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By P. GRAY MEEK.
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Rolly-poly Dresser
Had better take his messer:
And cut out a little speech to make
In which to ask to go
To the big Congress’nal show
Where even “a thinking part’ he'd fake.
— PATTISON and GUTHRIE warmed the
_cockles of the Granger heart at Centre Hall
yesterday.
—O0ld General Apathy seems to be
‘in command of the PENNYPACKER cam-
_paigning outfit.
* —Where were the two BROWNS on Tuaes-
day? The WATCHMAN predicted, weeks
ago, that they would be afraid to face the
Centre county Grangers.
— President ROOSEVELT'S determination
to carry a throat specialist with him on his
western tour insures the people of the west-
ern States no end of talk.
- Tt was no wonder that ‘‘Cousin Sam”
talked through his nose at tbe Granger’s
‘picnic on Tuesday. The frost he got there
was enough to give a more robust man than
he is a'cold.
—If parties are to be judged by what
they do and not by their platforms or
promises all the ground it ever did have to
‘stand on is cut from under the Republican
administration in Pennsylvania.
—Of all the state papers that published
stories of PENNYPACKER day at Grange
park the Republican told the biggest lie
when it said there were five thousand peo-
ple on the ground. As a matter of fact
there weren’t seven hundred.
—The friends of ‘‘Little PHIL" WoM-
ELSDORFF are commanded to turn in to
the support of HEWITT for Recorder. Of
course they will obey orders, because they
know how this same HEWITT turned in for
their friend only a few years ago.
—0ld Schoony,’’ as they call him over
in Philipsburg, has started his campaign
for the Legislature and judging from the
success he has been meeting with around
here he will be about as speedy as a water-
logged old schooner when in the race on
November 4th.
— Big Bill” DEVERY, the ex-chief o
¢he New York police, having won out in
his fight for control of the Ninth district in
that city, it is evident that free barge par-
ties, free ice for the poor and the glad hand
for every body, are most potential politic-
‘al persuasives.
—Judging from the speech he made
PENNYPACKER might easily by supposed
to be running for any old thing and not for
the Governorship of Pennsylvania in par-!
ticular. In fact that is the case. He is
running for an old thing apd the old shing
is QUAY. kiki '
. —It is a significant trath that but once
during all of the speeches that were finde"
by the Republican spell-binders at Centre
Hall on Tuesday was there an interruption
by applause. Seal-skin underwear would
not have warmed that crowd up to ‘Cousin
SAM” and PENROSE, 4
—The refusal of speaker HENDERSON to
run for Congress again in the Third Towa
district is equivalent to an adniission that
the Democrats will control the next House.
He would not be so anxious to terminate
his long term of public service were it ‘not
for a lurking fear that his position as
speaker is in davger. ;
—In his speech at Centre Hall on Tues-
day CHARLES EMORY SMITH pledged the
Republican party to ‘‘honest elections and
honest ballot hoxes’’ . while his paper, the
Press bad explained only a few days before
how the machine expects to steal from fifty
to eighty thousand votes in Philadelphia,
according to the needs of these same promis-.
ing Republicans. . man
— It had been the hope of the WATCH-
MAN to conduct the coming campaign in as
clean a manner as possible, but the Gazette
geems to be anxious to have it otherwise.
If it really wants dirt we might be able to
dig up some around their legislative candi-
date in- Philipsburg that would shock the |-
honorable Republicans of Centre county
who have no idea of the manner of man
they are asked tosupport.
—Speaker HENDERSON'S declination to
ran for Congress for the eleventh time, be-
cause he is not in accord with his constit-
uents on the tariff question is the manly
whing for him to do, unless he was inspired
more from fear of defeat than by an honest
conviction of duty. If it was the former we
,would advise the people of the Third Towa
district to look out for another ‘Cousin
SAM” stool pigeon like we bave on band in
Pennsylvania.
—1It won't do for former Governor HAsT-
INGS to try to make ‘‘Counsin’’ SAM outa
great hero becanse there were one hundred
and forty six men by the name of PENNY-
PACKER in the Rebellion. Measured by
such a standard our own late, lamented
BiLLy JoNES would bave had a very tena-
ble claim, even to the Presidency, for there
were thousands of Joneses in the war, but
BILLY never patted himself on the back on
that account.
—Doubtful DANIEL said ‘Cousin SAM"
“Never raised his voice to ask a citizen to
nominate him for Governor. If came to
him on a sliding board.”” How different
it was in 1890, when the army of white-hat
voters from Centre went to Harrisburg to
beseech QUAY to give the nomination to
DAN. Quay didn’t do it, however, but
DAN’S memory is short and he can forget
"VOL. 47
Government by Ballot Fraud.
No one pretends to deny that thousands
of fraudulent votes are polled at every
election in Philadelphia. This prostitu-
tion of the ballot is effected by false regis-
tration and the systematized employment
of impersonators and repeaters in the perpe-
tration of electoral frand. By common
consent and general knowledge this crime
is charged against the corrupt politicians
who control the Republican organization
in that city.
The registry of voters is padded with
bogus names by employees of this vicious
political machine and when an attempt is
made to purge these false registrations by
the action of the courts opposition to such
purgation always comes from the politi-
cians who intended to be benefited by such
fraud. When personators, repeaters and
ballot-box stuffers are prosecuted for: their
offenses it is the leaders of the dominant
machine who fornish them with bail, em-
ploy attorneys for their defense and if nec-
essary secure perjurers whose false oaths
may keep them out of the penitentiary, as
in the SALTER case and other instances of
false s wearing for the protection of ballot
thieves.
Th ese are such notorious facts that any-
thing like serious denial is nowhere at-
tempted. So staunch a Repu blican organ
as the Philadelphia Press, when in its in-
dignant mood over the corruption of the
QUAY- ASBRIDGE gang, declares that the
machine manages to poll a fraudulent vote
in Philadelphia that ranges from 50,000 to
80,000 according to the necessity of the
emergency. This year there has heen an
unusual padding of the lists with the in-
tention of harvesting an increased crop of
fraudulent votes. An examination of the
lists shows that false registration, prepara-
tory to the coming election, has been prac-
ticed with reckless disregard for the flagrant
evidence of the intended crime. 3 24s
From his judicial ~experience no ‘one
knows better than Judge PENNYPACKER
that these frauds are practiced, and he cer-
tainly is not unconscious: of the fact: that
this year they areintended for his politie-
al benefit. Will he consent to he the
beneficiary of such a “crime? If stolen
goods were offered him his indignation
would move him to ‘action fot the arrest
Ppecting too much “of ‘Wim that he’ should:
denounce the ballot thievery that is in-
tended ‘to -put him in pessession’ of the
G overnor’s office ? :
So far not a word has been heard from
candidate PENNYPACKER in condemna-
tion of the frand by which the Philadel-
phia gang is preparing to secure the elec-
tion of the QUAY state ticket.
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Mr. Pattison’s Tour.
Governor ‘PATTISON and his associates
on tlie Dematratio ticket began their tour of
the State on Monday under the most au-
‘spicions conditions. They left Harrisburg at
noon and spent the night at McConnells-
burg in Falton county after a meeting
there of extraordinary proportions and en-
thusiasm. Ou Thursday morning bright and
early they were on the road again and held
meetings at Mercersburg, Chambersburg,
Greencastle, and Waynesboro and spent
the night at Chambersburg. On Wednes-
day meetings were held at Shippensburg,
Newville, Carlisle,’ Mechanicsburg and
Harrisburg. These were not ordinary
meetings. They were large, earnest and
enthusiastic. They revealed a deep.seated
interest in the contest.
Yesterday the party left Harrisburg at
3.25 in the morning, an unusual hour for
campaigning but this is an unusual cam-
paign, and arrived at Centre Hall before
half-past eight. There they remained un-
til 3:30 p, m., an afternoon meeting bav-
ing been held on the picnic grounds. After
a pleasant ride the distinguished gentle-
men made a brief stop in this place, leav-
ing here at 4:44 p. m. Halt an hour was
spent, during which the Governor made a
speech from theca: platform, when the train
for Huntingdon was taken where a night
meeting was held. The rest of the week
will be spent in Union, Bedford and Blair
counties and every town of considerable
population in those counties will be visited,
the Saturday evening meeting being at
Altoona. 3
The speeches of Governor PATTISON and
his equally eloquent and able associate on
the ticket Mr. GUTHRIE, have been marvels
of forensia force and eloquence. These
gentlemen have not talked about the price
of milk or discussed other trifles in mean-
ingless platitudes. They have talked of
the ills with which Pennsylvania is suffer-
ing almost beyond endurance and of the
means of escape from them. They have
shown how the property of the people is
stolen through legislative (iniquities and
the ballot is polluted in order to perpetuate
the power of an atrocious machine. They
have warned the people of Pennsylvania of
the peril in which we stand and pointed
out how the dangers may be averted. Such
speeches are educational and they ought to
many things, even if he doesn’t forgive
them. :
prove useful.
and punishment of she thieves: Is ib ex- :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Increase in the Cost of Living.
ities required in the daily living of the
people of this country has not only attract-
ed the attention of public economists, but
is being seriously experienced by the gen-
erality of the population. There has been
a gradual advance in prices for several years
past, but within the last year the cost of liv-
ing has gone up by leaps and bounds.
Figures have been given by the state
statistician of Massachusetts, whose official
business is to record and publish all facts
relating to cost of living and wages of labor,
and his report shows that within the range
of his observation it costs one-thirdemore
to live than it did a year ago, while there
has been no material increase in the earn-
ings of the class that are most seriously af-
fected by the advanced price of almost
everything they must have for raiment and
subsistence. 2
The same condition prevails all over the
country. Although it has not been pre-
sented as clearly in this State as it has been
by official report in Massachusetts. Yet
our people need nothing more than their
daily experience to convince them that.
prices are much higher than they were last
year, with the prospect of a farther rise if
there is to he no check on. the avaricious
‘combines that are cornering all fhe sources
of production,
This is a bad situation for the advocates
of machine rule in this State, who will en-
deavor to elect PENNYPACKER and the two
Browns by exhorting the people to allow
the QUAY gang to go on with its official
plundering, if they want a continuance of
good times such as the trusts are ensuring
to the general class of consumers.
The subject of high prices is ove which
Republican journals must handle cautious-
ly, this being necessary to prevent their
spragging the wheels of the machine that
proposes to carry thestate election by mak-
ing the working people believe that they
are actually rolling in prosperity. The
‘Philadelphia Bulletin, however, ventures
upon this dangerous subject, devoting three
columns to it, in which it shows by authen-
sic figures that ‘‘food of all kinds, fuel,
clothes and rents are so much higher than
in September, 1901, that thousands face a
serious problem.”
And why shonld this not be so when
there are 278 regularly organized trusts, as
appears ‘from a reliable count, that are
screwing up the price of almost every arti-
ole that is included among the daily neces
sities of the people. :
These extortionate combinations’ ‘have
grown up under Republican rule. They
are permitted to pillage the public in re-
turn for the money they contribute when
boodle is needed to eleés Republican Presi-
dents and Congressmen. No measures are
taken by the party in power for the sup-
pression of restraint of these greedy absorb-
ers of workingmen’s wages. The beef
trust, the most odious of them all, con-
temptuously evading the injunction which
Attorney General KNOX knew would be in-
effectual, proceeds to organize a more ex-
tensive combine for the control of the meat
market. The other monopolistic combina-
tions are equally sure of immunity under
the present political domination. .
Nothing has been done by a Republican
Congress to réduce the excessive duties of
the DINGLEY tariff behind which these
monopolies find protection ; but President
TEDDY strenuously urges an amendurent of
the federal constitution asa remedy for
the trusts, though he ought to know that
the combined power of monopolistic capi-
tal is strong enough to prevent the consum-
mation of such a constitutional amend-
ment, while no reliance could be placed on
the efficacy of such a corrective measure if
it were possible to consummate it.
There is no other remedy for the opposi-
tion of the trusts than knocking the tariff
props from under the greedy combinations.
This would be the sure way of checking the
increase in the cost of living. Fa
Taking an all around view of the situa-
tion it is a bad time for the Machine politi-
cians to try to gain the votes of the trust
pillaged wage-earners.
Sham Hostility to the Trusts. “
An exchange remarks that some of the
Republican leaders are becoming uneasy
about President ROOSEVELT’S assamed hos-
tility to the trusts. They fear that it will
offend the great millionaire capitalists who
furnish the money that elects Republican
Presidents. But there is no ground for the
entertainment of such an apprehension.
The trast magnates comprehend the ob-
ject of TEDDY'S attack on the monopolies,
which he is conducting after the manner of
Don Quixoti’s celebrated encounter with the
windmills. Those plutocratic personages
understand the present ‘political situation.
They are aware that the people are dissatis-
fied with the exactions of the trusts. There
is danger of a popular revolt against the
political party whose policies support the
monopolies. In this emergency nothing
suits their interests better than to have
ROOSEVELT endeavor to make the people
believe that’ the trust octopus is an object
of his antagonism, and that he intends $0
cut off its grasping tentacles. Such decep-
The great advance in the price of commod- d
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 19, 1902.
tive assumptions by a Republican Presi-
lent are intended to fool the voters into
retaining in power a party that always leg-
islates and administers for the benefit of the
monopolistic plutoocrats, who are interested
in having the people deceived on the trust
question.
1t is observed that ROOSEVELT suggests
no practical way of suppressing the extor-
tionate combinations. What he proposes
would be as fruitless as the work he as-
signed to Attorney General KNOX for pus-
ting the beef trust out of business.
A stop can be put to the extortions of the
combined monopolies only by removing the
excessive tariff duties that gives them their
advantages. But nothing is farther from
TEDDY’S purpose than to interfere with the
sacred tariff. His plan of downing the
trusts, which he is vociferously proclaim-
ing through the country, is by an amend-
ment of the federal constitution, which
can only be effected by the consent of two-
thirds of the State Legislatures, a majority
‘of which could be influenced against such
an amendment by the pecuniary appliance
‘with which the millionaires so well know
‘how to affect the understanding of the or-
dinary State Legislator.
The suppression of the trusts- by consti-
tutional amendment could be effected about
the time the millenium comes along, and
President ROOSEVELT knows it.
The Crowning Atrocity.
For unmitigated audacity the Republi-
can State committee takes the cake. When
Senator QUAY announced that he would
take personal command in the campaign of
his strangly infatuated cousin it was notice
to those who understand his standards of
morale and methods that it was to be ‘a
campaign of mendacity and crime. Tt is
his custon to approach -every purpose by
devious ways and fraud, force and falsifi-
cation are his favorite methods in politics.
But nobody imagined that mendacity would
go to the extreme which it has reached in
the account which that committee is sending
to the snhsidized and not too intelligent
party press which takes its rubbish, of the
capture of the Union party state conven-
tion held in Philadelphia on the 3rd in-
stant by ‘DAVE’ MARTIN'S thugs.
_ It will be remembered that that conven-
tion was raided by a force of about ‘300,
‘Philadelphia topghs, noder the command
‘of a ruffian named Knight. "Those
legs and rowdies broke in the door and,
armed with blackjacks and pistols, forced
their way to the stage whence they drove
the properiy chosen officials to the organi-
zation out of the hall. The Republican
committee’s literary bureau exactly revers-
es the conditions in the story it has sent
out of the event. Instead of denouncing
the ruffians it lauds them as gentlemen of
amiable character who in pursuance of a
patriotic duty assembled in the hall and
were terrorized by the peacefnl and inof-
fending gentlemen who were present for
the purpose of deliberating on grave ques"
tions. | : ;
One would hardly think such audacity
possible in this period of advanced civiliza-
tion. The performance of Knight's band
of ruffians was the culminating atrocity of
a long period of political iniquities and to
say that gentlemen of the character of Hon.
FRANK A. RiTer and Hon. GEORGE E.
MAPES bad indulged in riotous conduct is
to insult. the intelligence of the people of
the State. The mendacious authors of the
slander. depended upon the obscurity and
venality of the papers to which the stuff
was sent to keep them concealed. “That is
to say they hoped that no one familiar with
the public life of the city would see the
misrepresentation and that even intelligent
men, uninformed on the subject, would be
deceived. But in this they were disappointed
for by accident the fraud was discovered
and exposed.
. The Capital Building _Contract.
The awarding of the contract to com-
plete the State capital building at a price
considerably within the appropriation is a
high tribute to the wisdom of the Demo-
cratic minority in the last Legislature. A
strenuous effort was made to get an appro-
priation of a couple of millions more than
the amount specified in the bill which was
passed, but the Democratic Senators and
Representatives objected and they were
supported in their protest by the Independ-
ent Republicans. The machine leaders
protested that it would be impossible to
construct a capital commensurate with the
wealth and dignity of Pennsylvania for
less than $6,000,000. The awarding of
the contract for less than $4,000,000 proves
that the Democrats were right and the ma-
chine wrong, as usual.
As we have frequently stated the State
of Pennsylvania ought to have a magnifi-
cent capital building. It is the second
State of the Union in population and prob-
ably the first in most other things. It
can afford any legitimate expenditure for
any useful purpose and the citizenship is
proud of the liberality of spirit which grudg-
es nothing that is honest. But Pennsyl-
vania is not rich enough to open her coffers
to a pack of plunderers to loot until their
cupidity is satiated. The couple of mil-
Be
black-
{ Rev. Dr.
~ NO. 37.
lions which the machine managers hoped
to add to the appropriation for the capital
would have afforded a rich fountain to drain
by the machine bosses if they had been able
to get the appropriation as it was original-
ly fixed. The building would have been
no better in any event. ) Tay
Justice and candor compels the admission.
that the building commission has been
reasonably fair in its operations, though
somewhat tardy. That is to say except in
the awarding of. the architectural work
there is little to complain of in, what the
commission has done. The time, limit for the |
completion of the work should have admon-
ished the commission to greater expedition
in the outset for there is always great danger
of gouging in the hurry of overdue finish:
ing. Bus since the work has: been really
put under way there has been no halting.
Probably the break between the Governor
and QUAY obviated the necessity of. goug:
ing, for QUAY always demands a big rake
off and’ that has been saved by the dis-
agreement, if so mild a name will proper-
ly express the existing differences between
the great Republican leaders.
A Reverend Donkey.
The Oyster Bay preacher who compared
President ROOSEVELT to DAVID and de-
clared that our Chief Magistrate has never
made a serious mistake, during a service
in memory of the late President MCKIN-
LEY, on Sunday, presented a specimen of
pulpit sycophancy which not only disgust-
ed ROOSEVELT, but every sensible man in
the country. The President is neither al-
together bad nor. entirely good. He has
some merits that command attention and
some faults of the gravest character. Bub
when an idiot in the pulpit makes such a
comparison it appears so absured to the
average intelligent mind that it aggravates
the President's faults and makes. people
forget all about his virtues. gh
. Happily there are only: a few of tbat
kind of preachers but the few ean doinfinite
harm. It may be said that one of them can
run a close race with half a dozen: dives in
promoting the interests of satan in any giv- |'
en community. The greatest injury that
can be done to the cause of cliristianity is
to disgnst a considerable number of well
meaning men with the chureh. on ‘acoonnt
of the folly of ‘some misfit in the. pulpit. |
Tb vot only Keeps them awaw from the
| shurch but sets their influence as, Work to
‘keep others away. This, impairs the . use-
fulness of the church and diminishes its rev-
enues. In fact it may even cause; them to
go into had company on the very day of
all others on which}they ought to seek good
environment. hin aha
President ROOSEVELT is far from being
like DAVID. ~ Even in DAVID’S day, when
force was the ruling agency in all, human
affairs, DAVID was a man of peace. In this
day when the pacific influence of christian
civilization, operating through nearly two
thousand years of steady progress has made
peaceful proaesses the paramount agency in-
life President ROOSEVELT is a man of war
who measures every manly virtue by the
military standard. The truth is ‘that the
HENRY HOMER WASHBURN is 80
egregious an ass that he ought to be able
to brush the cobwebs off the ceiling of his
church by wiggling his ears. ‘
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Cousin Sam’s Speeches.’
Judge PENNYPACKER had some excuse
for refraining from the discussion of party
politics as 16 applies to this State during,
his visit to this county and his speech at
Centre Hall on Tuesday. He probably
thought he was among farmers who care
more about the price of milk than they do
about the grabbing of franchises or the de-
bauchery of the state government. He
was mistaken in this as he was mis-
taken in his estimate of QuUAY’S
mental gifts. But we will Tet that pass.
His platitudes were harmless and uninter-
esting. But he is now in the campaign and
the people have a right to demand an ex-
planation of his statement that Pennsylva-
nia has no ills “worthy of mention.”
“Cousin’’ SAM'S visit to this county on
Taesday was merely an incident to his trip
to Erie where he attended a political gath-
ering. Even there he didn’t attempt the
explanation. There, as ‘at Centre Hall, he
talked of the prosperity of the present and
the absence of it at another time ahd tried
to inferentially: assert that the policies of
the Republican party caused the difference.
But he didn’t acknowledge that stealing
scores of millions of dollars worth of fran-
chises and bestowing them on a few ma-
chine politicians is an evil or that violating
the constitution is a crime either in" Erie or
Centre Hall, though that is the question to
be determined by the votes of the people in
November. 2a
The Governor of Pennsylvania has noth-
ing to do with the matter of making tariff
schedules. The Lieutenant Governor or
the ‘Secretary of the Interior are without
influence in Washington. But they will
have a good deal to say about ballot reform
legisiation. They will be consulted about
land patents in the State and they will be
useful in the matter of preventing all sorts
of legislative iniquities. But Judge PEN-
NYPACKER didn’t promise to promote any
of the reforms which are needed or pledge
himseif to overthrow the QUAY machine in
the event of his election. Those are the
things the people are interested in and
“Cousin’’ SAM would better get to the
point or leave the field.
. .. Spawls from the Keystone.
—Johnstown had one fatality from small-
pox on Saturday last—Lawrence Bopp, aged
45 years.
~ —Sunbury has a case of small-pox. The
14 months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Milliner
has the disease. The house has been quaran-
fined. ;
~ —State capitol commission has awarded
‘the contract for the new capitol to George F,
| Payne & Co., of Philadelphfa, whose bid wa
$3,170,000,
‘—The machinery for the new erecting
shop at Oak Grove has arrived, and prep-
arations are being made to place it in posi-
tion. : 2
. =H. Steele Smith, for twelve years clerk
in the First National bank of Hollidaysburg,
has been chosen cashier of the First National
‘bank of Gallitzin. ’
—The tobacco crop in Clinton county for
1902, according to the census which has just
/beeni. taken, is 661 acres planted, 661,000
‘pounds ciit which represents a cash value of
$661,000. 6
._—Colonel William F. Richardson, keeper of
‘the ‘state arsenal at Harrsburg, dislocated
‘his left shoulder Sunday afternoon by being
‘thrown’ out of a carriage while driving
with his family. poe :
ol —~Frank Fenstamaker, an Erie railroad
operator, was waylaid and robbed by tramps
| Sunday night. He was pounded over the
head with a coupling pin. . $40 and a gold
watch were taken. :
—One thousand more men and their fam-
ilies are expected to arrive at the Burnham
iron works, at Lewistown soon. Temporary
houses are being built to shelter them until
‘good ‘ones can be erected. z
—The Everett Glass works, which have
been idle for the past two years, again re-
sumed active business, Monday, September
8. By this: industry employment will be
given to about seventy-five men and boys.
Frank Gillan, of Gallitzin, a well-known
contractor, drove his horse, McGreggor, to
Indiana, Friday. to attend the fair and upon
reaching that place the horse died. Its death
is supposed to have been caused by the long
drive.
—Instantly killed by a flying timber he
himself had just sawed off was Nelson Nich-
ols, a carpedter at Klondike works, West-
moreland county, Saturday morning. He
was aged about 45 years and leaves a family
of six children.
—QGovernment engineers will make an ex-
amination of the Susquehanna river from
Northumberland to tidewater with a view to
ascertaining whether it is feasible to make the
river navigable for that portion of its length
and what the probable cost will be.
—_ According to a decision of the United
States Circuit court of appeals,a tavern keep-
er may be held responsible for the death of a
patron of his place in the event that death
occurs from an accident resulting from the
intoxicated condition of the patron.
. —David Hare was found near Scottdale,
Friday night,about 12 o'clock, with both legs
.and his right arm cut off. He wag. taken to
the Westmoreland hospital at Greensburg,
where he was cared for. He is aged about 21
yearsand isina critical cond ition.
+ —With nearly every bone in his “body
‘crushed, Dominic §pagmolette, -an. Italian,
| employed as section hand on the Lebigh
Valley railroad, was found dead along the
tracks at Freemansbirg Monday morning.
A westbound passenger train had struck and
"killed him. ti :
© —At Kartheus a few nights ago thieves
entered Dr. W. S. Gilliland’s store, blew
open the safe and secured $15, twenty dozen
pocket knives and a number of checks.
They are believed to be the ones who oper-
ated at the Pennsylvania railroad station ‘at
A ntes Fort. :
—The Pennsylvania is equipping all its
turntables.at important points so as to oper-
ate them by electric power. The company
is making the changes as an economical
measure, in doing the work of six or eight
men at the more important points and doing
it more expeditiously. a
—A little child aged only 18 months was
killed on the railroad at Milton on Wednes-
day afternoon. The little one, the daughter
of Harry Ford, was playing with a dog on
the railroad track. The engineer of the
_train when he first saw the child reversed
his engine and applied the brakes, but the
distance was too short to stop the train and
the little one was instantly killed.
— Miss Jennie Morgan,aged 18 years, teach-
er of the Apker school near Penfield.Clearfield
county, became violently insane recently.
She threatened to kill the grown-up people in
the community, but expressed great appre-
hension that some one was about to kill ‘the
school children. Disappointment in love is
given as the cause of her derangement.’ She
was taken to her home at Ridgway.
—Mrs. Houck, wife of Ed J, Houck, was
badly injured Saturday in an accident on the
narrow gauge railroad on Sugar Loaf Moun-
tain, near Latrobe. A lumber truck got be-
yond control and jumped the track. Mrs.
H ouck, who was’ sitting in front, was ser-
io usly bruised by the truck falling on her.
Howard, her four-year-old son, was thrown
tw enty feet and frightfally cut abopt the
head and face.
—The Pennsylvania railroad company has
decided to double track its line between
Cresson and Ebensburg, and work will begin
in about a month. While the work of double-
tracking is in: progress the curves will be
straightened considerably and the grade im-
proved, the object being to fit the roadbed
not only for the heavy traffic now coming
from the Blacklick, but also for use as a
through line for freights when the connec-
tions have been made at the westérn end,
which will probably be within the year.
— Humane Agent C. H. Witt of Johnstown
is at present investigating a case of peculiar
cruelty, Mr. Witt isengaged in looking for
two young men who burned the feet of young
Charles Fairfax, age 11 years, a son of Wash-
ington Fairfax, a well known colored team-
ster. The boy says he was playing last Satur<
day around the ruins ofthe Cambria Paint
and Color company’s burned plant, when the
two men seized him and applied hot tar to his
feet. He screamed and his aseailants fled.
He cannot tell who the men are. The
burns are said to be serious.