Deora fata GRAY MEEK. 8Yy PP. — Ink Slings. —With my feet tucked in the oven Of the good old kitchen stove And the kettle hummin’ merrily In that cheerful way I love You can talk about your steam heat, That costs a treasure trove, Bat it don’t give half the comfort Of my good old kitchen stove. —1It’s all over now. Forget it. —1It was a clean election. Even the ground was white as snow. —There was little to warm the cockles of the heart of the Bellefonte ward worker on Tuesday. : —All we need now is a little gold in some of our hills to make this county a real Klondike. We have the temperature, all right. —The coal famine has its back broken, so they say, but the theys are in almost as bad a plight, for three-fourths of them are most frozen to death. —Jack Frost and the ground hog are both standing pat and the poor old weath- er man can’t figure out whether itis a bluff or the real thing. —And the new Bellefonte council has some work cut ous for it that is even going to try the wisdom of the wise bunch that broke into that body on Tuesday. —The Honorable Pusey will soon be wanting a corner in which he can hide from the jibes and shafts his ridiculous legislative proposition has bronght down upon him. —Icasmuch as the Hon. W. H. HARRI- SON WALKER had no cause to die of a broken heart those who might have expect- ed to see him bust have been grievously disappointed. —Germany seems determined to start a scrap. No sooner is the Venezuelan trou- ble fixed up than the Kaiser’s government cabies us that he is going tosee how far the MONROE doctrine will protect Colombia. —Governor PENNYPACKER believes in sentiment but he doesn’t believe in per- mitting it to grow so strong that it will carry desks, chairs and other furniture that belongs to the people away fiom Har- risburg. —The Grangers of Centre county have addressed a very strong memorial to the Legislature on the tax question, but we would advise them to send an ear trumpet along, if they expect it to be heard at Har- risburg. —It probaby is sentiment that carried the desks and chairs away from depart- ment offices in Harrisburg, but it is some- thing else that carries the rake-offs, com- missions and other loot that is more expen sive to the people. —Why so much fuss about buying haled hay for the delectation of the United States Senators. If all the asses in that body actually ate bay the present contingent fund wouldn’t be near large enough to supply their wants. —There is no use of talking, Centre coun- ty in general and Bellefonte in particular, had become so corrupted by the ‘‘powerful persuaders’’ that an election without them seemed more like an ecclesiastical rally than a fight of the politicians. —The Hon. JouN HAMILTON, who has just heard the name of his successor in the o flice of Secretary of Agriculture announc- ed, should have the sympathy of everyone. He defended QUAY n.ethods through thick and thin and that he should have been turned out into the cold after all he has done is ‘‘a measly shame.” —Col. BRYAN wasn’t quite as evasive in his remarks to the Women’s Democratic clab of Brooklyn as was the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND to the newspaper correspon- dent who wanted to know if he were a can- didate for the Presidency. BRYAN said: ‘‘I am not a candidate for President or any other office.” CLEVELAND said: Well the public is still trying to figure out just what his words did mean. —The result of the election in Philadel- phia and Pittsburg, the two greatest cities of the Commonwelth, compares most un- favorably for the former. The rottenness and degradation that has disgraced that machine governed city for years is endorsed by an angmented majority; whereas in Pittsburg the Citizens administered a crashing defeat to machine administration. Jome people are of the opinion that noth- ing but a Vesuvius will putan end to such a corrupt city. —The annual statement of the [County Com missioners is circulated in thisjissue of the WATCHMAN; that is, as far as they will reach, for we did not receive enough to go round all the WATCHMAN readers in Centre county. It was received too late to present a digest of the good showing {that the retiring Commissioners’ make, but; if you will read it over you will be able’ to discover for yourself the result of Democrat- ioc conduct of the county business. Will their Republican successors be able to make as good a showing next year? —The stand taken hy the striking street car men in Waterbury, Conn., is one that men of dispassionate mind cannot com- mend. The idea of their boycotting grocers whose wives and children who rode on the cars during the strike is contrary to the American idea of live and let live and when they carry their organized proscription to physicians who attend the families of men whom they have black listed they remove * themselves from the sympathy of all fair minded people. Labor has rights that should be respected, but it has no right to gain its ends by disrespecting the rights of others, p= _VOL. 48 BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 20, 1903. NO. 8. A Just Determination. Governor PENNYPACKER has set the seal of his official condemnation upon one form of cheap robbery which has grown into the dignity of a customary spoliation of this State. That is to say in signing the con- current resolution giving ex-Governor STONE, ex-Attorney General ELKIN, ex- Secretary of the Commonwealth GRIEST and one or two other ex-officials the desks they used while in office, he has served notice that he won’t do so anymore. In declaring this purpose he adds: I recom- mend that the articles purchased in the place of those donated be selected with the view to their remaining permanently the property of the State and that here after the custom of making such donations as a mat- ter of course be discontinued.”’ It may be justly said that this form of robbery is the smallest type of public larceny that has ever been devised by polit- ical crooks. Itis a development of recent years and during the time that it has been growing the cost of such furniture has been increasing. The matter is usually pred- icated on a pretence that the officials have become attached to the particular pieces of furniture used in the performance of their official duty. But it requires no great measure of perspicacity to discern that that is only a fraudulent pretense and that the intrinsic value of the article in question is the main reason why it is coveted and cou- ferred. It is a trophy, to be sure, hut itis more than that. It is a valuable and hand- some piece of furniture which can be turn- ed into more if desired. The public official who will thus rob the State on his retirement from office of a trinket of the value ofa couple of hun- dred dollars would take anything of equal value or similar character, without respect to any attachment which is formed by association. The moving influence in the affair is cupidity and the idea is loot. The robbery is legalized by the concurrent reso- lation but only by a narrow margin for it is a violation of the constitution in that it increases the emoluments of the office from which the beneficiary is retiring, notwith- standing the constitution he has sworn to support, obey and defend forbids such an increase. We are glad that the Governor has taken the step and hope that he will not recede from it during his term of office. Although a refusal to sign the concurrent resolution would have been much more efficacious and consistent. Lectures from the Governor may prove all right, but action is what the people would rejoice to see. Governor Pennypacker's Chance. The death of Judge SIMONTON, president of the Dauphin county courts. gives Gover- nor PENNYPACKER a rare opportunity to promote the policy of non-partisan Judici- ary. Twice Judge PENNYPACKER has prof- ited by the observance of that policy by the minority party in the city in which he re- sided. That is to say both times that he was nominated for Judge by the Republi- caus the Democrats endorsed the action and made him the unopposed candidate of the people. He would probably have been elected in any event for the Republican majority in Philadelphia is, and has been for many years, overwhelming. But the election would have cost him considerable, no doubt, and would have carried less com- pliment with it in the event that it had been contested. B The Dauphin county court is not like the courts of other counties of the Common- wealth. That is to say every county in the State is concerned in it for the reason that not only all the political cases under the BAKER ballot bill, but practically all the cases are originated in that tribunal. For that reason every county is concerned in the personnel of the court and all the peo- ple are interested in having it absolutely divorced from politics. By the death of Judge SiMoNTON Judge JOHN E. WEISS becomes the president of that court. He is a radical and uncompromising Republican. By the appointment of a Democrat as Ad- ditional Law Judge, therefore, both par- ties would be represented on the bench and non-partisan decisions would be guaran- teed. i Governor [PENNYPACKER knows better than most i the importance of a non- partisan Judiciary. He understands as well as any man could the value of a court absolutely free from political inflaence and partisan chi¢anery. In making the appoint- ment of a successor to Judge SIMONTON he can secure the advantage of this boon to the people and if he has the courage as well as the inclination to rise above partisanship he will adopt this course. He will not have an easy thing of it if he does, he may as well understand. The whole force and influence of the machine will be against it. QuAY and ELkiIN differ on some things, but they will be alike on that. Still if PENNYPACKER is just to himself and fair to the public he will appoint a Democrat to the bench in Dauphin county and vindi- cate the policy of a non-partisan judiciary. ——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN, Mr. Welsh’'s Notion. In a speech at a political meeting in Philadelphia on Saturday evening last Mr. HERBERT WELSH, the distinguished reform- er and philanthropist of that city, declared that every Judge who attended the DUR- HAM dinner put himself under obligations to that party boss and condoned the notor- ious crimes which he has committed in the interest of the party machine. In this list there were Judges of the Supreme court, of the Superior court and of the court of Com- mon Pleas. Every one of these gentlemen knew that Mr. DURHAM was the head of a corrupt political organization and that his presence there was for the purpose of gloss- ing over the crimes of the machine. ‘What hope is thre forsnbstantial reform in the affairs of the Commonwealth while the Judges of the courts thus put them- selves under the direction of the main hoss? DURHAM may not come before them him- self for the reason that he operates different- lv. But every Judge who paid the tribute of his confidence and affection to DURHAM practically obligated himself to be lenient to such of DURHAM'S friends as happen to come before them as accused ballot stuffers or ballot criminals of any kind. That naturally stops prosecutions for political offences and the Judges who attended the dinner are responsible, both morally and legally, for that unfortunate result. In view of these facts there is no hope for reform within the Republican party. In other words no improvement can be ex- pected from an organization which thus re- veals prostitution from top to bottom. Not only the Judges but the Governor and the Secretary of the Commonwealth attended the dinner and testified to their sympathies with the methods or purposes of DURHAM and pledged themselves, as Mr. WELSH says, to immunity both for himself and his satellites for their political and electoral crimes. The way to stop this thing is to vote out the party which they represent and having achieved that result to keep them out until they at least show signs of repeuntence. Senatorial Expenses. United States Senators have curious wants, according to the annual report of the Secretary of that body just made pub- lic. In other words we learn that during the year just closed the Secretary of the United States Senate purchased for the use of the members of that body every conceivable thing from saw dust to a grand piano. Mineral waters, quinine pills, moth balls, toilet sets, sewing sets, horse shoes, mustang liniment and baled hay. There were also silver inkstands at $90 a piece and silk curtains at $33 a pair. All these things came under the head of stationery and were paid for out of the con- tingent fund. We can understand the nearly $4,000 worth of mineral waters and the hundreds of boxes of lemons for the pepsin tablets and quinine pills indicated indigestion which comes only by using such luxuries ‘‘on the side.”” But there is no possible way of explaining the playing cards, domino sets, corkscrews and such things for no Senator would think of charging such things up to the public treasury and the GIBSON calendar can’t be distinguished as stationery by any form of deception. Tue silk curtains were nsed in Senator LODGES’ committee room and of course muss be al- lowed for so close a friend of the President can’t get along with other than expensive curtains. : Taking the report throughout it can he interpreted in no other light than as a steal and very much of the sort that has been condemned by Governor PENNYPACKER in his message declaring that no more proper- ty of the State must be given away to re- tiring public officials. The mineral waters, lemons, quinine pills and similar articles indicate that a custom has grown up by which Senators satisfy all their private wants at public expense. But the inclus- ion of horse shoes, mustang linimens and baled hay would justify the belief that some of the Senators keep livery stahles and charge the expense to the government. ~——The heirs to the much talked of ‘“‘Spang’’ fortune in Europe are again worked up to an exalted pitch over the story that certain interests or authorities have offered to pay them seventeen mil- lion dollars for their claims. The family of George Goldman, of Philipsburg, is in- cluded in the list of heirs to this estate and Mr. David Atherton, who is married to one of the Goldman girls, is now in Phila- delphia looking this last report up. ~The blizzard struck Bellefonte the day before the election and froze every- thing up as tight as wax, then covered it up with about six inches of fine sandy snow that blew over the roads and railroad tracks until traffic was almost at a stand-still on Tuesday. ——Representative J. Will Kepler has presented The Pennsylvania State College bill to the Legislature. . It carries an ap- propriation of $270,000. | Sch Dre...E E Houtz 3ys £9... The Result of the Election County. in the Tuesday was an eventful one in the pol- itice of Centre county. Not that the results were so astonishing, but because the con- test was waged on an entirely different basis than has characterized elections in this county in recent years. No votes were supposed to be purchased, none were sup- posed to have been improperly coerced and whiskey was entirely eliminated as a fac- tor. If such conditions obtained the result may be looked upon as a fair expression of the wish of the people. The most notable results of the contest were the election of every Democratic nom- inee for the borough offices in Bellefonte but one and the carrying of councils by the Democrate for the first time within the memory of men. In Philipsburg the Dem- ocratic candidate for burgess was elected. None of these cases can be looked upon as political victories. Party lines were completely broken down and -the contest, throughout was made personal. Every- body knows that there are not enough Democrats in Bellefonte to elect a candi- date for any office and Tuesday’s result is in no sense a purely party victory. RESULT IN BELLEFONTE BORO. [ws [ww , Burgess, Samuel A. Loper, R... .| 123] 88 41 Harrison Walker, D... 238] 252| 104 Walker's majority Treasurer, Chaney Hicklin, B .......c..ivicivadicninns 154) 159) 44 GeouR. Meek, Dh .voiusrsarienmiinainnsainns 206 184] 106 Meeks. majority... 139 Tax Collector, Edmund Blanchard, R 216! 123] 7 J. Kennedy Johnson, D.... .| 148 225 75 Johnson’s majority. Poor Overseer, Samuel H. Diehl, R... ..| 188 178 90 Thos, Shaughnessy, D | 174 163] 56 Deihl’s majority... 63 | Auditor, J. Thomas Mitchell, R.....c.cconvviniannas on] 164 79 A. Y. Wagner, D........... | 135, 170] 65 Mitchell's majority............ 94 High Constable, Benj Williams, R ..| 223] 154] 68 Leander Green, D.......... .| 128] 164] 67 Wiliiam's major Office Republican Democrat Bellefonte, N. W. Judge—8. B. Miller, 219... .... Thad Hamilton, 147 Inspr—Roger 'I'. Bayard, 217 J. N. Lane, 139 Council—T. M. Longwell, 17: Sch Dir—John P. Harris, 242.. Bellefonte, S. W. Judge—Thomas Donachy, 144..Harry Walkey, 197 Inspr—Henry Rrown, 161.,,..... Homer Barnes, 180 Council—Jas. D. Seibert, 152.......Joseph Wise, 189 Sch Dir—J. 8. Knisely, 135......... A. C. Mingle, 207 Bellefonte, W. W. Judge—Jas. H. Rine 72.........cecuene Michael Hess 73 Iurp,—A. C. Derr 66.......... Jonathan Miller 77 Co L-dllen Weight 49............ Harry Fenlon 96 Sel or ="WU IN Crissmaa 80... Jar Centre Hall Boro. JHIAZR, Cieierursh iets dedonnruparnisasssenvusisin John T Lee, £0 Inspr...Samuel Shoop, 18.. ... Wm’ Boozer, 72 Jenkins, 186 Burgess...... ei. ide. WH Meyer, 81 Sch Dirs. .S W Smith, 79 - ....D A Boozer, 83 O of P...... .G IW Bnshman, 84 Pax Col... Lah daaiaid J F Smith, 87 ... W F Bradford, 85 H Bartholomew 83 George Nearhood, 87 ....53 8 Kreamer, 83 Judge— William Hopkins 7L..........W. J. Wilson 56 Insp.—E. J. Schenck 85...........W. B, Henderson 42 Sch. Dr.—H. C. Holter 78.. .0. W. McEntire 46, Council—J. W. Mayes 3yvs8 W. J. Wilson 3ys 22 ¢ —A, A. Schenck 3ys 7 A. Weber 3ys 42 —8. J. Reber 1y 72, . D. Diehl 1y 3¢ Burgess—Fred 8. Dunham Summer Wolf 67 0. of P.—'T. A. Pletcher 64 ....H. A. Moore 56 Tax Col.—Robt. Cook #4 John H. Wagner 44 J. of P,—Hayes Schenck 102............ 8S. F. Kline 16 ¢ —Joseph L. Holter 82 And.—J. KE, Foresman 76.............A. A. Pletcher 48 “ Treasurer—John Schenck 92............... D. Weber 4 Milesburg Boro. Judge...Ed Baird 55.. FL Noll 18 Insp...Harry Auston 4 V © Hall 2¢ 4d Grove 24 Grassinire 21 WB ‘Thomas sys 24 .Ed Johnson 3yvs 24 W H Shope ly 0 wo. Homer Carr 17 ...Geo Noll Burgess...C H Else 50, J of P...A G Rager49.. Sch Dr«...P H Hanpt 3y= 53 “ JD Kanarr 3y~ 48.. “ Thos Johnson 1v 48 0 of P...Z 'I' Harshberger 56. Tax Col...Geo Noll 67....cceeuis Council....Jas MeCutlough #4 “ .. WR Campbell 47. .. And AT Boges bl..cciss vials High Cons ...Harry Jodon 60.. + Millheim Judge...F E Gutelins 39....cceue.0 Insp...P H Shires 21........ Burgess...) Spigelmyer 35. George Stroop 23 ...Harry Jodon N A Auman 3ys 66 ** Steonhen Moyer 3ys 22...... I E Stover 3ys 72 “EH Zimmerman 1y 19......... C O Musser 1y 73 +0 of P... M Lamey 75 Tax Col...Daniel Ulrich 25...........ccen. WE Keen 62 wmuel Weiser 1 2 F O Hosterman 81 ..T FF Meyer 76 W N Auman 66 P H Musser 64 S: Council...Jacob Emerick 17 “ John M Reixh 17 Cons...Sim~n R King 28. Aud...F 8 Ulrich 30..... Philipsburg, 1st W. Judge...H. K, Hoffer, 88...... H. B. Ammerman, 51 Inxpr...W., A. Clees, 80....cccucuniens C. M. Munson, 59 Council... W, C. Andrews, 60........ W. B. Brown, 81 Burgess... W, L. Harper, 57........... Jacob Swires, 85 Sch Dirs...C. I. Fryberger, 84.....Chas, Custer, 56 4 John Gowland, 86 bt. Kinkead, 52 0. of P....James Black, 97.. D A Paul, 40 Tax Col...J N Schoonover, hbienaunidds ens Aud...A H Dunean, 88.... F Grebe, 96 i ...Mrs Li H Atherton, 74 Trustees... ce > Mrs J Albert Walton 72 Ee ELL cones Mrs John G Platt, 73 : Philipsburg 2nd W. : Judge---Chas, Handcock 91......... Thos, Deakin 141 Insp.---H. C. Warlel 107...... woe Ho M. Paul 121 Couneil---D. B. Atherton I A. Walton 127 Bur.---W, L. Harper 53......0..c acob Swires 179 Sch, Drs.--C. T. Fryberger 1 “ ..John Gowland 109. obt. Kinkead 114 0 of P...James Black, 134. ... wee D A Paul, 94 Tax Col.=-J. N. Bchoonover 14h. .....uouee sprees suee Aud.---A. H. Duncan 101............. Frank Grebe 131 Church Trustees--- Mrs, L. H. Atherton 129 se, “ J. Albert Walton 129 smccenes John G. Platt 129 Philipsburg, 3rd W. Judge...H A Marks, 116.......c...tee. .M A Hasson, 65 Inspr... 8 Schoonover, 116.....M Cochran, Jr., 67, Conneil...W O Robison. 63. .G H Richards, 125 Burgess...W L Harper, 48 Jacob Swires, 141 .Chas. Custer 118 [0 Sch Dirs...C T Fryberger, 104......Chas, Custer, 77 hd John Gowland, 104......Rcbt Kinkead, 70 O of P...James Black, 114.. ....D A Paul, 64 Tax Col...J N Schoonove Aud...A H Duncan, 99 Ch Trustees rank Grebe, 78 rs} H Atherton, 116° Irs J Albert Walton, 1156 «Mrs John G Platt, 118 South Philipsburg. ebster Bair, 2yrs 40 Srean.tesinasansttieinnranan bean . ( Concluded on page 4.) red. Harper 64 |. _muuicipal campaign. Judge...Wm Farrell, 59...... Wm’ Farrell... 0. Inspr...Harry Stullar, 27........... Charley Frank, 28 Burgess... Wm Cunningham, 14...J Frank Bair, 46 J. of P ..Henry Wilcox. 47...Henry Wilcox........... 8ch Dirs...H Cameron, 86......Isnac Smith, 2yrs, 24 t R Duey, 31.. Frank Ward. 1yr; 23 Tax Col...Chas Vieard, ..H H Vaughn, 26 Council... [ra Stover, 53...[ra Stover......u.... aasivese ese Morris Frank, 19. Jos. Gates, 2yrs 43 And..CC Isenburg, 18. wasenenndOhn Albert, 50 Come Again Brother McNally, Please. "From the Venango Spectator. In the House at Harrisburg, a few days | ago, Chaplain McNally, who is the aceredit- | ed envoy of the body to the court of Divine | Providence, prayed for ‘‘the protection of the Commonwealth from all those, who, like Balaam of old. would hold up to ridi- cule the constituted authority.’ Perhaps this was intended as a hunch to D. P. to help along that bill of Pusey’s to punish newspapers for cartooning foxy and wolfish public men in the likeness of “‘unhuman animals.” Or maybe ’twas to protect the constituted anthority’’ of the coal barons from depiction in the similitude of hogs. Or possibly ’twas to have Jehovah head off any slants against the scheme of the ‘con- stituted authorities’’ to devote the people’s money to a statue in honor of Saint Simon Cameron, the Windebago juggler and Wig- Wag ‘‘martyr,’”’ the great War Minister whom Lincoln fired for his cheap shoddy jobs, the great founder of graft and boodle in Pennsylvania, the man whose system made Quay ‘‘greater than Webster or Clay,’’ and who once exclaimed in the agony of his circumvented heart, ‘‘Damn a fellow that won’t stay bought.”” Lift up the voice anon, O Chaplain McNally; lift ’er some more ! Ripping the “Rippers.” From the Pittsburg Post. A bill promised for next week at Harris- burg will provide that Governor Penny- packer and four men to be named by him shall constitute the commission to supervise the building of the State Capitol. This will rip out of a postscript position W. A. Stone, who was hy some crudity or con- spiracy lodged by name in the present law. The erection of the capitol is a state enter- prise, and the supervision thereof should be an executive function. The Governor should figure in it not individually, but as an official. Thus the responsibility in the premises is properly located. But With all its Ouatrageousncss 2 Still Eundares. From the New York World. : ‘Under our crude and shamelessly un equal system the federal government col- lects its revenues mainly from the neces- saries of the people, without the slightest reference to the two cardinals bases of just taxation—(1) benefits received and (2) ability to pay—while the State and city tax real estate at its full value and permis eighs-tenths of personal property to escape altogether. In a country where the people rule, when they have a mind to, this out- rageous state of affairs cannot much longer endure.” The Soup-house Times is Taking a : Back Scat. #0 From the Bueytus, (0.,) Forum. In Democratic days, we are told, there were free soup-houses. Our Republican friends have yet to show anything in that day of equal magnitude with the relief ef- forts of to-day. No entire communities looted coal trains, and it was not necessary to excuse anarchy on the ground of self- preservation. But that is the condition of things to-day. The Republican tariff, trust and imperialistio propaganda is produzing its logical resnlts. Prosperity Got in Its Last When : Work. From the Grant City, (Mo.,) Times. ‘ General prosperity has incurred the dis- pleasure of the section men on the *‘Q’’ be- tween Hopkins and Amazonia. The gen- eral came along the line last week and cut the wages of the section hands frem $1.25 down to 99 cents per day. Confidence is restored and the general is withdrawing troops and rations. i A Warning Note. From the Clarion Democrat. Since James Campbell has been removed from the office of factory inspectorand Juno. C. Delaney has been appointed in his place as a reward for helping to turn Watres and his delegates over to Qunay’s Pennypacker, the owners of the factories had better chain them down very tight, Consequence of the Rotten- ness of Republicanism. From the Philadelphia Press. Pittsburg citizens who are not in politics and not busy calling each other names are just holding their noses as their part in the All in Pennypacker Calls a Halt. ‘No Nore Public Desks to be Given to Retiring ‘Officials. HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 16.—With a sig- nificant ‘‘nevertheless,”” Governor Penny- packer to-day approved the concurrent res- olution giving to Governor Stone, Attorney General Elkin, Secretary of the Common- wealth Griest and Private Secretary Ger- wig the desks and chairs used by them dar ing their term of office. The Governor, however, says he merely approves the resolution because it is a gra- cious thing to respect the sentiment which leads an official to have regard for the desk whereon he has labored, and custom of long continuance has given these articles to re- tiring officials. : Nevertheless, it is a custom which may, in the future lead to abuse, and he recom- mends that the articles purchased in place of those donated be selected with a view to their remaining permanently the property of the State, and that hereafter the custom of making such donations, as a matter of course, be discontinued. : Was Rolled Like a Ball Engine, Beneath WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Feb. 17.—Struck by a caboose pushed by an engine running backwards, Thomas Painter was rolled like a ball along a track in the Philadelphia and Reading yards. He was under the engine when it stopped. Besides being partially soalped, he is injured internally, but has a only one bullet entered the car. Spawls from the Keystone, -—Altoona iron moulders have organized a union. —The county commissioners of Luzerne have fixed the tax levy at 8 mills. —Telegrapher C. Lloyd Herbster was held up and robbed of $30.45 near Lewistown. —Alexander McCallester, aged 77, of Clark’s Valley, died in the house in which he lived during his entire life. —What is said to be the oldest wagon in Berks county is owned hy W. H. Becker, of Moselem. It was built in 1815, and is still in a fair condition. —With a knife thrust in his abdomen, which the physicians think penetrated the spleen, Eugene West, a negro of Coatsville, walked several squares there in search of a physician. —Because of the scarcity of bireh trees and the fact that chemists have found a substitute for the oil, the manufacture of birch oil, a once profitable business in the Schuylkill val- t ley will be abandoned, —Governor Peunypacker has refused to grant Charles Grether, of Stroudsburg, the condemned murderer of Adam Strank, a six- ty days’ respite. Grether is under sentence to be hanged on February 24. —Out of the sixteen new cases to be called in the February term of the Stroudsburg court seven are for divorce. Never in the history of Monroe county have there been more divorces pending than at present. —Freddie Biscomb, aged 7, on his way to school in Wilkesbarre, saw a man hurled un- der a railroad train and killed. The shock caused him to faint, and he fell to the pave- ment, fractured his skull and died shortly af- terward. —Commander-in-Chief Thomas J, Stewart, of the G. A. R., left Harrisburg Monday for San Francisco to make arrangements for the grand army encampment in Augnst. He will meet his staff in Chicago and will be given public receptions in Topeka and Denver. —Isaac Cleaver, of Niantic, - Montgomery county, sold during the past year 3733 dozen of eggs for $709.91, and poultry for $108.51. The average price received for eggs was 10 cents per dozen, while he sold chick- ens all the way from 10 to 35 cents per pound. —The new battleship Maine left League Island navy yard Monday for Hampton Roads, where her bunkers will be filled with coal. The war vessel wiil then proceed to Join the North Atlantic squadron, at Galves- ton, Texas. The Maine is in command of Cuptain Leutze, —Over $200,000 were paid by coal compa- nies and individual operators to the miners in the Shamokin region on Saturday last, and for the first time since the strike, business men reported big sales, especially in clothing aud shoes. This last pay is the largest since the tie-up. —Colonel R. H. Pratt Wednesday received official notice from the war department that he had been retired as colonel. * He at once telegraphed his resignation as superintendent of the Carlisle Indian school to take effect at once. Colonel Pratt had been in charge of the school for about thirty years. —Kittaning vocalists have signed an agree- ment to charge $2 each for each funeral ser- vice where they are called on to Bing. The bill ig to go to the undertaker for collection. The people are indignant over the matter, and it is not likely the singers will be called upon often to assist at funerals. —In sympathy with the striking carpen- ters of Wilkesbarre, the plasterers, plumbers, roof workers, tinners and painters of that place stopped work on Tuesday because their employers refused to accept the demands made by the carpenters last week for wages of $3 a day and eight hours’ work. —The annual convention of the operators and miners of bituminous District No. 2, of the United Mine Workers, will be held at Altoona March 12, to fix the scale of wages to be paid for the ensuing year. The miners, following the lead of the Indianapolis con- vention, will demand an increase in wages. —~Constable Jacob S. Hoffinan, of Centre township, Perry county, some time ago lost two turkeys. A few days ago he found them in a box in his barn where they had fallen. One of them is dead, but the other survived and is getting all vight, after being in the box without food or water for forty- two days. —Last year the number of public schools in Pennsylvania reached 29,631, taught hy 30,- 640 teachers. The average pay of male teach- ers was $44.92 and of female $33.78. The average school term was 8.32 months. The number of pupils reached 1,168,569 and the expense of maintaining the schools was $23,- 027,678.82. —Williamn Arnold, san inmate of the Re- formatory, from Cumberland county, died at the institution last week from cerebro spinal meningitis. The young man was 23 years of age. Having never written to any of his rel- atives or friends, it was found to be impossi- ble to ascertain their whereabouts and the body was buried in the Reformatory ceme- tery. -—As a result of having nine lower teeth extracted at one Sitting, Mrs. Sarah Bobst, of Burlingame, a suburb of Williamsport, is critically ill at her home and the attending physician says that even though she recovers it will be several months before she will be strong enough to do any work about the house. For a time it was feared that she would bleed to death. —Friday forenoon while the morning mail train from Tyrone was approaching Ea- gleville on the Bald Eagle Valley railroad a bullet from a revolver came crashing through a window of the rear passenger coach, shat- tering the glass and causing consternation among the passengers. The bullet came through the window at the side of the rear door of the car. Supervisor McCormick was in the seat at the window and Conductor Hal ligan and Brakeman Neff were standing close by. The ball passed beween McCormick and Neff, so closely that they both dodged. Mr. McCormick’s face was slightly cut by fragments of broken glass. The ball was picked up by. Supervisor McCormick who now has it in his possession, it having lodged against the lattice work at the rear of the car. It is stated that three shots were fired, but It is not known whether the shot was fired at the car fighting chance for life. purposely or not,
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