BDemorei Watfpo BY PP. GRAY MEEK. - A TSA Wn sa. Ink Slings. Only three or four weeks ago, In talking of birds of a feather, You would have said that Love and Reeder Were least likely to flock together. But keep your ear right to the ground And your eye on the foxy leader For before many moons swing around They will look like this, Lovereeder. —Centre county has coal to burn, but the county seat isn’t burning its’ share. — Within the next few days ‘‘Cousin SAM is likely to discover some of Pennsyl- vania’s ills, but it is needless to say that he won’t mention thre. : a —President BAER, of the Reading com. pany, who appeared so little at the begin- "ning of the strike, is growing larger in the eyes of the public every day. —Forty-three million pounds of butter- ine were produced in the United States last year and Pennsylvanians should be cor- respondingly happy. They voted ‘‘Oleo” BILL BROWN into office; thereby giving of- ficial sanction to the substitute butter in- dustry. —The proposition of Mayor ‘Honest John” HINKLE, of Columbus, Ohio, to sell soap for the benefit of the Democratic presidential campaign fund for 1904 is unique, and looks honest even if it won’t be one-two-three with the Republican scheme to fry fat. —1If the stories of the coal famine in the United States make as interesting reading in India as the stories of the food famines in India make in the United States the after Durbar guests at Delhi must have something else to talk about than the amount papa LEITER spent. ; —1In a hospital in Baltimore there is a patient suffering with ankylosboma, which to the Jay mind is translated *‘lazy disease.” You couldn’ hire any of the countless victims of this funny named trouble in this community to be treated for it. They don’t want to be cured. —Lieatenant PEARY, the arctic explorer, is of the opinion that the north polecan be reached for $150,000. The Lieutenant bas ‘evidently been of the same opinion for a number of years back, for he has been put- ting many hundreds of thousands on ice up north and the pole is about as evasive as it ever was. Now doth the busy plumber man Improve each frosty minute But hunting all the leaks he can And charging all there’s in it. —Lord CHARLES BERESFORD, of the English admiralty, who is in this country on a pleasure trip, is of the opinion that we should either discipline or annex the South American Republics. Fortunately his opinion isn’tin the nature of an ulti- matum for us, lest we might have a little of the Transvaal business on hand, along with our Philippine pleasures. —The removal of the late lamented HASTINGS from the politics of Centre coun- ty will disclose whether it was principle or pelf that attached men to him. It will be interesting to note whether they will all run to the LOVE cover now or whether they will have enough respect for the memory of their departed leader to keep his organi- zation intact. —Things have come to a pretty pass when the death watch in a prison robs the doom- ed prisoner over whom be is placed as guard, yet that very thing occurred in the ‘Sunbury jail on Monday. JACOB GEAR- HART, who is waiting the death penalty, was “touched”’ for $25 by his keeper. It was ouly one of the touching incidents that ‘will characterize GEARHART’S last days. —Secretary of Agriculture JOHN HAMIL. “TON devotes a part of his annual message to the good roads question. While it must be admitted that the Secretary has been a good roads advocate ever since he demonstrated his superiority as asupervisor in College township we imagine be will do anything in his power to make W. T. "HILL'S road to the Secretaryship under ‘this administration asirocky as-possible. —It would serve the Republicans right if elder SMo00T, holder of the keys. and cus- “todian of the secrets of‘ the etrange tenets of Mormonism, were to be sent to the Sen- :ate from Utah. They made an alliance with the Mormons in order to capture that * State and now that they have it they _ should take the consequences and look _ pleasant. Besides, the Mormon elder won't be the Smootiest thing in the Senate, “if hie does ges a seat.’ i! —The coal question is coming home nearer to us every day.” Homes that are left withont fuel to keep them warm or light to dispel the gloom will probably be in a humor to be reasonable in the future. Had there been no tariff on coal we would ‘have had plesty at a low price, because there would have been no trust togoad the miners into a strike, and no barrier to ex- clude the Welsh and Canadian coal. ' What good is a tariff, anyhow ? —1In Germany the humane societies are trying to encourage the use of horse flesh for food ; the object being to induce owners of old horses to keep them ina nice, marketable condition, rather than to mal- “treat and starve them. In Berlin thirty ' thousand old horses were eaten last year. While the Germans profess to relish old horse and from observation we must admit ‘that it is of cleanlier habits than some of -our food amimals, we confess that as long as saussage goes with buck-wheat cakes as well as it does we will remain faithful to : the great American hog. "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 48 BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 16, 1903. NO. 3. Roosevelt’s Crime Against Patriotism. President ROOSEVELT’S sturdy American- ism is the admiration of a large circle of 2) more or less supercilions folk who comprise the hero worshippers of the country. They “dote’’ on the fact that he dresses in some of his outings like a cowboy and disregards the conventionalities of what is known as polite life. He never forgets to assert the fact that he is a representative of the old- est strain of aristocratic Knickerbocker life and that the Datch blood which surged in the veins of the. early settlers of Manhattan Island is in his body. Bat he would have us believe that such thoughts are only in- cidents of his life. That the deminant spirit in his ‘heart of hearts,’’ is devotion to the history and traditions of this coun- try. In public he worships the founders of the Republic. In his speeches he tells of his admiration for those who uncom- plainingly endured the privations and suf- ferings of the winter at Valley Forge. Ifhe rides like an insane man in a December rain or sleeps like a gypsy on the bank of a lake it is to show how cheerfully he would have endured the Valley Forge ex- perience. - That is when he is in the focus of the eye of those who go in for such things. Now mark the difference between the ROOSEVELT in the public eye and the ROOSEVELT who is President. In public view the memory of such idols of the American people as WASHINGTON, JACK- SON and JEFFERSON is sacred. The man who puts reproach or even the slightest sign of indifference on them is condemned by him in the public ear and denounced as wanting in the patriotic impulses which make up the standard of excellence in our citizenship. But in private life he is al- together different. In the seclusion of his owa family circle there is vo one perfect except the ROOSEVELTS and the idea that in the minds of others there can be cher- ished a spirit of admiration for any other than a ROOSEVELT is resented. In this spirit he recently sent to the storage de- partment of the White House, in the cel- lars, the portraits of all the early Presidents. Those were portraits which Congress bad ordered to be painted and hung in_ the ism to the people. That of WASHINGTON has been an object of annoyance to ROOSE- VELT People who visited the historic mansion paid more attention to the ‘‘con- terfeit presentment’’ of WASHINGTON than to the embodiment of life in the clown and he banished it to the basement where nobudy except the servants can see it. Thus shut out of the public view the ‘‘bronco buster’’ probably thinks that WASHINGTON will be forgotten and that ROOSEVELT will take bis place in public affections. We are not fooled by all the slush which is uttered by demagogues in the name of patriotism. We have neither forgotten nor undervalued the observation of SAMUEL JOHNSON that ‘patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”” ROOSEVELT, in his public posing as the typical American, exemplifies the truth of that adage. But there is none of that bogus patriotism expressed in the admiration or even the adulation of the memory of WASHINGTON. That is a spirit which has been commended and cultivated from the beginning of our national exis- tence, and the Presidents who succeeded him in office from the time of JOHN ADAMS down to McKINLEY encouraged it. But ROOSEVELT couldn’t endure the admira- tion of another, even WASHINGTON, while he was present. With his little spirit and contracted mind he wants everything of that kind to go to. himself and to guarantee that result he sent WASHINGTON’S portrait to the basement, though Congress long years ago ordered it to he hung in -the public reception room of the White Honse and that house belobgs to the people and not to the present accidental occupant of thas structure. Even if he had been elected to occupy the office the banishment of WAsH- INGTON’S portrait would have been a'crime. At the Treasury : Already. ' This reform (?) Legislature starts out brilliantly in its work of ‘making good’ the expectations of the people. A twenty thousand job in the first half-hour of its gession under ‘the pretense of publishing official reports in the Legislative Record, another fifteen thousand job in the matter of postage for this same useless and dis- credited publication, and then another seven thousand for wines and cigars, and a good time for the manager of the inangural ceremonies and all in one dav, shows that there is nothing slow in the way of ‘‘re- form’’ in Mr. QUAY’S present Legislature. It may not have many “‘ripper’’ bills to enact. but if don’t show itself an adept in getting away with the taxes of the people, these signs and inclinations go for nothing and the WATCHMAN, as a political prophet, will take a back seat hereafter. ——The.citizens meeting to discuss bor- ough politics and candidates for borough office will be held in the court house Mon- day evening. It was to have been held last Monday evening, but the death of Gov. Hastings caused its postponement. White House as-au inspiration’ to patrios-. Daniel Hartman Hastings. The death of DANIEL HARTMAN HAST- INGS, once Governor of Pennsylvania, marks an epoch in the political and social life of Centre county. At a time like this, when so prominent a citizen has been carried to the tomb, all classes of people rise above the unkindly sway of partizan or personal dislike to sincerely deplore the great loss the community has sustained. Cut down, just when the mellowing in- fluences of years had begun to mould the man into a higher and better life than his strenuous struggle for success had led him we may indeed wonder at the mysterious ways by which an inscrutable Providence works out the destiny of men. Born in obscurity and poverty here was a man who had the courageous ambition to wrest from fortune many of her choicest treasures. From farmer boy to pedagogue, from pedagogue to lawyer, from lawyer to the chief executive office cf a Commonwealth far greater than were the entire thirteen colonies at the time WASHINGTON was elected President, or England when good Queen BEss was on the throne, seemed bus a few steps in his short life, yet every one of them was freighted with obstacles that would have thrown a less determined man back into the oblivion of dispair. HASTINGS’ loss to this community is not irreparable, for what he has achieved oth- ers may achieve also, but as we look about us the horizon of possibility discloses no one to be of the service he might have been, had he been spared. He brought the town and county prominence as a political cen- ter, his wealth led to many spontaneous gratuities and his lavish hospitality made his home akin to a public institution for functions that Bellefonte will ever have reason to be proud of. In the death of such a man no one will gainsay the Joss we have sustained. He had his faults and he had his virtues. The former we forget so that the latter may live throngh all time,gathering lustre with each succeeding year. To few communities has been given the mede of prominence Bellefonte has enjoyed because of her illustrious sons and now that the light of another of them has gone out there is a gloom that will linger until INGS. ——Register A. G. Archey issued 383 marriage licenses in 1902 as against 353 in 1901. Possibly, bad some of these bene- dicts known what the price of coal was going to be 1902 would hardly have equal- ed 1901. : Tariff Mongers Perturbed. The ultra tariff mongers are greatly per- tached over Senator VEST'S exposure of the fact, the other day, that the schedules of the DINGLEY law had been made pur- posely too high so that they conld be re- duced through the medium ol reciprocity treaties. = Seuator ALDRICH, of Rhode Island took the matter closely to heart and protested vehemently that Mr. DINGLEY never conld have said sush a thing; because: he was an honest man and an honest man { couldn’t support schedules which he be- lieved to be too high. That would be monstrous he assured his fellow Senators and he implored them not to believe such a slanderous-statement.. HR But Senator VEST, of Missouri, never talks at random. He made the statement understandingly ' and’ after ALDRICH had exhausted. bis power of persuasion the veteran Missourian quietly sent to the clerk's desk and had read a letter from the editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin ly that Mr. DINGLEY had told him, per- sonally just what: VEST had charged: This bit of substantial testimony was supple- mented by an editorial from the Washing- ton Post, also read from the clerk’s desk, most emphatically corroborating the accu- sation. Thereupon Mr. ALDRICH sub- sided. ; : There is no'doubt of the truth of the oharge. The Republican leadets were all enamored of the reciprocity fetich from the moment that BLAINE suggested it, while and they have constantly harped on it. The idea was not original with BLAINE, either. It was an expedient invented by GLADSTONE while in his early life he was trying to stem the tide of free trade senti- ment in the British parliament. Subse- quently he became a free trader himself and the most eloquent champion of the policy. in Great Britain and regretted no event of his life as much as his reciprocity rubbish. ——8. M.' Bard, state secretary of the Y. M. C, A. was in town on Friday to con- fer with secretary Hindman and the local board concerning new quarters for the association. Dr. M. J. Locke has purchas- ed the Pifer property now occupied by the association aud as he wants possession in the spring it is necessary to find new quar- ers. from out the future emerges another HAST-' in which that gentleman asserted positive: the McKINLEY bill was pending in 1890 Acknowledging the Corm. The Republican leaders in Congress have consented to a temporary relief from the burdens of the tariff tax on coal. That is to say on Tuesday a bill was presented from the committee on Ways and Means providing for a rebate of all duties on coal imported into the United States for the period of one year. That is to say any man who imports coal will be compelled to pay the duties under the DINGLEY law but subsequently recover it by application at the treasury departmeut. , This may be called a case of ‘‘whipping the devil around the stump.’”” In other words it is giving the public, temporarily, the benefit of free trade in coal under a disguise which preserves the DINGLEY law intact. Itisa cowardly subterfuge. Bat frandulent or true it is a concession to the Democratic principle of tariff reform. That party has always contended that tar- iff taxation was a borden on the consum- ers while the Republicans have as persist- ently held that the producer paid the tax and the consumer suffered in no respect on account of the levy. It is likewise an acknowledgment that ‘‘the tariff is the mother of trusts,’”’ and a vindication of, the Democratic contention on that point: The tariff taxes are to be temporarily removed or set aside for sufficient time to enable the public to escape from the clutches of the coal trust. A devious method was chosen, however, in order that the trust may renew its grip before the next presi- dential election which guarantees its usual contributions to the corruption fund. It will be remembered that after the panic of 1873, when every department of the government was under the control of the Republican party, a similar expedient was resorted to in order that the industrial life of the country might be rescued from distress. On that occasion a tariff commis- sion was appointed a member of which was HARRY OLIVER. of Pittsburg. The commission reported in favor of a horizon- tal tariff reduction of twenty per cent. and immediately afterward recuperation began. That was evidence of the efficacy of the remedy and the curious thing is that it is oily administered in extreme cases. Oue ‘would think that medicine which saves the patient would be used all the time, es- pecially when it is known to operate prop- erly all the time. : ——In talking over the labor question with a prominent Centre county farmer on Saturday he said that be believed farm hands would he barder to procure this spring than ever before. In fact, he regards the situation as serious and remarked that for the first time in his own experience of forty years of farming he has been unable to secure any competent help for the begin- ning of the spring work. . A Dangerous Action. The President has forbidden the fulfill- ment of the bargain made by the managers of his party in Utah with the Mormon church and the incident has provoked some rather sharp adverse criticism. Roosevert is a strenuous busybody, remarked one member of Congress and some Senators and Representatives raid things abont him which wouldn't be polite reading and con- sequently we refrain from’ reproducing them in our columns. The morals of the | Mormon church are bad enough, the Wash- ington gossipers have it, but the morals which violate contracts are no better, they add, and the President is precisely in that | attitude now. ; ‘power in the politics of Utah. When that State wasa'territory there was no affiliation of politics and religion. Bus since. it has ‘hecome a State the Republicans have been, using the church in every political ‘con- test to help them in their fights. ‘Daring the last campaign the agreement between the Republican party and the Mormon church was that the church should help the party in everything and in return for the service the party was to elect a mem- ber of the sharch to the United States Senate. At the time President RoOSE- VELT was notified of the transaction and urged to call it off. But he declined to | interfere for the reason that party interests were involved. Now that the victory has been won ROOSEVELT orders that the bar- gain be repudiated. If there were nothing but bad morals in- volved nobody would give much thought to the affair, for events that have followed each other since ROOSEVELT'S accidental elevation to the Presidency have prepared the public mind for anything in that line. Bat there is a graver cause of complaint. It is the first time in the history of the country that a President has undertaken to so interfere with an affair of a State. If it goes uniebuked the next step may be to call out forca to control state elections and after that the life of the Republic will be brief. ———Philipsburg wants a town clock—— and needs it——but the Ledger thinks ANDY CARNEGIE should supply it. Now wouldn’t that start your pendulum. THR = tain things ‘nation, How He’s Giving it to The Trusts. From the Pekin (Ill.) Courier. “When I read of the curbing of the truets by President Roosevelt I am remind- ed of the conduet of my dear old father,” said a merchant. ‘“When I was a boy I was fond of dog fights. My mother ab- horred these brutal exhibitions and pun- ished me whenever she learned of my be- ing present at one. My father secretly sympathized with me, though, good man, he did not see fit for my mother to koow it. Coming home one evening my mother presented proof of my presence at a canine scrap and suggested immediate punish- ment. My father, pretending great wrath, accepted the suggestion and taking me into a bed room proceeded with a great stick to lash the furniture, saying, ‘Howl, you | raseal, howl.”” Of course I howled aud my mother hearing me was sorry and called to my father to whip me lighter. When I see that the president is lashing the trusts I imagine that his blows are falling on the furniture and that he is saying softly, ‘‘Howl, you rascals, howl’.” a Judge-Riddem Common- wealth, Yes it is Frcm the Pittsburg Dispatch. It will surprise Pennsylvanians, not al- ready aware of the fact, to learn that this State has more Judges and pays more per capital for their salaries alone than the 40,- 000,000 people of England, Scotland, Ire- land and Wales. The United Kingdom has but eight-five Judges,compared to Pennsyl- vania’s 149, and, although their salaries are at the average as high as our maximum, the cost is about six and a half cents per head of population, compared to a cost of ten cents a head to Pennsylvania or the pay of its judiciary. With a judicial pay roll costing $100,000 for every million of population it would seem that the limit ought to be reached in the matter of oreat- ing Judgeships, especially in view of the recent liberal increase in numbers, far ex- ceeding the expansion of litigation. Would be Right, but Right is Not what a Republican Congress is After. From the Baltimore American (Rep.) Throw down the bars! Let the country have coal, whether it comes from Wales or Pennsylvania! The public necessity is so great, and the viciousness of the coal trust so unpardonable, that it should be brought to its knees without a moment’s delay. Senator Vest has introduced mm the Senate a resolution suspending indefinitely the ‘‘smuggled’’ schedule of the Dingley bill. The resolution, if passed, would result in public relief, at fair prices, as soon as steamships could load and voyage from Wales. The time is not one for: 8: House. and Senate to handy words over.whether this legislation shonld originate in the House or in the Senate. With no dissent- ing voice save that of the coal trust, which waxes fat upon public distress and whole- sale suffering, the country demands that Congress remove the duty upon coal. Sham, All Sham. From the Lincoln (Neb.) Independent : The Interstate Commerce commission is going to present a formal inquiry to the railroads, asking them why they raised rates and the railroads will make a formal reply, the plain English of which will be, because they thought the traffic would bear is. That will be the end of the costly farce. But then this is a world of shams and it all goes in a life-time. There are little shams and big shams and the public likes the big shams the best. That is why they pay so much to keep up this Interstate Commerce commission. : ET — Only Sticking to its Friends, From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner : It took congress just about thirty mir- utes to fly to the relief of the tea impor- ters and save them about $7,000,000. = Bat Congress still manifests no disposition to fly, ran, walk, crawl, or skip to the re- lief of a people daily being robbed and harrassed by a lot of impudent ‘trusts. Congress has not forgotten the interest that elected iit. : sdb ; 25 All’ Depends On Who Does ‘it. ; HBR From the Louisville (Ill) Ledger: | The Mormon church is the’ balance : of { .come widely known as the leader of an An American in the Phiiippines has he- organized band ;of pirates. The fact that he is being bunted down as a criminal il- lustrates the difference between doing cer-' as an individual rand as a Governor-Elect Peuny packer’s New Private Secretary. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12.—Governor- elect Pennypacker has appointed as his private secretary, Bromley Wharton, whose voting residence. is near Croyden, Bucks county, but who also has a city home here. The near approach of the gubernatorial inauguration compelled the Governor-elect to make this choice without a longer wait after the death, on Saturday night, of Henry S. Dotterer, his first selection for the office. Mr. Wharton is 39 years old. ‘Coal for Chicago's Poor. CHICAGO, Jan. 14.—One handred ‘and ten wagons loaded with coal purchased by funds subscribed to the mayor’s appeal, proceeded to various stations established throughout the city to-day for the relief of’ destitute families. Two hundred aud fifty tons of fuel were thus distributed. hb A small riot occurred shortly after noon upon the arrival of a wagon load of the free coal at the Salvation Army depot at Larrabee and Elm streets. A large orowd was at the depot, and as the wagon hove in sight there was a grand rush to get cheaper coal, resulting in several fights. The police were summoned and quickly restored order. No arrests were made. For a Statue to Samuel J, Tilden. WASHINGTON, January 14.—Represen- tative Sulzer, of Néw York, introduced a bill to-day appropriating $50,000 for a statue to Samuel Tilden to be erected in Washington. ‘stood guard outside. Spawls from the Keystone, —Herbert G. Murray, a well known resi- dent of Falls Creek, suicided Thursday night by swallowing laudanum. He was 51 years old. ; —The citizens of Madera feel very much encouraged over the prospect of having the New York Central railroad running into that place before long. —Jacob McCall, lost in a coal mine near Osceola for three days, was found by a search- _ ing party on Saturday. Though in an ema~ ciated condition, he sustained no injuries and will recover. —Charles Corey, aged 70 years, has been taken to the Potter county almshouse. For years he had lived in seclusion in a shanty near Ulysses. Jilted in early life, he swor to hate all women. fk —The Newton Hamilton Campmeeting as- sociation has decided that the campmeeting grounds at Newton Hamilton, for years con- ducted as a Methodist institution, shall here- after be open for leasing by any religious body. A large hotel will be built. 0 —Ralph Graigor, aged about 10 years, died at the family home at Juniata Gap, near Ai- toona, Thursday about noon, from smallpox. This is the third death in the family from this dread disease, out of a total of fourteén cases in the family mentioned. Private in- terment was made Friday evening. —Jacob Hartman, hostler at the Exchange hotel, Williamsport, while making prepa- rations to attend the funeral of a nephew, cut his throat yesterday, and died in the hospital several hours later. Grief over the death of his nephew is believed to have unbalanced his mind. He was 36 years old. —Theodore Lytle, death watch over Jacob Gearhart, who will hang for the murder of his wife, robbed the murderer of twenty five dollars Monday in the Sunbury jail, and dis- appeared. Lytle also got money from poli- ticians on the fictitious plea of his wife’s death. One of them sent a wreath to his home. ; —The board of education of Sunbury has opened an aggressive campaign against the use of cigarettes and consumption of brandy drops by public school pupils, whose breath, redolent with the twin odor of tobaceo and alcohol, is not conductive to the healthful a t- mosphere of a school room, much lessto the health of these pupils themselves. —The recruiting station at Altoona has been doing quite a lively business rece ntly. Among the recruits secured the latest are : Daniel O'Connell, aged 19 years, of Dancans- ville; George K. Mosel, aged 21 years, of Huntingdon; Wendell P. Harrison, of Altoo- na, aged 21 years; S. B. Page, aged 18 years, of Chester county, and C. N. Clair, aged 21 years, of Bedford county. They all enlisted as landsmen for training. —While on his way home Caristmas even- ing, David Elichelberger, of near Hopewell, fell from the bridge spanning Yellow creek into the swift and swollen stream below and was drowned, his body being found a week ago 200 yards below the bridge. Deceased was a son of the late Capt. John Elichelber- ger, of Hopewell. He was about forty seven years old and is survived by his wife and ten ‘children, the eldest of whom is about seven- teen years of age. Mr. Elichelberger had his life insured for $2,000. —The Reynoldsville Star says the New York and Pennsylvania company, operators of the large paper mills at Jobnsonburg and Lock Haven have bought 140 acres of coal land from A. O'Donnel & Sons at Camp Run, four miles west of Reynoldsville, and have reopened the old Ammerman mine that was first opened in 1875. This company will ship the coal to Johnsonburg for their own use. They use six hundred tons of coal daily at the paper mills. The company is now ready to ship coal but cannot get cars. —John Tine Jr.. was found along the rail- road track near DuBois in November with his body cut in twain. The remains were in- terred. Shortly after a clairvoyant, the Du- Bois Courier says, told someone that Tine had been murdered by a man and woman and that his body had been placed on the railroad and run over by the cars to conceal the crime. The body was exhumed the other day when it was learned that there were three bullet holes through the body—one through the heart and two through the liver. ‘An investigation will be made. —An order has been issued from adjutant geueral’s office at Harrisburg, detailing as es- cort for Governor Pennypacker when inau- gurated at Harrisburg next. Tuesday, the Governor's Troop, of Harrisbnrg; the First regiment, of Philadelphia; the Eighteenth regiment, of Pittsburg. the Eighth regiment, of Dauphin and other adjoining counties,and Companiés C, H and K of the Fourth regi- ment, of Columbia, Lebanon and Lancaster respectively. The First regiment is from the first brigade, the Eighteenth regiment from the second brigade, and all the others {rom the third brigade. General John A, Wiley, | of the second brigade, has been detailed to command the escort. _—A dynamite explosion occurred early Sat- urday morning at the new Portage grading near Duncanville. Frank Shafer, an Austrian employed by Contractor Kerbaugh,was thaw- ing out some dynamite at the fire near one of the shanties, the explosive to be used in blasting nearby, when it ‘‘went off”’ Shafer receiving the full force of the explosion. Both his legs were crushed and he was other- wise injured. He died at the Altoona hospi- tal at 5 o'clock Saturday evening. A similar explosion, occurred at the works near Ben- nington on Saturday and Hender de Vaughn and Charles Reenaldt were injured. They are being cared for ‘at the Altoona hospital ‘and will get well. hy —At an early hour Sunday morning Watch- man John Myers surprised six masked men in the act of blowing the safe in the post of- fice at Columbia. Three of the robbers were at work on the safe, while the other three Myers was ordered’ to halt as he approached the postoffice, but in- ‘stead of doing so began firing on the robbers. The latter. returned the shots, those on the outside being joined by their pals, and the entire gang fled during a lively fusillade, in’ which a score of shots were exchanged but no one was hurt. Henry Nolty, living oppo- site the post office, joined in the shooting from his window, and by mistake aimed his shot at the watchman. When interrupted the cracksman had already placed a charge in the safe. | It did not contain a cent. They got a few dollars from a drawer.
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