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Demonic ata,
BY FP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Our gocd State's building at Buffalo
Has too plain a tale of woe,
For all who see it not to know
Whither all the moneys go.
—Few Americans are likely to forget the
Maine merely because there will be no
more stamps to lick after July 1st.
—Little WILLIE'S mamma might well
begin the work of gathering up bandages
for the Fourth of July is not two weeks
off.
—If Mr. THOMPSON insists on being vin-
dicated, why, we suppose the people of the
county will have to do it for him, but they
will be very apt to use an ax if he goes
after it himself.
—If it comes to a trial of speed between
jockeys HASTINGS and LOVE the latter will
have trouble finding a horse dark enough
to mate up with THoMPsoN for the state
delegate stakes.
—Isn’t it awful. The editor of the Re-
publican is dumping his ink pot all over
our court again. But the joke of it all is
.that every dab makes a white spot on that
blackened old political manipulator.
—Former Governor PINGREE, of Michi-
gan, is dead. He was slightingly referred
to as ‘‘Potato’’ PINGREE, but he was
one of the biggest potatoes and hardest for
; corpo rations to peel that ever grew in this
country. .
—The Philadelphia Zimes is of the opin-
ion that a new penitentiary is needed.
Others think that the thing most needed
is to have the eastern institution in that
city filled up with the rascally officials who
govern it. :
—Berause the fourth in the royal house-
hold happened to come a girl the Czar of
all the Russians is said to be growing mel-
ancholy and threatens to abdicate. Brace
up, NICHOLAS, and make a man of yourself
if you can’t of anything else.
~-There isn’t a contractor in Bellefonte
who wouldn’t duplicate the Pennsylvania
building at - the Pan-American exposition,
furnitare and all complete, for $5,000. It
cost the State $,16,500, and one member of
the Commission says: ‘‘All we got out of
it was two bottles of whiskey.” :
—In the language of the street gamin
TeEDDY’S ‘clock is fixed,’ so far as presi-
dential hopes are concerned. Senator EL-
KINs, of West Virginia, has just bad him-
self interviewed and says that when a man
goes to the Senate or the Vice President’s
chair he might as well say good-by to any
hope of getting higher.
—After ANDREW CARNEGIE is made a
doctor of laws by Glasgow Uuiversity it
might be well for him to come home and
doctor up some of the Bad legislation in
this country; especially the kind that per-
mits him to sell armor plate to the
government at more than $200 profi
on the tou.
—If JOHN ALEXANDER DoWIE, the
Zionite who is trying to make Chicago
people believe that he is really ELIJAH and
not DOWIE at all, doesn’t quit his
damphoolishness soon he will get a ride in
a chariot of fire too. But it will be to a
different region than ELIJAH went and the
fire will make short work of those gaudy
feathers he has pinned on for wings.
—If THOMPSON'S trading course at Har-
risburg didn’t amount to enough with the
gang of thieves he has tied himself to to
save the appropriations for State College
the last straw at which he could clutch for
justification is surely gone. No wonder he
raged in the House Wednesday when it
was reported negatively. It is the biggest
wonder that he didn’t get another attack
of lumbago.
—Sir HARRY HAMILTON JOHNSTON,
special English commissioner for the
Uganda protectorate, is just home from a
two years exploring tour into that region.
His most important discovery seems to be
a species of ape-man, that comes about as
near being human as any animal known.
Perhaps it is the Hon. (2) SAMUEL SALTER
in disgust. It might be well for some
Philadelphia justice that isn’t blind to
start an investigation.
——Some statesman, whom the Tyrone
Herald would naturally locate in the viein-
ity of Bellefonte, was found drank in
David Branstetter’s chicken coop in that
place on Thursday evening and, to make
matters worse, had a hag with him; prima
Jfacia evidence of guilt. Notwithstanding
his protestations that he simply wanted to
lay a jag the po-lice-man of Tyrone dragged
him off to the borough lock-up and Col.
PRUNER tapped him for a fine.
——The local Republican political pot is
beginning toshow signs of ebullition again.
The Governor was home on Tuesday and
they say that his ‘glad hand’’ had more
electricity in it than ever. In fact the fel-
Iows who were swept in by the swirl of hot
air about him declare that he made them
all forget that Mother nature is giving us
April weather in June. GEORGE SCHOLL,
of College, was in town too and was in tow
of the grand sachem for a while bat
GEORGE'S physiognomy is so completely
concealed by those luxuriant whiskers that
we couldn’t tell whether he had been ‘‘horn
swaggled’’ out of thinking they had treat-
ed him shabbily when they turned him
dowr for Commissioner in 1899. Other
news from the same source is that ALLISON
and FRANK CLEMSON are to be the Hast-
ING delegates to the State Convention; the
QUAY people not being expected to put
any ticket in the field.
__ VOL. 46
Violating Past Precedents.
On Monday evening Mr. SNYDER, Presi-
dent pro tem. of the State Senate, appoint-
ed a conference committee to meet a simi-
lar committee of the House of Representa-
tives to consider the differences hetween
the two Houses on the congressional ap-
portionment bill and named two stalwart
Republicans and Mr. HAINES, of York.
On Tuesday morning he appointed a com-
mittee of the same character and for the
same purpose to consider the judicial ap-
portionment bill and named two stalwart
Republicans and NEELY, of Clarion. On
that day Speaker MARSHALL of the House
appointed committees on the part of the
House to consider the congressional ap-
portionment. He named two stalwart Re-
publicans and GALVIN, of Schuylkill coun-
ty. On the judicial bill he appointed two
stalwart Republicans and KAIN, of York:
Since time out of mind it has been the
practice to give the minority in each House
a Representative on all conference commit-
tees. This time honored practice has been
violated by the presiding officers of both
branches of the present Legislature. For
example, the conference committee on the
congressional apportionment bill named by
those gentlemen consist of four stalwart
Republicans, two from each branch, and
two renegades, one from each body,and the
judicial bill is constituted in precisely the
same way. But there isno Democrat on
either. That party has no voice in the de-
liberations of either committee, though the
most important questions, from a party view
point, which have heen before the Legisla-
ture this session are to be considered by the
committees.
Of course the Republicans feel that they
are obliged to take care of these recreants,
and probably they should take care of them,
but not at the expense of the Democratic
party. After LEBO, WAGONSELLER and
MANEAR betrayed their party and sacrific-
ed their honor in 1857 General CAMERON
kept them on his pension list until their
death. They were despised by their neigh-
bors and distrusted to such an extent that
they couldn’t get employment. But
CAMERON cared for them like paupers or
dogs so that they didn’t feel any physical
suffering. But it is the fashion now to
maintain pensioners at the expense of the
State and - the presiding officers of the two
Houses are trying to rescue the recreants
from infanious neglect at the expense of
the Democratic party.
AS
——We agree with the Gettyshurg
Compiler in the belief that it would be a
shame for the State to erect a monument
on the battle field at Gettyshurg as a direct
result of the agitation started in that di-
rection by Representative GARVIN, of
Adams county. Such a memorial to the
chivalric, Joyal spirit of Pennsylvania dur-
ing the dark days of civil warfare should
not be tainted with the suggestion that it
had been secured through the perfidy of a
later day Judas.
Delinquent Democrats.
The Democrats of Lehigh county were
unjust to themselves and unfair to their
party associates in other sections of the
State at their county meeting held near
Allentown last Saturday. They failed to
commend faithful Representatives, though
JEREMIAH RoTH, JONAS F. MEYER and
JosepH W. MAYNE bad fairly earned such
commendation. But they sinned by omis-
sion in another and 'graver manner. . They
neglected to put the seal of their condem-
nation upon the acts of their Senator, which
deserved their most emphatic reprobation.
The present Legislature had an oppor-
tunity to serve the peonle better than any
of its predecessors within a generation. As
the Philadelphia Press stated the other day,
when the polls closed in November, a ma-
jority of both branches of the Legislature
opposed to QUAY and QUAYism had been
chosen. But six recreant Democrats in the
House, in imitation of Judas, accepted bribes
to betray their constituents and robbed the
friends of honest government of the victory
which had been achieved. Soon afterward
five traitors in the Senate, chief among
whom was STILES, followed their example
and the result is that from a Legislature
that promised much good the body has
been perverted to the most infamous one in
the history of the Commonwealth. For
this. result traitor STILES is largely respousi-
ble.
The Democracy of Lehigh county has
breasted every storm thus farand conquered
every adverse circumstance. But hitherto
it has gathered strength from its own in-
tegrity and with the force thus acquired
has made its successful battles. But its
future is now dark and gloomy. If it had
come forward manfally and maintained its
own honor and integrity there would have
been no reason to fear for the future. What
disreputables would have been lost by
pursuing the honest course would have
been more than made up by recruits from
reputable citizens of the other party. But
by dallying with vice they have forfeited
all claims for consideration at the hands of
reputable men from other parties, and if
they are defeated they will have them-
selves to blame. God hates a coward and
Stary decentiman despises a recreant Legis-
ator. : :
Demon
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 21, 1
Why They are Confident.
A considerable number of the leading
clergymen of Philadelphia inveighed
against the wanton abuse of power on the
part of the Mayor and councils of the city
in giving away valuable franchises that be-
long to the people, in their sermons of last
Sunday. The leading newspapers all over
the country, and of all political complex-
ions are unanimous in the opinion that the
action of the Legislature and the councils
is unprecedented in enormity in the history
of popular government. The TWEED re-
gime in New York is pointed to as a period
of municipal order and decency, compara-
tively speaking. But the offenders appear
to pay no attention either to protest or
criticism.
This is not altogether surprising. Half
a century ago things were different. But
it was not for the reason that there were no
venal politicians then. It was not because
the average man in public life was honester
then than now. It was only for the reason
that public sentiment was healthier and
better. In 1857, when LEBO, WAGONSEL-
LER and MANEAR betrayed their constit-
uents, they were denounced in every por-
tion of the Commonwealth. Even the
rank and file, and most of the leaders of
the party which was benefitted by their
treachery made no concealment of the fact
that they dispised both the crime and the
criminals. But what has happened this
year, when a similar betrayal occurred ?
Soon after the Legislature met and Sena-
tor WASHBURNE, of Crawford, had accepted
the few pieces of silver which paid for his
perfidy, the wife of the Governor of the
State ostentatiously paraded her friendship
for the wife of the recreant Senator in or-
der that the public might know that the
Senator’s venality hadn’t lowered him in
the social scale. No doubt this act of pros-
titution was inspired by the Governor him-
self, whose sense of honor is of the dulled
character that would fail to justly estimate
the effect of such an exhibition. Probably
the Governor would have used his wife for
even a worse purpose if political exigencies
had required a greater sacrifice.
But the evidences of political immorality
and social degeneracy is not limited to pub-
lic testimonials of friendship between the
wife of the Governorand the wife of a hrib-
ed Legislator. The Democrats of York
county have endorsed, in resolutions passed
by the county committee, the treacherous
Senator and Representatives of that constit-
uency in the Legislature because they were
afraid to censure a recreant Senator even
by implication. If they had been of the
mettle of those of half a century ago there
would have been no . such exhibition of
cowardice.
These, however, are only incidents which
point the truth. The recreant public offic-
ials betray their obligations now because
they know that it will make no difference
at the next election. When the legislative
elections recur the preachers who denounc-
ed the venal Legislators last Sunday from
their pulpite will vote for them, because in
the heat of the campaign it will be said
that if others are elected there will be dan-
ger of a Democratic successor to Bois PEN-
ROSE as Senator in Congress. The venal
officials understand these things and gov-
ern themselves accordingly. They betray
public interests and sacrifice the welfare
of the people because they know that their
crimes will be forgotten on election day.
Dear At Third 1ts Cost.
There is one thing in particular that will
impress the visitor to the Pan American ex-
position who examines into the matter and
that is the amount Pennsylvania paid for
what = Pennsylvania shows. There are
creditable exhibits from the State but they
are individual enterprises. The public or
the state government has nothing to do
with them. What the State as a State has
to show or be credited with is what it has
there. That is all. Its Legislature ap-
propriated $16,500 to erect and furnish a
Pennsylvania building. A couple of crea-
tures of the state ring were selected to
manage the job and represent the Com-
monwealth, For the money placed at their
disposal—and they have disposed of it all—
the State bas a house, which to erect any-
where within the limits of civilization
would be dear at $1,600. It is little, its
architecture would fail to dignify a hen-
roost, the material used in its construction
is of the cheapest character, the work upon
it has the appearance of that turned out by
barn carpenters, its surroundings are com-
mon and its furnishings cheap and uncom-
fortable. Altogether, it is a place that
Pennsylvanians will avoid because of the
shame it must bring to everyone proud of
his home State; its liberality and its great-
ness. :
And for this the full $16,500 was paid.
$3,500 would have been a fair price for the
job complete as its stands. $5,000 wonld
be an exhorbitant sum to pay for it. But
this is what its ring management is what it
has to show.
Pennsylvanians may have much to boast
ahout and be proud of, but it will not be
the building its administration and “state
ring have given them at Buffalo.
The Brazen Effrontery of It
Mayor SAMUEL ASHBRIDGE, of Philadel-
phia, yesterday refused to read a communica-
tion from the Hon. JOHN WANAMAKER,
which was handed him, offering to pay the
city $2,500,000 for the traction franchises
given free of charge by the city councils to
certain politicians and financiers under the
new rapid transit laws. The Mayor threw
the missive after the messenger who present-
ed it to him. As a guarantee of good faith
Mr. WANAMAKER deposited $250,000 with
the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadel-
phia. Later, it is stated, Mayor ASHBRIDGE
signed the ordinances giving away the valu-
able franchises to his friends.— Philadelphia
Ezchange of June 15th.
The ahove are the plain, unvarnished
and undeniable truths, relative to a matter
that has attracted universal attention and
met with as universal condemnation.
And yet in the face of such facts Phila-
delphia stands begging at the door of the
Legislature for an appropriation of $200,-
000 of the State’s money to make navigable
the Delaware river, that it may compete
for a share of the world’s commerce.
Could impudence or gall go further ?
Four years ago this same city leased its
gas works to favorite speculators for one
million dollars less than others offered for
the same plant and privileges. Within
the past five years its citizens and business
men have contributed another million of
dollars to debauch the votes, elect such
officials as ASHBRIDGE, and aid Republi-
canism and its rings generally. Only last
week its Mayor deliberately and brazenly
banded over franchises, for whicu a bona
fide offer of $2,500,000 had been made, to
personal and political favorites without a
restriction or a proviso protecting the in-
terests of the city or of those who visit or
may have business to transact within it.
‘And after this kind of management;
after the exhibition of this kind of favorit-
ism; after giving away its own resources
and franchises for the benefit of political
heelers, and its discredited rings, it brazen-
ly turns up begging of the people of the
State to furnish the money to clean the
mud out of the Delaware river, that these
recipients of the franchises it has given
away, and the rings and political bosses
it has created and fostered may prosper
and grow fat.
Shame on such effrontery !
The lazy lout of a tramp who expends
his energies in riotous living and begs at
giur back door for that which * keeps. life
within him is no more depraved nor brazen
than a municipality that squanders and
throws away its own resources and then
appeals to the honest and overtaxed people
of the country to put up the money to
keep its business moving and to make
prosperous those who refase to help them-
selves.
Philadelphia deserves no aid from the
State. Its high-way to the sea should be
allowed to fill up with filth and its wharfs
to rot for want of use, before the people of
the State should donate one penny towards
improving or bettering them.
It has given away to its favorites that
which wouid have made the improvements
needed.
Let it take the consequences of its frauds
and its favoritism.
The Tariff Pensioners.
The members of the Philadelphia Manu-
facturer’s club want no tariff tinkering at
this time, they assure us by public resolu-
tions. They are willing to see any kind of
reciprocity, on paper, but no tampering
with tariff schedules. That is a dangerous
operation to them. Just as the professional
thief deprecates the appointment of police
officers these men protest against any
change in the tariff law. It isthe medium
through which they rob the public. It is
the agency by which the corporations levy
tribute on every working man in the coun-
try and collect it whether the victim is
willing or able to pay or not.
The DINGLEY law makes the billion dol-
lar steel trust, and all the other trusts
possible. If it were repealed the several
trusts would go to pieces quicker than a
man could say scat. No trust can exist
unless those who compose it enjoy special
privileges in one form o: another. A patent
may serve the purpose during the period
that it is operative. It gives the owner of
the patent exclusive right to manufacture
and sell the product thus protected. But
patents only ran a limited time and when
that time expires the field for competition
is open. The tariff laws are the most prolific
source of special privileges of all and for
that reason the trust managers want to
perpetuate the tariff.
The plain duty of the tariff reformers,
however, is to press the measure for the
modification of the DINGLEY law. The
measure introduced by Representative
BABCOCK - during the closing days of the
last session may not he sufficiently com-
prehensive, bt it is in the right direction.
It will at least check the operations of the
trusts, for it removes the tariff taxation
from all the products of the trust mills.
But it would be infinitely better to make a
complete revisal of the law and modify the
schedules from beginning to end. Such a
thing must come, sooner or later, and the
quicker it is done the better for the people
of all sections cf tke couutry. :
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901.
NO. 25.
The Proposed Congressional District.
The newspaper reporters assure the pub-
lic that when the congressional apportion-
ment bill gets through the juggling and
changing that the committee of conference
will subject it to, that there will be but
three Democratic districts provided for in
it. There will be the Pike and Monroe ;
the Berks and Lehigh and the York and
Adams districts. If these same political
wiseacres know what they are talking
about, this county will be placed with
Clearfield, Cameron, Elk and McKean in
place of with Clearfield and Jefferson as
the original bill contemplated. The change
is made, it is alleged, to squelch the aspira-
tions of ex-Governor HASTINGS, of this
county ; ex-Senator EMORY, of McKEAN,
aud Congressman HALL, of Elk, all of
whom are particularly obnoxious to the
machine that controls the State and the ap-
portionment ; the machine believing it can
control the nominations in the new dis-
trict, and that the big Republican majority
that it cast for McKINLEY will insure the
election of whoever it may nominate. The
first district proposed, Clearfield, Jefferson
and Centre, gave a Republican majority
in 1900 of 5024, while the latter, or the one
we are said to be certain of being placed in,
gave the same party 5732. In either case
it has a kind of a hopeless look for the
Democracy.
Dr. Patton May Well Be Troubled.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
President Patton, of Princeton Univer-
sity, addressing the gradmating class, com-
ments the conditions of the life they are
about entering ; which he thinks will be
found by them to be filed with unusual
difficulties’ becanse of the impediment to
individual enterprise presented by the ab-
sorption of industry by the network of
trusts; which is a very .common apprehen-
sion. Dr. Patton comments upon the
present failure of great nations to follow
the precepts of the Prince of Peace, with
especial reference to our own essay in the
Philippines, Great Britain’s in Africa, and
of the whole set of first class nations in
China.
And he likens the conduct of Great
Britain in exercising a benign rule over
countries conquered savagely and ruthless-
ly, to the conduct of the great financial
magnates of our own nation, who show a
colossal benevolence in the dispensation of
wealth accumulated with egregious selfish-
ness. The good doctor is troubled and
fears for the flock he is sending out, whom
he has sought to teach the apparently dis-
honored doctrine of the Bible.
Prostrate Pennsylvania,
From the New York World.
Quay is now pushing rapidly toward the
statute books of his principality, the State
of Pennsylvania, a collection of truly a-
mazing bills—bills to give into the hand
of two of his tools the power to control the
entire street railway situation of the State.
If the bills become law—and there is ap-
parently nothing to prevent it—these tools
of his can issue sweeping charters where-
under the local authorities of cities and
towns must either grant free rights of way
to the companies receiving the Quay favors
or must do without new street railways
and even without extensions of existing
systems.
This bas been a great year for Quay.
The people of Pennsylvania wade a—for
them—tremendous effort to shake him off.
They failed, and are now prostrate, with
the arrogant boss lashing them for daring
to entertain treasonahle thoughts.
Michigan’s Former Chief Executive
Dies in London.
Cancerous Affection the Cause. He was a Native of
Maine, a Soldier of the Civil War, Mayor of De-
troit Four Times and Governor for Two Terms.
LoNDON, June 18.—Ex-Governor H. S.
Pingree, of Michigan, died here to-night
at 11:35. His son was the only one pres-
ent at the time. :
Hazen Senter Pingree was horn at Den-
mark, Maine, in 1840. In 1862 he enlisted
in the First Massachusetts heavy artillery
and served until the end of the war, when
he located in Detroit, embarking in the
manufacturing of shoes. In 1889 the Re-
publican party nominated ex-Governor
Pingree for mayor of Detroit and he was
elected by over 2,000 majority. He was
re-elected in 1891-93-95 by increased ma-
jorities each time. In 1896 Mr. Pingree
was elected as Governor of Michigan by
83,000 plurality, running ahead of the
national ticket hy 26,000 votes. He was
re-elected Governor in '98 by about 100,-
000 plurality and served out his term,
which expired in 1900. Last March he
started on the trip to South Africa which
resulted in his death in London. :
Ex-Governor Pingree, while he was
forms, among others forcing the gas com-
panies to lower their rates 50 per cent.,
establishing the public light plant, organiz-
ing the Detroit railway on a three cent fare
basis, lowering ’phone rates and breaking
up a number of sewer and paving rings
that were thriving when he came into of -
ce.
His potato patch scheme for the relief of
the poor was extensively copied and
brought him much fame. While Gov-
ernor, Mr. Pingree devoted his energies to-
ward securing the passage of a law taxing
railroads and other corporate property on
ad valorem basis instead of specifically on
their earnings. His efforts resulted in the
* passage of a law along these lines by the
last Legislature. Mr. Pingree is survived
by a widow and two children—a son and a
daughter. Fu
——After the first day of July no more
revenue stamps will be required upon pro-
prietary medicines, perfumery, cosmetics,
ehewing gum, hank checks, money orders,
express receipts, export bills lading, tele-
graph messages and several other things.
Let everybody be thankful. : :
mayor, accomplished many municipal re-.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Visitors to Cold Stream dam, near Phil-
ipsburg, were surprised at the sight of two
beautiful deer, nearly grown, who were so
tame that they ventured down almost to the
breast of the dam.
—The corner stone of the new federal
building and court house at Altoona was laid
last Friday morning with befitting cere-
monies. Addresses were made by Rev. Dr.
D. 8. Monroe and Hon. J. D. Hicks.
—Elizabeth Owens, 16 years old, who was
reproved by her mother at Mayfield, Lu-
zerne county, Tuesday night, secured paris
green and entering a room where the mother
and some neighbors were conversing, swal-
lowed a fatal draught. Her death resulted
Wednesday.
—The Pennsylvania and North Bend and
Kettle Creek railroad are building a union
depot at the North Bend Junction. This
will do away with the transfer at that place.
We are informed that another train each
way will be put on the North Bend railroad
about August 1st.
—The Governor disapproved the Fisher
bridge bill to make the Commonwealth liable
for a proportionate share of the cost of con-
struction of bridges built by county commis-
sioners over streams over 1,000 feet in width,
and providing for the method of construction
and manner of payment for such bridges.
—Thursday afternoon while the parade of
the Knights of Pythias was being held at
Johnsonburg, the porch of the Commercial
hotel gave way. About twenty ladies were
carried to the ground, fifteen or sixteen be-
ing more or lessinjured. Miss Kate Hyde,
of Kane, was the most seriously injured.
—’Squire M. Rockey, the well known resi-
dent of Tylersville, is suffering from a par-
alytic stroke. He was stricken a few days
ago while in the stable. This is the ’squire’s
first illness in many years. He is 89 years
old and hasn’t a grey hair. It is believed he
will recover, as his many friends hope for.
—A bear came from the mountains to Tip-
ton, in Blair county on Sunday, walked into
the barnyard of John Cherry and killed eight
sheep, lapping up the blood,and then walked
away. No one was at the house save the
women, and they were afraid to venture out.
The bear returned to the mountain after his
raid on the sheep fold.
—At the 100th Commencement exercises of
Washington and Jefferson college on Tuesday
J. V. Thompson of Uniontown, announced
that he would give the college $100,000 to en-
dow the president’s chair. It is to be a
memorial to his father and mother, the sum
being just what he had received from their
estate. His father, the late Jasper M.
Thompson, was a trustee of the college.
—It i$ rumored that the Pennsylvania
railroad company is to take the Penn-
sylvania and Northwestern railroad. This
road runs from Bellwood, Pa., to Horatio,
sixty-two miles, and has fifteen miles in
branches, making a total of seventy-seven
miles. The Pennsylvania and Northwestern
railroad company is known as the Berwin
railroad, the president being Edwin J. Ber-
win.
—Look carefully at your cash before drop-
ping it in a slot machine. At the Altoona
passenger station the other evening a woman
puta $5 gold piece in a penny-in-the-slot
weighing machine in mistake for a cent.
After considerable hunting around, the jani-
tor, who carries the key to the machine, was
-| found and the gold piece recovered. the lady
depositing a cent instead of a coin of larger
denomination.
—A wagon manufacturer of Mechanics-
burg has made 35 wagons the past season for
gypsies, ranging in price from $800 to $1,600
a piece. The wagons are all ordered a year
ahead, half being paid when the order is
given and balance when the wagons are de-
livered. The orders are usually placed in
the fall before the gypsies go South, and
wagons are taken in the spring when they
come North,
—After being informed of the death of her
daughter, Mrs. Daniel Martin, Mrs. Kate
Calvert, fell fainting to the floor, and a half
hour later was a corpse. Mrs. Martin, who
resides in South Williamsport, has been ill
for several weeks, but her condition was not
considered serious, About 11 o'clock Satur-
day night she suddenly expired. Her moth-
er, Mrs. Calvert, was in another room when
her daughter died, and the shock occasioned
by the announcement proved fatal.
—The wedding hour of David Richards
and Lizzie Waters was set for 9:30 o’clock
Tuesday morning at Mount Carmel. At 4:30
o’clock that morning Richards was found
dead on the porch of the home of hisaffianced
with a bullet hole in his head. Richards had
committed suicide. He had become despond-
ent over the fact that he had no money to
pay for the housefurnishing goods which he
had ordered, nor for the trip to Buffalo,
which he had promised his bride to be.
—A lad of about 16 named Edwards and
hailing from Philadelphia deserted from a
band of gypsies with whom he was traveling,
when beyond Morrisdale the other day. He
was tired of the nomadic life he was leading
and resolved to cut loose from the wanderers
and telegraph to friends near Corning for
money to get home. The boy had been a
Western Union messenger boy in Philadel-
phia and is a bright youth. He secured work
at the Philipsburg fire brick works Friday at
good wages and is in no hurry to leave Phil-
ipshurg.
—A man named Andrew Haagen, who said
his home is at Williamsport, was run over by
a freight train at No. 12 bridge, close by the
Tyrone Iron works, at about 12:30 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. His left leg was crushed
from the ankle to the thigh and the right
one from the knee up. He will not survive
the shock, and may die at any moment.
The cause of the accident was expressed by
himself as follows : *‘I was full and got run
over, and its nobody’s fault but my own.”
The unfortunate man is about 45 years of
age. ; :
~ —A mad dog ran through Brookville and
Richardsville Sunday and bit five boys and
several dogs. At Richardsville Harry Jour-
dan, aged 7 years, was frightfully lacerated
on the wrist and Robert Shaffer was bitten
on the nose. The latter boy was sent to
Baltimore for treatment. At Brookville the
dog bit two brothers named Bell and a lad
named Hetrick. The dog was afterwards
killed by the citizens. As a result of this
mad flight through the two towns thirteen
dogs have been killed. !