Shrunken Wheat for Poultry.
There is probably no bétter nor
cheaper food for fowls than shrunken
wheat. It is better for them than the
plump grain, as it contains all the
gluten and mineral nutrimentthat the
plump grain does, the difference: be-
ing that the latter has more starch
which poultry has no use for except
to make fat. Shrunken wheat free
from weed seeds ought to be the main
feed for laying hens. It makes con-
densed nutriment almost equal to the
fresh bone which should be used as
its supplement, and which serve not
only as food, but to help digest what-
ever elsedyesides itself is in the fowls
gizzard. =
Variation in Ensilage.
It is too commonly supposed that
ensilage made from fodder corn must
be uniform in its nutritive value.
This is by no means the fact. The
ensilage put up the last few years is
much better than that which was
made at first, when a large quantity
rather than quality was what was
mainly sought for. All corn ensilage
requires that some supplementary
food be given with it, for corn is not
a well-balanced ration. But some
corn ensilage requires more of other
food as its supplement. It is possible
to ensilage corn when it has reached
the earing stage, cutting up the ear
with the stalk. This is worth * twice
or thrice as much for the same bulk as
corn fodder sown or drilled too thick-
ly to allow it to form éars, and cut as
soon as it got into tassel.
Winter Feeding.
In most winter feeding operations
the cattle have now been brought
gradually to full feed and are receiv-
ing all that they have the capacity to
utilize. Experienced feeders tell us
that the feeding hours should be very
regular and the troughs always kept
clean. That close attention must be
given and whenever a little grain is
left in the trough the cause must be
investigated. Sometimes a little filth
will cause a little bunch of grain to be
refused, which must be cleaned out
thoroughly and that portion of the
trough cleansed. If, however, the
refusal results from overfeeding, then
the allowance must be diminished at
once, fora stalled animal gets “oft its
feed” and is bound to lose flesh for a
time, and these little losses so often
get away with all the profits. It de-
mands the closest attention, coupled
with good judgment to feed an animal
to its full capacity without letting it
have at timés more than is good for
it. Hundreds of men are doing that
very thing this winter, not with one
animal, but with a hundred, while
others are continually getting their
fatlings ‘‘out of tune’’ through care-
lessness and inattention to details.
Where the self-feeder is used, the
chief danger lies in getting the stock
foundered before it is thoroughly ‘sea-
soned. An animal turned to the self-
feeder too soon will founder as quickly
as thongh it were turned to the corn
bin and allowed to help itself. An-
other point at which some feeders
miss it, is in attempting to feed with-
out plenty of pure water.—The FEpit-
omist.
Good Cheese.
(Good cheese will stand up square
and have an even colored, not mot-
tled, rind. A cheese with a soft por-
ons interior will sometimes have this
outward appearance, so that the flavor
cannot be altogether determined by
outside examination. To quote the
Prairie Farmer, the moment you be-
ain to press the rind with your finger
tips you can begin to judge of the in-
terior of the cheese. If it yields
readily under the pressure of the fin-
gers, and the rind breaks or does not
spring back readily when the pressure
is withdrawn, you may conclude that
cheese is a soft article, caused by in-
sufficient cooking of the curd, a want
of acid, or both. At best it will have
an insipid flavor, which, as the cheese
beconies older, will become “‘off.”’
A cheese which feels so hard you
cannot press the rind is either sour,
salted too heavily, cooked too much,
skimmed, or is suffering from a touch
of all these complaints combined.
There is nothing more satisfactory to
a dairy enthusiast than to examine a
good cheese. To the touch it will be
mellow, yet firm; its rind will be of
even hue, elastic and free from puffi-
ness, and a sample will show firm,
close-grained, meaty cheese, buttery
and of a nutty flavor. In testing the
quality of cheese many experts do not
enrploy the sense of taste, but simply
that of smell. In many cases it is
Lest to use both taste and smell, as
the taste will often reveal characteris-
tics of flavor which cannot be detected
by the smell. —Dairy World.
Tomatoes In Winter.
The winter grower of tomatoes finds
it difficult to ripen the beautiful fruit
. of this warmth-loving plant during the
cold, dark days of midwinter. If he
overfeeds his charges they reward
~ him by a luxurious growth of leaves,
but set few fruits, while unless he
keeps them vigorous and healthy they
succumb to the artificial conditions of
forcing housé 1 The problem he
must solve is to check growth suffi-
ciently to cause early setting and rip-
ening of fruit without lessening the
vigor necessary for a full crop.
Different methods of training and
benching used to accomplish this pur-
pose have been tested at the New
York agricultural experiment station
and the results are announced in
Bulletin No. 125. During two win-
ters plants were grown upon the
benches or were checked in growthby
leaving them in the transplanting pots
which were plunged in the earth of
the benches; and plants under each
method of benching were trained upon
the single-stem system and upon the
three-stem system. A good degree
of success attended all the experiments
and the bulletin gives the detailed
account of the ingredients and
methods used in preparing the s0il,
fertilizers applied, planting and trans-
planting, pollination of the flowers
and general management of the house
by which the satisfactory growth was
obtained.
The variety Lorillard was used and
the results prove that, for this Ilati-
tude and this variety-at least, the sin-
gle-stem system is the best. The
fruits on the single-stem plants are
heavier and greater in number for
equal areas so that the total yield per
square feet of bench surface is decid-
edly larger. It was found also that
the amount of fruit ripened during
the first six weeks of fruiting is much
greater for the single-stem plants;
although in many instances the first
fruits ripened were upon the three-
stem plants.—New York Tribune.
Well Ripened Honey.
I believe I am beginning to enjoy
extracted honey more than I ever did
before. The kind we have now at
our house is white mountain sage. It
is very thick to start on; but we pour
it out into pitchers, and let it stand a
month or so in a dry room before
using. At the end of that time it be-
comes so thick that it will hardly pour
out; and when the pitcher is inverted,
the honey rolls out in one great
stream, and piles up in a dish like a
coil of rope. Then comes the fun of
cutting off the stream. The size of
the rope keeps getting smaller and
smaller, after the pitcher is righted,
until the filament is less than the size
of a common hair. This is cut oft
with a spoon; but the honey in the
dish is so thick that, when the dish is
inverted, it will take a little time for
it to run out. On dipping the spoon
into its beautiful crystalline surface,
it will dent clear down to the bottom
of the dish before the honey will fold
over the spoon. About this time, or
when the spoon is sufficiently weil
covered, it finds its way to my mouth,
but not till the spoonhas been twisted
over and over to break: off the fila-
ment. The honey is so waxy that it
requires almost chewing in order to
get it in condition to swallow, remind-
ing one very much of maple syrup
boiled dewn and dropped on to snow.
Well, this is what I call well ripened
honey; and any one who has eaten it,
when reduced to the consistency I
have described, feels very loath to eat
anything else in the way of extracted
honey that is not as thick.
If you have any one at your house
who does not like honey, set some of
the kind I have been describing before
him,
I do not claim that mountain sage
is the only honey that will taste good
when so treated. Any honey, if of
zood flavor, when allowed to stand in
an open vessel in a dry room, will be-
come thick and waxy if given time
enough. —Gleanings in Bee Culture.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Clean out the feed troughs daily.
A quart of feed for twelve hens is a
good measurement.
Split the carrots in halves and let
the hens pick at them at will.
The ducks intended for winter and
spring layers shonld not be made too
fat.
In spite of the work performed by
the patriotic American hen,the United
States imported one million dozen of
eggs last year.
Of two shipments of apples of same
quality to England last fall, one went
in the ordinary way, the other in cold
storage. Of the former a consider-
able per cent. showed wet on arrival,
while the latter were unaffected and
sold for more than twice as much as
the former.
At a recent horticultural meeting in
California one speaker claimed to have
secured excellent results in killingthe
peach tree borer with bisulphide of
carbon. Placing the drug in the
ground around the roots, he found
thirty-eight dead borers in one tree.
Some, however, have killed the trees
by letting the bisulphide come in con-
tact with the bark. Care should be
taken to not use too.much about the
roots. :
Are the young trees protected from
the rabbits that are hopping about
these nights? One of our exchanges
suggests to bank the earth up around
the trees, another to smear with some
greasy substance. The first obviously
can not be applied when the ground
is frozen, besides it is too much work
at any time, the latter we think is not
the best for the trees,
whole we prefer to wrap with paper
or-a bit of screen wire.
fatigue of walking
“drinks swallowed
and on the:
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Nature makes no new laws.
The world is what you make it.
Truth is a déad certainty; vet if
lives.
A policy politician never faces an
issue.
Thanksgiving
anxiety.
What men call results, ave with Goé
only beginnings.
is the specific for
The covetous man finds it up-hill
work to be honest.
A new friend and an old enemy will
both bear watching. .
The weakest saint on his knees is
too strong for the devil.
A vote without conscience back of it,
never represents manhood,
In this universe of puzzles, the
greatest is God's love for us.
God alone can change us. Others
can only bring out what is in us.
“No man has seen God,” but the
heart sees farther than the telescope.
We always know what a man is,
when we know what his faith says God
is.
The man who can hold his tongue
when he should, has the devil at a dis-
advantage. —Ram’s Horn.
WALKING, SLEEPING AND EATING.
A Scientist Points Out Errors in Human
Locomotion and Diet.
Everybody eats, drinks, breathes
and sleeps,and everybody who has the
due allowance of legs and feet walks.
Yet not one person in a hundred does
either of these things properly. That
is the verdict of a writer in a French
scientific publication, La Vie Scienti-
fique. He tells wherein people err in
these important particulars,and gives
instructions as to how the errors
should be corrected.
As to sleeping his specifications
apply more to France and the conti:
nent of Europe generally than to this
country. In this country few beds
are enclosed in the absurd heavy cur
tains which are so common in France
—curtains which eut off the supply of
oxygen.
It bas long been axiomatic in this
country that bedroom windows should
be open at night, that the bed should
be without curtains and in the mid
dle of the room and that the room in
the daytime should be exposed to all
the sunlight possible. And these
axioms ave what Lia Vie Scientifique
points out most impressively to: its
readers.
As to walking, the errors are con-
fined to no particular nation. People
of all countries walk badly, and their
mistake is in regard to the centre of
gravity of the body. It should be
kept as nearly as possible, in locomo:
tion, at an even distance from the
ground, Most people wabble, lurch
or hop in their gait, thus alternately.
rising, lowering and throwing first tc
one side and then the other the gravity
centre. This greatly increases the
Dg, an unnecessary
fatigue, which is accurately repre
sented by the weight of the body
multiplied by the sum of the distance
that the centre of gravity is swerved
either from the horizontal or uselessly
lifted and lowered on the perpendi-
cular line. Furthermore, care should
be taken not to walk on either the
toes, the heels or the side of the feet.
The foot should be placed flat on the
ground and the knee, ankle and hip
joints should be moved evenly and
each assigned to its just allowance,
and no more, of its work.
As to eating, drinking and breath-
ing, the common errors are generally
well known and as generally prevalent
as they are well known. Everybody
knows that it is bad to drink iced
liquids in great gulps, just as every-
body knows it is bad to gobble food
without proper mastication. Iced
in gulps do not
quench the thirst, food bolted without
being chewed does not nourish the
body. Both breed dyspepsia and
other ills. And in the same way
breathing through the mouth instead
of the nose leads to annoying and
often deadly bronchial ailments,
The Village Stocks.
In rural England stocks are still tc
be found. In 1605 an act was passed
compelling every village to set up a
pair of stocks and every place which
did not possess them was considered
not a town but a mere hamlet.
The stocks at Ufford are among the
few still well-preserved. The crimes
punished by imprisonment in the
stocks were theft, drunkenness, gam-
bling,Sabbath*breaking and brawling.
If the persons incarcerated were pop-
ular, their plight was lessened by their
friends, who brought them food and
money, but if the malefactor was dis-
liked he was pelted with eggs and all
sorts of unsavory missiles. A modern
antiquarian was recently prowling
around an English village and finding
the stocks, put himself in to see how
they worked. He did the job too well
and could not get'ont. To a passing
rustic he prayed for help.
‘No, no, old gentleman,” said
Hodge, “you'll just bide where you
be. You wasn’t set there for noth-
ing,” and the unfortunate scientist
had to stay in the stocks for some
hours till his friends found him.
A Good Start.
“I should not be surprised if this
Klondike craze wonidn’t be the means
of building up Jinkle’s fortune.”
‘‘Is he going to dig gold?”
‘“‘Hesaved up enough money tomake
the trip and then changed his mind
and opened a grocery store.”’—Wash-
ington Star.
At Gonoatoa in the South seas,
every man, woman or child on that
island who does not go to church three
times a week is liable to be arrested
and fined.
CURE FOR HOG CHOLERA.
RESULT OF EXPERIMENTS BY THE
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Wilson Believes That a Rem-
edy Has Been Found to Prevent the
Ravages of the Disease Which Costs
Farmers Nearly $100,000,000 a Year.
Nothing that has occurred since he
became secretary of agriculture has
@iven Professor Wilson half as much
gratification as the results of the ex-
periments that have been going on
finder his direction in Towa and Ne-
braska during the last few months in
the treatment of hog cholera by. inoc-
nlation, for he thinks the discoveries
that have thus been developed are
worth $100,000,000 a year to the peo-
ple of the United States.
The experiments, says a Washing-
ton correspondent of the Chicago
Record were undertaken in Page
:ounty, Towa, last spring, where sev-
aral hundred hogs that were afflicted
with a disease that has until now been
ronsidered fatal, were cured by the
ase of serum, and several hundred
more that were perfectly healthy when
protected by the serum were permit-
ied to range freely among those that
were diseased without showing any
affects from the contagion. Cighty-
five per cent. of the sick were cured
ind the healthy protected. Similar
sxperiments have been going on in
Nebraska all summer, but the detailed
returns have not been received. The
serum is obtained in the same manner
as the anti-toxin thatis used for diph-
:heria. A horse or a cow is inocu-
tated with the germs day after day nn-
idl no effect is apparent. Its veins are
then tapped, a few diops of its blood
injected under the skin of healthy
aogs has the same effect as a preven-
tive of cholera that vaccination has in
smallpox. There was scarcely a fail-
are in several hundred cases, although
the animals were exposed to the dis-
ease in every possible manner. The
same treatment was equally suceessful
in curing the disease when taken in
the early stages.
Dr. Salmon, chief of the bureau of
animal industry of the agricultural de-
partment, thinks that the average can
be increased to 90 per cent. next year,
because experience will teach knowl-
edge and wisdom. €uriously enough,
the cnltivation of the serum does not
injure the horse or the cow, and the
animal can be mused over and over
agmin every year until it becomes
aged, provided it given plenty
of those forms of fodder that supply
and strengthen the blood. A single
horse or cow will produce 1000 doses of
serum a year, and, if ordinary economy
is practiced, this wilt reduce the cost
of treatmentto 10 or 15 cents per hog.
Hundreds of: thonsands of horses
throughout the United States that are
now killed for their hides may be used
to save the hogs, and their value will
be increased by the demand thus cre-
ated for them.
The method of crltivating the serum
is
Lean be taneht at all the asrienttural ex
{periment stations and on the large
stock farms, and with a little experi-
ence farmers may be able to furnish
their own supply. The county agri-
| sultural societies. can take up the mat-
ter, and by co-operation their mem-
bers can reduce the cost and extend
the usefuluess of the treatment. but
in the -meantime Secretary Wilson
considers it his duty to introduce the
remedy and educate farmersand stock-
growers uutil they can take care of
themselves.
Secretary Wilson estimates the an-
nual loss from hog cholera in the
United States from $90,000,000 to
£100,000,000. In the state of Iowa
alone, where the statistics of the mor-
tality of the animals afflicted with this
lisease have been accurately kept, the
wmnual loss -is $15,000,000. He be-
lieves that nearly all this can be pre-
vented.
in the United States, valued at $295, -
126,492.
Since then their number an! value
nave been materially decreased by the
i sholera, and the figures for 1897 were
140,600,276 hogs, valued at $166,272, |
770. These hogs are worth an aver-
lige of $5.84 each. Towa is the larg-
valued at $21,182,330. Missouri
‘omes next, then Texas, Ohio, Illinois,,
(reorgia, Tennessee, Alabama. Missis-
sippt and other of the routhern states.
Phere was a decrease of 5.7 per cent.
in the number and 10.9 in the value
of hogs in tue United States last year,
MAKING GLASS EYES.
5 Before.
“The demand for artificial eves,”
said the proprietor of a glass eye fae-
tory in New York to a writer for the
Washington Star recently, ‘‘was larger
engaged in the manufacture of the
article in question for the past quarter
of a century. Last year we sold 35-,
000 artificial eyes, or an increase of
7000 over the previous year. Prior to
that our sales would not exceed 20,000
annually. The recent demand indi-
glass eyes than formerly, and one of
the chief reasons for this is that the
false articles are sold cheaper and are
made to resemble the natural organs
more perfectly now than ever before.
Hence the poor who are compelled to
wear glass eyes have little difficulty
in obtaining them, and rich people
are less sensitive about wearing the
wrtificial product when necessary.
len years ago an ordinary glass eye
sost from $6 to $7, while those made
to order with the pupil and the cornea
carefully colored sold anywhere from
B12 t0 $50. Competition has cut these
prices down, until now an ordinary
That was high-water mark. |
rates that more people are wearing |
In 1892 there were 52,398,019 swine }
|
est hog state in the country, the cen- |
sus for 1897 showing 3,737,970 animals, |
|
are worth from $10 to $30, according
to finish, Si
More gray eyes are manufactured!
than any other color ; then comes the
blue and next the brown eye. The
call for black eyes is quite rare. They
areonly made to order, and are seldom,
if ever, kept in stock. Opthslmia hos-
pitals are the largest consumers of
false eyes. These institutions buy in
quantities, and naturally obtain their
supply at reduced rates. They gen-
erally purchase the ready-made eyes,
which are used on poor patients who
are not in a financial position to be
fastidious either as to the quality or
finish of the article... We have hun-
dreds of customers scattered all over
the country, for all of whom we keep
duplicates, ready to ship when ordered.
The best glass eyes do not last for
more than a year, owing to the action
of such moisture as the tear, the acids
of which affect the enamel, roughen
the edges of the surface and very
often cause a painful irritation of the
eyelids.
*‘The process of manufacture is in-
teresting. In its initial stage the eye
is a long, slender stick of enamel, made
of perfectly transparent and fusible
flint glass. This is put into a cruci-
ble and exposed to a great heat. Now
the globbmaker places the enamel over
a blowpipe supplied with air, which is
pumped by a machine into a huge
cylinder and stored under water pres-
sure. Then under the careful manip-
ulation of the workman the enamel
tube is formed into an oblong globe,
just the size and shape of the human
eye. Next it passes into the coloring
room, where a correct tint is applied
to the summit of the globe, and this
is gently heated by a small flame and
continuously rotated. When it hae
assumed the correct form of the iris
more coloring matter is added to rep-
resent the pupil, and it is then cov-
ered by a thick layer of crystal to
form the cornea. This done, the eye
is cooled and sent to the cutting room,
where it is formed into small hollow
oval, with irregular edges. These
edges are again heated ‘and the eye
allowed to cool slowly. This temper-
ing process toughens the enamel and
renders it less liable to break. The
finish work consists in polishing the
eye, and when this has been completed
it is ready for the market.
An Intelligent Horse.
On Sunday a mover in a prairia
schooner passed through this city,
going West. He had a small drove ol
mules and "several horses, all loose,
following the wagon, and among them
was a beautiful sorrel horse, with
bridle and saddle on, but no rider.
People on the streets noticed that the
sorrel seemed to be overseeing the
herd, and wonld round them up ocea-
sionally. As the caravan reached
Central avenue the sorrel horse ran
ahead, and stood in the middle of the
street, looking up and down as it
watching for danger. = After satisfying
himself that the way was clear he
rounded up the herd and the caravan
started again. Having reached the
“Katy’ ie
went ahead, and, standing in the cen-
tre of the tracks looked intently each
way..
When the herd had partially crossed
the tracks he suddenly pricked up his
ears and hurrying to the rear, he
rushed the herd across on the run. A
train avas coming from the south, and
passed shortly after he had got safely
over. He hurried to the next track,
which branches off several rods from
the:main line, and, seeing a train
coming from the opposite direction,
rounded up his herd and waited until]
it passed. It was a most remarkable
performance, witnessed by a large
number of people on the streets. The
horse was evidently a high-bred ani-
mal built like a racer, with small -ears
and very intelligent head. During all
this time the mover did not get out of
his wagon, but left the management
of the whole matter to the horse. —
Parsons (Kan.) Eclipse.
An Egg-Joke Rolling. ¢
At a small social gathering the oth-
er night somebody started the egg
joke a-rolling.
“Did you ever hear the story of the
hard-boiled egg?’ he solemnly in-
quired of some one across the table,
“No,” was the innocent answer.
“It’s hard to beat,” said the joker
with much gravity. >
You can’t help smiling at these
| things, and after the laugh died down
somebody else sprung this:
“Did anybody hear about the egg
| in the coffee?”
( funny man, blandly.
More of Them in Use Now Than Ever |
“No,” said an obliging somebody.
“That settles it,”” remarked the
Of course there was another’ laugh.
ind then a brief silence. Itlooked as
| if the egg jokes had been exhausted.
But presently a little woman at one
| end of the table inquired in a high fo-
iuring the last two years than | have !
aver known it to be, and I have been |
sye sells for $5, and the finer grades
prano voice if anybody present had
heard the story of the three eggs.
The guests shook their heads, and
one man said ‘‘No.”
The little woman smiled.
“Pwo bad,” she said.-—-Cleveland
: Plain Dealer.
After His Autograph.
‘‘You are the celebrated Mr. Chum-
ley Jones, I believe?”
“That is my name, sir. - What can
I do for you?”
“Well, Mr. Jones, I:icame fo ask
you for your autograph.’
“My antograph? Delighted, I'm
sure. Have you any preference as to
its form?”’ ‘
“If it is all the same to you, Mr.
Jones, I should prefer itatthe bottom
of a check for $50, made to the order
of Snip & Cuttum, tailors. You have
the bill, IT believe.” —Harper’s Bazar.
It is estimated that North Carolina
mills are consuming annually 50,000
more bales of cotton than are pro-
duced in the state.
crossing the animal again
FEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
DISCOVERED NATURAL GAS.
Death of Dr. E. L. Slocum Who had the First
Well Drilled.
t
Dr. E. L. Slokum, of Lancaster, who
bas just died at Knoxville, Tenn., has
always been justly styled ‘‘the. father
of natural gas,’ as it was through-his
#xertions that a well was drilled on his
lot, and a sufficiently strong flow of gas
was found to demonstrate that his
#heory of a. subterraneous cavern filled
with oil and gas was correct.
The following Pennsylvania pensions
were granted last week: Frank Rush-
er, Pittsburg, $12; John P. Bush (dead),
Pittsburg, $6; George N. Stroup, West
End, Bedford, $6; John Williams, Plum,
Venango, $6; Henry E. Douglas, New
Brighton, $6; William M. Gates, Vic-
tor, Clearfield, $6; Hance H. Ferguson,
Taylorstown, Washington, $8; John D.
McAfoos, Allegheny, $6; David W.
Madra, Bakers Summit, Bedford, $6;
William K. Kingen, Mill Village, Erie,
$8 to $10; William J. Shirley, Altoona,
$16 to $17; John Moyer, Pleasantville,
Venango, $12 to $17; Daniel P. Foitz,
Kilmer, Juniata, $12 to $17; George W.
Thompson, Harrison City, Westmore-
tand, $8 to $12; David R. Ellis, Rock-
wood, $8 to $12; Isabella Wildman, Pat-
terson, Juniata, $8;. Sophia Seamon,
Denison, Westmoreland, $8; Susanna F.
Burch, Pittsburg, $8; Mary A. Larkin,
Chicora, $8; Jacob H. Weaver, Con-
fluence, $8; John Cuningham, New Ha-
ven, $8; George Lotz, Pittsburg, $6;
Samuel Goles, Braddock, $6; Samuel
Sentman, Altoona, $12; Joseph Boug-
homer, Munhall, Allegheny, $10; Thos.
F. McKee, Beaver Falls, $8; James N.
Lewis, Morrill, Bradford, $8; John
Shaner, Creek, Westmoreland, $8; Will-
tam Boundy, Zefso, Butler, $8; William
Askey, dead, Port Matilda, Center, $16
to $30; Theodore F. Jones, Kinzua, War-
ren, $8 to $10; Henry J. Porter, Harbor
Creek, Erie, $6 to $8; Thomas M. Myers,
Johnstown, $6 to $10; Ezra N. Emerson,
Union City, $6 to $8; William Willard,
Girardville, $6 to $8; William H. Smith,
Fleming, Center, $8: Bridget Murren,
Pittsburg, $8; Sophronia S. Markham,
Kinzua, Warren, $12; Charlies W.
Hyde, Mt. Pleasant, $8; Joseph Goss, |
sabbath Rest, $6; Ferdinand M. Tate,
Allegheny, $6; Augustus Metzgar, Hol-
lidaysburg, $8; William Evans, Brook-
ville, $6; Henry F. Harriger, Erie, $6;
Samuel Kent, Coal Center, $6; Freder-
Ick Dornheim, Allegheny, $12.
Samuel and Mrs. W. K. Runkle, of
Center Hall, had spent Saturday in
Bellefonte and’ started home about
dark. About one mile above Pleasant
ap, at a point designated the ‘“‘water-
ing trough,” Runkle’s attention was at-
tracted by a shifting light in the bush-
»s. Hardly had he made this discovery
when three men jumped into the road
and called “Halt!” The horse was a
fractious animal, and the sudden ap-
pearance of the men so frightened the
beast that it wheéled around and ran
down the mountain. A number of shots
were fired after the retreating buggy.
Mrs. Samuel Edgar, wife of a young
man recently employed at Oil City, was
found dead in her bed the other day.
Mrs. Edger a short time ago had her
husband arrested for desertion and
non-support. She had interviewed him
at the jail, where he is confined. The
»x¢itement in the interview is supposed
to have brought on heart trouble, Mrs.
[odgar leaves four small children.
The second death in the alleged poi-
soning case at Jamestown occurred
Monday, the victim being William
Jush of Williamsfield, O. He visited
the Birch family about’ a week ago and
was—soon—after taken iT, lingering in
great agony. The suspected poisoning
is still a mystery.
A judgement was entered against the
Fayette Gas Fuel Company, of Union-
town, for $173,132 in favor of the South-
west Natural Gas Company, of Pitts
burg, the same to include all debts ow-
ing the Southwest Company, while all
prior judgments are to be satisfied.
David McCleary, a prominent Demo-
erat of Quincy township, dropped dead
at the polls Tuesday morning. He had
driven to the voting place, a mile from
home, in his carriage, and fell dead
while alighting. He was 60 years old
and leaves a large family. i
James Bascome and Maney Caren ar-
rived at Greenville one day last week,
bound for Jamestown, N. Y., where
théy are to be married. Upon being
told the price of railroad tickets they
decided to walk the distance, 60 miles,
and save their money.
Charles Hall, aged 55, a colored em«
ployee of the wholesale grocery houss
of J. M. Spriggs & Sons, at Washing-
ton, was found dead the other evening
at the bottom of the elevator shaft.
He is supposed to have fallen into the
shaft. t
James Ray, of Neshannock Falls,
who has been receiving a pension from
the government, recently had it ad-
vanced to $75 a month. He refuses,
however, to accept more than $50 per
month, claiming that this is all his in-
juries entitle him to.
Frank Sutton, stoker of the battle-
ship Maine, who went down with the
ship in Havana harbor,- was a former
resident of Johnstown, and while there
was employed as track foreman for the
Johnstown Passenger Company.
At Bedford the election to decide
whether the indebtedness of the bor-
ough should be increased $16,500 for the
purpose of building a large reservoir
384 votes were polled for and 19 against
it.
‘While temporarily insane Samuel Mc-
Cune, of Jeannette, committed suicide
in his father’s stable by shooting him-
self in the forehead recently. He leaves
a wife and two small children.
John Johnston has been recommende
ed by Congressman Acheson for the
New Haven postoffice. He will be the
first negro ever appointed to a postof-
fice in Fayette county. 3
Frank Haldeman, one of the most
prominent business men of Columbia
and a member of the firm of George W.
& G. F. Haldeman, fell dead at the din-
ner table the other day.
During the absence of Mrs. Alice
Bentzel from home, at Eastmount, York
county the other day, ‘her children
played with kerosene and her son, aged
8, was burned to death.
The powder house of Drake & Strat-
ton, contractors, containing 1,000
pounds of dynamite, near Wilmore,
blew up recently, fatally “injuring two
laborers.
Trankiin, a city sinee 1868, by special
act of the legislature, is moving to
abandon its charter and become either
a third-class city or a borough.
At last Tuesday's election Wilkes-
barre decided by a large vote to be-
come a eity of the third class. F. M.
Nichols was elected mayor.
Gas from a stove caused the death of
a child of George Timble, Mercer
county, and rendered other members of
the family unconscious.
The safe of the United States Express
Company at Carlisle was blown open,
and it is thought several thousand dol-
lars were taken last week.
Thomas Farrel, aged 32, was Killed
in a mine at Willlamstown, near Har-
risburg.