BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—It is stated that the Hon. JOSEPH
SIBLEY would like to be Governor of Penn-
sylvania. He is traveling the right road
to get there, we don’t think.
—The Czar and MARK TWAIN, both
being in favor of disarmament, now let us
hear from the gentleman who fled to Flori-
da to escape the Harrisburg frosts.
— The formation of a nail trust is likely
to make the joining of Quay’s political
coffin a trifle more expensive than it would
have been under ordinary circumstances.
— Former President HARRISON says that
his favorite novel is ‘BEN HUR.”” Prob-
ably he likes the name BEN. In the first
place it is his own and, secondly, he is a
‘‘has been.”’
—1If we didn’t know it as an official fact
it might probably be years before we could
discover that Pennsylvania has only one
Senator. That is, if the place hunters
wouldn’t discover the vacancy to the peo-
ple who stay at home.
--If it is true that they save everything
but the squeal of the dying animals in
those big Chicago packing houses; the
shaking up some of them have gotten
about the quality of their product, ought
to make them a little careful about letting
even the squeal escape.
—LEVI Z. LEITER, JOE's father, made
his first money in mining. He invested
$50,000 in the famous Iron silver mine,
which he had long mistrusted, and came
out of the mine with $4,000,000. It is
needless to tell you how JOE recently
spent several heads of his father’s greeus.
—The passengers on that Cheyenne and
Northern train that has been snow-bound
near Iron Mountain, Wyoming, for three
weeks and is likely to remain in its prison
of ice for ten days more have probably
worn themselves out of voice singing that
old refrain “When Summer Comes
Again.”
—The Spanish red book discloses the
fact that our government knew all of
Spain’s secret moves, almost before they
were conceived. How. much better it
would have been had some of the spying
that was done in Madrid been directed to-
ward EAGAN and the Chicago packing
houses that furnished the rotten beef he
tried to sustain the soldier life on.
—At the regular March term of quarter
sessions court in Union county there wasn’t
a single criminal or civil case to be tried
and the jurors were all notified not to at-
tend. That is the result of having the
goody goody Wanamakerites running things
down there, but BENNY FOCHT is on top
again in Union and theré won’t he any
more such foolishness as no cases for court
trial.
—The action of the Cuban Assembly in
eschewing the plans laid for a home gov-
ernment and annulling the proposition
made by GOMEZ with this country is only
in line with what might have been ex-
pected from such a source. It has been a
noticeable fact, much commented upon,
that the Cubans who are now wanting most
to say as to the future policy and conduct
of their government are the ones who gave
nothing more than along distanced sympa-
thetic support to the struggle that GARCIA,
GoMEZ and the other old warriors carried
on at the risk of their lives.
——Our new Ambassador to England,
JosepH H. CHOATE, made a great hit with
his first public utterance since landing
among the Johnnies. At the banquet of
the association of the Chambers of Com-
merce of the United Kingdom, in London,
Wednesday evening, Mr. CHOATE re-
sponded to vice president HARPER'S
toast ‘‘Our Guests” and, of course, got
to talking commerce. It was a commerce
banquet, you know. Then he rattled
away about the ‘‘open door’ till one
could have inferred that President Mec-
KINLEY has become the most radical kind
of a free trader. At least, if our Ambassa-
dor is supposed to be a mouth piece of the
administration.
— According toan understanding between
the President, Post Master General SMITH
and Senator PENROSE, on Saturday, the
latter will be permitted to control the post
office appointments in the ten congressional
districts in this State that will be repre-
sented by Democrats at the next session.
The agreement is merely confirmatory of
long established party policy to let the
Senators control the ‘‘orphan’’ districts, as
those are called that are represented by
men of different party from the adminis-
tration. It gives to Senator PENROSE,
however, the assurance that he will be able
to aid QUAY to whatever extent it might
be possible through such patronage yet un-
dispensed.
—Ahout the most nonsensical corpora-
tion that we have ever heard of applying
‘or a charter under which to do business is
a New York concern that proposes ‘‘to in-
struct married women in the art of making
home happy.” Women need no such a
course of training. They are endowed by
nature with such attainments. What is
needed, though, is for the married man to
show his wife that she is his queen, not his
slave, honor her, be her companion, re-
member that he is her husband and not
some other creature’s ‘‘papa,’’ and there
will be no such thing as an unhappy home.
Unfortunately, the fault sometimes is with
the woman, but the preponderance of it is
man’s.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 44
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 17, 189
Reform Hopes Disappointed.
It seems that after all, all Republicans
view public questions through the same
lenses and that except on the single matter
of the Senatorship there is no difference of
opinion among those of that party faith in
the Legislature. For example in the House
committee on municipal corporations there
was considered, on Tuesday evening, a
measure in which the friends of good gov-
ernment could hardly be separated. It
was a bill providing a new charter for the
city of Pittsburg. The measure was drawn
up by a distinguished lawyer. It was es-
sentially non-partisan. It was supported
by the unanimous voice of the Municipal
league of the city concerned, and was ad-
vocated on the floor of the committee by
distinguished lawyers, eminent citizens
and leading merchants of Pittsburg, irre-
spective of ‘politics or religion,’’ to use a
hackneyed but appropriate phrase. Its
opponents were beneficiaries of an odious
municipal ring and such dependants as they
could summon to their service. But the
vote on the question of affirming or nega-
tiving the bill resulted in the raising of
party lines and the strict adherence to them
on both sides. The regular Republicans,
so-called, and the Independent Republi-
cans, misnamed, joined forces in behalf of
the plunderers, and the questions of reform
and the principles of justice and the in-
terests of the people were alike sacrificed
on the altar of politics.
The misgovernment of Pittsburg has
been a reproach to the intelligence and in-
tegrity of the State for years. It has sub-
jected the people of that town to a slavery
more debasing and demoralizing than any
known to modern history. The corrupt
ring has plundered the people in every
conceivable manner. The elections have
been debauched, the courts corrupted and
the people despoiled. The police force has
been perverted into an agency for the pro-
motion of crime. The highway and other
departments have degenerated into medi-
ums of conserving the personal interests of
the members of the ring. Even theschools
have been prostituted into propagandas for
the promulgation of corrupt politics and
the vicious passions and appetites of the
rabble encouraged in order that their ap-
peasement might contribute to satiate the
cupidity of the venal politicians. These
facts were known to the members of the
legislative committee who voted adversely
on a bill which would have given relief.
But the order which came by wire from
QUAY to let the plunderers alone moved
those of one faction and the personal in-
fluence of a leader of the anti-QUAY con-
tingent in the Legislature guided the other
with the result that the license to plunder
has been extended indefinitely.
It is an unholy bargain for which the
people must pay while the robbers revel.
The just expectation of the people of
Pittsburg that relief would come to them
out of the Republican disagreement in the
Legislature has been disappointed and the
ancient adage ‘‘when rogues fall out honest
men come by their own’’ dishonored. But
these results ace not without their uses.
They will serve to teach the public that
the only way to secure reform is to com-
pletely uproot the Republican party.
Republicanism and QUAYism are synono-
mous terms, so far as this State is concerned
and in future, unless there is a change, both
in methods and men, all overtures in the
direction of fusion should be answered by
the Democrats with ‘‘a plague on both
your houses.” At the opening of the ses-
sion of the Legislature the promise of a
combination to organize the House in the
interest of just legislation was betrayed and
in the vote in committee on the Pittsburg
charter, on Tuesday night, the expectation
of fairness and honesty in the work of the
session was lost forever. There is poor en-
couragement in these facts but {the lesson
may prove of immense advantage in the
end. There will be a day of reckoning
and it may be here sooner than some peo-
ple expect it.
—H. D. MILLER, the Philo, Ohio, man
who thought he could corner the egg mar-
ket in Pittsburg and drive the price of hen
fruit up to $1 per dozen has gone home
$20,000 poorer, as a result of having counted
his chickens before they were hatched.
The whole trouble was that the hens
wouldn’t stop laying, after’ MILLER had
bought up all the eggs insight, consequent-
ly the spell he expected to cast over the
market broke.
——That disease is more dangerous than
bullets in army life needs for the proof only
the Adjutant General’s report that in the
entire Spanish-American war, from its be-
ginning up to Feb. 28th, only 329 men had
been killed in battle and 125 died from
wounds received therein, while 5,277 died
from disease contracted in the army camps.
——The Legislature of Delaware has ad-
journed without having elected a successor
to Senator GEORGE GRAY, whose term has
expired. The adjournment will at least
have the effect of giving J. EDWARD AD-
DICK’S'time to generate a new stock of gas
before the struggle is begun again.
A Word for Our Poor Overseers.
The approach of Spring brings with it
the garden making that every thrifty prop-
erty holder engages himself in. Rich and
and poor, alike, if they are possessed of or
control a plot of ground find pleasant re-
creation and profit in cultivating a garden.
Show us the poor man’s home about which
bright flowers bloom and weed-free vege-
tables thrive and we wili point out to you a
man or a woman who will do an honest
day’s work for you, if they are employed.
There is no indication of an energetic
disposition that is any more infallible than
the condition of the garden about one’s
home and to the man or woman whois anx-
ious to get along it is always a source of
considerable sustenance.
In Bellefonte nearly every poor man or
woman lives in a home about which there
is some ground which could be made pro-
ductive. The percentage of those who try
to eke out something for themselves is
what we desire to direct the attention of
our poor overseers to.
If overseers TRAFFORD and EBERHART
would compel every person receiving aid
from the horough to cultivate a garden of
their own, where they have them, what a
manifold blessing it would be. In the
first place nearly all of them could raise
enough tomatoes, cabbage and potatoes to
last them for a year; secondly, the exer-
cise of it would he beneficial to health;
third, where thereare children in such fam-
ilies the help they could be called upon to
render would have a tendency toward in-
culcating habits of thriftiness and, at the
same time, keep them off the streets;
fourth, in such a way the homes of the
poor people would be made more attractive
in summer and they could not but expe-
rience the ennobling inspiration that the
Creator breathes to all through this part of
nature.
Think about it, Mr. Overseers. We
have no desire to ask you to become super-
intendents of 4 series of truck farms, but it
seems that you could act upon this sug-
gestion with credit to yourselves, profit to
the taxpayers and helpful kindness to the
indolent poor.
Where there are persons unable to dig
their own gardens, by reason of physical
infirmities, you could have some one plow
and make ready for them, then they could
plant and care for their vegetables them-
selves. Especially among the old woman
beneficiaries could this be done, for every-
one of advanced years knows the genuine
pleasure there is to be had in the care of a
small garden.
No Occasion for Worry.
The Philadelphia Times, which is, to say
the least, partial to Senator QUAY and
friendly to his ambition for re-election,
deprecates the possibility of an adjourn-
ment of the T.egislature without previously
having elected a Senator to represent the
State in Congress for the term which began
on the 4th instant. ‘‘The leaders of the
party responsible for such a result, it de-
clares in an admonitory tone of voice,
‘“‘would be overwhelmed at the polls in
November.” Moreover it would be a
proof of recreancy to duty that could never
be condoned, our esteemed contemporary
is convinced, and universal execration
would be only a just punishment for such
a crime.
Granting the accuracy of that prediction
there is nevertheless no reason why the
Democrats in the Legislature should alter
their course or change their plans in the
premises. The party isnot responsible, di-
rectly or indirectly, for the failure of that
or any other obligation which rests on the
general assembly. With only a trifle more
than a third of the membership that party
can only exert its best efforts toward pre-
venting the enactment of vicious legisla-
tion and defeating the election of the worst
candidate for Senator. This much would
be achieved, even if the day of adjournment
came before another bill had reached the
Governor or a Senator were chosen.
We take pleasure in assuring our es-
teemed Philadelphia contemporary, which,
by the way, seems to have fallen entirely
out of the circuit of Democratic thought,
that the Democratic mind of the State is in
no way disturbed over the matter in ques-
tion. The eighty-seven Democrats who com-
prise the force of that faith in the Legisla-
ture have disappointed no expectation or
betrayed no hope by their course in the
senatorial contest. They were com-
missioned by their Democratic consti-
tuencies to cast their votes for an
honorable, capable and fit man to rep-
resent the State in the Senate of the
United States, and they have fulfilled that
expectation ‘‘to the Queen’s taste.” If
the Republican party should be scourged
at the polls next November and every
other November from time to eternity, the
Democrats could witness the operation
with a reasonable measure of complacency,
and we hope the esteemed Times will com-
pose its perturbed spirits.
——1In the light of recent events it has
become apparent that the Chicago canners
can all the beef they can and what they
can’t can they embalm.
9.
NO. 11.
Silk Mills in Pennsylvania.
The prosperity of the silk industry in
this State has been the subject of com-
ment among the people familiar with
the subject for a long time, and a prolific
source of agitation in certain communities
which aspire to engage in the manufacture.
Recently a meeting was held in West
Chester for the purpose of considering a
proposition that has been made to the peo-
ple there and some curious statements were
made. It seems that the president of a
mill in Patterson, N. J., has offered that if
the people in the Pennsylvania town will
subscribe money enough to erect the plant
the New Jersey folks will operate it and
engage to not only pay interest on the
amount but at the end of thirty years re-
pay the principal. To encourage the en-
terprise speakers familiar with the subject
were sent to give statistics and prove the
certainty of the fulfillment of the pledge.
Among the speakers were Ex-Senator C.
C. KAUFMAN, of Columbia, Pa., and Repre-
sentative STAHL, of Altoona. There are
mills in both of those towns and the gen-
tlemen were supposed to be informed on
the question under discussion. Mr.
KAUFMAN stated that the mill in his town
has “‘been conspicuously successful,’’ and
Mr. STAHL declared ‘‘that the mill estab-
lished in Altoona in 1892 now employs 800
hands and is now arranging te double its
capacity.’” These are interesting facts and
no doubt the same measure of success
would attend the operation of mills, prop-
erly managed, in any other town in the
State. In Allentown, the pioneer in the
business, and in Scranton, where invest-
ments in the industry are largest, the same
reports are gathered, and even in Harris-
burg and other places where the business
is conducted on a more modest scale the
same results have been achieved.
But while the speakers at the West
Chester meeting were enthusiastic over the
success of the silk making enterprises in
their respective towns and identical in
their accounts of the prosperity, they re-
frained from even alluding to the causes
which produced such gratifying results.
The raw material which is used in these
mills is grown in China, Japan and Italy
and France and if the policy of the party
‘to which the: West Chester speakers belong
had been carried out with respect to it, it
would have been used there and nowhere
else, or at least nowhere in this country.
But many years ago raw silk was put on
the free list with the result that large
quantities of it are imported to this
country and consumed in the manufacture
of fabrics and now the product of our mills
is as good, if not better, than that of any
other country in the world. This is the
reason for the phenomenal success of silk
mills in the United States and if the policy
was extended to other raw materials the
consequence would be the same.
Sycophantic French Journalism.
The fact is daily becoming more patent
that the French people do not appreciate
to the fullest sense the meaning of the
word Republic. Of course there has been
a large and troublesome royalistic element
in France, ever since the downfall of NaA-
POLEON, but even that shouldn’t overweigh
the freedom and equality that should per-
meate the air that all men breathe alike
under a republican form of government.
The sneering jibes of the French papers at
their new President, because his aged
mother lives happily and honorably in an
humble peasant cottage, about forty miles
out of Paris, plainly demonstrates that
France and the French people are not
broad enough yet in their civilization to
comprehend what a government, that
knows no creed but God’s creed, no barrier
between honest men and no nobler charac-
ters than those found in the simple pur-
suits of moral life, should be.
Had the same snobbish sycophancy di-
vided the minds of ‘earlier generations in
this country there could have been no
WASHINGTON to deliver and free it, no
LINCOLN to reunite.
All men are God's creatures, free and
equal. Those of humble origin the more
to be honored when they have achieved
greatness, since they have surmounted
greatest obstacles.
——The Pittsburg Dispatch very grace-
fully lays the blame for the failure of the
western portion of the State to be given
any of the second-lieutenancies recently
allowed Pennsylvania in the army re-
organization plan, to the fact that that sec-
tion has no Senator in Congress now. The
Dispatch views the disappointment very
philosophically, but it is none the less
likely that MATTHEW STANLEY'S fine
Italian hand has figured in the appoint-
ments all the same.
——The ground-hog caused just a few
flakes of snow to be scatttered about yes-
terday, as a reminder that it was his last
day’s reign.
—They are killing one or two of the
boys in blue every day in the Philippines,
while we struggle away there, trying to
found a government on sand.
Quay Would Still be the Dispenser of
Patronage.
From the New York Evening Post.
Revelations of attempted corruption at
Harrisburg in the interest of Quay con-
tinue to be made, but they produce little
effect, on either the Legislature or the
general public. Everybody knew that
Quay was entirely capable of such tactics,
and any disclosures which may be made
cannot hurt his standing. Both the boss
and his opponents are now considering the
probability that the session of the Legisla-
ture will end without the election of a
Senator. Aft first thought one would con-
sider this a serious rebuff for Quay. But
his friends maintain that whatever loss of
prestige he may suffer will be more ‘than
overcome by the help of the federal patron-
age which he will have at his command
until the next Legislature shall be chosen
in the fall of 1900. Quay’s man Penrose
is now the sole Senator, and will alone 1ep-
resent the Stave during the next two years,
if the present Legislature shall adjourn
without filling the vacancy in the other
seat. It is pointed ont in a Washington
dispatch to the Philadelphia Ledger that
‘‘with Senator Penrose alone representing
the State in the Senate, Mr. Quay would
be powerful in the matter of distributing
federal patronage as if he were continued
on the roll of that body, for the reason that
Senator Penrose, having the exclusive call
on the President so far as Pennsylvania is
concerned, would not consent to the ap-
pointment of any man to a position who
was known to be inimical to the return of
Mr. Quay to Washington.” The conclu-
sion of this Washington observer is as fol-
lows: 1
“Failure to elect at this time would,
therefore, practically leave Mr. Quay pos-
sessed of all the political patronage he has
enjoyed under the present administration,
and that this would be used to promote his
chances for election to the Senate two years
hence there can be no doubt. It is ap-
parent from the admissions of the Quay
leaders at Harrisburg that the man from
Beaver is beaten, but unless the Legisla-
ture selects another to succeed him before
it adjourns, Mr. Quay, although much of
his prestige will be destroyed, will retain
the power, through a judicious distribution
of federal patronage, to recover in 1901
w hat he loses in 1899.”
Sold His Heritage for a Mess of Pottage.
From the Pittsburg Post.
An interesting federal appointment has
just been made in Baltimore by President
McKinley in naming postmaster Warfield
to succeed himself. Mr. Warfield was first
appointed by President Cleveland in 1893.
In 1896 he opposed Bryan for President,
and in reward for his services in helping to
carry Maryland for McKinley he was in-
dorsed for reappointment by Republican
leaders. The nomination was not made
by the President, however, until after the
adjournment of Congress, because Senator
Gorman had given notice that Warfield’s
reappointment could not be confirmed so
long as he (Gorman) remained in the Sen-
ate. We suppose it was all right to reap-
point Warfield. He earned the place and
got the price, and will be all right for next
year.
One Congregation Was Satisfied.
From the Altoona Times.
Rev. Martin L. Ganoe, who has for five
years acceptably filled the office of pastor
for the First Methodist Episcopal congrega-
tion of this city, will now retire from that
position in accordance with the discipline
of his church. Rev. Ganoe's departure
from this place will be attended with gen-
eral regret, for in the period in which he
has lived here, he has secured for himself a
large number of friends who will not for-
get him, no matter where he may go. He
was one of the very best pastors that the
First Methodist congregation ever had, and
he also was a prominent and leading citi-
zen of the city during his residence in Al-
toona.
Kipling Interested.
It Was his First Experience With the ‘Death
Waich” and he Wants No More.
NEW YORK, March 14.—Rudyard Kip-
ling was feeling well to-night, and asked
Mr. Doubleday a number of questions.
Mr. Doubleday mentioned the ‘‘death
watch’’ which the reporters had kept on
Mr. Kipling, using their own, expression.
The poet was interested at once, and
asked for all details. He said it was his
first experience, and would try to avoid a
repetition.
‘‘By the way,’’ continued Mr. Double-
day, ‘‘they are a little bit slack now that
you are getting better. Can’t you do
something to stir up a little news for
them?’
Mr. Kipling was silent for some mo-
ments, and then he replied: ‘I can’t
think of anything unless to go through
everything again. You can depend upon
it I have no wish to do that.’
Since his illness was first made public
more than 500 messages of sympathy and
expressions of good cheer have been received
by Mr. Kipling. Many of these commun-
ications are in verse. Mr. Kipling will
not consent to the publication of any of
these letters.
Dr. Dunbam thought to-night that he
would permit thesick man to sit up in two
or three days more, if the improvement
continues.
Anxious About the Treaty.
Queen Regent Urged to Sign It Regardless of the
Cortes.
MADRID, March 14.—The Corresponden-
cia says the cabinet has advised the queen
regent to ratify the treaty of peace with the
United States without awaiting the reas-
sembling of the cortes.
The government denies that the United
States has demanded the intervention of
the cortes in the ratification of the peace
treaty.
—If you want fine work done of every
description the WATCHMAN is the place
to have it done.
So
Spawls from the Keystome.
LB
—The March term of the Superfof court
opened Monday at Harrisburg. = =
—Dr. Charles F. Murray, of Sewickley,
near Pittsburg, who killed his father's col-
ored butler, was arrested Monday.
—David L. Owens, found dead at Olyphant
Saturday night, it has been decided, was
killed by an engine, and not by assassins.
—A Lancaster county dealer is about to
ship a sample carload of oak to France, hop-
ing to establish an export trade in that line.
—Charles L. Miller, the Lock Haven lad
who had his legs mangled by the cars Sat-
urday, died at the hospital Monday after-
noon.
—Thomas Steel, a mining expert, of
Shamokin, was seriously injured by a freight
train which ran him down as he walked on
the track.
—Penusylvania railroad yard conductor
A. L. Barker was found dead on the tracks
at Altoona, Monday having been killed by
shifting cars.
—By a gas explosion at Turkey Run col-
liery, Anthony Smaleick and John Cracken-
sick, of Shenandoah, were severely burned,
perhaps fatally.
—The appointment of James P. Kershner
as county detective of Berks by district at-
torney Rothermal, on January 2nd, was con-
firmed by the court.
—Eight reasons were filed in court at Sun-
bury Monday for a new trial for murderer
Edward Crissinger, and argument will be
heard by judge Savidge next Monday.
—As he was alighting from a freight train
Jacob H. Rimer, a Lancaster butcher, fell
under the wheels, and his legs were so badly
crushed that they had to be amputated.
—August and Joseph Delabore, of Easton,
plumbers at the Lehigh Valley railroad
shops, have been left a fortune, estimated at
$80,000, by the death of their uncle, Charles
H. Rhyan, a New York broker.
—A bill providing for the erection of a
bronze statue of ex-Gov. Andrew G. Curtin
on the state capitol grounds and appropriat-
ing $10,000 therefore was offered by Mr. Mer-
rick in the House.
—James J. Guare, aged 21 years, pleaded
guilty to stealing valuable jewelry and heir-
looms from the G. Dawson Coleman mansion,
at Mount Lebanon, where he was employed
as butler, and was sent to the Huntingdon
reformatory.
—The $1000 check recently sent by Senator
Magee to the widow of Eugene Smith has
been duplicated by him for Mrs. William
Connelly, of Lancaster, whose husband, also
an engineer, was killed in the same wreck
at Gallaghersville.
—(. B. Hancock, of Mount Union, a brake-
man, had his foot caught in a frog while
shifting cars at Lewistown Tuesday evening,
and was run down and instantly killed. He
was aged 28 years, and had been on the road
but a week.
—A bill has been introduced in the Legis-
lature taking away from county commission-
ers the power to appoint mercantile ap-
praisers. The appointing power is given to
the auditor general, subject to the approval
‘of the state treasurer.
* —Harry Dorman, who was arrested for
selling oleomargarine without the internal
revenue stamp attached, a few weeks ago,
and who escaped from the officer by slipping
out of the alderman’s office at Williamsport,
was re-arrested at Milton Saturday.
—Tuesday morning Samuel Stamm, a well-
known resident of Loganton, assisted a lady
to get on the train leaving Lock Haven at
7:33 o’cloek. The train had already started
when he attempted to alight, and getting off
backward he was rolled over and over. He
was bruised somewhat.
—Mrs. Jacob Walters died recently at her
home at Claysburg, Blair county, aged 104
years. She was the oldest resident of that
section of the State. Three children are more
than 70 years of age. Mrs. Walters was never
more than 20 miles away from where she
died. Six great great-grandchildren acted
as pall-bearers.
—One of the largest coal deals in Pennsyl-
vania is now being negotiated in Armstrong,
Indiana and Butler counties, involving the
transfer of the coal rights on over 12,000 acres
of land and an expenditure of $300,000. Al-
ready the coal rights on 2,000 acres of land
in the vicinity of Rural Village have passed
from the hands of the farmers of that section
into the hands of Adrian Iselin, of New
York City. The same capitalist has options |
on about 10,000 acres more, which will also
pass into his ownership. It is supposed the
coal will be operated by the Rochester and
Pittsburg coal and iron company.
—An error of $2,500 in the last Clearfield
county audit has just been discovered. It
appears that in 1897 and 1898 treasurer L. C.
Dyer was twice credited with disbursements
made on account of the fund set aside for
paying sheep damages. In a supplementary
report the county auditors acknowledged
their mistake, and treasurer Dyer admits
that he holds $2,500 of county fundsin ex-
cess of the amount charged to him. The dis-
coveries have created a sensation, and more
interesting developments are promised. The
auditors are being roundly censured.
'—Regimental adjutant John S. Fair and
battalion adjutant Edgar S. Stayer went to
Johnstown on Saturday afternoon and that
night mustered in Company H, Fifth regi-
ment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. The
company starts with fifty-one men and Wm.
Smith, one of the best orderly sergeants that
aver made a detail, heads the list. Adjutant
Stayer is detailed as the temporary com-
manding officer. If the Johnstowners know
a good thing, they will elect as their captain
sergeant Smith, to whose untiring efforts is
due the credit for the re-organization of
Company H.
—At South Williamsport Saturday morn-
ing, 2 year old Walter Zellers, son of William
Zellers, after coming down stairs, went to the
kitchen and taking a can of lye off the table.
put some of the contentsin his mouth. When
it began to burn him the little fellow remov-
ed it, but rubbed it over his face. He spilled
the contents of the can on the floor, and
when it began to burn his bare feet he lifted
one foot and rubbed it against his other leg.
As a result his face, mouth, hands, legs and
feet are badly blistered. When his mother,
who was in another part of the house, en-
tered the kitchen in response to the child's
cries, she at once sent for a physician.