Dew ia
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
The clouds of discord lower
O’er our Methodistic band,
Until the shining shimmer
Of the glor'ous, golden strand
Is eclipsed in petty jealousies,
That will grow far more profound
Unless these parsons, penitent,
At an altar gather round.
—There aie lots of log-rollers in this
Congress who wili be left in the back
woods when another one is elected.
—One swallow may not make a summer
but Dr. SWALLOW seems to be making a
very hot spring-time for our Methodist
brethren.
—The tin plate industry will never be
ruined in this country as long as the ad-
ministration continues to foster the tins
soldier plant at Washington.
—The fact that WILLIAM JENNINGS
BRYAN is living in a barn on his farm near
Lincoln is no indication that as a presi-
dential possibility he has gone to seed.
——1If that great New York sub-way
makes transit as rapid in that city after it is
completed as it is now doing along the road
to eternity the pace will be too speedy,
even for New York.
—It was a long time coming but when
the sentences were finally handed out to
RATHBONE and NEELY, the embezzlers of
Cuban postal funds, they must have realized
that they were gathering strength on the
way.
—It is altogether probable that Mr.
Marcus AURELIUS HANNA will not take
as much pains to settle the threatening
strike in the anthracite regions as he did
the one immediately before the presiden-
tial election of 1900.
—Millheim papers are advertising ‘‘Eby’s
Best’’ for’ people who are afraid of the
small-pox. Of course we don’t know much
about it, but some people say it is a toss
up as to which would knock a fellow out
the quickest.-
—The announcement that GROVER
CLEVELAND will spend Easter in Florida
isn’t near as exciting as was that of MATT
QuAY’s departure from Florida for the
North. Thereby hangs the importance of
men who are in and out uf politics.
—The way President ROOSEVELT has
been treating his official family reminds us
of the familiar injunction of an old time
Bellefonte policeman. Whenever he would
see two or more persons standing together
on the street he would saunter up to them
and say : ‘‘Kape movin,’ biys.”
—— An important bit of news that comes
by cable from London is that King Eb-
WARD has revived the old English custom
of ‘‘taking a pinch of snuff after meals.”
This being so the next thing we can ex-
pect to hear is the sneeze of the American
flunky whenever his royal nibs dines.
—The negro fiend who assaulted a wom-
an sev enty years old at La Junta, Colora-
do, on Tuesday, and was promptly lynched
for it will probably find few defenders in
the northern papers that would have
thrown themselves into paroxysms of in-
dignat ion had the lynching taken place in
a southern State.
——Col. A. E. PATTON, of Curwensville,
is in town attending Conference, but you
ean rest assured that it isn’t all of the
Methodist kind. He has both congression-
al and senatorial bees buzzing and it is on-
ly reasonable to infer that DAN bad some-
thing to tell him yesterday about which
one will prove the best buzzer. .
—Gen. MILES fought his way to the
head of the army. His bravery won the.
rank for him. TEDDY ROOSEVELT became
President thiough a national calamity that,
had it been foreseen, he never would have
been put in the way of profiting by it, yet
he is the man who presumes to relegate a
great and valiant soldier into obscurity,
because that soldier dares to have an opin-
ion of his own.
—The United States fish commission is
spending a lot of time needlessly in an at-
tempt to discover whether fish sleep. Of
course they don’t. There will be scores of
fellows in Centie county oun the 15th of
next April who will hear out our asser-
tion. On the contrary, they are very much
awake all the time and if one does go to
sleep or get blind some fisherman like
ROGER BROUSE captures it, so that there
are not enough of that kind even to prove
exceptions to the rule. A
—Seoretary JOHN HAMILTON says, ip his
report : “To those who believe that in the
population of the rural districts the State
must look for the vitalizing forces that are
to overcome the physical, mental and mor-
al degeneration which is taking place in
the city life, the flow of population from
the country to the city is alarming.”’ Is
that so, Mr. Secretary? Well, we observe
that you didn’t struggle much to keep out
of the flood tide that carried you from the
country to the city. Perhaps, it’s just as
well.
—May 20th bas been set as the date on
which Cuba is to be set free, that is so far
as being permitted to have men of her own
- choice in control of her governmental af-
~ fairs. President-elect PALMA will be in-
- augarated on that day and as soon there-
~ after as possible the United States author-
. ‘ities, civil and military, will come home,
~ bag and baggage. While free to all in-
~ tents and purposes the natives of the Pearl
_ of the Antilles will still be permitted to
_ see an occasional gun bristling in their di-
~ rection just to remind them that they are
free of everything bat Uncle Sam's tariff
mongers.
Mr. Watterson’s Speech.
Last week we referred to a letter which
HENRY WATTERSON had written from
Washington, where, according to his own
statement, he was at the time tarrying in
search of ‘‘information and polish,’ to his
paper the Louisville Courier-Journal, in
which he referred to the President as a
“‘bronco-buster.’’ Since that the picturesque
poet and strenuous politician has continued
in the capital and on Monday evening
last he addressed the Virginia Democratic
association in much the same tone and tem-
per that characterized the letter of the
week previous. But he went further into
the question in the speech than in the let-
ter, and if comparisons were not odious, we
might add that he was more eloquent and
earnest.
‘‘Once again in the White House,”’ Mr.
WATTERSON declared, ‘‘we have the man on
horseback. Affecting the simplicity of the
cowboy, he conceals beneath the self confi-
dence and queer manners of the broucho-
buster the sentiments and ambitions, if not
the talents, of a Diaz.”” In other words
Mr. WATTERSON discerns in President
ROOSEVELT the purposes and ambitions
which have enabled the President of the
Mexican Republic to prolong his tenure of
office and perpetuate his power for life.
That is the one evil which the fathers of
the Republic feared and all the ‘traditions
of the early years of the government aimed
to guard against. Bot recent incidents
justify the estimate. The dismissal of the
plea for justice made by Admiral ScHLEY
and the threat to punish General MILES for
expressing an honest opinion are in line
with policies which have the purposes of an
emperor in view.
Col. WATTERSON'S speech is replete with
patriotic protests against the dangers which
are multiplying. ‘‘Tarn from the White
House to the capital,’’ he continued, ‘‘and
look at the Republicans in Congress. The
trail of the trade mark is over them all.
Old High Tariff dances the can-can in the
House and Old Ship Sabsidy does the regu-
lation cake walk in the Senate. Every-
thing for the syndicates. Nothing for the
people. And not content with their arbi-
trary power in the White House and their
mercenary power in Congress, the leaders
of this party of federalism and false pre-
tension would 1ip open Pandora’s box to
fileh through thn: “black, piratical flag of
negro domination—the equally disreputa-
ble and bloedy shirt of sectional agitation
—and in order to make sure of the next
House they are proposing to bring forward
another force bill te smite the South, to
blight the North and ‘to convert a land
teeming with love and peace into a land
reeking with hate and strife.”
This is the feast to whieh the broncho-
buster in the White House and the trust
attorneys in Congress are leading the peo-
ple of this contry and it is small wonder
that men like WATTERSON protest. Near-
ing the end of an eventful life, devoted
largely to the promotion of good to his fel-.
lowmen and wealth and prosperity to his
country the signs of coming calamity force
him to protest and in the auguish of his
beart at the unpropitions prospect he is
vehement but eloquent, No wonder either
that he appeals for Democratic unity to the
end that the dangers now so menacing may
be averted and the life of the Republic
brought back to the lines on which they
were laid by the founders.
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Silly Talk of Cameron.
The quidnuncs of politics have again
brought forward the name of ex-Senator
J. DONALD CAMERON as a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Governor.
This time the story comes. from Pittsburg
and ie based on gossip among the distract
ed Republicans of that unhappy and un-
fortunate city. In their desire to escape
from the inflnenze of Governor STONE they
clutch at any straw that comes floating
along and the CAMERON story appears to
have been brought up from the south as
one of the sojourners there.
But it isa Jame and impotent tale and’
will deceive no one fit to be at large. DoN-
ALD CAMERON is not a candidate for Goy-
ernor and will not become one. If he
thought the party worth saving it is possi-
ble that he might discommode himself to’
the extent of running for office. But he is
no longer under the spell which once in-
duced him to make sacrifices to save the
partv. ‘lhose who profit by its success are
no longer his friends. They are upstarts
who have come into place as scavengers of
a corrupt machine with which he has
neither sympathy nor fellowship.
Besides CAMERON knows that he couldn’t
be elected Governor, if he were nominated.
He realizes that the people will accept no
man who is satisfactory to the machine and
the nomination of CAMERON would be sim-
ply inviting the public to a fresh scrutiny
of a record that forced him into retirement
nearly a score of years ago. What good
would it be to him to bring ahout that re-
sult. Absolutely none. He is happy in
his luxurious ease, lazy in his contentment
and satisfied with things as they go. Why
should he change such a condition ?
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Hanna and Roosevelt.
The signs of an impending encounter
between President ROOSEVELT and Senator
MARK HANNA are multiplying. As Col-
onel WATTERSON suggested in a recent in-
terview the President has been gradually
weeding out of official life the distinctively
McKINLEY element. Thus far, however,
he hasn’t interfered with Senator HANNA.
He has taken his principal political lieu-
tenant, Mr. PAYNE, of Wisconsin, and at-
tached him to his own staff and he tried to
induce JOE MANLEY, another of HANNA'S
political favorites and helpers, to desert his
old and join with a new friendship. He
has heen coddling Colonel DICK, of Ohio,
who first became prominent because of his
relations with HANNA and his devotion to
McKINLEY. But he has let HANNA have
his own way in matters in which he has a
deep interest and even pretended to defer
to him in some unimportant affairs.
But there is promise of a storm brewing
and it will burst over the world of Wash-
ington before long with a fury which will
create terror among politicians. HANNA
doesn’t yield gracefully to disappoint-
ment or bow gracefully to what appears to
be willful slights. He has not been a care-
less observer of recent events at Washing-
ton. As the distinctively McKINLEY men
have been going, one after another, HANNA
has not been oblivious of movements. He
has not remonstrated or even revealed his
feelings in the matter, but he has been
thinking and encouraging others to think.
As his old friends like PAYNE have been
going, he has taken pains that others have
been coming and now, about two years be-
for the time for the selection of a presi-
dential candidate, the old man is getting
ready to spring a surprise which is likely
to have a marvelous effect on politics.
In other words the indications are that
Senator HANNA is a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for President, not so
much because he wants to be President as
for the reason that he desires to teach
ROOSEVELT a lesson. HANNA never had
much love for ROOSEVELT. He didn’t
want him as a candidate for Vice Presi-
dent two years ago and accepted him at
the solicitation of PLATT, merely because it
wae believed it woald shelve him, save New
York to the Republicans and keep him out
of PLATT’S road. But the accident which
pus him into the office of President altered
the political map materially and from that
day to this HANNA has been like a cat
watching every movement of his enemy.
He may not be able to prevent his nomina-
tion, for patronage is a potent force in Re-
publican politics. Bat he will make the
victory, if it is achieved, an earned one or
else he will fail in his expectations.
The Machine Campaign.
Attorney General ELKIN'S campaign for
the Republican nomination for Governor
goes merrily on, as he states to the
newspaper interviewers in a way that is en-
tirely satisfactory to himself. Every day
brings new tales of QUAY’S uncertainty,
and some of the bolder prevaricators declare
that the ‘‘old man’’ is opposed to the pro-
gram of the machine.
favorable to ELKIN and DURHAM and
EYRE and GRIEST and REEDER and all the
others of the office holding dynasty of which
QUAY is the head are exultant over the re-
turns as they come in.
As the WATCHMAN has said from the be-
ginning ELKIN will be nominated and by
the practically unanimous vote of the con-
vention. It suits Senator QUAY to keep in
the background as long as his plans are
working themselves out to his satisfaction.
He adopted the same course four years ago,
when STONE was the candidate of his
friends. But when just previous to the
meeting of the cenvention ‘the shadow of
doubt crept over the political horizon, he
promptly asserted himself and checked the
defection. This year he hopes it won't be
necessary to speak at all. This time he ex-
pects that the - fraudulent spontaneity will
continue to the day of the convention.
The truth is that nobody else than
ELKIN will serve the purposes of the ma-
chine this year: Any other candidate who
would consent to obedience to machine
masters would be as hard to elect as ELRIN
and harder for the reason that the. ballot
box stuffers would work with less confi-
dence and enthusiasm for any other candi-
date. With ELKIN in the office these ser-
vants of the machine are confident of im-
munity. With the Attorney General in
the Governor's mansion the plunderers
would proceed with their operations in ab-
solute safety. . For these reasons QUAY and
all the other machine leaders are for ELKIN
and he will be nominated.
——The Clarion Democrat is pushing
Congressman HALL to the fore as a succes-
sor of the notorious NEELY. But we mnst
have HALL for our next Governor. He
could be more useful there to sit down on
the vicious legislation that might be pass-
ed should any more NEELYS get into the
text session—the latter: possibility, how-
ever, is very remote.
But one county fol:
lows another in electing delegates that are:
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 28. 1902.
An Admonitory Signal.
Over in King’s county, New York. the
sheriff was removed a few weeks ago, hy
the Governor, for the reason that during
his canvass for the election he promised a
man a subordinate office under him in con-
sideration of certain services in his behalf.
The action was probably all right,for there,
as here, the payment or promise to pay any
money or other valuable thing for services
in a campaign is corrupt solicitation under
the law, punishable by removal from office,
and the courts have beld that office is a
valuable thing.
But wkat would happen if the law on
that subject should be enforced in this
State. It is a matter of general knowledge
that during the session of the Legislature
of 1899 nearly. every office in the gift of the
Governor was offered for votes for QUAY
for Senator and according to authentic re-
ports similar offers were freely made for
the same service during the last session of
the Legislatore. In Philadelphia and
Pittsharg, according to the popular under-
standing, all the offices are bargained away
during the municipal campaigns and coun-
ty offices and seats in Congress and the
Legislatare are similarly disposed of.
The Kings county case has not been set-
tled as yet for the reason that the appointee
lacked nerve to assert his claim until the
officer removed had recovered his nerve
taken away first by the surprise and hav-
ing possession he refused to surrender or
vacate. But it’ is in the courts now and
will probably be decided before long in
favor of the appointee, as it ought to be, for
he has the law and morals on his side. But
we would recommend the exercise of care
in the future in this State, for if it once be-
comes the habit there will he lots of
removals,
Beet Sugar Trust Trick.
The tariff mongers in Congress pay a
scant compliment to the intelligence of the
American people in their fraudulent pre-
tense of giving aid to the planters of Cuba
by a tardy reduction of the tariff rates on
sugar amounting to a matter of twenty per
cent. If such a reduction had come cheer-
fully and promptly it wonldn’t have been
much use, for it isn’t enough to equalize
the carrying cost of the product to the
markets of this conntry. But insignificant
and inadéquate as it is, it has been held
back until the crop has been sacrificed and
the whole business has been made to take
.on the form of a mockery.
Notwithstanding these obvious facts the
attorneys of “the beet sugar trust in Con-
gress have been pretending to hold ous
against the concession so as to create the
impression on the public mind that it is
important. As late as Monday last, in
pursuance of this false pretense, some of the
leading heet sugar men of the House of
Representatives were in conference with
the President and protesting that the in-
terests of their constituents are being
sacrificed. ROOSEVELT has loaned himself
to that transparent fraud. Bat it hasn't
deceived the public. Every intelligens
man in the country has realized from the
beginning that it is simply ‘‘horse play.”
Of course the beet sugar trust will yield
in the end. They will protest with great
earnestness that they are obeying the be-
hest of the party leaders for the sake of
party harmony. But asa matter of fact
they are simply perpetrating a frand on the
public the object of which is to perpetuate
the trust breeding tariff and prolong the
period of robbery. for the benefit of the beet
sugar trust. They imagine that this is not
understood by the people. But in this they
are reckoning without their host. The
public schools have done too much for the
people to leave them in condition to be
fooled in that way. :
——By all means we would advise our
Republican friends who are leaders in the
fights at their county conventions to attend
the Methodist Conference now in session in
this place. They think they are scrappers;
they imagine that what they don’t know
about running conventions is not worth’
learning; they believe they are up in all
the approved methods of knocking the oth-
er fellow ont without his knowing how its
done; they glory in the bitterness of fac-
tionalism; they feed on personal feuds and
fatten on the petty jealousies that underlie
all their troubles. Bat in all these things
they will find themselves mere novices.
Attendance at this gathering of Methodist
ministers, a great majority of whom can
shake hands with them politically, will
show them this as well as teach them to do
that which they have been trying to do to
each other, this long time. They should go
and learn,
——On Tuesday morning there was a
special session of court to consider the li-
cense applications that had been held over
at the regular session of the license court.
Those of James 1. DeLong, of Eagleville;
Charles Reese, of Boggs Twp., and Alonzo
Grove, were taken up. Attorneys Heinle,
Gray and Chambers appeared for the appli-
caunts. while Clement Dale and J. Kennedy
Johnston presented the remonstrances. The
application of Mr. DeLong was refused.
The others were held nuder further consid- |
eration.
_NO. 13.
Rumn, Miles, Run!
S. E. Kiser, in the Chicago Herald.
[The President is taking lessons in a new
system of calisthenics from Prof. O’Brien,
an instructor in athletics who is master of
the Japanese juojutsi, an art which enables
one man to break another’s neck or spine
by a deft movement of the hands, without
leaving a mark upon the victim. ]
There are doings in the white house
When O'Brien drops around ;
There are footprints cn the ceilings,
There ix many a fearsome sound ;
There are thu 1. pings like the noises
That are usually made
When a side of beef upon the
Butcher's ehiopping black is laid—
The President is learning
How to break a man in two,
And, oh! Miles, yeu'd better hustle,
For it’s nearly up to you.
There are dark, mysterious doings
In the blue room late at night ;
The chandeliers are rattled
And the furniture’s a sight ;
The President is learning
The jujutsi, so they say—
He is learning how to strangle’
In a deft, artistic way ; :
He is learning how the breaking
Of a neck is neatly done
Without making nasty musses—
Therefore, run, Miles, run!
The noise is as if mighty
Chunks of coal went down the chute
When the President's new tutor
Drops around at night to tute ; :
There are buttons that go flying
Through the circumnambient air
As the President turns flipflaps
And the tutor’s trousers tear ;
Ob, they tell us Teddy’s learning
The jujutsi from both ends—
And it’s up to Miles to hurry
From the danger that impends.
A Probable Reason.
Since his honor, Judge LOVE, bas dis-
played such unmistakable knowledge of
the christian science propaganda a great
many people have been wondering where
he got it. Now the WATCHMAN does not
pretend to have a corner on the information,
nor does it claim to have any enlighten-
ment on the snbject at all, but one reason
that could be advanced might be found in
the following imagivary dialogue :
Governor Bill :—You don’t want any
better job than you've got up there in Cen-
tre county, Jack. You only think you do.
Jack —Only think I do, eh?
Governor Bill :—Yes. [It is merely a
delusion.
Jack :—Well, if that’s the case I'd raths
er have the job on the Superior court than
have this delusion.
The Great American.
From the Doylestown Democrat. A
One citizen of New York could pay all
the debt of the Boer war and still have the
greatest fortune of the world left; he could
build palaces like Versailles ata cost of
$400,000,000 out of his interest for one
year without touching the principal; with
his accumulated income of three months
he could buy out all the Hohenzollern pos-
sessions. >
Rural Districts Drained.
Alarming Flow of the Popuiation of Pennsylvania
From the Country to the Cities.
HARRISBURG, March 25.—Secretary of
Agriculture, John Hamilton, to-day sub:
mitted to Governor Stone his annual report
for the year 1901. hog
‘To those who believe that in the popu-
lation of the rural districts the Staté muss
look for the vitalizing forces that are to
overcome the physical, mental and: meral
degeneration which is taking place in city
lite the flow of population from the country
to the city has become alarming’’ savs Sec-
retarv. Hamilton. it
*‘In the Jast decade the cities, and bor-
oughs iu 65 counties show a toral gain of
1,020,830 in population, and in two coun-
ties a total loss of 61, leaving a vet gain in
population in eities and boroughs of 1,020,-
769
*‘The country districts on the other hand
show a gain in 24 counties amounting
only to 113,652. Forty three counties show
a loss of 90,220, leaving the net gain of
population for all the rural distriots of the:
State of only 23,332. “he gain in the
country distriets occurred for the most part
in the lumbering and mining counties.
“The gain in she ten lambering and min -
ing counties consisting of Cambria, Clear-
field, Elk, Fayette, Forest, Jefferson, Le-
high, Luzerne, Sonierset and Westmore-
land, amounted to 87,665. The aggregate:
loss to the country districts in the 57 other
counties was, therefore, 64,333, showing, be-
yond question, that the agricultural popu-
lation 18 gradnally growing less in the coun-
try districts of Pennsylvania.”
The Penusy Beats the Record.
New York, March 24.—A train over the
Pennsylvania railroad this afternoon made
the fastest run ever accomplished between
Philadelphia and this city. With Presi-
dent Cassatt on board, the train left the
Broad street station in Philadelphia at 12:19
o’clogk. It arrived in. Jersey City seven-
teen minutes later. This beats by three
minutes the record made by Mr. Cassatt’s
special train yesterday over the same route. |
President Cassatt returned to Philadelphia
this afternoon, leaving, leaving Jersey City
at 4:12 o'clock. ;
Embezzlers Sentenced.
HAVANA, March 24.—The trials before
the Audencia court of the cases arising
from the embezzlement of Cuban postal
funds have resulted inthe following sen-
tences : | : .
C. F. W. Neely, ten years” imprisonment
and to pay a fine of $56,701.
W. H. Reeves, ten years’ imprisonment
and to pay a fine of $35,000.
Estes G. Rathhoné,’ ten years’ imprison-
ment and to pay a fine of $35,324.
to 4
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Spawls from the Keystone.
{ —C. J. Bangert, of the Falls Creek Herald,
| has been sued for libel by B. K. Fisher, of
{ Du Bois. Fisher feels aggrieved at articles
which Bangert published against his hotel.
—At Renovo Sunday evening a riot took
place between four drunken Italians and sey-
eral boys, which was precipitated by the
boys throwing stones. One of the Italians
was doubled up by a stone striking him in
the stomach. Burgess Smyth finally appea r-
ed on the scene and succeeded in restoring
quiet.
—Thursday 12 year-old Jennie Everhart,
while playing during recess at Swengle, near
Lewisburg, was accidentally struck on the
head with a base ball bat in the hands of a
boy. She was knocked down, but immedi-
ately arose. She appeared to be all right, but
that night she was taken with convulsions
and died.
—Four members of the family of Joseph
Micheau, of Kane, were poisoned Sunday
night by eating sardines. Shortly after sup-
per Mrs. Micheau was taken violently ill and
began vomiting blood. Soon after two sons
aud a daughter became similarly affected.
Two doctors worked heroically for several
hours to save their lives. They are all se-
riously ill.
—The employes of the Penn Iron works at
Lancaster have made a demand for an in-
crease of 50 cents a ton in the wages for pud-
dling, or from $4 to $4.20, and other ton
wages in proportion. A similar demand has
also been made upon all other rolling mills in
this region, with the provision that it shall
take effect on the 7th of April.
—The home of Edward Lyttle, near Union-
town. was destioyed by fire Tuesday morn-
ing, and two children aged 2 and 3 years,
were cremated. The fire occurred during
the temporary absence of Mrs. Lyttle, who
had goue to a neighbor's to borrow a kettle.
When she returned the house was in ashes.
The charred remains of the children were
found in the ruins,
—A record breaking run was made over
the middle division of the Pennsylvania rail-
road Sunday when 107 freight and 40 passen-
ger trains. hauling 2,852 loaded and 2,417
empty cars, passed Lewistown in the twenty-
four hours. ‘ This run was made necessary
owing to the movement from the west being
somewhat congested and to avoid blocking
the yards at Altoona and Harrisburg.
—Iu the list of brevets sent to the Senate
on Saturday, by President Roosevelt is the
name of Lt. John 8. Fair, whose home isin
Altoona, and who is an officer of the Eleventh
United States cavalry, now stationed at San
Francisco. He is given a brevet majorship
for gallantry in action at Naporo, Philippine
Islands, on April 12th, 1900, when he was
captain in the Forty-third United States vol-
unteers.
—When Miss Mary E. Partman, postmis-
tress of Ehrenfeld, a small mining town near
Johnstown, opened the postoffice Monday
morning, she found the place had been rob-
bed during the night. The safe had been
blown open and the blank postal money or-
der book and $16 were taken. The safe in
the jewelry store of Samuel Dalton, at South
Fork, was blown open Sunday morning and
$300 worth of jewelry stolen.
—Mrs. Matilda Yetter, aged 50 years, the
wife of Irving Yetter, a prominent a carpen-
ter ‘and builder of Lewistown, committed
suicide by hanging herself Wednesday night.
When her husband returned from work he
found her body at the end of a rope which
she had fastened to a beam in the attic al-
lowing it to pass down through a trap door
in the ceiling of her bedroom. When cut
down the hody was cold showing the act to
have been committed several hours before.
She had been subject to fits of melancholy
during the past two years and it is supposed
took her life during one of these spells.
—Under the mining law as amended by
the last Legislature, mine inspectors are here
after to be elected by the people at the No-
vember elections. Those now in office ap-
pointed by the Governor under the old law
will serve out their terms, but a number of
elections will oceur this year. The candi-
dates must be taken from among those who
have passed a board of examiners created for
the purpose by the courts and these examina-
tions are required to be made at least six
months before the date of the general elec-
tions each year. The elections will be made
by inspection districts, of which there are
six.
—The last of the five deer that have been
a feature at Lakemont park, Altoona, since
1804, have been exterminated by dogs.
There were but three of them and during
the summer it was the delight of the chil-
dren who visited the park to visit the deer
‘park to feed the timid little animals, a buck,
a doe and a fawn. Oneday last week Watch-
man Knighton, who fed the deer, went to the
pen but missed the trio's coming to him to
accept food . from his hands and his fond
caresses. He made an investigation and in a
little hollow on the hillside found his pets:
with their throats terribly lacerated and
torn. Between the larger deer lay the fawn
and from the position of the bodies they had
evidently tried to protect it from danger. It,
is supposed that a dog scratched a hole under
the fence and attacked the timid little ani-
mals, killing them without their offering
much resistance. The deer were valued at
$25each. They did not thrive in captivity
and it is not likely that others will be pur-
chased.
—J. M. Rupert, a well known farmer who
had been living in Henderson township, near
Huntingdon, nearly all his life, chartered a
freight car and started from Huntingdon on a
long journey to Grand Junction, Colorado.
In the car also were all of Mr. Rupert's
household goods, a great lot of farming im-
plements, a couple of horses and some small
live stock. The lone passenger on his novel
journey in the side-door ‘Pullman’ is pro-
vided with a small iron stove, which will be
used for cooking purposes as well as to furnish ;
heat, a supply of fuel and ample provisions
to do him until his destination is reached.
Fresh water will be obtained at various
places along the route. When located Mr.
Rupert will be followed by his family.
With all on board excepting a barrel of water,
the contents of the car weighed 13.500
pounds, and the rate from Huntingdon to Chi-
cago reached the sum of nearly $250. Mr.Ru-
pert has an arrangement with the C. B. & Q.
railroad to carry him from Chicago to his’
| destination which is a long distance; and it is
not at all likely that he will be run iuto
Grand Junction before a week or ten days.