BY P. GRAY MEEK.
mame
Ink Slings.
—You have a little less than a week in
which to arrange your thanks and fix your
cranberry sauce.
— President ROOSEVELT gives great prom-
ise of providing plenty of future trouble
for the Republican party.
-—Since PLATT has succeeded in getting
into the reform conclave in New York, there
seems to be a decided lull in the reform
business.
——There is considerable promise in the
political sky that next fall will witness
the fall of a number of political machine
meteors.
—Judge LOVE may be wearing a Su-
perior court look, but we have not heard
that he is drawing any of the salary of a
Superior court judge.
—Talking of the effects of the election,
wasn’t it that that started the epidemic of
getting-it-in-the-neck now raging among
the anti-QUAY postmasters in the county ?
—When people remember that Luzerne
county gave almost 15,000 majority for the
fusion ticket the wonder grows what the
Hon. JouHN M. GARMAN was doing on
election day.
—The shortage of cars, and the con-
gested condition of the freight traffic is
possibly due to the fact that the shipment
of the new congressional speech crop to
Washington has been begun.
—““Test we forget,” it might be well to
keep in mind that Republican anarchists
still ind safety from the penalties of the
law under the protecting wings of a Re-
publican Governor of Indiana.
—The BAKU oil well of Russia is calcu-
lated to reduce Col. GUFFEY’S oil enthu-
siasm to about the same point that the
Democratic vote cast in Pittsburg at the
recent election did his political expecta”
tions.
—Ever since Mayor LOWE has arranged
for a meeting with Senator PLATT to con-
sult about the future government of New
York, he has been subject to attacks of
paralysis of the mouth whenever reform is
mentioned.
—To a fellow out in the country it looks
very much as if the Democratic leaders of
Philadelphia bad met the fate of Miss
SToNE. We don’t hear of anybody, how-
ever, who is bothering about raising a
ransom for them.
—Gov. HASTINGS, it is said, has declar-
ed his purpose not tobe a candidate for
Congress at the next election. Evidently
his ex-excellency has political vision
enough left to see a mountain when he
comes to it.
—We have not ‘noticed that Mr. HANNA
has been named as mediator between Miss
STONE and the Bulgarian kidnappers. This
can possibly be accounted for by the fact
that neither side in this controversy has
any votes to give.
—1It would be a small ransom that would
be raised if. Pennsylvania’s STONE were in
the place the missionary STONE now oc-
cupies. The Bulgarian brigands would be
very hungry before the people would pay
for his release.
—1I¢t is said that members of the Cabinet
shed tears over the earnestness of parts of
the President’s forth-coming message.
Which leads us to remark that a message
with tears over it should at least escape the
usual charge of dryness.
—A Republican exchange boasts that
Pittsburg has the largest proportionate
Republican vote of any city in the United
States. We believe it has and it has more
dirt and darkness, too, than any other city
of its size in the world.
—So far this season there have been
fewer storms on Lake Erie than for many
years back. Some people attribute this
windless condition of the atmosphere in
that section to the fact that FORAKER
made no political speeches this fall.
—The gathering together of the irrita-
tions of Mr. Prarr, Mr. ADDICKS, Mr.
HANNA and other Republican leaders over
the appointments of the new President,
give great promise of the formation of a
good sized political carbuncle for the back
of the neck of this administration.
—Verily, there are communities born to
affliction, and we rather guess we are
among them. For a long time our people
bave hoped that Judge LOVE would get the
Superior court seat about to be vacated by
the resignation of Judge MITCHELL. Now
it is hinted that it is to he used to help
quiet the tronbled political waters about
Pittsburg.
—President ROOSEVELT may preach
against anarchy. until his wind gives out,
and the good Lord knows that would be a
long time, but while the Kentucky anarch-
ists find protection in Republican States
from even arrest for their crimes, the peo-
ple will think that in this out-ery against
anarchy there is much more of wind than
of wish to destroy it. :
~—It is said to have been a desire for
place and position in party organization
that divided and broke up the Democratic
party of Philadelphia. If this is correct
there ought to be no trouble now in re-
organizing there. From the number of
votes that were cast for the Democratic
ticket in that city at the recent election we
wonld judge that if they would get a good,
healthy organization started there would
be from one to a half dozen places for every
man who proved his Democracy by voting
the party ticket.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 46
- BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 29, 1901.
NO. 46.
Roosevelt a Disappointment.
If the forecasts of the President's mes-
sage given in our metropolitan contempo-
raries are anything like accurate it may be
predicted that some of the fond hopes en-
tertained of RoosEVELT will be disappoint-
ed. For example, the greatest measure of
independence of thought was expected to
be expressed in his annual message. There
are those who would have wagered avy
reasonable amount that he would declare
most emphatically for that sort of reciproe-
ity expressed in his predecessor’s Buffalo
speech when he said ‘‘we should sell every-
where we can and buy wherever the buying
will increase our sales.”’ But the metropoli-
tan papers now tell us that he will do noth-
ing of the kind. “There will be no specific
recommendation to Congress as to tariff re-
vision,’’ writes the Washington correspon-
dent of the New York World, ‘‘although a
reduction of the revenue taxes may be ad-
vised.”’
In his speech the late President MCKIN-
LEY said, ‘‘what we produce beyond our
domestic consumption we must have a
vent for abroad.” In other words, unless
we have markets for onr surplus there will
necessarily come a glut which will put a
stop to industrial activity. In this con-
nection the late President continued; “We
must not repose in fancied security that
we can forever sell everthing and buy Jit-
tle or nothing.”” There was no misunder-
standing the meaning of that sentence. It
clearly implied the policy of expanding
our commercial relations, not in directions
where tliere are few consumers and less
money to buy, but where are both in
abundance. Therefore when ROOSEVELT,
on taking the oath of office, declared une-
quivocally that he would pursue the policies
expressed by his predecessor in office, it
was expected that he would recommend
tariff revision in his annual message.
But meantime the tariff mongers have
been with him almost day and night. Al-
most from the moment that the remaing of
his predecessor were deposited in their
last resting place one or more of these pen-
sioners on the treasury has been constantly
pleading with him to let them alone in
their robbery for a season or two yet and
if the conjeoture of the papers is correct,
[1 we-maysinfér that they bave succeeded.
QUAY’s plan to take the tax off heer and
whisky aud dther luxuries has been adopt-
ed by him, the World tells us, and the
hopes of a diminution of the burdens upon
the property of the ‘people are to be disap-
pointed. The party machine insists on
that and the Rough Rider bhasn’t the
strength of character to resist. He can face
the hostile guns of an enemy but shrinks
in the presence of a tariff pamperedma-
chine that is plundering the public before
his eyes.
——Rumor has it that Col. REEDER, of
this place, and ex-Congressman ARNOLD,
of DuBois, will be the contending candi-
dates for Republican congressional honors
next fall. It will give the Democrats de-
light to defeat either or both of them.
My. Schwab's Salary.
An exceedingly disappointing, not to
say distressing, story comes from Wall
street, New York. concerning the compen-
sanion of Mr. CHARLES M. SCHWAB, pres-
ident of the corporation commonly known
as the billion dollar steel trust. Ever since
the organization of the trust there has been
an understanding in the popular mind that
Mr. SCHWAB’s salary is a million dollars
a year. That is a good deal of money, but
no man was narrow-minded enough to
think it too much for Mr. SCHWAB. Asa
ma tter of fact most of ns wondered how he
could afford to waste his time at such a
rate of wages, when nobody else could see
that be wag worth more.
It now transpires that Mr. SCHWAB is
compelled to slave his precious life away
for the beggarly pittance of $250,000 a
year. Even this meagre sum is not all in
the shape of salary. The salary account is
only a matter of $100,000 a year and the
balance to make up the full amount is in
the shape of a commission on the earnings
of the company. The commissions for the
last year amounted to $150,000, making a
total compensation for the year of $250,000,
manifestly an inadequate sum. Nobody
can be expected to live on that sum, and
the only consolation there is in contem-
plating the matter comes from the fact
that his share of the profits of the company
may be three or four millions a year.
Still we can see no other way of correct-
ing this obvious wrong to Mr. SCHWAB.
Of course we might suggest a popular sub-
scription, which is usually the remedy that
occurs to very rich people who do philan-
thropic work with other people’s money.
But he might object to that as more or less
hamiliating. There i is the chance’ that he
might skimp himself of some of the luxur-
ies that are frequently indulged in by
men with less incomes, but it is temember-
ed that before he got his present job he was
making $350,000 a year in salaries from
the several CARNEGIE companies and near-
ly as much in commissions.
Railroad Trust.
The new railroad corporation with its
vast capital and gigantic schemes of con-
quest in the transportation and industrial
world is not to beallowed to proceed with
its plans unopposed. In other words,Gov-
ernor VAN SANT, of Minnesota, has an-
nounced that he will take steps to prevent
the carrying out of the scheme. The con-
stitution of that State forbids the merging
of competing lines of railroad in the State
and the Governor proposes to enforce the
constitution under existing laws if they are
adequate and under statutes, if new ones
are necessary to the work.
This gigantic railroad may work bene-
ficial results if it is permitted to proceed
with its organization and operation and it
may produce the opposite effects. The day
its plans were made public RUSSEL SAGE
expressed the opinion that unless it was
conducted on conservative lines it would
be a disappointment. It has nothing to
fear on that score. Mr. J. PIERPONT MOR-
GAN is always conservative and can be de-
pended upon to keep within safe lines.
But if the law of a State in which it runs
be violated by the organization, it can be
defeated at the outset, whether its plans
are conservative or not.
It is hoped that the question will be
brought to an issue at once if there is to be
a contest at all. The Bonds have not been
issued as yet and the general public has
had no chance to lose in the deal thus far.
If the organization is unlawful a prompt
declaration of the fact through the proper
legal processes will prevent a general pub-
lic loss, however hard it may be on the
multimillionaires who have been juggling
with the stocks of the constituent compa-
nies,and that is a consummation devoutly to
be wished. That is to say everybody will
hope that nobody will lose except those
who can afford to lose.
The
Profligacy in View.
There is to be a river and harbor bill
this year, according to reports from Wash-
ington, and it is safe to say it will be a big
one. Last year a bill was promised, but at
the last-moment the President called it off
for the reason that it jeopardized his re-
election. But this year it is needed just
as the ship subsidy bill, the Nicaragua ca
nal bill and the Pacific cable are needed:
Not only that, but it is essential that they
be pressed forward early in the session. A
big bill of expense must be ran up at the
start in order to prevent revenue reduction
in the end.
The river and harbor bill, which was
kept alive until almost the last moment of
the session last year, aggregated $75,000,-
000. The one contemplated this year will
go beyond the hundred million dollar
mark uuless the signs are misleading.
Anything less than that will not serve the
purpose of the party machine. It is not
only necessary to exhaust the treasury sur-
plus but a basis for log-rolling must be
provided. In other words, promise of con-
tributions through the river and harbor
bill will be made to Senators and Repre-
sentatives in order to get their votes for the
ship subsidy and other jobs.
This Congress will exceed all its pred-
ecessors in profligacy, unless something
bappens to restrain it. There is no import-
ant impending election and there are
vast political debts to be paid, so that the
machine will cut loose from the outset.
The billion dollar line was crossed some
time ago and nobody need be surprised if
the two billion dollar limit is reached dur-
ing the coming session. But the tide will
tarn before long. The burdens will begin
to bear heavily as industrial activity di-
minishes and the signs of that are begin-
ning to appear. :
A Shattered Idol.
Our friends of the Philadelphia Times
have already given an exhibition of the
fact that they are not of the kind who,
after making a mistake, are beetle-headed
enough to stick to it. It is not many
months since that they committed the
grave error of setting up as their political
idol Senator McLAURIN, of South Carolina.
They insisted that he was a man of broad
intellect, honest intentions and progressive
ideas and went so far as to insist that he
was exactly the kind of a man who should
lead the Democracy. That journa’ has
discovered its mistake and in its issue of
Tuesday 1ast has the courage to admit that
he is the kind of a statesman who likes to
flop on both sides of a political fence and
who, on questions which the use of money
may determine, is willing to out-do even
the rottenest kind of Republicanism.
We are glad that on this smbject our
able and readable contemporary has had ite
eyes opened. There is nota better specimen
of the drivelling demagogue anywhere in
this broad land than this recreant Senator
from South Carolina. He may suit avd
serve Republicanism but no man who has
an iota of Democracy about him can look
upon him except with scorn and contempt.
——1It’s the fellow who don’t read the
WATCHMAN who misses many of the good
things of this life.
Commissioner Powderly’'s Report.
Immigration Commissioner POWDERLY
is indignant, according to Washington dis-
patches in a Philadelphia paper, because
his annual report has heen edited. That
is to say a lot of stuff which POWDERLY
thought would sound well in a stump
speech concerning the question of Chinese
restriction was blue-penciled out of the
text of the report before it was sent to the
printer and the Commissioner who likes
nothing so well as to exploit his views, is
greatly disappointed. Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury TAYLOR, who has charge
of the bureau with which POWDERLY is
connected, had notified him in advance that
facts were wanted and not opinions. But
POWDERLY never knew much about facts
while he always was ‘‘long’’ on opinions
and he paid no attention to the admonition
of his superior officer.
The time and circumstances were aus-
picous for POWDERLY. The GEARY Chi-
nese exclusion law, which was passed in
1891, and became operative in May, 1892,
expires by limitation next May. Every-
body in the country is in favor of re-enact-
ing it, or to speak more accurately nobody
is opposed to the extension of the law for a
time at least. But POWDERLY assumed
that a vast force had been organized to
flood the country with Chinese coolies and
starve the life ont of every workingman
who wasn’t willing to live on vermin of
one kind or another. Accordingly he pro-
ceeded to exploit his theories or opinions
in the report and his superior officer
couldn’t stop him. The notice that facts
and not opinions were wanted made no im-
pression. Opinions is all he had to give
and he gave them freely to the editor, but
they got no further.
' The truth is that Mr. POWDERLY has
plenty of opinions. They are ill-digested
ae a rule and worthless nine times out of
ten, but he has them. It may be added
that he doesn’t hold to them very tena-
ciously. In other words he is always will-
ing to change his opitiions on any subject
for a considcration and has been known to
change then: half a dozen times in as many
days when he found it worth while to in-
dulgein such intellectual athletics. Bat
when he has the chance to play the dema-
gone and is not paid for foregoing the
“opportunity be sails in ‘‘to beat the band.’’
In the case at point he thought he had the
opportunity of his life. The average citi-
zen is ready to deny the Chinaman any
rights and forgetting that we claim the
right to do as we like in China it is es-
teemed a great virtue to refuse to the China-
man even the right to breathe the air of
thie land of liberty.
——Whnen Mr. ELKINS is reminded of
the fact that Pennsylvania, outside of the
cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, is
Democratic and that the honest return of
the vote would blot out the machine ma-
jorities in these he is not so certain that it
will be his pleasant duty to read an inaug-
ural in Jan. 1903.
Elkin Won’t Do.
It begins to look as if Attorney General
ELKIN’S ambition to become Governor of
Pennsylvania as the successor of the pres-
ent incumbent of the office is to be disap-
pointed. The margin by which the ma-
chine ticket was elected the other day was
too narrow to take the risk of ELKIN,
STONE, whose mental operations are slow,
hasn’t ‘‘tumbled’’ to the facts as yet, and
he still appears to be for ELKIN. Bat
QUAY, who sees farther into a millstone
than his stupid representative at Harris-
burg, understands’ the facts and it is said
he is already looking about for an eligible
candidate.
The machine majority at the recent elec-
tion was less than 45.000 and nearly, if not
altogether, that many fraudulent votes were
polled in Philadelphia alone. It is sus-
ceptible of proof that 10,000 fraudulent
votes were polled in Pittsburg and Alle-
gheny City, so that on a fair vote the ticket
was beaten. Now it is not certain that
fraudulent votes will be available next
year. That is to say it may be assumed,
with reasonable confidence, that there will
be an honest minority representation on
each election board in the several cities
next year. In that event unless the ticket
is stronger than it was the other day it will
be defeated. : :
It may safely be said that ELKIN is no
stronger than either HARRIS or POTTER.
In fact it is not improbable that he is even
weaker than either, for it was under his in-
terpretation of the law that Governor
STONE violated the constitution and per-
petrated most of the other malfeasances
which brought condemnation to his ma-
chine this year. Who the party will take
in place of ELKIN is a matter of conjecture,
however. Congressman CONNELL, of Seran-
ton, would hardly do for the friends of
Colonel WATRES would crucify him and
WATRES wouldn't be satisfactory, for he
wouldn’t even ohey orders.
~——Subszeribe for the WATCITIMAN.
An English View of the Boer War.
From the Lincoln (Neb.)Commoner.
In a speech recently delivered in London
John Morely said: ‘‘The gevernment is
aggravating the essential mischief of the sit-
uation in South Africa by its management of
the concentration camps. The death rate
of children, measure it as you will, is
hideous, excessive, and appalling. The
policy of devastation has been admitted to
be a mistake. I wonder what Lord
Palmerston would have said of a govern-
ment justifying itself by saying that Rus-
sia, Poland and Austria in Bosnia “had
done something like the same. The war
has entirely changed in characterand is
drifting into a war of extermination of a
people fighting for their own land. The
policy of unconditional surrender and sub-
mission means extermination and annihil-
ation. The present attitude of the govern-
ment is oue of sullen despefation. There
is nothing worse than mettle in a blind
horse. The king will perhaps at no distant
date have to seek other ministers with a
better insight and a more pliant mind in
the face of the dangerous and complex sit-
uation which confronts the country.” It
is significant that many thinking men in
Great Britain are exerting every effort to
open the eyes of the British ministry to the
folly of its course in South Africa. It is
strange that there are any men in any por-
tion of the country who cannot realize that
Great Britain has assumed an enormous
burden in the Transvaal, and that unless
a change comes soon, civilization will
stand aghast at the barbarities practiced by
a nation that claims to be the leader in
law and in morals.
The Right Ring.
From the Chillicothe (Mo.) Constitution.
The Kansas City platform is hig enough
to hold us all without pushing and erowd-
ing and disputing about the color of this
man’s hair or the cut of that man’s coat.
It is all right and proper to let those who
have been faithful and fought in the front
ranks stand at the head of theclass. They
ought to stand there. They are entitled
to be recognized first: But it isn’t nec-
essary to apply the branding iron to those
who are slow about coming in. Let us
have peace. If we must quarrel let us.
quarrel with Republicans. We need the
hearty good will and the friendly co-
operation of every man who ever wore the
name of democrats. A club may do to bring
abont harmony some time. but not now.
All See the Mistake Now.
From the Philadelphia Rec Record.
The adoption of the new Alabama con-
stitution is: another step in the process of
amending the federal constitution by in-
direotion. The right of suffrage iy. 0
denied to the black man, but he is so hin-
dered in the exercise of his right“that there
is practical denial. The original grant of
the suffrage was a mistake; but it ought to
be corrected by the methods laid down in
the constitution. Bronght face to face
with the race question in a new form, the
Republican party—informed by past ex-
perience and sobered by present and on-
coming difficulties —would gladly embrace
the opportunity to retrace its steps.
Right on one Point at Least.
From the Shelbina, Mo. Democrat.
‘Andrew Carnegie has made between one
and two hundred million dollars, enough
to make 15 to 20 thousand families, }75.000
people very comfortable, by means of the
protective tariff, that robs the many to en-
rich the few. He knows exactly how it
works, and having become enormously
rich by this legal robbery, and having re-
tired from business he says, ‘‘The hess pol-
icy is to reduce protection duties.”’ He is
right in this. Every principle of justice
aud fairness demands this.
Not Wanted by the People.
From the Glasgo (Mo.) Missourian.
According to the republican press the
promoters of the ship subsidy bill will
force its passage at the next session of Con-
gress if it is possible to do so. Such a
measure would be a rank imposition upon
the people, but the Republican promoters,
who are largely stockholders in steamship
lines, that would be benefitted, care noth-
ing for the interests of the people.
Square on That Issue,
From the Webb City (Mo.) Register.
The Democratic party still stands for an
income fax. It still believes in the Jeffer-
sonian doctrine of ‘‘equal rights to all and
special privileges to none’’ and for that
reason it wants the rich to pay their just
proportion of the taxes. Trusts and cor-
porations have lo enough escaped from
assisting in hearing the burdens of govern-
ment.
A Kind of a Business Anarchist.
From the Pocatello, Ind, Advance.
That contractor who purchased his iron
at $10 a ton cheaper by - pretending he
wanted to ship it to England, than he
could by letting it be known he wanted it
for use in this country, must be an anarch-
ist. Surely nobody but an anarchist would
deliver such a blow to a republican law as
that.
Mistrust the Govermment.
From the Hastings (Mich.) Journal.
The national bankers convention at Mil-
waukee was noted for two things. The
vehement demand for the: retirement of
the greenbacks,' and the redemption of
silver dollars in gold. Fanny, isn’t it,
that bankers are the only persons who are
not satisfied with the government issue of
money ?
Ave You Sincere im the Desire to
Stop it, Brother Savage?
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
Every indication considering Tuesday’s
election; points to the election of a Demo-
cratic judge in Clearfield county in 1903,if
the right Democrat is nominated and the
cut-throat business is stopped.
Spawls from “(he Keystone.
—Four-year-old Robert Knox, of Lancas-
ter, was drowned in a pond near his home
Tuesday.
—A match concealed in a bale of cotton
caused a blaze resulting in $3000 damage at
the Culler Furniture ‘Factory. Williamsport
Saturday. :
—Setting his clothing on’ ire while play-
ing with matches, four-year-old Leslie
Craine was fatally burned, at Juniata, near
Altoona, Tuesday.
—Emory Foster will be managing editor
of the evening edition of the Philadelphia
North American, which will soon be out. It
is said his salary is $10,000 a year.
—John M. Wilson, of Altoona, was drown-
ed in a bath tub at his home in that place on
Saturday, the result, it is thought, of a
stroke of paralysis.
—Mrs. Francis Gallo was arrested and sent
to the county jail, at Greensburg, charged
with knowing something about the many
fires which have occurred at Mt. Pleasant
lately.
—The Pennsylvania Building at theBuffa-
lo Exposition was sold for $305. At the sale
the furniture brought $525.31 making the en-
tire proceeds of the sale $830.31. The cost
of the building and furniture was $16,300
—David Greene, an old soldier of Oakville
a suburb of Latrobe, , Westmoreland county,
died Friday morning of paralysis. He was
seventy-two years old and leaves a wife and
eighteen children. He was twice married.
—A few eveningsago a thief entered the
house of John F. Harvey, of Renovo, and
stole a number of valuable articles. Among
the valuables taken were a diamond ring val-
ved at $100, a plain gold ring and $9 in cash.
—Five hundred houses have been built
at DuBois this year and the Courier says
there is urgent need of more houses for the
new families moving into tke town. There
are few, if any other towns in the state that
can show a better record.
—Joseph Cochran, of Williamsport, while
riding “horseback from Otzinachson preserve
to Lock Haven, Thursday, saw a buck. Rais-
ing his rifle, and while the horse was run-
ning, Mr. Cochran shot the buck dead. He
sent the deer to Williamsport.
—On Friday night of last week fire par-
tially destroyed the tannery operated by the
Wagner Tannery company in Lock Haven.
Sunday night another mysterious conflagra-
tion completed the work of destruction and
the building is now a mass of ruins.
—Early Friday morning burglars broke in
to the Kessler hotel, Northumberland, took a
small safe, loaded it on a wheelbarrow, car-
ried it toa barn and blew it open. The ex-
plosion waked the neighborhood, but the rob"
bers got away with $150 and three gold
watches belonging to guests. :
—At the well managed farm of the Blair
: county almshovse a huge crop of corn has
‘been: housed this year, the aggregate being
{about 4200 bushels.
The yield was especial-
1y heavy upon one tract of eighteen acres
where 2500 bushels of corn were secured.
This is an average of 139 bushels to the acre,
| an extraordinary immense yield.
—Adjuntant- General Thomas J Stewart,
‘who was seriously injured i in a runaway ac-
| eident last August,’ ‘has decided to leave the
Harrisburg Hospital November 26th, to be.at
home at Norristown for Thanksgiving. He
expects to walk on crutthes as soon as he has
received the splints which are being special-
ly made for his fractured leg.
—The body of Miss Emma Heister, aged
45 years, clad only in her night dress, was
found Sunday morning along the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tracks near her home at Ryde,
Mifflin county. Miss Heister was subject to
walking in her sleep, and it is believed that
she wandered from her home while in a
somnambulistic state and was struck bya
train.
—Mike Sucko met a horrible fate in an
unusual manner near Uniontown Sunday.
He passed too close to the big fan that ven-
tilates the reverse mines, and his coat was
sucked in by the strong draft and caught on
the steel fan. In an instant Sucko was jerked
into the swiftly revolving fan and whirled
until the machine was stopped. He was
mangled and crushed into a shapeless mass.
—@Gas exploded in the furnace of tbe First
Methodist Episcopal church at Carbondale,
Sunday morning, causing a conflagration
that destroyed the church and entailed a
loss of $30,000, on which there is $20,000 in-
surance. Charles Hull, a fireman, was so
badly burned that he may die. He is a
brother of William Hull, recently sentenced
to the penitentiary for murder. :
—Under the new passenger time table,
which goes into effect November 24th the fast
Pan American flyers will be continued on
their former schedule. This announcement
will be hailed with delight by the traveling
public as the old routes were several hours
longer than the newly acquired Emporium
Junction route to the metropolis of western
New York. Since the closing of the exposi-
tion the Buffalo expresses have been well
been a noticeable falling off in the amount of
travel.
—Near Milton Sunday morning one Wil-
liam Shaffer, driver of a milk wagon, had an
adventure which will not soon fade from his
mind. One of his horses became unmanage-
able and dashed over the abutment.of a bridge
the wagon alighting on its side twenty-five
feet below. The driver was pinned under
the milk case, while the lantern which he
carried to light his way ignited the straw in
the wagon and threatened to burn him to
death. A passer-by extinguished the flames
and eventually Shaffer was rescued. He
was painfully burned but will recover.
About 25 quarts of milk were lost.
—S8chuylkill county grand jury in session
at Pottsville last week agreed with Deputy
State Superintendent Henry Houck that
school teachers should use the 10d up-
on disobedient pupils, Suit was brought
by Mis. Henning and Mus. Frank Fritz, of
Barnesville, against George W. Teter, teach-
er of a public sehool in that place, for flog-
ging children of theirs. Monday tho grand
jury ignored the bill and placed the cost on
the parents, the prosecutors. Photographs
of the marks inflicted upon the pupils’ legs
were shown the grand jury, but those silent
witnesses did not influence the jury to re-
turn a true bill.
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