Beworalitcpan.
BY P. GRAY ME=K.
Ink Slings. |
—Only two more weeks until the elec- |
tion. What are you doing to stir up your- |
self and your neighbor?
—The sharper who is making a specialty |
of “‘working’’ undertakers is playing what |
might be called a stiff game.
—Hoy and WETZEL will expect you to
help them along on election day. You
nominated them, now elect.
"-—The hunting season having fairly open-
ed all kinds of game have been bagged. The
biggest liar and the man who didn’t know
it was loaded have not been heard from
yet.
—Had the Cuban Junta been able to
have drafted all the hunters who were on
Nittany, Muncy and Tussey mountains,
last Friday, the Spanish would stand no
more show in Cuba than a spirit without
wings in hades.
—The manhood of every reputable citi-
zen of Pennsylvania demands that he be
at the polls bright and early on the 2nd of
November to work long and hard for the
overthrow of the rotten government that is
disgracing the State.
—Mrs. LANGTRY’S act of sending her
divorced, demented, deceased husband a
boquet was probably a spontaneous out
burst of generosity begotten by an ef-
fervescence of good feeling over winning a
quarter of a million on her racers.
—RITTER and BROWN are makinga good
impression wherever they appear. Both
men have the cause of honest government
behind them and in that enlist the interest,
at once, of every citizen who feels the
shame of the present administration of
state affairs.
—English papers are beginning to
squirm because American steel has not
been content with beating their product
out of neutral markets but is now actual-
ly audacious enough to plow right into
England. The Pall Mall Gazette states
that it is the cheapness of the American
product and the inability of English
makers to manufacture at such low figures
that is doing it and that England will
probably never regain the trade. There
was a day when American 1nanufacturers
had to be protected against the pauper
labor industrial outputs of England, but
now that they have been pampered and
enriched to enormous extent it will be-
come the duty of the English manufactur-
ers to ery for a protection against the Win-
chester-cowed labor of American mills.
—GEORGE M. PULLMAN, the palace car
magnate, is dead. He has left an estate
valued at twenty-five million dollars to his
four children, a model town in Illinois and
a modus operandi for a whole army of colored
high-waymen who operate in the cars he
devised for the public’s comfort.
—The Detroit Tribune thinks that the
Ohio Democrats are not making enough
noise to keep the Republicans awake out |
there. Never fear, MARK HANNA and
his cohorts will waken up on the morning
of the third, all right enough, but with |
their coppers all hot and no prospects of
MARK’s having a further chance to cool
his off with senatorial ‘‘tea..”’
—The election on Tuesday, November
2nd, may seem unimportant to you yet it
invovlves issues that are really nearer and
dearer to every citizen than the question of
tariffs, moneys or civil service. At this
election there will be an opportunity for
every one to strike a blow at the fearful
debauchery that has characterized our own
state government within the past few years.
It is a stench in the nostrils of the whole
nation and that 1t should emanate from the
Keystone state makes it all the more un- !
bearable. .
—Republican chairman GRAY, being
so very certain that Centre is a Republican
county, we call on the voters of every pre-
einct to get to work as they have never
done before to show him how groundless
his claims are. Of course if you remain
inert and neglectful of your duty on elec-
tion day the county will be Republican
and his claim will be verified, but if
every Democrat gets his shoulder to the
wheel we will give them an old time beat-
ing. Everything conspires to that end.
Help yourselves, Democrats, when every-
thing else is helping you.
—The death of CHARLES ANDERSON
DANA removes from the field of journal-
ism the brightest star of the century.
Unique in every field he occupied, daring
in every cause he espoused and preserving |
his remarkable individuality to the last,
he has ‘‘gone away,’’ leaving behind him a
memory that time will hardly efface. Aside |
from an originality that at times bordered
on the grotesque and an acridity that pro-
claimed him a literary dyspeptic he was
one of the most learned men of the age.
His life was a constant search after learn-
ing, his death occurred in its fullest
fruition.
—Ix-secretary of agriculture J. STER-
LING MORTON has just swung over to the
Hon. Wu. I. SWo0PE’S way of thinking
and is advising young country men to stay
on the farm. He says ‘‘that we are soon
to have an outflow from the great cities to
the western country. The condition of
the farmers has improved steadily, until
to-day it is far better than that of the
masses in the cities.”” While the Hon.
WILLIAM didn’t say exactly this, because
conditions were not the same when he
took to reflecting at his own mistake, he
has priority of claim to the discovery that
boys oughtn’t to leave the farms.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 29.
D FEDERAL UNION.
1897.
More Damaging Figures.
One of the most flagrant features of the
mal-administration that prevails in Repub-
lican state government displays itself in
the increase of expense imposed upon the
tax-payers by the increase of official salaries
and the cost of the new offices created in
the different departments. We have, in
recent issues of the WATCHMAN, given au-
thentic figures showing the general increase
of state expenses under Republican rule,
and from the same source we will give the
figures showing the extravagant increase of
salaries in each department.
In the department of the secretary of the
Commonwealth the salary expense per
year in PATTISON’s last term was $65,800 ;
in the HASTINGS term, $74.800, a differ-
ence of $9,000, part of which is explained
by the Democratic secretary being able to
perform his service without a type-writer,
while the Republican incumbent made
places for two party workers by employing
a $2,800 type-writer and an $1,800 night
watchman.
The salary expenses in the auditor gen-
eral’s office were increased from $66,800, in
1893, to $91,300, in 1897. There was no
increase of service performed but the rise
in salary expense was entirely due to the
Republican Legislature being disposed to
be liberal with the ‘‘boys’> who had heen
given soft snaps in the different depart-
ments.
This ‘‘liberality’”’ was more fully dis-
played in the internal affairs department,
where the salary expense increased from
$79,000 to $110,809. In the bank com-
missioner’s department it ran up from
$26,600 to $124,000. Public instruction
made a jump from $28,400 to $37,400. In
the adjutant general's office the advance
was from $37,600 to $42,600. The state
library increased its expense from $33,900
to $42,500, while the salaries connected
with the grounds and buildings leaped,
under DELANEY, from $43,600 to $64,400.
The state reporters didn’t report any more
in 1897, under HASTINGS, than they did in
1893, under PATTISON, but they got $4,000
more for it. In the factory inspection $54,-
800 paid the salaries in PATTISON’S last year,
while $80,000 was required, in 1896, under
HASTINGS. The expenses connected with
Philadelphia harbor, paid by the State, in-
creased from $83,900, in 1893, to $102,200,
| last yeay,
All along the line of salary expense it is
seen that there has been an extravagant in-
crease, and what makes this the more
censurable is the fact that increased ex-
pense was piled on the tax-payers ata
time when prostrated business and hard
times made them less able to hear an in-
crease of the public burden.
We have given a detailed statement of
the form in which Republican profligacy
has manifested itself in the state govern-
ment. Those who have read the details of
these abuses w'l have to judge for them-
selves whether their duty calls upon them
to assist in putting out of power the ma-
chine politicians, who are responsible for
this corruption and misrule, or whether
they shall be allowed to continue their dis-
graceful and ruinous state government.
Doubtfal Republican Chances in Ohio.
The election in Ohio is not attracting
the attention that might have heen ex-
pected of a contest in which MARK HANNA
is exerting his pernicious energy and ex-
pending the liberal remnant of last year’s
boodle fund. The Ohio boss is doing all
that can be done with money and gall, but
his campaign lags and does not present the
flamboyant appearance of a torch light
procession marching to victory.
There are several hitches in his program
which even money cannot over-come. A
revolt has broken out among the colored
Republicans on account of their not re-
ceiving ‘‘recognition’’ from the white
bosses, and so extensive is the defection of
this important contingent that an entire
state ticket consisting of colored candidates
has been put into the field. As the colored
vote in Ohio is about 30,000, this defection
threatens to more than wipe-out the normal
Republican plurality of about $20,000.
Besides this, HANNA has other troubles
which boodle is unable to allay. There is
a strong independent Republican move-
ment in Hamilton county, which includes
Cincinnati, and the labor vote, which last
year prevented MCKINLEY from getting as
large a majority in Ohio as he got in other
western States, is more bitter in its opposi-
tion to the Republican party than it was a
year ago.
These conditions would convince the
leaders that their chance of success in Ohio
is very slim if they did not encourage
themselves with the belief that the pros-
perity of the farmers will carry them
through. But as there are hut few farm-
ers who are fools enough to credit dollar
wheat to the Republican administration, it
is but a poor reliance for HANNA to de-
pend upon that influence for a Republican
majority and his return to the United
States Senate.
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Elkin’s Assuranee.
There is something really astonishing in
the view which Republican chairman EL-
KIN takes of the state campaign. In the
face of the self-evident fact that the Repub-
lican administration of the state govern-
ment has been characterized by every form
of mal-administration, and that the record
made by the machine politicians who gov-
ern the State has been one of unparalleled
corruption, the party chairman deliberately
claims that this shameful misrule and
blistering disgrace will receive a popular
endorsement to the extent of 180,000 plu-
rality.
That anyone should believe that the pub-
lic demoralization implied in ELKIN’S
assumption is possible is hardly within
the limit of rational conception. It re-
quires but a glance at the situation to see
the shamefulness of his claim. The peo-
ple of the State are fully conscious of the
delinquencies of Republican administra-
tion.
ringsters the public interests have been
sacrificed and the government of the State
has been perverted to the political ad-
vantage and personal gain of the corrupt
bosses who manage the controlling ma-
chine. There is no longera doubtin the
minds of the people that the revenues of
the State have been pillaged ; that the law-
making power has been abused for the
purpose of private plunder ; that the execu-
tive functions have been prostituted to ser-
vices inimical to public interests ; that the
management of the treasury has been of a
character that requires concealment by
those who have misused the funds, and
that corrupt practices and reckless misrule
prevail in every department of the state
government. These are facts of which the
public mind has become thoroughly con-
vinced, and yet the Republican chairman
assumes to confidently declare that such a
shameful state of affairs will receive the
endorsement of a plurality of the popular
vote amounting to hundreds of thousands.
Such an assumption not only shows how
recklessly confident the gang of machine
plunderers have heen made by the long
continued encouragement of large ma-
jorities, but it also displays an assurance of
the people’s indifference to bad government
that is an insult to public intelligence as
well as a challenge to public virtue.
Bunko Politics in New York.
There is one thing which makes the elec-
tion of HENRY GEORGE, as mayor of New
York, particularly desirable to American
freemen and of great importance to popular
government. It is the effect which it
would have in disproving false representa-
tions which are employed in maintaining
the power of a corrupt and predatory party.
The political agents of the trusts, the
bank syndicates, and other interests that
are enriched by plundering tae people, are
directing against the candidacy of HENRY
GEORGE the same system of bunko politics
that was attended with such shameful suc-
cess against WM. J. BRYAN last year.
They are alarming the timid voters by
representing that his election would sub-
ject the city to the rule of anarchists and
disturbers of social order. The corrupt
PLATT machine that has no other stake in
the election than the spoils with the con-
trol of the city government furnishes the
party workers, and the rapacious Wall
street operators whose only interest in
public affairs is excited by their desire to
enlarge their wealth through the enforce-
ment of favoring policies, and who, at this
moment, are engaged in a scheme to roh
the government out of its Pacific railroad
property, have their organs and spell-
binders at work in the New York canvas,
alarming the voters with frightful pictures
of the rnin and disorder that would follow
the election of one of the most intelligent,
benevolent and patriotic of American citi-
zens as mayor of New York by a con-
stituency upon whose industry and good
character as working people the well being
of the city largely depends.
This bunko game, that was played on a
national scale last year, resulting in the
defeat of WILLIAM J. BRYAN, is being at-
tempted against HENRY GEORGE in the
New York city election. As it will be
disastrous to popular government and in-
terests if the rapacious rascals shall con-
tinue to be successful in effecting their
predatory purpose by frighting the Ameri-
can people, it is of great importance to the
cause of good government and honest pub-
lic practices that their scare campaign in
New York should fail, and the election of
HENRY GEORGE should prove how false
were their representations intended to
create alarm for the good order and safety
of society.
——The daily edition of the Philipsburg
Bituminous Record expired with its ninth
number. Editor KINSLOE, in his valedic-
tory, says :
“If so soon it was to be done for,
We wonder what it was begun for.”
And he doesn’t have a corner on the
wonderment either.
It has been made evident to them |:
that under the rule of a gang of rapacious
The Only Certain Relief.
That the public conscience is being
aroused against the vicious political condi-
tions existing in this State was nowhere
more strikingly shown than at the public
meeting that packed the academy of
music in Philadelphia last week to protest
against the city gas works being stolen by
a combine of speculators under the cover
of a lease. The speakers on the occasion
were principally Republicans of such
eminenceas ex-mayor STUART, WM. Pot-
TER, WAYNE MACVEAGH, FREDERICK
FrALEY, HENRY C. LEA, and others of
the same political persuasion, who, in their
denunciation of the proposed theft of the
gas works, classed that scheme with the
other sacrifices of public interests that are
being made in every department of the
public service for the benefit of political
ringsters and the promotion of private
gain. The same purpose of plunder that
‘inspires the project of cheating the people
Philadelphia out of their property in
the gas works, for the enrichment of a
combine of capitalists and politicians, has
inspired and directed the policy of the ma-
chine managers who have converted the
government of Pennsylvania into a source
of private spoils. That this fact was recog-
nized by the Republican speakers at the
Philadelphia meeting was manifested in
their denunciations of the corruptions that
prevail in both city and sate government.
That large Philadelphia meeting, com-
posed chiefly of Republicans, recognized
the fact that the vices prevailing in city
and state administration are of a similar
character, and it was in response to that
conviction that it gave a hearty assent to
Mr. MACVEAGH’s expression when he
said :
‘“T'wo reputable and responsible gentle-
men, actuated by the highest motives, are
now asking our suffrages, not with the
slightest hope of securing them, but simply
to try to clear the murky air of Pennsyl-
vania politics, simply as a protest against
the loathsome and ghastly degradation
into which we have fallen. Do you sup-
pose Mr. THOMPSON would be traveling
through Pennsylvania begging votes but
that he feels called of God to show there is
one honest politician left ? Do you suppose
Dr. SWALLOW would pursue a hopeless
contest but that he feels he cannot breathe
in the murky atmosphere in which we
live? Each of them distinctly charges
that the political corruption in which we
now live is intolerable.”’
The candidacy of those two gentlemen
may be regarded as a Republican protest
against the profligacy of the machine man-
agers of their own party. ‘‘Each of them
distinctly charges that the political cor-
ruption in which we now live is intoler-
able,’’ but neither of them is sufficient to
lead the people of the State out of the wil-
derness of political corruption. Such move-
ments areserviceable in having an assisting
effect, as the independent Republican can-
didate in 1882 aided in the election of Gov.
PATrIsoN and gave the people of the State
an example of the relief that may be af-
forded them by Democratic administration.
But there can be no substantial relief from
‘the loathsome and ghastly degradation
into which we have fallen” except that
which may be afforded this year by the
election of the Democratic candidates for
auditor general and state treasurer, and
the most certain way of securing it is by
uniting upon the Democratic state ticket
the votes of all the citizens, irrespective of
party, who feel the disgrace and suffer the
injury of machine misrule.
The Chainless Bicycle. :
The unprecedented cut in the price of
bicycles last season foretold some revolu-
tion in the construction of the machines
and that manufacturers were anxious to
clear their floors of old models in order to
be ready for the competition that would
arise from the introduction of new ones.
It was hinted that a chainless wheel was to
be the new thing, but public experiments
with such mechanism as was necessary to
displace the chain as a transmitter of force
had been reported failures and all sorts of
speculations were made.
It isa chainless wheel, however, that
brought about the great drop in prices last
season. Manufacturers are putting out
their catalogues for 1898 and the chief
feature is a wheel:from which, the greasy,
rattling, dusty chain has disappeared and
in its stead thee#iis a slender shaft with
bevel gearing a h end. The shaft is
geared to a bevel geared wheel at the crank,
that corresponds with the front sprocket,
and runs back through the lower fork of
the frame to a bevel gearing on the axle of
the rear wheel.
In doing away with the chain it is claim-
ed that more efficiency has been procured
in the mechanism and there is a truer
transmission of the energy of the rider into
motive power. The chainless wheel is
certainly neater in appearance than the
machine it will try to displace and has un-
deniable advantages over it, but it will hard-
ly become popular until its price gets with-
in the popular reach. All the large manu-
facturies will have chainless wheels on the
market this season. It remains to be seen
whether they will prove a success.
| The Cause of the Gold Imports.
i —
From the Pittsburg Post.
Gold is pouring into the country, and it
| each $20,000,000 before the end of the
| year. There is neither mystery nor poli-
tics about the movement. Instead of send-
ing back bonds, or releasing American in-
! vestments of other kinds, Europe finds it
| more to its profit to send gold. With an
| American balance of trade running up to
$300,000,000, as expected, for the calendar
year, the $20,000,000 of gold does not
seem a very extraordinary movement.
The gold imports began with the returns
from our wheat harvest, and will be
strengthened when cotton comes to be
heard from. The cotton crop of this year
is just commencing to move. So far as
gold imports are a sign of returning pros-
persity, and they are to a certain extent,
they have their origin in the wheat and
cotton fields, and McKinley has about as
much to do with them as with the Klon-
dyke gold fields.
Weyler’s Success in Cuba.
From the New York Sun.
It was Gen. Pando, the Spanish military
critic appointed to serve on the staff of the
new Captain-General of Cuba, who recent-
ly made the vehement attack upon Weyler
which was published at Madrid in the ar-
my organ, El Ejircito Espanol. Gen. Pan-
do affirmed that Weyler had undermined
the Spanish cause in Cuba, had brought
demoralization upon Spain’s army there,
had been the cause of the loss of many
thousands of Spanish soldiers, and had
made it manifest that he was incompetent
to deal with the rebellion. Gen. Pando
argued that the government should send
no more troops to Havana while Weyler
held command there. ‘‘The sending of
further reinforcements to Cuba would be a
crime.”” He alleged that he had given this
information to the Queen Regent.
It will not be a comfort for Weyler, at
the time of his fall from power, to know
that the severest of his military critics is to
serve upon the staff of his successor at Ha-
vana.
Why Fred You Make Us Blush,
From the Centre Hall Reporter.
Aaron Thomas has a rat trap that, while
effective in results, isnot likely to prove
popular among the gentler sex in its mode
of operation. A short time ago he was
putting up a stable and disturbed a nest of
the rodents. There was a scampering for
other holes, and one of the largest made a
dive for Aaron's feet and up the pants’ leg
it went. Aaron did not let out a shriek
and faint dead away, as would have hap-
pened had this little incident happened to
a woman. He calmly waited until the rat
reached that part of his anatomy that sup.
ports him when sitting on a chair, when
he grasped it and squeezed the life out of
it before it could crawl any higher. Then
he gave himself a shake and out rolled the
dead rat.
What Might Have Prevented the Lat-
timer Shooting.
From the Wilkesharre Union Leader.
The impression prevails now in Hazle-
ton that if the unfortunate strikers had
carried banners emblazoned ‘‘Honest Mon-
ey,” *‘Vote for the Advance Agent of Pros-
perity,’’ “Three Dollars a Day and Roast
Beef,’’ as they did last fall, instead of their
green branches, they would not have been
fired upon by the Republican understrap-
pers who last year led them in parade,
hustled them to the polls and marked their
tickets for them in the booth.
Yes, We'll all Help to Grease the Slide.
From the Butler Herald.
Wm. R. Thompson, the independent Re-
publican candidate for state treasurer says
he has no hesitancy in stating that Repub-
licanism in Pennsylvania and New York is
going to destruction and that the ‘‘Inde-
pendents, ’alone, can save it from perdition.
We say, let her go. What the common-
wealth of Pennsylvania wants is M. E.
Brown for state treasurer.
In the Field Early.
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
W. H. Walker, son of ex-county auditor
Samuel Walker, of Lamar township, now lo-
cated at Bellefonte, was in the city to-day.
The young attorney will be a Democratic
candidate for district attorney in Centre
county when the term of the present in-
cumbent expires.
Kittanning Ey husiastic.
KITTANNING, Pa., Oct. 18.—Five thou-
sand voters attended the Democratic rally
held here to-night. The meeting was
presided over by R. A. McCollough in the
absence of Chairman J. W. King.
Walter E. Ritter, nominee for auditor
general, and State Chairman John M. Gar-
man delivered vigorous addresses on the
issues of the State campaign, and were
loudly applauded by their enthusiastic
hearers. :
The coming of the distinguished person-
ages was not generally known until noon,
but the news spread rapidly and on their
arrival a crowd of 3,000 people awaited
them at the station. The Hotel Alexan-
der, from which the speeches were deliv-
ered, was elegantly decorated with flags.
The party left for Franklin on the mid-
night train.
G. A. R. Officers Named.
HARRISBURG, Oct. 21.—General J. P.
S. Gobin, commander-in-chief of the G. A.
R., announces the appointment of Alonza
Williams, of Providence, R. I., as inspec-
tor general ; Eli Torrence, of Minneapolis,
as judge advocate general, and Milton
Gherst, of Lebanon, as senior aide de
camp. The following executive committee
of the national council of administration is
also announced : E. R. Monfort, Ohio ;
F. M. Sterrett, Missouri ; Wm. H. Arm-
strong, Indiana ; Robert Whill, New
York ; Thomas W. Scott, Illinois ; Luman
L. Caldwell, Iowa ; Ellwood Craig, Dela-
ware.
is expected that the gold balance may |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Two coal trains collided and caused a
destructive wreck near Glenburn, Lacka-
wanna county.
—John Reese, a miner employed at Silver
Brook, near Hazleton, was instantly killed
by a fall of coal.
—An otherwise inexplicable rumbling at
| Reading late Sunday night was attributed
by many to an earthquake.
—The Pennsylvania steel works, near
Harrisburg, have nearly 1000 more men at
work than they had a year ago.
—Thieves broke into and ransacked the
home of Thomas Webb, at Bloomsburg, three
times in three consecutive days.
—All of Northampton county’s public
schools are closed this week to enable the
teachers to attend the institute at Easton.
—Peter Subreski unwittingly walked into
a dynamite blast in a quarry near Clearfield,
and his body was blown to fragments.
—John Pitrosh is in the Schuylkill county
prison awaiting the result of injuries sustain-
ed. by Albert Krasulock in a brawl at Potts-
ville.
—Horses owned by Dr. George Gleim, of
Cornwall, ; Irwin Horst, of Schaefferstown,
and Israel Bowman, of South Lebanon, were
stolen Sunday night.
—The corner stone of the new Masonic tem-
ple at Williamsport was laid with regulation
ceremonies yesterday. The officers of the
grand lodge were present.
—Dr. F. L. Sallade, of Womelsdorf, has
leased large tracts of land on South moun-
tain, which he still believes contain gold
bearing quartz that will pay.
—Attacked by a mob that resisted the ar-
rest of John Basaka at Springfield, near Sha-
mokin, constable Michael O'Leary shot An-
thony Basley in the hip.
—Poulterer & Co., of Philadelphia, who
have bought the Bethlehem iron company’s
old and idle Bingen furnace are dismantling
it and selling the old iron as junk.
—Judge Stewart, of Franklin county, re-
fused to remove the school directors of Leh-
masters school district, Peters townships, for
lack of the best school accommodations.
—John Farrel and John Maugham, of New
Castle township, Schuylkill county, both died
from the injuries rceived at the railroad
crossing in St. Clair, where a train hit them.
—Owing to a boy’s disturbance during ser-
vices in a synagogue, at Reading, and his
father’s vigorous defense of the lad, Wolf
Paer, the parent, was arrested and held un-
der $500 bail.
—So many incendiary fires have destroyed
or damaged buildings on the farm of John
K. Light, in Swatara, Lebanon county, that
he sold the place for $3000, though it had
cost him $10,000.
—General W. E. Doster, of Bethlehem, was
Monday substituted for districtattorney Fox,
to try the conspiracy cases against Reeder
and others before the Northampton court,
in November.
—Franklin county court has decided that
the poor directors must pay constable John
Myers 15 cents a mile for taking a woman to
the almshouse, instead of half this rate,
which they allowed.
—While going to church at Williamsport
Sunday, Mrs. Joseph Gann was thrown, tothe
street by a careless wheelman who ran against
the lady. Her face and mouth were badly
contused. Her daughter was also knocked
down, but she escaped injury, although her
dress was torn. !
—At Williamsport Monday evening Miss
Carrie Hoffman, 645 Maple street, while rid-
ing a bicycle in company with a young gen-
tleman, was thrown to the ground by her
front wheel twisting around. Both bones in
her left leg below the knee were broken.
She was taken to her home, where the neces-
sary surgical service was rendered.
—Simon B. Brown instituted proceedings
in the Lycoming county court some time ago
and was given a verdict for $5,000 for dama-
ges to his land, which damage was caused by
alleged improper constructions of the Fall
Brook railway. The case was appealed to
the supreme court, and that body affirmed
the judgment of the lower court.
—H. Loeb, of DuBois, received a telephone
message from Caledonia Sunday evening ad-
vising him that fire had destroyed 200,000
feet of his logs in the woods on Cherry Run.
Some bee hunter found a bee tree and at-
tempting to smoke the bees out set the woods
on fire and that burned the logs. The
woods are so dry that the fire is liable to
cause much destruction unless it should rain
soon.
—Joseph Peifer, of Jersey Shore has re-
ceived a letter from his daughter Kate, who,
it will be remembered, answered the adver-
tisement of a young man seeking a wife,
which appeared in a matrimonial journal, In
her letter Miss Peifer tell of the marriage
ceremony and of her new home, which is on
a farm near Syracuse, N. Y. She also ex-
presses her love for the groom whom she met
in such a singular manner, and gives her
father the assurance that her future will be
one of happiness.
—A man giving hig name as Daniel Ritter,
entered undertaker Calvert's establishment
at Jersey Shore Saturday night and ordered
a casket costing thirty-five dollars for a wom-
an, whom he stated was the wife of his
brother, and who resided at Larry’s Creek.
He tendered a check for thirty-eight dollars,
which check was signed by W. D. Brown, Wil-
liamsport. Mr. Calvert gave the man three
dollars in change. The next day Mr. Calvert
started with the casket for Larry’s Creek,
but could not locate the corpse. He present-
ed the check to a Williamsport bank and
learned that it was worthless. The under-
taker of course is minus the three dollars he
gave the scamp.
—In its account of the disastrous fire at
Austin last week, the Autograph says 89 fam-
ilies were rendered homeless in four hours.
The loss will amount to fully $200,000. Of
this sum $50,000 will probably be a total loss
as the property destroyed was insured for less
than $150,000. The Autograph adds that of-
fers of assistance was received from many
sources. A Chicago type foundry thinking
the Autograph had been burned out, offered
the paper a new outfit through its Pittsburg
agency. Cross Fork offered to send a car
load of groceries. In concluding its report
of the fire the Autograph says the town must
provide itself with adequate protection
against fire, or go with out insurance in
the future.
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