on ANG GRAY MEEK. BY P. Aa £ uk Slings. pri "The Philadelphia ‘Ledger, the strong- est newspaper in. that city, bas come out for PATTISON. —The battleship Maine appears to be a flyer, so far as speed is concerned. Let us hope that she will never fly like the old Maine did in Havana harbor. —Money can’t buy the voters of Penn- sylvania this fall. They are going to purge the State of the corrupt gang that has been ruling and ruining. —According to statistics the Klondike 18 falling off fast in its gold production. It-is on the toboggan, as it were, and there is.ice enough on hand to make the chute very slippery. —1If you have not been registered see to it that your name is put on the list. You have more to vote for this fall than ever before and you will be neglecting the duty of good citizenship if you do not put your- self in a position to record your vote: against the corrnption that is reigning in Pennsylvania. —#'Cousin SAMUEL’ says he ought to be elected Governor because the price of nats isa way up. Indeed! What did ‘‘Cousin SAMUEL’ have to do with causing the scarcity last season that brought the high price this ? He'll think it scarcer than ev- er about November 4th, if he judges the general crop by what he feels. ‘—1TIt is a little early to ‘open the Iocal political campaign but the candidates are all hustling already. Let itbe a clean one, Past _experience proves the folly of spread- ing malicious, unfounded stories. The merits of the men, and the principles they represent, should govern in rallying to their support. : Tt is evident that the British were not as anxious to have peace as their hilarity over the termination of the Boer war would indicate. ‘They are already planning to gobble up Swaziland, on the western bor- der of the Transvaal, where they are rush- ing troops now under the pretext of keep- ing the natives from hurting themselves. —Judging from the number and filthy character of the cases at court this week it might be well to commit candidates for the Legislature to stand for a law that would give Centre county an official in the line of BURDINE BUTLER’S business. It is certain if the cause were removed so much pasty effect would not have to be ventilated at every session of our courts, —D. E. HIBNER, the Democratic nomi- nee for Congress, is not a wealthy man, but all the money that his opponent can put into the campaign will! not keep him from carrying Clearfield county by a large: majority. He is popular at home, and a man who can command the support of his neighbors, as Mr. HIBNER will do, is the right kind of a man to send to Congress. —Never in the history of Centre county has there heen a term of court so polluted with foul, bestial cases as bave been drag- ged into this week’s session for settlement. It is to be deplored that there are sections in this county where chloride of lime would have to be spread and suiphuor barn- | ed before the atmosphere could be purified enough for even missionaries to enter. — The dismissal of school teachers in the anthracite coal regions because their relati ves are non-union miners is carrying the influence of labor organization too far. N o one questions the right of labor to or- gani ze for its own protection, but when its own protection means the destruction of o thers it has assumed the very position of domineering oppression that it crys out against in the operators. —A word to the wise is sufficient. . You sixteen or more applisants in Centre coun- ty who would like to be deputy revenue collector might as well be told now that if the appointment comes to Centre coun- ty WILBUR F. MALIN, of Bellefonte, is to have it. The announcement is not to be made officially, however, until after youn have torn your shirts and spent your mon- ey working for the Republican ticket at the polls in November. — The action of the Union party in Bed- ford county in placing a full ticket in the field and naming delegates to the state convention who are to support PATTISON, GUTHRIE and CORAY is likely to send a cold shiver up ‘‘Cousin’’ PENNYPACKER'S spinal column. The Union movement in other counties in the State is not being abandoned like it is in Centre county, simply because QUAY passed the patronage over to the Union leaders to dispense. It seems that the Bedford Unionists are fight- ing for principle and not for possession of the pap and as there are many others like them in the State we are hopeful that PAT- TISON will be elected. —There is'nt that sweet harmony exist- ing between the Philadelphia Inquirer and ‘‘Cousin SAMUEL’’ PENNYPACKER in the matter of the issues of the campaign that we expected to find. They seem to be sadly out of tune. The Stalwart daily says ‘‘ on the character and ability of our candidates rests our hopes this fall.” Bat judging from ‘‘Cousin SAMUEL'S’ remarks up at Fogelsville, a few nights ago, that rare speci men of ancestral bric-a-brac is of ' the opinion that the price of corn and oats | hh i i aw last season and the price of milk this bas more to do with the campaign than the ‘‘eharacter and ability” of any one. We would advise the Inquirer and ‘‘Cousin SAMUEL" to get together and discuss the matter over a couple of nice ‘‘cow-flips.’’ "VOL. 47 Judge Pennypacker’s Speeeh. Cousin SAM opened the campaign of the QuaY machine at Fogelsville, Lehigh coun- ty, on Saturday but the most careful ex- amination of the published text of his speech fails to reveal a single reference to anything which can by any system of tor- ture be construed into a reference to any is- sue of the campaign. ‘‘Last year the price; of corn went up twenty cents a bushel,’’ he | said, and ‘‘this year the price of hada like increase. bringing more money in the market,’’ he added, and as a climax of the burning questions he declared that he ‘‘bas been supervising the conduct of a farm since 1883 and during the last year the revenues from the sale of milk have been larger than ever before.”’ The people of Pennsylvania have been suffering during she Tas decade from the effects of all sorts ‘of ‘political iniquities. During the last half dozen years venality has been especially frequent and bold. Ballot frauds have grown so rapidly that no election expresses the views of the people on any question. Appropriations for charities have been divided with the machine managers to pay the expenses of their costly vices. City governments have been ripped up in order to make assets of the vacancies for political bosses to trade in. Franchises to the- value of hundreds of millions of dollars have been stolen from the people and disposed of as gifts to favor- ite politicians. But PENNYPACKER made no reference to such things. The only rea- son he could give to the Lehigh county farmers why they should prefer him to an- other for the office of Governor is that corn. was twenty centsa bushel higher iast year, oats showed the same increase this yearand the revenues of his farm from the sale of milk are greater now than ever before. Even if that is true and we shall not take the trouble to dispute it—for: what have these matters todo with the question of who shall be Governor of Pennsylvania for the next four years—Judge PENNYPACKER would hardly say to an audience of intelli- gent farmers of Centre or‘Lehigh counties that he is responsible for the improvement. Then if he isn't what bas the question todo ‘with the “campaign? * "Did QuaY’s policy’ of bribing voters, robbing charities and schools, stuffing ballot boxes and stealing franchises increase the quantity or advance the value of the milk of his cows? He would hardly set up such a claim and un- less he does that his speech at Fogelsville was an insult te the intelligence of every one who heard him,as well as to the people of the entire State. Chairman Donnelly’s Good Advice. At a meeting of the Philadelphia Demo- cratic city committee the other evening ex- magistrate CHARLES P. DONNELLY, chair- man of the committee, called the attention of the members of that body to the impor- tance of electing Democratic Members of the Legislature at the approaching election. He couldn’t have done a wiser thing. In- stead of one Democratic Member from that city there ought to be a dozen or more and the fact that there was only one in the last Legislature is attributable to carelessness, first in making the nominations and sec- oudly in neglect to bring the voters to the polls. This is shown in the fact that the only Democratic Representative for Phila- delpbia in the last Legislature was elected in one of the strongest Republican districts. As far back as 1880 there were 90,000 Democratic voters _in Philadelphia. Ac- cording to the ratio of - increase in popula- tion there ought to be 125,000 Democratic voters there now. Even with candidates no better than those of the Republican par- ty, and it would be impossible to get worse without going to the prisons, that number of voters ought to get more than one Mem- ber. Bat if the candidates were far super- ior, as they might be in most of the dis- tricts, there is no reason why half the dele- gation might not be Democrats. The Hon. MickrLE C. PAUL was triumphantly elected in the Twenty-fourth district two years ago, for no other reason than that he was 80 conspicuously fit and so manifestly su- perior to his Republican opponent that civ- ic pride and a sense of decency compelled men to vote for him. Under ordinary conditions the Third, Fourth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Seventeenth | wards. of the city ought to elect Democratic Representatives to the Legislature. By nominating conspicuously fit candidates, as was done in the Twenty-fourth ward two years ago, the number of Democrats could easily be increased to a dozen or fifteen. If that many bad been elected two years ago, or even if only the Democratic distriots bad chosen Democratic = Representatives then QUAY wouldn't have been elected to the United States Senate by the’'last Legis- lature and none of the inignitous legisla- tion which disgraced the State would have been enacted. In view of these facts chair- Hoses and. cattle are pe ‘al duty of Congress to give such help to official malfeasances appear like virtues. ‘and obligations to conscience was a guaran- man DONNELLY was right in urging the committeemen to pay attention to the elec- tion of Democrats to the Legislature. : ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Roosevelt’s Disappointing Speeches. President ROOSEVELT'S tour of New Eng- land which bas now been in progress for a week is a disappointment to the public. It is not so for the reason of absence of public interest in the movements of the President. On the contrary everybody watches him attentively and the meetings which have been held have been largely attended. In one city of considerable size business was suspended during the riod of his stay and everywhere he has been greeted with generous enthusiasm. The disappointment has been in the tone and character of his speeches, however. We have been accustomed to getting some- thing of value from the lips of our Presi- dents when they take to the road for cam- paign purposes or pleasure. We are giving expression to no prejudice in saying that President ROOSEVELT’S speeches have been grieviously disappoint- ing, From him the people had every right to expect positive declarations on every subject of public interest to which he adverted. He won all his distinction by such treatment of relevant subjects. His first conspicious service was as a civil service commisioner. In that position he denounced in unqualified terms every vio- lation of the law relating to the classified service and held emphatically that merit should ‘be the only standard in making either appointments or promotions. - But as President he bas completely reversed himself and since the beginning of his tour he appears to have adopted the im- moral doctrine of monarchy that ‘‘what- ever is, is right.” For example, in one of his speeches he referred to the Cuban reciprocity question. In his annual message to Congress in De- cember last he declared that it was a mor- the infant Republic as would enable the people to move forward to the completion and perfection of their government. Con- gress disregarded his advice but instead of denouncing the sacrifice of honor involved he apologized for its delinquency. He de- nounces trusts, but makes no suggestion of a means of restraining. their evil tendencies and so on throiigh all the questions of kin- dred character his Speeches are sounds signifying nothing. Ex-Postmaster Hicks for Pattison. The severest blow which the campaign managers of the QUAY machine have re- ceived thus far was contained in an inter. view of ex-postmaster HICK’S of Philadel- phia on Monday morning. Postmaster HICK’s is a life long Republican and he bas long been a conspicuous figure in the pol- itics of Philadelphia. He was appointed postmaster by President MCKINLEY.. Soon after his appointment he offended the bos- ses by refusing to obey them in the dis- tribution of the patronage and they invok- ed every possible influence to get him re- moved. President McKINLEY stood by him, however, as long as he lived. Some time after the induction of ROOSEVELT into the office he was removed to make place for a machine man to oblige Quay. It was not because of his removal, how- ever, that he refuses to support PENNY- PACKER. In fact the incident left no. re- sentments in his’ mind and up until the publication of the recent interview with Judge PENNYPACKER Mr. HICKS was sup- porting Cousin SAM with much earnestness. When that gentleman reiterated his absurd estimate of QUAY and repeated his state- ment that QUAY is a greater statesman than WEBSTER or CLAY, there was nothing left for the ex-postmaster as a self-respecting man but to desert the organization and come out in support of the strongest candidate in opposition. A blameless life is no protec: tion against the danger which is insepara- ble from the election to the office of Govern- or of a man so infatuated with QUAY as to make all his political immoralities and That is precisely what ex-postmaster Hicks did. He declared that to his mind Judge PENNYPACKER no longer represents the blameless jurist whose sense’ of honor tee of fidelity to duty but he represents QuAYISM and the embodiment of all that is dangerous and criminal in that mon- strous thing. Mr. Hicks conldn’t support QUAYISM and therefore he couldn’t sup- port PENNYPACKER and proving his. faith by works he declared openly his intention to do all he can for the election of PATTI- SoN and asked all his friends to follow his example. As his influence is widely felt this action of Mr. HICKS is of the greatest significance and bas spread consternation among the machine managers who are look- ing abont now for a means to counteract it. Mr. HICKS bas preserved his own integ- rity by his action. —You want to vote this year. Of course you do. Be surethat you can by seeing that your name is put on the regis- try. BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 29, 1902. Depew's New Idea. Senator DEPEW, of New York, is home from Europe with a new notion of the MoN- ‘ROE doctrine. That is to say he learned during his last visit abroad that the people of Great Britain interpret the MONROE doetrine to mean that the United States as- sumes, in the event it is necessary, a sort of protectorate over the entire Western hemisphere. They hold, the Senator al- Jeges, that in the event of the formation of a triple alliance composed of France, Russia and Germany which should make war on Great Britain, it would be the duty of the United States to proteot the British colonies n the American continent. Senator DEPEW ‘eoincides with this view,it may be observed. In this matter it is only fair to give Sen- tor DEPEW another guess. He is widely rong in his first conjecture but there is uch freedom of opinion in this country that any man may claim a8 many guesses as he likes on any subject. But the fact is that the United States are no more under obligation under the provisions of the MON- ROE doctrine to protect Great Britain's sovereignty in Canada and other British possessions than they are to protect the Sultan of Turkey in his sovereignty in Constantinople. If the triple Alliance or any other Europen combination should un- dertake to set up governments of their own in Canada, after baving acquired title by conquest the government of the United States would properly intervene under the authority of the MONROE dootrine aud say hands off. When the government of Great Britain relinquishes sovereignty over the British possessions in the American continent the people of those possessions will have the right to choose whether to become an Inde- pendent Republic or a part of the United | States, and being contiguous territory, some of those colonies would be desirable acquisitions to the United States. But Great Britain must take care of her own colonies in the event of war with the triple Alliance and defend them or failing in that ) If that were relinquish all claim to them. done there would be an end of monarchical control and European systems in that sec- Hen, of the Western world. © 2 entre county jurors have less pa- tience with libel suits than these of Clear- field. If the WATCHMAN had had State Treasurer HARRIS to deal with here, in- stead of Clearfield, the ruffled plumage of that polluted politician would bave been pulled clear out. The County Committee Meeting. Pursuant to ‘a call issued by county chairman BowER the county committee of Centre met in the ‘arbitration room in the court house on Monday at 11 o’clock. The purpose of the meeting was to nominate a candidate for Coroner; that office baving been left without an aspirant by the recent county convention because of an uncer- tainty as to the expiration of the Coroner’s term. i There was a fair representation at’ the meeting. Chairman BOWER presided and secretary GETTIG kept the record. Im- mediately after the roll call the chairman made the announcement that after the call for the meeting had been issued it was dis- covered that the coun ty committee did not have warrant,” under the party rules, to name candidates for offiee under such cir- cumstances and as irregularity of any sort was to be avoided, and there is still plenty of time to reconvene the county conven- tio, it was his opinion that it should be done. The matter was generally discussed, after which it was voted to reconvene the convention on a suitable day during fair week, preferably the day on. which’ candi- date PATTISON is to be here. : This being all the business there was to transact brief talks were made by Col. J. L. SPANGLER, GEORGE GOODHART, F. P. MUSSER, G. H. LEYMAN, Capt. HUGH 8. TAYLOR, REGISTER ARCHEY, W. A. CAR- LIN and GEO. R. MEEK. The great inter- est manifested by all present augurs well for an enthusiastic campaign in the fall. ——On or ahout : September 1st H. C. Quigley Esq. will remove his law -office from his ‘present quarters with Col. W. F. Reeder, to the first floor of Temple Court, where he will occupy the rooms. formerly | used by the Democratic county committee as headquarters. The partnership existing between Col. Reeder and Mr. Quigley was dissolved several months ago,but they have. been occupying the old offices up to this time. In Mr. Quigley’s setting out for himself we wish him the greatest sugsess | and be has already had enough of it to pre- dict that he will secure a Yery good prae- tice. —— An old friend over in Huntingdon -| writes that his ‘subscription to the good old WATCHMAN expires some time in Sep- tember and please find enclosed one of those much coveted No. 1 green things’ as his share for another year. Those are the kind of letters that make the editor’s heart glad. They not only encourage him in his work, but furnish the substantial means of keeping it going. — NO. 34. ih To Notify C Candidates Committee of Democrats to to Perform ie Office at Reading. ALLENTOWN, August 25. Hon. Robert E. Wright, of this city, who pues the democratic state convention, June 25th, this afternoon; af committee to offisially notify: Pattison, Guthrie ‘Nolan i'of their nomination. The notification will taie place at the Mt. Penn house, tember 4th, 468 p. m. A banquet low at the Neversink Mountain Ii committee consists of one mem each senatorial district as follows: John H. Keenan, Thomas J. Ryan, Matthew Dittman, William F. Harrity, Thomas Delahunty, James Gay Gordon, A. H. Ladner, Charles P. Donnelly, all ‘of Philadelphia; O. B. Dickinson, Chester; Harman Yerkes, Doylestown; James N. Ermentrout, Reading; Charles E. Inger- soll, Penlyn; William U. Hensel, Lancas- ter; W. Hayes Grier, Columbia; Vande McCormick, Harrisburg; Edward Harvey, Allentown; 's. P. Light, Lebanon; Howard Mutchler, Easton; H. Frank Ralston, Chester Springs; Frank J. Fitzsimmons, Scranton, Jobn M. Garman, Nanticoke; L. H. Barber, Mauch Chunk; Asa Keeler, Tunkhannock; J. Henry Cochran, Will- iamspors; T. Ww. Costello, Bradford ; George S. Purdy, Honesdale; H. E. Davis, Sun- bury; John W. Bittenger, York; James W. Ryan, Pottsville; William A. Marr, Ash- land ; Robert S. MoKeen, Mifflintown ; Wil- liam "Penn Loyd, Mechanicsburg ; Ww. R. Gillen, Chambersburg; William D. Big- ler,Clearfield ; Warren Worth Bailey, Johns- town; A. H. Coffroth, Somerset; Samuel States, Brookville; J. K. P. Hall, Ridgway; Richard Coulter, jr., Greensburg; Robert Crawford, Waynesburg; Calvin Reyburn, Kittanning; David T. Watson, W. P. Tams, Pittsburg: William B. Dunlap, West Bridgewater; John G. McConaghy, New Castle; William Harson,; Oil City; George Sie, Etie; 8 and John Bemig, Tiag ville Thropp Nominated by Bedford Unloniss, ‘BEDFORD, August 26. —To-day the Union party of Bedford county, mes at Bedford and nominated a full Union party ticket, Most of th edistricts of the county were represented by ' prominent, professional business men and farmers. Joseph E. Thropp was nominated for congress, Cap- tain Eli Eichelberger, of Saxton, and E, S. Dotty, of Bedford, for legislature. demning the corrupt practices of the pres- ent administration and the methods of the Quay machine politics, and instructed the delegates to the state convention for Pa tigon, Guthrie and Coray. ight * B Golden Star ot the Klondike Is Now | on the Wane, WASHINGTON, Aug 26. —The ehiden star of the Klondike is on the wane, according to the official report of George H. Hees, hy ently was sent to Dawson by the adian Manufacturers’ association ‘fo On a thorough examination into the busi- ness prospects of the Yukon territory. Mr. Hees refers to the fact that'the total yield of fhe Klondike last year was $24,000; 000 and" the production of the coming year will not, according to government es- timate, exceed $14,000,000. At Dawson, Mr. Hees reports ten applicants for every job, yet boat loads of men continue to ar- rive. Series of Earthquakes in the Moro Sec- tion in Mindanao. WASHINGTON, Ang. 27.—A cablegram at the War Department from General Chaf- fee reports a series of ‘earthquakes in the Lake Lanao country, in the Moro section of Mindanao, near Camp Vickers, the pres- ent headquarters of the American forces. The rivers and mountains were considera- bly disturbed and fifty or sixty natives kill- ed, but no Americans perished. The military situation in that section re- mains unchanged. We'll Get More This Fall. From the Pittsburg Post. The Philadelphia ‘Press’ of yesterday says in an appeal to the ‘Quay machine: *‘In the last presidential election the num- ber of Democrats chosen to Congress was four. That is the most they should get this year, and it is all they will get if the Republican duty is performed.”” ~The ‘Press’? is eloquent on the subject of ger- rymanders in the South, but here it de- fends the sublimated rascality that gives the Democrats one Congressman for 106, 080 Democratic votes; and the Republicans a Congressman for every 27,000 Republi- can votes. In some things the ‘Press’ can always he relied on to agree with Quay. One is in sounding the depths of political injustice and rascality. A fellow feeling makes them wondrous kind. The Perfect Tariff, From the Dover, Del., Index. The Philadelphia Press says, ‘‘Secretary Shaw’s second speech on the tariff question is better than the first. His second speech is just right.” From this. statemens, it is easily inferred that the Secretary’s first speech was somewhat off—not just right, **No tariff is perfect,’’ says the Press in its comment on the ‘‘Just right’ speech. In- deed, this is no revelation. It isa fact that has been long and well known. When the tariff is cleaned of its imperfections, there will be nothing left but a ‘‘Tariff for revenue only.”” This can never be accom- plished but, by a ( Pemooratip administra- tion. When the Trusts V wilt be Defeated. From the St. Louis Republic. 1 -Repuhlican protectionisfs are now march- ing to, their Waterloo as swiftly as the hours can hurry past that. brings election day round again. The American people now know exaotly what to-do with ‘‘the best tariff the country has ever known.!’ They bave learned their lesson at last. The tariff which created the trusts and which pow holds the trusts invincible against the people is ‘doomed. A tariff for revenue only will take its place. Exactly the mo- mens this is done the trusts encounter de- feat at the hands of the people. ‘| He is survived by his wife and —Reuben Althouse died died ast Fi ‘home in New Derry, Westmore chidren. He was 84 years old, ’ —George B. Breon, of. Williams rts. ‘purchased a 6,000 acre tract of timber land i in Cambria and Somerset counties for $100, 000. “The timber will be cleared, after which coal mines will be opened. —The annual institute of the teachers of Williamsport’s public schools is now in ses. sion. The anthorities there evidently believe that the time to instruct teachers is before the school term opens. —Daniel Saunders, a resident of Slate Run, Lycoming county, was instantly killed in Black Forest Saturday last by a tree which he was felling, falling upon him. He was 68 years old and leaves a family. —John McDowell, of Graham township, Clearfield county, died on Friday evening, of Bright's disease, age 65 years. Deceased was born ‘at the place where he died. He was one of the most prominent citizens of the township. | —Dwight Genung, of Newfield, who is 71, and Mrs. Peet, of Carristeo, Potter County, were married last week at the bride's home, by the Rev. J. E. Lovejoy. The bride and : groom had known each other since chil- dren. . —J. Carl Grafius, who was onmted. during the Boer war, has been granted a pen- sion of $10. per month by the war depart- | ment in London. His voucher is payable in Philadelphia. Mr. Grafius, who is now at Cranbrook, B. C., is expected home at Mar.’ tinsburg soon. —Edward Cox, a orien. aged 55 years was found on Friday drowned in Sandy Lick creek, Clearfield county, in water only eighteen inches deep. Cox deliberately took his own life. His body lay face downward ’ in the middle of the stream, which is about twenty-five feet wide. His coat and vest, hat, collar, tieand shoes: ‘lay on the bank of the creek. ; —Attorney Andrew F. Martin, of Jersey Shore, has been lodged in jail in William s- . port on the charge of having attempted to kill his wife, who i is the daughter of John T. McKinney. The attorney went home after midnight Friday and soon thereafter Mrs. Martin was heard screaming, the attorney : having thrown, so it is charged, a wash bowl at her head, inflicting a serious injury. He is also charged with having made threats that he would poison his wife.” Efforts will { be made by Martin to have an early hearing before Judge Hart on habeas corpus proceed - ings. —Frank M. Wilson, age 70 years, was found dead in a building i in the rear of his residence .in Bairdstown, last Saturday. Death was due to paralysis. He wasan employe of the Pennsylvania Rail- road ‘Company. ' He commenced work as a blacksmith at Altoona shops in June 1859, .| and worked there until 1867, when he’ was The convention "adopted resolutions. con- Indiana county, transferred to the Blairsville shops as fore: . man in the black smith department, in which ’ position he remained until April of this year when he was pensioned on aceount of his | Bikying reached the extreme limit, Al- “| together he worked’ rT years for the company, Serving: continuously without a break. ; —Saturday morning last Mrs. ‘Mary Can- non, of Altoona, was giveu a hearing before Alderman Raymond: on: the charge of blas- phemy and disturbing the peace, Mrs. Abra- ham Jacobs’ husband being the prosecutor. The alderman’imposed the fine and. costs, amounting to $16.99. Tnraged at Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. Cannon is alleged to have way- laid her on Saturday night and beat her in such a manner that the attending physician, Dr. Ross; despairs of saving her life. Fri- day Abraham Jacobs made information ° against ‘Mrs. Cannon, charging ‘her with assault and battery, and she was arrested and is being held, pending the result of Mrs. Jacobs’ injuries. —A Jersey Shore special says Geo. Strobert of Sugar Valley, related to a reporter recent- ly a snake story that is out’ of the ordinary in that line. The special says during berry season Mr. Strobert devoted his time to the gathering and selling of berries. This year both berries and snakes were particularly plenty. Strobertsays be has kept an account of the number of snakes he has killed this . summer, and up-to-date shows the following: One hundred and twenty-five rattlers, six of them having thirty-two rattles; twenty-five blacksnakes,seven of them six feet long; two copperheads. He also killed a score of groundhogs and saw five deer. Strobert of- fers to make affidavit to the truthfulness of his story. —Miss Ada Trail, of £ Clisueysvilie, Bedford county, had a thrilling encounter with an eagle the other day, says a dispatch from Bedford but succeeded in dispatching the bird with a rifle ball. foraging on her father’s farm for some ‘days and hag almost decimated a flock of chickens. Miss Trail saw the eagle circling about the barn Wednesday evening and, hastening to the house, secured. the rifle. In his spiral evolution the eagle at one time almost darted in Miss Trial’s face and as he soared aloft she The eagle had been ° took aim and fired, bringing the bird down . dead instantly. The eagle is a fine specimen measuring seven feet from tip to tip. The girl would make a good ‘acquisition’to the rifle team of some enterprising military organiza- tion. : —8ince the speed of railroad trains has been increased to such an: alarming extent a number of interesting questions have been brought out by persons interested in this development, says Tuesday’s Pittsburg Post. One of particular interest is whether or not continual long service of an engineer on a fast train will impair his efficiency as a safe | man. Performing such perilons duties it is claimed by some, has a tendency to harden the enginemen and make of them mere auto- matic things instead of men of flesh and bone. This applies only to the time of their runs. In view of these theories it is said that cer- , particularly : retire .. ‘the tain. large Pennsylvania, systems, may . the run engineers to slow ones after a con- tinuous duty to say, perhaps two years. Instances have been’ cited, it is sdid, where the engineers of fast trains’ would run by signals, thinking that ‘the signal showed a : clear track. While some of the engineers laugh at the idea, nevertheless the matter is a serious question among the officials. ¢ TA fast 1 ud a i i wk 1 i NI i ob mi mn. Sa ’ i {amd ag Heb
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