g SE eT ET a Dewscraic: Wakao GRAY MEEK. BY P. Ink Slings. —1It didn’t even snow the next day. — Better government had great victories in Harrisburg and Pittsburg on Tuesday. — Pittsburg has at last opened the door to the reform knocker, but Philadelphia continues on in her sin. — The cannibals of New Guinea who ate up three French scientists a short time ago will be dying of dyspepsia ere long. —1f Philadelphia could only appear al- ways as white and pure as shedid on Taes- day morning, when completely covered by that great mantle of snow, how proud all Pennsylvania would be of her. — To-morrow Prince HENRY will land and it will be awful mean if some of the English in New York tell him that the cel- ebration, that will certainly take place, is all on account of WASHINGTON’S birthday anniversary. —We are to pay five million dollars for the group of the Antilles known as the Danish West Indies. We paid twenty million for the Philippines and the good Lord only knows what we have for the the expenditure. — There were eight million lobsters caught in Maine last year, so lobster sta- tisticiams say. but we think the story a lit- tle fishy because the entire population of the State is only about seven hundred thousand aud not all of them are lobsters. —1It is strange that the TAFT Philippine Commission should order the declaration of independence not to be read in the Philip- pines. Is it a document that we should be ashamed of or does Governor TAFT fear that it might inculcate the Filipino with the idea that he should be free? —If the two masked robbers who held up a gambling establishment in Clinton, Iowa, early Monday morning, and took $2,000 from the inmates would only start a crusade of that kind of work, they wouldn’t meet near the opposition that CARRIE NATION had in her saloon smashing career —The old Vets of the 148th were in town Wednesday and Thursday and it would be doing them an injustice to say that their yarns, as they were gathered abont the ho- tel lobbies in the evenings, did not make the average fish story dissipate away into a pale little “fib.” They bad a great time ané that is exactly what they were here for. —RO0SEVELT has sustained the court of inquiry’s decision in the SCHLEY court and ‘official sanction has gone to the limit now in robbing a real hero of his glory in order that a bombastic paper sport may be exalted. Let us drop it. History may teach future generations otherwise but traditions will tell them who the real hero of Santiago was. —1It is too bad that Governor TAFT, of the Philippine Commission, has to pay his servants ‘out of his own pocket.” You know he gets only $20,000 a year, his pal- ace, half a dozen clerks, several carriages and lots of other things thrown in so that it seems pretty nervy (?) for Uncle SAM to ask a man who is so poorly (?) treated to pay for his own household servants. It is a wonder be doesn’t throw up the job. —All the Easton Sentinel needs to do is to live and it will soon learn what a poor measure it takes of the WATCHMAN when it states that since the verdict in the HAR- riIs-li bel suit this paper will be decidedly meeker. The WATCHMAN hasn’t set up a wail about having to pay the costs and doesn’t propose to and it will go up for all it is worth before being scared into silence about the corrupt influences that are ruling in Pennsylvania. —The election is over now and the wise man will leave all personal feelings to close with the closing of the polls. It does no one good to remember such things or to brood over them and the happiest way out of it is to feel grateful to your friends and not try to find out who your enemies were. Perhaps this will he a more difficult undertaking for the vanquished than for the vanquisher but it is good advice, none- the-less, and every candidate will find it to his interest to take 1t. : —NELAN’S conception of ‘‘the Retreat from Pittsburg’ as portrayed in yester- day's Philadelphia North American, is a re- markable piece of cartoon work. While a more ridiculous. caricature could scarcely be imagined there is a lesson in the picture that bears an awful portend for Governor SToNE and Friday ELKIN. It is too bad that FLINX is too dead to see the picture and read its lesson also. The WATCHMAN predicted last week, that the five thousand Democrats who were all that could be found in Pittsburg last fall would possibly find many companions on Tuesday. . —Bishop SATTERLEE had a perfect right to scold Washington society for rehearsing for a charity entertainment on Sunday af- ternoon. It was desecrating the Sabbath just as much as if they had busied them- selves killing and picking chicken, freezing ice cream, nailing up booths or doing any other kind of work in preparation of a fair or festival for the benefit of the church, it- self, on Sunday. The fact that the enter- tainment proposed. was for charity doesn’t militate against the Sabbath’ breaking re- hearsal for it. The good Lord doesn’t want money that is procured by breaking one of the commandments and we are sure. that the poor ean get along without it ako. 1 | En VOL. 47 De reralic &» Nye STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL "UNION. _ BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 21, 1902. NO. 8. Keep Out the Crooks. As the time approaches for the selection of candidates for the Legislature for the ensuing election Democrats should begin looking about, not only in order that fit men may be chosen, but in order that unfit men may not be able to insinuate them- selves on to the ticket. It would hardly be just to ascribe to the Democrats any part of the responsibility for the venality of the last session. Both branches were organ- ized by the Republican machine and with the help of the organization could control legislation absolutely. Yet the Democratic party is not entirely free from blame. That is if the party had not been careless in making nominations in certain sure dis- tricts, the Republicans would not have or- ganized the House and the work of the session would have heen vastly different. The stories of venality in the last session have excited the cupidity of a number of the boodlers of both parties in various sections of the State. This is not entirely surpris- ing. In other words as been repeatedly as- serted there were rumors current during and after the session that $10,000 were paid for votes for speaker and as much as $25,- 000 a vote for two of the important meas- ures considered, namely the Pittshurg “ripper” and the franchise grab bill. It is equally well know that the oleomarga- rine bill, the game bill and a dozen other measures were what the roosters call ‘*pro- ducers’’ so that it was easily possible for a thrifty member to make anywhere from $40,000 to $50,000 during the session. It is small wonder, therefore, that political crooks are develeping an ambition to go to the Legislature? But the Democrats ought to see that not a single man of that iype gets into either branch with a Democratic badge on his perscn. That result can easily be accom- plished if the party workers are vigiliant and faithful to their obligations. No man is deserving of a Democratic nomination unless he is known to be absolutely incor- ‘ruptible and if any Democratic constituen- cy sends any other kind of men to the Leg- islature,they deserve the most emphatic re- buke from the honest Democrats through- out the State. Except for the turpitude of the six reareants who assisted in the elec- tion of WiLLIAM T. MARSHALL for speak- er of the last House, QUAY would not be secure in his seatin the Senate and none of the vicious legislation which disgraced the session would have heen enacted. Reading the Declaration Forbidden. Daring the discussion of the Philippine tariff bill in the Senate the other day the fact was developed that the Philippine Commission, which makes the laws under which the islands are governed, has recent- ly enacted a statute or adopted an order forbidding the reading of the Declaration of Independence at public meetings over there. No reason is assigned for that ex- traordinary action by American citizens ‘but plenty may easily be conjectured. The Declaration of Independence is not consis- tent with the American policy or Ameri- can practices over there and its reading is forbidden because it is justly estimated that an understanding of the. immortal document might encourage the Filipinos to imitate the example of the American patriots in 1776. The two fundamental principles express- ed in the Declaration of Independence is first that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and second, that governments derive all their just powers from the con- sent of the governed. The policy of our government as expressed in the administra- tion of affairs in the Philippines is directly the opposite. In the first place it is assum- ed that all men are not created equal but "| 'on the contrary the twelve or fifteen mil- lions whom we are governing as subjects are an inferior race, incapable of self gov- ernment and must therefore snbmit to an enforced government by an alien race. In the second place it is assumed that govern- ments do not derive their just powers from the consent of the governed but through the dictum of the governing power. Of course while enforcing such ideas at the point of the bayonet in the Philippines, the public reading of the Declaration of Independence was forbidden by the Com- mission which is. not only authorized to make the laws but to enforce them. The Filipinos are not a stupid people. Ou the contrary they are pronounced by such keen observers as Admiral DEWEY and General Joe WHEELER to be an exceedingly acute- minded people and it is natural to suppose under such circumstances that the reading of the Declaration of Independence would be inimical to our pretences in the archipeligo. When the Declaration was read in this country in the camps of the struggling pa- triots it. inspired them to renewed efforts the Filipinos, dv Lo ETT ITT TIIhT J ‘tributable in the main to overheated fur- in behalf of liberty and there is no reason. why | it wouldn't ave the Same, effect : | the, same ‘sort that. eleated, LARKIN, could, ; just: as easily. elect a Democratic: SGaterdor ipa ly: rehe Babmeribe for the WaTomrAN. gran Expenses of the Philippines. The Governor of the Philippines, Judge TAFT, of Ohio, has been giving the Senate committee on Philippine affairs some in- teresting accounts of the expenses of him- self and his colleagues. He draws from the treasury a matter of $20,000 a year in the way of salary and has a private secre- tary and a host of clerks. His colleagues receive $15,000 a year each, with a private secretary and several clerks thrown in, but they are obliged to pay rent, poor fellows, though at what rate is not revealed. The Governor, himself, is exempt from that burden, happily, for he lives in the palace, but he pays $3,000 a year in wages to his servants and to borrow his own language, ‘out of his own pocket.’’ The expense of illuminating the palace, which is the residence of Governor TAFT, amounts to $125 a month, which charge presumably comes out of the treasury, for he tells us it is paid in gold and he makes no mention of his own pocket in connection with it, as he does in relation to the wages of hisservants. He has ‘‘several carriages’’ the maintenance of which likewise is at the cost of the public treasury, it may be as- sumed. All these items taken together and added to the salary of nearly two thousand dollars a month make a grand aggregate of considerable magnitude, but imperialism always did come high and we are inclined to rejoice that Governor TAFT shows an appreciation of his own value. Meantime, however, we will be pardoned for - wondering what all these expensive luxuries yield in return for what they cost. When the territory was acquired at the ex- pense of all the cherished traditions of the country, we were assured that our compen- sation would come from an increased vol- ume of trade with the Orient. There has been an increase in our shipments it is true but only to the extent of the commodities sent for the maintenance and equipment | of the troops we keep there and there is no profit in that sort of trade. The mainte- nance of the army and the civil government bas cost something like a hundred million dollars a year and the entire volume of the imports and exports to less than a tenth of that amount. That kind of trade is too expensive. It is like growing tropical fruits at the North pole for market in the anthracite regions. The Epidemic of Fires. Between Saturday evening and Monday morning, there was something like an epi- demic of fires in this country. The series, if that figure of speech may be allowed, began with a destructive fire in Brooklyn on Saturday night which was followed by the great conflagration in Patterson, New Jersey, which began during that night, the dock fires in Jersey city, several smaller blazes in New York and one or two in Philadelphia on Sunday. The loss of prop- erty in these fires was immense, but happily the loss in life meagre. Only three lives were lost while more than a dozen million dollars worth of property was reduced to ashes, But in St. Louis on Sunday night the destruction of .the Empire hotel though entailing small property loss carried eleven human beings into eternity. Misfortunes usually follow each other in quick succession but rarely so many great fires are recorded in a single day’s news as appeared in the papers of Monday morn. ing. It was an unusually cold season and the papers attribute the conflagrations to ‘high winds. But high winds don’t start fires however much they may fan them after they are started and it may be as- sumed that the epidemic of fire disasters within the brief period mentioned was at- naces or other warming agencies. That is’ to say ‘in the effort to heat build- ings to a comfortable temperature during the blizzard weather, pipes have been heat- ed to a degree which caused adjacent hang- ings or woodwork to ignite with the disas- trous result of extraordinary fire losses. The lesson of those misfortunes is that greater care should be taken in the use and management of heating aparatus in build- ings. The destruction of property to the value of a dozen millions of dollars is moe than a local loss and though the people of the community directly affected are the greatest sufferers, the entire country feels the loss more or lessindirectly. The prop- erty owners are usually reimbursed in part at least through the insurance companies but the taking of that munch from the gen- eral wealth of the country and reducing it within a few hours to a state of worthless- ness is a public calamity. Money string- ency is certain to follow if no greater ‘evil results and to avert.such things household- ersshonld exercise the greatest care in the management of the bentite appliances in houses. iad ai Salina “ip —870NE and ELKIN will both speak in whispers when they “talk of the result in Pittsburg on Toesday. A combination of in Pennsylvania; » bat ha i | duced the m /| Sandy Ridge, than tful that he ‘bad not heen Quay Off to Florida. Senator QUAY has gone to Fiorida to re- main until Spring, it is said, without ut- tering a sound as to his preference for the Republican nomination for Governor. That being the case the public is left in doubt as to which of the aspirants will be chosen by the convention which is scheduled to meet in Harrisburg in June. DURHAM continues to declare that Attorney General ELKIN is slated and that the nomination will be conferred on hin by a practically unanimous vote. But the friends of Colo- nel I. A. WATRES and those of other fac- tions of the party are quite as positive in their opinions that another will - be chosen. There is a coterie of politicians about “Capital Hill” in Harrisburg who are pin- ning their faith and fortunes on Major Isaac B. BRown, Deputy Secretary of In. ternal Affairs. The Major, though a friend of QUAY, is outside of the ring breastworks and he feels confident that at the supreme moment the Senator will come out for him- self for the office of Secretary of Internal Affairs and incidentally for Colonel WAT- RES for Governor. In this expectation the Major has been making an industrious but inexpensive canvass of the State and reports that the outlook is most encourag- ing. He has assurances that are very satis- fying. Meantime, however, no thought is given to the public service. Senator QUAY has just announced that he will not resign bu he is going away for a protracted sojourn in the South, leaving the State unrepresent- ed in part -in the Senate, as it has been practically for the past half dozen years. The public interests may suffer by this ar- rangement, it is true, but that' makes no difference. Such incidents simply exem- plify the fact that among the managers of the machine public office is regarded as a private snap and if it suits QUAY and his associate bosses to be away from their field of duty the public can go to grass. Women and the Schools. There isa good deal of excitement in Brooklyn, New York, at present over the election of a principal for the girls’ High school of that city. Singularly enongh all feeling that is e er developed in Brooklyn is over the schools and churches and one or the other of these agencies of civilization is always making tronble there. The present disturbance is because a woman, well equip- pt tor the work; is a candidate for the position, aud some of the old fogies in con- trol of theschools are bitterly opposed to her election. The borough president, on the other hand, is an active partisan for the lady and as he served for two years as president of the school board his opinions have much weight. The lady who has, figuratively speaking, kicked up this row in the school affairs of the city is Mrs, Lucy T. LEWIS, vice prin- cipal of the school. During a protracted illness of the principal she served in his place with excellent results and entire sat- isfaction and after his death, which occurred some time ago, she continued the work as if nothing bad happened. But when it came toa question of giving her a regular com- mission, including the added salary which belongs to the place, the mossbacks balked. She is a woman, they declared, and no wo- man has ever held such a position in Brook- Iyn. Probably that is true,and maybe there has never before been a good reason for the election of a woman, though undoubtedly there is now. Speaking on this subject it may be said that it is within the memory of men still in the flesh there were no women school teachers in any part of the country and it was a good while after they were introduc- ed into that field of labor that they receiv- ed the same compensation that was paid to their brothers in the service. The expe- rience has not been detrimental to the schools, however, and it may be added that on the contrary the standards of our educa- tional institutions have been raised by the admission of women as teachers, A few of the intelligent and industrious women of the country in the school hoards would be. another desisable sequistiion it may be sog- gested. The Same Kind of Justice, Apropos to the Clearfield verdict that 25, AP Maiz says not ‘‘guilty but pay the costs,” a friend at Osceola after writing his con- gratulations upon the acquittal as well as his objections to the part of the finding that imposes the costs Spon] the acquittal says : “That jury cannot 20PlS for letters patent | g3, on their action for we had a justice of the peace here, in the early days of our town, whose decision, on a particular case, can hold them level. | A contractor named Blair had a journey- man named Sweigart in bis employ. Sweigart wanted an order on a shoemaker, known as “Dutch Johnny,” at Sandy Ridge, for a pair | Ath of boots, which Blair gave him. Nothing more was thought of the transaction until Blair and Sweigars came to a settlement. Blair had Sweigart charged with the five dollar order. ~ Sweigart protested that *Johnny’’ didn’t have the kind of hoots he wanted ; and had lost the order. Blair wouldn't pay the money until] he knew the order hadn’t been paid ; and put the Sen upon Sweigart to prove it. Sweigart sued Blair before Squire Rodgers, of Osceola, and subpeenaed ‘Johnny’ The Squire, ibid carefully ‘hearing both das ‘and giving it a little consideration, said © **Well, T ean’t see but the defendant's action was correct ; ‘but Seriaiuly the prosecu- tor should have his m The fault lies with the shoemaker no rion the k boots wanted ; defendant oy "the prosecutor what he owes him, and t the suit. The little Dutehman hastily y v ; and left instantly (for sent to jail. Tbe parties to. the. his frequent- | and | langh over it y g, but: ‘no poe; knows what lias Ee of the Squire. yi ‘kins 176, 3 poor ®) F. Co: ind of | therefore vy that the | I t Dutch’ Johnny pay the costs of The Spring Hlection. The spring election passed off quietly in all parts of the county and while there was but a fair poll in the country districts in the towns there were more votes out than was the case at the general election last fall. The bright, fair weather bad something to do with it, but sharp interest in local contests brought out the friends of the contestants in great numbers. The real surprise of the day in Bellefonte was the election of Dr. M. A. Kirk to coun- cil in the West ward. No one seemed to know that any canvass had been made in his behalf and when the result was an- nounced even the workers on both sides were astounded. Party lines were almost entirely wiped out and the voting was very liberal indeed, as is illustrated in the re- sult in the South ward where Fortney, Democrat, had 171 of a majority over Cole, and Montgomery, Republican, had 115 ma- jority over Dawson, Democrat, At State College all but three candidates on the Citizens ticket were elected oter both Democrats and Republicans, though the big fight was on council in which the Bob Foster village party broke even with the campus faction and could have beaten them entirely had the other candidate hustled. The contest was spirited, though friendly in all quarters and it is to be hoped tha any little squabbles of the day were con- sidered closed when the polls closed. The results in the various precints in the county are as follows : THE RESULT IN BELLEFONTE BOROUGH. Treasurer. . Charles F. Cook, R............c.ocooiiiniiie 202138] 47 George R. Meek, D........ | 1871173] 97 Meek’s majority Overseer of Por g R.S. Brouse, R............ | 219122 85 P. H. Gherrity, D........... ..| 147(190| 66 Brouse’s majority..............23 : Auditor. 1. Underwood, R ¥ienperssadntarins] inves ehvban 203(128| 76 W. J. Singer, D.........0..ciin: | 155]177| 66 Underwood's majori ; High Constable. Fed Benj, WHHamMS, R.....ccncciiiianiiines ne | 246[139] 80 Bellefonte N. W.—Judge of Election, Samuel B, Miller 210, R. G. Larimer 119 ; inspectors, Roger 7. Bayard 226, John N. Lane 130; councilman, Wm. H. Derstine 250, 8. Kline Woodring 110 * school dire ctors, Hardman P, Harris 257, as. Li Seibert 107 ; con stable, Robert V. Miller 915, ion Rightnour 150. Bellefonte S. W.—Judge of Election, Thomas Donachv 139, Harry Walkey 171; amin. Brown 155, Charles H. Hazel Ask 3 3 n, E. 8. Dorwor th-119, George Mallory 16¢% 1 . Robt. Cole 70, D. F. Fortney “atl; : H. Montgomery 214, William Daw: directors, . re son 99. Bellefonte Ww. Iw. ~Judge of Election, Edward T. Tuten 79, Dominic Judge 67; inspectors, A. V. Smith &3, Jonathan Miller. 63 ; councilman, C. Ff. Gerberich 59, Dr. M. A. Kirk 90; school directors, |’ Darius Waite 82, A. Linkenbach 65; constable, Wm. Garris 77, Geo. Taylor 70 Centre Hall Boro.—John Spicher 22, W McClen- ahan 65 ; inspectors, 3 Fetterhoff 23, W Boozer 63 ; councilman, W ‘Odenkirk 21, G M Boal 27, John Puff 64, € Luse 70, C Slack 65 ; ; school di- rectors, A P Krape 21, WW Boal 21, J Dauberman 68, W Strohmeyer 635, 'D Brisbin 1 30, J Smith 6; overseer of poor, J Sanders 22, Frank Arney 64; constable, J Meyers 7, WwW Runkle 70; auditor, J Reeseman 19, T Moore 63; high constable, Sunday 69. College Boro.—Judge of Election, Jas. M. Wil- liams 140, A. Corrigan 33 ; inspector, James Ste- vens 83, A.J; Weibly 92 ; councilman, J. P. Pills- bury 94, T. F. Kennedy 79; C. L. Croyle 3, M. S. MeDowell 2: TS Bailey 94, H D Meek 90: school directors, Joseph Hoy 106, George C. Butz75; W. H. Heman 141, Joseph Ming: le 34; overseer of pocr, John J. Houser 80, Hezi- kiah Ewing 27; David Fulton 56. 8. Garner 110, O F Shaw 71; constable, 1. C. Holmes 97, John Corrigan, Sr., 28: W I Gilliland 55; audi- tor, T. A. Snyder 74, ’S. B. Moore 42; Geo. B Jackson 61; high contable, A. HLEvey ", EL. W Carson 92. Howard Boro—Judge of Election, W. R. Hop- Willjam Deihl 54; inspectors, Henry W. T. Loder 40; councilman, Fran Butler 36, G. W. Tipton 80, Jackson Kline 81, H. A. Moore 46, D. R. ilson 43, W. B. Henderson 40; school directors, H. C. Holter 63, John H. Wagner 65 ; overseer of os W. P. Lucas 75, Peter Robb 57 ; Jonstable T. Allison 59, Lee Roy Leathers 69 ; auditor, Ww. V. Schenck 80, John H. Deihl 4 ; high constable, C. Walizer 82, William Wagner 45 ; treasurer, PR Schenck 69, William, Weber 34. Milesburg Boro.—~Judge 8f Election, J Knarr 57, EL Noll 80; inspectors, C Smith 47, E Groves 36: councilmen, W Crain 84, J Green 45, J Fas J Noll 36, C Kise : BT; school directors, Z Harsh: berger 52, C Zimmerman 45, IV BL mas 38, Ed. Johnson 35 ; overseer of poor, B Campbell 50, Homer Carr 35; constable, Meni 51, Wall ter Smith 41; auditor, L Eddy 48, Geo. Stroop 35 justice of Peace, J M Green 50, A.G Rager 39. 1 iilhoim Boro—ludge of Election, L J Noll or, Miller 92; inspectors, Hartman 19, F Ha 101 ; councilman, FF Wetzel 19, Stephen Moyer 28, ‘Henry. Miller’ 22, G Stover 102, AA Smith 83, Frank 101, Henry Breon 101 ; school directors, FE Gutelieus 28,J Spigelmeyer 36, Daniel Ulrich. "103, J Hartman 94, SM Campbell 87: yee of poor, A King 18,8 Majze: 110 ; constable, H M Hoy 4, P P. Leitzel 95. Geo B Mench. 12, Geo Zerby 15 ; auditor, ate 8 Ulrich 31, B F Kister 91; high con- stable, Jesse Kreamer 19, GW Harter 102 : Philipsburg 1st W—-Judgs of Rlection, Zi Kirk Tate 106. J. M. Malloy 54; ‘inspector, K. Hoffer 105, Sarvey B Lingle 55; aS M. Mil- ler 108, J. Munson 55; school directors, E. F. Townsend 85, C. E. Murray 93, F. K. Lukenbach 5. W. B. Henderson 57; overseer of poor, D. F. Copelin 111, C.. Gunther 159; Jo WH I. V. Gray 113, Jno. Bot- right 47; ‘church trustees, Mrs. Elizabeth Simler 150, Mrs. J. G. Platt 149, Mrs. John ©. Hicklin 151, Philipsburg 2nd W.—Judge ‘of Election, Owen Hancock 113, Thos. Deaken 138; inspector, Harry Asheroft 133, H. M. Paul 116; councilinan, David Atherton 124, Dr. Chas. McGirk 137; school direc: s, E. F. Townsend 133, C. E. Murray 125, F.'K. aly 156, seer of Poon 'D. F. Copelin 147, C. U. Hoffer 102; constable, C, H. Hutchinson 90; Ira B. Howe 159 ; auditor, I. V. Gray 130, John Botright 113; church aize 103, trustees, Mrs, E. Simler 222, Mrs. John G. Plat¢’ 222, Mrs. John C. Hieklin 222. Puilipebiirg 3 3rd W.—Judge of’ Election,’ L. G. Mitehe Ads, W RR Eary jos Jo W e m. Care ouncilman, J. W. Steere 124, Ww P76: sch 31 Townsend 151, Y Py Murray ‘143, F. bach 64, Dr. W, B. Henderson 34; overseer of lin 138, C. U. Hoffer 60; constable, Simier 140 ; auditor, I. V. Gray 136, John Bots enEsL; church trustees—Mrs, E. Simler 181, 4 Mrs. J. G. Platt 179, Mrs. John C. Hicklin 178. Wm. Barrell, 42, Frank Batehelor, 9 ; inspectors, John, unningham, 30, Chas, Frank, 15 ; 3 council | m. Cunningham 37, Jolin Hoffman 35, D oe 27, Peter Stout 17, Grant Showers 12, Joe. altel 26, biden Albert 20, 0 Norte s Proc ts xeihool yver te 27, Jagd in Joba) Albert "We SO deh 0 na seer of / David Dute ‘Hofter49 : constable, H H.| | Friday afternoon. | died the day before. The coroner's jury de- ‘Dr. W. B. Henderson 95; over-- ctor; 8. ‘RR. Todd 76; school directors, E.F, F. K. Luken- 1 road through Indiana county. The South Philipsburg (Borasieage of! Election, | 9b e,’H. | Stine 34, oa s Ward 16 ; aior, Chas. Wilcox ! cided “upon Tubs in shat, a str Spawls from the Keystone. ~The Chambersburg Methodist gave $1152.41 to missions during 1901. —Cutting his throat with a razor, Henry Delabergne, of Corry, killed himself almost instantly. —A syndicate has bought the Tumbling Run pleasure resort, near Pottsville, and will improve it. church —Edward Geuldner has been named by Congressman Patterson as the next post- master at Tamanend. —A one per cent. dividend has been de- clared in favor of creditors of the defunct Keystone National bank of Erie. —Twenty families from Altoona, and vi- cinity, will leave in three weeks for Colorado, where they will engage in the raising of sugar beets. —Hayes Williamson, of Jersey Shore, while skating on the river Thursday, fell and struck a sharp projection on the ice. The ends of two fingers of his right hand were cut off. : —While standing on a chair to reach a blackboard at Renovo, the other day, the 5 year old son of James Qunglom fell and caught his cheek upon a hook that tore his right eyelid loose. —At Osceola Sunday John Hughes, while intoxicated, attacked his brother Henry with a butcher knife and inflicted a serious wound on his throat. The would be murderer was taken to jail at Clearfield. —John Fenner, an employe of a basket factory at Coudersport, was so seriously scalded by steam escaping from a pipe, that when his clothing was removed the skin and flesh from the knee to the foot came off. —George Bosley, aged 55 years, a colored evangelist, was found lying beside the high- way at Frackville Tuesday in an unconscious condition. He was removed to the Potts- ville hospital and died shortly after his ad- mittance. —In the contest for the school directorship in the Fifth ward, Allegheny, Miss Kate Cassatt McKnight was elected by a majority of 33 votes in the face of the work of the Quay north side’ machine in favor of her male opponent. —After a deliberation of nearly twenty- nine hours the jury in the case of W. H. Pratt, who was tried at West Chester for killing his wife, rendered a verdict of “guilty of murder in the first degree.” An effort will be made to secure a new trial. —Judge Biddle, of Carlisle, recently sen- tenced Levi Smith and James Nicholson, white and Daniel Washington and Henry Jones, colored, convicted of stealing chickens near Shippensburg, each to pay $100 fine, costs and to serve 2 years in the penitentiary. —John Dawson, aged 50 years, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed the home of John Kirtland, at Academy Corners, near Wellsboro, Tuesday morning. Dawson, who was visiting the family, was asleep up stairs when the fire broke out and before he could’ be awakened his escape was cut off. —3000 children participated in the celebra- tion of the 44th anniversary of the Bethany Sunday school in Philadelphia Thursday evening. Hon. John Wanamaker, who has a class in this school, cabled from India— 12000 miles—where he is touring, his greet- ing and best wishes. : —Peach growers in Juniata say the peach buds last spring were small, shriveled buds owing to drouth the summer before, but the peach bud now is a full bud owing to the great amount of moisture last summer, and consequently they are looking for a peach: luscious. —Monday afternoon the body of a fully developed male infant was found along the tracks of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- burg railroad at a point between Mt. Jewe tt and Binghams. The child was dead when’ found but apparently had been born alive but a few hours before. The authorities are investigating. i : . —During the explosion of dynamite at Ralston Saturday, an Italian, who was in the. employ of Sims & Co., contractors, was blown twelve feet into the air. The men ran, after: the explosion, expecting to find the man blown to pieces. but found him alive, with’ one arm broken and one leg burned. He has’ a wife and four’ children. —A Susquehanna county farmer had a’ dog, and he paid the tax assessed on that dog. The dog killed eight fine sheep for his’ owner, and was caught at the business red-' | banded, or rather red-mouthed. The owner, promptly shot him full of holes, and then putin a bill at the county commissioner’ 8 | office for the sheep. They paid’ the bill to: | avoid the costs of a law suit. John Edinger, who is Soplorel. in a factory in Williamsport, had. his clothing . caught by a rapidly revolving shaft on’ Sats; urday, and was whirled around until he ‘re- ceived fatal injuries. The frontal bone of" his head was fractured, as was his skull at the base, his left arm was broken ‘below the elbow and at the wrist, and he was painfully bruised about the body. He died at the hos- | pital, where he was taken immediately, after. his mishap. - : { —Charles Crownover, an aged resident, oF Manor Hill, Huntington county, was found dead at his home in that place by his nephew It is supposed that he’ cided that he came to his death by falling and striking his head against a stone, | as a wound was discovered in the back of his head, The body was frozen stiff, and it was difficult to make an examination to tell whether he had a stroke of paralysis or. heart failure. Deceased was the son of thes late Hezekiah and ‘Elizabeth Crownover . Messrs, Kerr & Patton, of Clearfield, | have been awarded contracts for a large por- tion of the work of constructing the branch of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittshurg ail ing contracts, itis stated, will be’ awarded in | March, The. construction of this road will | open up. the coal lands recently purchased by the Rochester: & Pittsburg coal and iron company. The total acreageis botween 30,- 000-4nd 33,000 and represents an investment ’ of neatly $2,000,000. The route’ ally TORE aed Paul crop this year, thut will be fine and rosy and sd
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