BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
EE ————
Ink Slings.
—All stocks are up in a balloon,
A sailing through the air,
A time is coming good and soon
When they’ll come down “for fair.”
—NioBE has at last found her male
counterpart in Mr. CHAMBERS.
—A great many people think that doing
good means ‘‘doing’’ everyone.
—All hope of ballot reform went a glim-
mering at Harrisburg on Wednesday when
the bill presented by the Democrats was
overwhelmingly defeated.
—Talk about old mother GOOSE’S cow
that jumped over the moon. Why she was
a novice at high jumping compared to the
bull of Wall street these days.
—The Legislature of the State hight
have passed the capitol removal bill, but
the people of the State would have settled
its hash when it came to the question of
voting on it.
—This is the kind of weather that brings
to mind that line of the old song ‘‘March-
ing Through Georgia’ that runs: ‘‘How
the sweet potatoes fairly started from the
ground.’’
—A boiler blew up in a distillery near
Uniontown on Tuesday and two men are
dead. Which simply goes to prove that
old John Barleycorn is dangerous, which-
ever way you take him.
—Soon the sweet girl graduate will be
smoothing out her white dress and imagin-
ing that the eyes of the entire community
will discover a single hair out of place on
her learned looking brow.
—Lord KiTcHENER still has frequent
‘I regret to reports’’ from South Africa.
The unholy war is costing England dear.
JoHN BULL had better borrow our FRED
FunsToN for a few days, if he ever hopes
to capture DEWET.
—BROOK’S dinner hack route is likely
to work all right until JERRY DONOVAN
comes to town with his horn and then
there will be danger of a mixup that might
result in getting some of the lawyers up
town laid away on JERRY'S junk pile.
—If some of the stories that are going
the rounds now are true it might be well
for Judge LOVE to urge some of the young
lawyers at the Centre county bar tobe a lit-
tle more discreet in peddling the statement
that they have “influence with the court.’’
—It won't do to keep CARRIE NATION
in jail much longer. The freedom that
her confinement affords her husband is
proving rather disastrous to the family ex-
chequer. He attended a circus at Maron,
Indiana, the other day and was flim-
tlammed out of $73.
—The refusal to remove a freight train
from a street crossing in Chicago on Sunday
prevented the fire engines from getting to
a fire in a tenement house and seven people
were burned to death and a number of
others injured. Now what shall be done
with that train crew? It won’t be enough
to ‘‘roast’’ them.
—If the miners in the anthracite regions
are really thinking seriously of marching
to Harrisburg, twenty thousand strong, to
compel certain legislation in which they
are interested, we would advise some of
those scalawag Legislators to take the first
boat they can find on the Susquehanna and
make for Havre de Grace as fast as possible or
some of these desperate miners will consign
them to another place beginning with h.
—The miners of the anthracite regions
may march to Harrisburg to threaten the
Legislature into enacting legislation prom-
ised ‘them by the Republican party last
fall and march in vain. But next fall they
will march up to the polls again and vote
the very same crowd of lying, hypocritical,
pretentious fellows into office. That is the
Republican idea of running things, you
know.
—Because a traction less than one hun-
dred thousand voters in Pennsylvania
might want to cut their ticket at some
election is that any reason why the million’
and a half who want to vote straight should
be deprived of the ring, the easiest and
surest way of doing it? Abandon the ring
and you accomplish nothing in the direc-
tion of ballot reform. In fact you increase
the reasons for demanding assistance, by
depriving the voter of the simplest way of
making ‘his ticket.
—The “Constitution, ’’ the new Ameri-
can cup defender, was launched at Bristol,
R. I., on Monday evening. ‘Shamrock II”?
SIR TroMAs LIpToN’S new racer has been
having trials of speed for some’ days and is
showing herself a fz acht to |’
g ar superior yacht to Pennsylvania company with the Bethlehem |
“Shamrock I,” the boat that was beaten
here last season by the ‘‘Columbia.”’ How-
ever fast she may be able to go it will be.
all the same to the ‘‘Constitution.” She
will give the Irish boat a new name and it
will sound more like ‘‘Dennis’”’ than
“Shamrock 1.7
—The government is going to take off
its transport services. between the United
States and the islands of the sea into posses-
sion of which: we have lately come. This
will sound like good news to some who
will be glad to hear of a reduction of some
of the war expenses, but, in reality, it will
prove only a case of saving at the spigot to
waste at the bung hole. We will have
continued need of the transport service so
that trade will have to be farmed out” to
the Shippiug corporations and you have all
h
of MORGAN'S | great shipping. trust
now forming. “Think you! not that’ this
abandonment ‘of ‘the’ governmeiit ‘trans
ports is to help fatten MORGAN'S new
trust ?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 46
Intimidating the Miners.
When a rumor spread abroad on Satur-
day that an industrial army was about to
march on Harrisburg for the purpose of
impressing on the State Senate the im-
portance of enacting certain pending legis-
lation in the interest of miners, the admin-
istration sent a representative of the mili-
tary power of the State to exercisea sur-
veilance over their: operations. Subse-
quently the emissary for the administration
stated to a newspaper reporter that he went
to Pottsville on ‘‘a little visit,”’ but de-
clined to state the nature of the business.
“I have nothing to give to the public con-
cerning it,”’ he said. But the records of
the railroad company show that the State
ordered a special train for him which left
Harrisburg about noon on Sunday last, and
the expenses of the train are charged to
the State.
The legislation which the miners ask is
such as was promised them before the elec-
tion as a consideration for their support of
the Republican candidates for Senators and
Representatives in the Legislature in the
several districts in the anthracite regions.
In the absence of such promises at least
one Senator and several Representatives, of
that party faith, would have been defeated
in which event the Republicans would
have been unable to organize either branch
of the Legislature, and QUAY would not
have been chosen Senator. The Democratic
candidates favored the legislation as Demo-
crats always support just measures in the
interest of the working men. But the
miners who cared more for their personal
interests than for party politics were told
that the Democrats couldn’t help them in
any event, because that party would be in
the minority, and they cast their votes for
the Republicans and have been cheated.
Most Governors under the circumstances
would have joined the miners in their de-
mand for the fulfillment of the pledges
made. The leaders of another party would
have said this obligation to the men is due
and must be paid. But no such thoughts
entered the mind of the present Governor
or of those of the present leaders of the Re-
publican party. The only thing that oc-
curred to them was that there was a chance
of fooling the men and having enjoyed the
advantages of their support, the, measures
in. which they were interested could be
buried in committee. In: the House the
opposition force was too strong to permit of
such a thing. When bills repose too long
in the committees of that body they
are brought out’ by a resolution. But in
the Senate the majority is strong enough to
accomplish anything ; the bills were buried
and when the miners showed restlessness a
military spy was sent in a special train at
vast expense to defeat their purpose.
And this is - the treatment this class of
laboring men are receiving from the party
that has benefited by the support of a large
majority of them for years. ‘And we sup-
pose that support will continue just as it
has been, whether they get the legislation
asked for and promised them or not. It is
the way the miners have of doing :—swear-
ing at and kicking against the many wrongs
they are made to suffer, and then going to
the polls and voting for the party that re.
fuses to correct ‘these wrongs When it has
the power to do so.
Is it strange that. thinking people have
ceased to listen to their complaints, or to
sympathize with their distress?
An Impending Danger.
When the Pennsylvania Steel company,
which comprises the extensive plants at
Steelton, Pa., and Sparrows Point, Mary-
land, was reorganized with its capital in-
creased to $50,000,000, the public was
justified in the hope that it meant to operate
asa competitor to the billion and a-half
dollar steel trust recently organized by
Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. But recent
developments tend to dissipate that hope.
In other words there are indications pres-
ent which ‘lead to the suspicion that there
is a movement ‘on foot to consolidate’ the
newly reorganized Pennsylvania Steel ¢ com-
pany with the MORGAN trust. g
The new’ scheme is to consolidate the
Steel and Iron company and merge the
‘combined concern with the MORGAN trust.
This would practically put all the steel in-
dustry of the country under one manage-
went, and so long as the existing prokibit-
ive tariff duties are in. force that concern
would eujoy an absolute monopoly of the
business. In other words the consumers of
steel of the country would be utterly and
complegely ‘at the mercy of a: monopoly
with a capitalization almost equal to the
financial resources of the government.
That would be calamity of the; gravest
character.
"But this is the natural ands Jogioal conse:
‘quence of the economic policies of the party
in power. It isa twin evil of the militar-
ism which is inevitable unless there is a
turn in the tide of affairs. And where are |
: | committed by. this creature I the Governor
for. the offending Justice was POTTER, ¢
P-| Pittsburg, who ‘was appointed to the ‘office:
by STONE. In view of this incident no,
the
Ie the anchor of safety, but with the op-
portunities for fraud and: the facilities and
ple to 100k for esa:
resources for debauching the voter, there is
no hope from that source... The country is’
_!| indeed in imminent danger. It: remains; to
the measure ‘of manhood Dich may
avert the peril.
bench. To this charge, ‘a most unusual
‘jurisdiction to pass affirmatively upon a
‘men marveled that such things could be 3
and freely expressed doubts of the. fata uso i:
from the im-
ing danger? The ballot ‘box used to
‘rity of the judiciary.
y| besten: ‘whether or not the people will rise | | » 3 y
Removal of the Capitol.
The Legislature reached the climax in its
“Comedy of Errors,’”’ on Tuesday when by
a vote of 110 to 47, it passed on second
reading the VOORHEES bill providing for
the submissiorr to -a vote of the people the
question of the removal of the capitol of the
State to Philadelphia. When the measure
was introduced it was regarded as a huge,
but not very witty joke. Nohody dream-
ed thatit would be taken seriously, and
probably Mr. VOOHEES, least of all,imagin-
ed that it would receive a majority of the
votes at any stage of the game. The
chances are, however, that the vote of Tues-
day was only another joke. It was proba-
bly intend to make the Harrisburg hotel
keepers ‘‘loosen up’’ a little, so to speak.
But itis a grave matter to treat thus
lightly. If there was even a remote possi-
bility for a resonably fair vote on that or
any other question, the proposition would
not be so absurd, for in many respects
Harrisburg is deficient in most of the things
which go to make up the requirements of a
state capitol. That is to say that city is
provincial in many respects and insular in
others. But with all its drawbacks it is
infinitely preferable to Philadelphia as a
seat for the state government. Itis more
centrally located, easier of access to a vast
majority of the people of the State and less
objectionable from a moral point of view.
Altogether the proposition for removal to |
Philadelphia was destitute of merit. :
Besides, the matter of expense is an im-
portant element in the affair. Philadel-
phia has expended something like $25,000,-
000 in the construction of a municipal
building which is still unfinished and de-
fective. It may be presumed that the con-
struction of state capitol buildings would
cost as much and probably more, for the
larger part of the expense would fall on the
people of the State outside of the city. The
talk of using buildings left over from the
Centennial Exposition of 1876 may be dis-
missed as fudge. Those buildings are
neither adapted nor susceptible of altera-
tion to adapt them. The promise of dona-
tions to a building fund are equally worth-
less. They come from no responsible
source and cannot be depended on. In the
face of these facts it is manifest that the re-
moval of the capitol to Philadelphia would
put a vast burden on the State for which
there is no just reason or hope of adequate. is
recompense: 5
Neither of the Centre county Representa-
tives in the Legislature are recorded as
voting on the measure. But on the final
test, on Wednesday, when the bill was
killed on third reading Mr, ALLISON voted
against it, while Mr. THoMPsON did not
vote at all. :
An Accusation Suppressed.
What threatened to be an interesting
controversy between our esteemed Philadel-
phia contemporary, the Press, and the Gov-
ernor. of ‘the Commonwealth has been
silenced in a most mysterious and signifi-
cant way. The Press charged that Gover-
nor SToNE'S former law partner and now a
Justice of the Supreme conrt had revealed
to the Governor some of the secrets of the |
and extraordinary one, the Governor and
the Justice promptly entered emphatic and
unequivocal denials. Buf in publishing
the denials, the Press reiterated the charge
and declared that the statement was made
on authority in which it had implicit faith.
Against’ this reiteration Shere has heen no
answer made.
Revealing the secrets of the Viohieh fs isa
grave offense. One of the Judges of the
Supreme court of the United States, in:
commenting on the case ‘in point, declared
that it put the entire court under suspicion
aud another occupant, of the high tribunal
_expressed the opinion, that a Justice thus
offending should be ‘impeached. Under
the circumstances one would have thonght
that both the Governor and the J ustice
would have insisted ona prompt and search- |
ing investigation. = The honor of both was
impugned and high minded men do ni ot
usually. tamely submit to such reer B
But when Governor STONE'S attention was |
called ‘to the reiteration he said he bad |
nothing more tosay. It may also be added |
that the paper dropped the subject without;
further discussion. g
We’ are ‘certainly in’ degenerate times |
when such. things may happen. When’
Governor STONE, or his law officer, made ar- |
rangements with a Judge who was without
‘question of the legality of one of his official
acts, public confidence in the judiciary of
the State received a hard jolt. Patriotic,
Bus’ that incident was trifling +
= “enormit of 1
ens
thoughtful man can
we faith fn bi ivi
| EA
complained of.
new law should get upon the statute book
for it.
the Republicans alone.
id
{of*honest election laws has been placed
squarely upon the Republican party.
surprise.
‘hospitably utertaiell, : In. this. respeot,
| miss on 15 to b ld np.
| tion ie meer ol in nied
| interests o € whe ; ono :
(ry or to the Pip an ambit aie h tear o
the. cherished, tradition:
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 10, 1901.
NO. 19.
Just Where it Belongs.
Many of our Democratic contemporaries
are regretting the fact that the much ad-
'vertised «conference on ballot reform be-
tween Senator QUAY, speaking for the Re-
publicans and Col. GUFFEY, representing
the Democrats, ended as it did without
agreement and without hope for anything
better in the way of election laws.
The WATCHMAN has no feeling of that
kind. : It is in no way disappointed. It
expected nothing, looked for nothing and
can séé no reason to regret that nothing
was done by these two gentlemen, for the
fa ot that it never was gullible enough
‘to believe that Mr. QUAY would ever con-
sent to any measure that would secure real
ballot seform, and an agreement on
any other kind of a law would only have
made the Democracy responsible for: sach
an abortion as Mr. QUAY would have en-
dorsed.
In fact it is our firm belief that the
Demoeracy is better off with the cumber-
some and fraud protecting law we now
have, than to be responsible for the kind of
a bunco bill that would meet the approval
of the present Legislature and receive the
signature of Governor STONE.
If any new bill is passed it will not be
one that will cure the evils that are now
And if by any accident, a
insure some reforms, the Re-
that wo
publican ring that controls all legislation
‘would, and could, justly claim the credit
On the other hand had there been
an agreement upon a measure, and after en-
actment it failed in the results expected, it
would have heen nurled back at us that it
was the’ Democratic idea of reform, and that
the minority was responsible for the failure
to secure honest elections.
As it now is the responsibility is with
We are glad that
it is so. It is where it belongs.’ It is
where it should stay.
They promised the public ballot reform.
They pledged their honor and their truth-
fulness that th's would be given the 'peo-
ple.
pledges. They have the Legislature, the
Senate and the Governor and no act on the
part of the minority should relieve them of
hae pny in this matter.
“They are in a position to fulfill their
ve no regrets that the situation
oi that accountability for - the failure.
——A movement is on foot to make
WARREN WORTH BAILEY Esq. of the
Johnstown Democrat, one of Pennsylvania’s
representatives to the Civic Tax Conference
to be held in Buffalo the latter part of the
present month. We don’t know what
that conference will do; nor what is ex-
pected to come from its deliberations, but
if it is to consider the broad questions of
equalizing and minimizing taxation we
‘know of no one who has given more thought |
to this question, or who is better. qualified
to intelligently discuss it before a gather-
ing of the kind, than Mr. ‘BAILEY. We
‘hope that Governor, STONE will appreciate
the necessity of having. this State ably
and. creditably represented. ab the .confer-
‘ence and ‘that Mr. ‘BAILEY ‘may ‘be named |
as one of the number to 2d for Peuisy].
vania. ha
‘the South appears.
character of a triumphal tour... We have
| heretofore referred to the splendor | in whieh
he is traveling. The u
ly. service and the. princely. “appointments.
But nohody was quité prepared for so en-:
‘thusiastic a recepti on t0'a ‘man ‘who, even
though the Chief Magistrate of all the peo-
ple ‘and in consequence entitled to the re-
spectfal courtesies of all citizens, has never
been a friend of the section which is tiras
‘honoring him. That is the surprising feat-
ure of the affair, but itinaos 3. unpleasant
' At New Orleans the Presidents washonor-
ed in an extraordinary manrer.. He was
dined and wired to satiety. ‘His receptions
‘were attended by’ ‘everybody! in the great
city of the Sonth. His speeches ‘were lis- |
tened to by vast multitudes and applauded
‘with generous liberality by, all. . His every.
| wish’ was/gratified in so’ far as he’ revealed
his’ inclinations and ‘General Jackson, “him-
however, the metropolis of the ‘South was
not. singalar. :
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dency for a thir ~ Nei i v x
| objects is third. sem. from, at iit of | resent Menibers to remain at
objet and she hey become more on) tinde, | Toe: demand is errs”
it accomplished by fa
ulent representation.
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Ballot Reform Bill Defeated.
95 to 87. Creasy Leads Argument. State Chair-
man Says the Democrats Have Taken Republicans
at Their Word.
HARRISBURG, May 8. — The Gauffey-
Ikeler ballot refor bill. which was pre-
pared with considerable care, was killed by
the House this afternoon. It received 95
votes, and the votes of 87 Members were
cast agaist it.
‘When Mr. Creasy, the Democratic lead-
er, called the bill up he made a short speech
explanatory of its vital provisions. The
Democrats, said he, drew up the bill in
conformity with the views of the leading
Republicans as expressed before the No-
vember election. Senator Quay, he said,
in a speech at West Chester, October 11,
1900, promised an honest substitute for the
Baker ballot law, and on February 6, 1901,
the senior Senator, in an interview in Har-
risburg, said : ““We are ready to help pass
any good bill the Democrats may offer.”
Mr. Creasy said the Republican leaders
‘have been taken at their word, a good bill
has been drawn up, and it now remains for
the Legislature to pass it.
Mr. Dixon, of Elk, who followed Mr.
Creasy, in speaking of ‘the disability feature
of the bill, said that at a recent congres-
sional election one man went in a booth
with a hundred voters.
Representative Cooper, of Delaware, said
among other things that the disagreement
over the bill was not caused by the differ-
ence in the views of Quay and Guffey, but
by the lieutenants that were called in at
the conference at the executive mansion.
Mr. Cooper went on to say that the circle
in the present ballot has become a means of
fraud. “‘It is used in Philadelphia,’’ said
he. “‘It is used wherever money is used.’
Mr. Cooper was interrupted by Mr. Voor-
hees, who said the gentleman from Dela-
ware knows so much about fraud he must
be in it himself.
‘Mr. Speaker,’ said Cooper, in reply to
this thrust, ‘‘there never can be any reflec-
tion from that source.”
Mr. Ikeler, of Columbia; Paul, of Phila-
delphia, and Mayne, of ’ Lehigh, made
strong speeches in favor of the bill. The
latter declared, in discussing the disability
clause, that 90’ per cent. of the voters in
this State are not disabled and their rights
should not be sacrificed for the other ten
per cent. Representative McClain, of Lan-
caster, ended the oratory in a speech
against the measure.
Creasy Predicts Party Victory.
Democratic State Chairman Says Ballot Reform Bill
Vote is Significant. 8plit Among Stalwarts. Gov-
ernor Stone Talks Republican Dissension Over With
Political Friends.
HARRISBURG, May 8. — “There. will be
joy in the heart of every true Demoorat
¢ the entire State of. Pennsyl--
vania,’’ oid Chairman Creasy, of the Demo-
cratic State committee, to-night, ‘‘when
the true inwardness of the dissension among
the Republican Members of the Legislature
becomes fully known.
‘‘Next year,”” continued Mr. Creasy,
“‘there will be successors elected to ‘the
present Governor and other state officials.
In addition, at thesame election there will
be chosen. with the exception of twenty-
five hold-over Senators; a new Legislature,
which will name the successor to United
States Senator Peurose.. The vote on the
ballot reform bill to-day showed that a
‘great. many. Republican Members of zs
Legislature are inclined to favor an honest
election measure, including among the.
number a few followers of Senator Quay.
The vote of itself is of great significance,
showing that the entire Democratic party
of the State favorsian honest election. bill;
but of yet greater significance because . of
the need of Republican votes to ‘make.
| Democratic victories, were the Speeches
‘made by . Representatives Cooper, of
aware, and Coray, of Luzerne, the be
.a pronounced Quayite and : leader in the
‘Legislasare, and the latter one of tlie recog-
nized champions of Republicanism as 'ad-.
voeated by the Insurgents. - Representative
Cooper’s speech shows. plainly that because
‘they.saw great: division in’ the Republican
ranks. the nominees of the Democratic
party throughout the State will. be sup-:
ported hy: Republicans of factions as: well.
18 by a united Democracy, if the opposition,
‘140 the Republican machine continues.”’
+ Tt is said that in.addition to Cooper: cand
other: Cameron followers, Ex-State Chair-
‘man Andrews, who has always been identi-
fied with Quayisni, will-oppose. the: nomi-|
close political friends ‘discussed the break. |:
‘among Republican leaders of the - Legisla~
ture to-night’ at ‘the ‘Executive Mansion.
| This discussion may compel them to -set
‘aside the nomination of Attorney General
Elkin for Governor, for they ‘will ‘have on
“|'their hands a hard battle ifsheydonot.. of
: There will be a conference: of leading Re: f the ho
‘publican friends of nh Phila- | out
Iphia on Tuesday next, iptios syste holds fr h
ing! ottshe Quags nner.
From the Jonsstown Tribu.
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Guffey-lheler Measure Fails in the House by a Vote of
Republican caucus at the beginning of this |
nation of John P. Elkin for: Governor: & enfy
. Governor Stone, itis said, and a fewol hig |:
In all the history of that fitian- ;
| cial center there has never heen such’ god
Was tion of values asat the present time, and | o
The ‘smaller’ ities on he |
0 T o | and water into something more substantis
Sar rcssersted Dr. Reinhold a
s | oppone
pponent, a desperate
E pre had family
th: their
have gained’ their point, and Hercafic, will
get ten hours for a nine hour day.
—~There are seven..cases of small POX ts
Lamb's Creek, Tioga: county, a. woman phy-
sician of Mansfield, has charge of the pa-
tients.
—The contract for furnishing 1,200 loaves
of bread daily for the men on the double
track between Lock Haven and Keating has
been given to Meisel & Gilliland, Renovo.
—A gas well showing a pressure of over 500
pounds was struck at a depth of 1484 feet at
Roulette, Potter county, the other day. It is
said to be the biggest gas find to date in Pot-
ter-township.
—Near Wayland, Tioga county, Friday,
while digging a well, Frank Pook ‘was over-
come by gas. His son Charles, evidently
tried to rescue him. Both were found dead
in the well.
—Ex-State Senator King, of Pottsville, has
secured the contract for enlarging the New
York [Central yards at Clearfield, which
means so much to the future of Clearfield.
It is variously stated that these improve-
ments will cost any where from $150,000 to
$250,000.
—The police raided an Italian cobbling
shop at Williamsport shortly after midnight
Sunday morning. Cunorelli Leboro, the
proprietor, and half a dozen employes were
arrested for violating the law by working on
Sunday. Leboro was fined and his country-
men were warned not to offend again.
—Mormons are making many converts in
sections of Fulton and Franklin counties. A
few days ago Mormon elders baptised three
women at a place known as George Rocks
pool, before a large assemblage. A congrega-
tion of 100 is expected to be formed shortly. .
The farmers furnish most of the converts.
—The body of William Bruaw who was
drowned in the river at Middletown by cat-
tle shoving him off the ferry, and who was
reported at first as being from Lock Haven,
was found close to where he fell in the water:
Friday. The remains were shipped to the
man’s home ' at 'Strainestown. ‘He was
drowned April 11th.
—James Harvey, of DuBois, aged 13 years,
was given a quantity of powder Friday
evening by an older boy. He put the pow-
derin his pocket. While playing with some
fire the powder ignited and he was terribly
burned. The lad leaped into a creek and
put out the blaze which enveloped him, but
his injuries were so great that he died Satur-
day in terrible agony.
—Forest fires are causing great consterna-
tion in Potter county. Fires have broken
out in the forests at Big Run. Crowley Run
and Crooked Run and are rapidly destroying
thousands and thousands of feet of valuable
timber and bark. The railroad shops have
closed in order that the men may assist in
checking the flames. The heaviest losers
will be the Goodyears and the Emporium
Lumber companies.
—Alfred Armbrust,of Hempfield township,
Westmoreland county, a veteran of the Phil-
ippine campaign; lost his right eye at target
practice at the range of Company I, at Oak-
ford park, on Saturday afternoon. Young
Armbrust was scoring for a squad of Company
I boys, and was standing about forty feet
from the target when a. portion of a ball was
deflected. It struck him in the eye; lacerat-
ing it so badly that the entire sight was des-
troyed. i
—About 3 o'clock Friday afternoon a .
freight train, in charge of Conductor Robin-
son and Engineer Bawson, got beyond con-
trol of the crew and ran into the rear end of |
the Patton work train, on the Cambria and
Clearfield division, at Hastings hill, on the
Hastings branch. An Italian laborer, named .
Roso Ponseo, was instantly killed. Ponseo
was a married man and resided at Patton. .
The track was blocked almost an hour.
Henry Bates, the man who married Sadie
Zeigler, of DuBois, eatly in April ‘aud3fthen
disappeared with over $800 of her mouey was
arrested in Buffalo, and the DuBois chief of
police was sent after him, But. as his arrival
and mission was noted by the Buffalo papers
new, trouble arose for Bates aud ‘although he
‘turned over $500 of the cash to ‘the officer he
* | could not regain his’ liberty, as it seems he
‘went to Buffulo, wi won and’ ma rried
Mrs. Ann Sullivan Saturday» evening
‘threw a glass lamp at ‘Patrolman ‘Shaffer, of
Altoona, which struck him in the’ face and
‘cut the’ flesh just above the eye. and’ on ‘the :
‘the cheek ‘bone and, also cut his u per lip on
de . He was in the act of arresting _
the woman. at the time at her home for dis-
orderly conduct, which job he completed and
had her placed under $50 bail for appearaice.
for a hearing. before going to: a hospital
‘where five/stiches closed ' the rent'in’ ‘the lip.
| Thie other’ cit needed only court’
Joseph Hamm, of Mosquitotvalley, Sas »
jcoming ‘county, Monday, saved the lives’ of
‘his father; aged 79 years, at the risk of losing
‘his own. He was working in ‘the’ field ‘about i
or the a ‘when he says Lik Wall shrek |
came to his 2
nd | Dr: Reinhold. was the attending Di
; Bd ofore King wassont tothe insane’ hospital
and the latter ‘evidently believed that the
‘doctor ‘was’ chiefly: instrumental in having
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