BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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= Ink Slings.
__"Phe hustling they held at Axe Mann this
week :
Proved & regular Donny-brook fair,
For the Irish and Dutch punched both eyes
: and “beak”
Of nearly every old hustler there.
Of course there were some who took to the
k : x Th
AND FEDERAL UNIONCC
STATE RIGHTS
In the cold, dreary hours of the night,
, But they were the ones «who weren't no good”
When it came to a real Jrish fight. :
—Présidens McKINLEY says the war. in
the Philippines ended last spring, but he
“| asks for an army of 60,000 men to make
she Filipinos. believe it. : 2
© __Bellefonte doesn’t have to bear the re-
sponsibility of having caused Centre coun-
ty’s shrinkage in sion during the
* last ten years for while the total in the
county fell off 375 Bellefonte gained 270.
—_Fast through trains are contemplated,
whereby travelers will be able fo go to’
sleep in Pittsburg and waken up in Phila-
delphia, but a feature ‘of the service that is
likely to canse real trouble is the gnaran-
. tee that the traveler will get awake in
Philadelphia.
——And pow is the winter of our discontent,
Made into a season both long and drear,
Because in-Congress most all Members seem
bent, :;
Fo keep a war tax on tobacco and beer.
But (be Beginning.
islation.”
was enacted while we were
| imperils.
—t'President MoKISLEY'S message is
Jong because he has mueh to say,’ observes
an exchange. And it is in the natural
order of things that it shonld be lor
Any President who has promised so much
and done so little must necessarily resort
to verbosity in order to bide his short
comings. :
at the same old stand. Last Wednesday
the British garrison at Dewetsdorp, 400
strong; surrendered to a force of Boers and
now the English papers are talking as it | quake
_ the war had only begun. ‘We might be
able to ‘have a good laugh on JoHN BULL
“were it not for a little trouble. that Ungle
‘ SAM has gotten, himself into over in the
_ Philippines.
~The Quarter Master General of the: ; Lo
Michigan National Guard, who plead guilty eases] of is Seria A
to the charge of complicity in, the state | 3
military clothing frauds, got ten yearsas.
bard labor in the penitentiary. Peer
WRITE, be had far ‘better been in cahoots other people have.
with EAGAN in the embalmed beef frauds.
He would have profited more and suffered
less for his shortoomings. There seems to
be a vast difference between Lansing,
Mich.; and Washington justice. :
_ Standard Oir's’still in the sky
And @o'ane knows when it will cease
Sogn ehips ita souritg up so high
Because its stock, us smooth as’grease.
nr
“capital out of the fact that Representative | shat dan
WiLLiaM T. MARSHALL, of Allegheny,
‘who is a candidate for Speaker of the next | living under is.
| Chinamen are ours, justas
3 he 618 fo | ol hin
bill is more than we are able to under
stand. Especially when one. of
pins of ‘the Insurgents was the
the oil outpnt of the State. | this government.
—-—It is one of the strange things that
when a particularly dirty mess is turned
up in New York, a Republican is always
found at the bottom of it.. When the ice
| trust of that city was exposed, all its offi-
cials were found to be Republicans. Now
that they are uncoyering the vice and im-
morality that bas disgraced its manage-
ment, Republican captains of police are
being tarned up as the fellows who have
been delinquent in doing their duty.
buckwheat cake eaters of the country are | wanted.
being flim flammed by the millers. The |
New Era claims that the buckwheat cake
of today is not what it was forty years ago.
and the Press seeks a proof by stating that
* while there are from 10,000,000 to 12,000,-
ee. )
Yes, We Have Been Wrong. .
in the country the flour ought to be
our army.
PE
delphi, but up this way the only notable
difference we find in the buckwheat. cake
of today and the dyspepsia generator of |
forty years ago is the abéenee of such | kinds of merchandise,
wholesale attacks of buckwheat ith. And | as were necessary for
i the millers have been responsible | Last week a 6
tracting the soratcbies from the flour wo say: | dition of
Praise them ! _Tustead of hissing the pure | pol
food commissioners onto them. it |
~The first measure presented in Con-.
gress when it re-convened on Monday last
© Representatives in Congress * under the | pp;
eleventh census.” The proposed act pro-.
lippines.
Representatives from 357 to 365. Of this
‘population. This, the 28th district, as at
* present constituted ‘has a population of
201,733, and is probably closer to the pro- |
posed ratio than any district in the State.
Its people do not need to worry about the
passage of the bill presented or bother over
re-apportionments under it. They have
about all the representatives they can get
in Congress and are probably better - satis-
in beer saloon when he sees one...
they are; than they would be under any | poor trade in the Philippines.
pew arrangement of counties that is like- : col
S———
ly to be made. -—fubscribe for the WATCEMAN.
A Washington dispatch to the daily
papers of Monday, complain that ‘despite
the stringent exclusion laws and treaty
stipulations, Chinese laborers are coming
into the United States in as great numbers
as before the enactment of prohibitive leg- ; 1 8 0! g P
| American commerce is to be benefited | the greater part being given up to the
; “| Chinese question. If we include the space
given to she Philippines and other acquisi-
‘ to four and one: half
And why shouldn’t they? Legislation
prohibiting the immigration of Chinese
content with
what we had, and made some pretense of
protecting our own laboring men against
the cheap labor of other countries. Im-
perialism ‘has changed conditions, and
American labor will hereafter be compelled
to take its chances along with every other :
interest and right that this new doctrine
We are grasping for whatever we can
‘get outside. When we get it we must ac
cept in good faith what our greed brings.
16 Bas brought us these Chinese and there
is no way of stopping them. In the Hawaii-
‘an islands; that are now past of this conn-
try and have their representative in the
Congress of the United States, there are
over 30,000 Chinese laborers, every one of
whom has the same right to come to Ameri-
ca and crowd an American workingman
1 out of his place, that a merchant, a lawyer
— The Boers ‘seem to be doing business | or any other resident of those islands bas.
; Guam, anotheref our recent possessions
wid way between the Hawaiian and Philip
pine islands, aud a spot of sun-dried earth- | As it works in China, so it must workin
shaken land, sesves a3 a preparing
place for Chinese immigeation. Its resi-
‘dents have the right of entey into this conn-
try. Any Chinaman ean begeile a resident
there in six weeks. This gives him laud-
ing rights among our own people, and who
can prevent him? Guam is now a part and
greedy government,
alghongh they
‘have been there but a few weeks, have all
‘the rights of entry into this'country - hat
| Then we are fighting for the Philippines
: as full of Chinese as a fall
| corn field is of rag-weed—and they become
prt of one Possessions as our ATmY Suc-
ceeds.and onv flag is carried forward. On
these islands there are estimated to be 1,-
| 500,000 Chinese and Chinese mestizos-half-
breeds. For these and a war with the Fili- | :
pinos we paid Spain $20,000,000. These
oh ‘as the
prexent_thosé belonging to “this |
government, coming tot and earning a
So thatin addition tothe’
House, voted for the obnoxious pipe line 30,000 Hawaiian Chinamenand to the facil-
ities furnished by Guam as a smuggler’s
the king | nest, there area million and a half more
Governor | Chinamen in the’ Philippines whom we
‘who signed the obnoxious bill and made it | bave opened our doors too, by making the
possible for the great monopoly to control | country of their adoption a possession of
‘Under the circomstance is it any wonder
that they are pouring into this country?
Laboring men, who find their wages go-
ing down on account of the surplus of labor ;
now in the country, may growl and whine ‘had made for the good of all.
about cheaper labor coming, and prospects :
of competing with the cheapest labor that |
is known as the face of the earth—the
Chinese--bnt they have po reason to.
They voted for this-condition of affairs, in
voting for the policies that MARK HANNA
‘and those whose interest it is to have cheap
—The Lancaster New Era and the Phila- labor, and they are beginning to get, al-
delphia Press are of the cpinion that the | ready, what they said by their ballots they
We take itall back—ackuowledge the
corn—and frankly concede that our com-
,- | meree is expanding in the Philippines;
000 bushels of buckwheat gown annually | éven in the face of she war we are waging
mr oeht. to be sil | agaios the people of theo lands. Since
right, unless the miller adniterates it. We the government liad wo mere men to ship
don’t know how it isin Lancaster or Phila- to Maniln, she vessels that have been sent
ag oi to return ladened with onr dead,
‘wounded and fever stricken soldiers nsual-
ly left their American ports empty of all
‘exeept such supplies
ange occurred in this oon” alanced wheo! in
affairs. Commercialism scored a governor badly. © ©
‘a western ‘paper announces the
6 shat thie 1ast vessel to leave San Fran- ; licans R
| isco harbor for Manila “carried a cargo of 427,431 voters who are not of that political
50,000 barrels of American beer—the. big:
: b | gest and most valuable ship load of Ameri:
‘ ‘was'a bill “making an apportionment of | ‘m chandise that ever started for the
Mow proud the Jingo
\ ; statesmen, who are crying fora continua-
vides for an increase in the number of sion of ‘the war, in the interest of commer-
. aves his | gial expanion, will be, over this fact ! How
, inerense two will come to P ennsylvania, | gated the Christian Temperance people will
giviog the State hereafter 32 members in | gee] when: they realize that. their war, to
Congress, or one for every 196,941 of it8 | gp 00d christian civilization,is but opening :
roads for the beer wagon ! How thankful| four Representatives, or one for every 106,-
ee of nat toe prapemfona [Jt Wedonrdh the. repieientation the
rto civilize the heathen, has been an- :
red to the extent that he alteady knows
Surely there is hope ahead, and the pul-
pit and the business house—the church
Le and commercialism—should continue th
fied, and their interests better cared for a8 | qo a for the spread of christianity and the
ei |
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 7. 1500.
Closing the «Open Door” and Destroying | - . The President’s Message.
¢ 3 Business. SRILA : From the Pittsburg Post. 4
Mr. McKINLEY may talk about the ne- |
cessity of an ‘‘open door” to Chinese trade
until he grows weary in ‘what: he believes.
to be well-doing, but he will have to
change present conditions amazingly if| voted to our relations with foreign powers,
press copies sent out from Washington,and
by it. During Ogtober, 1899, with the
door to China practically closed against
us, our exports to that country amounted to
$1,324,314 while in October, 1900, with the
“open door’ in: our favor eur exports
amounted to but $579,000. For the last
ten months of the current year our trade
with that country has fallen off $2,196,-
144.
tions, ‘am
columns, we have a total of thirteen and
‘one half columns required to discuss in the
! t's way concerns outside the Unit-
ed States, leaving four and one half
in close relation to our seventy six millions
of population. This is significant of the
‘extent B10 witiel the ited States bas be-
“| come t we call po d hi
This fact goes far to prove the illusion; ay Diver nd how
of the belief, that * ‘trade follows the flag.”
These never was a time when our flag was
#8 much in evidence in China as during
the past ten months. Over its fortifiea-
tions, its rivers, its public thoroughfares, | it is advised, should be increa
its official buildings, its Joss houses and its
opium dives, it floated in all its glory, and
trade scems to have shriveled wherever it
went. &
But the Jingo will say, “‘it was because
of the war.” So it was, and this fact and
these figares only go to prove that you |the President takes decisive ground, is in
cannot extend commerce at the point of the his suppor oF ge ship 8 heidy iid he re-
£ a a aL S m ‘a
bayonet, ' vor Secute the good will and messages, comm “uimediate Da
trade of a people by the sword and fire ahd | There have been signs of Republican dis-
the cruelties of war. : “4+ | sent from this subsidy scheme, running in-
to hundreds of millions of dollars, and the
presidential hoost for it will be likely to
force Mark Hanna's job through Congress.
portant home affairs. 7 al
Home affairs are treated briefly and wit!
‘a few vague surface recom ons.
decision of the Isthmian Canal goes
force of 15,000. On the trost question the
| President ‘quotes from a former message
and “urges that *‘the bad trusts” within
Federal jurisdiction be restrained. It was
predicted that he was preparing an anti-
trast blast, but this amounts to nothing.
The only home question, in fact, om which
the Philippines, only ten times more to our |
disadvantage proportionately. ‘We hadan |
excuse for our actions that has stopped’
much of our trade with China. | We have’
none, whatever, for the miserable, costly
and cruel purposes we are attempting to’
carry ous in the Philippines. "1 largement of the army.
If the Chinaman bates us to the extent With’ reference to the Philippines, the
« to dei Pe i= message is much less explicit than Mr. Me-
thas he Fe Sel Wiel as because we, Kinley's letter of acceptance. It gives no
sent our flag and our soldiers into ‘his, information beyond a vague statement that
conntry to protect our own people who
profess has been made. It repeats at
were there, what must be. the sentiment
length the instructions given to the civil
Tes : 3. | commissioners and expresses a hope that
of the, Filipino, whose home .we are deso- ¢ivil government may sometime be estab-
lating, whose people we are murdering, | Jished, without stating the ground on
who cities and towns we are destroying and | which the lope is based.
whose country we are laying waste, to-
wards us? Can any sane man believe that
we are building up our trade with that
country by the cruelties and desolations’of
From the Philadelphia Times.
% # # # # Those who look to it for
a clear and incisive definition of policy will
be disappointed, except as concerns the en-
out in the Pailippines and prefers to let
things drift. Drifting is the policy svg-
gested also for Porto Rico and for Cuba.
One positive recommendation the wmes-
war ? Phe mse does contain. i spite of the promise
AED nag ee ne of eivil government for the Filipinos, who
And vet commeicialism ! says it mE: are ominously called the *‘wards of the na-
ge on. : WE 1 conc 8 Lion,” the President says we must keep
ng them an army of from 45,000 to 60,-
000 wibhout counting $He WAtive soldiers it
is hoped to enlist. "Troops are required
also in Ceba and Porto Rico and the coast
garrisons should employ 26,000 men. It is
evident, therefore, that we need an army of
at least, 60,000, which “‘the President
should have authority to increase’ to
100,000. ‘This more than imperial power
is to enable the government to ‘adhere to
its foundation principles.” 4}
Of course the President winds up with a
lea for ‘‘wise economy”’ and some more
pretty sentiments about liberty and peace,
but the only positive features of the mes-
sage are found to be a large increase of the
army, at the discretion of the President,
and seme new forms of expenditure to
benefit private interests. “It is true, as the
President says, that ‘‘the foundation of
‘onr government is liberty, its superstructure
peace.”’ His military policy serves neither
peace nor liberty. The one clear and un-
In the death of Maj. Jonx MH.
SHEIBLEY, our friend and contemporary,
who for many years had been editor of the
Advocate and Press, of New Bloomfield, we
‘have cause for sincere regret. Though in
his 73td year be was genial in his disposi-
tion, alive to the advances of civilization
and a ‘man to be admired for his sturdy,
‘honest character. For nearly half a century
he had been intimately connected with the
newspaper, political and general business
interests of Perry county and he died, leav-
ing behind him the memory that his life
Gone Daft.
There is some fellow on the editorial
staff of the Philadelphia Record who evi--
dently reeds a rest. Some over-worked, |
‘or under-fed writer, whose mind seems to
have gone daft, and whose intellect must
‘message i= the call for “more troops.’’
Froth the North American.
President McKinley ' devotes several
thousand words of his message to the Phil-
be worn or shattered to the breaking point. | pines, but it is to be regretted that he
gives ue nodefinite formulation of the poli-
We refer to the individual who promulgat-
ed the idea, in Tuesday's issue of that | cy to be pursued in fixing thie final status
paper, that the election of a Democratic of the islands.
United States Senator from Pennsylvania’
world be ‘‘a gross miscarriage of the prinei-
ples of representative government,” and
‘'g denial of the right of the people of this.
Commonwealth to fair representation in
the United States Senate.” Surely any
one who prefesses to understand the princi-
ple of ‘representative government’ and
cares for the ‘‘rights of the people’’ who
can see a wrong bo these ‘‘prineiples’’ avd
“rights” in the election of a Democrat, in |
the face of existing conditions, must have a
worn or unbalanced whesl in his-head that
needs gi iy of
He declares that our forces have success-
fally controlled the greater part of the is-
Jands, overcome the organized forces of the
insurgents and ‘‘carried order and adminis-
trative regularity to all quarters.”’ = And
‘then comes the assertion that in the spring
of this year *‘the effective opposition of the
dissatisfied
United States was virtually ended.’
‘Bab until Con shall decide what is
to be done with the Philippines, the war
which was ended so successfully and benef-
icently last spring is to go on, and from
000 to 60,
under the flag which is the revered symbol
eds a governor bay. i ot liberty, ‘enlightenriient and progress,
The last election shows that’ theie are | Thetelore the Prosident ales Tor seth
691,024 Republicans in Pennsylvania and Ou ick ki por 6 »
: Sy pan eal { sibility for settlement on the Philippine
faith. As apportionments are at present ar- question 2p to Con 8, it |
ranged. in addition to the one Sanat or these | that Congress would 80 deal with the
601,924 Republicans now boast of, they have. islands that 60,000 bayonets should not be
twenty-six. members : of ‘Congress, giving’ ‘the justice, the genercsity and betevolence
them one Representative in ‘thie legislative | of our intentions toward them. in
department of the government for each | Forcible annexation is an ex ensive op-
bas, | satan, and the pots ws of Sobre
1 On the other hand the 427,431 voters, t costs myre in dollars than the isantis
‘who do pot believe in the principles or
wi Pp The business sense of the country must
policies of the Republican party, have but
condemn, as an unprofitable investment, the
‘857 voters that oppose Republicanism; or thin Dy forse the A i
‘and the nation’s sense of justioe is offend-
| party in power has. A : _ ed by the policy which seeks to inculcate
“Fair tepresentation’’ we would take {i [yeverence for the symbol of liberty : by
‘means equal representation for all. If it
does not, in what does it consist? Jad if | ;
it does, wherein could there be a ‘‘miséar- | pu :
riage of the principles of representative | Euesplainable Heglrete
goveroment,” ora “denial of the rights of | Fro the Greensburg Argus. i |
the people,” in the election of aa addition Add 3 Jo known no petition hea, been
al representative for those who are not of | reconsider bis decision no to be a candi-
Republican faith? date for the Presidency in 1904.
i
Krag-Jorgensen bullets.
Tr
SAS
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‘The President's message is of unusual
length. It makes eighteen columns in the
i illtistrases the growth of our outside in-
‘terests’ that nine of these columns are de-
‘columns to matters of a domestic character
foreign questions are dwarfing more im-
gress without recommendation. The a ny, | pe
: creased to 100,000 |
men, with authority to’ raisé a Filipino |
16 is evident’
that the Pre~ident does not yet see his way |
mistakable idea we get from this long:
Tagals to the authority of the
50 soldiers will be needed io
prevent tbe Filipinos from forgetting that
they ‘are under our fostering care’ and
gloss. it is to be wished |
required to demonstrate to the inhabitants | POs
are worth, not to speak of priceless lives.
expenditure of hundreds of millions to ob- |
shooting it into the hearts of a people with |
‘it’ the hind
| From {he Chicago Tribune ( Rep-) Lod
for authority
large percentag
| mothers’ hearts turned to stone over graves
© { that contained their best and Jearest, torn
Where the Difference Comes In.
From the York Gazette. ;
A comparison is made between the divi-
dends paid by the Standard Oil company
of this country and the J. & P. Coates
company of England. A $100 share of
Standard Oil stock sells for $815. This
year a 50 per cent. dividend was paid. The
English company also paid a 50 per cent.
divided on its stock, which sells at a price
even higher than the Standard Oil stock.
These two companies are both referred to
as monopolies and as fair objects of com-
parison.
We cannot see the similarity except in
the fabulous size of the profits. The
Standard Oil trust is a monopoly.
killed practically all opposition and can
fix prices at its pleasure. The Coates spool
thread concern has not a monopoly, but
holds the trade in an open market. There
is not the slightest objection to any con-
cern doing as well as it pleases and mak-
} h money as it can, provided it
privileges which enable it to
prices. The Coates com-
big profits can be made
|egitimate business without a monopoly
f natural product, without special railroad
rates and without tariff protection—with-
out. injury to the public and the artificial
obstruction of trade.
Tail and Dog.
From the New York Jornal, |
. The Congressional Record affords an
interesting eommentary upon our progress
from a civil to a military form of govern-
ment. A few years ago the list of nomina-
tions sent to the Senate at the opening
gession of Congress consisted almost en -
tirely of appointments as postmasters, eol-
‘lectors of customs, consuls and the like.
This week the roll began with appoint-
ments in the army. First there were 8
second lieutenants in the infantry arm;
next 5 in the cavalry arm; and then 62
more in the infantry. These were follow-
ed by the nominations of 64 graduates of
the Military Academy to be second lieun-
tenants. Next were 33 promotions in the
staff; then 4 in the cavalry arm; then 28
in the artillery, and then 44 in the infan-
try. After these came 65 promotions and
130 appointments in the volunteer army.
Trailing along in the rear were 51 nomi-
nations for the petty civil positions we
still have to keep up, such as First Assist-.
ant Postmaster-General, Indian Agents,
Secretaries of embassies; Consuls and
‘United States Attorneys.
Evidently the civil branch of the Gov-
ernment is a very small tail to a very large
military dog. :
A Horse on the Horse Show,
From the Franklin Spectator.
That aristocratic and flunkey function,
the New York horse ehow, is a grand dress
affair, in which affinent swells affect stun-
{ ning turf appavel-and asvame to-pass judg- |
ment on the points sand merits of horses:
It-is set forth and assun that only the
bluess blooded of equine stock can pass
muster at these highly ‘fashionable exhib-
its. Thereby hangs a wicked and shock-
ingly funny joke' . A clever rascal named
Hughes bought a street car horse for §11.-
50, fed her up with tonics of strichnia,
iron and arsenious acid, docked her tail clip-
ped her mane and entered her in the sad-
dle horse class under the'name of ‘‘Puldeka
Orphan,” She was placed in a richly up-
holstered stall, attended by two grooms in
gorgeous livery, and the judges, on in-
Sheckian. found her eligible to compete in
e - thoromghbred saddle-horse class.
“Twas too good a joke to keep, and the
shock that followed the discovery of the
fraud was painful. Its bitterness was not
molified by the suggestion that ‘‘Puldeka
Orphan’’ is but an amended form of the
legend, ‘‘Pulled a car often.”
Neo Need for Ship Subsidies.
From the Indianapolis News (Ind. Rep.)
If we could start with the idea that the
way to create a business is to take the
shackles off and allow individual enter-
ise aud capital so'find its own channels
we should soon have an ocean carrying
trade. But we propose still to forbid the’
buying of ships abroad, and mean still to
hamper the trade by obsolete navigation
laws; and yet American enterprise has tri-
umphed in spite of it, and when American
manufacturers are underbidding those of
Great Britain on steel tails and on bridges
‘and locomotives for the use of the British
army in the Sudan it will not do to say
that they cannot build iron steamships as
cheaply as the British. We have only to
leave American enterprise alone, take from
rances which am abnormally’
Ligh tariff has er and we shall beat
the world: ~~ A :
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Time for Subsidies is Paut.
The
While commerce was earried on in
wooden vessels, which eould be construct-
ed more cheaply in this country than any-
‘where else in the world, Americans had a
e of the carrying trade of
the world, thongh no subsidies were paid.
When iron replaced wood, and it was im-
ible to construct iron vessels here so
cheaply as in England, the American mer-
chant marine decayed. But now steel
and iron can be built as sheably in this
country as in England, and there are
many who believe that this cheapness,
without the aid of subsidies, will lead to
the restoration of that merchant marine,
and that it is better to wait a while before
embarking in the dangerous subsidy busi-
ness, which France is trying with such
poor results.
Thanksgiving in the Philippines.
From the Columbus {O) Press-Post. :
We trust that nowhere in those islands
from them by a cruel war. We trust that
nowhere a Filipino father raised his hands
to'heaven and on the ruins of his home
cursed a flag that in all other parts of the
world for a hundred years had invited
to be free. vs
only the benedictions of people struggling
It has |
Spawls from the Keystoue.
—Officers of the Pittsburg district are try-
ing to organize all the bituminous miners
{into a single body. fe
—Two hundred delegates attended the
eleventh annual convention of the North-
umberland county Christian Endeavor Union
at Shamokin last week.
All records for two days’ issuance of
marriage licenses in the local Orphans’ Court
were broken Wednesday and Thursday of
last week, when the overworked clerk issued
| the grand total of thirty-five.
—The flow at the Pine Creek Oil and Gas
Company’s Cedar Run gaser has increased
until it is now a million feet a day, with
mercially, this means much for Williamsport.
—Hugh Brolley, aged 21 years, & well-
known young man of Cresson, disappeared
from his home on November 18th and since
then nothing has been heard of him. His
parents and friends are endeavoring to locate
him. i
—About five acres of valuable eoal land
caved in on the Robert Gibson farm, near
Blairsville, Tuesday morning. Fifteen min-
ers were at work in the heading, but all es-
‘caped uninjured, losing their tools. The
Isabella Coal and Coke company controlled
the farm.
—Mayor E. F. Giles, of Altoona, has issued
strict orders to the police there to enforce
the curfew law and arrest all children found
on the streets after the hour of 8:30 each
evening as specified by an ordinance passed
by councils a number of years ago and never
yet repealed.
—Ata firemen’s fair in Cortland, N. Y.,
last week, Major Page, the famous midget
weighing but 49 pounds and 31 inches high,
was wedded to a stately Shamokin maiden,
Miss Mary Weikel, who is six feet tall and
weighs 150 pounds. It was a case of love at
first sight. ;
—Tuesday morning Mrs. Shrum, and two
daughters, Minnie and Florence, of Latrobe;
were badly burned at their home by the ex-
plosion of a hanging lamp. Mrs. Shram was
pulling the lamp down when 1t exploded,
throwing the oil over her. and her clothes
were burned off her. Minnie and Florence
were badly, but not seriously burned.
Sa nrday night between 9 and 10 o'clock
fire destroyed the tobacco shed belonging te
JohmBcheid, on what is known as the Ames
property, in the southeastern section of Lock
Haven. The shed with the stripping room
was 112 feet long. Hanging in the shed on
poles was all of the past season's erop of to-
bacco raised on six acres, about 7,000 pounds,
which went up in smoke in shot order.
—While butchering on Friday, Amos
Stevens, a farmer residing along the Brobst
‘mountain road, in Lycoming county, had a
terrible experience. He entered a pen con-
taining three hogs and in attempting to drive
‘one into a corner fell and was attacked by
the whole three. He struck the animals
with a short stick but couldn’t drive them
off. Finally, his son and another man heard
his eries and came to the rescue. The old
gentleman is badly injured. Oneear is al-
most torn off and over his face, arms and
legs are gashes and bruises.
—A remarkable discovery was made when
the remains of Liagi Petrolo, the Italian
burned to death in the wreck on the Carrol-
ton branch of the Beech Creek road, were
taken from the ruins. ‘Everything of the
the lower part of his body. His head, arms
and legs were gone, not even a semblance of
them being left. Around a portion of the
trank not destroyed by the merciless flames
which had so quickly deprived the unfortu-
nate man of his life, was a leather belt. In
the belt, showing no sigus of injury or dis-
figurement, was the sum of $150.
—Trainsare being run over the immense
cut-off above Huntingdon on the Middle
division of the Pennsylvania railroad. The
cut-off takes out a dangerous curve on that
section of the road and gives the company a
better entrance to the town of Huntingdon.
It contemplates a long line of ‘straight track
and is a great improvement. The road now
enters Huntingdon several hundred yards
to the west of the old line, which is still in
use and eomes into the station by way of the
yards and close to the old turn-table. The
company has been at work on the changes
west of Huntingdon for a number of ycars
and thousands of tous of earth Has been
‘used in making the “fill’" which now cuts
off the low lands formerly overflowed by the
Juniata river when it became high.
—Although it is a tremendous task to con-
template, says the Pittsburg Post, the engi-
neers of the Pennsylvania railroad have in
view the straightening of the main tracks at
the famous Pack Saddle curves in the deep
gorge of the Conemaugh. At this place there
are three bad curvesskirting a high embauk-
| ment. It is almest eighty feet from the top
of the rails to the water, and a wreek at such
a place would be disastrous. In order te
continue the four track work a great stone
retaining wall will have to be constructed at:
Pack Saddle, and this will be built to pro-
vide for the elimination of the sharp curves.
No definite time for the beginning of this
big job has been set, but it is anderstood
| that the prelimmary plans have been prepared
by the engineers of the Pittsburg division.
— Leonard Soller, an aged and respected
citizen of Altoona, and his wife, Anna Mary
Soller, died Friday evening, at their home
in that eity, between 8 and 10 o'clock, with-
in a half hour of each other both having
time of their death. Mr. Soller died first.
‘He had busied himself during the day doing
chores about the house and lot and was in
“his usual health, except that several times
‘daring the afternoon and evening he com-
plained of cramps. He ate a hearly supper
and shortly afterwards complained of not
feeling well ‘and retired to his room. He
soon became very ill and before a doctor,
| who was summoned, could arrive be passed
away, death being cansed by apoplexy. Mrs.
Soller was completely prostrated by the sad
| event. She was assisted to her room by her
| son and it soon became apparent that the
| shock was too great for her to withstand and
she died a half hour after her husband, hav-
ing expressed a desire 10 go with him. Mr.
Soller was 72 years old and His wife nearly
73. They were both natives of Germany.
Mr. Soller served during the Civil war in the
One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania
volunteers. :
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every indication of being permanent. ' Com-
been apparently in good health up to a short -
‘man was consumed with the exception or Tir