Demmi Pac
GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
BY P.
—TIsn’t it soon time to hear from the
Delaware peach crop ?
—1I¢ is the duty of every good citizen to
go out and vote next Tuesday.
“Gas” ADDICES retirement from the
senatorial fight in Delaware left too strong
an odor of ‘Gas’ behind it to deceive the
regular, honest Republicans of that State.
—1It did not take England long to get in
out of the Venezuelan storm. Germany
and Italy ate still showing signs of being
too young to know enough to come in out
of the wet.
—The attempt to turn Fairmount park,
Philadelphia, into a vast beer garden has
failed. Thank the Lord old King Bacchus
won’t be given license to reign over that
beauty spot of nature.
—Men who do most in maintaining the
fre e and charatable institutions of a com-
munity usually get nothing but condemna-
tion from those who derive all the bless-
ings from them.
—Voleanoes and earthquakes are still
doing a right active business in south-
ern climates, but as yet they have failed to
shake the President of Venezuela into the
clutches of either Germany, Italy or Eng-
land.
—If CAMERON and QUAY are both to
have monuments in capitol park, Harris-
burg, why forget JOHN BARDSLEY, the
honorable SAMMY SALTER and those other
satellites of rotten politics in Philadel-
phia?
—That Clarion Normal scandal has come
to be such an old story among those who
have been suspicious of crooked manage-
ment in that institution that it scarcely
bolds a place among the big political
scandals of the State any more.
— The effort to be made on the part of
the two great parties in Centre county
to suppress corrupt practises at the election
next Tuesday should bear good fruit. All
that is needed to put an effectual stop to
the traffic in votes is the arrest and punish-
ment of one person.
—Governor PENNYPACKER'S conclusion
that DURHAM is a “worthy and distin-
guished’’ leader will be accepted by the
people of Pennsylvania as another evidence
of the political obtusity of the man who
can find “no ills worthy of mention’ in
the State government.
—There will be one bright ray. of hope
lurking in the lowering political clouds
that will hover over many a candidate
nexs Tuesday and it is: No matter what
the result this good old world will turn
right over on its axis, just as it has been
doing these thousands of years.
—The 1dea of beautifying the exterior of
a penitentiary does not conserve to good
morals. All there is in punishment for
crimes is the example and the frowning,
gloomy looking walls of a prison are a dai-
ly reminder to all that they must be good
if they wish to remain outside of them.
—Representative MORRIS, of Philadel-
phia, has introduced a bill in the Legisla-
ture making it a misdemeanor, punishable
by fire and imprisonment, for coal ' dealers
to sell less than 2,240 lbs as a ton. After
while, when coal gets plentier we will all
turn in for Mr. MORRIS’ measure, but just
now the average person is willing to ac-
cept any old weight only so he gets coal
enough to keep him warm.
— That it is plainly a case of whose ox is
being gored is seen by the facetious re-
marks Governor STONE made at the DUR-
HAM dinner a few nights ago. ‘Four years
ago,’”’ he said, ‘I might bave favored an
anti-cartoon bill but now I rather enjoy
the cartoons.’”’ Since he has taken a back
seat in the public eye he is no longer ap-
pearing as a ridiculous appendage to
“MATT QUAY’s one hoss circus.’’
—The good church people of Maple
Hill, Lycoming county, are saving all the
eggs laid by their chickens on Sunday and
con verting them into cash to be devoted to
the Lord’s work. This plan of making the
chic kens work for the Lord is as new as it
is novel, but the poor little fowls will have
to work many a day overtime if they ex-
pect to offset with their good eggs the bale-
ful influences of the many ‘‘had eggs’’ that
are doubtless at work in Maple Hill.
—The Christian Science healers and
oest opothists had their innings at Harris-
burg, on Monday, when they appeared be-
fore the judiciary general committee in op-
position to the RAY bill, which is designed
to prohibit their practising their tenets with-
in the Commonwealth. The new science, if
such it can be: called, has gained great
headway in the west, particularly in Chi-
cago, where it is working a change in the
character and tendencies of peo;le that does
not appear to be very wholesome.
—The women of Dallas, Texas, have de-
oid ed that Mrs. ROOSEVELT is stingy be
ea use she sent them ‘‘only a cheap cotton
handkeréhief’’ in response to their request
for something to be sold at a church fair
being conducted in that city. Aside from
the probable certainty that the President’s
wife won’t give herself much concern as to
what the gossips of Dallas think of her
they do her a great injustice in thinking
that she should send them anything of great
value. If she were to inangurate such a
custom the United States treasury. itself,
wouldn’t hold out long under the strain
that church fairs would put upon it. And,
after all, it is the sentiment and not the
intrinsic value of the gift from the first
lady of the land that should bring a high
price at the Dallas fair.
VOL. 48
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
FEBRUARY 13, 1
903.
NO. 7.
Mr. Durham’s Dinner.
There was a strange festival ‘‘pulled off”’
in Philadelphia on Monday evening. A
complimentary dinner was given to Insaur-
ance Commissioner ISRAEL W. DURHAM
and 225 guests participated. Among those
who thus paid the tribute of their assent to
the virtues of Mr. DURHAM were Judges
of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania,
Judges of the Superior court of the State,
Judges of the Common Pleas court of the
city, the present Secretary of the Common.
wealth, the recently retired Governor of
the Commonwealth, the Mayor of Phila-
delphia, the Republican nominee for the
succession in that office, and various other
political and official dignitaries.
ISRAEL W. DURHAM is essentially a ma-
chine politician of the baser sort. His
business daring the greater part of his life
bas been manipulating politics. He super-
intends the fraud machinery of the politics
of Philadelphia. Every ballot box stuffer,
impersonator and counter of frandulent
votes gets his commission from Mr. DUR-
HAM. Every ward-heeler, corrupt official
and mercenary vote manipulator reports to
Mr. DURHAM and gets his reward. He is
the head and front of the venal organiza-
tion. He served a couple of terms as police
magistrate in the city, a part of a term
as State Senator and a full term as Insur-
ance Commissioner. His salary as Magis-
trate was $3,000 a year aud the expenses of
his living more than thas. His salary as
Senator was $1,500 a session and his ex-
penses much more. His salary as Insar-
ance Commissioner was about $20,000 a
year and his expenses of living nearly half
that. Yet he is rated as a millionaire and
lives like an oriental potentate.
Every judge and every other official who
sat at the banquet board on Monday even-
ing knew of the suspicion that Mr. DUR-
HAM’S wealth was acquired by the levy
of blackmail on criminals and through
the rake-off which comes from the
proteetion
vice. Yet with that knowledge Judges
of the Supreme, Superior and Common
Pleas courts sat at the hoard and eulo-
gized the beneficiary of a system ofcor-
ruption .unparalleled in the history of
civilization, ol or endorsed. the, panegyrics of |
others. Yet 6lergymen and other good peo-
ple wonder why the iniguities of public
life go unchecked and multiply and pros-
per. They express surprise that venality
increases and grows bolder in the land.
They are astonished that men who partici-
pate in these public crimes and encourage
these vices have the hardihood to aspire to
office. But asa matter of fact there is
nothing surprising about it. The cause is
in the spectacle presented at the DUR-
HAM dinner.
What would have been said by the late
SAMUEL J. TILDEN if some one bad pro-
posed a complimentary dinner to WILLIAM
M. TWEED while he was in the heyday of
his power in New York. Yet TWEED was
an angel as compared with DURHAM.
TWEED robbed the city and despoiled the
public, but he never was charged with or-
ganizing systematie ballot frauds or pro-
moting and protecting vice and crime.
Yet DURHAM is charged with doing those
things every day of his life and the judicial
guests at his complimentary dinver were
aware of the fact. Their presence at the
banquet, therefore, was equivalent to an
endorsement of his crimes and an invita-
tion to others to follow in his footsteps,
with assurance of immunity from pubn-
ishment.
Mr. Rockafeller's Telegrams.
Mr. JOHN D. ROCKAFELLER, president of
the Standard Oil company lost his head, it
appears, the other day, and acted indis-
creetly. That in misinterpreting an amend-
ment to the Department of Commerce hill
introduced by Senator NELSON, of Minneso-
ta, Mr. ROCKAFELLER telegraphed it is
said, to a few senatorial friends to defeat
the amendment, That was a very foolish
thing for him ¢o do for various reasons
In the first place the amendment in ques-
tion was absolutely innocuous and defeat-
ing it might have resulted in the proposal
of another provision which would have
amounted to something. Secondly, the
telegrams were certain to be exposed and
that would be embarrassing to Senators who
obeyed the orders of the Standard Oil mag-
nate.
As a matter of fact there is nothing new
in Mr. ROCKAFELLER’S interference with
the course of legislation except that it
usoally takes on a different form. In tes-
timony of this a'conversation hetween two
Senators on Sunday last is in point. One
of the gentlemen was questioning the
anthenticity of the telegrams. ‘They
can’t be genuine,’’ hesaid ‘‘hecause ROCK-
AFELLER never sends his requests in that
way. When he wants anything he always
sends his lawyers to tell us.”” There is no
risk of discovery in that form of communi-
cation and we are inclined to agree with
the Senator, for that reason, that the tele-
grams were forgeries. The Standard Oil
magnate would have adopted the safer
method of communication as altogether the
most efficient:
‘FELLER would want to defeat the NELSON
and promotionof crime and
Besides, we can’t understand why ROCKA-
proposition. The gist of it is that corpora-
tions doing an interstate business shall file
with the Department of Commerce state-
ments of their capital and other information
much as the HOAR and LITTLEFIELD anti-
trust bills provide for similar reports to be
made to the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sioners. Of course such reports would be
absolutely of no account to the public and
ROCKAFELLER understands that fact bet-
ter than most men. Why, therefore, should
he sacrifice his senatorial friends by send-
ing such telegrams if they were genuine?
It is inexplicable except upon the hypoth-
esis that he wanted the measure to pass
and took that means of getting everybody
to vote for it.
The Cameron Monument.
The QUAY machine has determined to
erect a monument in Capitol park, Harris-
burg, to the memory of the late SIMON
CAMERON, and has so notified the Legisla-
ture. At first the Senators and Represen-
tatives took the matter as a joke and while
it went through the Senate with practical-
ly no opposition it was overwhelmingly de-
feated in the House when it came up for
final passage. Immediately the telephone
and telegraph wires were brought into req-
uisition and the delinquent statesmen were
‘‘jacked’’ up in the most merciless manner.
As a result the vote by which the measure
was defeated was reconsidered at the first
subsequent session and the revived biil put
back on the calendar.
Even if the ostensible and actual pur-
poses of this measure were identical, this
method of bulldozing it through the Legis-
lature would be execrable. But the pro-
moters of it care nothing about honoring
the memory of General CAMERON. They
‘are indebted to him largely for the oppor-
tunities they now énjoy to loot the State,
for it was he who introduced such things
into the public life of the Commonwealth,
But their idea of gratitude is like that of
Sir ROBERT WALPOLE, ‘‘a lively sense of
future favors,”’ and so far as CAMERON is |
concerned he could *‘go hang’ for all - they
care. But the real purpose is to pave the
way fora similar honor to QUAY, after he |
has ‘‘shufiled off this mortal coil.”
The proposition to erect a monument to
either CAMERON or QUAY is an insult to the
intelligence and an outrage upon the integ-
rity of the people of Pennsylvania. Neith-
er has ever done anything which promoted
the happiness or bettered the condition of
the people. Both began poor and grew rich
through the operations of loot and alike
used their wealth for selfish and corrupting
purposes. There have been thousands of
Pennsylvanians who deserve such marks of
esteem of those who have succeeded them.
There have been hundreds of sons of the
Keystone State whose lives left the stamp
of worth on the State. But CAMERON and
QUAY are remembered only as public plan-
derers and are entitled to no honors of the
kind.
: Negro Suffrage a Failare.
In a speech delivered at the anniversary
of the Union League clah, New York, the
other evening, Secretary of War Roor,
expressed the opinion that negro suffrage
has proven a failure. He didn’t give the
reasons for hie belief and if it expressed his
own opinion it shouldn’t matter much
what influences guided him to the conclau-
sion. But his words borrow significance
from the fact that correctly, or otherwise,
they are taken to represent the views of the
President on the subject and, incidentally,
the policy of the Republican party in the
event that ROOSEVELT happens to be the
candidate for President in the campaign of
1904.
Probably negro suffrage is a failure. as
Secretary RooOT states, but in that event it
is neither the suffrage nor the political sys-
tem which developed it that is to blame.
If on their enfranchisement the negroes had
been left to their own intelligence and judg-
ment to determine their political relations
as other men are mostly the suffrage would
not have proven a failure. Bat the leaders
of the Republican party at once set about
by exciting prejudices and false hopes in
the minds of the negroes to fasten them to
the Republican party and thus made the
Suffrage a failure. For example, they were
told at the outset that it was the purpose of
that party to give to each manumitted
slave a small farm and a mule and by that
false promise they have been held to the
party eversince.
The failore to realize on their expecta-
tions some years ago excited doubts in the
minds of the negroes of the South and they
have since been held in: allegiance to the
party by cash payments and false promises
of office. These pledges betrayed have made
the negroes mercenary and destroyed the po-
tency of the suffrage as an agency of secio-
logical improvement with the result that
suffrage to them has vot only become a
failure. but it is an actual detriment to
them. The recent measure of Senator HAN-
NA giving a pension to all negroes and the
absurd action of the President in forcing
them into office in the South has complet-
ed the work.
Addick’s Trick Failed.
The lass trick of ‘‘GAs’’ ADDICKS, which
was to sneak into the United States on a
proxy, failed of its purpose. That arch-
corruptionist and counterpart of QUAY,
having failed in his plans to buy his way
into a seat in the body to which he aspires,
announced the other day that he had with-
drawn from the contest and abandoned his
aspirations, the condition being that the
Republicans would ‘‘get together’’ in
caueus, nominate two candidates for Sena-
tor and unanimously support the nominee.
As his paid agents in the Legislature con-
stitute a majority of the Republicans, he
understood that they would nominate two
of his adherents and the united support
would guarantee their election.
It was a daring scheme and might have
worked the deception if the so-called
Regular Republicans had been less vigilant.
That is in the anxiety of most Republicans
to elect two Republican United States
Senators it wonld not have been surprising
if tliey had fallen into the trap set for
them, especially as it is believed that a
part of the program was for the President
to intercede in that behalf. But the Reg-
ulars promptly ‘‘tumbled”’ to the trick and
announced that they would not coneent to
the conditions. In other words they served
notice on Mr. ADDICKS that his withdrawal
should he unconditional, before they would
consider any proposition from him and
even then no proposition which involved a
caucus would be considered.
The Regular Republicans of Delaware
deserve the greatest credit for their devo-
tion fo principle. It would have been
wiser for them to have joined with the
Democrats and elected Senators, one Re-
publican and the other Democratic, for the
reason that as long as the seats are vacant
there is danger of ADDICKSism. But failing
in that they have been just to themselves
and to the country in adhering %to the
determination of keeping ADDICKS out and
we sincerely hope they will continue in
that course until the end. The State is
really suffering in no respect on account of
the absence of Senators.
The South Should Not Object.
“Phigre ino reason in. the complaints of
the southern pressand people against the
President’s practice of admitting negroes
to social equality. Every man has the
right to select his own associates and an
elevation to the Presidency, accidental or
"otherwise, in no respects vacates a man’s
personal rights. The objection to the ap-
‘pointment of unfit colored men to office in
‘the South is entirely justified, because it in-
volves relations which are distasteful to a
majority of the people of the South who
pay taxes and in other ways contribute to
the support of the government. But the
social recognition of colored people is no
cause of quarrel with the President.
There is an old adage that ‘birds of a
feather flock together’’ and it is equally
true that men of similar tastes and inclina-
tions affiliate in social intercourse. Gam-
blers and clergymen rarely seek the society
of each other and there is nothing in com-
mon between prize fighters and philanthro-
pists which attrace them to each other.
But if a clergyman gets into the habit of
consorting with gamblers it’s his own af:
fair and though the members of his own
congregation may have a moral right to
complain, those of other denominations are
not particularly concerned. The result as
a rule is that the clergyman falls to the
level of the gambler and that is his affair,
exclusively.
President ROOSEVELT has rather peculiar
tastes in the matter of associations. He
appears to prefer the lower strata of society
and between the cow boy and the Doctor
of Divinity finds congeniality with the
plainsman. Probably the secret of this
lies in the differerence in the manner of
the cowboy toward himsefl. His strange
vanity covets admiration and the less edu-
cation there is the more obsequiousness.
For the same reason he likes to have
negroes in his social set. They defer to
him more freely and show plainer their
devotion to his personality and in that way
appeal more directly to hisaffections. Bus
that’s his own affair and we can’t sée why
southern people object.
~ — Both Susquebanna and Tioga coun-
ties have public school districts which pay
their teachers less per month than the av-
erage cost of keeping their county crimin-
als and county panpers. It may be ‘need-
less to add that both of these nounties boast
of the majorities they can always give to
the candidates of the Repnblican party.
¥ A —————————— i
~——On Tuesday Senator Patton in-
troduced the following bills in the Senate :
appropriating $20,000 to the Lock Hav en
hospital, $10,000 to the Bellefonte hospit-
al, $8,000 to the Clearfield hospital, $25,- |.
000 to the Central State Normal school at
Lock Haven and $10,000 to the DuBois
hospital.
——Suboribe for the WATC HMAN.
oe SENN
Where a Reform Could be
to Good Purpose,
Worked
From the Pittsburg Post. :
In a little scrap of news the other day it
was announced that a student at the uni-
versity of Michigan bad died of over-study
and privations: In other words he was
stroggling to push his way through college
as quickly as possible without means, and
the mental strain, coupled with insufficient
food and exercise, killed him. And yet
almost on the same day the total receipts
of the foot-bali association of the University
were atnounced as $23,745. That sum
could not be distributed among the players
because it would make them professionals,
and not students, hut not one cent. goes to
the creation of a fand for the maintenance
of poor and worthy scholars. There is a
widespread agitation progressing now over
college athletics,and it may he that a return
will be had to the same regimen of inter-
larding much study with enough exercise,
and making the prizes of scholastic life lit-
erary tokens, and not team flags.
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Too Small for Them to Bother About.
From the Philadelphia Pres Press.
Some little censorions comment i is made
here and there about the new $15, 000 piano
in the White House. . But there has been
a great change since the coonskin and bard
cider epoch. "When Van Buren was Presi-
dent all kinds of stories were cirenlated
about White House extravagance, although
the Sage of Kinderhool was of exceedingly
simple habits of living. Caricatures were
widely circulated in which Van Bufen was
seen fleeing from the White House with
gold spoons dropping from his pockets. In
a companion picture Harrison was repre-
sented sitting in his log cabin at North
Bend, clothed in coon-skins and drinking
hard cider ont of a gourd. Bus the descen-
dants of the coon-skin generation do not
Pink at a $15,000 piano in the White
ouge. 1
Reasons For the Faith Within Us.
From the Brookville Democrat.
Not since 1896 has there been such hope
among the Democrats as there is to-day.
Present indications are that the Republi-
‘cans in Congress will fail, in every instance,
to carry out the will of the people. No ef-
fective anti-trust legislation will be passed.
and every other really important measure
will in the judgment of the Democratic
leaders be left undone. Under these cir-
cumstances, it is-naturally argued by the
Democrats that the people will turn to
them. The President is rapidly losing his
popularity all over the country, his
opponents in his party are cont ibn i
that end. In the South he has n tt?
der after blunder i Wn his dealin3s.
negroes, and it is doubtful if he would
carry his own State to-day, as he has. lost
the confidence. of the business interests of
the country.
Democratic Party Stands
What the
: For.
From the Buffalo, (Wyo.,) Voice.
The Democratic party is now a Yundred
years old. It was born of haman demands
—of the opposition to the alien and sedi-
tion laws—limited monarchy, and so many
ideas in common with the aims and‘ pur-
poses, which now control. the movements
of the dominant party. One hundred years
ago the masses won that broader conception
of liberty which, fostered in the brain of
Thomas Jefferson, and grew to'full'fruition
under his direction as head of the govern-
ment. It was the first relief from . vassal-
age a dreary world had known since Cesar
made himself master of Rome—barring the
little Republic of Switzerland. It is the
party of the people, and will continue to
live and grow in the hearts of America’s
millions.
Possibly A Victim of the Lazy-Man’s
Microbe.
From the Harrisburg Star Independent.
The multiplication of offices continues
with unabated vigor. This is notably the
case in the increase of the number of law
judges. It now requires about three
judges to do the work preformed thirty
years ago by one, when that one bad to
travel not always by rail, but frequently
by stage-coach or private conveyance.
What is getting to be the matter with the
physical health of the average lawyer that
it does not seem to bear the weight of jud-
icial robes for any considerable period ?
Look Like First Cousins.
From the New York World. ?
With 1000 Standard Oil employes dis-
missed, 5000 ‘laid off’’ by the sugar trust
and from 1500 to 3000 to be thrown ous of
work by the Interurban company, pros-
perity begins to bear a faint amily like-
ness to bard times.
te Disturbance.
Statement from Hitmann, Superintendent of Const
and Geodetic Survy.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Mr. O. H. Hit-
mann, superintendent of the coast and geo-
detio survey, to-day made the following
statement, concerning the earthguake dis-
turbance:
“The earthquakes reported in the press
yesterday as having caused disaster in the
south seas on Jan. 13th, were felt in Mex-
ico, and it was recorded as a seismic effect
at the magnetic observations of the coast
survey, at Baldwin, Kansas, and in Chel-
tenbam, Maryland, as appears from reports
just received.
** According to the record at Cheltenham,
Md., the tremors began at five minutes be-
fore 9 and lasted twenty minutes. ' Accord-
ing to the record at Baldwin, Kan.; they
hegan at seven minutes before 9 and ended
6 minutes after 9 on the evening of the
13th of January, reckoning the 5th Meri-
dian lines.
»
Lincoln’s Memory Honored.
The stars and stripes are displayed, from
the gchoul-house flag poles in this city to-
day in commemoration of the 94th anni-
versary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the
16th President of the United States, and the
first martyr to an assassin’s bullet.
The Cuban treaty will be left undrafted,
Spawlis from the Keystone.
—Rev. 8. H. Eisenburg, formerly pastor of
the Reformed church in Centre Hall, pur-
chased a private school in Johnstown and is
conducting the same.
—By the ignition of a rope wig. which he
was wearing in playing show, from a burning
candle, Fred Lilly, a young Muncy boy, was
painfully burned Saturday about the head,
face and arms téfore he succeeded in pulling
off the wig. :
—The records of the reformatory at Hunt-
ingdon indicate that no employment is given
as the reason for crimes by 29 of the in-
mates; bad company, 331; bad literature, 13;
intemperance, 63; home environment, 17; no
excuse, 55; deny guilt, 25; never attended
school, 48. ,
—Miss Blanche Thomas, teacher of the
Bottle Run school, Lycoming county, has giv-
en $100 bail for her appearance in court to
answer to the charge of assault and battery
on the 10 year old son of John Kinley, of old
Lycoming township, who preferred charges
before Alderman McMinn, of Newberry.
—The storage shed of the Harbison-Walk-
er Co's brick plant at Clearfield was virtual-
ly destroyed by fire Tuesday evening shortly
after 7 o'clock, together with nearly all of the
company’s moulds wkich only a day or two
before had been stored away in the building.
Many of the brick in the building were also
damaged by the fire and water. The loss
will be quite heavy.
—As suggested by the pastor, the members
of Christ Lutheran church at Maple Hill, Ly-
coming county, have been putting aside all
the eggs laid by their pullets on Sunday, or
the equivalent in cash, for the Lord’s cause,
and Thursday night the ingathering took
place in connection with a social. About $25
was realized. This isa brand new wrinkle
that is attracting much attention in money
rising churches.
—W. H. Arnold and Fred Eiter, jumped a
board bill and likewise a freight train east of
Altoona Friday night. But if they did they
jumped into the hands of the Harrisburg po-
lice when they jumped from the train in the
capital city. A message came back Saturday
evening stating that Arnold and Eiter had
paid the fall amount of the bills and the costs
And now Mrs. Belle Kays, the boarding
house keeper, has her cash and is happy.
—An increase in the transportation rates
on bituminous coal to the seaboard has been
determined upon. by the railroad to go into
effect on April 1st. The increase will be
about 10 cents per ton, making the new rates
from the Clearfield region to Philadelphia
$1.55 for track delivery, $1.25 on board for
points within the harbor, and $1.20 for points
outside the capes. From the George's creek
region the new rates will be Yespectively
$1.55, $1.35 and $1.25.
—William Packer, of Mill Hall, smplosod
as brakeman ou the N.Y. C. R. R., while
coupling cars in the yard at Oak Grove Tues-
day, had his right hand caught between the
bumpers of two cars, crushing it in such a
manuer as to render amputation of the mid-
dle finger necessary. Dr. Moon, of Jersey
Shore Junction, gave him surgical attention.
Mr. Packer arrived home Wednesday night at
1-10 o’clock. - The i inj jured havd gave him con-
| siderable pain. : so
© —A town Tot has boon vost hy Muy ry
lon, at Conshohocken, Pa., under pecuiar eix-:
cumstances. For twenty-one oii ig
ple have walked across the lot, wh
short cut between two streets. Judge
of the county court, bas rendered.a devionn
that the lot now belongs to the borough, the
court maintaining. that the use of land by the
public as a highway or street for more than
twenty years, with the acquiescence of the
owner, is conclusive proof of dedication.
—John Alba, a ‘‘trusty’’ prisoner .in the
Lycoming county jail, whose time was up
Friday, it has been discovered since, ‘‘lifted’’
all the valuables he could get his hands on
about Sheriff Milnor’s residence. The plun-
der includes $30 in money, 27 pieces in silver-
ware, bed quilt, a revolver, fishing rod and
tackle, pocket books, sweaters, an overcoat,
diamond pin, pair shoes and other articles.
The goods, wrapped in the quilt, were discov-
ered hidden in the cellar of Sr. Pans
Lutheran church by the janitor. ~—
—Mrs. Michael Farrell, whose hasband was
‘a bridge carpenter. and who was killed at
Elmira, N. Y., about a year ago arrived in
Williamsport Thursday night and was given
lodgings and meals at police station. She was
accompanied by five children. She explained
to the police that she was on her way to Char-
leroi, near Pittsburg, where she had friends
who had promised to assist her. In the
morning the matter was given into the hands
of the overseers of the poor, and they fur-
nished transportation for the entire family to
Lock Haven. Since the death of her bus-
band, Mrs. Farrell has been keeping her fam-
ily together, and when she reaches her desti-
nation she expects to better her condition
very much. The children are all bright and
attractive. When the family reached Lock
Haven they were taken in charge by Over-
seer of the Poor McCaffery, who furnished
them with railroad transportation to Belle-
fonte.
‘—Mrs. Julia Ray, of Williamsport, and her
daughter, Miss Margaret Ray, a saleslady i in
Goldenbergers’ store, were informed Satux-
day that they were two of the legal heirs to
an unsettled estate in France, their portion
being estimated at $140,000, perhaps more.
The news was conveyed to them by their
nephew and cousin, Francis Ray, of New
York, who for a number of years has been
trying to locate the family of his uncle, Geo.
Ray. Until that was done the estate in ques-
tion could not be legally settled, and with
that object in view he has been traveling
through the states and Canada. He found
many people by the” name of Ray, but it was
only recently that he located those for whom
he had so long searched. Mrs, and Miss Ray’s
identity as being the right persons was easily
established. The estate in gnestion belongs
to the heirs of one Lewis Ray, deceased, late
of France. The latter was the father of two
sons, George and John Ray. The latter con-
tinued to reside in France until his death,
leaving two sons and two daughters, of whom
Francis Ray was the oldest. George Ray
came to America and located in Wil-
liamsport, dying at 219 East Church street,
the present home of his widow and daughter,
11 years ago. There are five heirs to the es-
tate, Miss Margaret, the daughter of George
Ray, aud the four children of John Ray.