BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
~—What a good old-fashioned winter this
would be if there were only enough snow
to cover up its nakedness.
The local political pot hasn’t started
boiling yet, bat when it does some one is
likely to get scalded.
—When Prince HENRY comes over the
revolving chair warriors of Washington
will have a great time entertaining him,
but uncle SAM will pay the bills. It will
be about time for SAMPSON to get well,
too.
—A young woman has sued ‘‘uncle’
RussELL SAGE for $75,000, because, as she
says. he paid her some attention seventeen
years ago. It must come pretty high if
there was only ‘‘some’’ of it and that much
is worth $75,000.
—Though Senator CocHRAN, of Wil-
liamsport, and several other very good
sticks of political timber, have stated that
they are not candidates for Governor, they
doubtless understand that political light-
ning strikes just about where. it pleases.
— “Misery love’s company’ it is said
but a Bishop street young man would
much rather have been alone the other af-
ternoon when something gave way under
the strain of his hasty effort to pick up his
Best girl’s golf mitten that had fallen on the
side walk. :
—The latést reports are to the effect that
the eastern tomatoes canners are going to
form a twenty million dollar trast, but
the thrifty house wife won’t have much to
fear from this because she can can all she
needs for herself and what she can’t can
she can do without. t
—Say, you quarrymen and miners. In
the light of the many fatal explosions that
have been occurring lately wounldn’t it be
well for you to stop and protect yourself
against the chances of a possible long thaw.
ing out before starting to thaw out
dynamite ? i
—Senator HOAR’S talkin’ out in meet-
in’ isn’t going to cover up his hypocrisy.
His heart is bleeding for the poor oppressed
Filipino now, but when his protestations
a gainst their harsh treatment at the hands
of our government might have been of
some use he was dumb as an oyster.
—The appointment of Capt. CLARK to
represent the American Navy at King ED-
WARD'S coronation is a gentle reminder to
Mr. CROWNINSHIELD that the gorgeous
plans he had no doubt dreamed out for his
command of the fleet at that time might be
altered a little by the sensible, brave man
who has been put over him. :
—How would you like to Fave the job of
the president of the State Agricultural So-
ciety now that the Hon. DANIEL H. HAST-
INGS and the HoN. JOHN HAMILTON have
been chosen as his vice-presidents? There
will be one satisfaction in it for him, how-
ever. He will hardly be bothered with
more than one of them at a time.
—The $10,000 which the working men at
Homestead have contributed to the Me-
KINLEY memorial fund probably repre-
sents the truest sentiment of American sor-
row. Itisa esaciifice of half a day’s pay
by each one of them, and the spectacle of
working peopie doing such things will be a
reminder to the world that their hearts are
still tied up in devotion and love to a re-
publican form of government.
—DMaryland has a Democratic Senator
once more and Senator GORMAN has learn-
ed the stern lesson that no man may assume
to-own a great Commonwealth—except in
Pennsylvania—and continue in the enjoy-
ment of the favor of its people. It cost him
one term in the Senate to learn the lessc,
but be is back again and everybody is hap-
py. There will be no more *‘shenanigan’’
about Maryland. Her vote will now go
back to its old place in the Democratic
column. : f
—RICHARD CROKER has retired from
Tammany hall and put a substitute in his
chair at the head of the finance committee.
The retirement is not effectual enough,
however, to rehabilitate that great Demo-
cratic organization.: What the ’squire of
Wantage must do is only one of two things.
He must either go to Europe and leave
Tammany alone or stay in New York. If
he undertakes to liold the reins while play-
ing the races in foreign countries there
will be an end to Tammany and RICHARD
CROKER’S only souice of eminence and
power will be gone.
—It is the duty of every man to attend
the primaries next Saturday. The town
and township tickets will then be made and
you, as a good citizen, should take a hand
in the work. The officers you have to
elect in the spring are the ones with whom
you come in most intimate contact. They
are the men who say what educational ad-
vantages your children can have, what sort
of roads will be made for you to ride over,
how much money’ you must give to the
poor, in fact everything that is closest to
yon is directed by the men elected to office
in the spring. Don’t you think it is your
duty, then, to attend the primaries and see
that only good men are named. This thing
of nominating some fellow for overseer,
supervisor,schosl director or auy other office,
merely to ‘‘set him up’’ a little is all wrong,
besides, often very expensive. Don’t do it.
You have no right to foist an incompetent
man on a community aud you can’t do it
if the voters of that community are ‘doing
their duty. Neither should you help hurt
the feelings of such an ove by, defeating him |
at the polls, when it was.your own fault
that he became your cand idate.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL
VOL. 47
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
JANUARY 17. 1902.
"NO. 3.
Civil Service Reform Abaidoned.
If the statement of Senator QUAY with
reference to the removal of PENROSE Mc-
CLAIN from the office of collector of in-
ternal revenue for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania is accurate, President ROOSE-
VELT has not only abandoned all his civil
service reform professions, but in going in-
to the camp of the spoilsmen he has liter-
ally “burned the bridges behind hiin.”’
MCCLAIN was removed and a QUAY hench-
men appointed in his place, for no other
reason than thai he bolted the machine
ticket last fall, Senator QUAY states. His
adminstration of the office was entirely
satisfactory the statement goes, but he
bolted the ticket and that is an unpardon-
able crime. :
That is a strange turn for affairs to take
in Washington, while THEODORE ROOSE-
VELT is in control of affairs. Adl his life
he has represented the opposite in public
affairs. Within little more than a year af-
ter he had ‘‘escaped’’ from college, he was
elected to the New York Legislature which
was his first political office. His record in
that body was as interesting as it was
strenuous. Every machine measure was
jolted by his voice and vote and every ma-
chine politician held up to ridicule. : His
performance in that line during that serv-
iee secured him the offer of an appoint-
ment as civil service commissioner and he
was so radical a reformer there that he be-
came police commissioner in New York
with the expectation that he would be able
to reform that political cesspool.
When he took the oath of office as Presi-
dent his first pledge was that he wonld fol-
low the policies of McKINLEY. It can
hardly be said that the late President was
an ideal civil service reformer, but he held
on to Postmaster General SMITII, post-
master HICKS and revenue collector Me-
CLAIN, notwithstanding they had fre-
quently bolted the QUAY machine ticket,
while if Senator QUAY is truthful, Mec-
CLAIN has been removed for no other cause
and as SMITIT and HICKS are both out the
inference is justified that they were put on
the sliding board for the same reason. The
fact that Senator QUAY declares that if
there ‘are any other officials who bolted
they will also have to go confirms this
view. * rs :
Senator Hoar’s Hypocrisy,
Senator HoAR, of Massachusetts, bas
again taken up the Philippine question in
the Senate and for a season he ‘will talk
freely about tbe atrocity of perverting the
power of the government and the shame of
violating the constitution. ‘‘No one peo-
ple has a right to crush the liberty of an-
other people,’’ he said the other day, and
added : “We are engaged in the Philip-
pines in the unholy office of crushing out a
republic.”” This is interesting and proba-
Lly true, but too late. When such declara-
tions would have done good Senator HOAR
was silenced by a party padlock on his
lips.
The time to have uttered such sentiments
with respect to the Philippines was before
the last presidential election. § Senator
HoAR did begin it then as he has begun
it now, but in the supreme moment, when
speech would have been golden he fyielded
to the commands of the party boss and even
asked those whom he had almost persuad-
ed to be right to join with him in perpetu-
ating the power of the party which repre-
sented the wrong. He knew that the
success of the Republican party in the last
presidential election meant,inevitably, the
enslavement of the Filipino race. Yet
professing an abhorrence of such a result
he voted himself and asked others to vote
for it. 2
Senator HOAR is too late now with his
meaningless platitudes about the sacred
principles of liberty. His honeyed words of
sympathy for a people struggling against
hopeless odds for freedom are ‘mocking
sounds in their ears. He has forfeited ‘all
claims to decent consideration and his pro-
fessious of love for justice and equality
should be laughed back in his face. Himself
a slave to party he has no right to make pre-
tense of speaking as the champion of liber-
ty. He is a whited sepulchre whose
presence breeds pestilence morally speak-
ing.
The Visit of Prince Henry.
The official life of the government at
Washington is at present in a state of agita-
tion over the impending visit of Prince
HENRY, of Prussia. The Prince is a broth-
er of the Kaiser and, according to best in-
formation attainable, his visit is intended
as a personal compliment to the President,
primarily, and an evidence of good will to-
ward all the people of this country on the
part of the Kaiser,secondarily. These mix-
ed purposes cause more or less social confu-
sion, but it may be assumed that the tangle
will be finally straightened out.’ That is
to say it will probably be agreed in the end.
that the government must pay the expens
and the rest will be easy. : i 4
Priuce HENRY is considerable of a fellow
and comes from, a fairly good family, aside
from the fact that he is the Kaiser's broth:
er. Mrs. GUELPH, who was more familiar-
ly known as Queen VICTORIA, was the
grandmother of the young man and FRED-
RICK the Great, who though more or less il-
literate had considerable military informa-
tion, was his great-great-great grandfather.
It is said that a man whocan trace his line-
age back that far is all right,even if he does
run up against a butcher or a blackguard.
But Prince HENRY'S ancestor wasn’t a
butcher anyway and he was as far removed
from the other as any of the Kings of his
time, though that is far from giving him a
clear bill of health, morally speaking.
The visit .of the Prince will come in the
gracious form of a message of good will
from our German cousins, however, and it
is to be hoped that he will be becomingly
entertained. , He is an admiral in the navy
and in his capacity as commander of a
squadron of the imperial navy has had a
good deal of experience in the world. But
there are a good many things for him to see
in this country which he has not been able
to find elsewhere, and the best we have is
none too good for him. He will spend
most of his time in Washington, no doubt,
but there are other places worth seeing and
aud he will be made welcome wherever he
goes and however long he remains.
Gorman’s Return to ‘the Senate.
Senator GORMAN was re-elected Senator
in Congress by the Legislature of Mary-
land on Tuesday and on the fourth of
March next year he will resume his seat in
the body after an enforced absence of six
years. If he has learned the traditional
lesson of adversity during the period of his
seclusion, it may confidently be said that |
he will return a wiser if not a better man.
He will be more useful beth to his party
and to his'State, it way be ‘added in that
event, and the indications are that the best
expectations of his friends will be fulfilled
during the term upon which he is about to
enter.
GORMAN served eighteen years in the
Senate without interruption, and it is not
invidious to say that he was among the
most successful of the Senators of his time
in the matter of achievement. He wasn’t
a great orator like VOORHEES and others
who served with him or a special star like
BAYARD. Bat he wasa tireless, shrewd
and sagacious politician, if he failed to
measure up to the standard of a statesman,
which is a mooted matter, and he never
wearied until his task was completed,how-
ever prolonged or ardous the labor. He
believed in success and directed himself to
its dchievement and he won out.
But Mr. GorMAN should remember that
the issue upon which the Democratic party
lost Maryland just half a dozen years ago
was GORMANism. In other words the
Senator had come to regard his personal
interests as paramount to those of his party
or his State and the people revolted. They
bave come hack to him because they have
discovered that nothing was gained by the
change and for the other reason that. they
believe he has been improved by a season
of disappointments. If he will enter upon
his new senatorial career with a determin-
ation to leave selfishness behind he will
achieve greater results than ever.
That It May Benefit Some One.
Recently. while deploring the condition of
a most industrious and worthy young per-
son who is sadly afflicted with curvature of
the spine aud who is able to have neither the
proper surgical attention nor the necessary
steel jacket, a listener interposed ‘‘Why
Miss MARY MeBRIDE left some money for
that very purpose.” The statement was
Dews to us and we went on our way rejoic-
ing that ‘‘The Boy’’ was to be benefited and
through Miss McBRIDE’S kindness. We re-
joiced too soon, however, for upon investi-
gation we found that the bequest was left
for girls only and that ‘‘The Boy’’ would
suffer on. ;
Miss McBride, whois remembered as a
most lovable woman, was herself badly
crippled with carvature of the spine and
yet she diligently and sagaciously kept on
with the millinery business until she had
accumulated quite a little fortune. She
died in the summer of 1892 and when ber
will was recorded the seventeenth ‘clause
read as follows: “One-half of one-fifth that
remains I devise and bequeath to be invest-
ed by the trustees of the Presbyterian
church. The interest to be used annually
for the relief of any girl under the age of
twenty-five years suffering with spinal
trouble. - That she may have proper treat-
ment, braces or jacket to relieve or cure the
same. Naone person to have the use of
the fund for more than two years.”’
There never has been an applicant for the
fund and that is the reason for the publica-
tion of this. The amount of money is not
great, yet it would be a blessing to some
onein need, It. is possible that there are
young girls in- this community or county
who can be saved from life-long deformity
and suffering through Miss MeBRIDE'S lib-
erality if it is generally known that she was.
a public benefactor and’ left some money
for that purpose.
Philadelphia and the Convention.
The complaint of the Philadelphia Dem-
ocrats that a ‘strict interpretation of the
rule of the party for the appointment of
delegates to state conventions is unjust is
very much like pleading the (‘baby aet.?’
They must have known when the rule was
adopted that it would work that result if
they failed to get out a full vote iu ‘‘off
years.” In fact that was the only reason
given for asking for such a rule. 'It was
shown that in the city of Philadelphia a
fairly gcod vote was gotten out at presiden-
tial eleccions on the strength of which the
city claimed disproportionate representa-
tion in the convention during the interven-
ing years, though the votz was meagre and
revealed a want of zeal for the party.
But in any event the chairman of the
Democratic state committee could do noth-
ing else than that which he has done. The
rule is mandatory and allows him no dis-
cretion. It provides that each legislative
district shall have one delegate for each
1,000 votes and an additional delegate for
a majority fraction of a thousand votes cast
for the Democratic candidates. The Dem-
ocratic candidates are the candidates voted
for in the Democratic column. Candidates
in the Union column or the Prohibition
column are not Democratic candidates,
whatever their political affiliations may
have been in the past or are at the time.
Tor that reason such candidates can’t be
taken into account in computing the votes
cast for the Democratic candidates for the
purpose of apportionmen t.
The rule is just, not only to the Demo-
crats of Philadelphia, but to all the Demo-
crats of the State. If for ‘any reason the
Democrats of any city or county fail to poll
their full vote they are unjust to the polit-
ical colleagues who have done their duty
and deserve some punitive regulation. In
the case in point the penalty has been ap-
plied, not by the chairman of the state
committee, but by the rule which the Phil-
adelphia Democrats, through their repre-
sentatives in the state committee and state
convention, helped to pass. The laws re-
quire that the 1ules of the party be obeyed
and if chairman CREASY had done any-
thing else than that which he did he would
probably have been taken to court to answer
fos Violating the rules.
——The Altoona retail milk dealers as-
sociation having pushed the price of that
liquid up to eight cents per quart, we are
prompted to inquire as to whether an in-
crease in the water tax rate of the Moun-
tain city made it necessary.
Failure to Enforce the Law.
At a hearing before the interstate com-
merce commission in Chicago the other day
several prominent railway officials testified
that frequently ‘conditions required the
secret cnt of rates to some large shippers,
and invariably, ander such circumstances
they did it.”” Tae interstate commerce law
forbids such discrimination under severe
penalties. It wasenacted for no other pur-
pose than to prevent such discrimination,
and has been maintained at vast expense
to the country for nearly twenty years un-
der the impression that the purpose was
being achieved. ‘In view of that fact the
evidence taken in Chicago is in the nature
of a revelation.
When the interstate commerce commis-
sion finished itsinquisition and had lis-
tened to the narration of the violations of
the law by the several railroad officials who
testified until the list was exhausted, it
packed up its traps and moved to Kansas
City, where the investigation was resumed.
Whether any of the officials examined
there testified to the same misdemeanors
we are not informed. But they might as
well have unbosomed themselves with per-
fect freedom for no harm would have re-
sulted to them, At least no effort was
made to bring the Chicago culprits to pun-
ishment. No information was made. no
warrants asked for and not even a com-
plaint filed against them.
Of what use is it to have an interstate
commerce commission if the. penalties of
the law are not impo sed for ‘violating the
law. Each one of the balf dozen railroad
officials who testified to the secret diserim-
ination in freight charges in behalf of big
shippers ought to have been put under
bond at once to appear in the nearest
court to answer for the violation of the
law. The small shippers have enough to
contend against in the competition with
their more extensive rivals without this
element in the balance. They can buy
cheaper hecause they operate on a larger
scale and sell to better advantage for the
same reason. They ought, therefore, to be
protected against diserimivation in freights.
——On' Saturday Progress grange at
Centre Hall put twenty-eight persons
through the second and third degree work
at a meeting in the Arcadia. - ;
———If ‘all employers ‘of labor were to
employ uo'inan who does not pay his bills,
there would he fewer dishonest men in the
AR
Echo Answers Correctly.
From the Philadelphla Press, (Rep.)
Ex-Recorder: Brown says that Governor
Stone handled the cash that was used to
secure the passage of the Pittsburg ripper
bill. The Governor says he did not, but is
he going to stop at this?
Mr. Bigelow, or his next friend for’ him,
charged the Governor with having asked
$200,000. and actually received ' $150,000
for signing the ripper bill. The Governor
says this is not true, but is he going to put
off a:serious charge of this character with a
mere denial 7 . !
‘The people of Pennsylvania have a right
to. demand that their Governor vindicate
‘his integrity. Let him not think that itis
sufficient to meet serious accusations of re-
sponsible citizens with a mere negative. If
the Governor is a victim of slanderers the
law gives him redress-in the courts. If the
redress is not wholly satisfactory it at least
will give him the opportunity to meet his
accusers face to face, subject them to cross
examination and support his denial by
solemn oath.
It would give him an opportunity, too,
perhaps; to get on record testimony as to
his character. There may be some people
who are willing to swear that they do not
believe Governor Stone would pay out
money to secure the passage of a hill in
which he is interested, and that he would
be incapable of accepting $150,000 or any
other sum for his signature to an act of the
Legislature. If so, the Governor ought’ to
have the benefit of this valuable testimony.
He stands in need of it, for his friends are
not speaking out in his hehalf at present to
any great extent.
Rather the Governor just now seems to
furnish the reply to that continental con-
undrum, ‘What Ails Pennsylvania ?’’ and
the echoes make answer, William A. Stone.
To Abolish the Goo Goo Eyes.
From The York Gazette.
~A'New York assemblyman has introduc-
ed into the New York legislature a hill
which puts a penalty on flirting on the
streets. This bill comes under the head of
what a distinguished statesman once called
*‘fool bills.”’ There is no doubt that in the
big cities of 'New York and Pennsylvania
and of every other state in the union it
would conduce to good morals to prevent
the ogling of the corner loafers, but when
it comes to defining just what “flirting?”
constitutes the court’s superior appeal will
probably be badly stamped.
They Will Not Fase.
From the Buffalo Courier.
Men who talk about harmonizing labor
and capital either ignorantly or intention-
ally omit to say that what they are °
trying to do is to harmonize labor, capital
and monopoly, something which can never
be done. What they fail or do not want to
see is that monopoly— the power by legisla-
tion to capitalize a privilege—is not capital
and is the great disturbing factor in the in-
dustrial world, causing all the trouble.
It's Great to Be a World Power.
From the Penn’s Grove, (N. J.) Record.
Twenty million dollars for the Philip-
pine islands, $85,000,000 for maintaining
an army one year, $60,000,000 Spanish war
claims. Being a ‘‘world power’ makes a
beautiful topic for an after-dinner speech,
but it’s a little expensive. Besides the
trade argument drops out when we learn
that the United States has secured only ten
Jer een of the foreign trade of those isl-
ands.
Can’t Get Poorer is the Reason.
From the Newport, Tenn, Times.
President Roosevelt says, ‘‘It is not true
that the rich have grown richer and the
poor have grown poorer.’”’ His statement is
only partially true. There is a point
beyond which the poor do not grow poorer.
To do so would be to starve, but it is true
that the aggregate number of the poor has
increased.
Talk For Themselves.
From the English, (Ind.) Democrat.
‘We pay at the rate of about $70,000,000
a year for the little more than $5,000,000 a
vear of Philippine trade we get, while
Eurdpean nations pay nothing for the more
than $48,000,000 a year they get. These
figures do their own talking.
1s'mt That What They are There For?
From the West Union (0.) Defender.
Uncle Sam is paying out over $3,000,000
a year in salaries to officials in the Philip-
pines. Our new possessions seem to be
regular bonanzas—for the office-holders.
Trust Makes Cut in Sugar Prices.
‘The American Sugar Refining company
took the initiative on Tuesday in reducing
prices for refined sugar. The reduction
amounted to five points on Nos. 6 to 11 of
the soft grades, and ten points on all other
grades. Arbuckle Brothers, the W. B.
McCahan company and B. H. Howell, Son
& Co. made like reductions. :
"This reduction was expected by people
in the sugar trade, as the demand for refin-
ed sugar has fallen off and refiners are
quite well up with their orders, so that
they are looking for new business. The
list price for granulated sugar is now 4.65,
duced prices by jobbers who want sugar
immediately, but who have held off until
the last minute in the hope of a reduction.
But general trade was not greatly quick-
ened. At the reduced prices of Tuesday
refiners still have a very good working
margin, as the market for raw sngar is very
‘weak, owing to the tariff agitation. :
Cutting of refined sugar prices began in
the second and third weeks of December.
They ‘were then cut 25 points, from 4.9
cents t6'4.65. On December 27 they were
raised 10 pointe to' 4.75 cents, the supposi-
tion then being that “‘trade war’’ had heen
averted. ¢ Pie .
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—). Ward Wood, of Punxsutawney, walk-
ed over the high embankment into the ereck
in the darkness Saturday night. His body
was recovered. He was 50. years old and
leaves a family.
—The Beaver Lake Copper company. is the
name of the company. chartered to develop
the copper formations in Penn township,
Lycoming county, near the popular fishing
resort of Beaver Lake, from which the com-
pany derives its name.
—While C. H. Dutton, a traveling sales-
man, was on his way from Lock Haven to
Williamsport, his pocketbook containing $550
was stolen from his pocket. The pocket-
book was afterwards found along the rail-
road track, but the money was gone.
—Albert Welch,aged 21 years,of Mina, Pot-
ter county, was riding on a log train when
he fell to the track. The wheels of the cars
passed over his chest and he was dragged a
short distance. He expired as the trainmen
were picking him off the track.
—Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the
state game commission, was in Williamsport
Thursday conierring with state game warden
Berrier with reference to the violations of
the game laws. Dr. Kalbfus stated that there
is too much illegal hunting in Lycoming and
Clinton counties and that all offenders will
now be searched for and prosecuted.
—Sunday evening litile Helen Baum-
gardner, aged 2 years, placed the poker in
the stove grate at the home of her grand-
mother, Mrs. Marie Matthews, in Altoona,
and, after it became red hot, took it out and
held it against her 4 year old brother Willie's
back. A blaze promptly resulted, but prompt
and effective measures saved the boy’s hide,
though a new outfit was necessary.
—Samuel E. Bell, for many years employ-
ed as a passenger conductor on the Pittsburg
division of the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany, died at his home at Seattle, Wash.,
Dee. 24th, of paralysis, aged 56 years. Mr.
Bell was the conductor in charge of the ill-
fated day express train, when it was swept
away with some of its passengers and lost in
the memorable Johnstown flood, of May 31st,
1889. ‘ {
—A delicate surgical operation, which was
performed at the Hahnemann hospital,
Scranton, Saturday, is pronounced wholly
successful. Peter Rieber, a miner, had his
skull trephined and his brained cleared of
extensive membraneous. adhesions; The
operation was decided on as the only ex-
pedient to save the man's life, the nervous
disorder froma which he suffered causing as
many as seventy-five convulsions’ a’ day,
which were fast devitalizing him. ~*~
—An action to determine the ownership of
a locomotive: claimed by a coal company, a
locomotive manufactory and two: railroad
companies was ended in the Blair county
court at Hollidaysburg Monday. The
claimants were the Altoona and Beech Creek
and the Pittsburg, Johnstown, Ebensburg
and Western railroad company; the United
company, of Houtzdale, and the Baldwin
locomotive works, of Philadelphia, Judgé
Bell decided that the Altoona and Beech
Creek Co. was the rightful owner.
—John C. Stewart, who was one of the
victims of the Clearfield powder mill‘ explo-
sion was.ahrother of Dri Samuel C. Stewart,
of that place, and was a man well to do.” He
owned several properties in Clearfield, and
had been interested in lumber and factory
operations for some years. He leaves a wife
and two daughters. The scene at their home
when friends broke the terrible news to them
cannot be described. His funeral occurred
at 2 o'clock Saturday. Roy Smith was
| buried from his father’s residence in Girard
township on Sunday morning.
—The work of constructing the new tun-
nel on the Pittsburg division of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Gallitzin will shortly: be
begun. Contractor Peter F. Brendlinger, of
Philadelphia, who has the contract for build-
ing the tunnel has completed his preparatory
work and is on the ground with a large force
of men, and apparatus to begin operations.
The new tunnel will be started 100 feet north
of the present west bound tunnel, and will
be pushed to completion as rapidly as possi-
ble. The winter weather will not’ delay the
work to any extent as it will be all under
ground. : : *
—A young man named Varner, who was
employed until recently by John Shank, in
Warriorsmark valley, Monday morning pre-
sented a check for $12.75 at the counter of the
Blair county bank, asking for the cash there-
for. The check purported to be given by
Robert S. Ross and was made payable to
“Joseph Wanamaker.” Through speedy in-
vestigation, the paper was found tol be a
forgery and officer Wands being notified’ ‘he
arrested Varner and locked him up to “Await.
further proceedings. p
ticket to Mount Union and he expected to
go there on main line express. i :
—The pension hill recently introduced, in
the United States Senate by, Senator Quay,
gives widows of old soldiers a pension of $12
a month, and to all old soldiers ‘who served
ninety days inthe Civil war who are not re-
ceiving pensions and were honorably dis-
charged, it gives a pension based on their
ages as follows: 50 years of age and under”
55 years, $6 a month; 55 years of age and
under 60 years, $8 a. month; 66 years aud
over $12 a month, If the new bill should
become a law the dismissal of an army of
clerks, special examiners and medical ex-
amining boards would follow, and the mon-
ey would go directly to the spot without the
roundabout and expensive cereniony now re-
quired.
—Pennsylvania railroad employes whose!
checks were garnished by the Rogers Collec-
tion agency, of West Virginia, met in
Ensiminger’s hall in Harrisburg. Attorneys
Meade D. Detweiler and Albert Miller, who,
will represen’t the men in their: injunction
suit restraining further attachments, were
present. The employes were very bitter in
their denunciation of the merchants who
sold the®claims to the Rogers agency without
having first offered the men reasonable terms,
of settlement. It was stated that the agency
will get fifty per cent. for collections. A
resolution was passed denouncing all’ mer
chants who had a hand in attachments ‘and’
deciding to boycott them in the future. - Tt
was. also decided to pay all just claims if
the costs were removed and to carry the
various suits to the supreme court.
When Varner appear-
ed at the bank he had already a railroad.