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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Literally speaking
Legislature was fired out.
—Only three more cabinet places left and
our Governor is not in yet.
—The measles have broken out in the
Carlisle Indian school, and now it will be
quite a propos to say that the red man is
himself again.
—BRYAN made the first mistake, on
Tuesday, that he has made since coming
before the public notice. He went duck
hunting at Lake Surprise, Texas.
—The Philipsburg Bituminous Record is
authority for the announcement that Hon.
P. E. WoMELSDORFF, of that place, is am-
bitious to succeed State Senator MCQUOWN.
—The Missouri negro, who was recently
sentenced to ninety-nine years imprison-
ment for killing his sweetheart and three
years additional for stealing a horse, need
have little concern about where heis to
roost for the rest of his days.
—If there is to be a change in the location
of the state capitol, now thata new one will
have to be built, what is the matter with
Centre county offering a site? Geographic-
ally and morally the best location is cen-
tered right here in Bellefonte.
—Custodian of public grounds DELANEY,
estimates the probable cost of repairing the
old capitol building at a million dollars.
Numerous other experts think it wouldn't
cost half that amount. Do you read any-
thing between these lines ?
—CHARLEY MITCHELL, the English
He wants
pug, is beginning to talk again.
to fight the winner of the CORBETT-FITZ-
SIMMONS’ fight. He has one thing in his
favor, people can’t ring in the old cry that
‘talk is cheap’ on him. It costs money
to talk through cablegrams.
—Ambassador BAYARD entertained “the
Prince of Wales at dinner, on Wednesday,
and they drank to the health of the Queen
of England and the President of the United
States. In order that the temperance people
will not be thrown into spasms by this an-
nouncement, the Good Man will forgive us
for lyin’ when we say that they drank
water.
—Hon. JAMES ScHOFIELD, Centre
county’s senior. Member at Harrisburg, is
not exactly the only round pebble on the
shores of the Susquehanna, but he is in
luck. Some of the nicest committee ap- |
pointments were given him, notwithstand- |
ing the influence (?) Mr. HARTER prom-
ised to bring to bear against such an out- |
come.
—The Bellefonte lawyer, who went coast-
ing on his boy's sled, on Saturday night,
and invited a number of his friends to en-
joy the pleasure of a ride with him, was too
busy spittin’ ashes out of his mouth to ex-
plain to his friends that he isn’t the steers-
man of the family and that that was the |
reason they had been dumped so uncere-
moniously.
—Such things as the blowing up of the
defunct GARDNER, Morrow & Co., bank
building, at Hollidaysburg, carly Monday
morning, are getting to be of entirely too !
common occurrence in the United States.
Let it be understood that this is a free
country, but its freedom does not include
the license to carry into effect every whim,
no matter how much the rights _of others
are infringed upon.
—And now itis announced that Jonx
WANAMAKER will build a church in cele-
bration of the escape of his big store from
total destruction in the great fire, in Phila-
delphia, last week.
churches in Christendom won’t save him
from a bigger fire than Phuadelphia has
ever seen, or any other city, for that matter,
except Sodom and Gomarrah.
—There is very great extenuation for the
antique girl, whose old-maidenhood is her
own doing, in the fact that in New York
city there are 15,000 husbands under bonds
for the support of their wives.
per cent of their wives are under age and
fifty per cent were in their teens when |
they were married. This would seem to
prove that, after all, the kiln-dried, thor- :
oughly seasoned timber i best to dicker in,
even in the matrimonial market.
—What a joke.
sylvania Legislature meeting in a Metho-
‘dist church. There ought not to he a hu-
morous side to such a meeting place for
that body, but when the morals of some of
the political rascals who have been repre-
sented in it are known so well the State
must laugh when it hears that some of
those fellows have at last been gotten into
a church. Who can say but that the whole
situation might not be providential and
that the sacred atmosphere of that old
Methodist meetin’ house, being breathed
by those legislative scalawags, might not
generate some good seed.
—The objection to the appointment of a
commission for the rebuilding of the capi-
tol seems to he very ill founded, when it is |
Pennsylvania’s
If JouN hangs onto |
the political roost he has been perched on |
since his fight for Senator began all the |
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
1897.
The New Kansas Senator.
A change has taf§en place in the senator-
ial representation of the State of Kansas by
the election of a Mr. HARRIS to the United
States Senate in the place of Mr. PFEFFER.
It has been the custom of the minions of
the money power and the monopolies to
subject Senator PFEFFER to all manner of
ridicule, but it can be said to his credit and
honor that he never went back on the
principles nor betrayed the interests of the
constituents whom he represented.
The gentleman elected to take his place
is also a Populist and, if we may judge
from his expressions, Mr. HaRRIS could
easily pass for a good Democrat. In de-
claring his political principles he assumes
positions with which no good Democrat
will disagree.
Among other things he says, ‘‘I want to
see the income tax made a permanent feat-
ure of governmental policy, whether it be
by amendment to the constitution or by
some other method.” In putting him-
self on this ground he occupies the Demo-
cratic position that wealth has no right to
shirk its due share in the payment of taxes
to the government.
He also declares, ‘I want to see free
silver restored to its former position asa
full money metal without any} limita-
tions.” This expression chimes exactly
with the tone of the Democratic platform
that was endorsed by more than six mil-
lions of free, unbouglit, American voters.
No good Democrat will quarrel with Popu-
list Senator HARRIS on the silver question.
He makes further announcements of his
principles as follows : “Iam in favor of tar-
iff legislation which, in conjunction with an
income tax and internal revenues and other
duties, will provide ample funds for all the
purposes of government.’”” Thisis the on-
ly kind of tariff legislation that Democrat-
| ic principles will admit of—a tariff for rev-
| enue without any intention of furnishing
spoliatory protection. Senator HARRIS, in
this respect, is as good as a Democrat.
He furthersays : *‘I shall strenuously op-
| pose the retirement of the greenbacks and
treasury notes in any form.’ On this
point he will be found shoulder to shoulder
with the Democrats who have arrayed them-
selves against the Wall street scheme of
contraction and money-cornering that is
designed to be carried out by the retire-
ment of the best and safest paper money
that this country has ever had.
On these great points of political princi-
not shake hands with the Populist Ser-ator
| HARRIS,
The Auditor's Statement.
condition of Centre county appeared this
week in the Republican and will be given
week. This delay in putting & matter of
so much interest to the taxpayers in your
hands is through no fault of ours, but is be-
cause the printer, supplying the statements
for the commissioners, was unable to get
enough completed for circulation in all of
the papers this week.
The statement discloses a very gratifying
condition of affairs about the court house
and it is to be hoped that the new board of
| commissioners will have as creditable a
! showing to make when the auditor's meet
| to go over their accounts next January.
| A digest of the finances may be found in
| the following :
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ASSETS, JAN. 4th, 18497.
{ Cash in hands of Tre
4, "97, county tund
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Cash in hands of
4, 97, dog tax..........
outstanding taxes of 1896.
i £1805, ere
| 1% se 18... 65 ¢
{ Claims in hands of Attorney for
collection wo 4202
Asyium bills due from Twps..... 24 06
| Notes that are good and collec-
hie ha 276 36
| Dog tax outstanding 189 y
i andiiod.... 2294 GO-R31177 ol
! LIABILITIES, JAN. 4th, 1897.
| Notes outstanding.................. ..$12812 26
| Amt. due J. P. Condo, sheriff... 1033 78
| Amt. due W. F. Smith, Prothy
| General account.......ccesssriveirs G13 30
| Amt. due W. F, Smith, report-
| ing judgments, &e.... 134 50 _
| Amt. due W. F. Smith, fe
Comith cases.............-seceees Le B12
Amt. due sundry persons for
{| Conilth costs............. 143 37
Amt. due western penitentiary
| ! . 671 on
I" Amt. due Huntingdon reforma-
dor Teen; SR . DRI
| Amt."due sundry small bills..... 176.53
{ Estimated commissions on un-
paid taxes........ GOO 00
Estimated exonerations on un-
paid taxes. .................... 5 S00 00-217476 21
: Assets in excess of liabilities... $ 13701 70
| The estimate of $50,000 for current ex-
l . . .
| penses, during 1897, will hardly obtain for
:
the expenditures of the year unless the
shreivalty contest is concluded with far
| less expense than is generally believed will
be attached to it.
asserted that it can be done more econom- |
ically through the director.of public build-
ings and works.
mission, look into the economy with which
the Huntingdon reformatory was built and
it will be seen that that method had far |
better be adopted than the one of letting |
one man have charge of the work. Ap-
point a commission of honorable business |
men and their reputations will demand |
that the State be given the advantage of
every penny that will have to be spent.
Let the Legislators, who |
are objecting to the appointment of a com-
—The Legislature might as well quit
and come home. Pennsylvania wegld be
better off by paying the members to stay
“away from Harrishurg. We have all the
law we need now. The trouble has never
been in the scope of law, but in the observ-
ance of it.
——It has been definitely settled that
ple there is not a true Democrat who can |
The auditor’s statement of the lusiness | or :
| among the ablest of railroad officers, whose |
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 5.
Death of a Great Railroad Officer.
In the death of GEORGE B. ROBERTS the
country loses one of its most estimable and
useful citizens, and the Pennsylvania rail-
road company is deprived of a chief officer
whose services have contributed so much
to the substantial success of that great
corporation.
He was a worthy successor of such rail-
way magnates as J. EDGAR THOMSON and
THOMAS A. Scorr, under whose earlier
management the system of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company attained a de-
velopment that made it the greatest cor-
poration of the kind in the world.
Mr. ROBERTS’ qualifications were of a
kind that brought the work of his able
predecessors to perfection. The foundation
of the great system had been well laid,
both in the construction of the main line
and in attainment of those extensions and
connections which made the West and the
Lakes contribute to its traffic ; but after
this had been accomplished, Mr. ROBERTS’
remarkable ability as a practical railroad
manager was displayed in perfecting the
organization of the system, in directing its
operations with the exactness of a thor-
oughly regulated machine, in supplying
such links as were needed to ensure its
completeness, in securing from its opera-
tions the largest possible measure of profit
for its stockholders, and in exercising the
extraordinary tact by which he maintained
the efficiency and promoted the fidelity of
the company’s great army of employees.
In these respects he displayed the un-
surpassed qualifications which enabled him
to manage, with such signal success, the vast
railroad system which had attained almost
its full development before he assumed the
duties of its chief officer.
"The remarkable succession of presidents
which the Pennsylvania company has been
so fortunate as to have at the head of its
management, has heen mainly due to the
fact that they were practical railroad mien.
Other railroad companies have been so un-
fortunate as to be wrecked by their man-
agement being placed in the hands of of-
ficers entirely unfamiliar with practical
railroading, but the highest technical
knowledge and the most thorough expe-
rience have been possessed by the Pennsyl-
vania’s corps of officers, and particularly |
by its presidents. In this respect Mr. |
Ropers was unsurpassed, if equalled, by |
any of the other able men who have oc- |
cupiced its presidency. |
To {ill the vacancy occasioned by his |
I death the succession rightly fell to Mr. |
| because it is not as open in its flagrancy.
2 | his genius in the special line of his activity
to the readers of the WATCHMAN next |b SCHIUS pecial line of his activity.
the coming CORBETT—FITZSIMMON’S prize
fight will be pulled off in Nevada.
I'RANK TroMsoN, who has so long and |
with such marked ability performed the |
the duties of one of the vice presidents of |
the company, and who is recognized as |
practical qualities equal the brilliancy of |
The Growth of Lawlessness.
That lawlessness is gaining predominance |
in this country isa fact that is becoming |
too evident to be disguised. Its most con-
spicuous manifestation is seen in the vie-
lent demonstrations of those who take the
law in their own hands in the punishment
of alleged criminals by the lynching proc-
ess ; but this is not as dangerous in its
tendency as the defiance of the law by
those combinations that subject the public
to the extortions of monopoly. The spirit
of lawlessness prevails as evidently in the
operation of a trust asin the proceedings
of a lynching mob, and more injuriously,
In a recent action before the United
States circuit court for the eastern district
of Pennsylvania against the so-called ‘“Na-
tional harrow company,” of New York, it
was decided by the presiding judge that
every combination made for the purpose of
controlling the market and enhancing prices
is unlawful. This is the decision that has
been made by every court before which the
trusts have been arraigned. No court could
do otherwise than to pronounce them un-
lawful. But of what avail have heen such
decisions? In every instance there "has
been a failure to enforce them, and the
trusts continue their operations with per-
fect indifference to the restraints of the
law. They are absolutely lawless com-
binations, and the fact that they go on
with their operations without restraint,
and that new ones are being formed in
every line of business, without the slight-
est regard for the illegality of their com-
binations, furnishes one of the most alarm-
ing evidences of the lawlessness into which
the country has drifted.
But the most discouraging feature of this
situation is that these law-breaking and
law-defying combinations, which should
be put down by the strong arm of legal au- |
thority, are invited to come to Washington
and dictate to a Republican Ways and
Means committee the kind of tariff that
will be the most effective in protecting
their monopolies and reimbursing the con-
tributions they made to the boodle fund
that exerted so powerful an influence in
electing MCKINLEY.
What are the people going to do for the
correction of so demoralized and dangerous
a situation ?
Sham Treasury Reform.
Even the two corrupt factions that are
fighting for supremacy in the Republican
party in this State are forced to recognize
the fact that the state treasury is being
scandalously managed, and that something
must be done that will have at least the
appearance of reforming the abuses in the
treasury department.
With both factions recognizing this fact
there ought to be some improvement, but
it is not likely that there will he any. The
MARTIN--WANAMAKER crowd are clam-
oring for an overhauling of the treasury
by which it may be shown how the QUAY
gang have been managing the state funds
for their political and personal advantage.
It is not to benefit the State, but to put
their opponents in a hole, that DAVE
MARTIN and his pals want to show up the
corrupt manner in which the other gang
has been using the state money. :
The faction controlled by QUAY also
pose as reformers and profess to be willing
to include treasury reform in that exten-
sive reformatory scheme by which the boss
is going to make the general administra-
tion of public affairs in this State a perfect
model of good government. They won’t
be bluffed by the other faction, when it
comes to a question of reform, and are
willing to meet them more than half way
in professing a desire to correct any abuses
that may be practiced in the administration
of the state finances, but they want to be
assured as to whether there is anything
wrong in that quarter, and for this reason
they propose to appoint a commission to
determine that point.
There is something ridiculous enough to
excite general laughter at the idea that a
commission is necessary to discover the
irregularities that pervade the management
of the state treasury, which actually
amount to criminal mismanagement. Those
irregularities are exposed to public recog-
nition by surface indications that leave no
question as to their existence, as, for ex-
ample, there being no doubt that some-
body is u<ing the state money for their
own personal profit when amounts due
from the State are withheld, notwithstand -
ing a reported surplus of $3,000,000 in the
treasifly. Nevertheless, the appointment
of a commission will look like blazing the
way for reform, although no intention of
the kind is entertained, and will serve the
purpose of the boss in heading off the other
faction. What it will amount to may be
judged from what QuAY’s senatorial in-
vestigating committee has accomplished.
There is not the slightest probability
that treasury reform will result from the
fight between the two corrupt Republican
factions. It can only be effected by the
people turning down both those factions
and running the Republican party out of
! power in this State.
The Inevitable Consequence.
Those who are disposed to wish that the
MCKINLEY administration shall fail in re-
storing prosperity to the country, and will
derive pleasure in seeing the Republican
party involved in difficulty before the close
of the next four years, will be gratified to
hear that Mr. GAGE, whom MCKINLEY
has selected to manage the Treasury, will
adhere to the strict gold policy and will
carry out, to the letter, the requirements
of the currency contractionists. This
necessarily implies a continuance of the
financial constriction and business depres-
sion that have followed the demonetization
of silver, and accompanied the gold stand-
ard, growing worse year by year.
For ourselves, we could derive no satisfac-
tion from such a public calamity, even
though it should bring disaster to a politi-
cal party to which we are opposed. We
would prefer the country’s prosperity, re-
gardless of what party be'in“power, but we
will not shut our eyes to the result which
must inevitably follow the policy which
Secretary GAGE proposes to enforce.
When he declares his determination to
carry out the gold-bug programme, with-
out substantial change from the monetary
measures which have enabled the money
changers and bond dealers to corner the cur-
rency, depreciating the prices of everything
by appreciating the standard of value, and
when it is also his intention to increase the |
contraction by using his official influence |
for the retirement of the legal tender notes,
silver certificates, and other forms of gov-
ernment paper money, for the redemption
of which large amounts of gold are to be
procured by the sale of bonds—when, in
short, his policy embraces such propositions,
with the probability of their being carried
out by a Republican Congress, no other re-
sult can be expected than that the business
| depression and financial trouble will be
made even greater than they now are.
If the Republicans are bent upon this
policy they will have themselves to blame
for producing conditions that will ensure
the most overwhelming defeat that ever
overtook a political party. This, taken by |
itself, will be fortunate for the country,
but it is to be regretted that the country
will have to suffer before so desirable a cou-
summation shall be effected.
RIGOR
MORTIS.
If I were dead and any doubt should be
That some faint, vital spark remained in me 7
Just let a band file gaily down the street
And, as they march, intently watch my feet.
If rigid, still, they point t'ward Heaven's arch
Nor move, responsive to the rhythmic march,
Then, let the solemn funeral proceed,
I'm surely dead, no further proof you need.
For were I living, and that band should play,
No funeral etiquette would I obey,
I’d “mark the time,” though preacher lost his job,
And I with hopes of weeping heirs, “played hob’
I could not rest, all frozen, lying there,
While sparkling jig time floated in the air ;
I'd rise up from my casket long, and then—
Responsive dance, though I dropped dead again.
H.C VV,
The Broken Bank at
Dynamited.
Hollidaysburg
From the Tyrone Herald.
By the use of dynamite or nitro-glycerine
an attempt, partially successful, was made
to blow up the building occupied by the
defunct Gardner, Morrow & Co. bank at
Hollidaysburg about three o'clock Monday
morning. The big front door was blown
from its hinges to the centre of the large
room, the floor was torn up, windows blown
out, and the building was otherwise splin-
tered and damaged. Adjoining buildings
suffered considerable, also glass being brok-
en and the large structures themselves being
more or less shattered. The general im-
pression is that some unknown depositor,
crazed by his losses by reason of the bank’s
failure, conceived the idea of destroying
the institution as an act of revenge. It crea-
ted a tremendous excitement for awhile,
the Diamond of the town, where the bank
building is located, filling up with people
as if by magic. It seems that the county
capital will not accept the inevitable and
quiet down, but those who suffered loss by
the suspension of that banking institution
are determined to follow those responsible
for the failure to the last ditch, the more
desperate violating the law of order and
peace, even at the risk of taking life. This
condition of things is to be regretted, but
it is hoped no further attempt will be
made to commit such depredation as that
of Monday morning.
What is the Use in Making Laws if
People are Not to Know Them.
From the ®onnellsville Courier.
The newspapers of the State of New York
are protestiug against the ‘‘barn door”
methods of advertising legal notices relating
to borough and township matters. Their
complaint is well founded.
which the great State of Pennsylvania ad-
vertises her laws?
The Legislature is liberal enough in en-
acting them, hut when it comes to making
them known to the people not even “barn
door’’ methods are employed ; in fact, no
means are provided.
The people are left in absolute ignorance
save what general information they are
able to gather from newspaper reports of
legislative proceedings. Yet they are ex-
pected to obey the law. It is an ancient
and legal maxim that ‘‘ignorance of the
law excuseth no man.”
press should object to ‘‘barn door’ meth-
ods. The laws of that State are published
in the newspapers, as they ought to be in
Pennsylvania. ’
It is an outrage that the laws are not
sylvania, and the outrage is not upon the
newspapers, hut upon the people.
Too Much for His Brain and Stomach.
From the Cleafield Public Spirit.
and then sat up and read about the thrilling
escapades of the greatest detective in the
world—Nick Carter—until 2 o’clock Tues-
day morning, when he retired to dream cf
apples, detectives and ‘‘sich’’ until day-
break. He arose about nine o’clock and
went down stairs to the kitchen and keeled
over. The folks, who were in the dining
room, hearing a racket went out to investi-
gate and discovered the feet and legs of the
pride of the household protruding from the
flour barrel. A doctor was sent for and
after fishing him out and working with
him for sometime he- was brought around
alright but the man of medicine warned
him never to do it again and said the mess
he had eaten was enough to kill a ‘billy
goat.”’
No, Bat There are Independent Demo-
cratic Papers in the State.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
A contemporary somewhat amusingly
says the best examples of independent jour-
nalism are found in Republican newspapers.
becomes. Republican
party, but it will always be found, upon
| investigation, that the prominent man is a
| are opposed.
paper never criticises the party, never ad-
preference to a bad Republican. Thereare
no ‘‘independent’’ Republican papers in
this state.
Newspaper Men Disqualified for Jurors
Because They Think.
From the Uniontown News-Standard.
Busy newspaper men, who often find it
i inconvenient to serve on juries, are greatly
| obliged to four of the seven Superior court
i judges of this State for a decision which in
effect disqualifies editors for jury service.
| As newspaper men are obliged to think,
, they must form opinions or at least im-
| pressions, and hence are ineligible to sit on
important cases. Blank minds are greatly |
to be preferred in such cases. If the juror
is unable to read so much the better.
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——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
But what shall we say of the manner in |
It is very natural that the New York |
properly advertised in the State of Penn- :
A West Clearfield young man ate half a |
bushel of “pound apples’ Monday evening |
The more you thin’: of this the funnier it |
newspapers occa- |
sionally berate a prominent man of their
member of the faction to which the papers |
The 30-called ‘‘independent’’ |
vocates the election of a good Democrat in |
| Spawls from the Keystone.
—Clerks in Shenandoah stores are agitat-
ing an early closing movement.
| —Over 2000 people attended a rally of the
{ Y. M. C. A. at Danville.
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| —With carbolic acid Bernard MeDonald
| committed suicide at Braddock.
—A mass meeting of Williamsport citizens
will be held to protest against the rates
charged by the water company.
—The Indian school at Carlisle has been
| quarantined because of an epidemic of the
measles.
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—While Frank Reed and family were away
from home thieves entered their residence at
Weissport and secured £300 in gold.
—The Himmelein Ideal comedy company
gave a concert at Pottsville Sunday for the
benefit of the sufferers by Thursday night's
fire.
—There were 364\deaths and 586 births in
York during the last year, and of the 179
cases of diphtheria in that time, nearly half
occurred near garbage dymps. :
—Twelve thousand acrej of excellent coke
making coal land have heen leased by New
York capitalists adjacent to the Allegheny
river in Allegheny and. Westmoreland
county.
—Lutheran clergymen of York are pre-
paring to properly celebrate the 400th@nni-
versary of the birth of Dr. Philip Melanch-
thon, the co-laborer of Martin Luther, on
February 16.
—As a result of charges and counter
charges between superintendent Housé and
the physician of the West Penn hospital, at
Pittsburg, the trustees have dismissed the en-
tire force.
—Typhoid fever is raging in the Cumber-
land valley, Bedford county. The recent
death of a young woman named Lethe Sliz-
er makes the tenth to die in her family of
typhoid fever within a year.
—The foundry and machine shop of F. B.
Stein, of Osceola, was destroyed by fire on
Friday morning. It employed about twenty
five men and was one of the most important
industrial establishments in the boro.
—The Clearfield county commissioners
have fixed the compensation of Treasurer at
one per cent. for disbursing county funds.
Under this ruling the office will pay about
$1,700 instead of $6,000 or $7,000 per year as
formerly.
—At Galeton, Potter ccunty, Sunday,
Charles Leach, aged 14 years, was driving a
blind horse. When the horse reached the
bridge on Main street, he in some manner
jumped the railing on the bridge and fell
eighteen feet. The horse was instantly kill-
ed and the boy lived only a few minutes.
—Suit has been entered in the Blair coun-
ty court by twenty-nine Blair county con-
stables against the county commissioners as a
test to determine whether or not the officers
are each entitled to a fee of $1.50 and mileage
for making their returns to court. The legal
question for the court to decide is whether
the constable’s fee law of 1893 repeals all
other statutes on the same subject. A case
stated will be submitted to Judge Bell at ar-
| gunent court.
| —The Central Pennsylvania conference of
| the M. E. church will meet in Clearfield in
| March and at that time committees will be ap-
pointed on the establishment of the Deacon-
ess’ homes. The first matter in this connec-
tion will be the selection of a place for the
home and the choice now rests between Al-
toona, Harrisburg and Williamsport. When
first established the home will have but three
deaconesses, who will visit the sick, care for
the poor and encourage the fallen to lead
better lives.
—Albert Shofl, of Madera, Pa, who has
purchased the square timber on the T. M.
Sheehan tract in Clearfield township, east of
! Patton, took out the largest and finest speci-
men that has ever been cut in Cambria coun-
ty. It measures 72 feet lonz, 22x23 inches
{square and contains 253 cubic feet. The
specimen is oak and will, with the other
i square timber cut on that tract, be haul-
Led to Clearfield _crcek. where it will be
made into huge rafts and taken to the cast-
| ern market.
i
—The Pennsylvania superior court decid-
| ed that tree owners have some 1ights. The
{ employes of the telegraph company which
had a line crossing the land of Dr. John
| Marshall, in Bucks county, entered upon
! that land to add new cross bars and wires to
I the poles. To facilitate such additions they
| cut down a number of fine shade trees grow-
ing on Dr. Marshall's place. The men were
| arcerted, and for this wanton destruction
| were fined $50 each, and in default of pay-
ment, to imprisonment for fifty days. The
| superior court affirmed the sentence.
—For half an hour last Friday Mrs. Rebec-
ca Withey, of Marsh Hill, was compelled to
sit in a sleigh along a lonely road and hold in
her arms the body of Jacob Metzger, who,
while riding with her expired from heart
disease, superinduced by the intense cold.
Mrs. Withey had engaged to do Mr. Metz-
i ger's housework, and they were on their way
to the latter's home. when he fell over
against the woman's .shoulder and expired
without an exclamation. Mrs. Withey could
i not drive and hold the corpse in the sleigh,
too, so she sat and held the rigid form in the
| seat until a farmer came along.
. —Wednesday morning Simon Kreider,
i aged about twenty years, who lives with his
parents at Farrandsville, a Clinton county
| village, shouldered his gun and proceeded to
| the woods hoping to win a rabbit or two, and
| possibly a pheasant. He had vroceeded but
| about a mile when he came across a mother
bear and three cubs. They were in a hole
under a ledge of rocks. With the courage of
a frontiersman the young man drew
the gun to his shoulder and with steady
| nerve drew a fine bead on the parent bruin.
| She fell dead almost at his feet. Tt was the
work then .of a few minutes to reload and
put a permanent claim upon the babies. The
old bear weighed 150 pounds and the young-
| er ones about 50 pounds each. The young
| hero, after killing the bears ran home, where
he found plenty of ready help to return with
him and ‘‘fetch’’ the dead carcasses to town.
Of course the whole village turned out to see
| the game upon the arrival home of the party,
| and Simon was awarded the champion’s belt
| for being the most whole sale slaughterer in
| all Clinton county.
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