Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-04-14

LIE hihE OF Siam expects to visit
the United States the coming sum.
mer.
School book men. and school map
nsn are among school directors try
ing to work the directors into buy
ing their rehashed books and maps.
1t Is time that taxpayers look into
the expenditures of the schools.
JUDGE LYONS. holdipg court al
PottsviIls last week, refused to quasi
the indictment against E. A. Valken
berg, who is charged with conspir
ing to bribe certain member of the
Legislature to vote for John Wapa
maker for United States Senator.
AN actress in New York want:
twenty five thousand dollars from
Frank W. Brown, for damages fol-
tricking her in a marriage with him
Browa makes answer in Court, tina,
1t was ne who was tricksd into the
marriage with the actress, ell OF
which proves that there was a trick
In their marriage somewhere.
The big armor plate mile at Bsth.
lebam, and Carnegie have refused to
take the governments offer of $500 a
ton for armor plate, and that has ex.
excited some Congressmen to such
IN intemperative degree that they
desire government to take the Beth
lehcm and Carnegie plants and run
them till they have enough plate to
complete number OF uncompleted
war ships. If the government can
get other responsible mills to make
pla;e for them they may do go but
for them to siezs the plants of Beth.
lehem and Carnegie, would be an ac t
OF despotism not to be thought of
Dy aSsne or sober man.
EDITOR Swallows wrestle with the
Legislature is becoming interesting.
and the proper thing for the Legis-
lature TO do is to give the Doctor the
right kind of chance. His charges
re.ate to public affairs and the pco-
pie viii be satisfied with nothing
short of fair and open treatment in
every particular. The pubic had
been made to believe that The fire
that burned the Capitol building or
ISlnated between ceilings, but last
week, defore the Legislative investi.
eating committee, Charles Stock, q
fireman, testified, that he found fire
III closet in the cellar of the build
ing Stand back, fair play, give the
Doctor chance.
iHE Joint committee Of the Legis-
iature Investigating the HaI2iy buTg
capitol fire, made several eff Y,r!s l., #
week to get Editor Swallow to give The
names of persons who gave him in
formation as 10 crooked WAYS r.,
capitol hill but he steadily refused,
because OF the libel suite pending
against him. He however, declared,
that woman who he had summoned
as witness, was turned from him
by the present of gold watch and
that another witness had been offer.
ed three hundred dollars. Charles
Stock, fireman, one of the Doctors
Witnesses, tcld about getting into the
cellar of the burning Capitol and
finding closet on fire. He thought
this was evidence that the place had
been fired by incendiaries. All the
Official accounts at the time of the
fire had located the origin of the
flames at the back and base Of the
open hearth CRATE in the Lieutenant
Governors room on the second floor.
IHE democratic brethren, are re-
Joieipg over the fact, that ct the late
municipal election in Chicago, the
democrats elected their mayor bv a
ZarGe majority. The election has ne
significance relative to national poll
ties. The matter that caused the
change in The voting since last fall
was local matter. 1t was the cues
ton of drink. The Republicans have
been trying to draw the lines on the
drinking habit ard many of their
well meaning men went SO far as to
favor the abolition of the liquor
traffic. There is a large percentage
OF peopie IN. Chicago who occasionally
take a drink, but are rot habitual
and never drink 10 insoxiea-
tion, they despise the man who de
bauches himself ss drunkard. The
men who take drink occasionally
because they believe it is good for
their health, are thu meu wEo turred
their votes against the republican
for mayorship of Chicago.
They are class of men who believe
tho linu0T al1lifio,tiSt is &C c.rooE -
crank as the man who drinks to
drunkenness. So then the democratic
brethren who hsve been drawing ,
,onsoluiion from tbs Chicago election
nd rolling it as sweet morsel ua-