cone
Ink Slings.
PRESS.
—Dr. PARKER says that baldness is
caused by improper breathing. Now,
would’nt that tear the hair off your scalp?
—They say that all signs fail in dry
weather, but as it won’t be dry in Belle-
fonte next Tuesday the slate of the bosses
will certainly go through.
—The strike of the stationary firemen
in the anthracite region didn’t last long, be-
cause the firemen were’nt satisfied to re-
main stationary. They couldn’t stand the
strain of idleness.
—People who profess to know the inside
of the HASTINGS-DALE reunion say that it
wasn’t Mohammed DALE who went to the
Mountain at all, but that the Mountain
came to Mohammed.
Since DAN has copped one out of the
handful of political nobodies’”’ he should
write and tell GEORGE NOX McCAIN that
he found the first specimen to be a person
of considerable consequence.
_ Professor STARR'S contention that in-
habitants of North America are tending
toward the aboriginal type doesn’t seem to
be well founded in the face of the fact that
80 many men are making asses of; them-
selves.
— There is a boy in Clearfield town, who
swallowed a tin whistle. He gulped the
little ‘thing right down, like any other
missile. And now as he walks round the
town, a telling folks his woe; the beans he
also gobbled down, upon that whistle blow.
—In the matter of fusion half a loaf is
not better than no bread at all. The
Demoeracy’s only debt to Pennsylvania is
to rescue it from Republicanism. The
party has never been committed to a policy
that would drag the State from the jaws of
Seylla into those of Charybdis.
—TIt has been noticed that the fellows
who had heen cultivating long finger nails
so as to be better able to tear off a few
rolls of green lining from the brick stable
on next Tuesday have been doing a little
manicuring since HASTINGS and DALE got
together and the signs of a fight disap-
peared.
— The Philadelphia Press’ very edifying
announcement that ‘‘if the Duke of Port-
land’s horse had been a little quicker at
his last Derby’’ he would have won it,
smacVs strong of the old dogjtand fjrabbit
table that we think the Press is in duty
bound to tell the Duke about it, as a mat-
ter of consolation.
—During the recent hot wave in the
East the pavements in Philadelphia be-
came hot enough to fry eggs. At least the
papers of that city said so. We are --wait-
ing for Kansas to wipe the perspiration
out of her eyes and tell how the intense
heat out there these days is causing the
corn to pop in the fields.
—The fight as to who licked CERVERA
at Santiago is on again and the friends of
ScHLEY and SAMPSON are both talking
long and loud. Rear Admiral BoB EVANS
has been telling a few truths that are con-
vincing the public that ScHLEY has been
greatly maligned by the revolving chair
strategists at Washington.
__Tt would be the irony of fate if some
of the Harrisburg gang who anticipate
spoils out the $4,000,000 capital job were
to lose their reason over the sudden ac-
quisition of wealth and be sent to one of the
hospitals to be Tierded like cattle because
the Governor has cut down their appropri-
ations to make the capital “‘pickings’’
possible. pions
—The record breaking hot wave that is
scorching the great corn belt of the South
and West is far more intense than the one
that wilted the East three weeks ago. With
the mercury bobbing from 98° to 118° for
an entire week at a time it begins to look
as if the scientists who tell us that the sun
is gradually cooling off had better wipe off
their specs and take another guess.
—The genealogist who went climbing
up President McKINLEY's family tree bad
little trouble in tracing the various branch-
es back to the Scotch ancestry of RoB
Roy, but we would like to have had a photo-
graph of his expression the instant he dis-
covered that the original family motto was
¢‘Not Too much.” Surely bis first con-
clusion must have been that he had been
running down the wrong clue altogether.
—The Hawaiian’s are kicking up more
trouble for the administration. With the
franchise given them they have been voting
to run things in the island according to
their own notions and as their notions and
those of the adventurous sugar speculators
who accomplished the annexation don’t
coincide the latter are ‘making a holler”
to Washington. It appears that in this
case of expansion the franchise got a little
t00 close on the heels of the flag, for the
peace of mind of the President and his
friends.
—A¢% last the poor, sad eyed cow has
been vindicated. The gathering of the
great scientists of the world in London has
resulted in the announcement that Prof.
KocH, the eminent German, does not be-
lieve that consumption bacilli are dis
seminated through cow’s milk, excep’ in
unimportant and harmless ways. The per-
son who spits on the pavements and in
stores and corridors of public buildings is
the one who does it, however, and while
we would hardly advise resorting to such
heroic treatment in his case as the affected
cow has had to undergo in the past some-
thing should be done to compel an abate-
Temes
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OL. 46
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDE
Er I
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 26, 1901.
I
Shaffer and His Fruitless
Threat
President
Presid ent SHAFFER cf the Amalgamated
Association threatens to hold the Republi-
can party responsible in the event of the
failure of the strike of the employees of the
billion dollar steel trust. ‘If the Repub-
lican party is going to obtain power only
$0 foster institutions that will destroy la-
bor organizations,’’ he said to a reporter of
a Pittsburg paper the other day, “it can
no longer rely on the support of labor. I
have always been a Republican,’’ he con-
tinued, “‘but if the worst comes to the
worst, and the administration stands idly
by and allows the trust to crush us out of
existence, in the future I will be all things
to all men.” Just what he means by this’
is left to conjecture, but in any event it’s a
mighty poor remedy for the evil of which
he complains.
President SHAFFER was probably influ-
enced to the state of mind indicated in the
interview by the statement made by
Mr. J. PiERpOoNT MORGAN a day or
two previously that he would consent
neither to a settlement nor a compro-
mise with the strikers. The Amalga-
mated Association must be destroyed, he
said in substance and with his vast wealth
and amassed capital behind him he will
probably be able to achieve the result, un-
less the administration intervenes in behalf
of the strikers. A tip from the President
would save the organization, however, and
President SHAFFER understands the fact
quite well. He knows that if the adminis-
tration would give Congress a hint to
enact a law repealing the tariff taxes on
the products of the trust the arrogance of
that combination would end instantly.
What legislation the President wants Con-
gress will enact and with trust products on
the free list the trust would collapse quick-
er than President SHAFFER can say scat.
But the administration will not give the
tip and President SHAFFER may become
¢sa11 things to all men,” but he will still
vote the Republican ticket. If he has
enough brains to grease a gimlet he has
known for years that the Republican party
fosters institutions that will destroy labor
organizations. The party doesn’t obtain
“power for the puipose of fostering such in-
stitutions exclusively, for its mission is to
dispense political patronage and rob the
pubtic mercilessly. But it fosters such in-
stitutions because they supply the money
to carry elections by debauching the ballot,
perpetuate its pofver by fraud and guaran-
tee its opportunities to plunder the people
by crimes. Yet: President SHAFFER has
been supporting the party in slavish obedi-
ence to the orders of these trust managers
and deluding his associates in the Amal
gamated Association to commit the same
egregious folly for years and in all proba-
bility will continue to do so as long as he
lives.
The labor organizations of this country
will be able to compete with the trusts in
industrial struggles like that now in
progress when the economic policy of the
government is for the benefit of the people
rather than for the advantage of the trusts
and labor leaders are honest with them-
selves and their associates. Neither con-
dition is present in the strike question.
The Presidents of the Amalgamated Asso-
ciation from the beginning of the organiza-
tion have been looking out for themselves
and not for those who pay their salaries.
The predecessor of Mr. SHAFFER is now
holding a fat federal office and compen-
sates those who favored him by deluding
the workingmen. Each of his predecessors
did the same thing and probably SHAFFER
is now figuring out how he may follow
their example. :
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The WATCHMAN has appealed, time
and again, to council to take up the matter
of establishing a survey of Spring creek,
through the borough limits, in order to
ascertain just where the rights of abutting
property owners cease. The way the stream
is being conjested in the vicinity of the
C. R. R. of Pa. station is enough to warrant
an immediate investigation. With the wall
Mr. CRIDER is building along the one side
of the stream it will be made from five to
fifty feet narrower and while the water is
at its present low stage there need be little
concern, but the spring floods will be very
apt to destroy considerable property in
that section and damage suits will be the
logical consequence. Had the matter been
taken up when the WATCHMAN first urged
it upon the attention of council a line
would have been established and it world
have been ascertained as to whether Mr.
CRIDER is out too far or not with his wall.
If he is not, then the county would have
been saved a needless expense of at least a
thousand dollars it incurred in making the
Lamb street bridge forty-five feet longer
t han was necessary. When the wall is
completed it will be found that it extends
that distance over onto the ground which
Mr. CRIDER is making. Will conncil take
this matter up before it is too late or is it
afraid ? :
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men of the dangerous nuisance.
—— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Reform in Philadelphia.
The reform campaign in Philadelphia is
now in progress and the public will have
an opportunity at its close to estimate the
civic virtues of the people of that city. The
lines are clearly drawn. The machine has
nominated a candidate for district attorney
“whom it can control.”” The citizens in
mass meeting assembled nominated for the
same office a man of the highest attain-
ments and most eminent fitness. ‘When
QUAY was put on trial for using the funds
of the State for his own purposes, Mr.
ROTHERMEIL was given to understand that
a perfunctory prosecution would guarantee
his political fortune. Bat he prosecuted
the case with all the energy and ability he
could command. For that he was con-
demned by the machine. It remains to be
geen whether or not the people will ratify
that action.
The office of district attorney in Philadel-
phia is one of great dignity and importance.
It has nearly always been filled by lawyers
of great gifts and wide renown. Mr. ROTH-
ERMEL was nominated three years ago be-
cause he possessed the traditional qualifica-
tions and for the reason that the machine
managers imagined that he would become
too deeply absorbed in the law to pay any
attention to the political end of it. But
they soon found out differently. In the
beginning he fefused to appoint machine
deputies. He was responsible for the con-
duct of the office and was determined to
have no shysters about him. That was a
pretty hard jolt for the machine, but he
would have been forgiven if he had fulfill-
ed expectations in .the Quay trial. But
his refusal to take orders in that matter
was the “blow that killed father.”
This year the machine has named a man
who will not disappoint them if he is elect-
ed. Obscure in his profession, lacking both
in experience and ability, the generous
salary of the office will compensate him for
any humiliation or prostitution which
obedience to the ring may involve. Ballot
thieves will have nothing to fear from the
courts or the law if he is elected. They
have a certainty of conviction and punish-
ment if ROTHERMEL is successful. The desti-
nies of the city, so far as that is concerned,
are therefore in the hands of the people.
They have made loud professions of a desire
for better methods in politics and honester
results in elections. If they are sincere
they will elect ROTHERMEL by an over-
whelming majority. If they fail it will be
because the professions of political morality
are false and fraudulent.
As ————————————
No Right to Complain.
The esteemed Pittsburg Post is now in-
dulging itself rather freely in more or less
vehement execrations against the new ring
which has fastened itself on that city un-
der the operation of the ‘ripper’ legisla-
tion enacted during the recent session. It
is by QUAY’S orders, our esteemed contem-
porary declares, ‘‘that the attempt will be
made to pass through councils the ordi-
nances delivering up, free, to franchise
grabhers, the city’s best streets for L
roads.” No doubt that is true but what
right has the Post to complain. It not only
itself advocated the odious and undemo-
cratic legislation which makes it possible
to deliver up, free, to franchise grabbers,
the best streets for any purpose, ‘but its bad
example was and is still made the excuse
by several of the recreant Democrats in the
Legislature for their perfidy.
There was no possible reason for the posi-
tion taken by the Post during the period
that the measure was pending in the Leg-
islature. The FLINN ring which had been
goferning Pittsburg was atrocious and any
reasonable expedient for getting rid of it
was justified, even though it was practical-
ly certain that it would be succeeded by
another ring equally detestible. But when
a standard Democratic newspaper advocates
notoriously undemocratic measures for any
purpose it is faithless to its pringiples,
treacherous to its party and perfidious in
every particular... This the Pittsburg Post
did at every stage in the game and that it
is now getting ripped up the back by fran-
chise grabbers will be accepted by every
thoughtful observer as in the nature of
poetic justice. That it complains only adds
to its turpitude.
The Pittsburg Post had by a long period
of faithful service to the party under the
direction of its former proprietor justly ac-
quired the supreme confidence of the Dem-
ocratic people of ‘Western Pennsylvania.
Therefore when the recreant Senators of
Clarion and Fayette counties were chal-
lenged for their treachery in voting for a
measure that was clearly subversive of
every Democratic principle and tradition,
they pointed to the attitude of the Pitts-
burg Post and went away justified. They
voted as they did for a boodle consideration
and if the Post had not been as venal as
themselves they would have been con-
demned to the popular reprobation they
deserve. In the face of these facts, there-
fore. when the Post complains of the conse-
quence of its own perfidy, it proves that it
is a poltroon, as well as perfidious.
sentimental politician.
RAL UNION.
Mr. Conger’s Disappointment.
Mr. CoNGER has gone back to China, a
sadder but a wiser man. He came home
shortly after the siege at Pekin was raised
and having displayed fairly good courage,
wise judgment and patient endurance
there, was well thought of by his country-
men. After the trials and privations were
aver he asked and obtained leave of ab-
sence for a season of well-earned rest.
But the moment he got here the spirit of
demagogy took possession of him. He at
once conceived the notion of coining his
privations into political capital for use to
buy his way into the office of Governor of
Iowa. That he has been disappointed will
cause few regrets outside of hisown fam-
ily.
Mr. CONGER has learned the sad lesson
that demagogy is a poor stock in trade in a
transaction which covers considerable time.
If the nomination had been due within a
couple of weeks of his arrival home, the
sympathy racket might of landed him. But
it was four or five month off and he started
in on it right away. At first he carried
everything before him. Nobody could re-
sist the pathetic stories of the sufferings of
the missionaries as they are endeavoring
to force Christianity into thel2heathen
Chinese in all which he shared. But later
on other sources of information were open-
ed. MARK TWAIN wrote about the loot-
ing in his guileless way and it impressed
the Towans and the CONGER stock went
down.
After a campaign of five months Mr,
CONGER finally gave up the fight. His
ammunition wasn’t strong enough for the
work. His stories of the siege ceased to
work a charm and he tried to switch.
That is he nsed to be a practical politician
and he appealed to the memories of his
past labors. But he was unable to [recov-
er and in the end he was obliged to yield
reluctantly and announce that he is will-
ing to go back to China and resume} busi-
ness at the old stand. The chances are
that he will uot remain there long, how-
ever. Dari ig his absence things have
gone on quite well and besides the admin-
istration hasn't much time for failures.
[KiNLEY isws what yon would]edll a
A Trap For Schley.
The obvious purpose of thenew devel-
opments in the SCHLEY-SAMPSON contro-
versy was to provoke Admiral SCHEEY in-
to a demand for a court of inquiry. What
the conspirators and character assassins of
the Navy Department would do to him un-
der such circumstances is plain. With
the President the Secretary of the Navy
and the so-called strategy board of one
mind, it would be an easy matter to pack
a court, as that which investigated the em -
balmed beef scandal was packed, and that
achieved SCHLEY would be promptly con-
victed of any crime which might occur to
the malicious minds of his enemies. He
must be gotten out of the way in order
that the plans of the conspirators to make
SAMPSON a Vice Admiral may be fulfill-
ed. 3
The tardy testimony of Admiral RoB-
LEY D. EVANS is convincing on that
point. Admiral EVANS is an enemy of
SCHLEY, but not in the conspiracy to wn-
justly injure him. He is a reluctant wit-
ness in his bebalf, therefore, but an im-
portant one. He states that when SCHLEY
was sent to Cienfuegos to reconnoiter in
search of CERVERA’s fleet a code of signals
had been arranged by which friendly per-
sons on the Cuban coast could communi-
cate with the American ships. A copy of
the code was given to every commander
except SCHLEY and when he failed to
recognize the signals of which he knew
nothing he was accused of disobeying or-
ders. His orders were to remain at Cien-
fuegos until he had ascertained whether or
not CERVERA was there andihe remained
there not a moment longer.
Previous to the testimony of Admiral
EvANs there was a possibility of enter-
taining some sentiment of respect for Ad-
miral SaMpsoN. But this exposure of the
plan to make SCHLEY disobey orders, or
appear to, reveals so treacherous a nature
as to compel popular execration. Besides
be has confessed that he read the proofs of
MAcCLAY’S history and permitted the un-
just accusations of SCHLEY to go unrebuk-
ed which shows that he isa most con-
temptible character. It is to be hoped that
ScHLEY will not gratify their expectations
that he will ask for a court of inquiry.
Such a tribunal will not be safe until the
present administration has been replaced
by one which has a higher regard for hon-
or. :
A ——————————
a Saturday the Lewistown Demo-
erat and Sentinel issued a very interesting
twenty-two page ‘Twentieth Century Edi-
tion’’ that will certainly go a long way in
the work of giving to the world informa-
tion concerning the advaptages of that, .re-
vived town.in business, social, educational
and industrial spheres. We: congratulate
editor FosNOT on the good taste he has dis-
played in compiling and printing the edi-
tion and feel certain that it will do much
for the good of Lewistown.
Evidently not the Real Cause of the
Strike.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The breach between the steel combine
and the Amalgamated Association widens
from day to day. From this morning’s
news, prospects of a settlement seem more
hopeless than ever ; Mr. Morgan. the head
of the trust,declaring that the position of the
companies has his unqualified approval,
and that there can be no compromise on
such a question.” Mr. Shaffer leader of the
strikers, comes out in an equally Gefiant
and unyielding statement, with threats of
causing a general strike by calling out the
men of the Federal and National steel
companies. Meanwhile the public looks
on and wonders, for if the position of the
opposing forces, as outlined by them, are
to be believed, the strike should not con-
tinue a day; and a half hour conference
ould settle satisfactorily the entire mat-
er. 4
The sole reason assigned by the com-
bine for their refusal to sign the scale for
their non-union plants is the determination
not to coerce their employees at these
plants to join the Amalgamated Associa-
tion. Naturally, if safeguarding the free-
dom of their employees, as thus intimated,
is their sole object, it follows that they
would not attempt coercion in preventing
them from joining the labor union; leaving
them free to join or not as they see fit. On
the other hand, the Amalgamated officials
declare that all they want is that the men
be left ab liberty to choose between join-
ing or staying apart from their association,
without any outside pressure being brought
to bear upon them in either direction.
According to these statements there is
really no difference between the contend-
ing sides. But if such were truly the
situation, with a conclusion so clearly in
view, it is not to be believed that a strike
-
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Struek by a train at Lock Haven on Sat-
urday Mrs. Joseph Poorman was almost in-
stantly killed.
—Judge Gordon has set August 30th and
31st as days on which to hear applications for
naturalization over in Clearfield county.
—The Berwind-White coal mining com-
pany have let the contract at Janesville for
their shaft tothe B vein at that place for
$70,000.
—An attempt was made to blow up the
large general store of J. C. Harman, at Pen-
field. near DuBois Saturday, with dynamite.
The building was partly wrecked.
—W. H. Knarr, of Cedar Springs, Clinton
county, has been missing chickens from his
coop for some time. Saturday morning he
killed six polecats in the vicinity of his barn.
—There are now eleven cases of typhoid
fever in Chester Hill near Philipsburg. The
family of Thomas Redding is sorely afflicted,
Mrs. Redding and four of the children being
down with the disease.
—Two very large pusher engines for the W.
N.Y. & P. railroad passed through Milesbhurg
on Friday from Altoona. The engines weigh
125 tons each, and have boilers that carry.
twelve tons of water. ;
—The story comes from Jersey Shore that
one Joseph Piper, of that town, kept his wife
locked in her room for over a year, and that
the woman finally escaped last Wednesday
and made for more congenial society.
—Hon. Noah Seanor, of Indiana county,
was stricken with apoplexy, Thursday even-
ing, and is critically ill at his home near
Plumville. Mr. Seanor represented Indiana ,
county three terms in the state Legislature.
—Some unknown marksman, either acci-
dentally or maliciously puta bullet in the
fleshy part of one of the legs of John Watson,
fireman of a New York Central coal train, at
Kerrmoor, Clearfield county, the other
evening.
—The dead body of Frederick Roate, aged
60 years, was found in the cellar of his home,
in lower Augusta township, Northumber-
land county, Saturday morning. He fell
down the steps during the night and broke
his neck.
—W. D. Kramer, tax collector for greater
Clearfield, received $34,000 in taxes prior to
the expiration of the time when the percen-
tage was off, and on Saturday, the last day
for receiving taxes with the rebate, he re-
involving such widespread and mutual
disaster would be permitted to exist; and
the only inference is that the veracy of one
of the parties is sadly out of repair, and
that an Ethiopian of good proportions is
lurking in somebody’s woodpile.
Why the Silver Question Vanishes.
From the Pittsburg Post. .
The dropping of the currency question
in Ohio, and the indication that this action
will be accepted and adopted by the Demo-
crates of other States, rests on logical
grounds that may be studied for a brief
time, that the real reasons for the disap-
pearance of the silver issue may be: better
understood. Bt
On this question we can summon no bet-
ter witness than Hon. Charles A. Towne,
who was last year nominatedby the Silver
‘Republicans and the Populists for Vice.
President with Mr. Bryan, but who after-
ward withdrew in favor of Mr. Stevenson.
Mr. Towne thoroughly understands west-
ern sentiment on the silver question as now
developed, and in a recent interview he
says : .
“The free silver question is absolutely dead in
the West. It will not only not be an issue in
1904, but I do not believe it will be mentioned in
the Democratic platform or campaign. Our posi-
tion on free silver in 1896 and 1900 was misunder-
stood. We were not demanding more market
and profit for the silver mines, but more money
for the country to keep up pricss. God in His
wise providence has provided a vast increase in
the supply of gold, and to-day there is more
money in the country than there would have
been if the gold sppply had remained stationary
and the mints had been opened to free coinage of
silver. So long as the present condition contin-
ues or the supply of gold continues to increase
there can be no successful or serious demand
for the free coinage of silver. Certainly, that de-
mand cannot again be made an issue in a nation-
al campaign until there is a big change in indus-
trial or financial conditions,”
The important point made here is that
the demand for silver coinage was made to
secure a larger supply of currency for the
business of the country. The increased
supply of gold as well as paper has met
this demand, hence the abatement of silver
agitation.
Another _authority on this point well
worth quoting is Representative Newlands,
the Silver Republican Congressman from
Nevada, and a prominent member of the
committee of Ways and Means. He has
just returned from a trip to Europe, and a
statement from him is published in which
he argues for the correctness of the con-
tention of the free coinage men in 1896 and
1900 that it was quantity rather than
quality of money that was demanded in
the interest of the people and of general
business. The large influx of gold through
the development of mines in Alaska and
South Africa proved the quantitative con-
tention, according to Mr. Newlands. He
says :
“It is the increased quantity of gold that has
restored prices and stimulated industrial enter-
prises. The quantitative theor has won, and the
men who advocated the free coinage of silver as
a means simply to secure for the world’s busi-
ness a Freates quantity of money have been vin-
dicated. Ifthe Supply of gold should diminish it
would be but a short time before the demand for
silver coinage would be renewed with increased
vigor. We all know that the production of gold
is very variable, and that an era of scanty supply
always follows an era of abundant supply. The
war in Africa has seriously interfere with the
output of the African gold mines, and Iam in-
formed already Europe is beginning to feel the
slow but sure results of a diminution ‘of the
flow of Sod to her mints. Perhaps next time the
demand for silver coinage will come from the
other side of the water.”
Whether there will be a European de-
mand for silver as a money of final redemp-
ion is a question that belongs to the fu-
ture. There is no more finality to the
currency question than to any other’ that
changes with the varying conditions of
business and industry and tke progress of
nations.
But has there been the great currency
expansion indicated by Mr. Towne and
Congressman Newlands? It is a question
readily determined from the treasury re-
ports, and is made apparent by comparing
the recent itemized treasury statement of
the amounts of money in circulation with
a similar statement issued at the outset of
Bryan's first campaign on the more-mon-
ey Chicago platform in ‘1896: :
i pet Betiil100L, 1896.
: 1
Gold coin. uuu hin $628,021,296 $463,995,969
Gold certificates........ 5 38,867,
Sitver dollars...... L124, 53,445,881
ilver certificates 345,739,804
Subsidiary silver: 79,043, 59,609,46'
Treasury notes......... 49,677,286 91,262,621
United States notes. 334,483,382 231,964,
Bank notes.....ceeens 343,421,224 215,798,
Currency certificates ...... esnsse toe 11 38, 305,0
Total... $2,184,576,890 $1,539,169,634
ceived $5,000.
—Charles Sethman and wife are now in-
mates of the Westmoreland county jail, on
information made by Mrs. Sethman’s moth-
er, charging them with perjury. The young
wife is not yet 16 years old, although she
swore she was 21.
William Knable, of Fulton county, is 81
years old and cut his own harvest with the
cradle. He didn’t do this of choice, but of
necessity. He was unable to get anyone to
do it for him. This was a remarkable
achievement for one of his age.
—H. I. Farwell, up the river above Lock
Haven,saw a rattlesnake swimming the river
last Friday, closely pursued by a blacksnake.
Mr. Farwell killed the rattler, which measur-
ed four feet in length, but when he looked
for the blacksnake it was gone.
—Alex. Blesh, of Lock Haven, has been
awarded the contract for erecting 100 houses
in the new town of Benedictine, Cambria
county. The town is laid out in the centre
of a large tract of coal land recently purchas-
ed by Rembrandt Peale and others.
—Arthur, the 8 year old son of Arthur
Keith, of Portage, is an inmate of the Johns-
town hospital, suffering from burns, the re-
sult of an explosion of powder with which he
was playing. His right eye is so badly burn-
ed that the sight has been destroyed.
—Epsy Hanks killed a blacksnake on Sam-
nel Ward's farm, in Monroe township, Bed-
ford county, on Tuesday last, which measur-
ed from tip to tip, eleven feet, five and one
half inches. His snakeship showed fight but
after Epsy hit it with a heavy stone, break-
ing its back, it was soon dispatched.
—Dr. George E. Knode, one of the best
known physicians of Huntingdon,died at his
home in Marklesburg on Thursday of lock-
jaw, aged 35 years. He was kicked below
the knee by his horse less than a week ago
but did not consider the injury serious until
a day or two before his death. The funeral
took place at Alexandria Friday afternoon.
. The stockholders of the Huntingdon and
Clearfield Telephone company held a meet-
ing Friday evening and elected the follow-
ing officers : President, C. M. Gage; treasurer,
B. F. Africa; secretary, J. W. Richie; direc-
tors, W. D. Bernard, Philadelphia; B. F.
Myers, Harrisburg; W. H. Denlinger, Pat-
ton; Allison O. Smith, Clearfield; A: D. Lit-
tle, E. F. Kerr, Bedford; Ellis L. Orvis,
Bellefonte; C. M. Clement, Sunbury. The
company expects to begin construction short -
ly.
—The Rev. B. B. Hamlin, of Huntingdon,
preached on Sunday, July 7th, at Montours-
ville. When he last preached there, fifty-
three years ago, Montoursville ‘was on & cir-
cuit with Picture Rocks, Hughesville and
Muncy, and the salary, $500, was hard to
raise. As a result Dr. Hamlin did not get all
his salary. On Sunday, however, a good old
lady approached him after the sermon, and
insisted upon paying him $10 as part payment
of the obligation that he had so long cancel-
ed because of the inability of the then strug-
gling congregation to meet it. TE
About 9 o’clock Friday night asa trolley
car on the Milton, Lewisburg and Watson-
town road was passing the fair grounds near
Milton, the trolley wire broke and wrapped
itself around the car horizontally. The fire
flew from the wire, making it appear as
though the car was wrapped in a sheet of
flame. There were twenty passengers in the
car, and many of them began shrieking, so
that their screams could be heard for many
miles. All were afraid to step out for fear
of coming in contact with the heavily charg-
ed wire. The motorman finally became
cool headed and crawling carefully under-
neath the wire, suceeded in getting out of
639 | the car. He then hurried to the nearest
, | telephone, where he requested that the cur-
7 | rent at the power house be shut off. It was
vas | fully twenty minutes, however, before he
526 | reached the telephone. ‘During this time the
terror to the passengers was indescribable.
After the current was shut off the broke
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wire was soon repaired. :