GRAY MEEK. sums BYP. ink Slings. . 1738 Cherry tree, Little hatchet, Georgie chopped, Then did cateh it. 1901 Kansas “Joint,” Little hatchet, Carrie Nation, Will dispatch it. — After many years—SAM DIEHL got an office. — SAM DIEHL to himself: I didn’t think I'd do it, but I did.” —TRAFFORD'S defeat was in no wise a reflection on his management of the poor department. — The idea of it seems ridiculous in the extreme, but Tom DONACHY must certainly have been making goo-goo eyes at a good many Democrats in the South ward. —TEDDY has returned from the mountain fastness of Colorado and now all the critters that ran on four legs out there are breathing again. Mis. NATION is in jail in Topeka and she says she intends staying right ' there until she gets real well rested. Out this way people usually prefer to take Hood's for that tired feeling. — Mrs. NATION has been wielding her hatchet in'a desperate way in Kansas late- ly. When it comes down to killing people it is time for the public to get out their hammers aud ‘‘knock’’ a little on Mis, NATION. — Three baby lions: came to the Pitts- burg zoological garden on Wednesday morning and now there are a few more growlers in the Smoky city to roar at the “Ripper” hill. — When ETHELBERT NEVIN died the world. lost a maker of harmonies at once so sweet and ‘plaintive and wierd that it might have known they emanated from a soul weary of imprisonment in a mortal being. — Brother JAMES RINE's defeat for asses- sor in the west ward of Bellefonte was not at all a slap at brother JAMES. It was merely a slight reminder to that worthy gentlemen that robber plants are likely to get frosted when they are out in the cold too much. : — When the borongh treasurer enters the service of “the Jackson, Hastings & Co. bank that institution will be big dog in the Bellefonte borough: financial manger. Some day DAN will be getting a ‘ripper”’ bill made for our poor old town. ~TIt-will take the ground. hog. only two more weeks-bo- make-good + However. if he should feel like letting up a little no one is likely to make a fuss about it.” His repu- tation as a weather prophet is established for another year at least, and there is no getting away from it. —The President having announced that he will call an extra session of Congress immediately npon receiving a copy of the new Cuban constitution, it seems to us, that if that document is any good at all it ought to keep until Congress gets together again in the natural order of events, ~—Mr. TusLA declares that he is going to startle the world 1n a very short time by putting his wireless telegraph system into practical commercial usage. But Mr. TESLA hasn’t anything so wonderfully new. afterall. Why right up here we are send- ing messages without wires to-day. That is, when we can hire a kid to carry them. —A Greensburg woman has accidentally discovered a cure, for deafness, She had been a deaf mute all her!life until, last: week, when she gave birth tc twin babies! and it is said she could hear all right im- mediately thereafter. Unfortunately,there is ‘one feature about this cure that might’ have a tendency toward making it imprac- ticable for some people. . That is, getting the twins, : —It now turus out that the German field marshall VoN WALDERSEE was only. bluffing when he proposed ‘that expedition into the interior of China. His bluff not only worked the Chinese into precipitate baste to sign the peace negotiations, bat it worked the obtuse statesmen at Washing-' ton, as well. They were getting very mad because the Germans had failed ‘to take them into a confidence that turned one to’ be merely a bluff. —Oue of the a x who kidnaped the: CUDAHY boy out in Omaha and doubtless: shared in the $25,000 ransom, that was ex- torted from his father, is thought to be captured in the person of JAMES CALLA- HAN, who is in jail in that city now. If CALLAHAN turns out to be one of the men wanted, then the others omght to be far more readily captured and. after their cap- tare—as the French would say it —the del- uge. ~The Windber woman who grew weary in: well doing and turned in and punched the life nearly out of her hushand, a few. days ago, ought to have a monument raised higher than the mountain peaks among which that new coal metropolis. nestles, He had been in the hahis of beat- ing her most brutally, but she made a martyr of ‘herself as long as she could stand it and, when at last the worm did turn, she promptly demonstrated that she is. by. long odds ‘‘the better half’ in that watri= monial partnership. ii § od “trust will take the doubt that of faith. ‘For years the com-! STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, y PAs, FEB . 22, 1901. Trade War With Russia. In his willing obedience to the behests of the sugar trust, Secretary of the Treas- ury LYMAN J. GAGE, has opened up a trade war with Russia that is likely to have serions consequences on the commer- cial interests of the country. The svgar trost has been insisting for some time that Russia paid a hounty on beet sugar export- ed, and that under the provisions of the DINGLEY law it was the duty of our gov- ernment to impose a countervailing duty on the product imported into this country. Russia denied the allegation that a bounty was paid there and proposed a judicial in- quiry, the conditions being that both sides should abide by the result of the investiga- tion. That was agreed to, and pending preparations for the inquiry Secretary GAGE last week issued an order to collect- ors of customs to charge the countervailing duty. That was not only a direct violation of a treaty obligation, but a quasi declaration of unfriendliness on the part of our govern- ment toward the people of a nation which for a hundred years has been our steadfast friend. But that is not the only or even the greatest evil that is certain to. follow the incident. The Russian government has ordered an increase of 30 per cent. in the customs duties on all American manu- factured products imported into Russia. Last year the value of such products which reached a market there amounted to $20,- 000,000 and under the influence of favor: able conditions a rapid increase in the vol- ume was expected in ‘the future. But the competition with German manfacturers was so sharp that the increase in tax will ope- rate as a prohibition of trade aud our man- ufacturers will lose a great commercial ad- vantage. This is one of the evils of trust domina- tion in this country. If the Secretary of the Treasury had been less under the con- trol of this odious combination the order to the customs collectors never would have been issued. No doubt the order will be revoked now that so much trouble has grown out of it, and possibly the prohibi- tive tax on American products in Russia will be stricken off also. But the wound { created by such a palpable breach of faith will not be healed soon and meantime. dis- "of confidence and merce of the country will suffer on account of this base surrender of the taxing powers of the government to serve the interests of the sugar trust. - It is a shameful prostitu- tion ‘of official power to the service of monopoly. Our Standing Army. Information comes from Washington that the President is not satisfied with a stand- | ing army of 100,000 men and would in- crease the aggregate to 150,000. Men soon break down in a deadly climate, it is reas- oned in the kitchen cabinet at Washington, where CORBIN, RooT, GAGE and last but not least McKINLEY, assemble together in the privacy of the White House. They were atraid to ask for the full number de- sired at once and after the fashion of the traditional eriminal who preferred that his seiitence of execution beadministered by de- grees, they are leading up to the worst by easy. stages, so to speak. It is no doubt true that men break down in the deadly trenches of a tropical swamp rapidly and that if we are to maintain a perpetual strife in the Philippines, not 150,000 but 500,000 men will be necessary to keep up the firing line there and the *‘posts’’ and stations at home and in Porto | Rico? But is that the program. of the ad- ministration? If so, a vast number of peo- ple have been misled by the politicians within the last year. ~ And il it is not, then what excuse can there be for creating a permanent ‘army of men at a vast expense to perform a temporary work. = Voluuteers onght to serve the purpose on short enlist ment. “The truth of the matter is that the great- er standing army is a part [of the plan ‘of imperialism which is so firmly fixed in the minds of the President and those about him as any of their personal affairs can be. They asked for 100,000 this year because’ they were afraid to ask for more and they will demand 150,000, the next time and a greater number later on until this country has become a world power in the sense that Germany and Russia now are, namely a power with a vast army in the field and hosts of hungry and starving people at home literally crushed out of spirit and hope by the burden of taxes imposed. eat — od re A Palpable Robbery, The most amazing thing thus far devel- oped in the Legislature during | the present session is the manifest purpose of the QUAY machine to insist on the passage of the Fox $6,000,000 capital ‘coustruction bill, if it can be passed without forcing a vote on ballot reform legislation. We are inform- ed that within a recent period one solvent and competent contractor has’ offered to complete the capital building on the am- bitious plans upon which it was $2,500,000, and when remonst) an for with by a friend he declared that at that price be could clear half a million dollars on the job. . Another contractor of whose ability and good faith there can be no doubt has said that for $3,000,000 he will undertake to finish the building on the original plans and add every sors of decoration and embelish- ment that can be suggested. Yet the ma- chine insists on an appropriation of double that sum to be placed in the hands of po- litical favorites aud probably business highwaymen, with no restraint upon them other thau such as were put on the com- mission that turned over the present archi- tectural monstrosity as a completed build- ing under the contract and according to law. It is safe to say that the passage of the Fox bill means the robbing of the Treasury of the State of not less than three million dollars and probably considerable more than that. Will the people of Centre county approve of sueh plunder by the votes of their Representatives in the Legis- lature? We believe not. The people of this county feel as keenly as those of any other a pride in the great State of Penn- sylvania. They would favor as freely as any others the appropriation of an’ ample sum to construct a fit capital. But they will not favor the robbery of the Treasury for the benefit of plunderers and if our Representatives vote to perpetrate such an outrage they will be held to ac- count. Two Expensive Bills. The Legislature has been in session sev: en weeks of which time only about fifteen days have been spent at Harrisburg. Dar- ing the seven weeks of the session two bills have been sent to the Governor, one of which provided for a new court in Philadel- phia at an expense to the people of the city and State amounting to $80,000 a year. The other was a measure providing for taking away the limit in the capitalization of corporations in this State. The first bill provided a pew conrt, which: the present judges have repeatedly declared wasn’t needed at all and the other opened the way for chartering trusts in the State. A few other bills have passed the Senate and some others have passed the House, but a8 yet have not ‘been concurred: in, 86 that the two mentioned constitute the leg- islative barvest of the session. I the res- olution for adjournment on the 25th’ of April is concurred in there are only nine weeks of .the session still remaining. In that event the session is already nearly half over, and charging half the expenses of the session to the two bills sent to the Governor it would make them cost the State a matter of about $250,000 a piece, and as they are both worthless; not to say vicious, it is safe to declare they are too ex- pensive, But the dillydallying shows that there is some deeper scheme in the actions of the Legislature than that of passing a few worthless bills. that the purpose is not to legislate rather than to legislate at this session. There are a few measures such as the capital’ con- struction bill which the managers are anx- ious to pass. But they are even more anx- .| ious not to pass any ballot reform bills at all. The frequent and: long continued re- cesses were for that and nothing else. Whether or not the scheme will prove sue- cessful remains to be seen, but if the Dem- ocrats are vigilant and Qetermined it will fail. . A Mistaken Idea. Some of our exchanges are worrying themselves over the fact that the Legisla- ture has fixed a day for the final adjourn- ment. That fact, they fear, will furnish a way, and at the same time an excuse, for the defeat of ballot reform legislation. This may be go far as an excuse is con- cerned but if this one was not at hand, others, and plenty of them, would be. If the Republican majority intended to: give us ballot reform, the fixing of a day for adjournment would not effect that pur-. pose. They would go on and do it. - Just as they go on passing their salary grabs, their one sided apportionments, their cor- poration makers, and their ‘ripper’ legis- lation. The day of adjournment, if it had been fixed for next week, or the following one, would not bave prevented them mak- ing the changes they desired. - The great trouble is that they don’t want any change in the election laws, and they don’t intend that any shall be made. They know the people, especially the Re- publican people, are willing to be fooled, and will put up with any sort of deception, and they don’t care a hobee about any pledge they made in this matter. If the day of adjournment was put off until next’ December, it wouldn’t help: matters a par- ticle, nor would there be any better chance for ballot reform suogeeding than, there is now. ‘To talk of bettering our ‘election laws, with a ring majority in both ‘branches of ‘the Legislature and a tool of that ring in the gubernatorial chair, is only a waste of wind, and a loss of time. That is to say it is clear The Billion Dollar Trust. Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN'S billion dol- lar steel trust is now complete, and it ap- pears that the capitalization is $100,000,- 000 over the mark. A few years ago $100,- 000,000 was a vast capitalization, there were only a few corporations in the world which exceeded that figure. But the Mog- GAN-CARNEGIE colossus exceeds it eleven times and comes very near representing enough money to pay the national debt. It represents nearly as much capital as the real estate value of the third State in the American Union, and its revenues will amount, annually, to as much as those of the United States in 1860. This giant corporation has grown ih within a dozen years from a meager enter- prise, comparatively speaking. About that long ago ANDREW CARNEGIE and HENRY C. FRICK consolidated two companies capitalized at $5,000,000 each and formed the CARNEGIE company with a paid up capital of $10,000,000. Neither of them has since put in an additional penny, buf, a year ago - Mr. FRicK drew out some: $30,000,000. In the new re-organization Mr. CARNEGIE retains no stock but gets $207,500,000 five per cent bonds upon which the interest will amount to $10,375,- 000 annually. FRICK, SCHWAB and other partners in the original CARNEGIE com- pany have nearly $100,000,0C0 of stock in the new trust and all that money has grown from the $10,000.000 tree planted less than a seore of years ago. No man complains, and no one has a right to complain of another’s prosperity or object to a liberal reward for his in. dustry, sagacity and frugality. But when money multiplies with the rapidity shown in the case in point there is manifesly something the matter and the public has the right and it is a duty to inquire con- cerning the cause. And what is the result of such inquiry in the present instance. It is ascertained ‘that the difference between the gains of this company and those of another is the result of government boun- ties, unearned. but paid out of the poverty of the people, which it has helped to create. Signs or Dishonor. That the administration i is preparing ‘to the pledge made at tlie beginning of the Spanish war, that this government would claim neither sovereignty nor con- trol of Cuba, further than to establish there a stable home government, is now clearly apparent. Ever since the convention elect- ed by the people of Cuba to form a con- stitution and establish a government began: its work, the military and civil officers of the United States in temporary control there have heen usurping the right of di- recting the body. Now that its delibera- tions are drawing to a close, we are inform- ‘ed that the President is contemplating an extra session of Congress to pass upon the work. The Congress of the United States bas no more right to review the work of the con- stitntional convention of Cuba than it has to exercise a censorship over the speeches, proclamations or edicts of the new King of England. The language of our pledge to Cuba and the world with respect to Cuba implied the right of that people to self-gov- ernment. A government which is subject to alteration, regulation or even review hy any alien power is not self-government, and in assuming such a power over the funda- mental law of Cuba, our government vio- lates a sacred pledge and writes itself down | as an unmitigated dastard. These are harsh terms, but the circumstances will permit of no other characterization. There is nothing that the Congress of the United States can honorably do with respect to Cuba after the constitutional conven- tion has completed its labors, except to give an order to ‘the military and civil officials of this country there to move out, and ‘‘stand not upon the order of the going, but go.” The work of the constitutional con- vention is the work of the people, because the delegates were regularly elected by the people in an orderly manner, and whether it is. wise or otherwise, is their look-out. ‘We have done all that we have a right to do under a pledge freely but solemnly’ taken, and to attempt more now would be usurpation and injustice. vd public meeting was held in the | Evangelical church at Eagleville, on Mon- day evening to protest against the granting of a tavern license to Al. Hanna, of Lock Haven, who has applied to the Centre county court for permission to dispense beer and liquors at a hotel be proposes opening in the Liberty township capitol. Speeches were made by Capt. J. A. Quigley, Chas. H. Frick, Rev. M. C. Frick, Squire John Liggett and John McGhee. A collec- tion of $40 was raised to fight the license. Beech Creek, a neighhoring village, just over the line "in Clinton county, united in the meeting of protest. ——The resignation of Col. Geo. H. Huhn, left a vacancy on the staff of Gover- nor Stone which was filled on Friday by an order issued out of the Adjutant Gener- al's office appointing Col. W. Fred ‘Rey- ‘| mold’s to the position. terms, i spectors, D.K.T The Spring Election. The elections for various township and borough offices passed off without any} no- table incident on Tuesday and already’ the the result, unsatisfactory as it might have been to some on Tuesday night, is being accepted with the best of spiritin: all To- calities. A local election very rarely represents any particular party principle. The ques- tions involved are mostly personal popular- ity and fitness of the nominees. = Of course on such matters men differ, just as they do on principle and for that reason some pret- ty sharp: contests are stirred up in: the spring. It is best, however, to pass them over when the polls close, wipe the slate clean and be ready to go on, Wednesday: morning, just where you left off on Mon- day evening. The only fight that assumed any propor- tions in Bellefonte was the one for overseer of the poor in which JOHN TRAFFORD, the Démocratic incumbent for the past two went down before SAM DIEHL. His defeat was not because of any short coming in office, for he has made a very creditable official, but a combination of unfortunate circumstances, over which he bad no control, conspired to compass his defeat. In the South ward there was such a mix | up that it is absolutely impossible to ac- count for the defeat of either JosEPH Mc- MAHON, the Democratic nominee for judge, or that of THOMAS HOWLEY for assessor. In the West ward LEWIS MCQUISTION was elected assessor over JAMES RINE, Republican, by a majority of one. RINE was not defeated because of inefficiency, for he has made a very faithful and compe- tent assessor. At Unionville and State College the Democrats gave their opponents a very wholesome defeat. and throughout. the en- tire county there is evidence of Democratic activity that angurs well for the fall. THE RESULT IN BELLEFONTE BOROUGH. Treasurer. Chas. F. Cook Overseer of | 3 H Diehl’s majority. ean ssarnrrerresved 99 Auditor { He 1 Bellefonte N, W.—Judge of Election, 8: B. Mill. er 219, L.A. Schaffer 138; inspectors, Roger pe Bayard 228, John N. Lane 130; Reg. assessor, S. A. Bell 243, W. A. Ishler 115; councilman, W. Fred Reynolds 344; school directors, H. C. Quigley 209, J. C. Meyer 155. Bellefonte S. W. —Judge of Election,} Thomas Donachy 162, Jos. McMahon 160; inspectors, Hen- ry D. Brown 147, Harry J. Walkey 171; Reg. asses- sor, W. C. Cassidy 183, Thomas Howley 139; coun- cilman, G. W, Sherry 132, J. M. Cunningham. 195; school director, W. C. Heinle 223, Bellefonte W. W.—Judge of Election, E.T. Tuten 78; Jonathan Miller 54; inspectors,A.V.Smith 78,J. K. Barnhart 56; Reg. assessor, James H. Rine 68, L. H. McQuistion 69; councilman, Edward Whit- taker 77, Oscar Wetzel 58; school directors, G. W. Reese 77, .C. Y. Wagner 55. : Centre Hall Boro,—Judge of Election, Wilbur Henny 15, J. H. Krumbine 51; inspectors, Wm Smith;16, Joseph Lutz, 49; Val. assessor, A. Crotz- er, 11; D. A, Boozer 53; councilman, Samuel Shoop 18, Alfred Durst 13, R. D. Foreman 47, M. L. Emerick 53; school directors, Edwin Sellers 16, W. A. Curry 12, J. 8. Dauberman 52," L. C. Irwin 48; overseer of the poor, Jeremiah Stump 9, G. W. Bushman 57; justice of the peace, B.D. Brisbin 11, ,J.-0. Deininger. 10, A. J. Reesman 1, W. B. Mingle 51, J. G. Dauberman 56 ; auditor, W. E Park 9, W. W. Spangler 56, 8. 8, Kreamer 57; high constable, Lewis Sunday 55, W. A. Rearick 1, B. D. Brisbin 1, Howard Fetterolf 1. State College Boro. 3 ndge of Election, Hammill Holmes 102,:C. F. Kennedy 60; inspectors, J. H. Holmes 89, Jos. Mingle 75; Val. assessor, Clark Herman 99, 8S. B. Moore 65; councilman, James Johnsonbaugh 60, Sylvester Jackson 86, R. M. Foster 98, H. Campbell 87; school directors, Theo. S. Crist 158, J. P. Jackson 79, A. A. Miller 91; over- seer of the poor, DD. S.Shivery 98, C. Thomas 63; auditor, Jno. W. Stuart 80, J. A. Hunter 82. : Howard Boro. — Judge of Election, Thomas Pletcher 75, 8. F. Kline 52; inspectors, John B. Holter 72, Wm J. Wilson 54 ; assessor, Joseph L. Holter 0, D. P. McKiney 69; councilman, Joseph H. Schenck 65, John A. Thompson 76, Wm Diehl 60, Geo. Loder 52; school directors, Christ H. Pletcher 63, 0. W. McEntire 61; overseer of the poor; Wm H. Néff 65, Peter Robb 61; auditor, E.E. ' Holter 72, Wm Weber 53. * Miltheim Boro.—Judge of Election, Slopes Meyer 34, George Sechrist’ 109; ' inspectors; W. FU Krebs 18, John M. Reish 1, J: C. Hosterman 115; | Val. assessors, Daniel Ulrich #2, 'L. P. Auman 95; councilman, J. R. Sehleffer 12, F. F. Wetzel 33, G. S. Frank 101, A. Walters 103, Geo. Royer 1,” M. ©: Gephart 1; school directors, J. Speiglemeyer 42, F. E. Gutelieus 34, A. C. Musser 102, W. K. ‘Alexan- der 94; overseer of the poor, P. H. Shires 24, P. F. Confer 105, M.S. Feidler 1; justice of the peace, Geo. Ulrich 18, F. P. Musser 122; auditor, A.C. Rothrock: 34,C.H.Rreon 122; high constable, N. M. Hartman 23, W. N. Auman 111; against increase: of water debt, 59, for increase of water debt 85. : Milesburg Boro.—Judge of Election, A. G. Rager 80, Ira Proudfoot 42; inspectors, Grant Dyke 79, W. H. Shope 38,’ A. D. Smith 2; Val. assessors, P. H: Haupt 81, J. I. Morris 41; conncilman, W. B. Mi les 3ys 64, Jasper Kanaw 3ys 63, Wesley Cram 1y 70, W. B. Thomas 8ys 57, Jas. Noll 3ys 52, Jos- eph Baird 1y 47; school directors, Jno. Miles 67, 8. M. Huff 113, Geo. Noll 49, A. 8. Smith 2; overseer of the poor, Z.T. Harshberger 78, L. C. Bullock 41; auditor, A. G. Rager 63, Geo. Stroop 47, A. 8. Smith 2; High constable, John Jodon 66, David Wyland 45, A. S. Smith * Philipsburg Boro 1st Wodudge of Election, Archer Lichtenshaler 89, H. B. Afhinetihan i in- 5 te 89, J. M. Maloy 35 = C. H. Musser 61, HS. W. Cross 65 ; Solel ! church trustees, Mrs. Bina Mrs. R. M ‘Sim sessor, man, J Lee 98; ler 92, Mrs. Elizabeth Nixon Xeni, | ser 91; school directors, W ndrews » ‘Geo. Ww. Haworth 56, Frank 'Weber 68, Hamer Sankey 54; overseer of the poor, Jas. Black 8:2, John’ ‘Homer 48; auditor, John E. Fryberger 97, ym R. Miller 89, ’A. B. Herd 34, John P. Johnston 28 | Constuided on' page il aia i ~' [ Shigras, ene a Spawls from "(he Ti eysione, —The fortyidevonth & anniversary. bt the Carlisle Y. M. C. A., was celebrated on Sun- day evening, Gen. James A. Beaver made the principal address. —There were eight forest fires in Blair county last year, for which was paid out the sum of $285.84 by the county for the work: of extinguishing the flames. , —The work of registering the 20,000 school children in Blair county, performed by the assessors last year cost the county $1,044, or about five cents for each pupil. —The Supreme Court has affirmed the sentence of death imposed by the Cumberland county court on Martin Fry, who killed his brother-in-law, James E. Collins. - —Twenty men fought at one of the polling districts in Wilkes-Barre townships Tuesday night. Several were shot and stabbed, but: none seriously hurt. There have been no’ arrests. —@George Priestly,a prominent and wealthy resident of Warren, has been arrested on complaint of James Devine, on the charge of bribery at last fall’s election. He gave bail for his appearance at court. —August Schroeder a native of Germany, died at Sherman, Susquehanna on Monday, aged 103 years. He had worked in coal mines nearly sixty years in this country and in Europe. —Fifty mules were unloaded from cars at Clearfield a day or two ago, and taken to Shawsville, seven miles down the river, to be used in the building of the West Branch railroad. Work on the new line is being rapidly pushed. —As a result of thecontention between the Erie Railroad company and its striking boil- er makers at Susquehanna, 100 men from various departments have been laid off in the company shops. There have been conten- tions also in other shops of the company. —The public school building of Reynolds- ville was destroyed by fire on Saturday after- noon. It was a total loss. The building was but four years old and cost $30,000. Its con- tents were valued at about $5,000 making a total loss of $35,000, with insurance of $25,- 000. -—John H. Farrell, by many considered as being the pioneer of the roller flour process of the United States, died in Johnstown Thursday. He had charge of the first full roller mill ever established in New York city, and in other cities installed the roller process. —The other day a man named Edmison, of Mountaindale, while walking on the rail- road track in a snow storm, was overtaken by a locomotive. He quickly jumped from the track and was merely touched by the locomotive, but instantly fell, and, when picked up, was dead. The sudden fright caused death from heart failure. —The sessions of the thirty-third annual State convention of the Young Men’s Chris- + | tian Association, which is being held at Lan- caster this week, will, in a manner, dedicate | the very recently completed building of the local association. The building is oue of the handsomest of its kind in the country, and is thoroughly up-to-date in every particular. —The annual report of Mine Inspector H. A. Prytherck, of the second anthracite: dis- trict, shows that there were 207 accidents in ' his district during the year 1900, of which 55 ‘resulted in death. The total output of coal ‘ was 6,429,112 tons. Thirty women were wid- owed and eighty children made orphans by the accidents. Fifty-four per cent. of tte fatal accidents were due to falls of roof. —Among the interesting shipments from the Indiana station the other day was a large bale of skunk skins. The skins are mostly from the country and are sent to dealers in New York, where they are manufactured in- to sealskin jackets, muffs, ete. A bale of skins is shipped every week, and they con- tinue to remind station loungers and em- ployes of the original odor of the animal. —As a means of overcoming the tramp nuisance, the Pennsylvania lines will abolish the platforms on all baggage cars, and in pursuance of this decision orders have been sent to: the shops that all baggage cars sent for repairs are to be “blinded.” The aboli- tion of platforms is also said to have a ten- dency towards strengthening the cars as well as effecting a cure for the tramp nuis- ance. —The closing down of the coke wotks of the American Steel Company at Bradenville, Westmoreland county, which was annouced on Monday, practically wipes out the town. It was said on Saturday thata resumption might follow ‘in the course of a few months, but that assurauce is not given now. As a result the coke workers, citizens, merchants, and others are about to pack up and depart for new places. . —The jury in the case of A. M. Barner, who has been on trial at Mifflintown for the past ten days, charged with the murder of Adam Goodling, at Oriental, on October 2nd, 1900, Friday night rendered a verdict of not guilty. On the night of the murder Good- ling was ‘dozing ia a chair. An unknown assassin walked up toa window and fired a shotgun into his face, causing instant death. Because of alleged threats made by Barner against Goodling, Barner was accused aud: arrested. One of the men who have no faith in banks is Peter Sorber, of Sugar Notch. Like many another, he thought he could hide his money where it would be safer than behind the bars of stone and iron and he put the savings of a lifetime in an old coat and hung it in the attie with a lot of other old cloth- ing. When he went to add a few more dol- lars to his roll Wednesday he discovered the whole $400 was missing, but the thief had left the coat. —Joseph Kunst, an industrious Hungarian employed by the Glen White Coal and Lum- ber company and residing in Glen White, would like to know something concerning the whereabouts of his wife and $890. Joseph has been an employe of the company named for the past 12 years and has not only been an industrious man, but a frugal one as well. He is married, and there was also & boarder in the house whose name is Mike Shigras. Last Friday Mike went away. On Monday ; Kunst announced her intention of go- ng to Frugality. Instead of doing so she ob to Gallitzin, taking with her and pe ed check for .on the Altoona It is al she went there got the check cashed, they left for parts op J. long
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