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