: From the Wyoming Democrat. There are a hundred common pleas and orphans’ court judges in commission in this State, but schemes are already on foot to create some more judgeships when the legislature meets. There is no need for more, and some of them already in commission could be easily dispensed with without detriment to the public ser- vice. U. 8. Steel Earnings Are $132,6632,000. Cash on Hand for Year, After Deductions, Etc., is $54,724,106. NEw YORK, Jan. 6.—The directors of the United States Steel Corporation today declared the regular quarterly dividends of 1 per cent on the common and 1% per cent on the preferred stocks. A financial state- ment was issued showing net earnings for the calendar year, with December estima - ed, of $132,662,000. = The net earnings for the quarter ended December 31st were $31,339,613,an increase of $1,579.700, as compared with the same period of 1901. The transfer books clo-e for the preferred dividend on January 20th, and for the common on March 16th. From the net earnings for the year de- ductions are made of $24,528,183 for sink- ing funds, depreciation and reserve funds and for a special fund set aside for depre- ciation and improvements of $15,000,000 for interest on bonds of $3.040,000 on sink- ing funds for honds and of $56,052,869 for interest on the stocks. These deductions leave nndivided profits amounting to $33,- 841,565 for the year, applicable to increas- ed depreciation and reserve fund ac- counts, for new construction or surplns. The cash on hand is $54,724,106. The board amended the by-laws by in- creasing, the number of the finance com- mittee, and Messrs. Henry C. Frick and Robert Bacon were elected members of the committee. The board approved the action of the fin- ance committee in making the purchase of the Troy furnace and steel works, and of the Union Steel and Sharon Steel plants. . The hoard also approved tae plan report- ed by the finance committee for profit shar- ing and subscription to stock by the em- ployes. It was reported to the board that the plan for stock subscription was being well received by the employes, and that within three days after opportunity to subscribe was given upwards of 16,000 shares had been suhseribed for. J. Pierpont Morgan was present at the meeting, although it is not his custom to attend meetings of corporations when they are not held in his office. SCOTTDALE, Pa., Jan. 6.—As a result of the meeting of the employes of the Ameri- can Sheet Steel Company here this after- noon, ahout 600 shares of the stock of the United States Steel Corporation will be subscribed for by the company’s workmen. YounasTrowN, O., Jan.—The profit- sharing scheme of the United States Steel Corporation is meeting with favor at the Ohio plant here. Already there have heen 500 shares subscribed for by employes of the company. ——The christian crusade is both oppor- tune and fraitful, but when it enters poli- tics it is getting onto ice that is dangerously thin, Spawls from the Keystone. —Easton’s painters, bricklayers and hod- carriers have made demands for higher wages. —The safe in the Northern Central, station at Halifax near Harrisburg, was blown open, but it was almost empty. —While drilling a car in a stone quarry at Redington, William Pierson, of Easton, fell 4nder the wheels and was cut to pieces. —Eight Wilkesbarre policemen have sued Luzerne county for a day’s wages each for attending the execution of wife-murderer Lutz. —It cost $154,000 to run Lehigh county last year in addition to $145,000 damages to bridges by the spring flood. The balance in the treasury 1s $73,000. —Judge Scott, at Easton, revoked the hotel license of Thomas A. Kocher, of Kleck- nersville, against whom there were 57 counts for violation of the liquor laws. —Despondent because of an impediment in her speech, following a stroke of paralysis, Miss Amanda Gerhart drank carbolic acid at her home in Weatherly and died. —A stranger, walking through the Lycom- ing county bridge above Williamsport Mon- day, was caught by the east bound Buffalo flyer. He jumped to the side of the bridge and clung to the iron supporters until the train had passed. —As a result of a collision between a pas- senger train and the rear end of a freight train on the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania railroad, Wednesday night, at Cochrane seven men are dead, one is dying, five others injured. —Samuel Clark, of Lock Haven, has a relic in his possession in the shape of a pair of handmade leather baby shoes that were made by Daniel Eakens at Clintondale in 1850. The shoes are in excellent condition and show no signs of wear. —While returning from school Monday, near Paxinos, at Shamokin a crowd of girls boarded a bob sled and started down a steep hill. Near the bottom the sled was upset, and Ruth Miller, 15 years old, was fatally injured by being hurled head first against a. pile of rocks. —The DuBois Morning Herald, a new daily which was to revolutionize the newspaper business in that city, after a brief existence of three months has been absorbed by the DuBois Courier. We have known other dailies, which were to knock the spots off their competitors, die young. —The building owned by the Kiester heirs, and occupied by Harry Ball, the cigar ‘manufacturer, at Lamar, was burned recent-- ly. About 31,000 cigars, ready for shipment, and $260 worth of tobacco leaf were burned. Mr. Bail’s loss is about $900; he is insured for about $600. The origin of the fire 1s un- known. —On Monday while A. S. Kulp and H. H. Crispen, of Lock Haven, were driving fo Ferney they saw a yellow and black stripped snake crawling on the icy road near the resi- dence of Robert Simcox at Queens Run. The snake was about two and a half feet long and was as lively as if it were a day in July. —It is announced that William T. Hill, worthy master of the State Grange, Patrons ‘of Husbandry, will make “an ‘effort to be ap - pointed secretary of agriculture under Gov. Pennypacker. The present secretary, John Hamilton, of State College, is said to be anxious to retain the place, and the deputy secretary, Algernon S. Martin, of Lawrence, is also after the place. —Benjamin F. May, an old and badly crippled broom-maker, was found lying in his little shop in Beaver Falls Saturday night, sick and unable to help himself and dying of cold and starvation. He refused to go to the hospital, saying it was a ruse to get him to the poor house, but he was taken anyway, although it is expected that he can’t live long owing to neglect. —James L. Settles, said to be the oldest. block telegraph operator now in the service of the Pennsylvania railroad, having served in that capacity for a little over thirty-three years, twenty-seven years of which wasat McVeytown tower, has kept a record of all trains passing his office for many years. During 1902 there were 51,808 trains, an in- crease of 2,355 trains over 1901. —Ira Sides, eighteen years old, died at his home at Bard, Bedford county, on Saturday from a fractured skull sustained by walking into a door at his home in the darkness. He arose early Saturday morning and in his hurry to get down stairs did not strike a light, trusting to his memory to guide him’ about the darkened house. He collided with an open door, and his forehead struck the edge with such force that his skull was fractured. —Services commemorating the eighty-third. anniversary of its organization were held in the Presbyterian Sunday school at Lewis- town on Sunday. The most noteworthy- event of the meeting was the re-election of” D. W. Woods to the office of superintendent, a distinction he has enjoyed annually for the past forty-eight years. He is a son of the Rev. James S. Woods, D. D., who was pastor of the Lewistown Presbyterian church for more than forty years. —Michael Dell, a Slavonian, committed suicide in the Windber park Friday night and his body was found hanging to a tree about 10 o'clock next morning by his broth- ers John and Andrew and Steve Polish, who, when they saw the suicide swinging between the branches and the snow, took to their heels and ran to notify the police authorities and Justice M. E. Sell, of Windber. The latter went to the park and cut the body down. —Howard E. Perry, of Lock Haven, a member of Company H, Twelfth regiment, won a bride while he encamped with his command at Columbia park, at Shenandoah. The love affair, which has its origin during the anthracite coal strike of 1902, culminated in a wedding at Shenandoah on Christmas eve, the bride being Miss Martha Gable, of that town. The marriage was solemnized at 8 o’clock at the parsonage and was followed by a reception and wedding supper given at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Gable. Mr. and Mrs. Perry will reside at Lock Haven. They arrived there from their wedding trip on Friday evening last. :
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