eg ee ————
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
The Sultan of Sulu is laid away,
In the place of his last repose,
The lecherous old scamp worried uncle Sam gray
But he wasn’t the worst of his woes.
He has Congress and trusts, Tillmans and such
In numbers to harry his soul
But, worst of them all, he’s suffered since fall
Because he can’t get enough coal.
—HENRI GEORGES STEPHANE ADOLPHE
APPER DE BLOWITZ, the eminent French
journalist, is dead. It is a wonder he
lived as long as he did under such a load.
—Physicians say there are microbes in-
festing our paper money to a dangerous
degree, but we have yet to observe the
physician who won’t take all of it he can
get.
— From the way E. R. CHAMBERS Esq.,
is getting started on the political elevator
it might not be so long, after all, until
Centre county produces another Governor,
Go is NED.
——What the Governor said in hie message
and what he will do in his administration
of state affairs doesn’t, necessarily, have to
coincide, according to established prece-
dent in Pennsylvania.
—The apparent rapture of the Republi-
cans at Harrisburg is likely to result in
anything but good for poor Pennsylvania.
This State does seem to get the worst of
it—both going and coming—at Harrisburg.
— Elder SMo0T of the Mormon Zehurch
has been elected to represent Utah in the
United States Senate. It remains to be
seen whether the Senate will do to BMOOT
what Congress did to BRIHAM ROBERTS.
Fire him out.
—None of the discarded White House
furniture brought very high prices at the
auction sale in Washington on Wednesday,
but all that should be discarded in that es-
tablishment won’t be put on the block,
antil 1904.
—Although the Treasury Department
has decided that the bottom of the ocean
in not a foreign country there are about
seventy million people on this good dry
land of ours who are extremely auxious
that it remain foreign to them.
—A local clergyman was a little hard on
some of the frail craft of the community a
few evenings ago when he prayed like
this: ‘Oh Lord, we meet great, vigorous
men on the streets one day, but; alas, the
next they are taken and the weak are left.”
— House bill 12,002 to amend section 4,386
of the revised statutes should be killed. Tt
were better to kill this bill than poor in-
nocent cattle by increasing the time they
may be kept in transport, without food,
vest or drink, from twenty eight to forty
hours.
—The Tyrone Herald, in. an obituary
notice of a gentleman recently deceased,
says : ‘‘He was a Democrat in politics, but
a most affable, considerate and genial gen-
tleman.”” Just as if it were an unusual
thing for a Democrat to have any of the
latter virtues. :
—The Harrishurg Patriot issued a six-
teen page inaugural edition on Tuesday in
which one page was devoted to Pennsyl-
vania’s poets. We wiped off our glasses
several times, but failed to discover the
name of our own WILLIAM SPEER among
them.
—It will be interesting to watch the ac-
tion of a Pennsylvania Legislature on Col.
A. K. McCLURE’S proposition to erect a
monument, not to exceed twenty thousand
dollars in cost, to the memory of Gen.
RoBErT E. LEE on Seminary hill at
Gettysburg. : :
——The Centre county Members of the
Legislature, Messrs. WETZEL and KEPLER,
have been given committee appointments
as follows: WETZEL on Constitutional Re-
form, Judiciary General and Mines and
Mining. KEPLER on Accounts, Bureau of
Statis tics, Elections and Forestry.
—Millionaire JoHN D. ROCKEFELLER
has just offered to give up one of his bun-
dreds of millions toany physician who will
give him a new stomach ; an offer that is
not likely to be taken up. For in these
days of oil, coal and iron schemes for get-
ting rich quick so few men have time to
eoneider the stomach that new ones are
rare. :
—When Governor PENNYPACKER was
at the Granger's picnic at Centre Hall last
fall some of the local leaders tried to freeze
cousin NED CHAMBERS out of the social
session they were having in head-guarters
tent, but ‘Cousin NED’’ was too hardy a
plant to be nipped by such frost, so he
grew right on until he has blossomed out as
a possible Deputy Attorney General.
—1It is very gratifying to people who live
within twenty miles of some of the rich-
est coal beds in the bituminous regions,
and yet are freezing and compelled to see
our industries closing, one by one, for want
of coal, to read about the dirpatch with
which the big carrying corporations are
handling the oust-put of the mines at tide
water. Possibly if there wasn’t so much
dispatoh' there, there wouldn’s be so much
distress here. |
—The woman wlio died in Philipsburg
some time ago’ and, Wy her will, cat ber
son out of his inheritance, as well as for-
bade him $0 visit her grave, put the finish-
ishing touches upon an exceedingly for-
giving and charitable docnment by con-
cluding it as follows : ‘May God help him
to make peace with his conscience.’’ That’s
the trouble with too many people nowa:
days. They want to saddle onto God what
they are not willing to do themselves.
VOL. 48
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 23
1905.%
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There is no Quarrel.
It may as well be understood first as last
that there will be no quarrel between QUAY
on one side and DURHAM and PENROSE
on the other on account of anything which
PENNYPACKER may do with respect to his
cabinet. Probably the junior Senator and
the Insurance Commissioner would have
been glad to have had Secretary of the Com-
monwealth GRIEST retained in his present
profitable place and LARRY ERYE saved
from the political toboggan. As a matter
of fact the vote of Lancaster and Chester
counties indicates that Messrs. PENROSE
and DURHAM promised those gentleman a
renewal of their commissions. But
they won’t quarrel with QUAY on account
of a little disappointment like the failure
of expectations in that respect. DURHAM
and PENROSE proved last summer, when
ELKIN was ruthlessly tarned down, that
they wouldn’t quarrel with QuAy if he
would swipe them in the mouth.
DURHAM and PENROsEdepend on QUAY
as completely as a babe of a week old de-
pends on its mother. Both those gentle-
men understand this quite as well as QUAY
himself knows it. A few years ago DAVE
MARTIN, of Philadelphia, who bad more
authority in the political machine than
either of the gentlemen in guestion, got
gay and undertook to be independent of
QUAY. And what was the result? As
long as CHRIS MAGEE lived and gave the
influence of his vast wealth to sapport him
MARTIN got along fairly well. Most Re-
publicans worship wealth as a Mahomme-
dan worships the tomb of his Apostle and
while the fountain was flowing from Pitts-
burg many bowed down. But when
MAGEE died MARTIN wae stranded and
what was the result ? He immediately be-
gan groveling at QUAY’s feet and finally
sneaked into the camp under cover of a
political crime. :
While the memory of MARTIN'S ex-
perience is green in their mind nobody
need imagine that PENROSE and DURHAM
will quarrel with QuAaY. He served them
a sourvy trick, to be sure, but what was
that? Heserved ELKIN a wretched deal
last summer and within a couple of months
that ambitions but not too well equipped
politician was joining ina plan to punish
his friends for opposing QUAY’s will in the
nomination of a ‘candidate for ‘Governor.
That is to say when QUAY announced that
he was opposed to GEORGE KUNKLE, of
Harrisburg, for Speaker of the House of
Reptesentatives because KUNKLE supported
ELKIN for Governor against QUAY'S cousin
ELKIN helped to organize the country mem-
bers for the candidate chosen by QUAY to
defeat KUNKLE. As a matter of fact
there isn’t enough manhood in the whole
batch of QUAY followers to make a first
cl ass scare-crow in a July cornfield.
No Ballot Reform.
The story that Senator QUAY and Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER will insist on ballot
reform during the present session of the
Legislature may be dismissed as rubbish.
Governor PENNYPACKER may honestly de-
sire ballot reform, but when QUAY consent-
ed to allow him to appoint HAMPTON L.
CARSON to the office of Attorney General,
he gave him the full limit of indulgence.
That was shown in the character of the
other men forced on him for what are by
courtesy called ‘‘cabinet’’ positions. ‘They
are all politicians of the scurviest sort. |
Take Colonel FULLER, of Fayette county,
who is to be the Secretary of Common-
wealth, for example. - He was one of the
conspirators who two years ago tried to
steal vast bodies of coal lying under the
beds of the rivers of the State by legalized
bat palpably corrupt methods. Thescheme
was detected and every Democrat connect-
ed with it was retired or disgraced but
not 80 with the Republicans. The prinei-
pal figure in the conspiracy, Colonel FuL-
LER, is forced on PENNYPACKER as the
second officer in his administration. . This
‘appointment indicates the purpose of the
administration.
‘These facts, taken in connection with the
other that a.day of adjournment was fixed
before it ‘was possible to estimate the
amount or character of the legislation which
wonld be needed, shows that QUAY has no
in tention of enacting ballot reform legisla-
tion but on the contrary intends to prevent
auything of the kind. There will be a
pretense maintained during the ression and
there will be plenty of talk of ballot re-
form, but that is all that is will amouut to.
Ballot pollution serves QUAY and his party
macliine too well to take any chances with-
ont it and he will never consent to legis-
lation that will impair the chances of ma-
“chine success.
——1It might not be ous of place to in-
form those of the local public who are dis-
cussing the accidental death of engineer
William Dyke so persistently and ignorunt-
1y that the track on which those empty coke
cars were standing is part of what is called
the Nittany yard and all trainmen are ex-
pected to approach it expecting to find cars
on the main track.
Governor Pennypacker’s Views.
It was to be expected that Governor
PFNNYPACKER'S inaugural address would
treat public questions in something of an
academic manner, for his habits of life
naturally lead in that direction. If is true,
as he asserts, that there is more legislation
than is needed and likewise that the multi-
plication of crimes, or to speak more exact-
ly the exaggeration of trifles into crimes
ie a fault. But it is not easy to discover
how that fault may be corrected except by
letting things alone and after repealing
bad i, ws where it is possible, leaving to
time the development of such laws as are
needed to regulate the matter.
The new Governor 18 frank in his state-
ment that while he is willing to confer
with all persons ‘‘who bave facts to impart
or conclusions to present,” his official ear
will be open to the professional politician,
rather than to the reformer. In this he
reveals the secret impulse which brings
himself and QUAY together. Nor do we
condemn that sentiment, as some of the re-
formers are likely to, as inconsistent with
a purpose to do right. It is true that the
disposition of certain individuals to hold
themselves aloof from those who participate
in the political activities as men of an
inferior class is a vice and one of grave
character, and we agree with the Governor,
moreover, in his inferential statement that
the politicians constitute the public lite of
the country and in so far as they are honest
they conserve the public interests by their
activity in politics.
The Governor leaves no doubt in the
public. mind as to his inclinations with
request to ballot legislation. He is for the
machine, pure and simple, and in what-
ever changes are to be made in the ballot
legislation of the State he would preserve
those little devices of the politician to pre-
serve control of the vote. For example, he
believes in the circle at the head of the
ticket as a means of promoting ‘‘straight’’
voting as it is understood among the ‘‘ward
workers’ and in that he comes into direct
conflict with the political reformers in their
plans to promote honest elections. Prob-
ably he misconstrues the purposes of the
reformers when he states that their aim
appears to be to make itas difficult to vote
the ‘‘straight’’ ticket as possible. As a
matter of fact they simply want to make it
easy to vote a ‘‘mixed’”’ ticket. "Whether
that is a merit or not is a question upon
which men may differ honestly.
In touching the important question of
eminent domain, Governor PENN YPACKER
talks or sounds startling doctrines. ‘‘When
there is public need for the good of the
community,” he declares, ‘‘the State may
intervene, and, giving him compensation,
compel him to surrender his individual
right for the general welfare.”” Manifestly
it was precisely the same idea which in-
fluenced chairman JENKINS of the judi-
ciary committee of the House of Represen-
tatives in Washington the other day to pro-
pose legislation looking to the seizure of
the coal of the country. It is, to say the
least, a dangerous notion.
Governor Stone's Administration.
If the public prints correctly represent
the concensus of opinion the retirement of
Governor STONE from the public life of the
Commonwealth leaves him in a rather pitia-
ble situation. His administration has not
only been a disappointment, but it has
actually proved a detriment to the State.
He violated the constitution, perverted his
authority and used the opportunities which
his office gave him to benefit the people for
selfish interests. It was not that he was
unable to discriminate between right and
wrong. He knew the right, but adopted
the wrong. He badn’t the moral courage
to follow the dictates of his conscience.
Governor STONE came to the office with a
tainted title but his record in Congress was
so admirable that he might have made the
people forget. But he began his adminis-
tration wrong. He was completely under
the influence of QUAY and under the direc-
tion of that Mephistopheles of politics he
pus the patronage of the office in the market
as collateral for QUAY’s nse in buying votes
for Senator. It was QUAY who put ELKIN
and DURHAM on him. It was QUAY who
compelled him to violate the coustitution
by vetoing resolutions proposing constita-
tional amendments and, finally. QUAY com-
pelled him to make the senatorial appoint-
ment in the face of every consideration of
right. Win
If in his crucial moment QUAY had sus-
tained him his administration would have
gone down in history as a failure, but not as
absurd. Under existing conditions it is
that and even worse. Nobody believes that
STONE wanted to do 1ight, for everybody
knows that he might have done that. But
as a; matter of fact if he had been left to
hiniself STONE would ‘have niade a good
Governor and might hot have fallen far
short of » great Chief Magistrate. But the
malign influence of QUAYism wrecked him
completely, as it is likely to destroy PEN-
‘'NYPACKER,and in his ignominious isolation
there is no one to sympathize with him,
Loot or Reform.
The promise of a reform Legislature was
soon broken. That is to say before the
echo of the statement that the present Leg-
islature would countenance none of the
profligacies which made the last session
‘odious had ceased to sound profligacies
of the present session hegan to reveal
themselves. For example, during the
brief session of the Senate on Monday
afternoon two resolutions introduced by
Senator GRADY, of Philadelphia, appropri-
ating money were adopted without a dis-
senting voice, one of which is monumental
in its impudence. It provides for the ap-
pointment of committee clerks and addi-
tional door-keepers at six dollars a day
each. There is no number specified. The
passage of the resolution conveys an un-
limited license to loot. :
The other resolution was less objectiona-
ble though it equally expressed the spirit
of profligacy. Before the adjournment a
resolution was adopted by both Houses ap-
propriating $7,000 to defray the expenses
of the inaugural ceremonies. That was
all right for the reason that the traditions
of the State requires some display on the
occasion of the inauguration of a Governor.
But $7,000 is the usual amount and as
PENNYPACKER is a plain citizen, who
loves his books aud thumbs his pamphlets
unobtrusively, it was enough under all cir-
cumstances. A rake-off was needed, how-
ever, and Senator GRADY introduced a
resolution increasing the appropriation to
$9,000 and it was passed quicker than you
could say ‘‘scat.’’
The lesson of these incidents is that there
has been no change in ‘‘the natare of the
beast.”’ In other words the present Legis-
ture is going to be as odious in every re-
spect as the last. There may be no ‘'rip-
per’’ bills but it will be for the reason that
there are no governments to rip and if
there are no franchise grabs it will be he-
cause the work in that line was completed
during the last session. But the period
during which the present Legislature sits
will be a carnival of loot unless PENNY-
PACKER or QUAY calls a halt. Whether
this happens or not depends on QUAY'’S
future plans. If he is satisfied and willing
to take himself and his family out of pol-
itics he will let the looters loot to their
heart’s content. But if he wants to be re-
elected himself or send ‘‘DICK” in his
place, there will be a halt in the boodling.
The Y.M, C. A. Anniversary.
It is a wonder that Bellefonte has a
Young Mens Christian Association at all.
So many of our young people stand aloof
and leave all of the work and support of
the organization forso few that they would
have become discouraged and dropped it
long ere this were the need not so great
and the results so encouraging.
There is no christian organization that
fills the field of the Association and while
it is admitted that hospitals and monu-
ments and gymnasiums are needed for the
public good it would be far too great a sac-
rifice to build them entirely at the expense
of the institution that is striving so val-
iantly to make for the better of the com-
ing men of our town.
Next Sunday evening the Bellefonte As-
sociation will celebrate the thirty-third
anniversary of its organization. A fine pro-
gram has been arranged and the Methodist
church, in which the services are to be
held, should be crowded with an enthusi-
astic, helpful audience. The principal ad-
dress will be delivered by Mr. G. N.BIERCE,
of Dayton, Obio, one of the most promi-
nent Association workers in that State.
There will be others and a ‘special music
program, to add to the profit of the service,
but the statement to be made by the treas-
urer is the thing in which every good citi-
zen of Bellefonte should be most interest-
ed. It will show that on Jan. 1st, 1903,
there was a deficit of $518.65, which
pledges unpaid at that time increased to
$1,000.12. [looking at the matter in a
purely business way Bellefonte could not
make a better investment than by wiping
out these obligations entirely and placing
the Association on its feet at this anniver-
sary meeting. 2 :
The good it does is incalculable, But it
always bas seemed strange that Bellefonte
has been =o tardy to discover it; especially
when it is known that the great Pennsyl-
vania Rail-road corporation considers work
it does in support of the railroad Associa-
tions as the best paying investment it has.
——The long communication from L.
C. RERICK, which appears in another col-
unin of this issue, is interesting because of
the side lights it throws upon the much
talked of typhoid fever cases in Bellefonte.
Some of the statements are almost start-
ling iv their revelations; especially as fo
the manner, in which the State Board of
Health pushed the price of its. work up on
him/and then neglected responding to his
call for a man. Itseems that if more of
the State’s appropriation of $6,000 per. an-
num to that department were cut out of
the salary of the Secretary and his type
writing and office expenses and put to the
nesds of the people the State Board would
- be of more service. : a
prove équal to the emergency this time.
Trying to Shift the
From the Wilkesbharre Leader.
The Republicans are not expecting much
but that which is bad from the incoming
Pennsylvania Legislature and their organs
are already placing the responsibility for
the anticipated wrong-doing upon the
Democratic minority. It is bad enough to
accuse the innocent of crime after it has
been committed by some one else, but to
anticipate crime and charge it to those who
are powerless to commit it if they would,
and are known to have no inclination to
commit it if they could, is itself a crime.
The Republicans of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, like those of the Republican
Congress of the United States, cannot
shirk the responsibility that is upon them
and it is cowardly to try to do so. It is
characteristic of them, howerever, and
they are not likely to change their spots.
Responsibility.
Concatention of Official Idleness, is Good.
From the Philadelphia Record.
As might have been anticipated, the
Good Roads bill has -been introduced by
Senator Sproul with the accompaniment of
a new Board of Commissioners, when in
fact a complete official outfit for this pur-
pose already exists in the Department of
Interal Affairs. If this Department have
any reason of existence at all it is for such
purposes as the administration of an inter-
nal road system. This would give the end-
less concatenation of official idleness in the
Department some means of serving the Com-
monwealth. But then it would take away
the pretext for creating a’ new state hoard
for the use of the machine.
How'd You Like to be the School Chum
From the Northampton Democrat.
J. N. Lichty, one or the humblest eiti-
zens of the city of Creston, Iowa, who was a
chum and neighbor of president Baer, of
the Reading railway, during his school
days, wrote to him, reminding him of their
school days, and saying there was no coal
to be had in the town. Mr. Lichty on Fri-
day received a letter from the coal magnate.
saying that three cars of coal would .be
rushed to Creston by fast freight, and that
Lichty was to have what he wanted by pay-
ing the freight. If Mr. Baer can do that
much for an old school chum out it Iowa,
why can’t he do just a little bit to relieve
his poor and distressed neighbors ?
No Good, Anyhow.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The death of our salaried, slave-holding
snltan of Sulu, or Jolo, is accompanied by
semi-official statements to the effect: that
he was of no account anyway, and \that
plans for buying him out or otherwise dig
pensing with his services had been under
consideration It would, therefagg seem
that he is to have no successor as" to the
three thousand dollar salary and our 'recog-
nition of his temporal power; but one of
his sons must, nevertheless, succeed to
both temporal and spiritual headship of all
these Mohammedans, and a good deal will
depend upon the character of the youth
who may be recognized by them as hold-
ing that hereditary right.
Sauce for the Goose Should be Sauce
for the Gander.
From the Philadelphia Press.
British shoppers have for a long time
been complaining vigorously of the Brit-
ish steamship ‘‘combine,”” and it was
proved before a parliamentary committee
that money could be saved by shipping
goods to Belgium and Germany and then
reshipping them to South Africa and other
points because of the British ‘‘combine.’’
Bat now the ‘‘combine,’’ or what is left of
it, is vigorously denouncing the Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine Company,
calling it an American affair and asserting
that it carries freight at ‘‘less than cost.”
If it does do so the. British shoppers ought
to be thankful. :
With Rabbit Hunters.
From the Johnsiown Tribune. :
The hig coast defense gun tested at the
Sandy Hook proving grounds last week
seems to have been a distinct sncoess. It
is the most powerful -gun ever built in
America, requiring 640 pounds of smoke-
less powder for a charge, being capable of
hitting an object at five wiles, requir-
ing twelve years to build, and costing
$100,000. The Army people, however, say
it is of very little pracsical use, compara-
tively, and as it is not likely to be in favor
with rabbit hunters, there are doubts
whether any more of this size will be con-
structed. is
Not Popular
But the Average Man Would Rather
: be the Millionaire. -
From the Easton Sentinel. | : ivi
Bret Harte, poet and short story writer,
left an estate the total value of which was
$1,800. But Bret Harte will he remem-
bered long after many- a millionaire - has
been forgotten. : ) :
Senators Elected.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan, 21.—In joint
session the Illinois general assembly today
elected A. J. Hopkins to the United States
Senate. : : Ea
’
, SMOOT’S - ELECTION CONFIRMED.
SALT LAKE; Utah; Jan. 21.—The two
Houses of the Legislature in joint session |'
today ‘confirmed the election of: Reed Smoot
to the United States Senate. "i. »
| SENATOR FAIRBANKS RE-ELECTED.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 21.—United Spates
Senator Charles W. Fairbanks was formally
re-elected today in joint session of the Leg-
felature, .-. ties ois bovis sit vel Ld
.KITERIDGE’S ELECTION (CONFIRMED,
PIERRE, 8. D., Jan. 21—The election of
A. B. Kittridge to the United States Sen-
ate was confirmed today. ¥ Tene
: | e—— ik |
~TILLMAN'S case is up to the bangman
now and we trust that for the good of so-
ciety the hangman of South Carolina will
Spawls from the Keystone.
—James Henry, of Jersey Shore, while
| working on a bridge at Knoxville, Tioga
county, fell off tne structure. His leg and
arm were broken and he was otherwise in
jured. He was brought to his home.
—About twenty-five dead hogs were taken
from a New York Central freight car at
Newberry Tuesday and were sent to a soap
factory. The hogs were crowded with oth-
ers in a car and had been smothered. They
were being shipped to Philadelphia.
—For enticing a 17-year-old girl from
North Bend one day last week, Jas. Verrier
was arrested in Williamsport and at a hear-
ing: Monday was held for court in default of
$300. The testimony at the hearing was
highly sensational, as the letters whieh the
man wrote to the girl were read.
—The county commissioners have decided
to construct the bridge in Lamar township,
Clinton county, near Rev. Samuel Creigh-
ton’s farm. The township will construct the
abutments and the commissioners will pur-
chase the iron for the superstructure. The
bridge will be one span, eighty feet long.
—John A. Montgomery, a Williamsport
inventor, claims to have solved the secret of
making water burn, says the Gazette and
Bulletin. The inventor has been working
off and on for 35 years to construct an apa-
ratus for separating the two component ele-
ments of water and condensing them in the
form of combustible gas.
. —The Jersey Shore trolley line is nearly
completed and it will be but a short time
until the street cars will be running. The
large engine and fly wheel for the power
house of the Jersey Shore electric road is
being unloaded at the Beech Creek station,
and will soon be in place in the spacious
building now being erected for it.
—Hiram E. Pursley, aged 23 years, was
found dying in the cellar of his furniture
store at Lock Haven Friday. His father
went to the store and found a note on his
son’s desk, which read: . ‘You will find me
in the cellar’ The young man avas found
unconscious with a bullet wound in his
head. He died in an hour. The young man
had been in ill-health for some time.
—Irying French, who was, with his com-
pany, to play in the Philipsburg opera house,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, was
killed at Jeanette Tuesday forenoon. While
attempting to board one train he was struck
by another and instantly killed. The town
‘was already billed for Mr. French’s plays and
it will bring a, feeling of sadness to all to
know that the principal actor has passed so
swiftly from time to eternity. o Bina
—By a recent transaction Frank K. Mat-
tern has become a member of the wholesale
grocery firm of J. 8. Gillam & Co, who have
for a number of years conducted a most suc-
cessful business in Tyrone. Mr. Mattern
will locate in Tyrone: and become active in
the conduct of the business of the establish.
ment soon as he can arrange his business
affairs at Warriorsmark so as to admit of the
change. :
—The Maxwell hotel at Smoke Run was
totally destroyed by fire Sunday evening be-
‘tween six and seven o'clock. The fire caught
‘from a defective flue and before discovered
had made such headway as to'make ‘it im-
possible to save the property. High winds
‘were prevailing at the time, and the weath-
er being very cold also, the ‘‘bucket brigade’’
could render very little effective service.
Part of the contents were saved, but the loss
will nevertheless be quite heavy. The hotel
was conducted by Joseph Maxwell, who bas
been running the same for about six years,
The building was owned by Pidgeon &
Stewart, of Houtzdale.
~The nail works plant of the American
Wire and Nail company, at Duncansville is
marked for demolition. Joseph G. Vandervil,
of Worcester, Mass., has been awarded the
contract for razing the buildings to’ the
ground and destroying every vestige of the
manufacturing plant. The plant was finish-
ed by the Portage iron company about ten
years ago at an out-lay of about $40,000, and
was operated for a short time in competition
with the trust. After the works were pur-
chased by the American Wire and Nail com-
‘pany the operations ceased and the machinery
was removed to the Pittsburg mills owned
by the same company. : ie
— Capitalists représenting the Huntingdon
and Broad Top railroad are desirous of ‘sectitt
ing Lhe Perry county railroad, according to
a holder of a considerable block of stock in
the latter road. He said recently that the
Broad Top representatives have offered to
take 60 per eent. of the: Perry county stock
at $5 a share, but that 60 per cent ‘or none
would be taken. The object is to connéct the
Perry county ‘road with the Huntingdon and
Broad Top by a new line through Lilerty
Valley terminating at Loysville. The Perry
county stock is paid up to its par value, $50,
but the road has been making only: expenses
since its opening and many of the stockhold-
ers will be ready to let go their holdings at
| the price offered.
—The coal famine struck Altoona Friday
and froze out the city officers. The dealer
who has the contract for supplying city hall
with coal had not a pound in stock, and
when the supply at the city hall building ran
out Friday morning there was nothing to do
but allow the fires to go out in the boilers,
and the offices got cold. The city officials
stood it as long as possible, then started on a
bunt for warmer places. A rather strange
feature of the affair is that Mayor Hoyer,
who is a coal operator was one of the few
men in the city who had coal for ‘sale in
limited quantities, but was debarred from
furnishing the city any because of the law.
There is coal at the city building now, how-
ever, and. .the proper temperature again
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—A somewhat novel marriage ceremony
was performed ili the Westmorelaid' county
jail on last Friday afternoon, the contracting
parties being Nettie Hickman and David
Taswell, of Jeannette, Taswell was recently
arrested for a minor offence and committed to
jail. Since his incareeration his. fiancee has
been untiring in her devotion ‘and constancy.
Every day she visited the’ jail and brought
delicacies, But‘the separation : was telling
on both. They determined to: get married
and trust to fate to set things right. Friday
the girl went to Greensburg, secured &
license, and the, couple. were married by
‘Squire Henderson in the jail office. As it
was nearly train time the groom had not
time to properly attire for the occasion. ' He
was married in his stocking ‘feet ‘and shirt
sleeves. ' Mrs, Taswell paid the marringe fee.
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