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CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop.
“EMBALMED
ROTTEN BEEF”
It Was Furnished to Our Soldiers
During the War
GENERAL MILES SUSTAINED
Has Put His
Defamers in Was
Too Thin—The Truth Gradually Coming
to Light.
officer
Whitewash
How a Persecuted Army
Disgrace
It matters not what may be the report
of the military commission inquiring into
the complaints made against the quality
of beef furnished to the army in Cuba
and Porto Rico, as the question is abso- |
lutely and irrevocably settled in the
judgment of the nation. The evidence
has been multiplied and conclusive in
sustaininz the report of General Miles,
complaining of the quality of the beel
furnished the army as unfitted for use.
Instead of strengthening the soldiers it
enervated them and did
more to impair the efficiency of the army
by sickness,
than the inhospitable climate and caused
more deaths than the guns of the enemy.
No inquiry has ever been made by a
itary tribunal that attracted the gen.
country as di
present inquiry
[here
beef furnished to the army.
200,000 soldiers in camp and field cx
a
the
from every section of the lan
local interest was quickened in issue
from eastern to western sea.
The testimony
scanned from day to day and there is a
settled judgment among the intelligent
and dispassionate citizens that the re.
ports of General Miles have been more
than sustained, and that the war depart.
ment was guilty of criminal negligence
has been carefully
or worse in providiog rations for our
It until
that the allegation of General Miles that
soldiers. was believed tely
chemicals had been applied to the beef to
protect it from putrefaction, aud that
this experiment was being made by the
war department, might not be clearly
established. Bat
startled within the last few
by a letter from Armour & Co
the country has been
first,
the
days
to
commissary general proposing the very
method of preserving the beef that (-en-
eral Miles alleged; and next, the testi.
mouy of the author of this method of
preserving beef and his relations with
Armour & Co.
Had General Miles failed in establish.
ing this most vital fact be would have |
been liable to censure under the technical
military rules for not stating the precise
truth, but he now before the
country absolutely vindicated in every
charge that he has made, and it is not in
the power of the government to binder
his complete vindication before the pa-
stands
triotic people of the country
There is hardly an intelligent citizen
in any section of the Uniied States who
has not carefully studied the evidence
presented to the military
about closing its investigation of the army
beef, and no evasion of the issue on tech.
nical points by the board and no cunning
board now
or power of contractors, can excuse the
government in refusing to accept the
truth as it is clearly and undeniably pre.
sented by the overwhelming weight of
testimony.
The people now know that the con.
tracts made by General Eagan and the
war department for supplying beet to
the army were either corruptly or igno-
rantly made by the war authorities, and
General Eagan stands today convicted of
falsehood in declaring that he had no
knowledge whatever of any process for
embalming or otherwise preserviag beef,
It was on this point that he excused, or
attemoted to excuse himself for his most
disgraceful eruption of blackguardism in
his attack upon General Miles. He de.
clared General Miles to be a liar because
Miles had charged that the experiment
of protecting beef was being made by
the government, when in point of fact,
as is now clearly proved, the experiment
was made and General Eagan was ad
vised ol it by the letter of Armour & Co
Unless the war depart.
idea
confessing it.
ment has abandoned all of main.
taining dignity and dicipline in the army,
General Eagan must be again court.
martialed and again dushonorably dis.
missed from the service,
The beef question is settled and it will
pow RO into history that through the |
ignorance or corruption of the war de.
partment, our soldiers in a most inhos.
pitable climate, were furnished with the |
worst possible food to malutain their
strength and health, The canned bee!
was, to a very large extent at least, not
only unfitted for use but dangerous to |
the health of the soldiers, and the refrig.
erated heel was worse.
What the soldiers nost needed was not
supplied to them, and the result was that
after a few weeks of field service before
Santiago the appalling report was made
that not over ten per cent, of the entire
That
army was fit for active duly, Many lives |
| of brave men were thus sacrificed and |
| the country now knows precisely who |
must answer for this fearful wrong to |
thousands of soldiers broken in health,
and to the
others whose lives were sacrificed wholly
sorrowing friends of many |
by the incompetency or debauchery of
the war department. Times
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BLOOD SHED IN SAMOA
Mataafa's Men Laid in Wait ter Our Sel
diers,
Apia, Samoa, April 12.~The American
and British
Mataafa's warriors and were forced to
sailors were ambushed by
| retreat.
In the ouslaught seven were killed, |
among them being Lieutenant Lonsdale
and Ensign Monahan, of the
Philadelphia.
A British lieutenant was also killed
i
JUDGE BIDDLE DECIDES
cruiser
Hooks
Admissible
the Bask in Quay's Case are
April 12
the
Philadelphia,
today that books
uk case, against
r Juay | yught so har i, shy
He defers his deg
OOK IS
LOOTED A STORE
M. Bu
YCArs
unel,
1
ago le * and
music store in Recently he
opened a larger store at Johnstown and
left the Philipsburg store in charge of O.
J. D. McKinney. A
shortage was discovered in their manner
Sherman and J.
ot doing business of about $150 which
they agreed to make good. Iastead
they sold out the stock at a sacrifice,
compromised accounts to get their hands
on ready cash, shipped several valuable
instruments away and with their wives
Mr
departed, leaviog Banne! in the
lurch tor about from They were traced
to Buffalo, N. Y., and some of the goods
were overed ‘hes were arrested
Ie
brought to ili
d over for Apr
aud whurg where at a
hearing were boun
and ou Wednesday evening were
in the county jail
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Clinton Cowaty Coal Lands
The negotiations that have been pend.
ing for a long time for the lease of sev
| eral thousands acres of land of A. H
Mann, W. A. Simpson and the Noyes es.
tate in Leidy township Clinton county,
were closed Friday and all the papers
the
signed and entered for record in the of
relating to transaction have been
fice of the register and recorder four that
county.
The agreement
ed gives to the operation to be known as
the Clinton Coal Company the right
the coal upon or under six
r the lease as record.
to
mine ail
tracts of land in Leidy township aggre.
gating 4 456 acres,
develop the lands and
The corporation will
agree to mine
100,000 tons of coal annually during the
two years beginning October 1st, 186g,
and at least 150,000 annually after Oc.
The which the
syndicate have leased are situated along
Kettle Creek Westport the
enterprise means much for that place, as
tober 1st, 1901. lands
near and
well as for all of that section of Clinton
county
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JAIL DELIVERY
T he condition of the Clearfield county
jail is no joke, though the complaints of
its unsafe condition have become some.
thing of a chestout. Thereare, itis said,
stonier fields plowed in Clearfield county
than that and last Tuesday
night two of the prisoners, Edward Viard
and James Morris digged through the
walls, lowered themselves to the ground
and made good their escape. They were
not missed until some time the next day
aud bad several hours the start before
pursuit was begun
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" "
jail wall,
Releases Him
The new bankrupt law allows a man
who is in debt to go into bankruptcy
His property is divided among his cred.
"itors and though it may not pay five
cents on the dollar, it releases him from
ever afterward having to pay his old
| debts. The bankrupt may again start in
business and make a fortune, but his for.
mer creditor has noclaim by law against
him.
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No License
In deciding a case at Allentown on
| Tuesday, Judge Allbright decided that |
under the loterstate Commerce law cities |
cannot collect a mercantile license fee |
from a transient dealer whose principat
| place of business is outside of the state, |
This holds good against boroughs also,
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For A Soldiers’ Home,
| It is reported that the Pennsylvania
railroad company has sold the grounds
and buildings of the famous Mountain
soldiers of the Spanish American war,
| from
| the sudden death of Samuel M.
! were clearing a wagon road on
| back of Troy
| residence of her aaughter, Mrs
Liemocrat.
BELLEFONTE,
SHOCKING
PA.
ACCIDENT
Peculiar Manner of Samuel Gra- |
ham's Death.
A FATAL BLAST Of DYNAMITE
An Feet,
Striking
Oak Tree
Him
Instant
Hurled a
the
Piece
Neck
A
In
tn and Chest
Causing Death Prominent
Young Business Man
IL.ast Thursday morning while our
press was running and not a moment 10
spare a telephone message was received
Philipsburg
Graham
The fol.
lowing are the particulars of the sad
8. M. Rhule, with Selden Pollard,
were eye witnesses of the accident
by an explosion of dynamite,
affair
Mr. Graham, Mr. Rhule and Pollard
the hill
Mine to a point where it is
intended to
large oak tree st
IL Was consiaer
the dynamite exj
L
chunk of the sol wood
15 or 20 pounds, and measuring
inches in length
was torn fr the shattered aud
IX
hurled with lightning velocity through
in the direction of
h his
length.
the air, and uoluckily
standing
g wit
Graham
The sliver
wise, one end of it
where was
camera struck him
strikin oun the
chia and crushing it and tearing a hole
ther tart
in his throat and the oth t crushing
h
a
8s breast
The poor fellow
M. Graham
1 of Mr. and M:
the
wa ae on
A (ra
lown
nan
and was born io twenty-nine
ness he was associated
Herd
d wholesale agent
years ago. |
with the & (
firm of Grabam
hardware dealers, an
Mr
of the local Masonic
of explosives (s>rabam was a mem
ber fraternity, and
was also connected with the Philipsburg
of the Sons of Veterans Last
amp )
5 mp ul
rst volunteers
of the Fifth
he became a
summer he was one of the
in the army, joining ( B,
Regiment, and in which
corporal
Saturday
The interment took place on
afternoon and
was attended by about a
B. of this
members of the com
Serv id
dozen members of Co place
and some twenty
pany in Philipsburg ices were he
in the Episcopal church
.——
OTHER DEATHS
STINR
Stine
Om
at
reorge Slive,
Jaries Monday
James
mother Mrs
Gap
evening
died the bome of his
of Pleasant
with
pneumonia which terminated in conges-
April
21st
He was taken ill typhoid
tion of the brain he would
He
to mourn his departure, his mother, a
Miss Mary
Emest and Harry
218,
have reached his year leaves
sister and two brothers
The deceased was
a member of company B, having enlisted
when the recent war with Spain broke
out. The
Thursday
cemetery at
ment
takes
the
Gap
interment place this
morning, Lutheran
A
attend
in
Pleasant detach
of Company B will the
funeral
WwW. E
in Poilipshurg, on Wednesday afternoon,
BURCHFIRLD-—Died at his home
after an iliness extending over a year or
more, with diabetes. The body will be
brought to Bellefonte and the mterment
take
There survive him
3
three children, Mary 8S, Nancy L
will Friday afternoon,
his
Shugert, dec’d,
place on
wife who wasa
daughter of § and
and
William, all grown
Mr
age and for a number of
Burchfield was about ¢ sears of
JCAIS WAS on.
gaged in the mercantile business at that
place. He was elected on the democrat
ticket as register of this county twice, in
'75 and "78 Mr
soldier
Burchfield was an oid
Murs. ALVIVA Ww. WAGNER
was the widow of the late David Wagner,
and after an extended illness died at the
}e in
Spangler at this place, on Friday after.
noon, age 76 years, 11 months and 1s
days. For over four years she had been
in declining health, The interment took
place on Monday afternoon, her pastor
Dr. Stephens, of the Methodist church
officiating. She was the mother of six
children, three of whom are living, viz:
Mrs. John Harris, Mrs. Jack McClellan,
Deceased
of Pittsburg and Mrs. J. 1. gpavgler, of
Bellefonte,
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Spain at last hay peace ; but this Gov-
erament has still to fight for it in the
Philippioes,
bearing the news of |
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1899.
|
ONE DOLLAR AND MILEAGE.
School Directors Who Attend Triennial
| For
Conventions
School
approaching convention to elect
directors who will attend the
a county
superintendent in this Tuesday,
May
City, on
and, will be paid one dollar ea
place where the el
These
the
amounts will
hy treasurers the
tricts nu the
presentation
vouchers by the attending directors
which was approved
March
| states that it shall
The same act,
"1
Yi
| Governor Stone 18, 1899, also
be deemed a misde.
meanor for any candidate to pay or
| cause to be paid any part of the expenses
lof any director
conveutions The penalty for such a
| violation is a fine of not less than $50 nor |
| more than $300
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Clearfield County's Almshouse
Editor M. 1... Mc(
field Raltman’'s Jour:
it has shelt
The a
in Clearfield inty under the
was fue
Since the home has been
ag
trict overt
lem of dist Weer
year,
ation the cost was $26 000 the fir
£24.000 the second and $20,000 the
year
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Will be Hanged
A wilh ber «
10 anger Owens Kiley
tog pte Y to be girl,
ceeded io sounding ber,
kt but only su
Owens worked
for the railroad company in Altoona, but
about 22 years ago went with his
family
tea of |
west
His wife was a Miss Smith
L
mont hotel,
Sis
South, proprietor of the Bel.
Altoona
.“-—
LATE NEWS
Vice President Hobart is not expected
to recover from his serous illness
The Philippines drived in
1
i]
are being
Lawton
. o-——
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST
wi route by Gen
for
in the jount assembly Wednesday was as
The ballot United States Senator
follows
Quay
Jenks
Stone
As 1
Quay stil
12 voles were necessary te achoice
| lacked seventeen votes of suffi.
him
.o-———
ENCAMPMENT
cient to elect
ND
It has been learned that there will be
po encampment of National Guard this
year. The Spanish war and the organi.
ration of the new guard has so confused
matters, as well as put the state to so
great expense that there are no funds for
the annual encampment this year
.——
Another Job
Owing to an increase in business at the
Moshannon National bank, Philipsburg,
it has been pecessary to employ avother
clerk, and J. Albert Walton has been se.
Mr. Walton
was the former postmaster of that place
.o——
lected to fill the position
Smallpox at Altoona
Three cases of smallpox have thus far
been reported in Altoona, All are under
strict quarantine
Do you pay your subsctiption ?
Spring fever is hard at work
Straw hats have put in an appearance,
Shower bath weather may be expect.
ed
Judging by the new woman's dress she
wants to be a self-made man
A fellow generally has to run if he
wants to keep abead in his walk of life,
It's funny that a fellow should feel
put out when be finds biusell taken in
A strange thing about the Faith
Curists’ doctrine is that it's no doctrin’,
| No matter bow leisurely a doctor may
plod through his earthly career you |
pever catch him boasting that he takes |
| life easy.
When a man discovers that he has
| made a mistake he begins to look around
| for some ove to blame it on,
"DEMOCRATIC
DELEGATES
How the Apportionment Will Be
Made This Year
5s DELEGATES IN CONVENTION
Where the Chang
Are Mad
Demo
A Loss of Four Delegates
Are How Aps irtionments
To Be Approved By
County Committee, April 24th
the
Monday eve., 24, the Democratic coun
ty committee will assemble at beadquar
ters, in Bellefonte, pursuant to a call of
K
tend the various matters of
County Chairman, J Johuston, to at.
importance.
who shall attend these |
Among other things that will receive
their attention 1s the delegate apportion.
ment of the county, based upon the vole
cast at the gubernaiorial clection, last
year
ording to the party
e is awarded for every
n the
unty
which
g NF
Kr
Wi
flaines EP
wy
Half Moon
Harris tw)
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A Unigue Case
Besides furnishing a remarkable case
of a regular term of court with no jury
trials, for either criminal or civil cases,
Union county now comes to the front with
another happening, which we suppose is
without parallel in the history of this, or
perhaps any other county, says the Lew:
isburg Journal. At the March term ob.
jections were filed to the report of an
auditor, by an opposing attorney, that
the fee charged by the auditor for the
services were too small, and should be
increased. The Court gravely sustained
the objection, and the auditor increased
his bill to the amount suggested by the
attorney the The
amount charged in the first instance was
on opposite side
below the amount usually allowed in
such cases
Centre county allornesys will please
make note of the above
A Law of the Sixteenth Century
Girls how would you have liked to have
lived under the laws of Hoglish parlia.
As for
instance the following act passed in 1670
ment of the sixteenth century’
“All women of whatever age, rank, pro.
degree, virgins maids or
that shall and after the
fession or
widows, from
into matrimony any
male subjects by scents, paints, comme ics,
washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Span.
wh wool, iron stays, high-heeled shoes, or
bolstered hips, shall facur the penalty of |
the law now in force against witcheraft,
sorcery and such like misdemeanors, and
that the marriage, upon conviction, shall
stand null and void."
Erecting Another Kile.
The Mill Hall brick works are A
another large kiln at Mill Hall. The
Alton city council have adopied the
Mill Hall brick company’s bricks for all
crossing and sewer inlets to be
during 1899.
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VOL. 21, XO.
FACT, FUN AND FANCY
Bright, Sparkling Paragraphs Selected and
Original
s Up to Date
‘ to §
morrrow
.) " LE 5 v -t, 1 .
most peoples’ live
daunge
r of trans
the reach of the law
¢, like hens, can never find
peo;
thing where they laid it vesterday
gE in its
wat it bas broken very few records
Common sense is a good thin
way, !
The paving material of hell consists of
ntentions and unpaid election bets
HH
be popular airs
rey. but
Box
: 4 ]
the =» locs whistle,
aq is for
ug epough
ess 10
yavoid t
une » it is useless
a wan that it is useless to worry
eshy people would undoubtedly fall
fl a great deal if they would try bicycl-
log
When you bave a b
ir-raising tale to
tell, always spring it on a baldheaded
man
Ove-half of a man's energy is wasted,
Only the down strokes count in chopping
ny is a good thin
ailing
on
but
il is poor
to set a hen oue egg, 10 save
EES
All the world's a lunatic asviem, and
all the men and women are more or less
insane
but
Care will kill a cat, don’t
as
you
care, a boot jack
efficient.
or a gu is Just
Some men who fool with a
can't see the point
the same
Man fancies that
taken out of him when he bas
his conceit
bent pa
but they feel it just
sometimes sin 1s
ost only
They have introduced hugging socie.
tiesin Idabo, to swell the church treasury,
with the following scale of prices: Girls
under 16, 13 cents for a hug of two min.
utes or 10 cents for a short squeese; from
16 10 20 years, so cents; school marms,
40 cents; another man's wife, $1.00; wid.
ows, according Ww looks, from 9 cents to
»
$2.00
for five cents and no limit of time
old maids, three cents each or two
Preach
Editors pay in ad.
vance and are pot allowed to participate
ers are not charged
until everyone else is through
Mme. Modjeska and her company
were playing one winter in the extreme
North, much to the discomfort of Count
Bozenta, the Polish star's husband, who
hates the chilly morthern climate. But
| at that time the show business was at a
passing of this act, impose upon entrap |
of His Majesty's |
| Count shivering from head to foot, in
| spite of the steam heat in the hotel. “Oh,
' my dear, my dear!" he implored, “let
very low ebb in the South. One particu.
larly cold day Mme. Modjeska found the
us go South for the rest of the season.
This climate will kill us.” “But =m
dear,” replied the madame, “the Sou
is dena.” "Ves" said the Count, “but
she is such a beautiful corpse.”
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