BY P. GRAY MEEK. EE Disturbance Breeders’ Complaints. The handful of disturbance breeders in the Democratic party of Pennsylvania who are always clamoring for what they call a reorganization of the party, but actually mean to turn out tried, efficient and unsel- fish leaders in order to give less experienc- ed and less capable men opportunity to control the organization, in order to renew the threadbare agitation have seized upon the fact that the vote this fall was compara- tively light. Naturally enough the Repub- lican organs of the State are in accord with these mischief makers and the complaints of the annex organs. are promptly and earn- estly echoed by she, Jegulac QUAY machine newspapers. As a matter of: tact, ng, they ‘are babbling without ‘ynderstanding “the sab: jects of their complaints. . That is they are complaining of a falling off in the vote this year and making that an excuse for ani- madversions on Colonel GUFFEY and Sena- tor HALL when the falling off in other “off years’’ was almost if: not altogether as marked. For example in 1892 the vote in Pennsylvania for Cleveland was 425,264 and that for the candidate of the party for State Treasurer in 1893, 307,102, a falling off of 118,162, thongh at that time there was no fissure in the party and no factions opposing the candidates as those who are now complaining opposed them this year. ' Besides with its postmasters in every election precinct of the State ; its revenue collectors in every district; its scores of bank examiners; its army of factory inspec- tors; its anaherloes; pure food detectives and its hundreds of other officials actively engaged in getting out the vote of that party the falling off in the* Républican vote this year from that of the ] MCKINLEY vosgin 1900 was greater than. “the decrease of the Democratic vote as compared with the BRYAN vote of the last Presidential election. In other words McKINLEY’ S vote in 1900 was 712,665 and the vote for Senator SNYDER for Auditor General this year was 517,963, the difference being 194,- 902. BRYAN’S vote in 1900 was 424,232 and DEWALT'S this year, 240,305, the de- erease being 183,927 or nearly 11,000 less than the Republican loss. Decent respect for the pr oprieties ought to silence Repub, lican critics in view of these figures, But no figures that could be furnished or no facts that might be given would shame into silence the few malcontents within the party who seize every opportunity to dis- hearten and discourage the rank and file and to discredit those who are laboring earne st and honestly to haild it up. With these few rule or ruin is the motto. ‘They know of themselves they bave done nothing for the party since they betrayed ‘it'in 796. "They have not even attended its conventions, or advised or counseled as to candidates or platforms ; they have not contributed a cent to hear the burdens of eampaigns; they have not devoted a roo: ment of their time in conference with oth- ers as to party necessities or the party good; they have made no effort to encourage or strengthen or make more effective the par- ty organization. When Democratic coun- sel was sought they were absent; when Democratic advice was needed they were nqt to be found; when Democratic work was to be done they were too busy with their own affairs to bother; when Demo- eratic encouragement was wanted they bad none to extend; when Democratic expenses were to be met others—those whom they are now abusing—had to meet them. In fact these very men—few though they bhe—who are making the outcry about noth- ing having been done, are the very people who did nothing either to increase or get out the Democratic vote. In fact every ef- fort they have made has been to sow seeds of dissatisfaction ; to create divisions and dissensions; to belittle and make ineffective such efforts as were being made for the party good ; to discourage the masses and insure defeat for the sole purpose of dis- erediting the work of those who were giv- ing unstintedly of their means, their ener- gies and their time to build up the party and to have it crowned with success. To expect of these people—and tbank God they are few and far between—any other coarse than that which they are pur- suing. would be useless. They care nothing for their party or they would show it by doing something for it. Thev do not want it to succeed or they would contribute of their means, their time and their efforts to bring thisahont. What they want is opportunity to complain, even though they must make it themselves. And this the people understand. And this is why their criticisms fall on unheeding ears. It is why their efforts to assist the Republican machine, by discour- aging and attempting to divide the Democ- racy must fail. It is why the work they are doing to lessen the respect the Demo- cratic masses have for those who are faith- fully and unselfishly doing their whole duty to the party—whether they be Col. GUEFEY and Chairman HALL or other worthy and trusted members of the party— will prove upavailing. The Democratic people know these mal- contents and understand their purposes, and this should be sufficient. ——Piease know this number of the WATCHMAN to be a purely woman's edition as the managing editor is taking his annually hopeless hunt for deer in the Alleghenies and the editor-in-chief is in- capacited by trouble with his eyes—due possibly to his looking for Democratic majorities that did not materialize. We only advertise this fact because the last woman’s edition contained matter for an expensive and widely known libel suit and if there is anyone with a chip after this number please settle it with the ladies. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. am _VOL. 48 Another Rotten Corporation. The Steel trust is rapidly following ip the footsteps of the rotten Ship building trust and though the manner of ite organi- zation bas not as yet become the subject of | Judicial inquiry, it is practically certain to come to that point in the end. It has been proved by ample and overwhelming evidence that the Shipbuilding trust, was organized for the purpose of enabling CHARLES M. SCHWAB and J. PIERPONT MoRGAN to palm off on an innocent but too credulous public some thirty million dollar’s worth of worthless secarities. If the Steel trust is pus to the same test it will be shown that that corporation was organized for a precisely similar - purpose and on a larger scale.’ On an actual investment of less than $100,000,000, MORGAN, SCHWAB and CAR- NEGIE capitalized the Steel trust at $1,- 250,000,000 and sold to the public a bil- lion dollars worth of those bogus securi- ties, retaining sufficient of the bonds to make certain a return of the original in- vestment when the inevitable bankruptcy bas developed. That that period is ap- proaching is now obvious to every intelli- gent observer. The shares are now down to almost nothing and when the interest on the bonds defaults, as it is certain to do in the not far distant future, foreclosure pro- ceedings will follow and the confiscation of the property by CARNEGIE, SCHWAB and MORGAN will be the result. Thus that vast amount is taken from the earnings of the public in a few years and used to feed the insatiable rapacity of these money changers and an economic system which not only makes such outrages pos- sible but actually invites them is fostered by a party kept in power by ballot pollu- tion and debanching the citizenship of tne country. The ‘‘stand pat’’ politicians who hope for other opportunities to despoil. in the same way are exerting all their power to maintain the tariff schedules which breed that kind of legalized robbery and the deluded people are making their plans certain of falfiliment. Buta change may come over the spirit of their d.eams before the next election. Pursue the Subject to the End. We sincerely hope e that the resolution introduced nso the Hose of” ‘Representa- tives in Washington the other day by General DICK of Ohio providing for an in- suffrage amendments to the federal consbi- tution are being violated in some of the southern states will be pressed to the fall extent of its possibilities. General Dick is chairman of the Republican state com: mittee of Ohio and is inclined to be gay over the result of the recent election in that State. But if he presses his resolu- tions he is likely to find out more than he bargained for and some things which he would willingly leave undiscoved for all time. For example it is universally admitted now that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States were never legally adopted. Daring the period of reconstuc- tion when partizan passions and sectional prejudice were running mad and people were blind to every principle of justice, those amendments were declared passed though every man concerned in the opera- tion knew that they had never been hon- estly adopted by Congress or been ratified by the requisite number of the States. Since then reason has resumed its seat in the minds of a vast majority of the people and they are hoping for an excuse to revoke those amendments. General DICK'S reso- lution may supply the opportunity that is wanted. : Has General Dick counted the conse- gaences of such an issue of the question he has raised ? We imagine not, for if it should happen that the truth with respect to the adoption of those amendments shonld be judicially declared, the Republican party would not'carry a State in the Union at the subsequent election or any otber election. Even in Pennsylvania with its vast Republican majority if the negro vote were elimated thére never would be anoth- er Republican victory and instead of twen- ty-eight Republican representatives in Congress it may be doubted if there would be a dozen of that party faith in the Con- gressional delegation. We hope Generel Dick will force the issue. The Mormon Comedy. There is nothing more amusing in the political life of the country at this time than the comedy now under rehearsal at Washington, in relation to the seat in the United States Senate recently bestowed on the Mormon chureh by the Republican party. The bestowal of the great favor was with the consent of the late President McKINLEY, President ROOSEVELT, Cbhair- man HANNA of the Republican National committee and Postmaster General PAYNE and the presentation was made by PERRY S. HEATH, First Assistant Postmaster General and Secretary of she Republican National committee then and yet. Now all those gentlemen except HEATH pretend vestigation of the charge that the negro | that they didn’ know ‘anything about the matter. The history of the case may be briefly stated. During the campaign of 1900 the Republican managers were almost panie stricken by the ominous signs of defeat which they saw in’ every direction and set ahout to capture every electoral vote acces- sible and by every means, fair or foul, available. ‘The State of Utah had three votes and they were put in the doubtful column by all calenlators with the Mormon church and all its iniquities holding the balance of power. HANNA conceived the idea of making a bargain wish the church and it 'was approved by all the others. Thereupon HEATH was dispatched to Salt Lake City with full powers to act. He made an agreement with the apostles of the church that if they would elect the Repub- lican ‘electors and any Mormon of their choice to the United States Senate, the Re- publican managers would guarantee that he would be seated. The church jumped at the proposition and SM0OT was elected. . Of course Gentile sentiment in Utah was greatly outraged by the incident and the christian people there appealed to the christian churches of all ‘denominations in all paits of the country to join in a protest against the consummation of ‘the bargain. A most formidable force was the conse- quence and ROOSEVELT was the first to take alarm. Absolutely indifferent to honor and honesty he wanted to violate the bargain and begged the Mormons to put forward a less conspicuous advocate of the polygamous cult. . But the church protest- ed that it had kept its pledge, that the party should be equally honorable and SMOOT was elected. Now the Republican leaders are trying to pretend that they abhor polygamy and keep faith with the Mormons at the same time and they are making a mighty poor fist of the affair. eV | Roosevelt's Obvious Purpose. It appears to be fairly well established that the administration at: Washington not only fomented the rebellion of the people of the Isthmus of Panama against the right- ful sovereignty of the government of the Republic of Columbia, but that the Presi- dent actually participated in the conspiracy. ‘When he hastily contributed aid and com- fort to the Istharian.. rebels by Seelaring a | protectorate the conscience of the Ame ean public was justly outraged. ' But if he participated, even in an advisory way, and, that now seems certain, in the conspiracy | before the event, ‘he committed a crime against the laws of mations and an an outrage against the, principles of civi zation which will mak ican citizen hang his | Samigss Under existing treaties: ‘between the gov- ernments of the United States and the Re- public of Columbia, our government could not honorably encourage any part of the people of Columbia to resist she exercise of governmental authority in any part of that poorly provided and ill-equipped country. Therefore even if there were no prohibitive provisions in the laws of nations, an inter- ference of that kind in the Isthmus of Pan- ama would be in violation of every princi- ple of honor. But the very fundamental purpose of international law, which ie to help each constituted government to main- tain its just authority, has been violated by the action of President Roosevelt, and the government of the United States stands today in the estimation of the civilized world as a nation without honor or justice. What was the purpose of this obvious outrage ? Clearly it was to promote the ambitious plans of the clown who through a National caiamity was accidentally elevat- ed to the high office of President of the United States and would sacrifice every moral and material interest of the country to prolong his tenure. of office. ROOSEVELT appears to imagine that if he can embroil the country in international complications it will promote his chances of election to the office which he has already disgraced in various ways, and he is proceding in that ruinous course. The American peo- ple ought to administer to him such a re- buke as would serve as an admonition to his successors in office to the end of time. ——The Clover Club, of Philadelphia, gave a most unique Anti-Thanksgiving din- ner Thursday evening, in that it was in honor of the clergy —for semi-religious func- tions are not the usnal indulgences of the Clover Club. The object of this novel en- tertainment was, ‘‘to harmonize and set at rest forever all religious or ecclesiastical differences, in other words, to usher in the millennium.” Bishop Whitaker, of the Protestant Episcopal church, was guest of honor sitting at the right hand of Col. A. K. McClure, upon whose left was Admiral Sigsbee, commandant at the navy yard. Among the other guests were : Reys. Dr. Henry C. McCook, C. M. Boswell, Dr. H. Berkowitz, Jos. Krauskopf, Kerr B. Tap- per, G. W. Hodge, H. A. F. Hoyt, W. C. Richardson, H. O. Gibhons, Hugh Henry, Dr. Charles Wadsworth, Jr., E. D. War- field, of Lafayette College; Reginald de- Koven, Mayor Weaver, Ex-Mayor Ash- bridge, Direotor Smith and Judge Endi. cott, of New Jersey. BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 20, 1903. * Why American Schools Excel. From the Pittsburg Post. Alfred Moseley, the Englishman who is conducting the party of British educators through the United States at his own ex. pense, is a gentleman who knows a good thing when he sees it, and is honest and frank enough to acknowledge that fact. He is not oue who iniagines that every- thing on the British isles is correct, and that all foreign products are objectionable in some respect. Mr. Moseley has been keeping an eye on the achievements of some of the Americanborn and educated men, and when these individuals (he mentions Hammond, Gardner Williams, Seymour aud Parkins) cou!d go into British terri- tory, take hold of mining properties, put them on a sound and paying basis within a shert time, he reached. the decision that there must be something extraordinary in our methods of education. As he says: *tI'came to the conclusion that the United States is producing the kind of men that England is uot. They have a knowledge that our Englishmen do not have; they approach matters in a different way.”’ . He cawe here to study the condition that brought ahout such excellent results. He seemed to see two reasons for this : Firs, our great resources, and secondly our sys- tem, for he reasoned that resources without proper methods and system would be worthless. This commission is composed of such men as Prof. Rhys of Oxford, Hon. Charles Rowley of the Manchester School of Technology, Arthur E. Spender of the Plymouth girl's high school, Mangus Ma- clead of the Glasgow Technical school and Prof. Finlay of the University of Dublin, all picked educators of Great Britain. They have been making an exbaustive study of our educational institutions and the methods put in practice by American edu- cators. They have visited, or will visit before they return to Eugland, many of the lage cities of the United States, and during the past week they were in this city. This is the second commission that Mr. Moseley has conducted through this coun- try. The former was an industrial one, and on its return made a report which in substance said there was nothing new in this country or any methods in vogue here that could be made use of in Great Britain. The present commission, it is thought, will be broad-minded enough to appreciate our advantages, and courageous enough. to make these findings known. The public educational system of Aus- tralia comes nearer the American plan than any other country, and England might learn something from her antipodean colony, bat in scope and effectiveness there is no country on the earth that can in any way compare with the United States. When it was taken into consideration that vast a of public money are expended aspally ivan effort to perfect and make étter var public school system, and that ‘millions of dollars are donated every year by private individuals to our colleges and ‘nniversities, the Englishmen will under- stand why it is possible to outdistance the world in this regard. While American schools, public and private, are heing nurtured ol supported, {'those of England are compelled to drag /| along on inadequate appropriations, because it is recognized that within recent years financial aid to these institution has fallen off to a wonderful degree. Republicans Must Explain. From the Johnstown Democrat. The disturbed condition of business,out- side of Wall street, must be faced by the Republicans in the coming presidential campaign. With complete control of all forces of the goverment, with high tariff protection that they have always claimed is a guaranty of prosperity, yet the banks are bursting, the mills are closing or shotr- ening their time and notices are given of reduction of wages. When a like disturbance of business ex- isted in 1693, they placed the blame on the Democrats and the passage of a tariff bill that reduced the tariff. Now there is no fear of tariff reduction for at least two years and they assure us that President Roose- velt and a Republican congress will be elected in 1904; and yet the business de- pression has commenced under their aus- pices. “There is something rotten in the state of Denmark, but the Republicans do not ex- plain or cannot see the reason as they could in 1893. Is there fear of what their erratic president will do? Is the protective tariff top heavy and overwhelming, or dis- tressing the tax payers with its reckless taxation? Is the gold standard at fault, or has the legislation in favor of monopolies exhausted the resources of the people and concentrated their earnings in the hands of the trusts and combines? To ‘‘stand pat’ does not answer the question and 1t is up to the Republican party to define the cause of the business tronbles that have already occurred and the greater ones that seems to impend. Will Save the Macing of School Teachers From the Philadelphia Record. With such a producer as Henry C. Frick in the capacity of a candidate for United States Senator the Machine ought not to be reduced to the necessity of levying black- mail upon the school teachers and the policemen and firemen of Philadelphia. Should the great Steel Trust magnate of Pittsburg desire to gratify his personal vanity by the purchase of a seat in the Senate he could afford to endow the whole Machine without greatly missing the ex- penditure. Tenant May Vitiate Insurance. From the Hartford Courant. ; An interesting and far reaching decision has recently heen rendered by the Supreme Court, of Illinois, affecting fire insurance upon real property. A building was set on fire hy an exp'osion of gasoline, where the policy prohibited keeping that explnsive substance. The owner had no knowledge of the tenant’s breach, but the Court says that makes no difference, and thas the poli- oy is rendered void if a tenant violates its -1 terms iu such a way. wr AIRING 0 ‘called an the mayor aud the « NO. 46. No Scttlement Yet. Status of Affairs Relative to Street Car Employes’ Strike - in Chicago. Company Making Gains. Busy Scenes Around Mayor Harrison's Office Yesterday When the Various Committees Met. A Sympathy Strike Possible. CHICAGO, November TCI wand decided to-night by the Chicago City Railway com- pany to start cars to-morrow on the Halsted street line. This will make the fourth line in operation, the cars having been success- fully ran on the Wentworth avenue, Cot- tage Grove avenue and Indiana avenue lines. The Halsted street cars run through a district where the chances for trouble are many, and if this line cao be successfully operated the company will feel motets of being able to resume business in a very short time, even though “the attempt ‘by the mayor to secure arbitration should prove to be somewhat protracted. The day | was the most quiet of the strike. Cars came and went on Wentworth avenue, Cottage Grove avenue and Indiana avenue with very little tronble. All of them were under the protection of the police and they carried very few passengers, but they were not interfered with in any serious manner. The weather probably had some influence in bringing about these condi tions, for the temperature was low and a sharp, biting wind blew all day long, making it very uncomfortable for pickets and causing, the teamsters, who bave cansed so many of the blockades, to hurry along without paying much ‘attention t0 anybody save their own. z While it was quiet out doors, around the mayor’s office is was exceedingly busy. Toe council committee appointed ‘Monday night, with the objects of securing arbitra- tion, if possible, was in session the greater part of the day and evening. It mes the officials of the company and the representa- tives of the uniop, and induced both sides to agree to outline their opinion of the scope the arbitration should bave. : A com- mittee representing all the ' unions ex- isting amoug the city transportation com- panies called upon the mayor and while making no direct threats allowed it to be understood by inference that if arbitration was not properly secured for the employes of the City Railway company, a general strike would follow on all the lines in the city. Mayor Harrison said he was doing everything .in his power to settle the trouble and would continue to do so. More than that he could not promise to the men and the company. Following this there was a conference between President Mahon of the National organization of street car men and the council committee. At its conclusion Pre- sident Mahon declared that, he considered the prospects: for the settlement of the strike better than at any time hefore, | At 8.30 o'clock to-night Colonel E Bliss, representing the street car mittee with a statement of what the com- pany did and would not submit to arbitra- tion. This meeting lasted until late at night. Enforee What We From the Pittsburg Post. { The brutal and unealied-for murder of Andrew H. Green, one of the foremost men of New York city, by a crazy negro is an- other strong and unanswerable argument in opposition to the carrving of concealed weapons, and police authorities should start a crusade against the practice and put a stop to it if such a thing be possible, It is difficult to guard everyone against the brain turned individual, but it is possible Have Too. for lawmakers to pass such legislation re- garding the sale of firearms, and for the po- lice to institute such rigid regulations as will make the practice something more than a plain misdemeanor. Andrew Green was. one of the remarkable and splendid characters of New York. That he was not guilty of any disreputable act is the nnani- mous sentiment of everyone who knew him. His cold hlonded murder is one of the de- plorable affairs that are hard. if not‘impos- sible, to goard against. Striet regulations in regard to the carrying of concealed wea- pons would tend to minimize danger. Needs to Be Converted Anew From the Huntingdon News. ‘One of the leading official churchmen of Huntingdon recently expressed himself very forcibly in regard to that class of church members who do not support the church to the effect that they sbounld no longer be considered members of the church, All other societies expel mem- bers when dues are not paid. The poorest member can give at least a penny now and then and there are many who could period- ically give more than that small pittance. The man or wonan who can Sunday after Sunday enjoy the light, the heat the com- fort of the church, who has the privilege of hearing educated. consecrated men pro- claim the gospel and feel under no obliga- tion to help meet the current expenses of the church needs to be converted anew. Pay as you go; your church debts as well as your grocery bill. If you don’t pay for benefits received, the church cannot do you much good anyway.” Missing Girl Found Slatn in a Pasture. PEORIA, Ill, Nov, 17.—Miss May Hen- neger, who was supposed to have eloped, was found murdered today in a pasture near her home at Bishop. Her hody was horribly mutilated and half buried. Miss Henneger accompanied Fred Strub- ble, a neighbor’s son, to a supper and social given at the country school house, a short distance from the girl’s home, Saturday evening. When she failed to return her parents were greatly alarmed, but as neither she nor Struble could be found it was sup- posed that they had eloped and would be heard from in a few days. The discovery of the girl’s body aroused the community, but all efforts of the au- thorities to locate Strubble has proven un- availing. The condition of the body indi- cated a desperate struggle. The girl was ‘the daughter of Newton Henneger, a promi- nent farmer. ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. | the boiler-in- the, Spawls from the Keystone. —The annual Central Pennsylvania M. E. conference will be held at Harrisburg, ecom- mencing on March 16th. Bishop McCabe will preside. .—An order is being run out at the Duquesne works of the Carnegie Steel company for 100,000 tous of tin plate bars which are to be exported to Wales, where they will be rolled into black plates for tinning. —The Altoona Iron company’s works at Allegheny Furnace closed down Monday and the whole force of several hundred men is idle. The suspension in operation is due to the depression in the iron and steel trade, —Grampian, Clearfield county, is having a serious ‘time with typhoid fever and diphtheria. More than twenty cases of the diseases are reported. Some rigid and ex- tensive quarantine restrictions may be es- tablished. t —The body of 6-year-old Danko Shines Hungarian hoy, was found floating in the reservoir at Phoenixville, . Tuesday after- noon. The lad has been missing. since Monday. Death is supposed to have been accidental. « —At 5 o'clock Tuesday morning a train on the Goodyear Lumber road, near Bailey Run, at twelve miles from Austin, struck a landslide and the engine and cars top- pled into the stream, burying the engi- neer, M. G. Walters, of Austin, under the wreckage. —Boyd Johnson, 17 years old, son of Harvey Johnsun, of Muncy valley, Sat- urday morning, slipped from a stump while watching his dog run a rabbit, about two miles from his home, and discharged His gun, the ‘load entering his right side’ and causing his death in a few minutes. . 0 bill for $834, ‘approved by the Dauphin county court, was received last week by the county, commissioners of Lycoming county for the cost of the inspection of the state bridge at Field’s station. The commission- ‘ers have an idea that this bill is rather steep, and there 1s likely to be a legal battle before it is paid. ' —Lieutenant Fred B. Kerr, who is Just home from the Philippines, and his father 'ex-Congressman James Kerr were in ‘Lock Haven over Sunday visiting George S. Good. Monday morning they went gunning on the Otzinachson preserve and in a very ‘short time the Lieutenant had brought down a ‘big three pronged buck. —David Hurley, at work for Theodore Weast, near Newville, Cumberland county, has lost one of his eyes., He was husking corn Friday, when a long, jagged blade pro- truding from one of the stalks switched around in such shape as to be drawn quickly across his eye. ' The corn-blade cut deep into the pupil and blinded Hurley. — A “peculiar business transaction was ‘recorded at Lebanon Friday when grocer John Light transferred to baker William A. Garrett a 15 acre farm in Berks county, for a consideration of 7000 loaves of bread. The bread is to be delivered in quantities such as may be needed to supply the daily demand of patrons at Light's grocery store, : —W, T, Stahley, 70 years old, of Watson- town, died Saturday morning from scalds sustained in C. C. Follmer’s flour mill, in which he was visiting when a large) pipe of engi steam enveloped his head and ‘the upper part of the body, causing the fatal burns. Engi- neer John Derrick was slightly burned. —While walking through the woods hunt- ing for game in Eldred township, Jefferson county, Heenan Stahlman’s gun was dis- charged by the trigger catching on the branches of a tree, he having ‘failed to put the hammer down after previously cocking it to shoot a rabbit. The load struck his som ‘whoo was walking behind, almost tearing his entire head from his shoulders. = ) —Harry Thomas, of Emporium, son of ex- county treasurer Charles M. Thomas, of Cameron county, went to his bed room Thursday afternoon to get his gunn, intend- ing to go hunting. While pulling the weapon from behind a chest it was discharged, the load entering his body near the heart. His mother, who heard the report, ran to the room and found the unfortunate young mam dead. —Daniel F. Yocum, of New Columbia, em- ployed at Kline’s lumber camp in the Sugar Valley narrows met with a painful accident on Friday, while out in the mountains chop- ping. ' His axe caught in a bush and turned the blade in such a manner that it struck his foot. Three of his toes were completely severed and one other one so badly cut that it was amputated. He is a young man aged about 21. 3 —The Philadelphia chapter of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution at the year- ly convention in Pittsburg last week re- ported having collected $10,000, with which a club house will be erected in Manila for the American soldiers, and to be maintained by the government. The house will bear the scription : “Work of the Pennsylvania D. A. R. and their friends, through the Philadelphia chapter. —William Dickson, of Proctor, and Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner, of Lynchburg, Va., were married Friday morning at Montoursville, by Justice of the Peace Fackenthal. Up te Thursday they had never seen each other having arranged the match by correspona- ence. The happy groom is 66 years of age while the bride ie 50. After the ceremony they left for Proctor, where Mr. Dickson is the owner of a nice farm and where they will spend their honeymoon. —The Prohibitionists of Philadelphia will hold their county convention on Monday, Dec. 21st. The committee has recommended that in each of the forty-two wards, three women be nominated for school directors and the Women's Christian Temperance Union and church organizations will be invited te co-operate in an effort to elect them. It is likely that an auxiliary committee of 500 women will be formed to assist in this cam- paign for the election of school directors. —The butcher business has always seemed one that man could hold intact against the inroads of the feminine sex but even this has been invaded, for at Miner's Mills, near Wilkesbarre, Miss N¢' Barret has lately proved that a young I. Yan can make a success of the business. 3 bad a little money to invest and in looking about for a good investment found a butcher shop for sale. Although a novice in this particular business and much against the advice of friends she purchased the meat shop and has made her investment good and built ap a large trade.
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