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Denorraic af
BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Boston is said to be worried over the
high price of coal. President BAER has no
sympathy for Boston. Let them burn
beans.
—The Texas coon who is setting up the
claim that he is 150 years old is evidently
a left-over descendant of the original
Ananias.
—If other crops are showing badly, the
political plum crop at least, is giving
‘promise of an abundant yield at its next
gathering.
—When Governor PENNYPACKER gives
his dinner to the Justices of the Supreme
court we would suggest sour grapes as a
fruit quite appropriate for the spread.
—Rhode Island is to hold a ‘‘first voters
rally’’ soon and all of Philadelphia is de-
orying it as an outrage because it offers no
glory to the fellows who vote a second and
a third time.
—General FUNSTON now declares that he
did not swim the Bag-Bag, but the General
was very careful not to make this reve-
lation until after he had gotten all the
brag-brag possible out of the incident.
—We may not get back much of the
$10,000,000 of gold put into that canal,
but we can feel pretty certain that a very
large proportion of the laborers sent down
to dig it will come back to us—in boxes.
—A Republican exchange announces the
fact that its editor will vacate the chair and
purposes turning his attention to the livery
stable business. We presume when he
throws dirt hereafter he will do it with a
fork.
—The young man who wanted to know
at what hour they turned the water on the
cascarets at the St. Louis exposition had
thin gs almost as badly muddled as the
woman who wanted to see them feed the
lagoons at the Chicago fair.
—HOMER DAVENPORT, the cartoonist
who is on the lecture platform now, is said
to be under contract with the Republican
National committee for the campaign this
fall. It is not likely that he will brand
himself with the $ mark, as he did the late
MARK HANNA, but his change of base in-
dicates that someone has put the $ mark on
him, all the same.
—Yes, to be entirely honest we must
acknowledge that the negro of the South
does not have equal privileges with his
brother coon of the North. For instance,
down there he is allowed to vote but once
on the same election day, while in Phila-
delphia he has the privilege of voting as
many times as he can reach voting hooths
in which to exercise that right.
—From the wriggling that Mr. Attorney-
General —HAMPTON I.. CARSON—has been
doing to have the constitution mean what
it declares it does not mean, one would
take him to be not a very distant descend-
ant of the genus BATRACIA, otherwise and
more commonly known as tadpole. There
are times, scientists say, when acts more
than shape indicate the exact ancestry.
—Ain’t someone somewhere forgetting
something ? Really, we bave not heard,
nor have we seen it charged by anyone as
yet that the discharge of the thousands of
its employees, by the Pennsylvania rail-
road company is attributal to the danger of
the election of a Democratic President.
Surely the Republican press is forgetting
or neglecting an important part of its work.
—Yes, it does seem not only mean but
real little in so many of the fellows who
voted themselves into Senator QUAY’S
political pocket to be trying to crawl out
while the ‘old man’s’’ coat is hanging on
the chair back and he occupied with the
effort to reduce that over-abundant liver of
his. But we should remember that it
takes a little fellow to get into another fel-
lows pocket in the first place.
—So brother NEWTON BAILEY has jump-
ed into the Republican arena after a nomi-
nation for Prothonotary. Whoever per-
suaded him to do that ought to be bumped.
The Republicans of Centre county have no
use for a Temperance man like Mr. BAIL-
EY. They are going to nominate GEORGE
E. LAMB, of Philipsburg; because GEORGE
is just the very reverse of a Temperance
man and Judge LOVE is counting on him
for lots of votes.
—Here’s our hat off to the historians of
Kansas ! They have eliminated from their
public school histories the rot about FUNS-
TON having swum the Bag-Bag river amid
a rain of shot and shell and in the face of
the entire Filipino army and explain that
the soldiers properly to be credited with
this feat of gallantry are two privates—
TREMBLY and WHITE. It usually takes
the truth some time to catch up to a lie,
but to do it in a Kansas atmosphere in the
short space of three years is really astonish-
ing.
—On Monday six hundred more men
were laid off in the Altoona shops, bring-
ing the total number of suspensions under
the retrenchment order up to two thousand
in Altoona, alone. With a similar reduoc-
tion all along the line business prospects
are evidently not regarded as being bright
by the Penusylvania Railroad company. It
is well to remember that such conditions
prevail before the opening of the next presi-
dential campaign, for the slump that is in-
evitable will certainly be pounced upon hy
Republican spell-binders and held up toa
oredulous public as being merely occasion-
ed by the uncertainty of the out-come of
the election.
VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MAY 27, 1904.
NO.21._
Newlin is im Error.
The persistency with which Mr. J. W.
M. NEWwLIN, of Philadelphia, pursues a
wrong course in the matter of testing the
validity of the judicial salary bill excites
the suspicion that probably, after all, he
doesn’t want an honest judicial deliver-
ance on the question. His petition for an
injunction to restrain the State Treasurer
from paying the salaries under the new
law, heard in the Dauphin county cour
recently, was predicated on two averments.
Where Mr.
"| The first was that a Philadelphia and Blair
county judge couldn’t sit on a Dauphin
county court, which is absurd. Every law-
yer and most laymen know that under the
laws the calling in of outside judges to de-
termine a cause in which the local judges
are interested is not only proper but just.
His next contention was that the Dau-
phin county court, VON MOSCHZISKER and
BELL on the hench, having by mandamus
directed the State Treasurer to pay the ju-
dicial salaries under the act of 1903, it is
the duty as well as the right of the Dau-
phin county cours, other judges in theseat,
to restrain the State Treasurer from com-
plying with its own previously declared
mandate. Clearly that would be another
absurdity and the two absurd propositions
enabled Judge WEISS, of the Dauphin
county court, to hold Mr. NEWLIN up to
popular ridicule and allow the question of
the constitutionality of the judicial salary
law to go untouched. All that was neces-
sary was to point out the fact that Mr.
NEWLIN’S point was not well taken and
then ““flip’’ it out of court.
That the salary law is unconstitutional
is so plain that no intelligent man can fail
to see it. Bat Mr. NEWLIN’S plan of
bringing the matter to a test is not the
right one. If instead of filing a new bill
Mr. NE WLIN bad taken the VoN MoscH-
ZISKER opinion to a higher court by ap-
peal, the result would have been all that
he pretends to desire. That machine-made
judge declared the law constitutional not-
withstanding the fact that it isnot only in
direct and flagrant conflict with the funda-
mental law as clearly expressed in section
thirteen of artivle three,but is directly op-
posed to the intent of the members of the
constitutional convention as revealed in
their speeches and the proceedings of that
illustrious body.
—The tide of affairs in the Orient seems
to bave turned against the Japs. While
the reverses may be of only a temporary
nature the conservative observer cannot be
brought to figure anything but an tltimate
Russian victory out of it.
Pickwickian Litigation.
Little attention need be paid to the
statement that Attorney General KNOX in-
tends to begin legal proceedings in the fed-
eral oourts of Philadelphia to dissolve the
coal trust for the reason that it isa conspir-
acy in restraint of trade under the provis-
ion of the SHERMAN anti-trust law. It is
a conspiracy all right which not only re-
strains trade but regulates products and
prices. More than that it,is a crime against
public policy and political morals. But
KNOX ain’t going to do anything to it that
could be in any way tortured into an un-
friendly act. If he did anything of that
sort ROOSEVELT would have a conuiption
fit. A good proportion of the campaign
corruption fand is to be dug up out of the
recesses of that organization’s inside pock-
ets.
It is not only not improbable hut for that
matter it is altogether likely that Attorney
General KNoX will begin proceedings
against the anthracite coal trust and that
the performance will be in the federal court
of Philadelphia. There is no place else
that General KNOX could bring it, unless
he might take a notion to use the federal
court of this District sitting in Harrisburg
or Scranton and if he wants a pleasant few
days at intervals now and then from this
date to the time of the election at a mini-
mum cost, he will take it to Harrisburg.
But he has no intention of dissolving the
coal trust. That’s too soft a snap for the
Republican machine. It’s altogether too
liberal in campaign subscriptions to be sub-
ject to so crnel treatment.
What General KNOX will really do is to
begin proceedings against the anthracite
coal trust in a Pickwickian sense. That is
to say he will approach the trust in the
most threatening manner, calling it oppro-
brious names aud stamping his feet like a
savage foi the purpose of making any cred-
ulous people who may happen to be look-
on believe that he is going to tear it into
tatters. But he will simply repeat this
procedure at regular or irregular intervals
until after the election and then he and
the magnates will drop into a convenient
place and ‘‘pour a libation’’ to friendship
out of a sparkling bottle of the best brand
of champagne to be had and the litigation
will be allowed to lapse by default.
——1It the town council purpose putting
in the West ward sewer, erecting the new
wall along Spring creek and making the
contemplated extensions to the Bishop
street sewer this season, wouldn’t it be
well to be getting about it?
Cortelyou for Chairman.
Last week the selection of CORNELIUS
N. Briss for the chairmanship of the Re-
publican national committee, appeared cer-
tain. This week the indications are that
Mr. Briss will not be chairman at all, but
that the late Senator HANNA'S political
mantle will be thrown over the shoulders
of Mr. CORTELYOU, the Secretary of the De-
partment of Commerce. The President
himself thinks well of his newest selection,
a Washington correspondent writes to an
esteemed Philadelphia contemporary, but
he will not declare the appointment until
after he has had a conference with the
‘‘council of elder statesmen.’’
In other words the President would like
well enough to have CORTELYOU for chair-
man but he is very much afraid that the
old-line Senators would kick against such
aa arrangement. CORTELYOU has only
been a Republican for a few years. During
CLEVELAND'S lags administration he was
appointed a stenographer, where he be-
came 80 subservient and sycopbantic that
President McKINLEY soon afterward pro-
moted him. Subsequently after the calamit-
ous death of McKINLEY and the elevation
of ROOSEVELT to the highest office, CORTEL-
YOU became so painfully and persistently
acringer that everybody felt inclined to
kick him.
But the principal reason why ROOSEVELT
wants CORTELYOU for chairman is that he
knows that we are to have a boodle cam-
paign and that his Secretary of the Interior
will not be restrained by any considera-
tions of conscience. He is essentially a
political pirate and doesn’t care what ex-
pedients are invoked as long as they bring
victory. When he was a Civil Service
Commissioner ROOSEVELT thought differ-
ently about such things. Then he thought
that politicians like GROSVENOR, of Ohio,
and CORTELYOU were ‘‘champions of cor-
rupt government and vile politics’”’ and
would have nothing to do with them. Now
he thinks the contrary and hesitates to
associate with others than the tonghs of
the machine.
Changed Fortunes of War.
A turn in the tide of war in the far East
has materially altered the prospects of a
Japanese victory in the pending conflict
with Russia. Daring the early operations |
the Japs showed such skill and energy in
their military and naval operations as to
create the impression that their campaign
in Manchuria would he something in the
nature of a triumphal march. On the wa-
ter their attacks were made with such ex-
pedition and exactness as to appear to be
irresistible. On land they smote with
equal effectiveness and more than made up
in courage and capability what they lacked
in numbers and resources. But during the
past week conditions appear to have been
reversed.
For some bardly explainable reason the
sympathies of the American people have
gone out freely toward the yellow-skinned
combatants in the conflict. Naturally it
was expected to go in the other direction,
for the kinship of race was there to draw
us toward the Caucasion. Besides Russia
is our hereditary friend. That is in all our
troubles she has stood ready to render help
and resent injuries toward us. Her blind
adhesion to the methods of medievalism,
however, has probably produced an an-
tagonistic spirit, while the spirit of progress
in Japan has operated in the opposite direc-
tion with respect to American sentiment
toward her people and government.
The recent reverses on the banks of the
Yalu and the misfortunes in the barbor of
Port Arthur may not forecast final disaster
to the Japs. The loss of one of her hest
battleships, involving the obliteration of
one-filth of ber naval strength, and the re-
pulses sustained on land, are hard jolts,
however. But as resourceful a people as
the Japanese may be able to ,recuperate in
a short time and even under such adverse
conditions the tables may he turned again
before the vast empire of the north is able
to transplant its resources to the scene of
active operations. Russia is far from the
theatre of war and ‘‘the race is not always
to the swift nor the battle to the strong.”
Roosevelt’s Blind Confidence.
To any other than a vain egotist the Re-
publican volitical situation would be most
discouraging, but THEODORE ROOSEVELT
appea:s to see nothing admonitory in the
palpable signs of the dissolution of that
party. Last week the Republican state
convention of Wisconsin broke up in a row
and after separating into fragments nomi-
nated two tickets. In Illinois, after fruit-
less balloting for nearly two weeks, the con-
vention, adjourned last Friday without
making any nomination at all. The con-
tention is to reassemble next week and the
hope, probably, that a compromise will be
effected meantime. But the feeling be-
tween the factions has become so intense
that a reconciliation can hardly be expect-
ed.
The Republican state convention in Ohio
last week elected delegates to the Chicago
convention who, with the exception of Sen-
ator FORAKER, would be glad to see
ROOSEVELT defeated, and they were not
instructed for him. In Indiana the hostil-
ity against him could hardly be kept from
open expression. In New York the dele-
gation is equally divided for and against
him and the man chosen by them to pre-
sent his name to the convention, former
Governor BLACK, is an avowed opponent.
They will all vote for him and BLACK will
*‘damn him with faint praise.’”” But in the
face of such adverse conditions the Presi-
dent is going forward blindly, confident of
his election.
‘In the political history of the country
there was never seen an analagous situa-
tion. The dissensions in the Democratic
party in 1860, when the national conven-
tion beld at Charleston, South Carolina,
adjourned without nominating a candidate
presented something of a similar picture.
But then there was not the same abandon-
ment to defeat. In other words, the fac-
tions in that contest for mastery were ear-
nest and hopeful to the end, whereas those
in the present Republican family quarrel
are without expectation of victory and by
common consent propose to confer the nom-
ination on a man whom they know can’
be elected, and for the reason that the case
seems so helpless.
Tariff and Dull Times.
The order curtailing the working forze
on the Pennsylvania railroad is not limited
to that corporation. The New York cor-
respondent of the Philadelphia Press in-
forms the readers of that high’tariff tax
organ that it is a general movement
throughout the country and that it is the
result of a partial failure of the wheat crop
which will have the effect of vastly dimin-
ishing revenues and earnings of railroads.
Mr. JAMES J. HILL, president of the late
Northern Securities company, the corres-
pondent writes, returned from the ‘‘wheat
belt,” the otber day, in an exceedingly
disconsolate frame of mind, because the.
wheat crop this year will be ‘‘considerable
less than an average harvess.”’
There is reason and logic in this proposi-
tion. Take what are known as the
‘‘Granger’’ railroads, those which traverse
the vast west and northwest they are cer-
tain to suffer immensely if the wheat orop
{3%ess than ad average. In faot the trans-
portation of the wheat crop is their main
source of revenue and if it is considerably
diminished as compared with last year
their dividends will be sadly impaired if
not altogether wiped out. That will nec-
essarily entail a check in the renewal of
equipments and a paralysis in the indus-
trial life of the country. Thisis not an
imaginative condition. It is the real thing,
as every intelligent observer understands.
But we areat a loss to know how the
Republican papers and politicians will ac-
count for this slump in the industrial life
of the country. They have always guaran-
teed us that no such thing could possibly
happen so long as thesacred tariff endured.
That panacea for all industrial ills, they
have protested would keep the factories in
motion and the wheels of commerce hum-
ming constantly whether school kept or
not. But as a matter of fact there has been
no disturbance of the tariff. It is still
robbing the public according to its fancy
and they must find some other excuse for
the impending paralysis or acknowledge
that they have been deceiving the people.
Inexcusable Blackguardism.
An American horn resident of Tangier,
Morocco, Mr. IoN PERDICARIS, has heen
kidnapped by brigands or other outlaws
and the government at Washington is pre-
paring to send a flees of warships into the
harbor of the city to menace the lives and
property of the peaceful people as a punish-
ment. This is what the President calls
“brandishing a big stick’’ for the purpose
of frightening a helpless community. The
ostensible purpose of the expedition is to
coerce the authorities of Tangier into an
effective search for the kidnapped citizen
and his safe restoration to his friends. The
search and restoration is desirable, beyond
question, but the method is almost as
reprehensible as the crime. :
This is a new and strangely incongruous
manner of creating popular respect for the
American government. It is the manner
the blackguard adopts to secure his own
way among helpless associates. It is the
system the ruffian pursues in intimidating
his victims. It is the plan the bully in-
vokes to compel obedience to his orders
among those about him of inferior physical
strength. But it isn’s the method which
the government of the United States has
followed in the past. The traditions of
our country have hitherto run along vastly
different lines. Our systems have not heen
those of the swashbuckler and the pirate
during the period in which the country has
been forging to the front in the achieve-
ments of civilization.
It is the duty of the government to ex-
haust all decent expedients to discover and
recover the person of Mr. PERDICARIS,
while it is not certain that he is at present
a citizen of this country, though he was
born here. He has been a resident of
Tangier for many years and intimately
connected with the business of the com-
munity. He has grown‘immensely wealthy
and lived in sumptuous style and the
chances are that he has long since severed
his allegiance to the United States and be-
come a citizen of Morocco. But whether
that be true or not the sending of a fleet of
warships to menace the innocent of a city
because a crime has been committed by the
lawless is a piece of blackguardism.
Is Any State Law Valid ?
From the Pittsburg Press.
There will be general agreement among
belivers in law and inthe binding impar-
tiality of law with the recommendation
of “The Philadelphia Press” and Wilkes-
Barre ‘‘Record’”’ that if the next Legisla-
ture fails to pass apportionment hills some
one should take the initiative in testing
the constitutionality of laws enacted by
a Legislature so manifestly at variance
with the requirements of the supreme law
of the State. The mere suggestion of
such a possibility should act as an incen-
tive to the Members of the Legislature to
do their duty manfully and without fear
or favor. Public sentiment is to some
extent aroused, and in a few counties the
Republicans are organizing for the purpose
of bringing pressure to bear on the Legis-
lature, but the movement is not yet gener-
al. If the counties deeply interested in
apportionment should band together and
refuse to join 1n any other business until
the commands of the Constitution are
obeyed the defeat of the apportionment
bills would not be so certain. In any
event the test of all laws passed by an
illegally constituted Legislature is a per-
tinent suggestion.
¢‘Bless Me, the Thing Is Hollow.”
From the Lincoln, Neb., Commoner.
Several years have passed by since Mr.
Roosevelt made his somewhat famous
*‘shackling of cunning’’ speech at Minne-
apolis. Since then he has been elevated
to a position giving him ample power to
‘‘shakle cunning as we have in the past
shackled force,’’ but he has utterly failed
to make good the implied promise. The
Rooseveltian promise to carb trust rapaci-
ty recalls the story of a man who had
never seen a ship, but who was elevated
to the proud position of Secretary of the
Navy. One of his first official , acts was
to visit a battleship lying at anchor at. the
nearest navy yard. After acknowledging
the salutes of the officers and men he
walked across the deck and peered down
an open hatchway. Starting bad with a
look of surprise he:exclaimed: * 5 me,
the blamed thing’s hollow!” During the
three years of Theodore Roosevelt’s admin-
istration the people have made the same
discovery concerning his promises of trust
busting that the Secretary of the Navy
made concerning his country’s battleships.
The Slaves and the Bell.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
Newspaper dispatches tell us that the
Liberty Bell, accompanied by an official
committee from Philadelphia, will make a
pilgrimage to the St. Louis Exposition.
Newspaper dispatches also tell us that
among the interesting features at the St.
Louis Exposition will be 100 Moro slaves
brought from a territory under the juris-
diction of the United States and whose
‘people are presumed to be under the pro-
tection of the American flag.
The Exposition management expects
that both of these features will be attract-
ive. The management thinks that thou-
sands of people will be anxious to gaze up-
on these 100 slaves, and also that thou-
sands of people will be anxious to take a
look at the Liberty Bell.
The World-Herald suggests that the two
features be placed side by side at the great
Exposition.
A Democratic Duty.
From the Philadelphia Record.
While Pennsylvania cannot contribute
an elector to the Democratic nominee for
the Presidency, there is not the least doubt
that in a vigorous campaign the Democrat-
ioc voters if properly led might hope to car-
ry a few of the Congress districts now repre-
sented by Republicans. The presidential
year is always a year of overturn in the
Congress, and there are special reasons for
change in the Pennsylvania delegation,
which for years pass has shown conspicu-
ous evidence of dry rot. :
By naming men of ability and character
who are fit to speak for this great State in
the national councils the Democrats can at
least give tbe voters the opportunity of a
wholesome change. In this field ol effort,
and in the selection of a decent State Leg-
islature, the Democratic state organization
can find room and verge enough for strenu-
ous and hopeful assiduity.
How You Can Continue Them.
From the Savannah (Mo.) Democrat:
The Republican press is now getting
busy. The latest is that President Roose-
vels, if re-elected, would at the first oppor-
tunity send a tariff reform message to Con.
gress. Well, the President bas had sev-
eral splendid opportunities to do this for
some time, but he has graciously let them
pass by, Tariff reform is the only remedy
with which to curb the trusts, and if you
rely upon Republican promises, the trust
you will have with yon always.
Considerable “P” But Still Plausible.
From the Fort Worth, (Texas), Record.
Some alliterative genius says that the
Democratic slogan will be Parker and Pov-
erty. He might have unloaded a carboy
of P’s on his own gang and said that the
Party in Power is a Predatory Plutocracy
of Pusillanimous Public Plunderers, Post-
al Pilferers and Papsuckers, whose Plat-
form is Polygamy, Pelf, Pensions and Pi-
racy.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—John Shelow, of Tyrone, who is totally
blind from having both eyes shot out in
front of Petersburg, Va., during the Civil
war, recently had his pension increased from
$72 to $100 per month.
—A corps of ten engineers are at work
surveying a route for a trolley line between
Johnstown and Ebensburg, a distance of 21
miles. The route will follow the line of the
old Portage railroad almost the entire dis-
tance, thereby avoiding violent grades and
deep cuts.
—The tenth reunion of the Eleventh
Pennsylvania cavalry will be held in the
rooms Post 9, Grand Army of the Republic,
Gettysburg, Tuesday and Wednesday, June
7th and 8th. This is the same time as the
state encampment of the Grand Army will
be held, thus giving the boys the benefit of
excursion rates.
—Judge Stewart, in court at York, has
handed down a decree in which he decides
that all court records in the clerk of courts
office, prothonotary’s office and other offices
in connection with the courts of York coun-
ty are open to the inspection of the public.
The decree also states the clerks must pro-
duce any records of the courts for inspection
of any citizens, without charging fee for such
service.
—While sleeping in a drunken stupor,
Rose Wythowaik, aged 46 years and the
mother of five sons and two daughters, was
so fearfully burned by upsetting a kerosene
lamp Monday morning at 4:30 o’clock at her
home in Shamokin, that she died in great
agony a few hours later. The burned flesh
hung on her arms and hands in shreds and a
Mrs. Garborish, at the request of the suffer-
er, used a pair of scissors in cutting off the
blackened strips of skin.
—The organization having Clearfield
county’s centennial celebration in hand held
a meeting Saturday night and changed the
date, whieh was first fixed for Fourth of
July week. It was decided to hold the cele-
bration on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th of
July. The change was made largely be-
cause many communities in the county want
to have their own Fourth of July celebra-
tions and picnies, and the dates as revised
will not interfere, allowing all to go to the
county centennial.
—Thbe monthly report of the Employees’
Relief fund of the Pennsylvania railroad
company’s lines east of Pittsburg and Erie
shows that the payments for April of bene-
fits to its members who have died amounted
to $142,717.93, of which $75,250.80 was on
account of death and $67,467.13 on account of
disablement by sickness and accident. The
payments thus far made have amounted in
the aggregate to $12,121,686.01, of which $5,-
058,066.31 was on account of death of mem-
bers and $7,063,619.70 on account of disable-
ment.
—Judge Ermentrout, of Berks county
says teachers have a perfect right to whip
pupils who persistently refuse to obey the
rules under ordinary means of punishment.
A teacher of that county was arrested and
brought to trial by an irate father whose son
had felt the correcting influence of a fair-
sized strap. It was shown the boy was inat-
tentive to his studies, disobedient to the point
of defiance and refused to be moved by kind-
ness. .The strap was then resorted to but
not with undue severity. The court direct-
ed a verdict of acquittal.
—The Wellsboro Advocate tells of a case of
neck dislocation at Blossburg, Tioga county,
caused by eating candy. The Advocate says :
Grace, the 6 years’ old daughter of Mrs. Ar-
thur Smith, of Blosshurg, met with a pecu-
liar accident. She was engaged in eat-
ing a piece of flexible licorice and pulling it
from her mouth, the extensior. of the head
was great, when suddenly the licorice parted
and her head flew back, dislocating her
neck. She fell to the ground. The pres-
sure of the bone on the spinal cord paralyz-
ed her entire body. It took a doctor some
time to reduce the dislocation. The girl will
probably recover.
—*“Black Spot,” the negro condemned to
death for killing foreman John Williamson,
of the B. and 8. railroad company near Du-
Bois, on the 29th of last September, and who
was refused a new trial by the Supreme
court, has made a confession of his guilt, and
confesses to three other murders,one of them
on the new work of the Wabash railroad, in
Washington, not long before going to Du-
Bois. His confession was dictated to deputy
sheriff H. M. Carlisle Tuesday morning, and
that was as far as he would talk of the past.
He had a friendly feeling for sheriff Staver
and his deputy, the latter having charge of
the prisoners much of the time, because of
the fair treatment which he received since
being placed in jail, and he was willing to
talk} to his keeper when he was not to any-
body else. .
—The people who are given to squirm and
scold and complain at little inconveniences
that cross their paths in life will please stand
up and listen for a moment: When T. S.
Coon, of Ridgway, went to his stable to milk
the other morning he found his best cow,
worth $65 lying dead, a passing freight train
having killed her in the night. This unfor-
tunate accident set Mr. Coon to counting up
the hard knocks he has had in the last nine
months. Last September a daughter was
taken with appendicitis, and had to be
taken to the hospital and operated upon,
In January last another daughter went
through the same operation, and on the 2nd
of March a little son was taken to the hos-
pital with typhoid fever. On Tuesday
morning last, a passenger train hit and kill.
ed a fine Plymouth Rock rooster weighing 12
pounds, and then the prize cow was killed.
—For more than a year Thomas H. Hart-
ley, of Morrisdale Mines, has been exper-
iencing peculiar trouble with his stomach,
and frequently, especially while at work in
the mines, the evidences were very clear to
him that he was carrying about in his stom-
ach a living object. He had consulted phy-
sicians, who thought he must be mistaken,
as it would be difficult for anything to live
very long in the stomach. A few days ago
he began to fast and placed himself in the
hands of Dr. H. A. Collins, of Morrisdale,
for treatment. The effects of the latter
Thursday resulted in the removal of a lizard
fully four inches in length. . The medicine
administered had presumably killed the lit-
tle critter, as it was dead when removed.
Mr. Hartley feels very much relieved, as a
natural consequence. Dr. Collins will pre-
serve the lizard in alcohol.