—JOHXNY GOWLAXD made a
smooth chairman, out his work was like a
porcupine in comparison with that of JOHN
C. MILLER'S ‘two years ago.
Pit ‘cousin SAMUEL really thinks ‘‘Penn*
sylvania has no ills to speak of’ his polit-
iéal perspicacity must be too dull to see
that awful stone-bruise at Harrisburg.
—It must be becoming painfully appar-
ent to Mr. ROOSEVELT that his brand of
anti-trust bait is not exactly the kind that
will make his vote trap a howling success.
“__ Aunt CLEMINTINA had better let her
whiskers grow long again and take a stall
among the curios at the great Centre county
fair. There would be more in it for her
than there is in politics.
very
rn the good Lord only spares JAMES
*B. StroHM Jong enough the Republican
party in Centre county will never be with-
out a candidate. He is ready to play
“JOHNNY on the spot’’ every time there is
a hole that needs a peg.
' —How thankful we working men ought
to be that we are not poor Mr. SCHWAB.
When sickness causes us to lose a day’s
salary it is only $1.25 out of our yearly in-
come ; when he is docked a day’s wages it
means $2,739.72 from his.
—1If the story be true that WANAMAKER
intends forming a combination with STONE
and ELKIN for the defeat of PENROSE for
the Senate the latter may well be scared.
But what is to become of ‘‘holy John”
after such an alliance? Perhaps he is im-
mune from contamination.
i —~When old Mr. CoNFucIus discovered
shat *‘to see what is right and not to do it
is want of courage or of principle,’’ he must
have been making the acquaintance of that
class of Pennsylvania voters who can’t get
done denouncing QUAYism and haven't
the courage or principle to vote against it.
“Last fall, when EDWARD McKINLEY,
of Milesburg, wanted to be prothonotary
of the county the Republicans made a great
ado about his family of ten children and
their need of the office. They seemed to
forget all about it, on Tuesday, when there
was a chance to give him the office he is
qualified for.
—The great trouble that faces Judge
Jackson now grows out of the fact that he
failed to see that the jails of West Virginia
were sufficiently enlarged before he began
imprisoning people for baving a contempt
for his court. With present facilities it is
only the few of this class of criminals that
he can find place for.
—An amateur minstrel show was tried
on King EDWARD a few days ago, and in-
asmuch as he survived if it is announced
that he can undertake the ordeal of the
coronation to-morrow with safety. The
show must bave been better than the
average or the King is better than the pub-
lic is aware of.
—1It is a pity that the better element of
the strikers in the anthracite regions must
suffer for the lawlessness of their ignorant
foreign fellows. But they are only a part
of a class that loses public sympathy the
moment it disrespects the right that is
guaranteed to all men in the peaceful pur-
suit of life and happiness.
—From the rate at which cousin SAM-
UEL has been talking since he got off his
seat on the hench to enter the race for
Governor of Pennsylvania one is almost
forced to the conclusion that he bad been
sitting on his talking apparatus and now
that it is released it is grinding out all
sorts of foolish utterances.
—It was just about this time last year
that HARD HARRIS was pulling his arms
off in the effort to hoist an Insurgent Re-
publican flag in Bellefonte. On Tuesday
he was hossing the faithful old Stalwarts
around as if they were mere lick-spittals
and oiling the machine that made a ticket
for them to hoorah for this fall.
—Won’t somebody please examine the
fiel d-glass through which the Philadelphia
Tim es man takes his view of the political
horoscope. Judging from the frequency
with which he feels called upon to ‘‘shoo
Mr. BRYAN off the presidential track’ we
fear some one has pasted a picture of that
gentleman on its magnifying end.
—MAY YOHE, the actress who is now
chasing over land and sea to recover the
husband and sundry thousands of dollars
worth of diamonds that escaped from her
in New York a few weeks ago, fell out of a
carriage in London and strained her knee.
The injury was severe enough to stop her
walking, but the world would have been
thankful bad she strained ber larynx and
stopped her talking about her laison with
the foolish young American.
—The King of Italy, the Emperor of
Germany and the Czar of Russia will meet
this week to talk over the proposal to dis-
band some of their immense armies and
devote ‘the money thus saved to fighting
the encroachments of American competi-
tion. Notwithstanding such an open
avowal of the superiority of American
genius and manufacturing skill ‘the tariff
mongers will still fight for subsidies for
the very lines of industry that are now
forcing the disbandment of the greatest
European armies. The tariff is, emphatic-
ally, a campaign issue in every cougres-
sional district in the United States, for no
intellivent voter shonld support a candi-
date who favors such a schedule as makes
the home consumer pay nearly double the
price paid by foreigners.
Wi
VOL. 47
Pennypacker and Quay.
Judge PENNYPACKER has reaffirmed, em-
phasized and amplified his recent extraordi-
nary panegyric of Cousin MATT. Senator
QUAY is not only a greater statesmen than
DANIEL WEBSTER, he says in his supplemen-
tal eulogy, but that marvelous idol of the
Whig party, HENRY CLAY, is likewise
‘‘small potatoes and a few in the hill,”
compared with Cousin MATT. An Indiana
kinsman of the Judge and the Senator got
on the pension roll as the result of Senator
QUAY'’S importunities, the Judge alleges,
and that is proof positive of the moral and
intellectual superigrity of QUAY over hotb
his distinguished , predecessors in office.
Search the records:as you may and you
will find no evidence that either WEBSTER
or CLAY did as much for kinsmen of the
Pennsylvania candidate and his spobsor.
Besides,when Mr. SWANK wants anything
done in relation to the tariff, he doesn’t
appeal to either WEBSTER or CLAY. and
Mr. SWANK ig nearly always wanting
something done with the tariff. Af present,
in common with all other tariff mongers,
he wants it let alone, and QUAY is doing
that with wonderful ability. It is a small
wonder that Prefvracues is enamored
of him.
In the second statement of QUAY’S vir-
tues Judge PENNYPACKER says there is
nothing to say of the first. In the first it
will be remembered that hesaid that QUAY
possessed gifts equal to those of SHAKES-
PEAR and in the second he asserts that
that estimate is simply trne and requires
no support. The reference to QUAY in
the first, he says, was simply incidental.
You can’t say anything in praise of
Pennsylvania, without referring to QUAY,
headds. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN may have
reflected some credit on the State, RoB-
ERT MORRIS performed some useful serv-
ice, ALBERT GALLATIN may have heen
‘no dead-head in the enterprise,”’ JAMES
BUCHANAN was certainly no drone and
Judges GIBSON, BLACK and SHARSWOOD
were at least useful citizens, but Judge
PENNYPACKER can’t imagine it possible to
refer to tH6 achievments of either of them
without making at least a passing reference
to the superior ability of Quay. No mat-
ter about HANCOGK, REYNOLDS, MEADE,
CURTIN or any. ofithe others who may have
“‘done the State some service.” His men-
tal vision is focussed on QUAY and the
others are pigmies in comparison. There
is only one and you can tell him by his
squint.
But Judge PENNYPACKNR made one
grave blunder in his summary of praise.
“You must form an estimate of a man,”’
he says, ‘* from what he has done.” If
that be true by what process of reasoning
does Cousin SAM exalt Cousin MATT to
such colossal proportions? We know what.
FRANKLIN did. MORRIS financed the
revolutionary war. GALLATIN conducted
the infant Republic through the finan-
cial straits which followed the vie
tory. JAMES BUCHANAN served the
country with great distinction at the
Court of St. James, as Secretary of State,
as Senator in Congress and finally as Presi-
dent. Judges GIBSON, BLACK and SHARS-
WooD shone as jurists of great ability.
HAXcocK, MEADE and REYNOLDS were
great soldiers and CURTIN was the War
Governor who became ‘‘LINCOLN’S right
hand?’ in the dark days of the rebellion.
But what did QuAY do? He took money
out of the Treasury. appropriated it to his
personal use and subsequently escaped the
penalty. a term in the penitentiary, by
pleading the statute of limitation. True
he got a pension for a relative in Indiana,
which proves that he has a pull,
——According to the census of 1890
there were ninety-six DALES in Centre
county; nearly all of them being members
of the same family. The hranches of the
DALE genealogical tree covers a relation-
ship amounting to thousands in the county
and search where you wiil you will not
find a more honorable, well-to-do, substan-
tial representation of citizens. They have
never been anything but stalwart Repub-
licans, embodying the best principles of
that party and never in sympathy with the
disorganizing ones. Such is the family
that was so contemptuously treated by
Tuesday's convention and a political car-
pet-bagger with no other recommendation
than sycophaucy given precedence over it.
——The senatorial conference of ‘the
Thirty-fourth district will meet in this
place on Thursday, August 14th, to nowmi-
nate a candidate for State Senate on the
Democratic ticket. It will be merely in
thie nature of a formality as Senator W. C.
HEINLE already has tbe endorsement of all
three counties constituting the district and
will have no opposition.
iy
The Exccutive Committee Named.
County chairman JOHN BOWER has an-
nounced his executive committee for 1902
as follows: P, GRAY MEEK, C. M. Bow-
ER, CYRUS BRUNGART, J. C. MEYER,
Ennis L. Orvis, J. KENNEDY JOHNSTON
and W. HARRISON WALKER.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 8, 1902.
Hopeful Sign of the Campaign.
The Campaign Committee.
At a conference of Democratic leaders
held in Philadelphia on Saturday a cam-
paign committee was appointed to conduct
the impending canvass. Seven or eight
excellent gentlemen were named to con-
stitute the committee, among them being
Congressman J. K. P. HALL, HON. RoB-
ERT E. WRIGHT, HoN. JAMES KERR,
and four or five others. The committee
will meet at Harrisburg on Tuesday next
for organization and to begin preparations
for the work. That will give them just
three weeks to secure such a canvass of the
State as will reveal the deficiencies in the
assessment of voters and remedy them.
That is to say under the law all men claim-
ing tbe right to vote on the fourth of
November must have paid a state or coun-
ty tax thirty days previously, within two
years, upon an assessment made sixty
days before the election.
To make this canvass considerable money
will be necessary, for the expense of it
must be paid by the party organization in
minority counties at least. No doubt the
necessary funds will be promptly and free-
ly contributed. Every voter who is con-
cerned for good government in the State is
interested in the result of the election and
will give in such proportion as he isable to
the fund. Promptness, therefor, is the
only thing to be considered. Three weeks
is short enough time to accomplish the re-
sult with the sinews of war in possession. If
they are not accessible no time can be lost
in securing them. A finance committee
ought to be appointed at once and.it should
be composed of hustlers who have the con-
fidence of the rank and file of the party.
No other sort will be able to achieve the
result.
It doesn’t matter so much who is chair-
man of the campaign committee, provided
he will be active and give all his time and
talents to the duties. Either of the gentle-
men named on the committee is capable
and would probably meet the best expecta-
tion of the party if he would make the la-
bor a matter of business. Neither of them
will do unless he does that. Between this
time and the meeting for organization,
therefore, they should arrange their busi-
ness so as to be able to give the necessary
time to the work. Even those who are not
made chairman will have plenty of work to
do, andnow that the executive committee is
legislated out of office the new( committee
will be obliged to perform ‘its duties,
which are numerous and sometimes oner-
ous. We hope thenew arrangement will
prove entirely satisfactory.
—REEDER is still just a little too foxy
for the LOVE people. They tried to tie his
bands as chairman on Tuesday, but he
talked aud talked until the cue finally
soaked into JOHNNY GOWLAND then that
worthy sent BLANCHARD’S resolutions to
the very committee of which REEDER is
chairman. Everyone knows what will
happen to them there.
Tine Next Legislature,
The esteemed Pittsburg Post has little
hope of improvement in the morals or
methods of the next Legislature. ‘‘Consid-
ering advantages of the most unfair charac-
ter the machine Republicans have in the
legislative apportionment,’’ says our es-
teemed contemporary, ‘‘the probabilities
are very great, amounting almost to a cer-
tainty, that they will be absolute in the
next Legislature, controlling both branches
by strong majorities.”” For that reason the
Post thinks it is the duty of the friends of
honest government to make an extra effort
to elect PATTISON Governor so that there
will be a check on the venality which dis-
graced the last session.
While we agree that no effort should be
spared to elect the Democratic candidate
for Governor, and feel that the chances of
that result are more than even, we are not
in accord with our esteemed contempor-
ary in its opinion with respect to the next
Legislature. In fact, to our mind it is
practically certain that the anti-QuAy men
will have a majority in both branches of
the Legislature and we should not be sar-
prised in the least if the Democrats should
have a safe majority in the House of Rep-
resentatives. \
ample, we are certain to gain two Demo-
crate in the House and stand to defeat the
QUAY machine candidates in. every Repre-
sentative and Senatorial district in the
county.
In Philadelphia the chances are that the
Democrats will gain four or five votes, in
Bedford the fusionists will get two, one of
whom will be a Democrat; in Blair we
will gain oue, in Bucks one or two, in
Cambria two, in Carbon one, Centre two,
Chester two Democrats and two fusionists;
Dauphin one, Fayette three, Lackawanna
three, Luzerne two, Montour one, North-
umberland one, Perry one, Schuylkill two,
Union one, and Westmoreland one, with
chances in favor of several ‘others. That
will make in the neighborhood of ‘eighty
Demcerats with thirty or forty Insurgents
which will be ample to prevent a Repub-
lican majority on joint ballot. Get all the
votes you can for
sacrifice the Legislature or neglect it.
In Allegheny county, for ex-
PATTISON, but don’t
“The organization of a committee of two
handred prominent gentlemen, to act as an
auxiliary to the Democratic organization
of Philadelphia, is one of the recent hope-
ful signs of the state campaign. The
election of HENRY BupD, Esq., as chair-
man of the auxiliary committee, more-
ever, is a guarantee not only of great
ability in the conduct of its affairs, but of
scrupulous fidelity to the interests of the
party. Mr. BUDD is a lawyer of splendid
ability and high character. He bas not,
hitherto. participated in active party man-
agement, preferring to serve the cause
which he loves in a more modest capacity.
But he has never failed to respond to a call
to duty, and in accepting the chairman-
ship of the committee in question, he has
frankly declared his purpose to give to the
labors his best energies and most constant
attention.
The business of this anxiliary commit-
tee will be varied. The regular organiza-
tion will attend to the usual work which
devolves on such organizations. The new
committee will attend to equally import-
ant work of collecting the sinews. of war
and bringing to the polls voters of all part-
ies, in sympathy with the purposes of the
Democratic party, who are not within the
reach of the usual party organizations.
Thus it will be of the highest value to the
party and of great help to the regular
organization. Besides the members of the
new committee, gentlemen conspicuous in
their several neighborhoods, will attend
the polls on election day and if they are
not able to entirely prevent fraudulent
voting, will at least be certain to prosecute
and punish those who perpetrate frauds.
Tt is estimated that in the neighborhood
of 80,000 fraudulent votes are cast in Phila-
delphia for the Republican ticket at every
important election. That number is near-
ly twice the majority cast for the Repub-
lican candidates for State Treasurer and
Justice of the Supreme court last fall. As
there is no reason to believe that the ticket
of the party is stronger this year than it
was last, the exclusion of the fraudulent
vote usually cast in Philadelphia will
guarantee the election of the Democratic
candidates. Because the auxiliary commit-
tee with Mr. BUDD at its head is certain to
cut-down the fraudulent vote from. 80,000
to a trifling total, therefore, ‘the appoint-
ment and organization of the committee is
of the greatest importance to the Democ-
racy of the State. It inspires the hope of
victory beyond question.
An Absurd Pretense.
The absurd pretense set up by the man-
agers of the QUAY machine that Governor
STONE and Attorney General ELKIN are
reconciled to the purchased nomination of
Judge PENNYPACKER would be amusing,
if it were not tragic in its inference.
QUAY’S reasons for turning down ELKIN
were that his reputation was so bad and
his character so vulnerable, that his nomi-
nation would invite and provoke defeat,
notwithstanding the overwhelming major-
ity of the party in the State. In his ex-
planation of his brutality, moreover, he de-
clared that the administration of Governor
STONE was so irretrievably rotten, that the
nomination of any man associated with it,
for any office, would inevitably result in
defeat. Therefore, he was constrained to
bring forward his Cousin SAM.
If StoNE and ELKIN would now turn in
and support PENNYPACKER, the action
would imply an admission of the charges
of venality against both. We have no very
exalted opinion of either of these gentlemen
and are inclined to the belief that for a
sufficient = consideration, in the way of
official position, they would thus stultify
themselves. But it is known ‘that QUAY
has already disposed of all the offices by
promise which could possibly have any at-
traction for either STONE or ELKIN. For
example, the Attorney Generalship, the Sec-
retaryship of the Commonwealth and the
United ‘States Sepatorship are fixed as
everybody knows. That leaves nothing
for either STONE or ELKIN until QUAY’S
term expires in the Senate and the term of
the incoming. Governor is out. Past ex-
perience is an ‘admonition to both STONE
and ELKIN ‘against accepting saoch gold
bricks. .
Besides there is another polit for grave
consideration ‘with respeot to the matter.
It will be remembered that after the nomi-
nation of PENNYPACKER, ELEIN stated
that he had a majority of the delegates
until they were purchased away from him
by QUAY and his lieutenants. If that is
trne the nomination of PENNYPACKER was
a political crime, the condonation of which
would be morally equivalent to compound-
ing a felony. Referring to that feature of
the affair Major MERRICK, a friend of ELK-
IN, said that ‘‘a majority of the conven-
tion had been changed intoa minority,
over night, by some mysterious force.”
What he meant by that was that QUAY
bad bought for’ PENNYPACKER delegates
who had. been instructed for ELKIN, and
STONE and ELKIN would be poltroons if
they - would consent to support PENNY-
PACKER and we $hall not believe that they
are so constituted.
NO. 31.
The Republican County Convention.
Harmony Still Prevails Among the Hastings and
Love Factions—i. e.—on the Surface.—Reeder
Rules the Roost and None Dared Say’ Him Nay.—
A Well Attended Convention and Free Dinners.
It would be a base misrepresentation of
fact if we were to say that there was not a
good crowd at the Republican ecunty con-
vention that assembled in the court house
here on Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock.
Because there was. All but one of the one
hundred and twenty delegates in the coun-
ty were in their seats and the auditorinm
well filled with spectators, when chair-
man Reeder let his gavel fall and the con-
vention straightened itself out for business.
You will also agree that it would
not be a mis-statement of fact if we
were to si.y that the large attendance of
delegates was probably due to the an-
nouncement made by Col. Reeder, short-
ly after the call to order, that free dinners
would be served to the delegates at any of
the hotels in town. —On the side—This
is a certain tip that Dan didn’t need all his
coin at Carlshad.
As for the size of the audience we make
the assertion without fear of contradicticn
from any source, that it was due to curios-
ity. Past Republican conventions in this
county have been such howling successes
as fun makers that people crowd into them
like children scramble to seea Panch aud
Judy show. They are both on the same
principle, you know.
It was just striking 11 when the call to
order was made and clerk George Washing-
ton Rees got up to read the call. He must
have had the thing down ‘by heart’ for
he certainly didn’t look at it. His one
eye was on the deputy revenue collector-
ship and the other was on the job of fax
collector of Bellefonte while in his mind he
seemed to be ruminating to decide wheth-
er he wouldn’t rather be assistant post-
master again than have either one of those
other jobs.
Upon motion of T. M. Gramley the honor
of presiding over the body was unanimously
tendered to John Gowland, of Philipsburg.
When John was called to the chair he ad-
vanced with the dignified grace of a fat duck
and gave the convention the usual ‘‘guff’’
about ‘an unexpected honor’’ shen he
knew very well it had all been fix Lpp in
Reeder’s office the night before. He also
alluded to some ‘‘differences being ehimi-
nated’’ but the looks that Ned Chambers,
Willie Gray and a few others were wearing
were enough to cool off all the hot air of
that sort he could pump.
D. G. Stewart, of Burnside, made the mo-
tion that made Clyde Smith, of Milesburg,
and Laird Holmes, of State College, secre-
taries. Hard P. Harris moved that G. W.
Rees be made reading clerk and it was
done. Upon motion of John M. Dale a
committee of five on resolutions was ap-
pointed. It was made up of John M. Dale,
Bellefonte; D. B. Stewart, Burnside; W. 8.
Miller, Miles; H. F. Cheney, Worth, and
George Keller, College. Next, Eli Town-
send, of Philipsburg, read the order of busi-
ness and it was adopted. Then the body
was ready to get down to the work of nomi-
nating a ticket.
THE TICKET NAMED.
J. 8S. McCargar made a little speech in
presenting the name of Henry Lowery, of
Bellefonte for Sheriff. It was seconded by
J. S. Knisely and as there were no farther
nominations John Tate moved to make it
by acclamation and it was done.
County Treasurer was next and Laird
Holmes, of State College, presented Phil
D. Foster, their favorite son. Laird bad a
recurrence of the oratory that made him
famous in debate, years agoat ‘‘Pole-cat
Misery’ and declared that no man equals
Phil in ‘‘devotion to duty’’ and that ‘‘he
looks above the petty jealousies of the
party.”’” The Quay people in the coun-
ty can certainly say Amen! to the first
declaration, for they all know that no man
in the county has been more devoted to
Hastings than this same Mr. Phil D. Fos-
ter, nor more zealous in his attempts to
keep any party favors about State College
from falling into the hands of the Quay
people. 8. M. Miller, of Philipsburg, sec-
onded the nomination and T. M. Grantley
moved to make it by acclamation.
Commissioners were next in order ‘and
Edmund Blanchard named A. V. Miller,
of Spring;and J. G. Hess, of Ferguson,
named J. G. Bailey, of his township. There
was a lull then for it was expected that
Ed. McKinley, of Milesburg, would go be-
fore the body bat he didn’t and Miller and
Hess were named by acclamation.
For Recorder Charles G. Avery, of Phil-
ipsburg, named H. H. Hewitt, of that
town, and he was chosen by acclamation.
For Register there was a little brush.
Our neighbor Tuten wanted the place and
entered the lists, but when nominations
were declared in order H. C. Woodring, of
Worth, and C. B. Hess, of Ferguson, were
both named against him. It required bus
one ballot, however, to decide’ that they
wanted lamb and not old mutton for the
slaughter. ‘Tuten had 60, Hess 40 and
Woodring 19.
(Concluded on page 4.)
Spawls from the Keystone.
—George Zinn, of Cornwall township, Leb-
| anon county, had five acres of wheat, yield -
ing 225 bushels, an average of forty-five bush-
els per acre.
—Farmers in many sections of the State
suffered much damage by the recent heavy
rains. Their hay crop rotted in the fields,
and the crop of many wheat and rye fields
were partially destroyed by the wet weather.
—Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Snyder, of Belleman’s
Church, both 70 years of age, cut and bound
into sheaves, eight acres of rye. Mr. Snyder
cut the rye with the cradle, while Mrs. Sny-
der raked it together and bound it into
sheaves.
—St. Matthews Lutheran congregation, of
York, at meeting Sunday refused to accept
the resignation of Rev. W. M. Glanding as
pastor, and requested that gentleman to re-
main with them. Rev. Glanding recently
received a call to Baltimore.
—Efforts are being made to have Superin-
tendent Roberts withdraw his resignation as
a member of the school board'at Renovo. Mr.
Roberts has been a director since 1890,and he
resigned on account of his other duties re-
quiring so much of his time.
—The ill feeling over the post office muddle
at Jersey Shore has been increased by throw-
ing Grier out and the appointment of War-
ren B. Masters. Congressmen Deemer seems
to have the faculty of making trouble fof
himself in his appointments.
—During a heavy rainstorm last Thu rsday
afternoon at Newport, small a minnow fish
dropped on the pavement near the square,
and was picked up by William Wertz and
taken to the Ledger office. Where it came
from is a question that is bothering Perry
county people.
~ —Edgar K. Hoyce, of St. Peters, Chester
county, has on his Glendale farm cornstalks
that measure fourteen feet in length. J.
Dierolf, of Topton, has a field of corn where
the stalks average twelve feet each in length.
The prospects for the corn crop are excep-
tionally good.
—By sitting on the curbstone in front of
her home at Reading all day, Mrs. Sara Rotz
who weighs 200 pounds, prevented employes
of the Water department from placing a fire
plug there. The men finally gave up the
attempt, and the plug site was changed to a
neighbor’s property.
—Dr. C. M. Wallace, postmaster at Dover,
York county, captured a horned owl which
stands two feet six inches high,and has claws
three inches long. Itissaid that fully 100
chickens have gone to make up that owl's
bill of fare since he first appeared, a few
weeks ago. He was caught in a steel trap.
~ —Mr. Bunting,steward of the Berks coun-
ty Almshouse, and manager of the farm con-
nected with it, sold a steer weighing 1,750
pounds for $118. On November 1st, 1901 ,the
steer weighed 1,150 pounds, and has gained
600 pounds since then, and when slaughter-
ed the steer weighed sixty-two pounds to
the hundred.
—The 5 year old daughter of Frank Miles,
of Coudersport, Potter county, Friday, was
in a tree trying to cut off a branch,and want-
ing bert: ri‘father’s knife she waited until he
drove unger the tree with his mowing ma-
chine. Then she jumped in front of the
knives, and before the horses could be stop-
ped one of her feet was cut off.
—E. B. Harvey, head book-keeper for the
Derry Coal and Coke company, is in jail at
Greensburg charged with forging a check to
the amount of $1,675. He was arrested on a
warrant sworn out by E. F. Saxman, general
manager of the company, and taken to Pitts-
burg, where an effort was made to secure a
portion of the money misapplied by the
book-keeper.
—Shortly after midnight Saturday, George
Nagle, aged 33 years, after undressing, took
a seat on the window sill of the third story
of the Anderson boarding house, Williams-
port. He fell asleep and tumbled to the
ground thirty-five feet below. In his descent
he struck the telephone wires. ' He was car-
ried upstairsand put to bed. No bones were
broken, but he sustained severe injuries to
his back and hip.
—Lightning came to the assistance of two
Westmoreland county boys who were in
pursuit of a groundhog one day recently,
The animal took refuge in a hollow tree
just as an electric storm came up. The
boys sheltered themselves from the rain
in a neighboring thicket. Suddenly a bolt
of lightning shattered the hollow tree and
after the storm had passed the lads pick-
ed up the body of the unfortunate ground-
hog.
—Mrs. Mary A. Delong, of Cammal, has
brought suit against Dr. W. E. Delaney, of
Slate Run, to recover $10,000 for the loss of
her husband, whose death followed five days
after an accident in which his leg was brok-
en, several arteries being severed by bone
splinters while DeLong was being brought to
Williamsport. Dr. Delaney’s defence was
that his professional directions were arbi-
trarily ignored, and that, therefore, he is in
no wise to blame:
As the second section of Boroanal aud
Sells Bros. show train was leaving Butler
Saturday morning the elephant car was de-
railed. The elephants and eight keepers
were in the car, but none were injured, The
animals, however, became restless and were
taken out and permitted to wade in a stream
near by until the car could be replaced. Dur-
ing the confusion the large lion suffocated
owing to the neglect of the keeper to /venti-
late its cage. After three or four hours ‘de-
lay the train was started on “its jouruey to
Wheeling, W. Va.
—Dorris G. Welsh.was shot in the Hh 1g
while walking along the street in his
home town, Mount Union, Tuesday even-
ing, about 9:30 by an unknown man. The
man passed Welsh turned, and fired a bullet
at him from a thirty-two calibre revolver and
then fled. The ball passed through the fleshy
part of the leg and was extracted from
underneath the skin on the other side by
physicians McCarthy and Campbell. It is
not known whether Welsh was a victim of
mistaken identity or some cowardly person’s
revenge. A reward of $200, has been offered
for the arrest of the assailant. No serious
results are likely tO occur from the wound.